#Emily Puppet the Unicorn

[abardnamedreginald]

im a wolf-demon-salamander-grey treefrog-katydid-cricket-luna moth-klingon-trad vampire-cat-romulan-harry potter wizard-gnome-drow-orc-wood elf-high elf-werewolf-twilight vampire-chihuahua-android-bard-druid-sorcerer-d&d wizard-lotr wizard-mind flayer-kraken-owlbear-genetically modified human-andes mint-harry potter merperson-h20 mermaid-great white shark-raven named nevermore-amontillado-sewer clown-animatronic-ink person-reality bender-ringwraith-chicken-fairy-telescreen-multibear-manic pixie dream girl-d class-horcrux-dragon-unicorn-pegasus-among us crewmate-among us imposter-game master-sharpie king size marker-dwarf-dragonborn-toothbrush-rock-paper-scissors-lizard-vulcan-politician-god-phone guy-icebreakers ice cubes pineapple-a doctor not a miracle worker-troll-ent-poodle-rabbit-Bear.-orange zombie-purple zombie-green zombie-professor plum-col. mustard-in the library-with a knife-hoola dancer-fish-villager-pelecan-defense against the dark arts professer-mafia boss-peep rabbit-peep chicken-gymnast-hairbrush-philosopher-music freak-school teacher-kidnapper-police lieutenant-farmer-trash can-dumpster out back-turtle-tribble-my little pony-kratt brother-high diver-pearl diver, dive, dive, deeper-chef-fire-earth-water-wind-wasp-bee-hornet-yellowjacket-mud dabber-grasshopper-rattlesnake-armadillo-cowboy-flashlight-starfleet science officer-harlet-elephant-gater-muppet-emo-goth-preppy-teabag-loser-sucker-mouse-rat-a puppet-a pauper-a pirate-a poet-a pawn-and a king-father albert-the pope-a nun-pastor jeff-gambler-metalhead-death rocker-the grim reaper-angel-lighthouse-paw patrol dog-hobbit-starfish-sponge-crab-squid-shrimp-jellyfish-chipmunk-hammerhead shark-nurse shark-humpback whale-blue whale-orca-sexual harrassment panda-south park character-jakoffasaurus-scrabble board-ouija board-pillow-toilet paper-period pad-tampon-baby diaper-elderly diaper-martian-touch tone telephone-starfleet operations-starfleet command-kirk-spock-bones-sulu-chekov-uhura-scotty-yeoman rand-KHAN!!!-mudd-the uss enterprise-the uss reliant-botany bay-v'ger-valeris-saavik-sybok-surak-sarek-the abbreviation 'idk'-sheldon-leonard-penny-howard-raj-amy-bernadette-mary cooper-george sr-george jr-missy cooper-meemaw-tam-dr sturgis-dr linkletter-dr jack bright-dr clef-dr gears-dr kondraki-dr mann-dr iceberg-dr crow-dr rights-dr sherman-scp 049-scp 3008-scp 4231-scp 166-scp 682-scp 2521-scp 590-O5 6-bill cipher-stanley pines-stanford pines-dipper-mabel-wendy-soos-schmebulok-gideon-mcgucket-dipper goes to taco bell-sheriff blubs-deputy durland-tad strange-andy taylor-william afton-michael afton-elizabeth afton-crying child-henry emily-charlotte emily-dave miller-jack kennedy-dee kennedy-peter kennedy-steven stevenson-aragorn-sam-frodo-merry-pippin-boromir-legolas-gimli-gandalf-faramir-denethor-sauron-elrond-thranduil-harry-hermione-ron-voldemort-pettigrew.-moony-padfoot-prongs-snape-edward-bella-alice!!-carlisle-charlie-cthulhu-greg heffley-pennywise-bendy-sammy-norman-jack-alice (susie)-allison-henry stien-joey drew-bruenor battlehammer-raskolnikov-heather-heather-heather-veronica-jd-kurt-ram-martha-kurt cobain-david bowie-freddie mercury-hozier-mitski-lemon demon-jack stauber-tally hall-hamilton-burr-jefferson-madison-washington-phillip-angelica-eliza-peggy-king george iii-king henry viii-ben franklin-catherine of aragon-anne boleyn-jane seymour-anne of cleves-katherine howard-catherine parr-dracula-𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂-evan hansen-conner murphey-john adams-raymond barron-fred randall-jane doe-ocean-noel-mischa-constance-ricky-karnak-vergil-alternate-thatcher davis-ruth-dave-cesar-mark-adam-sarah-jonah-evelyn-gabriel-trump-biden-sunny-basil-kel-aubrey-hero-mari-vanessa (the mean girl that kinda likes u)-tux the linux penguin-perry the platypus hybrid princess...dont fw me

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

The following is the lineup for the polls by date, made using a random number generator. New characters introduced in chapter 199 will automatically be added to the end of the roster.

April 19th - April 26th

Chlaus

Rian Stoker

Lord Ackroyd's son

FOL Orphanage staff

Timber

Claude Faustus

Tanaka

Conny

Emily

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Finnian / Finny

Sharpe Hanks

Mabel

Burnett

April 20th - April 27th

Soma's elephant

Beast

Sophie Smith

Theodore

Finny's hat

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Karl Woodley

Oscar

Chris Heathfield

Sieglinde Sullivan

Fred Abberline

Stella Rose

Charles Phipps

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

April 21st - April 28th

Nick

Joanne Harcourt

Purple House dorm master

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Yana Toboso

Grete Hilbard

the Mad Dog of Venice

Abbie

Johnny

Mina

Rachel Phantomhive

Charles Phipps's chicken

Haku

Sascha

April 22nd - April 29th

Jumbo

Mrs. Mayell

Goethe

the Rowdy Count

Georg von Siemens

Margaret Connor

Al

Cedric Brandel

Mathilda Simmons

Wendy

Sam / Old Man Sam

Grelle Sutcliff

Ellery Nixon

Eric Slingby

April 23rd - April 30th

Edward Midford

Luka Macken

Queen Victoria

Lord Ackroyd

Layla

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Betty

Reaper trainees

Green House dorm master

Vincent Phantomhive

Drossel Keinz

Kelvin

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Charles Grey

April 24th - May 1st

Margaret Turner

Akashi

Snake

Edgar Redmond

Derrick Arden

Ronald Knox

Aurora Society member

Bloodbath Johnny

Wilde

Soma Asman Kadar

Claude's birds

Sebastian's silverware

Chef Rickman

Susannah Connor

April 25th - May 2nd

Susan

Artie

Damian

John Brown

Saneatsu Nekoma

Peter

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

demon Crow

Nina's assistants

Ludger

Prince Albert puppet

Miranda

April 26th - May 3rd

Blavat Sky

Vicar Rathbone

Julius Pitt

walking stick shopkeeper

Grimsby Keane

Ciel's horse

Edward V

Jay the Undertaker

Gregory Violet

Canterbury

Jeremy Rathbone

Doctor

the cat from the live action movie

Henry Barrymore

April 27th - May 4th

Lawrence Bluewer

Prince Albert

Higham

the Panzer

the train kidnapper

Donne

Heinrich

Chef Lach

Dagger

Doll / Freckles

Sam's grandson

Bitter Rabbit

Japanese man with a katana

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

April 28th - May 5th

Mey-Rin

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Webster

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Diedrich

Johann Agares

Bronte

Carter

Othello

the cultists

Baldroy Jr.

John Brown's horse

Sphere Music Hall staff

April 29th - May 6th

Jackknife Haywood

Nina Hopkins

William's death scythe

Angela Blanc

Wolfram Gelzer

McDowell

Ronald's lawnmower

Arthur Randall

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Keats

Annie

Terry

Hao

Maria

April 30th - May 7th

Irene Diaz

Polaris

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

kenpo master

Red House dorm master

Ran-Mao

Shiori Genpou

Cedric K. Ros

Lau

Clayton

William T. Spears

Patrick Phelps

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Oliver

May 1st - May 8th

Arthur Conan Doyle

the bear

Grelle's chainsaw

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

Richard

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

the archeologist

Joker

Jan

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Hilde Dickhaut

Rin

Cloudia Phantomhive

"Deer"

May 2nd - May 9th

King's Bear prostitutes

McMillan

"Her"

Undertaker's death scythe

Daniel

Ginny

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Charles Bennett Sato

demon Ciel

Ada

Arnold Trancy

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Arihito Genpou

Thomas Wallis

May 3rd - May 10th

Chef Tarpin

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Lau's ladies

Fennian

Harold West Jeb

Nicholas

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Anne Drewanz

CGI horses / driver

Margaret Connor's father

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

Jane

Paula

Wordsworth

May 4th - May 11th

Maurice Cole

Alexis Leon Midford

bizarre dolls

the turnspit dog

the "werewolves"

O!Ciel's land renters

priest

Pluto

Sebastian the dog

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

the Sebastian Roomba

bizarre doll horses

Baldroy's cow

Undertaker

May 5th - May 12th

Hanae Wakatsuki

the iceberg

Alan Humphries

Ash Landers

Thompson

Snake's unnamed snakes

Milly

Munemitsu Aoki

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Aurora Society purified water seller

Drossel's dolls

the timetable guy

Herman Greenhill

May 6th - May 13th

Azzurro Vanel

William's pigeons

Joanna

Reaper managers

Dove

Countess Trancy and her baby

German countryman

Scotland Yard officers

Haku's henchman

Lorraine McDowell

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Hannah Annafellows

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Pitt

May 7th - May 14th

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

Paul Jones

Francis Midford

Sebastian Michaelis

Cheslock

Phantomhive family ring

James

Edward Abberline

Baron Ridley

Sebastian's owl

[ponds-of-ink]

Charlie Emily and Puppet ponies go brrrrr

Pony Charlie wanted the Puppet mask as a cutie mark so badly when she realized Pony!Purple Guy sealed her fate. Poor little pony… Or… Changeling? Hmmm

[grasslandgirl]

top 5 most insane d20 moments GO

anon i love you this was so difficult so i'm gonna have a long list of honorable mentions at the end of this. but! here we go: (in no particular order)

1: figayda kiss scene (YES-AH! YES-AH! I BLESS THIS UNION). this scene makes me insane like very little else in the world. i think it fundamentally changed my brainchemistry. [fhsy]

2: doctor doolittle incident (funniest shit i've ever seen) [tuc]

3: penny and laertes eating the candy heart candies and then vomiting repeatedly in the middle of a tense lore and emotional revelation conversation. the whole table losing their collective minds gets me so bad without fail [the seven]

4: the hilda hilda scene. obviously. emily axford funniest person in the world. [fhsy]

5: WHAT'RE YOU DOING DUDE IF KUG'S INVOLVED MAN? REDDIT IS GONNA EAT YOUR ASS FOR THIS [tuc]

honorable mentions: all of telemine saying nonsense in his stupid elvish accent [fhsy] // operation slippery puppet [aso] // jet's death and calroy's betrayal and amethar's fall [acoc] // maggie giving birth in midair falling from the airship [eftbk] // daisy taking a shit off the tower to try and slow sylvester's fall (honorable mention squared: rekha rolling a nat 20 to make ghosts real in universe) [m&m] // kristen's nat twenty to be alive and the following season's nat twenty to get stabbed in the heart by a unicorn [fh and fhsy] // evan's monologue to the french student about how he doesn't want to kill him [mismag] // I WAS FAITHFUL I WOULD HAVE CONTINUED TO BE FAITHFUL [tuc] // avanash the bones guy WHAT IS CRAZY ABOUT WANTING YOUR BONES [eftbk] // and finally, and obviously, the infamous fantasy high you've been episode 2'ed aguefort shooting himself and the guidance counselor in the head suicide murder beat [fh]

xoxoxoxoxo anon my head is so full

[awholelotofladybug]

Clown Emilie AU

A non-superhero AU where:

 Emilie is alive and well, but instead of an actor, Emilie is a clown, that’s why she makes Adrien laugh.

Emilie’s clown name is Trixy, and she works on a live circus TV show.

The show has everything a normal circus would have, save for live animals. Instead, they use life-size puppets and animatronic creatures. This allows them to get creative, and use things like dragons, dinosaurs, unicorns, etc.

Adrien adores his mother’s work, and even wants to be a clown when he grows up.

Marinette is a huge fan of Trixy, and is utterly starstruck when she finds out she’s Adrien’s mom.

Everyone loves the show, but Chloe, who’s less of a bully and more of a stick-in-the-mud, tends to avoid it and most things related to clowns and humor because she’s worried she might make a fool of herself. Adrien takes it upon himself to get her to lighten up, and soon, the rest of the class joins him in his quest to get Chloe to laugh and smile.

Marinette and Adrien grow to like each other, and a romance blooms as they spend more and more time together. It’s not long before they fall in love.

Below is a rough idea of what Emilie looks like in her work uniform.

[warheroics-blog]

the canon-divergent portrayal of my theseus scamander and how the crimes of grindelwald affects it (more might be added if something pops up):

as the movie gives no indication of theseus’ hogwarts house, i will continue to portray my theseus as a ravenclaw (because i’m not giving up woolmancy and those damn sock puppets you hear me!!!)

and yes, theseus invented a whole new branch of magic called woolmancy and he has an army of wooly knitted creatures and sock puppets, one famously known as mr. fizzles who has a order of merlin

while one of the behind the scenes books states that theseus is 8 years newt’s senior, meaning that he was likely born between february 1888 and february 1889, since the movie does not actually explicitly states theseus’ age, i am going to move it just a year forward to july 1887 so that his first year at hogwarts will coincide with albus dumbledore’s last year, thus theseus and dumbledore knew each other when they were at school

theseus was 9 years old when newt was born

he has a son, noah percival scamander, born in 1918 from a one night stand during the war with ex-girlfriend emily greenwood who had been a nurse, she and theseus share custody of noah

the movie confirms theseus to be a hugger, so yes, theseus will hug lots of people because he is a hugger

while the movie canon has him engaged to leta lestrange, my main verse will not have this engagement and it will be dependent with each leta rper that i interact with - the only time where the engagement with leta is automatic is if we are interacting in my canon verse, then theseus and leta are engaged to be married on june 6, 1928

as shown in the movie, while theseus may not agree with newt’s profession of choice, he loves his younger brother and wants to and loves spending time with him, and while newt has his beasts, theseus has his sock puppets/wooly knitted creatures

theseus loves knitting, it is probably his favorite past time, that’s how his wooly creatures and sock puppets are created, as well as among other things like sweaters or mittens or etc., some of which are perfect weaponized for auror work

theseus is not impulsive by nature and would rather think things through than react without a plan, he does not like using lethal force unless absolutely necessary

theseus shares a close bond with percival graves, whom he met with and fought beside during the war, hence theseus’ son noah’s middle name is named after percival

theseus’ patronus is a salmon

his wand is laurel wood with a unicorn hair core 14 ½" and surprisingly swishy flexibility

he was prefect and head boy during his time at hogwarts, and also the keeper of the ravenclaw quidditch team

theseus served as a medic during the first world war and saved over 200 lives which earned him both the victoria cross from the muggle world and a order of merlin from the wizarding world

his star sign is cancer

theseus’ sexuality is at this point just whoever he has chemistry with, i have never set down a specific sexuality because i like to keep my rp open to anything and anyone

my main fc for theseus will continue to be dan stevens, i will use callum in the canon verse and otherwise as an alternate fc

[ao3feed-danganronpa]

Five Truth Bullets, Five Nights

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3syD4tj

by Mecha9Viceroy74

In which Charlie Emily and her friends, the Ultimate Night Shift guard and several people are roped in a killing game, because of a mysterious MR Blue Sky

Words: 351, Chapters: 1/14, Language: English

Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's, Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, Willy's wonderland

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Monster Vinnie | Monster Reverse Puppet (Five Nights at Candy's), Animatronic Simon (Popgoes), Charlotte "Charlie" Emily, Stanley | Charlie's Toy Unicorn (Five Nights at Freddy's), Michael Afton, Jeremy Fitzgerald, John (Five Nights at Freddy's), Carlton Burke, Sherrif Lundon, Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Relationships: Charlotte "Charlie" Emily & John

Additional Tags: Danganronpa Spoilers, Dangan Ronpa Spoilers, Character Death

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3syD4tj

[a2caf]

The Kids Have Chosen Their Favorites!

On June 16, 2019, the annual Kids’ Comics Awards Ceremony was held at the Ann Arbor District Library, hosted by Ben Hatke, Zack Giallongo, and Bruno Hohn. The Ceremony was written and directed by fellow host Kevin Coppa. Nominees were suggested by kids via public ballot in April 2019. Our thanks to Jen Vincent, Sharon Iverson, and Travis Jonker, who selected the final nominees using the initial votes as a guide. Kids attending the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival were able to vote for their favorite books and creators via paper ballot, while the wider world was invited to vote via online form.

The video of the ceremony, featuring puppets, jousting, mermaids, and moat-swimming dinogators, will be posted soon. But until then, here are the books and creators chosen by kids!

Most Epic Adventure

The nominees were:

Amulet: Supernova by Kazu Kibuishi

Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks

The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

STAR WARS ADVENTURES Jawa story in issue #8 / Otis Frampton

Encounter

Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules by Tony Cliff

And the kids chose...

Amulet: Supernova, by Kazu Kibuishi

Funniest Comic

The nominees were:

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas by Dav Pilkey

The Bad Guys in Superbad by Aaron Blabey

Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths by Graham Annable

Phoebe and Her Unicorn in Unicorn Theater by Dana Simpson

Bad Kitty: Kitten Trouble by Nick Bruel

And the kids chose...

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, by Dav Pilkey

Favorite Nonfiction/Mythology Comic

The nominees were:

Ocean Renegades! (Earth Before Us, #2) by Abby Howard

Science Comics: Rockets Defying Gravity  by Anne and Jerzy Drozd

Secret Coders: Monsters & Modules by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes

Lafayette! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales) by Nathan Hale

Snails Are Just My Speed! by Kevin McCloskey

3x4: A TOON Book by Ivan Brunetti

And the kids chose...

Lafayette! by Nathan Hale

Favorite Author

The nominees were:

Hope Larson

Dav Pilkey

Kazu Kibuishi

Sara Varon

Vera Brosgol

Judd Winick

Jarrett Krosoczka

Svetlana Chmakova

And the kids chose...

Kazu Kibuishi

Bravest Hero

The nominees were:

Far Tune: Autumn

New Shoes by Sara Varon

Tiger vs. Nightmare by Emily Tetri

Hilo Book 4: Waking the Monsters by Judd Winick

The Principal Strikes Back (Jedi Academy #6) by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

And the kids chose...

Hilo Book 4: Waking the Monsters, by Judd Winick

Keepin' It Real (for memoir & realistic fiction)

The nominees were:

Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol

Mr. Wolf's Class by Aron Nels Steinke

All Summer Long by Hope Larson

Kristy's Big Day by Ann M. Martin and Gale Galligan

Crush by Svetlana Chmakova

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction  by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

And the kids chose...

Mr. Wolf's Class, by Aron Nels Steinke

Keepin' It Unreal (for scifi and fantasy)

The nominees were:

The Hidden Witch by Molly Ostertag

Punk Taco by Adam Wallenta, Makana Wallenta

Monster Mayhem by Chris Eliopoulos

Edison Beaker: Creature Seeker by Frank Cammuso

Sparks!  By Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto

5 Worlds: The Cobalt Prince by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel

Star Scouts: The League of Lasers by Mike Lawrence

And the kids chose...

Punk Taco, by Adam and Makana Wallenta

Congratulations to the winners! Be sure to cast your vote for your favorite comics of 2019 by checking back here in April of 2020!

[sinditia]

AHBL8 Part 12 – Sunday – Panels – The Hillywood Show, Amy and Emily

The Hillywood Show

I missed about half of the panel because of the ultimate chat, but I didn’t really mind.  This time they were in civillian clothes and I can’t get over how different they looked. A lot of the questions were a repeat from the day before, because there were a lot of new people on Sunday who didn’t attend Saturday’s panel, and this happened with all of the guests in the following panels.  But I guess I didn’t really mind, the guests found ways of changing up their answers.

 Amy-Emily Panel

More photos here

Amy and Emily had a super-fun panel on Sunday.  They came back out with their little plushy unicorns, but sans compression socks and neck pillow.  

There was a question about scary scenes that Emily had to shoot, and Emily had this great idea of having audience participation to tell the story of the scene where Amara stood in the middle of the road to stop the Impala. So she had four people from the audience come up to portray her as Amara, the Impala, and the chain that held the Impala in place as they revved it in front of her.  Emily made the guy who portrayed the Impala run up and down the stage to show what it looked like when the Impala went full speed at her.  It was pretty funny.  Audience participation became a running joke of the panel. Someone else asked a question that I don’t really remember, and Emily was like staring off into the distance, thinking about it, and Amy was like, “you’re trying to figure out how to answer this with audience participation, aren’t you?” 

Amy talked about how special the SPN cast and crew are, and how a lot of that has to do with J2 and how welcoming and ego-less they are, and to do with how supportive the fans are.  Emily jumped in with her story about how she has done some stuff with the cast and crew that she would never have done in another set (which she noted sounded vaguely dirty).  She gave an example with how Rich asked her to send him a video of her dancing in a tiger onesie so he can show it the crew and she was like, “sure!” with barely any hesitation, which she thought would probably be hugely unprofessional on other sets but with SPN there’s such a strong sense of family that it doesn’t seem weird. Emily also commended just how game everyone in the SPN family was, like at the concert the night before, there really wasn’t much preparation regarding Amy being on stage.  Basically Emily was just asked her to join them performing and Amy was just like, “sure!”.  Amy agreed that even though she was nervous at first, when she got up on stage, she felt such a supportive energy from the audience that she was really comfortable with everything.  

Then someone asked if Amy settled on a name for her unicorn yet, so she told us about how she looked up unicorn names on the internet and found a bunch of sites that generated names based on like last letter of first name, first letter of last name, things like that.  So one site came up with Diva the Bold, which made Emily laugh.  She said, “that sounds like someone who’s really insecure.  Like, what’s your name? It’s DIVA the BOLD!”  So Amy tried another site, which came up with Perky Yellow Banana, which she thought sounded a little pornographic.  “A LITTLE??” Emily hollered.  Then Emily made a show of taking her unicorn away, saying that she didn’t want George associating with such a unicorn.  Amy put her unicorn in her pocket and Emily was like, “Is that a perky yellow banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

Before they finished, Amy and Emily wanted to have a audience participation in a talent show type contest, offering a prize of a mystery item wrapped in a napkin.  Emily taped the whole thing on her phone because “this could be really crazy.  Or a liability.”  So they chose six people from the audience to showcase their talent. Three sang, one danced, the girl in the cactus costume did a rap, and the Sam puppet guy did a ventriloquist skit where the Sam-puppet did the lock and key scene from the French Mistake. The winners were decided by cheers but Emily couldn’t pick one winner so she chose three (two of the singers plus the dancer).  Amy announced that the napkin contained DNA material from a very special individual and unearthed a bitten bread roll.  She broke it into three parts and gave it to the winners, asking if they were willing to eat it before she revealed who the DNA belonged to.  All three winners popped the whole thing in their mouths with barely any hesitation which made Emily go crazy with laughter.  Then Emily showed them the video evidence of the roll being bitten by none other than one Jared Padalecki.  It was hilarious

[classicalliberalleague]

@NAC you had a list of books on your old page of recommended readings...but I can't find it now. Could you repost it?

I assume you mean this one ( I have this list on my web page with links included for the public domain stuff I could find…I try to keep it updated as I think of new things or find new ones.)

Young adult/childrenThe Little Prince by Saint-ExuperyWhere the sidewalk ends by SilversteinElla Minnow Pea by DunnSophie’s World by GaarderThe Great Good Thing by TownleyThe Jungle Book by Kipling Bridge to Terabithia by DiamondThe Westing Game by RaskingLillies of the Field by BarrettFlowers for Algernon by KeyesThe Wrinkle in Time Series(Wrinkle In Time, Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)  by Madeleine L’EngleThe Dark is Rising Series by Susan CooperThe Tripod Trilogy by John ChristopherThe Hobbit by TolkienCoraline by Neil GaimanEyes of the Dragon by Stephen KingThe Original Shanara Trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong) and Landover (Magic Kingdom for Sale, SOLD!, The Black Unicorn, Wizard at Large, The Tangle Box) by Terry Brooks by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Witch of Blackbird PondAdventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain 

Literature Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy & Frederika by Mark HelprinShakespeare (Especially Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, sonnets) Iliad   Odyssey   by Homer (I like the Fagles translation)Sophocles–Oedipus Trilogy ,  , Philoctetes , Women of Trachis Orestia by Aeschylus  Medea by Euripides Victor HugoLes Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dam by Hugo A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens To Kill A Mockingbird by LeeWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Complete works of Faulkner ( esp.The Sound and the Fury, Light in August) by FaulknerHoward’s End by Forster Diary of a Young Girl by FrankThe Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne Catch 22 by HellerGone with the Wind by MitchellFrankenstein by Shelley The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Importance of Being Earnest , An Ideal Husband by WildeThe Time Machine by Wells A Raisin in the Sun by HansberryNight by WieselThe Glass Menagerie by WilliamsThe Devil’s Disciple by ShawA Man for All Seasons by BoltCyrano de Bergerac by Ronstad (unless you speak French only the Hooker translation)Dracula by Stoker Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and LeeMagnificent Obsession by DouglasSilas Marner by George Eliot Decameron –Boccaccio A Modest Proposal—SwiftSelf-Reliance, The American Scholar, Experience—EmersonUp from Slavery—Booker T. Washington

PhilosophyA History of Knowledge by Van DorenThe Cave and the Light by HermanPlato (Euthyphro ,  Apology , Gorgias , Crito, Phaedo , Symposium , Republic )Aristotle (Metaphysics , Nicomachean Ethics , Eudemian Ethics , Politics , Rhetoric ,  Poetics )The History of Philosophy by CoplestonDiscourses on Livy by Machiavelli Ethical and Political Writings of St. Thomas AquinasAristotle for Everybody, 10 Philosophical Mistakes, The Great Ideas, How to Read A Book by AdlerCicero (On the Gods , On Duties , 1st and 2nd Philippics Superheroes and Philosophy edited by MorrisBuffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by South

HistoryHistory of the Ancient World, Medieval World, Renaissance World by Susan Wise BauerThe Forgotten Man, Coolidge by ShlaesHistory of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides John Adams by McCulloughFrom Dawn to Decadence by BarzunPlutarch’s Lives Cicero, Augustus by EverittLetters of John and Abigail Adams Washington by Ron ChernowThe Glorious Cause by Robert MiddlekauffLost Enlightenment by StarrReagan’s War by SchweizerPatriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart and AllenThe closing of the Muslim Mind by ReillyThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Economics/PoliticsWho Really Cares  and The Road to Freedom by Arthur BrooksThe World is Flat by Thomas FriedmanDave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by BarryDemocracy in America by de Tocqueville  The Law by Bastiat The Upside of Down by McArdkeSpirit of the Laws The Federalist Papers Adam Smith (Theory of Moral Development , Wealth of Nations )My Journey by BlairThe Conscience of a Conservative by GoldwaterLocke (Second Treatise of Government , A Letter Concerning Tolerance )Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich, On Wealth, Peace Kills by O’RourkeIn Defense of Globalization by BhagwatiNovus Ordo Seclorum by McDonaldBasic Economics, Civil Rights by SowellThe Next 100 Years by FriedmanThe Mystery of Capital by de SotoThe Road to Serfdom by HayekCapitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose by FriedmanNew Threats To Freedom edited by BellowA Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France  by BurkeThe General Theory by KeynesThe Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Decay by FukuyamaBourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Equality, Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre McCloskeyCapital by Marx The Conservative Mind by Kirk

Other nonfictionPower of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Universe in a Nutshell by HawkingFreakanomics by Levitt & DubnerThe Art of War by Sun TzuScratch beginnings by ShepardThe Tao of Physics by CapraShadowplay by AsquithHuman Excellence by MuarryThe Better Angles of Our Nature by Pinker48 Laws of Power by GreeneThe Story of Western Science by Bauer

Pleasure readingMan in the High Castle by DickBeat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by ForesterThe Road to Gandolfo, Bourne Trilogy by LudlumBig Trouble by BarryEaters of the Dead, State of Fear by CrichtonRed Storm Rising by ClancyI, Claudius by GravesThe Walking Drum by L’AmourGates of Fire by PressfieldThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Ozcry It and The Green Mile by KingThe Agony and the Ecstasy by StonePillars of the Earth by FollettThe Historian by KostovaGrail Quest by CornwallThe Thirteenth Tale by StterfieldLamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Vampire Trilogy, The Stupidest Angel and Fool by Moore

Sci fi/Fantasy Mists of Avalon, The Forrest House by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (et. al)Dune Series by Frank Herbert (et. al)The Sword of Truth Series by Terry GoodkindWorks of Robert Heinlein (esp. Stranger in a Strange Land, Puppet Master, Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Double Star)Good Omens by Gaiman and PratchettWatership Down by AdamsEnder’s Game by CardAmerican Gods by GaimanAnthem, Atlas Shrugged by RandHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Adams1984 by George Orwell2001–Clarke

Spiritual The Robe by DouglasLost Horizon by HiltonGod Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita by YoganadaThe Second Coming of Christ by YoganandaThe Tao Te Ching (best to read at least two translations)The Alchemist, Veronica Decides to Die by CoelhoAutobiography of a Yogi by YoganandaEvidence of the Afterlife by LongA Course in MiraclesThe Messengers by IngramThe Celestine Prophecy by RedfieldLife before Life by TuckerJonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by BachSiddartha by HesseKoranThe Book of CertitudeHoly BibleBook of Mormon

PoetryThe Prophet, The Broken Wings, Song of Man by GibranLeaves of Grass by Whitman  (esp. Preface, Song of Myself, I hear America Singing, Corinna’s Going A-Maying,When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, O Me! O Life!, O Captain! My Captain!)Works of Tennyson (especially The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade, For I dipped into the Future, In Memoriam A.H.H., Crossing the Bar, Ulysses)Works of T.S. Eliot (especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland, Hollow Men, Preludes-, Four Quartets)Divine Comedy by Dante (I like the Mandelbaum translation) Metamorphoses by Ovid Hesperides and Nobel Numbers by Herrick  (esp. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Argument of his book, Delight in Disorder, To His Conscience, Upon Julia’s ClothesFaust by Goethe Part I  Part II Works of Sappho, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Tu Fu (best to read several translations)Tagore (esp. Gitanjali)Spencer– Amoretti (Sonnets 1,8, 10, 35, 37, 67,68, 70,75, 79)Sidney —Astrophil & Stella (Sonnets 1,6,9,15, 31,39,45,52,69,71,72,87,89,108)The Passionate Shepherd to His Love—MarloweThe Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—RaleighShakespeare’s Sonnets (all them)Meditation 17, Holy Sonnet 10, The Bait—DonneTo a Mouse, To a Louse, Auld Lang Syne. A Red Red Rose–BurnsThe Lamb, The Tyger—BlakeRime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan—ColeridgeShe Walks in Beauty Like the Night, When We Two Parted, Darkness, We’ll Go No More A Roving, When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home—ByronA Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing—PopeThe Measure of a Man—UnknownInvictus–HenleyPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi—Unknown (but probably not St. Francis)Ozymandias, The Flight of Love, To—, —ShellyOde on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci—KeatsSea Fever–MasefieldMy Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister—BrowningSonnet 43—Barret BrowningRemember, Up-hill, Echo, Promises like Pie-Crust, Lord thou thyself art love,—C.G. RossettiSudden Light, The House of Life, Soul’s Beauty—D.G. RossettiThe New Colossus–LazarusSecond Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, When you are Old, Lake Island of Inishfree—YeatsDo Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night—ThomasWork—Angela MorganThe Highwayman–NoyesCasey at Bat—ThayerJabberwocy, Walrus and the Carpenter, The Hunting of the Snark–CarrollDream Deferred, I too sing America– HughesThe Road Not Taken, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Out, Out–Frost

Short StoriesWilde (The Carterville ghost , The model millionaire , The nightingale and the rose  )Poe (Masque of the Red Death . Tell tale heart , Cask of Amontillado , Fall of the house if of usher , The Purloined Letter ,The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade  , Pit and the Pendulum , Mertzengerstein , The Duc De L’omlette , The black cat , The Murders of the Rue Morgue , Van Kempelen and his discovery , Mesmeric revelation )Hawthorne (My Kinsman Major Molineux , Young Goodman Brown ,  Rappacini’s Daughter , Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment , The Snow Image , The Minister’s Black Veil , The Maypole of Merry Mount , The Celestial Railroad , Sister Years  , The New Adam and Eve , The Artist of the Beautiful )O. Henry ( Lickpenny Lover , The Gift of the Magi ,After Twenty Years , The Last Leaf , The Cop and the Anthem  , The Clarion Call , The Skylight Room , The Buyer from Cactus City , The Duplicity of the Hargraves , The Furnished Room , Witches loaves , The Third Ingredient  , Spring time a la Carte  , The Green Door , By Courier, The Romance of the Busy Broker, One Thousand Dollars, Tobin’s Palm)Lovecraft—(The Cats of Ultar , The Outsider , Beyond the wall of sleep , Hypnos , The call of Cuthulu  , Dunwich horror , Dagon)EM Forrester (The Other side of the Hedge , The Machine Stops )Edith Wharton –The fullness of life Collins–Mr. Lismore and the Widow Bradbury—Exiles, Sound of thunderHans Christian Anderson –( In a thousand years  , Little mermaid )Ambrose Bierce–Occurrence at owl creek bridgeConnell–The most dangerous game Thousand and One nights–Aladdin and his magic lamp The necklace by Maupassant Anthony Hope–The Philosophy in the Apple Orchard Doyle (The Red Headed League , Scandal in Bohemia)Gilman–The Yellow Wallpaper Harrison Bergeron by VonnegutThe story of an hour by Kate Chopin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Rikki tiki tavi by KiplingThe ones who walk away from Omelas by Le Guin  Bartley the scrivener by MelvilleThe lady or the tiger by Frank Stockton Abbot–FlatlandJericho Road by Henry van dyke Henlein– (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, All you zombies, By his bootstraps, Waldo, Beyond this horizon)Philip K. Dick (We can remember it for you wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety, The Minority Report, The Golden Man, Variable Man)William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, The Tall Men, Shingles for the Lord, Shall not Perish, Elly, Uncle Willy, That will be Fine, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves, A Justice, A Courtship, Lo!, Ad Astra, All the Dead Pilots, Wash, Mountain Victory,  Beyond)Mark Twain (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County,  Diary of Adam and Eve)Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow, ,  The Devil and Tom Walker  )Gelett Burgess–The number Thirteen , The MacDougal street affair  Lord Dunsany– The bureau d’exchange de Maux , The Exiles club , The Sword of Walleran  The mortal immortal  byMary Shelly The Adventure of the Snowing Globe By F. AnsteyThe Sleeper and Spindle by GaimanMark Helprin (Katherine comes to yellow sky, Ellis island,  Tamar)

PodcastsThe History of Rome, Revolutions

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After the cut is the final list of characters that will be in the poll, aside from any new characters that are introduced in chapter 199.

Abbie

Ada

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Akashi

Al

Alan Humphries

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Alexis Leon Midford

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Angela Blanc

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Anne Drewanz

Annie

the archeologist (Season 2 character)

Arihito Genpou

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

Arnold Trancy

Artie

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Randall

Ash Landers

Aurora Society member (first one O!Ciel and Seb meet)

Aurora Society purified water seller

Azzurro Vanel

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Baldroy Jr.

Baldroy's cow

the bear

Beast

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

Betty

Bitter Rabbit

bizarre dolls

bizarre doll horses

Blavat Sky

Bloodbath Johnny

Bronte

Burnett

Canterbury

Carter

the cat from the live action movie

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Cedric Brandel

Cedric K. Ros

CGI horses / driver

Charles Bennett Sato

Charles Grey

Charles Phipps

Charles Phipps's chicken

Chef Lach

Chef Rickman

Chef Tarpin

Chef Wollest

Cheslock

Chlaus

Chris Heathfield

Chris Heathfield's Chris Heathfield's maids

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

Ciel's horse

Claude Faustus

Claude's birds

Cloudia Phantomhive

Clayton

Conny

Countess Trancy and her baby

the cultists

Dagger

Damian

Daniel

"Deer"

demon Ciel

demon Crow

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Derrick Arden

Diedrich

Doctor

Doll / Freckles

Donne

Dove

Drossel Keinz

Drossel's dolls

Edgar Redmond

Edward Abberline

Edward Midford

Edward V

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Ellery Nixon

Emily

Eric Slingby

Fennian

Finnian / Finny

Finny's hat

FOL Orphanage staff

Francis Midford

Fred Abberline

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Georg von Siemens

German countryman

Ginny

Goethe

Green House dorm master

Gregory Violet

Grelle Sutcliff

Grelle's chainsaw

Grete Hilbard

Grimsby Keane

Haku

Haku's henchman

Hanae Wakatsuki

Hannah Annafellows

Hao

Harold West Jeb

Heinrich

Henry Barrymore

"Her"

Herman Greenhill

Higham

Hilde Dickhaut

the iceberg

Irene Diaz

Jackknife Haywood

James

Jan

Jane

Japanese man with a katana

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Jay the Undertaker

Jeremy Rathbone

Joanna

Joanne Harcourt

Johann Agares

John Brown

John Brown's horse

Johnny

Joker

Julius Pitt

Jumbo

Karl Woodley

Keats

Kelvin

kenpo master

King's Bear prostitutes

Lau

Lau's girls

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Lawrence Bluewer

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Layla

Lord Ackroyd

Lord Ackroyd's son

Lorraine McDowell

Ludger

Luka Macken

the Mad Dog of Venice

Mabel

Margaret Connor

Margaret Connor's father

Margaret Turner

Maria

Mathilda Simmons

Maurice Cole

McDowell

McMillan

Mey-Rin

Milly

Mina

Miranda

Mrs. Mayell

Munemitsu Aoki

Nicholas

Nick

Nina Hopkins

Nina's assistants

O!Ciel's land renters

Oliver

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

Oscar

Othello

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Paul Jones

the Panzer

Patrick Phelps

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Paula

Peter

Phantomhive family ring

Pitt

Pluto

Polaris

priest (from Season 2)

Prince Albert

Prince Albert puppet

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Purple House dorm master

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Rachel Phantomhive

Ran-Mao

Reaper managers

Reaper trainees

Red House dorm master

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

Richard

Ridley

Rian Stoker

Rin

Ronald Knox

Ronald's lawnmower

the Rowdy Count

Sam / Old Man Sam

Sam's grandson

Saneatsu Nekoma

Sascha

Scotland Yard officers

Sebastian Michaelis

the Sebastian Roomba

Sebastian the dog

Sebastian's silverware

Sharpe Hanks

Shiori Genpou

Sieglinde Sullivan

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Snake

Snake's unnamed snakes

Soma Asman Kadar

Soma's elephant

Sophie Smith

Sphere Music Hall staff

Stella Rose

Susan

Susannah Connor

Tanaka

Terry

Theodore

Thomas Wallis

Thompson

Timber

the timetable guy

the train kidnapper

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

the turnspit dog

Undertaker

Undertaker's death scythe

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Vicar Rathbone

Vincent Phantomhive

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

walking stick shopkeeper

Webster

Wendy

the "werewolves"

Wilde

William T. Spears

William's death scythe

William's pigeons

Wolfram Gelzer

Wordsworth

Yana Toboso

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Rear View Project

Dear Susan,

   For my project I want to do the time I had a week long sleepover with my friend Alexandra. I have some ideas on what I want to do so I’m going to write out everything I have planned right now in terms of how I want to film it and will then condense it for the paperwork due on Thursday for Zach’s class...

  A young girl (Ray) is seen outside a house with a small suit case. A narrator is heard over different shots of her, her eyes hands feet etc., the narrator is her and is explaining who she is and where she is going. The voice then informs of a sister who is accompanying. We then see a slightly shorter girl (Em) next to Ray. There is explanation that the mother forced Ray to bring her sister. Camera follows the two girls as they go down two or three houses and arrive at their destination. A wide shot of the house is shown as the girls are let in. Narration is played over individual shots of the four sisters explaining who they are and a little fact about them all with different bright colors behind them. Alexandra is Ray's best friend and the reason she is here. Tina is the cool older sister who dances. Jen is the middle with Alexandra and spends most of her time with Demi. Demi is the youngest, not too far off from Jen and she spends most of her time with Jen. Cut to all the kids together in the basement sitting in a circle, Jen beside Demi. Narration explains that on the first day they didn't really do much except talk about what to do. A voice (Mother) is heard but it sounds like it is coming from a walkie talkie. Cut to a walkie as it finishes saying that pizza is here for the children. Shot of kid's feet running upstairs, then multiple shots of kids eating in symmetrical close ups (Taking a piece, taking a bite, picking up cup, taking a sip, putting down drink, maybe one kid after another like Ray takes a piece, Em takes a piece, etc. In order of things. Maybe) Cut to kids back in basement filling air mattresses. Quick shots of them getting everything set up but a bit of a long shot as they wait for it to fill up (Only one). Then the kids making a mountain of the mattresses. Very quick jump cuts of each mattress being added as the narrator says "Freshly full of sugar and energy we fill up air mattresses (Pause) and put them all on top of each other with blankets over it. Multiple shots (Or sped up footage) of the kids trying to climb it. Cut to everyone in a sleeping bag on an air mattress and the lights go out. There is a nightlight seen so the camera isn't just black and it stays like that for about 10-15 seconds before someone says "Pudding" and everybody starts laughing. 

Narrator then talks for a while describing other things they did through the week and there are multiple quick shots to showcase what the narrator is saying. Everything will be done in a Wes Anderson type style with bright colors popping out for each character.

 Ray- Purple Em- Green Alex-Blue Tina- Red Demi-Yellow Jen- Orange

 The other things the Narrator will be describing is Biking down to a convenience store to buy a tub of ice cream and eating it all when we got home. Shot of kids biking (All centered) shot of the door opening of the convenience store, a shot panning around the counter seeing the clerk watch the kids with noises of them opening a freezer then a hard cut breaking the 180 rule to Ray holding a tub of chocolate ice cream and all the kids evenly behind her, Ray is center, she then put the tub on the counter. Cut back to the clerk looking at all the kids then he picks up the tub, scans it, and asks for $7. Cut back to the kids Biking again only this time Ray has a tub of Ice cream under her arm. Cut to a bird's eye view of the tub being placed on the table in the basement and 6 hands going in with spoons to eat it. One shot of a kid's mouth eating the ice cream. 

The narrator will then talk about how on another day we listened to Nickle Back and danced. 

Another day Emily Left. 

Narrator will talk about how there was a red blow up crayon but "we aren't going to get into that" The camera will pan right to left in a dark room reveling Demi holding a red blow up crayon under an intense spot light, stopping when she is centered. 

 One day we didn't do anything but watch YouTube videos and play board games (Insert found footage of LLama's with hats, Charlie the Unicorn, asdf movies etc.) and also the kids in the basement (Pan). Kids playing a board game from a bird's eyes view.

 Another day Alexandra and Ray are alone and watch Happy Tree Friends and want to make their own thing like that. Shot of both girls from a camera placed over a computer looking at the screen, sounds from happy tree friends is played and the children react as expected. Multiple quick shots of the two girls finding brown paper bags and drawing on them then hanging a sheet on the wall behind the couch and taping a piece of paper to the top saying "Happy Branch Friends" and setting up a camera on books. Cut to what that camera can see for a quick shot of a take in of breath and one of the puppets mouth opening. The narrator will then explain how we were so embarrassed soon after that we deleted it all. (Shot of both girls huddled around the camera "deleting" the footage. 

On the last day we went out on our bikes again but Alex fell off of hers so we stopped. Shot of all the kids biking again then closer shot of Ray so Alex isn't in frame. Ray eventually looks back to see the other kids around Alex who is holding her face as "blood" drips between her fingers. And thus, ending the week-long sleepover. Quick shots of Ray packing her clothes in the suit case, repeat shots from the beginning except now inside and final shot of Ray exiting the door from inside, with the door centered. 

[londontheatre]

All Or Nothing – LtoR Stefan Edwards, Stanton Wright, Chris Simmons, Carol Harrison, Samuel Pope, Alexander Gold. Credit Phil Weedon

Full casting is announced for the West End season of the critically acclaimed ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL, based on the story of the Small Faces. Joining the previously announced Carol Harrison as Kay Marriott and Chris Simmons as Steve Marriott, will be Samuel Pope as Young Steve Marriott, Stefan Edwards as Kenney Jones, Stanton Wright as Ronnie Lane, Alexander Gold as Ian McLagan, Edward Elgood as Jimmy Winston, Karis Anderson as P.P. Arnold and Russell Floyd as Don Arden. Also in the cast are Daniel Beales, Alfie Harrison-Foreman, Dani Acors and Emily Daniels. David Shute and Danielle Johnson will play Steve Marriott and Kay Marriott at certain performances. ALL OR NOTHING’s limited season will run at the Arts Theatre, London from 6 February to 11 March, with a press night on Thursday 8 February.

Written and directed by the award-winning actress Carol Harrison, ALL OR NOTHING is the story of four charismatic young kids from East London with humour, attitude, passion and, above all, talent. They became the Small Faces and were rocketed into the big time, only to discover the path to success is paved with exploitation, betrayal and, ultimately, tragedy.

In 1965, a new phenomenon erupted out of London’s East End. It was the essence of all that was cool. It was Mod. ALL OR NOTHING follows the rise and demise of the Small Faces, the band who encapsulated all that was Mod – a unique blend of taste and testosterone, clothes-obsessed and street-wise – but most of all, a dedication to rhythm ‘n’ blues. The musical celebrates the unique sound of this iconic Mod band, with all the Small Faces’ hits, including Whatcha Gonna Do About It, Tin Soldier, Lazy Sunday, Here Comes the Nice, Itchycoo Park and, of course, All or Nothing.

Carol Harrison is probably best known for her role as Louise Raymond in EastEnders. Other television roles include seven years as Gloria in Brushstrokes, Loretta opposite Ray Winstone in Get Back, and Dorothy in two series of London’s Burning. Carol’s theatre work includes Michael Rudman’s production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman at the National, Ripen Our Darkness at the Royal Court, Alan Parker’s production of Alfie at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lee Hall’s Cooking with Elvis at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe. She was also a founder member of Half Moon Theatre in London’s East End. Her film credits include The Elephant Man, Quadrophenia and Human Traffic.

Chris Simmons is probably best known for playing the role of DC Mickey Webb for over twelve years in the long running ITV series The Bill. He has also appeared in EastEnders as Mark Garland and in the Tracy Beaker spin-off CBBC show, The Dumping Ground. Chris’s theatre credits include Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage), Entertaining Strangers (Lyric Hammersmith), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (tour), Iago in Othello (tour) and Epicoene (Tristan Bates Theatre).

Samuel Pope is making his West End debut. He trained at the University of Manchester and the Royal Academy of Music and has since played Bob Cratchit in the UK tour of A Christmas Carol and Lon Smith in Meet Me in St Louis at the Landor Theatre.

Stefan Edwards previously appeared in the Arts Theatre in American Justice and was in The Mousetrap at St Martin’s Theatre in London’s West End. He was part of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies directed by Danny Boyle and Kim Gavin.

Stanton Wright’s theatre credits include Take Me Here by the Dishwasher at the Barbican, actor/puppeteer in This Moose Belongs to Me and Jackie and the Baboon (Unicorn and Orange Tree Theatres), Florence in Florence Loves You for Theatre503, Devil in The Glorious Damnation of Eddie Small (Union Theatre/Bedlam Theatre) and Renaissance Body (RSC/British Museum).

Alexander Gold began his career marketing for former Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies and then joined the publishers of The Word and Mixmag. At the same time, he performed all over the world with acts as diverse as 1977 punk legends the Boys (Joey Ramone’s favourite band) to the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra, with whom he spent a month at Dollywood, as a guest of Dolly Parton. He played Clash drummer Topper Headon opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Joe Strummer in the film London Town.

Edward Elgood last appeared at the Arts Theatre in Richard III. His other theatre credits include King Charles III (Wyndham’s), the UK tour of The Mousetrap (No.1 Tour); Mucedorus (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), The Maids (The Cockpit) and The Lady of Pleasure (Shakespeare’s Globe – Sam Wanamaker Festival).

Karis Anderson is a member of girl band, Stooshe. They broke on to the UK music scene in 2012 with the release of their single Love Me, featuring American rapper Travie McCoy. They have gone on to have four Top 20 hits, were nominated for the BBC Sound Poll, and toured with J-Lo and Nicki Minaj. Their single Black Heart spent over 16 weeks in the UK charts and was nominated for Best British Single at the 2013 Brit Awards. All or Nothing marks Karis’s West End stage debut.

Russell Floyd will be known to many for his regular roles as Michael Rose in EastEnders and DC Ken Drummond in The Bill. His theatre credits include Sir Courtly Nice (RSC), Going to a Party (National Theatre), Fit and Proper People (Soho Theatre) and Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre).

The show is endorsed and supported by many of those who feature in its story, including singer P.P. Arnold and Steve Marriott’s daughter, Mollie Marriott, who is the show’s vocal coach and creative consultant.

ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL is directed by Carol Harrison, with musical supervision by Pat Davey. ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL is produced in the West End by Rock ‘n’ Roll Productions.

A 29-track cast recording, as well as a limited edition 15-track blue vinyl LP, is available now from the show website, http://ift.tt/2y8U8ex, and will also be available from the Arts Theatre during the show’s run.

LISTINGS INFORMATION ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL 6 February – 11 March 2018 Arts Theatre 6-7 Great Newport St London WC2H 7JB

Arts Theatre 6-7 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JB

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[awholelotofladybug]

(clown emilie) Say Emi, your circus has clowns and puppeteers, but what else does it have?

Emilie: Well, aside from me and my fellow clowns, we have a couple of daring young men on the flying trapeze, two brothers if I recall correctly. We also have Mort the Mighty, the Strong Man. He can lift a motorcycle like it was nothing. We also have Juliet. She’s the leader of our fire dancers and torch jugglers. The sheer amazement in the audience as they perform. But the real grabber has got to be our amazing puppets. We have puppet lions, gorillas, elephants, tigers, all so life-like, you’d swear they were real, and because we have puppets, we can really get crazy, using life-sized dinosaurs, and some mythical creatures too, like unicorns or dragons. The dragon puppet is our largest one.”