#∷『 DYNAMIC』— 21 days of anarchy ∷

[atvrvxia]

@sugarkick / @bvrberryblues

Your plan, which makes it our plan. Whatever it is, I need to know.

[atvrvxia]

21 DAYS OF ANARCHY: the famous pop-rock / pop punk band from new york city 

henrik van der berg ( joshua bassett ): frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist; known as the rebellious yet ambitious leader

katerina evans ( kathryn newton ): vocalist, lead guitarist and songwriter; known as the beauty and the brains

javier morales ( froy guiterrez ): vocalist and bassist; known as the energetic sweetheart 

erin evans ( kristine froseth ): backup vocalist and drummer; known as the mom friend and mediator 

[findingjoynweirdstuff]

Dream SMP Recap (July 25/2021) - The Wilburger Ranvan

Wilbur comes up with his new calling: selling burgers in a burger van! At Phil’s suggestion, Wilbur teams up with Ranboo to do so, setting up their new business on the outskirts of Las Nevadas.

A brief summary of the week’s total events can be found at the end of the post.

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VOD LINKS:

Wilbur Soot

Captain Puffy

BadBoyHalo

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- Wilbur and Phil hang out in the Arctic. Wilbur has a proposition for Phil

- He says he met up with Quackity and it was a nice time. The one conclusion he came to is that Quackity is very resourceful

Wilbur: “As much as I may disagree with your views on anarchy, I must say, it’s pretty harmless. I -- I can’t hate you for it. I can’t hate you for enjoying literally living in a peaceful little village in the snow, I mean the server’s never been this peaceful since -- since all the countries and nations and cities and everything is gone. So Phil, I came to you with one question, one question...do you think Quackity should be allowed to be left unchecked?”

- Phil says no. The issue is, there’s no government, no police force. What Techno’s done is left a power vacuum and now Quackity’s come in with an unethical establishment, gambling...

- Wilbur wants to make a burger van

- They get interrupted by an Enderman ascending from the basement

- He knows there’s a bit of déjà vu, but the difference is that the burger van isn’t going to sell drugs this time. He wants every steak to have a name

- He’s done with being a source of authority, a president. His calling is just burgers, no ulterior motives

- Phil knows someone who would help out: Ranboo. The richest, most knowledgable man on the server, and he’s run out of things to do on the server

- Wilbur doesn’t want to play with Ranboo, but Phil threatens to kick him out if he doesn’t so he does, annoyed at being treated like a child

- Wilbur gives Ranboo his proposition

Wilbur: “I like to think, you know, let bygones be bygones, let’s bury the hatchet, let’s be -- Ranboo I’m gonna go out on a limb here...do you wanna be friends?”

- His next progression, after being a dead-terrorist-president...is to be a chef. Ranboo is onboard 

- They start walking over. Wilbur asks if Ranboo’s heard of Las Nevadas, and Ranboo mentions their abandoned cookie post that was causing trouble. He wants to create competition for Quackity’s business. Eventually, maybe Quackity will have to make a deal with them, maybe even be their friend

- Ranboo wants to keep it respectful. Wilbur assures him that they already has the land necessary

- Wilbur wants to pick Ranboo’s brain and asks his thoughts on Quackity. Ranboo says he just hasn’t seen him in so long. Their last interaction before everything else happened was just that they were in the same cabinet of New L’manburg

- Wilbur didn’t know that Ranboo was part of L’manburg’s government

- Wilbur asks if he dislikes anyone. Ranboo says not too much, just people that he doesn’t agree with. Everyone is just a product of what they’ve gone through, so if you understand that, you understand the person

- If you align yourself with everyone, isn’t that more complicated? Ranboo says that’s why he’s just been living with Phil and Techno away from everything, trying not to involve himself in much, but he has a terrible radar on what’s involving himself and what isn’t

Wilbur: “What about Dream?”

Ranboo: “Well that’s -- well, with Dream it’s kind of like...all I’ve heard of Dream, all I’ve seen with Dream is just been like the really bad things that he’s done and everything, so I would say that I -- yeah, I don’t really like Dream, but I mean, he’s also not really someone that it matters whether or not I like him ‘cause he’s just away in that prison for a really long time, so I mean...”

Wilbur: “No trial?”

- They reach their competition and go into the fast food restaurant

- He peeks into the casino, but holes it back up. This building doesn’t benefit the consumer

- Wilbur places down some signs insulting Quackity’s burger place, guaranteeing those signs will never leave since they don’t care about the customer

- Wilbur shows Ranboo his area, which he's thinking of naming “Paradise.” Ranboo says it could be a neat play on words...pair-of-dice

- Wilbur and Ranboo decide to make the place red and white, retro-themed. Ranboo gives Wilbur Ranord and Wilbur goes off to gather some red

- Wilbur likes Tubbo since he’s strong-headed and doesn’t let people push him around

- Ranboo says when you can’t change someone’s mind, it’s no use to needlessly argue. Wilbur points out that Ranboo seems to be a bit more dynamic than a purely neutral, peaceful force. He’s somehow appeared in almost every conflict the server’s had since Wilbur died

- Ranboo says it’s because he’s bad at discerning things, but he’s been doing alright with his situation recently. He wants to help people, and sometimes he lets that desire to help people get in the way of what he says about himself

Wilbur: “Ranboo...why did you help to help me?”

- Ranboo needed something to do, and he also thought that Wilbur’s an alright person, so he wants to get off on a better foot because he doesn’t like having people not like him

- Wilbur asks why he doesn’t think Wilbur’s a bad person. Ranboo says he did bad things, but also went through things that made him that way and now he’s changed as a person since he died. He’s optimistic in that

Wilbur: (sniffs) “Good, uh...that’s nice. Thank you. Uh...I think I needed to hear that.”

Wilbur: “Can I be real with you man? ...I think I scare people.”

Ranboo: “I mean...yeah, I do the same thing.”

Wilbur: “No, not in -- no no, I mean I...I don’t think I...I think a lot of people share your idea, but they share your idea in trying to -- trying to keep me from hurting them, you know? Like they’ve seen what I can do and they don’t want me to do it again, so they adopt your emotion in order to do it.”

- He demolished Jack Manifold’s house twice, he completely ignored him in the war, and what it took for Jack to forgive Wilbur was just a sorry. 

Wilbur: “And I know -- I’ve spoken to Tommy about Jack Manifold! And Jack Manifold is not the sort of person to forgive someone like that with a sorry! Imagine if Dream said sorry to Jack Manifold! What’s Dream done to Jack Manifold, huh? Barely anything! I imagine if Dream said sorry to Jack Manifold, Jack Manifold would ignore him. Do you know why? Because DREAM’s in prison, and I’m not!

“Dream is -- he’s had his comeuppance and I’ve not! My comeuppance was apparently not good enough for these people! They’re just waiting! Waiting for the next thing for me to slip up on them -- Ranboo, I’m not gonna fucking slip up, Ranboo, I’m different. I’m not Dream...god, I wish I was! Sometimes I wish, I wish I’d gotten that comeuppance but Ranboo, I’m not Dream. And I’m not gonna be Dream, and that’s...”

“I’m living in eternal Limbo...again. I’ve been through Limbo. I’m out of Limbo. And socially, I’m still in this Limbo, and man, Ranboo, hearing you say those words that you said to me? Do you remember what you said?”

Ranboo: “Y-yeah, I do?”

Wilbur: “You said...(sniffs) I think people can change, that’s number one. And number two, you said you’re scared that people don’t like you.”

- He tells Ranboo that they’re kindred. They have the same neuroticism, their strongest point. But anxiety is not their downfall. Wilbur’s parents are alive because they were anxious and didn’t let anything take them down

- Ranboo says they’re both thinkers. They may think in different ways, but they think at the same level

Wilbur: “I think you might be a bit braver than me in showing your true colors. I feel like with you, Ranboo, I never have to be guessing your next move. I never have to be guessing your hand, you know? I feel like life dealt us the same cards, and the difference is you build your trust by showing people your cards whilst I keep them close to my chest, and I feel like that might be the big difference.”

- He asks Ranboo what he feels about thievery. He’s going to steal Las Nevadas’ cows to make into burgers

- Ranboo makes some concrete and starts building the van. Wilbur rides off on a horse looking for some sheep

- Wilbur asks Ranboo about Tubbo and Ranboo talks a bit about Snowchester. Wilbur thought Techno was successful at getting rid of all the nations, but Ranboo says it’s not a nation. Wilbur doesn’t know about Kinoko Kingdom either

- Wilbur gets to the spider farm, which has Kanye West in it

- He heads back and they discuss names like Paradise or Wilburger

- Wilbur asks Ranboo’s opinion on Tommy and Ranboo thinks he’s great. Tommy’s gone through a lot, but it’s made him a good person. 

Wilbur notes that he seems to think that everyone’s gone through something. Ranboo says yes, the only bad people are those who are evil without a reason why, but there’s not many people like that

- Wilbur names the first burger “Wilburger Vol. 1″ and puts a watermark on it

- Wilbur wants to ask Ranboo one last make-or-break question

- Chat suggests the “Wilburger Ranvan” and they like it

- They go to Quackity’s restaurant and Wilbur wants Ranboo to smash the windows. Ranboo does

- Wilbur goes inside and places TNT. He hands Ranboo the lighter and tells him to detonate it

- Ranboo does so. Wilbur tells Ranboo to go back to the van. He’s passed the test

Wilbur: “Ranboo, I’m proud of you man. You’ve -- you’ve taken a side.”

- Wilbur goes back and places a sign at the crater:

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***** Wilbur + Ranboo  Did this together

*****

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“I love that guy.” (laughs) “I love that guy.”

END OF WEEK RECAP:

7/19 - Nothing much happens.

7/20 - Sapnap and George speak with Mexican Dream

7/21 - Foolish creates Philzavilla and breaks into the prison

7/22 - Nothing much happens.

7/23 - Nothing much happens.

7/24 - MCC, no updates

7/25 - Wilbur and Ranboo make a burger van

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Upcoming Events:

- Captain Puffy’s Lore Stream

- Wilbur’s 11 planned streams

- Egg Finale Stream

- Tales From the SMP: “Space Race”

- Ponk’s prequel stream

- Ponk’s current-day lore with Sam

- Puffy’s Lore Cast

- Sapnap’s lore

- Dream’s lore video

- Quackity’s casino opening

[atheistforhumanity]

Why I Vote Blue

When Abraham Lincoln bravely embraced the liberal philosophy at the time that African American's should not be property conservatives responded by saying:

South Carolina

“...A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.”

Mississippi

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world...These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.”

Louisiana

“The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.”

Alabama

“for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South...to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.”

Texas

“...in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....”

Conservatives are still waving the flag of these people today! To anyone who says I don't understand what that flag represents, you need to learn more history.

Source

After the Civil War, when the Democratic party was the conservative wing in this country and dominated the south, confederate veterans formed the KKK-an American terrorist group-to fight the peaceful integration of African Americans into our society. People like to bring up the KKK and Dixie Democrats to deny that the Republican party is the home of racism, but the fact is that in the 1960's the two party's switched platforms. Mainstream Democrats broke ranks with the southern Dixies and all of their conservative and racist values. The south flipped to the Republican party in support of Goldwater and his vicious attack against civil rights. LBJ won the presidency and lead Democrats toward the liberal end of the spectrum we operate on today. That is why the south, which waves the confederate flag and is a stronghold of racism today votes solidly Republican. This is also why the KKK and white nationalists vote Republican, because they find support for their causes in their policies. In fact, in at least 5 races happening right now there are self-avowed Nazis, white supremacists, and holocaust deniers running as Republicans. We have a racist Republican president who called white supremacist demonstrators “very fine people.” It's seriously hard not to see where conservative values live.

When women wanted to vote:

When women wanted to vote men lost their minds and were not having it. Truth be told, women largely had to make this happen on their own because men were hostile to the idea. As far as which party supported women's suffrage it was truly a mixed bag with lukewarm support from both sides. However, I'm focusing on ideological mindset, not party labels. It was a liberal idea to support women voting, just like it was liberal to support feminism in the 70's. Conservatives today are still using the same talking points used by anti-suffrage proponents in the 1920's. 

Here is a anti-suffrage political cartoon from the 1920's. This is mirrored by Senate Candidate Courtland Sykes. He doesn't want his daughters to become "career obsessed banshees who forego home life and children and the happiness of family to become nail-biting manophobic[sic] hell-bent feminist she devils who shriek from the tops of a thousand tall buildings they think they could have leaped over in a single bound – had men not ‘suppressing them’."

The GOP largely embraces an anti-women platform. Trump famously claimed he had the right to grab women by the pussy at any time, and with nearly 20 accusers of sexual assault he was still elected President. Republican Todd Akin famously said “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Modern Republicans have proved that they know nothing about rape and it's not surprising given their anti-feminist platform. Republican Clayton Williams flat out said to reporters that "If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." He said he was “joking.” Even Republican women are breathtakingly ignorant of the concept of equality for women. Republican state lawmaker from Florida, Kathleen Passidomo, made the worst victim blaming statement I've ever heard in support of a school dress code: “There was an article about an 11-year-old girl who was gang-raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," she said. "And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students." Notice that was in Texas, a strongly conservative state. I could literally write pages and pages of quotes against women by conservative figures. The point is that we can see very plainly the conservative minded citizens of our country are not advancing the equality of women and never have.

The Civil Rights Era

Remember when I said the parties switched platforms in the 1960's when the south supported Goldwater for President? Well, Goldwater was a serious opponent of the civil rights act, another conservative man running for president became the face of racism and anti-equality. That mans name was George C. Wallace and he made a fiery speech denouncing LBJ and the Civil Rights Act. Here are some snippets:

“It is therefore a cruel irony that the President of the United States has only yesterday signed into law the most monstrous piece of legislation ever enacted by the United States Congress.

It is a fraud, a sham, and a hoax.

This bill will live in infamy. To sign it into law at any time is tragic. To do so upon the eve of the celebration of our independence insults the intelligence of the American people.

It dishonors the memory of countless thousands of our dead who offered up their very lives in defense of principles which this bill destroys.

Never before in the history of this nation have so many human and property rights been destroyed by a single enactment of the Congress. It is an act of tyranny. It is the assassin's knife stuck in the back of liberty...

...Ministers, lawyers, teachers, newspapers, and every private citizen must guard his speech and watch his actions to avoid the deliberately imposed booby traps put into this bill. It is designed to make Federal crimes of our customs, beliefs, and traditions...

...Yet there are those who call this a good bill.

It is people like Senator Hubert Humphrey and other members of Americans for Democratic Action. It is people like Ralph McGill and other left-wing radical apologists...It was left-wing radicals who led the fight in the Senate for the so-called civil rights bill now about to enslave our nation.

We find Senator Hubert Humphrey telling the people of the United States that "non-violent" demonstrations would continue to serve a good purpose through a "long, busy and constructive summer..."

...I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it.”

Okay, we will stop there. If you think listening to Donald Trump makes you feel like you've entered another reality where everything immoral is cherished, then I suggest you read Wallace's full speech. It makes modern Fox News hosts sound rational. Do you think he is just the remnant of a distant past when conservatives didn't know any better? Well, let's compare his statements to modern conservatives.

Wallace called the Civil Rights Act “an Act of tryanny,” and Donald Trump called Black Lives Matter “purveyor's of hate.” In fact the knee jerk reactions of Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter deny the core issue of constant racial violence against black people in America today, both by police and right-wing terrorists.

When Wallace says that the CRA made crimes of “our customs, beliefs, and traditions,” this is echoed in the defense of the confederate flag today and confederate monuments. Conservatives deny that rejecting those symbols of slavery and oppression are a moral action, therefore denying the true dynamic and pain they cause. That's exactly what Wallace was doing by framing civil rights protections for minorities as turning traditions into crimes. Modern supporters cry about the civil war soldiers who will be dishonored, completely ignoring that their cause was dishonorable to begin with and not caring about the disrespect and fear those symbols represent for non-whites.

Wallace mocked the protests of the era and the idea that they were a force for good. What's ironic about that is that Conservatives today always talk about the non-violent methods of MLK and condemn modern protests as being violent and destructive, but that's exactly how conservatives in MLK's day talked about him. Republicans have come out strong with legislation against protesting, taking a page out of the 60's play book. On top of police brutality and violent lash back against protestors, they want to make protesting as illegal as possible.  

Will Herberg in the 60's made scathing comments about MLK and his protests, “in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority.” He spoke of King inciting anarchy and chaos.

Does this sound familiar? It should, because conservatives on Fox News have been pushing the same narrative that the left has devolved into mob rule, that they are violent people, and protests are illegitimate. The similarities go on and on. Nothing has changed.

LGBTQ

It is unquestionable that support for LGBTQ people is a liberal value, and conservatives have fought tooth and nail to resist granting these citizens fair and equal treatment both socially and legally. 

This graph illustrates my entire point I've been making about voting blue, about being liberal. Modern conservatives will reject the label of bigot while still rejecting homosexuality. We can see that consistently through the past liberal supported LGBTQ FIRST! Every civil rights issue you can think of was pushed by liberals first. I've laid out evidence showing where conservatives and liberals stood for some of the most important issues of our time and where they are today. Conservatives are always playing catch up. They are morally regressive, but always eventually giving in to a moral standard made in the past by liberal minded people. Now, you look at this graph and see that not even all liberals support homosexuality, but the point is not that liberals are perfect only that they are further ahead. Every value that liberals push for eventually becomes a moral standard. Democracy was a liberal idea in the face of conservative monarchists, capitalism was liberal compared to feudalism, religious freedom was a liberal idea compared to state sponsored religion. To be conservative is to be fundamentally against moving forward.

I don't vote blue for the Democratic party, the party may change, I vote for who represents the liberal spectrum. Liberal ideology has brought us everything good in this country and conservative voices have done nothing but hold us back. Whenever conservatives win it is on a campaign of fear. I vote blue because I know that one hundred years from now the people who call themselves conservatives will have accepted much of what we fight for today, but will be refusing to accept new advances. I know the liberal values of today are the values of the future.

I apologize for not going into as much detail about LGBTQ, but I felt that it’s less contested as far as who supports the movement and Pew Research shows where we are at today. It’s no secret who fights against marriage equality, and equal rights.

I hope everyone voted blue today, because you can see what a major impact it has on our lives.

[banesbottombitch]

hello beautiful bean!! i need some bowers gang as a biker gang hc’s please :>

Lemme start off by saying right here and now, that this was 100% brought on because I’ve been watching too much Sons Of Anarchy while writing. Also, @hockslutter thank you thank thank you for indulging me, because omg I’ve wanted to write this AU for DAYS.

Disclaimer: These Assholes are all 21+ for this AU, and Patrick is always two years older for my own nonsense purposes.

Notes: 

The boys are the second generation of a motorcycle gang in Derry, Maine. They are part of a small chapter of a larger group called “The Hellraisers”, and dub themselves in private and in name in their town as “The Bowers Gang” as Henry Bowers is the current President of their chapter.

Butch Bowers was a dirty cop for plenty of years for the original Hellraisers chapter, and hid their business dealings and bailed them out numerous times

Belch’s dad was an original member and founder of the Derry chapter, so he was ‘born into’ the family and had an easier time getting into the chapter than the others.

Belch’s dad owned and operated a mechanic shop for Derry, that Belch took over when he passed. The chapter or “club” as they liked to be called in town, works out of there and the near by bar owned by Vic’s parents.

Henry Bowers

The current President of the chapter, taking over once Belch’s dad passed.

Has the unwavering respect of anyone in his ‘family’, despite being a hardheaded and crueler man

Was enamored with the OG generation when he was younger, and was often dragged to events (kid friendly stuff like birthday parties, barbeques and 4th of july parties) by his dad, and has been fascinated with bikes since he was tiny

Tried to become a prospect time and again when he had barely started freshman year in high school, eventually dropping out completely to be a full time prospect (which is honestly an errand boy/guard/look out tbh) and loved every second of it

Got his first bike from Belch’s dad, who is saw as a surrogate father, and despite it being a piece of junk, he loved it to bits

Worked long and hard to fix his first bike, and rode it with pride, even if the old men would poke and prod him, joking about it. He’d defend it until his ears were red and he was stuttering excuses, but wave it off

Fought against Butch tooth and nail to get free of him, and left home at sixteen, moving in with Belch and his parents, emancipating himself and earning a target on his back by his dad

Butch tries his damnedest to hook Henry with every warrant/charges he can, but they never stick

Prefers knives over guns, for torture and to do the deed. Has a special made switchblade with a particularly curved end that looks positively menacing

No mullet, sorry, its buzzed on the sides and styled on top, liken to his style in Henry Gets A Haircut

Hates dealing with discussions about drugs/gun dealing, and grows bored too easily, always itching to get a better deal and usually doesn't think of the other party involved.

Still too young to e in the position he’s in, but he’s there to stay

Reggie “Belch” Huggins

Still a Mama’s boy, and tells her about EVERYTHING that happens in the gang, which they all call the “crew” or “club” as an easy cover, for where they work out of Belch’s dad’s mechanic shop.

He is the muscle, the glue, of the Bowers Gang. He is the voice of reason when Henry or Patrick get too worked up.

Takes his job as a mechanic as seriously as he does being the Vice President of the chapter.

Hates having to come to violence, but he is ready to blow jaws off for his crew, no questions ask. Henry points, and he will shoot, no matter the circumstances.

Helps Vic and  Patrick train the Prospects, and is the nicest of the group. Oddly a father-like figure for the younger guys who pull through, but he’s quick to warn them that the club isnt for anyone.

Has scars all over his hands and up his arms, from his work as a mechanic and brawls he’s gotten into. Has a nick in his ear that he doesnt like to talk about.

Never really thought he’d join the Hellraisers, since he saw how bad the dynamic screwed with his parents as a couple, and how it affected him as a kid, but ended up doing so when he got into his late teens.

Usually the one who talks to law enforcement, as they know he’s the mos likely to listen to reason.

Did two years in state for arson, getting out on a four month probation, and earning himself some friends on the inside. Keeps them up to date with the happenings of the world outside the bars, and tries to give them some money for commissary. 

Came back to find Patrick Hockstetter in the gang, and still has some issues with him. They get along, but just barely. Tolerance, really.

Victor “Vic” Criss

The youngest of the group, but the smartest is you disqualify Patrick.

Was always on the outskirts of the Hellraisers as a kid, since his parents run the bar that the original generation visits still, and grew up with a mindset similar to Henry’s, idolizing them

Rode with Henry the first time he got his junky ass bike and knew he would do anything to get that rush for the rest of his life, and join the men he considered heroes

Became a prospect in his senior year of high school, already friends with both Henry and Belch, who he grew up seeing coming and going through the family bar.

Always the first to jump in if Henry is getting to hot headed with a potential ally, and charts them away to discuss trade

The money keeper, the information rat, he’s got all the business for the club in his head and rattles off numbers on the daily. He knows when and where they’re all meeting for a hand off, and where the items need to be at at what time.

Established his parents bar as the new meeting zone for the club when he was first brought into the gang, closing off the back rooms for his brothers and brothers only, giving everyone their individual rooms and use of the backroom, which became the conference room

Got is first bike at nineteen, and crashed it three hours later with minimal cuts and bruises. Henry laughed his ass off, dusted the poor idiot off, and told him he’d help Vic get his bike back up and running in no time.

Almost went to state for murder, but the charges dropped when a witness confessed (lied) new information that totally derailed the trial, counts his lucky stars every day

Picks up girls with his bike allllllllll the time, oh my god it’s horrible, he might as well have a patch on his leather that says “Man Whore”

Patrick Hockstetter

Ghosted into Derry without a past, and without an identity. Just a bike, and bruised knuckles.

Kicked ass at a bar, Henry saw, and bought him a drink in congrats. The two chatted up, and Patrick glued himself to the Hellraisers from that point on

Seemingly the most eager to fuck someone up, but only waits for his chance to arise once someone else has cause the problem. It’s as if he’s waiting for an okay from Henry, and the moment he gets it, he wont stop until the victim and bloody and hard of breath

Slipped into the club within the first year of his arrival, but only because the elders of the Hellraisers liked his willingness to get dirty

Leads most if not all of the drug and arms trafficking, willing to drive over state lines to deliver. Refuses to leave the coast, however. Wont say why.

Hates. Hates. Hates. Law enforcement. Has spat in officers faces, and has no fear of the DEA or FBI when they try and comb through Derry.

The most in likeness to Henry, and they drink together often enough, though Patrick can easily be found tangled in a bar girl’s arms after a ride out with the club instead

Spent 100% of his youth (12-18) in Juvenal Detention. Admitted this while drunk once, but wont elaborate on it.

Lives in the room Vic provides him, while the others have homes to go to. He’ll wake up early and stumble into the bar area with a five o’clock shadow and down a fifth of whiskey, then go back to his room, silent and empty eyed.

Goes for rides alone if he’s pissed, and sometimes disappears for days before he turns back up, as if nothing happened

The most tatted of the guys, and has a huge back piece of the gangs symbol on his back. It’s the devil, horns and all, carrying a scythe and sickle, inked in black.

Usually wears his hair slicked back, and you can see all the piercings he has.

[fragilelcngs-blog]

INTRODUCING…. me.

hey, babes !! my name’s dee, and i’m very new around here. i’m twenty-three, live in the est, and use she/her pronouns. i’m a moody aquarius, chaotic neutral, and infp for those of you that are into literally anything that will tell you about your personality like me. i’m legit so painfully shy but i’m so down for plots, threads, and ships of all kinds so please bring me whatever your little hearts desire !!! i’m so stoked to be here and write with y’all it’s INSANE, and my ims are ALWAYS open for screaming about plotting, sharing headcanons, or making friends !! i only have two triggers that i feel should be mentioned and those are anything involving heavily graphic or explicit mentions of self-harm or pedophilia. otherwise, i’m good to go but please let me know if i miss something and don’t tag or give a content warning for any of your triggers !!!

INTRODUCING…. the muses.

HEATHER VINCENT, phoebe tonkin, ( 26 ) + screwtape by cane hill.

JANIE FOLEY, holland roden, ( 21 ) + disco tits by tove lo.

CARCOSA LUSK, lucy hale, ( 23 ) + ain’t no grave by johnny cash.

MICKEY ST. CLAIR, lynn gunn, ( 24 ) + soon be gone by boots.

VERONICA ST. CLAIR, carlson young, ( 21 ), + hotter than hell by dua lipa.

EVE RAYNER, holland roden, ( 27 ), + when the levee breaks by led zeppelin.

VALERIA PADILLA, eiza gonzalez, ( 27 ), + down by stone temple pilots.

MOLLY STARRETT, madelaine petsch, ( 22 ), + ultraviolence by lana del rey.

BRITNEY STARRETT, katherine mcnamara, ( 20 ), + come as you are by nirvana.

NIKKI FREY, maggie lindemann, ( 19 ), + baby i’m dead inside by kopps.

INTRODUCING…. wanted plots.

oh wOW alright so i’m gonna be basic for a second and tell y’all that i fucking love angst. i mean, fluff’s great and all, but my heart truly lies with the gritty, toxic, dysfunctional, and fucked up. i’m also a huge fan of anything having to do with crime so if you ever wanna do any crime plots come my way !!!  it’s also no secret that i’m a very big fan of age gaps ( obvs not with minors because GROSS ). but seriously, give me everything. friends or exes or enemies to lovers, two toxic people that know they should walk away from each other but can’t live without the other, criminals on the run, any kind of criminal or bad influence with pure characters that have hearts made of gold, characters that go through something horrible together and become each other’s lifeline because they’re the only ones that understand, secret and / or taboo relationships, slowburn and unrequited love, exes that reconnect under literally any kind of circumstances, etc. i’ll link some good examples of my favorite plots so you can get a feel for what i’m describing !!!

x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x are all some ( hopefully ) pretty good examples !!

i’m also always down for plots away from the romantic side of things. i LOVE giving my characters ride or dies, enemies, exes, family, or anything else you can think of. the more unique the connection the better !! legit one of the best relationships i ever played out in an rp was between carcosa and another girl. totally platonic, but it was such a rich and fucked up dynamic that was full of toxicity and power struggles and manipulation and backstabbing, but also drunken benders and risky adventures and late night confessions, and those were easily some of the funnest threads and plotting sessions i’ve ever had. so please, like i said, give me all of the connections.

INTRODUCING…. the favorites.

i’m totally gonna break this down into quick lil sections because i have a lot of favorite things lmao so here you go !!!

SHIPS

tbh i have so many favorite crackships so pls don’t even get me started on those ?? but i love both f/f and m/f ships and have absolutely zero preference when it comes to which one we do. i’m also a huge fan of poly ships and i’ll never say no to having multiple ships/plots/threads with the same person. i’m very much a multi-ship kinda gal so as long as it’s cool with my writing partner(s) i tend to assume each ship is in it’s own little verse unless otherwise discussed. though i’m totally down for and love ic drama so don’t be afraid to approach me about ships existing in the same timeline !! i’m a fan of everything from the sickly sweet and fluffy to the fucked up, toxic, and angsty so just give me all of the ships because tbh i’m a slut for ‘em.

FACES

alright so some of my favorite faces to play are holland roden, lucy hale, phoebe tonkin, eiza gonzalez, madelaine petsch, katherine mcnamara, dove cameron, halsey, emma greenwell, maggie lindemann, emmy rossum, madison davenport, lynn gunn, vanessa morgan, carlson young, deborah ann woll, and maggie siff. some of my favorite ladies to play against are zoey deutch, lindsey morgan, kat graham, vanessa morgan, dua lipa, eliza taylor, adelaide kane, candice patton, dove cameron, arden cho, chloe bennet, vanessa hudgens, danielle campbell, ashley benson, margot robbie, blake lively, ginny gardner, angelina jolie, emeraude toubia, meghan markle, and zoe kravitz. some of my favorite fellas to play against are charlie hunnam, jon bernthal, dj cotrona, charles melton, manny montana, oscar isaac, andy biersack, andrew lincoln, chris evans, bob morley, garrett hedlund, tom hardy, jason momoa, tyler posey, michael b. jordan, frank grillo, jeffrey dean morgan, dom sherwood, jensen ackles, skeet ulrich, and froy gutierrez.

EXTRAS

 just for fun, here’s a mismatched list of some of my favorite things across the board !! snakes, glitter, the colors purple, teal, and black, dogs, iced coffee, horror movies, outlaw bikers, drag queens, classic rock, vinyl records, bath and body works, geodes, mexican food, pulp fiction, the moon and stars, tattoos, neon lights, iasip, succulents and cacti, richard siken, candles, myths and folklore, metallic lipstick, sons of anarchy, and concerts.

INTRODUCING…. future plans.

tbh i hope to get a lot of things out of this group. i’m hoping to find a safe space to let my creativity run wild and a home for my muses where they can constantly grow and develop through interactions with other characters, in-depth plots, and my own exploration the more i write with them. i’m also hoping this will be a good opportunity to make friends, since i’m very much a loner and some of the best people i’ve met have been through the world of roleplaying. i definitely want to push my muses and challenge myself to be a better writer here, and i hope to help out those of you that are seeking the same things in your journey !! i’m already planning on adding some more muses in the very near future ( because i have ZERO impulse control ), and as far as future plans for plots go i want EVERYTHING. romantic, enemies, exes, familial, platonic, and literally anything in between. i would definitely love some slowburn ships where our characters don’t just fall in love overnight. i’d also be so down for exploring the dynamics of age gap relationships. not just the taboo aspect of them but like the differences in generations, the potential repercussions, the ups and downs and the times where they’re not sure if they can make it work.

INTRODUCING…. why i said fuck it.

i mean who hasn’t felt like saying fuck it to the rpc ??? i’ve been rping for several years, about six of those years have been on tumblr and as much love as i can have for this community at times, most days it’s just fucking exhausting. i feel like it’s mostly become a very toxic, judgmental, and honestly shallow place. i hate the expectation groups put on members these days with activity checks and whatnot because honestly who even has the time to write every single day ????? or y’know sometimes we just don’t feel like it ?????? i know for me personally between my mental health and irl responsibilities i just don’t have the time or energy to be on every two days. and plus a lot of them are cliquey af or die in a week or are riddled with petty drama so i tend to avoid them altogether. i joined the indie community in hopes of rping on my terms and while i def feel like that was a step in the right direction, it’s still a very exclusive community at times and i’ve had difficulty fitting in. there’s still a lot of ugliness towards female ocs or muns that exclusively play females and tbh i’m over it ??? i decided to give this group a try because i love the idea of the indie format but in a group, making it easier to plot with people and put yourself out there. tl;dr i decided to say fuck it because the community’s gone downhill and i needed a change.

[talkinganddrumsolos]

I Went To New Orleans And All You Got Is This Lousy T-Shirt

Among the glib and oversimplified beliefs I find utility in repeating to others is this recommendation: all Americans ought to visit New Orleans. I mean something more specific, of course, something like: all Americans ought to visit New Orleans but only partly for bon-temps decadence and also to see the most eccentric but perfectly logical extension of what your country's economic system and institutional racism and general human ingenuity hath wrought. To see a place where the the problems of Everytown, USA are humidified into a crucible but also where young black men regularly earn social and financial capital from playing the tuba. To see a place that is doomed in the short-to-medium term to repeat its own mistakes and doomed in the long term to Poseidon, yet "still I rise" until the sea level counters again.

This also requires having a particular point of view — some desire to witness regional cultural experience, and some empathic consciousness toward the underprivileged whose communities often are the originators of said cultural experiences. These things manifest in basic questions that should occur to any witness, as in "why is there an elaborate parade today for no particular reason?“ or “who had the idea to immerse seafood in butter?“ or “how does this elegant baroque richesse coexist with such stark inequality and tropical decay?” Apparently even this half-woke perspective is harder to come by in America c. 2017 than it it ought to be, but when presented with such marvels it isn’t really a big ask. It doesn't really matter exactly what type of privilege or cultural experience you're curious about; in New Orleans, chase any thread far enough and the intersections of oppressions and creative pursuits both should get you to some form of the experience I have in mind.

OK wait. That all scans way too grim and medicinal, especially since my personal experiences in New Orleans have been, on the whole, really fucking fun. As a wee lad my immigrant parents convened a family vacation to Louisiana basically as an excuse to escape winter and imbibe seasoned crawdads; I was old enough to remember specific things being entertaining and delicious but not old enough to find any of it particularly enlightening. About six years ago I sent myself to the Jazz and Heritage Festival for work with a colleague who happened to be a New Orleans native, and Josh basically gave me the weeklong crash course in Crescent City Conspicuous Consumption 101. The pump had been primed by jazz music mythologies and some vague inference that the city in the news and other mass-cultural phenomena all the time was indeed exceptional living history, but that was the start of the love affair really.

Throughout this last trip I just completed, well-meaning people kept asking me why I was visiting, which struck me as superfluous. I just assumed they would just assume I was there for the same reason that any other out-of-place-looking dude was suddenly in the area code: tourism. Well, that and the convergence of a few boring personal motivations: trying to make the most of forcible unemployment; trying to be warm during an East Coast winter, trying to ride a bicycle somewhere warm during an East Coast winter, trying to use some frequent flyer miles (I paid $11.20 for the flight), trying to see what attracted some good friends from college to land there and stay there, trying to take a vacation from my own simmering existential crises. But also I went to try to better understand why the music and food I’d developed a taste for existed and perpetuated itself not just by reading about it, but by consuming more of it. Basically, tourism.

If I had to pick a centerpiece event of the week I was there, it was probably the 21-hour period in which I attended the first parade of the Mardi Gras/Carnival season — the profoundly politically-incorrect Krewe du Vieux, followed by the more broadly satirical krewedelusion — and the following day’s second line parade of the CTC Steppers (nothing to do with Mardi Gras), which crossed an industrial canal into the Lower Ninth Ward led by 6-7 floats blaring bounce and modern R&B ahead of the brass band. The mere regular existence of these traditions, where ordinary people build ornate floats to slowly walk around the city in costumes for no discernible purpose other than merriment, is an manmade wonder of the world in itself. They also form a handy contrast: the white-encoded Krewe du Vieux vs. a social aid and pleasure club thoroughly suffused in blackness, skewering others vs. prideful celebration of self, depictions of Donald Trump suffering sex acts vs. a fair amount of twerking, the most economically successful areas of the city vs. a poor area still very much recovering from post-Katrina flood damage, anarchy as aesthetic vs. actual barely reined-in anarchy. In some figurative respects, and a literal one, it was night and day.

(krewedelusion, a younger, more diverse and more female set of sub-krewes, took on some sharper and generally more clever targets. Among the many were anti-AirBnB protests, Guy Fawkes masks, an all-women sub-krewe, the Krewe du Jieux [say it out loud], and a group named after James Brown: the Krewe of King James Super Bad Sex Machine Strollers. Their “security” staff was members of New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling. It, like much of New Orleans, doesn’t quite fit as neatly into the duality I’m setting up.)

I didn’t quite eat as much shellfish or see as much live music as I had intended, though it was still quite a bit. I did do my fair share of “chill,” as did apparently most of the city. On aimless strolls or bike rides through neighborhoods, an awful lot of folks seemed to be porch-sitting or biding their time in coffee shops or otherwise not really up to much in the middle of the day. Obviously there are plenty of people invisibly doing the building and harvesting and oil drilling and construction and shrimp-boating and cooking, and plenty of tourists to skew the visible numbers, but it seems like an awful lot of folks are marginally employed, or self-employed, or underemployed, or employed in weird service-industry hours, or just not employed. Coming from DC, a place where work-life balance is both bad and boujee, a place where people have more time than money was welcomed if a bit confusing.

Maybe this, and many of my experiences this time around, were filtered through the truly fine folks I stayed with. My friend lives with her girlfriend and another gay couple and most of that household is students and freelancers. One dude also plays in a moderately well-known rock band. Counting their central social circles, the whole thing was a bit like the Dykes To Watch Out For anthology like the one on their bathroom shelf. Basically my whole experience of this Mardi Gras parade in the presence of queer folks and at a gay bar, which, it turns out, was a pretty awesome vantage point for the freak flags of Carnival time anyhow. New Orleans has always struck me as a sort of place where people can build their scenes with relative ease, and as a general statement I’m glad all my peoples down there have found their peoples.

You see things from one subaltern position and you begin to see them all, and not coincidentally my gracious hosts are involved with several social justice communities. One night we went to a panel discussion called “Black Liberation in the Time of Trump” (it was hosted by a white anti-racism group called European Dissent) which seemed apropos. Chalk it up to my artistic interests maybe, but I’ve always observed the predominant power dynamic around New Orleans to be why black communities define so much of its cultural life yet hold so little of its wealth, and are many times legally restricted unduly in the development of that culture.

(Sometimes this discussion too easily excludes underprivileged populations that don’t fit on it. A friend of a friend, an black EMT, is often asked to list the “race” of patients, and reports that there are only two categories on the form — white and black — which is curious given the large Vietnamese and growing Hispanic communities in the city. Again, shades of grey here.)

I guess some well-meaning white folk see New Orleans as defined by its European cultural history, as in French Quarter architecture or Cajun or Italian food or erstwhile Catholicism, and there’s certainly a lot of that to go around. Here and elsewhere though, the United States of America’s popular cultural history has generally been defined by black people repurposing things for themselves, which is how you get to the neighborhoods where people actually live, and black Creole cooking, and Mardi Gras Indians, and Congo Square and jazz and R&B and traditional brass bands and modern brass bands and bounce and Cash Money Records, and a black majority population after white flight and Robert Moses freeway projects, and gentrification and/or tourism co-opting these things to sell back to moneyed mostly-white people. You can’t really enjoy yourself down there without noticing this.

One wonders whether many of the other relative post-Katrina newcomer folks participate in this cultural life of the city in any meaningful way — if it’s just another dangerous city with economic opportunity and terrible infrastructure (my God the roads), or whether the city’s exceptionalism is worthy of their deeper understanding and time investment as well. The city’s longer-term residents, I suspect, alternately welcome and revile these newcomers, depending in part on these newcomers’ engagement with local concerns. Turfing and perceived ownership in the cultural arena is a tricky topic; having “covered” transplanted white jazzmen based there and elsewhere, there are few clear rules. Yet sometimes even the best intentions for allyship or even active complicity needn’t qualify you for a hood pass, and it’s best to shut up and listen.

As is my unfortunate wont, I’ve made this whole reflection overlong and not particularly coherent. Maybe an incident from my last night in town would illuminate my general point insofar as I was trying to make one. I found myself at a wine and cheese and tapas joint with a huge outdoor patio and a monochromatically pale audience, whatevs, to see a cellist named Helen Gillet. She does a looping and improv thing across idiom, singing French chanson and American rock songs and original compositions and generally getting rad, somewhere between Andrew Bird and Tune-Yards and Yo-Yo Ma. Her last tune, fittingly, severed the hair on her bow. It was all a reminder that the New Orleans music tradition isn’t necessarily about tresillo patterns and trombones, but more generally about good and creative music.

Anyway, throughout the performance, we were frequently interrupted by two blacked-out military helicopters conducting drills above an adjacent abandoned Naval building. They would hover alarmingly low, as if to pick up a nonexistent passenger from a rooftop, then elevate away, occasionally leaving an enormous and unidentified explosion in their wakes. To put it lightly, it was very disruptive. But Helen kept at it despite the deafening roar of rotors, occasionally joking that they were listening. What else was she to do, right?

That creativity and revelry and uniquely resourceful art is valued in such quantity in New Orleans that it can support many musicians with a significant supplementary or working-to-middle-class income is, I think, no small wonder. But those military helicopters were a stark symbolic reminder that cellos are not actually ordnance; that these cultural pursuits are circumscribed by colonial and police-statist and capitalist and white supremacist systems that are more powerful, more insidious, more invisibly baked into the fabric of everyday life than we can at once describe. (This, too, was on the day we woke up and learned that Beyonce’s Southern-, Louisiana- and black-centric critically-lauded album had “lost” a Grammy award to a contrite Adele, which as many commentators pointed out, is a prime example of what systemic racism looks like in the music biz itself.) This oppression both gives rise to and then limns many of the things I love about New Orleans, and yet those things still happen, at least so far.

To a privileged observer it’s all beautiful and all damned and rarely quite so simple as one or the other. To a local, it must be hard to get on with your day unless you somewhat accept that it just is.

[creativesage]

(via 1000 Stories of Brain Dominance: What Female Founders Bring to the Table) 

By Alan Clayton and Kelly Kirkpatrick of SOSV

Various research highlights the performance of teams that include female co-founders — they perform 63% better than their all-male counterparts, the fastest growing companies are 75% more likely to have a female founder, adding female representation increases firms’ net revenue margin, and microloans repayment rates are inordinately high among women recipients.

But what exactly is this “(double) X factor” that women bring?

Today, [in honor of International Women’s Day], we decided to take a deeper dive into the characteristics and strengths of our female founders: The startup roles they play, how they execute those roles, and what they bring to the table as CEOs. Some of it might surprise you.

Assessing Teams

SOSV has invested in over 700 startups globally, about 1/3 of which include at least one female founder. Thanks to the data collected from close to 1000 founders (188 women and 783 men) over the last 6 years, we managed to break down and clarify a part of what female founders contribute to teams.

SOSV’s main assessment tool is the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), built on the work of GE’s long time head of education, that neatly maps out a startup founder’s thinking style and behaviour into four quadrants: analytical (A) / practical (B) / interpersonal (C)/ experimental (D).

Expectations vs Reality — What Might We Expect?

We do our best to be gender agnostic in our investments, but common gender differences suggest we would find more communicators and planners among female founders (the typical “head of marketing”), less technical profiles, and possibly better relational skills than among the men.

What Did We Find?

First, female CEOs exhibit very comparable “experimental” and visionary traits to male CEOs. Of the 149 women founders whose job roles we know, 52% were CEOs, compared to 49% of males — surprisingly close!

Women are more often in non-technical roles: 59% of non-CEO women founders headed up Marketing or Operations, while only 29% were Chief Science Officer or CTOs (vs. 65% of men). One could argue that stems from the “funnel problem” (less women in STEM lead to less women in technical roles).

Life sciences and Food had more female CEOs (36% and 28%) than hardware and cross-border internet (~15% each). Again, one could argue that this stems from the same funnel program within the STEM areas: there more women graduates from biological sciences, as compared to computer programming and engineering disciplines.

In general then, women do seem to star as storytellers and communicators (marketing) or as project managers and implementers (operations), while male non-CEO founders are gathered around the workbenches as scientific officers, product managers, and software developers.

How Were CEOs Different?

Interestingly, when we isolated female versus male CEOs only, the gender differences among various quadrant strengths became less pronounced. Female CEOs are more technically oriented, scoring 30% higher than the overall female founder population on analytical strength, and bringing them closer in line with the male founder average. Female CEOs were also less relationally-oriented — scoring just 12% lower than their male counterparts, compared to a wider 16% difference in the entire founder population. Again, the experimental, ‘out-of-box-thinking’ scores were roughly the same.

The Industry Effect

SOSV invests across four main verticals: life sciences (in the U.S. & Europe), hardware, food, and cross-border internet in Asia. We isolated only CEOs who were part of SOSV’s vertical accelerator programs, resulting in a sample of 365 pre-seed CEOs, [77 women (21%) and 288 men (79%)]. We then looked at the CEO gender splits and characteristics among each of these verticals.

Some patterns emerged:

Across all verticals, CEOs have similar “experimental/vision” thinking. This dominance is gender and sector agnostic.

Food and hardware female CEOs tend to be less analytically-oriented than their male counterparts, compared to other verticals.

Female CEOs in the hardware and cross-border internet verticals tend to have stronger relational intelligences, focusing on communication and customer insight.

In food and life sciences, female CEOs tend to have more practical preferences. Is lab life and food selecting better for planners?

What do these dynamics look like in practice?

Case study 1: the mixed gender hardware team

In the two hardware startup examples below, the female CEO founder (right) delivers a strong pitch and sells the vision, while her male CTO profile has a strong complementary analytical and technical orientation.

Case study 2: all-male analysis paralysis

Below is an overwhelmingly analytical all-male hardware team. While they have a well-functioning robotics product, sales pipeline development and execution have suffered from the lack of a strong relational and pragmatic -oriented team member.

Case study 3: the balanced all-female biotech startup

Below is an all-female team in life-sciences. Two scientists with analytical strengths, both founders are also capable in the relational space, a traditionally weak area for deep tech startups. The CEO (right) has a stronger visionary emphasis.

The Last Word

Like many, we were intrigued by the various data suggesting that teams with female co-founders might perform better than their all-male counterparts. What our research across about 1,000 founders brought to light is that while the root causes are still unclear, female founders tend to bring much-needed organizational and relational skills, preventing startups from falling into analysis paralysis and/or geeky anarchy. Maybe that is, in fact, the “(double) X” factor.

We hope you enjoyed this article — please give us some applause [on Medium], so that other people can see it too!

Keep up with the latest VC trends by following our Medium publication: SOSV: Inspiration from Acceleration.

[Entire post — click on the title link to read it on Medium.]

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Gender and Sexuality Portfolio Post One: Introduction to Special Interest Topic

Women in Film, Rom-Coms, and the Role of Gender

Throughout the history of film women have been left out of major roles and have often been seen merely as sexual objects. The Bechdel Test calls attention to this deficit of female representation in entertainment by questioning the number of women included, whether the women interact, and if they talk about something other than a man. This test is a great way to examine TV shows and movies to see if they pass or fail the test of gender and sexism (Launius and Hassel 2015, p.19). Romantic Comedies (Rom-Coms) are said to be built for women because the main character and majority of the cast are comprised of women. However, the plotline of these movies would fail the Bechdel Test because they almost always revolve around a woman’s happiness that is dependent upon a man.

Originally, I chose the topic of Romantic Comedies and gender roles, but after research I have expanded my topic to include women in film to get a broader sense of the industry and investigate how deeply rooted gender is in this system. I wanted to explore Rom-Coms because as an intellectual who is female, I enjoy this genre even though I know the main character’s priorities are out of line. The average Rom-Com is centered around an intellectually savvy woman who is successful in all areas of her life that she can control (i.e. her job), yet she never feels fulfilled until she meets the “perfect man”. I think that if viewers can realize this is a problematic line of thinking, then it is harmless to enjoy this genre of film. However, it can be a dangerous narrative to teach young girls growing up who believe this to be the goal they themselves need to achieve. I also wanted to broaden my topic to women in film because while women are the minority outside of Rom-Coms, it is important to include other genres of film that are influential to how we identify of ourselves in relation to gender and sexuality as well.

While researching I began with Romantic Comedies and expanded the search to Romantic Comedies and gender to only get two results including movies about Bromances and female characters with a gay best friend. Since this search was limited I opened it up to women in film to get 88 results; then included gender to narrow down the results to 26. Most of these results revolved around topics of empowered women in action roles, sexuality and violence, and even included topics about men. It was interesting how articles about men, such as “Portrayals of Masculinity in ‘Guy Movies’”, popped up in my search for women in film. It seems that even when searching for the women, men are always part of the conversation.

Speaking of men, the article “Bros before Ho(mo)s: Hollywood Bromance and the Limits of Heterodoxy” considers the possibility of progressing the portrayal of masculinity by looking at three movies: The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, and I Love You, Man. Bromance was created in relation to Rom-Coms and usually keep the wedding theme, but instead of a romantic plot these movies display a friendship between two males. This article concluded that these movies are strictly heteronormative and overexaggerate masculinity to attract their viewers, which is quite the contrast to Rom-Coms. Other than depicting a close friendship between males the ingredients to a Bromance, such as overt masculinity, are not new to film. Hegemonic masculinity is most often seen in action movies where a female is juxtaposed as a weak damsel in distress. Modern superhero and action films are trying to combat this idea by introducing more women into these worlds. The only issue with adding heroines into these world is that they are often created by men for men. In the article, “The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women,” Hillary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz uncover the possible impacts (positive and negative) of women depicted in superhero films. In this study female undergraduate students were asked to watch X-Men, Spiderman, or no video completion (as the control) before taking a survey on body-esteem and self-objectification. X-Men was chosen for the sexualized-heroine architype, while Spiderman was chosen for the sexualized-victim architype. The results of the survey showed that the viewers who watched the video with the sexualized-victim were more likely to answer with traditional gender roles because those beliefs were reinforced in the video. Strangely, watching the sexualized-heroine type did not lead to more open ideas of gender role beliefs, but the sexualized heroines did lead to lower body-esteem of the viewer (Pennell, H., & Behm-Morawitz, E., 2015). This study shows how vital it is for viewers to see proper representation of women that is not oversexualized or helpless because media has some effect on their beliefs. Knowing that adults spend and average of 12 hours a day using media confirms how deeply rooted it is and is unavoidable (Ward, L., Seabrook, R., Manago, A., & Reed, L., 2016).  “A sheep in wolf's clothing? The problematic representation of women and the female body in 1980s sword and sorcery cinema” and “She Hits Like a Man, but She Kisses Like a Girl: TV Heroines, Femininity, Violence, and Intimacy” are two articles that also bring up strong female leads and heroines that attempt to break through the glass ceiling of the mythic norm. The issue in these movies/shows that the articles mention is either the heroine is sexualized, thus taking away her authority, or is stuck in a heteronormative relationship bringing back the traditional norms of a woman needing a man to validate her in her own story. Fine, K. (2012) also mentions violence and how that plays out in the gender roles of heroines as well. It is reinforced throughout Western culture that power is inherently masculine, something that is in nature and that can’t be changed. However, this is an example of the mythical norm because the women described in the article, Gemma from Sons of Anarchy and Mary from In Plain Sight, redefine this power by being aggressive and violent female characters. They exhibit instrumental aggression, which is associated as masculine because it is cold and calculating not emotional. By violating their gender roles, they call masculinity into question and redefine toughness. Although, their characters are not fully transcending their gender roles they are closer to breaking the dichotomy of the male as active and the female as passive. Bleakley, A., Jamieson, P. E., & Romer, D. (2012) also bring up violence and sexual content, but in the context of number of women versus men depicted in movies. The results show that female characters were twice as likely to be involved in more sexual content over time than men, but violent content was increasing both for men and women. This conclusion is not shocking considering the amount of movies that can combine sex and violence that include women and the increasing amount of media that portrays women in a mans world that is inherently violent.

Overall, women are starting to make an appearance in film, but how they are shown is important. More strides toward breaking gender role beliefs need to be broken to allow for a space for women in the media. Rom-Coms and reality TV can still exist for pleasure, but are problematic lessons for the adolescents learning what society deems important. I hope to learn more about how female roles (i.e. heroines) can expand in the future to break these societal norms and find research on how Romantic Comedies can change to fit this new dynamic that feminists are striving toward.

References

Bleakley, A., Jamieson, P. E., & Romer, D. (2012). Trends of Sexual and Violent Content by Gender in Top-Grossing U.S. Films, 1950–2006. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 51(1), 73-79.

Brook, H. (2015). Bros before Ho(mo)s: Hollywood Bromance and the Limits of Heterodoxy.    Men & Masculinities, 18(2), 249-266.

Fine, K. (2012). She Hits Like a Man, but She Kisses Like a Girl: TV Heroines, Femininity, Violence, and Intimacy. Western American Literature, 47(2), 152-173.

Launius, C., & Hassel, H. (2015). Threshold Concept in Women’s and Gender Studies. New��York, NY: Routledge.

Pennell, H., & Behm-Morawitz, E. (2015). The Empowering (Super) Heroine? The Effects of Sexualized Female Characters in Superhero Films on Women. Sex Roles, 72(5-6), 211-220.

Ward, L., Seabrook, R., Manago, A., & Reed, L. (2016). Contributions of Diverse Media to Self- Sexualization among Undergraduate Women and Men. Sex Roles, 74(1-2), 12-23.

Wright, A. (2012). A sheep in wolf's clothing? The problematic representation of women and the female body in 1980s sword and sorcery cinema. Journal Of Gender Studies, 21(4), 401-411.

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New Releases: Comics and Direct Market July 12, 2017

 Here's a look at what's new in comic stores Wednesday, July 12 2017, courtesy of TFAW:

Comics

451 MEDIA GROUP 

Red Dog #5 (of 6)$3.99

 AFTERSHOCK COMICS 

Animosity #8$3.99

Animosity The Rise #2$3.99

Black Eyed Kids #13$3.99

World Reader #4$3.99

 AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY PRODUCTIONS 

America #4 (resolicited)$3.99

 ARCHIE COMICS 

Josie & The Pussycats #8 (Cover A - Audrey Mok)$3.99

Josie & The Pussycats #8 (Cover B - Rian Gonzales)$3.99

Josie & The Pussycats #8 (Cover C - Brent Schoonover)$3.99

Jughead & Archie Comics Double Digest #26$4.99

 ASPEN MLT INC 

Lola Xoxo Vol. 2 #1 10 Copy Incv (resolicited)AR

Lola Xoxo Vol. 2 #1 20 Copy Incv (resolicited)AR

Lola Xoxo Vol. 2 #1 Cvr A (resolicited)$3.99

Lola Xoxo Vol. 2 #1 Cvr B (resolicited)$3.99

Lola Xoxo Vol. 2 #1 Cvr C Kirkham$3.99

 AVATAR PRESS 

Cinema Purgatorio #11$6.99

Cinema Purgatorio #11 Ancient Tome Premium Cover$9.99

Cinema Purgatorio #11 Code Pru Cover$6.99

Cinema Purgatorio #11 Modded Cover$6.99

Cinema Purgatorio #11 Perfect Union Cover$6.99

Cinema Purgatorio #11 Vast Cover$6.99

War Stories #24$3.99

War Stories #24 Battle Damage Premium Cover$7.99

War Stories #24 Good Girl Nose Art Cover$3.99

War Stories #24 Wrap Cover$3.99

 BLACK MASK COMICS 

Calexit #1 (Cover A)$3.99

Calexit #1 (Cover B)$3.99

Last Song #1$4.99

 BLISS ON TAP 

Train 8 Zombie Express #1 (of 3)$4.99

 BOOM! STUDIOS 

Godshaper #4 (of 6)$3.99

Grass Kings #5$3.99

Grass Kings #5 Foc Incv Smallwood Var$3.99

Misfit City #3 (of 4)$3.99

Planet Of Apes Green Lantern #6$3.99

Planet of Apes Green Lantern #6 Unlock Vintage Figure Var$3.99

Sons Of Anarchy Redwood Original #12$3.99

Sons Of Anarchy Redwood Original #12 (Subscription Scharf Variant)$3.99

War For Planet Of The Apes #1 (of 4)$3.99

War for Planet of the Apes #1 (of 4) Foc Incv Rivera Var$3.99

War For Planet Of The Apes #1 (of 4) (Subscription Shaw Variant)$3.99

 COMIC SHOP NEWS INC 

Comic Shop News 90ct Bundle #1569AR

 DARK HORSE 

Briggs Land: Lone Wolves #2$3.99

Briggs Land: Lone Wolves #2 (Fiona Staples Variant Cover)$3.99

Dragon Age: Knight Errant #3$3.99

Groo: Play of the Gods #1$3.99

American Gods: Shadows #5$3.99

American Gods: Shadows #5 (David Mack Variant Cover)$3.99

Shadows on the Grave #6$3.99

 DC COMICS 

Action Comics #983$2.99

Action Comics #983 (Janin Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

American Way Those Above And Below #1 (of 6)$3.99

Batgirl And The Birds Of Prey #12$3.99

Batgirl And The Birds Of Prey #12 (Shirahama Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Bug The Adventures Of Forager #3 (of 6)$3.99

Bug The Adventures Of Forager #3 (of 6) (Conley Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Dark Days The Casting$4.99

Dark Days The Casting (Kubert Variant Cover Edition)$4.99

Dark Days The Casting (Romita Variant Cover Edition)$4.99

Dark Days the Forge #1 2nd Ptg$4.99

Detective Comics #960$2.99

Detective Comics #960 (Albuquerque Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

Flash #26$2.99

Flash #26 (Porter Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

Gotham Academy Second Semester #11$2.99

Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps #24$2.99

Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps #24 (Nowlan Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

Justice League Of America #10$2.99

Justice League Of America #10 (Mahnke Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

New Super Man #13$3.99

New Super Man #13 (Chang Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Red Hood And The Outlaws #12$3.99

Red Hood And The Outlaws #12 (March Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Scooby Apocalypse #15$3.99

Scooby Apocalypse #15 (Thompson Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Scooby Doo Where Are You #83$2.99

Suicide Squad #21$2.99

Suicide Squad #21 (Portacio Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

Supergirl #11$3.99

Supergirl #11 (Bengal Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Superwoman #12$3.99

Superwoman #12 (Guedes Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Titans #13$3.99

Titans #13 (Mora Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Wonder Woman #26$2.99

Wonder Woman #26 (Frison Variant Cover Edition)$2.99

 DIAMOND COMIC DIST--ENGLAND 

2000 Ad Pack May 2017$27.00

Doctor Who Magazine #513$11.99

Meanwhile #6$23.95

 DYNAMIC FORCES 

Centipede #1 (Cover A - Francavilla)$3.99

Centipede #1 (Cover B - Marron)$3.99

Centipede #1 (Cover C - Schkade Homage)$3.99

Centipede #1 (Cover D - Classic Art)$3.99

Centipede #1 Cvr E 20 Copy Francavilla Virgin IncvAR

Centipede #1 Cvr F 30 Copy Marron B&W IncvAR

Centipede #1 Cvr G 40 Copy Schkade B&W IncvAR

Centipede #1 Cvr H 50 Copy Marron Virgin IncvAR

Centipede #1 (Cover I - Blank Authentix Ed)$10.00

Game Of Thrones Clash Of Kings #2 (Cover A - Miller)$3.99

Game Of Thrones Clash Of Kings #2 (Cover B - Subscription)$3.99

Game of Thrones Clash of Kings #2 Cvr C 10 Copy Incv (AR

Game of Thrones Clash of Kings #2 Cvr D 15 Copy Incv (AR

Game of Thrones Clash of Kings #2 Cvr E 25 Copy Incv (AR

Jim Butcher Dresden Files Dog Men #2$3.99

Mighty Mouse #2 (Cover A - Adams)$3.99

Mighty Mouse #2 (Cover B - Lima)$3.99

Mighty Mouse #2 Cvr C 10 Copy Adams B&W IncvAR

Mighty Mouse #2 Cvr D 15 Copy Lima B&W IncvAR

Mighty Mouse #2 Cvr E 25 Copy Adams Virgin IncvAR

Pathfinder Runescars #1 (Cover G - Blank Authentix)$10.00

Pierce Brown Red Rising #3 (Cover A - Cypress)$3.99

Pierce Brown Red Rising #3 (Cover B - Powell)$3.99

Skin & Earth #1 (of 6) (Cover A - Profile)$3.99

Skin & Earth #1 (of 6) (Cover B - Closeup)$3.99

Sovereigns #3 (Cover A - Segovia)$3.99

Sovereigns #3 (Cover B - Desjardins)$3.99

Sovereigns #3 (Cover C - Burnett)$3.99

Sovereigns #3 (Cover D - Mccomsey)$3.99

Sovereigns #3 Cvr E 10 Copy Burnett B&W IncvAR

Sovereigns #3 Cvr F 20 Copy Desjardins B&W IncvAR

Sovereigns #3 Cvr G 30 Copy Segovia B&W IncvAR

 GRAPHIC INDIA PTE. LTD 

Stan Lee Chakra Mystery Of Mighty Girl #2 (of 6)$2.99

 IDW PUBLISHING 

Brutal Nature Concrete Fury #5 (of 5) (Cover A - Olivetti)$3.99

Brutal Nature Concrete Fury #5 (of 5) (Cover B - Olivetti)$3.99

Dirk Gently Salmon Of Doubt #9$3.99

Dirk Gently Salmon Of Doubt #9 (Subscription Variant)$3.99

Dread Gods #1 (Cover A - Raney)$3.99

Dread Gods #1 (Cover B - Sears)$3.99

Judge Dredd Blessed Earth #3$3.99

Judge Dredd Blessed Earth #3 (Subscription Variant)$3.99

Micronauts Wrath Of Karza #3 (of 5)$3.99

Micronauts Wrath Of Karza #3 (of 5) (Subscription Variant)$3.99

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic #56 (Cover A - Garbowska)$3.99

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic #56 (Cover B - Richard)$3.99

Optimus Prime #9 (Cover A - Zama)$3.99

Optimus Prime #9 (Cover B - Coller)$3.99

Optimus Prime #9 (Cover C - Whalen)$3.99

Orphan Black Deviations #3 (of 6)$3.99

Orphan Black Deviations #3 (of 6) (Funko Toy Variant Cover)$3.99

Real Science Adventures Flying She-devils #4 (of 6) (Cover A )$3.99

Real Science Adventures Flying She-devils #4 (of 6) (Cover B)$3.99

Uncle Scrooge #28 (Cover A - Loter)$3.99

Uncle Scrooge #28 (Cover B - Branca)$3.99

Wynonna Earp Season Zero #1 (of 5)$3.99

Wynonna Earp Season Zero #1 (of 5) (Photo Variant)$3.99

 IMAGE COMICS 

Black Cloud #4$3.99

Deadly Class #29 (Cover A - Craig & Boyd)$3.99

Deadly Class #29 (Cover B - Level)$3.99

Deadly Class #29 Cvr C Pride Month Var$3.99

Divided States of Hysteria #1 2nd Ptg$3.99

Divided States Of Hysteria #2$3.99

Divided States of Hysteria #2 Cvr B Images of Tomorrow Var ($3.99

Eternal Empire #3$3.99

Kill Or Be Killed #10$3.99

Mage: The Hero Denied #0$1.99

Regression #3$3.99

Regression #3 Cvr B Images of Tomorrow Var$3.99

Rose #4 (Cover A - Guara)$3.99

Rose #4 (Cover B - Finch)$3.99

Rose #4 Cvr C Images of Tomorrow Var$3.99

Violent Love #6$3.99

Youngblood #2 2nd Ptg$3.99

Youngblood #3 (Cover A - Towe)$3.99

Youngblood #3 (Cover B - Liefeld)$3.99

Youngblood #3 (Cover C - Fraga)$3.99

 KEENSPOT ENTERTAINMENT 

Immortal #1 (Cover A - Gieni)$3.99

Immortal #1 (Cover B - Mokhtar)$3.99

Immortal #1 Cvr C 5 Copy Incv Sciver$3.99

 LION FORGE 

Catalyst Prime Accell #2$3.99

Catalyst Prime Accell #2 10 Copy Incv Cassaday$3.99

Catalyst Prime Accell #2 5 Copy Incv Grant Var$3.99

Castoffs #8$3.99

 MARVEL COMICS 

Amazing Spider-Man #30$3.99

Amazing Spider-Man #30 X-Men Card Var Se$3.99

Black Panther and the Crew #4$3.99

Deadpool #33 Koblish Secret Comics Var Se$3.99

Deadpool #33$3.99

Deadpool #33 X-Men Card Var Se$3.99

Defenders #3$3.99

Defenders #3 Forbes Var$3.99

Defenders #3 X-Men Card Var$3.99

Doctor Strange Sorcerers Supreme #10$3.99

Edge Of Venomverse #2 (of 5)$3.99

Edge Of Venomverse #2 (of 5) (Lim Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Generation X #4$3.99

Generation X #4 X-Men Card Var$3.99

Hulk #8$3.99

Jean Grey #4$3.99

Jean Grey #4 X-Men By Brigman Var$3.99

Jean Grey #4 X-Men Card Var$3.99

Marvel Universe Guardians Of Galaxy #20$2.99

Old Man Logan #26$3.99

Old Man Logan #26 X-Men Card Var$3.99

Rocket #3$3.99

Rocket #3 Gorham Var$3.99

Secret Warriors #4$3.99

Spider-Men II #1 (of 5)$3.99

Spider-Men II #1 (of 5) (Acuna Variant Cover Edition)$3.99

Spider-men II #1 (of 5) Marquez Var$3.99

Spider-men II #1 (of 5) Nelson Var$3.99

Spider-Men II #1 (of 5) (Saiz Connecting Variant A Cover Edition)$3.99

Spider-men II #1 (of 5) Tedesco Var B$3.99

Star Wars Darth Vader #3$3.99

Star Wars Darth Vader #3 Giuseppe Camuncoli Var$3.99

Star Wars Doctor Aphra #9$3.99

Star Wars Doctor Aphra #9 Brown Star Wars 40th Anniv Var$3.99

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #22$3.99

Uncanny Avengers #25$4.99

Uncanny Avengers #25 X-Men Card Var Se$4.99

Venom #152$3.99

Venom #152 X-Men Card Var$3.99

Vision Directors Cut #2 (of 6)$6.99

Weapon X #5$3.99

Weapon X #5 X-Men Card Var$3.99

X-Men Blue #7 Lopez Var Se$3.99

X-Men Blue #7$3.99

X-Men Blue #7 X-Men Card Var Se$3.99

Zombies Assemble #0$4.99

Zombies Assemble #0 (Klein Variant Cover Edition)$4.99

Zombies Assemble #0 (Nakayama Variant Cover Edition)$4.99

 ONI PRESS 

Invader Zim #21$3.99

Invader Zim #21 Boyle Incv Var$3.99

Kaijumax Season 3 #1$3.99

Kim Reaper #4$3.99

 RED 5 COMICS 

After Eden #1 (of 4)$3.95

 RED ANVIL INC 

Cyberines #3$3.99

 SCOUT COMICS 

Girrion #7$3.99

Smoketown #3$3.99

Tinkers Of The Wasteland #1$3.99

 SPACE GOAT PRODUCTIONS 

Howling #1 Cvr C Yvel Painted Werewolf Queen 5 Copy Incv$3.99

Howling #1 Cvr D Sienkiewicz Werewolf 20 Copy Incv$3.99

Howling #1$3.99

 TITAN 

Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #3 (of 4) (Cover A - Oliver)$3.99

Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #3 (of 4) (Cover B - Coleby)$3.99

Ian Livingstone's Freeway Fighter #3 (of 4) (Cover C - Willsher)$3.99

Rivers Of London Detective Stories #2 (of 4) (Cover A - Erskine)$3.99

Rivers Of London Detective Stories #2 (of 4) (Cover B - Sullivan)$3.99

Star Wars Insider #174 (Newsstand Edition)$7.99

Star Wars Insider #174 (Previews Exclusive Edition)$7.99

Warhammer 40000 #8 (Revelations Part 4 of 4) (Cover A - Bettin)$3.99

Warhammer 40000 #8 (Revelations Part 4 of 4) (Cover B - Magill)$3.99

Warhammer 40000 #8 (Revelations Part 4 of 4) (Cover C - Niemczyk)$3.99

 TOHAN CORPORATION 

Megami May 2017$20.00

Newtype May 2017$20.00

 UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES 

Spongebob Comics #70$3.99

 VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 

Harbinger Renegade #5 (Cover A - Robertson)$3.99

Harbinger Renegade #5 (Cover B - Camuncoli)$3.99

Harbinger Renegade #5 (Cover C - Crain)$3.99

Harbinger Renegade #5 Cvr D 20 Copy Incv Laming$3.99

Harbinger Renegade #5 Cvr E 50 Copy Incv Bw Sketch Robertson$3.99

 ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT 

Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol. 3 #7 (Cover A - Eric J)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol. 3 #7 (Cover B - Bifulco)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol. 3 #7 (Cover C - Garvey)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Van Helsing vs. The Mummy Of Amun Ra #6 (of 6) (Cover A - Lima Connecting)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Van Helsing vs. The Mummy Of Amun Ra #6 (of 6) (Cover B - Lima Connecting)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Van Helsing vs. The Mummy Of Amun Ra #6 (of 6) (Cover C - Ruiz)$3.99

Grimm Fairy Tales Van Helsing vs. The Mummy Of Amun Ra #6 (of 6) (Cover D - Diaz)$3.99

 Games

IDW PUBLISHING 

King Of Creepies Game$39.99

 PAIZO INC 

Pathfinder Adv Path Ironfang Invasion Part 5 Of 6$24.99

Pathfinder Campaign Setting Aquatic Adventures$22.99

Pathfinder Flip Mat Bigger Caverns$19.99

Pathfinder Map Pack Ruined Village$14.99

 Cards

TOPPS COMPANY 

Topps 2017 Tier One Baseball T/C BoxAR

Topps 2017 Tier One Baseball T/C BoxAR

 Various

DC COMICS 

Superman Animated Ser Superman & Lois Lane AF 2 Pk$55.00

 DYNAMIC FORCES 

Centipede Classic Atari Mini-comic IncvAR

 HASBRO TOY GROUP 

Despicable Me Bop It Game CsAR

 NECA 

DC Dice Masters Superman and Wonder Woman Starter$19.99

Marvel Heroclix Guardians of the Galaxy V2 24ct Grav Feed$71.76

Star Trek Attack Wing 4th Division Battleship Exp Repaint$14.99

Star Trek Attack Wing 5th Wing Patrol Ship Exp Repaint$14.99

Star Trek Attack Wing Uss Enterprise 1701a Exp Repaint$14.99

 Apparel

DC Comics Classic Harley Quinn Dress Med/Lg$26.99

DC Comics Classic Harley Quinn Dress Sm/Med$26.99

God Country Unisex XXXL T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex XXXXL T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex LG T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex MED T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex SM T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex XL T-Shirt$24.99

God Country Unisex XXL T-Shirt$24.99

 Collectibles

D&D Mind Flayer Trophy PlaqueAR

Dagashi Kashi Shidare Hotaru 1/7 Pvc Figure$188.99

Parsley Original Character Nadeshiko Saionji Pvc Figure (adult)$196.99

 Merchandise

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Gogeta Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Gogeta Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan 2 Broly Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan 2 Broly Mini Fig (sAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan 3 Son Goku Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan 3 Son Goku Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan Son Gohan Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Dbz Super Saiyan Son Gohan Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-06 Char Zgok Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-06 Char Zgok Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-07 Hm Type Zaku II Mini Fig (AR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-07 Hm Type Zaku II Mini Fig (AR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-08 Unicorn Destroy Mode Mini Fig (n$8.91

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-08 Unicorn Destroy Mode Mini Fig (n$8.91

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-09 Sinanju Mini FigAR

Absolute Chogokin Msg Gm-09 Sinanju Mini FigAR

Alien 1000% BeaAR

Alien 1000% BeaAR

Alien Warrior 1000% BeaAR

Astro Boy 1000% BeaAR

Astro Boy 1000% BeaAR

Astro Boy 400% BeaAR

Astro Boy 400% BeaAR

Avengers Aou Eaa-021 Iron Man Mk45 Px AFAR

Avengers Aou Eaa-026 Mk45 Battle Statue Px AFAR

Avengers Aou Eaa-04sp Iron Man Mk43 Battle Damage Px AFAR

Avengers Aou Eaa-04sp Iron Man Mk43 Battle Damage Px AFAR

Avengers Captain America 12in Electronic AF CsAR

Avengers Iron Man 12in Electronic AF CsAR

Beatles Titans Sgt Pepper Disguise George 4.5in Figure$14.99

Beatles Titans Sgt Pepper Disguise John 4.5in Figure$14.99

Beatles Titans Sgt Pepper Disguise Paul 4.5in Figure$14.99

Beatles Titans Sgt Pepper Disguise Ringo 4.5in Figure$14.99

Beatles Titans Sgt Pepper Drum 4.5in Figure$14.99

Bvs Knightmare Batman Px Maf Ex$53.99

Captain America Civil War Ea-023 Captain America Px Statue ($126.25

Captain America Civil War Ea-024 Iron Man Mk46 Px Statue (ne$135.95

Captain America Civil War Eaa-029 Captain America Px AFAR

Captain America Civil War Eaa-029 Captain America Px AFAR

Captain America Civil War Eaa-033 Black Panther Px AFAR

Captain America Magnetic Shield & Gauntlet CsAR

Dagashi Kashi Shidare Hotaru 1/7 Pvc Fig$188.99

Dbz Mecha Coll Vol. 02 Ox Kings Vehicle Mdl KitAR

DC Batman 3-way Spinnerz 12pc Dis$119.88

DC Bombshells Wonder Woman Vinyl Figure Platinum Ed$29.99

DC Heroes Superman Costume Youth Cape$19.99

DC Justice League Batman 3-way Spinnerz 12pc Dis$119.88

DC Justice League Superman 3-way Spinnerz 12pc Dis$119.88

DC Wonder Woman Cuffs$23.99

Deadpool Finders Keypers$29.99

Dorbz Despicable Me 3 Jail Time Phil Vinyl Figure$7.99

Dorbz Despicable Me 3 Jail Time Phil Vinyl Figure$7.99

Dorbz Donnie Darko Frank Vinyl Figure$7.99

Dorbz Fallout Vault Boy Mysterious Stranger Vinyl Figure (ja$7.99

Dorbz Looney Tunes Daffy Duck Wabbit Season Vin Fig$7.99

Dorbz Looney Tunes Pete Puma Vin Fig$7.99

Dorbz Spider-Man Homecoming Spider-Man Homemade Suit Vin Fig$7.99

Dorbz Spider-Man Homecoming Spider-Man Vin Fig (jan178557) ($7.99

Dynamite Action No-41 Tetsujin 28 Fig S Ver$144.99

Evangelion Unit Zero Kai Unit Zero Nxedge Style FigAR

Evangelion Unit Zero Kai Unit Zero Nxedge Style Fig (nAR

Ff Trading Arts Mini Bmb 6pc Dis Vol. 01$48.00

Ff Trading Arts Mini Bmb 6pc Dis Vol. 01 Vol. 01$48.00

Ff Trading Arts Mini Bmb 6pc Dis Vol. 02$48.00

Ff Trading Arts Mini Bmb 6pc Dis Vol. 02$48.00

Funko Plush Spider-Man Homecoming 6pc Plush DispAR

Game of Thrones White Walker Mask$49.99

Girls Und Panzer Anchovy 1/8 Pvc Fig$159.99

Girls Und Panzer Anchovy 1/8 Pvc Fig$159.99

Goodenough Classics 100% Bea BlackAR

Goodenough Classics 100% Bea GrayAR

Goodenough Classics 400% Bea BlackAR

Goodenough Classics 400% Bea GrayAR

Gotg2 Groot Scalers 2in Figure Asst$59.88

Gundam Fumina Hoshino Figure Rise Bust Mdl Kit End Scene Ver$11.60

Gundam Ibo Mikazuki Gem Pvc Fig$155.99

Gundam Ibo Mikazuki Gem Pvc Fig$155.99

Gundam Ibo Orga Gem Pvc Fig$155.99

Gundam Ibo Rubber Mascot Their Footprints 6pc Ds$53.94

Gundam Ibo Rubber Mascot Their Footprints 6pc Ds$53.94

Gundam Ibo Rubber Mascot Their Footprints Set$60.99

Gundam Ibo Rubber Mascot Their Footprints Set$60.99

Haikyu Hajime Iwaizumi Nendoroid$50.99

Haikyu Hajime Iwaizumi Nendoroid$50.99

Hateful Eight the Hang Man John Ruth 1/6 AFAR

Hateful Eight the Hang Man John Ruth 1/6 AFAR

Hg Gundam Ground Type Thunderbolt 1/144 Mdl KitAR

Hp Harry Potter Wand Replica$7.99

Hp Hogwarts Sorting Hat Replica$24.99

Hp Hufflepuff Deluxe Replica Adult Robe$140.99

Idolmaster Cg Rin Shibuya Crystal Night Party Ver$133.99

Idolmaster Cg Rin Shibuya Crystal Night Party Ver$133.99

Jojos Bizarre Adv Part IV Rohan Kishibe Pvc Fig$137.99

Jojos Bizarre Adv Part IV Rohan Kishibe Pvc Fig$137.99

Jojos Bizarre Adventure Jotaro 8 In Plush$18.99

Knex 25th Anniversary Ultimate Builder SetAR

Love Live Sunshine You Watanabe Nendoroid$39.99

Love Live Sunshine You Watanabe Nendoroid$39.99

Marvel 500 2in Coll Fig Bmb Dis 201701AR

Marvel Black Panther Head Pewter Keyring 6pc Bag$35.99

Marvel Captain America 3 Iron Man Light Up Q-fig Figure$19.95

Marvel Deadpool All Over Print Crew Socks$7.99

Marvel Deadpool All Over Print Crew Socks$7.99

Marvel Gotg 6in AF Asst 201702AR

Marvel Gotg Dancing Groot 12in Feature AF CsAR

Marvel Heroes Black Panther Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Heroes Deadpool Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Heroes Iron Man Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Heroes Spider-Man Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Heroes Venom Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Heroes Wolverine Geeki Tiki Glass$19.99

Marvel Hulk Buster Head Pewter Keyring 6pc Bag$35.99

Marvel Universe Variant Play Arts Kai Wolverine AF$149.99

Marvel Universe Variant Play Arts Kai Wolverine AF$149.99

Metal Robot Spirits Gundam 00 Raiser + GN Sword III AFAR

Metal Robot Spirits Gundam 00 Raiser + GN Sword III AFAR

Mgs Phantom Pain Titans Mini Fig 20pc Bmb Ds Ser 1$199.80

Minecraft 5in AF Tundra Tower Playset CsAR

Nickelodeon 90s Nick 3-way Spinnerz 12pc Dis$119.88

Nickelodeon Spongebob Squarepants 3-way Spinnerz 12pc Dis$119.88

One Piece White Beard Variable Action Hero Pvc Fig$188.99

One Piece White Beard Variable Action Hero Pvc Fig$188.99

Play-doh Minions Paradise Set CsAR

Playmobil Tmnt Leonardo Fig$14.99

Playmobil Tmnt Michelangelo Fig$14.99

Playmobil Tmnt Shredder Fig$14.99

Pocket Pop Despicable Me 3 Agnes Fig Keychain$5.99

Pocket Pop Despicable Me 3 Carl Minions Suit Fig Keychain (j$5.99

Pocket Pop One Piece Chopper Fig Keychain$5.99

Pocket Pop South Park Mysterion Fig Keychain$5.99

Pocket Pop South Park Zombie Kenny Fig Keychain$5.99

Pokemon Multi Character Throw Blanket$25.99

Pokemon Z-crystal 3pk AsstAR

Pokemon Z-crystal 3pk AsstAR

Pop Animation Rick & Morty Mr. Meeseeks Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Anime Dbz Trunks Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Attack on Titan Annie Leonhart Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Borderlands Emperor Claptrap Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop DC Batman 66 Mr Freeze Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Death Note L Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Death Note Light Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Death Note Light Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Death Note Ryuk Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Death Note Ryuk Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Music Jimi Hendrix Woodstock Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Music Joey Ramone Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Nick Tv Rugrats Reptar Vinyl Fig$10.99

Pop Overwatch Mei Vinyl Fig$10.99

Psycho Armor Govarian Sofubi$135.99

Rahdx Gundam Archive Haman Pvc Fig Ltd Ed$138.99

Resident Evil Metal Badge Id Wallet$19.99

Robot Spirits Msm-07 Mass Prod Type Zgok Gundam Anime Ver (n$40.85

Robot Spirits Msm-07 Mass Prod Type Zgok Gundam Anime Ver (n$40.85

Rock Candy Harry Potter Hermione Granger Fig$10.99

Rock Candy Harry Potter Ron Weasley Fig$10.99

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Match Report: 21/1/17

WASTCA One-Day Div 2

Fremantle Mosman Park [6/257] def Bassendean Gold [10/174]

It was like an episode of Perfect Match from the heady days of 1980′s, the panel slid back and we finally got a chance to meet Bassendean Gold.

Having asked the question, ‘On a scale of 1-10 how reliable are you to pull together 11 men and actually show up?’.

‘50/50’, they said.

With both of us one forfeit away from being out of the competition, Dexter would rate us as 110% compatible. [The robot, not the serial killers’ serial killer…] A common mentality among the working classes is that more is more, and their answer to having a healthy squad of below average cricketers was to submit two teams, and then spend the rest of the season struggling to fill one of them. Bassendean Gold stick to the bottom of the ladder like your annoying but oddly charismatic friend with no money, but always keen to hang out, tell tall stories and drink your beer.

You know the type. You want to tell them to fuck off but they are quite nice guys, so you grow to love them.

If we lost this one, it would be a travesty. Worse. We almost did.

Our selection had less of a focus on form or qualifying players, and more on including old boys from the club’s prehistory, who were already going to be in town for ‘La Nocha del Pirata’.

Pirate Night is a Day of the Dead type ritual that involves buying a lottery ticket, dressing up as a pirate, and then drinking as much free piss as possible in the two hours. It ends only after kicking on to Mojo’s and then more rum, sodomy and the lash back at Ray’s place… this is purely speculation on my part, but the image sets the tone, so rack it up to poetic license.

Knowing how these guys drink, I’m not sure that it works as a fundraiser. Maybe the loss serves as a tax write off, or conveniently shifts the out of date stock from the bar.

Daff would be back, and also another blaster from the past, Dave Barratt.

I’d seem him at training and he looked solid. Balding, but with arresting eyes nestled above his ample beard, and a nose with more personality than the plain looking girl from a Christian youth group.

Interesting character! He reminds me of someone, like a post apocalyptic spirit guide from the Mad Max franchise, or a wily villain in Sons of Anarchy.

Which I have only heard of because I let my Dad use my Netflix account, skewing my preference algorithms to dumb action films and soft porn.

Pre game. I confused the Left Bank with the Tradewinds and went to the wrong pub. What can I say?  I don’t know my shit western suburbs pubs from my shit western suburbs pubs. Unfortunately, I was the kind of wanker who only ever only ever hung out in cool places… how times have changed!

But I’m sure it was amazing. I bet Phoenix really tore the place up. Instead, I was sweeping the pitch and installing the stumps.

I’m assuming Ray won the toss and we batted.  At the start of play they only had 7. ‘Poor bastards’, I thought, knowing exactly how it must feel.

Both Murph and I were padded up and watched in envy as Dave and Steve pushed it through the gaping holes in the field.

What we wouldn’t give to be in there now. I almost felt remorse. Almost…

Over the course of the first 10 overs, Ray became increasingly apprehensive about Steve’s run rate. What if he didn’t actually get out? What if we finished our 40 overs, none for 35? We could actually lose this…

Eventually he was bowled for 14.  His highest score for the Pirates, and a relief all round.

I went in kicked it up a bit, while trying not to get myself out. There were runs to be had today, and you take them when you can get them… if only you can keep your head down and play sensibly.

We put on 49 in 7 overs until Lewis came on, my eyes lit up, and I pulled the first ball I faced from him to square leg, where it was miraculously caught, in the one of the best catches I have ever seen in a game of cricket anywhere, ever.

He’s a nice guy, but a few biscuits short of a family assortment.  Built like a brick shit house but his sledges would come out in a thin little high-pitched voice that had the strangely opposite effect of imbuing you with more confidence.

He got a hand to it as it flew over his head popping it up into the air, then over balanced, fell to the ground and with one hand out stretched, the ball landed clean in his sweaty mitt… and stuck.

Sir, I tip my hat to you… and I told him so after the match.

Dave was now on 40 and he and Murph would add 93 before the latter was trapped LBW for 36, painfully close to a 50 and 100 run partnerships for the loss of two wickets respectively.

No glassware for you!

Batsmen were now impatient to get out there, salivating at he prospect of easy runs. Darrell was pacing like a bear in a hot concrete box at the Perth Zoo.

What a difference a week makes!

Shrugger was caught behind and walked like a gentleman, I’m talking blue label Johnny Walker-esque sportsmanship.

On a triumphant return to the club, Dave finished with an elegantly made 87.  A tragedy to not make a ton being caught only 13 from it.  More than just unlucky, the superstition continues for a very good reason, not because of alternate facts, but EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.

Shorty was stumped, but the big men of Southam and Garrett carried the bat and put on 47 to finish with 257. Ray hit a number of big 6’s to race to 34 in what felt like only a couple of over’s, and Daff made 21 not out.

Our highest total for the season, and presumably ungettable.

I think they even ran a 2... A-mazing.

Darrell was fuming not to get a bat and Ray assured him that opening with the ball, he was bound to get a 5 for today… such was the over confidence.

After Tea, predictable for it’s deliciousness, he opened the bowling with a maiden from the pavilion end, but then went for 12 each off his next two overs. This was unheard of. Usually tighter than proverbial’s proverbial, he pulled it back the next over, but then went for 21 runs off his 5th. Exercising a duty of care, Ray had to drag him for his own good, unless he hyperventilated or exploded with rage, or something. This was potentially his first ever wicketless spell for the season; we are going to have to let him open next week, or never hear the end of it. He slipped from poll position on our champion player table to behind me by 4 points.

Man, that has to hurt...

It is uncouth to speak of intra-club rivalries, and no one enjoys seeing a teammate getting absolutely thumped. Unless of course it is Glen Speering, and only when you can still win comfortably… which is the main thing!

Young Phoenix rose from the ashes of Darrell’s fire and struck from his first ball, Santorini caught by Ray. He bowled well despite the odd wide, and eventually bowled the other opener Cottrell.

Mind you, they had put on an 80 run partnership in 10 overs in the meantime, and were starting to look dangerous, as though they might not only make the runs easily, but in a short amount of time. Like cornered tigers!

Their number 3 was a specialist T20 player from the subcontinent, Chhertri Dhiral, and he blazed, crunching his 50 with barely a single.

We should have had him but I dropped him early, which would have made for a considerably shorter game, the rest of the team made only 63 runs between them.

It also didn’t help that we dropped him another two times, once by Black Eyed Steve, and then Daff did the honour. Both made up for it by buying beers, but it may have serious repercussions for selection next week.

And who would buy the beer?

Corms got more fired up at the dropped catches than I have ever seen him, and sent off batsmen with fiery barrages of expletive, before gently apologising for being unnecessarily ill mannered. It’s always the quite ones…

Dhiral went on to make 111 and the only thing that slowed him down was the slower bowling of Ray and Murph.

It’s interesting, and seemingly counter intuitive, how these changes to the dynamic of the game have flowed in from the introduction of short format cricket.

Murph's donkey drops brought catches, and Rays tempting morsels drew them out, with Shrugger doing the stumping.

We ran through the rest if them with regularity, mostly off the bowling of Shorty who finished with figures of 4 for 29 from 5 overs.

Robbed to not be left on to take his 5 for, but as fatigue set in, he started spraying them everywhere and Ray took pity on the wicket keeper.

I took the last tail-ender LBW and they were rolled for 174, the Pirates up by 83 runs.

It was a good win, we had the runs to play with, but it could easily have gone either way.

Great to have Dave in the team, and next week we look forward to having a full complement to face the unbeaten Applecross, and continue this roller-coaster ride of emotions.

[atvrvxia]

21 days of anarchy; a punk rock band from new york

katerina evans; known as the vixen

henrik van der berg; known as the muso

javier morales; known as the supernaturlist

erin evans; known as the benevolent

[atvrvxia]

21 days of anarchy tag dump !!

[atvrvxia]

DYNAMIC MOODBOARD ( 3 / ? ): 21 DAYS OF ANARCHY

“i still don’t get why you chose the percy jackson movies,” javi piped up, while kat took a quick video of all of them before posting it on her instagram story. “you hate the percy jackson movies.”

“i do. like, they totally messed up the story, the characters and so much of the mythology. but i like pointing out what’s wrong with the movies,” erin replied with a shrug.

“you and your love for mythology,” henrik shook his head, though there was a smile tugging at his lips. 

“we all have something we’re so knowledgeable of: javi’s got the supernatural, i have mythology, you have 80s movies and kat’s got comic books,” erin pointed out. “javi goes nuts whenever he finds out about some haunted place; kat gets all fangirl-y whenever a new marvel or dc show or movies comes out and you get all excited and tell us a lot of facts whenever we watch any movie from the eighties.”

“i’m not hatin’,” henrik shook his head.

“people think we’re cool ‘cause we’re in a famous rock band. but we’re really just a bunch of geeks who happen to also love music,” kat laughed. 

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BROTP MOODBOARD: 21 DAYS OF ANARCHY 

"People look at us and they see just a group of kids with big dreams. they think we're fools for trying to step out of our families' shadows and to create our own legacy. people think we're not going to last, but they're wrong. we're more than just a group of kids. heck, we're more than a band: we're a family. we're a family that may have disagreements, but at the end of the day, no one else will have my back the way these guys do. they're the only functional family i know and i love them. and there's nothing i won't do for any of them. " -henrik van der berg, rolling stone, october 2018 issue

[atvrvxia]

dynamic tag dump !!