#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.

[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]

Showdown 2k25

Just like last year I want to kick January off with a flat popularity contest, showdown 2k25.

Automatically competing - everyone from last year (list), with the following exceptions

Last years winner - Donna Noble

Possibly Rose Tyler as the 2023 winner, but I need to think on it a bit more

I'm going to reassess a few from last year, specifically the real people

Rules for new nominees (tardis wiki list referenced below)

Anyone on the list will automatically be accepted

TV companions MUST be on the list

EU companions not on the list will be considered on a case by case basis. If they meet a reasonable definition of companion I will accept them, basic guideline is has their own tardis wiki article so I can actually check, multiple stories with the Doctor, none of these guidelines are hard rules, if you can justify them to me, I'll let them in

Propaganda is not carrying over from last year, if you want to go to bat for someone, use this same form

You can use this form to make multiple nominations/give multiple bits of propaganda at once.

You have until at least the 1st of January

list of competitors, anyone in green has propaganda submitted for them

Classic Who

Ace McShane

Adric

Barbara Wright

Ben Jackson

The Brigadier

Chang Lee

Dodo Chaplet

Grace Holloway

Harry Sullivan

Ian Chesterton

Jamie McCrimmon

Jo Grant

K9

Kamelion

Katarina

Leela

Liz Shaw

Mags

Mel Bush

Mike Yates

Nyssa

Peri Brown

Polly Wright

Romana I

Romana II

Sabalom Glitz

Sara Kingdom

Sarah-Jane Smith

Sergeant Benton

Steven Taylor

Susan Foreman

Tegan Jovanka

Turlough

Vicki Pallister

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

NuWho

Adam Mitchell

Amy Pond

Bill Potts

Canton Everett Delaware III

Clara Oswald

Dan Lewis

Graham O'Brien

Grant Gordon aka the Ghost

Handles

Inston-Vee Vindor

Jack Harkness

Karvanista

Kate Stewart

Martha Jones

Mickey Smith

Missy

Nardole

River Song

Rory Williams

Rose Noble

Ruby Sunday

Ryan Sinclair

Wilfred Mott

Yasmin Khan

Audio

Alex Campbell

Anya Kingdom

Bliss

C'rizz

Cass Fermazzi

Charley Pollard

Cousin Eliza: Christine Summerfield: Horus

Dalek Test Subject 2

Erimem

Evelyn Smythe

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Iris Wildthyme

Liv Chenka

Lucie Miller

Mark Seven

Molly O'Sullivan

Narvin

Oliver Harper

Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)

Tania Bell

Novels

Anji Kapoor

Anna (Good Companions)

Badger

Barusa

Bernice Summerfield

Business woman (Time on a Vine)

Catherine “Cat” Broome

Chris Cwej

Cinder

Claudia Marwood

Compassion

Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)

Fitz Kreiner

Guinevere Winchester

Hector (All Flesh is Grass)

Homunculette

Ikalla

Irving Braxiatel

Jack McSpringheel

Larna

Marie (Alien Bodies)

Milena

Patience

Penelope Gate

Peter Summerfield

Rosie Taylor

Roz Forrester

Ruth Leonidas

Sam Jones

Serena

Sibling Different aka Mae

The Mortimer Family (Ida, Alan, Helen, George)

Trix MacMillan

V.M.McCrimmion

Wolsey the Cat

Zeleekhà

Comics

Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer

Alice Obifune

Angus ‘Gus’ Goodman

ARC

Chantir

Child Master (The Then and the Now)

Cindy Wu

Dave Lester

Destrii

Duh

Flanx

Fey Truscott-Sade

Frobisher

Gabby Gonzalez

Gillian & John Who

Grayla

Hattie Munroe

Izzy Sinclair

Jayne Kadett

John Jones

Josie Day

Kroton

Ly Chee the Wise

Majenta Pryce

Maxwell Edison

Olla

Rose-the-cat

Shayde

Ssard

The Squire

Weeping Angel (Origins)

Real Life

Alan Turing

Claudia Winkleman

John Lennon

Jules Verne

Mary Shelley

Peter Cushing

Other

Alison Cheney

Andy Davidson

Antimony (Death Comes to Time)

Brian the Ood

Dormouse (The Red and the Blue)

Emma (curse of fatal death)

Koschie

Romana (Battle for the Universe)

Splinx

Susan Who

Tom Campbell

[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

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Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

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Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

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Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

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Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

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Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

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Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

NuWho

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Adam Michell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

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Wilfred Mott

Donna Noble

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

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Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

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Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

EU

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

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Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

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

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

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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

[thatstormygeek]

The problems with her campaign are mostly problems that take years, rather than months, to fix. It sure would be nice if the Democratic Party network had the type of networked media apparatus that the Republican Party network enjoys. It sure would be nice if the party had spent years building local organizing capacity at the grassroots level across swing states and the south (Give us forty-eight more Ben Wiklers and Stacey Abramses, please!). It sure would be nice if the billionaire class hadn’t bought up all the media networks, and if the courts hadn’t repeatedly decided that the law is for little people, and if government was still mostly in the business of trying to improve peoples’ lives. But you campaign in the short-term and then (try to) govern in the medium- or long-term. Over the course of these few months, there aren’t many decisions the Harris campaign has made that I think they should meaningfully regret. I’m not sure how to feel about all the Liz Cheney, cross-partisan-coalition events. It’s clear that the Harris campaign is betting that they can create a permission structure for Nikki Haley voters to cast a ballot for a Democrat. That makes me nervous, because I'm old enough to get a strong Charlie-Brown-and-the-football vibe from it. Throughout my adult life, Democrats have tried to appeal to an imagined bloc of moderate swing voters. It rarely seems to pan out. But I can also see the sense of it here. They’re basically targeting two clusters of voters — Republicans who voted in the primary, are therefore high-propensity voters, and have already voted against Trump because they don’t want to put up with his bullshit anymore, plus low-information moderates who generally just wish the parties could get along. If that sort of message was ever going to work, this is probably the election to try it.

People, en masse, just don’t believe that the economy is in good shape right now. That’s a comms problem for Harris/Walz. You can’t have the candidate insisting “no, no, the public is mistaken. Things are great right now.” That kind of gaslighting is not exactly a winning message. The state of our media infrastructure surely doesn’t help. Elon bought Twitter and turned it into a Republican propaganda and misinformation network. A handful of billionaires own most of our major media outlets, and they do not appreciate that the government is sometimes looking at their cool merger ideas and saying “no.” This, again, is a medium-term problem. You solve it by rebuilding the regulatory state and building your own media institutions over the course of years, not months. Seth Masket has summarized the state of the race as “people want change but MAGA terrifies them.” My personal hunch is that people want change because we have collectively never dealt with the pandemic. It was a once-in-a-century global catastrophe. No one was prepared for it, no one has dealt well with it, and our political leaders do not have the moral authority to address it.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

While Velociraptor Cheney is not our friend, she speaks Truth.