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Got a problem Sugah? Rogue by Alex Brewer

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MARISA

Photo: DYLAN PEARCE

Glam: BLAIR PETTY

Styling: LILI BURCH, ALEX BREWER

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The Trust (2016)

Nicolas Cage is an actor that either fits a role or doesn’t. When he’s ill-suited for a part, he nosedives the entire film. At first, it looks as though that’s what he’s doing in The Trust. His character is given all these weird quirks you assume weren’t there in the script. As time goes on, you’ll see. Though this black comedy isn’t overtly funny most of the time, it’s got a couple of dark turns that do make you smile. You won’t know where things are headed until it’s too late.

Police Sergeant David Waters (Elijah Wood) and his boss/friend Lieutenant Jim Stone (Cage) work in the evidence department. They’re police officers but their job is a lot of paperwork and reporting to people who don’t take them seriously. When Jim discovers the location of a hidden vault containing large amounts of cash, he asks David to help him steal it.

This is a heist movie with a simple plan. All the officers-turned-thieves need to do is drill a hole in the door of the safe from above. Slip a camera down to the lock mechanism and it’ll be easy to figure out what the combination is. Unfortunately for them, operations such as this never go the way they should, which is where the fun begins. These two are not idiots but they aren't good criminals. They’re the equivalent of people who have never played basketball before jumping into the NBA because they’ve "practiced" by watching some post-game discussions. They’re friends and co-workers. They’re close enough to trust each other but not close enough to know how the other will react when something unexpected happens.

If Cage is the wild card in this story, then Elijah Wood is the audience’s avatar. Together, they balance things well. You sympathize with David. You even want him to get away with the money because the people they do belong to… they’re thugs. Getting rich off this operation would be a win for you too, in a way. I think we all dream of suddenly happening upon a large wad of unexpected cash and getting to enjoy it by following all the advice we’ve received from mystery novels. That’s what he’s doing. As for Jim, he’s kind of sad in a way that makes him endearing. Crime probably shouldn’t pay but maybe it could just this one time? You keep wanting to give him a break because despite the things he does that are bad or wrong, he actually kind of has a knack for this type of operation. Seeing someone do something well, it’s captivating.

The Trust is the kind of movie you’ll stumble upon and be pleasantly surprised by. The ending’s a killer, the chemistry between Cage and Wood is terrific. You’ve got some laughs, some thrills and plenty of unexpected developments. It doesn’t quite leap off the screen and demand to be seen so you won’t hear a lot of people talk about it. This just means you’ll have to discover it for yourself. (On Blu-ray, April 5, 2020)

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Mondo reveals an X-Men: The Animated Series Gambit figure!

Mondo reveals an X-Men: The Animated Series Gambit figure! #XMen #XMenTAS #Gambit

Mondo kicked off its X-Men: The Animated Series 1/6 scale line in 2021 with Wolverine, before adding Magneto last year and Jubilee in January. This week, Mondo has announced that its fourth mutant figure is none other than the Ragin’ Cajun himself Gambit!.   The cagey Thieves’ Guild loner who’s explosive as he is mysterious, Remy LeBeau’s Gambit has never been cooler than in Marvel’s XTAS. This…

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Miles' Top 15 Favorite Films of 2024 (so far)

River (dir. Junta Yamaguchi)

I Saw the TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)

Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)

The Last Stop in Yuma County (dir. Francis Galluppi)

Robot Dreams (dir. Pablo Berger)

The Settlers (dir. Felipe Gálvez Haberle)

Cobweb (dir. Kim Jee-woon)

Evil Does Not Exist (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

We Grown Now (dir. Minhal Baig)

Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)

Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

Yannick (dir. Quentin Dupieux)

Tiger Stripes (dir. Amanda Nell Eu)

The Book of Clarence (dir. Jeymes Samuel)

Arcadian (dir. Benjamin Brewer)

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- boo gi nights costumes !!

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T'is the season...

The last two years, I've kicked off December with Advent Fics in the Schitt's Creek fandom.

Poutini's Advent Calendar 2020 (Rated E)

Poutini's Advent Calendar 2021: Merry, Merrier, Merriest (Rated E)

This year, we've got something a little different. It'll look a little like Home, Sweet Home (Rated E).

Starting December 14, it's "Twelve Days of Christmas: or, 12 times Alex made Henry take the Lord's name in vain, or welcome to the brownstone, sweetheart"

Preview (not rated E) below the cut.

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There he is.  The love of Henry’s life. 

Buck naked, legs spread, sitting on the wooden staircase of their brownstone, slowly fisting his own erection.  Eyes bright, curls wild, small smirk teasing at his lips.   “Christ,” Henry mutters, closing the distance between them. 

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Let Round #3 commence!

Round #3 will be the winners of Round #1 (left side of the bracket) competing against one another! Here is the current standing:

May the most favored character win!

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This won't be my last post about pride month, because it's an entire ass month, so yeah. Anyway. Happy pride to all my ships:

Zarry

Ari and Dante

Johnlock

Ineffable Husbands

David and Patrick

Alex and Henry

Narlie

Drarry

Merthur

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okay i know i’ve been consuming too much schitt’s creek content lately bc i instantly read this in david & patrick’s voices

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Álex Claudio re-claims 58. Last worn by Miguel Sánchez in 2022.

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Model: JADE CROO

Photo: DYLAN PEARCE

Styling: LILI BURCH, ALEX BREWER

Glam: KRISTIAN KANIKA

Studio: SAM WILLIAMS

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Mondo's X-Men: The Animated Series Jubilee goes on sale this Tuesday

Mondo's X-Men: The Animated Series Jubilee goes on sale this Tuesday #XMen #Jubilee #XMenTAS

Marvel’s X-Men: The Animated Series entered the world with Jubilee, hand in explosive hand. Now, the newest member of the X-Men is also the third in the line of X-Men: The Animated Series 1/6 scale figures. With her signature yellow trench and pink armor, Wolverine’s mall sidekick is ready to unlock her plasma powers. (Just don’t put her too close to your computer.) Alongside the Regular Edition,…

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F1 Drivers if they had medieval jobs (pt 1)

Max Verstappen: Knight who races his horse for fun

Charles Leclerc: Musician/Bard

Lewis Hamilton: Seamster for the royals

Oscar Piastri: Shopowner

Fernando Alonso: Spy/Thief

Esteban Ocon: Fletcher

Alex Albon: City Guard

Yuki Tsunoda: Baker

Valtteri Bottas: Brewer

Kevin Magnussen: Stonemason

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calex vs. outdoor activities vs. being clingy

“So, you are serious about going on this hike!”

Alex stood by the sink, drying her hands with the kitchen cloth hung by the drawer.

It was a chilly morning and the sun was just beginning to rise. The kitchen windows were slightly open and Alex was reveling the refreshing scent of blossoming magnolias next door, welcoming the start of spring. She could hear frantic movements and running around coming from upstairs. A minute passes and Casey emerges from the staircase in tight underpants and sweaters, carrying a backpack and a duffle bag.

“And you’re really not coming with me?”

“I am not going hiking with you, Case.” Alex insists. She takes a plate from one of the drawers and dumps the buttered toasts she prepared. “Did you see the list I gave you detailing the many reasons why it could be dangerous?”

Casey shakes her head in mild disbelief. She puts her bags down and comments, “Didn’t paint you as a pessimist but yes, I did see the list.” She moved closer towards Alex, grabbing a piece of toast off her plate and taking a bite. “And it is ridiculous.”

“Ookay, then what will you do if a brown bear lunged at you?”

“There are no bears where I’m going, idiot.”

“You don’t know that.” Alex pouts. “You could literally die.”

Casey shrugs. She bends down to tie the shoelaces of her hiking boots. “Eh, guess I’ll take my chances.”

Alex turns off the coffee machine and pours a cup. “Won’t you have coffee with me first?”

Try as she might, Alex knew well she can never convince her stubborn wife when Casey is already intent on doing something.

“Love to but can’t.” Casey gets up and walks across the kitchen. She took the remaining coffee from the brewer and poured the liquid straight into her red thermo flask. “I’m sorry. I’m just running a bit late.”

“And who are you going with? Do I know these people that you’re going with? Have I met any of them?”

Casey grins at her hesitantly. “Not exactly… But I am in good hands, Lex.”

When Alex didn’t answer, Casey proceeded to the fridge to get the packed meals and trail mixes she prepared yesterday for her trip. She puts them inside the duffle bag and zips it closed.

Pushing the eyeglasses up her nose, Alex sets aside the newspaper she was reading earlier into the rack in the living room.

She returns to the kitchen to take a sip of her coffee and then turned towards Casey with wide eyes when she realised something. “Oh Casey! You don’t even know the people you’re going with!”

“Relax, babe, I’m going to be fine.”

Alex clenched her jaw and put her hands on her waist. “How are you going to be fine? You will be in the middle of nowhere with strangers!”

“Okay, first of all, we have a guide. Her name is Emma Wheatley and she is a childhood friend.”

Alex raised a brow. “Emma? A girl?”

“Yes. Emma. A woman.” Casey says matter-of-factly. She furrows her brows, studying the expression on Alex’s face. “Before you get jealous, she is happily married with kids.”

Alex will never admit it but she tends to be possessive when it comes to Casey. There is no doubt in her mind that her hopelessly devoted wife will ever have the heart to betray her trust but she learned halfway into their early years that Casey can be so incomprehensibly oblivious when it comes to people flirting with her.

“Do you even know the trail? You could get lost and end up on dateline!”

“Baby,” Casey heaved a deep sigh. She stood in front of her wife and stroke the length of Alex’s arms as if to pacify her. “I say this sincerely but you’ve been watching too much television. And if you’re so worried, why don’t you just come with me, huh?”

She went camping in the woods with Casey once because she wanted to learn more about this side of Casey, outside of the courtroom and outside of the shell she’s built for her fast-paced life in New York—her adventurous, free-spirited, curious, and dynamic Casey.

There was one rainy night that Alex chanced upon a sleepless Casey just watching the raindrops pelting against the big window by the living room. She remembers how she was comfortably perched on the corner next to the couch with a cup of tea on her hand. When Alex approached her, Casey told her that it would have been her grandfather’s 82nd birthday.

Casey relieved her childhood memories when their grandfather used to take little Casey and her brothers to go fish and camp in the woods. She said it was always what she looked forward to in the summer—their parents would drop them off and leave her and her two older brothers for a week or two in their grandparents’ small farm.

Touched by the memory and wanting to cheer Casey up, Alex agreed to go to the mountains with her. Casey told her it would be fun and easy, and that Casey will set up their tent and that they could lay down under a starlit sky and how she would even tell her fun facts about constellations. Or bugs.

When they found an appropriate schedule for the both of them, they left for Maine. Casey was overcome with excitement, and Alex, although glad that this little gesture made Casey happy, was nervous.

In the end, they had to circle back to the center and go to the nearest hospital when Alex complained of having itchy rashes.

Alex swore she would never go to the mountains with Casey again after what Alex dubbed as her second “near-death experience”. They both just accepted that outdoor activities would be Casey’s thing, and Alex will stay with playing tennis and riding horses. At times, Casey would still ask if she wants to go in hopes that Alex changes her mind.

“You sure you’re not coming?”

“I will wait for you by the foot of the mountain and you better meet me in one piece.”

Casey rolls her eyes before flashing a childlike smile at her wife. “Okay, okay. See you in three days, Cabot!”

She wraps her arms around Alex and peppered her wife’s face with chaste kisses, and then finally, bade her goodbye with a lingering kiss on the lips.

When Casey shut the door behind her, Alex felt a vague sense of yearning; a quiet ache settling in her chest. For a second, she mentally checks weekend routine to be sure that she won’t have spare time to sulk around the house because she misses Casey’s presence.

Alex bolted outside and quietly stood by the door frame in her silk pajamas. She watched Casey put her bags in the trunk of her Honda.

She debated with herself whether to say something for fear of getting teased by the redhead as being too clingy. She stood by the frame of the main door of their townhouse. “Case?”

“Yes, baby?”

Alex combed through her thoughts before deciding to finally ask something: She cleared her throat and asked whether Casey has double checked everything and packed her essentials: water, bug spray, sunscreen, mosquito repellant, a flash light, a whistle, a hunting knife.

“Yes, yes, and yes. Lex, this is not my first rodeo.”

Alex nods. “I know.”

Casey closed the trunk and then run to the front stairs up to where Alex stood. “Would you rather I stay home with you?”

Alex looks at Casey’s bright, green eyes. Yes, she would rather Casey stays home with her for the weekend. Yes, she would rather have her cuddled up and cozy by the couch while watching their favorite TV shows. Yes, she would rather stroll around busy Manhattan and hold hands with her and stop by for gelato. Yes, yes, yes, Alex wants Casey to just stay by her side so she could keep her safe and love her and adore her and make her hers.

“No, no. Don’t be ridiculous, darling. Go. Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” Alex kisses Casey as she caresses her cheeks. “I would really enjoy if you’d keep me company of course but you don’t have to stop doing the things you enjoy just because you’re worried about me.”

There was a tinge of red on the apple of Casey’s pale cheeks as she listened to Alex talk. “Two years and you’re ready to renew our vows?” She teased. “Your ass is mine, Cabot.”

Alex could only give her a pointed look. “Shut up.”

Casey enters the car and puts her car key in the ignition. She opened the window slightly and shouted, “Don’t burn down the house while I’m gone! I’ll miss you!”

As Casey drove away, Alex follows the car with her eyes. She frowns and whispers to herself, “I’ll miss you, too, dumbass.”

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Rogue

By Alex Brewer