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sywtwfs · 8 months

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Viewing information for Autumn Classic and JGP Japan is now available on our website.

#figure skating #challenger series #autumn classic #autumn classic 2023 #jr grand prix #jgp japan 2023 #events #season: 2023 2024 #how to watch

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figureskatingcostumes · 9 days

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Mone Chiba's Dark Eyes costume at the 2023 Grand Prix de France and 2023 Autumn Classic International.

And with added sparkles on the bodice at the 2024 World Championsips:

(Sources: Wilma Alberti, Danielle Earl Photography, Phantom Kabocha, sponichitokyophoto and sno_owbal)

#Mone Chiba #Figure skating #Japan #Dark Eyes #2023–2024 #2023 Grand Prix de France #2023 Autumn Classic International #Women #Russian folk music #2024 Worlds

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bphs-hmml · 7 months

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2023/10/06 🤎

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” – Lauren DeStefano

(my pics)

#autumn #fall #october 2023 #autumn quotes #dark academia #my pics #hungary #budapest #classic academia #light academia #café #rainyday #moodboard

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readings-in-the-dark · 6 months

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09.11.23 (thursday)

i went to the gym for the first time in like a month and i'm realising how bad my lung capacity has gotten. I wasn't ready to come back from my holiday time but work is moving slowly and I plan on taking everything one step at a time.

naniwrimo is also moving like slugde, I'm really behind but I can't force myself to write anymore T-T

currently reading: Why Does It Still Hurt? by Paul Bielger

#dark academia #readingsinthedark #classic academia #autumn #fall #autumn aesthetic #studyblr #workblr #studyspo #study motivation #langblr #nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2023

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oldtvandcomics · 7 months

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So, October. I really enjoyed reading Arsène Lupin for Pulptober last year, so I am going to repeat that. Also, Les Trois Mousquetaires. One of the books I am kind of feeling low-key guilty for not having yet read, so I'm going to use this opportunity to rectify that.

Also interesting because of the mediums, Lupin is on paper while the Mousquetaires is digital, so I'm going to attempt the atrocity of reading both at the same time, under different circumstances. See how that goes.

#I really do need to work on my classics and Pulptober is always such a good opportunity to do that <3 <3 #Also for during the year #last year's got me to read Tarzan of the Apes and the first book of Imaro #(which is more of a collection of the first two adventures but whatever)#the one of the year before introduced me to The Scarlet Pimpernel #and I don't think that I would have read The Curse of Capistrano without it #and of course Arsène Lupin #I LOVED Arsène Lupin #based on the first chapter: still do #classic literature #pulp heroes #Arsène Lupin #les trois mousquetaires #Littérature française #Pulptober #Pulptober 2023 #Hot French Autumn #books #personal

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edensliterarydiaries · 8 months

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Wuthering Heights- A piece on human emotion by Emily Brontë

The preconception of this literary classic was of dread. Picking this up, I was already thinking about the long, drawn out revelations of a word that launched a thousand creatives to make for the next 200 years; suffering.

I’m glad to say that I was wrong in conceiving these thoughts. Wuthering Heights is a beautiful tale of love that pushes our three leading men into situations they are greatly unprepared for. To an extent, it is wrong to think that this is typical of the gothic genre. The dreams and visions these characters see are plausibly the result of mixed emotions in response to where Brontë uses them in the story.

This is no more evident than in the experiences of the novel’s most infamous character; Heathcliff. Described as dark and enigmatic, Heathcliff finds love in a girl (Catherine) who is promised to someone else (Edgar). To say rather quickly ‘be with me always-take any form-drive me mad!’ is one of many ways Bontë engraves her own passionate nature into the words of her characters. This quote particularly uses multiple dashes to speed up its pace. The lack of opportunities to breath, possibly was needed to create tension in Heathcliff’s voice. Moreover, lengthening a sentence filled with only one and two syllable words, emphasises the sheer urgency of his words to his Catherine.

The connotations of Brontë’s passionate nature are further solidified when Heathcliff finishes his love-filled plea with the command ‘do not leave me in the abyss where I cannot find you.’ To an extent, the chilling imagery can suggest that Heathcliff needs Catherine to fill a void in his heart in replacement of the cold darkness often associated with ‘the abyss’. Yet, due to the lack of experience we, as readers, have with such an image, it is also plausible that Brontë can be referring to the Yorkshire’s moors fog riddled scenery. However, the imagery of the ‘abyss’ can also connote ideas of religion. Even in the mid 1800s, religion was still a prevalent practice in the English countryside. Heathcliff can be foretelling a future where, without Catherine’s light, darkness is his only acquaintance. The imperfect and sharp changes in narrative speed is what makes Brontë’s writing imperfect; making it a plausibly unique gem in Victorian literature. The lack of any stable roads for the reader to follow, makes the novel reminiscent of a diary. The passion charged speeches and the constant wafting between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, can be seen as a reflection of Brontë’s own life. After the death of her mother and siblings, Emily and Charlotte spend time in Brussels before spending the rest of their days in their bleak Yorkshire homeland. Over this period of time, both sisters grew apart in their extreme personality; Emily was far ‘more appreciated for her passionate nature than Charlotte’ s decorous temper’. But, at the end of the day, ‘whatever the souls are made of (both) are the same’. It can also be suggested that Brontë wrote this novel in the midst of her travels. As the intense human emotions felt by the characters, contrasts the peaceful greyness of their surroundings. With nothing happening in the Yorkshire setting, neither from humans or environment, Brontë plausibly makes the stage for her characters smaller; therefore limiting distractions and increasing the tension.

Overall, Wuthering Heights is a testament to what it is to be human. We never have one true emotion we feel in any situation we experience. It is always a mixture of happiness and doubt or fear and sheer embarrassment (wait that’s what I feel!) In modern world, Wuthering Heights can be seen as a story of the typical non-committal. How many times have we committed to a relationship, with a person or place, and second guessed our intentions to pursue it. Brontë is certainly a quintessential writer for the human over a creator of fantasies.

This is certainly a novel I will be reading again and (maybe) I’ll have a go at some of Charlotte’s work. Who knows. Thank you Emily. Thank you. Xxx

-If you but struggle with the language of 1800s England but want to read a narrative similar to Wuthering Heights. Why not pursue Philippa Gregory’s Wideacre series and Betrayal at the Tudor Court by Darcey Bonnette-

#wuthering heights #nature #emily bronte #bronte sisters #writing #writers on tumblr #blog #english #english literature #classic literature #september #september 2023 #autumn #literature review #quote #yorkshire #yorkshiremoors

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pharaohgargamel · 5 months

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Осенние воспоминания 2023 ✨🍁🍂🌸🌺✨ часть 2

Музыка: Георгий Свиридов "Вальс"

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Autumn Memories 2023 ✨🍁🍂🌸🌺✨ part 2

Music: Georgy Sviridov "Waltz"

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ashaseth · 6 months

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16 Books For Cozy Fall Reading

Fall is a season of change and reflection, and there’s no better way to embrace it than by diving into a good book. Whether you prefer cozy mysteries, heartwarming family dramas, or spine-tingling thrillers, these fall books offer a range of options to keep you engaged and inspired throughout the autumn months. So, grab a warm blanket, your favorite beverage, and immerse yourself in the world of…

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toruandmidori · 8 months

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JOURNEY INTO FEAR!

Part of our range of spooky, retro Halloween shirts inspired by the artwork of classic horror comics!

Vintage spooks for modern kooks.

Buy online here.

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figureskatingcostumes · 5 months

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Dabin Choi skating to Hymne à l'amour for her short program at the 2023 Autumn Classic International.

(Source: Absolute Skating)

#Dabin Choi #Figure skating #South Korea #Hymne à l'amour #2023–2024 #2023 Autumn Classic International #Women

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fuckyeahgoodomens · 2 months

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The Radio Times magazine from the 29 July-04 August 2023 :)

THE SECOND COMING

How did Terry Pratchett and Neil gaiman overcome the small matter of Pratchett's death to make another series of their acclaimed divine comedy?

For all the dead authors in the world,” legendary comedy producer John Lloyd once said, “Terry Pratchett is the most alive.” And he’s right. Sir Terry is having an extremely busy 2023… for someone who died in 2015.

This week sees the release of Good Omens 2, the second series of Amazon’s fantasy comedy drama based on the cult novel Pratchett co-wrote with Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s. This will be followed in the autumn by a new spin-off book from Pratchett’s Discworld series, Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, co-written by Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna and children’s author Gabrielle Kent. The same month, we’ll also get A Stroke of the Pen, a collection of “lost” short stories written by Sir Terry for local newspapers in the 70s and 80s and recently rediscovered. Clearly, while there are no more books coming from Pratchett – a hard drive containing all drafts and unpublished work was crushed by a vintage steamroller shortly after the author’s death, as per his specific wishes – people still want to visit his vivid and addictive worlds in new ways.

Good Omens 2 will be the first test of how this can work. The original book started life as a 5,000-word short story by Gaiman, titled William the Antichrist and envisioned as a bit of a mashup of Richmal Crompton’s Just William books and the 70s horror classic The Omen. What would happen, Gaiman had mused, if the spawn of Satan had been raised, not by a powerful American diplomat, but by an extremely normal couple in an idyllic English village, far from the influence of hellish forces? He’d sent the first draft to bestselling fantasy author Pratchett, a friend of many years, and then forgotten about it as he busied himself with continuing to write his massively popular comic books, including Violent Cases, Black Orchid and The Sandman, which became a Netflix series last year.

Pratchett loved the idea, offering to either buy the concept from Gaiman or co-write it. It was, as Gaiman later said, “like Michelangelo phoning and asking if you want to paint a ceiling” The pair worked on the book together from that point on, rewriting each other as they went and communicating via long phone calls and mailed floppy discs. “The actual mechanics worked like this: I would do a bit, then Neil would take it away and do a bit more and give it back to me,” Pratchett told Locus magazine in 1991. “We’d mess about with each other’s bits and pieces.”

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – to give it its full title –was published in 1990 to huge acclaim. It was one of, astonishingly, five Terry Pratchett novels to be published that year (he averaged two a year, including 41 Discworld novels and many other standalone works and collaborations).

It was also, clearly, extremely filmable, and studios came knocking — though getting it made took a while. rnvo decades on from its writing, four years after Pratchett's death from Alzheimer's disease aged 66, and after several doomed attempts to get a movie version off the ground, Good Omens finally made it to TV screens in 2019, scripted and show-run by Gaiman himself. "Terry was egging me on to make it into television. He knew he was dying, and he knew that I wouldn't start it without him," Gaiman revealed in a 2019 Radio Times interview. Amazon and the BBC co-produced with Pratchett's company Narrativia and Gaiman's Blank Corporation production studios, with Michael Sheen and David Tennant cast in the central roles of Aziraphale the angel and Crowley the demon. The show was a hit, not just with fans of its two creators, but with a whole new young audience, many of whom had no interest in Discworld or Sandman. Social media networks like Tumblr and TikTok were soon awash with cosplay, artwork and fan fiction. The original novel became, for the first time, a New York Times bestseller.

A follow up was, on one level, a no-brainer. The world Pratchett and Gaiman had created was vivid, funny and accessible, and Tennant and Sheen had found an intriguing romantic spark in their chemistry not present in the novel.

There was, however, a huge problem. There wasn't a second Good Omens book to base it on. But there was the ghost of an idea.

In 1989, after the book had been sold but before it had come out, the two authors had laid on fivin beds in a hotel room at a convention in Seattle and, jet-lagged and unable to sleep, plotted out, in some detail, what would happen in a sequel, provisionally titled 668, The II Neighbour of the Beast.

"It was a good one, too" Gaiman wrote in a 2021 blog. "We fully intended to write it, whenever we next had three or four months free. Only I went to live in America and Terry stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens was published, Sandman became SANDMAN and Discworld became DISCWORLD(TM) and there wasn't a good time."

Back in 1991, Pratchett elaborated, "We even know some of the main characters in it. But there's a huge difference between sitting there chatting away, saying, 'Hey, we could do this, we could do that,' and actually physically getting down and doing it all again." In 2019, Gaiman pillaged some of those ideas for Good Omens series one (for example, its final episode wasn't in the book at all), and had left enough threads dangling to give him an opening for a sequel. This is the well he's returned to for Good Omens 2, co-writing with comic John Finnemore - drafted in, presumably, to plug the gap left Pratchett's unparalleled comedic mind. No small task.

Projects like Good Omens 2 are an important proving ground for Pratchett's legacy: can the universes he conjured endure without their creator? And can they stay true to his spirit? Sir Terry was famously protective of his creations, and there have been remarkably few adaptations of his work considering how prolific he was. "What would be in it for me?" he asked in 2003. "Money? I've got money."

He wanted his work treated reverently and not butchered for the screen. It's why Good Omens and projects like Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch are made with trusted members of the inner circle like Neil Gaiman and Rhianna Pratchett at the helm. It's also why the author's estate, run by Pratchett's former assistant and business manager Rob Wilkins, keeps a tight rein on any licensed Pratchett material — it's a multi-million dollar media empire still run like a cottage industry.

And that's heartening. Anyone who saw BBC America's panned 2021 Pratchett adaptation The Watch will know how badly these things can go when a studio is allowed to run amok with the material without oversight. These stories deserve to be told, and these worlds deserve to be explored — properly. And there are, apparently, many plans afoot for more Pratchett on the screen. You can only hope that, somewhere, he'll be proud of the results.

After all, as he wrote himself, "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence."

While those ripples continue to spread, Sir Terry Pratchett remains very much alive. MARC BURROWS

DIVINE DUO

An angel and a demon walk into a pub... Michael Sheen and David Tennant on family, friendship and Morecambe & Wise

Outside it's cold winter's day and we're in a Scottish studio, somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. But inside it's lunchtime in The Dirty Donkey pub in the heart of London, with both Michael Sheen and David Tennant surveying the scene appreciatively. "This is a great pub," says Sheen eagerly, while Tennant calls it "the best Soho there can be. A slightly heightened, immaculate, perfect, dreamy Soho."

Here, a painting of the absent landlord — the late Terry Pratchett, co-creator, with Neil Gaiman, of the series' source novel — looms over punters. Around the corner is AZ Fell and Co Antiquarian and Unusual Books. It's the bookshop owned by Sheen's character, the angel Aziraphale, and the place to where Tennant's demon Crowley is inevitably drawn.

It's day 74 of an 80-day shoot for a series that no one, least of all the leading actors, ever thought would happen, due to the fact that Pratchett and Gaiman hadn't ever published any sequel to their 1990 fantasy satire. Tennant explains, "What we didn't know was that Neil and Terry had had plots and plans..."

Still, lots of good things are in Good Omens 2, which expands on the millennia-spanning multiverse of the first series. These include a surprisingly naked side of John Hamm, and roles for both Tennant's father-in-law (Peter Davison) and 21-year-old son Ty. At its heart, though, remains the brilliant banter between the two leading men — as Sheen puts it, "very Eric and Ernie !" — whose chemistry on the first series led to one of the more surprising saviours of lockdown telly.

Good Omens is back — but you've worked together a lot in the meantime. Was there a connective tissue between series one of Good Omens and Staged, your lockdown sitcom?

David: Only in as much as the first series went out, then a few months later, we were all locked in our houses. And because of the work we'd done on Good Omens, it occurred that we might do something else. I mean, Neil Gaiman takes full responsibility for Staged. Which, to some extent, he's probably right to do!

Michael: We've got to know each other through doing this. Our lives have gotten more entwined in all kinds of ways — we have children who've now become friends, and our families know each other.

There have been hints of a romantic storyline between the two characters. How much of an undercurrent is that in this series.

David: Nothing's explicit.

Michael: I felt from the very beginning that part of what would be interesting to explore is that Aziraphale is a character, a being, who just loves. How does that manifest itself in a very specific relationship with another being? Inevitably, as there is with everything in this story, there's a grey area. The fact that people see potentially a "romantic relationship", I thought that was interesting and something to explore.

There was a petition to have the first series banned because of its irreverent take on Christian tropes. Series two digs even more deeply into the Bible with the story of Job. How much of a badge of honour is it that the show riles the people who like to ban things?

David: It's not an irreligious show at all. It's actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious belief. The idea that it promotes Satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from hell are to be aspired to at all! They're a dreadful bunch of non-entities. People are very keen to be offended, aren't they? They're often looking for something to glom on to without possibly really examining what they think they're complaining about.

Michael, you're known as an activist, and you're in the middle of Making BBC drama The Way, which "taps into the social and political chaos of today's world". Is it important for you to use your plaform to discuss causes you believe in?

Michael: The Way is not a political tract, it's just set in the area that I come from. But it has to matter to you, doesn't it? More and more as I get older, [I find] it can be a real slog doing this stuff. You've got to enjoy it. And if it doesn't matter to you, then it's just going to be depressing.

David, Michael has declared himself a "not-for-profit" actor. Has he tried to persuade you to give up all your money too?

David: What an extraordinary question! One is always aware that one has a certain responsibility if one is fortunate and gets to do a job that often doesn't feel like a job. You want to do your bit whenever you can. But at the same time, I'm an actor. I'm not about to give that up to go into politics or anything. But I'll do what I can from where I live.

Well, your son and your father-in-law are also starring in this series. How about that, jobs for the boys!

David: I know! It was a delight to get to be on set with them. And certainly an unexpected one for me. Neil, on two occasions, got to bowl up to me and say, "Guess who we've cast?!"

How do you feel about your US peers going on strike?

David: It's happening because there are issues that need to be addressed. Nobody's doing this lightly. These are important issues, and they've got to be sorted out for the future of our industry. There's this idea that writers and actors are all living high on the hog. For huge swathes of our industry, that's just not the case. These people have got to be protected.

Michael: We have to be really careful that things don't slide back to the way they were pre the 1950s, when the stories that we told were all coming from one point of view and the stories of certain people, or communities within our society, weren't represented. There's a sense that now that's changed for ever and it'll never go back. But you worry when people can't afford to have the opportunities that other people have. We don't want the story that we tell about ourselves to be myopic. You want it to be as inclusive as possible

Staged series 3 recently broadcast. It felt like the show's last hurrah — or is there more mileage? Sheen and Tennant go on holiday?

David: That's the Christmas special! One Foot in the Algarve! On the Buses Go to Spain!

Michael: I don't think we were thinking beyond three, were we?

So is it time for a conscious uncoupling for you two — Eric and Ernie say goodbye?

David: Oh, never say never, will we?

Michael: And it's more Hinge and Bracket.

David: Maybe that's what we do next — The Hinge and Bracket Story. CRAIG McLEAN

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zorlok-if · 1 year

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Still can't find a working link for Goncharov (1973), but...

Creating Goncharov is live on Itch.io!

Everyone knows Goncharov. Martin Scorsese's 1973 film is a cult classic, a true masterpiece of cinema. To celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary, you, an office drone working at a major media corporation, have to create a pitch for a 2023 remake. It's an amazing opportunity that could launch your career. There's just one problem.

You haven't seen Goncharov.

Unable to turn down your corporate overlords, you and an indecisive colleague throw together a story based solely on information you can quickly find or invent.

How will you reimagine the greatest mafia movie ever made and what will you do to turn your ideas into reality?

Creating Goncharov is a surreal interactive fiction game created for Autumn Chen's Goncharov game jam. This game was written and coded by Albie. For more games by Albie, click here.

Play it here!

CW: Unreality and brief descriptions of smoking, violence, and death

Featuring the song "Main Theme from Goncharov" by @caramiaaddio. Original poster by @beelzeebub. Game screenshots below the cut.

Check out the other games made for the game jam here.