#Big Bad Baptista

[simplykorra]

[seleneee12]

Lilith in synastry💋😈🔥💣

Lilith has been a big topic in Synastry lately.

Everyone gets so excited when they talk about a man’s Lilith conjunction to a woman’s inner planets. Lilith contacts create an intense sexual attraction in Synastry in general. I’ve noticed that women have an easier time and love their Lilith conjunct a man’s personal planets, but a man has a more difficult time when his Lilith is conjunct another’s woman’s personal planets. Men usually like when a woman’s personal planets oppose, square, or trine his Lilith. Ex: ( Liam Hemsworth’s Lilith is very closely conjunct Miley’s sun and moon). We see that even though he was magnetically attached to her for years, he couldn’t control her making him even ashamed of her and her persona. With rumors that he even cheated on her. Now he is with Gabrielle Brooks who has her sun and possibly her moon opposing his Lilith. Making the magnetic pull stronger and easier for him to handle. Another fictional example is the new movie “ The idea of you” in the movie Nicholas Galitzine character is obsessed with Anne Hathaway (I mean who wouldn’t lol). The chemistry in the movie is undeniable! Nicholas has his Lilith directly opposing Anne’s Sun and Venus. Chris Evan’s was the biggest bachelor. He dated Minka Kelly (his Lilith conjunct her moon) off and on for seven years and never married her. He dated Emmy Rossum (his Lilith conjunct her Venus) breaking things off after one year. When he met Alba Baptista he Married her after 2 years of dating (His Lilith is squaring her Venus trining her Sun). Another big example of a man’s Lilith in Synastry is Johnny Depp. His Lilith was conjunct Winona Ryders sun and Venus, his Lilith was also conjunct Kate Moss’s moon. He dated both of them breaking things off with both of them. Winona and Kate took the breakups really bad. He never intended to Marry either of them, with him breaking his engagement to Kate. Johnny Depp got his relationship Karma when he Met Amber Heard. Amber has her Lilith conjunct Johnny’s Venus, he cheated on Vanessa (his Lilith conjunct her ascendant) with Amber and then went on to marry her. Lilith in a woman’s chart isn’t always a home wrecker. When it comes to a woman’s Lilith, if she makes a direct conjunction with a man’s personal planets, especially his Venus. She has put him in a magnetic spell. This I’ve seen in many Synastry charts of long term married couples. This is because he loves her sexual lilithian nature, and embraces her wild femininity. Ex:( Taylor swift and Travis Kelsey, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, Jessica alba and Cash Warren, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander). There’s a lot more examples of this if you read many different celebrity couples charts.

In my own personal experience: my Fiancé and I have so many Lilith contacts in Synastry. It’s crazy. Our chemistry and sex life is off the charts. He has his Lilith opposing my Venus, moon, squaring my mars and Uranus, with a sextile to my ascendant. My Lilith is conjunct his Venus, Sun, Uranus, trining his moon. The sexual chem may also be do to our 8th house Synastry, with his mars, Pluto, and ascendant all conjunct in my 8th with my mars trining all 3. We broke up once but we never got over each other. He came back to me three weeks after the breakup, Now he asked me to marry him. Ooop! It might also be because he has his Eros and Juno conjunct my Venus, Moon, Eros, trining my ascendant. My Eros is also in his first house, but now I’m just bragging lol. Let me know if you want me to make an Eros and Juno in Synastry as well as 8th house overlay💕

[bookishtheaterlover7]

AI anon here. I don't know if you want to publish this but this it's what the AI created. You're right, it's a good catharsis, it's not fun for Chris, but it's quite therapeutic for those of us who are sad about the situation.

WARNING, THIS IS CONTENT CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

"Title: Chris Evans Moves Forward After Disastrous Marriage To Alba Baptista

Introduction: Captain America actor, Chris Evans is moving forward after his disastrous marriage to actress Alba Baptista. The two were married for only a short period before their divorce was announced. Fans speculated that the marriage was a PR relationship, and Evans' reputation took a hit due to Baptista's behavior with the press, which included making rude comments and displaying a bad attitude towards reporters. Additionally, there was controversy surrounding Baptista's past, which included racist comments made by her friends in the past. Despite these setbacks, Evans is working to rebuild his relationship with fans and his career after the fiasco of his marriage.

Body:

Chris Evans, who is best known for his role as Captain America on the big screen, recently announced his divorce from actress Alba Baptista. The two were married for only 6 months before calling it quits, and the breakup shocked fans. While the exact details of the divorce are not known, fans have speculated that the two had a PR marriage or a relationship that was solely for publicity purposes.

Many fans were also put off by Baptista's behavior towards the press during the couple's short-lived marriage. Baptista, who is 16 years younger than Evans, made rude and condescending comments to reporters, and her attitude towards them was not well received by the public. Baptista was also embroiled in controversy due to racist comments made by her friends in the past.

Since the divorce, Evans has been working hard to rebuild his relationship with fans and his career. Evans is known for his charming personality and his commitment to his work. He has previously spoken about the importance of kindness and respect in the world, and many fans have taken to social media to show their support for Evans.

In terms of his career, Evans has a number of projects in the works. He recently wrapped up filming on "The Gray Man," a thriller directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, and he is set to reprise his role as Captain America in the upcoming film "Captain America: New World Order." Evans is also scheduled to star in the miniseries "Defending Jacob," which is based on the best-selling novel by William Landay."

Alright, AI might have the possibility of being dangerous. But damn does it have the ability to create some of the best fucking things in the whole wide world 😍😍😍😍😍

Thank you, An🫶n! The catharsis is real 😍😍😍😍😍

[majaloveschris]

I guess making a hate page was a good idea, because who would assume that somebody would make a hate account for themselves or for their client? But after the leaked video, nobody would be surprised if this was true.////

Exactly. Those pages were harassing people associated with Evans, not Baptista. The hate was all aimed at him. Why else would Justin like a post off that page? They’re so fake hungry and desperate, but they tell on themselves every time because they couldn’t just leave it alone. He had to like the bashing. The page made her look like the poor innocent girl who was taken advantage of by the big bad actor….there’s a reason they pushed and sold that narrative….

Exactly! I don't think it was a coincidence that Justin liked that page's post. 

It's funny because the reason people are dragging her (for being a racist and posting her own nude video) has nothing to do with Chris. I mean, she's done very explicit scenes, and she also made that video, so she isn't that innocent after all. She is grown up woman, and she can decide whom she wants to date with. 

[headlinerportugal]

2ª edição do Lamas em Chamas aconteceu em Santa Maria de Lamas | Reportagem Fotográfica

Serrabulho em palco | mais fotos clicar aqui O Parque de Santa Maria de Lamas, na vila do município de Santa Maria da Feira, acolheu a 2ª edição do ‘Lamas em Chamas’ no passado dia 16 de setembro, um sábado. A organização deste evento procurou “ter um cartaz o mais diversificado possível em termos de géneros dentro do som pesado e incluir bandas pertencentes à nossa região“.

Na parte das bandas da casa marcaram presença os Revolution Within, formação existente desde 2005 ; Ionized, formação com 7 anos de vida e ainda os M.O.R.G., bandas todas sediadas na Feira.

Law of Contagion e Tvmvlo foram outras duas bandas que atuaram, deram também suporte aos Serrabulho, a banda headliner do evento.

Serrabulho com apresentação num estilo único | mais fotos clicar aqui A banda transmontana Serrabulho, oriunda de Vila Real, foi a última a tocar neste 'Lamas em Chamas'. Eles que vão editar o seu 4º álbum 'Piss & Love' em data a ser ainda revelada provavelmente até final de 2023. A gravação decorreu no  Blind & Lost Studios, em Santa Marta de Penaguião. O presente ano tem sido bastante agitado para os Serrabulho, viram o guitarrista Paulo Ventura abandonar o projeto. Agora estão em modo trio com Toka na voz, Guilhermino Martins no baixo e Ivan Saraiva na bateria.

Nuno Mendonça dos TVMVLO | mais fotos clicar aqui Já os TVMVLO são uma banda recente panorama nacional. 'The Well Of The Lost Children' é o título do álbum de estreia cuja edição ocorreu em 2021 pela mão da Doomed Records. António Baptista (voz e guitarra), Nuno Mendonça (baixo) e Fábio Loureiro (bateria) são o trio que formam este novo projeto de Old School Death Metal.

Concentração total deste membro dos Law of Contagion | mais fotos clicar aqui Law of Contagion são uma banda dedicada ao black/death metal e contam na sua discográfica com dois álbuns: 'Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms' de 2020 e 'Oecumenical Rites for the Antichrist' de 2022. Este é um projeto liderado por Ishkur e iniciado em 2019.

Prata da casa: foco nos Ionized

Das bandas oriundas da zona de Santa Maria da Feira damos agora destaque aos Ionized. Eles são uma formação de metal alternativo cuja carreira teve o seu início em 2014. Dois anos decorridos editaram o EP 'Big Bad Wolf' a primeira aventura nas edições discográficas. A estreia nos LP aconteceu somente em 2021 com o lançamento de 'Denary Breath'. A sua formação é composta pelo sexteto: Miguel Craveiro (voz), Rui Moreira (guitarra e voz), Ivo Lopes (baixo), André Almeida (sintetizadores), Bruno Correia (bateria) e Ricardo Ferrão (guitarra). Entre as suas influências musicais estão bandas como Alice In Chains, Alter Bridge, ou Sevendust.

Miguel Craveiro a voz dos Ionized | mais fotos clicar aqui Durante o concerto no Festival Lamas em Chamas aproveitaram para chamar a atenção sobre um dos assuntos mais voga na atualidade nacional e mostraram total apoio para com todos os músicos e artistas residentes no STOP. Eles que têm no videoclipe do seu mais recente single “Corporate Aggression” imagens sobre esse assunto portuense.

Ao longo dos últimos tempos têm vindo a dar o maior número de concertos possível e no próximo dia 4 de novembro são os convidados para abrirem os concertos de Blamezeus e Allgema no Hard Club, bandas que apresentam os seus novos álbuns.

Ionized na atuação neste Lamas em Chamas | mais fotos clicar aqui Este Lamas em Chamas, festival de heavy metal, terá a sua 3ª edição no dia 14 de setembro de 2024. Mais informações serão, com toda a certeza, lançadas via redes sociais em @lamasemchamas.

Reportagem Fotográfica completa: Clicar Aqui

Texto: Edgar Silva com o apoio de Jorge Resende Fotografia: Jorge Resende

[shayshaybiscuit25]

In a few years I expect this to happen…..

Former Entertainment Employee -or- Former CAA Employee:

One confession I’d like to share is there was a popular actor who’s still pretty popular, who was a talent at CAA and forced into a PR relationship with a relatively unknown or not as popular actress with a Netflix show.

Screw it Im just going to name names…..everyone thought Chris Evans was having a mid life crisis or just like every older guy who goes for twenty somethings when they hit their 40s…… unfortunately Chris Evans was stunk in a terrible PR deal gone wrong with Alba Baptista. So many turned on him including his fans and I felt so bad watching it play out and people calling him all sorts of names. They never were an item and I don’t think he even liked her. She was horrible and I’ve heard things from her Warrior Nun cast about her being racist and arrogant.

But yeah I’m glad he’s doing better and still has a successful career and that he was able to get out of the contract and leave CAA, they were horrible to him and so many big name celebrities over the years.

Oh anon I wish this could happen.

[vozdodeserto]

OS ARTISTAS EVANGÉLICOS SÃO UNS CAGÕES (tenho disco novo para breve)

Esta sexta-feira sai um som novo chamado “Bato Palmas na Igreja”. Nele participa o LEONB e a Carol Bazzo. É uma canção especial porque as vozes deles levam-na para lugares onde sozinho não chegaria. Se Deus quiser, esta canção vai integrar um álbum que planeio para breve, também chamado “Bato Palmas na Igreja”. De certo modo, é o meu primeiro disco assumidamente cristão.

Explico: acho que não acredito em música cristã mas apenas em música. Ela pode ser feita por cristãos ou não—é isso. Mas, por outro lado, não posso ignorar que se convencionou chamar “música cristã” a algo que se desenvolveu sobretudo a partir dos anos setenta, com a conversão de muitos hippies americanos ao cristianismo (rock cristão, diziam na altura). Nos anos oitenta a coisa cresceu (era então habitual falar em “Christian Contemporary Music”), chegando até aos escassos adolescentes evangélicos de Portugal, como eu.

Cresci numa relação complicada com essa música, dita cristã. Por um lado, ela consolava-me quando os Iron Maiden eram demasiado inseguros para uma audição que se queria pia. Os Petra não eram tão pesados mas os Stryper, quando descobertos, encheram-me as medidas. Era pouco o que chegava cá mas o suficiente para me marcar a mim e aos meus amigos da Igreja Baptista de Queluz: One Bad Big, quando o punk nos piscou o olho; The Crucified, quando nos tornámos mais hardcore; Bob Dylan (na fase evangélica) quando a Faculdade nos exigia alguma erudição; e isto sem esquecer os clássicos que eram a Amy Grant e o Michael W. Smith, apropriadamente ostracizados pela nossa teenager necessidade de sons mais agressivos.

Por outro lado, a minha vaidade sempre me fez sentir superior aos rótulos seguros de uma música certinha para consumir. Era óbvio para mim que o cristão mais talentoso era aquele que era ouvido por não-cristãos. Play it safe sempre foi uma banhada para quem, como eu, queria ter jogo de choque. A verdadeira conquista é atingir quem está do outro lado, certo? As guerras ganham-se assim e, também por isso, nunca me interessou pregar para o côro ou receber o reconhecimento de quem já acredita no que acredito. A nossa editora, a FlorCaveira, foi construída nessa mistura complicada entre não querer negar as nossas raízes religiosas ao mesmo tempo que procurava os corações dos ímpios. Religião & Punk Rock, right? Johnny Cash uber alles, cantando sobre Jesus ao mesmo tempo que dava o middle finger aos guardas-prisionais de Folsom.

O que tem mudado então? Entre muitas coisas, muda-me o facto de ser pai de quatro miúdos que hoje vão dos 18 aos 12 anos. Getting to the point: quando és pai de quatro miúdos evangélicos, tendes a amá-los. Os meus miúdos são os miúdos evangélicos que menos vergonha tenho de amar e que me levaram à conclusão de que amar mais miúdos não-evangélicos do que miúdos evangélicos é uma estupidez do caraças. Na prática, era isso que durante anos fazia, perdido no meu narcisismo. E é agora para mim um credo: os artistas evangélicos são uns cagões da treta (pardon my french) porque ainda não assumiram a acepção de pessoas que fazem ao preferirem pessoas não-evangélicas sobre as evangélicas. Os artistas evangélicos são cidadãos em estado de negação, que não sabem lidar com as suas origens, que tendem a querer ignorar para conquistar as pessoas mais sofisticadas que são as não-evangélicas, e por isso é que tresandam a cobardia e se andam a “desconstruir” (como os saloios agora dizem).

Já estão a ver onde quero chegar: quero que os artistas evangélicos se rebentem todos nos seus diversos dilemas de auto-estima. É por eu seu um deles que falo com tanta paixão nisto. O que sei é que a arte que será verdadeiramente eterna é aquela que, por ser fruto do verbo divino, declara Cristo. Por isso, e por muito subtilmente sofisticada que possa ser uma música que alude sem escarrapachar na nossa cara uma mensagem evangélica directa (como tanto tento fazer), é que, das duas, uma: se ela não estiver firme no “fiat” original, será desfeita. Deal with it.

Pior do que ser um artista evangélico, é ser um não-assumido. Este é um assunto que não dá para elaborações simples e bonitinhas. Temos de encarar que é um negócio quebrado. Se nos Estados Unidos já sabemos topar à légua a mania que os artistas evangélicos não-assumidos têm, vinda desses conflitos internos que os entopem em angústias infantis, no Brasil também já nos estamos a habituar (os artistas evangélicos andam a descobrir aos trinta anos causas que vaporosamente os devem redimir como a “brasilidade”—céus! Quem quer saber de brasilidade? O Brasil em si já chega!). Em Portugal, ainda somos demasiado insignificantes para merecer alguma real atenção mas a tentação para nos armarmos em profissionais da aflição artística já cá mora. É preciso ter cuidado.

Enfim, dei uma grande volta para expurgar os meus próprio vícios… O que me anima aos 44 anos é chegar a um ponto onde já deveria ter chegado há muito: não ter vergonha da minha fé e assumi-la. E se ela não cair bem aos miúdos não-evangélicos que durante décadas preferi aos evangélicos? Azar o deles. Hoje, graças aos meus filhos, sei que qualquer geração de hipsters passa (os meus filhos são totalmente indiferentes aos críticos musicais que durante anos quis convencer). A vantagem de ser um has-been artístico, como sou, é que quem é esquecido já está mais no futuro do que aquele que é lembrado. Seremos todos poeira na terra, já dizia o Tom Waits. Se algum dos nossos refrões louvando Cristo chegar às bocas futuras, aí sim: teremos conseguido alguma arte.

Eu, músico evangélico que faz uma música que não é bem evangélica, assumo-me: venha daí um álbum novo que meta medo ao Diabo (e aos filhos dele). Que invoque o Deus trino com a religião e punk rock que ao longo dos anos tem sido a casa da FlorCaveira. Se sentirem o som, tanto melhor. Se não, paciência. O louvor, finalmente começo a ver, não será para mim, de qualquer modo. See ya in the pit!

[mldrgrl]

prompt: Mulder and Scully being competitive with each other over silly things - Jeopardy? solving the case before the end of an episode of some sort of forensic crime show? how many slices of pizza they can eat? a board game? etc.

Loved this one, Anon, thank you so much.  And I was in the mood to whip up something humorous.  Went to sleep last night thinking about it.

Half and Half

by: mldrgrl Rating: PG

“I’m dying to get out of this suit,” Scully says.  “Give me ten minutes and then we can go through the report?”

“I’ll leave the connecting door unlocked,” Mulder says as they exit their rental car and head to the doors to their rooms.  “Come over when you’re done and we’ll order in.”

She sighs in relief as she kicks off her heels at the door.  She tosses her blazer to the side, unbuttons her shirt, and loosens her skirt.  She clips her hair back, washes her face, and changes into a pair of sweats and a t-shirt.

File folders under her arm, she taps lightly on the connecting door before she pushes it open.  Mulder is sitting at the edge of the bed, tie off and buttons undone at the neck.  His shirtsleeves are rolled up and he’s yelling at the TV.

“What is Mork & Mindy!” he yells.  “Mork and Mindy, you idiots.  Everyone knows ‘nanu nanu.’”

“We were looking for, ‘What is Mork & Mindy?’” Alex Trebeck says.

“Obviously,” Mulder says.  “How did you people even get on the show?”

“What are you doing?” Scully asks.

“Playing Jeopardy.”

“TV Catchphrases for $400, Alex.”

“Book ‘em, Danno.”

“What is Hawaii 5-0,” Mulder yells, just as Scully says, “Hawaii 5-0.”

Mulder makes the sound of a buzzer.  “You have to answer in the form of a question, Scully, or it doesn’t count.”

“I still knew the answer.”

“You mean, the question.”

“Do you want to debate the semantics of Jeopardy or go over the reports?”

“Sure, sure.”

“Let’s try Shakespeare Who Said it? for $200.”

“Double double, toil and trouble.”

“Who are the witches?” Mulder answers.

“Who are the three witches of Macbeth,” Scully says at the same time.

“Who is Macbeth?” answers the first contestant to ring in.

“Oh, come on,” Scully says.  “You can’t be that dumb.”

“Right?”

“Not quite what we’re looking for,” Alex answers.  Finally, the second contestant answers correctly.

“Shakespeare Who Said It for $300.”

“I prithee daughter do not make me mad.”

“Baptista, maybe,” Mulder answers.  “Who is Baptista?”

“No, who is King Lear?” Scully disagrees.

“Who is King Lear?”

“Who is, King Lear.  Act 2, scene 4, referring to Goneril.  And that will lead us to our first commercial break.  More to come after these words from our sponsors.”

“I should’ve known that one,” Mulder says, scooting over to make room for Scully on the bed.  “$600 to $500, I’m winning.”

“How do you figure that?”

“You lost Hawaii 5-0 to incorrect phrasing.”

“You didn’t establish the rules.  $600 to $900, I’m winning.”

“I didn’t have to establish anything, those are the inherent rules of Jeopardy.  Everybody knows that.”

“Mulder, I’m here to go over these reports,” Scully answers, holding up the file folders that have been tucked under her arm the whole time.  She is still standing.

“How about a little wager?”

“On what?”

“Winner orders the pizza of their choice, loser pays.”

“Come on, Mulder.”

“You don’t think you can beat me?”

“No, I know I can beat you.  I just want to get this review done so I can go to bed.”

“Scully, it’s 7 o’clock.  The review can wait.  Unless you’re just chicken.”

“Very mature.”

“Triple dog dare you?”

Scully held her hand out as though to shake Mulder’s.  “We start with a clean slate going in from the commercial and we make our own wagers on Double Jeopardy questions.”

“I’ll keep score!”  Mulder leaves Scully’s handshake hanging in the breeze and jumps up to grab the complimentary pad of paper and pen on the motel desk, which she snatches from him as soon as he comes back to sit down.

“I’ll keep score,” she says.

“You are the math geek.”

They sit through contestant bios and Alex Trebek’s vaguely sarcastic comments on the tidbits they’ve chosen to share with the audience.  When the game starts back up again, there are two answers left in Shakespeare Who Said It? and every answer available in Civil War Nicknames, The Old West, and American Folklore.

Unsurprisingly, Mulder dominates the folklore category, but they tie for two answers.  They both struggle with The Old West more than Civil War Nicknames, but the answers there are easier to decipher within the clues.  Mulder is up $700 when the first Daily Double comes up in The Old West.

“$200,” Scully says.  “I already don’t even want to know the answer.”

“$500,” Mulder answers.  

“Suffering from tuberculosis and alcoholism, this dentist turned gunslinger died in a sanitarium at the age of 36.”

“Who is Doc Holliday,” Scully answers.

“Who is Bat Master..dammit!” Mulder replies just a beat behind her.

“You should’ve known that one.”

“It was the first thing that popped into my head.  What’s the damage?”

“We’re tied.”

“All right, next round, it’s getting serious.”

“Prepare to pay for a large vegetarian with extra olives.”

“Ugh, vegetables on pizza is the antithesis to the point of pizza.”

“And what is the point of pizza?”

“All the pepperoni you can handle and then add in some sausage for good measure.”

“You’re a heart attack waiting to happen, Mulder.  When was the last time you had your cholesterol checked?”

“In May, actually.  Fit as a fiddle.  Here we go, round 2.”

“...categories are: Before & After, Science, Word Origins, Potpourri, The Body Human, and finally, Astronomy. ”

The contestants seem fixated on Potpourri and Before & After, to Mulder’s relief.  He isn’t ready for Scully to completely smoke him in the Science and The Body Human categories.  He figures if he can do well enough in the first two, he might be able to hold firm and maybe they might get to Astronomy where he can make a comeback.  Sure enough, she responds so quickly in the first two Science answers he can’t even get a word out.

“Born this year, a sheep named this introduced the world to cloning.”

“Dolly!” Mulder yells, too excited about knowing a Science question he forgets to phrase it properly.

“Who is Dolly,” Scully corrects.

“Dammit!”

“Your rules.”

“I know, I know.  Still, dammit.”

Blessedly, the contestants leave Science and migrate to Astronomy and since the first answer is the planet nicknamed The Red Planet, a Jeopardy equivalent of low-hanging fruit, they stick with it.  The first Daily Double of the 2nd round hits them at the $800 question in Astronomy.

“I’m up by $1,600,” Scully says.  “You have $3,900.”

“I’m going to make it a true Daily Double.”

“Seriously?”

“Yes.”

“$600,” Scully says, after a few moments hesitation.

Mulder worries his bottom lip with his teeth and waits for the answer to come.

“This spiral galaxy is named for an Ethiopian princess in Greek Mythology.”

“What is Andromeda!” They both yell.

Mulder realizes he’s sweating after the last question and even though it paid off, he vows not to make that kind of gamble again.  Scully berates herself for not being more confident in her astronomy knowledge as she now trails Mulder by $1,700, which may or may not be easy to recover from.

Time runs out before all the clues are revealed and the 2nd Daily Double is never found.  By final Jeopardy, they’re nearly neck and neck, with Mulder at $9,100 and Scully at $8,500.

“The final category is: Computers.”

“Good thing The Gunmen aren’t here,” Mulder says.  “Gimme one of those sheets of paper and we can write our wagers and guesses like the others.”

Scully rips off a piece of paper and they both take nearly all of the commercial break to come up with their wagers.  Scully folds her paper in half with the wager face down.  Mulder turns his over and places it on the bed.

“And here we go with the final answer.  Born in 1815, this daughter of a famous poet published an algorithm for a mechanical calculator and is believed by some to be the first ever computer programmer.”

Mulder writes his answer immediately and Scully taps her pen against her teeth as the final Jeopardy music winds down.  She finally picks up her paper and memorializes her guess before the final note.

“Whatcha got?” Mulder asks.

“I want to see their answers first,” Scully replies.

Mulder bounces his knee in anticipation.  The contestant in 3rd place answers incorrectly with Dora Wordsworth, but only wagered $1.

“I hate when they do that,” Scully says.  “It’s not The Price is Right.”

“Listen, if the category was Nuclear Physics, I might only be waging $1 as well.”

“Too bad it wasn’t.”

The contestant in 2nd place also answers incorrectly with “Who is ____?” and ends up with $4500.  Mulder shakes his head.

“At least put something,” he says.

“Seriously,” Scully agrees.

“And now Judith, our three day champion, currently in the lead with $13,800.  What did she guess?  Who is Ada Lovelace?  Daughter of Lord Byron, known for her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, August Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, or Ada Lovelace.  And how much did Judith wager?  $7,000, bringing her three day total to $65,941.”

“Alright, Scully, moment of truth.”

“Count of three?” she asks.

“Is that one, two, reveal?  Or one, two, three, reveal?”

“One, two, reveal.”

“Okay.  One, two…”  

They both turn their papers around.  Both answered Who is Ada Lovelace?  They both grin.

“Frohike would be so tickled with your familiarity with the mother of computer programming,” Mulder says.  

“Yeah?  How does he feel about your familiarity with her?”

“Pretty jealous, actually.”

“What was your wager?”

Mulder turns over the paper again to show her.  “$3,000.  You?”

Scully bites her lip a little and then flips the fold of her paper for Mulder to see.  “$8,000.”

“$8,000!”

“Go big or go home, right?”

“Damn, Scully.  You’re a monster.  In a good way, obviously.  But, damn.  So, I guess that vegetarian is on me.”

“Extra olives.”

“With extra olives.”  He grimaces and gets up to grab the Yellow Pages in the nightstand.  

Scully opens up her file folders and begins sorting the reports for review across the end of Mulder’s bed as he searches for a pizza parlor.  He’s on the phone fairly quickly after browsing the phone book.

“Yes, I’d like to place an order for delivery,” Mulder says.  “A large.  Vegetarian.”

“Half vegetarian,” Scully interrupts without looking up.  “Half pepperoni and sausage.”

“Sorry, half vegetarian, half pepperoni and sausage.  Extra olives on the vegetarian side, please.  Yeah, I’ll hold.”  Mulder drops the phone to his shoulder while hold music plays and smiles slightly.  “Scully, you interested in a rematch tomorrow night?”

“Depends on how interested you are in buying another pizza.”

The End

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Come Home to My Heart, Chapter 2 (Lemyanka) - Plastiquedoll

read on ao3 ✨| chapter 1

A/N: hiii, this is chapter 2 of this lemyanka childhood friends, friends to lovers, idiots to lovers whatever you wanna call it. I really wanted to play with the time skips to show different parts of their lives together throughout the years so this is a continuation from chapter 1 a few years later. thanks for reading <3

-2-

At the age of thirteen, there were many things Priyanka loved. The list included: electric blue glittery nail polish, writing her name with a golden pen, pop music and girl groups-especially Britney Spears and The Spice Girls-, any movie with Lindsay Lohan in it, acting in the school productions -especially if she got the main role-, sleepovers over Lemon’s house where they secretly watched The O.C., seeing films with Lemon without an “adult” with them, re-acting scenes of the Cheetah Girls movie with Lemon…

She was at Lemon’s a lot.

The thing was, Lemon was the only child of her parent’s marriage, her parents both worked, and most of the time she had the house on her own. For Priyanka -who lived with her siblings and her parents and couldn’t spare one second of privacy at her own home- it was like paradise. They did everything together, on the weekdays they did homework together and afterward, they would lay in the blonde’s room reading magazines and cutting pictures of celebrities and clothes they liked, or listen to a new CD they had been saving for weeks to buy for hours until they knew the lyrics by heart.

Her room had yellow walls -big shocker- and it was covered in posters and pictures with Priyanka, white carpet on the floor, and a mix of Barbie dolls and makeup over the boudoir. She also had a large single bed only for herself with like a million fluffy pillows they had shared more than once.

Lemon had ballet classes three times per-week and Priyanka had rehearsals with the drama club but those were the only moments they were apart. Being childhood friends, their parents got into the obligation of sending them to the same primary school after finishing kindergarten and now they would attend the same secondary school once summer was over.

It was a warm day of summer, Lemon rolled over her bed and showed Priyanka an item she liked, Crazy in Love by Beyoncé played on the radio while the other girl was trying to cover a pimple on her chin with some foundation she had bought in the mall.

“You’re going to make it worse.” Lemon made her remove her hands.

“It hurts, it’s like a little red dot full of hate.”

“Use toothpaste instead.”

“Does it work?”

“Allegedly.” She shrugged. “I read it somewhere.”

“Okay… What did you want to show me?”

“Look at these,” she pointed at a picture of Hillary Duff. “I need those shoes.”

“That’s a pump.” Priyanka said, unimpressed.

“But it’s pink and yellow. How you don’t like the gradient in the colors? I’m in love.”

“Can you even walk with heels?”

She rolled her eyes. “Of course I can. When you’re short like me, you gotta have some options.”

Priyanka couldn’t argue with that, for her age she was already one of the tallest girls in the classroom. Sometimes she disliked being that tall, she felt like a little deer that couldn’t control its feet, wobbling around awkwardly.

Her best friend flipped a few more pages.

“Look! It’s a poster of Ryan Gosling from that movie… The Notebook.” She sounded excited.

Right. They were supposed to be excited about handsome muscle guys but there was something about it that didn’t click with Priyanka. She thought maybe she was just too young to get it, that when she’d grow older she’d get the feeling but until then, she had become very good at pretending.

“Oh, he’s so hot.” She hoped Lemon didn’t notice the fakeness of her voice.

“I know, right?” She giggled. “Do you want his picture?”

“Ah… you can keep it… I already have Leonardo DiCaprio’s and that’s just too many white guys.”

“Alright.” She picked a pair of scissors and started cutting the actor’s silhouette. The pair of dark-framed glasses she had on kept sliding down her nose bridge.

Priyanka smiled fondly at it.

“I’m home!” It was Lemon’s mom that had just returned from work.

Lemon jumped out of the bed and stood in the door’s frame. She looked even smaller in that oversized t-shirt of the Powerpuff Girls and shorts she wore as pajamas. Her hair was tied in a messy ponytail that brushed her shoulder blades.

“Hi, mom.” She yelled. “Priyanka’s here!”

“Hi, Priyanka!”

“Hello, Mrs. Baptsita!”

Priyanka adored Mrs. Baptista, she was a little wacky for Lemon’s taste but it was because she was younger than most moms with kids their age. She liked Priyanka and she supported their friendship since kindergarten, called them the Ketchup&Mustard duo since that Halloween they had matching costumes.

“Is she staying for dinner?”

Lemon turned around. “Are you staying for dinner?”

Priyanka shrugged. “Sure.”

“She is mom!”

“I’m making spaghetti!”

“Sound good!” She turned back to Priyanka again. “I hope you like spaghetti.”

“You know I do.”

Just a couple of minutes later, they heard the sound of Mr. Baptista’s car at the entrance.

“That’s my dad.” Lemon pointed.

“Hello, I’m home.”

“Hi, dad! Priyanka’s here.”

“Hi Lemon drop, hi Priyanka!”

“Hello, Mr. Baptista!”

Lemon grinned but not even five minutes later than her father’s arrival, the vibe of the kitchen changed and it was clear by the sound of their voices, her parents were arguing. Another argument…

“I swear to God… this is the third time this week."

Lemon sat on the edge of the bed and buried her face in her hands. She looked tired.

Priyanka gently touched her knee offering some comfort. Lemon pulled a weak smile that faded as soon as the voices increased in volume.

"Hey, I have some extra cash, wanna get some pizza?” Priyanka offered.

Lemon bit her bottom lip and nodded. “Let’s go.”

Lemon changed her shorts for pants and put on a pair of sneakers, then she grabbed her keys and both of them were out of the house. It wasn’t that late yet and there was a pizza place a few blocks away they could get on foot; they walked in silence until Lemon’s house was behind, then the blonde let a big sigh out of her chest.

“Pri, I can’t do this…” She sounded fragile as if she was holding the pieces together trying not to break with all her strengths.

Priyanka ran her arm over her shoulder and held her when she seemed about to fall.

“It’s okay, I’m sure they are going to work it out.”

Lemon snorted. “They started going to couple’s counseling and it got worse, they have pretty solid arguments to fight now.”

Priyanka covered her mouth holding back the laughter. “Sorry.”

“You dumb bitch.” Lemon shook her head.

They walked hugged like that the rest of the way, ate greasy pizza with extra cheese, and returned to a sepulchral silent house. Priyanka laid on the bed next to her, so close yet so far. If she extended her hand just a little more, she could touch her shoulder, make sure she was okay but for some reason, she couldn’t. Yet, she hoped that being there for her friend was enough then.

On the other side, Lemon had her eyes wide open, unable to drift off when her mind was going through a million different scenarios. Everything could only go downhill from there.

They didn’t know at that moment but the worst was yet to come.

She dashed out of the house as soon as she got the phone call, barely having the chance to put on a helmet before grabbing her bike. Priyanka was still catching her breath by the time Lemon opened the door.

Her face was bathed in tears, her eyes completely red and she couldn’t stop crying not even to explain what had happened. Priyanka had a vague idea judging by what was said on the phone but it wasn’t until she saw her friend she knew it was bad. Very bad.

Lemon wasn’t the most physically affectionate person in the world but she let Priyanka hug her and cried it out on her chest. They sat on the porch until the blonde began to calm down and could explain it better.

“Pri, they… they are getting divorced. It’s all happening so fast.”

Priyanka held her hand and squeezed it lightly. Lemon looked at her hand and then at her face, her eyes flooded with tears again.

“Hey,” The brunette tried to comfort her. “I’m so sorry, I know you love them both and they love you very much but this is probably for the best.”

“No, Pri, you don’t understand. They are… separating for real. They talked about lawyers and My mom she…” Lemon sobbed. “She wants us to move out…”

“Oh, I mean, that’s normal like-”

“…to New York.” Her voice was weak, defeated.

It took Priyanka a moment to process the newly acquired information.

“New York?!” She repeated in disbelief.

“Apparently, she has a job offer there, and… they think it’s for the best to put some distance between them.”

“I get the ‘moving out thing’ and the distance but that’s a completely different country!”

“I know! That’s what I said. Tell me I’m right, she’s out of her mind.”

“But wait, when does she want you to move out? What about school?”

“She thinks it’s a good idea if we go before the new semester starts so we can settle in and…”

“No, the new semester starts in two weeks… What about your dance lessons? Your life here?”

What about us?

“She said there are plenty of dance academies over there… That I would do fine. I hate it. This doesn’t go with the plan we had.”

Priyanka and Lemon had a life plan since they were ten, sealed with a pinky promise. They were going to graduate high school together and go to university in Toronto where they both would be roommates throughout college. It was their way of being together, to accomplish things in the company of the other, a sign of their unbreakable friendship.

“Wait but… what about your dad?” Can’t you stay with him?“ There was a hint of hope in Priyanka’s voice.

Lemon stared at the wooden floor of the porch for the longest time before looking back at her friend.

"I can’t. My dad travels a lot for business and while he’s going to remain here… my mom gave me no choice. They even said that it’s either New York or some boarding school in Quebec.”

Lemon surely had gone mad about it for her parents to threaten her like that, it didn’t sound like the Baptistas at all.

“This can’t be…” Priyanka shook her head. The tears felt warm on her cheeks.

“We’re leaving next week.”

“No…no, that’s… that’s too soon. You can’t leave… who’s going to help me buy a new outfit for the first day? Who’s going through the first day of school with me?”

“I hate to think about it. They really think this is for the best and then decide to drag me to a different country for the first year of school… «You have to be reasonable» they said, but they are the ones that come with these ideas out of blue.”

It was too sudden it made Priyanka felt dizzy; she couldn’t even begin to imagine what her friend was feeling like.

She squeezed her hand again. “It’s going to be okay.”

“You keep saying that but-” Lemon shook her head.

“Because it is going to be okay. I promise you, we’ll still be together, and… maybe we don’t get to attend the same high-school but we can still go to college together, the plan can still work out.”

“Are you sure?”

“Completely. You’re my best friend in the world; nothing is going to change that.”

Lemon smiled for the first time after getting the news of her parents’ divorce.

“Thanks, Pri.” She went for a hug and was received with open arms.

They hugged for a while without saying a single word, in that situation, words were unnecessary.

The day of Lemon’s moving, ironically the sun was shining and Priyanka kept reminding herself that in different circumstances they’d be at the park with their bikes or at the local pool but no, she was heading to her best friend’s house to say the last goodbye.

Priyanka hadn’t cried in front of her since that day on the porch but she had cried a lot when no one was seeing her. She was sad, upset, and mad about the situation but she didn’t want Lemon to leave with a sad note. So she went ahead and planned a week dedicated to her best friend, to enjoy the things they loved the most.

They had made each other friendship bracelets with their names –Priyanka was red and orange and it had a little golden star hanging next to her name; Lemon’s was pink and yellow and a butterfly next to hers- they had movie nights and sleepovers, karaoke sessions and dancing marathons every day until that awful day arrived.

Priyanka rode her bike like she had done millions of times before. There was a «FOR SALE» sign hanging outside and she hated it with all her soul. There was a truck parked outside as well with many boxes stacked inside and some furniture pieces they were taking to New York. Lemon was sitting on the porch’s stairs with a backpack on, the scene was oddly familiar and for a second time stopped.

She didn’t notice Priyanka’s presence until the brunette touched her shoulder.

“You’re here.” She said and did her best to smile.

“Where else I’d be?”

Lemon stood on her feet and hugged her, Priyanka hugged her back.

“Promise me you’re going to wait for my calls every week… and that you’re not going to have another best friend… ever.” Lemon sobbed on her shoulder.

“I promise it.” Priyanka patted her back in a calming gesture.

“I’ll visit on holidays, my dad is probably going to get a shitty apartment but still, I’ll be here.”

“I know you will.”

Lemon let go of her embrace. “Thank you, Pri. You’re my best friend in the world.”

“I know, right?”

The blonde giggled. “You’re so stupid…”

“Luce, get in the car, it’s time to go.” Her mom called her as she carried one last box.

“I have to go now. I already said good-bye to my dad; he had a flight to catch early but… It feels so empty without him here.”

“Lemz, I’m sorry.” She hugged her one more time. It was quick but it lingered. “Take care and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do in New York.”

“That sets the bar very low, don’t you think?”

Priyanka laughed. “I’ll miss you like crazy.”

“Me too.”

Lemon’s mom waved in their direction, the car was already on and the truck was closed and packed.

“Well, I guess this is our goodbye for now.”

“Count the days because I’m going to be back in no time, okay?”

She nodded.

“Love you, Pri.”

“Love you too.”

And with that said, Lemon started walking toward the car. It was painful to watch her leave but Priyanka didn’t want to look away, she wanted to remember it all until they could meet again.

The car started moving but stopped abruptly as Lemon opened the door and ran back to where Priyanka was.

“Lemon, what…?”

“I almost forgot, I was supposed to give you this the first day of school but…” She was out of breath. Suddenly a brand new CD of Spiceworld was on Priyanka’s hands. “You were so sad when your sister broke the one you had worked so hard to buy and I thought…”

Priyanka was hugging her again. “Oh, Lemon…”

“Please don’t forget me.”

Her mom honked at them, the truck was already hitting the road.

Lemon walked back and this time, she left for real.

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Titans OC Masterlist

Arrowverse || DC || Gotham || The Batman

Name: Akin

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Sam Claflin

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Name: Astra Bishop-Kent

Story: Crushed And Created

Face Claim: Nicole Maines

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Name: Bea Kent

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Alba Baptista

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Bethany Lance

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Amanda Seyfried

Love Interest: Dick Grayson (past)

Name: Bizzy Grayson

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Alycia Debnam Carey

Love Interest: Donna Troy

Name: Chloe Harper

Story: Paint It Black

Face Claim: Florence Pugh

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Chloe Harper could almost remember what it had been like to be happy.  She remembered her big brother, and her dad, and feeling like nothing bad could ever happen.  But then her dad died.  Chloe never knew what happened to Roy, but she hoped that his life had been better than hers.  At only five years old, she found herself taken off the streets by Deathstroke himself.  Turned into a weapon, a gun with no name, never getting to talk to anyone but Slade, Chloe spent the next seven years knowing nothing but her next target, her next shot, her next pain.  And then something happened, something changed.  It was supposed to be a normal mission, until the Justice League showed up.  Slade escaped, but Chloe got left behind, got taken to safety by the League.  With no idea what to do with her, it was J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, who offered to take her in.

But Chloe wasn’t an easy child to raise.  She was angry, distrustful, a loaded gun with no aim.  Her temper was volatile, unpredictable, and dangerous.  She needed a purpose, she needed to make sense of everything that she’d been through, and there was only one place where she could do that.  J’onn knew that Robin was starting a group for teen vigilantes and heroes, for kids who needed a family just as much as they needed to train.  

So Chloe Harper moved to California, to Titans Tower, with no idea what to expect.But no matter what she might have imagined, nothing could have prepared her for meeting Oliver Queen’s sidekick, Speedy.  Roy Harper.  Her brother.

Name: Delia Rook

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Rachel Zegler

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Emmy Queen

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Meg Donnelly

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Esmerelda Torres

Story: Hall Of Fame

Face Claim: Emeraude Toubia

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Esmerelda Torres would like the record to show that it was not being a Titan that had made her special.  Before being Miss Universe, Esmerelda had just been a little girl who believed that she could change the world.  It was the members of the team that made the Titans special, not the other way around.  But she had lost it along the way, they all had.  Sometime after Garth, after Jericho, after the team split up, that spark of eternal hope had faded, leaving behind a young adult, lost and untethered, special only in name.  Until Dick Grayson walked back into her life with a teenage girl in tow, reminding her that at one point she had poured her heart and soul into saving everyone.  Reminding her that at one point, she had been special.  And that she could be again.

Name: Greer Collier

Story: Devil Side

Face Claim: Dove Cameron

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Of course Greer Collier knew who Dick Grayson was, every Gotham native knew the Wayne ward, and as two of the few children brought to galas throughout the city, they’d known each other well, once.  But that was years ago, more than a decade since she’d last seen him, when suddenly Detective Richard Grayson is asking her to grab coffee and answer a couple of questions.  

She’s confident that he hasn’t found anything connecting her to her actions as Hellcat, and she doesn’t think that he’d be all that interested in the supposed glitz and glam of her life, so she’s perfectly fine with simply ignoring the request.  But when Robin suddenly shows up, digging into her nightlife and following her across rooftops, she can’t help but wonder if the vigilante and the detective are following the same thread, and if it might not be worthwhile to hear what Dick Grayson has to say.

Name: Keziah Zatara

Story: Untitled

Faceclaim: Danielle Rose Russell

Name: Kinsley Kord

Story: Livewire

Faceclaim: Shelley Hennig

Love interest: Dick Grayson

Kinsley Kord didn’t miss being a Titan.  She didn’t.  She missed her best friends more than anything, and she missed living with them in the tower, but she didn’t miss being the Justice League’s glorified cleanup crew, risking her life on missions deemed below their notice.  And almost ten years after leaving the tower, she was perfectly happy to leave Glitch in the past and focus on her future.  She was happy, really, she was.

And so of course, of every bakery in Gotham, it had to be hers that Dick Grayson wandered into with a teenage girl in his care and assassins on their tail.  And of course he couldn’t have just taken a donut and left, no.  Dick Grayson just had to ask for her help, and Kinsley Kord still couldn’t say no to him.

Name: Logan Becker

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Malia Constantine

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Sabrina Carpenter & Sarah Michelle Gellar

Name: Morvan Abbott

Story: Abyss

Face Claim: Joe Locke

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Nico Wayne

Story: Treacherous

Face Claim: Dylan O’Brien

Love Interest: Teagan O’Neal

Coming from the richest families in Gotham had perks, and Teagan O’Neal knew it well; after all, that was why she and her best friend Nico had always been untouchable by the law.  Growing up it was all about petty theft, vandalism, and underage drinking, but as they got older, things changed.  Following in his family’s footsteps, Nico took on a life of vigilantism, while Teagan, following a legacy that no one else knew about, went darker.  Their difference in morals had never been a problem in their relationship, even after they started living together.  After all, they respected each other’s boundaries and never crossed paths in the shadowy Gotham underworld.  At least, not before Nico’s former brother, Dick Grayson, showed up, asking for Nico’s help to track down Dinoaea, the Venus Flytrap, Teagan herself.

Name: Remi Alcott

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Natalie Alyn Lind

Love Interest: Gar Logan

Name: Rowena Abbott

Story: Abyss

Face Claim: Emma Dumont

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

According to the police report, Rowena Abbot did kill her father — even if she didn’t remember doing so.  She could remember the moments before, the raised voice and fists, and she could remember the moments after, the blood splattered across the walls, but she couldn’t remember anything in between.  Still, despite the lack of any weapon or recollection, not even an honest self defence plea was enough to keep her out of jail.

Ten years later, older and wiser, more angry and more powerful than she’d ever been before, Rowena Abbott is released, and she only has one thing on her mind: revenge.  And then she meets her parole officer, Detective Dick Grayson, and with him, a teenage girl far too familiar for the stranger she is.

Name: Sarina Strange

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Sophie Turner

Love Interest: Jason Todd

Name: Teagan O’Neal

Story: Treacherous

Face Claim: Madelaine Petsch

Love Interest: Nico Wayne

Coming from the richest families in Gotham had perks, and Teagan O’Neal knew it well; after all, that was why she and her best friend Nico had always been untouchable by the law.  Growing up it was all about petty theft, vandalism, and underage drinking, but as they got older, things changed.  Following in his family’s footsteps, Nico took on a life of vigilantism, while Teagan, following a legacy that no one else knew about, went darker.  Their difference in morals had never been a problem in their relationship, even after they started living together.  After all, they respected each other’s boundaries and never crossed paths in the shadowy Gotham underworld.  At least, not before Nico’s former brother, Dick Grayson, showed up, asking for Nico’s help to track down Dinoaea, the Venus Flytrap, Teagan herself.

Name: Thalassa Zatara

Story: Archaic

FaceClaim: Stella Maeve

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Name: Vanessa Kline

Story: Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

Face Claim: Kat McNamara

Love Interest: Dick Grayson

Growing up in Crime Alley was anything but pleasant, everyone knew that.  For Vanessa Kline, the only silver lining her life had ever had was Jason Todd, her baby brother in all but blood.  From the first time they’d met, when he was nine and she was twelve, he’d been the centre of her life and she’d promised herself that she would do anything to protect him.  But when he was twelve, he got picked up by CPS and taken into foster care, and Vanessa could never find him again.  Only a few weeks later, she was found and taken in by the Gotham City Sirens, and her life finally took a turn for the better.

The years passed, and everything changed.  Vanessa went to art school, left Gotham, became a vigilante.  Songbird, a nickname that her mothers had given her and a tribute to her lost baby brother, she never focused on the big bad villains — that was what Batman and Robin and even the Sirens were for.  No, Songbird looked after the kids, the poor and downtrodden, protecting them like she wished someone had protected her. She occasionally teamed up with Robin, sure, but for the most part, she worked alone.  As long as she didn’t let herself get close to people, she wouldn’t have to lose anyone else.

But when Detective Dick Grayson seeks her out, trying to figure out why the Sirens had gone completely off the radar, Vanessa finds herself thrown into a mystery unlike any she’s faced before.  But this time, she has a partner at her back — a partner that turns out to have a surprising connection to a face from her past.

Name: Waverly Todd

Story: We Can Burn Brighter (Than The Sun)

Face Claim: Madison McLaughlin

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EVERYTHING WRONG WITH WARRIOR NUN (2020)

Welp, I know what you’re thinking now: Noon disappears for 2 months and then comes back just to bash on something that isn’t even a kdrama?? Well, I mean you are right. I haven’t had the time or will to write kdrama reviews in a couple of months, and I haven’t watched that many kdramas either recently. But then, pretty much just for shits and giggles, I watched this show and it spited me enough to want to write about it, so I’m just going along with it. I am in no way, shape or form a cinematographer, or writer, nor do I generally know much about film making, so take what I’m saying here with a grain of salt. These are just my observations and opinions, you are entitled to your own.

An important concept in fillm and tv is suspension of disbelief. While as a viewer, we are aware that the things on screen are not real, we pretend that the characters are real people who are experiencing those things. Therefore, a show must set up a framework that makes sense to the viewers, in which they can place all of the story. In general, that means that everything on screen must follow the rules of logic and common sense, unless the story explicitly diverts from that. A story about magic does not adhere to our common sense, but if the writers give us a set of rules to logically explain how magic works in this universe, we can suspend our disbelief. It’s important that the explanation is logical, and that the story does not break it’s own rules. This is one of the things Warrior Nun fails to do.

Warrior Nun breaks the rules of common logic on multiple occasions, in big ways and small, without offering the viewer an explanation that would help us accept this deviation from our world. Obvious SPOILER ALERT.

(Dead) bodies don’t work this way

- Ava has been paralysed for most of her life. We know she had her accident when she was 8, and that Sister Frances murdered her because she was about to “age out of the system”. We can then assume she is 17 or 18, which means she’s spent about 10 years being spoon fed and cared for. There is absolutely no way Ava just stands up and goes about her life when she receives the Halo. While the resurrection by the Halo and the apparent healing skills it gives her may account for the fact she seems to even have muscle mass left in her arms and legs, she hasn’t used any of those muscles for a decade. Have you ever seen those videos of people who were paralysed learning to do stuff again like walk or even hold objects? Other than losing the muscle they need to do those things, they also lost the motor skills to do them. Ava shouldn’t know how to walk, or even hold a spoon to feed herself, much less run or dance or fight (we’ll come back to the fighting later)

- TW // death and dead bodies: In one of the early episodes, a Tarask searches Shannon’s corpse because it’s looking for the Halo (that is now in Ava’s body). We can assume that at least 24h has passed since Shannon died, because the priest has already cleaned up her body and it’s night time again. The Tarask uses its claw to turn the body around and then slashes open Shannon’s back to check if she’s still bearing the Halo. There’s two things wrong here. First of all, Shannon’s body would not flop around the way it is shown in the show. Rigor mortis, or the stiffening of the limbs and other parts of a corpse, starts setting in a couple of hours after death and is complete after around 12 hours. If anything, her body should be behaving like a massive plank or brick, and not gently and delicately turn over with little force. Secondly, and I don’t know why I even have to say this but here we are, dead bodies don’t bleed. In a later shot, we see Shannon’s back is covered in blood where the monster cut her open, but how is that even logically possible when there is nothing pushing the blood through her body?

- Another illogical aspect of this show is Ava’s fighting. She can’t have spent more than a few days training with the nuns (she effortlessly finds JC and friends again, who act like she wasn’t gone for too long), so it’s ridiculous how she suddenly has the ability to fight monsters and demons and even other nuns. At some points she seems to not know what she’s doing at all (for example when she swings her sword at the Tarask attacking Lilith), and then mere days later she’s battling an angel/demon as if she’s on equal footing with him. Even if the Halo has given her muscles, it can’t have given her fighting skills because she constantly gets bested at the start of the season. The show has to make a choice: either she’s completely helpless and a klutz, which would endear her to the viewers more, or she’s a super skilled fighter, which would make more sense for the plot but also makes her less accessible and more Mary Sue-like. 

OTHER SMALLER AND LARGER THINGS THAT BOTHERED ME:

- The internal monologue was soooo annoying. This stuff works well in books, but not in a show like this. Ava seems to be a pretty expressive person, but her inner monologue is so boring and monotonous. I get they wanted her to be snarky and sarcastic, but it just sounded like she was desinterested. Big nope

- Can this girl just stop running away for 2 minutes? It got pretty annoying after like the third time.

- The whole love storyline with JC was a big let down as well. I loved the awkward flirting at first, it totally made sense for Ava to be unsure and a bit stupid when this is the first guy she’s met after years in forced isolation. But then she suddenly kisses him in a cupboard while they’re hiding and they immediately have sex? Not only does that not really fit her character, it’s just unnecessary for the plot. Oh, and then the next episode they drop him and he’s never seen again even though Ava genuinely seemed to like him. Justice for JC, Netflix. He deserved better. 

 - The whole angel/demon in a wall plot for the last couple of episodes didn’t make much sense to me and, to be honest, by that point I didn’t have the motivation left to even try to understand it. 

- The acting in general was stilted and unnatural. I can forgive Alba Baptista in some ways because she’s not a native English speaker (I assume), but the writing really didn’t help. I feel like the writers of the show thought their viewers were stupid and tried to explain every single detail in the show through characters’ dialogue. Big tip: if you want to have exposition, don’t do it through characters who supposedly already know the information and have no use for saying it explicitly. 

- When did we decide Jilian Salvius was a good guy and not the bad guy? Made no sense at all. And I won’t even start about her son. Confusion all over. 

SOME REDEEMING QUALITIES

While it was an absolute train wreck of a show, I did enjoy some aspects of it. Here’s a short list in no particular order. 

- The setting. Absolutely loved the Andalusian background and the juxtaposition between the ancient architecture of Southern Spain and the Vatican with the high-tech lab. 

- The whole catholicism thing was present but not overbearing. I am a pretty convinced anti-clerical atheist, but the religious aspects of the show didn’t bother me. The use of religious language was appropriate but not condescending. 

- I loved the use of foreign languages in the show. Father Vincent is Spanish so of course he speaks Spanish with the Spanish art collector. The cardinal and mother superion naturally talk in Italian, Ava grew up in a Spanish orphanage so of course she learned some Spanish, Camila speaks English with Father Vincent because another nun is present but does throw in a couple of words in Spanish when that makes most sense. So often these type of shows force every character to speak in English even when it makes no sense. (One thing though: why is it Orfanato St. Michael’s? Why not San Miguel?)

- Beatrice. Just everything about her. Give me more.

[handyup]

alcohol

술을 좋아한다. 하지만 셋째가 태어난 후, 코로나까지 겹쳐서 밖에서 마음놓고 술을 마셔본 지 오래됐다. 그래도 집에서도 맛있는 걸 먹을 때면 술을 한잔씩 한다. 

아직 지안이가 태어나기 전인 지금으로부터 2년 전 쯤에는, 주말 점심 때 맛있는 걸 해먹으면서 술 한잔 하고 알딸딸하게 취해 아내에게 허튼 소리나 늘어놓다가 에어컨을 키고 잠깐 낮잠을 자면 그게 그렇게 행복했었다. 그럴 때면 “인생도 살만하네”라고 느꼈었다. 그 때 즐겨먹던 술이 이마트에서 팔았던 “Epic brewing”에서 만든 “Big Bad Baptista”다. 스타우트인데 용량도 1리터 쯤 되고, 알콜도수도 13도 쯤 되어서 한병 마시면 딱 기분좋게 취했더랬다.

하지만 요샌 나이를 먹어서인지 편의점에서 4캔에 만원에 파는 700밀리 캔맥주도 배가 불러서 다 못 마실 때가 많다. 그리고 가만히 생각해보면 내가 유난을 떨만큼 술맛이라는 것에 그리 민감하지 않다는 사실을 깨달았다(단지 한국맥주는 밍밍해서 소맥아니면 잘 안 먹긴 하지만, 또 소맥이라는게 집에서는 유독 맛이 없다). 신혼 초에는 아내와 함께 와인을 좀 마셔 봤는데, 품종에 따른 맛 차이는 대충 알겠지만, 그래서 쇼비뇽블랑이 샤도네이보다 맛있다. 혹은 쇼비뇽블랑 중에서는 뉴질랜드 쇼비뇽블랑이 최고지 뭐 이런 디테일한 평가는 못 내리겠더라. 내겐 그저 차갑게 해서 먹으면 좋은 화이트 와인일 뿐... 오히려 맛의 차이가 확연해서, 내 취향이 뭔지를 확실하게 찾을 가능성이 있었던 술은 싱글몰트 위스키였다. 하지만 매일 조금씩 홀짝거리다보면 한병을 금방 마시게 되고, 그럼 또 백화점이나 주류상에 술을 사러 가야되고, 또 호기심 반 허세 반으로 비싼 등급의 술을 찾게 되는 단점들이 있어서 포기했다. 그래도 내가 지금도 좋아하는 술은 발베니다(생각해보니 마셔본 지 꽤 오래된 것 같다). 

내가 술에 취한 것도 아닌데 왜 월요일부터 이렇게 두서없이 술 이야기를 횡설수설 쓰는지 모르겠지만, 아무튼 요즘에 술 대신 가끔 쟁여놓고 먹는게 “Bruce cost”에서 나온 진저에일이다. 이거 밀리미터당 가격으로 따지면 왠만한 수제 맥주보다 비싼 음료이긴 한데 나름 괜찮다. 

개인적으로 술이나 화장품 같은 소모성 액체에 돈을 펑펑 쓸 수 있는 사람이 진짜 부자가 될 자격이 있는 것 같다. 나처럼 말이다. 물론 부자가 될 자격이 있는지와 부자인지는 별개의 문제다. 애석하게도 말이다. 

[beerselfie]

#Repost @holapaulina ・・・ It's #internationalstoutday and #tbt, so here's a throwback of me enjoying @epicbrewing Big Bad Baptista. Always a delicious spicy, sweet, chocolatey treat! . . . #beerselfie #stout https://www.instagram.com/p/B4mHzssHnoI/?igshid=1jblg45u2tv2i

[stoutwhisperer]

I scored an Epic Triple Double this weekend!

If you are into basketball at all, you know what a Triple Double is.  For those who are not basketball fans, a Triple Double is when a player achieves double digits (i.e. 10 or more) in three of the major statistical categories – points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks.  Achieving a Triple Double is a difficult feat for most and is usually reserved for the more skilled players. I’m excited to…

[swindlefingrs]

yo im into sweeter beers that still taste sturdy what should i drink (also ayyyy i brew beer from time to time also!! im better at mead tho lmao)

What’s it like making mead!? Blease tell me, the idea of turning honey into delicious booze sounds so good. I want to try making cider at some point!

Hmmm if by “sturdy” you mean like thick and full, I can recommend some nice sweet dark beers! I haven’t run into many sturdy light beers.

Y’know - you might like dunkleweizen style beers? It’s a hefeweizen but the grain is roasted before it’s used so you end up with a rich, caramel-y, slightly sweet, toasty and full. Trouble with this style is that I’ve only seen it in bottles and only from Germany. I have found the bottles in beer specialty stores like Bevmo and bougie bottle shops.

If you’re looking for sweeter beers that are full-bodied you can’t go wrong with most Belgian beers in general, though: Gulden Draak, St Bernardus, etc. You might really like North Coast’s Brother Thelonius which is a US-made Belgian. It’s sturdy and sweet.

A great stout I’ve had is Epic’s Big Bad Baptista and the rad thing about this one is that the sweetness includes a great Mexican chocolate flavor with cinnamon and cardamon. It wasn’t as sweet as a Belgian, it had some dark chocolate bitterness but it was fuckin TASTY.

[savannahroleplays]

This is so freaking cute omg, I was wondering if you could help me narrow down my fc choice (and if any of these are already apped for, my bad lol!). Would you rather see Natalie Dormer, Priscilla Quintana, Constance Wu, or your mwf?

Firstly, thank you so much for the wonderful compliment! We really love to hear that people like this group, it makes it so much more gratifying! We will help as much as we can; now I know personally, I am big on Priscilla Quintana! However, if you’re still unsure, please see the below! 

Amber Stevens, Antonia Thomas, Lucy Lui, Maja Salvador, Kaylee Bryant, Chloe Bailey, Zoey Deutch, Emre Bey, Jessica Green, Ryan Destiny, Jane Seymour, Madchen Amick, Sophie Skelton, Camila Mendes, Taylor Russell, Sarah Shahi, Veronica Ngo, Zoe Kravitz, Halle Bailey, Hande Ercel, Angelica Ross, Demet Ozdemir, Amber Rose Revah, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchette, Sarah Paulson, Kate Winslet, Wunmi Moskau, Geraldine Viswanathan, Ksenia Solo, Elcin Afacan, Rachel McAdams, Viola Davis, Annasophia Robb, Tessa Thompson, Lana Candor, Aidy Bryant, Zendaya Coleman, Lolly Adefope, Haley Pullos, Ana De Armas, Sarah Jeffery, Merritt Patterson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Christian Serratos, Tristin Mays, Doutzen Kroes, Meg Donnelly, Beanie Feldstein, Sophia Bush, Jamie Chung, Bethany Joy Lenz, Erana James, Odeya Rush, Sara Waisglass, Nathalie Kelley, Wan Qian, Sofia Black-D’elia, Ana Taylor-Joy, Grace Van-Dein, Fiona Barron, Sasha Alexander, Liu Shishi, Sarah Gadon, Alba Baptista, Marisa Tomei, Gideon Adlon, Emilija Baranac, Halle Berry, Katie Douglas,  Zoe Levin, Jessica Green, Emilia Clarke, Gina Torres --- the list really does go on!