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My favorite conspirator

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*  not  me  actually  writing  an  intro  the  night  before  like  i  always  mean  to  😳  hennyway  hey  biddies  ,  i'm  chloe  ,  im  in  the  snowy  part  of  pst  ,  &  i  use  she / her  pns  .  i’ve  been  . . . . . . .  scouring  the  tags  for  an  rp  like  this  so  im  so  excited  to  bring  this  newish  muse  of  mine  here  !   im  here to  do  the  honours  of  introducing  my  himbo - on - the outside , manipulative - shit - on - the - inside  . . .  oscar  🤡

(  twenty  three , cis  man , he / him  ) ✉ ― hey  babes , have  you  met  OSCAR  MEDICI ?  they’re  working  here  as  THE  HEAD  CHEF  AT  LORENZO’S ,  a  few  villas  down  from  where  you’re  staying  .  you  might  hear  them  singing  ALRIGHTY  APHRODITE  BY  PEACH  PIT  playing  from  their  villa  ,  it’s  their  favourite  song  .  yes  ,  they  hear  that  they  look  like  JACK  GILINSKY  a  lot  ,  actually  -  it’s  really  uncanny  .  their  friends  back  home  in  SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA  say  that  if  they  were  on  a  tv  show  ,  their  trope  would  be  THE  WOLF  IN  SHEEP’S  CLOTHING  ,  how  funny  is  that  ? ✎ chloe , 22 , she/her , pst

𝐢  .

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𝐢𝐢  .

name  :  oscar  gabriel  medici

age  :  twenty  three

dob  /  sign  :  december  4th  ,  1997  /  sagittarius  sun  ,  leo  moon  ,  libra  rising 

pob  :  sydney , australia

gender / pronouns  :  cis  man  &  he / him / his

career :  head  chef  at  lorenzo’s  ,  full - time  heathen  ,  professional  disappointment  for  mothers  everywhere  .

drinking / drugs / smoking :  yes / more  often  than  he’d  admit / never .  

religion  :  jewish  background  ,  currently  non - practicing .

physical  :  jack  gilinsky  fc ,  dark  brown / black  longish  curls  (  reference  )  ,  dark  brown  eyes  ,  canon  jack  g’s  tattoos  ,  no  piercings  ,  6′2″  ,  175  lbs  ,  lean  but  strong  .  tattoos  a  la  canon!jack  ,  pearly  white  smile  that  he  may  . . .  or  may  not  . . .   use  crest  3D  white  strips  weekly  to  maintain  .  lots  of  burns  &  scars  from  kitchen  mishaps  on  his  hands  &  arms  .

traits  :  hard - working  ,  flighty  ,  intelligent  ,  hedonistic  ,  charismatic  ,  intense  ,  volatile  ,  

other  :  speaks  weird  french  (  aussie  accent  tings  )  ,  tans  easily  but  wears  sunscreen  nonetheless  ,  works  hard  parties  harder  ,  can’t  read  a  lick  of  french  but  spends  a  lot  of  his  free  time  with  a  coffee  &  a  new  paperback  ,  has  a  bit  of  an  internal  vendetta  against  rich  people  (  for  no  real  reason  ,  he  just  doesn’t  like  most  of  them  )  ,  has  ins  with  a  bunch  the  local  farmers  &  visits  them  weekly  ,  pretends  he  isn’t  lowkey  addicted  to  nicotine  administered  via  a  puff  bar  ,  liquor  of  preference  is  tequila  or  red  wine  ,  drives  a  lil  vespa  around  town  for  the  gag  of  it  (  loves  seeing  it  haphazardly  parked  amongst  a  bunch  of  luxury  cars  )  ,  

character  inspo  :  jess  mariano  (  gilmore  girls  )  , gordon  ramsey  🤡 ,  patrick verona ( 10 things i hate about you ) , ferris bueller ( ferris bueller’s day off ) , han solo ( star wars ) .

𝐢𝐢𝐢  .

oscar’s  arrival  was  as  unwanted  to  his  parents  as  could  be  :  a  father  whose  tendencies  leaned  towards  alcoholism  &  abusing  whoever  was  in  arms  reach  ,  a  mother  whose  life  was  more  or  less  spent  at  the  nursing  home  she  worked  as  a  nurse  at  ,  evading  home  .  he  became  a  self - inflicted  loner  ,  preferring  to  do  literally  the  exact  opposite  of  what  was  expected  or  wanted  from  him  .  he  had  a  few  friends  he  ran  with  ,  but  watching  them  all  go  off  &  study  or  prepare  for  university  solidified  in  oscar’s  mind  that  the  non - traditional  route  was  for  him  .  growing  up  by  the  water  ,  oscar  always  felt  more  drawn  to  skip  school  &  head  to  the  beach  than  he  did  obeying  his  parents  wishes  .   

one  of  his  solaces  was  his  grandfather  ,  gabriel  ,  who  owned  an  italian  restaurant  in  a  beach  town  north  of  sydney  .  whenever  the  weather  was bad  &  oscar  felt  like  ditching  class  ,  he’d  head  over  to  his  nono’s  restaurant  where  his  ass  would  be  put  to  work  as  soon  as  he  set  eyes  on  the  restaurant  .  it  was  tough  work  ,  but  challenging  in  a  way  that  fanned  the  flames  in  oscar’s  heart  ,  rather  than  dimming  them  .  by  the  time  he was  a  teenager  he  was  working  in  the  restaurant  everyday  after  school  , an  agreement  between  him  &  his  grandfather  framed  on  the  back  wall  that  stated  that  as  long  as  oscar  kept  from  flunking  out  ,  he  was  allowed  to  spend  as  little  or  as  much  time  in  the  kitchen  as  he  pleased .  

his  absolute  defiance  of  anything  traditional  &  following  the  rules  made  him  unpopular  with  adults  ,  but  lowkey  cool  with  the  girls  .  by  the  time  he  was  sixteen  ,  he  was  losing  his  focus  on  the  restaurant  &  his  grades  &  spending  more  &  more  time  chasing  after  girls  .  his  nono  tried  to  get oscar  to  come  back  &  focus  ,  but  as  always  ,  anything  he’s  asked  to  do  quickly  becomes  the  thing  he’s  running  from  the  most  .

tw  :  death  ,  cancer  .  around  his  eighteenth  birthday  ,  his  grandfather  suddenly  fell  ill  with  a  rare  form  of  cancer  that  took  his  life  six  weeks  after  diagnosis  ,  which  rocked  oscar’s  world  .  he  felt  overwhelming  guilt  that  he  hadn’t  spent  more  time  with  his  grandfather  ,  which  manifested  itself  as  oscar  dropping  out  of  school  a  year  shy  of  graduation  to  commit  himself  fully  to  perfecting  his  grandfather’s  techniques  ,  learning  all  of  his  recipes  (  read  :  pouring  over  dozens  of  handwritten  cookbooks )  in  some  failed  attempt  to  get  back  some  time  with  him  .  oscar  hadn’t  been  close  with  his  parents  in  years  ,  more  or  less  seeing  them  as  wardens  of  a  prison  he  wanted  nothing  to  do  with  .  his  grandfather’s  will  left  him  the  deed  to  the  restaurant  ,  with  an  ask  that  oscar  would  promise  to  act  on  whatever  he  felt  called  towards  ,  rather  than  doing  what  others  expected  of  him  .  to  be  candid  ,  this  whole  situation  crushed  him  .

eventually  ,  he  decided  he’d  had  enough  of  the  stifling  community  he’d  grown  up  in  .  he  sold  the  restaurant  to  one  of  the  regulars  ,  a  wealthy  man  who  he’d  come  to  acknowledge  as  somewhat  of  an  uncle  ;  a  safe  pair  of  hands  who  would  treat  his grandfather’s  legacy  with  as  much  passion  &  respect  as  oscar  himself  would  .  so  he  packed  a  bag  ,  texted  his  mom  that  he  was  going  traveling  ,  &  got  on  a  flight  that  evening  .  he  traveled  all  around  -  first  through  central  america  ,  then  through  europe  ,  throughout  asia  &  africa  ,  &  spent  a  few  months  driving  a  van  across  the  continental  united  states  &  canada  for  fun  . 

eventually  ,  he  started  getting  low - ish  on  money  ,  &  decided  to  settle  in  one  of  his  favourite  places  he’d  visited  :  southern  france  .  he  arrived  in  early  2018  ,  taking  on  whatever  menial  tasks  he  could  while  learning  french  until  he  got  a  position  as  a  line  cook  in  an  italian  restaurant  .  a  few  years  later  ,  he’s  made  his  way  up  to  filling  the  head  chef  position  ,  an  honour  he  takes  with  pride  .  he’s  implemented  many  of  his  own  recipes  while  using  flavours  he’s  learned  from  his  travels  ,  with  ingredients  straight  from  local  farmers  .  he’s  earned  the  restaurant  a  two michelin  star  rating  ,  &  is  constantly  striving  for  more  to  get  that  last  star  (  both  for  his  own  ego  as  well  as  a  secret  debt  to  his  grandfather  )  .

𝐢𝐯  .

ok  but  that  vid  where  gordon  puts  two  pieces  of  bread  on  someone’s  head  &  calls  them  an  idiot  sandwich  ?  that’s  oscar  .  intense  as  fuck  in  the  kitchen  ,  &  best  nobody  catch  an  attitude  about  it  bc  he  will  not  hesitate  to  hand  them  their  ass  on  a  silver  platter  .

another  gordon  reference  :  you  know  how  he’s  the  spawn  of  satan with  adults  ,  but  the  sweetest  ,  most  helpul  guy  with  children  ?  that’s  oscar  with  his  staff  vs  people  he  wants  something  from  .  whether  its  to  sleep  with  them  (  usually  his  first  instinct  to  be  fair  )  ,  their  money  or  clout  ,  or  to  get  into  some  wild  adventure  some  random  resort  staff  wouldn’t  dream  of  getting  into  ,  he  can  turn  on  the  charm  whenever  needed  .

can  go  from  absolutely  demoralizing  someone  in  the  kitchen  to  stepping  out  into  the  lounge  to  schmooze  with  his  friends  or  cougars  who  leave  phat  tips  in  0.2  seconds  .  the  speed  at  which  his  mood  can  completely  180  is  one  of  the  seven  world  wonders  (  last  i  checked  )  .

his  love  language  is  absolutely  acts  of  service  .  catch  him  actually  falling  in  love  once  in  a  blue  moon  &  making  it  his  mission  to  cook  her  extravagant  meals  everyday  .  

the  wolf  in  sheep’s  clothing  label  epitomizes  his  nice  ,  helpful  ,  charismatic  exterior  ,  while  ulterior  motives  &  disdain  for  those  who  grew  up  with  more  money  than  he  did  lurk  beneath  the  surface  . 

he  can  be  MEAN  when  someone  fucks  him  over  or  pushes  him  farther  than  he  wants  -  isn’t  afraid  to  go  for  the  low  blows  or  send  someone  home  with  an  identity  crisis  if  it  protects  himself  .

lowkey  alcoholic  but  he’s  not  ready  for  that  conversation  yet  .  he  sees  it  more  as  perks  of  the  location  &  atmosphere  he’s  found  himself  in  .

also  lowkey  falls  in  love  HARD  ,  like  this  man  is  a  closeted  romantic  but  self - sabotages  all  potential  relationships  before  they  can  get  to  that  point  out  of  fear  he’ll  be  unable  to  live  life  of  his  own  volition  (  takes  a  flaky  philophobic  sagittarius  to  know  a  flaky  philophobic  sagittarius  🤡  )  .  has  probably  only  had  a  few  real  relationships  besides  flings  bc  he’s  afraid  .

𝐯  .

check  out  my  wanted  plots  tag  listed  here  ,  as  well  as  my  pinterest  wanted  plots  board  here  .  here   are  some  other  suggestions  hehe  :

best  friend  /  ride  or  die  :  someone  who  knows  about  his  past  ,  keeps  him  grounded  when  he’s  lk  spiraling  &  wants  to  drop  everything  &  flee  to  some  far  flung  corner  of  the  earth  .

actual  relationship  :  it  was  fast - burn  with  deep  feelings  (  not  them  thinking  they’re  soulmates  after  dating  for  a  month  . . .  pete  &  ariana  type  beat  )  but  completely  unrealistic  .  they  have  their  own  life  ,  he’s  pretty  much  tied  to  the  restaurant  ,  not  to  mention  his  lack  of  sharing  anything  about  his  childhood / life  back  home  .  they  loved  &  cared  for  each  other  ,  but  crashed  &  burned  fairly  quickly  because  of  how  idealistic  it  was  .  they  can  either  be  on  bad  or  good  terms  now  .

hateship  with  sexual  tension  😈

summer  flings  !!

fake  boyfriend  :  he  shows  up  on  her  arm  to  her  family’s  events  where  she’s  expected  to  have  a  partner  .  it’s  not  a  real  relationship  ,  but  her  parents  don’t  need  to  know  that  .  he  plays  the  part  &  satisfies  her  parents  beyond  the  bare  minimum  ,  &  in  return  she  invites  him  to  parties  ,  takes  him  out  on  her  family’s  yacht  ,  etc  etc  .  we  luv  some  symbiosis  

i  can  always  use  more  fwbs  hehehe

squad  :  a  group  of  people  who  do  everything  together  ,  have  a  chaotic  group  chat  ,  have  nicknames  for  one  another  ,  are  utd  on  each  other’s  sex  lives  ,  party  all  night  then  show  up  to  brunch  hungover  together  .  

cat  &  mouse  :  someone  he’s  pursuing  who  isn’t  quite  giving  in  ,  &  vice  versa  .  maybe  it’s  been  going  on  a  few  years  ,  everytime  they’re  in  st  tropez  they  have  this  weird  lil  flirtationship  thing  goin  on  until  she  leaves  ,  they  forget  about  one  another  ,  then  pick  it  right  back  up  when  she  returns  .

confidant  :  preferably  someone  from  a  working  class  background  who  understands  his  plight  of  being  a  worker  amongst  people  who  expect  to  be  waited  on  .

enemies  :  they  don’t  like  his  attitude  ,  &  he  doesn’t  like  them  in  return  .  lots  of  eye  rolls  ,  shit  talking  ,  &  tension  between  their  mutual  friends  .

we’re  sleeping  together  but  we  shouldn’t  be  but  that’s  half  the  fun :  for  whatever  reason  they  became  friends  ,  starting  hooking  up  despite  it  not  being  a  good  idea  (  read  :  he’s  exes  with  one  of  her  friends  ,  her  parents  want  her  focused  on  career  ,  they’re  part  of  the  same  friend  group  ,  etc )  . . . but  now  they  can’t  stop  .  lots  of  stolen  glances  across  rooms  ,  squeezing  past  one  another  in  a  crowded  club  just  close  enough  for  a  quick  touch  to  the  back  ,  quietly  leaving  one  another’s  places  the  morning  after  &  playing  dumb  to  anyone  who  asks  . 

[olivcris]

  ...                                      𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐  ; 

💀    *  [  lorenzo  zurzolo  +  cis  male  +  he  /  him  ]  ——  have  you  met  𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘  " 𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚎 "  𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚒  ?  they  are  a  𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢-𝚝𝚠𝚘  year  old  𝚓𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚛  currently  studying  𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.  they  live  on  𝚏𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠,  and  word  around  campus  is  that  this  𝚙𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚜  is  𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚝  +  𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚞𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎,  as  well  as  𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚏  +  𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜.  i  wonder  if  they’ll  make  it  out  alive.  the  𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠  𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐  𝚘𝚏  𝚊  𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛  𝚒𝚗  𝚝𝚑𝚎  𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢  𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜  𝚘𝚏  𝚝𝚑𝚎  𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐,  𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐  𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑  𝚝𝚑𝚎  𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜  𝚘𝚏  𝚊𝚗  𝚘𝚕𝚍  𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔  &    𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍  𝚓𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜  𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍  𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑  𝚗𝚎𝚠  𝚔𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜 .    [  ooc:  nic.  19.  her/she  &  est.  ]

𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜

𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 : romeo alfonso oliveri

𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 : rome

𝚊𝚐𝚎 : twenty-two

𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 : cis male

𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚜 : he & him

𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 : pisces

𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 : bisexual

𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚗 : boston , massachusetts

𝚖𝚊𝚓𝚘𝚛 : history

𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 : farrow

𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍

the oliveri family are known for their wine & restaurant chain, oliveri ( humble ik ) . it started out in verona but they were able to expand it to the US , it was more profitable anyway. it’s very similar to the olive garden but more high end and italian . 

that’s why rome was born in boston , ma. the oliveris fell in love with the city , a perfect mixture of historic & modern . although , his parents were always travelling back & forth between boston & italy , which would explain the numerous babysitters walking in and out of the household . they might’ve been really busy, but not busy enough to pop out 3 children , rome , of course being the middle child . 

the oliveri aren’t insanely rich , but they are crazy rich . i mean they don’ t have 20 cars , but they did gift their child a bmw for his 16th birthday . their wealth resides somewhere in the scale between having a summer home in verona & having way more rooms than people in the house . 

ever since he was a kid rome has always been a trouble child , his older brother was way too perfect & someone had to balance it out . he loved drawing on walls , hugging his dog to death ( not literally ) , playing sombre music at his piano recitals & hiding his brothers toys all around the house . 

his behaviour changed over the years but never for the best . of course his parents sent him to a catholic boarding school , not only he would follow into his brother’s footsteps but it would teach him a couple of valuable lessons . 

all he really learned was how to persuade adults into buying him alcohol and then pouring into water bottles so he could drink it in class, how to clean the smell of smoke or weed from any environment & his clothes , how to find loopholes in the school rules & numerous ways to sin . 

he eventually graduated from the school, not without being threatened with expulsion a couple of times . whereas his brother went to harvard , of fucking course , rome decided to go to holloway . way more accessible, further from his parents & the fascinating history that lingered in the walls of the academy . 

the summer before he moved to the academy , his parents sent him to verona to “ connect with his family ” but instead of staying at their summer home , he resided with his maternal grandmother , cecilia . she took no bullshit & cooked incredible meals . she taught rome valuable lessons & tried to fill his heart after all these years of neglect . with time & care , he softened a bit , his walls 2ft high instead of 3. he learned how to care deeply for people , especially cecilia . 

𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢

rome is a bit of an enigma , he doesn’t like to share about his life , he thinks people don’t have to know . he mids his business & expects everyone to do the same . 

he likes to seem that he gives no fucks , but that’s not entirely true . he has been invisible for long enough & deep down loves attention ( the right kind ) . 

he loves his friends to death despite not showing it . 

he’s a good flirt but that’s when he’s in a good mood , which isn’t often . 

𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜

he hates being called romeo , it’s cheesy ( his parents know it , who tf calls their kid romeo ?? ) . it’s rome or gtfo , his grandma is the only one who calls him romeo without him throwing a fit . the story behind his name is that his parents met in school while doing a romeo & juliet play . 

he knows how to play the piano , but to spite his parents , he decided to go for the guitar . he has been playing for several years now , not in front of anyone really , it’s for himself . he kinda sounds like this .

remember when he went to boarding school ?? well , him & his friends had a competition in school who sinned the most . they kept tallys and all ... he won . ( btw sinning could also b wearing polyester ... get ur head outta the gutter john b )

if u didn’t catch on , he loves his grandmother to death . he sends her post cards now & then . 

favourite historical moment u ask ?? the french revolution . or the 15th century w the medicis . 

fluent in english & italian . when he doesn’t want someone to understand him he will speak italian , his phone & siri are also in italian bc ~ secretive ~

𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜

boarding school friends  : pretty self - explanatory hehe . 

brotp : they know everything or almost about each other , very funny sarcastic duo , a la jj and pope from outerbanks , scott and stilinsky from teen wolf or these two .

someone who sees he’d not a complete ass , maybe he helped them in some way ??? this is v vague & could b anything . 

no idea what this is but i love it . support ??? emotionally healthy ??

someone who calls him out on his bs . maybe they hate rome or trying to help him ? 

pls hmu for any connection !! i’m sure i’d love anything tbh !

𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝

[reignthedress]

106: Chosen

Hello and welcome to Reign The Dress where we power rank the women of Reign based on the power in their dresses. In this episode we are reminded how much the CW loves loves loves a love triangle.

9. Grier (-2)

Grier did an excellent impression of some upholstery in this episode.

8. Lola (-2)

Somewhere inside that enormous ruffle there is a sassy queen who deserves more. 

7. Ailey (-2)

She looks pretty good in white and she didn’t fall prey to any blackmail schemes this week. But that is one unsightly braid crown. Bird Hairdressers: 6 Ailey: 0

6. Mary (-4)

How the mighty have fallen. She spent most of the episode in that drab blue dress whining on about how some stupid prank with a deer head is a threat to her kingdom and making sad eyes at Francis. She’s got to get back to her power black outfits. 

5. Crazy Eye Maid (unranked last episode)

Turns out she was hiding a dagger under that flouncy maid outfit. Gown of Great Evil goes to her this week. 

4. Kenna (-)

"Shut up Kenna” - Lola. Kenna goes for a soft mistress-y purple frock to greet her returning lover, only to be totally outdone in mistress-y purple-y-ness by...

3. Helen (unranked last week)

Gotta give it to her, she looks powerful in mistress-y purple. Her long gazes indicate that she seems to be scheming something and we can’t wait to find out what. 

2. Olivia (+1)

The costumer designers seem to have made a  “French tartlet” mood board and are dressing Olivia accordingly, including adorably mussed bedroom hair and an awful lot of corsets. She’s certainly out-tarting Mary in both dress and attitude.

1. Catherine de Medici

Catherine is rocking some massive pearls and some big red dress energy this episode. The steel in her eyes when the promised to start burning random villages was frankly pretty hot. Especially in contract to Mary in her powdery blue sack dress, Catherine is our power queen this episode for sure. Long may she reign.

[abroadchangedme-blog]

23 September 2019

Hi blog world, me again!

Today is my first day as an official 20 year old!!! I had the most amazing Italian birthday with my friends, and all of the messages you guys sent made my heart so full! I feel very lucky to have such love in my life :)

This past weekend was so. freaking busy. My High Renaissance Art History class went on a 13 hour field trip on Saturday. Thirteen hours. I left my house at 7:30 and got back at 8:30. However long and grueling the day might have felt, though, it was the coolest field trip ever. We started the morning off in Vinci and explored the town where Leonardo was born, which was extra special this year because it is the 500th anniversary of his death. I got to see the fountain where he was baptized and walked through a museum filled with models of his never-before-realized inventions. It felt super unreal to walk the same streets that one of the most important people in the history of art once had. After that the trip continued stopping at a bunch of villas that belonged to the Medici family way back in the day. The houses were absurd. Like I can’t believe people lived in those places. They were huge and so ornate and unlike anything I had ever seen before. We were shuttled around the outskirts of Florence looking at a bunch of these places for about 6 hours, and then finally, with dead tired legs, I got to go home. 

When I got back my roommates had decorated the apartment for me! 

It was so sweet and such a nice start to my big birthday weekend!

The next day six of my friends and I went to lunch at a 1950s themed American diner, got wigs, hung out, drank champagne, watched movies, and just had a really great time. I didn’t (and still don’t) have a phone lol so I responded to all of the emails that you all sent me and just got to enjoy what a wonderful life this is!!! We had a crazy good dinner (at a fancy restaurant where we all wore our wigs and got so many looks) and I went to bed the happiest, newest 20-year-old there ever was.

This is the start of my 3rd week of school, and my main project is creating a mood board for a line I am developing in my fashion design class. I really like the vibe I’m going for, and will post a picture of the mood board when its done! :)

Sending all of my love to everyone across the world

xoxoxoxo Halle Liese <3

p.s. leave me a message! i’d love to hear from you :)

[lorandunnrealtor]

Favorite Fall Touches for Every Room

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[nofomoartworld]

An Impressionistic Animated Film Tells a Feminist Fairy Tale

A family living in the countryside has fallen on hard times, thanks to an endless drought that leaves a couple and their young girl on the brink of starvation. So when the Devil comes to call, desperation leads the father to sell his daughter in exchange for unimaginable wealth. As the man's river begins to run with gold, a young girl's story of resilience in the face of hardship begins.

Based on a Grimms' Fairy Tale, The Girl Without Hands is a stylistically inventive animated French feature with a female protagonist who puts Disney princesses to shame. Hand drawn by its creator, director, and illustrator Sébastien Laudenbach, the film's beautiful 2D animation is a freeform, Impressionistic take on fantasy. Its beauty contrasts the film's harsh narrative, about finding a place in the world by taking control of one's fate with admirable conviction.

The Girl Without Hands premiered in the ACID section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the César Awards, and won both the Jury Prize and Best French Film at the Annecy Festival. We caught up with Laudenbach in preparation for the film's upcoming screenings across the US.

Creators: What drew you to this lesser-known fairy tale?

Laudenbach: I immediately loved this tale and the girl's path. The fact that she has to take herself out of a man's world, take time to discover herself, and then go back into that world. That's why it moved me. I think it is a female story, but one that speaks to the female part of everyone, and as a man, I found some steps that I had lived in the girl's trajectory.

To make this film, you diverged from traditional film production. What does that mean?

A classic production means a production with a studio and all the steps a typical animation feature requires: a script, a storyboard, a color board, background and character graphic researchers, a full working crew, and so on.

The first version of this project was like this, but the result would have been totally different. Closed shapes filled with colors, for instance. The project would have been closer to live action, much like most features in animation.

I am very glad this first version wasn't pursued. When I now look at the teaser we made then, I find it unsatisfying and ugly. The Girl Without Hands turned out to be a cheap movie, but I find it rich in terms of graphic and narrative inventiveness. And also free! Free thanks to its poverty!

So you decided to do the film by yourself, which fell in line with an artist residency at the Villa Medici in Rome. What was that like?

I had no producer, no crew... I didn't use the previous script, the storyboard, or graphic design. I improvised the film directly in animation: pencils on paper, from the beginning to the end, following the tale's structure, but opening doors narratively when needed.

For this first year in Italy, I was totally alone and I animated 40 minutes of the film including the backgrounds. The animation was simple: made in black or grey in a very traditional way, 12 frames per second. The colors were made after with a computer.

Aside from the freeform movement on screen, what stood out to me were the colors in the film. Could you speak a bit about that, please?

Everything has been drawn with two tools in order to go fast: a black pencil and a grey one. For one frame, I have several layers. Then I digitized the sheets and applied one color on each layer as a serigraphy.

For this step, I worked with other people. When you work with animation you are, by nature, far from reality. I am not interested in copying reality, and so the colors reflect a feeling, a mood. That's why my trees are not green with a brown trunk, but blue, red, or violet. My inspiration came from the Nabis group of French painters, like Maurice Denis or Pierre Bonnard. More than the Impressionists, they had a kind of spirituality in their paintings.

Do you think the importance of drawing has been lost in current animation, and indeed, our ever digitalized landscape?

Yes, I definitely think that! Drawing is very powerful. Maybe the essence of cinema is to bring faces to a big screen. The power and the presence of a big face is huge. You can feel the skin breathe, and the micro-movements of the eyes is something that you know so deeply that you can feel a lot of nuances in one second. When you work in animation, you have no face, you have no body, you have only a representation of that.

That is the weakness and the strength of animation. It is a strength because this distance between reality and representation creates poetry. That's what animation, and art in general, teaches to us: taking distance from reality to tell it better.

The Girl Without Hands is currently playing at IFC Center in New York and begins showing at Laemmle Music Hall in LA on August 4. To find a theater near you, click here.

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