#E. Mason Hopper

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Anita Louise "Square shoulders" 1929, de E. Mason Hopper.

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Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer in Their Own Desire (E. Mason Hopper, 1929)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Helene Millard, Cecil Cunningham, Henry Herbert, Mary Doran, June Nash. Screenplay: Frances Marion, based on a novel by Sarita Fuller. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Harry Reynolds. Music: William Axt.

Their Own Desire was Norma Shearer's third talkie, but she still hasn't found her voice, sounding a bit thin with a rather shrill laugh. Her brother, Douglas Shearer, the head of MGM's sound department, may have helped her get the right pitch, because her next film, The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard, 1930), won her the best actress Oscar. (In fact, the Oscar ballot listed her nomination as for both The Divorcee and Their Own Desire, but the official citation showed her as a winner for only the former. Academy record-keeping was primitive at the time, so no one today knows if the voters indicated a preference for the one film over the other -- as they should have, since her performance in The Divorcee is indeed the better one.) In Their Own Desire, Shearer is a post-flapper "new woman," lively and athletic: She plays polo, taking a spill from a horse with no ill effects, and gets the attention of men by doing high dives into the country club pool. The man she attracts is played by Robert Montgomery, who was two years younger than 27-year-old Shearer, and both are convincingly coltish in their infatuation. The plot, from a novel by Sarita Fuller adapted by Frances Marion, is pleasantly nonsensical: Shearer and Montgomery fall in love, not knowing that he is the son of the woman (Helene Millard) whom her father (Lewis Stone) has divorced her mother (Belle Bennett) to live with. It's complicated, as they say. The movie was made, obviously, before the Production Code put an end to such goings-on. MGM made the most of its entry into sound, including two musical numbers: the songs "Blue Is the Night," played during a dance at the country club, and "The Boyfriend Blues," sung to Shearer by a harmonizing quartet. Director E. Mason Hopper had been making movies since 1911, but he retired from the business in 1935, leaving an oeuvre of no particular distinction though he lived on till 1967.

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Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix in The Glorious Fool (1922, E. Mason Hopper)

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See, this is why I keep trying different ways to market my books. This attitude. And it's why my marketing is still all over the place.

Because one of my books is a cutesy one for little kids & for parents to approve of. It's about a baby dragon and found family. It's about finding where you belong and making mistakes along the way, and it's about self-acceptance and self-love. It's about recognising the beauty in being different and realising that actually, looking the same as those around you doesn't necessarily mean you belong with them. Maybe you belong in the place where nobody looks the same as you, but they treat you as their equal, because they don't give a flying fuck if you're a dragon who hops like a bird and flies like a bat and barks like a racoon and headbutts trees like a deer and fishes like a bear and sticks your tongue out like a snake, because that's all you and they love you for you. It's about accepting yourself and your quirks. Yes, it's aimed at queer families and queer kids, and yes, it's aimed at trans kids and trans families. Yes, it's based on how I acted out when I was questioning my gender & denying who I was. Yes it's a paralel of my own experiences because they're the most honest part of myself that I know are the most human experiences a person can have and yes, the best way I know to get that across to kids and families is by dressing it up as a dragon that's abandoned then adopted by a whole forest of queer animals.

But if I say all of that??? Hah. No chance - people scroll past with an eye roll, or they think that's too complicated for a child to understand and turn their nose up at it.

So what do I have to say instead?

"Hey, wanna read a cute story about a little dragon who has always thought he's the only dragon in the whole world, before learning there's a whole land of other dragons and soon learns the value of family and friends when he has to make a very big decision?"

Does it cheapen it? Yes. Does it make me sound like a sales assistant selling reduced sale items that are about to go out of season? Yes.

Does it work? Also yes. Because unless it is about something they are interested in, people do not give attention to long-ass posts.

Meanwhile, my other book is for older teens and adults who read YA, and it's about 2 socialites, 1 with a very public drug addiction & 1 with a future waiting on a silver platter for him to scoop up if he follows in his strict Catholic father's footsteps. It has graphic drug use and implied gay sex scenes & referenced past sex scenes and dozens of sex references. It has pages upon pages of swearing and cussing and anxiety spirals and did I mention the drugs? It's not full of eloquent prose, because one main protagonist spends 95% of his on-page time off his face or in withdrawal, surrounded by other addicts, and the other protagonist is having a crisis over questioning his faith and his sexuality which he's been feeling guilty about for years. And sometimes writing isn't about being eloquent and graceful and poetic; sometimes it's about portraying a character as accurately as possible, and when that character is in his early 20's with everything in his world getting turned on its head while he's off his, that means writing 20 variations of the word fuck across a 250 word spread with different intonation each time.

"But what's it really about?"

It's a book about being newly 20-something and being thrown into the world of adulthood with 0 training, because schools do not teach you how to adult & social media worships youth and surface-level naivity and beauty over information and morals. It's about not knowing shit about anything other than everything you know you don't know shit about, while society rolls its eyes and looks down its nose at you for not magically knowing everything they learned from literal decades of life experience and mistakes that you haven't had the privilege of making yet. It's about love and friendship and toxic patterns and toxic relationships and breaking the cycle of abuse. It's about discovering and exploring yourself. It's about rediscovering the world around you. It's about reevaluating your entire fucking life and values and questioning beliefs you've held your whole life because they're the ones your parents raised you with and it's about separating your own identity from the 2D version of you that your parents and friends expect you to be, and the fact all of that is beyond terrifying.

But if I say that? Nobody cares. Or if they do, it's to say its too much.

So instead, what do I say?

"Hey, wanna read a YA romance book about gay guys meeting at a rave & falling head over heels for each other, having 1 date in a cemetery and practically getting engaged after knowing each other for 3 days?"

"Hey, hey, hey, wanna read a modern, gay version of Romeo and Juliet, with a twist ending?"

Because that is what will make people click to buy the book.

But you know what else sells books? Fandoms.

Anyone who's studied marketing will tell you that the best, most effective way to sell something is to have a community force driving it. In the world of books, that community is fandoms.

It's tumblr goblins and trash pandas and trash puppies and possums. It's people whose one fear is you seeing what's in their doc files. It's people who hyperfixate on a comfort character. It's people who kin. It's people who celebrate fictional characters' birthdays. It's people who dress up as their favourite character for Halloween or cosplay, even if nobody else will get the reference. It's people who, when you ask them what their favourite book is about, break into a soul-deep cold sweat & laugh nervously because they can't describe the plot without either incriminating themselves, exposing something deeply personal or sounding like an absolute whackadoodle.

It's fandoms and stans and everyone you call cringe.

The books that do best are the ones with characters who have been adopted by fandoms. Those are the books that have people writing soliloquy after soliloquy about tiny, miniscule plot details. Those are the books that spread like wildflowers to new readers and gain a life of their own. Those are the books that get more and more traction. Those are the books that get good ratings. Those are the books that are more than a book; they're stories.

Word of mouth used to be enough. Advertising in newspapers and magazines used to be enough. Advertising on TV used to be enough. A poster or banner used to be enough. Simply being placed on a shelf in a bookstore used to be enough. But it's the 21st cursed century, and nobody uses bookstores, and nobody talks to each other anymore.

So yeah, I'll make memes about my books & characters. I'll make my own art and podt it online with tagsyou think are cringey. I'll tag my stuff with fandom-esque etiquette. Because I know - from a life of growing up online and of growing up in those fandom spaces - that the authors who have the comfiest thrones are the ones presiding over fandoms of trash puppies burning garbage in a scrapyard while howling and hissing in 7.5 dialects of trashyard all at once. It's the authors who created characters which people adopted as their blorbos and meow-meows.

So yes, I will market my books as if the characters in them are already blorbos and precious little meow-meows. Because I know I need people to adopt them as exactly that - and for others to see them as problematic faves and soft boys and wet boys and sad boys and babygirls - for my books to do well enough for me to be able to live on those earnings.

Because I don't get paid by the hour, or per word. I don't get paid a set price for every 10k words I write and edit, and I don't get paid per creation. I get paid a percentage per book sold.

And the best way to ensure books sell is to have a community talking about them online across multiple social media platforms.

If that means I have to drag my own blanket and snacks up onto the roof of a car in this scrapyard and throw a Molotov cocktail into a trash can by myself and wait for someone to come over, wondering what the light and smoke is for, then so be it. Because that is what makes people care about a character or a book enough to bother reading posts about them for long enough to get to the author's link. That is what makes people give a rats ass about anything an author creates.

If you you really hate the way authors have to market our books these days, do us a favour and do it for us, because each time our marketing gets complained about, we lose potential buyers.

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Before you bitch about how authors are marketing their books, do this one thing:

Shut the fuck up unless you are volunteering to do all the labor required to market a book, because it's really fucking hard, people don't pay attention to posts about original content 90% of the fucking time, and giving a short, pithy teaser is how book marketing fucking works. Click the links and read the full book description if you want to know more.

Seriously, shut the fuck up.

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Minecraft Inspired ID Pack

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Names

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Alex, Amber, Amethyst, Ash, Azalea, Blaze, Block, Brick, Briar, Brielle, Brook, Carver, Celeste, Clay, Cobble, Cree, Crystal, Daisy, Dawn, Dusty, Ember, End, Eve, Flora, Flint, Forge, Garnet, Gemma, Granite, Grayson, Harper, Hazel, Holly, Hopper, Iris, Ivy, Jade, Jett, Juniper, Lapis, Laurel, Lilac, Lily, Maple, Marigold, Mason, Meadow, Miner, Mira, Moss, Nova, Oak, Onyx, Opal, Pearl, Pebble, Poppy, Pyre, Quill, Reed, Red, River, Rocky, Rose, Rowan, Ruby, Sage, Sable, Sapphire, Selene, Shale, Sky, Skylar, Slate, Smith, Spruce, Steele, Stella, Stone, Sunny, Terra, Thalia, Timber, Torch, Violet, Wade, Willow

Pronouns

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A / Ax / Axe; Bla / Blaz / Blaze; Blo / Block / Blocks; Build / Build / Builds; Cob / Cobble / Cobbles; Cra / Craf / Craft; Cra / Craf / Craft; Cree / Creep / Creeper; Dig / Dig / Digs; E / En / End; Flint / Flint / Flints; Fo / For / Forge; Mi / Mine / Mines; Pi / Pick / Picks [Pickaxe]; Red / Stone / Redstones; Sap / Sapling / Saplings; Shea / Shear / Shears; Sho / Shovel / Shovels; Sme / Smelt / Smelts; Sta / Stack / Stacks; Sto / Stone / Stones; Tor / Torch / Torches; Wo / Wood / Woods

Titles

[PT: Titles].

Builder of Worlds; Crafter of Blocks; Master of the Mines; The Blocksmith; The Brave Explorer; The Collector of Resources; The Creator of Realms; The Defender of the Village; The Ender of Mobs; The Master of the Redstone; The Master Miner; The Pixel Pioneer; The Resource Gatherer; The Survival Expert; [Pronoun] Who Crafts with Precision; [Pronoun] Who Delves Deep; [Pronoun] Who Faces the Nether; [Pronoun] Who Mines and Builds; [Pronoun] Who Shapes the World

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Requested by @rwuffles on Discord!

Also tagging: @pronoun-arc @id-pack-archive

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Marie Prevost in Up in Mabel’s Room (1926) Dir. E. Mason Hopper

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Franklin Pangborn and Marie Prevost in GETTING GERTIE’S GARTER (1927). Director E. Mason Hopper

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i know it's easy to be cynical about Cats (and most people agree ALW is like. an awful person), but I saw this re-staging of the show a couple of weeks ago and loved it so much i cried:

Levingston and Rauch’s melding of “Cats” and the queer ballroom scene is so effortless that it seems to have required only the slightest alterations. The synthesizer groove has been juiced up with some new club beats by Trevor Holder, the directors have added a plotlet about the naughty thief Macavity (Antwayn Hopper) getting rumbled by the cops, and the entire number “Growltiger’s Last Stand,” in which the titular tom hates “cats of foreign name and race,” has been tastefully deleted. The true difference, though, lies in the piece’s shift from commercialized kitsch to camp sincerity. The performers here—among them the magnificent dancer Robert (Silk) Mason as Mistoffelees, with Cher hair swinging long, and the ultra-charismatic Hopper as Macavity, who can control the room just by dropping his hat—appear to be dancing for the love of it, and for one another. As the show goes on, a more mysterious literary synchrony emerges: how wonderful that Eliot, in 1939, placed such an emphasis on the power of names known only to those who understand you, and on a thriving community’s reverence for its elders.

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hello, friends!��here is a collection of some of my favorite faces. i'll update this list as i come into contact with faces that i've been introduced to and want to interact with. please keep in mind that this list is just what comes to mind, i love new faces so feel free to suggest new ones to me !#happyroleplaying

ACTORS

a-e

aaron paul, aaron taylor-johnson, aaron tveit, adam dimarco, adan canto, alan ritchson, alberto rosende, alexander calvert, alexander skarsgard, alex fitzalan, alfie allen, alfonso herrera, alfred enoch, alvaro rico, andre lamoglia, andrew garfield, andrew matarazzo, andy samberg, angus cloud, antoni porowski, antony starr, armie hammer, aron piper, austin butler, avan jogia, ben barnes, bill skarsgard, blair redford, blake jenner, bob morley, boyd holbrook, brandon flynn, brant daughtry, brenton thwaites, brian j. smith, bright vachirawit chivaaree, cameron monaghan, casey cott, carter jenkins, chace crawford, chadwick boseman, chance perdomo, charles melton, charlie coxx, charlie heaton, charlie hunnam, charlie weber, chase stokes, cheyenne jackson, chris evans, chris hemsworth, chris messina, chris pine, christian navarro, christopher abbott, chris wood, cody christian, cody fern, cole sprouse, colton haynes, curran walters, dacre montgomery, daniel sharman, darren barnet, darren criss, david castaneda, david castro, david corenswet, dean geyer, dominic cooper, dominic sherwood, drey ray tanner, drew van acker, dylan minnette, dylan o'brien, dylan sprayberry, dylan sprouse, ed westwick, eka darville, eric dane, evan peters.

f-l

felix mallard, finn jones, finn wittrock, froy gutierrez, gavin leatherwood, gong yoo, grant gustin, gregg sulkin, gus kenworthy, hart denton, hasan minhaj, henry cavill, henry zaga, herman tommeras, hero fiennes-tiffin, hugh dancy, ian bohen, ian harding, ian somerhalder, itzan escamilla, iwan rheon, jack falahee, jack quaid, jack mulhern, jack o'connell, jacob artist, jacob elordi, jai courtney, jan luis castellanos, jared padelecki, jason momoa, jedidiah goodacre, jensen ackles, jeremy allen white, jeremy jordan, joe dempsie, joe keery, joel kinnaman, joel mchale, joe manganiello, jonathan groff, jon bernthal, jon krazinski, jordan fisher, jorge lopez, joseph gilgun, josh hartnett, joshua bassett, justin hartley, justin theroux, karamo brown, karl urban, kit harrington, kj apa, kyle allen, liam hemsworth, logan shroyer, louis partridge, lucien laviscount, luke evans, luke pasqualino.

m-s

manny jacinto, manu rios, matt bomer, matthew daddario, mark pellegrino, mason gooding, maxence danet-fauvel, max irons, max riemelt, mena massoud, michael cimino, michael trevino, michael vlamis, michele morrone, michiel huisman, miguel bernardeau, miguel herran, mike colter, miguel angel silvestre, miles heizer, milo ventimiglia, nathan parsons, nicholas galitzine, nick robinson, nico mirallegro, nico tortorella, nikolaj coster-waldua, noah centineo, nolan gerard funk, oliver jackson-cohen, oliver stark, omar ayuso, omar rudberg, oscar isaac, paul wesley, penn badgley, pol granch, rafael silva, rahul kohli, rami malik, richard madden, ricky whittle, riz ahmed, robert sheehan, rome flynn, ronen rubenstein, ross lynch, rudy pankow, rupert grint, ryan guzman, ryan kelley, ryan potter, sam claflin, sam heughan, samuel larson, scott eastwood, sean teale, sebastian de souza, sebastian stan, shiloh fernandez, skeet ulrich, steven strait.

t-z

taron egerton, taylor zakhar perez, theo james, thomas doherty, timothy granaderos, timothy olyphant, toby kebbell, toby wallace, tom ellis, tom hiddleston, tom holland, tom hopper, tom pelphrey, tyler blackburn, tyler hoechlin, tyler lawrence gray, tyler posey, wentworth miller, zac efron.

MUSICIANS

austin porter, benito ocasio (bad bunny), brandon arreaga, charlie puth, dominic fike, edwin honoret, harry styles, jack gilinsky, jack harlow, jaden smith, joe jonas, lil nas z, machine gun kelly, nick jonas, nick mara, omar apollo, shawn mendes, troye sivan, zayn malik, zion kuwonu.

EASTERN

bang chan, choi chanhee, choi minho, christian yu, han seungwoo, jackson wang, jay park, jung ki-suck, kim jennie, kim jisoo, kim jongdae, kwon hyuk lai, kuan-lin, lalisa manoban, lee dae-hwi, lee tae-min, mark yien tuan, ong seong-wu, roseanne park, taehyung, wong kunhang, wu yi fan, xiao dejun, and yan an.

MODELS

adam senn, adil haddaoui, adrien sahores, agustin bruno, arthur gosse, billy vandendooren, bo develius, brad skelly, brooklyn beckham, cameron dallas, casey jackson, christian hogue, daniel abohzira, daniel bederov, david gandy, derek chadwick, desire mia, diego barrueco, francisco lachowski, gage gomez, gui fedrezzi, harvey newton-haydon, isha blaaker, ivan kozak, jacob bixenman, janis danner, jamie dornan, joe collier, jordan torres, juan betancourt, julian schratter, kit butler, lenny izaguire, manu rios, marlon teixeira, marvin cortes, matthew noszka, matty carrington, maverick mcconnell, michael yerger, neels visser, nick bateman, nicolas simoes, nyle dimarco, ollie loudon, owen lindberg, rafael lazzini, rafael miller, reese king, richard diess, robbie satchwell, sean opry, simon loof, simon nessman, tanner reese, tom webb, vinnie hacker, will higginson, xavier serrano, zander fitzpatrick

UNCLASSIFIED

gus kenworthy, noah beck, ryan garcia, vlad hoshin.

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Macklyn Arbuckle-Marion Davies "Janice Meredith" 1924, de E. Mason Hopper.

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Hello lovelies!!! As I am coming off my hiatus, a lot of my muses could use some up to date stuff. I will be replying to things already in my drafts, don’t you worry but this is just for people to see my new muses and see if they want to talk to anyone!

Alexander Lightwood | 29 | Shadowhunters | Detective 

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Marina Nunier Osuana | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/Works at a diner

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Patrick Blanco Commerford | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/Works near campus

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Evan Buckley | 29 | 911 | Fire Fighter 

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Tyler Kennedy Strand | 28 | 911-lone Star | EMT at Fire Station.

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Richie Tozier | 24 | Elite | Comedian

Alice ( ofxscavengcrs)

Reggie Peters | 19 | JATP | College Sophomore  /Works at music store

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Max Mayfield | 23 | Stranger Things | Works at a Daycare

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Wade Wilson | 40 | Marvel | Private Investigator but not a good one/ part time bartender

Chewbacca ( ofxscavengcrs)

T.J Kippen | 21 | Andi Mack | College Freshman/ Teacher’s Aide

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Harry Hook | 23 | Descendants | Chef / Last year of Culinary School

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Marco Del Rossi | 21 | Degrassi | College Senior / Teachers Aide

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Ben Hargreeves | 30 | TUA | Personal Trainer at Gym

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Maxine Baker | 19 | Ginny and Georgia | College Sophomore/Works at occult shop.

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Matthew Murdock | 35 | Marvel | Criminal Defense Lawyer

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Dean Winchester | 38 | Supernatural | Psychiatrist 

Elliot ( purelybilateral)

Emily Fitch | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/ Works for Fashion Designer 

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Nick Nelson | 18 | Heartstopper | College Freshman/ Part time fast food

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Simon Spier | 19 | Love, Simon | College Sophomore/ Works at law firm

Josh ( purelybilateral)

Josette Saltzman | 18 | Legacies | College Freshman / Part Time Barista

Bonnie ( mastcrmiind)

Yuuri Katsuki | 21 | Yuri! On Ice | Works at Skate Rink

Benjamin ( purelybilateral)

Katherine Pierce | 500+ | TVD | Waitress

Blaine Anderson | 22 | Glee |Performer/Song Writer

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Ginny Weasley | 21 | Harry Potter | Bartender

Lily Luna ( mastcrmiind)

Chad Meeks-Martin | 19 | Scream | College Sophomore

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Bill | 47 | TLOU | Farmer / Chef

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Maria Vasquez | 25 | West Side Story | Nurse

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Heather Chandler| 23 | Heathers | Stylist

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Max Wolfe| 21 | GG Reboot | Male Dancer / Grad School

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Viscount Tewksbury | 19 | Enola Holmes | College Sophomore / Matt Murdock’s assistant

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Simon Erikkson | 21 | Young Royals | Music Teacher \ Performer 

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Gabriel Boutin | 25 | Half Bad | French Ambassador

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Penelope Featherington| 21 | Bridgerton | Works for Newspaper

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Ricky Bowen | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore / Party Performer

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Chishiya Shuntaro| 21 | Alice in Bonderland| Doctor

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Lillian Deville | 22 | Rugrats | Soccer Coach

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Mason Hewitt | 21 | Teen Wolf | forensic pathologist

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David Rose | 35 | Schitt’s Creek | Owns Rose Apothecary 

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Barney Stinson| 25 | HIMYM | Business Attorney 

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Mickey Milkovich | 28 | Shameless | Bartender / Sponser

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Lestat De Lioncourt | 200+ | Interview with a Vampire | Night Club Owner

Dru (bcrncoldx)

Emmett ( ofxscavengcrs)

Mercutio | 27 | Romeo and Juliet | Male Dancer / Stylist

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Tiana | 25 | Disney | Owns Tiana’s Place, a diner

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Jim Hopper | 45 | Stranger Things | Mayor

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Wally Clark | 21 | School Spirits | College Senior

Ak ( purelybilateral)

Lily Tucker-Pritchett | 21 | Modern Family | Social Worker

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Diana Barry | 21 | Anne with an E | Unemployed 

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Dina | 19 | TLOU | Works at a daycare

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Eponine Thenardier | 25 | Les Mis | Waitress

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Blair Waldorf | 23 | GG | Law School

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Dot Warner | 25 | Animanics | Sugar Baby

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Curtain at Eight (1933) E. Mason Hopper

September 12th 2021

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Up in Mabel's Room (E. Mason Hopper, 1926)

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E. Mason Hopper: From Snakeville to Sunset Blvd.

E. Mason Hopper: From Snakeville to Sunset Blvd.

Vermont native E. Mason Hopper (1885-1967) performed in vaudeville and with stock companies, played pro baseball, and studied at the University of Maryland before becoming a successful film director.

Hopper began directing silent comedy shorts for Essanay in 1911, including several Alkali Ike/ Snakeville comedies. Just as Essanay was collapsing in 1916, he went into directing features, some of…