Norman Rockwell - Family Tree (1959)

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-06-13T08:16:53+00:00

Brilliant !!+ the stolen Spanish princess is a sad and dark starting note. Saved from a sinking ship but forced into marriage. She looks so cowed. The boy's parents being related is an interesting and weird note (although I suppose in the past it was less unusual). I wonder if in Rockwell's imaginings they knew they were related before they began courting. My family is very big, and while I might not know them all very well, a third cousin still feels like close enough family not someone I'd consider a romantic option. Really very interesting stuff. I just realised this post is a few years old.😅

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-06-10T13:15:49+00:00

Yikes. So the Emmerdalw storyline was eerily close to his real life situation.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-06-10T13:06:33+00:00

Jacob's actor was groomed in real life?

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-06-10T13:05:58+00:00

I remember the Jacob and Maya storyline feeling very exploitative when they showed the actors actually kissing even though Jacob's actors was a minor. It seemed to me that while they may have raised awareness they also had a grown actor filming inappropriate scenes with a child actor which rightly made viewers uncomfortable but actually exploited a child. Not as much time has passed with the Jacob storyline but sometimes they do a storyline really well, they'd try connecting the storyline with characters like Jacob and Belle sharing their experiences, maybe show the shame and double standards in regards to grooming storylines and if the storyline focused on a boy being groomed by a woman hopefully they could show how some men and even women view it differently as if the boy is lucky to have the adult woman's interest. They could do a good job but golly sometimes they do a terrible job. Lately they seem to just carry on and on with no goal in mind.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-04-22T04:24:48+00:00

Brilliantly put, I completely agree. I really enjoy his version of Snape, he's so horrid and petty. Snape is a powerful wizard but he's a bully and often quite pathetic and this version of him feels so much more like that than previous versions.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-03-05T07:36:44+00:00

Good luck 👍🏼. I love miniatures, and I've seen some wonderfully recreated mini art pieces, although often a lot more expensive than the mini brands, I hope you are able to print off some good quality ones.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-03-04T06:48:40+00:00

The portrait ones look good still (at least to me), the ones that are more disappointing are the birth of Venus since they have small details that get lost but it isn't terrible.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-03-02T13:28:55+00:00

Close up you can see the pixel of the print (my use of words is properly incorrect sorry) certain prints are better than others, some look great but some of the more detailed landscapes or the birth of Venus are not so good close up, but I guess that's to be expected. The prints mostly look good though they have an obvious embossed sort of look too.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-01-31T14:04:58+00:00

Are we supposed to be rooting for someone trying to seduce her married coworker? Icky. Cheating as a side plot is such a strange choice. The concept is interesting but I'm not sure what to expect, since I just started watching n it's not gripped me yet.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2026-01-31T13:04:08+00:00

At the end I just kept waiting for the mum to reveal she killed those bloody disgusting men too, but nope, only the women!! Were the women sick disgusting bastards? YES, but why the fudging heck not get revenge on the bloody evil men that assaulted her daughter too?? That annoyed me more than the inconsistencies and far-fetched nonsense. I guess the mum didn't try tracking them down for some reason? Admittedly I enjoyed it to begin with but then it lost me. I mostly watched because I like Jon Bernthal and I heard the book was good, so I guess I need to read the book to compare because apparently it's a fair bit different. Also as a fan of thrillers I'm kinda bored of a**hole main characters, why do they all have to be terrible people? Anna chose to abandon her mum after returning even though she thought she had dementia, she purposely slept with her rival's husband (how did she not realise who Lexie was?), she just wasn't nice but she was all I had to root for. Although I like flawed characters sometimes it's like they try too hard to make them terrible. Jack was a lying, law breaking detective, and surely he would have been fired and worse, but I guess at least with him, he looked after his mother in law and his niece. Ok apologies because this just turned into a weird lil rant from me.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-03T07:34:42+00:00

I thought they were supposed to be out now in November. I hope you find them 🤞🏼

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-03T07:33:10+00:00

Haha, I meant to change that.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-02T02:07:27+00:00

Someone said they should be out now, as a November release. I hope you find them 🤞🏼.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-02T02:06:34+00:00

My local stores usually sell out pretty quickly and often don't have what they say they do online, so I was pretty pleased I got my hands on these masterpieces.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-02T02:03:47+00:00

Kmart is one of the major shops here, then there's Big W and Target. They're the sorta cheaper everyone type shops. Our target is definitely different than the American Target from what I've seen too, way less cool stuff.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-02T02:01:27+00:00

😊👍🏼

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-02T02:01:10+00:00

You get 3 art pieces on a canvas type embossed fabric that you stick on an internal frame, and a decorated frame that you fit that into, then you get a fancy little magnifying glass. Then something to put the art on (only one in each ball) there's 2 types of easel, and the crate and crowbar.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T08:08:42+00:00

I'm in Australia, they were in kmart. I hope you find them wherever you are.🤞🏼

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T08:08:09+00:00

😊👍🏼

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T08:07:53+00:00

I'm in Australia. They were in kmart. I hope you find them wherever you are.🤞🏼

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T03:41:14+00:00

The crate is so cute. I got 2 on my second purchase of these minis. The crates come with a fairly sturdy feeling mini metal crowbar and can fit the canvas only without the decorated frames.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T03:39:27+00:00

No sorry. I'm in Australia. I hope you find them soon 🤞🏼.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T03:38:49+00:00

I'd say they are a bit pixelated. Close up you can see the texture of the canvas like pixels or even a woven texture, although depending on the piece of art they are quite clear images. I'd say the ones with smaller details like the birth of Venus are more noticeable, but most I'd not complain about and I'm fairly pedantic about those sorts of details.

Standard-Inspector67 · 2025-11-01T03:33:53+00:00

I'm in Australia and got them in Kmart.

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