#fa blaine

[mvalentine]

no because why did no one tell me princess swap lowkey slaps! esp the royalty side of the swap ugh clarke….. they are everything to me what an elite li <3

bonus cause i love these two they are everything to me! :

[cassie-thorne]

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[lostworldss]

also Foreign Affairs

choicenators rb this with a book that’s mostly disliked but YOU personally enjoy it this is our time to admit to the fun stupid books we like i’ll go first i’m a cursed heart, hot shot and slow burn apologist idc they’re fun and silly

[pupsmailbox]

VAMPIRE ID PACK

NAMES ⌇　acheron. adelaide. adonis. adrian. adrienne. aero. alaric. alfonso. alistair. allure. alluria. altair. amber. ash. asher. ashlin. avenal. bara. batte. belladonna. bianca. bitelle. bitte. blade. blaine. blair. blaire. bloodette. bloodie. bloodier. carmilla. cathedral. cecilia. celeste. chatelaine. ciel. claude. claudia. coffina. corbin. count. countess. crimson. crowley. dali. damienne. dirge. dorian. drac. drusilla. eleleth. elisabeta. elizabeth. elspeth. eve. fangcheska. faustus. felix. feronia. gorey. gossamer. gothita. guinevere. hemlock. hesperia. ivy. james. jasper. jericho. juliet. karnage. kings. lenore. lilith. louis. luci. lucian. luciel. lucien. lucienne. lucious. lyn. magnus. marce. melancholy. mercer. miriam. morcant. mortem. mortis. muse. nikolas. nosferatu. onyx. orpheus. pandora. princely. raven. rhys. rosalie. salem. sangue. scarette. selene. shadow. silas. silhouette. silvias. stoker. suckite. talon. valeria. vamp. vampira. vampiress. vamplita. vampress. vampyr. vampyre. velvet. velvette. victor. victoria. viktor. viktoria. vile. ville. vincent. virtue. xander. zak.

PRONOUNS ⌇　?/?. bat/bat. bi/bite. bit/bite. bit/bitten. bite/bite. bite/vamp. bleed/bleeding. blo/blood. blood/bled. blood/blood. blood/bloody. bloody/bloody. bur/bur. clo/clot. cof/coffin. coffin/coffin. cor/corrupt. corp/corpse. cro/cross. crypt/crypt. curse/curse. cy/cyr. dae/daemon. dark/dark. dea/dead. dea/death. drac/drac. dri/drink. en/tombed. evil/evil. fa/fang. fang/fang. grave/grave. gri/grim. grime/grimey. hau/haunt. hex/hex. horror/horror. it/it. ix/ix. kill/kill. mist/mist. mor/morbid. ne/nem. ni/nightlife. night/night. ny/nyx. pale/pale. phan/phantom. pyr/pyr. re/red. red/red. rot/rot. roy/royal. scare/scare. sharp/sharp. si/sire. spook/spooky. stake/stake. su/suck. syl/syl. teef/teeth. tomb/tomb. un/dead. un/un. undead/undead. upir/upir. va/vamp. vam/vamp. vamp/vamp. vamp/vampire. vampi/vampire. vampir/vampiric. vampire/vampire. vampy/vampyre. vampyre/vampyre. ve/vir. vex/vex. vile/vile. wi/wine. xi/xir.

[acronym-chaos]

Sou Hiyori / Midori (Your Turn To Die) ID Pack

[PT: Sou Hiyori / Midori (Your Turn To Die) ID Pack].

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Names

[PT: Names].

Alden, Aria, Arlo, Ash, Aspen, Blair, Blaine, Briar, Brielle, Bryce, Caelan, Celeste, Cobalt, Corvus, Cypress, Damon, Darcy, Dante, Delphine, Desmond, Devlin, Dorian, Elara, Elias, Ember, Evangeline, Gideon, Greer, Indigo, Jasper, Jett, Journey, Kieran, Leander, Lenore, Lilith, Lucian, Malachai, Masque, Morgan, Nocturne, Odessa, Orin, Remy, Ridley, Ronan, Sable, Salem, Shade, Silas, Sloan, Smirk, Sol, Stellan, Sterling, Teagan, Theron, Thorne, Toy, Vale, Vesper, Victor, Wolfe, Wren, Xander

Pronouns

[PT: Pronouns].

Con / Fuse / Fuses [Confuse]; De / Deceit / Deceits; Fa / Fal / False; Ji / Jibe / Jibes; Lurk / Lurks / Lurks; Ma / Man / Manip [Manipulation]; Mas / Masque / Masques; Mi / Mis / Mislead; Mock / Mock / Mocks; Mys / Myst / Mysts [Mystery]; Per / Ples / Perplexs; Pla / Play / Plays; Snee / Sneer / Sneers; Smir / Smirk / Smirks; Swi / Swindle / Swindles; Tea / Tease / Teases; Toy / Toy / Toys; Twi / Twis / Twist; Vei / Veil / Veils; Wit / Wits / Wits

Titles

[PT: Titles].

Agent of Chaos; Master of Deception; Perplexing Enigma; Puppetmaster of Fate; The False Friend; The Fearless Schemer; The Mocking Player; The One Who Twists Truths; The Relentless Jester; The Smiling Phantom; The Toyer of Fates; [Pronoun] Who Deceives with a Smile; [Pronoun] Who Mocks Fate; [Pronoun] Who Plays with Lives; [Pronoun] Who Swindles and Smirks; [Pronoun] Who Twists the Game

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Requested by anon!

Also tagging: @pronoun-arc @id-pack-archive

[yourqueenb]

People like really hate RoE for some reason and I’ve never understood why. I mean yeah it had its problems, but I still had a good time with it. It was fun and relaxing. Plus I liked getting the pretty backgrounds for the different locales.

I also had a good time with AVSP. And I thought the romance was top tier. There are very few that are on the same level or close to it and only two of them are in actual romance books imo.

Slow Burn gets shit on for them trying to make us pay to help different restaurant owners and Everett. But for me the first thing was only a minor issue. The book is fun whether you pay or not. And Everett does fall into their cold, brooding LI category, but I think he’s more likeable than most. Plus it was fun to see MC grow.

Lastly, Hot Couture is and will always be That Bitch ™️

Question?!

Be honest with me, What's your favorite choices book that most people think is bad?

And why?

(any disrespectful comments towards one another will be removed)

[greenbergsays]

Ked's right, I do have book recs that you can find under this tag and also some on my writing blog here. I also have a page here where you can see what's on my bookshelf, but you can't filter it because Tumblr doesn't allow Java anymore >__>

I wouldn't call that page a rec list, though, it's just an inventory of what I own or what's on my list to own. Some of those books are objectively terrible and I will freely admit that, but there was something about them compelling enough that I read them more than once.

I didn't mean for the below to turn into me just reccing you authors but it kind of turned into that, so here are authors I would recommend:

Onley James - I love her so much that I support her Patreon. All of her stuff is good (and loosely connected) but my favorites are, of course, the Necessary Evils series. It has two spin-off series which I also very much enjoy: Jericho's Boys & The Watch. All three series surround the psychopaths in love trope, however Jericho's Boys and the first book in the Watch series do not feature it as a main trope because neither of the main characters fit the bill. Most of them do feature some level of kink, though.

Kiki Clark - Her main series is werewolves (but no Omegaverse) and it's called the Kincaid Pack. The first book is my favorite, but I own them all. It's finished and she's starting a new series in that 'verse, the prequel to which I think is The Mobster's Mate, which is so up my alley it's like someone was spying on me. She also has a MC/kink series called Leather & Chrome that's good, but it's not my favorite kink series. (Kiki also have other contemporary books that I love, I just don't want this to get too long)

SPEAKING of kink. Robin (RJ) Moray - She has a series called His Boy Next Door that gay-awakening, age gap, and BDSM-related. It has a spin-off series about two other characters called A Collar For His Brat, both are excellent. The only thing is in HBND, the main character's name is Channon and that took some getting used to. Robin also has other books which I highly recommend--including a space Omegaverse story called Changed: Mated to the Alien Alpha, which is very good--she is probably my Top 3 favorite authors and the fact that more of her stuff isn't available in paperback is a source of constant misery for me.

Eliot Grayson -- The only person I can think of off the top of my head that writes well-written first person POV. The Mismatched Mates series is her main title iirc. It's a soul-bonding / "mate or die" situation at first and segues eventually into "mating for convenience." Some stories are related and some aren't.

Stella Starling -- if you like high fluff and low angst, this is the author for you. All of her stuff is contemporary and very cute. My favorite series is the Semper Fi one but I like & own them all.

Sam Burns (and Sam Burns w/ W.M. Fawkes) - They do anything fantasy/magic-related. Werewolves, urban fantasy, there's a series about the Greek Gods, etc. I haven't read ALL of their works, but the stuff I have read, I like. My favorites / the ones I own: Wolves of Kismet (Omegaverse), the Star-Marked Warrior series (sci-fi/aliens), & Wolf Moon Rising (Omegaverse).

Ella Frank (and Ella Frank w/ Brooke Blaine) - Contemporary writer(s) that specialize in writing multiple books for the same couple. There's a lot of gay/bi-awakening. The Temptation series is a fantastic audiobook journey that I cannot recommend enough, that narrator was amazing. I also really liked the first three Fallen Angel books are about the same couple and I love them, the fourth FA book is about a different couple and I DNFed it. Couldn't say why, it just didn't hold my interest.

...I have more, but I should probably work at some point this morning. So if you want more / want a specific rec for a specific trope or genre, lemme know!

[cadybear420]

An opinion to be rated, A book should not have multiple Li's if most are sidelined for one.

Send me unpopular or popular opinions about anything Choices and/or HSS related, and I will rate them on the aforementioned scale and elaborate if possible

My Rating of this opinion:

strongly agree |��agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

My Elaboration below:

On one hand, I do get where this opinion comes from. When a book favors a specific LI and sidelines the rest, it's just like, why even bother having the other LIs when you clearly only care about one of them? It cheapens the character development of the other LIs, and makes them feel like they're just "backup" LIs, for "just in case you don't like the main LI". It feels like it's only multi-LI out of obligation rather than because it actually wants to have multiple LIs.

And more often than not, most "main LIs" don't need to be the "main LI". With something like Liam in TRR, I kind of get it because he's being required to find a suitor and there'd be no point for MC to come to Cordonia otherwise. But characters like Logan in ROD, Rory in HSS:CA 1, Ethan in OpH... I get why they might have a larger role in the storyline than other LIs, but from a romantic route standpoint there's still zero justification for pushing theirs above the other LIs' or forcing MC to be attracted to them.

And it's especially bad if you prefer to romance the female LIs. Most of these kinds of books with forced "main LIs" not only never have a canon female LI be the "main LI", but there's generally only one female LI in the whole lot. As others have said, many books are already "single LI stories" for f!LI romancers, and when said solo f!LI gets little screentime? Then the story just fucks you over from like three different angles.

That being said, I disagree with this opinion mainly because I'm of the belief that having multiple LIs but most of them sidelined is still better than having no LI choice at all. Even if you don't like a particular main LI or token f!LI, you still at least have some agency to avoid them and choose your romantic endgame. Whereas you never get that with single LIs, so you're just completely shafted if you don't like the single customizable LI. Theoretically, PB COULD offer platonic routes with the single LI, and if they did that my opinion might somewhat change, but since they don't... yeah.

But like I said, I get why people might hold this opinion. So I do think that if PB absolutely needs a "main LI" in a multiple LI book, at least make them GOC like Blaine in FA or Rory in HSS:CA. And if PB absolutely needs a book to be single LI, well, it probably doesn't actually need that lol.

Though ideally, of course, PB should be giving all their LIs equal focus.

[zhoras-bitch]

"Unbridled captured my attention initially because it was supposed to have two non-GOC LIs (after a bunch of single-LI books). I also generally like LIs who are more peppy and openly friendly, so I knew I would like Mandy. Then the story actually came out and tugged at my heartstrings a bit with MC's backstory. And then the MC-Ryder-Mandy dynamics sealed the deal for me. I'm also not big on the newbie MC, but Ryder's support and Mandy being their biggest hype woman kind of makes up for that for me. They have a bickering but loving little found family vibe which I'm enjoying a lot."

This whole paragraph is it for me. I like having multiple LIs, especially in a smut book: no point in being a mega hoe if that energy is only directed towards one person. Plus, I like having non-custom LIs (or a mix like FA with Blaine vs Ayna and Tatum or more aptly LoA with Gabe vs Aislinn). I generally enjoy the 2 LI books because they make the LIs play off each other well (Gabe vs Cas, Arthur vs Lancelot, Rainier vs Kaine, etc). I also like LIs who are anything but broody and stoic, whether they're shy and sweet like Nia or more charming and boisterous like Charlie from DS.

It also didn't have the POS that was Austin. Honestly, UB is one of my fav smut books and UT is one of my least fav smut books which is super funny

Yeah, I get you completely! Broody and stoic is the one type of LI I can (almost) never get into, and there are soooo many of them 😩 It's another reason I like multi-LI books, because in those I have the option to choose literally anything but that lol.

Also, Austin was so annoying to me fr. The constant infantilization (both from him AND Kit) is what really sucked all of the joy out of the book for me, it was soooooo frustrating. Like, I understand it had to be there to create conflict yada yada, but personally? I just wanted to reach out through the screen, grab Austin/Kit by the shoulders and tell them both to shut the fuck up 🤣

[bryceslahela]

if it’s not foreign affairs i’m personally burning pb to the ground >:(((

HELP i miss foreign affairs so bad i love blaine hayes so bad. literally this pic is a live reaction of me when i found out that fa was over.

[shunkawakan-ita]

PROGRAMMA TIME ZONES 2023

XXXVIII EDIZIONE

A BARI

DAL 15 SETTEMBRE AL 14 OTTOBRE

TRA I PROTAGONISTI DELL’EDIZIONE 2023 BLAINE REININGER

CO-FONDATORE DEI TUXEDOMOON, FAUST, UN OMAGGIO A ITALO CALVINO

E “LITERATURE” CON LA COMPAGNIA DIAGHILEV

www.timezones.it

I temi che caratterizzano sin dalla sua prima edizione il Festival Time Zones, risalente ormai a 38 anni fa, sono sempre stati legati al cangiante linguaggio della musica. In questi decenni si sono avvicendati sul palco della rassegna percorsi di ricerca, pietre miliari della storia della musica, proposte provenienti dal futuro, stili e generi differenti, il tutto con una costante attenzione al dialogo con le altre arti. È il caso dell’edizione 2023 che, dal 15 settembre al 14 ottobre tra Auditorium Vallisa, Officina degli Esordi e Teatro Kismet Opera, presenta nei 23 spettacoli che compongono il calendario una molteplicità di generi nonché una lunga serie di paesi di provenienza conservando, come è consuetudine di Time Zones, una significativa presenza di “nostri” talenti.

L’edizione 2023 Time Zones, inizia con un’anteprima e un omaggio al grande Italo Calvino: “Onda pazza. Calvino immortale”. Il tributo al grande scrittore e intellettuale italiano, nel centenario della sua nascita, è articolato in due giorni all’Auditorium Vallisa (venerdì 15 e sabato 16) e vede come protagonisti il trio UBQ, con Nicoletta d’Auria (violoncello), Giuliano Di Cesare (fiati) e Domenico Monaco (elettronica), il talentuoso pianista barese Mattia Vlad Morleo e il poliedrico attore Giuliano Giuliani. Nei due spettacoli, gli artisti coinvolti incroceranno le straordinarie pagine di Calvino “Palomar” (venerdì 15) e le “Città invisibili” (sabato 16). La prima serata sarà aperta dalla performance del pianista, compositore e produttore di formazione classica tedesco Carlos Cipa. L’omaggio a Calvino della seconda serata sarà aperto dalla violoncellista polacca Dobrawa Czocher.

Dopo l’anteprima all’Auditorium Vallisa, Time Zones entra nel vivo con tre serate che si terranno all’Officina degli Esordi a Bari. Ad aprire questo trittico, sabato 23, alle ore 21.30, sarà “Nordra”, progetto solista dell'artista londinese Monika Khot. Il suo personale disegno del futuro del pop, lo realizza utilizzando un mix incredibilmente intenso di noise, beat elettronici e una voce eterea combinata dal vivo con la chitarra e una tromba tascabile. A seguire Ginevra Nervi, compositrice e producer di musica elettronica. La sua ricerca musicale si basa sull'esplorazione timbrica vocale distorta e alterata grazie a svariate tecniche di manipolazione sonora, qualità molte apprezzate in ambito cinematografico.

Si prosegue, venerdì 29, dalle ore 21, con la chitarrista e cantante messicana J. Zunz, alias Lorena Quintanilla, in passato componente della nota formazione messicana Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. A TZ presenta il suo ultimo disco, un lavoro a tratti ipnotico e dotato di un preciso nucleo concettuale, che agisce come un’intima camera d’eco che cura in modo vicario le ferite dell'ascoltatore oltre quelle di sé stessa. A seguire la cantautrice e polistrumentista portoghese Rita Braga, considerata la migliore torch singer oggi in circolazione. Infine, il tedesco Fejkà, alias Brian Zajak. Con l'uscita del suo Ep “Wilight”, ha fatto un debutto impressionante nel mondo della musica elettronica e le sue partecipazioni ai grandi festival hanno contribuito ormai a celebrarlo come un insider top della consolle.

L’ultimo appuntamento all’Officina degli Esordi, domenica 1 ottobre, si chiude con due concerti. Il primo a salire sul palco è il cantante, percussionista e rumorista Lepre, al secolo Lorenzo Lemme. Da tempo attivo nella scena musicale romana, il progetto Lepre è pronto per il suo disco d’esordio, “Malato”. Un lavoro in cui l’artista raccoglie tutte le sue influenze dando vita a un racconto musicale in cui la voglia di sperimentare nei suoni e negli arrangiamenti si sposa a un linguaggio attuale, sincero, che narra le molteplici esperienze dell’autore. In chiusura il cantautore Eric Chenaux, che proviene dalla scena underground canadese e la sua musica è un diamante grezzo difficile da classificare. Le sue canzoni sono tanti piccoli cammei preziosi che si cibano di sogni, silenzi, mancanze.

Gli ultimi tre appuntamenti di TZ 2023, invece, si terranno al Teatro Kismet di Bari, a iniziare dal gradito ritorno, sabato 7, dell’americano Blaine Reininger, più volte ospite del festival barese con i mitici e amatissimi Tuxedomoon. Inutile dire che per il concerto barese, oltre ai brani del suo repertorio da solista, non mancheranno alcune composizioni dei Tuxedo.

In apertura di serata l’americana Helen Money, alias Alison Chesley, una violoncellista di formazione classica che trae ispirazione non solo da Pablo Casals e Shostakovich, ma anche da Jimi Hendrix e dai Minutemen.

Sempre al Kismet, venerdì 13, sarà di scena il canadese Ben Shemie, frontman dei Suuns, band che negli anni ha fatto palpitare i cuori di quanti volevano ballare potendo vantare la conoscenza del rock tedesco degli anni Settanta. Lo seguirà l’altro canadese Tim Hecker, singolare compositore capace di innalzare con i suoi suoni imponenti cattedrali sonore, musica elettronica tra ambient e noise.

Infine, sabato 14, unica data italiana dei mitici Faust, formazione che riesce ad amalgamare rock, progressive, jazz, folk, minimalismo, noise, elettronica, proto-industrial, pop e classica moderna, con una disinvoltura pari solo alla loro irriverenza. Forse, insieme ai Velvet Underground, i Faust è stata la band più influente e creativa di tutti i tempi. Tra new wave, industrial e post-rock, non si contano le band che hanno raccolto la lezione di questi sabotatori anarchici e dissacranti. Oggi, ancora capitanati da Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, i Faust con l’esecuzione integrale di “IV” sono capaci di evocare il potere ancora devastante di quelle straordinarie invenzioni che in quegli anni cambiarono per sempre la musica. In apertura di serata Teatro Satanico, duo di laptop-punk composto da Devis Granziera e Roberto “Kalamun” Pasini.

VENERDÌ 15 SETTEMBRE VALLISA

Calvino Immortale - Onda Pazza

h. 21    CARLOS CIPA (Ger)

h. 22    Progetto PALOMAR: Giuliano GIULIANI, voce

UBQ in trio (Nicoletta d’Auria violoncello, Giuliano Di Cesare fiati,

Domenico Monaco elettronica)

SABATO 16 SETTEMBRE VALLISA

Calvino Immortale – Onda Pazza

h. 21    Dobrowa CZOCHER (Pol)

h. 22    Le città Invisibili

Giuliano GIULIANI voce, Mattia Vlad MORLEO pianoforte

SABATO 23 SETTEMBRE OFFICINA DEGLI ESORDI

h. 21.30 NORDRA (UK)

h.22.30 GINEVRA NERVI (Ita)

VENERDÌ 29 SETTEMBRE OFFICINA DEGLI ESORDI

La grande festa

h. 21    J. ZUNZ (Mex)

h. 22    Rita BRAGA (Port)

h. 23    FEJKA’ (Ger)

DOMENICA 1 OTTOBRE OFFICINA DEGLI ESORDI

h. 21 LEPRE (Ita)

h. 22 Eric CHENAUX (Can)

SABATO 7 OTTOBRE TEATRO KISMET

h. 21 Helen MONEY (Usa)

h. 22 Blaine REININGER (Usa)

VENERDÌ 13 OTTOBRE TEATRO KISMET

h. 21 Ben SHEMIE (Can)

h. 22 Tim HECKER (Can)

SABATO 14 OTTOBRE TEATRO KISMET

h. 21 Teatro Satanico

h. 22  Faust

unica data italiana

[cinquecolonnemagazine]

I baci immortali del cinema: qual è il vostro preferito?

Quali sono i baci immortali nel cinema? Ognuno di noi avrà il suo preferito. L'amore è un elemento importante in un film e una scena di bacio che lo suggella non può mancare. La scena del bacio può avere tante funzioni nella trama del film ed è comprensibile che i registi la curino con la massima cura. Come sono cambiate le scene di bacio in un secolo di storia del cinema? I mille volti dell'amore Chi lavora nel mondo del cinema lo sa: l'amore sbanca sempre al botteghino. Non a caso, il filone romantico è uno dei più solidi e inserire una piccola storia d'amore in un film di altri generi si rivela sempre una scelta azzeccata. Questo perché fa vedere l'amore con i suoi mille volti: l'amore che nasce nel dolore, nell'avventura o nel mistero. Nella prima metà del Novecento l'amore nel cinema era raccontato con un certo pudore e la scena del bacio era considerata una sorte di culmine nella storia, un finale quasi naturale. A partire dagli anni Settanta, invece, l'approccio all'amore e alla sessualità cambiano e il cinema meglio di tutti mostra questo cambiamento. Nelle storie si fa largo la sensualità che se all'inizio viene relegata solo a un certo tipo di film, col tempo finisce per permeare molte trame soprattutto quelle dei thriller. La scena del bacio, quindi, assume un valore diverso nell'economia generale del film e in virtù del suo significato viene situato in un diverso punto del film. Che ruolo ha una scena di bacio? La scena di un bacio all'inizio di una storia, per esempio, può aiutare a introdurre i personaggi prima che inizi la storia. Dare l'idea di chi sono prima che l'evento centrale dell'intreccio narrativo cambi le loro vite mettendoli alla prova. Quanti amori nascono dopo un periodo di fisiologica antipatia? In questo caso lo svolgimento della trama mette i due personaggi in questione in una situazione di tensione emotiva. Sentimenti contrastanti si alternano generando un'attrazione che gli stessi protagonisti non ammettono di provare. In questo caso la scena del bacio svolge un ruolo importante per la trama: sciogliendo la tensione porta i protagonisti a fare scelte che determineranno il prosieguo della storia. Uno degli espedienti più utilizzati dagli sceneggiatori per mantenere alta l'attenzione del pubblico (preferibilmente femminile) è quello di creare una storia d'amore travagliata che si scioglie solo nel finale. L'iniziale simpatia tra i protagonisti viene messa alla prova da continui equivoci che creano un vero tira e molla, una gita sulle montagne russe fino al chiarimento finale. Cosa c'è di meglio allora di un bel monologo con tanto di dichiarazione per arrivare alla fatidica scena? I baci immortali del cinema (secondo noi) Ora vediamo insieme quali scene di bacio ci piacciono di più. Abbiamo spaziato dai classici ai film più moderni: - "Via col vento" (1939): chi non ricorda la scena in cui Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) dice a Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh): "Francamente, mia cara, me ne infischio" prima di baciarla? - "Casablanca" (1942): l'indimenticabile Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) bacia Ilsa Lund Laszlo (Ingrid Bergman) dopo la celebre battuta: «Suonala ancora Sam!». - "Da qui all'eternità" (1953): chi non ha mai sognato un bacio in riva al mare come quello tra Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) e Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr)? - "Colazione da Tiffany" (1961): il bacio sotto la pioggia, come quello tra Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) e Paul Varjak (George Peppard) è un classico intramontabile - "Dirty dancing - Balli proibiti" (1987): il primo bacio tra Jhonny e Baby è sulle note di "Cry to Me" di Solomon Burke - "Ghost" (1990): quanto abbiamo pianto per lo sfortunato amore tra Sam (Patrick Swayze) e Molly (Demi Moore) - "Titanic" (1997): la scena del bacio tra Jack (Leonardo Di Caprio) e Rose (Kate Winslet) è tra le più emulate del cinema - "Spider-Man" (2002): bacio sotto la pioggia pur se rivisitato anche per Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) e Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) - "I segreti di Brokeback Mountain" (2005): come dimenticare i baci appassionati tra Ennis (Heath Ledge) e Jack (Jake Gyllenhall) lontani dai giudizi della società conservatrice del tempo? - "La forma dell'acqua" (2017): una scena del bacio fuori dagli schemi per Elisa (Sally Hawkins) e la Creatura Come terminare la carrellata dei baci nel cinema senza citare il baciatore seriale per eccellenza del cinema James Bond? Interpretato da Roger Moore, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan e Daniel Craig, gli attori si sono sempre rivelati all'altezza del compito. In copertina foto di StockSnap da Pixabay Read the full article

[findasongblog]

Find A Song about lacking control over your own position in life

Ben Gregory - manifest*

After releasing two widely-acclaimed albums with his previous band Blaenavon, Ben Gregory has just announced his debut solo album Episode (due on 7th April) alongside the first track ‘manifest*’. The album is deeply personal, created during Gregory’s period of recovery in a psychiatric hospital. Breath-taking instrumentals, dark and insightful lyrics as well as his signature genre-bending style came together to create Episode, with the help of producer and old friend Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets and engineer Matt Twaites.

Ben explains: “‘manifest*’ is about feeling fated to certain situations and lacking control over your own position in life. It looks towards a potential future that is desired but unlikely, focused on a partner and an imagined future family. There are elements of a slightly tragic fixation in there. The narrative retelling is real but it questions itself and cannot commit to painting an impossible future. The attempt was to portray this process of recollection, because people choose how they shape their own memories.”

The accompanying music video transports you to gloomy scenes in Berlin, alternating between urban cityscapes and dusky rural scenes.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist alt rock.

[kcnnarys]

First of all thank you so much for those screenshots of Cordonia's location, for some reason that didn't cross my mind. Now to figure out where the fuck those countries from Foreign Affairs and The Princess Swap are

anytime comrade 🫡 hopefully fa actually takes place in a parallel universe and therefore blaine hayes does not exist 🙏🏻

[elfilibusterismo]

growth is me being able to replay fa with a different blaine sprite because i'm finally over the girl i was in love with who looks like white f!blaine

[blurglesmurfklaine]

Back to The Grind

for @cerriddwenluna

Based off this tiktok! This got away from me just a bit. It's a tad longer than a drabble lmao. Enjoy!

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Kurt hasn't used Grindr in nearly two years.

Maybe he went through a bit of a slutty phase his last two years of college and finally caved after he and Adam broke up ("It's not you, it's me--I'm just not really built for overseas long distance"). Maybe the last straw was seeing his brother get engaged to his best friend despite them being on-again off-again for about as long as he's known the both of them. Maybe Mercedes moving out and shacking up with Sam didn't exactly help either.

Maybe he's just in his twenties and god, do you know what that does to a person?

Either way, since he started his job at Vogue.com, Isabelle has been keeping him plenty busy. He's barely got time to hookup anyway, much less actually date anyone.

"I just sent you the link!" Kurt calls out, Finn just in the other room.

Even though Kurt hasn't been on Grindr in forever, when Finn asks him to send a link to the Waitress website so he can surprise Rachel with tickets, he still recognizes the telltale chirp indicative of the app.

Kurt's head snaps up, eyes wide.

Why on earth does Finn have Grindr on his phone? Why is it going off? Is he cheating on Rachel?

He doesn't have a stupid crush on Finn like he did back in high school anymore--that was truly brought on by loneliness and a lack of experience. But if Finn is hooking up with guys now, and had the audacity to call Kurt a fa--

The door swings open, revealing Finn's smiling face. "Thanks man, she's gonna be so psyched."

"Mmm-Hmm, yeah, sure," Kurt says absentmindedly. "Quick question." He points to Finn's phone. "Was that Grindr?"

Finn's smile doesn't falter. "Yeah, I put it as your text-tone."

Kurt looks at him, confounded.

"That's, like, your gay sound, right?"

"I... A weird way to put it, but yeah, I guess?"

"Is that--shit, is that--I didn't mean to offend you! I didn't put it there to make fun of you, just so that if I'm around a group of people and you text me, you know, their heads look up? I can see who's gay and be like Hey, let me set you up with my brother."

Kurt tilts his head to the side, unsure whether to be touched or weirded out. Maybe some sort of combination of both. "That is... so weird. And so sweet."

It's also fascinating that between the two of the Hudson-Hummel brothers, Finn was the one who managed to craft a gay-dar device. Maybe his brother is actually a secret and unassuming genius, and not the himbo Kurt's made him out to be.

The next words out of his mouth put that theory to rest.

"Yeah, I love you, man. I just want you to meet someone, and you know, I'll try not to set you up with any toe-sucking freaks--there have been a few close calls."

"I'm sorry, what?"

Finn ignores his interruption. "I promise my vetting process is more intense than the NFL draft."

"That means nothing to me," Kurt mumbles as he pulls Finn in for a hug.

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When Blaine hears the notification come from behind him as he stands in line at his favorite coffee shop, he looks up out of sheer curiosity. Who on earth would leave their Grindr alerts on that loudly in public?

He turns around, and is met by the sight of a tall man, looking down at Blaine like he's found the Holy Grail. It doesn't take Blaine more than a second to determine that this guy really isn't his type, but he looks so damn excited, Blaine would feel bad turning him down if he asked him out.

"Are you--" the man starts to ask, but thankfully, the barista calls out for the next customer before he can finish.

"Sorry, I gotta go order," he says, quickly stepping up to the counter.

He orders his usual medium drip and stands to the side, waiting for it to be ready.

Not long after, the stranger is standing by him.

Great. Another awkward encounter for the books.

"Soooooo," Random Guy starts, "you're like... Into dudes, right?"

"Wow, you really get straight to business, huh?"

"You've never had a FeetFinder account, have you?"

"Oh, my God, I have to go--" Blaine hasn't even gotten his coffee yet, but fuck it. Starbucks will keep its coffee and he'll keep his name and address a secret, away from this creep.

"No, no!" the guy holds his hands out in an attempt to stop Blaine from leaving. "That came out totally wrong, I'm just--trying to make sure you're not a total weirdo, you know?"

"I'm the weirdo? You're asking me about my dating preferences and feet and I'm the weird one?"

"Yeah, not my best moment," he rubs his hand sheepishly behind his neck. "Guess I was just excited."

"I'm flattered, but I really don't need to know what gets you going."

"I'm Finn," Random Guy says. "I saw your reaction to my ringtone, and figured you're gay, and you don't seem particularly weird--"

"Thanks?"

"--so would you be interested in going out--" Blaine opens his mouth to let Finn down gently, before hearing the rest of the sentence. "--with my brother?"

"Oh. So you're really not just looking to hook up?"

Finn furrows his eyebrows. "What, dude, no! I mean, you're not ugly, at all, but I've got a fiance."

"Well, congrats to you two," Blaine says politely. "I'm sure he's very lovely."

"She is," Finn corrects. "So, I've probably screwed this up enough already, but you wouldn't happen to be interested in that date, would you?"

Blaine sighs. Normally, he'd say absolutely not to something like this. But he's been going through a bit of a dry spell, romantically speaking. Either way, he figures at the very least, he'll get a story to tell at parties out of this. "To be clear, you would not be present on this date."

"Wait, would you not want to date me if I was gay?"

"Absolutely not."

"You know what, fair enough. And no, it'll just be you and Kurt."

A little jolt passes though Blaine--excitement at the thought of someone he hasn't even met yet. "What does Kurt like?"

"Uhhhh... guys, for sure."

Blaine stifles a laugh.

"He works at some fashion magazine, likes to sing, musicals. He's really into reality, TV, too, I think."

Blaine nearly backs out of the decision. Truth be told, Finn just described about half the population of New York. Then Finn shakes his head.

"Okay, so I may not know a bunch about what my brother likes, but I know who he is. He's the kind of guy who's there when you need him, who is so kind when the world has just... chewed him up and spat him out. He's got a good heart, and I've learned a lot about what it means to be a man from him."

Blaie is silent for a moment, unsure how to respond.

"Shit, that was too much, wasn't it?"

"It actually might've been just enough."

Finn pulls out his phone from his pocket. "Here, this is him. Let me set you up on one date with him. I promise you won't regret it."

Staring up at Blaine from the screen is a handsome young man with well groomed hair and a beaming smile, laughing as Finn has his arm slung around his shoulders.

If Finn wanted him to agree to this date, he should have shown him this picture first.

"Woah," he says. "Your brother is hot. Next time, I'd start with the picture."

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"I can't believe I agreed to this," Kurt mutters, swiping a lint roller down the front of his freshly ironed pants.

"I can," Rachel sing-songs from the living room couch, snuggled up next to Finn.

"Thanks. It means so much that you think so highly of me," Kurt says sarcastically, not an ounce of gratitude in his voice.

"Well, you've admittedly had a rough go of it lately in the romance department, haven't you?"

There's a knock at the door, and Kurt scowls as he goes to open it. She's not wrong, and he knows it.

The door to the loft opens, revealing the man who must be Blaine, hair swept neatly back, a nervous smile, and holding a bouquet of red and yellow roses wrapped in brown butcher paper, tied together with string.

"Hi," he mumbles breathlessly. "I'm Blaine."

All Kurt can do is stare for a moment. "Kurt," he finally manages.

"I, uh--these are for you," Blaine stutters, fumbling with the bouquet for a moment before extending it towards Kurt.

"Oh, um, thank you," he replies, willing the red on his cheeks to cool to a neutral skin tone when Finn and Rachel send him impressed looks. "I'll get these in a vase."

Soon after placing the flowers in a vase, Kurt grabs his coat and smiles at Blaine. "Ready?"

"Absolutely."

Not long after they get into their cab does Kurt get a text from Finn.

I did good, didn't I?

Kurt doesn't reply until he and Blaine walk out from their movie, hand in hand.

Don't get cocky... But you did. You did great.

Guess the fic! =D (I wish you and your 44 works in the glee fandom good luck lol)

I couldn't pick, you so get a few lines from the same chapter ;)

And he completely, one hundred percent, absolutely does not have a crush on him.

“It’s great to see you again, Kurt,” he murmurs. A shiver runs down Kurt’s spine at Blaine’s hot breath against his ear. 

FUUUUUCK i was so sure I was gonna get this lol but this is the first one that has got me completely stumped!! I'm gonna guess...... If Music Be??? I truly have no idea!

Drop your request for a drabble down below, I have been DEFEATED lmao!