New photos of Richard during Iceland Noir in Reykjavík, Iceland. (November 18, 2023)

📷: mbl.is

your pretty man, Richard Armitage.

This man is such an adorable sweetheart. It's so mindboggling that he ends up playing super-angry characters.

Mr #RichardArmitage🧔🏻‍♂️✨️🇬🇧🔥 looking for his book #Geneva🏔📚🍫 at Sainsbury's, undercover 🤭🕵‍♂️😜

(26/October/2023)

From Faber Books 📚 ✨️

"Have you spotted Geneva in @sainsburys yet? Author @RCArmitage has been hunting the supermarket's aisles for his thrilling debut novel 🔎"

https://twitter.com/FaberBooks/status/1717500067588743563?t=rYiuu5nY_IFozjNCQN0Zag&s=19

*source Richard Armitage Army Mèxico on Facebook*

My signed copy of Geneva arrived today! Thank you, Waterstones!

Lord Byron's first edition copy of Frankenstein (1818), one of only two known surviving copies to be personally inscribed by Mary Shelley (the other is to her friend Mrs. Thomas). Byron took this copy with him when he went into the Greek War of Independence, and it was among his personal things when he died there in 1824:

Mary didn't disclose her name in the inscription because the novel was published anonymously and she initially wanted to keep it that way. However, Byron did reveal her identity in a letter to his publisher, correcting his assumption that Percy was the one who wrote the novel:

"The story of the agreement to write the Ghost-books is true — but the ladies are not Sisters — one is Godwin’s daughter by Mary Wolstonecraft — and the other the present Mrs. Godwin’s daughter by a former husband. Mary Godwin (now Mrs. Shelley) wrote 'Frankenstein' — which you have reviewed thinking it Shelley’s — methinks it is a wonderful work for a Girl of nineteen — not nineteen indeed — at that time."

Under Mary Shelley's consultation, Thomas Moore writes in his Life of Lord Byron (vol III):

"During a week of rain at this time, having amused themselves with reading German ghost-stories, they agreed, at last, to write something in imitation of them. 'You and I,' said Lord Byron to Mrs. Shelley, 'will publish ours together.'"

Percy, writing as Mary with her permission, mentions Byron and himself (in the third-person) in the novel's 1818 preface thus:

"Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story, founded on some supernatural occurrence.

The weather, however, suddenly became serene; and my two friends left me on a journey among the Alps, and lost, in the magnificent scenes which they present, all memory of their ghostly visions. The following tale is the only one which has been completed."

medieval stores (& personified virtues)

from a copy of the encyclopedic "trésor" by brunetto latini, illuminated by the "master of the geneva latini", rouen, c. 1450-80

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r

One stormy night on Lake Leman, Lord Byron proposed a little ghastly writing contest...

I found the spell Circle of Death while looking at Arcanums for kicks and I need to ask: does ANYONE use this in regular play and if so, are your PCs on trial for war crimes?

Circle of Death

6th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Components: V, S, M (the powder of a crushed black pearl worth at least 500 gp) Duration: Instantaneous A sphere of negative energy ripples out in a 60-foot-radius sphere from a point within range. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw. A target takes 8d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Richard at the Strand Book Store in New York. (October 20, 2023)

📷: SOwen975

faberbooks A big day at the printers for Geneva (x)

do you like Mary Shelley? come meet others who do too!! (14+)

Welcome to the first and official Mary Shelley discord server that focuses mainly on the last man! This server functions as a book club, with 2 days set to finish each chapter. Currently, we are reading The Last Man, Mary Shelley's second best work. We are currently reading Chapter 3, and will start Chapter 4 by 2 days in the CET timezone. It is possible that after we finish this novel, we may start/reread other Shelley Novels such as the well-known and beloved Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, or lesser known works such as Mathilda! If you do not wish to participate with reading a specific book in the future, you can simply unclaim the chapter ping role used to anounce when a new chapter is starting, and reclaim when you decide you'd like to join again for a different book.

Join whenever you'd like, and I hope you enjoy your stay :)

server is still currently under development but nonetheless ready for interaction, however some changes might be made. anyone that is 14 or above is welcome.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃

Exodus 6:3, Geneva Bible (translated the Hebrew scriptures that comprised the Old Testament and the scholarly editions of the Greek New Testament. Published in 1560)

Exodus 6:3, Geneva Bible (1599)

Exodus 6:3, King James Version Bible (1611)

Sekhmet-Bast-Ra (with the wings) and friends in the Book of the Dead of Asetouret at the Geneva Museum of Art and History.

[Left to right, a male god with rams’ heads on his shoulders; a god with Amun’s crown and the body of a scarab; the deceased, a lady, worshipping them; then a naked falcon-headed child also wearing Amun’s double plumes, facing right; Sekhmet-Bast-Re, with three heads (a woman, a vulture, and a lioness) and spread wings; a twin of the naked falcon god, facing left; a snake with legs. These figures stand in a band at the top of the papyrus and illustrate the text below, presumably Chapter 164 of the Book of the Dead.]