#Neil Bennett

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Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You

directed by Brandon Cronenberg, 2019

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It's pod-tastic! Croydon Insider looks at 2024's biggest stories

The Croydon Insider is back, with the latest episode of our news discussion panel podcast thingy… And the last pod-tastic episode of 2024 looks back on the Croydon news of the past 12 months in the company of former BBC news reporter Neil Bennett, current BBC Wales reporter Sanjana Idnani, former Croydon FM presenter Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell and Andrew Fisher, who appears on all sorts of broadcast…

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Recent haul from @llstarcasterll’s site🖤

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20th Anniversary - Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters

"Have you ever walked up to people and realized they were just talking about you? Have you ever had it happen sixty times in a row? I have."

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Straightening up my kids room is always funny because his taste in things is so varied. Like today, I was straightening up his CD’s (we do CD’s and vinyl so 1: we OWN our music and 2: it helps slow things down in this immediate gratification world) and I just had to laugh at the ones he had been listening to most recently. Like honestly, what six year old is out there listening to Tony Bennet and The Flaming Lips??

So out of all of these, which one do you think my six year old weirdo listens to the most?

In the end, it all amounts to my kid acting like a geriatric millennial. He walks around snapping his fingers and calling himself a “jazzy cat” but then I’ll go in his room and he has all the lights off and his disco ball going, goth dancing to Apoptygma Berzerk. He is truly all the best parts of me and my husband in one ridiculous little package.

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Many readers are writers and many writers are also readers. I’m no exception. With The Traveler’s Gift available for the rest of the world to read, I find myself often wondering, “How can I get people interested in a book about bisexual mobsters with superpowers?” 

I’ve had several books to hyperfixate on since 2018-2019 when the first draft of TTG came out and I drew inspiration from several authors, characters, stories, and themes to come up with something I could call my own. 

The All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic 

I love Neil and Andrew’s relationship and the way Sakavic doesn’t try to cover the trauma her characters go through.  

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardguo 

Kaz Brekker is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time and the way he is a driving force in this duology is one of my biggest inspirations. Of course, I love Bardugo’s vivid descriptions and the world she’s created. 

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Who doesn’t love a soft boy with a hard edge? Ronan Lynch is one of my favorite characters. We all know I’m weak for a Scorpio man, but aside from him, Stiefvater has a wonderful way of incorporating magic into the mundane. I can’t forget to mention her lyrical, but not overdone, prose. 

The Green Creek Series by TJ Klune

From the rampant LGBTQ+ representation, to the themes of found family, and magic with limits, everything about this series is perfect. I cannot wait to order a hardcover for my bookshelf! 

And the Villains series by V.E. Schwab

The funny part of this is I had never heard of Vicious or Vengeful until one of my beta readers sent it to me. She said, “Have you ever read Vicious by V.E. Schwab? Her writing style really reminds me of yours.” And obviously, I had to get my hands on these books. When I read them for the first time, the thought that somebody could compare my writing to these stories made me cry actual tears.

But that’s neither here, nor there. Vicious and Vengeful share the most similarities to The Traveler’s Gift than any other story in the list. It features characters with superpowers who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty for the sake of revenge. It’s dark, gritty, fast-paced, and I couldn’t put the series down until I finished. 

TLDR: 

If you like any of the books mentioned above, please check out The Traveler’s Gift on Amazon! It’s available in ebook and paperback! 

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Requests open!

From now on, you can leave requests with what you want me to write. I will try to do it as fast as possible, but please understand that sometimes I don’t have the time and energy to start a fanfic.

Also, I only write for 18+ characters and I don’t write work that encourages illegal or wrong activities. So keep that in mind when you submit.

I write for every genre, like fluff , angst even smut etc.

Fandoms I write for:

-Money heist/ La casa de papel

-Harry Potter

-Dead poet society

-Euphoria

I will add more on the future or if you suggest another one. That being said, feel free to ask🤎

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CommuniMiitopia: Part 4

Chapter 5: Another Familiar Face

The dean gets carried away during karaoke.

We come across Annie, who is trapped and faceless. This means only one thing…

boss fight time.

Eventually, and with the help of some newfound powers, we manage to rescue Annie.

Who is finally reunited with Abed.

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Films Watched in 2024: 1. Mean Girls (2004) - Dir. Mark Waters

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Billy Constantly Getting Let Down By Those Closest To Him + Rue Breaking Up With Jules = P A I N ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Rams' football offering 'alternative vistas' for Thornton Heath

The football season got off to a perfect start for  Croydon Athletic with a 3-1 FA Cup extra-preliminary round win at home on Saturday, to the delight of the club’s fans, their famous owners and their new sponsors. NEIL BENNETT, the former BBC News sports correspondent, was at the Mayfield Stadium to see how things are progressing behind the scenes In the net: striker Richard Pingling slots home…

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Hywel Bennett as Mr. Croup and Clive Russell as Mr Vandemar

Neverwhere (1996)

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on a tangentially related note, im rewatching Emo the Musical, if you are a millenial or just an emo/alt kid in general I really really must insist you watch it.

its an incredible indie Australian film free on youtube rn.

please please watch it and tell me what you think, and if you really like it I wrote some fanfic 🖤🤘

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What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor

May 14th 2023