#In the Chips by Eileen Gay

[rabbitcruiser]

The city of Reno was founded on May 9, 1868. 

[stonelions]

the untitled neighbors au we need more of your thoughts on it! i adore it so much thank you

this includes a bunch of unfinished stuff that may not make the final cut, buuut i would like to start posting this story in may since it's set in summer 2021. whether or not my terrible brain cooperates is the deciding factor there, though i'm slowly chipping away at it...

but yeah! thank you for your interest!!! it is... a 'set in vancouver mundane everyone is middle-aged and gay' au. dean is having a rough time in covid quarantine, cas moves into the apartment above him, they bond immediately. bg characters include jody/donna, bobby/rufus, sam/eileen, garth, charlie, and a few other bit players. not much happens! it'll be fun i swear!

[zooterchet]

Welcome to the Ukraine (CIA, Listen Hard; This is Your History, Flip Metal)

Each one of these, has a dodge, that anyone can figure out; especially if you're an American spy, on United States soil.

Ted Bundy: Failed to snitch out France and become a chain smoker.

Uri Geller: Failed to be an anti-Semite to the Hanseatic League, one by one, in any order; however, was Gypsy, not "Romani", the rude slur for a field slave of Israelites prior to the conquest of Canaan by the Phillistines (the Gypsy).

Scott Peterson: Did not study HH Holmes, and realize, that he was not "Scottish", nor was anyone.

Jeffrey Dahmer: Attempted to lead reform, but didn't know that "gay", was a campus drug signal.

David Berkowitz: Told the NYPD, that he needed to apply a comic book, as a superhero.

Albert Fish: Confessed to murders he did not commit, but only after the murders were committed.

HH Holmes: An actual James Bond 007, but would not study whomever else was into the spy literature that he was featured in.

Eileen Wournos: Had never been taught the US Constitution, or the Civil War period, and studied Irish unions instead.

Richard Ramirez: Stole a spy's car, and was also a spy.

Ernest Charlebois: Stole an alias, from a salt shaker, to start DC Comics.

Huey Long: Started the entire foundational theory of the Office of Strategic Services, as Louisiana Governor, but then tried to make the entire country into a sublet office of his services, as a literature reader, to old men and "little women", their daughters, based on literature he stole from a permanent record of a draft fail from a senior intern (someone missed an agent to recruit).

Ivanka Trump: Attempted to defect, by incarcerating her father, for making her a police officer with the Japanese Diet.

Venus Terzo: Used dozens of aliases, as George W. Bush's daughter, to serve as a military cowgirl, unaware the sexual position was only possible in Massachusetts, otherwise "ghei", "too rich". It's a nautical sailor's gene, of piracy and smuggling origin, to be capable of girl-on-top, a guaranteed orgasm.

Cassie-Leigh Stock: Claimed a pedophile, was anything a heterosexual male seeking a fan would do, since she had the fantasy of sexually dominating men with a pedophile insult; a product of Aryan Nation literature, as a Puerto Rican child prodigy dominatrix.

William McKinley: Attempted to banish an Polish actor who had studied him as George Custer, by creating a list of legal fraud documents, for the Polish actor to read, causing the Pole's son to kill him, once US President.

Kim il-Sung: Volunteered for duty in Korea, by taking a Vietnamese girl out, for Korean BBQ. Actually Mexican. Grandson trapped running North Korea, as Supreme Leader, to this very day.

Charles Manson: Wrote an essential piece of Hollywood history, then went down for statuatory rape, by failing a drug score and making it with his own writing partners.

Karl Panzram: A prison warden, that tried to train hop, then murdered 30,000 people, on four continents, as an oil developer, after James Cagney studied him for his dramatic roles.

Fidel Castro: A technical program success, besides his family staying in power, during the transition.

Carlos the Jackal: Assigned to research film, made legendary spy movies and scripts for decades, after fellating men in their sleep, to produce CGI technician developers and slaves, all depicted in spy movies, all standalone without series, dozens of beauties, big and small and unknown and notorious.

Timothy McVeigh: Placed on medication required to take off the shelf; medication cleared for single case epithet, of Timothy McVeigh, by United States Marine Corps learning school, in Waco, Texas.

John Allen Muhammad: Deported overseas to save self from indictment for teaching hacking techniques through exchanged chips and datalink formats, failed to import back to United States from Will Smith refusing role as "Neo" in "The Matrix", a lesser reknowned acting style.

Albert de Salvo: Caught on stalk from prostitution don out of Westboro Baptist Church victimhood (a civil or federal service member that had inserted his erect phallus into a woman's rectum), refused to trade his place with a foreign serial killer on study.

David Charlebois: Same name as a dead first officer in 9/11, who was also homosexual, permanently registered as a confused gay man with a Law and Order detective lookalike as a female love interest beside him.

[the-rad-pineapple]

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[adhdeancas]

hi! if you still take requests for your transnatural series, could you do kaia, claire, and jack hanging out and kaia uses they/she? maybe jack learns about gender?

sorry it took me so long! I finally got the inspiration bc of LDOV, so here’s what Claire, Kaia, and Jack are doing to celebrate! featuring sickly sweet gays, gender-fuckery, and young dumbassery

Jody had made them promise not to drink. Like they would, with Jack right there. He may look like he’s their age, but that kid is… well, a kid. Claire had antagonized her purposely by pouring all their drinks into old empty bottles of margarita mix and tequila. Kaia reaches across her girlfriend to grab one now, swinging the Cuervo bottle of water toward their picnic setting. Jack and Claire may be cool enough to drink the homemade punch all day long, but Kaia’s teeth are starting to ache. Christ, she’s starting to sound as old as Dean and Sam. 

“Babe, pass me the box over there.” Claire interrupts her thoughts. Kaia blinks and passes said cardboard over to Claire, realizing they don’t actually know what’s in this one. Claire grins, obviously recognizing her confusion. “Surprise, Jack, we’re actually here to celebrate.” 

Jack’s whole face lights up. “Really? What? Is it someone’s birthday?” 

Claire rolls her eyes and Kaia presses a smile into submission. “No, kid, it’s lesbian day of visibility,” she says. She hands Kaia a cupcake from the box then, one of the giant ones they sell at the supermarket, with Claire’s clear personal touch of ‘congrats, you’ve got taste’ written in icing over the top. Kaia lets out a short laugh, and Claire beams. Jack cranes his neck over to see the writing until Claire passes him his own cupcake. It distracts him long enough that Kaia can duck in for a long sweet kiss that leaves Claire blushing. 

“Thanks, Claire. Let me see yours?” 

Claire obediently takes the last cupcake out of the box and sticks a candle in the middle, not quite covering up her message that says ‘congrats, you escaped the evangelicals.’ 

“Impressed that fit on a cupcake,” Kaia teases. Claire waggles her eyebrows. 

“I’m real talented with my fingers.” 

Kaia nudges her with a snort. “What’s a lesbian?” Jack asks abruptly. 

Kaia takes a peak at his own cupcake now as Claire lights it with the bic she keeps in her jacket. His says ‘congrats, your whole family is lesbian.’ “A lesbian,” Claire says studiously, lighting their and her own candle. “Is somebody who likes girls. Women. In a gay way.” She raises her eyebrows at him but he just blinks. “I’m a lesbian. They’re a lesbian.” She nods her head to Kaia. “Jody and Donna? Big ole d-” Kaia coughs loudly. “Lesbians. Sam and Eileen too, totally gay. And Dean and Cas don’t quite count, but they get an honorary title because it took them twelve years to figure out they were totally in love with each other.” 

Kaia shakes her head. “True kid, you’ve only got lesbians. Good for you,” She extends a fist to Jack and he bumps it happily. 

“Now blow out your candle.” Claire commands. They all take looks at each other to get on the same page and then blow them out at once. Well, Claire and Kaia blow theirs out. Jack huffs and puffs on his, but the stubborn thing stays lit. “Come on, Jack, blow it out!” 

Kaia starts laughing when they realize, and they’re leaned all the way back in the grass before Claire leans over to check on them. God, their girlfriend is a bitch, and she loves her so much. “You fucker,” she whispers, pointing at the poor kid. He’s about to turn blue with effort all for a trick candle. 

Claire winks. “That’s okay, Jack, I got you,” she licks her fingers and pinches the flame out, to Jack’s huge fucking amazement. 

“How did you-” 

She shows him her unburned fingers, grins. “I’m a badass.” 

“Do it again!” 

Claire laughs. “Later, dude. We’ve got plenty of flames to practice on tonight.” She sprawls out so her head’s in Kaia’s lap, apparently too good for the ground. 

Kaia sits up to put a hand on her cheek and sends an exaggerated wink to Jack. “Remember, nothing to anybody, but especially not Jody or Cas,” She reminds him. They’d kill them all if they knew she and Claire had brought fireworks with them. But hey, it’s Lesbian Day. They’re allowed. Being gay and committing crimes, and all. Fireworks in an abandoned field? That’s nothing compared to what they do on the regular 9 to 5.

“I remember.” Jack solemnly swears. “But Kaia, I thought-” He stops, eyebrows twisting in confusion. 

“What’s up, Jack?” 

He hesitates again before continuing. “I thought you weren’t a girl. Aren’t lesbians supposed to be girls?” 

Kaia grins. “Hm, kinda.” She looks down at Claire, whose eyes have fluttered shut with Kaia’s soft touches. She doesn’t open her eyes but must feel Kaia’s look, because she chips in.

“It’s more about loving girls in a gay way than being full-blown girl,” she tells him. Her hand seeks out the one of Kaia’s that’s not on her cheek and intertwines their fingers. Kaia’s heart flutters, and they can feel the tips of their ears flush. “Like Sam and Eileen. And Kaia.” 

Kaia nods, thankful for the start of the explanation. “Gender’s complicated. And sexuality. But, uh, it’s more about what you feel. Than the labels or anything,” 

“But being a lesbian’s great.” Claire says emphatically. “I mean, look at her.” She gestures wildly up to Kaia and ends up flopping a hand against her shoulder. “Sorry, babe,” 

“‘S okay,” Kaia assures her. They look up to see Jack looking at them with like the softest eyes she’s ever seen. It makes her blush and look back at Claire, who has the good sense to keep her eyes shut when she’s being sappy.

“I wanna be a lesbian!” 

Kaia grins, full-out this time, at the childlike wonder on his face. “Awesome, dude. Go for it.” 

Claire reaches a blind hand out to do an awkward version of her and Jack’s secret handshake. He complies just as clumsily. “Hell yeah, Jack. It’s in your blood. But, y’know, live your truth or whatever.” 

Kaia pats Claire on the cheek, once, twice, slapping a little harder each time until Claire’s eyes fly open and she tackles her. They tousle on the ground with Jack cheering and switching sides depending on who’s winning in the moment, until Claire rolls over and lets out a harsh gasp. Kaia stops immediately, turning her to look at the damage. “My fucking cupcake!” Claire cackles maniacally and shoves a handful of cake and icing at her face.

It devolves into a full-blown food fight. Kaia manages to eat most of her crushed cupcake through Claire’s repeated attacks with it, but once Jack gets involved, all bets are off. Jack squeezes a bottle of mayonnaise onto Claire’s shirt, and she upends the Tito’s bottle over his head. At one point Kaia gets hit with lunch meat (they make a vulgar joke that only Claire understands) and manages to get Claire in a headlock so Jack can smush the cupcake frosting he’d scraped off all over her face while she swears vengeance. 

They sneak onto the nearest farm to hose each other off, during which Claire very nearly gets her revenge in a water fight until the farmer catches on and runs them off the property. They’re all breathing hard and laughing by the time they get back to their field, and they huddle under a horse blanket from the back of Jody’s truck while they watch their fireworks. It’s a good day.

[rileychester]

Hey! I just found out that Todd is going to be recast in Corrie. I only started watching the show within the past year (during Paul’s abuse storyline) and don’t know that much about the character. What should I know about Todd and his relationship with Billy?

Um I would say that Todd is definitely a great love in Billy’s past. Until Paul existed, I would call Todd, the love of Billy’s life. But I would say now, that Paul is a very important love to Billy. Though I do wonder what will happen when Todd arrives back on the street. And what that means for both Billy and Billy and Paul together. I mean Todd isn’t just some ex, he was someone that Billy was not only deeply in love with, they were in a serious relationship, and I think if Todd had stayed on the show, might had headed towards marriage one day.

So I will try to post links/playlists for their story for you if I can find them.

I loved them together, cause of the chemistry and the acting of the two, plus Todd is one of my favorite characters. Plus they weren’t just lovers, they were friends who actually communicated, well as well as any soap characters could. I thought they balanced each other well and brought out the good in each other. Billy helped Todd to not be such a villain and actually want to be a better human, for genuine and not just because he was doing it to please Billy. While Todd helped Billy to forgive himself and to not take life so serious. And was there during some of Billy’s darker moments. I also liked the fact, that they didn’t start off as an affair. This was shortly around the time of Robron, and I think they were the creation of the same producer, Kate Oates. Who seemed to get a kick out of LGBT affairs and romances. That even though they had feelings for each other, they never went behind Billy then boyfriend (Sean’s back) and only got together properly when they were both single.

Billy and Todd had amazing chemistry, which was down to the actors. You believed them as a couple who were deeply in love and they just played well off each other. The actor who played Todd since he first arrived on the show many years ago was a legendary character. (Todd’s coming out story was from what I remember was a big thing back in the day, I think he was the show’s first gay character, and the character remained a popular and complex character until his termination.) The actor, Bruno Langley, who had played Todd, revealed himself to be an asshat after some vile behavior with some women in a night club I believe and was justly fired from the show. Where Todd quickly vanished from the show with barely a nod, probably the show distancing themselves from the horrid behavior of said actor.

But I will give you a quick run down to the love affair that was Todd and Billy back in the day. Or at least how they got started.

They were polar opposites, but they couldn’t deny the chemistry between them.

At first glance no one would think of a romantic pairing between these two. Billy Mayhew is the local openly gay vicar, whose was dating Sean Tully, Todd's friend, who lives with Todd and his mother Eileen. Billy is your typical English vicar, warm, friendly, and always willing to be there for his fellow man. And Todd Grimshaw is know to be a cad and half around the area. (I honestly think that Billy has a thing for bad boys with hearts of gold, ie Todd and Paul.) Todd had a clever mind and a clever wit to match, who got a chip or two on both his shoulders. Whose gotten into a few scrapes over the years and had done some pretty rotten things, but he loves his family and friends dearly and was turning over a new leaf.

They were just acquaintance, until they started to bond when Todd's brother Jason Grimshaw was under suspicion for the death of a local thug named Callum Logan. And Todd was doing everything he could to clear his brother's name. Accidentally Billy gets roped into helping, they start to work together to figure out the truth. They grow closer and start to talk about their lives, Billy opens up to Todd, telling him things he's never reveal to anyone before about his past. They become closer and closer, becoming good friends. Things start to break down between Billy and Sean relationship. (Personally I never saw them romantically matched, they are better as friends.) Not helping the matter, that Billy started to realize he had feelings for Todd and after breaking up with Sean. Billy confessed his feelings to Todd. But Todd not wanting to hurt Sean, rejected Billy. But they are still there for each other as friends, as Todd is there for Billy in a raw vulnerable moment. Sean and Billy got back together, while Billy fights his feelings for Todd. Watching Sean and Billy together, Todd realizes he has feelings right back, but fights them not wanting to cause trouble. Life keeps pushing the two together and the sparks continue to fly between them. It's clear they are fighting their feelings, though Billy is more willing to own up what he feels, while Todd is in denial. Todd continues to stick to his denial, until one day he gets plastered and admits to Billy that he has feelings too. The next day, sober Todd denies he said anything pushing Billy back in Sean's direction. But Billy can't live a lie anymore and ends it with Sean. Todd and Billy, talk about what is going on between them and share a passionate kiss and become a secret couple. Waiting for the right moment to tell Sean the truth and reveal that they are together to everyone else.

So that’s how they became official, then a lot more stuff that went down, it’s a soap afterall. Todd being a bad boy, does do some rather shifty things and they do have several ups and downs. They do break up a few times I think, mostly Todd’s fault. By Todd’s own admission, he’s trouble, but he does grow, change, and improve his behavior. (At least, what I could remember.) But they would rebuild their relationship and by the time Summer came into their lives, they were happy, in love, and living together. And with Summer, they became a little family unit.

I believe both these channels have pretty good Todd and Billy playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Denlives/playlists

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4OSAW4x0gMJ08ZWCuY3VPA/playlists

I hope that helps and was informative to answer your questions.

[amtopmthoughts]

OSCARS

Legenda:

Legenda  -  Winners I have watched

Legenda  -  Winners I don’t know of

Legenda  - Winners I know of

Legenda  -  Nominees I have watched

Legenda  -  Nominees I don’t know of

Legenda  -  Nominees I know of

1927/28

BEST MOVIE

Wings

The Racket

7th Heaven

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Janet Gaynor:

for her role as Diane Angela, The Wife in 7th Heaven and Street Angel Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Louise Dresser:

for her role as Mrs. Pleznik in A Ship Comes In

Gloria Swanson:

for her role as Sadie Thompson in Sadie Thompson

1928/29

BEST MOVIE

The Broadway Melody

Alibi

Hollywood Revue

In Old Arizona

The Patriot

= 0

Mary Pickford:

for her role as Norma Besant in Coquette

Ruth Chatterton: 

for her role as Jacqueline Floriot in Madame X

Betty Compson:

for her role as Carrie in The Barker

Jeanne Eagels:

for her role as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter

Corinne Griffith:

for her role as Emma Hamilton in The Divine Lady

Bessie Love:

for her role as Hank Mahoney in The Broadway Melody

1929/30

BEST MOVIE

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Big House

Disraeli

The Divorcee

The Love Parade

= 0

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee

Nancy Carroll:

for her role as Hallie Hobart in The Devil’s Holiday

Ruth Chatterton:

for her role as Sarah Storm in Sarah and Son

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Anna Christie/Madame Rita Cavallini in Anna Christie Romance

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Lucia Marlett in Their Own Desire

Gloria Swanson:

for her role as Marion Donnell in The Trespasser

1930/31

BEST MOVIE

Cimarron

East Lynne

The Front Page

Skippy

Trader Horn

= 0

Marie Dressler:

for her role as Min Divot in Min and Bill

Marlene Dietrich:

for her role as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly in Morocco

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Sabra Cravat in Cimarron

Ann Harding:

for her role as Linda Seton in Holiday

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Jan Ashe in A Free Soul

1931/32

BEST MOVIE

Grand Hotel

Arrowsmith

Bad Girl

The Champ

Five Star Final

One Hour with You

Shanghai Express

The Smiling Lieutenant

= 0

Helen Hayes:

for her role as Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Marie Dressler:

for her role as Emma Thatcher Smith in Emma

Lynn Fontanne:

for her role as The Actress in The Guardsman

1932/33

BEST MOVIE

Cavalcade

42nd Street

A Farewell to Arms

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Lady for a Day

Little Women

The Private Life of Henry VIII

She Done Him Wrong

Smilin’ Through

State Fair

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory

May Robson:

for her role as Apple Annie in Lady for a Day

Diana Wynyard:

for her role as Jane Marryot in Cavalcade

1934

BEST MOVIE

It Happened One Night

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Cleopatra

Flirtation Walk

The Gay Divorcee

Here Comes the Navy

The House of Rothschild

Imitation of Life

One Night of Life

The Thin Man

Viva Villa!

The White Parade

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Claudette Colbert:

for her role as Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night

Grace Moore:

for her role as Mary Barrett in One Night of Love

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Elizabeth Barrett in The Barrett of Wimpole Street

Bette Davis:

for her role as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage

1935

BEST MOVIE

Munity on the Bounty

Alice Adams

Broadway Melody of 1936

Captain Blood

David Copperfield

The Informer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Les Misérables

Naughty Marietta

Rugs of Red Gap

Top Hat

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Bette Davis:

for her role as Joyce Heath in Dangerous

Elisabeth Bergner:

for her role as Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never

Claudette Colbert:

for her role as Jane Everest in Private Words

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Alice Adams in Alice Adams

Miriam Hopkins:

for her role as Becky Sharp in Becky Sharp

Merle Oberon:

for her role as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel

1936

BEST MOVIE

The Great Ziegfeld

Anthony Adverse

Dodsworth

Libeled Lady

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Romeo and Juliet

San Francisco

The Story of Louis Pasteur

A Tale of Two Cities

Three Smart Girls

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Luise Rainer:

for her role as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Theodora Lynn in Theodora Goes Wild

Gladys George:

for her role as Carrie Snyder in Valiant is the Word for Carrie

Carole Lombard:

for her role as Irene Bullock in My Man Godfey

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet

1937

BEST MOVIE

The Life of Emile Zola

The Awful Truth

Captain Courageous

Dead End

The Good Earth

In Old Chicago

Lost Horizon

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Stage Door

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Luise Rainer:

for her role as O-Lan in The Good Earth

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Marguerite Gautier in Camille

Janet Gaynor:

for her role as Esther Victoria Blodgett/Vicki Lester in A Star is Born

Barbara Stanwyck:

for her role as Stella Martin Dallas in Stella Dallas

1938

BEST MOVIE

You Can’t Take It With You

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Boys Town

The Citadel

Four Daughters

Grand Illusion

Jezebel

Pygmalion

Test Pilot

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Bette Davis:

for her role as Julie Marsden in Jezebel

Fay Bainter:

for her role as Hannah Parmalee in White Banners

Wendy Hiller:

for her role as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette

Margaret Sullavan:

for her role as Patricia “Pat” Hollmann in Three Comrades

1939

BEST MOVIE

Gone With The Wind

Dark Victory

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Love Affair

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Ninotchka

Of Mice and Men

Stagecoach

The Wizard of Oz

Wuthering Heights

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Vivien Leigh:

for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind

Bette Davis:

for her role as Judith Traherne in Dark Victory

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Terry McKay in Love Affair

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Nina Yakushnova “Ninotchka” Ivanoff” in Ninotchka

Greer Garson:

for her role as Katherine Bridges in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1940

BEST MOVIE

Rebecca

All This, and Heaven Too

Foreign Correspondent

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Dictator

Kitty Foyle

The Letter

The Long Voyage Home

Our Town

The Philadelphia Story

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Ginger Rogers:

for her role as Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle

Bette Davis:

for her role as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter

Joan Fontaine:

for her role as The Second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story

Martha Scott:

for her role as Emily Webb in Our Town

1941

BEST MOVIE

How Green Was My Valley

Blossoms in the Dust

Citizen Kane

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Hold Back the Dawn

The Little Foxes

The Maltese Falcon

One Foot in Heaven

Sargeant York

Suspicion

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Joan Fontaine:

for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion

Bette Davis:

for her role as Regina Giddens, The Little Foxes

Olivia de Havilland:

Emmy Brown, Hold Back the Dawn

Greer Garson, Blossoms in the Dust

Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire

1942

BEST MOVIE

Mrs. Miniver

The Invaders

Kings Row

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Pied Piper

The Pride of the Yankees

Random Harvest

The Talk of the Town

Wake Island

Yankee Doodle Dandy

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver

Bette Davis, Now, Voyager

Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year

Rosalind Russel, My Sister Eileen

Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees

1943

BEST MOVIE

Casablanca

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Heaven Can Wait

The Human Comedy

In Which We Serve

Madame Curie

The More the Merrier

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Song of Bernadette

Watch on the Rhine

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette

Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier

Ingrid Bergman, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph

Greer Garson, Madame Curie

1944

BEST MOVIE

Going My Way

Double Indemnity

Gaslight

Since You Went Away

Wilson

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight

Claudette Colbert, Since You Went Away

1945

BEST MOVIE

The Lost Weekend

Anchors Aweigh

The Bells of St. Mary’s

Mildred Pierce

Spellbound

= 0

1946

BEST MOVIE

The Best Years of Our Lives

Henry V

= 0

1947

BEST MOVIE

Gentleman’s Agreement

The Bishop’s Wife

Crossfire

Great Expectations

Miracle on 34th Street

= 0

1948

BEST MOVIE

Hamlet

Johnny Belinda

The Red Shoes

The Snake Pit

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

= 0

1949

BEST MOVIE

All the King’s Men

Battleground

The Heiress

A Letter to Three Wives

Twelve O’Clock High

= 0

1950

BEST MOVIE

All About Eve

Born Yesterday

Father of the Bride

King Solomon’s Mines

Sunset Boulevard

= 0

1951

BEST MOVIE

An American In Paris

Decision Before Dawn

A Place in the Sun

Quo Vadis

A Streetcar Named Desire

= 0

1952

BEST MOVIE

The Greatest Show on Earth

High Noon

Ivanhoe

Moulin Rouge

The Quiet Man

= 0

1953

BEST MOVIE

From Here to Eternity

Julius Caesar

The Robe

Roman Holiday

Shane

= 1

1954

BEST MOVIE

On The Waterfront

The Caine Mutiny

The Country Girl

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Three Coins in the Fountain

= 0

1955

BEST MOVIE

Marty

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Mister Roberts

Picnic

The Rose Tattoo

= 0

1956

BEST MOVIE

Around the World in 80 Days

Friendly Persuasion

Giant

The King and I

The Ten Commandments

= 0

1957

BEST MOVIE

The Bridge On The River Kwai

12 Angry Men

Peyton Place

Sayonara

Witness for the Prosecution

= 0

1958

BEST MOVIE

Gigi

Auntie Mame

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Defiant Ones

Separate Tables

= 0

1959

BEST MOVIE

Ben-Hur

Anatomy of a Murder

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Nun’s Story

Room at the Top

= 0

1960

BEST MOVIE

The Apartment

The Alamo

Elmer Gantry

Sons and Lovers

The Sundowners

= 0

1961

BEST MOVIE

West Side Story

Fanny

The Guns of Navarone

The Hustler

Judgment at Nuremberg

= 1

1962

BEST MOVIE

Lawrence of Arabia

The Longest Day

The Music Man

Mutiny on the Bounty

To Kill a Mockingbird

= 0

1963

BEST MOVIE

Tom Jones

America America

Cleopatra

How the West Was Won

Lilies of the Field

= 0

1964

BEST MOVIE

My Fair Lady

Becket

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Mary Poppins

Zorba the Greek

= 1

1965

BEST MOVIE

The Sound of Music

Darling

Doctor Zhivago

Ship of Fools

A Thousand Clowns

= 1

1966

BEST MOVIE

A Man for All Seasons

Alfie

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

The Sand Pebbles

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf

= 0

1967

BEST MOVIE

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Doctor Dolittle

The Graduate

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

= 0

1968

Oliver!

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Rachel, Rachel

Romeo and Juliet

= 1

1969

BEST MOVIE

Midnight Cowboy

Anne of the Thousand Days

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Hello, Dolly!

Z

= 0

1970

BEST MOVIE

Patton

Airport

Five Easy Pieces

Love Story

M*A*S*H

= 0

1971

BEST MOVIE

The French Connection

A Clockwork Orange

Fiddler on the Roof

The Last Picture

Nicholas and Alexandra

= 0

1972

BEST MOVIE

The Godfather

Cabaret

Deliverance

The Emigrants

Sounder

= 0

1973

BEST MOVIE

The Sting

American Graffitti

Cries and Whispers

The Exorcist

A Touch of Class

= 0

1974

 BEST MOVIE

The Godfather Part II

Chinatown

The Conversation

Lenny

The Towering Inferno

= 0

1975

BEST MOVIE

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Barry Lyndon

Dog Day Afternoon

Jaws

Nashville

= 0

1976

BEST MOVIE

Rocky

All the President’s Men

Bound for Glory

Network

Taxi Driver

= 0

1977

BEST MOVIE

Annie Hall

The Goodbye Girl

Julia

Star Wars

The Turning Point

= 0

1978

BEST MOVIE

The Deer Hunter

Coming Home

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Express

An Unmarried Woman

= 0

1979

BEST MOVIE

Kraver vs. Kramer

All That Jazz

Apocalypse Now

Breaking Away

Norma Rae

= 1

1980

BEST MOVIE

Ordinary People

Coal Miner’s Daughter

The Elephant Man

Raging Bull

Tess

= 0

1981

BEST MOVIE

Chariots of Fire

Atlantic City

On Golden Pond

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Reds

= 0

1982

BEST MOVIE

Ghandi

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Missing

Tootsie

The Verdict

= 1

1983

BEST MOVIE

Terms of Endearment

The Big Chill

The Dresser

The Right Stuff

Tender Mercies

= 0

1984

BEST MOVIE

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

A Passage to India

Places in the Heart

A Soldier’s Story

= 0

1985

BEST MOVIE

Out of Africa

The Color Purple

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Prizzi’s Honor

Witness

= 0

1986

BEST MOVIE

Platoon

Children of a Lesser God

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Mission

A Room with a View

= 0

1987

BEST MOVIE

The Last Emperor

Broadcast News

Fatal Attraction

Hope and Glory

Moonstruck

= 2

1988

BEST MOVIE

Rain Man

The Accidental Tourist

Dangerous Liaisons

Mississipi Burning

Working Girl

= 0

1989

BEST MOVIE

Driving Miss Daisy

Born on the Fourth of July

Dead Poets Society

Field of Dreams

My Left Foot

= 1

1990

BEST MOVIE

Dances with Wolves

Awakenings

Ghost

The Godfather III

Goodfellas

= 1

1991

BEST MOVIE

The Silence of the Lambs

Beauty and the Beast

Bugsy

JFK

The Prince of Tides

= 1

1992

BEST MOVIE

Unforgiven

The Crying Game

A Few Good Men

Howards End

Scent of a Woman

= 0

1993

BEST MOVIE

Schindler’s List

The Fugitive

In the Name of the Father

The Piano

The Remains of the Day

= 1

1994

BEST MOVIE

Forrest Gump

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Pulp Fiction

Quiz Show

The Shawshank Redemption

= 3

1995

BEST MOVIE

Braveheart

Apollo 13

Babe

The Postman (Il Postino)

Sense and Sensibility

= 4

1996

BEST MOVIE

The English Patient

Fargo

Jerry McGuire

Secrets & Lies

Shine

= 0

1997

BEST MOVIE

Titanic

As Good as it Gets

The Full Monty

Good Will Hunting

L.A. Confidential

= 3

1998

BEST MOVIE

Shakespeare in Love

Elizabeth

Life is Beautiful

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

= 3

1999

BEST MOVIE

American Beauty

The Cider House Rules

The Green Mile

The Insider

The Sixth Sense

= 1

2000

BEST MOVIE

Gladiator

Chocolat

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Erin Brokovich

Traffic

= 3

2001

BEST MOVIE

A Beautiful Mind

Gosfrod Park

In the Bedroom

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Moulin Rouge!

= 1

2002

BEST MOVIE

Chicago

Gangs of New York

The Hours

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Pianist

= 1

2003

BEST MOVIE

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Mystic River

Seabiscuit

= 0

2004

BEST MOVIE

Million Dollar Baby

The Aviator

Finding Neverland

Ray

Sideways

= 1

2005

BEST MOVIE

Crash

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

Good Night, and Good Luck

Munich

= 0

2006

BEST MOVIE

The Departed

Babel

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

= 2

2007

BEST MOVIE

No Country for Old Men

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

There Will Be Blood

= 1

2008

BEST MOVIE

Slumdog Millionaire

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

= 1

2009

BEST MOVIE

The Hurt Locker

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

Inglorious Basterds

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Saphire

A Serious Man

Up

Up in the Air

= 4

2010

BEST MOVIE

The King’s Speech

127 Hours

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids Are All Right

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter’s Bone

= 5

2011

BEST MOVIE

The Artist

The Descendants

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Help

Hugo

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Tree of Life

War Horse

= 3

2012

BEST MOVIE

Argo

Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserábles

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

= 4

2013

BEST MOVIE

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Philips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

= 4

2014

BEST MOVIE

Birdman

American Sniper

Boyhood

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Whiplash

= 2

2015

BEST MOVIE

Spotlight

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

= 3

BEST ACTRESS:

Brie Larson, Room

Cate Blanchett, Carol

Jennifer Lawrence, Joy

Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years

Saoirse, Brooklyn

2016

BEST MOIVE

Moonlight

La La Land

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

Lion

Manchester by the Sea

= 5

BEST ACTRESS:

Emma Stone, La La Land

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

2017

BEST MOVIE

The Shape of Water

Lady Bird

Call Me by Your Name

Get Out

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Post

Three Billboards Outside Ebbig, Missouri

= 4

BEST ACTRESS:

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Meryl Streep, The Post

TOTAL = 71/

[rabbitcruiser]

The city of Reno was founded on May 9, 1868.

[writsgrimmyblog]

Ficlet: Chicken and Chips

The first of my Wednesday night drabbles/ficlets. Thank you for these amazing prompts, I’m LOVING them, keep ‘em coming. This one is for @1000-directions who prompted “louis has never been with a man before” which made my mind go straight to first time smut, but somehow this ficlet ended up ridiculously chaste and fluffy, I’M SORRY. More NC-17 stuff to come in some of the later ones ;-)

Chicken and Chips (Nick/Louis) 

Content Warnings: None

They’ve been building up to this all night. Louis fussed over the dogs, went outside for a smoke and even washed the fucking dishes. Now he’s run out of reasons to avoid Nick in his own home and he doesn’t know what to do with his hands. He shoves them into his joggers, peering at the books he’s seen a dozen times before. Still shit. Philosophy, fashion and a few bits of pretentious poetry.

Nick knows something’s up when Louis picks up the Omar Khayyám for a casual flick through.

“Louis.”

“Nicholas.” Louis puts the book back on the shelf and picks up one of Nick’s photos, squinting at it, as if it’s very important that Louis studies every inch.

“That’s Eileen.”

“Yeah, I know that you tit.” Louis gives Nick a smile which feels too big for his face. “How is Eileen?”

Nick rakes a hand through his hair and raises an eyebrow at Louis. “You want to talk about my mum?”

“Why not?” Louis’ voice is a bit too high, his bravado a bit too forced. “Talk about anything, me.”

“I know.” A smile plays over Nick’s lips. “You’ve been avoiding me.”

“I’m in your house. Bit difficult to avoid you. Particularly with that stupid quiff and enormous head of yours.”

“Cheeky.” Nick slides the photo from Louis’ hands and puts it back on the shelf. He slips his arms around Louis’ waist and tugs him close. His breath smells faintly of wine and his cheeks are flushed pink. He looks so good. It sends a pulse of arousal through Louis and it’s all a bit too much. “I know what you’re doing.”

“Just being nosy.”

“Nope.” Nick slips a hand into Louis’ hair and brushes a kiss along the curve of his neck. “You’re trying to avoid the fact I’ve cooked dinner, got out the candles and made it all dead romantic.”

“It was chicken and chips. Not that romantic.” Louis rolls his eyes. It was, though. Dead romantic. It made Louis’ stomach swoop and his cheeks got hot whenever Nick looked at him from across the table. Louis hates the way Nick does that to his insides. It sends him into a bit of a panic.

“Have to try harder, next time. Get you some flowers or summat.”  Nick’s lips linger on Louis’ neck, close to the lobe of his ear. His breath is hot and ticklish. “You think I want to have a shag.”

God, the way Nick says that. The way his words curl around Louis and land on the sensitive bits of Louis’ skin. He’s amused and his voice is low and Northern, familiar from the radio but also not familiar at all. Nick doesn’t use that voice on the radio. The one that leaves Louis hard and aching. That’s the voice he gets when they’ve been snogging on the sofa for hours and Louis goes home desperate for a wank.

“I know you want a shag.” Louis pulls back to look at Nick. He pokes him in the chest, or he means to. It ends up being more of a stroke over the hair on Nick’s chest, exposed by another one of his ridiculous shirts. Louis plays with one of Nick’s necklaces and doesn’t meet his eyes.

Nick shrugs. “Eventually. Wouldn’t mind a snog in front of the telly.”

Louis swallows. If he drags them up to Nick’s room now, Nick’s probably going to end up naked. Naked with Louis. They’ll both be starkers, with their knobs out and Louis doesn’t have a fucking clue what to do with another bloke’s cock so it’s going to be weird and awkward. Nick’s going to realise it’s better with one of those models of his who’s been gay forever and who doesn’t need chicken, chips and candles just to give Nick a blowjob.

“Maybe the telly.”

“Alright.” Nick grins at Louis and he sits on the sofa, stretching his arm across the back of it. “Corrie’s on.”

“Love Corrie.” Louis sits next to Nick and lets himself be tugged close. His heart’s hammering in his chest and his throat’s dry. He doesn’t want Nick to think it’s always going to be Corrie and kissing because it’s definitely not. He also doesn’t want Nick to think he’s crap in bed, which he probably will be because he’s pretty sure Nick’s not going to appreciate how long it took Louis to work out the whole giving a bird an orgasm thing.

“Hey.” Nick runs his fingers through Louis’ hair and tugs at the strands, his lips brushing the top of Louis’ head. “You know it’s not, like, a thing I’m expecting.”

Louis closes his eyes as heat creeps up his neck and into his cheeks. Christ. Of course Nick just can’t watch Gail Platt do her garden and let Louis squirm with embarrassment in silence. “’Course you’re expecting it. Aimee told me all about your slagging around.”

Nick snorts and he pokes Louis. “Rude. I’m going to have a word with Aimee.”

“True, though.” Louis knows it’s true because he spent the night researching Nick’s blokes on Google after that first kiss that tasted like vodka redbull and panic. “Anyway, I want to.”

“Yeah, sure.” Nick sounds relaxed and he yawns, tugging Louis closer. “But whenever you want.”

“Bit worried about the knob stuff.” Louis can’t quite believe he said it out loud. He’s trying to get better at speaking to Nick instead of hiding in the bathroom and pretending he’s eaten something dodgy because apparently that’s less embarrassing than a serious conversation about the fuck me, I’m bisexual and a bit arse over tit for Grimmy thing.

“What’s there to be worried about?” Nick’s eyes are soft and warm and they crinkle at the corners when he smiles. “Pretty easy to please, me. I’m daft for a pretty popstar. My knob’s going to like your knob. It’s going to be knobtastic.”

Louis laughs, sitting up so he can look at Nick properly. “You’re a twat.”

“Your twat, though.” Nick sounds hopeful, a flicker of uncertainty crossing his features.

“Yeah,” Louis says. Emboldened, he grabs the wine and takes a swig from the bottle.

“Classy.”

“That’s how we drink wine in Donny, Nicholas.” Louis smiles at Nick and everything in the room is warm. “I’m going to blow you after this.” Louis thinks it’s a good idea to put it out there. “Might need to tell me how, though.”

“If you like.” Nick grabs the bottle from Louis’ hands and he takes a gulp, wiping his lips with the back of his hand. “Give us a snog first.”

Louis does. They drink the rest of the bottle and it turns out Nick’s knob really does like Louis quite a lot. 

It’s a good month before Louis can order chicken and chips without Nick looking like a smug tit and dragging him somewhere for a repeat performance.

[orionsangel86]

Yeah, I don't think Destiel is endgame sadly. The Sam/Eileen story made be believe a new is possible, but no, and they arent go have only one brother find love. I think the show isnt ever going to change, and thats its biggest problem. In the series finale Cas will be placed where Kevin, Charlie, Eileen were before him (the big finale death, for the biggest character after Sam and Dean) and Sam n Dean will drive off in the Impala like at the end of every ep; All quiet on the Western front.

THEY KILLED EILEEN. WHAT. THE. HELL. I saw your post, and I have to ask--does this seriously hurt your expectations of Dabb and where SPN is going

Ack! More asks that I totally missed. Sorry. I am gonna address these both in one post as they are similar themes and I guess I should start with a disclaimer here:

***these are my opinions only and do not reflect the views of other meta writers - seriously if you want positivity and hope please reach out to @tinkdw and @mittensmorgul who are doing a top notch job of controlling the fandom fire and who you should probably listen to more than me because I have become a grumpy old cow recently and am not doing the best job of controlling my cynicism and negativity.***

I should also mention that I have not, and will not, watch 12x21. I don’t need to feel more crappy and I couldn’t give a damn about Mary being brainwashed or Ketch becoming a stereotypical bond villain (or in fact, a stereotype of a parody of a Bond villain since his last act was closer to something Dr Evil from Austin Powers would do than an actual Bond Villain or so I’ve read) So I can’t comment on specifics from that episode.

“Yeah, I don't think Destiel is endgame sadly. The Sam/Eileen story made be believe a new is possible, but no, and they arent go have only one brother find love.”

Nonny I feel your pain, however I do still think Destiel is endgame. its funny, but I have thought about it a lot over the past few days and I cannot possibly see any way this show will end without destiel being part of it somehow. It does all depend on how you view ‘endgame’ though. 

Because if you mean endgame as in ‘Dean and Cas kiss and confess their love and settle down with a house’ happy ending then no, I don’t think they will get ‘endgame’, but if you mean ‘destiel will be canon on the show’ then yeah I still think its true. 

Sam and Eileen was the difference between Dean and Cas getting a moment of hand holding or a kiss before a big fight in which they die and its a tragedy, and Dean and Cas getting to live and settle down Jesse and Cesar style. Either way, Destiel goes Canon, but Eileen made the difference to how. 

Other meta writers are gonna disagree with this. But if Eileen remains dead then I do not see a happy ending to this show. Because they will not bring in another love interest for Sam at this late stage. Therefore, as you rightly say, they won’t give Dean a romantic story that ends in a ‘and they lived happily ever after’ kind of way. Saileen mirrored Destiel and the way I see it, without a mirror romantic arc for Sam, I don’t see how we will get any sort of romance for Dean either (unless they actually do decide to just end on a repeat of Swan Song though I KNOW that will piss off a lot of people). 

And yes I know that you can have endgames that don’t include romance, and that romance isn’t everything. I agree with that, but I am convinced that Sam and Dean’s endgames will be in balance with one another. Having Dean and Cas settle down together doesn’t make sense in this story if Sam is left alone. It is unbalanced and goes against a lot of what this show is about: two brothers and their lives hunting together.

(oh god I really don’t mean to sound like a bibro there but you know what I mean. balance is key. The fundamental core of this show is family and found family and it is so much more than just ‘two brothers’ but basically what I am trying to say is that you cannot round up one brothers story and leave the others open ended. It won’t work for the format this show uses.)

“I think the show isnt ever going to change, and thats its biggest problem.” 

I think if Bucklemming keep writing for them, and Bob Singer keeps his grubby little hands on the story, then yeah its not likely to change. This show will always have majorly flawed episodes. The thing is, I still believe Dabb is trying to make this show better. He has already come quite far in doing that. The season 11 finale showed us that, and Dean’s character arc this season is superb. 

The problem is more that Dabb seems to have a case of tunnel vision on Dean’s character arc. He is spending a lot of time chipping away at Dean’s mask and forgetting Sam, somewhat forgetting Cas, and pretty much completely forgetting to give us a coherent mytharc plot. 

Whether the whole Dean focus is to prepare the GA for his eventual coming out of the closet I can’t truly say (though I believe this is the case). It really annoys me how much Sam has been left behind. The one person who Sam had bonded with, who was a character that we, as an audience, could use to gain better insight into Sam outside of his brothers POV was killed off by incompetent buffoons. Dabb would have had to sign off on this terrible decision. Does he just not care about Sam’s development? 

The other major issue is representation. I thought season 12 was doing so well. Then they killed off three POC ladies and a disabled character in the second half of the season. Yet Lucifer gets an absurd plot when frankly, he should have been back in the cage or dead after episode 8. Why were the BMOL two freaking white guys? Why didn’t Lady Toni get Mick’s story line from the start? Why couldn’t either Mick or Ketch be black? or Asian? or Gay? or a Woman? or ALL of those things or ANYTHING other than a straight white guy?!? BRITAIN IS EXTREMELY MULTICULTURAL AND 51% OF US ARE WOMEN. USE IT!!! 

So yeah, its never gonna change. My advice? Don’t watch Bucklemming episodes.

“In the series finale Cas will be placed where Kevin, Charlie, Eileen were before him (the big finale death, for the biggest character after Sam and Dean) and Sam n Dean will drive off in the Impala like at the end of every ep; All quiet on the Western front.” 

Now this I don’t believe, because this would just be a major regression and would be the biggest mistake a finale could make since How I Met Your Mother. In the finale episode of the finale season, I reckon they are all gonna die. Then perhaps they will reunite in heaven with all their previous friends and family. I do NOT think that the series will end with Cas separated from the brothers. This is something I still have faith in. Cas IS a Winchester. He belongs with them. Whether they live or die in the end, he will be with them. Either they all die, or none of them will. Unless by that point Bucklemming are showrunners *shudder*can you imagine that?!? In that instance I would quit the show on principle.

I don’t think the show will end with the Winchesters alone in the world, living on whilst everyone they love is dead and the world is a burnt wasteland... you might as well put them back in hell... its not romantic or poetic no matter what your average bibro may think. I actually don’t think even Bucklemming would give us an ending like that. 

“Does this seriously hurt your expectations of Dabb and where SPN is going?”

On to Nonny No2′s excellent question which well, I probably answered above. But to use this as a summary. Yes. 

Eileen’s death hurt my expectations because it was the cherry on top of a lot of things this season that have slowly been chipping away at my positivity. 

Look, I think some of you may have noticed that I haven’t really been as active as I once was on here. I have struggled to answer asks and when I do, my tone has changed from the optimistic, enthusiastic tone I used to have. 

Honestly, SPN has been upsetting me for a while. The mytharc plot isn’t engaging me. Mary’s story doesn’t interest me because I don’t think they have done her emotional story justice. They instead chose to purposely make her unlikable to the point where a lot of fandom hopes she’ll be killed off. Do you have any idea how disappointing that is? I was so excited for Mary to be brought back, along with everything she symbolised for the show. I don’t think her character has been done justice. 

I felt this way with Amara. I wanted to love her so much but they ruined her and turned her into a sexual predator. I wanted to love Lady Toni as a fully rounded character - a strong British woman having to fight for her voice in an ancient organisation run by old men. The made her into a one dimensional psychopathic rapist. Sometimes I think these writers just arn’t very good at writing female characters outside of ‘sexy twenty something waitress’ for Dean to screw around with to prove his heterosexuality.

The whole Lucifer storyline is driving me crazy. He is so boring and my god I miss season 5 Lucifer. Hell, even Casifer, but Pellegrino is just being absurd now and the joke got old quick. I don’t care about the Nephilim, even now that it has its hooks in Cas. 

What happened to the Grand Coven? Couldn’t we have got a war between BMOL and Grand Coven? I want more witches. More spells. Witch!Sam and Human!Cas. That’s the story they should be telling. I haven’t liked how they’ve handled the British Men of Letters because they don’t seem like a real enough threat to me. Plus I don’t like all the dumb British jokes like seriously these writers have no idea what British people are like. 

This season for me has been saved by 12x06,12x10,12x11, and 12x12. But I have been disappointed overall. Unlike many of my fellow meta writers, I am not all that enthusiastic about the finale. I want so very much to be excited about it and join in with the speculation and theories but I just can’t force it anymore. 

The one thing I have faith in is that we will get canon destiel before series end. Even if its just a shot of them interlinking their fingers and smiling at each other before they go off to their deaths. I am convinced that Dabb will give us that. My problem isn’t about destiel anymore. Its whether the destiel subplot is enough to keep me engaged whilst the main plot goes down the drain. Its whether the destiel subplot is going to keep me going whilst I have to watch them continuously butcher every female character on the show.

I’m not sure I can do it anymore. My faith in Dabb is at a record low after 12x21 and I dunno what it will take to bring me back up.

Well, actually I do know. Eileen. Bring her back, right the wrong and put the story back on track. Then pull your shit together and get some more original characters into the show who arn’t all generic white guy clones. Bring back Charlie. Put Cas in more episodes. Kill Lucifer off for good and make Rowena a series regular. Put Cas in the same fucking episodes as Claire Novak FFS. Give Sam a goddamn story outside of his brother. Witch!Sam!! Or Man of Letters Sam. And finally, bring Dean out of that fucking closet once and for all.

Do all that and I will kiss the ground Dabb walks on. Untill then? well, I dunno if you’ll be hearing much from me in the future that’s all. I may just well and truly be done with this show.

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DIDN’T GO TO TWITTER YESTERDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Extremely online.

Ethics are elsewhere.

Smoked the wrong kind of weed yesterday … ended up at the Met … where I could process not a thing …  saw not one painting … the Rothko looked like a Tooker, the Pissarro looked like a Rothko … I had several deep vacant thoughts about how horrible my recent writing is … ridiculous … total embarrassment … how do I even live … the world looks away … the world is doing me a favor.

I am terrified by the evening, but only at night.

Jets lost, Mets lost, Giants lost, at least we have Heineken and pretzels.

Sorry for making fun of the clothes people wear.

In New York, as Edmund White said, the costume ball continues.

I have this note here: Dodgers cap photo shoot.

It’s so exciting to be in New York and see the beautiful new skyscrapers instead of having to read tediously clear articles about New York skyscrapers that use words like “the site of production” and “global elites”.

We had the Buddha Delight with tofu at Wei West in the Goldman alley, my aunt and uncle split the check.

New York is for not having to read theory anymore.

That’s what you’re paying for.

There are no theories here, there is no news.

I take back everything bad I said about New York.

My left nut used to be that H&M, my right nut is now a Sephora.

Last night we went to a party.

I spoke in short sentences.

I told a girl with no hair & the wrong name that girls with no hair are hot.

I ate a whole bowl of Utz Salt & Vinegar potato chips and hoped in vain the DJs would play something other than Vince Staples.

I realized nobody at the party had read my latest diary entry.

I mean, who reads anything, text can only be seen, not read, on Twitter, on a phone, on Facebook, on The Atlantic Monthly, on Jacobin.

Sorry if I made fun of people yesterday, sorry, even to David Frum, sorry.

Should I be believed, though, because I waited so long?

No, I don’t want this sympathy with the city, we must get out of town.

My God, I am so sorry.

I miss the comfort in being bad.

Remember on Girls, when Elijah and Dill break up for the last time, and Dill says bittersweetly, I’ll think of you every time I go to Brooklyn.

Sarah Schulman wrote compared to Manhattan, Brooklyn seemed like a forest.

I smoked the right kind of weed later in the evening and we ate pizza and ice cream.

Growing up means not feeling guilty for forgetting the people you aren’t interested in.

I made somebody grow up. 

The world is growing up around me.

Thought about tweeting yesterday:

The commercial for lube you have to watch before a porn hub vid is also a commercial during The Revolution w/ Steve Hilton.

Jack White hated New York. Had those early press shots taken with the towers in the background. Made Meg write on his t-shirt with a Sharpie: NEW YORK CONFUSES ME.

For Plath, New York was three things: pain, parties, and work.

Frank O’Hara felt that if every negro in New York cruised over the World’s Fair in a plane and ran out of fuel the world would really learn something about the affluent society.

Bukowski said outside of Dallas, Houston, Charleston, and Atlanta, New York City was the worst place he had ever been.

Acker thought the girls are conservative and the boys all gay or male feminists. Non-playful breeds. She would take Nazis any day of the week.

Sebald asked us to imagine the amount of painkillers consumed in New York City every year, and how if you crushed them down you could go skiing, if you were also 420 friendly.

Babitz said, well, you know what she said, Eve Babitz was a fucking genius.

James Polk, the worst president in U.S. history, won New York.

Philip Roth said the purpose of streets is to pick up women. There’s no other reason for them.

I said to my cousin at dinner tonight, what’s it like having to talk to your brother about Trump, you guys must really disagree a lot.

My cousin said, actually, I don’t think there’s much for us to disagree with.

Sorry about your student loans, what’s the wi-fi here.

I take back everything I said yesterday, New York is a beautiful place, especially if you avoid Twitter.

I bought Facebook at $19, what’s your accomplishment?

Think I’ll go listen to Wagner in Zucotti Park.

I want to take a step back for a moment, erase all I said.

There was news this weekend, but we were on vacation, tomorrow we fly home, they’ll be more news.

News without Twitter sucks, because Twitter is great for news. That’s why if you avoid what’s great for news, you avoid news, and a few seconds later you find your own language.

Watched a lot of FOX NEWS this weekend (Manhattan is a red state obviously; we have the meats) and FOX NEWS is so much better than CNN and MSNBC combined, you actually learn something other than aghast-ness.

Your own language is down there somewhere, it’s not witty, it’s not smart, it’s not intelligence, it earns no likes, your own language is not retweetable, your own language doesn’t get a reaction.

I have this note here: artists are people who know other artists.

I’ve been to therapy, I know what it means to express myself, but that’s something we’ll have to pick up next time. 

Nothing that appeals to the masses survives.

News is universally appreciated.

Anything universally appreciated has already disappeared.

You must not leave an impression on your own time. You must not engage.

Leave society.

News is worse than comedy. 

Do not interact with the language of your own time.

Do not talk back to something that doesn’t talk to you.

Ten people liked the Odyssey, six people liked Ulysses, nobody likes the writers of today, the writers who will be misread tomorrow.

You must believe.

It’s always a coming out scene for a desperate amateur.

It’s always finally my time.

Today’s the day the world will understand me.

My phone is losing power and last night was a long week, I keep thinking of that Eileen Myles poem, old people are always / charging things.

If you are holding this document in shaking hands, given to you by a man and his hands shook too, in your hands you hold the truth of one man who had the energy, the self-respect, the life force, to not go to Twitter yesterday.

We are cashless and anti-gun.

For as much as I’ve said, more has gone unnoticed.

The last great myth of the male novelist, before this one.

I said to my wife we know nothing about Vietnam.

It’s gone.

We know nothing.

Anthony Bourdain is all that’s left.

Anthony Bourdain is to Vietnam what the Classic New York Egg Sandwich is to…

Extremely online.

The only people ‘extremely online’ are those with one thing left on the web.

Any site that doesn’t support frames and is all about your Napoleon thesis is extremely online.

Any porn star with only one casting couch vid and comments that say ... what’s her name ... whose got other vids ... I wish she did more ... she’s too hot for porn ... the guy is so much hotter.

She is extremely online.

Think I’ll go to Zucotti Park and place my hand over a teenager’s mouth.

I saw this posted bill the other day.

Wanda Sykes is giving a talk on the authentic self.

Life is inconceivable.

Money is made by people who say otherwise.

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If I gotta do the asks, so have you!! All the even ones lmao :D

Yay!!!! I fucking love answering these lol

@slenderlofsweet dreams (are made of this): what’s the best dream you’ve had?I mean, not to be a soppy romantic, but tbh i had one where i was with my boyfriend cuddling in bed and that was the best one everevery breath you take: who’s the first person your mind goes to when you hear a love song? Obviously my boyfriend lmao uptown girl: what’s your favourite book trope?When the lead character has to tear their eyes away from that little space of skin that appears above the waistband when their crush stretchesi wanna dance with somebody (who loves me): who was the last person you danced with? If you count dance class, then my competition team loljessie’s girl: what would you do if you found out your best friend was seeing your ex?Um considering the last person I could consider an ex was a girl and my best friend is the gay boy I’m currently dating, really fucking confusedwake me up before you go-go: how did your last date go?Um idk I’ve never really been on a date before but if you count skyping with my boyfriend as a date then really amazingbeat it: opinions on the police force?Eh..... they’re kinda sucky and corrupt lmaofaith: when was your first kiss? I’ve.... never actually had onetake on me: could you reach the high note?If you’re talking about take on me, yes, yes I can9 to 5: do you like country music?Oh hell nomaterial girl: are you sentimental?Sort of? I guess lolyou shook me all night long: are you seeing anyone at the moment?Ofc lmao i don’t shut up about himi want candy: chocolate or sweets?Probably chocolate? I love chocolatethe power of love: does true love exist?Yes absolutely, but true love takes workwalk like an egyptian: favourite song currently in the charts?Oh shit idk if I even know, I guess if New Rules by Dua Lipa is still in the charts, then that onejust can’t get enough: what’s your guilty pleasure?Mmmm I guess watching Pride? I’ve watched it so much I can quote most of it lmaoyou spin me round (like a record): favourite modern cover of an older song?I really like the cover of Sweet Dreams are Made of This that appears in the Wrinkle in Time trailerhow will i know: do you believe everyone is deserving of love?Love has so many different forms, but I guess so, unless you’re my dad an abusive asshole then nocome on eileen: have you ever written a song? if so, what was the genre?Yeah actually lol I composed a song that I guess sounds like a melancholy trailer orchestra song?sweet child o’ mine: describe your perfect first date.Um ice skating with my boyfriend and then warming up with chips and cuddleseye of the tiger: favourite 80s movie?Oh shit I’m not really sure I’ve seen enough to know, but Breakfast Club is goodwith or without you: what would you value most: a relationship or a job?Depends on the job and relationship, but I guess I am leaving my jobs eventually if I move to england so I guess relationship?pour some sugar on me: turn ons? What doesn’t turn me on Okay but when boys smell really good and they have pretty collarbones/shoulders and bite their lip damn that’s some good shit right there, also moans obviouslytainted love: thoughts on synthesisers/electronic drum kits/technology based music?Um I love??? Esp if we’re talking Tainted Love and the like, esp 80s music. karma chameleon: what do you like most about your appearance?Oh damn I like my eyes a lot, they’re pretty cool colours, also my hair is real cute and blond and curly

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International Sculpture Day, or IS Day, is a worldwide annual celebration of sculpture on last Saturday in April. It was established by the International Sculpture Center and is meant to raise awareness, appreciation and enjoyment of sculpture in communities across the globe. During the inaugural 2015 IS Day, over 50 events were held in 12 countries including Switzerland, China, Germany, England, Australia, Austria, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, and the USA. In its second year, over 200 events were held in 20+ countries including Australia, Denmark, Poland, Nigeria, Canada, France, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, Croatia and Mexico.

Types of IS Day events include open studios, demonstrations, workshops, public art tours, open museums, brown bag lunches, sculpture scavenger hunts, book signings, foundry pours, pop up exhibitions, opening receptions, competitions, artist talks, and more.

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The city of Reno was founded on May 9, 1868. 

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Pi, wonderful pi. It plays into so many aspects of our lives and goes on forever and ever and ever and ever and eve… You get the point. Every year there comes a certain day that shares numerical values with Pi, and on that day there is a celebration of Pi with every kind of Pie you can imagine. You see, pies are round, and Pi is circumference over diameter, a number that, while being functionally infinite, also happens to be a constant in every circle ever. Pi day celebrates the long history of this fantastic number, and the long journey science has taken (and is still on) to seek the end of a number known to be infinite in length.

History of Pi Day The history of pi day is, without a doubt, intrinsically tied to the origins of the number itself. The need for pi is as old as the wheel itself, and many techniques have been tried in many cultures to capture this elusive number in mathematics. The reach for the whole of this number was difficult, with ancient mathematical cultures only being able to barely find out to the seventh decimal, and Indian mathematicians (some of the greatest of their time) could only manage to decipher it out to five. Pi is truly one of the most fascinating numbers in existence, and the quest for the ultimate end of Pi has been sought for time out of mind. This seems a fool’s errand, given that it seems to extend infinitely in mathematical loops beyond and nothing has ever been found to contest this, this is particularly remarkable when you consider the following: modern techniques have been used to calculate pi out to millions of digits, and at no point has the pattern ever been found to reliably repeat itself.

How to celebrate Pi Day Ahhh an easier and more delicious question has never been posited! How do we celebrate Pi day? Why, by eating a great deal of Pie! Remember, Pies are circles, Pi describes circles, and through that we find that everything in the universe can be described with a pi(e). Other ways to celebrate this most amazing and transcendental of days (Pi is a transcendental number, look it up) is to research this number and discover all the amazing secrets it hides. Once you really get to understand the depths and complexities of it, you’ll understand why Pi day exists to celebrate a simple combination of digits.

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The city of Reno is founded on May 9, 1868.