#Gayle Leslie

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Profile Of A Covert Abuser

As in the beginning of this series on Cover Abusers such as Brian Leslie of Cayce, South Carolina we have continued to speak with Professional Psychologists and Victims to gather a general profile on these individuals. In an article published on Choosing Therapy website, Neha Darji MS LPC gives a detailed description of how a Cover Abuser such as Leslie works. Covert abuse is deceitful and…

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Hi! Can you recommend any books/authors whose prose really stands out to you? Like the writing style itself is artistic/interesting/unique? Thanks!!

i love this question! here are some exemplary books from writers i think of as unique & compelling stylists. this is by no means a complete list, it's just some people that are unequivocally themselves in their wordwork that i also deeply admire.

Virginia Woolf

Gayl Jones

Ruth Ozeki

Toni Morrison

Rebecca Solnit

James Baldwin

Ali Smith

Eileen Myles

Colson Whitehead

Leslie Jamison

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tony award thoughts. glad to see gatsby getting only one nomination, they dont deserve more than that, despite the fact that the cast is quite good. disappointed to not see james monroe inglehart nominated for spamalot he put his whole heart and soul into being as goofy as possible and he deserved it, but happy for leslie rodriguez kritzer finally getting her flowers. also glad to see shaina taub getting her flowers even if i have mixed opinions on suffs as a piece of theater and a concept. im happy for merrily, and am pleasantly surprised that gayle rankin was nominated for cabaret. seeing the list of best musicals and seeing that only one of them is a truly original piece (even then, it's based on a moment in history) is incredibly disheartening. also why was gutenberg nominated but not spamalot (ik its clear i have favorites but it was a much better show and clearly not just a vehicle to bring two stars to the stage and stupid cameos and stuff-- no real hate i think andrew rannells and josh gad are very funny especially together, but :/) I hope that jaja's african hair braiding wins, i was really sad i couldnt see it. cabaret will win best revival, though merrily winning wouldnt be shocking-- in fact i could easily see merrily winning and the cabaret fans being very very upset in the way that people get online lol. i am a best musical category hater, but i guess i can root for suffs on principle, though i am interested in the outsiders and apparently its quite good. the tonys are all one big ad, and every year the nominations (and winners, real ones know what im talking abt *stares forlornly and vindictively at 2017*) prove this, but it doesnt make it any less demoralizing.

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2023 in books: fiction edition

literary fiction published 2013-2023 (based on English translation)

The Employees by Olga Ravn (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Human Acts by Han Kang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Bunny by Mona Awad (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

All Your Children Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mister N by Najwa Barakat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Brickmakers by Selva Almada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

True Biz by Sara Nović (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abyss by Pilar Quintana (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Rombo by Esther Kinsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (⭐⭐⭐)

The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Appanah (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (⭐⭐⭐)

Luster by Raven Leilani (⭐⭐⭐)

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi (⭐⭐⭐)

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (⭐⭐⭐)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (⭐⭐⭐)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon (⭐⭐⭐)

Afterlives by Abdurazak Gurnah (⭐⭐⭐)

Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Indelicacy by Amina Cain (⭐⭐⭐)

Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (⭐⭐⭐)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (⭐⭐⭐)

The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (⭐⭐⭐)

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (⭐⭐)

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore (⭐⭐)

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (⭐⭐)

Nervous System by Lina Meruane (⭐⭐)

Owlish by Dorothy Tse (⭐⭐)

The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis (⭐⭐)

The Magic of Discovery by Britt Andrews (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2012

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Corregidora by Gayl Jones (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Open City by Teju Cole (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Perestroika by Tony Kushner *a play (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo (⭐⭐⭐)

The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (⭐⭐⭐)

Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid (⭐⭐⭐)

Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan (⭐⭐⭐)

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (⭐⭐⭐)

Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (⭐⭐⭐)

Curtain by Agatha Christie (⭐⭐⭐)

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (⭐⭐⭐)

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (⭐⭐⭐)

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (⭐⭐⭐)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (⭐⭐⭐)

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (⭐⭐)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (⭐⭐)

The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada (⭐⭐)

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (⭐)

literary fiction published start of time-1970

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 The Stranger by Albert Camus (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Stoner by John Williams (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (⭐⭐⭐)

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hole by José Revueltas (⭐⭐⭐)

Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (⭐⭐⭐)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (⭐⭐)

Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist (⭐)

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RWBY Spanish dub

Team RWBY

Ruby Rose: Valentina Souza

Weiss Schnee: Romina Marroquín Payró

Blake Belladonna: Alondra Hidalgo

Yang Xiao Long: Mireya Mendoza

Team JNPR

Jaune Arc: Óscar Flores

Nora Valkyrie: Analiz Sánchez, Regina Carrillo (young)

Pyrrha Nikos: Berenice Vega

Lie Ren: Alan Fernando Velázquez, Zoe Mora (young)

Team STRQ

Summer Rose: Ale Pilar

Taiyang Xiao Long: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Raven Branwen: Fernanda Robles

Qrow Branwen: Germán Fabregat

Beacon Academy

Professor Ozpin: Mario Arvizu

Glynda Goodwitch: Maru Guzmán

Peter Port: Francisco Colmenero

Bartholomew Oobleck: Beto Castillo

Salem’s Inner Circle

Salem: Irasema Terrazas

Cinder Fall: Dulce Guerrero

Roman Torchwick: Sergio Gutiérrez Coto

Emerald Sustrai: Alicia Vélez

Mercury Black: Erick Salinas

Neopolitan: Agustina Cirulnik

Dr. Arthur Watts: Armando Réndiz

Tyrian Callows: Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Hazel Rainart: Octavio Rojas

The Hound: Mario Castañeda

Leonardo Lionheart: Humberto Solórzano

Vernal: Rebeca Patiño

Tock: Simone Brook

Atlas Military

James Ironwood: Dafnis Fernández

Winter Schnee: Xóchitl Ugarte

Penny Polendina: Cristina Hernández

Caroline Cordovin: Magda Giner

Ruby’s Group

Oscar Pine: Luis Leonardo Suárez

Maria Calavera: Ángela Villanueva

Dr. Pietro Polendina: Gerardo Reyero

Team SSSNN

Sun Wukong: Alexis Ortega

Scarlet David: Alberto Bernal

Sage Ayana: Abraham Vega

Neptune Vasilias: Enzo Fortuny

Nolan Porfirio: Pepe Vilchis

Team CFVY

Coco Adel: Liliana Barba

Fox Alistair: Geezuz González

Velvet Scarlatina: Carla Castañeda

Yatsuhashi Daichi: Óscar Garibay

Ace-Ops

Clover Ebi: Raúl Anaya

Vine Zeki: Eduardo Giaccardi

Elm Ederne: Gabriela Guzmán

Harriet Bree: Karla Falcón

Marrow Amin: Ricardo Tejedo

Happy Huntresses

Robyn Hill: Erica Edwards

May Marigold: Ruth Toscano

Joanna Greenleaf: Yvette García

Fiona Thyme: Lupita Leal

The White Fang

Ghira Belladonna: Emilio Guerrero

Kali Belladonna: Rebeca Manríquez

Adam Taurus: Alejandro Orozco

Corsac Albain: Emmanuel Bernal

Fennec Albain: Eduardo Garza

Ilia Amitola: Monserrat Mendoza

Schnee Manor

Jacques Schnee: Arturo Mercado

Whitley Schnee: Moisés Iván Mora

Willow Schnee: Yolanda Vidal

Klein Sieben: Jesse Conde

Ancient Times

Ozma: Roberto Salguero/Ricardo Bautista

God of Light: José Luis Orozco

God of Darkness: Salvador Reyes

Jinn: Danann Huicochea

Ambrosius: Rubén Cerda

Xiong Family

Hei “Junior” Xiong: Eduardo Fonseca

Lil’ Miss Malachite: Leyla Rangel

Miltia and Melanie Malachite: Lourdes Arruti

Team CRDL

Cardin Winchester: Raúl Anaya

Russel Thrush: Yamil Atala

Team FNKI

Flynt Coal: José Ángel Torres

Neon Katt: Meli G

Arc Family

Saphron Cotta-Arc: Erika Ugalde

Terra Cotta-Arc: Carla Medina

The Ever After

Little/Somewhat: Angélica Villa

Curious Cat: Ángel Balam

Blacksmith: Carmen Sarahí

Jabberwalker: Víctor Hugo Aguilar

Jinxy: Jaime López

Red Prince: Pascual Meza

Herbalist: César Bono

Alyx: Julia Bilous

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

Dr. Merlot: Sebastián Llapur

RWBY: Arrowfell

Amoncio Glass: Alfonso Grau

Hanlon Fifestone: Óscar Gómez

Bram Thornmane: Trujo

Olive Harper: Leslie Gil

Bianca Prisma: Cecilia Gómez

Roane Ashwood: Alicia Barragán

Ivy Thickety: Edurne Keel

Ruda Tilleroot: Jessica Ángeles

Minor characters introduced in Volume 1

Shopkeep: Eduardo Tejedo

Xiong Goons: Ricardo Mendoza “El Coyote, Carlo Vázquez

Cyril Ian: Víctor Ugarte

Lisa Lavender: Alondra Hidalgo

Police Officers: Daniel Lacy, Patricio Lago

Sailors: Marc Winslow, Noé Velázquez

White Fang Goon: David Bueno

Penny’s Driver: José Luis Miranda

Minor characters introduced in Volume 2

Tukson: Octavio Rojas

White Fang Lieutenant: Roberto Gutiérrez

“Deery”: Alicia Barragán

Perry: Arturo Castañeda

Councilman: Kevin Adrián

Minor characters introduced in Volume 3

Bolin Hori: José Antonio Macías

Nadir Shiko: Edson Matus

Brawnz Ni: Abraham Vega

Bartender: Carlos del Campo

Nebula Violette: Karla Falcón

Dew Gayl: Jessica Ángeles

Ciel Soleil: Camila Díaz Fraga

Amber: Ximena de Anda

Atlas Ship Captain: Víctor Hugo Aguilar

Minor characters introduced in Volume 4

Mayor: Alfredo Gabriel Basurto

Blacksmith: Jesús Ochoa

Dying Huntsman: Nando Estevané

Captain: Víctor Trujillo

News Reporters: Eduardo Fonseca, Sonia Casillas, César Costa

First Mate: Paulina García Casillas

Oscar’s Aunt: Kerygma Flores

Higanbana Waitress: Claudia Garzón

Businessman: José Luis Orozco

Businesswoman: Karina Altamirano

Henry Marigold: Emilio Treviño

Angry Businessman: Héctor Estrada

Trophy Wife: Ximena de Anda

Husband: Arturo Cataño

An Ren: Kerygma Flores

Kuroyuri Blacksmith: Alan Bravo

Boys: Luistio Comunica, Regina Blandón, Ana Layevska

Li Ren: Idzi Dutkiewicz

Mistral Pilot: Manuel Campuzano

Atlas Pilot: Hernán Bravo

Minor characters introduced in Volume 5

Mistral Pilot: Irene Jiménez

Menagerie Guards: Tatul Bernodat, Mark Pokora, Andrea Coto

Bartender: Víctor Covarrubias

Shay D. Mann: Esteban Desco

Sienna Khan: Lileana Chacón

Saber Rodentia: Ricardo Brust

Mata’s Mother: Gloria Obregón

Mata: Luis Fernando Orozco

Yuma: Bruno Coronel

Ramen Shop Owner: Ángel Mujica

Small Girl: Ivanna Corona

Trifa: Miriam Aceves

Mistral Police Captain: Rommy Mendoza

Minor characters introduced in Volume 6

Dee: Dan Osorio

Dudley: Alejandro Orozco

Mistral Woman: María Álcazar

Nubuck Guards: Raúl Solo

Red-Haired Woman: Rossy Aguirre

Terminal Soldier: Miguel Ángel Leal

Minor characters introduced in Volume 7

Drunk Mann: Raúl Aldana

Drinking Buddy: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez

Forest: Moisés Palacios

Fria: Isabel Martiñón

Councilman Sleet: Daniel del Roble

Councilwoman Camilla: Graciela Gámez

Minor characters introduced in Volume 8

Atlas Commander: Itatí Cantoral

Shovel Mom: Denisse Aragón

Disgruntled Grandmother: Diana Santos

Fiona’s Uncle: Gabriel Pingarrón

Crimson: José Luis Rivera

Madame: Rona Fletcher

Step-Sisters: Annie Rojas

Rhodes: Idzi Dutkiewicz

CCT Voice: Sonia Casillas

Minor characters introduced in Volume 9

Mouse Leader: Betzabé Jara

Townsperson: Kate del Castillo

Toy Soldiers: Ricardo Mendoza “El Coyote”, José Arenas, Ramón Bazet, Diego Becerril, Óscar Gómez

White Pawns: Cecilia Gómez, David Bueno, Enrique Cervantes, Ramón Bazet

Toy Guard: Roberto Carrillo

Hawker: Erick Selim

Teapot Lady: Maythe Guedes

Paper Pleasers: Iván Bastidas, Luis Carreño, Irwin Daayán, Gaby Cárdenas, Denisse Aragón

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Chance Encounters #010

https://www.mixcloud.com/thomasmartinnutt/chance-encounters-010/

Jeph Jerman, Kasja Lindgren, Lucio Capece & Werner Dafeldecker, Philip Jeck, DJ Shadow, Marina Herlop, Deep Listening Band, Lasse Marhaug & Paal Nilssen-Love, Walter Ruttmann, Dave Philips, Catherine Lamb, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Carlos Casas, Delphine Dora (feat. Gayle Brogan & Le fruit vert), Michael Pisaro-Liu, Bing & Ruth, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Clara de Asís & Mara Winter, Wendy Carlos, Zhu Wenbo, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vanessa Rossetto, Jan Bang & Erik Honore, Shakali, Jed Speare, Eric Glick Rieman, Leslie Dalaba & Stuart Dempster, Cheikh Tidiane Fall, Bobby Few & Jo Maka, Dick Higgins, Adela Mede (feat. Martyna Basta), Red Wine and Sugar, Prefuse 73, Unknown Recordist, Chamber 4, Alessandro Bosetti, William Hooker & Phill Niblock, Richard Bernas & Robert Wyatt

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The Unaired Two-Page Conversation

I think we're past the point of possible spoilers, so as promised: the 2pg book conversation that was cut for time (and realism). Originally, I was experimenting with "unsent" books as part of the conversations, but I thought it would ultimately be too confusing and opted not to use that, so anything you see with a strikethrough is an "unsent" book.

(If this text formatting is ultra zany and hard to read, someone please tell me and I'll make it more regular. Allison is Blue, Patty is Red... for reasons... 🫠)

Allison: It’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth, by Zoe Thorogood

Patty: Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Allison: Tell Me Everything, by Minka Kelly

Patty: Daily Rituals, by Phoebe Garnsworthy

Patty: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer

Patty: Crime, by Irvine Welsh

Allison: Without Me? by Chelle Bliss

Allison: Exciting Times, by Naoise Dolan

Patty: Not Without You, by Harriet Evans

Patty: The Page Turner, by David Leavitt

Allison: I Got a Job and It Wasn’t That Bad, by Scott Dikkers

Patty: Really Moving On, by Pierre Jeanty

Patty: What Kind of Job Can a Monkey Do? by Sato Akira

Allison: Hey Rick! Don’t Be So Rude! by Alyssa Thompson

Patty: I Like Monkeys, by Peter Hansard

Allison: So You Like Me Too, by OPR

Patty: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth

Allison: Just Say Yes, by Niobia Bryant

Patty: Yes, Chef, by Marcus Samuelsson

Patty: Get to the Point, by Joel Schwartzberg

Allison: I Miss You, by Pat Thomas

Allison: Without You, by Saskia Sarginson

Allison: You’re, by Keisha Ervin

Allison: I Got My Dream Job and So Can You, by Pete Leibman 

Patty: Super Spy, by Matt Kindt

Allison: The Librarian Spy, by Madeline Martin

Patty: For the Love of Books, by Graham Tarrant

Allison: Reminds Me of You, by Retno Handini

Allison: For the Thrill of It, by Simon Baatz

Patty: Run Towards the Danger, by Sarah Polley

Allison: Risking it All, by Tessa Bailey

Patty: Risk (With Me), by Sue Wilder

Patty: Ambitious Girl, by Meena Harris

Allison: Yeah, Right, by Jim and Helen Fox

Patty: The Follow-Through Factor: Getting from Doubt to Done, by Gene C. Hayden

Allison: A Stroke of Dumb Luck, by Shiloh Walker

Patty: Credit Where Credit is Due, by Frank Casey

Allison: Optimists Die First, by Susin Neilsen

Patty: The Price of Immortality, by Peter Ward

Allison: Death Visits the Hair Salon, by Amy Anderson

Patty: Murder in the Library, by Katie Gayle

Allison: Sounds Like Fun, by Bryan Moriarty

Patty: I Have More Fun With You Than Anybody, by Lige Clark

Patty: Certifiably Insane, by Arthur W. Bahr

Allison: Charming as a Verb, by Ben Philippe

Patty: How Do You Manage? by John Nicholson

Allison: Liquor, by Poppy Z. Brite

Patty: Hardly Know Her, by Laura Lippman

Allison: Don’t Be Gross, by Barbara Bakos

Patty: It’s Just Anatomy! by Ellen

Allison: Rough Transition, by Patrick Kelley

Patty: Some Girls Like it Rough, by Marlo Peterson

Allison: What Sort of Girls Were They? by Petrea Leslie

Patty: Girls with Bright Futures, by Tracy Dobmeier

Allison: I’m a Little Ghost and I Like the Dark, by Lynda Kimmel

Patty: Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, by Malcolm Lowrey

Allison: Murder in the Dark, by Simon R. Green

Patty: My Job Was To Bring The Shovel, by Randall M. Rueff

Allison: The Complete Accomplice, by Steve Aylett

Patty: The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett

Allison: The Witch’s Familiar, by Raven Grimassi

Patty: Witch Minion, by Lissa Kasey

Allison: These Witches Don’t Burn, by Isabel Sterling

Patty: The Drowning Kind, by Jennifer McMahon

Allison: A Touch Morbid, by Leah Clifford

Patty: Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, by Margo Rabb

Allison: I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight, by James Hold

Patty: Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, by R. H. Sin

Allison: Sounds Perfect, by Ashley Boren

Patty: How I Made a Friend, Daniel Georges

Allison: Good For You (Between the Lines), by Tammara Webber

Patty: We’re Very Good Friends, by P.K. Hallinan

Allison: Sounds Fake, But Okay, by Sarah Costello

Patty: What If It’s True? by Charles Martin

Allison: What If It Wasn’t? by Ivan Itch

Patty: Why Do You Care? by Saju Skaria

Allison: I’m Fine and Neither Are You, by Camille Pagán

Allison: The Replacement Part, by Nora Wylde

Patty: Just a Friend, by Ashley Nicole

Allison: How to Kill Your Best Friend, by Lexie Elliott

Patty: You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, by Tom Gauld

Allison: Dead Jealous, by Sharon Jones

Patty: You’ve Got to Have Friends, by Delbert George Fitzpenfield Anthony

Allison: Everything I Need I Get From You, by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Allison: Among Other Things, by Robert Long Foreman

Allison: Truths I Learned from Sam, ​​by Kristin Butcher

Patty: The Idiot King, by Patty Jansen

Allison: He Helped Me Climb the Mountain, by Betty E. Wright

Patty: The Man Who Pushed His Wife off a Cliff, by Will D. Burn

Patty: Men are Trash, by Salman Faris 

Patty: And That’s Why I Think I Prefer A Rainbow Horse, by Tiarra Nazario

Patty: Sam Houston’s Wife, by William Seale

Allison: What About Her, by Emma Tharpe

Patty: Amelia Bedelia Sleeps Over, by Herman Parish

Patty: The Undead in my Bed, by Katie McAlister

Allison: Sleeping with the Enemy, by Nancy Price

Allison: How Could You Do That?! by Laura Schlessinger

Allison: How Could You Murder Us? by Charae Lewis

Allison: Why Her? by Nicki Koziarz

Allison: I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, by Jerold J. Kreisman

Patty: I Was Joking, Of Course, by Paul Jennings

Allison: Liar, by Tate James

Patty: What if I Say the Wrong Thing? by Verna A Myers

Allison: Don’t Look Back, by Josh Lanyon

Patty: Come Back, by Sally Crosiar

Patty: SHIT, by Shahnon Ahmad

Patty: Barbie: It Takes Two, by Grace Baranowski

Allison: I Changed My Mind, by Jimmy Evans

Allison: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped, by Madeleine Roux

Patty: Are You Still There, by Sara Lynn Schreeger

Patty: Wait for Me, by Caroline Leech

Allison: Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto

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Hi. So I just realized... Silver's like... gaining a fanbase on here. People are making FANART of her. My god, I'm honored. So, um.... some random ahh Silver Boxleitner factiods (Also yeah sorry her blog is inactive. I've genuinely just kinda... run out of ideas for funny posts if that makes sense)

She's pansexual and a demigirl. Idk if you saw, but on her profile, her pronouns are actually listed she/her/they/them.

I'm sorry but I can't stop picturing the Henchmen calling her Boss Junior. I'm sorry but that's just hilarious to me.

Either Lady Redundant Woman or Leslie once let Silver have a small sip of their alcohol, at which point Silver spent the rest of the villain meeting pretending to be drunk.

She's really into vocaloid music. Every now and then she sings one of them at villain karaoke and leaves everybody very very concerned about her current mental state

Yall so like... I ship provoclone, right? That um... that makes Silver and Royal Dandy siblings. So uh, I'm just over here imagining what that would be like for the both of them. It'd probably be like Silver teaching Dandy how to swear and informing him the middle finger means "I love you." And probably convincing him to cosplay as Sans and Papyrus from Undertale with her.

Silver once hijacked a TV station because she wanted to talk about Deltarune/Undertale lore. Also yeah, she's... she's cannonically a very big fan of those games. It's literally all over her blog, she regularly talks about it there. Her favorite Undertale character is a tie between Mettaton and Muppet, and her favorite Deltarune character is a tie between Jevil and Spamton.

Now, due to the fact that WG follows the "pretty much all adults are fucking idiots" rule, I like to think they are always unable to remember Silver's actual first name and always refer to her as "Twobrains Child." Like.... THE FUCKING MENTAL IMAGE OF THAT IS HYSTERICAL-

So, I dunno if you've seen the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (TM) over on her blog, but Silver totally started out absolutely fucking hating Glen Furlblam. But she started kinda giving him a chance, then once accidentally called him Uncle Glen, and from then onward, there was no turning back. Now Glen's basically the Aunt Gayle (from Bob's Burgers) of her and her family

[fatsmyname]

Do you have any resources or tips for young butches? Especially on how to support your fellow butches and queers and butch history? <3

My biggest tip is to read lit by butches and follow tons and tons of butches online. Leslie feinberg, Alison Bechdel, Gayle Rubin, and many more have great reading resources on the butch experience. Some Instagram accounts I like that center butches/butchness are butchisnotadirtyword, butchanarchy, lemonliupress, and renstrapp.

Finding other butches to connect with, especially older ones will really help you. My therapist is also butch, and she helps me tremendously to guide me through my identity and life. If you have any specific questions, such as finding the right harness/strap for you, how to find masculine clothing, hard packing and binding questions, or anything else at all, don’t ever hesitate to ask! I may not know the answer but I can always direct you to other people who have lived experience regarding certain things.

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2022, in the order in which I read them (*books I read before, that I was reading again):

Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction 

Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa 

Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fire Is Not a Country 

Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest 

*Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings 

Victoria Chang, Dear Memory 

*Etel Adnan, Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)

Sun Yung Shin, The Wet Hex 

traci kato-kiriyama, Navigating With(out) Instruments 

Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

Solmaz Sharif, Customs 

*Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais 

Lucille Clifton, Generations: A Memoir 

Emerson Whitney, Heaven 

Kim Thúy, em, tr. Sheila Fischman 

Angel Dominguez, Desgraciado (the collected letters) 

Janice Lee, Separation Anxiety 

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

*Cathy Park Hong, Translating Mo’um 

Kyoko Hayashi, From Trinity to Trinity, tr. Eiko Otake 

Lao Yang, Pee Poems, tr. Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu 

Yuri Herrera, A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire, tr. Lisa Dillman (

Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

Chuang Hua, Crossings 

José Watanabe, Natural History, tr. Michelle Har Kim

Walter Lew, Excerpts from: ∆IKTH 딕테/딕티 DIKTE, for DICTEE (1982) 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook, tr. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler

Hiromi Kawakami, Parade, tr. Allison Markin Powell 

Lynn Xu, And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight 

*Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose, tr. Georgina Kleege 

Jennifer Soong, Suede Mantis/Soft Rage 

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street 

*Hilton Als, The Women

Dot Devota, >She 

V.S. Naipaul, The Return of Eva Perón 

Yasushi Inoue, The Hunting Gun, tr. Sadamichi Yokoo and Sanford Goldstein

Molly Murakami, Tide goes out 

Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings 

Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena 

Leia Penina Wilson, Call the Necromancer 

Gabriel García Márquez, News of a Kidnapping, tr. Edith Grossman 

Amitava Kumar, Bombay-London-New York 

Elizabeth Alexander, The Trayvon Generation 

Ryan Nakano, I Am Minor 

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender, tr. Holly James 

Hilton Als, My Pin-up 

Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything 

Leslie Kitashima-Gray, The Pink Dress: A Story from the Japanese American Internment 

Emmanuel Carrère, Yoga, tr. John Lambert 

Ronald Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Sansei Poetry 

Patricia Y. Ikeda, House of Wood, House of Salt

Soichi Furuta, to breathe 

Kiki Petrosino, Bright 

Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Aerial Concave Without Cloud 

Nanao Sakaki, Real Play

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias 

Francis Naohiko Oka, Poems 

Geraldine Kudaka, Numerous Avalanches at the Point of Intersection 

Steve Fujimura, Sad Asian Music 

Augusto Higa Oshiro, The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, tr. Jennifer Shyue 

Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers 

Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey 

Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System 

Hua Hsu, Stay True 

Barbara Browning, The Miniaturists 

Kate Zambreno, Drifts 

*Julie Otsuka, When The Emperor Was Divine 

Louise Akers, Elizabeth/The Story of Drone

Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century from the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty 

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Dereliction 

Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish 

Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow 

Tongo Eisen-Martin, Blood on the Fog 

Lucas de Lima, Tropical Sacrifice 

*Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry, ed. Víctor Terán & David Shook 

Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus 

Kazim Ali, Silver Road 

*Sadako Kurihara, When We Say Hiroshima, tr. Richard Minear 

Simone White, or, on being the other woman

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work 

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes 

*Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon 

Marguerite Duras, The Man Sitting in the Corridor 

Gayl Jones, Corregidora 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

*Etel Adnan, Seasons 

Gwendolyn Brooks, to disembark 

Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome, tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca 

Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone, tr. Natasha Wimmer

Selva Almada, Dead Girls, tr. Annie McDermott

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Valerie Hsiung, To Love an Artist

*Theresa Hak  Cha, Exilée and Temps Morts

Dao Strom, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People

Randa Jarrar, Love Is An Ex-Country

*Dao Strom, Instrument

Osamu Dazai, Early Light, tr. Ralph McCarthy and Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, tr. Donald Keene

Rachel Aviv, Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief, tr. Ibrahim Muhawi

[fazedlight]

RIFT FIC!!!!!!! :D

thank you for your lovely response and for science headcanon post, i especially enjoy when people take random bits of their own knowledge that isn’t so common (like the stable marriage/roommate problem you explained) and find a way to put that into their fics and headcanons. i actually laughed out loud when lena started talking mitochondrial dna in your fic (the not having any extra dna on hand bit made ZERO sense to me as well, especially since the show was written and aired after covid hit and every news program in the world had explained what PCR was ad nauseam). it just makes the world feel that much more real with these little details carefully thought through. excited for your other fics as well, both supercorp and otherwise!

i love how once you headcanon a character enough they will interrupt you to say ‘no, i wouldn’t do that, that makes no sense, i would do -this-‘ and completely derail what you had in mind for them also :D

and thank you for the encouragement re: posting fic!

follow-up question(s): have you ever contemplated the logistics of particular aus or crossovers? are there ships you are particularly fond of that aren’t supercorp? (whether shipping with kara/lena or any other characters)

👀 👀 👀

the show was written and aired after covid hit and every news program in the world had explained what PCR was ad nauseam

Oh my GOD!!! If I had been watching the show when it was airing, I think I would've actually gone insane about this 🤣

have you ever contemplated the logistics of particular aus or crossovers?

Hmm, I haven’t yet - I actually haven’t read many AUs in general, right now canon just has a grip on me that I can’t let go of!

are there ships you are particularly fond of that aren’t supercorp? (whether shipping with kara/lena or any other characters)

In Supergirl? Oh, plenty 👀

Brainia and Dansen are fantastic. I really wish Dansen had gotten more screen time.

For Lena (still with supercorp endgame): I headcanon Lena/Andrea in the past - I actually forget that it’s not canon, I cannot read the whole Titanic thing as anything but gay. I like Lena/Jack as a past ship, too.

For Kara (still with supercorp endgame): I think Kara/Lucy or Kara/Kate or Kara/Leslie all have potential, in that order. The LOSH movie gave me some affinity for Kara/Brainy, too, though I don’t really adopt that into the Arrowverse.

Non-supercorp non-canon ships: I like Imra/Gayle, Alex/Sam, Sam/Andrea, probably a few others that I'm forgetting...

For the most part, they don't kidnap my mind into creating a fic, but they're sort in the sea of tangent Supergirl thoughts (along with all the other scenes and snippets and story ideas... occasionally ideas in that sea start aggregating, and then I'm compelled to write a fic).

[nartblartmallcop]

oh yeah, one more thing or my last hurrah of my dhmis fixation! i thought i might share all my hc lore notes for the main important characters. its not entirely done, i got through like half the research i wanted to do for radley and quentin and got in pretty much none of the reasearch i wanted to do for gilbert BUT the broad strokes are there. and i thought id finally give you all some context for the weird insanity i always drew of those three boys

CW for violence, racism, homophobia, murder and attempted suicide

also heads up for canon divergence

basics

the most important year is 1955

that's the year the guys were brought into The Puppet Purgatory or whatever you wanna classify it as (P.P. For short)

the characters leave the P.P. in 1983

time flows like shit there, it's a mess and everything is pretty much runs on the express goal of Fucking With You

the puppet aesthetic of the P.P is a manifestation of Leslie's own childlike and simplistic view of the world, if someone else had created it, it would've looked completely different (for example if Quentin somehow did it it'd be styled like a film noir, and Gilbert would've turned it into a nature documentary)

yellow guy: Gilbert Ratcliff

born in 1934

21 in 1955

27 in 1983 (age was frozen for almost the entire time he was in P.P.)

grew up as a member of a secluded community, similar to Mormons, called The Community

The Comunity is a small village hidden within Ashtown Forest, containing roughly 800 members

he's always been a very smart and curious boy, despite The Community's best efforts to keep him just within what they permit their people to know

his curiosity was only ever encouraged by his closest childhood friend, Leslie, who also loved learning new things and exploring the world

surprisingly however, Leslie became furious with him when he said he wanted to leave The Community and move somewhere outside of their woodland town

he left anyways and found his footing working for a diner in southern London, where the owner didn't care that he didn't even graduate high school (“well you don't need an education to serve food”)

this diner was visited often by a local college student named Radley, who would often have dinner there or just stay somewhere without a colour bar

Gilbert and Radley talked about all sorts of things whenever there was a lull in business, with Gilbert's curiosity usually driving the conversation

however, one day he was ambushed by Leslie who missed him too much and wanted to take him back with her to The Community, and keep him from leaving again through an old occult ritual

this is also why he's kept young and clueless via empty batteries all the time, Leslie does not want him to leave her ever again, she wants to keep the Gilbert who couldn't see the funny side, was always so curious and sweet but who doesn't actually break the rules

red guy: Radley Gayle

born in 1932

23 in 1955

48 when he escapes The Puppet Purgatory in 1983 (age got frozen for a few years)

came to Britain from a British colony in Jamaica to go to college

dreams of creating a kids T.V show that could teach black children about the world around them (emboldened by television act of 1954)

member of the West African Students' Union (WASU)

acquainted with Gilbert before they were sent to P.P, witnessed his murder and had to be killed as well so there'd be no witnesses

somewhere in the middle between dhmis times and 1955, Radley makes his way up to Leslie's room and gets a bit too confrontational about escaping the P.P for her liking

she rips off his lips as punishment

the wound does not go away, as it happened outside of the lessons of the P.P, not to mention caused directly by the person in charge of the Funny House

he grows a beard to cover it up

duck: Quentin Corben (Indian last name Chabra was only by his family in private)

born in 1930

25 in 1955

53 in 1983 (only one who aged normally throughout their entire stay in the P.P.)

his mother and father were both Indians who lived in Britain due to work (His mother having been a domestic servant and his father a lascar)

they all wanted to fit into Britain as much as possible to minimize the discrimination they'd face, this meant that Quentin had next to no connection with his Indian heritage beyond knowing a bit of Punjabi

his father had to help with the military boats during WW2, dying when one of them was bombed

after this, Quentin's mother quickly married a white British man, half out of love but mostly out of fear that she would be discriminated against more intensely if she wasn't married, perhaps even lose her home

maybe they had a couple of kids to, leading to Quentin having a half-sibling or two idk

after that, the expectation for them to “mold into whiteness” became more intense, the step-father not really doing anything to lessen it

Quentin didn't really care, he had other things to worry about

like being gay and closeted

he used to spend a lot of nights and weekends at gay bars

sometimes performed songs there, he was quite popular with the other queers

one night a group of cops who recently found out about this secret gay bar storm the place

Quentin, still wearing a fruity as hell outfit, escapes and runs home, unfortunately he gets caught in the garage by his step-father

his family interrogate him, figure out he's a homosexual and all hell breaks lose

Quentin is beaten thoroughly by his step-father and has a bible shoved in his face

in an outburst of rage at his family's betrayal of him, Quentin sets the bible on fire, his mother promptly drops it and as another sign of his newfound disownment of his family, Quentin kicks over a gasoline canister

he turns and exits through the back door of the garage he came in through. his family however is not so lucky. The flames spread to the banister and the roof of the garage, the house's big garage gate would be the family's only exit but the door has been severely busted for many months and its inability to open becomes their doom as the roof collapses and they all die

Quentin, now horrified that he just killed his entire family and got away with it, runs away. He spends a few weeks being homeless but eventually decides to spend his last money on a rope, go into the nearby forests and hang himself to atone for his sins

while he struggles to tie the noose, (because I need that boy to be pathetic <3) he is found by Leslie, who is dragging two bags of corpses behind her to her home in The Community

long conversation short, because Quentin wants to atone for his sins either way, and because Leslie takes pity on his inability to do so much as to tie a noose, they agree to let her stab him and make him another part of the ritual

and so this stranger from nowhere is sent to the P.P.

Leslie (last name pending) (or maybe they just don't have last names in The Community)

22 in 1955

50 in 1983 (allthough doing the ritual made her body age faster due to how draining it is on the body)

always a jolly soul, Leslie was nice and encouraging to everyone she knew in The Community, though her favourite friend of all time was Gilbert

she didn't really care that he left The Community, but she was utterly heartbroken that he would ever leave HER

shortly after his departure, she finds an old ritual of The Community, to send someone into a special dimension dedicated to atoning for wrongdoings and learning new values

determined to carry through this ritual, she sets out to find Gilbert

it takes her nearly a year to find him, but when she finally does, she kills him quickly and tries to leave right away but unfortunately she's caught in the act by Radley who probably forgot something in the diner or smth

she makes quick work of him as well and decides to take him along, since she's stalked Gilbert for a few weeks and knows that Gilbert and Radley are already well acquainted

she figures taking him along to the atonement dimension couldn't hurt too much, picks up Quentin along the way too

The ritual includes removing all organs from the sacrificed and to tie them to your own body. In the P.P. Dimension this manifests as Leslie's stitches in her face

she keeps all three of them with her and overall mostly just sticks to encouraging good behaviour and punishing bad behaviour as she sees fit

the teachers and lessons she sends the main trio are unfortunately kind of absolute trash because they are entirely based on her sheltered perspective as a member of The Community, but they do not turn violent within the first few years. It's just misinformation at first

Gilbert is mentally frozen in age quickly once Leslie modifies him to run on batteries (and consistently keeps him on low power so his mind cannot grasp at the world around him to try and ruin her fun)

Radley, who tried to lash out against the Puppet Purgatory a few times but failed and then became depressed, gets frozen in age for a little while where it seems like he won't do anything anymore, but it turns out that freezing his body's growth did not do the same to his mind and he went back to pushing against Leslie's control after a few years.

This distresses Leslie greatly mostly because if Radley could figure some things out despite being frozen, there's a good chance Gilbert will as well. Once she realised this she started regularly wiping the trio's memories of previous adventures.

Quentin dies the most because he actually did something fucked up in his life to “warrant” the P.P.'s torture (that being killing his family). This isn't Leslie's intention, its just the nature of this place acting on its own

since keeing up the connection to the P.P. dimension is kiling her, Leslie finally lets the three boys go in 1983

still unsure if she dies afterwards or tries to sort of "patch things up" (or at least apologize)

Bonus: Roy

a puppet character simply created to play the role of Gilbert's father

gained too much sentience after many years within the P.P and began actually seeing himself as Gilbert's father

as such, he found himself continuously emboldened by the 'father knows best' attitude built into his core character and eventually gained the power to take over the Puppet Purgatory Dimension

gaining sentience over the nature of his reality caused his body to get all gangly and fucked up and long, he looked more like a normal old guy before

his newfound control over the P.P. Caused the June 19th loop, a father's day on which he tried to teach his son all the lessons he ought to truly know

the teachers he created, however are far more hostile and malicious, leading to the fucked up lessons in the yt-shorts

the first ones, sketchbook and Tony, also ended up corrupting their versions of the main three into the big boys and bigger boys, which Roy was forced to take of once Leslie took control again

while some things such as the oil spill on Gilbert's clown painting or Tony the clock's screeching were planned, the really insane moments were unintentional consequences of Roy's clumsiness when running the P.P

he was just a figment from within with too much sentience after all, he didn't REALLY know how any of it should work

the unplugging at the end of Dreams is part of his willing relinquishment of his powers over the universe

despite being a bit of a fucked up cruel man, he recognized that his mingling has gone too far, and not really taught anyone anything valuable, except to be scared all the damn time

hence why the main trio was so hostile in the TV-series, they're all super on edge and they'd rather scare off the teachers than actually learn anything new now

that's also why Roy didn't really do anything in the TV-series, he's sticking to the background “as he ought to” (in Leslie's words)

as another bonus, have some pics of the three boys right before and a while after the puppet purgatory dimension (i was quoting "quiet mullet boy" to myself for weeks after making the second pic)

[kcyars99]

Gayle still owe an explanation for that fucked up Kobe shit she did with Lisa Leslie and he wasn’t even buried yet.

Gayle had no right to ask that. Whether she was intimate with him is irrelevant; implying she’s less credible due to that is victim-blaming and suggests she doesn’t fit the “perfect victim” mold.

Of all the things Megan talks about in this documentary pertaining to mental health, being shot, cyber bullying, mourning, abs grief…the internet decides to hang on to the clip of her talking about something that already came out in court. Trash ass individuals. Annoying. fuckers!

Y’all worried abt if Meg lied abt her sex w/ Tory, when what you NEED to be worried abt is that him shooting her has turned this into IPV. A person she shared her body SHOT her. The conversation needs to be abt the harm that BW suffer at the hands of BM intimate partners. Say what BITCH?!?

[cyarskj1899]

Gayle still owe an explanation for that fucked up Kobe shit she did with Lisa Leslie and he wasn’t even buried yet.

Gayle had no right to ask that. Whether she was intimate with him is irrelevant; implying she’s less credible due to that is victim-blaming and suggests she doesn’t fit the “perfect victim” mold.

Of all the things Megan talks about in this documentary pertaining to mental health, being shot, cyber bullying, mourning, abs grief…the internet decides to hang on to the clip of her talking about something that already came out in court. Trash ass individuals. Annoying. fuckers!

Y’all worried abt if Meg lied abt her sex w/ Tory, when what you NEED to be worried abt is that him shooting her has turned this into IPV. A person she shared her body SHOT her. The conversation needs to be abt the harm that BW suffer at the hands of BM intimate partners. Say what BITCH?!?

[ulkaralakbarova]

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Christopher ‘Chris’ Romero: Jason Lively James Carpenter ‘J.C.’ Hooper: Steve Marshall Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Cronenberg: Jill Whitlow Det. Ray Cameron: Tom Atkins Detective Landis: Wally Taylor Brad: Allan Kayser Sgt. Raimi: Bruce Solomon Coroner: Vic Polizos Walt: Dick Miller Johnny: Ken Heron Pam: Alice Cadogan Karen: June Harris Young Scientist: David Paymer Steve: David Oliver House Mother: Evelyne Smith Sorority Girl with Hairbrush: Leslie Ryan Lisa: Suzanne Snyder Kathy: Elizabeth Cox Todd: John J. York Patrolman with Searchlight: Robert Kerman Beta Zombie: Earl Ellis Beta Zombie: Robert Kurtzman Beta Zombie: Howard Berger Alien Zombie: Daniel Frishman Extra (uncredited): Greg Nicotero Young Ray Cameron: Dave Alan Johnson Chett: Jim Townsend Lori: Lori Lively Alien Pursuer #1: Kevin Thompson Alien Pursuer #2: Joseph S. Griffo Cop in Station: Jay Arlen Jones Alley Cop: Elizabeth Alda Film Crew: Writer: Fred Dekker Producer: Charles Gordon Associate Producer: Donna Smith Executive Producer: Billy Finnegan Original Music Composer: Barry De Vorzon Director of Photography: Robert C. New Editor: Michael N. Knue Casting: Ilene Starger Production Design: George Costello Set Decoration: Maria Caso Costume Design: Eileen Kennedy Special Effects Makeup Artist: David B. Miller Makeup Artist: Kyle Sweet Hairstylist: Frankie Campbell Special Effects Makeup Artist: Howard Berger Special Effects Makeup Artist: Earl Ellis Special Effects Makeup Artist: Robert Kurtzman Special Effects Makeup Artist: Frank Charles Lutkus III Special Effects Makeup Artist: Mark Maitre Special Effects Makeup Artist: Shawn McEnroe Special Effects Makeup Artist: Bruce Zahlava Makeup Artist: Bonita DeHaven Sound Editor: William H. Angarola Sound Editor: Clark Conrad Supervising Sound Editor: Joe Fineman Sound Editor: Doug Gray Sound Editor: Barbara Issak Sound Recordist: Brian Ruberg Sound Editor: James Wolvington Visual Effects Supervisor: David Stipes Visual Effects: Dana O’Connor Costume Set Supervisor: Gayle Evans Special Effects: Roger George Special Effects Makeup Artist: Tim Lawrence Movie Reviews: John Chard: What is this? A homicide, or a bad B-movie? Not exactly what you would call an unknown horror comedy, but there is the distinct feeling that it should be better known. As its cult fan base will attest, this is blast of a movie, a homage to the “B” schlockers of lore. Directed by Fred Dekker, the premise sees some alien beings eject a flask of alien slugs down to earth, which lands at a fraternity campus, something which cause mayhem some years later when a frozen body is disturbed at the medical lab and the slugs are unleashed. Cue infestation that turns people into zombies! The pic plays up to the clichés of fraternity based movies, with nerds and nudity on tap, all smothered in a gooey horror comedy sauce. One-liners are ripe, the characterisations also, the latter of which fronted by a glorious Tom Atkins as a hard drinking hard – boiled detective with issues and quips ready to be poured out. It’s not genius film making, but given the low budget it deserves its cult status, because it never pauses for breath and it’s very aware of what it wants to be – and crucially who its target audience is. 7/10 Dsnake1: Night of the Creeps is a fantastic movie to watch in many different situations: with friends, at a sleepover, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the day, and so many more. It’s an easy to watch flick, and it contains the right balance of horror elements, gore, campiness, humor, and absurdity to make each viewing as enjoyable as the last. It’s got a touch of body-stealing aliens, a touch of zombies, a touch of traditional serial killer, all mixed with all the fun that can come fro...