#jane pollard | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

nofatclips · 1 year

Video

youtube

Do You Love Me Like I Love You, Part 13: Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus - A documentary by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about the album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

11 notes · View notes

werewolfetone · 2 years

Note

Infodump on me about Dorothy Wordsworth pretty please

Okay!

Her full name was Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth, and she was born in Cockermouth (obviously double entendre but it's pronounced kind of like cocker-muth for people who aren't familiar), England, on Christmas day in 1771, making her just a year younger than Wordsworth. Her mother died early, but she was very close with her siblings, which were the famous William, Christopher, Richard, and John, and she had a fairly happy childhood. She wasn't very close with her father, who was a lawyer for an earl (which meant that they had a large mansion in town), but when he died in 1783 it still greatly affected her.

After her father's death, Dorothy went to lived with her aunt, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax. While there she was like... okay... but didn't get to see her brothers at all and judging from letters etc from the time missed them greatly, especially William.

She was finally reunited with William in 1795, and they quickly became inseparable. Coleridge also enters the picture in 1795, and he was also very good friends with Dorothy, including the fact that several of his poems in Lyrical Ballads were probably conceived of on walks with Dorothy, not William. She was also legitimately very concerned for Coleridge during his later drug-fueled downward spiral, which in a period where addiction and mental illness were seen as moral failings shows that they were really very good friends.

Dorothy Wordsworth is most famous for her journals, and rightfully so. They are priceless biographical information on the whole Lake Circle, and they give a good window into daily life in rural England during the early 19th century, and they contain some of the best description of natural features around. She also, however, wrote some poetry, which is really nice and really hard to locate, and wrote large sections of a guide to the Lake District, which was published under William's name.

Hills To Die On for me about Dorothy Wordsworth:

She didn't want to be published, and she gave William permission to use the writing of hers that she used. Attributing it to only his name was kind of a dick move, but her never being published under name was a deliberate move by her, because she was famously self conscious and too shy to publish. Whether or not this was because she lived in a misogynistic society and had been taught that women should be seen not heard or just because she was naturally this way isn't really clear I guess, but her never being published under her name was her idea. Terfs who want to use her as a case of "poor oppressed woman :(" can go die especially, not only for obvious reasons but also because saying that she was nothing but a thing for William to be a dick to makes me rabid

The chances that she was in romantic and/or sexual love with her brother William are very very slim. That kind of thing happened in the past (unfortunately) but 1. she didn't seem interested in any of that very much at all 2. the whole William-Dorothy-Coleridge-Mary-Sara (Hutchison) dynamic was really really weirdly close in the first place so like. it wasn't an isolated thing that she just talked about him like that 3. if you want to see chemistry her letters to her friend Jane Pollard are a billion times more 'woww what was going on with you guys' so make of that what you will. There's always a chance that something was going on, but like. personally I think it's really small and as someone with siblings and very close friends it just looks to me like a mixture of those relationships

Some random things about Dorothy:

she was the same height as Thomas de Quincey (4'11")

that time Coleridge walked through a thunderstorm to the Wordsworths' house and was like "I finished Christabel!" and she was like "well I don't feel well so you have ten seconds to get the fuck off of my property"

one time she went out to buy plants and bought so many that she couldn't carry them and had to leave them sitting in the middle of the road while she ran home for help

all of her accounts of people she met while wandering around Grasmere at night are pretty interesting, including a guy who completely unprompted started talking about how the middle class would become obsolete without revolution, a family that said they couldn't have a house so they were just kinda wandering around the uk on foot for a bit, a lady who started asking her where Coleridge lived, and a boy who was carrying a sack of meat and coins over his shoulder

she sometimes went to funerals of people who didn't have many friends or family members just because she could and because she felt bad for the person

overall she just lived the absolute cottagecore dream as her daily routine was pretty much just "baking bread and gardening and writing poetry and wandering the countryside"

And to finish, things to learn more about Dorothy:

there's Frances Wilson's The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth for a biography, but let me be totally honest, it's really boring and pretty much just "well idk. maybe she thought this maybe she didn't" for 350 pages. read it if you want, but

going straight to the woman herself and reading her journals is always my go-to. you get the facts and her personality really comes through, they're great

#THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK #dorothy wordsworth #wordsworth #william wordsworth #samuel taylor coleridge #coleridge #thomas de quincey #de quincey #jane pollard #romanticism #romantic poets #terfs dni #mentioned them at one point so i have put that #tw incest #tw death #asks

3 notes · View notes

adsmusiconstellations · 2 years

Video

youtube

Bon Iver & S. Carey at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session, 2011)

Director: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

https://4ad.com / https://jagjaguwar.com

#bon iver #s. carey #2011 #2010s #live #video #4AD #pop #rock #iain forsyth #jane pollard #jake jackson #brian joseph #usa #bonnie raitt #justin vernon #sean carey

2 notes · View notes

moviemosaics · 2 years

Photo

20,000 Days on Earth

directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, 2014

#20000 Days on Earth #Iain Forsyth #Jane Pollard #movie mosaics #Nick Cave #Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds #Kylie Minogue #Warren Ellis

2 notes · View notes

pacingmusings · 2 years

Photo

Seen in 2022:

20,000 Days on Earth (Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard), 2014

#films #movies #stills #docs #documentary #hybrid #music #20000 Days on Earth #Iain Forsyth #Jane Pollard #Nick Cave #recording #2010s #seen in 2022 #women directors

2 notes · View notes

delilaholson · 2 years

Photo

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Requiem for 114 Radios, 2016, mixed media, looped sound installation

#Iain Forsyth #Jane Pollard #Delilah Olson

0 notes

bringbackwendellvaughn · 1 month

Photo

#Spider-Man #Mary Jane #Tom DeFalco #Keith Pollard #OTP

8 notes · View notes

cotscott · 1 year

Text

Are we having fun yet?? 🎀

#I started this last year if you could tell #party down #party down starz #party down fanart #art #adam scott #henry pollard #martin starr #roman debeers #ryan hansen #kyle bradway #megan mulally #lydia dunfree #lizzy caplan #casey klein #jane lynch #constance carmell #ken marino #ron donald

39 notes · View notes

little-alien-duck · 1 year

Text

thinking about how when the doctor says goodbye to sarah jane in the hand of fear instead of actually saying goodbye he says “until we meet again” and in the last when charley is dead and he’s saying goodbye to her the last thing he says is “until we meet again.” having Thoughts about this one.

#it's about his denial that this is actually goodbye #when he says goodbye to sarah he knows he won't go back #and that this is goodbye #but he doesn't want to say it #and when charley dies he can't admit she's gone #and he can't even really acknowledge it to himself #instead he focuses on saving c'rizz #bc he couldn't save charley #and then neither time it's really a goodbye #doctor who #four #eight #sarah jane smith #charley pollard

28 notes · View notes

leitoracomcompanhia · 1 year

Photo

Partida

“A última viagem da carruagem e dos quatro cavalos foi para levar Sir Walter, a Menina Elliot e a Sra. Clay para Bath. O grupo partiu muito bem-disposto.”

Jane Austen, “Persuasão”; pintura de James Pollard.

#Jane Austen #Persuasão #James Pollard #Art

3 notes · View notes

frimleyblogger · 3 months

Text

A Remarkable Overland Trek

When lifeboatmen from the #RNLI dragged their boat 13 miles to rescue the stricken Forrest Hall

Built and launched in Liverpool in 1883, the Forrest Hall was a three masted, iron hulled ship, 277 feet long with a gross tonnage of 2.052, capable of carrying over 3,000 tons of coal in her hold. In early January 1899 she set out from Avonmouth Docks to Liverpool for a refitwithout cargo, only ballast, and with a skeleton crew of eighteen including five apprentice sailors instead of its usual…

View On WordPress

#Jack Crocombe #Lynmouth Lifeboat station #Porlock Weir #Royal National Lifeboat Institution #the Forrest Hall #the Jane Joliffe #the Louisa #Tom Pollard

0 notes

misterdtour · 8 months

Text

When Spidey Jumped the Shark, Pt. 5: The Marv Wolfman Era

Today it’s the Marv Wolfman Era of Amazing Spider-Man I’ll be covering. Continue reading Untitled

View On WordPress

1 note · View note

companion-showdown · 2 months

Text

Who is the best companion to get intoxicated with?

this tournament was suggested anonymously

GRAND FINAL

Ace McShane vs Donna Noble

SEMI FINALS

Ace McShane vs Wilfred Mott

Jack Harkness vs Donna Noble

QUARTERFINALS

Ace McShane vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Iris Wildthyme

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4

Ace McShane vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Liz Shaw

Dan Lewis vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs The TARDIS

ROUND 3

Ace McShane vs River Song

Charley Pollard vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Dodo Chaplet

Rose Tyler vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Wilfred Mott

Romana II vs Liz Shaw

Barbara Wright vs Dan Lewis

Frobisher vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Martha Jones

Polly Wright vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Koschei

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Bernice Summerfield

Clara Oswald vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Romana I

The TARDIS vs Tegan Jovanka

ROUND 2

Day 2

Jack Harkness vs Liv Chenka

Martha Jones vs Alan Turing

Polly Wright vs Mel Bush

Chris Cwej vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jason Kane

Koschei vs McQueen!Master

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Narvin

Ruth Leonidus vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Vislor Turlough

Bernice Summerfield vs Steven Taylor

Wolsey vs Clara Oswald

Clarence the Angel vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Karra

Romana I vs Romana III

Compassion vs The TARDIS

Hebe Harrison vs Tegan Jovanka

Day 1

Ace McShane vs God the Computer

Evelyn Smythe vs River Song

Sabalom Glitz vs Charley Pollard

Miranda Who vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Hex Schofield

Dodo Chaplet vs Panna

Vicki Pallister vs Rose Tyler

Peri Brown vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Fitz Kreiner

Wilfred Mott vs Leela

The Brigadier vs Romana II

Liz Shaw vs The Black Dalek Leader

Barbara Wright vs Nyssa

Lucie Miller vs Dan Lewis

Father Kreiner vs Frobisher

Amy Pond vs Bill Potts

ROUND 1

(too many links for the post to work but all matches under the tag intoxication: round 1)

Day 1

Ace McShane vs Adric

Tegan Jovanka vs Victoria Waterfield

Delgado!Master vs Aris

Jo Grant vs Sutekh

Jamie McCrimmon vs Kamelion

Barbara Wright vs Harry Sullivan

The Black Dalek Leader vs Mother Francesca

Irving Braxiatel vs Elspeth (Where Angels Fear)

Iris Wildthym vs Peter Summerfield

C'rizz vs God the Computer

Romana III vs Carmen Yeh

McQueen!Master vs Mr Crofton

Wolsey vs Sam Bishop

Jack Harkness vs Rory Williams

Bill Potts vs Mickey Smith

Donna Noble vs Ryan Sinclair

Day 2

K9 vs Grace Holloway

Sabalom Glitz vs Sara Kingdom

Polly Wright vs Mike Yates

The Brigadier vs Morbius

Panna vs Varsh

Vicki Pallister vs Karuna

Father Kreiner vs Cousin Anastasia

Alan Turing vs Captain Magenta

Compassion vs Jack McSpringheel

Evelyn Smythe vs Renée Thalia

Frobisher vs Sabbath Dei

Narvin vs Lola Denison

Ruby Sunday vs Ianto Jones

Missy vs Yasmin Khan

Madam Vastra vs Sally Sparrow

Dan Lewis vs Graham O'Brien

Day 3

Steven Taylor vs Ben Jackson

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Zoe Heriot

Leela vs Ian Chesterton

Soldeed vs Vislor Turlough

Tremas vs Peri Brown

Dodo Chaplet vs Duggan

Bernice Summerfield vs Pandora

Koschei vs Valarie Lockwood

Lucie Miller vs The War King

Charley Pollard vs Joseph (The Doomsday Manuscript)

Miranda Who vs Eliza

Chris Cwej vs Adrian Wall

Death's Head vs Hebe Harrison

Jane Austen vs Amy Pond

River Song vs Gwen Cooper

The TARDIS vs Beep the Meep

Day 4

Romana II vs Chang Lee

The Three Who Rule vs Liz Shaw

The Kandyman vs Nyssa

Sergeant Benton vs Karra

Mel Bush vs Susan Foreman

Romana I vs Erato

Jason Kane vs V.M.McCrimmon

Clarence the Angel vs Scarlette

Hex Schofield vs Cousin Justine

John (Another Girl, Another Planet) vs Liv Chenka

Ruth Leonidus vs D'Eon

Fitz Kreiner vs The Original Golden Dalek Emperor

Martha Jones vs Bannakaffalatta

Wilfred Mott vs Toshiko Sato

Rose Tyler vs Vincent van Gogh

Clara Oswald vs Nardole

links to previous tournaments

#intoxication: masterpost #doctor who

67 notes · View notes

neil-gaiman · 2 years

Note

Hello Mr Gaiman!

This may be quite odd, but one of my favourite works of yours is the series "Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories". It's so eerie but incredibly intriguing and fascinating. Every time I watch it I eventually discover something new I have missed during the past rewatches. I stumbled upon it because of the lovely Paul Ritter, and I was very pleased and surprised to see that he had a part in every episode, one bigger than the other.

So my question is, did you deliberately choose Paul to be in the series and made sure to give him several roles in the series because of a potential personal connection? Or do you have no connection to him and it was clear from the start that whoever got to be in his position would appear in every episode? (My apologies if my question doesn't really make sense, I'm not good with words...)

I didn't cast Likely Stories -- that was Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the directors. But we talked from the beginning about having a theatrical company, who played different roles in all the stories. Paul was marvellous.

406 notes · View notes

bitter69uk · 1 year

Photo

“Born Susan Ballion in 1957, she was the product of post-war suburban life which, like many, she grew up to resent entirely … She was 14 when hospitalised with ulcerative colitis and it was while watching Top of the Pops on a children’s ward in 1972 that she saw David Bowie’s performance of “Starman” – a magical, rupturing event for many of her generation, and one that had a profound influence on her … Susan Ballion was one of the first to understand the radical possibilities offered by Bowie’s cut-up aesthetic, clearly and slowly began remaking herself as Siouxsie Sioux. Sioux’s image would become a violent but not haphazard mix of Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter, the incarnation of David Bowie she had seen from her hospital bed, and Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, and would draw upon the sharp lines of Kabuki masks and the leather and steel of S&M gear … Siouxsie’s “monstrous” look combined with her innovative musical vision had a profound impact on those around her …”

/ Excerpts from the catalogue to The Horror Show! exhibit (2022/23) by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard /

Light a black candle (or at least don a black T-shirt), grab the hair crimpers and can of Aqua Net - today marks a sacred occasion! Haughtily composed high priestess of punk, spooky voodoo doll frontwoman of the Banshees (and The Creatures), perennial eyeliner role model, perfector of the death glare and Chislehurst’s finest, Siouxsie Sioux (née Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957) turns 66! For generations of punks, goths, queers and misfits, Siouxsie is the real Queen of England! What a life-changing performer: it was seeing a black-and-white photo of Siouxsie in a magazine when I was in my early teens that planted the idea of moving to London. (I’m still unsure whether to be grateful to her or not!). I last saw her perform at the Meltdown festival in June 2013 – so ten years ago next month! Isn’t it gratifying to see Siouxsie’s recent reemergence as a mature artist, still fiercely glamorous and charismatic? For the record, my favourite Siouxsie and The Banshees song will always be “Arabian Knights.” Pictured: portrait of Siouxsie by Pierre et Gilles for the front cover of The Creatures’ 1999 album Anima Animus.

#siouxsie sioux #siouxsie #siouxsie and the banshees #the creatures #pierre et gilles #high priestess of punk #punk diva #punk chanteuse #goth #kween #fierce #lobotomy room

138 notes · View notes

companion-showdown-dot-org · 1 year

Text

Mini-Tournaments Contestent Lists

Green is for definite inclusion

Red is for maybes (opinions on if they should be included are welcome)

I am not familiar with EU companions, so if any of them should be included, please tell me (note, numbers are capped at 16 per tournament, EU companions won't be added if it would mean removing TV companions). They'll be listed in green as definite inclusions until the list is too long, companions in red will be removed first

Also, I'm writing these lists off the top of my head, so if I've forgotten someone obvious, let me know

Poll here

The Great Himboff:

Steven Taylor

Ben Jackson

Jamie McCrimmon

John Benton

Mike Yates

Harry Sullivan

Vislor Turlough

Chang Lee

Mickey Smith

Jack Harkness

Rory Williams

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Fitz Kreiner

Teenager Takedown (if they don't have a stated age they should be easy to interpret as a teenager):

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Dodo Chaplet

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

Adric

Nyssa

Ace McShane

Rose Tyler

Charley Pollard

Izzy Sinclair

Gillian and John Who

Sam Jones

Mary Shelley

Peri Brown

This bracket is now full

Not from Around Here

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

Leela

Romana I

Romana II

Adric

Nyssa

Vislor Turlough

Nardole

River Song

Jack Harkness

C'rizz

This bracket is now full

Chaos Incarnate

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Dodo Chaplet

Jamie McCrimmon

Zoe Heriot

Sarah-Jane Smith

Leela

Ace McShane

Clara Oswald

Bill Potts

Graham O'Brien

Dan Lewis

Iris Wildthyme

Doctors of Doctor Who (is a medical proffesional of any kind or has a PhD or alien equivalent)

Liz Shaw

Harry Sullivan

Romana I

Romana II

Grace Holloway

Martha Jones

River Song

Rory Williams

Evelyn Smythe

Liv Chenka

Bernice Summerfield

Molly O'Sullivan

Hex Schofield

Nyssa

Hebe Harrison

Tara Mishra

This bracket is not full, I may still replace Romana I or II with a better candidate

Smart Companions (as in being intelligent is a defining trait of the character)

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Susan Foreman

Zoe Heriot

Liz Shaw

Romana I

Romana II

Adric

Nyssa

Mel Bush

Grace Holloway

Martha Jones

Kate Stewart

The Robotathon (Robot/Cybernetically Enhanced)

K9

Kamelion

Handles

Nardole

Kroton

Marc

Bill Potts (maybes because I hesitate to call cyber conversion enhancement)

Valarie Lockwood

Shalka!Master

Mark Seven

UNIT team

The Brigadier

John Benton

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Martha Jones

Kate Stewart

Tara Mishra

#all the numbers seem to be working out as factors of two #which is weird #mini-tournaments

45 notes · View notes