#Lyn Davies

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Books On Books Collection - Ada Yardeni

A- dventure- Z’ (2003) A- dventure- Z’: The Story of the Alphabet (2003)Ada YardeniPaperback. 220 x 220 mm. 86 pages. Acquired from Carta Jerusalem, 28 March 2023.Photos: Books On Books Collection. There is gray between what is known and unknown about the invention of shapes and signs for sounds. In the Books On Books collection, one side is reflected by works such as Lyn Davies’ A is for Ox…

[mizgnomer]

Putting the band back together

David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Jane Tranter

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1879, The time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 10) and his companion Rose travelled back to Scotland where they found themselves helping Lord Robert defend Queen Victoria at his Torchwood Manor against heretic monks who had turned to following an alien race that caused a condition resembling a werewolf. While the Doctor and his allies saved the Queen, he apparently did not present himself well to her majesty so she decided to start the Torchwood Group (this is the first version, before the smaller version run by Captain Jack). The Doctor was both knighted and banished in the same day. ("Tooth and Claw", Doctor Who, vlm 3 TV)

[lovelyandproblematic]

NOT PICTURED:

Sebastian Roché (tvd's Mikael) as Josh Frost/Moriarty on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Who Shot Sherlock?" (2005)

Kayla Ewell (tvd's Vicki Donovan) as Bettina Clark on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Take My Life, Please" (2010)

Taylor Kinney (tvd's Mason Lockwood) as Jason Locke in CSI: New York "Identity Crisis" (2011)

Michaela McManus (tvd's Jules) as Caroline Berston in CSI: Miami "Kill Clause" (2009)

Trevor Peterson (tvd's Slater) as Ken Jarvik in CSI: Miami "Collateral Damage" (2009)

Arielle Kebbel (tvd's Lexi) as Right Teen in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Forever" (2003)

Torrey DeVitto (tvd's Dr. Meredith Fell) as Kitty/Susan McDowell in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Kitty" (2014)

Jack Coleman (tvd's Bill Forbes) as Martin Gillespie in CSI: Miami "Murder in a Flash" (2004)

and likely many more...

[sigurism]

John Davis Chandler, Dawn Lyn, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons Shoot Out Dir: Henry Hathaway

[go-to-the-mirror]

obsessed with school projects about my hyperfixations because i can just reduce what i've been obsessing over for months to one sentence that feels so normal

[sincerelyasimmer]

Thanksgiving 22' pt 2

Janae & Ace + the cuzzos

[starkiddreamcasting]

there's a part of my brain that swears you've already done this, but nothing came up on tumblr search so sorry in advance if you've done this casting before. but could you do a dreamcast of the mad ones?

Apologies for how late this is but here is the Starkid dreamcast for The Mad Ones! I'll admit I knew nothing about this show before diving into this dreamcast but I enjoyed it overall. I'm trying to keep on schedule this month (at last a little bit) so I hope you enjoy.

Mariah Rose Faith as Sam

Bryce Charles as Kelly

Jamie Burns as Beverly

Will Branner as Adam

Understudies: Jaime Lyn Beatty (Beverley), Angela Giarratana (Sam, Kelly), Davis Hamilton (Adam)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

[denimbex1986]

'When EW last spoke with returning Doctor Who star David Tennant about his appearance in the three upcoming 60th anniversary special episodes, the actor said, "I just hope I look as fast as I did in the 2000s." Well, showrunner Russell T Davies has good news for both Tennant, who is reprising the role of the titular time-traveling alien, and his fans. "Don’t worry. That man limbered up. He's no fool," says the executive producer, laughing, upon being informed of Tennant's concerns. "We didn't need any camera tricks." Like Tennant, the showrunner left Doctor Who in 2010 but is now clearly delighted to be back and working with Tennant again. "He’s as fit as a fiddle," Davies continues about his star. "He's gorgeous!"

The pair are reuniting on the three shows with Catherine Tate, who played Donna Noble, a companion of Tennant's "Tenth Doctor." Tennant reveals that this get-together was inspired by a Doctor Who tweet-along that took place during the pandemic.

"Russell T Davies got involved, and then Catherine Tate and I got involved, and we all tweeted along to an episode," he says. "That led to a conversation between Russell and Catherine going, wasn’t that great, wouldn’t it be great to get the band back together for one last hurrah, which I think was only meant as an aspirational bit of fun really." But then? "It snowballed and, before we knew it, we were coming back to the show with the Doctor and Donna," says the actor. "Russell was running the show again and we were doing three in a row!"

Davies wrote all of the 60th anniversary episodes and describes them as "a mini-season, really. It's three different stories. There's a little link between them, each one kind of cliffhangs into the next, but actually they are three separate stories."

The first of those stories is titled "The Star Beast" and premieres on Disney+ Nov. 25. The tale starts with Tennant's Doctor arriving back on planet earth just as an extraterrestrial craft crashes in the vicinity of Tate's Noble. Davies describes the episode as "a great big family film. An alien spaceship falls in London, which is the Doctor’s meet and drink really. But is it by coincidence that that lands practically on the doorstep of an old friend of his who’s lost all memories of him?" The showrunner says the episode "becomes a huge, great big adventure with fights, and chases, and monsters, and terror, but also some great laughs as well."

"The Star Beast" is based on a comic strip by legendary comics writer Pat Mills and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons originally published in Doctor Who Weekly more than 30 years ago. The story introduced the alien character of the Meep, voiced in the new episode by Miriam Margolyes.

"It's from 1979, an absolute classic," Davies says of the original strip. "Pat Mills and David Gibbons, they were kids back then, but they created this marvelous thing. It’s always been one of my favorite Doctor Who stories, and coming back I thought it would be such enormous fun to celebrate the 60th, and also to grab hold of a great idea, to adapt it, And for those who might know the comic strip of old, don’t worry, there’s a lot of new stuff woven into it."

Tennant, a lifelong Whovian, admits to being confused when he was initially sent the script for the episode. The actor recalls that "it arrived, and says on the cover page that it’s an adaptation of 'The Star Beast' by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, which I remember reading as a child. I was thinking, that can’t be what I’m thinking of. But, of course, Russell is a longterm Doctor Who fan, too, so of course it is. Actually that makes perfect sense, because that kind of storytelling energy that is in that comic strip is very reminiscent of Russell’s storytelling energy. It sort of is a perfect fit."

The cast of "The Star Beast" includes Yasmin Finney (Heartstopper), who plays Donna's daughter Rose. Davies reveals that he had never heard of the actress before casting her, "because that was before Heartstopper had been shown. Luckily enough, the director of Heartstopper is a man called Euros Lyn who is an old Doctor Who director. So I was able to phone him up and say, 'What’s Yasmin like?' He just said, 'Oh, cast her, cast her, cast her.' It’s a very lucky situation. I was writing a trans character, who’s a teenager, part of a London family, of mixed race, and that’s an unusual set of conditions for a character to meet. The list of people who would audition for that is not very long. Along came Yasmin, and we just closed the door after that, because there she was! She’s absolutely terrific, and she has more appearances to come, simply because I adore working with her."

Speaking of veteran Doctor Who directors, "The Star Beast" was helmed by Tank Girl filmmaker Rachel Talalay who, over the past decade, has established herself as one of the show's most important behind-the-scenes creatives.

"One of the episodes she directed with, called 'Heaven Sent,' has just been voted by fans the greatest Doctor Who episode in history, so she's so steeped in it," says Davies. "We had a whale of a time and the episode is epic, we’re absolutely delighted with it."

Tennant and Davies are much more tight-lipped about the second special episode, "Wild Blue Yonder," which premieres Dec. 2, though the latter teases that it is "a much more weird story. We're trying to keep it secret until transmission." Tennant is happier to discuss the third and final special, "The Giggle," which starts streaming Dec. 9 and costars Neil Patrick Harris as a villain called the Toymaker, originally played on the show by Michael Gough back in 1966.

"Oh, he’s good," says the actor of the How I Met Your Mother star. "I don’t quite know if he knew what to expect, but he dived in with such gusto and brio. I don’t want to give away too much about what might be required of the Toymaker, but you need a sort of all-round entertainer to play that part and a very good actor, so there aren’t a lot of people who could have ticked all the boxes required. We were really excited when Neil said 'Yes' and actually it’s impossible to imagine who else it might have been."

Davies confirms that "The Giggle" will also introduce Ncuti Gatwa, the actor who is playing the next version of the Doctor.

"Yes, in some shape or form you will be seeing a brand-new Doctor," says the executive producer. "You will have some questions answered, you will have more questions raised, leading into Christmas Day when Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor arrives properly (on the Doctor Who special holiday episode). But I can promise you some surprises, and some things that have been done in ways they’ve never been done in Doctor Who before, and an awful lot of fun."

While Davies is staying on as executive producer for Gatwa's first full season as the Doctor, which will premiere next year, Tennant will once again depart the TARDIS to make room for Gatwa, though maybe not forever. The actor did previously appear on the special 50th anniversary episode alongside Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor back in 2013. Has he told his agent to keep some time free ahead of the show's 70th anniversary in 2033?

"What age will I be then?" muses the actor. "Who knows if I will still be able to run up and down corridors. I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t damage my knees this time out, so I wouldn’t want to tempt fate. But should my joints still be in working order, I will certainly consider any offers if they come through in ten years time."

The Doctor Who 60th anniversary special episodes will stream on Disney+.'

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969-1974

[pumpkinspicelyn]

Digimon 02 is my second fave Digimon season! 🥰

since digimon 02 is coming back around, here’s a fun fact that takari was my first ever ship, and my first dive into fanfiction. 👉🏾👈🏾

[midnightrings]

Favourite Doctor Who Episodes:

-> THE END OF THE WORLD (2005)

written by Russell T Davies directed by Euros Lyn

[lokiondisneyplus]

Congratulations to the 'Loki' team on once again being nominated for a Hugo Award!

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Doctor Who: “The Giggle”, written by Russell T. Davies, directed by Chanya Button (Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for The BBC and Disney Branded Television)

Loki: “Glorious Purpose”, screenplay by Eric Martin, Michael Waldron and Katharyn Blair, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Marvel / Disney+)

The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar (Naughty Dog / Sony Pictures)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Those Old Scientists”, written by Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, directed by Jonathan Frakes (CBS / Paramount+)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Subspace Rhapsody”, written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, directed by Dermott Downs (CBS / Paramount+)

Doctor Who: “Wild Blue Yonder”, written by Russell T. Davies, directed by Tom Kingsley (Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for The BBC and Disney Branded Television)

The Hugo Awards will be presented August 11, 2023, at WorldCon in Glasgow.

[nerds-yearbook]

On 1912, the Doctor was photographed on the eve of the launch of the Titanic and it was supposed that he talked a family out of taking the voyage. ("Rose", Doctor Who vlm 3, TV) After the sinking of the Titanic the Doctor claimed he was stranded and stuck clinging to an iceberg. ("The End of the World", Doctor Who vlm 3, TV)

[foreignswaggersession]

The Feast of All Saints (2001). Tells the coming of age story of the "quadroon" (1/4 black 3/4 white) Ste. Marie children, Marcel and Marie in pre-Civil War New Orleans, as their dreams of a privileged life supposedly guaranteed by their white ancestry are crushed by the limited possibilities given to those of African descent. Based on a 1979 novel by Anne Rice of the same name (her second published novel).

Explores the history of the gens de couleur libre (free people of color) from several perspectives - free and enslaved mixed descendants of white slaveholders; black Haitian refugees; mixed women engaged in various forms of sex work (including placage - where white men would keep black women as concubines in New Orleans while they kept their legally married white women on the plantation); free black slaveholders; queer black men; white-passing black people; and white slaveholders.

Main cast includes Robert Ri'chard, Nicole Lyn, Bianca Lawson, and Rachel Lutrell. Supporting cast includes legendary black actors: James Earl Jones, Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, Jasmine Guy, Ruby Dee, Pam Grier, Eartha Kitt, and Jennifer Beals.

Highly recommend you watch this, especially if you are interested in Louis and his family's characters from AMC's Interview with the Vampire.

TW: This film does not shy away from discussing the sexual exploitation of black women during this time. There is a graphic rape scene in part 2 (the age-restricted video) from about 1:09:45 to 1:12:00.

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Happy August Short Story Release Day!

Whether you’re craving fluff or feels, laughs or tears, our August general imprint short stories have got something for you!

Title: Count the Number of Seeds Series: Sunrise Over the Black Forest Author: Lyn Weaver

This installment of the Sunrise Over the Black Forest ‘verse, formerly Patreon-exclusive, is now finally available to our general readership!

M/M, Gothic Fantasy with Technology, Vampire grapples with the Proper Care and Handling of the human he’s definitely not pining for

The third story written in the Sunrise Over the Black Forest ‘verse, occurring second chronologically, in this tale of the vampire Sevan and the human priest Kel, Sevan suddenly realizes that humans need to eat…and he has no idea where Kel is getting food from.

If Kel starves, Sevan won’t have anyone to feed from, and that’s definitely the only reason he cares enough to pluck some apples from his orchard and bring them to Kel’s church. 

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Title: if it’s meant to be Series: Welcome to PHU Author: Tris Lawrence

Author Tris Lawrence brings us this short, fluffy alternate universe PHU piece exploring what could have happened if Mac and Pawel had met under different circumstances.

F/M Pre-relationship, Canon Divergent Alternate Universe, A “What If They Met Differently” Story, Meet Cute

After acting as the harbinger of the Emergence when she emerged during the Olympics, Kenzie Davis buried her old identity as a gymnast, changed her name, and found a new home and new family in the circus. 

Under the identity “Mac,” she’s managed to hide herself very well, using her Talent to aid her act. Her high-risk acrobatics are rendered safe by her timely teleportations…until a boy in the audience doesn’t realize it’s an act, and tries to “help” her with some magic of his own.

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Title: Chinaski’s Dirty Work Series: Nasti Chinaski Author: J. D. Harlock

The first story in an all-new series from imaginative author J. D. Harlock!

Magic + the Wild West, Humor and Mischief, So Much Drinking

Chinaski might be fangirling a bit when her plan to capture noted criminal Shootin’ Shiloh comes to a head in Pico’s tavern. Now, if only she can collect her pay-day without everything going wrong…

Or: the one where a lesbian bounty hunter debates whether she should seduce the mark before, during, or after the hunt.

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Title: Chrysopoeia Author: Zel Howland

Author Zel Howland, a contributor to our upcoming anthology Aether Beyond the Binary, publishes their first stand-alone story with Duck Prints Press!

Sort-of-One-Sided F/F (It’s Complicatedtm), Trapped Together, Everyone Needs to Use Their Words, Victorian Alchemy and Witchcraft

After Faith is found guilty of witchcraft, she’s subjected to the traditional punishment for her supposed crime: imprisonment for a month in a cave that may or may not hide a gateway to Hell in its unexplored depths.

But Faith isn’t a witch. She’s an alchemist. And while she could use alchemy to survive her imprisonment…if she’s alive when the townspeople return, she’ll be executed, because obviously only a witch could survive a month stoned-in with no food or water.

Even worse, Faith is increasingly sure that she’s not alone in this cave…

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