#Sarah wiseman

[old-movies-stuff]

Labyrinth - 1986

[gabbagabbadoo]

Books Read in 2022

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read more books this year than I did last year.... which was 9 (lol) so, here they are:

(I also read more books cover to cover in a day or 2 than I ever have, and that is marked by *)

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami, Sonali Deraniyagala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster ⭐️/5

They Went Left, Monica Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Panic, Lauren Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Orphan Collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️/5

House Rules, Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Four Souls, Louise Erdrich ⭐���⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐️⭐️/5

Four Three Two One, Courtney Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

We Are Lost and Found, Helene Dunbar ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

[grandmaster-anne]

Coronation Music at Westminster Abbey

The Royal Family | Published 18 February 2023

Twelve newly commissioned pieces of music will be performed at The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023, showcasing musical talent from across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

A range of musical styles and performers blend tradition, heritage and ceremony with new musical voices of today, reflecting The King’s life-long love and support of music and the arts.

His Majesty The King has personally commissioned the new music and shaped and selected the musical programme for the Service.

Andrew Nethsingha, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, will be overseeing all musical arrangements and directing the music during the Service.

Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director for the Royal Opera House, will be conducting the Coronation Orchestra which comprises a bespoke collection of musicians drawn from orchestras of The former Prince of Wales’ Patronages including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Six orchestral commissions, five choral commissions and one organ commission, have been specially composed for the occasion by world-renowned British composers whose work includes Classical, Sacred, Film, Television and Musical Theatre. Commissioned works include a new Coronation Anthem by Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Coronation March by Patrick Doyle, a new commission for solo organ embracing musical themes from countries across the Commonwealth by Iain Farrington plus new works by Sarah Class, Nigel Hess, Paul Mealor, Tarik O'Regan, Roxanna Panufnik, Shirley J. Thompson, Judith Weir, Roderick Williams, and Debbie Wiseman.

Soloists will include bass-baritone, Sir Bryn Terfel; soprano, Pretty Yende and baritone, Roderick Williams. The organ will be played by Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey, Peter Holder, and Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey, Matthew Jorysz.

The official Royal Harpist Alis Huws will perform as part of the Coronation Orchestra in recognition of The King’s long-standing and deeply held relationship and affiliation with Wales. One of the liturgical sections of the ceremony will also be performed in Welsh.

At the request of His Majesty, in tribute to his late father His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek Orthodox music will also feature in the Service performed by the Byzantine Chant Ensemble.

The Service will be sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey and The Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, together with girl choristers from the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast and from Truro Cathedral Choir. The Ascension Choir, a handpicked gospel choir will also perform as part of the Service and The King’s Scholars of Westminster School will proclaim the traditional ‘Vivat’ acclamations.

Fanfares will be played by The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry and The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner will conduct The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists in a pre-Service programme of choral music. A small group of singers from The Monteverdi Choir will also join the main choral forces for the Service.

Music by the likes of William Byrd (1543–1623), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941), Sir William Walton (1902–1983), Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) has historically featured in the Service over the past four centuries and will be included in the programme along with the music of one of Britain’s most loved and celebrated living composers, Sir Karl Jenkins.

[imnotzuza]

my buck songs!! (ill make a buddie one too)

"did you know that theres a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" Lana del Ray

"I don't smoke" mitski

"Liquid smooth" mitski

"i bet on loosing dogs" mitski

"please please please let me get what i want" deftones

"nothing's new" rio romeo

"sarah" alex g

"cool about it" boygenius

"nothern attitued" noah kahan

"not strong enough" boygenius

"savior complex" pheobe bridgers

"waiting room" pheobe bridgers

"motion sickness" pheobe bridgers

"stick season" noah kahan

"good looking" suki waterhouse

"night shift" lucy dacus

"washing machine heart" mitski

"i don't want to be funny anymore" lucy dacus

"fiuneral" pheobe bridgers

"mama's boy" dominic fike

"no surprises" radiohead

"achilles come down" gang of youths

"end of beginning" djo

"wiseman" frank ocean

"time/space" alex g

"fix you" coldplay

"homesick" noah kahan

"the view between willages" noah kahan

"people help the people" birdy

"emily i'm sorry" boygenius

"nobody" mitski

"least favorite only child" leanna firestone

"creep" radiohead

"we'll never have sex" leith ross

"scott street" pheobe bridgers

"casual" chappell roan

"human" christina perri

"play with fire" sam tinnesz, yacht money

"human" rag'n'bone man

"in my blood" shawn mendes

"way down we go" KALEO

"cop car" mitski"dynasty" MIIA

"take me to church" hozier

"brother" kodaline

"half return" adrianne lenker

"the alcott" the national, taylor swift

"sidelines" pheobe bridgers

"i know it won't work" gracie abrams

"army dreamers" kate bush

"abbey" mitski

"that funny feeling" pheobe bridgers

"helicopter" maisie peters (its bobby abt buck)

"the prophecy" taylor swift

"who's afraid of little old me?" taylor swift

"i can do it with a broken heart" taylor swift

"down bad" taylor swift

"imgonnagetyouback" taylor swift

"the bolter" taylor swift

"peter" taylor swift

[silvermoon822]

{Unofficial} Labyrinth Tarot- 5 The Hierophant

This card represents taking what you have learned and mastered and using that knowledge and skill to act as a teacher or mentor to others. It’s a card that represents honoring that ability to share knowledge and upholding traditions tried and true.

While he’s not offering any super innovative ideas, the Hierophant reminds you of knowledge that is still of use on your journey.

The Wiseman offers Sarah a little blanket wisdom for making her way through the labyrinth, as well as a little encouragement to keep her spirits up. He reminds her to not get into her head too much with the puzzle and instead to focus instead on the progress she’s already made. This is your reminder today as well: It may seem like we’re not getting anywhere, when in fact, we are!

Now please…leave a contribution in the little box!

[imaginedreamwrite]

Christmas countdown day 18 — Watch your kids/partners kids’ Christmas pageant

The stage was illuminated with the yellowed lights, giving an unobstructed view of the daycare kids in their relative roles onstage. They were lined up in groups to relay the St. Mary’s performance of The Nativity, and while the kids had looked adorable in each group, it was Steve taking part in the wisemen that had brought a snicker to Winnie and Sarah.

“He’s still pouting,” Sarah tucked her mouth into her hand and chortled, a slight shake of her head relaying her true feelings in the moment, “he wanted to be the second Joseph with Bucky, Y/N is little Mary-“

“Bucky’s been telling everyone that the fake doll is his and Y/N’s pup.” Winnie whispered softly as to not disturb the people in front of them. “Father had to sit the boys down again and tell them-“

“Let’s start by introducing our cast…Bucky Barnes as Joseph, Y/N as Mary-“ the teacher had already been side-eyeing Steve as his pout deepened, his eyes narrowing.

“And our pup!” Bucky spoke up with pride, judging you in the ribs. “And Steve-“

“Steve Rogers is a wiseman,” the teacher spoke over Bucky, gently scolding him as she moved to the other side, “Steve Rogers is playing Melchior-“

“Look at his pout!” Winnie grinned, looking down a chair to your mother, the two of them preening over the scene. “He’s so upset.”

“This is the cutest display,” your mom agreed with Sarah and Winnie, relaying her joy at the sight of Steve stealing the show, “was he like this in rehearsal?”

“That boy is as dramatic as he is stubborn.” Sarah sighed, shaking her with a soft laugh. “We’re never letting them live this down.”

“Not in the slightest.”

[thehyperrequiem]

Labyrinth (Thehypercutter Style) Cast

“Princess Cookie is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby dragon Snapdragon Cookie when her wish for them to be taken away is granted by the Bizarre King Yoshikage Kira.”

Princess Cookie (Cookie Run) as Sarah Williams

Moe (The Simpsons) as Hoggle

Yoshikage Kira (Jjba) as Jareth the Goblin King

Killer Queen (Jjba) as Itself/Jareth’s Cat

Snapdragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Toby Williams

Royalberry Cookie (Cookie Run) as Robert Williams

Jungleberry Cookie (Cookie Run) as Irene Williams

Emporio (Jjba) as himself/Sarah’s Guide

Lovely Sweetieflies (Bugsnax) as The Fairies

Hiro (Thomas and Friends) as Ludo

The Scotsman (Samurai Jack) as Sir Didymus

Pumbaa (Disney) as Ambrosis

Elder Faerie Cookie (Cookie Run) as The Wiseman

Fairy Cookie (Cookie Run) as The Wiseman’s Hat

Rootle (Bugsnax) as The Worm

The Negati (Balan Wonderworld) as The Fireys

Matcha Cookie (Cookie Run) as The Junk Lady

Faun Cruller, Otto Meatallis, Headbutt Forsythe, and Tincan Zanotto (Psychonauts) as The Four Guards

Risotto Nero and Metallica (Jjba) as The Helping Hands

Mario Zucchero and Sale (Jjba) as the Left and Right Door Knockers

Various Minor Antagonists (Jjba) as The Goblins

[avatarskywalker78]

Side OC Masterlist

OC Creator Bingo 2023 was great fun and I’m already keeping the main OC masterlist up on my pinned, but it has also inspired me to finally make a list for side OCs!!! Again this will be an in-progress thing and more will be added later!

Main OCs found here!

Name: Alyssa Clayton

Fandom: The Flash

Fancast: Mary Wiseman

Series: The Shieldmaiden Saga

Tags = oc: alyssa clayton

Steph’s best friend at Athena Labs with a Doctorate in Physics, she becomes one of Steph’s confidants and the first person she tells about her powers. She’s known Steph for nearly six years and they jokingly call themselves the ‘Science Twins’ - Alyssa sees her as a younger sister, and is incredibly protective over her, especially once she gains her powers, and is the one overseeing Steph’s training.

Name: Dr Charlie Kumar

Fandom: The Flash

Fancast: Dev Patel

Series: The Shieldmaiden Saga

Tags = oc: charlie kumar

Head of the Astronomy Department at Athena Labs and a close friend of Steph and Alyssa, he’s not looped in to her meta status until a few months down the line, though has his suspicions given that she's one of the pioneers of the Meta Outreach Project. He doesn’t help directly with that, but is the one to alert them to the fact that there was another unknown energy source on the night of the explosion - which wasn’t thrown out by the accelerator.

Name: Tanya

Fandom: The Flash

Fancast: Janelle Monae

Series: The Shieldmaiden Saga

Tags - OC: Tanya

A biologist at Athena Labs and another member of Steph’s team, they agreed to help with the study of Steph’s powers, and they’re to be the main researcher for the Meta Outreach Project as they’re a trusted friend and team member, and want to make sure that all metas have access to the help they need.

Name: Zoe Thawne

Fandom: Legends of Tomorrow

Fancast: Freema Agyeman

Series: legends of earth-4 (hasn’t yet shown up)

Tags = oc: zoe thawne

A descendant of Eddie Thawne and Brianna Thawne’s first cousin, she is one of the most renowned quantum physicists of her era and one of only a few family members that Brianna feels she can talk too, partly because she was one of the few to accept that the Blue Flame was more magical in nature than meta powers traditionally are, and Zoe is one of the ones who defends Brianna after she stops Kate Allen changing time.

Name: Ashton Thawne

Fandom: Legends of Tomorrow

Fancast: Garrett Hedlund

Series: legends of earth-4 (hasn’t yet shown up)

Tags = oc: ashton thawne

Another descendant of Eddie Thawne and a distant cousin to Brianna and Zoe, Ashton specialises in 20th and 21st century electronics and computer restoration - something that is looked down on by several family members for being a ‘useless’ job. He’s good friends with his cousins, though, and also jumped in to defend Brianna, excited (and proud) about her joining the Legends and hoping she’ll bring some old-school technology back with her.

Name: James Connors

Fandom: Cobra Kai

Fancast: Matt Lintz

Series: Nicky Connors, Cobra Adjacent (will appear in the Cobra Kai segments)

Tag = oc: james connors

Nicky Connors’ adopted son, one of Robby’s friends (due to them practically growing up together), and later friends with Miguel and Aisha, James doesn’t have any interest in karate and would sooner spend most of his time in the library, but is supportive of his mother when she decides to become co-sensei of a revived Cobra Kai and often cheers on his friends when he can.

Name: Lizzie McKinney

Fandom: Cobra Kai

Fancast: Robin Wright

Wip: gemma laura mckinney au

Tags = oc: lizzie mckinney

Gemma’s mother and Johnny’s aunt - though she’s only older than him by five years - who came looking for her older sister after decades of estrangement, finally finding her a few years before her death. After Laura’s passing she decided to stay in the Valley, and became something of a good influence on Johnny.

Name: Sarah Barnes

Fandom: Cobra Kai

Fancast: Shailene Woodley

Series: bad boy (no more) - hasn’t yet appeared

Tags = OC: Sarah Barnes, bad boy (no more)

Mike and Leah’s eldest child, she is currently studying for a law degree out of state, though is always happy to listen to Elaine or Alex’s problems, and returns home when she can as she misses her family, though she doesn’t always admit that. She’s distinctly unimpressed with the karate wars, and is already crafting plans if her siblings happen to get caught up in them.

Name: Alex Barnes

Fandom: Cobra Kai

Series: bad boy (no more) - recurring character

Tags = OC: Alex Barnes, bad boy (no more)

Appearance: 5′5, white, black curly hair, blue eyes

Mike and Leah’s youngest child and only son, he has no interest in karate at all, being much more into football and thinking that karate is a stupid thing. He also took his dad’s warnings to heart, disdaining Cobra Kai and backing up Elaine in the stories whenever she ends up affected by the events.

Name: Bridget Alvarez

Fandom: Supergirl

Fic: to live and rise (and hope again)

Tags = oc: bridget alvarez

One of Eliana’s adoptive aunts alongside her partner Hilda, they were both good friends of Lana Lang’s back on their Earth, and promised to look after Eliana if anything were to happen. Bridget is currently a councillor in Coast City as well as a metahuman with the ability to manipulate water, which is why she specialises in environmental issues as she can use her abilities to suss out where water is polluted or contaminated. She has always known that Eliana would one day become a hero, and though she worries for her is nonetheless determined to support her.

Name: Hilda Green

Fandom: Supergirl

Fic: to live and rise (and hope again)

Tags = oc: hilda green

Bridget’s long-term partner and Eliana’s other aunt, she works at one of Coast City’s museums, a job she chose because she has the ability to tell the history of an object just by touching it. She was one of the first to realise what was happening on her Earth and worries about Eliana overworking herself by becoming a superhero on top of her studies to become an advocate for extraterrestial rights, but like Bridget is also supportive and willing to help her niece whenever she can.

Name: Isla McGregor

Fandom: Supergirl

Fic: to live and rise (and hope again)

Tag = oc: isla mcgregor

Eliana’s best friend at college who is strongly pro-alien and equally determined to become an advocate for extraterrestial rights alongside her friend, she ends up being the first person outside of her aunts that Eliana reveals her powers, as well as (some) of her backstory, later becoming Eliana’s ‘girl in the chair’ and biggest supporter.

Name: Zhān Xiulan

Fandom: Firefly

Fancast: Xu Jinglei

Wip: sophia reynolds au

Tag = oc: zhān xiulan 

Sophia Reynolds mother, a former ranch worker on Shadow, and one of Mal Reynolds closest friends, she was convinced that her life would be ruined when the man she was dating and in love with turned out not to care about her at all and left her days before she found out she was pregnant - she wanted to keep her child but couldn’t see how. Then Mal offered to marry her and take on the blame, which she accepted, and they spent seven happy years co-parenting before Mal left for war. She has always hated the Alliance, and this was solidified after she and her daughter ended up being one of only a handful of survivors from Shadow after the Alliance firebombed it - and though she never said so to her daughter she was convinced Mal was dead as well, killed in combat, and is relieved when it turns out he’s alive.

Name: Emma Taylor

Fandom: Diagnosis Murder

Wip: sophie sloan au

Tags = OC: Emma Taylor

Appearance: 5′8, white, black hair, brown eyes

Sophie Sloan’s maternal aunt who stayed in her niece’s life even after her sister Erin left, and who has a strained relationship with Erin as a result as she thinks her abandonment of her daughter was appalling. She adores Sophie and has a good relationship with Steve and Mark, often stepping in to look after Sophie when they were busy due to their work, to the extent that Sophie even has a room there.

Name: Ksenia

Fandom: The Witcher

Fancast: Antonia Thomas

Fic: when a friendship is found (across the seas) - hasn’t yet appeared in person

Tag = OC: Ksenia

A bard who specialises in the violin and loves nothing more than creating music, and a good friend of Áine an Tordarroch’s, she also happens to be a Żar-ptak - an Ember (or fire) bird- and is a few centuries old who has seen kingdoms rise and fall, and who has a terrible feeling about the rising threat of Nilfgaard. There are very few Firebirds left on the Continent, as they were often hunted for their blessings and then blamed for any misfortunes, which is why she made the choice to have a human form several decades before, and she rarely taps into her full power. Only very few people know what she truly is, but she makes the decision to tell Áine after it’s clear the Islander doesn’t hold the same prejudices, given her strong friendship with the witcher Eskel.

Name: Lia Mayfield

Fandom: Uncharted

Wip: joanna mayfield au

Appearance: Brunette, brown eyes, 5′7

A Canadian with a degree in history who lectures at universities, Lia dated Sam Drake for several months in 1992 and was very much in love with him, but also realised that he wasn’t one to stay around - figuring that he wouldn’t want to be tied down with a kid, so she made the decision to part amiably from him in September of that year, despite being three months pregnant. She was, however, determined to keep the child - she got kicked out by her parents as a result, but her sister Sonya helped her out and she moved in with her, her brother-in-law Nicky, and her niece Sophia. She was a devoted mother, and always planned to tell Joanna more about her father at some point, but that day came sooner than expected when she fell gravely ill in 1996 and she asked Sonya to track down Sam, not wanting Joanna to be without a parent. She recovered and became friends with Sam again, but was devastated to find out he was killed on a job, as she still loved him. Since then, she has focused on her family and tried her best to make sure Joanna gets a legitimate job, not wanting her to go down the same path as her father.

Tagging: @shrinkthisviolet​ @dream-beyond-the-fantasy​ @vexic929​ @negative-speedforce​ @starstruckpurpledragon​

Let me know if you want to be added to the taglist!

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Powerless (2017) | Chapter 6, "Falling Down"

Years after Sarah’s wit and bravery saved her brother and brought the Labyrinth to its knees, her daughter Andie is transported to what remains of that same fantastical place, somewhere she thought only existed in her favorite childhood stories. To find her way back home, she must traverse what’s left of the crumbling kingdom, find a way to set both moments and magic in motion again, and even save the Goblin King, himself. But who will save her from him?

Powerless is a SFW slow-burn romance between Jareth and an original female character. The story overall contains descriptions of fantasy violence, mild suggestive content, and grief regarding family illness. Chapter-by-chapter warnings will be provided as well.

Summary: Andie, Jareth, and the others go in search of the Wiseman in hopes to find further answers for how Andie might return home. After staring at some knockers, they reach a new, perilous section of the Labyrinth that descends into another layer even Jareth doesn’t remember crafting.

Pairing: Jareth x Fem!OC

Warnings: None

Word Count: 2.8k

A hot burst of air on her face served as her morning wakeup call and Andie was a bit displeased to note that it reeked of beef jerky. Pulling a face and opening her eyes, she found Ludo looking at her with his face just inches away, first with concern and then with delight when he discovered she was awake. "Andie?"

"Yup, still Andie," she mumbled as she reached up and rubbed her eyes. "What's the matter?"

"Breakfast," Ludo said pleasantly in his loud, gravelly voice and she noticed he was holding a small plate of rations that looked dollhouse-sized in his enormous hands.

"Oh," Andie said, feeling a bit guilty about her slightly snarky awakening as she took the plate. "Thank you, Ludo."

He smiled in his peculiar way and nodded his head once before going back to where Hoggle sat, who grumped boisterously when Ludo accidentally knocked him over. Andie picked one of the small hanks of meat off the plate and bit into it, twisting it to tear it between her teeth and trying not to wince at the dry, gamy texture. "Where did you guys get this stuff?" she asked, leaving it open for anyone to answer.

Nyle, sitting near the fire pit, was the one to reply. "I got it from the castle after the collapse. Figured I should take something before I left. Most of the provisions in the cellar were left untouched."

"Have you guys been living on this?"

"Somewhat," he acknowledged. "On and off. There have been other finds along the way and, with time stopped the way it has, we may not even need to eat, but better safe than, well, dead. You stop tasting after a while, I promise."

"That's pretty dismal," Andie commented as she chewed another bite, glancing around the clearing. "Where's Sir Didymus? And Jareth?"

"Didymus is scouting the area for any sense of direction in this place so we can start looking for the Wiseman, I believe," Nyle said, a snarl curling his lip with his next words. "Jareth is who-knows-where."

"Lurking, apparently," Leona said quietly as Jareth stepped around the corner of a turn in the maze, re-entering the courtyard. "Do you enjoy that? Popping out all dramatically when you are being talked about?"

Jareth looked a bit bemused. "Yes," he replied obviously, "but I did not think that was dramatic… My name was spoken and I answered."

"My intention wasn't to summon you by using—," Nyle began and Andie noticed for the first time that his teeth were pointed, which made the fine hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

"I was not talking about you," Jareth said dismissively, his eyes fixed on the girl across the way.

Andie met his gaze and arched a brow. "I wasn't, er, summoning you either."

Jareth's barely concealed smirk chose that moment to curve his thin lips. "Pity." 

Andie heard Hoggle groan a little at the exchange, shaking his head in her peripheral. Her eyes moved back to Nyle as he stood, long thin limbs unfolding like a puzzle before he trudged away, a shadow making its way unaltered in the sunlight of the current sky. Jareth watched him go as well, lithely closing the distance across the courtyard before he was next to Andie, slowly lowering himself to sit next to her. "I like him even less than I used to."

"This might surprise you," Andie said as she swallowed her last bite of food and chased it with some of the awful leafy tea that they kept brewing, "but you're not his favorite person either."

Jareth sneered. "I'm truly shocked," he bantered back.

"I knew you would be." Andie finished her leaf water—to call it tea any longer was an insult to tea—and asked, "Any idea what you did to make him dislike you that much?"

"What makes you think I did anything?" After a heavy dose of side-eye, Jareth relented. "Perhaps."

"Care to share that information?"

"He was once to be my successor. Then my jester. And then a servant."

"Harsh," she murmured.

Jareth shrugged. "He was deemed no longer fit to ascend."

"By who?"

"Well, by me, of course."

"Hmph," she murmured as she stretched carefully and set her plate aside. "Is that why you steal babies?" At his inquisitive look, she added, "I've been told multiple times since coming here that a girl came through, looking for her brother."

He appeared amused by that. "Indeed."

"Was he one of the ones you stole?"

"Let's make one thing clear," he said, holding up a leather-gloved finger between them, "I do not steal children. Much like the brother of the girl you've heard of, they are wished away by careless siblings or they are left to dwell in orphanages or with unrelated families who treat them like garbage. They wish for escape and I have given it to them time and time again."

"But you didn't give the girl's brother back to her when she began her quest to get him back, so…"

"She wished him away," he argued, beginning to grow visibly annoyed.

"And then took it back," Andie persisted. "Where's the humanity in holding a girl to a wish that large?"

"You seem to be under the impression that I should have some form of humanity in me," he noted with a slightly calmer demeanor. "I am a goblin, little girl, a goblin king—the Goblin King—and am not held to your petty standards."

"There's nothing petty about being a fair leader," Andie countered. "Besides, you said yourself you were selecting human children as potential heirs. Weren't you chosen in the same way?"

His eyes narrowed and he admitted, "I cannot say I remember."

Andie's lips pursed a bit before forming the word, "Pity."

Just then, Didymus rode into the clearing atop Ambrosius—the sight of which still made Andie hard-pressed not to snort with laughter—and skidded to a halt that nearly threw the uniformed terrier from his steed. "There is no sure way to understand the direction of the Labyrinth any longer, but based on the areas nearby, I have an idea of where we must go in order to find the Wiseman and ask him what is needed," he reported before adding, "and, truly, simply sitting here will do us no good. 'Tis time to carry on!"

Andie nodded and stood. "Sounds good, any idea where we're headed first?"

"There is familiar ground down the right passageway after a few turns. I have marked the path we must take to get there again," he replied as the others packed up the campsite. Nyle had returned at some point within the last minute or so, slipping in like a puff of smoke. Sudden, yet soundless.

After what little they had was packed back into a knapsack Hoggle hauled along, the group followed Didymus down the right passageway, walking along behind him until he suddenly pulled Ambrosius to a stop, nearly causing Andie to trip over them both. "Why did you stop?"

"My…" He looked back at her with distress. "My markings are gone!"

"Gone?" she repeated, glancing around. "How can that be?"

"Likely the smaller goblins who do stone maintenance," Jareth admitted, looking disgruntled at the situation. "They rotate the stones whenever there is an impurity or repair to make."

" 'Tis no matter! I believe between the two of us, we will remember the way! Ambrosius, onward!" Didymus sent the sheepdog forward again and the group behind them followed, not quite knowing what else to do when no one had any better ideas. Didymus stopped at the end of a pathway, pausing heavily before noting, "This was not here before…"

Andie peered around the others to get a good look at the end of the path, at first wondering if they'd run back into the guards she'd faced earlier when she saw the doors. However, these were different; smaller and unguarded, with large detailed door knockers cast in bronze. When they all arrived, Andie continued studying the doors, at least until one of them yelled at her.

"It's rude to stare!" the pudgy one on the right shouted, making Andie jump.

"Excuse me?" she demanded.

"All you little girls that come through here are the same," it yammered on while the other one—whose mouth was occupied by the ring portion of the door knocker—mumbled unintelligibly. "Staring at us like we don't know you're there—oh, the mannerlessness of it all!—and then supposing that we are the rude ones?!"

"That's probably not a word. Could you maybe calm down, I was—"

"WHAT?"

The right door knocker was mumbling again, more voraciously than before, so Andie pulled the ring out of its mouth. "You were saying?"

"Thank you!" the door knocker said exuberantly before explaining most amiably now that she'd helped him, "He can't hear to save his life."

"What life? I'm a door knocker, you twit!" the left demanded irritably. "Not like you offer much in the realm of conversation!"

"It's by design, not choice, I'm a—"

"Could one of you tell me," Andie asserted loudly, causing them both to stop their bickering for the moment, "which way to go? We're trying to find the Wiseman." She glanced over at Didymus for confirmation that she'd said that correctly and, at his nod, she looked back at the door knockers. "Would anyone have come through here?"

"No one's come through," the left one grumped before adding, "though we don't know what's on the other side either. That's up to you."

Andie nodded. "That does make sense… Okay," she said before turning around to discuss the choice, though she only managed to turn right around into Jareth. "Could you stand any closer?" she grumbled as she stepped back.

"Is that a request or an admonishment?"

"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that," Andie informed him as he cackled quietly. "Anyway, which way? Has anyone been through here before?"

As there was a collective shaking of heads from everyone apart from Ludo, Andie focused on him. "Which way did you go before, Ludo?"

"OH, I remember you, you big slobbery bum!" the right door knocker crowed once he looked toward Ludo, who appeared to have hurt feelings now. "He came through this way before, but not before salivating all over that ring, which that girl then stuck back in my mouth after nearly suffocating me!"

Go, Mom, Andie thought with a small snicker, then more seriously asked, "Did you go that way before?" Ludo nodded timidly. "What was that way?"

"Forest," Ludo said simply. "Ludo fell doooown."

Andie pursed her lips. "Ah."

"The forest? That's where the Fireys are," Hoggle said with a grimace.

"Hm, then I doubt that's still what's behind the door. I already ran into them toward the beginning of the maze," Andie reasoned, tapping the knocking ring on her palm while she thought. "Any input, O Lord of the Labyrinth?"

"I could get used to that," Jareth remarked before becoming more serious. "I am at as much of a loss as you, with the Labyrinth in its disarray. You'll just have to guess."

It was her turn to grimace. "Why do I have to guess?"

"Because I should like it if our potential failure is your fault," he mocked unhelpfully.

"You know, for wanting my help, you sure—"

"Fine, fine," Jareth snapped, cutting her off so she didn't spoil his plans to keep his conundrum a secret. "You whine worse than Sarah, even."

"I don't whine," Andie growled, avoiding any comments that might divulge her relation. Hoggle had told her explicitly that revealing her lineage would jeopardize her safety here and—with the deal she'd struck with Jareth, at least that of his owing her a favor for all this—she didn't feel like bringing all that old drama to light. 

Andie took a deep breath and looked between the doors before deciding on the left. "Here," she said to the right, holding the ring back toward him. He pursed his bronze lips tightly and earned a glare from the girl before him. "Really? We can do this the hard way. History can repeat itself." The door knocker looked at Ludo before sighing and opening his mouth, letting Andie place the ring back inside.

Turning to the left door, she looked for a handle before deciding she had to use the knocker, taking the ring and tapping three times on the door, which swung open slowly to reveal a lush setting. "Look at this place," she murmured in wonder as she stepped through, finding herself surrounded by towering blooms, vines creeping up the walls on either side of them as the Labyrinth continued.

"Careful," Jareth said quickly, grabbing the back of her shirt and yanking her backward.

"What are you—?" she started to ask peevishly until he nodded toward the ground in front of them and she saw the unforgivingly dark void she'd nearly stepped into. "Oh…"

"Watch where you step," he said softly into her ear, making her squirm out of his grasp. This time she avoided the patch and paid more mind to the ground, hoping her face didn't look as hot as it felt. "Funny, I remember making sure there was something peculiar about every location…"

Andie started to turn around to hurl an insult, but she paused when she saw one plant rearing back, looking very much like a Venus flytrap. "Look out!" she shouted just as the thing uncoiled and struck, Jareth and Hoggle dodging away just in time as it collided with the ground behind them. Andie looked past her travel companions to find that the door had swung shut, so their only choice now was to keep running.

She stood her ground as Hoggle ran past her, followed by the others, making sure everyone was making it through okay and avoiding the apparently carnivorous plants now after them. When Nyle passed her, his shoulder accidentally caught hers and she toppled backward onto the ground, looking up to see one of the plants coiling back, its eyeless face aimed toward her. However, she felt hands wrap around her arms and suddenly she was dragged backward, the plant striking and missing her by inches.

"You fool, what are you thinking?!" Jareth demanded as he tugged her to her feet, giving up and scooping her off the ground before he ran through the passage to catch up with the others, dodging any plants that came their way, though now it seemed that the entire path was out to get them. The vines wrapping around the walls and over the floors were alive, spearing toward their ankles and lashing off the stone toward them as they passed. As a vine sliced open Jareth's cheek, he winced and muttered, "What was I thinking with this place…"

"What were you thinking with any of this?" Andie wondered aloud, shrieking as a vine hit her in the face and reopened her split lip. "Ow, dammit!"

When Jareth looked down at her to see what was wrong, the real commotion started up ahead and all they heard was Nyle shout, "No, you brute!" before the entire pathway slanted downward and they were caught off their feet, sliding down into the dark underground beyond. Jareth cursed and gripped Andie tightly as they all fell into the blackness, hitting more stone—icy compared to the rest—after they'd run out of pathway to fall on. Once they were off, the pathway replaced itself above them and they were sealed in tight.

Groans and swears echoed through the dank chamber, everyone blind for the lack of light. "Are you all right?" Andie heard Jareth ask near the top of her head.

She nodded, then remembering none of them could see, said, "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks," acknowledging that he'd taken the brunt of the fall. "Are you?"

"I believe so," Jareth murmured, his grip on her still tight. Once he realized this, he loosened it, though they both stayed where they were for the moment. "Where are we?"

"You don't know?" Andie asked apprehensively. "That's not comforting."

"I…," she heard Nyle say hesitantly. "I think I do…"

"Hold on, let's shed some light on this! Hoggle, where's that firestarter…," Didymus said and there were some bustling sounds, then the clink of Hoggle's rucksack of supplies. "Ah! There it is!"

"Wait," Nyle said urgently, "don't!"

However, Didymus sparked the starter and lit up the space just long enough for Andie to make out a large reptilian eye, the pupil elongating from the flash. Her heart felt as if it would seize. "Oh, my god."

Next chapter: Chapter 7, "Through Dangers Untold"

[dear-indies]

Hi Cat 🐱 and Mouse 🐭 , Can I please ask for some female faceclaims around 30-40 with red or dark hair that could play a nymph/goddess who is described to be very beautiful with youthful, elegant looks, please? Thank you so much in advance <3 :)

Yetide Badaki (1981) Yoruba Nigerian - is bisexual.

Bridget Regan (1982)

Lotte Verbeek (1982)

Yaya DaCosta (1982) African-American, one quarter Afro-Montserratian, one eighth Afro-Brazilian.

Alexandra Breckenridge (1982)

Lupita Nyong'o (1983) Luo Kenyan Mexican.

Florence Faivre (1983) Thai / French.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983) Zulu South African / English.

Elçin Sangu (1985) Turkish.

Mary Wiseman (1985) - is queer.

Deborah Ann Woll (1985)

Rosa Salazar (1985) Peruvian / German, English, Scottish, Northern Irish.

Sarah Power (1985)

Miyazaki Aoi (1985) Japanese.

Jodie Turner-Smith (1986) Afro Jamaican.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (1986)

Diane Guerrero (1986) Colombian.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.

Florence Welch (1986)

Nicola Coughlan (1987)

Shannon Thornton (1987) African-American.

Aidy Bryant (1987)

Ashley Blaine Featherson (1987) African-American.

Yoghurt Nattasha Bunprachom (1987) Thai.

Sarah Hay (1987)

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.

Cleopatra Coleman (1987) Afro Jamaican / Scottish, possibly other.

Jane Levy (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Irish and Scottish.

Richa Moorjani (1989) Indian.

Logan Browning (1989) African-American / European.

Ming Xi (1989) Chinese.

Jenna Thiam (1990) Armenian, Belgian / Senegalese, English, French.

Başak Gümülcinelioğlu (1991) Turkish.

Su Kutlu (1991) Turkish.

Alina Kovalenko (1992)

Adwoa Aboah (1992) Ghanaian / English.

Here you go!

[old-movies-stuff]

Labyrinth - 1986

[sophieswundergarten]

Labyrinth (1986) MBS

@itsgoghtime You're in this with me (If you'd like to be)

Roles to fill:

Sarah

Jareth

Hoggle

Ludo

Sir Didymus

Toby

The Worm

The Doorknockers

The Wiseman/The Hat

Assorted Fierys/Goblins

The main question is whether we want the focus to be the kids or the adults. Because while I can see the merit of it being a kind of team of four going to defeat an evil ruler, the driving force of the plot is a sibling relationship

[alpacahat67]

oh yeah i talked abt the twst and labyrinth overlap and met another labyrinth twst oc maker so im gonna talk about this

did you know that labyrinth is technically disney media as a result of their lucasfilms acquisition? so making, i don't know, an old wiseman twst oc is not out of the question and fits the theme of the universe ;)

now there might've been an animated series thrown around a bit at disney, i'm not sure. it's on the labyrinth wiki but there's not a single source and it also lists tara strong as the director? i don't know if she's ever directed a project but correct me if im wrong. there *is* a guy who has made some references of sarah and jareth and has a jareth turnaround on his artstation but i cant find any solid evidence he's ever worked with disney so im not sure if this stuff is lost media or never existed. just a passion project for an illustrator. probably never existed. idk i just needed to talk about that sorry.

[helpersofindie]

hello helpers. i was hoping you could help me find a red-haired female fc, around 30-39, who can pull off looking polish/refined but still sweet? tsym!

sure! i would go with sarah snook (35), kate mara (39), emma stone (34), rose leslie (36), molly quinn (29), charlotte spencer (31), lindsay lohan (36), jane levy (33), karen gillan (35), mary wiseman (37), sabina karlsson (34), bonnie wright (31), stacey farber (35), deborah ann woll (38) or bridget regan (41). hope this helps!

[jessicafurseth]

Reading List, Where The Give Is edition.

"I'm not telling you to make the world better ... I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it." [Joan Didion]

[Image: Irving Penn: Rose - Blue Moon, 1970]

*

"I found myself just staring at it for 10 minutes at a time, watching these machines figure each other out. It was like watching a fish tank." San Francisco's nocturnal driverless taxi ballet [Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic]

Should you give up a bit more often? [Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker]

"It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s the problem?" [Roxane Gay, Bitter Southerner]

"My brain craves flashy, ten-second clips one after the other after the other. I used to waste my time by watching 20-minute YouTube videos – it’s horrifying and laughable that these now seem like the distinguished, intellectual choice to me, akin to settling down with a book." My addiction to vertical video [Amelia Tait, New Statesman]

Nothing on TV felt like "My so-called life" - still doesn't. An interview with show creator Winnie Holzman [Vulture]

"Life without alcohol felt pale and slight at first, until it became Technicolor and overwhelming. Even the most casual interactions turned fraught with anxiety without any substance to numb my nerves, my need to please, my overthinking mind. I stuttered with stress buying toothpaste at CVS (what kind?), getting my hair cut (what style?), just imagining the doctor’s office (no way). So the concept of going out with a man was like cannonballing into the deep end when you haven’t even learned to doggy-paddle." Sex, now sober [Sarah Hepola, The Cut]

Gone commando [Molly Rosen, The Cut]

Getting divorce-y [Moya Sarner, The Guardian]

"I just want a dumb job" - on when you realise that everything you thought you wanted in a career is actually a mirage. [Charlotte Cowles, The Cut]

Fear as a Game [Elisa Gabbert, The Believer]

My real life as an alcoholic, played big on screen - Amy Liptrot on the film version of her incredible autobiography "The Outrun" [The Guardian]

"Communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work." White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now [Derek Thompson, The Atlantic]

The elite college students who don't know how to read an entire book [Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic]

The British lingo that made its way into the US - a fascinating exploration by Ben Yagoda [The Guardian]

Rosa Luxembourg found freedom by pressing flowers in prison Flowers for Rosa [Jenny Odell, Lux]

How to clear mental blocks - actually good advice [Katherine May]

They say turning 44 brings ‘dramatic change’. I can’t wait [Eva Wiseman, The Guardian]

"You already know what The Lion & The Unicorn is like; you have always known, on an instinctual level, the way Plato reckoned we were born with the sum total of knowledge and just forgot it all." There's a new Wetherspoons at Waterloo Station [Steve Dinneen, CityAM]

A perfect Daddio [Stuart Heritage, The Guardian]

[jxrm]

book log - 2012

the devil wears prada by lauren weigberger

exposed by bianca giovanni

bared to you by sylvia day

before i go to sleep by s.j. watson

the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom

the hunger games by suzanne collins

catching fire by suzanne collins

mockingjay by suzanne collins

the help by kathryn stockett

lolita by vladimir nabokov

the railway children by e. nesbit

hana’s suitcase by karen levine

bedtime story by robert j. wiseman

charlotte sometimes by penelope farmer

bright young things by anna godbersen

water for elephants by sara gruen

the future of us by jay asher

the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield

a game of thrones by george r. r. martin

distant waves by suzanne weyn

the lonely hearts club by elizabeth eulberg

confined space by deryn collier

the headmaster’s wager by vincent lam

the key of kilenya by andrea pearson

gorgeous by rachel veil

taxi dance by john jeter

perfect girl by mary hogan

my best friend’s girl by dorothy koomson

god’s gift to women by michael baisden

salvage the bones by jesmyn ward

5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth and other useful guides by matthew inman

walking with ghosts by a. c. kerr

memories from cherry harvest by amy wachspress

oak island revenge by cynthia d’entremont

insatiable by meg cabot

fool by christopher moore

truths and roses by inglath cooper

beauty queens by libba bray

sarah’s key by tatiana de rosnay

mountains of the moon by i. j. kay

spin by catherine mckenzie

arranged by catherine mckenzie

rot & ruin by jonathan maberry

tigers in red weather by liza klaussmann

naples rejuvenating cocktail by bhavna khemlani

too far by rich shapiro

the queen gene by jennifer coburn

fifty shades of gray by e. l. james

grace grows by shelle sumners

fifty shades darker by e. l. james

the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

how to teach filthy rich girls by zoey dean

cracked up to be by courtney summers

the red pyramid by rick riordan

the throne of fire by rick riordan

the serpent’s shadow by rick riordan

the diary of darcy j. rhone by emily giffin

the memory thief by rachel keener

the first faux pas by katy leen

the mark of athena by rick riordan