#Willow McCarthy

[pixeldistractions]

Best of July (and August) 2024 for my sims.

I’m gonna lump these two months together since I didn’t post very much in August. The focus here was mostly on the McCarthy family and the arrival of sweet baby #2. Then we visited the Nova family for some cozy winter gameplay. Ending up finally back with our wandering main story in snowy Copperdale for a minute.

Nesting // Welcome baby Abigail! (with special guest star: that fucking ball of clay!)

Smiley baby and a sweet family // a moment of peace // sibling time

Climb clubbers night out in their climbing gloves // random townie of the year

(Hi, Raquel who doesn’t know she’s about to be dumped so Sarah can go on a dating show, lol!)

Vale’s old stomping grounds, no going back!

Willow’s bunnies // Justin & Steph on a chilly date // winter nights

The road takes them somewhere cold.

[kemetic-dreams]

Lucien Victor Alexis (1887-1981)

Not very much is known of Lucien Alexis’ early childhood in New Orleans, but what is known are the achievements he would make in later years to come. Born on July 8, 1887 to Louis Victor and Alice Saucier Alexis, he was educated in the local schools where he excelled academically. Alexis was determined to attend Harvard University. Not having the finances to do so, he began working in 1907(at the age of twenty) as a railway mail clerk, saving for the education he so desperately desired.

By the time he reached twenty-seven, he had set aside enough money for four years of college. He applied and was accepted at Harvard but was asked to attend (for one year) Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, a prestigious preparatory high school. While at Exeter, he lived in the home of Mr. H.F. Quimby and soon developed a keen interest in foreign languages and the sciences. By now he had only enough money for three years upon entering Harvard, so he managed by graduating “cum laude” a year early (1917). It was there, at Harvard, that he earned the nickname: “The Negro Einstein.”

That same year, Alexis entered Officers’ Training School in Des Moines, Iowa and was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant and assigned to the 367th Infantry on October 15, 1917. World War I was raging in Europe and Alexis sailed for service in France on June, 1918. Two months before departing, Alexis married Rita Holt in Gulfport, Mississippi and together they would have one son, Lucien Victor Alexis Jr.

Upon returning to New Orleans, Alexis took up the profession of teaching. He was assigned to McCarthy Elementary in 1921 and appointed Assistant Principal in 1923 at Willow Elementary. But his greatest reward came in 1926 when he became principal of McDonogh #35, the only public high school opened for the education of colored students in the city of New Orleans. For the next nearly 30 years, he would leave an indelible mark on this institution which is still being echoed by many of his formal students up to the present day.

“It was not unusual to spot our principal walking up and down the corridors of the Rampart Street School reading scientific works printed in German. Noted for his mastery of Latin, he often found time to instruct advanced classes in the subject.” (Class of 1936)

Other graduates affectionately tell stories of his successful administration but also his dreadful “army”. Being a former military man, Lucien was said to be strict but fair as well as famous for his method of disciplining students. Students who violated his dress or discipline code were forced to join Alexis’ “army” and ordered to march up and down the second floor of the school building.

Respect for Mr. Alexis soon extended beyond the school grounds and into the community. Since McDonogh #35 was located on South Rampart and Girod Streets, the students had to pass through a neighborhood of sleazy bars, houses of prostitution and various other vices. Often the girls were meddled by men on the way going and coming from school. Fortunately, once it was known that you were an “Alexis” girl, you were never meddled again. They respected Mr. Alexis and knew to show respect to his students.

The “Negro Einstein” did not give up his interest and love for science once he became principal. For five years he engaged in serious scientific study and soon published a 40 page brochure outlining his principles of a new theory which he termed his “ethonic” theory.

From 1929 to 1937, he published the following scientific articles: Fundamentals in Physics & in Chemistry, The Thermo-Electric Formula, The Riddle of the Magnetic Field, An Empirical Disclosure of the Fallacies of Relativity, A Counter-Deduction from Bent Alpha Tracks, Radiations-Their Loci of Travel and Their Loci of Origin, The Co-Origin of Gravity&Cosmic Rays, Simple Formulae for Measuring Atoms, Their Speed, and the Speed of Light.

Upon retirement, the brilliant educator and published author opened Straight Business School on North Claiborne near Esplanade Avenue and Mrs. Alexis basically ran it. Lucien Alexis also was president of the Supreme Industrial Life Insurance Company, founder and executive director of the School of Post-Modern Science in New Orleans, and a charter member of Sigma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

Alexis also spent a great deal of time on his favorite hobbies at home. On the 25th Anniversary of his graduation from Harvard, he told the Harvard press of these hobbies:

“Don’t interfere with my physics and chemistry, which I have raised from the ignoble position of a hobby into the dignified status of a science. Don’t interfere with my Italian which I have picked up since leaving you fellows. Don’t interfere with my German, my French, or my Spanish which I have kept plugging at. These are my near hobbies. You may interfere with my gardening and my frequent efforts at directing operettas, especially the Gilbert and Sullivan ones, for there you are in the field of real hobbies of mine.”

Lucien Alexis passed away December 18, 1981. He is buried in the family’s tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No.3.

[arthurmorganson]

ok so i FINALLY made. OC playlists. Here they are in clickable order :)

Eijah Beckett | Marion Lloyd-Wheeler |

Jacob Montgomery | Wyatt Doherty |

Dalia Ladrón Ruiz | Samuel Jude Orson |

Willow McCarthy

[sdhqsecrets]

halloween costume contest ‘28 →  clementine delacour for best superhero/supervillain costume

we've had plenty of doctor who costumes in the halloween costume contests of the past, but nobody's done it quite like you have !! we love this gorgeous take on cyberwoman and we hope walking around in that outfit all night wasn't too uncomfortable.

2nd place - Alastair Watson

3rd place - Theodore Oliver

the rest of the runner ups are below !!

Ambrose Zabini

Augusta Picquery

Colm McCarthy

Cyrus Clearwater

Freya MacDougal

Ingrid Hagen

Laurie Buchanan

Veronica Vance-Aguirre

Willow Picquery

[kyiche]

Willow McCarthy~

[aninsecurewriter]

100 must-read books!

This is a list of books considered "must-reads" from various lists and online posters. I'll be reviewing them as I go but mainly keeping track of what I have and haven't read here.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Norwegian Wood bt Haruki Murakami

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ulysses by James Joyce

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Macbeth by Shakespeare

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R Tolkien

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

London Fields by Martin Amis

Sherlock Holmes and the The Hound of the Baskerville's by Arthur Conan Doyle

My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gladys Aylward the Little Woman by Gladys Aylward

Mindnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Dissolution by C.J Sansom

The Time Machine by H.G Wells

Winnie the Pooh (complete collection) by A.A Milne

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Dracula by Bram Stoker

All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Misery by Stephen King

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis

The Shining by Stephen King

The Odyssey by Homer

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

[fanthatracks]

In a move that has surprised many who understood that Disney were building a vast, ever-growing archive of readily accessible streaming content, the House of Mouse are instead pulling a number of shows Disney Plus and Hulu and returning them to the Disney Vault for the time being. Included on that list are a number of high-profile titles including Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The World According to Jeff Goldblum and from Lucasfilm last years first season of Willow. The move, which comes with a content impairment charge of $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, was announced during the recent Disney earnings call on May 10. “We are in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation,” CFO Christine McCarthy said. At the time, no details were provided on the content that would be removed. Big Shot [Disney+] Turner & Hooch [Disney+] The Mysterious Benedict Society [Disney+] The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers [Disney+] Willow [Disney+] The Making Of Willow [Disney+] Diary of a Future President [Disney+] Just Beyond [Disney+] The World According to Jeff Goldblum [Disney+] Marvel’s Project Hero [Disney+] The Right Stuff [Disney+] The Real Right Stuff [Disney+] Cheaper by the Dozen remake [Disney+] The One and Only Ivan [Disney+] Stargirl [Disney+] Hollywood Stargirl [Disney+] Flora & Ulysses [Disney+] Artemis Fowl [Disney+] The Princess [Disney+] Encore! [Disney+] Black Beauty [Disney+] Clouds [Disney+] America the Beautiful [Disney+] Better Nate Than Ever [Disney+] Weird But True! [Disney+] Timmy Failure [Disney+] Be Our Chef [Disney+] Magic Camp [Disney+] Earth to Ned [Disney+] Foodtastic [Disney+] Stuntman [Disney+] Disney Fairy Tale Weddings [Disney+] Wolfgang [Disney+] It’s a Dog’s Life with Bill Farmer [Disney+] The Big Fib [Disney+] Rogue Trip [Disney+] More Than Robots [Disney+] Shop Class [Disney+] Pick the Litter [Disney+] Own the Room [Disney+] Among the Stars [Disney+] Harmonious Live! [Disney+] Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays [Disney+] Y: The Last Man [FX/Hulu] Pistol [FX/Hulu] Little Demon [FX/Hulu] Maggie [Hulu] Dollface [Hulu] The Hot Zone [Nat Geo/Hulu] The Premise [Hulu] Love in the Time of Corona [Hulu] Everything’s Trash [Hulu] Best in Snow [Hulu] Best in Dough [Hulu] Darby and the Dead [Hulu] The Quest [Hulu] Rosaline [Hulu] Life Below Zero: Next Generation [Nat Geo/Hulu] National Geographic Investigates: LSD and Psychedelics [Nat Geo/Hulu] 9/11: One Day in America [Nat Geo/Hulu] The Armstrong Tapes [Nat Geo/Hulu] Buried Secrets of WWII [Nat Geo/Hulu] Bin Laden’s Hard Drive [Nat Geo/Hulu] Croc That Ate Jaws [Nat Geo/Hulu] Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller [Nat Geo/Hulu] Drug Lords: The Next Generation [Nat Geo/Hulu] Extreme Rescues [Nat Geo/Hulu] Most Wanted Sharks [Nat Geo/Hulu] Locked Up Abroad [Nat Geo/Hulu] North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator [Nat Geo/Hulu] To Catch A Smuggler Rome [Nat Geo/Hulu] Ultimate Survival WWII [Nat Geo/Hulu] Additionally, leaving Hulu May 31 are the following Freeform series: The Come Up The Deep End Everything’s Trash Keep This Between Us Bear in mind this list focuses on the United States, so the shows that are being pulled may vary from region to region. We'll be sure to stay across this should any further Lucasfilm productions be placed into the vault. [amazon box="0593597915"]

[dentesguardados]

And across the fire her hot eyes watched him and she seemed half breathless in the things she did. He walked off down by the river with his flashlight, along the path, flicking the light into the dead water by the shore where suckers lay on the bottom, old bottles furred with slit, pale mooneyed shad in catatonia. He turned off the light and sat in the easy dark and listened to a rip in some rocky shoal, a gentle whispering in the reeds where the river ran. A figure came down from the fire and squatted in the grass and rose and went back. The willows at the far shore cut from the night a prospect of distant mountains dark against a paler sky. Halfmoon incandescent in her black galactic keyway, the heavens locked and wheeling. A sole star to the north pale and constant, the old wanderer's beacon burning like a molten spike that tethered fast the Small Bear to the turning firmament. He closed his eyes and opened them and looked again. He was struck by the fidelity of this earth he inhabited and he bore it sudden love.

Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

[citiesonjupiter]

Do you name your paras by any chance?

hello yes!! BUT i have so so many of them and im still working on making the masterposts for my paracosms and paras. what i can do is just dump the extensive list of most if not all of my paras 😭 it's so long but i guess this can be my para masterlist for now lol. some of them are still being worked on regularly so they don't all have full names. the stage is by far the oldest and most fleshed out paracosm, @daydreamtheory is my blog specifically for it.

Ardonia

Fictparas

Abbigail

Galadar Mendoris

Galleous Sendaris

Grek

Hadion Mendoris

Hubris Nestoris

Masani

Onyx

Ria Sendaris

Senn Voltaris

Thalleous Sendaris

OC

Artemis Ashswift

Emmilia Ashswift

Emmilia Voltaris

Hecate Nightstalker

Xirylath Nestoris

Xirylith Nestoris

Xiryloth Nestoris

Erenyx

Aalee Modcro

Adira Keensurge

Elimar Univa

Emery Wiseflaw

Evelyn Taika

Freya Deathwater

Leon Tsollan

Nicole Belsor

Oli Retnah

Owen Retnah

Parker Spela

Fire In The Sky

Elis "Gigabyte"

Harley

Jack

Latonya "Widget"

Hidden Home

Hidden Home

Faye

Harper

Leah

Ray

Tom

Hidden Home (fantasy)

Faye

Harper

Leah

Ray

Tom

Mossheart Hollow

Merlin Valle

Pombie Byrrd

Sage Forrest

Selas

Silver Screen Fantasy

Anjela

Elias

Lily

Louise

Nathaniel

Nikki

Theodore

The Stage

Alisha McCarthy

Asher McCarthy

Cardiff Lansley

Charlie Scott

Charlie-Jack King

Christopher De Windt

Daniel Reid

Darryll Torres

Derron Abernethy

Dexter De Windt

Emily Whitton

Griffin Scott

Isla Richards

Jayson Abernethy

Jaz Simone

Kyra Barnes

Mason McCarthy

Michael Robinson

Molly Myres

Natalie Richards

Peyton McDaniel

Quinn Torres

Samuel Richards

Toby Lansley

Vyloria

Alwyn Moonblade

Arianne Moonblade

Arion

Arthur

Bramble Hastewood

Ellayne

Leronith Moonblade

Merothor Moonblade

Naramorth Moonblade

Sian

Tarun

Willow

[botchedandecstatic]

Books Read/Reread, November/December 2024

Katherine Dunn, Geek Love* Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America Jon Fosse, A Shining Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC Franz Kafka, Diaries Anne Carson, Grief Lessons* Anne Carson, An Oresteia* Mary Shelley, Frankenstein* Amy Shearn, Animal Instinct Yoko Ogawa, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales* Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places László Földényi, Dostoevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears George Edmondson & Klaus Mladek, A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows Mary McCarthy, Vietnam Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease Gloria Dickie: Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future Mariana Enriquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Dionne Brand, Salvage: Readings from the Wreck Leanne Shapton, Guestbook: Ghost Stories Ellen Wayland-Smith, The Science of Last Things * = reread

[saramichielle]

Checklist Category: 3 - Superhero Franchise

Title: Wonder Woman Volume One - The Just War

Author(s), Creator(s), and illustrator(s): G. Willow Wilson, Cary Nord, Xermanico, Jesus Merino, Emanuela Lupacchino, Mick Gray, Andy Owens, Ray McCarthy, Romulo Fajardo Jr., and Pat Brosseau

Translator: N/A

Publisher: DC Comics

Number of pages: Unpaged

Year of Publication: 2020

ISBN 13: 9781779503459

Response: While I love the character of Wonder Woman, I have to admit that superhero comics just aren't my forte. The art style is gorgeous and is a big reason why I was able to make it through. The problem in this scenario is one hundred percent me, as I have never been the biggest superhero fan, so the plot was not the issue. Diana working alongside Ares is an interesting concept, but I wasn't sucked into the story the same way I have been with others on this list. I would absolutely recommend this to superhero or, specifically, Wonder Woman fans because it deserves more appreciation than I can give it.

[flurryheaven]

2024 Primetime Emmys - Costume Design Winners

Here are the winners for the 76th Creative Arts Emmys Night 1 held on Saturday, September 7, 2024.

Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality (Juried) Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History Of Popular Music (HBO/MAX) Costume Designer - Machine Dazzle

Here are the winners for the 76th Creative Arts Emmys Night 2 held on Sunday, September 8, 2024.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Ahsoka (Disney+) Episode 8 "Part Eight: The Jedi, The Witch, And The Warlord" Costume Designer - Shawna Trpcic Assistant Costume Designer - Elissa Alcala Costume Supervisor - Devon Patterson

Outstanding Contemporary Costumes For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie American Horror Story: Delicate (FX) Season 12, Episode 9 "The Auteur" Costume Designer - Jacqueline Demeterio Assistant Costume Designer - Jessica Zavala Assistant Costume Designer - Jennifer Salim Costume Supervisor - Jose Bantula Costume Supervisor - Jillian Daidone

Outstanding Contemporary Costumes For A Series The Crown (Netflix) Season 6, Episode 10 "Sleep, Dearie Sleep" Costume Designer - Amy Roberts Costume Supervisor - Giles Gale Associate Costume Designer - Sidonie Roberts

Outstanding Period Costumes For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (FX) Episode 1 "Pilot" Costume Designer - Lou Eyrich Costume Designer - Leah Katznelson Assistant Costume Designer - Emily O'Connor Costume Supervisor - Laura McCarthy Assistant Costume Designer - Hanna Shea Head of Workroom - Miwa Ishii

Outstanding Period Costumes For A Series  Shōgun (FX) Season 1, Episode 6 "Ladies Of The Willow World" Costume Designer - Carlos Rosario Costume Supervisor - Carole Griffin Assistant Costume Designer - Kristen Bond Assistant Costume Designer - Kenichi Tanaka Assistant Costume Designer - Paula Plachy

[arthurmorganson]

CAN WE LWEARN ABOUT YOUR OCS (FROTHING AT THE MOUTH)

YES!!! I have full lists on foretelling with all my OC details (and half of them aren’t written up yet) but i’ll give you the gist of all of them basically! The main idea is that at one point all their stories intersect and they form a gang (which has a subsequent fallout too). this all takes place around the 1870s-1880s and up. the characters are below the cut!

Elijah Beckett - young, skittish drifter with a knack for maps and traveling. he has a scar that splits his lip open, generously gifted by his drunkard father in a fit of rage. he got his outlaw status by killing his dad in self defense and running away, relying on petty thievery and pickpocketing to make do throughout his travels. he’s a nervous young thing, who doesn’t know that he’ll end up taking after his father, turning more to melancholy than to violence

Marion Lloyd-Wheeler- the pretty lady that asks you if you want to have a good time for a price in the corner of the saloon? that’s a con-man, and he’ll get you drunk and steal all your valuables. he’s also not exactly a man, after playing this persona for so long, feeling conflicted about separating his “job” from his identity. closed off and wonderfully suave, he can talk a dog off a meat wagon.

Jacob Montgomery- the most stubborn man you’ll ever meet. A calculated, skilled bounty hunter whose own ego led to his subsequent fall into outlaw status. Priding himself on managing to kill all his bounties in a timely, efficient manner, he neglected the part where he had to bring multiple people in alive, in turn getting into a kerfuffle that escalated to the point where his partner ended up dead. ever since, he’s gone into hiding, breaking into his stored funds to cope for a year, at the bottom for a bottle. though he soon cleans up his act when a gang comes and takes him in

Wyatt Doherty - a mountain of a man who could crush your head like a watermelon. why would he, though? he hates violence. and yet he finds himself in a troubling predicament, having to illegally take up underground boxing for money to send back to his folks and younger brother in Ireland. a family man through and through, he feels conflicted having to deal with such violence when he promised his parents that he’d go to America to find good, clean farm work and send back every bit of money he makes. a sweet, slightly dim man, but full of love

Dalia Ladrón Ruiz - keep an eye on your horse whenever she’s around because she won’t hesitate to gently coax it away and take it to the nearest livestock market or horse auction and make a pretty penny off it too. a notorious horse thief driven out of Mexico because she stole the wrong person’s horse(s, plural), she finds herself with a rather sizable bounty on her head as she flees towards the wild American west. a strong, determined woman, with an abrasive sense of humor and brutal honesty

Samuel Jude Orson - it’s a miracle a man like him manages to enter his late 40s. a once-notorious outlaw, he managed to flee and leave his past life behind, finding work at a ranch who’s owner asked no questions, and was just happy to have a diligent, working man helping him with daily tasks. quiet, closed off, and blind in one eye, he doesn’t make for a particularly good (or disarming) conversationalist. he will soon realize he has a lot more to deal with when he manages to connect and bond with the ranch owner’s daughter, and finds his own past coming back to haunt him

Willow McCarthy- respective daughter of the ranch owner. a sweet, hardworking farmgirl putting in the work and the muscle to help her dad out at any given occasion, jovial and kind to the bone. she talks the ears off all the helping hands around the ranch, especially one named Samuel. she finds his stories fascinating, but opts to not tell her dad the full extent of her knowledge of Samuel. little does she know her life will shift entirely from what she is used to, getting falsely accused of a crime she knows she didn’t commit. she ends up on the run with her acquaintance-turned-mentor, Samuel, learning to toughen up, and cope with her new outlaw status.

[leanstooneside]

Wise it is to comprehend the whole

- Lady Gaga's commuter lip

- Ed Sheeran's useless lip

- Lisa Edelstein's metabolic lip

- Paul McCartney's excess lip

- Avril Lavigne's opposing lip

- Anna Kournikova's battle lip

- Mahendra Singh Dhoni's veering lip

- Tim Gunn's retaliatory lip

- Melissa McCarthy's deviant lip

- Elin Nordegren's subjugated lip

- Emily Maynard's unsuccessful lip

- Sharon Osbourne's subordinate lip

- Eminem's bronze lip

- Vanessa Hudgens's assertive lip

- Bobby Brown's assertive lip

- Kanye West's hard-pressed lip

- Willow Smith's wetting lip

- David Boreanaz's unprincipled lip

- America Ferrera's unread lip

- Vince Vaughn's humid lip

[flownintothesun]

 ⋆ ✰ ⋆ ───    ❛   𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨?   ❜   (𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 @ 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞)

                          ⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 & 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬.  ( @batteredoptimist )

     𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒 that linger far away on some distant shore. He isn’t steering the ship, he wouldn’t know exactly how far from that place they are now — and what would it matter anyway? Their youth and their humanity is gone — they will not find it some two hundred years back on the English shoreline where they made a home, and fell more in love by the moment. It is as lost as the engagement ring that he’d dropped when their lives had changed forever. Back in that place is a house on the seaside, and a nut-brown lad, waiting on his captain to come home.

      The memories ache fiercely in his chest — and he harbors more grief and remorse for the fate of those two young lads than he does for any of the countless bodies he’s deposited into a watery grave. If he thinks back to bare feet running down the dock, a mess of auburn hair swept by the wind, and the feel of his lad in his arms as they spun ‘round and ‘round — he does not feel joy. He doesn’t know if he’s capable of feeling joy. James Pollard the florist and Westley McCarthy the sailor are a thousand hot knives that pierce his body. They are invisible enemies from every angle that he can never kill or protect James from. Those enemies are embedded under his skin forever, trapped in the prison that his mind has become.

     When Westley looks in the mirror, his red eyes speak of imps and monsters — not some well-meaning lad who had always believed with all of his heart that the sea held the answers to everything. In the end, that’s why he’d dug up James’s roots, and brought him to this ship — once the pride of his life, and now nothing more than a goddamned floating graveyard. His hands are forever stained in blood — he sees it even when it’s not there, and to look at James — to touch him — is to taint him further. There is no undoing it — everything that has passed between them. What have they done to each other, indeed.

      How long has it been since Westley’s uttered the words ‘I love you’ to his lad? How long has it been since Westley had kissed the roots that ensnare the entirety of his ship as he let James carry them wherever he needed to go? How long has it been since Westley could even look James in the eye? Even now he wonders if he should have let James burn in his fire and fury — if an end, no matter how it happened was better than an immortal life on an immortal ship with the Devil himself. James is not James, he is simply The Willow. And Westley McCarthy doesn’t exist — he is only a monstrous legend told by mothers who wish their lads never to become sailors. The real warning should be never to fall in love. There has never been and will never be a single thing that Westley wouldn’t do for James — and that is why they are here.

      They can call him what they want. Levensboom — the tree of life. They will never stop hunting him — all of humanity wants what they believe only James can offer. For a chance at immortality, they are willing to pay the ultimate price — and Westley will continue to collect, because what is the alternative? Their axes and their weapons have left damning scars in James’s trunk and what is Westley meant to believe if not that all things beautiful will be desecrated because such is the way of the world? Isn't that what's been proven to him over and over again? But not him. Never him. The one who will destroy James in the end will be Westley himself. What is love, he wonders, if not anguish — if not pain? He thinks he recalls that there was once a different answer to that question. The butterflies in Westley's stomach are dead. He'd ripped off their wings himself long ago.

       Is this the immortality that everyone seeks so desperately? If so, they can have it. Kill him and pick him apart until they find the secret of his own eternal youth and damnation. He gives up. He’s done. The sea can take him. He doesn't have the answers. He never did.

        The Arcady groans and splits as she hits the shore.

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cclmmccarthy​:

“Are you sure? I mean, I am fairly certain this was how you told me to play the game. If I did then it’s poor teaching on your side surely. I didn’t know the game before today anyway.” A lie of course but Willow didn’t currently know that and he was enjoying watching her puff up in irritation.

"Not the gaslighting– you're better than this, McCarthy," Willow shook her head in disappointment at the man. "Or at least I'd like to hope you are," she added, trying to decided if she believed him or not. "I really should've suggested good ol' Operation instead. Or maybe a puzzle. I don't think it's possible to cheat at a puzzle."