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Favorite Otps/Pairings: Geoff Schwartz & Erica Goldberg (The Goldbergs) “For the record, I'd do the whole mattress on the floor thing for you. For the record, I'm never breaking up with you.”

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geoff x erica - still falling for you

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Axl Heck's Girl - Chapter 1: Superhero

"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Oh, damn it. Come on!" Frustrated, the woman with the superhero get up and screams scowling up at the airplane passing by her hand up in the air phone in hand desperate for some signal...

Some people call this the middle of nowhere. You know, one of those places you fly over on your way from somewhere, to somewhere else, but you wouldn't live here.

"Folks, right now we're flying over the great state of Indiana, if you'd like to take a look."

Well , look down next time, and you'll see us down here in the middle... Orson, Indiana, heart of the heartland, proud home of Little Betty Snack Cakes, the demolition derby for the homeless, and the world's largest polyurethane cow. So how'd I end up in the middle of the road in this getup? Here?

"No. Bars! I got bars!" Desperately, the woman runs through the cornfield desperate for some signal.

Guess it all started a couple of weeks ago, and no, I'm not an actual superhero, not unless you count getting my kids out the door for school every morning...

"I made breakfast!" The woman who was to wear the superhero get up yells as she slams some pancake into a microwave briefly before taking it out.

"Come on, we're late! Let's go!" The woman yells as a young boy reading waddles in.

That's my youngest, Brick. You know how you think giving a kid a cool name will make him cool? It doesn't.

"Okay, now listen. Today at recess, I don't want you wandering around alone on the perimeter, all right? Makes you an easy target, you know? Like... Like the gazelle that gets separated from the pack. You've gotta find yourself a group of kids and just stand near them." Tiredly, the dishevelled woman explains to her youngest.

"You know you're my hero, right, Mom?" Sweetly, the boy tells her.

"Thank you, honey. Eat your pancake." She shoves said pancake into his hand.

"It's still frozen." Frowning, he holds it.

"Well, lick it. It'll last longer. Hey, Mike, have you seen that envelope with my driver's license from the DMV? I need it for work. Why is this place such a mess?" Mortified, the woman rats to herself after her question falls to deaf ears attempting to get everyone ready just as a taller leaner boy with nothing but boxers on walks in yawning...

That one over there would be Axl. Since he hit 15, he hibernates in his room and only comes out to paw through our food and shoot off sarcastic comments. At least his girlfriend, Robin, can mostly keep him in check.

"Oh, we're out of chips. Nice job, Mom." The curly black haired boy grumbled at the empty cupboard.

"Yeah, I can't hear you if you don't have pants on." Said mom huffs at her oldest.

"Mom, where's my homework?" Brick calls out but it falls on deaf ears.

"Here Brick..." A young girl and a young boy, twins, with brown hair approaches the young boy spotting said homework in the teenage boy's hand to hand over. The girl is wearing ripped jeans, a t-shirt, leather jacket and boots. The boy is wearing a similar outfit to the girl. Only difference is, he isn't wearing a leather jacket.

Those two aren't mine. Robin and River Goldberg-Schwartz. We took them in after we found them on our doorstep in the middle of the night. While River is more of the close off of the two, except for his sister. Robin is more cautious of them. When she was eight, she had an accident at school. She had a seizure. A few weeks after that, Mike and I took her to get her tested and found out that she's epileptic. Axl and River are extremely protective of her.

"Don't lick it Brick..." Brow furrowed, Robin tears the pancake to pieces grabbing a nearby plastic container tossing the torn pieces into a bag for him as she gets out her pocket, a granola bar.

"Okay. When did this happen? Mike, look at this. Look at this. This is... I haven't had my driver's license picture taken in seven years, okay? Here's the old one. Look at this. What happened to me?" The mother rushes over to her husband's side showcasing the once bright beaming smile of her younger self that was Frankie Heck to her dishevelled disheartened distraught state of a current picture license.

"Marriage Frankie." Robin hollered at her.

"And kids." Axl adds.

"Ah yeah don't forget us." River adds amused.

"Thank you River. Thank you Robin. Thank you Axl." Annoyed, Frankie sighs staring sadly at the picture.

"Uh, well they have a point back then, you were all young and shiny and wondering what your life's gonna be. And now... Well, now you know!" Mike, her husband trails off.

"Mom!" Another young girl's voice calls out to her as Robin grimaces watching her boyfriend pop open the milk carton with his mouth spitting it out.

"Hey, come in here if you want to talk to me. Axl, put some pants on. Here." Scowling, she tosses his trousers over which he easily catches while downing the milk mystifying his other half how he could drink so much.

"Mike, does it ever bum you out that I'm not young and shiny anymore?" Frankie eyes her licence.

"Well, sure, honey. It's a huge bummer, but what are you gonna do? Oh, shoot! I wanted chips for my lunch." Mike assures as he opens the cabinet fatering from the lack of chips.

"She didn't buy any." Annoyed, Axl grumbled as he walks by.

"Sue, grab a pancake. We're late." Frankie calls out to the youngest girl.

That's Sue. She's been going through a bit of an awkward stage... for the past 13 years.

"Mom, the dryer ate my leg warmers again." The girl shows said shredded socks.

"I told you, you can't put wet things in the dryer anymore." Frankie furrows her brow at her.

"Yeah Sue what were you thinking putting wet clothes in a dryer." Dryly, River remarks as he drapes his backpack over his shoulder, placing his earphones in.

"There's no need for the sass young man." Frankie furrows her brow at the second eldest boy.

"Just saying..." Softly, he mutters under his breath brow furrowed.

"Well, I need 'em, 'cause guess what? I'm trying out for show choir this week!" Sue reveals as both Mike and Frankie furrows their brow by her words while wincing River immediately dives his head out of there.

"Wow, super. That... That should be fun to try out for. Now listen, Dad's gonna fix the dryer again, but right now, I just need everybody to go. Let's get out the door. Come on. Let's go, let's go!" Frankie urges the kids towards the door.

That driver's license picture was a big wake-up call from the DMV. Somehow the life had been sucked right out of me. But who or what had sucked it?

"Mom!" Sue calls out as she tries to reach the bag over her head held by Axl.

"Mom!" Mockingly, Axl copies keeping the bag out of reach.

"Mom, he's not giving my bag back! Mom!" Sue cries out as River and Robin guides Brick to the door stopping him from wandering while mid-reading as the two bicker behind them.

"We did teach 'em the word, "Dad" or "Mike", didn't we?" Frankie turns to her husband who simply smirks smugly as he heads out to work while she does the same... or at the least tries to.

We're a two-job family. Mike manages a bunch of boneheads down at the quarry...

"Oh, for cryin' out loud." Mike curses after an explosion talking to the radio as he rubs out the circle of 1 on the day without injury to zero blanking out the flask with a label upon it.

And my latest job I'm too smart for, is selling cars at Orson's last surviving car dealership.

"Well, well, well. What a month, huh?" The man smugly saunters over showing said fat check to the two.

"Frankie, don't let him intimidate you. He may be the king of sales around here, but he's been rejected by the Elks Lodge twice. I'm not gonna say by who. It was me. I told them that he's a pedophile." Giggling, Bob, friend of Frankie gossips as the man leaves.

"No." Frankie gasps.

"Yeah. He's not a pedophile. He's not." Bob smirks.

"Wait, Bob." Frankie frowns at her check.

"What?" Bob furrows his brow at her.

"Okay, this check can't be right. This is lower than the amount I spent on gas to get here." Frankie furrows her brow going over to her boss to see about this check and...

"Ain't nothing wrong with the check, Frances. That there is your base salary, and that's what it's gonna stay until you sell a car and get a commission. Now one week left in the month. You sell a car, or you may be out on your keister." The boss reminds Frankie.

"Yeah. Yeah. I, um... But listen, I mean, my keister's having a little cash flow problem right now. I may not have sold a car yet, but I've come real close." Frankie argues.

"See that buck up there? He came real close to not being hit by a bullet. You see what I'm saying? By the way, did you ever get a new driver's license? We gotta post them, and that old one didn't look a thing like you. Oh, yeah. Now that's you." The boss gestures to one of his many prized hunted heads on the wall before being handed Frankie's driver license as Frankie frowning but forcing a smile upon her face heads to do just that...

"I see myself as kind of a matchmaker for people and vehicles, and I just have a feeling about you and this little cutie. Why don't we take it for a test drive and..." Frankie talks to the man about the ruby red car when...

"Frankie, you have a call on line one. Your son's school is on line one." The announcer calls out to her bored.

"Hurt, or just in trouble? 'Cause if it's just in trouble, can you ask him if I can call him back?" She asks however...

"You said you were gonna pick him up!" Fuming, Frankie yells at the phone.

"No, you said you were." Mike disputes pouring himself a coffee from the canister she made him.

"I even put a post-it on your thermos!" Frankie complains as he then notes the sticky note.

"Is that what that means?" He blurts out as next thing Frankie knew...

"Feel that? Uh, take a left right here. Pretty smooth, huh? That's 150 horsepower. And did I tell you about our recession deals? Oh, get in the right lane and pull over, pull over, pull over!" Frankie talks to her client driving the car instructing him as next the driver knew he was pulling up to a familiar little boy by his lonesome on the curb outside said school.

"Quick, quick! Get in, get in, get in!" Frankie hisses to her son getting in confusing the client.

"Brick, honey, how do you like those seats?" Smiling, Frankie turns to her son strapped in.

"They're amazing. They also come with optional leather trim and preferred suede inserts." Brick recites unapologetic.

"And if you buy today, I'll throw the inserts in for free." Frankie offers.

"Mom, are you crazy? That's a $600 value." Brick gasps as the drive continues...

"At least you're still my hero." Brick bows his head holding the huge soda cans.

"Aww, thanks, pal. I made dinner!" Frankie drops down the fast food onto the table as the family enter, River has his headphones in as he turns to take his bag, beaming at the chips and nuggets however when he turns to enter his room, Axl and Robin following in his steps...

"Hey, Underpants, headphones, bird you three think you're too good for us?" Mike hollers at the three as Robin doesn't even bat an eye to removing the earphone from her brother. Confused, he turns to the zombie turning to the family as he does the same equally as lost.

"We are a family, and we are going to eat together as a family." Firmly, Frankie tells the three sharing a look before the twins and Axl release a tired sigh as next they knew...

"This is Dancing With the Stars"!

"Okay, quick, let's hear about everybody's day. Mine sucked. Next." Frankie turns to her family as they all sit on the sofa to eat well all of them, Robins sits on Axl's lap while River sits on the floor leaning against the sofa arm chair.

"Well, ahem, I'm trying to decide what number I should do for my show choir audition." Smiling, Sue exclaims.

"Oh, my God." Axl groans leaning his head into Robin's shoulder.

"What?" Sue furrows her brow at him as Robin takes a heavy gulp of her soda.

"Does it really matter what song you pick? 'Cause there's no way you're gonna make it." Axl states the obvious.

"Mom!" Sue turns to her.

"Mike." Frankie turns to him.

"Robin." Mike turns to Robin.

"Babe." Robin turns to Axl.

"Yeah you know I can I get it silent treatment tough love to make me do it thanks Robin I'm finally ready to tell mom and dad!" Determined, Sue strides out of the room, the bang of the door being shut startles said girl turning to look behind her, brow furrowed for what had just happened however she simply shrugs it off returning to her own form of escapism…

"You know, your brother's just trying to say you should just choose whatever you want." Frankie advises.

"Now me, I like a quick-song. Quick, leave 'em wantin' more." Mike snaps his fingers.

"You have a meeting with my teacher on Monday." Brick blurts out.

"What?" Frankie turns to him.

"It's imperative that you both be there, she says. Imperative!" Brick tells her before bowing his head repeating the word.

"Who's he whispering to?" Mike furrows his brow.

"Himself." River answers as he sips his soda.

"Why does he do that?" Mike frowns at Frankie.

"Why does it seem so strange?" Scowling, River argues.

"Cause it is." Axl scoffs.

"It's just another quirk of his." River shrugs.

"He has enough. I thought I told you to knock that off." Mike furrows his brow at Brick.

"I like it. It soothes me." Brick disputes.

"Okay, what teacher's meeting? I didn't even get a note." Frankie argues as next the group knew he took it out of his mouth.

"Oh, my God, you're so weird. Explain that!" Axl grimaces turning to frown at his best friend.

"That I can't." Candidly, River gives him that equally as repulsed.

"Mom!" Brick turns to Frankie.

"Mike." Frankie turns to Mike.

"Robin." Mike turns to Robin.

"Boys." Robin gives them a stern look.

"What I can't!" River argues annoyed only to falter from his sister's firm frown.

"Yeah, well, from what I can tell, it is Monday. Okay, we both work Monday." Frankie huffs unravelling the chewed up piece of paper.

"Sorry. Sorry. Sorry." Brick apologizes repeating it as he whispers it.

Quietly, Robin sits on her front on her bed below as Sue stands before the girl, pacing back and forth seemingly ranting to the girl oblivious to her having her earphones in, reading the book before her in a world of her own…

"You think I can do this right Robin?" Smiling, Sue beams brightly down at the older girl on the mattress on the floor on her front firmly focusing on the book before her, posters of big dippers and constellations with a telescope on her side stands simply nodding her head, bowing to the beat in her head.

"…" Silently, she turns the page, how could Willow just allow Katniss to treat her like this Robin would never know….

"Did I tell you Hank at the quarry found his finger today?" Mike leans back on the lawn chair looking up at the stars sipping his beer by his wife on the other lawn chair's side.

"Oh, really? That's good." Frankie smiles at the news.

"Mom, Dad. Are you guys disappointed in me? You know, 'cause I never make anything?" Sue approaches her parents pained.

"Oh, sure I'm disappointed, hon. This is, like, the 12th thing you've tried out for. I mean, I love not having to go to the events." Mike tries to comfort his daughter.

"I'm thinking maybe I won't try out for show choir... If you guys don't think I should." Sadly, Sue admits as she looks expectantly at her parents.

Of course she shouldn't. Show choir in Indiana has always been huge. Next to basketball, its combination of singing and Broadway-caliber choreography is the most cutthroat competition around. I didn't want to see her get hurt, but then I looked at her young and shiny face not beat down yet by busted dryers and mean bosses with guns...

"Go for it." Frankie tells her.

"Hmm?" Mike turs to his wife surprised.

"You really... You really think so?" Sue beams brightly hopeful.

No.

"Dad?" Hopeful, Sue turns to him.

"This could be your year." Mike goes with it.

We are so screwed.

"Brick is a very quirky child... Maybe clinically quirky, even." The teacher known as Mrs Rettig informs both Mike and Frankie as they sit before her desk.

"We have no idea what you mean." Frankie smiles.

We knew exactly what she meant.

"Well, that may be because you haven't spent much time here in the classroom.

"Are we supposed to? I mean, isn't that the point of school... That between 8:00 and 3:00, he's your problem? If he, you know, eats his napkin at dinner, we don't call you and ask you to come over to our house." Mike argues.

"Look, I would love to spend more time here, but I work. I'm at work right now." Frankie gestures to a familiar ruby red car with a different driver at the wheel waiting for the two to come back.

"Brick's a very bright boy, but we feel he could benefit from a series of more formal tests.." The teacher tries to tell them…

"Okay, so he doesn't fit into your cookie-cutter mould. But that doesn't mean that he needs fixing. Our oldest son had a completely pointed head until he was six." Frankie tells the teacher.

"Like a candy corn." Mike gestures.

"And so what, we got some funny looks when we took him to the mall? You know what we did about it? Nothing. And eventually, it just flattened out all on its own." Frankie finishes said story.

"Okay, look, Brick isn't your typical kid, but he is funny and sweet and probably a genius." Frankie firmly stats the fact fiercely.

"I think what we're trying to say here is, thanks for your concern, but our Brick doesn't need any special anything. He's fine." Firmly, Mike places his hand on his wife's shoulder.

"Mm-hmm. His best friend is his backpack." Bluntly, Rettig deadpans.

"I just hope he's weird enough that our insurance covers it." Mike admits.

"How happy are you with your car?" Cheerily, Frankie leans in smirking eager for another customer.

"Now you're suspended for three games? What the hell is the matter with you?" Mad, Mike yells at Axl and River sat slumped in their chairs.

"What did they do?" Frankie returns to work while Robin is making herself a sandwich.

"They called their football coach a moron." Mike tells Frankie.

"You always call him a moron." Axl argues.

"He called for a bomb on 4th and 1. You think you're some sort of a big shot just 'cause you play ball? Well, the smart-mouth attitude goes today." Mike tells the two teenage boys how it is.

"Whatever." Axl and River dismisses.

"That's it! Go to your room. No, wait. You like your room. Go to Sue and Robin's room!" Mike changes the punishment.

"But I'm in there!" Robin interjects.

"Then go to the boys room!" Mike orders her.

"What did I do?! Urgh!" Robin scowls glaring at the two storming off to Axl and River's room.

"Think of it as punishment for turning Axl's head into its normal shape!" Mike yells only to be met by the sharp slamming sound of the door.

"Damn it. If only he had, like, a car or a TV or a cell phone... Something good we could take away from him. From either of them." Mike curses.

"I know." Frankie sighs.

"Mom, you're my hero." Brick repeats.

"That's nice, honey, but we're trying to think up a good punishment for your brother." Frankie tells him however…

"You'll need a costume." Brick tells her.

"Costume?" Frankie frowns at Brick.

"I'm doing a book report on Superwoman. You have to come dressed like her Monday so I can show and tell you as part of my project. You can also come as Jungle Girl, but I'd have to do it today." Brick tells her.

"Damn it, Brick, you've gotta tell me these things earlier." Frankie snaps at Brick.

"I did! I've been telling you all week you're my hero. Didn't you listen? Whatever!" Brick turs on his heels huffing.

"Honey, okay, listen. I'm sorry. Honey, come back here." Frankie tries to go after but…

"Oh, let him be." Mike dismisses.

"What is happening? I used to think I was a pretty good mom, and now... God, I really..." Frankie plops herself down on her sofa sadly.

"I don't know. Hey, come on. You're a great mom. So Brick is weird, and Sue has no recognizable talent, and Axl and River's flushing their futures down the toilet and Robin's antisocial nature and is too scared to try out for anything, all of our kids are messed up." Mike tries to comfort his wife, arm draped over her when…

"I did it. I made show choir!" Cheerily, Sue smiles.

"You did?" Frankie and Mike do a double take.

"Yeah!" Sue smiles.

"You sure, honey? Is it actually written down somewhere?" Mike furrows his brow.

"Yes, yes! And they already rotated me in, so I gotta learn everything super quick for our first competition this Friday." Sue admits.

"Oh, my God! This is huge!" Happily, Frankie gushes.

"Oh, honey, that's great! I'm so proud of you." Mike beams brightly at his daughter.

"Thanks, Dad. All right, well, I'd better get my homework done, because I am going to be so busy" Sue smiles as she goes off to do her homework.

Either Sue does have some talent, or we have one crappy show choir. This called for a celebration.

"Sue, I'm just so proud of you. I never thought you'd make anything. Here's a dollar." Aunt Edie takes out from her wig a dollar as the neighbourhood celebrate.

"Thank you!" Sue smiles taking the dollar while Ginny simply shrugs cigarette in hand as they soon go in to watch move that bus.

"Oh, my. And now, ladies and gentlemen, fresh from their knockout performance at Hoosier Village Assisted Living in Terre Haute... The Orson Swingsations!"

"Where the hell is she?" Scowling, Mike tries to find Sue as the group watch with Brick reading his book.

"She's on the crew." Frankie spots her.

"What? Oh, that's great! The only thing lamer than show choir is being on the crew for show choir." Axel smirks.

"Axl." Robin frowns at him.

"You kidding? You learn a lot more on the crew than being one of those ditzy broads." Bluntly, River argues.

"Where's Sue?" Aunt Edith asks.

"She's in the... The middlish row behind the pregnant girl." Frankie lies to Aunt Edie.

"Soon to be pregnant from the looks of them…" River remarks.

"Why didn't she tell us she was only on the crew?" Confused, Frankie ponders.

"I don't know. She does look real happy, though. That's my daughter... That's my daughter right there!" Excited, Mike hollers alarming a fair few.

"Mike no!" Robin hisses harshly at him but…

"Go, Sue!" Smiling, he forces her to stand with Brick, River and Axl as next the group knew…

"Sue, the box. The box." Mike and Frankie mouth to her as she smiles waving lingering on set oblivious to the box she holds she was meant to set down as next she knew a domino effect of sorts occurred a girl fell forward hitting the stage, the boy behind following a everyone else fell too, only was left hanging above flailing from the hanger above.

"Do it, yes Sue yes! See how easily the social structure of high school breaks tell me people why must we the less populars be pushed down to these pretty faces who having nothing to their names nor brains that could help society! Why must those that have the determination to learn to study be seen as outsiders for-" Fiercely, River roars raising his voice to the public as a fair few camera point at him seeing him cackle from the mayhem of the prompt.

"That's enough for the today." Mike smoothly slides in, hand over his mouth.

"I will not be silenced!" Scowling, he raises his fist fiercely in the air as he is dragged away in Mike's arms…

No wonder my face looks the way it does. The Swingsation disaster got Sue kicked off crew. So when Brick said it was the day of his book report... Today's the day of my book report. I was at the end of my rope. But what could I do? I was the no-show mom whose kid's best friend was his backpack. I put on my spanx and went.

"Anybody call for Superwoman?" Smiling, Frankie asks in her costume cheerily as she saunters in faltering from the group circle of children around the eerily silent teacher.

"That's next Monday." She tells Frankie as the children chuckle as the embarrassed Frankie leaves.

"Hi, Bob. Frankie. Yeah, it's me, Bob. Listen, that Gail woman... She came back to purchase a car. She's looking for you. But that dummy Pete... He's moving in for the kill. He's plying her with snow cones. I don't think she can hold out much longer. She's on her second grape." Bob reports to Frankie from his phone.

"No, no! That is my customer! Listen, don't let her move. I'm gonna be right there, okay? Damn it." Swiftly, she hangs up heading to work.

"And the braking system is just, like, so great. Because it, you know, like, it stops really well, and it's got this, I mean, integrated steering wheel that... That, like, you know, you turn it, and... And honk if people get in the way, and it just..." Frankie lists off as she and the mother from before drive in the yellow car.

"Frankie, are you okay? You seem a little... Stressed." She asks Frankie.

"Oh, no. I'm fine. I'm perfect. Uh, where was I? Oh, the horn! You're going to love the horn. Listen to this. Isn't that great? I am a matchmaker. Did I mention that? For people and, um, wait. See? Isn't that fabulous?" Frankie smiles at the woman who drives through a familiar road.

"You know, I'm a mom, too. I know what it's like to balance work and kids. I've got three." The mother reveals.

"I've got five. Isn't it hard? It's really hard. I'm just stretched so thin. I feel like I can't do anything right." Frankie gushes.

"Oh, I know. Some days, I swear I just feel like getting in the car and driving and driving...and never coming back. Do you ever feel like that?" She asks Frankie.

"Only every day!" Frankie agrees.

"We made it! Yeah! Pedal to the metal, baby, all the way! What was that?" The mother cheers faltering from the sudden bump.

"What was what?" Frankie furrows her brow.

"I think we hit something. Is something wrong with the car? Maybe you'd better check." She insists.

"No, I'm sure it's fine. I..." Frankie frowns but…

"No... Yeah, no, no. I'll check. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I don't see anything. Hey!" Frankie sighs going to check only t gasp at the gas thrown in her face.

"Sorry! I got three kids in jail!" The woman yells as she takes off in the car.

"What? No, wait! You're not gonna get away with this! I've got your license back at the office!" Frankie roars but it falls to deaf ears.

"Oh, I bet that's not even her real license. Yeah, the picture was too good…." Defeated, Franke falls to her knees mortified only to falter from the familiar breakfast bar being offered to her. Her hues widen while she swatches it looking up at the smiling face of River, Sue, Brick, Robin and Axl by her side in the car with Mike…

"Somebody call for a ride? Rough day?" Mike was driving it smiling at the fierce feral beast that is his wife.

That's the thing about family. Oh sure, they eat your food and wreck your face, you gotta save them a thousand times a day, for God knows what. But every now and then, they save you.

"Not pretty fast for a superhero" Mike remarks as Frankie reaches for the car but it scoots forward again…then again until…

"Wow! Nice tights." Axl remarks eyeing his mother's costume.

"So you some rip off super woman?" River and Robin asks.

"I'm the real deal thank you very much." Frankie huffs.

"We know." Smiling, Robin shares a look with Axl and River as she hands her a soda which she swiftly slurps.

"Look at you. Look at your mom." Mike gushes over his wife.

"Mom... Here with your dinner. We made it." Axl hands her over a familiar fast food bag.

"You make it just like I do. I love you, guys, you know." Frankie smiles at her kids.

"We know, Mom" Sue smiles.

"Hi. How come you never tell me you love me?" Frankie cranes her head back towards Mike.

"I told you I loved you the day I married you. If anything had changed, I'd let you know." Mike lightly pats her leg.

So, yeah... Back then on the old license, you know what my life was gonna be. And Mike's right. And I know... this is my life. It's not gonna be in People magazine or anything, but you know what? I got it good.

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😂🔊Now presenting: the trailer for season three of 'Make Some Noise'! Premiering June 24th.

Make Some Noise season three is our biggest and noisiest season yet and will consist of a whopping 20 episodes with host Sam Reich back behind the desk.

Featuring the return of the Noise Boys (Josh Ruben, Zac Oyama, Brennan Lee Mulligan) and an incredible slew of guests: Anna Garcia, Chris Grace, Carl Tart, Ify Nwadiwe, Ally Beardsley, Erika Ishii, Geoff Ross, Izzy Roland, Jacob Wysocki, Jacquis Neal, Jeremy Culhane, Jess McKenna, Jiavani, Kimia Behpoornia, Kurt Maloney, Lauren Pritchard, Lou Wilson, Nick Mandernach, Rashawn Scott, Ross Bryant, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Zeke Nicholson, Paul F. Tompkins, Talia Tabin, Victoria Longwell, Devin Field, Rachel Bloom, Hannah Pilkes, D.J. Mausner, Malachai Komanoff Bandy, Mimi von Schack, Maame-Yaa Aforo, Sarah Claspell, Ryder Dunagan, Caitlin Reilly, Pete Holmes, Bri Giger, Echo Kellum, Angela Giarratana, Corin Wells, Ben Schwartz, and Ryan Gaul!

[crepesuzette2023]

Beatles Books as vaguely defined friends and relatives at a party you attend with a new crush, whose name you keep mispronouncing.

The longer you stay, the more trouble you have remembering what the occasion was.

The lights keep changing. Shortly after you arrived, your crush shrunk to the size of a mouse, and scurried away. You’re on your own.

The Beatles (Bob Spitz) greets you, an attractive silver fox who seems to be shunned by most of the others. You wonder why. It’s as easy to imagine him as a crying wreck as it is to imagine him on a golf course. Here, There, and Everywhere (Geoff Emerick) disrupts your musings by pulling tapes from his mouth. Seeing your discomfort, he stops and hands you a photograph of John Lennon and Paul McCartney singing into the same microphone. As he does, his pupils take on the shape of hearts. Someone called George announces his intent to poison him.

Anthology (The Beatles) saunters in, puts eight arms around you, and promises to tell you the whole story. They proceed to speak in tongues, and throw popcorn at you. Stu Sutcliffe jumps from a pendant around their neck, lands on the floor, and scurries after your crush.

“It’s always like this,” says Body Count (Francie Schwartz). “I assume you don’t want to listen to my story about a gifted woman who got locked up for depression? That’s fine, I can also talk about frottage, and a certain man’s curves.”

“Oh, stop it,” says John (Cynthia Lennon). She turns to you. “My advice is: Turn around and run as fast as you can.” She demonstrates what she means by disappearing, leaving behind a purse filled with cheerful letters and drawings of herself getting married and giving birth. Everything smells of olive oil. Francie spots Loving John (May Pang), and rushes to her, greedy for gossip. Loving John (May Pang) is everyone’s favorite, because she doesn’t really know anyone very well, but she knows how to make everyone feel comfortable by saying things that make sense in the moment.

Living the Beatles Legend: The Mal Evans Story (Ken Womack) ends up taking her home; they both live at The Fringes. Her home is a little further than his, which is just this side of Weird whereas she’s all the way in Montauk, but he’ll make sure she gets there safely.

To make up for the disappearance of your crush, Remember (Mike McCartney) cuts your hair. Each snip of the scissors slots a black-and-white picture into your field of vision. Windows in time blow noise and heat in your face, and visions of a screaming band that looks a bit like the young Beatles. Then there’s the quiet heat of summer, towels rippling on the line, and a drain pipe screwed to the wall of a house. He talks about childhood, and you’re almost there, but you never will be, because he won’t let you in. His more verbose twin, The Macs (Mike McCartney), recites letters his brother and John wrote from Hamburg, but you can barely understand what he says, because he stuffed a tissue into his mouth.

“It’s only a story,” says The Lyrics (Paul McCartney). “Pleased to meet you. I’m a storyteller myself.” He sings a love song. “I must have thought about these things when I wrote it,” he muses. “Interesting. What a mind, as Linda used to say.”

He tears a few pages from a diary he kept in Paris in 1961 and hands them to you without comment.

At this point, the party is dissolving. Crocheted furniture floats away and stretches.

“Am I too late?” Skywriting by Word of Mouth (John Lennon) squeezes himself out of the lowest drawer of an antique desk, where, judging from by his crinkly pajamas, he slept. “I’m in pieces. Mend me with glue.”

“I will, I will!” Tune In—All These Years, Vol I (Mark Lewisohn) yells ecstatically. “I’m so glad you could make it Sit down with me and celebrate the heritage of Liverpool.”

Skywriting drapes himself around Tune In, who starts purring and rutting against him.

“Excuse me?” It’s The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story (Vivek Tiwary), torero boots clicking on the invisible floor as he strides towards the couch. A spotlight follows him. “I’m managing this show, and I insist on expanding the scene.” Around them, a hotel room forms.

Skywriting lights a cigarette. “Join us in bed, Bri.”

“Yes,” moans Tune In. “I’m so lonely. I’m the oldest of a triplet, or so they say, but the other two haven’t been born yet.”

The Fifth Beatle sits down and observes the unhinged biography losing himself in the friction of rubbing against the shapeshifting Skywriting. Finally, things reach a conclusion.

“And so,” says The Fifth Beatle, “what partially was, finished.”

“Stop repeating lines from a bad movie, Brian," says Skywriting, "you’re better than that.”

As you try to plot ways to escape through the skylight, The McCartney Legacy, Vol 1 (Sinclair & Kozinn) slides out from under the bed, a broad-shouldered lady in a bright red dress. A half-hatched alien with long legs and sunglasses squirms between her breasts, and makes mouth percussion sounds.

“Gentlemen.” The McCartney Legacy retrieves a very, very long rosary from her pocket. “Is anyone interested in an exquisitely crafted, finely wrought chronology?”

At the sound of the word “chronology,” The Beatles (Hunter Davies) crashes through the ceiling.

“Don’t fall for it!” The Beatles snatches the vocalizing baby alien from The McCartney Legacy’s chest, and kills it by wringing its neck. “Time stopped in 1968. The only valid extension are my own salacious additions. Strictly off the record.”

“I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that,” says The Fifth Beatle.

You exchange a glance with Skywriting, who is plucking pieces of Tune In from his body like children snatch pieces of dough, and sticking them in his mouth.

A camera clicks.

“Excellent.”

The Eyes of the Storm (Paul McCartney) lowers the camera, and changes into a suntanned, gleaming likeness of George Harrison. Then he changes into a fish.

“Everyone looking at the pictures will think they know,” the fish says. “They’ll have no idea!”

The floor dissolves under you. You fall into a pool, just in time to save your crush from being sucked into the drain, and after a barely audible edit you find yourself back home, with no memories at all, the taste of chewing gum in your mouth, and wearing matching tops saying, I visited Fellini’s Satyricon, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. (ETA: I can't believe I forgot about Dreaming the Beatles (Rob Sheffield). I guess I'll have to include him in the inevitable sequel to this...thing, as the +1 of John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Ian Leslie).)

[pauls1967moustache]

hey while we’re on the topic can i show you guys a fun timeline of events that happened in the last two weeks of july 1968 that i’ve been thinking about non-stop since march 2022?

july 15th - geoff emerick quits working on the white album bc he’s sick of the beatles fighting during sessions. (supposedly the last straw is john and paul bitching at each other about oh-bla-di, oh-bla-da).

july 17th, (2 days later) - yellow submarine premiere: john, and yoko, and paul go together, (presumably from cavendish where they are all living). paul is the only beatle going stag.

july 20th, (3 days later) - paul goes to liverpool with francie schwartz and jane announces the end of her and paul’s relationship on live tv while they are there. per francie’s account, paul’s real sore about it.

july 28th, (1ish week later) - mad day out: paul Behaves Like That. john joins him.

july 29th, (next day) - the beatles start recording hey jude, the song john thinks is about paul telling him to go and be happy with yoko.

[wanlittlehusk]

ok actual favorite reads of the year list

i'm very into you by mackenzie wark and kathy acker

mercury retrograde by emily segal

bear by marian engel

sex goblin by lauren cook

mona by pola oloixarac

unlicensed: bootlegging as creative practice by ben schwartz

the quick and the dead by joy williams

moby-dick by hermy

i used to be charming by eve babitz

someone who isn't me by geoff rickly

please kill me by gillian mccain and legs mcneil

this young monster by charlie fox

tentacle by rita indiana

stories in the worst way by garielle lutz

narrow rooms by james purdy

[cantsayidont]

January to April 2004. Fans of MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN would likely enjoy this poignant 2004 miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen, about a young man named Clark Kent in a world very much like ours, where Superman is a familiar — and fictional — pop culture icon. Clark grows up the butt of many jokes, but when he's in high school, he discovers that he really does have powers like Superman's, something that has no precedent in his world outside of comic books.

If this premise sounds familiar, it's because it's a lot like the origin of the Earth-Prime Superboy, before he became a way for Geoff Johns to mock comics fans (and for DC to play out its institutional hostility toward Siegel and Shuster). In the pre-Crisis era, Earth-Prime, one of editor Julius Schwartz's little jokes, was supposed to be our world, where comics artists, writers, and editors transcribed the adventures of the real heroes of the other Earths. In the afterword to the trade paperback compilation of SECRET IDENTITY, Busiek admits that the similarities were wholly intentional, and that while he didn't mention it in his proposal (and DC didn't advertise it as such), this was essentially his extrapolation of that 1985 concept by Elliot S! Maggin, Curt Swan, and Al Williamson.

After moving to New York City in his '20s, this Clark becomes a reporter — though not for the Daily Planet — and meets a young woman named Lois Chaudhari. To my knowledge, this was the first time a counterpart of Lois Lane was presented as an Asian woman (although of course she's not precisely Lois Lane).

Throughout most of the story, Clark uses his powers only in secret, but he does make himself a Superman costume. Eventually, he feels compelled to come clean with Lois:

Like Busiek's ASTRO CITY, SECRET IDENTITY is a very introspective story, less interested in action (of which there's relatively little) than in emotion and small observations of life with superhuman abilities. If you're expecting bigger dramatic stakes, you may find the series underwhelming — there are no supervillains or alien invasions, just Clark's reflections on his life and family, from childhood to old age — and the fact that the story never reveals why Clark has powers may frustrate. However, its autumnal wistfulness is appealing if you're in the right frame of mind for it. Immonen's art is gorgeous, and I can't think of a better artist for this story, which straddles the line between a real-world environment and the "heroic realism" of the modern superhero genre.

Fourteen years later, Busiek tried to do a similar story with Batman, BATMAN: CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, with John Paul Leon, which doesn't work nearly as well, wallowing in some uncomfortable attitudes about mental illness and an inappropriate though deliberately ambiguous supernatural element. Leon's art is interesting, but the story leaves a sour taste, and it does not succeed (at all) in doing for Batman what SECRET IDENTITY does for Superman, which is disappointing.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Gerica In 10x18

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Erica&Geoff (The Goldbergs) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[m12writer]

Axl Heck's Girl (Description & Cast)

Robin Goldberg-Schwartz and River Goldberg-Schwarts had never known their birth parents. They were found on Mike and Frankie Heck's doorstep with a note saying only their names and birthday, and that one day that they'll come back one day.

Axl Heck has been in love with his best friend and house mate since the first grade. Robin Goldberg-Schwartz has alway been in love with the oldest Heck boy since they were four. Frankie and Mike always wondered when they were going to get into a relationship, and finally at the end of the eighth grade.

Now the twins and Axl are going to high school. How will Robin and Axl's relationship last?

***

Axl Heck

River Goldberg-Schwartz

Robin Goldberg-Schwartz

Sue Heck

Brick Heck

Mike and Frankie Heck

[jules-has-notes]

Aca Top 10: Disney Villains — VoicePlay music video

Many actors contend that it's more fun to play baddies who get to indulge their darker desires without regret. The same often applies in musicals, whether they're on stage or screen. Disney knows how to craft a good villain song. These are some of their most fun, slick, seductive, and dastardly.

Details:

title: Aca Top 10 – Disney Villains

original songs / performers: "Friends on the Other Side" by Keith David as Doctor Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009); [0:33] "Mother Knows Best" by Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled (2010); [0:50] "Trust In Me" by Sterling Holloway as Kaa in The Jungle Book (1967); [1:08] "The Siamese Cat Song" by Peggy Lee as Si and Am in Lady and the Tramp (1955); [1:28] "Oogie Boogie's Song" by Ken Page as Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993); [1:52] "Cruella De Vil" by Bill Lee as Roger Radcliffe in 101 Dalmatians (1961); [2:16] "Gaston" by Jesse Corti as LaFou & Richard White as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (1991); [2:50] "Hellfire" by Tony Jay as Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); [3:06] "Poor Unfortunate Souls" by Pat Carroll as Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989); [3:25] "Be Prepared" by Jeremy Irons as Scar in The Lion King (1994)

written by: "Friends on the Other Side" by Randy Newman; "Mother Knows Best" by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater; "Trust In Me" by Robert & Richard Sherman; "The Siamese Cat Song" by Peggy Lee & Sonny Burke; "Oogie Boogie's Song" by Danny Elfman; "Cruella De Vil" by George Bruns & Mel Leven; "Gaston" by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman; "Hellfire" by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz; "Poor Unfortunate Souls" by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken; "Be Prepared" by Elton John & Tim Rice

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci & Layne Stein

release date: 22 March 2019

My favorite bits:

Layne kicking things off with scampering percussion before settling into a swingy groove

J.None showing off his smooth lower range

the vibratto Earl puts on that final high ♫ "motheeer" ♫

both Eli and Layne doing snaky hand motions during "Trust In Me" 🐍

Geoff's big bass drops on ♫ "ey-yyyes" ♫ and the final ♫ "meee" ♫

that crunchy harmony on ♫ "don't pleeease" ♫

all the shenanigans with the tiny kitty figurine 🐈

getting a preview of the "Oogie Boogie" production to come

that funky take on the second half of "Cruella"

the back row's dubious reactions to Geoff asserting his intimidation factor in "Gaston" as Layne fixes his hair

the extended transition — ♫ "Gimme hip-to-hip" ♫ ::Eli and J start flossing:: 🕺 "Chapstick!" ::Earl holds up a tube::

the clever coordination of ♫ "[tur]-ning me to" ♫ and ♫ "number two" ♫ at the end of "Hellfire"

Layne's bubbly percussion during "Poor Unfortunate Souls"

Earl getting annoyed at J and Eli joining him on the lyrics of "Be Prepared" before they return to harmonies

the three octave unison between Geoff and Earl

that nice clean ending

Trivia:

○ VoicePlay had recorded or performed several of these songs before.

They did a full version of "Cruella de Vil" in collaboration with Disney for the Diamond Edition release of 101 Dalmatians on Blu-ray. They also included an excerpt in their aca-Disney medley to celebrate 20 years of Disney shows on Broadway.

"Gaston" is part of their Beauty and the Beast medley, Tale As Old As Time, on their 2012 album "Once Upon an Ever After". (They also later included it on their 2024 compilation album "VoicePlay Villains".)

"Be Prepared" is part of their "OUaEA" Lion King medley, The King Has Returned. (That's also where the snippet over the end screen is from.)

"Mother Knows Best" was part of "The Story of Rapunzel" that they performed at Disney World's 2015 Social Media Moms Celebration.

○ They had also previously created a shorter villains medley including several of these songs for Jonathan Freedman as part of their Disney Sessions collaboration with the Aladdin stage cast.

○ Since this video was released, the guys have recorded longer versions of several more of these tunes.

"Friends on the Other Side" was their Halloween video for 2021, as well as their first reunion with J.None after he left to join the U.S. Navy Band.

"Oogie Boogie's Song" was their Halloween video later in this year.

"Poor Unfortunate Souls" was included in their Little Mermaid medley with Rachel Potter a year and a half later.

"Hellfire" was their Halloween video in 2023, also with J.None as the featured guest.

Geoff did a short of "Trust In Me" on his solo channel in 2024.

○ The guys' shirts are once again thematically appropriate.

Eli — Darth Vader from Star Wars in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" drawing

Earl — the face of Hades from Hercules in blue and purple linework with yellow eyes and teeth, surrounded by blue flames, all with a glow effect meant to imitate neon lights

J.None — a full-body portrait of Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame with one hand extended to the side (I couldn't find the exact design, but I found one that's somewhat close and did a bit of editing to get it closer.)

Geoff — the stylized face of Scar from The Lion King

Layne — Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog mirrored in the style of a playing card, with glowing red cards floating near his outstretched fingers and his name on a banner across the middle

○ Geoff later mentioned in his interview on The Charismatic Voice that he'd considered auditioning for Gaston at Disney World when he worked there, but that the guys who play the role are usually four to six inches taller than him due to the costume and choreography required.

○ They garnered a bit of praise from prolific a cappella arranger Rob Dietz, who they'd met during The Sing-Off, and who would become a frequent collaborator in a few years.

○ An artist fan was inspired to create a gender bent version of Cruel-Layne De Vil.

drawing by rtlndr_ on Instagram

○ The boys busted out some of their best evil laughs to further entertain their social media followers.

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○ This is the final entry in a mini-series within their "Aca Top 10" series, which was preceded by countdowns for "Disney Heroes" and "Disney Sidekicks" over the previous year and a half.

[bscgirl99]

GEOFF SCHWARTZ & ERICA GOLDBERG-SCHWARTZ  First & Last Onscreen Kiss

[benschiff]

my favorite tv jews 1. grace adler (will&grace) 2. fran fine (the nanny) 3. winston saint-marie "schmidt" schmidt (new girl) 4. beverly goldberg (the goldbergs) 5. geoffrey "geoff" schwartz (the goldbergs) 6. frankie bergstein (grace and frankie) 7. howard wolowitz (the big bang theory) 8. barry goldberg (the goldbergs) 9. sheila silver (call me kat) 10. albert "pops" solomon (the goldbergs) 11. adam f. goldberg (the goldbergs) 12. murray goldberg (the goldbergs) 13. erica goldberg (the goldbergs) 14. katherine "kat" silver (call me kat) 15. chelsea daniels & levi grayson (that's so raven/raven's home) 16. sol bergstein (grace and frankie)