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plaque-memoire · 1 year
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Plaque en hommage à : André Falcon
Type : Lieu de résidence
Adresse : 3bis rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris, France
Date de pose : 30 novembre 2010
Texte : André FALCON, 1924 - 2009, COMEDIEN, Sociétaire Honoraire de la Comédie-Française, a vécu 60 ans dans cette maison
Quelques précisions : André Falcon (1924-2009) est un acteur français. Passionné de théâtre, il étudie au Conservatoire national d'art dramatique, d'où il sort avec les honneurs en 1946 et devient, à 25 ans seulement, le plus jeune sociétaire de la Comédie-Française. Il se fait connaître pour ses nombreux seconds rôles au cinéma dans les années 1970-1980, côtoyant nombre d'acteurs célèbres, apparaissant également à la télévision et au théâtre.
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badgaymovies · 2 years
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Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Deprisa, Deprisa by #CarlosSaura, "exciting youth rebellion caper",
CARLOS SAURA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB Spain/France, 1981. Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas, Les Films Molière. Screenplay by Carlos Saura. Cinematography by Teo Escamilla. Produced by Elías Querejeta. Production Design by Antonio Belizón. Costume Design by Maiki Marin. Film Editing by Pablo G. del Amo. Carlos Saura continues his pessimistic view of life after Franco in this…
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mattiebluebird · 3 months
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you know when you start headcanoning something as a joke but then you think about it & you're like wait that actually makes a lot of sense? anyways transfem Andre Cipriani
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soapkaars · 1 year
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I spent way too much time on this. Featured here: a selection of Lorre characters and the kinds of mobile phones that would fit with them
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angelamontoo · 2 years
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what hobbies do you think the various characters would have? personally i think joel would like embroidery
That's definitely a nice one for Joel, it gives me mental images of him unwinding in a big chair with one of those old timey embroidery tablet thingies after a long and frustrating day. Also forcing Wilmer to be his mannequin while he embroiders details onto clothes
As for my HCs for what he'd enjoy, I tend to run with Cairo having theatre tickets in the film and imagine he's a big fan of theatre and literature and reads and does creative writing a lot-probably has some drafts for plays he wrote at various levels of completion kicking around. I can't say if its true, but I think I heard somewhere that in the book cairos said to know a lot of languages and I like the idea of him having a passion and interest in language aswell. Also, ik how stupid this last one sounds, but I kind of like the idea of Cairo baking after I drew that "why do they call it oven" image. Ik it's a silly shitpost, but I really like the way he came out in the second drawing I added to that post
Herman naturally likes reading up on human anatomy and how the organs function(although his interest probably started to fade some after having to know how long you can keep a person alive with their liver on the outside of the body became part of the humdrum grind) aswell as working on new faces for jonathan. I think if he had the time he'd happily plan ahead weeks in advance about exactly how he was going to make his partners next face look, drawing up sketches of the imagined nose from different angles, comparing the design to chonnys previous faces etc. But ofc he doesn't usually have that much time. If Herman were to have a hobby that's far removed from his criminal shenanigans, I can see him doing something wholesome and quaint like scrapbooking or birdwatching. Maybe after meeting Elaine they took up something together like mini golf or tennis
Polo loves collecting nice things. Ofc he knows that when he steals something he should give it back(unless Andre says otherwise) but sometimes he can't find the original owner or doesn't remember who they are or it was just a really soft, pretty coloured powder puff that would be a perfect addition to his "soft things to pet when I'm stressed cause Andre's mad" box. Another, more healthy hobby of Polo's is training his pet mouse. I think Tanya would notice that Polo's kleptomania was more manageable when he was focused on his mouse and would encourage him to keep it up. Andre would notice too and feel the opposite way
Louie collects snails and leaves them in random places around Tony's yacht when he's having rich people parties
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alonglistofbirds · 3 months
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First 25% Summary - Part 2 (Cuculiformes to Piciformes, excluding Passeriformes)
Cuculiformes: Chestnut-bellied malkoha - Boon Chong Chen Falconiformes: Barred forest falcon - Andres Vasquez Noboa Galliformes: Black francolin - Vivek Saggar Gaviiformes: Common loon - Annie Lavoie Gruiformes: Black-tailed nativehen - John Daniels Mesitornithiformes: Brown mesite - Chris Courtaux Musophagiformes: Bannerman's turaco - Dustin Chen Nyctibiiformes: Andean potoo - Andres Vasquez Noboa Otidiformes: Buff-crested bustard - Luke Seitz Pelecaniformes: Capped heron - Xueping & Stephan Popp Phoenicopteriformes: Andean flamingo - Claudio Martin Piciformes: Channel-billed toucan - Silvia Faustino Linhares.
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olivish · 3 months
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ALL GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO WAIT!! We are finally getting Snowpiercer Season 4!!! It is TIME TO GET EXCITED AND TELL ME...
Which animal sidekick would you want to send to Andre Layton to help him (and everyone in New Eden) through whatever new horrors await in Season 4??
a) Sebastian the judgy crab from The Little Mermaid
b) Luna the Even Judgier cat from Sailor Moon
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c) Horus the stoic falcon from The Mummy
Sebastian! I don't know why I just love Sebastian. 🤷
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Black Character Tournament: Left Side!
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Chidi Anagonye | The Good Place vs Bow | She-Ra & the Princesses of Power
Marina Ida | Splatoon vs Youngblood Ra | Roleslaying with Roman
Barret Wallace | Final Fantasy VII vs Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Lucas Sinclair | Stranger Things vs Gus Porte | The Owl House
Carole Stanley | Carole and Tuesday vs Garnet | Steven Universe
Aisha/Layla | Winx Club vs Carter Kane and Sadie Kane | The Kane Chronicles
Martha Jones | Doctor Who vs Death | Sandman (TV)
Finn | Star Wars vs Oluwande Boodhari | Our Flag Means Death
Leshawna | Total Drama vs Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog
Jodie Landon | Daria vs Helen Brand | Glass Onion
Wolf | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts vs Benson | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Mike Hanlon | IT (Steven King) vs Burton Guster | Psych
Flow | Roleslaying With Roman vs Nasuada | Inheritance Cycle/Eragon Trilogy
Jordan Hennessey | Dreamer Trilogy vs Ava Coleman | Abbott Elementary
Duke Thomas | DC Comics vs Mel Medarda | Arcane
Molly Blyndeff | Epithet Erased vs Michael Burnham | Star Trek Discovery
Neena Thurman (Domino) | Marvel comics / Deadpool 2 vs Nyota Uhura | Star Trek The Original Series
Gregory Eddie | Abbott Elementary vs Kipo Oak | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Elena Amamiya | Star Twinkle Precure vs Simon Aumar | Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Karli Morgenthau | MCU: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier vs Enfys Nest | Star Wars: A Solo Story
Connor Hawke/Green Arrow | DC Comics vs Myla | One Last Stop
Winston Bishop | New Girl vs Khalil Harris | The Hate U Give
T'Challa | Black Panther vs Dr. Charlotte | Falsettos (Revival)
Gigi Thompson | Inside Job vs Isaiah | One Last Stop
Ivan Taylor | The Wilds vs Nathan Byrne | The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself
Miranda Bailey | Grey's Anatomy vs Essun | Broken Earth Trilogy
Agent 355 | Y : The Last Man vs Audacious Opportunity (A.O.) Rooke | Friends at the Table (Partizan)
OJ Haywood | Nope 2022 vs Nubia | Wonder Woman
Mr Nancy | American Gods vs Storm | X Men
Ambrose Spellman | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina vs Louis | The Walking Dead Game
Angela Moore | Boy Meets World vs Hilary Banks | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Junko Saotome | Nana vs Wes Gibbins | How to Get Away with Murder
Turk | Scrubs vs Wallace Fennel | Veronica Mars
Frozone | The Incredibles vs Kendra Young | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joelle Brooks | Dear White People vs Sans | Undertale
Anissa Pierce/Thunder | Black Lightning vs Koriand'r/Starfire | Titans (DC TV show)
Andre Harris | Victorious vs Sara | Over the Garden Wall
Samol | Friends at the Table vs Taion | Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Emerald Haywood | Nope (2022) vs Genly Ai | The Left Hand of Darkness
Sarah Miller | The Last of Us (TV) vs Pinkie Pie | My Little Pony
Muhammed Avdol | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure vs Dr Foreman | House MD
Efi Oladele | Overwatch vs Jason Hauer | We only find them when they are dead
Bram Greenfeld | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda / Love, Simon vs Zélie Adebola | Children of Blood and Bone
Nick Fury | Marvel vs Sam Wilson | MCU
Uniqua | The Backyardigans vs Alexx Woods | CSI Miami
Rue | Euphoria vs Bill Potts | Doctor Who
Nadine Ross | Uncharted series vs Jalil Sherman | Everworld
Baal (Valentine) | The Wicked + the Divine vs Jamal Saturday | Locke and Key (comics)
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cantsayidont · 4 months
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Early-morning hater hours:
MARMALADE (2023): Fizzy Keir O'Donnell crime comedy-drama about a wide-eyed young hick (Joe Keery) telling his new jail cellmate (Aldis Hodge) about how his romance with a pink-haired wild child called Marmalade (Camila Morrone) became a crime spree. Familiar but very charming for its first 70 minutes, with a bright, poppy visual style and a vivid evocation of the feeling of falling for someone who pushes you out of your comfort zone in ways both good and bad, the film then loses the plot with a twist obviously inspired by the 1995 crime drama THE USUAL SUSPECTS, leading to a resolution that isn't nearly clever enough to make up for the loss of the story's original emotional core. A real disappointment after its enjoyable opening.
MONSIEUR SPADE (2024): Peculiar AMC/Canal+ co-production, set in 1963 and starring Clive Owen as Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, now a retired but still cagey man of leisure living on the country estate of his late French wife (Chiara Mastroianni) in the rural town of Bozouls and acting in loco parentis for Teresa, the now-teenage daughter of Brigid O'Shaughnessey (Cara Bossom). Spade is drawn into a complex web of murder and conspiracy involving a mysterious young Algerian boy many people will kill to find, and who is somehow tied up with Teresa's errant father, Philippe Saint-Andre (Jonathan Zaccaï). Elliptical and very French, the show's sun-dappled atmosphere is pleasant, but the oblique way the story takes shape demands closer attention than it ever rewards, and the actual plot is both convoluted and unconvincing; at one point Spade aptly calls it "hokum." Furthermore, while the show is most enjoyable where it focuses on the hard-boiled American detective's uneasy integration into drowsy French rural life, it ultimately struggles to justify placing Spade so far outside his original milieu. It seems like creators Scott Frank and Tom Fontana wanted to create something approximating the Conan Doyle stories of a retired Sherlock Holmes keeping bees on the Sussex Downs, but Spade is really too thinly drawn a character for that, although Owen is better than one might expect. I also don't buy that Spade's exploits (at least vis-à-vis THE MALTESE FALCON) would make him world-famous like Poirot or Holmes.
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herogassm · 4 months
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hi! this is a sideblog to @femnize; can't follow back. low activity. plotting preferred before interactions. muses under read more. don't expect canon compliance ... but feel free to ask questions !
all muses are versatile and open to being intersex upon request. regular asterisk indicates alternative faces available. bold asterisk indicates different verses available. underlined asterisk means muse will only be written as femme or intersex.
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BROCK RUMLOW. crossbones . frank grillo fc .
BRUCE BANNER. hulk . hugh dancy fc . *
BUCKY BARNES. winter soldier . sebastian stan fc .
CLINT BARTON. hawkeye . chris hemsworth fc . *
PETER PARKER. spider-man . nick robinson fc . **
SAM WILSON. falcon . aldis hodge fc .
STEVE ROGERS. cap america . chris evans fc .
THOR ODINSON. god of thunder . charlie hunnam fc . *
TONY STARK. iron-man . michele morrone fc . *
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BEN GRIMM. the thing . jay courtney fc . *
JOHNNY STORM. human torch . andre lamoglia fc . *
REED RICHARDS. mr. fantastic . james mcavoy fc . *
SUE STORM. invisible woman . alfonso herrera fc . *
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ALFRED. the butler . cameron chapman fc . *
BRUCE WAYNE. batman . jon hamm fc .
DICK GRAYSON. nightwing . finn wittrock fc . *
HARLEY QUINN. joker's gf . drew van acker fc . *
JACK NAPIER. the joker . jake gyllenhaal fc .
PAMELA ISLEY. poison ivy . michael yerger fc . *
SELINA KYLE. catwoman . marco mengoni fc . **
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CLARK KENT. superman . henry cavill fc . **
GENERAL ZOD. supervillain . jude law fc .
JIMMY OLSEN. photographer . jack quaid fc .
KARA DANVERS. supergirl . froy gutierrez fc . *
LEX LUTHOR. businessman . christopher meloni fc .
LOUIS LANE. journalist . josh dallas fc . *
METALLO. cyborg villain . alan ritchson fc .
PERRY WHITE. editor chief . ewan mcgregor fc .
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evergreensounds · 1 year
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I know these artists aren't exactly well known but I feel like their music is so underrated that maybe, maybe this poll will motivate people to listen to them
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d-field22-blog · 11 months
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First appearance: Batman #1( April 25, 1940) 
Story:   All it takes is one bad day to drive a man to lunacy. That has not been more true than this case right before us. Falling into a vat of chemicals, forever bleaching and destroying the sane man he use to be. During the early days of Batman's career, he has tussled with a mad scientist named Dr. Death, and has faced the gangsters of Gotham, while aiding in the cleansing of Gotham's corrupted police force, and giving the citizens of Gotham hope for a brighter future. That was before that fateful April Fools' Day. When the Gotham Merchants Bank was robbed of an enormous portion of the mob's money, their weapon supplies was confiscated by an enormous trench coat wearing woman, and finally Andre Falcone, the eldest son of mob don Carmine Falcone was murdered by a crazy criminal wearing a red shaded cloth mask. As the weeks has passed, the mad man now proclaiming himself as the Joker, caused much havoc and death throughout Gotham. From breaking out and recruiting the inmates of Arkham, killing off all of the closest allies of the mob such as Mayor Graham, former chief Angel Rojas, Councilman Arthur Reeves, and inadvertently killing new Police Commissioner Sarah Essen one of the few uncorrupted police officers in Gotham and Jim's colleague as well as his first girlfriend. Eventually, he would cross paths with the entire mob families of Gotham and would leave the Falcone estate wrecked and given a price on his head, courtesy of Carmine Falcone himself, who simultaneously placed a price on Batman's head as well. Eventually the Joker would make what would be known as his "big break" when he killed and impersonated new stand up comedian Jerry Valeska whom was scheduled to be a guest on the Late Show with Murray Franklin.  Killing Murray with the same toxin he used to kill Andre which he calls Joker toxin, the Clown Prince of Crime revealed himself to the public and held the entire studio and half of Gotham's Entertainment District hostage. After dealing with the would be bounty hunters after the prices on Batman and Joker's head, the Dark Knight along with the rest of the CGPD go to defuse the situation. As Gordon and the officers go to stop Joker's henchman led by his second in command Bruno, Batman goes to the studio to stop Joker who is holding everyone hostage while he "entertains" them while robbing them all of their riches. However, Batman walked into a trap and Joker looked to blow up the whole studio with him and the audience with it while Joker escapes. Defusing the bomb with only a few seconds to spare, Batman learns that Joker has fled to his lair of the abandoned carnival.  Fighting through the inmates, Batman quickly discovered that Joker's next plan was to poison Gotham's water supplies with his Joker toxin. Learning that Batman had survived and stopped the explosion, Joker became rather furious at Batman for "ruining his big night". Fighting him on top of the Ferris Wheel, the Joker had nearly fallen to his death if it weren't for the Batman saving his life in the end, despite everything he had done and decided to allow the courts to do their work. Since being sent to Arkham Asylum after the court deemed him insane, Joker only saw the asylum as his second home and would frequently escape Arkham to cause mayhem across Gotham. During his stays, he became acquainted with Dr. Arkham's daughter Astrid and has eventually turned new doctor Harleen Quinzel to his side. Throughout the years, the Joker had been responsible for many atrocities, and is said by many that he was the first true sign of what was to come, and would be part of the catalyst of the Mob's end. 
Author's input: Ah the Joker. Batman's arch enemy and in my honest opinion(sorry MrRogues) rightfully so. He is by far my favorite Batman rogue and he is perhaps the perfect foil for the Dark Knight and is the prefect Yin to Bruce's Yang. There have been many different origins and versions of the Clown Prince of Crime, and many of them in their own unique ways are spectacular and all differ from one another. However, most if not all have one great thing in common. Whether he is just a cackling prankster, an old school gangster with bad plastic surgery, a gritty anarchist, or anything else in between, the Joker has caused nothing but mayhem and chaos on Gotham and for the Batman for over 80 years and counting. The Joker time and time again has proven that he is the Caped Crusader's greatest adversary. From laughing fish, kidnapping/torturing Commissioner Gordon, killing Robin, crippling Batgirl, old classic heists, and even crimes so over the top, you'd have to be insane to think of them. Case and point. Completely insane and completely unpredictable, this clown is somebody you DO NOT want to cross, and surely not a clown you wish to invite to birthday parties.
Bio: Real name: Unknown Occupation: Professional criminal, Base of Operations: Gotham City Eyes: Green Hair: Green Height: 6ft Weight: 160lbs
Attributes: Homicidal Maniac, Unknown Past. Has a strong reputation of creating multiple stories for his past. High intelligence Skilled chemist. One such toxin is his infamous Joker Toxin. A gas that stretches the victim's face into a grin matching his own, followed immediately by death. Strong hand-to-hand combatant. A vast variety of knives, guns, bombs, and many other deadly means. All based on party gags.
Dream voice actor: Mark Hamill. Time and time again, Mark said he was done. But the Joker in him begs to differ. With a character that has stuck with him for more than two decades. Mark Hamill is in my opinion, THE greatest Joker EVER!! I hope he continues to play him, until the day he dies.
Featured songs: I go looney by Mark Hamill, Joker's song by Miracle of Sound, or Smile by Nat King Cole. These are no-brainers to have as his featured songs. I mean come on. Do I even need a reason to choose them as such? I go looney is the song he sang in both the Killing Joke graphic novel and was brought to even greater heights in the film by the magnificent Mark Hamill. Joker's song is pretty self-explanatory as well. Joker is singing about his relationship with the Dark Knight. Smile was not used for Joker's case not once, but twice! The first that I can recall was from the spectacular fan film Patient J by Batinthesun, and another version was used in the Joker film trailer. Honestly, I am NOT a fan of the film for quite a few reasons. Mainly it just doesn't really seem like Joker to me. But I digress, I chose the Nat King Cole version because it is the one most people remember, or talk about and it is very nostalgic for me. With all that said, these three songs all fit the Joker like a worn boot. whether you find them eerie, fascinating, creepy, or whatever, there is one absolute. They all just scream Joker.
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arielemberbridge · 2 years
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Base Info
Name: Isabella Grace Wallace
Nicknames: Bella (family), Sissy (Kyla), Pip (Jacob), Curse-Breaker (Andre), Wallace (Merula)
Birthdate: Oct. 17th
Age: 16 (currently in sixth year)
Blood Status: half-blood
Race: English (from mom's side), Hispanic (from dad's side), plus other random groups, those are just the main ones
Appearance
Height: 5'4
Weight: 107 pounds
Eye Colour: Dark-Brown and turns pink/purple when she is angry or feels threatened
Hair: Dirty Blonde/Light Brown, medium length,has sidebangs, hair usually down or in a ponytail
Skintone: Whitish Tan
Body Modifications: Scars on arm from self harm, always covered with scrapes and bruises
Hogwarts Stuff
1st Wand: Hornbeam Wood, Dragon Heartstring Core, eleven inches, inflexible
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor
Animagus: Peregrine Falcon
Quidditch Position: Chaser/Beater
Club: All of them
Boggart Form: Either friends hurt, or haunted child from SSO that sings glueman
Riddikulus Form: Miscreants song glueman playing, friends laughing
Amortentia: riding stables, mint, cinnamon, vanilla, ketchup
Patronus: Spotlightcookie (SSO jorvik warmblood), later changes either to an Eagle or original form depending on the memory she thinks of
Favorite Spells: Flipendo, Fulgari, Ebublio, Tarantallegra
Least Favorite Spells: Unforgivable curses, and healing charms
Magical Abilities: Legilimency, wandless magic (not all hp related), soul rider powers
Personality
Good Traits: Kind, powerful when she needs to protect her friends, good with animals, would die for friends, good at improve and lying, Loyal, keeps long lasting friendships, tough, stupidly brave
Bad Traits: Fakes Happiness, Doesn't trust easily, blames self for everything, copes with stress with self harm, hides all problems to others, acts like everything in her life is fine, low social energy, negative, bottles up emotions, clumsy, has depression, is suicidal
Hobbies: hanging out with animals and friends, sketching, flying in Animagus form, horseback riding, quidditch
Likes: Dueling, magical and non magical creatures, horses, transfiguration
Dislikes: Dolls, Divination, Pandoria, everything about herself
Relationships
Household Family:
Melissa Wallace (Mom)
Christopher Wallace (Dad)
Kyla Wallace (Younger Sister)
William Wallace (Youngest Brother)
(Jacob is her cousin)
Household Pets:
Sammi (Dog)
Misty (Dog)
Oreo (Dog)
Blueberry (Parakeet)
Snowball (Parakeet)
Hooters (Owl)
Taco (Kyla's Owl)
Cotton (Puffskien)
Fish
Best Friends:
Grace Beckworth
Layne Halverson
Zaynab Hussain
Friends:
I'm too lazy to list them right now, I'll list them later
Rivals:
Merula Snyde - she hated that she bullied her friends and is mean in general
Emily Tyler - reminds her of Umbridge, and Isabella thinks she takes things too far sometimes when bullying
Enemy:
Sabine - threatens basically everything she cares about including her friends, horses, family, etc. Almost every time they see each other they end up trying to have a fight to the death
Shadow Keepers - almost every time she is on a soulrider mission that deals with fighting them, her arm gets scratched and she has to get her hoodie and sweater sleeves fixed (it's always a blast having to explain to whoever is fixing her clothes why there are scratch marks)
Love Interest:
Talbott Winger
That's all I'm gonna write for now, I know some of the things I put won't make sense to people who don't play SSO, and for everyone exceptme who knows my ocs, but I will explain those things in the future. I might also update this frequently in case I remember headcanons about her.
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collectingall · 6 days
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∀ Andre Rison Signed Falcons Riddell Full Size Speed Rep Helmet w/Bad Moon -SS COA http://blog.collectingall.com/T7hFhg 👉 shrsl.com/4fuj5 👈
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iknowthislooksbad · 5 months
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Story Time!!
It's 11:30 at night, I'm down in the kitchen getting a glass of water in the dark. While I'm filling the glass, my mom's cat is on the counter, up to mischief (as per usual). This time, she's crawling into the sink. This strikes me as slightly odd-- normally when she's on the counter, she's looking for glasses to drink from, or she's chasing stray lady bugs on the ceiling. At this moment, she's rustling through a few plates in the sink, so I assume she's trying to drink the residual water around the drain (disgusting, I know. But she's odd-- she has multiple water dishes, yet she seems to prefer toilet water and unattended drinking glasses.)
I figure she must be thirsty, so once I'm done drinking, I refill the cup and set it on the counter beside her. I lift her out of the sink to try and sway her from the dingy sink water (ew); she pays it no mind and climbs back into the sink. I turn on the faucet, thinking maybe she wanted running water. She's quite stubborn, and usually novelty is the only distraction when her mind is set on trouble. Three things happen, almost simultaneously.
1.) The cat climbs out of the sink
2.) Something dark washes across the drain filter from beneath a plate
3.) I turn off the water, wondering when I dropped a piece of plastic in the sink.
An uncanny pattering sound provokes further investigation, so I then bring my face closer. This is where I discover that the unusual pitter patter was actually the sound of a ballistic cockroach, propelling itself from the stainless-steel confines of the sink. In the great metaphors of life, my face was comparable to the backboard of basketball hoop, and the roach, a F-16 Fighting Falcon.
And this thing? I mean this thing was huge.
Richard Attenborough would have given the roach its own exhibit in his park. It could have just gotten on its tippy toes, thanked the waiter, and climbed out of the sink. It could have beat Andre the Giant to a drinking contest. I could have walked this thing on a leash. When I finally had the wits about me to shine a flashlight, a roach-shaped shadow took up the whole wall. It was three hairs short of a toddler. It practically gripped the sink with its claws and stared at me with its pitiless eyes. I'm not telepathic but based on the roach's blank stare and blatant aura of hostility, I would venture to guess it was plotting something rather unpleasant. A stone to the forehead from David himself wouldn't have killed this thing, let alone a phone book. What was I going to do; make it mad? Fortunately, my mom's cat is unaffected by these sorts of things, and I figured it best for her to deal with the matter in her unique way. So, like the good Sir Robin, I bravely fled.
All in all, it was ginormous. Gigantic. Huge. Moral of the story is: cats are good. Get a cat. Let the cat do its thing. Don't meddle with the cat's process, it knows what it's doing.
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