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Celebrity Skin (Thomas Hewitt x Reader)
Summary: Your rollercoaster of a film career comes to its untimely end when you end up on Thomas Hewitt’s cutting room floor. He hopes you’ll be as much of a fan of his work as he is yours.
Note: Female reader, implied to be older than Thomas, but no other descriptors are used. This is mostly from Tommy’s perspective and extremely dark and bleak, so look at the warnings before deciding whether or not you want to read this. Do not interact if you’re under 18 or post thinspo/ED content.
Word count: 2k
Warnings: DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. Explicit and implied non-con, mentions of animal death and cannibalism, kidnapping, Hoyt is pretty much his own warning. Implied major character death. Hurt no comfort. No happy ending. Do not interact if you’re under 18.
Hollywood was never going to see you again. No one would, as a matter of fact. That much had been set in stone as soon as you sped through Fuller, Texas. Ghost town. Full of nobodies and hicks. A pass-through on the road trip you’d treated yourself to after landing a movie with Paul Newman. He’d never see you again, either.
Almost as soon as you passed the county line, going 60 in a clearly marked 45, sirens blared behind you, and you cursed as you pulled over. You should’ve never pulled over.
“Got a good one for ya here Tommy,” Hoyt said, slapping the meat of your thigh as he presented you to the hulking man. “Says she’s some kinda actress.” He leaned in close to your face, a mean grin on his own. “Sure good at actin’ like she don’t want it.”
Your lips were split, dried blood and semen on your mouth and face. Could barely manage a snarl at his uncle, but you tried.
“Bet you’re gonna taste real sweet, pumpkin,” Hoyt taunted, smacking his lips before pushing you to Thomas.
You didn’t cry or scream as Thomas dragged you down to the basement. Hoyt beat that out of you already. Mean and vicious on the side of the road, or maybe in the back of his squad car. Didn’t matter. You were all but resigned to your fate until Thomas laid you down on his butcher’s block, securing you to it with the usual metal cuffs, deftly hammered in place. You only began struggling when you caught a glimpse of the knives and blades displayed prominently throughout his workshop. Too late.
Thomas paused, staring at your face, screwed up in pathetic agony as you begged him for mercy you wouldn't receive. Recognized it from somewhere. You had looked different, though. Face made-up, eyes glistening, hair perfectly styled. Like a dream.
He leaned in closer, and you blinked, teary-eyes transporting him back to his youth. Unforgiving summer breaks where he’d wake up early to help out on the farm before the heat of the day settled in. Sometimes his mama would scrounge up some change for him to go to Fuller’s lone movie theater in the afternoon. ‘Get a break from this heat, honey.’ She knew full well that wasn’t what drew him there. The darkness, the anonymity, for once everyone else was faceless and hidden like him. He wasn’t the main attraction, not even the sideshow.
It’d been years since he stepped foot in that theater. Slowly stopped going after Hoyt got him the job at the slaughterhouse. Just like that, though, he remembered you. A film noir wherein you were cast as the leading lady to a man who may as well have been old enough to be your father, but you looked like you loved him. Especially when you cried for him, tears sparkling as they silently, regally rolled down your pretty face one by one.
Over time, femme fatales fell out of fashion, and so had you not long after he’d stopped going to the movies. He’d catch glimpses of you, though. Staring at him from the cover of magazines like a star-crossed lover whenever you had a new movie coming out, less frequent as time went on. He was barely sixteen when he swiped a copy of Modern Screen, your enticing, full-color portrait on the cover, chock-full of interviews, gossip, and most importantly, photos. A ball gown and come-hither stare. Lounging half-naked poolside. In a skimpy black dress with a fox fur piece draped around your neck, cigarette holder between your pretty lips as you leaned over a bar, your cleavage nearly spilling out from your dress.
That one had made him feel funny. Made his pants tighter around the crotch as his imagination ran wild. Thought about presenting you with a cat pelt he’d skinned and sewn up himself. Instead of running and screaming in fear like the girls at school, you’d accept it graciously, wearing it like the fine fox fur. A gentle hand on his chest, simpering eyes as you asked softly how you could ever repay him because he was your leading man. A kiss on his cheek, and then more. So much more.
Back then, he never considered how pretty you’d look when you cried for him. Grabbing a nearby pair of rusty scissors, he cut through your clothes, damp from sweat and spit and god knew what else, stuck to your skin. He peeled them off of you, unwrapping his once in a lifetime gift and wasting no time in touching your bare stomach that seized beneath his touch. His hands drifted upward, taking each of your soft breasts in his big hands, rough and calloused from years of hard labor. He brushed his thumbs against your nipples, raised from exposure to the cool air in his basement hovel. Pinching one between his fingers, he tugged on it, eliciting a whimper from you as the skin painfully stretched to its limit until he finally let go.
Frustrated by your barrage of pleas and protests, he grabbed a nearby rag and shoved it in your mouth. You gagged, senses overwhelmed by the taste of rancid blood and unidentifiable bodily fluids. He pressed his fingers against your abused cunt, marveling in the wetness as you whined like a stupid little deer that’d gotten its leg blown off during the hunt, strained bleating to be put out of its misery with a bullet to the head or a snap of its neck.
He growled, pressing his masked lips to yours, the friction from the leather re-opening the cuts that had split along your lips. You choked on your makeshift gag, tears streaming down your dirty face. He was almost dizzy. Or maybe he was in love–sweaty palms, racing hearts, an animalistic urge to possess, to mark, to maim.
Hoyt was the one who eventually caught him with the magazine. Being a bit too loud, he supposed. Instead of the tongue lashing he’d been expecting, he received a proud pat on the back instead, ‘Nothin’ to be ashamed of Tommy. You’re a man. ‘s natural after all,' Hoyt said. 'Try to keep it quiet ‘round mama, though. She still thinks you’re innocent.’
Innocent. Despite how much his mama tried, he hadn’t been innocent in a long time. You hadn’t been either. Your romantic trysts were in headlines or discussed on radio gossip programs. Those had been frequent, and his brow furrowed as he wondered who the hell you were to deny him. Hollywood floozy. Too good for him, just like every other woman.
He unzipped his pants, pulling his length from his pants and feeling himself growing harder at your muffled screams of protest. His size. He knew he was big, far too big for you to handle, but you’d make it work. As if you had any other choice.
Stroking his length with one hand, he scratched at your belly with his blunt nails on the other hand, shuddering at the fleeting thought of you bigger, pregnant with his child. With a ragged breath, Thomas positioned his cock in front of your aching cunt, reveling in your whines as he pushed in just the tip, feeling you strain around him, warm and soft. ‘I love you, Tommy,’ you had purred in his fantasies. ‘I want you to make me yours. Give me everything.’
He grunted as he buried his length deeper in you, a high-pitched squeal in return. His face felt hot beneath his mask, his cock twitching as your pussy clenched around him. You wanted it. You wouldn’t be so wet and pliant if you didn’t. Grabbing your hips, he slammed his hips against yours, burying his face in your neck, feeling how your throat strained to express your pain despite the gag. How easily he could grab a nearby knife and cut through the tender flesh, knowing just where to slice so he could watch your blood pour out of you, probably sparkling and pretty like your tears. It was perfect, you were perfect. Better than he’d ever imagined.
Pressing his body weight against you, he pinned you further, your twisting torso trapped in place beneath him as he relentlessly pounded into you, his huge cock pushing your cunt to its limits, and even further than that when he hit your cervix. Your tears poured down your cheeks, blood trickling between your legs. He was so close, he could almost reach out and touch it.
He wanted to keep you around. Wasn’t sure how he could make an appeal to mama or Hoyt, though. Probably useless around the house, let alone the farm, just a pretty face for his own amusement. ‘Another mouth to feed,’ he could practically hear Hoyt snarl. He still felt bad about Uncle Monty, now he was a burden on mama and Hoyt too. Making an exception for you would be far too much to ask. Besides, he never had luck keeping pets growing up. Was always too rough with them, too morbidly curious. Maybe it’d be different with you.
Glancing at the chainsaw beside him, he slammed into you again, his dark gaze fixed on the blood-rusted power tool.
No. It wouldn’t be. Because being this deep inside you made him only want to go deeper, see the extent of his love. Watch your heart beating in your chest for him. Stand over you as you bled out, rib cage cracked open in the ultimate display of vulnerability. You’d provide for his family, and he’d savor every moment, every bite that touched his lips, feeling you inside him. It was the only way. You’d be a part of him forever. Till death do you part.
He came with a loud groan, a primal howl muffled by his mask. Your abused pussy milked his cock until his seed spilled inside you, and his length became soft again. Laying his head on your heaving chest, he listened to your heartbeat. Rapid like a little mouse.
Nuzzling his face against your breasts, he settled against your warm skin, basking in it while he still could. You’d be even warmer once he opened you up. All too familiar with that sensation. He closed his eyes, though, imagining you lovingly running your fingers through his hair, a sweet, fucked out smile on your face. But there was no place for a man like him in Hollywood, and no place for a woman like you in Fuller. Star-crossed. What a shame.
You had stopped making noises through your gag, either too exhausted or simply resigned to your fate, only whimpering when he finally pulled out of you, your pussy feeling almost painfully empty. Eyes glazed over, they fluttered shut for a moment, but opened as soon as his hand caressed your cheek, pulling the rag from your mouth.
He watched silently as you sucked in a much needed breath, bringing on a coughing fit with how dry your throat was. You dissolved in a fit of sobs that echoed in this vast underbelly of terror, exacerbated by his attempt to kiss your forehead, pressing the leather against the deep lines in your distressed face. You struggled weakly, fruitlessly against the metal cuffs that secured you to the table.
Unlike in your movies, there was no one to save you this time, no gruff private eye or surly police chief to come in guns blazing at the last minute. Hoyt had already made you well aware he was no admirable man of the law. You were lucky to have ended up with Thomas. He thought the screams that came from the women Hoyt kept around–albeit temporarily–were more difficult to listen to than that of someone he was disembodying.
Sadistic. Thomas never considered himself such, but he understood the appeal of ravaging, tearing apart in a display of power that never failed to send adrenaline running through his veins. He would savor your demise, his magnum opus, unable to imagine someone else coming along and piquing his interest as much as you had.
He revved the chainsaw, taking in your raw screams as he raised it over his head. Lamented not having a camera around to capture how perfect you looked awaiting your end at his hands. It’s what you were made for. His movie star on the cutting room floor.
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DuckTales Character Songs! (Part 2)
Alright, now we’re cooking here! This time around, I’m going to be focusing on important recurring characters that debuted in Season 1.
Again, giving some brainstorming credit on this to @glowyjellyfish, plus, also, a little bit to @shychick-52, since one of these is in her pinned list.
Flintheart Glomgold
Rasputin by Boney M.
Ah, Rasputin. The Russian mystic who wouldn’t die. And like Rasputin, Glomgold is a very fiery, polarizing character who will say and do anything to get to the top, even if he has to resort to power beyond his normal means (not unlike The 87 Cent Solution!)
Bradford Buzzard
Takin’ Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
He didn’t really have a bigger role until Season 3, but he still counts for here! Anyway, Bradford is very serious, by-the-book, and business-oriented, so this song works perfectly for him.
Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys
Bad Boys by Inner Circle from Cops
Pretty self-explanatory here. Moving on.
Gyro Gearloose
The Scientist by Coldplay
Yes, the title is obvious. But the lyrics can be seen as speaking more to his guilt over his past actions (“Nobody said it was easy, it’s such a shame for us to part,” “I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart,” etc.), such as what happened at Tokyolk and with the Spear of Selene.
Lena
Demons by Imagine Dragons
All throughout Season 1 (and even in later episodes), Lena had personal demons regarding Magica that she couldn’t easily shake. Like the lyrics said, she wanted to hide the truth from Webby and everyone else, but there was nowhere to hide. And she always kept up walls that prevented her from getting too close to people (“Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside.”) And even after she broke from Magica’s control, she was worried that she could still turn out bad, but with the help of others, especially Webby and Violet, she was able to overcome those demons in her mind.
Gladstone Gander
Life Has Been Good to Me by Randy Newman
Gladstone is a naturally lucky character. Whatever happens in the game of life, the dice roll in his favor. I guess other than the events leading up to and within The House of the Lucky Gander!, life is good to him.
Mark Beaks
How Bad Can I Be? by Ed Helms from The Lorax
Life is all about survival of the fittest at times. You gotta do what it takes to survive, even if it means screwing others over. That mindset is 100% Beaks to me. The last half of the song, especially, where the Once-ler is bragging about his business and building an economy, absolutely screams Beaks to me.
Zeus, Storkules, and Selene
Zeus: The Gospel Truth by Lillias White, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, Cheryl Freeman, and Vaneese Thomas from Hercules
Storkules: The Harder They Come by Jimmy Cliff
Selene: Song About the Moon by Paul Simon
I feel it would only be appropriate if I put the three deities of Ithaquack together. First off, I kinda had to throw a Hercules song in there somewhere, and this one brilliantly tells the story of how Zeus came to power. On the second note, Storkules is absolutely a pillar of strength, and he’s very determined, too. Just like the real-life myth and the movie, he will take on any and all opponents, no matter how big or daunting they may be. Finally, we have Selene, the goddess of the moon. The moon is very powerful, graceful, and beautiful, just as she is. The song here explains how in order to write a song about the moon, you need to capture its features, its essence. And in order to write a song about the heart or a face, tie it back to writing about the moon. It just shows how influential the moon can be, just as Selene is in making decisions as a goddess.
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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT (2023)
Starring Callum Turner, Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Alec Newman, Peter Guinness, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban, Hadley Robinson, Courtney Henggeler, James Wolk, Chris Diamantopoulos, Glenn Wrage, Edward Baker-Duly, Adrian Lukis, Dominic Tighe, Alec Newman and Andrew Bridgmont.
Screenplay by Mark L. Smith.
Directed by George Clooney.
Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. 124 minutes. Rated PG-13.
As a director, George Clooney certainly likes living in the past. Of the nine films that he has helmed, seven of those were period pieces, many of them based on true stories. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind took a look at TV personality Chuck Barris in the 1960s and 1970s. Good Night and Good Luck took place during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Leatherheads looked at the early days of football in the 1920s. The Monuments Men took place during World War II. Suburbicon was during the 1950s. The Tender Bar was about growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. In fact his two films which did not take place way in the rear-view mirror were The Ides of March (a current-day political thriller) and The Midnight Sky (a post-apocalyptic tale.)
The Boys in the Boat returns the filmmaker to the World War II era – specifically revolving around the leadup to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. It also is intriguing by looking at the United States in the latter years of the Great Depression. So, in theory, it should be an interesting time capsule.
Perhaps the biggest problem with The Boys in the Boat is simply this – the 1936 US crew team, which did win a Gold Medal and helped to embarrass Adolf Hitler at his own Olympics, isn’t even the most interesting or best-known American athlete during that Olympics. That would be Jesse Owens, who as a character has a few short appearances here, and who has been subject of several biopics of his own which explore this particular crossroads in history.
More to the point, to be perfectly honest, crew may be a fascinating, hard sport to compete in, but it is a pretty dull one to watch. After all, it’s like the old standup comedian said, I don’t want any part of a sport that they used to force slaves to do. And this view of rowing is coming from someone who grew up in a city in which crew is a tradition. In fact, of the four college squads which are shown to have had a chance to go to the Olympics back then, one of them was from my hometown.
In fact, George Clooney acknowledged that part of his motivation in making the film was that he felt there were no films that faithfully and excitingly captured crew as a sport and a pursuit.
Does he remedy that problem? Probably not. But The Boys in the Boat has its moments.
Probably Clooney and his long-time collaborator Grant Heslov and screenwriter Mark L. Smith tossed their net a bit too wide. There were nine members of the crew team being watched in The Boys in the Boat. Then you have to add the coaching staff, friends, families, wives, girlfriends, fellow students, neighbors in their town, opposing teams, opposing coaches, the Olympic committee and more. There are probably like 100 speaking roles, and that’s before they even go to Germany for the Olympics and the cast of characters is multiplied.
That’s a whole lot of characters to fit into a two-hour movie, to the point that many of the characters here are basically given one-dimensional oversimplifications of their roles: The uptight rower, the supportive girlfriend, the unfeeling father, the sexy and sweet coach’s wife. (That character, while often enjoyable, also feels like an anachronism in this film. While I could probably see her acting like this in… say… the 1960s, her open sexuality and confident feminism feels out of place in the 1930s.)
These characters undoubtedly had a lot more room to breathe in Daniel James Brown’s novel of the same title, but too many people here come off as shallow. Of course, the film basically spends much of its time exploring two characters – although they even disappear from the film for chunks of time. These characters are the extremely poor oarsman Joe Rantz (Callum Turner), who has taken on the role on the team as a way of financial survival, and the gruff-but-good-hearted crew coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), who is doing all in his power to get these talented-but-unmotivated boys into the Olympics.
From the look and the pace and the subject of The Boys in the Boat (and the fact that it is being released on Christmas day), it seems likely that Clooney, et al, were hoping for some award recognition for their film. And perhaps they will, at least in the technical nominations. The film looks spectacular and realistic, from the desperate Washington state streets of the Depression to the tony halls of early academia to the self-consciously grandiose splendor of the Berlin Olympics.
The Boys in the Boat is not as good or important of a film as the filmmakers had hoped it would be, but it’s worth taking a look at.
Jay S. Jacobs
Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: December 25, 2023.
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top five songs to cry to!
oh god oh god music makes me feel so much! here is a list of songs that have made me cry, not in any cohesive order except for the first one!
absolutely undeniably my top one crying song is hollow talk by choir of young believers. a bit of jules lore here but, i have seasonal affective disorder, which causes me to become quite depressed during the colder months. this song has pulled me through several winters where i thought they would never end. certified crying every time, in a cathartic way!
this is gonna be a weird one but seaweed by ebb & flod. i first heard it in a youtube documentary about earth in the hadean eon or something. started associating the song with those vast... far away... unreachable eons of the earth and got emotional (don't ask...). now every time i hear the song i get a little teary eyed. fills me with dread, in a good way.
from the 1917 score by thomas newman; come back to us. i went to a pre-screening for this film through a history organisation, i was the only young woman in a cinema room full of middle aged men. in the end, when this piece of music came on, i was silently bawling my eyes out. fully.
in dreams by ben howard. relate very much to this song... ben howard's voice is very soothing, especially when i am crying...
it was hard to pick between the ethel cain songs that make me cry, but the one that i have cried the most to has to be strangers (duh). the last two minutes of that song... tears will never not be shed.
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Settling Into Mongolia’s Modern Capital | #66 | November 2022
These events occurred when I’d been back in Mongolia for about a month. Some oddities of the culture shock had worn off by then, so I could get in more of a rhythm. After I got back from Kharhorin, plenty enough happened. This entry recounts the seedlings of adventures that would become new norms in my second year of Peace Corps service.
Transition
The Sunday, November 13, 2O22, which kicked off my Week 5, was fairly mundane. I attended English and Chinese Mass at my local St. Thomas Aquinas parish, practiced more people's names, met some of the parishioners’ kids then returned to my apartment. It was a good morning.
Then in my apartment, I spent the afternoon and evening writing. My main counterpart visited to drop off a considerable portion of the countryside meat, since our return to UB the night before. It was kind of wild to think that I had seen that animal walking just a couple days before. That Sunday, though, I had three articles I intended to finish. By 2 a.m., I had two pretty well drafted. The third was still some time coming. But finishing would have to wait.
New Projects, Familiar Faces
Tuesday, November 15, 2O22, I co-facilitated my first community English speaking club since my time in Erdenet. It was with the Volunteer Center of Mongolia, alongside my fellow M3O, Eric. Earlier that day, the two of us had visited the UNFP at the United Nations building. Eric and I had the interesting task of visiting local nonprofits and NGOs in preparation to report back to the new M3I Peace Corps Mongolia Trainees.
On a special note, one of the attendees of that speaking club was one of my former English/Chinese students from the 2OI9 group of international relations sophomores I’d taught back at the National University of Mongolia, Erdenet School. She had since graduated this spring 2O22, after having moved to UB. Having her as a facilitator for our speaking group felt so touching.
After Tuesday evening’s speaking club, I dropped by a small place on the west side of the square called the EscoBar. It’s where the public English “UB Quiz Night” was going down. Participants could pay a slight fee to join in for the chance to win the money if their table group won. (And if their team won second place, they were responsible for setting up the following week’s quiz.) Dropping by, I remembered how in Reno, Nevada, church friends from Newman would also participate in bar trivia outside town. On one such occasion I’d driven out to participate though I skipped the drinks.
The next afternoon, Wednesday, November 16, my main coworker and I taught our first seminar together! It was a citywide English methodology workshop hosted at a local secondary school, #48, near our office. I learned these monthly seminars would be a regular feature of my assignment to our city’s department of education. During the workshop, when I wasn’t presenting, I was noting unfamiliar Mongolian words and translating them with my dictionary. Some teachers got some cool photos and videos of me presenting! My first workshop was about how to reach Gen Z, which related to my Springtide Ambassador Program work. Apparently my being single was also an interesting tidbit to some in the room, too.
Volunteer Opportunities and Reunions
The next morning, Thursday, November 17, fellow M3O Eric and I embarked on a trip to Special Olympics Mongolia, the site of one of our M28 predecessors who’d stayed on back in 2OI9 to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader (PCVL). With the PCVLs having evacuated with the rest of us, their former sites were now potential NGOs with whom we could serve. Special Olympics specifically had a special partnership with the Peace Corps thanks to the Shrivers.
Perhaps of the most special importance was an introduction to the American Corner. On Tuesday night, I’d also met at the Volunteer Center of Mongolia a volunteer who’d done projects in the city library, Duka. That afternoon I came by the uncannily familiar library. I would recognize this was one of many locations in UB I had visited only once yet significantly nonetheless. It was the site of the filmmakers’ December 2OI9 talk before my Christmas return to America that year.
At the American Corner, the student volunteer Duka introduced me to their program coordinator, Ari. From there, I got an overview of the center’s programs and needs. In Peace Corps lingo, we call this the needs assessment. I decided to help on their children’s speaking club and writing workshops. A children’s speaking club was among my Erdenet projects before, and writing was my specialty. I also met fellow Americans, such as those who came to Mongolia on the current cohort of Fulbrighters. I heard of more, too! My network rapidly expanded.
I at last got my schedule to work so that I could meet a dear ol’ friend. And my, what a meeting! We shared what felt for me like the finest meal I'd had since the time our Peace Corps Country Director had come to visit my sitemates and me just over three years before, Nov. 3, 2OI9, in Erdenet. Even the drinks were great! We reminisced about my days when I was first in Mongolia and he’d visited me at my old site. He shared more too about his professional background and work since the pandemic unfolded. We resolved to meet again so he could introduce me to program partners. It was a pleasant night.
Projects Beginning
That Friday, November 18, 2O22, marked the one-month anniversary since my return to Mongolia.
In fun resourcefulness news, I unlocked a door using scissors! It was during a visit to Beautiful Hearts, another previous Peace Corps Volunteer Leader (PCVL) site. I certainly appreciated this organization's service and hoped there was something Eric and I could do to carry on the Peace Corps partnership with them. At least a few of our M3I Trainees had social work backgrounds, too! Baigalmaa would be our main contact there. Another staff member there also mentioned I could get some tasty Chinese food from a restaurant near my office.
That afternoon I returned to the American Corner to begin as a co-facilitator to its children’s speaking club. In typical Peace Corps Mongolia fashion, I wondered if they played a prank on me, for when I got there, no one was around. Then people arrived. It made for a good laugh in the group chat.
I felt that the co-facilitator was a lovely presider. She gave me the grade school teacher vibe by how she smiled at the children and exuded what felt to me as though serene patience. I was quite literally passed the mic, so I took the floor. That was a fun moment.
Afterward, we strolled amid the flurries back toward the square. She was studying at university to become an English teacher, so I felt glad that she was working on our program. Then I continued my new Mongolian language classes with the friend Adonis. Turns out his lessons were in the same building as the Special Olympics office. So many places related!
Weekend All Across Town
Saturday, November 19 was Day 3 at the American Corner, then back to the cathedral. That morning a few of the M3I Trainees arrived with me to the public English speaking club. After it began transitioning to its Toastmasters time, that’s when I took off early to catch a bus east to Ofitser, where the cathedral was near.
At the cathedral, we rehearsed with the music ministry and celebrated with children the vigil Mass ahead of the next day’s Christ the King Sunday. I then received a ride from the cathedral to the Shangri-La, where we had the theatre. Unfortunately, just in front of the Star Apartments area (very close to the Shangri-La), we had a somewhat scary moment when our car wound up scraped with another. So I and a friend got out of the car and walked the remainder to the theater.
That night, a group of new Peace Corps Trainees and us saw the new “Black Panther.” I missed the introduction. But later reading, I discovered that it was as I expected: Chadwick Boseman’s real passing was referenced similarly by characters in the film as T’Challa’s passing. I found the film otherwise moody in the right ways. For it dealt with questions of colonialism while introducing a mutant of incredible power and decent charisma even if too headstrong. I also appreciated how they worked in the MIT character, for it reminded me of wandering the campus just a few months earlier, in September. I looked forward to seeing what Marvel Studios would do with her story.
Sunday, November 2O, 2O22, I returned to the cathedral for Christ the King Sunday, the last day of the church year. After singing with the choir, I ventured to a far side of town to a large bookstore called Azkhur. I came for an Autism Association of Mongolia volunteer training alongside M3O Eric, our Beautiful Hearts contact Baigalmaa and our friend from the Volunteer Center of Mongolia, Tsevelmaa. I enjoyed how our networking was already benefitting other organizations.
School Visits and New Encounters
Monday, I embarked on multiple school visits alongside my counterparts. We traveled to the 72nd, 50th and 5th Schools that day, primarily within the Chingeltei district. When introduced to English teachers, I did short needs assessments with their departments, sometimes even observed classes and gave teaching methodology advice to help address needs. Such school visits would become part of my main routines.
The next morning was the Feast of St. Cecelia. That morning, M3O Eric and I stopped by the Red Cross to learn more about its volunteer activities. That evening, he and I returned to the Edu-Volunteers’ English speaking club. That night, I returned to the American Corner to meet the American facilitator Nick of its remaining writers’ workshop. He taught me about what’s worked in his workshop and needs still to meet.
To wrap up Tuesday night, I headed with Nick to the 976 restaurant to experience another place where fellow international folks like to go, salsa night. It was a packed evening full of energetic folks hitting the floor every few minutes for salsa, bachata and kizomba. And after some time I eventually met the American for whom we were looking, Audrey. She was such a positive, peppy woman. It was nice to know another American associated with the Fulbright, too!
The U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Wednesday morning was an exciting time, for the new U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, Mr. Michael Klecheski’s successor, would meet us Peace Corps folks. I needed some more vaccinations first from Medical, then it was time for the meet-up. That morning we returned to the community center of Star Apartments, where we’d celebrated Hallowe’en. This time the center was more plainly adorned. There we met the Ambassador, Mr. Richard Buangan, such a warm fellow.
Given that he was only the second ambassador I’d met, I naturally found myself comparing what I remembered of our 2OI9 ambassador and our current. Both were friendly and informed men. Though, I supposed I related better to Mr. Buangan’s interest in media and his Filipino descent, which reminded me of my tita. I hadn’t realized journalism in Mongolia had such challenges, yet that greatly interested me. It was wonderful to hear too he was so supportive of us Peace Corps folks. I wondered if someday I could become a U.S. ambassador.
For lunch I dropped by the Chinese restaurant mentioned to us the Friday before at Beautiful Hearts. It was admittedly alright. I wasn’t sure how regularly I’d want to come but at least the prices were nice. After that I headed back to the department office to work through the afternoon.
Chinggis Khaan’s Birthday Eve
That evening, Trainees and I assembled at a Starbucks-like Tom N Toms coffee shop in an office building downtown to co-plan our next big operation to occur on Chinggis Khaan’s Birthday, coinciding with Thanksgiving. We divvied up who would do what during our American cultural component of the presentation. I found it a bit ironic to get saddled with the Southwest despite feeling personally more like a Midwesterner. Nonetheless, the “Wild West” was a more iconic part of our nation and one that my Vegas experiences certainly enabled me to speak on.
Thus, in that single week after my Language Proficiency Interview and ‘cultural practicum’ to Kharhorin, new projects had begun in earnest. Every new day sowed the seeds of a next one.
You can read more from me here at memoryLang.Tumblr.com :)
#Peace Corps#Mongolia#memoir#story#Catholic#God#memoryLang#USA#Asia#countryside#monastery#music#UB#culture shock#travel#winter#Ulaanbaatar#opera#Chinggis Khaan#holiday
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5 & 25!
5. grieving
oh boy lmao, we're going with the bomb: come back to us - thomas newman
25. a confidence boost
style!! - taylor swift (ready to hit the runway and eat the world whenever that song starts playing, i have many more but that fucking intro instantly makes me levitate)
name a song for… ask bait:
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🛠🎶😅 for the fanfic asks???
Yay, another writing emoji ask! These are fun! Keep them coming! I have already answered a few here!
🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write?
Well, I am a big ol' Microsoft Word fan. I've been using it since they taught me how to use computers in elementary school, and while I've tried other word processors, Google Drive, etc, Word is my tried and true. I have it on my PC, my Mac, my iPad, and my iPhone. I write in traditional paragraph form in Times New Roman, size 11, spaced 1.15. Though I've tried writing in different fonts when working on two vastly different projects before.
I am also a fan of the college-ruled spiral notebook and the Pilot G-2 Series 0.34 (or 0.5) gel pen in black. That pen lets me write on both sides of a sheet of notebook paper without bleeding through and I love that. Right now, I'm using a smaller, three-subject notebook with tabs (since I have been working on a trilogy).
Other tools:
music! music music music
before Flash Player left us, a lot of different avatar makers since I'm not good at drawing but needed visuals of my OCs
fandom sources (I have the BttF movies on my desktop behind my Word document so I can get the dialogue perfect, explore what's in the frame, etc. I also have all three movie novelizations, the 2015 newspaper, maps, comics, you name it. I draw from all of these sources when I'm writing to give the work a well-rounded and grounded feel.)
Google and Wikipedia are your friends so long as you know how to verify the validity of the sources. And I always triple-check the information I plan to use.
I honestly act some stuff out if I can't choreograph a scene in my head. I can write it, but then I realize what I've written isn't physically possible, so this helps!
🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?
I do. I love music so freaking much. I planned to do music education when I first entered college! I've been a huge film/ tv/ video game score fan since before I can remember. I have specific playlists for each of the stories I've written -- and not just songs that fit the story, but songs I just couldn't stop listening to.
Right now, I've been finishing up the festival scenes in Where You Were, so I've been listening to a lot of the festival music included in the 25th-anniversary edition of the BttF 3 score. But of course the scores for these films inspire my story!
Songs that come during the course of writing the story and help build my plot and tone are special. Right now, for Where You Were, these are some of the pieces I've been playing on a loop:
"You're Full of Stars" by Max Richter (Invasion, Apple TV) - I played this constantly when writing the opening prologue where Marty brings Doc back to the mansion and has the big, dark space to himself during the storm.
"Zeit" (Remix by Olàfur Arnalds) by Rammstein - I love Olàfur. It didn't fit the tone of the scene exactly, but I played this a lot when writing Doc and Marty in the archives.
"Tell Him" by Rob Simonsen (The Adam Project, Netflix) - Doc has a big revelation! :D
"Stuff We Did" by Michael Giacchino (Up) - This is a softer variation of the "Married Life" theme that I imagine for Doc and Emma's mother. Perfect for their last scene together in the series.
"I Can't Sell" by Amelia Warner (Wild Mountain Thyme) - This beautifully soft and stirring piece is what I officially dub "Clara's Theme" in my series. I also pair her with the softer variations of the main theme from The Patriot (2000, music by John Williams)
"Kings and Queens" by Thomas Newman (Tolkien) - No spoilers, but a very bright, peaceful snippet for a future Marty and Emma scene.
"Teach You To Read" by Mychael Danna (Where the Crawdads Sing) - I have no real scene assigned to this, but I am stuck on this track right now. It's gorgeous. It captures wonder, curiosity, and enlightenment beautifully, but applying the tone to anything in particular stumps me at the moment. Right now, it's just a dopamine hit during research.
The entire score from News of the World by James Newton Howard and the two volumes of the 1883 scores by Brian Tyler & Breton Vivian basically wrote There Are No Roads (Part 2.5 of my series). The main theme from 1883 is what created and what anchors the tense relationship between Emma and Tannen specifically.
A song with words, you ask? Two recent discoveries I love: "Want Want" by Maggie Rogers is what I imagine a pre-series Emma going through when it comes to Marty, and "Love Brand New" by Bob Moses is kind of my anthem for Not Marty and Not Emma in 1985A now.
Sorry. I could talk music all day, but that's just for the fic I'm working on! I love my film and television scores. There are incredible.
😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?
So, right now, if it's on my FF.Net page and NOT my AO3, I want to clean it up before really calling attention to it again. Most of those fics were written in high school before I took a real interest in pursing writing and perfecting the craft, so the quality is night and day.
One in particular I guess would be "Light Up the Sound" from 2006. This was the appearance of my BttF OC, Emma Brown, and she was SUCH a Mary Sue I can't even read this thing in one sitting anymore. Luckily, I learned a lot in nine years before deciding to get serious about attempting The Time Circuits Series, and Emma went through a HUGE overhaul. When I rewrote "Light Up the Sound" into my series' prequel "Red Letter Date", she was her own person, and the difference in writing is amazing.
I leave "Light Up the Sound" published as a reminder of how far I've come. From that shit show, I've developed an OC that has received high praise for being well-rounded and seamlessly inserted into a beloved story we all know, and I am incredibly proud of that. But my god, I had to practice a lot of tough love to transform this silly snippet into the launching pad for a trilogy rewrite.
I mean, for goodness sake, I had Emma's birthday as November 12th, and it can't get more cringe than that when it comes to a Mary Sue (unless I gave her purple eyes, of course). I wrote three chapters of the first story and had her at Marty's side CONSTANTLY. I was THAT author.
And I've learned a lot since then. And I applied what I learned to change my character and my story for the better.
Gratefully, it seems to have paid off. :)
Thanks so much for the ask! I had a lot of fun answering your questions! Have a great day!
#fan fic writing#fanfic writer emoji ask game#emoji asks#answered asks#back to the future#bttf#fanfic#fanfiction#writer ask game#fanfic writer ask#let's do another one!
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haven't seen this movie since it came out but the score is so so beautiful, i'll just be sitting there at work and then this pops up on my playlist and i have to like. take a breather.
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For the fanfic music ask game I gotta know - 5. Whump
5. Whump
I actually have a specific playlist for this purpose but I do have preferred songs on it!
We Are All To Blame from Wonder Woman by Rupert Gregson-Williams, Teen Idle by MARINA, and Come Back to Us from 1917 by Thomas Newman are some go-to songs.
Fanfic music ask game
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The Rib Page
Please let Richard Thomas win an Emmy for his work on Ozark when 2023 rolls around!!!!!!
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Cindy and Kate and Fred are hitting the road one more time! The B-52's are on tour!
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There are so many crimes that the media revisits every year. They never seem to reinvestigate the Jimmy Hoffa case.
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Marcia Gay Harden and Neil Patrick Harris are in uncoupled. Keep an eye on Model, Painter Jordyn Owens.
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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons got married!** Kris Keach married Miso.** Lopez became an Affleck.** Anya Taylor-Joy wed Malcolm McRae
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Check out The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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The house passed a record-high $840 billion military budget, the same amount as all the stimulus checks combined. ** Huh, guess when they print money for people, it’s socialist, but when they do it for military contractors it’s bipartisan. - Dan Price
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The 2022 medal of freedom recipients are Simone Biles, Siter Simone Campbell, Julieta Garcia, Gabrielle Giffords, Fred Gray, Steve Jobs, Khizr Khan, Father Alexander Karloutsos, Sandra Lindsay, John McCain, Diane Nash, Megan Rapinoe, Alan Simpson, Richard Trumka, Wilma Vaught, Denzel Washington and Rauly Zaguirre.
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Watch for Downtown Owl with Lily Rabe, Ed Harris and Finn Wittrock.
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Jim Thorpe had his Olympic Gold reinstated and it’s about time!
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Christopher Bell won a race this year! Woo Hoo!!!
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Did Ivanka Trump have an abortion? Is it our business?
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Check out the Newman/ Woodward doc from Ethan Hawke!!
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The Talisman is coming to Netflix.
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Brittney Griner has pled guilty to drug possession in Russia.
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J.B. Pritzker was on the South Lawn at the WH for the signing of a Bill that will toughen requirements for young people, deny firearms to more domestic abusers and help get guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
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I think Michael Flynn could very well be on the VP short list. And if the President doesn’t run, I strongly believe Mike is running. - Steve Bannon** Milwaukee will be the host for the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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There has been intense ‘random’ tax audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe that started with the Trump administration.
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Liza O’Brien has her own podcast. ** Conan and Bowen Yang have joined the cast of a movie brought to us by Ben Marshall, John Higgens and Martin Herlihy AKA Please don’t destroy.
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Shawn Mendes has cancelled his tour for mental health reasons.
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Can’t wait for Starbright, a film starring Ted Levine, Elizabeth Rohm and Gary Grubbs.
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Days alert: Beyond Salen: Chapter 2 came out this month. Wow!! They pulled out the old Prism story. Ok, it is kind of silly but OMG: Larry Welch, Megan Hathaway Dimera, Andrew Donovan, Thomas Banks and a new Shin named Wendy!!!!!!! I am sure that huge Bo and Hope fans are just in heaven just as their heroes are. Please bring Andrew and Paul to Salem!!!!! This could give Theresa a reason to come back to break up Chloe and Brady! For years, I have been wondering if we would ever hear from Andrew. Finally!!** By the way, More JJ!!!!! And speaking of JJ, portrayer Casey Moss is engaged to True O’Brien who used to play his love Paige!!!AWWWWW!!** Wally Kurth, Eric Martsolf, Carson Boatman and Brandon Barash have put a band together called Day Players!!** Richard Wharton will take over the role of Dr. Rolf that was previously played by William Utay ,who was unavailable.
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American Horror Stories is back on July 21 with Denis O’Hare, Gabourey Sidibe, Cody Fern, Alicia Silverstone and Judith Light.
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Let’s give attention to the first US woman aviator: Bessica Reicht. How do some things get swallowed up by history??
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Robert Downey Jr. Has apparently paid for Armie Hammer’s rehab stint. Hammer has been accused of rape.** Ricky Martin’s nephew, Dennis Sanchez has an order of protection against the singer. He claims that he and Martin had a sexual relationship and they were together for 7 months and now Martin is harassing him. Martin denies all allegations and blames the mental health issues of his nephew. ** Martin is also being sued by his former manager, Rebecca Drucker for unpaid commissions. ** By the end of July, Martin’s nephew withdrew the charges.
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Sona Movsesian has a book out, The World’s worst assistant. Conan did the forward.
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Say what you will about Showtime’s The First Lady but Michelle Pfeiffer was really great as Betty Ford!
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The big ego of Joe Manchin has left him unable to keep supporting the climate change bill.
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Beanie Feldstein has quit the Funny Girl production on Broadway. She will be leaving even sooner than first announced. She also now has tonsilitis. Lea Michelle will take over.
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There is a siracha shortage!!
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There has been a rise in vasectomies.
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Don Henley’s handwritten stolen Hotel California lyrics have been found after decades.
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Jeremy Mayfield was on Dale Jr’s Download podcast talking about the mafia type tactics that Nascar uses. He claims that a raid on his house and other punishments were heaped upon him. He has corroborating evidence from others.
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Check out Sandyhookpromise.org.
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You know, the flack about Trump and his daughter, Ivanka is strange. To me, it isn’t strange because there may be something wacky going on, because that is probably not true. The thing that always hit me is that back in the day I think he was giving her his endorsement or something. A man with an ego like that probably thought that the best thing he could give his daughter was his seal of approval on her looks et al. JS** The last of the summer Jan. 6 hearings was repetitive but was proof positive that Trump is a traitor. The committee was able to prove that although seemingly inactive thru the entire Jan. 6 ordeal, the President was active in the failed coup attempt by trying to influence senators and the targeting of Pence. There were no photos allowed of him in the 187 minutes. ** Bannon was convicted for failing to show up for a congressional hearing.
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Kid Rock kicked off his current tour with a video from Trump. In July’s North Dakota’s state fair, Rock had to cancel due to weather concerns and fans trashed the place.
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I loved Bob Costa’s interview with Kamala Harris but she does not seem as self -assured as she did thru the campaign.
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Mo. GOP Rep. Tricia Derges was found guilty of wire fraud, illegal distribution of controlled substances and lying to Feds. ** Why do these candidates keep talking about faith? This is America, it should not matter! ** Kendall Co. Republicans in Illinois are raffling off a Smith and Wesson semi-automatic very similar to the one used in the Highland Park shooting. They are not the first county to think of this either!
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Will Julia Garner play Madonna in the biopic?? Word is that the Madonna directed film wants her.
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Let’s get real!! Why do women deserve less rights than men? Have we started charging men for child support while baby is in the womb?? Let’s get on it if that is the way the country is going.
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Bradley Cooper is dating Huma Abedin, Hillary’s chief of staff. They were reportedly introduced by Anna Wintour.
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Ginni Thomas paid for buses to bring insurrectionists to Washington.
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The Emmy noms have been announced. The hardest category has to be Drama series: I mean, honestly, how do you pick between Better Call Saul, Ozark or Succession (the leader with 25 nods)? Ok, there are other good shows too but c’mon!! The comedy category is great too with Hacks, Barry, Curb your enthusiasm, Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The actors face stiff competition with leads like Donald Glover, Bill Hader, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Rachel Brosnahan, Qinta Brunson, Jean Smart, Issa Rae, Jason Bateman, Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Bob Odenkirk, Laura Linney, Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. Supporting role nominees include Anthony Carrigan, Tony Shalhoub, Bowen Yang, Henry Winkler, Tyler James Williams, Alex Borstein, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kieran Culkin, Nicholas Braun, Chris Walken, Matt Macfadyen, Patricia Arquette, Rhea Seehorn, J. Smith Cameron and Julia Garner. Ok, that supporting dramatic actress thing is a tough one too. Guest actors include James Cromwell and Tom Pelphrey. Tom’s other half, Kaley Cuoko is also nominated this year. Rhea Seehorn is also nominated for Cooper’s Bar and Julia Garner gets a second nod for Inventing Anna. Voice over work that has been honored comes from Julie Andrews, Chadwick Boseman, Maya Rudolph and Jessica Walter. The narrator category is full with Barack Obama, Lupita Nyongo, W. Kamau Bell, Kareem Abdul Jabar and David Attenborough. There is also some love for Michael Keaton, Sebastian Stan, Lily James, Sarah Paulson, Mare Winningham, Jennifer Coolidge, The Randy Rainbow Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, McCartney 3,2,1, Andy Warhol Diaries, My next guest needs no introduction with Letterman and Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special.
Clint Eastwood won a 2nd lawsuit against online marketers. There are more lawsuits to come!
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D. Bailey, the Gubernatorial candidate for Il. Governor had a quote after the Oakland Parade shooting: “Let’s move on and celebrate the independence of this nation.”
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Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister in the UK. Best headline: CLOWNFALL!
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The DEA has made the biggest bust of its kind in California. Found were 1 million pills with Fentanyl that are linked to the Cartel.
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Joanne Lumley is a dame!!
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A woman was ticketed for driving alone in the HOV Lane. She is pregnant and told the police that her unborn child counts as a passenger since Roe was overturned. The State can’t have it both ways.
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Brendan Fraser will stun us in the Whale with Sadie Sink. ** Look for him in Killers of the Flower Moon as well. In an interview, he seemed nervous and excited to be working with Leo and Marty. Does he realize he is on equal footing with them? His talent has blown me away (Gods and Monsters, anyone) so I am sure that he will not disappoint! ** Scorsese will direct DiCaprio in The Wager.
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Mehmet Oz and his wife’s family paid a $95 mil fine for hiring thousands of illegal immigrants in Pa. The other guy running, John Fetterman’s wife created a free store serving 20,000 families a year. They also have a food rescue serving over 25 million pounds of food for those in need in Pa.
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The new Kennedy Center honorees have been announced: George Clooney, Gladys Knight, U2, Amy Grant and Tania Leon. The program will air on Dec. 4.
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There will be a Stranger Things spinoff from Upside down pictures.
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee was canceled.
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Yamiche Alcindor is the latest recipient of the Zenger award for journalists who fights for freedom of the press and the people’s right to know.
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Did we all see the self- congratulatory fist bumps between Republicans after they blocked a bill to help toxin-exposed vets survive. ** Republicans haven’t met a veteran they won’t screw over. - Jon Stewart
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Pa. Gov. Hopeful Doug Mastriano has aligned himself with GAB and founder Andrew Torba. Torba, a spouter of the big lie said, “My policy is not to conduct interviews with reporters who aren’t Christian and Doug, he does not talk to these people. They are dishonest. They’re liars. They’re a den of vipers, they want to destroy you.”
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I have railed here about this before and now have seen Colbert joke about his money and fame. Why do they think this is funny with all the poverty around them. We get it, you are rich and powerful, why do you want to keep reminding us of this?
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The black and white episode of Better Call Saul was awesome! Carol Burnett will win the Emmy next year for guest star, I am sure of it!
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What a sad day to hear about the death of Bob Rafelson. Check out the obit in the Hollywood Reporter because it tells all. The Monkees and Easy Rider shaped so much of my life. I will miss our tremendous talent.
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R.I.P. James Caan, Shin Zo Abe, Clifford Alexander Jr., the latest shooting victims, Peter Brook, Larry Storch, Adam Wade, L.Q. Jones, Vernon Winfrey, Tony Sirico, Jak Knight, Ivana Trump, Monty Norman, William Hart, Rebecca Balding, Tanya Kersey, David Warner, Shonka Dukureh, Tony Dow, Mable Haddock, Paul Sorvino, Bill Russell, Nichelle Nichols, Ophie Brook and Bob Rafelson.
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Feeling a little blue, so here are a few scores for you to sip your coffee melancholically
#sebastian's musical owls#you're instrumental#wrenegade-accio#lily's theme - alexandre desplat#waymond cries - son lux#come back to us - thomas newman#this too will pass - ildio
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1917 soundtrack + quotes
(in quote order) [2/2]
1917 (2019), dir. Sam Mendes
Soundtrack by Thomas Newman
Screenplay by Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
#1917#1917edit#1917source#1917 soundtrack#thomas newman#william schofield#tom blake#lauri#1917 edit#1917 quotes#perioddramaedit#the most emotionally engaging soundtrack#1917 film#period drama edit#les arbres soundtrack fills heart#let alone come back to us of course#my edit#*1917edt#i really like how Sco speaks French#croiset?#1917 movie
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"Come back to us" by Thomas Newman (1917) makes me sob like a baby. It's so beautiful I can barely breathe while listening to it.
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Shout-out to Come Back To Us for making my heart ache everytime I listen to it. The way Thomas Newman is able to so powerfully express Schofield’s heartache, and the overall anguish of the war, whilst also weaving in delicate hints of hope amongst the pain is utterly beautiful.
#yes I am crying over 1917 again#if you hadn't noticed this is my life now#1917#come back to us#thomas newman#will schofield#1917 movie#1917 OST
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the sparrow [ the score ]
The Jesuit scientists went to learn, not to proselytize. They went so that they might come to know and love God’s other children. They went for the reason Jesuits have always gone to the farthest frontiers of human exploration. They went ad majorem Dei gloriam; for the greater glory of God.
They meant no harm.
❥ listen.
they meant no harm [the bridge - arcane]
rome, december 2059 [endless falls - loscil]
sofia and emilio [any other name - thomas newman]
not magdalene, lazarus [video tape - ólafur arnalds]
they sing. we have to know them [laura lee - craig wedren, anna waronker, theodore shapiro]
turtles on fenceposts [leaving caladan - hans zimmer]
stella maris [launch - hans zimmer]
landfall, rakhat [the mustard seed - johann johannsson]
the passing of alan pace [sunshine adagio - john murphy]
hasta’akala: to be made like sta’aka [ballade in c# minor: coronation - nicholas britell]
as you can see: the whore sleeps badly [juan and sanchia have sex - trevor morris]
god! god i was born for this! [leaving home - johann johannsson]
the village of kashan [light of life (ibelin reprise) - harry gregson-williams]
supaari vagayjur profitted from the presence of the jesuit party on rakhat before he knew of its existence [the one - hans zimmer]
the vakashani [joie de vivre - ramin djawadi]
by e.j. sandoz and s.r. mendes [ibelin - harry gregson-williams]
hlavin kitheri was a poet [visions of chani - hans zimmer]
have you ever wondered about the story of cain, ed? [blake & schofield - thomas newman]
lord this is as fine bunch of tailless primates as your universe has to offer [the city surf - jamin winans]
this was, he thought, the first time celibacy would truly rob him of something [stay with me - clint mansell]
sipaj supaari [letha dreams - nathan barr]
the jana’ata breed them as we breed dogs [holy war - hans zimmer]
and he devised for her a calculus of love [dreamcatcher - alexandre desplat]
the city of gayjur [nassau shores - bear mccreary]
the vahaptaa [deal’s changed - arcane]
i am your sister and we are orphaned [across the oceans of time - ramin djawadi]
the raid on kashan [revenge - arcane]
ils sont les innocents/the culls [two hundred thousand books - dario marianelli]
we shall sing of this for generations [dark matter - twelve titans music]
i was naked before god and i was raped [core chant - meredith monk, allison smith, theo bleckman]
you see meelo? your family came for you! i found you for them! [on the nature of daylight - max richter]
but it was my body. it was my blood. and it was my love. [come back to us - thomas newman]
but the sparrow still falls [elysium - ryan amon]
[ the sparrow (general) playlist | emilio sandoz playlist | sofia mendes playlist | gina and emilio playlist | anne and george playlist | sofia and emilio playlist ]
#this took hours to accomplish and i'm still not completely happy with it#anyway i hope the other 5 people that like this book like this#the sparrow#tunes#mixes#this damaged me permanently to make and then listen to to make sure it all fit together nicely#also i have good reasons for choosing every song i did and after taking a listen through i actually chose too well and hurt myself haha#songs will likely be replaced over time as i find songs that fit better#the sparrow 1996#mary doria russell#mine
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