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phoenixtakaramono · 3 months

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hi! any spoilers or sneaky peaks on the untold tale? i've been anxiously waiting for the new chapter 😫 your writing is on another level, i swear. i reread the first five chapters like more than 4 times each. i'm also loving your characterization of binghe!

Hullo, hullo, anon! 💞 It makes me heartened to hear that you like The Untold Tale! And I’m glad you’re liking my characterization of Bingge! I personally like my yanderes in fiction, and it’s always somewhat hilarious how wild and simp-y Luo Binghe’s POV and dialogue/ thoughts can be compared to Shen Yuan who’s just doing his best, haha.

We haven’t reached TUT’s position yet on my WIPs to Update list, so I haven’t been posting much sneak peeks of the upcoming ch6 yet since the majority of it is still in my rough note form (reminders of what I want to happen, dialogue that needs to happen, specific foreshadowing or worldbuilding, etc) and not the pretty final draft form y’all see on AO3. But I am very frank in my replies about what’ll happen in the AO3 Comments section so spoilers are abound there, haha. If y’all want a Spoiler Free experience, do not check out the Comments section. I answer questions and even gift spoilers (even copy and paste certain scenes that haven’t been published yet) to certain readers as thanks for leaving me long essay-long comments or just plain any comments that’ve made me happy.

There’s also a jokey April Fools version of what’ll be in ch6 that I’d tweeted out: TUT ch6 threadfic (April Fools edition). You can read it there if you have a Twitter account but essentially it’s scenes to expect—but butchered with American and British colloquialisms I have a certain writing process where I go all in on the fandom belonging to whichever WIP I’m working on updating, and at that time I wanted to show why it’d be a bad idea if I jumped back into writing TUT under this mindset and how it’d be jarring, haha. TUT has a certain writing style unique to C-novels and light novels in general, so I didn’t want to detract from that experience!

If you want a direct spoiler, this is what to expect from TUT ch6:

Shen Yuan’s shark tank meeting with the Jade Emperor’s Court (and SY finding out who is his celestial family in PIDW)

Luo Binghe’s POV, after his meeting with the celestial fortuneteller Shen Yuan (featuring a short cameo from Ning Yingying)

I do, admittedly, miss the SVSSS fandom a lot and really can’t want to return, my lovely dear readers, but I have to be a responsible multi-fandom writer rotating through my list of WIPs in an orderly fashion so it’s fair for everyone and wait for their turn and can only promise the patience will be worth it (to preserve the magic of it all)!! Thank you for your patience! I am heartened to hear there are people still reading and waiting for my return! I’ll share new sneak peeks as I’m live-writing it, once I’m ready to pivot back to TUT. ✌️ There also exist some other spoilery kernels but I’ll leave one more hint:

And after ch6, will be the Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky chapter where y’all will find out whose new poor cannon fodder’s identity he’s transmigrated into almost as a direct consequence of Shen Yuan’s transmigration as a celestial sharing the Protagonist’s Halo with Bingge in this new danmei genre he’s created (laughs). I’m excited because I get to finish up and debut the prettier illustration of ASTtS that’s been gathering dust in my computer files. If you’ve seen the WIP, yes, it’ll be the final version of this concept art I posted before as a sneak peek.

#bingyuan #svsss #scum villian self saving system #shen yuan #luo binghe #the untold tale #ask #anon #phoenix talks

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failbettergames · 2 years

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Friends and I have been watching the development for awhile now, and it seems that in the beginning the aromantic and asexual options were a major selling point. Recently, much of the marketing has seemed to really revolve around the meme aspects, and especially on the romantic and sexual options within the game. Are the routes without choosing sex/romance going to be as fleshed out as others? Will they receive the same attention and detail, even though it's not considered as flashy or important in the marketing? In the past, options in Fallen London especially have fallen flat in this regard, serving as a truncated form of other routes with a line or two changed

Yup, the conversation options for friendship, love without attraction and attraction without love are given the same attention! The whole game was concieved that way, unlike in Fallen London, where it started out as a kernel of an idea and developed over time on top of what was already there.

Marketing-wise, succeeding on Steam is a hit and miss thing at the best of times. What we've learned so far is to be clear on the game's genre, and add detail once people are already interested. Recently we've used more flirty character art to make it clear to the passing Steam user that this is a visual novel/romance game, but that's only one element of our efforts, and we'll surely be trumpeting all of the more unusual and enticing elements from now until release.

Hopefully you will have seen the new trailer, which includes gender diverse terms of address, diverse cameo selection and the aroace options within the first 30 seconds - where people are most likely to see them.

In short, fear not. We've got you. Now we just need to deliver!

#mask of the rose #fallen london

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dragonmuse · 2 years

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Request: Izzy and Charlie babysitting Raven! (Bonus points for Lucius being involved somehow, but not required lol <3)

(Hopping back to 'wake myself in the shadows'! instead of Lucius, I added a bit of Stede and Eddy, but Lucius does have a brief cameo)

Stede sat on the bench, watching Eddy and Raven have a very serious discussion on the merits of the different buckets available in the sandpit. They were both a little sandy and Stede was fairly sure Raven was winning the debate.

At four, Raven had already grown into his name. His hair was black and thick, sticking up in all directions unless it had seen a brush in the last five minutes and his skin was delicately pale. Stede could see Alma everywhere in him, the solemn shape of his lips and the way he quirked his head when he was listening. On the whole, he was a chatty child, easy to make laugh and friendly. Until a few minutes ago, he’d been playing with a band of children, but they had all gone home and Eddy had stepped in to engage him.

“Grandpa!” Raven cried and raced over to him, trailing sand. “Eddy says I can have juice.”

“Oh, yes of course, my dear,” Stede laughed. “You’re very sweaty, I imagine your very thirsty.”

“Super thirsty,” he agreed and took the juice box Stede produced from the basket beside him gratefully. “Can I sit in your lap?”

“Always,” Stede curled a hand around him and Raven clambered up contendly. Eddy sat down beside him.

“Apparently we have to make a whole castle next time,” Eddy informed him solemnly. “We’ll need fresh equipment.”

“I’m sure we could outfit you engineers with something sufficient,” Stede put his other arm around Eddy’s shoulders. “It’s been such a nice weekend, hasn’t it?”

“Mhmm,” Eddy whipped out a tissue and mopped up an errant stream of juice from Raven’s chin. “We’ll have him again next month, don’t get maudlin already.”

“I know, I know, but he just grows so much between visits.”

“I’m gonna be big,” Raven said, swinging his tiny sneakers up onto Stede’s other leg. “Taller than you, Eddy.”

“Impossible!” Eddy gasped. “I’m the tallest person in the world.”

“No, you’re not!” Raven sniffed.

“How do you know? Have you measured everyone in the world?”

“Can I?” The juicebox straw went between his lips.

“You can try,” Eddy considered. “At least in the household. Maybe we can bring you to the bar with a tape measure and let you at least try with the junior drag set.”

“We could make a game of it,” Stede agreed.

“Hello,” a shadow fell over their happy trio. A tall figure (taller, even, then Eddy ) with a bristle of hair and dark sunglasses.

“Cha-cha!” Raven cried happily and threw up his arms.

“Bird-boy!” Charlie chuckled and grabbed him up, tossing him into the air.

“Watch the juice,” Stede wrinkled his nose and stood. “Or you’ll be wearing it.”

“Wouldn’t be the first time,” Charlie settled Raven against his hip. “What’ve you got there?”

“Apple,” Raven sucked loudly on the straw so it made a horrible draining noise.

“Awesome,” Charlie nodded. “Have fun with your grandparents?”

“Yeah! We saw a movie and I got to eat so much popcorn!”

“What five or six kernels? Bird-boy a lot or real a lot?”

“Actually a lot,” Stede offered. “His appetite was good this weekend.”

“Yeah? Good job,” Charlie praised.

Raven was a picky eater and often seemed to survive on air, no matter what he was coaxed with. They’d allergy tested him, naturally, and taken him to specialists, but the ultimate diagnosis was that he was just like that.

“Can I do the swings?” Raven wiggled a little and Charlie set him down.

“Sure, have fun with that.”

“Push me?” Raven called out as he ran towards them.

“I will,” Stede volunteered. “I know you have to go, but-”

“Go ahead,” Charlie waved him off. “Fuck knows I don’t want to do it.”

“Izzy waiting in the car?” Eddy asked wryly.

“No, I drove. He’s got a client to meet,” Charlie glanced over at her. “Tax season is warming up.”

“Do you become a numbers widower?”

“Little bit,” Charlie barked a surprised laugh. “But he has fun playing games with the IRS. Anyway, he’ll be around tonight.”

“What time will Alma be home?”

“Her plane is still listed as on time, so probably 11ish. We’ll keep him overnight.”

“Makes sense.”

The conversation lapsed. They both watched Stede push Raven on the swing. The boy kept demanding ‘higher, higher!’ and Stede obliged. After a few minutes, Charlie checked his watch.

“Two minute warning, Raven!”

“Nooo!” he protested.

“You can’t move into the playground,” Charlie shouted. “Five more swings. Come on.”

After that it was a blur of transferring Raven’s little suitcase (robot-themed) and a lot of ‘last hugs’. Eventually though, Raven was in his car seat, armed with a water bottle and several picture books to look through. Charlie straighted, turning to face his father.

“Have a safe drive home,” Stede said.

“Yeah. I- thanks,” Charlie mustered a smile. “For looking after him. It was a help.”

“Any time. We love having him. Truly.”

Charlie searched his face, then gave a sharp nod. “Good.”

What Stede wanted to ask was if Charlie would text when they got home. To ask if he’d send more pictures. Alma did sometimes, but it wasn’t her thing and Stede knew for a fact that Izzy took them all time.

The bridge between their two riverbanks was not yet firm enough to hold that wait. Instead, he just waved as Charlie’s ridiuclously flashy car pulled away from the curb.

“Ready to head out?” Eddy asked, resting her hand between Stede’s shoulders.

“Charlie used to build sand castles,” he leaned back against her. “I forgot about that.”

She kissed his temple. “Time does that to us.”

“Yes,” he closed his eyes. He could see a blond head, bigger than Raven, but not by much. Just digging in the sand with a shovel and determination. Even then Charlie had been clear in his goals. Whatever he aimed to do got done.

Stede just hoped he was doing enough that one of those goals might be to heal things between them.

***

An hour later, Charlie pulled up to the apartment building and five minutes after that Raven was running in their front door calling,

“Uncle Izzy! Uncle Izzy!”

“Is that an invading army?” Israel’s office chair creaked and Charlie just knew he was leaning back too far in it so he could see out the door and down the hallway. He made out the sound of Raven running down the hall and being caught up and spun around.

He took his time removing his shoes and settling Raven’s things by the couch. The kid had aversion to the office/guest room and they had long ago given up trying to convince him into it. When he was over, he slept very happily on their couch which was deep enough to keep him comfortable and safe from rolling off the edge anyway.

“Israel, do you want me to take the chicken out of the freezer?” He called down the hall.

“No chicken,” Raven’s little voice floated out.

“Who said it’s for you?” Israel scoffed. “But no that’s for tomorrow! Got this one hamburgers.”

“Again?” Charlie mumbled to himself, but dutifully took out the patties he found beneath the chicken to defrost. Raven would eat hamburgers most of the time and that mattered. Charlie reserved the right to have internal gripes about it though.

A few minutes later, Raven re-emerged on his own.

“Uncle Izzy is working,” he informed Charlie. “And it’s boring.”

“I’ll bet. Cartoon time?”

“Yeah!”

Charlie scrolled through his phone while Raven watched tv. Occasionally he put it down to answer a question and that satisfied his tiny companion. A half-hour later, a warm hand circled Charlie’s neck and squeezed gently.

“Mm, hi,” Charlie tipped his head back to smile up at his husband. “You free?”

“For tonight,” Israel confirmed, leaning down to kiss him. “How was the drive?”

“Fine, boring.”

“And...”

“Fine,” Charlie sighed. “We were all very civil.”

“Yeah?”

“Mm. Eddy asked where you were.”

“I’m sure they missed my smiling face,” Israel rolled his eyes. “Want to start dinner? Get a break in?”

“Yeah, all right.”

Charlie cooked while Israel and Raven worked on the puzzle they’d had out since they’d last seen each other. It was some train thing and the two of them sat on the floor with equal ease. Raven did more talking than piecing together, but Israel had long experience with Bonnet blood trying to talk his ear off and was entirely unphased.

They ate together on the floor too, Charlie perched on the couch. The nights usually went fast after dinner. There was bathtime, only lightly supervised until it came time to actually wash up. Israel usually oversaw that, his instructions of ‘for the love- your actual skin kid, not five inches away’ or ‘you can’t leave shampoo in your hair that’s how you get a rash’ dashing through the apartment.

Once in pajamas, Raven would find Charlie like a heat seeking missile and hold out a stack of books,

“Read to me, Cha-cha?”

“Can’t you read yet?” Charlie narrowed his eyes at him.

“You do it better,” Raven pushed the stack of books towards him.

“This is a con,” Charlie announced as he always did. Raven giggled.

With that bit of playacting done, they settle on the couch, Raven laying out and Charlie sitting by his feet in the waning light. He’d read at least two books (“One more...please?” “Your eyes are closed.” “Are not!” ) and by the end of that Raven was usually asleep, sprawled out and twitching.

Israel would always sweep in to brush Raven’s hair off his forehead and leave a kiss there, before holding his hands out to Charlie and getting him to his feet. They walked quietly to the bedroom and shut the door.

“He sleeps like you,” Charlie said, not for the first time.

“Poor kid,” Israel snorted. “You all right, demon?”

“Just thinking,” he stretched out onto their bed, reaching upwards and arching his back until something cracked and then sank back with a sigh.

“About what?” Israel stood over him, his gaze covetous, but when he sat down, he kept his hands to himself.

“Who leaves a four-year-old? I’m so...ugh. I don’t even like babysitting, but I love that stupid kid so fucking much. I can’t imagine just walking out.”

“Yeah,” Israel did reach out now, but just rest his hand on Charlie’s chest, rubbing in small circles. “Me either.”

“You’re actually good at all this uncling stuff though.”

“You are too.”

“Maybe, but it feels forced.”

“You think I’m not working at it?” Israel shook his head. “It doesn’t come naturally. It was easier when he was a baby in some ways. Just had to keep him warm, dry and fed.”

“No way, walking and talking and diaperless is way better,” Charlie contended. “Anyway, I’m just being maudlin.”

Israel leaned down and kissed him once. Neither of them were keen on getting caught out by Raven’s infrequent, but startling sudden wakeups.

“Angel’ll be getting ready for work, want to call and bother him?”

They did and Lucius regaled them with bad customer stories as he got dressed, phone propped on his desk so they could watch him. When he was almost ready to go, he swept the phone up for a closer look at his face.

“Everyone surviving over there?” He checked.

“If I say I have consumption and must go to the sea for a resting cure, would you come with me?” Charlie asked with a pout.

“I’d visit with a hazmat suit,” Lucius snorted. “But I was thinking of coming by on Thursday. You still only have a morning class then, right?”

“Yeah,” Charlie grinned. “Really?”

“Really. I’ll even sit in the back and play student.”

“Kinky. I’m into it.”

With that to look forward to, Charlie picked up his book and Israel got his. The longer they were married, the more often they had these kinds of quiet nights. Even three or four years ago, Charlie would’ve sneered at the picture they made, both of them quietly pursuing their own interests, one of them occasionally interrupting the other with some good line or something that made them laugh. Now it just was a part of their increasingly domestic picture.

Charlie turned off his light long before Israel, but he didn’t mind falling asleep that way. Besides, someone had to be awake with the dawn because that’s when Raven’s little brain turned back on.

Today, he did get up before him, but he was still watching the coffee drip when Raven sat up, got his preferred plushie of the moment (a turtle of all things named Brussel Sprout) and shambled over to lean against Charlie’s leg.

“When is Mama coming?” he asked in his smallest, babiest voice.

“As soon as she wakes up, I bet,” Charlie assured him. “You know she misses you like hell. Hey, you want to go get bagels?”

Raven nodded, bottom lip quivering a little, but game for the distraction. They both just put on shoes with their pajamas (Charlie didn’t sleep in them, but he did put them on for Raven’s sake in the morning).

They returned with bounty, including Raven’s requested rainbow bagel with a very thick slab of cream cheese. Charlie cut it into quarters and was gratified that Raven ate half. Israel was in the shower when they got back.

“Heated up your oatmeal,” Charlie gestured at the stove.

They all ate and before Raven could start asking for her again, Alma texted.

Alma: on my way

“Mama’ll be here in fifteen minutes,” Charlie told them both.

“YAY!” Raven got down off his seat and ran to gather his things, stuffing them willy-nilly into his suitcase.

“Should we fix that?” Charlie watched, amused.

“Nah,” Israel said. “She’ll just dump everything into the wash anyway....is there more in there than he left with?”

“Dad,” Charlie sighed.

“Jesus fuck.”

“Let her handle it. She thinks it’s cute when he overindulges the kid.”

“It’s something,” Israel said darkly.

A quick toothbrushing and change ate up time. Alma slotted her key into the lock as Raven sat on his suitcase so Israel could zip it shut.

“Mama!” Raven said delighted and darted to the door.

She opened it and threw open her arms, “There’s my little bird.”

Raven hugged her tenaciously and she lifted him up with a happy sigh, burying her face in his wild hair. Charlie had to look away, her face too raw to be watched.

“How was your flight?” Israel asked, with no such compunctions.

“Don’t get me started,” she groaned. “Why do I ever let the university book these things? I almost missed my connection and I could’ve screamed. How was last night?”

“He slept well. Ate okay. Let me get his shit in your car. Your dad went off again.”

“Did he?” Alma smiled and kissed Raven’s head. “Did you get nice things, dear heart?”

“Clothes,” Raven shrugged. He had one hand in her hair, playing with the strands, unwilling to move an inch from her arms. “And books. I like the books better.”

“That doesn’t surprise me,” she rubbed his back. “Thanks, you two.”

“You can stay for lunch,” Israel offered as he hefted up the suitcase.

“Better not, but thanks,” she smiled at him and Charlie tried not to look grateful for that. “Raven has a play date this afternoon.”

“Maggie?” Raven asked hopefully.

“Who else? Her mother told me she’s been up since 4 this morning asking when you’re coming.”

“Let’s go now!”

“This afternoon,” she promised.

Charlie got a wave goodbye as Alma carried Raven out, trailed by Israel with the suitcase.

The apartment was quiet. Charlie grinned and started stripping the couch. The quiet didn’t bother him. They’d fill it with noise in just a few minutes.

#leda house and the kraken verse #ficlet #wake myself in the shadows

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soldier-poet-king · 1 year

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finally sat down to watch da: absolution and i have Some Brief Thoughts and Jokes and absolutely NO political discourse bc fuck that shit i wanna talk about LOVE

the good

tevinter architecture my beloved

A SQUAD doing a HEIST aka my fave and why da2 is forever my fave game

little tidbits and easter eggs to the games for Lore Nerds

and then SOME BIG ASS CALLBACKS to the games

hawke continues to be incapable of killing their villains, next is the arishok or orsino ig ??

THEY GOT THE ELVISH NOSE BRIDGES RIGHT. MY BELOVED BIG NOSES.

terrible french orlesian accents

rezaren, this matt mercer looking mf, was an excellent villain. because like. he’s sympathetic. he has good intentions but he’s HORRIBLE and SELFISH and the story doesn’t shy away from showing him as horrible and manipulative. like yes maybe he doesn’t know better and he does care for miriam and neb in his own twisted way. that doesn’t make it right. doesn’t make it okay. doesn’t make him not a slave owner. and this really comes to a head in the dream sequence where he’s completely incapable of understanding why miriam doesn’t want to return to him, and then completely disrespecting her wishes, her autonomy, when she refuses him. he just cant see her and neb as real people even tho he cares about them in a childish selfish way. road to hell is paved with good intentions etc etc etc. like he’s so fuckin bad but also still sympathetic until maybe 2/3 of the way through the show when he goes full villain.

rezaren, had things played out slightly differently, could have been a dorian. dorian has some GOD AWFUL opinions in da:i and some deeply ingrained privileges and prejudices, esp re: slavery. he learns and grows and becomes better in the inquisition, and possibly leaving tevinter (even under such horrible circumstances) was the thing that saved him from becoming terrible because he didnt know any better. rezaren in many ways is a mirror of that, but slightly worse, slightly to the left, with fewer allies, never having his position of power challenged, etc etc etc. tldr i just think it’s neat :) it’s an arc i really enjoy and im just. obsessed with sort of well intentioned but also horrible people becoming better (or like. dying as full villains in the grave theyve dug for themselves and refuse to exit. either or yknow)

like blind privilege rather than outright malice is how 99% of the irl world’s evil happens and yet it is also where the most irl grace and atonement and forgiveness and betterment is possible. im fascinated by tevinter characters and tevinter in general. im never gonna shut up abt this.

cassandra cameo my beloved

as much as i hated the overabundance of quips (see below) roland is just. handsome. funny. charming. i saw a man so beautiful i started crying

tassia. her relationship with tevinter is complicated, much like dorian’s and i just. really love the whole ‘the place im from does horrible things and many would call it irredeemable and i understand that but also i think there’s a kernel worth saving there and i am going to work my whole life thanklessly trying to save it even if it wont try to save itself and even if that makes me the bad guy to both those opposed to and those loyal to my homeland’, i just think it’s neat and not at all a personal thing for me and religion :))))

‘no one ever saves us. so we save us’ maybe im sentimental and crying ok. whos to say. big believer in small kindnesses save the world.

the bad

negative points bc elves are wearing shoes and i like to think of them like hobbits and im v irrationally attached to this

qwydion is just. tall conventionally attractive woman with horns. not a vashoth qunari. where is my giant qunari woman. i demand a giant qunari woman.

suffers from mcu-funny quip disease. like fun quips can be enjoyable. in moderation. not constantly. we’re ALLOWED to have moments of genuine emotion, not everything needs to be counteracted and made light with a quip

some of the crew are caricatures but like. it’s a miniseries. i’ll forgive them. even if qwydion is comic relief and ofc lacklon (the dwarf) is the ‘suspicious untrusting one’

how could they kill fairbanks hes my da robin hood fave minor character and how dare they make me spend SEVERAL EPISODES thinking he was a traitor

the tevinter templars were....effective??? and had influence??? how does tassia have the authority to order rezaren around when in canon they’re just glorified bodyguards and only do what the magisters tell them? why are they actually effective against demons? why the fuck is tassia all like ‘oh no blood magic is evil im gonna report u to the divine’ like????? MAAM THIS IS TEVINTER AND THIS IS A MAGISTER not like. a soporati or laetan mage. how tf did u get the position of knight commander in tevinter if you arent willing to look the other way when magisters do blood magic

haha hawke is human disaster joke but also FUCK MEREDITH SO BAD I HATE THIS BITCH the joke is funny but i dont want her backkkkkkkk even if she WAS such a good villain UNLESS the da2 squad comes back but they cant do that bc anders’ fate is entirely up to the pc. also isnt varric the viscount of kirkwall. what the FUCK is going on in this city

ppl are saying miriam is ‘fenris but better’ but i resent that statement the show tried to do his 7 yr arc in 6 eps and it didnt work (understanably but STILL) and also im a fenris girlie first and foremost forever and ever so i will not stand for any besmirchment of his nearly perfect arc. he’s the PERFECT ‘character made to be a tool learns to be a person and love and be loved’ arc ok.

ik it’s been said but holy shit the dragon animation was BAD

#da:a spoilers #da absolution #da absolution spoilers #not discourse in the insufferably da fandom way lmao #just THOUGHTS bc i have a love hate relationship with tevinter #long post #dorian feels abt tevinter the way i do abt christianity send tweet #yes im a redemption for all truther #for better or for worse #ppl arent wholly evil even tho it is easier to think that way #and im just. i got a big heart and it is full of love but also so much anger

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adamwatchesmovies · 14 days

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Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 3 is the weakest installment in the series to date. Though it's nice to see the characters we’ve grown to enjoy so much return and we've got a compelling mystery, this third chapter is not as fresh, funny, or scary as the previous two. Most of the time, I don't have the heart to keep the mediocre entries in the franchises I love because I don't have the shelf space and I figure I'll never rewatch it again anyway, so why bother? Blade III is a perfect example. I still own a copy of Scream 3. Why? Maybe because I always hope that THIS time, I'll really like it or because of an element of the conclusion that has since become a lot more relevant to the film industry.

Set three years after the events of Scream 2, someone is attacking the cast of “Stab 3” - the film within the film based on the Woodsboro murders. Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox-Arquette) meets with on-set “Woodsboro consultant” Dewey Riley (David Arquette) and soon Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) joins them when she receives a phone call from the killer. Both the actors in the fictional film and the real-life victims on which they’re based have to work together to discover this new killer's identity.

The thesis of Ehren Kruger's script is that the third chapter in trilogies go back to the beginning; they reveal something about the franchise that we didn't know until now. The biggest problem with Scream 3 is that trilogies are so rare, particularly in horror franchises, that this point is hard to make. I don’t mean that there aren’t a lot of third movies in horror series; I mean that Friday the 13th Part III, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, Halloween III: Season of the Witch and the like aren’t REALLY the final chapter in trilogies, they’re just second sequels. While The Godfather Part III and The Return of the Jedi might “go back to the beginning” as this film does (more on that in a moment), it hardly feels like a recurring motif. To compensate, Scream 3 leans heavily on the idea of a film-within-a-film but that concept doesn’t really pay off in the end, making for a picture that never quite comes together.

That idea of going back and unmasking something about the past that will “change everything” is the most interesting aspect of Scream 3. Aside from the identity of the killer, the big mystery concerns Sidney’s mother, Maureen Prescott. We learn she had a past in Hollywood and that something happened to her years ago. This idea, combined with Harvey Weinstein’s name in the credits give the picture an unexpected relevance in a post #METOO era. Carrie Fisher plays a woman who says she didn’t get the role of Princess Leia because Fisher slept with George Lucas. Even if it is a joke (a dumb joke), there’s a kernel of an idea there, but this concept is at odds with director Wes Kraven's increased comedic leanings. When you’ve got a cameo by Jay and Silent Bob, your movie isn’t taking itself too seriously, that’s for sure.

How does the picture fare as an entry in the Scream series? You still get to have fun piecing together the clues and listening to the movie trivia stuff, but some of the murders feel like they happen just so the movie can have a body count - particularly when we consider the villain’s true motives. One victim is incinerated via an intentional gas leak. It feels like a thousand things could’ve and should’ve gone wrong with that one. The fact that it worked out the way it did strains credibility. All of the weaknesses compound to make the new Ghostface (once again voiced by Roger L. Jackson) significantly less menacing or frightening than before.

In the end, I suppose I find myself not really recommending Scream 3 but telling you that since the first, second, and fourth are quite good, and that you’ll probably feel like you’re missing out on something if you don’t see it… you might as well. Not exactly a ringing endorsement but this movie isn’t a chore to sit through and in the end, it’s all about the next chapter, which is terrific. You want to be up to speed when you catch it, so sit through Scream 3. At home, for the price of a rental, it’s not so bad. (On Blu-ray, May 30, 2022)

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alsjeblieft-zeg · 1 year

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317 of 2023

Uniquely Spelled Words [True or False]

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You woke up ornery today. You like to eat salmon. You're allergic to salmon. You've tried a cannoli. You like to eat minestrone soup. You can picture in your head what a sassafras tree looks like. After taking this survey, you're about to skedaddle, because you have a lot of things to do today. (did it already lol) You've taken a synchronized swimming class. 🏊‍♀️ You've had a friend named Chantell. You've been to Taiwan. 🇹🇼 You've been to Thailand. 🇹🇭 You've been to Seoul, South Korea. 🇰🇷 You like Thai food. 🍲 You've experimented with feng shui. You've slept in a teepee. You wish you had telekinetic powers. [Telekineses= the ability to move objects with your mind] (it’s spelled telekinesis, you know?) You've visited Venezuela. 🇻🇪 You've been to Ecuador. 🇪🇨 You've been to Peru. 🇵🇪 You know someone who owns llamas. 🦙 You just learned that the symbol used for division in a math problem is called an obelus. You would never steal books, because you're not a bibliokept. 📚 [Bibliokept= one who steals books] You're a Yooper. [aka a resident of Michigan's Upper Peninsula] You like the name Deklan. You remember learning about the Pythagorean theorem in school. You've taken a Calculus class. You like the name Cescily. You've met someone named Serenity. You don't normally keep receipts. 🧾 You enjoy kneading bread dough. You like people who are authentic. You like açaí bowls. You've had a seizure. (more than one, this shit sucks, really) You've seen someone else have a seizure. You've been called a heifer. 🐄 You've recently stood in a queue. [Queue= line] You read the Encyclopedia Brown books when you were younger. 📚 You've recently seen a squirrel run by. 🐿 You've seen a squirrel do something really stupid. 🐿 You've sang in a choir. You know how to speak a foreign language fluently. You're a genuinely kind and caring person. You have no idea why "Colonel" is spelled the way it is, when it's pronounced the same as "kernel." You've drank a smoothie infused with whey protein. You've tried quinoa. You like quinoa. You've been to Arkansas. You're aware that life is ephemeral. [Ephemeral= lasting a very short time] You like the name Jericho for a boy or a girl. You've met someone named Cameo.

#survey #bolding survey #themed survey

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frecklystars · 2 years

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opened old cameos for the hell of it and my heart is squeezing in my goddamn chest hearing starscream drawl “my wonderful girlfriend keriiii” jesus fucking christ

#listening to old cameos and im . on the floor. a mess #im going to give that man!! so many charms!! and flowers!!!#little pressed blue flowers in the thank-you card!!!!#i dont know what else to get him but i will think of something #love notes #💕 Two falling stars ✨#woof #i feel annoying when i gush about cameo im sorry fdkhdfjf but i need to release my emotions #or i will pop like a kernel in the microwave

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dino--boyy · 2 years

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Hewwo I love scream so much maybe you could writes a cute fanfiction where the reader is little and billy and stu are taking care of them (and maybe a randy cameo hehe) only if you wanted to i would love it and my partner would love it to.

hi hi! :D m sorry this took me so long, but here it is! <33 i hope it's okay,, thank you so much for your request this was rly fun and comforting :))

movie night

Fandom : Scream

Pairing : CG!Billy Loomis, Stu Macher and Randy Meeks + Little!Reader

TW/CW : mild food/eating cw

Word Count : 805

Summary : Randy joins you for your movie night with Billy and Stu while you're regressed

(It's under the cut! :))

You cuddle up into Billy’s side as Stu goes to answer the ringing doorbell. You hear a shout of delight from him, and whoever is at the door, and you look up at Billy curiously. You’ve been regressed nearly all afternoon, and both Billy and Stu have kindly offered to care for you. Before you can ask Stu who was at the door, he comes back into the living room with his arm around Randy, both boys grinning.

“Y/N!” Randy nearly shouts, reaching out to ruffle your hair, and you giggle, blushing as you wave shyly at him. “We were just about to watch a movie, weren’t we, hon?” Billy plants a kiss on your head and you nod excitedly, patting the spot next to you on the couch for Stu and Randy to sit next to you. “C’mon!” Stu chuckles, as you move onto Billy’s lap, making enough room for both boys to sit down.

“Why don’t you pick the movie, bubs. I’m gonna go make us some popcorn, do you want some juice?” Stu asks you, to which you nod, bouncing a little bit in Billy’s lap. The three boys grin, and Randy follows Stu into the kitchen to help him with the popcorn. You click onto something you, Billy and Stu had been meaning to watch something for a while. A few minutes later, Stu comes back into the living room with a sippy cup full of apple juice, and Randy with a large bowl of popcorn.

You take the cup from Stu’s hand, thanking him, and happily taking a sip of the sweet juice. He and Randy sit down next to you, placing the popcorn bowl on the coffee table in front of the four of you. You climb onto Stu’s lap, resting your head against Billy’s chest. Stu presses play on the movie, and you giggle as Billy kisses the top of your head.

The movie is a scary one, and Stu playfully smacks Randy every time he begins to ramble about what is going on. You sip at your juice, reaching for the popcorn bowl now located in Billy’s lap. He grabs a handful for you, and smiles as you excitedly take it from him, shoving the kernels into your mouth.

A short while into the film, you begin to feel a little more scared than you thought you would get. Even when you’re regressed you’re a big fan of scary movies. Normally you and Billy and Stu will rewatch your favorites when you’re feeling small. But still, the boys know which parts to hold you closer during, or the gorier parts where they never forget to cover your eyes. However, none of you have seen this particular movie before, and you’re a little on the younger side compared to how you normally regress.

You bury your face in Billy’s neck, whining a little, as another jumpscare catches you off guard. Your hand tightens around Stu’s as well, and the boys look at each other over your head. Randy seems to notice something off, and reaches out to pause the movie. “Would you like me to stop it, little one?” he asks, softly.

You shake your head, a little bit embarrassed. You don’t want to ruin the fun for the other three, and you like being around all of them. Randy presses play on the movie once more, but you don’t look back at the screen. A couple more minutes pass before you feel brave enough to continue watching the film from Stu’s lap.

Stu jumps a little bit, chuckling after the fact. You however, whimper, curling up into Stu. “Are you scared, bug?” he asks you gently, to which you slowly nod. Billy reaches over to ruffle your hair, and Randy reaches over to pat you on the back. “Hey, that’s okay! You’re only little, hm?” You nod, still not looking at any of the three boys.

Stu holds you closer, exiting from the movie, scrolling down to one of your favorites. You look up at him, questioningly. Billy and Stu have probably seen most of your favorite movies enough times to have parts of the script memorized. You don’t want to bother or annoy them.

Randy smiles at you. “This is your pick?” he asks, to which you nod slightly. Randy reaches over to give you a high-five, which causes you to giggle, slapping his hand. You settle back against Stu, leaning your head back on Billy’s shoulder. He gives you a side hug, handing you your juice once more. You smile, as Stu begins the movie, and Randy begins speaking along with the character’s in a funny voice. You begin to relax once more, as the three boys are sure to make you feel comfortable again, happy to spend time with you, no matter what.

@peachydinorawr :)

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nolabballgirl · 3 years

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some thoughts about Vrijdag 15:12, 18:03 (ep. 10, clips 11-12):

well, folks, we've come to the end, not just of the season, but (most likely) of the show itself. and really these two clips were more about the cast coming together and celebrating (a la skam españa) than an actual fitting ending to yasmina's season. and so we get (1) a cameo from jana and milan; (2) all the couples together, including yasmina and younes; and (3) partying, dancing, and a bunch of "alt er love" messages to finish things. which honestly, even though it's 100% unearned, is par for the course. but hey, at least, they kept the drone at home!

of course, it couldn't be an ending clip without one last white savior™ grand "surprise" gesture for yasmina. and the writers couldn't help themselves with one last dig at yasmina, when she says "I think I proved this year that I’m not really a good example." and kato (of all people) replies that "I think all of us proved that we aren’t perfect." thanks for that great message!

and so another sana season crawls to a lackluster, unsatisfying end, and we are left with the kernels of what could have been. and sadly, we never get to say goodbye to elias, mama ait omar, papa ait omar (who forever remains a villain), my beloved aïcha, and the rider (balloon) squad boys, who i truly hope all are living their best unencumbered lives away from this mess.

finally, we have to ask what we ourselves will take away from this season. if nothing else, that yasmina deserved better. that our brown, black, muslim, and other characters of color deserve so much better. that perhaps other belgian showrunners and writers see the fan feedback/criticism and do better next time. that the nora daris, noa kabatis, and yara veyts of the world will one day get their due and portray characters that do them justice. that one day we can have a season with a practicing muslim protagonist that does her justice. 🙏🏽

and that's a wrap for me folks! thanks to all the unsung hero translators, especially @wtfock-skam and @wtfockinternational for your work throughout the season. and thanks for reading! ✌🏽

#wtfock #last clip analysis #bye yasmina

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papermoonloveslucy · 3 years

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TOO MANY HUSBANDS

April 21, 1947

The Gulf Screen Guild Theater present Wesley Ruggles’ Too Many Husbands, which was a 1940 Columbia Pictures release.

Produced and Directed by: Bill Lawrence

Music by: Wibur Hatch

Synopsis ~ Vicky Lowndes (Lucille Ball) loses her first husband, Bill Cardew (Bob Hope), in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The lonely widow is comforted by Bill's best friend and publishing business partner Henry Lowndes (Frank Sinatra). Six months later, she marries him. Six months after that, Bill shows up, after having been stranded on a uninhabited island and then rescued. Vicky has a tough choice to make.

The Screen Guild Theater (aka The Screen Guild Players), was one of the most popular drama anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio. At this point it is being sponsored by Gulf Oil. From its first broadcast in 1939, up to its farewell in 1952, it showcased radio adaptations of popular Hollywood films. Many Hollywood names became part of the show, including Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and many more. The actors’ fees were all donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization that provides aid to retired actors. Screen Guild Theater was heard on different radio networks, beginning with CBS from 1939 to 1948, NBC from 1948 to 1950, ABC from 1950 to 1951, and back to CBS until its last episode on June 29, 1952. Throughout its run, a total of 527 episodes were produced.

The radio show brought movies to radio for thirty minutes each Monday evening on CBS. The show aired for 242 programs beginning with “Yankee Doodle Dandy” starring James Cagney and ending with “My Reputation.” In between were all time classics such as “Casablanca” with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, “Sergeant York” with Gary Cooper and “Holiday Inn” with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Dinah Shore.

The Screen Guild Players previously broadcast an adaptation of “Too Many Husbands” on March 8, 1942 starring Hedy Lamar, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby. On September 4, 1944 yet another version was aired by the Players, starring Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, and Bill Goodwin.

Too Many Husbands (1940) was produced and directed by Wesley Ruggles, with a screenplay by Claude Binyon. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham, which was retitled Too Many Husbands when it came to New York. The story is a variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In the UK, the film was released as My Two Husbands. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Sound Recording. Too Many Husbands was remade as a musical, Three for the Show (1955), with Jack Lemmon and Betty Grable.

Two of the film’s background players, Bert Stevens and James Conaty, were later seen in as extras on “I Love Lucy.” Sam McDaniel (brother of Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniel of Gone With the Wind), plays a porter, just as he will do on “I Love Lucy,” becoming the first black actor to have lines on the series. Star Fred MacMurray will appear with Lucille Ball in “Lucy Hunts Uranium” in 1958.

RADIO CAST

Lucille Ball (Vickie) plays the role originated in the film by Jean Arthur. In April 1947, Ball was awaiting the release of two films: Lured and Her Husband’s Affairs.

Bob Hope (Bill) plays the role originated in the film by Fred MacMurray. Hope had just released the film My Favorite Brunette. Hope and Ball would do four films together, staring in 1949 with Sorrowful Jones.

Frank Sinatra (Henry) plays the role originated in the film by Melvyn Douglas. Sinatra had just released the film It Happened in Brooklyn on April 7, 1947. Primarily a singer, this is the only time he acts opposite Lucille Ball.

Truman Bradley (Announcer) was selected by Henry Ford to be the announcer for the “Ford Sunday Evening Hour”. With his distinctive, authoritative voice, he soon became a radio actor as well as a narrator in numerous movies. Bradley was the radio announcer for shows by Red Skelton, Burns and Allen, and Frank Sinatra.

Peter, the Butler is played by an uncredited performer.

‘TOO MANY’ TRIVIA!

The title is easily confused with the title of Lucille Ball’s radio series “My Favorite Husband,” and her films Too Many Girls, and Her Husband’s Affairs.

Lucille Ball also appeared with Screen Guild Players in “Tight Shoes” (April 12, 1942), “Nothing But the Truth” (May 3, 1943), and “A Night To Remember” (May 1, 1944).

From late 1942 to July 1947 Lady Esther Cosmetics sponsored the show which had been previously sponsored by Gulf Oil. It was first known as the “Lady Esther Presents the Screen Guild Players” and then became "The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater.”

As is his penchant, Hope ad libs during the script. While hugging Vickie upon his return from the ‘dead’, he says “Let’s just stay like this till ‘Take it or Leave It’ comes on the air!” “Take It or Leave It” was a radio quiz show, which ran from April 1940 to July 1947 on CBS. It switched to NBC in 1947, and in September 1950, the name of the program was changed to “The $64 Question.” Hope often flubs his dialogue, but covers with comedy.

Bill (or maybe it is Bob ad libbing) mentions Dorothy Dix. Author Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951) was widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix. As the forerunner of today’s popular advice columnists, Dix was America’s highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world with an estimated audience of 60 million readers.

Bill (or maybe it is Bob ad libbing) wonders why Vickie married Henry: “Did you lose a question on “Truth or Consequences?” “Truth or Consequences” was a game show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (1940–1957), although it also was later seen on television.

Bill (or maybe it is Bob ad libbing) says that the mattress on the bed that he and Henry have to share feels like it has been stuffed with Grape-Nuts. Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed in 1897 by C. W. Post. Post originally developed the product as a batter that came from the oven as a rigid sheet, which was then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder to produce the "nut"-sized kernels.

The first commercial break advertises Lady Esther’s four-purpose face cream. In these live commercials, the spokeswoman in known as Lady Esther, although she was not the actual Esther Cohen that the cosmetics line was named for.

Bob Hope ad-libs about his “Pepsodent contract”. Hope hosted “The Pepsodent Show” from September 1938 to June 1948. The program also featured Jerry Colonna along with Blanche Stewart and Elvia Allman as well as a continuously rotating supporting cast and musicians which included Desi Arnaz and his orchestra.

Henry tells Bill he should leave and join the Foreign Legion. Bill replies that he’ll meet him halfway by going to the library and reading Beau Geste. Beau Geste is an adventure novel by P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. Published in 1924, the novel has been adapted for the screen several times: 1926, 1939, and 1966.

Henry asks Bill (Bob) if he can spell “pithecanthropus" and defines it a the missing link between man and ape. Bob (Bill) replies “C.R.O.S.B.Y”! Bing Crosby was a singer that partnered with Hope on dozens of films, particularly their “road” films. In April 1947, Crosby had just appeared in a cameo role in Hope’s newest film, My Favorite Brunette. By the end of 1947, The Road to Rio will be released. Coincidentally, in the 1942 Screen Guild production, Crosby played Henry, the role taken here by Sinatra.

Just before Vickie breaks it to Henry that she’d rather be married to Bill, Henry (or maybe it is Crosby) sings “Time After Time” (1946), a romantic ballad by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, written for Sinatra to introduce in the 1947 film It Happened in Brooklyn, which had premiered two weeks earlier. In return, in the very next scene, Bob Hope warbles a few notes of “Thanks for the Memory”, his signature song.

At the end, Lucille Ball thanks the Motion Picture Relief Fund and it’s country house. In 1940, Jean Hersholt, then-president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, found 48 acres of walnut and orange groves in the southwest end of the San Fernando Valley to build the Motion Picture Country House. The dedication was on September 27, 1942. The Motion Picture Hospital was dedicated on the grounds of the Country House in 1948.

The final commercial, once again delivered by ‘Lady Esther’ is for Lady Esther Bridal Pink Face Powder.

‘TOO MANY’ CLOSING CREDITS

The announcer (Truman Bradley) promotes next week’s program, Stork Bites Man, starring Jackie Cooper, Anita Louise, and Gus Schilling.

Stork Bites Man was a United Artists film that would not be released until June 1947. It also starred Cooper and Schilling.

Columbia Pictures is credited as the producer of The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. Coincidentally, Douglas starred in the film version of Too Many Husbands.

The music was arranged and conducted by Wilbur Hatch, who also did the same for “My Favorite Husband” and “I Love Lucy.”

Lucille Ball appeared courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, producers of The Sea of Grass starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Walker.

Bob Hope appears through the courtesy of Pepsodent, and can currently be seen in the Paramount picture, My Favorite Brunette.

Frank Sinatra appears through the courtesy of Old Gold cigarettes, and can currently be seen in the MGM musical It Happened in Brooklyn, also starring Katharyn Grayson, Peter Walker, and Jimmy Durante.

The announcer reminds listeners that part of the country goes on Daylight Saving Time, and that the show will be heard one hour earlier.

#Too Many Husbands #Lucille Ball #Bob Hope #Frank Sinatra #Radio #Screen Guild Players #1947 #Lady Esther #Wilbur Hatch #Dorothy Dix #Truth or Consequences #Pepsodent #Time After Time #Bing Crosby #Beau Geste #Grape-Nuts #Take It Or Leave It

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theparanormalperiodical · 4 years

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The REAL Stories Behind Final Destination (2000) And The 10 Creepiest Times Celebrities Predicted Their Own Deaths

It must’ve happened sometime in the early 1980s.

‘81, or ‘82, perhaps.

Some 15 year old in the ass-end of Aberdeen, Washington, was stuck in the teen funk of wanting to ditch high school forever whilst simultaneously spray painting ‘god is gay’ on hick trucks.

But when he wasn’t pissin’ off the rednecks, he was telling his friends that he was pretty sure he’d become a famous rockstar, and end his life surrounded by fame and riches by committing suicide.

He was the emblem of the era.

He would be the emblem for the next.

Kurt Cobain died on April 5th 1994 at the tender age of 27. He would not be the last person to have a premonition of his own death.

In fact, the peculiar phenomenon of predicting one’s own death or sensing something foreboding is due isn’t just some forgotten urban legend. It’s been immortalised in a franchise that has achieved a cult status similar to Cobain’s band Nirvana:

Final Destination (2000).

The thing is, the 5 Final Destination films aren’t just based on this unexplained phenomenon of predicting one’s demise. They’re also based on several horrifying, infamous deaths that have haunted America for decades.

They’ve been mocked, marketed, and made out to be utter rubbish - but the luring call of the Grim Reaper might be more real than you think.

First, let’s recap the Final Destination franchise.

James Wong has made his name in horror. From the cutting-edge directing of Insidious, to his recapturing of the media-frenzy that was the caseload of Ed and Lorraine Warren, he has led the genre in a new direction that deals with supernatural phenomena which tend to be all too real.

His earlier work, Final Destination, was no different.

The Final Destination franchise consists of 5 movies and a couple limited edition comic books. It’s achieved cult status for its innovative plotline and Truman Show-like impact on the viewers. But the thing is, like most cult horror movies, it tends to be, well, trash.

And that’s what they were.

For 5 feature length movies we see the same plot play out:

(No, I’m not being cynical, it literally follows the same damn structure every damn time.)

A gaggle of high school or college aged friends head out on a trip. One of the crew has a mysterious premonition that they’re gon’ die in like a 4K-HD-put-your-3D-glasses-on-now-and-switch-off-your-mobile-phones worthy video clip.

That person then, understandably, flips out and somehow causes a fight. The group of friends then get asked to get off the plane, or aren’t allowed on the roller coaster, or are no longer partaking in the deadly activity.

The event that was seen in the premonition then takes place. For the rest of the movie we see a series of bizarre events that threaten and take the lives of those who cheated death.

A sixth instalment is in production and attempts to break the cycle by looking at EMT workers who face ‘death’ on a daily basis.

The following of this film can be traced back to a number of reasons: there’s the vibrant lives of the characters, there’s a lovable chemistry between the actors, and there’s that idea that fate might just have our lives set out for us.

But when the last unpopped kernels are left at the bottom of the bowl and the credits fade to black, we are left with only our faces to look at in the reflection of our laptop screens. From there, those laughable traps set by death themself don’t seem so hilarious.

They seem to be real.

Maybe we are fated to die at a certain time in a certain way? Maybe the Grim Reaper does exist? Maybe we have no control over our destiny?

Jeffrey Reddick, the writer of Final Destination, directly sought out to ask these questions. And he based the original film off a true story.

“[He] read a story about a woman who was on vacation and her mom called her and said, 'Don't take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it.'"

She switched flights, and the one she was supposed to be on crashed.

This urban legend taps into a haunting history of premonitions of death. For millennia humans have predicted the fates of themselves and those around them whether they boasted psychic powers or not.

(We will get to that.)

Unfortunately, this franchise is based on more than just an urban legend. Some of the most traumatic death traps left by the Grim Reaper are actually inspired by real life tragedies.

Many believe the original film featuring a flight fault and exploding plane was based on the TWA Flight 800 explosion - but this occurred 2 years after the original script (which was intended for 90s icon The X Files) was penned.

But there are 3 real-life events that inspired the franchise.

#1 - The 125 car pileup in Ringgold, Georgia

In 2002, approximately 120 cars and 20 tractor-trailers collided on the Interstate just south of Chattanooga as a result of the blanket of thick fog that Thursday morning. 4 were killed and 39 were injured.

It began when a tractor drove into the wall of fog and smashed into the back of another. It then crossed several lanes, and spread the wreckage. The visibility at the time of the collision was at most 15 feet.

Only an hour later, when the fog finally lifted, could the emergency services see the full extent of the disaster.

#2 - The Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster

It’s been labelled the most catastrophic crash in the history of motorsport. No CGI could do justice to what occurred.

On June 11th 1955, Jaguar driver Mike Hawthorn pulled to the right of the track and braked for a pit stop. Austin-Healey driver Lance Macklin was following closely behind and swerved out from behind the braking car into the path of another driver, Levegh. Levegh rear-ended Macklin, overriding Macklin’s car and launching his own into the air at 125mph.

The car collided with the spectator area several times and then disintegrated, throwing Levegh onto the track where he met his instant death.

The engine and bonnet was thrown into the crowd.

Levegh’s severely burnt body lay on the track until someone finally lay a sheet over it.

It is estimated that 84 died, and 178 were injured. We still don’t know the full extent of the death toll.

This tragedy - which was blamed on the nature of the course for cars of such a speed - caused Mercedes-Benz to withdraw from racing for 44 years.

#3 - The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

4 months after the opening of the bridge to traffic, the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsed as a result of an aeroelastic flutter initiated by a 42mph gust of wind.

Fortunately, there were no human fatalities, but the shocking collapse was caught on film. A dog named Tubby, however, did die from being abandoned in a car on the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggxeuFDaDU

So we know that the most iconic scenes from the franchise can be traced back to shocking disasters and tragedies. But there’s another side to the reality behind Final Destination:

The well laid plans of the Grim Reaper.

What are premonitions of death and what do they mean?

To many, having a niggling feeling about when one may pass away or even seeing it in a vision or a dream is a common part of life. And to many more, they will deem this as something as simple as anxiety making us believe we are due to die soon. However, from a spiritual standpoint, premonitions of death have much more meaning.

According to psychic mediums and spiritualists, the nagging feeling of impending death or dreams or visions of death are common - and can be real. They believe that souls can choose when they depart this world and thus signal to us when this is due.

Those with souls that are more evolved and have been reborn many times have greater ability to sense this.

Even souls that have connected together for many years - and even many lifetimes - and have formed bonds can have death premonitions regarding each other.

Whether it’s a specific date or a certain age, foreseeing your own or another’s passing can be a terrifying concept. But on the same note, this premonition could refer to a symbolic death, a bit like the death card in a Tarot deck.

Perhaps a part of yourself is dying.

(This certainly won’t be as graphic as a Final Destination death cameo.)

History has a different version of events, however.

Many have had premonitions of their own death. And many have been correct. It’s time to talk about them.

Here’s the 9 other times celebrities predicted their own deaths to an uncomfortable degree.

#1 - Tupac Shakur

This rap icon’s death wasn’t just a tragedy.

It was a mystery, too.

Many still believe that the death was faked and that Shakur is very much alive and well, whether he’s hiding in Mexico, New Zealand, or South Africa.

But the mystery surrounding 2Pac starts long before the drive-by shooting that took place in 1996 that would kill him.

“I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word” is a line from a hit song with Ritchie Rich.

Sure, the rap genre is closely with such themes that highlight gang crime and gun violence, and sure, Tupac had been involved with violent interactions and assaults before, but this eerily accurate lyric is bound to raise eyebrows.

That being said, if he did fake his own death he would know how it would take place, right? This may be less a premonition, and more an actual plan.

#2 - Bob Marley

Music icons don’t just have a knack for writing a catchy hook and a couple verses, too. Turns out they have this habit of predicting when they will die.

Kurt Cobain’s prediction of his own passing can quite easily be overlooked by the typicality of this death within the rockstar lifestyle. But Bob Marley didn’t actually predict how he would die - he told his friends when he would die.

Marley claimed he would die when he was 36. He was right.

But the coincidence doesn’t end there.

According to Allan Cole, one of his closest friends who was told this secret, Marley had psychic abilities that he would often flaunt to the locals where he grew up in Jamaica. He was even deemed a prophet to those close to them.

#3 - John Denver

“Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane,/ Don’t know when I’ll be back again”

This singer-songwriter wasn’t just a keen musician - he was also an amateur pilot. Unfortunately, his second pastime would eerily echo his first, and foreshadow his death.

28 years after he first released Leaving On A Jet Plane, he took off on his last flight where he would ultimately have a fatal crash.

#5 - Mark Twain

As the father of American literature, Twain was used to creating universes to engage readers with timeless classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But it's our own world that would provide as poetic an end to Twain’s own story as he would to his fictional characters.

Born shortly after the sighting of Halley’s Comet in 1835, Twain would often joke that he would go out with it.

“Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”

A day after the comet was sighted once again in 1910, Twain died of a heart attack.

#6 - Pete Maravich

He will go down in history as one of the greatest NBA players to ever hit the court - and he left it in a mysterious manner.

Having played in the world-famous league for 4 years, he claimed in an interview that “I don’t want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack at the age of 40.”

An injury caused him to leave the NBA 6 years later, completing the first part of his prediction. He died from a heart attack at age 40.

Even more intriguing, however, is what caused him to die: Maravich claimed he had a missing heart valve and should’ve died at the tender age of 20. His ability to predict his death which according to doctors would’ve been a bold assumption for such a heart problem is fascinating (and freaky).

#7 - Jimi Hendrix

He might’ve passed 4 decades ago, but the death of this guitarist is still tinged with as much mystery as the other legendary musicians and athletes populating this list. Shortly before claiming this status in 1965, he recorded The Ballad of Jimi.

“Many things he would try/ For he knew soon he’d die./ Now Jimi’s gone, he’s not alone/ His memory still lives on/ Five years, this he said/ He’s not gone, he’s just dead”

Hendrix died September 18th 1970. It was 5 years exactly to the day that he recorded that song.

#8 - Buddy Holly

On one evening in January of 1959, Buddy Holly and wife Maria had bad dreams. In fact, they had exactly the same bad dreams. They both involved a farm, an airplane, and Holly leaving Maria.

Weeks later Holly would tour the Midwest in an attempt to raise money for his family. Unfortunately, one of the airplanes he chartered for the tour crashed shortly after taking off into a cornfield. He was instantly killed.

#9 - W T Stead

The Titanic has been associated with many unexplained circumstances. This is one of them.

In 1886, Stead wrote a tale of an ocean liner colliding with another ship. Many of the passengers on that fictional ship would go on to lose their lives as a result of the lack of lifeboats.

“This is exactly what might take place and will take place if liners are sent to sea short of boats”

He would then go on to write a different story featuring a ship crashing into an iceberg.

In 1912, Stead boarded the RMS Titanic. And we all know how that ended - with a lack of a lifeboats causing excess deaths. He drowned with the rest of the victims of the tragedy.

#9 - Rasputin

As a former history student, I can boldly put forth a critical opinion of the dying days of the Romanov dynasty: Rasputin was one dodgy bloke. But what made him really dodgy was his ability to predict not just his own death, but that of the Russian monarchy, too.

Shortly before he was assassinated, he wrote a letter to the Tsarina claiming he would be killed by New Years. He also mentioned that her own family would die within 2 years.

Two days before New Year’s, he was poisoned in a rather messy assassination (no, seriously, look it up).

Within 18 months the Romanovs were dead.

Well that was a bit deathy.

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renofmanyalts · 4 years

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arms: Talk about the effect your character has on others in their social spheres. Renan

Prompt 22: Argy-Bargy

Who: Renan Avnei’shoham, cameos from many others at Firefly Grove

What: Renan persists.

When: Sometime last winter, probably

Where: Firefly Grove, Lower La Noscea

Content notes: Just fluff, sorta.

"No, I don't." Maayan's voice was smooth with practiced patience. She hardly glanced up from her ledgers. That was that.

Faezbhir sighed. "No, Squawker, we-- I-- oh, no, don't give me that look... ask me next Lightsday, aye?"

Cannonball tilted his head with an inquisitive whine, and Selah set his pen down with a clack, folding his hands. "And just why do you require fifty ponzes of rice?"

Zhah'ra hid a chuckle behind his fingers. "Maybe something else would work? Gravel? Sand? ...no?"

Orleux gave them a knowing look as he patted their shoulders, their arms wrapped around his waist. "And what favor are you preparing to ask, O bouncy one?"

"Hey, gimme that." Mi'ke shouldered in and took the burlap sack from them, hoisting it up with ease.

When Negevs came through the door, his call of greeting was interrupted as he sniffed the air, pure puzzlement on his face. Why did the apartment smell of... millioncorn?

In the bedroom, he found Renan sprawled dead asleep on the mattress, covered by a lumpy-looking quilt in chocobo print flannel. When they sat up to rub their eyes, the blanket fell from their shoulders with the sound of grain falling over grain. In the corner sat a mostly-empty feed sack, scattered kernels littering the bottom.

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charmmycolour · 4 years

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lilo & Stitch (2002) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jumba Jookiba & Reuben | Experiment 625 Characters: Jumba Jookiba, Reuben | Experiment 625, Jacques Von Hämsterviel (mentioned), Stitch | Experiment 626 (mentioned), Shredder | Experiment 134, Wrapper | Experiment 521, Mary | Experiment 455, Finder | Experiment 158, Kernel | Experiment 014, Bonnie | Experiment 149, Clyde | Experiment 150, Frenchfry | Experiment 062, Babyfier | Experiment 151, Drowsy | Experiment 360, Houdini | Experiment 604, Chopsuey | Experiment 621, Carmen | Experiment 123, Felix | Experiment 010 Additional Tags: Past, Past Relationship(s), Past Abuse, Isolation, Backstory, Cameos, Genetic Engineering, Light Angst, Humor, Denial, Same universe than Lonely Together Series: Part 3 of Lonely Together Summary:

After years of hard work, Doctor Jumba Jookiba has finally created the most vicious, destructive, dangerous creature in the entire universe. He can't wait to see his new experiment cause absolute chaos across the galaxy!

Experiment 625, however, seems to have other priorities. Priorities that involve food, babbling and making Jumba realize uncomfortable truths he has been denying himself for too long.

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Me actually finishing the oneshot I have been ignoring for months? Nah, impossible.

#lilo and stitch #jumba jookiba #jacques von hämsterviel #reuben #reuben (experiment 625)#ao3fic #ao3 link #archive of our own #my fic

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theclaravoyant · 4 years

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For the ask thing, what is something you wish would happen in the show with the 13th doctor but hasn't yet? Fun scenes, sad scenes, character stuff?

Oooh, interesting ask, thank you!

Fortunately this season has been Delivering Hard on all the delicious delicious angst and the darker side of the Doctor that I craved last season so that has been AWESOME and Jodie has been absolutely destroying me which I love

but some things I would like to happen…….. oh there’s so many idk if I’ll ever be ready for her to leave. at the moment the top one few would be, in no particular order;

Literally any iota of a sign that she’s romantically and/or sexually interested in women. I try not to harp on about this, I really do, but I don’t intend on letting it go either. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not expecting her to suddenly become all kissy and cuddly and grand-romantic when that’s clearly not what she’s going for in this regen (although….. it could always be the trauma/mask that she lets down at some point but lets not get too soft about her or ill melt) but given the prominence of romance, sexual references, kissing, flirting, relationships and implied relationships that the Doctor has had with women particularly in New Who, it really genuinely not-in-a-shipper-way hurts me that, now that it would be unescapably gay even to those who pay 0% attention (instead of just sort of, vaguely queer or in a throwaway manner), they’re avoiding even the slightest reference. I’m really not okay with that.

Having said that, and on a less serious note…. Thasmin - They would be so cute and badass and Inescapably Queer that my heart would explode okay. But I’ve been burned so many times before that I’m struggling to believe the hints, even the major ones like “my person’s a little bit different” (WHAT THE H CHIBS GIVE A GAY SOME WARNING), will turn out to actually be romantic. The amount of effort I’m putting into Not Getting My Hopes Up at this point is frankly ridiculous. I’m hoping that with a little bit more space next season, fewer(?) or different companions and less exposition needed it will be time to shine but in the meantime…

[Image ID: a gif of Rebecca Bunch from “Crazy Ex Girlfriend”, holding a handful of corn kernels up to the camera and singing about ‘love kernels’, end ID]

3. Meeting (or at least mentioning) an old companion or positive influence from the pas - I love all the twisted shit coming up to torture the Doctor but come on, give her a break!!! Or at least… hurt her in a slower, more bittersweet kind of way. I would love a Donna reference for example (how has there not been one in so long??) or River (my hearrrrt) or a more explicit reference to Bill (HOW did she not come up explicitly in that WHOLE cyberman plot i know the doc is repressed as hell but damn…). I hadn’t imagined Jack before he made a cameo earlier this season but now I’m genuinely excited for the two of them to meet! It’s a great way to keep in touch and remember our old faves and also, tie the Doctor’s lives together. (Plus I’m a sucker for the bittersweetness ngl.)

4. Confronting her past and the people that did it to her - I am ALL FOR the healing and restorative, empowering approach the Doctor is taking to what they were put through as the Timeless Child. HOWEVER I’m going to be kinda let down if all that build up was Emotionally Resolved that fast. And allow me to point out, the Doctor’s reaction as we’ve seen it thus far was primarily directed at the Master and his expectation of how she would react. If, for example, she ran into Tecteun or discovered that more children were being put through this, or was put through something similar again with those memories now in her head, I think that would be a different story.and/or on this note I would also love to see her react to something Gallifreyan *other than* Gallifrey itself, something that hasn’t been as irrevocably tainted by the ‘Time Lords are evil and corrupt’ realisation long before the Timeless Child realisation. Perhaps her name or language, or bedtime stories, or Granny Five. How does she feel about those things now?(and/or… I would also love to see Thirteen all ragey and powerful in Time Lord garb. idk how to make that happen, or why, maybe she’s confronting Rassilon and/or Tecteun? *marge simpson meme voice* i just think it would be neat)

ask me stuff; anything you’re curious about

#doctor who #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #dw spoilers #ask me stuff #captainlgordon #q word #wow the queer really jumped out of me in this one didn't it

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