#Carter Burke imagine | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tawneybel · 2 years

Photo

Note: Monster-on-male requests make me happy.

Imagine agreeing to make another video for Burke.

You didn’t see what other options there were. If the Facehuggers weren’t going to kill you, the Weyland-Yutani executive might. The Facehuggers not killing you was what started the problem in the first place.

Your hole clenched at the memory of the parasite embracing your cock. Its limbs caressing your abdomen, tongue slicking your cock, tail sodomizing your dry anus. The monster took its sweet time, too.

No matter how hard you tried to push the appendage out, it just patiently continued the violation. You realized, after a couple minutes of futile straining, you were getting hard. There was little else to do but submit. (Xenomorph breeding practices weren’t in your thoughts.) Just as you were doing now.

Their behavior made it clear these Facehuggers were abnormal. They weren’t glorified reproductive organs. This was recreation for them. Burke was at least nice enough to provide lubricant. (A scarce resource on the Sulaco.) This time. If this “educational” video wasn’t satisfactory, you were warned, he would try again.

Like recording alien-on-man porno- “______, hurry up. Your partners are waiting,” drawled your producer’s voice from the PA system. No doubt with his hands down his pants. Anticipating the gang-bang from behind various monitors. Which, Carter Burke explained, would provide various angles and closeups of the penetration. You emptied the rest of the tube into your ass.

Setting it aside, you spread your cheeks and ignored Burke’s chuckle. Of course, there was also the silent threat of extortion. This movie was just another piece of blackmail. Who knew how long your humiliation would be exploited? The idea of him helping himself to one of your holes was horrifying. Even more horrifying than the four Facehuggers beginning their leisurely crawl to your waiting body. Burke’s member might not be able to explore your colon as deeply, but from what you saw it could definitely split your back-side in two.

Shameful fantasy, possible reality.

“…love your slutty… ass…”

If it wasn’t “slutty” before, it was now. You had to admit that much. Maybe if you’d let him stick a finger in there or give slide his member between your cheeks… But you’d only wanted to hook-up with the other Marines. Now all you could do was submit. And so you did.

The first Facehugger you scooped up, easing its journey to your slick pucker. It pounded at a steady rhythm, wrapping about your cock, lovingly milking. You bent forward so the second one could mount your face.

Eat your heart out, Carter.

The one actual Facehugger enjoyed your reciprocation. Enjoyed your lips and hot, wet mouth. The final two crowded onto your chest, tongues acquiring your nipples, and furiously humping. You laid on your side to provide a better view. To your blackmailer and anyone he might show the video.

115 notes · View notes

judgementdaysunshine · 2 years

Text

Masterlist

Fics i have done!

Fandoms i write for!

Young justice

Kaldur'ahm/Aqualad

Megan morse/Miss martian

Connor kent/Superboy

Artemis crock/Tigress

Jaime reyes/Blue beetle

Cassie sandsmark/Wondergirl

Wally west/Kidflash

Barbara gordon/Batgirl

CSI Vegas

Sara sidle

Nick stokes

Mia dickerson

Greg sanders

Catherine willows

Warrick brown

Riley adams

Gil grissom

M*A*S*H*

Benjamin hawkeye pierce

Margaret hot lips houlihan

B.J. hunnicutt

Margie cutler

Radar o'reilly

Kellye yamoto

John mulcahy

Stranger things

Nancy wheeler

Dustin henderson

Max mayfield

Jonathan byers

Robin buckley

Steve harrison

Jane hopper/el

Lucas Sinclair

Joyce byers

Mike wheeler

Barbara holland

Jim hopper

CSI Miami

Walter simmons

Yelena salazar

Ryan wolfe

Natalia boa vista

Eric delko

Calliegh duquesne

Horatio caine

Alexx woods

Jesse cardoza

Marisol delko

Marvel

Kate bishop

Clint barton

Natasha romanoff

T'challa

Cassandra lang

Sam wilson

Kamala khan

Bucky barnes

Shuri

Bruce banner

Mortal kombat

Kung jin

Skarlet

Hanzo hasashi

Sonya blade

Kuai liang

Jaqui briggs

Johnny cage

Kitana

Takeda takashi

Jade

Jax briggs

Cassie cage

Resident evil

Claire redfield

Carlos olivera

Sherry birkins

Leon kennedy

Jill valentine

Jake muller

Helena harper

Chris redfield

Alice

NCIS NOLA

Chris laselle

Loretta wade

Sebastian lund

Hannah khoury

Patton plame

Sonja percy

Dwayne pride

Tammy gregario

Final destination

Clear rivers

Lewis romaro

Wendy christensen

Kevin horton

Carrie dryer

Kevin fischer

Kimberly corman

Thomas burke

Alex browning

The mighty ducks

Fulton reed

Julie gaffney

Adam banks

Charlie conway

Dean portman

Guy germaine

Dwayne robertson

Luiz mendoza

Connie monreau

Criminal minds

Emily prentiss

Spencer reid

Jennifer jareau

Aaron hotchner

Kate callahan

Derek morgan

Penelope garcia

Luke alvez

Tara lewis

Matt simmons

Trauma center

Derek stiles

Angie thompson

Gabriel cunningham

Elena salazar

Erhard miller

Naomi kimishima

Markus vaughn

Valerie blaylock

Susan lewis

Mark greene

Carol hathaway

Doug ross

Kerry weaver

Gregory pratt

Samantha taggart

John carter

Cate banfield

Luka kovac

Harry potter

Cedric diggory

Luna lovegood

Harry potter

Ginny weasley

Remus lupin

Narcissa malfoy

Ron weasley

Nymphodora tonks

Sirius black

Marlene mckinnon

Draco malfoy

Fleur declour

Blaise zabini

Hermione granger

Kingdom hearts

Namine

Riku

Kairi

Sora

Aqua

Terra

Xion

Ventus

Roxas

Xmen

Charles xavier

Ororo munroe

Warren worthington

Kitty pryde

Kurt wagner

Illyana rasputin

Erik leshnerr

Raven darkholme

Logan

Marie d'ancanto

Peter maximoff

Jubliee

Pixie

Pixie o'brien

Harland mckenna

Frank mccullen

Final fantasy

Cloud strife

Oerba dia vanille

Snow villers

Tifa lockhart

Hope esthiem

Oerba yun fang

Vincent valentine

Lighting farron

Zack fair

Aerith gainsborough

Narnia

Lucy pevensie

Peter pevensie

Susan pevensie

Edmund pevensie

Mr tumnus

Prince caspian

NCIS LA

Marty deeks

Shay mosley

Sam hanna

Kensi blye

G callen

Fatima nazami

Eric beale

Harley hidoko

Nell jones

Code lyoko

Aelita schaffer

Odd della robbia

Yumi ishiyama

Ulrich stern

Milly solovieff

William dunbar

Tamiya diop

Jeremy belpois

Triple frontier

Will "ironhead" miller

Frankie "catfish" morales

Benny miller

Santiago "pope" garcia

The night shift

Landry de la cruz

Joey chavez

Gwen gaskin

Kenny fornette

Jordan alexander

Michael ragosa

Drew allister

Shannon rivera

TC callahan

Ewan mcgregor characters

Catcher block

Dan torrance

Perry makepeace

Christopher robin

Rodney copperbottom

Robert lewis

Alex law

Edward bloom

Star wars

Crosshair

Cara dune

Luke skywalker

Aayla secura

Hunter

Din djarin

Padme amidala

Cal kestis

Rey skywalker

Obi wan kenobi

Bo katan kryze

Qui gon jin

Tech

Ahsoka tano

Poe dameron

Leia organa

Echo

Finn

Iden versio

Del meeko

Wrecker

Misc 1

Jack mercer

Mason "mace" brown

Spike spiegel

Toph

Lu fox

Elizabeth martinson

Casi

Laney boggs

Max lewinsky

Mahtilda

Flip zimmerman

Nani pelekai

Murphy macmanus

Korra

Lu fox

Samantha caine

Bill s prescott

Iris

Zack siler

Rachel

David abbott

Marta

Jed eckhart

Tess finnegan

Ryan williams

Barbara novak

Ted logan

Toni

Eugene/vida boheme

Tris prior

Murtagh morzzansson

Skeeter

Christian

Stephanie speck

John wick

Viola eade

Jonathan levy

Evey hammond

Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz

Casey jones

Marni

Elliot alderson

Misc 2

Chris chambers

Andie anderson

Michael perry

Beatrix "the bride" kiddo

Elliott

Quinn fabray

Benjamin barry

Dani rojas

Billy/four

Daphne moon

Javi gutierrez

Allison reynolds

Hector villanueva

April o'neil

Ned tash

Kara

Don billingsley

Asami sato

Beau hutton

Monica long dutton

Joey coalter

Celine naville

Sam munroe

79 notes · View notes

final-destination-headcanons · 1 year

Note

ok so remember that fantasy au you were gonna make? ok well i got inspired by it and kinda made a spin off of it

fd1 is called the avion region (french for airplane)

alex is a cleric, clear is a mage, tod is an apothecary, carter is a hunter, billy is a knight, terry is a dancer, and valerie is scholar

the storyline goes, they have to find a gem in all the regions that will reunite all magic and defeat this guy called deces

alex, clear, and tod are a poly couple

billy and carter are a couple

alex has a cat familiar named destiny

fd2 is called the entasser region (french for pile up)

kim and burke are knights, eugene is a scholar, rory is a thief, kat is a cleric, clear is a savior, tim and nora are hunters, and evan is a merchant

same storyline, except alex pops in, stabs rory, and steals the feu gem

no couples, but kat mentions a girlfriend

kim has a butterfly familiar named angel

fd3 is called the rouleau region (french for roller)

wendy and julie are merchants, kevin is a knight, ashley and ashlyn are dancers, frankie is a thief, ian and erin are apothecaries, and lewis is a hunter

same storyline, but kim and burke help them out

all canon couples are couples here

wendy has an owl familiar named rosa

fd4 is called the degager region (french for clear)

ikikik, but i love this movie BECAUSE its awful

nick is an apothecary, lori is a merchant, janet is a hunter, hunt is a thief, george is a scholar, and andy is a knight

this storyline is a bit different, basically this region went to shit after their princess (clear) disappeared and they have basically no magic and are now ruled by that guy named deces

after they meet, nick and rory are a couple

janet and lori are a couple

racist carter doesnt exist

nick has a dog familiar named carmen

miscellaneous

after returning a gem, you are a savior

all characters carry over into the next region

deces can also be called fatimas

again, thank you for this idea! i would like your permission to turn this into a game?

This is incredible!!!

Do you mind if I add FD 5 to this?

I can totally imagine this being a RPG/Final Fantasy-type game!

Edit:

FD5 is called the Pont region (French for Bridge)

Nathan is a dancer, Molly is a cleric, Sam is a baker, Peter is a ranger, Dennis is a merchant, Olivia is a bard, Issac is a serf and Candice is a knight.

Olivia is the only bard in existence with an ability to shut the fuck up.

Sam and Molly are dating for the first half of things, and eventually break up to date Peter and Olivia.

Candice has been a knight ever since she was 14.

Peter burned the place Issac was bound to, he told me himself.

Sam has a dragonfly familiar named Jasper.

11 notes · View notes

nedlittle · 2 years

Note

thoughts on twilight

this has been fermenting in my inbox because i saw it and immediately got into a spirited debate with my best friend over the correct ranking of the twilight films (my answer is: twilight/breaking dawn pt 2/new moon/breaking dawn pt. 1/eclipse. my best friend was trying to argue that new moon is the worst but the soundtrack fucks so supremely it saves it from the slush pile). anyway. being a twilight girl (gn) from approx. grades 5-8 was the great equalizer. it crossed boundaries. you found your most unlikely comrades in the foxholes of the twilight trenches discussing how breaking dawn would end in between subjects. it was like what i imagine model un is like. there were at least two other people in my class aside from myself who got alice's haircut (which i do think is genuinely quite cute but the thing is we were all pudgy-faced 6th graders so it was not the most flattering of haircuts. whoever is responsible for alice's hair in bdpt1 i will hunt you for sport). i would sit on my kitchen floor rereading those damn books like i was possessed and i think eclipse was my favourite but don't quote me. the only two movies i saw in theatres were the og and new moon and the memory of rolling my eyes whenever jacob took his shirt off is burned into my psyche. i continued to be repressed for more than a decade after that but to be fair i was also 12 and catholic. the first movie is a Good Movie both in that there are some solid technical elements and in that it's so funny i'm sorry. in uni my roommates and i watched all the films back to back for the first time and we were so emotionally strung out by the absolute roller coaster of emotions we experienced over the course of 10 hours that we all genuinely started sobbing our goddamn eyes out during the final battle/vision and then cried again when literally every single character is given their due in the credits bc it's just really sweet :'). then my parents stopped by for a visit like half an hour later and we were like hello. we are all normal. also the composers on those films were absolutely STACKED??? carter burwell twilight/breaking dawn both parts alexandre desplat new moon goddamn HOWARD SHORE for ECLIPSE??? howard why did you score the WORST one??? the soundtracks ripped. they had no reason being as good as they were. the last two were shot by gdt collaborator guillermo navarro and it SHOWS they look FANTASTIC. by the last two everything genuinely was camp. i think engaging with twilight in the year 2022 is a bit different than engaging with...y'know bc smeyer isn't actively on twitter like i think all trans people should be forcibly detransitioned and then burned at the stake you guys wanna see how much i can hate minorities but then there is the whole vampirism makes you white & indigenous people are literally animals i'm gonna make billions off a racist misappropriation of your tribe while you get nothing thing. i mean it's a case of Use Your Brain While Critically Engaging With Media but if you've spend actual money on something twilight-related in the past like. three years. why? pirate that shit. at least donate the same amount to the quiluete higher ground fund sidenote did you know that quiluete is one of only a handful of languages that doesn't have nasal vowels? that's neat. billy burke charlie swan performance of a lifetime. seth and leah clearwater best characters.

i got this ask before the mcr twilight show in washington happened and i just have to restate. "i want to watch you turn into a werewolf" on the drum. coming back for the encore in a team edward shirt (WHERE DID IT COME FROM. I DESPERATELY NEED TO KNOW THE PROVENANCE OF THIS PARTICULAR ITEM OF CLOTHING) simping for rpattz in the batman into your song about being asked to write a song for one of the twilight movies and saying Fuck No into the first paragraph of interview with the vampire read into the vocal distorter into your biggest banger also about vampires into the final song of the night and arguably your saddest which is about dying of cancer. thanks for coming to the show glad you enjoyed the double vampire encore now think about your own mortality.

those are my thoughts on twilight :^)

#long post #jeynepoole #answered #this unlocked something in me. as you can tell #fully did not check to see if this is coherent i know it isn't i just sat down and typed until i ran out of things to say #my firefox window rn is just like. tumblr. two job postings. 32 wikipedia entries abt various synagogues. the quiluete language #(i've been looking up various Massive and Beautiful religious buildings since last night i've already done churches & mosques)

11 notes · View notes

merrock · 1 month

Text

Stelly Carter & Sylvia Cuenco-Burke (Tristin Mays & Vanessa Hudgens) are looking for their housemate!

WANTED CONNECTION: housemate!

FOR CHARACTER(s): Stelly Carter (Tristin Mays) and Sylvia Cuenco-Burke (Vanessa Hudgens).

REQUIREMENTS: none! While it might be fun to have someone close in age, I think we're both very open to anyone; it could be fun to have someone totally opposite of Stelly & Sylvia, just to see how that would play out long-term.

SUGGESTED FCS: any!

WANTED DETAILS: When Stelly moved out of their family home, they found a house downtown for rent, and decided to give it a go, with a couple of roommates. Overtime, people have come and gone, but they're pretty settled into things with Sylvia now, and both would love another housemate! They could be new to town, a friend looking for a new living situation, really anything.

CONTACT: @stellylee & @xsylcuenco ; not needed, but welcome to if you need anything!

ANYTHING ELSE?: You can check out the house here! Not all of the bedrooms are pictured, so please use your imagination any way that you would like! Stelly and Sylvia have the same sense of aesthetic / style, so the home is pretty bohemian-like, and there may be uninvited (or invited...) spirits around. (Probably not, but.)

#merrockwc #mwc: living #estellecarter #sylviacuencoburke #wanted connection #wc #open connection #town rp #small town rp #slice of life rp #tumblr rp #relaxed rp #active rp

0 notes

coralsgrimes · 1 year

Text

since ye know anxiety through the roof and imma like sad worried and mad all at once x.x i looked at boy’s insta to get me occupied/distracted. been a while and probably missed something? already told ye he followed boss while in qatar lol but in other news:

Jacob Collier who is a singer or something and he looks like mister maker’s son if me being honest lol

beside netflix film, he followed GdT too after couple of days x.x

i knowww we already made fun of him following poetryisnotaluxury but it was not on me list so im bringing that shite back xd NEW ALBUM LYRICS IN THE MAKING and the academic integrity in uk/ie usually allows up to 30% on turnitin score so he safe

tinyhabitsofficial which is another singing something i don’t care

swattykins is yet another music guy

this one me thinks someone mentioned but still - Jillian Share, who is a producer and she was one of the execs on seventh son. if anyone remembers that monstrosity lol

Lemar Carter who is a musician too and....

Nicole Row who is a musician TOO

Kevin Burke who is a musician too i think, I feel like i heard his name before too but who knows lol

and then for the freshest ones, two live music venues in Hollywoo - Hotel Cafe and Troubadour

OK SO NOT THAT I KNOW ANYTHING but this smells of boy fishing for inspo/collaborators for next music project. the live music scares me a lil too cuz if he has plans for branching that far? he might not at all but I know he do be having bad ideas ALL THE TIME and always doing me the worst ;c

Like on one hand who the fuck would wanna listen to him live? doing the ho ho ho imma not santa but a pirate and ye can blow me? like these peeps going them places are not his lil fangirls and housewives of twitter. or at least thats the vibes imma getting lol. professionals ye know and not peeps sharing ways on how to boost his streaming numbers on spotify while wearing his pink pj merch x.x

On the other hand I WOULD LOVE for him to perform live cuz a) he would be SO FUCKING BAD live to the point of giving people ear cancer, b) can ye imagine his stiff legs and dancy dancy hands routine in live settings? bitch like that’s better than stand-up that’s like better than whatever it is that jen anniston calls the big career of hers, and c) thrown outta the club for giving people ear cancer and second hand embarrassment might be the only way for benny to get a hint that he should not pursue music further cuz so far the memo is ginormous but he still not getting it x.x

#ok that's it i guess?#i have that old ask that pissed me off #gonna post that too #and imma outta here #i was promised good week #so far it feels like the worst ever

0 notes

oscopelabs · 3 years

Text

It’s Arrested Development: How ‘High Fidelity’ Has Endured Beyond Its Cultural Sell-By Date by Vikram Murthi

It’s easy to forget now that at the beginning of 2020, before the pandemic had taken hold of our consciousness, for a brief moment, High Fidelity was back. Not only did Nick Hornby’s debut novel and Stephen Frears’ film adaptation celebrate major milestones this year — 25th and 20th anniversaries, respectively — but a TV adaptation premiered on Hulu in February. In light of all of these arbitrary signposts, multiple thinkpieces and remembrances litigated Hornby’s original text on familiar, predictable grounds. Is the novel/film’s protagonist Rob actually an asshole? (Sure.) Does Hornby uphold his character’s callous attitudes towards women? (Not really.) Hasn’t the story’s gatekeeping, anti-poptimist approach to artistic taste culturally run its course? (Probably.) Why do we need to revisit this story about this person right now? (Fair question!)

Despite reasonable objections on grounds of relevancy, enough good will for the core narrative—record store owner seeks out a series of exes to determine a pattern of behavior following a devastating breakup—apparently exists to help produce a gender-flipped streaming show featuring updated musical references and starring a decidedly not-middle-aged Zoë Kravitz. I only made it through six of ten episodes in its first (and only) season, but I was surprised by how closely the show hewed to High Fidelity’s film adaptation, to the point of re-staging numerous scenes down to character blocking and swiping large swaths of dialogue wholesale. (Similarly, the film adaptation hewed quite close to the novel, with most of the dialogue ripped straight from Hornby.) Admittedly, the series features a more diverse cast than the film, centering different experiences and broadly acknowledging some criticisms of the source material regarding its ostensibly exclusionary worldview. Nevertheless, it seemed like a self-defeating move for the show to line itself so definitively with a text that many consider hopelessly problematic, especially considering the potential to repurpose its premise as a springboard for more contemporary ideas.

High Fidelity’s endurance as both a piece of IP and a flashpoint for media discourse is mildly baffling for obvious reasons. For one thing, its cultural milieu is actually dated. Even correcting for vinyl’s recent financial resurgence, the idea of snooty record store clerks passing judgment on customer preferences has more or less gone the way of the dodo. With the Internet came the democratization of access, ensuring that the cultivation of personal taste is no longer laborious or expensive, or could even be considered particularly impressive (if it ever could have been). Secondly, as one might imagine, some of Hornby’s insights into heterosexual relationships and the differences between men and women, even presented through the flawed, self-deprecating interiority of High Fidelity’s main character, are indeed reductive. Frears’ film actually strips away the vast majority of Hornby’s weaker commentary, but the novel does include such cringeworthy bits like, “What’s the deal with foreplay?” that are best left alone.

Accounting for all of that, though, it’s remarkable how many misreadings of Hornby’s text have been accepted as conventional wisdom. It’s taken as a given by many that the novel and film earnestly preach the notion that what you like is more important than what you are like when, in fact, the narrative arc is constructed around reaching the opposite conclusion. (The last lines of the novel and film are, literally, “…I start to compile in my head a compilation tape for her, something that's full of stuff she's heard of, and full of stuff she'd play. Tonight, for the first time ever, I can sort of see how it's done.”) That’s relatively minor compared to the constant refrain that Rob’s narcissism goes uncriticized, even though the story’s thematic and emotional potency derives from what the audience perceives that Rob cannot. To put it bluntly, High Fidelity’s central irony revolves around a man who listens to music for a living being unable to hear the women in his life.

While Hornby’s prose immerses the reader in Rob’s interior monologue, providing ample room for the character to spout internal justifications of his behavior, the novel hardly obscures or conceals this conclusion. Moreover, the film makes it unavoidably explicit in numerous scenes. Rob (John Cusack) triumphantly pantomimes Rocky Balboa’s boxing routine soundtracked to Queen’s “We Are The Champions” after his ex-girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle) confirms she hasn’t yet slept with her new boyfriend Ray (Tim Robbins), but doesn’t hear the part where she says she prefers to sleep next to him. When Laura informs Rob that she did eventually sleep with Ray, Rob completely falls apart. In an earlier, more pointed scene, Rob goes out with his ex-girlfriend from high school (Joelle Carter) to ask why she chose to have sex with an obnoxious classmate instead of him. She venomously informs him that he actually broke up with her because she was too prudish, an abrupt, cruel bit of business we actually witness at the film’s beginning. It was in her moment of heartbroken vulnerability that she agreed to quickly sleep with someone else (“It wasn’t rape because I technically said, ‘Okay,’ but it wasn’t far off,” she sneers), which ultimately put her off sex until after college. Rob doesn’t hear this explanation or the damning portrait of his teenaged self. Instead, he’s delighted to learn that he wasn’t actually dumped.

These are evidently low character moments, one’s that are comedic in their depiction of blinkeredness but whose emotional takeaways are crystal clear, and one’s that have been written about before. My personal pick from the film, though, comes late when Rob attends Laura’s father’s funeral. He sits in the back and, in typical fashion, turns to the camera to deliver a list of songs to play at his funeral, concluding with his professed wish that “some beautiful, tearful woman would insist on ‘You’re The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me’ by Gladys Knight.” It’s a really galling, egotistical moment that still makes me wince despite having seen the movie umpteen times. Yet, it’s immediately followed by the casket being lowered to the ground as Laura’s sobs ring out in the church. In a movie defined by John Cusack’s vocal timbre, it’s one of the few times when he completely shuts up. From two-thirds down the center aisle, Frears’ camera pushes into Cusack’s face until tears in his eyes are visible, but what you really see is an appropriately guilt-ridden, ashamed expression.

However, none of this evidence carries any weight if your objection to High Fidelity is that Rob suffers no material consequences for his behavior. While Rob is frequently called out for his actions, he is never actively punished. He doesn’t, say, receive a restraining order for continually calling Laura after they’ve broken up or end up alone mending a permanent broken heart because of his past relationships. By the end, Rob and Laura get back together and Rob even starts an independent record label on the side. It’s a stretch to characterize Hornby’s High Fidelity as a redemption tale, but it is a sideways rehabilitation narrative with a happy ending that arises at least partly out of mutual exhaustion.

Those two elements—Rob’s asshole recovery and the exhausted happy ending—rarely seem to factor into High Fidelity discourse. Granted, there’s credence to the idea that, socially and culturally, people have less patience for the personality types depicted in High Fidelity, and thus are less inclined to extend them forgiveness, let alone anything resembling retribution. I suppose that’s a valid reaction, one against which I have no interest in arguing, but it’s somewhat ironic that High Fidelity has endured for reasons that have nothing to do with its conclusions regarding inflexible personal principles and the folly of escapism. Both the book and film are specifically about someone who slowly comes to terms with accepting reality rather than live in a world mediated by pop cultural fantasies whose unrealistic expectations have only caused personal suffering. It’s not unfair to characterize this as a fairly obvious epiphany, but considering we currently live in a world dominated by virtual echo chambers with an entertainment culture committed to validating arrested adolescence, it retroactively counts as “mature” and holds more weight than it otherwise should.

Near the end of High Fidelity, the book, after Rob and Laura have gotten back together in the aftermath of Laura’s father’s death, Hornby includes a chapter featuring five conversations between the couple unpacking the state of their relationship. During the third conversation, Rob and Laura fight about how she doesn’t care about music as strongly as he does, catalyzed by Rob’s objection to Laura liking both Solomon Burke and Art Garfunkel, which, in his mind, is a contradiction in terms. Laura finally admits that not only does she not really care about the difference between them, but that most people outside of his immediate circle of two don’t care about the difference, and that this mentality is indicative of a larger problem. It’s part of what keeps him stuck in his head and reluctant to commit to anything. “I’m just trying to wake you up,” she says. “I'm just trying to show you that you've lived half your life, but for all you've got to show for it you might as well be nineteen, and I'm not talking about money or property or furniture.”

I fell for High Fidelity (first the movie, then the book) as a younger man for the reasons I assume most sensitive-cum-oblivious, culturally preoccupied straight guys do: it accurately pinpoints a pattern of music consumption and organizationally anal-retentive behavior with which I’m intimately familiar. I spent the vast majority of my early years listening to and cataloguing albums, and when I arrived at college, I quickly fell in with a small group of like-minded music obsessives. We had very serious, very prolonged discussions filled with impossibly strong opinions about our favorite artists and records. Few new releases came and went without them being scrutinized by us, the unappreciated scholars of all that is righteous. List-making wasn’t in vogue, but there wasn’t a song that passed us by that we didn’t judge or size up. I was exposed to more music during this relatively short period of time than I likely will ever absorb again. Some of these times were the most engaging and fun of my life, and I still enjoy discussing and sharing music with close friends, but I’m not such a true believer to fully feel comfortable with this behavior. It’s not entirely healthy on its own and definitely alienating to others, and there comes a point when you hear yourself the way a stranger might, or maybe even catch a glimpse of someone’s eyes when you’re midst rant about some stupid album, and realize, “That’s all there is of me. There isn’t anything else.”

This is what Rob proclaims to Laura in the conversation when she tells him she was more interested in music during their courtship than she is now. It’s a patently self-pitying statement on his part that doesn’t go unchallenged by her in the moment or bear fruit in the rest of the novel. Yet, it’s this type of uncomfortably relatable sentiment that goes under-discussed. If High Fidelity will continue to have a life well after its cultural moment has passed, then it’s worth addressing what it offers on its own terms. Near the end of the book, Laura introduces Rob to another couple with whom he gets along quite well. When the evening comes to an end, she tells him to take a look at their record collection, and it’s predictably filled with artists he doesn’t care for, e.g. Billy Joel, Simply Red, Meat Loaf. “'Everybody's faith needs testing from time to time,” Laura tells him later when they’re alone. Amidst Rob’s self-loathing and sullen pettiness, Hornby argues that one should contribute in some way rather than only consume and that, at some point, it’s time to put away childish ideas in order to get the most out of life. It’s an entirely untrendy argument, one that goes against the nostalgic spirit of superhero films and reboot culture, but it doesn’t lack merit. Accepting that some values aren’t conducive to a full life, especially when it’s shared with someone else, doesn’t have to mean abandoning interests or becoming an entirely different person. It just means that letting go isn’t an admission of defeat.

It’s why I’ve always found the proposal scene in the film to be quite moving, albeit maybe not specifically romantic. It plays out similarly in both the book and the film, but the film has the added benefit of Cusack and Hjejle’s performances to amplify the vulnerability and shared understanding. Laura meets Rob for a drink in the afternoon where he sheepishly asks if she would like to get married. Laura bursts out laughing and says that he isn’t the safest bet considering he was making mixtapes for some reporter a few days prior. When asked what brought this on, Rob notes that he’s sick of thinking about love and settling down and marriage and wants to think about something else. (“I changed my mind. That’s the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard. I do. I will,” she sarcastically replies.) He goes on to say that he’s tired of fantasizing about other women because the fantasies have nothing to do with them and everything to do with himself and that it doesn’t exist never mind delivering on its promise. “I’m tired of it,” he says, “and I’m tired of everything else for that matter, but I don’t ever seem to get tired of you.”

This sort of anti-Jerry Maguire line would be callous if Laura didn’t basically say the same thing to him when they got back together. (“I’m too tired not to be with you.”) It’s possible to read this as an act of mutual settling, but I always thought Hornby’s point was personal growth and accepting one’s situation were intertwined. The key moment in High Fidelity, the film, comes when Laura finds Rob’s list of top five dream jobs. (In the book, Laura makes Rob compile the list.) At the bottom of the list, after such standard choices like music journalist and record producer, lies architect, a job that Rob isn’t entirely sure about anyway. (“I did put it at number five!” he insists.) Laura asks Rob the obvious question: wouldn’t you rather own your own record store than hypothetically be an architect, a job you’re not particularly enthused with anyway?

It’s Laura who convinces Rob that living the fifth-best version of your life can actually be pretty satisfying and doesn’t have to be treated like a cruel fate worse than death. Similarly, Rob and Laura both make the active decision to try to work things out instead of starting over with someone else. Laura’s apathy may have reunited them, and Rob’s apathy might have kept him from running, but it’s their shared history that keeps them together. More than the music and the romance, High Fidelity follows the necessary decisions and compromises one has to maneuver in order to grow instead of regress. “I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself,” Rob says near the end of Hornby’s novel. High Fidelity’s emotional potency lies in taking that sentiment seriously.

40 notes · View notes

nathanielhoover · 3 years

Text

Also, I take off my shoes as soon as I get in the house.

Also, I take off my shoes as soon as I get in the house. His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. Flowers free shipping is a tremendous nike jean jacket way to buy fascinating bouquets and still reserve money by having no delivery rates. He had drunk too much last night. You do plenty of tough exercises if you go Inside the Cult of Crossfit. Tough to simulate the speed of how fast they going to go offensively with their no huddle and then tough to visualize the speed of the football getting there, Burke said of Guilderland offense. I remember the week leading up to my birthday party in third grade. Symond the spymaster, always clinking coins. This causes nosebleeds, cough, sore throat, and more.. That’ll wake him up.” Snatch turned back to Tyrion and Penny. But Bepple's motion squeaked through, despite the objections of the home builders and some of her council colleagues. Jon Snow met them on the kingsroad half a league south of Mole’s Town, before they could turn up at Castle Black, claim guest right, or call for parley. To support me. I realised that you weren't really made to feel welcome back in the 1960s. Pourquoi il ne mrite trois repas par jour? SourcesNike Air Max Pas Cher rvlent que, mme si on lui a donn 11 condamnations mort, ces dcisions doivent tre automatiquement appel par la loi de l'tat de l'Ohio. Very sad.” The queen pulled her daughter closer to her and kissed her nike air max 102 essential white cheek. Trailering Package is 11,400 lb., and predicted fuel economy is 16/23 (4x2), 16/22 (4x4). He only looks ferocious, but at other times he’s most reasonable. The works should be no longer than 10 minutes, although longer works and works in progress that have been up to a 15 minute segment will be accepted. This game is all about playing for your teammates, guys on the field with you.". There may be some minor impact for Monday morning, but that not for certain yet. This is one of the most inexperienced Australia team, and even the best NZ team since Hadlee/Crowe area is not good enough. Tuesday, March 29, and 10percent of proceeds will go to Salinas Valley Junior Golf Association scholarship fund. Once he let something slip before me, but immediately changed the subject and would not answer my questions. And for a long time, till it was dark, she told us about her former life out there; we did not interrupt her. "This technology allows it to be more flexible. So be it. Harrison and Oliver Carter each had two. CarMax says it looked to Reno to expand because of the improving economy. “No,” she screamed again. Three treasons shall you know. I was surprised at myself. The Flint girl was fourteen and flat-chested as a boy, though she did not lack for milk. Driving into a hapless OR forward, Matt went to ground as his support runners created a protective shield that would rate highly in the Trump administration. polo raflorene "I jumped up on the kitchen bench, on my knees, opened the window and stuck my head out," Hugh Hanlon continues. Last Friday Gunnar, Hunt and Sergeant Jack Rosenthal set out to find Garver on a brushy, steep hillside last Friday where several people had reported seeing the fugitive. Here what I found prominently displayed on SEG home page: Global Islamic Movement includes the fifty seven member states of the Organisation (sic) of the Islamic Cooperation . This type of work, we can have kennel dogs, they have to be family dogs, they have to be socialized, said Richard Lee, executive director of the Canadian Search and Disaster Dog Association (CASDDA). The Court. The Old Bear left a few cautionary notes about certain of the men, for his successor. Its far more complex. It was the aircraft maker's second major order in two days. We're hoping that with the walk/run, we're hoping to get some awareness out there because that's fehér női bőr csizma the biggest challenge now. What, thought I, if he has gone to her? What if he’s made up his mind to forgive her? Why, he’s found out everything, he knows the latest news of her; I feel certain he knows it; but how the news gets to him I can’t imagine. Riches and power have proved the ruin of many an unhappy soul, by drawing away the heart and affections from God, and fixing them on mean and sinful enjoyments; so that, geci de fas dama scurte when God, who knows our hearts better than we know them ourselves, sees that they would be hurtful to us, and therefore keeps them from us, it is the greatest mercy and kindness he could show us.. Please, we need your help. Dad told me when Capra came to the Pentagon one time he came to talk to them about this movie program. Macel has never served as a director, has never been on a committee or, to our knowledge, has never been a volunteer.. Her task had been to instruct the prince biciclete pret in the doctrines of the Faith, and she had done that. And we're in for batteria ai polimeri di litio amazon nasty weather. "They'll have bigger antlers, you get more bang for cizme vara cu toc your buck for your adidas retro schuhe männer harvest, and it gives the deer a chance to be savvier.". The wizard was a monster of a man, as tall as Victarion himself and twice as wide, with a belly like a boulder and a tangle of bone-white hair that grew about his face like a lion’s mane. But for the N event the visiting journalists were allowed access to something different a full blown racetrack. Huffam went on to produce 10 episodes of season one, and obviously left a lasting effect on HBO and Doelger who returned to Northern Ireland two years in a bikes btt usadas row. He was a very kind-hearted man, and, joking apart, I was deeply indebted to him. A delicate situation. In contrast, in Sweden the female population has a much greater say in purchasing decisions.. It's going to be hard to fill her shoes. They gathered there from all parts of the Voznesensky Prospect, mostly heads of shops of various sorts: carpenters, bakers, painters, hatters, saddlers, all patriarchal people in the German sense of the word. With so much available land in the desert surrounding Phoenix and Tucson, why don't both cities get together and plan the greatest airport in the universe somewhere between both cities? With long term proper planning, they could have a spectacular modern airport with high speed rail runing to both metro areas, cut down on pollution in both cities, and serve the entire state very well. This is a great draw for someone who has flexible hours at work and who can not make appointments because of the hours that they work.. A 47 year old man who was bear hunting in southwestern Montana was attacked by a bear over the weekend. It was their show that had started all the trouble that night. All subjects returned to their normal activities including running within 10 days of surgery.Table 1 shows the mean strain and strain rates of four consecutive strides for each subject during treadmill and overground running. Assange, who denies the allegations, says he fears that if Britain extradited him to Sweden he would then be extradited to the United States where he could be tried for one of the largest information leaks in US history.

1 note · View note

pollylynn · 4 years

Photo

Title: Entrepôt WC: 800

“Okay, so what’s the alternative?” — Carter Burke, Kill Shot (4 x 09)

Therapists’ chairs are the place to have an epiphany. Her backside and the wide seat of Burke’s chair and a half are intimately familiar with this truth, and still she’s surprised every time. (Though surprise comes standard with all the best epiphanies—she can hear Castle’s Professor Pedant O’Lectureface voice in her head on that score. Professor O’Lectureface can get lost.)

She’s not surprised she’s having them, though. She’s not surprised that they keep coming despite the constantly frazzled feeling she has that she is turning out to be some kind of . . . clown car filled with emotional baggage.

She is surprised by how basic they are, even though she feels like she’s been at this forever. She is genuinely rocked when she quietly answers his question about Lee Travis’s death and how she feels about.

“It’s still there,” she says, tentative as as the first hint of warmth on a spring breeze. She is embarrassed and apologetic. She should be better by now—a little better at least. Burke good at his job. She’s just bad at hers—the job she has in this room with her backside settled into the wide seat for the duration She’s on the verge of saying something to this effect—apologizing or something—but the epiphany comes

“Because you haven’t fully dealt with what happened to you,” Burke says tersely.

He sounds a little bit mad in his emotionally beige therapists’ way. She’s taking a lap through the self-loathing spiral, remembering her recent antics. She’s about to apologize—to make promises to do better, however inappropriate that probably is, given the context—when her mind finally processes the content of his speech. He—her therapist, to whom she she returned, lo! those many months ago voluntarily, if not exactly willingly—doesn’t know why she is here. In a quite fundamental sense, he does not understand that this is about so much more than the shooting. It is about so much more than a couple of scars.

A lifetime elapses as she tries to wrap her mind everything Burke doesn’t know. She shifts in the wide seat and reviews. She hears herself—I remember everything. She experiences a high-fidelity cringe as she recalls her high school bitching about Serena Kaye and Castle having the temerity to be cognizant of the existence of another woman. She tries to piece her sessions together, but she sees how scattershot it is—how piecemeal it has been.

She can’t imagine how this has happened. She wonders if Burke will blackball her to all other therapists in the tai-state area when he inevitably fires her today. She is sorely tempted to ask as he tosses her out on her ear if he ever has had a patient who is as bad at therapy as she is. She’s sorely tempted to ask if there’s an award for that.

It’s all more than a little hyperbolic in the confines of that lifetime that’s still elapsing, but she sits with it, because that’s what one does with epiphanies in the therapist’s chair. She puts her backside into it and thinks it through.

Castle knows why she’s here. He doesn’t know that she’s here. He knows about Roger and resistance bands. He knows that the scar pulls, and more recently, he unfortunately knows that it’s more than disruptions of her skin that are fucking her up.

He knows about the wall, because she told him about it that day on the swings. He knew about the wall long before she told him about it that day on the swings. I know you crawled inside your mother’s murder, and you didn’t come out.

He knew, and he had tried his damnedest to hand her that epiphany before she could get herself shot. But epiphanies don’t come gift-wrapped and handed over. They come in fits and starts. They come slowly—so much more slowly—when one’s therapist has no real idea why one settles her backside into a wide leather seat, session after session.

She figures she might as well tell him, before he hits the button for the ejector seat—or maybe it’s a Sweeney Todd lever that he favors. She gathers up the ragged ends of her courage and breathes. She tells him it was there before the shooting—this feeling she is here to dispel, and he is not surprised. She is not, in the end, surprised he’s not surprised. It’s obvious when she says it. As the halting words make their way out of her mouth, it’s so damned obvious that her mother was murdered and she’s messed up about it.

But she’s adding it to the epiphany count anyway, because she said the thing out loud and now everyone is on the same page. It totally counts.

A/N: Epiphanies, only flame and air and not a thing.

images via homeofthenutty

#Castle #Caskett #Castle: Season 1 #Castle: Kill Shot #Kate Beckett #Richard Castle #Carter Burke #Johanna Beckett #Fic #Fanfiic #Fanfiction #Fan Fic #Fan Fiction #Writing #Interrogatives?

15 notes · View notes

dillydedalus · 3 years

Text

april reading

oh yeah this is a thing. anyway in april i read about uhhh.... first contact (twice), murderers on skis & victorian church politics

the yield, tara june winch a novel about indigenous australian identity and history (now and throughout the 20th century) in three narrative strands. imo the narrative strand that consists of a grandfather writing a dictionary of his language (wiradjuri) in order to prove a claim to some land is by far the strongest, but overall i liked this quite a lot. 3/5

land of big numbers, te-ping chen a solid short story collection focused on modern china and young(ish) chinese people, both in china and the diaspora. i particularly liked the stories that had some slighty surreal or speculative elements, such as one about fruit that strongly evoke emotions when eaten and a group of people stuck in a train station for months as the train is delayed, which imo use their speculative aspects in effective (if not super subtle) ways to talk about society. 3/5

the pear field, nana ekvtimishvili (tr. from georgian by elizabeth heighway) international booker prize longlist! a short, fairly depressing read about a 18-year-old girl at a post-soviet school for developmentally disabled childred (but also orphans, abandoned children & other random kids) who is trying to get a younger boy adopted by an american couple. there seem to be a lot of novels set at post-soviet orphanages etc & imo this is a well-executed example of the microgenre, with the pear field full of pears that are never picked bc they don’t taste right as a strong central image. 3/5

the warden, anthony trollope (chronicles of barsetshire #1) ah yes, a 6-part victorian series about church politics in an english town, exactly the kind of thing i’m interested in. not sure why i committed to at least the first two entries of the series but here we are. despite this lack of interest (and disagreement with most of the politics on display here) i found this quite charming; trollope has a gift for an amusing turn of phrase & making fun of his characters in benevolent ways. 3/5

the lesson, cadwell turnbull first contact scifi novel set on the virgin islands, where an alien ship arrives one day. the aliens seem benevolent & share helpful technology, but also react with extreme violence to any aggression. they claim to be on earth to study.... something, but it’s never entirely clear what. the book makes some interesting choices (like immediately skipping over the actual first contact to a few years in the future, when the aliens are already established on the islands) but i thought much of it was kinda disjointed and confusing. 2/5

the heart is a lonely hunter, carson mccullers look, i get it, it’s all about the isolation & alienation (& dare i say loneliness) of 4 miserable characters projecting their issues on the central character singer, who is kind and patient and also deaf and mute, thus making him the perfect receptacle for their issues without really having to connect with him as a person and how that isolation hinders them socially, artistically, emotionally, politically, but like... i didn’t really like it. i didn’t hate it but i just felt very meh about it all. 2.5/5

acht tage im mai: die letzte woche des dritten reiches, volker ulrich fascinating history book about the last week(ish) of the third reich, starting with the day of hitler’s suicide and ending with the total surrender (but with plenty of flashbacks and forwards), and looking at military&political leadership (german and allied) as well as prisoners of war, forced laborers, concentration camp prisoners, and everyone else. very interesting look at what kästner described as the “gap between the not-anymore and the not-yet.” 3.5/5

firekeeper’s daughter, angeline boulley) i’ve been mostly off the YA train for the last few years, but this was a really good example of contemporary YA with a focus on ~social issues. ANYWAY. this is YA crime novel about daunis, a mixed-race unenrolled ojibwe girl close to finishing high school who is struggling with family problems, university plans, and feeling caught between her white and her native familiy when her best friend is shot in front of her and she decides to become a CI for an fbi investigation into meth production in the community. i really appreciated how hard this went both with the broader social issues (racism, addiction) and daunis’ personal struggles. there are a few bits that felt a bit didactic & on the nose (and the romance... oh well), but overall the themes of community, family, and the value of living indigenous culture are really well done & i teared up several times. 4/5

the magic toyshop, angela carter i love carter’s short stories but struggle with (while still liking) her novels so far. this one, a tale of melanie, suddenly orphaned after trying on her mother’s wedding dress in the garden, coming of age and awakening to womanhood or whatever. carter’s really into that. it’s well-written, sensual as carter always is, and the family melanie and her siblings are sent to, her tyrannical puppet-maker uncle, his mute wife and the wife’s two brothers, both fascinating and offputting (& dirty) make for an interesting cast of characters, but overall i just wish i was reading the bloody chamber again. 3/5

barchester towers, anthony trollope (chronicles of barsetshire #2) (audio) lol tbh i still don’t know why i am committing to this series about, again, church politics in 19th century rural england, but it’s just so chill & warm & funny (we love gently or not so gently - but always politely - mocking our characters) that i’m enjoying it as a nice little trip where people do some #crazyschemes to gain church positions or fight over whether there should be songs in church or whatever it is people in the 19th century fought about. it’s very relaxing. there also is a lot of love quadrangleyness going on and that’s also fun. trollope has weird ideas about women but like whatever, i for one wish mrs proudie much joy of her position as defacto bishop of barchester, she really girlbossed her way to the top. 3.5/5

semiosis, sue burke (semiosis #1) i love spinning the wheel on the “first contact with X weird alien species” & i guess this time we landed on plants! plant intelligence is interesting and the idea of plant warfare is really cool. i do like the structure, with different generations of human settlers on the planet pax providing a long-term view but this allows the author to skip over a lot of the development of the relationship between the settlers and the plant and locating the plot elsewhere, which i think is ultimately a mistake. i might continue w/ the series tho, depending on library availability. 2.5/5

one by one, ruth ware a bunch of start-up people go on a corporate retreat to a ski chalet in the alps, avalanche warning goes up, one of them disappears, presumably on a black piste, the rest get snowed in & completely cut off when the avalanche hits and then they get picked off *title drop* (altho really not that many of them). nice fluff when i had a miserable cold (not covid) but fails when it tries to go for deeper themes... like an attempt to address classism and entitlement sure... was made. also like what kind of luxury skiing chalet does not have emergency communication devices in case internet/phone lines are down... i’d have sued just for that. 2/5

fake accounts, lauren oyler the microgenre of ‘alienated intellectual(ish) probably anglophone person has some sort of crisis, goes to berlin about it’ is my ultimate literary weakness - i almost never really like them, they mostly irritate me & yet i can never resist their siren call. this one is p strong on the irritation, altho at least the narrator does not ascribe much meaning to her decision to go to berlin after she a) discovers her boyf is an online conspiracy theorist (probably not sincerely) and b) gets a call that said boyf has died, it’s really just something to do to avoid doing anything else. but other than that it’s so BerlinExpat by the numbers, like she lives in kreuzkölln! put her somewhere else at least! there is one scene that elevates the BerlinExpat-ness of it all (narrator asks expatfriend for advice on visa applications, expatfriend assures her that it’s really easy for americans to get visa, adds “especially now” while literally, as the narrator remarks, gesturing at the falafel she’s eating) other than that, the novel is.... fine. it’s smart, but not really as smart as it thinks it is, which is a problem bc it thinks it’s just sooo incisive. whatever. 2/5

the tenant of wildfell hall, anne bronte this is reductive but: jane eyre: i could fix him // wuthering heights: i could make him worse // wildfell hall: lmao i’m gonna leave his ass anyway i enjoyed the part that is actually narrated by the titular tenant of wildfell hall, helen (which thankfully, i think, is most of it) because the perspective of a woman who runs away from her abusive alcoholic of a husband is genuinely interesting and engaging, while gilbert, the frame story narrator who falls in love with helen, is.... the worst. i mean he’s not the worst bc the abusive husband arthur is there and hard to beat in terms of worseness, but he’s pretty fucking bad. imagine if helen had found out that gilbert attacked her secret brother over a misunderstanding, severely injured him & LEFT HIM TO DIE & then (when dude survived & the misunderstanding got cleared up) apologised like well i guess i didn’t treat you quite right! she’d have to run away from her second husband as well! poor girl. 3/5

#the books i read #long post #lol i keep forgetting to finish & post these #anyway gilbert fucking sucks! like his name is gilbert you can do better helen

4 notes · View notes

tawneybel · 2 years

Text

July 2022 Reader Insert Smut Masterlist

Note: Request rules. Starting in August, this blog will be posting a single weekly imagine due to my busy schedule. May or may not post more depending on how busy.

1. N/A

2. N/A

3. N/A

4. Tricky the Clown and Hank J. Wimbleton from Madness Combat

5. T-100 and Kyle Reese from Terminator: Genisys

6. Count Dracula from Dracula

7. Pops from Terminator Genisys

8. N/A

9. N/A

10. N/A

11. Carter Burke and Facehuggers from Aliens

12. fembots from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

13. Kreamy Cold from R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series

14. T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day

15. N/A

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. Prince Olympius from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

19. Venom from Venom: Let There Be Carnage

20. Richard Lawson from Sometimes They Come Back

21. Jesse Cromeans from Laid to Rest

22. N/A

23. N/A

24. N/A

25. Sam Miller and Ginger Fitzgerald from Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

26. Sculpin from Power Rangers Mystic Force

27. Harry Warden from My Bloody Valentine

28. Translucent and Hughie Campbell from The Boys

29. N/A

30. N/A

31. N/A

15 notes · View notes

giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 4 years

Text

Imagine: RWBY / 80s movie AU

Aliens (1986)

1) Raven Branwen as Ellen Ripley (reasoning: warrior leader and also because of who I have Yang cast as)

2) Taiyang Xiao Long as Corporal Dwayne Hicks (reasoning: Raven’s love interest and being an all-around good guy)

3) Whitley Schnee as Carter Burke (reasoning: let’s say that the Schnee Dust Company replaces the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. In that case, it made sense that Whitley took the role of the slimy corporate exec)

4) Penny Polendina as Bishop (reasoning: android assistant)

5) Yang Xiao Long as Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (reasoning: Raven’s daughter. Although in this AU, Yang would be Raven’s daughter-figure)

6) Cardin Winchester as Pvt. Hudson (reasoning: the arrogant, douchebag bully)

7) Peter Port as Lt. Gorman (reasoning: I was thinking who among the adults could be an incompetent commanding officer and for some reason, Port kept coming to mind)

8) Winter Schnee as Pvt. Vasquez (reasoning: badass female soldier who hates incompetence)

9) James Ironwood as Capt. Apone (reasoning: the competent military officer)

10) Clover Ebi, Caroline Cordovin, Vine Zeki, Harriet Bree, Elm Ederne, Marrow Amin and one extra Atlas soldier as Drake, Frost, Ferro, Spunkmeyer, Dietrich, Crowe, and Wierzbowski aka the marines who get wiped out by the Grimm-Xenomorphs in the first ambush (reasoning: Atlas soldiers under Ironwood’s command)

11) The Grimm take the place of the Aliens/Xenomorphs

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scarface (1983)

1) Adam Taurus as Tony Montana / Scarface (reasoning: minority facing discrimination, power-hungry asshole who becomes a violent leader / EDIT: Oh, I just realized, the name ‘Scarface’ could also reference the branding on his face)

2) Ilia Amitola as Manny Ray (reasoning: member of the White Fang. Also, I have Ilia as Manny mainly because of who I have Blake cast as)

3) Neopolitan as Elvira (reasoning: to keep with the themes of human-faunus relations, Elvira had to be a human character. Also, Neo is a crazy criminal, so she fit the role)

4) Blake Belladonna as Gina Montana (reasoning: one, to reference Adam’s unhealthy obsession with Blake and Blake’s initial fascination of Adam. Two, since Manny and Gina get together and Ilia has a canon crush on Blake)

5) Roman Torchwick as Frank Lopez (reasoning: Roman’s connection to Neo and Roman being a criminal mastermind)

6) Jacques Schnee as Alejandro Sosa (reasoning: the big-name supplier, just switch cocaine with dust. Also, since Adam is the main protagonist, it made sense to have the Schnees as the main villains)

7) Klein Sieben as the shotgun-wielding assassin who kills Tony (reasoning: works for the Schnee family)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Breakfast Club (1985)

1) Cardin Winchester as John Bender (The Criminal) - reasoning: the asshole bully who harasses everyone

2) Weiss Schnee as Claire Standish (The Princess) - reasoning: the snobbish girl who thinks she’s all that

3) Sun Wukong as Andrew Clark (The Athlete) - reasoning: this was a surprisingly hard role to fill in. Eventually, I just went with the character who I thought fit the mold of the “stock high school athlete”, which was Sun.

4) Ruby Rose as Brian Johnson (The Brain) - reasoning: the goodie-two-shoes nerd who has trouble socializing with people

5) Blake Belladonna as Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) - reasoning: the shy, introverted goth (well, closest to goth) girl who is seen as an outcast

9 notes · View notes

bluebeardsbride-archive · 4 years

Text

reading list for 2020 2019 reading list literature recommendations last updated 7.1.2020

crossed = finished bolded = currently reading plain = to read * = reread + = priority

ask if you want PDFs!

currently reading: The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Inferno by Dante Aligheri

novels (unsorted) The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang +Justine by Lawrence Durrell Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy +Death in Venice by Thomas Mann* The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco* The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille +Nightwood by Djuna Barnes +Malina by Ingeborg Bachman A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Monsieur Venus by Rachilde +The Marquise de Sade by Rachilde +A King Alone by Jean Giono +The Scarab by Manuel Mujica Lainez +The Invitation by Beatrice Guido Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh She Who Was No More by Boileau-Narcejac Mascaro, the American Hunter by Haroldo Conti European Travels for the Monstrous Gentlewomen by Theodora Goss Kiss Me, Judas by Christopher Baer Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt The Grip of It by Jac Jemc Celestine by Olga Ravn The Girl Who Ate Birds by Paul Nougé The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop Possessions by Julia Kristeva

classics The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio* Purgatio by Dante Aligheri Paradiso by Dante Aligheri

short story collections The Wilds: Stories by Julia Elliot The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt Severance by Robert Olen Butler Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares Sirens and Demon Lovers: 22 Stories of Desire edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling The Beastly Bride edited by Ellen Datlow +Vampire In Love by Enrique Vila-Matas Collected works of Leonora Carrington Collected works of Silvina Ocampo Collected works of Everil Worrel Collected works of Luisa Valenzuela

theatre +Faust by Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane

nonfiction (unsorted) Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne +The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsebet Bathory by Kimberly L. Craft Blake by Peter Akroyd Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin A History of the Heart by Ole M. Høystad On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma +Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery Gordon +Consoling Ghosts : Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile by Jean M. Langford essays (unsorted) When the Sick Rule the World: Essays by Dodie Bellamy Academonia: Essays by Dodie Bellamy ‘On the Devil, and Devils’ by Percy Shelley +An Erotic Beyond: Sade by Octavio Paz

poetry +100 Notes on Violence by Julia Carr

academia (unsorted) Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror edited by Lorna Sage The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien Cupid’s Knife: Women's Anger and Agency in Violent Relationships by Abby Stein Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious by Fabio Vighi The Severed Flesh: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime by Allen S. Weiss

on horrror Terrors in Cinema edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews by Robin Wood Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Cohen The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart by Noël Caroll Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century by Charles Derry Monsters of Our Own Making by Marina Warner Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader edited by by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui

the gothic Woman and Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Halberstam +Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. Delamotte Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic by Anne Williams Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Xavier Aldana Reyes On the Supernatural in Poetry by Ann Radcliffe The Gothic Flame by Devendra P. Varma Gothic Versus Romantic: A Reevaluation of the Gothic Novel by Robert D. Hume A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Kate Ellis Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 by E. Clery Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic edited by Fred Botting The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis The Routledge Companion to the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy Gothic and Gender edited by Donna Heiland Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition by G.R. Thompson Cryptomimesis : The Gothic and Jacques Derrida’s Ghost Writing by Jodie Castricano

bluebeard Bluebeard’s legacy: death and secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock edited by Griselda Pollock and Victoria Anderson The tale of Bluebeard in German literature: from the eighteenth century to the present Mererid Puw Davies Bluebeard: a reader’s guide to the English tradition by Casie E. Hermansson Bluebeard gothic : Jane Eyre and its progeny Heta Pyrhönen Bluebeard Tales from Around the World by Heidi Ann Heiner

religion The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore by Piero Camporesi Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middles Ages by Nancy Caciola Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages by Nancy Caciola “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus by Albert Henrichs The Ordinary Business of Occultism by Gauri Viswanathan The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown

cannibalism Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Charles J. Reid Jr. Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Merrall Llewelyn Price Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by Heather Blurton +Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity edited by Kristen Guest Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind’s Oldest Taboo by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff

crime Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglass

theory/philosophy Life Everlasting: the animal way of death by Bernd Heinrich The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays by René Girard Interviews with Hélène Cixous Symposium by Plato Phaedra by Plato Becoming-Rhythm: A Rhizomatics of the Girl by Leisha Jones The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture edited by Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva

perfume & alchemy Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena The Perfume Lover: A Personal Story of Scent by Denyse Beaulieu Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind* Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin +throughsmoke by Jehanne Dubrow “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume” by Katy Kelleher

medicine The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

Finished (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film by Jalal Toufic

#reading list #my recommendations #sp #bookmark

114 notes · View notes

mylifeincinema · 4 years

Text

My Week in Reviews: March 15, 2020

Jumanji: The Next Level (Jake Kasdan, 2019)

More enjoyable than the first because the danger feels more real than in its predecessor. Add onto that the fact that the cast get to go full ham with their performances for a large chunk of the film, and you have an all-around more interesting film. - 7/10

Journey to the Beginning of Time (Karel Zeman, 1955)

It feels like it came straight out of the imagination of a child. The style of effects work wonders because of this, and while it was my least favorite of the three Zeman films in Criterion’s set, it was definitely a worthwhile inclusion that helps shine light on Zeman as both an artist and storyteller. - 6/10

Invention for Destruction (Karel Zeman, 1958)

Visually overwhelming. Pair Zeman’s incredible eye with the remarkable restoration, and you have a film that very often looks like it could’ve been made just last year rather than 60+ years ago. The more I think about this one, the more I like it. The story is simple, and in the moment I found it to be too laid-back in its execution, but looking back now I’m find myself enjoying even the less remarkable moments as parts of the whole. - 7.5/10

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zeman, 1962)

Holy. Shit. An absolute masterpiece. Never anything less than visually stunning, and always every bit as bizarre as it is funny as it is exciting. This is worth the price of Criterion’s set, alone. Wow. - 10/10

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Ed Burke, 2019)

If I hadn’t already seen Beyoncé’s Coachella performance via livestream back when it happened, I certainly would’ve gotten a whole lot more out of this. As it is, there’s just not enough behind-the-scenes material to make it a worthwhile project. Sure, it’s a reminder of just how epic a performance this was, but I was really hoping for more out of this than just that. - 5/10

Lost Girls (Liz Garbus, 2020)

Solid performances from Amy Ryan and Thomasin McKenzie, but otherwise it’s all a waste of time. I’m never made to really care about these characters, there’s plenty of questions and never any answers, or even satisfying theories. - 5/10

A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932)

Oh, my... their initial romance really does not play well in 2020, now does it? Add onto that its being, for the most part, downright boring, and you have a film only worth watching for its historical significance. Oh, and Adolphe Menjou. Such a likable performance. - 5.5/10

The Big House (George Hill, 1930)

Wallace Beery turns in a fun performance, but other than that this is full of unlikable characters doing unlikable things. - 3/10

The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, 1933)

With so much of cinema and television painting Henry VIII as some sort of monster, it was really interesting to see him portrayed here as lonesome and hurt rather than power-hungry and vicious. Charles Laughton is fantastic. - 6.5/10

The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)

The sole reason it’s taken me so long to sit down and watch this one is that I had the twist spoiled for me very early on and just never saw the point.

It’s pretty damn good. But I can only imagine the viewing experience had I been able to go in completely blind. Watching it now, I find it hard to believe it was so shocking, but how much of that is because I already knew?

Anyway, Rea and Whitaker are fantastic, and really, so are Davidson and Richardson. It’s an intriguing story of guilt and regret and giving in to ones nature. If you don’t know anything about this film, just go watch it. Don’t look ANYTHING up, just go to Netflix and watch it. Now. - 7.5/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

#film #movies #cinema #jumanji: the next level #Beyoncé #homecoming #karel zeman #my week in reviews #journey to the beginning of time #invention for destruction #the fabulous baron munchausen #lost girls #a farewell to arms #the big house #the private life of henry viii #the crying game

15 notes · View notes

avengersmusings · 4 years

Photo

FULL NAME: Steven Grant Rogers MEANING: Crown, Wreath NICKNAME: Steve, Stevie, Cap, Daddy MEANING: Steve’s a shortened version of his name; Stevie was a nickname started by his mom and picked up by Bucky; Cap is usually what the team calls him; Daddy is Elise’s name for him :) AGE APPEARANCE: Appears 30, is actually 102 BIRTHDAY: July 4th, 1917 ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Cancer SPECIES: Enhanced Human GENDER: Cis Male ALLERGIES: None SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Bisexual THEME SONG(S): America’s Suitehearts by Fall Out Boy; Dancing with Our Hands Tied by Taylor Swift, Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley; Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

APPEARANCE

HAIR COLOR: Dark Blonde/Light Brown HAIR STYLE AND LENGTH: Close cut in the back with a little bit extra on top. Think Infinity War style hair. EYES COLOR: Blue EYESIGHT: 20/20, now. Holy shit it was terrible before the serum. HEIGHT: 6″2′ WEIGHT: 230 lbs OUTFIT/CLOTHING STYLE: The uniform is a must on mission but when he’s being Steve and not Captain America it’s kahkis and plaid shirts and button ups and old man clothes. ABNORMALITIES: None. DISTINGUISHING MARKS(SCARS,MOLES): Stretch marks along hips and stomach area from serum, small injection scars from the serum, and that’s about it. Maybe some moles here and there. SELF CARE(MAKE UP): Steve always looks put together okay, the 40s shoved that into him and won’t let go. FIRST IMPRESSION ON PEOPLE: People either underestimate him because they think he’s a “dumb blonde” or immediately respect him because he’s Captain America. SKIN COLOR: White mixed BODY TYPE/BUILD: Lean, Muscular, built like fucking truck with a tiny ass waist. DEFAULT EXPRESSION: It’s either “I have no idea what I’m doing” or “you WILL follow orders” there’s no in between. POSTURE: Honestly it depends? Steve makes himself smaller and tries not take up too much space but Cap? Takes up space and commands the room when walking in. PIERCINGS: None. DESCRIBE THEIR VOICE: Steve’s voice has a subtle Brooklyn accent and takes on a softer tone than you’d expect out of him. His voice hardens and deepens when he goes in Captain mode.

RELATIONS:

MOM: Sarah Rogers HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: Steve’s mom was his whole world before she died. Sarah took care of him when he was sick and her death almost ruined him. DAD: Joseph Rogers HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: Joseph died when Steve was young, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t remember how terrible his father was. The man was abusive and the day he got shipped off to WW1 was the best day for Steve and Sarah. SIBLINGS: N/A HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: N/A CHILDREN: N/A HOW WELL DO THEY GET ALONG: N/A OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS: N/A PAST LOVER(S): Peggy Carter (Ex-Crush) CURRENT LOVER: Elise Burke and Bucky Barnes REACTION TO MEETING SOMEONE NEW: Steve can talk to anyone okay, he makes friends with everyone he meets. ABILITY TO WORK WITH OTHERS: Steve is a team player you cannot tell me he isn’t. HOW SOCIABLE(LONER,ETC): Steve is basically a puppy he’s sociable and outgoing. FRIENDS: The Avengers team, Wanda Maximoff, Elise, Bucky. PETS: Scout, a golden retriever. LEAST FAVORITE TYPE OF PERSON: Bullies, men who take advantage of other people. PARENTAL TYPE(PROTECTIVE,ETC): Protective, Will do anything and everything for his kid. FAVORITE PEOPLE: Elise, Bucky, Clint, Thor, the rest of the Avengers LEAST FAVORITE PEOPLE: Red Skull, Bullies, ignorant people.

PERSONALITY:

..WHEN YOU FIRST MEET THEM: ? Distant, Confident, and Inspiring ..AS YOU KNOW THEM BETTER(AND THEY LIKE YOU): Affectionate, Warm, Funny. ..AS YOU KNOW THEM BETTER(AND THEY DISLIKE YOU): Intimidating, Closed Off, Guarded. FAVORITE COLOR: Blue FAVORITE FOOD: New York Style pizza, hot dogs, anything covered in cheese thanks. FAVORITE ANIMAL: Doggos FAVORITE INSTRUMENT: Saxophone FAVORITE ELEMENT: Air LEAST FAVORITE COLOR: Yellow LEAST FAVORITE FOOD: Anything from the 40s. LEAST FAVORITE ANIMAL: Emus, the bullies of the animal kingdom. LEAST FAVORITE INSTRUMENT: Honestly none of them? LEAST FAVORITE ELEMENT: Water HOBBIES: Art, slow dancing, warm baths or lounging in sunlight. USUAL MOOD: Friendly and approachable but also keeping a slight aura of leadership.

DRINK/SMOKE/DRUGS: Nope, not really. None of them have much affect on him and he was too sick to get into the 40s habit of smoking. DARK VERSION OF SELF: Most likely brainwashed into believing Hyrda is right, follows any order without hesitate or regard for civilian life, the “perfect Soldier”. LIGHT VERSION OF SELF: Intelligent, quick to make a call that will save as many people as possible, rushing headlong into trouble to help out a civilian. HOW SERIOUS ARE THEY: In Cap mode? Full on serious nothing can make him crack, but as Steve? He’s somewhere in the middle. BELIEVE IN GHOSTS: No. If so his dad would probably be hanging around and he doesn’t want that. (IN)DEPENDANT: Both honestly? Like Steve likes to pretend to be this independent person who doesn’t need help, but he also secretly craves it. So I’d say somewhere in the middle. SOFT SPOT/VULNERABILITY: BUCKY AND ELISE, failing the team or not saving something, doing something without regard to personal safety or well being. OPINION ON SWEARING: Steve won’t curse in public okay, that’s the 40s “good Catholic boy” upbringing in him but in private? He was in the army and BUCKY IS HIS BEST FRIEND :) DAREDEVIL VS CAUTIOUS: Steve “I don’t know what a parachute is” Rogers is the opposite of cautious. MUSIC TYPE: Older, softer music. MOVIE TYPE: Romantic Comedies, Comedies in general, Musicals. BOOK TYPE: History books, and then he gets mad about facts that are wrong. GAME TYPE: Cards, maybe? Those have been around for a while so they haven’t changed that much. COMFORTABLE TEMPERATURE: Steve would rather die than be cold. He enjoys warmer weather and sunshine and just not being cold. SLEEPING PATTERN: Steve’s an old man that’s in bed before 10 and up at like 8. He also takes up A TON of space in the bed and basically smothers whoever he’s sleeping with. CLEANLINESS/NEATNESS: Steve prefers things to be neat and orderly but isn’t bothered by a little mess. As long as it doesn’t get too bad or become a habit. DESIRED PET: So many dogs. HOW DO THEY PASS TIME: Doodling on scrap papers, boxing, lounging around in sunshine or warm spaces. BIGGEST SECRET: I feel like Steve really doesn’t have secrets? Maybe his dad being abusive because he doesn’t really want to talk about it. HERO/WHO THEY LOOK UP TO: Bucky and Elise. WHAT ANIMAL WOULD THEY BE: A golden retriever. FEARS: Being trapped in a cold, tight space, losing Elise or Bucky, failing the team and causing someone’s death, being lost in time again. COMFORTS: Elise’s perfume and Bucky’s aftershave, running laps with Scout, his mom’s old records, and reruns of old cartoons.

HOW DO THEY ACT WHEN THEY ARE:

SAD: Steve distants himself when he’s sad. A leader isn’t allowed to show weakness and sadness is one. He also likes talking through things that make him sad. HAPPY: Playful, energetic, probably smothering you with his biceps on accident because he gets touchy feely and wants a hug. ANGRY: Depending on how angry; it’s either the “you’ve messed up” face of disappointment or cold fury with biting, harsh words. Fists will also be thrown if he gets angry enough. AFRAID: Again, this is a weakness a leader isn’t supposed to show so Steve tries to hide it as much as possible. He withdraws and hides away until he works it out on his own or someone finds him. LOVE SOMEONE: SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEW BODYGUARD/BEST FRIEND. Steve will literally do anything for someone he loves. Anything. He’s loyal beyond believe and up for anything they ask him. HATE SOMEONE: Steve doesn’t hate that many people but those he does quickly realize that an angry Captain America is not something you want coming at you. WANT SOMETHING: Steve? Allowing himself to get what he wants? Don’t know her. He’s the definition of “waiting over 70 years to tell my best friend i love him” type of guy. CONFUSED: You know that cute look dogs get when they’re confused and trying to work things out? That’s Steve thanks.

HOW DO THEY REACT TO:

DANGER: Danger is Steve’s middle name because he cannot stop himself from running headfirst into it. SOMEONE THEY HATE WHO HAS A CRUSH ON THEM: Steve gets confused because he still sees himself as the tiny 90 pound scrawny kid and nobody really wanted that. PROPOSAL TO MARRY: Steve’s not against the idea of marriage, but it’s also not something he knows they can really do? So I don’t really know how he’d react to that. DEATH OF LOVED ONE: Each loss feels like a personal defeat for Steve so it’s twice as bad. But after losing pretty much everyone he’s ever cared about (even if Bucky came back) it doesn’t hurt as much as it used to. DIFFICULT GAME/MATH/ETC: That’s something that gets tossed aside until he has time to work it out, or send it to someone that can solve it quicker. INJURY: Steve gets injured and doesn’t realize it until after the mission is over like every time they go out. However, if one of his team gets injured, he’s taking down whoever hurt them. SOMETHING IRRESISTABLY CUTE: Steve immediately wants to go over and hold whatever it is. Babies, dogs, you name it. LOSS OF HOURS OF WORK: ........no this doesn’t happen.

KNOWLEDGE:

LANGUAGES: English, ASL, French, a little German. SCHOOLING LEVEL: High School & Some Art School FAVORITE SUBJECT (S): Art, History, & Writing INTERESTED CAREERS: An artist, maybe? EXPERTISE: Combat, Shield Mastery, Master Tactician, Enhanced capabilities PUZZLES: Puzzles take him a minute but the serum helps him figure them out rather quickly. CHEMISTRY: Chemistry is probably NOT Steve’s forte but he can follow along with basic things. MATH: Again, not his forte but he understand basic things. Plus throwing the shield takes some math skills. ENGLISH: Steve was surprisingly good at English in school, from interpreting things to reading above grade level. It was one of the few interests he had that didn’t make him sicker. GEOGRAPHY: Steve can read and understand maps. POLITICS/LAW: Politics and the Law are Steve’s thing. He frequently fights against people on the internet about their political views and will fight against laws he doesn’t agree with. ECONOMY/ACCOUNTING: The economy doesn’t really interest Steve, but he’s fully aware of the class divide and how bad some people have it. Current situations remind him a lot of pre-Depression times so he tries to help out as much as possible. COOKING: Steve cannot cook, he tries but cannot. SEWING: Sarah taught Steve at a young age how to sew because “if you’re going to keep ruining your clothes it’s time you learned to fix ‘em yourself STEVEN”. MECHANICS: Steve knows OF cars yes. BOTANY (FLOWERS): Besides the fact that flowers are a thing? Not so much. MYTHOLOGY: This is probably another subject Steve doesn’t know much about, it conflicts with his Catholic views he had growing up. DRAMATICS(ACTING,SINGING): God Steve hates even thinking about this because of the Cap tour. Ouch. READING LEVEL: Above average. Steve read for fun while sick so he’s well above where he should be. HOW GOOD ARE THEY AT PLANNING AHEAD: Steve lives off planning ahead okay. It’s his JOB as team leader to be 4 steps ahead of everyone and the bad guys. Rip Steveo.

ROMANCE:

DO THEY TAKE INITIATIVE: No, not really. He’s more content to be pulled around and go with the flow. HOW DO THEY ACT(SHY,ETC): In public? Shy, 40s boy out to play. In private? Probably the same what a loser. GENTLEMAN/LADYLIKE VS KLUTZY: Gentleman-like, please. GO SLOW VS JUMP INTO: S L O W as fuck. PROTECTIVE: Hi hello have you met Steve? ACT LIKE FRIENDS OR LOVERS: B O T H. WHAT KIND OF PRESENTS DO THEY BUY: Steve’s always bringing home flowers or gifts just because. Things for Elise to wear or a plant for the house? Also a random homeless puppy? Yeah Steve’s probably brought it all home at some point. TYPE OF KISSER: Honestly, Steve’s probably soft because he’s a soft boy but that doesn’t mean there aren’t times when he can be rough :) DO THEY WANT KIDS: He can’t have them but he wouldn’t mind having one. DO THEY WANT TO MARRY: Yes, even though he really cant. MAKE GOOD OR BAD DECISIONS: Bad decisions are unintentionally made because Steve is a reckless idiot. ARE THEY ROMANTIC: Y E S. HOW ARE THEY IN BED: Steve likes making sure both Elise and Bucky are well taken care of even at the expense of his own pleasure okay. GET JEALOUS EASY: Not really? After everything they’ve all been through none of them really have to worry about anything. WIFE/HUBBY BEATER: You mean beating up people that do this? Hell yeah. MARRY FOR MONEY: Nope. FAVORITE POSITION: Steve enjoys being plowed by Bucky while Elise is on top of him thanks. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ON THEIR DREAM DATE: Naked art time. Just using Bucky and Elise as a canvas and making a mess while doing it? Yes please. OPINION ON SEX: Sex was always something Steve wasn’t really interested in? Mostly because nobody wanted him (or so he thought) but now that he has two people that always want him? It’s a good workout and way to spend time with his two favorite people.

#char: steve rogers #steve: bio

2 notes · View notes

lizabethstucker · 4 years

Text

Hex Life edited by Christopher Golden & Rachel Autumn Deering

Eighteen tales of witches and magic all written by women. A few are set in particular authors’ existing series. The inclusiveness of black characters and authors elevates an already wonderful collection. This is an ARC that was received late, contained in the box of books due to be published in January. This actually was published in October and is available now. I highly recommend this to pretty much anyone. 4.5 out of 5.

“An Invitation to a Burning” by Kat Howard

The town of Merrinvale refuses to admit that witches are needed to keep ordinary magics working. Instead they burn them. When villager Ronald angrily takes offense to a woman, she tends to disappear. Now his sight is focused on Sage. Very short, but chock full of emotion and sisterhood. 4.5 out of 5.

“Widows’ Walk” by Angela Slatter

The four widows living together on Carter Lane are suspected to be witches by many in the town of Mercy’s Brook, but are not harassed by locals. When young Chelsea Margaret Bloom is caught stealing milk from their porch to dull her hunger, the women get involved. Absolutely perfect from start to finish, with a neat twist at the end. 5 out of 5.

“Black Magic Momma: An Otherworld Story” by Kelley Armstrong

Eve Levine is a dark witch who is half-demon. Her sole focus in life is keeping her daughter safe. To do so, she works as a retrieval agent, obtaining items wanted by others. Her latest job attracts dangerous attention. I’ve not read any books in this series yet, although the first volume is in my ebook library. I found this story moderately interesting, but not quite up to the previous two stories in this series. Perhaps it in a matter of context. 3.5 out of 5.

“The Night Nurse” by Sarah Langan

Having a third child that she never wanted, Esme is approached by Wendy Broadchurch at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Wendy is a night nurse, offering to help Esme once the new baby is born. Already overwhelmed, Esme agrees. At first she is happy, but soon doubts creep in. Really creepy and, to be honest, a little more raw than I was comfortable with. 3 out of 5.

“The Memories of Trees” by Mary SanGiovanni

The Faithful plan to hang Martha Weede and her young ward, Ellena, threatened by their refusal to worship in the New Church and to accept the God of Technology. Instead Martha and Ellena honor the Old Religion, the one older than the now fallen Christianity. While graphic, it not only harks back to the witch hunts in New England, but warns how easy it is to fall back into that mindset of fear, prejudice, and craving for power. Loved this story! 4.5 out of 5.

“Home: A Morganville Vampire Story” by Rachel Caine

A witch has appeared in Morganville, one Oliver had killed centuries ago. She’s a danger to both the vampire and human community. She wants Oliver’s blood and will destroy everyone to get it. Wow, how did I miss this series? I’ve already got it downloaded from my library to read next. A short story that makes you eager to know more about all the characters is a great story. I almost got a Eureka vibe from this, only with vamps instead of mad scientists. 4.5 out of 5.

“The Deer Wife” by Jennifer McMahon

Julie has been meeting her lover in the woods for four years, a witch who comes to her in many forms. She knows she shouldn’t, but is drawn back time after time. Julie wants to join the witch forever, be able to transform as her lover does, but the witch resists. Julie has a son, but Levi is now nineteen, with a girlfriend. And filled with resentment for the death of his father. McMahon doen’t give a lot of details, particularly in regards to the death of Julie’s husband and whether the witch was more directly responsible. Or whether it is love or enchantment that keeps her returning. An old myth tweaked into an interesting romantic tale. 3.5 out of 5.

“The Dancer” by Kristin Dearborn

Paul Baker is called to the Weavers’ farm to help with the reports by Ani, their daughter, of haunted activity. They aren’t pleased with his solution. He’s called back a second time to find the situation is more dire than he expected and takes action. I don’t know about this one. It almost reads like a rough outline or a missing scene from a longer story. Disappointed as it had great potential as a novella or a book. 3 out of 5.

“Bless Your Heart” by Hillary Monahan

It is never smart to go after a Southern mother’s baby boy, especially if she also has powers. Pammy Washington and her bully of a son deserved everything they got for the years Colton had tormented Tucker. Her late Mama warned Audrey to never cook when mad, but a woman can only stand so much. I laughed at what happened to Pammy. Not nice, I know, but I grew up in the South and I know women like her. I’d bet good money that she was head cheerleader in high school, prom queen as well. She really did get what she deserved, bless her heart. For those who might not know, “bless your heart” is the genteel Southern way of saying “you’re a piece of shit”. 4 out of 5.

“The Debt” by Ania Ahlborn

After Karolin’s mother died, her father began to change, becoming less talkative, more distant. He suddenly decides to take her to Poland, to visit his childhood home where his mother lives. After arriving with no sign of his mother, Greg takes Karolin deep into the nearby woods to hunt for mushrooms. When her back was turned, he disappears. Shivers. No happy or satisfying ending here. Just the most horrific ending you could imagine. 3.5 out of 5.

“Toil & Trouble: A Dark-Hunter Hellchaser Story” by Sherrilyn Kenyon & Madaug Kenyon

The witches of Carrion Hill are constantly visited by those seeking a glimpse of their future as well as a way to avoid the bad part. As time goes on, there are less and less witches and more stupid humans who refuse to listen to the advice given. Eeri, sold to the witches by her family, hates them, desires freedom and money. A bit of Shakespeare is threaded throughout the story. I love the Bard, but I don’t really think it adds to the story as much as the authors might believe it does. Another series that I haven’t begun reading as yet. 3 out of the 5.

“Last Stop on Route Nine” by Tananarive Due

Charlotte and her 12-year-old cousin decide to drive together from their grandmother’s funeral in Tallahassee to a luncheon in Gracetown, a place both Charlotte’s mother and Kai’s father had fled as soon as they could and never returned to. Somehow they are lost, caught in a smothering fog before coming through the other side to find a wicked old woman who curses them. Here’s a sweet bit of horror with the mention of some real-life places peppered into the story. 4 out of 5.

“Where Relics Go to Dream and Die” by Rachel Autumn Deering

After years of conjuring the witch through the flame of an almost spent candle, the old man was dying. One last conversation with the woman he loves leads to a dream or, rather, a memory that changes the past and the present. A bit scrambled, but strangely compelling nonetheless. So many questions. 3.5 out of 5.

“This Skin” by Amber Benson

Frances wanted to confess to homicide detective Harry Longfellow, waiting for just the right moment. The reaction isn’t what she expected. Frances comes across as a ten-year-old sociopath. Unusual story. I don’t know whether I like it or not. It begs for more. 3 out of 5.

“Haint Me Too” by Chesya Burke

It’s been 40 years since slavery ended, but there are plenty who would like to just ignore the Emancipation Proclamation. Shea and her family lived on the Myrtle House plantation, currently owned by the Petersons. Myrtle House is haunted by the haint of a black woman who was murdered after poisoning her owners. When local whites try to prevent black families and white sharecroppers from either leaving to go North or demanding better agreements, Shea can not only help her family, but the haint. Enthralling tale of the South and how little it had changed after the War. A little scary, but also empowering. Could be considered a coming-of-age story for Shea. 4.5 out of 5.

“The Nekrolog” by Helen Marshall

I’m not sure how to describe this story. It involves immigrants leaving Russia, death that isn’t, the State’s experiments in psychic abilities, and much more. Enchanting and intriguing, a story I wish had been longer. It really is almost as convoluted as an old Russian tale. 4.5 out of 5.

“Gold Among the Black” by Alma Katsu

Greta, an orphan, owns nothing. Her only friend is Jesper, her dog. She works hard at the castle in exchange for food during the day, refusing to sleep there at night because she can’t bring Jesper with her. Instead they curl up together in the woods. But Greta is getting old enough to have men watching. Another worker at the castle has also told her that there are rumors that she is a witch and Jesper is her familiar. What does she do now? Nice, a bit of romance with the fantasy. 3.5 out of 5.

“How to Become a Witch-Queen” by Theodora Goss

The newly widowed queen is worried about her son, the soon-to-be king, marrying off his sister to some stranger. She also needs to consider her own future now that she’s free. A wild and interesting view of what life might’ve been like for Snow White after her Happily Ever After. New choices, old friends, and a heroine who realizes it is time to take charge of her own life in order to ensure her daughter has choices. Absolutely perfect! 5 out of 5.

3 notes · View notes