#HOORAY FOR COTTON CANDY!

[stabbyfoxandrew]

just any aftg fics you’ve enjoyed in the last month or so!!! im not picky, they can be whatever ship whatever au or content :) curious and in the mood to read something new……

okay! :D gonna go grab some stuff from my ao3 history. cut because it got long

kandreil:

game changer by peaceoutofthepieces

andreil come to visit kevin in his new apartment and he feels weird about it. but then...

Scrambled by klovnen

kevin gets a concussion!! so sad so good. his bfs take care of him. <3

it's worth a little blood to get your arms free by wyverning

kevin and neil start fucking around but they both really want andrew! (i haven't finished this one yet because it wasn't done when i read it but it is not and i'm hyped to see what happens)

If We Gotta Go (Gotta Go Tonight) by queer_lovebot

andreil teach kevin how to drive and it's so sweet TWT <333

stuck between your teeth like cotton candy by memeyoozi (vernonsgf)

this one is (for now) a two part series!!!! it's pre-kandreil iirc and the second part is MORE of kevin going insane because he's in love with andreil? i need to reread this one. but this writer is amazin

kevjean:

teenage dream by kevjean

kevin comes to california for a visit and he's packing! jean sucks the strap (it's pink/ i'm glad you're not colorblind) it's amazing i have a bouquet of flowers for ao3 user kevjean!!!

andreil:

Caretaking 101: When to Surrender a Sweatshirt by williams_strawberries

mein gott... i've been thinking about this fic for months. andrew thinks neil's about to run away but he's actually built himself a nest for his heat in the tower's basement. it's soooo TwT you'll see what i mean go read it. (no actual smut, just has the abo elements!)

i only need the working of my hands by allyasavedtheday

AMNESIA ANDREW!!! the man who remembers everything forgets what's most important. and has to re-learn who neil is. showstopping... amazing increbdile <- so good my stupid ass forgot how to spell!

keremy:

once in a lifetime by kevjean

jeremy is a popstar and kevin is his biggest fan! they fuck backstage and it's glorious!!! GLORIOUS!!! ao3 user kevjean... i love you<333

kevseth:

Baby Pink by noNic02

ok. this one... made me insane(r). it's not for everyone for sure... but kevin and seth are secretly fucking and kevin wears allison's clothes (kevin is having a lot of gender thoughts in here too... an egg...)

misc:

a detachment and a passive disinterest by memeyoozi (vernonsgf)

not sure where to put this one... kevin is in heat and needs dicked down. nicky volunteers! hooray! but also kevin wants andreil so bad he's insane! (they're all insane your honor) but it's so good? ty sister dayurno for showing me this...

sorry for the terrible formatting i've never really done this before? (i don't think anyhow?) anyway! go read all these okay! ❤️

[fictionalfoodpolls]

Flight Rising's cotton candies?

Hooray another Special Poll

[stealthnoodle]

Mothman ruined everything! Hooray! And in particular, he ruined Wyll.

See, the most interesting part of this playthrough has been that the main character has been Wyll all along. Wyll is the Sherlock Holmes Corruption Arc to Mothman's John Waston Murder Spree. This poor man no longer has a functional moral compass; he really likes Mothman, despite everything, leading to moments like this:

Protest all you like, pal, but your approval rating, like Shakira's hips, doesn't lie. (I made him a wizard even though he double-sold his soul because why not, no one could stop me.)

He's so far gone. Wyll babygirl I am so sorry, I don't even know how this happened, I somehow backed you into a universe where all the druids and tieflings died in Act 1 and you still stuck around, and now here we are. Broken.

Anyway, Mothman got a neat new antenna-helmet:

He wore it to fight the Netherbrain, which gets DIRTY TRICKS in Honour Mode. The final battle was a real nail-biter, like I needed to get up and have a few deep breathing exercises afterward. I need you to see this shit, which took place on the final round, my last turn before everything would have been over but not in the way Mothman wanted:

Everybody say, "Thank you, Murderdaddy."

Because I would not have won this fight without Power Word: Kill. Especially because Mothman entered the final battle with four summonable allies, which is honestly more than I expected but not enough to do effective crowd control. I kept Gale's severed hand in my inventory all game, and looked at it sorrowfully every time something especially unfortunate happened in the battle that he could have spared me from.

Anyway, here's how we thank Murderdaddy properly:

Shadowheart's objections are very funny to me because Mothman has been nothing if not upfront about his plans. Volo fled my camp because Mothman wouldn't stop being like, "I fucking love being a Baalspawn! I'm so good at murder! I'm gonna murder everyone! :D"

You all deserve this tbh

Then I immediately created Pizzazz, the cool half-orc monk with cotton-candy hair, because if I could slog my way through Dishonour Mode making terrible pig-headed choices, surely I can play Honour Mode for real making smart ones.

[whatever-color-of-the-rainbow]

HOORAY

His love language is gift giving, and he’s really good at it

He’s really good at baking, but sucks at cooking

His favorite song is Dead Man Walking by Jeremy Camp

He’s bisexual. He’s aware of this fact and okay with it, but he’s not super open about it for obvious reasons

He cares about Farrah, and is significantly more understanding and patient with her than Annleigh is. They’ve gotten into a few minor arguments about this.

He and Kate would have been such good friends if they had been given the chance

Also him and Chess, they’d also be besties

He tried writing a song for Annleigh once because he thought it would be romantic, and failed miserably because he’s ✨not a songwriter✨

The Tigers’ #1 unofficial cheerleader

He goes to every single game, and always has snacks and water on him for the team

Knows every word to Mulan

He tries to get along with everyone and has a lot of friends

He and Annleigh have a Bible that they read and annotate together

A pro at Wii Sports

In the spring, he’ll pick a bouquet of dandelions for Annleigh

Grew up on VeggieTales

Show choir kid

If he had a nickel for every time he’s been compared to Gomez Addams, he’d have enough money to buy Annleigh a ring

Wants to become a youth pastor

He can play guitar

Himbo

(❤️= Cairo, 🧡= Riley, 💛= Reese, 💚= Kate, 💙=Chess, 💜=Farrah, 🩷=Annleigh, 🤎=Clark, 🤍=Mattie, 🖤=Eva, send multiple hearts for ships or friend dynamics)

@cotton-candy-vodka

[arlecchno]

5 hours of sleep squad …. i honestly dont know how well i sleep but today i had a dream and alhaitham and kaveh were in it (i only got to chat w haitham tho) i was in this gigantic ass library type thing and it looked so cool , the entire thing was made out of dark brown wood and it was so pretty (i actually had another dream where i was in the same building before where i was running errands around the “school” HAHAH) but yeah since it was a library / school type place i was obviously there to learn shiz and — this is the weird part — the lesson was on dreams !!!!!!! and like bro ?? are my dreams becoming self aware ? 😨 i thought the lesson was interesting but alhaitham tried to gaslight me into not liking it (an exaggeration , he just thought i was lying when i said it was interesting) i think he was supposed to be like ,,, a helper to me in the dream idfk it was funky as hell - sorry for going off on a tangent about my dream LMFAO

WHSJSJ fischl is my baby shes one of the first 4*s i got and i kinda relate to her on some level , i too love playing pretend , but mostly when i was younger id pretty much spend all my recess roleplaying with my friends . trying to imitate my favorite characters is a pastime ive always enjoyed , and it honestly makes me insanely happy when people say i kinda act like my faves (ig its smth i do subconsciously LOL) because its like “WAIT . THEY THINK IM LIKE THIS INSANELY COOL CHARACTER I LOVE WITH A BURNING PASSION ???? [inaudible screaming]” recently ive found myself a new genshin rp friend and . dude . id never have thought that playing as alhaitham would be so goddamn fun . screenies for funnies:

(making cynos joke was so much fun too so i included it)

bro i lost my mf 50/50 to jeAN on haithams banner - not even a diluc , tall men hate me ig LMAO and it really doesnt help that ive been drained as hell from school lately so ive been slacking w my fricking primo farming ;_;

YESS the fungi event was lovely but tbh … the entire event i was just yelling about how i wanted to see cyno HAHAHAH - i suffer with chronic writers block (/hj) so . like . [dead alex sound]

GREAT NEWS my injury has healed hooray !!

absolutely , escaping school is great , id probably go on more field trips if it didnt mean id have to do makeup work tbh , i hate doing makeup work .

DINGDINGDING ! YOU ARE CORRECT ! the region i was going for was indeed mondstadt ! aster (my oc) lives in mond and is originally from khaenriah , im glad i didnt draw in their face yet because their eyes wouldve totally given away the fact they were khaenriahn LOL

my week was honestly pretty busy (atleast to my tiny brains standards , i feel like you could also tell by how long it took me to send another ask 😭😭) i had two tests today (that i frickin ACED HAHA im so proud of myself) one of my friends and some guy i share a bunch of classes with also gave me pieces of their cotton candy and the guy told me good job for actually doing my work LMFAO (i usually fall asleep in that class … haha ,,) and one of my other friends complained about also wanting food so i called him friendless (even though i thought the guy who gave me a piece of cotton candy didnt like me so i dont think he counts as a friend ??) my friend also recently introduced me to a series they liked and now im practically obsessed because DELICIOUS . i also recently did heizous hangout quest and GODDAMN he - he is so . im so gay for this detective motherfucker i was practically screaming at my ipad … haha …… heizou is honestly so my type he has such a way with words and i DO NOT know why a lot of npcs / characters in game talk about him negatively how do people not like him - yeah but i also almost went on a full genshin lore tangent to my ipad because of my uncontrollable urge to explain things SMH . oh my god the part where heizou said that he wanted us to be his partner all the time and i just straight up actually screamed , yes heizou ill be your partner forever if yk what i mean - HAHAHAH i also made a collection of goofy genshin triangles on one of my friends old schoolwork in math class hehe

aaaanyways id like to return your question ! how have your recent days been ? and if you dont deem anything of note or dont want to share , if you could choose anyone in genshin to share a house / be roommates with who would you choose ? (since these are again two questions , if you want , fire back two as well !) also , dude i have a terrible habit of rambling like crazy , so i totally dont mind if you ramble and stuff in replies (because i do that wayy too much as well LOL)

— jellyfish

HELLOO TO YOU!!!! your dream sounds so funny LOL in the 2 years i've played genshin i've never had any genshin characters appear in my dreams,,, it's always boring ones that revolve around my life. but nevertheless your dream made me imagine how alhaitham would act around you 😭 and the way he tried to gaslight you LMAO he's so cute and goofy

haha i love how enthusiastic you are about fischl!!! we all have that one character that we have an undying love for to the point that everyone you know in life knows them (for me that'd be kazuha,, every time someone sees him it'd just remind them of me hehe)

THE RPS LMAO “i just find you rather annoying.” THAT'S SUCH AN ALHAITHAM THING TO SAY!!! also i'm pretty oblivious so this just made me realize that the denial is a river in egypt tiktok meme is also pointing out the fact that the nile. is a river. in egypt???? i just found out it's a wordplay thing???? denial (the nile)???? damn i really thought it's like a random word being thrown to make it seem exaggerated or something 😭😭😭 i'm really dumb LMAO how did i not figure that out sooner 🙁🙁🙁 the fact that i know the nile is a river in egypt is embarrassing too like it never occurred to me to piece the puzzles together...

man that sucks 😭😭 i remember when you messaged me on genshin talking about it LOL please humbly accept my offer of my c2 diluc to you,,, he's been in my hands far too long and i cannot fathom the fact that he keeps appearing in my 50/50's (tighnari pls come home i beg). i was on a 50/50 for haitham too and the very loud sigh of relief i let out when he finally came home is insane. i've basically farmed everything in the new area (i have 99% exploration progress now due to it) and have milked my welkin for him so i'm glad he actually came home... the things i'd do if diluc appeared in screen instead should be left unsaid 🤗

YAYY GLAD TO HEAR YOU'RE WELL NOW!!!

aster is such a badass name and the fact that they're originally from khaenriah???? awesome as hell. hope they're besties with kaeya because that would be totally legen... wait for it, dary!!!! (cue my love for barney in himym i just had to quote him)

also very glad to see that your week has been going okay!!! would love some cotton candy rn tbh they're so good </3

and heizou's hangout quest.... honestly same. i haven't exactly finished all of the endings but i've done some and it made me squeal and giggle every time he flirted with us 😭 made me feel like a total loser with his charming words bro i can't believe the npcs in game have such negative views on him because me personally if i was in the game, i'd immediately fold for him the second he breathes in front of me HAHA i'm . not weird at all.

my week has been slow actually, i finished my finals a while ago so we have nothing to do now so i've been doing absolutely nothing at school LOL! senior year is coming up soon so i might be more busy and focusing more on my studies... it's sure gonna be hell for me.

and recently i've been packing up my stuff because i'm moving out!! (hence why i haven't posted a new asphodelus chapter lol i've been so busy). it's been rather slow for me tho since i have a lot of stuff and it's kinda hard to choose the ones i'd have to throw or give away because like,, i love all of my stuff 😭 my mom has helped me with some but i still got a shit ton of stuff to declutter. basically everything is a mess rn

other than that, i think everything's been a-okay! i'm just reaally busy with irl stuff now but i think i can survive through them :D (i hope i do because i am one inch away from going insane). also my mom's been trying to convince me to drive lately since i'm supposed to start now but i have been avoiding it,,, it's scary being on the road and i am far from ready to risk my life 😔

as for your question, i think out of everyone, i'd choose kazuha. before you say anything, i'm trying to not be as biased as i can since like kazuha is my favourite character ever— but yeah, i think i can accept the terms of living with the kaedehara kazuha. he's such a nice guy and although he's a very very lightweight and behind all that charming looks he's a pretty scary guy himself (cue that scene where he threatened that treasure hoarder in the archon quest that he'd brand his forehead with hot iron) i think i could actually survive living with him. he'd do his set of chores, i'd do mine, everyone gets their happy ending. if i were to live with my other favs like kuni and alhaitham i think i would just die. kuni would be rude as fuck and alhaitham would just bully his way out from doing our shared chores. i cannot deal with them. (i'm sorry my sweethearts i'll do you two justice one day)

time to give a question to you!!! how's your progress in genshin going? (it can be exploration wise, storyline, anything) and what's your current main genshin team rn :0

hope you're having a great day!!! it was fun talking with you hehe i've been dying to get an ask since the blog has been real quiet lately, and i'm glad it's you! have a wonderful day ahead :P

[parfumieren]

Angel (Thierry Mugler)

Since making its acquaintance, I've wrestled Angel and wrestled hard. In the course of five years, I went from loathing this divisive bestseller to... well, we get along all right in small doses.

2010

Today, during a routine trip to the mega-mall, I dragged my husband into Sephora for a spate of perfume sampling. Immediately I spotted a perfume I've been itching to meet for ages: Thierry Mugler's Angel. How did I manage to live for nearly two decades without encountering one of the most recognizable, polarizing, and notorious scents of the last half century? Luck, I guess. (Or maybe I'd always run away from it too fast to ever learn its unholy name.)

First impression on the test strip: fantastic! An acetylene-bright violet, sparkling with carbonation, like Sacrebleu with added nitromethane. I offered it to my husband; he nodded and smiled. Nice.

I strayed over to a couple of other perfumes -- Lolita Lempicka (if flowers could sweat…), Shalimar (charming as always), Hypnotic Poison (regular Poison + rohypnol) -- before coming back to Angel. Out with the test strip again-- sniff, sniff.

"What do you think?" I asked my husband.

"It's interesting. Different. Not like anything you've worn," he said.

I decided to leap in. Picked up the heavy, star-shaped, Tim Burtonesque decanter and gave my wrist a hearty spray. Hooray!

The first five minutes will live in my memory as some of the nicest minutes I ever spent with a fragrance. Prickly, tickly, teasing, Angel seemed alive with personality. Behind its strobe-light top notes, I could detect some of that unusual chocolate-patchouli chord I'd read about. I relaxed, plotting how I might ask the Sephora floor staff to make me up a sample to take home, and maybe I'd even follow up by purchasing a full-sized--

WHAT THE HELL?!

My Angel had just sprouted horns. No, not horns-- legs. Eight of them, all bearing down on me at freight-train speed. To my horror, this cherubic little bit of cloud-fluff had just morphed into a Shelob-sized spider of stonk. Having lured me into its pretty gossamer web, it now set about immobilizing me in a cocoon of sticky cotton candy from which escape was impossible.

Noticing the look on my face, my husband asked, "Everything OK?"

"Help," I managed to whisper before the death-cloud of spun sugar covered my mouth.

In what seemed like seconds, nothing remained of either the effervescent violet or that alluring bitter-chocolate accord. The present (and the forseeable future) consisted of a single, relentless note of slightly burned Karo corn syrup which grew stronger and sweeter with every passing moment, ratcheting the tension skyward until I thought I was going to scream.

Did I think it couldn't get worse? Oh, how wrong I was.

Angel chose that moment to deploy a stinger full of venom in the form of a blackcurrant note so boozy I thought I'd been teleported back to 1987, when the candy trend for high-school girls was fancy French cassis pastilles in collectible tins filled with powdered sugar. When you were done with the pastilles, you emptied out the sugar and used the tin to store your cocaine. And when you were done with the cocaine, you drank most of a bottle of cheap Leroux's blackberry brandy in a desperate attempt to come down. Then you puked yourself dry and promised God and your sainted grandmother never, ever, EVER to do it again.

That's where Angel had me, and I'd only been wearing it for half an hour.

After two hours, Angel shapechanged into the feminine version of Drakkar Noir, the toxic pong of choice for all the gold-chain-and-hair-gel playas who overrun South Jersey every summer. NOW I knew where I'd smelled this before-- I'd been smelling it all my life! Having grown up just across the bay from Seaside Heights, how well I knew those evil winds that drifted over the water, carrying the odor of stale cigarette smoke, suntan lotion, unwashed ass, and day-old funnel cakes coated in a sludge of equal parts congealed grease and confectioner's sugar….

I get it. Angel is none other than Snooki.

Home to throw myself in a steaming hot shower and scrub myself from head to toe with Ivory soap. No luck: hours later, Angel is still with me. If it doesn't fade soon, I'm going to have to get out my microplane citrus zester and grate the first hundred layers of skin off the inside of my wrist to get free. Until then, I'll sit in my pajamas, shivering and clutching a teacup full of whiskey, such as is traditionally offered to survivors of a terrible, unspeakable ordeal.

2011

I almost overlooked it-- partially because it was so tiny, partially because I never expected to encounter such a thing on a thrift store shelf.

The sight of the silver foil peeling off its molded plastic cap brought a self-righteous smirk to my lips. Beneath a scrap of masking tape marked “25¢” in grease pencil, that star-shaped hunk of glass -- tacky and cumbersome even when brand new -- carried a tragic coating of grime. Irony: that a high-end perfume modeled after that most low-rent of locations (the carnival fairway) should meet a fate every bit as tawdry as its stated inspiration.

Oh ho! how the mighty have fallen! I thought, then walked away.

Five minutes later I was back, staring at that tiny glass star and feeling inexplicably gloomy. What's an Angel like you doing in a place like this? I whispered… then reached out my hand.

As I've expressed before, my opinion of Angel is not high. It still isn't. Granted, its first minute on skin is a taste of pure Heaven-- but where it goes from there, in my humble opinion, is straight to Hell. Yet the sight of this little Angel languishing unwanted and unclaimed on the shelf dried up my schadenfreude at its very root.

Twenty-five cents, you say? And the bottle still has a minute amount of parfum in it? Well, perhaps it will be different when dabbed than when sprayed….

Take it from me: it isn't.

2015

Today I dabbed my very last hoarded droplets of Angel onto my wrists. Hoarded? I can almost hear you say. But I thought you HATED that stuff.

I've come a long way, baby.

It's true that an overzealous spray in Sephora nearly biased me for life against this bizarre gourmand. But that was five years ago. I've changed my mind on many things in that time. Cassis -- once my sworn enemy -- is now not even my frenemy, but my friend. I've smelled so many lousy Angel wannabes at Target or Kohls that the original on which they're based -- tart fruit layered over a patchouli-caramel-chocolate accord once deemed by me The Worst -- is actually really Some Kind of Wonderful. Maybe it's grown on me. Or maybe I've learned just how much Angel is enough (the tiniest, TINIEST dab; the barest swipe of the sample vial wand).

The point is this: I'm sad enough to see Angel go to want it to return, even if I have to buy it outright. Not a full-sized bottle, mind you-- unless the Angel promised to take its share.

Scent Elements: Bergamot, helional, hedione, blackcurrant, honey, patchouli, vanilla, coumarin, chocolate, sandalwood, a CrackerJacks factory worth of caramel, and a veritable shitload of ethylmaltol.

[mhkeiger]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Beauty Bakerie Cotton Candy Champagne Blushlighter Palette - Full Size.

[senor-plume]

The Highly Aroused Saxophones

distorted saxophones so loud shatter my rotten teeth straight outta my mouth and the miniscule creatures in my eyes continue to fester and grow

little round nipples so clear you can see through them sometimes attached to long thin lines that can squiggle but never wiggle are static in my line of vision

the wind that blows the reeds create music fit for a confused mongrel and makes the hair on my chinny chin chin rise and stand at full attention and all of my aroused fans blow hard trying desperately to impress me with their fantastic skill of knowing exactly how to draw…like from a straw

Terry Snyder and His All-Stars continue on with persuasive percussion but it is the gold tubes of notes that really send me right outta space where I go down easy on the stars licking them right in the money spot creating flare ups that will …in time destroy nearby planets that house walking…talking…balking beings whose belly buttons blink in the sharp and scattering light

but for now all the little black dots parade around my peepers leaving me searching for the razor blade that will soon slice a line of freedom across my tender wrists and then it is off to the bathtub where the scarlet red will mix with Mister Bubble leaving a pinkish line around the edges

but the brass will continue on after my vapid heart muscle stops pulsating and hooray for that

then lets count the children at the parade with phony balloons that think they are high and mighty but are really held down by thin ropes of plastic grasped by cotton candy fingers and the cherry cola syrup smiles makes it all worth it

and coffin nails are battered hard and my pants are stained with a wet paint like creation but even the Lord knows that I am no artist

just another perversity case that lies stone cold on cheap and tattered silk liner and boxed up between oak and plastic and steel

the eyeballs on the ceiling of love have all gone to their maker the squiggles have faded off leaving a big nothing in my sight

I am gone I am long gone and all the green tea in the world will not change that impossible fact no matter how hard the saxophones blow

[nurseshannansreviews]

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[denimbex1986]

'So much has been written about Barbenheimer that this article will try to squeeze out some more trivia, maybe uncover some hidden tidbits about the two most talked about films, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”

Barbie at the time of this writing is happily sliding past a global one billion at the box office. That’s not bad for an 11 ½ inch doll. The film has also fostered a new interest in Barbie herself, the first grown women doll, and has increased Barbie fashion and memorabilia and of course, the color pink. There is a regular-sized house in Malibu that is bright bubble gum pink that is available for rental. Amy Schumer was originally considered for the title role. I think Amy could have pulled it off but she would have to be more svelte. Anne Hathaway was also on the list but she does not have the stereotypical coloring of the original doll nor did Wonder Woman, Gal Godot. The eventual star, Margot Robbie is Australian and Ken, Ryan Gosling, is Canadian but writer/director, Greta Gerwig is localish, hailing from Sacramento, Calif. and to prove the super human tenacity of the feminine gender she did some of her helming while pregnant, having delivered a second son in February.

The film is not just cotton candy fluff. It has gravitas and has aroused controversy. A religious website indicated that it catered to nostalgic adults pushing a gay, bi and transgender agenda (it doesn’t). Congressman, Matt Gaetz attended a screening in a pink sport coat and his wife in a pink dress but afterward she noted that it was not appropriate for children because it showed, “...no faith or family.” A crayon drawn map in one scene stirred the ire of not only Viet Nam but congressman Ted Cruz, who both figured it was drawn to placate Chinese censorship because of its depiction of the area around the contentious South China Sea (please!). Much homage is given throughout but none more blatant than that of the opening sequence which re-enacts the opening of the sci-fi classic, “2001.” With even more irony, the segment is narrated by eminent Shakespearean actress, Helen Mirren.

More than anything, the film highlights the importance of women’s rights and the long-standing movement that continues to struggle and inch along (which is probably why Gaetz et. al felt so uncomfortable). It empowers women to be what they want to be, whether that’s a mother, the President, an artist or anything in between. After all, that’s what Barbie’s all about -- imagination.

‘Oppenheimer’ is a brilliant note on America’s war culture Oppenheimer is brilliant. It was based on a book called, “American Prometheus.” From mythology we know that Prometheus was somewhat of a trickster having stolen fire from the gods and given it to us mortals. In this case the trickster is Christopher Nolan who is a true genius. The story he tells of a single-minded scientist who leads the team that develops the atomic bomb could have been deadly dull but his vision of Oppenheimer is haunting and riveting.

Christopher Nolan is noted for Memento, Inception, Dunkirk, Interstellar and the Dark Night Trilogy. He became interested in this project when Robert Pattinson gave him a book of Oppenheimer’s speeches after the filming of Tenet. He wrote the script in first person because he wanted to interject subjectivity as well as objectivity into the events.

Nolan’s structure is complex. Most of the 11 miles and 600 pounds of film is in color. Other sections are in high contrast black and white. The two are woven together during three hours in a non-linear fashion which is occasionally interrupted by surrealistic flashing images.

The cast is loaded with talent and is headed by Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. It is his 6th collaboration with the director. Performers, both male and female became attracted to Murphy’s neon blue eyes. Matt Damon at times lost his momentum acting opposite him and often found himself, “...swimming in his eyes.” The principals, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Damon and Murphy attended the premiere fol-de-rol and then departed in solidarity with the SAG/AFTRA strike. In couple’s therapy Damon agreed to spend more time with his family only if Chris Nolan didn’t call. But call he did and Damon shines as General Leslie Groves. An unrecognizable Robert Downey, Jr. will certainly get a supporting actor nomination as Lewis Strauss.

The two films have single-handedly revitalized the theater going experience. These two films have captured the imagination of the American public and they could not be more disparate—from the ridiculous to the sublime or maybe vice/versa depending on ones point of view.'

[theatre-mushroom]

I don’t know if there is a specific part you want, so here is what I think all the lines/bits that were cut/changed for the 2016 version are just in case! The rest of the song is the same as the 2016 version!

(During the opening dialogue)

Karnak: They don’t yet know they’re dead.

(skip to the actual song)

Choir(-Ricky): When the fall fair comes to town!

Ocean, Constance: Oh step right up! To the all fun fair, All the games a fun, You’ll wish that you were there! Soon the first day At the hotdog stand, Sing original tunes By our local cover band.  When the fall fair comes to town!

Mischa, Noel: When the fall fair comes to town!

Choir(-Ricky): Oh my hearts a saskatchewing, For I'm a saska-teen! Sitting here Oh so pretty, Cut my pity, I'm singing this ditty! Till the fall fair comes to town!

Choir(-Ricky) (Micha beatboxes): Doo-doodly-do-doodly-do-do-do Doo-doo-do-doodly-do-doodlay Doo-do-do-do-do-do-dee-do-do A-rum-tum-tum hooray!

(skip, same as 2016)

Constance: Falling through the air, I wonder

Choir: How can this this fair?!

Constance: Cotton candy

Mischa: Rancid beer

Ocean: Starring at the fun house mirror

Noel: A flash of music swirling everywhere

Ocean: Stood in line, Took forever

Constance: Buckled in, they pulled the lever!

Choir: Seconds later floating through the air!

Ricky: I’m starting now to understand

Constance: Holy jeez! We never land!

Ocean: Did someone spike my diet coke with pot?

Boys: Screaming metal, Broken wheels, sparks were flying, bending steel!

Constance: And then that sad and lonely creepy thought.

Choir: My life is falling off the track! I know I’ll never get it back! Falling through the air I wonder how can this be faaaaaair?

Hello tumblr can ANYONE and i mean ANYONE make out what is being said in the 2015 chicago recording of fall fair? Can somebody like contact an rtc actor that was with the show at the time and ask them because i cannot make it out on the one recording we have that came with a full audio bootleg of the show. And don't say genius lyrics because they dont know either. There are literal question marks over some lyrics I'll take anything from a script of the 2015 version to a careful interpretation by someone whos good at analyzing audio to someone who saw the show during this run whos able to recall some of it. I am begging you

[whenimgoodandready]

What a show! The first hour we got on the finale was a look back at the former competitors and a look at each of the top threes journey through it. My girl Tulip got third place, Sloth (surprisingly) took second and Cotton Candy got her sweet victory as the champion of the spin-off series of this! Great that a female won in the first season. Wonder if we’ll get a second one? Spoilers below for who they all were:

3rd Place

Mackenzie Ziegler! I thought Charlie Damelio, but my sister was more TikTok savvy to guess her (I’m more Tumblr). I really did want her to win, but that’s favoritism on my part for it, but hey! She is a dancer, so that’s why! Still, she got to the final three and took third. Not bad.

Runner-up

Maksim Chmerkovskiy! Can you believe a professional ballroom lost this competition! Like WTF!? He’s on f**king Dancing with the Stars! I was for sure he was the people’s choice as the winner with his versitile dance styles, but got second place! Wow!

✨WINNER!🏆✨

🥇WINNER! WINNER!🥇COTTON CANDY DINNER! My dad was right! Cotton Candy won and they’re the former Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas! I remember watching her and the other members of the “Fierce Five” or “Fab Five” or even “The Dream Team” of the 2012 Olympic Games (they were like, the “It Girls”, like a super team of some kind) as they gracefully did they awesome stunts and taking home the gold! Now she’s got another to her collection! Yea! Gabby! USA! USA! USA!

[cassraven]

Feeling like Usagi when the mail arrives

Since being in-home quarantine, I never thought I'd ever look 100 times more forward to receiving mail in the regular snail mail delivery at the front door and in the mailbox. Excited that today in the mail I received from Things From Another World comics online shop my paperback graphic novel of DC's Harley Quinn Breaking Glass, and from the Etsy site a classic 89-90's My Little Pony G1 Cotton Candy pony figure. Happiness of a new comic to read and a childhood classic toy from memories now mine. 

[ichinisankaku]

Event Translation - Choose Ice Cream♪ (Chapter 2)

Izumi: Now then, let's start the meeting. This time, Misumi-kun and Hisoka-san asked for us to help out at a beach house ice cream shop.

Tsumugi: The six members helping out are Misumi-kun and Hisoka-kun, then Masumi-kun, Taichi-kun, Azami-kun, and myself.

Misumi: Thanks for agreeing to help, everyone~!

Hisoka: The manager was really grateful about us performing, too.

Taichi: Working at an ice cream shop and performing at a beach house sounds super fun! I'm getting hyped!

Izumi: For now, I heard from Honda-san that the ice cream shop will only be open for three weeks in Summer.

During that time, they want us to help on the first, middle, and last days.

They've already set a schedule so they can advertise that those days will have plays.

Azami: Got it. Then, what'll happen when we aren't working?

Izumi: They said that other part-time workers will come to help.

Ah, and it seems you can go in the sea when you're on break, so be sure to bring a swimsuit if you want to play.

Taichi: Hooray! I wanna play a lot!

Misumi: Let's all play!

Hisoka: ...Also, there's the beach house competitive sales ranking.

Masumi: Sales ranking?

Izumi: Honda-san was told by their higher ups that if they're going to open the store, they have to get the top spot.

Azami: Isn't that a huge responsibility?

Taichi: It's a harsh world...!

Tsumugi: That may be why they thought of doing a show.

Hisoka: The details of the play are basically up to us, but it'd make them happy if the story was related to the sea in some way.

Izumi: And you're going to be dressed like ice cream shop workers, right?

Misumi: Yeah, that's right! Manager-san said they'd lend us some uniforms.

Azami: Ice cream shop uniforms... and we'll have to sing while we prepare the ice-cream.

Tsumugi: It sounds hard to sing while we prepare it.

Masumi: What kind of song will it be?

Izumi: It doesn't seem they've decided yet.

Tsumugi: But when we went to karaoke before, Hisoka-kun sang a song he learned at the amusement park.

Izumi: Oh, he did! If it's something like that, then I guess it'll be a pretty cute song...

Taichi: What song was it?

Hisoka: Fluffy ☆ Fancy Kingdom

Azami: Fluffy...?

Misumi & Hisoka: Flu-ffy-flu-ffy cotton candy clouds♪ Ca-ra-me-l merci☆ Melty sweets♪

Come dear, let's dance together♪ A twirling☆step with you♪

Taichi: Wah~! It's so cute~! I bet my little sisters would love it!

Tsumugi: It's very fancy.

Masumi: We're singing a song like that...?

Azami: ...Seriously...?

Izumi: Well, it's not decided yet that it'll be this kind of song, but even if it is, I know you two will do great!

Masumi: If you say so, I'll do my best.

Azami: I hope the actual song'll be a bit easier for me to sing...

Taichi: Okaaay! Since we'll be singing, I want to go to karaoke so we can practice!

Azami: You just want to go to karaoke.

Tsumugi: Even so, it'll probably be reassuring to do some practice beforehand...

Taichi: Yeah, yeah!

It's decided! Director-sensei too, let's all go to karaoke!

Misumi: Let's gooo!

Chapter 1 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Epilogue

[ravenaboutfandom]

PART2PART2MOREKEEFITZOPHIEPLEASE

p.s.a. the three dummies are not together yet in askblog canon (they’re still in the idiot stage)

also this is kind of long so i’ll put a read more

- keefe confessed his crush on fitz to biana in, like, middle school, then fitz confessed his crush on keefe to biana, then then sophie moved in and confessed her crush on fitz, then keefe, then keefe and fitz confessed their crushes on sophie to biana, separately, of course, and it was very stressful for her not to tell anybody. she did manage to help get them together, in the end. they’re oblivious idiots and we love/hate them for it

- fitz had his bi realization in theatre one day when keefe was in an improv scene with someone (idk maybe like jensi) and he was being ridiculous and fitz was like well. s***.

- fitz had to try really, really hard not to give himself away and little does he realize that keefe has been trying really, really hard not to give himself away for like. at least three years now. oh my gosh are they idiots. are we sure we still love them?

- sophie arrives and oh my gosh fitz is so cute and oh my gosh why is everyone at this school hot except me and oh my gosh i hate this school keefe’s puppy dog eyes are killing me and basically she’s helpless (*insert hamilton people cheering*)

- don’t get me wrong the three are like platonically inseparable but the pining is very intense

- fintan is the theatre teacher and he’s also aware of the boys’ pining and he likes to pair them together to make keefe squirm

- hooray keefe for having more guts than the other two! he pulls sophie and fitz away during study hall and says “i’ve got tickets to (theme park) are you busy this saturday?” and he’s so fidgety and fitz is like why are you asking her out with me here? and then sophie, whose brain is working a little faster, is like “wait... like... a date? with... both of us?” and keefe gulps and nods and fitz finishes computing and is also a total dork so he gives them both a bear hug and there’s much blushing and they’re so glad they weren’t the only ones.

- who’s the first person they tell? biana, of course! she explodes at them with “i told you so”s and “oh my gosh”s and “do you have any idea what you’ve put me through”s and she squeals and jumps up and down and <3

- when saturday comes, after sophie facetimes with biana for outfit help and biana forces outfit help on fitz and dex facetimes sophie for some hardcore teasing, keefe picks them up on his motorcycle (”i don’t think we can all fit on here, keefe”) (”shut up foster i don’t have my car”) (“did you guys pack sunscreen it’s going to be hot”) (“fitzy you know i’m too hot to get sunburned”) (h*** yeah you are) (etc.)

- keefe wears a cropped grey batman shirt and ripped skinny jeans and black converse high tops

- fitz wears his varsity jacket and a plain white t and khaki shorts. he wears red vans.

- sophie wears light wash overall shorts, doc martens, and a collared red crop top

- sophie is very nervous in line for those rollercoasters, and she tries not to let them see but keefe ruffles her hair and fitz squeezes her hand and she’s okay.

- she definitely screams and is wobbly after, and they think it’s so cute.

- they ride all day, and have burgers and milkshakes for lunch. keefe buys them churros and cotton candy.

- keefe is the one getting scared in the haunted house ride, and sophie leans her head on his shoulder and fitz wraps his arm around him.

- as it gets later, sophie gets cold and fitz offers her his jacket. oh, it’s so warm, and it smells so good-

- sophie buys a caramel apple for them to share, plus coffee, and suddenly it’s almost eleven and they have to get her home before midnight or else grady will murder them, so they’re back on the motorcycle and fitz wraps his arms more tightly around sophie and kisses her cheek, whispering “pass it on,” and she blushes bright red and pecks keefe’s jaw, which was very distracting and almost made him crash, foster, and she had no right to surprise him like that-

- (he gets her back on the porch. on the lips. serves her right.)

- fitz is unhooking his leg from the motorcycle when he realizes that sophie still has his jacket, but oh well. he lifts the helmet off of him (it had passed when sophie left) and gives keefe a smooch before running inside.

- keefe sits there for a minute, then drives off with the hugest grin on his face.

[senor-plume]

Cotton Candy and Confetti

Slide me down Main Street with a trombone spine

fill me with confetti and candy that is cotton

let loose the balloons to give the elderly something to rise for

the clouds will have their way with us and hooray for the crisp whiteness of it all

drops of water sit only near and within the river

no tears today, Toots

the parade is gaining in strength… gaining in numbers

even the Mayor with his confusion of the past and present is here with declarations of enforced smiles and ginger ale in every hand

banners fly mighty high from the strung out street lamps and nary a noose to be found

twirling pigtails and batons

dancing in circles flowing flowers raise past all of the psychedelic dirt …like alien sand from so many dimensions over

Do the wiggle worm! Smile corncob teeth! Blast violins and bubbly bassoons!

Yes, to this, we all say …with complete unity Yes!

there will be no streamers to clean

no vomit to spray with local hoses

the confetti will simply vanish from the streets within the final second of the day

blip blop

all gone

and we will tuck the tenders underneath so soft cotton sheets

pillows so feathery that even the doves will be joyous to rest their not so weary wings upon them

the cut ribbon still blows from the trees

one facing east the other, west

it whistles the greatest of tunes as we dash off to dreams here in our little town