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2019's Top 100 Ships

Shipping is Tumblr's favorite sport, and this is the Big Game.

Ineffable Husbands Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Klance −1 Keith & Lance, Voltron: Legendary Defender

Juliantina Juliana Valdés & Valentina Carvajal, Amar a muerte

Reddie +25 Richie Tozier & Eddie Kaspbrak, It

Jikook −1 Park Jimin & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Phan −3 Daniel Howell & Phil Lester, YouTubers

Reylo −5 Rey & Kylo Ren, the Star Wars universe

Malec +1 Magnus Bane & Alec Lightwood, Shadowhunters

Bellarke −2 Bellamy Blake & Clarke Griffin, The 100

Tyrus +34 TJ & Cyrus, Andi Mack

Gendrya Gendry & Arya Stark, Game of Thrones

Catradora Catra & Adora, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Supercorp −1 Kara Danvers & Lena Luthor, Supergirl

Kiribaku −8 Kirishima Eijirou & Bakugou Katsuki, Boku No Hero Academia

Bumbleby +52 Yang Xiao Long & Blake Belladonna, RWBY

Stucky −6 Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes, the Marvel universe

Jonsa +44 Jon Snow & Sansa Stark, Game of Thrones

Bakudeku −2 Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Boku No Hero Academia

Stony +5 Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, the Marvel universe

Destiel −9 Dean Winchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Tododeku −13 Todoroki Shouto & Midoriya Izuku, Boku No Hero Academia

Drarry −1 Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter, the Harry Potter universe

Jonerys +43 Jon Snow & Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones

Jaime x Brienne Jaime Lannister & Brienne of Tarth, Game of Thrones

IronStrange −7 Tony Stark & Dr. Steven Strange, the Marvel universe

Elu Eliott Demaury & Lucas Lallemant, SKAM France

Preath Christen Press & Tobin Heath, Athletes

Sasusaku +2 Uchiha Sasuke & Haruno Sakura, Naruto

Sheith −24 Keith & Shiro, Voltron: Legendary Defender

Sprousehart −10 Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart, Actors

Harringrove +38 Steve Harrington & Billy Hargrove, Stranger Things

Symbrock −18 Venom (symbiote) & Eddie Brock, the Marvel universe

Adrienette +14 Adrien Agreste & Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Choni −21 Cheryl Blossom & Toni Topaz, Riverdale

Taekook −16 Kim Taehyung & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Marichat +5 Marinette Dupain-Cheng & Chat Noir, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Robron Robert Sugden & Aaron Dingle, Emmerdale

Kaylor +11 Karlie Kloss & Taylor Swift, celebrities

Erasermic +16 Aizawa Shouta & Yamada Hizashi, Boku no Hero Academia

Ladynoir +10 Ladybug & Chat Noir, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Bughead −18 Betty Cooper & Jughead Jones, Riverdale

Spideypool −14 Spider-Man & Deadpool, the Marvel universe

Spideychelle Peter Parker & Michelle Jones, the Marvel universe

Malex Michael Guerin & Alex Manes, Roswell, New Mexico

Wolfstar +8 Remus Lupin & Sirius Black, the Harry Potter universe

Sterek −10 Stiles Stilinski & Derek Hale, Teen Wolf

ZaDr Zim & Dib, Invader Zim

Davenzi Matteo Florenzi & David, Druck

Camren −22 Camila Cabello & Lauren Jauregui, Fifth Harmony

Soriku Sora & Riku, Kingdom Hearts

Wayhaught −36 Waverly Earp & Nicole Haught, Wynonna Earp

Pepperony Pepper Potts & Tony Stark, the Marvel universe

Nalu +19 Natsu Dragneel & Lucy Heartfilia, Fairy Tail

Yoonmin −29 Min Yoongi & Park Jimin, BTS

Lukanette Luka Couffaine & Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Lapidot −23 Lapis Lazuli & Peridot, Steven Universe

Mileven Mike Wheeler & Eleven, Stranger Things

Thorki −36 Thor & Loki, the Marvel universe

Merthur +28 Merlin & Arthur Pendragon, Merlin

Korrasami −22 Korra & Asami Sato, The Legend of Korra

Starco +3 Star Butterfly & Marco Diaz, Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Beliza Eliza Taylor & Bob Morley, Actors

McHanzo −46 Jesse McCree & Hanzo Shimada, Overwatch

Schmico Nico Kim & Levi Schmitt, Grey's Anatomy

Vmin −19 Kim Taehyung & Park Jimin, BTS

Crisana Cris Soto and Joana Bianchi, SKAM España

Johnlock −25 John Watson & Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock

Hannigram −8 Hannibal Lecter & Will Graham, Hannibal

Kacchako −32 Uraraka Ochako & Bakugou Katsuki, Boku no Hero Academia

Snowbaz +29 Simon Snow & Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch, Carry On

Kaisoo +8 Kim Jongin & Do Kyungsoo, EXO

Deanoru −4 Karolina Dean & Nico Minoru, Runaways

Larry Stylinson −15 Harry Styles & Louis Tomlinson, One Direction

Wangxian Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi

Incantava Edoardo Incanti & Eleonora Sava, SKAM Italia

Clexa −28 Clarke Griffin & Commander Lexa, The 100

Nygmobblepot −15 Edward Nygma & Oswald Cobblepot, Gotham

Snufmin Snufkin & Moomin, Moominvalley

Posie Penelope Park & Josie Saltzman, Legacies

Bubbline −54 Princess Bubblegum & Marceline, Adventure Time

Ballum Ben Mitchell & Callum Highway, EastEnders

Branjie Brooklyn Lynn Hytes & Vanessa Vanjie Matteo, RuPaul's Drag Race

Hiccstrid Hiccup Haddock & Astrid Hofferson, How to Train Your Dragon

Prinxiety +4 Princey & Anxiety, Thomas Sanders

Peraltiago Jake Peralta & Amy Santiago, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Rayllum Callum & Rayla, The Dragon Prince

Victuuri −56 Victor Nikiforov & Yuri Katsuki, Yuri!!! on Ice

Entrapdak Entrapta & Hordak, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Clintasha Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff, the Marvel universe

Tomdaya −6 Tom Holland & Zendaya, Actors

Spirk +6 Spock & James Kirk, Star Trek

Serirei Serizawa Katsuya & Reigen Arataka, Mob Psycho 100

Todomomo −23 Todoroki Shouto & Yaoyorozu Momo, Boku no Hero Academia

Voxman Lord Boxman & Professor Venomous, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes

Romanogers Steven Rogers & Natasha Romanoff, the Marvel universe

Bechloe −62 Beca Mitchell & Chloe Beale, Pitch Perfect

Zelink Zelda & Link, The Legend of Zelda

Davekat Dave Strider & Karkat Vantas, Homestuck

Terumob Hanazawa Teruki & Kageyama Shigeo, Mob Psycho 100

Dimileth Dimitri & Byleth, Fire Emblem

The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous year. The ones in bold weren’t on the list last year.

#ships #year in review #tumblr2019 #juliantina

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mrhyde-mrseek · 2 years

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I’ve posted a lot of Ineffable Bureaucracy stuff on here. So how about we show our beloved Ineffable Husbands some love?

Ineffable Husbands ship songs

“Perfect Picture” by Bea Miller

“Young and Beautiful” by Lana Del Rey

“Sinners” by Lauren Aquilina

“Fools” by Lauren Aquilina

“Shadows” by Sabrina Carpenter

“Lucky Stars” by Lucy Spraggan

“End of the World” by Lucy Spraggan

“You Love Who You Love” from Bonnie and Clyde

“Halo” by Beyoncé

“Driving Through a Dream” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

“Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash)” by Pink

“Somebody to Love” by Queen

“The Apple” by RaeLynn

“Out of the Woods” by Taylor Swift

“I Know Places” by Taylor Swift

“Sparks Fly” by Taylor Swift

“We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)” by Rihanna

“Loaded Gun” by Lucy Spraggan

“Thanks for Choosing Me” by Lucy Spraggan

“Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy” by Queen

“Marching On” by Krewella

“I Choose You” by Sara Bareilles

“What If It Doesn’t End Well” by chloe moriondo

“Smash Into You” by Hey Violet

“Sparks Fly” by Hey Violet

“End Up With You” by Carrie Underwood

“4 Leaf Clover” by Letters to Cleo

“For Good” from Wicked

“Inside Out” by Zedd & Griff

“Willow” by Jasmine Thompson

“Stand By You” by Rachel Platten

“Finding You” by Kesha

“Flowers” by Lucy Spraggan

“Between Us” by Little Mix

“Stargazing (feat. Amelie)” by Severo

“Please Don’t Say You Love Me” by Gabrielle Aplin

“invisible string” by Taylor Swift

“Runaway (U & I)” by Galantis

“Wonderful” by Janet Devlin

“Strangeness and Charm” by Florence + The Machine

“Cosmic Love” by Florence + The Machine

“La Vie En Rose” covered by Daniela Andrade

“Wings” by Birdy

“Come With Me” by Chxrlotte

“Gonna Get Over You” by Sara Bareilles

“Whataya Want from Me” specifically from & Juliet

“Finally // Beautiful Stranger” by Halsey

“A Million Miles Away” from Aladdin

“MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X

“Oozin” by Beach Bunny

“Butterflies” by Lucy Spraggan

“Bon Iver” by mxmtoon

“Missing What’s You (feat. Frigga)” by Elijah N

“Levitating” by Dua Lipa

“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol

“How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” by Florence + The Machine

“Apollo (Eurovision Version)” by Timebelle

“Still Into You” by Paramore

“Come Alive” by Beth Crowley

“Midnight” by Beth Crowley

“Intertwined” by Reinaeiry & Annapantsu

“I Know A Place” by MUNA

#ineffable husbands #aziraphale good omens #aziraphel #crowley good omens #anthony j crowley #aziracrow

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hk-magicalhumanau · 2 years

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Things are still not great in the Shade Manor.

This is a direct continuation of this post. Everything is just a reimagining and very much inspired by the game Hollow Knight. But at this point there is nothing in common with the game, I was just inspired by the characters to create an AU.

Note: I took plenty of liberties and changed a lot of things, such as the Radiance and Grimm now being twin siblings named Lucy and Gilbert. Both are born humans. While the Shade Lord is their uncle who is currently their guardian after the parents of the twins died. The Uncle is also the owner of a huge Victorian colonial style Mansion which is aptly called the "Shade Manor". So that makes the Lord who owns it the "Shade Lord".

All credits goes to Team Cherry, and the other stuff I took inspiration from.

Even after 5 years of living under the same roof. Lucy's relationship with her uncle didn't get any better.

She is still not used to the strict rules of the Manor that are in her words are "snotty and outdated".

Every evening they are not allowed to go out to the grounds and must go to bed at 9 pm sharp, the silence and lack of life during dinner time, the full and dark clothes her uncle buys for her. Her uncle's lack of humor and how he can talk without even looking at them. He does not always maintains eye contact when he talks, but is reading some old book from his personal library. She find this just rude and very unfriendly.

Their relationship further deteriorated when Lucy deliberately throw tantrums and break items, even if her uncle will punishment her for it. She knows what she is doing is not good, but she don't really care cause for her the pros outweigh the consequences. In her eyes the action is an empowerment of self-expression and her individual freedom.

Which will be ironic when in the future, she starts oppressing other people in favor of her own ideals and interests.

As an act of defiance and rebellion, the framed blue butterflies hung on the wall were thrown out the window and to the front garden. She says that framing beautiful creatures in boxes for display is just cruel and that she is freeing the creatures from their prison.

She also vandalized the large Grandfather clock with spray paint and chipped away all the ivory bug carvings on the face with a knife, she argues saying she is adding more light to the dull thing by adding more color and removing all the unpleasant and icky bugs on it. Just to spite her uncle, she also tampered with the internal clock mechanism so much that it can never work anymore.

But the last straw was when she caught trying to make a bonfire inside the main Hall where the timeless chandelier was.

As punishment, the Shady "Uncle" would lock Lucy in the basement closet for a day with no food.

Gilbert was not happy with this treatment to her sister and together, both of them planned to runaway.

For the next few days they prepared all their clothes, collected enough money to last them a month or more. They intend to return back to their late parents home, which is 2 towns away.

One day when Lucy was having another of her act of defiance, after her uncle forbid her from going out to a party past 9 pm. This time she is about to throw hot rocks at the chandelier using a slingshot.

She was seen by the house help, who would rather avoid Lucy when she is like this. The help reported it to the Lord of the Manor and he is enraged with his "niece".

Though the help is naturally terrified of his employer. He never sleeps in the manor, He rents an apartment outside the Manor grounds, and walk every morning to the front gate. The Manor owner never harmed him for the wrong reasons nor was abusive. The Help does thinks his boss is intimidating, but as long as he does his job well, his employer will not scold him. The help is also receiving a huge monthly salary, way larger than what is normally given to most housekeepers so he is not complaining.

As punishment, Lucy's Uncle slapped her face twice so hard it actually bleed and he locked her again in the basement closet with no food. Saying he will only release her the next day.

It was then that the Gilbert decided to interfere, enacting their planned runaway.

While their Uncle was at his study desk in his basement library as usual, clearly trying to calm down after Lucy's actions. Gilbert carefully entered the library and stayed there pretending to read for an hour, then he approach his uncle asking if he can get a specific book that he learned is only found in the 3rd level basement.

His Uncle is surprised at Gilberts interest. The two are more like strangers even though they lived together.

While Lucy despises her Uncle, Gilberts just quietly tolerates him. The Manor Lord is also very aware that the twins are much more comfortable when he is not in the room. This results in a huge gap between them and this saddens the Lord of the Manor greatly.

Between the two twins, the Shady "Uncle" does like Gilbert more than Lucy, since he is much more behaved and does not complain loudly over his dark cloths. Gilbert also shows greater appreciation to the artifacts and interior architecture of the Manor.

Gilbert's Uncle is oddly wary on why his "nephew" is suddenly approaching him, but is more happy that he may have a chance to bond with his "nephew".

Heading to towards the stair case that descends further to the floors below, he was only able to go 2 steps when he was suddenly hit on the back of his head hard with a chair.

The Lord of the Manor instantly lost consciousness and went tumbling down the staircase till he hit the 2nd sub basement with a thud. A small amount of blood starting to drip down his wound and pooling on the carpeted floor.

Gilbert first checked if his uncle is still awake, before quickly freeing Lucy from the closet using the key on his uncle's study desk. If Gilbert stayed longer, he would have noticed the void black swirls in the blood pool, flowing upward toward the open wound on the unconscious man's head

The twins quickly get their clothes and raid their uncles desk for his credit card and other important document they might need for their future.

For good measure and a last act of rebellion before they permanently leave, Lucy douse the floor of the 1st level basement with vodka she got from their uncle's alcohol cabinet and throw a lit match. The resulting fire destroyed the study desks, pillows and all the books their uncle bought for them.

After some hours, the unconscious Lord woke up with his head wound completely healed. He is still dazed and have a splitting headache from the sudden attack, but he pieced together what happened. His own nephew attacked him from behind.

He quickly ran back upstairs and is greeted with a charred room, the remains of the books and desks burned to a crisp and the metal wall lamps are now black and lost it's luster. The closet room where Lucy was locked is also wide open.

He can't help but be shocked and very furious at this, but most of all he felt deeply betrayed at this abandonment by his own family. Just like their father, the twins left him.

Once the help arrived the next morning, he felt the whole manor is freezing, like he is inside a refrigerator. And the whole Manor seems way darker than usual. The air is so dense he can barely breath properly.

He can also smell the remains of something burning. Walking inside, he is already dreading what Lucy have done this time, cause he will have to clean it up. She is nice to him even though she complains about her uncle. Usually she would be lounging in the Entrance Sitting room, the brightest in the Manor. He started his way there.

It is one of the few areas where her uncle would actually allow the window curtains to be drawn back, allowing natural sunlight in. The Help is always amazed at how the rooms feels so different if you can actually see all the architectural details, the antique furniture and all the priceless trinkets that hung on the wall.

Instead He is greeted with his employer sitting stiffly in the said Sitting room, this time all the curtains are closed and the whole room is blanketed in a wave of pure darkness so thick he thought he will go blind if he stared at the dark corners to long.

Sitting down, he was told that by tomorrow his services will not be needed but he will be compensated with a huge retirement pay for his years of loyalty, which will be forwarded to his bank account. He was also silently threatened to never tell anyone any information regarding the Manor, what he saw inside, it's owner or any of the twins. The Help is promised a huge sum for the silence but for good measure, the Lord kindly suggested he return to his home country if he can.

After that incredibly scary encounter, the Help was allowed to leave early. He never felt happier than when he left the manor and away from it's very uncomfortable atmosphere. It took all his nerves to calmly lock the front gate and leaving the key on the lock, he expects the Lord to come outside to retrieve it later.

Once he was a few meters from the entrance, he felt a huge silent wave coming from the Manor's direction. There is no noise or wind disrupting the air, but for a split second he felt an intense weight on his chest that froze him on the spot, sudden pain like someone is ripping his heart out from his chest.

He can only describe it as a mix of pure hate, sadness so uncontrollable and a paralyzing pain he never felt before.

Actually, he did felt a similar pain. When he was 10 in his home country, he witnessed his father leave and his mother crying on the sofa. But that memory is just a small pinch compared to how agonizing he is feeling right now.

He quickly ran as fast as he can back to his rented apartment and practically collapse on the floor after closing the door behind him. Unable to move for hours until the pain subsided.

He is still shaken by his experience when he starts packing his things, and preparing a letter to the Land lord. Instructing him to sell all of the thing in his room once he leaves.

Sure enough, the next day he checked his back account and saw almost 8 digits on his balance. He moved to the next town and got a part-time job at a convenience store.

He does have enough money that he don't really need to work full-time anymore. But He needs some time to reflect if he wants to continue working or return to his home country and start a business there. Also he needs to clear his head on what happened recently when he left the Manor gates.

After a month, he decided to follow his former employer's suggestion and return home back to his aging mother. Though he will need to come up with an excuse on why he is returning, and why he is practically a millionaire now in his home currency. Maybe he will just tell her that he won a lottery and wanted to avoid the nosy press so everything is kept secret. He never did told his mother about his creepy employer, it was part of the contract that he never disclose anything about his boss to anyone.

Though he did swore that he will never tell what he experience and anything related to the Manor he previously worked in. He will never forget what happened, especially the last moments facing his employer in that black hole of a room.

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#hollow knight au #hollow knight #au #Shade Lord AU #Shade Manor #hk #Unnamed House keeper OC #Radiance/Lucy #Grimm/Gilbert #reimagining #hk au #Shade Uncle

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vulcanette · 4 years

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NPR Listeners’ Top Songs of the 2010s:

The Top 25 Songs:

1. Bon Iver: "Holocene" from Bon Iver 2. Robyn: "Dancing On My Own" from Body Talk Pt. 1 3. Sufjan Stevens: "Fourth of July" from Carrie & Lowell 4. Lorde: "Royals" from Pure Heroine 5. Kanye West: "Runaway" from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 6. Beyoncé: "Formation" from Lemonade 7. M83: "Midnight City" from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 8. LCD Soundsystem: "Dance Yrself Clean" from This is Happening 9. Kendrick Lamar: "Alright" from To Pimp a Butterfly 10. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: "Uptown Funk" from Uptown Special 11. Childish Gambino: "This is America" (Single) 12. Adele: "Rolling in the Deep" from 21 13. Taylor Swift: "All Too Well" from Red 14. Lucy Dacus: "Night Shift" from Historian 15. Carly Rae Jepsen: "Run Away with Me" from E.MO.TION 16. Mitski: "Your Best American Girl" from Puberty 2 17. Frank Ocean: "Self Control" from Blonde 18. Hozier: "Take Me to Church" from Hozier 19. Alabama Shakes: "Hold On" from Boys & Girls 20. Janelle Monáe: "Make Me Feel" from Dirty Computer 21. Lana Del Rey: "Video Games" from Born to Die 22. Brandi Carlile: "The Joke" from By the Way, I Forgive You 23. Radiohead: "Daydreaming" from A Moon Shaped Pool 24. Courtney Barnett: "Depreston" from Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 25. Fleet Foxes: "Helplessness Blues" from Helplessness Blues

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owlaholic68 · 4 years

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Here Comes Trouble: An annotated playlist for Harriett and Lucy

Link here. Breakdown below the cut:

1. “Trouble” – Neon Jungle

They say "Here comes a hurricane, / Trouble is her middle name!"

2. “Runaway” – Felix Cartal + REGN

They see me running with my mask off / And I don't think that they can catch up / Got me thinking that they hold my key / But I can pick a lock, watch me

3. “Look What You Made Me Do” – Taylor Swift

But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time / Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time / I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined / I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!

Melodramatic, whiny, and a very unreliable narrator.

4. “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” – Tribe Society

Wrath Department.

5. “Seven Nation Army” - The White Stripes

I'm gonna fight 'em off / A seven nation army couldn't hold me back

6. “You should see me in a crown” – Billie Ellish

Count my cards watch them fall / Blood on a marble wall / I like the way they all / Scream

7. “Six Shooter” – Coyote Kisses

She said, / "You think you're so tough, / Baby put your hands up."

8. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” – Cyndi Lauper

When the working day is done / Oh, girls—they wanna have fun

9. “Ready Set Let’s Go” – Sam Tinnesz

We're death defyin'/ Coming in like lightnin' / Look out, we're strikin' / Ready set, ready set, let's go / This fire's blazin' / We're troublemakin'

10. “Horns” – Bryce Fox

She got blood cold as ice / And a heart made of stone

11. “Watch Me” – The Phantoms

Gonna show them a thing or two / I'm gonna turn it up set it loose / Feast your eyes I've got something new / From up here can't beat the view

12. “Dangerous” – Royal Deluxe

The title says it all.

13. “Not Human” – elegant slims

Ice cold killer / Bleach bone thriller / You're not human anymore / You're not human anymore / Crack in the seams / You're breaking through

…and maybe you were never human. Also “ice cold killer” is very Harriett.

14. “This is Love” – Air Traffic Controller

Yeah, I know wrong, I know right / But I just love to pick a fight / I can sleep with one eye open / If there's any sleep at night / I got my knife, got my gun / Let's see how fast you can run

15. “Wrecking Ball” – Mother Mother

I am unruly in the stands / I am a rock on top of the sand / I am a fist amidst the hands / And I break it / Just because I can

Peak Lucy.

16. “Choke (Acoustic)” – IDKHBTFM

If I could burn this town / I wouldn't hesitate / To smile while you suffocate and die / And that would be just fine

#motw #bleston #playlist #npc playlist #harriett and lucy #demon sisters

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benjaminjamestaylor · 5 years

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My Top 10 Albums of 2018

If you know me well, you know I do this every year. It’s not in the hope that people will read it; more a sort of time capsule that I can look back on in the future and fondly remember the music that soundtracked my year. Some years, there’s a clear and obvious number one (Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015, for example). Others – such as this one – are more of a close-run thing, with the top spots changing sometimes as late as the writing process.

Before I get to my top ten, I would be remiss not to mention a few albums that missed out but have nonetheless been regulars in my rotation this year. Firstly, I should tip my cap to the experimentation shown by Beach House, Ben Howard, and Low, all of whom showed a refreshing intent to break from their norm and make some greatly interesting music. I’m also acutely aware of the lack of representation for R&B and hip-hop in my top ten – I didn’t ignore these genres, it just so happened that they weren’t among my ten favourites. Kids See Ghosts and Earl Sweatshirt in particular came close, and Janelle Monáe was another that I enjoyed greatly. Here’s my honourable mentions list in full:

Beach House – 7; Ben Howard – Noonday Dream; Low – Double Negative; Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer; Brockhampton – Iridescence; Anderson .Paak – Oxnard; Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim; Jeff Tweedy – WARM; Matt Maltese – Bad Contestant; Kids See Ghosts – Kids See Ghosts; Pusha T – Daytona; Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs; Parquet Courts – Wide Awake; Kurt Vile – Bottle It In; The Beths – Future Me Hates Me; Jungle – For Ever; Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel; Mitski – Be The Cowboy; Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off Dog; Lucy Dacus – Historian.

Also, here’s a Spotify playlist of all my favourite tracks from the year.

Now on to the top ten…

10. Blood Orange – Negro Swan

I’ve got a soft spot for a true album – one that’s greater than the sum of its parts, and should be listened to as a whole. There are actually very few tracks on Negro Swan that hit home outside the context of the album. But there’s so much to like here: the way tracks flow into each other, punctuated by regular snippets of dialogue from the likes of transgender activist Janet Mock. The word that defines this album is ‘introspection’ – there are regular references to the desire to be loved and the fear of allowing oneself to be loved completely. At times the tracks feel frustratingly unfinished, and that’s all that keeps this at the back end of my top ten.

Highlights: ‘Saint’, ‘Charcoal Baby’, ‘Nappy Wonder’

9. Snail Mail – Lush

It’s been a hell of a year for young, female indie rockers (more on that later…), and Lindsey Jordan (A.K.A. Snail Mail) is perhaps the most prodigious of them all. The teenager’s debut, Lush, is a highly impressive record that showcases her signature sound: subtle, twinkly guitar melodies and foot-tapping drum beats. It tails off a little towards the back end of the album, as the novelty of her style begins to wear off. You wonder if this was a record she rushed into making, to capitalise on the considerable hype around her. If that’s the case, it’s a shame as a few more songs to the standard of ‘Pristine’ and ‘Heat Wave’ may have pushed this album up into my top five.

Highlights: ‘Pristine’, ‘Heat Wave’, ‘Stick’

8. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

This album is getting a lot of love, and I’ll admit that on first listen I didn’t get the hype. The 1975 are a somewhat controversial band – they face lavish praise and upturned noses in seemingly equal measure. There were moments of their absurdly-titled previous record that I liked, but their overly synthetic sound and Matty Healy’s unique vocal style are occasionally grating. ABIIOR has its flaws, but there’s also much to admire. They’ve incorporated a variety of styles, from stripped-back acoustic to arena pop and even jazz. The obvious themes of life and love in a digital age are well-explored and the production is, at times, gorgeous. Stick with it – it might just grow on you.

Highlights: ‘Love It If We Made It’, ‘Inside Your Mind’, ‘I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)’

7. U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited

In many ways, this record is a better executed version of the 1975’s. Meg Remy looks at similar themes of our problematic modern world, though in her case she explores them through a lens of feminine anger. Songs like ‘Rage of Plastics’ and ‘M.A.H.’ are direct, furious tirades towards American politics in the Obama era. The instrumentation and production is staggeringly brilliant throughout, with each track demonstrating a different string from Remy’s bow. On ‘Rosebud’, she channels her inner Madonna to produce one of the finest, most listenable indie pop tunes of the year.

Highlights: ‘M.A.H.’, ‘Rosebud’, ‘L-Over’

6. Maribou State – Kingdoms In Colour

My favourite electronic album of the year, Kingdoms In Colour improves on Maribou State’s encouraging debut, 2015’s Portraits. The improvements lie in their balance between the dance-pop hits, where they utilise long-time collaborator Holly Walker on vocals, and the more experimental, sample-based pieces that make up the rest of the album. It’s the latter that leave the most lasting impression, no better than on ‘Vale’, with the sample of Melanie de Baliso’s ‘I Feel You’ dovetailing beautifully with the group’s accompanying melody. If you’re looking for an album to put on as a backing track at your next party, look no further.

Highlights: ‘Beginner’s Luck’, ‘Nervous Tics’, ‘Vale’

5. Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine

A collaboration between Bon Iver and the National was never going to be bad, was it? Big Red Machine doesn’t quite hit the heights you might expect from such a high-profile meeting of minds, but there are enough moments of genius here to make it an album worth revisiting repeatedly. For the most part, Justin Vernon leaves his trademark complex song structures at the door in favour of simpler, more lineal compositions. This leads to some tracks feeling repetitive at times, although even these feature a central hook strong enough to keep you interested. And on 'Lyla', with its polyrhythms and meandering structure, there are hints of the exciting fruits this partnership could eventually produce.

Highlights: ‘Lyla’, ‘Hymnostic’, ‘I Won’t Run From It’

4. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Perhaps Arctic Monkeys’ most divisive album since Humbug, TBHAC is also their bravest and most ambitious. It’s essentially a concept album – tales of a futuristic hotel on the moon brought to life by Alex Turner’s controversial switch from guitar to piano. It’s no surprise that the album has alienated some of the band’s more fundamentalist fans, as there’s a blatant lack of Turner’s usual indie dancefloor hits as well as a side-lining of outstanding drummer Matt Helders. Instead, we’re treated to songs without clear structures and, aside from ‘Four Out Of Five’, catchy choruses. Turner occasionally strays too far towards self-indulgence (‘Batphone’ is a difficult listen), but he’s still a remarkable lyricist and he’s produced an album that cements their status as the band of their era.

Highlights: ‘Star Treatment’, ‘American Sports’, ‘Four Out Of Five’

3. boygenius – boygenius EP

I may be cheating a tad here by including an EP, but given that there’s as much to enjoy here as on many fine albums released this year, you’ll excuse me. boygenius are a supergroup of sorts, featuring female up-and-comers Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. Individually, all three are well worth a listen. But their collaborative EP propels them to new heights. Each has their own songwriting moments (two each from the six-track EP), and these intertwine through stunning vocal harmonies to form a completely cohesive collection of songs. The finest moments are Bridgers’, with her soft vocal timbre particularly captivating on ‘Me And My Dog’. We can only hope the success of this experiment results in a full-length album in 2019.

Highlights: ‘Me And My Dog’, ‘Souvenir’, ‘Ketchum, ID’

2. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour

No album surprised me more in 2018 than this one. After a slew of out-of-this-world reviews, I decided I had to give Golden Hour at least one listen – if only to be able to confirm it as what almost all country pop albums are: ‘not for me’. The thing is, this record transcends genre, and even those who like neither country nor pop will appreciate its beauty and the quality of its songs. Everything on Golden Hour is well-executed: Musgraves sings beautifully; the instrumentation feels minimal yet rounded; the production is absolutely on-point; and the melodies are to die for. There are even psychedelic elements throughout – nods to Musgraves’ use of acid during the album’s production. Give this album a chance, leave your prejudices at the door, and you’ll be treated to a simply perfect collection of pop songs.

Highlights: ‘Slow Burn’, ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘High Horse’

1. Soccer Mommy – Clean

As I mentioned, this wasn’t a runaway number one. But the more I re-listened to my shortlist, the more it became clear that Clean was the strongest candidate for top spot. Snail Mail and boygenius have already taken spots in my top ten, demonstrating what a strong year it has been for female indie vocalists. But Soccer Mommy’s (Sophie Allison’s) album just feels like the finished product that both Snail Mail and boygenius are aiming to eventually produce.

Clean doesn’t just contain great songs with deliciously spiky lyrics (the opening line of ‘Your Dog’ is a belter), it also feels so well balanced. Laid-back, melancholy tunes like ‘Still Clean’ and ‘Blossom’ are countered by catchy indie numbers like ‘Cool’ and ‘Skin’. Allison’s voice seems refined too – perfectly able to handle those two ends of the spectrum. Considering the album centres on a feeling of teenage angst, the sound feels remarkably mature. It’s a worthy album of the year.

Highlights: ‘Cool’, ‘Skin’, ‘Blossom (Wasting All My Time)’

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gladiofluff · 6 years

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Masterlist and Thank You

On behalf of all the mods for Gladio Fluff week we just want to say thank you. For an awesome week! This week couldn’t have made it without your wonderful creations and ensure they all get the love they deserve we have whipped up a master-post so they can be forever immortalised. Enjoy! If you feel you have been missed off this list (or don’t want to be associated with this list) then please feel free to let us know.

Here is a master list of all the submitted work for Gladio Fluff Week.

Day 1 (Cuddles/Being Read To OR Sleeping In):

@greygerbil - A Brief Respite - G - Gladnis | Ao3

@grabthekitties- Cuddles/Being Read to (Art) - G - Gladio, Ignis and Prompto | Tumblr

@aithilin - Short Vacation - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@widget-2 - Bedtime Stories (Art and HC) - Gladio, Ignis and Noctis | Tumblr

@terinangel - Cuddles - T - Gladnis | Ao3

@chipeppers - Sleeping In (Art) - G - Gladio | Tumblr

@kingsglaiving - Cuddles (Show Me a Hero) - M - Gladnis | Ao3

@butterfly-girl86_girl86 - Only Us - T - Promptio | Ao3

@avistella - Sleeping In - G - Gladio/Reader | Tumblr

@larkawolfgirl - A Broad Chest and Fantasy Dreams - G - Gladnoct | Ao3

@fairygodpiggyart - Free Days, Lazy Days - T - Promptio | Ao3

@xxphoenixdownxx - A Perfect Evening - G - Gladnis | Ao3

Day 2 (First Kiss OR Hugs):

@aithilin - First Kisses - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@greygerbil - A Night Out - T - Promptio | Ao3

@larkawolfgirl - Raspberry Kisses - G - Promptio | Ao3

@terinangel - First Kiss - T - Gladnis | Ao3

@widget-2 - A Brotherhood Gladnis Kiss (Art) - G - Gladnis | Tumblr

@kingsglaiving - First Kiss (Show Me A Hero) - M - Gladnis | Ao3

@grabthekitties - First Kiss (art) - G - Gladnis | Tumblr

@avistella - Hugs - T - Gladio/Reader | Tumblr

@fairygodpiggyart - Change of Plans - T - Promptio | Ao3

Day 3 (Closet Nerd OR Perfect Big Brother Gladdy):

@aithilin - Brother - G - Gladio & Noctis | Ao3

@candybl0ss0m - Awesome Big Brother - G - Gladio & Iris | Tumblr

@widget-2 - FFXV Wonderland Headtrip (Art and HC) - G - Gladio & All | Tumblr

@terinangel - Perfect Big Brother Gladdy - T - Gladio | Ao3

@kingsglaiving - Perfect Big Brother (Show Me A Hero) - M - Gladio & Iris | Ao3

@chipeppers - Closet Nerd (Art) - G - Gladio/Sania | Tumblr

@avistella - Perfect Big brother Gladdy (Art) - G - Gladio & Iris | Tumblr

@greygerbil - You and Me Against the World - G - Gladio & Iris | Ao3

@tsunderegrumbling - Friday Nighy Date - G - Gladio & Iris and Gladnis | Ao3

@fairygodpiggyart - Gladio's Guilty Pleasure - T - Promptio | Ao3

Day 4 (Surprisingly Gentle OR Hair Petting):

@aithilin - Gentle - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@candybl0ss0m - Gentle Hair Petting (Art) - G - Gladio & Noct | Tumblr

@larkawolfgirl - Steal My Heart like you Could My Life - G - Promptio | Ao3

@greygerbil - Helping Out - E (NSFW) - Promptio | Ao3

@butterfly-girl86_Girl86 - Calm - G - Gladnis | Ao3

@carolyncaves - Locks - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@kingsglaiving - Surprisingly Gentle/Hair Petting (Show Me A Hero) - M (NSFW) - Gladnis | Ao3

@xxphoenixdownxx and @tsunderegrumbling - Teasing Waters - E (NSFW) - Gladnis | Ao3

@widget-2 - And all is forgiven (Art) - G - Gladnis | Tumblr

@happinessfordeeppeoplee - Surprisingly Gentle - G - Gladnis | Tumblr

@terinangel - Hair Petting - T - Gladnis | Ao3

Day 5 (Snowed/Rained In OR Protection):

@greygerbil - The Shield - T - OT4 | Ao3

@aliatori - Surprise - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@kingsglaiving - Rained in (Show Me A Hero) - M (NSFW) - Gladnis | Ao3

@avistella - Protection (Art) - G - Gladio & All | Tumblr

@terinangel - Snowed In - T - Gladnis | Ao3

Day 6 (Teenage Rebellion OR Growing Old):

@greygerbil - Runaway - G - Gladnis | Ao3

@aithilin - Promises - G - Gladnoct |Ao3

@larkawolfgirl - Take a Load Off - T - Gladnis | Ao3

@terinangel - Teenage Rebellion - T - Gladio |Ao3

@candybl0ss0m - Teenage Rebellion - G - Gladio & Iris | Tumblr

@avistella - Rebel - T - Gladio/Reader | Tumblr

@kingsglaiving - Growing Old (Show Me A Hero) - M - Gladio & iris and Gladnis | Ao3

Day 7 (Books OR Free):

@greygerbil - Lineage - T - Gladnoct | Ao3

@butterfly-girl86_Girl86 - How To Be A Better Kisser - T - Promptio | Ao3

@araneasgf - Until Next - G - Gladio/Sania | Ao3

@terinangel - Free - T - Gladnis | Ao3

@avistella - Books (Art) - G - Gladio | Tumblr

@widget-2 - Right Back Atcha (Art) - G - Gladio & Iris | Tumblr

@liliumelendir - Ex Bibliotheca Lucis - G - Gladio | Ao3

@aithilin - Hidden Gem - G - Gladnoct | Ao3

@kingsglaiving - Free (Show Me A Hero) - M - Gladnis | Ao3

#masterlist #gladio fluff week #amazing creators #mind the tags #gladiolus amicitia #ffxv #art #fanfiction

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roarformeprettylion · 7 years

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List of Banned Books

How Many Have You Read?

Children’s Books:

Allan, Nicholas. Where Willy Went

Allard, Harry. Bumps in the Night

Allard, Harry. The Stupids series

Allington, Richard. Once Upon a Hippo

Ancona, George. Cuban Kids

Avi. The Fighting Ground

Babbitt, Natalie. The Devil’s Storybook

Bailey, Jacqui, and Jan McCafferty. Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up

Bannerman, Helen. Little Black Sambo

Birdseye, Tom. Attack of the Mutant Underwear

Blume, Judy. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

Blume, Judy. Blubber

Brannen, Sarah S. Uncle Bobby’s Wedding

Brittain, Bill. The Wish Giver

Brown, Laurie Krasny, and Marc Brown. What’s the Big Secret? Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys

Brown, Marc Tolon. Buster’s Sugartime

Butler, Dori Hillestad. My Mom’s Having a Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy

Carle, Eric. Draw Me a Star

Christensen, James, C., Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster. Voyage of the Basset

Clutton-Brock, Juliet. Horse (DK)

Cohen, Daniel. Ghostly Warnings

Cohen, Daniel. Phantom Animals

Cole, Babette. Mommy Laid An Egg

Cole, Joanna. Asking About Sex and Growing Up

Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier. Jump Ship to Freedom

Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier. My Brother Sam is Dead

Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier. With Every Drop of Blood

Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War

Coupe, Peter. The Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Cartoons

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach

Dahl, Roald. The Witches

de Haan, Linda. King & King

DeClements, Barthe. Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

Elliot, David. An Alphabet for Rotten Kids

Fierstein, Harvey. The Sissy Duckling

Fogelin, Adrian. My Brother’s Hero

Fox, Mem. Guess What?

Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer

Garden, Nancy. Holly’s Secret

Geisel, Theodor Seuss. Hop on Pop: The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use

Geisel, Theodor Seuss. If I Ran the Zoo

George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves

Gordon, Sharon. Cuba

Grove, Vicki. The Starplace

Hahn, Mary Downing. The Dead Man in Indian Creek

Hanford, Martin. Where’s Waldo?

Harper, Charise Mericle. Flashcards of My Life

Harper, Kathryn. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Harris, Robie. It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Harris, Robie. It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families

Harris, Robie. Who’s In My Family?: All About Families (Let’s Talk About You and Me)

Henkes, Kevin. Olive’s Ocean

Henson, Jim. For Every Child a Better World

Hergé [Georges Remi]. Tintin in America

Hergé [Georges Remi]. Tintin in the Congo

Herthel, Jessica, and Jazz Jennings. I Am Jazz

Hill, Douglas Arthur. Witches and Magic-Makers

Homes, A.M. Jack

Ignatow, Amy. The Popularity Papers

Jukes, Mavis. It’s a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe and in Charge

Kehret, Peg. Stolen Children

Kellogg, Steven. Pinkerton, Behave!

Kilodavis, Cheryl. My Princess Boy: A Mom’s Story About a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up

Kotzwinkle, William, and Glenn Murray. Walter the Farting Dog

L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time

Lewis, Richard, comp. There Are Two Lives: Poems by Children of Japan

Lindgren, Astrid. The Runaway Sleigh Ride

Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik series

Lowry, Lois. The Giver.

Madaras, Linda. What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons

Madaras, Linda. What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters

Martin, Michael. Kurt Cobain

Mayle, Peter. Where Did I Come From?

Mercado, Nancy E., ed. Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories

Merriam, Eve. Halloween ABC

Merriam, Eve. The Inner City Mother Goose

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us

Nelson, O.T. The Girl Who Owned a City

Newman, Leslea. Heather Has Two Mommies

Okimoto, Jean Davies, and Elaine M. Aoki. The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption

Opie, Iona. I Saw Esau

Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna

Pardi, Francesca, and Tullio F. Altan. Little Egg (Piccolo uovo)

Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones (

Parr, Todd. The Family Book

Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia

Paterson, Katherine. The Great Gilly Hopkins

Perritano, John. Amityville

Peters, Lisa Westberg. Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story

Pilkey, Dav. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel

Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants series

Pittman, Gayle E. This Day in June

Polacco, Patricia. In Our Mothers’ House

Pullman, Philip. His Dark Materials series

Quinlan, Patricia. Tiger Flowers

Reavin, Sam. The Hunters Are Coming

Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell. And Tango Makes Three

Rodgers, Mary. Freaky Friday

Rosen, Lucy. I Am Bane

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter series

Ruby, Laura. Lily’s Ghosts

Sachar, Louis. The Boy Who Lost His Face

Sachar, Louis. Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?

Schniedewind, Nancy. Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity

Schreier, Alta. Vamos a Cuba ( A Vist to Cuba)

Schwartz, Alvin. And the Green Grass Grew All Around

Schwartz, Alvin. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat

Schwartz, Alvin. Ghosts! Ghost Stories in Folklore

Schwartz, Alvin. Scary Stories series

Sendak, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen

Sherman, Josepha, and T.K.F. Weisskopf. Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts

Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic

Smith, Jeff. Bone series

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The Egypt Game

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver

Steer, Dugald. Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

Stine, R.L. Goosebumps series

Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand

Stroud, Jonathan. The Golem’s Eye

Stroud, Jonathan. Ptolemy’s Gate

Tamaki, Mariko, and Jillian Tamaki. This One Summer

Taylor, Mildred D. The Land

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Telgemeier, Raina. Drama

Texier, Ophélie. Jean Has Two Moms (Jean a deux mamans)

Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball: The Monkey King

Willhoite, Michael. Daddy’s Roommate

Winter, Jeanette. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

Winter, Jeanette. Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan

Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings

Young Adult Books:

Adler, C.S. The Shell Lady’s Daughter

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Alva0rez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies

Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Twisted

Anderson, M.T. Feed

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice

Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why

Atkins, Catherine. Alt Ed

Atkins, Catherine. When Jeff Comes Home

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale

Barnes, Derrick. The Making of Dr. Truelove

Barron, T.A. The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy

Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs. The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life

Bauer, Marion Dane. On My Honor

Bauer, Marion Dane, ed. Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence

Benioff, David. City of Thieves

Block, Francesca Lia. Baby Be-Bop

Block, Francesca Lia. Girl Goddess

Block, Francesca Lia. I Was a Teenage Fairy

Block, Francesca Lia. The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Block, Francesca Lia. Witch Baby

Blume, Judy. Deenie

Blume, Judy. Forever

Blume, Judy. Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson

Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes

Bode, Janet, and Stan Mack. Heartbreak and Roses: Real Life Stories of Troubled Love

Bower, Bert, and Jim Lobdell. History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The Tortilla Curtain

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Brashares, Ann. Forever in Blue, the Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Burgess, Melvin. Doing It

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game

Cart, Michael. My Father’s Scar

Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast. House of Night series

Chambers, Aidan. Dance on My Grave: A Life and Death in Four Parts

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts

Clerc, Charles, and Louis Leiter, comp. Seven Contemporary Short Novels

Cohen, Susan, and Daniel Cohen. When Someone You Know is Gay

Clinton, Cathryn. A Stone in My Hand

Colasanti, Susane. When It Happens

Cole, Brock. The Facts Speak for Themselves

Cole, Brock. The Goats

Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games Trilogy

Conly, Jane. Crazy Lady

Cooney, Caroline. The Face on the Milk Carton

Cooney, Caroline. The Terrorist

Cormier, Robert. After the First Death

Cormier, Robert. Beyond the Chocolate War

Cormier, Robert. Fade

Cormier, Robert. Heroes

Cormier, Robert. I Am the Cheese

Cormier, Robert. Tenderness

Cormier, Robert. We All Fall Down

Coville, Bruce. Am I Blue?

Cox, Elizabeth. Night Talk

Crawford, Brent. Carter Finally Gets It

Cruse, Howard. Stuck Rubber Baby

Crutcher, Chris. Athletic Shorts

Crutcher, Chris. Chinese Handcuffs

Crutcher, Chris. Deadline

Crutcher, Chris. In the Time I Get

Crutcher, Chris. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk

Daldry, Jeremy. The Teenage Guy’s Survival Guide

Dandicat, Edwidge. Krik! Krak!

Danforth, Emily M. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Davis, Deborah. My Brother Has AIDS

Davis, Jenny. Sex Education

Dawe, Ted. Into the River

Dawson, James. This Book is Gay

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen

Deuker, Carl. On the Devil’s Court

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother

Dorfman, Ariel. Death and the Maiden

Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Draper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein. Romiette and Julio

Drill, Esther. Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL

Duncan, Lois. Daughters of Eve

Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin

Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation

Elish, Dan. Born Too Short: The Confessions of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case

Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor, and Anthony Esler. World History

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man

Erlbach, Arlene. The Middle School Survival Guide

Ferris, Jean. Eight Seconds

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

Forman, Gayle. Just One Day

Franco, Betsy. You Hear Me? Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys

Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, E.R. America: A Novel

Frank, E.R. Life is Funny

Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. My Heartbeat

Friend, Natasha. Lush

Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere

Gaines, Ernest. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Garden, Nancy. Annie on My Mind

Garden, Nancy. Good Moon Rising

Gardner, John. Grendel

Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass

Glenn, Mel. Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?

Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

Gould, Steven. Jumper

Gray, Heather M., and Samantha Phillips. Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self

Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines

Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars

Green, John. Looking for Alaska

Green, John. Paper Towns

Greene, Bette. The Drowning of Stephan Jones

Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Solidier

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

Halpern, Julie. Get Well Soon

Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club

Hautzig, Deborah. Hey Dollface

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22

Hernandez, Gilbert. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

Heron, Ann. Two Teenagers in Twenty

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders

Hinton, S.E. Taming the Star Runner

Hinton, S.E. Tex

Hinton, S.E. That Was Then, This is Now

Holliday, Laurel. Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries

Holmes, Melisa, and Trish Hutchison. Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out: Stuff You Need to Know about Your Body, Sex, and Dating

Hopkins, Ellen. Crank

Hopkins, Ellen. Identical

Horowitz, Anthony. Snakehead

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner

Howe, James. Totally Joe

Huegel, Kelly. GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hurwin, Davida. Time for Dancing

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World

Hwa, Kim Dong. The Color of Earth series

Jahn-Clough, Lisa. Me, Penelope

Johnson, Maureen. The Bermudez Triangle

Jukes, Mavis. The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual

Kehret, Peg. Abduction!

Kenan, Randall. James Baldwin

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon

King, Stephen. Carrie

King, Stephen. Christine

Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate

Klein, Norma. Beginners’ Love

Klein, Norma. Family Secrets

Klein, Norma. Just Friends

Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poet’s Society

Knowles, Jo (Johanna Beth). Lessons from a Dead Girl

Koertge, Ron. Arizona Kid

Koertge, Ron. The Brimstone Journals

Koerge, Ron. Where the Kissing Never Stopped

Korman, Gordon. Jake Reinvented

Kuklin, Susan. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

LaCour, Nina. Hold Still

Larson, Rodger. What I Know Now

Lebert, Benjamin. Crazy: A Novel

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

Lester, Julius. When Dad Killed Mom

Levenkron, Steven. The Best Little Girl in the World

Levithan, David. Two Boys Kissing

Lipsyte, Robert. One Fat Summer

Locker, Sari. Sari Says: The Real Dirt on Everything from Sex to School

Lockhart, E. The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild

Lopez, Tiffany Ana. Growing Up Chicana/o

Loux, Matthew. SideScrollers

Lyga, Barry. I Hunt Killers

Lynch, Chris. Extreme Elvin

Lynch, Chris. The Iceman

Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things

Mackler, Carolyn. Love and Other Four Letter Words

Mackler, Carolyn. Tangled

Mackler, Carolyn. Vegan Virgin Valentine

Martin, W.K. Marlene Dietrich

Martinac, Paula. k.d. lang

Mazer, Harry. The Last Mission

McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy

McCormick, Patricia. Cut

McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding

McKissack, Fredrick, Jr. Shooting Star

McNally, John, ed. When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today’s Top Writers

Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy series

Meyer, Michael, ed. Bedford Introduction to Literature

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight series

Morrison, Toni. Beloved

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon

Mungo, Raymond. Liberace

Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels

Myers, Walter Dean. Hoops

Myracle, Lauren. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r series

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Alice series

Nix, Garth. Shade’s Children

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Whispers from the Dead

Nunokawa, Jeff. Oscar Wilde

O’Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried

Oates, Joyce Carol. Sexy

Ockler, Sarah. Twenty Boy Summer

Oh, Minya. Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels

Orwell, George. 1984

Parish, James Robert. Whoopi Goldberg: Her Journey from Poverty to Mega-Stardom

Park, Barbara. Mick Harte Was Here

Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree

Paulsen, Gary. Harris and Me

Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs Would Die

Pelzer, Dave. A Child Called It

Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes

Pike, Christopher. Bury Me Deep

Pike, Christopher. Chain Letter 2

Pike, Christopher. Die Softly

Pike, Christopher. Last Act

Pike, Christopher. The Listeners

Pike, Christopher. The Lost Mind

Pike, Christopher. The Midnight Club

Pike, Christopher. Remember Me 3

Pike, Christopher. The Star Group

Pike, Christopher. Witch

Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of Christopher Creed

Pomeroy, Wardell. Boys and Sex

Pomeroy, Wardell. Girls and Sex

Rapp, Adam. The Buffalo Tree

Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room

Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging

Rennison, Louise. Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas

Rennison, Louise. On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Reynolds, Marilyn. Detour for Emmy

Riley, Andy. The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don’t Want to Live Anymore

Rivera, Tomas. And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

Rowell, Rainbow. Eleanor & Park

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys

Santiago, Esmeralda. When I Was Puerto Rican

Sapphire [Ramona Lofton]. Push

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Schouweiler, Thomas. The Devil: Opposing Viewpoints

Scott, Elizabeth. Living Dead Girl

Selzer, Adam. How to Get Suspended and Influence People

Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

Shusterman, Neal. Unwind

Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India

Sittenfeld, Curtis. Prep: A Novel

Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Smith, Lee. Fair and Tender Ladies

Smith, Patrick. A Land Remembered

Snyder, Jane McIntosh. Sappho

Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Moher Dies

Sones, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Sonnie, Amy, ed. Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Spies, Karen Bornemann. Everything You Need to Know About Incest

St. Stephen’s Community House. The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

Stine, R.L. Double Date

Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History: Eighteenth to Twenty-First Century Art, Third Edition

Stone, Tanya Lee. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

Srasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun

Summers, Courtney. Some Girls Are

Tarbox, Katherine. A Girl’s Life Online

Taylor, Mildred D. Mississippi Bridge

Touchette, Charleen. It Stops With Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl

Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip Girl series

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple

Walker, Kate. Peter

Watkins, Yoko. So Far From the Bamboo Grove

Wersba, Barbara. Whistle Me Home

Williams-Garcia, Rita. Like Sisters on the Homefront

Wittlinger, Ellen. Sandpiper

Wolfe, Daniel. T.E. Lawrence

Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir

Wood, Maryrose. Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love

Wright, Richard. Native Son

WritersCorps. Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems

Zindel, Paul. The Pigman

Zwerman, Gilda. Martina Navratilova

Classics:

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Ulysses, by James Joyce

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

1984, by George Orwell

Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Native Son, by Richard Wright

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

Source: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks

#banned books #banned books week #ala #american library association #children's books #young adult books #classics #my post or my face

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Cyber Space is Always Sweeter : Chapter 9

Summary: Lucy is a down to Earth, studious, responsible runaway attending Magnolia College. Natsu is a rambunctious, intelligent, pyrophilic fraternity boy going to the same school.

They don’t exactly run in the same circles and they have one hell of a history. What happens when the names and facades disappear and all that’s left are words blinking on a screen? Modern day, College/Pen Pals AU. I’m sorry I suck at intros. Rated M for Language, Adult Situations, and future sexual situations. Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

WARNING: Depictions of hazing ahead.

“A-are you sure about this, Milady?”

Minerva sneered at Lucy’s hesitation. The blonde bimbo was really starting to get on her nerves, regardless of whether Lucy was a Generational or not. The agitation in the black-haired woman’s voice rang clear in the bedroom of the sorority house while she fixed the freshman’s makeup.

“Absolutely positive,” Milady replied coldly, finishing the last swipe of crimson lipstick. At least Lucy looked cheap. The elder woman stood back to “admire her work” and grinned devilishly. “Remember, Dragneel said he thought you were super hot. Gotta accentuate your natural gifts.”

Lucy turned red under such scrutiny. When she'd gone to Minerva and she had agreed to help the young girl, she'd imagined it going differently. The doe-eyed freshman had seen Natsu Dragneel at a party during her Rush week and ever since, he was all she could think about. His handsome emerald eyes, his attention-grabbing head of salmon hair. She'd gone to Milady after prodding from Levy, saying that the one sister a Pledge could trust was her Pledge Coach. Gods how wrong her best friend had been.

Minerva excused herself to peek into the room next door to Minerva’s, the door marked “Lisanna”. Lucy could hear her sickeningly sweet voice placating Natsu, saying that she was almost ready. The blonde couldn't help but smile when she heard how restless he was while waiting for her. She was finally going to get to meet the guy she'd been practically drooling over for weeks, and he was just as impatient to see her. The butterflies in her stomach could barely be contained.

Milady came back into sight and motioned for Lucy to stand. She tenderly tucked a strand of golden hair behind the freshman’s ear before speaking again. “Ready to meet Prince Charming, LuLu?” she teased, squeezing Lucy’s shoulders. Without further warning, the older woman dragged the younger suddenly to the other room, pushed her inside, and slammed the door shut.

“H-hi there,” she stammered awkwardly, her gaze shifting about the room as she desperately tried to cover up the places on her body that were exposed by the lingerie she was wearing. “It's so great to finally meet you, Natsu.” She watched as his eyes took in the sight of her, hoping to see some sort of excitement bubbling in them but was only met by confusion.

“I'm sorry, but who are you?”

Lucy shook herself awake, realizing the laptop was still in her bed only mere seconds before it was destined to hit the ground. It seemed to have died overnight so she plugged it into the cord snaked across her desk while rolling herself out of bed. She had stayed awake for hours talking to Dragon, going as far as to tell him (vaguely) about her past. It felt nice to talk to someone about it that wasn’t Levy, as much as she loved her bookish friend.

Not to mention, flirting with her cyber acquaintance was fun in its own right. It had felt so different from the normal attention she got from the opposite sex. She chalked it up to the fact that Dragon had absolutely no idea what she looked like. He couldn’t drool over her curves, couldn’t stare at her like she was a piece of meat up for auction. She took solace in the fact that every compliment he gave was based on her personality and not just her looks. Her mind soon began to wander as she thought about her cyber-friend. What did he look like? Were his eyes kind or piercing? Was he a blond like her or maybe brunet? She pictured a chiseled frame standing before her, muscles defined and cut in all the right places. The freshman shook her head as if trying to shake the image loose, immediately attempting to rein herself in.

Looking at the clock, Lucy realized she had a couple hours before her Chemistry lecture. She sighed but quickly realized that after class, she’d be done with Chemistry for the week. That also meant that she wouldn’t have to see Natsu again until Monday, which was somewhat of a relief. Part of her still felt something and that complicated things heavily. How was she supposed to focus in a difficult class if she had to worry about running into him three days a week? She had thought originally that she could handle it, but maybe she was in over her head a bit. If their little moment in the lab meant anything, it certainly meant that. The freshman groaned aloud as her frustration grew.

Lucy decided that in order to eat up her time she’d throw on her black striped yoga pants with a bright blue sports bra and run to the gym to use the studio. She laced up her sneakers, set her iPod to her favorite blood-pumping playlist, and quickly made off for the university gymnasium on the other side of campus. Cutting through the ancient brick and ivy buildings, feeling her heart race in her chest, the freshman let the worries of the past two days melt away along with the anxiety of the semester to come. It didn’t take her long to make it to the gym, showing her ID to the red-headed attendant at the front desk.

“Is anyone is the kickboxing studio?” Lucy chirped, tightening her ponytail. Her chest was still heaving slightly from the run.

The attendant, wearing a tag with the name “Loke” etched into it, grinned lazily at the beautiful woman across the counter. “Not yet, gorgeous,” he oozed, causing Lucy to roll her eyes. “There’s a class in an hour though.” Even though his eyes were shielded by sunglasses she could still make out his gaze making its way across her form. “I can arrange for someone to take my place if you need someone to hold the bags for you.”

Lucy cringed. Did he really think that was going to work? “No thank you, but thanks for the info,” she replied as respectfully as she could. She was still a lady after all.

Making her way up the stairs, the blonde bombshell entered the kickboxing studio and breathed in heavily. She quickly found the tape and bound her hands in record time. As she started her combos into the hanging bag, she was reminded of her time back at the manor. Capricorn, her father’s Head of Security, had stressed the importance of self-defense and discipline, insisting she take up a form of martial arts at a young age. She’d tried a majority of them and eventually settled for kickboxing, feeling that it suited Capricorn’s desire for protection and strength training. The young woman’s heart ached as she thought of the people she’d left behind, the people who had helped raise her mother and then her after her mother’s passing. People like Capricorn were the only thing she missed about home.

Lucy continued on for the full hour until the next class started arriving. Making quick work cleaning up after herself, she ran back to her dorm, showered, and dressed for class. She felt better after her morning workout, promising herself to do it more often, and lecture with Natsu didn’t seem half bad. Walking down to the sidewalk before her building, Lucy smiled when she found Levy waiting for her, coffee cups and all.

The freshman recounted the events of her night to her best friend, making sure to tell the bluenette about her conversation with Dragon. She was immediately greeted by a bombardment of questions about him, if they’d shared any more personal information like names, etc. Lucy had to giggle at the fact that she barely got a word in edgewise by the time they’d reached the door to the lecture hall. Students had already begun filing in and Levy noticed that the same seats the two had occupied during the last session were still open, so they made their way to what was now ‘their’ seats.

Lucy looked up and immediately noticed a certain graduate student’s sights on her from the desk at the front corner of the hall. His gaze was warm yet guarded but locked on her, making the blonde blush profusely. A couple months prior and she would have given practically anything for Natsu to look at her like that. It made her stomach flutter. She didn’t break their staring match until she heard the professor start and allowed herself to be absorbed by the class material.

Unfortunately, her focused concentration wasn’t enough. Lucy could barely understand the material presented. Glancing over at Levy’s notebook it seemed like the freshman was alone in her inability to comprehend the lesson. She’d lost all track of time and before long, the lecture was over, the students once again filing out to get on with their days. Levy abruptly rose from the table and excused herself, citing an impending “appointment” with Gajeel and left Lucy standing alone in the lecture hall. Looking over the whiteboard made her shudder. There in bright red ink read the following:

Need help? Tutoring Sessions with the TA! Fridays @ 5pm, Precht Library 620

BYOB(ook)

Maybe four days a week wouldn’t be so bad…?

#nalu fanfic #ftfanfics #fairy tail fanfiction #nalu fic #cyber space is always sweeter #;csias

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Hello! Congratulations on your follower milestone! :D I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on the Eighth Doctor's Big Finish run, specifically which companions/stories are your favourites? I've finished Lucie Miller's series and am currently making my way through the Charley/C'rizz stories, but I know I still have lots to look forward to! :)

My main thought about the Eighth Doctor’s Big Finish run is basically incoherent squee-ing because Paul McGann is so good oh my gosh can you believe we almost only ever had one story where he played the Doctor????? Also, if you don’t listen to the Extras you really should, because he’s a giant dork who really likes the lunches.

Which companions and stories are my favourites? Well, this should really come as no surprise to anybody at this point, but Doom Coalition is flipping amazing, and Liv and Helen, who are the companions for that sprawling 16-episode feast of awesomeness are the absolute best. I mean I love Eight and Charley, and C’rizz is a terrifying cinnamon roll, but the dynamic between Eight and Liv and Helen (and sometimes River) is on a whole other level. Let me explain.

So Eight’s characterization in both the books and audios is notoriously inconsistent, right? I choose to see this as actually a feature of his Doctor and not a bug in the writing (this is also the opinion endorsed in Caerdroia, which you may or may not have listened to yet). He is both a very cuddly butterfly-chasing Tigger and a sarcastic, snark-tastic Grump, and he is both one of the most human Doctors and one of the most alien (like he relates to sentient jellyfish just as much as, and possibly more than, he relates to his fellow bipeds from planet Earth). He oscillates between these extremes. With Charley and C’rizz, he mostly gets away with it, because they are both very much portrayed as ingénues, even after Charley has been traveling with the Doctor for quite a long time, and even though C’rizz has some quite extraordinary life experience before he even meets Team TARDIS. Charley and the Doctor are one of my favorite QPP (queerplatonic pairings) in Doctor Who, but good grief, it’s not even close to being a relationship of equals, and often veers right over into twee territory.

Lucie is more willing to call the Doctor out on his crap, and there is absolutely nothing twee about their dynamic. But Lucie is still very much a novice; she’s kind of a proto-Donna. And just like I initially didn’t like how combative the Doctor’s relationship with Donna was (in Runaway Bride), in the first series of the Lucie Miller audios, I really didn’t like how snarky Lucie and the Doctor were with each other. It made for some good banter, but it’s not my cuppa. The dynamic got better in the second, third, and fourth seasons with this team, and by the end I was really sad to see her go (like Donna level sads, and Donna is tied with Clara for my favorite new series companion). Lucie comes into her own with a bang in the end, but again, it’s never anywhere close to a relationship between equals.

Molly O’Sullivan gives as good as she gets in her interactions with the Doctor, but she’s largely wasted on a story arc that doesn’t know what to do with her beyond using her as a sort of sharp-tongued plot football. Tamsin Drew gets the same treatment, unfortunately. Mary Shelley was a great idea but I feel like those stories never quite worked as well as they ought to have done.

Liv Chenka, on the other hand, has seen some things. She’s a normal human, with a normal human lifespan, but by the time she meets the Doctor for the first time she’s also a seasoned MedTech. By the time she finally joins Team TARDIS on a full-time basis, she’s already had several opportunities to get the Doctor’s measure. He can’t really fool her about who he is the way he can with most companions. Helen Sinclair is more naive in the beginning, and very much in awe of both Liv and the Doctor, but she’s also had to hold her own in a very male-dominated field of academia in the 1960s, which puts her closer to an equal footing than most of her predecessors. Best of all from my POV, neither she nor Liv have any romantic interest in the Doctor at all (I tend to read the Doctor as being more toward the ace-side of the grey-asexual spectrum). These three people love each other and have learned to rely on each other completely, but as friends and as equals–or as equal as any non-Time Lord (or Time Lord equivalent) can be with the Doctor. Their skill sets and personalities complement each other, despite each character’s deep flaws and vulnerabilities. I honestly don’t think there’s ever been a TARDIS team this well-balanced before. Add River Song to the mix and you’ve got my favourite “four doctors” ever.

Within Doom Coalition, my favorite episodes are:

The Eleven, because it introduces a really interesting villain and kicks off the whole extravaganza of awesomeness

The Red Lady, because it introduces Helen and is super creepy and weird

Absent Friends, because it’s beautiful and sad

Ship in a Bottle, because it is a perfect example of its genre

Other favorite Eighth Doctor Audios:

Invaders from Mars (Eight/Charley), because it’s delightfully silly

The Chimes of Midnight (Eight/Charley), because a) it is beautifully atmospheric and creepy and b) it was the first time I really got a sense of what the brilliant folks at Big Finish could do with audio

Neverland/Zagreus/Scherzo (Eight/Charley), because this arc is peak Eight/Charley awesomeness. Also see above re: what Big Finish can do with audio–the scale of these stories would be utterly impossible for Doctor Who to do on television, even if it had a premium cable budget

The Natural History of Fear (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because I feel like the writers were all sitting around one night and one of them turned to Alan Barnes and Gary Russel and said, “Zagreus was the most mind-bendingly bizarre story ever written for Big Finish,” and then Jim Mortimore was like “hold my beer!”

Caerdroia (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because one Eighth Doctor is definitely not enough

Other Lives (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because it’s a straight-up historical and a beautiful character piece, and those are both rare

Memory Lane (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because LEGO, ice cream lollies, and the Eighth Doctor’s laughter

The Cannibalists (Eight/Lucie), because it’s hilarious and sweet

An Earthly Child (Eight, Susan, and Alex), because I am a sucker for the Doctor’s family

Relative Dimensions (Eight/Lucie, Susan, and Alex), see above

Lucie Miller/To the Death (Eight/Lucie, Susan, and Alex), see above I HATE YOU NICK BRIGGS YOU MONSTER

You’ll notice none of my faves come from Dark Eyes. That’s because, although it had a few moments of brilliance, the arc was kind of a mess, and also chock-full of misery and Daleks, which are not my favorite things. On the other hand, Dark Eyes was how I first encountered the Macqueen!Master, who is almost the only really fun thing in this batch of stories (and is also, unfortunately, and true to character, also the source of much of the other characters’ misery). But if you want to experience the Macqueen!Master and don’t particularly mind skipping over sixteen episodes of Eighth Doctor stories, I’d tell you to listen to And You Will Obey Me/Vampire of the Mind/The Two Masters instead, because they are better stories and you get to enjoy the Beevers!Master, too!

#ask beccaland anything about Doctor Who #Eighth Doctor #Big Finish Audio #I really love Doom Coalition OK #and not just because I really love the Doctor and Liv and Helen and River

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LION

Movie Summary

In the land of Khandwa, India, there was a five-year old boy standing on top of a hill playing with butterflies and his name was Saroo. Saroo and Guddu, his elder brother, went out to steal coal from trains and sell it in to the village. They used the money to buy milk for their family.

At the moment, their mom asks where they get it but they didn’t answer. The next day, Kamla, the mother of Saroo, have to leave their to collect rock which her job.

On the other hand, Guddu was about to leave too, but Saroo want to go along with his brothers. Guddu says that Saroo have to stay with Shekila, their youngest sister. At first Guddu didn’t agree that Saroo can go along with him, but in the end he agreed. They arrived at a nearby train station and Saroo takes a nap. When they’ve reached the other train station, Guddu tries to wake him up but his too tired. That’s why Guddu leave Saroo at the train station. Saroo waited Guddu for hours and he never return. Saroo searches for his brother in to the train and fell asleep in to one of the compartments. As he woke up, he found out that the train is moving.

After several days, the train finally arrived Calcutta. Saroo was definitely missing. He didn’t even understand Bengali, Calcutta’s language. He tried to reach out for a ticket but no one understands him also because no one knows where ‘Ginestalay’ is and he was a child. In several days, he spends the nights roaming around the city until he met Noor, a friendly woman. Noor take him a bath and feed him. She tells Saroo that there’s a man named Rama will help him to get back home. Saroo felt like there’s something wrong with the two people so he runaway. He spent his two months, living under Howrah Bridge.

One day, a young man saw him and taken to the police. The police cannot trace his family that’s why they put him into orphanage.

Until, there was an Australian couple wants to adopt him. The couple is so kind and taught Saroo many things. Saroo are comfortable with the couple. A year later, the couple adopted a child again named Mamosh. Saroo grown up, he starts moving to Melbourne for his study and met Lucy, an American student. Saroo confess to his friends that he was adopted and he didn’t know where he’ll find his family. His friends suggested that he can use Google Search. Lucy and Saroo became a couple. Saroo begins his search because he thinks about what must his family gone through when he was missing. Saroo visits Sue, his foster parent who has an illness. Sue was infertile, so her and his husband, John to help others especially kids through adoption. Saroo has been spending a long time for his search until one day, he notice the rock formations, where his mother collect rocks, and found out that its “Ganesh Talai” not “Ginestalay”. He’s so happy and tells it to his foster mother. Sue Brierly fully supports Saroo for this.

With the help of a local English Speaker in his hometown, he was able to saw and have an emotional and overwhelming reunion with his family. It saddened him when he finds out that Guddu died. Kalma tells Saroo that he never lose hope in finding him and never move away from there. Saroo and his family reunited. Smiles and tears of joy are the only you’ll see in the ending.

Lost and Found

The movie was heartbreaking at first because at a very young age Saroo was separated to his family. The plot was stunning and it will make you think of how things happened. The characters played their role majestically. The movie shows that everyone can be a family. The movie is inspirational and worth the brain cells used.

A. The movie taught us that no races, no culture and no nationality can define what family is. Family starts with love and care. The movie shows where ever you are you can find a family. At a very young age, Saroo gone through a lot of experiences in life and encountered different types of people. Finally, an Australian family adopted him and he felt like home. Just like in a normal life, family is the one who helps you through thick and thin. They are the one who raised and clothed you on being what you are right now. But, never forget where you came from even though you are too high now.

b. “Do you have any idea what its like? How everyday my mother screams my name?” –Saroo. As I’ve heard this line, I was literally crying in front of my laptop. It touches my heart. This is the time when Saroo was searching for the place where his family can be found. The line was too emotional and too deep. No mother will ever give up not until she found her children. For a mother like Kamla, it was too heartbreaking for her to lose a child of her own, knowing the fact that she was illiterate. It took how many years until she met her beloved Saroo. On the other hand, Saroo realized that his mother might be suffering in finding him. It was very emotional for me because I know what it feels like being separated to his parents.

c. From the movie, Sue Brierly is my favorite character. It is because she was kind enough to adapt and help orphans like Saroo just to give them a nice and happy family. Even though she was infertile, she chose to help and adapt kids. Sue and her husband raised and clothed Saroo and the other child giving them their needs, love and care. She was genuinely loves to help children. In the time that Saroo was searching for her biological mother, Sue truly supports Saroo because it is the right thing. She was so selfless. Mother’s love was the selfless love that we can experience.

d. Being separated from parents is never easy. At a very young age, I was separated from my mother and father. The only difference between me and Saroo was I stayed at my Aunt’s house and Saroo became a street child. Mom have to leave the country for us to be able to continue my study and have a better future so with papa. It felt like you are in a nest that has baby birds in it and you’re the only beetle on it. It hurts so bad to be separated from them. You missed them, the love, care and comfort. the feeling of taking care by your own parents can never explain by a 20 pages book. The feeling is different from the others.

e. I would like to ask Saroo “How many days or months did he spent to find his own family?"

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big brother (20)

carlson young fc -- aubree williams, 22. “the social butterfly.” one of five children, the second to last, and youngest girl. the “mom friend”, always knows what you need even if you don’t. she can get anyone to smile, mostly because she doesn’t stop talking until she’d satisfied she’ll leave someone in a better mood than she found them. applied for bb because it was one of the shows she and her family always watched together.

francia raisa fc -- audrina gonzales, 24. “the fighter.” audrina was always a tomboy growing up, and was known to pick fights with people, especially bullies. audrina lived with her aunt and never knew her parents. she has two half siblings on her father’s side who she’s met in passing but since her father didn’t want her she doesn’t have a relationship with them. she played lacrosse in high school and college. known as the fighter bc she never backs down from a fight.

selena gomez fc -- carina torres, 19. “the runaway.” carina dealt with abuse from her parents growing up, and when she was sixteen she ran off on her own to get away from it all. ever since then she’s been running. she never thought she’d be on bb because it seemed so different than something she’d like to do, but now she’s nervous about her family seeing her again.

lucy hale fc -- cassidy peabody, 23. “the journalist.” cassidy grew up all over, the daughter of a military officer father. she never knew her mother, who died when she was four years old. her father doesn’t like to talk about it. cassidy went through military school, but when it came time to follow in her father’s footsteps she chose different for college, and wound up studying journalist. she’s always got a pen and pad with her--just in case.

bridgit mendler fc -- charlotte paul, 22. “the broadway star.” lottie grew up in new york city, her mother was a broadway star and the blonde always dreamed of following in her footsteps. she spent all her free time as a kid running back behind set and watching rehearsals. as soon as she had the opportunity, lottie was on that stage living her life as she wanted to. and she’s been doing it ever since then.

nina dobrev fc -- evangeline “eve” reed, 25. “the beauty guru”. evangeline, or “enviouseve” as she’s known on the internet, started her youtube channel when the site first aired. originally she would talk about makeup and such, but her channel grew into vlogs and rants and such. she has over 4 million subscribers to date. she’s the mother of three children; olivia (8), julian (8), and ava (3).

zoey deutch fc -- isadora jones, 21. “the spitfire.” isadora was always the person to have a witty comeback. she’s an only child, unless you count the four dogs she grew up with too. she always started fights with people and could never be convinced that she was wrong. she speaks her mind and doesn’t care who tries to stop her.

jamie chung fc -- kelly-anne cho, 25. “the diva.” growing up in beverly hills she kelly was always the center of attention. she was always obsessed with being the best, but she’s a compulsive liar. she likes to talk about the things she’s done, but she keeps a wall up and doesn’t say anything real.

zendaya fc -- noah barnes, 21. “the mystery solver.” middle child. her older brother is 33 and her younger sister is 7. grew up in a house where her mother was a part time jazz singer, part time waitress and her father was a lawyer. noah was always a popular girl; head of the school’s dance team. she also used to solve mysteries a la nancy drew.

natalia dyer fc -- rosalie jenkins, 19. “the preacher’s daughter”. everyone assumes she’s from the “perfect home” due to who her father is, but it’s far from true. her mother ran off when she was a baby and her father’s an alcoholic. she spent the last year and a half undergoing treatment for leukemia at a children’s hospital in TN. applied for bb the minute she was cleared. doesn’t want to tell anyone about her cancer. ------------------

joe keery fc -- aiden nichols, 24. “the prom king.” aiden was the most popular guy in his high school. he was the star baseball player and a track and field guy too. he was prom king two years in a row (his junior and senior year). but when he got to college he was no longer the popular guy he once was. aiden struggled in college, keeping up with his grades and eventually dropped out. he works at his uncle’s store in his hometown, and hopes that coming on the show will help him regain confidence in himself.

avan jogia fc -- amir mitchell, 25. “the ticking time bomb.” amir was born to an immigrant mother and a city boy father. he’s the only boy with three sisters younger than him. he’s an observer and always knows what’s going on but is hardly ever involved. no one knows when he might explode.

ross lynch fc -- bowie jordan, 18. “the mama’s boy.” bowie is the youngest son to his single mother. his older brother is off in the navy and bowie is attempting to take care of his mother, who’s sick. he joined the show in hopes of winning the money to help his mother. he’s a sweet boy who’s stronger than he looks, but promised his mother he wouldn’t lie to get ahead in the game.

thomas doherty fc -- cayden dean, 19. “the black sheep.” cayden was always the black sheep in his family. all his brothers were popular and sporty, while cayden always found his way toward music. he never thought he fit in in his family. and eventually stopped trying to prove that he was one of the guys, because his family would only make fun of him. he didn’t even tell them he was going to be applying for bb, only announcing it when he was leaving for the show

harry styles fc -- derek kline, 20. “the model.” derek was always a pretty boy in school, when he told his father he wanted to be a model he was thrown out. his father thought that being a model meant that his son was gay, and there was no way mr. kline had a gay son. at 17 derek was on his own, living with one of his friends and getting a part time job to get on his own two feet, with the occasional help from his mother sneaking him money. derek launched his career after being discovered in a mall with a cologne ad. he’s one of the most notable print male models to date.

tom holland fc -- jackson wells, 21. “the smartie pants.” jackson graduated high school at fourteen and went on to college at 15, graduating when he was 19. for the past year and a half he’s been working in a lab with his university, but he’s decided he wants to have some fun. which is why he auditioned for the show on a whim.

justin bieber fc -- maxwell “max” evans, 22. “the wannabe cassanova.” max always thought he would make it big in his teens. he was a heartbreaker in school, never having a steady girlfriend. he used to drive for hours to get to LA to go on auditions for shows and movies, but he never once made it. he’s hoping by being on the show he’ll get some recognition and launch his career.

tyler blackburn fc -- oliver quinn, 25. “the musician.” oliver is a selfless musician. he focuses on everyone elses needs but his own, and often finds himself giving his last dollar to buy coffee for the homeless person on the corner. he’d rather help someone else than help himself. it doesn’t help that he’s a musician in the big city, keeping up his job at a local bar by playing four different instruments--piano, guitar, drums, and trumpet.

john boyega fc -- stephen peters, 24. “the nervous nelly.” stephen has always been afraid of stepping out of his comfort zone. he was made fun of for being a nerd when he was younger, and kept to himself to avoid the popular kids. he’s always loved the show, but never thought of himself on the show--in fact, his audition tape was pieced together by his mother and younger brother who thought it would be a good idea for him. he’s awfully nervous and often stutters when he speaks.

nico torotrella fc -- tyson “ty” vaughn, 27. “the identical twin.” ty is the oldest of two children, identical twins. he’s always been known to be the more outgoing twin, until his brother tyler “ty” was on bb last season, nearly winning. this year tyson has come on the show with one catch--everyone thinks he’s his twin brother tyler.

#( meet the muses: big brother !! )#( meet the muses !! )

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BENNY RUBIN

February 2, 1899

Benny Rubin was born on February 2, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked in vaudeville and radio including “The Jack Benny Program” (1933-55).

His feature film debut came in 1928′s Naughty Baby.

His first time acting with Lucille Ball came in 1955′s “The Tour” (ILL S4;E30) filmed on April 15, 1955 and first aired on May 30, 1955. Rubin played the driver of the tour bus that takes Lucy and Ethel to the home of Richard Widmark - then leaves them there!

Rubin was featured on two episodes of Desilu’s “December Bride” with celebrity guest-stars: “The Rudy Vallee Show” (1956) and “The Mickey Rooney Show” (1958). Both Vallee and Rooney were seen as themselves on future Lucycoms.

In 1963, he teamed with another “I Love Lucy” veteran, Ellen Corby, as a couple on a park bench in “Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly” (TLS S1;E29) filmed March 21, 1963.

The episode first aired on CBS on April 22, 1963.

In February 1964, he made one more “Lucy Show” appearance when “Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant” (TLS S2;E20). Rubin (center) played Mr. Jones, the linen supplier for the restaurant, although he is only identified by name in the closing credits.

Although this was the last appearance on a Lucycom, Rubin appeared with Ball on three Jack Benny specials:

“Carnival Nights” ~ March 20, 1968

“Birthday Special” ~ February 17, 1969

“20th Anniversary Special” ~ November 16, 1970 (above)

Rubin did several shows filmed on the Desilu lot, including “Angel” (1962), “The Danny Thomas Show” (1955 & 1962), and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961).

For Desi Arnaz, Rubin appeared in the ill-fated pilot for “The Carol Channing Show” (1966) and two episodes of “The Mothers-in-Law” in 1968 (above) and 1969.

On March 26, 1927, Rubin married actress Mary O'Brien. They had a daughter and were divorced in 1934

Rubin’s autobiography Come Backstage with Me was published by Vanity Press in 1980.

Rubin died of a heart attack on July 15, 1986 at age 87.

#Benny Rubin #Lucille Ball #I Love Lucy #The Lucy Show #Desi Arnaz #The Tour #Ellen Corby #December Bride #Naughty Baby #TV

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MARY WICKES

June 13, 1910 - October 22, 1995

Mary Wickes (nee Mary Isabella Wickenhauser) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents who were theatre buffs. A smart student, Mary skipped two grades and graduated from High School at age 16. In college, she majored in English and Political Science, though shifted her career goals to acting at the suggestion of a professor.

Wickes’ first Broadway play was Spring Dance in 1934, acting alongside Phil Ober, who married Vivian Vance in 1941. Her second Broadway role was in Stage Door (1936) although she was not asked to repeat her role in the 1937 film. One of the RKO contract players cast in the film version was Lucille Ball.

In The Man Who Came to Dinner, her seventh Broadway show in 1939, she played Nurse Preen, a role she repeated in the 1942 film, her Hollywood debut. She did the role twice more on television in 1949 and 1972. During her busy film and television career, she often played prim, professional women, secretaries, nurses, nuns, and housekeepers, who made sarcastic quips. She left Broadway in 1948, and did not return for another 30 years.

Wickes did not do nearly as much radio work as many actors in Hollywood did, probably because she was busy on Broadway, but she did act opposite Lucy and Desi’s friend and house guest Orson Welles doing radio plays for the “Mercury Theatre” program. She was also sometimes heard in the 1950 series “Crime Does Not Pay.”

On December 19, 1949, in a one-hour live “Studio One in Hollywood” presentation on CBS (a weekly anthology series), Mary Wickes became the first actor to play Mary Poppins, almost 15 years before Julie Andrews immortalized the magical nanny on screen.

Lucille Ball and Mary Wickes were more than just co-stars. Wickes was a close personal friend to Lucille Ball, who often went on vacation with the family. According to Ball’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, Wickes was her mother’s most constant friend throughout her life.

Wickes was actually a regular on television a couple of years before Lucille Ball, as part of the cast of “Inside U.S.A.” (1949-1950). Lucille Ball guest-starred on the series in November 1949. The show was done in New York and Lucy was delayed in getting to the studio for rehearsals, so Mary Wickes was asked to stand in for her. When she finally arrived, Lucy observed Wickes and was impressed with her work. They were friends from then on.

A year later, Ball joined her film co-star Bob Hope on his television show, “The Star Spangled Revue”, which also featured Mary Wickes.

In February 1952, Ball hired Wickes to play one of her most memorable characters, Lucy Ricardo’s ballet mistress, Madam LaMond, on “I Love Lucy.” This would be Wickes’ only performance on the series.

Although she did not return to “I Love Lucy”, Wickes still maintained a relationship with Desilu, appearing on 21 episodes of “The Danny Thomas Show” from 1956 to 1958. She played Danny’s no-nonsense Press Agent, Liz O’Neill.

At the end of the first season of “The Lucy Show,” however, Wickes returned to Lucy’s TV family. In her first appearance, her character actually used her birth name, Mrs. Wickenhauser in “Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly” (TLS S1;E29) in 1963.

A few months later, Wickes is back. This time as Frances, one of Lucy’s friends, at the start of season two, which was shot (but not aired) in color. Fran takes the role of Charmian, opposite Lucy’s Cleopatra, at the Danfield Community Theatre.

Fran was also a member of the Danfield Women’s Auxiliary Fire Department, alongside Lucy and Viv. So when they form a softball team, Fran and Audrey (Mary Jane Croft) also get involved.

Fran’s final appearance finds her and the other volunteer fire fighters taking life-saving courses in order to impress Mr. Mooney and the bank trustees to save their brigade. When that fails, Lucy sets a small fire in the bank, intending to be the hero and put it out - but naturally the plan fails.

When the series re-set the action in Los Angeles, Fran was left behind, and Wickes instead appeared as a series of different characters, starting with Lucy’s Aunt Gussie, in “Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty” (TLS S4;E9) in 1965. The dozing beauty of the title is not Wickes, but guest star Clint Walker.

In 1966, Lucille Ball’s favorite game show, “Password”, hosted not one, but two ‘Lucille Ball & Friends’ weeks! Mary Wickes played during the November week. When Mary Wickes learns they are playing for money, she says “We have to give it to Lucy and Gary.” Lucy says “That’s not true!” Lucy and Mary win the second game in 28 seconds.

In 1967, Wickes returns to “The Lucy Show” to play Mrs. Winslow, a mother in urgent need of a babysitter. Lucy answers the call, not knowing her little ones are actually chimpanzees! Oh, and there’s a baby elephant, too!

A few months later, when Robert Goulet guest stars, Wickes plays his frazzled assistant, Miss Hurlow. With Goulet having three personalities, it’s no wonder she’s frazzled.

On her final “Lucy Show” appearance (her 8th), Wickes plays another eccentric aunt of Lucy Carmichael’s, Aunt Agatha, a mystery guest who comes to visit and makes turns Lucy’s life upside down by making her take part in her strenuous health and fitness routine.

Once Lucille Ball re-boots “The Lucy Show” as “Here’s Lucy” there is an attempt to make Wickes into a recurring character. She plays Isabel, a secretary in the same building as The Unique Employment Agency.

The attempt only lasts two episodes, however: “Lucy Goes on Strike” (HL S1;E16)...

...and “Lucy Gets Her Man” (HL S1;E21). Wickes only has 40 seconds of screen time at the very start of the episode. Mary Jane Croft joined the show shortly afterwards as Mary Jane Lewis, serving much the same function.

A few months later, however, she was back. This time returning to her nurse’s uniform she filled out so expertly in The Man Who Came To Dinner (inset photo), to play Nurse Hurlow in “Lucy and Harry’s Tonsils” (HL S2;E5). Perhaps coincidentally, Wickes uses the same surname she used as Robert Goulet’s secretary on “The Lucy Show.” Perhaps it was the same woman who got fed up with the craziness of show business and went into nursing? Or, more likely, the writers just ran out of names!

For the first time, Wickes’ character doesn’t have a name, but she gets most of the laughs, as the personal care attendant of a germ-phobic little old lady with a gigantic diamond that needs cutting. Wickes spends most of her screen time spraying everyone she meets with an aerosol disinfectant! Wally Cox plays the nervous jeweler.

Wickes then gets into a habit she finds hard to break, when she plays Lucy’s sister-in-law, Sister Paula, in “Lucy’s All-Nun Band” (HL S4;E8) in 1971. Although Wickes only played two nuns on the big screen, in The Trouble with Angels (1966) and Sister Act (1992), both films had sequels where she reprised her roles.

“Women like me. They think I'm wholesome or something.” ~ Mary Wickes

At the start of season 5, with Lucille Ball / Lucy Carter’s leg in a cast, she naturally returned to her whites to play Nurse Sylvia Ogilvy in both “Lucy's Big Break” (HL S5;E1) and the next episode, “Lucy and Eva Gabor are Hospital Roomies” (HL S5;E2). The two episodes are both linked by Lucy’s recovery in the hospital.

In “Lucy Plays Cops and Robbers” (HL S6;E14), Wickes plays Violet Barker, Lucy’s neighbor. Her husband is played by sitcom veteran Al Lewis of “Car 54″ and “The Munsters”. They are part of Lucy’s neighborhood watch group. The surname Barker will also be used for Lucy’s character on her final sitcom, “Life With Lucy.”

In her final appearance on the series, Wickes goes to the old west when Lucy is elected honorary sheriff of a one-horse town called Cartridge Belt. Wickes plays Clara Simpson, the town philanthropist.

In the last episode aired of “Here’s Lucy” there is a character named Mary Winters, a character written to be played by Mary Wickes, or at the very least, with Mary Wickes in mind. The role was filled by a very Mary Wickes-like actress, also named Mary, Mary Treen.

Lucille Ball and Mary Wickes collaborated one last time on television in “Lucy Calls The President” a 1977 TV special that reunited Lucy with many of her favorite supporting cast members. Wickes once again plays Lucy’s aunt, Miss Millie Baker. The special has the Whittaker family rolling out the red carpet because they believe that President Jimmy Carter and family are going to visit!

Life after Lucy included appearing as a recurring character on “The Father Dowling Mysteries” from 1989 to 1991, as well as her film roles in Sister Act and Little Women.

In 2013, Steve Taravella wrote a biography of Wickes titled Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before.

Mary Wickes died of complications following hip surgery on October 22, 1995, aged 85. She made a $2 million bequest in memory of her parents, establishing the Isabella and Frank Wickenhauser Memorial Library Fund for Television, Film and Theater Arts at the Washington University in St. Louis.

“I love playing good comedy with a heart, comedy which touches the audience.” ~ Mary Wickes

#Mary Wickes #Lucille Ball #I Love Lucy #The Lucy Show #Here's Lucy #TV #The Man Who Came To Dinner #Stage Door #Broadway #film #character actress

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“The Lucy Show” ~ Season 1

A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers!

“Lucy Waits Up For Chris” (S1;E1) ~ October 1, 1962

“Lucy Digs Up a Date” (S1;E2) ~ October 8, 1962

“Lucy Is a Referee” (S1;E3) ~ October 15, 1962

“Lucy Misplaces $2,000” (S1;E4) ~ October 22, 1962

"Lucy Buys a Sheep” (S1;E5) ~ October 29, 1962

“Lucy Becomes an Astronaut” (S1;E6) ~ November 5, 1962

“Lucy Is a Kangaroo for a Day” (S1;E7) ~ November 12, 1962

“Lucy the Music Lover” (S1;E8) ~ November 19, 1962

“Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna” (S1;E9) ~ November 26, 1962

“Vivian Sues Lucy” (S1;E10) ~ December 3, 1962

“Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room” (S1;E11) ~ December 10, 1962

“Lucy and Her Electric Mattress” (S1;E12) ~ December 17, 1962

“Together for Christmas” (S1;E13) ~ December 24, 1962

“Chris’s New Year’s Eve Party” (S1;E14) ~ December 31, 1962

“Lucy’s Sister Pays a Visit” (S1;E15) ~ January 7, 1963

“Lucy and Viv Are Volunteer Firemen” (S1;E16) ~ January 14, 1963

“Lucy Becomes a Reporter” (S1;E17) ~ January 21, 1963

“Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower” (S1;E18) ~ January 28, 1963

“Lucy’s Barbershop Quartet” (S1;E19) ~ February 4, 1963

“Lucy and Viv Become Tycoons” (S1;E20) ~ February 11, 1963

“No More Double Dates” (S1;E21) ~ February 18, 1963

“Lucy and Viv Learn Judo” (S1;E22) ~ February 25, 1963

“Lucy Is a Soda Jerk” (S1;E23) ~ March 4, 1963

“Lucy Drives a Dump Truck” (S1;E24) ~ March 11, 1963

“Lucy Visits the White House” (S1;E25) ~ March 25, 1963

“Lucy and Viv Take Up Chemistry” (S1;E26) ~ April 1, 1963

“Lucy Is a Chaperone” (S1;E27) ~ April 8, 1963

“Lucy and the Little League” (S1;E28) ~ April 15, 1963

“Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly” (S1;E29) ~ April 22, 1963

“Lucy Buys a Boat” (S1;E30) ~ April 29, 1963

SEASON SUMMARY

Regular Cast: Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael)

Recurring Cast: Tom Lowell (Alan Harper), Dick Martin (Harry Connors), Donald Briggs (Eddie Collins), Mary Jane Croft (Audrey Simmons), Charles Lane (Mr. Barnsdahl), Carole Cook (Thelma Green), Dorothy Konrad (Dorothy Boyer), Hans Conried (Dr. Gitterman), Lucie Arnaz (Cynthia), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Billy)

Guest Cast: Nancy Kulp, John McGiver, Majel Barrett, Janet Waldo, Peter Marshall, Frank Nelson, Alan Reed, Lou Krugman, Jerry Hausner, Don Grady, William Schallert, Herb Vigran, Mary Wickes, Ellen Corby, Sid Gould, Reta Shaw

Live Animal Cast: Dog (Tiger), Elephant (Jumbo), Horse (Annabel), Sheep (Clementine)

There were 30 new episodes

All episodes written by Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Martin, Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller

All episodes directed by Jack Donohue

Episodes 1 through 15 produced by Desi Arnaz

Filmed and Broadcast in Black and White

Filmed at Stage 21, Desilu Studios, Hollywood

Total Binge Hours: 15 hours (with commercials)

Papermoon’s Full Moon Pick: “Together For Christmas” (E15)

Papermoon’s Half Moon Pick: “Lucy and Viv Learn Judo” (E22)

Season 1 was #4 in the ratings (tied with “Bonanza”) with a 29.8 share

The season started later (October 1) and finished later (April 29) than any other season of “The Lucy Show”

Lucille Ball was nominated for a 1963 Emmy Award as Best Actress in a Series, but lost to Shirley Booth (“Hazel”)

Episode 11 was originally meant to be "Lucy and Viv Fight Over Harry", but was shut down during filming due to production problems. This was the only episode of the series to be shut down.

"Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower" (E18) and "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" (E19) somehow fell out of copyright protection and were subsequently issued on poor quality discount video and DVD.

Season 1 was released on DVD on July 21, 2009

#The Lucy Show #Lucille Ball #Vivian Vance #CBS #TV #Lucy #Lucy Carmichael #Season 1 #1962 #1963 #Charles Lane #Candy Moore #Lucie Arnaz #Desi Arnaz Jr.#Desi Arnaz #Jimmy Garrett #Ralph Hart

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