#beverley lee

[nia1sworld]

☆The Height Chart & Redesigns of The Astrologicals☆

I...should have move Nix in the middle but my brain was hurting me, help-

[jonathanpongratz]

Library Title Picks - January 2022

Library Title Picks – January 2022

  Howdy Book Wranglers! Are y’all ready for more book huntin’? I sure am! Alright, here’s the gist. Every month my library lets me choose three titles to purchase physical copies of. It’s a great way to support my fellow authors and read their works for free, don’t you agree? Okay, so my picks for January 2023 didn’t veer from my preferred genre of horror, but this time I shopped by cover. Each…

[dibator]

A Light of Little Radiance, a new horror epic by Keith Anthony Baird and Beverley Lee

UK authors Keith Anthony Baird and Beverley Lee firmly believed it was time to write a vampire tale which explored a different kind of origin story. Thus, the passion project which would become a rich and deliciously dark novella emerged to garner interest from Kansas-based publisher Brigids Gate Press. Set for release in November 2024, the book ‘A Light of Little Radiance’ will be available…

[djohnhopper]

READING: Nearly finished this book, and for me, it's as scary as hell. Not scary for others maybe, but for me - definitely. Great story, great writer, I have more of her work queued up to be read. Can't wait!

[malefashiontrends]

(vía The Perfect Man presenta tres portadas para el lanzamiento de su edición 137)

[camyfilms]

ONCE UPON A TIME 2011-2012

You've made your vows, now I make mine: soon everything you love, everything all of you love, will be taken from you forever. Out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness if it is the last thing I do.

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Canadian judge Beverley McLachlin to step down from top court in July – announced days after 2 UK judges quit, June 11, 2024

HKFP: Judges are experts in law, not politics, John Lee says after ex-top court justice calls Hong Kong ‘oppressive’, June 11, 2024

HKFP: UK judge says he did not quit top Hong Kong court sooner as he wanted ‘to see how things develop’ post-security law, June 13, 2024

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 17th December

Christmas week proper, or very nearly, and again. We get charts that reflect it. Thankfully, we've got lyrics this week, which I always appreciate!

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Beverley Sisters (Peaked at No. 6)

Another version of this song, and it couldn't be more different to Jimmy Boyd's version. It's still not the version people actually know, of course - this version was a more home-grown British affair, and it's odd to hear a version of the song I completely didn't know. At least with Jimmy's, I'd definitely heard it once or twice. This is an unknown, a cover of a song you hear other versions of pretty much annually, but only for a very limited span of time.

The Beverley sisters - the wonderfully named Joy, Babs and Teddie - don't make much effort to sound cute and kidd-y, which is good, as they were in their thirties at this point. There's a token effort at the start to create the fiction of a sister whispering to wake her other twin sisters up - setting the scene, as it were - but that and the lyrics aside, it's not too bad.

We got some other nice touches at the start to make up for the whispering, too, especially the little piano snatch of Jingle Bells, which comes back to round off at the end, and pops up sporadically in the middle. It's fun, and fairly subtle.

The Beverley Sisters, like Jimmy, set a very slow pace, once they start singing, unfortunately, and while their harmonies are undoubtedly lovely, they're a bit on the anaemic side, very high pitched and thin, particularly once the brass comes in to provide a contrast. It's substantial enough to make their singing sound weak amd frail.

There's also something off about the delivery of certain words. It's like the very American lyrics didn't sit great with a British accent and we end up with some very odd pronunciations, especially "last" and "daddy". Unsettling.

Crying in the Chapel - Lee Lawrence (7)

I thought I knew what to expect here. I knew the song, though I didn't know Lee Lawrence. I thought I could predict how I would feel about it. I was incorrect, turns out.

It's the same song Elvis will croon in a bit, but Lee's version starts out glacially slow and very grandiose. Lee Lawrence draws out the word "chaaaa-pel" in a particularly unlikely way, every time it comes up, which is fairly frequently. A quick Google tells me that Lee Lawrence was born to a family of opera singers, which isn't a huge surprise, to be honest.

Theres also a very echoey, high-pitched ghost-choir of backing singers. The overall effect is chilling, in a bad way. It's definitely more creepy than it needs to be, and I think the heftiness of the lyrics don't do much to help, even if they're about being happy and grateful.

I quite like the song itself, that said. It was apparently written by an American who had back problems and prayed for healing and erote this after literally crying in a Chapel after successful back surgery. It's in a category, along with Answer Me, of religious pop, the likes lf which you just wouldn't get today, and you know what, I enjoy the variety.

It doesn't quite convince me here. I think I prefer Elvis' more laid-back version. It feels like it captures the simplicity of coming to church and singing a bit better. Whereas this is a bit too grandiose for my tastes. Also the length of "chaaa-pel" gets me every time.

There's also a Big Old Ending, which ruins just about every song it crops up in. Sorry, Lee!

Ricochet - Joan Regan (8)

A complete unknown, both in terms of the song and the artist, but you know what, I do like this! It's peppy, sassy and has some nice lyrics too. It's a cover of a Teresa Brewer song, apparently, but this is the version that made it big in the UK - a home-grown cover artist, then, just like Lee Lawrence.

It's basically Joan Regan singing about how she's going to dump her love because of his tendency to "ricochet" off to pastures green, but rather than being broken up or angry, she just seems to blithely shrug it off and let him go. It's deliciously petty and dismissive of him.

To be fair, there's a degree of "I should have known" to it. We hear early doors, for example that "They warned me when you kissed me / Your love would ricochet" but she clearly backed herself ("I thought that I could hold you / With all my many charms"). And you know what, I love that for Joan. No false modesty here.

The chorus is fast and satiafying to sing, if a bit of a to gue twister, as Joan sing about how "I can't live on ricochet romance / No, no, not me, / If you're gonna ricochet baby, I'm gonna set you free!" What a casual, gracious way to talk about dumping someone, I love it!

The second to last verse is the beat bit, though, as Joan sings about how she wanted a quiet wedding, he rejected that: "I whispered two was company, but you preferred a crowd". It's a little, specific detail that's just horrible, and I love how dismissive she gets, describing how he buzzed round the other girls in attendance, and how "when you finished buzzin', cousin, you buzzed right back to me." Using "cousin" here is so subtly scathing and I love it.

Throughout, the tune is cheery and Joan's voice and delivery is confident, chipper and just good fun. I rate this song, both for the sentiment and for its general vibe. I haven't mentioned the little jazzy clarinet flourishes, either, or the brass hits, or the oom-pah brass bassline, or the little drum fills at the end of some lines. All very good.

Well, each of those three songs was very different, but all three did encapsulate a pattern thay seems to have been common in the early 50s at least whereby an American original song became a hit once a British act covered it. I wonder if it was a distaste for American artists that did it? Or was it more just about what was available in UK record stores? In some cases the original also made a chart run, but I can only imagine that UK recording would have been more readily available, so might have sold more simply on those grounds. Interesting.

Favourite song of the bunch: Ricochet

[bi-hop]

If I had a nickel for every time I obsessed over a villainous getaway driver of color with powers related to cars, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it’s weird it happened twice in different companies’ comics

[petty-crush]

“The House that Dripped Blood”

-several horror segments all take place in one location; an all star cast shows up and entertains us

-a surprise to me is how actor Denholm Elliot upstages everyone with his segment about an author seeing in real life a character from his new book.

+when you are outshining Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, you are splendidly talented

-Speaking of the former, still another segment notes a (in character) snobby horror actor proclaiming “the true classics; invisible man, Frankenstein, Dracula....the Bella Lugosi version, not that new guy...”

-hohohoho, say I

-equally amusing is the sheer irritation and contempt the detective has for hearing (to him) these bullshit superstitions

-I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film keep cutting away to flashbacks/side stories in the same location. Nifty

-part of me wonders if there a small influence on the first treehouse of horror, which (mostly) has the same conceit

-this was written by Robert Bloch, and here again does a person rather ponderously explain everything we just saw, but in verbal form

-yes, it’s this timeline’s version of “the ending of ‘x’ explained”

-agreeable time, but needs more cheeses and wine

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

[nia1sworld]

To all the astrologicals: who is your favorite Roman emperor (if they know what I mean.), and why?

Ask the astrologicals #6 ♌︎♏︎♊︎♋︎♍︎♉︎

To sum up facts

[jonathanpongratz]

Book Review: The House of Little Bones

  Hey Horror Lovers, Ready for some more chills and thrills? I sure hope so, because I just finished reading another horror novel! This time I read The House of Little Bones by Beverley Lee. This was one of my library title picks for this month (you can check out this and my other picks here), and rather than let them collect dust while I catch up on older TBR items, I decided to give this one a…

[devilish-blue]

~Devilish Smoke Shoppe~

Hi you smokin' pervs, i'm Devilish or Blue, and i am here to fulfill whatever horny, angsty, or fluffy needs you have. Everything you guys are about to see is everything i will do, so eat your guys' gross little hearts out <33

Fandoms/Things i will write:

Anime's:

Naruto:

Naruto Uzumaki

Sasuke Uchiha

Shikamaru Nara

Kiba Inuzuka

Kakashi Hatake

Gaara

Neji Hyuga

Rock Lee

Sai

Asuma Sarutobi

Tsunade Senju

Sakura Haruno

Ino Yamanaka

Hinata Hyuga

Temari

TenTen

Haikyuu:

Karasuno:

Hinata Shoyo

Kageyama Tobio

Tsukishima Kei

Yamaguchi Tadashi

Tanaka Ryūnosuke

Nishinoya Yu

Koshi Sugawara

Daichi Sawamura

Asahi Azumane

Kiyoko Shimizu

Aoba Johsai:

Oikawa Tooru

Iwazumi Hajime

Akira Kunimi

Kentarō Kyōtani (Mad Dog)

Nekoma:

Lev Haiba

Sō Inuoka

Kenma Kozume

Taketora Yamamoto

Morisuke Yaku

Tetsuro Kuroo

Shiratorizawa:

Kenjirō Shirabu

Tsutomu Goshiki

Satori Tendō

Eita Semi

Wakatoshi Ushijima

Fukurodani:

Haruki Komi

Akinori Konoha

Keiji Akashi

Kōtarō Bokuto

Inarizaki:

Osamu Miya

Atsumu Miya

Suna Rintaro

Aran Ojiro

Shinsuke Kita

Misc.:

Keishin Ukai

Ittetsu Takeda

Kiyoomi Sakusa

TV Shows:

Wednesday:

Wednesday Addams

Enid Sinclair

Xavier Thorpe

Tyler Galpin

Ajax Petropolus

Cobra Kai:

Miguel Diaz

Robby Keene

Hawk/Eli Moskowitz

Demetri Alexpoulos

Tory Nichols

Samantha LaRusso

Riverdale:

Jughead Jones

FP Jones

Archie Andrews

Sweetpea

Reggie Mantle

Betty Cooper

Veronica Lodge

Toni Topaz

Cheryl Blossom

South Park (Aged up (COLLEGE) and/or Post Covid!):

Stan Marsh

Kyle Broflovski

Kenny McCormick

Eric Cartman

Tolkien Black

Craig Tucker

Tweek Tweak

Clyde Donovan

Big Mouth:

Judd Birch

Human Resources:

Maury Beverley

Connie LaCienega

Emmy Fairfax

Rochelle Hillhurst

Mona

Pete Doheny

Youtubers/Streamers:

Youtubers:

Sam and Colby

Markiplier

CoryXKenshin

EddieVR

JuicyFruitSnacks

JoshDub

Mully

YourNarrator

Streamers:

Quackity

Jschlatt

Sapnap

KarlJacobs

Slimecicle

Foolishgamers

Horror Characters:

Slashers:

Ghostface (Billy Loomis and Stu Macher)

Michael Myers

Jason Vorhees

Brahms Heelshire

Creepypastas:

Ticci Toby

Masky

Hoodie

Eyeless Jack

Homicidal Liu

Jeff The Killer

Ben Drowned

Laughing Jack

My Do's And Don'ts:

Do's:

Kinks

Smut

Fluff

Angst

Headcanons

Oneshots

Don'ts:

Spam me

Piss, Scat, Throw up, Vore.

Do NOT request any pedophilia or r@pe.

OKAY so now that you guys know everything, basically, you can request it because i honestly can't think of anything on my own. ALSO i am looking to do commissions, if you are interested then please let me know <33 Smoke your pervy little hearts out <33

[slowsweetlove]

Almost a clean sweep at the AACTAs for Elvis.

Austin Butler - Best Actor

Olivia DeJonge - Best Supporting Actress

Mandy Walker - Best Cinematography

Elvis - Best Film

Baz Luhrmann - Best Direction

Catherine Martin - Best Costume Design

Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond - Best Editing

Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn - Best Production Design

David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, Michael Keller - Best Sound

[dear-indies]

hello!! i hope you are having a good timezone :) i’m currently looking for fcs for an afro-jamaican woman in her early to mid 50s, the character is meant to be mixed-race (black & white) but this isn’t strictly a necessity. thank you for your time, and for always speaking out for what is right. i hope you know that your work is incredibly valuable to the rpc ❤️

Michelle Hurd (1966) Afro-Jamaican / White.

Pepa / Sandra Denton (1966) Afro-Jamaican.

Skin / Deborah Anne Dyer (1967) Afro-Jamaican - is bisexual.

Sara Powell (1968) Afro-Jamaican.

Karen Robinson (1968) Afro-Jamaican.

Karyn Bryant (1968) Afro-Jamaican.

Roxanne Beckford (1969) Afro-Jamaican.

Yanna McIntosh (1970) Afro-Jamaican.

Kathryne Dora Brown (1971) Afro-Jamaican / White.

Lorraine Pascale (1972) Afro-Jamaican.

Nadine Marshall (1972) Afro Jamaican.

Tanya Moodie (1972) Afro-Jamaican.

Beverley Knight (1973) Afro-Jamaican.

Macka Diamond (1973) Afro-Jamaican.

Marsha Stephanie Blake (1974) Afro-Jamaican.

Robinne Lee (1974) African-American.

I'm awful at saying thank you but your kind words mean so much and I hope you find these suggestions useful for your character! ❤️