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scifirenegadeI've been sick. Last night was particularly hellish.
Saw Hereditary. I'm glad there's many horror films in recent years that star great actresses. Us game to my mind when I finished watching it. No, 2018 was last year, not seven years go >:(
Drew Judex and poodle. René Cresté is hard to draw.
(I have a poodle OC. His name is Johnny. I miss drawing him...)
Clip from aWilliam Russell interview from 1961, when he went on tour with the Old Vic in the USSR. Via![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
unwillingadventurer, they posted it a year ago and I missed it completely. Probably the oldest BtS footage I've seen of him.
Under the cut, the continuation of the fanperson meme I started and never finished. Oops.
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Saw Hereditary. I'm glad there's many horror films in recent years that star great actresses. Us game to my mind when I finished watching it. No, 2018 was last year, not seven years go >:(
Drew Judex and poodle. René Cresté is hard to draw.
(I have a poodle OC. His name is Johnny. I miss drawing him...)
Clip from aWilliam Russell interview from 1961, when he went on tour with the Old Vic in the USSR. Via
Under the cut, the continuation of the fanperson meme I started and never finished. Oops.
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Fanfic: Transforming Into the Other
Oct. 19th, 2025 02:43 pmscifirenegadeTitle: Transforming Into the Other
Rating: General
Fandom: Historical Fiction (he's been dead for 80+ slutty, slutty years)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Conrad Veidt
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: Title from something he said in the Ickes bio. I want to apologise to him for writing this. I was possessed.
On AO3
On Squidge
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Rating: General
Fandom: Historical Fiction (he's been dead for 80+ slutty, slutty years)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Conrad Veidt
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: Title from something he said in the Ickes bio. I want to apologise to him for writing this. I was possessed.
On AO3
On Squidge
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Costume Bracket: The Final!!!
Oct. 14th, 2025 07:22 pmpurplecatTwo Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.
( Outfits below the Cut )
Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!
Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!
Costume Bracket Masterlist
Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.
( Outfits below the Cut )
Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!
Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!
Costume Bracket Masterlist
Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.
Feathery Beast
Oct. 13th, 2025 01:15 pmscifirenegadePanna a netvor | Beauty and the Beast (1978), dir. Juraj Herz
I agree with the take that this trend of grounding the legend, the tale in reality has run its course, especially when the "reality" they're trying to ground the legend, the tale on isn't even real (the medieval times were all black and brown, Hollywood producers).
The case The Virgin and the Beast is not like that. There's still enough fantasy to it.
Like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast before it, and Disney's own version after it (the animated one), it does not concern itself with reality, and is comfortable enough with being a fairy tale. But it has a dark colour palette, heavy shadows, dirt and grime (and animal cruelty, I could do without that, why must we trample the doe??).
Pekingese alert!
It's a different take: what if Beauty and the Beast was gothic horror? A perfectly valid take, chronologically accurate even, and one that the film does well. There's a sense of unease, from the way shadows distort the scenery and the characters, to the way the camera pans and zooms and sweeps (the camera is like a character, the Beast's inner voice haunts him and it moves around him and he looks directly at it). There's influence from Goya? Not really sure, I'm unfamiliar with Czechoslovakian cinema (this was before their independence, I think the director is Slovak?). Very slow too, lots of quiet moments.
The Beast's a bird! That's so cool! A bird with human eyes and cape he holds like wings! He doesn't walk, he sweeps along the floor, he doesn't move, he dances. Julie (that's our beauty) is trying so hard to find some storybook happiness among the ruins, she's so distraught when he destroys the statues she enjoyed so much (he's hideous after all).
The last three film productions of BatB I could find were one from 2014 that looked like every Hollywood fairy tale adaptation (oooooh dark and realistic -_- ), the 2017 Disney remake (saw that one, hated it) and Belle (by the director of Mirai). That last one does look great, I liked Mirai and it seems to be doing something different. It's the standout in a sea of sameness. The Virgin and the Beast isn't trying to be realistic all things considered, it isn't trying to "fix" the tale, it's just doing its own thing and I think that commendable.
Okay, there's The Ugly Stepsister which came out this year, but it's both unconcerned with the Baroque period, and trying to be grounded in reality. They should've gone all Marie Antoinette tbh)
This was watched on a whim, and this whole thing probably doesn't sense, sorry.
I agree with the take that this trend of grounding the legend, the tale in reality has run its course, especially when the "reality" they're trying to ground the legend, the tale on isn't even real (the medieval times were all black and brown, Hollywood producers).
The case The Virgin and the Beast is not like that. There's still enough fantasy to it.
Like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast before it, and Disney's own version after it (the animated one), it does not concern itself with reality, and is comfortable enough with being a fairy tale. But it has a dark colour palette, heavy shadows, dirt and grime (and animal cruelty, I could do without that, why must we trample the doe??).
Pekingese alert!
It's a different take: what if Beauty and the Beast was gothic horror? A perfectly valid take, chronologically accurate even, and one that the film does well. There's a sense of unease, from the way shadows distort the scenery and the characters, to the way the camera pans and zooms and sweeps (the camera is like a character, the Beast's inner voice haunts him and it moves around him and he looks directly at it). There's influence from Goya? Not really sure, I'm unfamiliar with Czechoslovakian cinema (this was before their independence, I think the director is Slovak?). Very slow too, lots of quiet moments.
The Beast's a bird! That's so cool! A bird with human eyes and cape he holds like wings! He doesn't walk, he sweeps along the floor, he doesn't move, he dances. Julie (that's our beauty) is trying so hard to find some storybook happiness among the ruins, she's so distraught when he destroys the statues she enjoyed so much (he's hideous after all).
The last three film productions of BatB I could find were one from 2014 that looked like every Hollywood fairy tale adaptation (oooooh dark and realistic -_- ), the 2017 Disney remake (saw that one, hated it) and Belle (by the director of Mirai). That last one does look great, I liked Mirai and it seems to be doing something different. It's the standout in a sea of sameness. The Virgin and the Beast isn't trying to be realistic all things considered, it isn't trying to "fix" the tale, it's just doing its own thing and I think that commendable.
Okay, there's The Ugly Stepsister which came out this year, but it's both unconcerned with the Baroque period, and trying to be grounded in reality. They should've gone all Marie Antoinette tbh)
This was watched on a whim, and this whole thing probably doesn't sense, sorry.
Links (in Park)
Oct. 12th, 2025 03:31 pmscifirenegade🎵 Crawling in my web 🎵
Sorry.
Here it is.
Weimar Cinema, a very informal, somewhat barebones website about cinema of the Weimar Republic, but the people behind it are all scholars from big universities, like the UCLA. They even accept submissions, but I'm unsure about the parametres. Seems very new. The highlight is the restorations page, it shows all the recent releases! They really care about film accessibility, even giving netizens several to watch the films online.
Oh no, it's David "Herr Veidt's Bayonet" Cairns's blog. Except this one entry (and the subsequent ones about Connie's sound years) were not written by him. The "style" overall is similar to those of Connie BNFs, but the whole thing is nicer than Cairns's usual thing. Not Englishing well today.
The comments must be read as well, if the finder of this post decides to read the above post. In them we have:
Have not read the other entries in the series yet, but a friend did, and they only covered like two films. A shame, since Connie's sound years are underrepresented in general.
The University of Southampton has a collection all about Herr Veidt. All the material was gathered by Jerry Allen. So it's all over the place smh. They highlight some things here, like Connie reading Summer Pie behind the scenes of The Thief of Bagdad.
Sorry.
Here it is.
Weimar Cinema, a very informal, somewhat barebones website about cinema of the Weimar Republic, but the people behind it are all scholars from big universities, like the UCLA. They even accept submissions, but I'm unsure about the parametres. Seems very new. The highlight is the restorations page, it shows all the recent releases! They really care about film accessibility, even giving netizens several to watch the films online.
Oh no, it's David "Herr Veidt's Bayonet" Cairns's blog. Except this one entry (and the subsequent ones about Connie's sound years) were not written by him. The "style" overall is similar to those of Connie BNFs, but the whole thing is nicer than Cairns's usual thing. Not Englishing well today.
The comments must be read as well, if the finder of this post decides to read the above post. In them we have:
- A poem about The Spy in Black
- An unsourced annecdote from the making of Above Suspicion ("it reminds me of the time we smuggled my in-laws out of Germany")
- Another unsourced annedocte feom the making of The Beloved Rogue ("I just fuck women with my face")
Have not read the other entries in the series yet, but a friend did, and they only covered like two films. A shame, since Connie's sound years are underrepresented in general.
The University of Southampton has a collection all about Herr Veidt. All the material was gathered by Jerry Allen. So it's all over the place smh. They highlight some things here, like Connie reading Summer Pie behind the scenes of The Thief of Bagdad.
Costume Bracket: Semi Final, Post 2
Oct. 7th, 2025 08:26 pmpurplecatTwo Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.
( Outfits below the Cut )
Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!
Voting will remain open for at least six days, possibly longer!
Costume Bracket Masterlist
Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.
( Outfits below the Cut )
Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!
Voting will remain open for at least six days, possibly longer!
Costume Bracket Masterlist
Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.