#John Melo

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John Melo

[ilbioeconomista]

Fragrance & Beauty: Amyris closed strategic transaction with Givaudan

Amyris, Inc., a US leading synthetic biotechnology company, completed the previously announced strategic transaction with Givaudan SA for the worldwide exclusive licensing of certain cosmetic ingredients, including Neossance® Squalane, the highest performant emollient, Neossance® Hemisqualane, the plant-based silicone alternative, and CleanScreen™, the sustainable sun protector. (more…) “”

[deadthehype]

Patrick Ewing, Carmelo Anthony, John Starks & Stephon Marbury at Madison Square Garden for Game 5 of New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. Photographed by Michelle Farsi.

[fbi-smoking-pot-members]

I love this cover so much. I hate to admit it but I LOVE this cover almost more than the original. There's something so comforting about it. It's like if you put "classic trippy pitched-up vocal layering john beatles song" and "lullaby" into a computer and this is what came of it. Though I'm pretty sure he didn't actually edit the pitch of his voice here, given when this was recorded. It's wild the natural vocal range he eventually ended up having. Sad we didn't get more softer vocaled songs from him before he died.

[jewishcissiekj]

Cassie outside of interior and cover art

A collection of Cassie Sandsmarks outside of regular panels/covers I've collected lately, separated by eras/costumes (there’s a lot so brace yourselves):

1998-2003 Cassie (Young Justice era) -

All by Todd Nauck, all straight from his Tumblr over various years. ( @toddnauck​ ) Official artist, unofficial art. 

Cassie by Francis Manapul, source unclear (if you know, please tell me). Official artist, unofficial art.

2003-2011 Cassie (Pre New 52 Teen Titans era) -

Cassie design(s) for Geoff Johns’ 2003′s Teen Titans book by Mike McKone, brought from Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Book 1 (2017). Official art and artist.

Future Cassie designs by Mike Mckone from Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Book 1. Official art and artist.

Cassie by Sean Galloway, source unclear (if you know, please tell me). Official artist , unofficial art.

Cassie by Jim Lee, a charity piece posted via Twitter @/Jimlee. Official artist, unofficial art.

Cassie by Jim Lee, brought from DC Comics - The Art of Jim Lee Volume 1. Official artist, unofficial art (published officially).

2011-2016 Cassie (New 52 Teen Titans era) -

Cassie designs by Brett Booth from Teen Titans Volume 1 (2011). Official art and artist.

Alternative Cassie designs by Jim Lee from Teen Titans Volume 1 (2011). Official art and artist.

Cassie by Cully Hamner from The New 52 10th anniversary Deluxe Edition. Official art and artist. 

Silent Armor Cassie designs by Brett Booth from Teen Titans Volume 2 (2011). Official art and artist.

Cassie design/sketch by Eddy Barrows from Teen Titans Volume 3 (2011). Official art and artist.

Cassie designs by Johnboy Meyers via his Facebook page. Official artist, unofficial art.

2016-Now Cassie (Bendis Young Justice->Infinite Frontier->Dawn of DC era) -

Cassie design sketches by Patrick Gleason from Young Justice Volume 1 (2019). Official art and artist.

Cassie sketch by John Timms from Young Justice Volume 1 (2019). Official art and artist.

Cassie in promo art for Batman and Superman: Battle of The Super Sons (source unclear).

Cassie commission by Adriana Melo via her Instagram. Official artist, unofficial art.

Other -

Cassie design by Bruno Redondo for the Injustice 2 comics via his Instagram (?). Official art and artist.

Cassie designs by Andy McDonald from Teen Titans Earth One Volume 2. Official art and artist. 

Wonder Girl Cassie designs by Terry Dodson from Bombshells - United volume 1. Official art and artist. 

Wonder Woman Cassie sketch by Trevor Hairsine from DCeased - Dead Planet Trade Paperback. 

Going to be adding on to this every time I find a new one (art at the beginning by Steve Rude).

[twistedtummies2]

Has ever happened to you that ya made an oc for Twisted Wonderland, and after you finished it, a character with the same character inspiration was revealed in the game?

Yup. That's happened several times. For example: a while back, I made a minor OC in the form of a character named "Claude Jehan." He was a member of the staff, not the students, and was the chief of security for NRC. The character was based on Frollo, with a little bit of inspiration from another Victor Hugo character (though not a Disney character), Inspector Javert. He only showed up a couple times and was a fairly small character, but it was still a disappointment to me when TW created its own Frollo in the form of Rollo Flamme. I love Rollo, make no mistake (even if his name is quite possibly the silliest sounding in the entire game), but that sort of killed Jehan. A similar situation occurred with two characters I named "Mr. Walters and Melo." They were based on Honest John and Gideon, and only appeared in two stories: they were devoured alive by Leona and Ruggie (after doing some VERY not-nice things to Cheka) in a two-part tale called "Wajomba Njaa." They later returned in a flashback cameo in Nakoda's big Chapter Story, "The Sinister Serpent," with the scene implying it took place before they got eaten up and digested by the lion and the hyena. Thankfully, since these two were such minor figures (and...you know...are currently DEAD, anyway), it didn't bother me too much when Fellow Honest and Gidel were introduced. I like them a lot more than "Walters and Melo" anyway, on many levels. XD Elias technically counts, as well. I created him because I realized the whole "Blot and Overblot" thing was a reference to the Phantom Blot. I thought it would be great to have an actual Phantom Blot character in the story as a result. This made things awkward when we not only learned about "Blot Phantoms," but also saw enemies designed to resemble the Phantom Blot in Chapter 7. However, I think the setup for Elias is still different enough that I can keep using him. I keep worrying that they're going to bring Oogie Boogie and/or Captain Hook into the game, and I'm not really sure what I'll do if that ever happens, as far as Reno and James go. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

[mrs-melodontmiss]

My baby getting endorsed by legends. Melo really is HIM.

Side note: I really thought they played us and we weren't gonna get to see Taker but it was worth the wait! Nostalgic af. I'm happy for both Melo and Bron. Both stars in the making.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Caveman 1981

[smashpages]

Gary Phillips’ ‘Cold Hard Cash’ debuts on Comixology

The crime fiction writer brings his prose character Martha Chainey to comics.

[denimbex1986]

'Believe it or not, fantastical Doctor Who episode The Giggle actually has some basis in real history – well, up to a point...

The third and last of the show's 60th anniversary specials opens in Soho, 1925, where Charles Banerjee (played by Charlie de Melo) is unwittingly stepping inside the domain of the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris).

The visitor is looking for a test subject and selects Stooky Bill, a puppet, despite the Toymaker's protestations that he's separating Bill from his 'wife' Stooky Sue and their 'babies'.

Banerjee, we discover, is in the employ of one John Logie Baird (John Mackay, who played the same role in Russell T Davies' ITV drama Nolly), who is on the cusp of inventing television. Using the head of the dummy, the Scottish engineer is successful in his efforts to transmit a televised image between rooms in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street, London.

Of course, little does Baird suspect that his work has been corrupted by the Toymaker – oblivious, Baird is hailed as a genius and pioneer, with the end results of the Toymaker's work only making themselves apparent almost a century later, in 2023.

Though the real Baird didn't source his test subject from an omnipotent, extra-dimensional being – at least as far as we know – Stooky Bill did in fact exist...

Baird first devised a basic television system in 1924 – it used a spinning disk with 30 lenses to send moving pictures as electrical signals. The lenses picked up light from an object, and a device changed this into an electrical signal sent by radio waves. At the receiving end, a similar spinning disk with a light recreated the image of the object.

Baird's system was not able to televise human faces, because they had inadequate contrast, so he used the head of a ventriloquist's dummy – nicknamed "Stooky Bill" – whose brightly painted face had greater contrast. The lights illuminating the subject also generated so much heat that Baird couldn't use a human for testing – as seen in The Giggle, Stooky Bill's painted face eventually became cracked by the heat.

The puppet's unusual nickname came from Scots vernacular, with "stooky" or "stookie" being another word for plaster-cast and also being used to refer to a foolish person.

Doctor Who portrays Bill as having a 'family', but there is no evidence that Stooky Sue and the babies ever existed in reality – although Baird did use another male dummy, named "James", in his experiments.

John Logie Baird began giving public demonstrations of television in 1925 and 1926, even demonstrating the world's first colour transmission in 1928. A year later, in 1929, his company Baird Television Development Company Ltd. made the first television programmes officially transmitted by the BBC.

Baird died, aged 57, on 14th June 1946 – a blue plaque marking his first demonstration of television sits at 22 Frith Street, Westminster, London.'

[mommalosthermind]

Sterek Beast's Beauty?

Okay! Yes!

@annechen-melo

Beast’s Beauty is a WIP I started…. Seven years ago? Directly after Mend and Make Do was published. Initial file was over 200k when I realized I was trying to hold too many plot lines together and had to go back to the beginning and untangle them to even begin to *find* a resolution. Current wip is broken down into an astonishing number of ‘keep your facts straight’ folders, with four completed chapters and four interlude chapters. Word count for revision is 63,952.

The overall plot started as a simple, “I want Erica and Stiles to be childhood besties who fell apart after his mom dies. Erica goes missing due to a shitty prank and Stiles drags Scott into the Epic Quest To Find Her. Werewolves happen, maybe some beauty and the beast references.”

…I attempted a summary but I keep getting excited and going into waaay too much detail lmao so bare bones of the revision: Stiles finds Erica, they get trapped on the old Hale property, despite the way the house itself should have burned down with the entire family inside years ago. Erica’s bitten, Stiles is sleuthing, Derek is traumatized and entirely unhelpful, and for some reason the pictures of his family keep... moving. Slow burn for Sterek, since Derek thinks Stiles Knows Things because He Should, but Stiles has holes in his memory and doesn’t know shit, and has zero patience for the cryptic bullshit. Also the whole, ‘biting as an introductory activity’ thing. Bad manners, really. So. An awful lot of beauty and the beast, actually.

Side plots are exploring Chris/John (the sheriff is john. He just is.) with the fun backstory of “they were in a triad with Claudia but then Kate Happened and Gerard Intervened” while Chris tries to help locate the missing kids while keeping his father at bay. Lydia keeps sleepwalking to the edge of the woods, Jackson’s trying to keep her safe from both herself and her father, who seems cruel for the sake of it. Hale family isn’t as missing as Stiles thinks. Stiles would really like to blame all the weird shit he keeps experiencing on the adderall withdrawal but he hasn’t touched that since his mom died. He’s pretty sure being able to spy on his dad through a glass of water is maybe not a noted side effect, either. Scott’s attempting to be a good friend but makes bad choices because he is a teenager. Allison’s trying to be helpful, but also thinks her aunt is great. Her aunt, who seems to be entirely too aware of what’s going on the in preserve, and a little too keen on Scott.

There is. A lot. It is messy and I love it dearly and I have no fucking idea how I’m gonna wrap this all together so it’s been sitting in the ‘please love me’ section of the WiPs. Re-reading through bits and pieces to find a chunk to share was fun, though. I didn’t realize I missed this disaster project so much.

Speaking of finding a snippet, I went with something in chapter 4. And by snippet I meant its like a thousand words because I have a problem and don’t know how to do Small Things, so I’ll tuck that under a cut. (Also entirely unedited from the last time I played in this sandbox so. Probably errors.)

“Alright, dickweed,” Stiles announced, barreling into the kitchen. “Time to—

Shadowman leaned against the island, head flying up from where he’d let it hang between his sloped shoulders. One hand shot out to slam a small frame flat against the countertop, laying atop it as though it could right itself without permission, as he stood tall, eyes wild.

“—Pony up some… what the hell, dude? What’s that?”

“None of your business. You shouldn’t be down here, she asked you to stay.”

Stiles pursed his mouth to one side, resisting the urge to squint across the room. He changed trajectory, letting his feet wander him around the far side of the island. “See, that, that right there? That’s kind of the running theme. You know things,” he swept a hand out in a grand gesture, noting the way Shadowman shifted to one side to keep Stiles in view, “things us mere mortals don’t—”

“Mere mortals.”

“‘Swhat I said, yeah. Point! You know, we don’t, you don’t share with the class, and I’m not digging this whole routine at all, man, so let’s try something new, like, oh, I don’t know,” he slapped his hands down on the edge of the island. 

Shadowman’s fingers, splayed across the frame, twitched closer to his palm. 

“Werewolves, for starters.”

Silence hung over the room. Stiles counted his breaths, forcing his hands flat against the countertop. Cloth swished as Shadowman went boxy, arms crossing over his chest. That sardonic slant to his mouth came back, a tiny upward pull of his brows sprinkling humor on top. “Took you long enough, Stilinski.”

“Oh fuck you, dude,” Stiles shoved himself away from the counter, only to immediately press around the corner and get into the taller man’s face. “You could’ve told us at any point in time—”

“I did,” Shadowman drawled, not acknowledging Stiles’ flailing limbs at all. “Repeatedly. She ignored me. You ignored me. You,” he took a step closer, forcing Stiles back enough to be able to look up the last few inches into his face. “Repeatedly told me you were both human.” He snorted, inelegant.

“Okay, first off, I? Am one hundred percent human.” Stiles waved a hand down his side. “This is prime unbitten human, right here.” He decided to be the bigger man and ignore the blatant way Shadowman rolled his eyes. “Second, your explanation was severely lacking in that it had zero actual explaining. At all. Ever. At any point. Don’t you take that tone of eyebrow with me,” he added, watching as Shadowman’s eyebrows did a funny little waggle as he mouthed Stiles’ words.

“Werewolves,” Stiles snapped, determined to wring out every ounce of information he could. “That’s a thing. Erica is a wolf.” He paused, staring pointedly at Shadowman until he nodded. “Erica is a werewolf because you are a werewolf, and you bit her. That’s the gift you mean. Being changed.” Another nod. “All the weird shit she’s doing is werewolfy shit. The senses, the healing— she’s gonna heal fine, right?”

“Yes, and yes, Mi—” Exasperation cut off in a clack of teeth. “Do you honestly not know this?”

“Uh, why the fuck would I know literally any of this? Was there a class I missed? Like, is it between Chem and History? No, I don’t know any of this!”

Shadowman gave ground instead of answering, retreating back to the kitchen table, expression indecipherable.

Rookie mistake. In a flash, Stiles wrenched the abandoned frame upright. Whatever he might have expected, he honestly didn’t know, but time fractured around the edges as he took her in. Long, wavy brown hair around an oval face. Huge, startled eyes swirled with brown and green. A sloping nose over a horrified, opened mouth. Parts of a whole his mind slipped over, again and again, unable to click sections together.

The frame clattered back to the counter from his numb fingers. Stiles hunched over, hands shooting up to press into his skull. They couldn’t stop the abrupt flashes of red hot iron scraping along the inside of his brain; the pressure made it close to manageable. 

“Mischief—” A man’s voice, far off and distorted, hands on his shoulders. “Stel? What—” the words broke down into unintelligible hisses. Stiles whined. Every sound rubbed against the raw edges of his head.

The headache drained away in small bursts, leaving him panting against the island. Shadowman hovered a few feet away, the frame cradled in one hand. Both forearms carried new black tattoos, snaking around each other in broad ropes. 

“I have… so many more questions now,” Stiles muttered. He gave himself three deep breaths before forcing himself to stand, more than half convinced the movement would jar the pickax in his brain back to life. 

It didn’t, but the memory made his movement cautious. He held out one hand, as imperious as he could manage with wobbly legs. “Give it back.”

Dark brows snapped together.

Stiles’ jaw clenched and his nose flared. “It’s pretty obvious you know more than I’ve even thought to ask yet,” he started, voice a low rasp in his throat. “Don’t think we won’t get to that, wolfboy, because we will.” The flinch looked unconscious, and was deeply satisfying to witness. “But first, give her back.”

Those stupid brows slid up, Shadowman's mouth falling open, even as his eyes darted around the room. His hand, though, held the frame closer to his chest. “Her?”

Stiles snorted, closing his eyes for a beat, hands on his hips as he tried to roll some of the tension from his neck. “You wanna play that game, man? Okay. Cool. We can do this dance. I know her.” It rang in his chest as he said it, so he said it again. “I know her. I know she’s about this tall,” he held a hand out to the side, above his shoulders. “I know she’s got a mole on the left side of her face, and tattoo. Tattoos? I know she smells like paint and fire,” he couldn’t stop once he started, even as the pickax turned into a power drill at the top of his spine. Despite the water in his eyes and the rocks squeezing his voice he added, “I know she makes me think of chocolate and playgrounds and stars, and I know that I don’t fucking know how I know any of that, but I’m beginning to think you do, so give her back.”

This time, when he reached out, Shadowman met him stare for stare. This time, the silence stretched until Stiles’ extended hand began to tremble. This time, mouth thin, Shadowman dropped his eyes to the side and pressed the body-warmed frame into Stiles’ grip.

[evildeadfan102]

I'm doing my own AEW wrestling.

Here's pics from Rampage 3.

Triple threat match - Abadon defeated Nyla Rose and Kris Statlander

Pac Defeated Wardlow

Orange Cassidy defeated Darby Allin

Tag match - Brian Cage and John Silver defeated Chris Jericho and Jake Lynch

Champions vs Challengers tag match - Britt Baker and Tay Melo defeated Anna Jay and Riho

[deadthehype]

Kith for the New York Knicks 2023 Campaign

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Preview: DC's Harley Quinn Romances #1

DC's Harley Quinn Romances #1 preview. DC is proud to present a selection of eight stories of rapscallion romance, prodigious passion, and undulating, unbridled affection #comics #comicbooks #harleyquinn