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PADDINGTON 2 - Official Trailer (International)

Paddington’s face when he opens the pop-up book is the reason I will never ever get tired of this movie. He is the sweetest, most lovable character I’ve ever seen. Go see it!

I am a simple person that likes to operate on a low level. I am quite introverted. People always assume with my relationship with Anthony that naturally I must be the extrovert and he the introvert, but it is actually the other way round, because he is a director who feeds off people, he likes socialising, being around people, whereas I am very happy being with the dog on my own, reading a book, or going three days without seeing someone. I like my own company. I need quiet, because when I am on set or rehearsal, I do have high energy, so I need calm and quiet and to be a human being that is removed from my job.

Just another necessary post reminder that Natalie Dormer is, in fact, my spirit animal. 

Mary Whitney, “Alias Grace” Part I  (written by Sarah Polley)

“your grace, your son is dead.”

another one?

“the king…” alyssa turned her eyes sharply to the man-at-arms who backtracked.  “maegor–he left the prince’s body in the courtyard of the red keep for you to claim.”

cool crawled across alyssa’s skin.  her boy, her smiling boy, who had always wanted to be a knight, who had never liked to eat his peas, who had liked reading to his brother and sister before bed–dead.  dead and mutilated if she had to guess, for maegor was cruel.  how much had he rotted in the time it had taken to get word to her?  had his cheeks caved in? were there flies buzzing buzzing buzzing over his putrefying corpse? she hoped–prayed–at least his eyes were closed.  he had such lovely eyes, sharp and clear the way, they said, queen rhaenys’ had been.  or perhaps the crows would have plucked those sweet organs out already, to leave the sockets vacant.  his heart had stopped.  there would be no blood.

“your grace–”

“leave,” she said in a voice not her own and the man withdrew at once, closing the door behind him.  she stared at the door for a moment.

the good thing about the driftmark was that she had no memories of viserys here.  he had spent no time in these halls, running about on small feet, trying to catch aegon in a game of tag.  she couldn’t hear him humming tunelessly to himself, feel the tug of him on her skirts when he was tired and wished to be held.  in her mind, he was so frequently the little boy he had been, not the man he nearly…had nearly become.  

she turned and went to the cushioned bench that jaehaerys and alysanne were standing on.  there were tears in jaehaerys’ eyes and alysanne was rubbing her nose, her lip trembling.

“he will pay for this,” she promised them.  “he will pay, and we shall give viserys the burial he deserves.”

“are you going?” jaehaerys asked, frightened.  

alyssa shook her head.  “no,” she said.  “no, if i go we are lost.  you are lost.”  she stroked his cheek.  he looks like both of my dead boys.  

i must not weep in front of them.

“you must never be lost,” she whispered, then took a deep breath and took the golden circlet that aenys had placed on her head when they’d wed off her brow.  “the king is dead.”  she pressed it onto jaehaerys’ head.  “long live the king.”

This is freaking amazing. So glad someone else wrote about Viserys. He breaks my heart.

Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn’t wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Consitution, we didn’t wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.

I was watching The Handmaid's Tale recently and it had a very relevant quote: "We don't have to discredit what she is saying. We just have to discredit her." This is exactly what Fox News are doing with Mueller right now.

The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-Present)

Anytime the writers chose to use direct quotes from Margaret Atwood's work of art I stood up to applaud. Bruce Miller and Co found a way to adapt this show faithfully in a way that others have struggled to do. It expands the universe, yes, but they look to incorporate Atwood's prose as often as possible and I love them for it.

(via books-are-my-life20)

I lied to you.

Please don't be sorry. Please do something.

“I was a huge proponent of Alexis from the beginning. She was the first person I thought of for that role, and I loved her for it. It was once again because you want that role to go to someone who really has the America’s sweetheart feeling about them, because then it’s even more kind of gut-wrenching, not that I need to make it more gut-wrenching.” (x)

“It’s not the surgery on Ofglen when she’s asleep that matters, it’s what happens after she wakes up,” he continued. Very aware of the fact that The Handmaid’s Tale is, essentially, a story about how violence is enacted on women, Miller wanted to highlight the emotional and psychological torture rather than the physical. (x)

Practices of FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) vary around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 200 million women have undergone FGM procedures, most frequently at the age of 10 or younger. Miller said both he and the team at Hulu were nervous about portraying FGM in a TV show. “But it happens all over the world every day. It just doesn’t happen to white girls who look like Rory Gilmore.“  (x)