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I rewatched the Raven today and for those who don’t know the movie “the raven” is a movie about someone recreating poe’s stories in the form of murder cases and edger himself has to solve the mystery. While watching though I noticed a lot of similarities designed wise between the characters of the raven and the nevermore comic.
Now this might be common and I’m just finding out but for others who don’t know like me I’ll piont out what I found.
Emily, poe’s love interest in the movie and the one the poem “Annabel lee” was written for in the cannon of the movie; looks like Annabel from the comic
Now Annabel does have more tan skin but Emily’s father in the movie and Annabel’s father also look a lot alike. (I couldn’t find a good picture of Emily’s father)
Then there’s also this guy who looks a lot like prospero. I choose the wrong pic for my guy in this but it’s what I have on hand.
The names Mary and Percy where also mentioned but that might just be coincidence.
All of this could be coincidence and me reading to far but idk I love both these things so much and I couldn’t help myself.
@gothwineaunts help I really need confirmation if this is just me being crazy or not!
Edit: there is a scene where Emily is playing the piano and it reminds me of the piano scene from one of the new ep’s of nevermore when lanore is playing the piano for Annabel
Wish that were me--
“You changed” yeah man a talking raven has invaded my home and refuses to leave
― The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe.
Vincent Price and Peter Lorre
The Raven (1963) director: Roger Corman
Quoth the Raven: "Nevermore"
"E o corvo disse: 'Nunca mais'"
O Corvo, por Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
listen fam im just really pumped about The Raven Cycle and this stupid moron
This is either the best or the worst idea I’ve ever had
#TheRaven
...who just chased a Turkey Vulture out of his territory.
@BenAdrienProulx April 23th, 2024.
#TheRaven
...who just chased a Turkey Vulture out of his territory.
@BenAdrienProulx April 23th, 2024.
after the races, but all of these faces keep rolling by me now. I don’t understand these lines in my hand all look the same
all look the same. I think I changed my mind about a million times to run or hide.
*Defence mechanism (what they say or do) of every Council of Five member*
Vert: You better stay away or I'll beat the sh*t out of you!!! *clenches fist*
Agura: Get lost punk! *punches him/her in the guts*
Zoom: You wanna mess with the champ here?! *gets in fighting position*
Sherman: Get lost or you'll gonna regret coming near me *cracks knuckles*
Spinner: Don't make me call my brother. The guy that's gonna kick your butt!
Stanford: I'll sue you if you hurt me! I'm royalty!
Tezz: *Lifts up his middle finger and walks away*
AJ: You wanna fight?! Then let's fight! *stands in fighting position*
Navya: F*ck off *punches him/her in the face*
The Raven (Mystery bodyguard): I'll see you in your nightmare and I'll disintegrate your soul! *Random punk: *laughs his ass off* wow... Nice shot there scaring me dude!* You think that's funny?! Then I'll show you something that's funnier than that! *eyes starts glowing red and that's the last thing that random guy/girl saw*
(EXTRA)
Sage: *electrocutes him/her and walks away as if nothing happened*
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrations by Gustave Dore)
A very famous symbol from this poem is the raven which sits above Athena's bust.
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
The bust of Pallas is ment to represent rationality, and the narrator's desire for learning and scholarship. The raven is ment to represent madness. The raven sitting on the bust symbolizes the narrator's loss of mind and slow descend into madness.
Poe also has a famous story called "The Black Cat", which has a quite morbid tone and covers themes such as death, rebirth, alcoholism, violence, guilt etc. The cat's name was Pluto.
Once upon a time, there was a crow.
As far as she was aware, she was always a crow.
She was quite sure of it because she clearly couldn’t recall being literally anything else other than a crow.
Sure, she was able to take the image of a human at times, but that didn’t change the fact that she was still just a crow, did it?
Okay she actually wasn’t always a crow but unfortunately she didn’t know that yet.
Anyway, there was this prince she met at some point.
He saved her life in fact.
Impossible.
Sure, it was common knowledge that many humans had a soft spot for animals.
She knew because she sees humans fawn over the ducks in the pond all the time.
But they don’t behave like that around crows, do they?
Absolutely not.
They would shoo them away, some even going as far as to throw pebbles and stones whenever they see them.
Crows were hideous creatures. Symbols of bad luck and death.
(Ducks meanwhile were cute and innocent.)
(She really hated ducks.)
No human is ever capable of loving or even caring for a crow.
After all, it’s what her father has been saying to her ever since she was a nestling.
And he wouldn’t lie to her, would he?
Yet, this prince... he was different.
He seemed willing to protect every creature he came across.
Even a crow.
Did he just feel sorry for her?
Or maybe…
Maybe he’s the only human capable of truly loving a crow.
TLDR; basic summary of an AU in which instead of a “crow born in a human body” Rue is… well, “a crow that can take the form of a human” similar to Ahiru/Duck. In fact it almost directly parallels Duck’s situation.
Here’s the thing though.
While Duck was always… well, a duck, Rue’s crow form is a result of a curse (or rather, if we want to abide by PT canon, an effect of the raven’s blood she was fed to as a baby) placed on her long ago (perhaps by the Raven himself).
And of course fairytale logic comes into play here; it can only be broken by true love. (And by the end, it does, thankfully.)
Actually, real question; in the second season, we see Mytho starting to physically transform into a crow after a certain period of time of exposure to the raven’s blood. Rue was apparently fed the raven’s blood when she was an infant. So why isn’t she a crow by now? Did the raven want her to maintain human form, or did it only affect her emotions and not her appearance? Who knows.
Anyway, that’s pretty much the basic gist of this AU so far. Might expand on it some more if people are interested.
Once upon a midnight dreary, when clouds flittered, dark and eerie,
The shining moon hidden behind their ghastly, appalling vapor,
I went walking on that overshadowed path, not even talking,
When I heard something roar, something savage, across the moor.
“It’s the wind,” I told myself. “Couldn’t be anything more-
It would be best to ignore.”
Despite the horrid rustling, I kept on doggedly hustling,
Before the angry sky could pour, across the darkened land I tore,
Out of my chest my heart beating, every stride, fighting, competing,
Against some beast of decrepit yore, worse than a ferid boar.
I ran towards my front door, to the safe place that I do adore
— Better than being done for!
"the raven" only its about macklemore. thanks for following my blog
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven by JC Leyendecker (1874-1951) (Charcoal pencil and gouache on paper)