#Uncle!Rami

[rene-spade]

growing up räikkönen | f1 grid

fem! reader x räikkönen family, f1 grid

note(s): reader is kimi’s eldest daughter 👍 2nd pov but for the plot reader has a name. We start off in the 2021 season, reader becomes a driver for mclaren the 2022 season. main idea is everyone is obsessed with her lolol

Warning(s): potentially triggering relationship dynamics, some obsessive behavior tbh bc i like em crazy, mostly cute stuff tho!

GROWING UP RÄIKKÖNEN MEANS having a chaotic first few years, but with your father everything always works out. kimi isn’t even 22 when you’re born (2001), and your mother is just a fling who sadly passes away before you turn one, but you are his world. he melts at the sight of his eldest daughter; the one who he raised as his alone. Sure, you’ve had a couple step moms, but only one father who happens to be the protective type. You grow up in the f1 paddocks because kimi doesn’t like being apart from you for too long. even with his marriage to jenni, he has her watch you during his races. Just the racing part though, he commonly totes you along with him during anything he can, even media duties. due to his own upbringing, your schooling is the highest of priorities, but it’s still a guarantee you know how to drive anything by age 16. He wants you to be prepared for anything life throws at you, though of course he wouldn’t let you do it alone.

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SOME DAD! KIMI THINGS; childhood

he named you after himself (kimi -> miki, unoriginal)

when you were ages 1 month - 6 years, he took you everywhere with him

he nicknames you “lumienkeli” snow angel in finnish

his first tattoo was a portrait of baby-you with your full name and birth date

kimi can’t say no to his little girl, so you end up bringing all kinds of stray pets home, even from other countries

you and step-mom jenni iconic duo

uncle seb vettel and michael schumacher (who babysat you growing up) buying you and kimi matching outfits

kimi is very bad at documenting things properly, so jenni organized and labeled his entire “isä ja miki-mäiri” photo album. after they divorced, minttu took over that position, adding robin and rianna.

no-dating rule implemented as soon as you mention a crush at school (you were 6)

crazy dad! kimi who tried to run over your first boyfriend with a snowmobile

a responsible drinker around his sweet daughter but when you’re home attending school, he has his iconic drinking benders (championship era all the way to his divorce era)

kimi who learns to braid hair so you can keep your hair tidy and untangled beneath your first helmet

you are his mini-me (mostly, just in the ways he intended)

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Twitter; self-ran

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Instagram; self-ran

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photo album; written by kimi-matias räikkönen (edited by jenni dahlman and minttu räikkönen)

äiti ja miki-mäiri lumienkeli mik ja isä

2001 <3 (2004)

isosisko miki, minun miki-mäiri miki-mäiri ja robin ja rianna 10th syntymäpäivä setä rami (2006)

miki ja jenni <3 is��n vauva miki-mäiri ja

(2003) (kesäkuuta 2002) serrku justus

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this is the introduction to this fic / au. Please send asks to get the ball rolling! If you don’t know kimi lore, this might not make much sense oops

- ren

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

Yesterday, the IDF managed to prevent an independent Palestinian terrorist attack, by killing the would be terrorist on his way to execute his plan. Based on the type of weapons that were found on him, had he managed to carry out the attack, there probably would have been a lot of fatalities.

Also yesterday, the UN Security Council had an emergency session to discuss the UN report on the sexual violence of Hamas on Oct 7 and since (with the hostages). This was thanks to Israel asking several countries to request this session, and the US, the UK and France obliged. Believe it or not, more than 5 months after the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and the single bloodiest day in the Israeli-Arab conflict, that was the FIRST time that the UN has met to discuss what happened to people in Israel on that day. Let it sink in that the UN has discussed earlier and more frequently the situation in Gaza, than the massacre that started it. And that the UN still doesn't consider Hamas a terrorist organization. Israel again asked for this to change during yesterday's session.

Remember how I wrote about Yussuf and Hamza al-Ziadna, 2 of the 3 Muslim Israeli hostages, still held in Gaza after more than 5 months? Well, yesterday at the UN, Ali al-Ziadna, Yussuf's brother and Hamza's uncle, confronted the Palestinian ambassador, demanding to know why the Muslim Israeli hostages have not been released to fast and pray during Ramadan, as all Muslims should get to, and how could Hamas call themselves Muslims... (I'll just correct one thing he said: while Hamas released 23 of its 32 Thai hostages without asking for anything in return, but as part of the November 2023 deal to release the Israeli hostages, 9 Thai citizens are still in captivity. I do not want anyone to forget these men, they must be released and reunited with their loved ones, too)

The BBC has already been accused by members of the British Parliament of being institutionally antisemitic. Now, it seems like the British broadcaster is insisting on further proving those accusations right, as its head chooses to defend the BBC's use of an unsubstantiated witness account from a "journalist" known to be working for Iran, and who has in the past praised terrorists killing Israelis (his testament matches Hamas' narrative) regarding the stampede incident in northern Gaza. But, you know. Good on the Jews and the Jewish state for controlling the media. *eyeroll*

This is 58 years old Rami Davidian.

He's a farmer from moshav Patish. On Oct 7, he got a message from a friend, asking Rami to save his kid, who was at the Nova music festival, where today we know was the single deadliest scene of all the place Hamas attacked during the massacre. Rami went in, and saved the kid and 12 others in his vehicle, while also directing others to moshav Patish. This led to more people hearing about it, and calling Rami as well, giving him details about their loved ones, and asking for his help in rescuing them. Rami went back in, again and again, to an active shooting scene controlled by murderous terrorists, for hours, and he kept getting people out. Once, to save the life of a young girl, he approached the terrorists, and speaking Arabic to them, he lied that he's a Muslim Arab like them who came to warn them of nearing soldiers, and that they must flee, leaving their victim behind. Rami didn't know this, but on that day, many actual Israeli Muslim Arabs were murdered by Hamas for "working for the Jews," which the terrorists claimed made these Arabs even worse than the Jews. But miraculously, the lie worked for Rami. Once the IDF arrived and Rami was no longer needed to save the living, he helped with the identification and bringing to burial of the dead. After everything he had done for others on that day, risking his own life repeatedly, 2 days ago Rami gave an interview, and said that it's the survivors of Hamas' sexual violence who are the real heroes. Thank you for everything you did and who you are, Rami. Together with other people who risked themselves to save others, whether Jewish or not, you are gibor Yisrael (hero of Israel).

This is 19 years old Itay Chen.

He's one of the Israeli hostages that in the past 5 months, I have heard his parents speaking about their fears over not having gotten a sign of life, and hopes for his release countless times. As Itay has an American citizenship, they even personally met with Biden to plea for their son's life. Today we got the announcement that he had in fact been murdered on Oct 7, and it's his body that's being held captive by Hamas. I have no doubt that Israel will still do whatever it can to get it back, and allow him to be brought to kever Yisrael (Hebrew term for Jewish burial. Literally: Israel grave), and it would even release convicted terrorists to make that happen (it has done this before), but obviously the "price" for a living hostage is higher, not to mention that the thought of someone alive and suffering in captivity comes with a greater psychological pressure and urgency, so Hamas intentionally and cruelly let his parents spend months not knowing, hoping for what Hamas already know was impossible, fly all over the world, and beg for something that no one could give them. I just have no words for this type of ruthlessness.

May his memory be a blessing.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[randomitemdrop]

Trick or trivia

Happy Halloween! I do enjoy trivia of many types, but one of my favorite genres is what I call the Berenstein Timeline: unmade shows and movies, versions of classic movies where studios and producers made different decisions, some better, some much worse. All of these are real projects that were, on some level, considered (there are some recurring names)

"Heat Vision & Jack", a 90s pastiche of 70s-80s action shows starring Jack Black as an astronaut on the run from the law and Owen Wilson as his talking motorcycle

"Jurassic Park" directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp as Alan Grant, Jim Carrey as Ian Malcolm, and Vincent Price as John Hammond

the 90s "Batman" directed by Ivan Reitman; Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy were going to star but couldn't decide which of them would be Batman and which would be Robin

Back in the 1970s the American network was getting good numbers showing heavily-edited reruns of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", so they tried to sell the Pythons on the next logical step: an animated Saturday morning cartoon

"Edward Scissorhands" still directed by Burton but starring Tom Cruise or maybe Michael Jackson

"Return of the Jedi" directed by David Lynch; Harrison Ford was considering not coming back for the third movie and so when he came out of the carbonite there was a chance he would have been Christopher Walken

Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness". Also "the Hobbit" and lots of other things, he seems to have a lot of unmade projects

the 2010s "Star Trek" movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, where the edgy reboot crew visits the Gangster Planet from that one stupid episode of the original series

Everybody knows about the unmade "Superman Lives" starring Nicolas Cage in the title role, but did you know it was going to be directed by Tim Burton and include Christopher Walken as Brainiac, who would have been a green head on spider legs

Harold Ramis didn't particularly want to act on camera, so when they were casting "Ghostbusters" Egon could have been Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, or John Lithgow. Supposedly the movie was originally intended to be a relatively serious exploration of Dan Akroyd's very real interest in paranormal investigation, although this clashes a bit with the fact that Peter Venkman was originally going to be played by John Belushi and Winston Zeddmore was written for Eddie Murphy who backed out when the character's backstory and most of his lines were cut

John Waters' animated series "Uncle John" on 90s MTV

the original version of "Bill & Ted's Time Van" starring Pauly Shore and Sean Penn

"Red Dragon" (the original Hannibal Lecter novel) directed by David Lynch starring John Lithgow as Hannibal Lecter and Mel Gibson as Will Graham

the 1970s "Dr. Strange" TV series

the 1990s Disney animated "John Carter of Mars"

the 1990s Warner Bros animated "King Tut" musical with songs by Prince

the serious horror version of "Beetlejuice"

Drew Barrymore's 2000s remake of "Barbarella"

the Dungeons & Dragons movie James Cameron was going to make until TSR left the table over merchandising disputes, forcing Cameron to go work on some dumb movie about the Titanic

American "Doctor Who" movie starring Michael Jackson

Canadian "Doctor Who" cartoon by Nelvana starring a Doctor based intensely off of either Jeff Goldblum or Christopher Lloyd

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" directed by Terry Gilliam

"Good Omens" directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Robin Williams

"The Black Cauldron" using character and background designs by Nightmare-era Tim Burton

[sundove88]

Project Link Up All Stars- The One Thing You Can’t Replace

Art by @kindabizarretbh

Victor Nefario (Shonen Jump Power Linkage, Linker of Frieza)- Narrating it

Michael DuPont (Mega Man Mega Linkage, Linker of Dr. Wily)- Mr. McNamara

Lucas Daybreak (Mega Man Mega Linkage, Linker of Zero)- Jake McNamara

Various other Linkers from other installments as the Party Guests

Rami Banjarski (Super Smash Bros Power Linkage, Linker of Donkey Kong)- Kid who broke pool table

Kokoda Masuko (Crayon Shin Chan Linkage of Mayhem, Linker of Shin Chan)- Kid who took a crap on the computer

Darren Wilkes (Mega Man Mega Linkage, Linker of Duo)- Chicago Police Officer

Jonathan Rue (Persona Linkage of Light and Dark, Linker of Ren Amamiya/Joker)- Alex

Note: Everyone here is drinking soda and stuff like that.

Another story I heard about myself, this one happened not that long ago. There was this guy at Rivet Bay Middle School whose nephew went to the city’s neighboring high school. His name was Michael DuPont and his nephew Lucas Daybreak went to that high school. He’s a freshman, while I’m a seventh grader. So he’s two years ahead of me.

And Mr. DuPont was a butthole, and one weekend, he and his wife decided to leave town, which you should never do, if you are a butthole. And Lucas decided to throw a party at his uncle’s house.

Hurray!

And everyone- us Linkers and their Partner Characters around our cities heard about it and we all got up individually and thought…

“Okay, let's go over there and destroy the place.”

I walked into this party. Everyone I had ever met was there and everyone was drinking soda like it was the end of the world. People were drinking soda like it was the Cybertronian War and Ratchet was coming to saw our legs off. It was totally unsupervised. We were like the Decepticons without Soundwave, we were running wild.

I walked down, I walked down to the basement. They had a pool table in the basement. One Linker took a running start and his Partner Character threw his body onto the pool table and broke it in half. Another Linker found out which room was Mr. DuPont’s and went upstairs and his Partner Character took a crap on his computer.

So the party was going great.

I'm standing in the basement, and I'm holding a red cup; you see in movies. And I'm standing there and I'm holding a red cup and I'm starting to black out and I guess someone said like something, something police and in a brilliant moment of word association, I yelled: f** Da Police! f** Da Police! And everyone else joined in. A 100 drunk white Linkers yelling “f** Da Police”. With the confidence of guys who have already been to jail and aren't afraid of it anymore, you know that like, I'll serve my nickel, you come and take me, confidence. But white children.

The reason someone had said something, something police was because the police were there. So Officer Darren Wilkes walked down the stairs and got to the bottom in the basement and looked out over a sea of drunk toddlers yelling; f** Da Police in his face, but he was almost impressed.

He was like wow, and then he leaned into his walkie-talkie and went, get the paddy wagon. And my friend Maximus, who is now a Linker, this man’s got a Partner Character in the form of Cell, he grabbed a Fanta, threw it on the ground, and yelled scatter.

And everyone ran into different directions. We all ran in different directions. It was like that scene in Ratatouille when the humans come in the kitchen and all the rats go in different ways. We all ran in different directions.

I ran into the laundry room and I jumped up on the washing machine and I crawled out through a window into the backyard and now I'm running through the backyard and there was this big chain link fence and I thought I've never climbed a fence that high before. And then I woke up at home.

On Monday, I went to school because that's what we always do. And I'm walking into the school building and who do I see but Lucas. And he says to me hey, were you at my party on Saturday and I said no, you know, like a liar. And he said things got really outta hand. Someone broke the pool table. Someone took a crap on my uncle’s computer.

But the worst thing, he says; the worst thing is that someone stole these old antique photos of my grandma and my aunt and uncle are freaking out about it. And I had that thought that only blackout drunks and Steve Urkel can have. Did I do that? I figured no. I wouldn't have done that.

But I was never sure, until after I became a Linker, relax. I'm playing video games with this kid named Jonathan that we also met on the internet with. Few weeks later, we’re Linkers by now. We're playing video games for a couple hours with our Partner Characters, and then Jonathan says to me, hey, come here I want to show you something and he takes me into his bedroom and then he takes me into a side room off of his bedroom. Never a good thing to have.

He shows me a tiny room that is covered wall to wall in stolen antique photos from different people's parties over the years. And I said why? Why do you do this? And Jonathan said, because it's the one thing you can't replace. That's the end of that story, but how screwed up is that right? That's crazy.

[simplywhytney]

A service was held for Joe in Willow Creek at the same place Phillip & Catherine got married. All of the family came for the service.

Little Rami is going to miss her Uncle Joe and their playtime antics. Carmen gave the eulogy.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

It so happened that I didn't draw today because I was busy with fundraising posts, so yeah

Now that I have your attention:

[akajustmerry]

been pretty much exactly a year since Ramy season 3 dropped on Stan/Hulu featuring the episode 'American Cigarettes' directed by award winning Palestinian-American director Annemarie Jacir, in which Ramy goes to Palestine with his Palestinian uncle. Among many other things, the episode explicitly connects the violent settler colonial powers of Israel and the USA throughout the entire episode, showing how Israel's apartheid is directly resourced by the US government. Not to mention how well it portrays the heirarchies of passport privilege in relation to race. It remains one of the best single episodes of television ever made. Like I know the episode and show as a whole is not without fault. But, damn, the most buzz Ramy season 3 got after it dropped was. Um. [checks notes] bella hadid was there. anyway, I've thought about that Palestine episode every day since. "sorry I don't have the latest iPhone in the middle of the occupation" is sarcastic dialogue of all time 2 me.

[damesvirusalert]

Random things I’m thinking about today for whatever reason

that one time Harold Ramis avoided being drafted by saying he was gay and addicted to drugs (he also took speed before the interview with Uncle Sam to make it more believable).

the way Freddie Mercury said “I pretend to be a macho man” in that one interview.

Everyone Hates His Parents from the musical Falsettos.

“no actually, we’re just good friends”

Gregory Peck. Just in general.

RB with your brain parasites today >:]

[miraakulous-cloud-district]

Okay this is absolutely insane, but please bear with me.

WYGTYA IF IT WAS A MOVIE?

Please note that this is SOLELY based on the actors' looks, it has nothing to do with their personality or other films they starred in!

Also neither of these are face claims, I always see my characters exactly how they're designed in-game, this is just for fun! A movie adaptation AU, if you will.

1. Megan Fox or a Black haired Scarlett Johansson as Ravonna (green contact lenses are needed, though)

✨️the crazy yet charming wizard-bard protagonist✨️

2. Chris Hemsworth as Miraak (look, he is the most mainstream viking-looking dude who has Miraak vibes 🤣) - brown contact lenses needed

✨️the sunshine boy with the gentlest heart. Healer. First Dragonborn. Will definitely cry✨️

3. Toby Regbo as Lucien

✨️the stressed and occasionally awkward academic✨️

4. Rami Malek as Inigo

✨️the loyal Khajiit who finally found his family✨️

5. Max Baldry as Marcurio

✨️the short and angry gay everyone wants to be or wants to be with✨️

6. Tom Hopper as Rumarin - gold contacts needed

✨️the tall and funny himbo who is actually really complex✨️

7. Ray Stevenson (as seen in Black Sails) as Hjaldir

✨️the og bard who is also a pirate. Very charming. Helped in raising Ravonna✨️

8. Tom Hardy as Teldryn

✨️the tired-of-this-bullshit uncle, super protective of Ravonna✨️

9. Taika Waititi as Endryn

✨️the adoptive dad, wholesome, kind, stressed, innkeeper✨️

Tagging @bougainvillea-and-saltwater - this was her idea!! and also @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @thelavenderelf @shitty-drawer @totally-not-deacon you don't have to do this, I just wanted to show you my casting choices :)))) I'd tag more people who read/know about my fic, but I am so shy and scared that I'll annoy you with a random tag🤣

[leune]

"If I'm not me..."

Kim Namjoon & Female OC

Part 13

- 5 years later -

** Anrea had passed exactly a month after giving birth.

“Stop it Rimie!”

“Shut up ANJU!”

“APPA! WHY DO I HAVE TWO IGNORAMUSES FOR SIBLINGS!”

“Did Uncle Yoongi teach you that word?”

Namjoon rubbed the bridge of his nose as he walked his kids in a fall festival, all connected to him by a color coded harness each.

･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.

Whilst rogue, BamBam found his true mate in the human world. This sparked the human instinct of curiosity and they came in contact with multiple animals who can change into humans.

Then fear took over and curiosity turned into conquering.

It was hard.

For 2 years the humans fought, captured, and experimented on the hybrids, until they were finally accepted as its own race 3 years ago.

There’s still some humans who hate hybrids, pointless fear filled hate towards rabbits, cats, wolves, birds, reptiles– all types of hybrids.

･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.

“Anju! No!” His daughter ignored him and continued following her nose.

“Rami! Rim! Get back here!”

They figured out how to undo their harnesses.

“I knew I should’ve gotten the ones that buckle in the back!” He yelled, running after the triplet pups who never hid their extra appendages.

A scent caused Namjoon to skid to a halt. Tiger lilies, rain and a hint of something else. The word his three kids simultaneously yelled soon after made his eyes widen in horror.

“EOMMA!”

[popculturebuffet]

Halloween Blog Promo!

It's almost terror time again you happy people! Spooky season is only a week away as I write this and i've got reviews a plenty of all the spookiest stuff for the season. As always a lot of this is thanks to the people who fund this blog: WeirdKev27, Brotoman.exe and emma fici who are patrons at patreon.com/popculturebuffet and reguarlly comissions reviews. Thank you guys so much. Thanks to them and to my own weird brain i've got a weird, wonderful and hopefully haunted spooky seaosn ahead so let's break it down. Reviews may change if something comes up but for now...

Week of 9/29: Ghostbusters: Kev has me looking at this legendary comedy from one of the best , Harold Ramis with an all star cast as three scientests who discover the world beyond decided to exploit their new find for fun and profit after getting fired. Thus the ghostbusters are born! Quickily hiring a down to earth vet and annie pots in one of her best roles, our heroes have to take down an elder god, rick moranis and an obstructive beurcrat with no dick. Top 12 Uncle Phil Moments: Not really part of spooky season but just in time for Averyfest, we look at James Avery's best role. What moments of uncle phil stood out? How many of them have him in a goofy wig. Read to find out!

Week of 10/6: Sonic Scrapnik Island: A patreon sponosred review brings to a spooky tale from Sonic's idw continuity! Our hero and his hetro lifemate tales crash on an island of old badniks slowly wasting away and Sonic must team up with an old foe to fight another old foe. Notable for it's creepy tone, great art and finally making it clear classic sonic is indeed the same universe again before Sega finally flipped back to that idea over "Their parallel worlds just dont' think about it" and a world rejuoiced. Garfield's 9 Lives (Book): The first of a three part look at one of Garfield's best stories told three ways! Taking the idea of a cat having 9 lives, Garfieldn's nine lives is an anthology with a mixture of comics and one or two prose tales as garfield lives his best lives as a caveman, a viking, in a fantasy garden, as a detective, as a stooge, giving into his darkest nature, as a lab animal, as himself, and in space. A wide variety of talented artists and writers make for one hell of an anthology. Phantom of the Paradise: He sold his soul for rock n roll! A true camp classic i've finally seen and FINALLY get to cover for it's 40th anniversary, Phantom of the Paradise follows Winslow Leech, a nerdy composer whose cantana Faust is stolen by music scumbag and literal monster Swan. In trying to get it back leech ends up in jail, and an accident after soon turns him into a monster seeking revenge. It's phantom of the opera meets faust meets the picture of dorian grey as the awesomely dressed Phantom stalks Swan's fancy rock club and evil villian lair the paradise. Add in a ton of satire of the music scene, phil spector and music scumbags like him, camp, deft direction by a young Brian De Palma and a truly awesome soundtrack by the one and only Paul Williams who also plays the utterly creepy swan in a truly underated and magnificent performance, not to mention Jessica Harper belting out two all time classics of williams and you have camp rock n roll greatness. Week of 10/13: Ghostbusters 2: The sequel you knew was coming. The Ghostbusters are back, having gone their separate ways after they were deemed quacks by the public in a realistically depressing move. But they soon get their liscenses back thanks to a hanging judge who pissed off enough ghosts that one had to be in court during trial. So our heroes soon square off against the evil and ancient vigo the carpathian, his comedy assitant and about 80 metric tons of slime. Featuring a killer soundtrack, some decisions good and bad and you have a movie i'm eh on revisting but may enjoy. WHo knows? It has Oingo Boingo at least.

Garfield's 9 Lives (Special): The prime time special that continues as garfields lives get swapped a bit! He's still a caveman, himself, in a garden, and a lab animal but is also a slave owning pharoah's cat, a composers cat, a short lived stunt cat, a fairly normal kitty in an utterly heartbrekaing story, and in space again but in a diffrent way. Week of 10/20: Gwendolyn Zapp Special: We look at Big City Greens resident tech weirdo in some truly terrifying tales! From psychological torment, to smart trucks to a horde of zombie vegtables, there's nothing this tech mogul can't ruin somehow through a lack of forsight and a determination to fix problems the easy way.. with robots and no human insight! Sam and Max: They Saved Max's Brain!: Sam goes on a noir filled rampage! Will anyone surivive? Survey says ... no. Garfield's 9 Lives (Boom): The finale as we explore.. er 8 this time. THey didn't bother with modern garfifeld for this arc from Boom Studios! run of garfield comics. This time Garfield is once again a test animal, in space, a cave man and a detective but adds on king, superhero, pirate and cowboy to his resume in a series i've never read but am excited to try. Week of 10/27: Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror I: We wrap up Halloween with a tribute to the late great james earl jones. We look at the start of a fine tradition as the Simpsons do Halloween! usually after halloween because they air late but still, it's a seasonal treat that for better or worse is great to have every year. In this first trilogy of terror James Earl Jones guest stars as america's faviorite family deals with a haunted house that tries to kill them but can't cope with just.. living with them, a twilight zone parody that debuts beloved instutions kang and kodos, and a straight up adaptation of the Raven that proves grief is the scariest thing of all and bart looks adorable as a raven. The Meadow Party Election of 1984: Not for the spooky season but it's in october. I take a long overdue look at one of my faviorite comic strip arcs juts in time for election. Back in 1984 berkely breathead decided to have the cast of bloom county run their own political part so from 83-84, the cast tried to get one of their own into the whitehouse. While longtime cast member and my spirit animal and desk buddy Opus was drafted for VP while out to get snacks, the party's first pick John Glen was taken. So our heroes tried for Limekiller, a former cast member who came back, made opus life as his roomate hell, then left after saying some stupid offensive shit about his party because back then was disqualifying. Better days. So instead our heroes run bill the cat.. who was legally dead but still is better than the republican parties canditates today so hey. Watch as our plucky underdogs deal with kissing problems, hold a fundraising concert, go to california for a caucuss, try to get michael jacksons endorsment, and flame out when their candiate joins a cult. It's one of my faviorite stories in all of comics and i'm thrilled to share it.

[hastalikanhci]

A Little Privacy || Chae&Has

Hastalik's wrists still ached from kneading the traditional ink beneath his palms prior to this, wrists sore even as he now sat on the floor of the private room he had rented under a false name, giving false appearance to the taverns host as well. He had never used ink like this before, used to glass bottles of black but mental magic was, at least for his coven, a challenge that required finesse.

To enter the mind of someone you needed to make yourself invisible within it. To use his own traditional wet ink with reed or needle would announce himself to Chae's mind like a blaring siren of the unfamiliar, the Oh witch would be alerted immediately and be able to prevent the invasion, at least to someone like Hastalik who had not practiced his skills with as much aggression as his family would have liked. So Hastalik had sought the education of someone from Chae's region of Cheridi, bought the appropriate items and kneaded his own ink stick. It took two weeks for that to even finish and he'd told there would still be a chance it would break, so he made more. Each week he would make another.

It was the second that had worked and now sat beside him, along with the ink stone, and brush, also from Oh Chung Ae's region. The witch needed to focus on that intention instead of his pain. He had been so patient already, he did not want to wait any longer to see the other witch, he did not desire to wait until he was no longer sore, physically or mentally because in truth it had been the perfect excuse. The weeks he had spent working on this his Uncle and Father had admired. How dedicated he was into getting inside the Oh witches head. They'd given him some peace, insisted he might finally be seeing things their way and it made him sick. He needed to fill himself with focused purpose if he desired a moment to show the other witch he was worth what had happened desperately within his estate, to show himself...well, he truly wasn't sure.

The witch with his cinnamon skin inhaled the cool air of the room, scented with flowers he had been told grew around the Oh training buildings. Damp petals, like it had just rained as it was doing now outside. Even his pants, made from ramie, and his exposed skin still held a dampness so his dry form would not feel invasive to the mind of the witch. He had to act before the rained stopped and so calloused fingers picked up the ink stick and began the sharp motions to create ink on the stone, humming softly to himself numbers in Chae's native tongue, counting to ten and then recounting.

With enough ink he inhaled once more. The challenging part. Writing the spell in a language he did not know, and writing it well enough he would not give himself away. He had practiced while the ink sticks had been setting, practiced whenever he could not go to sleep. His hand leaving the ink stick and picking up the brush now. He could do this, forcing his hands not to shake as he dipped his brush in ink and began making large characters on the floor around himself, ink settling into the wood of the room, and, in turn, magic slithering into the mind of the Oh witch.

Each character was determined to reguide Oh Chung Ae's steps from whatever path he was on and direct him to the ritual's location without arousing suspicion in his mind, so long as Hastalik performed it accurately. If Oh Chung Ae were walking to buy flowers, if he were determined to seek food, or perhaps the company of a friend, he would find himself presuming that which he was on that path, even as he strayed from it. Indications of a lost path would become hazier, and ties in his mind that would typically form to say it was unusual to purchase flowers in a tavern, or strange to desire company in Rochielles but remain in Ashharren would not find purchase and drift away.

The ritual would not be a fast one, Hastalik's lower back stinging as he leaned over his repeated characters, writing the set around himself as he kneeled on the ground and then repeating said actions, his counting continuing each time he leaned back for more ink, the numbers making sure the spell held until he could continue his characters. It could be minutes, or hours, depending on how far Chae was from him, but Hastalik would not stop, the scaring across his back, and the wound still at his side was proof he could handle pain. No, he would not stop until he felt Chae blocking him or he heard the door to the small cheap room open.

@ohchungae

[runthepockets]

hi!! just coming into your inbox because i saw you posted about the show ramy & i also loved it & have nobody to talk to about it. i know ramy youssef said he might make a season 4 but it's not official and i can't stop thinking about what a season 4 would be...fatherhood? but also he still owes a bajillion dollars due to that diamond piece he lost, right? idk. i welcome any and all thoughts <3

Hey dudette! Thanks for the follow, I'm in a pretty similar position so I feel you lol. The girl who introduced me to the show was a girl from a dating app and we don't really talk anymore so I don't have a lot of people to talk about it to either, thanks for hitting me up!

If the series ended where it left off, I'd be down with that, but I also can't deny I'm curious as to where the Hassan family + their friends end up after the third season. Putting my theories under read more cus it's a lot.

Here's what I'm thinking: it takes a really long time for Zainab to come around, but by the last 1-3 episodes she kind of accepts that Ramy is the father of her kid and she can't deny that, nor take that away from her daughter, and she can only come to this conclusion after a lot of time spent as a single mother (which comes with pros and cons) and a lot material proof that Ramy is a changed man; yeah he's still got his vices and flaws, but we all do, and he's not fucking his cousin or doing deals for the Israel mob anymore and he's finally found a nice balance between being a peaceful, average American millennial and being the firstborn son of an immigrant, which is definitely not an easy pattern to break.

Dena gets married, for sure, but the majority of her character still revolves around her studies and her career. There's scenes where her fiancé (I forget his name) gently drags her away from her studies to go on cute little dates or to remind her to eat dinner or to take her to diners for breakfast and catch up and pray and all, flirting with her over text and calling her on Facetime every now and then and linking up on weekends and vice versa, and it's established pretty well that he has a life of his own and is doing pretty well with his roommates and stuff. He and Dena get married a little after she passes the bar.

Farouk and Maysa have to sell the house, and it's super bittersweet. Ramy and Dena help them move all their stuff into this cute little 2 bedroom apartment, the second room doubling as a guest room and as a room for when one needs space from the other. It's weird not having the kids around and it's a little closer to the city than they like, but it's got a lot of perks too. Maysa can drive for Lyft and make friends easier cus everything is Right There, Farouk actually finds his rhythm as a con man, which complicates things a little but also, we all know he's a good and smart guy and would eventually know the law well enough to skirt around it, so it's a start. Their marriage improves a lot too cus they're finally humble enough to talk to each other about real shit.

Uncle Naseem doesn't accept being gay fully till like, the last three episodes. Post retirement of course. Ramy finds some old love letters while helping him clean and move the rest of Naseem's shit from Jeweler's Row and just smiles and nods to himself, dropping aforementioned shit off at his apartment with nothing but a little extra bundle of cash; both as a way of saying "sorry about the bullshit" and "don't explain; I know." and it's cool. As a cherry on top, he might have even made up with that guy at the gym, or he might have found a new guy.

Shadi should meet up with Steve at some point and get into the DJ scene proper; it's hard for him when Farouk and Maysa have to move into a smaller apartment without him, but he finds a decent and diverse group of rave bros during a set one night and it saves him from having to spend the rest of his time in the U.S. on the street. He falls for a cute black hippie chick during one of his sets, and they move in together. It's a little small and cramped but he has her and her cat has already fallen in love with him so how can he have any more reserves? This is just where god wants him to be,

I can't speak for any of the minor characters, or the cousin that Ramy stopped fucking, but yeah. This is my take. If you wanna talk more, feel free to DM!

[simplywhytney]

Catching up with Rami... She's started a vlog, "Rashida's World", but her parents don't know yet... I think she is going to be a handful when she ages up.

Her cousin Miles came by and the two played pretend in the treehouse. Rami's older, so she dictates what they do.

When they finished playing pretend, selfies were a necessity. Rami wants to post them on her secret social media account.

Later they spent time on the swings, and Miles took a few minutes to catch up with his uncle. At the end of the day, Rami and Miles developed a jokester dynamic. Seems right.

[laminy]

Ben gives Gwil a kiss, and then waves at the others. “Have fun! Don’t break anything.”

“He’s talking to you,” Gwil says, pointing at Joe.

“Why aren’t you coming?” Sami asks.

“Ben doesn’t like skiing,” Rami says.

“Why not?” Sami asks.

“I…” Ben shrugs, and laughs softly. “I just…don’t.”

“What are you gonna do all day then?” Sami asks.

“Sit in the lodge and drink hot cocoa,” Ben says.

“No! You have to come!”

“Ben doesn’t have to go skiing if he doesn’t want to, habibi,” Rami says, fixing Sami’s jacket.

“But I want him to,” Sami says.

“I don’t know how,” Ben says. “You’ll have more fun with your parents, without me slowing you down.”

“They can teach you,” Sami says.

“Yes, love,” Gwil says with a cheeky wink. “They can teach you.”

“I…” Ben swallows hard, and nods. It’s always been hard to tell Sami no. Since birth, even before he was old enough to ask for things. But Ben was really looking forward to his hot cocoa. He looks at Rami and Joe— Rami, of course, has his you don’t have to give in face on. Joe, of course, has on his you damn well better do it face. “How about a couple hours this morning,” he says finally, giving in.

“Yes!” Sami hops up and down, doing his karate chops as he cheers, and Ben smiles at Rami, already tired.

“Let me go grab my stuff.”

They wait for Ben to come back with his snow gear on, and Joe pats Ben on the back. “You’re a nice uncle.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

They shuffle outside, and Gwil kisses Ben. “Have fun.”

“Will do.”

Gwil and Joe head off to what Joe calls the big boy hill, leaving Rami, Ben, and Sami at the bunny hill where there’s instructors ready to go (tomorrow, Rami will take the big hill, and Joe will stick to the bunny).

“You don’t have to,” Rami murmurs, and Ben reaches up to adjust his hat.

“Yeah, I kind of do.” Ben looks around and sighs, and then grins at Sami. “Ready?”

“They teach,” Sami says, pointing at one of the instructors.

“They do,” Rami says. “Ready?” Sami nods eagerly, so Rami leads Sami over to one of the instructors. They get Sami set up on his skis, and help him up one of the tiniest, littlest hills that Ben’s ever seen. It looks more like they just shovelled a pile of snow.

Rami, of course, takes out his mobile to proudly snap photos of Sami as he goes down the little snow pile. Ben grins and claps for him, and Sami’s eager to go up and down over and over. 

Then it’s time to bump Sami up to an actual hill. Though not the whole way up, maybe like a quarter. Maybe less.

“You going up?” Rami asks Ben.

“I think he needs emotional support down here,” Ben says. “He needs someone to look at!”

“Okay.” Rami gets his skis and goes up the hill with Sami, and slowly goes down behind Sami, who’s going even slower. Like a snail’s pace. Then he speeds up some and starts wailing, so Ben hurries forward, ready to get him. 

Sami whines as he comes to a stop at the bottom, and he drops down on his bum.

“Are you alright?” Ben asks. “What’s going on?”

“I went too fast,” Sami says, looking up at him.

“Yeah,” Ben says. “You’ve seen Papa ski, he goes really fast.”

“I don’t like it.”

“Oh.” Ben looks over as Rami comes to a stop. “You don’t want to try it again?”

“What, you didn’t like it?” Rami asks.

“It was fast.”

“It’s downhill, habibi,” Rami says. 

“Is there no downhill?”

“What do you mean?” Rami asks.

“Can I ski not downhill?”

“Today we’re skiing on the hill,” Rami says.

Sami pouts, and his bottom lip wobbles, and he looks so, so sad. He looks at Ben, and then he looks back at Rami, poking him in the foot. He mumbles something, and Rami crouches down by him.

“What was that?” Rami asks, brushing some snow off Sami’s sleeve.

“I said, I’ll go again if Ben goes.”

Rami grins, and looks up at Ben. But then he puts on his serious face and looks back at Sami. “We don’t guilt people, habibi. If Ben doesn’t want to ski, he doesn’t have to.”

Oh, god. Ben shakes his head, but he already knows he’s going to say yes. He’s gonna do it. He can’t let Sami give up yet. “I can go down.”

“Really?” Sami hurries to his feet— or tries to, anyway, it’s a bit difficult with his skis on. He wobbles and grabs onto Rami. “Okay! I’ll go again!”

“Thank you,” Rami says, and Ben waves him off. Least he can do. Ben gets his skis on, and the three of them go up the hill together; again, not very far. But Rami goes down first, then Sami, and Ben follows behind him.

“You know how?” Sami asks. “You skied!”

“Just a little,” Ben says. “I’m not very good.” He’d gone on a handful of school trips when he was younger, Joe’s dragged him out before. That’s about the limit of his ability. It’s good enough for Sami, apparently.

“We’ll go again now,” Sami says, and Ben and Rami don’t even protest because they know there’s no other option.  

After that, Sami has so much fun going up and down his little hill, they lose track of time for the rest of the morning until Gwil and Joe come find them.

“Papa, I skied!” Sami throws his arms up in the air and tries hopping towards him but he stumbles on the skis. 

“Wow! That’s so cool!” Joe exclaims. “Baba?”

“We have photos,” Rami says.

“Love that,” Joe says.

“I’m surprised to see you still out here,” Gwil says, nudging Ben. “I think it’s a time for a lunch break.”

“Thank god,” Ben murmurs. They take off their skis, and make their way back to the lodge.

Gwil catches up with Rami and Sami, listening to all of Sami’s exciting stories.

“Did you have fun?” Joe asks, slinging his arm around Ben.

“I am tired as shit,” Ben says.

“And?”

Ben playfully rolls his eyes and sighs. “Yeah, yeah. It was…fun.”

Joe laughs loudly. “You don’t have to make it sound so awful.”

“It was good,” Ben says, glancing back at Rami and Sami. “They’re awesome.”

“I’ll get you your hot chocolate.”

“The biggest fucking one they have.”

Joe laughs again. “Deal.”

[ariel-seagull-wings]

ELON SPENGLER

@bixiebeet @spengnitzed @inevitablemoment @theselfshippingwitch @slimerspengler @amalthea9

FULL NAME: Elon Lehnsherr Spengler (hebrew first name Asa).

NICKNAME(S): Green Thumbs, Artichoke.

FACECLAIM: Harold Ramis.

FANDOM: Ghostbusters.

BIRTHDAY: November 21th 1944.

ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio.

SEXUALITY: Biromantic and demisexual. 

GENDER: Male.

OCCUPATION: Graduated Geographer, Agricultural Engineer and Chemist, Life Cycle Assessment Analyst, Manager of the WASTEBUSTERS Recycling Center (Transfer station and waste management).

BIRTHPLACE: Cleveland, Ohio.

LIVES IN: Glencoe, Illinois.

NATIONALITY: US American.

FAMILY:

Nathan Bashevis Spengler (father)

Ruth Lehnsherr Spengler (mother)

Egon Lehnsherr Spengler (twin brother)

Cyrus Bashevis Spengler (uncle)

Janine Melnitz Spengler (sister-in-law)

Noemi Adina Melnitz Spengler (niece)

Tobin Nikolai Melnitz Spengler (nephew)

Eugene Lionel Melnitz Spengler (nephew)

Susan Spengler (wife)

Eden Maayan Spengler (daughter)

Eli Zedikiah Spengler (son)

CHARACTERISTICS: Slightly socially comfortable, laid back emotionally, expressive, yet in a deadpan matter of fact way in interpersonal relations. Curious,  creative, calm, collected and cautious, yet harsh and firm in professional relations.

LIKES: Gardening vegetables, making ceramic jars, cooking, reading, bicycle riding, playing baseball, playing the acoustic guitar, making hats from felted fleece.

DISLIKES: Mindless consumerism, accumulation, messes and food waste.

WEAPON OF CHOICE:

* A notepad.

* Gloves.

* Sample jars.

* A Photo camera.

OTHER PERSONAL INFO:

* Is a lacto-ovo vegetarian; 

* His main occupation is making reports of Life Cycle Assessment of the technology used by business companies to the EPA; 

* Like his twin brother Egon, Elon also believes that fungus will be  the food of the future;

* Believes that toxic waste and air pollution may somehow be connected to the surge of the ghosts that his brother captures and studies;

* Occasionally acts as a liaison between the EPA and the GHOSTBUSTERS;

* Fell in love with his wife, Susan, watching as an audience member when she worked as a touring circus performer;

* Was the first of the Spengler twins to get married and have children;

NAME ANALYSIS:

*Elon: Oak tree.

*Lehnsherr: Feudal lord.

*Spengler: Metal worker.