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New Releases
This week's an exciting one for new YA books! Quite a few of these books coming out tomorrow are at the very top of my must-read pile, like Transmogrify! and Venom & Vow. What's on your TBR?
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic edited by g. haron davis
Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences—because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration.
Featuring stories from:
AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy
g. haron davis
Mason Deaver
Jonathan Lenore Kastin
Emery Lee
Saundra Mitchell
Cam Montgomery
Ash Nouveau
Sonora Reyes
Renee Reynolds
Dove Salvatierra
Ayida Shonibar
Francesca Tacchi
Nik Traxler
Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs—in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt’s struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn.
Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan’s stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons.
In Theo’s glittering world of pomp, privilege, and crazy rich drama, their romance is supposed to be just pretend . . . but Dylan finds himself falling for Theo. For real. Then Theo’s relatives reveal their true colors—but with the mooncake contest looming, Dylan can’t risk being sidetracked by rich-people problems. Can Dylan save his family’s business and follow his heart—or will he fail to do both?
Hurt You by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci Daewoo Kim, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. The themes of race, disability, and class spin themselves out in a suburban high school where the Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo. Suddenly unmoored from the familiar, including the support of her Aunt Clara, Georgia struggles to find her place in an Asian-majority school where whites still dominate culturally, and she finds herself feeling not Korean “enough.” Her one pole star is her commitment to her brother, a loyalty that finds itself at odds with her immigrant parents’ dreams for her, and an ableist, racist society that may bring violence to Leonardo despite her efforts to keep him safe.
Hurt You is a deep exploration of family, society, and the bond between siblings and reflects the reality that people with intellectual disabilities are far more likely to be the victim of a violent crime, not the perpetrator.
Last Canto for the Dead (Outlaw Saints #2) by Daniel José Older
Two gods-turned-teenagers wage simultaneous battles in the Caribbean and Brooklyn in this sequel to Ballad & Dagger.
Healer. Destroyer. Creator. Mateo Matisse and Chela Hidalgo are not just two teenagers in love–they’re powerful gods in human form. Powerful enough to have saved their Brooklyn diaspora community from the wrath of an ancient enemy and to have raised their once-sunken native island of San Madrigal from the sea. But soon they discover that their problems are far from over. On the shores of San Madrigal, two creature armies are battling for survival. And on the streets of Brooklyn, a once tight-knit community is divided, with two sides at each other’s throats. But worst of all, a heartbreaking prophecy rips these two young lovers apart, sending Mateo back to the city, where cops are now patrolling the streets, and keeping Chela tethered to the island, where chaos and death lurk around every corner.
Healer. Destroyer. Creator. As gods, their powers know no limits. But as teenagers–separated, desperate, grieving–what will become of them? And what will become of their people? Join their battle and witness their love in this thrilling conclusion to the epic saga that began with BALLAD & DAGGER.
Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore
Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.
Cade doesn’t know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn’t know that every time she thinks she’s fighting Patrick, she’s fighting Cade. And when Cade and Valencia blame each other for a devastating enchantment that takes both their families, neither of them realizes that they have far more dangerous enemies.
Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success by Jessica Parra
Graduation is only a few months away, and so far Rubi Ramos’s recipe for success is on track.
*Step 1: Get into the prestigious Alma University.
*Step 2: Become incredibly successful lawyer. But when Alma waitlists Rubi’s application, her plan is in jeopardy. Her parents–especially her mom, AKA the boss–have wanted this for her for years. In order to get off the waitlist without her parents knowing, she needs math tutoring from surfer-hottie math genius Ryan, lead the debate team to a championship–and remember the final step of the recipe.
*Step 3: Never break the ban on baking. Rubi has always been obsessed with baking, daydreaming up new concoctions and taking shifts at her parents’ celebrated bakery. But her mother dismisses baking as a distraction–her parents didn’t leave Cuba so she could bake just like them.
But some recipes are begging to be tampered with… When the First Annual Bake Off comes to town, Rubi’s passion for baking goes from subtle simmer to full boil. She’s not sure if she has what it takes to become OC’s best amateur baker, and there’s only one way to find out–even though it means rejecting the ban on baking, and by extension, her parents. But life is what you bake it, and now Rubi must differentiate between the responsibility of unfulfilled dreams she holds, and finding the path she’s meant for.
As Long As We’re Together by Brianna Peppins
A heartstring-tugging, uplifting, modern spin on Party of Five — a love letter to family, hope, and finding strength in unexpected places.
Even though she has six siblings, sixteen-year-old Novah still knows what it’s like to feel lonely. Her friends never remember to invite her anywhere because they assume Novah will be too busy overseeing dinner, baths, and homework — tasks that fall to her when her parents are at work. She wouldn’t mind it so much if her “perfect” older sister, Ariana, wasn’t always excused from helping out. She’s the star of the volleyball team, and their parents don’t want anything to jeopardize the scholarships she’ll need to become the first member of their family to attend college.
Needless to say, Novah feels like she’s been given a raw deal, especially when she’s forced to cancel a maybe-date with her crush, Hailee. Then one terrible night, their parents don’t make it back home. A car accident takes their lives and leaves seven heartbroken kids on their own. The Wilkinson siblings have no grandparents, no aunts or uncles. Since Ariana has just turned eighteen, she manages to convince the judge to give her temporary custody. If she can keep her family running smoothly, they’ll get to stay in their home. If not, they’ll be placed into foster care.
Novah will do whatever it takes to keep her family together but finds herself in a constant power struggle when Ariana refuses to take her advice, even once it becomes clear that they are all in way over their heads. Will Novah find her voice and summon the strength to do the impossible? Or will she be forced to say the hardest goodbyes of all?
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The Daily Dad — Feb 23, 2024
Things you might want to know:
Alan Cumming plays a character on Traitors, but season 2’s surprises snapped him back to reality
❝ "Do you mean you want it to be sort of like a James Bond villain?"
Here are the full dimensions of the 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro
💭 A 12.9” iPad Air will be a very compelling device. I’d miss FaceID, and the iPad Pro’s Mini LED screen is frequently gorgeous, but other than that… a big-ass M3 Air with TouchID would be the sweet spot for a lot of people.
Vice Media to halt publishing to namesake site, cut 'several hundred' jobs in restructuring | CBC News
❝ The head of Vice Media Group has informed employees that the company will stop publishing content on Vice.com and will be cutting several hundred positions.
'Community' Movie Script Is 'Almost Done,' Says Dan Harmon (EXCLUSIVE)
❝ Show creator and the film's writer Dan Harmon confirmed to Variety that work on the "Community" film is "almost done."
Bluesky starts letting users host their own servers
❝ The decentralized social network is rolling out the initial phase of self-hosting, letting users host their own data and run their own servers on the AT Protocol.
Scheana Shay Granted Sole Ownership of New Home With Husband Brock Davies
❝ Scheana Shay's husband Brock Davies has agreed to grant Scheana with sole ownership of their new $2.5 million home.
90 Day Fiance's Mary Clarifies Colon Cancer Claim: 'I Made a Mistake'
💭 Even accounting for the language barrier, this is a bizarre “mistake”. But given Mary’s history of panic attacks, I can actually see her hearing “your colon” and immediately jumping to a cancerous conclusion. And her idiot husband would buy whatever she said without asking for details. So I can believe the whole thing was the work of two nervous nitwits, not a couple grifters.
A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon
❝ “We’re not dead yet."
'Drive-Away Dolls' Review: Ethan Coen's Queer Crime Joyride
❝ It's the first solo Coen film suffused with personality, thanks mostly to Margaret Qualley's free-spirited queer horndog.
Katy Perry's 'American Idol' Exit: Son of 84-Year-Old Vet Says Pop Star Should Be 'Run Out' of Showbiz as Vicious Court Battle Rages on
💭 It’s hard for me to give a shit when the 84-year old vet in question is a rich fucker whose kid is pissed that his drug-addled daddy sold a piece of his inheritance.
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Reportedly Getting a New Title - IGN
💭 I have never understood why anyone liked Kang. The prize of my teenaged comic collection was Avengers #11 —I paid $10 for a tattered copy in 1981– which featured Kang as the villain, and I thought he was boring and pointless even at the height of my enthusiasm for such things. I get why Feige didn’t want to do Doom, Galactus, or Dark Phoenix at this point, especially when this whole phase has been devoted to establishing the norms of the multiverse. But still… Kang is a bad visual with zero gravitas.
Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption
❝ Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage.
Can I Tell You a Secret? review – this superb documentary perfectly evokes the horror of cyberstalking
❝ Detailed, personal, terrifying … this excellent two-parter follows a Guardian investigation into the recipient of the longest ever sentence for online stalking – by focusing on the victims
Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court
💭 What I’ve learned from this: we’re all six to nine months older than we thought. And we’re going to have twenty-six year olds with baby teeth starting grade school. And Alabama is ruled by morons. (That last one isn’t a new observation.)
Signal will soon let you share a username instead of your phone number
❝ Signal is rolling out a new feature that will let you create and share a username to connect with other users in the app instead of revealing your phone number.
Another wall crumbles in the console exclusivity war: Sony is bringing official PSVR2 support to PC
💭 This is very interesting. Meta needs competition, and Sony needs a reason to manufacture more headsets.
Newly spotted black hole has mass of 17 billion Suns, adding another daily
❝ An accretion disk 7 light-years across powers an exceptionally bright galaxy.
The top streamed shows are almost all old. Why?
💭 For starters: twenty episode seasons. Continuity Lite. Old school filler scenes/episodes and the rhythms of dip-to-black breaks are actually as good for multitasking viewers as they were for pause-free households. And every single broadcast episode was an on-boarding opportunity, not a piece in a narrative puzzle.
Babs Reunites Crossed Creators Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows - IGN
❝ Crossed creators Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows are reuniting for Babs, a new series that puts an irreverent spin on sword and sorcery comics like Conan and Red Sonja.
Micheal Keaton Refused to Let 'Beetlejuice 2' Use Green Screens
❝ Michael Keaton said the only way to make 'Beetlejuice 2' was for it to be handmade and not rely on too much technology.
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With his shrewd eyes and his forks of corn-yellow hair, Julian Sands was a natural choice to play the valiant, romantic George Emerson, who snatches a kiss from Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in a Tuscan poppy field in A Room With a View (1985). “I wanted him to be real, not a two-dimensional minor screen god,” he said. “I liked him in his lighter, sexier moments, less so when he was brooding.”
Sands, who has died aged 65 while hiking in mountains in California, was dashing in that film, but he could also project a dandyish, effete or sinister quality. He was blessed with a mellifluous voice and a lean, youthful, fine-boned face, even if, as a child, his brothers insisted he resembled a horse. (He agreed.) In James Ivory’s film of EM Forster’s novel, he was pure heart-throb material. His participation in the notorious nude bathing scene was no impediment to the picture’s success.
Prior to that, he had played the journalist Jon Swain in The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé’s drama about the bloody rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The picture marked the beginning of his friendship with his co-star John Malkovich. “I’d been cautioned by Roland to keep my distance from John because he was an unstable character,” Sands recalled. “And John had been told by Roland to stay away from me, because I was a refined, sensible person who didn’t want to be distracted. In fact, we bonded instantly.”
Malkovich directed Sands in a one-man show in which he read Harold Pinter’s poetry. First staged in 2011, the production had its origins in an occasion six years earlier when Pinter, suffering from oesophageal cancer, had asked Sands to read in his stead at a benefit event in St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London. The writer “sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare”, Sands recalled.
Not all his work was so highfalutin, and a good deal of it fell into the category of boisterous, campy fun. In Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), he played the poet Shelley, who indulges in sex, drugs and séances with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and the future Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and is prone to recite verse naked in thunderstorms.
In a similar vein but far less deranged was Impromptu (1991), which brought together other notable 19th-century figures including George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant). Sands, who played Franz Liszt, described it as “Carry On Composer”.
Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he was raised in Leeds and Gargrave, near Skipton; he later described his childhood as “part conservative and part Huckleberry Finn”. His mother, Brenda, was a Tory councillor and leading light of the local amateur dramatic society, while his father, William, who left when Julian was three, was a soil analyst. Julian made his acting debut in a local pantomime at the age of eight.
At 13, he won a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth college, Hampshire. He moved to London to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, and while there became friends with Derek Jarman. He played the Devil in an extended promotional video that Jarman directed in 1979 for Marianne Faithfull’s album Broken English. The role had been intended for David Bowie, who dropped out at the eleventh hour. “You’re devilish,” Jarman told Sands. “You can play it.”
The actor’s first film appearance came in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s stage comedy Privates on Parade (1983), starring John Cleese and Denis Quilley, from which his one line of dialogue was cut. There was more rotten luck when he won the lead in a new Tarzan movie, only for the financing to fall through. It was eventually filmed as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), with Christopher Lambert donning the hallowed loin-cloth.
On television, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in the miniseries A Married Man (1983). In Oxford Blues (1984), he was a rower butting heads with a Las Vegas parking attendant (Rob Lowe) who has tricked his way into a place at Oriel College. He was in The Doctor and the Devils (1985), inspired by the Burke and Hare case. “I had a roll in the hay with Twiggy which took about 15 takes,” he said.
Following A Room With a View, he agreed to play the lead in Ivory’s next Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987), before abruptly dropping out and fleeing to the US. In the process, he left behind his wife, the journalist Sarah Sands (nee Harvey), who described him as “restless” and “dramatic”, and their son, Henry. “I’m not the first person to create stability and security and then dismantle it even more effectively than I created it,” the actor said.
Once in America he took on an array of film parts. In Warlock (1989), he played the son of Satan, wreaking havoc in modern-day Los Angeles. Investing this pantomime villain with lip-smacking brio, he was likened by the Washington Post to a “hell-bent Peter Pan” and nominated for best actor in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards. He reprised the role in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).
As an entomologist in Arachnophobia (1990), he was called upon to have as many as a hundred spiders crawling all over his face. Alternating these mainstream projects with arthouse ones, he played a diplomat in pre-war Poland in Krzysztof Zanussi’s Wherever You Are … (1988) and a monk in Night Sun (1990), the Taviani brothers’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story Father Sergius.
For the Canadian horror director David Cronenberg, he starred in the warped and witty Naked Lunch (1991), which disproved those who had declared William S Burroughs’s original novel unfilmable. Just as outré but less accomplished was Boxing Helena (1993), directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Sands played a surgeon who keeps a woman captive by making her a quadruple amputee.
After starring as a young classics teacher in his friend Mike Figgis’s film of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), Sands worked a further six times with that director, appearing in his movies even when he was an unorthodox choice for the job in hand. One example was the part of a menacing Latvian pimp in Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
Later roles include a mysteriously unblemished Phantom in Dario Argento’s version of The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Louis XIV (whom Sands described as “the first supermodel”) in Joffé’s Vatel (2000), a crime kingpin named Snakehead in the Jackie Chan vehicle The Medallion (2003), a computer security wizard in the comic caper Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), a younger version of the businessman played by Christopher Plummer in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and a sadistic paedophile in the gruelling wartime odyssey The Painted Bird (2019).
On television, he was a Russian entrepreneur in the fifth season of 24 (2006) and the hero’s father, Jor-El, in two episodes of the Superman spin-off Smallville (2009). For the BBC, he played two very different actors in factually based one-off specials: first Laurence Olivier in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), then John Le Mesurier in We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (2015).
His recent work includes Benediction, Terence Davies’s haunting study of Siegfried Sassoon, and the thriller The Survivalist (both 2021), which found him back in the company of Malkovich. One of several titles still awaiting release is the drama Double Soul (2023) starring F Murray Abraham and Paz Vega.
Sands never stopped wandering, walking, running and climbing. “I am on a perpetual Grand Tour,” he said in 2000. Asked in 2018 about his eclectic career, he explained: “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself. I think I found myself a little boring.”
He was reported missing while out in the San Gabriel mountains, north of Los Angeles, in mid-January 2023. His remains were found in June.
In 1990 he married Evgenia Citkowitz. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Imogen and Natalya, and his son.
🔔 Julian Richard Morley Sands, actor, born 4 January 1958; died circa 13 January 2023
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Meet Mary. She was Free, Educated and A Spy. Her Disguise… Confederate European House Slave!
Mary was the best as she was working right in The Confederate President’s home. She had a photographic mind. Everything Mary saw on the Rebel President’s desk, she could repeat word for word.
"Ellen Bond" was neither dim-witted, illiterate, nor a slave. In reality, she was a free, well-educated African-American woman by the name of Mary Elizabeth Bowser. And she was a Union spy working right under Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s nose.
For months during the most crucial period of the Civil War, as General Ulysses S. Grant maneuvered to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital, Mary supplied critical military intelligence to the Union army. In recognition of her contributions to the Union war effort, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1995.
Elizabeth was able to arrange for a friend to take Mary with her as a servant to help at social functions held by Varina Davis in the Confederate White House. Mary performed her servant role so well she was eventually taken on full time as, presumably, a slave hired out by her master.
As a spy, Mary enjoyed a significant advantage: invisibility. It’s not that she was unseeable, like H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man, but rather that as a black slave, she was unseen and unnoticed by the whites she served. Her entrance into the dining room to serve at table in no way affected the conversations Jefferson Davis might be having with visiting generals. When she went to his office to clean, it did not occur to the Confederate president that this seemingly ignorant and dull-witted African woman could have either the capacity or the interest to glean information from the papers he left lying on his desk.
In fact, Mary’s role went far beyond the norm. Whatever she read or heard she was able to remember and pass on word-for-word. That’s the testimony of Thomas McNiven, the official head of the Richmond spy ring. McNiven ran a bakery and made daily deliveries all around the city, including to the Confederate White House. This allowed Mary to regularly meet with him for a few minutes as he delivered his goods to the Davis household. Years later, in 1904, McNiven recalled those days to his daughter and her husband, who eventually recorded his story:
Mary was able to continue her espionage activities until January of 1865. Jefferson Davis had become aware that information was somehow being leaked, and suspicion apparently began to fall on Mary. She made the decision to flee Richmond and seems to have made her way to the North. One unsubstantiated account says that in her last act as a Union agent, she tried to burn down the Confederate White House, but was unsuccessful.
Sometime in the early 1850s, Mary was sent to Philadelphia, as Elizabeth had been, to be educated at a Quaker school for African Americans. In 1855, with Mary’s schooling complete, Elizabeth arranged for her to join a missionary community in Liberia. Mary, however, hated living in the African country, and by the spring of 1860 was back in Richmond with Elizabeth.
A year later, in April 1861, Mary was married to Wilson Bowser, a free African man. Interestingly, the ceremony, like her baptism, took place at St. John’s Episcopal. The wedding notice listed both Mary and Wilson as “colored servants to Mrs. E. L. Van Lew” (Elizabeth’s mother).
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Character Actress
Vivi Janiss (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) Film and television actress.
From 1952 to 1955, Janiss appeared in five episodes of Jack Webb's original version of the Dragnet police drama television series. From 1953 to 1957, she was cast in four episodes of the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars anthology series. From 1954 to 1959, Janiss appeared as Myrtle Davis in 11 episodes of Robert Young's Father Knows Best situation comedy series. From 1959 to 1962, she was cast in six episodes, none in the starring role, of the NBC Western series Wagon Train with Ward Bond and John McIntire.
In 1955, she played the historical Mary Todd Lincoln in "How Chance Made Lincoln President" in the anthology series TV Reader's Digest.
In 1957, Janiss joined Frank Ferguson as guest stars in the roles of Mabel and Frank Cliff in the episode "No Blaze of Glory" of Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper. In 1959, Janiss was cast the role of Ella Westover in a second State Trooper episode, "Excitement at Milltown”. On December 4, 1959, Janiss was cast in the CBS anthology series Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, hosted by Desi Arnaz in the episode "The Hanging Judge".
In its first season on the air, Janiss was cast with Everett Sloane in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone episode "The Fever". Then on October 7, 1960, cast as Edna Castle, she joined Luther Adler in the role of her husband, pawnbroker Arthur Castle, in "The Man in the Bottle" episode of The Twilight Zone. Years later in 1977, Janiss played a minor role as a pawnshop proprietor in the episode "Second Chance" of James Garner's NBC detective series The Rockford Files.
Janiss appeared in many other series, too, three times on The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and twice each on The Virginian and Ben Casey. She was cast once on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Lawman, Trackdown, Cimarron City, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, Follow the Sun, Hennesey, Outlaws, Laramie, 87th Precinct, Perry Mason, Mannix, and The Streets of San Francisco.
After she and Bob Cummings divorced, Janiss wed actor John Larch. The couple appeared together on four television series, including the series premiere, "No Fat Cops", on October 3, 1961, of ABC's The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen. In this episode, Larch and Janiss were cast as John and Mary Clark. Earlier, the two had co-starred on November 23, 1959, as Johnny and Elsie in the episode "End of an Era" of NBC's Western series, Tales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson, and on May 23, 1960, as Isaiah and Rebecca Macabee in the episode "The Proud Earth" of the half-hour NBC anthology series Goodyear Theatre. On November 9, 1960, Larch and Janiss appeared as Ben and Sarah Harness in the episode "The Cathy Eckhart Story" of Wagon Train, with Susan Oliver in the starring role. Later, on December 19, 1968, the couple appeared again together in the 10th episode "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born" of Jack Lord's CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O.
Janiss' last roles were in the 1978 CBS television film First, You Cry, a story about breast cancer starring Mary Tyler Moore, and in two 1979 CBS series appearances on Barnaby Jones with Buddy Ebsen and House Calls, starring Wayne Rogers. (Wikipedia)
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The summer is almost over and I can't leave the season without this classic—Almost Famous (2000), dir. Cameron Crowe. I used to think it was a perfect start-of-summer film, but I'm realizing may be better suited to these late August, early September weeks.
I read a comment the other day from someone who was not the biggest fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman's acting, who said the real test of his skills and legacy would be which of his performances would stand the test of time. They doubted any of them would—he didn't have any "iconic" characters, they argued.
While I obviously disagree with their entire assessment—for just one example, The Master and his other projects with PTA will be/remain classics 50 years from now—it did make me think. Phil was, though it's a touchy term, often described as a character actor. Even when he was a leading man, he wasn't playing himself. An actual quote from him in 2002 I just found: "Even if I was hired into a leading-man part, I'd probably turn it into the non-leading-man part." He doesn't have an Indiana Jones, a James Bond, but I don't think that disqualifies him from having iconic or lasting characters.
That's what came to mind rewatching Almost Famous tonight, and I might argue Lester Bangs is PSH's most iconic character. If you consider the ratio between screen time and cultural influence, there's probably zero competition among his roles—under eight minutes of screen time vs. untold thousands of people who still quote, gif, share, gif, write, post, and otherwise remember and feel inspired by his words, over two decades later. (Dusty Davis might be the second-most influential, considering how many people got into storm-chasing thanks to Twister). He's a voice for generations of music lovers, film lovers, everyone who watched Almost Famous for the first time and fell in love with its magic or sided with Bangs' cynicism.
What does it matter what some stranger on the internet says, anyway. Whether people will be watching dozens of his films in 80 years or just a few or none at all, we're watching them now. Last night I found a tribute from film critic Brian Tallerico, from the days after Phil's death: "In Mary and Max, [PSH's character] Max says... 'We can, however, choose our friends, and I am glad I have chosen you.' Hoffman felt like more of a friend than another actor. And I am glad he chose us."
Patrick Fugit, playing William Miler, was just 16 when he starred in Almost Famous, his first movie ever. Phil was violently sick with the flu while filming, sweating and shaking and throwing up between takes. But he still found time to look out for others. Patrick wrote this remembrance of working with Phil, which is making me cry a lot as I reread it tonight:
They had lit the scene quite bright from the outside and the light was just behind Philip. So every time I would look at Philip, I would start squinting and my eyes would start watering, so I would kind of look down at the paper pad to pretend I was writing. They kept telling me, “Hey, you have to look at Philip when you read your lines.” I didn’t know how to say that I can’t actually physically keep my eyes on Philip but Philip had been watching me. He’s like, “Guys, c’mon! Can’t we move the fucking light? I mean, the kid can barely look across the table!”
And he and [cinematographer] John Toll kind of got into it. John was like, “We’ll adjust it a little bit but the light’s there for a reason, buddy. We got to light the scene.” Philip said, “Fuck lighting! Do you want it to look fucking good or do you want the kid to be able to act!” ... Then they’re like, “Okay, we’ll move the light,” and then we shot the scene.
But it was the first time where I got in a situation where I didn’t know if I could stand up for myself. And he just stepped up and did it for me. And then he kind of looked at me and smiled and said, “Dude, if something’s bothering you, you have to speak up.” I was like, “Okay, yeah, yeah, totally.”
#'dude if something's bothering you. you have to speak up.'#🥺#monday philm#almost famous#philip seymour hoffman#psh#*#thanks for choosing us phil. i'd love you if you were teaching english in france. if you were pumping gas in the midwest.#but i think you picked well. i love you making art.
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The actress Mary Gordon was born on May 16th 1882.
Born as Mary Gilmour in Glasgow, Mary was well known for her role as Mrs. Hudson in the Classic Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone. She made over 300 movies alongside Tinseltown’s greats and was Scotland’s first film star.
One of Hollywood’s first character actresses, Mary went on to form close bonds with the world’s biggest stars including Bette Davis and James Cagney, who called her his second mother.
One of seven children of Glasgow wire weaver Robert Gilmour and his wife Mary, she worked as a dressmaker before finding work on the stage. Joining a company bound for an American tour, she came to the U.S. in her twenties, apparently making a few appearances on Broadway in small roles, but primarily touring in stock companies. Mary arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s with her mother and daughter and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on.
As well as starring with Rathbone Mary also had roles in movies with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Mae West, James Stewart and even Laurel and Hardy in their film Bonnie Scotland.
At the height of her fame, she made a triumphant return to Glasgow in September 1946, it was the only time she came home and was greeted by Irving Berlin and Sir Harry Lauder.
She made personal appearances at Glasgow picture houses, where she sang songs and shared stories from Hollywood with everyone who had turned out to see her.
Mary even returned to her local church, where she had sung in the choir as a youngster, and was mobbed. Similar scenes took place in Rutherglen when she was staying with family and tried to go to the post office.
Although she only returned home once she obviously was proud of her Scottish heritage and was very active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans, a fraternal order founded in New Haven Connecticut only open to women who were born in Scotland, are of Scottish descent, or are married to men of Scottish descent.
She died, after a long illness, in the Motion Picture Home in Los Angeles aged 81.
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a guide to SOME my drs
contains: harry potter (golden era), marauders, stranger things, dash & lily, x-men, a few fame drs, and a 1900’s historical dr
harry potter
ravenclaw who is best friends with cho
like literally inseparable
we are the hogwarts “it” girls and everyone is obsessed with us
they want to dress like us and talk like us and be as stunningly beautiful and intelligent
so many people have a crush on me
including but not limited to: hermione, ginny, harry, ron, roger davies, neville, luna, and george weasley
marauders
i’m going into my 5th year as a ravenclaw at hogwarts
was never friends with the marauders (save for sirius)
always really good friends since 1st year
and we became practically like siblings
when he ran away, he runs to my house
and my parents welcome him with open arms
give him his own room and make him do chores
it’s like we’ve been siblings forever
then he introduces me to his friends
and remus and james both have crushes on me
and think i’m sirius’ real sister
love triangle ensues
stranger things #1
og female member of the party since 2nd grade
and will is basically my brother
i’ve known him longer than mike has
not so secret crush on thee mike wheeler
i play as a monk in d&d (although i’m not sure that role even existed in the 80’s)
eleven never crushes on mike and only has a friendship with him
when she meets me, she idolizes me and wants to BE me because i’m so cool
i become friends with max first
and stalk for the guys
devising plans with will on how to force lucas and max together
basically just tween fun time (with monsters ofc)
stranger things #2
teenager era starting in season 2
im a loser and friends with jonathan byers
im a major theatre kid and we became friends when he took pictures for our school musical
and ofc im friends with robin because she’s in pit
accidentally get involved with demodogs things when dustin recruits me to go with him and steve
i get to bond with steve and our romance starts
but nothing actually HAPPENS until season 3 over the summer
after he’s gotten over nancy and robin can force us together
stranger things #3
popular!marie x loser!mike
cheerleader who’s new to hawkins
i befriend lucas and he invites me to hellfire club
of course i join!!
i used to play d&d all the time with my cousins in new york
when i walk in, everyone is suspicious of me
but mike is so whipped
eddie doesn’t believe i even know how to play
but i bring out my character sheet and im literally at a higher level than him
… he is mildly impressed
so i’m allowed to join
and i bond with the guys
and mike walks me home every day (even though he’s still dating el)
will i come between them and break them up?
i am the drama fr
dash & lily
i’m lily but i have a different name, face, etc.
mostly the same personality tho
it follows the basic plot
i put the notebook between franny and zooey
we exchange dares
dash gets back together with sofia
my bully is an oc instead of annoying ugly-ass edgar
we meet
i get drunk
we get together
yadayadayada you get it
x-men (prequel series)
i attend xavier’s school where my bestie is jubilee
i have chlorokenesis but i can control my powers the best of anyone
half dating peter maximoff but not really
he flirts with me all the time and i pretend like i hate it
everyone ships us tho
especially kurt and jean
2000’s actress
my resume includes…
cecilia in the virgin suicides
bianca stratford
lana in the princess diaries
louise in gilmore girls
elizabeth in pride & prejudice
rose in doctor who
emily in the devil wears prada
sophie in mamma mia
giselle in enchanted
summer in 500 days of summer
and more
early 2010’s fame dr
famous for a few cult classics like
sam in the perks of being a wallflower
or nicki in the bling ring
but i was also clara in doctor who
and i dated a couple notable celebrities
toby regbo… james mcavoy… thomas brodie-sangster
oh and i’m trending on 2012 tumblr
because i single-handedly revived indie sleaze
and had a flirtationship with alex turner
pretty much the whole am album is about me
dating finn wolfhard fame dr (heavily influenced by the posts of @wheelcr)
angsty and edgy poet and playwright
who graduated high school at 15 and has a bachelor’s degree in linguistics by 19
start dating in 2021
and fans are so obsessed with me
they even jumpstart my poetry career
and some high schools / colleges get the rights to my plays
so cool
ballerina for royal ballet
i started with them when i was very young
getting cast in the nutcracker as a party guest
and i work my way up
i debut with the professional company when i’m 15
with my debut ballet being romeo and juliet
i go on to star in mayerling, onegin, cinderella, anastasia, coppelia, sylvia, swan lake, sleeping beauty, don quixote, giselle, la bayadere, and sylphide all before i turn 25
plus i’m nursing a minor film career in the off season
just small movies like
phantom of the opera 2004 as christine
or atonement as cecilia tallis
i’m just an icon honestly
1910 small town america vibe
the vibe of our town and tuck everlasting
i’m just a small town girl and the brightest student ever seen
i get the highest grades and the town loves me
my parents are highly respected and educated citizens
plus 3 different guys are courting me, including:
a childhood friend who’s loved me for years
college boy studying to be a doctor
and a young reporter and assistant to my dad at our local paper
how ever will i choose?
#shiftblr#desired reality#manifesting#reality shifting#shifting#subliminals#reality shift#manifestation#shifting realities
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Okay, having completed my First Ever Designing Women Re-watch, I’m dropping my new femslash pairing rankings:
Chalene/Julia. (No one is surprised; see pinned post).
Mary Jo/Suzanne. How can you beat the cruise ship Bette Davis drag queen stirring the pot by telling Suzanne that Mary Jo said she was in love with her?
BJ/Julia. SURPRISE! @frenchtwistresistance got me on board with BJ in a big way this time and although they’re very different from Charlene/Julia, one reason I enjoy both pairings is that Charlene and BJ are both excellent foils for Julia and apparently I’m a sucker for that in a ship. I’m obsessed with how BJ is really the only one (or at least the best at) drawing Julia out of schoolmarm mode.
��tienne/Julia. Ranked as high as it is mainly because of how sexy they would be! Imagine Julia waking up in bed with Étienne in Vegas instead of Anthony? I’m obsessed with Julia perseverating on Étienne’s “skimpy” outfits (like she did with Charlene’s flashy outfits in S1!)--it’s not that she disapproves but that they’re so distracting when she’s trying to work. I think they would also bond over their passion for performance, which Julia mostly sublimates except for the occasions when she trots out “Giselle” or participates in community theatre. I think Étienne would encourage Julia to indulge that side of herself more and that Julia would be really taken with Étienne’s commitment to her craft.
Carlene/Julia. Carlene is even more free-spirited and curious than Charlene which also makes her a fun contrast to Julia. She genuinely looks to Julia for mentorship in a way Charlene doesn’t because they aren’t equals. (Charlene still idolizes Julia but it’s different... probably because I read that as a component of her desire.) For example, Charlene is a partner and founding member of Sugarbaker’s and I don’t think Carlene ever officially buys in.
Charlene/Suzanne. They have a lot in common! They bond over the fact that people dismiss them because of their beauty and assume they’re not intelligent. (Charlene yearns for knowledge, and she is more emotionally intelligent than any of the other women on the show. When she starts to take college classes she picks up the concepts immediately! Also, from what I understand she’s mostly in charge of the financial side of the business which requires competency in math! I think Suzanne is also emotionally intelligent but it’s her social skills which are impressive; she wines and dines the clients and navigates society with ease.) They are also both interested in rituals of femininity and celebrity gossip. Also, it’s usually them who pair off when they travel--whether it’s partying in New Orleans or just sharing a bed.
Julia/Mary Jo. They would be a very hot couple, but I think they’d ultimately be incompatible. They’re both stubborn, which is also something you could say about Julia and BJ, but they were never in competition the way I think Mary Jo saw herself being with Julia. Julia is imperious and uncompromising, so when she falters and does wrong by Mary Jo, it’s an uphill battle for her to set aside her ego and own up to her mistakes, and Mary Jo resents that. I also think Mary Jo is a tiny bit insecure and tends to compare herself to Julia and that would not bode well for their relationship.
Charlene/Mary Jo. They are just best friends to me. I can see a spark existing there, but they've known each other for so long that they wouldn’t risk their friendship.
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Some more stuff for the Frost family au!
Mainly character stuff with a bit of lore.
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Holly (Marie-Mistle) Davis - Scott’s Cousin
Holly and Scott don’t talk that much anymore but they still do keep in touch every now and again.
Their mothers were not on the best terms and that leads Holly to try bridge the gap between her and Scott whenever their together so they don’t end up like them.
She’s the younger one about 34/5 I think Scott’s like mid 40s idk
Also holly is pansexual
She’s a music teacher, and loves the kids to death and is always happy to help with any problems the teens may have
She’s selfless, really selfless and it means sometimes she forgets to take care of herself
Also a bit of a klutz
Holly is also a part time mechanic at her dads (Victor) garage, Victor taught her everything she knows about cars and machinery
A brunette always has hair hair in a short bob, hates her blue eyes because she had always wanted her mothers greyish ones
She’s about 5’6, Holly gets her height from her dad
Fun fact her parents are divorced but are on good terms with each other.
Victor remarried and Holly loves her stepmom Andrea
Toby Sinclair - Holly’s fiancé
He’s a literal golden retriever and is bisexual
So kind and charming, loves Shakespeare and is a huge theatre nerd
Can be serious when he needs to be but other then that he’s a huge goof
Can be a bit stupid sometimes (he was actually tempted to become a maths teacher)
He met Holly when he started to teach a the high school she was working at and they became fast friends and two years after started to date
6’4 blonde and has these beautiful brown eyes (holly does get extremely jealous over this)
Eldest sibling, his sisters Donna and Becky are chaos when they come visit him
Doesn’t know about Scott being Santa but does have his suspicions about it when they come to the Np
Thinks Scott is a bit awkward but they do get along quite well with each other
But Toby is happy if Holly is happy
He’s honestly just happy he gets to spend the rest of his life with this beautiful kind woman and meet her estranged cousin who happenstance be santa
Now for my elf babies
Celeste is the eldest at about 1500 years old, then Babs at 1435 the twins are both 1390 and are the youngest
Celeste is a mother hen she’s very stoic but does care about her little family and her big family of elves
5’7 and has really curly hair she’s a brunette but always has her red streaks in her hair she’s a lesbian
She bakes the best best cinnamon buns and the cookies are always delicious
Babs is always thinking of ways to improve things, although slightly impulsive and quick to jump to conclusions she means well
She’s one of the best makers, Santa said so himself at some point Babs can’t remember when it was
You can always find her with her trusty goggles and a spanner
She’s got short genes (5’3) and her hair is exactly the same it’s always messy and is like a mix between a deep purple and a dark blue
Babs is bisexual
The twins are chaos incarnate
If you lock eyes with one of them you’re their next target for pranks
Both blonde Connie’s hair is curly and Scrapps is maybe bald or just has thin hair (he had a Mohawk phase once and Bernard cried when he saw it)
Connie loves designing outfits for the little dolls
Whilst Scrapp is always tinkering with toys to get them to be more chaotic and fun
Connie is non binary and Scrapp is gay!
Their both about 5’5 and not a day goes by when they piss of babs for making short jokes
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Now for some story stuff
These four elves get assigned to watch over Jack, if they manage to make sure he stays on track and show that he has changed by Christmas their little group (Elf Protection Society) becomes an official Squad to help Christmas go smoothly.
They don’t expect Jack to fall in love with Santa’s cousin who they call mom every now and again. ALONG WITH HER FIANCÉ THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT.
Holly does frequently visit the np sometimes and has bonded with the elves that reside there so they call her mom every now and again
So now their spending more time with Jack, Holly and Toby the seven of them are now their own tiny family (or that’s what Babs says)
And the four elves are just watching the chaos that is Jack and Holly flirting with Toby (who’s getting more and more flustered with each pick up line)
Then they also have to make sure Jack doesn’t do anything to drastic with this new found love (and power) he has.
Whilst Scott watches the guy who nearly ruined his life flirt with the cousin he wants to protect and does not like it. Yes we are getting protective Scott in this because i said so
Jack spends more time with the four elves who are looking after him, forming a bond with them all
He realises that he has a family now and won’t admit it out loud but he likes it.
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#the santa clause#the santa clauses#the santa clause au#the santa clause ocs#jack frost#bernard the elf#curtis the elf#carol calvin#scott calvin#frost family au
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The Mosley Review: Creed 3
I believe the Rocky franchise is the longest running and suceessful film franchise that is purely about the sport of boxing. It wasn't always about the fights but rather the man wearing the gloves and his progression as a human being to greatness. An underdog story that has carried on for generations and now comes the chance for the new face of the franchise to carry that torch in their own personal journey. What I've loved about the Creed franchise is how the foundation of the legacy that came before Adonis has informed and shaped his path. We saw his origins in the first film, we saw him fight to build a career and a family in the second film and now we see him live his own life. What I loved in this film is that we get to dig deeper into the past of Adonis and how his past comes back to remind him of what he has risen above. That to me has always been the heart of the franchise and that has stayed consistent in this new entry. The emotional bond that Adonis had with his family was the best part and I loved the immediate connection and sense of failure he felt once he was reunited with his long lost friend. The story then takes off in a fairly quick and sometimes unrealistic way that might take boxing purists by surprise. There is a connective thread in the film that is severed in a death scene that seems to come out of nowhere. It is explained, but it just didn't sit well with me. It wasn't a perfect step into the first round on the titular character's own, but it still was an entertaining character drama that was fun and filled with wonderful performances.
Michael B. Jordan returns as Adonis Creed and he still delivers the same charisma and strength the character is known for. This time around he is more of a business and family driven man that has truly grown up. Tessa Thompson returns as his loving wife Bianca and she continues to deliver her best work as the character. The chemistry between them is by far the best I've seen on screen. They are the perfect example of what a loving couple looks like and I loved every second they were together. The one actress that stole the film for me was their daughter Amara played the by the wonderful Mila Davis-Kent. From the moment she is on screen to the very end of the film, she represented the heart of the film and I loved that she was the driving force behind Adonis' decisions. Their scenes together were amazing and adorable. Phylicia Rashad returns as Mary Anne Creed and I loved that she continued to be the connective tissue to the past and how she reveals the many ways she protected Adonis as a child. Wood Harris was even more awesome and the voice of warning as Adonis' couch Tony "Little Duke" Evers. He would always be right about everything and I agreed with all of his rants. Johnathan Majors continues to shine in his meteoric rise to fame and as Damian "Diamond Dame" Anderson, he was spectacular. The emotional connective thread between him and Adonis was really something fun to explore. They both represent a different side of the same coin and it was amazing to watch play out. The emotional story between them truly comes to a head in the final fight of the film and it was brilliantly portrayed by both actors.
The score by Joseph Shirley was excellent and drives home the emotional core of the film. I liked that he kept the hip hop infused rhythms and beats that Ludwig Göransson began in the original film and created some new sounds for the characters. Visually the film was stunning and the use of the IMAX cameras during the fights was epic and well shot. I do wish that Adonis and Dame would've taken more damage though. These films consistently showed the amount of bruising, welts and swelling from the very violent hits traded between the fighters and I just felt that they really scaled it back too far in this film. It made the fights seem unrealistic. There was a sense of polish that was missing as some of the charm of the franchise has rubbed off a bit. Overall, Michael B. Jordan has done excellent job for a first time director and I loved the personal story his team crafted for Adonis. This was another great entry in the Creed franchise and if they end it here, I will be satisfied. If they make another one, then keep this same energy. Let me know what you thought of the film or my review in the comments below. Thanks for reading!
#creed 3#michael b jordan#johnathan majors#tessa thompson#mila davis-kent#phylicia rashad#wood harris
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☆NEW OCs☆
OCs which haven't quite made their way to the main masterlist yet.
The Sandman
Deciet
Love
The House of Dragon
Elcella Lannister
Alysanne Velaryon
Jaehaeryll, Viserra & Vaella Targaryen
Game of Thrones
Rhaeanna Targaryen
Helanna Hightower + her 6 children
Doctor Who
Stephanie Pond
Marvel
Myra Sharma
Jessica Lang
Danni Green
Clara We
Aurora Mars
Shadow And Bone:
Faina Belova
Dahlia Kiseleva
Yara Kipp
Star Wars
Kayla June
Lydia Amidala
Max Sanstre
Faye Amidala
Don’t Worry Darling
Mary Summers
Benjamin Summers
Unnamed OC
Unnamed OC
Unnamed OC
Unnamed OC
Bones
Sadie Smith
Criminal Minds
Amber Davis
Skyrim
Roxitte Virmeton
Ingrbbi Arrow-Child
Amelnette Yscalla
The Boys:
Katherine Bond
Christine Ross
Nicole Zhu
YOU:
Laura King
Maria Lewis
Unamed OC
Disney Descendants:
Charlotte Charming
Genevieve W-G
Ruby Fitzherbert
Ethan Fitherbert
Joanna Porter
Meribeth
Harry Potter:
Lucy Porter
Freyja Trelawney
Victoria Marsh + her 8 children
Once Upon a Time:
Odette Charming
#it's gonna take a WHILE to update all my masterlists#so i've made this one just to put everyone#down somewhere
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"🄻🄴🅃'🅂 🄷🄸🅃 🅃🄷🄴 🅁🄾🄰🄳." | Winchesters x reader| Prologue
Pilot pt 1
24 years ago
There was a tight bond between the Jones and Winchester families. Both family's were supernatural hunters and friends for years. In 1979 the Winchesters had a handsome baby boy and two years later jones had a beautiful baby girl. Both grew up partners in crime. Almost inseparable they had been through thick and thin. In 1983 when the winchesters had their second son the two became closer. They both became protective of the small child and vowed to protect each other.
Crickets chirped and the once lush oak trees were barren a sign of the up coming winter. The night sky smothered with stars and dead leaves of various colors covered the ground like a blanket. The night was calm and pleasant, a little to calm for the hunters liking.
It was a rare sight to find the Jones and Winchesters gathered around the living room with a couple of beers and bottles of wine without a care in the world. Dean and Vivian were asleep on top of each other and And baby Sam was resting in his nursery.
Venus and Davis Jones to drunk to to drive were invited to stay the night. The couple slept in the Guest room and their daughter slept on a bed next to dean. The guest long asleep Mary carried her child to his cradle, dean walking beside her. She carefully places the baby in the crib. "Come on, let's say goodnight to your brother." Mary whispers
" 'Night , Sam" Dean murmurs kissing the top of Sams forehead
"Goodnight, love" Mary brushes a strand of hair off of sams face
"Hey,dean." says a mysterious voice from the doorway. Dean looks back to see his father
"Daddy!" "Hey buddy." Dean runs to his father and John scooped his child laughing. " So what do you think? You think Sammy's ready to toss a football yet?" "No daddy." Dean giggles and shakes his head. John laughs at this "No. Not yet" Mary can't help but feel her heart flutter at the bond of the two boys. She walks pass him with a smile "You got him?" "I've got him." John mumbles holding his son closer to him "Sweet dreams, Sam." John walk out flipping the switch and carry's Dean to the bedroom to find the small Jones child awake. " Goodnight Vivian." "Goodnight Mr.John." "Goodnight Dean." "Goodnight daddy.". John chuckles to himself and turns off the switch.
-A few minutes later-
The small baby grabs his feet gurling staring at his baseball themed moblie
slowly spinning on it's own picking up speed. The car themed clock comes to a stop and the moon shaped night light flickers.
In the master bedroom-
The lights flicker on the baby moniter that sat on the nightstand next to a picture of Mary and John. Strange noises comeing through the moniter make mary stir. She turns on the light and looks around, finding herself alone in her room. She makes her way to Sam's room to see John's silhouette over Sam's crib "John? Is he hungry?" Mary questioned. John turns to face her placeing a finer to his lips "Shhhh""All right."
Mary stmbled back to her room the lights by the stair case flicker. Mary frowns and taps of the bulb till the light fixes."Hmm."
Mary hears faint voices and sees lights flickering coming down stairs. A war movie is playing and John was asleep. 'If John is here...wait, Sam!' Mary realizes what it could be she dashes back up the stairs. "Sammy! Sammy!" Mary enters the nursery and come to a sudden
picture of Mary and John. Strange noises comeing through the moniter make mary stir. She turns on the light and looks around, finding herself alone in her room. She makes her way to Sam's room to see John's silhouette over Sam's crib "John? Is he hungry?" Mary questioned. John turns to face her placeing a finer to his lips "Shhhh""All right."
Mary stumbled back to her room the lights by the stair case flicker. Mary frowns and taps of the bulb till the light fixes."Hmm."
Mary hears faint voices and sees lights flickering coming down stairs. A war movie is playing and John was asleep. 'If John is here...wait, Sam!' Mary realizes what it could be she dashes back up the stairs. "Sammy! Sammy!" Mary enters the nursery and come to a sudden stop.
A scream wakes the whole house.John startles awake. "Mary?" He scrambles out of his chair and runs up the stairs and hears another pair of screams making him run faster.
John burst through the nursery door. "Mary?" The room dead silent except for the quiet gurgles of Sam. John looks over the side of the crib looking at Sam. "Hey Sammy. You ok?" John murmurs. A dark substance drips next to Sam gaining John's attion. He touches the substance with the tips of his fingers. Some more falls to his hand and he looks up. Mary is sparwled acrooss the the ceiling, the stomach of the nightgown bloodied. John's breathing stops and crumbles to the floor.
"No!Mary!"Mary's body burst into flames coveringthe cieling and spreading to the walls. The small crys of Sam alerting John from his trance. John scoops sam up and runs down stairs and bump into"Daddy!". John shoves Sam into Dean's arms. "Where is Vivian?" "I don't know! When I woke up she was gone." "Okay take your brother outside as fast as you can and don't look back!Now,Dean, go!" "What about Vivian?" "I'll get her! Now go!" Dean scurrys out the house, Sam wailing. "It's okay Sammy."
"Vivian! Where are you?!" John ran through out the house until he stopped in front of the guest bedroom. y/n stood petrified, in front of the bed of her parents. Both the adults dead their stomachs bleed and both on fire. "Vivian! We have to go!" John picked up the child and ran out as she sobbed on his sholder.John ran out side and picked up Dean and Sam."I gotcha."
-Later that night-
The county fire department puts out the harsh fire. Firemen puts out the fire comeing from sam's nursery window. People ather around the burning house while a man tries to wave the neibors away. Across the street, John,Dean, and Vivian sit on the hood of the Impala. John jolds Sam close to him and watches the house slowly burn to the ground.
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Part 2: Gathering
Chapter 11
Fandom: The Dark is Rising Sequence
Summary: With another Rising in its infancy the remaining five must gather. As a safeguard the Light left certain defensive measures in place. It us up to Will, Bran and Jane to assemble those defenses. In the process they must discover the loving bonds that will be the foundation for the Circle to come.
Rating: Teen
Characters: William Stanton, Bran Davies, Jane Drew, Simon Drew, Barnabas Drew, Steven Stanton, Paul Stanton, Gwen Stanton, Mary Stanton, Max Stanton, Mordred, Landon Lynn, Gawain, Molly (OC), Tibby (OC)
Pairings: Will/Bran/Jane, Simon/Tibby (OC)
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She glances through the peephole and freezes. "What in?"
The newcomer knocks on the door again, somehow even more urgently.
She opens the door to reveal Gawain standing red faced and puffing at the door. Bran wonders if the man ran from the station. It's pretty clear he has.
"Gawain?" Molly asks awkwardly but there's no time to question how the two know each other. The knight's eyes have already found Bran.
"My lord. I apologize for interrupting but we are urgently needed in Trewisick. We've had word from the river gods. The Greenwitch is under attack. The Old One opens the Old Way as we speak."
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Ann-Marie Calilhanna: Capturing Mardi Gras for 20 Years
New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/ann-marie-calilhanna-capturing-mardi-gras-for-20-years/
Ann-Marie Calilhanna: Capturing Mardi Gras for 20 Years
Much-loved photographer, Ann-Marie Calilhanna has dedicated over 22 years to documenting the vibrant Sydney LGBTQIA+ community.
The Woman Behind the Camera
Ann-Marie Calilhanna is one of our community’s most accomplished photographers.
As a gay woman herself, she has served as an official accredited photographer for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival for more than a decade.
Her compelling work is prominently featured in magazines, newspapers, and online, offering a visual narrative of the Sydney community.
Ann-Marie has witnessed and photographed some of the biggest milestones our community has seen in the last two decades.
See the exclusive interview with QNews below.
What drew you to photographing queer people and events in the first place?
I love the sense of family. A bond of unspoken connection and the importance of documenting the progression of our fight for equal rights. And the privilege to document our vital history so it’s never lost.
How long have you been taking photos professionally?
I started documenting our community’s history from 2002. I have always been fortunate to be at the forefront photographing many firsts and lasts that will never be forgotten:
a couples first kiss on the dance floor
a rainbow baby’s first drag story time
the first and last marriage equality rally
Not to mention 20 Mardi Gras Parades, Fair Days and parties and still counting! There isn’t much I haven’t seen and some things I can’t unsee!
What is something priceless that you take from your community photography career?
Witnessing our younger generations make the most of those hard-won opportunities by our trail blazers, so they can openly live as their true authentic selves.
Over the years I’ve met incredible friends who have become my family and I feel so fortunate that many of them are the backbone of this community and such a strong foundation in my life.
Who would be your all-time favourite celebrity that you’ve met through your work?
I don’t have just one. But I have met and photographed many celebrities, including Kylie and Danni Minogue, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Cher, Tina Arena, Dawn French, Keanu Reeves, and Kirstin Davis to name a few.
There are heaps more, but I remember a special moment with Kelly Rowland where she actually asked if she could have a photo with me. Wow! I was really taken aback by that! Kelly was so sweet and down to earth towards me.
A lot has changed for the queer community over the last couple of decades. What difference has that made to the photographs you’ve taken?
When I first started out, events were more segregated and more underground. I have seen the progression of equality unfold, now many of our events are held in mainstream spaces and are less binary.
Gay events now will often house people whose gender is less defined in traditional terms and people who maybe don’t identify as queer but as allies, making the events more diverse and larger in scale.
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