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bored-libra · 2 years ago

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2022 in books

january:

the architecture of happiness by alain de bottom

an american marriage by tayari jones

filter house by nisi shawl

february:

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the worst best man by mia sosa

the hating game by sally throne

utopia avenue by david mitchell

march:

people we meet on vacation by emily henry

it happened one summer by tessa bailey

hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey

the unhoneymooners by christina lauren

the spanish love deception by elena armas

minor detail by adania shibli

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert

born to run by bruce springsteen

homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

the kiss quotient by helen hoang

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

boy parts by eliza clark

fix her up by tessa bailey

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi

april:

tools of engagement by tessa bailey

nausea by jean-paul sartre

the fine print by lauren asher

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

happy hour by marlowe granados

love and other words by christine lauren

may:

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

lolita by vladimir nabokov

june:

atonement by ian mcewan

an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson

six of crows by leigh bardugo

house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas

house of sky and breath by sarah j. maas

breakfast at tiffany’s & other voices, other rooms: two novels by truman capote

bunny by mona awad

when he was wicked by julia quinn

rebecca by daphne du maurier

fight club by chuck palahtniuk

july:

yolk by mary h.k. choi

milk fed by melissa broder

junky by william s. burroughs

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

august:

breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut jr

animal by lisa taddeo

one last stop by casey mcquiston

the antichrist by friedrich nietzsche

shop girl by steve martin

a room with a view by e.m. forster

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. maas

september:

orlando by virginia woolf

coraline by neil gaiman

book lovers by emily henry

october:

almond by sohn won-pyung

l.a. woman by eve babitz

catch-22 by joseph heller

exciting times by naoise dolan

november:

tender is the flesh by augstina bazterrica

a grief observed by c.s. lewis

little birds by anaïs nin

cultish: the language of fanaticism by amanda montell

december:

role models by john waters

the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

the awakening by kate chopin

reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies by bell hooks

tales from the cafe by toshikazu kawaguchi

#list of books i finished this year!!!#g talks #books #favs are bolded #but really there’s only a few i wouldn’t recommend

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pureimaginefic · 5 months ago

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Notable Storylines

Brian and Vicki’s romance

Vicki McAdams is a teenage girl living a perfectly normal live in suburban Seattle, WA with her mom and grandparents. One day her mom shatters her picture perfect life by announcing that her job has given her a promotion which includes a higher position in a new office, meaning that she and Vicki will be moving to a new town. This spurns Vicki as she’s about to enter the most exciting time in her life, high school and she looked forward to starting school with her life long friends by her side. 14 year old Brian Littrell is still reeling from being humiliated by having his long-time crush, popular girl Heather reject him. He catches the eye of Heather’s second in command and best friend Lisa but is put off by her snobby attitude and abrasive personality.

Lizzie and Vicki pack up and move cross country, finally settling In an idyllic suburb. She catches Brian’s eye as soon as she arrives in town and he comes to her rescue when she suffers a fall while moving in, it’s love at first sight for the two teens. The two immediately become good friends, insisting their relationship is strictly platonic, Vicki quickly makes her way into Brian’s friend group through Emily, the girlfriend of Brian’s friend Jason. Brian asks Vicki out on their first unofficial date a few weeks later to a beach party for the fourth of July. They spend the summer becoming closer though they insist they’re just friends,. Their relationship quickly evolves from friendship to romance within months of Vicki moving in, they share their first kiss on Halloween and the two officially become a couple in the early hours of New Years’ Day 1990.

Brian admits to Vicki that he loves her on Valentine’s Day, she lets him know she shares the same feelings. They experience their first time with each other later that spring and become more and more enamored with each other as time goes by. In the spring of 1991 Brian gifts Vicki with tickets to see the band Poison for her sixteenth birthday, along with a promise ring. The pair along with their friends attend the concert in May of 1991 after which they spend all night making love at Brian’s house. Weeks pass before Vicki notices she isn’t feeling right and with Emily’s help she discovers she’s pregnant. Vicki finally gives birth in February, one day after Brian’s seventeenth birthday.

Their son is named Bradley Jason Nickolas Littrell aka Bradley J., they commit to being parents to their baby boy and succeed in keeping their relationship intact. They graduate from high school in spring of 1993 and soon after Brian is recruited to join a singing group with some of his friends. He ends up in Orlando, Florida while Vicki juggles being a college student and a young mother, she celebrates with Brian upon hearing he and the guys have earned a recording contract. While Brian travels with the group he and Vicki struggle to remain the spark in their relationship. They finally decide to part ways on Bradley’s third birthday in February of 1995.

2 years later the guys announce they’ve been looking at places to live in Los Angeles and found a mega mansion in a secluded town just outside of Hollywood in a gated community. Vicki graduates from college and enrolls and is accepted into med school. She decides to attend med school in California and she, the rest of the ladies, and the boys follow the guys out west.

Years later as Bradley enters high school, he is injured during a school shooting protecting best friend Neilson Carter from being shot. He and Vicki fall asleep together sitting by Bradley’s hospital bed, this leads Brian to rethink his feelings and concludes that he’s still in love with Vicki even after all this time, unbeknownst to him, Vicki shares these feelings as well.

When Bradley goes missing their grief and worry force them to admit their feelings to each other effectively reuniting them. In 2011 Brian proposes in the very same setting as her sixteenth birthday and a month later they officially tie the knot in a fairytale ceremony.

Forever Your Girl

Back to School

Pomp & Circumstance

Oh What a Night

It Must Have Been Love

Goodbye Tonsils

The Winchester Chronicles: Aftermath

Shout at The Devil

Dead Man’s Party: Revenge of The Winchesters

Prom Night

The Winchester Saga

in the fall of 1997, the boys started kindergarten at Little Hilridge Elementary school and on the first day Kyle encountered his very first bully, a classmate by the name of Damien Winchester. Damien pushed Kyle from a jungle gym as he raced Adam to the top, Damien then warned Kyle later that he was rich and his dad owned the town they live in and could have Kyle kicked out if he wanted to. Ever since that day, Kyle and Damien were involved in an intense rivalry that would soon turn deadly. Even though Damien was solely Kyle’s sworn enemy, Damien had an acrimonious relationship with the other boys as well, outright bullying Harry causing Kyle to come to his rescue. The rivalry became even more intense as both boys became interested in sports, mainly football. Damien’s motivation for playing was to gain his father’s affection and respect like his older brother had.

Kyle beat Damien at every turn, enraging Damien and earning even more of his father’s ire. Damien finally snapped in March of 2009 when Kyle beat him out for the football team’s MVP award, after going on a rampage at home, destroying his father’s office and all of his football memorabilia he returned to school with a gun. He came upon Bradley and Neilson first and fired, causing Bradley to cover Neilson in protection. When a teacher stopped him in the hall he responded by shooting him as well.

Damien enacted his revenge on Coach Reinhart by shooting him as well and going after his real target, Kyle. the school is eventually evacuated, except for Harry who was left in the dark room of the school’s publication room. Word eventually reaches their parents, the guys scheduled for TV appearances which were inevitably cancelled.

Damien finally admits that anytime he finally had achieved something Kyle was there to usurp his moment and come out even better. Meanwhile Harry makes his way out of the school but stops upon hearing a commotion from a classroom. a fight over the gun ensued when Harry came into the room, the gun fires and ends up hitting Harry.

On his lawyer’s advice Damien pleads not guilty due to insanity, the boys testify against him and he is eventually found guilty and sent to a juvenile facility to be transferred to a regular penitentiary upon his eighteenth birthday. Months later, Damien’s father, still reeling from the idea of having a son in jail, plots his own revenge.

Derek makes a fatal mistake and informs Damien of his scheme, Damien is haunted by visions of the boys taunting him and eventually turns his father into the cops. Kellie is able to convince Damien’s mother Daphne to wear a wire and she is able to get Derek to incriminate himself. The boys sans Kyle are drugged with sodium thiopental which was once used in lethal injection and threw into unmarked graves.

Derek holds Kyle at gunpoint as the police swarm the building, Kyle tearfully admits that the others are gone and Derek had admitted to “getting rid” of them. Due to evidence Derek is sentenced and sent to prison, his wife filing for divorce shortly after.

While incarcerated Derek manages to bribe a guard and other personnel with a pay off if he helps him escape. A fire is started as a distraction allowing Derek to escape, he also arranged for Damien’s escape too. The news of their “death” reaches the boys who are skeptical at first but celebrate upon hearing the confirmation of DNA evidence. Around this time Natalie enlists the boys’ help with the school’s annual Halloween dance, they agree reluctantly upon the threat of blackmail and promise of sexual favors. Damien enters the dance dressed as a faceless phantom, he spikes the boys’ drinks under his father’s instruction to incapacitate them. Damien decided he wanted yet another confrontation with Kyle while Derek handled Bradley, Natalie, and Neilson.

What the boys don’t know is that the Winchesters had the building wired to explode, an alarm rings out and they hurry to the exit but are unable to find the key and the building explodes trapping them all inside.

While at the hospital Darren, Damien’s older brother approaches Kyle, Harry, and Adam and assures them they have no reason to be afraid because Damien and their father are dead. Before going home Kyle visits the hospital morgue to see the charred remains of Damien and Derek Winchester.

It's revealed that Darren had them sent to a medical facility in another state and they regain consciousness on New Year’s Day. Darren moves them to a secret mountain retreat in Montana where they receive physical and psychological therapy. At this point the boys and Natalie are preparing for their senior prom, Bradley is approached by Principal Wexler to DJ the prom due to the budget being tight, he agrees. Kyle calls Adam’s cousin Zoey and she accepts his invitation to be his prom date, Adam asks Natalie’s best friend Wendy and Harry invites his classmate and fellow newspaper member Cecily. Neilson stuffs the ballot box to nominate Natalie for prom queen, and as a joke nominates Bradley for prom king, Kyle is also nominated for king.

Damien and Derek break out of hiding and return to Los Angeles. After the king and queen are announced the lights are cut and Damien appears onstage shocking everyone especially the boys and Natalie.

Kyle refuses to run away again and tells them to go without him, leaving him for one more showdown with Damien. Kyle finally calls Damien out telling him that he sucks as an athlete and that he was so preoccupied with being a popular jock he forgot he’d actually have to play football. A fight ensues that ends up on the hotel balcony.

Days before the boys’ 25year reunion, people from the their past start dying unexpectedly, Bradley and Neilson who are now cops, working under detective Stone are assigned to investigate. Kyle mourns the loss of his former football coach and mentor Coach Reinhart who returns to town for the reunion. The night of their reunion Dean is taken hostage and beaten by Damien after he forced him to send Bradley and Neilson on a phony police call.

Damien then reveals himself to Natalie and he forces her from the hotel at gunpoint, Kyle notices and alerts the others and they leave the reunion. Damien surprises Neilson and Bradley as the school with Natalie in his clutches, Kyle finally reunited with his old rival, cops begin to surround the school, Damien takes a shot at Bradley, Neilson covers him and takes the bullet for him.

Damien yet again takes Kyle to the science lab for one final showdown, he again manages to wrestle a gun away from him and lets Bradley and Neilson take him into custody. he, Neilson and Kellie manage to cut a deal with Damien’s brother Darren. Damien is furious with his brother’s betrayal while Bradley, Neilson, and Kellie travel to a hospice center where Derek lay brain dead in a hospital bed, kept alive against his will. A few days later a new student joins their kids at school, Chad Winningham Jr.

Featured in:

In The Air Tonight

Shout at The Devil

Dead Man’s Party: Revenge of The Winchesters

Prom Night

The Winchester Chronicles

Reunited

Neilson/Natalie/Bradley triangle

“All’s fair in love and War” right? Bradley first met Natalie on her first day of school in the fall of 2003, he introduced her to best friend Neilson who quickly became smitten with his new classmate Natalie quickly became part of the boys’ friend group and began to reciprocate Neilson’s crush, They began to date seriously in high school, which up until that point Bradley had considered Natalie nothing more than just a friend and a sister figure. That all changed when the two kissed after Natalie had (yet another) fight with Neilson, it became a little physical before Bradley broke it off.

The two decided to keep it between them as they believed it meant nothing and wasn’t worth upsetting Neilson over. Bradley’s guilt over kissing Natalie lead to him literally taking a bullet for Neilson during a school shooting. In his weary state Bradley almost admits the truth to Neilson while recuperating in the hospital. A few months later Bradley, Neilson, along with the rest of the boys are kidnapped by Damien Winchester’s father in retribution for sending Damien to prison after the shooting. While in captivity Bradley is forced to admit to Neilson about kissing Natalie months prior. Neilson eventually decides to forgive them both. After being rescued, Neilson goes out of town to visit family, during that time Natalie decides to keep Bradley company and help him at work with both Neilson and Adam being on vacation. Bradley realizes he’s not seeing Natalie in the same light he used to and his feelings for her begin to confuse him.

Natalie is kidnapped alongside the boys this time yet again by Derek Winchester on Halloween night, he forces Neilson to choose between Natalie and Bradley, sparing one of their lives and leaving the other to be killed.

Neilson is away yet again after the holidays and is trying to hurry home to be with Natalie on New Years’ Eve, he realizes he may not make it back in time and has Bradley take Natalie to the New Year’s Eve party. He arrives home just before midnight and they toast to a new year. Natalie prepares a special Valentine’s surprise for Neilson, however he forgets about the holiday which enrages Natalie. She reminisces about their first kiss together when Bradley shows up to her house when she reveals that she and Neilson are having problems similar to the ones the year prior and she’s not sure if their relationship will last.

their issues continue and Natalie decides to end things with Neilson, afraid that their friendship might be in jeopardy even if their relationship ends. Neilson is understandably devastated and Bradley is there to comfort his best friend, literally offering him a shoulder to cry on.

During a heated argument, everything comes to a head and the moment turns lustful and passionate. They race back to her house and end up sleeping together. Neilson, tries to track Bradley down, he eventually comes to Natalie’s house where he catches them in the act. He confronts both Bradley and Natalie who try to explain and apologize, Neilson cuts them both off, refusing to speak to either of them.

Bradley and Neilson are able to talk things out and make amends, he’s also able to talk things out with Natalie, confessing that even after everything, Neilson was still in love with her. Not long after, Neilson begins to get closer to a girl named Piper, this spurns Natalie with jealousy, leading the two to reconcile. The two reunite shortly before prom, Neilson stuffs the school ballot box, getting Natalie nominated for prom queen and as a joke, Bradley nominated for king.

A few weeks after graduation the boys are each dragged against their will on a road trip with their respective fathers. Nick advises Neilson that holding onto the anger he feels towards Bradley and Natalie isn’t as important as the love he feels for both of them and that hanging onto it will ultimately cause problems for them all.

During the 4th of July weekend, the boys and Natalie vacation at her grandparent’s cabin and celebrate their last trip together before going off to college. Neilson and Natalie engage in a moment of passion in which she called out Bradley’s name. this angers Neilson and the two fight bitterly about it the next day, Neilson and Natalie’s arguing begins to grate on Bradley’s nerves and he angrily tells them to tell him what the problem is. Neilson reveals what happened the night before, Bradley, deciding he’s had enough of this instigates a fight between them.

The two find hilarity in what happened and begin laughing about the fight and being bruised and bloody. Neilson later tells them both that he thought about what his dad had told him and realized he was right and assures that everything was over and they can finally move on.

Featured In:

Who’s That Girl

The Winchester Chronicles: Aftermath

The Winchester Chronicles: Prelude to a Kiss

Shout at The Devil

My Best Friend’s Girl

Story of a Girl

Dead Man’s Party: Revenge of The Winchesters

Resolutions

This Kiss

The Hardest Part of Breaking Up

Faithfully

Prom Night

Father to Son

Run Through the Jungle

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screamingforyears · 7 months ago

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“TIL I FEEL NO PAIN” is the lead single/track from @lovers.guilt’s forthcoming EP titled ‘Enveloped In Smoke’ (6/21) & it finds Brian Vega’s LA-based project dreamily popping across 4 mins of synthetically ethereal & dark_waving GothPop.

“OYSTER CUTS” is the second single/title-track from @quiversss’ forthcoming LP (8/9 @mergerecords) & it finds the Melbourne-based quartet of Bella Quinlan (vox/bass), Sam Nicholson (vox/guitar/keys), Michael Panton (vox/guitar) & Holly Thomas (drums/vox) bringing a 4:20 clip of indie_popped goodness.

“BREATHE” is the latest single from @rinseband’s forthcoming EP titled ‘Starfish’ (6/20 @cohort.records) & it finds Joe Agius’ Melbourne-based project precously new_waving across 4 ½ mins of aesthetically dialed, deliciously dreamy & earnestly soared SoftPop.

@sanguisugabogg are here w/ a brand new standalone single, the aptly titled “PERMANENTLY FUCKED” (@centurymediarecords) & it finds the Ohio-based quartet of Cody Davisdon, Devin Swank, Ced Davis & Drew Arnold laying waste to our sorry asses across a blitzed 4:41 clip of brutally BPM’d DeathMetal.

“IF WE DIDN’T CRY” is the lead track from @smushcore’s forthcoming debut LP titled ‘if you were here i’d be home now’ (6/15 @candlepin_records) & it finds the “sensitive” ཐི♡ཋྀ Vancouver-based trio of Emily Borrowman (bass/vox), Atley King (guitar) & Jay Christie (drums) soft_grunging across 4+ mins of quietly/loud AltRawk.

“SILO” is the lead track on @vile_form’s recently released EP titled ‘Unending’ & it finds the Pennsylvania-based quartet of Paul J Herzog (vocals/bass), Jason M Herrmann (guitar), Jeffrey V Daniels (guitar) & Josh R Orlando (drums) setting the tone across 4+ mins of metallicized DeathFusion.

#music #screamingforyears #songs #metal #deathmetal #dreampop #shoegaze #postpunk #indierock #rock #aesthetic #Spotify #Bandcamp

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Nuovo post su Atom Heart Magazine

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Le Novità Di Dicembre Su Rakuten TV

Dicembre è il mese dei regali per eccellenza, e su Rakuten TV non potevano mancare! In arrivo questo mese tanti titoli freschi di sala cinematografica, nuovi episodi del già iconico talent show di hairstyling HairStyle, The Talent Show, una libreria di contenuti gratuiti da vedere e rivedere e promo festive per tutti i gusti. Il Natale è già arrivato!

Rakuten TV – I film in arrivo a dicembre 2023

Oppenheimer, L’esorcista e Io Capitano

Molte le novità nella sezione TRANSACTIONAL della piattaforma. Disponibile per l’acquisto dal 21 dicembre il campione d’incassi Oppenheimer, fresco di sala cinematografica, del visionario Christopher Nolan. La storia dello scienziato americano J. Robert Oppenheimer e del suo ruolo nello sviluppo della bomba atomica, con star del calibro di Cillian Murphy, nel ruolo di protagonista, Emily Blunt e Matt Damon per citarne solo alcuni. Per gli amanti del genere horror, su Rakuten TV è in arrivo L’esorcista – Il credente, terrificante sequel dell’iconica pellicola del 1973 ed il primo in cui l’attrice Ellen Burstyn riprende il ruolo di Chris MacNeil dopo il primo capitolo.

Tanto drammatico quanto toccante, disponibile per l’acquisto dal 21 dicembre Io Capitano di Matteo Garrone. Premiato all’80ª Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica di Venezia per la miglior regia: il viaggio di Seydou e Moussa, due giovani senegalesi che lasciano il loro Paese per raggiungere l’Europa affrontando il deserto, i centri di detenzione in Libia e la traversata nel mar Mediterraneo.

Last Film Show, L’Ordine Del Tempo e Paw Patrol

Dai toni drammatici anche Last Film Show. Storia di Samay, un bambino di nove anni che vive in un remoto villaggio dell’India con la passione per il cinema. Per perseguire il suo sogno dovrà lasciare ogni cosa che ama e andare via. Poi L’ordine del tempo di Liliana Cavani, presentato fuori concorso alla Biennale di Cinema di quest’anno, con Claudia Gerini, Alessandro Gassmann ed Edoardo Leo: un gruppo di amici si ritrova ogni anno in una villa per una festa di compleanno ma quest’anno scoprono che potrebbero mancare solo poche ore alla fine del mondo. Di tutt’altro stampo Paw Patrol: Il Super Film. Secondo film d’animazione basato sulla serie animata PAW Patrol creata da Keith Chapman che divertirà grandi e piccini!

Una Commedia Pericolosa, Il Mio Grosso Grasso Matrimonio Greco 3 e tutti gli altri

Per gli amanti della commedia, ecco arrivare due titoli irresistibili su Rakuten TV. Con Enrico Brignano, Leandro Amato e Fortunato Cerlino, Una commedia pericolosa, in cui un uomo responsabile della sicurezza di un centro commerciale sogna di diventare un agente segreto e dalla finestra sul cortile di casa sua spia i condomini in cerca di azione.

In arrivo anche Il mio grosso grasso matrimonio greco 3. Il terzo capitolo del franchise, storia della famiglia greco-americana dei Portokalos, che, dopo la morte del patriarca Gus, si reca in Grecia per ritrovare le proprie origini. Un viaggio nel passato toccante, divertente e pieno d’amore! E ancora, gli appassionati del genere action rimarranno incollati allo schermo con The Creator, ambientato in un futuro post-apocalittico che coinvolge un mondo colpito da una guerra tra umani e intelligenza artificiale, e l’adrenalinico Gran Turismo, adattamento cinematografico dell’omonima serie di videogiochi e con David Harbour, Orlando Bloom e Archie Madekwe, che segue la storia vera di Jann Mardenborough, adolescente giocatore di eSport che diventa un pilota professionista della Nissan grazie alla sua bravura nei videogiochi.

Già disponibile per l’acquisto e dal 6 dicembre anche per il noleggio, il campione d’incassi Assassinio a Venezia. Il terzo capitolo della saga su Hercule Poirot diretta e interpretata da Kenneth Branagh. Nella Venezia del secondo dopoguerra, Poirot, ora in pensione e in esilio, partecipa con riluttanza a una seduta spiritica.

Rakuten TV – Il film e gli show già disponibili

Quale miglior modo di attendere l’uscita dei vostri film preferiti sul grande schermo se non con una bella maratona? Già disponibile in piattaforma per l’acquisto e per il noleggio una variegata selezione di titoli da vedere e rivedere. Da Diabolik e Diabolik – Ginko all’attacco dei Manetti Bros., in attesa dell’uscita in sala del terzo capitolo. Per arrivare alla saga di Ghostbusters a partire dall’iconica pellicola del 1984 Ghostbusters – Acchiappafantasmi, Ghostbusters II. Fino al più recente Ghostbusters: Legacy, e dall’universo DC disponibile anche Aquaman, per prepararsi al meglio all’uscita di Aquaman e il regno perduto.

La sezione FREE di Rakuten Tv

Ad arricchire la sezione FREE di questo mese una libreria di titoli per tutti i gusti. Già disponibile dal 16 novembre, con un nuovo episodio ogni settimana, il primo talent show di hairstyling HairStyle, The Talent Show. Condotto dal Maestro Rossano Ferretti e dal Global Hairstylist Rudy Mostarda. Il programma vede dieci parrucchieri professionisti provenienti da tutta Italia dimostrare il loro talento, abilità e creatività. Chi riuscirà ad aggiudicarsi il premio del valore di 150.000 euro e realizzare il sogno di aprire il proprio salone?

Con Colin Firth e Nicole Kidman, in arrivo a dicembre il drammatico Le Due Vie del Destino – The Railway Man. L’adattamento cinematografico dell’omonima autobiografia di Eric Lomax, scrittore e militare scozzese che, nel 1942, fu fatto prigioniero in un campo di prigionia giapponese. Per gli amanti del brivido, disponibili questo mese i primi tre capitoli della saga cinematografica horror Hellraiser con protagonista il demone Pinhead e i suoi seguaci Cenobiti.

I titoli action

Da vedere tutta d’un fiato una selezione di titoli action imperdibili di Rakuten TV:

The Rover, con Guy Pearce e Robert Pattinson. Storia di un uomo solitario che, 10 anni dopo un crollo economico globale, insegue gli uomini che gli hanno rubato la sua unica proprietà, per poi catturare uno dei fratelli dei ladri e formare con lui un legame difficile;

Borning: Corsa senza regole, in cui il protagonista Roy è stato sfidato a partecipare alla Street legal, la corsa illegale di auto sportive che percorre duemila chilometri attraverso la Norvegia da Oslo a Capo Nord;

Assalto a Wall Street, dai toni thriller, in cui il newyorkese Jim, che vive con una moglie malata, perderà ogni cosa in seguito ad un improvviso crollo dell’economia. Colmo di rabbia, mediterà vendetta per la vita che gli è stata portata via.

Infine tra i contenuti free di questa imminente stagione festiva non possiamo non ricordare la commedia per famiglie S.O.S. Natale con Jim Broadbent: l’avventura di un padre e un figlio che si uniscono per salvare il Natale quando scoprono che Babbo Natale dorme nel loro garage, dopo essersi schiantato con la sua slitta e in fuga dalla polizia.

La sezione FAST di Rakuten TV

Nella sezione FAST della piattaforma, che include televisione in streaming gratuita con pubblicità, non poteva mancare 100% Natale. Il nuovo canale pop-up dedicato interamente ai film del periodo più magico dell’anno! E per gli amanti della commedia, già disponibili Sansone, Fantastic Mr. Foxe tanti altri film per tutta la famiglia.

Le promo

Infine da segnalare una serie di promo da non perdere su Rakuten TV. Dal 4 dicembre e per tutto il mese una selezione di film tra cui Il grande Lebowski, Atomica Bionda, Casper e Il miglio verde, sarà in offerta per l’acquisto a 3.99€. Quale miglior modo per festeggiare il Natale se non con una bella maratona? A partire dal 18 dicembre e per tutte le feste fino all’8 gennaio, sconti fino al 60% sui titoli family, kids e animation con la promo natalizia. Per finire, i più nostalgici non resisteranno ad un rewatch dei propri Cinepanettoni preferiti. In promozione per l’acquisto a partire da 4.99€: Vacanze di Natale a Cortina, Vacanze di Natale ’95, Natale a New York, Natale sul Nilo, e Natale in Crociera vi aspettano!

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New Fiction 2023 - October

Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I'll stay in October forever... forever... forever...

Here's the long version (since Tumblr blocks too many links in one post).

The TL;DR:

Short Stories

"Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

"CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

"Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

"The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

"The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

"The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

"The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

"The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

"Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

"Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)

"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

"The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

"The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

"The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

"Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

"Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

"The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

"The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

"The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

"The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

"The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Audio

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Comics

"Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

"Do You Know... the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

"For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

"Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

"The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

"Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

"A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

"The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

"The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

"Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

"Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

"Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

"Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

"Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

"Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

"A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

"The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

"Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

"The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

"The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

"Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

"Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

"Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Video Games

Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

D dev. Warp (1995)

Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Movies

It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Television

Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

#new fiction #2023 #october #short stories #comics #video games #movies #television

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mirandamckenni1 · 1 year ago

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birdgowrl · 2 years ago

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my jr top 15 best dancer tda (Vegas/Orlando) predictions

roxie - regan - isabella k - diana k - sara vr - esme - berkeley - skylar - kinsley s - delilah h - francesca j - emily p - helena o - zoe f - ??

mentioning some who don't compete in tda or just can't compete this year!

i could see that!!

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“The future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous”: Why the 21st Century Loves Edith Wharton

Emily J. Orlando

E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English

Fairfield University

Photo: John Singer Sargent, Sybil Frances Grey, later Lady Eden 1905.

If ever there were a good time to read the American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), who published over forty books across four decades, it’s now. Since the Wharton revival of the late 20th century, when directors were adapting (the Pulitzer-Prize winning) The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The Buccaneers, and The House of Mirth, her star has continued to rise. As I yesterday prepared to teach The Custom of the Country, which many have called Wharton’s greatest novel, a friend texted me Sofia Coppola’s article on the surprising appeal of its social-climbing heroine. Coppola is developing Undine Spragg’s story for Apple TV. A kind of Gilded Age Material Girl, Undine has been ready for her close-up for years.

Coppola joins an impressive roster of contemporary admirers of Wharton that includes Roxane Gay, Laura Bush, Lisa Lucas, Peggy Noonan, Jennifer Egan, Stephin Merritt, Claire Messud, Meg Wolitzer, Mindy Kaling, Doug Hughes, Brandon Taylor, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ali Benjamin, Vendela Vida, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Kristin Hannah. At a time when publishing houses are compelled to scale back, new editions of Wharton’s books are appearing in print with introductions by Coppola, Egan, and Taylor.

Photo: Sofia Coppola.

Those who think they don’t know Wharton might be surprised to learn they do. A reverence for Wharton’s writings informs Sex and the City (whose pilot welcomes us to “the Age of Un-Innocence”), Gossip Girl, Downtown Abbey (whose “Lady Edith” suggests a nod to Wharton), and HBO’s The Gilded Age which, like Downton, is created by the Wharton-appreciating Julian Fellowes. His Bertha and George, after all, are named for the power couple from The House of Mirth.

But why Wharton? Why now? Perhaps it’s because for all its new technologies, conveniences, and modes of travel and communication, our own “Gilded Age” is a lot like hers. For the post-war and post-flu-epidemic climate that engendered The Age of Innocence is not far removed from our post-COVID-19 reality. In both historical moments, citizens of the world have witnessed a retreat into conservativism and a rise of white supremacy. Fringe groups like the “Proud Boys” and “QAnon” and deniers of everything from the coronavirus to climate change and Sandy Hook are invited to the table in the name of free speech, and here Wharton’s distrust of false narratives resonates particularly well. Post-9/11 calls for patriotism and the alignment of the American flag with one political party harken back to Wharton’s poignant questioning, in a 1919 letter, of the compulsion to profess national allegiance:

how much longer are we going to think it necessary to be “American” before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?[i]

Her cosmopolitan critique of nationalist fervor remains instructive to us today.

Edith Wharton seems to have foreseen the excesses, obsessions, and spectacles of our current moment. The scandals documented in Wharton’s narratives serve as harbingers of the sensations that flash across our hand-held screens. Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking touches on the same nerve as the sexual exploitation of minors in Wharton’s Summer (1917) and The Children (1928). The quid pro quo run-in between Wharton’s Lily Bart and Gus Trenor looks uncomfortably forward to Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo. The rise to power of Donald Trump would not surprise Edith Wharton.

Photo: “Vanity,” by Auguste Toulmouche, circa 1870.

Wharton’s tenacious Undine Spragg—as horrifying to progressive era readers as she is admired by Generation Z—can be conceived of as the original social media influencer conscious of her brand. For Undine and her creator know that “the future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous”[ii] and that the turn-of-the-century “world where conspicuousness passed for distinction”[iii] foreshadows our own. Wharton would describe Undine in terms we might use for a “Real Housewife of Park Avenue”: “If only everyone would do as she wished she would never be unreasonable” (162). Undine’s world encourages her to aspire to the rank of trophy wife and the sexual double standard dictating that “genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair”[iv] would apply to Wharton herself who, on the 150th anniversary of her birth, would be assessed by a male novelist in terms of how she sizes up to Grace Kelly or Jackie Kennedy.[v] The writer who would declare, in her wildly popular interior design manual The Decoration of Houses, privacy “one of the first requisites of civilized life”[vi] would be appalled by what is broadcast across social media. Wharton also would’ve anticipated the racism directed at Meghan Markle and why granting Oprah an interview would not help relations with her spouse’s family. Children forcibly separated from families due to morally dubious immigration policies echo the plight of war refugees for whose welfare Edith Wharton labored, while the distrust of the cultural other echoes the writer’s own complicated nationalist allegiances.[vii]

Ten years ago, Lev Raphael took the temperature of Wharton studies declaring in the Huffington Post: “Edith Wharton is hot.” She is now positively on fire. I offer below a short excerpt from the introduction to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, which appears in print today.

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The image gracing the cover of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, capturing a scene on the terrace of Edith Wharton’s French home, reflects the cultural work that this book takes as its task. The writer is in her element: she cradles in her lap her beloved dogs, she sits outdoors at a well-appointed property she lovingly transformed, she surrounds herself with fashionably dressed cosmopolitans, and she smiles. The moment validates an idea expressed in The Age of Innocence: that “the air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” As host, Wharton, by this point an internationally acclaimed artist, has brought together representatives of an admiring generation from diverse backgrounds that would outlive and perhaps learn from her. That sunlit terrace is doing something we hope this book will do: provide a foundation for future conversations with Edith Wharton at the center.

Photo: Edith Wharton publicity shot.

Around the time this photograph was taken, Wharton would reflect in A Backward Glance that “[t]he world is a welter and has always been one; but though all the cranks and the theorists cannot master the old floundering monster, . . . here and there a saint or a genius suddenly sends a little ray through the fog, and helps humanity to stumble on, and perhaps up” (379). Wharton’s writings arguably send a ray and help humanity stumble on and up in our own Gilded Age. It is the aim of this collection of essays, produced by leaders in the field at a time of global crisis, to make a meaningful contribution to the scholarship on and dialogue about the work of Edith Wharton and to open up new possibilities for understanding and embracing a writer whose corpus is as enormous as it is resonant. To borrow from Wharton’s preface to her anthology The Book of the Homeless (1916), in which she conceives of her volume, as she so often does, as a house: “You will see from the names of the builders what a gallant piece of architecture it is. . . . So I efface myself from the threshold and ask you to walk in.”[viii]

Emily J. Orlando is the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton. She is currently preparing for publication a new edition of Edith Wharton’s first book, The Decoration of Houses.

[i]Lewis, Letters, 424.

[ii]Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, New York, Penguin, 2006, 117.

[iii]Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, ed. Elizabeth Ammons, 2nd Norton Critical ed. (New York: Norton, 2018), 186.

[iv]Edith Wharton, The Touchstone, in Wharton, Edith, Collected Stories, 1891-1910, ed. Maureen Howard (New York: Library of America, 2001), 170.

[v]Jonathan Franzen, “A rooting interest: Edith Wharton and the problem of sympathy,” The New Yorker, February 5, 2012.

[vi] Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897), 22.

[vii]See Melanie Dawson, “The Limits of Cosmopolitan Experience in Wharton’s The Buccaneers.” Legacy 31.2 (2014): 258-80. Print.

[viii]Edith Wharton, Preface to The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-foyer) (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), xxiv-xxv.

#Emily J. Orlando #Fairfield University #Edith Wharton #Gossip Girl #The Custom of the Country #Sofia Coppola #The Age of Innocence #Undine Spragg #Summer #The Book of the Homeless

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NWSL 2018, Week 1: A Summary

#nwsl #utah royals #orlando pride #kelley o'hara #emily sonnett #crystal dunn #megan rapinoe #mine #edits #nwslsummary2018 #shoutout @ J for helping me w the middle kelley gif aklsjdlak #this gifset could be that gif 9 times and it'd convey the same message

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My MET Gala List

Anya Taylor-Joy

Zendaya

Sadie Sink

Elle Fanning

Dakota Fanning

Margot Robbie

AnnaSophia Robb

Sarah Hyland

Lily Collins

Madelaine Petsch

Camila Mendes

Saoirse Ronan

Melissa McCarthy

Florence Pugh

Rebecca Ferguson

Halle Berry

Keke Palmer

Miranda Cosgrove

Madison Pettis

Millie Bobby Brown

Awkwafina

Amy Adams

Jessica Alba

Jessica Chastain

Phillipa Soo

Lupita Nyong’o

Gal Gadot

Anna Kendrick

Blake Lively

Jessica Biel

Ariel Winter

Winona Ryder

Zoe Saldana

Charlize Theron

Natalia Dyer

Nicole Kidman

Emilia Clarke

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Idina Menzel

Viola Davis

Emily Blunt

Sofía Vergara

Meryl Streep

Anne Hathaway

Amanda Seyfried

Constance Wu

Elizabeth Olsen

Ana de Armas

Karen Gillan

Beanie Feldstein

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hugh Jackman

Daveed Diggs

Jared Leto

Finn Wolfhard

Tom Holland

James McAvoy

Leslie Odom Jr.

Regé-Jean Page

Ryan Reynolds

Chris Hemsworth

KJ Apa

Idris Elba

David Harbour

Caleb McLaughlin

Bill Skarsgård

Alexander Skarsgård

John Krasinski

Stanley Tucci

Charlie Heaton

Robert Downey Jr.

Taron Egerton

Selena Gomez

Ariana Grande

Beyoncé

Rihanna

Halle Bailey

Chloe Bailey

Alessia Cara

Alicia Keys

Céline Dion

Taylor Swift

Lady Gaga

Ciara

Cassie

Elton John

The Weeknd

Lily-Rose Depp

Cara Delevingne

Taylor Hill

Elsa Hosk

Josephine Skriver

Romee Strijd

Jasmine Tookes

Lais Ribeiro

Sara Sampaio

Heidi Klum (does she even still model?)

Candice Swanepoel

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Behati Prinsloo

Miranda Kerr

Adut Akech

Paloma Elsesser

Kaia Gerber

Adriana Lima

Alessandra Ambrosio

Gisele Bündchen

Valentina Sampaio

Karlie Kloss (does she even still model?)

Gigi Hadid

Bella Hadid

Kendall Jenner

Lily Aldridge

Soo Joo Park

Paris Jackson

Daphne Groeneveld

Blanca Padilla

Sophie Turner

Nick Jonas

Jennifer Lopez

Billie Eilish

Billy Porter

Zoë Kravitz

Tiffany Haddish

Dakota Johnson

Kerry Washington

Mindy Kaling

Donatella Versace

Anna Wintour

Vera Wang

Tory Burch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Serena Williams

Kasey Musgraves

Katy Perry

Frank Ocean

Julianne Moore

Michael B. Jordan

Jordan Peele

Janelle Monáe

Ashley Graham

Mary-Kate Olsen

Ashley Olsen

Jennifer Connelly

Irina Shayk

Diane von Furstenberg

Gabrielle Union-Wade

Jeremy Scott (designer for Moschino)

Katie Holmes

Emily Ratajkowski

Gwen Stefani

Julia Garner

Angelina Jolie

Alicia Vikander

Lizzo

Adwoa Aboh

Jourdan Dunn

RuPaul

Solange Knowles

Billie Lourd

Daisy Ridley

John Boyega

Emma Stone

Bri Larson

Rita Ora

Dua Lipa

Naomi Scott

Law Roach

Kate Moss

Victoria Beckham

David Beckham

Mila Kunis

Natalie Portman

Zoey Deutch

Halsey

Michelle Williams

Kiernan Shipka

Rachel McAdams

Florence Welch

Danielle Bernstein (@weworewhat on Instagram)

Grace Elizabeth

Joey King

Dan Stevens

Christian Siriano

Jeremy Scott

Alessandro Michele (designer for Gucci)

Miuccia Prada

Elie Saab

Iris Van Herpen

Han Chong (designer for Self-Portrait)

Maria Grazia Chiuri (designer for Christian Dior)

Anthony Vaccarello (designer for Saint Laurent)

Silvia Ventura Fendi

Giambattista Valli

Zuhair Murad

Virginie Viard (designer for Chanel)

Ben Affleck

Elaine Welteroth

Nina Garcia

Imaan Hammam

Sara Paulson

Julia Roberts

Brandon Maxwell

Pierpaolo Piccioli (designer for Valentino)

Yara Shahidi

Gemma Chan

Laverne Cox

Lucy Boynton

Naomi Campbell

Penelope Cruz

Salma Hayek

Gwyneth Paltrow

Rami Malek

Sienna Miller

Aurora James

Carey Mulligan

Charli XCX

Alexa Chung

Stella Maxwell

Sofía Sánchez Barrenechea

Dapper Dan

Aquaria

Normani

Camila Coelho

Deepika Padukone

Tommy Hilfiger

Violet Chachki

Nasiba Adilova

Shailene Woodley

Ansel Elgort

Joe Jonas

Megan Fox

Laura Haddock

Orlando Bloom

Willow Smith

Jason Sudeikis

Ewan McGregor

Coco Rocha

Ralph Lauren

BTS - Jungkook, V, Park Ji-min, Jin, Suga, RM, J-Hope

Blackpink - Jennie, Lisa, Rosé, Jisoo

Doja Cat

Sam Claflin

Kiera Knightley

Alexina Graham

Rachel Zegler

Sophia Lillis

Sam Smith

Mimi Cuttrell

Aubrey Plaza

Adam Driver

Kate McKinnon

Aidy Bryant

Thomasin McKenzie

Maddie Ziegler

Kristen Bell

Idina Menzel

Michelle Dockery

Chris Evans

Peter Dinklage

Luke Evans

Liam Hemsworth

Robert Pattinson

Christian Louboutin

Stuart Weitzman

Nicola Glass (designer for Kate Spade)

Michael Kors

Manolo Blahnik

Alberta Ferretti

Kim Jones (designer for Fendi)

Viktor Horsting

Rolf Snoeren

Richard Madden

Giorgio Armani

Isabel Marant

Nicky Zimmermann

Simone Zimmermann

Gimmo Etro

Austin Butler

Abigail Breslin

Lana Del Rey

Natalia Dyer

Molly Ringwald

Adele

Giambattista Valli

Tamara Ralph

Michael Russo

Isla Fisher

Anastasia Soare (founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills)

Charlotte Tilbury

Allan Avendaño

Danielle Priano

Pier Gelardi (founder of Refinery29)

Philippe von Borries (founder of Refinery29)

Christene Barberich (founder of Refinery29)

Justin Stefano (founder of Refinery29)

Sara Moonves (editor-in-chief for W Magazine)

Arnaud de Contades (CEO of Marie Claire Magazine)

Anne Fullenwider (editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Magazine)

Lauren Conrad

Miles Socha (editor-in-chief of Women’s Wear Daily)

Jay Penske (CEO of Women’s Wear Daily)

Jessica Pels (editor-in-chief for Cosmopolitan Magazine)

Rob Zangardi

Mariel Haenn

Michael Fassbender

Elliot Page

Betsey Johnson

Jonathan Groff

Anna Faris

Meryl Streep

Brie Larson

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Cindy Crawford

Nicholas Hoult

Zac Posen

Taraji P. Henson

Joan Smalls

Samira Nasr (editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine)

Lily James

Thandiwe Newton

Ciara Bravo

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Phoebe Dynevor

Allison Janney

Daniel Levy

Claire Foy

Lisa Eldridge

Kale Teter

LaQuan Smith

Lacy Redway

Alexandra DiRoma

Alex White (fashion director for Elle Magazine U.S.)

Carine Roitfeld (founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book)

Carine Backoff

Zoey Grossman

Tyler Shields

Greg Williams

Cass Blackbird

Kacey Musgraves

Owen Gould

Tobi Henney

Marc Eram

Charlotte Prevel

Romy Soleimani

Rebecca Minkoff

Joseph Altuzarra

Gabriela Heart (designer for Chloé)

Hedi Slimane (designer for Céline)

Phoebe Philo (designer for Céline)

Jonathan Anderson (designer for Loewe)

Saweetie

Kelsey Deenihan Fisher

Lorde

Demna Gvasalia (designer for Balenciaga)

Anok Lai

Precious Lee

Storm Reid

Jennifer Hudson

Maisie Williams

Tom Ford

Iman Abdulmajid

Ella Emhoff

Pete Davidson

Regina King

Amandla Stenberg

Eiza González

Stella McCartney

Vittora Ceretti

Leslie Grace

Alton Mason

Mary J. Blige

Carey Mulligan

Ming Xi

Donald Glover

Brooke Shields

Tracee Ellis Ross

Maya Hawke

Symone

Chiara Ferragni

Laura Dern

Anthony Mackie

Pharrell Williams

Frank Ocean

Joe Alwyn

Queen Latifah

Jason Wu

Shawn Mendes

Camila Cabello

(358-390 are new! If I think of ten more, then I’ll reblog this post and add them. I had this in the drafts for too long and I still could not think of anyone...)

NOT Invited

Justin Bieber

Hailey Baldwin

Cole Sprouse

Lili Reinhart

Kim Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian

Kris Jenner

Caitlyn Jenner

Kylie Jenner

Emma Chamberlain

Addison Rae

Charlie D'Amelio (she’s a minor anyhow, but even if she was 18 or older, she still doesn’t deserve to be invited. 😊)

Dixie D'Amelio

James Charles

Cardi B

Nicki Minaj

Miley Cyrus

Priyanka Chopra

Jeffree Star

ALL social media influencers (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram)

Lena Dunham

John Legend

Chrissy Teigen

Kanye West

Demi Lovato

Doutzen Kroes

Ezra Miller

Winnie Harlow

Chloë Grace Moretz

Johnny Depp

Amber Heard

Armie Hammer

Kristen Stewart

Travis Scott

Emma Roberts

Tom Cruise

Olivia Rodrigo

Hailee Steinfeld

Henry Cavill

Alida Morberg (Bill Skarsgård’s problematic “girlfriend”)

David Dobrik

Madison Beer

Domenico Dolce

Stefano Gabbana

Dove Cameron

Sabrina Carpenter

Lil Nas X

Harry Styles

Olivia Wilde

Alexander Wang

Justin Timberlake

Madonna

Justin Timberlake

Adam Levine

Sebastian Stan

Alejandra Onieva

Machine Gun Kelly

21 Savage

Barbara Palvin

French Montana

Chris Pratt

Bella Thorne

Scarlett Johansson

Jennifer Lawrence

Emma Watson

Vanessa Hudgens

Sacha Baron Cohen

Dylan Sprouse

Ashton Kutcher

Sarah Jessica Parker

Zayn Malik

Olivia Jade

Kid Cudi

Channing Tatum

Paris Hilton

Nicky Hilton

A$AP Rocky

Jeremy O. Harris

Timothée Chalamet

John Mulaney

Olivia Munn

Elon Musk

♡ September 12, 2021 November 25, 2021 ♡

#text #personal #2021 #pop culture #met gala #fashion #fashion industry

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