#character: simone nichols

[flatbstanley]

From Poppy’s Simstagram (@.poppity.pops):

Finally 13 and finally on Simsta!!

@.just.simone: love you <3 <3 <3 @.gianna.grace: Happy birthday. Think about the message your dress is sending. @.just.simone: shut up gia @.gianna.grace: That's not very Christian of you. @.just.simone: and you're so perfect? please

[cctinsleybaxter]

exploding galaxy brain 'catch-22 caused the simon and garfunkel breakup -> mike nichols caused the simon and garfunkel breakup -> dunbar's dismissal as an ancillary character rather than a secondary character caused the simon and garfunkel breakup' (true ending)

[loulou-land]

✨Blorbo Poll✨

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Thank you so so so much for the tag! @aplaceinme 💕

Wow narrowing it down to five was rough. But here they are!

Tagging: @jamesandanthony @poobur79 @half-oz-eddie @streakyglasses

No pressure and sorry if you’ve been tagged already!

[buffdaddyphoenix]

What the gen z ace attorney characters watch on tik tok

Apollo

Cat tik tok!!!

Gets a lot of motivational vid tik toks and hes rly not sure why

But its coz he's also on self-depreciation + mento ewness tik tok 💀

Athena

Dog tik tok

Is on workout tik tok and bookmarks all the vids but never does them 💀

Maya

Cmon u already KNOW she's on cosplay tik tok

Also on the horrific obscure meme/comedy tik tok

Has been using tik tok since it officially became tik tok from musical.ly so she's been there since the "hit or miss" days

Simon

Also on cosplay tik tok

(He and maya follow each other and send vids to each other frequently)

Also on Japanese tik tok

On eboy tik tok but he doesn't know why and is trying to get off it by tricking the algorithm but what he doesn't know is that he's making it worse and putting more eboy content on his fyp

Franziska

On lesbian tik tok

Idk why but she strikes me as the kind of gal to be on cottagecore tik tok and fashion tik tok too

Ema

Animal tik tok

Science tik tok

Watches vsauce too, probably

Kay

Hacker tik tok (even tho she doesn't know shit abt computers she likes to daydream abt implementing it as a great thief)

Gets a bunch of tik toks with those filters and uses all of them and posts all of her results!

Klavier

Sorry to break it to you but he's on normie weird-ass-horny-teenager-dancing tik tok

Hes prolly a tik tok celebrity and is the ones posting the vids tbh

Has been using it since musical.ly days (and was a celebrity on it too) and effortlessly transitioned to tik tok

Daryan

Right up there with klavier

EVEN HORNIER THO LIKE GOD

hes the one who makes the "duet this vid!" coz its a weird horny roleplay one u know how they go

Didn't start using it until he noticed klavier getting popular on it too so he joined in

They make horny duo tik tok dance vids together with their shirts off

Nahyuta

When he first came to the US he was quickly enamored with travelling tik toks abt khura'in

Spiritual tik tok

Keeps getting like tarot and astrology tik toks but he hates it coz it's like blasphemy

Cat tik tok!!!

Wocky

I havent played aa4 in literally forever but tell me why I can imagine wocky being absolutely bombarded with the "Amazon finds" tik toks and buying every little thing he sees off tik tok shop

Vera Misham

Tutorial/diy tik tok

Lots of recipes, art tips, mental health tips, etc. in her saved/likes

Asmr tik tok too !

Juniper Woods

COTTAGECORE TIK TOK NEED I SAY MORE

Frog tik tok, nature tik tok, u know the deal

Farm animal tik tok too

Is on horny anime tik tok but you'd never mf know it

Penny Nichols

Ma'am this cute girl is providing content on horny anime tik tok pardon u..........

If u have more ideas or disagree pls feel free to add them!!! I couldn't think of anything for robin newman, hugh o'connor, clay, and ....eustace... coz I haven't played aai2 yet lolll

[pennysperfectpolls]

so what are the submitted Penny stats like so far? If you want to share anything before the polls, of course.

I’d be happy to share!

We have 55 submissions and 26 unique Pennies.

Only three submissions I had to invalidate, two for being real people including myself, one for being the victor of the first tournament.

The character with the highest number of submissions is Penny Lamb/Jane doe from Ride the cyclone and legoland with 10 submissions. I’m not surprised since she had the 2nd highest submissions the first time around and was the only one submitted to the adoption poll.

She’s followed closely by Penny Nichols from Ace Attorney with 8. This one is a surprise since she only got 2 the first time and didn’t make it as far in the tournament.

Penny from Pokemon has 6 submissions but only one short sentence of propaganda.

Strangest submissions: someone sent in their club penguin character which i aloud in as an oc bc funny. Persephone was submitted along with an explanation of Pennyness and it was weird enough that i allowed it. (I submitted Leonie Pinelli last year so I can’t judge, I will happen again)

There are 35 Pennies submitted to last poll that have not been resubmitted and 10 brand new Pennies so far.

Number of submissions will be used to determine tournament seeding so feel free to submit repeat characters.

Full list of submissions under the cut

Number on the left is the order of submission. NP stands for no propaganda. S[#] is the number of submissions.

1: Penny Polendina (RWBY) s5

2: Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds) np

3: Penny Lamb/Jane doe (Ride the cyclone/legoland) s10

4: Penny (Pokémon) s6

5: Penny Carter (Project Blue Earth SOS) np

6: Pen Pen (Neon genesis evangelion)

7: Penny (Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog) s2

8: Penny Nichols (Ace Attorney) s8

9: Penelope Akk/Bad Penny (Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain) np

10: Penelope Eckhart (Villains are destined to die)

11: Penny Pointer (Tangle Tower)

12: Lieutenant Penumbra (Ducktales) np

13: Penny Pringleton (Hairspray) s2

14: Alfred Pennyworth (Batman) np

15: Penelope (The Odyssey) s2

16: Penny (stardew valley) s2

17: Penny Gadget (Inspector Gadget) s2

18: Penny (The Rescuers) np

19: Penelope "Penny" Bunce (The Simon Snow Series)

20: Penny (SpongeBob SquarePants)

21: Penny Luckstone (Dimension 20)

22: Penny Rescher (Hello From The Hallowoods)

23: Penny Fitzgerald (The Amazing World of Gumball) np

24: Pennyuin1 (Club Penguin OC)

25: Penn Zero (Penn Zero: Part Time Hero) np

26: Persephone (Greek Myth)

[misshollowayss]

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⭑⠀ 𝐢. ⠀ THIS IS A HATCHETFIELD/STARKID tumblr blog!! meaning that all of my posts will center around such as that! i plan to discuss my thoughts, my interpretations on canon charas, original characters and brainworms about the fandom too. i’m pretty excited and familiar with everything regarding the fandom and hatchetfield so yeah! dms are open, so is the ask box!! so feel free to dm/send me anything you want!! :DD

DNI⠀:⠀BASIC DNI CRITERIA!! hazbin hotel enjoyers, -17 year olds, proshippers, shit on my interests, asian-fishers, those who do not tag NSFW accordingly, anyone who will bash interpretations of characters and portrayals.

BYF⠀:⠀I AM AN ADULT ( 20 YEARS OLD ), i am audhd and getting to certain things is hard regarding my mental health ( please be patient! ), i openly brainrot and i selfship. i also tend to ‘kin’ seriously and make the characters i kin my personality.

⭑⠀ 𝐢𝐢. ⠀ “what should be expected of this blog, dalteoki?” you all ask. well, my blog is definitely going to act as a character dump and thought pile regarding starkid’s hatchetfield series.  below you will find my tag(s) used!! feel free to give those a looksie! note: these are subject to change / be added to accordingly !

⠀⧽ ⸅ ⠀♪⠀ ⠀ 𝕯𝙰𝙻𝚃𝙴𝙾𝙺𝙸 ⠀ .. ⠀ 𝚃𝙰𝙶𝚂 ! #─┈ ⟢ ⠀( teoki blabs ) : general yapping. #─┈ ⟢ ⠀( teoki writes ) : fanfics. #─┈ ⟢ ( teoki luvs ) : selfship stuff. #─┈ ⟢ ⠀( the black book ) : teokis hatchetfield ocs. #─┈ ⟢ ⠀( the good witch of hatchetfield ) : character thoughts. #─┈ ⟢ ⠀( in another life ) : au thoughts and ideas. #─┈ ⟢ ( the summoning ) : reblogs.

as a note, i do not have anything that i’m uncomfortable with, but ask if you’re worried that i’m bothered by something in particular!

⭑⠀ 𝐢𝐢𝐢.⠀  just as a warning, i do heavily enjoy canon/oc and then canon/canon rarepairs. i also do have specific interpretations of characters that will be listed under my canon portrayals! but i know that some people can get weird with canon/oc’s so,,, yEahmmm!!

MY PORTRAYALS OF CANON⠀:⠀ miss holloway, grace chasity, linda monroe, emma perkins, stephanie lauter, richard lipschitz, lex foster, hannah foster, karen chasity, elijah bailey ( officer bailey ), kyle claugher, stacy birmingham, zoey chambers, zach chambers, henry hidgens, alice woodward, jerry ‘boy jerry’, jerika ‘girl jerry’, danny ( stopwatch ), dan reynolds, tom houston, jane houston, wilbur cross, agatha waylon, willabella muckwab, wiggog y’wrath, nibblenephim, bliklotep, webby.

ཆི❤︎ཆྀ ᭮ 🎆 ♥︎⁎̯͡ ʔ

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS⠀:⠀evangaline goodreau, charles kingston, elsie kingston, ryder kingston, mengtao walker ( formerly li ), simon prince, mary-kate ‘mk’ evans, django leichtman, ella knight, jay knight, forrest dasch, morgana lidecker, shawn lauter, julia nichole bailey, elizabeth-ann claugher, gregory jägerman, albert jägerman, cynthia murray, jessica ‘jessie’ matthews. unlisted — half of the workin’ boys.

EXPECT SO MUCH TO COME REGARDING MY PORTRAYALS!! I HOPE WE ALL CAN BE GOOD FRIENDS :DD

[deathmetalangel]

ENVY’S MASTERLIST

this includes every character i write for and a link to their current personal master lists if i have works out for them (warnings may vary and minors dni)

this is in no particular order of character btw but my favorites will have a neat little asterisk

refer to what i don’t and do write in my separate post. also this is constantly being updated so don’t mind it much. you can always request a character if it’s not listed there’s no harm in asking :)

ADVENTURE TIME

- marceline*

- princess bubblegum

- marshal lee*

- finn

- fiona

AKAME GA KILL!

- esdeath*

- tatsumi

- akame

- kurome

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

- tate langdon*

- violet harmon

- kyle spencer

- nora montgomery

- moira o’hara

APEX LEGENDS

- bloodhound (no smut)

- wraith

- wattson

- octane

- loba

- revenant

- lifeline

- valkyrie

- crypto

AVATAR

- jake sulley*

- neytiri

- kiri

- neteyam*

- lo’ak

- aonung

- tsireya

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

- prince zuko*

- princess azula*

- sokka*

- katara

- aang

- suki

- yue

-jett

- ty lee

- mai

BIG MOUTH

- judd birch*

- val bilzerian*

- connie

- mona

BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA

- izuku midoriya

- keigo takami

- touya todoroki

- shoto todoroki

- katsuki bakugo

- himeko toga

- tomura shigaraki

- tamaki amajiki

CALL OF DUTY

- simon ‘ghost’ riley

- john ‘soap’ mctavish

- könig

- valeria garza*

- alejandro vargas*

COBRA KAI/ KARATE KID

- robby keene

- miguel diaz*

- johnny lawrence

- daniel larusso

- tory nichols

- eli ‘hawk’ moskowitz*

- demetri alexopoulos

DARLING IN THE FRANXX

- zero two

- hiro

- mitsuru*

- ichigo

DEATH NOTE

- misa amane

- light yagami

- l

DEMON SLAYER

- tanjiro kamado*

- nezuko kamado

- kyojuro rengoku*

- giyu tomioka*

- shinobu kocho

- sanemi shinazugawa*

- genya shinazugawa*

- zenitsu agatsuma

- inosuke hasibira*

- muichiro tokito

- mitsuri kanroji

- iguro obanai*

- tengen uzui

HAZBIN HOTEL/ HELLUVA BOSS

- alastor* (i fully respect his asexuality so no smut :3 since he’s not canon aro i still write for him)

- angel dust

- charlie morningstar

- vaggie

- loona

- millie

- moxxie

- verosika mayday

- stolas goetia

- barbie wire

- striker

- octavia goetia

- adam*

- lute

- lucifer morningstar*

- rosie

- the vees

HOCUS POCUS

- max dennison

- thackery binx

- sarah sanderson

MARVEL

- peter parker

- wanda maximoff

- pietro maximoff*

- tony stark

- natasha romanoff

- k'uk'ulkan*

- killmonger*

- miguel o’hara*

MID90S

- ray*

- fuckshit

- fourth grade*

- ruben (no smut)

- stevie (no smut)

MY BABYSITTERS A VAMPIRE

- jesse white

- sarah fox

- ethan morgan

- benny weir*

- rory keener

- erica jones

NARUTO

- naruto uzumaki

- sasuke uchiha*

- sakura haruno

- minato namikaze

- hinata hyuga

- neji hyuga

- itachi uchiha*

- shisui uchiha*

- kakashi hatake*

- haku yuki

- pain*

- konan

- sasori

- deidara

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2

- arthur morgan*

- sadie adler

- dutch van der lide

- mary linton*

- john marston

- lenny summers

- javier escuella

- mary-beth gaskill

SCREAM

- ethan landry*

- billy loomis

- stu macher

- sydney prescott

- tatum riley

STARDEW VALLEY

- alex*

- harvey

- haley*

- sam

- abigail

- emily

- shane

- sebastian

- elliott

- maru

- penny

- leah

STAR WARS

- din djarin*

- anakin skywalker*

- padme amidala*

- poe dameron

- luke skywalker

- leia skywalker

- ahsoka tano*

- han solo

- bo katan kreze

THE MIGHTY DUCKS

- charlie conway*

- adam banks*

- guy germaine

- dean portman

- julie gaffney

- connie moreau

- luis mendoza

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY

- conrad fisher*

- steven conklin*

- jeremiah fisher

- belly conklin*

- taylor jewel

TWILIGHT

- alice cullen

- jasper hale*

- rosalie hale

- edward cullen

- jacob black*

- paul lahote

- leah clearwater

- seth clearwater*

- bella swan

- alec volturi*

- jane volturi

- victoria

[real-south-park-confessions]

South Park 4th grade  characters Eye color Headcanon:

Adam Borque:  Dark brown

Allie Nelson: light Hazel

Andrew Sutherland: Dark brown

Annie Knitts: Chocolate brown

Ashley: honey brown

Bebe Stevens: Sea green

Beth:  Chocolate brown

Betsy: russet brown

Bill Allen: Cognac

Billy Martin:  Grey

Bobby Palmer: light Hazel

Bradley Biggle: ocean Blue

Brimmy: Chocolate brown

Butters Stotch: Grey Hazel

Clyde: honey brown

Craig: Gunmetal Blue

Daniel Tanner: Chestnut brown

David: Dark brown almost black

Dog Poo:  pure brown

Douglas:  Hazel

Emily Marx:  cornflower Blue

Eric Cartman: Cinnamon brown

Esther: Chocolate brown

Fosse:  Onyx

Francis: Hazel brown

Gary Harrison:  Electric Blue

Gregory:  Hazel brown

Heather Williams: olive green

Heidi Turner: Autumn green

Henrietta Biggle: Cognac

Isla:  Chocolate brown

Jenny Simons:  russet brown

Jimmy Valmer: Amber

Kelly P Gardner: light Hazel

Kelly Pinkerton Tinfurter: pure Blue

Kelly Ann Barlow: Cbestnut brown

Kenny Mccormick: Sapphire blue

Kevin Stoley:  Russet brown

Kyle Broflovski: Olive Green

Lannie:  Dark Hazel

Lisa Berger: Amber Brown

Liza Nelson: Onyx

Lola: Chestnut brown

Louis Handler: chocolate brown

Meagan Ridley: Forest green

Mike Cooper: Cognac

Millie Larsen: Amber brown

Monica Ryland: Honey Brown

Nate: Honey brown

Nathan: Seafoam

Nelly: Russet/Reddish

Nichole Daniels: Cognac Brown

Pete Thelman: Dark Hazel

Red Mccarthur: Amber brown

Sally Turner: chocolate brown

Scott Malkinson:  Honey brown

Sophie Gray: Amber

Stan Marsh: ice blue

Tammy Nelson: Chestnut brown

Theresa: chocolate brown

Timmy Burch: Grey-green

Tolkien Black: Chocolate brown

Tommy Turner: chocolate brown

Tweek Tweak: Russet/reddish

Wendy Testaburger: chocolate brown

-nods- i'm not tagging all those characters tho

[oscarupsets]

Sidney Poitier led two Best Picture nominees in 1967: In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Sadly, the latter is not the Upset this week, but that just means I'll have to return to it later.

Disregarding the fact that I feel like I just watched a Sidney Poitier film heavy-handed on race relations, In the Heat of the Night was a real treat to watch.

Poitier and Steiger's performances are the highlight of the whole film, even alongside some odd minor characters. The lighting and visuals are also super pleasing. There's a blip on the Wikipedia (that directs to a book I cannot access) that describes the attention to detail the crew used to light Poitier for a color film, opposed to his previous B&W.

The title song is also very catchy. It sticks in my head just as much as the song from High Noon.

The Graduate was the highest grossing film of 1967, and also had very catchy songs (given it's basically the same 3 Simon & Garfunkel songs over and over again).

Just as described in the Variety review, The Graduate is great for the first hour or so. I think Dustin Hoffman as a human can go kick rocks, but his performance in this one is just so ridiculous that it's perfect. He plays "overly anxious" so well, to the point that he's often caught in complete silence making small sounds at himself.

The ended seemed weird and incomplete, but I wouldn't discount the rest of the film because of it.

The 40th Academy Awards saw a major change - below-the-line crafts with B&W and Color categories (art direction, costume design, etc.) combined back into singular categories.

In the Heat of the Night dominated on Oscar night, but The Graduate and other top-nominated films still took home plenty of awards earlier in the season.

The Graduate was highly recognized for its direction from Mike Nichols. Last year's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was Nichols' directorial debut, and he will later become a competitive EGOT winner.

Surprisingly, In the Heat of the Night was not recognized by the National Board of Review in 1967, but has been recognized alongside The Graduate in all other major lists. The Graduate topped the original AFI list at #7, while In the Heat of the Night entered the updated list at #75.

Unofficial Review: This is not an upset. The Graduate was (is it still?) a classic and is fine to watch, but not even Mike Nichols can direct his way out of that unbalanced plot.

[simon-thomas]

I'm so happy I decided to check out your blog, you have some absolutely delightful art!

Could I ask to hear more about Stygian? He seems so neat and I absolutely adore those backroom pieces.

I don't know anything about backrooms other than that they're liminal spaces(?), but I've been seeing photos like that on Pinterest and I ALSO keep mentally putting mer in them, but I've been too busy to draw them. Seeing your pieces makes me super happy, they look so fucking cool!

And, last but not least, who are your other critters? They seem super interesting from the art you've posted for them so far. If you have the time, I would love to hear about them too :)

Hope you have a good day!

- @emcscared-whumps

(tagging myself since i cant ask on my sideblog haha...)

Ok so. I don’t have all of Stygian’s stuff written out yet. If you want to learn more about the Backrooms, I’d look up Broogli on YouTube. All I’ve got for him at the moment is this.

1. He is an ambush predator who hunts in the Danger Zone and occasionally the Deep End.

2. His prey consists mostly of wretches and skin stealers but he will also eat wanderers who have drowned or been killed by something else. He eats everything except hair and clothing.

3. He is not actively hostile towards people and enjoys interaction with them. However, by technicality he is a man eater. It’s a bad idea to make yourself a legitimate threat to him.

4. He is unable to talk but does understand human speech. He likes interacting with people because he is very lonely.

5. You can pet him. Doing so will help restore sanity.

As for the other characters I’ve got on here, all of them are from two connected stories I’m writing. You’ve got Atlas and Varian harassing the Thalmor. Then you’ve got the foster family, Simon, Kurtis and Nichole. For the moment, I’m keeping details on them sparse.

[flatbstanley]

4:45 pm—Magnolia Blossom Park

Gia: My mom said that your grandma died.

Poppy: …Yeah.

Gia: Well, that’s too bad. Especially since she wasn’t a Catholic and she didn’t go to heaven.

Gia: Thinking everybody can go to heaven is called universalism, and Daddy says it’s one of the stupidest things our modern age has come up with.

Poppy: …

Poppy: Just get out of my face, Gia. I don’t want to hear about your stupid dad or your stupid religion.

Simone: Gia was wrong, you know. I mean, what she said about your grandma going to heaven.

Simone: Father Jim always says that only God can decide who goes to heaven. But we know that God loves everybody and wants all of us to be with him, so we can always have a lot of hope.

Poppy: I-I thought that you believed like Gia did. She told me you were best friends at church.

Simone: She just says that 'cause I'm the only one who's not super mean to her. My mom says we don't have to be friends, but I have to treat her with "basic respect." Everybody knows that she and her dad are crazy, though.

Simone: Anyway...besties forever?

Poppy: Besties forever.

[crazy-crayy]

╰┈➤Name: you can just call me Kitty!

╰┈➤I'M A MINOR

╰┈➤gender: female

╰┈➤hobbies: art, music, sleep, videogames

╰┈➤Favorite characters :Simon Henriksson, Ame - Chan , P- Chan, Tomoko Kuroki, Ena,Lain, BoJack, Sarah Lynn, Nichole,JeckaEtc

╰┈➤TW: I am very mental ill and I will probably offend some people on accident

╰┈➤favorite person: MY GIRLFRIEND

ILYYSMMMM

╰┈➤Taken Anon Emojis - (none yet :c)

[justforbooks]

Alan Arkin, who has died aged 89, was a star at the beginning of his career and a beloved character actor until the end. Though best known for comedies, most notably Catch-22 (1970) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006), lightness was not necessarily his forte; even at his funniest, he exuded gravitas. “I’ve studied acting seriously,” he said in 1982. “I’m not the clown who wants to be Hamlet or anything like that. I just think that regarding oneself as comic means that one’s primary obligation is to get laughs.”

He could be a prickly figure. “Alan does not meet you halfway as an actor,” said the writer-director Marshall Brickman, who cast him as a brainwashed scientist in the science-fiction comedy Simon (1980). “He’s a very serious actor. I think he’s brilliant. But he’s not interested in winning you over via personality. The way he photographs has a kind of austerity that’s a little hard for an audience to take. You either like Alan or you don’t.” The Oscar Arkin won for playing a heroin-snorting grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine ratified his status as a US national treasure.

Arkin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Beatrice (nee Wortis) and David Arkin, both schoolteachers. As a child, he attended acting classes. The family moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11, but trouble befell the family when David was accused of communist affiliations (disproved posthumously) during the McCarthy era.

Alan studied acting at Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences (now California State University, Los Angeles) before transferring to Bennington College, Vermont. In 1955, he married Jeremy Yaffe, and became active in the folk music scene. Along with fellow members of his group, the Tarriers, he was credited as co-writer of The Banana Boat Song (Day-O), an adaptation of a Jamaican folk standard. (A different version was a hit for Harry Belafonte.)

After an inauspicious film debut with the Tarriers in Calypso Heat Wave (1957), he threw in his lot with acting. He made his off-Broadway debut in the late 1950s and joined the Chicago improvisational group the Compass Players in 1959. This led to a stint with the Chicago improv troupe Second City and his Broadway debut, in 1961, in the company’s show From the Second City, which he co-wrote.

Arkin did not forgo folk music entirely: he formed the children’s group the Babysitters, which also featured Yaffe until their divorce. The band was later joined by his second wife, the actor and writer Barbara Dana, whom he married in 1964.

He left Second City after landing the lead on Broadway in a 1963 production, Enter Laughing, for which he won a Tony award. In the same year, he wrote, scored and starred in the Oscar-nominated short film That’s Me. Norman Jewison gave him his first major film role in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), a comic take on cold war paranoia. Arkin received an Oscar nomination for his performance as a lieutenant on a Soviet submarine that runs aground in New England.

His range was indisputable. Comparisons to Peter Sellers abounded even before Arkin took the title role in the misguided, off-piste comedy Inspector Clouseau (1968). He accepted a rare villainous part in Wait Until Dark (1967), terrorising a blind Audrey Hepburn. In the same year, he played one of Shirley MacLaine’s lovers in Vittorio de Sica’s portmanteau film Woman Times Seven. He won a second Oscar nomination for playing a deaf man in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), adapted from the novel by Carson McCullers, and starred as a Puerto Rican widower raising his children in Popi (1969).

His landmark role came when he was cast as the anxious bombardier Yossarian in Mike Nichols’s film of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The New York Times critic Vincent Canby summed up Arkin’s appeal: “[He] is not a comedian; he is a deadly serious actor, but because he projects intelligence with such monomaniacal intensity, he is both funny and heroic at the same time.” The eight-month shoot was an arduous experience for the actor. “If they had shot footage of the making of the film,” he said, “it would’ve been a hell of a lot closer to the book than the movie was.”

Arkin had already directed several shorts when he embarked on his full-length directing debut, an adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s blackly comic play Little Murders (1971), set in a fractured and hostile New York City. The film’s critical reputation has grown steadily along with that of Arkin’s follow-up, Fire Sale (1977). Both pictures exhibit an acidic, rueful comic tone consistent with the mood of 1970s independent cinema.

In the same decade, Arkin played a long-distance truck driver in Deadhead Miles (1972), scripted by Terrence Malick; unsure how to market this eccentric road movie, Paramount shelved it, though it has surfaced occasionally on television. He teamed up with James Caan in the action comedy Freebie and the Bean (1974), with Peter Falk in The In-Laws (1979) and with Jeff Bridges in the 1930s-set Hearts of the West (1975). In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1977), he played Sigmund Freud, who welcomes Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) as a patient. He was a washed-up superhero in the Australian musical comedy The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) and a concentration camp prisoner in Escape from Sobibor (1987).

During the 1990s, Arkin’s movie career began its second flourishing. He specialised in sympathetic father figures in Coupe de Ville and Edward Scissorhands (both 1990) and Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), and played a desperate salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), the film of David Mamet’s play. He was also memorable as an assassin’s psychiatrist in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). An acclaimed performance as a troubled insurance manager in Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) attracted further awards.

The independent smash Little Miss Sunshine exploited Arkin’s contradictory qualities of coarseness and warmth. After that, most of his films felt minor: in 2008 he delivered another beneficent father routine in Sunshine Cleaning and a helping of spy antics in Get Smart, and was a twinkly editor in the family hit Marley & Me. More challenging was Rebecca Miller’s drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), in which Arkin played a man married to a woman 30 years his junior. His fond portrayal of a grizzled movie producer in Argo (2012), Ben Affleck’s thriller set during the Iran hostage crisis, was hugely admired and was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar.

He starred with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken as ageing crooks reuniting for one last job in Stand Up Guys (2012), and with Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman as retirees who plot to rob a bank after losing their pensions in Going in Style (2017). He was also in Tim Burton’s live-action remake of Dumbo (2019) and played a Hollywood agent in the Netflix series The Kominsky Method (2019) with Michael Douglas.

In 2020, he published Out of My Mind, which detailed his 20-year friendship with his spiritual mentor John Battista, though Battista’s full name is not mentioned in the book, nor his fall from grace (Battista was charged with the sexual abuse of several women and one girl) and suicide. The scandal caused a kind of paralysis in Arkin for six months, he told the Guardian in 2020. “But I doggedly went on and I’m glad that I did.”

He is survived by his third wife, Suzanne Newlander, whom he married in 1996, two sons, Adam and Matthew, from his first marriage, and a son, Anthony, from his second marriage.

🔔 Alan Wolf Arkin, actor and director, born 26 March 1934; died 29 June 2023

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Critical Quotes & Visual Resources: The Graduate (1967) by Rachel Powers

“'The Graduate,' the funniest American comedy of the year, is inspired by the free spirit which the young British directors have brought into their movies. It is funny, not because of sight gags and punch lines and other tired rubbish, but because it has a point of view. That is to say, it is against something. Comedy is naturally subversive… In the direct style of new British directors, the audience is the target of the joke, and the funny events do not happen in the movie -- they are the movie… When something funny happens, the actors don't react; the movie itself reacts by what it shows next.” – Roger Ebert (1967)

Even the original poster of the movie expresses the humor that Roger Ebert wrote about in his review. The quote "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future," paired with an image of the character behind a woman's leg pulling on a stocking, portrays the comedy that is to be found in this film.

"Simon and Garfunkel’s eerie and sublime The Sound of Silence perfectly captures both Ben’s alienation and bewilderment about what he should do with his life, and then his postcoital disenchantment and self-loathing. And Here’s to You Mrs Robinson, with its gentle reassurance that Jesus loves her, provides a note of final gentleness and forgiveness for this character that is really nowhere in the script." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (2017)

In the above clip, Mike Nichols uses the song The Sound of Silence to join together scenes of Benjamin's emptiness. Dustin Hoffman's vacant facial expressions pair well with Simon and Garfunkel's music to express the isolation the character is feeling.

The beginning of the song Mrs. Robinson starts at night when Benjamin is searching for Elaine. The intro of the song (instrumental, with the only lyrics being "de de de de") is dragged out while overlaying a few scenes as Benjamin continues his search. As dawn breaks, Benjamin drives onto the Bay Bridge towards Berkeley and the song breaks into it's full version. I find Peter Bradshaw's observation of this song's impact very enlightening. Although not in the script, the use of this song and it's lyrics does offer the feel of forgiveness towards Mrs. Robinson. From Benjamin's perspective, things are no longer about her - he has moved on with no need to pass judgement.

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✧— bad samaritan ↪ cale erendreich, derek sandoval, katie hopgood, sean falco ✧— the mentalist ↪ grace van pelt, patrick jane ✧— misfits ↪ alisha daniels, curtis donovan, jamie young, jeremy, kelly bailey, louise young, mike young, nathan young, ollie, simon bellamy ✧— my little pony: friendship is magic ↪ applejack, fluttershy ✧— red riding trilogy ↪ barry "bj" anderson, eddie dunford ✧— season of the witch ↪ kay ✧— the song of sway lake ↪ charlotte sway, nikolai, ollie sway ✧— sonic the hedgehog ↪ amy, bunnie rabbot, cream, emerl, maria robotnik, omega, rouge, shadow, sonic, tails, tikal, vanilla ✧— the umbrella academy ↪ allison hargreeves, ben hargreeves (umbrella or sparrow), diego hargreeves, grace hargreeves, klaus hargreeves, luther hargreeves, reginald hargreeves, viktor hargreeves (open to writing viktor pre-transition as well) ✧— wanted: dead or alive ↪ jason nichols, josh randall

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Ok here’s the preliminary bracket! Matchups were determined randomly.

Two characters will be eliminated from each match

If the have an * next to their name they will automatically pass this round

Match 1

Penina "Penny" Becker (Sunflowers and Lavender)

Will Penny (Will Penny)

Penny (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Penny Gadget (Inspector Gadget)

Match 2

Penelope Pussycat (Looney Tunes)

Leonie Pinelli (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

Penny Pointer (Tangle Tower)

*Penny Nichols (Ace Attorney)

Match 3

Phenny (Project Sekai)

Penny Luckstone (Dimension 20)

Penelope Pitstop (Wacky Races)

Penny (Fortnite: Save The World)

4

Penelope Redd (the Sims 2 gba)

Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)

*Penny Lamb/Jane doe (Ride the cyclone/legoland)

Penelope (VeggieTales)

5

*Penny (Pokémon)

Penny Morris (Fireman Sam)

Penny Rescher (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (Thunderbirds)

6

Penny (stardew valley)

Penelope Blossom (Riverdale)

Penny Forrester (Bolt)

Pennyuin1 (Club Penguin OC)

7

Penny Farthing (Doom Patrol)

Penny Pizzazz (The Sims 4)

Persephone (Greek Myth)

Penny Fitzgerald (The Amazing World of Gumball)

8

Penny (Animal Crossing)

Penny Carter (Project Blue Earth SOS)

Pennywise (It)

Penny (Big Bang Theory)

9

Penelope Taynt (The Amanda Show)

Penny Pringleton (Hairspray)

Penny Proud (The Proud Family)

Penny Owen (Glee)

10

Penny (Kindergarten 2)

*Penny Polendina (RWBY)

Penny Halliwell “Grams” (Charmed)

Pen Pen (Neon genesis evangelion)

11

Lieutenant Penumbra (Ducktales)

Penelope (Hamtaro)

Penn Zero (Penn Zero: Part Time Hero)

Penelope (Barbie as Rapunzel)

12

Penelope "Penny" Bunce (The Simon Snow Series)

Penny Pepper-Bean (Doctor Who)

Penny Valentine (Holby City)

Penny (The Rescuers)

13

Miss Moneypenny (James Bond)

Penny (Life is Strange 2)

Sir Pentious (Hazbin Hotel)

Penelope Eckhart (Villains are destined to die)

14

Penelope Featherington (Bridgerton)

Penny (101 Dalmatians)

Penny (Genshin Impact)

Penelope Wilhern (Penelope)

15

Peni Parker (Spiderverse/Marvel Comics)

Penny (Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog)

Penny Scavo (Desperate Housewives)

Penelope Akk/Bad Penny (Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain)

16

*Penelope (The Odyssey)

William "Penny" Adiyodi (The Magicians)

penny lane (almost famous)

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman)