#anne Carlson

[a-member-of-minuteswithmandm]

After 7 years, Workin' Moms is over and I'm gonna miss having a show based on Toronto that I can catch all the references

Kate Foster was a gem of a character (shout out to Catherine Reitman) and I spent so much time laughing while watching this show. Literally the zombie mannequin head giving Kate oral sex honestly killed me 😭😭

Kate and Anne's friendship was a rollercoaster and I really didn't love where it ended up, plus I dont think that Anne and Alice's storyline ended in a way that made sense (why is she going to Australia? What happened to Anne's TBI from the beginning of the season?)

High level opinions: Jenny was the worst she should have been written off. Sloane was great, and she and Paul were such a fun addition to the show. Val was weird and whatever. I actually missed Frankie even though I didn't expect to and I really miss Giselle. Nathan Junior was the best cast addition that the writers made. Lionel was too sweet for Anne

Basically the show was a fun watch for the last 7 years! That being said, this final season was very all over the place - like Kate and Ram was the a storyline for half the season and then it fizzled into nothing else? Plus out of no where Kate selling her her company and then going back with Rosie, Richard and Mo made no sense?

There were definitely a lot of areas where there was room for improvement, but overall it was a funny show and I'm glad to have been able to watch it over the past few years. Watch our review here (plus we have a guest this episode!) :

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Here's the new details that I can give on Shego in the completely reworked version of Global Justice, that you can obviously both read and see below for yourself so beware of any potential spoilers:

• When we're first introduced to her, Shego is a wicked, cunning, boisterous, somewhat vile and femme fatale villain with her same signature snarky and witty sense of humor from the original series and takes sadistic pleasure in torturing and toying with her victims BUT is shown almost early on to have somewhat of a code and her own standards as well as a sense of genuine respect towards Kim for her skills.

• Shego is of course wanted in over 11 countries but is also top of the FBI's most wanted list, top of the CIA's most wanted and has a very high kill-count of her enemies. Topping it off, she's also at the top of Global Justice's most wanted thus making her the most dangerous and deadliest criminal and villain around currently.

• It's through Kim however that she starts to grow and evolve into more and more of a genuine anti-hero who while isn't afraid at all to get her hands dirty and still has the same personality, has a stronger moral code and that leads her to do the right thing.

• Another thing that is equally important is while her overall backstory and motivations for becoming evil will be left completely ambigious and never be revealed, there will be plenty of hints here and there. She was once the best, most highest ranking Global Justice agent that defeated and brought in over 500 villains on her own, she was captain of the cheerleaders in high school just like Kim is, she has a bachelor's degree in child psychology, she graduated top of her class at the FBI Academy in Quantico and she had a childhood fear of drowning that she overcame.

• But a major change and later reveal will be her connection to Kim. The relationship between her and Kim is the most important and central aspect of the show as both come into their own as unlikely heroes that can depend on one another and make an incredibly effective team. However, with all of that said, she also has a literal PERSONAL connection to her as it's revealed that [SPOILER ALERT] Shego is in fact her mother Ann Possible and this is what she does when she's not taking care of her family along with her husband.

This eventual reveal will be hinted at a couple of times home right after Shego leaves the house through the window with little footsteps on the roof being heard and last but not least, Ann grounding Kim for a little secret that only Shego knew and Kim told her with the former's reaction being pursed lips and both hands on her hips.

• Now as for why she kidnapped her own daughter and almost tried to "kill" her (not really as it turns out on the latter), that too will be left completely vague with the only answer being Shego telling Kim that she "was ready".

[vics-chick]

I’m at peak happiness bc tv is finally good again !! We have dancing with the stars, real housewives of Salt Lake City, Abbott elementary and love is blind is about to start again, the golden bachelorette starts tonight, Bridgerton season 4 leaks like the tv word is HEALING✨✨

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Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, and Ann Miller in George Abbott’s TOO MANY GIRLS (1940)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Axis Sally” was the generic name for women with husky voices and good English who read German and Italian propaganda on the radio during World War II. Like the Japanese women who became collectively known as “Tokyo Rose,” they were trying to reach American soldiers, hoping to demoralize them by telling them their casualties were high, their commanders were bad, and their cause was lost. “A lousy night it sure is,” Axis Sally said on one 1944 broadcast: “You poor, silly, dumb lambs, well on your way to be slaughtered.”

Tucker Carlson, who also repeats the propaganda of foreign dictators while speaking English, doesn’t have anything like the historical significance of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose, though his level of credibility is similar. This is a man who famously wrote texts about his loathing of Donald Trump, even while praising the then-president in public; recently, the former Fox News host kept a straight face while interviewing a convicted fraudster who claimed to have smoked crack and had sex with Barack Obama.

But when Carlson speaks on behalf of Viktor Orb��n or Vladimir Putin, his words are repeated in Hungary and Russia, where they do have resonance: Look, a prominent American journalist supports us. I don’t know what Carlson’s motivation is—he did not respond to a request for comment—but his words also circulate in the far-right American echo chamber, where they are sometimes repeated by Republican presidential candidates, so unfortunately they require some explanation.

[The American Face of Authoritarian Propaganda For Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson fulfills a need.]

By Anne Applebaum

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Anne Shirley-Richard Carlson-Archie Twitchell "West point widow" 1941, de Robert Siodmak.

[motionpicturelover]

"Voldtekt" (1971) - Anja Breien

(Transl.: "Rape")

Films I've watched in 2024 (77/?)

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Se pegar de like ou reblog xoxo

Efeito: coloring Autoral #Capuccino_ornot

-Anne

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[recycledmoviecostumes]

Thank you for continuing to follow us for our #31DaysOfHalloween, where we're featuring reused costumes from your favorite spooky films and television shows.

You all know, recognize, and love this costume, worn by Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 Film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

But did you know this famous costume went on to be worn again in the 1969 film Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, where Veronica Carlson wore it as Anna Spengler?

This costume has been seen in televison as well. To find out where visit our website: bit.ly/VicEd045

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so many fun things coming up!

qi (series u/christmas special) — dec 18th with alan davies, eshaan akbar, jo brand, jimmy carr

never mind the buzzcocks (christmas special) — dec 19th with daisy may cooper, jamali maddix, noel fielding, harry hill, leigh-anne pinnock (little mix), ricky wilson (kaiser chiefs) + special guests dj luck and mc neat, 5ive, the wurzels, blaxin' squad

cats does countdown (christmas special) — dec 21st with jon richardson, joe lycett, roisin conaty, danny dyer, joe wilkinson

i literally just told you (celebrity special) — dec 22nd with aj odudu, ben shephard, bill bailey, sarah millican

would i lie to you (christmas special) — dec 22nd with victoria coren mitchell, alex brooker, naga munchetty, melvyn hayes

big fat quiz of the year 2023 — dec 26th with richard ayoade, mo gilligan, katherine ryan, rosie joes, kevin bridges, mel giedroyc

would i lie to you (series 17) — dec 29th

taskmaster (new year treat) — jan 2nd with deborah meaden, kojey radical, lenny rush, steve backshall, zoe ball

qi (series u) — jan 5th with alan davies, aisling bea, urzila carlson, romesh ranganathan

big fat quiz of telly 2023 — tba with russell howard, babatunde aléshé, jamie demetriou, natasia demetriou, judi love, daisy may cooper

plus a league of their own, rob & romesh vs, late night lycett, a lot!!

what are you excited for this holiday season? :)

[umalvie]

Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert / Elektra by Sophocles (trans. by Anne Carlson) / Avatar: The Last Airbender / Closet Space by K-Ming Chang / Class of 2013 by Mitski / Evening Prayers by Dean Pitchford / Lady Bird dir. Greta Gerwig

[daughter-of-melpomene]

𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭.

last fancast thing for now, don’t worry!! as i told @manyfandomocs, i’ve had some monster high ocs in my head since middle school that i really wanna share with you guys, but i figure i might as well share my fancast with you guys! once again, this is a mix of my personal opinions and fancasts i’ve seen in other places, and anyone who wants can use any or all of these!!

brigette lundy-paine — frankie stein, child of frankenstein’s creation.

auli’i cravalho — draculaura, daughter of dracula.

china anne mcclain — clawdeen wolf, a werewolf.

jade thirlwall — cleo de nile, a mummy.

angourney rice — lagoona blue, a saltwater sea monster.

ariela barer — ghoulia yelps, a zombie.

khylin rhambo — clawd wolf, a werewolf.

jordan fisher — deuce gorgon, son of medusa.

cameron monaghan — heath burns, a fire elemental.

alberto rosende/kj apa — jackson jekyll/holt hyde, son of jekyll and hyde.

tarjei sandvik moe — gillington “gil” webber, a freshwater sea monster.

hunter schafer — abby bominable, daughter of the abominable snowman.

carlson young — rochelle goyle, a gargoyle.

avantika vandanapu — robecca steam, a robot.

vanessa morgan — venus mcflytrap, a plant monster.

dove cameron — spectra vondergeist, a ghost.

ashley liao — jinafire long, a dragon.

danna paolo — skelita calaveras, a skeleton.

emily rudd — toralei stripe, a werecat.

adam groff — manny taur, son of the minotaur.

isabela merced — iris clops, daughter of the cyclops.

booboo stewart — invisibilly, son of the invisible man.

grace phipps — scarah screams, a banshee.

madelaine petsch — operetta destler, daughter of the phantom of the opera.

also gonna tag @ginevrastilinski-ocs because i think she might also be interested in this!!

[secret-smut-sideblog]

In Unforgiving Night God Came

hippolytus by euripides (trans. anne carlson) / the magdalen at the foot of the cross, george fredric watts / the lover, marguerite duras /coming clean - searows / statue of mary magdalene in profile / the orestiea, anne carlson / ptolemaea - ethel cain / mary magdalene in the cave, hugues merle/ lives of the saints, charles wright / many hands - lingua ignota

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Global Justice

What is it —

An action/spy-noir superhero coming-of-age animated series and reboot of one of the most beloved and well-known animated shows of all time, Kim Possible, with the voice actresses of Christy Carlson Romano, Nicole Sullivan, Kirsten Storms, Raven-Symone, Jean Smart and even Kerri Kenney reprising all of their roles as Kim, Shego, Bonnie, Monique, Ann and Bebe.

PREMISE:

Set in the fictional Middleton, California, we follow and focus on (at first) 16 year old teenager Kimberly "Kim" Ann Possible, a straight A yet overachieving student and captain of the school cheerleaders who thinks she can do anything right down to it being the tagline on her website but is learning the hard way that may not be the case when she's now dealing with one of every teen's worst nightmares and that's high school pressure. Stretching herself too thin, getting too cocky and arrogant for her own good, striving too much for perfection, setting high expectations for herself to meet and proving to suck at everything she underestimates doing.

However, what one really can't even deny is that she's an outstanding cheerleader. Her moves, skills, agility, flexibility and quick wit makes her what may very well be the best cheerleader in the whole state which of course adds more to her ego and cockiness. It's all of this that unfortunately (or fortunately) for her catches the attention of multiple people from the shadows who see her incredible potential for either good or evil.

It's on a Friday night where she has the whole house to herself, the doorbell rings and she goes to answer it thinking it's her friend Monique only to find when she opens the door three blue and tall blonde haired gynoids that proceed to kidnap and bag her!

The fembots called the Bebes with the main one having a beauty mark on the left side of her upper lip take her to what appears to be their lair and shove her down a chute that Kim barely fits in where once she lands back-first onto a human sized roulette comes face to face from her upside down point of view with the person who ordered the Bebes to bring Kim to her — Shego, a raven black hip length haired, light green skinned, snarky, twisted, cynical, sarcastic, boisterous, vile and cunning young woman in a green and black jumpsuit and has deadly plasma powers.

It's all here that Shego toys with Kim in her own macabre and gleefully villainous way, keeping her motivation and reasoning for kidnapping her as vague as possible to help messing with her, only for it to take another unexpected turn when Kim manages to untie herself and attempts to escape.

All of this ends up setting off a domino-esque chain of events that leads Kim, Shego and Bebe (the main one) to a top secret, crime-fighting government organization responsible for defeating evil and saving the world from villains called "Global Justice", founded and run by Betty Director who lost an eye in battle and as it turns out, Shego and Bebe were once some of the absolute best agents in GJ before an incident gave the former her powers and fused the latter's genes with nanotechnology and broke bad.

With Kim being thrown into a hidden world full of superheroics and supervillainy that she never knew even existed, the series follows her, Shego, Bebe and others such as Bonnie for example since she's the biggest one becoming either Global Justice agents or full-blown anti-heroes with their own motives to doing so, fighting crime and defeating supervillains on a regular basis. Their missions or plots involve them traveling to various destinations from either around the world or around Middleton which will be fleshed out more than in the original series to where the latter has its own distinct character and is a memorable place and city, to rescue the citizens from harm and fight a variety of bad guys who often prove to be genuine and even dangerous threats when they want to and need be.

All the while, Kim, Shego, Bebe and all the other characters grow and develop as the show progresses with Kim becoming a better, stronger, more caring, more kinder and definitely more selfless person who learns that she can't do everything either on her own, without the help of others around her or in general and Shego and Bebe becoming more and more of actual heroes who even though they aren't afraid at all still to get their hands dirty, have a moral code they didn't know they still had and it leads them to do the right thing, eventually turning around back to good. It also explores the highs and lows of Kim's life as a high school student attempting to navigate dating, captaining her high school's cheerleading squad, academics, sports, homework, exams and eventually learning to drive, all the while striving to maintain a healthy work–life balance, fighting crime typically comes to Kim more naturally as the show goes on than the more standard components of adolescence. Better yet, it's not just Kim's life that is explored, it's everyone else especially Shego and Bebe. All of them ultimately decide to use either their talents or powers to help the world.

NOTES/TRIVIA/DETAILS:

• While the show will be done in overall the same animation style of the original series (minus the tiny feet and parachute pants), it will stand out from both the original and other modern animated shows with its distinctive use of colors and lighting, giving it a Bond-esque and even noir look and feel to it such as the look of The Incredibles, and the colors used make them really pop out when they're used always for contrast.

• The other voice actors and voice actresses that I have in mind for the series are Chelsea Kane, Geena Davis, Matt Jones, Dean DeHaan, Khary Payton, Scott Adsit, Oscar Isaac, Mara Wilson, Seychelle Gabriel, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Matthew Fox, Vic Mignogna, Rosario Dawson and even Jodi Benson.

• The show will be a genuine throwback to the action cartoons of the 90s, 2000s and early to mid 2010s right down to the fact that like them, it will have a genuinely dark and even intense edge to it to show the danger and stakes that the characters are in. Now will the show have the signature witty and self aware humor of the original series — absolutely! It obviously wouldn't be Kim Possible, like at all, without it but the original also had edge to it with its first and fourth seasons and of course So The Drama. The series will balance out the signature humor and banter of the original with genuinely dark moments, villains who are serious threats when need be and intense action and elements. It's comparable to the tones of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Rocketeer, The Mummy (1999), Hot Fuzz, Heathers, The Goonies and others like them.

• The show will run for a total of about three seasons with each episode being more of a mini-movie if anything and the overall series having 67 episodes as a whole. It feels like the right amount for a show like this to have without overstaying its welcome OR being much too short. Plus it'll show the characters progress from point A to point B as it goes on and as you watch the show for yourself if it's ever made.

• In a major change from the original that will most likely be divisive yet at the same time will make sense in the context of the actual show and be built up throughout with little hints and details so it's not bullshit when it finally happens, it will be revealed in the series finale that Shego is in fact Kim's mother Ann all along with Shego being her alter-ego and her real job and Bebe is in fact Kim's aunt and Ann's old sister Jenna (a new character and addition to the family) with Bebe being her alter-ego and her real job as well.

[isfjmel-phleg]

March 2024 Books

Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot by Janet and Isaac Asimov

This one was a lot of fun! I should track down the rest of the series.

The World's Greatest Detective by Caroline Carlson

I was very confused about what era this world was mimicking (are they Victorian? 1920s/30s?), but it was a fun story and I enjoyed the dynamic between the protagonists.

A Dig in Time by Peni R. Griffin

I remember liking this one, but it feels like I read it years ago and I can't remember everything. Time travel with a family emphasis.

The Promise by Monica Hughes

Like Sandwriter, which this is a sequel to, I initially wasn't so sure that I liked this one, and then it went in an unexpected direction that took the themes in a more complex place, and I appreciated that.

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I generally like fairy tales well enough, but this one was rather a slog to get through, and I ended up skimming a lot of it. There were some familiar favorites, but a lot of the tales were of the variety that consist of an interesting set-up followed by a seemingly incoherent series of events, and I regret I don't have enough interest in folklore to get much out of that.

The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy

Interesting from a historic perspective mostly, but I didn't connect much with the story.

The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn by Amber A. Logan (reread)

Reread so it would be fresh in my mind before the presentation. You already know how I feel about this one.

The Humming Room by Ellen Potter (reread)

Same as above. I have a post in drafts with some thoughts on this one that may eventually see daylight.

The Making of May by Gwyneth Rees (reread)

Already discussed this one.

A Bit of Earth by Karuna Riazi (reread)

Beautifully written and very readable and develops its themes well. Does fall into the trap of making the story about grief (Maria's late parents were frequently absent from her life, and she resents this, but she did have relationships with them in ways that her counterpart in the original book never did with her parents, so it's a completely different dynamic). I found this Colin to be somewhat underdeveloped, but I did appreciate the concept of his being fearful about failing to live up to family expectation, which is a reasonable translation of the original character's source of shame.

Charley by Joan G. Robinson

I don't remember much of this one. Didn't have any problems, just didn't have as much impact as other books by this author have for me.

Greenwild by Pari Thomson

A very derivative example of the Child Learns That They Are Magical And Special And Enters A Fantastical World Where They Must Take On The Villain sort of story. I wanted to enjoy it, but everything felt trite.

Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time Lords by Steve Tribe

This was a gift from my brother. I am a very casual DW fan and haven't really engaged with the show in quite a while (really should rewatch and catch up on new stuff but that's a pretty big time commitment right now). I think I would have got a lot more out of this if I were more than passingly familiar with Classic Who and all the lore in general.

Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu

I was interested in this one because it's a retelling of "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the concept of comparing the difficulties of getting difficult-to-trace chronic illnesses taken seriously and diagnosed in today's world to the mishandling of women's medical and psychological conditions in the late nineteenth century intrigued me. However, this book didn't really know what it wanted to be. The young protagonist's struggles with her mystery chronic illness took up most of the book, but there was also a plot about a literal ghost in the wallpaper of her new attic bedroom that needs to be defeated in the end, and neither of these things fitted well together. One or the other of them would have been fine, but the combination left me confused about the nature of this fictional world and the themes of the book in general.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Benevolent Sisters of Charity (Over the Garden Wall)

This is the only one of the OTGW comics that I wasn't able to buy before it went out of print, so I ILLed it and realized that it was for the better that I hadn't. The story was incoherent and pointless and the characters were OOC. The art was much better than the story deserved.

Wayne Family Adventures Vol. 3

I've read these as a webcomic already but wanted it in book form too. These are entertaining; you just have to go into it aware that this is The Fluffy World version of everybody and they are characterized accordingly.

The Flash by Grant Morrison & Mark Millar

Not on a level with Waid's work, of course, but the highlight of this one was the storyline in which Linda dies and Wally manages to bring her back (some good Bart content here) and a delightfully meta short story in which Mark Millar meets up with Wally to figure out what story about him to tell next...and Wally is given a co-writing credit in the end.

The Flash by Mark Waid Books Seven and Eight

An effective end to this run. Waid points out in his Afterword that he's still got another story on reserve, so...anytime he wants to give that to us, that would be great. I'll be waiting.

The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Retelling of the Secret Garden by Ivy Noelle Weir (reread)

You know how I feel about this one. (I whipped it out at the convention to show somebody who was talking to me about CEN in the present day through leaving one's child to technology that that concept was used in this retelling, and somebody nearby oohed about what a diverse retelling it was as I flipped through pages. Which is, you know, more important than effective storytelling. It should have done both! We could have had both!)

Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Omnibus Volume 5

I've read this in webcomic form already, but it's a pleasure to have a physical copy of the latest omnibus.

Sinister Sons #1-2 plus additional material establishing the backgrounds of Lor-Zod and Sinson

A sort of response to the series Super Sons (which featured Jon Kent at his proper age and Damian Wayne), by the same author. This is going to be about a teamup of Lor-Zod (son of General Zod, was Chris Kent in another continuity, has apparently been Zukoed in this incarnation) and Sinson (a young, apparently orphaned thief who believes that his father must be Sinestro, the Green Lantern's arch-nemesis). So far the boys haven't done much more than fight, but I'm interested to see where this is going. (#3 is in the mail now!)

Lor is a horrid little piece of work, but his parents' recent treatment of him puts him in a more sympathetic situation, and I am hoping he'll get a redemption arc that would move him closer to his original version. Sinson is no angel either, but he's just a child who really, really wants a family and is clinging to the only hope for one that he has--and if that means he's a supervillain's son, then he's ready to follow in those footsteps to gain acceptance.

(Also he drew a mustache on himself with a black marker to look more like his alleged father, and that's so ridiculous and kind of endearing.)