#dylan and brenda even...

[rigginsstreet]

im really learning about myself i HATE the like lower class from the streets brooding boy x preppy rich girl trope like

brooke and lucas? hate

dylan and kelly? hate (dylan is very much rich but hes got the broody asshole part down so it counts)

tim and lyla? cant stand

marissa and ryan? didnt hate but like seth and summer were my oc couple

adult fp and alice? burn it kill it dead

i cannot think of one time this trope has ever worked on me like the closest i can think of caroline and tyler tvd but like...they hit different i cant explain it.

[vodkalcoholic]

₍₍⁠ ⁠ 🩶 ◝ TUMBLR INTRO ◟⁠ 🪽  ⁠⁾⁠⁾

🦴 # Vodkalcoholic 🥃

🪦 Rebecca or Emory

▫️She Her or He him

゜ France ,, FR;ENG 🥖 🥐 🇨🇵 🧀 🐀

▫️Seventeen ,, August 27th

゜ Schizophrenia , Autism , depression & Social Anxiety (diagnosed for all of them) 📝

!! Suicidal and Homicidal (in therapy so don't worry about it , i'm doing better 🫂 if you also suffer from Homicidal thought please reach out to someone ♡) !!

.· . ; Interests ⋆.°

What I listen to ִֶָ. ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ་༘

Nine inch nails , KMFDM , Powerman 5000 , Mayhem , Burzum , Darkthrone , Satyricon Dissection , Mütiilation , Bathory , Emperor , Hypocrisy , The Cure , Type O Negative , Siouxsie And The Banshees , KoRn , Limp Bizkit , System of a Down , B.S.o.D , Sigfrid , Këkht Aräkh , Slipknot , Megadeth , Metallica , BONES , Rob Zombie , Gorgoroth , Alcest , Gojira , Anorexia Nervosa , Psychonaut 4 , Lifelover , Coal Chamber , Murderdolls , Blod Besvimelse , Ramones , Rammstein , Godsmack , Static-X , Bad Religion , Skindred , KiTTie , Venom , Marilyn Manson , Jack Off Jill , Chelsea Grin , Cannibal Corpse , Oomph! , Gris..

Hobbies ִֶָ. ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ་༘

▫️Drawing (I draw Gore , my OCs and some tcc stuff) Writing (even tho i have dyslexia) , Collecting Vinyls and CDs , Watching icebergs videos when i have time

Fav TCC case . ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ་༘

▫️Kip Kinkel , Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold , Jeffrey Dahmer , Igor Suprunyuk & Viktor Sayenko , Brenda Ann Spencer , ilnaz galyaviev , Anton Lundin Pettersson , Timur Bekmansurov , Adam lanza

Random . ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ་༘

Digital , Traditional & Blood art request are all allowed , i'm a really chill person honestly I don't care if you're New in tc or nah we're all homies here , if you don't like my page or my art feel free to block me , also feel free to dm me I won't bite ! I'm mentally ill (french) I KNOW. I like green.. hmm green.. ALSO I only make tc Fanarts or things a bit "related" to it like DUCK! tchm, Elephant , Zero Day..

Alright bye , Au-revoir !!!

No dni as long as you're chill.

[justforbooks]

Françoise Hardy

Icon of 60s music who sang of love as a source of ‘wretched, profound, endless questioning’

Françoise Hardy, who has died of cancer aged 80, shot to fame as part of France’s génération yé-yé, the jaunty transatlantic and cross-channel collision between French chanson and American rock’n’roll that also produced Johnny Hallyday and France Gall. But from the start, there was something that set her apart: a wistfulness, a sentimental self-reflection, a poise that belied a lifelong shyness and insecurity. A 60s icon, as big, for a while, in London as in Paris, Hardy was, in many ways, the antithesis of that restive, revolutionary decade.

Unlike her contemporaries, when she sang of love it was about “suffering and frustration, illusion and disillusion; wretched, profound, endless questioning”. Her songs, she told Le Monde, were a necessary outlet: “I wrote about my experience … A beautiful, melancholic melody is what best transcends the pain.”

Men fell, in droves, for her timid beauty. Mick Jagger described Hardy as his “ideal woman”. David Bowie, “passionately in love” for years, courted her backstage, in dressing gown and embroidered slippers. In 1964, the sleeve notes of Another Side of Bob Dylan featured a whole poem “for françoise hardy/at the seine’s edge”. (Two years later, after a concert at the Olympia music hall in Paris, Dylan invited the singer to a party in his suite at the George V, one of the capital’s grandest hotels. In his bedroom, he played her two tracks from Blonde on Blonde: Just Like a Woman and I Want You. Hardy always insisted she was so starstruck she never got the message.)

But the love of Hardy’s life, the father of her son and the agonising inspiration for many of her songs, was the French singer and actor Jacques Dutronc, whom she met in 1967 and married in 1981. The couple separated in the 90s, but never divorced, remaining on good terms. “Love is a remarkable force, even if its price is perpetual torment,” she said. “But without that torment, I would not have written a single lyric.”

Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris, in the same maternity clinic at the top of the rue des Martyrs in the ninth arrondissement that had delivered Hallyday a few months earlier. Her mother was Madeleine Hardy, an accountant, and her father, Pierre Dillard, was a company director who was married to another woman. Françoise grew up in a two-room apartment nearby with her sister, Michèle, born 18 months later, and a solitary mother with whom Françoise had a “fusional, symbiotic relationship … I loved her probably too much – exclusively, unconditionally”. The girls rarely saw their father, who often neglected to pay his share of their upkeep and was regularly late with the modest fees for their Catholic education.

Weekends were spent with grandparents – notably an “egocentric, narrow-minded, frigid and emasculating” grandmother – outside Paris; many childhood holidays with friends of her mother’s in Austria, to learn German. Shy, dreamy, deeply ashamed of her unconventional family, Hardy turned to the radio, where in the late 50s, on the English service of Radio Luxembourg, she encountered a music – Presley, the Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Cliff Richard – that “affected me more than anything else. That ended up changing my life.”

Aged 16, she asked for a guitar for passing the first part of her baccalauréat. A year later, having passed the second part with honours, she taught herself a handful of chords “that produced most of my songs over the next 10 years”, and began writing. At the Sorbonne, studying German, she auditioned, unsuccessfully but not disastrously, for one record company, and started singing lessons.

Hardy’s contract with Vogue Records – who wanted “a female Johnny Hallyday” – was signed on 14 November 1961. She made her first TV appearance, in black and white on the state broadcaster’s only channel, six months later, and released her debut EP, featuring three songs of her own and a cover of a Bobby Lee Trammell song.

Her breakthrough came, rather incongruously, on the night of Charles de Gaulle’s October 1962 referendum asking voters whether France’s future presidents should be directly elected. In a musical interlude while the nation awaited the result, Hardy performed a track from her EP, Tous les garçons et les filles. The nation loved it. The song (sample line: “I walk down the streets, my soul in sorrow”) became a monumental hit in France, spending a total of 15 weeks at No 1 between October 1962 and April 1963 and becoming a million-seller. Within weeks Hardy was on the cover of Paris Match, plunged, still in her teens, into the whirlwind of the swinging 60s (which she detested: she disapproved of casual sex, avoided drugs, and could only ever remember being drunk twice).

Her first boyfriend, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer, ensured her picture – miniskirt, white boots, long hair, signature fringe – went around the world. Courrèges, Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne competed to dress her, for seasons at the Olympia in Paris, the Savoy in London, and shows in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Canada and South Africa. In New York, William Klein photographed her for Vogue. Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and John Frankenheimer cast her in films.

The hits flowed, recorded – some in London, produced by Charles Blackwell – in French, English, German, Italian, some written by Hardy, others not.

But at the end of the 60s, barely five years after she began, Hardy abruptly gave up performing live, and the cinema. “I hated what it all involved,” she explained. “Being separated from the man I loved, the waiting, the solitude, depending on the phone. And I’ve never been able to act. I can’t simulate, or lie. Songwriting, on the other hand … dives deep.” Life in the fast lane, she declared, was “a gilded prison”.

But she continued recording, releasing a dozen bestselling albums in France, of which she always cited La Question (1971), a sophisticated collaboration with the Brazilian musician Tuca, as her favourite. She duetted with French artists Henri Salvador, Alain Souchon and Benjamin Biolay, and later with Damon Albarn and Iggy Pop.

Hardy was never very interested in politics (she decamped to Corsica with Dutronc for the duration of les événements of May 1968, whose student leaders she distrusted), although she had strong opinions about questions such as abortion. Hardy was, however, fascinated by astrology, writing two books on the subject.

She continued to work in later life, despite claiming that her 1988 album, Décalages, would be her last. A string of new recordings in the 1990s and 2000s, a 2008 autobiography, Le Désespoir des Singes (the title apparently derived from a monkey puzzle tree in the Bagatelle gardens near her Paris flat, because its sharp, spiky leaves reminded her of “men who have caused me despair”), and her last album, Personne d’autre, released in 2018, appeared despite family and personal tragedies: Hardy was at her mother’s side when, suffering from Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, she died by euthanasia in 1994.

Hardy herself was diagnosed in 2004 with lymphoma, eventually recovering after an experimental form of chemotherapy – but only after she had been hospitalised, in an induced coma, in 2015. Three years later, another tumour was detected, this time in her ear. In 2021, she told the magazine Femme Actuelle (by email; she said she could no longer talk) that she would like to be able to choose to end her life, as her mother had done, and in 2023, in an interview with Paris Match, called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to legalise assisted dying.

Shortly before that second diagnosis, in 2018, Hardy reflected on a career that had brought pretty much every award French music can offer (plus a medal from the Académie Française), telling the Observer she had always been surprised that people – “even very good musicians” – had been moved by her voice.

“I know its limitations, I always have,” she said. “But I have chosen carefully. What a person sings is an expression of what they are. Luckily for me, the most beautiful songs are not happy songs. The songs we remember are the sad, romantic songs.”

She is survived by Dutronc, and by their son, Thomas.

🔔 Françoise Madeleine Hardy, singer, born 17 January 1944; died 11 June 2024

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[ghostradiodylan]

Can we just talk about Kaitlyn’s response to kissing Ryan for one second? (You know, not that we do that perverted het shit in this house /j)

Now if you’ve only ever made the correct choice kissed Dylan, you could be forgiven for thinking Kaitlyn is pretty into Ryan. She looks a little pouty about not being chosen here.

[Also oh my god she’s so tiny the beer bottle is huge in her little Barbie hand I want to squish her 😍]

This is right after the “shall we?” She doesn’t look unhappy… but she looks a little trepidatious. She does not look like she’s won the kissing Ryan Erzahler lottery.

Is it because Dylan’s giving her a real cunty side-eye? Hard to say.

[Look, they're besties and he'd literally die for her, but he's thinking about cutting a bitch right now.]

Pre-kiss. Does she look excited about this? She kinda looks dead inside to me.

[Why does she look like she’s thinking, did I leave the oven on?]

Immediately after…

Does… does she look pleased to you, my guy? She kinda looks like she just realized she doesn’t actually like men disappointed to me.

She kind of cringe smiles at this line. You would, right?

I just really want to know what kind of direction they gave Brenda here because my girl is NOT happy. There’s, like, a silent ‘ugh’ in this face! And we don’t know why! Is it because she’s worried about Dylan’s feelings? She didn’t seem that worried about him before the actual kiss. Is it because of the awkward silence that accompanied it? It’s not like she knows everyone would have cheered if he picked Dylan, only we know that.

Then she sits down and…

Well, guess that happened.

She looks significantly happier about Dylan kissing her supposed crush.

She could just be putting on a brave face for her friends, but Dylan can’t even see her yet and she’s already smiling.

And, of course, the game further affirms this because we don’t get the ‘disappointed’ chyron regarding Kaitlyn if Dylan is chosen instead.

So, I totally respect everyone’s right to ship them as a throuple, but when people say SMG should have just made them a canon throuple in the game I have to disagree, unless they were going to fundamentally change the characters and their reactions to each other in order to do it. (Other than Kaitlyn’s reactions here, writer/director Will Byles says Dylan is gay, not bisuxal, and we know he’s canonically pretty jealous.) And that’s not just my compulsory monogamy speaking, I actually think Nick/Abi/Emma would be a perfectly workable throuple and I’m surprised more people don’t write them that way.

But mainly I think Kaitlyn just… really isn’t that into Ryan. And I do wish we got more insight into her character on this topic and just in general. Is it because she knows Dylan likes him more than she does? Is it because she’s actually a lesbian suffering under comphet (or completely aro/ace and just not accepting it) and she had to tell Jacob something when he asked who she thought the hottest person at camp was, so she picked the brooding loner who never talks to anyone because that seemed safe? Is she secretly harboring feelings for Jacob and that’s why she’s so hard on her childhood friend about his relationship with Emma?? There’s just no way to know.

[shannendoherty-fans]

Vogue — Opinion

Team Brenda Forever

By Fiorella Valdesolo

July 15, 2024

Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection

“TV’s brashest 21-year-old talks revealingly about her wild past, her brief engagement, and ‘people who think I’m a bitch,’” the coverline next to a picture of Shannen Doherty reads on a 1992 issue of People magazine. A year later, on another People cover: “Out of Control! These days, Beverly Hills’ hard-partying, check-bouncing bad girl may be going way too far.”

In the ’90s—before a wave of early-aughts tabloids and bloggers like Perez Hilton made a mint lampooning young, female celebrities like Lindsay and Britney and Paris—Shannen Doherty was popular fodder. Drunken nights out, shotgun marriages, fights at the club, court-appointed anger-management classes, and other run-ins with the law were breathlessly chronicled for a celebrity-obsessed public thirsty to see the unraveling of the stars they tuned in to watch every week. Doherty was deemed unhinged, branded a liability. How the media treated her (and Drew Barrymore, too, for that matter) was a template for the years to follow, when such cruelty would become ever more commonplace and, with the dawn of social media, ever more accessible. Doherty was branded a bad girl; she was called difficult, a notoriously loaded term when lobbed at women.

But for teenage me, those were the very labels that made me fiercely love her. They were labels that Brenda Walsh, the character that arguably made Doherty most famous, had already confronted onscreen. When Beverly Hills, 90210 debuted in 1990, I was in junior high and already deeply familiar with Doherty from her roles as Jenny on Little House on the Prairie, Kris Witherspoon (opposite tween dream Chad Allen) on Our House, and as one of the titular mean girls in the seminal 1980s film Heathers. Brenda Walsh (played by a then 19-year-old Doherty) was introduced to audiences as a wide-eyed girl from Minnesota with a stretchy headband, mousy brown hair, and pastel-hued wardrobe who, along with her goody-two-shoes twin brother, Brandon, had been plopped into the decadence and debauchery of LA. “Nobody knows me here—I could be anybody, I could be somebody,” Brenda says to her brother on the show’s first episode as she anxiously considers what to wear on her first day at a school in a city that was definitely not Minneapolis. Beverly Hills, 90210 would dive into taboo topics like AIDS, domestic violence, eating disorders, suicide, and drug abuse, becoming a runaway hit for producer Aaron Spelling. All these years later, the show remains the pinnacle of teen drama, and Brenda its queen. (Let’s face it: The seasons after Spelling booted Doherty from the cast could never measure up, even with the addition of Tiffani Thiessen’s chaos-courting Valerie Malone.)

Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection

Over the course of the four seasons that Doherty was on 90210, Brenda would grow and shift, both in her look (along came the bodysuits, high-waist jeans, endlessly imitated dark brown hair with blunt bangs, and that signature knowing smirk) and her identity. We watched her decide to have sex for the first time (an episode that famously raised conservative eyebrows); contend with a pregnancy scare; fight and make up and break up (to the tune of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”) with Dylan; rebel against her parents’ arcane rules; try on new personas (bonjour, Brenda Dubois); get arrested (for protesting animal testing, naturally); and face the aftermath of a best friend’s betrayal. Yet Brenda would also face well-publicized backlash from fans of the show, as people began to conflate the character with Doherty’s off-screen behavior. (There was even a popular ’90s zine called the I Hate Brenda Newsletter.)

Brenda—or was it Shannen?—became the girl people loved to hate. Doherty once said in an interview: “People couldn’t separate me from her, and I got sick of people assuming that I was as naughty and bad as Brenda was. It was all very hurtful.” Though one was fictionalized, they were both up against the complicated pressures of adolescence and wanting to be taken seriously. Both on television and off, Doherty was passionate, she was intense, she was straightforward, she was self-assured, and for all these reasons, she was dismissed and poorly regarded. For those of us navigating our own coming of age, and simultaneously facing harsh judgment from our families and peers, we saw ourselves in Brenda—and, in turn, in Shannen. I know I did.

When the news broke this week that Doherty had died from cancer, prompting an outpouring of social media tributes and Instagram messages from saddened friends, I saw that others felt the same way. Part of the sadness seemed to come from how hard Doherty had fought to live; she’d recently shared on her excellent and refreshingly candid podcast Let’s Be Clear how hopeful she felt about a new course of chemotherapy.

But for many of my fellow Gen X’ers and older millennials, we’d also lost a part of ourselves. We loved Shannen Doherty, we idolized her, but most of all, at some point, we saw ourselves in a version of her. We were all a little wild once; we were all a little difficult. We were all a little Brenda.

[blackbirdi]

Too Late

Brief Description: Y/n has always held the heart of Minho, since the very first day they met. He couldn't say anything because his focus while they were in the glade was getting out, then it was surviving, and now that they're in the Safe Haven, it's a matter of building up his courage to ask her out. However, his fear of rejection has held him back for so long, maybe too long.

Point of View: 1st Person

Word Count: 1158

Character: Minho (TMR) x Reader

Y/n and Minho. Minho and Y/n. One had never been without the other. They were inseparable, joined at the hip. They completed one another.

And while both of them knew this, both of them were too scared to say anything. Too scared to fall even more in love and have one of them die. Too scared to share their feelings because they needed to be surviving. So they just went along their days pretending that they're heart didn't beat solely for the other.

Minho promised himself that he'd tell her the second he knew that they were safe, that they'd never have to worry about a Griever sneaking up on them, or a Crank coming around the corner. He promised.

However, when they reached the Safe Haven Minho was still too scared to say anything, too scared that she wouldn't feel the same, too scared that he'd ruin their friendship. He'd rather suffer with his feelings and still be her friend than ruin everything that's happened between the two of them in the last three-ish years. He loved her. He really did. And everyone (aside from Y/n) could see that.

He survived the Glade for her. Had a reason to run through that maze, it was her. He survived the scorch. Had a reason to push through that pain the lightning strike gave him, it was her. He survived their adventures in the Last City. Had a reason to go until the very end, it was her. He had a reason to keep going when Newt died, it was her (and Thomas and the others of course).

And God, did she love him too.

After she was done with her work for the day, she would sit by the Doors until Minho came through, immediately going over to hug him tight even if he reeked of sweat. Whenever he had a day off she tried to always be near him, even though she got told off by her Keeper, Newt, and Alby many times. Throughout the scorch she stuck by his side, just like she stayed with him throughout the last journey. Together they helped each other with the death of one of their closest friends.

But after a while, Y/n started thinking that maybe Minho didn't like her back like everyone said. And maybe he wasn't scared to tell her his feelings, maybe he just didn't have any. And after a while Y/n became hopeless that her and Minho would ever really be a thing. So, after a while she started to try and get over her own feelings towards Minho, all while Minho was trying to finally ask her.

And then, before Minho could ever expect it, Y/n was introducing her boyfriend to him, Thomas, Gally, Brenda, and the others. Some guy named Dylan.

Dylan was sweet. He was kind, thoughtful, caring, funny, strong, handsome, smart, anything you could want in a guy. Of course, everyone liked him, but something about him made Minho's blood boil.

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A few months later Minho watched them laugh together over something Dylan said, his heart breaking with every beat that Y/n wasn't in his arms.

He had the chance it was in the palm of his hand, the chance to admit how she helped him through everything he's ever been through. That he loved her with his whole heart, his entire being, with everything he had, everything he is, and everything he will be. But he didn't take the chance, he didn't take the damn chance because he was too scared, even though everyone was telling him that she loved him too.

He had the most dangerous job in the Glade, and he did it every day thinking nothing of it. Yet somehow, somehow, he found that being rejected was scarier than a Griever, a shucking Griever.

So he watched them, watched Y/n fall deeper in love with Dylan, as day by day he felt deeper in love with her. And it fucking hurt.

He had the chance, he really did, but his cowardice blew it. So now he watched Dylan throw his arm around Y/n's shoulders and press a loving kiss to her cheek, and he wished with all his might that he could be in Dylan's place.

"Hey, Minho," a voice from his side said, sitting down beside him.

Minho didn't even have to look to know it was Thomas.

"You alright, man?" Thomas asked, his eyebrows furrowing into concern as he saw Minho's expression. "You look ... I don't know ... defeated? Angry? Sad?"

"It's nothing," Minho brushed off with a shrug of his shoulders. He didn't want to talk about it. He hated even thinking about it.

Obviously, Thomas didn't believe him for a second. He followed Minho's gaze, to where he was gazing at and saw Y/n and Dylan cuddled up together, realizing immediately why Minho looked so upset.

"It's Y/n and Dylan, isn't it?" Thomas's voice dripped with sympathy as he asked Minho gently, not wanting to further upset him.

Minho glanced over at Thomas, sighing. He would never get Y/n, so what was the point in lying? He nodded.

"I'm sorry, Minho," Thomas said, patting his best friend's back sympathetically.

Minho looked down at the ground, trying to hold back tears as he ranted, "I want to be him so bad, Thomas. I just want to hold her like he does. I want her to look at me like she looks at him. I want to be her first thought in the morning. I want her to think of me when she's going to sleep. I want to be him! I can't believe I let her get away. Why didn't I just get over my stupid little fear and ask her? That could've been me, Thomas. That could've been me."

Thomas's heart sank at Minho's words, hearing the pain in his voice as he spoke.

"I know it hurts, Minho, but it's not going to hurt forever," Thomas tried to comfort him. "Life is full of disappointments and some hurt worse than others. But the thing is, you can't stay on that disappointment, otherwise it's going to take over you and you'll never be able to see the joy in other things. It's okay for you to be hurt over this, no one is going to tell you otherwise. But sometimes ... sometimes you need to move on."

"How?" Minho whispered. "She's what I've been living for ever since I got to the Glade. All of my memories are of her. How can I just 'get over her'?"

Thomas sighed, looking towards Y/n and Dylan before looking back to Minho.

"I don't know, Minho," he admitted. "But one day, I promise you, it will hurt less."

Minho looked up from the ground, looking longingly over at Y/n and Dylan. What he wouldn't do to be in his place.

"Yeah, I hope so."

[yankstrash]

bren gets called every b name in the book

brenbren, brenny, b, baby, booby, bren, brendan if you’re really mad, and sometimes bitch

i agree, every single nickname that starts with B is his

(like dylan) you use his full name once, not thinking anything of it, & he gets so offended & worried that he did something wrong

-

"brendan, could you bring me my water please?"

brendans eyes immediately dart up from his phone, whole body going tense.

"what did you say?"

"i said could you bring me my water ple-"

he cut you off. "no no. before that. what did you say?"

you turn around in your desk chair, giving him a confused look.

"you said brendan." he almost whispered.

"is that not your name?" you asked, laughing.

"not to you it isn't. it's bren. or brenny. or bren bren. or b. or baby. or bubba. or even brenda. but it isn't brendan. what did i do? did i do something wrong? was it something i said?" he frantically asks.

you couldn't hold in your laughter at your boyfriends paranoia of the use of his full first name.

"you didn't do anything baby, it just slipped i guess. don't worry."

brendan grabbed your water from your nightstand, bringing it over to you before wrapping his arms around your shoulders.

"brenda does worry, shnookums."

[mydaddywiki]

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

Physique: Stocky build Height: 6'3" (1.91 m)

Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB (August 22, 1934 – December 27, 2012) was a United States Army general. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq. Schwarzkopf retired shortly after the end of the war and undertook a number of philanthropic ventures, only occasionally stepping into the political spotlight before his death from complications of pneumonia in late 2012 at the age of 78. Schwarzkopf was survived by his wife Brenda and their three children.

The Trenton, NJ native was one of the memorable things about the Gulf War, at least for me. Just by the look of him, I think the 6-foot-3-inch 240-pounder with grim determined eyes, Schwarzkopf might have been a hell of a good fuck. And with nicknames like 'Stormin’ Norman' and 'The Bear,' it really helps the fantasy. Schwarzkopf came home to a hero’s welcome, appearing at a ticker-tape parade up Broadway, the Pegasus Parade at the Kentucky Derby in Louisville and an unusual joint session of Congress, where he received a standing ovation. Even Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a knighthood. And I would have offered him 'the goods' if given the opportunity.

Schwarzkopf was a burly highly decorated Vietnam War veteran who was easily angered considered an exceptional leader. But they miss the gentler man who listened to Pavarotti, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan; who loved hunting, fishing and ballet; and, like any soldier, called home twice a week from the war zone. Awww… now I feel bad for wanting to fuck him. Not really.

[fuckyeahimafangirl]

I was about 7 years old when I first watched 90210. Brenda was everything to me. Brenda/Dylan were pretty much my first OTP, even before that term existed probably. I was still a little kid when Kelly and Dylan cheated on her and I seriously believe that really impacted my view on relationships.

That show and what was said about Shannen when she was fired are some of my earliest memories.

And from that moment on, up until her last-released podcast episode, she's never left my life.

Charmed was the first fandom I was involved in. The first website I created. My first online friends that weren't just online for long. And Prue, of course, was a huge part of that. Prue and Piper. Their relationship on and off screen. I just loved them so. The episodes she directed on that show were some of my favorites. Very few episodes in history made me feel what All Hell Breaks Loose did.

She didn't change my life because there was not much to change before her. She was one of the artists who shaped me.

My heart is broken for the loss of such a force of nature, such a talented person, for a person who seemed so genuinely good, and for the things that I will not selfishly get to watch/hear. But it breaks even more when I think about people like her mom, Holly and SMG.

Thank you, Shannen, for absolutely everything.

[peppertaemint]

Brenda Walsh is such a cold-hearted villainess in the first year of the college years - I have zero sympathy for her re-watching this for the thousandth time. Like she really shit talked Kelly for having a mother and boyfriend who are recovering alcoholics and is jealous that she has actual trauma in her life to use to for their play auditions.

What kills me watching now in 2024 is the utter absence of cancel culture and how every episode is about making mistakes and learning from it. Everyone is screwing up and doing the wrong thing, saying the wrong thing, making egregious errors, lol, and calling each other out and getting a second chance. Maybe that was the most unrealistic thing about it all, even then.

Anyway, I'm so biased and always Team Kelly it's hard not to hate Brenda. Kelly drops out of the play because Dylan and Brenda basically convince her she's doing it just because Brenda wants the part, when the role is Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the director acknowledges that Kelly is a natural because of trauma and life experience and is giving the best performance. Imagine being a natural at something and your boyfriend and best friend are like, guilting you out of pursuing an unexpected opportunity. Evil.

AND. Brenda chokes at her audition, messing it up, and since she knew she blew it, goes to the director's house at night sleep with him for the part. 💀

[cuddlyreader]

I'd love to hear your top 7-10 OTPs! I'm guessing Leyton and Delena are both on the list?

Hello! I'm reusing my answer from an old post for this because I am proud of it. :)

Brenda and Dylan (Beverly Hills 90210) - As I have said before, I love Shannen Doherty. This show is the reason why. Brenda was my favorite character from day one, and her romance with Dylan was so intense and epic. This one has to be the first time an emotionally damaged character stole my heart. He needed her screaming and crying at him to understand that someone loves him because no one did until then. She needed his recklessness to temper her own. They grounded each other with their love.

Buffy and Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Watching these two fall in love and be unable to resist it was so much fun. They were actually doomed from the start. I mean…a vampire and a vampire slayer…that has tragedy written all over it. She literally killed him, and he came back from a Hell world (sounds familiar). Then, they fell right back in love (hmm, also familiar). They loved so hard, and their world was always in peril, which kept the angst level pretty high. For years, Angel wallowed in the torment of guilt that his soul provided. She gave him a purpose…her purpose. Her entire reason for being was to save people. She made him want to do that, too. He made her realize that not all monsters are evil and not all “good” guys are good. In my mind, they found their way back to each other and lived happily ever after.

Willow and Tara (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - These two had the most beautiful and sweet love, and I am bitter that the idiot writer killed off Tara. Shy, bookish Willow really grew into a powerful and strong witch because of this relationship. She could fully be herself, and it was amazing. Tara, sweet Tara, was so kind and compassionate. She held Willow accountable in her magic, which turned out to be pretty important. I won’t even get into the fact that at this time, there was very little LGBTQ representation on television. Yep, I’m still angry.

Pacey and Joey (Dawson’s Creek) - Dawson’s Creek is my comfort show. I watch it all the way through several times a year. There is nothing that soothes me like it does. When this show aired, there was nothing more enjoyable than watching Pacey and Joey fall for each other against their own wishes. Pacey knew first, and he tried not to act on it for the sake of their friend Dawson (I won’t go into how annoyed that makes me given that Dawson didn’t want her.). Joey fought it with everything she had for the same reason and also because it was so real that it scared the hell out of her. He pushed her to grow and become the person she was meant to be, and she accepted him as is without any expectations other than they would do it together. They had the best dynamic. They bickered and laughed and cried, but they worked at their relationship like you do in grown-up relationships. Even when they broke up, they cared about each other consistently. My favorite episode is when they get stuck in K-Mart overnight. Joyously, they were also endgame.

Max and Liz (OG Roswell and Roswell, New Mexico) - By now, I have established that I love intense love. That’s exactly what og Max and Liz had. Liz was very structured and academically driven. Max was very closed off from everyone including Michael and Isabel. He opened her mind and heart to possibility. She made him feel and be open about it. They loved so intensely that even supposed alien fate couldn’t keep them apart. I was so sad the show was canceled so soon, but I am eternally grateful that they were endgame and that I got to see it. They sort of switched the emotional roles of new Max and Liz, which I like. They would still do anything for each other, so they are still my OTP. Admittedly, I haven’t watched the last season because I’m sad about it being the last.

Peyton and Lucas (One Tree Hill) - Look, they were always drawn to each other, but their timing was awful. I loved how no matter what, they were there for each other, even if it was just as friends. Peyton was the broken one in this relationship. She lost too much at too young an age. Feeling so deeply terrified her. And let’s face it, Lucas was intense. He felt everything and didn’t shy away from it. It was immensely gratifying to see them finally be happy together.

Logan and Veronica (Veronica Mars) - Logan was a real ass at the beginning of this show, and they were full-on enemies. So, I can honestly say I did not ship them at first. The metamorphosis that Logan goes through to be a better man is truly remarkable. To be fair, they both have emotional damage in this one. Veronica copes with her losses by saving others, but her love for Logan scares her. They both had to work out their own stuff before they could successfully be together. Thankfully, we got to see that they made it. I have no comment about the killing of my beloved Logan.

Damon and Elena (The Vampire Diaries) - Anyone that follows me knows that these two are my current obsession. Damon has literally spent over a century and a half being abandoned and rejected by his father, mother, brother, and love. To say that I love him is the understatement of the century. He had no intention of falling in love with Elena. He wanted to save Katherine, and her rejection nearly killed him. He feels everything so much that he can’t cope, and then he snaps. Elena saves him. Period. She makes him feel human because she treats him like one. She expects him to care and makes him want to do better. And he does, starting with her. He loves her so much that it is palpable. Damon makes her look at herself and the world differently. He pushes her to be and accept her true self no matter who that is or who she is with. I am elated that they got their long and happy human life together.

Clary and Jace (Shadowhunters) - I love Jace with every fiber of my being. I just want him to have love and happiness. He did not get that deserved love from his parents, and he never felt like he deserved it after that. Clary brought him to life. She was caring and compassionate for everyone: mundane, shadowhunter, or downworlder. Loving her opened Jace’s heart to everything. I choose to believe that the ending we got means they find their way back to each other and live happily ever after. I know I could finish the books, but I honestly cannot read Cassandra Clare’s writing anymore. Besides, where they are in my mind is good for me.

Magnus and Alec (Shadowhunters) - Magnus is one of my favorite characters ever. He’s loved many times over the centuries he’s lived, but what he has with Alec is so much more. Like all shadowhunters, Alec doesn’t trust downworlders, but for him, it’s more than that. He believes he has a duty to his family, and being with Magnus flies in the face of that duty. Magnus not so subtly or easily pushes past Alec’s defenses. Once they get together, they make each other better, and it’s literally magical. Their wedding was everything I could have hoped for as far as endgame goes.

[rigginsstreet]

These writers were ROTTED!!! “I think I’m almost over you” “yeah me too” WHAT WAS THE REASON!!!!!

[zenmasterlover]

I’m a sucker for bad boy x good girl tropes! So here’s a few (some spoilers!):

Jackie x Hyde (That 70s Show)- very obvious

Rory x Jess (Gilmore Girls)- I WISH THEY WERE END GAME!!! I always thought Jess (or Logan) was the best for Rory. Jess had my heart from the beginning, it obviously helped that he was a pretty boy, but Jess was always gentle with Rory and had an academia side that he didn’t show because it would ruin his bad boy image

John B x Sarah (Outer Banks)- CANNOT GER ENOUGH OF THESE TWO! Their chemistry is amazing. Typical poor, bad boy and rich, good girl trope! Just a chef’s kiss

Brenda x Dylan (90210)- Dylan is so misunderstood and has a very dark past but when Brenda comes in, he changes for the better. I love how Brenda accepts him and helps him through his alcoholism and abandonment issues. When Brenda’s parents tried to split them up and they eventually parted ways, I cried like a baby

Blair x Chuck (Gossip Girl)- obviously Chuck isn’t your typical bad boy because of his nice upbringing but he does love blackmailing people and making people’s lives difficult lol! He loved seeing people’s lives fall to flames but Blair changed that. Blair also had some icky tendencies, even though she presents herself like an angel. But Blair melts Chuck’s tough exterior and bring out the good guy in him

Haley x Nathan (One Tree Hill)- OK HEAR ME OUT: Nathan isn’t a typical bad boy but he has his tendencies and isn’t very focused on academics! He has Haley tutor her. I really believe they brought out the best in each other and even got through a teen pregnancy together

Emma x Spinner (Degrassi Next Gen)- love how they didn’t get together in high school but ended up together after that fated night :)

Claire x John (The Breakfast Club)- touched on this last night. Their relationship disgusts me a bit though in the movie because John treats her terribly (don’t get me started on the scene where John is under Claire’s table and puts his head between her legs). I like to be optimistic and believe that after the movie, John was better to her now that they were something. I love the end of the movie where Claire gives him her earring and he puts it in his own ear! Fun fact: the famous walkout scene where John is on the football field was filmed at my high school (along with some other scenes!)

Rapunzel x Flynn (Tangled)- another typical bad boy, good girl trope! I love when he takes her to see the lights!!

Sandy x Danny (Grease)- Jackie would eat this up for sure

Jane x Richie (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies)- I love how Jane was like the leader of the Pink Ladies until a rumor and after she met Richie (leader of the T-Birds), she stood up for herself because he gave her courage

Belle x The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)- I just love them so much. It’s such a typical trope… the Beast has a soft spot for her after years of being a “hideous beast” and they start to love each other. This was my favorite princess movie as a kid

[jbuffyangel]

I realize no one's asked you a Beverly Hills 90210 question in awhile, do you think it went on too long? The more I think about it, it feels like it might (?) have made more sense to end after S7 when they graduated college, especially since the RIGHT couples (Brenda/Dylan and Brandon/Kelly) were together during that time (even if we sadly didn't see Dylan and Brenda onscreen). Do you think Luke Perry would have even still left in S6 if Shannen Doherty hadn't left at the end of S4?

I actually know a little about this. We can lay the blame directly at Jason Priestley's feet. He left in Season 9. They broke Kelly and Brandon up because Jason was leaving. Brandon cheated on Kelly (which is INSANE). They did get back together but then there was some reason why they didn't get married. ANYWHO, Jason Priestley said leaving was incredibly short sighted because Aaron Spelling wanted to end the series with Brandon and Kelly together. It's not like there were any big gigs Jason had to leave for and the show ended less than a season later.

So thanks for blowing up the plan Jason.

They invited Luke Perry back for the final season I think in part to give Kelly a happy ending, but yeah it was supposed to be Brandon/Kelly and Dylan/Brenda. I was 100% in favor of the show ending sooner to get those couples versus it ending in S10.

I'm not sure if Luke would've stuck around if Shannon was still on the show. Probably not. I think he left in S6 because actors get restless on tv shows, they miss out on gigs and Luke wanted to do other things. I would've been floored in Shannon stayed for six seasons. She was fired (over her friggin hair cut) but grossly unhappy. So IF she stayed another 2 years, I bet she would've left when Luke left too.

These were the endings we deserved.

[ghostradiodylan]

In general Ryan gets so mistreated and overhated by the fandom and it makes me sad because I really like Ryan even in my first playthrough :/ I get that the part where he was arguing with Laura about the existence of werewolves when he watched Nick transform and run out the window was kind of dumb but he’s all around a great character who’s brave and helpful and he helped save everyone’s lives in the best ending….

While I don’t agree with all of their actions I can’t bring myself to hate on any of the counselors. They’re all young adults who are stuck in a horrifying and traumatic situation, of course they’re going to be flawed and not perfect. It just baffles me how Travis, Constance, Jedidiah and Eliza do the most horrible things in the game yet people viciously hate on Ryan : (

Oh, the actual adults in the game are absolutely The Worst. (Even Chris, though I think he wants to help, is incredibly negligent at best).

I think there are a few things happening here that can turn people against Ryan (and I'm not saying anyone has to like him as a character, we all have characters we vibe with and ones we don't, but it's worth examining why we don't vibe with some characters especially when those characters are Black or other POC, LGBTQ, and ND-coded).

Ryan is a victim of some of the less compelling writing choices in the game IMO. They don't have anything to do with his character, really, he's generally well-written, but some of the things that were cut from the game, and the way the relationships unravel in the latter half of the game does Ryan kind of dirty.

First of all, his relationship with Chris Hackett isn't fleshed out enough for a lot of players to understand why he's willing to sacrifice so much on the hope that his mentor isn't actually a werewolf (or a deeply irresponsible asshole of a boss). If they'd left in the scene of Chris following up with Ryan about following his dreams and going to animation school and the initial confrontation with Chris that was patched out, where Ryan questions how he hid this from them all this time when he cared about them and Ryan trusted him (literally heartbreaking to watch tbh 🥺), it might have been a little easier for players to empathize with his loyalty to Chris. This kid has no known father, absentee mother, aging grandparents, a sister he clearly feels a lot of responsibility for, and his father figure who he goes to for advice left him in the worst possible situation. Of course he's going to be in denial about that and about him being a werewolf until he sees it for himself, and then Ryan has to kill him. It's so fucking tragic. And he doesn't even get a second to mourn or even react because the Silas plotline kicks in immediately (and they spent all the animated tears budget on Jacob).

Then there's Ryan's relationship with Dylan, which I could (and will) write about for days. Based on the game we got, plus the cut content, I don't think Ryan was ever supposed to have the option to get with Kaitlyn. I think that's a red herring that allows homophobic players to avoid a gay kiss (kind of a fucked up use of a BAMF character and Brenda Song's star power but, ok). I don't think he was ever supposed to get to romance Laura either. But I do think he was meant to be able to either end up with Dylan, or decisively not end up with him. If they'd kept the relationship system that we still have traces of but no actual structure for, then his ability to say 'maybe neither' to Laura wouldn't be something players held against him because it would have a basis in the choices we've made as Ryan (and Dylan) so far. As it stands, it feels like that is unsupported by what's happened in the game when we've had Dylan and Ryan flirting with each other and taking an obvious interest in each other since they were introduced.

Even if you choose the less favorable dialogue options, Dylan and Ryan are never really shown to be truly at odds (with the possible exception of the gun argument, but even that pretty much smooths over in the end). Even if you have them be hard-headed assholes to each other, they still have their heart-to-heart on the way to the radio hut (which I really think was supposed to have an alternative if they had low relationship stats).

Complicating matters is the fact that a lot of people really love Dylan. Obviously I'm one of them, I mean, look at my url and writing choices. I think Miles gives the best performance of the game, hands down (and I think all the actors did really well tbh). He's a great actor (his line reads are flawless and that sassy boy body language? I die.) but he also gets a lot to work with in terms of the script. Dylan is complex and compelling in a way that tends to be highly relatable for most people. He's probably neurodivergent (ADHD) but it's portrayed in a more palatable way for neurotypical people. Plus, as an audience, we are primed to empathize with the person who wants to be wanted, who is afraid of rejection, who has the cute crush that we want to see reciprocated and is trying not to get their heart stomped on. We've all been there! That's a centuries-old trope in drama and literature for a reason. And while Ryan does not owe Dylan reciprocation, we see some pretty clear signs of it at least being possible. So the game sort of dangles it in front of players like we can make that happen with our choices and then makes a half-baked attempt to snatch it away. That annoys people and, I think at least partially because Ryan's race and stoic demeanor (/autism) have people subconsciously primed to view him negatively, they take that out on him instead of the SMG writers who opted for that rather than fleshing out the relationships any further for the latter half of the game.

Like, yes, it's a horror game not a dating sim (Ryan and Dylan dating sim DLC when tho??), but you spend so much time building relationships that end up not mattering to the outcome of the game, I get why that's frustrating for people. It's frustrating for me! I just think being mad at Ryan over it is the wrong take. I still see people saying "Dylan deserves better than Ryan." Dylan and Ryan both deserve to exist in a finished fucking game where we have the option to get them together or not, but blaming whatever happens, or doesn't, on Ryan as a character is kinda trash.

[hybristohell]

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