#alex carter

[psikonauti]

Alex Carter 

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[redemptivexheroics]

Familiar Face [Closed]

@myxtorturedxheart

Alex was making his way toward his favorite coffee shop; he was surprised that after all these years, it was still there; it was the common hang-out spot for him and his friends on the weekends, just sitting around, sipping on their favorite coffee and talking. He was just reaching the door when he bumped into a woman and spilled her coffee. "Shit, I am so sorry about that, I hope none spilled on you...Maya?" Alex said in surprise, he hadn't see Maya since graduation, sure they kept in touch from time to time but this was the first time he seen her in person in fifteen years.

[its-a-geeks-world]

Sara Sidle, picking up "I like you" vibes from her coworkers from one (1) interaction

(when it took them two years to find out Sara and Grissom were together)

S10 E10 'Better Off Dead'

[solothefirst]

Boss From Hell by Laurie Bell Book Trailer Produced by Hit 66 Sound & Screen Written by Laurie Bell Directed by Regs Wood VFX by David Fonti Starring Alex Carter and Phil Lambert

[ctoan11]

Continuing my Flashpoint rewatch and look who shows up in S2e21 — Alex Carter aka Jason Bly! He’s a very enjoyable actor and I always enjoy him on my screen.

He’s a good guy having a very bad day.

[festus-eats-tabasco]

Let’s talk more about accents in the Riordanverse!

• Percy with rounded New York vowels and that quick run-together way of saying his sentences. Percy with an accent you can’t quite place until he orders some coffee or water.

• Annabeth with a Virginia drawl and long vowels that don’t quite go away, even after years on Long Island Sound. Annabeth, who will randomly spit out phrases like “nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs”, whose cup always fills with sweet tea in the mess hall/

• Carter with a fairly standard American accent until he pronounces a word so bizarrely it’s clear he must have learned it halfway across the globe. Carter, who gets slightly antsy in the same place for too long and goes to language classes at night just for an excuse to practice.

• Sadie with a London accent that’s begun to fade after years in Brooklyn House, who accidentally says “cheers” when people hold the door for her. Sadie, who skips over her t’s and who drops consonants and, like Carter, isn’t exactly sure where her home is.

• Magnus and Alex with strong Boston accents and nasally a’s that Hearth is glad he can’t hear. Magnus, whose accent gets stronger in battle, who intentionally leans into it when he’s on the West Coast. Alex, who makes people guess where she’s from and tells them something different every time, who argues with Magnus over whose accent is stronger.

• Jason Grace with languid California vowels, who drops the end of every word when he’s relaxed and over-enunciates when he’s in charge. Jason, whose accent is only present when he’s comfortable.

• Leo Valdez with a Texan accent to boot and quick clipping consonants, whose accent sounds nearly the same as Annabeth’s to the untrained ear, but insists that they’re completely different every time someone brings it up.

• Hazel Levesque with a thick New Orleans accent, whose vocabulary is peppered with French and old-fashioned phrases and the occasional Southern saying. Hazel, who sticks to Deep South manners (and passive-aggression, when necessary), who orders in French when she goes to a bakery and watched old black-and-white movies when she feels homesick.

• Frank, who sounds American except for when he says “sorry”, who speaks a bit of Canadian French (which Hazel hates, because she can’t understand it), and gets teased every time he says “about”.

• Piper with a slight valley-girl sound that she’s worked hard to get rid of, but tends to slip into when she’s tired or angry. Piper, whose voice becomes sweet and soothing in charmspeak, who understands every fluctuation and intonation and how to use them to her advantage.

• Nico di Angelo with a seemingly standard American accent, until you pick up on the odd transatlantic pronunciation or Italian rolled “r”. Nico with an arsenal of phrases so jumbled and eclectic that people do a double take when he talks.

Just. Yeah. Riordanverse accents.

[redemptivexheroics]

"They didn't have to call me, I found out on my own, and I came right to the hospital," Alex said as he pulled the chair closer to the bed and sat down. "Are you okay? When you hear the girl you love gets hurt, you drop everything," Alex said as he took her hand on his own. "I'm taking a few days off to be with you; make sure you're good."

@myxtorturedxheart

{open to anyone}

"I told them not to call anyone." Maya sighed tiredly, hating that they had been brought to the side her bed. An accident on the job, a building collapsing on her and many members of her shift while she had her partner had been trying to get a patient out had left her with a punctured lung and more bruises than she could count.

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[stereax]

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[myoldboyfriend]

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[denyeverything69]

"Marita, your dog is at the office please come pick him up."

[redemptivexheroics]

Hooky For A Day [Closed]

@morexfuntomiss

"How about we take a personal day off? Just me and you, we go do something? I hardly miss a day at the orphanage, so I'm sure they'll be fine without me for one day," Alex said as he grabbed Maya's hand to pull her back to the bed. "Play hooky for a day," Alex suggested.

[intheupside]

Wow, just about the whole team and the prospects going to the Prospects Challenge this week are here skating at the UPMC Lemieux Complex. Enough guys that they need to use two rinks. Going to try to get a head count.

Main rink: Kevin Hayes, Jonathan Gruden, Valtteri Puustinen, Noel Acciari, Sam Poulin, Ryan Shea, Lars Eller, Jesse Puljujarvi, Marcus Pettersson, Bryan Rust, Drew O'Connor, John Ludvig, Ryan Graves, Erik Karlsson, Alex Nedeljkovic, Tristan Jarry (adding to this as I go, keep checking back)

The session on the main rink is being run by Ty Hennes, Andy Chiodo ... and Jeff Carter, wearing the coach getup and everything

from taylor ☺️

[felicitykings]

FINAL DESTINATION (2000) dir. james wong

[shoecrabs]

no context riordanverse spoilers:

[redemptivexheroics]

"Well, I know that because the bedroom is definitely fun," Alex said as he watched. Maya blushed and chuckled at the little embarrassment of him saying that out loud, but it's not like there were many people around them, and if they heard, they were all adults. This wasn't high school.

"I admire that about you, Maya. You're a very dedicated person, and it shows. Just maybe slow down sometime and take a well-deserved break, hell not like you don't deserve one."

He took her hand. "One of the many reasons I fell in love with you."

"Never said I didn't play, I just didn't go to parties." Maya replied with a laugh, shaking her head at him. "My parents wanted me to go into the restaurant, I'd never wanted that so there was this part of me that felt I had to work harder to prove to them that I was making the right decision."

She nodded, knowing he was right, she just hoped it'd happen sooner rather than later.