#ben hobson

[tygerland]

[optimabatteries]

OPTIMA Batteries-sponsored Funhaver, Ben Hobson having some fun with law enforcement in his Ford Mustang at Drift Appalachia 2024 http://www.powerpacknation.com

[ruleof3bobby]

OUTSIDE IN (2017) Grade: B-

Solid indie film. Tight script. Sensitive film that never takes the easy route with plot turns. I actually like the ending, brave.

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

The Rescue and The Ice Warriors tied. These are the 10 stories that were closest to making it through and so have been given a second chance

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propagnada under the cut

Marco Polo

Synopsis

Arriving in Central Asia in 1289, the Doctor and his companions join the caravan of the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo as it makes its way from the snowy heights of the Pamir Plateau, across the treacherous Gobi Desert and through the heart of imperial Cathay.

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The Keys of Marinus

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus - a machine capable of influencing all minds on the planet - of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Rescue

Synopsis

The Doctor, Ian and Barbara arrive on the planet Dido. They find a crashed spaceship, the only two survivors of which are terrorised by the monster Koquillion. But who is Koquillion?

Propaganda

god I love this story, its short and sweet, but the implications, the everything of vicki’s life before the doctor, the firey passion with which I hate bennet is boundless, as is my love for sandy. ITS SO GOOD! VOTE FOR IT! (@sandymybeloved )

The Space Museum

Synopsis

The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they realise that they must do everything they can to avert this potential future.

Vicki helps the native Xerons obtain arms and revolt against the Moroks. The revolution succeeds and the travellers go on their way, confident that the future has been changed.

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The Massacre

Synopsis

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.

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The War Machines

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world — a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer.

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The Moonbase

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack.

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The Macra Terror

Synopsis

When the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly happy place. Yet a shadowy presence soon makes them realise that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.

The colony's inhabitants have been brainwashed by giant, crab-like creatures — the Macra. Insidious propaganda, broadcast by the Controller, forces the humans to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive, but fatal to them.

The colony must be saved — but how? The Doctor and his team are up against it, particularly when Ben falls under the influence of the Macra. Can he be rescued from their evil clutches? Can the gas pumping equipment be destroyed, getting rid of the Macra for good?

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The Ice Warriors

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.

A giant humanoid creature, called an Ice Warrior by one of the scientists, has been found buried in the nearby glacier. When thawed, it revives and is revealed to be Varga, captain of a Martian spacecraft that landed on Earth centuries ago and is still in the glacier. Varga sets about freeing his comrades and formulating a plan to conquer the Earth — Mars itself is now dead.

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The Seeds of Death

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.

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[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern as june (with ben miles, sam crane, and pippa nixon) in the national theatre production of “sunset at the villa thalia” (2016) | 📸: manuel harlan/geraint lewis/jane hobson

[quinnfebrey]

hello! next to normal is basically the only thing i've thought about for the past month and i'm dying to talk about it with someone so i'm just gonna leave a bunch of questions here please feel free to answers as many or as few as you like :D

would love to know what you thought about the west end covers you saw

who is your favourite person who has played each role?

you mentioned in your review that you find the west end gabe less creepy than i'm presuming aaron tviet's interpretation? would love if you wanted to elaborate more on that cause personally the west end gabe is the first time i've ever found him 'creepy'. aaron's always had a distinct jockish confidence to me that made him scary because he felt powerful but still not creepy imo

what're your favourite songs? mine are i am the one (reprise) and didn't i see this movie?

do you have any strong opinions on a movie adaptation? personally i hate the idea. i think so much of the power of the show comes from the fact that it's happening Right In Front Of You and i also think no matter what they did they'd butcher how gabe appears

if this version goes to broadway, who is your dream cast? (pretty sure caissie levy's a lock in bc according to the director he wouldn't have done the show if she didn't agree to play diana, but dream big or whatever)

hello!! thank u so much for this omg. i just replied to an ask about the west end covers

favorite person in each role: jessica phillips as diana, brian d'arcy james as dan, meghann fahy as natalie, louis hobson as madden/fine but trevor dion nicholas could usurp that i think! random but there's this regional production that had a gabe i LOVED (landen starkman), and then of course adam chanler beret IS henry

re: creepy gabe, what i mean by that is the freudian aspect to original gabe (think the original blocking of i am the one). they really took literally "he's a hero a lover a prince" which works and makes sense for bway but in the west end one it doesn't have the abstract/dream feel to it and that's probably they removed that aspect of gabe, it wouldn't transfer well. he's just less physically close and touchy with the goodman family

ahh i don't even know what my favorite songs are, they change depending on my mood lol. but i think i always love light and i've been

nooooo movie please they already let riverdale butcher the show i cant take a dearevanhansification of it. and you're right, there's no way to make gabe on screen work well. it needs to be a live production

for a broadway cast i wouldn't be mad at caissie levy!! if it takes a decade or more to get it back on broadway i'd love meghann fahy to return as diana. ben tyler cook or josh colley could do a great gabe, jordan fisher henry?? let adam chanler beret come back as madden/fine?? and this is kinda random but i saw josh groban in sweeney and was like oh that's dan goodman

[cursivebloodlines]

I was tagged by @thanaredreamtof (tysm for the tag!! <3) to put my Spotify On Repeat on shuffle and list the first ten songs. I feel like at least 75% of these are going to be musicals LMFAOOO you have all been warned my loves xox

Don't Shoot For The Stars (Shoot Higher) - Original West End Cast of Eugenius (Ben Adams, Amy Lennox, Dan Buckley)

Comic Book Kind of Love - Ben Adams, Amy Lennox - Original West End Cast of Eugenius

I Say No - Original West End Cast of Heathers - Carrie Hope Fletcher

The Last Time (ft Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol) - Taylor Swift, Taylor's Version

Freeze Your Brain - Jamie Muscato (my husband i love him sm), Original West End cast of Heathers

You Can Do Better Than Him - Bonnie & Clyde Original Broadway Cast, Jeremy Jordan and Louis Hobson

Raise A Little Hell - Original Broadway Cast of Bonnie and Clyde, Jeremy Jordan

Meant To Be Yours - Jamie Muscato - Original West End Cast of Heathers (Jamie's JD >>>>>>>>> everyone else's JD ever on this planet for the record)

Neptune - Sleeping At Last

Seventeen - Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jamie Muscato (FAVES!!!), Original West End Cast of Heathers

Well. Nobody is surprised ever. Tagging you reading this pls because I don't want to put tags and forget someone aaaaa so pls feel free to say i tagged you ok??? ok xx

[seositetool]

Ben Platt Shares His Tour Must-Haves, From Uncrustables to Martinis

Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images What do Ben Platt and Travis Kelce have in common? A love of Uncrustables, for one. “I always have Uncrustables in my dressing room because: (a) peanut butter has a lot of protein, and (b) it’s a really comforting snack and makes all these unfamiliar places on the road feel very homey,” Platt, 30, reveals exclusively in his Backstage Pass feature in the latest issue of…

[sporadiceagleheart]

Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, six-year-old Bebe King, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Sidra Hassouna, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Lucy Morgan, Star Hobson, Ava Jordan Wood, Leiliana Wright, Aubreigh Paige Wyatt, Tristyn Bailey, Paula Golik, Lily Rose Diaz, Colby Curtin, Layla Salazar, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Rylie Nicholls, Riley Faith Steep, Kenzlee Marie Cook, Norah Lee Howard, Mercedes Losoya, Judith Barsi and Heather O'Rourke, Roselind Nadine Earles, Maria Agnes Virovacz Barsi, Evelyn Ann Lea, Mary DeLourdes Lea, Charles Russell “Russ” Lea, Evelyn Russe Lea, William Henry Russe, Clara B. Northway Russe, Charles Russell Lea Sr., Gloria Alice Killilea Lea, Marie Joan Lyons Killilea, Kathryn Marie “Kay” Lyons Monroe, James Hines “Jimmy” Killilea, Catherine Ellen Noe, Arthur Joseph Noe, Richard Allen Noe, Elizabeth Mary Noe, Marie Noe, Arthur Allen “Art” Noe, Brandon David Jackson, Michael Daniel Smith, Joseph “Joe” Jackson, Simuel Joseph “Sam” Jackson, Israel Nero Jackson Sr., Emeline “Emmie” Williams Jackson, Dr Israel Sigmond Joseph “Gordon” Williams Sr., Harvest Lee Williams Sr., Maggie Eunice “Maggie U” Williams, Verlener “Big Momma” Williams Hines, Pauline “Polly” Hines Bell, Flores Ann “Willie Ann” harris Martin, Felix Harvest Williams Sr., Shack Warren Williams, Bull “Night Crow” Williams, Mose Moses Williams, Amanda Jean “Mandy Jean” Williams Tobias, Sanders Allen “Richard” Williams Sr., Crystal Lee King Jackson, Elizabeth Ann “Liza Ann” Jackson Harding, James “Jim” Jackson, Gena Jackson Anderson, Janie Beatrice Jackson Hall, Samuel Malone Jackson Sr., Lula Mae Jackson, TSGT Lawrence Chester “Larry” Jackson, Mary A. “Angie” Jackson, Martin Luther James Jackson Sr., Michael Jackson, Bella Marie “Bells” Rzucek, Nico Lee Rzucek, Celeste Cathryn “CeCe” Rzucek, Shan'ann Cathryn Rzucek, Bella Nevaeh Amoroso Bond, Isabella Grace “Bella” Muntean, Bella Thomson, Juanita Horton, Bessie Barker, Louis XVII, Lois Janes, Sharon Lee Gallegos, Mary Crocker, Betty LouAnn McInnes, Jackie Cazares, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Brandon Lee Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley, Benjamin Storm Presley “Ben” Keough, Jesse Garon Presley, Octavia Luvenia “Doll” Mansell Smith, Retha Smith Loyd Riley, Gladys Love Smith Presley, Minnie Mae Hood Presley, Vernon Elvis Presley, Eunice C Cloman Jackson, Josephine Jackson, Ruth Marie Noe Hulet,

[albionreign]

a character directory, i guess? these are characters central to the plot and will be brought up as npcs. some of them i will write in the background, but they're not up for individual interactions.

ben finn . a former ally of the revolution, and a former captain of the military (old guard), after the second war with the crawler, he left on a self-discovery adventure.

page . leader of the bowerstone resistance and former ally of the revolution. after the second war with the crawler, page went back to the sewers to continue the fight against reaver.

elliot . former fiancé, and was sentence to death by logan.

logan . brother and former king, after the second life, he was sent to aurora to do community service work.

major swift . publicly executed by logan, a former major in the military and ally.

hobson . a current aide to winnie, is about to be fired because that man is getting on her last nerves.

sir walter beck . ally, teacher, and father figure. died during the second war.

jasper . butler and second father figure. lives in the sanctuary.

sabine . leaders of the dwellers and ally of the reolution. winnie made a promise to reforest their lands and bring supplies to his people, winnie kept this promise and also brings him in when discussing kingdom affairs to get his input.

kalin . leader of the aurorans and ally of the revolution. kalin wanted aurora to be a part of the albion kingdom and to have aide and resources to help with the crawler, as it originally haunted auroran lands. winnie kept her promises, and invites kalin over when discussing kingdom affairs.

saker . a leader of a mercenary camp, winnie had spared his life in turn of leaving the dweller camp alone, he has so far kept his promise and he and his men haven't really caused any trouble since then. he had fought in the revolution helping winnie get into power, a 'so we're both even' kind of thing.

[cleowho]

“... and it had holes in it's head for eyes, like a robot!”

The Moonbase - season 06 - 1967

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry Redemption, Part II [s5ep1]

[somesunnyda-y]

I'm legally forbidden from hating Ben Cutting since we have the same birthday bUT WHAT THE FUCK BEN

[itskindofareallyniceday]

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, and due to the requests I've received over the years, I've compiled a list of great books written by indigenous authors from all over the Americas.

Part 1, North America:

Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Magical Realism/Mythology/Dystopia: “Elatsoe” by Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache) “Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice (Anishinaabe) "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Métis) "Son of a Trickster" by Eden Robinson (Haisla and Heiltsuk) “The Removed” by Brandon Hobson (Cherokee)

Nonfiction/Memoir/Essays: “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi) "A History of My Brief Body" by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree) “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” by Alicia Elliott (Haudenosaunee) "An American Sunrise" by Joy Harjo (Muscogee) “Dog Flowers: A Memoir” by Danielle Geller "Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City" by Tanya Talaga (Anishinaabe) "The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth" by The Red Nation “Heart Berries” by Terese Marie Mailhot (Nlaka'pamux)

Contemporary/Fiction/Historical Fiction: “Indian Horse” and “Medicine Walk” by Richard Wagamese (Ojibwe) “Jonny Appleseed” by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Peguis First Nation) “There There” by Tommy Orange (Cheyanne and Arapho) “The Break” by Katherena Vermette (Red River Métis) “Five Little Indians” by Michelle Good (Red Pheasant Cree Nation) “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson (Mdewakanton Oyate, Rosebud Sioux) “Birdie” by Tracey Lindberg (Cree-Métis, As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree)

Mystery/Thriller/Horror/Paranormal: “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet) “Winter Counts” by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Sicangu Lakota) “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley (Chippewa) "Empire of Wild" by Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Métis Nation)

Poetry Collections: "Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs" and "This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Mississauga Nishnaabeg) "Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq (Inuk) “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Díaz (Akimel O'odham) "Nature Poem" by Tommy Pico (Kumeyaay, Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians) "Disintegrate/Dissociate" by Arielle Twist (Cree, George Gordon First Nation)

Anthologies: “Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction”, contributed to by Joshua Whitehead, David Alexander Robertson, Darcie Little Badger, Nathan Adler, Gwen Benaway, Nazbah Tom, Gabriel Castilloux Calderón, and Kai Minosh Pyle "This Place: 150 Years Retold" (comic, nonfiction), contributed to by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, Jen Storm, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, David Alexander Robertson, Richard Van Camp, Brandon Mitchell, Sonny Assu, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Alicia Elliott, and illustrated by G.M.B. Chomichuk, Scott B. Henderson, Tara Audibert, Natasha Donovan, Kyle Charles, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk, Andrew Lodwick, Ryan Howe “Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1”, contributed to by Hope Nicholson, Michael Sheyahshe, David W. Mack, David Alexander Robertson, Haiwei Hou, Dayton Edmonds, Micah Farritor, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Menton3, Arigon Starr, David Cutler, Elizabeth LaPensée, G.M.B. Chomichuk, George Freeman, Tony Romito, Jeremy D. Mohler, Ian Ross, Lovern Kindzierski, Adam Gorham, Richard Van Camp, Nicholas Burns, Todd Houseman, Ben Shannon, Jay Odjick, Joel Odjick, Claude St. Aubin, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Andy Stanleigh

More: New books that I haven't read/heard enough about to recommend yet

Part 2: Central & South America

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Moonbase

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Daleks’ Master Plan

Synopsis

In the year 4000, the Daleks conspire to conquer the Solar System. Their scheme involves treachery at the highest levels and a weapon capable of destroying the very fabric of time. Only the Doctor and his friends can prevent catastrophe — and there is no guarantee they will escape with their lives...

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

[vintagelasvegas]

Dunes, 1955 - Las Vegas News Bureau.

Credit for the 38-foot Sultan figure atop the casino has alternatively been given to Ben Mitchem of YESCO, who built the Dunes lighting and display, and a lesser-known sculptor named Kermit Hobson Hawkins.

“A grinning three-story high fiberglass Sultan, in sparking white and golf attire, was roof-mounted over looking the porte-corchere and flanked with matching sets of illuminated letters. Designed by Ben Mitchem, the construction was supervised by Jack Larsen Sr. ... the innovative installation by YESCO pioneered the use of large fiberglass elements ...” - Charles Barnard. The Magic Sign (‘93).

“Mr. Hawkins has taken a leave of absence to execute several sculptural works on his own. He recently completed modeling of ‘The Sheik,’ a 38-foot figure which overlooks Las Vegas newest luxury hotel, ‘The Dunes.’” - from an article title “Hobson Hawkins Dreams of Moses Statue Towering Over Phenix City,” 7/6/56, quoted in an article from Citizen of East Alabama.

The Sultan figure was replaced by the Dunes high rise in ‘64. It was disassembled and moved to the Dunes Golf course, where it remained until it was destroyed by an electrical fire in ‘86.