#ben cheney

[nacricissa]

I have a plan

Inspired by misreading a post by @faytelumos and similar to idea left on @twibunny by @big-idiot-wolf-boys.

!Witch Angela has a plan to get her friend Bella back. It’s taken longer than expected; earning the grades to make it into law school isn’t exactly conducive to free time, but after just over five years since Bella died she’s pretty sure she’s got the spell down.

The only issue is that the “totally random” test subject she picks off a list of those who died without next of kin during the Spanish Flu is Edward Masen.

Promise you’ll read it and I tell you what happens next as Angela pulls Edward’s human soul from his body to try to resurrect him. Or you can look under the cut and try to interpret the handwriting of my planning document.

[twilightpackfanatfics]

His Fated Mate

The eighth entry for the Twilight Pack Fanatfics Short Story Challenge June/July 2024 is now Live.

Title: His Fated Mate

Characters/Pairing. Bella/Edward

Prompt: Enemies To Lovers.

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Bella hates her life. Her parents treat her like a child, despite not living with them. Her friends are fake and use her for the money she has. She hates attention and dislikes talking to strangers.

She tries minding her own business, going through the motions despite her hate of it all, all the while trying to live a normal life. She thinks about getting lost, in her head, moving to somewhere where she doesn't know anybody. She is working at her job in the bar when she runs into a mysterious biker one night.

What will happen when her entire world falls asunder - when she realizes that her normal life isn't hers to live? LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TwilightPackFanatfics060724/works/57266917

[heartagram-vv]

Angela Weber moodboard :]

[real-time-twilight]

Eclipse in Real Time

May 16th, 2006 (Tuesday)

Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous 🌖

🌄 Sunrise: 5:35 AM

🌅 Sunset : 8:52 PM

Eclipse, Ch. 2 ("Evasion")

12:10 PM (Approx.) - Bella and Angela dicuss graduation plans over lunch; Bella offers to help Angela with her graduation announcements

12:26 PM (Approx.) - Alice has a vision which seems to disturb her

12:55 PM (Approx.) - Edward seems to be avoiding conversation with Bella by talking to Ben

3:00 PM (Approx.) - Edward repeats this behaviour with Mike Newton in the parking lot, offering to help him with his car trouble

3:20 PM (Approx.) - Edward drops Alice off at home

3:35 PM (Approx.) - Edward and Bella arrive at her house; Bella turns her computer on to check her emails, she and Edward make out while she waits for the computer to warm up

4:00 PM (Approx.) - Bella replies to Renee's most recent email; Edward discovers the car stereo Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie gave Bella for her birthday mutilated from when Bella prised it out of the dashboard after his family left Forks; Edward laments that Bella didn't get a chance to use her birthday presents and produces the plane tickets to Jacksonville from Carlisle and Esme, proposing that they visit Renee to celebrate the lifting of Bella's grounding.

4:10 PM (Approx.) - Bella finally gets a chance to ask Edward about the vision Alice had at lunch--he tells her it was concerned Jasper and brushes it off.

4:15-5:00 PM (Approx.) - Bella works on her homework and starts making beef stroganoff for dinner, using Charlie's mother's recipe

6:10-6:45 PM (Approx.) - Bella and Charlie eat dinner; Charlie tells Bella Billy called and invited him down for dinner on the weekend

7:00 PM (Approx.) - Edward broaches the subject of Jacksonville with Charlie, who agrees it's a good idea until he finds out that Edward intends to go with her. Bella argues Charlie into a corner

7:05 PM (Approx.) - Bella and Edward leave; Bella demands to know why Edward pressed the subject of Jacksonville, she guesses that he wanted to get her out of town so she can't go with Charlie to La Push.

7:10 PM (Approx.) - Bella asks to go visit Esme

10:15 PM (Approx.) - Edward and Bella return from their visit to the Cullen House; Charlie asks Bella to hang back before going up to her room

10:20PM (Approx.) - Charlie tries to have The Talk with Bella, which she assures him is completely unnecessary as Edward is "very old-fashioned". That out of the way, Bella updates Charlie about her plans with Angela

10:25 PM (Approx.) - Bella goes upstairs; too wound up to relax, she decides to make a break for La Push.

10:30 PM (Approx.) - Bella goes back downstairs and gets to OK from Charlie to go see Jake

10:32 PM (Approx.) - Bella attempts to start her truck; the engine does not turn over; Bella, startled, realizes Edward is sitting in the passenger seat, holding an unnamed but crucial component of the truck's engine while explains that Alice tipped him off. He tells her he'll understand if she doesn't want him to spend the night

10:40 PM (Approx.) - Bella goes back inside, informing Charlie that her truck won't start, and goes up to her room, slamming the window shut.

10:45 PM (Approx.) - Bella opens her window again.

[edwardsmate4ever]

Twilight Advent Calendar Prompts

Dec. 13- What college major did each one of Bella's human friends choose?

Jessica - Public Relations - I figure she's able to get along with pretty much anyone and can put on a great fake face -- only Edward knows her vitrolic thoughts. She's good with people.

Angela - Occupational Therapist - she loves making a difference in kids' lives and is so patient and sweet with her clients.

Mike - Sports Medicine - also good with people, very friendly, I think he's be great at soothing an athlete while doing physical therapy.

Eric - Film - I see him loving movies and wanting to work behind the scenes, maybe editing or sound mixing.

Lauren - Meteorology - she always wanted to be the pretty weathergirl on the local news, but quickly dropped out when she realized she had to know science and stuff.

Tyler - he works at Pump 'N Save, boy's dumb as rocks, sorry.

Ben - Scientist - he's smart and studious and I just see him in a lab with a microscope.

[trantrumsfromthevoid]

Twilight Advent ‘22

Day 13 (12.13.22) - “What college major did each one of Bella's human friends choose?”

Did Bella really have human friends? You sure?? Just kidding. But another time to revisit the ye olde Lexicon to remind myself who her friends were. (Edit: I actually found a couple “friends” I’d completely forgotten about and the movie didn’t include.) I’m only gonna do a couple, though, ‘cause there’s quite a few, actually.

According to the Lexicon Jessica Stanley went to college in California and probably majored in fashion design or interior design for a semester or two and then found her “true” passion. I feel like she probably would’ve done well as an elementary school teacher or some kind of managerial position (wherein she, essentially, gets to boss people around for a living). I feel like during her junior year, though, she met someone who totally swept her off her feet, fell in love, got married, and even had a kid or two; all before her twenty-fifth birthday. I think she still lives in California and really loves her life as a soccer mom. She’s known for her “award-winning” bake sale cakes, has a truly gorgeous husband (who’s a personal trainer - maybe even a legit model), twins, and organizes the cul-de-sac block parties.

I think Mike Newton always felt like he’d eventually take over Newton Outfitters and so he majored in business or economics. He probably went to Washington State or stayed relatively close to home and eventually married some plucky girl after his relationship with Jessica Stanley fizzled out and he realized Bella would never leave Edward for him, lol. I think he’s simply living his “best life” as an All-American, Boy-Next-Door type as the manager of Newton Outfitters; complete with a beautiful trophy wife, three kids, a dog (or two), and has never lived out of Washington State. The furthest he’s ever gone was on his honeymoon. Maybe somewhere like Hawaii or the Bahamas. (Not that there’s anything wrong with living in your home state all your life.)

Ben Cheney, according to the Lexicon, moved with Angela Weber to Seattle and went to the University of Washington. To be quite honest, I’ve always associated him with Eric Yorkie. I don’t think Ben was part of the movies and they just “morphed” him with Eric. But anyway, I fully believe he majored in graphic design. Or some kind of art/comic book design (like an illustrator of comic books; whatever they’re called). I think he’s actually really successful and eventually found a job at Disney and has done a lot of set design/character design for all the Marvel movies. I think he and Angela Weber are still in contact ... in fact I’ll talk about why next.

Angela Weber went to the University of Seattle along with Ben and they also lived together in Seattle. I think she probably majored in photography and minored in English or English lit or something along those lines. I think she probably got a job as a newspaper photographer right out of college and probably eventually found success as, like, an indie filmmaker or something like that, who maybe does wedding photography on the side. I think she and Ben continued dating throughout college (although they did “take a break” for about a year but eventually got back together) and eventually got married when they were twenty-five(ish). I think Angela still keeps in touch with Bella and is really good about sending emails, Christmas cards, etc. But Bella ... well, she’s Bella, you know? She and Ben probably have at least one child, maybe two.

Tyler Crowley (aka the guy who nearly killed Bella with his van) didn’t have a whole lot of “direction” after high school and joined a branch of the armed forces for awhile. He probably remained with (whatever military branch) for like five, maybe ten, years and spent a lot of time traveling stateside. Eventually, though, I think he returned to Forks and went to the local community college where he majored in kinesiology and eventually got a job at Forks High School as the football coach. I think he’s probably had a lot of girlfriends but has never really settled down. He has one kid with an ex-girlfriend, with whom he co-parents. But, again, he’s never been able to settle down.

[lookitsaworm]

Do you guys ever think about the fact that Angela Weber's boyfriend, Ben Cheney, was cut out of the movie despite the fact that they were the perfect match and Edward and Emmett tag teamed getting them together because they were so worried they'd be rejected but after that they were the perfect couple, who loved each other unconditionally, and were the only people who were nice to Bella in New Moon without asking for anything in return but Ben wasn't in the movie so she got a Eric, who was constantly pining after Bella the whole time and she deserves better?

Because I do. So much.

[twilightinanotherlife]

Forks High School students.

Jessica Stanley

Angela Weber (not a witch I swear 👀 😉)

Mike Newton

Lauren Mallory

Eric Yorkie

Tyler Crowley

Ben Cheney

[cinematitlecards]

"Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1966) Directed by Chuck Jones & Ben Washam (Animated/Comedy/Christmas) . . "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) Directed by Ron Howard (Comedy/Fantasy/Christmas) . . "The Grinch" (2018) Directed by Yarrow Cheney & Scott Mosier (Animated/Comedy/Christmas)

[companion-showdown]

Which companion is the most normal person?

a lot of companions would be getting into tv show worthy situations with or without the doctor, but some of them are just normal people, who if they weren't aboard the tardis they'd be living an ordinary, perhaps even boring, life. who is the most normal

SEMIFINALS

Leo Jones vs Ben Jackson

Barbara Wright vs Ian Chesterton

QUARTERFINALS

Leo Jones vs Sergeant Benton

Graham O'Brien vs Ben Jackson

Brian Williams vs Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton vs Katarina

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4

K9 vs Leo Jones

Sergeant Benton vs Rory Williams

Alison Cheney vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Ben Jackson

Brian Williams vs Evelyn Smythe

Barbara Wright vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Anji Kapoor

Peri Brown vs Katarina

ROUND 3

K9 vs Business Woman

Leo Jones vs Harry Sullivan

Sergeant Benton vs Kate Stewart

Duggan vs Rory Williams

Tegan Jovanka vs Alison Cheney

Liz Shaw vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Nyssa

Ryan Sinclair vs Ben Jackson

Mickey Smith vs Brian Williams

Evelyn Smythe vs Martha Jones

Grace Holloway vs Barbara Wright

Lucie Miller vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Victoria Waterfield

Hex Schofield vs Anji Kapoor

Donna Noble vs Peri Brown

Dan Lewis vs Katarina

ROUND 2

Day 2

Mickey Smith vs Jamie McCrimmon

Chang Lee vs Brian Williams

Evelyn Smythe vs Romana I

Adric vs Martha Jones

Grace Holloway vs Izzy SInclair

The Brigadier vs Barbara Wright

Lucie Miller vs Headmaster

Ruby Sunday vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Amy Pond

Mike Yates vs Victoria Waterfield

Hex Schofield vs Frobisher

Nardole vs Anji Kapoor

Donna Noble vs Liv Chenka

Leela vs Peri Brown

Dan Lewis vs Bridget Sinclair

Katarina vs Bill Potts

Day 1

K9 vs Charley Pollard

Business Woman vs Mel Bush

Leo Jones vs Rose Tyler

Laurence Scarman vs Harry Sullivan

Sergeant Benton vs Steven Taylor

Bernice Summerfield vs Kate Stewart

Duggan vs Helen Sinclair

Sarah-Jane Simth vs Rory Williams

Tegan Jovanka vs Dodo Chaplet

Handles vs Alison Cheney

Liz Shaw vs Adam Mitchell

Sam Jones vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Susan Foreman

Nyssa vs Kamelion

Ryan Sinclair vs Polly Wright

Fitz Kreiner vs Ben Jackson

ROUND 1 (Group Stage)

Group 1:

Susan Foreman

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Group 2:

Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

Group 3:

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

Group 4:

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

Group 5:

Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

Group 6:

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

Group 7:

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

Group 8:

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

Group 9:

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

Group 10:

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

Group 11:

Alison Cheney

Iris Wildthyme

Izzy Sinclair

Frobisher

Group 12:

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Adam Mitchell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

Group 13:

Wilfred Mott

Donna Noble

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Group 14:

Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

Group 15:

Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

Group 16:

Vince Hawkins

Duggan

Damon

Group 17:

Rhos

Dr Summers

Laurence Scarman

Lowe

Mergrave

Headmaster

Group 18:

Tamsin Drew

Tania Bell

Business Woman

Kevin

Group 19:

Jackie Tyler

Francine Jones

Clive Jones

Tish Jones

Leo Jones

Group 20:

Sylvia Noble

Craig Owens

Brian Williams

Danny Pink

Rigsy

Group 21:

Tommy Connolly

Riley Vashtee

Hath Peck

Nephew

Rita Afzal

Group 22:

Elton Pope

Ursula Blake

Colin Skinner

Bridget Sinclair

Bliss

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

okay new system (anyone can be eliminated in the group stage), new regulars, new groups for the regulars. There will be one elimination in each of these groups, a further 8 slots will be filled by nominations on a tournament be tournament basis, the structure of the nominee groups and the eliminations per group could potentially be very different to those of the regulars and will be highly dependant on the number of nominations.

Here is the new list of regulars, dashes indicate where the groups change. As always, constructive criticism is welcome.

Classic Who

Ian Chesterton

Barbara Wright

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

--------------------

Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

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Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

--------------------

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

--------------------

Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

--------------------

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

--------------------

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

NuWho

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Adam Michell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

--------------------

Wilfred Mott

Donna Noble

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

--------------------

Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

--------------------

Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

EU

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

--------------------

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

--------------------

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

--------------------

Alison Cheney

Iris Wildthyme

Izzy Sinclair

Frobisher

[bananacorn-limeade]

1961's The WORLD of ICE and FIRE

I'm going to do it. I'm going to self-indulge!

The Roger Corman ASOIAF production post is mostly just a novelty, but since I'm me, I have a lot of FEELINGS and OPINIONS about this cast. Naturally.

Anyway. Here's how well I think the actors in my post would play their roles, from worst to best.

#19, Worst: John Ashley as Robb Stark

You know how Ben Affleck has a face that knows about emails? John Ashley has a face that knows about sock hops. Woefully miscast.

#18: Tor Johnson as Gregor Clegane

God love the big guy, but I've only ever seen him make this face. Also, despite his repertoire of roles suggesting otherwise on paper, he just doesn't seem like a mean guy.

#17: John Agar as Jaime Lannister

Another terrible choice. The only reason he's not ranked as worst is because his soulless performance would make viewers interpret Jaime as an absolutely irredeemable sociopath, which at least would be... uh, interesting, I guess.

#16 Robert Reed as Renly Baratheon

Renly, but only if he was the most boring Baratheon. Go ahead, try to picture Reed eating a peach. You can't.

#15 Dawn Bender as Arya Stark

Aw, she'd try. But I feel like her attempts at Arya's fire would mostly come off as petulance.

#14 Richard Carlson as Ned Stark

Sorry, what? I fell asleep for a minute there.

#13 June Kenney as Daenerys Targaryen

Kenney would try her level best, but you know Corman would do a terrible job incorporating her storyline with the main plot, so she wouldn't have much to do except lounge around on mildly offensive orientalist sets and talk to her force-perspective dragon puppets. (Stop-motion you say? What, you think American International is made of money?)

#12 Dolores Faith as Sansa Stark

Again, no knock to Faith, but as with Daenerys, I think a 1961 production would flatten Sansa's character away to nothing. She'd get to pine and wear some nice dresses.

#11 Anthony Dexter as Petyr Baelish

This guy can play oily like nobody's business (check him out in 1962's Married Too Young), but 5D-chess-level deviousness might be beyond him.

#10 Michael Dunn as Tyrion Lannister

Full disclosure: I'm plopping him in the middle because I've never seen him in anything! The only little person I've personally seen in Corman's movies is Billy Barty (playing an actual, literal imp), and Dunn was someone I found who was said to play much meatier roles. In general, I think the depth of Tyrion's character would seriously challenge 1960s casting directors who were used to casting little people in jokey roles or as something less than human. One of many problems they'd have with the source material, no doubt.

#9 Lon Cheney Jr. as Sandor Clegane

Here's another actor who would do the best with what he was given - which would be an essentially empty role. This Sandor would be a beast used only for jump scares, with too much rubber over his face to ever show an emotion.

#8 Glen Langan as Stannis Baratheon

Langan would be serious, but dull, with lots of droning sermonizing. In other words, perfect. Still boring though.

#7 Basil Rathbone as Tywin Lannister

Who better to play a role totally owned by Charles Dance than an actor who's even Charles Dancier? The only reason I'm not ranking this legend higher is because I do think he'd kind of sleepwalk through this role, especially at this stage in his career.

#6 Raymond Burr as Robert Baratheon

The future Mr. Perry Mason was damn good at playing hard-drinking, prowly, "beastly" men. See him in this fabulous trailer for 1951's Bride of the Gorilla (spoiler: Burr is the gorilla). Of course, for this production, he'd be about 10 years on from that virile role, but that's perfectly on brand for Bobby B.

#5 Michael Landon as Jon Snow

Landon's tortured James Dean era would be a great fit for angsty goth teen Jon, though he might have trouble keeping his feelings as hidden as Jon does.

#4 Allison Hayes as Melisandre

Should she be ranked this high? Eh, maybe not, but this woman is a goddamn B-movie bombshell goddess. Her Red Woman would be a little less mysterious, sure, but her perfectly arched eyebrows and bullet bra would do R'hllor proud all the same.

#3 Marie Windsor as Catelyn Stark

They didn't call her Queen of the B's for nothing. Windsor always did great with roles that call for strength and verve. She'd be a fantastic Cat, and - dare I dream it - an even better Lady Stoneheart.

#2 Jack Nicholson as Theon Greyjoy

Now this would be fun. If baby Jack Nicholson had half the presence and charisma he would show in later movies, his Theon would be legendary.

#1 Coleen Gray as Cersei Lannister

If I can get Tumblr to understand one thing, it's how much Coleen Gray would absolutely eat in the role of Cersei. She's beautiful. She's a schemer. She's a helpless victim. She's back for revenge. I challenge anyone to watch her insane, murderous, fierce, gorgeous, duplicitous performance in 1960's otherwise pretty terrible The Leech Woman and not come to the same conclusion. I'm serious. There would be no survivors. 👑

[hallison-bre]

AJJ (when it was still just Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty) performing Bad Bad Things at a house show. 12/22/07

At the time this was recorded, the song was still titled Murderer. It was also listed as Murderer on the Issue Problems EP, where it was first released in 2006.

— Video credits to Don Cheney on YouTube —

[usafphantom2]

During the Gulf War, they use the aging RF-4 for reconnaissance because the SR 71s had been recently deactivated. They were sitting in hangars.

They even sent up F-18s at times to survey the battlefield before they went out."

The Blackbird is the fastest, highest-flying plane in the world. The satellite worshipers in Congress didn't want it, and the Air Force brass preferred spending money on other toys. Satellite buffs like Dick Cheney think satellites will do it all. The fact is, they can't. They only provide interval photography. Cloud cover can hamper their effectiveness. And once they are launched, the equipment cannot be altered. We needed the SR-71’s!

Friendly fire in Washington did.

It was the fighter pilot mafia that killed the Blackbird. They weren’t having it anymore. It’s not that they necessarily truly believed in satellites; it’s that they were sick and tired of the SR 71 being the one plane that was better than them.

Paul Crickmore recently said that the SR 71 was retired five years early.

During the Gulf War, they needed the SR-71 reconnaissance expertise desperately.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf asked the Pentagon for a Blackbird as early as July when Iraqi forces were assembling on the Kuwait border. His request was denied. The Navy asked for Blackbird overflights in September, but that request was denied, too. For reconnaissance, they were using the aging RF-4! They were asking the fighter pilots when they came back from the field. What was going on out there?

Who knows how many men and women had to die during the Gulf War because we didn’t have the SR 71s?

My father, Skunk Works, Director, and former SR 71 RSO Butch Sheffield, along with Skunk Works Ben Rich, fought hard to keep the SR 71s because of all these reasons; this is why I have made this point I know the truth about what happened in the killing of the Blackbirds

Linda Sheffield

Source Washington Post, JACK ANDERSON and

DALE VAN ATTA

April 18, 1991

Paul Crickmore speech at Royal Aeronautical Society Headquarters Nov 9, 2023

@Habubrats71 via X