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eulaliasims · 1 year

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🥳

Ryan celebrates his maxed skill point with coffee and a pastry from the shop up the street, and also boring the barista.

Barista: Sir, you can't be behind the counter.

Cool, I love how the first person you show interest in has zero in you, lmao.

#I actually wanted to have him ask her out but that wasn't an option for some reason?#I don't know if it's a mod conflict b/c I've been too lazy to 50/50 my CC and check lol #(her name is Madeleine)#TS2 #Middleground #Cobb #Ryan Cobb

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2ndaryprotocol · 1 year

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#NowWatching Bones And All (2022) 🍖🔪💀

“𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚏 𝙸'𝚖 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝, 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚒𝚝.”

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rookie-critic · 1 year

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Bones and All (2022, dir. Luca Guadagnino) - review by Rookie-Critic

Bones and All is an odd one, and it is definitely not for everyone. I've heard every opinion under the sun about this one: it's incredibly gruesome, it's not that bad/I've seen worse, it's tonally inconsistent, it does a great job of balancing its contrasting tones, and on, and on, and on. My opinion is that it's pretty good. I feel that it mostly does a good job of balancing the tones of the gross-out gore and violence with the more standard YA romance beats, but there are times (especially the end) where things start to unravel and the performances feel like they're out of a cheap soap opera. This is strange and feels like a deliberate choice because for a lot of the movie the acting is really good. Timothée Chalamet in particular is very captivating. Taylor Russell, who plays the film's lead character Maren, does this crazy thing where it's almost like she goes dead inside when she needs to "feed." Her and Chalamet have great chemistry and their performances, for the most part, are fantastic. The cinematography and the production design are also remarkable, and for how ridiculous the plot seems when it's laid out plainly, these two aspects of the film make it seem surprisingly grounded.

Grungy middle America is on full display, and the road trip aspect of it all in conjunction with that stellar cinematography and production design allows the locales to almost become characters in the film as well. The movie works on a lot of levels, but its biggest flaw (outside of the ending hitting with a dull thud) is that I'm not entirely sure I know what the point of it all was. I've been told the book it's based on is supposed to be an LGBTQIA+ allegory, and I can see the correlations between a lot of the film's sequences and themes with that, but overall I just don't think it holds together very well when you start picking it apart (and you can definitely pick it apart). As far as the violence and gore goes, I'm sure a lot of people will have a hard time stomaching it, but if you're the kind of person who saw the trailer, understands what kind of film this is, and is still interested in watching it, chances are you've seen way worse than this. None of it particularly bothered me, and the most disturbing scene in the film is not disturbing because of anything having to do with the gore or violence of it. I'm not sure I can recommend this one fully; it's a little too niche for casual audiences and very in-between in its highly contrasting genres for, well, genre fans, so it's a little tough to place. For the most part, I did enjoy it, and I think there's enough to like here to justify a good score.

Score: 7/10

Currently on the absolute tail end of its theater run. You can purchase the movie on YouTube and it's also available for pre-order on DVD & Blu-ray through Warner Bros.

#Bones and All #Luca Guadagnino #Timothée Chalamet #Taylor Russell #Mark Rylance #Anna Cobb #André Holland #Jake Horowitz #Michael Stuhlbarg #David Gordon Green #Jessica Harper #Chloë Sevigny #Madeleine Hall #film review #movie review #2022 films

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freifraufischer · 4 months

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The New Zealand Problem

Sometimes you can see the issue that will light the gymternet on fire a mile away before anyone has even seen the smoke. And sometimes that fire had always existed.

In gymnastics one of the paths to qualification at the Olympics goes to the single highest all around placement at each continental championship from a country that did not qualify a team already. This is fairly straight forward in most places but gets dicey in one corner of the world. The Oceania Gymnastics Union is essentially a continental federation of 2 countries. Yes there are other members (Guam, Tonga, Fiji, Cook Islands, and America Samoa), but there are no elite gymnasts from those countries. Australia qualified a women's team to the Olympics, so by default that means a Kiwi WAG gets an Olympic spot. At least according to FIG. But they aren't the only ones who get to decide who is an Olympian.

I've talked about "No Olympic Tourist" Policies before, and people may have run into them in regard to Sweden and ice skating, but many small to medium sized countries have policies to limit the size of their own Olympic teams for budget reasons. These national Olympic committees (NOC) set criteria that are higher than the general qualification rules for a given sport. Sweden's is often considered the most extreme (you have to show you are in the top eight in the world, meaning you can make an Olympic final and contend for a medal. The reason they're called No Olympic Tourist Policies is because you wont be sent to the Olympics just to be there.

New Zealand has had a No Olympic Tourist Policy for decades, and while their criteria is less extreme then Sweden's it works similarly. You have to convince the NZOC that you are within the top 16 in the world (the ability to make a semifinal in athletics or swimming where races are 8 lanes wide). In 2012 Jordan Rae was one of the last gymnasts to qualify at the London Test Event, but NZOC turned down her spot and it passed on to Đỗ Thị Ngân Thương of Vietnam who finished behind her and who went on to compete in London.

In this interview from 2016, Rhythmic gymnast Tanya Moss-Barry who represented New Zealand in Los Angeles describes how initially they believed that New Zealand would send no gymnasts to the Olympics that year. Only a top 8 finish at an event in Tokyo convinced the NZOC to send her, and she believes it was at the expense of equally deserving WAG and MAG gymnasts. They would send only one of them.

It appears that Courtney McGregor was sent to Rio on the basis of her vaulting competitiveness. Which itself suggests that the people making the decisions at the NZOC don't really know much about gymnastics. McGregor came in 4th on vault at the Rio test event and 17th at 2015 Worlds. But as anyone who knows gymnastics knows... vault fields are much smaller than other apparatus and a finish in the teens doesn't mean you are as competitive as one on the other apparatus. But more power to them if they were able to get the Olympic committee to send her on that basis.

So the problem for 2024.

The WAG Olympic Qualification road has handed an Olympic spot to New Zealand by default. There are no other elite gymnasts in the region it can go to and no mechanism for that spot to be reallocated to anyone outside of Oceania. And based on the results from Worlds it is highly doubtful that the NZOC will consider either Madeleine Marshall (93rd in the AA and 110th on beam) or Reece Cobb (102nd in the AA and 56th on beam) to be competitive. Courtney McGregor is making a comeback but without competing elite in years I'm not sure how she makes that case either.

Georgia-Rose Brown recently changed countries from Australia to New Zealand but she almost certainly is banking on making an argument for her competitiveness based on her bars results (she came in 4th and 5th on bars at two World Cups in 2023). Maybe the people making a choice at NZOC wont know that 2023 World Cups aren't evidence of competitiveness. Her best bars result of the entire quad would have put her in 22nd on bars at 2023 Worlds. If she qualifies here is to hoping she can make a case. But it does raise the question of if she knew about the NZOC policy before changing countries or if she saw the automatic NZ WAG qualification spot as an opportunity and didn't realize there was an extra step. I have to believe she went into it knowing though. The NZOC is pretty well known in Kiwi circles.

So what happens to this spot if it goes to a Kiwi and the NZOC turns it down? Well... that's not clear. It could go unfilled. Or FIG could ask the IOC permission to let them revert it to the Worlds AA results as Australia's team means that Oceania already had representation.

Or some smart cookie NCAA gymnast with ties to Guam or Fiji could make a country change REAL soon and find themselves at the Olympics with a relatively easy path.

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petit-piaf · 2 years

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Burgundy Madeleine 🥀🥀🥀

OP, jacket: Mary Magdalene

Necklace: thrifted

Hat: Vintage/antique (unsure, seems like really good condition for antique and has an elastic strap so likely vintage)

Shoes: Cobb Hill

#classic lolita #lolita fashion #mary magdalene #marymagdalenejp #petit piaf #me

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alexlacquemanne · 1 year

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Avril MMXXIII

Films

Le Troisième Homme (The Third Man) (1949) de Carol Reed avec Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger et Ernst Deutsch

Fantasia chez les ploucs (1971) de Gérard Pirès avec Lino Ventura, Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Georges Demestre, Nanni Loy, Jacques Dufilho, Georges Beller et Rufus

Super Mario Bros. le film (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) (2023) de Aaron Horvath et Michael Jelenic avec Pierre Tessier, Audrey Sourdive, Benoît Du Pac, Jérémie Covillault, Emmanuel Garijo, Xavier Fagnon, Nicolas Marié et Thierry Desroses

La Folie des grandeurs (1971) de Gérard Oury avec Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mendoza et Gabriele Tinti

Les Trois Mousquetaires : D'Artagnan (2023) de Martin Bourboulon avec François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Vicky Krieps, Louis Garrel : Louis XIII et Lyna Khoudri

Vacances romaines (Roman Holiday) (1953) de William Wyler avec Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams et Margaret Rawlings

Le Signe de Zorro (The Mark of Zorro) (1940) de Rouben Mamoulian avec Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg et Montagu Love

Flair de famille (2023) de Didier Bivel avec Sylvie Testud, Samuel Labarthe, Fatim-Zarha Alami Marrouni, Oscar Copp et Anne Girouard

Un pont trop loin (A Bridge Too Far) (1977) de Richard Attenborough avec Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins et Robert Redford

Sirocco (1951) de Curtis Bernhardt avec Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel et Nick Dennis

West Side Story (1961) de Jerome Robbins et Robert Wise avec Natalie Wood, Marni Nixon, Richard Beymer, Jimmy Bryant, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, Betty Wand, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland et Ned Glass

Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) de Claude Chabrol avec Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Dacqmine et Hermine Clair

La Bête humaine (1938) de Jean Renoir avec Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Julien Carette, Blanchette Brunoy et Gérard Landry

L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) (1962) de John Ford avec John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin et Edmond O'Brien

Le Goût des autres (2000) d'Agnès Jaoui avec Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Millet et Wladimir Yordanoff

Remorques (1941) de Jean Grémillon avec Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat, Nane Germon et Anne Laurens

Le Dindon (2019) de Jalil Lespert avec Dany Boon, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol, Ahmed Sylla, Laure Calamy et Camille Lellouche

Adieu les cons (2020) d'Albert Dupontel avec Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Uchan, Bastien Ughetto et Marilou Aussilloux

Indiana Jones et la Dernière Croisade (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) (1989) de Steven Spielberg avec Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover et River Phoenix

Tigre et Dragon (臥虎藏龍, Wò Hǔ Cáng Lóng) (2000) d'Ang Lee avec Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Cheng Pei-pei et Sihung Lung

Séries

Friends Saison 6, 7

Celui qui faisait sa demande : 1re partie - Celui qui faisait sa demande : 2e partie - Celui qui croyait faire jeune - Celui qui réglait le mariage - Celui qui s'était mal assis - Celui qui retrouvait son rôle - Celui qui avait toujours l'air bizarre - Celui qui aimait les petites siestes - Celui qui avait un livre à la bibliothèque - Celui qui n'aimait pas les chiens - Celui qui offrait un vélo - Celui qui se déguisait - Celui qui aimait les cheesecakes - Celui qui a passé la nuit debout - Celui qui a vu mourir Rosita - Ceux qui avaient trente ans - Celui qui avait un cerveau neuf - Celui qui savait la vérité sur Londres - Celui qui voyait la robe de mariée - Celui qui récupérait le prix - Celui qui avait une jolie cousine - Celui qui fantasmait sur le baiser - Celui qui écrivait ses vœux - Celui qui rencontrait l'auteur de ses jours - Celui qui a épousé Monica : 1re partie - Celui qui a épousé Monica : 2e partie

Coffre à Catch

#109 : Le Dirt Sheet débarque à la ECW ! - #110 : Aurélien Portehaut débarque à la ECW ! - #111 : Mark Henry vs Matt Hardy - C'est un Perfect 10 ! - #112 : Le Championship Scramble: le titre de Mark Henry en danger!

Top Gear Saison 11

L'art de la chasse - La traversée du Japon - Alfas bon marché - Apprentis policiers - Spéciale Inde - Ski vs Audi - Angleterre vs Allemagne - Spécial Pôle Nord

Meurtres au paradis Saison 12

Désignée coupable - Un foyer aimant - La lettre anonyme : première partie - La lettre anonyme : deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

La crise des missiles de Cuba - Poutine/Macron : le face-à-face des présidents - L'affaire Iacono : le mensonge - L’Erika ou la monstrueuse année noire - Cinq colonnes à la Une : la révolution télévisuelle - La sombre histoire du roi du polar, José Giovanni - « Humilier les morts pour terroriser les vivants » : la profanation de Carpentras - Georges Marchais, les mémoires effacées. - Le renard de Kerlouan

L'agence tous risques Saison 3, 4

Jeu de piste - Chasseurs de primes - Effacez-les ! - Les Chevaliers de la route - Boisson gazeuse - Le jugement dernier : 1re partie - Le jugement dernier : 2e partie - Mystère à Beverly Hills - Le docteur est sorti - Aux frais de la princesse - Un quartier anglais - Le monstre du lac - La route de l'espoir - Gran prix - Rien que du muscle - Un quartier tranquille - Prudence les enfants - Opération Abraxis - Le trésor sous la mer - Rock N' Roll - Une vraie mine d'or

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 7

L'Homme du bois - La Réunion des anciennes - La Malédiction du tumulus - Le Prix du scandale - La Légende du lac

Spectacles

Fallait pas le dire ! (2023) de Salomé Lelouch avec Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix et Pascal Arnaud

Dido : Live at Brixton Academy (2004)

Livres

Nanar Wars : Le Pire Contre-Attaque ! d'Emmanuel Prelle et Emmanuel Vincenot

Détective Conan : Tome 6 de Gôshô Aoyama

Détective Conan : Tome 7 de Gôshô Aoyama

Une enquête du commissaire Dupin : Un été à Pont-Aven de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Détective Conan : Tome 8 de Gôshô Aoyama

On ne vit qu'une fois, souvenirs d'hier et d'aujourd'hui de Roger Moore

#mediatheque #avril23

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experimentaltranslation · 2 years

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PROCEDURES - ADAPTATION

1. Translate a recipe without adapting. Make that recipe. Invite friends over to eat it.

2. Perform a written text with your body. With several bodies. (TECT)

3. Translate asemic writing (Harriet Carter and Ricarda Vidal)

4. Translate marks on a table, wall or other surface into a linguistic text (Ricarda Vidal)

5. Translate by listening to a text with the shower running (Alison Cobb and Jen Coleman)

6. Translate a text through translucent glass (Alison Cobb and Jen Coleman)

7. Translate ‘untranslatable’ glyphs (Philip K Terry, mIEKAL aND)

8. Translate a text into a ball, board or other kind of game (Stacy Doris)

9. Translate languages into their sounds; variation: use this to create a collective polyvocal sound work (Heather Connolly).

10. Transpose music into painting (Harriet Carter)

11. Translate visual poetry, typography, collaged art objects, book art (Rothenberg and Joris’s translation of Schwitters; Madeleine Campbell and Ricarda Vidal)

12. Translate poetry into photographs (Khaironi Bairokka)

13. Translate birdsong (Lisa Robertson, Irène Gayraud)

14. Translate other kinds of animal communication, or between animal languages.

15. Translate a tree or tree communication.

16. Translate the lines on a leaf. Read a flower as a text (Zoë Skoulding)

17. Do an ekphrastic translation of a drawing or comic strip (Eric Suchère/Sandra Dollar)/

18. Translate a notion into a diagram (Outranspo list of constraints and prefixes)

19. Translate a text by shooting it with a gun and translating what remains (Christian Hawkey)

20. Or, number 19 for pacifists: translate a text by cutting it into a snowflake and translating what remains.

21. Translate a text into music (Anne Guthrie, Craig Dworkin), or music into text, dance, gesture, image, object etc (Karen Bennet). Translate song or a song.

22. Translate a text into emojis (Mónica de la Torre)

23. Translate a text in emojis back into written language (Camille Bloomfield, Lily Robert-Foley)

24. Translate a written or spoken text into a sculpture (Elise Aru).

25. Use translation as an impetus for the construction of a structure (Cildo Meireles)

26. Translating song into sign-language (Angela Tiziana Tarantini, )

27. Translating theatre into sign-language and movement (

28. Translation using synesthesia (Clive Scott, Camille Bloomfield and Paolo Bellomo)

29. Translate in complete darkness (Camille Bloomfield and Paolo Bellomo)

30. Translate from memory (Anthony/Vahni Capildeo)

31. Translating sign language into ‘Signart’ (Kyra Pollitt)

32. Translate alphabet into dance (Sabine Macher)

33. Translate images into dance (Ella McCartney), dance into language (Jennifer K. Dick)

34. Translate the computer’s native language.

35. Translate an abecedarium.

36. Translate jokes, untranslatable wordplays. Translate physical comedy or body language (Robinson).

37. Translate organic sounds into electronic sounds (Karl Katschthaler)

38. Translate by drowning a text in water or other substance for several minutes, days or years; translate the result.

39. Translate into a language with no signifieds

40. Translate into a language with no signifiers

41. Translate into a language with no dictionaries and no iterations.

42. Bury this book underground. Leave a note for someone to dig it up and translate it after your death.

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emiko-matsui · 4 years

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my favourite hobby is watching buzzfeed unsolved's bigfoot video and imagining amnesty lodge reacting to it

example:

ryan: ...and he's been described as smelling like the sweat in the wrinkles of a man's foreskin

mama: [has to pause the video for five full minutes because everyone is laughing so hard. dani is lying on the floor in tears. barclay isnt amused.]

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ryan: how do you think bigfoot's mating call sounds like

shane: [does that]

jake, dani, and aubrey: [lets out a series of oooh's as a handful of popcorn is thrown at barclay and stern. barclay smacks stern for laughing.]

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ryan: i hope we dont die

aubrey, turning around in her seat: please dont kill shane and ryan

barclay: you're fully aware i didnt, aubrey

aubrey: just saying

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ryan: ...there is over 16 samples of dna—

jake: you can literally never lecture me for not being careful enough with my sylph form again

#barclay taz #agent stern #sternclay #taz amnesty #griffin mcelroy #taz #the adventure zone #travis mcelroy #dani taz #mama taz #jake coolice #madeleine cobb #bfu #aubrey little #shane madej #ryan bergara #danbrey #buzzfeed unsolved #bigfoot

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readingbetweenthedunes · 3 years

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Breathe In, Cash Out

I had fun reading the quirky and oddly funny narrator go through her experience of moving from Wall Street into…yoga… READ IF YOU… Enjoy Wall Street settingsLove women who empower themselvesWant a clean-cut, entertaining read Title: Breathe In, Cash Out Author: Madeleine Henry | Rating: 3.5/5 Wall Street is rarely anything I think about in, especially in terms of a career. But I picked up…

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#4 stars #allegra cobb #anderson shaw #book #Book rating #Book review #books #breathe in cash out #chick lit #comtemporary #debut novel #finance #madeleine henry #meditation #novel #wall street #yoga

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larryland · 3 years

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REVIEW: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Shakespeare & Company

REVIEW: “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Shakespeare & Company

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the-l-spacer · 3 years

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Watch me propose an english voicecast for the cookie run kingdom characters i care about but all the VAs i choose are from podcasts i listen to

Chilli Pepper - Ishani kanetkar (Arkady from Starship Iris)

Madeleine - Noah Simes (Peter Nureyev from Penumbra) / Matt Mercer (from Critical Role)

Black Raisin - Jordan Cobb (Chel from Janus Descending)

Rye - Emily Thomas (Adelaide from Blackchapel)

Espresso - Jimmie Yamaguchi (Hayward from The Silt Verses)

Latte - Jasika Nicole (Keisha from Alice Isn’t Dead)

Yam - Sheldon Brown (Hornblas from Brimstone Valley Mall)

Red Velvet - Zach Valenti (Doug Eiffel from Wolf 359)

Vampire - Mark Wolf Roberts (Asmoraius from Brimstone Valley Mall)

#cookie run #cant for the life of me find a voice for Mushroom and pure vanilla TwT #also #yyeah i dont really care for espresso and rye's official vas and i cant find vampire cookies voice so theyre here too #idk the intersection between the podcast fandom and the cr fandom so i dont think anyones gonna see this but im just puttin it out there

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thiswasinevitableid · 5 years

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Kitchen Nightmares

Prompt for the 25th was: Sabotage

“Alright” Mama stands, hands on hips, surveying the pairs lined up in front of her “here’s the rules: y’all got two hours to make us dessert. And whichever one we like best, that team don’t got to help with clean-up from big fall dinner next week. Any questions? Aubrey?”

“How come Ned doesn’t have to compete?”

“Because, friend Aubrey, gentlemen of mine and Thacker’s ages are in no condition to do such difficult labor.”

“Ned, you fuckin crashed a jetpack once. Cleanin up would be a piece of cake.”

“To be fair” Barclay says, “you haven’t seen what dishes look like that day.”

“And I banned Arlo from the kitchen ten years ago on account of the gorp incident.” Mama holds up a whistle, while Juno readies a stopwatch.

“On you marks, get set, go!”

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“Alright ‘Drid, what should we make?”

“Hmmm, oh! I rather enjoy Jell-O, can we make that?”

“No, goofus, I meant what gives us the best chances of winnin?”

“I can’t tell just yet, as the others have not decided on their dishes, so the futures are all in flux. And I don’t want to lose precious time by waiting on them.”

“Good point.” Duck taps his chin, snaps his fingers, “got it, Juno’s got a weak spot for pumpkin cream cheese brownies, used to eat half a pan of them herself whenever my mom made a batch.”

“Brownies it is. Do I get to lick the spoon?”

“Of course, sugar.”

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“Why are you even competing, aren’t you doing most of the cooking that day?”

“Yeah, but assuming because I cook everyone else will do the dishes has backfired, big time, before.” Barclay shudders, then smiles “plus, didn’t want to leave you without a partner, agent.”

“What are we making?”

“Pumpkin doughnuts. Mama loves ‘em and...is that a X-files patterned apron?”

“Yes. I bought one because I wanted to help you in the kitchen.”

“You’re such a nerd, I love it, now hand me that mixing bowl.”

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“Okay, so, we’re making bee-sting pudding.” Hollis cracks their knuckles as they stare at the spice rack.

“Do you, like, need me to go round up some bees?”

“No, Jake, I need you to grab some honey and some whiskey.”

“Can do!”

“.....Did you just heely over to get that?”

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“What is our battle plan, Leo Tarkesian? For I wish to be victorious, and also to charm Madeleine Cobb!”

“Uh, my ma used to make these real nice pumpkin cookies. Was thinkin we make some fillin to go in ‘em and make us some whoopie pies. Y’know, do ‘em up fancy-like.”

“Very well. We shall make whoopie!”

“Pies, Minerva, whoopie pies”

“It is not sporting to eavesdrop, Wayne Newton.”

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“We could make cookies? Oh! What if we did them in the shape of Dr. Harris Bonkers?”

“I think we lost our rabbit cookie-cutter in the blender incident, firebug.”

“Damn it.”

“We could make cupcakes. Barclay taught me his basic recipe, and I can modify it a little to be fall-ish.”

“You’re so smart.” Aubrey kisses her nose, “okay, you bake, I’ll decorate.”

Dani starts mixing ingredients together, while Aubrey takes stock of the sprinkle situation. As she’s doing so, she spots Hollis whisking something over the stove while Jake hands them ingredients. Whatever it is smells delicious, so good that she wants to lick the air.

Hmm, that’s not great in terms of their odds.

With practiced sleight of hand, the sugar at the Hornet station becomes salt. Jake will forgive her for the prank. He loves pranks.

Two minutes later, she hears Hollis make a “bleh” sound.

“What the fuck, this is salt!? I know I got sugar out.”

Her giggle gives her away.

“Aw, what the heck bro!”

“All’s fair in love, war, and dish-duty avoidance, Jake.”

“That so?” Hollis cocks an eyebrow, and it distracts Aubrey from the handful of flour that Jake launches her way.

She shrieks out a laugh, shakes the powder from her hair and flicks a cloud of it towards him with spell.

Unfortunately, said spell goes a bit wide and hits Indrid, coating his glasses.

“Oh, bother.” He reaches for them.

“‘Drid wait you’re right by-”

Clang

“Ooops, sorry Barclay, I didn’t mean to knock your bowl over.”

“Uh huh, sure.” Barclay smirks, eyeing first their brownie mix and then the nearby jar of chili powder.

“Don’t you dare.” Red eyes narrow.

“Wayne Newton, your consorts’ wing is getting feathers in our batter!”

“Minerva, for fuck’s sake, you can call me Duck.”

“Duck!”

“That’s betterACKfuck.” Duck splutters, spots the culprit in the form of Leo holding a formerly full bag of powdered sugar.

“That was a dirty trick old man!”

“What’re you gonna do about it?”

“Gonna make sure you get flour where the sun don’t shine.” He dives after an escaping Leo, leaving their station unattended. Barclay steps over and calmly dumps most of the chili powder into it their bowl. Turns back to his station, only to find Indrid holding his and Sterns batter out of the agents reach.

With a wide grin, Indrid unfurls his tongue.

“Don’t even think about it.” Barclay growls. Indrid locks eyes with him as he jams his tongue into the bowl and repeatedly licks the mixture.

“Gah, that’s so unsanitary!” Stern yells. Barclay takes off his bracelet, and as soon as he’s in his Sylph form Indrid drops the bowl and tries to run.

“Oh no you don’t, not letting you get moth cooties on more of my ingredients!”

Indrid chirrs in amusement, flapping his wings to keep Barclay at bay and sending up a cloud of dry ingredients. It settles just in time for Stern to see Jake trying to steal their remaining yeast. So he grabs the sprayer nozzle from the nearby sink and points it at the younger man.

“C’mon bro” Jake takes off his disguise, “you couldn’t possibly hurt this face.”

Stern sprays him, covers his mouth with his hand to laugh as Jake shakes the water from his fur and poofs up.

Jake shrugs, “your loss dude.”

“What do you mean my- Hollis get back here with that dough! The kitchen is no place for stunts!”

“Fight the power!”

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“Duck, Indrid, you’re up first.”

Indrid sets the plates down with a triumphant flourish. Juno’s face lights up.

“Oh hell yeah, Mama Newtons brownie recipe.”

She takes an enormous bite. The frantically grabs for her water.

“Blegh, Duck, why are they so spicy?”

“There was an incident with some spices and we did not have time to make new batter.”

“That got anythin to do with why Duck is covered in powdered sugar.”

“Yes.”

“Huh. Well, nice try fellas and- Indrid would you stop lickin him-I can see what you were goin for, but let’s see what Hollis and Jake did.”

As Jake sets out the bowls, Hollis says, “we made bee-sting pudding, with bourbon whipped cream on top.”

“Why friend Hollis, that’s a remarkably refined dish, bravo.” Ned eyes his pudding happily.

“Thanks. I think. Anyway.” They point to the bowls. All four judges take a bite, and proceed to make rather comical faces.

“Hollis, is it supposed to be this salty?” Thacker rubs his tongue with a napkin.

“No.”

“Oh, uh, I see.”

Minerva and Leo are up next, with the warrior taking extra care when setting Mama’s plate in front of her.

“Leo?”

“Yeah, Juno?”

“Please tell me the black feathers are made of chocolate or something?” She eyes the whoopie pie worriedly while Mama picks feathers off of hers.

“Can I get away with sayin their garnish?”

Thacker, Ned, and Juno all push their plates back. Mama takes a small bite, “I mean, the parts that don’t got feathers in ‘em are good, but that ain’t all that much of ‘em. Good try.” This she directs at Minerva with an odd little smile.

“Barclay, whadaya got?”

“Nothing.” The cook grumbles.

“We lost one batch of dough to, ah, contamination, and the other to some ‘stunts.’”

“O-kay. Aubrey, Dani?”

“Tadah!” Aubrey sets a plate of cupcakes down, all frosted in bright orange with black, glittery sprinkles.

Ned nibbles one rather daintily to keep frosting out of his beard (Thacker makes no such attempt), Juno takes one bite and moans, and Mama downs hers and says, “thank fuck.”

“Gonna go ahead and say it;s unanimous. Aubrey and Dani, you win.”

“Woohoo!” Aubrey shouts, then dips Dani in a celebratory kiss.

“Wait, hang on a second, they’re the ones who started the whole mess back there.” Duck protests.

Mama regards the pair, who don matching sheepish expressions, “That so? Well, they still win this, so they ain’t cleanin up from dinner next week.”

The others groan.

“They are, however, cleanin up from whatever the hell went on back there today.”

#promptober #TAZ Amnesty #Indruck #sternclay #danbrey #hollice #hijinks

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bookbaristas · 5 years

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hii it’s a very monday monday!! the only way to combat that is to add more books to my tbr like BREATHE IN, CASH OUT by Madeleine Henry 💕 here’s some of the synopsis: . . “In this sizzling debut for fans of The Devil Wears Prada, Wall Street banking analyst Allegra Cobb plans to quit the minute her year-end bonus hits her account, finally pursuing her yoga career full-time. But when she forms an intense relationship with the #InstaFamous guru who may hold the ticket to the life Allegra's always wanted—she's not sure if she'll be able to keep her sanity intact (and her chakras aligned) until bonus day.” . . thanks to @wmebooks for the copy! 📖✨ (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/By02RVJAL6N/?igshid=17meftnawuc1p

#instafamous

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wyrmeleon · 5 years

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Madeleine “Mama” Cobb

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#taz amnesty #taz mama #mama taz #taz #nora's doodles #character design #favorites #pencil sketch #the adventure zone #the mcelroy brothers

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The New Zealand Problem: Painful Choices Edition

Courtney McGregor has recently given an interview where she explains that she's not being permitted to trial for Oceania championships because the criteria require results from the last two years (which she doesn't have). There is a lot of anger and frustration from the gymternet about this but I have a theory about what is going on with New Zealand Gymnastics refusing to allow McGregor to compete for the Oceania trials. It's going to seem a little byzantine as I explain it.

First, remember that Gymnastics New Zealand wants to get a WAG to the Olympics and the New Zealand Olympic Committee is the gatekeeper here. The Olympic Committee has set the policy that you have to be in the top 16 in your sport before they'll send you to the Olympics. A few weeks back I asked Courtney how that was done in 2016 for her and she said that she wasn't directly involved in the conversations but that her impression was that it couldn't be based on a single score or result. She was allowed to go based on her 2015 Worlds, 2016 Pac Rims, and 2016 Test Event placements. The fed needs to be able to make a large picture case for the athlete to the NZ Olympic committee.

Let's start from the basis that Gymnastics New Zealand already knows they can't make that case for Madeleine Marshall or Reece Cobb based on their 2023 Worlds results. Marshall was their best AAer in 93rd and Cobb had their best apparatus result in 56th on Beam.

McGregor would have no spectrum of results to make a case. Even if she won Oceania champs it would be just one result and remember she told me it couldn't just be 1 result. Her last international result was 5 years ago where she was 102nd in the AA at worlds and 17th on vault. I think McGregor is a beautiful gymnast and competitive on the basis of what the New Zealand policy wants their athletes to be. I just strongly suspect GymNZ doesn't think they can make that case for her to the Olympic Committee because of her lack of recent results.

So what's the harm in letting her compete?

Well from a strategic point of view if your goal is "get a New Zealand WAG to the Olympics" ... there is a downside to having her in the field. And yes I know what I'm about to describe is a bit twisted.

Georgia-Rose Brown came 4th and 5th at the Baku and Doha World Cup bars finals last year. She's also in the group that GNZ has elected to send to World Cups this year. Based on "you have to show a set of competitive results" I think GymNZ thinks they can make a case for her. Ideally the case for brown is 2 World Cup finals in 2023, and hopefully a couple more in 2024, with her qualifying at Oceania Championships. I believe based on my understanding of the New Zealand Olympic Committee policy they would send Brown on that basis.

But if Courtney beats Brown at Oceania championships the case for Brown changes. It's no longer a case where (ideally) Brown has a bunch of World Cup results and qualified through Oceania championships. She now has World Cup results which by themselves get her nothing and Brown hasn't qualified in her own right at Oceania championships. They've passed on McGregor for not meeting the standard, and they simply aren't going to consider someone who didn't qualify in their own right.

Is this frustrating and warped and counterintuitive to the idea of competition? Yes. No argument from me. But we're already in a situation where an athlete can win a spot at the Olympics and not be sent. Gymnastics New Zealand looks like the rigid bad guy here for not allowing Courtney to Trial for Oceania Champs. But I doubt they are. I'm sure they would LOVE to be able to to send Courtney to the Olympics if she qualified. It's not personal against her. It's triage.

All of this doesn't mean I don't hope Courtney is able to convince them to send her to Oceania anyway. I hope they do. I'm just trying to get people to see that it's not a "no lose" situation for Gymnastics NZ.

#gymnastics #olympics

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oughtnots · 5 years

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arlo thacker and madeleine cobb best friendship 2k19

#taz amnesty #the adventure zone #text post

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