28, American, Libra, INTJ, He/Him. An aspiring writer, optimistic librarian and exasperated dad friend. Keep calm and quit taking it personally
You like being waited on - I could see tonight it was your first time. You like peaches out of season. You like the feel of silk sheets against your young body... And one day you'll wish with all your heart you'd never come to Dragonwyck!
DRAGONWYCK (1946) — Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN HORROR 2025 EVENT
day twenty ↬ random scream francise quotes I think about a lot
Did you ever hear of Satanism, the worship of the devil, of evil? Herr Poelzig is a great modern priest of that ancient cult. And tonight, in dark of the Moon, the rites of Lucifer are celebrated. And if I'm not mistaken, he intends you to play a part in that ritual... a very important part.
The Black Cat (1934) - dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
what if you believed if you KISSED your BORING HUSBAND you’d turn into a PANTHER and KILL HIM and your pet bird DIED OF FRIGHT when you tried to pick it up and your psychiatrist was CONDESCENDING and your HUSBAND was CHEATING ON YOU with his COWORKER
sometimes i have moments where my elisabeth sladen hyperfixation from my teens comes out and suddenly i'm dropping anecdotes like "oh did you know that in the android invasion, tom and lis hated the script so much that they just rewrote all their lines so that's why their dialogue sounds so casual?" and "lis hated the ending of the hand of fear so much that she defaced the script and rewrote the ending with tom, then later gave the defaced script to RTD as a gift?" and "did you know she, her husband, jon pertwee and his wife all got high on what was probs valium at a doctor who convention in philadelphia in the mid 80s and woke up in the shower at 3am, not remembering a thing about what happened?" and "did you know she gave her tardis key to david tennant when he left the series, with the message 'in case the buggers ever change the locks'?"
yeahhhhhh
reblogging my own post to say please go and read elisabeth sladen's autobiography, it's full of wild stories like this
and she says 'fuck' once.
my professor talked about thomas cromwell for ten minutes calling him thomas cranmer before someone corrected him and he said 'oh christ, all the thomases!'
Studying Tudor history is like you think you’ve seen all the Thomases, but then there’s More
Badum- tsh!
Tags of @elizabethan-memes
This sounds like fun
Joining in to see how many Thomases (Thomasi??) I can remember;
Thomas Cromwell (obvs)
Thomas Cranmer (obvs)
Thomas More
Thomas Wolsey (?)
Thomas Seymour (?)
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk (??)- I'm only 50% sure his Christian name was Thomas
Total recalled; 6, all major players in the Henry VIII- Edward VI Tudor Period.
(Did I miss anyone??- I don't think there was a Thomas Boleyn, maybe a Thomas Percy?)
(ID: the tags read #I play a game called which Thomas with my sixth formers I give them a fact and they have to hold up the right Thomas. End ID)
Trying this out:
Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Wriothesley, Thomas Audley (Lord Chancellor), Thomas Heneage (Henry VIII's...clerk I think?), Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk), Thomas Howard (Duke (?) of Surrey), Thomas Howard (tried to elope with Margaret Douglas and all that), Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt the Younger (led 1554 rebellion), Thomas Boleyn, (cheating a little here:) Thomas Cromwell (grandson of og Tom Crom, son of Gregory), Thomas Sadler (Rafe Sadler's son)
15!
my professor talked about thomas cromwell for ten minutes calling him thomas cranmer before someone corrected him and he said 'oh christ, all the thomases!'
Studying Tudor history is like you think you’ve seen all the Thomases, but then there’s More
once again thinking about "the lottery" by shirley jackson.
imagine there was a man in the story who went around giving speeches about the importance of the lottery as a tradition. He said the casualties were unfortunate, but also an inevitable price of freedom. Imagine he treated those who sought to end the senseless cycle of violence with condescension and derision, calling them idiotic, naïve, and diseased.
yet when that man was selected for the lottery and stoned to death, everyone mourned him and said how unfair it was that a bright young family man should die so soon. And when people pointed out that this man was killed by a system he adamantly defended and worked to perpetuate, they lost their jobs and were shunned from the community as insensitive and monstrous.
Imagine. Hypothetically. For no particular reason.
