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nicbull93 · 2 years

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Canadiens Changes: Enough To Stay Alive?

Kendall and Devin came back back home to Los Angeles following the trip; these were all back Los Angeles as of September 19 following the three evening visit to Jamaica, per E! IT'S NOT COMING HOME! Running toward goal, he linked up sensationally with Olmo with a give-and-go from the side of the box, gathering the baseball in the 6-yard and slotting home! A quick counter from Italy views Insigne get into the box, but his energy from the left is easily managed by the goalkeeper. 107' Pickford falters as Bernardeschi has a fantastic energy on goal. Alvaro Morata, Spain's star which rescued the match with a late goal to force more time, is the man to skip the decisive punishment as Italy development. Spain has many big thanks a lot to give for Alvaro Morata. Morata accumulated the ball saturated in the midst of the playground. One thing as simple as a great pass or preventing the ball from addressing an opponent will make a young child feel well about him or herself and therefore makes them perform even better. If you're in the United States, you can view the FIFA Club World Cup 2021 on Fox Sports and Fox Deportes. It includes a genuine (and incredibly great) handy remote control and will flow in 4K resolution, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. The pullover features a waffle grid design, consists of fleece and includes thermo-regulating ActiveTemp technology. Evan Longoria's fifth-inning solo house run offered the game's only run and the San Francisco bullpen endured high, as three relievers held the Dodgers from the scoreboard when it comes to final 4 1/3 innings. Three minutes added on. Italy were the better part throughout the first 45 minutes but could not get the goal to break the deadlock. MeeToo activity happened. It changed the world of cinema and made it an improved destination by eliminating the mogul and kingmaker Harvey Weinstein through the arena. “The FIFA World Cup typically is the absolute most anticipated sporting event globally, and also the 2022 edition adds up to the thrill associated with peak of worldwide football coming back back again to full stadiums, now in an original destination. Followers is going to be allowed to attend Korea Baseball company (KBO) games starting on Sunday, and Korea Professional Football League (K League) matches starting August 1, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said at a government conference. From the noon screen into the late-night games stretching into the early hours of Sunday morning, there were plenty of fascinating matchups. Their continuing to be schedule is quite brutal too, with games from the Titans, Chiefs, Browns and Ravens waiting for. Her entire family loves Devin also,' a source informed SOMEBODY earlier on this year. In Lazaro's second 12 months using the Lancers, she attained her first career All-MAC first-team honor alongside her backfield partner Lopez. Goalie Juuse Saros took the reins from Pekka Rinne, the Predators’ career frontrunner in just about every goalie stat, and accumulated some impressive numbers of their own. He accustomed support the documents for single-game points and career made field objectives, amongst others. The all-time foremost scorer in Mississippi, Woodard played five seasons from the varsity, including 963 yards as a sophomore (25.3), 925 points as a junior (28.9) and 1,258 points as a senior. Italy has actually a freekick from 25 yards. Jorginho made no error as he stepped-up to deliver Italy through, icing an elegant kick through the area. 114' yellowish card! Jorginho has been let off using what could have been a straight purple. A clumsy challenge which ends in Jorginho stepping on Grealish's leg. Meanwhile, Maguire accumulates a yellow card for a belated challenge on Belotti. Sterling sneaks through an opening regarding the right flank but Chiellini sets in a difficult challenge. Grealish and Sterling stare into area even while Kane tries to sooth the youthful Saka down. Grealish seems to be in a lot of discomfort whilst the referee waves towards the dugout when it comes to physios in the future on. The MLB Players Association hasn't provided its approval to that particular idea, to some extent since the Japanese group would come away with a substantially better windfall compared to the player himself. Another part of the league's online existence being changed by all this is that certain information on future marketing events through the 2022 season look different. Here's a glance at just how most of the groups underneath the CFG umbrella have actually fared since becoming taken over by the Abu Dhabi-owned, British-based organization. Rather it really is 55 several years of hurt without winning a significant trophy that may roll over to 56 with next year’s World Cup in Qatar where after a semi-final loss in 2018 and a defeat when you look at the last right here England need the resolve going that one step more.

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vannybarber · 3 years

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The Prenup: Part Two

Summary: After four years of being together and finally being engaged, Chris wants you to sign a prenup.

Chris Evans x Reader

Warnings: angst, swearing, chris getting his ass handed to him, a lot of pain.

Part One

Walking down the isle, you grab everything that looks remotely pleasing in sight. After you left the house, you were just driving nowhere. Having to refill your tank because you wasted all the gas, the crackhead at the station kept singing Mambo Number 5 and it made you feel slightly better. Now you were in the convenience store spending your feelings away.

You get to the pain pills and grab some Aleve. Your head has been thumping for hours now. You see a pink box and knock a couple of those in the basket too just because they're pink. Whipping over to the candy isle, you grab multiple bags of Starburst jelly beans just to spite Chris because you know he loves them. Moments later, your basket it full and you head to the front.

Tipping the basket, you dump all the contents on the counter. The cashier gives you this look and you don't blame her. You had 3 bags of jellybeans, 5 random candy bars, 2 pink boxes you still can't read out, a blue Mountain Dew, a dog toy and some Doritos. Absolutely random. The cashier scans all the junk food, but when she gets to the pink boxes, she look up at you and at your left hand.

You're in a daze, so you don't see her looking at you. Your mind was all over the place and frankly, you didn't want to think about any of the latest events. Not the prenup. Not the engagement. Not Chris. Snapping into reality, you pay for your groceries and take all the bags and walk out the store.

On the drive to the hotel, you pass the park where you and Chris met. That didn't help with your predicament at all.

Dodger had gotten off his leash because he was so excited to finally have a home. You were with your niece. She is so obsessed with dogs and wanted to meet every one. Dodger spotted her and pounced on her, giving infinite kisses.

Chris was freaking out. His dog just pounced on a two year old child.

You, on the other hand, were laughing your ass off. Your niece wasn't complaining either because she kissed him back.

He apologized profusely and you guaranteed him it was okay. You guys hung out for the rest of the day and decided to go on another date, without the kids. One date lead to many others and soon enough you'd met his whole family, vice versa, and started living with him. It was unreal.

And here you are infront of a hotel, with no ring or engagement and your fianceé almost an hour away. Oh, how the tables have turned.

You get out and receive your room key. You head up to your room and set everything down. You were so tired and worn out. Getting comfortable in the bed, you knock out almost immediately.

Meanwhile, back at your house, it's pure chaos.

"Chris do you realize what the fuck you just did?"

Scott is practically screaming at his brother, pacing around the room.

"Scott can you fucking chill? You're not helping the situation" Chris snapped back at him. Scott stops and stares at him like he's an idiot.

"We wouldn't be in this situation if it wasn't for your stupid choices. Tell him Ma!" He looks at her to back him up. Lisa stands up from her seat and walks over to Chris.

"Now Scott, Chris is a grown man. He can handle this situation, right honey?" Her hands are on both his shoulders, looking for him to respond.

"There you go. You always do this! You always baby him up whenever he's in trouble." He rolls his eyes. Lisa draws back from Chris.

"No, I do not. I let all of you sort out your own issues, with my advice of course. Shanna, Carly, do I baby your brother?" Chris throws his head back in annoyance.

"Um, yeah kinda.."

"Sometimes...Ma, but not all the time of course"

They say at the same time. They hated to admit it but when it came to Chris, she mostly got him out his problems. He's not used to solving them on his own. Lisa utters incoherent words in disbelief.

"That's not important right now. My fianceé just called off our engagement and I don't know where she is!" Chris interrupts, getting everyone back into focus.

"Technically she's not your fianceé if she called the engagement off, but it's whatever..." Scott mumbles with his hands up. Chris shoots him a 'fuck off look'.

"Well have you tried calling her?" Carly asks him.

"Yes, but she's not picking up. She can hold quite the grudge when it comes to her feelings." And he was right. You were very protective of your feelings and anything to harm that will be shut down ASAP.

"Well we just have to hope that she is trusting her better judgment and will come back, unlike someone in the room" Scott says sarcastically turning and sitting on the couch. Chris smacks his lips.

"Scott that's enough!" Lisa snaps.

"Well he deserves everything he's getting! He put himself in this situation. Now he doesn't have a wife and he's miserable. Could never be me."

Chris had enough. He moved quickly put his chair and into the bedroom, slamming the door shut. He sat at the edge of the bed and cried.

You had finally woken up and check your phone.

26 missed calls | 63 messages.

You text Lisa and tell her you're fine. Closing the app, you look at your homescreen. It's a picture of Chris laying on your chest asleep. His lips are parted and you're grinning in the screen. He looks like an adorable puppy. You grab your charger out your bag and plug it up.

Remembering the stuff you bought, you grab the jellybeans and open them. Seeing the assortment of colors, you go straight for the red ones. Chris' favorite. You were gonna milk this to the bone. You reach in the bag and feel one of the pink boxes you bought. Still not knowing what it was, you pull it out and read it.

First Response Pregnancy

You bought a damn pregnancy test. 2 to be exact. You didn't know if you wanted to laugh or to smack yourself for wasting your money. Many thoughts went through your mind. Should you take the tests? Should you throw it away? What if you were pregnant? That last thought gave you shivers. Pregnant at a time like this? Were you even ready?

Looking down at the test, you decide to take it. Just for the hell of it. You knew you weren't gonna be pregnant because you take birth control. Not to mention you and Chris use condoms for extra measure. Nothing wrong with being safe.

You get up, pad to the bathroom and get down to business. You do all the steps and clean up after yourself. Now you just had to wait.

You were nervous as hell. You don't know why though. There isn't a chance you could be pregnant because you didn't allow there be one. You have been beyond careful. There would be zero possibility. Or so you thought.

After what felt like 5 minutes, your shakey hand grab the test and flip it over.

| |

You freeze and your eyes dart to the information section.

Not Pregnant- |

Pregnant- | |

You look back at the results. There were two lines. Absentmindedly, you shake your head and back up until your back hits the wall. You can't be pregnant. There's literally no freaking way. It's got to be false.

You grab the other test and take it. After 5 more minutes, you check it and there's two lines also. Now you were freaking the fuck out. Both tests are positive. You rush back in the room and dig through the bag for the other box. You grab it and take both tests at the same time. Don't ask.

After another 5 minutes, you stare at the back of the two tests. Moment of truth. You flip both the tests at the same time.

| | on each test.

This is where you fall on the floor in shock and fear. You were pregnant. With Chris' child. And you guys just had a huge fall out and you're all alone. You're not ready for a kid. Especially not now.

You bury your head in your hands and let the tears fall. How in the hell were you gonna tell him?

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chooseyourownavenger · 3 years

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[START] [ABOUT AND WARNINGS] [FAQ]

Steve/ You’d rather spend more time with him alone, maybe he could show you the view?

“I think I’d like to get some air,” you suggest. “Would you show me the view?”

Steve smiles and that red flush creeps up the back of his neck again. “I’d love to.”

He leads you out onto what currently looks like a large outdoor patio, but you know it doubles as a landing pad for the Avengers’ Quinjets. It’s windy this high up, but incredibly beautiful looking out over the city.

“I grew up over there,” Steve says, pointing out over the East River towards Brooklyn.

“I bet it’s changed a lot,” you said.

He nods and places a hand on the small of your back. “It has, but it’s still there. The bones. To me, it’s like when you know a child but you don’t see them for a long time, and then when you do they’ve grown up. It’s still that person, and you can recognize them, but they’ve matured and grown. I miss it sometimes, but it’s nice to see how it’s grown.”

You smile and lean into him a little. His touch is comforting and feels safe. “That’s a beautiful outlook. And here I am getting annoyed when I visit home and they’ve closed down a restaurant I liked.”

Steve laughs and wraps his arm around you. “Well, I couldn’t afford to eat out. So that was never a problem.”

“Is there anything you miss?” You ask, looking up at him. “I mean other than the people. That’s a given. A place or a thing that’s not there anymore.”

He hums. It’s a deep rumble of a sound that starts in his chest. “The Dodgers I guess,” he says eventually. “There are things I miss doing, but I could if I wanted to. Bucky and I spent a lot of time at places like Coney Island, which still exists. Or we’d go to the movies, and cinemas still exist too. I loved going to see musicals. Broadway is still there. I loved to do art. There’s no reason I couldn’t do that. But like with most people as they grow, time for all those things gets less. Maybe it’s worse for me given my job, I wouldn’t want to guess. But I suppose if I were to say what one thing that used to be there but isn’t anymore, it’s the Dodgers. I’d love to see them play again, but I can tell you right now, I’m not supporting any Los Angeles team.”

You burst out laughing. “No, that would be terrible,” you wheeze.

Steve chuckles softly and looks at you. “I am very glad you came tonight.”

“Yeah, me too,” you agree. “It’s been nice getting to know you.”

“Do you think -” Steve stops and steels himself like he’s preparing for rejection. “Could I get your number? I would love to see you again.”

Agree and give him your number.

Turn him down. It’s been a fun night, but you don’t want to date an Avenger

Ask him to come home with you instead

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idabackwardsintherain · 3 years

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I've been using social media, in one form or another, for nearly twenty years. I've been on message boards, mailing lists that were actually used for making friends, online pen pal ("keypal") groups, Geocities, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo Groups, Bebo, VampireFreaks, Livejournal, Blogspot, Blogger, Formspring, Instagram, Amino, and probably some more I can't even remember.

Within two weeks on Tiktok, I witnessed more antisemitism than I'd seen in the last two decades.

(If hearing descriptions of this antisemitism will be triggering, this is your cue to scroll past this post.)

There are people who deny the Holocaust, people who say it didn't happen but they wish it had, and people who say it should happen again. There are people who say "6 million wasn't enough" (often abbreviated to 6MWE) or other jokes about the number of Shoah victims. There are white nationalists and white supremacists who use neonazi dogwhistles like 14/88. Jews who explicitly say "I support Palestinians" are called liars, dirty, scum. There are people commenting "lol good" on posts about antisemitic hate crimes, and frequently claim that the hate crime in question was "just antizionist, not antisemitic" even if it had nothing whatsoever to do with Zionism. One guy posted a bunch of videos of himself playing Grand Theft Auto and getting out to gun down any NPC dressed in traditional Chasidic clothing, continuing to shoot even once they were down, and saying he was proud to be killing the "Zionist scum". There are people using (((echoes))) to indicate Jews, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories, and using 👃 as a shorthand for "Jew". There are codes beyond 14/88, such as 6MWE ("6 million wasn't enough"), references to 109/"make it 110" (the idea that "Jews have been kicked out of 109 countries so they must be doing something wrong"/"let's kick them out again to make it 110"), "wooden doors" (a Holocaust denial meme), and so on.

Jews are called baby-killers, asked how many babies they've killed, told that by simply existing (even if they have zero connection to the State of Israel) they are causing Palestinian children to die. People claim Jews torture children to drain them of adrenochrome, then crush up their remains and put it in McDonald's burgers. That's basically a modern-day version of blood libel, but I have seen actual traditional blood libel repeated unironically. People say Jews are child-molesters and Judaism condones child abuse. They say that Judaism teaches that gentiles are cattle and that Jews plan to enslave them all. They say Jews are "the biggest anti-white group" and plan to "destroy the white race". They say Jews control the economy and the government and the media, and use the term "elites" as a dogwhistle to refer to Jews. They sexualise Jewish women's bodies in demeaning, racialised ways, while also mocking Jews of all genders for being "ugly". They either say Jews aren't white and are plotting to destroy the white race, or they say Jews are all white (ignoring all Jews of colour) and trying to co-opt the anti-racism movement to oppress people of colour by making it all about themselves. They say Jews have a victim complex and aren't really oppressed. They say Jews invented and/or exaggerated the Holocaust in order to extort money from guilty Western nations. They say being Jewish is a choice, so if you don't want to experience hate crimes, you should just stop being Jewish. They say nobody would know you were Jewish unless you told them, so it's your fault if you experience antisemitism because you should just not tell anybody. They call people kikes, zios, hook-noses, rats (I got called a "juden rat" this week!), demons, pigs, goblins, oven-dodgers. They leave comments like "zey are in ze attic" and other Holocaust jokes. Videos Jews post can get shadowbanned or removed entirely for just using the word "Nazi" or "antisemitism", while actual Nazi content is left up. One guy uploaded a video blaming Jews for every major world event and tragedy for the last 150 years, and it was evaluated as "not violating Community Guidelines", but people responding to it to explain why it was wrong did get censored. Sometimes the app will actually just censor the word "Jew" itself.

Even though most Jews acknowledge that it is entirely possible for some Jews to have white privilege and recognise that Jews of colour are targeted more explicitly, there are a lot of people who tell Jews who are (or pass as) white that they should shut up about antisemitism because nobody can tell they're Jewish and Jews of colour are the only ones who are ever targeted. They say that it's just "white tears" to say you're scared of the neo-Nazis at the Capitol riot, the congresswoman who quoted Hitler there, the evangelical Christians who used Jewish symbols and led the public to believe the whole thing was a "Zionist" conspiracy, the man with the "Camp Auschwitz staff" shirt. They weaponise the trauma experienced by Jews of colour to make their own political points while ignoring (and even blocking) actual Jews of colour. They promote conspiracy theories like the Khazar hypothesis, claiming that Jews are actually just European identity thieves who stole a Middle Eastern culture. They accuse Jews of colour of upholding white supremacy by not rejecting Jews who descend from the diaspora in Europe. They say antisemitism against Jews isn't real because "they're not true Semites"/"they're not the only Semites", so Jews are the real antisemites because every single one of them personally oppresses Palestinians.

They defend the Messianic movement (the self-styled "Messianic Jews" who are actually evangelical Christians) and say Jews are bigots if they don't accept Messianics. They defend the appropriation and bastardisation of Judaism and Jewish culture, which they claim to understand far better than Jews themselves. For instance, they like to lecture Jews about what the Tanakh and Talmud actually say, and refuse to be told otherwise.

The best part is that half the time, in the very same comment section where all of this is happening, there are other people saying "you're making that up. Nobody says things like that."

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icanhover-blog1 · 4 years

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We set up the Lightbody Foundation primarily to support charities and organisations in Northern Ireland and almost all donations so far have been to Northern Irish charities and we will of course continue, as long as I’m breathing, to donate to charities in my home country.

However I’ve been in Los Angeles for the last few months and have spent a lot of time here over the last 10 years. I have a place here, made a bunch of great friends and I have a lot affection for the place. So it’s well past time to make the first donations from our foundation outside of Norn Iron or ROI.

Over the last while I’ve put a lot of thought into where this money would do the most good. Some charities and organisations that support the black community and fight for justice and equality, one within the lgbtq community, some responding to covid, hunger and homelessness and one providing medical care and support to asylum seekers from Central America now forced to live in dangerous camps that rival the worst refugee camps in the world.

To each of these charities a note: i donated on your websites so it’ll be under my name and not the lightbody foundation’s name. I figured donating that way was the quickest way to get the money to you.

Each of these charities has received 10,000 dollars. I found learning more about these organization’s efforts a balm to these times. I offer a snippet of their work in hopes it is for you too:

The ACLU and the NAACP surely need no introduction as they each have been fighting for equality and against racial and social injustice for a hundred years or more.

THE BAIL PROJECT - trying to combat mass incarceration by paying bail for low-income americans. This organization charts how even three nights in jail dramatically increases the chance of losing a job, losing child custody and of course being assaulted or harmed. Of those they pay for bail, only 2% receive an actual jail sentence.

BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE (BEAM) - is dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of black and marginalized communities.

EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE - challenging racial and economic injustice, fighting to end mass incarceration, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. Led by Bryan Stevenson, their projects are absolutely inspiring and heroic.

GLOBAL RESPONSE NETWORK - Recently featured in a Pulitzer Prize winning podcast of This American Life, Global Response Network provides life saving emergency medical care to over 4,000 asylum seekers/refugees now forced by recent policies to remain on the Mexican side of the US border during the asylum process in highly unsafe camps of some 50,000 tents without bathrooms or services. (full disclosure GRN have only received $9500 so far but will receive the rest tomorrow).

HOUSING WORKS LA - One of the staggering statistics on their website is that there are enough homeless people in LA to fill Dodger’s Stadium - 59,000 (for those of you from Norn Iron, that’s about the same number of people that live in my home town of Bangor and it isn’t exactly a small town). Also the homeless population in LA has increased 55% in the last 3 years. I’ve been coming to Santa Monica off and on for 10 years, homelessness was bad 10 years ago but now it’s an epidemic. Housing Works is trying to get people safely off the streets and into their own homes.

LA FOOD BANK - Covid has disproportionately impacted lower income communities and the LA Food Bank is trying to provide food in those hard hit areas.

THE TREVOR PROJECT - supporting black LGBTQ youth mental health. Eighty percent of black LGBTQ youth are depressed or panicked from routine bullying, discrimination and social isolation. (See https://www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-and-uconn-survey-reveals-black-lgbtq-youth-are-at-heightened-risk-for-d ) The Trevor Project offers life saving and life affirming services to black LGBTQ youth.

Thanks to everyone at the Lightbody Foundation: Candice Cathers, my sister Sarah, Davy matchett and John D’Arcy.

Peace and love.

gL.x

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that-shamrock-vibe · 4 years

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Disney+ What to Watch: My Top 10 Disney Classics

#9. Oliver and Company

This was a movie made during Disney’s “dark decade” from the late 70s to the late 80s and interestingly enough this was the movie directly before the Disney Renaissance kicked in with The Little Mermaid. But I love this movie for numerous reasons and, for me, it beats The Little Mermaid as a solid movie.

For many kids, Disney was a gateway into Charles Dickens, not only did Disney release their own take on A Christmas Carol with Mickey’s Christmas Carol (still a must-see for me every Christmas) but they adapted another of his classic stories Oliver Twist and gave it a sublime Disney twist by making the majority of the characters animals, adding the New York setting and having completely original songs with that New York style feel to them.

I’m a sucker for a dog movie in any capacity, even if the movie isn’t brilliant I see a dog and I’m in love. That’s my excuse for live-action but in animation as a child I just seemingly related more to animal-centric movies than I did the human ones.

Simultaneously to being brought up with this movie, i was also brought up watching the 1968 movie adaptation of the stage show of Oliver! so to be able to compare both was great, and I loved both for different reasons but both still hold up well even today.

In terms of characters, I think having Oliver as the only cat in a gang of dogs was genius. The opening of the movie is quite sad even if you’re not a cat lover just seeing how abandoned kittens can be treated, but then when he finds the gang and particularly meets Dodger that’s when the fun kicks in for me.

Adding a jazz element to a Dickens classic might be sacrilege for a lot of people, for me though I am in heaven every time I hear these songs because I love jazz and the arrangement of these numbers and visually all come together so well.

There are human characters who are as much a part of the movie as the animals which is great because usually when animals are front and centre the humans are background at best. But Fagin being a penniless beggar, Sykes being a crime lord and Jenny being a kind of original character while partially being based on Nancy was great, even Winston the butler I thought was great comedic relief.

On the subject of Nancy, I do think that character was split into Jenny, Rita the seluki and Georgette the poodle. Just because I can’t really think of any other prominent female characters in the original story and these three were all supporting.

I didn’t really talk about the voice talent for The Little Mermaid because I haven’t really seen/heard from any of them in anything really since that movie. I know that Christopher Daniel Barnes who voiced Eric also voiced Spider-Man in the 1990s animated series but apart from that no real impact.

Oliver and Company however, such great voice talent and this was my first time hearing all of them. Joey Lawrence, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dom DeLuise, Sheryl Lee Ralph...even Ruth Pointer providing the singing voice for Sheryl’s character Rita...all of these actors I was made aware of because of this movie.

In terms of songs, it’s a mixed bag for me and I do think ultimately it comes down to personal taste, but I feel the upbeat songs are the best “Why Should I Worry?”, “Streets of Gold” and “Perfect Isn’t Easy” are definitely the best songs, “Good Company” is nice but cutesy and corny which isn’t really my style and “Once Upon a Time in New York City” was a great scene-setting opening number.

Do I think it is as good as the Dickens classic? No, but I do feel that Disney have adapted the story well and made it their own thing...just as they would later go on to do with Shakespeare and The Lion King as well as adapting fairytales like The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Frog, Snow White, Cinderella etc.

I do not see this movie getting the live-action remake treatment and would actually be appalled if it did because not only do I feel it’s great as is but also, realistically the only way it would be made is on Disney+ because it isn’t one of the mainstream Disney Greats for people, it would be the same as Lady and the Tramp and therefore get the same treatment.

So what do you guys think? Post your comments and check out more Disney+ What to Watch Top 10s as well as more Top 10 Lists and other posts.

#disney+#disney #oliver & company #oliver and company #oliver!#oliver twist #charles dickens

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afictionaladventure16 · 5 years

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The Pen Pal Project (Chris Evans x Latina!OC)

Masterlist

Previously on The Pen Pal Project...

Warnings: Mentions of divorce, toxic relationships...

Word Count: 1,690

Chapter 5

Letter 5

Chris’s POV

November 5th, 2017

Chris had gotten a call from the receptionist this morning, notifying him that his letter had arrived, he didn’t hesitate to drive right over. But on the drive to the office, Chris had gotten an idea. “Hey,” Chris greeted as he walked up to the receptionist’s desk. She greeted him and handed him the envelope; Chris couldn’t help but notice how it felt a bit thicker than usual. Chris diverted his attention back to the receptionist, “is Dr. Holt in?”

“Yeah, she just finished with a patient actually, would you like me to notify her that you wanted to speak with her?” Chris gave her a nod, the receptionist then dialed Dr. Holts number, passing along a few words as she then hung up. “Go right ahead, Mr. Evans.”

Chris thanked her as he walked into Dr. Holts office, “Good morning, Mr. Evans, is everything alright?”

Chris chuckled, “everything is fine actually.”

“and I’m assuming the project is going as planned so far?” Chris gave her a nod.

“I actually wanted to talk to about the project, though.”

“Oh?”

Chris cleared his throat, “I was thinking, maybe we can get P.O. boxes? That way, she won’t know my actual office and it’ll beat coming here all the time, especially if you guys so happen to be closed.”

Dr. Holt gave Chris a nod in agreement, “that’s a brilliant idea, I’ll have to talk to Dr. Hudson about it and make sure it’s something they’d be fine with, but I’ll get back to you about that.” Dr. Holt smiled, “thanks for that suggestion and I’m happy to hear that everything is working out well.” Dr. Holt couldn’t help but noticed this sort of light in Chris’s eyes, he seemed more excited than usual and that’s saying a lot.

“No problem,” Chris then said his goodbyes as he left the office, not forgetting to say goodbye to the receptionist on the way out.

Once again, Chris sat in his car, contemplating on the opening the letter. But soon his alarm rang, notifying him of the family brunch he had to attend, it looks like the letter was just going to have to wait.

Chris tried not to speed on the way over to the small diner where his siblings had planned on meeting each other. He quickly parked his car and ran inside, “there he is! I almost thought he was going to ditch us!” Carly said with a smile as Chris sat across from her.

“I wouldn’t miss sibling time for the world,” Chris said with a smile.

“Maybe for those letters,” Carly said with a smirk.

“letters?” Scott asked as he raised his eyebrow.

Chris rolled his eyes, “it’s a project I’m doing to help my therapist. I basically now have a pen pal.”

“That’s a girl!” Carly blurted out.

“A girl??” Shana asked, “what’s her name?”

Chris sighed, “Julie and it’s nothing,” he looked at Carly with a stern look.

“Hmm,” Scott looked at his older brother with a raised eyebrow, “anyway, how was Halloween with the kids?”

“I swear sometimes I hate that holiday, the sugar rush afterward, dear lord!” Carly began to say as Shana nodded her head in agreement. Throughout the brunch they spoke about many things, just catching up. They tried their best to constantly do this whenever all four of them were free. They needed this time together; the siblings were close with each other.

Chris arrived at his home in Boston not too long after the brunch, he sat down on his couch as Dodger was quick to jump onto his lap. Smiling he gave his dog some attention before remembering about the letter that had been in his pocket. Chris quickly took it out of his pocket and opened the unusually thick envelope.

Dear Chris,

Yes, my random thoughts are normal, and I deserved that, I had no right on roasting you when I had just met you via letters. I’m just happy you have agreed to keep this mystery alive. It’s the only thing fueling my soul at the moment. The burning desire to find out what the heck is your last name is giving me the will to live! Apparently, I’m dramatic?

I have to say that my favorite customer so far must be Mr. William, a sweet old man, comes in every morning about nine and orders the same thing. Never changes. Always sits on the same stool by the counter and never makes a fuss. Now for the worst customer? Where do I even start?? I’ve had a couple of older customers that were male that have hit on me, in some inappropriate ways, but there wasn’t much I could do about it other than ignore it.

Yes, you can call me Jules. My family tends to call me JuJu. They just always called me that, I guess. Nothing special about the nickname.

You can never go wrong with Etta James, Chris. Never.

You’re funny, Chris. Are you this funny in person? I can’t help but wonder if your personality is different in person than it is in these letters.

You’re an actor? Are you a living in your mom’s basement type of actor? Or are you a living a decent life type of actor?

I appreciate that, Chris, although, that is the sole purpose of these letters. I’m here for you too, though. Little things matter.

Highly doubt we are long lost cousins mostly due to the fact that most of my relatives are from Mexico or California. No family in Boston, from what I can recall but I am assuming that is where you are from? What’s the weather like in Boston? I’m sure it beats this heat here in California. I bet Winter in Boston is gorgeous! Man, am I excited for the winter! Even though, it isn’t much here, it still excites me. I’ll keep that in mind, Chris. We gave them the best lives.

Also, Oliver and Company is one of the best movies ever. Hands down! I am a die-hard Disney fan, for damn sure! I love anything Disney. I become a five-year old when it comes to Disney and I am slightly offended that you already want to be reassigned to someone else. I thought we had something, Chris. How dare you.

Two siblings. Older brothers, Robert and John. Robert is from my dad’s first marriage. I have no relation to him but he’s still my brother. Must be nice to have sisters, though. I’ve always wanted a sister, I got sisters-in-law now that I am older but when I was younger, I could’ve used a sister.

You’re turn for a question. I think I just started the game of 20 questions.

Toodles.

P.S. Yes, very happy. ; )

P.P.S.

My parents divorce. To tell you the truth, I got a small anxiety attack when I saw your question. Talking about my parents’ divorce used to be so easy and less messy but now with everything that has happened recently, it’s messy. I’m not saying that I’m not over their divorce because I am it’s been over ten years now. I am so glad my dad divorced my mother, she was the worst. I hate to say it but she was. Anyways, you sitting down? Got some coffee? Tea? If you’re into that leaf water business. Alright, well, my parents divorced when I was only seven years old but it felt like they weren’t even together before that. Mostly because my mother was always so cold and distant, she never wanted to play with my and my brother John when we were children, even when we begged her would threaten to kill us.

It was to the point that she’d chase us around the house yelling that she was going to kill us, I remember vaguely, one time my father came home to that scene, the anger and hurt in his face, it pained me to see him that way. And I know it pained him to see the mother of his children, the women that begged for children, to see her yelling at her own children that she wanted to kill them. Now that I think about it, I highly believe that my mother suffered from Post-partum depression. But, then, I also think it was guilt for the mistakes she had made in her past.

Anyway, my parents divorced since my mother had cheated on my father, for the third time… that he knew of. To top it off it was with the pastor of a church we went to, close family friend as well. My dad got custody of me and my brother but allowed my mother to see us whenever she wanted, also told her she didn’t have to pay for child support. It upsets me to think about how my dad told her she could see us whenever she wanted and she only came by one or twice a week and when she was there, she never paid us any attention. She was always glued to her damn t.v. watching her telenovelas.

My dad got remarried when I was twelve, the same month of my dads wedding my mom got remarried as well. Suddendly my mother became more attentive towards me and my brother when I turned sixteen, I moved in with my mother because I had issues with my stepmom, which always resulted to us fighting until 3 in the morning and her almost slapping me. It began to cause problems for my dads’ marriage, so I decided to just take myself out of the equation and live at my mom’s. Sometimes I wish I could just go back in time and tell myself not to, but then I don’t know what would’ve happened with my dad if I had just stayed. What would’ve happened to me? Well, I probably know the answer to that.

Chris couldn’t help but feel sorry for Julie, it must have been tough to have a distant mother as a child. Chris couldn’t help but wonder what drove a mother to want to kill their children, he felt tears welling up in his eyes, he felt this need to protect Julie. Yet, Chris was filled with gratitude for having such a loving mother. He only wished the same for Julie, but he had so many questions to her story, there was only one thing to do.

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Just wanted to say that some of Julie’s life is based on mine so a lot of the OC characters will be like people from my actual life along with the description of Julie’s parent's divorce and childhood is an actual description of my life.

I just felt like I can connect more towards this story that way and actually help myself with coping by imagining, what someone I look up to, would say about my situation. The main reason why I began writing this series in the first place.

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Choose Your Own Adventure, Bryce Harper edition

Remember when you were a kid and loved reading those "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories? Well, baseball fans, we have a real treat for you -- a Bryce Harper Choose Your Own Adventure story. Here's how it works:

Start reading below. As you'll see in the very first line, you are the protagonist. Control the narrative by channeling your inner Bryce.

Whenever you see a fork in the road, make a choice and click on it.

When you reach the end (i.e. no more choices), live happily ever after with your decision. Or don't -- part of the fun of the CYOA genre is going back and exploring all the other endings.

You're Bryce Harper.

You have perfect hair. You have a powerful arm and an even more powerful bat. You have one Most Valuable Player award already in your possession, and you wouldn't mind another. But what you're really after is a ring.

There has been speculation about Atlanta pursuing Harper. It makes sense, but it's just not how the organization does business.

Bryce? Manny? Both? ... Or steer clear. We examine how every team in baseball should approach a historic pair of free agents.

From the free agents set to cash in to the big-name stars sure to come up in trade rumors all winter long, keep up with all of the latest action.

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It's the one thing that has managed to elude you during your seven years in the nation's capital. Well, that and a playoff series win. And a manager that lasts more than two seasons. And a passionate fan base that cares about baseball -- like, really cares. Sure, you were flattered when the Nationals drafted you with the first overall pick back in 2010. But Washington wasn't exactly a sexy franchise, and you love sexy franchises. Always have.

You'd be lying if you said you hadn't allowed yourself to envision playing in a different uniform next season, but in your mind, you kept coming back to the Nats. After all, you made your big league debut with them. You've spent your entire adult life wearing red and white. The fans in D.C. adore you, and despite the team's massively disappointing performance this season, the future is pretty darned bright -- especially if you stick around.

But now you're no longer under contract. A few days after the World Series ended, you officially became a non-member of the Nats. You are a free agent. Finally.

So where will you sign?

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Safety squeeze | Swing away

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YOU'RE (STILL) A NAT!

It was a weird season in D.C. Except for you, almost every key player on the team was hurt at one point or another. Your new manager, Davey Martinez, brought real live camels into spring training to help put the Nationals over the playoff hump (get it?), but it didn't work. You guys didn't win a playoff series, or even make the playoffs. Your Nats, expected to contend for a World Series title with largely the same squad that averaged 96 wins the previous two years, were far and away the biggest disappointment in baseball. Still, the window remains wide open in Washington.

Staff ace Max Scherzer has three more years left on his contract, and Stephen Strasburg has five more. Shortstop Trea Turner, a fellow 25-year-old who's one of your best buddies, should be around for at least a few more seasons. Rookie Juan Soto is a beast, and an outfield that features him, top prospect Victor Robles and you does have a nice ring to it.

Speaking of rings, the fact that you haven't been able to deliver one to the District yet bothers you. And while that matters, it doesn't matter quite as much as this: The Nationals are the only team you've ever known. You have a strong relationship with GM Mike Rizzo, who has been there since day one, a steadying presence as the team has churned through manager after manager. You've spent the past seven years patrolling the outfield at Nationals Park and you know the contours of the right-field corner almost as well as you know your high school sweetheart (who, by the way, you married while you were a member of the Nationals). There's even a field named after you in nearby Takoma Park, a symbol of just how much you've meant to the city.

"This is my second home," you said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony in May. A couple of months later, in the midst of a horrible first-half slump, you electrified the hometown fans when you staged an epic comeback to win the Home Run Derby in your own park. You had it all working that night. The stars-and-stripes arm sleeve. The D.C. flag bandanna. The unwavering and full-throated support of a sellout crowd filled with fans from in and around the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area. It was a crazy night, one that reminded Washingtonians just how much you mean to them. Perhaps more important, it was a reminder of how much the city means to you.

All that said, baseball is a business. You have the potential to sign a record-setting contract. You are represented by superagent Scott Boras. In other words, you're not about to hand out a hometown discount. That's why you reportedly said thanks but no thanks to the 10-year, $300 million deal Washington reportedly offered you at the end of September. In fact, you might be headed for a hometown markup.

True, someone might be willing to pay a little more for your services depending on positional need and/or payroll flexibility. But the Nationals are the only club with any emotional equity invested in you, and they've got lots of it. Much like parents who think their child is the greatest, Washington's opinion of you -- the face of the franchise -- is likely to be inflated relative to other teams. If you don't believe it, just check out that bloated $161 million deal Chris Davis received from the Orioles a few years back. And that was in a market where, by the looks of things, there weren't a whole lot of teams courting him. For you, things should be different. Much different.

By signing with the Nats, it seems you can have it all. The comfort level. The chance to win. And, of course, the money. Boras has probably already told you that you might have to be OK with deferring some of that dough, just as Scherzer and Strasburg (he reps them too) did in their contracts. The Nats already have $117 million committed toward next season, and that's without addressing needs at catcher, first base, second base and on the mound.

But assuming you don't mind a little delayed financial gratification, there's no place like home.

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YOU'RE LEAVING THE NATS!

You've had it with the Nationals. It's not that you didn't have a nice run in the District -- there were plenty of good times. It's just that, well, seven years is a long time.

In fact, it's more than a quarter of your life. You were a kid when they drafted you, and now you're a man. It's high time to spread your wings and see what life is like outside the cocoon.

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Stay in the (comfort) zone | Go oppo

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YOU'RE HEADING TO A NEW NL TEAM!

Much like the family that sells its house only to move into another house right around the corner (it's all about the school district, baby), you're not ready to venture too far afield.

As such, you've ruled out a move to the American League and are focused only on Senior Circuit suitors.

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Go for the glitz | Go for the gang | Go for the green

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YOU'RE A DODGER!

La-La Land, here you come. The Dodgers don't wear pinstripes, but it's pretty much your dream scenario. Because you're all about the sexy franchises. Always have been.

A couple of years ago, you walked into the clubhouse on the first day of spring training wearing a Dallas Cowboys cap, a gutsy move for a guy who's the face of a franchise headquartered in Redskins country. But you didn't care. After all, the Cowboys are America's Team.

When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in July, you wore an orange Lakers cap to the ballpark the very next day. Growing up in Vegas, the Lake Show was about the closest thing you had to a local NBA squad. Of course, it didn't hurt that L.A. is where Magic and Kareem and Worthy played, where Shaq and Kobe did their thing, where "Showtime" was born.

Of course, L.A. is also home to the Dodgers, one of the most storied franchises in all of pro sports. They're also one of the richest: Every season from 2013 through 2017, Los Angeles -- bankrolled by Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners -- had the highest payroll in the majors. That includes 2015, when the Dodgers' $301 million payroll was nearly $80 million more than the next-closest club. They scaled things back a bit last season, checking in with the league's third-highest number ($196 million), but that doesn't alarm you. In fact, it intrigues you, because odds are the increased thriftiness had everything to do with getting under the luxury tax threshold so the team could spend freely this offseason -- on you.

You're flattered the Dodgers put in a waiver claim on you back in August. It showed they wanted you. After all, most teams would have been scared off by having to pay a portion of the $21.6 million you were earning last season. That same gesture also proves that despite a crowded outfield picture, they'd have no problem making room for you. Maybe they trade Yasiel Puig to open up right field. Maybe they sell high-ish on Matt Kemp. Maybe both. You don't really care. Because regardless of whom the Dodgers unload, they'll still be loaded.

The squad that's won the NL West in each of the past six seasons still has Justin Turner. It still has Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager. It still has closer Kenley Jansen and ace Clayton Kershaw. Hell, if you're lucky, L.A. might even be able to re-sign Manny Machado so you can reunite with your old roomie from back when you were both teenagers on Team USA. Not that you need the pot to be any sweeter.

Besides the deep pockets and the deep roster, the Dodgers have one thing money can't buy: location, location, location. (Technically that's three things, but you get the point.) Chavez Ravine is practically around the corner from your old stomping ground in Las Vegas, meaning you'll get to see your pops that much more. And your homies. And your beloved Golden Knights. And on days when the MLB and NHL calendars don't align for you, the Lakers aren't a bad Plan B. Heck, there's a sporting chance you can even roll with Magic and hang in the owner's box.

While you're at Staples Center, you can chat with LeBron James, who, like yourself, seems to have a knack for the whole athlete/actor thing. It's just one more reason he took his talents to Tinseltown.

And why you just did the same.

Start over »

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YOU'RE A CUB!

Last year in D.C., while the Cubs were in town, you posed for a pic. Left to right, it was your old pal Kris Bryant, his wife Jessica, your wife Kayla, and of course you. Then you posted it on Instagram, along with a caption that read, "Just two Vegas boys living our dream with the ones we love! This is what it's all about. What a time to be alive." No big deal, really. Except for the hashtag you decided to drop: #Back2BackOneDay.

The whole superfriends model of roster construction hasn't hit MLB yet, not like in the NBA, where all the best players would rather play with one another than against (see: Warriors, Golden State). But you don't mind starting a trend -- you've always been good at that.

You and KB (if he doesn't get traded), Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez and Kyle Schwarber. A bunch of fun-loving 20-somethings, all under one roof. You'll be the National League version of the Houston Astros.

On the one hand, it doesn't seem the Cubs could possibly give you the gobs of green you're looking for. Not with almost $165 million in payroll already committed for next season. Not with Jason Heyward's fat contract on the books for another five seasons. Not if they want to keep superstars like Bryant and Rizzo in the Windy City long-term.

Still, when it comes to spending, the Cubs might not yet be in the same league as the Yankees and Dodgers, but ever since the Ricketts family took ownership almost a decade ago, it sure has seemed like they're headed in that direction. With a wildly popular team and a rabid fan base and a new TV deal on the horizon, the money seems to be there.

The only question is: Where exactly will you play? With Heyward in right field, Albert Almora in center and Schwarber in left -- not to mention Ian Happ backing up all three spots -- there isn't a whole lot of room in Wrigleyville for you. And it's not like you can DH, either. But that's not your problem. When you land in Chicago, GM Theo Epstein will find a way to create space for you. And once he does, Joe Maddon will find a spot for you in the lineup.

With any luck, you'll be hitting right behind your old homeboy Bryant. Back-to-back.

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YOU'RE A PHILLIE!

This one's all about the Benjamins.

Sure, the long-range forecast is sunny. Led by Rhys Hoskins and Aaron Nola, the Phillies have a solid core of young talent that has made the team playoff-relevant, and well ahead of schedule. And you like a W just as much as the next guy. That said, Philadelphia is even farther away from your hometown of Las Vegas than D.C. is. Beyond that, it's a town that, when it comes to sports teams, is decidedly unsexy, a city known for its gritty, blue-collar edge. It's the kind of place a guy like Mike Trout -- a low-profile, no-nonsense kind of dude who was born and raised in nearby Millville, New Jersey -- belongs. You? Not so much.

Remember that slump you went through in the first half of last season? If and when that happens in the City of Brotherly Love, you'll get pummeled by the unforgiving fans there. Kind of like how the fans in NYC abused Giancarlo Stanton after he got off to a rough start.

But that's OK. Because for you, the move to Philly is a bottom-line move. It's a move that feeds your ego. Although you've never come out and said it, you love the idea of one-upping Stanton and setting a record for the richest contract ever. And the Phillies are the team that gives you the best chance to do that.

Aside from Jake Arrieta and Carlos Santana, the Phils don't have any high-priced, long-term contracts. They have only $69 million committed to next season's payroll. Of all the clubs on your radar, they have by far the most financial flexibility, enough that they could probably sign you and Manny and still have some spending money left over. In other words, you can pretty much name your price, to the extent that GM Matt Klentak is interested in procuring your services. And why wouldn't he be?

Nick Williams is fine in right field, but he's not you. Even if Klentak wants to hold on to Williams, the Phils could slide him over to left and move Hoskins back to first once Santana's contract expires.

You don't really care about that. All you care about is the Benjamins. And the city where Benjamin Franklin made his name is where you'll make your fortune.

That's why you chose Philly.

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YOU'RE A YANKEE!

You've decided to lend the Junior Circuit your services. Although the Angels make a little bit of sense on account of the whole L.A. thing, really there's only one option in your mind.

You grew up worshipping the Yankees because your dad worshipped them. And because, well, they're the Yankees. Mickey Mantle was your idol. You loved him so much, your Twitter handle, @Bharper3407, is a combination of his number and your number. As for your number, you're aware of the conspiracy theory. The one that says the reason you chose to wear 34 in Washington is that you knew if you ever ended up wearing pinstripes, 7 wouldn't be an option. So you chose a number whose digits add up to seven, knowing full well you could take 34 with you to the Bronx should the situation present itself.

If you're being technical about it, following in the Mick's footsteps means playing center field. But you're not really a center fielder. Yes, that's where you spent most of your time as a rookie, but that was mostly because the Nationals already had Jayson Werth entrenched in right.

Ultimately, though, Werth moved to the opposite corner and bequeathed right field to you. You like playing there. It allows you to show off that ridiculous hose of yours in a way the other outfield spots don't, what with those long throws to third base. Even when you don't get the chance to let it rip because the runner knows better than to try to go first to third on you, which happens all the time, it makes you feel mighty and respected.

Whether or not you care to admit it, you weren't your usual defensive self this year. You were a little less aggressive, especially in the vicinity of the warning track, as if you were afraid of getting dinged up in your walk year. Maybe it was a conscious choice, maybe not. You also seemed a little distracted out there from time to time, a little less engaged than usual. Maybe that was the walk year talking too. Or maybe that first-half slump got in your head and made it hard for you to leave your ABs in the dugout.

Regardless of what went down on D last season, you're a good right fielder and you know it. Maybe not as good as some folks think, but certainly good enough to play right field for the New York Yankees. Problem is, so is Aaron Judge.

Could Judge slide over to center to make room for you? Probably. After all, he's a pretty sick athlete who's remarkably coordinated for his size. But that size -- 6-foot-7 and 280 pounds -- sounds less like a center fielder and more like just a plain old center. As in a basketball center. Or a football center. Take your pick.

So maybe Judge pulls a Jayson Werth and moves over to left field for you, where there's a hole created by the redeployment of Brett Gardner, whose $12.5 million team option was declined by the club and who instead will earn $7.5 million next season, which sounds a little less like starting outfielder money. Alternatively ... the Yanks could leave Judge in right and put you in center.

Oh, don't act like that doesn't intrigue you. It intrigues everyone who watched you start 50-something games in center field for the Nationals last season. Sure, Washington was struggling to score early on and it was a creative way to get three strong bats (yours, Juan Soto's and Adam Eaton's) into the lineup at the same time. That said, the move was eerily reminiscent of when Orioles slugger Davis -- a first baseman by trade and a fellow Boras client -- suddenly started playing a bunch of right field during his contract year.

And let's not forget about first base. You've never played the position before, but that didn't stop you from taking grounders there in early July, before a game against ... the Yankees. Coincidence? Maybe. But if you're looking to plant a seed in the collective mind of a front office whose team doesn't necessarily have a long-term solution at first base (Greg Bird? Luke Voit?), there are far worse ways.

Speaking of planting seeds: In June, a couple of weeks before your impromptu first-base showcase, you showed up to Nats Park clean-shaven for the first time in forever. That trademark beard of yours? Gone. Then you went out and took early batting practice prior to the series opener ... against the Yankees ... who don't allow facial hair.

If someone who was watching you didn't know any better, they might think you'd already made your choice then.

Start over »

So what will actually happen? Maybe Harper ends up signing with a dark horse like the Giants or Rangers or Padres. Maybe he decides to play in Japan. Maybe he pulls a Colby Rasmus and decides to walk away from baseball altogether. Nobody knows for sure, but it'll certainly be fun sitting by the hot stove this winter and seeing which adventure Bryce Harper chooses.

Source: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24674023/choose-your-own-adventure-bryce-harper-edition

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Welcome to Cordella Records, B, we are are so excited to have you on board with us. Please make your account within 24 hours and check out the NEW MEMBERS CHECKLIST. Enjoy your time on tour!!

Name/Alias: B.

Age: 22.

Timezone: GMT.

Preferred pronouns: She/Her.

Triggers: Removed for privacy.

IC Information:

Name: Cooper James Anderson.

Family/birth order: Anderson family, oldest child.

Face Claim: Brendon Urie.

Age: 28 years old.

Birthday: 18th January 1991.

Gender/pronouns: He/Him.

Sexuality: Bisexual.

Ships/Anti-Ships: Cooper/Chemistry.

Hometown: Boston Massachusetts.

Job on Tour: Frontman/Lead Singer.

If they are in a band which band: Saint! California

Stage Name: Cooper Anderson.

Voiceclaim: Brendon Urie.

Life has never been dull for one Cooper Anderson. Starting life in the fresh air of Boston Massachusetts, his father was a high-end business man who went away every other weekend, leaving him to spend most of his time with his mother. Cooper came to grow very close with Pamela Anderson who founded the young boy’s love and appreciation for music. From the age of one he was banging on pots and pans on the kitchen floor. At two, he was twinkling the keys on the family piano and by three he was finally starting to imitate small melodies he heard his mother play.

It wasn’t until he turned three that his mother realised he had a true talent for music. He’d been learning the piano with her and had finally gotten a small guitar to play around on. It was around this time that the family decided to relocate to Lima, Ohio. They had relatives over there and with his father being away most weekends, she needed more help with another little one on the way.

After a successful audition, Cooper was accepted into Grove Academy of the Performing Arts. From the age of seven, Cooper was in a boarding school learning to train his talents and pursue other interests. Though it was difficult to start with some upset, he got used to his new surroundings and made some close friends he keeps in touch with. Cooper began attending at the age of seven and graduated when he was eighteen. As well as his academic studies, he participated in many shows and musicals the school was putting on. A few notable roles over the years were The Artful Dodger, Les Jacobs, Tobias Ragg, Enjolras and Sky Masterson. Cooper held a strong passion for musical theatre though his heart was always behind a microphone with a live band behind him.

After school, Cooper had some freedom to make his own choices on his career and options ahead of him. A few scouts visited the school from various labels, but Cooper had his hopes set on Cordella Records. He’d heard about the label in both small whispers and big news articles and decided from the age of fifteen that this was the company he wanted to be signed to. Thankfully what was to come was good news for the fresh faced eighteen-year-old who couldn’t stop smiling when he was made an offer to join them. Now ten years on, Cooper still wears that smile only with a few albums under his belt, a couple number one’s and numerous cities ticked off on his plan to play in every country.

His relationship with his manager is fairly strong. There’s been occasions where they’ve butted heads but they’re usually the person to reign in his wild personality and ambitious ideas. Cooper knows he would have tripped at many hurdles if they hadn’t been there. The band is what he considers family. Having been away for a lot of his childhood and adult life, these people become his security and what feels like home; which makes it tough when they leave. He’s a very welcoming person with a bundle of energy and an infectious laugh, though, he’ll always do his best to be polite and respectful. His fans are his biggest influence and love. Those people are the ones he’ll dedicate as much time as possible to whether it be through social media, meet and greets or signings; he’ll always put in maximum effort.

With the announcement of various artists from the label coming together for a huge tour, Cooper was more than excited to get on-board. Having been the front man for his band Saint! California, facing numerous swaps of supporting musicians, he’s ready to settle and meet some of his fellow artists and maybe take some inspiration from others. The fact that they’re being filmed for TV is just a bonus!

#accepted

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North America's four biggest pro sports leagues have had only 2 openly gay active players

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North America's four biggest pro sports leagues have had only 2 openly gay active players

The laid-back nature of his announcement belies how exceedingly rare it was for Nassib to come out at all.

Those leagues have, combined, had nearly four centuries between them and tens of thousands of players. And of all the men who’ve ever swung a bat, smacked a puck, dodged a tackler or sunk a basket, only a handful have ever come out, typically after they’ve retired.

Nassib is a 6-foot-7 defender with quick feet who competes in one of the world’s most aggressive sports. He’s also an amateur financial literacy instructor who loves Taylor Swift. There’s no precedent for what he’s done — coming out while he’s still in the NFL — and he’s laying the path for players behind him to follow.

The swell of support so far for Nassib might just cause the professional sports world to examine its culture more closely, said Wade Davis, a retired player who trained with some NFL teams during preseasons before coming out in retirement.

“I think that we have to get to a space where athletes, where men in general and where parents, mentors, teachers … start to stretch and force and crack the idea of masculinity open,” Davis told CNN. “Sports leagues have an opportunity and a responsibility to continue to widen our definitions of manhood, knowing that the more that they create spaces for people to be more themselves, the better player they’ll actually be.”

Homophobic language is still part of youth sports culture

The reason why there aren’t more Carl Nassibs isn’t entirely the fault of professional sports — the problems begin on youth teams, said Erik Denison, a behavioral scientist and lead researcher on the Sport Inclusion Project at Monash University in Australia.

Homophobic language is still a regular feature of playing on a boys’ sports team in the US and abroad, Denison’s research shows — one of his studies found that more than half of the ice hockey and rugby players he interviewed said they’d used slurs. Regular exposure to slurs or stereotypes eventually reinforces among players that their success as an athlete is tied to an idea of masculinity that excludes gay men, he said.

Denison described what he calls a “cycle of exclusion” that begins when a boy hears coaches or older players use homophobic language and observes a “positive response” to that behavior — maybe they laugh at each other, or the coach doesn’t challenge them, he said.

That sends the message that homophobic language is harmless and OK to use — and cements the assumption that all members of the team are heterosexual.

Gay players on those teams may also use the language as a shield to hide their sexuality and conform with their team, Denison said. In many cases, though, gay players will just drop out of the sport. And when the language goes unchecked, the cycle continues — all the way up to professional leagues.

“To solve this problem, it needs to start with the coaches, in particular, challenging language and, most importantly, not using that language or behavior themselves,” Denison said. “We often find that male coaches continue to use homophobic language and teach conformity to this tough masculine athlete identity that doesn’t really exist,” he said.

Davis, who spent some preseasons with NFL teams like the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks until an injury forced him to retire, came out nine years after he left the game — largely because he didn’t want to alienate his teammates.

“It wasn’t the NFL, it wasn’t college, it wasn’t high school that caused me to hide my sexual orientation,” he told CNN. “It was what I learned as a young kid.”

As a child, before Davis understood what it meant to be LGBTQ, he was already absorbing the norms being set around him during practice — that “being gay in those walls was unsafe, that [he] would be in danger.”

In high school, he tried to “comport his boyishness” in such a way so that his teammates wouldn’t consider him effeminate. And by the time he was in an NFL locker room, he said he didn’t hear homophobic slurs being used, but sexist ones.

“What sports are, in a lot of ways, is an opportunity to display dominance,” he said. “So you have one individual who is trying to display dominance over another individual, which, at its core, is sexism and patriarchy over women. Insert someone who’s gay … and you definitely want to have dominion over this gay person, and you actually don’t want them in your space.”

Qualities in players necessary for success in football — dominance, aggression and, occasionally, violence — are often associated with homophobia and sexism, too. So whether or not a male athlete actually holds sexist or homophobic views, features of both are often baked into his sport.

But that’s been the dominant sports culture for decades. Things haven’t changed because the focus on masculinity isn’t seen as harmful if it earns teams some wins, Denison said.

“These problems are viewed as quite marginal problems, ones that don’t need to be addressed,” Denison said.

He’s hopeful that Nassib’s coming out will change that.

Athletes who’ve come out didn’t keep playing for long

The few professional male athletes who came out before Nassib can’t set much of an example for the NFL player to follow — their careers ended shortly after their announcements.

Collins came out at the tail end of his NBA career. He became the first openly gay player in an NBA game when he was signed to a 10-game contract with the Brooklyn Nets in February 2014. He played the rest of the season — about two months — and retired soon after.

Michael Sam, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year, came out in 2014 ahead of the NFL draft and kissed his boyfriend on national TV when the St. Louis Rams selected him in the seventh round. But he ultimately never played a game with them.

Almost 50 years earlier, there was Glenn Burke, a budding Los Angeles Dodgers star whose career was cut short by homophobia in the 1970s, argues Andrew Maraniss, an author and special projects coordinator with Vanderbilt University Athletics, in his book on Burke.

In “Singled Out,” Maraniss details the brief MLB career of Burke, a charismatic teammate who never hid his sexuality from his friends. When his coaches found out he was gay and offered him a sizable sum to marry a woman, he refused. The next season, Burke was traded to the Oakland A’s, where a coach called him a homophobic slur and said he would “contaminate” the team, Maraniss wrote.

“It was considered a very ‘straitlaced,’ quote unquote ‘all-American’ approach to the team,” Maraniss told CNN. “And Glenn just didn’t fit that.”

Burke was eventually sent down to the minors and retired in relative obscurity, coming out only years after his MLB career ended. But it wasn’t his lack of talent that sunk him, Maraniss said.

“He was a phenomenal athlete at the time when majority of straight sports fans in the country assumed that there’s no way there could even be a gay player in the game, let alone the most popular player on his team,” Maraniss said. “I think that Glenn, while he was in the closet and after he came out, was refuting stereotypes.”

After Burke came out privately to his teammates, — who, by Maraniss’ account, largely supported him — he was traded, sent down and forgotten. When Nassib came out, jerseys with his name on it became bestsellers, and his team and coach, Jon Gruden, backed him.

“The idea that it would be seen as ‘bad for business’ [to come out] is completely not the case,” Maraniss said. “That’s one of the lies that has been perpetuated — that this would be a PR hurdle for a team to overcome rather than an opportunity to engage with fans in a positive way, and to use the team’s platform to advance equality.”

Still, stories like Burke’s can be seen as cautionary tales by current professional athletes, said Billy Bean, the MLB’s vice president & special assistant to the commissioner, in an interview for Maraniss’ book. Bean, who came out after he retired in 1999, told the author that for some players, waiting to come out until after they left the game was akin to a shrewd business decision.

“The desire to be a part of something bigger than yourself, the uncertainty of how you would be accepted, and the short time with an incredibly high ceiling of opportunity to realize your dreams and take care of yourself weigh into the decision now more than ever,” he told Maraniss in his book.

In other words, for some players, it’s worth holding off on publicly coming out for a few more years if it means they’ll have a better shot at going pro. In a way, Bean said, sexuality is a “distraction” that pro athletes have learned to ignore.

Closeted athletes will closely watch what happens next

Whether more players feel comfortable coming out depends on what happens next with Nassib, Maraniss said. Will players on opposing teams ridicule him? Will his Raiders teammates defend him? Will coaches have the backbone to speak out against homophobia when they see it?

“Other athletes will be watching closely to see if they deem it worth it for themselves to come out, too,” Maraniss said. “There’s obviously strength in numbers, and we might see other players decide to do it now, like he has.”

Denison said that progress must start at the youth level by curbing the use of gay slurs by coaches and players and deemphasizing a narrow definition of masculinity.

Some professional leagues are doing their part already: Davis was a consultant on LGBTQ issues for the NFL for years, and said he had fruitful conversations with players interested in learning more (or unlearning what they’d known).

Davis said that the more comfortable players feel to be themselves — in the locker room, during a game and when interacting with fans — the stronger they’ll be in the sport they love, no matter their sexuality.

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