#Daniel P. Mason

[theoutcastrogue]

Tom of Bedlam

[by Daniel P. Mason, M.D. | American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 171, Number 12, December 2014]

Illustration of a 17th-century broadside, featuring a malingering beggar, set “to the tune of Tom of Bedlam” (from Euing Ballad number 55)

In Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, the King—betrayed by his daughters, bereft of his kingdom—sets off across the heath in a fit of rage. In a forlorn hovel, he encounters a curious character. Half-naked, his face “grimed with filth,” the man introduces himself as

Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished, and imprisoned….

Lear cannot know that Tom, with his wild appetites, hallucinations, and tales of persecution is, in fact, Edgar, son of the Earl of Gloucester. Falsely accused of plotting against his father, Edgar has also fled to the heath, disguised as a “Bedlam beggar.” The conversation that ensues between the two madmen—one feigned, one real— is one of the most dizzying and psychiatrically rich in a play famously brimming with madness in its many forms.

Who then was this “Tom of Bedlam,” featured so prominently on the title page of the first quarto edition of the play? To begin, while Shakespeare may have been Tom’s most famous champion, Tom was not the Bard’s invention. Less a man, than many, Tom was a familiar folkloric “type” well known to 17th-century audiences: a “lunatick” vagabond who claimed to have been released from the notorious London asylum of St. Mary of Bethlehem (Bedlam).

“Claimed,” here, is key. For the earliest references to the figure of Tom are not as madmen but as malingering beggars. In other words, Edgar, rather than just playing a madman, was playing a man playing a madman. First appearing in the printer John Awdeley’s 1561 Fraternitye of Vacabondes, a compendium of Elizabethan beggar types, “poor Tom” was described as one who “walketh bare armed, and bare legged, and faineth him selfe mad”. Later “rogue encyclopedias” listed him among such deceptive vagabonds as “whipjackes” (fake shipwrecked sailors) and “priggers of prauncers” (horse thieves). By the 17th century Tom was familiar enough as to be recognizable by his “long staff, and a cow or ox-horn by his side; his cloathing fantastic and ridiculous... decked and dressed all over with robins [ribbons], feathers, cuttings of cloth”.

No one knows how many flesh-and-blood Toms were wandering the countryside by the time Shakespeare cast him as Edgar’s disguise. But few could have come from the institution itself: Saint Mary of Bethlehem in those decades housed fewer than 30 patients at a time. And yet so many beggars claimed to have been released from Bedlam that in 1675 the overseers of the hospital placed an advertisement in the London Gazette disclaiming the hoaxes.

With the end of the Civil Wars, Tom of Bedlam was said to have disappeared from English highways. By then, however, he had been immortalized, not only by Shakespeare, but in a proliferation of popular songs. There was “Loving Mad Tom” and “The Vagabond” and “To find my Tom of Bedlam.” Some became so famous that other songs could be published with the simple direction “to be sung to the tune of Tom of Bedlam”.

Of all the Mad Tom songs, one in particular stands out: “From the Hagg and Hungry Goblin,” an anonymous piece transcribed around 1615, now surviving in a single manuscript in the British Museum. In it we find Tom, recently released from Bedlam (or claiming so), begging for alms as he travels alone:

With a host of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.

The song, quoted by Poe, Kipling, and Scott, was praised by the critic Harold Bloom for a “visionary perspective only rarely achieved in poetic history”. The poet Sir Robert Graves even suggested it was written by Shakespeare himself.

Or perhaps Tom never really vanished, but instead lives in those who have inherited his itinerancy. For, with this remarkable character, Shakespeare also created a mirror for today’s troubled wanderers, pursued by their own “foul fiends.” In them we find Tom’s many-layered complexity: at times seeking pity, at times refusing it, at times threatening, at times forlorn, at times arresting with their colorful clothes and speech. At times mad, at times playing madder: “knights,” as one Mad Tom put it, “of ghosts and shadows.”

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[man-i-just-really-like-plants]

Occult Authors to Avoid

🦋 Silver Raven Wolf Racist, misinformation, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft, monotheistic prejudice, perpetuation of the Burning Times, dictatorship over practices.

🦋 Raymond Buckland Misinformation, massive contributor to the misconceptions of the threefold law & burning times, sexualization and fetishization of religious practice, misconceptions on Neo-Wicca

🦋 Arin Murphy-Hiscock Silver Raven Wolf’s student, has lots of the same ideas as her

🦋 Ann Moura Racist, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft, misinformation on Wicca's origins

🦋 Aleister Crowley Bigoted, racist, antisemitic, appropriation, misogynist, gender bias

🦋 Catherine Yronwode Incites violence, appropriation, racism, harassment

🦋 Christian Day Rape threats, harassment, curse threats, self proclaimed warlock

🦋 Diana Paxson Ableist, racist

🦋 EA Koetting [Matthew Joseph Lawrence] Appropriation, drug abuse, self deification

🦋 Edward P. Butler Hindutva supporter (Hindu alt nationalism), supports Galina Krasskova, claims for harassment

🦋 Frosts [Gavin Frost, Yvonne Frost] Pedophilic writing, misinformation and claim to creation of Wicca

🦋 Galina Krasskova - Etsy [wyrdcuriosities] Classist, racist, openly supports alt right & fascist movements, Nazi apologist, monotheistic prejudice (namely Islamophobia)

🦋 Gordon White [Rune Soup] Appropriation, misinformation, Covid denial, anti Covid vax, race critical theosophy and polygenism

🦋 Jasmuheen [Ellen Greve] Breatharianism, contributed to community deaths (1990s)

🦋 Kenaz Filan Appropriation, racism, transphobia, white supremacy, adheres to alt right ideologies, harassment

🦋 Kenny Klein Pedophile, convicted for possession of child porn

🦋 Helena Blavatsky [Helena Petrovna Hahn, Hélène] Pseudo-science, political conspiracies, appropriation, contributor to modern alien political conspiracies that exist across the US today

🦋 Lisa Lister TERF ideologies, medical misinformation, cultural appropriation

🦋 Maulana Karenga [Ronald McKinley Everett] Advocate for human torture/torturer, rapist

🦋 Peter Grey Playing down bigoted presence, defending fascists, transphobes, and white supremacists

🦋 Raven Kaldera Misinformation, appropriation, fascism, transmisogyny, ableism, racism, cissexism

🦋 Rhyd Wildermuth [Gods & Radicals Press] Defends fascist authors, transphobic, misogynistic, supports Hindutva & Edward Butler; requested by server members

🦋 Robin Artisson Destructive and racist behavior

🦋 S. Connolly Conflates mental health w/ spirituality, appropriation (Lilith, chakras), depiction of witches as an oppressed group

🦋 Skye Alexander Appropriation, racism, misinformation, rede-thumping

🦋 Stephen E. Flowers [Edred Thorsson, Darban-i-Den] Nazi, white supremacist, racist

🦋 Tamara L. Siuda [Mambo Chita Tann] Appropriation, possible transcendent belief setup & infallible charismatic leadership/dictatorship (personality cult)

🦋 Terence McKenna Appropriation, pseudoscience, contributor to misrepresentation of shamanism (collective practice)

🦋 Tsirk Susej [Chad Ian Miller] Misinformation, appropriation, radicalism, conspiracy, affiliation with the Church of Satan & O9A, self proclaimed Antichrist, religious extremism

🦋 Varg Vikernes [Louis Cachet], twitter [WargarW, GandalftheWhi19], YouTube [ThuleanPerspective] Murderer, arsonist, contributor to the Norsk Hedensk Front (nazi-occult group)

🦋 William R. Wraithe, Twitter [william_wraithe] Harassment & threats, repeated curse threats, self proclaimed ‘savior’

🦋 Anastasia Greywolf Misinformation, appropriation

🦋 Asenath Mason Appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Christopher Penczak Victim blaming, curse shaming, appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Danielle Dionne White author & eclectic spiritualist using rootworking and hoodoo for monetary gain

🦋 Dante Abiel Appropriation, fetishization of ATRs, misinformation

🦋 DJ Conway Misinformation, fetishization of Celtic myth, appropriation

🦋 Doreen Virtue Large contributions to chakras, crystal pseudosciences, and harmful stereotypes for starseeds in spirituality

🦋 EA Wallis Budge Misinformation, poor translation

🦋 Edain McCoy Misinformation, perpetuation of harmful Irish stereotypes, pseudo historical writing. Creator of ‘Witta’. McCoy is the creator of the infamous ‘Irish Potato Goddess’

🦋 Gabriela Herstik Misinformation, historical fallacies, appropriation

🦋 Michael W. Ford Appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Scott Cunningham Broad misinformation, appropriation, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft

🦋 Semra Haksever Appropriation of Hoodoo, use of smudging, chakras, spirit animals; requested by server members

🦋 Starr Casas Appropriation, white woman writing about Hoodoo, Rootworking, and Voodoo

[eludin-realm]

Character Name Ideas (Male)

So I've been browsing through BehindTheName (great resource!) recently and have compiled several name lists. Here are some names, A-Z, that I like. NOTE: If you want to use any of these please verify sources, meanings etc, I just used BehindTheName to browse and find all of these. Under the cut:

A: Austin, Aiden, Adam, Alex, Angus, Anthony, Archie, Argo, Ari, Aric, Arno, Atlas, August, Aurelius, Alexei, Archer, Angelo, Adric, Acarius, Achilou, Alphard, Amelian, Archander B: Bodhi, Bastian, Baz, Beau, Beck, Buck, Basil, Benny, Bentley, Blake, Bowie, Brad, Brady, Brody, Brennan, Brent, Brett, Brycen C: Cab, Cal, Caden, Cáel, Caelan, Caleb, Cameron, Chase, Carlos, Cooper, Carter, Cas, Cash, Cassian, Castiel, Cedric, Cenric, Chance, Chandler, Chaz, Chad, Chester, Chet, Chip, Christian, Cillian, Claude, Cicero, Clint, Cody, Cory, Coy, Cole, Colt, Colton, Colin, Colorado, Colum, Conan, Conrad, Conway, Connor, Cornelius, Creed, Cyneric, Cynric, Cyrano, Cyril, Cyrus, Crestian, Ceric D: Dallas, Damien, Daniel, Darach, Dash, Dax, Dayton, Denver, Derek, Des, Desmond, Devin, Dewey, Dexter, Dietrich, Dion, Dmitri, Dominic, Dorian, Douglas, Draco, Drake, Drew, Dudley, Dustin, Dusty, Dylan, Danièu E: Eadric, Evan, Ethan, Easton, Eddie, Eddy, Einar, Eli, Eilas, Eiljah, Elliott, Elton, Emanuel, Emile, Emmett, Enzo, Erik, Evander, Everett, Ezio F: Faolán, Faron, Ferlin, Felix, Fenrir, Fergus, Finley, Finlay, Finn, Finnian, Finnegan, Flint, Flip, Flynn, Florian, Forrest, Fritz G: Gage, Gabe, Grady, Grant, Gray, Grayson, Gunnar, Gunther, Galahad H: Hale, Harley, Harper, Harvey, Harry, Huey, Hugh, Hunter, Huxley I: Ian, Ianto, Ike, Inigo, Isaac, Isaias, Ivan, Ísak J: Jack, Jacob, Jake, Jason, Jasper, Jax, Jay, Jensen, Jed, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jesse, Jett, Jimmie, Jonas, Jonas, Jonathan, Jordan, Josh, Julien, Jovian, Jun, Justin, Joseph, Joni, K: Kaden, Kai, Kale, Kane, Kaz, Keane, Keaton, Keith, Kenji, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kieran, Kip, Knox, Kris, Kristian, Kyle, Kay, Kristján, Kristófer L: Lamont, Lance, Landon, Lane, Lars, László, Laurent, Layton, Leander, Leif, Leo, Leonidas, Leopold, Levi, Lewis, Louie, Liam, Liberty, Lincoln, Linc, Linus, Lionel, Logan, Loki, Lucas, Lucian, Lucio, Lucky, Luke, Luther, Lyall, Lycus, Lykos, Lyle, Lyndon, Llewellyn, Landri, Laurian, Lionç M: Major, Manny, Manuel, Marcus, Mason, Matt, Matthew, Matthias, Maverick, Maxim, Memphis, Midas, Mikko, Miles, Mitch, Mordecai, Mordred, Morgan, Macari, Maïus, Maxenci, Micolau, Miro N: Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Niall, Nico, Niels, Nik, Noah, Nolan, Niilo, Nikander, Novak, O: Oakley, Octavian, Odin, Orlando, Orrick, Ǫrvar, Othello, Otis, Otto, Ovid, Owain, Owen, Øyvind, Ozzie, Ollie, Oliver, Onni P: Paisley, Palmer, Percival, Percy, Perry, Peyton, Phelan, Phineas, Phoenix, Piers, Pierce, Porter, Presley, Preston, Pacian Q: Quinn, Quincy, Quintin R: Ragnar, Raiden, Ren, Rain, Rainier, Ramos, Ramsey, Ransom, Raul, Ray, Roy, Reagan, Redd, Reese, Rhys, Rhett, Reginald, Remiel, Remy, Ridge, Ridley, Ripley, Rigby, Riggs, Riley, River, Robert, Rocky, Rokas, Roman, Ronan, Ronin, Romeo, Rory, Ross, Ruairí, Rufus, Rusty, Ryder, Ryker, Rylan, Riku, Roni S: Sammie, Sammy, Samuel, Samson, Sanford, Sawyer, Scout, Seán, Seth, Sebastian, Seymour, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Sheldon, Shiloh, Shun, Sid, Sidney, Silas, Skip, Skipper, Skyler, Slade, Spencer, Spike, Stan, Stanford, Sterling, Stevie, Stijn, Suni, Sylvan, Sylvester T: Tab, Tad, Tanner, Tate, Tennessee, Tero, Terrance, Tevin, Thatcher, Tierno, Tino, Titus, Tobias, Tony, Torin, Trace, Trent, Trenton, Trev, Trevor, Trey, Troy, Tripp, Tristan, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Ty, Teemu U: Ulric V: Valerius, Valor, Van, Vernon, Vespasian, Vic, Victor, Vico, Vince, Vinny, Vincent W: Wade, Walker, Wallis, Wally, Walt, Wardell, Warwick, Watson, Waylon, Wayne, Wes, Wesley, Weston, Whitley, Wilder, Wiley, William, Wolfe, Wolfgang, Woody, Wulfric, Wyatt, Wynn X: Xander, Xavier Z: Zachary, Zach, Zane, Zeb, Zebediah, Zed, Zeke, Zeph, Zaccai

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Good morning and happy Wednesday, my bookish bats! You didn't think that tiny "queer books coming out this fall" guide was ALL there was, did you? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR this month. Happy reading!

❤️ A Vision of Air by Nicole Silver 🧡 Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper 💛 How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve 💚 Kween by Vichet Chum 💙 The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson 💜 The B-Side of Daniel Garneau by David Kingston Yeh ❤️ Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie 🧡 Let the Waters Roars by Geonn Cannon 💛 Into the Glittering Dark by Kelley York 💙 When the Rain Begins to Burn by A.L. Davidson 💜 Been Outside by Amber Wendler & Shaz Zamore 🌈 The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

❤️ A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert 🧡 The Spells We Cast by Jason June 💛 Pluralities by Avi Silver 💚 Salt the Water by Candice Iloh 💙 Beholder by Ryan La Sala 💜 This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi ❤️ Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell 🧡 Menewood by Nicola Griffith 💛 Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout 💚 The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey 💙 Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson 💜 Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

🌈 In the Form of a Question: the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider ❤️ Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield 🧡 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand 💛 Being Ace by Madeline Dyer 💚 Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer 💙 The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno 💜 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado ❤️ By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter 🧡 Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall 💛 Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender 💚 Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen 💙 The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

🌈 Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt ❤️ Family Meal by Bryan Washington 🧡 A Murder of Crows by Dharma Kelleher 💛 A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper 💚 Love at 350° by Lisa Peers 💙 Greasepaint by Hannah Levene 💜 The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels ❤️ Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott 🧡 Mistletoe and Mishigas by M.A. Wardell 💛 Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn 💚 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters 💙 If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

❤️ Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen 🧡 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 💛 It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer 💚 Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein 💙 These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs 💜 The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu ❤️ Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin 🧡 Mudflowers by Aley Waterman 💛 Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson 💚 Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, trans. by Eva Apelqvist 💙 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake 💜 On the Same Page by Haley Cass

❤️ A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña 🧡 Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone 💛 The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones 💚 The Sword: Xcian by Elle Arroyo 💙 The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair 💜 300,000 Kisses by Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall ❤️ Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow 🧡 Blackouts by Justin Torres 💛 Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros 💚 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy 💙 Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light edited by Michael Earp ❤️ Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine

🧡 We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe 💛 Sweat Equity Aurora Rey 💚 Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shepard 💙 The Misfit Mage & His Dashing Devil by M.N. Bennet 💜 Love and Other Risky Business by Sarah Brenton ❤️ Enough by Kimia Eslah 🧡 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard 💛 Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot 💚 Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses by Maya Prasad 💙 Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey 💜 Fox Snare by Yoon Ha Lee ❤️ Murder and Manon by Mia P. Manansala

[castlesrp]

Face Claim List

Below the cut, you will find our list of face claims featured on our canon list. Enjoy this sneak peak at what is coming your way when the canon lists start being released this week!

FC List:

Abigail Cowen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Amita Suman Amy Adams Ana de Armas André De Shields Andrew Garfield Angela Bassett Anna Kendrick Anne Hathaway Anthony Anderson Anthony Mackie Anya Chalotra Anya Taylor Joy Aja Naomi King Avan Jogia Avantika Audra McDonald Austin Butler Beanie Feldstein Ben Barnes Beyoncé BD Wong Bette Midler Caleb McLaughlin Camila Mendes Catherine O'Hara Charles Melton Chiwetel Ejiofor Chloe Bennet Chloe Bailey Christina Hendricks Christina Nadin Chrissy Metz Cody Christian Constance Wu Courtney Eaton Dakota Johnson Danai Gurira Daniel Ezra Daniel Wu Danny Trejo David Harbour Deepika Padukone Denzel Washington Dev Patel Diana Silvers Diane Keaton Dianna Agron Dove Cameron Dylan O'Brien Eddie Redmayne Eiza González Emily Alyn Lind Eva Longoria Ewan McGregor Fan Bingbing Felix Mallard Florence Pugh Froy Gutierrez Gabrielle Union Gemma Chan George Takei Gillian Anderson Gina Rodriguez Gina Torres Hailee Steinfeld Halle Bailey Harrison Ford Harry Shum JR Harry Styles Henry Cavill Hero Fiennes Tiffin Hunter Schafer Hugh Jackman Idris Elba J. Cameron-Smith Jacob Artist Jacob Elordi Jameela Jamil James McAvoy Jamie Chung Jamie Lee Curtis Jasmin Savoy Brown Jason Momoa Jason Sudekis Jean Smart Jeff Goldblum Jeffrey Wright Jenna Ortega Jensen Ackles Jesse Williams Jessica Chastain JK Simmons Joe Locke John Boyega John Cho John Krasinski Jon Hamm Jonathan Bailey Jordan Connor Jordan Peele Julianne Moore Justice Smith Kate Winslet Kathryn Hahn Kathryn Newton Keanu Reeves Keith Powers Keke Palmer Kerry Washington Kit Connor [1] Kit Connor [2] KJ Apa Kristen Bell Kumail Nanjiani Lana Condor Laura Harrier Lauren Ridloff Leonardo DiCaprio Letita Wright Lili Reinhart Liv Hewson Logan Browning Logan Lerman Loretta Devine Lupita Nyong'o Mädchen Amick Madelyn Cline Madison Bailey Mahershala Ali Manny Jacinto Manny Montana Margot Robbie Mark Consuelos Mark Hamill Mario Lopez Mason Gooding Maude Apatow Megan thee Stallion Melanie Lynskey Melissa Barrera Michael Cimino Michael Evans Behling Michael Fassbender Michael Peña Michael Shannon Michelle Yeoh Morgan Freeman Naomi Scott Natalia Dyer Natasha Liu Bordizzo Nina Dobrev Noah Centineo Normani Octavia Spencer Olivia Coleman Olivia Rodrigo Oscar Isaac Paul Rudd Pedro Pascal Phoebe Deynover Phoebe Tonkin Phylicia Rashad Priyanka Chopra Rachel Weisz Rachel Zegler Rahul Kohli Reese Witherspoon Regé-Jean Page Renee Rapp [1] Renee Rapp [2] Riz Ahmed Robert Pattinson Robert Downey JR Rome Flynn Rosamund Pike Rose Byrne Rudy Pankow Ryan Gosling Ryan Guzman Ryan Reynolds Sadie Sink Sam Claflin Samantha Logan Samara Weaving Sandra Bullock Sandra Oh Sara Ramirez Sarah Jeffrey Sarah Paulson Sebastian Stan Selena Gomez Sigourney Weaver Simu Liu Shawn Mendes Skeet Ulrich Sophia Ali Sophia Bush Sophie Turner Sonam Kapoor Sophie Thatcher Sterling K. Brown Steve Martin Steven Yeun Storm Reid Sydney Sweeney [1] Sydney Sweeney [2] Taika Waititi Tati Gabrielle Taraji P. Henson Taron Egerton Taye Diggs Taylor Zakhar Perez Ted Danson Timothée Chalamet Thomas Doherty Tom Blyth Tom Ellis Tom Hardy Tom Holland Tony Goldwyn Tyler James Williams Tyler Posey Uzo Adubo Victoria Pedretti Viola Davis Whoopi Goldberg Wolfgang Novogratz Will Smith Willem Dafoe William Jackson Harper Winona Ryder Winston Duke Yasmin Finney Zayn Malik Zendaya Zoey Deutch

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

It's time for another list: Books whose romance male leads...

• Didn't grovel/atone enough (or at all; not even the bare minimum).

• Wronged their lovers too badly. E.g., mistreated her for 20 years.

• Had shoddy redemption arcs.

• Were just too annoying.

• Quite monstrous (hi, Christopher Davenport).

• Were forgiven by their lovers too easily.

• The wronged heroine apologized instead. :/

The MMCs here will give you a deeper appreciation for non-romance novel redemption arcs. For instance, are you not a fan of Catra's redemption arc? Well, I bet you'll never complain about it again after reading these books.

The Worst Romance Heroes Ever List

1️⃣ Kiss From A Rose by Maya Alden

2️⃣ An Independent Wife by Linda Howard

3️⃣ This Heart of Mine by Brenda Novak

4️⃣ After Forever and Saving Forever by Jasinda Wilder

5️⃣ The Texas Ranger by Diana Palmer

6️⃣ Lightning by Danielle Steel

7️⃣ The Land Where Sinners Atone by V.F. Mason

8️⃣ Smokey by Sam Crescent

9️⃣ You Can Have Manhattan by P. Dangelico (I'll never get over the shitty cabin.)

🔟 The Girl in Seat 24B by Jennifer Peel

The Top 10 Most INFURIATING 💢 Ones ⬆️

☣️ Life Without You by S.P. West

☣️ Unbreak My Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn

☣ Forever Again by Shannon Stacey

☣️ The Woman He Married by Julie N. Ford

☣️ At the Spaniard's Convenience by Margaret Mayo

☣️ Jilted by Eve Vaughn

☣️ The Divorce by Nicole Strycharz

☣️ Say You Love Me by Sabre Rose

☣️ Four Years Later by Emma Doherty

☣️ The Casanova T.L. Swan

☣️ To Catch a Countess by Patricia Grasso

☣️ Love Me Still by Maya Banks

☣️ Guilty Minds by Ariana Cane

☣️ Revenge Cake by Skyler Mason

☣️ The Illusion of Us by Krista Rica Lastella

☣ Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

☣️ Love's Tender Fury by Jennifer Wilde/T.E. Huff

☣️ All That Glitters by Linda Howard

☣️ An Innocent Wife by Richa Resa

☣️ Best Served Cold by Maya Alden

☣️ Unforgivable by Joanna Chambers

☣️ Can't Let Go by A.P. Jensen

☣️ Faithless by Skyler Mason

☣️ Lemonade by Nina Pennacchi (This book's hero, Christopher, is a straight-up monster.)

[euripidesredux]

Extended credits for Museum at Tomorrow episode 5

Below the cut are all of the folks who I used (and asked to be credited) for recordings in Museum at Tomorrow episode 5- specifically, the "This is not for You" recordings.

(The list was too long for podcast episode descriptions)

These recordings were mixed into the soundscape of the show, heavily processed- so you may or may not be able to pick out your voice. Each unique recording is preserved as rhythem, timber, and shape within the episode.

Thank you for your work in creating the canvas of this piece.

Kate Bullen

K R Forsyth

Vega Jacobsen

Charlie

Rovi

Grace Gamble 

Wesley Lee Balete

Charlie Sloykowski

JC Hendry

Courtney Brothers

Arabella McDonald

Hanc Finestra

Katie H

Galacticguppy 

Beck Smith

GreenHeronHive

Micheal Vee

Mira Singer

Laurent J.L. Hall

Carley Mothersell

woaaah

cmt

November_Clouds

Elliott Neptune

Enrica Jossi

Ace

Jahan Shah 

Morgan Galagher

Niall LG

  Bates

Caroline Mincks

Daniel Kurtz

AJ Fidalgo

Tani

Shura

Zedek H

Halebop

Malia Northstar

Greg Ruddick

Solstice Hannan

Jessamy Thomison 

Cassie A.

Rachel Spokony

miss mr meow

Arti Richardson

Mattie J.

Geddy Cary-Avery,

 Ophelia Cary-Avery

Sophie Kaplan

X Speaks

Devin

Craux

Cap

Joe R

Ray Goldberg

Mog

The Marble System

Tina Case

Kate Bullen

Marionette

LD

Maddy Searle

Remi P

Meg Taylor

Beth

Evan Tess Murray

Amanda Jones

Amanda Ehrhardt

Nathan Fisentzou-Haji-Leonti

Johanna Andersson

Tess Huth

@faeriebullshit

Olivia Lion

Ange

Bridget M. Mueting

Wil Williams

Katie Utke

aceofgames

Savy Stay

Graham Rowat

Meredith

spaceacebreakface 

Molly Walsh

Belinda Parker

Erin Celovsky

liz

Caden Osojnak

Danniac 

Ray Schrader

Atlas Byrd

AJ. S.

JayseHasNoGrace

Fay Blackmore

Sharon Peterson

Katharina Abschlag 

Izzy

Ace Tayloe

kat B

Siz Hart

moth

Kathryn Cox

G. Honnigford

Pine Gonzalez

sisyphus

Essay

artie eigengrau

Rook Davis

Izzi Mata

grayson

Tamara Jones

Willow

G.F.

Leigh sharpe

Zelda MacFarland

Arkyn Wolf

Elany

Elaine Wiley

Mary Lewis-Phillipps

Claudia Elvidge

Kei Burke

Katie Vargas

Karleen Preator

Alicia Babich

Jonathan Sciance

Étoile

Hayden Laver

Barrett Vann

S Kramer

Maya Hiers-Lairson

judas

Archer Hickerson

Malinda

Nicole Liang

LF Haye

Louis Carroll

Stefanie K.

Autumn Wang 

jayvin

Badger Merriweather

Aiden

Sender Paulson

vexxervee

Rob Weiner

Peril

Lotte Schmidt 

fynn

Lor

Josie D. 

Jaryn Tyson

Common Blue Icarus

resplendeo

Claire Alpern

skelejor

Matt Weiss

M Zemlock

Kay Eileen

Callisto Holmes

Rhys

Noah Quinn

Sarah Elizabeth

Willow Belden

Amanda McCormack

Esrah Del Carlo

sunny

the Hartmans

Lee Ann Eden

Bob Proctor

Clueless

deda eliensis

Ohallo

Tara Schile

Marzi 

Flameheart Dryad

Sarah Lambrix 

JB Segal 

Ellis C

Ash

Autumn

Jaime Tamar

Haze Peers

Moose

Erin Bevan

Luci Tomich

Bryn

Michael W.

Kim Fukawa

Amy Strieter

Petra Hall

Mal

Charlie Rayshich

Susan Weiner

Everett Blackthorne

Vergess

Tor

ArionWind

M. Alti

N. B. Green

Aiden Nicholson

Jacky Rubou

Nura Lawrence

Gwen Clancy

Ollie M.

Caroline

Duo

Iris

ML Beck

Ray Makowski

Eljay Rich

MV8

Michelle Pigott

Rachel Pfennigwerth

Janika

Jamie Gump

Mason J Miller

Ella Watts

Cole

Mady Oswald

Valerie "ShinyHappyGoth" Kaplan

Anne Baird

Emily Ricotta

el-draco-bizarro

Ansel Burch

Nathan Sowell

LM Heß

Cy

Richard Peers

[psalm22-6]

The Exhibitors Herald, June 1926

The first of the deluxe presentations was at the Forrest theatre, Philadelphia, Thursday evening. The audience was composed largely of members of the Advertising Clubs of the World, which was holding an international convention in the Quaker City, and the members of the Poor Richard Club. There were also present a large turnout of society, official and judicial life of Philadelphia. The other audience, which included Mrs. Coolidge, members of the diplomatic corps and Washington newspapermen, as guests of the National Press club, viewed the picture at a special screening Friday night at Poli’s theatre in Washington. General W. W. Atterbury; Senator-elect [and notorious political boss] Wm. S. Vare; Senator [and law professor] George W. Pepper; Lieut. Commander Geo. B. Wilson, U. S. Navy [not to be confused with the character from the Great Gatsby] ; Mrs. Barclay Warburton [civil rights supporter and journalist] ; Major Norman MacLeod; E. T. Stottsbury; Paul Thompson; Alexander Van Rensselaer; Mrs. Charlemagne Tower; Dr. H. J. Tily [department story owner, mason] ; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Reath; Frank Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Jos. N. Snellenburg [merchant in clothing trade] ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Block; Mr. and Mrs. Jules E. Mastbaum [movie theater and department store magnates] ; George Nitsche [possibly an affiliate of U. Penn]; Josiah H. Penniman [Provost of U. Penn] ; J. Willis Martin [a judge]; H. S. McDevitt; John J. Monaghan. Judge Buffington, of Pittsburgh; Thos Finletter [could be one of a a number of lawyers with this name]; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Einstein; Maurice Paillard, French consul; Robt. Von Moschzisker [justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania]; Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick; Geo. H. Elliott, director of public safety; Chas. B. Hall, president of City Council; Dr. Charles Hart; Rev. Wm. H. Fineschriber; Chas Fox, district attorney [could be a coincidence but Charles Fox III and IV are both currently lawyers in Pennsylvania]; John Fisler, president Manufacturers Club [golf afficianado]; Albert M. Greenfield [real estate broker and developer]; Jos. P. Gaffney; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Gimbel [department store owner]; Daniel Gimbel [brother and co-owner along with Ellis]; J. D. Lit; Richard Gimbel [son of Ellis Gimble]; Benedict Gimbel [brother of Ellis and Daniel]; Colonel Robert Glendinning [banker]; Benjamin Golder [member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives], Agnew T. Dice [President of Reading Railroad]. Dr. Leon Elmaleh [founder of the Levantine Jews Society of Philadelphia]; H. Gilbert Cassidy [a judge]; Utley E. Crane [author of Business Law for Business Men]; Cyrus H. K. Curtis [magazine publisher]; Chas. S. Caldwell; G. W. Cole; Hampton L. Carson [lawyer, professor, state Attorney general]; A. Lincoln Acker [Philidelphia port collector]; Max Aron [lawyer]; Eugene C. Bonniwell [a judge]; Chas. L. Brown; Edward Groome; Chas. L. Bartlett; Edward Bok [editor of the Ladies Home Journal]; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lorimer [editor of the Saturday Evening Post]; Edw. Bacon; Chas. Curtis Harrison [a judge]; Samuel S. Eels, Rev. J. J. O’Hara [future Archbishop of Philadelphia], and Bishop Thos. J. Garland, D. D. [Episcopalian bishop]

There were a bunch of Universal employees in attendance too but that's less interesting to me. Let's see who went to the Washington show

Both showings were under the auspices of Ambassador Henri Beragner of France and Marcel Knecht, French publisher and trade representative. Dr. Ferdnand Heurteur, leader of the orchestra of the Paris Opera House, came to the United States to conduct the orchestras at these two showings. Among the distinguished guests at the Washington showing were: Don Juan Riano, Spanish ambassador; Senor and Senora de Mathieu, Chilan ambassador; Raoul Tilmont, secretary, Belgium embassy; G. H. Thompson, second secretary, British embassy; A. J. Pack, British embassy; Eduardo Racedo and Madame Racedo, first secretary, Argentine embassy; Conrado Traverso, Argentine embassy; Dr. and Senora Velarde, Peruvian ambassador; Dr. and Madame Santiago F. Bedoya, secretary, Peruvian embassy; Senor and Senora Tellez, Mexican ambassador; Senor and Senora Castro, secretary, Mexican embassy; Ambassador de Martino, Italy; Colonel Augusto Villa, miltary attache, Italian embassy; Count and Countess Sommati di Mombello, Italian embassy; Signor Leonardo Vitetti, Italian embassy. Baron and Baroness Ago Maltzan, German embassy; Mr. and Madame Matsuidaira, Japanese embassy; Mr. and Madame Gurgel de Amaral, Brazilian embassy; Senor and Senora de Sanchez Aballi, Cuban embassy; Senor Don Jose T. Baron, secretary, Cuban embassy; Brigadier General Georges A. L. Dumont, military attache, French embassy; Mr. Jules Henry, first secretary, French embassy; Major and Madame Georges Thenault, French embassy; Captain and Madame Willm, French embassy; Mr. A. Konow Bojsen, secretary, Danish legation; Mr. and Madame Marc Peter, Swiss ambassador; Mr. Andor de Hertelendy, Hungarian embassay; Senor and Senora Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Bolivian embassy. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Smiddy, minister, Irish Free State; Mr. and Madame Simoposilis, Minister from Greece; Mr. and Madame Prochnik, Austrian ambassador; Mr. and Madame Charles L. Seya, Latvian embassy; Mahmoud Samy Pasha and Madame Samy Pasha, Egyptian embassy; Mr. Zdenek Fierlinger, Minister from Czechoslovakia; Mr. Simeon Radeff, Bulgarian embassy; Mr. and Madame Jan Ciechanowski, Polish minister; Senor don Manuel Zavala, Nicaragua embassy, and Mr. and Madame Bostrom, Swedish ambassador.

[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

[curiousdreamerx]

𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭💕

06/06/2023

"𝐈𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐧." - 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬

In this post, I will be mentioning all of the fandoms and characters that I will be writing about:

Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

John Price

Simon “Ghost” Riley 

Johnny “Soap” MacTavish

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick 

Alejandro Vargas

König

Rodolfo "Rudy" Parra 

Kim "Horangi" Hong-jin

Philip Graves

Nikolai

Dimitri Bale

Maxim “Minotaur” Bale

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Cold War + Black Ops 2

Russell Adler 

Frank Woods 

Alex Mason 

David “Section” Mason

Jason Hudson 

Weaver 

Eleazar “Lazar” Azoulay

Perseus

Vikhor “Stitch” Kuzmin

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Thomas A. Merrick

Keegan P. Russ

Logan Walker

David “Hesh” Walker

Call of Duty: World War ll

Ronald "Red” Daniels

Robert Zussman

Frank Aiello

Drew Stiles

Joseph Turner

William Pierson

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Jack Mitchell

Gideon

Cormack

Joker

Knox

Resident Evil 4

Leon Scott Kennedy

Jack Krauser

Luis Serra

Albert Wesker 

For the time being, these are the characters and fandoms that I can write about. However, if you have any other request or suggestion, I am more than happy to oblige. Please note that I will be updating this page frequently and will be adding links to each character soon. Also, I will be attaching my AO3 (soon) and Google Forms suggestions/request and questions links below. Don’t forget that you can message me and use my page for your suggestions if you do not want to use the Google Forms. Thank you in advance!!

Suggestions/requests: https://forms.gle/Rq3hvFs2Z9W6tAE96

Questions: https://forms.gle/SrkXRCBGmoV2EHnE9

AO3: User ID: 17875237 https://archiveofourown.org/users/Curiousdreamer0984/pseuds/Curiousdreamer0984

I hope you get to enjoy my stories. I will start writing few stories and will attach their links to each character. If I don’t post/answer you as soon as possible, I apologize I advance. Uni is killing me, but I promise to start writing ASAP. Thank you for stopping by - Céline💕

[kyledefoor]

KIA August 6, 2011

SGT Alexander J. Bennett

SPC Spencer Duncan

CWO Bryan J. Nichols

CWO David R. Carter

SSG Patrick D. Hamburger

TSgt John W. Brown

SSgt Andrew W. Harvell

TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe

PO1 (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson

CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill

PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell

PO1 Jared W. Day

PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart”

CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas

CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston

Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall

MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais

CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason

CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills

CPO Nicholas H. Null

PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman

SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff

CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves

CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson

PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar

PO1 Michael J. Strange

PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson

PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn

SCPO Kraig M. Vickers

PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman

[emma-cantmakeuphermind]

Who and What I Write For!!!

If a Fandom/Character is Bolded, that means requests for them are Open. If it is not bolded, they are closed. Thank you!

Movies

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Hermione Granger

George Weasley

Fred Weasley

Cedric Diggory

Seamus Finnigan

Draco Malfoy

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin (Marauders Era)

James Potter (Marauders Era)

Sirius Black (Marauders Era)

Regulus Black (Marauders Era)

Lily Evans (Marauders Era)

Marlene McKinnon (Marauders Era)

Mary MacDonald (Marauders Era)

Fear Street

Simon Kalivoda

Kate Schmidt

Tommy Slater

Nightwing Killer

Ziggy Berman

Nick Goode

Solomon Goode

Mad Thomas

IT

Richie Tozier (young and old)

Bill Denbrough (young and old)

Stanley Uris (young and old)

Ben Hanscom (young and old)

Eddie Kaspbrak (young)

Beverly Marsh (young)

Mike Hanlon (young)

Marvel

Peter Parker (MCU)

Peter Parker (TASM)

^ frat!peter… iykyk

Steve Rogers

Bucky Barnes

Wanda Maximoff

Natasha Romanoff

Sam Wilson

Bruce Banner

Tony Stark

Scott Lang

Scream

Sidney Prescott

Billy Loomis

Stu Macher

Randy Meeks

Dewey Riley

Tatum Riley

Derek Feldman

Mickey Altieri

Roman Bridger

Kirby Reed

Charlie Walker

Tara Carpenter

Wes Hicks

Chad Martin-Meeks

Mindy Martin-Meeks

Richie Kirsch

Amber Freeman

Anika Kayoko

Ethan Landry

Back to the Future

Marty McFly

George Mcfly

The Breakfast Club

Andrew Clark

Brian Johnson

John Bender

Claire Standish

Allison Reynolds

Stand By Me

Teddy Duchamp

Chris Chambers

Dead Poets Society

Neil Perry

Charlie Dalton

Todd Anderson

Knox Overstreet

Steven Meeks

Gerard Pitts

Richard Cameron

Chris Noel

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Bill Preston Esquire

Ted Logan

Billy The Kid

The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark

Finnick Odair

Johanna Mason

Cato

Marvel

TV Shows

The Walking Dead

Rick Grimes

Daryl Dixon

Carl Grimes

Glenn Rhee

Alden

Negan Smith

Rosita Espinosa

Tara Chambler

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Mike Wheeler

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Max Mayfield

Robin Buckley

Jonathan Byers

Billy Hargrove

Ginny and Georgia

Marcus Baker

Abby Littman

Hunter Chen

Shameless

Lip Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Kevin

V

Svetlana

Jimmy

Video Games

Bully

Jimmy Hopkins

Gary Smith

Petey Kowalski

The Last of Us

Joel Miller

Ellie Williams

Abby Anderson

Jesse

Dina

Red Dead Redemption

Arthur Morgan

John Marston

Durch van der Linde (1899)

Jack Marston (1911 and 1914)

Sean Macguire

Karen Jones

Charles Smith

Javier Escuella

Detroit: Become Human

Connor

Markus

Simon/Daniel/PL600

Rupert/WB200

Life Is Strange

Chloe Price (specifically BTS)

Nathan Prescott

Warren Graham

Sean Diaz

Daniel Diaz (older obvi)

Steph Gingrich

Ryan Lucan

Hogwarts Legacy

Sebastian Sallow

Ominis Gaunt

Gareth Weasley

Leander Prewett

TellTale’s The Walking Dead

Kenny

Clementine

Luke

Javier

Gabe

Mitch

Louis

Marlon

James

Other

Miscellaneous 80s Characters

Edgar Frog

Allen Frog

Sam Emerson

Johnny Cade

Ponyboy Curtis

Sodapop Curtis

Dally Winston

Ferris Bueller

Egon Spengler

Peter Venkman

Alex P. Keaton

Miscellaneous Non-80s Characters

Harley Quinn

Peter Kavinsky

Donnie Darko

Detective David Loki

Homer Hickam

Beck Oliver

Jade West

Rodrick Heffley

[elementalgod-aj]

Anthro Allies Remastered (Part 10)

Now the Third and Final Part of the Arthropods

Endoterygota

Emorrossa (Insect Queen)

Lord Hexagath (Insect King)

Sawfly

Buzza (Sawfly)

Team 

Stem sawfly

Horntail

Cedar wood wasp

Webbed Leaf

Xyelid

Megalodontes

Parasitic Wasps

Crimson the Abominable (Thistledown velvet ant)

The Hoard

P. Wood wasp 

Sirex Woodwasp

Ichneumon Wasp 

Gall wasp

Chalcid Wasp

Fairy wasp

Ensign Wasp

Crowned Wasp

Cuckoo wasp (Emerald wasp)

Velvet Ant (Cow killer)

Spider Wasp (Tarantula Hawk)

Tiphiid wasp

Scoliid wasp 

Mammoth Wasp

Cockroach wasp (Jewel Wasp)

Sand digger wasp

Cicada Killers

Ant hunter wasp

Bee wolf 

Aphid wasp

Eusocial Wasp

Queen Assaut

King Vespa

Prince Axe

Princess Strike

Warriors

Hornets

Yellow jackets

European wasps

Paper Wasps

Executioner wasps

Warrior wasps

Potter wasps

Hover wasps

Pollen wasps

Honey Wasp

Ants

Queen Amber

King Ore 

Prince Beryl

Princess Siafu

Special Forces

Acrobat Ant, Dracula Ant, Exploding Ant, Mafia Ant, Shining Guest Ant, Sugar Ant

Colony

Black Ants (Garden worker), Red Ants (forager worker)

Argentine Ants (Warrior), Erratic Ants (sun workers), Needle Ant (Warrior), Ghost Ant (Scout), Stink Ants (aphid and caterpillar farmer), cone ant (pest control)

Eciton Ants (Generals/Tanks), Driver Ants (Army)

Trap Jaw Ants (Trappers), Dinosaur Ants (Moon Worshippers)

Diving Ant (Swimmer), Honey Pot Ants (Food dealers), Crazy Ants (Wild cards), Amazon Ants (Raider), Carpenter Ants (Builders), Tree Ants (Warriors), Hodor Ant (Bouncer),  Giant forest ants (gladiators)

Leaf Cutter Ants (Builders), Weaver Ants (handmaidens and caretakers), Lemon Ants (mushroom growers), Pharaoh Ants (communication), Harvester Ants (harvesters), Pirate Ants (rogues), Raider Ants (raider), Electric ants (warriors), Fire Ants (Warriors), Big headed ants (Guard)

Bees

Queen Apidae

King Apo

Prince Kyle

Princess Pollen

Bee Hive

Dwarf/Asian Honey bee, Giant/European Honey Bee, Dog Bee, Sugar Bag bee (Honey makers), Carpenter bee (Builders), Bumblebee (Nectar collector),  orchid bee (Flower manager), Sweat Bee (workers), Long horned Bees (Workers), Digger Bees (nest builders), Mining Bees (Mining and Excavation)

Plasterer bee (builder), Polyester bee (cloth maker)

Carder bee (Collectors), Leafcutter bee( (Weaver), Mason bee (molder), Wallace giant Bee (blacksmith)

Pantaloon Bee (Guards)

Australian Bee (soldiers)

Daniel and Lyon (lacewing & antlion)

Xan (Snakefly)

Zip(Alderfly)

Grounder (Ground beetles)

Live wire (Telephone pole beetle)

Knock Knock (Deathwatch beetle)

Lucky (Ladybug)

Lumi-Nate (Firefly)

Adorn (Jewel beetle)

IronShell/Ira (Horned Scarab beetle)

Horns (Stag Beetle)

George Schmutz (Dung beetle)

Red Rover (Rove beetle)

Ballin (Boll weevil)

Waxer (Giraffe Weevil)

Twist (Stylops)

Twiddle (Stylops)

Harleigh (Butterfly/Moth)

Eugene (Monarch Butterfly)

Genevieve (Silk Moth)

Cassidy (Caddisfly)

Bethany (House/Horse Fly)

Pesky (Gnat/Midge) 

Zika (Mosquito)

Rome (Hover/Robber/Crane fly)

Sting (Scorpionflies)

Ichor (Fleas)

Previous/Next

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[rachelkaser]

Masonry Monday: The Case of the Substitute Face

A former bank employee quits his job and takes his wife and daughter on a cruise. His wife consults fellow passenger Perry Mason about the suspicious amount of money he has on him, only to become the prime suspect (and her daughter the star witness) when her husband is apparently pushed overboard.

Who’s Who

Perry Mason’s client: Anna Houser, a housewife who believes her husband got involved in something shady -- and she’s more right than she knows

The victim: Carl Houser, a bank employee with an unexplained influx of cash who doesn’t appear to be making any future plans involving his family

Suspects: Laura Houser, Carl and Anna’s teenage daughter, who’s caught in the middle when her mother is accused of her father’s murder Roland Carter, the Housers’ shipboard neighbor, who spends most of the trip half in the bag, but sees more than anyone realizes Daniel James, Carter’s beleaguered secretary, who’s not as eager as his employer to get involved in shipboard shenanigans Evelyn Whiting, a nurse onboard the ship who tends to a wheelchair-bound passenger with a face covered in bandages Roger P. Cartman, Evelyn’s patient, who apparently broke his neck and can’t speak or move at all Morgan Shreves, a gambling don almost convicted of tax evasion in Chicago, who mysteriously got off when a juror flipped

The Setup

It’s midday at the State National Saving and Loan, and bank president Andrew Dale asks his best bookkeeper, Carl Houser, if he can talk him out of quitting. Houser thanks Dale for his consideration, but says he needs rest time and plans to take his wife and daughter on a cruise. Dale shakes his hand and sends him off. Houser goes into a storeroom and, after a secretary leaves, locks the door and retrieves an envelope with several stacks of cash in it. He quickly stuffs the cash in a money belt concealed under his shirt.

Later, aboard the cruise ship Westminster, Perry Mason and Della Street are returning from a case in British Columbia in style, enjoying the breeze on deck. Della greets a young woman who’s staying in the cabin next to hers: Laura Houser, who also introduces her parents, Carl and Anna Houser. Laura goes to a date, while Carl and Anna invite Perry and Della to join them for drinks shortly. After they go, Della also greets nurse Evelyn Whiting, who is passing by with her patient, a wheelchair-bound, bandage-covered man with a broken neck. Perry signs an autograph for Evelyn’s nephew. Later, in the ship’s lounge, Anna Houser introduces Perry and Della to Roland Carter, her jolly shipboard neighbor. Carter also introduces his secretary, the sedate Mr. James.

Shortly after, Anna approaches Perry and Della, much less cheerful than before, and asks if she can speak with them. Before she can, however, all three notice Carl giving her a stern glare from the other side of the room, and Anna says she’ll speak with them later, in private. Sometime later, Perry and Della meet Anna in the Houser’s cabin, where she shows them Carl’s keepsake picture of her and Laura in a frame next to his bed. Perry asks why she’s distressed. She says that Carl has stolen a lot of money -- $100,000, to be exact.

Perry asks if she’s sure. Anna says that Carl claimed to have won the money in a sweepstakes, but his name wasn’t announced in any of the papers. She can’t think of another explanation for his having it, and explains Carl’s previous job. He worked at State National in Los Angeles for a year, ever since their family moved from Chicago. She also shows them a gun that Carl bought for protection, adding that he’s carrying all the money on him in a belt. She wants him to return the money to State National in the hopes they won’t charge him.

Perry asks how much of the money is left: Over $90,000, says Anna. Perry says he’s not just going to assume Carl embezzled the money and wants to hear his side, but Anna says he won’t talk to the lawyer. Perry says he’ll investigate and will send word to the Drake Detective Agency. If Carl has embezzled the money, they’ll have to make restitution to the bank and Anna will have to give the remaining money to Perry. In Los Angeles the next morning, Drake speaks with State National’s president, Andrew Dale, about Houser. An accountant enters and says there’s nothing wrong with Houser’s books -- they’re balanced to the penny.

The Murder

That night, the Westminster is rocking in a storm, icy rain pouring down. Perry spots Anna and Carl having an argument in a passageway, and Carl asks his wife to come with him out on the deck. Carter and James ask Perry to go for a drink, and dissuade him from his proposal to go on deck by saying he could get washed overboard. He agrees and they head to the bar. As Perry’s explaining to a tipsy Carter that he doesn’t only deal in murders, a loud horn sounds and ship Captain Walters says over the loudspeaker that a man has been reported overboard and the ship is stopping to investigate.

Everyone is ordered to their staterooms so that the ship’s staff can take a roll call, and Perry rushes to the Houser cabin. On the way, he passes Laura Houser coming in off the deck. Anna is in the cabin and shrieks when Perry tells her someone’s been reported overboard. Perry notices that the beloved picture of Anna and Laura on the table has been substituted with a picture of Carl. Anna is baffled. The captain arrives with the ship’s purser and tells Anna that her husband might be the man washed overboard. He also asks Anna to identify a revolver -- it’s her husband’s.

As Anna is sobbing, the captain asks to see the black dress Anna was wearing at dinner -- she’s in a nightdress now. Perry tries to intervene, but the Captain says he’s the law aboard the ship and must ensure his passengers’ safety. When Anna refuses to show him the dress, Cpt. Walters enters the passageway and asks Carter and James, who are just returning to their stateroom, to act as witnesses. He asks the purser to search for the dress, and Perry can’t stop them, but he asks the captain to get to the point. The purser finds the dress, soaked, in the shower, along with the money belt. The captain asks for James and Carter to observe the purser’s count of the money: It’s $91,500.

As they’ve docked in Los Angeles, Carter and James bid farewell to Mason, while Della checks up on Laura. The shellshocked girl doesn’t want to go back home under the circumstances, so they volunteer to get her a hotel room. After she leaves, Perry says he’s curious about who could have reported a man overboard last night. Evelyn Whiting passes by with her patient, who’s still covered in bandages. Later, Perry visits Anna at the jail and asks her to tell him everything. She says Carl asked her to go out on deck so they could be alone, where he gave her his money belt. He was upset, so Anna followed him up to the boat deck and tried to speak to him. He got angry, told her to leave and kissed her.

Anna’s convinced that he committed suicide out of guilt for stealing the money, but Perry says there’s no discrepancy on the bank’s books. Perry asks why the family moved from Chicago. Anna says Carl served on a jury the previous winter, where he believed the defendant was innocent. At the time, there’d been a big blizzard, and Carl wanted to live in a warmer climate. Perry proposes that Carl might still be alive, but Anna doesn’t know why he’d fake his death. Perry says there was no reason to substitute the picture -- unless Laura took it. She asks Perry to arrange for her to see Laura.

Back in Perry’s office, Della has bad news: Laura never checked in at the hotel they arranged for her and no one knows where she is. The phone rings: It’s Hamilton Burger. After some awkward small talk, Burger asks Perry if he’d be wiling to take a deposition, as the captain and purser of the Westminster are on a tight schedule and need to leave town. Perry refuses, saying Anna has the right to face her accusers, and Burger says he’ll move the preliminary hearing up the calendar so they can rejoin their ship later. Perry urges Paul to find Laura.

The Investigation

In court, Mason requests to approach the bench. He tries to argue the court has no jurisdiction over the case, but Burger says the Westminster was in California’s territorial waters. Burger calls the purser, Frank Buchanan, to the stand. Buchanan testifies about his discovery of the dress and Carter and James’s attendance. He also testifies about the money belt and its contents. On cross, Mason asks the purser when he last saw Houser alive. It was at dinner -- Buchanan didn’t speak to Carl, but he gave him a note from Evelyn Whiting. Perry tells Della to get Paul to check on Evelyn.

Later, Perry and Paul arrive at an empty cabin. Evelyn’s address on the ship’s book was phony, but her ride brought her to this cabin. They get closer to take a look. The wheelchair is inside, visible through the window. The house is owned by Morgan Shreves, a name that tickles Perry’s memory: Shreves was a big name in the Chicago gambling scene who was almost convicted in a tax evasion bust, only to get off. Perry says he wants to enter the cabin -- Paul protests that’s a felony, but Perry says it would only be a felony if he planned to do something unlawful. He only wants to leave his fingerprints, which is still a misdemeanor.

That night, Paul makes an anonymous call to Burger’s office and tells him that Evelyn Whiting and her patient saw the murder. He also gives him the address of the cabin and says Perry Mason found them there. Burger assumes Mason bribed them to go, and Paul doesn’t disillusion him of that notion, telling him to check for Mason’s fingerprints. After hanging up. Paul asks what Perry’s game is -- Perry says that they need the police looking for Evelyn, as they can find her faster than anyone. He also hopes it’ll keep them from discovering that Laura’s disappeared, as Perry wants Paul to find her.

The Trial

Back in court, there’s still no word about Laura. Mason again asks to approach the bench. He says the prosecution hasn’t produced sufficient evidence to prove that a murder has been committed -- not only is there no body, there’s no evidence of a body. Burger says he’ll produce just such necessary evidence with his next witness: He calls Laura Houser to the stand. Mason, Drake, and Anna are all shocked. Laura enters the court and briefly makes eye contact with her mother before taking the stand.

Mason is furious, saying that the prosecution concealed Laura from the defense. Burger says sotto voce to Mason that they didn’t know where Laura was either -- they only picked her up an hour ago getting off a flight from San Francisco. Burger proceeds with Laura’s testimony. On the night in question, she was on the A-deck, which is right below the boat deck. She said she wanted time alone to think. He asks her if her parents quarreled, and she says yes, over money. Laura was alone on the A-deck, but she heard what she thought was a gunshot above on the boat deck.

Laura says she went to the rail and looked up. She protests it was hard to see in the rain and wind, but she saw a man hanging from the rail of the boat deck. There was a woman with him. Burger asks if it was Anna, and Laura says she only saw the woman’s arms and back. Laura saw two bracelets on her left arm, just like her mother was wearing. The next thing Laura saw was the man go over the rail and fall past her into the sea. She called the operator from A-deck and reported a man overboard. She checked the boat deck and didn’t see anyone, then returned to her stateroom. Burger clarifies -- she told the operator she saw a man pushed overboard.

On cross, Mason gently asks where Laura went after leaving the boat. She went to San Francisco to get away, because she didn’t want to testify. He suggests that her father is still alive -- the judge is curious, but Burger doesn’t object. Mason asks if she saw her parents leave the dining room for the decks -- she did. He pushes that, because the decks were deserted, she assumed that the man and woman on the deck above were her parents. He asks about her words to the operator -- she said she saw a man go overboard, but didn’t identify him as her father. He suggests that she only concluded it was her father after the event, not during. And if he hadn’t been her father, then there’s nothing to suggest the woman on the deck was her mother.

Laura starts sobbing, realizing that her identification of her mother and father was just jumping to conclusions after the fact. Mason concludes his cross-examination. Burger, however, doesn’t appear at all disturbed at his star witness’s flip. He tells the court that he hasn’t objected because he didn’t want to interfere with Mason’s inference that Houser is still alive. Now Burger’s prepared to furnish proof of death: The body of Carl Houser has been found. Anna screams and falls into Mason’s arms.

The Investigation, Part Two

Paul arrives with the skinny from the autopsy: Houser’s body was found about a mile offshore. He was killed by a gunshot, but the fatal bullet was not from the gun found aboard ship. Also, Carl Houser was one of the members of the jury that got Morgan Shreves acquitted of tax evasion in Chicago. Della proposes that Carl could have gotten the $100k from Shreves bribing him. Paul asks how Perry thinks Evelyn fits in -- he says Shreves could have been her mysterious, bandaged patient. Perry says Paul’s forgetting one thing, but won’t say what that thing is.

Back in court, Burger says he knows of two other eyewitnesses, and wishes to have them testify. He found a lead on one, but the other has disappeared, and he believes Perry Mason is responsible. Mason repudiates the charges, and Burger admits he can’t substantiate them. He puts forward a motion for a 48-hour continuance, and Mason argues he should hear the evidence for the motion and be allowed to argue against it. Burger calls criminologist Christopher Walsh to the stand.

Walsh testifies taking fingerprints at the abandoned house after the DA’s office received a tip. In the house, he found the prints of Evelyn Whiting, a set of prints on the wheelchair presumed to be Roger Cartman’s, house owner Morgan Shreves’ prints, and sets belonging to Perry Mason and Paul Drake. Burger submits the prints into evidence. On cross, Mason asks how many people Walsh has fingerprinted -- Walsh says thousands. Who was the last one? Carl Houser, at the morgue. Mason picks up the fingerprints in evidence and asks for a copy of Houser’s fingerprints. He asks Walsh to identify them, but stops when he notes Walsh is going off of the names on the photographs of the prints.

Walsh says he could identify them without the names, but it would take him a few moments and a magnifying glass. Mason asks that he do so and folds the names down. Walsh produces a small glass and looks the prints over. Two sets of prints are identical -- they’re both Cartman’s, he testifies. Mason has him mark the identical prints so there can be no mistake. Then he drops the bomb: Walsh identified Carl Houser’s prints as Cartman’s. Mason contends that Houser left his prints in the house a full day after his alleged murder. Burger asks for a recess, but Mason says there’s one more witness he’d like to examine before he lets anyone leave the court . . .

In Summation

Twisty-turny Perry Mason cases are my favorite kind, and this is one of the twistier ones I’ve seen so far this season. We start with an apparently mild-mannered accountant having an amount of money he really shouldn’t have, and by the end of the episode we’ve involved a Chicago crime lord, a faked death, and a very elaborate case of mistaken identity. And one small clue everyone else overlooks is the key to Mason’s unraveling of the whole case.

This is one of those cases where, if you’re familiar with due process of law, you’d probably be tempted to call out the explosiveness of the finale, in which the guilty party shouts out from the gallery. And there are certainly Perry Mason episodes where that’s warranted, but in this one, I actually appreciate better how it unfolds. Perry cross-examines the last witness, and slowly coaxes them through (admittedly somewhat leading) questions into a damning admission, and the whole court is more stunned by it than anything. There’s even a shot of the judge staring sternly at the witness when they look to him to interrupt.

Also, the truth of the matter is that this big finale was not necessary in-universe, either. Mason actually uses evidence to prove his client’s innocence: Namely, the fingerprints that the bonafide expert identifies as belonging to Carl Houser, and which only could have been left after the time he was supposedly murdered. The bullet that killed him also didn’t come from the only gun to which Anna had access. The judge appears to be on the verge of dismissing the case or at least giving Burger a continuance to evaluate the new information. Perry just needles out the confession to prove Anna’s innocence beyond a reasonable doubt -- not the first or last time he’s used this tactic.

I don’t think Houser faking his death is a spoiler for this episode, given the dubious circumstances under which it happens, but I’m not going to spoil how exactly it happens. The main reason I want to talk about that is because I want to talk about the One Small Clue point -- and this might one of the only chances I get to do it in this series without spoiling the ending of the case. Because the One Small Clue in this case reveals that Houser faked his death: The picture of Laura and Anna that’s swapped out in their stateroom.

As Perry points out at the very end of the episode, this was the point that had him so convinced that Houser wasn’t simply flung off the side of the ship. No one but Houser had any reason to take the picture -- except possibly Laura, but she’d be more likely to keep a picture of her father than one of herself and her mother -- and even then he’d only take it if he believed he wasn’t going to see his wife and daughter again. So from this Perry concluded that he was likely alive but couldn’t return to them … in other words, he’d faked his overboard suicide.

Though speaking of the suicide, I’m baffled by how haphazardly it was pulled off. It’s staged in an area and at a time when it was least likely to be witnessed by a third party, and yet in such a way that they plainly wanted there to be such a person. I find the same holes in the prosecution’s case, because as Mason points out, there was no evidence of corpus delicti until Laura Houser testified, and the police only detained her an hour before she appeared on the stand. That means the prosecution went to the preliminary hearing with next-to-no evidence that a crime had been committed at all. I find that very sloppy of Mr. Burger.

Actually, that makes me think: Why did they figure Anna for the murderer? Her dress was wet, yes, but all that proves is that she was on the deck when it rained -- she could have been out there all of two minutes, for all they know. And no one in the episode suggests a solid motive, as Anna and her husband appear to be happily married and she had almost as much access to his money when he was alive as she does when he’s dead. Again, it’s Laura’s testimony that puts her mother at the scene and the police don’t even find her until well into the trial.

I don’t know if I’ve properly articulated it in this recap, but Anna Houser’s defining characteristic among Perry Mason clients appears to be histrionics. She’s nervy and prone to shrieking when she’s taken by surprise. Not that I can blame her given the amount of stress she’s under, but part of me wonders: If she can believe the worst of her husband, thinking he’d steal from his own employers (which can be easily traced) to the point of approaching a well-known lawyer with her suspicions, then why doesn’t she seem to suspect that Carl, the one holdout juror on the trial of a notorious gambling don, might have been bribed?

By the way, this episode produces one inference I found interesting: Perry and Della are returning via ship from a case in British Columbia (which was evidently not a murder). That means that Perry Mason is licensed to practice law in Canada. Raymond Burr himself was from British Columbia, so perhaps he’s the one who suggested that as the point of departure -- in the original Gardner novel, Perry and Della are actually sailing back from Japan. A Canadian trip would explain how Carl Houser managed to spend almost $10,000 of his money before his faked death.

The Verdict

Judgement: ⚖⚖⚖ (three scales out of four) A seemingly innocuous case of a middle-class person mysteriously having a lot of money takes several turns before we get to the end, all of them entertaining. The holes in the prosecutions case do knock off a few points, though the One Small Clue that exposes the truth is always a fun trope.

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