#D.j is... good character

[reiniesainyo]

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SYNPOSIS. when a girl's co-star is good to her and now she wants it more than everything in between. (smau)

A/N. this chapter is more like world building (it's where i explain what the fuck i'm doing with the YN okay)

The "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series at Disney+ has added an unexpected pick to its growing cast.

The new live-action series is based on the hugely successful novels from author Rick Riordan of the same title. We will be seeing YN LN join the series as Rina Velasco, one of the supporting characters of the show.

LN's Rina Velasco is referred to as "the offspring of The Muses, goddesses of the sciences and the arts." Unlike most other demigods, she is born out of the artistic and scientific output of the muses. When the moral ingenuity of humans meets the divine musings of The Muses. Her character is described as a unique allrounder who becomes a mentor figure to our main cast as they embark on their journey.

This will be LN's first on-screen role of her career. LN's experience mostly lies in Broadway, she is known for playing Kim in the Miss Saigon revival on Broadway. LN was nominated for a Tony in 2022 for the same role. She is repped by Salonga/Chien Entertainment and B817 Agency.

Riordan posted on the Meta app, Threads, about this update to the casting saying: "YN was one of the actors we didn't expect to see a tape of but when we saw it, we couldn't help but fall in love with her. She embodies the spirit of Rina so well and is such a kind spirit, we can't wait for you to fall in love with her too! Welcome to the cast, YN!"

The live-action show is based on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson book series. It tells the fantastical tale of the titular 12-year-old modern demigod (Scobell), who's just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. With help from his friends Grover (Simhadri) and Annabeth (Jeffries), Percy must embark on an adventure of a lifetime to find it and restore order to Olympus.

Production on the show is now underway in Vancouver. Riordan and Jon Steinberg are writing the pilot with James Bobin directing. Steinberg and his producing partner Dan Shotz are overseeing the series and serve as executive producers alongside Bobin, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, and Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, and D.J. Goldberg. 20th Television is the studio. Salke was formerly the president of Touchstone Television and originally put the show into development.

liked by percyseries, iamcharliebushnell, and 37,789 others thelnarchive the child of the muses @percyseries

percyseries OUR MUSE!

user1 this is literally perfect casting who cried i did ↳ user2 she's so rina coded! thank the gods for the casting directors

iamcharliebushnell only muse in my life ↳ thlnarchive only traveler in my life ↳ user3 the way filming hasn't started and they're already like this ↳ user4 their chemistry is chemistry-ing

user5 roman empire. she is my roman empire.

dior.n.goodjohn i LOVE LOVE LOVE women ↳ thelnarchive HELP i love you

user6 this is so fcking random but i NEED her in a taylor swift music video

A/N i truly hope you guys can forgive the horrible editing in the pictures. the article portion is based on (and has some parts that are directly pulled from) this article from variety ! here's some succint information about rina velasco, the PJO character YN LN plays (and is my childhood OC!) - rina velasco, filipino, 18 years old (year younger than luke) - she's an offspring of the muses, not directly a child or daughter, though she may be referred as such - by her being an offspring of the muses, i mean that she was born in the same way athena's children are born. - but in rina's case she's more like a weird conglomeration of each muse. her birth is a rare event, but her mothers are honored as minor goddesses so she stayed in the apollo cabin (connection to music) - rina operates as a guidance figure for the main trio, especially annabeth - she's also luke's love interest, there's a lot of tragicness and doomed romance stuff with those two - and for the sake of everyone, we pretend like the weird i love you from the books didn't happen !

[monkeymanproductions]

As we get closer and closer to our Halloween launch date, I thought it was a good time to look at all the amazing art we've commissioned from Charli Vince for the show! Our cover art of course, but also our leads Karo and Yvonne, Auncle Lantern and Charlene the lake monster, werewolf Grey (and Raven beside him) and our Lindworm, and troll Bergen and tree monster Gabi - with an appearance in that one by a completely ordinary cat named Frederick!

And this is just the beginning of our amazing cast of characters! You can subscribe in all your podcast feeds right now, and we launch with the Prologue on Halloween and Episode 1 on Sunday, November 3rd! Can't wait to share our monster world!

[tabb1tha]

I love concept characters that only have a song for them..... The wild boys, major tom, D.J., Eugene and Henry McLean, Arnold Layne, all the fellas from the Boomtown Rats songs..... That's the good stuff...

[cryptidvoidwritings]

Full text below.

A D.J. pawing through a carton of old LPs — Natalie Cole, Angela Bofill — comes upon a curiosity: the original cast album of “Cats.” When he opens the gatefold, glittery spangles fly everywhere.

That’s how “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” begins, and it’s basically what the Perelman Performing Arts Center’s drag remake of the Broadway behemoth does to the drab original. It sets the joy free.

Whether upper- or lowercase, cats never previously offered me much pleasure. The underlying T.S. Eliot poems, ad libbed for his godchildren, are agreeable piffle, hardly up there with “Prufrock” as fodder for the ages. The musical, instead of honoring the material’s delicacy, stomped all over it, leaving heavy mud prints. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score, and especially the rigged-up story and original staging by Trevor Nunn, tried so hard to make big statements from little ditties and kitties that it wound up a perfect example of camp.

Camp, cleverly, is the new version’s base line, neutralizing that criticism. It turns out that the show once advertised vaguely (and threateningly) as “now and forever” — it ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000 — works far better in a specific past.

That past is the world of drag balls, which at the time of the original “Cats” was beginning to achieve mainstream awareness. Madonna’s appropriation of the participants’ style and dance moves in her videos and concerts, as well as Jennie Livingston’s celebration of them in her documentary “Paris Is Burning,” helped pave the way for the supremacy of RuPaul and dragmania today. But beneath that triumph lay a darker truth: that the thrill of ball culture depended on its drawing extravagance from destitution, meeting prejudice with bravery, and staring down death with style.

The key insight of this “Jellicle Ball,” which opened on Thursday at the new downtown arts cube, is that at least some of those themes could resonate with Eliot’s subtext and Lloyd Webber’s score. The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch have thus transported Grizabella, Skimbleshanks, Rum Tum Tugger and the rest from a metaphysical junkyard to a hotel ballroom for a vogueing competition, accompanied by new versions of the songs that go heavier on the synthesizers, turn some lyrics into raps and add a distinctive house beat.

It’s often a good fit. The former felines — now fantastically attired humans — compete in traditional categories, like Opulence and Hair Affair, that are to some degree matched to Eliot’s descriptions. The song “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer,” for instance, pits those two “knockabout clowns” against the pairing of the balletic Victoria and the acrobatic Tumblebrutus in a showdown called Tag Team Performance.

Not that it is any easier to keep the cats straight just because they’re queer. The structure of the show doesn’t allow it. Hemmed in by the Eliot estate, Nunn could not add dialogue, making it difficult to flesh out any characters or encourage specific emotional investment. His solution was a bizarre framing device with late-1970s woo-woo overtones: The clan meets each year on the evening of the Jellicle moon so that their leader, Old Deuteronomy, can choose one lucky cat to ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn.

That silliness didn’t help much. It remained difficult to keep Jellylorum and Sillabub apart or care about either. In revivals like the one on Broadway in 2016, let alone the dreadful 2019 movie, the material seemed fatally ludicrous.

And if “Jellicle Ball” doesn’t quite solve that problem, it succeeds in making it mostly irrelevant. The new frame allows you to feel something for the characters, at least as a group, even when you don’t know what’s going on, which is often. The design of the long, narrow room, with the audience surrounding a runway on three sides, is awkward in the way one imagines the balls were: You can’t see everything, you’re constantly craning, the sound (by Kai Harada) is blurry and some fuss or hilarity is always happening somewhere you missed.

Even so, we recognize Rum Tum Tugger (Sydney James Harcourt) far better now that he competes in the Realness and Body competitions. (He’s a smooth playah.) Gus, the theater cat, is a more instantly recognizable type as performed by Junior LaBeija, the M.C. of the “Paris Is Burning” ball, as a catty old queen who, though “no longer a terror” can still throw ample shade. And it takes little more than the arrival of André De Shields, with his unsurpassed ability to freeze attention onstage, to show us that Old Deuteronomy is a Moses.

It helps, too, that he’s given a glowing Ten Commandments-like set of tablets, and that he’s dressed (by Qween Jean) in royal purple topped by a gigantic matching lion’s mane (by Nikiya Mathis). Indeed, the wonderfully over-the-top design of the show is as important as the concept itself in filling out the vast blanks of the characters as written. Enjoyable as that is in itself, the chief benefit of the physical staging (on sets by Rachel Hauck, with lighting by Adam Honoré and projections by Brittany Bland) is that it grounds the performative mayhem on the runway in a real environment that suggests the struggles of real lives.

Among other things, this rescues the nominal star role, Grizabella, from bathos. A faded “glamour cat” seeking the reincarnation nod, she has no other function in the original story, not even suspense. (We know she’s going to be chosen because she keeps popping up to sing fragments of “Memory.”) But here, in smeary makeup, a ratty fur and carrying a tarnished old trophy, scrambling about the outskirts of the action, we see at a glance the pain of an outsider now exiled from the place she’d once been safe. Especially as played by Chasity Moore, known in the ball world as Tempress, that pain feels authentic.

That is not something that ever occurred to me in watching the old-school “Cats.” At best the Broadway show felt like a stoned oratorio about nothing, with a dog’s breakfast of song styles including ear-wormy music hall, grating electronica and the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan chorale. (The choral singing here, under the direction of William Waldrop, is gorgeous.) Likewise, the original choreography, by the Royal Ballet star Gillian Lynne, seemed totally random despite its supposedly catlike footwork. The athletic vogueing created for this production by Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, sometimes blended with throwbacks to Lynne’s classical style, is instead perfectly tailored to its milieu, and thrilling besides.

I should say at this point that, no, I haven’t turned into a fan of the show itself, the one you can see at your community theater or license for your high school. I don’t believe musicals should need whisker consultants. But as happens occasionally, the right idea can transform the wrong material. If “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” has managed a Grizabella turn, reincarnating itself in fabulousness, do not expect an 18-year run or, pardon me, copycat productions. It’s a lightning strike: not now and forever but now and once.

(Honestly, I'd respect this guy more if he came out and said 'I'm taking money to pretend to review the new show but actually am just regurgitating 40 years of The Smart, Cultured Critics Hate CATS.')

[nekobami]

Scary Movie - ( Prime Rick x Antonym Rick )

Dialogues:

D.R: Oh noo, they are too close...

J: You guys are sure this movie don't exaggerate the blood, right?

D.J: You are both two grown adults and are already crying like babies when literally NOTHING has happened yet.

E.J: COME ON, $#@&£#$@, FIGHT!

( much text alert )

About being possible they to spy this meeting? The only way to explain it was... I don't know, saying that the shrimp can open observation windows from inside the void and change the dimensions one by one as if they were channels. This encounter was also a role-play with a bot... I'm starting to think I've lost my social skills... Also, this thing of the scary movie seemed funnier in my mind... Anyway I'm very happy

Edit: As for Antonym-Rick himself, (I'll probably change the name again soon) I've been meaning to do this parenthesis and edit for a while now, ever since I found out that an artist already had this idea. So I'm going to change the names of the characters, since... I still think the contexts are considerably different. Not to mention I love the art of the original Anti-Morty and Anti-Rick.

In short, he's not necessarily the literal opposite of a Rick. I described him in actions as an uncomfortable presence just to be around. I'd say he's something that's anything but a Rick, but he's still a Rick nonetheless. It's very hard to explain, but I think you get the idea. It's also supposed to seem like a kind of paradox.

One extra I'd like to note here is: in the same role-play with Prime Rick, both were concerned that Antonym-Rick's himselfs presence might "mess up" things in the citadel. I really wish I could elaborate it in a very reasonable way, but I was thinking of saying that because he's a walking paradox, his presence can alter the probability fields of the places he's in. It's something exponential based on time that he passes in a certain place. Something like this. But I don't think that's ideal, so I'll definitely think about it more.

About his face... It was supposed to be just that shadow (or a "grim face") that forms on characters in manga and anime, but I guess I'm not very good at that.

About the context: Antonym-Rick himself went to ask Prime Rick if he had seen Antonym-Morty. I still don't know how to predictively explain why or how Antonym-Morty would have moved away from Antonym-Rick, but I would say they had a pretty intense discussion.

(It's not that important but it's healthy to mention: I edited Antonym-Rick's response at least on the artwork to make it more in line with the character, but it wasn't anything hugely different.)

But basically they're paradoxical because they're kind of artificially made. And oddly enough, the two are "Mortys" so to speak. Sort of like Antonym Rick is actually Antonym Morty's brother, and the two have a dynamic that is totally confusing and extremely difficult to understand who is Rick and who is Morty in the duo. The two show great scientific talent as well, even their adventures are strange. Since instead of having fun, or causing some chaos together, they are always studying something or trying to break absurd limits. They don't usually interact with the citadel or anyone else. In fact, it's quite rare to see them.

They were created by a team of Ricks who promised to build a Morty that was anything but a Morty, in the form of a Morty. But it still could perfectly as one in terms of cloaking device. Antonym Rick It's just their first attempt, which they ended up keeping as an assistant for a while, until the worst happened.

[mikewxrren]

@ayakoito sent: Is your muse a dog or cat person?, Would your muse ever get married?, What would your muse say is the pettiest thing they’ve ever done? & Does your muse consider themselves a good person? Why or why not?

Random character building asks! 

Is your muse a dog or cat person?

Answered here

Would your muse ever get married?

Mike wanted to get married way in the future. Maybe once he was in his late thirties or early forties. But after a screwed-up situation, he ran out on an engagement at twenty. 

Since then, he has tried to focus on his ten-year plan to become director of the FBI. Only then would he allow himself to marry. But whenever he meets a new young woman, he dreams about a potential future with her.

However, after a violent and deadly breakup, Mike is terrified to make long-term plans with another person.

(Mike is bisexual, but he has never considered marrying a man before.)

What would your muse say is the pettiest thing they’ve ever done?

Mike enjoys being petty so much it becomes his default reaction to things that annoy him. He does it so much that it is second nature. He barely even realises he’s doing it now. 

But the one petty thing Mike actively enjoys doing is sneaking Jakes’ food. On their first meeting - Mike’s first day in Graceland - Jakes tore into him about eating anything marked with D.J. Since then, Mike sneaks whatever he wants whenever Jakes isn’t around. 

If Jakes had reacted reasonably, Mike might have been more neighbourly. 

& Does your muse consider themselves a good person? Why or why not?

When Mike started in the FBI, he saw himself as good. He excelled in his classes and easily made friends with other Agents. His past mistakes didn't mean he was a bad person. 

But during his time undercover, hurting people and lying to those he cares about he realises that he might never have been good.

[mariacallous]

Um, so Hilarie Burton Morgan, of the One Tree Hill Hilarie Burtons, just publicly blasted D.J. Tanner on Twitter for her “Christian values,” and honestly, this burn reads like poetry. 

Fuller House and low-budget holiday rom-com star Candace Cameron Bure said in a Wall Street Journal interview that she moved from doing Hallmark movies to Great American Family’s Great American Christmas (GAC) because, and I quote, “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.” For context, Hallmark now includes same-sex love stories in its programming, and its former CEO, Bill Abbott, is now the CEO in charge of GAC, which doesn’t. Bure also said in the interview, “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”

Well, Burton decided this was some BS and decided to tell her so. Quote-tweeting a TVLine write-up of the interview, Burton wrote, “Bigot. I don’t remember Jesus liking hypocrites like Candy. But sure. Make your money, honey. You ride that prejudice wave all the way to the bank.” I want this tweet set to music. 

In case you were wondering, as I was, why Burton decided to wage this particular battle on Elon Musk’s Twitter on a random Monday evening, it turns out she also parted ways with Hallmark for moral reasons. Just very different morals. Before Abbott left the network in 2020 and Hallmark embraced less heteronormative content, Burton tweeted in 2019 that she was let go from a Hallmark movie after pushing for more diversity. 

“Just going through some old emails from a #Hallmark job I was ‘let go’ from back in January. I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial couple, and diverse casting. I was polite, direct and professional,” she said in a multi-tweet thread. When none of her requests were honored, according to Burton, she decided to walk away. 

This is what is called walking the walk as well as talking the talk. If it comes to a Hilarie Burton Morgan versus Candace Cameron Bure face-off—I’m backing Hilarie. 

[park-kyungsun]

Reborn Rich post-series thoughts.

i rarely post my thoughts anywhere, and i usually don't look up and read through people's thoughts about a show (i only do this with marvel movies). but i did read some feedback, and i'm just itching to share my thoughts with Reborn Rich. so here ya go.

tl;dr: what if there is a deeper reason than repentance as to why hyeon woo lived a life as do joon? if so, then i think hyeon woo, regardless of the situation or the time, is meant to go back in time and become do joon. because do joon without hyeon woo probably would be a "nobody"; just a son of the disowned jin and his ex-actress wife. plus, that scene in the last episode where secretary ha in seok initially recognized h.w. as the accomplice, only to call him d.j. later on? it was because he recognized h.w. not as d.j.'s look-alike, but someone he used to serve prior to the accident.

full explanation under the cut.

in harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, that scene where harry passed out at the lake because he got drained from trying to conjure his patronus so that he could protect sirius. but before passing out, he saw who he thought was his father save them from the dementors. right after, while still in the hospital wing, dumbledore tasked him to right some wrongs and help out in "making other men see the truth" via hermione's time-turner. and then cut to the time when harry was seeing the dementor attack from the opposite side of the lake. realizing that there was no james potter around to save sirius and him, he stood up and successfully conjured his patronus, thus making him the 'james potter' past!harry saw.

there was this concern of two harrys existing at the same point in time. there is this question of 'what would've happened to past!harry if future!harry didn't appear'? with how the story went, we can't say that "somebody else will rescue them", or "harry may be rescued in another way". one, for past!harry, everything was happening in a linear fashion. from his perspective, they were only saved when somebody successfully conjured a patronus from the other side of the lake. two, remember that patronuses are like a wizard's signature. story-wise, the only person mentioned to have a stag as their patronus at that time was james potter. which was why harry thought it was james who rescued them, right? but rather than using that scene to introduce a new character or an idea (that ghosts can now do magic) or something else, it was used to inform us that harry has also taken his patronus in the form of a stag. having said these, this could only mean that no matter what happens, harry was bound to travel back in time. because future!harry's presence in the past was a vital part in past!harry's events and of future!harry's self-discovery.

(for the sake of text, i'll be referring to hyeon woo as h.w., hyeon woo who traveled back in time as dj!hy, and do joon as d.j.) in reborn rich, there were a couple of times when dj!hy said that things that are bound to happen always happen without fail, one of which was when he tried to prevent h.w.'s mother's d**th, only for her to end up still d**d. given that dj!hw was gifted with knowledge about the future, why was it that, generally speaking, in all his plans and actions, saving his mother was the one and only thing that didn't go the way he wanted it to? because every single thing that took place happened the way they were supposed to happen.

so, does this mean that d.j. was meant to be the successor of soonyang? but how could d.j., the youngest son from the outcast family, earn that merit? one, there was the right of primogeniture. even though let's say that d.j. was really good at business, which was what the grandfather liked, would that be enough for the grandfather to break the primogeniture? plus we have to remember that seong jun was also, in a way, an adored grandson. he's a first-born son from the first-born son (young ki). and in their culture, we all know how much that means to the family. i think that for d.j., if he was really just good at business, the most he could get was a high position at a subsidiary and the least was probably a point-something percent of shares (or maybe vice versa, i'm not really sure). but for d.j, to be considered as the successor of soonyang, he must have something more than good business skills to be given a shot. what could be his edge? what could that something be that his uncles, aunt, and cousin don't have? it is the full understanding of their iron-clad grandfather. remember when young ki was tasked to buy hando steel? he had to ask secretary hang jae what his father was thinking, and he just asked because hang jae knows his father better than he or his sibling does. and that's a lot coming from the eldest son. if that question came from the person that's living under the same roof as the jin yang cheol, how much more do you expect the outcasted grandson to understand his grandfather? and this, i think, is how h.w.'s presence is a vital part of d.j.'s life. it was h.w. who made d.j. who he was: the unexpectedly adored grandson and a threat to the succession of ownership of soonyang. if there was no h.w., d.j. is basically a nobody. h.w. was meant to live out d.j.'s life for things to happen as how they happened.

another thing. when h.w. in ep 16 said that he "finally know now [that] it wasn't possession or time traveling [but his] repentance for d.j. and himself", that is only half true. because he was only seeing things from his perspective. if repentance was all h.w. needed, why was there a need for h.w. to go back in time to where d.j. was 10? he could've gone back only on the day of the accident, remembered that he was an (unknowing) accomplice to d.j.'s d**th, and then decide to just spill the truth in the hearing, right? but if we looked at things from d.j.'s perspective (dissociating h.w. from d.j.), d.j. needed something from h.w. as well. d.j. with the help of h.w. got himself and his family out of being outcasted, received attention and even affection from his grandfather, and had a shot at having soonyang, which everyone deemed impossible.

and so—although this part now is headcanon—the reason why nobody recognized h.w. as d.j.'s look-alike except for d.j.'s secretary, ha in seok, is just to highlight in seok recognizing h.w. (although i think they still could've done something better). in seok didn't recognize h.w. as someone who just looks like d.j.. rather, he recognized h.w. as both the accomplice and the boss, that the two are actually one and the same. but still, in terms of production, i think they should've taken advantage of his alcoholic demetia to plant doubt in the viewers' minds regarding that part. but no, the team chose to frustrate us by making it look like the jins, min yeong, and mason collectively became blind and not see h.w. and d.j.'s outward similarities. but then, there may be something that we still don't know or haven't realized yet. but yeah, generally speaking, that's my take on that h.w.-in seok scene.

that's basically it. if you made it this far, 💖 thank you 💖 so much for reading through my ramble 😅 have a great day!! 🌞

[djtheabishai]

Goodbye Auburnstar

Warning! Major Character Death!

So, this is Auburnstar's mourning.

The leader was sick and when Willowclaw went to gave him the correct medicine to make him better, it only made the sickness worse and ended up making him lose his last life.

The cats you see are:

Auburnstar (Diavolo), Frostfire (D.J.), Firestone (Dominic), Sparkpelt (Xvaier), Peacockfeather (Lucifer), Nightlight (Brook), Batwing (Barbatos), Featherpaw (Inhailica), Rosepaw (Roslyn) and Mintpaw (Willow)

I made a family tree on them but in case you didn't see it, Batwing is Auburnstar and Nightlight's parent figure, Willowclaw (Simeon) is D.J.'s parent figure.

Nightlight mated with Peacockfeather and had Featherpaw.

Frostfire mated with Auburnstar and had Firestone, Sparkpelt and Rosepaw.

Batwing is mates with Willowclaw and raised Frostfire, Nightlight and Tinystep (Luke) and is currently raising Mintpaw together.

Firestone's face is surprised a one because it hit him hard, realizing he's now leader of Devilclan.

Batwing has two things in his mind at that moment. One: he's devastated at the loss of an old friend, the kit he raised and the leader that lead them. Two: he's worried for Willowclaw. Having a gut feeling on what happened . "It's not your fault he died. You didn't know. None of us did." He told himself.

You may have noticed Willowclaw and Tinystep aren't there. That's because after Auburnstar died, Willowclaw was greatly shaken by guilt and confusion and disappeared. Tinystep went after him and found him, eventually convincing the medicine cat to travel to talk to Starclan.

Once they did, Starclan told them that Willowclaw's no longer a certified Medicine Cat the moment he took in Mintpaw as a kit and raised her with Batwing like she was their birth kit because Medicine Cat's aren't allowed mates and have kits.

"And what about me and Frostfire?! You didn't do anything about it they raised us!" Tinystep defended the older cat. "One: Frostfire" the dead cat put a paw past the younger cat, "Two: you, Tinystep" she pointed to Tinystep's chest, "and Three: Mintpaw." She points to the ground in front of her. She then looks Willowclaw in the eyes, blue meeting yellow. "Three strikes, you're out. Not to mention you have a mate. A tom at that." She snarled, lips curling in disgust.

Willowclaw felt the fur on his back raise, but didn't do anything as he and ancient cat glared at each other. "Let's go Tinystep, we're clearly not welcome here no more." He said. "Oh no, he's still welcome, it's you that's no longer welcome. Notice how the rings on his ears are still golden while yours is now black? You're no longer welcome here for the reasons I stated. You were a good Willowclaw, but you broke the rules and rule breakers must be punished."

You're probably wondering why no other cat around to mourn his death. They already did, but those closest to him, will spend his final night with them.

[okapirose]

Event Horizon (1997)

Many years late to the party lol

I remember when this film came out (I was only 8) that it was the horror movie of the year, and the years following it was hailed as one of the scariest to see until Blair Witch. Which is weird because it didn’t even make back its budget. It became a cult classic and is still considered a worth watching.

Spoilers ahead...just in case.

Movie is a great horror film, and made me realize there’s relatively few space horror films, and I’d say all that I can think of involve aliens. In this instance, its a ship that went through a black hole and came back Wrong. The ship pulled a Doom and came back a Cenobite lmao

The aesthetic of the ship is absolutely bonkers neat, though I think the movie is too short to really take it in and appreciate it. Much of it doesn’t make sense (the green ducts) but it just Looks Cool and with most ships in media this days being more sleek and smooth, the grimy and weird and not immediately recognizable is sadly lacking. It’s years in the future, it should look functional but different. Compare how phones are now to those 20-40yrs ago. Tech changes dramatically.

Quite a big name cast and most get a decent amount of time on screen. However some of their characters are a little weak and again it comes down to time I think. Miller’s (Fishborne) is good, captain who doesn’t want more of his crew to die after a previous accident. Weir’s (Neill) trauma of his wife’s suicide.

Peters is where things start to fall off, is she guilty for leaving her son behind for this mission or something to do with why he’s in a wheelchair? D.J. has some trauma too but its unclear where it comes from. Was he a combat medic? Hard to read. Also his aggressiveness towards Smith is weird and never explored either. The rest of the characters’ fears and hurts aren’t elaborated upon, even Justin who was first affected. He just sees Hell and loses it.

Some inconsistencies and questions left largely unanswered, like why did Justin implode but Miller and Starck just got windy hair? Is the bloody water that bursts the tank real or another figment, or a figment become reality? What happened to the bodies of the previous crew? Some are spread along the walls and we see the one frozen body (presumably Kilpack) but the rest are gone. Weir’s decent is also interesting, does the ship know he built it and thus is most suited to be its ambassador(?). His trauma is just as arguably rough as Miller’s. Weir also starts having nightmares before he even gets on board the ship which has some interesting implications that he is tied to the ship far more deeply.

I suppose you can chalk a few of those up to interpretation and drawing one’s own conclusions.

Good space horror. Need more in media that isn’t just aliens, though aliens are always fun.

[gacmediadaily]

It's been four years since the series finale of Fuller House, which begs the question: What is the Tanner clan up to now?

Full House stars Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber chatted with PEOPLE on the red carpet at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Saturday, Sept. 14, and revealed where they think their characters Joey Gladstone, D.J. Tanner-Fuller and Kimmy Gibbler, respectively, would be today.

In the case of oldest Tanner sister D.J. — who finally tied the knot with longtime on-and-off love Steve Hale (Scott Weinger) near the end of the reboot Fuller House — Bure, 48, says, "I think that D.J. and Steve are together, raising her kids and just living their best karaoke life."

Barber, 48, says D.J.'s eccentric BFF Kimmy would be "an empty-nester." With her daughter Ramona in college now, she'd be "knitting, with cats."

"And you have a nest full of ostrich eggs," jokes Coulier, 64.

As for his slapstick-prone character Joey, the actor and comedian tells PEOPLE he would be "living in a van at Venice Beach, with a woodchuck puppet."

"And the side [of the van] lifts up, and it's a hot dog stand," Coulier adds. "Very industrious. Joey's Hot Dogs. I went out on my own — I figured it was time to move out, finally."

These days, the stars have been looking back on their time on Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995. For Coulier, he hosts the rewatch program Full House Rewind while Barber and costar Jodie Sweetin reflect on the show on the podcast, How Rude, Tanneritos!.

"It gives us a chance to relive all the memories," Coulier says. "And talk about all the good times we had, and how much love we have for each other to this day. It's a chance to just relive all those moments with our fans."

"And it's great to have the stories recorded somewhere, so when we're old and senile someday, we can be like, 'Oh yeah, remember the time?'" Barber adds.

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Meredith, D.J., Meecham, J.A., Taupin, B.J.P., Littlemore, N.G., Littlmore, S.D., Mayes, P.B. and John, E. (2021) in AZLrics ‘Cold Heart(PNAU Remix)’. Available at: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eltonjohn/coldheartpnauremix.html (Accessed 30 June 2024).

PA Media (2024) ‘Elton John among stars pledging support for Labour in general election’, Guardian 29 June [Online]. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/29/sir-elton-john-among-stars-pledging-support-for-labour-in-general-election (Accessed 30 June 2024).

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Mark Christopher Lawrence (born May 22, 1964) is a character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist. He is known for his role as D.J. Tone Def in Fear of a Black Hat. He has appeared in popular films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Tales From the Hood, Planet of the Apes, Lost Treasure, and The Pursuit of Happyness.

He is known for his role as Big Mike on the series Chuck. He has made guest appearances on many television programs, most notably Heroes, My Name Is Earl, Crossing Jordan, Dharma & Greg, Malcolm in the Middle, Touched by an Angel, Malcolm & Eddie, Men Behaving Badly, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Good Luck Charlie and Martin. He is featured on the radio series Adventures in Odyssey as “Ed Washington”.

He grew up in Compton, He and his two siblings were raised by a single mother. In tenth grade, he became involved with his high school’s debate team—immersing himself in forensics competitions and theater. After winning his school district’s Literary Olympiad competition, he competed at the state and national levels as a member of the Cerritos Community College forensics squad. There he went on to capture the collegiate Bovero-Tabor Award, awarded to the top community college speaker in the country. He gained the attention of USC’s debate team coaches and was awarded a full scholarship to attend the university. He traveled the nation competing in tournaments. Meanwhile, he was gaining valuable experience in his craft by moonlighting at the Los Angeles Theater Center. There, he landed his first job in television, a role on Hill Street Blues.

After graduation from USC, he worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe while performing standup comedy throughout the US, Australia, and Canada, opening for major acts, such as Jerry Seinfeld and Rodney Dangerfield. His work in live theater led to a Dramalogue Award for his performance in Reza Abdoh’s, Minimanta. He won an NAACP award for his work in Ken Davis’ The Glass House. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[pendragonthegreat]

DJM interview 05/21/2024 - some hypothetical tv show talk

skip to 53:26 for Pendragon stuff- the rest of this interview is mostly ayaotd related.

i've transcribed the relevant stuff below the cut if you can't listen, but in summary:

dj is still trying to get pendragon adapted and his exact words were "I just started a new effort with some new people." this is not even close to confirmation because pendragon has gotten almost adapted like this a few times so don't get too excited! but i really like hearing that he's still trying and he has something of a lead.

he wants it to be a tv series as opposed to a series of movies, with each book being a season, and he specifically put emphasis on expanding on stuff that's not in the books (the example he uses is character backstories)

he wants to age bobby up to around 16 or 17 at the beginning of the story

interviewer: If you had a chance to turn, like, SYLO Chronicles or Pendragon into a series, TV show or a series of films, would you want to?

DJ: Sure. In fact, I'm working to get Pendragon- I've been trying for years to get Pendragon on the screen in some way, shape, or form, uh, I just started a new effort with some new people, so... Who knows how it'll turn out. But the idea is to actually do a TV series.

[interviewer mentions Saint Dane and DJ says he wants Benedict Cumberbatch to play him. okay skipping forward a little bit]

DJ: How many times have you seen a movie based on a book that you really love, and even if it's good, and I'll put H arry P otter into this category, it's pretty good, but there's always that, "yeah, but they left so much out. Oh god, you're missing this, you're missing this." So you've gotta take this much and squeeze it into this much. The idea with a Pendragon is, I would love to be able to do a series where each book is a season... Now you're taking this much, and you've gotta blow it out even more. So you can get into the backstories of the different characters and do much more detail on it. So my dream would be, besides getting it done, is.. and that would be enough, frankly, the idea is that there's someone who never read the books but watched the series, and that sends them to say, "well, I'm gonna read Merchant of Death," the first book, and have them say, "yeah, the book was good but they left a lot out." [something hard to hear but i think he's saying he wants it to be the other way]

Interviewer: And you were smart enough that every book, the main character, Bobby Pendragon, grows a year with every book. So you know, he starts at 14, ends at 24 [monty note: this isn't true it's more like 1 year per two books and he's 18 by the end] and like grows and learns the course of- and you could do that as a show, rather than just having a kid be a perpetual kid.

other interviewer: And the audience that reads them grows with the character.

DJ: Well... except. I mean, that was the plan, I remember doing an interview when the Merchant of Death first came out and I said, my ideal here is to have 14-year-olds pick up this book and grow up with Bobby Pendragon as each year comes out. And I remember just going, good luck with that. That'll never work.

[everyone laughs]

DJ: and it did! It did work! But TV's a little different. Or I should say, screen is a little bit different. So for the scripts I've been writing for Pendragon, I've actually aged him up to begin with, to 16 or 17. To start with. Because, the thing is, one of the things about, I mean you guys haven't read all the Pendragon books, but he starts at 14, and as much as he's very capable and he's smart, and he's all that kind of stuff, he's almost a passenger for the first couple books. Um, and a lot of other people are doing his fighting for him. And this is a little kid, but he still does plenty of stuff, but it's way easier to accept a 14-year-old doing plenty of stuff when you're just reading about it, than to actually depict it on screen. So it's like, I think he's gotta be a little bit older to begin with, right off the bat.

And because... wouldn't it be great to make ten seasons of TV series, let's be real, [something like it's not gonna happen]. I can't wait till season 6 for him to start kicking ass.

And, just being a film producer that I am, the fact that H arry P otter pulled that off, pretty remarkable. And I think it was as much because those books are just a phenomenon that Warner Brothers stayed with it and stayed with it as the kids aged and whatnot. Lightning's not gonna strike twice. So you don't wanna be casting little kids that you have to deal with them growing up. I'd rather cast a 20-year-old as a 16-year-old, which is the norm.

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Ok I just finished finally reading the MH’s first novel so eeeeee! It’s so creative and clearly put effort into constructing believable and specific ways for the monsters to hide themselves. Like, Dracularua obviously couldn’t use her real name, and Clawdeen couldn’t spell her name the way it’s supposed too!!! (Though i think Drac’s name should’ve been Laura but whatever). The main character having asthma because of her biochemistry (spoilers because i skimmed the wiki a bit) is just such a nice detail! She actually struggles in the human world!!! And we finally utilize Jackson’s biracial status as a major plot device! (again technically? But more of it).

Gosh, the thing about Jackson is just… The writers actually understand that Jekyll and Hyde isn’t about good VS evil (common misinterpretation), it’s actually about expression VS repression! D.J. Is actually more confidant compared to Jackson!!!!!!!!!!! And that’s mostly it!!!! Yeah!

Actually, this isn’t the first time the writers got a commonly misinterpreted story right! According to Negative Legend (Youtuber) (self proclaimed Alice in Wonderland expert(?) fan), Ever After High just gets it!

I just think it’s neat.

[darlingandmreames]

Hi I'm rotating my OCs in my head like rotisserie chickens and I've decided to make that everyone else's problem. So here are the questions posed by a cool post I have saved about my OC D.J.

1. What is the character's go-to drink order?

Okay so the original question was aimed at bar/restaurant drinks but I'm going to split this into bar vs cafe/coffeeshop.

Bar: he's used to drinking in shitty bars in ports, so his go-to is usually whatever beer is local/cheapest. However, his preferred drink is whiskey and he's a particular fan of heavily peated whiskey.

Coffeeshop: black coffee, occasionally with a shot or two added is he's particularly tired. He's also an avid drinker of terrible energy drinks.

2. What's their grooming routine?

Relatively minimal outside of the bare necessities due to spending much of his life living on various boats. He mostly just lets his hair do its own thing (it's thick enough and with a nice wave that it generally works out). If he knows he's going to be out and not wearing a hat he might put some loose-hold product in to keep it manageable, but he often wears hats on the boat so it doesn't usually matter. Regarding shaving, when he was working longer fishing/salvage jobs, he got into the habit of letting his beard grow out for however long he was out and then just shaving when he got back to port. Now that he has an entirely port based job with most outings on the boat only being for a day max, he generally keeps a stubble beard.

Despite not generally caring about his grooming routine, he is very particular about what soap he uses. He's found certain brands that he thinks are the best for getting grease and oil off and by god he WILL die on that hill.

3. What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go?

His most expensive purchases have mostly been for work gear, but his disposable income generally goes towards alcohol and books. He drinks less now than he used to but still enjoys spending evenings in a bar (especially now that he's more settled in Reykjavik and has a favourite local place) and will get a drink or two pretty frequently. He's also an avid reader, thanks largely to growing up in an extremely rural area and then spending much of his life on boats. He knows where all the good used bookstores are in the various ports he used to regularly sail into, and would exchange/buy books between ports so that he always had something to read.

4. Do they have any scars or tattoos?

Several of both! He has a number of tattoos on both arms and up onto his shoulders. Some are ones with specific nautical meanings (a swallow for having sailed 5000 miles, a polar bear for having crossed the Arctic Circle) but others are just because he liked how they looked. His largest tattoo is an octopus on his shoulder that goes partway down his arm.

He also has a number of scars, mostly from work accidents. Some are relatively small but he has several large scars on his torso. He got them in an incident which resulted in the death of most of his previous crew but he doesn't talk about what happened, not even with the other surviving crew member. He's rather self-conscious of those scars and doesn't like when people ask about them. He also has scars on his knuckles from fights.

5. When was the last time they cried and under what circumstances?

While drinking alone on the anniversary of the death of his previous crew. He was drunk enough that he doesn't really remember it and even if he did, he wouldn't admit it happened.

6. Are they an oldest, middle, youngest, or only child?

Youngest! He has two older brothers but doesn't speak to either of them, or his parents.

7. Describe the shoes they're wearing.

Steel toed work boots. They're practical and well worn in, and they're what he wears when he's off the boat. On the boat, he also has a pair of rubber work boots

8. Describe the place where they sleep.

Very sparse. He's never had an actual apartment before and is used to living in a very small space out of a few duffle bags, so the idea of decorating an actual apartment is...not something he's used to

9. What objects do they always carry around with them?

A knife! Sometimes several