#dr gilbert alexander

[themaddoctorappreciationclub]

Welcome Dr. Clef and Gilbert Alexander!

Dr. Clef - His knowledge on anomalous entities shall be useful for any member wishing to research them, as well as making sure other members know the proper precautions that must be taken when interacting with SCP 049.

Dr. Gilbert Alexander - He calls himself Alex the Great for a reason. His knowledge on engineering is marvelous. He shall be very useful for this club. Many members should ensure they meet him, since such knowledge should not go to waste.

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Doodle page!

Close ups under the cut!

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silly billy bioshock doodles

[jackjolene]

Justice Ending of BioShock 2

My favorite ending of BioShock 2 is the Justice Ending - the one where Delta saves all the Little Sisters and kills Grace Holloway, Stanley Poole, and Dr. Gilbert “Alex the Great” Alexander. I like it because it’s the ending where Eleanor is good and Sofia Lamb dies for her misdeeds.

If you spare any one, two, or all of the three NPCs (Holloway, Poole, and Alex the Great), you get the Mercy Ending, where Eleanor spares Sofia’s life. I dislike this because A) I believe that Sofia should pay for her crimes and misdeeds, and B) I doubt that she would stop being a horrible person if she is allowed to live.

Now, personally, I think that you should still get the Justice ending if you spare Grace. Her actions against Delta were fueled by a misunderstanding, and sparing her allows her to see that Delta is not the unfeeling monster she thought he was. Also, she begins helping Delta, which is something that neither Poole nor Alex the Great do.

An argument could be made that Grace deserves to die for aiding Sofia Lamb, for trying to keep you from saving the Little Sisters in Pauper’s Drop, and for trying so hard to kill you. As said before, however, her actions against you were because of a misunderstanding. Also, she believed herself to be protecting Eleanor, something that she had once failed to do. Killing her doesn’t have the same impact as does killing Poole or Alex the Great.

Poole is downright slimy. He doesn’t care if you save or harvest the Little Sisters; he sold Eleanor to one of the Little Sister Orphanages, he framed Johnny Topside as a spook, and then he flooded Dionysus Park, killing dozens of people. Out of the three NPCs, he deserves to die the most. 

There’s a funny thing you can do, though, whenever you decide to spare Poole: Put a few Traps Rivets on the door and then leave. That way, you can imagine him sweating as he tries to figure out how to get out of the ticket booth without getting riddled with rivets. Alternately, you could also use some Trap Spears for the same effect.

Dr. Gilbert Alexander, aka “Alex the Great”, is a bit more of a grey area. Before he fully mutated into the form you find him in, he wished to die, but was unable to kill himself. When you do find him, he is completely insane, but wants to live now.

Either way, I think he deserves to die. Back in the day, he was directly responsible for Johnny Topside being turned into a Big Daddy, and for the forced bond between himself and Eleanor. In his mutated state, he is as homicidal and dangerous as he is insane, and he is very insane.

To conclude, I think that the Justice Ending is the best ending of BioShock 2, and therefore it’s canon for my BioShock posts. 

Thoughts?

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Please note that a character currently needs at least 3 submissions to make it into the poll

That said:

Has 3 Submissions or more:

Achilles - The Iliad

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Batman - DC

Charlie Morningstar - Hazbin Hotel

Claire Fraser - Outlander

Clary Fray/Fairchild - Shadowhunters

Daphne Bridgerton - Bridgerton

Dean Winchester - Supernatural

Dr. Heinrich Faust - Goethes Faust

Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way - My Immortal

Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist

Elena Gilbert - Vampire Diaries

Feyre Archeron - A Court Of Thorns And Roses

Frasier Crane - Frasier

Gray Wing - Warrior Cats

Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye

Jimmy - Mouthwashing

Joker - Persona 5

Kirito - Sword Art Online

Makoto Itou - School Days

Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Miraculous Ladybug

Navier - Remarried Princess

Nesta Archeron - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Quentin Coldwater - The Magicians (books)

Scott Pilgrim - Scott Pilgrim

Tim Jackson Drake - DC

Tom Paris - Star Trek: Voyager

Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Yukitero "Yukki" Amano - Future Diary

Has 2 Submissions:

Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton

Animal Crossing New Horizons' Player Character - Animal Crossing New Horizons

Arthur Pendragon - BBC Merlin

BEOWULF - BEOWULF

Bloom Peters - Winx Club

Claire - Ship It

Dawson Leery - Dawson’s Creek

Duck Dodgers - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century

Eikichi Onizuka - Great Teacher Onizuka

Elizabeth - Bioshock Burial at Sea

Elric of Melniborne - The Elric Saga

Emiya Shirou - Fate Stay Night

Eren Jaegar - Shingeki no Kyojin

Ezra Bridger - Star Wars Rebels

Hazel Lancester - The Fault In Our Stars

James Bond - James Bond

Jaune Arc - RWBY

John Proctor - The Crucible

Kohaku - Dr. Stone

Odysseus - The Odyssey

Peppa Pig - Peppa Pig

Piper - Orange is the new Black

Rhaenyra Targaryen - House of the Dragon

Riley Matthews - Girl Meets World

Sasuke - Naruto

Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) - Scum Villain’s Self Saving System

Snow Villiers - Final Fantasy 13

Wade Watts - Ready Player One

William Afton - FNaF Ultimate Custom Night

Zack Morris - Saved by the Bell

Has 1 Submission

Ahsoka - Ahsoka Disney+

Ahsoka Tano - Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Akiyama Shun - Ryu Ga Gotoku/Yakuza

Aragorn - Lord of the Rings

Arek - So This Is Ever After

Ataru Moroboshi - Urusei Yatsura

August Landry - One Last Stop

Ayin - Lobotomy Corporation

Bakugou Katsuki - My Hero Academia

Beatrice "Tris" Prior - Divergent

Betty Cooper - Riverdale

Bill Dickey - The Eltingville Club/Welcome to Eltingville

Billy Buddy/Dr. Horrible - Dr. Horrible's Sing Along

Billy Hatcher - Billy Hatcher and the giant egg

Black Star - Soul Eater

Blake - Pokemon Adventures Black 2 and White 2

Blitzo - Helluva Boss

Bubsy - Bubsy 3D

Caleb Widogast - Critical Role

character Tommy - Dream SMP

Charley Pollard - Doctor Who

Charlie - Charlie's Inferno - That Handsome Devil

Choromatsu Matsuno - Osomatsu-san

Claire Danvers - Morganville Vampires

Clear Sky/Skystar - Warrior Cats

Colin Bridgerton - Bridgerton

Corrin - Fire Emblem Fates

Cory Matthews - Boy Meets World

Dal - Star Trek Prodigy

Damian Wayne - DC

Damon Salvatore - The Vampire Diaries

Daniel X - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Data - Star Trek The Next Generation

Dorrigo Evans - The Narrow Road to the Deep North book

Doug Eiffel - Wolf 359

Drizzt Do'Urden - Legend of Drizzt

Dr. Hanna Heath - People of the Book

Ellison Oswalt - Sinister

Emma Nelson - Degrassi: The Next Generation

Equality 7-2521 - Anthem

Frankie Landau Banks - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

Galadriel Higgins - The Scholomance Trilogy

Geralt of Rivia - The Last Wish, The Witcher books

Go Siwon - A Guy Like You

Hamlet - Hamlet

Haruto Kirishima - A Town Where You Live

Haruyuki Arita - Accel World

Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights

Hermione Granger - Harry Potter

Homer Simpson - The Simpson

Howard Roark - The Fountainhead

Humbert Humbert - Lolita

Jack Torrance - The Shining

James Bond - The Sean Connery James Bond Movies

James Holden - The Expanse book series

Jaypaw - Warrior Cats

Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek The Next Generation

Jeff Winger - Community

Jim Hopper - Stranger Things

JJ - Cocomelon

Joaquin Monegro - Abel Sánchez

Jon Snow - ASoIaF

Jotaro Kujo - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Joy - Inside Out

Jughead Jones - Riverdale

Kade - Down to Earth Webtoon

Kazuya Tsukasa - Kamen Rider Decade

Kai - The Witch King

Kang Jinha - A Guy Like You

Katara - Avatar the Last Airbender

Katnis - Hunger Games

Kaz Kaan - Neo Yokio

Keiichi Maebara - Higurashi when they cry

Kelsier - Mistborn

Khai - Theory of Love - Thai BL Show

King Arthur - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Korra - Avatar: Legend of Korra

Koyomi Araragi - The Monogatari series

Kun-chan - Mirai

Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass

Leroy Jethro Gibbs - NCIS

Lily Blossom Bloom - It Ends With Us

Lionblaze - Warriors (Power of Three and Omen of the Stars)

Luna - Retro

Luffy - One Piece

Lyn - Fire Emblem

Makoto Naegi - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Mal - Firefly

Manaow - Love Senior

Mark Watney - The Martian

Mary Poppins - Walt Disney's Mary Poppins

Merlin - BBC Merlin

Meursault - The Stranger

Mia - La La Land

Michael Burnham - Star Trek: Discovery

Mike Wheeler - Stranger Things

Miyo Sasaki - A Whisker Away

Mordecai - Regular Show

Nancy Botwin - Weeds

Natsuki Subaru - Re:Zero

Nick Carraway - The Great Gatsby

Nicole - Class of 09

Nightheart - Warrior Cats

North Italy - Hetalia

Okajima ""Rock"" Rokuro - Black Lagoon (Anime)

Okazaki Tomoya - Clannad

Okonkwo - Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

Oliver Armstrong - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Otis Milburn - Sex Education

Patrick Bateman - American Psycho

Piper McLean - Heroes of Olympus

Pippa Fitz-Amobi - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Ramona Flowers - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Ramsey Snow - Game of Thrones

Rebecca Bunch - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV show)

Remy the Rat - Ratatouille

Richard Cypher - Sword of Truth

Robert Langdon - The Da Vinci Code

Rodion Raskolnikov - Crime and Punishment

Rorschach - Watchmen

Rory Gilmore - Gilmore Girls

Roy Musang - Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Ruby - Max & Ruby

Ryo Saeba - City Hunter

Sabrina Grimm - The Sisters Grimm

Sabrina Spellman - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Sami Reese - Little White Lie

Satou Kazuma - Konosuba

Senku Ishigami - Doctor Stone

Sherlock Holmes - BBC Sherlock

Shiori - Six Crimson Cranes

Shrek - Shrek

Souji Tendou - Kamen Rider Kabuto

Spike Witwicky - Transformers IDW comics

Star Butterfly - Star vs The Forces of Evil

Stiles Stilinski - Teen Wolf

Sydney Atherton - The Beetle

Tai Kamiya - Digimon Adventure

Takao - Garden of Words

Tara Webster - Dance Academy

Tarl Cabot - The Gor Chronicles

Teriella Rufeon - My Husband Changes Every Night

The Beheaded - Dead Cells

Tom Wachowski - The Sonic Movies

Traveller - Genshin Impact

Ukiyo Ace - Kamen Rider Geats

Vanellope von Schweetz - Ralph Breaks the internet

Velvet Crowe - Tales of Bersia

Violetta - Disney's Violetta

Winston Smith - 1984

Wolverine - X-Men

Wreck it Ralph - Ralph Breaks the Internet

Yu/Ai - Final Fantasy Unlimited

Yuri Zhivago - Doctor Zhivago

Yuusaku Godai - Maison Ikkoku

Available for Resubmission (needs at least 1 resubmission to participate)

Aang - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Alex Eagleston - YIIK

Anakin Skywalker - Star Wars

Aquamarin Hoshino - Oshi No Ko

Ash Ketchum - Pokemon

Atsuko Kagiri/Akko - Little Witch Academia

Beca Mitchell - Pitch Perfect

Brambleclaw - Warrior Cats

Coriolanus Snow - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Eragon - Eragon/Inheritance Cycle

Erika Shinohara - Ookami shoujo to kuro ouji

Frank Reagan - Blue Bloods

Gregory - FNaF Security Breach

Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files

Harry DuBois - Disco Elysium

Katarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess

Kiris - On the Emperor's Lap

Kvothe - The Kingkiller Chronicles

Kyouya Sata - Ookami shoujo to kuro ouji

Mal - Descendants

Naofumi Iwatani - The Rising of the Shield Hero

Peter Pan - Peter Pan

Pucca - Pucca

Rand al'Thor - Wheel of Time

Rey - Star Wars

Rintaro Okabe - Steins;Gate

Scott McCall - Teen Wolf

Skullduggery Pleasant - Skullduggery Pleasant

Sophie Foster - Keeper of the Lost Cities

Stolas - Helluva Boss

Stuart Little - Stuart Little

The Tenth Doctor - Doctor Who

Tori Vega - Victorious

Wanda Maximoff - MCU

Wei (Ying) Wuxian - Mo Dao Zu Shi

Xander Harris - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Y/N - Fanfiction

Currently unavailable for a new Round:

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius/Celaena Sardothien - Throne of Glass

Artemis Fowl - Artemis Fowl

Bella Swan - Twilight

Bloom Peters - Fate: The Winx Saga

Bojack Horseman - Bojack Horseman

Caillou - Caillou

Dr Gregory House - House MD

Elsa - Frozen

Evan Hansen - Dear Evan Hansen

Ferris Bueller - Ferris Bueller's Day off

Harry Potter - Harry Potter

Heywood Floyd - Space Odyssey

Izuku (Deku) Midoriya - Boku no Hero Academia

Kazuya Kinoshita - Rent-a-Girlfriend

Light Yagami - Death Note

Meliodas - Seven Deadly Sins

Oscar - Shark Tale

Owen Grady - Jurassic World

Peter Griffin - Family Guy

Rachel Berry - Glee

Richard Rahl - Seeker of Truth/Legend of the Seeker

Robin - Teen Titans Go

Ross Geller - Friends

Ted Mosby - How I Met Your Mother

Tony Stark - MCU

Velma - Velma

Walter White - Breaking Bad

Zoey Redbird - The House of Night

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The Exhibitors Herald, June 1926

The first of the deluxe presentations was at the Forrest theatre, Philadelphia, Thursday evening. The audience was composed largely of members of the Advertising Clubs of the World, which was holding an international convention in the Quaker City, and the members of the Poor Richard Club. There were also present a large turnout of society, official and judicial life of Philadelphia. The other audience, which included Mrs. Coolidge, members of the diplomatic corps and Washington newspapermen, as guests of the National Press club, viewed the picture at a special screening Friday night at Poli’s theatre in Washington. General W. W. Atterbury; Senator-elect [and notorious political boss] Wm. S. Vare; Senator [and law professor] George W. Pepper; Lieut. Commander Geo. B. Wilson, U. S. Navy [not to be confused with the character from the Great Gatsby] ; Mrs. Barclay Warburton [civil rights supporter and journalist] ; Major Norman MacLeod; E. T. Stottsbury; Paul Thompson; Alexander Van Rensselaer; Mrs. Charlemagne Tower; Dr. H. J. Tily [department story owner, mason] ; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Reath; Frank Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Jos. N. Snellenburg [merchant in clothing trade] ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Block; Mr. and Mrs. Jules E. Mastbaum [movie theater and department store magnates] ; George Nitsche [possibly an affiliate of U. Penn]; Josiah H. Penniman [Provost of U. Penn] ; J. Willis Martin [a judge]; H. S. McDevitt; John J. Monaghan. Judge Buffington, of Pittsburgh; Thos Finletter [could be one of a a number of lawyers with this name]; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Einstein; Maurice Paillard, French consul; Robt. Von Moschzisker [justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania]; Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick; Geo. H. Elliott, director of public safety; Chas. B. Hall, president of City Council; Dr. Charles Hart; Rev. Wm. H. Fineschriber; Chas Fox, district attorney [could be a coincidence but Charles Fox III and IV are both currently lawyers in Pennsylvania]; John Fisler, president Manufacturers Club [golf afficianado]; Albert M. Greenfield [real estate broker and developer]; Jos. P. Gaffney; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Gimbel [department store owner]; Daniel Gimbel [brother and co-owner along with Ellis]; J. D. Lit; Richard Gimbel [son of Ellis Gimble]; Benedict Gimbel [brother of Ellis and Daniel]; Colonel Robert Glendinning [banker]; Benjamin Golder [member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives], Agnew T. Dice [President of Reading Railroad]. Dr. Leon Elmaleh [founder of the Levantine Jews Society of Philadelphia]; H. Gilbert Cassidy [a judge]; Utley E. Crane [author of Business Law for Business Men]; Cyrus H. K. Curtis [magazine publisher]; Chas. S. Caldwell; G. W. Cole; Hampton L. Carson [lawyer, professor, state Attorney general]; A. Lincoln Acker [Philidelphia port collector]; Max Aron [lawyer]; Eugene C. Bonniwell [a judge]; Chas. L. Brown; Edward Groome; Chas. L. Bartlett; Edward Bok [editor of the Ladies Home Journal]; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lorimer [editor of the Saturday Evening Post]; Edw. Bacon; Chas. Curtis Harrison [a judge]; Samuel S. Eels, Rev. J. J. O’Hara [future Archbishop of Philadelphia], and Bishop Thos. J. Garland, D. D. [Episcopalian bishop]

There were a bunch of Universal employees in attendance too but that's less interesting to me. Let's see who went to the Washington show

Both showings were under the auspices of Ambassador Henri Beragner of France and Marcel Knecht, French publisher and trade representative. Dr. Ferdnand Heurteur, leader of the orchestra of the Paris Opera House, came to the United States to conduct the orchestras at these two showings. Among the distinguished guests at the Washington showing were: Don Juan Riano, Spanish ambassador; Senor and Senora de Mathieu, Chilan ambassador; Raoul Tilmont, secretary, Belgium embassy; G. H. Thompson, second secretary, British embassy; A. J. Pack, British embassy; Eduardo Racedo and Madame Racedo, first secretary, Argentine embassy; Conrado Traverso, Argentine embassy; Dr. and Senora Velarde, Peruvian ambassador; Dr. and Madame Santiago F. Bedoya, secretary, Peruvian embassy; Senor and Senora Tellez, Mexican ambassador; Senor and Senora Castro, secretary, Mexican embassy; Ambassador de Martino, Italy; Colonel Augusto Villa, miltary attache, Italian embassy; Count and Countess Sommati di Mombello, Italian embassy; Signor Leonardo Vitetti, Italian embassy. Baron and Baroness Ago Maltzan, German embassy; Mr. and Madame Matsuidaira, Japanese embassy; Mr. and Madame Gurgel de Amaral, Brazilian embassy; Senor and Senora de Sanchez Aballi, Cuban embassy; Senor Don Jose T. Baron, secretary, Cuban embassy; Brigadier General Georges A. L. Dumont, military attache, French embassy; Mr. Jules Henry, first secretary, French embassy; Major and Madame Georges Thenault, French embassy; Captain and Madame Willm, French embassy; Mr. A. Konow Bojsen, secretary, Danish legation; Mr. and Madame Marc Peter, Swiss ambassador; Mr. Andor de Hertelendy, Hungarian embassay; Senor and Senora Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Bolivian embassy. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Smiddy, minister, Irish Free State; Mr. and Madame Simoposilis, Minister from Greece; Mr. and Madame Prochnik, Austrian ambassador; Mr. and Madame Charles L. Seya, Latvian embassy; Mahmoud Samy Pasha and Madame Samy Pasha, Egyptian embassy; Mr. Zdenek Fierlinger, Minister from Czechoslovakia; Mr. Simeon Radeff, Bulgarian embassy; Mr. and Madame Jan Ciechanowski, Polish minister; Senor don Manuel Zavala, Nicaragua embassy, and Mr. and Madame Bostrom, Swedish ambassador.

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I guess tvd and spn are the shows people go for little gatherings. Here’s a list of all the actors and actresses I’ve seen that I know very well from other shows so far

Steven R. McQueen

Jeremy Gilbert - The Vampire Diaries

Jimmy Borrelli - Chicago Fire (bro got on my NERVES OMG)

Courtney Ford

Kelly Kline - Supernatural

Vanessa Monroe - The Vampire Diaries

Taylor Kinney

Kelly Severide - Chicago Fire (also got on my nerves but a lot less than Jimmy)

Mason Lockwood - The Vampire Diaries

Dave Anders

Blaine McDonough DeBeers - iZombie

Dr Wales/ Victor Frankenstein - Once Upon a Time

John Gilbert - The Vampire Diaries

Lauren Cohan

Rose - The Vampire Diaries

Bela Talbot - Supernatural

Maggie Greene - The Walking Dead

Stephen Amell

Brady - The Vampire Diaries

Oliver Queen/ Green Arrow - Arrow

Sebastian Roché

Mikael Mikaelson - The Vampire Diaries

Balthazar - Supernatural

Edgar Waltz - Grimm

Claire Holt

Rebekah Mikaelson - The Vampire Diaries

Emma - H2O: Just Add Water (I never expected to see her)

Torrey DeVitto

Natalie Manning - Chicago Med (why so many Chicago Tri actors??)

Meredith Fell - The Vampire Diaries (also a doctor, wow)

Phoebe Tonkin

Cleo - H2O: Just Add Water

Haylee - The Vampire Diaries

Paul Telfer

Xander Kiriakis - Days Of Our Lives (I’m losing it right now)

Alexander - The Vampire Diaries

I will add more as I watch. Also these constant plot twist are making me confused and angry

[byneddiedingo]

Maggie Smith and Michael Palin in A Private Function (Malcolm Mowbray, 1984)

Cast: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths, Tony Haygarth, John Northington, Bill Paterson, Liz Smith, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter, Pete Postlethwaite. Screenplay: Alan Bennett, Malcolm Mowbray. Cinematography: Tony Pierce-Roberts. Production design: Stuart Walker. Film editing: Barrie Vince. Music: John Du Prez. 

A Private Function begins with Joyce Chilvers (Maggie Smith) and her mother (Liz Smith) entering a darkened movie theater where a newsreel is playing. We watch the newsreel, about meat rationing in postwar Britain, as the two women make their way to their seats, with Joyce scolding her mum for not finding a seat of her own. Then the lights come up and the theater organ rises from the pit. Joyce is playing the organ with her mother awkwardly sharing the bench with her. It's a nifty way to introduce not only two of the movie's key characters but also the era in which the film is set and the core of the plot. The newsreel also includes footage of the preparations for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Sir Philip Mountbatten, so we know that we're in November of 1947. The setting is a town in Northern England where the local dignitaries, led by the irascible, snobbish Dr. Swaby (Denholm Elliott, are preparing for a private function, a banquet, to celebrate the marriage of the future queen and prince consort. But how do you put on a banquet when everything, especially meat, is strictly rationed, and a diligent civil servant named Wormold (Bill Paterson) is enforcing the consumption laws with an iron hand? The banquet planners have found a way: They're raising an illegal pig. Eventually, Joyce and her meek chiropodist husband, Gilbert (Michael Palin), will get involved, especially after the would-be social climbing Joyce is not only frustrated by her inability to get around the rationing laws, but is also piqued by not being invited to the banquet. The only solution, it seems, is for Gilbert to commit pignapping and to hide the purloined swine in their home. The rest is farce in the manner of the British comedies made in the late 1940s and early 1950s, e.g., Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951), and The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955). It's raunchier and a good deal more scatalogical than those classic films, and it's sometimes edited a little choppily -- there are jump cuts where none are needed -- but it earns the comparison on the strength of fine comic performances by Maggie Smith, Palin, Elliott, and especially Liz Smith as the endearingly dotty Mother. ("She's 74," Joyce often interjects to excuse, explain, and even praise her parent's behavior.) 

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Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Sidney Deane: Wesley Snipes Billy Hoyle: Woody Harrelson Gloria Clement: Rosie Perez Rhonda Deane: Tyra Ferrell Robert: Cylk Cozart Junior: Kadeem Hardison George: Ernest Harden Jr. Walter: John Marshall Jones Raymond: Marques Johnson T.J.: David Roberson Zeke: Kevin Benton Dwight ‘The Flight’ McGhee: Nigel Miguel Willie Lewis: Duane Martin Self: Bill Henderson Self: Sonny Craver Self: Jon Hendricks Tony Stucci: Eloy Casados Frank Stucci: Frank Rossi Duck Johnson: Freeman Williams Eddie ‘The King’ Faroo: Louis Price Himself: Alex Trebek Reggie: Reggie Leon Etiwanda: Sarah Stavrou Tad: Reynaldo Rey Lanei: Lanei Chapman Real Estate Agent: Irene Nettles Tanya: Torri Whitehead Alisa: Lisa McDowell The Bank: Dion B. Vines Malcolm: David Maxwell Tournament Announcer: Bill Caplan Tournament Referee: Richard James Baker Big Guy’s Girlfriend: Amy Golden Little Guy’s Girlfriend: Jeanette Srubar Sponsor: Zandra Hill Sponsor: Fred P. Gregory Pickup Truck Driver: Carl E. Hodge Ruben: Ruben Martinez Oki-Dog Businessman: Gary Lazer Yolanda: Donna Howell Jake: Don Fullilove Jeopardy! Announcer: Johnny Gilbert Dr. Leonard Allen: Leonard A. Oakland Rocket Scientist: Allan Malamud Dressing Room Staffer: Jeanne McCarthy Cop: John Charles Sheehan Leon: Gregg Daniel Gambler: Carl A. McGee NBA Announcer: Chick Hearn NBA Announcer: Stu Lantz Ballplayer: Ronald Beals Ballplayer: Joe Metcalf Ballplayer: Mahcoe Moore Ballplayer: Mark Hill Ballplayer: Eric Kizzie Ballplayer: Chalmer Maddox Ballplayer: Leroy Michaux Ballplayer: Joseph Duffy Ballplayer: Pete Duffy Ballplayer: Gary Moeller Ballplayer: Daniel Porto Ballplayer: Lester Hawkins Ballplayer: Jeffrey Todd Film Crew: Producer: Don Miller Director: Ron Shelton Producer: David V. Lester Editor: Kimberly Ray Director of Photography: Russell Boyd Editor: Paul Seydor Costume Design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck Production Design: J. Dennis Washington Art Direction: Roger G. Fortune Executive Producer: Michele Rappaport Casting: Victoria Thomas Unit Production Manager: Ed Milkovich Set Decoration: Robert R. Benton Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff Makeup Department Head: Stephanie Cozart Burton Hair Department Head: Sterfon Demings Makeup Artist: Patricia Messina Hairstylist: Kenneth Walker Second Assistant Director: Robert J. Metoyer First Assistant Director: Richard Alexander Wells Sound Editor: Patrick Bietz ADR Editor: Barbara J. Boguski Sound Editor: Robert Bradshaw Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David E. Campbell Sound Editor: Larry Carow Foley Editor: Bill Dannevik Foley Editor: Michael Dressel Supervising Sound Editor: Gordon Ecker Supervising Sound Editor: Bruce Fortune Sound Mixer: Kirk Francis Foley Editor: Leslie Gaulin Sound Editor: Howell Gibbens ADR Editor: Holly Huckins ADR Mixer: Doc Kane Sound Editor: John Kwiatkowski Sound Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt Sound Editor: Anthony Milch ADR Editor: Michele Perrone Sound Re-Recording Mixer: John T. Reitz Foley Editor: Steve Richardson Sound Editor: Steve Schwalbe Foley Editor: Shawn Sykora Sound Editor: Richard E. Yawn Stunts: Gary Baxley Stunts: Simone Boisseree Stunts: Mike Johnson Stunt Coordinator: Julius LeFlore Stunts: Scott Leva Casting Associate: Jory Weitz Costume Supervisor: Betty Jean Slater Camera Operator: Mike Benson Steadicam Operator: Michael Meinardus Gaffer: Patrick Murray Grip: Mark Pearson Grip: Ty Suehiro Grip: Clay H. Wilson Grip: Edmond Wright Movie Reviews:

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A Year's Worth of Words

Shut

Anyway so things have gone very well. And also very badly. They went well because everything was bad. 2023 was easily the worst year of my life and that is saying something. Thankfully (?), I write my best when I am suffering like a motherfucker. I clearly took advantage of that here.

I can absolutely promise you that I wrote this story to survive. There was a point I had to recognize I was not, in fact, editing. I was reading my own work for fun. I have to stop and redirect myself to get any work done. I suspect that's why my output has stayed relatively stable after November 2023. (My general output is 15,000-25,000 words per month if I'm not under the spell of my own bullshit.)

I thought for sure I'd look back at the year and compare it to my current output with some shame, but nah. I truly don't foresee any more months where I idly fart out 60,000 words--and that's a good thing. A month where I'm writing 60,000 words is a month where I'm doing almost nothing but writing and that's not exactly healthy.

My total wordcount for 2023 came out to 370,918, and my total as of today is 537,949. I could've sworn it was more than this, and it's possible it was, as I allow the wordcount generator to subtract removed words and I moved tons of material back and forth between my Scraps folders (which aren't counted). Regardless, I'm not unhappy. The story is really coming into its own and I'm having a great deal of fun with it. My original aim was to make something unreasonably sprawling and enormous, and it is unreasonably sprawling and enormous. It has already eclipsed Stephen King's It (a book that is, according to fans on Reddit, 441,156 words long) and has the capacity to outgrow Tolstoy's War and Peace (587,287 words) and, most importantly, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (561,996 words).

Obviously, this means nothing about its quality. The largest fanfics in the world have already hit the millions and there are plenty of works that would be a billion times better if you knocked them in half. That said, I really think I'm saying something, and the story is interesting to me, which might say something? I don't know. It's highly self-indulgent.

I don't know how big the story will end up, but I will most likely have to go through afterward and start slicing it into more manageable chunks. I'm not writing to write, I'm writing to entertain myself, and someday I'd like to show this to other people.

In any case, my current project involves writing for Dr. Lamb, Eleanor Lamb, Grace Holloway, Simon Wales, Stanley Poole, and Dr. Gilbert Alexander. Every single one requires an arc and I have hit the quarter point of their stories as a whole. It's enraging. I feel like I should be done by now.

Sometimes if I get very angry I sneak over to the Guilty Pleasure part of the story and write on that instead. You can imagine what that's about.

[themaddoctorappreciationclub]

Welcome to the Mad Doctor Appreciation Club!

I am the receptionist, Mr. [REDACTED]. I hope you enjoy your stay at our highly renowned club! ... What do you mean you haven't heard of it before? That's besides the point. I'll give you the rundown.

This club, located in this old hospital, is home to the most genius of individuals whose work has been underappreciated! From the old workers from the Heilwald Klinikum, to that mercenary medic over by the operating table, every one of our beloved members has been underappreciated for far too long! We allow outsiders to visit and marvel at their ideas from time to time, but there have been certain... Incidents. Pay them no mind. It will be fine. Not EVERY member is hostile, so you should be safe.

Here is our list of current members. We are very relaxed with what can make an honorary member, too. An honorary member just means that you have never had a medical license or doctorate's degree before, but still hold the spirit of a mad doctor. If there is anybody who you believe deserves to join, either as a member or honorary member, please write their name at the bottom of this paper, in the section called "comments".

MEMBERS LIST:

•Dr. Daniel Dickens from Angels of Death

•Every Doctor from The Heilwald Loophole (Dr. Randolph, Dr. Wolfram, Dr. Hauser).

•Nurse Anne, Nurse Heideltraut, Nurse Sabine from The Heilwald Loophole (honorary members: work in the medical field)

• Dr. Steinman and Dr. Suchong from Bioshock

•Tanner from Scrutinized

•Victor Frankenstein (honorary member: never finished medical school)

•Herbert West from Reanimator (honorary member: never finished medical school)

•Medic from Team Fortress 2 (Note from Receptionist: keep an eye on him. He's so crazy, his medical license was revoked... You don't want to know why. We just call him Medic to avoid confusion with another member.)

•Dr. Takuto Maruki from Persona 5 Royal (Note from Receptionist: he's convinced he doesn't belong here. We assure you, he does.)

•Dr. Alfred Drevis from Mad Father

•Johannes Mimir Faustus from Servamp

•Dr. Zed from Borderlands (he doesn't have a REAL medical license, but he still has one. So, he is counted as a normal member.)

•Edward Richtofen from Call of Duty Zombies

•Victor Veloci from Dinosquad (research still being conducted. He seems to disappear from time to time. Recent sightings of dinosaurs reported from members of club.)

•Dr. Colress from Pokemon Black and White 2

•Dr. Yung from The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon

•Blue Medic from Team Fortress 2 Emesis Blue (note from Receptionist: we call him Dr. Ludwig, Dr. Fritz, or Dr. L to avoid confusion with another member.)

•The Doctor from Dead by Daylight

•SCP 049 from the SCP Foundation

•Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs

•Dr. Gilbert Alexander from Bioshock 2

•Dr. Alto Clef from the SCP Foundation

[arsont-t]

Hear me out, the bioshock cast but they are all working in a corporation (Andrew's) and it's a "the office" like romcom/sitcom.

[hopeheartfilia]

Okay, im gonna make a little list of myself of youtubers that i think are for Sure not plagiarising so i can own myself if im wrong and be like oh heres proof i didnt see that coming, which is needed because my memory is shit

As we are staring alphabetically,

Alexander Avila

I also personally dont think About to eat are plagiarising

Amazing Phill

Benadette Banner

Best Dressed

Brian David Gilbert

bricks and disorder (they have 2 videos about making furniture, its highly unlikely)

CJ the X

Contrapoints

Daniel Howell

Dr. Fatima

Drawfee show (i mean. hoe do you expect drawfee to even do that)

Drawing wiff waffles

Freya Holmér (pls watch the bezier curves and the splines)

ilymirBora

Innuendo Studios (that one is possible comparatively but im just manifesting that it isnt at all ever)

Kill Bearup

Micarah Tewers

Moon Channel (hopefully for me and what i absorbed about japanese rpgs but no guarantees)

Mothers Basement

Negative Legend

Nightcore Reality ( that one could ruin my memories of my teen years so were crossing fingers and praying to rhe uncaring univers ebecause im part of it and i care so it cares)

Overly Sarcastic Productions

Quinton Reviews

Sarah Z

Shippers Guide to the galaxy

The Eggo man

Unlearning economics ( i dont know enough about economics to actualy make this call but like. i dont think so if he is it counts and all)

Xiran Jay Zhao

Keep in mind ive only written down people that i follow, watch semi regularly or remember very well ans think dont plagiarize. A lot frankly i dont think about either way and also i often forget to subscribe to yourubers that i like

[vvatchword]

I don't think it's because of Atlas--i think it's because BAS heaped extra ick on the already icky Vox Populi commentary. You know, that explicit commentary that, "All violence is equivalent and everybody in a rebellion is equally at fault! If you fight against dehumanizing injustice ur a hypocrite. Checkmate, atheists!"

I've been building a BioShock timeline for nerd reasons... hence what follows.

(Spoilers follow, naturally)

In Burial at Sea, you have Vox Populi leader Daisy Fitzroy sacrificing herself so a white girl can have an awakening. This is a big "Oof" as far as plot points go: a pretty common racist theme in media is a POC character's erasure in order to elevate white characters and white stories--as in, the POC characters don't exist to further their own motives, might only exist to deliver a morality tale, and act as a teacher before being summarily executed. Same reason why "fridging" gets old--a character who only exists to die, and usually it's someone deemed expendable, except why the hell are the same kinds of people constantly treated as such? A good litmus test for if a character falls into Yikes Death Territory is if they are not treated as "whole people" in-narrative and work closer to Macguffins. So i don't doubt there are lots of sour grapes about Fitzroy and frankly, it's for good reason.

BAS managed to make her death worse--basically, to double down on, "This character only exists to elevate another character" (already gross) "and it's a black woman sacrificing her life for a white woman's in the most hackneyed way possible".

As to how well it worked with BioShock 2's timeline... first thing BioShock 2 does is break the timeline. I'm talking about the very first second: in Bioshock 1, there were no Big Daddies on NYE in 1958. Big Daddies were explicitly developed in response to the civil war (BS1, Dr. Yi Suchong, "Protecting Little Ones"). The civil war began on January 1, 1959 (BS1, Diane McClintock, "New Years Eve Alone"). So there is literally no way to resolve BS1 and BS2--they're at odds about one of their most important plot points.

If you have to make a decision between the two, I believe that BioShock 1's timing makes the most sense--until there's civil unrest, why would you a) need a big tank man or b) have sufficient corpses for ADAM recycling or c) have enough corpses guaranteed to contain ADAM or d) need to recycle ADAM from corpses at all?

Other failures of BioShock 2 canon include:

*Not understanding when Dr. Tenenbaum left Fontaine Industries (BS2, Gilbert Alexander, "Outlived Usefulness"). Tenenbaum leaves Fontaine Futuristics before Fontaine dies and the civil war begins (BS1, Dr. Suchong, "New Employers"; another possible connection for time and place might be "Fontaine's Breakup" by a paparazzi--might herald Tenenbaum's escape) and thus necessarily before the creation of Big Daddies. This is a rare case where we have a date: Fontaine dies on Friday, September 12, 1958. So whenever Dr. Tenenbaum left, it was before Fontaine Futuristics was nationalized, and thus before September 12.

*Writing Just the Worst Andrew Ryan in such a way that it was clear the writer only had a Cliffs Notes idea of what Objectivism is. Just. Gets my goddamn goat every time. I'd go off on it but I've already talked enough about shit that doesn't matter.

*J/K here's some bullshit: BS2's Andrew Ryan doesn't know what the chain of industry is. It's a great force outside of people that they pull on; the links are not the people unless you want collectivist imagery. The "weakest links" commentary might make sense out of Sofia Lamb's mouth, but not Andrew Ryan's (BS2, "The Great Chain Rattles").

*Eleanor as a Big Sister dragging Delta's corpse into a Vita-Chamber in full Big Sister get-up despite the implicit suggestion that she first dresses as such at the end of the game. (Admittedly, this one could be argued in other directions, but it confused me on my initial playthrough. "You mean you could leave this whole time??? What do you need me for?")

My point isn't that BioShock 2 should be hated, but that if you're going to pick canon as a reason to hate it... I mean, Bioshock 2's broken ass is exactly why Burial at Sea was screwed. BS2 is directly contradictory in multiple ways that break with BioShock 1 on bedrock levels. It makes far more sense to me that we can look at BioShock 2 as being completely divorced from both BioShocks 1 and Infinite; i don't think Creative Director Ken Levine was a fan (i vaguely recall seeing a quote from him like, "i wouldn't have done it that way..." but take this with a grain of salt. I'd look for it but I'm tired now).

Also, half of Burial at Sea's point was that it is an alternate dimension, so you can do anything you want there, technically.

On the whole, I think what happened was that the BAS story was already not any good, so the only part that really sticks with people is the worst elements of BioShock Infinite. Lots of great imagery, animation, and gameplay... but uh, Fitzroy elements uniquely and most definitely bad.

Hello, friends!

In spite of the advice of three Tumblr people, and - unbelievably - one random guy in a coffeeshop who overheard me talking to someone else about this, I played Burial at Sea.

And, well, yeah. You were all right. Guess I'm glad I played it once, but I'll never play it again. The sneaking element in Part II was a fun aspect, at least. No shade to those who enjoy it - it just ain't the game for me.

But I have a quick question for the BioShock tumblr; I'm not well-versed in BioShock lore, so bear with me, but can someone tell me how BaS contradicts the canon events of BioShock 1 and 2? I think I know why, but I'd like to wrap my head around it with people who know more than me.

Spoilers for all games under cut.

One of the main arguments against BaS was that it goes against established canon. Was this because of BaS!Atlas/Fontaine not knowing much about BaS!Jack? Because I was under the impression from the first game that Fontaine's whole schtik was that he was the person who single-handedly planned Jack's existence more or less. I was working under the assumption that Suchong and Tenenbaum worked with Fontaine on Jack, which is also how Fontaine knew about the 'Code Yellow' activation phrase about halfway through BioShock 1. Am I incorrect, or is this the contradiction? Or is there something else I'm missing?

Also I keep hearing about how BaS goes against 2 entirely, but I'm not entirely certain why. I googled it, and the answer seems to boil down to the bond between the Big Daddy and the Little Sister, and how Elizabeth was in Rapture two weeks after the NYE party where Delta was killed. But I can't get an actual, concrete answer that I fully understand - I was under the impression that the bond between Delta and Eleanor was of a different kind than the regular Big Daddy/Little Sister bond.

Thanks in advance. <3

[aquitainequeen]

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