#Ray Brentner

[residentdormouse]

Yammering Out “Y” Words

Yeah, yikes. As yelling turns to yawning, I must yield this battle to you @mrsmungus; my mind only yearns for yesterday’s dreams. For younger years where being yanked from a slumber wouldn’t be as yucky. As it is, best I have to offer is the image of yeti’s doing yoga in the yard to maintain their youth.

…aka I am so tired and there is not enough coffee…

My Words: Yell, Yawn, Yard, Yank, Youth

Your words: Since this is going to be a scattered hit or miss, with a majority of miss - find five sections with a ‘Z’ anywhere in it. Bonus Points for a word starting with 'Z'.

As Always - Open Tag, even though this really is coming to the end now… What are we going to do with the time. I feel like pooh trying to brainstorm a new challenge.

(There were a surprising amount of spoilers with these words. Or maybe I’m using spoiler too liberally. I’m not sure. I’ve tried my best.)

Yell:

Another wave rolled over her, and she dropped to the floor, involuntarily yelling out in pain. While she had done well at hiding it so far, at putting up a strong front, this shock radiated out from her and she couldn’t hold back the cries of pain any longer. The added verbal release made her unable to hear that Lloyd had dropped to the ground along with her. It wasn’t until the pain fully receded the she noticed him laying there curled in on himself on the floor is, eyes closed and face twisted in a look of torment.

It took her a second to fully register what she saw, but as soon as it did, she quickly made her way over. "Hey, Lloyd... Hey…" she shook his shoulder and he jolted up into a sitting position, immediately scurrying back against the wall.

"What the FUCK did you just do to me?!" He placed a hand to his temple; energy of a wounded and cornered animal exuded off of him in waves.

Yawn:

(Hey, another two-fer!)

The next morning came faster than either of them had wanted. Both her and Glen were slow to make their way over to Stu and Fran’s. While he said he appreciated the nod to his youth, Glen made the determination that the all night, late night drinking needed to be curbed, at least for a short while; they would both be essentially useless otherwise. Last night had certainly taken its toll on him, and she honestly wasn’t faring any better. Thankfully, the previous occupants of their home had the ibuprofen stocked up.

She let out a yawn as Stu greeted them. "Good mornin', you two! Beautiful start to the day, isn’t it?" His extra chipper greeting was solely to antagonize and that fact was not missed.

Walking right past with a smile and a middle finger, Hayden didn't give him much mind. "Uh-huh, yeah, love you too, Redman." Glen just shrugged, following behind her.

Yard:

(cheating a bit.... Yard shows up, but it's endgame of Spiral - please accept backyard as a substitute. It can be just a plain old yard for our purposes. 😂)

As they passed through the door, Hayden instantly felt the relief of their arrival come back. The journey was over. They had made it. And she was accepted.

Introductions were already underway on her arrival, but she picked up quickly. Ray Brentner was sitting at the table, observing silently, while Tom Cullen was playing with Kojak on the floor. The latter pair brought a huge smile to her face, and plunking down on the carpet, she joined in.

“So I’m not the only sucker for his belly rub whines. He's good at that.”

“My Laws, yes! This is the first dog that's come here. M-O-O-N that spells first. Is he yours?”

"Glen found him. Only dog we saw on the trip as well."

"Well, I'm mighty glad you all made it."

Equally glad they had made it, Hayden continued to pet the pup until everybody moved through the kitchen to the (back)yard for dinner.

Yank:

(Four instances of this and all of them spoiler-rific. I guess this may be the least of the bunch? From where you’re at, I’m assuming teal book has already been mentioned enough to know it has importance.)

Hayden yanked out the teal book from the bookshelf, and watched the wooden pieces of shelf that connected it splinter away. She knew the deafening static now surrounded her, but for the first time, the underwater feeling was to her benefit. Now that the screeching static was simply a muffled noise in the background, she only had to fight against her fading energy.

She tried to hop down from the chair, but it turned into falling. With a hard crash to the floor, she let out a pained cry. Her shoulder cried out at her, and it took all of her willpower to push herself up from her position. Once she brought herself back up to standing, she looked back at the red spot on the hardwood, smeared across the floor where her back had hit. Time constraints were baring down on her.

Shaking, she moved back to the bookshelf and put all her weight on the side panel, beginning to push.

Youth:

There was something special about watching karma happen in real time, and Max could barely contain her laughter as high-on-his-horse James stumbled and crashed face first into the dirt.

“Don't worry, Graceful, you get used to it."

"Right."

By the time her hand extended towards him, he was already up on one knee. A moment passed, before he grudgingly accepted the help. Clearly, he was not somebody who liked to rely on others. She understood the logic. For the bulk of her youth, she was the same way. Headstrong and independent, and you best not get in her way. A woman of her own making.

Until she wasn’t.

[kieselguhrkid]

I figured we ought to document the moment for posterity.

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Ma’am, your unearthly child. Ma’am your pallidness. Ma’am your cracked lips

[dynatoxic]

[aeneidpdf]

ray saying to nadine “bitch you look bad” i gotta GO

[zabkas-archivebabey]

WHOOPI GOLDBERG as MOTHER ABAGAIL FREEMANTLE THE STAND (2020)

[azulso]

I prefer Ray over Ralph

But would love see her reading Nick's notes to Tommy, before meeting Frannie of course.

Also, why banish her from the committee? An Afro American men, Native American woman and Deaf-mute Latin man, that's representation. Have 1/3 of women and 1/2 of people of color would be great.

At least she had excellent lines and moments in episodes 7 and 8.

I love Irene Bedard so much, just look at her smile.

And I know her famous character is fucking Pocahontas, but I really love her voicing Shelly Longshadow in Young Justice Invasion.

[binickandros]

Here There be Monsters - Chapter 19: Shelter

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A fanfic for The Stand

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: None

Relationships: Nick Andros/OFC

Characters: Nick Andros, Original Female Character(s), Abagail Freemantle, Randall Flagg,Tom Cullen, Julie Lawry, Stu Redman, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, Ray Brentner, Lloyd Henreid, Glen Bateman

Additional Tags: Canon Disabled Character, Canonical Character Death, Deaf Character, Bisexual Nick Andros, Former Sex Worker Nick Andros, Fix-It of Sorts, Canon Compliant, but only like sorta, because OC, Canon - Book, but a smidge of 2020 adaptation, Slow Burn, Plague, beware of FLU, Eventual Smut, Two Dumbass Bisexuals, being dumbasses, Until They Dumbass Fall in Love, Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love, Idiots in Love, Sharing a Bed, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Gender or Sex Swap, Female Ralph Brenter, Female Glen Batemen, Bisexual Female Character of Color, Bisexual Male Character, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Past Abuse, Rating: NC17, Penis In Vagina Sex, Non-Penetrative Sex, Friendship/Love, Male Friendship, Female Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, just LOTS of friendship okay???, Cross-Generational Friendship, Sexual Tension

Summary: "When the map says 'Here There Be Monsters', I know you’ll fight them all, and I wanna be the one to fight them with you."

Nick Andros didn't ask for a front row seat to the end of the world, but here he is, and there it goes. It all starts with the dreams: lost in a cornfield searching for a woman he's never met before. Her name is Kai, and she's dreaming of him too. Meanwhile Captain Trips sinks its teeth into the world, and something evil slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.

[aion-rsa]

Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand

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This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension.

The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.

A motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC — which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier — gave The Stand the green light.

King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. Unlike It and a second ABC/King miniseries, 1993’s The Tommyknockers — both of which had been four hours — The Stand was developed as a four-night, eight-hour event, containing a little over six hours of content after commercials. Budgeted at $26 million, featuring more than 125 speaking parts, and shot over six months in Utah, Las Vegas and other locations, The Stand premiered on ABC from May 8 – 11, 1994.

The Stand begins with the spread of a military-created bioweapon that becomes known as the superflu or Captain Trips after it escapes from a high-security lab. The flu’s 99% mortality rate ensures that human civilization is all but wiped out, although the remaining 1% is completely immune for reasons unexplained.

As the survivors in the U.S. struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with tens of millions of rotting corpses, they are plagued by mysterious dreams that draw them to one of two places. Some head for Boulder, Colorado, where it seems as if decent, “good” people are gathering around an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail who claims to speak for God, while others of a less kind bent congregate in Las Vegas under the rule of Randall Flagg, a “dark man” with supernatural powers who is a powerful demon in human form.

As the two groups assemble, it becomes clear that a confrontation is shaping up, with four of the Boulder Free Zone’s leaders — and four of our main characters — eventually heading to Las Vegas where they will make their “stand” against Flagg.

Even with six hours to fill, King and Garris had to do quite a bit of condensing to fit The Stand into its format. Nevertheless, just about all the major plot points and characters from the book make it into the miniseries, even if some don’t quite get the development they deserve. Yet the show moves along at a decent if unhurried pace, giving one time to invest in the story and the characters enough to care about what happens and who survives (many don’t).

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The cast is a grab-bag of faces from both the big and small screen. Gary Sinise — months away from his breakout role in Forrest Gump — is absolutely perfect as Stu Redman, the Texas blue collar everyman who is among the first to make contact with the superflu and walk away unscathed. Also quite effective are Rob Lowe as the saintly deaf mute Nick Andros, who becomes one of the leaders of the Free Zone, Ray Walston as the sarcastic sociology professor Glen Bateman, and Bill Fagerbakke as the sweet, intellectually disabled Tom Cullen.

Less impressive but improving over the course of the six hours is Adam Storke as the self-centered rock musician Larry Underwood. Larry is a crucial character in The Stand: it’s his ability to evolve from a selfish narcissist to a leader willing to sacrifice himself that is key to the triumph of good over evil. Storke has his moments and Larry does blossom in the latter stages of the story, but he doesn’t pull off the character’s transformation as effectively as one might have hoped.

More compelling are Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross (a character who, in the show, is a hybrid of the book’s Nadine and Larry’s doomed traveling companion Rita Blakemoor) and Corin Nemec as Harold Lauder. The former has promised herself to Flagg, while the latter is an incel on steroids; together they plot a terrorist attack to kill the Free Zone’s leaders before skipping town for Vegas. They too are doomed, but their collision course with each other and their fate is decidedly repulsive.

Of the major “good” characters, it’s sad to say that Molly Ringwald just doesn’t pull her weight as Frannie Goldsmith, the pregnant young woman who is the object of Harold’s desire but whom ultimately falls in love with Stu. Ringwald comes across as naïve and whiny, and her acting here is a pale shadow of her glory years in movies like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. More effective, excellent in fact, is Miguel Ferrer as Lloyd Henreid, the small-time crook and killer who becomes the take-charge right hand man to  Flagg in Las Vegas, and an over-the-top Matt Frewer as the Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac who Flagg entrusts with finding weapons left out in the Nevada desert by the government.

Which brings us to Flagg and his opposite, Mother Abigail. Flagg, a recurring embodiment of evil and treachery in many King novels and stories, was reportedly the hardest role to cast. Although King and Garris initially wanted a Hollywood star, they went with the lesser known Jamey Sheridan, who brings a kind of manic glee to the role even if his heavy metal wig is questionable. Ruby Dee was practically born to play Mother Abigail (she even told Fangoria magazine that “her whole life had been research” for the part), and while the character as originally written suffers from King’s tendency to create “magical Negros” for his stories, Dee still brings poignancy and dignity to the role.

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If we’ve spent a lot of time on the casting, that’s because The Stand really does live or die — and in this case it’s the former �� on the strength of the characters and their relationships. Even if some of the acting is more on a typical TV level (or even below), Garris and King and their cast succeed in making you care about what happens to these people as they first survive the plague and then summon the fortitude to not just restart civilization but face an ultimate evil before they can barely catch a breath.

But Garris brings plenty of other effective touches to the show, starting with the panoramic vistas that he shoots to emphasize just how empty the world has become. The show does have an epic sweep to a lot of it, even with the restrictions of TV back in 1994, and W.G. Snuffy Walden’s (who is best known for scoring The West Wing) spare, evocative score goes a long way toward setting the melancholic yet ominous tone that Garris evokes through most of The Stand’s six hours.

There are also some truly memorable setpieces, starting with the opening tracking shot of corpses strewn all over the underground military lab to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.” Stu’s harrowing escape from the lab in which he is kept is pretty terrifying stuff for 1990s television, and while we wish Larry’s walk through a Lincoln Tunnel stuffed with dead cars and bodies lasted a bit longer, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Although Mother Abigail’s home is clearly a set on a soundstage, the moment in which she looks back at it as she leaves for Boulder, knowing she’ll never see it again, is quietly moving, as is the moment when Larry, Glen and Ralph Brentner (Peter Van Norden) have to leave an injured Stu behind on their long walk to Vegas.

The climax, the “stand” of the title, is problematic, but that’s possibly because it’s always been a hotly debated moment in the novel as well. Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph are instructed by a dying Mother Abigail to walk to Vegas and confront Flagg. As we mentioned, only Larry, Glen and Ralph make it; Glen is shot to death by Lloyd Henreid in his cell, while Larry and Ralph are to be publicly executed by dismemberment, in front of the entire population of Vegas, on Flagg’s orders.

Just as the execution is getting underway, a radiation-sick Trashcan Man returns from the desert with a nuclear weapon in tow. With the men of the Free Zone having shown their worth to God by facing Flagg with courage and offering to give their lives to defeat him, the Almighty takes over from there. He turns a little ball of electricity that Flagg used to fry a traitor in the crowd into a manifestation of “the hand of God,” detonating the bomb and wiping out Flagg, his minions, and our selfless heroes.

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While many have criticized this scene in both the book and miniseries as a “deus ex machina” climax, it actually makes sense: the Free Zone heroes can only do much themselves against an immortal, powerful being like Flagg. They can weaken him, but they can’t quite destroy him. Once they’ve proven themselves, however, by standing up to Flagg and his unknowable evil with faith and courage, God finishes the job. The problem is that in the book, Larry and Ralph interpret the thing in the sky as the “hand of God.” In the miniseries, Garris made it look like an actual hand.

That adds a layer of cheesiness to what is otherwise a strong climax, as does having Mother Abigail’s disembodied, cooing head float above the crib of Frannie’s baby in the hospital during the closing moments, looking like a cutout picture of Ruby Dee’s face slapped on the glass window of the nursery. It’s effective and emotional to have the show close on a shot of the baby, sleeping peacefully and virus-free and metaphorically carrying the future on her tiny back, but the Abigail phantom almost ruins it.

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For all its faults — its dated view of the American populace (even with 99% percent of the world wiped out, there are far too few people of color among the survivors), its creaky fashions, its occasionally cut-rate visual effects and its uneven acting — The Stand still holds up pretty decently. Sinise and the stronger actors do much of the heavy lifting, the story and stakes are clearly laid out, and the viewer becomes involved in the characters and their struggle.  Now more than 25 years later, The Stand is being adapted again by Josh Boone (The New Mutants) and Benjamin Cavell (King’s son Owen is also a producer and writer on the project). The 10-part miniseries will debut Thursday (December 17) on CBS All Access, and in addition to a different structure for the story, the series will feature a brand new ending written by Stephen King himself. In the meantime, the original 1994 version still has heart, plenty of it, and for King and Mick Garris, it was evidently a labor of love. It may be far from perfect, but one could say it stands on its own two feet.

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[residentdormouse]

Share a snippet (or two or three . . .) of some writing that hasn’t been posted yet for an OC

It is taking me forever to get to Lloyd Henreid, and today has just been a very Lloyd type day, so I stole a bit from the limo ride in the first chapter he shows up. My OC is Hayden.

(I'm writing a story set in the newest 2020 version of the Stand. That said, canon is pretty M material, and my writing conforms to rules set by canon. -Language/vices- So clip under the bar then, just to be safe)

He took another drag on the cigarette, and Hayden took cue from this to pull out her vape. "So there's no problem with smoking here, then?"

"Shit, no! Land of freedom, baby, that's what we're all about here." Glen let out a short breath of laughter at the statement of their 'freedom', and Hayden followed by taking a hit without further hesitation. Lloyd paused a second before he realized just exactly what she had pulled out. "Woah! Hey, what do you got there?"

"I think it's called Ice Cream Sandwich. Couldn't find any more Banana Cream, but this is a pretty good substitute. Want some?" She offered the pen over and raised her eyebrows at the flabbergasted look on his face.

"Is that fucking weed?"

She heard Glen start chuckling beside her, and noticed Larry had now cracked a smile as well. Ray, well, wasn't; she never really found much amusement in her and Glen's antics, and her disdain was evident behind the overall general concern she rightfully hadn't been able to shake.

"What are you like, fuckin' hippie stoners or some shit? Thought you bunch would be the uppity, better than thou, prim an' proper type."

Larry let out a snort of laughter, while Glen just shrugged. Hayden mimicked Glen's gesture, and followed with a quick, "I mean, she's not wrong." At least the mood was alleviating.

This caused a bit more laughter, and finally gave Ray the courage to speak up. "Are you kidding, she swears like a sailor, and the pair of them are constantly stoned."

[kieselguhrkid]

THE WALK // The Stand (2020) You are to leave now, today, on foot. You are to take no food and no water, just the clothes on your back.

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Court is now in session

[azulso]

I finished The Stand comics and I would love that the 2020 version have more hours. So here is my "wishlist", with time onscreen per character:

E1 The End: main characters introduction, including Jesse (Frannie's boyfriend, father of her baby).

Stu: 25 minutes

Frannie and Larry: 15 minutes each one

Nick: 5 minutes

E2 Blank Page: main characters development, including Carla (Frannie's mom).

Nick: 20 m

Frannie: 15 m

Larry and Lloyd: 10 m e/o

Stu: 5 m

E3 The Dark Man: Randall Flagg story, main characters development, Alice Underwood and Peter Goldsmith dying and Stu escape.

Randall: 25 m

Frannie: 10 m

Harold, Larry, Nick, Rita and Stu: 5 m e/o

Or... first movie The Stand: Captain Trips

Frannie: 40 m

Stu: 35 m

Larry and Nick: 30 m

Randall: 25 m

Lloyd: 10 m

Harold and Rita: 5 m e/o

E4 Pocket Savior: Trashcan Man story, main characters development, Stu meets Glen and Rita Blakemoor dies.

Trashcan: 20 m

Larry and Rita: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Glen, Nick and Stu: 5 m e/o

E5 The Dreams: Lloyd in prison, Nick starts to dream about Mother A, Frannie and Harold out of Maine.

Lloyd: 15 m

Nick: 10 m

Frannie, Glen, Harold, Larry, Mother A, Randall and Stu: 5 m e/o

E6 The Nightmares: Nick and Tom meeting, Randall attack them in tornado form, people having nightmares about Randall, new characters introduction, including Ray flashback.

Larry, Nick and Tom: 10 m e/o

Joe, Julie, Mother A, Nadine, Randall and Ray: 5 m e/o

Or second movie The Stand: American Nightmares

Larry and Nick: 25 m

Trashcan Man: 20 m

Lloyd: 15 m

Frannie, Glen, Mother A, Randall, Rita, Stu and Tom: 10 m

Harold, Joe, Julie, Nadine and Ray: 5 m e/o

E7 Hemingford Home: Mother A story, Frannie and Stu relationship starts, Harold fall in the dark side, Stu team saves Dayna, including Dayna flashback, Ray meets Nick and Tom, they arrives in HH.

Mother A: 20 m

Frannie: 10 m

Dayna, Glen, Harold, Randall, Ray and Stu: 5 m e/o

E8 My Life for You: Trashcan Man story, Mother A, Nick and Tom have a dinner, Stu team try to do a surgery.

Trashcan Man: 25 m

Frannie, Harold, Lloyd, Mother A, Nick, Stu and Tom: 5 m e/o

E9 The House of the Dead: Nadine flashback, Larry team development, Judge Ruth Farris introduction, including flashback, she acts as confidant for Larry, Trashcan Man arrives in New Vegas, he's forced to help Lloyd to crucifix a man, Larry team arrives in Boulder, Mother A is suspicious of Nadine.

Larry, Nadine and Trashcan Man: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Judge, Lloyd, Mother A, Randall and Stu: 5 m e/o

Or third movie The Stand Soul Survivors

Trashcan Man: 35 m

Mother A: 30 m

Frannie: 20 m e/o

Stu: 15 m e/o

Harold, Larry, Lloyd, Nadine and Randall: 10 m e/o

Dayna, Glen, Judge, Nick, Ray, Tom: 5 m e/o

E10 Worms Inside Him: "Harold vs Stu" story. Overcome with jealousy, Harold schemes to murder Frannie and Stu. Mother A and her committee encounter a Vegas escapee with crucifixion wounds, who warns them of Flagg. The committee votes to send three spies across the mountains to assess the threat from Flagg.

Harold and Stu: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Joe, Larry, Mother A, Nadine, Nick, Randall and Ray: 5 m e/o

E11 The Betrayal: development of the committee before the spies travel to New Vegas, Frannie and Stu with Dayna, Larry with Judge Farris, and Larry and Nick with Tom. Nadine has more visions of Flagg beckoning to her, he orders her to kill Mother Abagail and the committee. She seduces Harold and convinces him to help her. While stealing explosives for this purpose, Nadine kills Teddy Weizak, one of Harold's few friends.

Dayna, Frannie, Glen, Harold, Judge, Larry, Nadine, Nick, Randall, Stu, Teddy and Tom: 5 m e/o

E12 The Vigil: Frannie breaks into Harold's house and finds his surveillance-room and explosives. Harold finds her and tries to trap her, but she manages to escape. Harold and Nadine activate the explosives just as Frannie arrives to warn the committee. The blast kills Nick.

Frannie, Harold, Nadine: 10 m e/o

Joe, Larry, Mother A, Nick, Ray and Stu: 5 m e/o.

Or fourth movie The Stand Hard Cases

Harold: 25 m

Frannie, Stu: 20 m e/o

Larry, Nadine, Nick: 15 m e/o

Glen, Joe, Mother A, Randall and Ray: 10 m e/o

Dayna, Judge, Teddy and Tom: 5 m e/o

E13 Fear and Loathing in New Vegas: Dayna Jurgens arrives in New Vegas where she secures a position as one of Lloyd Henreid's girls. She finally meets Flagg, who offers to let her go on the condition that she reveal who the "third spy" is. Dayna kills herself to avoid revealing any secrets. Judge Farris is spotted at one of Flagg's checkpoints manned by Bobby Terry, who follows her. He have strict orders from Flagg to don't kill her, so she can be tortured and force her to reveal the last spy. After exchanging several shots with Farris, Bobby eventually manages one direct hit to the Judge's head. From her hospital bed, Mother Abagail reveals God's will to Stu, Larry, Ray, and Glen: they are to travel to New Vegas by foot, and that "one will fall" on the way there. She then dies peacefully. 

Dayna and Judge Farris: 10 m e/o

Bobby, Frannie, Julie, Lloyd, Mother A, Randall, Stu and Tom: 5 m e/o

E14 The Walk: Harold and Nadine leave Boulder on their motorcycles. Harold loses control on a curve and is badly injured. Nadine finally meets Flagg in the desert, but she has a belated epiphany that he is a terrifying demon, leaving her traumatized, catatonic and pregnant. Transported back to Las Vegas like a trophy, Nadine is installed in Flagg's quarters. Trashcan Man discovers a nuclear warhead, he attaches it to his sandcrawler and begins to drive back to New Vegas. Stu team encounter Harold's remains and Larry reads his journal before covering his body. While climbing out of a washed-out area Stu falls and breaks his leg; Larry, Ray and Glen recognize Mother Abagail's prediction and go on without him.

Glen, Harold, Julie, Larry, Lloyd, Nadine, Nick, Randall, Ray, Stu, Tom and Trashcan Man: 5 m e/o

E15 The Stand: Glen, Ray and Larry are given a show trial in front of a large public gathering. Glen mocks Flagg, prompting Lloyd to shoot and kill Glen. Realizing that she was never meant to live after giving birth, Nadine throws herself out of the window to her death. Larry and Ray are sentenced to be drowned in a swimming pool. Trashcan Man arrives with a nuclear bomb. A mysterious storm-cloud, "the hand of God", forms above the hotel and emits bolts of lightning that kill everyone present, then detonates the nuclear bomb, obliterating all of New Vegas and everyone in it. Tom finds Kojak and follows him. Stu is rescued by Tom and they witness the nuclear explosion together. Tom states that God "fixed" Flagg for what he did to Nick and the Judge. In a dream, Nick comes to Tom and tells him which medicine to give Stu, Tom saves Stu's life by treating his pneumonia and spends several weeks nursing him back to health. Stu recovers and the two of them return to Boulder in a snow storm via a Snowcat. Stu finds that Frannie has given birth to a daughter, whom she has named Abagail. The baby has contracted the superflu, but she is able to fight off the virus. In the jungle, Flagg appears floating before the primitive tribe. He kills one of their warriors with his dark magic and demands their worship. The tribe falls to their knees.

Stu: 10 m

Frannie, Glen, Julie, Larry, Lloyd, Nick, Randall, Ray, Tom and Trashcan Man: 5 m e/o

Or fifth movie The Stand Nobody's Land

Stu: 20 m

Julie, Lloyd, Randall, Tom: 15 m e/o

Dayna, Frannie, Glen, Judge, Larry, Nick, Ray, Trashcan: 10 m e/o

Bobby, Harold, Mother A, Nadine: 5 m e/o

Total time onscreen in the whole saga:

Frannie and Stu: 1h 40m e/o

Larry: 1h 30m

Nick: 1h 25m

Trashcan Man: 1h 5m

Mother A: 55m

Harold and Lloyd: 50 m e/o

Randall: 45m

Glen, Nadine, Tom: 35 m e/o

Ray: 30m

Dayna, Judge, Julie: 20 m e/o

Joe, Rita: 15 m e/o

Bobby, Teddy: 5 m e/o

[binickandros]

Here There be Monsters - Chapter 20: Mother Abagail

AO3 | ff.net

A fanfic for The Stand

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: None

Relationships: Nick Andros/OFC

Characters: Nick Andros, Original Female Character(s), Abagail Freemantle, Randall Flagg,Tom Cullen, Julie Lawry, Stu Redman, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, Ray Brentner, Lloyd Henreid, Glen Bateman

Additional Tags: Canon Disabled Character, Canonical Character Death, Deaf Character, Bisexual Nick Andros, Former Sex Worker Nick Andros, Fix-It of Sorts, Canon Compliant, but only like sorta, because OC, Canon - Book, but a smidge of 2020 adaptation, Slow Burn, Plague, beware of FLU, Eventual Smut, Two Dumbass Bisexuals, being dumbasses, Until They Dumbass Fall in Love, Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love, Idiots in Love, Sharing a Bed, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Gender or Sex Swap, Female Ralph Brenter, Female Glen Batemen, Bisexual Female Character of Color, Bisexual Male Character, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Past Abuse, Rating: NC17, Penis In Vagina Sex, Non-Penetrative Sex, Friendship/Love, Male Friendship, Female Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, just LOTS of friendship okay???, Cross-Generational Friendship, Sexual Tension

Summary: "When the map says 'Here There Be Monsters', I know you’ll fight them all, and I wanna be the one to fight them with you."

Nick Andros didn't ask for a front row seat to the end of the world, but here he is, and there it goes. It all starts with the dreams: lost in a cornfield searching for a woman he's never met before. Her name is Kai, and she's dreaming of him too. Meanwhile Captain Trips sinks its teeth into the world, and something evil slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.