#Abby Winfield is underrated

[exyandcigarettesmoke]

I hit my cart too many times and realized just how under appreciated Aaron Minyard is.

[moondal514]

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Fic rec ask game

Dude I’ve read so many good fics from stalking your bookmarks on ao3 I’m so happy to be returning the favor <3. Keeping this AFTG-focused cuz I’m not sure if there’s another fandom we share 😅

Fic recs under the cut cuz this got long 😅

🪳 Recommend a great AU!

Broken Symmetries by puddlejumper99/ @writingpuddle

Reasons Neil had Died

He cried too much as a baby, and his father made him stop

He cried too much as a baby, and his mother tried to muffle the sound, and in her terror she silenced him for good

His father wanted to hurt someone, and Neil was nearby

The runners came for his mother, and they found him instead

His mother hid him in a shack and left him alone as the heat soared

They tried to run, and his father caught them

They tried to run, and the runners caught them

They ran, and they ran, and they ran, and they were still running and it didn’t matter, because his father would not stop, and he picked them off in one world after another until there was nowhere left to hide

Reasons Neil had Lived

He didn’t know, but there were eight

This is an au based on The Space Between Worlds and it’s an absolute banger and genuinely one of my favorite AFTG fics of all time

🐞 Recommend a favorite fic or several from one of your friends, or a fic author you really look up to!

I am obsessed with everything written by @jaywalkers. I will limit myself to recommending only 3 of their fics even though really I want to just paste a link to their ao3 profile 😂

nocturnal animals

“He was an addict,” Taylor says roughly, turning away to unplug the blender. “He wouldn’t accept help and he didn’t care who he hurt with it by the end.”

“He was our brother,” Abby says, sadly.

“I know,” Taylor tells her. “That was the worst part."

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Memory takes the graveyard shift. Abby Winfield works nights.

The most amazing Abby Winfield character study that I couldn’t shut up about last year

the post-impact stage

All that’s on repeat in Andrew’s head is a repeating reassurance. You’re alive. You’re alive. You’re alive. He tries the words on his tongue, mouthing them silently.

There’s a possible way out of tragedy, sometimes.

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After Neil has spent the last four hours explaining the events of last night, an FBI agent herds them into a room with two cots.

An amazing rendition of an AFTG missing scene

diachronic

Left hand. Right hand. Pass and twist and score. Exy is a language of its own, for all it is spoken of to him in different dialects. French, English, Japanese, Irish.

The only other language Kevin knows fluently is pain.

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The linguistics of Kevin Day, twenty years in the making.

An absolute banger of a Kevin Day character study that is in my opinion horribly underrated

🦗 Recommend any fic, wild card!

i'd promise you anything for another shot at life by orionauriga/ @orionauriga

Let’s go back. Andrew would like that. All this time claiming regret is a foreign concept and here it hesitates on the tip of his tongue — this, the one time he would say such a thing: if I could go back and change it, I would. Maybe then his brother would still be here.

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Just because Aaron died on the upstairs bathroom floor doesn’t mean he’s entirely gone. At least, not to Andrew.

If you are in the mood to cry today, this is the fic for you

[thespineoftherighteous]

aftg short stories i would kill for:

the monsters at Abby's during the summer (this is #1 and i literally die whenever i think about it cause it'd be so amusing)

the girls' first year when they had to pretend to like each other in order to affect a unified front to their male teammates and how that led to them actually becoming tight

the Christmas break that Kevin, Nicky and Aaron spent with Matt and his mother

how Katelyn and Aaron fell for each other

a compilation on all of the more outrageous bets the team has taken

the foxes during midterms/finals (it's actually so funny reading the books from Neil's pov cause he'll literally be like 'ugh yeah we have exams next week' and then next time it cuts it's like two weeks later and he spares all of two lines to mention that they survived them and then just jumps right into the current crisis of the day)

just random shit about Matt and Allison's friendship (inspired by that one scene where he was gleefully teasing her about getting messed up by the downpour cause she was miserable but also like all of their lines are gold)

[begaydoexy]

I’ve been too busy to make posts for my post it’s in my re read so instead have this Renee edit I made last week!

I may or may not have spend 15 minutes on Pinterest looking for the knife picture that I used in an Andrew edit too

[blackkudos]

William Marshall

William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director, and opera singer. He is best known for his title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream (1973), as the "King of Cartoons" on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse beginning with its second season, and an appearance as Dr. Richard Daystrom on the original Star Trek television series. He had a commanding height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), as well as a deep bass voice.

Biography

Early life and career

Marshall was born in Gary, Indiana, the son of Thelma (née Edwards) and Vereen Marshall, who was a dentist. He attended New York University as an art student, but then trained for a theatre career at the Actors Studio, at the American Theatre Wing, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

He made his Broadway debut in 1944 in Carmen Jones. Among his many other Broadway appearances, he understudied Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in Peter Pan in 1950, then played the leading role of De Lawd in the 1951 revival of The Green Pastures (a role he repeated in a BBC telecast of the play in 1958). He performed in Shakespeare plays many times on the stage in the United States and Europe, including the title role in at least six productions of Othello. His Othello (which was later captured in a video production in 1981), was called by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing:

...nobler than [Godfrey] Tearle, more martial than [John] Gielgud, more poetic than [Frederick] Valk. From his first entry, slender and magnificently tall, framed in a high Byzantine arch, clad in white samite, mystic, wonderful, a figure of Arabian romance and grace, to his last plunging of the knife into his stomach, Mr Marshall rode without faltering the play's enormous rhetoric, and at the end the house rose to him.

Marshall even played Othello in a jazz musical version, Catch My Soul, with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago, with Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 1968.

He also portrayed the roles of Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass on stage . Marshall had researched Douglass' life for years and portrayed him on television in Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman, which he co-produced in 1983.

Film and television career

Marshall's career on screen began in the 1952 film Lydia Bailey as a Haitian leader. He followed that with a prominent role as Glycon, comrade and fellow gladiator to Victor Mature in the 1954 film Demetrius and the Gladiators. His demeanor, voice and stature gave him a wide range, though he was ill-suited for the subservient roles that many black actors of his generation were most frequently offered. He was a leader of the Mau-Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957), and Attorney General Edward Brooke in The Boston Strangler (1968). He probably received the most notice for his role in the vampire film Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream. In later years, Marshall played the King of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse, replacing actor Gilbert Lewis, during the 1980s. (The character's catchphrase "Let...the cartoooon...begin!" became immensely popular.)

In the early 1950s, Marshall starred briefly in a series about black police officers, entitled Harlem Detective. The show was canceled when Marshall was named as a communist in the anti-communist newsletter Counterattack.

Despite the blacklisting because of his supposed communist connections, Marshall managed to continue appearing in both television and films. In 1962, Marshall appeared on the British spy series Danger Man in the episode titled "Deadline" and in 1964 Marshall played the role of travelling opera singer Thomas Bowers on the Bonanza episode "Enter Thomas Bowers." Additionally in 1964, he appeared, with actor Ivan Dixon, as the leader of a newly independent African nation and as a T.H.R.U.S.H. agent in the first-season episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Vulcan Affair". In 1968 he appeared as Dr. Richard Daystrom in the Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer". In 1969, he had a special guest appearance as the character Amalek in an episode of The Wild Wild West entitled "The Night of the Egyptian Queen".

He also won two local Emmys for producing and performing in a PBS production, As Adam Early in the Morning, a theatre piece originally performed on stage. He also was featured in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled, "The Jar", with actors Pat Buttram and George Lindsey.

Later life and death

In addition to acting and producing, Marshall taught acting at various universities including the University of California, Irvine, and the Mufandi Institute, an African-American arts and music institution in the Watts section of Los Angeles. He did similar work at Chicago's ETA Creative Arts Foundation, which in 1992 named Marshall one of its Epic Men of the 20th century.

For 42 years, Marshall was the partner of Sylvia Gussin Jarrico, former wife of blacklisted screenwriter Paul Jarrico. Marshall died June 11, 2003, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. He was survived by sons Tariq, Malcolm, and Claude Marshall and daughter Gina Loring. Eulogists at his funeral included Sidney Poitier, Ivan Dixon, Paul Winfield, and Marla Gibbs.

Marshall was considered by many to be a much underrated actor and one who never got his due. Some have remarked that Marshall should have had a much more successful and larger screen career, even saying that Marshall would have been a perfect choice for the role Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.

Filmography

Lydia Bailey (1952) - King Dick

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) - Glycon

Something of Value (1957) - Leader - Intellectual in Suit

Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957) - Ubal, the genie

La fille de feu (1958) - Stork

Piedra de toque (1963) - African Missionary (uncredited)

To Trap a Spy (1964) - Sekue Ashumen

The Hell with Heroes (1968) - Al Poland

The Boston Strangler (1968) - Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke

Skullduggery (1970) - Attorney General

The Mask of Sheba (1970) - Captain Condor Sekallie

Zig Zag (1970) - Morris Bronson

Honky (1971) - Dr. Craig Smith

Blacula (1972) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Scream Blacula Scream (1973) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Abby (1974) - Bishop Garnet Williams

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - William Klinger - Attorney General

The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980) - Mr. Jason

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986) - Dr. Dean

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) - Pirate Captain (segment "Video Pirates")

Maverick (1994) - Riverboat Poker Player

Sorceress (1995) - John Geiger

Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996) - Dr. Benjamin Michaels (final film role)

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