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therealaves-blog1 · 1 year ago

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I want the void to hear my takes on Star Trek: Coda

okay finale book. Oblivion’s Gate by David Mack. Lets see how they close this out.

So we open on ‘the second splinter’ which is Picard and Co dying on the Devidians planet moments before they can activate their plan. We then hop back to the Defiant which is hiding out in the badlands. Sisko tells Kira they gave her the Orb for a reason and the prophets might not be dead as fuck yet. They get a message from the mirror universe and a wormhole opens for them. They head through and decloak, to meet Captain Luc Picard of Jauntship Enterprise.

Okay, Mirrorverse catchup. Basically everything happened as it did in the shows (I think the Disco part too). But, Alt Spock set up Memory Omega which was a secret organization dedicated to bringing the federation to life in the mirrorverse. They hid in like hollowed out planets and stuff and have a bunch of advanced tech like wormhole drives and slipstream as default. When it became clear the revolt started on Terok Nor was taking wing, they came to support them and helped establish a galactic commonwealth, with the Romulans taking the place of the Klingons as former enemies now friends. So theres a big ol psuedo federation thats very advanced on this side.

So Bashir knows some people over there (presumably for a thing he did prior) They really should’ve chopped and changed the dot points per book for relevant stuff. They come aboard and meet Luc Picard and his first officer, Alexander’s mom. They have some brief awkward counterpart moments and then Alt Savik (special guest star Kirstie Allie) is like ‘holy shit its spock’ but in vulcan. They’re all like ‘time apocalypse’ and the commonwealth people are like ‘please more info now.’ They deliver and Wesley is like ‘our realities are linked which is why stuff happens in weird mirror ways’ and no one asks for a follow up.

They get permission to go to a Memory Omega site that has like a wild reality viewer thing. Meanwhile Riker is going crazier and Vale, Troi, Doc Lizard, and secretly counselor lil guy attempt to prove that he can be dismissed on medical grounds and realise his brain is cooking with two rikers in it. Confirming everything Troi got from Picard. They very nicely sit down with him and give him the data and he briefly takes the pad and secretly deletes the info before having Vale and Lizard arrested and threatening Deana.

Over there, they hand out the bands they’ve made to keep time multiple personality disorder which is sent throughout the whole fleet. Wesley plugs into the chair and Data does the data analysis, trying to find the original fault that the Devidians are using to do the whole Time War thing. They find it and its very depressing. So here’s how it works.

Way back during the movie First Contact, when the Enterprise was the only remaining ship above Borg Earth and jumped into the timehole to undo what the borg done did. The Borg on Earth realized what they were seeing and kept the portal on their end open. They did a bad science on it in an attempt to prevent the Enterprise from returning to the present and undoing its undoing of their new Borgy history. This busted up reality. So we got the prime timeline (the tv canon feat. new shows) which diverged from Borg Earth (which somehow became stable on its own) and the First Splinter Timeline (which is the novelverse eu). The First Splinter is inherently unstable and so are all of its descendant timelines which is what allowed the time crimes. They relay this and reveal the only option left to them: prevent their own existence by stopping the initial splinter to stop the time ghosts from eating all the stable timelines once they get through the first splinter.

Kira reactivates the orb of time and sisko and wes do a mindmeld to reach into it for prophet advice, they sanction the course they’re taking. Everyone is different shades of bummed about this but they agree to go ahead for the needs of the many, they relay this to the mirror lads who agree to help as their universe is starting to break down as well. In main verse the president of the federation asks why riker is acting so crazy before the weird universe breakdown they’ve been witnessing expands and destroys the entire sol system. Riker takes control of the fleet and orders them to find the Defiant for reasons that arent making a whole lot of sense to anyone but him. over there, Kira goes to the wormhole with the orb to act as a beacon, Sisko, Picard and the Defiant go to the past of borg earth to undo the thing there, and wes and Luc Picard go to the normal verse to find the devidians base by scanning black holes and use the stuff they have there to wipe their history out.

This is kind of a bummer for many reasons (im sure we’ll get a fun time bullshit ‘we saved things! yay!’) but no one gets enough time to process all the shit happening or see this from a personal perspective to give us an understandable look at something on this scale. Like, the goal is to retroactively erase all the things that happened in this canon, which can be done if we get a strong character dialed in look at it, but we arent. Its shifting too much and a bunch of faves have already died. So the sense of everything is out of wack. Like part of what works about Hickman’s FF and Avengers runs is the focus on a few characters we know in the face of insane cosmic chaos. It helps ground it, but this still feels like the Picard show, but not sufficiently deep enough to justify the focus and the jumps to other characters are too shallow. idk, Kira is the only one who feels like she’s understands the weight of all this and she’s not in this much.

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kendalls-roy · 2 years ago

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Would I Lie To You?

#panelshowedit #britcom #lee mack #victoria coren mitchell #miles jupp #richard osman #susie dent #kirsty young #would i lie to you #would i lie to you?#wiltyedit #wilty #panel shows #mine

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selenolatries · 7 years ago

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I love your guys' enthusiasm for the whole ranai thing in chapter 20 bUT YOU CANT JUST STARTING MACKIN IT WITH SOMEONE WHO'S DISSOCIATING

#blathering kirsti #fic: catoptromancy #I PROMISE WE WILL GET TO THE MACKING EVENTUALLY

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dear-indies · 3 years ago

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Hi lovelies 💞 I was wondering do you know some female fcs that are have Scottish ancestry ? (Can be any race/ethnicity mixed ) thank you in advance!

Phyllis Logan (1956) Scottish.

Julie Graham (1965) Scottish.

Shirley Henderson (1965) Scottish.

Michelle Gomez (1966) Scottish / Portuguese-Montserratian.

Lila Downs (1968) Scottish American / Mixtec.

Kate Dickie (1971) Scottish.

Neve McIntosh (1972) Scottish.

Kathaleeya McIntosh (1972) Thai Chinese / Scottish.

Laura Fraser (1975) Scottish.

Kelly Macdonald (1976) Scottish.

Rachel Grant (1977) Scottish, French-Canadian and Filipino.

Pollyanna McIntosh (1978/1979) Scottish and English.

Rose Byrne (1979) Irish and Scottish.

Ruth Connell (1979) Scottish.

Kirsty Strain (1980) Scottish.

Morven Christie (1981) Scottish.

Amy Manson (1985) Scottish,

Georgia King (1985) Scottish.

Chloe Pirrie (1987) Scottish.

Ruth Connell (1987) Scottish.

Cleopatra Coleman (1987) Afro-Jamaican / Scottish.

Sharon Rooney (1988) Scottish.

Sophie Kennedy Clark (1990) Scottish.

Danielle Macdonald (1991) Scottish and Italian.

Joanna Vanderham (1991) Scottish.

Lois Chimimba (1991) Malawian / Scottish.

Maggy / Natsuki Margaret Gibb (1992) Japanese / Scottish Canadian.

Freya Mavor (1993) Scottish, Irish, some Danish.

Mirren Mack (1997) Scottish.

Eubha Akilade (1998) Nigerian and Scottish.

Sorcha Groundsell (1998) Scottish.

Jade Alleyne (2001) Afro-Barbadian and Scottish.

Was born in Scotland:

Katie Leung (1987) Hongkonger.

Eunice Olumide (1987) Nigerian.

Kiran Sonia Sawar (1991) Pakistani.

Emma Maembong (1992) Malaysian / Scottish.

Charithra Chandran (1997) Tamil Indian.

Moyo Akandé (?) Nigerian.

Let me know if you want suggestions from a specific age range because this is a broad question!

#fc help #rph #rpc #scottish fc

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reginaldqueribundus · 3 years ago

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History of Star Trek

(long post so most is under the cut!)

1963: Ex-cop and WW2 pilot Gene Roddenberry begins shopping around a concept for a science fiction TV series called Star Trek.

1964: Roddenberry signs a deal with Desilu Productions (the studio responsible for I Love Lucy) to make a Star Trek pilot episode for NBC.

Original pilot “The Cage” is filmed starring Jeffrey Hunter, Majel Barrett and Leonard Nimoy. NBC rejects it but makes the unusual decision to authorize another one.

1965: A second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, is filmed starring William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy, and accepted by NBC.

1966: Star Trek (or Star Trek: The Original Series, as it is now called) premieres on NBC in September. The first episode aired is “The Man Trap”. The series also stars DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Grace Lee Whitney.

Sadly, producers let Whitney go after deciding her character is not needed. Her final appearance is in “The Conscience of the King”.

1967: Walter Koenig joins the cast of Star Trek, beginning with season two premiere “Catspaw”, as a character designed to appeal to younger audiences.

Desilu is bought out and merged with Paramount Pictures, which becomes the new owner of the show.

The first Star Trek comic books are published by Gold Key Comics.

1968: The first original Star Trek novel (Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds) is published

After receiving over 100k letters from fans, NBC renews Star Trek for a third season, but moves it to an undesirable time slot and cuts its budget. Roddenberry steps down as producer, resulting in a third season many describe as subpar.

1969: Star Trek is cancelled after three seasons, as NBC believes not enough people are watching it, airing its final episode “Turnabout Intruder” in June. However, the show starts airing in reruns on different TV stations around the country and actually gets more popular.

1972: Over 3k fans attend the first ever Star Trek convention, in NYC. Associated Press describes Star Trek as “the show that won’t die”.

1973: NBC recalculates the numbers and realizes Star Trek was one of their most successful shows ever, but the props and sets have already been destroyed and are too expensive to replace. This results in the creation of an animated version, produced at Filmation studios.

Star Trek: The Animated Series (known simply as Star Trek at the time) premieres on NBC with the episode “Beyond the Farthest Star”. The series features the same cast (except Koenig, due to budgetary limitations).

1974: After two seasons, Star Trek: TAS airs its final episode: “The Counter-Clock Incident”.

1975: TAS wins a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Series. Paramount and Roddenberry begin workshopping ideas for a Star Trek feature film.

1976: Thousands of Trek fans persuade NASA to name their prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise, in honour of the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise from TOS.

1977: Paramount announces plans for their own network, the Paramount Television Service, and begins production on a new live action series to air on said network, Star Trek: Phase II. The show will feature the original cast along with a couple of new characters.

The network never comes to fruition, and Paramount elects to adapt the aborted series into a movie instead.

1979: Paramount releases the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Dir. Robert Wise), starring the original series cast alongside Hatsune Miku and Persis Khambatta. Despite a troubled production putting it behind schedule and over budget, it is a big financial success.

1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (dir. Nicholas Meyer) is released, also starring Ricardo Montalbán, Kirstie Alley, Bibi Besch and Merritt Butrick.

1983: Sega releases Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator for the Atari 2600, making it the first Star Trek game on a home video game console. (Technically the first Star Trek computer game was created by a fan in 1971.)

1984: Release of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (dir. Leonard Nimoy), featuring Christopher Lloyd, Merritt Butrick and Robin Curtis.

1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (dir. Nimoy), featuring Catherine Hicks, is released and is a huge success, even more than The Motion Picture.

Paramount puts Roddenberry in charge of a new Star Trek series — a sequel, since they don’t want to pay the original cast (whose salaries are much higher now). When none of the networks want it, Paramount decides to release it in “first run syndication”, which basically means selling it directly to local TV stations around the country instead of one network.

1987: Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres in September with the episode “Encounter at Farpoint”, starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn and Wil Wheaton.

Feeling her character is being given nothing to do, Crosby exits the series after only a handful of episodes, concluding with “Skin of Evil”.

1988: McFadden exits Star Trek: TNG and is replaced by Diana Muldaur (as a different character) for season two.

1989: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (written and directed by William Shatner) is released in theatres. It receives terrible reviews and Roddenberry declares it non-canon.

After season two ends, Muldaur amicably departs TNG and McFadden returns for season three.

1990: Wheaton leaves TNG to focus on his film career, making his final regular appearance in season four’s “Final Mission”.

1991: Star Trek celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Roddenberry passes away at age 70, leaving his creation in the hands of producer Rick Berman.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (dir. Nicholas Meyer) is released, also featuring Christopher Plummer and Kim Cattrall, as a send-off to the original crew.

1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a syndicated spin-off series created by Berman and TNG writer Michael Piller, airs its pilot episode “Emissary”. Avery Brooks (as Commander Benjamin Sisko) is Star Trek’s first POC in the lead role. DS9 also stars Nana Visitor, Terry Farrell, Colm Meaney, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Cirroc Lofton and Armin Shimerman.

1994: TNG concludes its seventh and final season in May to much fanfare.

Star Trek Generations (dir. David Carson), a movie featuring the TNG crew, is released. Shatner returns alongside Malcolm McDowell, Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh.

Dorn joins the DS9 cast in the season four premiere “Way of the Warrior”.

1995: Star Trek: Voyager, another spin-off, premieres in January on the United Paramount Network with “Caretaker”. Kate Mulgrew stars as Trek’s first female lead, Captain Kathryn Janeway, as well as: Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Tim Russ, Robert Picardo, Garrett Wang, Ethan Phillips and Jennifer Lien.

1996: Star Trek: First Contact (dir. Jonathan Frakes), another TNG film, is released. It also features James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard and Alice Krige and is very successful.

1997: Jeri Ryan joins the Voyager cast, starting with fourth season premiere “Scorpion, Part II”. Unfortunately, producers decide to get rid of Lien to make room, and she leaves the show a few episodes later.

Denise Crosby stars in Trekkies, a documentary about Star Trek fans.

1998: Star Trek: The Experience, a Star Trek theme park, opens at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel.

Due to harassment from Berman over contract issues, Farrell departs DS9 and her character is killed off at the end of season six. Nicole de Boer joins the cast for season seven.

Star Trek: Insurrection (TNG film № 3, dir. by Frakes) is released in theatres, co-starring Donna Reed and F. Murray Abraham, receiving very poor reviews.

1999: In June, DS9 ends season seven with critically-acclaimed series finale “What You Leave Behind”.

DreamWorks releases the sci-fi comedy movie Galaxy Quest starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. The plot is an affectionate parody of Star Trek, and many Trek fans accept it as an honorary Star Trek film.

2001: Voyager concludes its seven-season run in May.

Enterprise, a prequel series created by Berman and Brannon Braga and starring Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, Linda Park, John Billingsley, Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating and Anthony Montgomery, airs its pilot “Broken Bow” on UPN in September.

2002: The fourth and final TNG film, Star Trek: Nemesis is released. Directed by Stuart Baird and co-starring Tom Hardy, it is the first Star Trek film to bomb at the box office.

2003: Enterprise is officially retitled Star Trek: Enterprise at the start of season three.

2004: Trekkies 2 is released, also hosted by Crosby.

2005: Enterprise is cancelled after four seasons due to low ratings (and the decline of UPN itself), concluding in May with “These Are The Voyages…”, one of the most hated series finales in franchise history.

2006: CBS splits from Paramount’s parent company, gaining primary control of the franchise. Paramount retains the film rights and fires Rick Berman.

CBS begins airing digitally remastered episodes of Star Trek: TOS with updated special effects.

2009: Paramount releases Star Trek (dir. J.J. Abrams), a movie reboot of TOS set in an alternate timeline with an all-new cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldaña, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho and Anton Yelchin. Nimoy also returns alongside Bruce Greenwood and Eric Bana. The film is a huge blockbuster success.

2010: Cryptic Studios creates Star Trek Online, the only Star Trek MMORPG in existence, which is still in operation as of June 2021.

2013: Paramount releases Star Trek Into Darkness (dir. Abrams), a sequel to 2009’s Star Trek co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.

2016: To celebrate Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary, Paramount releases another sequel: Star Trek Beyond (dir. Justin Lin), which also stars Idris Elba and Sofia Boutella. Sulu (played by John Cho) is depicted as gay, marking Star Trek’s first acknowledgement of the LGBT+ community onscreen.

CBS announces a new live action Star Trek series is being created by DS9/Voyager writer Bryan Fuller. He later departs and Alex Kurtzman becomes the unofficial “head” of Star Trek.

2017: prequel series Star Trek: Discovery debuts in September with two-part pilot episodes “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars”. It is the first Star Trek series to be distributed via digital streaming (as all future Trek shows will be). It’s also the first with a woman of colour (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the lead role, and the first where the lead is not the captain. It also stars Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz. Rapp and Cruz portray the first original gay characters in the entire franchise.

2018: CBS releases the first of Star Trek: Short Treks, an anthology series of shorts taking place all over the franchise.

2019: As planned, Isaacs exits the cast of Discovery, who are joined by Anson Mount for the duration of season two. Latif leaves the show allegedly to star in an untitled Section 31 spinoff series which has yet to materialize. CBS debuts a behind-the-scenes companion series called The Ready Room.

2020: Short Treks concludes its second season in January. No further seasons have been announced as of June 2021.

Stewart returns in a TNG sequel, Star Trek: Picard, which premieres its first episode (“Remembrance”) in January. The series also stars Michelle Hurd, Isa Briones, Alison Pill, Santiago Cabrera and Evan Evagora.

Star Trek: Lower Decks, the first animated Star Trek series in 46 years, premieres in August with “Second Contact”. It stars Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero and Dawnn Lewis.

David Ajala joins Discovery’s cast in S3 premiere “That Hope Is You, Part 1”, which retools the show as a sequel to the whole franchise. Blu Del Barrio debuts as Trek’s first nonbinary character, in the episode “People of Earth”.

2021 (NOW): Despite delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Discovery season four and second seasons of Picard and Lower Decks are in production, along with a spin-off / TOS prequel called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (starring Mount, Ethan Peck & Rebecca Romijn) and a 3D animated series called Star Trek: Prodigy featuring Kate Mulgrew.

#star trek #a post by me™#sam rambles about star trek again

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comedyfan2013 · 7 years ago

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Lee- "I've had to stop listening to a classic 1980s pop song, because every time I play it, it makes my baby daughter cry".

#lee mack #wilty #would i lie to you #henning wehn #david mitchell #greg rutherford #kirsty young

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je55ika · 4 years ago

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United Kingdom censorship

The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

" was banned by radio stations, and allegedly suppressed from being the number-one song in the UK, due to its criticism of the British government and monarchy.

Censorship in the United Kingdom

The telecommunications regulator Ofcom has the power to reprimand broadcasters for playing songs and music videos that breach its guidelines on harmful or offensive content pre-watershed.[122][123] The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) adopted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Parental Advisory label program; in July 2011, the BPI published guidance for use of the logo on digital streaming platforms.[124]

The BBC was historically known for censoring various songs from being played on its radio and television stations; from the 1930s through 1960s, the BBC had banned songs such as "Hold My Hand" for its religious references, pop arrangements of classical tunes (though barring "Sabre Dance" because it was "not a well-loved classic whose perversion we would be encouraging"), and during World War II, songs that were "slushy in sentiment", such as "I'll Be Home for Christmas", due to concerns that it would affect the morale of soldiers. "Mack the Knife" was also banned from airplay outside of The Threepenny Opera, as the BBC felt it would be offensive outside of the context of the play.[125] The Kinks' "Lola" was briefly banned under the BBC's anti-product placement rules, as its lyrics contain references to the brand name Coca-Cola. In the midst of an American tour, lead singer Ray Davies flew back to London to re-record the offending lyric as "cherry cola".[126][127]

The Sex Pistols' 1977 single "God Save the Queen" was controversial upon its release, as it was critical of the British government and monarchy (among other things, referring to the United Kingdom as a "fascist regime"), and was released during the year of Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee.[128] "God Save the Queen" was banned by the BBC and all independent local radio stations, but still peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart during the week of the official Jubilee celebration. It was alleged that the chart's rules were changed for that week only to exclude sales from record shops that sold their own records (in this case, Virgin), in a deliberate effort to prevent the controversial song from reaching the number-one spot and causing wider offence.[121][120][119]

The Frankie Goes to Hollywood song "Relax" generated controversy due to its suggestive lyrics; the chorus contained double entendres such as "when you want to suck to it" and "when you want to come", which were interpreted as being oblique references to oral sex and ejaculation respectively.[129] On 11 January 1984, Radio 1 morning DJ Mike Read stopped the song on-air during a chart rundown to point out its "obscene" lyrics, and announced that he would no longer play the song during his show. The BBC subsequently restricted the song to evening airplay. When the band made statements in a Daily Express interview confirming the possibility of sexual connotations in the lyrics, the BBC banned "Relax" entirely. The ban only increased interest in the single, causing it to become the number-one song in Britain only two weeks later.[130][4][129]

In December 2007, BBC Radio 1 began to play a version of The Pogues' popular Christmas song "Fairytale of New York" that censored the words "faggot" and "slut" from one of its verses. The BBC cited concerns over the homophobic slurs as reasoning, despite the song having historically been played without censorship. The BBC reversed the decision after it was criticized by listeners, the band itself, and the mother of the song's featured vocalist Kirsty MacColl. Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt argued that "While we would never condone prejudice of any kind, we know our audiences are smart enough to distinguish between maliciousness and creative freedom. In the context of this song, I do not feel that there is any negative intent behind the use of the words, hence the reversal of the decision."[131][132]

As the song's subject matter was deemed too inappropriate for airplay pre-watershed, BBC Radio 1 played an edited version of Rihanna's song "S&M" during the daytime hours, and referred to the song using the alternate title "Come On". As Rihanna objected to the censorship of the song's title, the BBC later compromised by referring to the song as "S&M (Come On)".[133][134] For the same reasons, Ofcom deemed the song's music video to be unfit for broadcast pre-watershed.[123]

After the 2013 death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" from the film The Wizard of Oz reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, as the result of a social media campaign celebrating the death of the controversial PM. BBC Radio 1 did not play the full song during The Official Chart programme, and instead played a short snippet accompanied by a Newsbeat report about the campaign. The action led to complaints that the BBC were deliberately censoring the song due to its negativity in this context, noting that Notsensibles' "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher" (which also charted, as part of an effort to counter the "Witch" campaign)[135] was played in full earlier in the show. The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee upheld its decision not to play the song, due to its context as a celebration of Thatcher's death.[136][137]

"Liar Liar GE2017", a song released during the run-up to the 2017 general election that is critical of prime minister Theresa May, was not played by British radio stations due to broadcasting regulations in force during electoral campaigns, which forbid political advertising and require impartial coverage.[138] Despite the suppression, the song still managed to reach #4 on the UK Singles Chart.[139]

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redladydeath · 3 years ago

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So, the three recently announced casts have added even more queens with the same name to the roster. Here’s a list of every single one: points to anyone who feels up to charting all the commonalities.

Abby Mueller Abigail “Abbey” Heilman Abigail “Abbi” Hodgson Adrianna “Dri” Hicks Adrianna Cheree Glover Aiesha Naomi Pease Aimie Allen Atkinson Alana Maria Robinson Alexia Elizabeth “Lexi” McIntosh Alicia Tyra Corrales-Connor Alize Ke’Aloha Cruz Amanda Lindgren Amelia Anne Walker Amy Di Bartolomeo Amy Louise Bridges Andrea Cesyl “Dre” Macasaet Anna Leah Uzele Annabel Marlow Artemis Chrisoulakis Ashlee Waldbauer Ashleigh “Ash” Weir Athena Collins Brianna Marie Mooney Brittney “Britt” Mack Bryony Louise “Bry” Duncan Caitlin “Cait” Tipping Candace Leanne “Candy” Furbert Carly Mercedes Dyer Casey Al-Shaqsy Cassandra “Cassy” Lee Cassie Silva Channing Weir Chelsea Dawson Cherelle Jay O’Donnell Chiara Assetta Chloe Cherie Zuel Chloe Hart Christina Modestou Claudia Kariuki Collette Guitart Courtney “Court” Mack Courtney Bowman Courtney Jade Monsma Courtney Jane Stapleton Danielle “Danie” Louise Mendoza Danielle Lauren “Dee” Steers Danielle Rose Didi Romero Dionne Ward-Anderson Elena Gyasi Elizabeth “Lizzie” “Liz” Walker Ella Burns Ellie “Els” Sharpe Emilia Rose “Mills” “Millie” O’Connell Emily Rose Harrigan Erin Palmer Riley Ramirez Esme Rothero Gabriela Francesca Carillo Gabriella Louisa “Gabby” Stylianou-Burns Genesis “Gen” Lynea Georgia Michelle “Gigi” Carr Grace Elizabeth Mouat Grace Melville Hana Louise Cox Davis “Stewart” Harriet “Hazza” Watson Harriet Caplan-Dean Hazel Karoom-Brooker Holly Musgrave Izuka “Zuki” Hoyle Jade Marvin Jaina Brock-Patel Jarneia “Jaye’J” Richard-Noel Jarynn Whitney Sampson Jasmine Jia Yung “Jazz” Shen Jasmine Paige Forsberg Jennifer “Jen” Caldwell Jessica Carolyn Evana “Jess” Niles Jodie Samantha Steele Kala Anne “KG” Gare Kara-Ami McCreanor Karis Oka Keirsten Nicole Hodgens Kelly Denice Taylor Kelly Louise Sweeney Kelsee Sweigard Kennedy Monica Carstens Khaila Anye Wilcoxon Kiana Daniele Kirsty Natisha “Zara” MacIntosh Danile Kristina Walz L’Oreal Roache Laura Blair Lauren Ann Byrne Lauren Drew Lauren Kay Irving Leesa Tulley Loren “Lozza” Hunter Lori-Jane Williams Nicholson “McLare” Lucille “Lucy” “Luce” Aiston Maddison “Maddi” Firth Maddison Rose “Maddie” Bulleyment Madeline Fansler Maiya Jasmin Esi “May” Quansah-Breed Mallory Maedke Marilyn Caserta Maya Jordan Christian Meesha Turner Megan Gilbert Megan Leung Meghan Dawson Melinda Porto Natalie Clare “Nat” Pilkington Natalie May “Nat” Paris Nicole “Nila” Kyoung-Mi Ok Lambert Oliver Wickham Olivia Donalson Olivia Kate “Liv” Davies “Alexander” Oritsetsemaye “Tsemaye” Bob-Egbe Paisley Billings Phoenix Jackson Mendoza Princess Sasha Victome Rachel Rawlinson Rebecca “Becca” Wickes Renee Emily Frances Lamb Roxanne “Rox” Couch Sadie Annabelle Hurst Samantha Megan “Sam” Pauly Scarlet Gabriel Shannen Alyce Chin-Quan Shantel Renee “Shany” Cribbs Shekinah Adarna “Shaka” McFarlane Shelby Taylor Griswold Shimali de Silva Sophie Isaacs Sophie Patrice Golden Sophie-Rose Byrne “Middleton” Storm Lever Sunayna “Sunny” Smith Victoria Louise “Vicki” Manser Vidya Makan Viquichele Victoria “Vee” Cross Wesley Carpenter

#redlady speaks #six the musical

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duncaninla · 7 years ago

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New York, July 2017.

A few restful days in Paris and Barcelona restored my serenity. No more searing heat, the weather more temperate, heavy clouds bursting over us. The rain washing away the last of the red, Andalusian dust. Well dressed men, once again, to look at on the streets of Paris and Barcelona. Mary’s spare room, decorated with Honiton lace and embroidered white linen. We walked the length of Parc St Cloud with our dogs wearing gun boots and waxed jackets. The Little Dog is almost fully restored, his eye closes once again, his sagging jowl looks perfectly normal to those who do not know. One evening we helped friends of Mary move house. TV Producer Etienne Alban, recently separated from his wife and kids, moving in with his super cute… yoga instructor girlfriend. We carried a huge sofa 6 flights to their huge new attic apartment. After the exercise we enjoyed a wonderful dinner at The Hotel Edgar. The boudin noir… superb.

The following day I drove from Paris to Chamonix listening to an audio recording of the novel 1984. It is a compellingly joyless book. Because I am a ditz I arrived a day early. So I booked the Hotel Isabelle and slept fitfully thinking about my time in Carmona. More specifically I dreamt about my Carmona host and friend Ana Corbero, the chatelaine of an 11 acre estate called The Pajarita nestled outside the old city walls of Carmona beneath the The Hotel Parador and the Cordoba Gate. I dreamt a huge storm roared as I looked north from Ana’s terrace toward the great plain which was once the sea. I was pointing at something. “Land ahoy!” In the dream the waves returned after a thousand years and swept over the fields of sunflowers. Sea monsters curled out of the petulant waves then crashed into the salty foam.

My time in Carmona with Ana had been stormy, her demeanor quite different from the beautiful girl I chanced upon 35 years ago.

I met Ana Corbero in 1985 or thereabouts introduced by gallerist and curator Celia Lyttleton. Ana was showing a collection of unremarkable paintings at the Albemarle Gallery. Celia introduced her as the daughter of a well-known Spanish sculptor, the girlfriend of a Lord. She was tiny… gamine, scarcely a women. Her queer and marvelous features delicately carved and flocked, her fierce and sparkling black eyes challenging those of us who dared contradict her. She demanded respect. Her flamenco gestures, her delicate collar bones. She was beautiful.

I don’t remember a great deal about the beginning of our friendship other than the first night at the gallery.

Ana had been enjoying a fractious relationship with the absurdly handsome Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor. I do not remember them visiting me in Whitstable but apparently they did. I do not remember going to Wheelers Oyster Bar and eating crab but apparently we did. I do remember Ana’s invitation to Brooklyn the following summer where I stayed in Colin’s huge apartment, the top floor of an abandoned school he and another had recently bought. It was located just over the Williamsburg Bridge. Brooklyn was very different then. Crack addicts sat on the stoop. The Puerto Rican community had not been replaced by Hasidic Jews and dumb looking hipsters. The sky at night was regularly lit by flaming, abandoned buildings. Some called these arson attacks: Jewish lightning.

The walk into Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge felt unnecessary. We stayed close to the apartment. Colin and I had a fairly raucous time. Even then I felt contempt for toffs but they had all the best toys so one tended to accept the invitations whenever they came. It was an eventful trip. I had a brief affair with the artist Paul Benney. I threw a bbq from the roof of Gerard Malanga’s apartment. We were the only white people at an African-American block party and ended up in a black police captain’s humble house. He looked very uncomfortable. Years later, I understand why. White, english people badly educated about slavery or the history of black people in the USA. We must have seemed very disrespectful.

Ana and Colin’s relationship was passionate and destructive. I blamed Colin for his insensitivity toward Ana. I excused Ana her eccentricities. The last image I have of her at that time: Ana is resting serenely in a nest of pillows, she has written in pen on her forehead one word… SILENCE.

Years passed. Many years. I remembered the word scrawled on her face. Social media reintroduced us. She married Nabil Gholam an arab architect and 18 years ago they had a baby girl. Sadly, their child is badly disabled with a rare genetic disease. Against the odds, the child survives. Ana fought to make her daughter hear and see. She refused to accept the doctor’s bleak prognosis. Ana lived in Beirut during the Israeli bombardment. Breastfeeding on her balcony as the bombs fell. She adopted two more children. A boy and a girl, both Lebanese. The architect became successful. They bought apartments in London, Paris and Seville. When her grandparents who raised her died she bought the Pajarita with a small inheritence. The Pajarita, a modest finca surrounded by acres of scorched, brown earth and rock where the locals dumped their trash. Ana set to transforming this barren place with many gardeners into the paradise she and her family enjoy today.

During the years I suggested to traveling friends I knew to be in Spain… meet Ana. I sent the Australian furniture designer Charles Wilson who I believed might benefit from a stint in Andalusia. But Charles, another terrible drunk, ended up being thrown out of Xavier Corbero’s house in Barcelona because Ana’s step mother hated him. Charles refused to leave so Ana’s husband threatened him with gypsies (a common, vaguely racist, threat from Nabil) who would break Charles’s legs if he didn’t pack his bag and leave immediately.

I sent Jenna and Stephen Mack’s brother John Jr., son of billionaire Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Even though I did not know John Jr. I trusted they would be a great fit. That introduction worked out very well. Now it was my turn to meet Ana. We communicated solely by text message. After the long drive from Nice I called her and, for the first time in 35 years, I heard her voice. The deep and rasping voice of somebody who smokes too many cigarettes or talks too much… or both.

“Why do you want to see me?” She asks over the phone.

I did not have an easy answer.

There was unfinished business between Ana and me. It was not tangible, it was esoteric. I had no expectations of Ana. I simply wanted to see her face. Without the word SILENCE scrawled on it. We might have met that afternoon, had a coffee and left it at that. I would have driven north. I had no idea what to expect but I was compelled to see her, meet her again. We arranged to meet at the small apartment she rented for guests in Carmona.

“How do you like your new digs?” She said as she got out of her huge silver Mercedes.

“Stay as long as you like.”

I gave her a long hug. Her father, Xavier Corbero, had recently died. I sniffed and she thought I was crying. “I’m not crying,” I said, “I’m sniffing.” Ana was back in my life. Her face was not the same as I remembered when I last saw her. She has hidden herself on social media because, I now understood, she could not bear what age had done to her. Almost immediately she complained how old she was, how raddled. She was embarrassed by her face.

“I’ve turned into a middle-aged Swedish woman.” she said. “I hope you’re not disappointed.”

It was true. Middle aged and middle class. Her face, bloated and pale, almost anemic. Her dry hair, she insisted she wanted to dye gray, streaked with sun bleached golden locks. Her eyes were just as fiery but no longer black. There was something stone dried about her, something suspicious. I slowly recognised who she had become. The reason I felt compelled to see her? The reason why so many years ago she left something indelible in me? It was something I recognized in myself. Within a few hours my suspicions were confirmed. Ana Corbero is an alcoholic of the most desperate kind.

We walked up the small cobbled hill from the apartment to the Casa Curro Montoya… her favorite restaurant. She flamboyantly kisses the owners and lavishes us all with praise. We sat in the hot sun and drank white wine and ate greasy jamon. Immediately, without prompting, she started telling me how her marriage was over. Her husband was a liar, she said, and she didn’t know if she could stay married to him.

“He lies about his father and their relationship. I am married to a stranger.”

I was baffled why this should be reason for divorce but Ana, it turns out, is obsessed with her version of the truth. Under the parasol that dreamy afternoon I found her deeply personal over sharing electrifying. I was being inducted into a tortured world of intrigue and family drama… it felt intoxicating. She contemptuously described her adopted children, how her lazy teen son lied and failed at school. Her pre teen daughter stole and refused to respect her Mother’s authority. I ask about their eldest daughter. “Oh, her.” she mused distantly. A slight smile flickered over her face. “She’s an angel.”

I do not remember driving to the Pajarita that afternoon. I drove to her home so many times the next few weeks. It is a dusty, pot holed road to Ana’s home. Red dust gets into everything, into the car, my mouth, my heart. During my stay the sharp red rocks rip into my tyres… twice. Yet, once behind the sliding metal gates of the Pajarita… decorated with dragons and comic strip birds there is… the illusion of calm. Beyond the painted blue iron gate a forest of pepper trees, oleander and citrus. Terracotta pots filled with herbs and lilies. Vines, dripping with grapes grow over pergolas affording shade, respite from the searing heat. Down an exquisitely cobbled path the simple house reveals itself. There are huge windows covered with traditional Spanish blinds made of esparto… woven reeds. Inside, rooms of various sizes at different levels filled with stuff. Ana’s art covers the walls. Piles of art books and catalogues from Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Broken china knickknacks. Buckets of architectural salvage. Most of it inherited from her grand parents. So much stuff.

Many staff run Ana’s estate and life. Annie the housekeeper and general fixer. Three nurses look after the disabled daughter. There are gardeners and flamenco guitarists, a governess for the adopted daughter and a masseur who comes daily. On occasions Ana would marshal the staff and demand they sing songs of her own composition. They did as they were told.

Annie, a simple local woman, the closest to Ana and (it became apparent) loathed by the son… was Ana’s most trusted servant. As well as dusting and ironing and making beds Annie, Ana told me, was being groomed to write Ana’s autobiography and mix her paints whenever she started painting again. Annie would also run the restaurant whenever Ana got around to opening it. Annie, forced to kiss us all as per the ‘Andalusian way’. I refused to kiss Ana’s staff.

“I can’t bear lies or exaggeration.” Ana says. “I am never impatient, I am never angry.”

During the first few days of my stay we find a happy routine. I have practical considerations. I apply for my Spanish residency, open a bank account and get a phone. I take the dogs to the vet in Seville. The vet is quite the most handsome man I ever met. I decide to buy a house in Carmona. They are cheap and plentiful. Ana is incredibly helpful. She introduces me to a lawyer, a realtor and makes every effort to ease me into Spanish life. We find a perfectly preserved 16th Century house near the Cordoba Gate. I need an assistant. She introduces me to Jose, her own assistant for five years but curiously tells me he is not welcome at her home.

Why she makes the introduction to Jose is a mystery. And why is he unwelcome at the Pajarita? Jose is a charming, good man. Friendly and helpful. I confide in Jose what I see at Ana’s home. I am shocked by the way she treats her children, the contempt she has for her husband. I rant at Jose about Ana. She believes she’s always right, she’s never wrong, the interminable interruptions at dinner so conversations between adults become utterly fruitless and frustrating. Ana interrupts with shrill, ill-informed dissent. Blighted with a remarkable lack of insight and self-awareness Ana’s inability to see her part in any dispute caused me much incredulity.

Jose smiles and listens.

“I don’t have a problem, YOU have a problem.” Ana insists.

Three days into my visit Nabil Gholam, Ana’s husband arrives with their son. They are very pleasant but I have already had my mind poisoned against them. Expecting the worse I’m surprised to find her husband kind and considerate, compensating for his wife’s excesses. He is a gentle man and every day works hard to keep his marriage alive. Nabil shows me his watch collection, explaining how he transports his wealth around the world at times of war. In the evening, when she is at her worse, Nabil makes excuses for her rapidly disintegrating behaviour.

Their handsome son is a perfectly ordinary teenage boy. He has a girlfriend, he has thick black hair, he is interested in sport and fashion and making money trading sneakers… we went to the fashion outlet in Seville but it was closed. He was funny and charming, house hunting one morning I paid him to translate for me. He has a keen understanding of people. He could read between the lines. He enjoys his life at boarding school.

I find him in his room trying to write. Ana has asked him to write a fifty year plan for his life. He looks helpless. An absurd request he knows he must fulfill. When, after several weeks, the 50 year plan arrives Ana is outraged. Why does the plan does not include Spain and by inference… her? Why should it? Ask a boy to map out the next fifty years is abuse enough. But this was just one of many abuses, her plan to punish him for not appreciating how lucky he was that she had taken the time and money to adopt him. He could never be grateful enough. She confided that she planned to take him out of the boarding school he loved and punish him for his lack of sensitivity by sending him to his paternal grandfather… who Ana hated. Nabil, when we are on our own, desperately whispers an appeal to me, “Please help me, can you make her see sense?” It was no use, Anna is always hell-bent on revenge, riven by some resentment with some poor sap. Ana reminded both children how lucky they were to have her as their adopted mother. These scenes pulled straight out of the movie Mommy Dearest. But Joan Crawford, bless her tortured soul, was a saint in comparison.

We drive to Seville for lunch with John Mack Jr. who mocks Ana’s constant, inebriated interruptions. John Mack Jr has his own demons but I wanted to hear everything he had to say. I had been become very close with his brother Stephen and worked with his sister Jenna. Both relationships had come to nothing. Of course John claims he knows nothing of his sister’s appalling arrogance… he is his father’s son. He knew everything. He had his own brush with addiction, a failed marriage and traumas only the son of a billionaire would understand. Stephen Mack told me once their father would say of his enemies, “I’ll make them hurt.” His father wasn’t called ‘Mack the Knife’ for no reason. Jenna was very eager for me to meet her parents but I knew it would turn out badly, getting dragged along to events I had no reason to be at. I met Mack senior, who one couldn’t help respecting, several times. I had dinner with Jenna and her father at The Mercer Hotel and again at a High Line charity event. Jenna, Stephen and John’s parents are a great team, they donate millions to charity, they delight in taking pictures of couples in the street who don’t have selfie sticks.

I knew my father was the same as John Mack. Cruel and kind in equal measure.

When I said goodbye to John Mack Jr. after lunch (he cycled off into the hot, congested Seville streets) I knew I would never meet him or any member of his family ever again.

As I grow closer to my assistant Jose it becomes apparent that he doesn’t merely dislike Ana, he hates her. He hates her with a shocking vengeance. It is painful for him to carry such hate in his heart. He warns me to think carefully about staying in Carmona, he cautions if I buy a house in Carmona I will end up hating Ana. He warns me people very close to Ana hate her. The owners of the restaurant hate her, he warns she has fallen out with everyone who lives in Carmona, accusing them of crimes and disappointments, their relationships blighted with unrealistic expectations.

Jose describes Ana’s tantrums, how she would regularly reduce him to tears with her demands and mendacity. His impersonation of her clawing at her own face demanding that she wanted what she wanted… NOW! Nothing would placate her. He tried helping her but failed. He still finds it hard to forgive himself for walking away. Walking away from the children he loved and cared for.

I took the adopted girl to meet Jose. They hadn’t seen each other for years. They cried and hugged. We wandered the streets of Carmona until midnight. Jose kept thanking me for bringing her to see him. We ate ice cream and sat in the forum. When we returned to the Pajarita Ana looks quizzically at me. Taking the child to meet Jose could be construed as an act of betrayal. I apologize for bringing her home so late.

The following day Ana is screaming at her children, “Why don’t you bring your friends to the Pajarita?” It is obvious why… to those of us who are the children of abusive parents. There’s a lot of shame and fear around alcoholism and the unpredictability of an alcoholic parent. Neither child want their friends to meet Ana. Neither want to explain her behaviour. I saw the fear in their eyes when Ana looked as if she was going to lose her temper. The night she couldn’t make the ancient iPod work and began blaming her daughter. The panicking child wrestled with the iPod, willing it to work. Finally she managed to make it play and disaster was averted. I’m sure the little girl didn’t want to be reminded once more why she should be grateful Ana adopted her and how easily she could be sent back to the children’s home.

The daughter dances, she entertains Ana’s guests with gymnastics, endless cartwheels and overtly sexual dance moves she learns from TV shows like Glee. Playing the same track over and over. I was asked to judge endless dance routines. She was desperate to impress. Yet, however hard the child tries to please… it is never good enough.

“Hold your hands like this” Ana demands. “No! Not like that… like this.” Ana lunges beside her daughter and demonstrates what she wants to see. Ana demands we all dance. I dance for a moment then I sit down and watch the scene unfold. The dance with her daughter becomes violent, twirling the child around until finally it is no longer a dance but a fight… Ana body slams the girl onto the floor. The child is crying and Ana falls badly into the television. She mocks the child for crying, mocks her use of a hearing aid. She swears at the child and accuses her of making sexual advances to Nabil. Once, in the pool, Ana tore off the child’s bathing costume, tossing it out of the pool. Ana is laughing like a maniac, the child is pleading. I throw the costume back into the pool. Then I walk away, saving the kid the embarrassment of being seen naked. Jose, when I tell him… is not surprised. There were times when he wanted to report her to the police for child abuse. The following day Ana wonders why her back hurts so badly. I remind her but she doesn’t remember the fight. She has no recollection. How much of the time is she blacked out?

“Time for drinkypoos?” She says.

Like an infirmed english aristocrat the pronouncement comes when Nabil is at home… otherwise she’s opening bottles all day. She’s already stoned long before she starts drinking. I learned not to go near the house until she is drunk or stoned enough not to be a total bitch. Waiting for an invitation to join her. If I stayed at the Pajarita I would slip away before she woke up. When her interest in me cooled her morning emails and text messages were filled with vile insults and personal attacks. By then I was employing every technique Alanon afforded me. Let go with love, they say. Every day I let her go… with love. Soon I would have to let go of her forever.

The night Nabil left for London and Beirut I was sitting by the pool with Ana enjoying a rare, balmy evening. We spent a lot of time talking about her future, her work, galleries and retrospectives. I was convinced she was capable of making the huge changes in her life necessary for her to be recognised as an important artist. We talked about male artists who were commanding huge sums in galleries and at auction. We discussed how women artists have been impoverished by men. After meeting her disabled daughter my understanding of her work swelled. The cute sculptures of girls looking heavenward meant something. Ana has spent years working out her feelings toward her disabled daughter using her art, especially her sculpture. Her work, like so many women… unlike the work of so many men, has never been contextualized. The story is never told. “Your work is beyond the vagina.” I said. She laughed. Ana is not easily complimented. So, we concentrate on her potential. I liked mulling over future possibilities with her.

Without warning she rolled toward me and laid her head on my chest.

She said, “I find you overwhelmingly attractive. I want to grow old with you.”

At that very moment I knew our friendship was over. I shifted in my seat. If I rebuffed Ana I risked her unconscionable wrath. She repeated the words.

“I want to grow old with you.”

Finally, I affected my most affable self and said,”Oh, silly… what would Nabil say?”

She lifted her head. She was not going to be fobbed off with that.

“I don’t put my head on anyone’s chest.” She began, her voice becoming defensive. She continued speaking but I could not hear her… I was in a blind panic. I knew it was over, at that moment I knew my time around Ana had come to an end.

The following days she called me names by text (fat and old) and generally took time to insult and belittle me. She denounced me as a traitor to the Pajarita. I found myself drifting to the house knowing full well what reception I would receive. She warned me, I was no longer ‘drama free’ I was accused of bringing stress and ‘baggage’ into her life. Thankfully, her friend Alfonso and his daughter arrived. Perhaps he would grow old with her? I slipped out of the pre arranged parties to which I was tacitly expected to attend. I had no interest in being around her. It was over. Soon I was packing up the car and headed north. My time in Carmona but not Spain… had come to an end.

Ana Corbero signs all her emails or text messages with ‘Luv and Light A xxx’. It is ironic because she has a dark soul. A monster for whom no cage will ever be built… unless of course she embraces sobriety and thereby solves her chronic addiction to resentment.

Ana Corbero New York, July 2017. A few restful days in Paris and Barcelona restored my serenity. No more searing heat, the weather more temperate, heavy clouds bursting over us.

#Alban Etienne #Ana Corbero #Barcelona #carmona #Celia Lyttleton #cordoba #Jenna Mack #John Mack #John Mack Jr #Kirsty Mack #Nabil Gholam #Paris #Seville #Stephen Mack #Xavier Corbero

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hornedbooty · 6 years ago

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You said you had recommendations for ya wlw books?

I SW THIS LATE IM SORRY! this got long so its going under a readmore

okay before I continue I wanna note that 1) I know nothing about the authors on this list and am recommending the books only, 2) some of these I haven’t even read yet, ill put * next to the ones I HAVE read, and 3) its been a good few years since ive read some of these so bear with me!

Julie Ann Peters is a lesbian author who has written books like Luna ( known for being the first book about a trans woman published by a mainstream publisher). *Rage (a wlw ab/usive relationship that ends in a good way, VERY GRAPHIC in some scenes so I warn against it if the topic hits you hard), and *Define Normal (I own this one and it’s not explicitly wlw but its still pretty good).

I haven’t read anything else by Emily Danforth, but *The Miseducation of Cameron Post is so good!!! There was a movie made for it recently and while I haven’t seen it yet I’m excited to. It’s a happy ending, from what I remember!

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta seems so cute! It’s about a girl who gets crush on a girl during their theater class, and it’s high on my lists of to-reads.

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, creator of the Bechdel-Wallace Test and lesbian. Must I say more.

[quick note; for these next two, I cant remember if these have nsfw scenes in them or not.. I think so, so I wanted to say it. Id rather not get any asks about why I ever read these fhhevbh]

*Love Waits by Gerri Hill. Oh, I remember reading this book on a bench covered in graffiti after school, my middle school self hiding as I made sure my friends couldn’t see it.

*Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole… This was THE FIRST WLW BOOK I read. It’s about a girl who gets kicked out of her house, blah blah all that stuff, and it explores the Cuban gay community in Miami at the time I think! A good read.

Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan looks great as well! It’s about a girl from a Muslim family struggling with her feelings, from what I see from the reviews it’s more of a coming-of-age tale with a more middle school mindset in the MC. The representation is apparently spot on too!

Far From You by Tess Sharp looks AMAZING? A bisexual lead with not a lot of relationship love exactly, but more of a murder mystery deal. The reviews are loving it, so maybe I might too.

*Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin is GREAT! No, this is not reaaally about wlw, but it’s a good representation of a genderfluid person and you never know the main character’s biological sex, which was handled and done very well. I WANT TO NOTE! HOWEVER! THIS IS SPOILERS BUT ITS VERY IMPORTANT! There is a scene, which I think was quick but still terrible, where the MC is s/xually assaulted. It’s bad, I hated it, and it was completely unexpected. I don’t recommend this is you are troubled by that, since I don’t remember exactly when or where it happens. :(

Crush by Carrie Mack is a short story about a girl who gets a crush on a girl! From what the reviews say, it’s soft, sweet, and a cliché but nice story.

…. okay, this next one is iffy and it’s up next on my reading list but it seems….. …….. alright, maybe… Ramona Blue is, summarized, about a girl who identifies as a lesbian but falls in love with a guy. From the reviews, it seems this is handled well. On the link, a review by “Alex” that starts with “I HAVE ACTUALLY READ THIS BOOK” has quotes from it and has good points, so I’m going to hesitantly put this down too.. I’ll talk about it again once I’ve read it.

The Space Between by Michelle Teichman seems fun!!!! A ‘popular’ girl gets a crush on a loner girl, pining, all that stuff. It looks to be alright, hopefully it is!

My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari is about a little girl and how she grows with two moms! This is… more of a book for middle-schoolers, but if you’re okay with that or know a young kid who can relate to this, try it out with them.

okay uh,, this became more of a book hunt for interesting and good sounding wlw/lgbt stories… but I had a lot of fun putting this list together. one of my guilty pleasures is YA fiction, and I never talk about it a lot so this was a nice outlet. if its wanted, I could try to put a mlm or just a general YA list together too. its really late so im gonna stop looking these up. ty for asking!

EDIT: books people told me to add!!

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan is a fantasy YA novel, but I honestly can’t explain it better than the link..

The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan. Lesbian. Mermaids.

#lgbt books #lgbt #book recommendations #want sugar with that ask?#lindsaymaex17 #oof #cherryblossoms.txt

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fght-ff-yr-dmns · 7 years ago

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✨ Answers ✨

1. Pineapple On A Pizza?

Yes! Not my usual topping but I’m not opposed to pineapple on pizza.

2. Oasis or Blur? Oasis

3. Do You Eat Cereal With A Big Spoon Or a Small (Tea) Spoon?

Small Spoon = more mouthfuls

4. Favourite Christmas Film?

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, with Die Hard a close second.

5. Favourite Christmas Song?

Fairytale of New York �� The Pogues Feat. Kirsty McColl. With Wham's Last Christmas a very close 2nd.

6. If You Could Bring Back One TV Show, What Would It Be?

The O.C. I miss it more than a grown man should ever admit.

7. Childhood Crush/s?

Larissa Oleynik (Nickelodeon's Alex Mack) and Harmony from The Queen’s Nose.

8. Most Treasured Thing You Own?

Probably my record collection

9. If You Could Travel Back In Time Where Would You Go and Why?

Early 90’s but the age I am now, to go see Nirvana & Elliott Smith…also buy shit loads of Apple Shares. I’d also love to go back and see my grandparents one more time.

10. Power Rangers: Green Ranger or White Ranger?

Green Ranger hands down.

11. Mark, Tom or Travis?

Mark (although the band would be nothing without Travis)

12. Favourite City?

Tokyo

13. Do You Believe in Ghosts? Not until I’ve seen one with my own eyes.

14. Do You Believe Aliens Have Visited Earth?

No, but I do believe they surely exist somewhere in this giant universe.

15. Have You Ever Won A Competition? What Did You Win?

I won £100 on some bonds earlier this year!

16. What Was Cool When You Were A Kid But Isn’t Cool Now?

The Scenester look and the emo fringe…I regret nothing. Also Pogs.

17. Desert Island Book, Film & Album?

The Great Gatsby, The Goonies, Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

18. If You Could Choose To Have Another Accent, What Would It Be?

Irish

19. You’re On Death Row, What’s Your Final Meal? A full traditional British Sunday dinner with all the trimmings.

20. What’s Your Secret Talent?

I can spell out the word ‘Blood’ using the shape of my fingers.

21. What Word Is A Lot of Fun To Say?

Yogalates

22. Star Wars or Lord of the Rings?

LotR

23. Favourite Beatle?

Paul (but George post-Beatles)

24. SNES or SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis)?

I was always a SEGA Mega Drive kid, through and through. Loved the SNES too though.

25. Coca-Cola or Pepsi Coca-Cola, but Pepsi Max over Diet Coke and Zero

26. Favourite Artist (e.g. painter,sculpter)?

Robert Rauschenberg

27. Favourite Dinosaur?

Diplodocus

28. What Would You Name Your Boat If You Had One?

S.S. Boaty McBoatface

29. What’s Your Phobias? Trypophobia and arachnophobia

30. Pick One Animal To Upscale To The Size Of A Horse

A Capybara

#Answers #Questionnaire #me

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comedyfan2013 · 7 years ago

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Kirsty Wark: "I was once forced to continually ballroom dance whilst presenting five minutes of live TV"

#wilty #would i lie to you #Kirsty walk #david mitchell #lee mack

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Titans Season 2 Cast & Character Guide | Screen Rant

Get to know all of the heroes and villains that'll be appearing in Titans season 2. It's perhaps fair to say that Titans' debut season garnered a divisive reaction among fans. Opting for a no holds barred approach, Titans was a grittier take on the teenage DC superhero team that many will be used to and charted the initial coming together of Robin, Raven, Starfire and Beast Boy as they attempted to unravel the mystery behind the shadowy organization hunting them down.

Titans season 1 ended on a huge cliffhanger, as the team were overpowered by Rachel's father, Trigon, but some viewers were left underwhelmed at the distinct lack of action between the four titular Titans throughout the first season. Several trailers have now emerged for Titans season 2, and the show appears to be taking a very different approach, embracing its comic book origins and bringing the Titans team firmly into focus.

Related: Titans Season 2 Review: Heroes Step Out Of The Darkness & Into A New Home

Interestingly, the Titans season 2 trailer has glossed over Trigon completely, instead showing the characters long after season 1's finale, as Robin remembers the old Titans days, builds a brand new team and comes up against Esai Morales' Deathstroke. With characters old and new to explore in the coming episodes, here's a full guide to all the cast of Titans season 2.

The focal point of season 1, Brenton Thwaites will continue to lead the Titans in season 2. Seemingly splitting into two distinct timelines, Titans will explore Robin's past as the leader of his original teenage superhero team, and Dick's present as he attempts to construct a brand new version of the Titans. In the present, Dick burned his Robin costume, which could potentially lead to a transformation into Nightwing.

Thwaites portrayed the son of Orlando Bloom's Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and the Australian actor had several long-running TV roles in his homeland, most notably as Stu in Home and Away.

Rachel acted as the central plot device of Titans season 1, as baddies rushed to capture her and the protagonists strove to protect her. Season 2 looks set to retire that game of cat-and-mouse, and will see Rachel learn to control her powers and become one of Dick Grayson's new generation of Titans. Rachel has her comic book-accurate appearance in Titans season 2, complete with a red gem in the middle of her forehead.

Also Australian, Raven is Croft's first major television role, but the actress has previously appeared in 2016 science fiction effort The Osiris Child, and, much like her co-star, enjoyed a recurring role in Home and Away.

Now that Kory is aware of her extra-terrestrial heritage, new sides to the character will surely emerge in Titans season 2, with the latest trailer suggesting some trouble after members of her own race arrive on Earth. How will Kory's past impact her blossoming relationship with Dick Grayson? And will she be able to juggle her new responsibilities as a member of the Titans with whatever mission her own people thrust upon her?

Anna Diop has enjoyed a varied career thus far, appearing on TV in the likes of 24: Legacy and Greenleaf, while more recently scoring a part in the new Jordan Peele horror, Us.

Ryan Potter's Beast Boy was arguably underused in the first season of Titans, but he still enjoyed a compelling personal arc, as viewers learned his Doom Patrol origins and watched on as he hopelessly fell in love with Rachel. Unfortunately, Gar has barely featured in the Titans season 2 footage released thus far, suggesting that the character will remain more a source of comic relief than a central member of the Titans.

Cast in his Titans role after an audition for Tim Drake's Robin in forthcoming DC movie, The Batman, Potter will perhaps be best known as the voice of Hiro Hamada in Big Hero 6, a role he subsequently continued on the TV spinoff series. On the big screen, Potter also starred in the 2018 romance film, Running For Grace.

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The exuberant and immature Jason Todd is returning in Titans season 2, this time bumped up to the status of a series regular, rather than recurring character. Todd's enthusiasm for crime-fighting sees him declare the return of the Titans live on TV, but the season 2 trailer also shows him coming to blows with Dick Grayson - an inevitable clash given their vastly different attitudes to both vigilantism and Bruce Wayne.

Curran Walters has previously appeared in several smaller TV roles, with parts in New Girl, Too Close To Home and Best.Worst.Weekend.Ever. However, Walters is also set to feature in Do Not Reply, a high school-based horror venture from Daniel and Walt Woltosz.

Although only introduced at the midway point of Titans season 1, Donna Troy quickly became an integral member of the cast, helping to link Dick's past and present while acting as his moral compass - not dissimilar to her own Justice League mentor, Wonder Woman. Donna looks set for an even more prominent role in Titans season 2, featuring in both flashbacks and the modern timeline, where she can be seen fighting alongside Starfire in the new Titans setup.

Prior to Titans, Leslie had recurring roles in The Man In The High Castle, Shots Fired and Graves, and has made single-episode appearances in the likes of Hawaii Five-0, 90210 and Elementary.

Batman briefly appeared in Titans season 1, but this was mainly during a dream sequence created by Trigon in Dick Grayson's mind. The real Caped Crusader will instead be played by Iain Glen. Grayson appeared to despise his former mentor in Titans season 1, but the famous duo look to be on better terms now, with Wayne encouraging the formation of a brand new team of budding superheroes under Dick's leadership.

Iain Glen will, of course, be most familiar to viewers as Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones, the brave and loyal knight forever consigned to the friendzone by Daenerys Targaryen. Outside of Westeros, Glen boasts an impressive resume that includes the Resident Evil movies, Tomb Raider, Downtown Abbey and Spooks.

Taking over main villain duty from Trigon in Titans season 2 is Deathstroke. This DC villain was memorably played by Manu Bennett in the Arrowverse and was originally slated to feature in the DCEU, before plans were drastically changed. Cinema's loss in TV's gain, however, as Deathstroke will be on the hunt in Titans, seemingly as part of both the past and present timelines.

Viewers may remember Morales from his starring roles in NYPD: Blue, Caprica and, ironically, Jericho. The actor also recently turned up in the Netflix series Ozark, which has been renewed for a third season.

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Minka Kelly as Dawn/Dove - A key part of season 1, Robin's ex-flame, Dawn Granger, will return in Titans' second season and find herself in disagreement with current partner, Hank, about whether to continue their crime-fighting lifestyle. Kelly has previously starred in Charlie's Angels, Parenthood and Almost Human.

Alan Ritchson as Hank/Hawk - Clearly still jealous of Dick Grayson's tryst with Dawn, Hank Hall is battered, bruised and ready to give up crime-fighting for good...if his girlfriend will let him. Ritchson is no stranger to major franchises, having previously appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies as Raphael and as Aquaman in Smallville.

Joshua Orpin as Conner Kent/Superboy - An exciting new addition to Titans season 2, Superboy (and his dog) were seen at the very end of the first season, escaping captivity. This clone of Superman looks set to come to the Titans' rescue in their fight against Trigon. Another Australian addition to the Titans cast, Orpin is a relative newcomer to the world of film and TV.

Chelsea Zhang as Ravager - Ravager is the daughter of Deathstroke, and can be seen in the Titans season 2 trailer training alongside Dick Grayson. However, Ravager's exact loyalties are sure to come into question, despite her father being largely absent during childhood. Zhang's most prominent previous acting gig was as Brittany in Andi Mack, but she can also be seen in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

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Chella Man as Jericho - Not winning any father of the year awards, Jericho is another of Deathstroke's children - one that is rendered mute in the DC comic universe by an enemy of his father's. Jericho has the ability to physically possess others via eye contact. Chella Man is best known as a YouTube personality, and has been a prominent, inspiring voice for representation of disability, sexuality and gender in the media.

Drew Van Acker as Aqualad - Aqualad is apparently part of the original Titans lineup, but no one has seen or mentioned him in the present timeline, leading some to suspect that the superhero's death may be behind the split of the first Titans' grouping. Van Acker will be familiar to fans of Pretty Little Liars as Jason, and he also starred in Training Day as Tommy Campbell.

Natalie Gumede as Mercy Graves - The presence of Lex Luther's sidekick in Titans season 2 is surely connected to the introduction of Conner Kent, and may even set up the supervillain himself for an appearance in later seasons. Aside from a single-episode stint in Doctor Who, Gumede's biggest role came in the British soap Coronation Street, playing the abusive Kirsty. She also competed on Strictly Come Dancing, the UK version of Dancing With The Stars.

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Titans season 2 premieres September 6th on DC Universe.

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