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I Cannot Breath (So I Must Sing) Ch.1

Alastor X Fem Opera Singer Reader

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The grand facade of the theater grew ever closer as Alastor walked the streets of New Orleans. They were barren at this time of day. The morning rush of commuters long past and the vibrancy of the night life doomed to be banished till the sun began to rest her head. Alastor’s stride was quick and confident, with just a hint of enthusiasm in his walk. This was just going to be grand! A quick meeting with this little ingenue, perhaps an observatory tour of the theater just for his own curiosity, then back home to a good read and a chilled glass.

As the doors of the building yielded to his hands the strings of melodic sounds danced into Alastor’s ears. This wasn’t his first time visiting the old building. He’d written reviews and talked about performances before. Back when he was taking any chance he could get to get coverage and be heard. Back when he was a scrap of a young man, practically still a boy, desperate to prove himself. Back before his coverage of the bayou butcher put him on the map. Despite the joyful sounds that filled the room, a strange sense of melancholy-even if ever so brief- washed over him. He didn’t dwell on it, certain that it was just the sense of nostalgia trying to revive his long dead enthusiasm.

He entered the auditorium proper, the stage a beacon in the dark room. Two figures stood on it, a man and woman arguing in a recreation of a bedroom. He recognized the man on stage. Danny or Dale or something like that. He’d been at the theater quite some time, he was a draft horse of a human. A gentle giant. The woman he did not know, meaning she was either new since he last visited or was the lady of the hour he was there to see. At the very least she was seasoned. Her motions were fluid, natural, as if she were relaxing at home and not in a costume on a stage.

As the music’s tempo picked up, the woman began to sing. It was as if… Alastor’s soul left his body. His eyes were both unfocused and staring straight at her. Her voice reverberated out, spinning into gold muslin mid air, and cushioning his head. After the initial shock he was able to focus more on what was going on in front of him. The scene was humorous, singing about her missing shoe while she manically stalked the room on stage. And damnit if she didn’t know what she was doing. Her facial and body expressions perfect, her timing immaculate, the jokes hit and they hit well. Then without a note out of place her costar lifted her up, throwing her over his shoulders, there backs against each other. She was now singing upside down, being carried across the stage.

“That was her idea ya know” The stark contrast of Mickey's sharp tenor almost made Alastor jolt. Surprising punctual, Mickey stood beside him observing the scene on stage with a wistful hum, a rusted toolbox cradled under one arm.

“She’s something ain’t she? Came in here and started changing things left and right. Thought she was gonna make the director pull out the last of his hair. A right proper diva, but I gotta say…” Mickey turned his focus back to Alastor.

“Everything she’s changed looks and sounds a whole lot better now”

“I can see now why everyone’s been so worked up over her, she’s quite remarkable.” Alastor’s eyes never left her figure. He was far too mesmerized by the swishing of her skirt and the unwavering rhythm of her vibrato.

“Tell me about it. Stage manager said they’re gonna finish this scene, give notes and be done. I’ll show you to her room backstage.” Mickey walked to an entrance on the back wall, the phrase ‘Theater staff only’ painted on it. While Alastor was loath to miss the rest of the performance, it would do him no good to stand there and stare. He had a job to do after all.

Alastor followed behind his little handyman acquaintance, the man’s orange curls bobbing up and down with his stunted gait. He’d probably told Alastor what caused the limp before, and no doubt with a little liquor in his system, he’d tell him again.

Perhaps he’d listen this time.

It was then that Alastor, wanting to fill the lull in the conversation, made the utterly horrendous mistake of commenting on the architecture of the place.

“Hell if you like what you see here I outta show you the ceiling by the costume room on our way. Oh and the marble piece by the managers office, and the..” Thus began the long, arduous detour as Mickey entered room after room, showing Alastor each piece of cabinetry and gilded doorknob he’d found interesting. When he’d thought about taking a tour, this wasn’t what he’d meant. And with no knowledge of the buildings layout, and almost no other staff milling about from what he could see, there was almost no chance of Alastor ditching Mickey and finding the woman’s dressing room on his own. He was well and truly at this buffoons mercy.

By the time Mickey had deemed him educated enough on the buildings design, they were a good 45 minutes late. Alastor’s good mood from earlier long gone, the memory of the woman’s voice replaced with his inner thoughts doing their best to keep him from strangling his companion. He would be lucky if she was even still here, probably leaving sometime ago, and if she was as much a diva as Mickey had described earlier, he could kiss the idea of rescheduling with her goodbye. The smile on his face had never felt tighter or more forced.

Mickey gave a good 3 solid knocks on the door, it rattled, the ancient looking wood contrasting again the shiny new hinges. Shuffling could be heard on the other side, the new hinges remaining silent as the door opened.

“Mickey, I was starting to think you had forgotten” The woman from before stood before them, her costume now replaced with some light looking summer affair. The hair from the performance apparently part of the costume, as y/h/c strands stuck with sweat against her brow. Her accent was thick, almost annoyingly so. Not incomprehensible but certainly not accustomed to the foreign sounds and syllables on her tongue. Which Alastor found odd, as he’d not detected a whiff of it in her song earlier.

She stepped aside, gesturing the men into her space. It was humbly furnished with a daybed, an arm chair with a side table and large mirrored vanity. A long pole stretching from one wall to the other, housing a hand-full of dresses, marked with pieces of paper and scene names. Her hands, slightly sullied with ink stains, were clasped in front of her as she waited on the men to enter and adjust.

“Sorry to keep you waiting ma’am it was all my fault truly” Mickey fessed up, arms in front of with an apologetic look in his eyes.

She pulled out the chair at the vanity as she began to speak, a small selection of raw vegetables sat on wax paper in front of her.

‘How odd’ Alastor thought.

“Oh it’s alright sir, I take notes well here just as I do at the apartment” The sentence made Alastor worry. The accent he had anticipated, but the broken English would be a problem. He could deduce from the state of her hands and the manuscript sitting next to the armchair that she was talking about taking down notes, but one could not count on visual context clues in a strictly audio-graphic medium.

“Oh where are my manners” Mickey seemed to remember he was there for a reason. “Miss. Y/n Leroux, Mr. Alastor Altruist, the finest radio personality and friend a man could ask for.” Mickey stepped aside, his hands in dramatic fashion as he bowed, gesturing Alastor forward.

“Ma’am I hope you can forgive our tardiness” Alastor took the woman’s hand, pressing a chaste kiss to the knuckles before taking a step back. If there was ever a time to turn on the southern charm it was now.

“Oh no no, it’s good. It’s water with a bridge and all that” She put her hands up in a dismissive manner. While Alastor thought the flubbing of the idiom was cute, the more he dwelled on it the more it gave him pause. Why was a woman who didn’t know English using a metaphorical turn of phrase? That seems rather, advanced, didn’t it? His intrigued piqued, Alastor sat in the arm chair, helping himself to the pen on the side table while pulling out a steno pad from his breast pocket.

“If you don’t mind ma’am, I’d like to share some of my questions with you now. Just to give you some time to polish your answers before we go live.”

“Oh yes, okay” Y/n sat back, her legs crossed at the ankle with her hands once more clasped in front of her on her lap.

As Alastor began to focus, the rhythmic squeaking of the floorboards got his attention. He turned toward the sound, Mickey standing there, rocking back and forth with his hands in his pockets. Feeling Alastor’s gaze, he looked at the pair.

“Oh should I?” Mickey made a pointing gesture at the daybed before walking over and sitting on it, without actually receiving an answer. Before Alastor could even begin to focus this time, the whistling began. Try as he might he couldn’t school his features enough to hide the irritation in his brow.

“Parfois je me demande si t’as été bercé trip près du mur…” Y/n muttered under her breath. “Mickey could you help me?” Mickey sat at attention. “My hat I think is backstage, or eh in the seats?”

“Oh I‘ll go fetch it for you, won’t take me but a minute. Don’t start without me Al!” Mickey practically sprinted out the door.

As he heard the latch secure in the frame, Alastor let out a small breath, the stress in shoulders dissipating significantly . Y/n just hummed fondly, before reaching behind her seat. She turned slightly, a small grin plastered on her face as she raised her hand, holding the ‘misplaced’ hat up for Alastor to see.

Alastor let out a small laugh “Many thanks” he said, this smile feeling much more genuine. Y/n simply nodded her head, gesturing with her hand for him to start once more.

They were about 15 minutes into it and Alastor was almost done explaining how things would go, and feeding her some of his questions. As she spoke he took down her answers, not for the sake of remembrance but to try and parse out how much English she really knew. As he was reviewing small crunches could be heard across from him. Y/n was munching on the vegetables he had noticed earlier.

“Why are you eating like that?” Alastor asked off the cuff.

“Pardon?” She simply sat there, genuine confusion on her face.

“Why are you eating like you’re a rabbit and not a human? What is your French palette to delicate for our American cuisine.” The comment was out of the blue and a bit forced, but Alastor wanted to insult her. He wanted to see how she reacted when given a surprise.

“Do you insult all your eh guests?” She said, sass dripping out into her voice, looking very much like she wanted to role her eyes.

There it was, his lynchpin.

“I’m the interviewer here, not the interviewee.” Alastor’s confidence had well and truly been restored. This time she did role her eyes at his comment. He just gave out a laugh. “Tell you what, how about a little tit for tat. I’ll answer a question, if you do.”

“I was already answering them.” She just fixed him with a look.

“Off the book questions, no interview, just personal questions for me.” She seemed to ponder a moment, before giving in.

“Fine”

“Ladies first” Alastor gestured to her.

“Do you insult all your guests?” She asked, the evidence once more affirmed in Alastor’s mind.

“Actually my dear, I don’t really do interviews. I’m more of a solo artist. This one was more me being opportunistic, let’s say. Since you are my only interviewee then I guess the answer is yes, though I didn’t mean any insult.” Y/n just gave a huff at his comment.

“So why do you eat like a woodland critter?” Alastor prodded once more.

“I’ve been here since the morning. It’s hot here and meat spoils. So” She gestured to the remnants of what was apparently her lunch. “Your turn” Alastor simply said, no further comment on his lips.

“If this is for me, why are you taking notes?” This intrigued him further, so she was not as oblivious as she seemed.

“These are more just for the sake of record keeping. Just makes the process easier” The lie was easy, and flowed smoothly of his tongue. The most impressive part being she couldn’t really call him out on it. The back and forth had settled her, she seemed eased and comfortable with the questioning.

Time to knock her down.

“So for mine what I want to know is why you’re pretending you don’t know English? “

“Excus-“

“Save it” He held his hand out in front of him to stop her. “You couldn’t have known this but I do know some French, and from what I know the word ‘do’ doesn’t exist in it. So if you were as linguistically challenged as you say you are, then that little ‘Do you insult all your guests’ would have sounded a lot more awkward than it was, or at the very least a whole lot slower.” Alastor just sat there and basked in her face. The mix of offense and frustration that he found just so adorably entertaining.

“Though” he began pondering aloud “I suppose I didn’t need that tidbit of evidence, Mickey said he spoke to you, and heh even I can’t understand Mickey most days.” The grin on his face was wide and sharp, the tension in the room stifled the air around them. He half expected her to walk out, seeing as she gave no response to him.

Y/n closed her eyes and took a breath, steadying herself before opening them once more, her gaze no longer shocked but determined.

“If you must know” the change in her voice was striking. Gone almost entirely was the accent, and the small cautiousness that hung over her before was no where to be seen. “It’s because I’m a novelty. While I’m more than confident in my capabilities as a singer, Mr. Altruist, I’m much more valuable to Americans as an exotic European foreigner, than as a competent singer.”

“So you’re being a ham for the sake of what exactly?” His brow quirked up in curiosity.

“That’s two questions in a row, it’s my turn.” Y/n stated matter of factly. “What it’d like to know is why you’ve been needing to get blood out of your clothes recently?”

Alastor swallowed hard, surely she was joking? Perhaps she was testing him?

“It was hard to tell when you first entered, considering Mickey so odorously reeks of grease and metal. However what this rooms gains in amenities it lacks in air flow. As we’ve sat here I’ve noticed how strongly the scent of citrus and salt is on you. While any decent lady knows this is an easy remedy for most stains, it’s the underlying twinge of iron that gives away just what stain was being removed.” Y/n just sat there, her arms at her sides, eyes alight and mouth eased into a grin.

“Though” she said “I suppose I didn’t need that tidbit of evidence as when you sat down I noticed that odd purple stain on your collar.” She paused pointing on her neck to where the blotch was on him. “My guess is you missed the spot while blueing your shirt since it sits right in the fold of the collar .” Y/n sat back, pleased with her analysis of the arrogant bastard in front of her.

Alastor looked down, his face blank as he tried desperately to hold himself together. He couldn’t kill her, Mickey was still in the building looking for her blasted hat. Plus she was much too high profile and he had bragged at the office about the interview. So no alibi, a witness and a persistently observant woman in front of him. What to do?

Alastor laughed slowly before looking up once more. “Why do you know so much about removing blood stains Miss. Leroux?” He smiled once more, it was a flimsy trap, but he couldn’t let her know that. He didn’t need to cover though as she didn’t fall for it,.

“I think I asked you first.” Was all she said. The smug look on her face as she crossed her arms was too much for Alastor, he made to lift himself up and out of this hellhole of a dressing room.

“So Friday at 4 then? Or 3 to be early?” She simply stated nonchalantly, making no move to get up or stop him.

“Heh, do some preliminary stalking of me did you?” Alastor was trying and failing to get the upper hand again as he grabbed his things to leave.

“Don’t flatter yourself. Mickey told me when your show was.” Alastor turned to see her once more before he left. The look in her face had not lessened any. She smugly raised her hand, waving at him with 3 fingers.

“Toodles”

#alaska writes #alastor x reader #reader insert #human alastor #alastor x y/n #alastor x you #Parfois je me demande si t’as été bercé trip près du mur #is an affection way of calling someone stupid #Direct translation: Sometimes i wonder if you've been cradled too close to the wall #some say mickey is still looking for readers hat to this day #also blueing was a method used for color correcting white clothes

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brookston · 2 years ago

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Holidays 3.7

Holidays

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Finnmarkslopet Dog Sled Race (Finland)

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INTERPOL International Day of Remembrance for Fallen Officers

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Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

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National Be Heard Day

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National Flapjack Day

Punch Roll Day (Sweden)

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Football Day (England) [1st Tuesday]

National Sportsmanship Day [1st Tuesday]

Peace Corps Day [1st Tuesday]

Town Meeting Day (Vermont) [1st Tuesday]

Unique Names Day [Tuesday of Name Week]

Independence Days

Aleutian Islands (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Barbara Eden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Billy (Muppetism)

Contradiction Day (No It’s Not!; Pastafarian)

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Psyche’s Day (Pagan)

Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (Christian; part of The Korean Martyrs)

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Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 11 of 60)

Premieres

Alice the Collegiate (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes (Film; 1980)

From Genesis to Revelation, by Genesis (Album; 1969)

The Golden Eggs (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

Highlander (Film; 1986)

The Long Goodbye (Film; 1973)

Mame (Film; 1974)

Mickey’s Grand Opera (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Film; 2008)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated Film; 2014)

My Beautiful Launderette (Film; 1986)

A Room with a View (Film; 1986)

Sailor Moon (Japanese Anime Series; 1992)

The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series; 1973)

Way Out West, by Sonny Rollins (Album; 1957)

Young Americans, by David Bowie (Album; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Felicitas, Perpetua, Reinhard (Austria)

Bogoljub, Felicita, Perpetua, Teofil (Croatia)

Tomáš (Czech Republic)

Perpetua (Denmark)

Ralf, Raul, Rolf, Rudolf, Ruudi, Ruut (Estonia)

Taika, Tarja, Taru (Finland)

Félicie, Félicité, Nathan (France)

Felicitas, Felizitas, Perpet, Reinhard, Volker (Germany)

Evgenios (Greece)

Tamás (Hungary)

Quintilio, Tommaso (Italy)

Ella, Elmira (Latvia)

Felicita, Galmantė, Rimtautas, Tomas (Lithuania)

Are, Arild (Norway)

Felicja, Nadmir, Paweł, Polikarp, Tomasz (Poland)

Efrem (Romania)

Tomáš (Slovakia)

Felicidad, Perpetua (Spain)

Camilla, Ottilia (Sweden)

Davon, Devan, Deven, Devin, Devon, Devonta, Devonte, Devyn, Dewey, Lothar, Luther (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 66 of 2023; 299 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 16 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Adar 5783

Islamic: 14 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 5 Ver; Fiveday [5 of 30]

Julian: 22 February 2023

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 10 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Empodocles]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 77 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 16 of 29)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 2 years ago

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Holidays 3.7

Holidays

Alexander Graham Bell Day

Arbor Day (California)

Bird Day (California)

Bloody Sunday Anniversary Day (Selma, Alabama)

Chamorro Heritage Day (Guam)

Equal Pay Day (Gleicher Bezahlungstag; Germany)

Finnmarkslopet Dog Sled Race (Finland)

First Planting Festival (Elder Scrolls)

Get Grandma To Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe Day

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Day (British Virgin Islands)

International Day of the Anti-Fascist Woman

International Women’s Day (Angola, Tajikistan)

INTERPOL International Day of Remembrance for Fallen Officers

Liberation of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Masaryk Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Maslenitsa (Russia)

National Be Heard Day

National Ben Day

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

Nones of March (Ancient Rome)

Plant Power Day (UK)

Say Hello Day

Teacher’s Day (Albania)

Texas Energy Day (Texas)

307 Day

World Oneness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cereal Day

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Flapjack Day

Punch Roll Day (Sweden)

1st Tuesday in March

Football Day (England) [1st Tuesday]

National Sportsmanship Day [1st Tuesday]

Peace Corps Day [1st Tuesday]

Town Meeting Day (Vermont) [1st Tuesday]

Unique Names Day [Tuesday of Name Week]

Independence Days

Aleutian Islands (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Barbara Eden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Billy (Muppetism)

Contradiction Day (No It’s Not!; Pastafarian)

Empodocles (Positivist; Saint)

Festival for Vedovus (God of the Dead & Volcanic Movements; Ancient Rome)

Full Moon [3rd of the Year] (a.k.a. ...

Big Famine Moon (Choctaw)

Chase Moon (England, Wicca)

Death Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Crow Comes Back Moon (Traditional)

Dolyatra (Powder Festival; India; Hinduism) [3rd Lunar Full Moon]

Fish Moon (Colonial)

Harvest Moon (South Africa)

Makha Bucha (Festival Celebrating the Concept of an Ideal Community; Buddhism; Thailand) [3rd Lunar Full Moon]

Sap Moon (Alternate, North America)

Sleepy Moon (China)

Sore Eyes Moon (Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Corn, Harvest

Strong Winds Moon (Traditional)

Sugar Moon (Traditional)

Windy Moon (Cherokee)

Winds Moon (Celtic)

Worm Moon (American Indian, Traditional)

José Olallo (Christian; Saint)

Junoalia (Old Roman Festival to Juno)

Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

Paul the Simple (Christian; Saint)

Perpetua and Felicity (Christian; Saints)

Psyche’s Day (Pagan)

Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (Christian; part of The Korean Martyrs)

Thomas of Aquino, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 11 of 60)

Premieres

Alice the Collegiate (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes (Film; 1980)

From Genesis to Revelation, by Genesis (Album; 1969)

The Golden Eggs (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

Highlander (Film; 1986)

The Long Goodbye (Film; 1973)

Mame (Film; 1974)

Mickey’s Grand Opera (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Film; 2008)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated Film; 2014)

My Beautiful Launderette (Film; 1986)

A Room with a View (Film; 1986)

Sailor Moon (Japanese Anime Series; 1992)

The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series; 1973)

Way Out West, by Sonny Rollins (Album; 1957)

Young Americans, by David Bowie (Album; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Felicitas, Perpetua, Reinhard (Austria)

Bogoljub, Felicita, Perpetua, Teofil (Croatia)

Tomáš (Czech Republic)

Perpetua (Denmark)

Ralf, Raul, Rolf, Rudolf, Ruudi, Ruut (Estonia)

Taika, Tarja, Taru (Finland)

Félicie, Félicité, Nathan (France)

Felicitas, Felizitas, Perpet, Reinhard, Volker (Germany)

Evgenios (Greece)

Tamás (Hungary)

Quintilio, Tommaso (Italy)

Ella, Elmira (Latvia)

Felicita, Galmantė, Rimtautas, Tomas (Lithuania)

Are, Arild (Norway)

Felicja, Nadmir, Paweł, Polikarp, Tomasz (Poland)

Efrem (Romania)

Tomáš (Slovakia)

Felicidad, Perpetua (Spain)

Camilla, Ottilia (Sweden)

Davon, Devan, Deven, Devin, Devon, Devonta, Devonte, Devyn, Dewey, Lothar, Luther (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 66 of 2023; 299 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 16 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Adar 5783

Islamic: 14 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 5 Ver; Fiveday [5 of 30]

Julian: 22 February 2023

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 10 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Empodocles]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 77 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 16 of 29)

#Holidays

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weirdlandtv · 8 years ago

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Some Disney production art. The first three images are from Don Donald (1937), one of my personal favourites: it’s really well acted and animated; and funny in a gentle and clever way. Donna, the female character, seems to be an early version of Daisy, though it’s actually unclear if they are the same person. To me they are anyway.

The two other model sheets are from Mickey’s Grand Opera (1936).

#disney #animation #art #animation art #donald duck #1930s #model sheets #character sheets #production drawings #production art #production sketch #mickey mouse #don donald #mickey's grand opera

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findroleplay · 2 years ago

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30+ / F. Looking for 18+ (preferably 21+) writing partners for various fandom roleplays.

I'm mainly looking for canon x canon pairings but will at least listen to any OC ideas you have. I, myself, am only interested in writing canons for these. I like canon or canon divergent plots. No AUs that are way out there.

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MxM is my preference when it comes to pairings but I have quite a few favorite MxF ships and some FxF ones too. I'll just be listing my fandoms and the characters I most like to write as. I'm pretty open when it comes to ships so feel free to suggest some of your favorites to me.

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The Walking Dead: Beth Greene, Gabriel Stokes, Gareth, Merle Dixon, Negan, Paul Rovia, Shane Walsh, Simon

Supernatural: Arthur Ketch, Azazel, Benny Laffitte, Chuck Shurley, Crowley, Dean Winchester, Lucifer, Metatron, Mick Davies

Game of Thrones: Alliser Thorne, Beric Dondarrion, Bronn, Daenerys Targaryen, Jaime Lannister, Margaery Tyrell, Petyr Baelish, Robb Stark, Roose Bolton, Sansa Stark, Stannis Baratheon, Thoros, Tywin Lannister

Grand Theft Auto IV & V: Devin Weston, Dimitri Rascalov, Gerry McReary, Michael De Santa, Mikhail Faustin, Niko Bellic, Packie McReary, Ray Boccino, Steve Haines, Trevor Philips

Stranger Things: Billy Hargrove, Jim Hopper, Martin Brenner, Murray Bauman, Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington

Tolkien Universe: Bard, Beleg, Bofur, Boromir, Celeborn, Curufin, Elrond, Feanor, Finrod, Thranduil, Turgon

The Clergy Universe (from Ghost): Cardinal Copia, Papa Emeritus III, Papa Emeritus IV

Law & Order (the original show only): Ben Stone, Cyrus Lupo, Jack McCoy, Mike Logan, Nolan Price

House MD: James Wilson, Lawrence Kutner, Remy Hadley, Robert Chase

Various Horror Movies: Amber Freeman, Ash Williams, Billy Loomis, Dan Cain, Dave Hanson, Dewey Riley, Freddy Krueger, Herbert West, Jill Roberts, Leslie Vernon, Mark Hoffman, Michael Myers, Mickey Altieri, Mike Tobacco, Otis Driftwood, Paxton Rodriguez, Randall Flagg, Richie Kirsch, William Schenk

Random Characters: Alan Grant, Albus Dumbledore (Fantastic Beasts era only), Alex Krycek, Barty Crouch Jr., Enjolras, Erik (a.k.a. the Phantom of the Opera), Gaston, Gilderoy Lockhart, Grantaire, Jim Moriarty (BBC Sherlock version), Jonathan Carnahan, Severus Snape

If you've made it this far, I like to write on Discord. I can also write through messages on here and might be willing to accommodate some other means.

If you're interested, please message me here or like this post and I'll message you first.

I like to at least begin plotting over on here or else my Discord gets too cluttered.

#the walking dead rp #supernatural RP #game of thrones rp #grand theft auto rp #stranger things rp #Tolkien universe rp #the clergy rp #law and order rp #house md rp #horror movies rp

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gallavichthings · 4 years ago

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If you’ve been in the fandom for more than one week, you’ve definitely come across the name of this week’s interviewee: Shamelessquestions on AO3, or @goodkwuestion, as Kay goes by both here and on Twitter, is a household name in this fandom, and rightfully so. With stories that rank among everyone’s favorites, such as Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Lost in Translation, Pomp and Circumstance. and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Ian Gallagher, Kay deserves a fandom just for herself, to be honest. I had the privilege to interview them this week and find out a bit more about her relationship with Shameless, Gallavich and fanfiction.

GT: Please tell me a bit about yourself.

K: I'm not great at this, lol. I'm a young black woman. I've been a part of one fandom or another since I was about 12, I think.I'm usually a part of one fandom at a time, because that's how my focus works. I do have grand plans to become a published author one day, though I quickly get overwhelmed by the idea. I'm currently working on a sci-fi original, but recently got sucked back into Gallavich. I'm a clinician and front line worker in "real life," and I hope everyone is staying safe and making good decisions.

GT: You said you've been part of a fandom or another since you were 12. Is that when you started reading and writing fics? What was the first fandom you read or wrote for?

K: Yes, my best friend at the time actually printed out a Kenshin fic for me to read and it blew my freaking mind. The first fandom I ever actually wrote for was a soap opera called "Days of Our Lives." But those were dark times as we do not speak of it, lol. Those stories were horrendous and I've blocked them out.

GT: Kenshin as in Rurouni Kenshin?

K: The one in the very same. I think the pairing was Aoshi/Misato in that story. My first real love was Naruto though, and that's really where it all started for me as an active fandom contributor.

GT: When did you start watching Shameless and what made you ship Ian and Mickey?

K: I started watching Shameless around 2013, I think. And I just fell head over heels for Mickey and Gallavich almost immediately.Mickey's entrance with his brothers is seared into my psyche. I really got into Gallavich when Mickey returned home from juvie, and Ian (Cam, really) was a little older and had matured.Season 3 was my cementing point. Their character portrayals were amazing and unique, and their romance and it's development felt fresh and atypical. I just loved it all.

GT:When did you start writing Gallavich fanfiction? What made you start?

K:I was inhaling fanfiction by the following year and I swear, Mintsauce is like the gateway drug for Gallavich writers.

GT: THEY ARE. Especially back then.

K: Word! I read a fic of hers called The Taste of Familiarity and it jumped into my head to write a tribute fic for it, based on the plight of poor Callum. So The Ballad of Poor Callum Scott was born and that was my entry into Gallavich fanfiction.

GT: Reading good stories is really inspiring, isn't it?

K: So inspiring! Mintsauce's stuff in particular for me back then. This fandom is filled with amazing writers; it's mindblowing.

GT: It is, indeed. There's no shortage of fics, of all kinds.

What's the most fun thing about writing Gallavich?

K: I love how I feel no restrictions when writing them. Ian and Mickey have this wealth of experiences and range that you can put them almost anywhere and it makes complete sense, you know? They're crass and messy, but they're loving, family oriented and have all these poignant moments that can meld seamlessly into almost any scenario I can think up.

GT: And what's the most difficult thing?

K: Dealing with canon.

GT: lol

K: I broke up with Shameless a while back and it's rough writing when you pay attention to some of the nonsense they trot out.

GT: That is very true.

Are you following the last season?

K: Not really. I haven't really bothered with the show since Ian broke up with Mickey on the porch and I officially checked out. I do watch the Gallavich scenes for later seasons though and I'm listening to see if they get their canon happy ending. I think I might watch the season after I get the happy ending guarantee. I'm a sensitive baby. I would not handle it well if they did them dirty.

GT: Do you prefer writing Ian or Mickey?

K: Mickey is my baby, but I do tend to write Ian's POV more.

GT: Why do you think that is?

K: From a romantic standpoint, Mickey fell so hard and is such a sure thing in his love for Ian, I think I end up trying to equalize it a bit in my writing.For other aspects, I think I approach them a little more equally.

GT: What does your writing process look like?

K: I don't do outlines or planning, which makes me feel like a bum sometimes. I think about the story until it runs like a movie in my head, then I just write down what I see. I post a chapter as soon as I finish editing.

GT: You don't outline and you still write those amazing stories? That's incredible. What about research? How much do you research when you write?

K: I research a ton. It can get a little obsessive sometimes, especially when I'm just looking stuff up to make a silly one off statement. In TIPDIG, I ended up spending a significant chunk of time just researching the Ferris wheel for their date, for example. I read newspaper articles about its construction, checked maps, looked up what landmarks you might see from it. I'm trained in medical research; we don't play, lol.

GT: What kind of fics do you write the most?

K: AUs, almost always. Both multichapter and oneshots. I mix genres a lot, but love to incorporate as much humour and sexy times as I can.

GT: Who are your favorite characters aside from Ian and Mickey? Do you write them too?

K: I love Lip and Mandy, and I also have a fondness for Mickey's brothers (that entrance!) even though there isn't really much about them in canon. I haven't written any Shameless fics where Ian and Mickey weren't the center of them, but I do love lots of side characters in my stories.

GT: What's your favorite Gallavich fic that you’ve written so far and why?

K: I'll be obsessed with whatever I'm working on at the time. It's probably the Increasingly Poor Decisions of Ian Gallagher (TIPDIG) tho. It is my most ambitious piece of writing to date. There were a lot of moving parts involved and a lot of stuff to remember and connect. That's the drawback of keeping everything stored in your head.

GT: It's a fandom favorite for sure. But then again, everything you write is.

What are your favorite type of comments to receive?

K: If someone leaves feedback, I'm the happiest camper in the world. I love the ones where people try to reason out wtf is going on and what I'm planning. I love when people flail at me when I drop the angst hammer. I just love it all. Wait, the angst flailing ones might just be my fave, lol.

GT: You mentioned MintSauce... Are there any other writers you admire in the fandom? Or any fics that are your favorite?

K: Duuuuude! I did a whole tribute section of some of my faves at the end of one of my fics.

So Mintsauce is the OG and Spock, omg! Do not wander and Wide-eyed walker by Spock remain part of my holy grail. Exoskeletons, Ruinmynylons, Milominderbinder... I can do this all day.

GT: What are your favorite tropes?

K: Jealousy, hands down. Soulmate and pining

GT: What are some of your fanfiction pet peeves?

K: Crazy long monologues, sex without preparation, being overly descriptive/detailed on things I feel are irrelevant, ooc behaviour.

GT: What’s your favorite season of Shameless? Do you have a favorite episode?

K: I think season 3 remains my fave, for nothing else because it's when I truly fell into Gallavich.

Fave episode is currently the one that introduced me to bridezilla Mickey. Noel ate that. It had to be fun to shoot.

GT: What's your favorite Gallavich scene?

K: That's a hard one to choose. I currently love their reunion at the docks after Mickey escaped from prison. I will always have a soft spot for the dugouts scene as well. The proposal was also good.

GT: If you could go back and change one thing in canon, what would it be?

K: Oh lord, so much. But definitely the porch breakup. That was just a mess for me.

GT: It came out for left field.

Ok, so what's next? Do you have and fic plans?

K: Well I recently came out of Gallavich retirement and I'm currently in the middle of my latest multichap, Old Rules for New Side Pieces. I'm playing it by ear after that. I'm also trying to settle down to get to work on my original books.

GT: Best of luck with that!

K: Thank you!

GT: That was it. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this with me! Any parting words?

K: I just think it's great that you're putting time and effort into talking to fandom contributors. It was fun and I'm sure it's appreciated.

And thanks to those who have read my work, offered support and welcomed me right back. It feels good to be a part of the Shameless fandom again. ♥

#gallavich #ian x mickey #shameless us #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #gallavich fanfiction #shameless #shameless fanfiction #writer's spotlight #goodkwuestion

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After quite the drawn out speal the "Italian" was finally announced, "...The Fabulous Feathered Freak, FELICIANO!" This is where Adrian made his grand entrance, with a power walk, in full costume, including an outlandish top hat adorned with peacock and quail feathers, a masterful make-up job creating a creepy maverick appeal, gems amid his forehead and deep-lined eyes to create shameless stares at his crowd, adding just the right amount of scandalous. He was one to always make an audience connection. His Siberian husky trotted just behind him. Then of course there was the full-length purple cloak that he swooshed open with a fierce jerk one side at a time, releasing at least 10 purple glossy starlings from each side out into the air. That's when the music blared, the area went black, and laser lights shot colorful beams like arrows splitting the darkness turning the stage reminiscent a rock concert or heavy metal rave. This is also when more starlings went soaring out. Adrian had 300 all together that he pulled in a trailer behind his RV. If their feathers weren't reflective enough as they were, their beaks and feet were coated with a paint that glowed in the dark as black lights hit them making the whole show a sensational vision. Adrian jumped up on an ego-riser platform like a crazed symphonic conductor leading his orchestra with a heavy narcotic look in his eyes. He pointed and flailed his arms looking like a deranged version of Fantasia's Mickey Mouse commanding the stars only with birds whooshing and turning flips, and sailing V's, and dangerous criss-crossing flight patterns, and purposeful near misses, causing audience Ooohs and Ahhhs. It was choreographed to his own homemade mix of sounds to Last Resort/Papa Roach, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Cypress Hill, and Hollywood Undead. There was even a creative story line inter-weaved into his feathered rock opera. Larger birds chased smaller ones showing the cruelties of nature as there was even a moment his falcon "appeared" to capture and devour his pigeon-sized prey. But, he showed the beauty of nature as well. He mimicked birth having several finches fly from a palm cockatoo's large nest. His ravens, one white (the representative of good) one black (the representative of evil) painted an inner-struggle with the conductor, who appeared to be losing his mind unable to choose sides. The ravens flew through hoops then through blazing rings of fire. Near the end the white one led Adrian up a high platform through soft white lights angled skyward. But, then his black one tugs him, urging him to jump through the fire. Off to the side a cockatoo is lighting the fuse of a cannon. Then with arms stretched wide, he lets himself fall with no net, directly through the ring of fire (the crowd gasping) just as the cannon detonates bombarding the area with smoke and hundreds of starlings. Adrian's body just disappears into the torrent flock, only his costume hitting the ground below. This is when the lasers and the music halt. The birds all swarm to perches set throughout the audience and around the arena left only with the dog who sniffs around scratching at the costume to show he isn't there, giving the audience time to whisper wondering where the heck he went. Then moments later Adrian reenters the same way he did before with his arms out-stretched wide wearing a similar outfit only all black instead of the purples like before, with the black raven on his shoulder, a boom of scary music and lights come on to make it look like he’d just crawled up from the fires of Hell. Then it was over and the lights went up and Adrian put his boyish friendly grin on, bowing and blowing kisses to the crowd as some softer ending music came on and he began thanking the audience for coming.

It was the kind of shit you could only see in Vegas, but there it was under some seedy big top packed to the hilt. CarnEvil? What kind of Gimmick was that? Old as the hills. That’s what. The freak show circus still knew how to draw a crowd, a niche’ community maybe, but the first night of curiosity seekers was all it ever took. Word would spread with each town they stopped in and then they’d just keep coming till the moment they pulled away and disappeared.

Adrian would be sitting out back of the tent after the show putting his birds back into their proper holdings and then he would usually go into his RV for drinks to celebrate his show. Often someone would approach him somewhere in the middle, kids, hecklers, fans, autograph hounds, one never really knew, but it was rare he made it from the show to the RV without a run in, especially on their last day in town. They always vanished without a trace like they were never there.

#caim things #the old show #still up and running #caim head canon #or not #feel free

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the-local-oddity · 5 years ago

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Oswald in The Three Musketeers:

Oswald is older than Mickey, and his big brother, so Oswald leaves to become a Musketeer way before Mickey does, and he's one of the reasons Mickey and the gang is working so hard.

But they haven't seen hide or hair (or HARE ;D) of Oswald since they started working as Janitors. Making a plot point, Mickey wants to find his big brother.

As it turns out, Oswald, being as "Lucky" as he is, figured out Pete's plan, but never got a chance to warn anybody, as Pete caught him snooping and now he's locked up in Pete's secret lair.

Pete monologues to him all the time, and even brags about how he's gonna get rid of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (after they become "Musketeers")

Before the boys are promoted to Musketeers, Pete often compares Mickey to Oswald, making up lies about how Oswald is off having grand adventures, while Mickey isn't even strong enough to become anything more than a janitor.

Ortensia is one of Minnie's handmaiden's and she had a crush on Oswald before he disappeared. She ends up telling Mickey about it during the night watch. Mickey then tells her that Oswald's his brother, and she says that she could tell, since he's strong and brave, just like Oswald.

When Donald's taken down to Pete's lair, he does see Oswald and tried to tell Mickey, but wasn't able to get the point across.

After chaining Mickey up, when Pete is telling Mickey about how everyone left him behind, he rubs it in, that even Oswald's left him behind, making Mickey lose even more hope.

Clarabelle was going to drown both Oswald and Goofy, to get them both out of Pete's hair, but as we know, she and Goofy fall in love. Oswald watches annoyed from a distance.

Oswald, Goofy, and Donald rescue Mickey. Goofy and Donald dive down to get him like in the original movie, while Oswald watches for guards or one of Pete's men. After Mickey wakes up and reunites with Donald and Goofy, Oswald comes from around the corned, to help give him the last bit of strength he needs to defeat Pete.

The 4 race to the opera house, and save the girls. Ortensia is thrilled to have Oswald back, and it's very cute.

The main point of this: Oswald would be very cute in a musketeer outfit.

EDIT:

Ortensia possibly saving Oswald because she figured out what Donald was trying to say and raced off to him before anyone could stop her.

#oswald the lucky rabbit #mickey mouse #donald duck #goofydisney #goofy #disney the three musketeers #the three musketeers #ideas #spacey author #disney

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dfilms · 4 years ago

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Mickey’s Grand Opera, 1936

#Disney #MIckey Mouse #gif #theater #backstage #1930s #1936 #shorts

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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How All in the Family Changed the TV Landscape

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All in the Family is roundly considered a touchstone for television achievement now, but when it debuted 50 years ago, even the network carrying it hoped it would fizzle quickly and unnoticed. CBS put an army of operators at phone lines expecting a barrage of complaints from offended middle Americans demanding its cancellation. Those calls didn’t come. What came was a deluge of support from people hoping this mid-season replacement was a permanent addition to the network’s lineup. The premiere episode contained a considerable list of “television firsts.” One of these rarities continues to remain scarce on network TV: creator Norman Lear trusted the intelligence of the viewing audience. To celebrate All in the Family’s 50th anniversary, we look back at its journey from conception to broadcast, and how it continues to influence and inform entertainment and society today.

Actor Carroll O’Connor, who was a large part of the creative process of the series, consistently maintains he took the now-iconic role of Archie Bunker because All in the Family was a satire, not a sitcom. It was funny, but it wasn’t a lampoon. It was grounded in the most serious of realities, more than the generation gap which it openly showcased, but in the schism between progressive and conservative thinking. The divide goes beyond party, and is not delineated by age, wealth, or even class. The Bunkers were working class. The middle-aged bigot chomping on the cigar was played by an outspoken liberal who took the art of acting very seriously. The audience cared deeply, and laughed loudly, because they were never pandered to. They were as respected as the authenticity of the series characters’ parodies.

Even the laughs were genuine. All in the Family was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of a live audience. There was never a canned laugh added, even in the last season when reactions were captured by an audience viewing pre-taped episodes. Up to this time, sitcoms were taped without audiences in single-camera format and the laugh track was added later. Mary Tyler Moore shot live on film, but videotape helped give All in the Family the look of early live television, like the original live broadcasts of The Honeymooners. Lear wanted to shoot the series in black and white, the same as the British series, Till Death Us Do Part, it was based on. He settled for keeping the soundstage neutral, implying the sepia tones of an old family photograph album. The Astoria, Queens, row house living room was supposed to look comfortable but worn, old-fashioned and retrograde, mirroring Archie’s attitudes: A displaced white hourly wage earner left behind by the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

“I think they invented good weather around 1940.”

American sitcoms began shortly after World War II, and primarily focused on the upper-middle class white families of Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. I Love Lucy’s Ricky Ricardo, played by Cuban-American Desi Arnaz, ran a successful nightclub. The Honeymooners was a standout because Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden was a bus driver from Bensonhurst (the actual address on that show, 328 Chauncey Street, is in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn). American TV had little use for the working class until the 1970s. They’d only paid frightened lip service to the fights for civil rights and the women’s liberation movements, and when the postwar economy had to be divided to meet with more equalized opportunities there was no one to break it down in easy terms. The charitable and likable Flying Nun didn’t have the answer hidden under her cornette. It wasn’t even on the docket in Nancy, a 1970 sitcom about a first daughter. The first working family on TV competing in the new job market was the Bunkers, and they had something to say about the new competition.

Social commentary wasn’t new on television. Shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek routinely explored contemporary issues, including racism, corporate greed, and the military action in Vietnam, through the lens of fantasy and science fiction. The war and other unrest were coming into the people’s living rooms every night on the evening news. The times they were a-changing, but television answered to sponsors who feared offending consumers.

Ah, but British TV, that’s where the action was. Lear read about a show called Till Death Us Do Part, a BBC1 television sitcom that aired from 1965 to 1975. Created by Johnny Speight, the show set its sights on a working-class East End family, spoofing the relationship between reactionary white head of the house Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell), his wife Else (Dandy Nichols), daughter Rita (Una Stubbs), and her husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth), a socialist from Liverpool. Lear recognized the relationship he had with his own father between the lines.

CBS wanted to buy the rights to the British show as a star vehicle for Gleason, Lear beat out CBS for the rights and personalized it. One of the reasons All in the Family works so well is because Lear wasn’t just putting a representative American family on the screen, he was putting his own family up there.

“If It’s Too Hot in The Kitchen, Stay Away from The Cook.”

Archie Bunker dubbed his son-in-law, Michael Stivic, played by Rob Reiner, a “Meathead, dead from the neck up.” This was the same dubious endearment Lear’s father Herman called him. The same man who routinely commanded Lear’s mother to “stifle herself.” Lear’s mother accused her husband, a “rascal” who was sent to jail for selling fake bonds of being “the laziest white man I ever saw,” according to his memoir Even This I Get to Experience All three lines made it into all three of the pilots taped for All In the Family. When Lear’s father got out of prison after a three-year stretch, the young budding writer sat through constant, heated, family discussions. “I used to sit at the kitchen table and I would score their arguments,” Lear remembers in his memoir. “I would give her points for this, him points for that, as a way of coping with it.”

All in the Family, season 1, episode 1, provides an almost greatest hits package of these terse and tense exchanges, which also taught Lear not to back away from the fray. He served as a radio operator and gunner in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, earning an Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters after flying 52 combat missions, and being among the crew members featured in the books Crew Umbriag and 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories. Lear partnered with Ed Simmons to write sketches for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s first five appearances on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950. They remained as the head writers for three years. They also wrote for The Ford Star Revue, The George Gobel Show, and the comedy team Rowan and Martin, who would later headline Laugh-In.

Lear went solo to write opening monologues for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, and produce NBC’s sitcom The Martha Raye Show, before creating his first series in 1959, the western The Deputy, which starred Henry Fonda. To get Frank Sinatra to read Lear’s screenplay for the 1963 film Come Blow Your Horn, Lear went on a protracted aerial assault. Over the course of weeks, he had the script delivered while planes with banners flew over Sinatra’s home, or accompanied by a toy brass band or a gaggle of hens. Lear even assembled a “reading den” in Ol’ Blue Eyes’ driveway, complete with smoking jacket, an ashtray and a pipe, an easy chair, ottoman, lamp, and the Jackie Gleason Music to Read By album playing on a portable phonograph. After weeks of missed opportunities, Lear remembers Sinatra finally read the script and “bawled the shit out of me for not getting it to him sooner.”

The creative perseverance Lear showed just to get the right person for the right part is indicative of the lengths Lear would go for creative excellence. He would continue to fight for artistic integrity, transforming prime time comedy with shows like Good Times, One Day at a Time, and the first late-night soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He brought legendary blue comedian Redd Foxx into homes with Sanford and Son, also based on a British sitcom, Steptoe and Son, which starred Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, best known for playing Paul McCartney’s grand-dad in A Hard Day’s Night. But before he could do these, and the successful and progressive All in the Family spinoffs The Jeffersons and Maude, he had to face battles, big and small, over the reluctantly changing face of television.

“Patience is a Virgin”

After Lear beat CBS to the rights to adapt Till Death Us Do Part he offered the show to ABC. When it was being developed for the television studio, the family in the original pilot were named the Justices, and the series was titled “Justice for All,” according to a 1991 “All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special.” They considered future Happy Days dad Tom Bosley, and acclaimed character actor Jack Warden for the lead part, before offering the role to Mickey Rooney. According to Even This I Get to Experience, Lear’s pitch to the veteran actor got to the words “You play a bigot” before Rooney stopped him. “Norm, they’re going to kill you, shoot you dead in the streets,” the Hollywood icon warned, asking if Lear might have a series about a blind detective with a big dog somewhere in the works.

Taped in New York on Sept. 3, 1968, the first pilot starred O’Connor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Justice. Stapleton, a stage-trained character actor who first worked as a stock player in 1941, was a consistent supporting player for playwright Horton Foote. Stapleton originated the role of Mrs. Strakosh in the 1964 Broadway production of Funny Girl, which starred Barbra Streisand. Lear considered her after seeing her performance in Damn Yankees. She’d made guest appearances on TV series like Dr. Kildare and The Defenders.

O’Connor was born in Manhattan but grew up in Queens, the same borough as the Bunker household with the external living room window which wasn’t visible from the interior. O’Connor acted steadily in theaters in Dublin, Ireland, and New York until director Burgess Meredith, assisted by The Addams Family’s John Astin, cast him in the Broadway adaptation of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. O’Connor had roles in major motion pictures, including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Cleopatra (1963), Point Blank (1967), The Devil’s Brigade (1968), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Marlowe (1969), and Kelly’s Heroes (1970). O’Connor appeared on television series like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Fugitive, The Wild Wild West, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, That Girl, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He’d guest starred as a villain in a season 1 episode of Mission Impossible, and was up for the parts the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island and Dr. Smith on Lost in Space.

The first pilot also starred Kelly Jean Peters as Gloria and Tim McIntire as her husband Richard. ABC liked it enough to fund a second pilot, “Those Were the Days,” which shot in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 1969. Richard was played by Chip Oliver, and Gloria Justice was played by Candice Azzara, who would go on to play Rodney Dangerfield’s wife in Easy Money, and make numerous, memorable guest appearances on Barney Miller. D’Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots. ABC cancelled it after one episode, worried about a show with a foul-mouthed, bigoted character as the lead.

CBS, which was trying to veer away from rural shows like Mayberry R.F.D., The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, bought the rights to the urban comedy and renamed it All in the Family. When Gleason’s contract to CBS ran out, Lear was allowed to keep O’Connor on as the main character.

Sally Struthers was one of the young actors featured in Five Easy Pieces, the 1970 counterculture classic starring Jack Nicholson. She’d also recently finished shooting a memorable part in the 1972 Steve McQueen hit The Getaway. Struthers had just been fired from The Tim Conway Comedy Hour because executives thought she made the show look cheap, which was her job. The premise of the show was it was so low-budget it could only afford one musician, who had to hum the theme song because they couldn’t afford an instrument, and one dancer, as opposed to a line of dancers like they had on The Jackie Gleason Show. Lear noticed her as a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show which Rob Reiner wrote for with Steve Martin as a writing partner. Reiner’s then-fiancée, the director Penny Marshall, was also up for the role of Gloria, but in an interview for The Television Academy, Reiner recalls that, while Marshall could pass as Stapleton’s daughter, Struthers was obviously the one who looked like Archie’s “little girl.”

Reiner, the son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, was discovered in a guest acting role on the Andy Griffith vehicle series Headmaster, a show he wrote for, but had also played bit roles in Batman, The Andy Griffith Show, Room 222, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies and The Odd Couple. Reportedly, Richard Dreyfuss campaigned for the role of Michael, and Harrison Ford turned it down. Mike Evans was cast as Lionel Jefferson, the Bunkers’ young Black next-door neighbor who sugar-coated nonviolent protests with subtle and subversive twists on “giving people what they want.”

“We’re just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug.”

The very first episode tackled multiple issues right away. It discussed atheism, with Michael and Gloria explaining they have found no evidence of god. The family dissects affirmative action, with Archie asserting everyone has an equal chance to advance if they “hustle for it like I done.” He says he didn’t have millions of people marching for him to get his job, like Black Americans. “His uncle got it for him,” Edith explains, with an off-the-cuff delivery exemplifying why Stapleton is one of the all-time great comic character actors. The family argues socialism, anti-Semitism, sausage links and sausage patties. The generation gap widens as Archie wonders why men’s hair is now down to there, while Gloria’s skirt got so high “all the mystery disappears” when she sits down.

All in the Family would continue to deal with taboo topics like the gay rights movement, divorce, breast cancer, and rape. Future episodes would question why presidential campaign funds are unequal, how tax breaks for corporations kill the middle class, and weigh the personal price of serving in an unpopular war as opposed to dodging the draft. When Archie goes to a female doctor for emergency surgery a few seasons in, All in the Family points out she is most certainly paid less than a male doctor. When skyjackings were a persistent domestic threat in the 1970s, Archie suggested airlines should “arm the passengers.” It is very prescient of the NRA’s suggestion of arming teachers to combat school shootings.

But the first showdown between Lear and the network was fought for the sexual revolution. The first episode’s action begins when Edith and Archie come home early from church and interrupt Michael and Gloria as they’re about to take advantage of having the house to themselves. Gloria’s got her legs wrapped around Michael as he is walking them toward the stairs, and the bed. “At 11:10 on a Sunday,” Archie wants to know as he makes himself known. According to Lear’s memoir, CBS President William Paley objected, saying the line suggested sex. “And the network wants that out even though they’re married–I mean, it was plain silly,” he writes. “My script could have lived without the line, but somehow I understood that if I give on that moment, I’m going to give on silly things forever. So, I had to have that showdown.”

The standoff continued until 25 minutes before air time. CBS broadcast the episode, but put a disclaimer before the opening credits rolled, which Reiner later described as saying “Nothing you’re about to see has anything that we want to have anything to do with. As far as we’re concerned, if you don’t watch the next half hour, it’s okay with us.” Lear knew, with what he was doing, this was going to be the first of many battles, because this was the first show of its kind. Television families didn’t even flush toilets, much less bring unmentionables to the table. “The biggest problem a family might face would have been that the roast was ruined when the boss was coming over to dinner,” Lear writes. “There were no women or their problems in American life on television. There were no health issues. There were no abortions. There were no economic problems. The worst thing that could happen was the roast would be ruined. I realized that was a giant statement — that we weren’t making any statements.”

“What I say ain’t got nothing to do with what I think.”

Politicians and pundits worried about how the series might affect racial relations. The country had experienced inner city riots, battle lines were drawn over school desegregation, busing children to schools was met with violent resistance. Did All In the Family undermine bigotry or reinforce racism? Were people laughing at Archie or with him? Was it okay to like Archie more than Mike?

Lear believed humor would be cathartic, eroding bigotry. Bigots found a relief valve. Lear always insisted Archie was a satirically exaggerated parody to make racism and sexism look foolish. Liberals protested the character came across as a “loveable bigot,” because satire only works if the audience is in on the joke. Bigoted viewers didn’t see the show as satire. They identified with Archie and saw nothing wrong with ethnic slurs. Mike and Gloria come off like preachy, bleeding-heart liberal, hippie leeches. Lionel handled Archie better than Michael did.

O’Connor humanized Archie as an old-fashioned guy trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world. Bunker gave bigotry a human face and, because he hated everyone, he was written off as an “equal-opportunity bigot.” Not quite a defensible title. Archie was the most liked character on the show, and the most disliked. Most people saw him as a likable loser, so identifiable he was able to change attitudes. In a 1972 interview, O’Connor explained white fans would “tell me, ‘Archie was my father; Archie was my uncle.’ It is always was, was, was. It’s not now. I have an impression that most white people are, in some halting way, trying to reach out, or they’re thinking about it.” It sometimes worked against O’Connor the activist, however. When he backed New York Mayor John Lindsay’s 1972 anti-war nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination, Archie Bunker’s shadow distanced progressives.

Archie was relatable beyond his bigotry. He spoke to the anxieties of working- and middle-class families. Archie was a dock worker in the Corona section of Queens, who had to drive a cab as a second job, with little hope of upward mobility. He didn’t get political correctness. The character’s ideological quips were transformed into the bestselling paperback mock manifesto The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker. White conservative viewers bought “Archie for President” buttons.

“If you call me Cute one more time, I swear I’ll open a vein.”

As cannot be overstated, All in the Family set many precedents, both socially and artistically. The Bunker family is an icon on many levels, Archie and Edith’s chairs are at the Smithsonian. But Archie Bunker is also the Mother Courage of TV. The antithesis of the bland sitcom characters of the time, he also wasn’t the character we hated to love, or loved to hate. Archie was the first character we weren’t supposed to like, but couldn’t help it. This phenomenon continues. The next TV character to take on the iconic mantle was probably Louis De Palma on Taxi. Audiences should have wanted to take a lug wrench to his head, but Danny De Vito brought such a diverse range of rage and vulnerability to that part it was named TV Guide’s most beloved character for years.

We shouldn’t like Walter White, especially when he doffs that pretentious Heisenberg hat, on Breaking Bad. And let’s face it, Slipping Jimmy on Better Call Saul isn’t really the kind of guy you want to leave alone in your living room while you grab a drink. Families across the United States and abroad sat down to an Italian-style family dinner with Tony Soprano and The Sopranos every Sunday night. But on Monday mornings, most of us would have ducked him, especially if we owed him money. Even the advanced model of the Terminator guy was scared of Tony.

The best example of this is South Park’s Eric Cartman. While we don’t know who his father is on the series, he’s got Bunker DNA all over him. He’s even gotten into squabbles with Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner. This wasn’t lost on Lear, who contacted creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to say he loved the show in 2003. Lear wound up writing for South Park’s seventh season. “They invited me to a party and we’re partying,” Lear told USA Today at the time. “There’s no way to overstate the kick of being welcomed by this group.”

“I hate entertainment. Entertainment is a thing of the past, now we got television.”

Television can educate as much as it wants to entertain, and All in the Family taught the viewing audience a whole new vocabulary. The casual epithets thrown on the show were unheard of in broadcast programming, no matter how commonplace they might have been in the homes of the people watching. When Sammy Davis Jr. comes to Bunker house in the first season, every ethnic and racial slur ever thrown is exchanged. In another first season episode, and both the unaired pilots, Archie breaks down the curse word “Goddamn.” But a large segment of the more socially conservative, and religious, audience thought All in the Family said whatever they wanted just because they could get away with it.

All in the Family debuted to low viewership, but rose to be ranked number one in the Nielsen ratings for five years. The show undermined the perception of the homogeneous middle-class demographic allowing shows like M*A*S*H to comment on contemporary events.

All in the Family represented the changing American neighborhood. The show opened the door for the working poor to join situation comedies as much as when the Bunkers welcomed Lionel, Louise (Isabel Sanford), and George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) when they moved into Archie’s neighborhood. Lear reportedly was challenged by the Black Panther Party to expand the range of black characters on his shows. He took the challenge seriously and added subversive humor. Sanford and Son was set in a junkyard in Watts. Foxx’s Fred Sanford rebelled against the middle-class aspirations of his son, Lamont (Demond Wilson). Good Times was set in the projects of Chicago, and took on issues like street gangs, evictions and poor public schools.

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Married With Children, The Simpsons, and King of the Hill continued to explore the comic possibilities of working class drama. Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a successful, upwardly mobile television producer. Working-class women were represented on sitcoms like Alice, but didn’t have a central voice until 1988 when Roseanne debuted on ABC, and Roseanne Barr ushered in her brand of proletarian feminism. All in the Family’s legacy includes Black-ish, as creator Kenya Barris continues to mine serious and controversial subject matter for cathartic and educational laughter. Tim Allen covets the conservative crown, and is currently the Last Man Standing in for Archie. But as reality gets more exaggerated than any satire can capture, All in the Family remains and retains its most authentic achievement.

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Well one day who should turn up but Siegmund, and he falls madly in love with Sieglinde, regardless of the fact that she’s married to Hunding, which is immoral, and she’s his own sister, which is illegal. But that’s the beauty of Grand Opera, you can do anything so long as you sing it. And after having given Hunding a Mickey Finn so that they won’t wake him up, they certainly do sing it! “Du bist der Lenz nach dem ich verlangte in frostigen Winters Frist.”

This is a classic and contains all you ever wanted to know of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

#the problems of an opera fan #richard wagner #opera tag #der ring des nibelungen

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Holidays + Mortal Kombat Duos

I made a text post yesterday, and this idea sprang up from it. I’m just procrastinating my time away, because im too lazy to do my assignments zzzzz

Hanzo Hasashi and Kuai Liang

- Both of them plan everything to the last detail; Every food stop, every toilet break, and every sight-seeing visit have their specific time allotment.

- They start the day early, because the early bird catches the worm. They want to enjoy their holiday, and have a leisurely time sight-seeing. They don’t want to panic and rush around from place-to-place, and never properly relaxing on their time off.

- Before the trip, both of them also read up on the history of the places they’re visiting, and get a guide to show the around. They want to learn, and soak in as much as they can about anything and everything.

- The start of their adventure begins at Japan, because it’s Hanzo’s birthplace (and Kuai Liang wants to pay his respects to Hanzo’s late wife and son).

- They travel to the castles and temples in the region, enjoy the lush greenery of the beautiful gardens while listening to the soothing sounds of water flowing in the compound

- If there’s a festival during their visit, Hanzo helps Kuai pick out a Yukata to wear and both of them enjoy watching the fireworks while sipping sake and eating dango in one of the local shops

- No trip to Japan is complete without an Onsen visit. So they stay at Kyushu for a while, and enjoy soaking in the private hot-springs filled with all sorts of healing water

- Their next stop begins at China, at the former Lin Kuei Temple. Hanzo allows some time for Sub-Zero’s moment of nostalgia, to reflect and bury his ghosts within the desolate walls

- They trek around China’s forests and mountains, hiking around the shores of Li River to enjoy the peaceful scenery

- Both of them stop at the tea shop in every village they visit, because Kuai Liang wants Hanzo to try Chinese Herbal Tea of all variants

- Kuai Liang even brings Hanzo to the Chinese sinseh for all sorts of herbs and massages, that Hanzo is reluctant to join at first, but enjoys nevertheless because damn, his bones feel like a Thousand bucks.

- They end their adventure in Disneyland, and have that one photo of them posing with Mickey Mouse as a token of remembrance of a time well spent

Kung Lao and Liu Kang

- When they travel, they don’t exactly have a plan. They know where to go, and what to do, they just haven’t planned out in a set routine per say

- So they start their day early, jumping from one place to another.

- They backpack around the more rural villages first, hang out with the locals to learn the ins-and-outs of the local tradition and lifestyle.

- All the children love Liu Kang and Kung Lao. In fact, they spend some of their evenings playing games with the children and showing them some Shaolin tricks to entertain them with

- Whenever they visit a Buddhist temple, they pay their respects and donate a little for the upkeep. They know how hard it’s like taking care of a monastery.

- But even both of them have their adventurous streaks, and it usually starts with Kung Lao.

- Anything you can do, I can do better, is Kung Lao’s motto.

- Both of them go on all sorts of thrill rides; River-rafting, bungee jumping, hell, free climbing the Grand Canyon.

- Liu Kang is using both hands? Kung Lao will do him better, he’ll climb the Grand Canyon, with ONE hand. Get rekt.

- Whenever there’s a Stephen Chow movie playing in the local theatre, Kung Lao is the one dragging Liu Kang to watch it with him. He doesn’t care if he’s already watched it for the 13th time, they are going to watch that movie.

- Both of them have travelled to Australia, and Iceland, and on both occasions; They went there specifically to see the Southern and Northern Lights. Both of them are in awe of all green, purples and blues ripple in the sky.

- Occasionally, they would bump into Erron and Kabal. Kung Lao even has a photo of him and Erron on a roller coaster together, big, big smiles on their face while holding onto their hats for dear life.

Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade

- Usually, Johnny lets Sonya decide where their travel destination would be because she’s a little fussy when it comes to travelling.

- Johnny tries his best to avoid tourist attraction areas, because he knows he’s bound to be recognized and the mans just wants to enjoy his time off with his ex-wife without paparazzi following his every move.

- Both of them travel first-class because they have the money to indulge on more comfortable seats (And join the Airline’s Mile High Club winkwink)

- Cassie is always updated because Johnny and Sonya send photos of their food and selfies together, and it makes Cassie happy to see that her parents are very much in love with each other.

- No matter where they go, Sonya always asks Johnny if he’s okay with her travel plans, and if he has anything specific in mind. He usually does, and it’s either the local arts theatre or the opera. She enjoys the theatre and doesn’t mind watching the Lion King, but she struggles to stay awake during the opera because she can barely understand the words despite reading about it before she came.

- She’s not alone though, because Johnny is also struggling to stay awake and they both leave during the break.

- Johnny always makes sure that there is a romantic dinner during their holiday. He wants to pamper Sonya, and shower her with all his love and attention.

- He always books dinner at a fancy restaurant in the city they’re in, and books the whole restaurant for their privacy. He buys a large bouquet of flowers for her, and buys the most expensive wine there is because Sonya deserves nothing more than the best.

- Sonya is embarrassed, and flattered all the same. She appreciates the fact that Johnny still makes an effort to woo her despite the years between them.

Erron Black and Kabal

- If Kung Lao and Liu Kang are sporadic, then they’re downright chaotic. They don’t have a plan, and they don’t have an exact place in mind. All it takes is for Kano to try and push off some of his work unto them, and they’re gone.

- They usually just go with the flow, and take any plane, train, taxi, truck, boat going anywhere. They don’t keep track of where they’re going, and don’t bother to as long as Kano can’t find them.

- One time, they took a boat to nowhere, and landed themselves right in Shang Tsung’s island. Erron is less than amused about the whole situation, but Kabal has his camera out, ready to shoot a whole Buzzfeed unsolved style video about the island. They managed to get 1 million views on it.

- One other time, they broke into a high-security Military Base in the Tundra because they ran out of food. It’s a mystery to the security guards in the base, as to how the food keeps disappearing despite their religious restocking. It’s also a mystery as to why there’s less bear sightings in the Tundra.

- Both of them somehow end up in Australia, and bring an Emu back to the Black Dragon Base to peck the shit out of Kano.

- You can take the man out of Black Dragon, but you can’t take out the Black Dragon out of him. Occasionally, Erron would get bored and he would drag Kabal to an illegal underground fighting ring for some good ol’ tumble and rumble. Erron and Kabal tag-team y’all.

- Erron’s kicked Kabal into the Sea of Blood just because.

- Both of them enjoy bar-hopping, because Erron holds his liquor a little too well, and Kabal just wants to nurse a scotch or two while enjoying his fries and burgers.

- At some point, they’ve met Kung Lao and Liu Kang at the beach, and all of them were wearing the same Hawaiian shirt they’ve bought from the local shop.

BONUS

At Kotal’s Koliseum

Sonya, Kabal and Liu Kang : Have you seen my partner?

Kung Lao, Johnny and Erron : (Bursts through the Koliseum doors, and tries to outride each other on the bull-riding competition)

#mk 11 #mk headcanons #kuai liang #Hanzo Hasashi #kung lao #liu kang #sonya blade #johnny cage #erron black #kabal

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Can you please fill me a bit in whats happening with shameless? I stopped watching it last season, just couldnt handle the soap opera of it all

i only watched the ianmickey scenes so i dont know too much abt the others but here’s what i’ve gleaned from the bits of scenes i catch bookending the gay stuff:

debbie: began offering bjs for money as a distraction (?????) when people began to question the clothing scheme she was running. possibly trying to send her kid to foster care, difficult to tell when lip’s gf takes care of the baby most of the time. more of her in a minute though. frank ruined debbie’s scheme and now somehow she’s sleeping with a high schooler AND her mom, the mom gives debbie money to be a trophy wife basically. not sure how that happened. debbie’s bi now and just began sleeping with mickey’s lesbian cousin

lip: BORINGGGG. lip is boring now. he works at a mechanic’s and lives in an RV behind the house (?) with his hot baby mama. they raise their kid and do boring house stuff and are working toward like being normal

carl: ??? failed out of west point or something, i think he’s undercover doing weird shit to get into a gang or something. lost interest in him after the huge racist arc in s7 tbh. had to watch him have car sex, 0/10

fiona: moved out, left debbie 50 grand. not sure where all that went. i’m pretty sure she moved out in the same coat she almost ran away w/ jimmy in at the end of s1, which would be cool except maybe she just only owns one jacket

frank: who knows. i keep scrolling past his naked body when trying to fast forward though >:(

liam: kinda unsure except he talks now and is hanging out, independently, with what appears to be a high school basketball team. i think he just realized his dream (?)

ianmickey: HEEERES the juice gays. okay so ian and mickey were cellmates in prison except they were fighting bc they were in close quarters way too much and every little thing annoyed them so ian got manipulated by a guy who didn’t want to be parolled into stabbing the guy so that ian would go to solitary and the guy would stay in jail except then mickey took separating for a bit to mean a breakup so he tried to break up with ian first by stabbing the guy so they both stabbed him except they had a nice CO who just escorted them back to their cage POST-STABBING and mickey was still mad because ian was fucking him with mayo every morning except then ian got paroled and mick asked him to stay in jail since apparently he WENT to jail just to BE with ian (which apparently viewers already knew like that wasn’t a revelation) and then ian said he’d do it if mickey wanted him to so he went to stab someone else to throw his parole but mickey stopped him last minute with his gang and told ian it was wrong to ask him to stay and also ian had a gay friend group in prison (who were murderers) and mickey went to his dad’s nazi friends for boy advice (who gave it to him) and then ian got out and then thru circumstances i don’t understand mickey snuck out? was paroled? and ended up on a bus where his PO found him but just sorta escorted him home so mickey goes home to ian who now has a PO that is blackmailing him into running an insurance scam and the PO “always wanted a milkovich” so she bribes mickey’s PO to transfer mickey to her but she sucks and so she gets thrown out of a window shortly thereafter and ian thinks that mickey did it and mickey thinks that ian did it so he goes to his dad and his lesbian cousin and it turns out mickey’s helping them restore & move guns or whatever and mickey’s dad knows he’s gay because mickey goes to him for advice on what to do about ian and terry is almost just regular-homophobic for a second about the whole concept of mickey caring for ian because they’re together but once someone brings up marriage he calls mickey some slurs and threatens to kill him and gets real specific with what genitals mickey’s partners need to have and at the same time as this is all going on, ian is separately getting advice to marry mickey so they get engaged to abuse spousal privilege (because they both think the other one killed their PO) except when theyre at the courthouse they see that the PO’s blackmailed lesbian lover did the crime so they get in a fight about the “real” reason they got engaged and even though he’s upset mickey signs the marriage cert anyway but ian doesn’t because he’s too self-loathing to think he deserves love so they break up and mickey starts fucking a “glittery twink” (his dyke cousin’s words, or maybe ian’s?) that he obviously hates and also he’s pretending that he’s vers now so they make a bunch of homophobic jokes about the boyfriend (that mickey’s moved in with, and he drives a moped) and as revenge ian gets a grindr date to where mickey’s going that night and he meets them there with his extremely flamboyant date so they make a bunch of homophobic jokes about him and then the glittery twink says something mean about mickey so ian beats the shit out of him and then mickey knocks ian’s date out cold for saying he’d sit on ian’s dick later and ian proposes to mickey even though earlier at the courthouse mickey pushed him down the stairs and broke his leg but regardless mickey says yes so they get engaged and terry comes back the next morning with a gun and calls mickey slurs outside the house and they pull a gun on each other and more homophobic things are said and mickey begins getting really really into wedding planning “as revenge” to make it the most nauseating thing his dad’s ever seen but he very obviously actually deeply cares and wants all of this because mickey has been turned into a caricature of himself whose only traits are violence and honed, homophobic stereotypes of domesticity

and that’s what you missed on shameless.

#anon #ask

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