#A Child Is Waiting

[texaschainsawmascara]

"One workday, while we were waiting to shoot, Roman [Polanski] was discoursing about the impossibility of long-term monogamy given the brevity of a man's sexual attraction to any woman. An impassioned John Cassavetes responded that Roman knew nothing about women, or relationships, and that he, John, was more attracted than ever to his wife, Gena Rowlands. Roman stared at him and blinked a few times, and for once had no reply."

- from Mia Farrow's memoir

[burtlancster]

What is normal? Normality is relative.

A Child Is Waiting — 1963. dir. john cassavetes, cin. joseph lashelle

[soulmusicsongs]

It's Christmas Time - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (The Season For Miracles, 1970)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Best Judy Garland movies and performances:

1. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)

2. Meet Me in St. Louis - Vincente Minnelli (1944)

3. A Star is Born - George Cukor (1954)

4. The Clock - Vincente Minnelli (1945)

5. Easter Parade - Charles Walters (1948)

6. A Child Is Waiting - John Cassavetes (1963)

7. In the Good Old Summertime - Robert Z. Leonard (1949)

[ulrichgebert]

Die 94jährig verstorbene Gena Rowlands hat natürlich auch einen Gedenkfilm verdient. Wir hatten nicht die rechten Nerven für Opening Night, aber (unter unreflektiertem Rührseligkeitsverdacht) noch ungesehen A Child is Waiting herumfahren, in dem sie die hilflose Mutter des wartenden geistig behinderten Kindes, das in seiner Einrichtung in die Obhut der an dieser Stelle eher unerwarteten Judy Garland geraten ist, die nicht versteht, wie die Eltern das Kind verlassen konnten, und sich zudem gegen die Methoden des Schulleiters Burt Lancaster auflehnt. Als Gedenkfilm für Gena war es nicht völlig ideal, weil sie noch recht recht jung ist und ihre spätere furchteinflößenden Präsenz noch nicht völlig entfaltet hat, aber als Film ist es besser, als ich erwartet habe (besonders für uns als alte Behindertenschul-Zivis, wir freuen uns an den Mitschülern) und der Rührseligkeitsverdacht bewahrheitet sich nur teilweise, offenbar aufgrund gewisser konzeptioneller Differenzen zwischen Produzent und Regisseur, so ist das Resultat ein wenig unausgeglichen, aber jedenfalls sehr sehenswert.

[egophiliac]

doylist explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: probably something about space constraints and making sure two sprites in one seat aren't covering anyone else when they're not in focus

watsonian explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: he snuck in and is hiding from the teachers, don't give him away 🤫

(I've reached my limit of unsuccessful attempts at pulling them before I need to save keys for Halloween, so I've been living vicariously through youtube videos...but the fact that Gidel just pops up from under the desk to wave his arms around happily is really testing my resolve. D: I'm gonna die when they finally get to do alchemy...)

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Afton children are siblings forever in FNAF

[lylahammar]

tragic little victorian child still serving cunt despite it all 💜

[tezzbot]

I wish I could add music to posts so I could add just the first like 5 seconds of sweet child o mine to this with no caption bc that's all thats going through my head rn<3 Love these traumatised child stars lol

[burtlancster]

Burt Lancaster in A Child is Waiting, 1963.

[soulmusicsongs]

A Child Is Waiting - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (The Season For Miracles, 1970)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 297

“I feel like we should be concerned about Tim.” 

“Honestly we should always be concerned about him, but what made you realize it this time?” 

“Have you seen his search history- wait no you haven’t you haven’t been in the cave all day, look at this-”

“...'Is it legal to adopt the ghost of a kid? Can someone call CPS on a family’s ghost? How to take care of ghosts 101? How do you get a ghost of a child to not be scared? What to do if you find ghost children in your home? What the fuck…?” 

“Exactly, I think he needs an intervention.” 

Or in other words, after getting thrown into another dimension thanks to the GIW destroying most of Amity, a trio of ghost children decide to crash in this seemingly abandoned apartment building. No one seems to live here anyway… Tim Drake on the other hand, gets a notification that there’s someone in his main safehouse that he might’ve slightly forgotten about thanks to having his house-boat now, and sees a trio of starved looking ghost kids

[fenkko]

the little siblings of scara and childe 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦

[lotus-pear]

god i love skk sm i wish gay ppl were real :(

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

A Child Is Waiting (1963, John Cassavetes, USA)

[emacrow]

Orphan's baby

Cass was in the middle of helping the Batfam along with Batman raids through the the hidden base they had found underground lab in an abandoned hospital messing with a neon verison of lararus pits liquid.

Red Robin had already adjacked the security and was going through the files with Spoiler. Nightwing and Red hood beating up the guards while batman was battling with the main boss behind it all.

She was with Robin as they were taking some samples and destroying the remaining ones.

She had already crack through most of seemingly important hidden rooms that seem to be hiding completely full with containers full of lararus pits with tags of PH4N70M, and a winter blue colored marble in a container sealed to the safe that was spelling out electricity every minute in the container.

It looked important, but why a marble..?

She broke the container holding the marble, taking most of the lararus pits containers as well while destroying the remaining unaware of the glow that pulsed in the marble.

By the time is was to retreat, everything was in the clear as Spoiler needed to unscramble hidden files that were behind multiples firewalls.

They were at the batcave when they were securing the containers of lararus pits for later sampling, only for the marble to be missing..?

She was sure that she place it in her bat waist pouch, but it wasn't there anymore..

Did she dropped it accidentally while collecting the containers of larausu pits?

It was already too late to check back now, so she decided not to tell anyone yet.

Until 2 months later, she started feeling downright sick nauseated. Right after Dinner of Alfred's infamous lasagna Tuesday, but.. it tasted a bland which was throwing her off completely.

She was only dropping down by the batcave to just self analysis herself.. only to stop walking half way the secure containement holding all the lararus pits that they brought back..

She couldn't stop herself from staring at it with vast hunger before the swirl of neon green filling her vision and blank her conscience out the window..

Only to wake up in her room on her bed, 3 empty containers with not a inch of lararus pits left inside as if it was wiped-or licked clean. She hide the containers under her bed and stood quiet later on as nobody had noticed yet what she had done.

She doesn't know what had happen, but the nausea and sick feeling went away as if nothing happen.

Hopefully it would be a one time thing...

Bruce and his long lines of lawyers had disbanded the GIW completely over the illegal experimentally on sentient aliens of another world which they tried to label them as ghosts until they tried to accused Superman of being one of them which quickly label their entire Government supported work as hate crime and was steady being searched, along finding a couple of missing traumatized teens, adults and children that had vanished the months before in the other hidden labs.

...

....

.....

She had her head in her hands as she silently groaned when she peak her eyes between her fingers to see several dozen empty containers and immediately close her eyes to try and pretend she didn't see them.

It only been 5 months since that incident and she had seemingly got away with it, but then nausea came back with vengeance like no other, and the increased appetite was new, but yet it didn't filled her belly with the bland taste or satisfaction even though she did felt a bit feint during the couple of night patrols despise feeling energized earlier.

Something was wrong and she know it as she went to the only person who could help her right now.

She went to Alfred straight away silently explaining the situation going on because she honestly have no idea was going on with her and she know she loves his food, and the feint spells, and the monsterous appetite and the insatiable need to swallow a crapton of lararus pits with twelve milkshakes and fourteen bags full bat burgers.

Alfred could only stared with his eyebrows raising slowly with every word spilling out of her mouth.

Alfred helped her get examined in the batcave medbay, and 2 hours later the blood result came in.

Case was pregnant, but It was a almost cryptic pregnancy.

Alfred didn't had the equipment out for a ultrasound at all yet, but from he know from Cass it was during the Raiding of that hidden lab and her being in contacted with this 'marble' that seemingly disappeared after she grabbed it.

That was 7 months ago, but luckily Alfred caught it in time before it literally became a cryptic pregnancy.

Oh the ultrasounds pics of the little baby fetus with his fast beating lil heart beating were precious as he got tiny misty eyes a bit compare to Cass's awestruck look staring at the screen then back at her belly.

He does help get extra vitamins pills, and call her off of Crime duty until further noticed . Bruce on the otherhand was concerned but all he got from Alfred was the You Better not investigate this because I have major blackmail of embarrassing toddler photos against you.

This is Alfred moment that he been waiting for since Bruce became a new adult but not yet sired a baby at the Wayne Manor at all. He is savoring this for the memories and scapebooking time. He is cranking opened that forgotten but clean baby nursery of forlorning hopes.

2 months later, By the time Cass was ready to deliver the baby on February 11, and at February 12th, 12:01am.

Wren Alf Cain was born premature yet crying softly into the word.