mara’s endless oc list ⋆ Jordan Hicks

Jordan Hicks has lived in Woodsboro all her life. Its history, of course, practically unavoidable. It doesn’t help that one of her best friends, Mindy, is completely obsessed with horror movies, and loves to share all their gory details with Jordan. Still, that’s all they had ever been—horror movies, Something scary, but distant. Something Jordan had the choice to not care about. That is, until Jordan’s friend Tara Carpenter is attacked in her own home by a masked killer seemingly out to recreate those same movies. Suddenly, everyone is a potential victim, and everyone is a potential suspect. Even the people Jordan is closest to—even the people she loves. Because suddenly, her life is nothing but a horror movie.

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Simone and Jordan | Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)

St. Louis Cardinals-Minnesota Twins Series Preview

7.28.20-Carlos Martinez RHP (4-2) 3.17 ERA Vs. Homer Bailey RHP (13-9) 4.57 ERA

7.29.20- Miles Mikolas RHP (9-14) 4.16 ERA Vs. Rich Hill LHP (4-1) 2.45 ERA

(2019 MLB Stats)

The Cardinals At A Glance- The Cardinals had a good weekend against the Pirates to open up the 2020 season. They won the first two games then lost on Sunday 5-1 at Busch Stadium. Jack Flaherty pitched a good game on Friday and Adam Wainwright was even better on Saturday. The Pirates were able to get four runs off Dakota Hudson as the Cardinals lost their first game of the season. Paul Goldschmidt had a good Opening Series with five hits, a homer, and an RBI. Paul DeJong went 4-for-10 and drove in four runs as well. Matt Carpenter has been the DH for the Cardinals in the first three games. The Cardinals basically have the same team from 2019. Marcell Ozuna signed with the Braves, Jose Martinez was traded to the Rays, and Jordan Hicks opted out of playing this season. The Cardinals initially signed Kwang-Hyun Kim to be a starter, but he is now the closer with Jordan Hicks out of the picture. He picked up his first big league save on Friday night. The Cardinals bullpen also has Andrew Miller, John Gant, and Tyler Webb.

The Twins At A Glance- The Twins offense emerged in the Opening Series of the year in Chicago. They put up 27 runs in the three games against the White Sox and took two out of three from their division rivals. Nelson Cruz hit 7-for-13 with three homers and ten RBI’s. He was named American League Player of the Week albeit in a short week. Luis Arraez went 4-for-9, Mitch Garver and Jake Cave hit .333 this weekend, and Max Kepler hit two home runs. The Twins announced that Willians Astudillo can practice with the taxi squad at CHS Field since he had two negative COVID-19 tests in a row. Jake Odorizzi was placed on the injured list with a back issue, but he intends to start this weekend against the Indians. Rich Hill gets the nod on Wednesday after he was slated to start on Saturday afternoon. The Twins bullpen didn’t allow a run on Friday and Sunday, but were charged with nine runs on Saturday. Taylor Rogers and Sergio Romo weren’t used this weekend, which is a good and bad thing. Good because they can stay fresh and bad cause they could get rusty. 

What To Watch For- The Cardinals and Twins last squared off in 2018. The Twins took three of the four games that year in interleague play. Carlos Martinez is (0-2) with a 2.31 ERA in two career starts against the Twins. Homer Bailey is (6-16) with a 5.80 ERA in 28 career starts versus the Cardinals. Yadier Molina has three career homers off him. Paul DeJong and Matt Carpenter have taken him deep twice each. Miles Mikolas has started one game against the Twins. He went 4 2/3 innings and allowed two runs in a no decision. Rich Hill is (3-1) with a 5.03 ERA in eight career games against the Cardinals. Josh Donaldson has hit 10 homers in 22 games at Target Field in his career. This should be a fun series where two very good teams square off. 

-Chris Kreibich-

Enough, America.

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. But you already know that. America and the majority of the entire globe know this because the entire 8 minutes and 46 seconds was filmed by bystanders’ phones. And within hours the video trended all across media platforms. And was deleted. And was re-posted. And so on.

Since this date- America has seen numerous rises of protests and riots. But again, you know that. You’ve seen the coverage.

Over the last seven days, I’ve been lost in my own thoughts and simply have not been able to form words about the spread of events that have taken place. I’ve seen many supporters for Black Lives Matter on social media. I’ve also seen numerous of non-supporters’ posts. I’ve refrained from saying anything publicly on social media during this time because of a few reasons. One being the question of, “Do my words or sharing a graphic on Black Lives Matter- actually make a difference? Does it actually help this long standing issue?” Then the other part of me recognizes that my generation has grown up on social media. Social Media is a way of communication. It’s a way of expressing your support. And if you’re silent than you’re just as part of the problem.

After conducting my own research and thoughts, here is how I’m showing my support and love towards the Black Lives Matter movement.

Recognizing my White Male Privilege. I’m from a small town in East Tennessee known as the City of Clinton. Growing up in Clinton means you are familiar with the story of the Clinton 12.  The story goes back to 1956. Twelve African-American students became the first black students to ever attend Clinton High School. Making CHS the first desegregated high school in the South. My grandmother was a senior at Clinton High School during this time. Growing up, she shared with me many stories about what she witnessed happen to these 12 high school students, about the town riots that occurred from white supremacist groups, and about how eventually the school was bombed. I have known from a very early age what racism is and that it is wrong.

    I say all of this, yet I don’t know what it’s like. I don’t know what it’s like to be stopped by police for simply taking an evening walk down the street. I don’t know what it’s like to continuously apply for jobs and interviews and get turned down due to race.  I don’t know what it’s like to be paid less money simply because of my skin color. I don’t know what it’s like to be automatically stereotyped as a thug or dangerous. I don’t know what it’s like to be pulled over for something minor and worry about getting shot. And I most certainly don’t know what it’s like to leave my house for something as simple as going to the grocery store and having to wonder if that will be the last time I ever see my family again. I don’t know because I am a white male. And I recognize that.

2. I’m educating myself. It’s easier now, more than ever, to automatically form an opinion on an issue. But I’m diving a little deeper into this than just sharing a post or a tweet on social media. I’m no longer believing someone’s personal opinion is the only truth. I’ve learned over the course of the last few years that it’s more beneficial to do your own research to form your own thoughts and opinions. I am currently reading the following books: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism,  Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad. Additionally, I am listening to NPR’s Podcast, Code Switch.

In addition to my readings and listenings, I am taking the time to learn more about people of color who have been killed over the last decade by police. Between 2013 and 2019, 7,666 people of color have been killed police in the United States. In Tennessee, the total is 41. You can view more of this information and see where your state stands here. 

Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Michelle Cusseaux, Laquan McDonald, George Mann, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid, Matthew Ajibade, Frank Smart, Natasha McKenna, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Mya Hall, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, William Chapman II, Alexia Christian, Brendon Glenn, Victor Manuel Larosa, Jonathan Sanders, Freddie Blue, Joseph Mann, Salvado Ellswood, Sandra Bland, Albert Joseph Davis, Darrius Stewart, Billy Ray Davis, Samuel Dubose, Michael Sabbie, Brian Keith Day, Christian Taylor, Troy Robinson, Asshams Pharaoah Manley, Felix Kumi, Keith Harrison McLeod, Junior Prosper, Lamontez Jones, Patterson Brown, Dominic Hutchinson, Anthony Ashford, Alonzo Smith, Tyree Crawford, India Kager, La’Vante Biggs, Michael Lee Marshall, Jamar Clark, Richard Perkins, Nathaniel Harris Pickett, Benni Lee Tignor, Miguel Espinal, Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Quintonio Legrier, Keith Childress Jr., Janet Wilson, Randy Nelson, Antronie Scott, Wendell Celestine, David Joseph, Calin Roquemore, Dyzhawn Perkins, Christopher Davis, Marco Loud, Peter Gaines, Torrey Robinson, Darius Robinson, Kevin Hicks, Mary Truxillo, Demarcus Semer, Willie Tillman, Terrill Thomas, Sylville Smith, Alton Sterling, Rhilando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Paul O’Neal, Alteria Woods, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Ronell Foster, Stephon Clark, Antwon Rose II, Botham Jean, Pamela Turner, Dominique Clayton, Atatiana Jefferson, Christopher Whitfield, Christopher McCorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd

These are the names of black Americans who have been killed by police since Eric Garner’s Death in 2014. I’m taking the time to read on each and everyone of these names. To learn their story and to help say their name. Because the second we stop saying their name- we go back to acting like none of it ever happened at all.

3. I plan to make a donation to the following organizations: The Loveland Foundation; a nonprofit that provides financial help to Black women in need of mental health support. As well as the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund; an organization that advocates protecting voting rights, improving equal education, and many other civil rights causes. With this organization, you have the option of deciding which cause you would like your donation to go towards. I recognize that many people may not have the opportunity to make monetary donations. Which is also why I have also signed the Justice for George Floyd petition.You too can sign it here. 

4. I’m supporting the protests: I admire every single person who has over the last couple of days marched through their city and peacefully protested. I also recognize that the extremists are also participating and are the ones who are destroying buildings and burning down cities. And yes- the majority of the people doing these actions are white. People will argue that this not what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted. And to an extent I agree, yet at what point do we have to go to get everyone’s attention? How many more people are going to have to die until we finally recognize this is an issue? How many videos are going to be tweeted of an innocent black man or woman being killed?

5. I’m Voting on Tuesday, November 3, 2020:  As always, you will find me at the polls on Election Day 2020. If we want change in America, it starts with you and me…. and just five minutes at the voting booth. Seriously, voting does not take long at all. And if you early vote, it’s even easier. If you are not registered to vote, the deadline for Tennesseans to register is October 5, 2020. You can even do it here.

6. I’m continuing to choose love over hate: I’m not really a big deal. And although my family will continue to support me and say I’m special- I appreciate the words of affirmation, but I’m not any better than any other person on this earth. I’m not superior over anyone. I will continue to love everyone, even when there are trying times like right now. I will continue to learn and listen. And I will one day teach my future children to choose love over hate. As I get older, I continue to believe in supporting the future generation. They are the ones who will read about this history in text books. And they are the ones who will truly see no color.

I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand with you.

-Taylor 

Johnny Miller is back for major championship golf

NBC returns to major championship golf on Saturday with the third round from Carnoustie. Pour your coffee and lock in for the day.

If you’ve been grinding out the last two marathon days, I have some good news. You can sleep in a little bit. You can’t sleep in a lot bit, just a little bit more. After two 14.5 hour broadcasts for the first two rounds, the field has been cut down to 79 players and Golf Channel will not come on the air until three hours later on Saturday.

The Thursday-Friday coverage at the Open are the two longest broadcasts of the year. They go live from the very first tee shot at 1:30 a.m. in the eastern U.S. and don’t sign off until 4 p.m., usually as the final group is finishing up play deep into the evening in Scotland.

The full field will obviously still go off No. 1 tee, but the R&A is not exactly in a hurry to get them out there at the crack of dawn. The first tee time is not until 4:15 a.m., or 9:15 a.m. local. By that time, the sun may have allowed for three or four hours of golf if they really wanted to get crazy. But the tee sheet is set for a 3 p.m. finish back in the States, and an 8 p.m. finish on Sky Sports over in Europe. TV will always impact how the tee sheet works at these majors. There’s too much money being spent.

At this point, the R&A has the schedule pretty expertly set out. They know how the pace of play will work and know exactly when they want to have things close over the two different weekend rounds. Sunday actually finishes a little earlier, unless there’s some sort of 30-minute drop and ruling like last year with Jordan Spieth at Birkdale.

After Golf Channel had the reins for the entire first two days, NBC now comes off the bench for the weekend finish. They will be live each day at 7 a.m. and take it home into the afternoon from there. The lead team of Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller will have the call at the end, with Mike Tirico and Nick Faldo probably rotating in a bit too. Miller has hinted at retirement before and it’s unclear if he has a contract for next year, so this could conceivably be the final major he works in the tower.

So get up early on Saturday, make your coffee, and watch some major golf. You’ll have the afternoon to yourself and just know it’s nothing compared to the marathons of the previous two days. Here are your media options for Saturday at the British Open:

Saturday’s third round coverage (all times Eastern)

Television:

4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. — Golf Channel

7 a.m. to 3 p.m. — NBC

Online streams:

4:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Golf Channel/NBC simulcast stream

4:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. — “Spotlight” coverage

5 a.m. to 3 p.m. — 3-hole stream focusing on Nos. 8 to 10

5 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Marquee groups stream

Streaming Service:

fuboTV

Radio:

4 a.m. to 3 p.m. -- Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio (Ch. 92/208)

Jordan Hicks ⋆ a playlist

Careful. This is the moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life, for one last scare.

                                                                       Not in my movie.  

—listen to it here.

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the maraverse ⋆ female ocs

— this barbie...

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jordan hicks ━━ being the final girl.

catherynne m. valente // sophocles // paramore // james baldwin // anne carson // ocean vuong // josh alex baker // david levithan // virginia woolf // welcome to nightvale // wendy cope

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Jordan Hicks ⋆ Gilded Lily

how was i supposed to see the way?

( insp. )

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THE FINAL GIRL ⁑ chapter one

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"I'm not watching Stab again," Jordan hummed with her eyes half-closed, obscured by the strands of short blonde hair in her face. She laid, stretched across her best friend's couch like a lazy cat, secretly uninterested in watching any movie at all. "I have my limits."

The living room was quiet, familiar, comfortable. Even the strange shrine to Chad and Mindy’s deceased uncle no longer truly bothered Jordan, even if it was still terribly strange. She was laying on the brown corduroy couch—her personal favorite—feet dangling off the edge and pushing against one of the two leather reclining chairs. It's where Amber would usually sit, within reach of both Jordan and Tara so they could take turns annoying the hell out of her.

"That's fair. How about Jason Takes Manhattan?"

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THE FINAL GIRL ⁑ chapter two

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Jordan couldn’t help but feel like they were partially to blame for what had happened to Tara. Maybe Jordan should have pushed harder, insisted Tara come over for the movie, refused to let her go with her weak excuse.

More than anything, though, Jordan thought about one thing. With a startling shock that turned every inch of her body to ice and twisted her stomach into an uncomfortable knot, she realized that one thing about that night wasn’t making any sense.

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Jordan and Simone | Testify

Simone and Jordan | Roll the Dice

Simone Hicks outfits in “Decisions” 1/2

+ Jordan Screenshot

Testify | 3.09

Simone Hicks outfits in “Stakes Is High” 1/2