#South Florida Prosthetics

[likelyhyperventilating]

angsty and fluffy Florida headcanons

(by alligator guy and rad sunflower dude)

(florida hat divider made by @alaskashigh)

Had his left leg bitten off during an alligator accident and it never grew back right so he uses a prosthetic. Sometimes will throw his prosthetic leg at states whenever he's bored or they get on his nerves.

Has a bunch of tattoos. Big tattoo on his back, one full sleeve on left arm, couple on his ankles and feet, few on his chest and ribs, couple on his right arm, one behind his ear, and one on his lower back. Dude is covered head to toe. (His favorites being the ones Loui and Cal tattooed on him)

Sharp as fuck teeth. No joke those things are DEADLY. Also has a gap tooth that he likes to use to shoot water at the states. [It drives everyone nuts]

Can drink his oceans water and be completely okay.

During hurricanes he has to be monitored since he's died during them a bunch. He coughs up salt water, his lungs will get filled up, blood gets replaced with salt water, etc. He once died 12 times in one sitting from a really bad hurricane. It's not fun and he hates it.

Very attached to Loui. When Spain left him with Gov he was thrown into a new scary world and unsure of what to do/where to go. Running into Louisiana was pure fate in his eyes. He wouldn't be the same if he hadn't met him.

He has his own language with Louisiana. The two of them made it centuries ago when they couldn't speak to each other and ended up adding to it more and more. Louisiana and Florida are fluent in it and like to confuse people by talking to each other in it. (I've been thinking about making their actual code or language type thing. if i do i'll make a post about it)

Once bit a walmart employee during a weekly grocery run with a few other states. he’s banned from that walmart now. (you can’t ban him. he will come back no matter what)

His room is FILLED with plushies. He's got plushies from all sorts of places and people laying about. Sitting on his bed, thrown on the floor, up on his desks/shelves, everywhere. Lots of them are from Louisiana and California, some from other south states, and even one from Gov as a gift when he was sick. His favorite is his oldest plushie, one he's been carrying around since he was a territory

[brookston]

Holidays 9.6

Holidays

Administrative Service Center Employee Day (Ukraine)

Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)

Aurora Asteroid Day

Barbie Doll Day

Battle of Lake Travis Anniversary Day

Bravehearts Day (Australia)

Colour Blind Awareness Day

Day of Sex (Brazil)

Defence Day (Pakistan)

Dia de Elkano (Basque, Spain)

Elcano Day (Basque, Spain)

Fight Procrastination Day

Flag Day (Bonaire)

Great Egg Toss Day

Harvesting Basket Day (French Republic)

I AM MDC Day (Florida)

Karma Puja (India)

Khurat (Elder Scrolls)

National Afro Puff Day

National Do It Day

National Little Black Dress Day (Australia)

National Read a Book Day

National Sabrina Day

National Writing Day

Newt Day

906 Day

Piggly Wiggly Day

Player Piano Day

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Prosthetics & Orthotics Day (UK)

Read A Book Day

Rettir (Sheep Round-Up; Iceland)

Septemvriana Anniversary Day

Somhlolo Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)

Stillbirth Remembrance Day

Supermarket Day

World Oral Sex Day

World Shorebirds Day

Younger Sister’s Day (Japan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Coffee Ice Cream Day

Independence & Related Days

Ichkeria (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; 1991)

Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland (a.k.a. Somhlolo Day; from UK, 1968)

HSSR (Hot Lads Soviet Socialist Republic, f.k.a. Hugel; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Unification Day (Bulgaria)

1st Friday in September

Art Break Day [1st Friday]

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Belgian Beer Weekend begins (Belgisch Bierweekend) [1st Friday thru Sunday]

Bring Your Manners To Work Day [1st Friday]

Casual Day (South Africa) [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Dri-jerbal (Labor Day; Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

Fast Food Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Freaky Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Freddie Mercury’s Montreux Memorial Day begins [Weekend of 1st Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Labor Day (Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

National Chianti Day [1st Friday]

National Food Bank Day [1st Friday]

National Lazy Mom’s Day [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Wear Teal Day [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 6 (1st Full Week of September)

Belgian Beer Weekend (Brussels, Belgium) [1st Weekend] (thru 9.8)

Popcorn Days (thru 9.8) [1st Weekend after Labor Day]

Festivals Beginning September 6, 2024

Annunciation Greek Food Festival (Kansas City, Missouri) [thru 9.8]

Apple & BBQ Festival (Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Michigan) [thru 9.7]

Arcola Broomcorn Festival (Arcola, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Art And Apples Festival (Rochester, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Atlantic Balloon Fiesta (Sussex, Canada) [thru 9.8]

Big Muddy Brew 'N Que (Winona, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Bluegrass & Chili Festival (Wagoner, Oklahoma) [thru 9.7]

Cascamorras (Baza, Spain)

Chile Pepper Festival (Bowers, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.7]

Clinton County Corn Festival (Wilmington, Ohio) [thru 9.8]

Darien Cornfest (Darien, Wisconsin) [thru 9.8]

Deep Creek Lake Art & Wine Festival (McHenry, Maryland) [thru 9.7]

Doc Holiday BBQ Championship (Griffin, Georgia) [thru 9.7]

El Paso Corn Festival (El Paso, Illinois) [thru 9.7]

Festival Western de Saint-Tite (Saint-Tite, Canada) [thru 9.15]

Festival of the Vine (Geneva, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Great Reno Balloon Race (Reno, Nevada)

Hampton Beach Seafood Festival (Hampton Beach, New Hampshire) [thru 9.8]

Hells Canyon Mule Days (Enterprise, Oregon) [thru 9.8]

Huckleberry Festival (Bingen, Washington) [thru 9.8]

IFA Berlin (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.15)

International Camel & Ostrich Races (Virginia City, Nevada) [thru 9.8]

Kansas State Fair (Hutchinson, Kansas) [thru 9.15]

Kazan International Film Festival “Altyn Minbar” (Kazan, Russia) [thru 9.11]

Kellogg Watermelon Festival (Kellogg, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Kutno Rose Festival (Kutno, Poland) [thru 9.8]

Litchfield Fair (Litchfield, Maine) [thru 9.8]

Lithopolis Honeyfest (Lithopolis, Ohio) [thru 9.7]

Mantua Potato Festival (Mantua, Ohio) [thru 9.8]

Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) [thru 9.8]

Nicholas County Potato Festival (Summersville, West Virginia) [thru 9.7]

North Carolina Hot Sauce Contest & Festival (Oxford, North Carolina) [thru 9.7]

North Carolina Mountain State Fair (Fletcher, North Carolina) [thru 6.15]

Northern Appalachian Folk Festival (Indiana, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Northern Gila County Fair (Payson Event Center, Arizona) [thru 9.8]

Norwalk Oyster Festival (Norwalk, Connecticut) [thru 9.8]

Onam Festival (Kerala, India) [thru 9.15]

Original Lobster Festival (Fountain Valley, California) [thru 9.8]

Posen Potato Festival (Posen, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Ribs, Rods & Rock 'n Roll (Vermillion, South Dakota) [thru 9.7]

Saint Basil Greek Food Festival (Stockton, California) [thru 9.8]

Salt Lake Greek Festival (Salt Lake City, Utah) [thru 9.8]

São Paulo International Book Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil) [thru 9.15]

South Carolina Apple Festival (Westminster, South Carolina) [thru 9.7]

Taste of Chicago Grant Park (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Taste of Greektown (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Tulsa People’s Restaurant Week (Tulsa, Oklahoma) [thru 9.15]

Vredefeesten (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) [thru 9.8]

Wine and Harvest Festival (Paw Paw, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Wine Harvest Festival (Mikulov, Czech Republic) [thru 9.8]

Žatecká Dočesná (Žatec, Czech Republic) [thru 9.7]

Feast Days

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Begga of Cumbria (a.k.a. Bega or Bee; Christian; Saint)

Cesarean Section Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Chagnoald (Christian; Saint)

Diablo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

Donatian, Laetus and Others (Christian; Martyrs)

Ear and Trumpet Contests for Mice (Shamanism)

Eleutherius (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth Murray (Artology)

Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Gondulphus of Metz (Christian; Saint)

Horatio Greenough (Artology)

Jessie Willcox Smith (Artology)

Kalli Kalde (Artology)

Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism)

Macculindus, Bishop of Lusk (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Füssen (Christian; Saint) [crops]

Media Aestas IV (Pagan)

Onesiphorus (Christian; Saint)

Pambo of Nitria (Christian; Saint)

Robert Persig (Writerism)

Roxanne (Muppetism)

Sacrifice to Hera Thelchinia (Ancient Greece)

Saussure (Positivist; Saint)

Sergio Aragonés (Artology)

Situa (Inca Blood Festival; Everyday Wicca)

Suibhne (Celtic Book of Days)

Teej Festival (Hinduism) [Nepal]

Tony DiTerlizzi (Artology)

Zechariah (Catholic Church; Hebrew prophet)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [25 of 32]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [42 of 60]

Premieres

The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole (Animated TV Series; 1958)

Alice Charms the Fish (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Atlanta (TV Series; 2016)

A Bigger Bang, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 2005)

Candle in the Wind (Diana version), by Elton John (Song; 1997)

Circus Days (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Desperately Seeking Susan (Film; 1985)

Double Indemnity (Film; 1944)

Dream of Gerontius, by Edward Elgar (Orchestral Work; 1910)

The Electric Mouse (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1946)

Flying Fists (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1930)

Go, Diego, Go! (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Hangin’ Tough, by New Kids on the Block (Album; 1988)

The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1954) [The Chronicles of Narnia #5]

The House of the Rising Sun, recorded by Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster (Song; 1933) [Earliest known recording]

The Huckleberry Hound Show (Animated TV Series; 1958)

I’m a Slave 4 U, by Britney Spears (Song; 2001)

It: Chapter Two (Film; 2019)

Jersey Lightning, recorded by Luis Russell (Song; 1929)

Jessie and James (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

Just a Little Heart Attack (Short Film; 2011)

La Clemenza di Tito, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)

Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Film; 2015)

La Strada (Film; 1954)

Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1989)

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Documentary Film; 2019)

Looper (Film; 2012)

The Lucky Ducky (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Mucho Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Not Without Laughter, by Langston Hughes (Novel; 1930)

Officer Pooch (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Film; 1945)

Push-Button Kitty (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Regular Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)

The Rescuers, by Margery Sharp (Novel; 1959)

Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Secret of Moonacre (Film; 2008)

Stranger Than Fiction, by Bad Religion (Album; 1994)

Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (WB Animated Film; 1996)

Weasel While You Work (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig (Novel; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Beata, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Austria)

Boris, Davor, Zaharija (Croatia)

Boleslav (Czech Republic)

Magnus (Denmark)

Aiki, Angela, Angelika, Ingel (Estonia)

Asko, Felix (Finland)

Bertrand, Eva (France)

Beate, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Germany)

Evdoxios, Vivos (Greece)

Zakariás (Hungary)

Uberto (Italy)

Balva, Magnuss, Maigonis (Latvia)

Faustas, Tautenė, Vaištautas (Lithuania)

Siril, Siv, Sollaug (Norway)

Albin, Beata, Eugenia, Eugeniusz, Magnus, Michał, Uniewit, Zachariasz (Poland)

Alica (Slovakia)

Eleuterio, Zacarías (Spain)

Lilian, Lilly (Sweden)

Bartram, Bertram, Veda, Yahir (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 250 of 2024; 116 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 36 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 4 (Guy-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 3 Elul 5784

Islamic: 2 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 10 Gold; Threesday [9 of 30]

Julian: 24 August 2024

Moon: 11%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 26 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Borda]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 79 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 16 of 32)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.6

Holidays

Administrative Service Center Employee Day (Ukraine)

Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)

Aurora Asteroid Day

Barbie Doll Day

Battle of Lake Travis Anniversary Day

Bravehearts Day (Australia)

Colour Blind Awareness Day

Day of Sex (Brazil)

Defence Day (Pakistan)

Dia de Elkano (Basque, Spain)

Elcano Day (Basque, Spain)

Fight Procrastination Day

Flag Day (Bonaire)

Great Egg Toss Day

Harvesting Basket Day (French Republic)

I AM MDC Day (Florida)

Karma Puja (India)

Khurat (Elder Scrolls)

National Afro Puff Day

National Do It Day

National Little Black Dress Day (Australia)

National Read a Book Day

National Sabrina Day

National Writing Day

Newt Day

906 Day

Piggly Wiggly Day

Player Piano Day

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Prosthetics & Orthotics Day (UK)

Read A Book Day

Rettir (Sheep Round-Up; Iceland)

Septemvriana Anniversary Day

Somhlolo Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)

Stillbirth Remembrance Day

Supermarket Day

World Oral Sex Day

World Shorebirds Day

Younger Sister’s Day (Japan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Coffee Ice Cream Day

Independence & Related Days

Ichkeria (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; 1991)

Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland (a.k.a. Somhlolo Day; from UK, 1968)

HSSR (Hot Lads Soviet Socialist Republic, f.k.a. Hugel; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Unification Day (Bulgaria)

1st Friday in September

Art Break Day [1st Friday]

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Belgian Beer Weekend begins (Belgisch Bierweekend) [1st Friday thru Sunday]

Bring Your Manners To Work Day [1st Friday]

Casual Day (South Africa) [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Dri-jerbal (Labor Day; Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

Fast Food Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Freaky Friday [1st Friday of Each Month]

Freddie Mercury’s Montreux Memorial Day begins [Weekend of 1st Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Labor Day (Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

National Chianti Day [1st Friday]

National Food Bank Day [1st Friday]

National Lazy Mom’s Day [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Wear Teal Day [1st Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 6 (1st Full Week of September)

Belgian Beer Weekend (Brussels, Belgium) [1st Weekend] (thru 9.8)

Popcorn Days (thru 9.8) [1st Weekend after Labor Day]

Festivals Beginning September 6, 2024

Annunciation Greek Food Festival (Kansas City, Missouri) [thru 9.8]

Apple & BBQ Festival (Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Michigan) [thru 9.7]

Arcola Broomcorn Festival (Arcola, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Art And Apples Festival (Rochester, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Atlantic Balloon Fiesta (Sussex, Canada) [thru 9.8]

Big Muddy Brew 'N Que (Winona, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Bluegrass & Chili Festival (Wagoner, Oklahoma) [thru 9.7]

Cascamorras (Baza, Spain)

Chile Pepper Festival (Bowers, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.7]

Clinton County Corn Festival (Wilmington, Ohio) [thru 9.8]

Darien Cornfest (Darien, Wisconsin) [thru 9.8]

Deep Creek Lake Art & Wine Festival (McHenry, Maryland) [thru 9.7]

Doc Holiday BBQ Championship (Griffin, Georgia) [thru 9.7]

El Paso Corn Festival (El Paso, Illinois) [thru 9.7]

Festival Western de Saint-Tite (Saint-Tite, Canada) [thru 9.15]

Festival of the Vine (Geneva, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Great Reno Balloon Race (Reno, Nevada)

Hampton Beach Seafood Festival (Hampton Beach, New Hampshire) [thru 9.8]

Hells Canyon Mule Days (Enterprise, Oregon) [thru 9.8]

Huckleberry Festival (Bingen, Washington) [thru 9.8]

IFA Berlin (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.15)

International Camel & Ostrich Races (Virginia City, Nevada) [thru 9.8]

Kansas State Fair (Hutchinson, Kansas) [thru 9.15]

Kazan International Film Festival “Altyn Minbar” (Kazan, Russia) [thru 9.11]

Kellogg Watermelon Festival (Kellogg, Minnesota) [thru 9.8]

Kutno Rose Festival (Kutno, Poland) [thru 9.8]

Litchfield Fair (Litchfield, Maine) [thru 9.8]

Lithopolis Honeyfest (Lithopolis, Ohio) [thru 9.7]

Mantua Potato Festival (Mantua, Ohio) [thru 9.8]

Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) [thru 9.8]

Nicholas County Potato Festival (Summersville, West Virginia) [thru 9.7]

North Carolina Hot Sauce Contest & Festival (Oxford, North Carolina) [thru 9.7]

North Carolina Mountain State Fair (Fletcher, North Carolina) [thru 6.15]

Northern Appalachian Folk Festival (Indiana, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.8]

Northern Gila County Fair (Payson Event Center, Arizona) [thru 9.8]

Norwalk Oyster Festival (Norwalk, Connecticut) [thru 9.8]

Onam Festival (Kerala, India) [thru 9.15]

Original Lobster Festival (Fountain Valley, California) [thru 9.8]

Posen Potato Festival (Posen, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Ribs, Rods & Rock 'n Roll (Vermillion, South Dakota) [thru 9.7]

Saint Basil Greek Food Festival (Stockton, California) [thru 9.8]

Salt Lake Greek Festival (Salt Lake City, Utah) [thru 9.8]

São Paulo International Book Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil) [thru 9.15]

South Carolina Apple Festival (Westminster, South Carolina) [thru 9.7]

Taste of Chicago Grant Park (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Taste of Greektown (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 9.8]

Tulsa People’s Restaurant Week (Tulsa, Oklahoma) [thru 9.15]

Vredefeesten (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) [thru 9.8]

Wine and Harvest Festival (Paw Paw, Michigan) [thru 9.8]

Wine Harvest Festival (Mikulov, Czech Republic) [thru 9.8]

Žatecká Dočesná (Žatec, Czech Republic) [thru 9.7]

Feast Days

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Begga of Cumbria (a.k.a. Bega or Bee; Christian; Saint)

Cesarean Section Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Chagnoald (Christian; Saint)

Diablo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

Donatian, Laetus and Others (Christian; Martyrs)

Ear and Trumpet Contests for Mice (Shamanism)

Eleutherius (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth Murray (Artology)

Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Gondulphus of Metz (Christian; Saint)

Horatio Greenough (Artology)

Jessie Willcox Smith (Artology)

Kalli Kalde (Artology)

Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism)

Macculindus, Bishop of Lusk (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Füssen (Christian; Saint) [crops]

Media Aestas IV (Pagan)

Onesiphorus (Christian; Saint)

Pambo of Nitria (Christian; Saint)

Robert Persig (Writerism)

Roxanne (Muppetism)

Sacrifice to Hera Thelchinia (Ancient Greece)

Saussure (Positivist; Saint)

Sergio Aragonés (Artology)

Situa (Inca Blood Festival; Everyday Wicca)

Suibhne (Celtic Book of Days)

Teej Festival (Hinduism) [Nepal]

Tony DiTerlizzi (Artology)

Zechariah (Catholic Church; Hebrew prophet)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [25 of 32]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [42 of 60]

Premieres

The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole (Animated TV Series; 1958)

Alice Charms the Fish (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Atlanta (TV Series; 2016)

A Bigger Bang, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 2005)

Candle in the Wind (Diana version), by Elton John (Song; 1997)

Circus Days (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Desperately Seeking Susan (Film; 1985)

Double Indemnity (Film; 1944)

Dream of Gerontius, by Edward Elgar (Orchestral Work; 1910)

The Electric Mouse (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1946)

Flying Fists (Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog Cartoon; 1930)

Go, Diego, Go! (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Hangin’ Tough, by New Kids on the Block (Album; 1988)

The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1954) [The Chronicles of Narnia #5]

The House of the Rising Sun, recorded by Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster (Song; 1933) [Earliest known recording]

The Huckleberry Hound Show (Animated TV Series; 1958)

I’m a Slave 4 U, by Britney Spears (Song; 2001)

It: Chapter Two (Film; 2019)

Jersey Lightning, recorded by Luis Russell (Song; 1929)

Jessie and James (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

Just a Little Heart Attack (Short Film; 2011)

La Clemenza di Tito, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)

Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Film; 2015)

La Strada (Film; 1954)

Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1989)

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Documentary Film; 2019)

Looper (Film; 2012)

The Lucky Ducky (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Mucho Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Not Without Laughter, by Langston Hughes (Novel; 1930)

Officer Pooch (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Film; 1945)

Push-Button Kitty (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Regular Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)

The Rescuers, by Margery Sharp (Novel; 1959)

Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (WB Animated Film; 2011)

The Secret of Moonacre (Film; 2008)

Stranger Than Fiction, by Bad Religion (Album; 1994)

Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (WB Animated Film; 1996)

Weasel While You Work (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig (Novel; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Beata, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Austria)

Boris, Davor, Zaharija (Croatia)

Boleslav (Czech Republic)

Magnus (Denmark)

Aiki, Angela, Angelika, Ingel (Estonia)

Asko, Felix (Finland)

Bertrand, Eva (France)

Beate, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Germany)

Evdoxios, Vivos (Greece)

Zakariás (Hungary)

Uberto (Italy)

Balva, Magnuss, Maigonis (Latvia)

Faustas, Tautenė, Vaištautas (Lithuania)

Siril, Siv, Sollaug (Norway)

Albin, Beata, Eugenia, Eugeniusz, Magnus, Michał, Uniewit, Zachariasz (Poland)

Alica (Slovakia)

Eleuterio, Zacarías (Spain)

Lilian, Lilly (Sweden)

Bartram, Bertram, Veda, Yahir (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 250 of 2024; 116 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 36 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 4 (Guy-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 3 Elul 5784

Islamic: 2 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 10 Gold; Threesday [9 of 30]

Julian: 24 August 2024

Moon: 11%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 26 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Borda]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 79 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 16 of 32)

[tyler-r-jou]

Blog Post on Storytelling

Pixar’s Introduction to Storytelling talks about several different ways to approach storytelling and the cliches you often hear about it, such as “write what you know”. I feel like this is one of those things people always say, but never really has any meaning. The definition that Pete Doctor applied did a good job at explaining what this actually means and how you shouldn’t write about what you physically know, but rather what you have experienced or are experiencing. This emotional connection that you build to your story allows for more heartfelt emotions to come out and helps to better characterize the world that you are presenting to audiences. A story isn’t so much the life of a character, but rather it is about a world and how a character interacts with it. The world is much more than just the town the character lives in. It is also the people who also live in that town and the societal expectations placed on the character. Establishing this setting is important as it allows for the audience to better understand who the character is. Even if the character lives on an alien planet inhabited by mutant bug people, we can understand who our character is by how the storyteller characterizes the world. If this protagonist is in love with another mutant bug person, we can relate to the story based on our own understanding of love and trying to get to know our crushes.

For a more down to earth example that relates to journalism, a video came into my recommendations the other day. It was a news segment about a high school graduate from south Florida who was paralyzed from a shooting when he was eight. He walked on stage using prosthetics to get his degree and was met with thunderous applause. In addition to interviews with the graduate, the story included interviews with his family members and classmates who were overjoyed to see him accomplish this. This segment told the story of a protagonist, the graduate, by showing us his setting, an area affected by gun violence, and the people around him who are supportive. From these descriptions, we get a sense of who the graduate is and are able to relate to his story just a little bit more. In order to build a good story, we need to include what we know and how it relates to the character’s settings so that we as an audience can better build a connection to what the story is trying to say.

[southbeachprostheticsinc]

Have you noticed that you sweat more since amputation? Sweating is part of everyone’s cooling process, but amputees are particularly likely to sweat profusely. Sweating is the body’s way of regulating its temperature. When we’re hot, we sweat. That moisture then evaporates and cools us down. Sweating is a completely natural part of everyday life – but it can be an inconvenience for sure! If this is a real thing for you, in this article there are some decent ideas that can help you control excess sweating. Be sure to consult your prosthetics for recommendations specific to you and your needs if you feel your situation warrants it!

[coderfortourette]

State Interns

So the states kinda have like an implied job in the political world. That means that they might get interns! And I think they do. And here’s some ideas that I (and other people in server) had. (DC is District of Columbia)

These are college interns. They had to apply. Gov wrote up the applications so it was uniform across all the states. (And so nobody could slip extra stuff into it.) 

Now, states (and DC, Gov, and IDC) can have preferences or specific requirements for their interns. For example:

- IDC's only takes on women or non-binary interns

- Hawai’i’s requirements are Hawai’ian ancestry

- New Mexico only takes on BIPOC interns

- Kentucky’s requirements are Deaf/HoH interns only. 

And other states also give preference to those with disabilities, or who are minority, or non-male, or from below the poverty line. etc. (The South actually has a lot of these preferences in place. New York has a disability preference.)

There’s a difference between requirement and preference. Requirement means that if nobody matching those qualities applies, then they just won’t have an intern. Preference means if they’ll look at application from outside those qualities, and even accept them if they’re good enough.

All the disabled interns have accommodations. The states fight for there to be accommodations

The interns will have to run reports between states. And with those reports, sometimes they need to also send insults. Because they were asked to. 

For example. The California and Texas interns get along. They both recognize that most of Cali and Tex’s rivalry is “white people bullshit”. 

CA Intern: Here's a report on exports planned to your state. And... sigh... Cali says to tell you to tell Texas that he's still as stupid as he is big.

TX Intern: Thanks for that. I'll meet you for coffee later. And Texas says to tell you to tell Cali that he’s as dumb as his hat is ugly. 

This goes for most of the rivalries. They all find it tiring. Except for Ohio’s Intern. She’s weird though. 

There’s other requests too. For example:

Wyoming Intern: Hey Gov, Wyoming twisted his ankle at the rodeo and can't show up. So he asked me to drop these off. And to..."Test if you can point to him on a map yet"

Utah has been called ‘dad’ by a few interns. He accepts it. He loves it even. And in his office he has cookies. So at the end of every day the interns can stop by and get a cookie before they leave.

Claire, Mother Nature’s Intern, is the “Momma Intern”. She runs the group chat and teaches everybody how to deal with immortal idiots. Even though Gabriel is an angel, he’s allowed to join because he’s basically an intern. 

When Greg takes on an intern, it’s to train them to take over for him.

Florida’s intern is not as chaotic as her state. She’s learned to get a handle on him. Because she is not letting him ruin her chances of getting certain people out of office. 

Alaska’s intern wants to make friends with everybody. She even has friendship bracelets.

West Virginia has unionized the interns. They already had the best possible benefits and everything. This was just over the inclusion of a Pizza Friday tradition.

Speaking of benefits. It’s a paid position. Because when the organizers brought it up, they tried to make it unpaid at first. All they were able to say was “Unpaid internship” and West Virginia was out of his seat, beating them with his prosthetic leg and screaming about “Blair Mountain Part Two!”.

Interns for the states! And the chaos that brings!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Engineers invent ultra-fast manufacturing technology, eliminating need for polymer binders

A team of engineers at the University of South Florida has invented new technology that could forever change the manufacturing of wearable, electronic sensors. They've figured out a way to speed up production without having to use polymer binders—the industry standard in printing flexible sensors, which are often used to monitor vital signs in health care settings.

Their technology, featured on the cover of the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, prints electronic skin, or "e-skin," by using corona discharge to create a strong electric field between binder-free functional powders, such as graphene, and flexible, non-conductive surfaces, such as medical tape. The electrostatic force used in Corona-Enabled Electrostatic Printing enables a multitude of e-skin sensors to be printed within sub-seconds, compared to the 20 minutes it takes with polymer binders, and doesn't require heat. E-skin is micrometer-thin, pliable technology that can be used to measure things such as strain, temperature and sound.

Ying Zhong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at USF, and her collaborator, Long Wang at California Polytechnic State University, found that the printing technique has broad applications, such as in health monitoring, prosthetics and robotics. Unlike with polymer binders, there aren't sizing limitations, making the technique a strong candidate for the roll-to-roll manufacturing of large flexible sensors, which can greatly reduce production costs.

Read more.

[brandonimhotep]

{ARTICLE} #Dailymail A #SouthCarolina mother was awarded $10 million from Walmart after she stepped on a rusty nail while shopping and had to undergo three separate amputations that ultimately resulted in her losing her right leg above the knee. April Jones was walking through the main aisle of a #Walmart on Beltline Drive in South Carolina on June 26, 2015, when she felt a sharp pain and saw that a rusty nail had gone through her shoe and foot. After suffering an infection and subsequent surgery, Jones had to endure three separate amputation that eventually left her without most of her right leg. Surgeons initially removed her toes, but that failed to stop the infection spreading, and Jones ultimately lost much of her right leg, leaving her wheelchair-bound. For the past six years, she has been bound to a wheelchair and her daily life was ‘significantly interrupted’ because she lived alone and independently before the incident, according to a statement from Anastopoulo Law Firm, which represented Jones. A #FlorenceCounty jury deliberated for less than two hours before returning with the $10 #million to cover Jones’s past and future medical expenses, including a prosthetic limb and handicap-accessible upgrades to her home. According to lawyers at Anastopoulo Law Firm, Walmart’s policy mandates employees perform regular sweeps inside the store and failed to show evidence that staff cleaned before Jones’s injury. ‘The weakness of Walmart’s case, among other things, was their failure to produce a video that they claim showed their conforming behavior to a company policy calling for employees to perform regular safety sweeps. No such evidence was presented for the duration of the five-day-long trial,’ the law firm wrote in a statement. The verdict comes two weeks after a federal jury in #Florida awarded a woman $2 million over injuries she sustained at a Walmart in #Orlando after slipping and falling on milk leaking from a malfunctioning dairy cooler. ✨👉🏾 KindLY FOLLOW Our New Page @wonderwombman2 ✨🧡 ✨👉🏾 (DM FOR Promo Prices) 📬📬 https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9WbrZF3iJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[scribbling-stiks]

Retrievers - XLV - Claws

Russia sits down next to America, who is filling Mexico in on everything that had been happening. His chest aches from using the magic, though he suspected it was because of the grey magic more than anything else. He hadn't been in pain when he first started experimenting, after all.

"You're getting better at this whole magic thing," Ohio comments, "are you gonna try to get rid of the whole cat get up?"

Russia thinks for a moment before shaking his head.

"I don't know what it's going to do. I don't want to make it worse."

Ohio pauses and then nods.

"Makes sense."

"Bama! That's for firewood!" North Carolina scolds.

"Well, I'm trying to build something so Dad can walk again!"

Russia's ears perk and he turns to look at the source of the noise. Concern bubbles in Russia's chest at seeing her sitting nearby with a bloody pant leg. Alabama is holding one of the larger logs of wood. North Carolina tries to grab it but misses. Alberta is about to snatch it away, but Alabama dodges, holding the log close to his chest.

South Carolina pokes his head up from the bushes, his face spattered with blood. In his hand is a stiff stick that he had been sharpening.

"I've got a rabbit!" South Carolina announces, holding a bundle of fur on the end of the wood.

"Hand it to me," Kansas requests, holding out a knife, "I'll skin it."

"Okay!"

South Carolina tosses the animal toward Kansas and then refocuses on the brush. Alberta catches it easily and hands it over to Kansas. Russia looks closer and sees that most of the jackets they had been wearing are splattered with blood, their own and others.

"Hey, Russia?" South Dakota asks.

Russia looks up and offers the Dakotas a lopsided smile. North Dakota takes a seat in front of him, and South Dakota sits down next to her.

"Did you need something?" Russia asks curiously.

"No. No_ _______," North Dakota says, her words falling under the ringing.

'I wish I could hear her more clearly,' Russia thinks, looking away as his face drops a little.

"What's wrong?" South Dakota asks, her head tilting a little to the side.

"I wish I could hear you and your sister better," Russia reluctantly admits, his ears pinning back.

"Oh. That's okay!" North Dakota soothes, her voice noticeably louder and a little strained, "I just don't talk very loud. I can sign too if you want."

"That would be good. Thank you."

"(You're welcome.)"

Russia smiles. North Dakota smiles back.

"So," South Dakota cuts in, "we wanted to know if you were okay with us calling you dad."

Russia sputters for a second, and his face grows hot. His ears pin back, and his tail tucks against him. North Dakota starts giggling wildly and South Dakota watches with confusion.

"Are you seriously going to blue screen on us every time we ask something like that?" South Dakota asks, sounding bewildered.

America laughs and pats Russia's arm.

"Welcome to the family," America teases.

Russia curls his legs up.

'AAAaaAAAAaAaaAAAAAaAAaAAaaAAAAAAAAA!'

"Dad, I don't think that helped," Kansas comments from the fire, preparing the meat.

America laughs. Then, America begins pulling Russia into a hug. Russia leans into it, covering his face.

"Cat Dad, you gonna be okay?" Florida asks.

Russia nods quickly.

"Yay!" South Dakota cheers.

"So we got two dads now?" Alabama asks.

Mississippi nods.

"Cool."

Russia wraps his tail around America's waist. America giggles in his ear. Butterflies fill Russia's chest. Fluttery feelings dull the pain in his ear, and static focuses around it. A light blue glow lights up his peripheral vision. Russia closes his eyes. After a moment, the static fades.

Russia opens his eyes and sees America healing Finland. The stump glows brightly and Texas removes the belt. It starts bleeding again, and North Dakota begins trying to wrap the injury to stem the bleeding. Russia absentmindedly rubs his ear. He notices that although it has a dent in the side, it isn't bleeding.

Finland bites her knuckles and tears stream down her face.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know it hurts. It's going to be okay," America soothes, a look of deep concentration on his face.

The blue glow brightens, and Russia watches, entranced.

"Roos?"

Russia snaps out of his trance and turns to Ukraine.

"Yes?"

"How are we going to get home?"

'He sounds so small.'

"Once the sun returns, we will start moving away from the base. Once we have cell service, we will let Dixie know we're okay and who is with us."

"<Okay,>" Ukraine replies in Ukrainian.

Russia's heart drops as Ukraine curls up a little, staring into the fire.

"Are you going to be okay?" Russia asks.

"I'll be fine."

Russia gives him a skeptical look. Then he sighs.

"We're going to be okay," Russia says calmly.

Everyone looks toward him, and he avoids their faces. He takes a deep breath.

"We will get away from the base and we will find a way back to the house. Once we're there, we'll be okay," Russia promises.

"Can we hotwire a few cars?" Mississippi asks.

"Please?" Alabama chimes in, "I want to practice!"

"Me too!"

"Since when do you two know how to hotwire a car?" Texas asks, suspicious.

"Since Rue here decided to teach them," America chimes in.

"What!? I want to learn to hotwire a car!" South Carolina complains.

"I do too!" Kansas choruses.

"We won't if we don't have to," Russia interjects.

"Awwww..."

"What about my arm?" Finland asks.

"Peaches has some connections," Texas says, looking at the ground, "she might be able to call up some doctor friends and get you something. 'Sides, Souri and York would be more than happy to make you a prosthetic."

Russia shivers at the thought of a doctor in a medical setting, but America doesn't seem panicked. He takes a breath and leans his head against the tree.

"Yay!" Mississippi cries.

"What?"

"I have a thing for Daddy! See?" Mississippi exclaims, holding a clunky piece of wood.

America glances to Russia. Russia nods and leans forward, holding out a hand to take it. Mississippi tosses it to him. Russia catches it and begins bending it Its two blocks are connected on a hinge across the top that would either hold it flat or bend up.

"I need to add straps, but-"

"What the fuck was that?" North Carolina interjects.

Everyone goes silent, and Ukraine looks up.

"What?" America asks.

"Scar," North Carolina snaps, "get your ass back here. Now."

"Care, I'm right here," South Carolina says from beside her, holding his bloody makeshift spear in a white knuckle grip.

Mexico and Brazil begin stoking the fire as high as they could manage. Russia scans the treeline around them. He grabs a large rock. The firelight makes it hard to focus on the shadows. He scowls.

"What did you see?" Russia asks lowly, glaring at the shadows.

"Somethin' was crouching in the trees," North Carolina says with a worried sneer.

"Everyone group together," America demands.

The states pull close to the fire, and some of them overlap. The countries are pulled into the group. Russia stands protectively over Finland and America. His ears fold over and his tail puffs up to three times its size.

"Where did you see it?" Russia asks.

North Carolina mutely points to the area where South Carolina had been hunting. Russia turns with a snarl. He hisses and narrows his eyes. He turns his back to the fire and stands tall with his shoulders squared back. His shadow stretches into the darkness.

He meets a pair of glowing red eyes. Russia's heart stops, but he holds his face in a snarl. He stalks forward toward it. The most his eyes adjust, the more he can see. It looks like a four-legged thing that stares up at him.

Russia raises his arms and yells.

"EH!"

The thing jolts up. It stares at him. He closes in on it. It back peddles. Russia snarls at it, and his hands tingle for a second. He glances down to find his hands look almost fuzzy and bigger. Claws extend from his fingers.

'Cool.'

Russia hisses and creeps closer to the figure. The figure shrieks and runs away through the brush. Russia watches it leave. He turns back around to see everyone staring at him. He tilts his head.

"Huh. I've never seen that before," Ukraine comments.

"Seen what? I used to do this cat thing when I was younger."

"That's not what I'm talking about."

"You grew claws!" Florida exclaimed.

"Like a werecat or something," South Dakota comments.

Russia looks down at his hands. They're covered in fur up to his elbow and his claws retract. Russia's heart drops to his feet. His forearms are warmer now and covered in fur.

'I wasn't just imagining it.'

"Huh," Russia forces through the growing lump in his throat.

"Can you make them go away?" Brazil asks.

Russia mutely shakes his head. He waves his hands, but the grey fur doesn't fade. H, e flexes his fingers and his claws extend. He relaxes them and the nails disappear. Russia takes a shaky breath.

"Rue?" America asks, Finland leaning against his leg.

Russia hums, his ears still pinned back. His tail whips around behind him.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know how to control this," Russia whispers shakily, "I'm... I'm scared. How much more am I going to change?"

"I'm sure Mass and Manitoba can help," Alberta says confidently.

'We have to get to them first.'

Russia swallows thickly.

~

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[abalonetea]

updated character list, because i’m procrastinating Work and also I've made major changes since the last one, woops

                                                    Adele Adler  

the handler, the woman in charge. She runs relay between all four teams, doling out missions, handling issues that arrive on and off base, and acting as go between for the Teams and the Council. she’s supposed to keep her distance between them, and had managed that for all the teams before now, but…the men are growing on her! she has a surprising soft spot for most of them, and finds herself more and more willing to turn blind eyes on their shenanigans.

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                                                  West Team

                                                   Jeremy - Speedster

a rough upstart from the streets of Los Angeles. he spent nearly six years bouncing from city to city, and did a very large stint running drugs for a prominent crime organization. with hands that have been broken more than a few times and a serious case of ADHD, paired with a short temper and a habit of fighting dirty, he’s a firecracker out on the field.

                                              Joshua - Sharpshooter

born in Roturoa, but more often found in the wilds away from other people. if it moves, he’s been paid to hunt it before. perpetually tired and with a bad eye from an old shooting injury, it can sometimes be surprising that he’s so fierce out on the field. especially when it comes to people bothering what’s his.

                                                   Feliciano - Rouge

served in the Iradium War just outside of Rome, briefly, and made a living as a bodyguard for a while. he’s used to being neither seen or heard as a result, and it’s led to a very slow process in finding a place for himself on the team. that being said, he’s got a fondness for making poorly timed jokes on the field, directly before stabbing an opponent in the neck.

                                                     Lukas - Techie

a former teacher at the SPFOT, where he created the original prototype for prosthetic limbs fueled by iradium. knows more about the strange element than anyone else, and found himself working for the GSC after being framed for the murder of a former colleague. you’ll often find him building devices that will stop him from having to get involved with hand in hand combat.

                                                     Deiter - Doctor 

after losing everything that he owned during WW2, Deiter found himself working as a black market doctor, trading treatment for food and places to stay. extremely fond of the team that he has now, and very invested in making sure that they consistently come back in one piece - despite the occasional code disruptions that occur.

                                                     Jamie - General

from a small town to the fields of the Iradium War, he’s been fighting from the moment he had the chance. close contact with constant iradum boom’s have left him with some pretty bad hearing loss, and a strong dislike for explosives work. excels in planning and finding the strong points in his comrades.

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                                                     East Team

                                                     Scout - Scout

grew up in Boston, where he was raised by a single mother, with five younger siblings. between the ADHD and the dyslexia, he’s lacking in confidence, and making up for it in bluster. a proud owner of pigeon wings, an iradium baseball bat, and a true master at sleight of hands, including coin tricks.

                                                     Jane - Guard

a former soldier in WW2, who came away from the fight with some hearing issues. very loud and a little too blunt for most people’s likings. has eagle wings, but one of them’s broken and held in place with a handmade strap. takes great pride in his job. very good at sewing, and gets a kick out of Scout’s jokes even if he won’t admit it.

                                                    Corentin - Thief

 he was drafted into the Korean War, where he served a grueling eight months before being attacked by military trained dog-horses and sent home. a chronic insomniac who never settled back into civilian life, and has an abysmally childish sense of humor. usually tasked with cooking meals on his team. lovebird wings.

                                                    Ollie - Arsonist

a firebug from Daytona who was picked up by Seamus, and not Adele. really wants to do his job well and not fuck things up, but has a case of chronic bad luck. paired up with Scout, they become the gruesome twosome, and cause prank-Hell for the rest of the team. collects lighters. sparrow wings.

                                                    Seamus - Gunner

an alcoholic with a penchant for creating updated guns, and a fondness for loud music. he/s a great cook but never bothers with it. got caught in a car bomb when he was younger, and has pretty bad back issues now. Ollie’s proving to be good for him. great skua wings. (subclass - Builder)

                                                    Sasha - Healer

a doctor with a love for guns, and a history with a cult in Siberia. she’s an optimistic person, though large crowds make her a little nervous. has more common sense than the ret of her team mates put together, drinks vodka in her tea, and has vulture wings. heavily linked to a hypothetical angel of death. (subclass - gun enthusiast)

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                                                    North Team

                                                    Tony - Runner 

local loudmouth of North team. you cannot pay this boy to be quiet, and he’s both stupid as a bag of bricks and also incredibly intelligent. from New York, where he had a lovely stint robbing the Italian mafia blind with his husband, Rizzo, until they were both shot up and picked up by Adele. part of a modern day bonnie and clyde.

                                                    Rizzo - Demolitions Expert

pretty adorable if you can get past the fact that he’s incredibly crass and has no filter between mind and mouth. Hopelessly in love with his husband, even if no one else realizes they’re married. he will burn water if you let him cook, so maybe best if you don’t.

                                                    Loto - Archer

from the Louisiana bayous, and great with a cross bow. has an old coonhound-horse that sleeps in bed with him, but who Loto claims to hate. often forgets that he needs to actually go to the kitchen and get food, and that the food he needs is easily available.

                                                     Braeburn - Mechanic

the longest running member of any of the active teams. has a prosthetic arm. really fond of sweet tea, and has more idea of what’s going on than he’s willing to let on. bound up in so many contracts, it’s literally woven into his Intent.

                                                    (N/A - Medic)

                                                    (N/A - Assassin)

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                                                    South Team

                                                    Elias - Soldier

a big softy, under all that gruffness. a pretty shy guy, and any kindness will make him flustered. was pulled into a unit of winged soldiers for the Iradium War on a technicality. spent four years traveling around the states with BJ. has a severe case of HEARTsickness. greater frigate wings.

                                                    BJ - Hurricane 

left an abusive home at fourteen and has been on the streets since. took a contract with GSC to get Elias medical treatment. dyslexic, and often described by his team as “being a lot”. a baseball enthusiast from Orlando, who’s basically Florida Man with hummingbird wings.

                                                    Olek - Firepower 

can probably punch you hard enough to get a KO, but fights with an Iradium powered flare-gun that does serious damage. from Russia, with a strict I won’t tell you anything about my past policy, and a bizarre fondness for bears. great at giving hugs when you’re down. curly goose wings.

                                                    Jakob - Maker 

has a highly advanced prosthetic eye. losing the vision in his other eye. the guy who picked up BJ and Elias. has a real morality struggle between the job he does, and his own views on Mercy. probably needs a hug more than he lets on. rhode island red wings.

                                                    Jules - Spy

one of the longest lasting members of the Compass teams. served in WW2, and the Iradium War. genderfluid, and doesn’t remember their real name. walks a thin line between being distant and flirtatious as fuck, with the bad habit of falling asleep while he’s smoking. used to have cardinal wings

                                                    Gabe - Hunter

a former worker on an Alaskan fishing boat, he’s a remarkable shot with a rifle and can catch most anything in traps including humans. head strong and doesn’t take direction well. falcon wings. (sub class - Field Medic)

[themastercylinder]

PLOT

While praying in St. Agnes church in New Orleans, Father Dennis is confronted by a demon taking the shape of a seductive woman. The woman tears his throat open, killing him. Several years later at a New Orleans hotel, Father Michael is called to talk to a man named Claude who is threatening to jump from the top floor of the building. When he offers Claude a cigarette, Michael is pulled out the window and falls to the ground. Inexplicably, he survives the fall without injury. After the incident, Michael is appointed to the St. Agnes parish by the Archbishop Mosely; the parish had been closed after Father Dennis’s unsolved murder.

Upon moving into the rectory, Michael is notified by Lieutenant Stern that another priest was murdered there before Father Dennis. Michael finds mention of Millie, a waitress at the Threshold, a local black magic performance art club, in Dennis’s journal; Michael goes to visit her, but she is evasive. She later comes to the parish, claiming to Michael that she saw Father Dennis for confession before his death; during the confession, she admitted to giving her soul to Luke, the owner of the club, whom she claims is the Devil incarnate. Luke visits Michael shortly after, claiming that the Satanic shows put on at the club are only gimmicks, and that he does not actually believe in them; however, he says he’s been recently experiencing supernatural phenomena and begs for Michael’s help. Michael agrees to spend an evening in Luke’s apartment, where he witnesses furious poltergeist activity.

When Michael brings the information to Archbishop Mosely, he is informed that Father Dennis was approached by Millie and Luke in an identical manner before being murdered. Father Silva, an elderly blind demonologist, informs Michael he has been “chosen” to fight the devil, but Michael dismisses the notion. Millie is incarcerated in a psychiatric ward after attempting to kill Luke, and Michael goes to visit her. In a fit of madness, she claims Luke tried to rape her, and that Father Dennis has been talking to her. That night, Michael has a nightmare of the Demon, and receives a disturbing phone call from Father Dennis, who claims he is “waiting for him in hell.” Millie arrives in the middle of the night begging for help, and Michael agrees to let her stay in the rectory.

While cleaning the church with the housekeeper Teresa, Millie is fascinated by a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which Teresa tells her was salvaged from a church in a foreign country that burned down. Lieutenant Stern warns Archbishop Mosely that Michael is in danger, suspecting Millie was responsible for the previous murders of the St. Agnes priests; Mosely assures him that Michael is safe. Meanwhile, Millie discovers a book in which she reads of a demon known as the Unholy, which seeks to corrupt and then take pure souls. To prevent herself from being a target, she propositions Michael to take her virginity, which he refuses. Convinced Luke planted the book, Michael confronts him, but Luke denies it.

The next day, Michael finds Luke’s eviscerated corpse hanging above the church altar in the pose of the Cross of Saint Peter. Seated in a pew is Claude, who begs Michael’s forgiveness for pulling him out the window. Suddenly, Claude begins to bleed profusely from his eyes and mouth, and bursts into flames at the foot of the Immaculate Heart of Mary statue; Luke’s corpse also ignites. Michael meets with the Archbishop and Father Silva, who warns him that the Unholy will manifest to Michael between Ash Wednesday and Easter, when it will try to tempt and then kill him. In the church, Michael is confronted by the Unholy (taking form as the woman), and she attempts to seduce him, but he denies her.

The Unholy reveals its true form—a monstrous creature—and two mutant creatures crucify Michael. Millie enters the church and is confronted by the creature, but before it can harm her, Michael calls upon God for strength, and damns the Unholy to hell. He collapses, and when he awakens, is blind. As Millie walks him out of the church, the Immaculate Heart of Mary statue begins to weep tears of blood.

   PRODUCTION BACKSTORY

 Shot during late 1986 and early ’87 in South Florida, with additional filming in New Orleans and post production in California, The Unholy is a big-budget thriller in the tradition of The Exorcist and The Omen. Though The Unholy features scenes of extreme violence, gore and an appearance by a monstrous incarnation of hell itself, director Camilo Vila balks at calling his third feature directorial effort a “horror film.” “I don’t consider this a horror film,” he says. “Of course, we’re gonna have a demon and a monster, but in a context that’s not going to have teenagers running wild.”

Speaking English in a thick Latin American accent, Vila describes his developmental work on the screenplay of The Unholy. “Originally, it was very much like The Exorcist,” he remembers. “I changed it. I created a myth about a demon that tempts priests during the 40 days of Lent and then, on the night of the Resurrection, does his final temptation.”

A Catholic himself-and a former altar boy-Vila admits that his religious upbringing had a strong influence on his approach to the material. “You never get over it,” he says, adding. “The story is very Catholic but it doesn’t have a Catholic message. It’s about temptations and how deceiving they are. They’re not black & white.”

Barry Anderson sculpting a ripped apart chest prosthetic for the film ‘The Unholy’

Though Vila created the myth of the Lenten season temptation, another aspect of The Unholy’s premise comes from actual Catholic lore. “On Good Friday, they take all the communion Hosts out of the church and extinguish the sanctuary light,” he explains. “From Friday at 3:00 to Saturday at midnight, the church is not holy. This is the time when the demon makes his last strike.”

The screenplay for The Unholy has an interesting history, beginning life as a treatment by old-time Hollywood writer/producer Philip Yordan. Although best known as the author of the cult classic Johnny Guitar and prestigious epics such as King of Kings, The Fall of the Roman Empire and Battle of the Bulge, Yordan is more familiar for Day of the Triffids. He wrote his Unholy treatment some years before The Exorcist and The Omen created a vogue for major horror films. Too far ahead of its time, the story collected dust on Yordan’s office shelves until Vila discovered it while working with Yordan on another project. Vila turned the treatment into a full screenplay and a production deal was struck, with filming set to begin in January 1986. This deal collapsed before shooting started, but Vila found new backers while in Florida later that year. New producer Matthew Hayden brought in writer Fernando Fonseca to polish another draft before the script was taken before the cameras.

Most of The Unholy was shot in Miami’s Limelite Studios, with studio owners Frank Tolin and Wanda Rayle serving as executive producers. The film is the initial project of Team Effort Productions, Inc., a Florida-based company formed to make Hollywood-caliber films in the Sunshine State.

In the lead role as Father Michael is Ben Cross. Veteran actors Ned Beatty, Hal Holbrook and Trevor Howard round out the supporting cast, along with William Russ. The leading lady is Jill Carroll, who plays a young woman involved with Father Michael. Nicole Fornier another lovely-and mysterious-lady. Fornier’s role reportedly required a very unusual bit of prosthetic makeup: The application of an extra nipple on her left breast.

Assuming responsibility for the special makeup and prosthetics on The Unholy was Isabel Harkins. A veteran of 12 years in the business, her credits include Scared Stiff and dozens of rock videos and commercials. “I’ve done lots of ‘doubles,'” she laughs, “making people up to look like Abe Lincoln and George Washington, or bears or sandwiches.” She also assisted creating the elves and fairies for Ridley Scott’s Legend. About the extra nipple on Fornier, Harkins says, “I just made a cast of her real nipple and then doubled it. She’s a beautiful girl. I bleached her dark brown hair into a fiery red and made her up glamorous, the Christian Dior look.”

Harkins served up several generous helpings of gore FX for The Unholy, including bloody bodies both human and canine. At one point, a man is butchered and crucified upside down on a cross in a Satanic parody of Christ’s death. “He gets ripped open from his crotch all the way to his neck,” reveals Harkins. “His heart and a liver are hanging out, the ribcage gets all torn up, and his bones are sticking out. It came out beautiful.  They did it with the real actor and then again with the stuntman the next day. I had to match exactly how the blood ran hanging upside down.”

The Unholy also features the gory slaughter of a German shepherd.  “But we didn’t hurt the dog!” Harkins hastens to assure everyone.  “We had a veterinarian anesthetize him. Once the dog was sleeping, we had to work really fast to apply the prosthetics and special blood I made. It looks very, very real.” And what did the pooch think of this? Harkins chuckles. “He was just licking himself off, licking up all the Karo syrup and pancake stuff. He liked it.”

Another interesting challenge came on Halloween night, when the filming of an accident victim prosthetic job was repeatedly postponed. “I put on the makeup at 5:00 p.m.,” she recalls, but the first shot wasn’t until midnight, and they shot the close-up at 6:00 the next morning.” The delays necessitated constant maintenance to preserve realism. “Appliances start going bad after you daub them up with all the glue and blood. The edges start coming up. But I used some products from RCMA, the same stuff Tom Savini and Rick Baker use. They keep the appliances going for a long time.”

Harkins says she would prefer to work with more lighthearted fantasy-oriented projects like Legend, but for now the splatter jobs are keeping her employed. “I know everything about anatomy,” she says. “I’ve been doing this for 12 years now. I go to the morgue for research.

Creating a plan for the spectacular climax of The Unholy was the duty of special FX designer Michael Novotny. No stranger to fantastic films, Novotny served as production designer on the upcoming Invasion Earth, as art director on Flight of the Navigator, and worked on the mechanical sharks for Jaws 3-D as well as the robots for Chopping Mall. Advance word on The Unholy was that a 6-foot demon appeared at its finale, but Novotny shrugs this off. “That’s a rather pedestrian description of what, in fact, is going to be revealed,” he says. “We are making a physical shape which is much larger than 6 feet, and we have several different versions of this, uh, shall we say, ‘demon.’

“It’s hard to describe exactly what it is,” Novotny explains, “because some of the versions of the ‘demon’ are meant to be seen only from certain points of view. One might be just a profile. Another might be just a background piece that’s meant to be interpreted as a shadow, and another is what I’d call a ‘full-on jeopardy shot’ where you’ll be confronted by him directly.”

This evil entity manifests itself in many forms. “The whole concept is that the power of the devil is at its extreme as a deceiver,” says Novotny. “He’s changing constantly. At one point he becomes a holocaust of fire, with the entire church splitting open and forming a hell.” This last effect required the assistance of Star Wars FX Whiz John Dykstra’s Apogee company to execute Novotny’s plan.

Charged with building the monstrous entity that Novotny designed was makeup FX creator Jerry Macaluso, who has worked under Rick Baker. Macaluso was assisted by Linda Arrigoni, Barry Anderson, and Brian Burgstaller, all veterans of Romero’s Day of the Dead. Working with mechanics built .by Ken Wheatley, Macaluso and his crew assembled the demon by first sculpting in clay, then molding in fiberglass. “It was quite an experience because none of us had ever done anything this big before,”  recalls Macaluso. “Standing straight up, she’s 9 feet tall.”  She? Yes, you read that right.

“You can definitely tell it’s a female. It has large, sagging breasts, fully articulated. We’ve got her mounted on a crane in back, and her arms are puppeted. There’s some pneumatics, also.”

Construction of the creature took over three months, followed by an entire week of screen tests before the monstrous creation was pronounced film-worthy. “There are actually three demons,” Macaluso reveals. “There’s the full-scale demon, then there’s the costume, which is basically for head and shoulders shots, and then there’s a special demon for… something else.”

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The Jerry Macaluso Creature

One person particularly impressed with the Macaluso crew’s demon work is Fernando Fonseca. “There’s six guys in there, working it,” he says with obvious amazement. “It’s fantastic to watch.” The multi-talented Fonseca, who served as the Unholy’s production designer, also composed the music score and co-wrote the screenplay. Fonseca sheds a bit more light on the subject of that extra nipple applied to Nicole Fornier. “An additional nipple is supposed to be a sign of witchcraft,” he explains. “That was one of the ‘tests’ for witchcraft back when the Spanish Inquisition had its bonfires. It was called ‘the devil’s mark.”

Although Fonseca’s scripts have been performed on the theatrical stage, The Unholy is his first produced screenplay. He describes his rewrite of the Yordan and Vila script as a matter of fleshing out the characters and filling in important details. For example, in the earlier script, Father Michael was invulnerable to temptation. “To me, this left much to be desired in the way of dramatic conflicts,” recalls Fonseca. “The demon is trying to get to him by tempting him. If he’s not susceptible, then we’ve given you the conclusion at the beginning of the story. In Yordan’s script, the demon was sent back to hell when the bell struck midnight, kind of like Cinderella.”

Another addition was a background story of elderly Father Silva’s own experience with the demon. The earlier draft had Father Silva lecturing at length about demonic lore but never explained how he acquired the knowledge. Fonseca added an explanation for Father Silva’s inside information and linked it to a new, bone-chilling finale. Due to Fonseca’s innovations and the skilled work of the entire crew at Team Effort Productions, The Unholy should provide ample thrills for even the most jaded horror film-goers. Vestron Pictures will release it this Halloween.

  The Bob Keen Creature

THE BOB KEEN RE-SHOOTS

Unfortunately for Vila, the people at Vestron who picked up the feature for distribution apparently wanted a horror film. Impressed with Waxwork, another of their genre offerings, Vestron contacted that piece’s producers, Christopher Anderson and Gary Bettman, and makeup FX man Bob Keen to shoot a new ending for The Unholy. Keen, who handled the FX on Waxwork in addition to directing second unit, was asked to rework and direct The Unholy’s climactic church battle. “The film is not that bad, it stands up by itself. The ending just needed a little polish,” Keen comments. “It’s still the original director’s and the original team’s film. I’m just doing the ending. I’ll probably get back-end credit as ‘Additional sequences directed by …’ and I’m happy with that. I’m here to help people out.”

For the reshoot, shop was set up for 10 days at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, right across the street from Paramount Pictures. The original church set was the only thing shipped in and reconstructed from The Unholy’s Florida shoot. A new production crew consisted mostly of Waxwork veterans in addition to Keen’s British team of Simon Sayce, Neill Gorton and brother David Keen. As scripted by Keen, the new sequence’s main purpose was to provide a more exciting and satisfying plot resolution. “The ending is bigger now, we expanded its scope,” notes producer Bettman. “The battle between God and the devil, heaven and hell, Father Michael’s fight with the Temptress, the question of should he or shouldn’t he be attracted to a woman, that’s a lot going on in just a few minutes. There’s also more action. We’ve added two other little demons, and there’s more happening with the monster. Visually, it’s a fantastic creature.”

The new creature, the demonic transformation of the Temptress who torments Father Michael, is a departure from the original Jerry Macaluso creature. It’s still very tall and noticeably female, but now the demon is meatier, slimier and looks like it’s covered in rotting entrails. Its head is larger and more menacing, with fiery red eyes and sharp claw like teeth. Explaining how the new creature was designed, Keen says, “We started from scratch. We had to simply scrap everything or we would botch up what had already been done. Vestron believed in this movie, so the decision was made quite early on, ‘Let’s spend the money, go back to square one and see what we can do.’

“There were little problems that I don’t think became evident until everything was in place,” Keen continues. “The original creature didn’t have any teeth and had very little personality. Since the scene cuts between a real person and the creature, it was important that the creature move and behave like it had a personality. That was the basic reason for abandoning the original design.”

Keen’s demon began its life as two separate pieces: an articulated head and shoulders for close-ups, and a suit worn by Gorton and Sayce for the long shots. “Midway through a scene in which the creature, on all fours, stalks the fallen priest at the church altar, we decided we needed something halfway between the two and grafted the close-up head onto the suit to make a giant puppet,” Keen reveals. “I wanted the creature to have a hands-on conflict with the priest. The conflict was very important; I didn’t want something that took place with them 200 yards away from each other.”

The finale also includes “a trip to hell which is structured with very strong images,” says Keen. “The priest eventually wins and dispatches the demon back to hell. We built the miniature set (of the church opening up into a deep pit) upside down so we could control the creature’s fall. The camera was aimed up at it, and on film it looks like the creature is dropping down a huge hole. We used the 2001 technique and hid all the wires behind the model as it gets pulled up.”

To keep the film a cohesive narrative, some of the additional footage is being edited into the body of the film as dream sequences experienced by Father Michael. While many who leave the church never go back, British actor Ben Cross did return almost a year later to reprise his role as Father Michael. “It’s difficult, but it’s not impossible,” he judges. “I’ve really forgotten a great deal, so I relied on Bob Keen, who had seen all the footage, to remind me. Basically, it’s acting by the numbers.”

The Unholy marks Cross’ first horror/FX film, as well as his first performance as an American. “Father Michael, rather than being Super-priest,” the actor observes, “is actually a bloke who can’t come to terms with the fact that he’s gifted. There’s a human side to the character. He has a strong will and strong faith, but he’s also very cynical. He doesn’t believe that evil can personify itself in fleshly form. Of course, he finds out otherwise.”

Throughout the rigorous FX shooting – including the afternoon he had to don painful contact lenses to simulate Father Michael’s ultimate blindness – Cross tried to keep a sense of humor. After one difficult shot, he announced to the cast and crew, “I’ve just been through hell.”

“These movies are tough,” Cross laughs. “When I studied at drama school, I received a classical actor’s training. I was prepared for all sorts of things; we were trained for radio. But no one ever trains you to scream and shriek while you’re crucified to an altar, and the thing that’s actually coming toward you is a prop man lighting up a cigarette behind camera. These things are so embarrassing and undignified that you just try to get it in one or two takes. After that, you start to analyze, and that’s not good.”

Puppet created, shot, but ultimately cut from a film. Created by David Sosalla, Rick Lazzarini, and Mike Sorenson at Apogee, Inc.

Preferring to view the 10-day filming as “additional stuff” rather than a reshoot, Cross doesn’t consider this an opportunity to add anything to his performance, “This is to improve the film,” he maintains. “It’s the final 10 minutes. By that time, you either have a good movie or you don’t. The whole film builds toward these last 10 minutes. If they don’t work, then I along with many other people look a bit ridiculous, and the audience will go out laughing.”

Gary Bettman agrees, give or take five minutes. “Often what people will leave the movie theater with is the last reel. It’s what they remember most,” he nods. “The final climax leaves you with the thought of the picture, that last 15 minutes. Hopefully, we’re going to leave them so they tell their friends.”

And just in case there are any doubts left, the final word belongs to Bob Keen, who expects his sequences to comprise to 10 minutes of screen time. “Now,” assures the director, “The Unholy is definitely a horror movie.”

Keen says he doesn’t plan to emphasize his film’s FX aspects. “I’m a special effects man, but I don’t want to be labeled a special effects director,” he notes. “The area I want to develop is the character. How the story is important to the character’s structure and growth is the part I’m going to spend all my time on. If I don’t know how to do special effects by now, and how to direct them, I might as well give up.

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  Cast

Ben Cross as Father Michael

Ned Beatty as Lieutenant Stern

William Russ as Luke

Jill Carroll as Millie

Hal Holbrook as Archbishop Mosely

Trevor Howard as Father Silva

Claudia Robinson as Teresa

Nicole Fortier as Demon

Peter Frechette as Claude

Earleen Carey as Lucile

    The Unholy (1988) Retrospective PLOT While praying in St. Agnes church in New Orleans, Father Dennis is confronted by a demon taking the shape of a seductive woman.

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Sam, Dean, Reader.  Eventually Sam x Reader.

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AGENT P. YOU ARE TO LOCATE ,FOLLOW, AND OBSERVE ONLY. THESE MEN ARE HIGHLY DANGEROUS. THE WINCHESTER BROTHERS. HIGHLY SKILLED KILLERS.  HAVE EVADED CAPTURE MULTIPLE TIMES.

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“Oh! Yeah, um. That might be a good idea..” you smile sheepishly at him without moving.  He really looks good. You only half pretending to be completely dazzled by him.

“Go on, and open her up, will ya?” Dean asks now standing at your car’s hood.

“Uh, okay.”  You reply bouncing back to the car. “I, um, don’t normally drive in my boots. I was changing from my Chucks. They aren’t that great for walking in snow.”

Of all the places for him to show up. You had just been thinking that this was going to be a difficult job.  You put on your other boot and walk to the front of your car.  Dean is bent over looking under the hood. You admire the view for a moment.

“So, find what is wrong?” you ask bubbly. “I am so glad you came along, I’ve been out here about an hour and I can’t get any service. I was getting ready to walk back the way I came to the last gas station I stopped at.”

Dean grunts for a moment. “That'd be a long walk, you know there is a town just three miles ahead. You would have had a shorter walk heading that way.”  Dean looks over at you.

“Oh, well without the GPS, I get a little lost.” You say with a frown.

“I can probably get her started and going, but you’ll barely make it into town.” He wipes his hands on a rag he pulled from his pocket.

“Oh, so you travel this way often?” you ask tilting your head.

“Oh occasion, why you planning on getting stranded out here again?”  he asks with a smile.  

“Only if men like you stop to rescue me.” You blush. “OH! Did I say that out loud!” you exclaim. “I’m sorry, I just get all flustered.” You blush again admiring him.

Dean chuckles. “It's alright Sweetheart. You start college around here?”

Your disguise has worked. He doesn’t recognize you. You remember seeing something about University of Kansas ahead of you on the maps before you broke down. “Um, yeah, the University of Kansas. I think I got a little lost though.”

“Well let’s see if we can’t at least get you fixed up enough to get to town, maybe a local mechanic can fix her up better.” Dean says pulling up his sleeves.

“I doubt they could fix her up as good as you could.” You say under your breath. Knowing that Dean was a mighty fine mechanic from your reports.

“What was that?”  Dean asked  standing up again.

“Oh, if you get her running again, I’m trading it in the first chance I get.”

“Sounds like a good idea. Now try to start her for me.” Dean tells you as he again looks at the engine. Within twenty minutes Dean has your car purring.

“How about I follow you into town, make sure you get there okay?” Dean offers.

“Oh that would be great!” you bounce exuberantly then suddenly kiss Dean on the cheek.

Dean gets a look on his face, Shit maybe he recognized your kiss?

“Oh! I’m so sorry!”  you quickly say and blush hiding your face.

“It's alright Sweetheart, let’s get you into town.” Dean chuckles. He guides you to your seat closing your door for you. He then gets in his car and honks at you to get moving.  He does by his word and gets you into town to the first mechanic.  He waves and pulls away as you stop.  The car dies before you can put it in reverse and follow him.

“Dammit!” you slam your hand on the steering wheel. One week later, a new car, and thanks to your sources, you are finally on the trail of the Winchesters.  Several Law enforcement reports mention FBI agents with physical descriptions of the brothers. They were always seen when there was something dramatic about the deaths. Hearts ripped out, blood drained from the bodies, and other strange deaths seem to attract the Winchester brothers.  

Today you are a waitress in a bar in the town that has the latest strange death. You got yourself hired yesterday. You have a wig of straight black hair, Brown eyes, and very tight clothing.  You were waiting for the brothers, at least one of them to show up. This was the bar closest to the least expensive motel in town.  You hoped you were right this time.  It was getting late, you were about to give up when the Brothers walk through the door.  You buy off the waitress who had their table and go to take their orders. Sam seems unhappy. Dean is his charming flirty self.   Sadly they talk in low voices so you never caught what they were talking about.  Dean tries to get you to take him home.  You find a way to politely decline as you are in the rundown motel that they are probably staying at as well.

From the moment you figure out their pattern you find them in each town. Posing as a housekeeper at one hotel. Bar fly in the next town.  Server at a diner. Each time you change your appearance, rotating your hair and eye colors. Using prosthetics and makeup as well to disguise yourself.  Every persona you use your birth name, Y/N, you don't really know why.   After two months, somewhere in South Dakota you lose them.

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Puppets Extras - Just a Bit of World Building

-Giving a creature a name gives it more power, hence why many of the creatures go unnamed

-Everyone's face is the flag of the country or state they are a resident of or were a resident of.

-If someone is not a resident of any country, they are blank until they become residents. ie. if they are born on a plane.

-If a person has dual citizenship, their flag will change based on which country they are in or stayed in most recently.

-The main visual difference between personifications and citizens is the eyes. Personifications have eyes that have a slight yellow glow, and the citizen's eyes are plain white.

-A second visual difference is that, for personifications, their flag's design can extend past their face.

-Simpler, color-based flags show up more vividly than the more complicated, picture-based ones.

-First-generation immigrants often, but don't always, keep their original flag. Second generations have fewer ethnic flags and third generations are completely based on their current citizenship.

-English is the language of international policies, hence why countries without a large  population of English speakers can still communicate in fluent English

-Personifications and citizens alike can have the ability to do magic. The ability is not common.

-Personifications have stronger magic/more potential strength than citizens

-The states all have their own homes in their respective state. They only stay at the main house together during holidays or emergencies.

-The nickname "Mass-hole" came about during Thanksgiving when Massachusetts insisted on calling Pennsylvania "Penny." Eventually, Penn had enough and he shouted, "Shut the f*** up, Mass-hole!" It stuck and the states have used it ever since.

-All states know how to cook their regional food, and America knows how to cook any American based dish or popular dish that the states make.

-Some states are fluent in more than one language and America is as well. This is based on two reasons

               >The current languages spoken by their citizens

               >Any past mass immigration of foreign people

-Australia and New Zealand have met the states, but because of distance, they do not visit much

-The states call Australia "Spider-Man"

-Most countries have scars from a history of violence in their land. Russia keeps his arms covered because the scars on them are sensitive to touch. Most of the time, long sleeves are good enough, but if unavailable, he'll wrap them in dry, clean bandages.

-New York has a prosthetic leg. He lost his right leg and nearly lost the other during the events of 9/11/2001. His leg ends just below the knee and both legs are heavily scared. His prosthetic is life-like, and you wouldn't notice it was a prosthetic unless he exposes his legs.

-America made sure that all the states know how to swim. Hawaii is the best, closely followed by California and Florida.

-The monsters seen attacking Russia are not necessarily doing it for the same reasons.

-While America is gone, Dixie has attempted to take over his duties. Unfortunately, New York often has to get involved because of the arguments Dixie's involvement has caused with some of the other countries.

-Monsters can not perfectly imitate a person. The ones that are the most accurate at copying faces can not do it for long, and the mimicking cries of others always have strange distortions. Most of the monsters are imitating things to lure people toward them, but only have the intelligence of a wild animal.

-Most of the monsters that roam the North American continent are monitored by the personifications representing the different Native American tribes recognized by the Federal Government. These personifications do not typically interact with America or the states, but if worse comes to worst, they are willing to help.

-New York and New Jersey have the strangest relationship out of the states. The two are opposites but act as best friends. They will go from insulting each other to defending each other if anyone else tried to insult one of them. Jersey's more obnoxious tendencies are only tolerated by New York because he's New Jersey. If any of the other states tried blasting music into New York's office or room when he was on the phone, they would get a much larger reaction than just an annoyed look.

-Wisconsin is in charge of getting cheese, end of story.

-Most midwestern states know how to ride horses, and the southern states know how to grow produce and hunt.

-If someone finds a snake in the Big House, its Florida's problem to get rid of it.

                   >Alligators go to either Louisiana or Florida.

-During Hurricane season, the states that are heavily hit(Like Louisiana) get sick and are often bedridden until the damages begin to be fixed.

-New York handles most of the logistical things for his family.

-Florida was terrified the world was ending the first time he saw snow.

AND SOME MORE

America's magic runs on the same logic as Massachusetts, just to a lesser extent.

Nations heal the fastest, followed by states, and regular people heal the slowest.        Sidenote: Texas, California, and Hawaii heal faster than the other states.

Alabama owns and modifies old cars. Most end up with rocket boosters attached. Indiana occasionally helps.

Countries(and states) all have at least one home in their country, but many have family homes centered between relatives. The larger the country, the more homes they own.

The idea that the USSR crumbled because of new freedoms giving to citizens is where I get my interpretation of Soviet. I read it as he was controlling when his kids were little, but once he realized his kids weren't happy, he backed off, and the USSR fell apart.

America was severely neglected as a child, so when he started finding states(small children) as a young teenager, he wanted to get rid of them. He didn't want them. But when he turns his back on Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, their cries draw him back. They sounded so much like his own.

-"Daddy! Come back! Please." -"Where are you going? Why can't I come with you!" -"Daddy, wait!"

He vowed from then on to raise these kids as best as possible, and he made it a goal to do better than UK or England ever had. He likes to think he succeeded.

If a personification dies, their country crumbles. If the country crumbles, but the personification is still alive, they will become less powerful, but still amortal(meaning unable to die of disease or age).

Nevada and New Mexico are NEVER to be left alone together. Chaos ensues.

Florida has several pet alligators that live in a moat around his house in FL. His siblings don't visit often.

Georgia and North Carolina make Moonshine and fight over whose is better.

California is the worst driver.

New York has an attitude that demands respect, even if he's in pjs.

Colorado, Florida, and California do parkour. Texas won't admit that he does too because he doesn't want to have anything in common with Florida and California.

New York and New Jersey like to race each other across rooftops in NYC. New York normally wins, even with his prosthetic. Jersey always demands a rematch.

Louisiana and Georgia can tap dance. New Jersey can breakdance.

Florida can play the grand piano, but his siblings say he can't play any "good music." Even still, he insists that "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "All Star" are perfectly reasonable choices of music.

West Virginia always has a few marbles in his pocket. Always.

Instead of faces, different people have different face shapes, eye sizes, and slight alterations to their flags, mostly colors. Flags keep the same shape.

Extra Facts:

-Had a horrible childhood full of neglect. He was left to fend for himself in brutal winters of the northeast or the brutal heat and humidity in the south east. UK does not know how to be a parent and didn't want to learn.

-America doesn't ever want any of the states to feel the same kind of doubt about themselves he felt, so he showers them with affection as much as he can. Unconditional love.

-The states, though they are a big group, are one of the most functional family units. They can work as a (sometimes) well-oiled machine.

-Philippines was taken in and treated like a state for a while, so he fits right in.

-America allows his states to do as they please, but insists that they have nothing to do with international affairs.

-He knows the states can handle themselves, but if they need help, he'll run in behind them, guns blazing, no questions asked. And he knows the rest of the states will follow him in the same fashion.

-He doesn't really remember birthdays. Instead he will just randomly mail them gifts that remind him of them. So it's like surprise birthday presents.

-The states love him, and will support him no matter what. His asking is the only reason they haven't mobbed a nations' meeting to beat the crap out of the people making fun of their dad.

-America is hyperactive and forgetful. New York took on the logistics early on because he saw that though his dad wouldn't mean to, America would often forget important meetings and dates in time.

-Texas was scared to join another family, but found himself in a group that looked up to him and laughed with him and he was happy. He doesn't care that he was a country(unless it's to tease his siblings), his is one of the states and will deal with anyone who messes with his family.

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