#7 vs Wild Crashed

[vangold]

I'm glued to 7 vs Wild once again this year. It was a bit harder to get into this time - the survival expert bitch-fight in the first few episodes was a bit of a drag - but the season is finally back on track. I'm currently only on episode 9 because I'm watching on YT, so I can't say at this point how realistic this is. But that's what you get when you draw 7 in the Wilds and your ears are glued to the Frostpunk soundtrack XD

[da-birb-writes-sometimes]

Event?????

1 or 7, domestic style fluff with my favorite eel?? ♡♡ (it's Floyd of course)

I leave romance vs platonic up to you, gn reader so everyone can enjoy as well :)

Can't wait to see what younc9me up with!!! If you need any help or ideas come bug me, floyd sits in my head constantly like a very annoying song

Warm Mornings; Floyd Leech

Content; Fluff, gender-neutral reader, romance

Content Warning; Some swearing

Word Count; 700+

Author's Note; Who needs a weighted blanket when you have a Floyd? I am here to deliver soft Floyd(TM) hours! (he also sits in my head constantly; the song is the low-quality Funky Town)

Even when Floyd was dead asleep, he squeezed you, and that was your situation now. You were lying on top of him, and he had you in a comfortable yet strong bear hug. Just tight enough that you couldn’t wiggle free from him. And it was normally fine, but last night someone had left the window open and now it was warm and humid in the room, making you feel sticky.

“Floyd,” you whispered, trying to wake him up gently.

A gentle snore was your answer. You should have expected that though, he sleeps like a damn log.

You tried wiggling around a bit, but Floyd just hugged you tighter on unconscious instinct and rolled over, trapping you under him. Yeah, you were officially stuck. “Floydddd,” you groaned, poking him right above his hips. “You’re crushing me.” 

Usually he would wake up by you repeatedly poking him, but he was out cold, he only just shifted, trapping your face where one cheek was pressing against the mattress, and the other was smushed up against his chest. Normally, you wouldn’t complain about this situation, but it was grossly warm. You were also too far away from your usual ‘escape the crushing weight of my dearly beloved eel route’, which was just tickling his legs and feet. Too bad your arms were pretty much pinned against the bed. 

“Floyd, get off me,” you grumbled, squirming around like a worm on a hook.

Still nothing.

Sighing, you accept your fate. Besides the humidity, it was rather nice. Sure, you couldn’t make out the crashing of the waves on the beach, the steady beat of Floyd’s heart was right up against your ear, and it was slow and steady.

Slow and steady, not two words many people would associate with Floyd. It was a calmer side that only you got to see; when you were overwhelmed, or when he was feeling soft. Yes, he was usually a bundle of energy, but even he had his quiet moments. Within the hurricane, there was always the eye, where things remained still, despite the wild winds outside.

“Mmm,” Floyd groaned, the first sign of life you’ve seen since you’d been sandwiched.

He slowly blinked his eyes, working out the sleep from them, and tilted his head down so he could actually see you, since you were still stuck between his chest and the mattress. “Heh heh, I caught a Shrimpy in my sleep!~” He drawled, voice chipper but still heavy from sleep.

“Yes, yes you did. Can you please get off though, it’s gross out,” you groaned. At least he was cute, which the wild bed head only played in his favour. How can he look so good in the morning? Maybe it’s a mer thing… “Floyd?”

He hadn’t moved, and was instead giving you a wide grin. “Hmm, maybe I should’ve called you Crabby instead of Shrimpy, Shrimpy,” he pinched your cheeks teasingly, “since you look pretty crabby right now.”

You rolled your eyes, “And maybe I should use that mushroom risotto recipe that Jade gave me for our dinner tonight. But that’s only if you don’t get off.”

Floyd narrowed his eyes at you, trying to make out if you were bluffing or not, since last time you were dead serious and did exactly that. But he rolled off of you, grumbling a bit. “Meanie,” he muttered.

You shuffled over to where he was dramatically splayed out, his head slightly turned to you, and giving you puppy dog eyes. Chuckling, you kissed him on the lips, as that is what he was being dramatic about.

Giggling, he captured you in his arms yet again, and trapped you against the mattress for a second time this morning. He was giving you a shit eating smile. You weren’t leaving this bed until he had his share of kisses.  

“Floydddd,” you groaned, but you weren’t annoyed with him, if anything, you were amused. There was never a dull moment with him around.

“Shrimpyyyyyy,” he mimicked your voice with a more prominent whine. “You know the drill!~”

Sighing, you ran your hands up through his messy hair, and brought your lips together, deeper this time. You knew the drill; neither of you were getting up until both of your lips were tired, sore, and most likely bitten… which may not be for a while.

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Tags: @azulashengrottospiano, @eynnwwyjth, @hydra-sea, @krenenbaker, @officialdaydreamer00, @twistwonderlanddevotee, @xxoomiii

[vinelark]

fic writer meme

thank you [checks notes] @megafaunatic, @cairoscene, @englishsub, @yuebings, and @cafecliche for the tags ilu

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 15! which is solidly 14 more than i ever expected to have on there when i made the account

2. What's your total Ao3 word count? 277,844

3. What fandoms do you write for? on ao3: mdzs/cql, tgcf, shl, and dc. in groupchats/dms/my own head i’m running wild all over the place

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 🐉 this river runs to you 💍 i’ll have you and you’ll have me 🪐 i will be chasing a starlight ⚔️ you’re the trouble that i always find 🌊 a wave crashes to shore

5. Do you respond to comments? not often; i have made multiple attempts to start replying regularly but all have eventually failed in the face of me desperately wanting to show my earnest and genuine appreciation for each comment vs. wanting to hide my blushing face under a pillow every time. also, because of who i am as a person, each time i sat down to do it i ended up spending hours making little progress and eventually decided that i will make an effort to spend those hours writing or commenting on other fics instead. i am honored by each and every one though!!!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? while i tend to write angst it is always firmly of the “with a happy ending” sort. the one exception is my shortest fic (originally posted on twitter) never been away so long, which is more of an ambiguous/open ending with implied angst. i dooooo outline the eventual happy ending in the endnotes, though. also as it CURRENTLY stands buy back the secrets ends on one hell of an angsty note, but there are two more chapters in the works to fix that.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? despite the wangxian star trek au having like 20k of deliriously happy post-misunderstanding sex, i think trrty has to have the happiest ending because not only does the fic end happily, but there are also multiple very happy codas in which wwx gets a good night’s sleep, finally gets to bang his dragon boyfriend, and, my personal fav, one by aubreyli where wangxian go flying in a thunderstorm.

8. Do you get hate on fics? not so far, for which i am grateful but mostly lucky.

9. Do you write smut? occasionally; on ao3 there’s the aforementioned trrty coda, plus the aforementioned cowritten wangxian pon farr sequence 💪

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you have written? hmm, i’m not opposed to crossovers—i’ve read some really fun ones (recent fav crossover read here)—but i’d have to be really compelled by both source materials and have a very clear vision for how they interact to want to write one myself. i’ve written a few fandom fusions (aforementioned wangxian star trek au; i also started a wangxian dragon age au but again, no dragon age characters were going to show up, just the world/setting) but no full-on crossovers. i did have one partially drafted wangxian fic that was going to have a hua cheng deus ex machina, alas.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? not that i’m aware of! it’s not something i really go looking for/concern myself with, but so far, like with fandom hate, i’m grateful to not have encountered it.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes! my wangxian wedding fic was translated to russian.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? i co-wrote seventy thousand words of published fic with @feyburner! and probably two hundred thousand words of unpublished fic and outlines and story ideas just for fun. even when we aren’t co-writing we tend to talk through our individual fics with each other so we’re pretty in sync when it comes to writing. i also spent like a year in @cairoscene’s DMs concocting whole outlines/zerodrafts for batfam fics together that i still cherish and reread (notable favs: tim drake ella enchanted au, concept where the waynes are cursed to suddenly feel nothing but apathy about tim and he has to deal with that, story where robin!tim gets de-aged and oops red hood is the first one to show up…). i’d say the OCBFEU is fic-adjacent and cowritten by a group of us. also shoutout to the mdzs threadfic @cafecliche and i brainstormed/zerodrafted where lan qiren gets cursed into an owl and post-cql wei wuxian is the one who unknowingly saves him.

14. What's your all time favorite ship? oh yeah it’s [loud truck goes by]

15. What is a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? cyborg!wwx…i still think of you fondly. the only ao3 fic i’ve ever posted knowing i probably wouldn’t finish it but wanted to share just for fun.

16. What are your writing strengths? pangs… mining little character details for humor (or, more often, for more pangs)… i also think i’ve really improved my action writing/pacing over the last few years.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? i write actual drafts/prose fairly slowly, which can be frustrating for me. also like @yuebings i often get very caught up in trying to perfect one small part of a draft before moving on. ummmm describing outfits/settings for reasons other than immediate plot-relevant details, i’m terrible at that + remembering to do it—i literally make myself do a What Are We Looking At Here Pass while revising sometimes.

18. Thoughts of writing dialogue in another language in fics? i’m not totally sure what this question is asking tbh, but it’s something i think can be done incredibly well—and, like with many things in storytelling, it’s the sort of thing where if you don’t actually speak the second language you need to be willing to put in work beyond a cursory google to try to achieve what you’re doing, and be willing to admit if it’s beyond your capabilities. i really like how the portuguese dialogue in bbts ended up and that’s 100% because @tigerjpg translated it for me and also already understood the scene/concept/characters; without them i would have found a different way to approach that scene. also, stylistically, i personally like when dialogue in other languages isn’t italicized unless there’s a real reason for it to be.

19. First fandom you wrote for? oh it was [a second loud truck whooshes by]

20. Favorite fic you have written? right now it’s bbts, because i think it’s also the fic i’ve had the most fun writing. trrty, though, will always hold a special place in my heart.

and i tag! @tlumeti, @burins, @smilebackwards, @bonesbuckleup, @hearteyeshayley, @sonosvegliato

[smilesrobotlover]

Whumptober 2023 master post

This is all written for my links meet au called Link between Links, and strangers across eras, with other aus sprinkled across it. NONE OF THIS IS LU SO DONT TAG IT AS SUCH

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Day 1- swooning: lbl, Minish gets a concussion and Legend helps him out

Day 2- they don’t care about you: sae, Leon get a fever from working to hard in finding his son.

Day 3- solitary confinement: lbl, spirit is held hostage and is losing his mind.

Day 4- shock: kotg, Ammon and Orman are exploring a ruin with Terrako, suddenly all technology goes out in an electrifying way, including Ammon’s prosthetic.

Day 5- debris, pinned down: lbl, Warriors gets trapped under rocks after an explosion, and he and Hyrule hope they can get out.

Day 6- alternate prompt, reluctant whumper: original loz au, Link hurts himself and doesn’t want Beck to know.

Day 7- alternate prompt, shaking: vw, Vio brings Shadow back and he’s not vibing.

Day 8- outnumbered: sae, wolfos attack and Rusl refuses to fight one, even when it’s trying to kill him.

Day 9- mistaken identity, you’re a liar: lbl, Wild and Windy meet a fake Hyrule and get abducted by the yiga.

Day 10- alternate prompt, panic: lot, Rusl is teaching the kids how to fight, but the idea of fighting monsters scares Talo.

Day 11- captivity, no one will find you: kotg, young Ammon and his brother get kidnapped by yiga during an errand.

Day 12- insomnia: original loz au, Zelda can’t sleep and Link accompanies her alongside his cat biscuit.

Day 13- infection: thof, Link has an infection but he refuses to let Groose or Farore check it out.

Day 14- water inhalation: lbl, Sky goes to rescue Twi after he disappeared underwater for six hours

Day 15- makeshift bandages: lbl and sae, Rusl accidentally throws a spear at mermaid Legend.

Day 16- flatline: kotg, continuation of day 11, Ammon and Georgie try to escape, but it doesn’t go well.

Day 17- collar, touch aversion, leave me alone: sae and vs, Vaati and Ghirahim accidentally kidnap Linebeck.

Day 18- blindfold, tortured for information: lbl, continuation of day 9, Windy gets tortured for information on Hyrule, but he’s a tough cookie.

Day 19- floral bouquet: TCOD, Maria and Link visit his parent’s grave on the anniversary of their death.

Day 20- found family: tp, RUSL ADOPTS LINK DBSJSBSKSBK

Day 21- restraints, don’t move: vw, after Vio brings back Shadow, he accidentally brings another, dangerous person back as well.

Day 22- glass shard, vehicular accident: sae, Kass finds Linebeck with a concussion and Benji impaled with glass from a boat crash.

Day 23- shadows, stalking, who’s there: lbl, Twi finds a kitty and defends it with his life.

Day 24- alternate prompt, aftermath of a failure: AOC, Revali teaches Zelda how to use a bow so she can use the bow of light.

Day 25- alternate prompt, betrayal: sae, Ingo takes over the ranch in Time and Talon’s absence.

Day 26- working till exhaustion, you look awful: lot, Link has a fever but works till the point of collapse.

Day 27- matches, scars: sae, Leon and Linebeck find themselves trapped in a cave, and Leon discovers a nasty scar that Linebeck has.

Day 28- bloody knife: lbl, Hyrule gets attacked by a puppet of the puppeteer and gets poisoned with magic draining poison.

Day 29- troubled past resurfacing: lbl and sae, Wild meets Ammon and it goes as well as you’d expect.

Day 30- bridal carry: lbl and sae, Time and Talon find Malon in Gerudo desert. Some of the boys reunite with their dads!

Day 31- emptiness, setbacks, take it easy: lbl and sae, the rest of the boys reunite with their dads, but something bad happens

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Art!

Whumtpober days 1-7

Whumptober days 8-14

Whumptober days 15- 21

Whumtpober days 22-28

Whumptober days 29-31

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (1-7 Sep 2024)

i'm 3 eps in and murph's hair is still throwing me when i first see it. but i love that they get to sit next to each other.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe #21) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator)

Wild with Happy (Colman Domingo, author; full voice cast) - "deeply imaginative dark comedy about death...performed by an all-star cast including Domingo, the legendary Oprah Winfrey, Tony Award nominee Sharon Washington (New York, New York), Tony Award winner Alex Newell (Glee, Shucked), and Golden Globe Award winner Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)." - short but extremely entertaining

Trouble In Triplicate (Nero Wolfe #14) (Rex Stout)

The Second Confession (Nero Wolfe #15) (Rex Stout)

A Safe Place To Land (Gloromeien, kahey2804) - "Bucky Barnes had it all—grease under his fingernails, dog fur behind the cushions of his couch, a cozy place to call his own. The house, the truck, the dogs, the works. A ride-or-die, close-knit community. A patch of land he could wander. A mountain view to inspire him. After six tours of duty and nine months in captivity, Bucky knew how bad things could get, so he didn't dare ask for anything else. Especially not someone to hold. Until a tall, blond super-soldier crash-landed into his quiet life and threatened to make all his dreams come true." - really excellent shrunkyclunks; creative use of canon events into a well-structured AU. really, really enjoyed this

💖💖 +166K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

take guesses on exits, one has to be right (queermccoy) - 9-1-1: bucktommy, 12K - I just love a truck stop sex worker AU, bless those writers that put them into the fandoms

The Prenup (spqr) - Suits: mike/harvey, 6K - new Suits fic! incredibly written, totally non explicit but super hot - the perfect way for them to flirt

Stigma (the_deep_magic) - The Eagle of the Ninth: marcus/esca, 12K - love a good take on soulmarks, one that manages to be both 'we were made for each other' AND 'we fucking chose each other' simultaneously

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Monét's Slumber Party - s1, e3

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #3

D20: A Starstruck Odyssey - "Rolling Up The Hill" (s12, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Was That the Worst Social Interaction in D20 History?" (s8, e2)

D20: A Starstruck Odyssey - "Wrecked on Rec 97" (s12, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Ball Continues Rolling Up" (s8, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - September 1: Am Writing

Re: Dracula - September 2: Suck From my Wound

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Wild Life Week: Exploring Our Alien Planet with Cara Giaimo

Welcome to Night Vale #253 - instructions for folding

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Kaos

Re: Dracula - September 3: Anything of a Young Ladies

Short Wave - Are You Overestimating The Algorithm?

How To! - How To Cook at Home Like Sohla El-Waylly

Handsome - Seth Meyers asks about passports

Switched on Pop - Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet

⭐ 99% Invisible - Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could

Vibe Check - Do Some Witch Sh!t

Re: Dracula - September 4: He Has Deserted Me

Code Switch - Going back to school with schizoaffective disorder

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary

It's Been a Minute - The SMACKDOWN: Video Games vs. Journalism vs. Robert Frost

Shedunnit - In The Dentist's Chair

⭐ Ologies - Coffeeology (COFFEE) with Peter Giuliano

Re: Dracula - September 5: Patient Greatly Improved

Wild Card - Kacey Musgraves is trying to get right with time

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Songs To Boost Your Confidence

Short Wave - Dogs Go Viral For 'Talking' To Humans — But Can They?

Endless Thread - Ignore All Previous Instructions

Re: Dracula - September 6: Terrible Change for the Worse

Dear Prudence - My Wife Thinks I Had an Emotional Affair With My Best Friend. Help!

Dear Prudence - Prudie Plus: My Sister-In-Law Is Dealing With Infertility and Is Now Hateful to Everyone. Help!

It's Been a Minute - Gen Z asks: what is school for? Plus, rebranding gentrification

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice And What's Making Us Happy

⭐ 99% Invisible - Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature

You're Dead to Me - Leif Erikson

Re: Dracula - September 7: I Have Sown my Corn

⭐ Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - John Leguizamo

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Dvořák Symphonies Nos 6-9 [London Symphony Orchestra] {2024}

Carly Rae Jepsen

personal 'Liked Music' playlist

Short n' Sweet [Sabrina Carpenter] {2024}

Rock Radio • Popular

Presenting Kacey Musgraves

Presenting Bay City Rollers

Bay City Rollers Radio

"Everlasting Love" [Love Affair] Radio

[pwblogarchive]

May 2007

May 4, 2007

ryan ross lives in my house right now.

had a falling out with myself.

we just dont speak so much anymore.

theres nobody carrying weight.

nobody with hART and sole.

im sick but theres no hospital to fix this kind of thing.

i day dream at night.

i call em all in the air.

sometimes i get it right.

the things i keep inside are worth double the ones anyone knows about.

almost caught a break, but im pretty sure it was a bad throw.

youre always getting caught, so am i.

i guess we are into the same kind of things.

posted by xo at 7:35 PM

May 6, 2007

i like blowing out other peoples birthday candles and stealing their wishes.

days inn- kind of has a different meaning when its days INside my head.

shut my eyes to keep the world out.

who have you become vs. who you are supposed to be.

been shittalking so much with people who are asleep on the inside.

their veins are pumping blood but their hearts just arent in it.

they blow over legal limits and their organs have put in their two weeks notice.

sometimes i write to keep the world out.

but most of the time i write to keep my world inside.

you have no idea what i do while you sleep.

im having a 2/3rd life crisis.

i got boring.

somewhere along the way.

where the wild things are turned into where the wilde things are.

i have played russian roulette exactly once in my life.

it was the single worst thing i have ever done in my life.

it doesnt matter what the proportions are on the girl to my direct right.

or the way her heart flutters faster than a hummingbird.

just the way she looks at me sometimes.

everything about me hangs on that....

on another note, sometimes the best nights all rest on winds and conversations you have in them.

thanks.

posted by xo at 6:31 PM

May 10, 2007

“fucking nuts.”

i dont care where our heads lie,

as long as yours is close to mine.

posted by xo at 3:46 AM

May 12, 2007

"i can hardly stand living but im afraid to die"

semisweet shadows lit in backrooms

would taste if they were baked into you

lost in my head

my gut has always been my compass

but lately ive been heaving it into gutters

and toilets

sex on tile floors next to bathroom sinks

fuck to forget fuck to remember

you smell of a grove of trees my family drove past for years when i was younger

its like a fortune cookie i opened 17 years early

or a palm reader that was set like a backdated check to age 27

i wouldnt dare say these words aloud as i fear they would set off a chemical reaction within me or you

or that they would come across like a foreign language straining for meaning

i feel like i have snapped awake out of a coma like in a bad movie

i want to get under your skin and its not just a metaphor mostly

your eyelashes kiss off everything i say except in the way that it only makes me dream

informercial love affair

you hair tipped blonde crashing on black roots

or at least thats the plan

if there ever is one

its like science but one i dont understand

turned in my badge and gun as far as anyone ever understanding me is concerned.

i like standing in the rain.

i like showing up late.

i like going home early.

i like having a short fuse.

truly.

i like the madness.

i am in love with it.

the shows have made me realize that there is no other reason for me to be on this planet besides connecting with you.

thank you for that.

you have never let me down.

i am magnetized to everything you do.

and you is you who is reading this.

you are concrete and boomerangs and everything i can count on.

thank you for that.

when my back feels like breaking. or my stomch feels like heav ing or my eyes feel like raining i will think of that.

goodnight.

remember this is real.

even when your head is spinning and your heart is fluttering.

we are on the inside.

the cage spins the bird free.

dont for a second think i have forgotten you or the way you make me smile on gray days or in stormyh weather.

posted by xo at 11:19 PM

Thursday, May 10, 2007

fucking nuts.

i dont care where our heads lie,

as long as yours is close to mine.

posted by xo at 3:46 AM

May 13, 2007

“ground control to major tom…”

i can see that it kind of makes em sick in the pits of their stomachs when i smile.

or when i dont smile.

like they want it to impact but be forgotten.

im not sure you know how i was strung out but on something else.

how someone made you heavier and lighter all at once.

chaos in a wink of the eye.

and how its brushed off by something beyond it- that only speaks in whispers in crowded rooms- who only speaks of backyards and dog days. who only wants to drive south. who you wouldnt believe if i told you.

what if i said its all in reverse-

iamalonewhentheyflyyououtofmylifelikeamothinforcedflightawayfromthelight.

the things that broke me down years ago are just a shrug now.

a thumb and two fingers in.

i feel like a penny turned up the wrong way.

put me in the bowl in front of the register anyway.

let me change someones day.

posted by xo at 11:17 PM

May 17, 2007

“and”

if my conscience is a cricket then my heart is a wasp.

posted by xo at 12:20 AM

May 17, 2007

“semisweet shadows lit in backrooms”

would taste if they were baked into you

lost in my head

my gut has always been my compass

but lately ive been heaving it into gutters

and toilets

sex on tile floors next to bathroom sinks

fuck to forget fuck to remember

you smell of a grove of trees my family drove past for years when i was younger

its like a fortune cookie i opened 17 years early

or a palm reader that was set like a backdated check to age 27

i wouldnt dare say these words aloud as i fear they would set off a chemical reaction within me or you

or that they would come across like a foreign language straining for meaning

i feel like i have snapped awake out of a coma like in a bad movie

i want to get under your skin and its not just a metaphor mostly

your eyelashes kiss off everything i say except in the way that it only makes me dream

informercial love affair

you hair tipped blonde crashing on black roots

or at least thats the plan

if there ever is one

its like science but one i dont understand

turned in my badge and gun as far as anyone ever understanding me is concerned.

i like standing in the rain.

i like showing up late.

i like going home early.

i like having a short fuse.

truly.

i like the madness.

i am in love with it.

the shows have made me realize that there is no other reason for me to be on this planet besides connecting with you.

thank you for that.

you have never let me down.

i am magnetized to everything you do.

and you is you who is reading this.

you are concrete and boomerangs and everything i can count on.

thank you for that.

when my back feels like breaking. or my stomch feels like heav ing or my eyes feel like raining i will think of that.

goodnight.

remember this is real.

even when your head is spinning and your heart is fluttering.

we are on the inside.

the cage spins the bird free.

dont for a second think i have forgotten you or the way you make me smile on gray days or in stormyh weather.

god been thinking. its been awhile since ive done that.

except for "here and there"s

sick of all the speculation.

this means that, that means this.

this is really the only place i can speak to anyone without people in glass towers watching me.

commenting.

so thank you for that.

id do anything to keep this going forever.

even in my head when i wanted to be blown off this fucking planet i still hoped that little blue record kept spinning in your room.

the reason you havent seen a video of fall out boy on fuse is because of corporate litigation.

the same reasons for half of what makes this all feel like its falling apart.

we only did cribs because we thought it was funny. hopefully you are in on the joke. we rented fake cars, like ferraris and just goofed around the whole time.

didnt even know how to open the doors.

not sure if our sense of humor is gonna come across or whether it will be mtvified.

my best friend is a dog.

sometimes i miss being down all the time like it was a close friend that moved away.

but sometimes the inside of my head and my heart and my stomach all meet up into this wretched combination.

i just want to let myself be happy.

id give anything to not give up on this.

take care. sleep safe. i will write more when it comes to me.

May 20, 2007

i actually know someone whos middle name is danger

a cayahoga falling out. class four class five. id still take em. letters all over printed on every piece of luggage ever. you think you found gold every single time. she is the call just before the street lights go out. she is the minute before the alarm goes off. slurring and purring just like and engine or a cat after hes had a fifth. sometimes i hope i dont wake up, sometimes im scared that i wont. its funny how that scale works. its like our lady of justice peeking under the blindfold. if i could keep you still long enough id slip a rope around your finger or maybe even a silver band. detox to retox. hope and hype are just a letter off. sometimes, i try and forget that.

posted by xo at 12:03 PM

May 24, 2007

10 years at sea for one day on shore.

"And I can deal with some psychic pain

If it'll slow down my higher brain

Veins full of disappearing ink

Vomiting in your kitchen sink"

i can kind of see this thing going a couple of different ways. the screen pressed close against the side of my face. ear to the speaker cause i have smashed all the others that project the songs inside this stupid box. my face this close to the keys, taunting me. "i can do whatever i want"s, "i can eat my dinner in a fancy restraunt"s. there is no semblance of meaning. ice cold blue lips, vocal chords and toungue in the back of my head with everything i wish i could say. the tip of the iceberg of a credit check on the emotionally bankrupt. curse phone service or rejoice in it depending on which end of the line we are on. looking for the last life jacket on this sinking ship called life. throw your "overdramatic"s out the window. throw your "old you"s in your fucking face. i get it it. i got it. i gut it. the sun sets and rises on the same old mood. the world has become a dangerous place to me- in my head and outside of it. cant seem to shake it. all roads lead back nowhere. the wilderness of the inside of your brain- which seems to drive your body whenever your heart or crotch is not at the helm. i feel like a slow motion replay of a crash that never happened. wanted to be an anthem not an away message. most of the time dont want to be anything at all. when you are alone is when you audit yourself. you become who you truly are. or arent. there arent any cliffs to throw yourself upon and theres no romance in just: me.

last year i made a list of songs to listen to in the dark when you are all alone. i figured i would do the same again:

donny hathaway "a song for you"

eliott smith " a fond farewell"

the chemical brothers "close your eyes"

damien rice "9 crimes"

beck "lost cause"

beth hart "leave the light on"

the smashing pumpkins "ava adore"

david bowie "space oddity"

iron and wine "such great heights"

stevie wonder "they wont go"

saves the day "hold"

bjork "hyperballad"

bright eyes "coat check dream song"

prince "nothing compares 2 u"

the supremes "where did our love go"

ben folds "the luckiest"

jeff buckley "hallelujah"

i said "i kind of wish i was a pirate"

and she replied "you pretty much are"

how could i not love that?

May 25, 2007

everyone

is either full of diet pills or shit.

and usually its both.

May 30, 2007

“what has this become?”

a question only countered in some monster movie madness.

sometimes spewed out just before the

signal down.

the wizard of oz in reverse.

from color to black and white.

i am completely obsessed with everyone who is completely unobsessed with me.

or sometimes with life.

and by life i dont mean heartbeats and breathing.

i mean 9 to fives and becoming the suburbs.

the complete fuck off of it all being that i am completely obsessed with backyards, christmas trees and lemonaid stands.

its like the northshore is my heaven, the valley is my golden gates.

excuse mne for nodding off.

always boring myself to death.

take a chill pill.

the story of my life

the unauthorized biography written by myself.

i dont even remember saying goodbye to you.

happiness is the sand in the sea.

its just a percentage of a percentage inside a body of water,

life is just a crocodile with a ticking clock inside of it chasing captain hook.

its just i havent figured out this graceful aging thing so well yet.

im sorry baby. my heart is clumsy. but i love you in a holding your hair back kind of way.

just wanna dip my toe into death to see if its a warm bath.

anytime anything breaks me open ever i just spit out a fortune.

if it means anything i spend my time with a bunch of people who ignore the vibrant sky and just look for the pot of gold at the end.

addicted to addiction.

curiosity killed the cat. but what the fuck did loyalty ever get the dog.

May 31, 2007

"i dont believe...." anymore.

i have no words.

posted by xo at 5:47 PM

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week (#178):

2 X Wojciech Jerzy Has + 2 X Bruno Schulz:

🍿 Bruno Schulz, "The Polish Kafka", is regarded as 'one of the finest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century'. Before being killed by the Gestapo in 1942, he published only 2 small works. Both were adapted to the cinema later on.

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) is a wild surrealist interpretation of Schulz's stories. An acclaimed masterpiece of Borgesian proportions, but where the magical realism is of the Eastern European type, played by poor Shtetl-Jews. A dark, decrepit nightmare, covered with spiderwebs, years before Terry Gilliam ploughed through the same insanities. Schrodinger time-shifts, mysterious doppelgängers, grotesque wax mannequins and lots of sensuality among the ruins. It's a heady, bizarro work of mythological unease. And the final dream scenes connect the story to the holocaust and the annihilation of this world, taking place in graveyards and on the shocking deportation lines. It's Heavy!

🍿 Accordion, Jerzy Has's first short, was how I discovered him. A wordless, bleak fable from 1947, about a son of a poor shoemaker who dreams about buying a used 'Harmonia'.

🍿 Street of Crocodiles on the other hand, the second Bruno Schulz adaptation, was a let down. Dark British stop-animation puppetry, wordless, confusing and in dirty back alleys. An experimental mood piece in a Jan Švankmajer style, but without the charm. M'eh. 1/10.

(Meanwhile I am listening to the music score for Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue.)

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Six by Sondheim, a 2013 documentary and my introduction to composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Absolutely beautiful! (And I loved his Ethel Merman / Loretta Young anecdote...) 8/10.

I have to start searching for his full repertoire. (Or at least I should re-visit 'Marriage Story' one more time...)

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2 by female directors:

🍿 On May 9, 1954, two days before the start of 'La Pointe Courte', her first feature film, Agnès Varda took a photograph of a naked man, a boy named Ulysse and a dead goat on the beach of Calais. (Photo Above). In 1983, she recreated that experience in the documentary Ulysse, an evocative reflection about the time machine of memory, history and art. It’s my 15th Varda film, and was as good as the best of them - 9/10. [*Female Director*].

🍿 Possibly in Michigan (1983) an avant-garde horror musical about cannibalism, a feminist revenge fantasy. Two women shopping for perfume at a department store, are being stalked by a masked serial killer. Artsy and disturbing. A complete review here. [*Female Director*].

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The Browning Version, a British public school drama from 1951. Michael Redgrave gave a tremendous performance as a repressed and meek teacher, isolated and unloved. His contemptuous wife has an affair with a coworker, his nickname by his pupils is 'Himmler of the Fifth Ward', and on his last day of his last term, he's denied his pension. It's a story of failure and heartbreak.

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Benoît Magimel X 3:

🍿 "...La Salope…… La Salope.... La Salooope..."

Magimel made his debut performance as a 12 year old delinquent in the quirky comedy Life Is a Long Quiet River, which tackled the question of Nature vs. Nurture in a wry and unexpected way. 2 babies get swapped at the hospital out of spite. One belongs to a rich family, the other to a poor one.

I never heard of it before, didn't know what to expect - and enjoyed it very much. 7/10.

🍿 The Bridesmaid, my 11th Amour Fou thriller by Claude Chabrol, made 6 years before his death. It started effortlessly and smooth, and was a delight to watch. But then Magimel meets and falls hopelessly in love with an enigmatic, 'unusual' woman, who's also a compulsive liar and a psychotic nutcase, and the rest just didn't work out. 3/10.

🍿 In Putain de Porte from 1994, 4 guys, including very young Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Magimel try to crash a party they were not invited to. M'eh.

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3 by Dutch Bert Haanstra:

🍿 Glass, a short documentary from 1958, and the first Oscar win for The Netherlands. A highly-satisfying jazzy poem with terrific score, performed by The Pim Jacobs Quintet. My best film of the week - 10/10.

🍿 Zoo, made 3 years later, is similarly wonderful. Filmed with hidden camera, it draws parallels between the animals at the zoo and the many visitors who come to observe them, but really, behave in exactly the same ways. 9/10.

🍿 Fanfare was another successful comedy which he directed in 1958, and one which for decades, was “the most popular of all Dutch films”. It's a charming low-brow entertainment [what the Danes call 'Folkekomedie'] about a musical feud in a small touristy village. Its bucolic country all the way: Cows in the meadows, beer steins in the coffee hall, love in the haystacks, a trombone band, the whole nine yards. The only things missing were Gouda cheese wheels, wooden clogs and stork nests.

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2 with Anne Miller:

🍿 I'm getting more and more enamored with old-fashioned musicals, especially from the technicolor era, and all the ones with Fred Astaire. He was such a happy dancer! Easter parade is a Pygmalion story with the usual power imbalance: He's 49, and Judy Garland is 26. But they were so wonderful! Ann Miller, (as was her custom I guess), played the the third wheel to their romance.

🍿 I think that Room Service was the only Marx Brothers comedy I haven't seen before. Their best comedies were masterpieces, but the weak ones were pitiful. The whole plot was about the three of them not able to pay their hotel bill, so basically it was "based on a true story". Ann Miller and young Lucille Ball served as background decorations. Jumpin' butterballs! 2/10.

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My friend Simon is going through the classic works of Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Etc.), and is currently heavy into Nikolai Gogol. So in sympathy I tried watching the 1926 silent Soviet version of The Overcoat. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish it.

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2 juvenile comedies by Steve Pink:

🍿 "Excuse me, Miss, what color is Michael Jackson?"

In the opening scene of the gross-out guy comedy Hot Tub Time Machine, Craig Robinson pulls out a BMW key out of a dog's ass. Right off the bat, you know if this screwball time-machine story is for you. With ‘method actor’ Rob Corddry playing a raging asshole, (which he seems to be doing very well), and naked cameo of Megan Calvet-Draper. Raunchy but funny in parts. 7/10.

🍿 I shouldn't have tried to follow it up with his trashy teenage comedy Accepted. Jonah Hill, a year before 'Superbad', with about 100 lb. more, young Blake Lively, angry Lewis Blake and Dr. Frederick Chilton get together 1/2 a star (out of 10). For the rest, I could barely stay for half an hour, before having to turn it off. it was "Super Bad"!...

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New discovery - The brilliant shorts of Arthur Lipsett!

🍿 Arthur Lipsett was a visionary Canadian avant-garde artist, who suffered from schizophrenia, and who eventually killed himself. His 1963 montage film 21-87 was a tremendous collage of discarded snippets found on the editing floor of the National Board Of Canada where he worked as an editor. 10/10.

🍿 Very nice, very nice, his very first film from 1961, was just as unique. It was nominated for an Oscar, and was adored by Stanley Kubrick, who subsequently offered Lipsett a job as the editor of the trailer for 'Dr. Strangelove'. Another 10/10.

🍿 Free Fall (1964) was even darker and more chaotic, with definite hints of psychosis. He had a brilliant sense of juxtaposition and collage, both sights and sounds.

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"You made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore!..."

First watch: John Waters’ most mainstream attempt Cry-Baby, a 1950's 'Squares vs. Hill-billies' teen rebel musical. Elvis + Grease + Rebel without a cause with Tracy Lords and Willem Dafoe and Iggy Pop and Joe Dallesandro. 3/10.

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“Back to the salt mines…”

James Bond No. 2, From Russia with love, before the series got its footing. With blond villain Robert Shaw, and primitive levels of intrigues and suspense. Best producer fruit-name still goes to Albert R. Broccoli. 3/10.

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More random bunch of acclaimed 10-minute shorts:

🍿 In the Darkness of Time, J-L Godard's 2002 collage of poetic images, juxtaposed into a mosaic of concepts: love, art, memory, death, humanity, destruction and cinema. He really was 'un poète' first and foremost.

🍿 René Laloux 1964 visual essay, Dead Times. A sardonic, surrealistic poem about Man's inherit need to kill everything around him. Like 'La Planète sauvage', the drawings are by Roland Topol, and the music is similar.

🍿 When the Day Breaks, another National Board of Canada Oscar nominated short, from 1999, about a humanoid pig who witnesses the accidental death of a humanoid rooster. 8/10. [*Female Director*].

🍿 Inspiration (1949), my second film by Czechoslovakian Karel Zeman (after ‘Invention for destruction’). A stop motion tale of a glass ballerina and a glass clown, the type of little figurines that used to be so popular then.

🍿 I think this is the closest to how the footage looked (2012) is an artsy but touchy Israeli short. A young man remembers the actual last day in the life of his mother, and how his father by mistake erased the video he had taken of her that last day.

🍿 Bluebeard, a fantastic 1901 film by Georges Méliès, about the serial killer and his eighth wife.

🍿Litany of Happy People (1971), my first by Slovenian Karpo Godina, of the Yugoslav 'Black Wave' cinematic movement. Experimental hippy documentary about the various minority ethnicities in some village.

🍿 Cathedral (1971), one of the earliest gay films that came after Stonewall. A poetic love session between three beautiful guys in a shrine of sheets, which eventually turns into a cathedral. Not for me, but okay…

🍿 Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog, a 1982 Soviet folk tale about a dog and a wolf.

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James Payne, curator of the channel 'Great Art Explained' gave a 51 min. exploration of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. A fascinating run-down, worth watching together with the detailed 'De tuin der lusten' project and Wikipedia. 8/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).

[spookyrobbins]

wanted to ask you some fun “who is more likely to” questions about calzona.

Who is most likely to be the “good cop” and “bad cop” with their kids?

2. Who is most likely to snore while sleeping?

3. Who is more likely to keep racy pictures of the other after their divorce?

4. Who is more likely to say their exes name in bed after their divorce?

5. Who is most likely to admit they're wrong?

6. Who is most likely to want to cuddle after sex?

7. Who is most likely to forget their anniversary?

8. Who is most likely to playfully steal kisses in public?

9. Who is most likely to attempt a DIY project and end up with a hilarious fail?

10. Who is most likely to initiate sex in public, or an unexpected place?

11. Who is most likely to suggest experimenting with BDSM?

12. Who is most likely to suggest playing strip poker?

really curious to see your answers lol

omg i love these!! please always send more haha (i’m on mobile so excuse any goofy formatting lol)

1. “good cop” vs “bad cop”

okay so first we need to look at how calzona were raised - arizona in an overly strict household with lots of expectations and rules and presumably discipline (and it’s not just the colonel bc he wasn’t around all the time so babs was also part of it)

callie conversely in a far less regulated environment where there are some expectations but pretty much callie can do as she pleases and she gets support from her dad in everything - the fact that callie was seemingly just “exploring” post undergrad and eventually joining the peace corps is good evidence of this - callie’s expected on some level to be successful but she has a major safety net (spoiled brat affectionate)

so to answer the question - arizona good cop callie bad cop

they’re both reacting in the opposite to their own childhoods. arizona doesn’t want her kid to fear her and while she’ll create rules and guidelines and not be totally let them be wild, she just doesn’t have it in her to be like her parents

callie on the other hand feels like she was given too much leeway and was too spoiled as a child so she goes the opposite direction

although admittedly arizonas the way scarier one of the two bc it’s very rare that she’s actually mad

2. snoring

low key probably callie but she’s in extreme denial about it

arizona eventually loses it and goes and wakes mark up and drags him in and tells him to fix it and she’s sleeping on the couch until callie stops snoring

(but also calzona who both snore and neither thinks they’re the one snoring)

3. racy pictures post divorce

honestly both of them. they both have pictures and videos hidden deep in folders and feel varying degrees of guilt about it

callie is more likely to look at them though and then she feels weird bc she’s in a relationship but she feels way more into the old pictures of arizona than penny

arizona feels very odd about a lot of them bc they’re all pre plane crash and it’s almost like seeing another person

(ask me about the penny finds a calzona sex tape hc!)

4. saying their ex’s name post divorce

as a general rule i’d say callie but also something tells me arizona was way better in bed than penny lol

arizona ofc seems to exclusively date women who in one way or another vaguely resemble callie so maybe easier to make that mistake

5. admit they’re wrong

neither of them and it’s a nightmare

like they’re both super stubborn and won’t back down and they’ll just argue in circles until they’re hoarse

eventually one of them will get worn down and tired and back off a bit

arizona won’t admit she’s wrong but she will sort of like take responsibility to end things

callie will just say she’s tired of fighting and it’s dumb but also not admitting she’s wrong

6. cuddle post sex

probably arizona - she’s low key kinda touch starved in my opinion

but callie loves to cuddle and loves how arizona always curls up afterwards and wordlessly demands cuddles

callie is defs the big spoon most of the time and she’s sort of obsessed with it

7. forget their anniversary

arizona remembers so many random things and keeps track of all these details but she’s also sort of terrible about dates. like she’s missed her own birthday before.

callie kinda needles her about it when she realizes arizona has no idea why they’re going out to dinner and arizona almost cries bc callie’s being so sweet and she planned all these things and arizona just missed it

8. steal kisses

i mean canonically it’s arizona and i’d agree with that she’s just so delighted to kiss callie and be with callie

she loves sneaking up to ortho and surprising callie and callie’s kinda shy and blushy about it at first bc it’s all very new and she’s kinda self conscious about how everyone’s always aware of her relationships but soon she grows to love it and will seek arizona out herself

9. diy projects and failing at them

callie’s actually really handy - i mean she works with power tools and is out there building things but i think even before she went into ortho callie was handy. she liked ceramics and building little things. she can absolutely build the crap out of ikea furniture. arizona finds it incredibly hot

arizona on the other hand is not particularly handy or even arts and crafty. she understands the theory but then somehow it always goes horribly wrong. arizonas basically been banned from helping with science projects. she is a very good baker though and she and callie have teamed up to make epic birthday cakes

10. sex in a public place

callie but arizonas only like a half step behind her

calzona have 100% hooked up in the bathroom at joes and both of their offices and a variety of on call rooms and locker rooms and callie’s car and teddys apartment (teddy has no idea and they have no plans to tell her)

11. bdsm

arizona - she’s a bit more adventurous to start with but callie’s very into it and always willing to try something once

12. strip poker

arizona but it’s mainly bc callie actually knows how to play poker and arizonas trying to distract her

and like callies not gonna say no but she absolutely demolishes arizona and only has to take off her shirt which only serves to distract arizona

[heyclickadee]

So…there was one time I decided that I was going to go through the entire Lupin III franchise (minus the manga, I have less than zero interest in that) in chronological release order, like a fööl. You know that one Lupin III post that goes around with Camilla, the vampiric twin sister of Jesus Christ? Not only is that absolutely an episode of the show, I’m not even sure it’s the weirdest one.

I hit something of a brick wall with Lupin III about halfway through the pink jacket era, but I have seen all of green, all of red, some of both the blue jacket series, and quite a few of the movies/specials. And there’s some wild stuff in the series, including:

1. That time Lupin and co. trick Scrooge McDuck’s humansona (he wears the outfit and swims in a money bin, this is very literal) into giving money to charity.

2. That time Lupin gets trapped by a narcotic lesbian death cult.

3. Colombo (yes, the one from the tv show Colombo) has a man adorable little skateboarding son who shows up in an episode.

4. A mafia boss hypnotizes the New York Yankees to kill Lupin and the gang with iron baseballs.

5. The completely accidental (I think) existential horror of the Green vs Red movie, in which Lupin III is an entity which moves from body to body, condemning its next victim to a life of crime and shenanigans. (This is not what it was going for but it’s absolutely what it is.)

6. Goemon gets possessed by his great-times-thirteen grandfather. Frankenstein’s monster is involved somehow.

7. Lupin crash-lands into the Bermuda Triangle and Every Paranormal Phenomenon happens over the course of the next twenty minutes. The meet aliens at Stonehenge.

8. Salvador Dali tries to turn Lupin into a weathercock.

9. An immortal gremlin man with psychic powers is collecting clones of historical figures for his human zoo on his private MC Escher Island. Lupin is hanged and shows up a year later in Dracula’s coffin. Zenigata tried and fails to keep Lupin from stealing the philosophers stone from one of the great pyramids. This all happens in the same movie.

10. Lupin gets possessed by the spirit of King Tut.

11. Whatever the hell was going on in “Musical Variation of Monkey Business.” I just…I don’t. I don’t know.

[laresearchette]

Wednesday, January 03, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: ISHURA (Disney + Star) I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE (Global) 8:00pm WE ARE FAMILY (Global) 9:00pm SISTAS (BET Canada) 9:00pm

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CBC GEM YOUNGER (Season 4)

CRAVE TV THE EMPEROR (Season 2, Episode 1) THE TRAITORS UK (Season 2, Episode 1)

DISNEY + STAR HAMSER & GRETEL (Season 1) INCREDIBLE ANIMAL JOURNEYS (Season 1) ISHURA (Season 1, Premiere Episode)

MARLIES HOCKEY (TSN4) 4:00pm: Cleveland vs. Toronto

PWHL HOCKEY (TSN/TSN5) 7:00pm: Minnesota vs. Boston

NBA BASKETBALL (SN Now) 7:00pm: Bucks vs. Pacers (SN1) 7:30pm: Thunder vs. Hawks (TSN3/TSN4) 8:00pm: Raptors vs. Grizzlies (SN1) 10:00pm: Heat vs. Lakers

THE OTHER SIDE (APTN) 7:30pm: The Tillicum Health Centre in Nanaimo, B.C., has a dark history that has left spirits trapped inside its walls. Through traditional medicines and song, the team, alongside Lee's friend, brings calm to the angry history the building has endured.

SPIRIT TALKER (APTN) 8:00pm: Shawn collaborates with Knowledge Keeper Robert Hope in assembling a community teepee in Enoch Cree Nation. His spirit session brings forth words of comfort for a friend and insightful guidance from a loving grandfather.

CAUGHT! (Discovery Canada) 8:00pm/8:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Jewel thieves use their imagination for huge scores; ATMs face brutal assaults from heavy machinery to get to the loot inside; during a daring attempt to rob an armored car, one driver becomes a hero. In Episode Two, roadways and waterways are full of hazards, dangers and accidents waiting to happen; traffic cams, cell phones and dash cams get it all on video when sailboats crash into piers, a woman steals a cop car, and a cow-carrying convoy spills its cargo.

GOOD WITH WOOD (Makeful) 8:00pm: The three finalists race the clock to assemble a kitchen island with functional cupboards and doors; their handmade custom kitchen accessories may be a recipe for success and a path to the crown.

GHOST HUNTERS OF THE GRAND RIVER (APTN) 8:30pm: The ghost hunters visit The Grad Club at Queen's University in Kingston, where a local student helps them substantiate a century of lore and reports of paranormal occurrences on the campus.

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 9:00pm: Leafs vs. Ducks (SN360/SNWest) 9:30pm: Kraken vs. Flames

PAWN STARS DO AMERICA (History Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Rick, Corey and Chum wrangle some wild deals in the Lone Star State; the guys test-drive a 1968 Buick Riviera, become riveted by a blacksmith's anvil collection, and meet up with NFL legend Emmitt Smith.

THE HONEYMOON (Crave) 9:00pm: Adam whisks his new bride Sarah to Venice for a honeymoon, but Adam's gross best friend Bav tags along. A charming gangster Giorgio falls for Sarah, sending Adam and Bav across the border on a drug-dealing mission.

[juliiwrites]

Currently Watching

911 | season 4 episode 12

Abbott Elementary | season 1 episode 6

Beef | episode 3

Daisy Jones and the Six | episode 5

Girls5Eva | season 1 episode 4

Grace and Frankie | season 6 episode 11

Platonic | season 1 episode 7

Strange Planet | season 1 episode 5

The Magicians | season 3 episode 8

The White Lotus | season 2 episode 4

Wedding Season | episode 4

Currently Re-watching

Friends | season 10 episode 6

Hacks | season 1 episode 7

Modern Family | season 5 episode 12

Sherlock | season 1 episode 2

The Office | season 9 episode 9

Watchlist and Finished Series are underneath the cut 🤗

Watchlist

911 | seasons 2-5

Abbott Elementary

After Life

Agent Carter

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

Always a Witch

American Gods

Anxious People

Arcane

Atlanta Medical

Babylon Berlin

Bones | seasons 11-12

Breaking Bad | seasons 2-5

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | seasons 3-4

Crashing

Damaged Goods

Der Tatortreinger | seasons 2-7

Desperate Housewives | seasons 5-8

Dexter | seasons 6-8

Downtown Abbey | season 3-6

Dr Who

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Elite

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Extraordinary

Fakes

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Flora and Son

Girls

Girls 5 Eva

Glow

Grey’s Anatomy | seasons 12-19

Heartstopper | season 2

House of Cards | seasons 3-6

House of the Dragon

How I Met Your Father | season 2

How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) | seasons 2-3

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Jack Ryan | season 3

Jerks. | seasons 3-5

Kaulitz & Kaulitz

Little Fires Everywhere

Loki | season 2

Love

Love & Anarchy

Marvellous Mrs Masel

Money Heist | parts 3-5

Mythic Quest

Narcos

Never Have I Ever

Not Dead Yet

Once Upon A Time

Outlander | seasons 3-5

Ozark

Parks and Recreation

Parlament

Partner Track

Peaky Blinders

Platonic

Queen Charlotte

Ragnarok | seasons 2-3

Roar

Rick und Morty

Riverdale | seasons 6-7

Scandal

Scream Queen

Selling Sunset | seasons 6-7

Selling the OC

Seven vs Wild | seasons 2-3

Sex Education

Shadow & Bone | season 2

Space Force

Special | season 2

Stranger Things | I’ll only watch once the series is wrapped

Succession | seasons 3-4

Superstore

Sweet Magnolias

Ted Lasso | season 3

The Bear | season 3

The Bold Type

The Brothers Sun

The Diplomat

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Flight Attendant

The Gentlemen

The Gilded Age | season 2

The Good Fight

The Great

The Handmaid‘s Tale

The Last of Us

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The Witcher | season 4

This Is Us

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Dead to Me

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Doctor’s Diary

Don’t Fuck With Cats

Emily in Paris

Fate: The Winx Sags

First Kill

Friends

Game of Thrones

Get Even

Gilmore Girls

Golden Girls

Good Omens

Good Witch

Gossip Girl

Grey’s Anatomy | season 1-12

Hacks

Half Bad: The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself

Heart of Dixie

Heartstoppers

How I Met Your Mother

IKEA Heights

Iron Fist

Jane the Virgin

Jessica Jones

Jury Duty

Killing Eve

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Lupin

Loki | season 1

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Obliterated

Only Murders In The Building

Please Like Me

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Rebel Cheer Squad

Santa Clarita Diet

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Soundtrack

Supernatural

Superstore

Teen Wolf | season 1-4

The 7 Lives of Lea

The Actress

The Afterparty

The Bear

The Big Bang Theory

The Buccaneers

The Circle

The Defenders

The Mole

The Night Agent

The Office

The Perfect Couple

The Queen’s Gambit

The Recruit

The Sandman

The Umbrella Academy

The Vampire Diaries

The Witcher

Tiger King

Too Hot To Handle

Treason

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Unnatural Selection

Wednesday

Westside

You

I will not watch

American Horror Story | … horror isn’t my genre, but I have heard only great things about this series!

The Boys | I know, I know, the hook is great and the series is supposed to be amazing, but I’ve seen the very first scene and did not expect it 🙈 it really shocked me so I might need a while to get over it.

Law and Order SVU | I have tried watching it but I cannot stomach it

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Re the yj / bllk au(?): besides the Jackie/kunigami similarities which other characters do you see fitting into this au???

ok so after thinking about it some more, I realised that reo would be a much better fit for jackie in this au. first off, his backstory states that he is so privileged in his everyday life that he's barely had to work for anything, ever. as such, I strongly believe that he would NOT be able to adapt to surviving in the wilderness. he would cling onto the hope of getting rescued, but as soon as it becomes clear that they won't, he would... not take it well.

and finally, the reonagi friendship parallels with shauna/jackie. that dramatic breakup in canon where reo thinks nagi is ditching him in favour of isagi? well, if it happens to coincide with a sudden overnight cold snap...... yeah......

now, since reo is the jackie of this au, I think kunigami would fit much better as laura lee. someone kind, with a strong moral compass and a presence of Good that the others feel like they can depend on post-crash. kunigami would also definitely volunteer to fly the plane to get help, despite the very real possibility that it will might kill him

as for the other characters, it's a lot harder to find direct parallels but here are some other things I've got for this au:

(warning: contains spoilers for the blue lock manga & yellowjackets s2)

the plane that crashes contains the blue lock 11, shidou, the bench players + ego & anri. here, the v U20 match was supposed to take place in a different part of japan and they were heading there when it all went to hell

in this au kunigami didn't get eliminated and the wildcard program doesn't exist, hence why he's still around (he's one of the bench players)

ok so I lied when I said I couldn't find other parallels- if we are keeping what yellowjackets did with having 1 (one) adult character who is the opposite sex of the teens survive, then it's anri. and... hoo boy. I genuinely feel so bad for her because like. jesus fucking christ. she does not deserve to be stuck with these boys in a situation like this. I can only hope that she finds the secret underground lair sooner than ben does because she has a much higher chance of surviving that way

canonically gagamaru fucks off into the wild on a regular basis for fun, so all the boys are going to turn to him for guidance when it comes to surviving the wilderness. he is also most likely going to hunt game for the group as well, making him one of the most important and well-respected members of the group until they run out of food and decide to start killing and eating each other

hear me out- bachira being the one to start the cult because his 'monster' keeps directing him to food sources/symbols/whatever. eventually the more religious members of the group (like igarashi) start talking about leaving out tokens of their gratitude for the 'monster' and it all snowballs from there

one winter day when everyone is starving their minds off, rin and shidou butt heads for the millionth time. except instead of deescalating the fight, the other boys have run out of fucks to give and decide to let them duke it out while they watch from the sidelines. but the fight just keeps going and going, until one of them gets beaten to death. it is brutal, it is tragic, but... at least they have food now?

and thus, their hunting ritual is born- 2 of them get chosen to fight to the literal death, and the loser gets eaten by the rest of the group. at long last, their canon dialogue will make sense /j

so who survives in the end? at this point in time I've only locked in isagi, bachira and nagi, because I strongly believe that these 3 will manage to find a way to win all those 1v1 death matches. in the rin vs shidou fight I mentioned earlier I haven't decided on who wins, but I know that the winner of that match would survive until rescue. in yellowjackets, so far we know there are 7 survivors, and if my theory that there are 8 total survivors is correct then that would leave 4 more spots for the blue lock boys

this got much longer than expected and in the end I don't know if I even answered your question properly hjafklsd I hope you enjoyed my ramblings!

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I need a place to jam @lunastars21 's "Bean ate a glowstick once and he glows in the dark now if you shake him because that logic TOTALLY tracks (and is therefore perfect for Bean)" headcanon into my fic, and the ONLY place I can think to put it is during the already disastrously chaotic rescue mission into Eggman's airship. But I feel like that segment has too much chaos in it because:

1. Momma Robotnik is there, and we get to see the Hooligans, Team Sapphire (my team name for Tangle, Whisper, and Jewel), Mina, and Shadow all react to the knowledge that Momma Robotnik is still alive and looks Like That.

2. Jewel tries to sass Eggman... But ends up quoting Monkey Island instead. But it's okay, girl, it's a vast improvement from you freaking out!

3. The Hooligans, Whisper, and Mina accidentally crash the Marvelous Queen through a wall for the stupidest reason imaginable.

4. Bark intentionally smashes through a wall and tears a door off its hinges.

5. A stick that looks a lot like a severed hand gets lobbed at Eggman.

6. Jewel ruined Eggman's latest android army by giving it her own... Personal touch. ;)

7. Marvelous Queen vs the ground, take a wild guess who wins that one! That's right, THE FUCKING GROUND-

TELL ME GUYS IS IT TOO MUCH TO ADD THE GLOWSTICK THING TOO? 😂

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2020

Art Klaudt: Walking around the cliffs near my parents house listening to Clube Da Esquina

Anonymous 1: on stimulants and obsessed with staying in my room reading and categorizing

ava: covid lockdown

kate: I finally graduated with my Master's in engineering and got a job, at a company I still work at, though things have evolved. I had actually applied to the company pre-pandemic for a different role, but they were hiring people for a team formed specifically in response to the pandemic, so in a way I have covid to thank for the last 4 years of my employment. I don't remember my first day as much as the interview and little I knew about how to interact with the recruiter vs the hiring manager or how many stages there would be, and how awkward it felt when they revealed it was actually for a "more junior" role for a contractor instead of being a full time employee. Like I hadn't qualified to be a "real" engineer but I did qualify to be a meat shield between them and covid. But the joke was on them because the contracting company actually miscalculated how much they wanted us to be paid and the hourly rate came out to about $104k/yr. It was wild to get out of college and immediately be making 6 figures doing a job that did not feel like it should be 6 figures, in the middle of a pandemic to boot. Anyways now I'm a real employee and making essentially the same lol.

Anonymous 2: i have a lot of trouble remembering things from this year. the only thing i can really think of is walking my dog around the suburban development my family lived in

Lucas: COVID lockdowns

Anonymous 3: Waking up at 5am to phone B. who at the time was in a city on the west coast of America where it was 9pm. Our conversation springing straight out from the non-differentiation of my sleep made it easy to get to the purity of reflexivity that he and I were always trying to reach in our conversations at that time. Feeling the fractal purity of talking about the act of talking, of trying to be as present to the reality of the moment without interjecting "topics" to talk "about", which when our conversations were at their best was the whole point of them, to be the only real way of trying to connect two subjectivities, feeling like this was the closest I'd ever come to genuinely sharing an experience with someone in a shared subjectivity, instead of being trapped as two subjectivities irrevocably in object positions vis a vis each other, and that feeling being love.

Anonymous 4: Online school and a ton of work at Five Below

Anonymous 5: Disorientedly walking around college campus

superswag: All the events, covid shopping, CHAZ

v0w0v: The Minneapolis Uprising. I had just moved into the city and was very involved from day one. I was in contact with a lot of mutual aid networks and as the only person in the house with a car i found myself doing a lot of stuff on behalf of the people I lived with. It was a very busy time. I saw and did a lot of things. Something that stood out to this day is when I was on the way to meet with a front lines aid group. I came to an intersection that had a car crash. Someone had crawled out of the car and was crying out in pain. There was national guard soldier on the corner by an apartment complex standing by with a huge automatic rifle, just watching along with the crowd of onlookers. They didn't try to help the person at all. They were not equipped to help. There was a heavy military presence in the whole city. I remember the smell of tear gas.

Anonymous 6: Being isolated, sitting in a faraday cage at an art exhibit as heat lamps droned above me, still instinctively trying to flick on my phone.

Anonymous 7: watching nge.

binnie: A blur

Anonymous 8: COVID, Having my first seizure and getting cheated on

April M. Mildew: Falling down the stairs at a ski lodge while listening to the 2015 recording of Times to Die by Car Seat Headrest on a Nintendo 3DS. It must have been in February. January?

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Minnesota Twins-Chicago Cubs Series Preview

8.5.24-David Festa RHP (1-2) 6.98 ERA Vs. Kyle Hendricks RHP (3-9) 6.86 ERA

8.6.24-Pablo Lopez RHP (10-7) 4.65 ERA Vs. Shoto Imanaga LHP (8-2) 3.09 ERA

8.7.24-Joe Ryan RHP (7-7) 3.59 ERA Vs. Javier Assad RHP (5-3) 3.19 ERA

The Twins At A Glance- The Twins swept the White Sox and went (12-1) against them in 2024. They gained two games on the Indians and are 4.5 games within first place. Byron Buxton left Sunday's game after crashing in the wall while making a catch. He was cleared to play, but the team removed him from the game due to the score. Carlos Correa jogged and did fielding drills at Target Field as he works his way back. I think a realistic timeline is two weeks. Justin Topa pitched on Friday and Sunday, which might have been the last step in being activated. The earliest they would activate him would be on Tuesday given the workload. Christian Vazquez has been hot with a .333 average since the All-Star Break. Matt Wallner is hitting .320 with three homers since the break. Byron Buxton has smacked five homers and knocked in eight since the break. The team released Josh Staumont, who was designated for assignment to make room for Trevor Richards last week.

The Cubs At A Glance- The Cubs have been an average team in 2024. They had a hot start with a (17-10) April, but May and June were not good. The Cubs held their own in July with a (13-12) record and sit six games out of the last National League Wild-Card spot. Chicago had an interesting trade deadline. They traded Chris Morel to the Rays for Isaac Paredes, traded Mark Leither to the Yankees, and traded for Nate Pearson from the Blue Jays. That didn't indicate whether they were buying or selling. Cody Bellinger has been okay as he resigned with the Cubs. He is hitting .274 with just eleven homers. Seiya Suzuki has sixteen homers and fifty-three runs knocked in. Ian Happ has a team-leading sixty-two RBI. Michael Busch has found a home with fifteen homers. The Cubs starters have a 3.84 ERA, which is seventh-best in baseball. Shot Imanaga has been great with a 3.09 ERA over 116 1/3 innings. Justin Steele and Jameson Taillon are having strong years. Jorge Lopez found a new home with the Cubs after getting released by the Cubs. He has allowed just one run over 13 2/3 innings. Hector Neris is the closer with fifteen saves. Tyson Miller has a 1.57 ERA since joining the Cubs. Drew Smyly has been good out of the bullpen as well.

What To Watch For- The Cubs are (21-19) all-time against the Twins. The Twins took two out of three against the Cubs last May at Target Field. The Twins haven't been to Wrigley Field since 2021 when they won a pair of games late in the season. Pablo Lopez is (1-2) with a 2.66 ERA in four games against the Cubs. Dansby Swanson has two homers off Lopez. Kyle Hendricks is (1-2) with a 4.34 ERA in three starts against the Twins. Max Kepler has two career homers off Hendricks. David Festa, Shoto Imanaga, and Javier Assad have never faced their opponent before. Joe Ryan is (2-1) with a 2.81 ERA in three starts against the Cubs. He is one of the last Twins pitchers ever to hit in a game. He went 0-for-2 with two strikeouts on September 22nd of 2021. This should be a fun series for the Twins. I hope fans travel to Wrigley to see that great venue this week.

-Chris Kreibich-

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Discover the Hidden Gems of Ucluelet: Top 10 Vacation Rentals You Can't Miss!

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Top 10 Vacation Rentals: Your Gateway to Coastal Wonders

1. Nearby Ocean Cedar Cabin

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2. Forest Haven Suite

Nestled among towering cedars and firs, this suite provides a serene escape. It's the perfect spot to unwind after a day of hiking the nearby Wild Pacific Trail.

3. Surfer's Paradise Condo

Just a 5-minute drive from North Florencia Beach, this modern condo is ideal for wave chasers. Enjoy stunning ocean views and easy access to some of the best surfing spots on the coast.

4. Family-Friendly Beachhouse

Spacious and welcoming, this house is perfect for family getaways. It's a stone's throw from South Florencia Beach and Halfmoon Bay, offering endless opportunities for beachcombing and sandcastle building.

5. Storm Watcher's Retreat

Positioned perfectly for winter storm watching, this cozy cabin provides a warm refuge as you witness the raw power of the Pacific. It's close to Florencia Beach Trail, one of the most exhilarating spots to experience winter storms.

6. Kayaker's Cove Cottage

Ideally located for water enthusiasts, this cottage offers easy access to launch points for exploring the Broken Group Islands. After a day of paddling, relax in the private hot tub and gaze at the star-filled sky.

7. Hiker's Haven Loft

With the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve at your doorstep, this loft is perfect for trail enthusiasts. Explore the lush rainforests and rugged coastlines before returning to your comfortable abode.

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Situated near the harbor, this apartment is ideal for those looking to join fishing charters or simply soak in the local maritime atmosphere. Enjoy fresh catches at nearby restaurants after a day on the water.

9. Wellness Retreat Cabin

Featuring a private sauna and access to massage services, this cabin is designed for those seeking relaxation and rejuvenation. It's the perfect spot to unwind after exploring Ucluelet's natural wonders.

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With its luxurious amenities and stunning views, this suite is perfect for couples. Enjoy intimate dinners on your private balcony as you watch the sun set over the Pacific.

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A Guest's Perspective

One satisfied visitor shared, "Staying in this home was perfect! We each had our own VERY comfortable beds and Ucluelet is great for its quiet atmosphere vs. Tofino. Beach walk is just across the street and the restaurants there are very good. We only wish we could have stayed longer!"

Addressing Your Concerns

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Your Ucluelet Adventure Awaits

From the moment you arrive at your chosen Vancouver Island Vacation Rental, you'll feel the worries of everyday life melt away. Whether you're seeking heart-pounding adventures, serene natural beauty, or simply a place to unwind, our diverse range of accommodations provides the ideal base for your west coast exploration.

As you plan your coastal getaway, let the allure of Ucluelet captivate your imagination. With its unique blend of rugged wilderness and coastal charm, this hidden gem offers experiences that will stay with you long after you've returned home. So pack your sense of adventure, bring your curiosity, and prepare to be amazed. Your perfect Ucluelet rental awaits, ready to unlock the wonders of Vancouver Island's wild west coast. Are you ready to discover your own hidden gem in Ucluelet?