#Valentina Gambino

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[La bolla][Valentina Gambino]

Veronica: Alla Ricerca di Sé Stessa Attraverso Sogni e Relazioni Titolo: La bolla. Salvami da questo clichéScritto da: Valentina GambinoEdito da: Another Coffee StoriesAnno: 2024Pagine: 126ISBN: 9791281564183 La trama di La bolla. Salvami da questo cliché di Valentina Gambino Veronica ha avuto molte donne in vita sua ed è riuscita incredibilmente anche a farsi odiare da tutte, tranne che da…

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Princess Aussie vs. Adriana Gambino • WOW Women Of Wrestling, 2/24/24

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How DOES she do it

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Mi poderosisima Valentina Vargas la triple amenaza y Carlo mi mejor dúo

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Yo si creí, por rol "Carlo" me pidió la invitación así que realmente creí que si pasaría

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🖤🦇welcome 2 my blog🦇🖤

I’m Gabriel. I go by a variety of names but that’s what I use to introduce myself. I love horror, varieties of dark media, monsters, all kinds of shit. All that along with some other fun stuff.

Here’s what to refer to me as: masculine or feminine variants of the name “Gabriel” (Gabriel, Gabe, Gabby, Brielle, Bri, etc), Prospero (Perry), Valentina (Val, Tina)

I’m trans! 🏳️‍⚧️ (genderfluid!!)

I’m omnisexual (female pref)

I’m hispanic

IMPORTANT!

I am a minor aged (15-16), don’t be a creep. Thanks.

I happen to be neurodivergent. I’m hella sensitive to text-tone and I have a habit to take things like jokes literally. Tone tags are always helpful for me.

I have a girlfriend! (Love u girlie 💜)

ABOUT ME

LIKES: Art, character designing, writing, character writing, story writing, music, singing, acting, theatre, video games, horror, monsters, ghost/cryptid hunting, urban exploring, pro wrestling, monster trucks, cars, motorcycles, animatronics, etc

DISLIKES: Certain food textures, when people repeat themselves too much (kind of a hypocrite since I have vocal stims 😭), vacuuming, a lot of bugs (though I find them cool, just don’t wanna be around some of those fuckers)

HORROR FANDOMS: Classic slasher films (ft13, scream, halloween, etc…) and really any other horror film, analog horror (twf, mc, ghe, etc…), universal monsters, brainrot mascot horror (ex: FNaF, BATIM, Tattletail), other horror games! (ex: DBD, Resident Evil, Silent Hill) a variety of horror associated television shows (ex: AHS, Hannibal, Supernatural, anything Mike Flanagan), tons of vampire media (ex: WWDITS, IWAV, Buffy), Creepypastas (including roblox myths!)

NON HORROR FANDOMS: CoD, TLO, TWD (kind of horror?), GTA, TMNT, Fallout, Deltarune + Undertale, Newgrounds, Regretevator, Homestuck, Invader Zim, Villainous, DC comics and Movies, MLP, South Park, Sonic, Rockafire, etc

MUSIC: Misfits, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, RHC, Sublime, Will Wood, Tally Hall + Miracle Musical, Chappell Roan, Rico Nasty, Tyler The Creator, Childish Gambino, Ben Folds, Beach House, Siouxise and The Banshees, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Marina and The Diamonds, Melanie Martinez. (A LOT more, just wanted to hit some big ones)

5 FACTS ABOUT ME:

My favorite color is purple (This changes a lot tbh)

My favorite food is sushi

My favorite animals are bats, hyenas, pigs, possums, and rats

I have glasses.

DNI: Proshippers or Anti-Proshippers (you guys both suck), Nazis, Zionists, Terfs Alfred’s Playhouse, NSFW/18+ accounts (seriously go away), Anti Therian, Anti Neos and Xenos, Anti agere and petre

FREE PALESTINE 🍉

Feel free to say hi or whatever! Love to talk!

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Username tag game

Thank you sm to @startrekfangirl2233 for this mention/tag <333

Rules; pick a song for each letter of your username/url.

This is gonna be a long one

God’s menu by stray kids (obviously)

I want war by Kali Uchis

Redbone by Childish Gambino

Limbo by Keshi

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Ivy by Frank Ocean

No scans by Frank Ocean

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Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys

Heaven by Roy Kim and EZ Kim (OST of Goblin)

Eyes off you by PRETTYMUCH

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Cupid by FIFTY FIFTY

Hummingbird by Metro Boomin and James Blake

America has a problem by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar

Infurnami by Steve Lacy

Revolving door invites you to dance by Roy Young Sim (OST of Extraordinary Attorney Woo)

Silk and cologne by EI8HT and Offset

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Valentina by Daniel Caesar

Open arms by SZA and Travis Scott

Is it a crime? By No Guidance

Double take by Dhruv

No pressure tags!!;

@tongue-like-a-razor @bussyslayer333 @bradshawsweetheart @romansbloodbrick @birdy-bat-writes and anyone else who wants to join!!

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haiii hey !!!! i'm valentina and i'm an asexual lesbian artist with asd/bpd 🎠 my eyes turn into pink hearts and pop out of my head whenever someone mentions troy barnes (this is absolutely true and not a lie) i'm mainly here for trobed but my other interests include; gumlee, childish gambino, mythic quest, tyler the creator, amy winehouse, any donald glover-related media, deftones, her's, car seat headrest, bubbline, animal crossing + more ^_^

carrd + social links; telegraphave.carrd.co 🏩🌑🍒☕️🌧

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Reviewing the All Elite Wrestling personnel 2024 Edition (Part 4) -

The Women's Division - It's still untapped in its full potential and is in no way lacking in draws. Tony Khan needs to listen to someone like Britt Baker and do more than make women matches the 'bathroom break' of AEW.

1. Mina Shirakawa - Undoubtably the best thing about the women's division this entire year was the storyline between Toni Storm and Mariah May. Mina was involved at a crucial moment of it whilst having excellent matches with Anna Jay, Serena Deeb, and Toni Storm herself. It's nuts she's not under full-time contract and given a minaful…erm meaningful push. Even Bryan Danielson rates her highly!

2. Kylie Rae - In the effort to once again remove Jericho and Guevara from this company is to bring back the person they got rid of. If Lio Rush can find his weasely way back in why can't she? Funnily enough if you type her name in on YouTube the first thing which pops up is her entrance back in 2019 for AEW. She's still doing well in GCW against Maki Itoh - you know another person AEW should have back?

3. Alex Windsor - British wrestlers are on the rise in AEW as are strong fundamentals from them. Versatility will always triumph over specialist talents and Alex Windsor has arguably the most complete skillset to square off against AEW's best. She's made a few sporadic appearances already yet was never given enough time to showcase it all. Look up her match with Toni Storm a few months ago to glimpse at what could be AEW's best technical bruiser.

4. Robyn & Charlette Renegade - Why they've not joined The Outcasts is beyond me since they look like Saraya's little sisters. Robyn seems to be working more after Charlette got injured back in July but the fact remains both have been learning and getting experience. I think the hard work should be rewarded.

5. Janai Kai - Original look, high energy, and unique wrestler, AEW needs more than the variety of job talents from other promotions to come and go because Janai Kai isn't someone who should be reduced to enhancing half the roster - it should be the opposite and they should enhance her.

6. Lady Frost - Anyone tuning into AEW for the last year has likely run into a match involving her - the overall presentation of her resonates with the fans and whilst some of her high-flying can incur risks I think the balanced reward of a great theme, look, and style more than make up. Fans like her and are waiting for a more full-time showcasing with a genuine push. Underrated.

7. Jasmin Allure - Has she been avoiding AEW? She's grown a lot on the indies since showing up in AEW years back and it has flown under the radar to those who aren't following every talent. Thunder Rosa has personally scouted her out for success and it is high time Thunder Rosa gets more recogniton for her efforts by bringing in her next generation of women.

8. Adriana Gambino - Tailor-made to be in Deonna Purrazzo's new faction. The former Valentina Rossi/Mafiosa has a saucy set of moves and great international appeal. She has great facial expressions and reactions plus the New York crowd might ironically be one of the only reliable markets left for AEW so to tap into it is a smart strategy.

9. Billie Starkz - Wait isn't she in RoH? Yeah and people don't care about her or Athena which is a shame because they're both great though Billie Starkz has a greater upside - put her in the Patriarchy as Mother Wayne's hand-picked choice to 'date' her son Nick Wayne. Still a teenager, Billie Starkz is lightyears ahead of a lot of talent at her age. If people can get behind the progress of a Julia Hart I think they can get behind this lady too.

10. VertVixen - One thing I like about certain talent is their ability to be plugged into any faction or role and also be capable of doing stuff outside the ring and still have an effective appeal. VertVixen could quicktime event MXM or killstreak on Adam Cole before going full retro with The Outrunners. I hope VertVixen gets to return to AEW on a more regular basis.

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Europee, la lista dei 76 possibili eletti secondo YouTrend

Europee, la lista dei 76 possibili eletti secondo YouTrend. Ilaria Salis, Mimmo Lucano e Ignazio Marino con Avs. Cecilia Strada e probabilmente Marco Tarquinio con il Pd, Gaetano Pedullà e Pasquale Tridico con il M5S, Giovanni Crosetto, nipote del ministro della Difesa, per FdI, Letizia Moratti e probabilmente anche Flavio Tosi per Forza Italia, e poi Roberto Vannacci che dovrà scegliere la circoscrizione per la Lega. Sono questi alcuni dei 76 eletti al Parlamento europeo secondo un elenco (ancora provvisorio) messo a punto da YouTrend.   Ecco i possibili eletti partito per partito Fratelli d’Italia In tutto dovrebbero essere 24 gli eurodeputati del partito della premier Giorgia Meloni, che è candidata capolista in tutte le circoscrizioni e che rinuncerà al seggio. Nord Ovest: Carlo Fidanza, Mario Mantovani, Giovanni Crosetto, Lara Magoni, Pietro Fiocchi, Mariateresa Vivaldini. L'ultimo nome è quello di Paolo Inselvini, che subentrerà dopo la rinuncia di Meloni. Nord est: Elena Donazzan, Stefano Cavedagna, Sergio Antonio Berlato, Alessandro Ciriani. Anche in questo caso, Daniele Polato dipende dalla rinuncia della premier. Centro: Nicola Procaccini, Marco Squarta, Carlo Ciccioli, Antonella Sberna. Ultimo Francesco Torselli. Sud: Alberico Gambino, Francesco Ventola, Denis Domenico Nesci, Michele Picaro e ultima - in attesa di subentrare - Chiara Maria Gemma. Isole: Giuseppe Milazzo, Ruggero Razza.   Partito Democratico Dovrebbero essere 21 gli eurodeputati Dem. In questo caso Schlein si è candidata in più circoscrizioni: al Centro e nelle Isole e anche lei rinuncerà. Nord Ovest: Cecilia Strada, Giorgio Gori, Alessandro Zan, Irene Tinagli, Brando Benifei, Piefrancesco Maran. Nord est: Stefano Bonaccini, Alessandro Zan (eletto anche lui in più circoscrizioni), Alessandra Moretti, Elisabetta Gualmini, Annalisa Corrado, Andrea Zanoni. Centro: Nicola Zingaretti, Dario Nardella, Matteo Ricci, Camilla Laureti, Marco Tarquinio (che subentrerebbe al momento della rinuncia di Schlein). Sud: Antonio Decaro, Lucia Annunziata, Raffaele Topo, Pina Picierno, Sandro Ruotolo. Isole: Giuseppe Lupo (anche in questo caso si tratta di un subentro).   Movimento 5 Stelle Sono 8 i possibili eletti del Movimento. Nord Ovest: Gaetano Pedullà. Nessun eletto al Nord est. Centro: Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano. Sud: Pasquale Tridico, Valentina Palmisano, Mario Furore, Danilo Della Valle. Isole: Giuseppe Antoci.   Forza Italia Sono 8 gli eletti di Forza Italia. Antonio Tajani è stato eletto in più circoscrizioni e anche lui dovrebbe rinunciare. Nord Ovest: Letizia Moratti, Massimo Salini (un altro caso di subentro). Nord est: Flavio Tosi, laddove scatti la rinuncia di Tajani. Centro: Salvatore De Meo, che subentrerebbe a Tajani. Sud: Fulvio Martusciello e Giusi Princi (anche qui scatta con la rinuncia del capolista). Isole: Edmondo Tamajo e Marco Falcone.   Lega Otto anche gli eurodeputati leghisti. In questo caso è Roberto Vannacci a essere capolista in 4 su 5 circoscrizioni e dunque dalla sua scelta dipenderà l'elezioni di alcuni candidati. Nord ovest: Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri e Angelo Ciocca che resta in bilico. Nord est: Anna Maria Cisint e - sempre in bilico - Paolo Borchia. Centro: Susanna Ceccardi, in attesa di sapere se farà il bis o meno in Europa. Sud: Aldo Patriciello, anche lui ancora non certo di andare in Europa. Isole: Raffaele Stancanelli.   Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Ilaria Salis e Ignazio Marino dovranno optare per uno dei seggi in cui sono stati eletti e a quel punto si saprà con certezza quali saranno i 6 eurodeputati di Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra. Va al Parlamento europeo certamente Mimmo Lucano, mentre da decidere chi fra Benedetta Scuderi, Giovanni Mori, Cristina Guarda, Marilena Grassadonia, Francesco Emilio Borrelli e Leoluca Orlando conquisterà il seggio a Strasburgo.   Südtiroler Volkspartei Lo sbarramento nazionale al 4% non vale per le liste delle minoranze linguistiche, che possono collegarsi - ricorda YouTrend - ad una lista nazionale e sottrarle un seggio se un loro candidato supera le 50.000 preferenze. In queste elezioni, come in quelle del 2019, la Südtiroler Volkspartei era apparentata con Forza Italia e in entrambe le occasioni le ha sottratto un seggio nel Nord Est. Risulta fra gli eletti Herbert Dorfmann nella circoscrizione Nord est.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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The Italian Library #9, all'IIC il premio Strega con Ornella Tarantola

Di Pietro Nigro Si terrà il 23 maggio prossimo alle 18.30 The Italian Library # 9: Premio Strega, incontro con Ornella Tarantola presso l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra. The Italian Library #9, all'IIC il premio Strega con Ornella Tarantola Si terrà il 23 maggio 2024 alle ore 18.30 ora locale all'Istituto Italiano di Cultua di Londra The Italian Library #9: Premio Strega. Con Ornella Tarantola. L'incontro è dedicato a 12 candidati al premio Strega i quest'anno che Ornella racconta ed insieme a Marco Gambino ne legge degli estratti. Quale di questi voi vorreste leggere per primo? Un po’ come tornare ai tempi della libreria quando tra una chiacchiera e l’altra si consigliavano quali romanzi leggere. Quello che sarà scelto da più persone sarà il vincitore di Italian Library. All'incontro si parlerà dunque e si leggeranno: - Sonia Aggio, Nella stanza dell’imperatore (Fazi), proposto da Simona Cives. - Adrián N. Bravi, Adelaida (Nutrimenti), proposto da Romana Petri. - Paolo Di Paolo, Romanzo senza umani (Feltrinelli), proposto da Gianni Amelio. - Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L’età fragile (Einaudi), proposto da Vittorio Lingiardi. - Tommaso Giartosio, Autobiogrammatica (minimum fax), proposto da Emanuele Trevi. - Antonella Lattanzi, Cose che non si raccontano (Einaudi), proposto da Valeria Parrella. - Valentina Mira, Dalla stessa parte mi troverai (SEM), proposto da Franco Di Mare. - Melissa Panarello, Storia dei miei soldi (Bompiani), proposto da Nadia Terranova. - Daniele Rielli, Il fuoco invisibile. Storia umana di un disastro naturale (Rizzoli), proposto da Antonio Pascale. - Raffaella Romagnolo, Aggiustare l’universo (Mondadori), proposto da Lia Levi. - Chiara Valerio, Chi dice e chi tace (Sellerio), proposto da Matteo Motolese. - Dario Voltolini, Invernale (La nave di Teseo), proposto da Sandro Veronesi. Per prenotare cliccare QUI ... Continua a leggere su Read the full article

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Adriana Gambino vs. Princess Aussie • WOW Women Of Wrestling, 2/24/24

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“Shining” compie 40 anni. Benvenuti nel film più enigmatico di Stanley Kubrick, un puzzle irrisolto

Otto anni fa, il documentario di Rodney Ascher, Room 237, ha riacceso il dibattito sul film Shining di Stanley Kubrick, esaminando una serie di teorie, con i relativi elementi a sostegno, elaborate dai fan riguardo al significato della pellicola. Alcune idee sono senza dubbio persuasive, come l’ipotesi che il film sia una condanna dell’imperialismo americano, basata sul fatto che l’hotel infestato, l’Overlook, era stato costruito su un cimitero degli Indiani d’America, e una serie di altri ingredienti confermerebbero la congettura (quei barattoli di lievito marca Calumet Baking Powder sono solo una coincidenza?) Altre interpretazioni sono invece più assurde, come quella secondo cui il film sarebbe un’apologia di Kubrick del suo ruolo nel finto sbarco sulla luna (altrimenti perché Danny indosserebbe un maglione con scritto Apollo 11?).

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Lo storico assistente di Kubrick, Leon Vitali, dipinto nel documentario del 2017 Filmworker come un Igor al fianco del regista Frankenstein, schernì le interpretazioni ventilate da Room 237, ma lo scopo del documentario non era mai stato quello di far accettare al pubblico una delle teorie proposte. Il fine più profondo era quello di celebrare Shining come glorioso enigma, un film che invita a Teorie della grande unificazione senza mai affermarne totalmente alcuna. Non siamo più vicini a venirne a capo ora di quanto lo fossimo quarant’anni fa, ma come lo stesso Overlook Hotel, una qualche attrazione indefinibile ci invita a tornare in visita. Come Jack Torrance, il custode omicida interpretato da Jack Nicholson, cominciamo a sospettare di essere sempre stati lì.

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Come molte delle opere di Kubrick, soprattutto quelle della seconda parte della sua carriera, Shining fu dapprima accolto con perplessità e contrarietà, per essere successivamente riconsiderato. L’ostilità svanì man mano che il film venne riconosciuto come caposaldo del genere horror; è noto che Stephen King, autore del romanzo, tuttora non apprezzi la trasposizione cinematografica di Kubrick, tuttavia il recente adattamento del sequel Doctor Sleep è intessuto dell’iconografia del film Shining. Ma dello sconcerto non si può fare a meno, è l’elemento che rende questa pellicola così primordialmente agghiacciante e inquietante, nonché ciò che strega il cervello che cerca di decifrarlo.

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In apertura, le sequenze di impatto in cui Jack si dirige verso le montagne del Colorado sono un presagio di ciò che succederà: l’inquietante rifacimento di Wendy Carlos e Rachel Elkind della Sinfonia fantastica di Berlioz suonata su un sintetizzatore Moog, il riflesso del paesaggio sul lago placido, e, ancor più cruciale, il destabilizzante sfrecciare della telecamera. Con il supporto Steadicam che finalmente rendeva possibile combinare movimento e stabilità, Kubrick sperimentò per primo nel suo film quanto lo spostamento costante dell’inquadratura possa impressionare il pubblico. Persino le relativamente innocue scene iniziali, in cui Jack si reca al colloquio, o quando la famigliola al completo, Jack Torrance, la moglie Wendy (Shelley Duvall) e il figlio Danny (Danny Lloyd), fa il giro dell’hotel, sono un gioco del coniglio, in cui la telecamera zooma, avventandosi di testa contro il pericolo e noi abbiamo paura di non riuscire a sterzare.

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Appena i Torrance si stabiliscono all’Overlook Hotel per l’inverno e una tempesta di neve li isola dal mondo esterno, la pazzia che si impadronisce velocemente di Jack, troppo velocemente, contestarono diversi critici, inizia a intensificare tutta una strategia di disorientamento. Kubrick si prende gioco dei nomi che diamo al tempo annunciando diversi giorni della settimana, come se il tempo avesse senso nell’isolamento, ed è impossibile definire la geografia dell’Overlook, a dispetto (o per via) delle numerose sequenze in cui Danny percorre i corridoi sul triciclo. La cucina, gli appartamenti del personale, la Gold Room, i piani superiori in cui il precedente custode aveva fatto a pezzi con un’accetta la sua famiglia, la stanza del terrore 237; tutti spazi distinti, ma non si capisce in che modo collegati.

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L’umorismo di Kubrick, una delle sue qualità meno apprezzate, anche in film come Barry London o Eyes Wide Shut e Shining, è stata un’occasione propizia per giocare con il genere horror, attraverso la platealità della performance di Nicholson (“Sono il lupo cattiiiivo!”) o l’odissea del capocuoco dell’hotel (Scatman Crouthers) che risponde all’SOS psichico di Danny solo per ricevere un’accettata in pieno petto. Sebbene gli spettatori immaginino che un film horror abbia un certo contegno, Kubrick sembra fortemente determinato a opporsi a tale aspettativa; oniriche cascate di sangue intorno all’ascensore, flash degli antecedenti massacri, la derisa speranza che l’interminabile missione di salvataggio abbia un lieto fine.

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Ogni volta che si riguarda Shining si scatena una nuova ossessione, sempre diversa a seconda dello spettatore. Le vessazioni di Kubrick su Shelley Duvall, per esempio, sono state riesaminate alla luce degli abusi contro le donne nell’industria cinematografica, e la sua cruda vulnerabilità nei panni di Wendy, l’unico membro della famiglia Torrance a non essere stato posseduto, ci fa assistere a una estrema prova di recitazione di metodo. Guardando Shining durante la quarantena per il Covid-19, poi, si percepisce un inquietante eco dello stato di ansia che provoca l’isolamento, quando i giorni sono vaghi e indefiniti e un immenso hotel diventa angusto quanto un monolocale. Anche i più sani di mente ora hanno fatto conoscenza con la follia.

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Tra le teorie che girano attorno a Shining, quella più plausibile a quarant’anni di distanza, è che l’Overlook Hotel sia una metafora degli orrori perpetrati dall’élite americana, collegandosi quindi al mondo claustrale di un’altra opera di Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, e all’eterno scetticismo del regista riguardo il potere. Nella versione integrale del film, mentre fa il giro dell’hotel, a Jack viene detto che l’Overlook era uno “dei punti d’incontro di molti personaggi di élite”, un hotel in cui hanno alloggiato le persone più importanti, tra cui quattro presidenti, che certamente hanno preso decisioni fondamentali mentre se ne stavano lassù. Apprendere che l’hotel era stato costruito su un antico cimitero dei Nativi Americani potrebbe far temere una punizione dall’oltretomba, ma Kubrick suggerisce che tale dissacrazione sia il peccato originale, un male incorporato nelle fondamenta dell’hotel.

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“Tutti i migliori” sono stati all’Overlook Hotel, dove avete già sentito questa frase? L’hotel ha una presenza, una luccicanza, che terrorizza chi è in grado di sentirla, come il cuoco e Danny, ma soprattutto fa paura perché è immutabile e indistruttibile. Il fatto che Jack fosse già stato lì e che cerchi di ripetere all’incirca allo stesso modo l’omicidio commesso dal precedente custode è il segno della storia che continua a ripetersi. E se persone di potere hanno alloggiato in queste stanze, è proprio lì che deve accadere. La macabra verità è che ciò che è successo ai Torrance all’Overlook Hotel verrà ripulito entro la prossima stagione e diventerà un aneddoto per mettere in guardia il prossimo custode mezzo pazzo che accetterà il lavoro. Il massacro non avrà mai fine.

Scott Tobias

*L’articolo è stato pubblicato su “Guardian”; la traduzione è di Valentina Gambino

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Congratulations, JULIE! You’ve been accepted for the role of BRUTUS. Admin Rogue: There is always something about the way you write unvarnished truth that gets me, every single time. Boris is not a likable character by any means, but I still find myself curious about him when seen through your lens. You want to make ruin of him, or maybe for him to make ruin of us, and it’s so attractively despicable that I don’t know what to do with myself. I don’t know if we’ve ever had a character this unapologetic, not just to some but to every single person in Verona. Let them try and eat him, let them spit him back out, let them realize he will not be swallowed no matter how much he deserves it. I can already see the way he’ll burn across the dash, a torch-song I want to touch, and I couldn’t be happier to welcome you back to us in this new and exciting form! Please review the CHECKLIST and send your account in within 24 hours.

WELCOME TO THE MOB. 

OUT OF CHARACTER

Alias | Julie

Age | 20

Preferred Pronouns | She/her

Activity Level | Given that I’ll probably be stuck at home searching for a job for the next month, I figure my activity will be okay. The usual reply every other day or so situation, I hope!

Timezone | MST

Triggers | Already listed!

How did you find the rp?  | Two years ago I went diving into the LSRPG tag because I was curious and now here we are. :)

Current/Past RP Accounts | Santino, Loretta, Lucien

IN CHARACTER

Character | Brutus / Boris Kovrov

What drew you to this character? | Brutus, I think, is one of the most human characters in Diverona by default, without development, in the sense that he is so selfish it makes you want to tear your eyeballs out. It’s the same with most people: we encourage each other to take time to themselves, to put themselves first, but can feel rebuffed or insulted when they actually do that. Boris has taken that to the ultimate extreme: everything he does is for himself and no one else. He didn’t ascend within the Montagues because he wanted to further his family’s social standings, he did it because he alone wanted to succeed.

He’s not apologetic about it, either, and that’s what makes him so interesting. At all times, Boris is fully aware he is perceived as underhanded and generally disliked among the mob, but he’s so good at what he does that it doesn’t matter. He returns to Verona with a searing brand of shame in the form of his personal betrayal, and anyone could see that if they just fucking looked close enough, but they don’t. That’s where his talent really lies, and that’s what makes him so weirdly endearing to me: he makes himself valuable, and even when he does the worst possible thing a person could do in a mob, it still doesn’t undercut his worth. He makes himself out to be a friend, lies and lies and lies, and because most people don’t want to make the effort or choose not to, it’s believable.

Some might call him cut-throat, or a coward, a backstabber, potentially even brutal: he’s not ashamed of sprinkling rat poison into the food of his competition if it means he’ll succeed. He’s an opportunist at best and a manipulator at worst, and if there’s anything to be said about Verona, it’s that the manipulators usually come out at the front of the pack. The last sentence or so in his bio are what really sealed the deal for me: “The historians fail to mention that the traitors are the ones who survive, who outlive empires and kingdoms, who lay their sovereigns to rest and spread their ashes like trail markers.” God help him, Boris will come out of Verona alive, no matter how much of it he feeds into and how much of himself he lets it consume.

What is a future plot idea you have in mind for the character? |

• Fly not; stand stiff: ambition’s debt is paid. I’d love to see some real-time consequences for Boris’ betrayal of the Montague family. Others have been ousted for less, but somehow he gets to remain? That doesn’t seem particularly fair, but Boris couldn’t give a shit about fair if he tried. He sold his information to a mob in Russia for the purpose of a safety net. Other emissaries also deal with Russia – it’d make sense that one of them might hear about the dark dealings and try to use it to their own advantage, were they so ambitious. Or maybe it will come from someone higher up, like Castora, who knows more than they’ve let on. Maybe this will lead to his demotion, his death, Damiano’s assassination, the ushering in of a new era – who knows? These things don’t play out without someone paying the price, and I want Brutus to pay in full.

• I kill’d not thee with half so good a will. In my head, Boris has been out of the picture for some time now, working on relations between the American families and the Montagues to keep business booming. I’d love to explore the Verona Boris left a little over a year ago (totally headcanon, by the way! I’m happy to adjust wherever necessary) and how it’s changed in comparison to what it is now. Roman Montague has failed as an heir, the Witches hung in a public trial, all illusions of neutrality or working towards peace have been shot right through the middle. Damiano is unraveling at the seams, and the question of who will lead the Montagues lacks an answer entirely. It’s complete and utter chaos: messy, bloody, exactly the kind of environment Boris thrives in. I want him to wreak as much havoc as possible in his own way, and if he can’t do that, then I’d like to see him secure his seat closest to the throne when the concept of a coup becomes inevitable.

• But hollow men, like horses hot at hand / Make gallant show and promise of their mettle. He hunts Tomas Sabello and Bernadette du Pont because they are the easiest openings into both sides of the mobs. Bernadette is croquettish and manipulative but still naive, in Boris’ eyes, to the difficult path which lies ahead. I could see him trying to sway her to the Montagues if she would only listen. Grace Daly had done it for less, after all. Sabello, on the other hand, is Boris’ favorite target: throat exposed, head leaned back, weeping tears of sorrow over his wife. Boris has experience with the follies of the heart and he can see that Celeste has never loved the man, and frankly, Boris doesn’t think there’s much to the man to love. He’s hollow on the inside, scraped out with a metal spoon. His arrival so late into the act poses some difficulties, but he’s hopeful he’ll be able to pick up where he left off.

Are you comfortable with killing off your character? | Absolutely!

IN DEPTH

In-Character Para Sample:

Valentina Gallo dies a violent death. An inextricable, unforgiving death. An ugly death. When they take pull her body from her brother’s arms, and she is taken in to be seen by Damiano’s own eyes, witness the violence which has laid itself across the barren field of a corpse –

This is when Boris is called home.

Exit, Viola.

Enter, Brutus.

He bids Lorenzo and the rest of the Gambino family farewell that same night over the phone: Lorenzo calls him a bastard for not shaking his hand before saying goodbye, but Boris has other things on his mind: A plane. The brisk cold mornings that give way to blustery sunshine. Damiano greeting him as a member of the family instead of an extension of his long reach, like he had a year ago. He can remember the phone call well. He’d run it through, night after night, dissecting and picking apart intonation and tone and the speed with which Damiano had dismissed him, like a dog begging for scraps hastily shoved away from the dinner table. He lets the familiarity of the conversation wash over him as he settles in his plane seat the night of the twenty-seventh. He’ll be there by morning.

I’ll be there to greet you, Damiano had said. Boris had tried not to read into it too much.

New York was intended to be punishment and apology wrapped up into one. Damiano sent him off to deal with the budding crime syndicates and crush them under the imaginary Montague heel. He would spread seeds of dissent and terror: most fall silent when he enters a room for good reason, and it is in this way that he gets them to listen when he speaks. Most would not expect a man as imposing as Boris to speak so passionately; he’s always been a fan of turning ideas on their heads. By weaving tales of just what the Montague family has at its disposal, he alone would stamp out the passionate flames of greed and light his own small fire of fear.

In his younger years this would have intimidated Brutus. When he’d received the call a year ago, he’d only felt dread.

But he’d done well. It took him five months to chase down every single lead provided to him by men paid under the table, and after that, all there had been to do was clean up the mess and socialize. Shake hands with the shattered fragments of the once-powerful mob families, reach out to the contacts he’d had in Canada and New Orleans, as they were perhaps the most influential, the ones who could sway the boat with weaponry and other fun and exciting goods that still had his heart pounding when he looked at them.

He’d thought about calling Evgeny once, and only once: when Damiano had chewed him out over the phone for something that was not his fault and hadn’t been in his wheelhouse to begin with. Boris knew, that night, what Evgeny would say. Patience, Kovrov. We’ll be here when you’re ready.

When you’re ready. Whatever that meant. For all Evgeny knew, Boris would never be ready. He’d die with Verona just out of reach.

He startles awake as the plane hits turbulence coming into Verona, heading towards the landing strip. It’s a bumpy landing, but he’s never done well in planes to begin with. He thinks, often, of his father, who had marked to Boris that all would be well just before returning to Russia. The flight wouldn’t make it, of course. Damiano had ensured it: Sasha Kovrov had been dead weight long enough. All he could’ve hoped for, Boris thought, was that his son would prove worthy of something.

And he had. He’d crawled on his hands and knees across glass and gravel, waded through blood and sweat, and tears – never his own, if he could help it – to see the Montague family through to the other side. Could he really have been blamed for wanting to ensure he had some sort of future laid out for him, even if it wasn’t in the name of the two old bloodlines of Verona? In return, he’d gotten: a usurpation of a position that should have been his, a pound’s worth of rat poison that he couldn’t use, distrust among his peers and disgust from the one man who should have seen his dedication, and a promise he couldn’t act upon until he was ready.

враки.

He exits the plane, meets Damiano on the tarmac, and just as quickly they are swept away by Damiano’s driver. There is no discussion of previous business, tasks he has completed. Craven is mentioned offhandedly, but Boris had to admit some time in September that whatever illicit ties Everett Craven had to the Capulets when it came to his dealings in America, the man kept them wound up tight. He’d been impressed. Instead, they set their eyes on the future: Damiano speaks to him of the failures and successes, trials and tribulations, and Boris takes note of the way his brow knits together when he speaks.

It is like Damiano cannot bear to look at him, but is forcing himself to anyway. Surely his betrayal had not burned so badly. It wouldn’t have left a mark.

Valentina Gallo died for less. She didn’t give nearly as much away. She’d given what she had to give. Boris had given Evgeny everything, and then offered the grounds of the coffee to Damiano in return.

Boris is lucky to be alive, seated across from a man he might have once considered a better father than his own, who looks at him with poorly-veiled discuss and tells him what to do. Boris had sold his soul – this might just be the devil’s recompense.

It doesn’t matter, he tells himself, watching the city pass them by, nodding where appropriate and watching the sun rise over the river as they drive alongside it. If he gets his way, Damiano Montague will be sooner dethroned, and Brutus will have his rightful place as second-in-command to some poorer, less competent man. If he is anything, it’s stubborn. They drive by the Castelvecchio, and he’s saddened to see it is still a work in progress, not at all the shining beacon it had once been of unity or pride within a place being torn in two, right down the middle. He feels a pang of something hit him in his chest. Homesickness? He’s home, but—

Boris’ flat is small, modest, tucked away in an alley. Close enough to the library that he can be there within minutes just by walking, if necessary. All the pedestrians on the street avert their eyes when they see Damiano’s car pull up outside. He grabs the one bag he’d taken with him on the plane: he’s hopeful the rest will arrive within the week, but that’s an if at best. Before he slips out, Damiano clears his throat.

He stops, and finds a single piece of paper pressed into his hand. He can only assume what it is, won’t open it – it’s deliberately folded closed. It could be anything: a name, a number, a place, a threat, a promise.

“When you’re ready,” Damiano murmurs, like some sort of sick joke, which is to say that it will be when he asks, because Boris ceded any hope at control over his own life the minute he sold all he possessed to the Russian mob, heart and mind and soul, only to crawl back to Verona just after. Some might’ve called him a fool, but he’d only seen the future, then. If only others could see the eclipsing horizon always in his sight.

It’s here that Boris is left: a small alley, out of sight of the rest of the world, the morning sun shining on his face. The future in his hand. He opens it before he has the chance to breathe in again, the vitriol in his heart already beginning to sear out through his ribcage.

Extras: N/A

[dontdoitluke]

Make A Movie (Romance Edition)

Make a Movie (Romance Edition)

I was tagged by @wildflowerirwin​​ to make a movie using pictures from your camera roll

Adding a break like Jenna bc yeah this is long as heckie

The last celebrity picture that you saved is the romantic lead:

oh bby

The last meme you saved is how your relationship will turn out:

The last song you listened to is the name of the movie:

Bad Romance - Halestorm (BAHAHAHA)

The second last celebrity picture is your best friend:

The third last celebrity picture is also your friend:

The fourth celebrity picture is the antagonist:

(he can antagonize me any time he wants jussayin)

Time to do the soundtrack. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the songs, in this particular order. If the song which is the title of the movie appears in the soundtrack, highlight it.

Opening titles: Redbone - Childish Gambino

Romantic scene: Backstabber - The Dresden Dolls (Oh...)

Sad/emotional scene: Boyfriend - BTR, Snoop Dogg (STOOOOOOOPPPPP)

Hanging out with friends scene: Setting The World On Fire - Kenny Chesney, P!nk

Montage scene: Photograph - Ed Sheeran (Shut up this is too perfect)

Falling in love scene: Haunted - Beyonce (yesyesgoodgood)

Protagonist (good character) scene: Good Day - Nappy Roots (PFFF ok)

Romantic lead theme: Bad Romance - Halestorm (YES I GOT IT BUT IDK HOW TO HIGHLIGHT)

Antagonist (bad character) theme: The River - Blues Saraceno (I’M DOWN FOR THIS)

Best friend theme: Three Thirty - AJR

Best friend #2 theme: Lights Down Low - Maejor, Waka Flocka Flame

Love theme: Runaway - Halcyon, Valentina Franco

Sad/emotional scene #2: Stone Cold - Demi Lovato (Bahhh too good)

Party scene: Moonlight Equilibrium - The Black Dahlia Murder (OPEN THIS FUCKIN PIT UP)

Big kiss scene: Call On Me - Eric Prydz

Wedding scene: Titties - Krizz Kaliko, Tech N9ne (FUCK HISDFJALSJ)

Credits: Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift (Awwww)

I tag @myloverboyash��� , @opinionatedpisces-official​ , and @justhappytoobehere​

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A First Love Playlist Made by Valentina Carvajal for Juliana Valdes

This Must Be My Dream- The 1975// R.E.M- Ariana Grande// Hungry Eyes- Greyson Chance// That Feeling When- Dagny// New Love- Victoria Monet// Starving Acoustic- Hailee Steinfeld// Bloom- Troye Sivan// Beautiful- Bazzi Ft. Camila Cabello// Perfect- Ed Sheeran// Pink Skies- Lany// So Into You- Childish Gambino Cover// Touch- Little Mix// I Was Made For Loving You- Tori Kelly Ft. Ed Sheeran