#13 West Star Island

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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's House at 13 W Star Island Dr Miami Beach Aerial View

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o 625 words to know in your target language o

There is a really interesting blog called "Fluent Forever" that aids foreign language learners in tricks, tips and techniques to guide them to achieving fluency "quickly" and efficiently. One of the tricks is to learn these 625 vocab words in your target language, that way you have a basis to start delving into grammar with ease as you can understand a lot of vocab right off the bat. Plus this list of words are common across the world and will aid you in whatever language you are learning. Here is the list in thematic order

• Animal: dog, cat, fish, bird, cow, pig, mouse, horse, wing, animal

• Transportation: train, plane, car, truck, bicycle, bus, boat, ship, tire, gasoline, engine, (train) ticket, transportation

• Location: city, house, apartment, street/road, airport, train station, bridge hotel, restaurant, farm, court, school, office, room, town, university, club, bar, park, camp, store/shop, theater, library, hospital, church, market, country (USA,

France, etc.), building, ground, space (outer space), bank, location

• Clothing: hat, dress, suit, skirt, shirt, T-shirt, pants, shoes, pocket, coat, stain, clothing

• Color: red, green, blue (light/dark), yellow, brown, pink, orange, black, white, gray, color

• People: son, daughter, mother, father, parent (= mother/father), baby, man, woman, brother, sister, family, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, king, queen, president, neighbor, boy, girl, child (= boy/girl), adult (= man/woman), human (# animal), friend (Add a friend's name), victim, player, fan, crowd, person

• Job: Teacher, student, lawyer, doctor, patient, waiter, secretary, priest, police, army, soldier, artist, author, manager, reporter, actor, job

• Society: religion, heaven, hell, death, medicine, money, dollar, bill, marriage, wedding, team, race (ethnicity), sex (the act), sex (gender), murder, prison, technology, energy, war, peace, attack, election, magazine, newspaper, poison, gun, sport, race (sport), exercise, ball, game, price, contract, drug, sign, science, God

• Art. band, song, instrument (musical), music, movie, art

• Beverages: coffee, tea, wine, beer, juice, water, milk, beverage

• Food: egg, cheese, bread, soup, cake, chicken, pork, beef, apple, banana orange, lemon, corn, rice, oil, seed, knife, spoon, fork, plate, cup, breakfast, lunch, dinner, sugar, salt, bottle, food

• Home: table, chair, bed, dream, window, door, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, pencil, pen, photograph, soap, book, page, key, paint, letter, note, wall, paper, floor, ceiling, roof, pool, lock, telephone, garden, yard, needle, bag, box, gift, card, ring, tool

• Electronics: clock, lamp, fan, cell phone, network, computer, program (computer), laptop, screen, camera, television, radio

• Body: head, neck, face, beard, hair, eye, mouth, lip, nose, tooth, ear, tear (drop), tongue, back, toe, finger, foot, hand, leg, arm, shoulder, heart, blood, brain, knee, sweat, disease, bone, voice, skin, body

• Nature: sea, ocean, river, mountain, rain, snow, tree, sun, moon, world, Earth, forest, sky, plant, wind, soil/earth, flower, valley, root, lake, star, grass, leaf, air, sand, beach, wave, fire, ice, island, hill, heat, nature

• Materials: glass, metal, plastic, wood, stone, diamond, clay, dust, gold, copper, silver, material

• Math/Measurements: meter, centimeter, kilogram, inch, foot, pound, half, circle, square, temperature, date, weight, edge, corner

• Misc Nouns: map, dot, consonant, vowel, light, sound, yes, no, piece, pain, injury, hole, image, pattern, noun, verb, adjective

• Directions: top, bottom, side, front, back, outside, inside, up, down, left, right, straight, north, south, east, west, direction

• Seasons: Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall, season

• Numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 80, 81, 82, 90, 91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 10000, 100000, million, billion, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, number

• Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

• Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

• Time: year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, morning, afternoon, evening, night, time

• Verbs: work, play, walk, run, drive, fly, swim, go, stop, follow, think, speak/say, eat, drink, kill, die, smile, laugh, cry, buy, pay, sell, shoot(a gun), learn, jump, smell, hear (a sound), listen (music), taste, touch, see (a bird), watch (TV), kiss, burn, melt, dig, explode, sit, stand, love, pass by, cut, fight, lie down, dance, sleep, wake up, sing, count, marry, pray, win, lose, mix/stir, bend, wash, cook, open, close, write, call, turn, build, teach, grow, draw, feed, catch, throw, clean, find, fall, push, pull, carry, break, wear, hang, shake, sign, beat, lift

• Adjectives: long, short (long), tall, short (vs tall), wide, narrow, big/large, small/little, slow, fast, hot, cold, warm, cool, new, old (new), young, old (young), weak, dead, alive, heavy, light (heavy), dark, light (dark), nuclear, famous

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Best Silver Age Teen Titans stories (according to me)

Narratively Significant to the Teen Titans

Teen Titans (1966) #53 "In the Beginning": The original Fab5 team formation story

Teen Titans (1966) #50-52 "The Coast-to-Coast Calamities", "Titans East! Titans West! And Never (?) the Teens Shall Meet!", "When Titans Clash": The first time Titans East and Titans West were defined (with the first massive team up of 15 Titans):

Teen Titans (1966) #34 "The Demon of Dog Island": Babies' first friend-got-possessed-now-we-must-save-them story!

Interesting Storylines

Teen Titans (1966) #17 "The Return of the Mad Mod": Honestly, I love this story for being the first story where the problem is solved by everyone but Robin because I was so used to the modern stories of Dick being the only one allowed to have a brain

Teen Titans (1966) #37 "Scourge of the Skeletal Riders": They legitimately face off with what seems to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse, maybe evade death, and got their bus fixed by the horsemen's blacksmith? It's all completely unexplained! (Fun to tie in with the implication that they may be immortal though!)

Teen Titans (1966) #38 "Through These Doors Pass the Bravest Titans of Them All": Explores Dick, Donna, and Mal's dreams and insecurities which is fun and it's a little funny to me that all the redheads (Lilith, Wally, Roy) escapes this exploration

The Brave and the Bold (1955) #102 "The Commune of Defiance": A story about civil disobedience portrayed in a good light where the Titans participate!! A story about improving a neighbourhood!!! It's so good I actually teared up a little. If you read nothing else, read this!!!!!!! I'm obsessed with this story actually!!!!!!!!!!

Teen Titans (1966) #41 "What Lies in Litchburg Graveyard": Another story with quite heavy exploration of the history of slavery in America. Is it accurate and sensitive enough? It's like really not my place to say but it seems to be written to teach people at that time about the impacts they have Mr Jupiter raised by a cool black lady which is cool to me!

Fun and Games~

Teen Titans (1966) #9 "The Big Beach Rumble": They have cute sweaters and scooters and fun, who doesn't love a beach ep?

Teen Titans (1966) #11 "Monster Bait": My favourite Fab5 story from here really, just fun and silliness

Teen Titans (1966) #13 "The TT's Swingin' Christmas Carol": A Teen Titans adaptation of the Christmas Carol, who doesn't want to see KF, A-lad, and WG as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future?

Teen Titans (1966) #19 "Stepping Stones for a Giant Killer!": They clown the villain SO much in this one it's just fun

Teen Titans (1966) #27 "Nightmare in Space" (with optional pre-reading of #26 "A Penny for a Black Star" which is the set up): Teen Titans go to space to rescue a lost friend and Donn befriends some funky little cute aliens, what is there not to love?

Teen Titans (1966) #32 "A Mystical Realm, A World Gone Mad!": You get to see the JLA as knights which is very funny and it has lots of Wally and Mal moments in the silliest possible form

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Carmen Jane Plant

Carmen Jane Plant is the daughter of Maureen and Robert Plant. She works as a professional dancer and teaches belly-dancing and ethnic dancing. She produced the 2018 show ‘The Serpent Slayer’.

Early Years and Family

[Robert, Maureen, and little Carmen at the family's farmhouse near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, 1970]

Carmen Jane Plant is the eldest children and the only daughter of Led Zeppelin's frontman Robert Plant and his wife Maureen née Wilson. She was born on 21st October 1968 in Birmingham, England and has two younger brothers, Karac Pendra Plant and Logan Romero Plant. She has a younger half brother from her father's side, Jesse Lee Plant aka Jordan Plant.

Carmen is of Indian descent from her mother's side and of Romani descent from her father's. The 1972 Led Zeppelin song, “The Ocean,” actually references Carmen in one of the lyrics: "‘I’m singin’ all my songs to the girl who won my heart/She’s only three years old but it’s a real fine way to start".

[Robert with his children Karac and Carmen at their farm, filmed in 1973 and seen in Led Zeppelin film's "The Song Remains the Same", released on 1976.]

During the 1970s, she attended the Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School in Stourbridge, West Midlands.

On October 2007 Robert admitted he regrets staying on tour throughout the 1970’s because he feels his daughter grew up without knowing who he was. Robert claimed she once mistook him for a burglar after he came home from a particularly long tour: "What I recall for the first two years is my daughter not really knowing who I was and getting rather agitated when I came back off tour, as she thought I’d come to rob the house."

In an interview for the People magazine (December 20 1976) Robert explains: "Carmen used to think she had two fathers—the one whose singing she heard through the speakers and the one on whose knee she was sitting. They [Carmen and Karac] love it when I come back to tell them tales."

Car accident and Karac's death

[The Plants with Scarlet Page (C) in 1976]

Carmen was also a passenger in Robert and Maureen Plant's car involved in a road accident on the Greek island of Rhodes on 4 August 1975. Maureen was driving a hired Austin Mini with her husband and their children plus Scarlet Page. The Plant family were seriously injured when the car skidded off the road and collided with a tree but Scarlet Page was unhurt. In the back-seat, Carmen suffered a broken wrist, cuts and bruises. Scarlet's mum Charlotte Martin and Maureen's sister Shirley Wilson, who were following in the car behind managed to get medical help.

In 1977, Carmen also became ill with the same stomach enteritis which took the life of her younger brother Karac Plant, aged only 6.

Personal Life

[Carmen and Robert in 1988]

On 21 November 1989, Led Zeppelin reformed with Jason Bonham on drums, for Carmen's 21st birthday party at Hen & Chickens public house in Oldbury, West Midlands. They performed 'Trampled Under Foot', 'Misty Mountain Hop', and 'Rock and Roll', with Chris Blackwell and Phil Johnstone in support. The Nashville Teens and Jimmy Page's daughter Scarlet Page, were also in attendance.

[Carmen with Charlie Jones]

Carmen Plant got married to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's bass player Stephen Charles "Charlie" Jones (born 13 Oct 1965), at St. Peter's Church, on 18 May 1991. Their wedding reception was held in a series of marquees at Robert's farm at Kidderminster. Roy Harper's song 'Evening Star' was written for Carmen for the occasion.

Carmen and Charlie Jones have three children, their eldest a daughter named Sunny Plant-Jones (born 1993). The family lives in Bath, Somerset.

Professional Career and Recent Years

Carmen Plant Jones works as a professional dancer and teaches belly-dancing and ethnic dancing. She was tutored in belly-dancing by Serena Ramzy, wife of Hossam Ramzy who performed in Page and Plant's "No Quarter Middle Eastern orchestra". Carmen Plant has appeared at the Rivermead Womad Music Festival, Glastonbury Festival, and with the Babylon Arabic Ensemble.Carmen continues to carry on the family’s musical legacy through Middle Eastern-inspired performing arts. In a 2018 article about her dance production ‘The Serpent Slayer’, Carmen Jane Plant acknowledges her fortunate upbringing: “I come from a musical family, obviously through my dad, my husband, and my children as well. Thanks to my dad, I grew up listening to an alternative and eclectic range from a young age and that really provided the inspiration for me to get involved with all kinds of music. It’s all that I’ve known really, so it’s great that I can put this all in to practice.”

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Revenge of the Underrated, Round 2!

Round 1

The big players will start competing this round, so make sure to support your favorite unknown movie with propaganda and reblogs!

Also, this round we somehow ended up with more polls than round 1, so that will be fun 😅

Luca vs Ballerina

2. Mary and Max vs Tiger and Bunny: The Rising

3. The Bad Guys vs Miss Hokusai

4. Loving Vincent vs Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 1

5. Pocahontas vs The Girl Without Hands

6. Hercules vs The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

7. Anomalisa vs Cats don't Dance

8. The Little Mermaid vs Felidae

9. It's Such a Beautiful Day vs An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

10. Paprika vs Pokemon Heroes

11. Sing 2 vs The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

12. Wendell and Wild vs The Plague Dogs

13. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs vs Ice Age

14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame vs Strange Magic

15. Azur and Asmar: The Prince's Quest vs Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs

16. Mad God vs Rock and Rule

17. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm vs Titan A.E.

18. The Wind Rises vs The Adventures of Mark Twain

19. Sleeping Beauty vs Tarzan

20. Zootopia vs Robots

21. Monsters vs Aliens vs The Twelve Months

22. Robin Hood vs Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Candace Against the Universe

23. The Case of Hana and Alice vs Revue Starlight: The Movie

24. Long Way North vs One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

25. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On vs Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

26. My Life as a Zucchini vs Lupin III: The First

27. The Fox and the Hound vs Minions: The Rise of Gru

28. The Three Caballeros vs Princes and Princesses

29. When Marnie was Here vs A Letter to Momo

30. Akira vs The Wild Thornberrys Movie

31. The Cat Returns vs The Boy who Wanted to be a Bear

32. Belladonna of Sadness vs The Swan Princess

33. Porco Rosso vs Patema Inverted

34. Rio vs Next Gen

35. The Lego Batman Movie vs Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

36. The Aristocats vs Thumbelina

37. James and the Giant Peach vs Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island

38. Castle in the Sky vs Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie

39. Over the Hedge vs Charlotte's Web (1973)

40. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius vs The Princess and the Goblin

41. Redline vs Catnapped!

42. The Addams Family vs Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

43. Epic vs Padak

44. Vivo vs Bartok the Magnificent

45. Barbie: Princess Charm School vs Night on the Galactic Railroad

46. Waking Life vs The Rabbi's Cat

47. Barbie as Rapunzel vs Seven Days War

48. Cool World vs Pippi Longstocking

49. When the Wind Blows vs Ruben Brandt, Collector

50. Summer Wars vs Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

51. The Black Cauldron vs Mars Needs Moms

52. The Red Turtle vs Underdogs

53. Ron's Gone Wrong vs Once Upon a Forest

54. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade vs Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

55. Arthur Christmas vs Help! I'm a Fish

56. Barbie of Swan Lake vs Sea Prince and the Fire Child

57. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole vs Freddie as F.R.0.7

58. Pokemon: The Movie 2000 vs Rock-A-Doodle

59. Arthur and the Invisibles vs Unico in the Island of Magic

60. Barbie as the Island Princess vs Flatland: The Film

61. Mind Game vs Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

62. Dragon Ball Super: Broly vs The Flight of Dragons

63. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero vs Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

64. Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase vs Happily N'Ever After

65. On-Gaku: Our Sound vs Book Girl

66. Tiger and Bunny: The Rising vs Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us

67. The Pebble and the Penguin vs The Magic Riddle

68. A Troll in Central Park vs Ico, the Brave Horse

69. Robot Carnival vs Blinky Bill

70. The Snow Queen vs The Legend of Manxmouse

71. Early Man vs Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito

72. Nocturna vs Junk Head

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The science of time travel

This is my first post so please share any thoughts on what I should improve? What is time travel

Time travel is a commonly spoken about science fiction concept, but what actually is it? An object time travels if the difference between its departure and arrival times, measured in the physical world, does not equal the duration of the journey the object went through. In other words, an object time travels if it is moving at different points in time.

This concept is regularly explored in various films such as “Back to the Future” using the “Flux Capacitor”, as well as in Doctor Who with “The TARDIS”. In both of these cases, an object is used to allow the characters to go back or forwards in time, but will time travel ever be possible?

With the rate at which different areas in science are being explored, discovered or further developed, scientists are now curious whether or not we would actually be able to time travel ourselves. What kind of laws would we potentially be breaking and what kind of ethical issues would be prevalent?

Special relativity

Albert Einstein, arguably the greatest physicist of all time for incredible progress in various fields in theoretical physics, published a research paper in 1905 stating multiple groundbreaking discoveries, one of which was that the speed of light in a vacuum was constant and could not change and is approximately 299,792,458 m/s. The second being the formulation of the most famous equation in physics: E = mc², which explores the idea that mass is equal to energy. 

Thirdly Einstein further asserted that Physics was the same for all observers regardless of how fast they were moving; and finally, he challenged the notion that time was absolute and could not change by explaining  that time is not absolute and varies depending on the observers and their motion.

This new understanding of how the universe functions would lead scientists into a new age of incredible discoveries and thought provoking possibilities such as the idea that time travel may be possible!

What is the 4 dimensional world

In order to answer this question, we will have to create an understanding of the world around us, especially that of space-time. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski proposed a framework that would change physics forever. 3 dimensions of space (length, width, height) as well as an extra dimension of time, making a 4 dimensional world. This hypothetical construct would allow the possibility of time travel, as we now know that time is a dimension that could possibly be overcome!

Minkowski described time as being a worldline, a path that traces its way through space-time, allowing physicists to imagine the past, present and future. He then built on this idea and proposed the idea of the block universe which is an idea regarding how we interact with time. Time is a part of this line that we are travelling on, with the future being in front of us and the past behind us. What implications does this have however?

If time does operate in this way, then that would mean we could interact at different points of this line, going to the past or future, making time travel possible.

General relativity:

Einstein, 13 years after his theory of special relativity was published, created a new framework for gravity, going against Isaac Newton’s idea that gravity was a ‘tug of war’ between two objects, explaining that objects with a great mass curve space-time. 

This was proved by an astrophysicist called Sir Arthur Eddington who travelled to principal islands, west of Africa, and photographed many stars during an eclipse. During an eclipse, light would have bent due to the high gravitational potential energy of the sun, also called gravitational lensing. If the location in the night sky of the stars was different during the eclipse to a normal day, then Einstein’s theory would be proved correct. Sir Eddington compared the photos during the eclipse to the regular night sky of principal island and gravitational lensing was clearly evident, proving Einstein to be correct.

In the movie Interstellar, when Cooper is about to go onto the water planet (Miller's planet), the characters speak of the idea that 1 hour on that planet equates to 7 years on earth, so they would have to move fast; but how does that make any sense? This can be explained by general relativity. Miller's planet was orbiting a black hole which contains something called a singularity. Singularities are regions of space which are infinitely small with infinite density, meaning the singularity warps space-time to such a high amount that time is slowed down because of it, explaining the difference in time between Miller’s planet and earth.

This new view of the bending of space-time due to an object's mass would be greatly beneficial to understanding time, but why exactly is time linear? Why does it go in one direction?

The arrows of time

Time described by Minkowski’s block universe theory could also be adapted into multiple arrows, namely the thermodynamic arrow of time, the cosmological arrow of time and the psychological arrow of time.

The thermodynamic arrow of time deals with the second law of thermodynamics, that being in a closed system, an object will always tend to a higher entropy. Entropy is the degree of disorder in a system. In thermodynamics entropy will always increase. You can imagine a jigsaw puzzle; there are far more options for the puzzle to be out of order than in the correct order. In the universe, entropy will always increase. This is clearly seen by how galaxies are accelerating away from us. If entropy was decreasing, those galaxies would be trying to come closer together into their original state. This arrow of time therefore states that entropy will continue to increase.

The psychological arrow of time explains how we consciously experience time. When we first become conscious, we perceive time from past to present, with the future going to happen, but why is that? Why don’t we experience the future first? For instance, if you remember yourself knocking a glass off of a table, you recall the sequence of events (how it happened) rather than imagining the glass breaking and then returning to the table.

Causality is key to understanding this arrow of time. Causality means that a cause must always happen after the effect, and we do psychologically recognize that causes happen before their effects. If we were to experience the future first, it would disrupt our understanding of cause and effect. The order in which we witness events shapes how we remember them and navigate through time. For example, if you saw the glass on the table and then suddenly it was broken on the floor, this would create confusion about what just happened.

If we therefore were to time travel, would the psychological arrow of time then affect our memories, or would causality remain?

The cosmological arrow of time explains the expansion of the universe. No matter where you are in the universe, every other galaxy will be moving away from you, except for galaxies with a strong enough gravitational pull, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, colliding with other galaxies. This has been proven by red shift, which is the wavelength of light hitting us from distant galaxies, slightly shifted to the red part of the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning the light is being bent to a slightly different colour that we should see, as those galaxies are accelerating away from us. 

These arrows of time would therefore have to be pointing in the same direction in order for time to go on how it does. What I mean by this is that the thermodynamic arrow of time could not result in entropy decreasing, or in the cosmological arrow of time, the universe cannot not expand as this would mean that these two arrows of time are pointing in different directions. This then creates the question, what effect would time travel have on the three arrows of time.

Time is not absolute

Time can vary for different observers based on their motion (their velocity) as well as their interactions with gravitational energy. 

Imagine that from the moment you were born, both you and your mother wore watches that would never run out of time or need batteries. After twenty years, if you compared your watches, the different paths each of you took would result in tiny differences in the times displayed on the watches.

These tiny differences in time are caused by time dilation, which comes from two main factors: the relative velocities of each person wearing the watch (as described by special relativity) and the differences in gravitational energy between both of your locations (as described by general relativity). In other words, the different velocities at which you both walked, as well as the different amounts of gravitational potential energy you experienced, would lead to different time readings on your watches.

Can Time Travel Really Happen?

Now that we know the science behind time as well as space, we can make the hypothesis that time travel is theoretically possible, but definitely not with the current level of technology we have. But are there any one way tickets into the future? What about wormholes?

Wormholes

A wormhole is a hypothetical structure, connecting different points in space and different points in time. A wormhole is often imagined as a shortcut through space and time. It was first conceptualised after Einstein released his famous field equations in 1915 which connect the geometry of space-time to the matter within. A wormhole can be described as a tunnel with two ends at two separate points in space-time.

If wormholes were to be real, time travel would be possible as you would be able to travel between two completely different regions of space, very far away, instantly, or even go forwards or backwards in time.

Unfortunately Wormholes have not been identified yet and still remain only a mathematical possibility. Many scientists have uncertainty about whether or not they exist because they also pose another issue, that being that they require negative energy as said by Kip Thorne in a 1988 paper, which is only possible in black holes.

Lets now say that we were able to use negative energy and keep the wormhole open, another problem arises, we still would not be able to choose which part of space or which part of time we would like to enter from as well as if the time we are entering from has kept to our causal arrows of time, creating multiple other issues that could lead to you never coming back to your original timeline.

Are there any other ways of time travel?

Quantum weirdness

In the tiny world, particles do not function in the same way as larger objects. Quantum particles undergo very strange processes that would be normally impossible. One of which being Quantum Entanglement. 

Quantum entanglement is when particles become connected in such a way that even over vast distances, they will still be connected. For example, let's say you have a pair of gloves and are packaging the left glove to be sent to a person called Bob and the right glove to be sent to a person called Alice. When Alice opens the package and discovers the right glove, she can then infer that the left glove will be with Bob, even though he could be miles away.  This is similar to how quantum entanglement works. Both particles do not need to know where they are as they would always have that connection that is built into the particles.

This new idea of particles being able to interact over incredibly vast distances instantaneously goes against the notion of causality, but they do open doors we can go through to attempt to dream of time travel by simulating quantum entanglement experiments. Over time we may even be able to instantly teleport objects or even people to the past or future due to the great distances we would be travelling over, basically teleporting us into a different time!

Ethics with time travel

Time travel would be incredibly useful in many fields such as to not repeat any horrible histories that may occur in the future or to be able to use discoveries we have made in the future, now, improving our modern technology by many centuries worth, but what about the ethics surrounding this?

A famous paradox created by time travel is the Grandfather Paradox. If you were to travel to the past and kill your grandfather/grandmother, one of your parents would never be born, meaning you would never be born so how could you kill your grandfather/grandmother. This paradox cannot be explained just yet, but there may be a solution to this that scientists are overlooking.

Another ethical issue would be that an immoral person may end up going to the past or future in order to cause havoc, such as causing a war or even a world war. This would then change the future or past entirely!

A final ethical issue would be the idea that travelling to the future or past could also potentially lead to the breakdown of your body to an atomic level (such as going between locations using quantum entanglement, where you would have to become particles to interact with other particles far away). Would this then lead to the death of your consciousness? Or the death of your current self entirely? These questions cannot yet be answered as we do not have the correct understanding of the brain and consciousness just yet. Is consciousness brought about by evolution in animals, is it a naturally occurring biological state, does it exist physically (could we interact with it directly?) or is consciousness more confusingly caused by the wavefunction collapse in microtubules, as said by Roger Penrose. Answering the question of what consciousness is would be able to answer one of the questions on whether or not time travel is ethically moral.

Is time travel currently possible

Unfortunately we do not have technology advanced enough to even simulate any form of large, real occurrences of time travel (such as the uses of quantum entanglement), however, the field of physics is more popular and vibrant than ever, meaning these areas of research are ongoing and breakthroughs are just around the corner, potentially bringing us closer to time travel.

As we continue to delve into these incredible and thought provoking ideas, we have to stay in the present before we can get ready to explore the future!

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My Girl [Chapter 13][Jake "Hangman" Seresin x OC]

Summary: Jake Seresin could be the answer to all of your dating woes. He’s the full package: steady job, mature, dependable, attractive to a fault. The polar opposite of every guy your age and he’s everything you’ve ever wanted in a partner. But there’s one roadblock: he’s a single father to four-year-old Ellie. Jake is looking for a level of commitment you’re not quite sure you’re ready to give, and he’s not willing to bring someone into his daughter’s life who isn’t there for the long haul. And even if you are stepmom material, is Jake ready to let someone back in his life while still mourning the recent loss of his late wife? 

Pairing: Jake “Hangman” Seresin x OC [Lawyer Natalie West]

WC: 3.2K

Warning: Age gap, cursing, arguing, angst, alcohol

Series masterlist here

Your flight was leaving in three days. You had to tell him. 

“Jake?” 

He looked up from where he was stirring pancake batter on the counter, flecks of flour dusting his pajama top. You thought back to your first date at the coffee shop, and how frazzled he had been because he was late. It seemed like eons ago. You had been different people back then. 

Perhaps it had been more simple. 

“Yeah baby,” he said, “what’s going on?” 

You fiddled with your fingers in your lap, recrossing your legs on the barstool. Ellie was upstairs in her room, fast asleep. Jake’s eyes roamed over your face, a frown appearing as he took in how anxious you were. 

“Nat? What’s wrong?” He dropped the whisk and bowl on the counter, stepping to the left and coming to stand on the other side of the kitchen island, his hands reaching across the granite top. 

You took a deep breath and lifted your gaze to his. He deserved to hear it all. “I have to go to New York on Tuesday. For work.” 

“Oh,” he said, raising an eyebrow. “That’s it?” 

You shook your head. 

“How long will you be gone?” 

���A week, maybe more,” you said and you watched Jake’s face fall, opening a crater in your abdomen, all of your hopes and dreams quickly falling into that black abyss. 

“A week is nothing, sweetheart,” he said, reaching out and grabbing one of your hands in his. “You’ll be back sooner than you realize.” 

“It’s not just that,” you said and your fingers tightened in Jake’s grip as he clamped down. “My boss, Patrick, asked me to lead a due diligence team on our capital markets arm as we expand from the New York practice out here to San Diego.” 

“Natalie,” Jake whispered, his face glowing. “That’s amazing! I am so proud of you.” 

You tried to choke back the tears that were threatening a flood. “Thank you.” 

“Why don’t you look happy?” he asked tentatively. 

“In order to do that, I have to be in New York one or two weeks a month,” you said and the realization began to settle on Jake. You felt his hand go limp in yours. 

“For how long?”

“I’m not sure,” you said, your voice beginning to wobble. “At least this quarter. Could be longer. Could be a whole year.” 

Jake sucked in a breath and you looked up at him through the tears that had started to flood your lash line. “Oh, honey,” he said, walking around the granite island and pulling you into his arms, your face pressed flat against his broad chest, his fingers brushing through your tangled bedhead. “Don’t cry, sweetheart.” 

After a moment, you pulled away, wiping haphazardly at the tears staining your cheeks. “I’m sorry.” 

Jake chuckled and shook his head. “For what? Being successful at work? God, you have nothing to apologize for, baby. You’re a star. A fucking rockstar.” 

“I know you’re looking for someone who can be here for you—” you started and Jake cut you off. 

“Nat,” he murmured and his tone was deep. Solem. “I would never tell you that my needs are more important than yours. This is your career. This is the culmination of everything you’ve worked for. I’m not going to stand in your way.” He took your hands in his and smiled. “We’ll be here when you’re done. Don’t worry about me and Ellie. We’ll be here waiting for you, honey. I promise.” 

Jake took your face in his hands. He was tender and sweet and you knew he meant what he was saying. 

Or at least he thought he did. Maybe he didn’t realize that what he was saying was a direct conflict to what he truly wanted. “Nat, I’m not going anywhere. I love you.” 

“I love you, too,” you whispered hoarsely. 

Jake pulled you to standing, one hand across your lower back, the other cradling the back of your head. His green eyes were soft, small wrinkles forming around the corners as his mouth turned up in a gentle smile. “I’m proud of you, honey. We’re only ever just a phone call away.” 

You were afraid to open your mouth, for fear that all that would come out would be sobs. So instead you wrapped your arms around his neck and pulled him in closely. Felt the warmth of his hands on your waist, the tenderness of his lips, the way his body molded into yours. You savored Jake, committing him to memory. Letting his touches build, praying the memories of his hands on you would be enough to tattoo them in your mind. So that when you were gone a part of him was still left on your skin. 

***

“Hey baby.” 

You held a hand up to the glass. The conference room had a clear view facing north, with One World Trade slightly off to the left, the Brooklyn Bridge to your right. Even though it was closing in on midnight and you were running on fumes and stale office coffee, you had to admit how beautiful the cityscape was. 

“How’s it going?” Jake’s voice practically melted through the phone. He barely slept, something you had learned early on in your relationship, and that made phone calls across the three-hour time zone difference slightly easier to organize. He always made himself available to you if he wasn’t in the air.  

You sighed into the phone. “The same. It’s going to be a long few months. The team here is good, but they’re not happy about the expansion or integration, and there’s a lot of holes to patch before we announce this firm-wide.” 

“If anybody can do it, it’s you,” he said and you smiled, taking a seat in one of the rolling chairs near the large wooden conference table. “How are you, honey?” 

“I’m OK,” you said and it was only a half lie. You were drained and exhausted and you wanted to go back to California. Climb into Jake’s king sized bed and have him cradle you in his strong arms. You wanted to eat donuts with Ellie on the beach and feel the smooth breeze of fresh ocean air in your hair. New York was for some people, but it was not for you. “Tired and missing you, but I think we’re finally getting somewhere. I just can’t believe I had to be here every month for who knows how long. This city is something else.” 

“Bad?” he asked. 

“Just, dirty,” you replied and Jake’s laugh bounced through the receiver. “I literally watched a man throw up on a pile of garbage bags and then just straighten up and keep walking. And everyone around just watched him do it, and then went on their way. It’s insane. I think you could get murdered on the street and nobody would look twice.” 

“Be safe, OK?” There was an urgency in Jake’s voice. Fear. “I worry about you, all alone out there.” 

You laughed. “Jake, I’m twenty-seven-years-old. I can take care of myself, I promise.” 

He paused. “Wait, what do you mean you’re twenty seven?” 

You bit your lip. “My birthday was last week.” 

“Nat!” There was pure shock and hurt in his words. “Baby, why didn’t you tell me?”

“I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it,” you said. “I was going to New York, we were busy. Jake, please, it’s fine.”

You could perfectly picture him shaking his head. “Honey. I wish you woulda told me.”

“I’m sorry.” You practically whispered it. 

“Don’t be sorry, baby,” Jake said softly. “But expect a party when you get home to make up for the fact that I missed my girlfriend’s twenty-seventh birthday party.”

“Jake,” you whined, “please. I hate big parties.” 

“Then just us,” he said. 

“And Ellie.” 

You could practically hear his smile on the other end of the line. “The three of us. We’ll make a day out of it. Do all of your favorite things.” 

“How about Saturday?” you asked. “I’ll be home late Friday night, but I can pop over Saturday morning.” 

“We’ll see you on Saturday, sweetheart,” Jake said softly. “I love you. Now go back to your hotel and get some rest, OK? Text me when you get to your room.” 

“I love you,” you replied. 

“Goodnight princess.” 

***

You didn’t make it home on Friday, or Saturday and when Sunday rolled around, they asked you to stay another week and you had no choice but to accept. 

Jake was understanding when you called him three days in a row with another departure date and another excuse at hand. He was understanding when he had to cancel the special funfetti cake he had made at the local bakery, and when he had to tell Ellie that you wouldn’t be home over the weekend but that he would take her to fly kites on the beach himself on the next warm day. 

Jake was all too understanding when you called him in tears night after night from the stress of the expansion. 

It was once you had been in New York for three weeks straight that his patience began to wear thin. 

“Why don’t we just come out and visit you?” he asked. 

You held the phone to your ear, pacing around the glass wall of the conference room. It was late, most of the team had gone home. You had doordashed a bottle of wine to go with your SUGARFISH bento box that lay half eaten on the shellacked wood table. “I don't know if that’s such a good idea.”

“Why not?” There was impatience layered into his tone. “Nat, it’s been almost a month.” 

“I know it has,” you said tiredly. “I’m very aware of how long it’s been Jake.” Your pelvis ached for him and no matter how many times you slipped beneath the covers at night and pressed your hand between your legs nothing could compare to the way Jake made you feel. “It’s just that I don’t even know how much time I’d have to see you guys. It’s not that I don’t want you here, it’s that I don’t want you to fly all the way across the country for just a few hours here and there together.”

“But we’d see you a little bit,” he said with exasperation. “That’s better than nothing.”

“Jake, it’s just not a good idea.” In the distance, you could have sworn you saw a light flicker somewhere in the hallway. 

“Jesus, Nat,” Jake sighed. “Fine, forget I asked.” 

“Jake—”

“I have to go,” he interrupted. “I’ll talk to you later.” 

Before you could open your mouth to reply, the line was dead. You turned around, mouth hung open in shock, to see Peter standing at the door of the conference room, a box of cookies in his hands. 

“Is this a bad time?” he asked. 

You shook your head and he stepped inside, putting the box down. Peter Reinhardt was one of the younger associates on the capital markets team in the New York office. Compared to some of the other members of the team, he was shockingly intelligent and capable, something you valued highly in a colleague. 

“Cookie?” He slid the box over to you and you popped open the top, selecting an oatmeal M&M one and biting into it with a sigh. 

“Thanks,” you said, sitting down in the closest seat and crossing your legs. “Why are you still here?” 

He gave you a weak smile. Peter was the embodiment of the New York finance guy: slacks, white button down shirt, company vest with Patagonia branding, beat up Gucci loafers. He slicked his jetblack hair and had pearly white teeth. You had actually watched one of the paralegals trip over herself the other day when he smiled at her in the break room. “Reviewing some of the ops briefs. Those guys really don’t know how to write a contract.” 

You laughed, tossing the rest of the cookie into your mouth. “Tell me about it.” 

Peter fiddled with his hands on the table. “Do you want to talk about it?” 

“Ops? I’d rather eat my own leg,” you replied glibly. 

He shook his head. “I meant that phone call that I walked in on. Obviously didn’t go like you had hoped.” 

You thought about it for a second. Despite being in New York for almost an entire month, you had yet to really bond with any of your coworkers. Most of them had their own lives and families and friends already, and it didn’t help that you spent most nights in conference room C eating takeout and pouring over legal documents. “I just didn’t expect to be here this long,” you said finally. “I thought it would be a week every month but I’ve been here almost the entire month of April and it’s just, it’s wearing on me.” 

Peter nodded. “For what it’s worth, you’re doing the work of like ten guys so I have to believe that you won't have to be here that much longer.” 

“I wish,” you groaned, leaning one elbow against the table. “My boss in San Diego is kind of a dick. He gave me this position as a test. He thinks I’m going to end up costing the firm maternity pay and he doesn’t want to keep someone that he doesn’t view as a hard worker.”

Peter’s face froze. “I didn’t even realize you were married.”

You shook your head. “Oh, I’m not. He’s just reading between the lines and drawing his own conclusion.” 

“So the person on the phone was …” 

“My partner,” you replied. “His name is Jake. I feel really guilty that I haven’t been able to see him since I got here.” 

“I’m sure he’ll understand,” Peter said. “If he understands work pressure.” 

You chuckled. “He’s a Navy fighter pilot, so yes, I think he understands.” 

“Wow.” There was genuine shock in Peter’s voice. “A fighter pilot? He better be hideous to counteract it or else there’s no chance for us other guys.” 

You opened your phone and pulled up a photo of you, Jake and Ellie that had been taken on Valentine’s Day and slid it over to Peter. “Sorry to break it to you,” you murmured. His eyes widened as he took in the photo, and then he squinted. 

“Shit,” he muttered, “you weren’t lying. Who’s the kid?” 

“His daughter, Ellie,” you said, pulling the phone back. “She’s four.” 

“A kid? That’s big,” he said and it was reminiscent of what Rebecca had said the first time you told her about Jake. 

You nodded. “Yeah, but she’s a little peach. She’s the least of my concerns.”

“So you have concerns.” Peter pulled out a chocolate chip cookie and nibbled at one edge. 

“I mean, who doesn’t?” you said and it was freeing to talk to someone about Jake who had no context about anything. Who didn’t know about Lizzie or Margot or your history with Sam. It felt like a fresh start. “I’m eight years younger than him. Sometimes I think it’s fine, and other times it terrifies me. Not the age difference, but just like life. I love Ellie to pieces, but am I ready to be a stepmom? Drive carpool and plan birthday parties and make sure she does her math homework and chaperone sleepovers? Is that really where I want to be at twenty seven? Shouldn’t I be out partying and getting wrinkles that I immediately get botox for when I turn thirty? I still feel like a teenager sometimes, how am I supposed to be somebody’s mom?” You grabbed the bottle of wine and poured more into your glass before pouring another glass for Peter and scooting it over toward him. “What if I go back in a week or two weeks and she’s completely forgotten about me?” 

“Four-year-olds are smarter than that,” he said and you frowned. “I have a nephew,” he replied and you nodded. “Besides, you need to stop asking yourself where you should be right now and just focus on what you want to be doing. If you want to be a stepmom, then do it. If you want to stay up all night and go clubbing, do it. Stop thinking about what other people expect of you or need from you. What do you want?” 

You raised the glass of wine to your lips. When was the last time you let yourself ask that question? 

What did you want? 

***

You were exhausted, still wearing your work shift dress with the sky high pumps, your legs shaking as you knocked quietly on the door. 

After a moment, Jake pulled open the wooden door, surprise splashed across his face. “Honey?” 

He stepped forward and pulled you into his arms in a tight embrace, so tight it felt like your lungs might collapse at the pressure. And when he pulled back, his large, warm hands came out to stroke your cheeks, cradling you as he smiled. 

“You didn’t tell me you were coming home today,” he whispered and you realized how late it was, and that Ellie was definitely asleep. 

Jake pulled the door closed so the two of you were standing on the porch, your legs still wobbly in the heels. “It was a last minute decision,” you said after a moment. “I have to fly back tomorrow.” 

“Natalie,” he said and there was so much pain laced into that single word. “Baby, really? Can’t you stay just one day at least?”

You pulled back, crossing your arms over your chest. “Jake, I don’t think this is working.” 

He froze. “What do you mean?”

You shook your head. “I’m not what you need,” you said softly. “I’m not here. I know you, Jake. I know what you need from a partner. I know what you deserve. I just don’t think that’s me.” 

Jake’s eyes darted around your face. “Tell me you’re joking.”

“I’m sorry.” It came out strained and thin. 

“Nat, this isn’t funny,” he said and there was realization threaded through his voice. “I’m not laughing.” 

“Jake, it’s not a joke,” you whispered. You reached out to touch his arm and he pulled away instinctively. “I’m just trying to do what’s best for you.” 

He shook his head. “No, you’re not,” he rasped. “You’re taking the easy way out.”

“Easy?” Your voice was raised, and you stopped for a moment and looked up toward Ellie’s room to make sure you hadn’t disturbed her. The room stayed dark beyond the window. “Fuck, Jake, you’re making this harder than it needs to be. And it’s already so hard. I want what’s best for you, OK?” The tears had started to fall. “That’s not me. Not anymore. Don't you understand? This is killing me, Jake. But I won't be the reason you're not happy."

Jake stepped closer, his green eyes narrowing, his voice low and sharp. "Why do get to tell me what's right for me? You're the woman I love, Natalie. You're my girlfriend."

You shook your head. “Not anymore, Jake. I'm sorry.”

A/N: OK guys — this is it, this is THE breakup. I've had some comments saying there's too much up and down with the two of them, but I do think that's just how relationships go a lot of the time. In this case, this is the breakup for Jake and Nat, so apologies in advance for the angst. Not a huge spoiler but I promise they will get their happy ending!

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[starghost-fics]

fanfic master post

this is new era only; anything not listed here is likely on my AO3 as a historical curiosity from the olden days.

sometimes i use the actual summary from AO3, sometimes that's too long or I don't want to use it here. no rules, only fic

under the cut: OCTOPATH TRAVELER OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH TED LASSO DEEP SPACE NINE

OCTOPATH TRAVELER

As a preface, I would personally like to invite you to play this video game because I found it delightful, but also because I'm inordinately proud of some of this fic, and it's a little fandom.

in the near-dark

AO3

length: 3 chapters, 9100 words

summary: The group travels through Orsterra, and Therion is bad at sleeping, except when he isn't.

my favorite tag: oh no tenderness

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a little sleight of hand

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 1500 words

summary: Therion has a strange habit of squirreling away food when he thinks no one is looking. Tressa worries about it.

my favorite tag: even my fluff has class issues

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the stars above

AO3

length: 4 chapters, 9100 words

summary: After their journeys are complete, Therion moves to Atlasdam, and discovers Cyrus's new (and dangerous) avenue of study.

my favorite tag: someone is pining

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untitled octopath fanfic

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 900 words

summary: It is a wretched day in Bolderfall, and Therion is a horrible goose. (of course it's a crossover with untitled goose game!)

my favorite tag: no beta we honk like geese

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series: divine intervention (god shit)

series summary: in which I spend nearly 100k words exploring Cyrus and Therion's relationship, among other things.

if the gods should touch you

AO3

length: 13 chapters, 60,000 words

summary: Spanning roughly from various chapter 2s to chapter 4s, the group travels, changes partners, faces fears, gets blessed, and oh also the scholar and the thief kiss.

my favorite tag: get in loser we're healing from past trauma and changing our negative coping mechanisms

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as shadows gather and gods move

AO3

length: 7 chapters, 32,000 words

summary: time loop? time loop. time loop!!! only Cyrus is aware and the solution is not what he thinks it is.

my favorite tag: the powers of a god are inexplicable but also annoying

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OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

not a fic: a two-part essay/analysis on character weakness and desire

part one: stede bonnet and self-doubt

part two: edward teach and self-loathing and also applying this to writing

not made of glass but flesh and bone, which is worse

AO3

length: 6 chapters, 10,000 words

summary: Post s01e05, in which we diverge from canon so that Ed and Stede can go spend a night on a deserted island.

my favorite tag: a little light blasphemy

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what's a stab wound good for, anyway

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 1500 words

summary: After the (s1) duel, Ed has several thoughts, then ignores most of them.

my favorite tag: love a stabbing

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TED LASSO

And the Songbirds Keep Singing

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 4700 words

summary: Trent has a bad day and then Ted makes him dinner and they listen to records.

my favorite tag: Princess Grim Reaper (the cat)

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The Closest You Can Get to Flying

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 3600 words

summary: Trent learns to ride a bike, then he scrapes his knee and definitely needs someone to play doctor.

my favorite tag: biking is so great

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someday soon we all will be together

AO3

length: 2500 words

summary: Everyone is at Rebecca's Christmas party, and I do mean everyone. Also: heavily influenced by that one scene in The West Wing when Danny comes back.

my favorite tag: fancy pens as flirting

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real long distance

AO3

length: tk words (6 chapters total)

summary: Ted gets a land line, calls Trent more than anyone else. All-dialog, all the time.

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SERIES: a work excuse

in which i overwrote the main fic and felt like posting the other bits.

Lafayette Comes to America

AO3

length: 24 chapters, 53,000 words

summary: Trent goes to America with a tenuous work excuse and has a lot of Tension with Ted Lasso. Then he goes home and has a lot of moping, before everyone comes to their senses.

my favorite tag: warning: i love a loooooong paragraph

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beverages and conversation

AO3

length: 3 chapters, 3900 words

summary: Ted has one or two conversations that he is not entirely prepared for over a beverage. (Ted's side of things during a few of the later chapters.)

my favorite tag: give me the slightest provocation and i WILL sketch out a midwestern life for you

the intolerable evocation of emotion via art

AO3

length: 1 chapter, 363 words

summary: Texts between Trent and his ex-wife about a playlist she made him. (Makes no sense divorced from Chapter 18 of Lafayette Comes to America, probably.)

DEEP SPACE NINE

keep a bower quiet for us

AO3

length: 11 chapters, 20,000 words

summary: Julian Bashir goes on vacation, and ends up stuck on Earth, in the past, with Elim Garak. Things could be worse, probably.

my favorite tag: we run on vibes not plot

tumblr commentary: to come!?!

[mycolourfullworld]

His mother was 40 years old when Jesse was born. Jesse grew up in a very rough home in Morgantown, West Virginia. Jesse’s father, who was mentally ill, was a violent man and was abusive to Jesse.

At 13, his father died leaving his mother to take care of him and his brothers. At the time, things weren’t easy for Jesse and he didn’t think life held much hope for him. While Jesse had his struggles, he had dreams too. He wanted to be a ventriloquist and he found books on ventriloquism. He practiced with sock puppets and saved his money until he could get a real ventriloquist dummy. When he was old enough, he joined the military.

The military recognized his talents and placed him in the entertainment corp. He toured the western Pacific Islands as a comedian as part of a G.I. variety show called "Stars and Gripes.” It was there he was able to share his talents with fellow soldiers. In 1946, he was discharged with the rank of Technician Grade 5, which was the equivalent then of a Corporal. During his military service, Jesse was awarded the World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with 4 bronze service stars), Army Good Conduct Medal, Marksman Badge (with an M1 Carbine), and Honorable Service lapel pin.

Through his military service, Jesse gained confidence and found that he had a talent for making people laugh. In spite of his early struggles, Jesse became one of the best-loved characters of all time. For it was Jesse,...Jesse Don Knotts who brought us Barney Fife!

[sakiyaki-sashimi]

Get to know you questions!! Tag whoever you like :D

Writing my answers in orange!

1) top 5 or top 10 favorite animals (depending on how many animals you like)

Hermit Crabs, Pigeons, Otters, Anglerfish, Shrimp, Cats, Manned Wolves, Salamander, Sheep, Axolotls :D

2) top 3 Minecraft mobs

Mooshroom, chicken, and parrot!!!

3) favorite vocaloid song or My Singing Monsters island theme and why! (If you don’t like/know Vocaloid/MSM, just name a song or genre you like and why :D)

Fav Vocaloid song is Brain Explosion girl recently, and fav MSM theme HAS to be cold island. Or maybe earth???? Hm

4) favorite and least favorite textures, no why needed :333

Fav is squishy soft things, least favorite is ice in a freezer

5) not your favorite color, but your favorite color palette (bonus points if you have a pic of the specific palette or a photo/artwork of the pallet you like!!)

Purple, Green, Orange, Pink, and Black! Total Halloween vibes!!

6) fav book you had to read for school (fiction or non fiction work lol, and if you don’t like/have any then just name a book or fanfic you like!)

Of Mice and Men was surprisingly amazing! Thought I’d hate it tbh

7) how do you think of the months of the year in your head? Left to right, top to bottom, in specific numbered rows and columns? Tell me :D

I think of it like this:

January, February, March, April

May, June, July, August

September, October, November, December

8) assigned harry potter/ilvermorny house or Percy Jackson cabin or Warrior cats clan something like that lol (if you don’t have anything like that, star sign works too!)

I’ll do em all lol: Slytherin/Hufflepuff, Pukwudgie, Dionysus’s, RiverClan, I’m an Aries sun/gemini rising/pisces moon :D

9) MBTI???? Love those things :33 (If you haven’t taken the test yet or u just don’t wanna cuz it’s too long, are you a solider poet or king?)

I’m an ENFP-T! I thought I’d get king but I got poet lol

10) something “cringe” you actually rly like, no shame here :D

Gacha Life/Club, the styles just so cutesy! Ohhh also K-Pop, I’m a TOTAL stay :33 and DSMP, it’s just rly cool to me

11) characters from shows/movies/games you kin/stan/just adore!! NOT ACCEPTING IRL PPL PLZ AND THANK U :D (unless it’s urself, we like self love in these parts)

For me I currently kin Dazai, Edward Elric, c!TommyInnit, and I completely STAN any Project Sekai character. I mean any of them.

12) 5 people you’d wanna be at a party with and why! (Can be alive or dead, real or fake, celebrities or randos, humans or otherwise :D)

My grandpa to see him again, Roy mustang to see if he’s a bastard irl, Hachi/Kenshi Yonezu just to see how he’s doing, Kanye West to just ask him why, and BeastChild (the YouTuber) just cause I really like his stuff and would wanna meet him!

13) favorite hobby/fandom specific term and its meaning :333

I’m a writer (well, aspiring anyway, I’m not rly that good) and I love the idea of the sexy lamp. Basically if you’re writing a female character that could be replaced with a sexy lampshade and nothing about the story changes then you’re writing a BAD FEMALE CHARACTER XD

Cause it’s spooky season il leave it at 13 ;)

Happy answering!!!

No pressure tags :3 @touratoura @theancientwonder @kneecoal-mooma @citrushomie @skytheamazing @mitski-slope @a-trench-coat-of-confused-worms @dicklesswonder-blog @vicaridoo

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.13

Holidays

Bald is Beautiful Day

Barbershop Day

Battle of Fort McHenry Anniversary Day

Be Different Day

Blame Someone Else Day

Boy Heroes Day (Mexico)

Breakaway (Space 1999)

Clymene Asteroid Day

Corn Day (French Republic)

Day of the Children Heroes (Mexico)

Day of the Programmer

Defender’s Day (everywhere except Maryland)

Defy Superstition Day

Día de los Niños Héroes (Mexico)

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 3: Environment

Engineer’s Day (Mauritius)

European Heritage Day (EU)

International Legacy Giving Day

International Mountain Chicken Frog Day

International Slow Loris Day

Jimi Hendrix Day (San Francisco)

John Barry Day (Pennsylvania)

Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day

Land Development Specialist’s Day (Tajikistan)

National Celiac Awareness Day

National EV Charging Day

National Hug Your Boss Day

National Jose Day

National Juan Day

National Odd Sock Day of Adventure

National Twilighters Day

National Urban Eden Day

9 x 13 Day

913 Day

Pet Birth Defect Awareness Day

Positive Thinking Day

Programmers' Day (a.k.a. Day of the Programmer) [256th day]

Roald Dahl Day

Scooby Doo Day

Soap Day

Supernatural Day

Swiftie Day

Thimphu Tshechu (Bhutan)

Uncle Sam Day

Victoria Asteroid Day

World Indigenous Rights Day

World Sepsis Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Fortune Cookie Day

Gluten Free Beer Day

International Chocolate Day

National Cachaca Day (Brazil)

National Peanut Day

Snack-A-Pickle Day

Independence & Related Days

Republic of Drew Star Line (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Venda (from South Africa, 1979) [unrecognized]

2nd Friday in September

Carry Nation Festival begins (Holly, Michigan) [Friday after 1st Monday thru Sunday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day (Washington) [2nd Friday]

Fiesta de Santa Fe begins (New Mexico) [1st Friday after Labor Day]

Fish & Chips Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Fisherman’s Walk Day (Scotland) [2nd Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Follow Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Friday the Firkenteenth (Grey Lodge, Pennsylvania) [Every Friday the 13th]

Frugal Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Great Canadian Beer Festival (Victoria, BC) [2nd Friday & Saturday]

International Skeptics Day [1st Friday the 13th of the Year]

King Turkey Race (Minnesota) [2nd Friday]

Knabenschiessen begins (Switzerland) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Nae Nae Day [2nd Friday]

National Dog Walker Appreciation Day [1st Friday after Labor Day]

National Folk Festival begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

National 401(k) Day [Friday after 1st Monday]

Popeye Picnic begins (Chester, Illinois) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Stand Up to Cancer Day [2nd Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 13 (2nd Full Week of September)

National Days of Prayer and Remembrance (thru 9.15) [Friday to Sunday closest to 9.11]

National Eczema Week 9thru 9.21)

Festivals Beginning September 13, 2024

Apple Days & Market To Go (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.15]

The Big E (West Springfield, Massachusetts) [thru 9.29]

Bloody Scotland (Stirling, Scotland, UK) [thru 9.15]

Brewfest at the Beach (New London, Connecticut)

Cajun Food Fest (Lydia, Louisiana) [thru 9.14]

Cordova Fungus Festival 2024 (Cordova, Alaska) [thru 9.15]

Devine's Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch (Harrodsburg, Kentucky) [thru 11.3]

Downtown Boulder's Fall Fest (Boulder, Colorado) [thru 9.15]

Grape Stomp Festival (Alexandria, Minnesota) [thru 9.15]

Harvest Moon Festival (Clearwater, Manitoba, Canada) [thru 9.15]

Hinkelfest (Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.15]

Irish Festival (Milford, Connecticut) [thru 9.14]

Kentucky Bourbon Festival (Bardstown, Kentucky) [thru 9.15]

King Turkey Day Festival (Worthington, Minnesota) [thru 9.14]

Long Island Fair (Old Bethpage, New York) [thru 9.15]

Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival (Natchitoches, Louisiana) [thru 9.14]

National Barrow Show (Austin, Minnesota) [thru 9.16]

Neptune's Fall Wine Festival (Virginia Beach, Virginia) [thru 9.14] [thru 9.15]

Newport Oktoberfest (Newport, Kentucky) [thru 9.15]

Ohio Pawpaw Festival (Albany, Ohio) [thru 9.15]

Okawville Wheat Festival (Okawville, Illinois) [thru 9.15]

Pacific Meridian Film Festival (Vladivostok, Russia) [thru 9.19]

Rising Sun Navy Bean Fall Festival (Rising Sun, Indiana) [thru 9.14]

Slunce ve Skle Beer Festival (Plzen, Czech Republic) [thru 9.14]

Snowmass Wine Festival (Snowmass Village, Colorado) [thru 9.14]

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival (Telluride, Colorado) [thru 9.15]

Wine Harvest Festival in the Czech Republic (Znojmo, Czech Republic) [thru 9.15]

Feast Days

Aimé (a.k.a. Amatus; Christian; Saint)

Ame (Christian; Saint)

Arnold Schoenberg (Artology; Humanism)

Aristides the Athenian (Christian; Saint)

Barry Fell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Basil of Iberia (Christian; Saint)

Bob Eggleton (Artology)

Ceremony of Lighting the Fire (Ancient Egypt)

Cornelius of Baden-Olonets, Dionysius, and Misail (Christian; Saints)

Cornelius the Centiurion (Christian; Martyr)

Cronides and Serapion in Alexandria (Christian; Martyrs)

Daniel Defoe (Writerism)

Dave the Human (Muppetism)

Day of Anubis (All Souls’ Day; Ancient Egypt)

Egyptian All Souls’ Day (Everyday Wicca)

Elias, Zoticus, Valerian, Macrobius, and Gordian at Tomi in Romania (Christian; Martyrs)

Emain Abhlach (Celtic Book of Days)

Epulum Jovis (Feast of Jove; Ancient Rome) [Ides of September]

Eulogius of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Cross (Assyrian Church of the East)

Ketevan, Queen of Georgia (Christian; Martyr)

Hierotheus of Iveron Monastery on Mount Athos (Christian; Saint)

Hierotheus of Kalamata (Christian; Saint)

Ides of September (Ancient Rome)

John Chrysostom (Christian; Saint)

Lictisternia (Old Roman festival to Jupiter, Juno & Minerva)

Livia Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Make a Corn Dolly Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Marcellinus of Carthage (Christian; Saint)

Maurilius of Angers (a.k.a. Maurille) of Angers (Christian; Saint)

Molly Crabapple (Artology)

Mosquito Avoidance Day (Pastafarian)

Nectarius of Autun (Christian; Saint)

Otway (Positivist; Saint)

Peter of Atroe (Christian; Saint)

Robert Indiana (Artology)

Roald Dahl (Writerism)

Seleucus in Scythia (Christian; Martyr)

Sherwood Anderson (Writerism)

Venerius the Hermit (Christian; Saint)

Wulfthryth (a.k.a. Wilfrida) of Wilton (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (EU, US) [Friday the 13th] (1 of 2 for 2024)

Unlucky Day (Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US) [Friday the 13th]

Premieres

After Hours (Film; 1985)

Agnes of God (Film; 1985)

Almost Famous (Film; 2000)

The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson (Novel; 1977)

Audrey the Rainmaker (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

The Awful Tooth (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Barbershop (Film; 2002)

Batman Unlimited: Mchs vs. Mutants (WB Animated Film; 2016)

Benson (TV Series; 1979)

Bones (TV Series; 2005)

By Leaps and Hounds (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Candle in the Wind, Diana Version, by Elton John (Song; 1997)

Cat Carson Rides Again (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Cat-Choo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Cat Tamale (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Centerfold, by The Cars (Song; 1981)

Children of the World, by The Bee Gees (Album; 1976)

City Kitty (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Clerks III (Film; 2022)

Clown on the Farm (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Come Dancing (UK Musical Show; 2008)

Crime of the Century, by Supertramp (Album; 1974)

Dogfight (Film; 1991)

The Dreaming, by Kate Bush (Album; 1982)

The Drew Carey Show (TV Series; 1995)

Easy-Duz-It, by Easy-E (Album; 1988)

Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Series; 1996)

The Ginger Man, by J.P. Donleavy (Novel; 1955)

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (Novel; 1985)

Hard Rain, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1976)

Highway Star. Written by DeepPurple (Song; 1971)

In Utero, by Nirvana (Album; 1993)

Law and Audrey (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Law & Order (TV Series; 1990)

Mishima (Film; 1985)

The Muppet Show (TV Series; 1976)

The Nitty Gritty, recorded by Shirley Ellis (Song; 1963)

One More from the Road, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Live Album; 1976)

The Other Wind, by Ursula Le Guin (Novel; 1968) [Earthsea #5]

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse (TV Series; 1986)

The Popeye Show (King Features Syndicate/Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Series; 1978)

Ready to Die, by The Notorious B.I.G. (Album; 1994)

Scooby-Doo Where Are You (Animated TV Series; 1969)

Scout Fellow (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Skinny Legs and All, recorded by Joe Tex (Song; 1967)

Soap (TV Series; 1977)

Solid Gold (TV Series; 1980)

The Spectacular Now (Film; 2013)

Star-Spangled Banner lyrics written, by Francis Scott Key (Lyrics; 1814)

Supernatural (TV Series; 2005)

Take Me to Church, by Hozier (Song; 2013)

Thud!, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2005) [Discworld #34]

Truth and Soul, by Fishbone (Album; 1988)

Undone (Animated TV Series; 2019)

Yesterday, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

Yojimbo (Film; 1961)

Today’s Name Days

Tobias (Austria)

Ivan, Ljubo, Zlatko (Croatia)

Lubor (Czech Republic)

Cyprianus (Denmark)

Ervi, Ervin, Ervo (Estonia)

Orvo (Finland)

Aimé (France)

Johann, Notburga, Tobias (Germany)

Aristeides, Aristeidis, Cornelius, Kornelios (Greece)

Kornél (Hungary)

Crisostomo, Giovanni, Maurilio, Regina (Italy)

Iza, Izabella, Izanda, Izīda (Latvia)

Barmantas, Barvydė, Mangailis (Lithuania)

Stian, Stig (Norway)

Aleksander, Aureliusz, Eugenia, Filip, Lubor, Materna, Morzysław, Szeliga (Poland)

Ctibor (Slovakia)

Amado, Crisóstomo, Juan (Spain)

Ambjörn, Sture (Sweden)

Arlando, Milton, Orlando, Roland, Rolanda, Rolando, Stone, Stoney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 257 of 2024; 109 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 37 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 11 (Geng-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 10 Elul 5784

Islamic: 9 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 17 Gold; Threesday [17 of 30]

Julian: 31 August 2024

Moon: 75%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 5 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Lessing]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 86 of 94)

Week: 2nd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 23 of 32)

[film-classics]

Claudette Colbert - The Perfect Star

Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Chauchoin in in Saint-Mandé, France on September 13, 1903) was a French-American actress who became one of the few major actresses during the Golden Age of Hollywood who worked freelance, independent of the studio system. With her impeccable makeup, trademark bangs, and stunning legs, she became known as "The Perfect Star" during her heyday.

At three years old, Colbert emigrated to Manhattan in order for her parents to pursue more employment opportunities. She studied at Washington Irving High School, which was known for its strong arts program and made her stage debut at the historic Provincetown Playhouse. Intending to become a fashion designer, she attended the Art Students League of New York. While studying, she appeared on the Broadway stage in a small role in The Wild Westcotts (1923).

After appearing in plays in Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, and Connecticut and the London's West End, producer Leland Hayward casted her in her first film role in 1927. The following year, she signed with Paramount Pictures, where she made films in both French and English.

Colbert's career was boosted when she played the supporting role as a femme fatale in Cecil B. DeMille's historical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932). In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract to allow her to appear in films for other studios. This resulted in her most memorable movie, the screwball comedy Columbia Pictures' It Happened One Night (1934), which won her Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1936, Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount, making her one of Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Colbert spent the rest of the 1930s alternating between romantic comedies and dramas. Still, she found time to volunteer with the Red Cross and participate in the Hollywood Victory Caravan during WWII.

In 1940, Colbert was offered a new contract with Paramount; she declined and continued to work as a freelance artist, securing roles in several prestigious films and television broadcasts in her later years, even winning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Series in 1988. Colbert also intermittently appeared in Broadway productions, most notable in The Marriage-Go-Round, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award.

After retiring from acting in 1987, Colbert divided her time between her Manhattan apartment and her 18th century beachfront home in Speightstown, Barbados, nicknamed Bellerive, where she passed away at 92 years of age after suffering from a series of strokes during the last three years of her life.

Legacy:

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934) and nominated two more times: Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944)

Is the only actress to date to star in three films nominated for Best Motion Picture in the same year: It Happened One Night (1934), Cleopatra (1934), and Imitation of Life (1934)

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performances of the Month in 1933 and 1943

Won the 1951 Golden Laurel for Top Female Dramatic Performance for Three Came Home (1950)

Nominated for the Tony Award Best Actress for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959

Listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top-10 box office draws in 1935, 1936, and 1947

Was Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 1936 and 1938

Named the 14th top money-making woman in the US in 1937 and the 6th in 1938

Won the Sarah Siddons Award in 1982 for The Kingfisher

Received the Film Society of Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984

Won the Drama Desk Special Award in 1985 for Aren't We All

Received of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in 1986

Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)

Was the recipient of the 1989 Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award

Presented with the Donostia Award at the 1990 San Sebastián International Film Festival

Named the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Inducted in the Online Film & Television Association Hall of Fame in 2010

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for June 2021

Hosted a number VIPs at her sprawling oceanfront Barbados vacation home, including President Ronald Regan and First Lady Nancy Regan, Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow, Princess Margaret, W. Averell and Pamela Harriman, John and Drue Heinz, Bill and Babe Paley, and Slim Keith

Bequeathed $100,000 in trust to UCLA Medical Center

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Boulevard for motion picture

[lboogie1906]

Joseph Mazzulla (June 30, 1988) is a basketball coach who is the head coach for the Boston Celtics. He played college basketball for West Virginia University. He joined the Celtics as an assistant coach in 2019 and was appointed the role of interim head coach before the 2022–23 season before officially being named head coach in February 2023 before the All-Star break. In his second season, he led the Celtics to a league-best 64 wins and an NBA championship. He holds the highest winning percentage of any coach in NBA history with over 150 games coached and is the youngest head coach in NBA history to win the NBA Finals.

He was born in Johnston, Rhode Island. He attended Bishop Hendricken High School in Rhode Island, making the all-state first team. He won three state titles at Bishop Hendricken, with his third as a senior on a last-second shot.

As a freshman at West Virginia, he helped the team win the 2007 National Invitation Tournament.

In the 2008 NCAA tournament, he posted 13 points, 11 rebounds, and eight assists in a second-round upset of Duke. He was forced to redshirt the 2008–09 season due to a shoulder injury against Ole Miss, as his growth plate never fused with his shoulder.

As a redshirt junior, he was named a captain and helped West Virginia reach the 2010 Final Four. In the game prior, he scored a career-high 17 points in the Elite Eight upset of Kentucky. As a senior, he averaged 7.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. In his collegiate career, he recorded 700 points and 340 assists.

His father, Dan, was a basketball player and coach. His younger brother, Justin, played basketball at George Washington University before transferring to the University of Vermont.

He is a devout Catholic, claiming that his identity comes from his “faith” and “purpose.” He and his wife, Camai, have a son and he has a stepson. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[bestanimatedmovie]

Revenge of the Underrated, Round 3!

Round 1, Round 2

We're saying goodbye to second time losers! Our loser's bracket this round starts from match 20, for a total of 55 matches this round! We still have a long way to go xD

Luca vs Mary and Max

2. The Bad Guys vs Loving Vincent

3. Pocahontas vs Hercules

4. Cats don't Dance vs The Little Mermaid

5. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West vs Paprika

6. The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning vs Wendell and Wild

7. Ice Age vs The Hunchback of Notre Dame

8. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs vs Rock and Rule

9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm vs The Wind Rises

10. Tarzan vs Robots

11. Monsters vs Aliens vs Robin Hood

12. The Case of Hana and Alice vs One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

13. Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie vs Lupin III: The First

14. The Fox and the Hound vs The Three Caballeros

15. When Marnie was Here vs Akira

16. The Cat Returns vs The Swan Princess

17. Porco Rosso vs Rio

18. The Lego Batman Movie vs The Aristocats

19. James and the Giant Peach vs Castle in the Sky vs Over the Hedge

20. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius vs Ballerina

21. Redline vs Tiger and Bunny: The Rising

22. Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland vs Miss Hokusai

23. Epic vs Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 1

24. Bartok the Magnificent vs The Girl Without Hands

25. Night on the Galactic Railroad vs The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

26. The Rabbi's Cat vs Anomalisa

27. Barbie as Rapunzel vs Felidae

28. Pippi Longstocking vs It's Such a Beautiful Day

29. When the Wind Blows vs Pokemon Heroes

30. Summer Wars vs Sing 2

31. The Black Cauldron vs The Plague Dogs

32. The Red Turtlevs Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

33. Once Upon a Forest vs Strange Magic

34. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer vs Azur and Asmar: The Prince's Quest

35. Arthur Christmas vs Mad God

36. Barbie of Swan Lake vs Titan A.E.

37. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole vs The Adventures of Mark Twain

38. Pokemon: The Movie 2000 vs Sleeping Beauty

39. Arthur and the Invisibles vs Zootopia

40. Barbie as the Island Princess vs The Twelve Months

41. Mind Game vs Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Candace Against the Universe

42. The Flight of Dragons vs Revue Starlight: The Movie

43. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children vs Long Way North

44. Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase vs Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

45. Book Girl vs My Life as a Zucchini

46. Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us vs Minions: The Rise of Gru

47. The Pebble and the Penguin vs Princes and Princesses

48. Ico, the Brave Horse vs A Letter to Momo

49. Robot Carnival vs The Wild Thornberrys Movie

50. The Snow Queen vs The Boy who Wanted to be a Bear

51. Early Man vs Belladonna of Sadness

52. Nocturna vs Patema Inverted

53. Next Gen vs Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

54. Thumbelina vs Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island

55. Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie vs Charlotte's Web (1973)

[mykidself]

An attempt to rank my top 100 movies growing up. Note that I’m not trying to judge how good of a movie it is by any objective measures, but just how fond I remember feeling of it as a kid and how much it seemed to impact me at the time, how much I rewatched it, etc. I’m using 1999 as the cutoff point, when I was 11 or 12.

Made with Topsters.

Full text list behind the cut.

1. The Lion King

2. Aladdin

3. Tom and Huck

4. The NeverEnding Story

5. Jumanji

6. Return of the Jedi

7. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

8. The Rescuers Down Under

9. The Muppet Christmas Carol

10. Muppet Treasure Island

11. An American Tail

12. The Land Before Time

13. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

14. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

15. Beauty and the Beast

16. The Little Mermaid

17. Fantasia

18. Pocahontas

19. FernGully: The Last Rainforest

20. Bambi

21. The Princess Bride

22. Star Wars

23. The Empire Strikes Back

24. Toy Story

25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

26. The Wizard of Oz

27. Jurassic Park

28. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

29. Mickey's Christmas Carol

30. Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

31. Treasure Island

32. A Little Princess

33. Kids of the Round Table

34. The Ewok Adventure

35. The Secret Garden

36. The Flight of Dragons

37. The Jungle Book

38. Babe

39. Black Beauty

40. Balto

41. Back to the Future

42. Back to the Future Part III

43. Anne of Green Gables

44. Hocus Pocus

45. Brink!

46. Escape to Witch Mountain

47. The Adventures of Huck Finn

48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

49. Titanic

50. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

51. Cats

52. The Sword in the Stone

53. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

54. Little Women

55. Cool Runnings

56. Heavyweights

57. Jungle 2 Jungle

58. Man of the House

59. The Three Musketeers

60. The Jungle Book

61. Sleeping Beauty

62. Harry and the Hendersons

63. Flight of the Navigator

64. The Indian in the Cupboard

65. Angels in the Outfield

66. Free Willy

67. Oliver!

68. Mary Poppins

69. Peter Pan

70. The Sound of Music

71. Dumbo

72. Lady and the Tramp

73. Magic Island

74. White Fang

75. The Amazing Panda Adventure

76. Alaska

77. Operation Dumbo Drop

78. Labyrinth

79. Hook

80. Anastasia

81. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

82. The Brave Little Toaster

83. Once Upon a Forest

84. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

85. Harriet the Spy

86. My Little Pony: The Movie

87. Felix the Cat: The Movie

88. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

89. The Hobbit

90. Jack

91. Adventures in Babysitting

92. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

93. The Care Bears Movie

94. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

95. Tall Tale

96. All Dogs Go to Heaven

97. Fun and Fancy Free

98. Mulan

99. Tarzan

100. The Parent Trap