#chara bowen

[gothoffspring]

stop being jealous 💅

❤️🧡💛 top / skirt / sneakers / belly chain / belly ring / nails / hat / hair 💚💙💜

[sharkflan]

my Elden Ring fella, Boweb. he’s a dummy who doesn’t realize he’s dead

[discountalien-pancake]

@agardenandlibrary tagged me for the five fave charas poll so:

Not tagging anybody bc they’ve already been tagged but if you wanna do the thing feel free!

[moog-enthusiast]

Any silly headcanons you have for the Omori side cast? Personally, I like to think that Mincy is OBSESSED with Japanese candy. Pockys, mochi, but especially the lesser known stuff like Wagashi. Really the only one I have that’s kinda close is a tie between Cris believing that ghosts exist, and The Maverick being a huge theater nerd.

love all of those. picky and mochi are so good and i haven’t tried wagashi but i just looked it up and it looks so yummy? i will have to try it.

as for side chara hcs:

-cris was the kid who’d always beg kids to play mermaids with her at the pool

-kim loves warrior cats. she hates reading with the exception of warrior cats and wings of fire and series of those genre lol

-mikhael & angel watch a lot of old anime together. they get super invested and try to act out certain scenes themselves afterwards

-daphne and bowen set up small pranks around faraway in their spare time- it’s usually daphnes lead with bowen to follow but they have fun

-polly watches crime and psychology shows when they’re on. as such she finds herself often psychoanalyzing people in her day to day life and playing detective without meaning too. she’s surprisingly decent at it for her otherwise base level knowledge lol

and that’s all i got for the moment!

[galaxypopper]

I call this one 'I have parental trauma'

[hugyourgoalies]

this knowledge is useless but if you add cale makar and bowen byram’s ages together (41) they still aren’t as old as zdeno chara (43)

[ahndraste]

if i see even one of you heathens villainizing tyrone or tandy for anything i 🔪will 🔪 come 🔪 for 🔪 you 🔪

[akashiayakashi]

Here comes romance mini reviewssssssss both adult and new adult

disclaimer: my opinions are my own and just bc I didn’t enjoy smth doesn’t mean you wouldn’t~

My Favorite Half-night Stand by Christina Lauren 6.5/10 It was decent to fly thru but hmmm wasn't really fond of the characters or the plot progression now that I think about it. There's just a lack of development and honestly I feel like this duo writes the same sort of people going with the books I have tried from them (dropped the other two bc the charas just plain annoyed me). Probs not gonna try from them again.

Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy 9/10 tw: homophobia Really enjoyable and I liked how we explored all the things they had to face bc they got together and he's a whole famous celebrity. I don't usually like things about established couples but I liked this one. Idk if I'll continue tho since I was p satisfied with this and I kinda want it not to be ruined if there's the potential of that happening if that makes any sense.

Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy 7.5/10 tw: homophobia I enjoyed this for what it was but I wish there was more devt of the charas outside their relationship (like with other people bc I felt that it lacked that even tho I thought the whole career existential crisis was a nice addition).

Wolfsong by T. J. Klune 11/10 tw: graphic depictions of violence I loved this one. It made me laugh so hard and cry so hard. I love them ok

Ravensong by T. J. Klune 8.5/10 tw: graphic depictions of violence I feel like Gordo is not my kinda guy so I was frustrated a lot. And I know repetition is a technique and everything but I think this pushe a little far with it bc at some point I was like "I GET IT". Still an enjoyable read and wow that plot progression went hard. A lot of things happened that made me genuinely worried about the outcome of what was going on. Looking forward to the 3rd and 4th book later this year!

Lovesong by T. J. Klune 10/10 This is technically a novella (or like a super short introspection of Elizabeth). Loved it all the same. I love Elizabeth and Thomas and ofc this made me cry hard.

Red, White, Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 8.7/10 This was actually really good. Objectively, it was well crafted with complex characters and with complex social and political issues and did it well. I just think that the mains weren't the charas that exactly grab me and I've read a lot of ffn with Prince of Wales AUs that involved couples I was already attached to. This created a sort of unfair comparison in my head. I do recommend this one tho. It's objectively a 10, I just have some biased feelings.

[gothoffspring]

Introducing Chara and Jai Bowen, the newest Sims in The City! 🌆

Chara Bowen: Childish, Clubber, Hotheaded

Chara has big dreams. Big ol' City dreams. She's just started out as a Leaflet Distributor in the Nightclub career, hoping to one day own her very own hotspot. She loves socializing with all of the different types of people around, and spreading the juiciest gossip the city has to offer. You should probably watch your back, though, because if you talk shit you will get hit. She is incredibly close with her brother Jai, her only known family. They do almost everything together, and they've always said that they come as a pair. Chara has always taken her younger brother under her wing, protecting him from any and every mean comment and interaction she could (even going through his simstube comments and deleting the bad ones...). Now that he's building up a small following, and becoming far more independent, will Chara be able to let go and give her brother the space he needs to come into his own?

Jai Bowen: Geek, Family Oriented, Music Lover

If you're looking for Jai you'll usually find him in his room playing Road Rival Alpha with his online pals, the only ones he's really been able to make thus far. Jai is far better at communicating online than in person, which probably explains why he's started building up a little community of people who love watching him play online. He does have a day job, as a tech guru, but he feels much more passionate about gaming. He just started streaming about 6 months ago but he's never had this much fun before and he really feels like he's a part of something. It's given him a boost in confidence, and he finally feels like he's ready to get out there and meet the guy of his dreams. Who is definitely out there, somewhere.. And not the boy who visits every single stream who Jai is majorly crushing on. Will Jai be able to learn how to better socialize in person and meet all of the cute boys he's been dreaming about?

[werdegasts]

Okay, hit me with a dream cast for a classic horror movie! Any horror movie, pre-existing or not, hit me with those casting choices!

skfnshndb ok, mandatory disclaimer though that i’m a fool in a man’s shoes. nevertheless! here are some things sorta resembling dreamcasts

doctor x: but with glenda farrell in lee tracy’s role. IDEALLY ideally still with the romance subplot but i’d so take a version where they power-of-friendship thru it all too. also, if i was recasting the xavier institute doctors, john carradine and oskar homolka in there somewhere

dracula: you know what. we need a round table discussion on who should’ve played lucy’s suitors if they’d stayed in

frankenstein: george e. stone as “'victor moritz”’ (that name choice remains baffling). justification: i really like his scenes with mae clarke in ‘the front page’ (as earl and molly; >> their hgf actors imo!) in ‘the front page’, also he’s great (and almost unrecognisable) in ‘the vampire bat’. maybe, instead of an ersatz-clerval & spare love interest for elizabeth, 'victor’ could be an ernest/william(/justine) composite younger relative chara, probably meeting the latters’ fates.

kathleen burke in a 40s noir-horror. she could & should have played fab leads; 'murders in the zoo’ is more than proof of that!! as for actual dreamcasting, maybe as thea in ‘isle of the dead’ (my favourite of the less-praised rko-lewton movies, at least atm). i think if the ensemble cast were a little better balanced, the horror of thea’s situation should have been a centerpiece. her experience and pherides’ compliment and comment on one another. she’s threatened by the weight of others’ suspicions of her, a hostile micro-society; his standing & standards for himself create a trap of his own making, literalised when he imposes the quarantine in which they’re then forced together. you can see the same thread elsewhere, fulfilled to varying extents. stone and merriam in ‘the ghost ship’, and sims and nell bowen in ‘bedlam’ are prob the strongest examples, but i find thea most interesting because like irina (in cat people, not curse)/jacqueline/clo-clo, she too is classified as threat, mired in death, source or contaminant of ancestral supernatural destruction. and she…survives? (wow, tangent. i should’ve made a diff post for this)

son of frankenstein: of all the almost-happened castings to choose from, i really wonder about peter lorre’s version of wolf von frankenstein. & then if they’d had basil rathbone for gof, instead of inventing ludwig. vaguely related: basil rathbone should’ve played a lead in one of the corman/poe movies - he’s great in the 'the facts in the case of m valdemar’ section of 'tales of terror’

dracula’s daughter: feat. a flashback prologue & bela! probably made a few years earlier. as for dreamcasting; lil dagover, in a world where she stayed in hollywood after 'the woman from monte carlo’ in '32, as marya’s mother/mentor/ ❔ ❔

non-preexisting

here’s my galaxy brain take: universal DOCTOR FAUSTUS adaptation, as a bela lugosi and boris karloff collab (lbr, secretly this dwells in the hearts of all ‘the black cat’ (and ‘the raven’) stans). leaning towards boris as faustus and bela as mephistopheles but the reverse would also SLAP. since time and audience expectations are a flat circle the play already has the exact kind of irrelevant comic relief characters you would expect - so like. wallace ford as wagner. zita johann (hedy lamarr??) is there as helen of troy for all of 5 seconds and she glares at everyone then leaves. ideal

hashtag premake: VAL LEWTON’S CORALINE

i have one whole suggestion for a Modern Remake, naturally feat 0 casting ideas: 'the black room’, but gregor and anton are women. possibly gregor has a whole elizabeth bathory thing going on - if so, both of them eventually die by drowning instead of stabbing. lots about Doubles Fear + performance and violence of beauty + mirror images (true/false/same/different/self/voyeur) + treatment of disability etc

[sidekickhq]

mwf? chara & fcs pls?

of course !!!

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characters : iris west , clea , hela lokisdottir , valeria richards , hope summers , rachel summers , selina kyle , lisa snart , donna troy , komand’r , megan gwynn , jubilation lee , sif , dani moonstar , jean grey , shuri , kitty pryde , america chavez , jessica cruz , the runaways gals , zatanna zatara , cindy moon , hope van dyne , jade nguyen , mera , dinah lance , tandy bowen , vivi vision , stephanie brown , cassandra cain , kate kane , kara zor-el , jessica drew , pepper potts. ( if you meant mw children / families just shoot us another message ! )

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West Week Ever: Pop Culture In Review - 4/21/17

Star Wars Celebration (I can’t say that without thinking of Dave Chappelle’s Rick James yelling “It’s a celebration, bitches!”) happened in Florida last weekend, and we got our first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Folks seemed to like it alright. I’ve never claimed to be the biggest Star Wars fan, but nothing about this really gave me a Force Boner or anything. That’s probably because Rogue One left such a bad taste in my mouth. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll see it, but it’s not really on my radar.

In other movie “news”, we got the track listing for Awesome Mix Vol 2 from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2., which comes out today. Is it just me, or is it weird that Mama Quill gave Peter mixtapes of all the songs that played while she was banging dudes in Camaros? Come on – she was totally that chick! Anyway, there are no real surprises here, as it seems to be in-line thematically with the first volume. Personally, I’m ecstatic that “Come A Little Bit Closer” will be introduced to a new generation, as I’m a huge fan of Jay and the Americans (check out “Cara Mia” if you’ve never heard it).

This rumor came out a few weeks ago, but it kinda floated under my radar: apparently Warner Bros wants to release 4 Batman-centered films in 2019 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Detective Comics. This slate would include Nightwing, Gotham City Sirens, the Joss Whedon Batgirl, and the oft-delayed The Batman. Nice idea, but there’s no way this happens. DC just doesn’t have its shit together enough to pull this off. Marvel could do it, but they would’ve been planning it since 2012. It’s already 2017 and they expect to crank out 4 movies in 2 years? Shit ain’t happening.

Bring on the teen angst train, as we’ve got two more comic-based series just dripping with it! First up is Cloak and Dagger on Freeform, which looks like the Freeformiest show that ever Freeformed. It’ll be right at home between the show about the deaf girl and the show about the foster kids. I’ve never been a huge Cloak and Dagger fan, but the series follows teen runaways Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, who were kidnapped and injected with an experimental drug. The drug left Tandy (Dagger) with “light daggers”, while Tyrone (Cloak) has a mystical cloak that transports people and things to a dark dimension. Oh, and there’s that sweet, sweet interracial love/Jungle Fever aspect to things. Based on the trailer, it’s gonna focus more on the love thing than the power thing, which is understandable since powers are expensive on a weekly TV budget. I haven’t heard if this is actually considered part of the MCU, but it’s nice to see the Roxxon sign at the end, so there are clear ties to the universe itself.

The angst doesn’t end there, though, kids! We also got a trailer for Syfy’s Krypton series (which has since been yanked down) – ya know, the one that nobody asked for. It’s hard for me to get excited about Krypton when very little about that planet has ever seemed appealing. It’s most recently been painted as a cold, stoic, science-based society. And since they don’t have our sun, it means they’re powerless. Here’s what I don’t get about the trailer: the show takes place approximately 200 years prior to Man of Steel (I guess making it the first series to be an official part of the DCEU), but the monologue is of Kal El’s grandfather leaving a message for him. Um, how does he KNOW his grandson’s name is Kal El if he hasn’t been born yet? Anyway, it’s about Grandpa El, who happens to be a sexy, CW-ish twenty something, trying to restore honor to the disgraced House of El. The effects look nice (AKA expensive), but nothing about this show makes me want to see it.

There’s some laughter coming from a different comic-based series, however, in the form of Freeform’s New Warriors. I mentioned it a few weeks ago, but it’s been confirmed that Kevin Biegel of Enlisted/Cougar Town will be the showrunner, and we got a confirmation of the roster. Led by Squirrel Girl (who has never been a New Warrior in the comics, but I won’t harp on that), the team is comprised of Speedball, Night Thrasher, Microbe, Mister Immortal, and Debrii. I’m familiar with career Warriors Speedball and Night Thrasher, but I don’t know anything about the others. Considering Mr. Immortal and Squirrel Girl are Great Lakes Avengers characters, this is something of a hybrid team.

I’m the furthest thing from a foodie, but I love a good dairy-based gimmick drink, and this week featured TWO of them! First up, I’d read online that Burger King had been testing a Froot Loops Shake at certain East Coast locations, with plans to roll it out nationally today. Well, I traveled around until I found one that had it early (well, I didn’t travel too far – it was down the street from my apartment), as I had to see what the fuss was all about. I had heard it described as made from vanilla soft serve, with Froot Loops pieces, topped off with a sweet, syrupy drizzle. Sounds exotic, right? WRONG. Whoever thought of this probably got a bonus for the idea, but it lacks in the execution. It’s basically a vanilla shake with edible confetti in it. From Loops don’t really have a strong fruity flavor to them, so it’s not like it’s rubbing off into the soft serve. And when you do get some Froot Loop chunks through the straw, they just taste like flavorless corn cereal. I didn’t taste any kind of drizzle, and I kept waiting for the WOW to kick in. It never did. I drank this so that you don’t have to and, trust me, you really don’t have to.

Next up was the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino. I hadn’t even heard of the thing until Wednesday morning, when everyone and their mom was talking about it. Looking at it, I was reminded of the Birthday Cake Frappuccino that comes out in March (I remember this because it was out at the time Evie was born). I LIVED on those things for the two weeks or so that they were in stores, so I was expecting this to be more of the same. I wasn’t sure what flavor this one was supposed to be, but there were certainly visual similarities. Anyway, after dinner Wednesday night, I snuck off to the corner Starbucks to try it out. You’ve heard of a Butterface, right? Well, this is a Buttertaste. It looks cool and everything, but the taste…THE TASTE! Its marketing emphasizes that it magically changes flavors while you drink it, but I could never really nail down what those flavors were supposed to be. There was a pervasive muskiness to it, making me feel like I’d basically sucked off a real unicorn. Of course, that would be silly – everyone knows you’ve got to buy a unicorn dinner before it lets you do that! Then, near the end, the muskiness gives way to a hyper berry taste, reminiscent of the Blue Raspberry that candy scientists seemed to have discovered in 1992. At no point in the drink was it what I would call “enjoyable”, and even the whipped cream on top was disappointing. As far as I’m concerned, this drink can fuck off back to Narnia where it came from.

Things You Might Have Missed This Week

Bill O’Reilly was fired from Fox News following sexual harassment allegations. See, if he’d told Billy Bush he only grabbed ‘em by the pussy, he’d be President by now!

Nintendo officially ended production on the NES Classic, followed by rumors that an SNES Classic is coming later this year

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck were announced as the directors for Captain Marvel. I’ve never seen anything they’ve done (Half Nelson, episodes of Billions, and The Affair), so I’ve got no real opinion right now

Speaking of Marvel films, Black Panther wrapped production this week, as Hollywood braces for the return of every living Black actor

Will Smith is in talks to take on the classic Robin Williams role of The Genie in Guy Ritchie’s live action Aladdin adaptation. Obviously, Jaden Smith will probably get the role of Aladdin.

Stranger Things co-star Shannon Purser came out as bisexual on Twitter. Well, she’s bisexual in real life. She just used Twitter to announce it.

Director James Gunn announced that Guardians of the Galaxy 3 would be the final iteration of this lineup of the team

Black-ish was sold into off-network syndication, launching in Fall 2018

Jane The Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez will voice Carmen Sandiego in a new animated series coming to Netflix

Steve Harvey will host a revival of Showtime At the Apollo for Fox

Fate of the Furious debuted to $532 million internationally, beating the record-setting $529 million earned by Star Wars: The Force Awakens

With its original pilot rejected by Fox a few years ago, Joe Hill’s comic Locke & Key will have a new pilot filmed for Hulu

The X-Files has been renewed for a 10-episode 11th season. I couldn’t even make it through the last 6-episode batch they gave us, so I think this is a pass for me.

For the past 6 seasons, I have pretty much hate-watched HBO’s Girls. I hated Lena Dunham’s dumpy, Play-Doh body which was constantly on nude display. I hated all of her character Hannah’s “problems”. I hated her boyfriend Adam. I had convinced myself that I was really just watching, hoping that the characters would eventually be hit by a truck or something. Then, this season came along. Even through all my hate, I had to admit that this was a pretty strong season. From Hannah’s odd interaction with a bestselling author to Marnie finally realizing she sucks at life, there were some great episodes of television to be found in this season of the show. I was also forced to admit things about myself.

First off, I always knew I liked Shoshana because she had enough sense to know that she deserved better than the friends with which she’d found herself. And I definitely missed her once she decided to finally distance herself from them.  I also realized there was much more to the Ray character and, while they didn’t exactly put a bow on it, I’m glad they led us to believe that he had found a happy ending. Even a character as originally unlikable as Elijah had some strong development this season, and he was truly missed in the finale, even though this chapter of his story had come to a close. As I already admitted in my Get Out review, I had to come to terms with my crush on Allison Williams and, by extension, Marnie Michaels. Yeah, she sucked at life, but she seemed like the one out of the four who had Tony Starked her way into that situation; she was the cause of her own problems. Once she began to realize that, the character held more promise. And I realized I hated Jessa because she reminded me too much of girls I’d hooked up with in college: damaged, tattooed, pseudo-junkies who are lucky to still be alive. And I guess Hannah reminded me of girls I’d hooked up with post college. Yeah, I hated a lot about Girls because, I guess, I hated a lot about myself.

This Sunday saw the series finale of the show, and I wasn’t quite sure I was ready for it. After a season that had given us a pregnant Hannah, but also showcased the dissolution of the group’s friendship, I didn’t really know how they could “end�� the story. I was further distraught when I read an article last week saying that Jessa and Shosh’s final appearances had been in the penultimate episode that had just aired. While I would miss them in the final half hour, I had to admit that their chapters had also come to a close.

When we get to the finale, there’s a five-month time jump, where Marnie and Hannah are living in a remote house upstate, raising Hannah’s baby, Grover. Yes, that’s what she named him. Anyway, it was 30 minutes about what it means to be happy, but also what it means to be an adult and a parent. I like to think that Hannah finally grew up once she realized that Grover wasn’t another problem that she could simply run away from. The entire episode, she’s freaking out because Grover won’t breastfeed, but in the final seconds he finally takes to her breast. The look on her face is a mix of relief and maturity. It was then that I realized the show had to end at that point, as Hannah was no longer a girl. The entire series had been about millennial drama, as they skirted adulthood, but those times were over. The title Girls no longer applied to Hannah because she was now a Woman, with all the responsibilities that entailed. I used to worry about Hannah, and I sure as Hell worried about Grover when we learned she was pregnant. After Sunday’s finale, though, I think they’re gonna be OK. It was a finale that I had to give some thought to, but it didn’t leave me unfulfilled like Don Draper creating a Coke jingle only to end up hocking tax prep software six months later. For this reason, Girls had the West Week Ever.

[gothoffspring]

The sibling rivalry between these two is REAL. Chara is really REALLY good at blickblock and Jai refuses to accept that she can beat him (which she has, the last three times they've played). It ruins his Brand of being a Serious Gamer Boy™ 🎮

[gothoffspring]

the best outtake I've ever captured. i love them so much y'all

[gothoffspring]

I'm having so much fun exploring all these cool nightclub/karaoke bar lots, this one is the high note by haledela!

Cliff loves everyone and everyone loves Cliff. and it's not just bc he smells like dank either, though I'm sure it helps

also spotted my love Chara Bowen practicing some stand-up at the orchid a go go, and I realized she looks 1000% cuter in game 😍 I'm playing with her and her brother next!

[gothoffspring]

ball is life, or whatever..

had to do something other than go clubbing for once and Cliff is an active sim! He's joined by Jai Bowen, my girl Chara's lovely brother (who will be properly introduced soon!), Joaquin Le Chien and rando musician townie cliff met through work, who is still cute sorry townie we love u!