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prisonwalkerfics · 6 months ago

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Liminal Ambiguity

Summary

Expectations are a thing where people reveal their worth to others and themselves. How would someone like myself could afford to bridge the gap between my halo and horns? Am I truly worth the task at hand to appease those expectations, or simply able to burn the alleged faith in me from other people? Emerson is starting his life as a new upstart adult in a world where crimes and infidelity are growing exponentially. With family on his end pressuring to make better decisions for himself, he barely has the effort to attempt the decision he finds for himself and for himself. Until he meets someone worth the effort to hide his stress for a few nights…Or maybe forever?

Cast

Tristan Stovall as Emerson Briar Brumfield (ML)

Clayton Hunter as Mr. Nolan Brumfield

Andres Marcelo as Michael/Evan Ryder Rose (Bodyguard/ Friend/False Love Interest (LI) for Emerson)

Kjay Woodland as Andrew “Drew” Miller (LI)

Max Cohen as Kasper Isaak-Miller (Bro)

Tyla Laura Seethal as Shiomi Sato-Miller (Sis)

Regina Hall as Imani Miller (Aunt)

Teyonah Parris as Kayla Miller (Aunt)

1: Remembrance

-Emerson-

I wonder if my father truly loves me. Is he loathing the idea of my failing aspirations, or is the opportunity to reconstruct my identity too much to bear for him? I questioned his motives sometimes when I was involved. He says he has my best interest at heart, but I have yet to see any form of his love towards me to be present. Sometimes, I wished my mother was still here to keep the peace between my father and myself.

I walked into my on-suite bathroom, staring at myself in the mirror, absorbing the self-loathing I had placed in myself countless times. I have a few blemishes here and there. I lift up my shirt to smell the stench of the alcohol from last drenching my body. Great, I was going to freshen up quickly and climb back into my bed to sleep the day away, but I think a divine intervention has something else in store for me.

"Emerson, your father wanted to know if you were awake. He wishes that you quickly wrap up your morning routine and meet him in his office immediately. Also, good morning, Emerson. Hopefully, today will be the day that good news will bless you." Our butler, Ulysses, mentioned this to me before exiting my bedroom.

It's nice hearing his voice. I hope he doesn't leave, too. I turned on the shower and climbed into the burning barrage of water droplets, stabbing me into the leftover scars left by my past temperaments and discretions. This may ease my mind off what my father would be plotting to sabotage my free will yet again. It has not been even a whole year since the last time I had to beg for his forgiveness. Am I really that much of a shameful excuse of a son that he is going to punish me again. Will his chamber members of the executive be there again? Will they also need me to cleanse myself for them to relieve them of my sorrow? I can only find out by meeting him in his office. What do I have to lose that I already lost?

I walked towards his office when I noticed Ulysses fanning me over towards him. He removed his right glove from his hand and placed it on my shoulder. I looked into his face to see a smile on his face. I haven't seen a smile on his face since my dad called me back from boarding school three years after my mother's death. This may be good news for once.

"Be careful, and don't do anything you will regret doing. I hate seeing you hurt." Ulysses stated to me before laying a small kiss on my forehead.

"Thanks; let me get this over with before he reconsiders whatever he has in store for me," I told Ulysses before knocking on my father's office door, waiting for him to say something.

I stare at the door that started it all for me. My announcement of my birth by my mother to the removal of my name from my father and reside at Lady Lily Boarding School of Troubled Youths. I went through so much there. I was trapped there with no outside communication because my father wanted nothing to do with me at the time. My mother yelled at him for sending me away because I was too weak to form coherent thoughts and like-minded ideals like himself. He said the school would help shape me into a man like himself. He said I was troubled by the thoughts that went through my mind.

I was troubled, alright. The mental and emotional assaults by the priests and nuns to the physical assaults from the other boys who were there seeking the same thing as myself, but in the difference between the both of us, they were truly troubled. They took something from me I would never want any man or woman to experience. They took my innocence, pride, and the least amount of sanity I had at the time. I was only going to go to the school for one year, my father said to prove to me that I was not troubled, but after the person I trusted there to support me throughout my year there, he beat me up and sexually assaulted me to prove that I was just as troubled as everyone else here.

All I could hear was him laughing at me as he silenced me each time, emphasizing his position and views on me stroke by stroke. After he finished, I snapped. I picked up the nearest object and beat the living shit out of him to prevent him from hurting anyone else ever again. It was all a ploy from my father to prove to my mother that I could not be saved from simple parenting but hard love. He didn't expect the kid to go this far with me, but nonetheless, my father won in my mother's eyes. I was left behind for another two years to be falsely rehabilitated for something that was never a part of me. Yet, I was still victimized in my own mind to live with the failure I had given my mother, the only person who saw the best in me, to walk away from her greatest blessing. I was able to bless her with my life. Now, I was a curse that killed my mother and pushed my father to believe in his perspective of me.

"Come in." I hear my father's voice behind the door. I walked through the door to see him in one of his countless luxurious suits. "You're late. Have a seat." I nodded and sat across from him.

I looked up at my father, hoping he would finally look me in the eyes for a change, but all he was doing was looking at documents and his calendar. Once again, after all these short years after my 'shameful' display at the school and when I returned home after my mother's death, he would never look at me nor acknowledge me as his son.

"Good morning, d- Mr. Brimfield. I am sorry for my lateness. It won't happen again." I told my father. He looked up from his folders of documents and calendar and saw my sorrowful face. He had a soft smile before it quickly fell off his face.

"I see you refrained from calling me by paternal nouns here. I guess letting you stay at that school for another two years did you some good. Then again, your mother's death also did a number on your mental health and self-awareness of authority around you. I think I could give you something that would shed more light on the Brimfield name. Ulysses, call in Mr. Rose. He needs to see who his new assignment will be." My father mentioned that he had commanded Ulysses to bring some strangers to his office.

"An assignment? Am I going on a trial or something, Sir?" I asked my father, confused. I looked behind myself to only go pale in the face. "What the fuck is he doing here?" I wondered, mumbling and shaking at a loss for words, that my father would continue to hurt me even after the will my mother left behind.

My father walked over towards the guy who violently assaulted me six years ago and got me in this mess, being hugged and cherished more than I have ever received from my father. I was born to be tormented and tortured by the man who was supposed to nourish and love me unconditionally.

"Watch your mouth, boy. This successful young man's family is a potential business partner. I asked them if their son had any time to partner with my son on a chance to redeem himself in my eyes and achieve his mother's wishes. They said he doesn't have any other obligation on their end, so I asked them to help you help me." My father said coldly as he twisted the words of my dead mother into my face.

Michael Rose is the guy who has broken me even more than I have ever been. He destroyed my image of my mother of ever being saved from my torment of a place that started to 'repair' broken young men and women. Michael was another broken boy, but he was indeed troubled but as a troublemaker. He always pulled pranks and bullied me here and there. However, everyone on the campus loved him, from the Holy Father to all the students who attended the school. After my little explosive moment with him in one of the sports teams' supplies shed, they loved him even more, giving him a chance to leave school early. However, I heard he rejected the opportunity and stayed until graduation like I did.

Now, at the age of 21, I look at him. He is taller than before and relatively in shape. His eyes are still the same shade of icy blue from all those years ago, and he has the same dark brownish-black hair to follow suit. I trusted this person with my mind, body, and soul. He desecrated all three of them in a matter of a short year. He smiled at me as he turned to my father with concern.

"I am not sure this will work out, Mr. Brimfield. Your son is uncomfortable with me being here." Michael mentioned it to my father. My father looked at me and back to him with a cocked brow.

"Wait in his room until I am done with him. My butler will walk you to his room. I will get to the bottom of this foolishness." My father growled as he dismissed Michael from his office, closing the door behind him. My father locked the door and walked over towards me. "You have the nerve to make a fool out of me again. Did you learn anything after all these years besides shitting yourself? I honestly swear you can be hopeless and disgraceful." My father slapped me in the face as he stabbed me with more words of affirmation that all of this was nothing more than a lie.

I stumbled, falling in front of his desk. I stare at my father, shaking at the countless beatings and punishments that occurred in this room. This place was never a happy place. The very fact that this room used to be my mother's library turned into yet another one of his offices to build another wall between my own escape from his tyrannical rule over my mind and displace my mother further away from me.

"He was the one that broke my trust all those years again! You expect me to just forget about everything he did to me! That will never happen!" I shouted at my father, pulling myself up from the ground.

My father walked over swiftly, picking me up and slamming me onto his desk. He slapped me twice across the face as he stared into my eyes with the same rage he did when I was defending myself all those years ago from my rapist. He slammed me over and over again onto his desk, feeling my heart break each time he dropped me. Why couldn't it have been you?

"If he did all those things, you should have begged forgiveness when they tried to press charges against you. It took all your hard work to get a good lawyer to acquit all the charges against you, Emerson. When I finally thought you would become a man like your father. Respectable. Honorable. Disciplined. I thought I could even start calling you my son rather than Adanna's boy. You turned around and pulled this shit. The boy was in intensive care for over a year. He even forgives you for the assault, but you, of all people, believed you were better than God himself and refused it. Take this opportunity as a form of redemption for your past discrepancies and reflect." My father drilled into my mind once again.

I felt tears fall down my face. I always wanted to hear those words come from his mouth. He pulled me up from the desk and pulled me in for a vile embrace. I stood there in fear of what he may do next. He pulled me in tighter, leaning close to my right ear. "You better not fuck this up, son. If you do, you can relive that same event for the next thirty to fifty years. If that event happened, of course." My dad mentioned pushing me out of his office to get back to work before.

Why did my mother have to leave me instead of him? I try my hardest every day to one day get his approval again, like when I was younger. I missed the man who saw me as one of his successful projects. The happiness that left him was euphoric. He was happy for months. He would play with me, read books, and have countless sleepovers. Now, I look back at it to see if it was indeed the happy memories he provided, or were they simply requests from my mother to bond with me since he wanted an heir to the company someday.

I walked up the stairs in shame to just crawl into my bed and cry my eyes out for yet another failed attempt to appease my father's hunger for higher glory and happiness. I walked into my room to see my abuser extinguishing my escape from the world engulfed by my father. I want to push him out of my window and kill myself in the process to make my father suffer both in his career and honestly as a father.

I left the door open just in case something happened. Michael walked towards me, keeping his distance. He stared at my face and my unkempt clothes. "I heard a lot of shouting down there. I never knew Mr. Brimfield to be so vocal. He was always a man of a few words. I know you properly didn't forget about me, but I was finally able to talk to you after all this mess." I glared at Michael as he said those words with such a chirping tone. Even now, he is mocking my domestic abuse and the abuse I experienced from him secondhand.

"Why the fuck are you here? Didn't you do enough to hurt me? You were my only friend for a long time and stole six long years from me. You suppose a little conversation between us would fix my lost teenage years, and the invasive therapy sessions would alleviate what happened all those years!" I yelled at Michael, crying my eyes out as all those words and the ability to stand against him finally gave me something he stole from me to reappear. My ability to think and be selfish.

"It might not be, but I am willing to start over. I never got the chance to tell you that I was sorry. I took advantage of you and your loneliness and did things that no one should ever do to someone. I understand that you may not trust me again, but I know that your father believes I didn't do anything to you. He even tried to see if I would storm out of this room after my plea for forgiveness. He even threatens you with the same assault I caused you six years ago. I was an idiot trying to feed off anything that would make me feel good. If you want to continue where you left off, I have accepted that year after my release from the hospital." Michael stated firmly as he walked closer, dropping a heavy object in my hands.

I opened my eyes to see it was a pistol with a silencer on it. I looked at him in horror yet glee. I have the chance, with no restraints, to end the life of the person that harmed me. I checked the magazine and saw nothing there. I disarmed the gun to see if the chamber had a round in it, but to my shock, the gun was empty. Michael pulled out a necklace with a bullet stained with dried blood on it, sealed in a fairy bottle.

"Is this some sick joke, Michael? Is giving me this gun to kill you as a returned favor for what you did to me?" I asked him as my blood began to boil. He walked over towards me with a hug. I can feel my heart and breathing quickly start to accelerate.

"It is what I can do, at least. After I lead them all to this point, including you." Michael told me softly as if his voice had gotten remorseful. I looked up at him, trying to connect the decaying nerves in my brain to make one last critical thinking point before I potentially fail my father and especially my mother again.

"What did he hire you for?"

"To be your friend again."

You can't be serious. Is my father trying to help me for a chance, or is he trying to redeem himself for lost time? I have to figure that out.

A/N

I hoped I did not run you all away from this shameless and shotty comeback sort of. Awkward thinking this is how I wanted to return, but here I am back at last somewhat. See you in the next chapter.

#lgbtq #love #lost #pain #trust

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cinemaslife · 9 months ago

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#32 Spiral (2019)

"Una pareja del mismo sexo se muda a un pueblo pequeño para poder disfrutar de una mejor calidad de vida y criar a su hija de 16 años con los mejores valores sociales. Pero nada es lo que parece en su pintoresco barrio." - FilmAffinity

Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) y Aaron (Ari Cohen) son una pareja interracial que se mudan a un pequeño pueblo con la hija del último, Kayla (Jennifer Laporte), es 1995 y pese a que la comunidad parece muy agradable, cuando un día vuelve Malik de hacer deporte encuentra una pintada en su casa con la palabra "fagots", y sé lo culta a ambos, pintando antes de que vuelvan.

Malik se queda en casa trabajando en su novela y siempre ve a un hombre mayor que le da mala espina, hasta que lo ve varias veces rondando por la casa, y un día lo confronta. El cual le da un papel en blanco de forma misteriosa.

En la casa de enfrente, una noche, Malik observa como realizan una especie de ritual, bailan y rezan en círculo en el salón de la casa de su vecina, y no sabe quién es esa gente, pero lo que les trasmite no es nada positivo. Saca una fotografía con su Polaroid, y al día siguiente se llevan un cadáver de la casa. Es el hombre misterioso que le dio el papel en blanco.

Al día siguiente, Malik se cuela en la cara del vecino esperando encontrar respuestas. A la vez, Kayla empieza a conocer a un chico que le llama mucho la atención, llamado Tyler (Ty Wood).

Cuando sus vecinos les invitan a tomar una copa de vino en su casa, Malik no puede evitar escabullirse para investigar, allí viven Tiffany (Chandra West) y Marshal (Lochlyn Munro) con su hijo Tyler, el interés romántico de Kayla. Pero no encuentra nada, como en la casa del vecino mayor. Pero no puede evitar seguir sintiendo que algo no encaja.

A Mailk ese pueblo le trae muy malas sensaciones, y tiene flashbacks recurrentes de un incidente ocurrido hace varios años, donde se encontraba en un coche besándose con su entonces novio y un grupo de jóvenes les asalta y mata a su pareja. Esa historia ha estado persiguiendo a Malik todos estos años, y es el motivo de que esté escribiendo ese libro.

Una noche, del techo de la habitación de Kayla cae sangre, y son dos mapaches que se han desangrado en los techos de la casa. La sangre cae sobre la cama y el rostro de Kayla lo que la hace entrar en pánico.

La mente de Malik se está rompiendo debido a su pasado y a todo lo que está viviendo en la nueva casa, mientras Kayla y Aaron se mantienen en otro plano, es en la espiral de su locura, que da con el método para qué la nota en blanco que le entrega su vecino revele que tiene escrito. Ahí descubre una serie de números que tienen que ver con noticias en el periódico antiguas.

Se lo cuenta todo a Aaron, entre la información les cuenta que hace 10 años murió otra pareja homosexual en el pueblo, y lejos de entenderle, Aaron le confiesa que ya lo sabía, que Tifanny y Marshal son buenas personas.

Al bajar la puerta del garaje descubre en la misma una espiral pintada, y empieza a sentirse cada vez más incómodo y fuera de lugar, siente que los vecinos le vigilan y le observan, Rusty Creek no es el lugar seguro y soñado que se imaginaban, y decide adentrarse en la casa abandonada de la pareja que murió hace 10 años. Donde descubre algunas similitudes de lo que ocurre en su casa: pintadas, techos falsos, ruidos... ahí logra ver a una presencia fantasmal que le entrega unas cintas de vídeo. Y cuando vuelve a casa, descubre que Aaron le muestra una serie de Polaroids donde se le ve manteniendo relaciones sexuales a Malik y Matthew, el nieto del vecino, cosa que Malik sabe que no es verdad, que ese no puede ser él.

"Hablo muy en serio Kayla, este pueblo y este maldito país no son seguros para la gente que destaca. Ya puedes ir olvidándote de todo lo que te dije, de vivir libre y con orgullo, ni se te ocurra llamar la atención, nunca te hagas oír, nunca te manifiestes, no es seguro. Tayler solo quiere una cosa de ti." Es el consejo que le da Malik a Kayla cuando están solos.

Malik está fuera de control, no recuerda cosas, está agotado y desubicado, con dolor de cabeza... y se aloja en un hotel para poder visualizar las cintas, viendo como se reproduce el ritual de acoso y asesinato, que están sufriendo ellos.

Al volver a casa, dispara a Marshal para proteger a su familia, y acaba en la cárcel, mientras Aaron le confiesa que tanto él como Kayla volverán a la ciudad huyendo de él. Al volver a casa, Aaron visualiza una de las cintas que encuentra Malik, y comprende que la historia se repite cuando ve a Tayler en una grabación de 1985 exactamente igual que ahora, 10 años después. Marshal visita a Mailk en la cárcel, mientas en la casa se reúnen en un ritual para matar a Aaron, Kayla y Malik y acusar a Malik de matarlos y suicidarse después.

Tayler asesina a Kayla y se come su corazón ante los ojos aterrorizados de Aaron, acusarán a Mailk de todo, y nadie lo cuestionará.

10 años después, en 2005, eligen a una nueva pareja para que caiga en sus redes. Malik lo documenta todo en unos cd's y los ocultará, como las cintas del matrimonio anterior.

"Algunas circunstancias son bastante inverosímiles, pero el trasfondo de homofobia es real hasta el día de hoy. Los saltos temporales que te guían para que te desubiques como Malik son abrumadores, ya que no parece que estés entendiendo el film. Entretenida" - Cinema's life

#spiral #Chandra West #lochlyn munro #film #cinema #amazon prime #pelicula #Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman #ari cohen #Jennifer Laporte

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dustedmagazine · 9 months ago

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Itasca — Imitation of War (Paradise of Bachelors)

Photo by Tessa Binder

Kayla Cohen’s last album as Itasca, Spring, came out back in 2019. My interest in that record was piqued by the involvement of Chris Cohen and Cooper Crain, but the results were mixed. In my Dusted review (my first for the site) I concluded: “As a listening experience it’s akin to viewing a watercolor painting, its delicate hues no doubt appealing to anyone attuned to such subtlety. But to someone aching for a little more conviction, grit and risk, it may prove frustratingly listless.” Imitation of War addresses these shortcomings, and then some.

Most importantly, Imitation of War feels more like an evolved, full-band recording, rather than a solo, singer-songwriter record embellished by the contributions of other musicians. Though Cohen strips back to just voice and her formidable guitar chops on songs such as “Under Gates of Cobalt Blue” and “Olympia,” it’s the full-band songs that really shine. The album is co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), with Evan Backer (Wand) on bass, and Evan Burrows (Wand) and Daniel Swire (Gun Outfit) on drums. Right from the opener, “Milk,” Cohen’s guitar playing takes center stage, demonstrating she’s as skilled on electric guitar as she is on acoustic. In one channel the guitar swirls with delicate modulation, and in the other, a second clean electric guitar plays call-and-response with the first. Down the middle, the rhythm section pins down a deep, solid groove.

Another point of difference on this new record is Cohen’s voice, which is deeper, smokier, and more empathetic to the songs’ shifting moods. Comparison with Joni Mitchell is valid, though Cohen’s vocal tends to weave between the interstices of the instruments rather than sail over the top. It’s hard to make out what she’s singing about, but the mood is undeniable: reflective, and melancholy yet hopeful.

The album’s highlights, “Imitation of War” and “Tears on Sky Mountain,” inject more life into the band performances, upping the tempo and nudging Cohen into a higher register. Then, on the nine-minute “Easy Spirit,” Cohen and her co-conspirators improbably morph into a full-blooded jam band, pushing and pulling the song’s tempo during lengthy instrumental stretches and pointing the Itasca project in a thrilling new direction.

Tim Clarke

#itasca #imitation of war #paradise of bachelors #tim clarke #albumreview #dusted magazine #folk #pop #indie

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year ago

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Spiral (2019)

Spiral is a valiant effort. You can tell everyone was trying their hardest and towards the end of the film, it does expose a kernel of intelligence that - if you’re dying to see an LGBT+ horror movie - might almost, if it’s a full moon, and Halloween as well, make it worth seeing.

Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) and his boyfriend Aaron (Air Cohen) move into a new home with Aaron’s daughter, Kayla (Jennifer Laporte). The small town's residents are welcoming enough but while his family is away, Malik discovers homophobic graffiti scrawled on their living room wall. Someone - or something - in this community is watching them.

A common criticism of LGBT+ characters in film is that they always have tragic endings. It’s not an unfounded complaint. Far too often, if you even have gay characters in your movie, they’re written in to support the leads before they die tragically. That’s not the case here. Malik is very much the central character in a horror film that addresses fears particularly relevant to people like him. We see glimpses of his past when he witnessed a boyfriend get lynched by homophobes, he’s terrified that his neighbors are merely pretending to be friendly (he’s got a reason to be frightened) and there are also real-world issues unique to same-sex couples discussed. The conclusion brings up ideas that are worth pausing to think about, such as how there’s always going to be another “other”, and there's also an exploration of what sort of trauma you would suffer from if you witnessed both passive-aggrssive and violent hate crimes. Now if only the movie were better.

The first issue with the film is Malik. This story is set in 1993 so certain behaviors/attitudes can be excused. Even so, the man’s got no sense of self-preservation. When you oversee your neighbors doing something creepy at night, if you’re going to take a picture of them, do it in a way that doesn’t draw attention to yourself. If you’re going to investigate the creepy old man, either come up with a good story in case you get caught snooping or make your presence subtle. I know the people in this horror movie don’t know they’re in a horror movie but the signs are there. Malik has seen the offensive graffiti, he’s also noticed these weird spirals here and there. I can understand him not wanting to cause panic by telling Aaron and Kayla but if you REALLY think they’re in danger, tell them

To properly explain why this is a bad movie, I have to give away the ending. Turns out that every ten years (give or take), the seemingly friendly neighbors sacrifice a virgin to some demon to remain young. Part of the ritual includes pouring animal blood all over her face, weird dancing, etc. They get away with it by framing the girl’s parents. In recent years, their coverup has them targetting gay parents, whom the media will see as “prone to mental instability”. Butcher the girl, make it look like the adults killed her, then each other. They will never run out of victims because there’s always going to be someone the police will say “Yeah, those kind of people will just do that”. Movie-wise, it’s a good idea. This story is about a gay man but when you think about it, he could’ve been in a mixed-race relationship, or an unwed mother, etc.

Once we know this, many earlier events seem clumsy or nonsensical. Malik stumbles upon the truth about the cult by venturing into the house of the lesbian couple killed in 1983. Lucky for him, they just happened to videotape everything that happened to them and left the videos in their home for him to discover a decade later. You’d think the cultists would’ve gone in and scrubbed the place clean so no one would find the evidence. When the cultists sacrifice their virgin, they open her up and clean out her guts like she's a watermelon. Even if the police are prejudiced, it’s hard to believe someone won't recognize this pattern, particularly since it happens every ten years. Maybe the cultists clean up their mess after? No, we know they don’t. They didn't even bother cleaning up the blood stains when the new family moved in! And what was the deal with the spiral-shaped break that formed on Malik and Aaron's windshield when they drove into town? Just the biggest coincidence of all time I guess.

You can forgive a lot in a horror film if it scares you. Even if you’ve been the victim of homophobia, there’s not a lot that’ll give you willies in Spiral. The performances are good but there are just too many elements of this story that disappoint, don't go far enough or are ultimately half-baked. It's a shame. Another couple of passes through the ringer and it might’ve worked. (May 3, 2021)

#Spiral #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #kurtis david harder #colin minhan #john poliquin #jeffrey bowyer-chapman #ari cohen #lochlyn munro #chandra west #ty wood #2019 movies #2019 films

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rjtpitt · 2 years ago

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zamancollective · 6 years ago

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The Spaces in My Togetherness

By Kayla Cohen

Papercut by Sophie Levy

Kayla originally submitted this essay to the Berkeley Hillel Prize.

Last year, my friends and I invited one of our visiting lecturers, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, to a Tu B’Shvat seder in the Charedi-turned-hippie neighborhood of Nachlaot.

The event’s Facebook page asked guests to bring wine for the four prayers. We had stopped at Mahane Yehuda on the way, curving through the shuk’s wet alleyways, passing its porous walls and the fruit stands closed for the night, weaving in and out of a few liquor stores to find a 20-shekel bottle of red wine. People’s heads turned as Geshe Damchoe trailed behind us in his long crimson robe.

The seder was in a small synagogue. The room was filled twice over capacity. A buzzing murmur hovered across the room. Talk drowned the rabbi’s voice. No one was listening. Everyone -- but us five -- was drunk. Heavily drunk. And everyone -- but Geshe Damchoe -- was Jewish.

Damchoe sat quietly in his seat, reading the pamphlet explaining the different mixtures of wine that only he abstained from drinking that night. Then a niggun erupted. People drummed on the tables. They hollered and clapped. They beat their chests, climbed onto their chairs (or fell if they lost their balance). The five of us stared, rose, and followed.

Yin/yang is what Taoists see in the world: duality. Buddhists see karma governing an interdependent unity. In the little synagogue, amidst the roaring and table-banging, I laughed to myself: the Jews only know disorder.

(You can’t remember ever feeling that self-conscious about Jewish practice before. There was something about being in the company of a spectator, someone with limited exposure to Judaism (and no predisposition to defend it) that made celebrating the holiday fully and without questioning difficult for you. So you too adopted the role of observer. And for the first time, a fuller understanding of your own culture came not from engaging with it- but distancing yourself from it.

You were self-conscious, but not necessarily conscious of yourself. You were conscious of an “other.”)

That night blurred the defined space between “other” and “self.” It forced me to consider how much other people have affected how I see my self.

I hold others’ habits, tastes, and opinions. I hold behaviors that were modeled for me (your bad habit of cracking your neck, which started only because you thought your desk partner in 8th grade looked cool when she popped the capsules of her joints in cascading sequence). I hold feelings that I learned (your fear of plastic bottles from the progressive people you met in college, or revulsion from the thought of once mixing meat with milk -- embodied most gloriously in BBQ-chicken-cheese pizza -- before you lived in Israel and decided to keep kosher). I hold ideas that I did not create (like what your legs or chest should look like). I hold expressions that I can’t explain (the spontaneous tears induced by a friend’s; the contagious yawn induced by your neighbor).

I am not the only one engaged in this interexchange. Judaism has interacted with other peoples (and absorbed some of their cultural practices) for over two millennia. Jews were conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans; by the Christians, Ottomans and British; before they were exiled, they lived in Egypt, Spain, Portugal, France, and Yemen; they founded communities across eastern and central Europe; in ancient Persia and modern Iran; in Iraq and Syria; in Albania, Morocco, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina; Ethiopia, Canada, the U.S., China, and India.

Because of their diasporic history, Jews also stand as a collection of different peoples, and their cultures, tastes, and practices. Some Jews are blonde. Some Jews have black skin. Jews hold citizenship to different countries. They speak different languages. Communities in the mizrach sing their prayers to Muslim chants. Many western synagogues adopted pews from churches. The ancient Beit Alpha synagogue by the Galilee holds pagan gods on its mosaic floors.

Judaism is imbued with so much otherness.

(You, too, are imbued with so much otherness.)

From where, then, does the Jewish people’s sense of self arise?

(From where, then, does your sense of self arise?)

Navigating the fluid interexchange between rigid conceptions of “self” and “other” is daunting. At the same time, the strain that this challenge has placed on how I interact with the world, and the fragmented feelings it has left me with, best honor my experience as a Jew, and on a more basic level, as a person.

Nearly a year after the Tu B’Shvat seder in Nachlaot, one of my teachers introduced me to a book called The Prophet by Khalil Gibran) He quoted a line from the book: “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.” (The idea cleaves to the walls of your brain.)

In context, the point of the quote was to remind people engaged in any relationship with another person of their own individuality. To separate the self from another, and sanctify the self-contained.

But maybe Gibran’s words can also be interpreted to question the self-sufficiency of the individual altogether. Maybe seeing spaces in one’s togetherness is the recognition of voids in a whole bigger than its acting parts; separation in what appears singular; other influences in the self; a network of people in one’s personhood.

Judaism hollows spaces -- spaces not just between Diaspora communities in different parts of the world, but within an individual’s consciousness.

These spaces are deeply embedded in my consciousness. I occupy different spaces: the space my body takes, the space between my body and another’s; and the emotional space that bleeds into another’s and sometimes encompasses the two. I jump between my selfhood and my otherness, “I” and (you). I occupy the space to both write about and to myself, to be and ultimately, to ask: “who are you, Kayla? How do you assert yourself? How do you assert your self?”

#nonfiction & opinion #kayla cohen #sophie levy

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https-rainbumble · 2 years ago

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Kendall Presley

face claim · gabriella wilde

godly parent · aphrodite

fic · challenging love

love interest · percy jackson + annabeth chase

Paisley Cohen

face claim · danielle rose russell

godly parent · hades

fic · inception of dread

love interest · jason grace

Annalise Quinn

face claim · annasophia robb

godly parent · apollo

fic · symbols of the skies

love interest · tbd

Kayla Stephenson

face claim · alisha boe

godly parent · aries

fic · fate of silver

love interest · jason grace & reyna avila ramírez-arellano

Cheryl Barlow

face claim · madison mclaughlin

godly parent · enyo

fic · whispers in the darkness

love interest · tbd

Clarissa Madron

face claim · madison iseman

godly parent · posideon

fic · harmony of the seas

love interest · annabeth chase

Zea Coleman

face claim · kaya scodelario

godly parent · nemesis

fic · ruins with honor

love interest · tbd

Alina Mavroulis

face claim · virginia gardner

godly parent · iris

fic · daughter of the light

love Interest · tbd

Mia Blanton

face claim · madelaine petsch

godly parent · eros

fic · loss of twilight

love interest · tbd

Cecelia Elilis

face claim · sarah jeffery

godly parent · eris

fic · strife without duty

love interest · percy jackson

Dianna Condou

face claim · alycia debnam-carey

godly parent · hermes

fic · butterfly of snow

love interest · tbd

Elysia Kellakou

face claim · lana candor

godly parent · hecate

fic · blinded by the magic

love interest · reyna avila ramírez-arellano

Kinsley Gallidi

face claim · maddie hasson

godly parent · athena

fic · clinging to the sword

love interest · percy jackson

Adhira Callea

face claim · saoirse ronan

godly parent · zeus

fic · battling the gods

love interest · tbd

Belladonna ‘B’ Kingston

face claim · madison davenport

godly parent · melinoë

fic · necromancy and ghosts

love interest · tbd

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frequentlykit · 3 years ago

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Supernatural actors who were on Criminal Minds *incomplete*

George Darrow DJ Qualls - SPN: Garth CM: Richard Slessman (season 1 episode 1)

Timothy Omundson - SPN: Cain CM: Phillip Dowd (season 1 episode 6)

Dameon Clarke - SPN: Jack Montgomery (Rugaru) CM: Christopher Crawford (season 1 episode 7)

Jeff Kober - SPN: Randall CM: Leo (season 1 episode 9)

Mark Rolston - SPN: Alastair CM: Sheriff Hall (season 1 episode 11)

Michael Massee - SPN: Kubrick (Bad Day at Black Rock) CM: Jacob Dawes (season 1 episode 14)

Michael B. Silver - SPN: Martin Flagg (Movie Writer “Hollywood Babylon“) CM: Sam Shapiro (season 1 episode 14)

Roger Aaron Brown - SPN: Joshua (Angel) CM: Warden Charles Diehl (season 1 episode 14)

Robert Curtis Brown - SPN: Father Gil (”Sin City”) CM: Peter Greisen (season 1 episode 16)

Eric Johnson - SPN: Brady (Sam’s college friend/demon) CM: Sean Hotchner (season 1 episode 16)

Jack Conley - SPN: Sheriff Al Britton (”Yellow Fever”) CM: Agent John Summers (season 1 episode 21)

Mary Page Keller SPN: Joyce Bicklebee (Leviathan Real Estate Agent) CM: Katie Cole (season 2 episode 2)

Nicki Aycox - SPN: Meg Masters (season 1) CM: Amber Canardo (season 2 episode 3)

Kayla Mae Maloney - SPN: Leah Gideon (season 5 The Whore) CM: Polly Homefeldt (season 2 episode 7)

Andrew Rothenberg - SPN: Lukcy (Skinwalker “All Dogs Go to Heaven”) CM: Motel Manager (season 2 episode 7)

Samantha Smith - SPN: Mary Winchetsers CM: Helen Douglas (season 2 episode 14)

Jim Parrack - SPN: Agent Nick Munroe (Siren) CM: Paul Mulford (season 2 episode 21)

Steven Williams - SPN: Rufus Turner CM: Captain Al Wright (season 2 episode 22)

Alexander Gould - SPN: Cole Griffith (”Death Takes a Holiday“) CM: Jeremy (season 3 episode 5)

Jim Beaver - SPN: Bobby Singer CM: Sheriff Williams (season 3 episode 7)

John Lafayette - SPN: George Darrow (Crossroad Blues) CM: Dr. Lorenz (season 3 episode 8)

James Otis - SPN: Famine (My Bloody Valentine) CM: Dr. Nash (season 3 episode 8)

Fredric Lehne - SPN: Yellow Eyes/Azazel CM: Jack Vaughan (season 3 episode 12)

Scott Michael Campbell - SPN: Tim Janklow (hunter season 5) CM: Peter Redding (season 3 episode 15)

Dee Wallace - SPN: Mildred Baker (Banshee Episode) CM: Dr. Jan Mohikian (season 4 episode 7)

Courtney Ford - SPN: Kelly Kline (Jack’s mother) CM: Austin (season 4 episode 9)

Mark Pellegrino - SPN: Lucifer/Nick CM: Lieutenant Evans (season 4 episode 10)

Mitch Pileggi - SPN: Samuel Campbell CM: Norman Hill (season 4 episode 11)

Sierra McCormick - SPN: Lilith (Blonde Little Girl) CM: Lynn Robillard (season 4 episode 13)

Mercedes McNab - SPN: Lucy (Vampire "Fresh Blood") CM: Brooke Lombardini (season 4 episode 14)

Spencer Garrett - SPN: Edward Carrigan (God ”A Very Supernatural Christmas” CM: (season 4 episode 21)

Christopher Cousins - SPN: Dr. Garrison ("Bedtime Stories") CM: Tom Barton (season 5 episode 1)

Travis Aaron Wade - SPN: Cole Trenton CM: J. Turner (season 5 episode 4)

Gattlin Griffith - SPN: Jesse Turner (Cambion) CM: Robert Brooks (season 6 episode 9)

Adrianne Palicki - SPN: Jessica Moore CM: Sydney Manning (season 6 episode 13)

Rachel Miner - SPN: Meg Masters (Last vessel) CM: Jane Gould (season 6 episode 15)

Sebastian Roché - SPN: Balthazar CM: Clyde Easter (seasons 6 & 7)

Chad Lindberg - SPN: Ash CM: Tony (season 6 episode 19)

Tricia Helfer - SPN: Molly McNamara (”Roadkill”) CM: Izzy Rogers (season 7)

Robert Englund - SPN: Dr. Robert (season 6 episode 11) CM: Detective Gassner (season 7 episode 19)

Jamie Luner - SPN: Annie Hawkins (hunter season 7) CM: Madison Riley (season 8 episode 13)

Jack Plotnick - SPN: Ian ("It's A Terrible Life") CM: Tanner Johnson (season 9 episode 7)

Jon Gries - SPN: Martin Creaser (crazy hunter) CM: Clifford Walsh (season 9 episode 13)

Tahmoh Penikett - SPN: Gadreel CM: Michael Hastings (season 9 episode 14)

Ashton Holmes - SPN: Ephraim (Rit Zien Angel) CM: Finn Bailey (season 9 episode 17)

Matt Cohen - SPN: Young John Winchester/Michael CM: John Franklin (season 10 episode 6)

Lex Medlin - SPN: Cupid ("My Bloody Valentine") CM: Allen Archer (season 10 episode 14)

Sterling K. Brown - SPN: Gordon Walker CM: Fitz (season 10 episode 19)

#superatural #criminal minds

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mmenthusiast · 4 years ago

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Spiral (2019)

Director: Kurtis David Harder

Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, Jennifer Laporte...

Spiral is a 2019 Canadian horror movie about a gay couple, Malik and Aaron, who move to a small town with their daughter Kayla. Both men have interesting backstories to their life. Malik was a witness/victim of bashing by a group of delinquents when he was a teenager, which left him psychological consequences that he's still fighting with today, and Aaron was married to a woman and had a daughter with her before coming out of the closet and divorcing. The daughter Kayla now lives with the gay couple.

The horror story comes into play when strange things start happening after their arrival to the small town. First it's just the strange looks from other townsfolk, then someone breaks into their house, they start getting anonymous insults and threats and so on. But the pressure is only felt by Malik who is the only one suspecting that something is wrong about that town. His partner doesn't believe him and thinks he's being paranoid because of the incident from his past. However, as the movie progresses, it turns out Malik was actually right and the whole town is part of some weird-ass cult that hunts down minority families, be they of any background (sexual minority, ethnic minority etc.). They use black magic and subtle manipulation to usually drive one member of the family crazy, then kill the rest of them and blame it on the last surviving family member.

The movie was entertaining and the suspense was definitely there, and I also have to praise the original storyline, but there were also some things I didn't like that much. First is the political elements, which I found unnecessary because I think the point has already been made throughout the movie, and second is the supernatural elements, that sometimes seemed to me to be too quickly and superficially implemented.

Rating: 3/5

#spiral 2019 #spiral #gay movies #lgbt movies #queer cinema #lgbt #gay #horror #canada #3 #movie reviews #movies #films

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spirallereditadisawstreaming · 4 years ago

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Il film horror queer "Spiral" inizia con una provocazione comprensiva: una coppia si siede tranquillamente ma appassionatamente nella loro macchina in un ristorante remoto e altrimenti deserto chiamato Angel's Drive-In. Accendono un paio di riflettori e confermano che i due amanti sono entrambi uomini. La violenza inizia presto, ma in un momento e in un luogo diversi: la coppia Malik e Aaron (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman e Ari Cohen) si trovano di fronte a un mattone nei secondi dopo essere entrati in un piccolo sobborgo che può o non può essere infestato Il parabrezza della sua auto è stato accolto da cultisti pseudo-cristiani.

Queste strazianti scene preparatorie sono evidenti in vista del film relativamente timido che segue: Malik, che è più vivace di Aaron, impazzisce per la preoccupazione quando la sua compagna e figliastra Kayla (Jennifer Laporte) lotta per integrarsi in una città che ovviamente non è una. Non mi sento a mio agio con "nessuno di voi", come dice un vicino sorridente e portatore di doni. Sfortunatamente, ci sono alcuni tabù in cui i creatori di "Spirale" sono troppo timidi o troppo cauti per entrare, e questo è mostrato nel modo in cui ripetutamente suggeriscono ma mostrano solo segni che lo fanno una volta Dì (o letta) la parola "frocio". “Questo film è intenzionalmente progressista ma non formale, e purtroppo la differenza tra i temi e le considerazioni dei suoi creatori è evidente.

Non sarei così entusiasta dell'uso scherzoso di un inchino decisamente pigro nel film se non fosse spruzzato su un muro interno della casa di campagna isolata (ma spaziosa) di Malik e Aaron in una scena. Questo atto di vandalismo accelera il crollo mentale di Malik, portandolo a mettere in dubbio il consiglio favorevole agli slogan che dà a Kayla: "La decisione di vivere la tua vita ad alta voce e con orgoglio è la cosa più coraggiosa al mondo".

Ecco alcuni incidenti in scatola, tra cui un paio di incontri leggermente scadenti con un vicino più anziano e suo nipote scarno (e inaspettatamente gestibile). In questa luce, il terrore di Malik sembra essere il risultato di una proiezione autodistruttiva o di un'astuta osservazione. Nessuna delle due opzioni è particolarmente gratificante considerando quanto sia difficile e sottosviluppata la vita personale di Malik. Passa la maggior parte del suo tempo a scrivere un libro su e per un oratore apparentemente sgradevole - un vecchio bianco che indossa occhiali cerchiati di corno e parla lentamente di "difesa dei valori", come il "nucleo familiare tradizionale", il "tutto" - o cose giocose Sparring con Kayla, che incautamente si innamorò del ragazzo del posto Tyler (Ty Wood) senza prima licenziare il suo fidanzato esistente (ma assente). I giorni più felici e aperti di Malik sono ancora dietro le foto dell'album che ha condiviso con Kayla, tra cui un foto di Malik con suo padre quando erano entrambi più piccoli (cioè, Aaron è nell'aria e Malik sorride) ma è difficile preoccuparsi di ciò che infastidisce Malik poiché anche lui non lo è. " problemi: cerca l'argomento della sua agiografia solo alcune scene dopo aver iniziato a scrivere.

Quanto a quella parola, Malik e Aaron la pronunciano quasi un paio di volte, ma non è esplicitamente mostrata (figuriamoci detta) fino a molto più tardi in "Spiral". A questo punto, la lotta di Malik è diventata uno scontro inevitabile con un gruppo di bigotti che probabilmente tutti conosciamo senza saperlo, dal momento che possiamo indovinare le loro motivazioni dal loro comportamento ovvio. Questo suona abbastanza vero per la vita se ci pensi in modo astratto, ma la storia di Malik non contiene molto in quanto è presentata principalmente attraverso le sue esperienze soggettive, ma a volte incrocia anche la sottotrama romantica condannata di Kayla e raramente include Aaron dopo un paio di scene. .

È difficile sapere cosa pensare o sentire quando vediamo il personaggio di Bowyer-Chapman indagare su una misteriosa nota adesiva mentre la narrazione fuori campo rielaborata ci ricorda un avvertimento che Malik ha appena ricevuto (pochi secondi fa) dal tuo vicino raccapricciante: "Non farlo dillo ... a chiunque ... "Quel lampo di umorismo inaspettatamente combattivo sembra interamente tratto da un altro film.

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wadeillinois · 5 years ago

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Thank you all for your patience as we worked through the applications, and for your patience in the upcoming days as we update the pages and get everything started. All of these applications were incredible, and we thoroughly enjoyed reading every single one. We’ll be reaching out to some of you who have applied for skeleton characters (which received multiple applications) with ideas we have for how to make the character you’ve created into an original one, so be sure to check the inbox of the account that you used to send your application for a message. Otherwise, anyone who doesn’t receive a message from us is more than welcome to re-apply for a different original character during our next round of acceptances. We ask that you just create a new one to avoid characters being too similar.

We ask for your continued patience tonight when it comes to OOC interactions. As much as we’d love to get straight to plotting, the two of us are pretty much fried! We both are going to head to bed now, but we’ll be on in the morning to send out links to join the OOC blog and OOC discord if you so choose! Then we’ll have the whole day tomorrow to talk about Wade!

If you’ve been accepted please send your account within 24 hours (by 1:00am EST on Wednesday, April 8th).

With that being said, please welcome the following characters to Wade.

ABBY as Daphne Bishop (Dear in the Headlights, Lily James FC).

ADE as Wade Solomon (Second Overdose, Jake Weary FC).

AMANDA as Susie Hawthorne (Church Owl, Alycia Debnam-Carey FC).

ANA as Daisy May Jones (Einstein in Tennis Shoes, Brianne Tju FC).

ANA as Nora Greene (Gone Girl, Emma Mackey FC). **

ART as Nate Brown (Dead End, Matthew McConaughey FC).

BUCKY as Ennis Silverman (Fry Crook, Chris Evans FC).

C as Juniper Smith (LA Reject, Imogen Poots FC).

CAT as Savannah Preaker (Prom Queen, Sydney Sweeney FC).

DANA as Magdalena Ortiz (Syrupy Sweet, Ana de Armas FC).

EMILY as Elijah Smalls (Career Criminal, Lakeith Stanfield FC).

FERB as Rhett Gregory (Talks Like Yoda, Bill Hader FC).

FIONA as Maddie Davis (Sidekick, Danielle MacDonald FC). **

FRANKIE as Hallen Kane (Gun Belt, Joel Kinnaman FC).

HONEY as Zephyr Green (Transplant, Kristine Froseth FC). **

J as Catalina Lopez (Damsel in Distress, Diane Guerrero FC).

JULIE as Robbie” Emmanuel Rivera (Dog Tags, Oscar Isaac FC).

KALA as Albany Rogers (Desperate for Attention, Adele Exarchopoulos FC).

KAYLA as Leo Graham (Fucking Hipster Bullshit, Oliver Jackson-Cohen FC).

LEXI as Georgia Palmer (Loser, Sofia Bryant FC).

LEXIE as Jaylen Maxwell (We Should Split Up, Jordan Fisher FC).

NIKKI as Daniel DePalma (Mr. Nice Guy, John Krasinski FC).

RACH as Kiara Crawford (Desperate Housewife, Deepika Padukone FC).

RAY as Rosalyn White (Cat Lady, Jessica Henwick FC).

REED as Nicoletta Balducci (Red Widow, Lady Gaga FC).

SIERRA as Priscilla Darcy (Blank Canvas, Malese Jow FC).

SUNNY as Shiloh Harrington (Rear Window, Zoe Kravitz FC).

TARA as Alexander Fletcher Wright (Gun Belt, Joel Kinnaman FC).

THAD as Gabriel Lockhart (Man of God, Callum Turner FC).

** = So many of you picked the last name Green/Greene! Once you have a moment, if you could talk amongst yourselves about last names and who wants to change theirs and then report back, that would be great! Thank you!

CHECK OUT THE POST ACCEPTANCE CHECKLIST!

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Here are the top 500 baby name meaning!

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1. Top 500 baby name meaning

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Arabella 175 Bryce Harmony 176 Karter Elise 177 Victor Remi 178 Milo Teagan 179 Miguel Alexis 180 Hayden London 181 Graham Sloane 182 Grant Laila 183 Zion Lucia 184 Tucker Diana 185 Jesse Juliette 186 Zayden Sienna 187 Joel Elliana 188 Richard Londyn 189 Patrick Ayla 190 Emiliano Callie 191 Avery Gracie 192 Nicolas Josie 193 Brantley Amara 194 Dawson Jocelyn 195 Myles Daniela 196 Matteo Everleigh 197 River Mya 198 Steven Rachel 199 Thiago Summer 200 Zane Alana 201 Matias Brooke 202 Judah Alaina 203 Messiah Mckenzie 204 Jeremy Catherine 205 Preston Amy 206 Oscar Presley 207 Kaleb Journee 208 Alejandro Rosalie 209 Marcus Ember 210 Mark Brynlee 211 Peter Rowan 212 Maximus Joanna 213 Barrett Paige 214 Jax Rebecca 215 Andres Ana 216 Holden Sawyer 217 Legend Mariah 218 Charlie Nicole 219 Knox Brooklynn 220 Kaden Payton 221 Paxton Marley 222 Kyrie Fiona 223 Kyle Georgia 224 Griffin Lila 225 Josue Harley 226 Kenneth Adelyn 227 Beckett Alivia 228 Enzo Noelle 229 Adriel Gemma 230 Arthur Vanessa 231 Felix Journey 232 Bryan Makayla 233 Lukas Angelina 234 Paul Adaline 235 Brian Catalina 236 Colt Alayna 237 Caden Julianna 238 Leon Leila 239 Archer Lola 240 Omar Adriana 241 Israel June 242 Aidan Juliet 243 Theo Jayla 244 Javier River 245 Remington Tessa 246 Jaden Lia 247 Bradley Dakota 248 Emilio Delaney 249 Colin Selena 250 Riley Blakely 251 Cayden Ada 252 Phoenix Camille 253 Clayton Zara 254 Simon Malia 255 Ace Hope 256 Nash Samara 257 Derek Vera 258 Rafael Mckenna 259 Zander Briella 260 Brady Izabella 261 Jorge Hayden 262 Jake Raegan 263 Louis Michelle 264 Damien Angela 265 Karson Ruth 266 Walker Freya 267 Maximiliano Kamila 268 Amari Vivienne 269 Sean Aspen 270 Chance Olive 271 Walter Kendall 272 Martin Elaina 273 Finley Thea 274 Andre Kali 275 Tobias Destiny 276 Cash Amiyah 277 Corbin Evangeline 278 Arlo Cali 279 Iker Blake 280 Erick Elsie 281 Emerson Juniper 282 Gunner Alexandria 283 Cody Myla 284 Stephen Ariella 285 Francisco Kate 286 Killian Mariana 287 Dallas Lilah 288 Reid Charlee 289 Manuel Daleyza 290 Lane Nyla 291 Atlas Jane 292 Rylan Maggie 293 Jensen Zuri 294 Ronan Aniyah 295 Beckham Lucille 296 Daxton Leia 297 Anderson Melissa 298 Kameron Adelaide 299 Raymond Amina 300 Orion Giselle 301 Cristian Lena 302 Tanner Camilla 303 Kyler Miriam 304 Jett Millie 305 Cohen Brynn 306 Ricardo Gabrielle 307 Spencer Sage 308 Gideon Annie 309 Ali Logan 310 Fernando Lilliana 311 Jaiden Haven 312 Titus Jessica 313 Travis Kaia 314 Bodhi Magnolia 315 Eduardo Amira 316 Dante Adelynn 317 Ellis Makenzie 318 Prince Stephanie 319 Kane Nina 320 Luka Phoebe 321 Kash Arielle 322 Hendrix Evie 323 Desmond Lyric 324 Donovan Alessandra 325 Mario Gabriela 326 Atticus Paislee 327 Cruz Raelyn 328 Garrett Madilyn 329 Hector Paris 330 Angelo Makenna 331 Jeffrey Kinley 332 Edwin Gracelyn 333 Cesar Talia 334 Zayn Maeve 335 Devin Rylie 336 Conor Kiara 337 Warren Evelynn 338 Odin Brinley 339 Jayceon Jacqueline 340 Romeo Laura 341 Julius Gracelynn 342 Jaylen Lexi 343 Hayes Ariah 344 Kayson Fatima 345 Muhammad Jennifer 346 Jaxton Kehlani 347 Joaquin Alani 348 Caiden Ariyah 349 Dakota Luciana 350 Major Allie 351 Keegan Heidi 352 Sergio Maci 353 Marshall Phoenix 354 Johnny Felicity 355 Kade Joy 356 Edgar Kenzie 357 Leonel Veronica 358 Ismael Margot 359 Marco Addilyn 360 Tyson Lana 361 Wade Cassidy 362 Collin Remington 363 Troy Saylor 364 Nasir Ryan 365 Conner Keira 366 Adonis Harlow 367 Jared Miranda 368 Rory Angel 369 Andy Amanda 370 Jase Daniella 371 Lennox Royalty 372 Shane Gwendolyn 373 Malik Ophelia 374 Ari Heaven 375 Reed Jordan 376 Seth Madeleine 377 Clark Esmeralda 378 Erik Kira 379 Lawson Miracle 380 Trevor Elle 381 Gage Amari 382 Nico Danielle 383 Malakai Daphne 384 Quinn Willa 385 Cade Haley 386 Johnathan Gia 387 Sullivan Kaitlyn 388 Solomon Oakley 389 Cyrus Kailani 390 Fabian Winter 391 Pedro Alicia 392 Frank Serena 393 Shawn Nadia 394 Malcolm Aviana 395 Khalil Demi 396 Nehemiah Jada 397 Dalton Braelynn 398 Mathias Dylan 399 Jay Ainsley 400 Ibrahim Alison 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2. Meaning of name "Liam" and "Emma"

Liam:

Liam's name is the name of a boy of Irish origin meaning "resolute protection".

Liam originated as the nickname of Uilliam, the Irish variant of William. William is an English name from German origin brought to Ireland when the British fled England after the conquest of Norman.

The Irish began to use English names, including William, which led to the development of Uilliam and its short form, Liam.

Liam is the top US boy's name for 2018, joining the elite group of names to top the list. Liam started out as a short form of William but has long stood on his own and for several years has become one of the most popular baby names for boys.

Now it is the fastest-growing Irish name in the United States, first entering the Top 10 in 2012 and before climbing to No. 1, holding No. 2 for four consecutive years.

Emma:

Initially, a short form of the German name beginning with the ermen element meaning "whole" or "universal". It was introduced to England by Emma of Normandy, who was the wife of King Ethelred II (and by him the mother of Edward the Confession) and later King Canute.

After the Norman conquest, this name became popular in England. It was revived in the 18th century, perhaps in part because of a poem by Henry Prior Henry and Emma (1709). In the United States, it ranked third in 1880 (after Mary and Anna were omnipresent).

It declined steadily over the next century, beginning another rise in the 1980s and eventually becoming the most popular name for girls in 2008.

At this time it also experienced similar levels of popularity elsewhere, including the United Kingdom (where it began rising a decade earlier), Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands.

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