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I’ve reached that point in life where all I want to do is fall asleep to British murder mystery shows staring a middle aged man with cunning blue eyes and his endearing but overworked partner.
#but alas#im still awake#because somebody killed a man with a wheel of cheese#British crime tv#murder mysteries#a fair bit of shows fall under this#but I’m rewatching midsomer murders#and someone fuking died from a rack of cheese
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My murder mystery game is out on Steam! It's like Clue meets Ace Attorney, if there were creeping monsters hiding in everyone's pockets.
The game is completely free, and won't keep you for longer than 2-3 hours, so it's perfect for a cozy evening in, or a session streaming with friends!
Download it over here!
#steam games#artists on tumblr#watercolor art#indie games#murder mysteries#visual novel#queer#lgbt#trans#dark academia#The Case of the Serialized Killer#running around flailing like Kermit#here we goooo#signal boosts will all be appreciated like a mug of warm cocoa to my weary frame
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Fallen angels also included. And yes, I can already tell how this poll will go but I'm interested in the votes for the less popular choices.
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221B Baker Street Christmas!
I'm making my house a Murder Mystery Christmas. My newest acquisition is a Department 56 Literary Classics model of Sherlock Holmes' house, with Sherlock and Watson!
It's all set for the season with garland and wreath, a table full of tiny British Xmas foods, a Christmas tree, and three annoying carolers. Miss Marple, Father Brown, and Hercule Poirot watch over them like Guardian Angels.
Dr. Moriarty left them a plum pudding. I don't think they'll eat it.
A better look at the two.
#Sherlock Holmes#Dr. Watson#221B Baker Street#The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes#Department 56#Christmas display#Christmas decorations#holiday#holiday decorations#Jeremy Brett#Miss Marple#Father Brown#Hercule Poirot#Poirot#murder mysteries#murder mystery theme#tiny food#miniatures
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I keep seeing people saying stuff like "what sets apart Knives Out and Glass Onion from Poirot or Sherlock Holmes is that finally the detective is not at the centre, he's there to be a supporting character"... and the problem with that is that that factor doesn't make those movies better murder mysteries. It would make them terrible murder mysteries... if they were murder mysteries.
I mean, there's a reason why murder mysteries are often called whodunnits: finding the identity of the murderer is the driving force of the story, and so, naturally, the person trying to solve the mystery is the best qualified to get the focus of attention.
Knives Out and Glass Onion are not murder mysteries, really, they are much much closer to heist movies. The central character of Knives Out is Marta, because the driving question of this movie is will Marta get away with it?, the same way, the central character of Glass Onion is Helen, because the driving question is will Helen get justice for Cassandra?
If you don't like detectives being at the centre of a murder mystery, or you don't like murder mysteries because of it, then probably... you just don't like murder mysteries. Nothing wrong with that at all.
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Fyi, My Life is Murder starring Lucy Lawless is on the PBS app with PBS Passport, and may be airing on local PBS stations(subject to availability). Check your local listings.
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And Lucifer fell, he fell, he fell to his knees
PRIDE
Angels clothed in gold, in purple, in hyacinth
Genius and love are easy duty.
'Reliquats' from Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire // The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe // Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás // Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman // Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás // Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman // The Kiss, J. Kirk Richards // Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás // Spleen and Ideal, Carlos Schwabe // Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell // Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White // Angel Making Music, Denis Forkas // Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White // Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell //Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás // Ange déchu, Alexandre Cabanel // Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás // Lucifer Falling to Earth, Gustave Doré & Kevin Pawlowskz
Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás @nicosraf
#angels before man core#angels before man#collage#rafael nicolás#lucifer#angel#murder mysteries#neil gaiman
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An excerpt from Neil Gaiman & Craig Russel’s Murder Mysteries
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Knives Out Reference Guide
hello it’s your friendly neighborhood obsessive murder mystery fan here. the knives out films are delightful for a number of reasons, one of which is that rian johnson is a huuuuuge movie nerd and loves to include references and hat tips in his films. i have had great fun recognizing those references, so here is a little guide! some of this is based on things johnson has said and some of it on my own observations. i’ll indicate which is which for the purists.
first off, if you’re not interested in having these pointed out to you but want a viewing list, here it is! i’ll put everything else under a cut (which will have glass onion spoilers, so beware). these are great movies for knives out reasons but also for normal film reasons, and i highly recommend them.
Sleuth (1972)
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
First off: Benoit Blanc himself.
Blanc is very clearly meant to be an homage to gentlemen sleuths of the past, and Johnson even gives us a clue as to which gentleman sleuth he was thinking of with Blanc, with his Southern gentleman amidst the Northerners aping Hercule Poirot’s Belgian-amongst-the-Brits. Johnson has also said that Peter Ustinov is his favourite portrayer of Poirot (fun fact: he was also Agatha Christie’s!--not that she lived to see David Suchet take on the role), and personally I think having Blanc direct the questioning from the piano in Knives Out was an echo of Poirot at the piano in a similar scene in Death on the Nile.
That said, I think there’s a lot of Miss Marple (and Jessica Fletcher, who is herself a modern Miss Marple) in Blanc. The way he has a tendency to observe while deputizing a younger assistant to do the actual snooping for him is very Jane Marple. And he weaponizes the lil-ol’-me Southern gentleman act in much the way Marple made use of the assumptions people in her day and age had about retiring spinsters.
now let’s get into the FILMS. the first one is easy, because it’s really just Sleuth. (1972. i cannot stress this enough--Sleuth 1972.) it does not share a plot, but Knives Out is clearly paying a lot of tribute. Sleuth is a film in which two men, one older and richer and laurence olivier and the other younger and poorer and michael caine, attempt to outwit one another in order to win the woman they both love but who we never see (and yes it’s very very homoerotic). (fun fact: Sleuth was originally a play by Anthony Schaffer--who also wrote the screenplay for Death on the Nile!--who based the elder character in part on Stephen Sondheim, who loved to play games.) it’s set entirely inside the rambling manor house belonging to olivier’s character, a mystery writer, and it’s full of figurines and automatons, and otherwise weird old shit. you seeing how this lines up?
there’s even a very direct tribute in the form of the sailor you see almost immediately in the film.
however, aside from the setting and the blueprint for harlan’s character, there aren’t a lot of similarities between Knives Out and Sleuth. Knives Out is much more a play on general mystery tropes than it is a specific mystery movie.
Glass Onion is very much the opposite.
(FROM THIS POINT ON, GLASS ONION SPOILERS ABOUND)
Glass Onion is playing very deliberately on The Last of Sheila. The Last of Sheila (written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim name a more iconic duo i’ll wait) is about a wealthy and powerful man who invites a group of old friends onto his yacht (”Sheila”) in order to play a series of games (i see u Stephen) and perhaps solve a mystery? (the mystery is who killed his wife, Sheila.) The friends all come in spite of misgivings because they all need something from their host.
Glass Onion is about a wealthy and powerful man who invites a group of old friends onto his private island in order to play a game and solve a mystery (the mystery is who “killed” him). the friends all come in spite of misgivings because they all need something from their host.
so you see what’s he’s done there.
it’s a very loving tribute, and johnson has put his own distinctive spin on it, both with the addition of a detective who nobody expected to be there, as well as the inexperienced assistant whom he’s deputized. but unlike your typical watson and very like marta’s character in Knives Out, helen in Glass Onion has a huge personal stake in solving the mystery. also, of course, Miles is a very specific, recognizable piece of shit.
but door, you might be saying, because you have very closely read this post for some reason, what about Evil Under the Sun? oh, i am so glad you asked!
Evil Under the Sun is another Ustinov Poirot mystery, set in a resort on a private island. The trappings of Glass Onion owe much to it, from the luxury getaway setting (complete with swim fits), to the opportunity to have your characters dress for cocktails, to the “hourly dong” (based on Evil’s “hourly gun”). oh, and i know this was deliberate:
so! that’s what i’ve got! if you noticed other things i missed (i’ve only seen Glass Onion once at this point), please let me know!
#here it is ashleigh!#enjoy!#knives out#glass onion#glass onion spoilers#murder mysteries#rian johnson be my penpal challenge
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So, I've been reading Neil Gaiman's 'Murder Mystery' and came across this moment:
....I guess, angel!Crowley wasn't the only angel thinking about it, huh?
#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens s2#crowley#murder mysteries#the story in general seems to have some...interesting parallels with GO#or maybe I'm just imagining things
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Dear Mr Gaiman
I was just reading Murder Mysteries again, and I wondered whether anyone has ever turned it into a graphic novel-style format? I feel like it would work really well visually, someone could have a lot of fun with the Silver City
P. Craig Russell adapted it, some years ago. It's a very beautiful book.
You can find it as a stand-alone book, collected with others in Dark Horse's The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1, and also in an oversized "Gallery" edition reproducing every line of Craig Russell's beautiful black and white art.
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Things To Learn From Murder Mysteries
Never blackmail someone you have evidence just MURDERED SOMEONE. You’re now a threat to someone who is a murderer. They have already determined that murder is a viable way to solve problems, and you have just given them a new problem to solve.
If you’re going to turn someone in for a life-altering offense, don’t stand there and tell them you will do it while you’re on the phone/gathering your evidence/etc. Also, don’t turn your BACK on them, good GRAVY.
If you have evidence that someone might be a murderer, maybe don’t go and check it out BY YOURSELF, WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, and/or WITHOUT A WEAPON. I challenge anyone to find as many as ten Amateur Detective movies on Hallmark where the climax DOESN’T involve the Amateur Detective getting caught alone by the murderer because they just HAD to go investigate a lead.
If you’re in the middle of investigating a violent crime and some random, attractive new person in town starts coming on to you, you should be Very Suspicious. I’m not saying they’re definitely the killer, but maybe wait until the investigation is very firmly closed before scheduling a romantic dinner. (Sometimes even then it might be good to wait a week or two.)
#hallmark movies#humor#river writes#murder mysteries#there are surely many more#but these are satisfactory to me for now#murder#crime#dumb character syndrome
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On the recommendation of two friends, I recently watched Deadloch, and it was incredible! Super funny, but the mystery is really compelling too. It both subverts and satirises crime drama tropes and archetypes as well as being a pointed social commentary. Oh, it's also incredibly feminist and critiques toxic masculinity and the patriarchy through that lens. Plus it’s a great buddy cop show! It works on a lot of levels in a way satire or spoofs can sometimes not work
Anyway, you've got the loose cannon renegade detective played pitch perfectly by Madeleine Sami (a lot of comments I saw elsewhere found her hard to bear at first, but she does mellow, and her being OTT was part of the point), the strait-laced (but not straight) local sergeant again played to perfection by Kate Box, and a whole host of wacky and often irritating (but never boring) characters, who, as I said, both play into archetypes of crime dramas but also real life stereotypes.
It's hard to go into more of what I loved about it as a whole without giving away the reveals, so I'll just say I think it was all superbly done. It's a really well crafted show! Hopefully my gushing isn't too effusive but it's rare these days for me to get this sucked in and not be disappointed. It's also set up perfectly for a second so fingers crossed
And for anyone looking for crime dramas with more queer characters, most of the women in the town are lesbians, and the main male cop is gay
(Sorry if any of this doesn’t make sense! It’s super hot today and I’m tired and meant to write this weeks ago haha)
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Columbo gets angry. Mood.
I can so identify with him in this compilation.
A little guy who believes in justice, who uses his cunning and wiles to lure murderers into smug complacency, and then nails their asses while smiling benignly. But every now and then his patience reaches a snapping point, the facade is tossed aside, and you see the passion in him.
Damn, I love Columbo. If anyone tries to remake this series I'll commit murder.
For the record, Columbo isn't really angry with the young man he's yelling at in Italian. He's pressuring him to give some information. I think. The only Italian I know are names of foods.
#Columbo#Peter Falk#mysteries#crime dramas#murder mysteries#sleuths#detectives#TV detectives#characters with ethics#justice dealers
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Trailer for season 4 of My Life is Murder.
Looks like a lot of fun!
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