#Simon Neal

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"My love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face" - Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.

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Rate My Favs

Challenge: make a poll of your fave characters of all time, then tag five people to do the same.

Thank you for the tag @penna-nomen

This is going to be interesting, I have too many, so I'll just do my favourite men for now, and maybe do another one for my favourite women?

There are so many more I want to add but had to eliminate because I can only add 12 options 😭 have fun y'all. (No Doctors on here because they're all my pookies, and they're canonically gender fluid.)

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Be Now, a short film (2015) starring Saskia Reeves as Helen.

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2024 brings us 60 years of the Scarlet Witch!

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Batman Black and White explained 

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Happy World Frankenstein Day!

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Mojo can't use the name Wonder Man cause it has been licensed off to Marvel Comics... so he just gender-bends him into a female by the name of Wonder Wo... ah ah ah! can't use that either....

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Admittedly it's taken binge watching to bring it to the fore but it never fails to amuse me just how ship!driven Gina is and how she enjoys participating in the gossip of people falling in love/flirting/getting together.

She is a complete cliché of a trope, God love her! The woman who can't deal with her own feelings/relationships/let most people close to her and who broke up with Adam ONLY because she knew he wanted to have children and she was infertile is also the same woman who loves other people falling in love and can - depending who it is - be the adult version of the kid shoving two dolls at each other shouting "NOW KISS!" She's also the mother of her entire relief of overgrown children police officers.

Early PM Gina is currently shipping Tiny Ears Luke and Kerry whilst simultaneously shipping Craig and Luke. She just doesn't know that her Pet Sgt's mystery man is Luke yet. She only knows that he has BIIIIG FEEEEELLLLIIINNNNGZ for someone (and he's driving her mad that he won't tell her who it is!) and she lights up like this....

... each time she gets some more information out of Craig, especially when she finds out they've kissed. She makes sure to ask him how his love life is and if there's any updates on his Mystery Man almost every single time they chat and tells him to essentially just grab him and go for it! (Later she'll also be the one who finds Craig and Luke in bed together on the morning of Luke and Kerry's wedding and has to run around trying to keep a lid on it as well as deal with the situation and bash Craig about the head for it).

(though how the woman who sees all and knows all has not realised what's going on right under her nose I really don't know!)

She's often teasing - or admonishing Smithy for his bad choices* around women over the years, especially when it's Kerry who to Gina at least has treated Smithy very badly over the last few weeks of her life - including unofficially accusing him of rape and then refusing to decide whether or not she's making it official and almost getting him murdered by Irene and her sons (though she doesn't know that bit which always wrangled with me! Especially as Irene went on to kidnap Gina herself!)

*Let's face it, the only women he's kissed on-screen who haven't gone on to die in a v horrible way (that we know of!) are Cherry from Bad Habits, the irritating shop assistant in A Night To Forget/A Day To Remember and Stevie! (Potentially the nurse in Zero Tolerance but I don't think that went anywhere - at least not onscreen). Ah and not forgetting (sadly!) Kezia.

In the 400's, Rod has just asked June out for a date and Gina is behind the front desk, veeeeeeerrrrry slowly but obviously stepping forward to listen in whilst pretending she isn't and then teases June about it.

She's still teasing her about it like 10 eps on:

And again the episode after that one!

"From Rod is it? Just a friend is it?" "Yeah!" "Yeah yeah!"

If only she'd actually opened up to Jonathan when she'd gone to do so to tell him that she was ready to commit - but then didn't because he was leaving Sun Hill (and only leaving because she wouldn't commit!)😢

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Do you have any thoughts on Simon’s manager, Neal?

I think he's interesting as the kind of person Simon ends up spending time with / representing him. He's generally depicted as an absolute scumbag who continuously sells out Simon to make money out of him without any regard for his consent, wellbeing or happiness, and Simon is someone who doesn't really have the best sense of self-worth and you do see that with how long he stayed with that man. I mean, from 1991 to 2007 he is Simon's agent until he's murdered! Even when Simon lays down what he isn't interested in doing, boundaries, ethics etc, Neal continuously pushes on them and tries to force him in another direction. I think there is something interesting there about the intersection of how toxic an environment Hollywood is and how toxic an environment Simon grew up in but those lines were not really drawn while this character was alive. I'm interested to see how much of the original Neal characterisation will show up in the MCU show, because while it was always played for comedy that he sucked so bad I also don't know if they'd want such a scumbag representing the idea of agents in L.A.

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CyberRad Deathwatch 2000 (1993) Issue #1 Page 16 Linework

Art by Neal Adams

Source

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If you’re into fun & poignant YA lit I’d recommend reading Unwind by Neal Shusterman. I read a lot of melodramatic YA lit but this particular story about the unwanted in society (largely convicts and children without parents) being sent to a camp where they’re taken apart to be separated into parts for transplant was probably one of the best ones I read. I even owned a copy so you know it’s serious. He made a sequel years later but I didn’t finish it because the adhd was truly flourishing by then, but from what I did read it was actually pretty good.

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*sigh* I really love me some gay/chaotic bi/queer fictional idiots bonus point if they’re in love w eachother

(And yes, i hc all these beautiful Boys in the tags as queer, fight me🥹 i mean if it isn’t in canon then they just give off the ✨vibes✨ y’know)

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Beyond the Court: Athletes Who Inspire Us

Who are your ultimate sports heroes? These athletes have not only dominated their respective fields but have also inspired countless others. Let's celebrate their greatness! #sportsheroes #inspiration #motivation #athletes #fierceculture #fiercemillennial

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why. These athletes aren’t just sports stars; they’re role models, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers. In a world often filled with negativity and disappointment, it’s refreshing to look up to athletes who not only excel in their sports but also inspire us on a personal level. These individuals have shattered expectations, defied odds, and…

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Winding Up the Week #391

An end of week recap “Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston There will be no wind up next Saturday because I’m getting married. Thank you so much everybody for your kind good wishes. I will see you on the other side (of the broom, that is). As ever, this is a post in…

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Tarzan Day pt 3