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dollywheeler · 1 year ago

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October 15th, 1996

Dear diary,

Mrs. Benson said something strange yesterday. We were taking a short walk around the neighborhood - per her doctor’s orders to get her moving again - when we passed Mike and Will’s place. It was already dark out, so the house was lit up, the lights spilling out of the many windows and the skylights over the hall. There were thin curtains pulled over the windows for privacy - which was definitely a necessity in a house like this or we’d be able to follow everything going on inside like it’s a doll house. Even like this we’d probably be able to see silhouettes moving like shadow puppets if anyone were to pass the window.

We were just walking past when Mrs. Benson’s eyes caught onto the building as well. The start of the high school basketball season managed to pull attention away from the town’s “new” arrivals, and most people’s conversations have moved on from the return of Mike Wheeler and Will Byers, so it was a bit of a surprise when Mrs. Benson mentioned it again. Just a throw-away line about how time was changing or something. I'll never understand people's weird fascination with the concept of "two young men" - seriously people keep referring to them as such as if they haven't known their names since they were toddlers - moving in together. It's like they've never heard of the concept of sharing rent.

Mrs. Benson said something about Mrs. Chatham further up the street being quite upset about Mike and Will moving into the house - apparently she'd been close to the previous owners or something, said it was a "waste of a beautiful house". I was kind of zoning out as cheer practice had been brutal but it struck me as weird. I mean I get where Mrs. Chatham was coming from - I also think it would be a beautiful home for children to grow up in - but so is her house and she's been living there alone for the last fifteen years.

Anyway, Mrs. Benson tried asking me questions about Mike and Will again but I've been very dismissive whenever anyone asks. Partially because everyone's disproportionate level of intrigue is kind of freaky, but I guess I also just don't really feel comfortable talking about them yet because they expect me to be some kind of expert when I'm clearly not. I still barely know anything, and I already felt awkward enough explaining to Dylan why I barely know Mike.

Which is another reason I'm looking forward to Friday - I talked to Mike as planned and he agreed to learn Champagne Supernova. I wonder how much more information I can get out of Mike and Will without mom around - surely they'll talk more, maybe even share some juicier college stories. I did manage to get a dinner invitation for mom as well but she'll just be coming for dinner while I'll be going home with Mike and Will straight after school. That should be a big enough window to get some secrets out of them.

I can hear dad getting up so I'll have to go up to breakfast soon. Morning cheer practice is getting redundant now I can only practice the choreo. I might go on a run instead tomorrow. I really should focus on tumbling, but I also don't want to break my promise to Mike. Especially as he has a point - it is dangerous to do it on my own. I'll have to come up with a solution.

Love, Holly

#holly wheeler #the third wheeler #mike wheeler #stranger things #fanfic #will byers #byler #been struggling trying to give you guys more info on Hawkins' reaction to Byler's return and this particular entry eluded me for a long tim

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sunnydaleherald · 3 months ago

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, September 13th

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hogwartspleiad · 1 year ago

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Say My Name | Stardust!AU

also on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53021149

"What would it be today?", chuckled Sirius, comfortably grabbing a really-fucking-big coffee cup and playing with a marker in his left hand, littered with rings. James knows (it was a Very Big Secret) that they did cost Sirius, like, a thousand fights with the administrator - though he won the right to keep them in the end.

James frowns and sighs as dramatically as possible: he almost fell asleep at 3 a.m. playing with Frank in the Net, spilled his morning tea onto his favourite shirt, now having to put on a different, absolutely mongrel blue-with-white-stripes one. He almost forgot a folder with documents in a cab - he wanted to check out the papers over the weekend, - and there are most definitely two very boring and useless board meetings in his future today. So, two shots, please. Right in the head. With additional final blows, if you please.

Sirius raises his brow. James sighs. Again.

“Black”, he whispers, trying to sound as grim as possible. “Like my soul and the centre of our Universe.”

Sirius smiles with just the corner of his lips and doesn't turn like any normal person would. He tilts his head back, checking for supplies - now weirdly resembling a humanisation of his nickname.

Big Black Dog, really.

“I’m afraid we’re fresh out of the shitton of foamed milk, darling, and this is so not a kindergarten bar,” he snorts, looking normal again.

James almost shoves him. The counter stops him. That, and some basic decency mixed with zero agreement of calling each other friends or whatever. Disregard the fact that every morning, noon and night - for the last six months with 12-hours shifts, mind you, - they did moan (sarcastically) at the transience of life.

“Such a shame, peaches. You’d make an excellent babysitter,” James grins. In a beat, he adds edge house, makes the voice a little thinner and practically squeaks: “Siwy, Siwy, I swear that it was Pete who hit himsewf with a rattwe. Twice. Don’t bwame me!”

Startled, Sirius coughs, and now it’s James’ turn to raise a brow.

“Oh hell no,” the barista lifts his hands placatingly. “First of all, I’d make a terrible babysitter, and secondly - don’t you lie to me, young man!” he frowns for a moment and then relaxes, feeling sorta relieved. “FYI, I’m still waiting for your order.”

There’s a doorbell ringing somewhere behind James, and he straightens up, stopping messing about. God, he’s tired.

“Just make it a double Americano with milk. And a filthy amount of caramel syrup, else I’ll fucking die withing first 30 working minutes.”

Sirius snorts. It’s an understanding kind of a snort, though.

“And today’s name would be..?”

James tilts his head, thoughtfully drumming the finger on the table. In fact, he knows which name he’ll use to take the order for, but, in the end, the appearance of lazy thought and erudition (which was, in fact, the result of fanatical preparation) is part of his inimitable charm.

“Alsciaukat,” he proudly announces.

For some reason, Sirius chokes on a gurgling laugh, writing the name on the cup.

James grins triumphantly and moves into the waiting area, leaning against the tall counter with pots of Sansivieria built into the center, bobbing his head to the beat of The Last Shadow Puppets.

He loves this coffee shop. Sometimes, only the presence of Stardust on the ground floor of a neighboring building reconciled him with the disgusting “from nine to Fridays wine” routine of a marketing analyst. A small, incredibly cozy coffee shop with an abundance of flowers and stars inside, which were glowing softly with the onset of dusk or bad weather, was a hundred thousand times better than any other coffee shop in this city. Seriously, Starbucks was way overrated.

Moreover, James couldn’t help but admire the special advertising move: even the barista here had a special star nickname. Could you blame him for wanting to match the aesthetics of the place? That's what he thought. It is forbidden. Strictly. So - yeah, he’s justified in all respects of the star atlas and its appendices, heh.

So, during the six months of their close acquaintance with Sirius, James managed to go through almost all the star charts with the names of rare constellations and nebulae. Last month his name could have been Mr. Orion, tomorrow - Wasat, next week - Kratz, and today- Well. A little of the courage and grace of Lynx would definitely not hurt him.

Sirius knew for sure that none of the suggested names were real, but for some reason he didn't mind their little game. It was fun; like a game of ping pong.

When James gets his deliciously hot and huge coffee cup back, he throws an emphatic look at Sirius, who just winks slyly and takes off to his new customer.

The cup proudly says: “Quetzalcoatl.”

James laughs briefly, shakes his head and, comfortably grabbing the paper folder, leaves the coffee shop, automatically holding the door for some guy entering.

Tuesday doesn't turn out any better. He stays in the office until late at night, arguing with Peter until he is hoarse about the new reports and stag-ing for another couple of hours in an almost empty building, summing up the latest figures. Because, one doesn't simply warn him in advance, and the bosses needed the presentation first thing in the morning.

Screw those planning meetings. Screw them.

When he finally turns off the monitor and looks at the digital clock on the wall, the numbers are floating. Or are they?

He blinks. Twice.

The dial stubbornly shows two in the morning.

James sighs very, very deeply and can barely contain his Indian swearing. As an edification, he could stay in Pete’s office and stretch out on his sofa - demonstratively, so that in the morning, in a languid, creaky voice, he could say “Good morning, darling, I hope you slept as sweetly as I did,” and no less demonstratively creak all his bones, but... He’s almost two meters tall. He’ll most likely die from curling up on the hard leather sofa of little round Pete.

James sighs and rubs his face with his fingers until it hurts. He needs to get home. Preferably, not falling asleep somewhere on the way to the subway. Was it really that necessary to take the car in for maintenance at such a time?..

He throws his jacket over his shoulders, locks the office on autopilot and practically falls asleep in the elevator as it rushes from the thirteenth floor down. Somehow unsticking himself from the incredibly seductive chrome-plated wall, he steps over the threshold of the building and pauses, puzzled.

Stardust, in the building across, glows softly with lit stars inside.

For some reason, James takes twenty-five long steps and gently pushes the door. It gives in.

Florence flows unusually softly inside, and James is surprised to recognize the Dog Days Are Over - way too perky for two o'clock in the morning. Although, when he sees him, the barista turns the music down and arches an eyebrow pointedly, pretending that it wasn’t him who was dancing slightly with his back to the door a minute ago.

The new barista's badge says "Regulus" in beautiful handwriting, and his fingers, studded with silver rings, are gently wrapped around the computer. James simply can't help but smile, too wide for this blasted night.

“Good evening!” he greets too cheerfully in response.

Regulus raises an eyebrow suggestively, and James feels his heart skip a beat. He’s going to be so fucked.

“Coffee?” the barista asks all too softly, and Potter, blinking three times to count, kinda experiences a small heart attack. Anyway, is it legal to kill guests outright? He, for example, would most definitely fall now and die - very suddenly and very happily - and there’s that, no more little twenty-five-years-old James Potter, and Pete will report tomorrow without him, because he, naturally, doesn’t give the keys to his computer to anyone, and in general-

Regulus asks again, and James hastily shakes his head, bringing himself back to reality.

“Coffee,” he repeats dully. “With milk and a whole lot of caramel syrup.“

Regulus chuckles quietly and James just as quietly dies inside.

“For whom?”

Oh, he's ready. He's so damn ready for this! James broadens his shoulders and uses his most charming smile.

“Orion.”

Regulus glances up at him so quickly that James literally feels two kill shots in his head he wished for earlier.

“Bad idea. Try again,” the barista says curtly, and Potter blinks in confusion. All his brilliant marketing brain can do is…

“…choko pie?”

The look of utter confusion on Regulus's face seems like the best thing that happened for this whole damn day. James perks up.

“How could Orion Choco Pie be a bad idea? C’mon, it’s the best sweet that humanity could come up with!” he leans forward and conspiratorially lowers his voice. “Or haven't you tried?”

Regulus looks at him very, very strangely, then sighs dramatically. He writes something on the cup - demonstratively, but obediently - and turns away, switching on the coffee grinder.

James is absolutely delighted.

James is so delighted that he cannot fall asleep until late in the morning again, and then has a brilliant planning meeting and an incredibly productive working day. When he gets out around midnight and Stardust softly shimmers with stars, James doesn't even think twice as he pushes the door inside.

Okay, in the end, James admits that he absolutely adores the morning Sirius, contently squinting in the sunrays and dancing near the coffee machine to Muse or Arctic Monkeys, but Regulus... If Sirius was a splash of sun, then Regulus was like the quintessence of stardust, the very heart of a quiet midnight coffee shop, and James...couldn't help himself.

“Diphda,” he smiles on Friday, leaning on the counter.

“Deneb Kaitos” is written on his cup in response.

“Okab,” he rubs his eyes tiredly on Monday night.

“Deneb el Okab,” flying handwriting on cardboard is accompanied by a small drawing of an eagle.

“Mirfak!” he blurts out, slightly out of breath, on Thursday, frantically trying to catch the other’s gaze.

On the cup he is greeted by a schematically depicted human elbow and a short note: “Algenib”.

It's like a game of ping pong, only for professionals. James feels a kind of impossible excitement and tries his best to live up to it.

Finally, he moves on to constellations, and then to the ingenious mathematical names of nebulae. And Regulus, unlike Sirius, is never, ever wrong.

“X Æ A-12,” he declares very seriously at some point, looking carefully at Regulus.

He looks from the marker to James slowly, almost reluctantly.

“You can’t pass off the name of Elon Musk’s son as the name of a new nebula,” he says evenly. James is dying from delight.

“What if Elon Musk named his son after a new nebula, and you just don’t know?” he winks at the barista.

Regulus looks at him as if James has grown a second head.

“Definitely not. Try again.”

And James has to return to the usual metaphorical game.

The only problem is that he can’t be satisfied with their usual jabs anymore. He thinks he’s going so crazy but dictates his number to Regulus as his name anyway. The barista only repeats it out loud and hands him the cup, without even thinking about keeping the number to himself. He doesn't seem to care.

The worst part is that James doesn't even notice when he makes a fatal mistake.

“Rex,” he introduces himself at some point and receives a completely unreadable look in response.

“You can’t call yourself by my name,” Regulus says coldly, adding the usual, “Try again.”

James frowns and puts his metaphorical horns down.

“Why?”

“Because.”

James chuckles.

“So be it, star stranger, I solemnly swear that I will choose another option if you tell me your real name,” Regulus arches a charming eyebrow. James explains, “I can swear it will be as lovely as your nickname.”

Something changes in the barista's gaze, and James frowns, uncomprehending. Regulus doesn't say a word when he hands him the coffee, with the immutable "Rex" written on the cup, faceless and printed.

He doesn't meet Regulus again. Stardust stops working in the evenings for a while, and James stupidly pokes at the locked door for a week. Eventually, he almost becomes convinced that he completely invented Regulus, and all this is a terrible, prolonged dream.

When the coffee shop opens again in the middle of the night after a month's hiatus, James doesn’t believe his eyes. He awkwardly takes a step, two, three, and for some reason pushes the door with trembling fingers.

A charming red-haired girl greets him from behind the counter.

“Good morning, night owl,” she smiles quietly, and James silently opens and closes his mouth, not knowing what to say. He glances at her name tag and freezes.

“Lily” is written on it.

“I… thought… everyone here has star nicknames?..” he blurts, and Lily glances incomprehensibly at her own badge, and then at James’s face. She laughs.

“What? Of course not, all the baristas here have their own, ordinary names.”

James groans quietly and hits his forehead on the counter.

“I’m such a… deer,” he confesses sadly to the stack of napkins at the cash register. “The deer-est deer in the world.”

“Sure, why not,” Lily chuckles cheerfully from somewhere above him, “To the deer-est deer in the world.”

The smile James gives the red sunspot - who, by the way, looks strangely out of place in this nightly atmosphere - is sour, but chuckles politely when she gives him a cup with carelessly drawn deer antlers.

Making up his mind, he calls out to her and awkwardly asks, chewing his lip:

“And Regulus… doesn’t work here anymore?”

Lily looks at him carefully, calculating, and then sighs:

“He is on vacation. Should be working in the mornings for a whole next week.”

And James smiles back at her, gratefully and sincerely.

A week and a half later, his mornings are difficult once again: he has little sleep and he is badly doused from a puddle by a passing truck. The clothes he has to change into are too white-collared, and he himself is disgustingly office-like and at the same time rumpled to represent at least some kind of positive impression. He sighs, wiping his somehow wet hands on his jacket, and pushes the door.

Regulus lifts his head at the ringing of the doorbell and stares unreadably into James's eyes. The latter smiles awkwardly.

Regulus sighs and takes the marker.

“To whom?” he asks coldly and indifferently.

James takes a deep breath, as if about to jump into icy water.

“James,” he says. “Potter, if it’s of any importance,” he adds awkwardly, ruffling his already disheveled hair.

Regulus glances at him, and James awkwardly places a small box of the best cookies in the world on the counter. A white flag.

Orion Choco Pie. ___________________________________________________

Alsciaukat - the fourth-brightest star in the constellation of Lynx;

Wasat - a.k.a. Delta Geminorum (δ Gem) , the primary component in a triple star system located in the constellation Gemini;

Kraz - a.k.a. Beta Corvi, the second-brightest star in the southern constellation of Corvus;

Diphda - a.k.a. Deneb Kaitos, the brightest star in the constellation of Cetus;

Okab - a star in the Aquila constellation;

Mirfak - the brightest star in the constellation of Perseus;

Rex - alternative name of Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion.

#the marauders #coffeshop au #jegulus #starchaser #starrauders #james potter #sirius black #regulus black #lily evans #stardust au

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phoenixriaartemis · 7 months ago

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The same thing yesterday but with the maps of the story mode from Just Dance 2023(even thought there's not much to say it's literally what we know)

-Long Intro

-Sara in,more than a party I would say a hang out with her friends in her appartment playing Just Dance.

-Wanderlust on the Tv with Discoball doing some movements from the alternative version of the song that is playing(and from the map of course)

-Discoball landing on Sara feet and Sara being confused(I think Wanderlust too but just for a milimilimilfraction before extending his hand out of the Tv,which is something that I wanna talk once I reach to Murder on The Dance Floor)

-Sara accidentaly entering in the Danceverse(but there's not a single sign of fear and confusion rather than excitement and curiosity)

-Wanderlust doing his mother pose oce they land on Dancity(they also meet Liza Friday)

-Apparently there's a TV where they are putting the map of Thinks about Things(Flake map to be more clear since I baguely remember the title song)

-Disco Vibing

-Portals or like windows to other maps(But I will say the ones from the alternative)

-Sun Horizon,Winterhaven and Cyberfunk(and meeting coaches)

-Planets dancing(I don't think that's safe but oh well maybe it's something typical in the Danceverse)

-Posters of Only You,Just Dance 2022 and the Unlimited promotional poster(or I think so I couldn't see it properly)

-Wasterra and final party with the coaches and objects such us the flamingos and the puppets appearing)

-Night Swan appearing and kidnapping coaches(I like that the shadows of her magic are swans,they are pretty well design)

-The flamingos and puppet being scared

-Wanderlust and Sara going to Physical(more clear escaping from Night Swan by Wanderlust creating a portal)

-The lyrics doesn't have much meaning only party

-The portals of the alternative contain more maps than the normal version some like(this is going to be a lot):Woman alt,Physical alt,Wannabe easy version,Love me Land,DHV both versions,Walking on Sunshine,Darkest Hour(During that time the beta of Sweet Dreams)(It would be curious maybe the word that some portal can take to the past or the future of events)(I know that with this one they didn't know about the licensing and it was beta and it's not gonna be possible but the idea could be cool to explore)(again not saying that it's the case)Drivers License,Don't Rush(another one)and so on...

I had more written down on the notebook but since it's been already a year or two since JD 2023 came out most of this topics were already known by the community

#just dance 2023 #jd wanderlust #just dance #jd sara #gonna continue with the rest in this post #even though it's not that much most of the things were clear and explain #the JD 2024 will be funny to analyze tho if there is something missing

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dropsofjoonpiter · 1 year ago

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his lips, her lips, apocalypse 🧷

[ made with love for the story friday love & the shadow puppets ] click for hq

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fufaitazu · 2 months ago

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my movie list for this october is not all horror and not all movies. tried to watch a lot of new stuff while also returning to old favorites and stuff id been meaning to see. in order i wartched (first time watches are italicized)

over the garden wall

await further instructions

late night with the devil

scary godmother: halloween spooktacular

winnie the pooh: blood and honey

v/h/s

scary godmother: revenge of jimmy

v/h/s 94

m3gan

the menu

longlegs

the haunting hour: don't think about it

the babadook

jason x

chronicle

the black phone

the stuff

beetlejuice

v/h/s/2

american psycho

friday the 13th

hell house llc

beetlejuice beetlejuice

halloween III: season of the witch

the nightmare before christmas

the blair witch project

ring (1998)

hellraiser

candyman

bride of chucky

scream

much like last year some fuller thoughts on many of the films i watched under the cut

aight so the new film i watched that i liked the most was beyond a shadow of doubt late night with the devil. i watched it three times this october. i saw it and then tied everyone i knew to a chair and made them watch it with me too. fucking insane movie. i really really really really liked it and you should go watch it.

there were two films that made me actively mad while i was watching them and they were winnie the pooh blood and honey and beetlejuice beetlejuice. i thought blood and honey would at least be funny and to be fair in some places it was kinda funny but it was mostly just frustrating and boring. every single moment of action or tension is dragged on to pad the runtime to the point that the suspense gets beaten to death with a brick. there's also only pooh and piglet in the winnie the pooh horror movie which was a tad disappointing. further more there was so much gratuitous t&a in that movie i felt like i was watching something from 20 years ago. i get gratuity is still a thing in low budget horror but jesus christ dude

beetlejuice beetlejuice would have made me less mad if it was completely terrible all the way through but no a fair bit of the comedy still landed, the set and costume design were still spectacular, the score was good. but i hated sooooo much of the writing. i hated seeing jenna ortega on screen because every second she's on camera all you can smell is wb executives cumming themselves over casting "wednesday the tv series" as lydia's daughter for that sweet sweet "nostalgia + young actress relevant with The Youth". i thought making lydia into a sensationalist paranormal tv personality was stupid, i thought handwaving the maitlands out of the movie entirely was stupid, i thought giving beetlejuice a concrete backstory was stupid, there's a lot i could complain about but it should frankly be its own post.

m3gan was surprisingly really fun, the menu was UNsurprisingly really fun, chronicle was a movie i'd wanted to watch since i was a kid and i have kinda mixed feelings on it but overall i thought it was pretty neat if a bit hamfisted at times.

i didnt intend to watch 3 vhs movies im not crazy about the series but im nostalgic for the first 2 i guess. they were also anthologies so if i was running out of time in the day to watch my movie i could pop one on finish a segment then do the rest in the morning. i forgot the first segment of vhs2 entirely wow it sucks. novel concept but it sucks

the black phone was just aight to be it was a neat concept and it was well shot but i dont think it was an all timer like ive seen so many people insist. like i enjoyed it dgmw i think it was a good movie.

the haunting hour dont think about it is a movie i loved as a kid but watching it as an adult it is exactly what i wanted pooh blood and honey to be: astonishingly and HILARIOUSLY bad. i was high and laughing the entire way through the movie. i loved teen emily osment in her goth girl outfit crying and staring at the ceiling while listening to like royalty free emo music on her ipod. i loved the monster puppet looking cool and yucky but having a really limited range of motion so when it "devours itself" at the end of the movie one head just kinda clumsily bites the other until it flashes and explodes into yellow goo. so much amazing line delivery. and it smash cutting at the end to a completely unrelated song by emily osment that is also called "dont think about it" (which as a kid i feel like i remember airing on the disney channel entirely divorced from the movie). really fucking funny

all my rewatches were still good. i watched scream with chelsea and she liked it so scream is still the king baby ill watch it a million times.

ok i think thats all happy to answer any more questions if you read all this. bai

#lameyposting

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lochnessmonsterofficial · 2 months ago

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Not to complain about my job which i actually love a lot.

But one of the collections managers is having some health problems (prayers) so she has made me her unofficial replacement which is totally fine but she happens to be the collection manager that does The Most of any of the collections managers so not only do I have over 250 new objects to accession into the museum's collection, which includes research, writing descriptions, measuring, finding donor info, finding a place for them to live in the stacks, and photography (which everybody is so god damn particular about despite the fact that my setup consists of broken tripods topped with improvised foam toppers holding flashlights instead of studio lights), I also have to do multiple researcher visits, averaging about one per week, and each visit takes at least one full day to arrange, prepare for, supervise, aid, record, and clean up from, AND fulfill all the random extra requests like some guy in Chapel Hill asking for higher resolution photos of an object in our collection or an artist wanting to browse through the stacks for ~inspiration~. And all of this is ON TOP of my actual job, which is to help literally EVERY collections manager with anything they need, and since I'm on campus doing all the work for this one person everybody on that campus has noticed me around and is like "oh yeah Ellie would be perfect for this task", which ends up being like - pack ten 1400 year old extremely fragile japanese ceramic vessels for transport to main campus for a class next week, and also 12 Indonesian shadow puppets. And somehow now I'm sort of quasi-supervising a PhD student museum fellow and teaching her how to do collections manager-y stuff. I used to be able to go to my one LITERALLY ONE stupid little lunchtime anthropology brown bag lecture at lunchtime on Fridays and it was ONE hour out of my week that I got to chill out and learn something and now it's gone and I am just. Cataloging.

So anyway please pray for your local university museum collections assistants it's rough out here.

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bettercallslur · 6 months ago

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ty @kurtsvonneslut for the tag. I'm lame and have no one else to tag but I love giving my opinion even if no one hears it 🤭 feel free to take and repost and tag ur moots! (also TO MY MOOT I'm so sorry your picks were all so good and mine SUCK AHAHAHAH)

rules: list your top 5 albums from 5 different artists on a poll, so your followers can vote which album they think captures your vibe best

#tag game #polls #music #there are SO many others #but these feels like the ones that i come back to over and over #and ones that have a special place in my heart even if they arent the best #im also not an “album” person #i tend to find a handful of songs i like and ride #nicki minaj #maroon 5 #gross i hated tagging that please be nice to me #fun.#lorde #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #if i was being so fr views would be on here #ya know by drake...#LISTEN!!!!!!#it gave me an escape during a really hard time

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oh btw, can you add me in the tag list of flatsp? thank you 🥰

of course!! already in ehe thank you so much for your support ❤️‍🩹

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iriel3000 · 1 year ago

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2019 Friday Recs - Week 1

Happy Friday! Some reading recommendations for your enjoyment. No particular order and more to come.

2019! Endgame has arrived to break our hearts yet give us some validation.

Just a Fantasy by ironstrangle

Clint indulges one of Natasha's fantasies.

of saviours and shadows by lonely_is_so_lonely_alone

Four times that Clint saved Natasha, and one time he didn't - or, Clint and Nat being badass spies who have each other’s backs.

Ruminations and Rum by Caedmon/@caedmonfaith

In an alternate universe where Clint obeyed SHIELD's orders and eliminated the Black Widow instead of bringing her in, he wonders what would have happened if he had made a different call.

Now it's too late by emzular

She was at the wedding, of course she was. He'd asked her to be there, and she could never say no to him. He was the first friend she'd ever had, her best friend. Her family. And yet it had been another day in her life that she'd wondered why she'd never told him how she felt. Because now it was too late.

Somthing Lost, Somthing Gained by NarniaNerd

A single line can change everything. r"you must sacrifice what you love most"

the simple perfection of knowing you by Anonymous

Puppet on a string; he’d let her take him anywhere.

If you are one of the authors or know them on tumblr and they are not properly tagged, please let me know in comments and I'll add them. Please feel free to click the Iriel3000fridayrecs link below to browse more categories.

#iriel3000fridayrecs #hawkeye #clintasha #clint barton #black widow #natasha romanov #strike team delta #ao3 fanfic #clintasha fanfiction #2019

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helmort · 1 year ago

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⭐ 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑾𝒐𝒍𝒇 (Friday Tale)

Once upon a moonlit evening, in a forgotten nook of a European hamlet, there wandered a forlorn and nameless child. The shadows, as nebulous caretakers in lieu of parents, had nurtured this solitary soul, drifting through a realm of abandonment and yearning for a love never known. Destiny took a peculiar turn when the child chanced upon a map of treasures, graced with the emblem of a solemn iron cross. The pursuit of this cryptic path led the youngster to a desolate dwelling, where echoes of days long past whispered through the timeworn walls.

Within the aged abode, the child encountered a shadow, cast upon the wall like an arcane puppet. It took the form of a sagacious black wolf, its eyes ablaze in a crimson glow, a creature of mystique and wisdom.

This ethereal being spun tales of fortitude and kinship, urging the child to embrace the latent wolf within and metamorphose into a valiant hero. Convinced that the key to liberation from loneliness lay in proving his prowess, the child, accompanied by other nameless, wayward comrades, heeded the wolf's counsel. Together, they set forth on a quest, targeting those who held stars in higher regard than crosses, committing a grisly act culminating in the dismemberment of their final victim and the consumption of his lifeblood. This sinister rite triggered a ghastly transformation, turning the child and companions into wolves—no longer humans but creatures of fur, fang, and primal instincts. Forever bound to servitude under the shadowy wolf's commands, they became creatures ensnared in a predatory existence.

Their days unfolded in a lamentable cycle of solitude, shunned by all who refused to utter a word to them. The once-human pack continued their predatory pursuits, hunting down those who cherished stars. Yet, an ominous shift in the tides of justice transpired one fateful day. A cadre of hunters, sanctioned by the law, intervened. They pursued, captured, and imprisoned the child-wolves behind a sealed door within a desolate abyss. Confined within the unforgiving cage, they faced an eternity of solitary penance, their unheard howls reverberating in the caverns of isolation.

Humanity, forever haunted, would remember them as a tragic aberration, a mournful tale etched in the annals of their collective memory.

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PAPERHAND PUPPET INTERVENTION PARTNERS WITH GRAMMY NOMINEES NNENNA AND PIERCE FREELON & NC POET LAUREATE JAKI SHELTON GREEN ON AMBITIOUS 23RD SUMMER SHOW ‘WHERE OUR SPIRITS RESIDE’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Opening Friday August 4th and running through September 24th, Paperhand Puppet Intervention presents, ‘Where Our Spirits Reside’, a giant puppet spectacle production for all ages about: love, memory, loss, transformation, grief, celebration, and ultimately – the strength and resilience we build together to heal.

Now in its 23rd season, Paperhand is collaborating with 6-time GRAMMY® Award nominee, jazz vocalist and creator of the award-winning podcast Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon, who is the show’s writer and narrator and will be serenading audiences during each performance. Her son, GRAMMY®-nominated children’s musician and author Pierce Freelon joins the cast as composer, performer and puppeteer. The show will feature songs and stories from the Freelons’ joint album titled, AnceStars, and Pierce’s picture book: Daddy and Me: Side by Side. NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Chapel Hill Poet Laureate CJ Suitt are co-writers with Nnenna.

For 23 years, Paperhand Puppet Intervention has mesmerized audiences with masks, stilts, painted flats, cardboard trickery, illuminated puppets and shadows. All of their art moves and is brought to life with a fantastic score played LIVE by the Paperhand Band! This year’s show will be one of their most ambitious, inviting audiences to see and learn from our ancestors everywhere: those that have come before us, a mighty river, an old tree, a little mushroom, an animal, or even the stars themselves.

Come pour some creative community gold into the cracks of our somewhat broken world and hearts. All are welcome. You don’t want to miss the magic being generated here.

‘Where Our Spirits Reside’, takes place weekends August 4 through September 17 at the Forest Theatre in Chapel Hill, including Labor Day Monday, and September 22-24 at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh. Evening shows begin at 7:00 PM with a pre-show act starting each night at 6:20 pm. Matinee shows take place on Sunday, September 10 and September 17 at 3:00 pm, with pre-show acts beginning at 2:20 pm.

Show details are available at http://paperhand.org/summer-show/. Tickets are on sale now through EventBrite. The ticket sale link is accessible at www.paperhand.org. All questions regarding ticket sales should be directed to [email protected]. Please do not contact the show venues.

#sisstar #sisstar loop #press release #north carolina #raleigh #nc museum of art #announcement #artists #families

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, January 25 - Friday, January 26

Kathy: Ewww! Who left their gum here? Buffy: Gum gnome?

~~Living Conditions~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

His Guiding Angel (Angel/Cordelia, K+) by apachefirecat

Gone (Buffy, Dawn, PG-13) by veronyxk84

"Not Quite An Empty Place" (Buffy/Spike, NR) by TazDevilen

A Shock of Hot Chocolate (Giles, T) by The_Eclectic_Bookworm

Перемена судьбы (Buffy/Angelus, T, Russian language) by B_E_S

Serenissima [A Post Reunion Trilogy Story] (Buffy/Angel, E) by MCorey1317

How I Want To Be Free (Angel, T) by Pinkperson

Shine (Giles/Jenny, G) by HAL1500

Four Little Words (Buffy/Angelus, T) by angelus2hot

[Chaptered Fiction]

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, R) by slaymesoftly

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 410 (Crossover with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, T) by madimpossibledreamer

Head Over Feet, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, G) by L0zerEmz0

The Day After, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, G) by Maldorana

Meeting the Coven, Chapter 1 (Xander/Anya, T) by AJ Fields

Ignite, Chapter 1 (Movie AU, T) by ILovePaulReubens

Buffyverse Flashfic, Chapter 18 (Willow/Anya, T) by NotASlayer

New Normal, Chapter 30 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by holetoledo

Cherry on Top, Chapter 27 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxineeden

To All We Guard, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by simmony

Love Ridden, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by scratchmeout

In Any Life, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Spikelover4ever

Rise, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by CheekyKitten

Destiny or Choices Made?, Chapter 44 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by charmed4lifekaren

The Neighbor's Point of View, Chapter 80 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by the_big_bad

The Day After, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, G) by Maldorana

Goodbye to Everything That I Knew, Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, R) by fortes775

A Little Poet in Her Monster, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Desicat

Love Lives Here, Chapter 13 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Passion4Spike

Pack My Box with Five Dozen Liquor Jugs, Chapter 26 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by honeygirl51885

A Waxy Gent Chuckled Over My Fab Jazzy Quips, Chapter 26 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen

Clean Slate, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by hulettwyo

The U in Robot, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Girlytek

Dusk Rising, Chapter 28 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by HappyWhenItRains

Anarchy Tour, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Alyot

What the Drabble?, Chapter 74 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

It's Easy Time, Until It's Not, Chapter 17 (Buffy/Spike, G) by hulettwyo

Coming Through, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by hulettwyo

[Images, Audio & Video]

Craft:Buffy bracelets by yyouriley

Artwork:i can't see me lovin' nobody but you! for all my liiiiiife by genericaces

Gifset:Anthony Head in Buffy The Vampire Slayer S1.4 Teacher’s Pet by 51kas81

Gifset:2x08 | "The Dark Age" by clarkgriffon

Gifset:season seven > buffy & faith by starryeyesxx

Gifset:season seven > anya & dawn by starryeyesxx

Gifset:season seven > xander & spike by starryeyesxx

Gifset:season seven > willow & dawn by starryeyesxx

Gifset: Fave Episodes: s3 ep6 "Band Candy" by green-ajah

Video:[buffy/spike edit] by id.llow

Video: Giles & Wesley | Who You Are | Buffyverse by Jess Wilson

Video: Buffy & Angel / The point of it all by darkswordfish7xx

[Reviews & Recaps]

[A New Man recap] by on-this-day-btvs

[Season 4 review] by kat--writes

[The Zeppo recap] by on-this-day-btvs

[Joyce Summers "written by men"] by coraniaid

[Buffy and friends/family] by coraniaid

[Buffy's extended family] by coraniaid

Tara-fying developments! | Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x19 "Tough Love" | Reaction! by The Normies

After Life: Buffy The Vampire Slayer 6X03 Reaction by Dakara

A WEE LITTLE PUPPET MAN- Angel Reaction - 5x14 - Smile Time by TheLexiCrowd

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - S6 EP 14 OLDER & FAR AWAY by Reel Reviews With Jen!

Buffy Review - 5x12 Checkpoint by Reverse Angle

The Re-Watcher's Council #9: "The Puppet Show" Buffy S01E09 Spoiler Review by LGRN - Entertainment

Podcast: Tooth Pics - Angel S05E15 - A Hole in the World by Pop Culture Role Call

Podcast: 1.4 Teacher's Pet by Once More: A Rewatch Podcast

Podcast: Angel S3E22: Tomorrow by Booze & Buffy

[Recs & In Search Of]

Help on buffy project by Curious-Excitement20

Story ideas for a fanfic? by goodandpure

[Fandom Discussions]

My S6 BTVS rewrite by lesbianabril

If there ever is a reboot of Buffy, should Willow be lesbian from the start? by multiple authors

The Gift - As A Series Finale [cont.] by multiple authors

How hard would it be for Angel to lose his soul now? by multiple authors

How do you interpret the Buffy/Spike/Angel triangle at the end of season 7? (And Angel season 5) by multiple authors

Xin Rong the Vampire Slayer by multiple authors

Thoughts on This?: Dolly Parton Might Reboot Buffy by multiple authors

Cordy's Character by multiple authors

Dead Things by multiple authors

The Knights of Byzantium/The Monks/The Key? by multiple authors

Who else should have come back? by multiple authors

Why buffy never seems to need Giles training all throughout? by multiple authors

Was Angel getting through to her? (Spoilers) by multiple authors

The upstairs of the Summers home. by multiple authors

Ignoring canon birthdays, which star signs would you assign to each character? by multiple authors

Eve S5 by multiple authors

Regarding Rent... by multiple authors

What is the Weirdest Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Episode or Moment? by multiple authors

Buffy Season 7 Monday Morning Quarterbacking by multiple authors

How Could They have Handled Angel Season 4 Better? (Even Though It's My Favorite Season) by multiple authors

Do you think a part of Angel's subconscious liked playing Angelus? by multiple authors

Your Top Top Saddest Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series Moments? by multiple authors

Bands you’ve been introduced to from the show by multiple authors

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