#Evelyn Marsh

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Five Star Final (1931) Mervyn LeRoy

April 6th 2024

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comprehensive list of how ofmd characters would fare if tasked with destroying the ring of power in the fires of mount doom

would be immediately corrupted by the ring:

badminton twins

prince ricky

would use the ring for evil and/or chaos for fun:

calico jack (and it would get Weird(tm) )

spanish jackie (jackie loves her some eternal power over all living creatures in middle earth)

roach (love the guy, but the chaos would be too enticing)

ned lowe (duh)

anne bonnie and mary read (sometimes you gotta spice things up. god forbid women do anything amirite)

evelyn higgs (god forbid women do anything x2)

pre-stede, peak blackbeard era ed (his heart wouldn't really be into it, but it would be expected of him, and he'd do it for the image more than anything else)

would make an attempt to get to mordor but wouldn't make it:

pirate queen zheng (has too much power already, she'd pull a boromir, or more likely, pull an aragorn and accept that she can't be the one to take it, and instead would take down saruman and lead the battle outside the black gate)

ivan (has good intentions, but is too much of a traditional pirate and would inevitably get corrupted)

the swede (he would give it the ol' college try, but would get lost, and fall into the dead marshes, or get stepped on by a tree ent or something)

ed and stede (they would try, but would 10000% lose the plot, probably as early as rivendell when they start dicking around dressing up as elves and pretending to be elven royalty, and then, through a series of wacky misadventures, would somehow end up opening an inn in the shire and being completely unaware of the fact that all the hobbits really don't love having men living among them, but they sell cheap drinks and good food, and that's all hobbits really care about so they let them stay)

wouldn't go to mordor in the first place:

lucius (um, that sounds like a LOT of walking, and he has much better things to do)

pete (would volunteer, but it would be unanimously decided that "maybe you should sit this one out, bud")

wee john (the ring is too basic and tacky and wouldn't go with his Look(tm), and also he'd prefer to stick to what he's good at: napping, sewing, and arson)

archie (would be prepared to go, but the second she gets her hands on it, she would start using it as a party trick like, "lol, look guys, i'm invisible!" and then would inevitably get murdered by ring wraiths)

could go to mordor and destroy the ring, but wouldn't:

auntie (she could definitely destroy the ring, but she's too busy making sure the red flag stays afloat, and keeping the pirate navy in check--she doesn't have time for petty concerns like "the fight between good and evil")

buttons (mad galadriel energy--would be able to refuse the ring, and this would then elevate him to the next phase of his transformation into an all-knowing, all-powerful being, who is also probably a bird)

would make it to mordor but wouldn't destroy the ring:

frenchie (he gets to the fires of mount doom only to realize he dropped the ring somewhere along the way and has no idea where it is)

mary (could make it to mordor, but the feeling of power for the first time in her life after years of being subservient in a shitty society would make the allure too strong in the end)

jim (would probably become corrupted if they were the one carrying it, but could 10000% act as a cutthroat body guard throughout the trek)

would make it mordor and would be able to destroy the ring:

oluwande (the purest of heart, perfect cinnamon roll, too pure, doesn't know how to pronounce "china"--he would never become corrupted)

doug (he would be the sam to mary's frodo, but in a very casual chill way, like "oh, you're being corrupted? no worries, babe, i got it")

is gollum:

izzy hands

my assessment is perfect and correct, but feel free to add your thoughts if you think i'm wrong (but i'm not)

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Joseph Thomas Morton Jr. (October 18, 1947) is a stage, television, and film actor. He has worked with film director John Sayles in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), City of Hope (1991), and Lone Star (1996). Other films he has appeared in include Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Of Mice and Men (1992), Speed (1994), Apt Pupil (1998), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), Ali (2001), Paycheck (2003), Stealth (2005), American Gangster (2007), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021).

He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in his role as Eli Pope, Olivia Pope’s father, in Scandal, and is known for playing the role of Henry Deacon on Eureka. He co-starred as Reverend Arthur Finer in God Friended Me (2018-20). He starred in Our Kind of People.

He was born in Harlem, the son of Evelyn, a secretary, and Joseph Thomas Morton Sr., an Army intelligence officer. Because of his father’s military service, he spent parts of his childhood in West Germany and Okinawa.

He graduated from Andrew Jackson High School and studied drama at Hofstra University. He made his Broadway debut in Hair, appeared in Salvation, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Raisin. He has appeared in over 70 movies. He played Police Lieutenant Herb “Mac” McMahon, in Speed. In daytime TV, he has had roles on Search for Tomorrow (Dr. James Foster, 1973–74), Another World (Dr. Abel Marsh and Leo Mars, 1983–84), and All My Children (Dr. Zeke McMillan, 2002). In 2002, he appeared on the London stage in the play Art.

He is the father of three children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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2023 Reads

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Will reblog and update monthly. 

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (💖)

The Beauty and the Spindler by Neil Gaiman

The Nutcracker by E. T. A Hoffman

Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han (💖)

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (💖)

How Fiction Works by James Wood (💖)

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (💖)

 The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (💖)

 Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Quarto de Despejo / Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus (💖)

 O Sujeito na Contemporaneidade by Joel Birman

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (💖)

Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena by Jason A. Hazeley, Joel P. Morris

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Western Attitudes Toward Death by Philippe Ariès (💖)

Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1) by Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters (Discworld #6; Witches, #2) by Terry Pratchett (💖)

The Palliative Society by Byung-Chul Han

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago (💖)

Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas de Quincey

The Horror Film essays organized by Stephen Prince (💖)

Carrie by Stephen King (💖)

A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

The White Album by Joan Didion (💖)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

The Psychology of C. G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

O que é Arte by Jorge Coli

The Battle of Versailles by Robin Ghivan

Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin (💖)

The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn

Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

On Dreams & Death by Marie-Louise von Franz

Bunny Lake is Missing by Evelyn Piper

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (💖)

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Fortnight of Books (in one post)

I'm so happy i read enough books last year to do this for once! Here's hoping for a repeat this year. Next year. Whenever.

Overall - best books read in 2023? Tress of the Emerald Sea

Best series you discovered in 2023? The fun thing about "best" is that it doesn't necessarily mean "good". And while i hold out slightly more hope that future Margery Allingham mysteries will be more captivating than The Crime at Black Dudley, i have to admit that there was something about Ngaio Marsh's utterly underwhelming mysteries that kept me reading. So congrats to her for her single victory.

Best reread of the year? Watership Down. Granted it was only one of two re-reads this year, but it's usually the best anyway.

Most surprising (in a good way) book of this year? A few books were minorly surprising. Certain elements of The Sunlit Man were … not unexpected exactly, but took things in interesting directions. I was not expecting to find a book that took place in Wisconsin and was by a nosleep author (Dead Eleven). And Overture to Death and Surfeit of Lampreys were surprisingly enjoyable for having been written by Ngaio Marsh!

Most disappointing book/Book you wish you enjoyed more than you did? I was hoping that The Crime at Black Dudley would show Allingham to be a better author than Marsh. It did not.

Book you recommended most to others in 2023? I don't do book recommendations, but i very nearly suggested Tress of the Emerald Sea to a friend on FB asking for suggestions, and the only reason i didn't is because someone else already had. I believe i also recommended Shardik in a discord group, which i did not re-read in 2023 but definitely should at some point.

Alt question: A book you did not finish in 2023? I really need to finish The Lost Metal. It's not that i was disliking it or finding it boring or anything, i just had trouble maintaining momentum for reading it. Unfortunately, a very common problem.

Alt question: A book you bought in 2023? The Kingdom of Heaven by tumblr mutual Evelyn M. Lewis (i haven't read it yet i'm so sorry i promise i will get to it!!)

Author you read the most in 2023? Ngaio Marsh. She did not deserve it.

Most thrilling, unputdownable book of 2023? "Thrilling" is … not the right word, to put it mildly, but there was something gripping about Dead Eleven nonetheless. At the very least, there was something that made me stay up way longer than i should have fine-tuning my review of it. Someday i will understand what it is that makes certain books good but not gripping/gripping but not good, and how to recognize it, etc.

Book that was most outside your comfort zone/new genre exploration? Dead Eleven again, for being a book i just picked up at the library without having heard of the author before or having any idea of it beyond what the dust jacket/first chapters indicated.

Favorite cover of the year award goes to: All of Sanderson's Secret Project books had beautiful covers, but i'll probably give the prize to Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. It's currently my phone background!

Most beautifully-written book you read in 2023? Hmm … I wasn't quite as impressed with Stiefvater's prose in my re-read of All the Crooked Saints as i was the first time, but i think she still gets the credit. I love Sanderson, but his prose is more utilitarian than pretty.

Most memorable character: Does Hoid count? His role in Tress and the Emerald Sea was his best appearance yet (second place going to his role in "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter", where he was a coatrack for most of it).

Most annoying character: Lily Beckett from Dead Eleven. I had some sympathy for her at the start, but … ugh. None of the characters in that book were very good, but she was easily the worst.

Favorite couple: Charlie and Tress from Tress and the Emerald Sea.

Worst character death: Obviously a spoiler, but, Yumi's (temporary) death in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. Props to Sanderson that i actually thought she was gone for good for a moment.

Favorite non-romance relationship: Nomad and Aux from The Sunlit Man.

Alt: A book you enjoyed well-enough but wasn’t a stand-out? Giving Death in Ecstasy a shout-out for being the first Ngaio Marsh book i almost kinda enjoyed, sorta.

The book I read but have already forgotten: Turns out i read The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages last January, and completely forgot about it. Oops.

Book with a scene that left you reeling: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. If you've read it, you know the one. Not quite on the level of the basement in Warbreaker, but pretty darn close.

Alt question: A book that made you laugh? Surfeit of Lampreys, believe it or not. Though the title still sucks.

Book you read in 2023 and are most likely to reread in 2024? Tress and the Emerald Sea.

Alt question: A book you struggled with but completed? The Crime at Black Dudley. I think the fact that it's ostensibly a murder mystery, but switched less than halfway in to a "escape the criminals" plot, then back to the murder, was not in its favor.

Series you gave up on in 2023: I think i'm done with Ngaio Marsh.

Favorite passage/quote of 2023: Maybe i should have taken notes. Since i didn't, i browsed the quotes page for the best books i read, and came up with the following selections: “Do you have darkness inside you?” “Yes,” Tony said. “And do you want to be rid of it?” This is a harder question to answer than one might think at first blush. Almost no one would think it’s correct to answer this question with a no, but the truth is that we men and women often hate to be rid of the familiar, and sometimes our darkness is the thing we know the best. ~ All the Crooked Saints All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. ~ Watership Down Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again. Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks of peak experience, polishing them with the ever-smoothing touch of recycled proxy living. ~ Tress of the Emerald Sea

Book which had the overall greatest impact on you this year: Perhaps Dead Eleven - i already mentioned how it kept me up late writing a review. A mostly negative review, but still.

A book you didn’t read this year that will be your #1 priority in 2024? I've got a long list of books that i checked out from the library (or wanted to) that i never got around to last year, hoping this one works out better. I suppose the priority goes to The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, which i started last year but haven't finished yet.

New book you are most anticipating for 2024? I don't really anticipate books, and i'm out of relevant alternative questions.

I had an amazing 20 books on my "read" list this year -- not sure if it beats 2019 or whenever my other reading spree was, but it blows most other years out of the water, and i'm hopeful for 2024.

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Evelyn- Are you guys sure that you don't want to stay here at the house? I can stay with Jake for a bit, and you all-

Isidore- Oh dear no! I wouldn't want that. Jonah's place is just fine. I wouldn't want to chase you out of your home.

Marshall- What's going on?

Isidore- Nothing Marsh. I was just saying to Evelyn that Jonah's place is fine to stay at.

Marshall- <grunts> It has less stairs at least. Hey, Evelyn. Is this cake vegan? Your smarmy friend in there said it was vegan, and you know how I feel about that.

Evelyn- <confused> What? Not that I'm aware of. I bought it from a bakery.

Marshall- <mouth full> Its a bit dry.

Evelyn- ... noted.

Isidore- Marshall! The cake is fine. Are you going to be dropping the baby off tomorrow?

Evelyn- That was the plan. I have to get in to the office, there's some things I need to arrange. A new VIP that is causing headaches.

Marshall- Sounds important. Do you need any help with that?

Evelyn-..from you?

Marshall- I'm good with people.

Evelyn- <coughs> Its a guy in a rock band-

Marshall- Pass. You know I just can't stand that new 'rock and roll'. Its so manufactured. Nothing like it used to be. I used to be in a band, wasn't I Isa? We were really good.

Isidore- Of course you were. <side eyes Evelyn>

Marshall- Man we could have been something. But you know, kids.. life.. nope, can't stand the music nowadays.

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A farce, for heaven’s sake! Everyone knows farce is dead.” When a character says these lines on page eight of Janice Hallett’s latest whodunnit, The Christmas Appeal, we can practically see the author tipping us an outsized wink. Hallett, after all, is one of today’s foremost exponents of cerebral, knowing crime. A swift 180 pages later, Hallett has slain another victim and shown that farce was never really dead in the first place. Literary murder – especially the cosy sort – has always been comic. The real mystery is: why is it so popular now?

Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, in which laughs, foibles and irony figure far more prominently than bloody murder, has topped the charts for four years running. The Crime Writers’ Association has just launched a new Whodunnit Dagger to honour the year’s best cosy, classic or quirky mystery. This Christmas, production company Mammoth Screen will bring us its latest Agatha Christie for BBC One, a reworking of Murder Is Easy that, like its predecessor Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, plays up the love and laughs – moving away from the grittier cynicism of its earlier adaptations.

But then, this is the production company that made Blandings – based on the PG Wodehouse Blandings Castle stories – and Agatha Raisin. The latter, an affectionate rendering of MC Beaton’s none-more-cosy crime capers, is a reminder that the genre has always been popular. Trace it back from SJ Bennett, whose sleuth of choice is Queen Elizabeth II, and Hallett, through Beaton and Simon Brett, with his wisecracking Charles Paris mysteries, and you find an unbroken link to the golden age of comic crime.

Christie herself wrote laughs aplenty, especially when it came to Poirot; her contemporary and fellow queen of crime, Ngaio Marsh, excelled at badinage. GK Chesterton’s Father Brown stories, written in the early 20th century, have a profound and gentle humour – or not so gentle in the barbed parody The Absence of Mr Glass, which pokes fun at Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle also made space for jokes amid the pea-soupers and arch villainy, not just in surreal escapades such as The Red-Headed League, but in the everyday interactions of Holmes and Watson. And there are links between the generations: as a producer on Radio 4’s classic adaptation of Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey series, Brett revisited the pinnacle of comic crime from the 1920s and 30s.

In Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, the aristocratic Catholic family at its centre turns in times of crisis, not to sermons, but to Father Brown stories. Read aloud by the matriarch, the scene is at once absurd, touching and completely understandable. Part of the solace stems from the benign humour of the tales, and that explains why comic crime is resurgent today – amid planetary and economic crises, that promise of escapism is more beguiling than ever. Especially at this time of year. From Hercule Poirot’s Christmas to PD James’s Mistletoe Murders, authors as well as readers have been drawn to fatal festivities.

We’re all familiar with gallows humour, the need to find laughter in the grimmest places. Yet the appeal of truly comic crime is less about professional detectives doing a grisly job than dilettantes playing a game. Literature has few laughing policemen, but an awful lot of quipping amateurs. Even Marsh gave her best one-liners not to handsome Inspector Alleyn but to her Watson figure, the journalist Nigel Bathgate.

Games, puzzles and mysteries are by definition playful. And it’s not just the sleuths who are playing. Reader is always pitted against author in a test of wits – can we solve the crime before the detective? Like every game, there are clear rules: detective author Ronald Knox set out his not entirely serious 10 commandments of fair play in 1929. This is what makes these stories such perfect escapism today: readers can lose themselves in the contest. Every true whodunnit is a work of metafiction, as the reader flits in and out of the story, constantly trying to estimate the author’s intelligence or honesty in setting trails and leaving clues.

For my money, today’s greatest exponent of playful detective fiction is Alex Pavesi, whose Eight Detectives is a gloriously original, intricate and often very funny series of practical jokes played on the reader. Dann McDorman’s new novel, West Heart Kill, as tricksy as they come, uses a jigsaw puzzle as cover art, while the cover of my own Helle & Death tips its hat to Cluedo. This playfulness puts us in the right mood, but the classic whodunnit has other weapons, many of which it shares with farce: plots like clockwork, exquisite choreography and perfect timing. Sayers’s Peter Wimsey has been called “Bertie Wooster with Jeeves’s brain”.

The most important comic quality of both murder mystery and farce, however, is the meticulous arranging of cause, effect and misunderstanding. The detection of a murderer involves paying minute attention to what people say and do. The reader is given privileged access into the lives of others, replete with dramatic irony and a degree of omniscience. And what could possibly be funnier than the everyday idiosyncrasies of human beings?

The Christmas Appeal is packed with hypocrites and exhibitionists. Mrs Ruddle, in Sayers’s Busman’s Honeymoon, is a world-class gossip. As for the sleuths themselves, from Holmes, to Poirot, to Torben Helle, the more seriously they take themselves, the sillier they become. Snoop on anyone for long enough, and their habits, sayings, priorities start to become hilarious.

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WEEK THREE LINEUP

Well! That was fun, wasn't it? I've changed the formatting of the polls, as well as closed down the submissions form (for now). This week will also have 100 polls, the first 14 of which will be posted tomorrow (Sunday the 30th). And.... I think those are the only important things to mention! So without further ado, here is this week's lineup.

Buneary - Pokémon

Anita - West Side Story

Beverly Marsh - IT

Monoma Neito - My Hero Academia

Sister Carpenter - The Silt Verses

Ekko - Arcane

Veronica Sawyer - Heathers (the film)

Bakugo Katsuki - My Hero Academia

Betty Boop - 1920-40s cartoons

Flowey the Flower - Undertale

Akito Shinonome - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!

Lady - Devil May Cry

Diamond Heart - Magical Warrior Diamond Heart

Emma - Emma

Aion - Show by Rock

Hibana - Fire Force

Klunk - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Kosmo (Space Wolf) - Voltron: Legendary Defender

Evelyn Hugo - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Antigone Funn - Wooden Overcoats

Oswald Cobblepot - Gotham

Emu Otori - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!

Toon Patrol - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Felix - Golden Sun

Urotsuki - Yume 2kki

Kano - Kagerou Project

Ayano Tateyama - Kagerou Project

Fin Fin - Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet

Gladion - Pokémon Sun and Moon

Dmitri - Fire Emblem 3 Houses

Hippeaux - Animal Crossing

Raymond - Animal Crossing

Crewmate - Among Us

Sara Chidouin - Your Turn To Die

Zhongli - Genshin Impact

Firestar - Warrior Cats

Dovewing - Warrior Cats

Flourette - Answered Prayers

Eleanor Forte - SynthV

Cisqua - Elemental Gelade

Renarin Kholin - The Stormlight Archive

Roy Mustang - Fullmetal Alchemist

Alex Chen - Life is Strange: True Colors

Steffi Frohlich - Kiwi Blitz

Belos/Phillip Wittebane - The Owl House

Dr. Coomer - Half-Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

Olivia - Paper Mario: The Origami King

The Riddler - Batman: the Animated Series

Togata Mirio/Lemillion - My Hero Academia

Mustache Girl - A Hat in Time

Maika Halfwolf - Monstress Comic

Ren Mormorian - Monstress Comic

Shokry - Shubeik Lubeik

Hagga/Teeta Shawqia - Shubeik Lubeik

Wikipe-tan - Wikipedia

Ymir - Attack on Titan

Alicia Copeland - Wierd And Unfortunate Things Are Happening

Wen Kexing - Word of Honor

Garalia Nyamhee - Aura Battler Dunbine

Xena - Xena: Warrior Princess

Nuriko - Fushigi Yuugi

Neko Musume - Gegege no Kitaro

Tillman Henderson - Blaseball

Dr Boris Habit - Smile For Me

Mallow - Super Mario RPG

Vriska Serket - Homestuck

Lussa - The Undrowned Child

Mary - BBC Ghosts

Bagpuss - Bagpuss

Tara Mclay - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Worm - Labyrinth

Lydia Deetz - Beetlejuice

Wander - Wander Over Yonder

Noelle - Deltarune

Momotaros - Kamen Rider Den-O

Scorpion King - Word of Honor

Por - My School President

The Eleventh Doctor - Doctor Who

Dr. Doofenshmirtz - Phineas and Ferb

Perry the Platypus - Phineas and Ferb

Agent P - Phineas and Ferb

Alexa - Xenoblade Chronicles X

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (Survivor timeline)

Faith Connors - Mirror's edge

Furuta Nimura/Kichimura Washuu/Souta - Tokyo Ghoul: re

John Egbert - Homestuck

Rose Red - Ghost Quartet

Bruce J. Speed - Ginga Tetsudou Monogatari

Elma - Xenoblade Chronicles x

Adam - Lobotomy Corporation

Ianite - Mianite

Five Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy

Willow Park - The Owl House

Black Hat - Villainous

Katalina Alize - Granblue Fantasy

Naomi Armitage - Armitage the Third

Kanade Yoisaki - Project Sekai

Sei Iori - Gundam Build Fighters

Goro Majima - Yakuza/Like A Dragon

Albert Wesker - Resident Evil

Blacknose - Pinepaw and the Forgotten World

Please remember that, based on the results of the poll I put up earlier, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter may be included. Her spot would be near the very end, on the last day. As I always tag polls with both the character and the media they are from, if she does get in but you would not like to see the poll, the tags will be blockable.

No matter the outcome, please be courteous as possible to one another, and if that is not possible, then please just block and move on.

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Weekly Writing Update (2/12/2023)

Paper Men

Finished editing all the old chapters

I've noticed some weird additional spaces on the mobile app version. They're not there when I go to edit, so I don't know why it's doing that 🤷🏻‍♀️

Chapter 27 is in progress!

It should be up within the next week or two, and it's going to be very eventful

And Miss Beverly Marsh will be making a cute little cameo (because I love her and I want her and Evelyn to be friends and go rollerskating together 🥺)

DWM

Posted a teaser for the epilogue "Post Prom"

Now I'm not very good at writing "sexy" scenes (probably because I'm such an awkward person). I'm going way out of my comfort zone here, so I apologize if it's a little cringy. I'm really trying to push myself and try things I don't normally do

New short story idea: Jason and Chrissy playing D&D with Eddie, the reader, and the rest of Hellfire. I just imagine Jason being frustrated and totally out of his element and Chrissy being completely confused but having a blast anyway because she's so sweet and adorable

Okay I’m probably never gonna write that, but it was fun to think about at 2am

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First Annual Society of the Unnatural Sciences Ball Sponsorship Event - Official Guest List - Taking Place on The Fifth of August

Salutations to those reading this,

It is my distinct honor to welcome you to the First Annual Society of the Unnatural Sciences Sponsorship Ball. This event has been organized hosted by ourselves in an effort to garner interest, excitement, and overall support in our endeavors to explore and research the peculiarities and unexplainable aspects of our own world and to further our understanding of how the world may work outside of our own lenses.

Below is the official list of those that are invited to this event, I apologize if any invitations are arriving late. Please speak with us if you find any arrangements to be not ideal for yourself or if you have any questions about the proceedings.

[Click the read more below the image for the list of names in text form.]

Official Guest List Ophelia Aires Aiden Armstrong Adrienne Ashley Sir Porter Baird Jean Betrand L. Evelyn Bright Mikell Bright Dr. Jack Bright Dr. Adam Bright Samuel Burke Emanuel Burris Lucrezia Cerise Sir Dario Clarke Ms. Leigh Delacruz Fran Dixon Ali Evans Sir Lorenzo Ferri Aditya Frye Maddox Graham Amelia Green Danni Hawkins Mr. Cameron Hill Sam Hood Ethan Horowitz Miss Carol Kelly Gabriela Kelly Abbie Kennedy Lumen L. Ella Lawrence Seymour Leroux Fenrir Lycan Pixel M. Jamie Marsh Matthew Marsh Brett Mathis Italo Mondelli Celine Montoya Mr. Zachary Patel Sir Agnes Peterson Freddie Riley Katie Roberts Dr. Quinn Roy Lady Sharp Isabella Lady Shaw Aimee Roger Sheldon Jude Stewart Dr. Edgar Tainment R. Donna Taylor W. Dr. Emily Tillman Dr. Vittoria Usai Francesco Valtieri Diane Walters F. Williams Denny Woodward

- N. Frost

[celiastjamesoscar]

hey honey, im thinking of buying some new books as i have just finished reading ‘thieves gambit’ and ‘six of crows’ and i loved them, but i need to add more wlw books to my collection if you have any recs? <3

is ‘the seven husbands of evelyn hugo’ any good? ive heard snippets of it from tiktok so im guessing thats where your username inspo came from, and the book has even had a feature in your fic ‘wildest dreams’ 😼 and is it wlw? as i see a lot of videos about evelyn and celia

apart from that how has your day been love? 🤍

How good was ‘thieves gabit?’ I’ve seen it everywhere, and im thinking about getting it. You have come to the right person for book recommendations, especially wlw ones! My all time favorite wlw book is of course ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ and I cannot stop recommending it. That book is absolutely heartbreaking, and I love it so much. ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’ is a good one, it’s set in the 1950s and follows the story of Lily, who is Chinese-American. My favorite duology are the ‘Crier’s War’ books: ‘Crier’s War’ and ‘Iron Heart.’ It’s enemies-to-lovers, slow burn, forbidden romance, and a lot of angst!! Another good duology are the ‘Malice’ books: ‘Malice’ and ‘Misrule.’ It’s the queer retelling of ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ along with a few hints of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I haven’t read ‘Misrule’ yet, but the first book is absolutely amazing and it has the best cliffhanger. I have these books, but I haven’t read them yet: ‘The Unbroken’ by C.L. Clarke, ‘Reign of the Fallen’ by Sarah Glenn Marsh, ‘Girl, Serpent, Thorn’ by Melissa Bashardoust, and ‘The Priory of the Orange Tree’ by Samantha Shannon. I’ve heard amazing things about the Orange Tree, but it is a massive book, like almost 1,000 pages 😭

THE SEVEN HUSBANDS IS SO GOOD!! That is were my username inspo came from! it is wlw, with a lot of angst thrown in. It is the absolute best platonic friendship I ever seen, I just cannot stop recommending this book to people

My day has been a relaxed one. I just took an online exam and got a 94% on it 😤 how has your day been love? 🤍

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The Cedar Tree  -  ITV  -  September 20, 1976 -  September 24, 1978

Melodrama (119 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes / 60 minutes in 1978

Stars:

Joyce Carey – Lady Alice Bourne, widowed mother of Arthur and Phyllis

Philip Latham – Commander Arthur Bourne (series' 1 & 2)

Susan Engel – Helen Bourne, Arthur's wife

Sally Osborne – Elizabeth Bourne, eldest daughter of Arthur & Helen Bourne

Jennifer Lonsdale – Anne Bourne, middle daughter of Arthur & Helen Bourne

Susan Skipper – Victoria Bourne, youngest daughter of Arthur & Helen Bourne

Kate Coleridge – Phyllis Bourne, Arthur's sister

Cyril Luckham – Charles Ashley, father of Arthur's wife Helen

Gary Raymond – Jack Poole

Carol Royle – Laura Collins, friend of Victoria

Jean Taylor Smith – Nanny

Peter Hill – Gates, the Bourne's chauffeur and general help

Ruth Holden – Mrs. Gates, the Bourne's housekeeper

Shaun Scott – Jim Tapper, assistant to Gates

Alan Browning series 1 & 2/Richard Thorp series 3 – Geoffrey Cartland

Lillias Walker – Rosemary Cartland

John Oxley – Peter Cartland

Tom Chatto – Parsons, the Cartland's butler

John Hug – Gwylym Meredith-Jones

Joan Newell – Winifred Hedges

Patrick Ryecart/Steven Pacey – Klaus Von Heynig

Nigel Havers – Rex Burton-Smith

Jack Watling – Captain Julian Palmer (series 2) / Commander Arthur Bourne (series 3)

Rosemary Nicols – Angela Scott, magazine reporter

Michael Macowan – Doctor Cropper

Pamela Mandell – Miss Pringle, owner of the Copper Kettle tearooms

Richard Vernon – Lord Evelyn Forbes, old flame of Lady Alice Bourne

Peter Egan – Ralph Marsh

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works in progress (ｰ ｰ;)

→ fics that i’m working on !

seven husbands of evelyn hugo au ; #aespa / yu jimin

newjeans as love tropes ; #newjeans / ot4 (no hyein)

aespa dealing with jealousy ; #aespa / ot4

twice as love tropes ; #twice / ot9

friends to lovers ; #newjeans / danielle marsh

streamer!minji ; #newjeans / kim minji

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Ladies in Retirement

A penny dreadful at heart, Charles Vidor’s LADIES IN RETIREMENT (1941, Prime) is crackling good fun as it builds up civilized scares in the grand Hollywood tradition. In a cottage in the midst of a foggy marsh, a wealthy, retired chorus girl (Isabel Elsom) lives with her buttoned-up companion (Ida Lupino) and timid maid (Evelyn Keyes). When Lupino’s dotty sisters (Elsa Lanchester and Edith Barrett) are threatened with commitment to an asylum in London, she brings them to the cottage for a short visit that lasts so long Elsom tries to throw them all out. So, Lupino strangles her as the old lady is singing “Tit-Willow” (everyone’s a critic) and walls her up in an old bread oven. Can she keep it together, particularly when her roguish nephew (Louis Hayward, having great fun as the fox in the hen house) shows up and starts asking questions? This is from the days when a murder was depicted by having the victim’s pearls drop a few at a time onto the floor. If you’re in love with slasher horror, you just may not get it. Entirely and obviously constructed on a large sound stage, the house and the marshes are a marvel of art direction, Vidor and cinematographer George Barnes create some vivid compositions that increase the tension while also reflecting character and relationship. Screenwriters Reginald Denham (who co-wrote the original play with Edward Perry) and Garrett Fort have been perhaps too faithful to the original. After a time jump, the dotty sisters’ disruption is communicated through exposition rather than a series of incidents accumulating over time. But the cast is superb, with special honors to Elsom, whose specificity is a marvel as she plays a woman pretending to propriety after a very improper past; Lanchester as the more sullen and rebellious of the sisters (it’s very different from her usual run of good-natured eccentrics) and particularly Lupino. Her character’s arc is similar to the one in THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940), but the proper British setting makes it much more subtextual, and her restraint and stillness are marvelous to behold.

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THIS IS GRAEME PARK: LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 27DEC24

THIS IS GRAEME PARK:

LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 27DEC24

In the final Long Live House Radio Show of the year:

Purple Disco Machine

Ralf Gum feat. Monica Blaire

Stimulator Jones

Dorothys Fortress

London Community Gospel Choir feat. Annette Bowen

House Gospel Choir feat. Morgan Angels

Roy Ayers feat. Merry Clayton

Marvin Gaye and more.

LONG LIVE HOUSE RADIO SHOW 27DEC24

Injoye (DJ EFX's Supa Pump Mix), West Coast Spice

Let You In, Max Sinàl feat. Hutch The Great & Melodi Marsh

See You Tonight (Patchouli Brothers Edit), Paul Simpson feat. Barbara Roy

W.T.P. (Extended Club Dub), Purple Disco Machine feat. Metronomy

The Real Thing (12 Inch Vocal Mix), Thommy Davis & Tasha LaRae

AWA (Atjazz Love Soul Remix), Ralf Gum feat. Monica Blaire

No Solutions, Roman Flügel

Fantasies, Stimulator Jones

Flight Force (SIRS Vocal Remix), Tegel Boys

Throw The D, Dorothys Fortress

One Kiss (Dave's Heavenly Star Mix), Pacha

Male Dans La Peau (Patchouli Brothers Edit), Chris & Moi

Ethereal (Ivan Berko Club Mix), Nova Heart

Get Up 24 (Extended Mix), Purple Disco Machine

Rather Be (Ayce Remix), London Community Gospel Choir feat. Annette Bowen

Love Come Down (Ezel & DJ Spen Reproduction), Evelyn "Champagne" King

Angels, House Gospel Choir feat. Morgan Angels

Oxygen (Ruf Dug Remix), Jim

What's The T?, Roy Ayers feat. Merry Clayton

We Had A Love, Zoey Jones

Dance Across The Floor (Disco Mix), Jimmy "Bo" Horne

Desperate Situation, Marvin Gaye

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Everyone who doesn’t like the Dianne Keaton-directed episode of Twin Peaks should be made to walk the earth being turned away from every door. Slaves and Masters is an oasis in the incredibly dry well that is post-Arbitrary Law season two. That cop who can’t spell Jaguar is enough to save the whole Evelyn Marsh subplot .