“What did Malcolm say to get you to come here? Did he tell you to enter a dream and spy on the Traveling Salesman? Or did he maybe say something truthful, but maybe not the whole truth— not the part that mattered?”

“The Salesman doesn’t steal, but his deals are often one-sided— exploitative— as he’ll neglect to tell you pertinent information before you agree.”

Happy 12 years of THIS IS NOT FICTION! 🎉🌈💗

(+ celebratory twitter thread)

speak to me about these wips of yours. i've never heard of any of them before and i am simply so very curious

I love you so much Julian mwah

I will not talk about the funny gamer men on here but uh catboy fic (ie My Teammate Turned into a Cat?!) started as "what if Draisaitl turned into a cat sometimes" and has quickly turned into "hey what would the PR and hockey ops response be to a player literally turning into a cat" and also "hey what's the horror of people changing in ways that are unknowable to you" so it's going well! The horrors of bureaucracy, mostly.

Nonetheless here's a TikTok/IG Reel I thought one of the content producers would make as a sick joke a few weeks into the curse manifesting:

The players are walking back to the locker room, still in gear, presumably after a practice. A text caption reading, “If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?” is displayed on the screen as the video rapidly cuts to the players responding, either off the ice or in the locker room.

McLeod grins, looks at the person holding up the phone camera.

“Uh, definitely a dog.”

Nugent-Hopkins looks mildly taken aback but is smiling.

“I’m not sure, actually. Maybe a wolf?”

Someone calls out something unintelligible from off camera. The camera spins and zooms in to catch Hyman laughing.

“I’m not a horse, you —”

Hyman looks thoughtful and affable, as if giving the question serious thought.

“I think I’d be a dog. A Golden Retriever, maybe? They’re pretty smart and loyal.”

Kulak looks mildly amused.

“Some type of dog.”

Holloway laughs loudly.

“I think being a dog would be great.”

Desharnais shrugs, before turning to someone off camera.

“A bear? A bear’s cool, right?”

The response is muffled, but Desharnais laughs anyway and faces the camera again.

“Stu says moose. I’ll go with that.”

Skinner smiles politely at the camera.

“I think I’d like to be a cat. They seem pretty smart and quick.”

McDavid lets out a little media chuckle and runs a hand through his hair.

“Uh… I don’t know. Probably a dog. … What breed? I’m not sure. Maybe I’d just look like Lenny, or something.”

Draisaitl stares at the camera, stone-faced. After a couple of seconds he grits out —

“A cat. I guess.”

--

Bouch/Clouder Academia AU is basically omg they were roommates doing graduate degrees. It's part of a much broader alternate universe where basically any NHL player that is funny to me is now an academic. I have read so many papers on topics that are not relevant to my own field of study.

Bouch is studying sports medicine as an MSc. He's looking at resiliency and recovery in professional sports and aims to be a physiotherapist after he graduates. He was set to go pro but had a spree of injuries and rough accidents on the ice before and during his stint in the OHL and his drafting prospects plummeted.

Clouder's a PoliSci/Media Studies MA studying how nationalistic narratives are built through sports coverage. He's the only one of three sons that is not playing pro hockey and he has no problems because of it at all :) He's still figuring out what he wants to do with his life.

The fic is mostly following them in their first year at their local university and how they navigate each other and the hockey-related problems they're both dealing with. It went shippy/slowburn "mostly" by accident, but whatever. They'll figure it out eventually. Here's a random snippet:

The holidays seem to have started a pattern. Not enough to be a constant, but enough to know it’s always there, a safety net in the back of his mind. Some days, Ryan will hang up from a family call the day after an impressive game from Michael and there’s a case study that needs to be proofread, immediately; some days, Evan’s gritting his teeth going down the stairwell and it’s easy to duck under his arm, take some pressure off his knee. A scar for a story, one regret for another.

Back and forth, like a passing drill.

It’s not weird, or gay, or whatever bullshit Jungian term Stu is now using for their friendship just because he got caught asking D.R. about painkiller interactions once. It’s open — there’s a comfort there, a familiarity that settles somewhere near Ryan’s sternum and makes it easier to breathe. That’s normal, probably, for a friendship. Quiet reciprocity, which might be the crux of the problem, a fear that he can’t properly describe.

He appreciates those moments where Evan feels comfortable enough to share, to trust in him. Some are easier, a memory of unlucky circumstance with a speedy return. Others — the larger ones, usually, or complications that took him off the ice for months at a time — make it seem like he’d rather pull out his own fingernail than tell. But he does so anyway, stilted and hesitant, and something cold slides down Ryan’s spine every time.

It takes a few more weeks for him to name that feeling guilt, but it’s the closest he’s probably going to get.

Cube (1997)

Another old fave, Cube is a movie about a group of people who wake up in a strange facility full of traps. No, not Saw 2, I said Cube. This one predates Saw, actually, which makes me wonder if it played any part in the inspiration for my other favorite trapped room related movie. If I somehow ever meet James Wan or Leigh Whannell then I’ll ask. Right after I pick my jaw off the floor.

Anywho, beasties and ghouls, let’s get to it- Review (and SPOILERS) under the cut!

I have no idea how old I was when I first saw this one, but I’m reasonably sure it was sometime in my last year as a teen or in my early twenties, so right around the time I was finally able to start dipping my toes into the world of horror. I have no doubt that if I’d seen this any younger it would have been on that list of movies that altered my brain chemistry.

This one’s a lot more psychological than Saw, in my opinion, as it’s less about seeing people mutilate themselves and more about seeing people break down to their most fundamental selves in the face of terror and paranoia. It’s the kind that sticks with me for a long time afterwards, making me wonder at who I’d become if I were stuck in The Cube.

The First Kill, played by the delightful Julian Richings, in this one is super effective at showing us what the cast will be dealing with, and as others before me have noticed, there are similar scenes in later movies (the first Resident Evil, for example) that seem to be inspired by it. If the strangeness of the opening room hadn’t already hooked me, this kill would have. Dude fell apart so fast. (ha ha because he got chopped into pieces by some kind of insanely sharp wires ha ha I’m funny)

The setting is simple: you’ve got a group of strangers in a square shaped room with six doors, one on each side, and each door leads to another room that only differs in color. And if you go in the wrong one, you die. How can you tell which one’s the wrong one? Well, probably because you’re about to die, because there’s no obvious tell.

Our cast starts out with five people- Quenten, a cop who skeeves me out in like the first few minutes of his introduction; Holloway, a doctor who is also a conspiracy nut; Leaven, a college? girl who understands numbers in a way I could never dream of; Worth, a self-described ‘just some guy’; and Rennes, a French escape artist who is taken from us far too soon. Later we get Kazan, a man with an unspecified mental illness that makes him difficult to communicate with and prone to unpredictable behavior, but has the superhuman abilities that media loves to give mentally disabled people, in the form of being even better at numbers than Leaven. (Astronomical!)

Rennes is my favorite but he has the least amount of screentime, since he gets to be The Example. He’s escaped multiple prisons, and knows what to look for. He gives the crew hope that they can beat this thing, and figure a way out, tells them to stop overthinking it and just keep moving, makes a joke about being ‘Harry fuckin’ Houdini’, then he fucking DIES. Acid to the face by a sensor he couldn’t detect. Oops! Morale obliterated.

Leaven is my next favorite, because I love when girl geniuses. She starts out delighting in the attention she gets from Quenten for figuring out a way to find out which rooms are trapped, based on numbers assigned to each room; she is, however, still a kid, so I can’t really fault her for trusting him to start with. I don’t understand math well enough to know if her reasoning is sound, but honestly, I don’t care if it is. She deserved to make it out.

Holloway is an older woman, age not provided, but she’s equal parts likeable and irritating to me personally. She’s a doctor at a free clinic and the first and only one to treat Kazan with any decency. She’s also a mega conspiracy theorist and enjoys blaming Big Government for running and ruining the world. She holds the group together for quite a while, maybe because she’s not afraid to call Quenten and Worth out on their bullshit. I respect that.

Kazan is, if you don’t consider the sequel movies, the saddest character. Why in the hell would you put someone like him in a death maze. What kind of evil do you have to possess to think ‘yeah I’ll put a mentally handicapped person in a confusing trap filled prison with strangers, at least one of which is violent when pressured’. What the fuck. This is a movie from the 90s so I’m not gonna say it’s like, good rep or anything; what is accurate is how he gets treated by everyone but Holloway. He’s an obstacle, he’s a liability, he’s not even considered a person. I’m so glad they didn’t kill him. (If you do consider the sequels, however, the way you view his character is completely different, since it’s implied that his brain has been surgically altered to make him this way. it’s a whole thing.)

Worth is also one of my favorites, but doesn’t start out that way. He’s unhelpful, snarky, and seems about ready to just give up at any given moment. When he confesses that he had a hand in making this Minecraftian nightmare, it’s understandable why. Trapped in the very thing you helped create, even if you didn’t realize what it is you were actually making. Makes a good punching bag, apparently. When push comes to shove, though, he steps up and that’s when he becomes the version of himself I like. And then of course he dies, because every character I like dies.

Which just leaves Quenten. He’s... a cop. He starts out obnoxious and overly aggressive, but that could be attributed to waking up in a weird dangerous place with unknown people; when Leaven’s number system fails and he gets hurt, his attitude changes real fast, and he’s outright hostile to everyone from that point on rather than just pushy and bossy. He treats everyone like shit unless he deems them useful, and at his core is violent and controlling. He kills Holloway for daring to accuse him of hitting his kids (guess she hit a nerve), then kills Leaven and Worth just as they reached the exit. There was no reason for this other than the fact that he clearly lost it. Also, attempted to seduce Leaven, an established minor. Absolute garbage person. (I’m not really qualified to dissect it, but it rubs me the wrong way that the one black character is an aggressive, violent psycho...)

Cube touches on one of my fears: the unpredictability of other people. There is no provable way to tell what someone really feels or what they’ll do. Everyone is different, and what indicates something like, say, rising anger in one person, could only be a sign of mild irritation in another. Being in a situation where your survival is reliant on strangers, especially when the environment is designed to stress you out and break you down, is absolutely terrifying to me.

Something I really like about Cube (again, only if you don’t consider the sequels) is that it doesn’t explain SHIT. Why was this place built? Why were these people chosen? What was the point of any of it? Cube says it’s not important. In a way this movie feels a bit like watching an ant farm, observing the way people change when they’re pushed to their mental limits. Why they’re there in the first place isn’t the point.

The end is both triumphant and depressing- While our last living protags are (for some reason???) staring out the door to their freedom, which is only available for a short time, Quenten catches back up to them and murders two of them, with only Kazan escaping. The cop at least gets what he deserves- the red smear on the inside of the Cube’s shell is a nice touch. As is his leg just sticking into frame as the camera shows Worth and Leaven, being shuttled back down into the maze.

There’s two moments that are similar to one another that I enjoy- when they realize they’re back in the room where Rennes died, and it breaks them. Worth is hysterically giggling, Leaven is in despair, and Quenten slips further into his breakdown. The second is when Leaven figures out that she’d been right the whole time- they should have stayed in the first room they gathered in, as it would have eventually been the room that led to the exit.

All that pain and death and anguish, only to wind up back at square one. I wonder if they wrote it that way for the pun, or if it’s just one of those coincidences? Speaking of puns, I give this one three squared outta ten ghosts (that is in fact nine. I had to make sure before i committed to the bit. I’m serious when I say I’m terrible at numbers.) It’s not a perfect movie, as one of my pet peeves is when characters decide to celebrate before actually confirming victory. Had Leaven, Worth, and Kazan simply left the cube the minute they knew it was the exit, they would have all survived.

Though it likely would have deprived me of that satisfying blood streak. Unacceptable.

The Sign Says No Soliciting

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Cg08vFt by Croik Jon and Martin are sharing a normal day in the apocalypse when they receive a knock on the door of their cabin. Oh god they're Americans. Words: 3138, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Archive 81 (Podcast), A Voice From Darkness (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Avery Hamilton | The Representative (Archive 81), Julian Holloway Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Cg08vFt

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970) – Episode 207 – Decades Of Horror 1970

“Smells like cheese, looks like ham… [takes a bite of sandwich] Oh, no problem. It’s chicken.” Rest assured, Grue Believers. Nothing about this movie resembles chicken. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they dive into that strange vat of boiling acid known as Scream and Scream Again (1970)!

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 207 – Scream and Scream Again (1970)

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A serial killer who drains his victims’ blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

  Directed by: Gordon Hessler

Writing Credits: Christopher Wicking (screenplay); Peter Saxon (novel)

Selected Cast:

Vincent Price as Dr. Browning

Christopher Lee as Fremont

Peter Cushing as Major Heinrich Benedek

Alfred Marks as Detective Supt. Bellaver

Michael Gothard as Keith

Christopher Matthews as Dr. David Sorel

Judy Huxtable as Sylvia

Anthony Newlands as Ludwig

Kenneth Benda as Prof. Kingsmill

Marshall Jones as Konratz

Uta Levka as Jane

Yutte Stensgaard as Erika

Julian Holloway as Detective Constable Griffin

Judy Bloom as Helen Bradford (as Judi Bloom)

Peter Sallis as Schweitz

Clifford Earl as Detective Sgt. Jimmy Joyce

Nigel Lambert as Ken Sparten

David Lodge as Detective Inspector Phil Strickland

First, take a killer film title and an equally killer poster. Then grab a bizarre tale that includes long (yet exciting) car chases, vampires (sort of), Frankenstein (sort of), Nazis (sort of), super Vulcan nerve pinches (sort of), and a bubbling vat of acid. Then cast it with three iconic horror actors and what do you get? Scream and Scream Again from Amicus, directed by Gordon Hessler, and featuring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Even if all three are never in the same scene, the results are oddly compelling, yet … goofy and frustrating. Despite the negatives, this film has grown a cult following. What might the Grue Crew make of it?

At the time of this writing, Scream and Scream Again is available to stream from Tubi and Freevee, as well as various PPV options. The film is available on physical media as a Special Edition Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Effects (1979), inspired by George Romero’s Martin (1977) and featuring Tom Savini, as both an effects artist and an actor.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at [email protected]. 

Check out this episode!

1, 10, 15, 44 for the ask game :)

1. - who is/are your comfort character(s)? sean cameron (degrassi), seth cohen (the oc), lucy wagner (crossroads 2002), veronica mars (show of the same title character), kat stratford (10 things i hate about you 1999), zig novak (degrassi), alex nunez (degrassi), tara knowles (soa), jax teller (soa), jay hogart (degrassi), peggy olson (mad men), joan holloway-harris (mad men), summer roberts (the oc), max Mayfield (stranger things), robin buckley (stranger things), spinner mason (degrassi), brooke davis (oth), emma nelson (degrassi), peyton sawyer (oth), marissa cooper (the oc), julian baker (one tree hill), steve Harrington (stranger things), el hopper (stranger things), georgia miller (ginny & georgia) mimi marquez ( rent) andie walsh (pretty in pink 1986) manny santos (degrassi), lola pacini (degrasi next class), bianca desousa (degrassi), fiona coyne (degrassi), - i think there's more from here but i don't feel like adding right now (also i kind of forget when i gotta list people so here goes!).

10. - would you slaughter the rich? probably not. i don't wanna go to jail. just tax 'em.

15. - are you a parent? (all answers qualify) no. not to get super personal, but i don't think i want to have kids. however, a dog mom might be in the cards for me, down the road though.

44. - you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it? another with the killing? eh. not something i'd be interested in doing. crime don't pay, i ain't violent.

thank-you! for anybody else, ask box is always open. 💌😊

Title: A Christmas Carol

Rating: PG

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins, Daryl Sabara, Steve Valentine, Sage Ryan, Amber Gainey Meade, Ryan Ochoa, Bobbi Page, Ron Bottitta, Fionnula Flanagan, Samantha Hanratty, Julian Holloway

Release year: 2009

Genres: fantasy, adventure, drama

Blurb: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Thinking about the Traveling Salesman

The Saint: Luella (2.19, ITC, 1964)

"Matt, we're in trouble. I mean, Mrs. Taggart's got a picture of Luella in her husband's arms. Suppose, somehow, one of our old suckers saw it?"

"Extortion."

"And blackmail."

"And Dartmoor."

"For about thirty years."

WJMC FULL EXPERIENCE

Sunday

I arrived at George Mason University around 12:30 to my dorm to see that my roommate was already moved in, then I went to The Hub to check in with the leader of my group to make sure she had all of my information. From there on, I talked to a few people in The Hub and made quite a few new friends, then we went on a tour of the George Mason campus.

The food was great, but our speaker Savannah Behemann; a WJMC alumna, former Congressional Reporter for USA Today, and currently is the Senate Correspondent for National Journal.

She spoke on the significance of journalism, especially in the wake of backlash directed towards the field along with disputing disinformation. She also spoke on how competitive the field is; a company rejecting an article of hers but not letting it get to her, but rather going to another one that would carry her story.

I thoroughly enjoyed one of her overarching themes of her speech highlighting the importance of humanizing your story and asking yourself “why should I write this?” and “why would someone read this?”. It’s one of the core values that I find in journalism which is the reach.

She also spoke on taking opportunities and putting yourself out there for potential future employers to see. The need for networking with people in the journalism field and keeping your options open.

Monday

On Monday, we went to Planet Word to check out the museum, and see Doni Holloway, producer of the podcast "Why is This Happening?" and multi-media journalist. The best part of his speech was the story of him meeting Hoda Kotb when he was younger and she wrote a note to him that read "See you at 30 Rock!" it really struck a cord with me because I too met Kotb a few years ago and managed to get a picture with her after she hosted The Today Show.

The rest of the museum was nothing short of fascinating. One of the best parts was the interactive book section where you would place a book underneath a light projector and it would create an animation. Luckily, the camera on my phone works wonders so I could really capture the magic as I turned down the brightness on the screen to reveal the beautiful scene that was projected.

We finished up at Planet Word, and made our way to The White House. It wasn't my first time seeing The White House, but it was my first time seeing it under a new administration. As much power and integrity that single building holds in our country's history, my favorite part was getting a chance to listen to a man speak in front of The White House.

He was posted up at the iconic White House peace vigil. His stand had varying flags of varying countries along with a myriad of global political issues relevant to our time like Julian Assange, climate change, mass shootings, and the war machine.

He talked about the many attempts from the government to remove the vigil, but how they remained triumphant and beat them in the Supreme Court. He also thinks that it's our generations duty to help make the world a better place

After that, we did a tour of the monuments as the day started to turn to dusk. It was my first time seeing the monuments light up in the dark; the coolest one being the Lincoln Memorial.

TUESDAY

On tuesday, we took the bus to the George Mason campus in Washington, DC to listen to a few speakers, Lauren Ober, and Lauren Barron-Lopez. Both of the speakers were amazing.

Lauren Ober is a host of the Spectacular Failures podcast, and an award winning producer for WAMU's magazine Metro Connection. I found her advice about finding your skillset very meaningful. If you don't find your niche or something that you're well versed in (especially in the field of journalism), your experience in the field won't be as enjoyable compared to knowing what you know best.

Another enjoyable aspect of her speech was her belief in going right to the source. Someone asked a question about interviewing people for her podcast, and she said that she practices field reporting; meaning that she meets with the people that she's talking about/interviewing in person whenever she can.

Our next speaker, Laura Barron-Lopez gave the audience a very raw perspective of what it's like to be in journalism, especially for a woman of color. One thing that I very much appreciated was the fact that she wears her hair in its natural curly state; she doesn't water herself down or try to fit in with a certain beauty standard.

There was one quote that she said that really stuck with me, which was "Objectivity makes journalists say difficult things". Things that go against your own biases, but also things that people don't want to hear.

At around 2:00, we went over to the National Press Club to see two more speakers, Nicholas Johnston from Axios, and Alexis Johnson from Vice News. I had been looking forward to seeing Alexis Johnson speak since I have been watching vice for a few years now, and I have seen many of her segments.

Nick Johnston's speech was pretty interesting, he works for Axios News, an online publication that prioritizes brevity in their stories. He talked about building trust with the consumer and delivering news effectively while still maintaining brevity in its delivery along with key details and nuance.

After that was Alexis Johnson, the speaker I was waiting for. She talked about how she started off working at a local TV station doing closed captioning, and she is now a multimedia journalist. Johnson discussed the importance of networking, staying informed, and a very interesting piece of advice; finding a character for a story so the viewer or reader has somebody to relate to when they're getting information from the story.

After her speech, I had time to take a picture with her, and I got her autograph. I asked her a question having to do with facing backlash online when covering controversial topics, she told me that in order to stay safe, make sure to keep your social medias safe and not let bad faith actors get to you.

WEDNESDAY

On wednesday, our first speaker was Anna Layden, a photojournalist based out of Washington D.C. Photojournalism wasn't a career that I had really considered until she showed the evocative shots that she had taken.

She spoke on capturing a certain emotion when she was doing her job, and she also spoke on the hectic nature of being a freelance photojournalist.

Our next speaker was Patrick Money. His speech was on college admission. He talked about what colleges are looking for when it comes to admissions. He spoke on things like extracurriculars and AP & Honors classes and how the quantity doesn't matter to college admissions offices; but rather what the student learned while participating in these activities.

A few hours later, we went to our breakout session speakers. Mine was Donna Harris, a public information officer. She gave us a look at what goes on behind the scenes when it comes to live reporting and public relations. From her speech, I learned about the amount of work that goes into live broadcasting, especially when you're having to contact several different people and organizations in your community.

After the breakout session, I decided to network with Kayla Sharpe, a digital multimedia journalist who has covered many underreported topics around the world. Since my main interest in journalism is political extremism (more specifically the rise of the far right in the west), I asked her how she hones in on a story or issue that not many people may know about so she can get her point across to the reader, and she told me to focus in on one person in the story, to find a character much like Alexis Johnson said.

THURSDAY

On thursday we made our way back to Washington D.C and I went to the African American History museum with a few friends. I had been wanting to go to the museum ever since it was built. The museum had about five floors to it, but we only had time to look at the first floor which was dedicated to the origins of west Africa before the slave trade, and the beginning of slavery.

The most moving part of the museum that we saw was the Emmett Till Memorial. The tragic story of the young boy is enough to bring anyone to tears, but it's the parts that get left out that are especially enraging. Like how his mother got his body out of the Tallahatchie river after he carried a cotton gin fan down to it.

I definitely want to make a trip back down to DC to finish the entire museum, even if it would take the whole day.

After that, we went to the hotel that was hosting our gala. The food that we had there was amazing. Following the meal, we danced for a few hours and then headed back to campus again.

On friday, we packed up all of our stuff from the dorms, and we left. It was bittersweet, I had to leave all the friends that I made throughout the program, but at the same time I had learned so much.

TV Guide  -  November 3 - 9, 1962

Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE (October 1, 1890 – January 30, 1982)  Actor, comedian, singer and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.

In 1964, he appeared as Bellomy in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of The Fantasticks. 

Holloway played Pooh-Bah in a 1960 US television Bell Telephone Hour production of The Mikado, produced by the veteran Gilbert and Sullivan performer Martyn Green. Holloway appeared with Groucho Marx and Helen Traubel of the Metropolitan Opera.

In 1962 Holloway played the role of an English butler called Higgins in a US television sitcom called Our Man Higgins. It ran for only a season. His son Julian also appeared in the series. . He returned to the US a few more times after that to take part in The Dean Martin Show three times and The Red Skelton Show twice.  (Wikipedia)

8, 10, 18, 20?

Thank you for the ask!!

8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

I think so! I tend to write more for the characters and relationships that I enjoy most, and I wouldn't write something I wouldn't want to particularly read. Still, I think I probably read more broadly than I write?

10. How would you describe your writing process?

Generally it goes:

I get an idea and make a note of it

I make a really rough plan (unless it's going to be super short) and scribble down any sentences/phrases that I've already got

If I don't start writing then, I tend to 'write' the piece in my head as I go about my normal day

Then, I sit down to write it, with varying degrees of success and speed

Finish it, leave it for a little (a few hours or days or weeks or months, depending...) and then edit

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

There were several alternative/abandoned ideas for House Share:

In the first plan, when Mike makes the pet cemetery for Fanny, he makes a mistake or something isn't precisely right, Fanny criticised, but later Alison tells Mike she's seen her visiting it and admiring it. I decided to ditch that because it felt too negative

Mike was going to introduce Thomas to some new poets (that he'd just googled - or asked a friend about) and Thomas might or might not have hated them. I just wasn't really feeling that in the end

For Robin's chapter, they were going to go stargazing outside at night and then Mike ended up with a cold, but it felt a bit too expected, unexciting, and again, negative, which wasn't the vibe I was going for. I was discussing it with @thelastplantagenet who gave me a lot of the actual idea (thank you!!)

With Julian, I was considering a games night, Mike creating a night club type thing, them exchanging music suggestions (and listening to the worst songs). I tried writing all of them, but kept getting stuck so I scrapped it and started over

Oh, and in general, it was supposed to be a one chapter fic, maybe 4k words with a short section for each ghost (a bit like Hard-earned privileges) however, well, you know how long it became...

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

This Feeling and Inheritance both mention Julian taking Rachel out to a restuarant and going against Margot's wishes and letting her have one of those fancy sundaes that are always on the menu for kids but which the kid never actually eats - so naturally Rachel doesn't eat it and steals from Julian's cheeseboard instead. This is now some kind of core memory for both of them in my head

Talking of This Feeling, it mentions 'that ice-cream based uproar at the local hospital, involving smashed bowls, screaming arguments and no willingness to compromise on either side' - which er... was a thing that happened when I was in hosptial

There are some fun references in Still the same girl. I say fun, they are fun only to me and are mostly literary since I drew a lot from Victorian novels for this one! The references include: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell (which seemed fitting, considering Fanny's ghostly appearances in photos), Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Great Expectations and Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Dracula by Bram Stoker. It also mentions Mrs Greville, who owned Polsden Lacey (which is a National Trust place these days) and also Royal Holloway College/university, which is where I went and did indeed open for women in the 1880s.

Don't let them get you down, you're the best thing I've seen is, in many ways, my dissertation in the form of a story, including all the extra details/paragraphs that I had to cut from my final essay (as in, they didn't even get written, because halfway through the original plan, I realised I was already 5000 words over the word limit, which...yeah)

Okay, that got very, very lengthy - thank you to anyone who actually reads that. (I could expand further but I do not think that would be read 😁)

Birthdays 1.4

Beer Birthdays

Charles Deulin (1827)

Denis Holliday (1917)

Derek Walsh (1958)

Kevin Pratt (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Les Brown; big band leader, jazz musician (1912)

Albert Camus; author, existentialist (1913)

Matt Frewer; actor (1958)

Jakob Grimm; fairy tale author (1785)

Michael Stipe; rock musician (1960)

Famous Birthdays

Henri Bergson; philosopher (1865)

Louis Braille; Braille inventor (1809)

Dyan Cannon; actor (1937)

Charles Deulin; French folk tale writer (1827)

Everett Dirksen; politician (1896)

Max Eastman; writer (1883)

Dave Foley; actor, comedian (1963)

Tito Fuentes; baseball player (1944)

Sterling Holloway; actor (1905)

Patty Loveless; country singer (1957)

Ann Magnuson; actor, performance artist (1956)

John McLaughlin; musician (1942)

Julia Ormond; actor (1965)

Floyd Patterson; boxer (1935)

Benjamin Rush; physician, politician (1746)

Julian Sands; actor (1958)

William Robert Sherman; character in Stephen King's book Hearts in Atlantis

Don Shula; football coach (1930)

Tom Thumb; entertainer (1838)

James Ussher; bishop, calculated Earth began Nov. 23,.4004 BCE (1581)

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