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[linuxgamenews]

A Highland Song: Journey Through the Scottish Highlands and Unlock a Surprising Secret

A Highland Song open platforming game is very playable on Linux and Steam Deck via Proton with Windows PC. The team at inkle Ltd., known for their imaginative and captivating work, have brought us an extraordinary title. Available now on Steam with 96% Very Positive reviews. A Highland Song is an open platforming adventure that takes you through the rugged and beautiful Scottish Highlands. Since you will step into the shoes of Moira McKinnon, a young girl who lives near these magnificent hills. One day, she gets a letter from her Uncle Hamish, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. He's got a huge surprise waiting for her, but she also has to reach him by Beltane, which is only a week away. So, Moira sets off on an epic journey across hundreds of miles of challenging terrain. All very playable on Linux and Steam Deck via Proton. The A Highland Song journey is no walk in the park. Since its full of climbing, exploring caves, scaling cliffs, and hopping from rock to rock. You need to help Moira navigate through this wild land. The Scottish Highlands are famous for their steep hills and hidden paths. So you'll get to experience this firsthand. You will also have to be smart about the route you choose. Collecting pieces of a map to find the best way forward.

A Highland Song - Official Trailer

The weather in the A Highland Song can be tough. Wind, rain, and cold are just some of the challenges Moira faces. She's not a superhero; she's a regular girl. Finding shelter is crucial for survival. Since you'll feel the thrill of battling against nature's elements. This adventure isn't just about reaching a destination. A Highland Song is about the journey itself. Since the hills are alive with stories, secrets, and music. As you travel, you'll uncover lost items, echoes of the past, and memories. These elements are due to weave into a rich tapestry of history, mythology, and family secrets. While each choice leads to new discoveries, making every trip through the Highlands unique. One of the best parts of A Highland Song is the music. It's like the heartbeat of the game, with tunes from TALISK and Fourth Moon, famous bands in the Scottish folk scene. Their music is also a mix of fast rhythms and traditional styles. Adding incredible energy to Moira's journey.

What Players Say:

A Highland Song emerges as a unique and captivating game. The game's simplicity in design belies its depth, while offering a mix of platforming, exploration, and rhythm-based challenges. The art style, similar to Miyazaki's works, complements the stunning Scottish landscapes, adding charm to every frame. The game's standout feature is its music, with Scottish tunes that bring the adventure to life, enhancing the gameplay and the sense of depth. Despite minor frustrations in navigation, the game's beautiful visuals, compelling voice acting, and engaging stories make it a memorable journey. Particularly for those who enjoy unique indie titles. A Highland Song open platforming comes from inkle, a team known for creating deep and unique games. They're the brains behind popular titles like 80 Days and Heaven's Vault. This adventure is a blend of exploration, survival, and discovery. It also takes place in a world where every step tells a story. It's not just about reaching the lighthouse; it's about the mysteries you'll uncover along the way. So, if you are ready to help Moira navigate this wild and winding world, it's available on Steam. Priced at $16.19 USD / £13.49 / 14,39€ with the 10% discount. Playable on Linux and Steam Deck via Windows PC.

[gertlushgaming]

A Highland Song Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

 For this A Highland Song Review, To reach the sea, Moira must first cross the Scottish Highlands—a wilderness of paths, peaks, shortcuts, dangers, and song. For fifteen years, Moira McKinnon has lived with her mum in a small house on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Then one day she receives a letter from her Uncle Hamish urging her to come to the coast. If she can reach his lighthouse for Beltane, a wonderful surprise will be waiting...

A Highland Song Review Pros:

- Beautiful hand-drawn graphics. - 1.2GB download size. - Platformer gameplay. - Best experienced with headphones. - Music calibration tool. - Gameplay and accessibility options - trip less when running to music, never flail while climbing, easier music rhythms, single jump button only, and weather and environment (mild/moderate/harsh) - In-game cutscenes. - Excellent voice work. - Platformer gameplay. - 2D perspective. - The camera can be zoomed in and out. - Fantastic locations and vistas to admire as you play. - The world is multi-layered so you can go into different layers like into the background or to the foreground. - The map fills in as you play and mark things. - Play how you want. - The story unfolds as you play. - Rest and sleep when you want to regain health but comfort is important and if you are uncomfortable you get less health. - Multiple routes happen all the time from paths to ledges. - Full day and night cycle with weather effects. - A chilled game. - Anything shiny is either something Interactive or a point of interest to mark on your map. - Multiple choice encounters and questions. - Find little mini-game-style sequences like stone skipping. - You can run out of breath and have to stop to compose yourself. - Discoveries get marked down in your notebook. - You get ever so slight help with markings. - Climbing and running can have you running out of breath. - Find resting spots. - It pays to explore and check out everywhere you can. - Really clever level design. - Puzzle elements throughout. - Simple controls. - Sleeping or resting will advance time and change the weather in real-time. - Very accessible. - Find and climb up all the peaks. - You get told when you last saved when you quit out. - Rhythm action platformer sections with the deer actually make you stronger so you can run and climb for longer. - You can find shortcuts and ways to change the layout of the world. - When asleep you can ask questions and get new discoveries. - Find the map locations marked (you get visual and audible feedback) to get new paths and name locations. - Items can be found and used in situations as a solution. - The game just compels you to keep going as every new discovery or shortcut is so rewarding. - You cannot die, if a fall would take you out then you simply respawn before. - The overall goal of the game is to make it to the lighthouse for the special event. - At the end of a run (when you make it) you get a breakdown of how many peaks and map pieces you found and used along with how many days it took you. - Each time you start again you keep all map shortcuts, discovered peaks, and items collected. - You Learn and earn every time you play a new run and it's fascinating to see how different and deep this world actually is. - Every subsequent playthrough feels new and unique even when retreading old ground. - The level design is fascinating in that you are always looking at peaks, shortcuts, and more. - A great handheld game. A Highland Song Review Cons: - The performance in docked mode is not always smooth. - It's not always clear where and when you can change between the layers of the game world. - She is very vocal and noisy. - It's not very good at explaining itself and helping with things like map marking and traversal in general. - I got stuck a few times. - It's a lot of going back and forth and learning where to go. - You don't get to move the camera around outside of the designated viewpoints. - Learning and marking the map pieces you find is really difficult with not great feedback. - You never feel like or know when you are making actual progress. Related Post: Salt And Sacrifice Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)  A Highland Song: Official website. Developer: inkle (inklestudios.com) Publisher: inkle (inklestudios.com) Store Links - Nintendo Read the full article

[patricianandclerk]

so hamish mckinnon was kidnapped by faeries in like, the 1700s, and he was 13 years old. they basically treated him as something between a pet and a servant - he didn't age for the longest time, but he was there for an EXTENSIVE period, and it did have some effects on him

eventually, the faeries tossed him out again in the 1830s, whereupon he was Extremely Unlucky, because still weak and out of it from his escape from the fae realm, some ritualists ATTEMPTED to sacrifice him to a demon

i say attempt, because he wasn't exactly human anymore, so it went wrong - instead, he was possessed by a horde of very small insectile demons (about the size of your fist, a few dozen of them) that operate on a hive mind?

they can't control him, but they did torture him for a few years before they chilled out and realised they could co-exist

and they mostly appear around hamish as chattering, chittering shadows, creepy silhouettes in the darkness, etc

they're mischievous but they're really much too simple-minded to be genuinely EVIL, and hamish kind of fusses over them, but he's very anxious about people being around them on top of the obvious trauma issues of his own so he's like, quite lonely

[scvrllet]

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Grumpy Old Manchild Reviews: Yesterday

I Believe in Yesterday

“You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.”

- Paul McCartney, Silly Love Songs

In Yesterday Jack Malick (Hamish Patel) has given up on his hopes of winning fame and fortune as a singer-songwriter, when it hits him – and by “it” I mean “a bus”.

As he’s riding his bike home from the latest in a series of disappointing bookings, a blackout hits the entire world, with the lights going out as he’s crossing an intersection at the absolute worst and absolute best possible moment. It’s the worst because neither he nor the driver of the bus manage to see each other in time to avoid putting him in the hospital, but it’s also the best because when he wakes up he seems to be the only person on Earth who can remember the Beatles.

He assumes that this has given him an unfair advantage over every other musician on the planet, but at first it looks like he’s going to fail as badly with the Beatles’ music as he has with his own. After an appearance on a local morning show, however, he gets a call from Ed Sheeran (Ed Sheeran), who is looking for an opening act for an upcoming show in Russia, saw the show, and thought that anybody who could write a song as good as the one Jack performed there deserves a break. Jack asks his manager Ellie (Lily James) to go with him, but because managing him is her sideline and she has classes to teach at the school where she works, she has to stay behind.

Jack’s performance of what the world thinks is the debut of Back in the USSR makes him a global sensation, and Ed’s agent Debra (Kate McKinnon, at her utmost McKinnest here) swoops in to sign him before any other major agency can get their mitts on him.

Everything looks like it’s finally going to go perfectly for Jack, but the more successful he becomes the more guilty he begins to feel – and then it turns out that there are two other people out there who remember the Beatles, and they would like to have a word with him…

Yesterday is a wonderfully fluffy bit of cinematic comfort food. While the plot only stands out from other movies of young entertainers who find fame and success without the happiness that they assumed those would bring due to the speculative fiction premise of “What if the Beatles never happened?”, the performances by Patel, James, and Sheeran are wonderfully earnest, and there are scenes that are brilliantly poignant. The soundtrack is of course great. The subplot of Jack desperately trying to remember the words to Eleanor Rigby is a recurring bit of fun to watch. And the scene with Jack and the two other people who remember John, Paul, George, and Ringo is especially good.

If you love the Beatles, or romantic comedies, and especially if you love both, then you should see this at least once.

[tomorrowedblog]

First look at A Highland Song

A new trailer has been released for A Highland Song. No release date was specified.

Moira McKinnon has never seen the sea.

For fifteen years she’s lived with her mum in a small house on the edge of the Scottish Highlands—then one day she receives a letter from her Uncle Hamish urging her to come to the coast. If she can reach his lighthouse for the solstice, a wonderful surprise will be waiting…

And so, Moira runs away.

[paper--planes]

My Emmy’s 2018 Predictions

Below the cut are MY Emmy’s predictions.  These are not made to win anything, just what I hope to win.  I have another list of predictions on another site that are made to win LOL. If you use my list to make your predictions, TAG ME! I want to see who gets the most winners.  If you haven’t seen my blank copyable list of nominees, CLICK HERE!

Anyways, let’s get to what you actually want to see.  Click the Keep Reading to open my FULL LIST of my Emmy 2018 predictions, my choices are in bold.  HAPPY EMMY DAY!

COMEDY

Best Comedy Series “Atlanta” “Barry” “Black-ish” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” “GLOW” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” “Silicon Valley” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

Best Comedy Actor Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”) Ted Danson (“The Good Place”) Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) Bill Hader (“Barry”) William H. Macy (“Shameless”)

Best Comedy Actress Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Allison Janney (“Mom”) Issa Rae (“Insecure”) Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”) Lily Tomlin (“Grace and Frankie”)

Best Comedy Supporting Actor Louie Anderson (“Baskets”) Alec Baldwin (“Saturday Night Live”) Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Kenan Thompson (“Saturday Night Live”) Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

Best Comedy Supporting Actress Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”) Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Aidy Bryant (“Saturday Night Live”) Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”) Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”) Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”) Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) Megan Mullally (“Will and Grace”)

Best Comedy Directing “Atlanta” (Episode: “FUBU”), directed by Donald Glover “Atlanta” (Episode: “Teddy Perkins”), directed by Hiro Murai “Barry” (Episode: “Chapter One: Make Your Mark”), directed by Bill Hader “The Big Bang Theory” (Episode: “The Bow Tie Asymmetry”), directed by Mark Cendrowski “GLOW” (Episode: “Pilot”), directed by Jesse Peretz “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Episode: Pilot”), directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino “Silicon Valley” (Epiosde: “Initial Coin Offering”, directed by Mike Judge

Best Comedy Writing “Atlanta” (Episode: “Alligator Man”), written by Donald Glover “Atlanta” (Episode: “Barbershop”), written by Stefani Robinson “Barry” (Episode: “Chapter One: Make Your Mark”), written by Alec Berg and Bill Hader “Barry” (Episode: “Chatper Seven: Loud, Fast, and Keep Going), written by Liz Sarnoff “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Episode: “Pilot”), written by Amy Sherman-Palladino “Silicon Valley” (Episode: “Fifty-One Percent”), written by Alec Berg

DRAMA

Best Drama Series “The Handmaid’s Tale” “Game of Thrones” “This is Us” “The Crown” “The Americans” “Stranger Things” “Westworld”

Best Drama Actor Jason Bateman (“Ozark”) Sterling K. Brown (“This is Us”) Ed Harris (“Westworld”) Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) Milo Ventimiglia, (“This is Us”) Jeffrey Wright (“Westworld”)

Best Drama Actress Claire Foy (“The Crown”) Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”) Keri Russell (“The Americans”) Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”)

Best Drama Supporting Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) Joseph Fiennes (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) David Harbour (“Stranger Things”) Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”) Matt Smith (“The Crown”)

Best Drama Supporting Actress Alexis Bledel (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) Ann Dowd (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”) Vanessa Kirby (“The Crown”) Thandie Newton (“Westworld”) Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)

Best Drama Directing “The Crown” (Episode: “Paterfamilias”), directed by Stephen Daldry “Game of Thrones” (Episode: “Beyond the Wall”), directed by Alan Taylor “Game of Thrones” (Episode: “The Dragon and the Wolf”), directed by Jeremy Podeswa “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Episode: “After”), directed by Kari Skogland “Ozark” (Episode: “The Toll”), directed by Jason Bateman “Ozark” (Episode: “Tonight We Improvise”), directed by Daniel Sackheim “Stranger Things” (Episode: “Chapter Nine: The Gate”), directed by the Duffer Brothers

Best Drama Writing “The Americans” (Episode: “START”), written by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg “The Crown” (Episode: “Mystery Man”), written by Peter Morgan “Game of Thrones” (Episode: “The Dragon and the Wolf”), written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Episode: “June”), written by Bruce Miller “Killing Eve” (Episode: “Nice Face”), written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge “Stranger Things” (Episode: “Chapter Nine: The Gate”), written by the Duffer Brothers

MOVIE/MINI

Best Limited Series “The Alienist” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” “Genius: Picasso” “Godless” “Patrick Melrose”

Best TV Movie “Fahrenheit 451” “Flint” “Paterno” “The Tale” “USS Callister: Black Mirror”

Best Movie/Mini Actor Antonio Banderas (“Genius: Picasso”) Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose”) Jeff Daniels (“The Looming Tower”) John Legend (“Jesus Christ Superstar”) Jesse Plemons (“USS Callister: Black Mirror”)

Best Movie/Mini Actress Laura Dern (“The Tale”) Jessica Biel (“The Sinner”) Michelle Dockery (“Godless”) Edie Falco (“The Menendez Murders”) Regina King (“Seven Seconds”) Sarah Paulson (“American Horror Story: Cult”)

Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actor Jeff Daniels (“Godless”) Brandon Victor Dixon (“Jesus Christ Superstar”) John Leguizamo (“Waco”) Ricky Martin (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Edgar Ramirez (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Michael Stuhlbarg (“The Looming Tower”) Finn Wittrock (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)

Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actress Sara Bareilles (“Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert”) Penelope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Judith Light (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Adina Porter (“American Horror Story: Cult”) Merritt Wever (“Godless”) Letitia Wright (“Black Museum: Black Mirror”)

Best Movie/Mini Directing “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (Episode: “The Man Who Would Be Vogue”), directed by Ryan Murphy “Godless,” directed by Scott Frank “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” directed by David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski “The Looming Tower” (Episode: “9/11”), directed by Craig Zisk “Paterno,” directed by Barry Levinson “Patrick Melrose,” directed by Edward Berger “Twin Peaks,” directed by David Lynch

Best Movie/Mini Writing “American Vandal” (Episode: “Clean Up”), written by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (Episode: “House by the Lake”), written by Tom Rob Smith “Black Mirror: USS Callister,” written by William Bridges and Charlie Brooker “Godless,” written by Scott Frank “Patrick Melrose,” written by David Nicholls “Twin Peaks,” written by Mark Frost and David Lynch

REALITY/VARIETY

Best Reality Competition Program The Amazing Race” “American Ninja Warrior” “Project Runway” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” “Top Chef” “The Voice”

Best Variety Sketch Series “At Home with Amy Sedaris” “Drunk History” “I Love You, America” “Portlandia” “Saturday Night Live” “Tracey Ullman’s Show”

Best Variety Talk Series “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” “Late Late Show with James Corden Late Show with Stephen Colbert”

Best Variety Special, Directing “Dave Chappelle: Equanimity,” directed by Stan Lathan “Jerry Seinfeld: Jerry Before Seinfeld,” directed by Michael Bonfiglio “Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life,” directed by Marcus Raboy “Super Bowl LII Halftime Show Starring Justin Timberlake,” directed by Hamish Hamilton “The Oscars,” directed by Glenn Weiss

Best Variety Special, Writing “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated),” written by Samantha Bee, Pat Cassels, Mike Drucker, Eric Drysdale, Mathan Erhardt, Miles Kahn and Nicole Silverberg “John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous” at Radio City, written by John Mulaney “Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady,” written by Michelle Wolf “Patton Oswalt: Annihilation,” written by Patton Oswalt “Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life,” written by Steve Martin and Martin Short

[finn-mckinn]

Finn Warren McKinnon

Twenty-two years old, former Gryffindor

Field Intelligence Agent at the Ministry of Magic Secret Intelligence Service; his current cover is as a 

Full-time bartender at The Three Brooksticks and The Hogs Head 

Fergus always said that Finn was more like his mother than him. At once the third oldest and third youngest of the McKinnon clan, Finn was the prototypical middle child. He learned how to get what he wanted without ruffling feathers—where to sit at the table to make sure there were plenty of potatoes when the tray got to him but the dish of peas would be empty by the time circumnavigated the seven members of his family. He was an exceptional listener and an astute observer, forever fascinated by the way that the world worked, constantly committing tiny details to memory. How his father coaxed the boar-bristle brush through his beard five or seven times each morning, always putting it on the tray on the wardrobe after an odd number of strokes. How Dougal would tackle his breakfast the same way every morning—punching a hedgerow into his fried egg with the prongs of his fork before laying a piece of toast over and pressing down so the yolk soaked into the bread. How his mother would mend shirts and trousers and threadbare socks only when the air felt damp and heavy with salt and the wind sounded like dirges as it weaved through the hollow. How Malcolm’s brogue intensified when he talked to the red head Muggle girl after church on Sundays, how he turned up his shirt cuffs or adjusted his suspenders when she laughed or said his name. How Hamish replicated their father’s every expression, his intonation, the way he stood and walked and held his shoulders square, forearms twined and tucked to his chest and chin pointed slightly to the right like he was trying to touch it to his shirt collar when he was listening carefully. How Marlene always got the same look on her face every time she was home for Christmas holiday or summer holiday or a birthday or Easter, the one he’d first seen when she was eleven and it was December and the Hogwarts Express was almost to King’s Cross, how she had always been able subdue but not totally extinguish her constant state of restlessness that was only exacerbated by the familiarity of home.

This was what became of a child whose life was bordered two siblings deep on either side. He was not the quidditch star or the brilliant academic or the prankster or the much-longed-for daughter. He had been the youngest McKinnon for a year that flashed like a shooting star, too tiny and pink and new to have managed anything remarkable before Dougal was born. By the time Malcolm and Hamish were away at school and Finn was eight years old, the oldest of the McKinnon clan without his Hogwarts letter, Dougal was six and Marlene was four and Rhona was exhausted by her two smallest but most boisterous children. Finn would watch the clock like he was keeping it honest, counting down the hours until his little brother and sister were put down for naps, waiting for that little slice of afternoon quiet before Fergus came home from work and the house smelled like his mother’s cooking and chaos renewed itself in time as nap time ended. His mother would sleep in the rocking chair by the hearth and Finn would work the skin off of an apple with a dull pocket knife his father had given him and buff the sweetness from the blade with the hem of his shirt and wonder at the patterns of his life, waiting for the world around him to begin again. At once the third oldest and third youngest of his family, Finn had never carved a spot for himself like they did with elbows on the kitchen table at dinner, never much worried about having some sort of moniker in the family. His identity was wrought from a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose born from understanding the microcosm of his family’s little world. In this way, it was quiet things that most fundamentally defined him—a keen sense of loyalty, camaraderie, patience. Slughorn had referred to him simply as a “fine boy.” The ladies at church called him “sweet” and “quiet.” While he loved to laugh and play and fling himself from the cliffs into the sea, his mother and siblings had always seen him as slightly more serious, more intense than the rest of them. When he was in seventh year he ended up in a closet with Siobhan Croy whilst playing a kissing game in his common room and after they’d worked up the courage to finally kiss—his mouth soft yet firm on hers, careful but insistent, measured—she had looked at him in the dark, a tendril of light from beyond the closet door cutting across the bridge of his nose, the constellation of freckles at the apples of his cheeks, and she’d touched his hair where it curled against his collar at the back of his neck and said “I really can’t figure you out, Finn.”

Alaster Moody singled him out in the Great Hall during the penultimate career day of his final year at Hogwarts. He pulled him into a room behind the dias where the professors’ table sat and he asked Finn to try to name everyone who’d been in the room with him, asked him how many of the recruiters from Gringotts and St. Mungo’s and the Auror Academy were men and women, how old they were, asked if he could remember their names or a notable physical characteristic like a scar or a beauty mark. He gave Finn a scrap of parchment and asked him to draw a diagram of the room—how the tables were arranged, where the doors where and whether or not they were open, and asked him to label where each organization was in relation to the others. A few weeks later, graduated and back home in Scotland, Finn had received a letter from the renowned auror with an enclosed workbook filled with riddles and pattern sequences and codes to break and Finn sat in the attic at a little desk facing the round window at the apse the house and poured over the pages. Three weeks after he owled it back to Alastar, he was formally invited to begin training as part of the Ministry Secret Intelligence Service; while he was told he would never be an operative involved in combat, Alastar indicated in his intake paperwork that Finn would be suited for intelligence collection and recommended that he be stationed in the field. Although the training was rigorous, his post was far from demanding: he was stationed at Hogsmeade as a bartender who worked between the Hog’s Head and the Three Broomsticks, charged with relaying information about attacks and disputes back to the Ministry but strictly prohibited from intervening.

And he was strictly prohibited for revealing his position to anyone outside of the Secret Intelligence Service. Family included.

To say the McKinnon clan was disappointed was an understatement. That’s the thing about covers—they have to be inconspicuous and they’re almost always humbling. While Finn wasn’t a standout like his brothers, he was plenty bright with slightly above-average marks. He was plenty likable though certainly not popular. He was handy with a wand and adequate on a broom. He would’ve never been an auror, but he hadn’t wanted to be—before Alastair, before training and a field assignment that put a dirty rag in his hands and the scent of hops on his skin, he’d figured he wouldn’t make a half-bad healer. He liked people, he liked solving problems, he saw healing as a way to be necessary in a way that would leave him fulfilled. No, he wasn’t passionate about healing, but he hadn’t ever really felt passionate about much in his life. His mother had said that he would grow into something and it made Finn think of growing into his brothers’ hand-me-downs and the patches in the twill or denim that had holed themselves into the fabric from his brothers’ adventures.

He didn’t want to grow into someone else’s life.

So Alastair’s offer, the job, the cover, it was a chance to have something that was his own. It was a chance to be something besides one of the “McKinnon lads,” another dark-haired son of Fergus McKinnon with an auror’s badge pinned to his chest and dimples in the same place on his cheeks and the same stories to tell around the oak table back home. Everyone had reacted with amusement at first, speculation about why Finn would made a life in a musty pub a stone’s throw from where he’d spent the past seven years. Malcolm, in his infinite wisdom and perpetual need to dispense his opinion, figured Finn was having a rebellious stage. Hamish mused that maybe Finn had finally wanted a proper lay and thought he could pick up younger girls. Fergus wondered if he’d hidden some bad marks and didn’t have any other options. Rhona had hushed all of them for the first year after Finn had started tending bar, kept at it the second year, but he could tell from the lines in her forehead when the conversation came up (and it always did) after three, four years that she’d run out of things to tell herself. And she’d gone quiet.

But Finn had always liked the quiet, liked those afternoons when he was small and his brothers were away and his younger siblings were asleep in the bedroom. He liked the consistency, he liked the routine of owling a report to the Ministry at the same time every afternoon. He liked feeling necessary in a quiet way, living in a little flat above the pub, polishing glasses while people told whiskey-inspired secrets because he was just that bartender kid from Hogwarts, what did it matter, he’s not listening anyway. And sure, sometimes he would daydream about telling his mother and father the truth, what their faces would look like when they realized they were wrong—apologetic and full of pride—and how his brothers would try to hide their envy and surprise that he’d been chosen. Sometimes he imagined what Marlene would say if she’d known the truth, how she’d stop talking to him like he was her little brother, like she had to protect him from judgement, affirm his life choices and compliment his flat so that he wouldn’t feel like a failure. He knew she felt sorry for him. He occasionally wondered if he embarrassed her when she came into the pub with her friends and he was there, her loser older brother, pulling pints in a hovel in Hogsmeade.

But now the Ministry had added new responsibilities to his assignment. He should still blend in, sure, but he was meant to engage the clientele more. Ask them about their lives. Gain their trust. The memo said that he should do this subtly, of course, but enough to learn more than he was learning now. Finn tried not to be concerned that the memo was timed with a series of attacks on Muggleborns in London, tried not to be concerned the Ministry had sent a new round of recruits into Diagon Alley to pose as booksellers and cooks and sweet peddlers with carts. Finn had resisted the urge to reach out to Alastair, to his brothers, to ask what was happening in England and if there was anything he should know. Instead, he made sure to advertise specials on brightly-colored paper bulletins that he’d send to some of the regulars from Hogwarts knowing that they’d draw Marlene’s friends to the pub and, in turn, bring his little sister to one of his barstools so he’d at least have proof that there was something tying him to his family.

[flickfeast]

EIFF 2019: Yesterday (2019)

Here is our #edfilmfest #review of Danny Boyle's #Yesterday:

Yesterday. All of Jack Malik’s troubles seemed so far away. After A Hard Day’s Night and a freak worldwide blackout, struggling musician Jack finds that, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, life goes on and he is the only person that remembers the music of The Beatles.

Forget the long and winding road, Jack is taking the fast track to success. Passing the songs of The Fab Four off as his own to achieve…

[patricianandclerk]

i agreed to work early today to help housekeeping, but that means i finish at 9pm, so!! i’m hoping when i come home to do some work on hamish mckinnon’s backstory, and i am hoping to !! share it on here

he’s one of my favourite OCs and i’ve been playing with him for maybe four or five years now? and he’s... so fucking sad. like, he’s so sad. 

imagine book aziraphale’s aesthetic but Really Sad and without a backbone, and like, big lonely because he doesn’t have a soulmate like aziraphale does, oh and also he’s possessed by a horde of insectile demons

[heh-rp]

Queria começar dizendo que eu sei que prometi postar ontem, mas foi impossível para mim por que eu estava muito nervosa com uma situação pessoal. Agora que tudo está mais calmo trago a lista dos mortos/vivos/zumbis. 

A lista vai ser atualizada conforme as pessoas vão nos enviando os status dos personagens.

Lembrete: Os zombies e os mortos são personagens npc, ou seja, não podem ser jogados. Entretanto podem ser mencionados ou mortos pelos players caso tenham permissão. Podem também ser postados pov da morte ou de como viraram zumbis.

Ah, e temos duas fichas para serem aceitas, mas que estamos ainda arrumando umas coisinhas antes de postar.

VIVOS

Molly Prewett

Gene de York

Mafalda Hopkirk

Alouis Mclaughlin

Sybill Trelawney

Maia Portland

Nate Geller

Sandra Macmillan

Amos Diggory

Kenai Stackhouse

Persefone Beckinsale

Tilden Toots

Anthony Hansen

Remus Lupin

Marlus Mckinnon

Emma Vanity

Sturgis Podmore

Ophelia Stebbins

Sandy Marchiori

Nymeria Clutterbuck

Gargamel Goyle

Lucius Malfoy

Severus Snape

Robin Bulstrode

Bertha Jorkins

Disney Morgan

Nirvana Wolves

Pandora Hargrove

Anael Sancouer

Bellatrix Black

Rowena Primrose

Filius Flitwick

Barthlomew Ringwald

Phortos Macmillan

Jonas Dallas

Opaline Deveraux

Septima Vector

Lucy Talkalot

Arthur Weasley

Xenophilius Lovegood

Alana Reverbel

Nathaniel Malik

Marlene Mckinnon

James Potter

Ted Tonks

Artemis Prince

Rodolphus Lestrange

Peter Pettigrew

Benjy Fenwick

Jane Hooper

Klaus Webber

Pomona Sprout

Frank Longbottom

Prince Wood

Octavius Fawley

Logan Handerson*

Michael O’Malley

Ludo Bangman

Alecto Carrow

Livvy Goshawk

Hestia Jones

Lily Evans

Edgar Bones

Bradford Selwyn

Meredith Zabine

Andromeda Black

Mary Macdonald

Dedalus Diggle

Tristane Nott

Matt Molina

Amelia Bones

Chandler Court

Maxine Carstairs

Fabian Prewett*

Jake Strucker*

Morgan Scott

Danny Mcgregor*

MORTOS

Florence Abbot

Charity Burbage

Phillip Marchiori

Gabriel Kowalsk

Belladonna Wather

Lakshmi Fawley

Wendy Slinkhard

William Branwell*

Florean Fortescue*

Daisy Hookum*

Narcissa Black

Samuel Almeida Jr

Dorcas Meadowes

Jun Kazuaki

Margareth Fawley

Darth Macmillan

Magnolia Goshawick

Naomi Webb

Donatello Damico

Pipa Lynch

Rose O’Conner

Serena Sancouer

Icarus Lestrange

Luke Travers

Joey Baxter

Jordan Dawson

Minerva Mcgonagall

Hope Choi

Dylan Choe

Mason Avery

Jem Branwell

ZUMBIS

Vicent Hudson

Jean Arthos

Hamish D’Angelo

Oz West

Desiree Merrick

Wandy  Wanzel

Joffrey Manfred

Alex Fletcher

Matilda Monreal

Aneska Adler

Manon Flint

Ramon Camptom

Sameer Tenemur

Evangeline Hamilton

Leonor Lottway

Sebastian Franz

Regulus Black*

Eithne Lochrin*

Ocean Zummach

Felipa Koller

Ametista Fletcher

Jilzemar Parson

Amelie Stackhouse

Isobel Mcphee

Richard Bowiw

Nadine Walther

Dominique Deveraux

Jupiter Sholto

Miguel Ramsay

Cassandra Marchiori

Fiorela Smith

Lotus Abbot

Sunshine Sandler

Saiorse Clutterbuck

Venus Sholto

Lisa Diggory

Angelo Podmore

Jude Morrison

Jedidiah Fawley

Lorenzo Caputo

Kaleb Sholto

Teodosio Abbout

Georgie Sancouer

Epaminondas Delacroix

Malu Almdeida

Leo Fawley

Zelda Speight

Gertrudes Fawley

Gilderoy Lockhart

Donovan Bulstrode

Pius Thicknesse

Rabastan Lestrange

Rosmerta Darcy

Kareena Dheer

Demetrius Parkinson

Douglas Mcgregor*

Irma Prince

Tyler Dawson

*Mortos/Zumbi eventualmente

[periculum-hq]

Conheça Marlene Caelum  Mckinnon, tem 16 anos e estuda na Escola de Magia e Bruxaria de Hogwarts, pertencendo à casa Grifinória; o seu status sanguíneo é puro e está no sexto ano. Muitas pessoas dizem que é extremamente parecida com uma trouxa chamada Madison Davenport mas pode ser apenas poção polissuco. Infelizmente, encontra-se indisponível.

❝you will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.❞

data de nascimento: 21/11

animal de estimação: um sapo bombina orientalis, chamado Chuck.

amortentia: grama molhada e torta de abóbora.

bicho papão: vê a si mesma em um espaço pequeno e fechado, completamente escuro, representando o seu medo da solidão.

patrono: Javali.

varinha: pelo de unicórnio; núcleo de bordo; 20cm; maleável.

espelho de ojesed: vê a si mesma como ministra da magia.

✦HEADCANONS✦

Ser a caçula de três filhos significava também ser o alvo de toda a atenção dos pais e irmãos mais velhos que, embora tratassem Marlene como uma boneca de porcelana, sabiam que no fundo a garota era dona de um espírito livre incapaz de ser domado. Enquanto faziam de tudo para impedir que qualquer coisa atingisse a mais nova, Marlene os ignorava e saia correndo pela casa em uma rapidez que era impossível alguém cogitar que ela chegava a ter medo de cair em algum momento. Isso não mudou, se ainda criança o céu era o seu único limite, com o crescimento nem ele conseguiria impedi-la.

Genevieve, no entanto, ignorava seus comportamentos rebeldes e impulsivos e tentava ao máximo fazer a filha ser exatamente como ela e Hamish desejava: uma dama. Colocaram-na em um número tão grande de aulas que Marlene sequer tinha tempo para pensar em sua hiperatividade. Alemão às segundas, Hindi às terças e Italiano às quartas, todas as quintas e sextas tinha aula de jazz e aos sábados aprendia piano e violino em aulas particulares com os irmãos, tudo isso além das irritantes dicas de ética e boas maneiras; coisas que ela considerava tão irrelevante que fingia errar apenas para irritar a mãe que já devia ter repetido a mesma regra pela décima vez.

Para ela, ir para Hogwarts era como receber sua carta de alforria, como se as portas da prisão que vivia se abrissem e desse a chance de, finalmente, existir de sua própria maneira. Então, se Marlene era levada dentro da própria casa, enquanto na Escola ela não era exatamente o tipo de aluna que os professores consideravam um bom exemplo. Muito embora, se ignorassem todas as confusões que ela fazia questão de se envolver, existiria ali apenas mais uma amante de livros e irritante-sabe-de-tudo, uma fama que ela odiaria receber, com toda certeza.

Extracurriculares: Clube do Slughe, Trato das Criaturas Mágicas e aparatação; batedora do time.

Player: sam

[ultralifehackerguru-blog]

New Post has been published on http://www.lifehacker.guru/emmys-2018-the-winners-list/

Emmys 2018: The winners' list

Who won big at the 70th annual Emmy Awards, honoring the best TV shows? Check out the list of Emmy winners (in bold) and nominees:

DRAMA SERIES

“The Americans” (FX) “The Crown” (Netflix) WINNER: “Game of Thrones” (HBO) “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) “Stranger Things” (Netflix) “This Is Us” (NBC) “Westworld” (HBO)

COMEDY SERIES

“Atlanta” (FX) “Barry” (HBO) “Black-ish” (ABC) “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) “GLOW” (Netflix) WINNER: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) “Silicon Valley” (HBO) “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)

LIMITED SERIES

“The Alienist” (TNT) “Genius: Picasso” (National Geographic) WINNER: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) “Godless” (Netflix) “Patrick Melrose” (Showtime)

VARIETY TALK SERIES

“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central) “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” (TBS) “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC) WINNER: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO) “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (CBS) “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS)

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES

“At Home With Amy Sedaris” (TruTV) “Drunk History” (Comedy Central) “I Love You America With Sarah Silverman” (Hulu) “Portlandia” (IFC) WINNER: “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) “Tracey Ullman’s Show” (HBO)

REALITY COMPETITION SERIES

“The Amazing Race” (CBS) “American Ninja Warrior” (NBC) “Project Runway” (Lifetime) WINNER: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1) “Top Chef” (Bravo) “The Voice” (NBC)

LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES

WINNER: Claire Foy, “The Crown” (Netflix) Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black” (BBC America) Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve” (BBC America) Keri Russell, “The Americans” (FX) Evan Rachel Wood, “Westworld” (HBO)

LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES

Jason Bateman, “Ozark” (Netflix) Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us” (NBC) Ed Harris, “Westworld” (HBO) WINNER: Matthew Rhys, “The Americans” (FX) Milo Ventimiglia, “This Is Us” (NBC) Jeffrey Wright, “Westworld” (HBO)

DIRECTING, DRAMA SERIES

WINNER: Stephen Daldry, “The Crown” (Netflix) Alan Taylor, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Jeremy Podeswa, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Jason Bateman, “Ozark” (Netflix) Daniel Sackheim, “Ozark” (Netflix) The Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things” (Netflix)

WRITING, DRAMA SERIES

WINNER: Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, “The Americans” (FX) Peter Morgan, “The Crown” (Netflix) David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Bruce Miller, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) Phoebe Waller-Bridge, “Killing Eve” (BBC America) The Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things” (Netflix)

Thandie Newton won an Emmy for her work in HBO’s “Westworld.” (Photo: John P. Johnson, HBO)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES

Alexis Bledel, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) Millie Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things” (Netflix) Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Vanessa Kirby, “The Crown” (Netflix) WINNER: Thandie Newton, “Westworld” (HBO) Yvonne Strahovski, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)

SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) WINNER: Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Joseph Fiennes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) David Harbour, “Stranger Things” (Netflix) Mandy Patinkin, “Homeland” (Showtime) Matt Smith, “The Crown” (Netflix)

DIRECTING, VARIETY SPECIAL

Stan Lathan, “Dave Chappelle: Equanimity” (Netflix) Michael Bonfiglio, “Jerry Seinfeld: Jerry Before Seinfeld” (Netflix) WINNER: Glenn Weiss, “The Oscars” (ABC) Marcus Raboy, “Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life” (Netflix) Hamish Hamilton, “Super Bowl LII Halftime Show Starring Justin Timberlake” (NBC)

WRITING, VARIETY SPECIAL

Melinda Taub, Samantha Bee, Pat Cassels, Mike Drucker, Eric Drysdale, Mathan Erhardt, Miles Kahn, Nicole Silverberg, Ashley Nicole Black, Joe Grossman, Sean Crespo, Razan Ghalayini, Tyler Hall, Allana Harkin, Paul Myers, Halcyon Person, Mike Rubens, “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents: The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated)” (TBS) WINNER: John Mulaney, “John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous At Radio City” (Netflix) Michelle Wolf, “Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady” (HBO) Patton Oswalt, “Patton Oswalt: Annihilation” (Netflix) Steve Martin and Martin Short, “Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life” (Netflix)

LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Antonio Banderas, “Genius: Picasso” (National Geographic) WINNER: Darren Criss, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Benedict Cumberbatch, “Patrick Melrose” (Showtime) Jeff Daniels, “The Looming Tower” (Hulu) John Legend, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert” (NBC) Jesse Plemons, “Black Mirror: USS Callister” (Netflix)

Regina King poses with her Emmy for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Television Movie. (Photo: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY)

LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Jessica Biel, “The Sinner” (USA) Laura Dern, “The Tale” (HBO) Michelle Dockery, “Godless” (Netflix) Edie Falco, “Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders” (NBC) WINNER: Regina King, “Seven Seconds” (Netflix) Sarah Paulson, “American Horror Story: Cult” (FX)

DIRECTING, LIMITED SERIES

WINNER: Ryan Murphy, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Scott Frank, “Godless” (Netflix) David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” (NBC) Craig Zisk, “The Looming Tower” (Hulu) Barry Levinson, “Paterno” (HBO) Edward Berger, “Patrick Melrose” (Showtime) David Lynch, “Twin Peaks” (Showtime)

Ryan Murphy accepts the the Emmy for outstanding directing for a limited series for FX’s “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.” (Photo: Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY)

WRITING, LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, “American Vandal” (Netflix) Tom Rob Smith, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Scott Frank, “Godless” (Netflix) David Nicholls, “Patrick Melrose” (Showtime) David Lynch and Mark Frost, “Twin Peaks” (Showtime) WINNER: William Bridges and Charlie Brooker, “USS Callister (Black Mirror)” (Netflix)

SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Ricky Martin, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Edgar Ramirez, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Finn Wittrock, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) WINNER: Jeff Daniels, “Godless” (Netflix) Brandon Victor, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” (NBC) Michael Stuhlbarg, “The Looming Tower” (Hulu) John Leguizamo, “Waco” (Paramount)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

Adina Porter, “American Horror Story: Cult” (FX) Penelope Cruz, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Judith Light, “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” (FX) Letitia Wright, “Black Museum (Black Mirror)” (Netflix) WINNER: Merritt Wever, “Godless” (Netflix) Sara Bareilles, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert” (NBC)

Bill Hader and Henry Winkler show off their Emmys for HBO’s “Barry.” (Photo: Dan MacMedan/USA TODAY)

LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES

Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish” (ABC) Ted Danson, “The Good Place” (NBC) Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) Donald Glover, “Atlanta” (FX) WINNER: Bill Hader, “Barry” (HBO) William H. Macy, “Shameless” (Showtime)

LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES

Pamela Adlon, “Better Things” (FX) WINNER: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) Allison Janney, “Mom” (CBS) Issa Rae, “Insecure” (HBO) Tracee Ellis Ross, “Black-ish” (ABC) Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix)

DIRECTING, COMEDY SERIES

Donald Glover, “Atlanta” (FX) Hiro Murai, “Atlanta” (FX) Bill Hader, “Barry” (HBO) Mark Cendrowski, “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS) Jesse Peretz, “GLOW” (Netflix) WINNER: Amy Sherman-Palladino, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) Mike Judge, “Silicon Valley” (HBO)

Rachel Brosnahan won an Emmy for her role in Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” (Photo: Nicole Rivelli, Amazon Prime)

WRITING, COMEDY SERIES

Donald Glover, “Atlanta” (FX) Stefani Robinson, “Atlanta” (FX) Alec Berg and Bill Hader, “Barry” (HBO) Liz Sarnoff, “Barry” (HBO) WINNER: Amy Sherman-Palladino, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) Alec Berg, “Silicon Valley” (HBO)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES

Zazie Beetz, “Atlanta” (FX) WINNER: Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) Aidy Bryant, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) Betty Gilpin, “GLOW” (Netflix) Leslie Jones, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) Laurie Metcalf, “Roseanne” (ABC) Megan Mullally, “Will & Grace: (NBC)

SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES

Louie Anderson, “Baskets” (FX) Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) Tituss Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) Brian Tyree Henry, “Atlanta” (FX) Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) Kenan Thompson, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) WINNER: Henry Winkler, “Barry” (HBO)

(C)

[markattwoodphoto-blog]

• Developing my own style as a ‘Moody Landscape Photographer’ •

• Developing a personal style as a landscape photographer is difficult. It is hard to create and adapt a style to fit most situations, but not impossible, this series of images shows how I have incorporated the style my Instagram portfolio has become known for into various photographic scenarios, the moody, desaturated greens and subdued colours tend to fit best with already moody and overcast days however, and as you can see, they are the majority of my work, even more commonly seen in my work than the usual landscape conditions of ‘Golden Hour’ and ‘Blue Hour’, as these conditions actually tend not to suit this style of colour grading. Colour grading has become a big part of both my creative and planning process, after first being influenced to develop a style by photographer and cinematographer Peter Mckinnon in a viral YouTube video, you can check out the exact video… right here…

https://youtu.be/n-89XlD2ZUg

Colour grading (I believe), should play a big role in photography, as much as it does in its original role in cinematography after being introduced to the world in the early 2000s after the introduction of digital cameras and digital colour editing gave the ability to adapt colour to fit situations. It should play a role as it helps to bring the world you’re photographing to a much more meaningful place, for instance, if you’re trying to make a very moody image of a woodland, you don’t want ‘juicy’ colours and bright, golden sunsets, instead you would want to opt for subdued and desaturated colours that represent cold and earthiness, such as blues, greens and dark hues, as these represent that scene much more accurately, and vice versa. 

So in my images, as I commonly photograph moody scenes and bad weather days in the Lake District I became drawn to these Greens, Blues and desaturated, underexposed scenes. So before creating, adapting and finalising my style, I looked for and at other photographers using a similar style to the one I had thought of creating, finding Dylan Furst, the winter based work of Jack Anstey, Fredrick Schindler, and Hamish Morrison to be pretty similar to the style I was looking for, especially Dylan Furst(who I would later be heavily influenced by in the making of the preset). (All these artists can be found on Instagram with a simple search of the name.) When it came round to creating the style(using Lightroom), I used mostly Dylan Furst images as a reference point, as these were the most consistent with this theme, and I discovered different Post production techniques that he uses to create this ‘moody effect’. - the technique I came up with usually goes as follows - 

Number one. Photograph in bad conditions, that means moody days, rainy days, misty days, anything but clear works best(I haven’t always stuck to this however), as it is the most moody you can achieve before the enhancement stage. 

Number two. Desaturate enough but not too much. 

Number three. Make good use of the HSL tool in Lightroom, along with Tone Curves to crush the blacks giving the ‘faded’, cinematic look to the images. Using the HSL tool to desaturate specific colours, mainly yellows, greens, and aquas(blues too depending on the image), this creates that moody and earthy look the images must have, but still isn’t finished quite yet. 

Number four. Once all the regular techniques are done such as exposure editing, white balance, sharpening, and lens corrections, the final stages can be put in place. The one very important thing left I include is split toning, this creates a subdued imprint of green and blue on the image, specifically giving a deep green tint to highlights, and a tint in between green and blue for the shadows, the image should end up looking close to my style from here, then final touches can be made to suit it to the exact image. 

 I have used this style to try and stand out from a crowd of landscape photographers that populate Instagram, and it pays off when people notice and comment on the signature style of your work and who can recognise and tell apart your images from others in a group.

[templeofgeek]

The red carpet is where the fabulous come to strut their stuff. It is where journalists have the chance to Ask Her More and where photographers can grab the perfect photo. Red carpet’s have always been associated with the film industry and some of the most talented men and women have walked that carpet.

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I’ve never walked the red carpet myself, but recently I got to stand on the side lines and take photos at the 2017 Hollywood Comedy Short Film Festival. It was honestly a super exciting moment for me. I am a huge fan of the film industry, so I was ecstatic to be near that carpet.

Honestly, creating something as spectacular as a motion picture is beyond extraordinary. Not all of us can be actors, directors, writers, or even musicians, but we can be fans and show our support. And that night I finally got to be front and center.

I had my press pass, my sister’s camera, and my spot on the floor. I was ready!

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The Red Carpet

First of all, I saw a lot of actors, actresses, and film makers I did not know, which is amazing! I love being able to share some of the upcoming talent in the industry with our readers. I also love being able to show you what you are missing out on by not watching short films. Short films are truly amazing!

So without further ado, here are the fabulous photos I took at the red carpet of the 2nd Annual Hollywood Comedy Short Film Festival.

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Margina Sisson, Gary Sisson, & Maria Johnson | Remedy

Mitch Yapko & Allen Rueckert | 3 to Die

Stephanie Kamari | The Pretender

Gavin Magnus | Reckless Juliets

Becca Goldenberg & Andy Goldenberg | Don’t Tell Anyone, but I’m Dating the President

Mark Mitchinson | Highroad

Alexandra Case & Robin De Lano | Girls I Audition With

Dalal Bruchmann | Girls I Audition With

Brian Swinehart | Comedy Awards Host

Jacob Brooks & Chelsey Shernaman | Cabin

Victoria Fratz | Acting Class

Brent Alan Henry & Kelsey Kay | Vantastic

Matthew Moore, Andrew Wulc, Ava Abdoulah, & Adriana Torres | The Chad

Landon Ashworth

Tanjareen Thomas | Here’s the Thing

Mirai Booth-Ong

Laura Adkin & Lisa Ovies

Luke Hollingshed | Cabin

Addison Houck | Cabin

Crystal Correa | Crystal

Mahasiah Blaise | Crystal

Isabel Cueva | The Haunt

Douglas Tait | The Haunt

Austin McKinnon, Erika Soto, & Ian McClellan

Mike Picco & Amelia Solomon | The Will

Aaron Franklin & Victoria Fratz | Acting Class

Wes Overby | Acting Class

Brent Alan Henry, Justin Downing, & Nick Greco | Vantastic

Misha Calvert & Sebastian Quinn | Pee Sitting Down

Nyema Tannenbaum | The Pretender

Nyema Tannenbaum, Stephanie Kamari, & Nathan Morse | The Pretender

Maggie McCollester & Hamish McCollester | Movie Night

Jessica Gardner & Timothy Ryan Cole | Divorce Party

Tom Martin | Divorce Party

Anna Gutto | Mommy Heist

Marion Cecinas | Mommy Heist

Mike Glazer, Joel Blacker, Sam Roots, & “” | Let’s Do It

Amanda Romeo | The Bearded Lady

Martin Klebba | The Haunt

Serena Loren, Martin Lee White, Salme Geransar, & Harry van Gorkum | The Short Short

Kylie Delre, Seth Berkowitz, & Tanjareen Thomas | Here’s the Thing

Syd Wilder | Fab Life Theresa XO & Reckless Juliets

Stuart Creque | Lovin’ It

Final Words

I just want to say thank you to Dumont Marketing Group for inviting Temple of Geek to attend this event. Additionally, we would like to congratulate all the winners of the 2017 Hollywood Comedy Short Film Festival, click here to read about who won. Lastly, if any of the above featured actors, writers, or film makers would like copies of their photos please email Katie at katie@templeofgeek.com. There are additional photos that were not posted, including solo shots and group shots.

*All photos were captured and edited by Katharine Penix, please do not use without permission. 

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Brief

Plump, rosy-cheeked and appears to be into his fifties. Thick, blond hair that's thinning ever so slightly on the top, has a tendency towards yellows and browns in his wardrobe - fan of tweed, but also of clothes with various patches on them, and tends to look a few decades out of time. He has sensitive feet, and wears red slippers virtually all the time.

When he was a child (thirteenish) in the late 1600s, he was taken by faeries, who dropped him, for the sake of fun, in the middle of the states in the mid-1800s. Ended up in the middle of a cultist sacrificial ritual, but it went wrong, and instead of being devoured a legion of demons half-possessed him. They're connected to him but can't actually control his actions, and tend to just follow him around and get him to entertain them. They used to be cruel to him, but they've got bored of that and are now just entertained by whatever he offers them as he won't generally attack people.

Bought the antique shop in London in the 1970s and just stayed ever since, as dealing in antiques and speciality magic items is rather easy for him, but doesn't take all too much effort.

He reads voraciously and often, and he's relatively good with the Internet - took a secretarial course in the 70s, learned to type on the computer in the 90s, took another IT course recently.

External Body

Hamish is a short man, plump and rounded off – round belly, thick rounded thighs, thick arms, round cheeks with red apples in them. He has a small mouth, red with plump lips, and heavily lidded, round eyes, which are a softly golden hazel. If you look very closely, you can see the shadows shifting about his irises – the physical reflection of the Horde’s connection to him. He has small crow’s feet and frown lines at his brow and around his mouth, but his hair is thick and deeply golden-blond, burnished with a little brown, and not greying at all, although it is beginning to thin slightly.

His skin is generally pale all over, and mostly unmarked, with patches that go very red very quickly. He has a heavy chest and rounded belly, with broad thighs and calves – he’s quite muscular beneath the fat, especially his calves, his shoulders, and his arms, but you wouldn’t think it to look at him. Holds himself very small.

His feet are only a 5 or a 6 maybe? Quite small feet, and they’re very delicate-looking.

Quite a bit of body hair, but it’s a lighter gold than the stuff on his head, and it tends to dust very finely on his chest, his back, his belly, his thighs and calves. His hands are usually very delicately kept and manicured, with super soft hands.

The horde are a legion of small demons, a few hundred of them that are insectile – they each have six little arms, bat-like wings, little legs, and are a sort of reddish brown colour. They look and feel like bats to the touch, and are that kind of furry-warm, but if you press on them you’ll feel that they’re hard-shelled underneath the soft outside of leathery skin, and on the inside they’re insectile, with hemolymph etc, and their skeletal system is external.

You see them as dark shadows and funny dark spots around Hamish, often under chairs, behind shelves, etc, and semi-non-corporeal so that they just seem like thick shadow. 

Job(s)

Hamish owns McKinnon Antiques in London, which is an antique shop that specialises in haunted and supernaturally charged objects.

His main thing is as a supplier for others, and to get hold of things for some people and pass them over – he’ll usually come in and get hold of something and mostly take it off someone’s hands? Like, he always makes sure that he gets a haunted object away from someone because he’s very aware of how big that weight can be on someone, and then he’ll either put it into storage or sell it on.

He’s a big supplier to businesses and so on.

He makes some income from the several flats above his shop, and also owns some other storage spaces and houses and such that he rents out through an agency. He is not a very friendly, involved landlord – the renters upstairs (usually faeries that are struggling to get the hang of appearing human enough to rent elsewhere, usually as a stop gap before they get work elsewhere) pay him directly in cash, but the others are run through an agency with a director so that Hamish doesn’t have to interact with anybody.

The agency is called the Wednesday Letting Agency, the name being one that Asmodeus came up with when it was established back in the 1970s.

Abode(s)

Hamish owns the entire building McKinnon Antiques is in, which is the flat just above the building, which is two storeys of the actual flat, and then the other like, half a dozen storeys are like, three more flats and some extended storage? The flats are from an entrance at the side, and are usually the faeries and whatever.

Hamish’s flat is two stories, so like.

You enter the shop, which is crammed full of stuff, and then has a whole further area of back storage, a little kitchenette, and then you go up the stairs into the first floor, which is Hamish’s living room/library – a room with a very plush and cushy couch, lots of bookshelves, a nice radio and record player. It’s got a lot of soft surfaces, a lot of the McKinnon tartan hung up, and a lot of blankets and cushions, and you really would feel like you’d stepped back in time to look at it all.

There’s a small, cramped kitchen with a fairly big oven and some okay gas burners, but not much counter space, and just a little dining table that’s made for two people. Hamish does not have a toaster or an electric kettle – I don’t think he actually has anything electric in his kitchen.

Upstairs, he has his bedroom and then the two other bedrooms that are used for storage, although he always has some cots he can fold out for people who desperately need somewhere to sleep, usually JP and Colm, and later like, Velma. Hamish’s bedroom is a bit more cramped than cosy, with a lot more books, clothes, etc, all stuck into the same room, but you do step in and feel like, warm and comfy rather than claustrophobic. His bed is huge, very plush with four posts and a top, and he literally has like, thirteen or fourteen blankets on his bed.

Religion & Worship

Hamish was raised as a Christian, but is now an atheist, and is generally very uncomfortable with a lot  of religion and very religious people.

Childhood & Young Adulthood

When he was 13, Hamish went wandering in the woods to avoid like, his parents and that, and ended up straying off the path when he heard a funny noise, and was seduced by like, a very pretty man just off the edge of the path? Ended up stepping off and off the path, into the midst of a faerie realm

Hamish was kept as a sort of pet and toy as he grew older, once he was old enough to have sex, he did? It was always pseudoconsensual, but it was obviously affected by the whole situation around him – he could choose to initiate it, which he did with other boys, but it was slow and uncertain, and as time got older it was more charged, more complex

He did age in the fae realm, but far far slower, and once he seemed to be around 25, the faerie prince who was most infatuated with him grew bored with him and his blossoming manhood, and they decided to turn him out…

In the middle of a summoning circle in America, where he stumbled in amidst the Christians that had been radicalised by a demon and were trying to summon another demon. It was all just a joke – the idea was that they’d summon the horde of demons and be devoured, which the original demon found super funny?

But because they used Hamish as a sacrifice to open up the split in the parallel realms and not a human, the magic didn’t respond right – Hamish’s capacity for magic had been permanently changed by his centuries in the fae realm, and so the demons were bound to him instead

And then…

He had to deal with the Horde.

The horde are a legion of small demons, a few hundred of them that are insectile – they each have six little arms, bat-like wings, little legs, and are a sort of reddish brown colour. They look and feel like bats to the touch, and are that kind of furry-warm, but if you press on them you’ll feel that they’re hard-shelled underneath the soft outside of leathery skin, and on the inside they’re insectile. They’re one of the smaller species of pseudo mammalian demons.

For a few years, as Hamish began to work himself out – this was just after the civil war, so he managed to find for himself a place in the country to work with the demons, who just fucking tortured him the first few years, but once he got a handle on them and learned to live with them, and then he made his way into Dinwiddie, Virginia.

When he started travelling north toward New York, in like, a little bit after the civil war, he met the angel Asmodeus, who immediately took an interest in him. He, Jean-Pierre and Colm had just landed in the US and were spending some time in NY – later, obviously, they’d move elsewhere for another like, fifty years, I think going across the top of the US, then down to California in the mid 1900s, then to Texas, and then back East to go back to Ireland as they came into the 21st century

The demons were immediately fucking terrified of Asmodeus, which meant that like, for the first time in nearly a decade, someone could get close enough to actually touch Hamish, who was beginning to show his age now, starting to look a little bit older, now looking like he was in his thirties, and Asmodeus didn’t know why, but he was super interested and engaged with Hamish?

He slipped a little bit closer, took Hamish into bed, and to his surprise kept thinking about him afterward?

Middle Age

Hamish settled in NY, began working with a carpenter in the city and then began working in furniture making, so that when he makes his way back to the UK in the 1920s, he looks the age he does in the 21st century, that he looks like he’s in his 50s, opened up the shop in town, and then just. Stayed there.

Asmodeus comes to visit regularly.

Hamish buys and sells antiques, is generally quiet with himself and is often uncomfortable with a lot of people because he’s still frightened of bringing the demons out in public because they’re little cunts. They’re not actually cruel anymore, they’re just mischievous and sort of stupid, which makes it all difficult.

Velma comes in regularly enough, and she very much encourages Hamish to come out of his shell a bit – Ash does the same when he’s around, but isn’t actually hugely social himself, so isn’t the best at it, whereas Velma encourages Hamish to come to bars, restaurants, parks, etc. The Horde likes Velma.

When Ash comes in, he’ll normally sleep with Hamish in the same bed and give him a little taste of domesticity? They tend to settle in together, Ash will take him out for dinner and expensive wine, will often take him dancing somewhere quiet, and then they’ll spend a few days together, reading, etc.

Asmodeus isn’t at all big on botanical gardens, libraries, or museums, but will specifically go out of his way to bring Hamish to places like that.