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camc-am · 1 year
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Decided to draw the boys…
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isolatedgirlthing · 2 years
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Okay so when Dracula (1897) opens saying Jonathan's journal is in shorthand I was like "okay so some abbreviated words cool" and then later on someone said the phrase "illegible squiggles" so I decided to look it up and it looks like THIS?
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These are the examples off Wikipedia and yep, Johhny boy, you're right, there's no way Dracula's gonna be able to read this, he'll probably think you've lost it
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givemearmstopraywith · 3 months
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One brilliant Sunday morning, my wife and boys went to the Unitarian Chapel in Macclesfield. I felt it impossible to accompany them—as though to leave the sunshine on the hills, and go down there to the chapel, would be for the time an act of spiritual suicide. And I felt such need for new inspiration and expansion in my life. So, very reluctantly and sadly, I left my wife and boys to go down into the town, while I went further up into the hills with my stick and my dog. In the loveliness of the morning, and the beauty of the hills and valleys, I soon lost my sense of sadness and regret. For nearly an hour I walked along the road to the ‘Cat and Fiddle,’ and then returned. On the way back, suddenly, without warning, I felt that I was in Heaven—an inward state of peace and joy and assurance indescribably intense, accompanied with a sense of being bathed in a warm glow of light, as though the external condition had brought about the internal effect—a feeling of having passed beyond the body, though the scene around me stood out more clearly and as if nearer to me than before, by reason of the illumination in the midst of which I seemed to be placed. This deep emotion lasted, though with decreasing strength, until I reached home, and for some time after, only gradually passing away.
John Trevor, My Quest for God
I like to think of it; imagine those toiling pagans doing honour to the very sun now in the sky above me, & for some perverse reason I find this a more deeply impressive temple of Religion — block laid to block, & half of them tumbled in ruin so long that the earth almost hides them, than that perfect spire whence prayer & praise is at this very moment ascending.
It is matter for thought surely, if not for irony, that as one stands on the ruins of Stonehenge, one can see the spire of Salisbury Cathedral.
Virginia Woolf on her visit to Stonehenge (quoted in A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska)
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meerawrites · 8 months
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why do you like the vampire chronicles?
- a fellow fan
Ooh boy, this will probably be an essay blog post at some point, but, I shall endeavour to give the TLDR version to the best of my present ability. None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are and memory is a monster.
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Do not ask me to recall my age, I am 20 now, though I often feel like Louis and Lestat, inhuman and haven't been human for 200 years. Plus the pandemic destroyed my sense of time.
Before the pandemic, a dear friend of mine introduced me to gothic literary vampires, I had just read Shelley's Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray of my own accord, and he cast me as Mina Murray-Harker in his production of Dracula (1897) opposite one of my best friends as Lucy Westenra himself as Jonathan and one of our aspiring villain actors as Count Dracula himself. I then got hooked on Dracula (the 1897 novel) and following that I wanted more vampires. We watched the 1994 IWTV Neil Jordan film together and I immediately took Lestat as my pathetic bi meow meow. I read the 1976 novel not that far after and started role-playing and cosplaying Lestat as soon as I understood him enough to make him my bi pathetic meow meow. I wouldn't pick up the chronicles again until catholic school and the move to Canada.
When I was in middle school I was a constant victim of bullying, mostly by the white rich kids for being brown, and vaguely gothic in inclinations and "witchy" and "other." My dad was also emotionally overbearing and expected a lot at an early age from me. He has since gotten better and I'm no longer anyone's victim, but, it's worthwhile to note I was victimized (past tense) for a long time. I've also had my fair share of misogyny + anti brown racism flung at me, and I am bi and genderqueer. For the record I forgive my middle school bullies, we were simply kids who didn't know better. Now, do better. I've also been the victim of emotional abuse and gaslighting, while it never escalated to physical that sort of violence even if emotional violence sticks with you. But as mentioned, victimized, in past tense.
I moved to Canada and suffered the indignity of the Catholic school system. I quit after a year and after their queerphobia made international news. But not before a brief run as a spiteful bi as fuck atheist and picking up The Vampire Lestat, finally.
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Before the pandemic, I felt like Louis de Pointe du Lac and Mona Mayfair, during the pandemic and in catholic school I felt like Nicolas de Lenfent, following the pandemic and up til the present I aspire to be something of a Lestat de Lioncourt and Rowan Mayfair meaning less cynical, unlearning my shame, confident, clever at least intellectually but foolishly in love with the beauty of humanity. Now, we're here.
IWTV 1994 lost in adaptation
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Late Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice remembered by trans woman she helped come out.
Tagging: @covenofthearticulate, @monstersinthecosmos, @elisaintime & @the-brat-prince-1760, @dontbesylly & @i-want-my-iwtv (no pressure to reply, I just thought y'all would appreciate this story).
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mediaevalmusereads · 5 months
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Powers of Darkness: the Lost Version of Dracula. By Bram Stoker and Valdimar Ásmundsson (trans. Hans Corneel de Roos). Overlook Duckworth, 2016.
Rating: 4/5 stars
Genre: horror, 19th/20th century literature
Series: N/A
Summary: Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker’s world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, “Powers of Darkness”), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker’s preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson’s story.
In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn’t merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a totally re-worked plot. The resulting narrative is one that is shorter, punchier, more erotic, and perhaps even more suspenseful than Stoker’s Dracula. Incredibly, Makt Myrkranna has never been translated or even read outside of Iceland until now.
Powers of Darkness presents the first ever translation into English of Stoker and Ásmundsson’s Makt Myrkranna. With marginal annotations by de Roos providing readers with fascinating historical, cultural, and literary context; a foreword by Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew and bestselling author; and an afterword by Dracula scholar John Edgar Browning, Powers of Darkness will amaze and entertain legions of fans of Gothic literature, horror, and vampire fiction.
***Full review below.***
Content Warnings: blood, racism
Because this book is a late 19th/early 20th century work of literature, I'm going to structure my review a little different from normal.
I first became aware that there was an "Icelandic version" of Dracula a few years ago. Hearing that it contained a different plot, different characters, and various allusions to Norse-Icelandic folklore, I was excited to read it and compare it to Stoker's novel. And boy, did this story take me on a wild ride.
I won't spoil the plot for anyone who wishes to discover how different (or similar) it is to Dracula, so instead, I'll focus on the edition by de Roos.
Overall, I found this edition to be fairly accessible for a casual reader yet it involved enough supplementary materials to satisfy someone with a more academic interest in the work. de Roos's introduction clearly laid out the relationship between Dracula and Powers of Darkness, and I found the diagrams of the castle to be very helpful. As for the text itself, I don't read a lot of Icelandic, so I can't speak to the quality of the translation, but I appreciated the notes in which de Roos explains his choices.
I also really loved the page layouts in this volume. I love a book with big, beautiful margins that leave enough space for me to make my own annotations, and I appreciated that the "footnotes" weren't at the bottom of the page, but just to the right or left to the text so I didn't have to move my eyes very far. Granted, this layout did mean that there was a lot of wasted space, so this edition will probably best serve those who will be writing directly on the page.
Overall, I award this book 4 stars because it was a wacky reading experience, made all the more engaging by de Roos's introduction and informational annotations. The only thing preventing me from giving it a full 5 stars is my subjective enjoyment of the text itself; I found part 2 to be rather awkward, and the descriptions of the "ape-like" people reeked of 19th century racism (though de Roos points this out). Still, if you're interested in Dracula and its legacy, you'd do well to pick up this book, though if you're doing serious scholarship, you should probably find an Icelandic language version too.
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Hi babe! Hope you’re feeling better. Just kind of going off that ask someone sent in last week about the boys’ ages and age order. But where do you think they’re all from? Like I know (and fucking love) you headcanon that Marko is Italian and David is from somewhere in the south, but what about the others? I know I’d be hella down to read any origins headcanons you come up with! ;)
Hello Sweetie! I'm feeling a lot better thank you, actually had the energy to get a Christmas present done today lol.
As I always tend to do...I think I went a little over and above what you were asking but lol. I hope this answers your question ☺️
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So I headcanon that David was born in Texas (mostly cause David with a Texan drawl 🥵). His father and mother, having just married, heard that the Mexican government needed settlers to protect it from foreign invasion, after the Mexican Revolution of 1824, and they offered liberal land grants to anyone who would become citizens, accept the Catholic faith, and settle there. (I know that in the prequel script it says they were all turned in about 1906 but I'm throwing that out the window since the movie never got made lol) David was born in 1873, and was turned in 1894 when he was 21.
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The Huron tribes were mainly in what is now Southern Ontario/ Québec and Southeast Michigan, so I headcanon that Dwayne was originally born in what is now Southeast Michigan. Now when the U.S. government eventually forced tribal members to sell their lands, they subsequently migrated to Kansas and then to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
I think while he was living in Kansas was when Dwayne and David met. After all, Kansas was a state David had been to many times when he would do cattle drives with his father. I kinda wanna headcanon that David may have come in contact with Dwayne's tribe before and maybe had a slight friendship with him.
I headcanon that Dwayne was born around 1872 and was turned around 1897 when he was 25
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Now as I have stated before (and will now fight for) Marko was born in Italy (we love our Italian Stallion 🥰) but he moved to New York when his family migrated to America. He was only in America for about two years before he happened upon David and Dwayne (by happened upon, like I said before, he tried to pickpocket David lol). The boys got to know Marko for a couple of months before they offered him the blood. He was born in 1931 and turned in 1953 when he was 22.
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I headcanon that Paul was born in Florida (I may be a bit biased because I'm from Florida but lol) Florida was a big state to be in in the 1940s-1950s, usually for well off people. Paul's dad was one of those well off people, that's why when his company wanted him to take a job with their branch in New York that would offer him more money, he did. Moving little 10 year old Paul to the Big Apple in 1953. It wouldn't be until 14 years later when Paul met Marko at a night gathering that was happening during the infamous Summer Of Love. (Before that Paul had been very much on the straight and narrow and never wandered around much at night so he was never on the boy's radar). Marko was looking for food and Paul just figured he spotted a new friend. (Marko was honestly gonna eat him, figuring he would be an easy kill, but then he realized he actually liked his company).
Paul was born in 1943 and turned in 1967 when he was 24
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I also just realized that this means that David and Dwayne were by themselves (aside from Max if he was around) for around 53 years before they met Marko. I think this kinda fits cause I can see both of them as being the type that is fine with little company, where as it was only 14 years between Marko joining and Paul joining and I think this is because of coming from a large family, Marko needs company.
I know in the movie David actually calls to or calls upon Marko the most and I wanna headcanon (like I mentioned in my other hcs) That Marko reminds David of one of his younger brothers that he lost, and that's why they have a different sort of relationship than they do with the other boys.
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heavenboy09 · 5 months
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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You,  1 Of The Most Legendary Funniest American Actor Of The 1960s In Cinema 🎥  & Tv 📺 & More Of The Century
Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Lloyd (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham, and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. (1897–1959). He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passengers, including John Howland. Lloyd was raised in Westport, Connecticut, where he attended Staples High School and was involved in founding the high school's theater company, the Staples Players.
He is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning Drama Desk and Obie awards for his work. He made his cinematic debut in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and went on to star as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Professor Plum in Clue (1985), Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace (1993), Mr. Goodman in Piranha 3D (2010), Bill Crowley in I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) and David Mansell in Nobody (2021).
Lloyd earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance as Alistair Dimple in Road to Avonlea (1992), and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Twenty Bucks (1993). He has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia (1997), the Hacker in the PBS Kids series Cyberchase (2002–present), which earned him Daytime Emmy nominations, and the Woodsman in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014).
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Seriously though, now I can't stop thinking about an 1880s-1910s Lost Boys AU.
Specifically, again, where Max owns/operates the resort, and the Boys live in the caves and haunt the grounds.
And Lucy is maybe a widow? (I like it better than divorce for this era anyway...her dead husband can still be an unlikeable dick, as a treat) Anyways, she's a newly single woman, with two boys to care for all by herself. She's got what her husband left to them, but not much else. (Michael tries to help. She wishes he could continue his education, but they can't afford it. So he takes on some manual labor jobs to help support them.)
Maybe Lucy's dealing with the stress of losing her husband and her father in quick succession? Or maybe her father just sends her to the resort to recover from her loss and the stress of trying to support her boys. (Like he's got money that she wouldn't directly accept, or maybe he's influential in town and is able to get her in as a favor because this resort is swanky...and maybe he knows that the whole place is crawling with well-off bachelors and widowers, *wink wink*)
So here Lucy is, recovering from a Victorian-style nervous breakdown, living the high life in a gorgeous seaside resort, and then Max, the owner of all people, this suave mysterious man starts piling on the charm.
Then you've got Michael, who is still just as sullen and bullheaded, on the cusp of manhood. Probably had a girl he was courting back in Phoenix. But he's the "man of the house" now, and he's had to help support his mother and younger brother. He comes to Santa Carla to ensure his family arrives safe and sound, but Max invites him to stay as well. "Take a load off, son. You could use a break after working so hard to care for your mother." (Queue Lost Boys shenanigans)
But also, poor Sam, is devastated that he can't afford to wear the latest fashions, and at having to leave his books back in Phoenix or something. Maybe he meets the Frog brothers while they’re sneaking into the resort grounds, because they’re convinced that all of the nighttime parties are covers for vampire activity. (Make it the year 1897 or later and maybe this version of the boys’ “Vampires Everywhere!” is just Bram Stoker’s Dracula.)
But I don't know how I would want it to end. This story could go either way. Is it a Brady Bunch style happily ever after? I feel like I see so few fics where Max is the good guy, it would be interesting to explore…
Or does it end similar to the movie? Like is Max still the sinister manipulator? Are the Lost Boys still the villains?
What if Lucy doesn’t learn that Max is a vampire until after they are already married since that stuff would proceed so quickly back then. Kill the master vampire then inherit his swanky resort afterward and never have to marry again, lmao. (In this version, the quake doesn’t sink the hotel)
Or maybe this story is set in 1906, leading up to the quake, and instead of ending the story covered in Max ashes in Grandpa’s house, we end the story fallen into the caves covered in Max’s ashes, like, “now what?”
IDK, it sounds fun, but I wouldn’t even know where to begin writing in this era.
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carpe-mamilia · 2 years
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What would you wear to a ball at Lost Hope?
Ohhh boy this is a very exciting ask, thank you!
I thought about this a lot and it was tricky narrowing down which time period to draw inspiration from, especially with the temptation to take it from after the point at which Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is set. My first thought was a turn of the century tea gown, since they have those fantastic renaissance and medieval inspired details, and that art nouveau influence fits really well with the fantasy look:
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Liberty tea gown ca. 1897
I also considered an outfit that would take heavy inspiration from the costume Johnny Flynn wore as Viola in the Globe's all-male production of Twelfth Night, but with a single pearl earring:
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Viola (right). This production is great, I recommend watching the recording if you can!
But this early 17th century outfit finally led me on to Restoration-era gowns. They're not to everybody's taste, but personally I find the shape of their bodices and necklines very flattering. Many of the Lost Hope costumes draw inspiration from nature (such as the Gentleman's oak leaf coat or Arabella's gorgeous wheat-ear tiara), and I love the sea and wanted to incorporate that into a costume. There are a number of portraits of ladies wearing steely blue-grey silk or velvet that perfectly evoke the colour of the sea in different seasons in my part of the world (the west country, UK; none of the turquoise of hotter climates here!). Stiff, crisp silk also makes a lovely whispering noise when you walk, not unlike the sound of distant waves over shingle.
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Many of these gowns let the lustrous fabric take centre-stage and are fairly plain, but I really liked the look of the embroidered or decorated stomachers some of them have:
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Pearls, swags of fabric, lace, and flowers adorn these bodices. I particularly like how the lady on the right has a matching floral arrangement in her hair.
My own bodice was inspired by the linen sailor collar I embroidered last year, with seaweed-esque vermicelli and oysters holding pearls.
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My collar, still not finished...
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'Rockpool', textile art by Marian Jazmik
A mixture of pearls, shells, and heavily textured embroidery in blues, greens and silver on my bodice and in my hair would mimic the textures and colours of rocks at low tide. At my cuffs and neckline would be quantities of frothy lace, evoking sea foam, and finally, since it wouldn't be Lost Hope without a little magic, the silk of my gown would sometimes appear to swirl just as the surface of the sea is ruffled by the wind, little wavelets moving over it before becoming calm and smooth again.
Thank you so much for this ask, I really enjoyed it! If anyone else reading this post is a fan of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, or just likes the idea of a fantasy ball, I'd love to hear about your ideal costumes!
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Some of the lesser known paintings of the Palisandre Drawing-Room of Her Majesty at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo In the Palisandre Drawing-Room of the Empress, there was a multitude of paintings, watercolours, pastels and prints. Most of the paintings were hung along two particular walls - the wall leading to the Lilac Cabinet and the wall leading to the Maple Living-Room. The two most well-known of these paintings still reside with GMZ Tsarskoe Selo and have recently been reframed with recreated wooden frames to match the originals which were lost during the Second World War. Gosfond (The State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund in Russia) has a wealth of a collection that spans the entire country with a range of objects ranging from drawings, photographs, sculpture, paintings, portraits, miniatures, vases, etc. GMZ Pavlovsk is the major keeper of what was evacuated from the Alexander Palace during the war. In its collection is 1,078 items which vary from paintings, fabric hangings from the rooms, sculpture, art glass, etc. Of these, I was able to find six of the paintings which up until 1941 hung on the walls of the Palisandre Drawing-Room of Her Majesty. From the 1928 Catalog on the Alexander Palace-Museum (Furnishings) by I. Yakovlev and translated generously by Stephen R. de Angelis (available via www.bookemon.com), are the titles that correspond to these six paintings: "Lake early in the morning with the shore in the fog." Circa. 1896. Volkov, Ef. (b. 1843). At-will student of the Academy of Arts from 1867. "Winter Landscape. A village on a river during sundown." Circa. 1895. Dubovskoi, Nik. (b. 1859). Member of the Academy of Arts from 1877. "Moscow. Neskuchnoe - Alley and Park." Circa. 1896. Krachovskii, I.E. (1854-1914). Russian School.
"Lovers of Art (three members of the Court - Gentilhommes) in dress of the era of Louis XV look at paintings." Gilardi, P.S. Date Unknown. "Boy with hands in his pockets." Schloesser, G. Date Unknown. "Young girl playing the flute and a heron dancing around her." Svedomskii, P.A. (1849-1904). Dusseldorf Academy of Arts. Circa. 1897. ________________________________________________________________ Please enjoy these images, and If you'd like to share them elsewhere, you can download them yourself and if you do so, PLEASE remember to credit the institution/news source/author/photographer - in this case Gosfond, GMZ Tsarskoe Selo, GMZ Pavlovsk and V.I. Yakovlev, and Stephen R. de Angelis, appropriately! Thank-you.  ________________________________________________________________ Sources: Gosfond (State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia) GMZ Tsarskoe Selo (Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve)  GMZ Pavlovsk (Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve) ”The Alexander Palace in Detskoe Selo,” - V.I. Yakovlev. Circa. 1927 (Republished in 1928), translated by Stephen R. de Angelis. (2015) Link of courtesy:   www.goskatalog.ru  https://www.bookemon.com/book-profile/yakovlev-the-alexander-palace-1927/545267 Also, if anyone is interested, this is the original text which Mr. de Angelis translated from, which is free for download via this website: http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/42498-yakovlev-v-i-aleksandrovskiy-dvorets-muzey-v-detskom-sele-ubranstvo-vmesto-kataloga-detskoe-selo-1928#mode/grid/page/27/zoom/1 (This is the republished catalogue, Circa. 1928)
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The Scottish playwright and author  J M Barrie died on June 19th 1937.
I covered Barrie’s life in a wee bit detail on his “birthday” a little over a month ago, so here’s a few things I learnt about him that you may not know of .
Barrie was something of an eccentric: he used to order Brussels sprouts every day for lunch purely because he enjoyed saying the words. 
He formed a cricket team with his friends, possibly the first celebrity sports team in the world, it included famous people of the time including fellow Scott  Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome and A. A. Milne. The name of the team was The  Allahakbarries, Barrie believed  that the Arabic phrase ‘Allah akbar’ means ‘heaven help us’ (it actually means ‘God is great’). He forbade his team to practise on an opponent's ground before a match because "this can only give them confidence". The book notes that his most calamitous performance was being clean-bowled by the American actress Mary Anderson in the 1897 Test match against the village of Broadway, in the Cotswolds. Peter Pan's First XI, a book on the exploits of the Allahakbarries, was published in 2011.
It’s often said that Barrie “invented” the name Wendy, but he  didn't,  but he did give us the Wendy house. Or, at least, the name for it. Wendy Darling is often called the first Wendy, the girls’ name having originated in Barrie’s play – a nice fact, if only it were true. It’s true that Barrie arrived at the name by shortening ‘my fwiendy-wendy’, reportedly how the young Margaret Henley, who had trouble pronouncing her Rs, referred to Barrie. But the name Wendy had been used as a girls’ name since the nineteenth century (as a pet form of Gwendolyn) and there is even some evidence that, before Barrie popularised it as a female given name, it was used as a boys’ name. But ‘Wendy house’ is a Barrie coinage. The name originates in the small house that Peter Pan builds around Wendy Darling when she is shot by Tootles, one of the Lost Boys. The idea came from the washhouse outside Barrie’s own childhood home.  As with Peter himself, the Wendy house had already appeared, under a different name, in The Little White Bird, in which fairies build a house around Mamie Mannering, Wendy’s prototype, to protect her from the cold. If Barrie hadn’t changed the name, children might now be playing in ‘Mamie houses’.
Barrie gave Quality Street chocolates their name. One of J. M. Barrie’s less well remembered stage works was the 1901 comedy Quality Street, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The play is not read or revived much now, but its lasting legacy was in providing the confectioners, Mackintosh’s, with a name for their new chocolates in 1936. Barrie’s own view of his mixed fortunes in the theatre was wittily summed up by his assessment that ‘some of my plays peter out, others pan out’.
The copyright of every work that Peter Pan is featured in belongs to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Barrie gave the copyright to the distinguished children’s hospital in 1929. Although it expired 50 years after Barrie’s death, a bill was passed extending these rights, and the hospital will continue to receive royalties for any adaptation of the play.
According to Barrie’s good friend, D. H. Lawrence, Barrie had a “fatal touch”. He lost many of the loved ones that were close to him. His older brother died as a young boy at the age of 13. Two of the boys that inspired the character Peter Pan, George and Michael Llewyn Davies, both also died at a young age. Their brother, Peter, who was often teased for sharing a name with Barrie’s character, outlived Barrie; however in 1960 he committed suicide by jumping in front of a train.
Fairy dust enabling you to fly was introduced to the  Peter Pan story much later The reason was to deter children from trying to fly from their beds or even windows, following reports of accidents! 
James Matthew Barrie died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Manchester Street, Marylebone on 19th June 1937. He was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings.
Barrie’s birthplace at 9 Brechin Road Kirriemuir is maintained as a museum by the National Trust for Scotland.
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camc-am · 1 year
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wow ppl really liked the drawing of the lost boys i did! tysm!! here’s some doodles of em i did, as i’m still working on another lost boys piece :]
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plz excuse my bad handwriting lol, glad u guys love the boys!
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angryskarloey · 2 years
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AF&JR History - Pt.8: the 1890s.
(cw: death.)
By contrast, in the 1890s, the Company experienced a number of crises, the severity of which I leave the reader to compare. In 1891, the workers of the Colliery, the Docks, and the Railway all walked away from their jobs. This incident has been described as the 'North Cornwall General Strike.' By proxy, left with no supply of coal, the local textile mill and many smaller businesses such as bakeries, blacksmiths, and a small brickworks in Jocyspool all immediately suspended trading, some never to reopen.
In 1894, the morning passenger train was derailed on Foxhill Colliery Points, apparently due to track subsidence, the coaches running amok across the hillside, and the Engine (it is unrecorded which one, as the only real report on the accident was in a local newpaper) turned over into the trees, coming to rest at the riverside. I suspect that a visit to the AF&JR to interview the engines would provide an answer as to which was involved. Casualties were extremely light - the driver was injured worst of all but of the train's complement (no less then fifty-six passengers!) only three complained of mild injury.
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4-aspect signals with lamps, of the kind favoured by the A.F.J. for all its history.
Unfortunately, the good luck with which the Company got blessed at the time of the 1894 derailment did not hold in 1897, for, one on foggy January day, the same morning passenger train ran with some force into a shunting coal train at Foxhill. The driver of the passenger train, incidentally the same man who had been in charge of the 1894 accident, was injured severely, while his unfortunate fireman was crushed against the searing firebox backplate, buried in flying fire and coal, dying most horribly - he was not recovered for several hours. One passenger perished while several were bady injured, both of the coal train crew were injured while the locomotives were damaged. 'Jess' came away with a pronounced buckle in her footplate, still carried to-day, and having been shorn of her whistle, whereas the 'Ashwell' lost her chimney and front buffers, as well as splitting her wooden front buffer-beam, (the riveted patch is still there) and much injury was had in her front framework. On her footplate, the regulator was found fully open, with the reverser in fore-gear, whilst the handbrake was not applied - on account of the exceptional mist nobody had sighted the coal train until the very point of collision. The wretched passenger driver, a Mr. L. Anderson, was charged with manslaughter, but was rightfully acquitted - the shunting operation had no right to be carried out with zero precautions taken to protect the train - the signals stood at 'clear' and no detonators were placed. Incidentally, one of the passengers was the very same Mr. Kernowek that had entered the employ of the Colliery more then a decade prior - he had intended to meet the coal train so as to superintend the shunting before going on the engine to his post at the Colliery.
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After accident.
The Board of Trade inspection which followed this second accident proved to be swift and dire. It was carried out by Sir Francis Arthur Marindin, who found much to criticise with the railway's organisation - with even the most elementary safety precautions, the accident could have been prevented, and the whole staff were culpable in some way, bearing working conditions and shouldering responsibilities which they were quite unfit for, making it impossible to accurately attach blame to any one individual. The average age of the Foxhill station staff was only 17, with the boy ticket collector only 13 years old, and the stationmaster having turned 20 two days prior. The signalman, ('pointsman' in AF&JR terms) was just 16. The chief villain, Sir Francis found, was the Company, and its 40-year old operating strictures - he contented himself with this terse conclusion:
'Railway working,' he said, 'in such manner, with men so inexperienced and infrastructure so under-maintained and in many places non-existent, can not be expected to carry on without grave risk of serious incident.'
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Diagram of station layout and trains before collision.
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Eric Albert Forman (born March 18, 1960), the Familial Lore...
He's the son of Reginald "Red" (born 1927) and Katherine "Kitty" (born 1931). He has one sister, Laurie (born 1958).
From his father's side, he's a mix of Irish and English. On his paternal grandfather Albert's side, his Irish ancestors fled from the potato famine. On his paternal grandmother Bernice's side, his Irish side was firmly for "home rule," and Bernice's parents left Ireland due to "political disagreements" (ie, her English father fell in love with her Irish mother). Here, the English side were protestant Northern Ireland colonists. And on Albert's side, his (young, he was literally a child) servant Irish father fell for an English student. So, lots of intermingling here, early on. :)
From his mother's side, he's all Swedish. Both sides came to Wisconsin around the same time, in the 1840s/50s, when Scandinavians settled in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Sigurdsons are a pillar of the community, whereas the Holms (Bea's family) are not. They're petty criminals, and the Sigurdsons take in Bea and her younger sister Eva (a Laurie type), much like the Formans took in Hyde.
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Now, more on to the relatively recent stuff.
His Father's Side:
Eric's great-grandpa John (the Irish servant boy) lost his father when he was really young. John and Albert didn't get along, at all. John was far more of a pacifist, and disagreed with WWI. Albert literally ratted him out. John outlives Albert by a few years (the heart attacks run on Albert's mother's side of the family), and is around long enough to influence Eric. To sprinkle in the first seedlings of rebellion, where Eric questions the Vietnam War.
His grandparents:
Albert John Forman (1897-1963): Red's hardass father, and Eric's paternal grandfather. He's a WWI vet, scarred from the trenches with some obvious PTSD (back then, it was called shellshock). He's worked at the car plant, a Ford assembly line, for most of his life. He thinks college education is just for elitists who have nothing better to do than twiddle their thumbs and discuss some crazy theories, and encourages his children to go into the workforce instead of wasting time at school. Yet, he "wastes time" as an amateur photographer, and has his own dark room. Even when money is tight.
He dies when Eric is really young (the heart problems come from his mother, who also died of a heart attack at a relatively young age), and his father John (a bookstore owner, amateur photographer, and occasional librarian and writer) outlives him by several years. John makes far more of an impact on Eric's young mind, and the stories he hears about Albert are more horror stories than anything.
Bernice Ann Forman (nee Larson) (1898-1976): Red's mother, and Eric's paternal grandmother. She's a lot like Albert, but she's a touch softer. She was the one who first called Red "Red," for example. She loves fishing, boating, and sailing, as does Red; Albert was in the army, but Red ultimately chose the Navy.
His uncles:
John Patrick "Jerry" Forman (born 1925): Red's "perfect" older brother. He's a lot like Red, but he's far more socially adept. He's the chief of the Brookfield Police Department (a suburb of Milwaukee), and makes a lot more money than Red. He and his wife Evelyn have three daughters; Ellen, Christine, and Rachel. And they also had a son, John, who died young from leukemia.
Paul Lawrence Forman (born 1936): Red's younger brother. Unscarred from the perils of war and privileged for being part of the younger duo (who were treated less harshly, by comparison), Paul becomes an engineer. Like Red always wanted, but his father never let him become. He's married to his childhood sweetheart Bev, and they have one daughter, Sarah.
Martin "Marty" James Forman (born 1939): Red's youngest brother. He escaped from the stranglehold of the Forman family, but he's still battling with himself. He's gay, and for most of his life, he's still firmly in the closet. In the mid-1970s, his recent divorce from his wife Denise pushes him further back. Into denial, before finally coming to terms with himself in the early-mid 1980s. And accepting himself, even though most of the world will not.
His Mother's Side:
His maternal grandparents, Albert "Burt" (yes, there are two Alberts) and Beatrice "Bea" were never really in love. Burt lost his first wife to breast cancer, and he was still hurting when he married Bea, who is a manipulative control freak. When the writing's on the wall and divorce is in the air, Bea threatens that he'll never see the girls again. Bea yells, and when Burt can't find the personal happiness he desires, he drinks.
When the girls are old enough to not be mere pawns in Bea's games, they both almost always side with Burt. In turn, Burt almost always sides with his daughters, instead of his nasty wife.
Albert "Burt" Eric Sigurdson (1901-1978): Kitty's father, and Eric's grandfather. After his brother Oscar died in WWI, he was set to inherit the family farm. But he didn't want that life, and chose to become a teacher instead (and an amateur social worker, like his mother). He constantly houses local misfits, and although he is often quiet, he's more than willing to lend a helping hand.
His soulmate was definitely his first wife Leila, and not Bea, but his close "friend" and co-worker Iris is more of his soulmate than Bea will ever be. When Burt is quick to admit that he's in love with Iris and wants a divorce, Bea nips that in the bud. Fast.
Beatrice "Bea" Lorraine Sigurdson (nee Holm) (1904-1989): Kitty's mother, and Eric's grandmother. Her parents were petty criminals, making a ruckus for the hell of it, and although she didn't choose that life, she's still a horrible person. She constantly puts her daughters down, and tries to control the world around her. Maybe it's a result of having no control over her terrible, unruly childhood, but either way? She reeks of bitterness, and maybe Burt once felt bad for her, but she puts it on herself.
His uncle and aunt:
Oscar Albert Sigurdson (born 1922): Burt and Leila's son, Kitty's half-brother, and Penny's father. He's a scientist and chemist. He's rumored to have some really, really vague involvement with the Manhattan Project.
Paula Lorraine Sigurdson (born 1934): Burt and Bea's daughter, and Kitty's sister. She's Princess Margaret, and Kitty's Princess Elizabeth. Kitty's perfect, and Paula seems to be the loser of the bunch. In high school, she's in a turbulent on-off relationship with the "loser" Bradley brother Ronnie. Her first and only child Clark, born when she was sixteen, is put up for an open (ish) adoption, and a second pregnancy and a subsequent botched abortion render her infertile. Her luck improves when she moves to Indianapolis, after a long time of wallowing in Chicago (and continuing to have an on-off relationship with Ronnie).
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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You,  1 Of The Most Legendary Funniest American Actor Of The 1960s In Cinema 🎥  & Tv 📺 & More Of The Century
Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Lloyd (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham, and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. (1897–1959). He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passengers, including John Howland. Lloyd was raised in Westport, Connecticut, where he attended Staples High School and was involved in founding the high school's theater company, the Staples Players.
He is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning Drama Desk and Obie awards for his work. He made his cinematic debut in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and went on to star as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Professor Plum in Clue (1985), Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace (1993), Mr. Goodman in Piranha 3D (2010), Bill Crowley in I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) and David Mansell in Nobody (2021).
Lloyd earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance as Alistair Dimple in Road to Avonlea (1992), and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Twenty Bucks (1993). He has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia (1997), the Hacker in the PBS Kids series Cyberchase (2002–present), which earned him Daytime Emmy nominations, and the Woodsman in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014).
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