#alli x nolan

[alliannahvaughn]

𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 @nolanxmurray

“I bet you five bucks and a beer I could beat you at surfing.” Alliannah joked, looking at the other. Her relationship with Nolan was nothing if it wasn’t complicated, and even on the times they were off again, she was still able to crack jokes and pick at him. It was better than arguing, at least that’s what she thought. Nudging her hip against his she laughed. “What do you say Murray? You up for a challenge today?”

[spookyblazecoffee]

Brett: *tapping fingers on table* Nolan: *taps fingers back furiously* Lori: …What’s going on? Ally: Morse code. They’re talking. Brett: -.-- --- ..- .----. .-. . / - .... . / -.-. ..- - . ... - Nolan: *slams hands on table* YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

[x3no9]

Did a sketch yesterday... Makarov (2023) along with his brutal and sexy guard dog, Nolan, having a meeting with their newest ally, the Father of Shadows (Graves).

They are rolling out the red carpet for him and giving him a REAL feast. (he's actually the feast)

[this-is-ally-and-im-confused]

Hi ally!

Can you please write prompt #2 with Nol Pats hehe thank youuu <3

Gotchu! Here you go love! Feel free to request more!

“Call me back…please?”

*leave a message!*

Hey hun, it’s Nolan. Um I don’t normally do this and I’m normally not uhhh anxious like this. Um could you call me back…please?

It’s just–uh you’ve been gone awhile and normally you text. Or call. I don’t know.

I guess I’m just worried about you. I love you.

See you later, honey! Call me soon though

[velidewrites]

Pairing: Feyre x Rhysand

Tags: ACOTAR Book 1 Rewrite, Human!Feyre, Espionage, Enemies to Reluctant Allies to Lovers

Masterlist || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2

I'm alive and happy to report Chapter 2 of Starchaser is now up on my AO3! Lots of lore in this chapter so that we can roll with the vibes from part 3 on. Obligatory CW for Graysen Nolan before I share this excerpt with you below:

Lord Nolan angled his head, his gaze sharper now as it met Feyre’s. “You understand what we are asking of you.”

Her hand wrapped around the bow, the metal cool against her sweaty palm. “What no one else has dared to do before me,” Feyre said.

Graysen’s eyes narrowed on her. “No one has been foolish enough.”

“That's enough, Graysen,” Lord Nolan scolded, “Miss Archeron, after all, is soon to be our family.” His son’s expression soured immediately at the word. Nolan turned to Feyre. “Is she not?”

“That was our agreement,” Feyre nodded, then looked at Graysen. “One you seemed all too excited about earlier.”

“Oh, it’s not your sister I’m worried about,” Graysen said, “It’s the two witches she’s dragging along with her.”

Feyre took another step toward him, knuckles nearly gleaming white around the bow—and, to her shock, Graysen actually stepped back .

“Enough, ” the old lord cut in sharply.

“There is no better match in this world than Elain,” Feyre practically spat at Graysen. 

“I am aware of her qualities,” Graysen said defensively. “I’ve told you before, I’ve never met a woman more beautiful than your sister.”

Feyre’s fist loosened, nails leaving crescent moons in her pale skin. “Elain is beautiful, yes,” she agreed. “But it isn’t her looks that make her beautiful. That is why you will never deserve her, Graysen,” she finished, not at all surprised to find no retort spat right back at her.

Taglist (let me know if you'd like to be added!): @popjunkie42-blog @augustinerose @toporecall @autumndreaming7 @melting-houses-of-gold @belabellissima @itsthedoodle

[teecupangel]

Hi, I don't know if you know call of duty : modern warfare 1 and 2 but this been brainrotting me cos just imagine Desmond ending up enlisted in the millitary by some weird chance (like an undercovered mission after surviving from the Temple) and gets promoted really quick and somehow got to be got selected to be in task force 141 (they're SAS) and Desmond is like how the fuck I got selected? And everyone is like newbies doesn't take down very muscular soldiers four times their size easily and can walk silently on their feet. I also see him like some hot twink in the millitary because of Ezio charisma from his bleeds or maybe in an intimidating mysterious character because of the scar. I hope I didn't annoy you with this and btw I love your assassin's creed Ao3 works and would reread Yew Branches series and The White Aster of Masyaf 🥰❤

Hi nonny!

(Thank you! I'm so happy that the Yew Branches series and the White Aster of Masyaf so good that you would reread them and I would never be annoyed. I love getting asks of any kind and asks that makes me write plot are so fun to do ^w^)

So... My father and I play the campaign modes of all the COD games I can get my hands on for cheap XD (I have a soft spot for Advanced Warfare because the controls reminds me of Titantall 2 which is my favorite fps... next to Metro Last Light)

Unfortunately, this means that I haven’t played the reboot MW yet as I’m still waiting for them to go really cheap. :(

The OG MW Trilogy is my favorite COD campaign story though and I’ve seen some scenes so I have a vague idea of the plot of the reboot.

Anyway, let’s talk about how we can make this COD:MW x AC crossover work!

Of course, it will be set in Modern Day but that includes having all those advanced securities and other techs. Not to mention that military-grade tech is usually years ahead of the tech available to the public so it would be very risky for Desmond to falsify his records even if this was a joint Assassin-Erudito mission. Not just because of the army itself but also because Abstergo has got to have an ally or a plant there somewhere.

There is also that little thing with Abstergo posting his photos everywhere and going “have you seen this man?” but we’ll get back to that later.

I did briefly consider the idea of making this about Desmond joining the US army instead of becoming a bartender (maybe even going by the name 'Johnson' hmmmm?) but that wouldn't work since all those medical checkups would have flagged him immediately.

However…

A lot of military personnel having missions on foreign soil usually have a translator with them. Not only that, these translators are usually locals and, depending on the urgency and priority of the mission, background checks of translators could be spotty at times.

Enter Desmond using the fake id of one Eddie Richtofen (who is voiced by Nolan North in COD).

Now, in this setup, the mission has to be somewhere his Bleeds could help. This means a mission that needs a translator fluent in Italian, Arabic, or French. He’ll join as a translator for a ‘run in the mill’ job being conducted by the US Army, specifically by the US Army Rangers, 1st Battalion, 75th Regiment, Hunter 2-1 with Sergeant Foley and Private Ramirez.

They’re a special task force but this was meant to be one of the easy ones. Just a search and retrieve operation. Unfortunately, intel is too barebone so they have Desmond act as their translator when they need to talk to locals. Desmond was just there to confirm if there have been local Templar activities in the area and tagged along to make it easier to do recon.

Shit goes straight to the fan almost immediately because Desmond realizes all the locals they’re talking to are red. He and Ramirez have a kind of budding friendship going on because Desmond feels a kindred spirit for the quiet Ramirez who keeps getting ordered to do shit so he talks to Ramirez about it. Not about the Eagle Vision itself but about how something is just off with these locals. Something’s not right and all Desmond has is his guts.

Ramirez believes him because Desmond hasn’t lied to them and he gets Foley and the rest to be cautious.

That saves them when they get ambushed and the locals turn out to be an extremist group.

Things turned into a fucking shitstorm when the target they were sent to retrieve turns out to be a POE that is now hooked into this metal chamber and is emitting off the chart energy reading.

They have to retreat without retrieving the target because the extremists got reinforcement and Ramirez and Desmond get caught in a blast that sends them flying. Just as five men are about to shoot them, all five men dropped to the ground.

Desmond tries to get up but stops because he’s pretty sure he just broke a rib (or three) and sees three men quickly getting to their position. One of them knelt just ahead of them, semiautomatic aimed in front of them while the other two knelt next to Desmond and Ramirez.

The man next to Desmond wearing a tactical vest over a short sleeved black shirt informed calmly into the small radio strapped to his vest, “Bravo 7-1 to Bravo 0-6. We found two of the Americans.”

“Good work, Soap. Bring them in.”

“Roger that.”

And that’s when Desmond blacks out.

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When Desmond wakes up, he’s now on a military base and he and Ramirez get debriefed about what just happened.

Long story short, Task Force 141 received more information about the POE (codename ‘Soma’) and they believe it’s being transported to Makarov who is their main target.

They still have no idea what ‘Soma’ is meant to do but those energy readings they had retrieved from Ramirez had given them an idea that it could be used to power something.

Or, worse, be used to cause a country-ending explosion.

Whatever Soma is meant to do, they must find it and intercept it before it could get to Makarov.

Of course, because there were American casualties, this has now become a joint mission between the US Army and SAS.

Taskforce 141 will be leading the operations and Ramirez gets drafted to join them as part of the whole ‘joint mission’ thing. Desmond gets roped in because they saw how he managed to take out many of the extremists with freaking knife throws and how everyone had a hard time seeing him as he stealth his way to taking out the extremists.

Of course, Desmond’s whole situation as part of the mission is iffy even when they received orders to take him in from the higher ups but someone Captain Price trusts vouches for him.

Captain MacMillan who may or may not be an Assassin who knows Bill Miles or may just be an ally of the Assassins. All Desmond knows is that MacMillan vouched for him with a “He’s my friend’s estranged son. Good man, terrible father. Kid went world-hopping to get away from his bastard of a father when he was sixteen.”

Not only that, this whole joint mission was scrambled together in a hurry and it was not helped by the fact that they need to find and retrieve Soma before it reaches Makarov so the Assassins were able to cobble together Desmond’s cover story and they had helped from the higher-ups in the US to make it all legit.

So Desmond Miles is now a military kid with a retired father who have all his missions classified. He’s now using his real name because the Assassins weren’t exactly that smart and they were on a time crunch too.

His world-hopping turned to him joining a secret task force (which may or may not have been implied to be the CIA) and the whole ‘terrorist thing’ was a way to get him some ‘street-cred’ so he could go undercover and infiltrate a secret terrorist group.

“Wait, if you were undercover since 2012, why are you now pretending to be a translator?” Soap asked with a slight frown.

“Mission was done.” Desmond shrugged, “Got a new mission. My handlers told me this translator job would be a good way to ease me back into the field.”

“And now you’re part of a joint task force under stressful time pressure. Wow, mate. Your luck sucks.”

“Yeah… it’s like the world hates me.”

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Unorganized Notes:

Soap, Ramirez, and Desmond are usually called the three stooges and they get roped into doing tasks together a lot during missions.

Desmond’s Haytham Bleed once slips and he starts speaking in his posh British accent when he gets into an argument with a member of Shadow Company, after that Gaz starts teasing him and calling him ‘milord’ much to his chagrin.

141 starts making bets on what is Desmond’s actual nationality. Haytham’s Bleed has Gaz firmly believe that Desmond is from old money (like all boys boarding school trust fund baby type) and is a British pretending to be an American. Soap thinks he’s European, probably Italian or French. Ghost didn’t want to join in but Soap is persistent so fuck it. He picks Middle Eastern because he once heard Desmond speak Arabic and Ghost just knows that accent is Syrian. (“How do you know his accent is Syrian?” “I just know.” “That’s not an answer, LT.”)

They meet up with Alejandro and Rudy later on because they believe Soma is traveling to Mexico and all of 141 loses it when they learn Desmond speaks Spanish (thanks to Ezio traveling to Spain for a bit)

Because of Desmond’s secretive past, his ability to turn anything into a weapon (even a freaking spoon), being a polygot, being very quick on his feet but staying quiet even when he’s holding a grenade launcher of all things, everyone is pretty sure he’s CIA.

Desmond’s unofficial nickname is ‘Spooks’ because they believe he’s CIA and he has a habit of making people jump whenever he’s suddenly next to them and they didn’t even hear him.

I don’t like how they made Shepherd into a typical corrupt military commander in the reboot so we’re sticking with OG Shepherd’s personality in this idea…………… this does mean that he has a more drastic plan for the future though

Speaking of Shepherd, Shepherd is an Assassin in this one. To be more precise, he’s the Bellec type of Assassin.

Captain Price has an idea of what the Assassins and Templars are but he’s not fully in the know. However, he does know Berg because he once had a mission with him back when Berg was part of the Finnish Special Forces (and Berg’s name was part of the shortlist for 141 members, he was removed when Price learned of his Abstergo affiliations)

Speaking of: Kate Laswell has been secretly looking into Abstergo but she’s been hitting brick walls and she’s sure it’s because someone in Abstergo is on to her. Since she’s CIA, she doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty and she’s been secretly colluding with Erudito to gain more intel on Abstergo. She doesn’t know about the Assassins yet but she’s sure that this little favor of helping Desmond be a CIA operative (with possible deniability of course) means that Desmond is part of Erudito and that Soma is connected to Abstergo.

Both Kate and Shepherd prepared different backstories for Desmond and both of them didn’t know about the other’s plans until Desmond was already noted to be a military kid turned CIA operative with missions filled with so many black lines it would have been easier to just leave full black papers on his files instead. That was… an awkward conversation to have.

Desmond is on his own because it's too risky to stay in contact with Shaun and Rebecca. However, Shaun and Rebecca leave messages that Desmond could only find if he uses his Eagle Vision in the army bases they're sure Desmond would stop by (thanks to Kate's intel). One of them leads to a box that has Desmond's hidden blade.

Captain Price may or may not have Eagle Vision. Desmond isn't sure yet.

[nezoid]

June 2024 Recap (still catching up):

-Les Francos de Montreal - Evelyne Brochu (Montreal - June 14, 2024)

-Pre existing Condition Play with Tatiana Maslany (New York - June 12, 2024)

-Melissa Barrera at Monsterpalooza (Pasadena - June 2, 2024)

-Allie X at Teragram Ballroom (June 23, 2024)

-Les Francos de Montreal - Felix Dyotte (Montreal - June 15, 2024)

-Les Francos de Montreal - Evelyne Brochu featuring robert robert (Montreal - June 14, 2024)

-Les Francos de Montreal - Evelyne Brochu featuring Louis-Jean Cormier (Montreal - June 14, 2024)

-Les Francos de Montreal - Marie Celeste (Montreal - June 14, 2024)

-WEER x2 - Natalie Palamides

-The Ultimate Improv Show with special guest monologist Nolan Gould at Dynasty Typewriter (June 28, 2024)

-Celebrating Father's Day (early) with fam at Camarillo Premium Outlets (June 8, 2024)

-Celebrating Father's Day (early) with fam at Lure (June 8, 2024)

-McGill (Where parts of Scream VI was filmed) (Montreal - June 16, 2024)

-My girls (Tallula and Wednesday) + Emma, Winston, and Hanzo!

-New York exploring (New York - June 12, 2024)

-Montreal exploring (Montreal - June 13-16, 2024)

-Peacocks

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

Crossover Masterlist Update

sooo trying to organize what I need to do for my crossover masterlist update but I'm overwhelmed & struggling to keep track. This is the list I've got right now of crossovers that I need to add to the masterlist but please lmk which ones I'm missing – to keep it manageable, I'm only adding crossovers that have a bit of development / have been talked about but of course I'm happy to talk about more too

[ here is the masterlist ]

@the-witching-ash

Descendants

Fabian x Ace

Fabian x Lawson

Fabian & Honey

Edmund x Ace

Edmund x Cosette

Edmund x Anissa

Fabian x Cosette

Raphael x Cosette

Almeria x Helena x Queenie

Glee

Henry x Sadie

Henry x May

Henry & Kath

Henry & Joy

Andrew x Carla

Andrew x/& Kath

Andrew & Oz

Andrew & Cece

Andrew & Aurora

Andrew x Betty x Mac

Andrew x Kirsty

Andrew x/& Cole

Elphie & Carla

Billy x Cole

Mary x Mimi

Gilmore Girls

Grace x Vicki

Floyd x Vicki

Eileen x Vicki

Vance x Emmeline

Grace & Amanda

Simon x Kirsty

Simon x Amanda

Richie x Maisie

Richie x Emmeline

Richie x Allie

Hunger Games

Raymond x Callisto

Raymond x Apollo

Raymond x Amor

Raymond x Jude

Raymond x Lacey x Finnick

Triton x Apollo

Triton x Athena

Triton x Ares

Triton x Honoria

Triton x Cadmus

@cecexwrites

Descendants

Quinn x Ace

Ismene x Ace

Ismene x Cosette

Quinn x Cosette

Aleks x Cosette

Gossip Girl

Finn & Evie

Tinsley & Evie

Covey & Theo

Finn & Theo

Tinsley & Theo

Mimi & Coco

Covey & Nolan

Covey & Rhys

Sebastian & Coco

Cordelia & Alex

Cordelia & Kingston

@manyfandomocs

Descendants

Gabe & Cosette

Gabe & Killian

Stephen x Cosette

Brendan x Grier

Brendan x Cosette

Brendan x Melia

Glee

Ashton x Cole

Steve & Tegan

Gossip Girl

Wesley x Kyla

Darcy x Clara

Darcy x Rhys

Hunger Games

Deryn x Bellona

Deryn x Marisol

Deryn x Apollo

Deryn x Athena

Deryn x Ares

Misc

Vincent & Mercy

Troy & Campbell

@ginevrastilinski-ocs

Descendants

Jax x Cosette

Jax x Gloria

Glee

Betty & Kipp

Benjamin x Carla

Hunger Games

Callie & Lacey

Callie & Alton

DC

Lucian x/& Kinsley

Jericho & Sarina

Misc

Ethan x Haven

@ocmerunaway

Kass & Clarissa

Boy x Honoria

[crybabytecrs]

M U S E S

FEMALES / without fandom

・❥・VALERIE | [19-25] | madelyn cline ・❥・HAILEE | [19-26] | emily alyn lind ・❥・BROOKLYN | [19-25] | maia reficco ・❥・EMORY | [21-26] | sydney sweeney ・❥・DELILAH | [20-25] | kathryn newton ・❥・VICTORIA | [20-25] | abigail cowen ・❥・VIOLET | [18-25] | lily rose depp ・❥・OPHELIA | [20-26] | kristine froseth ・❥・AURORA | [19-26] | dove cameron ・❥・AYLEEN | [19-26] | jenna ortega ・❥・CASSIDY | [19-24] | hailee steinfeld ・❥・NOVA | [19-24] | grace van dien ・❥・JORDYN | [19-25] | natalia dyer ・❥・BLAIR | [20-27] | alexa demie ・❥・MADDIE | [18-24] | katie douglas

MALES / without fandom

・❥・LOGAN | [20-26] | benjamin wadsworth ・❥・MILES | [21-29] | drew starkey ・❥・AIDEN | [20-26] | jacob elordi ・❥・ELIJAH | [21-26] | rudy pankow ・❥・NOLAN | [20-25] | ross lynch ・❥・VINCE | [20-25] | gavin casalegno ・❥・FYNN | [21-27] | timothée chalamet ・❥・NIC | [20-26] | chase stokes ・❥・JUSTIN | [21-28] | thomas doherty ・❥・TONY | [34-42] | chris evans ・❥・MILO | [19-24] | joe kerry ・❥・JESSE | [21-30] | dylan o'brien ・❥・AARON | [22-29] | tyler posey ・❥・CHASE | [20-27] | cody christian ・❥・BENJI | [19-26] | christopher briney

FEMALES / with fandom

・❥・IVORY | [19-25] | ¡final girl | tatum's &' dewey’s sister | madelyn cline | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・MAE | [19-26] | could be a ¡final girl | stu macher’s sister | willa fitzgerald | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・ALYSSA | [19-25] | randy’s sister | natalia dyer | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・ELLIE | [18-25] | maia reficco | — scream muse! — ・❥・CASSIDY | [18-24] | john b's sister | hailee steinfeld | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・BAILEE | [19-25] | topper's sister | ester exposito | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・EVERLY | [20-26] | ¡hunter | crystal reed | — supernatural muse! — ・❥・SOFIA | [19-26] | ¡demon | young¡ megan fox | — supernatural muse! —

MALES / with fandom

・❥・MICAH | [21-26] | stu machers brother | ¡ghostface | amadeus serafini | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・JORDAN | [19-28] | ¡helps ghostface | jacob elordi | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・CAZ | [19-26] | sidney’s brother | ¡ghostface | alex fitzalan | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・CARDAN | [21-26] | tatum’s &' dewey's brother | rudy pankow | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・KIERAN | [19-25] | sarah's, rafe’s and wheezie’s brother | ¡blonde andrew garfield | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・ATLAS | [20-25] | jj's brother | gavin casalegno | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・ATTICUS | [21-27] | ¡hunter | charles melton | — supernatural muse! —

— my fandom muses are usually just for rp’s on discord, means i probably wont use them in threads on tumblr. but still, if you’re feeling like doing a canon x oc just ask!!

FEMALES / canon

・❥・SARAH CAMERON | outer banks ・❥・KIARA CARRERA | outer banks ・❥・TATUM RILEY | scream (1996) ・❥・SIDNEY PRESCOTT | scream (1996) ・❥・CLAIRE REDFIELD | resident evil ・❥・ADA WONG | resident evil

・❥・CASSIE HOWARD | euphoria ・❥・LYDIA MARTIN | teen wolf ・❥・ALLISON ARGENT | teen wolf ・❥・MAX MAYFIELD | stranger things ・❥・NANCY WHEELER | stranger things ・❥・VIOLET HARMON | ahs ・❥・ALLIE PRESSMAN | the society ・❥・ELLE TOMKINS | the society ・❥・HANNA MARIN | pretty little liars ・❥・AVA JALALI | pretty little liars: the perfectionists ・❥・NOA OLIVAR | pretty little liars: original sin ・❥・CAROLINE FORBES | the vampire diaries ・❥・KATHERINE PIERCE | the vampire diaries

MALES / canon

・❥・STU MACHER | scream (1996) ・❥・RANDY MEEKS | scream (1996) ・❥・JJ MAYBANK | outer banks ・❥・JOHN BOOKER ROUTLEDGE | outer banks ・❥・TOPPER THORNTON | outer banks ・❥・MIKE WHEELER | stranger things ・❥・STEVE HARRINGTON | stranger things ・❥・LUCAS SINCLAIR | stranger things ・❥・EDDIE MUNSON | stranger things ・❥・STILES STILINSKI | teen wolf ・❥・SCOTT MCCALL | teen wolf ・❥・LIAM DUNBAR | teen wolf ・❥・PETER PARKER | mcu / tom or andrew ・❥・STEFAN SALVATORE | the vampire diaries ・❥・EIJAH MIKAELSON | the vampire diaries ・❥・HARRY BINGHAM | the society

[denimbex1986]

'Made for an estimated, fairly astronomical, $180 million, the high-impact biopic has grossed almost one billion dollars globally, at least partially propelled by its unlikely provenance as one-half of the Barbenheimer theatrical dynamic duo. But now that the dust has cleared, discerning spectators are better able to detect creeping critical fallout amid all the ticker-tape praise. How much of Oppenheimer’s figures is a factual biography of legendary U.S. physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, and how much is sneaky, bio-hazardous radioactive waste dropped on an unsuspecting public?

Oppenheimer: From Book to Screen

To opine that Oppenheimer takes liberties with the massive (800-plus pages) 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus biography by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin is a little like saying Nolan’s dark, ponderous Batman reboots toe the same line as TV’s spoofy, goofy 1960s Batman series. To start with, Nolan’s non-fiction source is a meticulous, sometimes laborious, molecular-level chronicle of the titanic rise and fall of Oppenheimer, whose brilliant leadership of the U.S. Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945 led to the development of the first atomic bomb—and with it, the quick, horrific end to the Allied campaign against Japan in World War II.

Nolan, however, characteristically declares war on any and all logical timelines from the opening shot. It’s a film that not only plays fast with the facts but shakes and splinters Oppenheimer’s uber-complicated life and times into thousands of jigsaw-puzzle pieces, jerking the spectator to and fro and across time and place from the 1920s to the 1950s. Postulate last year’s Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once, but set in a physics lab, not a laundromat.

If Oppenheimer was the main man who smashed and weaponized the atom, Nolan mashes Oppenheimer the movie into a galaxy of fissile bits; however kinetic, together their staying power is less than the sum of the parts. He seems to take Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous managerial mantra (Move fast and break things) literally, and like the Facebook mastermind, never stops long enough to pick up—or add up—the pieces.

Given the barrage of kaleidoscopic images, including nebulous visual fireworks, audiences haven’t time to do much figuring either. What might have been presented as a weighty, deliberate three-hour dramatization of a pivotal scientific, military, and political chapter in 20th-century history (and prelude to the U.S.-USSR Cold War arms race) instead takes flight as a slick, tricked-up, even sensationalized Hollywood biopic. It’s a perpetual motion movie machine, but one that might have been powered by magic mushrooms, not enriched uranium.

Barbenheimer

Nevertheless, Oppenheimer is a triumph of sorts, though chiefly in the areas of hype, hoopla, and amazingly lucky timing. First in the equation is the name recognition and box-office draw of Nolan, probably the most bankable director of his generation, whose hits have ranged from serious non-fiction like Dunkirk to sci-fi fantasy like Inception. Then there’s the coincidental, but heaven-sent summer 2023 theatrical run in a post-Covid world where a long-suffering public was feverishly desperate to get off the couch. Lastly was its love-at-first-sight, blind-date pairing with the Barbie blockbuster, an X-factor opening weekend alchemy that got multiplied countless times into box-office gold.

Surprisingly, the lack of a major marquee star (like Leonardo DiCaprio or even Christian Bale) in the title role didn’t abort Oppenheimer’s blast-off. To play Oppie, Nolan opted for the Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Emily Blunt plays Oppenheimer’s volatile wife Kitty, Gary Oldman stars as all-American (to a fault) President Harry Truman, and Ken Branaugh plays the pioneering Danish physicist Niels Bohr.

Skeptical critics may well question Nolan’s top-heavy U.K. roster, particularly Murphy, whose main acting modus operandi as Oppie is either a) wide-eyed focus and astonishment, or b) wide-eyed shock and regret. He’s abetted in his impersonation by Nolan’s hyperactive camera, which is nearly a constant close-up, in-your-face companion to the leads, so much so it chews up more scenery than does Robert Downey Jr. Jettisoning his Iron Man superhero armor, Downey dons a tie and goes gray to play Lewis Strauss, a petty, two-faced Wall Street political insider who is a catalyst in blowing up Oppenheimer’s postwar standing as America’s leading scientist-hero.

Fission and Frisson

While Nolan whiplashes the audience back and forth through the years, he’s loathe to label the times or places, treating them as if they were state secrets. The result is a dizzying centrifugal swirl of shots and scenes, some in color, some black-and-white, drawing on Oppenheimer’s heady college days in Europe and his first faculty job at the University of California-Berkeley and on to his date with destiny as director, founder, and philosopher-king of the WWII Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Why the black-and-white? It likely has something to do with Nolan’s film noir framing of the tale, which contrasts Oppie’s bright early decades leading up to the development of the bomb with the shadowy post-war era of the McCarthyist anti-communist witch hunts.

By the late 1940s and early 1950s, much had changed in U.S. foreign and domestic politics, and many on the left were persecuted, prosecuted, or simply silenced. Oppenheimer, once the celebrated scientist and renaissance man who helped win the war (while still subject to debate, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs dropped in August 1945 did likely save millions of lives by averting the Allied land invasion of Japan), is stripped of his cherished top-secret security clearance. For many observers and colleagues, Oppenheimer was never the same afterward. He wasn’t exactly a beaten man, but he was effectively muted, defused, and disarmed. He became head of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where he would spend the rest of his days in a near-monastic retreat.

Down in Flames

American Prometheus paints a portrait of Oppenheimer as a complicated, contradictory intellectual giant, both ambitious and genteel, shrewd and childishly reckless. Nolan, however, thinks, almost literally, in black and white. Ultimately a neo-Hollywood genre director, he’s always on the hunt for villains, and if he can’t find one or two to blame he will invent them. History reveals that Strauss indeed smuggled in loads of ammunition in the right-wing scheme to take down Oppenheimer, but it’s simplistic and plain wrong to let the other bad actors walk. Among them is the FBI’s autocratic director J. Edgar Hoover, whose G-men began illegally bugging Oppenheimer’s homes and phones in the early 1940s.

There’s also the back-stabbing, malicious physicist Edward Teller, who got cold revenge on his former Los Alamos padrone by testifying Oppie was an unstable security risk—all because he nixed Teller’s pet project to create the “super,” aka H-bomb. There’s even the feckless President Dwight Eisenhower, who did nothing to save Oppenheimer from the humiliating Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 inquisition ordeal or its damning verdict.

However spotty with the facts, Nolan’s filmic inquiry into the shameful case of J. Robert Oppenheimer really misses the mark when it comes to Oppie’s star-crossed romance with Jean Tatlock who is played by Florence Pugh. Evidently seeing the need to add the sizzle of sex to his film equation, Nolan treats the audience to not one but three gratuitous (and weird) nude scenes.

Hit and Miss Delivery

Historical films necessarily condense, crop, and simplify, but Nolan cuts corners so many times he should be awarded the Ignoble Prize for Ignoring History. It’s not nitpicking to criticize how he turns Albert Einstein into a fatherly Yoda figure for Oppenheimer when in fact the two men weren’t particularly close even though Einstein was in residence at the prestigious New Jersey think tank during Oppenheimer’s tenure.

Their differences stemmed from Einstein’s unbending disbelief in the basic, uncanny tenets of modern quantum mechanics, e.g., that light can be both particle and wave. Nolan dreams up key scenes involving the two of them, one that expands to critical mass in Strauss’ mind as the rationale for his vendetta against Oppenheimer.

If the movie leans on a blitzkrieg of commercial formulaics to lighten up its heavy-duty subject matter, ironically its best moments are when Nolan falls back on old-school textbook filmmaking. While several of the leads fall under Nolan’s command to emote in a blustery, “Look at me, I’m Oscar-positive!” way (Blame Blunt here, with Downey Jr.), Matt Damon has the courage to act admirably at ease instead of acting out. As the brusque Army general who drafts Oppenheimer to assemble and lead the A-bomb dream team, Damon doesn’t quite nail the steely, hard-ass gravitas the role demands, but he deserves a medal for conspicuously cool reserve under fire.

Another exception to Nolan’s showy melodramatics is Oscar winner (Churchill) Gary Oldman. Never known to be camera-shy, Oldman refreshingly underplays his cameo as the folksy, small-minded President Truman, whose victorious handshake welcome to Oppenheimer slowly turns into a virtual slap in the face.

The Trinity Test Scene in Oppenheimer

Audiences may also want to see Oppenheimer for the chilling bravura sequence that culminates in the July 1945 Trinity A-bomb test in the New Mexico desert. Nolan marshals his cast, preps the sets and pyrotechnics, cues the unearthly sights and sounds, and counts down to the blinding mini-apocalypse that changed human history forever. Pondering only the science, theory, and engineering, the product of $2 billion then (around $25 billion today) yet only a few years of round-the-clock work by a team of the best and brightest young Western scientists, the entire endeavor was a magnificent, manifestly diabolical achievement. To date, in nearly 80 years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki cataclysms, humanity and the planet have been spared the doomsday death and destruction such weapons were born and made to deliver. But for how long?'

[crybabyteqrs]

M U S E S

FEMALES / without fandom

・❥・VALERIE | [19-25] | madelyn cline ・❥・HAILEE | [19-26] | sydney sweeney ・❥・BROOKLYN | [19-25] | maia reficco ・❥・EMERY | [21-26] | madelaine petsch ・❥・DELILAH | [20-25] | kathryn newton ・❥・VICTORIA | [20-25] | abigail cowen ・❥・VIOLET | [18-25] | lily rose depp ・❥・OPHELIA | [20-26] | kristine froseth ・❥・AURORA | [19-26] | dove cameron ・❥・VIVIENNE | [19-26] | kaylee bryant ・❥・CASSIDY | [19-24] | hailee steinfeld ・❥・JESSICA | [19-24] | josephine langford ・❥・JORDYN | [19-25] | natalia dyer ・❥・BLAIR | [20-27] | alexa demie ・❥・MADDIE | [18-24] | katie douglas

MALES / without fandom

・❥・LOGAN | [20-26] | benjamin wadsworth ・❥・MILES | [21-29] | drew starkey ・❥・AIDEN | [20-26] | jacob elordi ・❥・ELIJAH | [21-26] | rudy pankow ・❥・NOLAN | [20-25] | ross lynch ・❥・VINCE | [20-25] | gavin casalegno ・❥・FYNN | [21-27] | timothée chalamet ・❥・NIC | [20-26] | chase stokes ・❥・JUSTIN | [21-28] | thomas doherty ・❥・TONY | [34-42] | chris evans ・❥・MILO | [19-24] | joe kerry ・❥・JESSE | [21-30] | dylan o'brien ・❥・AARON | [22-29] | tyler posey ・❥・CHASE | [20-27] | cody christian ・❥・BENJI | [19-26] | christopher briney

FEMALES / with fandom

・❥・IVORY | [19-25] | ¡final girl | tatum's &' dewey’s sister | madelyn cline | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・MAE | [19-26] | could be a ¡final girl | stu macher’s sister | willa fitzgerald | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・ALYSSA | [19-25] | randy’s sister | natalia dyer | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・ELLIE | [18-25] | maia reficco | — scream muse! — ・❥・CASSIDY | [18-24] | john b's sister | hailee steinfeld | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・BAILEE | [19-25] | topper's sister | ester exposito | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・EVERLY | [20-26] | ¡hunter | crystal reed | — supernatural muse! — ・❥・SOFIA | [19-26] | ¡demon | young¡ megan fox | — supernatural muse! —

MALES / with fandom

・❥・MICAH | [21-26] | stu machers brother | ¡ghostface | amadeus serafini | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・JORDAN | [19-28] | ¡helps ghostface | jacob elordi | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・CAZ | [19-26] | sidney’s brother | ¡ghostface | alex fitzalan | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・CARDAN | [21-26] | tatum’s &' dewey's brother | rudy pankow | — scream (1996) muse! — ・❥・KIERAN | [19-25] | sarah's, rafe’s and wheezie’s brother | ¡blonde andrew garfield | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・ATLAS | [20-25] | jj's brother | gavin casalegno | — outer banks muse! — ・❥・ATTICUS | [21-27] | ¡hunter | charles melton | — supernatural muse! —

— my fandom muses are usually just for rp’s on discord, means i probably wont use them in threads on tumblr. but still, if you’re feeling like doing a canon x oc just ask!!

FEMALES / canon

・❥・SARAH CAMERON | outer banks ・❥・KIARA CARRERA | outer banks ・❥・TATUM RILEY | scream (1996) ・❥・SIDNEY PRESCOTT | scream (1996) ・❥・CLAIRE REDFIELD | resident evil ・❥・ADA WONG | resident evil ・❥・LYDIA MARTIN | teen wolf ・❥・ALLISON ARGENT | teen wolf ・❥・MAX MAYFIELD | stranger things ・❥・NANCY WHEELER | stranger things ・❥・VIOLET HARMON | ahs ・❥・ALLIE PRESSMAN | the society ・❥・ELLE TOMKINS | the society ・❥・HANNA MARIN | pretty little liars ・❥・AVA JALALI | pretty little liars: the perfectionists ・❥・NOA OLIVAR | pretty little liars: original sin ・❥・CAROLINE FORBES | the vampire diaries ・❥・KATHERINE PIERCE | the vampire diaries

MALES / canon

・❥・STU MACHER | scream (1996) ・❥・RANDY MEEKS | scream (1996) ・❥・JJ MAYBANK | outer banks ・❥・JOHN BOOKER ROUTLEDGE | outer banks ・❥・TOPPER THORNTON | outer banks ・❥・MIKE WHEELER | stranger things ・❥・STEVE HARRINGTON | stranger things ・❥・LUCAS SINCLAIR | stranger things ・❥・EDDIE MUNSON | stranger things ・❥・STILES STILINSKI | teen wolf ・❥・SCOTT MCCALL | teen wolf ・❥・LIAM DUNBAR | teen wolf ・❥・PETER PARKER | mcu / tom or andrew ・❥・STEFAN SALVATORE | the vampire diaries ・❥・EIJAH MIKAELSON | the vampire diaries ・❥・HARRY BINGHAM | the society

[alliannahvaughn]

Hearing the other's description of what the wine tasted like made Alli laugh, and she shook her head as she took another sip of the glass in her hand. "I don't know why, but I do. Trust me, it's not as good as tequila but, it does the trick if you drink enough of it." she laughed, tossing him a playful wink, shaking her head. Alli could almost see why people would consider her an alcoholic, yet, she was ignoring that factor right now. "If you drink enough of it you won't even notice the taste. Or maybe I've just gotten used to it." she shrugged. "Have you liked any of these?" she questioned. "Maybe we should try some of the white wines if these red ones haven't been your style." @nolanxmurray

Nolan looked at her confusedly. "How do you like this stuff?" He tried to slip, but it all seemedn't that good to him. "It tastes like you left grape juice in the back of your trunk all summer," he joked. As he was never a wine person, he never found one he liked. But he knew that Rory liked it, so he tried to find one he liked enough to have with Rory. "But you need to help me find one I can like, not just keep finding ones you liked," he joked. @alliannahvaughn

[spookyblazecoffee]

Brett: That's ridiculous, Nolan doesn't have a crush on me. Lori: Yes they do. Ally: Yes he does. Nolan: Yes I do.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

It started...

by DonJonson

It started with a cursed extra X gene.

Damian had a destiny, and that was not becoming Robin nor the head of the Demon... Well at least not for know to one of these options.

The young woman first had to learn to live with a curse that all people carrying two X genes inhered from her grandmother Martha's side of the family.

If she was honest, maybe this curse was more like a blessing because it took her away from the pauper family that the Wayne's were and the incompetent institution that the League was.

Damian could be an adult and a kid if she wanted. She did not need any of them. A life was waiting for her Jump City with a career and allies.

But, dear, destiny had other plans for her.

Words: 3392, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Martha’s curse

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Batman and Robin (Comics), The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Characters: Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Talia al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Ruh al gul, Martha Wayne, Original Characters

Relationships: Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Damian Wayne, Past Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne - Relationship, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson/Koriand'r

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Child Soldiers, Torture, Magic, Female Damian Wayne, Menstruation, Psychological Torture, Aged-Up Character(s), as in a SHAZAM kind of way, Batman has mommy issue, martha wayne was a bad ass, the al gul family are bad in the head., Damian Wayne is Not Robin, well for now, Damian gets to be a kid and an adult at the same time, Damian Wayne-centric, Damian Wayne Has a Heart, Protective Dick Grayson, Protective Jason Todd, Protective Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings, but he is trying, not too much but trying, Damian does not get into the family right away, Damian Wayne has Magic

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46756462

[ao3feed-timkon]

It started...

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/kOwG3In

by DonJonson

It started with a cursed extra X gene.

Damian had a destiny, and that was not becoming Robin nor the head of the Demon... Well at least not for know to one of these options.

The young woman first had to learn to live with a curse that all people carrying two X genes inhered from her grandmother Martha's side of the family.

If she was honest, maybe this curse was more like a blessing because it took her away from the pauper family that the Wayne's were and the incompetent institution that the League was.

Damian could be an adult and a kid if she wanted. She did not need any of them. A life was waiting for her Jump City with a career and allies.

But, dear, destiny had other plans for her.

Words: 3392, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Martha’s curse

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Batman and Robin (Comics), The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Characters: Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Talia al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Ruh al gul, Martha Wayne, Original Characters

Relationships: Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Damian Wayne, Past Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne - Relationship, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson/Koriand'r

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Child Soldiers, Torture, Magic, Female Damian Wayne, Menstruation, Psychological Torture, Aged-Up Character(s), as in a SHAZAM kind of way, Batman has mommy issue, martha wayne was a bad ass, the al gul family are bad in the head., Damian Wayne is Not Robin, well for now, Damian gets to be a kid and an adult at the same time, Damian Wayne-centric, Damian Wayne Has a Heart, Protective Dick Grayson, Protective Jason Todd, Protective Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings, but he is trying, not too much but trying, Damian does not get into the family right away, Damian Wayne has Magic

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/kOwG3In

[this-is-ally-and-im-confused]

oh and ofc 10 quirks of dating nolan patrick. cuz we both be in love with him.

10 quirks of dating Nolan Patrick

Of course, bb! I’ve got you! Especially with our hubby.

Nolan smells like campfire, weed, and Versace pour homme. It’s very mountain-y and rain-scented. When Nolan does shower, he’s actually quite nice smelling.

Nolan only lets you play with his hair or cuddle into him.

PDA is a no no thing for him, he doesn’t like the attention or the jokes from his friends. Still, he will keep an arm around your waist or slip his hand into yours just to remind you that he is there.

He plays guitar for you. Mostly when the two of you can’t sleep or are chilling out at home. Once he did it for you during a power outage in the middle of a thunderstorm

He loves to sing Caamp songs to you. He’ll look deep into your eyes as he mumbles out the lyrics, “I believe in you baby, I will always be around. I believe in you baby, I won’t let you hit the ground.”

Nolan’s migraines can make home life a little harder. But it also helped make you an even more patient person. Nolan is already a super tolerant and chill dude. So the calmest of the two of you just flows together when he’s feeling unwell.

Yet, Nolan is so fun when he’s feeling good. He has a really dry and witty sense of humor. And he laughs at really stupid things. He loves that he can make you laugh.

Nolan secretly loves when you braid his hair back so it’ll fit nice in his helmet. Once you braided it into a bun and he felt so gorgeous. The boys started calling him princess patty.

Nolan likes to be little spoon 40% of the time, but 60% of the time he wants you laying on his chest.

Nolan taught you how to fish. It was his favourite thing ever. He’s actually a pretty good teacher with things. Always patient, calm, and he gives pretty good directions. He has the photo of you holding the fish you caught in his wallet. Written on the bottom of the worn-out photo is Nolan’s sloppy handwriting, “honey’s first catch”.