#Jack Kelley

[military-newsboys]

Spot: what are you doing? Race, sitting in an bath full of ice: trying to get into your shoes and be an icy bitch :)

[deepseaspriteblog]

The fourth and final Steampunk session kid, Jack Kelley! (no relation to Noir... probably. for now.) He's one of the manual laborers on the SBURB project.

Hardworking yet easy-going, Jack's affable, down to earth attitude is exactly what their session needs to not immediately self destruct. The other three all have issues relating to their legacy, but Jack has no such burden- he comes from nothing and no one. He's an orphan who has been working since he was 13, and doesn't bother worrying about anything other than putting food on his plate.

Once he's in SBURB however, with no clear direction, he becomes a bit aimless. At first, he finds purpose in keeping the team together and to mediate all the infighting, but eventually, once everyone actually starts understanding each other he's out of the job again. When Vale asks him what he wants to do or who he wants to be, he genuinely has no answer.

[bunniebusiness]

i made my friends watch 92sies. here’s some things they said:

“i love the getting ready montage”

“you SHALL be saved”

“why can’t he dance?”

“selective inability to walk?” (in reference to crutchie)

*referring to the Delancys” oh that hat is ugly.”

“awe he’s flirting” (in response to jack talking to weasel)

*at the tie moment* “oh…that was a bit fruity.”

“he looks smitten all the time. that’s his problem.” (this is about davey. obviously.)

*jokingly* “what, are they gonna unionize?”

*a minute and a half later* “oh my god…they're unionizing”

“that’s us right now. the kings of new york.”

“us when [our friend] got arrested." (in reference to them visiting crutchie in the refuge)

"wow this whole thing is...really gay"

*jack and sarah kiss* "NOOOOO! nooooooooo."

[yetanotherkris]

Jack:"You know how many fella's fake a limp for sympathy, right?"

[newsieseveryday]

Jack:"Oh quit gripin'."

[military-newsboys]

THIS

This is such a major part for so many reasons.

A. They let themselves be angry at him. They are not scared, not afraid of Jack.

For all they know he scabbed- but they still trust him enough to be angry. He is their brother, and while they don't understand why he did what he did, they still know he would never try and hurt them.

B. Jack doesn't want to crush their hopes and scare them.

He could easily just say "hey threatened to hurt you guys & Crutchie, I am doing this for you" but he doesn't. The newsies finally have some hope, finally have a sense of WORTH, he can't bring himself to take it away from them.

its common sense jack has the biggest heart and it doesnt take much to see that BUT the fact that he allowed those kids to be angry with him for scabbing and didnt blame them at all really solidifies that for me. he has done Everything for them to keep them warm, fed & sheltered for a Long time and the second he scabbed they flipped out on him like hes never made a single sacrifice. no one questioned that he was acting strange. and still he was okay with that.

when he was talking to the scabs he dealt with them with patience. he talked to them. he understood where they came from. no one even attempted to have the same energy for him. and he was okay with that.

someone please give jack his flowers (and some therapy)

[oh-dear-my]

Finally started the magnus protocol, I loab them

[subterraneanna]

S4 E6 — McCoy draws a hard line on heckling and hoglegs in sickbay.

Check out the full cowboy crossover series in case you missed an entry!

If anyone has a crossover idea they'd like to see, send me an ask or comment. The source material is super limited, so no promises, but I'll certainly try!

[thermodynamic-comedian]

how do you think the OIAR feel abt pets? like do you think any of them have/had one (or want to have one)?

alice seems like a cat owner. just one tho, probably a hairless cat that she constantly takes the most cursed photos of and sends them to sam captioned stuff like "he's going to eat you." and "naked beast wants tuna fish. make your offer". the name of the cat is probably something like babybel cheese.

sam probably doesn't own a pet, but grew up with a dog, and really wishes he could have a cat. though babybel cheese is probably basically also his cat, since he catsits for alice constantly.

gwen does not own a pet, nor does she want one.

colin either owns or wishes he owned a dog. a really big, calm one. honestly, he just wants to be less lonely without having to talk to other people.

celia already has enough to deal with without a pet to add on. jack, however, really wants a cat. (me subtly implying sam and celia should get together because both sam and jack want a cat) (i am not immune to soft domestic samcelia)

lena loves, respects, and understands dogs, but she doesn't need a pet. she knows what it's like to be one.

[military-newsboys]

Spot: Are you a newspaper? Jack: No, why? Spot: Because there’s a new issue with you every fucking day.

[nerds-yearbook]

Last issue of Deadman: Love After Death 2# was published with a cover date of January 1990. Deadman was able to release the tormented souls in the ghostly circus, including his love Ann. (Deadman: Love After Death Book 2, DC Comic Event)

[oh-shit-i-spilled-my-genderfluid]

Lena Kelley sketch

No I don’t have a crush on her, what are you talking about

[voiceless-people]

I haven't checked the transcripts, and my ears may be broken- but did Lena call Jack an it? When she said "oh. Is that it's name?"

I could easily be mishearing, but it immediately caught me off guard and I went back to listen to the clip. If that is what she said, then 😟

[spawksstuff]

The De Completionist Checklist Part 13

1963

Note on the dates: I will mostly be going by when a show/movie was shot rather than its release date. Variety Magazine will be given first priority.

My score: 6 / 7

Need To Find:  The Gallant Men – A Taste of Peace

Favorite Movie: Gunfight At Comanche Creek

Favorite TV Show:  The Virginian – Man of Violence

Favorite Scene: Besides the obvious trek across the river in Man of Violence, the fight scene in The Dakotas with Jack Elam

[ljones41]

Locke & Sawyer in "Confirmed Dead"

Recently, I did a rewatch of the "LOST" Season Four episode, (4.02) "Confirmed Dead". And I had enjoyed it as much as I did during previous viewings. However . . . there was something about Oceanic 815 survivors John Locke and James "Sawyer" Ford that had eluded me during those past viewings.

How can I put this? There seemed to be a great deal of hypocrisy emanating from both Locke and Sawyer in this episode. For example, while questioning Locke's sanity in "Confirmed Dead", Sawyer had pointed out the older man’s murder of Naomi Dorrit, an inhabitant from the newly arrived freighter Kahana, in the Season Three finale, (3.22-3.23) "Through the Looking Glass, Part II". Locke had killed Ms. Dorrit in an effort to prevent her from contacting her associated aboard the Kahana. He had considered them a danger to the island and its inhabitants.

Also, Sawyer had recently committed two murders during late Season Three - Anthony Cooper in (3.19) "The Brig" and Other member Tom Friendly in "Through the Looking Glass". It turned out that Cooper was Locke's father, whom the Others had captured to test Locke for the position of their leader. Unable to kill his father, Locke had discovered from one of the Others, Richard Alpert, that Cooper was also the man who had swindled Sawyer's parents from their money some twenty-eight years earlier. This act had led to Sawyer's father murdering his wife for adultery and committing suicide. Sawyer, who had been eight years-old at the time, spent nearly three decades needlessly vowing revenge. Thanks to the manipulations of both Richard and Locke, Sawyer committed the murder. As for Tom Friendly's murder, Sawyer had killed the man out of pure spite. In the Season Two episode, (2.11) "The Hunting Party", he claimed that Friendly had shot him, when he was aboard Michael Dawson's raft in the Season One finale, (1.23-1.25) "Exodus". In "Through the Looking Glass", he claimed that his murder of Friendly was in retaliation for the kidnapping of 10 year-old Walt Lloyd, Michael's son.

Despite Locke's efforts, Oceanic survivors' leader, Dr. Jack Shephard, managed to contact the Kahana occupants. This led the survivors to split into two groups - those who saw the Kahana as a means to their rescue and those who followed Locke, certain that Ms. Dorrit's associates meant to harm them. Locke led the doubters on a trek to the Others' abandoned compound, on the other side of the island. Sawyer was among them. I know what you are thinking. What does this recap of the late Season Three/early Season Four events have to do with hypocrisy? And why target John Locke and James Ford?

Among those who had decided to follow Locke to the Others' compound out of safety was their leader, Ben Linus. Both Locke and Sawyer already had a personal grudge against the man. Ben had tried to murder Locke in (3.20) "The Man Behind the Curtain" in an effort to prevent the latter from replacing him as the Others' leader. Ben had kept Sawyer, Jack and Kate Austen hostage as a means to receive a much needed operation in early Season Three. When Sawyer had interfered in a slightly hostile conversation between Ben and one of his former followers, the adolescent Karl, the former Others leader made insinuations that Kate (whom Sawyer was attracted to) preferred Jack over the con man. As it later turned out, he was right. In a fit of anger, Sawyer gave Ben a beat down and suggested to Locke they should "execute" - namely kill - Ben, because the latter was being a nuisance. Locke refused, claiming they needed Ben's assistance in dealing with the island's newcomers. But this was not the last of it.

Four of the Kahana's passengers finally arrived on the island via a helicopter and parachutes. One of them proved to be Dr. Charlotte Lewis, a cultural anthropologist. Ben feared that Charlotte might contact the freighter and confirm his exact location to her associates aboard the Kahana. He also feared what the freighter's arrival would mean for the island's other inhabitants. Driven by these fears, Ben tried to kill her by shooting her in the chest with a gun he had stolen from an unsuspecting Karl. At that moment, Locke decided to follow Sawyer's advice. He decided to punish Ben by killing the latter. Sawyer offered to do the job, but Locke decided he must be the one to "clean his own mess". Only Ben’s revelations of his knowledge of Charlotte’s background, the reason the freighter had arrived at the island and his spy aboard the Kahana had saved his life.

Watching all of this unfurl had made me shake my head with amazement every time I had viewed "Confirmed Dead". But it took this last rewatch for me to realize both Locke and Sawyer's hypocrisies. Locke had been willing to execute Ben for attempting to do to Charlotte what he had recently done to Naomi in "Through the Looking Glass" - namely kill someone from the Kahana for his self-preservation and the safety of the island's inhabitants. As for Sawyer . . . he had punched Ben for making insidious comments about Jack and Kate. And he also wanted Ben dead for the attempt on Charlotte’s life. This all reminded me of Sawyer's second reason for murdering Tom Friendly. The con man had claimed he did it for 10 year-old Walt Lloyd’s kidnapping in "Exodus". Yet, Sawyer had never went after Ben for the same reason. And by late Season Three and early Season Four, he knew that Ben was the Others' leader and the one who had ordered Walt's kidnapping. Yet, Sawyer had never went after Ben for that reason.

For years, I never understood why so many "LOST" fans had turned a blind eye to the crimes of most of the Oceanic survivors. Or made excuses for their crimes. I now realize one should consider personal bias toward certain characters as a major reason. But after my rewatch of "Confirmed Dead", I am surprised hardly anyone had noticed the Oceanic castaways' penchant for hypocrisy, including that from John Locke and James Ford in this episode.

[claudia1829things]

Ranking of "THE GILDED AGE" Season Two (2023) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the Season Two episodes from the HBO historical drama, "THE GILDED AGE". Created by Julian Fellowes, the series stars Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector and Cynthia Nixon:

RANKING OF "THE GILDED AGE" SEASON TWO (2023) EPISODES

1. (2.05) "Close Enough to Touch" - Socialite Bertha Russell makes final preparations for the societal event of the summer season with a dinner to honor the Duke of Buckingham in Newport. Peggy Scott and her employer T. Thomas Fortune encounter hostile whites at a black-owned restaurant, while covering a story in Tuskagee, Alabama. And Ada Brook finally marries her new beau, the Reverend Luke Forte, despite the disapproval of her older sister, socialite Agnes van Rhijn.

2. (2.03) "Head to Head" - The Opera war between Bertha and Mrs. Caroline Astor escalates. At Bertha's fundraiser, a surprise guest in the form of Bertha's former maid, now socialite Mrs. Enid Winterton, reveals an unpleasant secret regarding her husband, George Russell. Peggy offers to join Fortune in covering the new dormitory story at the Tuskegee Institute. And George attempts to woo union leader Mr. Henderson.

3. (2.01) "You Don't Even Like the Opera" - In the season premiere, the Scotts visit Philadelphia to attend an Easter memorial service for Peggy's dead son, who had ended up adopted. Ada meets Luke Forte for the first time following Easter service. And after being snubbed by Mrs. Astor's opera community, Bertha decides to support the new Metropolitan Opera over the senior Academy of Music.

4. (2.08) "In Terms of Winning and Losing" - In the season finale, the fate of the van Rhijn household is uncertain after Oscar van Rhijn loses his family's fortune to a con artist. Footman Jack Trotter's alarm clock patent is approved. Arthur Scott thwarts the New York Educational Board's secret attempt to close African-American schools. Later, Peggy decides to end her employment with The New York Globe, wary of her attraction to the married Mr. Fortune. Marian Brook decides to end her whirlwind engagement to Agnes' nephew by marriage, the wealthy Dashiell Montgomery. And the Duke of Buckingham becomes the pivotal figure in the Opera war between Bertha and Mrs. Astor.

5. (2.07) "Wonders Never Cease" - New York City citizens celebrate the final construction of the new Brooklyn Bridge. Marian harbors doubts about her engagement to Dashiell. Oscar discovers that Miss Beaton, the young socialite he had hoped to marry, is a con artist who had tricked him of most of the van Rhijn money. The van Rhijn-Forte household suffers a personal tragedy.

6. (2.04) "His Grace the Duke" - Bertha discovers the funding for the unfinished Metropolitan Opera House has run out. Ada fears Agnes will disapprove of her meetings with Reverend Forte. Peggy and Mr. Fortune travel to Tuskegee. Bertha insinuates herself with the Duke of Buckingham at a dinner held by her former maid, the socialite Mrs. Enid Winterton. George and other business owners conspire to subvert impending labor strikes. And Bertha forces Larry's new lover to end their romance.

7. (2.06) "Warning Shots" - Mrs. Winterton demands Bertha's center box at the Met in exchange for her support. Peggy asks Mr. Fortune to investigate the New York Education Board's decision to close the Black schools. Reverend Forte receives unpleasant news, following his and Ada's honeymoon. George and a number of military soldiers face striking workers at his Pittsburgh steel plant. And Marian receives a surprising, yet very public marriage proposal.

8. (2.02) "Some Sort of Trick" - To escape the tense atmosphere at her parents' Brooklyn home, Peggy rejoins the van Rhijn household as Agnes' secretary. Both Peggy and Agnes warn the latter's maid Armstrong to treat the former with more respect. Gladys Russell put an end to Oscar's pursuit of her with a rejection of his marriage proposal. Her brother, the newly architect Larry Russell, becomes romantically involved with his new client, a woman twice his age. The Russells discover that Bertha's former maid has married a wealthy elderly member of New York society.