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Horror & Thriller Books with Queer characters: 🏳️‍🌈🎃

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Murder Takes The High Road by Josh Lanyon

A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson

The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas

Manhunt by Gretchen Felcker-Martin

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Route Of Ice And Salt by José Luis Zárate

The Dead And The Dark by Courtney Gould

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Queen Of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

It Came From The Closet by Various Authors

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

What Moves The Dead by Ursula Vernon

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Night Of The Living Queers by Various Authors

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Graveyard Of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew White

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya Macgregor

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Promise of Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

Prelude For Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron

All The White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

As I Descended by Robin Talley

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

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[ How I Pronounce WH Characters' Names ]

Elias Goldstein: (2017) El-li-yahs Gold-steen; (Now) El-li-yis Gold-steen

Yukiya Reizen: (2017) Yu-kai-yah Rey-zin; (Now) Yu-key-ya Rey-zin

Luca Orlem: Lu-ka Or-lem

Klaus Goldstein: Claus Gold-steen

Randy March: Ran-dee March

Azusa Kuze: Uh-zu-sa Ku-zay

Joel Crawford: (2017) Johl Crawford; (Now) Jo-el Crawford

Vincent Knight: Vincent Night

Leon: Leon

Cerim Leiado: Ser-im Lay-ah-do

Guy Brighton: Guy Brai-tin

Glenn Qing: Glenn King

Leslie Roseblade: Les-lee Rose-blade

Sigurd Curtis: Sih-gurd Kur-tis

Mel Glover: Mehl Glow-ver

Zeus Brundle: Zeus Brun-dul

Hiro Tachibana: He-ro Tah-chi-ba-na

Alfonse Goldstein: Al-fonse Gold-steen

Caesar Raphael: See-zar Ra-fai-el

Lucious Duller: (2018) Luh-cious Dul-ler; (Months ago) Lu-see-is Dul-ler; (Now) Lu-cious Dul-ler I've taken years of vacations off the game twice so that's why the timeline is drastic

Hugo Peers: Hue-go Peers

Hisoka Hagakure: He-so-ka Ha-ga-ku-rae

Willem V. Rembrandt: Will-em V. Rem-brant

Nox Noir: Nohx No-ar

Rex Blanc: Rehx Blahnk

Gray: Gray

Ted: Tehd

Lars Lagrene: Lars Lah-gren

Clive Lagrene: Clive Lah-gren

Florin Arden: Floor-in Ar-den

Albert Auburne: Ahl-bert Au-burn

Light Fildora: Light Fill-dora

Felix: Feel-lix

Viggo: Vih-go

Vain: Vain

Zett: Zeht

Augustus Cole: Au-gist-us Kole

Scarlett Quinn: Skar-let Quin

Randolph: Randolph

Conrad Schuyler: Cohn-rad Sk-huy-ler (It's hard to tell how his last name is actually pronounced...)

Loran Merkulova: Low-ran Mer-ku-lova

Thanatos: Than-na-tohs

Lacan: Lah-kan

Carbuncle: Car-bun-kle

Eress: Air-ess

Ronnie: Rah-nee

Chica: Chi-ka

Mischa: Mees-cha (Surprisingly, since my accent is supposed to make me say Mihs-cha like mischievous)

Chocolate Cake (Coco): I just call him Coco because saying the whole name is a pain. Luca reference

Nidhogg: Nihd-hog

Shu: Shoo

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[18] GLENN's DAY 

Daryl Dixon x OC!Charlie Reed

Summary: Charlie is left alone on the farm with Glenn, who isn't sure about his relation wit Maggie. Daryl get shot. A friend spills the secrets.

Warnings: language

Song: Lost Boy Ruth B

A/N: Hello :) I think it’s my favorite chapter in Act 2. This song is probably summary of Charlie x Glenn and because it’s a lot of their interactions now, there’s the song. Please like, comment, share, so I have a feedback. ENJOY AND SEE YOU TUESDAY!

Rick's: Morning, guys. Let's get going. Was the first thing she heard as she opened her eyes. She groaned and rubbed her eyes because this one time the night passed too quickly. Charlie changed her pajama pants to jeans and walked out of the tent, still working on putting on shoes.

"All right, everyone's getting new search grids today," Rick said. "If she made it as far as the farmhouse Daryl found with Charlie, she might have to hone further east than we've been so far."

"I'd like to help, I know the area pretty well and stuff." interrupted Jimmy, a boy who was walking around after Hershel's second daughter, Beth.

"Hershel's okay with this?" Rick asked immediately.

"Yeah," Jimmy nodded immediately. "He said I should ask you."

Well, that was something Charlie didn't believe. Hershel let them stay, but he made it crystal clear that they could stay only on his terms, so there were absolutely no guns on his property and not using his people for anything.

But Rick just nodded. "Alright then. Thanks."

"Nothing about what they found screams Sophia to me." said an annoyed Shane. "Anyone could have been holed up in that farmhouse."

She looked at him with narrowed eyes. Shane changed since they came to the farm. He became nervous and easily irritated, spending his time alone and avoiding Hershel's family at all costs. Charlie suspected that it was probably due to the loss of the leadership and everything he knew from the past time.

"Anybody includes her, right?" Charlie asked.

"Well, whoever slept in that cupboard was no bigger than Yay High," Daryl said, showing to everyone that the person hidden in the cupboard was to his shoulder.

"Good lead." Andrea nodded.

"Maybe we will pick up her trail again," Rick said.

"No maybe about it." Charlie shook her head.

Daryl nodded and leaned in, pointing at some places on a map. "I'm gonna borrow a horse, head up to this ridge here, get a bird's eye view of the whole grid. If she's up there, I'll spot her."

"Good idea," T-Dog said. "Maybe you will see your Chupacabra up there too.

"Chupacabra?" Rick furrowed his eyebrows.

"You've never heard this?" asked Dale and placed a bag with guns on a hood. "The first night at the camp, Daryl told us that the whole thing reminds him of the time when he went squirrel hunting and saw a Chupacabra."

Jimmy snorted, which was met with furrowed eyebrows of Daryl. "What are you braying at, jackass?"

"So you believe in a blood-sucking dog?" the young boy asked.

"Do you believe dead people walking around?" Dixon asked.

Jimmy used the moment and reached for a shotgun, but was quickly stopped by Grimes. "Hey, hey. Ever fire one before?"

"Well, if I'm going out, I want one."

"Yeah, people in hell want Slurpees." Daryl retorted and walked away from the car, preparing for his departure.

Charlie chuckled and followed him, also ready to go with Daryl in the woods. "I'm going with you."

"No. I'm going alone," he said without looking at her.

She furrowed her eyebrows, stopping suddenly as his words hit her."What?"

"You slowing me down. I won't find even a squirrel with you."

Charlie watched as Daryl walked away, his attention elsewhere, feeling a pang of disappointment. She shifted uncomfortably, crossing her arms over her chest, her expression clouding with frustration. Her annoyance only grew, once she heard a male voice: "Charlie."

"Yes?"

"You wanna pair up for the search? Two heads are better than one out there."

Charlie's annoyance simmered beneath the surface as Shane suddenly seemed keen to be around her. She shot him a sidelong glance, her irritation evident in the way her jaw clenched and her posture stiffened. It felt disingenuous, his sudden interest, especially after he had been so aloof before. Suppressing a sigh, she forced a polite smile.

"No, Shane," she turned to him. "Actually, I'm not going today. I'll help Patricia in the kitchen."

"Right," he placed hands on hip. "I'll see you around when I'm back?"

"Yeah. Of course."

The day was slow and lazy. There was not much to do and not much going on, anyway. It was a long time since they could just sit and do nothing and it was nice, but she couldn't just chill out as she was still thinking about Daryl. His words touched her...in a bad way. She didn't know why he changed his behavior towards her.

"Nice guitar." said the voice and made Glenn stop his melody.

Maggie was looking at the boy with a soft smile. Once she realized there was a girl behind him, she waved her hand and Charlie did the same, but she could observe that her smile fell. So she decided to turn her eyes away and not look in their direction.

"Dale found it on the highway," Glenn said and stood up. Then he made a couple steps and stopped right in front of her figure. "You know...we still have 11 condoms."

Charlie furrowed her eyebrows and looked at Glenn in disbelief.

"You see 11 condoms, I see 11 minutes of my life I'm never getting back." Charlie snorted at the girl's comment and Maggie looked at her with not-so-welcoming eyes.

"It wasn't that bad, was it?" Glenn asked in a weak voice.

"Look," Maggie said. "I don't even know if I like you."

"But you're thinking about it." Asian boy leaned in, which brought their faces closer. "You should."

"That was horrible," Charlie said and burst out laughing when Maggie was far away and all they could see was her back.

Cooking wasn't her strong side, that's why she marched out of the kitchen as soon as she could. She wanted to help, but Charlie had a feeling that she was just interrupting everyone there. As there was nothing else to do, she entered the RV and stopped immediately. Glenn was already inside, looking out the window.

"You're not cooking?"

"I was thrown out of the kitchen," she answered. "And your girlfriend almost stabbed me in the face."

"She's not my girlfriend." Glenn sighed.

"Oh, I've already seen it," Charlie smirked and nodded her head.

"Uhm...Charles," he said with a strange look in his eyes after a moment of silence. "Can I ask you a question?"

She looked at him with a terrified expression. "I'm not having sex with you to check if you were good back in town."

"What? No...I...What?" he became red. "Are you on your period?"

"Woah," she said.

"I'm only asking 'cause it's like all the women are acting really weird," he said. Charlie raised her eyebrow at that. "And I read somewhere that when women spend a lot of time together, their cycles line up and they all get super crazy hormonal at the same time."

"You should keep that theory to yourself," she said.

"Yeah."

"And who is acting weird? Because I don't think it's me," she asked, pointing at herself.

"Maggie."

"Ah, Maggie." she smiled. "Because she doesn't want to have sex with you?"

"She started off being mean to me. Then she wanted to have sex with me. And now she's being mean to me again." he sighed."And I don't even want to know what's going on with Lori."

"You should talk with her. Maggie. I mean." Charlie advised him. "But please like a normal person. Lori is Rick's problem right?"

"Oh, man it sucks!" he groaned and they walked out of the RV.

Charlie followed him with a smile, patting his back to cheer him up somehow. The weather that day was nice, and she felt a warm rise on her cheeks. It seemed that the sun was shining brighter than any other previous day.

The happy moment was interrupted by Andrea's voice: "Walker! Walker!"

It would be the first one that they saw since they came on the farm. The Walkers seemed to avoid this place as if it were protected by an invisible shield. Glenn ran quickly to get his gun that was leaning on the tree.

"Just the one?" asked Rick.

"I bet I can nail it from here," Andrea asked and tried to target the head.

"No," Rick said in a stern voice. "No, Andrea. Put the gun down."

Out of nowhere Charlie turned her head and saw Shane moving towards them. His shirt was opened and his abs were glistening with sweat, showing his tattoos. He wasn't shy at all, he just marched towards them confidently. "You'd best let us handle this."

"Shane holds up," Rick said. "Hershel wants to deal with Walkers."

"What for, man?" Shane rolled his eyes and turned his steps towards the field this time with T-Dog following him closely. "We got it covered."

Rick cursed under his breath and quickly entered the RV to get his gun and as fast as he stepped into he walked out and started running to the Walker. But before he did he turned to Charlie. "You stay here."

She furrowed her eyebrows but decided to be the only person who actually listened to him. She listened to Shane when he was the leader and Rick seemed to be a bit better in this whole follow me I will lead you thing.

However, she didn't understand the men in the camp. They all thought she was like a porcelain, unable to defend even herself. And she agrees, she was afraid not so long ago, and even more, she was petrified, unable to move. But now...After those two walkers were taken down absolutely by herself, she felt more comfortable. She could take care of herself.

Click.

"Andrea don't!" Charlie said in a warning tone.

"Back off, Charlie," she said.

Reed looked in the direction from where the Walker was coming and her eyes went wide. It wasn't a Walker, it was a person they all knew. He was covered in blood and dirt, he could barely walk and around his neck was proudly hanging a necklace from...ears? "Andrea, please. No. NO!"

Bang.

"No! No! No!" they could hear screams.

"Rick!" Charlie suddenly heard Lori.

"What on earth's going on out here?" Hershel asked angrily.

She ran after them to the house, looking at Daryl's lifeless body- well he was just unconscious. Charlie wanted to know what the hell happened out there in that woods, but for now was too angry at the girl who was walking right behind her.

That's why when they reached the doors, Charlie stopped and turned around to face Andrea. When the woman wanted to enter the house she pushed her a little."No."

"Charlie, come on." she scoffed.

"Are you dumb or are you deaf?" she asked her, grabbing the front of her shirt. "We screamed not to shoot. I begged you, but no...you had to prove yourself."

"Charlie, it's okay." Lori touched her arm.

"No, it's not okay!" she snapped. "She ignored our words. She's been doing this since the highway. She's been pouting and stomping her feet like a little girl. And now Daryl is shot. One more time you get in my way and I swear to God..."

She pushed Andrea and shut the door behind her.

She was looking at Lori as they were waiting for Hershel to end whatever he was doing inside. The older woman was caressing Charlie's legs, waiting for Rick and Shane to leave the room. She was whispering nothing to her, to make the girl feel better.

When doors opened, Charlie was on her legs peaking behind the door, to see Daryl. But all she saw was Shane's body and white sheet.

"He'll be alright," said Rick as he hugged his wife. Then he looked at worried Charlie and touched her forearm, squeezing lightly. "He'll be alright. Now he needs rest."

Charlie swallowed and nodded. "I'll go tell the others."

Dinner passed in the most awkward atmosphere imaginable. So with relief announced her willingness to take a trace of food to Daryl. Carol also said she wanted to go and check on him, so that's how they found each other knocking on the door and entering the small room.

"Hey." she smiled entering the bedroom, Daryl was staying the night in.

"How are you feeling?" Carol asked as she followed Charlie closely.

The man made sure that he was well covered by the thin blanket, almost as if he was shy. "About as good as I look."

"We brought you some dinner," Charlie said. "You must be starving."

Out of the blue, Carol just leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. Her lips barely touched his skin. Charlie's heart dropped to the floor as a wave of guilt was washing over her. What if Carol wanted to bring him food, so she could be alone with him? Oh, God. Charlie was third-wheeling. Also, what if Carol felt uncomfortable with how much she spent with Daryl over these past few days? How stupid she was...

"Watch out," Daryl groaned. "I got stitches."

Before Carol could say anything more, Charlie decided to end this carousel of disappointment and embarrassment. "So...Good to see you're alive. I'm gonna leave you."

Daryl looked after her as she was walking to the doors.

"Oh...Daryl?" she turned to him and immediately met his eyes. "I just think you're brave and amazing for what you did." she smiled lightly. "Good night."

With that, she left the room.

"You sleep, Charlie?" His quiet question made her realize that sleep was the last thing on her mind at that moment. Probably hours she spent looking intently at the material of the roof in their tent. Almost as if she could see the answer to all the questions in the world. Or at least all question she had.

"No."

"I think I have something to tell you," Glenn whispered. Charlie turned to her left side and tried to find him in the darkness. "The barn...The barn is full of Walkers. And Lori is pregnant."

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Ships Updated!!!!

Here are the ships for my fanfic Mami's Breakthrough. You'll meet the main character in the ship list so be prepared. I'll use the wrestler's real name. You'll see repeated names so don't get spooked. Let's get into it.

Demi (Rhea) & Gretchen (Eliora)

Stephanie (Stephanie) & Paul (Hunter)

Jonathan (Jimmy) & Trinity ( Naomi)

Fergal (Finn) & Masami (Iyo)

Dominik (Dominik) & Gionna (Liv)

Luis (Damian) & Elizabeth (Beth)

Bianca (Bianca) & Carlisle (Luigi)

Joseph (Erick) & Victoria (Lilou)

Rebecca (Becky) & Ulysses (Ron)

Natalya (Natalya) & Jeremy (Elijah)

Maryse (Maryse) & Richard (Jules/m)

Cheree (Dakota) & James (Jackson)

Theresa (Zoey) & Leon (Brett)

Brianna (Cora) & Dexter (Mustafa)

Logan (Logan) & Donna (Stephanie)

Randall (Randy) & Conner (Brian)

Keith (Keith) & Lucas “Luke” (Mick)

Sydney (Maxxine) & Jessica (Gilda)

Brittany (Britt) & Carmen (Lola)

Milena (Rosa) & Taylor (Lilou)

Ashley (Shotzi) & Gisele (Rhonda)

Allyssa (Kayden) & Spencer (Gabriel)

Aoife (Lyra) & Dominic “Dom” (Roddy)

William (Christian) & Emilio (Kevin)

Trevor (Ricochet) & Rosalie (Anastasia)

Macey (Lacey) & Sebastian (Grayson)

Sarah (Valhalla) & Jasper (Riley/ m)

Elizabeth (Scarlett) & Luke (Vince)

Stephanie (Mia) & Enrique (Dash)

Ron (R-Truth) & Angela (Asahi)

Shayna (Shayna) & Kate (Mia)

Simone (Ava/Ava Raine) & Sammy (Itsuki)

Layla (Layla) & Dion (Gabriel)

Catherine (Cathy) & Titus (Aiden)

Michael (Shawn) & Mick (Nathan)

Kira (Taya) & Suki (Hawk)

Victoria (Raquel) & Velvet (Asahi)

Mark (The Undertaker) & Clarissa (Paige)

Taylor (Jacy) & Theodora (Lilou) 

Windham (Bray) & Austin (Tyler)

Priscilla (Gigi) & Elizabeth (Kanna)

Patricia (Trish) & Eric (Terry)

Eduardo (Eddie) & Renesmée (Riley/ f)

Jeffrey (Jeff) & Edward (Ted)

Kiera (Kiera) & D.J. (Mustafa)

Mercedes (Sasha) & Quil (Jackson)

Steffanie (Tegan) & June (Gayle)

Serena (Serena) & Embry (Luigi)

Ettore (Big E) & Ashley (Emma)

Adam (Edge) & Royal (Roddy)

Amy (Lita) & Charles (Lucas)

Samantha (Samantha) & Becca (Nastya)

Živilė (Aksana) & Jonathan (Logan)

Kristen (Kris) & Gisell (Becky)

Dwayne (The Rock) & Jasmyne (Olivia)

Daria (Sonya) & Lauren (Olga)

Brodie (Luke) & Rob (Rio)

Kevin (Kevin Nash) & Samuel (Wally)

Bryan (Daniel) & Flynn (Mickie)

Catherine (Lana) & Tara (Gilda)

Jake (Jake) & Vixen (Mario)

Amanda (Mandy) & Beth (Christy)

Joseph (Solo) & Eleazar (Chris)

Kenneth (Montez) & Sam (Mantaro)

Celeste (Kaitlyn) & Matthew “Matt) (Jimbo)

Sarona (Tamina) & Luna (Kanna)

JoJo (JoJo) & Arianne (Falcon)

Kacy (Katana) & Paul (Brett)

Nicola (Nikki Cross) & Bronson (Kaito)

Adam (Braun) & Garrett (Gabriel)

Phillip (CM) & Sean (Mickie)

Rena (Sable) & Roman (Grayson)

Anriel (Lash) & Colleen (Dahlia)

Allen (AJ Styles) & Leah (Lilou)

Renee (Renee) & Jason (Ron)

Angela (Zayda) & Tanya (Olivia)

Kia (Kharma) & Lee (Mick)

Kaori (Kairi) & Theo (Brett)

Todd (Ivar) & Riley (Jules/ m)

Danielle (Willow) & Jane (Riley/ f)

Stephen (Sheamus) & Tara (Ember)

Ashley (Dana) & Sue (Emma)

Jazmin (Mercedes) & Bridget (Alexa)

Melina (Melina) & Han (Mustafa)

Franklin (Bobby) & Bree (Lola)

Faith (Nikkita) & Archie (Haruto)

Ronda (Ronda) & Makenna (Kanna)

Pamela (Bayley) & Samantha (Emma)

Gail (Gail) & Vyolette (Kanna)

Colby (Seth) & Leann (Donna)

Skye (Skye) & Alice (Katya)

Karen (Wendy) & Mariana (Nastya) 

Steve (‘Stone Cold’ Steve) & David (Alexander)

KiLynn (KiLynn) & Kirk (Logan)

Austin (Xavier) & Elle (Gilda)

Alexis (Alexa) & Jakob (Lucas)

Adrienne (Athena/Ember) & Esme (Riley/ f)

Matthew (Matt Hardy) & Earnest (Mario)

Stephanie (Nikki Bella) & Bella (Anastasia)

Thea (Zelina Vega) & Deckard “Deck” (Terry)

Glenn (Kane) & Priya (Olga)

Mary (Maria) & Mae (Anastasia)

Jillian (Jillian) & Aro (Shane)

Michelle (Michelle) & Nicole (Katya)

Lisa (Victoria) & McKayla (Nia) 

Mickie (Mickie) & Kate (Stephanie)

Lilián (Lilian) & Esmeralda (Candice)

Leva (Leva) & Clara (Itsuki)

Toni (Toni) & Nicholas (Jimbo)

Gary (Angelo) & Murray (Mario)

Shinsuke (Shinsuke) & Jennifer (Olivia)

Saraya (Paige) & Lauren (Ember)

Karlee (Maxine) & Ashely (Jules/ f)

Cody (Cody) & Jacob (Jack)

Shelly (Ariel) & Aaron “Hotch” (Louis)

Tom (Aleister) & Emily (Sasha)

Carla (Roxanne) & Alec (Ron)

April (AJ Lee) & Sam (Roddy)

Victoria (Alicia) & Marissa (Chyna)

Danielle (Summer) & Kendall (Jack)

Matthew (Matt Riddle) & Tarrence (Nathan)

Jessica (Billie) & Whitney (Beth)

Stacy (Stacy) & Allen (Alexander)

Joan (Chyna) & Sasha (Hawk)

Jonathan (Dean) & Ophelia (Amelia)

Natalie (Eva) & Tatum (Reo)

Jade (Jade) & Jennifer “JJ” (Riley/ f)

Joe (Roman) & Marcel (Roddy)

Oscar (Rey) & Xavier (Shane)

Kimberly (Piper) & Annelise (Mia)

Leah (Carmella) & Rebecca (Gilda)

Torrie (Torrie) & Irina (Emma) 

Tenille (Emma) & Noel (Nathan)

Dori (Ruby) & Rachel (Gayle)

Eve (Eve) & Ettore (Logan)

John (John Morrison) & Brian (Riley/ m)

Andrew (Drew) & Mary (Candice)

Rami (Sami) & Edythe (Chyna)

Katarina (Katie) & Lance (Luigi)

Cassie (Peyton) & Vera (Lilou)

Kofi (Kofi) & Vallie (Becky)

Laura (Allie) & Annissa (Sasha)

Chelsea (Chelsea) & Jess (Zoe)

Joshua (Jey) & Elyssa (Ruby)

Raymond (Erik) & Russ (Kid)

Ashley (Charlotte) & Leticia “Letty” (Lilou)

Deonna (Deonna) & Logan (Wally)

Kanako (Asuka) & Vince (Mario)

Barbara (Kelly Kelly) & Julyanna (Rhonda)

Lina (Nia) & Eleanor (Stephanie)

Brianna (Brie) & Jared (Ted)

John (John Cena) & Jack (Haruto)

Mike (The Miz) & Henry (Jackson)

Debrah (Alundra/Madusa) & Douglas (Ron)

Claudio (Cesaro) & Laurent (Vince)

Ariane (Cameron) & Stephen (Tyler)

Brandi (Eden) & Erica (Stacie)

Kevin (Kevin Owens/KO) & Derek (Luigi)

Jessika (Jessika) & Jesse (Logan)

Candice (Candice) & Anne (Olga)

John (Johnny Gargano) & Ben (Jimmy)

Debra (Debra) & Jessamine (Jules/ f)

Seth (Riley/ m) & Tyler (Aiden)

Rowena (Donna) & Victor (Kid)

Tej (Elijah) & Sullivan (Mustafa)

Penelope (Becky) & Emily (Stacie)

Evangeline (Olga) & Beth (Stephanie) 

Carine (Layla) & Emmett (Wayne)

Alex (Emma) & Jedidiah (Shane)

Gina (Anastasia) & Mia (Nastya) 

Presley (Louis) & Edward (Kaito)

Gabriel (Brett) & Cain (Alexa)

Ramsey (Katya) & Katie (Nia)

Rubie (Emma) & Eloise (Katya)

Mike (Louis) & Cherylyn (Becky)

That's the full ship list. Hope you guys enjoy it.

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Friday Reads: Scrap Book by Glen Bray

Glenn Bray is a renowned collector and archivist of underground comix, low and high art, and the creator of the critically acclaimed books LIBRARY and The Blighted Eye. Here he has arranged neuron-firing, free-associative found images as a series of two-page spreads that comment and reflect upon each other. By turns darkly funny, apocalyptic and blissful, SCRAP BOOK is a subconscious flow of…

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Out of Competition in Venice | Current | The Criterion Collection

Benedict Cumberbatch in Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

Often at major film festivals, the Out of Competition programs are eclectic grab bags of films that are, on the one hand, too big not to invite, but on the other hand, less than ideal fits for the main competition or any other section. Where else would Venice programmers slot a thirty-nine-minute short from Wes Anderson, a breezy comedy from Richard Linklater, an infrared whatsit from Harmony Korine, or a chilling documentary on the Taliban from Berlin-based Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at?

Out of Competition is also where the hot potatoes usually land. In the days and weeks leading up to the opening of Venice’s eightieth edition, festival director Alberto Barbara kept telling interviewers that he was fully aware that he and his team would catch flak for programming new work from Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. And they did. Polanski’s The Palace, a Y2K comedy set in a luxury hotel, fell dead flat. “I told Roman before the festival that it was weak, but I don’t agree with the critics,” Barbera tells Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman. “I know it’s not a perfect movie, I can see the weaknesses and where it doesn’t work, but it’s not as bad as the critics say. It comes across as mean.”

Coup de chance, Allen’s fiftieth feature, has presented critics with a more complicated challenge because, as Xan Brooks writes in the Guardian, it “turns out to be the best one he’s managed in a decade at least.” Shot by Vittorio Storaro—he’s working digitally here for the first time—and starring Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, and Niels Schneider, Coup de chance is the story of a dangerous love affair—in French. The Hollywood Reporter’s Leslie Felperin calls it “a smoothly efficient but oddly anonymous work that looks like it was made by a French director who is a superfan of Allen, but not really Woody himself.” At Vanity Fair, Catherine Bray has a terrific overview of how Polanski, Allen, and their movies have been received in Venice.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

“So is this a kids’ film or a grown-ups’ film?” asked Erica Wagner when we released Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Wes Anderson’s first adaptation of a story by Roald Dahl. “Who says you—or Anderson—have to choose?” The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is the first of four new Dahl adaptations, all of them from shorter stories, and all of them undeniably geared a little more toward an older audience than the one for a tale of an underground rascal in a corduroy suit. Netflix will begin streaming Henry Sugar on September 27 and then successively roll out, one per day, The Swan, The Ratcatcher, and Poison.

Adaptation may not actually be the right word. These films could just as easily be described as staged recitals. The “moment of inspiration” that hit Anderson, as he explains to Netflix’s John DiLillo, came with the realization that he should have his illustrious casts deliver the stories verbatim, albeit in slightly condensed versions. In Henry Sugar, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Richard Ayoade, and Rupert Friend juggle multiple roles to present the story of a rich and idle fellow, Henry Sugar, who reads about a guru who can see with his eyes shut. Sugar decides that the talent could come in handy at a casino.

Anderson goes “totally off the leash,” writes IndieWire’s David Ehrlich. “We’re talking dioramas, rear-projection, an on-screen stagehand, and a fetishistic degree of pleasure taken in all of the literary quirks that film adaptations exist to avoid.” In short, this is “the most visually inventive film that Anderson has made thus far.” For Leonardo Goi at the Film Stage, there’s “a Brechtian feel that never carries a distancing effect.” At RogerEbert.com, Glenn Kenny is reminded of the work of “the fantastic Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman, who put live-action actors into animated backgrounds.”

“Walls slide away to reveal new locations,” writes Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri, and “one step moves us from one scene to another; clocks advance at super-speed; days, years fly by in a sentence; actors double up on roles; simple, transparent effects are presented as sources of wonderment. The result is delightful, but it also suggests a universe that requires our own imagination to be fully realized—which is, of course, the whole point of the story.”

Hit Man

Richard Linklater tells Deadline’s Joe Utichi that he’d been toying with the idea of making a movie based on Skip Hollandsworth’s article “Hit Man” ever since it appeared in Texas Monthly in 2001. Ten years later, he turned Hollandsworth’s 1998 article, “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas,” into Bernie (2011), but he still couldn’t get a handle on the story of Gary Johnson, a psychology professor moonlighting as a tech guy for the Houston Police Department. When the officer who usually poses as a hit man to lure prospective clients—some might call it entrapment—can’t make a gig, Gary steps in and discovers he’s got a talent for role-playing.

Glen Powell, who worked with Linklater on Fast Food Nation (2006) and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), suggested massaging the facts of the case, and the actor and director wound up cowriting a story in which Gary (Powell) is so taken by one client, Maddy Masters (Adria Arjona), that he tries to persuade her not to hire him in such a way that the officers listening in won’t catch on. “Faster than you can say Double Indemnity, things take a dark turn,” writes Leslie Felperin.

Just about every review of Hit Man so far has included a declaration that it’s high time Powell, who has appeared as a supporting player in such films as Hidden Figures (2016) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), landed a starring role. This one “gives Powell the opportunity to put on an array of accents and don a bunch of wigs and false teeth,” writes Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson. “He’s a creepy British assassin with a red bob, a stern cigar-smoking Russian, a good ol’ boy looking to fuck some shit up. His most successful, and enduring, persona is Ron, a cool customer who is essentially Gary with the confidence and suavity turned up.” Powell “shrewdly keeps the differences between Gary and Ron subtle, but distinct enough that a sudden switch back to Gary after many scenes of Ron arrives as an amusing shock. It’s nimble work, sexy and sweet at once.”

Hit Man “trips along on great writing, Linklater’s witty, light-touch direction, and a rich sense of place,” writes the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, “but what makes it especially pleasurable is Powell and Arjona’s naturally steamy rapport. Here is a screen couple who look like they really do want to take each other to bed—and since that makes them easy to root for, you find yourself happily overlooking the duo’s own mounting misdeeds. Well aware how the game works, Linklater ever-so-casually pushes his luck on this front right to the limit, but not a millimeter more. What slippery fun it is to watch him get away with it.”

Aggro Dr1ft

Another movie, another hit man. In Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft, he’s Bo (Jordi Mollà), who’s out to slay a Floridian crime lord (Joshua Tilley). The Hollywood Reporter’s Jordan Mintzer suggests that Aggro Dr1ft is “not really a movie at all, but more like a cross between a movie, a video game, and a flow of hallucinatory images that could play in the background of a live show by rapper Travis Scott—who costars here as a gun-toting, philosophizing killer surrounded by a swarm of twerking booties. Korine calls this new style ‘gamecore,’ which, well, why not.”

“With human figures and landscapes rendered in infrared’s trademark pooling of contours, like day-glo gasoline slicks, the movie is less a matter of story and character than it is about keyed-up headspaces and raved-up palettes,” writes Nicolas Rapold for Sight and Sound. “A Korine creation, generally speaking, is trying to break your brain and free it at the same time with a liberating wrongness.” But “Korine is also an expert mixer, or clasher, or casting agent for reality: a fundamental move of his has been to match American skater-video anarchy with the craft of European cinematographers,” and Aggro Dr1ft is shot by Arnaud Potier, who is known for his work with Mélanie Laurent and Thomas Bidegain. Rapold finds that “the novel world of mashed-up media that Korine envisions as part of his future work still has some ways to go before it feels as nightmare-fuel-ish as a destabilizing hour spent bingeing TikToks.”

“Of all Korine’s decisions,” finds Wendy Ide in Screen, “the least successful is the one to do away with a screenplay, leading to a disjointed, incoherent structure and requiring his largely nonprofessional cast to improvise their lines. This results in something that is not dialogue in the conventional sense but rather darkly ominous phrases repeated in a monotonous, nihilistic mantra until eventually the words lose meaning and it all gets rather tedious.”

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From the collection of Glenn Bray: Postcard Binder Paintings by KIM DEITCH

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#639 #Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

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Vintage Comic - Basil Wolverton’s Foopgoop Frolics Frantic Funnies Folio

Pencils: Basil Wolverton Inks: Basil Wolverton Colors: Rick Griffin Back Cover: Basil Wolverton Glenn Bray (1975)

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The Prowler (Rosemary's Killer, 1981)

"I heard something."

"It's probably just the wind."

"In the basement?"

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The fiend just killed the mayor of Tennessee

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Gagosian Quarterly Online—Glenn Brown talks with Xavier Bray

March 12, 2018

In this installment of Gagosian Quarterly Talks, Glenn Brown and Xavier Bray, the director of the Wallace Collection, discuss Brown’s newest exhibition, "Come to Dust," now on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London. Touching on everything from the politics of taste to the vibratory character of lines, the talk provides a fascinating glimpse into the process behind these new paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Click HERE to watch the conversation unfold. - "Glenn Brown: Come to Dust" at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London closes this Saturday, March 17, 2017. Make sure to see it before it's too late!

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Ceramic plates by Wesley Anderegg. 

"I have always been a people watcher. In the first grade I did not play with the other kids. I stood back and watched. And I have been watching ever since. I watch what people do and imagine what they might like to do.Life and society are such that we cannot always say and do what we like. However, in the imaginary world in which my ceramic people live, they can.At the dawn of mankind primitive peoples fashioned clay objects. They sculpted about what they knew and wanted. Pregnant women and animals were the hot topics of the day. I think of my work much the same way. Though the topics may be different I feel a link to those old people sitting around playing with this beautifully plastic material."-Wesley Anderegg

Wesley Anderegg was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1958. He earned a BS degree in geography from Arizona State University, where he began his education in ceramics. Subsequently, he studied ceramics at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado and at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. He was a resident artist at both places.

Wesley’s exhibition history is impressive by almost any standard. Over the last 26 years, he has had 22 solo exhibitions, and participated in countless group exhibitions and art fairs all across the United States. In addition, his work has been featured in Lark Books’ highly successful catalogue series three times – “500 Ceramic Sculptures”, “500 Clay Figures” and “ The Best of 500 Ceramics”. His work has also been featured in “Confrontational Ceramics: The Artist as Social Critic” by Judith Schwartz, “A Potters Handbook” by Glenn Nelson and Richard Burkett, and “Handbuilt Ceramics” from Lark Books. His work has also appeared in “Ceramics Monthly” and “American Craft.”

https://artaxis.org/wesley-anderegg/

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