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𝐖𝐇𝐎 : lucky strike carson & abel  fioretti-badeaux 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 : a chance encounter on the street 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 : closed to @wcrstbehaviior

she really hadn't planned for it to go like this, if she'd planned on ever seeing them again at all. she'd hoped that, like everything else in her life, if she buried herself in work and too much noise - she'd never come across something difficult again. or - at least - something difficult that she couldn't solve by her own sheer force of will. this - this could not be solved, and the interaction couldn't be avoided. they'd seen each other, and now it was too late to pretend they hadn't. "hey," she starts, looking him up and down for just a moment, "you look well. it's been too long, huh?"

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𝐖𝐇𝐎 : lucky strike carson & ...... 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 : on the patio of an upscale coffee shop 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 : open to all (@nepofmstarters)

she's not meant to be working, really. that's why she's here - hiding out from anyone who may have that bit of knowledge. there's a screenplay out in front of her, as she slowly works her way through getting all of the thoughts down. it's not like anyone's going to tell her therapist - and writing and working makes her happy, doesn't it? whatever. she feels distinctly like she's being watched, but it has to be the bouts of paranoia at doing something she's specifically forbidden from. but it's strike - so what did they expect? she turns, and someone's there, "were you - reading that? if you were, tell me it's good. and if you hated it, shame on you for reading over my shoulder."

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"oh, god, ew," strike says - cringing. that is kind of a terrible picture, but it's mostly because it looks like it was taken while they guy was sprinting, "you'd think that... photographers would know how to take photographs, huh? apparently not. like - the angle of this is horrible, and how is that the shot that made the cover? embarrassing."

freya  lets  an  exaggerated  sigh  as  her  eyes  lock  on  something  as  she  walks  "  jesus  christ,  "  she  turns  to  the  other  with  a  distasteful  look  in  her  features  and  pick  up  the  magazine  that  caused  her  outburst  and  turned  to  the  other  "  i  mean  if  they  are  going  to  be  a  nuisance  to  society  the  least  the  paparazzi  could  do  is  get  my  good  side,  look  at  this.  "  //  @nepofmstarters

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"there's a diner, not too far from here," strike's been bored by all of the fancy stuff around her - how much of it is so completely fake? she doesn't actually believe any of the decor is worth anything - she could probably get the same effect from target vases and chrome spray paint. "and sure, not like i'm doing anything productive. and the party's kind of sucked, it's - hey, actually, you can kind of see it from here. it's three blocks down - on the right!" she points out the window, at a set of lights that are on the street level. there is the stupid diner, where she'd pretty much eaten her weight in hashbrowns during college, "come on, let's get the hell out of here, before they start doing rich people rituals, or what fucking ever they do when the party winds down."

#   𝖫𝖮𝖢𝖠𝖳𝖨𝖮𝖭   …        some   penthouse   party   for   the   rich   and   famous   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #   𝖳𝖨𝖬𝖤𝖲𝖳𝖠𝖬𝖯   …       uhhh   …   late #   𝖳𝖠𝖦𝖦𝖨𝖭𝖦   …       @nepofmstarters

                     with   the   penthouse   party   nearing   its   end   ,   julien   stands   at   the   edge   of   the   terrace   ,   gazing   out   over   the   city’s   sparkling   skyline   .       the   distant   echoes   of   music   still   linger   in   the   night   air   as   he   turns   to   [   your   muse   ]   ,   a   playful   glint   in   his   eyes   .       “   ah   ,   hey   ,   i   can   see   it   in   your   eyes   ,   you’ve   got   that   air   of   someone   who   knows   where   the   absolute   best   burger   place   is   around   here  ,   non   ?       where’s   the   place   you   always   rely   on   for   the   perfect   american   burger   ?       an’   ‘ow   about   takin’   me   there   ?       i’m   seriously   craving   a   …       —   how   you   américains   say   it   …       —   a   late - night   burger   fix   .   ”

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"you're doubting my genius, actually," strike says, with a grin, "i just think that people here don't know how to party. it's all been too fancy for my liking, and we should just let things play out organically after a few bottles of wine. like, no need for a theme, or a dress code, right?" she pauses, for a few long seconds, "i sound like i'm in college, don't it? you can't blame me, i've been working every day since i graduated. guess i never really matured, or whatever."

𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑      ››      @nepofmstarters location ›› a cute cafe near central park.

        ❝  wait,  wait.  ❞   izzy  held  up  her  hand.   ❝ i must have misheard you. ❞   whether it was because they'd just suggested the best idea she'd heard in weeks or the worst was yet to be determined. the unspoken invitation for [ your muse ] to repeat themselves remained, encouraged by a wave of her hand, disbelief turning her impatient. a neutral expression was maintained only due to izzy's conscious effort to do so; otherwise a grin would've brightened her features.

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𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 — a twenty-eight year old horror movie director who thinks she's still a regular person, penned by 𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓫 for 𝖓𝖊𝖕𝖔𝖋𝖒. INTRODUCTION   ,   PLAYLIST & PINTEREST.

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lorde.     she/her.     cis   woman.      ›      spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   lucky   strike   carson   ,   most   likely   listening   to   heads   gonna   roll   by   jenny   lewis   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty-eight   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -uncompromising   yet   +inventive   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   carefully   categorized   prints   of   1970’s   horror   films   stacked   neatly   in   a   home   theater   ,   the   whisper   of   uncertainty   —   asking   if   another   miracle   can   happen   ,   the   magic   of   fame   wasted   on   a   girl   obsessed   with   being   an   outsider   ,   deep   insecurity   hidden   behind   cigarettes   and   snark   ,   followed   by   old   cigarette   smoke   and   vintage   perfume   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   the   newest   queen   of   horror   isn’t   as   down   to   earth   as   she   seems   —   production   assistant   tells   all!   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   . 

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full name: lucky strike carson

nicknames: mostly goes by strike, unless you've know her a long time. does not tolerate "lucky" except from those very close to her.

birthday: june 29, 1995

zodiac: gemini

hometown: topeka, kansas

occupation: film director

sexual orientation: bisexual

face claim: lorde

career claim: ari aster

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NEWEST FILM BY LUCKY STRIKE CARSON MAKES $22MIL ON LIMITED RELEASE — The Hollywood Reporter, 15 August 2023 STRIKE CARSON WINS INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD FOR MIDSOMMAR — Sight & Sound, 5 March 2023 STRIKE CARSON SMOKES A CIG WITH SETH MEYERS TO PROMOTE NEW FILM: SEE FULL VIDEO — Variety, 1 December 2022 SURPRISE HIT WITH A24'S HORROR FILM, HEREDITARY: READ OUR REVIEW HERE ! — The Guardian, 19 October 2020 WINNER OF STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL: MUNCHAUSEN WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY LUCKY STRIKE CARSON — The NYU Times, 14 April 2017

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she's been weird her entire life - and really, with a family like hers, how could she not be? the only daughter in a gaggle of boys, surrounded in her family's trailer by both love and constant criticism. each of them latched onto something - she just picked the old vhs copies of slasher films that her uncle left over, the last time he ever visited. and that would be her saving grace, and her downfall.

she buys a camera - or, well, you could say she sort-of steals a camera - when she's twelve. she pawns a few things she picks up off of the porches around the neighborhood, and then uses that to buy a film camera that's a bit too old and a few rolls of film. and then it begins, she's directing little movies with her brothers in starring roles - everything from war dramas to romantic movies featuring their girlfriends as love interests.

they put up with it, until she's in high school and it's no longer a product of her youth. then, she's got to recruit the losers and the theater kids from her high school - this time, all to make a full film reel. she's got her sights set on film school, on getting out of the town she's in and moving to new york city. and she'll need a scholarship to do it. so she works her ass off, and gets the scholarship, and the rest is a carefully crafted montage of packing up a life and moving it across the country.

film school is everything she thought it would be and more. she's got the freedom now, between her very structured classes, to branch out - try new, more experimental things. and she's got the equipment to meet the ideas she has in her head. nyu loans her real cameras, and she goes a little insane for the first two summers she's there - filming everything she possibly can and entering film festivals with short films that she actually feels meet her expectations.

she meets abel there, in class, and she actually finds someone who she values the opinions of. most people know that strike has never been able to be told she's wrong - too opinionated and hardheaded to actually be reasoned with. but abel's ideas are good, and their delivery's gentle enough that strike doesn't feel attacked all the damn time. they fall into the relationship with ease, like it's something that it's supposed to be. and strike doesn't even mind that misses a class or two, if it means she's actually got something real.

she wins, at the student film festival, with a short about the death of familial relationships - and she feels accomplished in a way she never really has before. she wants more, wants to actually bring some of the horrifying shit she's been writing to life - but she has to finish school first, has to perfect her screenplays and create a pitch, and she disappears for a little while, into her dorm room, to work on that. abel is the only one who actually sees her, for a while.

and then the relationship is over, one random morning, and strike is left alone in her dorm room. and she can't even process the heartbreak - she has a meeting coming up with several production companies and she works through it - works through everything. she's a bit of a workaholic, chasing a legacy that she knows she can leave. only her brother really gets through to her, when he moves up to new york, too. she's glad - he reminds her to eat and... exist, outside of the confines of a film set.

she wins an award on her first feature, and the accolades keep coming in, and being as meticulous and rude as she was during development seems... worth it. yeah, some of her actors hate her - but she got their names out there, by word of mouth and good performance, right? everything can be forgiven if it's a means to an end.

she releases another film with incredible turnaround time, and that one wins bigger awards - makes more money than she knows what to do with. they offer her a ridiculous amount of money - enough to buy the entire goddamn trailer park where she grew up, and she... turns it down. or - tables it, is a more correct way to put it. strike wants to be a person, and not a little worker bee.

so, she takes two years off - or, she gets the production company to agree to her taking two years off - and goes into the city to actually experience it. she'd never even been to central park, before - and she lived not ten blocks from it, during college. and when she starts to interact with the people around her, she starts to realize - she doesn't belong among them, still too many sharp edges and too much history. people think she's grown, a rags to riches success story - but strike's still that same girl, stealing off the others in her trailer park to chases insane dreams.

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

THE ACTORS — people that appeared in her movies! strike is intense on a set, a whole different person than she is outside. you either hate her, or respect her for the way that she's able to push her actors into performances of a lifetime. no matter the opinion, her movies have garnered acclaim, so often those in them might hate her on set, but love her once the reviews are released.

THE COMPETITOR — perhaps another director, who attended nyu at a similar time - someone who's been coming up at the same time. neither of them are sure whether the rivalry is real of something they're both just clinging to - especially since they work in wildly different genres. nevertheless, the two are probably being eyed to be in an oscar race eventually - and that will be a bloodbath, if they don't make nice soon.

PLATONIC — she's hard to like, on set, but off of it - she's completely an open book. abrasive to a fault, strike's friends will have to be laid back and easygoing, able to take a joke ; people who also came from nothing, or who are less interested in living a life of luxury and more into smoking cigarettes outside of dingy bars that remind her of home ; anyone who might be interested in being in a movie - this could be someone who's a little more manipulative of her, she's desperate to feel normal again, and a friendship could get their food in the door.

ROMANTIC — hookups! strike's known for picking up at bars and trying to be completely normal about it afterwards - even worse, she's good at it. sex doesn't mean a lot to her - which could cause some conflict ; an ex that she "forgot" about during production, probably it fell apart due to her just... not ever texting back... could be dramatic!

ANTAGONISTIC — people who think they're better than her, or at least people who act like they're better at her ; people who are way too proper and upper class who might think she's a bit of a street rat (she is) ; anyone who doesn't like a random 5'1 girl swearing up a storm in their general vicinity - no matter what her status is in the movie world.

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Lorde for Ensemble Magazine February 2023

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Lorde ph. by Ashlan, august 2021

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What the fuck are perfect places anyway?

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Lorde by Lauren Tepfer

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LORDE — via Instagram (August 9, 2023)