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🎙 S1E1 - Maxime Alard, machiniste 🎙

Pour ce premier épisode, je suis ravie de recevoir mon ami Maxime Alard, machiniste. Dans cet épisode, Maxime nous parle de sa passion pour le métier de machiniste, en expliquant les différentes tâches qu'il accomplit et les particularités de son travail; en faisant un petit détour par ses débuts dans le milieu, où il a dû passer par la case régie !

On va aussi discuter de l’industrie du cinéma d’aujourd’hui, de James Cameron, de Fast & Furious, de James Cameron, des vieux films et des films cultes, et… de James Cameron, aussi.

Si tu es intéressé.e par les coulisses du cinéma et souhaites en savoir plus sur le travail d'un machiniste de prise de vue, viens vite écouter cet épisode de FDS ! 🤗

🎬 OEUVRES CITÉES

Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-Ho (2003)

The Game, David Fincher (1997)

Mank, David Fincher (2020)

Fast & Furious, Rob Cohen (2001)

Jumanji : Bienvenue dans la jungle, Jake Kasdan (2017)

Jungle Cruise, Jeaume Collet-Serra (2021)

22 Jump Street, Phil Lord et Chris Miller (2014)

OSS 117 : Le Caire, nid d'espions, Michel Hazanavicius (2006)

Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre, Alain Chabat (2001)

La Ligne Verte, Frank Darabont (1999)

Les Petits Mouchoirs, Guillaume Canet (2010)

Titanic, James Cameron (1997)

Avatar 1 & 2, James Cameron (2009 & 2022)

Buried, Rodrigo Cortés (2010)

Harry Potter à l'École des Sorciers, Chris Colombus (2001)

High School Musical, Kenny Ortega (2006)

Cloverfield, Matt Reeves (2008)

REC, Paco Plaza et Jaume Balagueró (2007)

Le Projet Blair Witch, Daniel Myrick et Eduardo Sánchez (1999)

Douze Hommes en colère, Sidney Lumet (1957)

Douze Hommes en colère, William Friedkin (1997) - remake

Les Raisins de la colère, John Ford (1940)

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles (1941)

M le Maudit, Fritz Lang (1931)

The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)

Sueurs Froides (Vertigo), Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

🧡 LES RECOS

The Last of Us, HBO (2023)

Chaîne Youtube Studio Binder

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📝 TRANSCRIPTION

Bonjour à tous et à toutes, et bienvenue dans ce tout premier épisode de La Feuille de Service. Je m’appelle Alix Desoomer, je suis réalisatrice et assistante mise en scène, et je suis aussi la créatrice de ce podcast. Pour cet épisode inaugural, j’ai le plaisir d’accueillir mon ami Maxime Alard, machiniste, qui nous parlera de son parcours et de son métier; on va aussi discuter de l’industrie du cinéma d’aujourd’hui, de James Cameron, de Fast & Furious, de James Cameron, des vieux films et des films cultes, et aussi… de James Cameron. (j’avais pas précisé, je crois.) Bonne écoute !

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ALIX : Bonjour Maxime, comment vas-tu ?

MAXIME : Ça va et toi ?

A : Ça va très bien, merci. Merci d’avoir accepté mon invitation pour ce podcast qui j’espère plaira aux gens qui l’écoutent, et qui te plaira à toi aussi…

M : Oui !

A : J’espère que l’expérience sera intéressante !

M : J’ai trop hâte.

A : Tu vas nous parler de ton métier, qui est machiniste,

M : Oui.

A: Machino, comme on dit.

M : Machiniste de prises de vues !

A : Ouh là là là. Mais d’abord, est-ce que tu pourrais te présenter en quelques phrases ?

M : Oui, je m’appelle Maxime, je viens de Toulouse, ça fait 8 ans maintenant que je suis monté à Paris pour bosser dans le cinéma. J’ai commencé par 5 ans de régie, et là ça fait un peu plus de 2 ans que je fais de la machinerie.

A : Et sur quels types de productions tu travailles ? Est-ce que c’est des clips, des séries, de la fiction… ?

M : Tout. J’ai pas de … Enfin, globalement quand on fait les métiers du cinéma en général on bosse sur tout : pub, télé, clip, cinéma. Après ce qui va faire que tu bosses plus dans un domaine que dans l’autre, ça va déjà être tes goûts. Si par exemple tu veux pas du tout faire de pub, que ça t’intéresse pas et que tu veux faire que de la fiction, y a aussi une histoire de réseau. C’est-à-dire que moi aujourd’hui j’ai des copains qui font que de la fiction parce qu’ils ont pas de réseau dans la publicité ou inversement. Moi, j’ai réussi, c’est un peu du hasard aussi bien sûr, à avoir du réseau un peu dans les deux, donc je fais autant de la pub que de la fiction, et ça me va très bien.

A: Et du coup, comment est-ce que t’en es arrivé à faire le métier que tu fais ? Vu que tu faisais pas machiniste avant, et ça fait pas si longtemps que ça finalement, que t’es dans ce métier-là en particulier, avant tu faisais autre chose. Donc, est-ce que tu peux nous parler un petit peu de comment tu en es arrivé là où tu en es aujourd’hui ?

M : Mon parcours depuis le début ?

A : Allez !

M : C’est un peu long, mais…

A : Mais c’est pas grave.

M : Moi, assez tôt j’ai voulu bosser dans le cinéma. J’ai voulu faire une école de cinéma, comme beaucoup, dans une école publique. Sauf que les écoles publiques, à cette époque-là il y en avait que quatre en France; il y en a peut-être deux de plus maintenant. Je suis arrivé à une époque où le cinéma commençait à devenir beaucoup plus accessible, enfin en tout cas on se rendait compte que ça devenait beaucoup plus accessible; donc beaucoup de candidats et très peu de places. J’ai pas eu ces concours-là, écoles privées trop chères… Des écoles privées y en a plein, c’est 10 000 euros l’année sur trois ans si tu vas jusqu’au diplôme; j’avais pas du tout les moyens et je voulais pas m’endetter et faire un prêt pour aller là-dedans. Et puis mes parents ne voulaient pas, n’avaient pas forcément les moyens, tout ça. Donc je suis monté à Paris en me disant “ben je vais, à l’ancienne, rentrer et aller démarcher les gens, discuter, vu que je suis quelqu’un de très sociable”. Et j’avais fait beaucoup de jobs étudiants, des métiers alimentaires disons qui me plaisaient pas forcément mais qui étaient pas affreux, qui payaient pas si mal; donc je me suis dit “vas-y je fonce, je vais à paris, je tente, et puis si ça marche pas je reviendrai à Toulouse et je ferai ces métiers-là, tant pis quoi”.

A : C’était quoi que tu faisais par exemple ?

M : J’ai été vendeur à Castorama, j’ai fait de la restauration, j’ai fait éboueur… Et donc du coup je suis monté à Paris et j’étais allé à la Cité du Cinéma, parce qu’il y a plein de boîtes de prod en plus des studios là-bas, enfin à l’époque parce que ça a un peu changé maintenant. Je travaillais su l’exposition Harry Potter, j’étais hôte d’accueil. Et en fait, le fait de bosser directement dans les studios et près des boîtes de production ça me permettait de rencontrer des gens. Soit des producteurs qui venaient, parce qu’il y avait une petite cantine où ils venaient des fois manger là-bas, ils connaissaient l’expo donc tu rencontrais des gens, tu discutais; puis de fil en aiguille j’ai sympathisé avec des gens à qui j’expliquais mon projet de vie, ce que je voulais faire, et qui m’ont mis sur des tournages de clips. Alors, pas rémunéré tu vois, mais moi ça me permettait de mettre un pied à l’étrier, de voir ce que c’était un plateau de tournage, de comprendre ce que c’était un métier. Je me souviendrai toujours de mon premier jour, où on m’a dit “Ben voilà, tu feras tel métier (donc régisseur), tu viendras tel jour à telle heure” et puis moi j’arrive les mains dans les poches, je suis prêt à faire. Et y a le réal qui vient me voir (c’était un petit clip où tout le monde mettait la main à la pâte) et qui me dit “T’as la feuille de service, t’as la bible, t’as ci, t’as ça, t’as fait ci, t’as fait ça…?” Moi je suis “Bah, non, j’ai pas tout ça…” Lui il fait “bah, on peut pas travailler du coup.”

A : Oui mais c’est pas à toi de faire la feuille de service…

M : Oui mais c’était plus est-ce que je l’avais sur moi pour savoir quelle séquence on faisait, à quel moment, tout ça; et moi ben j’avais rien, j’avais pas de stylo, de carnet, j’avais pas de… J’étais là “Ben euh non j’ai pas tout ça…” Du coup voilà, vraiment, direct, il m’a mis le nez dedans et ça m’a permis de comprendre ce qu’était un tournage et comment ça fonctionnait. Et sur ce film-là ça s’est bien passé avec la régisseuse générale, qui m’a mis sur un autre projet, là j’ai rencontré d’autres gens qui m’ont mis sur d’autres projets… Très rapidement en fait j’ai rencontré des gens qui étaient étudiants dans des écoles de cinéma, qu’elles soient publiques ou privées, et qui faisaient leurs films de fin d’études ou de fin d’année et qui avaient besoin de régisseurs. Et moi j’avais réussi à me faire un petit nom dans ce milieu-là parce que la régie, dans les écoles de cinéma, c’est faire à bouffer en gros. Tu fais le repas du midi, et t’aides un peu à faire des courses ici ou là si il y a besoin mais rien de plus. Là où le métier de régisseur professionnel va faire des autorisations de tournage, va gérer beaucoup de choses autour du tournage et pas juste s’occuper de la bouffe.

A : Ouais.

M : Et quand t’es étudiant en école de cinéma et que tu payes 10 000 euros l’année, tu veux pas faire des salades de pâtes.

A : Ben non. (rires)

M : Tu veux toucher à la caméra, tu veux poser des lumières, … Et donc du coup ça arrangeait bien tout le monde qu’un petit gars veuille bien faire tout ça.

A : Veuille bien faire des salades de pâtes, donc tu as des recettes incroyables de salades de pâtes ?

M : Oui, ben j’ai arrêté, j’ai pris ma retraite, mais j’ai eu une époque ouais où j’en faisais pas mal (rires). Je comptais plus mes heures, j’avais des grandes marmites à la maison et je faisais des kilos et des kilos de pâtes… Et donc voilà, pendant 8-9 mois j’ai fait que ça, ça m’a permis de rencontrer plein de gens, mais j’avais pas le sentiment de bosser dans le cinéma.

A : Puis t’étais pas payé surtout, sur ces trucs-là.

M : J’étais pas payé, j’étais inscrit à la fac pour avoir les bourses et avoir un peu d’aides financières, mes parents m’aidaient de leur côté mais j’était compliqué. Et je commençais un peu à baisser les bras, à me dire “bon ben c’est marrant tu fais des tournages mais tu fais de la bouffe, quoi.” Alors, rien contre la bouffe, les cuisiniers sont supers et en vrai les cantines de cinéma c’est trop cool. Je pense que c’est un métier que j’aurais pu faire aussi. Mais c’est pareil, c’est des gens qui sont équipés, qui ont des camions, qui ont du matériel, qui font de vraies belles choses et qui sont pas avec les moyens du bord à faire de la bouffe un peu naze, quoi. Et donc je m’étais dit : ”Ben je vais peut-être arrêter là parce qu’en fait ça marche pas, j’y arrive pas…” et au moment où j’allais vraiment abandonner et me dire “Bon ben je vais rentrer à la maison parce que c’est trop compliqué”, on m’a appelé sur un film. Alors c’est un peu compliqué mais c’est plein de gens qui me connaissaient, que j’avais rencontrés en discutant. Il y a une personne que j’avais rencontré qui s’est retrouvée sur ce film-là en tant que stagiaire, et le prod cherchait un régisseur pour ce film-là, et vu que c’était un film hors annexe, donc très mal payé…

A : Tu peux expliquer deux secondes ce que veut dire “hors annexe” ?

M : Oui, en fait dans le cinéma il y a des conventions et donc y a convention USPA qui est pour la série et la télé; et il y a “Annexe 3”, “Annexe 2”, “Annexe 1” qui sont en fait des.. Comment expliquer ça ? Selon le budget du film, tu peux prétendre à un certain salaire en fonction de ton poste.

A : Hm-hm.

M : Et donc, un film qui est Annexe 3 et qui a moins de budget qu’un Annexe 1 te paiera moins. Il y a aussi des films qu’on dit “hors annexe”. Je sais pas si c’est vraiment… Enfin si, je pense que c’est légal, mais c’est un peu compliqué parce que c’est un peu tu t’arranges avec la prod sur plein de choses. Et là en l’occurence, j’étais pas payé un tarif qui est dans la convention collective et qui est le minimum syndical, tout ça. Mais bon, quand tu débutes et que t’as pas d’argent et qu’on te propose d’être payé…

A : Et que tu sais pas trop exactement comment ça se passe.

M : Et surtout je savais pas vraiment ce qu’était une convention, comment ça marchait…

A : Voilà, c’est ça…

M : Moi on me dit “Ça te dit de faire un film et tu vas être payé ?”; j’étais là “Bah, ça fait un an que je fais des films et que je suis pas payé donc évidemment que je suis chaud”. (rires). Et donc je me suis retrouvé sur ce film-là qui est le film Hostile de Mathieu Turi, et c’est un film de genre qui s’est tourné dans 3 pays et moi je devais être régisseur général sur la partie France. Alors, euh, j’étais régisseur général, c’était vraiment mon poste, j’étais chef de poste et je gérais une équipe de 3 personnes, mais euh… C’est, comment dire, c’était très simple parce que la prod avait déjà mâché la moitié du travail et que finalement je faisais un peu ce que je faisais sur un film étudiant dans la logistique, en un peu plus poussé, parce que la prod avait déjà mâché le travail et parce que le budget ne permettait pas de faire des folies. Donc c’était quand même, relativement… À cette époque, j’avais 21 ans à ce moment-là, j’allais sur mes 22, on m’aurait proposé le poste de régisseur général mais sur un long-métrage qui est dans la convention, qui est annexé et qui est très bien produit, euh j’aurais fait couler le film parce que j’avais pas les connaissances pour. Mais là, ce film-là, vu que j’étais guidé par les producteurs ça s’est bien passé. Donc j’ai fait mon premier film payé, premier long-métrage, premier film qui est sorti au cinéma…

A : Et donc au bout de combien de temps ?

M : Au bout de un an. Ça faisait un an que je faisais du bénévolat.

A : (rires) Ça fait plaisir.

M : Oui, de fou ! (rires) Et donc, là ça a très bien marché. Derrière sur le CV tu mets “régisseur long-métrage”; et tout le monde est là “Ouais, c’était pas un vrai film…?” Si, c’était un vrai film, c’était plus facile que sur d’autres films mais c’était un vrai film ! Et donc bref, ça m’a permis de prouver aux gens, à tous les régisseurs généraux qui bossaient à Paris, que j’étais capable, que je savais faire, que je connaissais les plateaux, que j’avais fait de la fiction. Et donc, après, petit à petit, on m’a appelé et j’ai fait mon petit réseau de régisseurs. Donc j’ai fait de la régie pendant cinq ans. Au bout de trois ans j’étais passé régisseur général. Donc là j’étais chef de poste sur de la pub, de la fiction, de la série, sur plein de choses. J’avais mes équipes. Quand je suis passé chef j’ai eu une grande période où j’ai fait beaucoup de web. Donc, Golden Moustache, Studio Bagel et Webedia. Donc avec tous les Youtubeurs, McFly et Carlito, Squeezie et compagnie. Longtemps j’ai fait ça et puis j’ai voulu changer pour plein de raisons, notamment financières. Parce que la régie c’est le métier qui paye le moins bien. Alors ça paye très bien… Enfin, c’est compliqué en fait. Ça dépend du milieu social duquel tu viens. Moi j’ai grandi avec des parents qui touchaient le SMIC, alors j’ai pas été malheureux, j’ai eu tout ce que je voulais; mais quand t’es régisseur, même si tu fais beaucoup d’heures, et que tu gagnes plus que ce que tes parents gagnaient à la même époque, tu te dis “Super, je gagne très bien ma vie”.

A : Ouais, ouais.

M : Chacun aura son avis là-dessus mais tu gagnes bien ta vie. Tu fais beaucoup d ‘heures, par contre.

A : Tu peux vivre correctement, quoi.

M : Oui, oui. Et surtout à Paris, moi je vivais très bien. J’avais mon appart, je payais mon loyer, je sortais, je me restreignais pas et ça se passait bien. Et donc, du coup, pour des raisons financières parce que les autres métiers, notamment machinerie ça paye beaucoup mieux, tu fais moins d’heures, c’est beaucoup plus encadré : on est syndiqués, y a une convention, tout ça; donc c’est beaucoup plus… Ouais, tu te fais moins “arnaquer” et c’est plus difficile d’entrée. Parce que la régie ça demande quand même des connaissances, quand tu parleras avec un régisseur sur ce podcast il t’expliquera plus en détails; mais ça demande beaucoup de volonté, et un peu de connaissances, alors que les autres métiers demandent beaucoup de volonté et beaucoup de connaissances. Et donc, du coup, “tout le monde peut faire de la régie” s’il y met de la bonne volonté et s’investit.

A : C’est un peu le poste dans lequel les gens commencent quand ils sont pas du tout…

M : Oui c’est ça. Alors que d’autres métiers demandent quand même des connaissances et des compétences plus approfondies. Tu peux prendre un mec dans la rue et tu lui dis “Viens faire de la machinerie”, il va te dire “Ben c’est mignon mais comment ça marche…?” Alors que dans la régie tu peux dire “Viens faire de la régie, faut que tu fasses ça, ça, c’est très simple”, et faut lui expliquer mais, ce que tu vas lui demander de faire il va pouvoir le faire de suite.

A : Ouais.

M : Alors qu’en machinerie, si tu lui dis de faire un truc va falloir lui expliquer, lui montrer comment fonctionne chaque outil, c’est très spécifique; pour qu’il puisse le faire, donc c’est plus technique.

A : Après, ce qui est cool dans la régie aussi c’est que t’as pu vraiment observer les corps de métiers, voir un peu ce qu’ils faisaient et apprendre sur le tas.

M : Ah oui, complètement. En plus, tu vas souvent chez le loueur pour échanger du matériel et en récupérer donc tu touches, tu commences à apprendre les noms, tu sais à quoi ça sert, pourquoi c’est là, donc oui t’apprends plein de choses. La régie, c’est hyper formateur. C’est un peu l’école militaire mais ça t’apprend vraiment des valeurs, une façon de travailler très rigoureuse qui est importante dans plein de choses, autant dans ce métier-là que dans la vie. Et donc, du coup, j’ai eu envie de changer et de faire de la machinerie. Et le Covid est arrivé. Ça a un peu été une chance pour moi parce que ça a foutu un peu le bordel dans le milieu du cinéma et de la production audiovisuelle, qui a fait qu’on s’est retrouvés, à la fin de l’année 2020 avec une pénurie de techniciens, parce qu’il y avait trop de tournages en cours. Entre les tournages retardés, les tournages annulés, les tournages qui étaient prévus à ces dates-là; ça a foutu un énorme bordel…

A : Ah oui, je me rappelle qu’il y avait une histoire comme quoi les loueurs étaient vides parce que tout le matos était sorti, et…

M : Ouais c’était affreux, il y avait de la sous-loc’ de partout c’était n’importe quoi. Mais bon, ça a fait que j’ai un chef machiniste, qui est aujourd’hui mon chef attitré de… De la vie.

A : (rires)

M : Un chef machiniste qui était avec un ami à moi machino, qui étaient à deux sur un long-métrage, ils avaient besoin d’une troisième personne et tous deux avaient leur réseau épuisé parce que tous leurs collègues machinos étaient pris. Et ce chef a dit à mon porte “Si tu connais un jeune qui sort d’école, qui veut apprendre; même s’il y connaît rien tant pis on le formera mais il nous faut un gars.” Et il a dit “Ben si, je connais !”. Il m’a appelé.

A : Et toi ça faisait déjà un petit moment que tu étais intéressé pour faire ce métier-là.

M : Oui, ça faisait plus d’un an que je voulais faire de la machinerie et que je touchais un peu ou que j’avais fait de la machinerie sur du clip ou du court-métrage. Donc j’avais touché un peu au matériel mais en fait, vu que c’est 3-4 jours ici, puis tu fais rien pendant six mois puis 3-4 jours par-là, y a ce truc un peu de… T’oublies ce que t’as appris.

A : Mm-mm.

M : Déjà, t’apprends pas beaucoup parce que c’est quelques jours, c’était tellement bref, t’as mis tellement de temps avant de t’y remettre que t’as oublié. Là, faire un long-métrage c’était huit semaines où tous les jours t’as la machinerie dans le front et go, go, go. Donc j’en ai chié parce que vraiment, apprendre un métier sur le tas comme ça; et c’est ce que je disais quand j’expliquais la différence entre régisseur et machino, c’est que… Je suis arrivé hyper confiant en me disant “Les plateaux de cinéma je connais, j’ai été chef de poste, ça va être de la rigolade, faut juste que j’apprenne le nom de chaque outil et puis ça roule”. Et en fait non, c’est des attitudes très différentes sur in plateau. Parce qu’en plus en régie t’es pas sur le plateau, fin y a régisseur de plateau mais t’es autour, t’encadres un tournage. Là t’es vraiment au milieu des acteurs, de la caméra, de la lumière… Partout où je me mettais, je gênais.

A : Ah ouais...

M : Soit j’étais dans la lumière, soit j’étais dans la caméra, soit j’étais… Je gênais le passage, enfin c’était un enfer. Tu dois être à l’affût de tout ce qu’il se passe autour de toi, parce que le métier fait que si un électricien sort un cadre, il faut que toi tu récupères une gueuse pour mettre sur le pied, pour…

A : Attends, pause. Une gueuse, c’est… ?

M : C’est un sac de sable. (rires)

A : Un sac de sable pour empêcher les choses de tomber.

M : Voilà, donc en gros ils mettent un cadre qui va faire 2m par 2m sur un pied, et toi tu vas mettre du poids sur la base du pied pour éviter que ce cadre prenne le vent et se renverse. Et ça c’est rarement un électricien qui te fait “Eh, Maxime ! Je vais mettre un cadre faut mettre une gueuse !” C’est toi qui as une vision périphérique, tu vois un cadre qui bouge sur le côté, tu vois qu’il va sortir, tac tu vas chercher des gueuses et tu le poses. Et sauf que ça c’est pas un réflexe que t’as initialement. Enfin, ça comme plein d’autres choses hein, c’est un exemple parmi des milliers. Et moi j’étais toujours à contre-temps. C’est à dire que je regardais autour de moi, je voyais rien de particulier, et puis y a toujours mon collègue ou mon chef qui me disaient “Maxime, là, Maxime, là”. J’étais là : “Ah, putain” et c’était mon collègue qui le faisait à ma place. Et en fait moi je courais et je faisais rien.

A : (rires) Tu courais de pied en pied avec tes gueuses ?

M : (rires) C’est ça, je voyais un truc à faire là-bas mais je le voyais tellement en retard par rapport à d’autres gens, que quand j’allais pour le faire c’était déjà fait en fait. Et ça a été deux semaines affreuses, enfin pas affreuses parce que ça a été formateur; mais deux semaines où j’ai galéré et où vraiment j’étais épuisé mentalement, parce que c’est hyper dur de rester… Fin moi aujourd’hui c’est naturel et j’y pense plus mais à cette époque-là il fallait que je me dise “Concentré, concentré, concentré” et pour la première fois de ma vie je me suis couché à 20h30 de mon plein gré. Pas parce que j’avais fait soirée la veille et j’étais en gueule de bois ou quoi, vraiment, j’avais bien dormi, j’ai fait ma journée 8h-18h; 20h30 dodo parce que j’étais cuit !

A : Ouais…

M : C’étaient deux semaines hyper intenses pour moi. Et après, petit à petit, tu t’habitues et tu rentres dans le moule. Après ce film-là, l’avantage c’est que je m’étais fait plein de potes; parce que tu sais, je te disais, j’ai un relationnel qui est… Déjà dans la régie le relationnel, l’humain c’est très important; mais en plus de ça c’est quelque chose que j’ai toujours fait naturellement dans ma vie. Et donc j’avais plein de potes machinos à qui j’avais dit “Ben moi je veux faire de la machinerie, tu veux pas me former ?” Et ils voulaient pas, parce que c’est compliqué… Tu sais, tu pars sur une pub Chanel pendant trois jours, face au client il faut que ce soit carré, quoi.

A : Ouais, c’est ça…

M : Tu peux pas te… Si t’as pas un mec qui est officiellement stagiaire, tu peux pas faire “Ah si, c’est un de mes gars. Bah il sait pas faire mais je vais lui apprendre !” Tu vois, ça marche pas… Tout le monde, sans méchanceté, voulait pas me prendre, en me disant “Désolé, c’est compliqué, tout ça…”. Je fais ce long-métrage, je leur écris en disant “Je viens de faire 8 semaines de machinerie intensive…”

A : “Je suis formé”.

M : Ouais.

A : “Je peux poser des gueuses sur des pieds, c’est bon !” (rires)

M : (rires) “J’ai plein de trucs à apprendre mais je sais poser un rail, fin déjà je connais le matériel globalement. Je sais poser un rail, je sais me servir d’un slider, et monter certaines grues, je sais faire ci, je sais faire ça. J’ai les bases, enfin j’ai même plus que les bases, j’ai de très bonnes bases.” Et donc, du coup ça les a chauffé et puis ils m’ont appelé sur des pubs et ça s’est bien passé. Donc en fait, j’ai très rapidement eu un réseau qui m’appelait et qui me faisait bosser parce que c’étaient des gens avec qui je bossais quand j’étais régisseur, qui étaient devenus des amis et qui du coup voulaient bien bosser avec moi. Donc, mon changement s’est fait assez facilement et assez rapidement. Parce que, le réseau. Mais de toute façon dans ce métier-là c’est la base de tout. Voilà ! Donc là ça fait deux ans, un peu plus de deux ans que je fais de la machinerie.

A : Et tu aimes bien.

M : Je vis ma meilleure vie.

A : (rires)

M : J’adore. C’est drôle parce que j’en parle beaucoup notamment avec les anciens, qui eux sont fatigués. Ben, après ils ont connu aussi une évolution du cinéma assez importante que je ne saurais expliquer parce que j’étais pas là il y a trente ans, mais… Eux sont fatigués, ils en ont marre, ils ont envie d’arrêter. Ils ont des enfants, ils font entre guillemets tout pour pas qu’ils deviennent intermittents du spectacle parce que c’est trop galère…

A : Puis surtout, en plus… Enfin, tu parles à des machinos je suppose ?

M : Oui, aussi éléctros, caméra mais aussi machinos.

A : C’est des métiers qui sont quand même un peu physiques, enfin je veux dire c’est fatiguant, tu restes pas debout à rien faire ou t’es pas assis à un bureau toute la journée. T’es vraiment tout le temps en train de…

M : C’est pire de rester assis à un bureau toute la journée. (rires) C’est trop chiant.

A : Ah oui, c’est sûr, bah sinon on serait pas dans ces métiers-là, hein !

M : Mais ce que je veux dire, c’est qu’ils sont tous un peu.. Tu sais, ils ont tous envie que ça s’arrête et ils conseillent à personne de… Limite, ils essaient de faire fuir les gens : “Non venez pas, venez pas c’est affreux”. Mais moi j’adore ça, j’adore ce métier, j’adore être sur des plateaux de tournage parce que tu rencontres des gens tout le temps… Et puis tu sais tu te fais des potes que tu revois plus après dans la vie de tous les jours pour mille et une raisons, et puis un an après tu refais un tournage, ils sont dessus et t’es “Ah trop cool, ça fait plaisir de te revoir”… Enfin, c’est trop bien. Tu rencontres des gens tout le temps, tu vas dans des endroits différents tout le temps, des endroits interdits au public auxquels tu ne serais jamais allé en temps normal… Enfin, il y a tellement de choses et c’est hyper enrichissant et… En général on fait des semaines de 40 heures, 50 heures et on peut en faire 60, 70, 80 selon les projets.. Mais c’est vrai que quand tu fais une semaine de 80 heures t’as pas vraiment de vie.

A : Non. Mais t’as la vie sociale du tournage, quoi.

M : Ouais c’est ça, moi en tournage je me dis pas “C’est le boulot”. On se marre, il se passe plein de choses, on fait plein de trucs différents tout le temps. Je dis pas que j’ai envie de faire ça toute ma vie parce que j’adore sortir, aller dans les bars avec les potes, aller en boîte, les vacances, les weekends tout ça, mais… Je sais pas, au boulot je me sens pas au travail. Juste, je kiffe, c’est trop bien.

A : Et tu penses pas que dans, 20 ans, dans 30 ans tu seras pas comme ces vieux-là… Enfin, (rires) c’est horrible comment je dis ça !

M : Ces vieux qui râlent !

A : Ces vieux cons… Non, mais tu seras pas comme ces plus vieux de la vieille on va dire, qui sont un peu soûlés, qui sont fatigués, qui en ont marre…

M : Peut-être, je sais pas. Je pense qu’aussi le physique va beaucoup jouer. Quand j’ai été formé on m’a bien appris… Tu sais, moi le petit jeune dynamique qui veut tout faire et qui veut montrer qu’il est vaillant, qui porte plein de trucs sur les épaules… Tout de suite on m’a dit “Oh là, oh là, calme-toi…”

A : “Tu vas te cramer…”

M : Ouais voilà. “Tu portes pas des trucs lourds tout seul même si t’en es capable, c’est pas la question, c’est pas un concours de force. Ça on prend à deux, ça on prend à trois, ça tu peux faire tout seul, ça sert à rien de se faire mal”. Très vite on m’a expliqué plein de choses sur comment entretenir son physique et pas se tuer le dos au bout de dix ans de métier et arrêter, quoi. Donc on fait quand même très attention à ça, et peut-être, je sais pas. Quand j’y réfléchis y a aucun autre métier qui est un peu similaire à celui-là et qui me plaît. Enfin, moi je pourrais pas être dans un bureau.

A : Puis, c'est vrai que je pense qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup d'équivalent. C'est vraiment une sorte de microcosme spatio-temporel hyper particulier, le monde du ciné et de l'audiovisuel.

M : Ouais. C’est pour ça aussi que personne n'y comprend rien. Enfin, en dehors, du statut intermittent… Moi, on me pose plein de questions : “Et la retraite se passe comment ? Et tu peux faire ci, tu peux faire ça…” Mais inversement, moi le régime général, euh… Quand les gens me parlent de RTT, moi je suis là : “Super, tickets resto, je sais pas ce que c’est.”

A : (rires)

M : Mais voilà, donc tu vois c’est un peu… Parce que je m'y intéresse pas aussi, hein, je pourrais, mais c’est vrai que ça ne concerne pas et du coup… Mais non honnêtement, peut-être que le métier pourrait me saouler, au bout d'un moment pour mille et une raisons, mais la liberté que t’as à côté de ce métier… Je pourrais me dire, arrivé à un certain niveau, enfin dans vingt ans, je pense que j'aurais un réseau tellement énorme de connaissances…

A : (rires)

M: Non, mais parce que ça se développe, ça grandit forcément…

A : (rires) Je serais tellement, mais, wow !

M : Non, je ne parle pas de moi, de mes capacités, mais des gens que je connaîtrais, parce que forcément, tous les jours, tu rencontres des nouvelles personnes sur les plateaux, donc, forcément… Sans dire qu'on devient potes et c'est des amis, mais juste des connaissances; que j'aurais toujours autant de boulot, si ce n'est plus. Et donc je pourrais peut-être me dire: “bon, là, j'en ai marre, je gagne bien ma vie, je ralentis et j'accepte moins de tournages”, et donc, du coup, j'ai beaucoup plus de temps à moi, et donc, comme ça, voilà. Aller sur le plateau c'est une tannée, mais bon, c'est deux mois, puis c'est fini. Après, je me prends un mois de break ou je fais ce que je veux. Donc, je peux me permettre ça. Là où quelqu'un qui bosse en entreprise, il a cinq semaines de vacances par an. Bon, il y en a qui ont plus, moins, moi, je veux pas généraliser, mais on fait une moyenne. Et eux, je vois ma mère, elle a cinq semaines, ça la saoule, elle attend que ça que ses vacances arrivent. Moi, ce n'est pas le cas, aujourd'hui, c'est même presque l'inverse. J'ai envie de bosser et quand j'en aurai marre ben je pourrai être dans ce mood-là aussi de “ça me saoule d'aller bosser”. Mais je n'aurais pas une semaine à poser en juin.

A : Ouais.

M : Non, ben là je prends deux mois, juillet-août, j'ai pas envie de bosser, je bosse pas. De toute façon, j’ai mon statut et je fais mes heures renouveler mon statut, et on y retourne quoi. Donc, au pire des cas, si vraiment ça me saoule- et honnêtement je ne pense pas, je pourrais réduire. Et prendre plus de temps pour moi et moins au travail, quoi.

A : Parce que aussi, t'es pas payé non plus la même chose selon le projet sur lequel tu travailles, comme tu disais tout à l'heure.

M : Ouais.

A : Parce que je sais qu'il y a des gens, ils font trois pubs dans le mois, donc ça leur prend pas forcément beaucoup de temps, puisque les pubs, c'est pas sur des semaines que ça s'étale.

M : Oui, ça dépend des pubs; mais en général oui.

A : En général, c’est quelques jours, tu vois; donc t’en fais plusieurs par mois, mais tellement bien payé en général que t'as pas forcément besoin de travailler plus que ça, et après, t’es tranquille, quoi.

M : Oui, si tu veux… Après il faut avoir un bon réseau, pub. C'est ce qu'on appelle des planques, mais… (rires) Si t’as un bon réseau dans un certain domaine, avec certaines personnes… Oui, ça peut aller très vite.

A : Et du coup, on a un peu survolé ça. Est-ce que tu pourrais un petit peu plus expliquer en quoi consiste ton métier exactement ? On a parlé de gueuses et de pieds... (rires)

M : En gros, la machinerie c'est tout ce qui… Nous, on est en corps de métier qui est très lié à la caméra et à la lumière, et on s'occupe de toutes les installations. En gros, enfin, le gros du travail, c'est faire les mouvements de caméra. Donc, que ce soit installer un rail de travelling avec un chariot de lit pour faire ce qu'on appelle des travellings donc des mouvements linéaires. Ou des grues, ou des accroches voiture : accrocher une caméra sur un capot de voiture; accrocher une caméra sur un plafond, pour faire un topshot, plein de choses. En fait, notre métier, c'est de pouvoir permettre à la caméra et à la lumière d'installer leurs projecteurs ou leurs caméras là où le réalisateur et le chef opérateur veulent les mettre. Donc, on arrive dans un lieu, quel qu'il soit, et on nous dit: “Là on veut que le plan ce soit ça, la caméra c’est comme ça depuis telle hauteur ou tel endroit” et donc, nous on place la caméra. Donc si c’est un truc qu'on peut faire simplement à l'épaule : à l'épaule; si c'est un mouvement qui demande de monter en hauteur, de monter très haut et de redescendre : ça sera sur une grue. Ça va être à nous, après les repérages, en fonction de ce que nous demandent le réalisateur et le chef opérateur de dire: “Bah, il nous faut tel objet pour faire ça, tel outil de travail”; est-ce qu’il nous faudra une grue, est-ce qu’il nous faudra un bazooka, est-ce qu'il faudra un chariot de lit, peu importe. Et on met ça en place. Pareil pour les lumières, si le chef opérateur veut simuler la lumière du soleil, pour ça il faut que le projecteur soit tel endroit et que c'est un endroit dans un coin d’un mur, j’en sais rien, un plafond… Ben, à nous de voir si on peut fabriquer une structure pour accrocher le projecteur là-haut, pour pouvoir permettre de faire la lumière que veut le chef opérateur. Et après, il y a aussi cette notion de sécurité de plateau, où si un un électricien sort, comme on le disait, un cadre avec un pied, ça va être à moi de le sécuriser pour pas que celui-ci tombe. Pareil pour la caméra, s'ils sortent des… Par exemple sur une voiture, on va mettre ce qu'on appelle des teradeks- des émetteurs- sur le toit de la voiture pour que ça puisse connecter sans fil avec le système de mise au point ou le retour vidéo, etc. Et ça, ça va être à nous de le sécuriser, pour pas que ça tombe de la voiture pendant que la voiture roule. Plein de petits détails comme ça, quoi. Donc c'est de la sécurité de plateau, mais très spécifique à ce que les autres départements mettent en place pour le plateau. Ce n'est pas de la sécurité de, euh… C’est pas moi qui vais gérer la traversée de route s’il y a des voitures.

A : Ça, c'est la régie. (rires)

M : C’est la régie (rires). Non, parce qu’il y a cette déformation de dire: la machinerie est responsable de la sécurité du plateau- c'est vrai et pas vrai. Donc c'est vrai pour des trucs spécifiques, mais…

A: Ben, t’es responsable de la sécurité des équipements, en fait.

M : Oui, c'est ça.

A : Est-ce que, euh je sais plus si tu l'avais fait mais t'avais pas dû passer le permis poids lourd aussi ?

M : Si. Ce n'est pas une nécessité, mais c'est très apprécié. En général, on fait nos enlèvements matériel. Dans la majeure partie des cas, ce sont des poids lourds parce qu’on a du matériel qui est très lourd et que les tous les véhicules jusqu'au permis B n’accueillent que jusqu’à trois tonnes cinq. Donc, trois tonnes cinq, ce n'est pas suffisant par rapport à la quantité de matériel qu’on prend donc nous on passe le permis poids lourd pour avoir des capacités de charge jusqu'à douze tonnes. Donc, c'est pas du tout obligatoire. Mais c’est comme un régisseur avec le permis, c'est comme les électros avec le poids lourd, enfin plein de choses... C'est pas du tout obligatoire, mais c'est quand même pas mal nécessaire. Donc, si tu l'as pas… Enfin quand j'ai commencé dans le cinéma, je sais que j'ai- j'ai eu des boulots un peu grâce à ça. Ou des gens bien plus qualifiés que moi, n'ont pas pu faire le projet parce qu'il fallait absolument un mec qui avait le poids lourd; et où moi, même si j'étais qualifié mais avec beaucoup moins d'expérience, on m'avait pris parce que je l'avais le permis, quoi.

A : Okay. Donc, t’en as un petit peu parlé aussi; mais est-ce que tu pourrais un tout petit peu plus expliciter en fait, comment t’arrives sur un projet ?

M : C'est le réseau. Le réseau de fou dont je veux parlais tout à l’heure. (rires)

A : (rires)

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Events 10.30

637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. 1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. 1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. 1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. 1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. 1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela. 1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. 1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. 1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria. 1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes. 1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) 1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies. 1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. 1941 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. 1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp. 1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559. 1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII. 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line. 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded. 1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board. 1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters. 1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board. 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. 1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker. 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. 1975 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held. 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. 1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. 1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. 2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine. 2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas. 2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest. 2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.

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Orson: Just like I remembered.

#ok so the reason this took this long was bc i was deciding how to format this post and decided to split it up into 2 and queue the other #my sims: orson #my sims #storyline: the miracle legacy #miracle legacy: gen 1 #ts3 #the sims 3 #the sims 3 story #ts3 story #ts3 legacy #the sims 3 legacy #simblr #ts3 simblr

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sssshhhthefilmsabouttostart · 3 years

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The best and worst films of 2020

Let’s be honest - 2020 was an extremely shitty year for moviegoers everywhere, as the Queen would say an annus horribilis.

Due to the Covid pandemic’s dramatic impact on nearly every facet of human life, cinemas closed, film festivals went virtual and film productions became an intricate mess of insurance and safety challenges.

Yet despite these dire challenges and an unpredictable future, cinema remained very much alive throughout the year, with a wide range of ambitious undertakings snaking their way into whatever form of release seemed viable. Blockbusters receded to the background, allowing a wide range of movies to trickle through an uncertain marketplace that would have been hostile to them even in pre-pandemic times.

So what cinematic gems and unmitigated disasters were dropped upon audiences during the year?

Ladies and gentlemen, may we please offer for your consideration...

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

THE CURRENT WAR - THE LIGHTHOUSE - IN FABRIC - BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY (D) - BOMBSHELL - THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON - THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (D) - LIGHT OF MY LIFE - THE ASSISTANT - THE LODGE - THE GENTLEMEN - THE WAY BACK - DARK WATERS - 1917 - THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY - THE HUNT

2020′S TOP TEN BEST FILMS

10. THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW

Hot off the critical success of his debut feature ‘Thunder Road,’ writer-director Jim Cummings’ refreshing yet effective take on the werewolf genre amped up the dark comedy whilst delivering quite a few chills. Tinged with realistically flawed characters and clever scares, ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ might not have been your typical werewolf flick but it successfully managed to bring that classic legend to life once again.

9. LET HIM GO

Previously last seen together as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents in ‘Man of Steel,’ Diane Lane and Kevin Costner were reunited onscreen as husband and wife again in writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s neo-Western drama ‘Let Him Go.’ Adapted from author Larry Watson’s 2013 novel, the film featured stunning landscapes, full-blooded moments of sudden violence and compelling performances from Diane Lane, Kevin Costner and, most memorably, Lesley Manville’s turn as a gritty and cunning matriarch.

8. COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

Based on the classic short story by HP Lovecraft and featuring another scene-stealing performance from Nicolas Cage, this clever adaptation was an effective horror film with an unrelentingly grim sci-fi bent. In addition to the truly disturbing and inspired images of queasy body horror, ‘Colour Out of Space’ also marked the eagerly-anticipated re-emergence of filmmaker Richard Stanley (his first time back in the director’s chair since being fired from his 1996 remake ‘The Island of Dr Moreau’).

7. THE INVISIBLE MAN

Who knew a remake could be so refreshing? With this updated take on the H.G. Wells tale, writer-director Leigh Whannell did just about everything right, delivering a tense, clever thriller with touches of both horror and sci-fi. As the fascinatingly flawed yet appealing tough protagonist, Elisabeth Moss gave a captivating performance in a film that was chilling in all the right ways, packed with plenty of twists and a deliciously nasty resolution.

6. THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (NETFLIX)

Whilst the subject matter of ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′ shared an uncanny relevance to today’s politically charged times, as a gripping courtroom drama with a stellar cast, the film ticked all the boxes. ‘West Wing’ creator Aaron Sorkin put his trademark traits - razor-sharp wit, rhetorical flair and political insight - to very good use in this masterful retelling of the trial following the 1968 anti-war protests outside the Democratic National Convention.

5. HEARTS AND BONES

In his debut feature film, Australian director Ben Lawrence created a spiritually rich and immersive drama about the relationship between a grizzled, broken war photographer and a Sudanese refugee. Whilst Hugo Weaving was note-perfect in his portrayal as a crumbling man wrestling with his past, equally impressive was first time actor Andrew Luri who delivered a quiet yet memorable performance in what was an affecting piece of cinema.

4. TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL (DOCUMENTARY)

Watching a documentary about the COVID-19 crisis in the middle of a global pandemic might not sound appealing but prolific filmmaker Alex Gibney’s latest work was easily the most essential non-fiction film of 2020. Shot safely in secret for five months, ‘Totally Under Control’ played out like a tightly-wound thriller as it placed the Trump Administration’s inept response to the coronavirus pandemic under the microscope.

3. BAD EDUCATION (HBO)

As far as crime stories go, embezzlement isn’t always the most thrilling subject. However, ‘Bad Education’ turned a relatively simple white collar crime story about a New Jersey school administrator caught stealing money into a compelling drama, thanks to an incisive and nimble script and spot on performances from Allison Janney, Geraldine Viswanathan, Ray Romano and especially Hugh Jackman.

2. MANK (NETFLIX)

Director David Finch’s dazzling portrait of Herman J. ‘Mank’ Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who collaborated with wunderkind filmmaker Orson Welles to write the first draft of ‘Citizen Kane,’ was a cinematic jewel from start to finish. Similar to last year’s ‘Once Upon A Time in...Hollywood,’ ‘Mank’ delivered a layered depiction of the filmmaking process, whilst Gary Oldman continued to excel at immersing himself in playing real-life characters, this time as the hard-drinking, intellectual screenwriter.

1. NOMADLAND

Writer-director Chloe Zhao’s intimate drama about an unemployed widow living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad was a thoughtful, contemplative and reflective piece of storytelling. It may have touched upon mature themes about loneliness, financial instability and restlessness, but ‘Nomadland’ remained an uplifting and hopeful piece of cinema that captured the various bittersweet reasons people choose to live a life on the road.

With an outstanding performance from Frances McDormand, brought to life through the charm of the ‘real life’ supporting cast, great direction and Joshua James Richard’s mesmerising cinematography, ‘Nomadland’ was the perfect film for 2020.

...AND NOW THE WORST!

DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS

VAMPIRES VS THE BRONX - BAD BOYS FOR LIFE - THE OLD GUARD - PROJECT POWER - ISN’T IT ROMANTIC - THE RHYTHM SECTION - WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE - I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS - MIDWAY - YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT - BABY DONE - FORCE OF NATURE - CAPONE - THE NEW MUTANTS - DOOLITTLE

10. WONDER WOMAN 1984

To quote Red Letter Media’s resident film critic Mike Stoklasa, “this movie was the cinematic equivalent of the Bluesmobile.” Directed by Patty Jenkins, this 80′s-set sequel to the 2017 DC superhero hit was lethargically paced and featured a completely bonkers narrative that made absolutely no sense. Horribly scripted, disjointed and overstuffed (a runtime of 2.5 hours), ‘Wonder Woman 1984′ sadly jettisoned everything that made Jenkins’ original film so compelling. The result? An appalling misfire.

9. THE GRUDGE

A curiously talented and interesting cast were somehow lured into - and subsequently wasted in - this pointless, tired, reboot/revival of the long-running ‘Ju-On’ Japanese-based horror series. Despite director NIcholas Pesce’s attempt to disguise the rudimentary nature of the plot via back-and-forth timeline jumping, ‘The Grudge’ was just a formulaic paint-by-the-numbers meander through a poorly developed story that existed only to prop up a bunch of uninspired jump scares.

8. BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN)

There are many movies that have no reason to exist - and this latest misfire from DC Comics was one of them. Directed by Cathy Yan, ‘Birds of Prey’ was a mire of uninspired ideas and recycled genre conventions that got old real quick. Penned by Christina Hodson (’Bumblebee’ being the ‘highlight’ on her resume), the script was as simplistic as it was thin, with needless subplots merely introduced to inflate the film to a decent running time. Even Margot Robbie’s manic performance as the ‘Mistress of Mayhem’ couldn’t save this mess.

7. JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT

What could’ve been a dream film for fans of these two classic stoner characters instead was nothing but a string of cameos and callbacks in a plot-less bore. Director Kevin Smith sucked all the life and fun out of this watered-down story, that suffered from a constant series of awkward and forced jokes that were painfully unfunny. An unfortunate stinker.

6. AVA

This latest foray into the ‘female assassin for hire’ genre was about as cliched as you could get. An emotionally troubled female killer whose male mentor assumes the role of the surrogate father? Check. Pounding dance music score? Check. Obligatory nightclub fight sequence? Check. Confused love interest? You betcha! Humourless, dry and uninspired, ‘Ava’ played out like a poor man’s ‘La Femme Nikita.’

5. FANTASY ISLAND

Hollywood’s obsession with repackaging Gen-X childhoods continued with this absurd attempt to reboot the classic 1970′s TV series as a low-budget horror joint under the Blumhouse label. At a dangerously close two hour runtime, there was simply nothing interesting about the film’s characters or its inane plot about a mystical island that grants wishes (a’la ‘The Monkey’s Paw’). Our advice? Turn ‘de plane’ around if you ever plan to visit this ‘Fantasy Island.’

4. ARTEMIS FOWL

For every ‘Harry Potter’ that explodes into the public consciousness, there always seems to be a dozen or more failed franchises. Sadly, Disney’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ found itself in the latter category. Director Kenneth Branagh’s dull and superficial attempt to transfer this popular children’s book series from page to screen suffered from a lack of character development, an over-reliance in CG effects and featured a lifeless performance from newcomer Ferdia Shaw as the titular character.

3. HUBIE HALLOWEEN (NETFLIX)

A month before last year’s Oscar nominations were released, Adam Sandler joked on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ that if the Academy snubbed him for his role in the film ‘Uncut Gems,’ he would make a movie “that [was] so bad on purpose.” And that’s exactly what happened. Supposedly a comedy, ‘Hubie Halloween’ was unfunny, disposable and completely devoid of any originality. Sadly for audiences, Sandler signed a four-movie deal with Netflix last year, worth up to $275 million - so we can expect to see more of this shit soon!

2. ALIEN ADDICTION

Aliens visit New Zealand and get high smoking human faeces? Someone should have advised Kiwi director Shae Sterling that audiences have moved on from such puerile comedies as this abomination. Suffice to say, if anybody ever admitted to finding this film remotely funny, they’d probably be outcast from society. An embarrassment to all those involved.

1. THE BEACH BUM

Director Harmony Korine’s generic stoner comedy about a prolific poet who drifts through life in a drug-induced haze had all the natural high of an unfiltered, soggy joint and was easily, hands down, 2020′s worst film.

‘The Beach Bum’ was a pretentious and uninteresting movie whose lead character, considered to be an ‘artistic genius,’ was nothing more than a relentless shithead to everyone around him. As Moondog, the semi-naked, bongo-playing, pot-fuelled beat poet, Matthew McConaughey was insufferable and grating in his portrayal of a character you would quite easily want to punch in the face - repeatedly. Blazed and confused, ‘The Beach Bum’ had no plot, no class and no entertainment value whatsoever.

MOVIE POSTERS

From the classic to the abstract, here is just a sample of some of the best poster designs from a highly unusual year of movies.

...AND FINALLY, WHEN WHEN IT COMES TO DIRE-LOG, THEY SAID WHAT!?

“I've never wanted anything more. But he's gone, and that's the truth. And everything has a price. One I'm not willing to pay. Not any more. This world was a beautiful place, just as it was, and you cannot have it all. You can only have the truth. And the truth is enough. The truth is beautiful” (’Wonder Woman 1984′).

And who could forget this little chestnut of advice...

“That is the only truth and truth is all there is. You cannot be the winner because you are not ready to win. And there is no shame in that. Only in knowing the truth in your heart and not accepting it. No true hero is born from lies” (’Wonder Woman 1984′).

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2021 Character Wishlist

Archanea:

Bord & Cord (Duo)

Hardin

Jake

Midia

Vyland (GHB)

Samson

Lorenz (GHB)

Elice

Gotoh (Mythic)

Nyna

Etzel

Anri (Mythic)

Medeus (Mythic)

Gaiden/Shadows of Valentia

Tatiana

Palla

Est

Luthier

Kamui

Jesse

Atlas

Fernand (GHB)

Jedah (GHB)

Marla & Hestia (Duo)

Nuibaba (GHB)

Mystery/New Mystery of the Emblem

Cecil

Ryan

Marisha

Matthis (GHB)

Jubelo & Yuliya (Duo)

Frey

Malice (GHB)

Sedgar

Wolf

Ymir

Genealogy Gen 1

Azel

Lex

Dew

Edain

Chulainn

Beowolf

Erinys

Claud

Aida (GHB)

Genealogy Gen 2

Lana

Scáthach (Or Ulster)

Oifey (Because Daddy Oifey is best Oifey)

Patty

Daisy

Laylea

Tine

Arthur (GHB or Duo with Tine)

Coipre

Ishtore (GBH but preferably on a banner)

Manfroy (GHB)

12 Deadlords (Mythics preferably)

Thracia 776

Dagdar

Safy

Ronan

Lara

Asbel

Fred (because Olwen needs her boy)

Tina

Homer

Linoan

Shannam (GHB)

Sara

Xavier (GHB with bullshit reinforcements)

Diarmuid

Galzus

Arion (GHB or banner unit)

Raydrik (GHB)

Binding Blade

Marcus

Wolt

Dorothy

Zelot (GHB)

Elffin

Cath

Hugh

Niime

Zeiss

Juno

Karel (because Blazing Sword Karel sucks)

Murdock (because fuck IntSys for not including him)

Jahn (Mythic or GHB)

Blazing Sword

Erk

Lowen

Oswin

Guy (GHB)

Isadora

Pent

Louise

Vaida

Renault

Athos (Mythic)

Farina

Roland (Mythic)

Durban (Mythic)

Elimine (Mythic)

Nergal (Mythic or GHB)

Limastella (GHB)

Sonia (GHB to punch her in her fucking face)

Denning (for Memes)

Sacred Stones

Franz

Vanessa

Moulder

Garcia (His Son's Dad)

Neimi & Colm (Duo)

Artur

Orson (Darling)

Saleh

Rennac

Morva (Fallen unit or Regular just gimme)

Path of Radiance

Boyd (just give him to us damn it!)

Volke

Marcia

Keiran (Oscar needs his boyfriend damn you)

Brom

Muarim

Tanith

Calill & Largo (Duo)

Lucia

Geoffrey

Nasir

Shiharam (GHB)

Kurthnaga

Aimee

Nealuchi

Rajaion

Radiant Dawn

Laura

Edward

Volug

Fiona

Heather (Neph GF please)

Mist (Sonic Sword please 🥺)

Kyza

Lyre (20 base Atk)

Skrimir

Pelleas (GHB)

Ashera (Mythic)

Awakening

Flavia

Basilio

Gregor

Severa

Yen'fey (GHB)

Validar (Mythic)

Fates

Boots (Shura)

Reina

Scarlet (Fallen haha)

Charlotte

Benny

Fuga

Anna

Anankos (Mythic)

Arete

Sumeragi

Three Houses

Ignatz

Raphael

Marianne

Dedue (Please, I'm dying)

Ashe (Baby boy 😔)

Sylvain (Lance of Ruin baby)

Ingrid (Luin shenanigans)

Lorenz

Ignatz

Manuela

Hanneman

Gilbert

Alois

Cyril

Yuri

Balthus

Constance

Hapi

Jeralt (Legendary)

Rodrigue

Miklan (GHB)

Judith

Rhea

Cornelia (GHB)

Lambert

Sitri

Linhardt

Cipher

All of them (they're like 10 people, come on)

Heroes

Veronica

Bruno

Gustav

Henriette

#fire emblem heroes

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Scrapbook 2019 | Pt. I

Goals are: read one hundred books this year, finish five video games, write something novel-length and write something original. These last two goals CAN be combined.

MOVIES

January

(Kingsman: The Golden Circle)

Pitch Perfect 3

February

(Big Hero 6)

March

Geostorm

Captain Marvel

(Thor Ragnarok)

(Avengers: Infinity War)

(Pocahontas)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Venom

April

(Brave)

(Flipper)

(Spirited Away)

(Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

How To Train Your Dragon 3

Crazy Rich Asians

Matilda

The Death Cure

The Mummy (2017)

(Monster’s University)

Avengers: Endgame

May

Detective Pikachu

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Rim of the World

June

(Zombieland)

Rocketman

The Secret Life of Pets 2

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

July

Spiderman: Far From Home

Truth or Dare

(Coraline)

BOOKS

January

Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card [Fin]

The Poppy War | R.F. Kuang [Fin]

Turtles All The Way Down | John Green [Fin]

Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman [Fin]

The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden [Fin]

Shards of Honor | Lois Mcmaster Bujold [Fin]

(Throne of Jade | Naomi Novak) [Fin]

The Wicked King | Holly Black [Fin]

Vengeful | V.E. Schwab

Elantris | Brandon Sanderson

February

Vengeful | V.E. Schwab [Fin]

Elantris | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

(Black Powder War | Naomi Novak) [Fin]

(The Amulet of Samarkand | Jonathon Stroud) [Fin]

Once Upon a River | Diane Setterfield

(The Golem’s Eye | Jonathon Stroud) [Fin]

(Ptolemy’s Gate | Jonathon Stroud) [Fin]

The Screaming Staircase | Jonathon Stroud

March

Once Upon a River | Diane Setterfield [Fin]

The Screaming Staircase | Jonathon Stroud [Fin]

The Girl In the Tower | Katherine Arden [Fin]

The Whispering Skull | Jonathon Stroud

(Empire of Ivory | Naomi Novak) [Fin]

The Two Towers | J.R.R Tolkien

Winter of the Witch | Katherine Arden

Saga, Vol 1 | Brian Vaughn

Saga, Vol 2 | Brian Vaughn

Saga, Vol 3 | Brian Vaughn

Saga, Vol 4 | Brian Vaughn

Saga, Vol 5 | Brian Vaughn

Saga, Vol 6 | Brian Vaughn

April

The Whispering Skull | Jonathon Stroud [Fin]

The Slow Regard of Silent Things | Patrick Rothfuss [Fin]

The Two Towers | J.R.R Tolkien [Fin]

Winter of the Witch | Katherine Arden [Fin]

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns | Julie Dao [Fin]

King of Scars | Leigh Bardugo [Fin]

The Hollow Boy | Jonathon Stroud [Fin]

Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

The Well of Ascension | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

The Creeping Shadow | Jonathon Stroud [Fin]

The Empty Grave | Jonathon Stroud [Fin]

May

Hero of Ages | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng [Fin]

The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang [Fin]

The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien [Fin]

The Near Witch | Victoria Schwab [Fin]

The Trials of Apollo | Rick Riordan [Fin]

Alloy of Law | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue | Mackenzi Lee [Fin]

Shadows of Self | Brandon Sanderson

The Dark Prophecy | Rick Riordan

Sabriel | Garth Nix [Fin]

June

Shadows of Self | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

The Dark Prophecy | Rick Riordan [Fin]

(Victory of Eagles | Naomi Novak) [Fin]

Warbreaker | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

(Tongues of Serpents | Naomi Novak) [Fin]

The Bands of Mourning | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

What If It’s Us | Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera [Fin]

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas [Fin]

Carmilla | Kim Turrisi [Fin]

The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho

The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan

The Hundred-Foot Journey | Richard C. Morais

Three Dark Crowns | Kendare Blake

Mistborn: The Secret History | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

The Eleventh Metal | Brandon Sanderson [Fin]

July

The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho [Fin]

The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan

The Hundred-Foot Journey | Richard C. Morais [Fin]

Three Dark Crowns | Kendare Blake [Fin]

Saga Vol. 8 | Brian Vaughn [Fin]

Saga Vol. 9 | Brian Vaughn [Fin]

Codename Villanelle | Luke Jennings [Fin]

Borne | Jeff Vandermeer [Fin]

Crucible of Gold | Naomi Novak [Fin]

The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger [Fin]

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy | Mackenzi Lee [Fin]

The Wise and the Wicked | Rebecca Podos [Fins]

Sweetbitter | Stephanie Danler [Fin]

Blood of Tyrants | Naomi Novak [Fin]

PODCASTS

January

Adventure Zone Ep 1

EOS 10 s4 1-4

February

EOS 10 s4 4-7

March

The Penumbra Podcast

April

Adventure Zone Ep 2

May

Welcome to Night Vale Eps 30-54

The Bright Sessions -Bonus Eps-

June

Welcome to Night Vale Eps 54-59

The Penumbra Podcast (Second Citadel eps + last two Juno)

July

Welcome to Night Vale Eps 60-

The Magnus Archive Eps 1-11

TV SHOWS BY SEASON

January

Voltron s8

The Flash

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

February

Happy

The Umbrella Academy

The Flash

Black Mirror

Russian Doll

March

The 90s

The 2000s

(Sailor Moon)

Maniac

The Dragon Prince

(Inuyasha)

American Gods

April

American Gods s2

Voltron s8

World’s Weirdest Homes

Game of Thrones s8

Brooklyn 99

The Bold Type

Cupcake Wars

May

Schitt’s Creek s1-3

Game of Thrones s8

June

Schitt’s Creek s4

Good Omens

The Terror

Chernobyl

Black Mirror s4

July

Rick & Morty s3

Stranger Things s3

Schitt’s Creek s4

VIDEO GAMES

January

Pokemon Go?

(Kingdom Hearts: DDD, 54 hrs) [Fin]

Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee

Detroit: Become Human [Fin]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Monstropolis, 20 hrs

Life is Strange, Episode 2, 4 hrs

February

Kingdom Hearts 3, 56 hrs [Fin]

Pokemon Go

Life is Strange, Episode 5, 20 hrs [Fin]

Life is Strange -Before the Storm- Episode 1 complete, 5 hrs

God of War (3 hrs)

March

God of War (35 hrs) [Fin]

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (40 hrs)

April

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (43 hrs)

(Final Fantasy XIII)

Portal 2 [Fin]

Final Fantasy 15 - Episodes Prompto, Ignis, Gladio, and Ardyn [Fin]

May

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (70 hrs)

Life Is Strange -Before the Storm- Episode 2 complete, 15 hours

June

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (120 hrs) [Fin]

Rime (1 hr)

Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age (1 hr)

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (2 hrs)

July

Rime (25 hrs) [Fin]

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (35 hrs)

Witcher 3 DLC: Hearts of Stone [Fin]

Witcher 3 DLC: Blood and Wine (10 hrs)

DELIGHTFUL FIC

January

What Dreams May Come by Lenore | Crimson Peake | Edith/Thomas | 5k | Ghosts are real, and there are things that tie them to this world. Sometimes it's because they want to linger, and sometimes it's because they are trapped. Sometimes ghosts need the help of the living before they can be truly free.

and prove your body wrong by paperclipbitch | The Defenders | Matt Murdock/Jessica Jones | 1k | Neither of them can read minds, but they both fake it for their day jobs.

these roads will take you into your own country by notbecauseofvictories | American Gods | Shadow/Laura, Gen | 5k | Here’s a joke for you: a Muslim, a zombie, and a leprechaun walk into a bar in Misery, Indiana. No one stares, because no one in the puckered, shitty asshole of Misery, Indiana gives a fuck. The Colts are playing.“Fucking new gods,” the leprechaun mutters, hunching his shoulders almost up to his ears. “Gridiron and Pepsi commercials.”

Small Step For Man by Toft [archived by yuletide_archivist] | Greek Myth | Artemis/Apollo | 4k | "It's all right, sister," Apollo whispers, and his arm is warm around her shoulder. She forgets, he is her twin, he is her other half; he knows her almost as well as she knows herself. "We're still the same."

learning curve by Yuu_chi | Detroit | Hank/Connor | 15k | “While sexual activity is not my default purpose, I do possess the capability,” Connor says without so much as batting an eye, unaware that he’s completely shattered Hank’s world view in one single sentence.

machine learning by kriegersan | Detroit | Hank/Connor | 31k | “This kinda shit doesn’t go away overnight. It’s only been a few months, Connor. We’re only just starting to know what this is gonna look like.” Lt. Anderson throws back his beer.“You think I don’t know that?” He sounds defensive. He tempers his voice. “I’m simply processing.”

eighteen wheels on an uphill climb by blackeyedblonde | Detroit | Hank/Connor | 73k | Hank is going to die. He’s going to die right here in Kentucky, 53 years old, halfway to broke, and tragically sober. Survived only by a nine-year-old St. Bernard and the 31-year-old twink who delivered the fatal blow.

Fuck pride (pride only hurts, it never helps) by ImogenGotDrunk | Detroit | Nines/Gavin | 40k | What Gavin cannot deal with is Connor’s replica; two inches taller, blue-eyed, and with a mouth that Gavin doesn’t know whether to punch or take between his teeth. The RK900 model has been assigned as his partner for the foreseeable future.

linguistics, semantics by pseudoanalytics | DBH | Hankcon | 49k | "So, what? Cyberlife gave you a preference for ugly, old, washed-up bastards?" Connor intentionally allows himself to appear unamused. "Absolutely not." He waits for Hank to look at him again before delivering his punchline. "I believe I developed that for myself."

Skin Deep by bughnrahk | DBH | Hankcon | 50k | Hank is 53 years old. He's never had a soul mark, doesn't have a soul mate. And he's fine with that. He cheated the system once and it cost him everything he had. Never again.When August 2038 rolls around and the number '313 248 317 - 51' appears on his arm in perfect Cyberlife Sans font, exactly where a soul mark should be, Hank wants nothing to do with it.

Watch Me, Watch You by elefseus (oscillos) | DBH | Hank/Connor | 82k | WIP | "How do you go about living when everything you've ever known changes? Can you?"

the most formidable lies by fshep | DBH | Connor/Gavin | 15k | WIP | Gavin is given an ultimatum: agree to give his mother’s coworker’s son a chance, or introduce his family to his new boyfriend, Connor, who isn’t his boyfriend at all.

February

and we'll figure it out by consumptive_sphinx | Temeraire | Lawrence/Tharkay | 1.5k | Everyone is born with their soulmate's name written on their skin, somewhere. Laurence has two names. Neither of them are in a script he can read.

Propriety and Fate by esama | Temeraire | Lawrence/Tharkay | 3.5k | It isn't as if one can go and talk about such things

Watercast by Fishwrites | Voltron | Keith/Lance | 205k WIP, Chapter 15 | Shiro has been a Galra prisoner for over a year; with his flight feathers clipped and unable to fly. Desperate to escape, he jumps overboard while being transported to the capitol on a Galran ship. Lance is a merman who saves him from drowning. Keith thinks Shiro is about to become mermaid dinner. Hunk just wants Lance to stop going to the surface all the time, dammit!

Afterlife by jaegermighty | Haunting of Hill House | Gen, Luke-centric | 6k | Leigh and Steve name their daughter Eleanore, with an 'e' on the end which is more old-fashioned, they say. Eleanore Olivia Crain. Lots of dead people in that name; Luke's not a fan. Not that anyone asked his opinion.

in memoriam by oxymoronic | Bartimaeus | Gen | 1.5k | Kitty Jones has but a little strength left in her body, and she has decided on this lazy summer's night to spend it on the question which has plagued her for half a century.

March

Second Chances by rootbeer | Teen Wolf | Sterek | 2k | "A lot of times the ‘markings’ were common, simple things you said to strangers all the time. 'Excuse me'; 'thank you'; 'hello'. Some got extremely romantic things like 'it’s you isn’t it? I’ve been waiting for you' or 'Wow you’re really pretty'. And they were always the first words their soulmate would ever say to them.Of course, having 'You are the fucking worst kind of person in the world' tattooed down your side, didn’t bode well.

have your cake and eat it too by keskasi | Naruto | Naruto/Sasuke | 7k | “What’s it like to give a blowjob?” Naruto asks.

Timing it Right by DragonBandit | The Bright Sessions | Mark/Damien | 14k | Damien's gold rises at Whitney. Mark tries to make things right.

April

and maybe you'll find a way to keep me a floating when i can't by LazyBaker | Stranger Things | 3k | Billie’s tough. Nothing but sharp edges with sharper teeth. She’s all bark and all bite.

A thousand by Ever-so-reylo (Ever_So_Reylo) | Star Wars | Reylo | 3k | “I’m going to kill you, now.” The problem is—really, the crux of all of Rey’s problems at the moment—he actually thinks he means it.

He Who Is Made Of Iron by MayContainBlueberries | The Queen’s Thief | Gen, Costis centric | Tea reminds Costis of his childhood.

May

for my wild by vixleonard | GOT | Arya/Gendry | Set post 8x04, Arya tries to find out who Arya Stark is now.

Almost Cool by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Shane/Ryan | 30k | While filming the Yuma Territorial Prison episode, Shane gets bitten by what he thinks is a bat. Spoiler alert: it's not.

Two Worlds Collided by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Shane/Ryan | 10k | There's a new guy at work and Ryan belatedly realizes they've actually already met once before.

Keeping Out the Cold by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | After a strange ghostly encounter, Ryan and Shane begin sharing visions via a telepathic bond. AKA: the In Your Eyes AU that no one asked for.

Bringing Things Together by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | 7k | “Look,” Shane says over the phone. “Mistakes were made.”

Pride by astolat | Game of Thrones | Jaime/Cersei/Brienne | 22k Jaime didn’t understand why Cersei suddenly insisted on trimming his hair and shaving his beard, but he also didn’t care to fight her on it, even though he’d just as soon have kept the beard: it was bitterly cold in the small tower room with its arrow-slits. At night, even curled together under the two blankets they’d been allotted, it took the better part of an hour before their bodies could warm the bed enough to sleep.

L'aura è tua messaggera by Rosyredlipstick | PJO | Nico/Will | 9k | Or, how the Stoll Brothers accidentally got Nico di Angelo and Will Solace together.

June

Competition by astolat | GoT | Jaime/Brienne | 11k | Almost the instant Brienne was out of earshot, Bronn turned to Podrick, jerked his head towards Jaime and asked, “Has he fucked her yet?”

Skin and Scales by Ernmark (M_Moonshade) | The Penumbra Podcast | Arum/Rilla/Damien | 17k | The man glares, and this time, Damien is certain it isn’t a trick of the light: those eyes are violet as amethyst. He wears disdain like a second skin–- or, perhaps, like the scales that he is missing.“Lord Arum?”

I will become yours and you will become mine by spiderwebsitar | DBH | Reed900 | 24k | After an argument with his new partner, Gavin Reed wakes up five years in the future married to an android who won’t stop making fucking waffles.

Numerology by Hth | Schitt’s Creek | Patrick/David, Sebastien/David | 20k | Still, it's true that Patrick can have his shy side. He likes to be a gentleman – Mr. Order Whatever You Want I'm Paying and Mr. Here Let Me Fix That For You and Mr. No David Not In the Backseat I Want It to Be Special – so David can't entirely rely on Patrick's willingness to charge forward for the greater good.

someone you like by caela | She-Ra | Adora/Catra | 5k | catwithabat u think ur so hipster but u just look like a lesbian 27m she_ra @catwithabat bc… i’m a lesbian. lmao 5m

Ugly Words and Pretty Things by Ias | The Terror | Crozier/Fitzjames | 4k | There are words for a man like that.

Sands of Time by tirsynni | LoZ | Link/Ganondorf | 97k | Link awakens in the desert with no idea how he got there, to encounter his worst enemy...except it was the King of the Gerudo, not the King of Evil, he faced.

death shall be no more by Ias | The Terror | Fitzjames/Crozier | 5k | "I'd rather we leave our tents behind and sleep two to a sack like the orphans we are, than to leave one man alone with last burdens."

and then redemption by spidermooned (softlyblue) | Marvel | Spiderman & Loki | 7k | "Kid," says Tony Stark wearily, "Please gimme a reason Loki's been spotted talking to Spiderman that isn't 'I wanted to be his friend'. Please. Tell me you can do that."

so many ways to talk about longing by lymricks | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 3.6k | Steve wakes up--in a pool lounger--to Billy Hargrove looming over him. Billy pushes his sunglasses down and Steve thinks sleepily that it must be so that Steve gets the full impact of Billy’s narrow-eyed glare. “Harrington,” Billy says. “We’re fucking closed.”

sun gutters by lymricks | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 5k | Steve can feel Billy’s eyes on him. “You should get here early,” Billy says, casually. “Tomorrow. At six.”

Finders Keepers by blacktofade | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 3k | Ryan wakes with a hangover and an empty bed, and only one of them he expects.

Back Room by forthegreatergood | Good Omens | Aziraphale/Crowley | 5.6k | Aziraphale actually does have quite an extensive collection of pornography in the bookshop. Like most of the questionable things in Aziraphale’s life, it’s Crowley’s fault.

killed with kindness by veterization | Persona 5 | Akechi/Akira | 52k | Goro can't quite figure out why so many people keep acting like they're his friend.

July

On mandated uniforms and workplace entertainment by Thei | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 2k | Robin loves this job. Besides an income, it also provides her with quality entertainment. Especially when she's working with Steve, and Billy Hargrove shows up.

paper thin by sarcasticfishes | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane/Sara | 9k | Shane’s new neighbors are a morning-sex kind of couple.

your love is three times better by sarcasticfishes | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane/Sara | 14k | Ryan grimaces as he types out the words, >It’s Valentine’s Day. Don’t you want to do romance stuff?

you, through half-shut eyes by brawlite | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 8k | Two parts sugary sweet summer vibes, one part snarky instagram stories, and three parts mutual pining.

damn.nation, now available on itunes by antistar_e (kaikamahine) | Good Omens | Crowley/Aziraphale | 11k | When lowly tempt-pusher Amphora (formerly of Stairwell 7B North, before she Fell,) gets the notice that end times are nigh, she gleefully quits her job and cancels her Netflix subscription and takes her place among the legions of hell.This, it turns out, was a bad plan.

The Dragon and Her Wolves by hapakitsune | Game of Thrones | Sansa/Dany/Jon | 60k | When the truth of Jon's birthright is revealed, control of the North and Daenerys's claim to the Iron Throne are both called into question. To preserve their tenuous alliance and secure her rule, Daenerys puts aside her personal feelings to arrange a marriage of political convenience between Jon and Sansa Stark.

Bonded by softestpunk | The Witcher | Emiel/Geralt | 13k | Regis is punished for Dettlaff's assumed death, Geralt comes to the rescue, and the two of them gain something neither of them would ever have dared hope for.

Something We Were Withholding Made Us Weak by triedunture | Good Omens | Aziraphale/Crowley | 17k | "Yes, exactly. Retire." Aziraphale reaches for the last remaining tartlet brimming with summer berries. "Somewhere along the south coast, perhaps."

something happens and i'm by brawlite | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 10k | Billy loves his job as at the Hawkins Community Pool. It's even better now that Steve Harrington's a lifeguard, too.

break up with your girlfriend ('cause i'm bored) by thecopperkid | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 15k | @umissedconnections: Bambi eyes. m4m. i was rippin cigs in the sae p-lot. u made urself puke 2 make room 4 more beer. incredible? ur my hero PLS say ur into guys

I’m Gonna Keep You in Love with Me (for a While) by beethechange | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 22k | “Okay,” Shane says finally. “Okay. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re just going to—we’re going to be married. The only way out is through.”“Um,” Ryan says, because this plan strikes him as counterproductive to their shared goal of not being married.

YELLOW SQUARE by dejavu (suggcest) | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 16k | “Since being the scene of those two, grisly double homicides in the early 1950’s, the Bringle House Bed and Breakfast has sat empty, waiting for the next couple stupid enough to try to stay all four nights.”

darling it's a faded notion by varnes | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 28k | Ryan and Shane get cursed by a ghost, and now they can't be not-touching. It's ... not great.

Things That Go Bump in the Night (and 7 till 12 at weekends) by HoopyFrood | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 4k | Shane works at a Haunted House. Ryan is Ryan. Things go about as well as you'd imagine.

Everything's Weird and We're Always in Danger by beethechange | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Ryan/Shane | 15k | “It won’t go away,” Ryan says miserably. “I’ve been like this since we got here, basically, and it won’t fucking—”

Muscles Better and Nerves More by beethechange | Buzzfeed Unsolved | Shane/Ryan | 26k | “I’m serious,” Ryan says. “Don’t go fucking up my body. I want that shit back in the same condition I left it.”

DELIGHTFUL FANVIDS

January

(Marvel) Avengers | True North

A Sad Man With A Box

►Dance to 2018

Collab Parts (2016-2018)

just a machine? [Detroit: Become Human] *HBD Pteryx*

【Detroit｜Become Human】Way Down We Go

She-Ra AMV | I'm Just Your Problem (Catradora)

multifandom || 2018 (the way I remember it)

Detroit: Become Human || Paralyzed

in the end | connor & hank | detroit: become human

BELIEVER - Connor ( Detroit:Become Human ) GMV

who are you? | Connor | Detroit: Become Human

Detroit Become Human - Connor ~ Blood in the Water

Connor - I'm So Sorry by Imagine Dragons [Detroit: Become Human] GMV

» whatever it takes (connor; detroit become human gmv)

Detroit: Become Human / Connor and Hank / Uptown Funk

Would You Kill?| Connor RK800 [Detroit: Become Human]

Rude Boy | Connor | Detroit: Become Human

hold on | connor & hank | detroit: become human

Interstellar | STAY

sabrina spellman *:･ﾟ✧ [look what u made me do]

Stranger Things || Blood in the Water

February

(GoT) Margaery Tyrell || The Queen

Kingdom Hearts 3 EPIC AMV/GMV - Part of the Journey is the End

My Hero Academia AMV - The Greatest Show

Endgame | The Man Who Killed The Avengers

MARVEL || Not Today

March

Marvel/DC || FRICTION

Luke & Nell || There's no without

MARVEL || Blood On ME

What is a STORY?

TUA | Swallow Us

(SW) Obi-Wan Kenobi | Whispers of the Past

Quentin & Eliot || Beautiful nothing

queliot; peaches + plums

Way Down We Go | Red Dead Redemption 2

Marvel || Together

steve x bucky || answer

part to act on [Harry Potter]

April

marvel || supercharged

(Marvel) Avengers || The Big Three -- Iron Man/Thor /Captain America

Guardians of the Galaxy

CAOS || Welcome To The Jungle

Marvel || Rise or Fall

Avengers | Sacrifice [4K]

(Marvel) Tony Stark | I love you 3000

May

(Marvel) Captain America || I Stand Alone

(GoT) Daenerys Targaryen | See What I've Become

Ser Jaime Lannister

Arya & Sandor // Thank You [+8x05]

Kingdom hearts 3 |Dearly Beloved| AMV |

June

(GoT) Cersei Lannister || The Queen Of The Seven Kingdoms

(GoT) The Dragons || They're My Children

(GoT) Melisandre || A Champion Of Light And Life

Bioshock & Infinite - Never The End (Epic and Beautiful Fanmade Video)

Bioshock Infinite : Constants and Variables : Music video/Tribute

Crowley & Aziraphale ][ Don’t Stop Me Now || Good Omens

Crowley ][ Rebel Just For Kicks || Good Omens

i'm the bad guy | villanelle.

mission accomplished • connor RK800

The Haunting of Hill House || Empty hands

Mad World ✘ The Umbrella Academy

July

(GoT) Daenerys Targaryen || The Last Dragon

Steve Harrington [Burn The House Down]

max&eleven | my blood.

Billy Hargrove [Bury a Friend]

Max Mayfield [Rebel Just For Kicks]

billy hargrove | gasoline.

Stranger Things | Heroes

✥ STEVE HARRINGTON ✧･ﾟ: * HANDCLAP {+S3}

billy hargrove | lovely.

stranger things 3 | blood in the water.

Steve Harrington; I Need A Hero

Kilgrave ][ Bad Guy

billy&steve [harringrove] || a little death (+s3)

Avengers | Sacrifice [4K]

Stranger Things || Shelter

Kilgrave ][ Rule The World || Jessica Jones

Ben & Rey | What do you see?

Billy Hargrove - RIP to my YOUTH

a thing about life.

(SW) Obi-Wan Kenobi | Whispers of the Past

The Avengers | Unreachable Star

Steve Harrington || Another One Bites the Dust

DELIGHTFUL MUSIC

January

Dark Night - Kara | Philip Sheppard

Carousel - Kara | Phillip Sheppard

They All Look the Same - Connor | Nima Fakhrara

Curse of the I-5 Corridor | Neko Case

Way Down We Go | Kaleo

Gasoline | Halsey

Sleep All Summer | Neko Case

Hold On, Hold On | Neko Case

Dreaming at Daybreak | Ann Licater

Can’t Leave | Whiskey Charmers

Voodoo Mon Amour | Diablo Swing Orchestra

Undo - Transviolet

Xuanzang - Gareth Coker

Almost - Hozier

Movement - Hozier

Dancing in a Room - EZI

Snow Dancer - Antti Martikainen

Burned Out - Dodie

Epic (pt 2) - Anais Mitchell

Mercury - Honey and the Sting

February

Spanish Sahara - Foals

Obstacles - Syd Matters

If You Still Believe - SIE Sound Team

The Expanse - Through Juniper Vale

The Woods - San Fermin

Sophie - The Altogether

Tom Thumb - Bitter Ruin

Wolves of the Revolution - The Arcadian Wild

Mitchell: Epic III - Cast of Hadestown

Hamilton soundtrack

The Spine - Transistor soundtrack

Don’t Think Twice - Utada Hikaru

Face My Fears - Utada Hikaru

Take On Me - Hidden Citizens

Moonlight Sonata - Hidden Citizens

Waves - chloe moriondo

Alligator Teeth - Mother Falcon

We All Become - Darren Korb

Ashes - Bear McCreary

Journey and Transistor soundtracks

March

The Sailor Song - Autoheart

It’s Quiet Uptown - Kelly Clarkson

Fernando - Cher

Dinner & Diatribes - Hozier

The Fly By Night - Taktsugu Muramatsu

Wake Up, Moving On - Kevin Penkin

April

Austin Wintory Radio

Resurrections - Lena Raine

Fight For You - Hidden Citizens

Mine - BazziIn the Flame - Darren Korb

Paper Boats - Darren Korb

May

Thedas Love Them - Trevor Morris

The Dawn Will Come - Trevor Morris

King - Blue October

Lemonworld - Ocean Alley

Still Feel - Half Alive

Carry On - Kygo

Longshot - Catfish and the Bottlemen

Call Off Your Ghost - Dessa

Sucker - Jonas Brother

Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy

A Hole In the Earth - Daughter

Lunatic Fringe - red Rider

June

Ummah Oum - Kaya Project

The Fortress - Kaya Project

Good Omens Opening Title - David Arnold

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Tori Amos

A Future for the Krogan - Christopher Lennertz

Ганджу - brain tumor

last piece | Lykke Li

Bite - Charlie Cunningham

Wait For Me - Hadestown

Nightmare - Halsey

Kaya Project albums!!!

Birds - Imagine Dragons

Crazy - Patsy Cline

Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley

in waves playlist

July

in waves playlist

Rime soundtrack

2017 soundtrack

bury a friend - billie eilish

bored - billie eilish

the seed - aurora

how do you - elderbrook

quicksand - x ambassadors

what’s up danger - blackway

bad guy - billie eilish

sunflower - post malone

scared of the dark - lil wayne

elevate - dj khalil

be still, my tongue - snorri hallgrimsson

dark matter - les friction

must’ve been - chromeo

magnets - disclosure, lorde

secrets - the weeknd

feels like summer - childish gambino

the hunter’s mark - erutan

johanna in space - stephaen sondheim

POSTED FIC

January

N/A

February

children of dust and ash | Bartimaeus | Bartimaeus/Kitty(/Nathaniel) | 1,801 words | Kitty summons Bartimaeus on a chilly fall day in her thirty-eighth year.

March

sweet music playing in the dark | DBH | 1,102 words | “I noticed some time ago that you seem to have an appreciation for jazz.” Connor pauses, his fingers hesitating over an old Billie Holiday album. “I’d wondered if that meant you enjoyed dancing as well.”

April

N/A

May

Radio Ga Ga | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 1,143 words | There’s always another party in Hawkins, Indiana. It would be almost boring if it weren’t for Steve Harrington.

June

Sunlight | Marvel | Loki/Thor | 765 words | They aren’t quite out of the solar system when Loki appears at the arm of Thor’s chair, hair shorn short and a furious snarl on his face.

July

like the bough of a willow tree | Detroit Become Human | Hank/Connor | 1,214 words | There’s a human lost in his woods.

knocking on heaven's door | Stranger Things | Harringrove | 1,748 words | “Just, get in the fucking car. I’ll drive you home.” Billy looked at him, very seriously, and said, “What if I don’t want to go home?”

WIPS | UNPUBLISHED | ORIGINAL

January

like the bough of a willow tree | DBH | Hank/Connor | 1,286 words | There’s a human lost in his woods. Fae!Connor

hankcon valentine’s exchange fic | DBH | Hank/Connor | 985 words | slow dancing and kisses in the dark basically

February

N/A

March

N/A

April

Sunlight | Avengers | Loki/Thor | 746 words | They aren’t quite out of the solar system when Loki appears at the arm of Thor’s chair, hair shorn short and a furious snarl on his face.

May

N/A

June

Untitled Original | Ghost + rain | 817 words

July

Reverse BB | 5.6k

FANMIXES/GRAPHICS

January

N/A

February

N/A

March

June

in waves playlist

#heather says what #scrapbook

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simulation-machine · 2 months

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Hadn't done the "hey the heir is now a teen" family photos yet so here we are!

Also, can I just say that Stormy as a 40-something is super gorgeous? I just love her entire vibe so much.

P.S.: This was the photoset that made me realize that Lou totally has Ed's eye shape, except her eyes are much bigger! For some reason, I just assumed she had Stormy's eye shape.

#stormy nessa jones #edgar isaac orson #louise octavia orson #random legacy challenge #sims 4 legacy #orson family #gen 2: orson #san myshuno #sims 4 gameplay #gshade preset: gm lithium

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probablyalizard · 6 years

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hnnng anyway here are the thoughts about When Light Left Us

1) Thank you?? @cuttoothom for Orson Liu cause as a second gen chinese living overseas his character was like. Really Validating. And stuff. I actually cackled at Grandma Liu’s antics, because it was honestly a play by play of what goes down when I bring guests over at my own house.

2) Maggie Vasquez what an icon. The Macdonalds Vanilla Latte confrontation was Really Something. Also I literally have never read a YA book which depicts a mother like Maggie Vasquez and it was so? Refreshing? Like? She was such a bad mother and such a perfect mother at the same time it was heartwarming/real/lovely all at the same time.

3) The gratuitous anime references... God this is PEAK LITERATURE

4) As I found when reading BYNMM and NNY, I loved every single character. Like, you just gotta fave the entire cast, supporting characters and all. Like... Penny? My child. Platinum? God I wish I were her. Ms Yu? Completely wrong about the morality of house cats but an icon nevertheless. Even the villain is just really fuckin fascinating.

5) As soon as ***SPOILERS*** Henry Flowers talked about a missing daughter i literally said to myself, I bet it’s Dr Ruby. When Orson drove Hank from the basketball courts I literally said to myself “They would make a cute couple.” Ya girl’s a psychic! ***END SPOILERS***

6) If you liked BYNMM you should check this out! If you like strongly character based scifi check this out! If you want to put yourself through an angst train but then finish with a smile on your face check this out! If you like diverse YA novels check this out! It really is a book written with love :)

That’s all for now I’ve practically written an essay whOOPS.

#when light left us #blab #wllu #im also gonna tag #bynmm #and #nny #because please read this book!

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Solo Travel Destinations New Orleans | Solo Trekker

Solo Travel Destinations New Orleans. Add it to your bucket list!

Solo Travel Destinations New Orleans:

New Orleans is both historic and cutting edge. It is popularly known as “The Big Easy”. If you, like me, have wondered how it received that nickname, you will be disappointed to learn the answer: No one exactly knows as explained by The Culture Trip.

My first trip to New Orleans was at age twelve. I was intrigued by the “spooky” old cemeteries with their above ground tombs. It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie!

When I was a college student, I returned.

I spent hours watching artists paint in the French Quarter in the Brulatour courtyard.

Then I took frequent free rides on the Mississippi River ferryboat.

I saw one of the world’s longest bridges. The 23+ mile Lake Pontchartrain Bridge. It even has a cloverleaf to turn around right in the middle of the bridge!

Solo Travel Destinations New Orleans: Its History:

It is one of the most “foreign” US cities. Its looks very little like other US cities.

The city of New Orleans dates back to the 16th century with Hernando Cortez.

The Spanish arrived first taking control of the area and then were followed by the French.

In 1803, New Orleans became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. (For $15 million, the US acquired not just the future state of Louisiana but parts of 14 other states and two Canadian provinces.)

New Orleans’s founder was a Frenchman from Montreal. He has the impressive name of Jean Baptist Le Moyne de Bienville.

Cajun settlers from eastern Canada followed shortly thereafter.

In a few years, New Orleans became famous during the War of 1812. Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British. Thereafter, his statue has stood in the French Quarter across from the fabled St. Louis Cathedral.

New Orleans is famous for Mardi Gras. However, it has many attractions all year round.

New Orleans: Things to See and Do:

1. French Quarter or “Vieux Carre” (the “Old Square”). 2. Garden District, 3. Antebellum homes 4. Music 5. Bayous.

1. The French Quarter has two-sides.

It is the heart of historic New Orleans.

It has great nightlife. You can start with a huge rum drink in a Pat O’Brien’s Hurricane Glass.

From Jackson Square, it is a short walk to the Café du Monde. This top French cafe is open 24/7. They offer a strong cup of coffee and famous donuts or “beignets”.

As you stroll, you may catch a jazz funeral going by.

For elegant shopping, try Royal Street. It is has top antique shops.

See the Brulatour House and Courtyard at 520 Royal. It is artists’ favorite. It is being made into a museum. Its owner had a colorful life. Pierre Brulatour was one of the founders of Universal Pictures. He may have been Orson Welles’s inspiration for his classic film, Citizen Kane.

At Royal Street’s end, pop into the Hotel Monteleone. This famous hotel has been family-owned since the 19th century. To check the rates, go to our booking engine.

Tour the old cemeteries. They are above ground since the city was below sea level. Ornate tombs tell a story in French. The nearby St. Louis Cemetery is most famous. Because of crowds, check online. See if you need reservations or tickets.

2. Next is the Garden District.

It has elegant homes with wide porches and columns. One even had a real looking yellow “corn-cob” fence!

It’s easy to get there on the St. Charles streetcar. Tennessee Williams’s “Streetcar Named Desire” is now the “bus named Desire”.

A famous site in the Garden District is the Commander’s Palace. This restaurant is owned by the Brennans, long-time local restauranteurs. As a child, I especially liked the huge toucan they had in the center. It was in a tall white Victorian birdcage. You could always hear it “greet” you before you saw it. Commander’s Palace has continued as a favorite. Other fabled New Orleans’s restaurants are Antoine’s, Arnaud’s and Galatoire’s. Seafood and Cajun dishes are top favorites. My own recommendation is Crayfish (say “Crawfish”) Etoufee.

3. Visit Plantations and Antebellum Homes.

Next you must see the elegant antebellum homes outside the city.

You have many to choose from.

The Ormond plantation is best known.

However, there at least 10 others!

These homes were built when New Orleans was very rich. The reason? The cotton trade and Mississippi River commerce brought wealth to the region.

4. Enjoy New Orleans Music:

“New Orleans is the only place I know of where you ask a little kid what he wants to be and instead of saying, I want to be a policeman, or I want to be a fireman, he says, I want to be a musician.” – Alan Jaffe, Jazz Musician and Founder of Preservation Hall”. Other New Orleans Quotes

Go to Preservation Hall.

Attend spring Jazz Fest.

5. Brave the Bayou:

Ready for adventure?

New Orleans has famous bayous. Take a boat ride through these swamps.

Once pirates stalked here.

Now alligators prowl by.

Colorful birds are there too.

Solo Travel Destinations New Orleans:

When to Go There:

The best times are spring and fall to avoid summer’s humidity. (The winters can be cold and damp.)

In winter, Mardi Gras is most popular.

In spring, try Jazz Fest and the Annual Spring Fiesta and Historic Home Tour.

Look at off-season specials for best prices for solo travelers.

Plan now for next spring.

For more on New Orleans, see:

New Orleans Tourist website

Halloween in New Orleans

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Events 10.30

637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. 1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. 1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. 1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. 1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. 1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela. 1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. 1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. 1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria. 1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes. 1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) 1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies. 1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. 1941 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. 1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp. 1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559. 1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII. 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line. 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded. 1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board. 1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters. 1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board. 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. 1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker. 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held. 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. 1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. 1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. 2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine. 2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas. 2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest. 2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.

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Get to Know the Author

Tagged by @eastofthemoon. Thank you!

1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?

“Maychoria” was the name of the main country in the fantasy novel I wrote when I was thirteen and fourteen. It means “happy land,” based on two words I found in a Greek dictionary we had in the house. So “Maychorian” basically means “inhabitant of the happy land.”

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos).

On AO3, A Split-Second of Violence still has the most views and kudos and bookmarks, over 46k hits and almost 2500 kudos and 762 bookmarks. The first and second Boom Crash stories combined beat it, though, and Sell Me Your Nightmares beats it for comment threads. Over all platforms, I’m pretty sure my most famous fic ever is still Entertaining Angels, a deaged Castiel fic I wrote at the cusp of Supernatural fandom, just as Castiel was starting to get popular. I happened to write that story at the exact right time, in the mid-season break when everyone was hungry for more of the intriguing character we’d just been introduced to, and cute deaged angel boy trying to help Sam and Dean with their respective traumas was bound to be a hit no matter who wrote it. Plus I gave him pneumonia. It’s a thing I do.

3. What is your AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?

Same as my current tumblr icon. Cuz Lance has the best expressions and he’s the cutest and the best.

4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?

I do, and I love them and appreciate them so, so much. If you comment on a lot of my fics and/or chapters, you’d better believe I notice, and I love you, even if I don’t respond.

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

Basically anything in this tag: https://maychorianrecs.tumblr.com/tagged/personal-favorite.

6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?

Oh, golly. My work subscriptions at AO3 is currently at fifteen pages. A lot of those are completed or abandoned, though. No idea how many fics and authors I’m still subscribed to on ff.n, mostly in dead fandoms. I have 80 bookmarks on AO3 at the moment, but that is not an accurate representation of the fics I like and recommend others read. That would be @maychorianrecs, which currently has 681 posts and isn’t even complete even for the Voltron fandom, let alone the other fandoms I read now or have read in the past.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

The Dream Seam ‘verse is definitely the one that owns the largest part of my brain right now, but I’m also looking forward to getting back to my DnD AU once I finish my current big projects. I tend to write more canon-divergence AUs than alternate realities, in most cases. I like exploring how things can differ across time if one small (or large) change is made in the setting we know and love. Like what if Castiel went back in time and ended up as Sam and Dean’s older brother? Love that one.

8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)

User Subscriptions: 617 Kudos: 27064 Comment Threads: 5019 Bookmarks: 5631 Subscriptions: 2713 Word Count: 1169905 Hits: 325489

That’s insane, and it’s only in the last three or four years, since I didn’t really start using AO3 until mid-2014. I have a lot more before that on ff.n and other sites.

9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

If there’s something I want to write and share, I will find a way.

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.

I wish I was better at action. It always takes me a lot time to sort of choreograph it in my head and then describe it in a way that makes sense. I also need to work on writing believable romance, since I want to eventually write more mainstream fiction, and it’s pretty normal for characters to have romances. I can’t just write everyone as being aro/ace or siblings, though I kind of want to. I wish I wasn’t such a procrastinator and had more energy to spare on responding to comments, because I really do love them and appreciate them.

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?

Only if you count gen as a rarepair, which it kind of is. Otherwise, no ships for me, ever. I tried it. Didn’t much like it.

12. How many stories have you posted on AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)?

70. Some of them are reposts. Eventually I need to get all of my fics over to AO3. It’s definitely the superior platform nowadays.

13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?

Unposted? Mm, more than five, less than a dozen. I tend to post things as soon as I’m halfway satisfied, because I crave that sweet, sweet feedback.

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

They’re mostly up in my head. If it changes by the time I start to write it, that’s fine. And if I forget an idea, a new one will come along sooner or later. I write in the now.

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

Yes, a few times, most recently with ardett for Sewing Patches. It was a great experience.

16. How did you discover AO3?

Back when it was just getting started, I got an invite to the beta from an LJ friend. It wasn’t until years later that I got into sports anime fandom and decided I wanted to start using it, so I searched my email to find that years-old invite and used it.

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3?

I’m well-known in the gen corner of my fandom, which is not the same thing as being a BNF in the fandom as a whole. I have no doubt that 99% of Klance fans have no idea who I am, and Klance basically IS the Voltron fandom, much to my annoyance. But I’m fine with the way things are. I interact with cool people all the time and get to show them awesome stuff and get nice feedback when I post fics, and that’s what I want.

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?

Nah. That seems kind of pretentious and arrogant.

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

I’ve wanted to write since before I knew how to read, as far back as I can remember. As soon as I understand that those scribbles on a page meant something and told stories, I wanted to tell my own. Certainly in my teenage years I was very inspired by the fantasy and science fiction authors I adored, like Tolkien, Lewis, MacDonald, Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, Tamora Pierce, etc. I have been encouraged along the way by many, many fellow writers, as well. But as far as an instigating person at the very beginning, I can’t think of one. I just always knew that this was what I wanted to do with my life.

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

Just do it. Post it if you’re brave, keep it to yourself if you’re not. Make yourself happy first. Find one person who will read and enjoy your stuff, otherwise it will get stale writing only for yourself. But first and foremost, stoke the fire in your own belly until you have no choice but to use it, to let it fly from your fingers in words and paragraphs. Once you start, keep going, even when the fire burns low. Discipline is more important than inspiration in the long term, but inspiration is how you start.

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

Mostly the latter. I’ve written from outlines in the past, and I sometimes do extensive freewriting before I start something to give myself some semblance of structure, but working from a strict outline isn’t really fun for me. I’d much rather discover the story as I go. I subscribe to the Stephen King school of writing, the idea that a story is a boulder you dig up with a lot of hard work and exploring. Granted, that doesn’t always work perfectly, and it can lead to stories that are overlong and oddly structured or dissatisfying, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take in order to enjoy the process as much as possible.

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

Occasionally, mostly not on AO3. My feedback there is by and large very kind and enthusiastic. Every once in a while I’ll get a weird comment on ff.n complaining about some choice I made or chastising me for not doing what they wanted or expected with the story. Mostly I just laugh and let them go, though they used to bother me a lot. Once in a while they’ll make a solid point, and I’ll think about it, and maybe change the story a bit to satisfy the issue that’s bothering me, not for their satisfaction but for my own. That’s exceedingly rare, though. I think I’ve done it twice.

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)

Action is hard, yes. Dialogue and emotional scenes come easily, so naturally that’s the bulk of my stuff.

24. What story(s) are you working on now?

My ongoing series and stories are all currently in posting. I have some ideas on the backburner that I haven’t started working on yet, but I’m not the kind of writer who finishes a project before posting, so there’s nothing going on that my readers don’t already know about.

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?

Often as I’m finishing up a long project my mind will already be working on what’s next, yes. Not really planning so much as just daydreaming and working out scenarios in my head, but I do like that I never run out of things to do.

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?

I try to write at least 750 words every day. Not always fiction, though, sometimes it’s freewriting or a diary entry. This post will probably be my writing for today.

27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started?

Indubitably, since for the very first story I wrote I asked my mom how to spell the word “fan.” I was five.

28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written?

Oof, that’s hard. In Voltron, probably Bury the Sun. I keep going back and re-reading that one. It just…hits my buttons. On purpose. I did that. In all of my fandoms ever, probably Coming Down on a Sunny Day. It came together in an extremely satisfying way, and I’m very proud of it, even though the last part never got very much feedback since the fandom had moved on by the time I wrote and posted it.

29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written?

I started writing an original fantasy fiction called Cat by Night with the idea of posting it on Amazon and making money with it. But I started it out in very YA fashion with an incipient romance, and it just bored me to tears. I hated it. I couldn’t do it. Romance is not for me.

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

I would love to develop my original fiction and discipline myself enough to actually start publishing stuff on Amazon and eventually make enough money to live on, maybe with the help of Patreon. RIght now, though, fanfiction takes up all my creative energy, and I don’t know how I would justify making a living off that.

31. What is the easiest thing about writing?

Making characters cuddle.

32. What is the hardest thing about writing?

Getting characters to the point where the cuddling makes sense and feels in character.

33. Why do you write?

For the sake of the cuddles, mostly. Also because I can’t imagine not writing.

No tagging today because I’m exhausted, but feel free if you want to do this.

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