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Star Trek: Lower Decks - 3x06
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I am simply begging you to give us more moments where Emerie just insults Feyre
I actually got some ideas and if anyone whants to use them for a fic, I’m okay with that, just tag me so I can read it hehe
My headcanon after meeting Emerie in such a short scene and based on Cassian describing her as “Illyrian Nesta”, is that the Inner Circle’s perception of her is that “she is just like Nesta” Except that she is not. Nesta never starts things, she simply responds harshly to them. But Emerie does. So here we go:
Both Nesta and Emerie referring to Rhysand as “my/your sister’s husband” every single time and never aknowledging him ass High Lord, only as Nesta’s brother in law. But at the same time, Emerie referring to Feyre exclusively as “High Lady” because whenever Feyre goes to Illyria, that’s what she does, use her title and status to make herself important and keep Illyrians in line, therefore when they officially meet, Emerie is already fed up with that. When Feyre gets what her sister’s friend is doing and gets tired of it, she offers with fake politeness “you can just call me Feyre” and Emerie goes “no, but thank you anyways”.
Emerie is going to Velaris for the first time ever, so Feyre obviously gives her a tour that ends in her new manor. “And this is where we live the majority of the time, and where you are going to be staying” Emerie nods “Yes, Nesta told me about you switching houses depending on how many guests you have”. Feyre is taken with her guard down because Emerie has been in silence the whole time and she asumed the illyrian was admiring her house, not judging. “It’s actually a little more complex than that. We live here now, the Townhouse is still for family gatherings too, and we use the Hous of Wind for more formal visitors, those who are not actually family but still welcome into the city”. And Emerie turns to Nesta, who is unbothered and almost bored after the tour “That’s where you lived after the Cauldron thing, right?”. And Nesta just says “Naturally” in the driest way possible, making Emerie smile a little.
They are all having breakfast together and either there is an awkward silence in the room, or the Inner Circle members are talking to eack other and ignoring Nesta and Emerie. So Elain, who has realized her sister will move on from her and never come back from Illyria if she doesn’t show she wants her back, decides to start a conversation with Emerie. “I’ve only been to Windhaven once, but the view of the mountains was a delight. Illyria seems to have a wonderful landscape. Is it as beautiful from the air?”. And Emerie is like “I wouldn’t know”. And if it was already uncomfortable in the room, it gets worse, because nobody has told Elain about Illyrian women. Nobody has explained anything to her. “Have you never flown above the mountains?” And Emerie gets what has happened to her friend’s sister, but Rhysand is right there, and she got her wings clipped under his rule, so she just says “With what working pair of wings? Your sister’s?”
This one is not actually Emerie dragging Feyre, but there is this one time Feyre straight up asks Nesta if they are sleeping together, because they share the one bed Emerie has in her house above her shop. They do it so Nesta doesn’t have to live with Cassian or in a tent, but they are so close, Feyre and Rhysand want to know, and of course Feyre asks. Nesta doesn’t take her eyes from the book she is reading and says “I don’t have sex with my illyrian friend, if that’s what you are asking. I think you are mistaking me for someone else”.
Now for my Emeriel shippers out there: Azriel gets all shady because Emerie is insulting his family and tells her “you’ve made a mistake” and his shadows show all around, but with that resting bitch face that makes the IC think Nesta and Emerie are the same even if they are not, Emerie goes “I’ve made huge mistakes in my life, but at least I haven’t named my sword after my childhood crush”. I don’t know if this has been discussed but Azriel named his sword Truth Teller and Mor’s gift is truth but ANYWAYS, she keeps going “What are you gonna do if you ever meet someone else or even find your mate? Throw it in a lake?” -dramatic pause because she has the best comedic timing ever- “The sword, I mean.”
And finaly, the one time Rhysand called himself Death Incarnate in front of them while trying to sound intimidating. But intimidating Emerie and Nesa with words is almost impossible.
She looks at Nesta like they are in The Office and she is her camera, and Nesta looks back at her like “yep, told you”. Emerie pinches the bridge of her nose in silence like “Tht’s just so lame, sorry but I can’t-”
And of course Rhysand is quick to respond “Excuse me?” with his High Lord tone, but for Emerie he is not a High Lord, he is Nesta’s sister’s husband “You can’t just give that kind of name to yourself”.
So obviously Feyre comes in because they are disrespecting hEr MaTe “Actually, I gave it to him”. And Emerie has no chill “Now, that’s worse. You see how that’s worse, right?”.
NESTA comes in “My ex-fiance tried honey once”. Because they have worked through Nesta’s trauma together and she is okay mentioning him to the IC who didn’t know Nesta had been engaged in the first place and don’t know where to put their atention anymore. Elain is amused because she thinks fae giving names so extra to every single thing is too corny. “My ex-fiance actually called me nana”.
Emerie likes where the conversation is going, because she is a little more extroverted than Nesta, and she doesn’t mind being in the spotlight for a little longer if that gives her the chance of keep dragging someone. “That’s a bad one” She tells Elain “Kind of embarrassing, but hey” she shrugs “at least looking at you didn’t remind him of life ending. So... good enough”.
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Top Five Star Trek DS9 Episodes
by Ames
Oh my prophets, we’ve made it back through the wormhole and concluded all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and you know what? Overall it’s pretty damn good! Arguably the best as a series, we might say (and we did say), and all we’ve left to do is wrap it up in a nice hasperat burrito now.
In doing so and in typical A Star to Steer Her By fashion, we’ve also assembled the best episodes of the whole series into one big list. Check out the discussion in our DS9 finale episode here (series discussion starts at 1:58:12 after the season chatter), featuring even more bests from our special guest star Liz. And open up the Orb of Prophecy to read all the highlights below; you don’t have to be emissary to the prophets to enjoy these.
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“Blood Oath”: Caitlin
The Klingons have been one of the most popular races in the galaxy, and Klingon episodes are just as fun, especially when they put in the work to feature some blasts from the relative past whom we saw in The Original Series! And some extra respect to this one because Kor says Trans Rights.
“Hard Time”: Ames
Miles suffered a whole lot through the years, so the best of his suffering deserves to be on the best list, doesn’t it? Colm Meaney acts his ass off, the storytelling is clean and interesting, and we actually acknowledge mental health (just a little bit) for a change!
“The Wire”: Ames
Speaking of actors who act their ass off. Andrew Robinson’s portrayal of Garak was something we just couldn’t get enough of (can we push for Star Trek: Garak perhaps?), and this episode takes the cake with just sublime acting from one of our favorite assassi– er, tailors.
“Rejoined”: Caitlin
She started off rough, but Jadzia really began to bring it at some point in the show and we’ve targeted this episode as where we really started giving a damn about her. Finally, we see both the emotional weight of being a joined Trill and the actual acting chops of Terry Farrell all in one place!
“The Quickening”: Jake
Similarly, Julian also started off really rough, but when that bright-eyed, bushy-tailed outlook started losing its brightness and bushiness (and when he stopped creeping on women for a while), we got to really see him as a character, and this episode highlights how great he can really be.
“Far Beyond the Stars”: Ames
What more can we say about “Far Beyond the Stars,” an episode that we totally changed guest star Justus’s mind about when we covered it? What could have been a detrimental trope turns into a captivating and pertinent inspection of racism, storytelling, and history. Thank the prophets for this one!
“In the Pale Moonlight”: Chris
It’s not a fake: our love for this episode is 100% real! It’s so excellent to see some really difficult ethical decisions get made on this show, highly contrasting the angelic Starfleet portrayals of the past. Science fiction is all about debate – is all about reflecting on the issue – and those are discussions we love to have!
“Duet”: Chris, Jake
Two votes for this stellar two-hander that is just an actor’s banquet for excellent character development and every opportunity to utterly devour the scenery. Om nom nom scenery. Kira Nerys started off as one of the most well-written and consistent characters on the show, and she only got better and better from there.
“Second Skin”: Caitlin, Jake
Speaking of Kira! Here’s some more well-deserved love for Nana Visitor who donned some Cardassian makeup and really went with it in this excellent character piece that turned her into everything she hated. Talk about an identity crisis!
“It’s Only a Paper Moon”: Caitlin, Chris
At the start of the series, who would have thought that the juvenile delinquent character Nog would grow to be one of the most beloved on the show, with one of the most developed arcs? Credit to Aron Eisenberg for the nuance, heartbreak, struggle, and joy that he brought to Nog over the years.
“The Visitor”: Ames, Chris, Jake
The Ben-Jake relationship proves again and again to be one of the strongest tenets at the core of Deep Space Nine and this episode really goes for it in telling a spellbinding tale of a boy’s love for his father. With added alternate realities, subspace shenanigans, and excellent guest acting thrown in to boot!
“Captive Pursuit”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake
The one episode that made it on all our lists is actually one of the earliest in the series because we all just loved Tosk so much. What an excellent beginning to the series that starts exploring the ethics of how we treat other people and what we can do about that right out of the gate. We are Tosk!
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See also: our Bottom Five Star Trek DS9 Episodes list for the less glowing but still fun to hate on stuff!
Considering the wormhole aliens’ nonlinear existence, can Deep Space Nine really be over? Well, I guess yes it can, because our journey through Star Trek must continue! We’ve got more fun planned for this page, so keep watching us here, listen to weekly episodes at our home on Soundcloud, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and we’ll see you in the Delta Quadrant soon!
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DS9 Companion live-blogging (1/?)
I’m already loving this. From 1x01 "Emissary" to 1x11 "The Nagus":
There are little maps of parts of Bajor.
Having emotions over Ben and Jake’s relationship being the core of the show: “[Brandon] Tartikoff had mentioned the possibility of the new show being a kind of Rifleman in space — the concept being that if Star Trek was originally conceived of as a Wagon Train to the stars, then the new show would be The Rifleman, a man and his son living together in a frontier town.”
Loving all these details about how they did the lighting for a Cardassian space station.
They discuss how they changed the Trill look from what was established in TNG. I forgot about that! The TNG Trills looked different! Now I’m headcanoning there are different Trill races with slightly different appearances. (They said they based the new Trill look on the empath bride character in “The Perfect Mate” played by Famke Janssen who they wanted to cast as Jadzia.)
This is cute:
I’m already appreciating the notes about how Shimerman and Auberjonois’s existing chemistry/rapport influenced the Quark-Odo dynamic.
Also lmao at the writers addressing the continuity error/retcon regarding the circumstances under which Curzon Dax died (in the pilot, he is conscious when the symbiont is being transferred to Jadzia, but later (in “Let He Who Is Without Sin…”) it’s said he died while having sex (more like, the sex eventually caused his death but he had time to go back to Trill for surgery, the writer clarifies).
This is so cute too 😭
Nana on changing Kira’s hair from the pilot: “That was my doing,” admits Nana Visitor. “I pushed for it. I just didn’t feel that Major Kira would style her hair every day. She wouldn’t care! I wanted a hairstyle that looked like she just woke up in the morning looking like that.” She’s so right.
Love these notes on Garak’s character too: Co-producer Peter Allan Fields: “We needed a Cardassian who didn’t act like one, so I finally put him in a tailor shop, and nobody hit me so we kept him there.” (A throwback to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Director Winrich Kolbe: “He’s not what you expect of a Cardassian. They’re the Prussians of the universe, always ‘kill, kill, kill.’ And then there’s Garak, a little bit on the effeminate side, totally different from what you expect of a Cardassian” while retaining the stiffness of Cardassians. Andrew Robinson: “I could actually visualize the guy; he’s all subtext. If a smart guy like Garak says that he’s ‘plain and simple,’ you realize that he’s not plain and not simple. […] And his eyes and the tone of his voice say something different than the words he’s speaking.”
Shimerman on Quark’s personality, plus notes on the Quodo dynamic:
Reading this reminds me of how odd the early episodes of DS9 feel compared to the later ones, because the early ones rely heavily on TNG connections like a crutch which they later discard once DS9 finds its own footing. “Emissary” uses Picard/Locutus and events mentioned in TNG as character backstory, not to mention O’Brien and his existing relationships on the Enterprise. “Past Prologue” features the Klingon sisters; “Captive Pursuit” features a Prime Directive plot typical of a TNG episode; “Q-less” features Q and Vash as guest stars (it’s nice to get a followup on this story but it definitely hits different when these characters aren’t interacting with Picard); “Dax” is mostly its own thing but also fits a familiar trial drama plot that are familiar from TOS and TNG. It reminds me of Sandman and the odd DC cameos it has at the beginning that get more phased out into easter eggs as the comic gains confidence.
Interesting notes on the tender exes relationship between Enina Tandro and Jadzia in “Dax” that precursors “Rejoined” / builds on the general way of using Trills in Star Trek to sneak in gay relationships:
Apparently “The Nagus” is The Godfather in space. I did not realize this at all. They even mentioned there is a scene in that ep that is an homage to that film and I was like, “What?? Which one??” It totally went over my head.
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can u do something where thandruil is rlly busy and kind of ignoring legolas and they go to visit elrond and elrond finds out that legolas thinks that thanduril is purposfully not paying attention to him (maybe he thinks it’s his fault his mom died)
Legolas thinks he shouldn't like these visits quite so much.
But he can't help it– Imladris lives up to its name with a fierce friendliness. The trees are green and the grass is lush, flowers seem to grow year-round, and the sun is bright, dispersing any passing shadow.
And here, there are the twins, always one word away from finding some grand adventure, there are Erestor and Glorfindel, patiently telling stories of the First Age for their eager ears, and there are food and music and, and–
And it's so different from home.
Greenwood is not so great anymore, he doesn't think. Everyday the night seems to grow longer and the days to grow duller. Even the people– everyone is always looking so tense and frightened, Legolas can't bear watching their worried eyes.
He heard his father talking with a councilman, the Necromancer is getting stronger.
So yes, sometimes Legolas looks around the balcony of the guest room and thinks he likes it here better than home. He feels terribly guilty, but it’s terribly hard to feel bad in Imladris, especially in the spring.
A knock on his door startles him out of his thoughts. “Lord Elrond,” he blinks, belated remembering his manners, “erm, is there anything I can help you with?”
“Perhaps,” Lord Elrond smiles politely, declining the invitation to come in, “while I do hope you’re settling in alright, I was actually looking for your father. I don't suppose you’ve seen him?”
Legolas pauses, stopping himself from shrugging just in time. “Not since we’ve arrived yesterday evening, no,” he glances down at the floor, unable to hold that kind gaze much longer, “besides I’m not sure I’m the right person to ask, I really wouldn't know.”
That seems to upset him in some manner, Elrond frowns. “Why is that?”
If he hadn't known Elrond since he was an elfling, maybe Legolas would feel more ashamed about the way his face sort of crumbles a little. “Well, I haven't– I don't see much of my father these days,” he sighs, shuffling in the doorway, the ache in his chest grown beyond familiar at this point. “I think I’ve done something to upset him, but I haven't figured out what exactly yet.”
Which was not something Elrond needed to know, right. Legolas curses himself; Imladris always does make him softer.
“I see,” Elrond says, looking thoughtful and before Legolas could say anything or apologize for his words, he’s taking his leave with an understanding yet forced smile.
“Well, that could’ve gone better,” he tells the empty room. Outside, birds chirp near his window.
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It’s later in the evening, enough that the twins have already retreated for their chambers, scolded by a resigned Erestor over the small mess they made out of the kitchens, and Legolas scurried to his room, fleeing the imminent lecture.
They all miss Arwen fiercely in times like this, she's always been good at looking innocent and talking her way out of trouble.
Anyway, it's late when another knock comes to his door.
This time, his visitor catches him a lot more off guard– his father stands stiffly in the doorway.
“Ada?” He asks, taken aback, and immediately worries, “is everything alright?”
His father looks suddenly pained, expression going pinched, and not for the first time, Legolas notices how tired his father seems. “Yes, yes,” he waves a hand in dismissal, “may I come in? I believe we need to talk.”
Well, those words have never led to anything good.
But at least, maybe his father is finally going to tell him what he did wrong and Legolas can apologize and make amends and this whole avoidance can stop.
“I talked with Elrond today,” he starts mildly, looking around the room with a neutral expression, and Legolas can't help wondering who’s actually here– his father or the King. “He seemed to be under the impression I’m actively avoiding my own son.”
Oh. This is not good.
“I can explain–”
But when his father turns to look back at him, he doesn't look angry, just upset. And tired, he looks very tired. “Ion nin,” he draws his eyebrows together, stepping closer to rest a hand on Legolas’ shoulders, “I am truly sorry if I ever gave you the impression this is in any way your fault.”
Speechless, Legolas can only gape, trying to process what he had clearly not been expecting.
“And while I know I cannot right the time wasted,” his father continues, “you must know I was only ever trying to protect you.”
“So this isn’t about nana?” He blurted out, hands itching to fly out to cover his mouth in mortification immediately after. They don't talk about this, don't talk about Legolas’ mother, everyone knows that, what was he thinking– “I’m sorry, I–”
“No, it’s– it’s quite alright,” his father clears his throat, visibly struggling to stay composed, “why did you think this was about your mother?”
“Oh, because,” Legolas looks away, down at the stain on the hardwood floor, trying very hard not to think about those awful days, “you know. I– I should've done more, should've fought harder– if I had found her sooner, if I had been strong enough in the first place, then. Then she wouldn't– she would still be here.”
His father takes a seat at the desk, motioning for him to do the same, and for a second he looks so wrecked with grief, Legolas wonders how he’s still standing. “What happened,” he says evenly, “could never be your fault. You’re so young, I only meant to protect you and yet, it seems I managed to only make it worse.”
Legolas frowns, fingers curling around the mug he left early. “I don't understand, Ada. Protect me?”
A sigh. “The orcs who attacked that day,” he explains, voice wavering in disgust, “are not the first and will not be the last to venture so deep into the forest.”
That can’t be– he knows things are tense, tales of spiders slithering in the shadows have begun cropping up everywhere, but– orcs?
“You did more than I could've asked, I should never have let you chase them,” his father continues, “and I thank Eru every night you were returned safely to me. The Shadow grows ever closer and every day we are pushed further north. Orcs are claiming the woods while spiders infest the trees. No, nothing could have been done that day. I have not been avoiding you, ion nin, but I’m afraid my time is being consumed entirely over these matters.”
It’s the distraught note in his father's voice that he so rarely hears, the effort he’s making at talking about the attack, that leads Legolas to believe him, to forgive.
There's a relief, of course. This is not, after all, a deliberate act on his father's part, but it's concerning how dire the situation is. It makes him wonder why are they really here.
“There is much to do and the people need to know their King is intent on fixing this. Elves go missing, villages are attacked– I hope you understand, I didn't mean to avoid you, I could not find the time to do anything more than keeping the situation from escalating out of control.”
“I understand,” he says, because he honestly does. Legolas knows the Council must be putting a lot of pressure on his father to find a solution to something that can hardly be solved. He had meant to keep Legolas from finding the true horror of the situation and managed to alienate him in the process.
Typical.
But Legolas finds this sits uneasier for him as a Prince, than anything else. Why should he be hidden away to be protected when their people are suffering? Should he not be out there helping?
What good is the Royal Family if they’re safely tucked behind the castle walls?
An idea begins growing on his mind– if the rumors are to be believed, patrols are being sorted to start soon. If his father is this busy, Legolas doubts he’d notice his absence until it’s too late to stop him from joining the guards.
“Thank you,” his father nods, climbing to his feet, “I can't promise things will be any easier when we return home, but for now, you should get some rest.”
Legolas smiles as innocently as he can even as he wonders if he could convince Glorfindel to train him during the visit.
#lord of the rings#the hobbit#thranduil#legolas#elves#elf#elrond#lotr#look an ask#lotr tag#elves tag#mirkwood tag
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May 14, 2020
ORLANDO,Fla. – There were lines of cars outside Universal Orlando’s CityWalk as the attraction opened its gates for the first time in two months.
Nico Nieves said he traveled to Orlando from Ft. Lauderdale with his partner to get out of the house. He took advantage of the limited capacity opening, dining in at Margaritaville.
"Everybody's happy here. Everybody's very welcoming... there's hand sanitizer everywhere. They're on every corner, everywhere you look. They're not letting anybody in without a mask," said Nieves.
Nieves said it was an interesting experience at the security checkpoint.
“I felt like I was in a movie. They put a machine up to my head and checked my temperature,” said Nieves.
CityWalk opened its doors with a limited capacity after being closed for about two months. There are new procedures. Mandatory temperature checks will be given at the screening area just before the security checkpoint. Anyone with a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher won’t be allowed in.
“I wanted to see what they were doing safety-wise and environment wise. And of course, being nosey, I wanted to know what was going on," guest Nana Tanaka said.
All guests and employees are also required to wear masks. They are selling them on-site for those who don’t have one.
“Everybody is social distancing. They have tables six feet away from each other outside. We were very distant from everybody else. People that work in the park are walking around making sure people are practicing social distancing,” said Nieves.
While some people like Nieves enjoyed CityWalk Thursday, others aren’t comfortable visiting just yet.
“I won’t be attending CityWalk anytime soon,” said Amanda Nardone. “Even if they go out and they check the temperature and they do have a fever, they’ve already been out touching, coughing, so it’s already not safe in that situation.”
"Not a good idea..." Roger Barakat said. "I think the problem is most people that lost their vacation will see Florida opening up and they're just going to flood the place, and I don't know how they're going to keep all the people out."
Some of those venues that are open include Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and Margaritaville with limited menus. There are also some retail shops open.
“I feel okay to be out with tons of people as long as they take care of themselves first,” Tanaka said.
Donovan Hudson works at Bigfire. While they’re not one of the restaurants opening Thursday he visited CityWalk to support the other businesses.
“I’m actually really excited. I know everyone’s probably a little worried about us reopening things, but I think Universal’s going to take the right procedures to get it done,” said Hudson. “There’s a lot of outdoor seating. There’s just a lot of room in a lot of our venues over there and they’re not opening up everything which I think is smart.”
CityWalk will be open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Parking is free. As for the theme parks, the Universal Orlando website said they will remain closed until at least May 31.
“In this weather and having to wear the mask, I’m not going to come back, it’s too hot and uncomfortable being out there with the mask," Tanaka said.
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Self-Control Story, Branch 2 - Chapter 4: A Warning (Gore Warning)
The staff shone brightly as it prepared a spell, but it seemed like it had been severely weakened due to his state.
-I’ll… I’ll turn back in time and…-he muttered-Yggdrasil, turn back the wheels of time and lead me to the past where I was alive!
The builder and Malroth watched how the spell cast itself and a bright light engulfed the World Tree (in which they were in). One second later, Hargon found himself in the lowest floor of his castle in Rendarak. He saw two batmandrills, which meant that the three Scions hadn’t yet come.
-M-master Hargon!? Weren’t you at the highest floor readying yourself for the last fight?-one of the two asked before he saw the awful state he was in-Are you okay, sir?
-Ah, right-he said looking at his wounds-Behoma. (Fullheal/Healall)
His wounds were completely healed, but he still felt tired, so he had to rely on his staff to keep himself standing.
-You said I was on the top floor, right? Well then, there I go up again-he said walking past the two monsters.
The way up was difficult because he was exhausted and he earned a lot of stranged looks from the monsters that lived there, especially from Atlas, Pazuzu and Belial.
-Master Hargon, weren’t you up on the top floor already?-Belial asked puzzled.
-If I told you I am here and on the top would you believe me?-Hargon said looking at him firmly in the eyes-Belial, there is something I must tell myself, could you go up and check if I messed the timeline?
Belial, being one of the most loyal subordinates he could ask for got upstairs and went downstairs again.
-U-um-he said, looking as if his head was about to blow-How can you be praying and be here at the same time?
-That is something I must not say to somebody who’s about to… Forget about it, I must go tell myself something important-Hargon then realized… It not only sounded weird, he looked like he was insane already.
Belial guided the Hargon of the future to the place the Hargon of the past was. Hargon was praying his usual morning prayer. Belial reached the priest first to announce the new visitor.
-Um… Master Hargon, I know you don’t like being disturbed while you’re praying, but… There’s a peculiar visitor that wants to have a word with you.
-A… visitor?-he asked-Who would dare disturb me during my routine?
-I do-the other Hargon said showing himself.
Hargon didn’t believe his eyes. Nor did he believe it was him the one standing at the other side.
-You must be confused, I undestand that. I have come from the future without a previous warning. You won’t believe this but you’re about to be killed, and Malroth is going to suffer the same fate.
The Hargon of the past looked at the other questioningly.
-If you are me in the future and in the future I am dead, how can you explain… The fact you are in front of me.
-About that… Long story short you are going to make the desperate move of sealing the Master’s soul away into the illusion created to distract the Scions and you will be going along him. Turns out the Master can come back, but… Certain attachments with someone have brought me here.
Hargon of the future frowned. It wasn’t exactly a good memory to remember. The fact his own god turned his back on him.
-If by some twisted turn of events you were who you say you are, can you prove it?
-I am a Scion of the Dragonlord, who in turn is the son of Zoma. We have been entrusted with our family relic: “The Eye of Malroth”. Profaniss was a servant at Charlock Castle who raised me from early childhood, I don’t like to admit it, but I am Princess Gwaelin’s first son. I started my journey the day Profaniss died and my first followers were called Adamn, Zebadee and Hellen.
Hargon of the past seemed satisfied with this.
-What do you recommend?
-I have the power of Yggdrasil and the same blood as you… You may use me as a sacrifice to bring Malroth. He’ll be very strong if we do that and the Scions won’t stand a chance.
Both Hargons thought it was a good idea, so they decided to perform it. Belial realized by then something he hadn’t spotted before. Hargon had that crimson flowing hair all over his head that didn’t actually make much sense according to what his master had talked about with him.
-Um… Master Hargon… Were you playing the role of a damsel in distress or something…?-Belial asked looking at the hair, which reached to the middle of his back already.
-No, I wasn’t playing any paper, this is just as natural as my scales and fins, Belial-Hargon replied sitting on some kind of drawing on the floor-I haven’t spoken to you about this because it comes from my mother, who I do not like to recall often.
The Hargon of the past drew some runes on the floor and went to fetch a dagger.
-I hope this time the Master actually gets to perform his duties.
Hargon of the past started chanting something while putting some kind of liquid on the dagger. The dagger started shining with a vicious red color.
-I didn’t realize how much I missed the sacrifices to the Master-Hargon of the future mused looking at it.
-Powerful Master of Destruction, I call thee!-Hargon of the past started the usual sacrifice speech-I offer thee the blood of a loyal servant who has gone as far as stripping Yggdrasil’s power from her to come here and make an attempt to change our fate! With the power of creation and destruction alike running through his veins and the holy bloodline of the Great Archfiend let his sacrifice become thy power and reason to come to this world and fight the Scions of Erdrick before destroying the whole world!
With those words, Hargon of the past took the dagger on one of his hands and his future counterpart in the other and started cutting his hand’s palm. Ironically, Hargon didn’t feel the cut nor the blood beginning to ooze and drip onto the floor. Once the cut was wide enough, the blue blood of the monster started falling in a steady stream. He watched it fall before his eyes, bracing his destiny. He felt the presence of the Master already. And… Two magic presences and one non-magic one at the first floor.
-Belial, our guests have arrived-he said while looking at one of the windows.
Belial took five seconds before realizing what he meant and went one floor down.
-You sure are taking long, Malroth, what’s the problem? Do you not accept your faithful servant’s blood?
Malroth didn’t answer immediately, yet his cackle was heard in the room.
-Not yet, I want the Scions to witness it-his deep monster voice said.
-I hope they hurry, I can’t keep this bloodstream forever.
The silence while they waited was heavy, but comfortable… At least until the first monsters were slaughtered. One by one, the bloodcurdling screams of dying monsters were heard. Pazuzu, Atlas and Belial were not an exception. The sinister show of screams was the only thing that told how long were the three Scions taking. Just as Allen’s head started poking out from the stairs, the snake tail of the Master grabbed hold of the Hargon of the future from its mouth and started swallowing him, blood spluttering everywhere when the fangs touched some flesh. The Yggdrasil-ized Hargon smiled, it had been a while since he’d last been pulled into the Master as a sacrifice.
The three Scions witnessed how Malroth slowly came out of a portal while the snake tail swallowed the remains of the Hargon of the future.
-At last you come before me-Hargon said from his throne with the bloody dagger still on his hand-I am the High Priest of the Children of Hargon, Hargon the Great. All monsters listen and obey to each of my orders and so you will, humans, for salvation is only possible when our Master destroys this world.
The three Scions made weird unbelieving faces about that.
-I’m sorry, what?-the prince with a green poncho and blond hair.
-I see, you’re even shorter than I thought… This giant monster behind me is Malroth, Lord and Master of Destruction. I am High Priest Hargon. Either you obey or die-he said gesturing first to Malroth, then to himself and at last bringing his hands together in a “I’m fed up fashion, have you understood now?”
Allen took out his sword and aimed it at Hargon.
-For the destruction of Moonbrooke I shan’t forgive you, Hargon. So I will not listen to a word of what you say.
-Fine, if you want to fight we’ll fight, right Malroth?
Malroth growled in consent, getting his arms ready for the fight. And so, the final battle began again, this time with Malroth already ready in the battlefield. While that happened, another historic event was happening in Alefgard’s Southern side. Hargon’s soul could feel another presence generating, one that felt like…
-Erdrick-he muttered while the Master struck a few hits on the Descendants of Erdrick.
-Nana, Conan, keep it together, don’t focus just on Malroth-Allen, the Prince of Midenhall said swinging his sword at Hargon.
-It’s easy to say it, but he keeps on striking on us!-Conan said using his shield to cover himself.
-Ionazun!-Hargon shouted at the top of his lungs just as the air around the Scions blew up.
-Hollyhock and Rubiss-Nana said-We’ve got quite a wizard over there…
Malroth and Hargon exchanged glances and kept fighting after Nana’s comment. Malroth’s strikes were precise, strong and well-thought, oddly curious for the god. Hargon’s soul had something to do with this, since he was now stuck in Malroth’s mind again.
-Keep it up and they’ll be history-he said to Malroth.
-Got it.
The fierce battle could be seen from several kilometers from the Castle, since the whole rooftop had gone down with the clashing strengths of the Children against the three heirs. It was such a titanic clash of powers many wizards and monsters could feel it. A certain presence not far from Moonbrooke felt it and pet his companion.
-It has begun. The Master and his follower shall fall in the name of fate, but it being a battle whose outcome cannot be predicted, the three Scions may also fall… That’s when we should go in, we have to remain here for now, big boy.
The companion, who moved down on all fours hummed in agreement, but still wanted to fight against them.
-Now, the only thing we mus to is ensure the birth of he, who was chosen by creation.
The figure started walking towards Alefgard.
Back in the Castle Nana was already running low on MP and Conan was about to suffer the same fate. Allen carelessly swung his sword at the enemy. Conan struck sometimes too, but kept focused on watching his cousins’ health, since Nana couldn’t cast any major healing spells anymore. On the other side of the battle, Malroth was already starting to feel sore from his lack of action in over a century. Hargon on the other side was far too enthusiastic to admit he was beginning to feel tired. Unlimited magic meant he could cast at least five Ionazun in a row and end the Descendants once they have ran out of supplies.
-Allen, please, slow down, I can’t keep casting… Behoma-Conan said-And we’re running out of medicine too. I know you want to end this but… It’s far too much.
Allen ignored him. He had to get rid of them to make father proud, to make grandfather proud. This was his destiny.
Malroth was getting distracted by the soreness of his muscles then, so he took the chance and…
Hargon received the blow, his shoulder’s bone crushing when the sword sunk, deep enough to make quite a heavy wound, only to protect his Master. Allen persisted, sinking the sword further into the priest, even if his HP were already going a fair deal down now. He didn’t stop until he’d reached half of the ribcage (considering he has one). Blood spilled from Hargon’s mouth, the wound having reached the point where he bled internally and externally. Nana gasped and put her hands over her mouth when she saw the brutal wound that had been left on the priest’s body.
-A-Allen! He… He didn’t deserve that-she said looking over at the fallen monster, whose HP were already around 10.
-Of course he did. He is nothing more that a Dark Spawn of Destruction that deserves death to atone for his sins-he said sheathing the sword full of monster blood.
-You know we still have to end the big mean one, right?-Conan said.
Hargon seemed to mutter an apologize before dropping on his knees and starting to try healing magic.
Conan and Allen charged at Malroth, who they took down with a co-op attack, Conan hitting on the front for Malroth to block while Allen struck on his back. Having fallen next to his most faithful living follower, who was beginning to pass away, Malroth muttered something incoherent before turning into blue dust. Hargon followed shortly after, having given up on healing after seeing Malroth’s death.
The three heirs celebrated the defeat of the Children of Hargon forgetting about something: A rather bitter soul took both of the fallen monsters’ souls and sealed them away in the illusion formerly created by the high priest. Being dragged with them, he was once again reduced to a shard of Malroth’s god subconscious.
-You think you have won, Scions of Erdrick, but one day the Master will awaken again, and I’ll wait patiently for it to happen.
Little did Allen know that what had happened was just the beginning of an even bigger mess. Added up to that, there was this strange feeling in Hargon’s soul that something unexpected was about to happen… yet again in the illusion.
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Star Trek DS9 Rewatch Log, Stardate 1908.21: Missions Reviewed, “The Quickening,” “Body Parts,” and “Broken Link.”
“The Quickening” finds Bashir, Dax, and Kira in a runabout in the Gamma Quadrant when they pick up a distress signal coming from a small planet. When they get there, they find a post-industrial civilization where everyone is infected with a disease. The disease will “quicken” and the person dies a painful death, sometimes young, sometimes after years.
Bashir and Dax find that this is a case of biological warfare developed by The Dominion against this rebel planet. They do find a doctor, but his only function really is the ritualization of the quickening process, making death comfortable and not trying to cure anything. Bashir takes it upon himself to try, at first getting only the support of a young pregnant woman who wants to live to see her baby grow up. At first, Bashir finds success, but all at once his patience begin to accelerate. He finds the disease was engineered by the Founders to accelerate in the presence of electro-magnetic fields; like those produced by the instruments he is using to find a cure. The local doctor curses Bashir for giving people false hope and ruining their deaths. Bashir is ostracized, but continues to try to work with what is available. His only patient is the young mother, who has quickened, and shows no sign of any treatment he has given her. She gives birth and they find that the baby is completely clear of the disease.
As the mother dies, Bashir realizes he has not created a cure, but a vaccine which will prevent the next generation of children from having it. He passes it to the local doctor, who now himself feels hope. Bashir returns to DS9, still hoping to find an actual cure.
A very well written and moving episode including great performances from guest stars actress and producer Ellen Wheeler as the young mother and genre staple Michael Sarrazin as the local doctor. I think this episode takes on special pertinence when placed into the context of Bashir’s genetic enhancement- he really thinks that though he me fake his way through a lot of things, when it really matters his genetically superior intellect will always save the day. Here, yes he gets some victory, but you watch him deal with his failure and Siddig’s performance is very affecting. This episode also helps paint the Dominion as more than just an empire that wants to rule, they are vindictive bastards as well, something we will see in just a couple episodes, “Broken Link.”
There are two pretty interesting stories in “Body Parts.” The first, Quark returns from a trip to Ferenginar with news that he has a rare disease himself and will be dead in six days. In Ferengi tradition, he puts what will be his desiccated remains (52 little plastic disks of dried Quark) up for auction to settle any remaining debts, and receives an enormous bid. He accepts, but the next day, finds out the diagnosis was wrong; he’s going to live. All is fine until Brunt, Ferengi Commerce Authority shows up.
HE was the bidder and he wants his freeze dried Quark. According to the Rules of Acquisition, “a contract is a contract, is a contract.” Quark even considers hiring Garak to kill him rather than face the embarrassment of breach of contract. In the second tale, Bashir, Kira, and Keiko O’Brien go on a Gamma Quadrant expedition, despite Keiko’s pregnancy. After an accident, Bashir finds it necessary to transplant the O’Brien child into Kira in order to save Keiko’s life. Due to the technobabbly way Bajoran women carry children, they won’t be able to reverse the procedure: Kira will carry the O’Brien baby to term. Miles, Keiko, and Molly welcome her into their family.
While Quark dreams he’s gone to the Divine Treasury, he sees a vision of the First Nagus telling him to break the contract- the rules were meant for Ferengi, not Ferengi for the rules. Quark does break the contract, and Brunt seizes everything in the bar. As Quark wonders what he’s going to do, the various station members start bringing things in- Bashir has a case of liquor he can’t keep, needs Quark to take it. Sisko needs Quark to keep tables and chairs from a part of the station being renovated. Quark realizes the Hew-Mon adage of friends being treasure might be true.
The pregnant Kira storyline me seem a little oddly intimate here between the O’Briens and her as surrogate, but the real story is even worse; at this point Nana Visitor was together with Alexander Siddig, and pregnant; this whole subplot was a way of writing the fact Major Kira is actually carrying Doctor Bashir’s baby into the story. In Quark’s vision, the first Nagus was also played by Max Grodénchik (Rom) and seeing him with a totally different demeanor and voice is neat.
A Jeffrey Combs guest appearance is always great, but the real slam dunk in this episode is Quark watching holodeck simulations of Garak killing him so Quark can choose the best death. Not wanting the snapping vertebrae of his neck to be the last thing he hears is a fair point.
“Broken Link” begins with Garak trying to hook Odo up with a local Bajoran woman; as soon as Odo mentions he doesn’t care about such things he suffers a strange attack. Bashir finds his “goo” is in flux, and despite his best efforts he knows they may need the Founders to treat Odo.
Despite a sudden rise in violent rhetoric from Klingon Chancellor Gowron, Sisko takes the Defiant into the Gamma Quadrant to find the Founders to help Odo. Garak comes along to ask if there were Cardassian survivors from their ill fated attack two years before. After broadcasting for help, the Defiant is surrounded by a flotilla of Jem’Hadar ships, and they beam aboard with the female Changeling. She reveals that THEY infected Odo with the virus that caused this to force him back to the Great Link to be judged for killing a Changeling at the end of season 3.
On the way Garak asks about Cardassian survivors, only to be told by the Changeling that his entire race signed their death warrant when they attacked the Dominion. Arriving at the Great Link’s new homeworld, Sisko and Bashir wait on an outcropping while Odo is absorbed into the Link. Meanwhile, Garak tries to seize the Defiant’s weapons to wipe out the Link now, even as a suicide mission- better to save the Alpha Quadrant. Worf stops him, but Garak shows the Klingon a thing or two in fisticuffs.
On the planet, Odo emerges from the slime, naked and disorientated. Bashir scans him and finds the Link have in fact punished Odo…by making him human. They return to the station as Gowron declares war on the Federation. Odo stares, he has some memories from being in the Link. Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire, is a Changeling imposter.
A solid season ender with a lot of frightening Dominion moments (Salome Jens as the female Changeling describing Cardassian genocide coolly to Andrew Robinson’s Garak among them) and an interesting twist for Odo. Apparently the Bajoran woman to whom Garak introduced him at the beginning was intended to be an romantic interest for Odo to pursue in the next season, but the producers didn’t feel the chemistry (and if they’re like me Odo and Kira are their OTP). The end of episode reveal of Gowron as a shapeshifter may be a red herring, but it serves as a more harrowing warning even than season 3’s “we are everywhere” delivered by the Founder Odo killed. And finally, keep an eye out here for Garak teasing Odo with his history as a gardener at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus, and the number of Romulan dignitaries who mysteriously died that year. Andrew Robinson actually wrote a spectacular novel detailing Garak’s life, and his time on Romulus is one of the books highlights: worth finding to read as a DS9 sequel regardless!
NEXT VOYAGE: Season 5 begins with a covert mission to stop the imposter Gowron before he ensures an “Apocalypse Rising”!
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What We Left Behind: DS9
When my friend asked if I wanted to watch this with him, I had two immediate thoughts: “Of course I do!” and “You really get me.”
The trailer looks exciting. We’re gonna get cast interviews! We will hear stories about our beloved crew! We will get to see Avery Brooks being a badass! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4LPDX6uqSM
And. Well. Kinda.
Much of the actual documentary is the original writers plotting an 8th season that will never happen, interspersed with stories from the actors, but there is a lot we’re just missing. Terry Farrell, for example, alludes to the reasons she left the show before the final season. There are tears and clearly everyone in the room is uncomfortable, so whatever it was, it must have been bad enough that 20 years later, she’s still deeply affected by it. So when they say she left to be on a comedy, it’s pretty clear there is a lot more to that story.
Avery Brooks gets less air time than a few of the guest stars, and frankly that was a huge disappointment. What we do get though is beautiful. Cirroc Lofton talks about their relationship being very similar off screen, and how Avery treated him as though Cirroc was one of his own children, which makes sense with what we saw on screen. This cast still has such a wonderful connection, which we see in each episode.
But there’s creepiness too. At one point they are discussing the how the writers presented the possibility of Kira having a romantic relationship with a Cardassian and when Nana is protesting, clearly still very upset by the thought, she says the actor’s name, not the character’s, not realizing at first what she said. When they interview the actor in question, the watcher is left uncomfortable by his clear hunger (I wish I was kidding) for Nana Visitor, making it suddenly clear why she was, and still is, so bothered by the idea. (Sidenote, that particular actor gets A LOT of screentime here, and I found that very odd.)
The parts where we get to hear stories from the cast is wonderful, yet left us wanting more. As my friend said, it felt very much like the writers really felt the need to have an ego stroke, which feels like a shame for the fans.
I would also like to mention that they do a sidenote drop in footage of extreme violence against Black people from the last few years, to demonstrate some point I may have just missed, that left me covering my face. That was the most stressful part of the whole documentary as there was no content warning or real explanation as to why the footage was thought relevant.
All in all, it is worth watching, just be aware that the content might not be as rich as you’re looking for. What We Left Behind left a lot behind on the cutting room floor, and really those are the parts I now long to see.
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Daddy Drama, Dating Disasters and Ball Pit Badness...
Rounding up a week in Hollyoaks (15th 19th April 2019)
There was much excitement for Mandy and Darren this week as their baby boy finally put in an appearance! Mandy went into labour whilst attending a hospital appointment (what luck!) and her son was safely delivered by c-section. Darren and Mandy named the baby Darren Junior, or DJ for short, but given the little boy’s appearance, perhaps ‘Luke Junior’ would have been more appropriate?After a run in with Nancy, who was quick to point out that all of Darren’s other children were fair haired, Darren decided to do a DNA test to find out once and for all if he was DJ’s father...
Later that day, Ollie visited Luke in prison, but was reluctant to tell him about the baby. As it turned out, Ollie, too, was having doubts about DJ’s paternage and he eventually told his Dad that DJ looked just like him as a baby. Luke was delighted by the news and told Ollie that, once he was released from prison, he intended to get his family back. Back at the hospital, Ollie shared this information with Mandy but she told Ollie that she would not consider taking Luke back after everything he had put her and Ella through and she saw her future with Darren. Mandy was soon distracted by the arrival of the DNA results, but she and Darren could not bring themselves to read them, and asked Ollie to do the honours. There was delight all round when Ollie revealed that Darren was DJ’s Father. However, Ollie was later seen burning the letter, which actually stated that there was no possibility of Darren being the baby’s Father. So unless Mandy’s done the dirty with someone else, DJ’s a Morgan...
Meanwhile, Sinead was struggling to come to terms with her rape ordeal and was putting as much distance between her and Laurie as possible by sleeping in with Hannah. However, Hannah was beginning to get fed up of having to share a bed with her Mother and Laurie was soon piling the pressure on his wife to return to the marital bed. Sinead ended up confiding in Cleo about her situation, but she refused to go to the police. Laurie’s behaviour at school this week was no better as he continued to make Sienna feel uncomfortable and she decided to record him confessing to sexually harassing her. Sadly, Sienna’s actions did nothing to deter Laurie, so she finally decided to take her concerns to Sally. However, Laurie was once again able to talk Sienna out of speaking to Sally and the pair were later pitted against each other for a ball-pit based game at the Easter fete. Under pressure from Sally, Sienna reluctantly participated but was horrified when Laurie grabbed her bum as the pair exited the ball pit. This was the final straw for Sienna and she lunged at Laurie and accused him, in front of family, friends and neighbours, of being a pervert.
Elsewhere, the day had come for Juliet to declare her love for Darren, but he was understandably distracted by the sudden arrival of baby DJ. Refusing to take no for an answer, Juliet made a show of herself as she followed Darren to the hospital and told his shocked friends and family that it was her he loved, not Mandy. Darren was quick to put everyone right and let Juliet down but it didn’t take long for the news to reach Hollyoaks High and Juliet was a laughing stock when she returned to school. Deciding that Juliet needed someone her own age to date, Brooke encouraged Imran to ask her out. Juliet was delighted that a boy was taking an interest in her and excitedly prepared for her date but she was left embarrassed when she realised that Imran had only asked her out on Brooke’s say so and stormed off. The following day, Juliet decided to get her revenge on Brooke by telling her that Ollie was starting to tire of her, and the only way of keeping his interest was to sleep with him. Brooke made plans to have sex with Ollie, however, Ollie, who admitted he wasn’t ready for that kind of relationship, could sense that Brooke didn’t really want to have sex and so the pair decided to keep things just as they were.
Also this week, it was Kyle’s birthday and Nancy decided to mark the occasion by throwing a party for him and inviting everyone from his friends list. The party received a good turn out but Nancy was horrified when she realised that she was standing in a room full of Kyle’s sexual conquests and began to question just how committed Kyle was to her. However, she had a change of heart when Oscar complained that the noise from the party was hurting his ears and Kyle demonstrated an in depth understanding of the youngster’s condition. He even got the guests to take their party elsewhere so that Oscar could sleep. Nancy and Kyle decided to put his past behind them and give their relationship a proper go. However, Kyle was later approached by Colin, one of his many exes, and told that he wouldn’t be able to keep his past a secret forever...
In other news this week, Ste and Scott decided that the Hutchinson’s needed cheering up and so planned to re-organise the Easter fete that Tony had cancelled earlier in the week. The village turned out in support of Tony and Diane and the couple were touched to see how much effort everyone had put in. Unfortunately, Ste and his racist pals had to spoil it by picking a fight with Sami when he inquired about vegetarian options at The Hutch. As Sami and his family decided to take their business elsewhere, Nana McQueen stood up in support of the Maalik’s and called the group out on their vile attitude. The altercation was witnessed by Tony, who told Ste that his new friends were a bad influence, however, Ste reacted by telling Tony that they’d done more for him than he ever had. Finally, it was off with the beard as Liam gave himself a makeover...
5 Things We Learned This Week:
1. Visitor passes have finally been introduced at Hollyoaks High, as modelled by Brody as he visited Sienna at work. I look forward to them being instantly forgotten next time Sinead decides to snoop in Laurie’s office or Kyle pops by in the middle of the working day with a picnic lunch for Nancy.
2. You’re never too old to party. It’s safe to say that Jack was enjoying Kyle’s birthday party far more than he was. The scenes of Jack tearing up the dance floor really reminded me of Uncle Bryn partying with the Essex lads in Gavin and Stacey, although at least Jack didn’t end up throwing up outside a nightclub! That we know of, anyway! Who knows what happened once the lads left the Osborne’s!
3. Mary Berry needs to take a trip to Hollyoaks pronto as two cake based disasters hit the village this week! Poor Sally spent the afternoon locked in the bog after sampling Grace’s chocolate cake at the Easter fete and just what did Mandy and the poor nurses at Dee Valley hospital do to deserve having Ella’s food tech monstrosity forced upon them?
4. Kyle once peed in a welly boot at a Little Mix concert music festival. Well, needs must. Let’s just hope he never encounters Emmerdale’s Dingle family, who are fond of forcing others to drink from one!
5. Community is great! It was fantastic to see the residents come together this week to celebrate Easter/Tony and Diane. I loved seeing Nana stand shoulder to shoulder with the Maalik’s, Jesse being run ragged as he dressed up as the Easter bunny and Grace rolling around in a ball pit with the Hutchinson children. Which reminds me, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Grace and Dee Dee are half sisters...
This Week’s Cast:
Anthony, Bobby, Breda, Brody, Brooke, Charlie, Cindy, Cleo, Darren, Dee Dee, Diane, DJ, Ella, Goldie, Grace, Hannah, Harry, Imran, Jack, James, Jesse, Joel, Jonny, Juliet, Kyle, Laurie, Liam, Liberty, Lisa, Luke, Mandy, Marnie, Martine, Max, Mercedes, Misbah, Nana McQueen, Nancy, Oliver, Oscar, Peri, Rose, Prince, Sally, Sami, Scott, Sienna, Sinead, Ste, Stuart, Sylver, Tom, Tony, Walter and Yasmine.
Past Characters Mentioned:
Pete Buchanan, Lily Drinkwell, Tegan Lomax, Francine Osborne, Jack Osborne Juniour.
#Hollyoaks#Highlight#Mandy Richardson#Darren Osborne#Oliver Morgan#Ollie Morgan#Brooke Hathaway#Juliet Quinn#Imran Maalik#Sienna Blake#Laurie Shelby#Sinead O'Connor#Tony Hutchinson#Diane O'Connor#Ste Hay#Kyle Kelly#Nancy Osborne#Oscar Osborne#Luke Morgan
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Home for the hub
The founders of a Peckham-based cooperative have moved into a new local space.
Hub and Culture, which was launched by Akua Ofosuhene and her sister Nana Evans, is a retail cooperative of 28 designers and makers of African and Caribbean products, fashion, art, crafts and events.
The hub, which was previously based in the old Peckham Platform building in Peckham Square, has now moved just down the road to 27 Peckham High Street, where it opened its doors on December 1.
Ghanaian fashion designer Akua said: “We wanted to create a one-stop shop for all things African and Caribbean, somewhere we could showcase the vibrancy and talents of the African community and share our wares with the fantastically multicultural, warm and welcoming community of Peckham.
“The shop is a treat and accessible to all. It stocks a wide range of goods, such as fashion using beautiful African fabrics, children’s books featuring black children, soft stuffed African animals, stunning furniture showcasing African prints, beauty products using time-honoured ingredients, traditional artwork and sculptures and so much more.”
Akua and Nana describe Hub and Culture as a space where “creativity, culture and community connect”.
While based in Peckham Square, it provided electricity to power The Housewarmers, an informal group of dancers who delight locals and visitors to the area with their performances in the square on Friday nights. It also opened its doors as a venue for spoken word, talks by guests with Q&A sessions and painting classes.
Akua believes the hub’s microbusiness model is an effective way to breathe some much-needed life back into Britain’s struggling high streets.
“One of the reasons we set up Hub and Culture was that we wanted to bring handmade items back onto the high street,” she said.
“I think this is a model that could work widely, not just in the African and Caribbean community. I’m actually working on a new project at the moment that is trying to get more makers onto a different high street. It’s my personal ambition for 2019.”
Akua and Nana are currently crowdfunding to ensure Hub and Culture can stay in its new home. To read more about it and to pledge, please visit gofundme.com/save-hub-and-culture
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Matty’s Interview with The Sunday Times Style
I wish I had a teenage daughter. Why? Because here I am with Matt Healy, the frontman of the 1975, who has just offered to take his shirt off in order to give me a tattoo tour. There’s the one dedicated to his nana; his mum, Denise “Loose Women” Welch, is on his foot; his dad, Tim “Auf Wiedersehen, Pet” Healy, is on his arm; and his brother, Louis, on the back of a calf; there’s the one dedicated to William Burroughs, the author of his favourite ever book, Queer; then there’s the one on the inside of his left wrist… of his passport number. “I got bored of being constantly woken up by a woman offering me a landing card while my tour manager, who always carries my passport, is conked out somewhere behind me. I thought it would be useful. It’s really all I need on a plane.”
Welcome to the world of the 1975, whose second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (yes, really), went straight to No 1 in both America and the UK last year, and who won the best band award at the Brits in February. They have just announced that their third album, Music for Cars, will be out next year, and when we meet they are about to go on tour, kicking off in Mexico and ending in July at Latitude Festival in Suffolk, where they will headline alongside Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons. If you’re not familiar with their music — think Pete Doherty mixed with One Direction, maybe — it’s probably because, like me, you’re too old. That said, Mick Jagger, whom the band supported when the Stones played Hyde Park in 2013, is a huge fan — so fond of their hit single Chocolate, he has been known to put it on after dinner for guests.
“Yeah, I remember that gig,” says the 28-year-old Healy, with a faint Northern accent. “It was before I had my eyes lasered and I wasn’t wearing my glasses. Pointless. There were 50,000 people there and I could only see about four of them, but out of the corner of my eye I could just make out this gyrating figure and it was Jagger dancing to Chocolate. Mick Jagger — can you f****** believe it?”
Dressed this afternoon in a billowing silk shirt and tartan drummer-boy trews (“Not sure where they’re from, we rent a lot of stuff from the costume-hire department at the National Theatre”), Healy cuts the perfect figure of postmodern pop star: a kind of hybrid of Adam Ant and Robert Smith of the Cure, but sexier somehow, with those pouchy eyes and chiselled curls. Sprinkled across his fingers are an assortment of knuckle-dusters by Gucci, at his feet a women’s saddle bag, also by Gucci, all part of the vague Louis XV look, as he calls it, that the band are currently channelling. Gucci, McQueen, Loewe — these are some of his favourite labels at the moment. “Although if you are talking a label for life, it’s probably Dries [Van Noten]. He’s my Sir Alex Ferguson of fashion — beaten once or twice in his career, but always the best.” Then there’s his “mate” Erdem, with whom he likes to discuss “Fellini, contemporary dance and the concept of elegance”. Oh yes, Healy likes his fashion, although he admits he’s not mad about going to the actual shows. “They make me realise I’m more famous than I think I am. It’s like, ‘Don’t take pics of me, I’m here to look at the bloody clothes!’ But I’m not sure how you’re going to write that without making me sound like a dickhead.”
The pair of us are sitting in the spotlessly tidy, pine-surfaced kitchen of Healy’s east London townhouse, which he shares with the artist and creative director Sam Burgess-Johnson and Allen Ginsberg, his beloved year-old bull mastiff. Like Healy himself — a sylphy 5ft 8in and 10st who can fit into his girlfriend’s vintage clothes — the house is small and perfectly formed, and it is filled with well-tended spider plants, candles and stuffed birds. The only blot on this exemplary tableau of millennial domesticity is the unmistakable smell. (If you saw the grainy film that emerged the day after the Brits, of him and fellow band member George Daniel sharing a, um, “cigarette” under their table, you will know what I mean.)
“Like the inside of Bob Marley’s sock, right?’ he sighs apologetically. “Yeah, I know I’ve got to be careful here, haven’t I? But, yes, if I’m honest, I do like to smoke.”
Brought up on a farm in Northumberland, before moving to Cheshire at the age of 10, Healy likes to describe his upbringing as middle-class suburban, but obviously that’s not quite accurate. Regular visitors to the family home included his dad’s mates Rick Wakeman, Jeff Lynne of ELO and Mark Knopfler, and there was never any question that Healy, who got his first drum kit when he was only five, was going to do anything other than perform. When his mother was struggling with a dependence on cocaine and alcohol, he wrote a song about it (he proudly tells me that she and her third husband, the painter Lincoln Townley, have been clean and sober for six years; his parents divorced in 2012). Healy has referred to his own struggles with addiction when the band first rose to fame. “But I don’t drink any more, or at least I don’t drink at home. And although I still smoke weed, I consider it a lesser of many evils.”
Healy is a master provocateur: during the band’s Brits performance, lines from the some of their worst reviews flashed up on screen — “Pretentious”, “shallow”, “punch-your-TV obnoxious” and so on — causing some of the audience to think they had been hacked. That’s his role, as the Mick of the band, but not everything he says, and goodness does he have a lot to say, is merely for effect.
In the two hours plus I’m at his house, he treats our interview a little like a therapy session, talking about how he struggles with his “carnal impulses — a beautiful woman, that’s the closest I’ve ever come to divinity”, and how he is all too aware of his messianic influence over a certain demographic, girls between the ages of 13 and 17. Upstairs he has a suitcase full of the gifts he has been showered with on tour: artwork, books, knickers, you name it. One of his most treasured is a rare signed copy of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood that was pressed into his hands after a gig in Sheffield.
“I wouldn’t accept it until she brought her dad backstage to say it was OK,” he says. “I’m not sure she realised what a find it was. But then look at Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein when she was only 18. The desires of a teenage girl can be as sophisticated as mine, and when they are looking to me as a source of information, that’s a big responsibility. You can see where impostor syndrome sets in.”
Self-aware, in other words, doesn’t describe the half of it. But then, like Stormzy with his depression and Zayn with his anxiety and even Riz Ahmed with his views on Islamophobia, public emoting is part of Healy’s schtick. As he shared in his acceptance speech at the Brits: “In pop music … they tell you to stay in your lane when it comes to talking about social issues — but if you have a platform, don’t do that, please don’t do that.”
“Well, that whole ‘I don’t give a shit’ thing has never really gone far with me,” he says. “It’s why indie is my most hated [music] scene — a scene where you pretend you don’t care in order to not get judged on how bad you are as a musician. But times have moved on. I’m a privileged middle-class kid from Macclesfield. I can’t pretend to be what I’m not.”
Back, please, to his love life. He was rumoured to have dated Taylor Swift, but I can confirm they never even kissed, they “only fancied each other”. At the Brits there was a Lily-Rose Depp lookalike in a silver dress sitting next to him — Gabriella Brooks, an Australian who, yes, is a model, “but not a model model. She’s a chilled-out surfer chick who has never once asked to go out to an event, which is just amazing because I hate those big red-carpet events.” So, is this the future Mrs Matt Healy? Might he, at the tender age of 28, be settling down?
“Oh, bless. I’ve put her through the mill, brought her closer, pushed her away, brought her closer. See, although I know now I don’t need my equal on the intensity spectrum, I enjoy fantasising. What if someone like, say, Rihanna wanted to marry me? Am I shutting myself off from the opportunity of marrying someone like Rihanna?
“Oh, I don’t know,” he says suddenly looking terribly young.“I’m still trying to figure it all out.”
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Star Trek: 10 Hidden Details About The Main Characters of DS9
Widely regarded as one of the most gritty and multi-faceted spin-offs in the Star Trek franchise, Deep Space Nine was the last Star Trek show still running when the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation took to films and Star Trek: Voyager finally reached its journeys end. It's known for departing from the traditional episodic nature of the franchise and transitioning to a serialized format, which allowed for over-arching storylines and the ramifications to be felt from previous episodes.
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In this way, a series about the various inhabitants of a space station orbiting a wormhole could still be one of exploration, it just dealt with traversing interpersonal relationships rather than deep space. With the psychological analysis of so many fascinating inhabitants of Deep Space 9, came rumors that the cast of main characters was one of the most fractious. There's more to know about them than just what we saw on the screen. Below are ten of their hidden details.
10 ALEXANDER SIDDIQ TANKED BASHIR'S PERFORMANCE
If you're paying attention to Doctor Bashir in the last few seasons of the show, you may notice a change in his demeanor. This is intentional; Alexander Siddiq wasn't happy with the alterations being made to his character, particularly the decision to make Bashir an "augmented" human, illegally altered to be gifted by his parents.
Later, he disliked being turned into a possible Dominion spy. This resulted in him tanking his performance, hoping it would affect ratings and force the writing team to change his character back to its original archetype. Among Star Trek fans of Deep Space Nine, Siddiq is regarded as the problem child of the cast.
9 MICHAEL DORN ALTERED WORF'S ACTING
The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation is well known for being chummy. The cast regularly saw each other outside of working hours, and continue to be the best of friends. Coming from that environment to DS9, where everyone was committed to a deeply professional work environment affected Michael Dorn's acting style.
Worf was always a serious character, but due to the stiff nature on the set of DS9, where he was surrounded by theatrically trained actors (in the vein of Patrick Stewart), he had to make a conscious decision not to undue all of the progress Worf's character had made while on the Enterprise (i.e., become friendlier as the series progressed).
8 MARC ALAIMO WAS BASICALLY DUKAT
If you peruse the Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion, a hefty coffee table book dedicated to details about the series, you'll find plenty of interviews and anecdotes with the main cast about the characters they play. Everything from their perspective on the character's psychology to what it was like getting into their prosthetics and makeup is included.
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Marc Alaimo, known for playing the charming yet unscrupulous Cardassian warlord Gul Dukat, had such a hand in shaping Dukat that he became known for being as arrogant, petulant, and entitled as his character, inspiring ridicule and derision from his cast mates.
7 ODO IS BASED ON JAMES DEAN AND CLINT EASTWOOD
The lovable, grouchy constable aboard Deep Space Nine went through a few iterations before producers settled on the personality and demeanor they wanted Odo to have. They envisioned him as a combination between two loner-types, Clint Eastwood and James Dean.
Clint Eastwood because they wanted him to be reminiscent of a clench-teethed sheriff of the Old West, and James Dean because they wanted him to be moody due to an overwhelming sense of not belonging. Rene Auberjonois did his best approximation of the two, though they chose to not make him as good looking as either of those two actors.
6 SISKO INITIALLY COULDN'T SHAVE HIS HEAD
There have been many reasons why characters on Star Trek series have to look the way they do; originally Patrick Stewart was made to wear a toupee because of his hairline before TNG started filming, but that was soon scrapped for looking ridiculous and his baldness was embraced.
Meanwhile, Commander Sisko (Benjamin Brooks) wasn't allowed to shave his head for the first several seasons because the actor would look to similar to roles he'd previously played in films. By the fourth season he was permitted to do so after audiences became used to the character - he could even grow a beard.
5 JADZIA DAX WENT THROUGH SEVERAL CHANGES
The Trill species were first introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but looked much different from Jadzia Dax, the main Trill host in DS9. In TNG, the Trill had ridges on their heads and no discernible "spots", but makeup artist Michael Westmore desired to streamline their appearance.
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Jadzia Dax was also intended originally to be a character that was born on a planet with little gravity, requiring her to use a wheel chair when she was aboard Deep Space Nine. She could also "fly" only in her quarters when gravity controls were adjusted. This idea was scrapped, but given to a guest character in Season 2.
4 O'BRIEN'S UNIFORM WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF THE CREW
Colm Meaney originally had some trepidation about returning to the role of Miles O'Brien on DS9. He liked the freedom he had on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a reoccurring character, but not a part of the regular cast. However, his salary upgrade made him reconsider.
When he was fitted for his uniform, he requested two key changes as a non-commissioned officer; he wanted it to be cut with the ability for him to roll up his sleeves as a working man taking care of the ship, and he wanted it to have pockets for his tool.
3 NANA VISITOR WAS ACTUALLY PREGNANT AS KIRA
Whenever female cast members get pregnant during the course of a television show, adjustments need to be made in the storyline they're involved in to account for their changing bodies. One of the ways this was accomplished when Nana Visitor became pregnant in real life was to have Major Kira become pregnant as well.
Kira isn't made to be pregnant with her own child, but rather become the surrogate for the new baby of Miles and Keiko O'Brien. Nana Visitor was actually pregnant with her and Alexander Saddiq's (who played Doctor Bashir) baby, which she gave birth to during Season 5.
2 MAJOR KIRA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RO LAREN
Originally the character of the Bajoran militia member and terrorist turned military leader of a liberated society wasn't Major Kira. It was going to be Ro Laren, the memorably hot-tempered Bajoran introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation. That actress didn't want to do a Star Trek series again, and so the character of Kira was created.
At first Nana Visitor was skeptical of taking the part, especially at a time when doing episodic science fiction for television wasn't a prestige assignment. But she was convinced by the script, and the fact that Major Kira wasn't a helpmate female Star Trek character assisting the male leads, like Counselor Troi, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and Lieutenant Uhura.
1 JADZIA DAX WAS PREMATURELY KILLED OFF
A favorite character on the series, Jadzia Daz's untimely demise in Season 6 came as much of a shock to fans as to actress Terry Farrell who played her. Farrell had requested more time off, and to become a recurring character to allow her an easier schedule, but producers wouldn't go for it and decided to kill Dax instead.
The Dax Trill symbiant she carried would be transferred to a new host body (Ezri), who fans weren't particularly fond of. Especially since Jadzia had so recently married Worf, a union of two favorite characters. Her death also didn't offer any way for Farrell to return to the part for guest appearances on any other Star Trek series.
NEXT: Star Trek TNG: 10 Hidden Details About The Main Characters Everyone Missed
source https://screenrant.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-hidden-character-details/
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