#Val's memoir

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Val & Mare winnigham (Val's first girlfriend 🥰)

From high school sweethearts to life-long friends

Source : Larryaltmayer on ig

Can u spot da babies? 😃

Source :Brad Koepenick

Val and Mare with acting club at Chatsworth high school in 1976 :

Source : Ed Tobin on Facebook

Source : Val documentary

Source :Brad Koepenick

Val & mare worked together on "one too many"

[compacflt]

Marlon Brando huh? Took some inspiration from Val Kilmer's real life obsession with him?

*controversial opinion, Val sometimes pings my gaydar. low-key would not be surprised he's fooled around with a guy at least once. unlike TC who despite the rumors has never once pinged my gaydar.

i actually did not know Val was obsessed with Brando. Whoa. i try to know as little about actors’ personal lives as possible because they are usually disappointing and cringe. pretty much the only thing i really know for sure about val’s/tc’s personal life is that they both independently fucked Cher (?)

the brando things been in my head since day one no joke—this was one of the first scenes i wrote of the fic, it actually predates ice’s mega-repression & me finding a solid writing style for ice so it’s written fucking weird as shit for no real reason

in the right lighting and minus some masculine jawbone i feel like tc does kinda look like brando a little maybe?

100% there with you re: tc/val on the gaydar. 100% agreed. Val’s too weird to be 100% straight

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

What is more incredible than a woman being all she can be? That's it for me

-Val Kilmer (I'm Your Huckleberry)

[on his wife giving birth]

[babygirllinds]

I went out for an early birthday lunch and shopping trip with my best friend (because she’s going to be gone the day of my birthday) and ended up fueling my squishmallow addiction and Val Kilmer addiction 😌

are you ready for the best part?

my cute lil piggy’s name is Peter (and he’s my fav color pink). So this is now my Mav pig and no one can convince me otherwise 🤭💗🐷

[serenfire]

if i thought the prozac was working last week…well. i hadn’t seen NOTHING yet. last night i slept eight full hours and then woke up and have read 2.5 books. i’ve been reading since 11am

[vals-memoir]

★ Monday, 29 July, 2024

made this blog after thinking about it for a while (yippee!) and I think I'll enjoy it, but most likely struggle with posting each day lol

I did some baking today- tried to make edible cookie dough, but added too much sugar (oops), and made some really nice savoury muffins :)

was going to go for a walk, but the weather was shit, so I might go tomorrow,

» 9:16PM

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

Oh man, what a legend. What a privilege to see inside this man's mind. He is funny, kind, very honest, self aware, and philosophical. Is there anything this man isn't or can't do? Love ya Val

I finished reading I’m your huckleberry by Val Kilmer and it was so good. I didn’t want to put it down. He had so many fun behind the scenes stories and little notes. It was like getting to delve into Val’s mind and understand him a little more and the characters that he has played

[library-child]

@thefinaljediknight, thanks for the tag!

Last reads: I've just finished 'Dune' by Frank Herbert and I really enjoyed it. There's such a pervasive sense of doom throughout the entire book.

Current reads: Nearly done with 'Als ich ein kleiner Junge war' (meaning 'When I was a little boy', there seems to be no English version) by Erich Kästner. A super heart-felt and witty memoir.

Next reads: Spooky season is upon us, so I'll pick up the one creepy book from my TBR, which is 'The White Dominican' by Gustav Meyrink. And I need to check out some horror fanfiction.

Tagging: @al-val-meadow, @volunteerfelinedetectives, @snowdropnature, @dragoneyes618, @cleverqueencommander, @jacobsnicket, @acacia-may, @virginian-wolfsnake, @wimplee, @insane-author, and anyone I forgot and/or feels free to join. 😊

[justforbooks]

That Librarian by Amanda Jones

A small-town US librarian’s lively account of her battle with a group of far-right censors reveals the toll it took on her health

Amanda Jones’s story is awful – and important. A school librarian for 23 years in her home town of Watson, southern Louisiana, she has watched with concern in recent years as a movement of book-banning swept across the US. According to the American Library Association, “book challenges” in public libraries almost doubled from 729 in 2021 to 1,269 in 2022.

In July 2022, when Jones heard about a public meeting that would discuss “book content” in local libraries, she went along. A board member said she was “concerned” about some “inappropriate” material in the local library’s children and young adult sections. In response, Jones gave a measured speech, explaining her belief that “while book challenges are often done with the best intentions, and in the name of age appropriateness, they often target marginalised communities” and “books on sexual health and reproduction”. She went on to detail the “First Amendment right to borrow, read, view, and listen to library resources”.

“I said nothing earth-shattering,” Jones writes in her memoir. But within days her life had been upended because of two posts on social media. The first was by the Facebook page of Citizens for a New Louisiana, a far-right group whom Jones knew had worked to defund a library in nearby Lafayette and whose executive director was a man named Michael Lunsford. It accused Jones of “fighting so hard to keep sexually erotic and pornographic materials in the kids’ section”. The second Facebook post was made by local man Ryan Thames, who wrote that Jones advocated “teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds”.

The posts were shared widely by local people, including many Jones knew. “One parent in particular whose child I had helped with getting services for a learning disability was especially vicious,” she writes, devastatingly. Later, she received a death threat. Over the course of the next year, Jones, who is in her mid-40s, lost a lot of weight, experienced hair loss and took medical leave from work. In the spring of 2023 she sued Lunsford and Thames for defamation.

That Librarian is Jones’s account of the 2022 public meeting that started her ordeal, the ultimately unsuccessful court case and all that followed. She has a lively, convivial style: “I worried that my friends and family would be targeted next. Spoiler alert: they were.” Sometimes this breeziness veers into pettiness, as when she describes an opponent who has “the spelling and grammar of a child of 10”, or refers to Valarie Hodges, a member of the Louisiana state senate who posted online against Jones, as “my gal pal Val”.

The more wistful sections are warming. Jones describes how she was in high school when Watson had its first traffic light installed – that’s how small a town it is. She credits her teenage reading of Judy Blume, one of the most banned authors ever, with “making me more empathetic”. Jones believes uncompromisingly in the power of books to open minds. And through working as a school librarian, has seen the impact of exclusion politics: “I have lost more former students to suicide than I care to think about, many of whom, I suspect, died as a direct result of being made to feel excluded in our society.” Together, these experiences have informed her anti-censorship mentality.

But she knows party politics comes into it too. Her local area has become “extremely alt-right and conspiratorial” in recent years, and she has noticed that “all book banners seem to be Republican”. She is refreshingly honest about her relative complicity. “It wasn’t until I was into my 40s that I realised some aspects of our country weren’t that great,” she writes, before admitting that she voted for Donald Trump in 2016. She regrets it now, but these admittances are important. Listening to voices from across the political divide, and understanding the ways in which we are both similar and different to those who vote similarly and differently to us is crucial in understanding why the world is the way it is – even more so after Trump’s re-election.

Several times, Jones refers to how she has tracked her defamers to see they have also donated to election campaigns of particular pro-ban politicians. But she never fully examines the intricacies of this likely organised overlap, or takes a step back to consider how this current wave of book banning compares with historical cases. As such, “my fight against book banning in America” would be a more suitable subtitle, not “the fight”. This is a brave, fascinating book, but it’s the personal story of Jones’s ordeal – about which she is evidently still very bitter – rather than an account of the movement as a whole.

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[priropro]

Parfum Nostalgique Act 1

Releases on Steam July 18th!

Meet Val, a 265-year-old therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampire, and all his whimsical friends in Parfum Nostalgique Act 1, the first installment of the fantastic, dramatic, romantic, traumatic memoirs of New York's own immortal loverboy. ✨️ ❤️

Kinetic visual novel! No choices, just relax and read.

Drama and art style a la classic shoujo and josei manga

Original soundtrack

Majority trans cast of characters and voice actors

Made by a sole developer who worked his ass off on art, story, coding, music, casting, recording, etc!

Wishlist it HERE

[thoughtportal]

All the books I read in 2024

Felicity -by Joyce Y. Ng Pacific Dream -by Vincent Lau Memento Amoris - by Anya Martin SACRED BODIES - by VER Here Be Monsters Bones In Fair Verona - by Val Wise by Val Wise Leaf Litter - Jarod K Anderson A Taste of Life - Sara Paretsky Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity - Jodie Hare Love, Pamela - by Pamela Anderson read by Pamela Anderson Cat Pictures Please - by Naomi Kritzer How to Hide an Empire - by Daniel Immerwahr read by Luis Moreno It Eats What Feeds It Vol. 1 - by Max Hoven, Aaron Crow illustrated by Gabriel Iumazark The Mushroom at the End of the World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy - by Bill Griffith illustrated by Bill Griffith Palestine - by Joe Sacco illustrated by Joe Sacco An Age Of License - by Lucy Knisley illustrated by Lucy Knisley Disquiet - by Noah Van Sciver illustrated by Noah Van Sciver Collapse - by Vladislav M. Zubok read by David De Vries The Mere Future - by Sarah Schulman Postcards From Congo - by Edmund Trueman The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night - by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda The Night Eaters Book 2: Her Little Reapers - by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda Bandit - by Molly Brodak Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio - by Derf Backderf illustrated by Derf Backderf Womb City - by Tlotlo Tsamaase From Conflict to Community - by Gwendolyn Olton Ephemera: A Memoir - by Briana Loewinsohn illustrated by Briana Loewinsohn This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America - by Navied Mahdavian illustrated - by Navied Mahdavian Misnatched - By Anne Camlin Illustrated by Isadora Zeferino 12 Rules for Strife - Jedd Sparrow and Sam Wallman Legalization Nation - Brian Box Brown My Monster Girlfriend - Smut Peddler All the Violet Tiaras - Jean Menzies Here - Richard McGuire Far Distant - A Liang Chan Spores - Joshua Barkman Taproot -Keezy Young Dreamtoons - Jesse Reklaw Stages of Rot - Linnea Sterte

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Take your kid to work day on the tombstone set 🥹❤️😂

Mercedes with baba Doc (Source :I'm your huckleberry memoir) 🥹😍

Wyatt Russell thought it was interesting that his name was in the script 😂🥺 (Source : ET on youtube)

[compacflt]

have you ever considered writing more about icemav's respective childhoods? i'm always thinking about val kilmer saying in his memoir and documentary that he had obsessive dreams about ice's father who made him feel he had to prove himself as The Absolute Ideal Man and that the interactions he dreamt about between ice and his dad surely "imbued ice with greater fury" and his obsession with perfection made him arrogant.

yeah i go into ice’s childhood a little in my slider one shot since they’re right out of high school when they meet. But val and I took it in two completely different directions. Val’s ice has daddy issues and a poor relationship with his father (extrapolating from excerpt above); my ice has lack-of-daddy-issues and NO relationship with his father. No dad = no man to model himself on = overcompensating. When I said, in mavericks POV (debriefing), that ice “clearly doesn’t know how to talk to other men,” I meant that with my whole chest.

i appreciate Val’s insight, and I’m not sure when his memoir was published, but i think TG86 Ice is complicated DEEPLY by his plot-necessary accession to COMPACFLT in TGM22. At least for me, his end rank of O-10 casts him in a totally different light. It implies that what he wants is not necessarily to be “The Ideal Man,” he wants to be The Ideal OFFICER. And there’s a lot of data to back up that claim in Top Gun 86, too: he’s so gentle with Maverick, even when he’s trying to intimidate him (take the intonation of “I heard that about you. You like to work alone,” for example—is that how you’d say that if you were trying to piss someone off?); and there’s also the fact that two of the five times Ice talks directly to Maverick are explicitly about his safety practices and how they affect the safety of the TEAM (“Who was covering Cougar while you were showboating with this MiG?” / “I don’t like you because you’re dangerous.”). I said in a post last week that I don’t think Ice is a team player—but a good OFFICER doesn’t have to be a team player to make sure that the rules are followed and everyone stays safe. I think if Ice were trying to be The Ideal Man, he’d look a lot more like super-cool bad-ass rule-breaker MAVERICK (the buff daredevil male protagonist of a pro-military propaganda movie), who is canonically overcompensating for HIS relationship with his father/his incredibly unhealthy toxic masculinity.

So, yeah. that’s just how i see it. Again, idk when Val’s memoir was published—the writers of TG and TGM treat Ice as a character very differently, and both characterizations necessarily reflect on the other. I did not get the sense that TGM Ice was “imbued with fury,” for instance. So I think Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best OFFICER makes more sense in light of TGM than Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best MAN.

I feel very shrug about mav’s childhood. Kinda seems like he got over that in TG86. He got to save his team the way his dad did, AND lived to tell the tale. Yay. His development’s pretty much done for the franchise.

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

So yes, I've seen redemption. The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection

-Val Kilmer (I'm your huckleberry)

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

My first celebrity crush was Val Kilmer, which came about because I was obsessed with Batman: The Animated Series and the Val got cast in Batman Forever, and the obsession just transferred and expanded.

Eventually, a little after The Saint, it faded. I did buy myself a copy of his memoir but I haven't read it yet. And then we watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang this week and I remembered how compelling I still find him, and especially his voice.

And I'm so sad to tell you that he only narrated one audiobook, the lead of a full cast production of a Zorro story, which yes, I'm going to download.

[thefreelanceangel]

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