#happy fourth birthday cyberpunk

[dalekinapaintedparadise]

Sometimes I'm having a good day, and then I remember that Johnny told V, "Thought of you gone so I could live, always scared me more," and I'm back to crying about them again.

[heavenboy09]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU

THE MOST LEGENDARY & ICONIC CANDIAN 🇨🇦 ACTOR & MUSICIAN 🎶 IN CINEMA 🎥 & ENTERTAINMENT OF THE WHOLE WORLD 🌎 IN HISTORY

Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 2, 1964, the son of Patricia (née Taylor), a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr. His mother is English, originating from Essex. His American father is from Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, and Portuguese descent. Reeves' paternal grandmother is of Hawaiian and Chinese descent. His mother was working in Beirut when she met his father, who abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old. Reeves last met his father on the Hawaiian island of Kauai when he was 13.

He is a Canadian actor and musician. He is the recipient of numerous accolades in a career on screen spanning four decades. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him as the fourth-greatest actor of the 21st century, and in 2022 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Reeves is known for his leading roles in action films, his amiable public image, and his philanthropic efforts.

Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, he made his acting debut in the Canadian television series Hangin' In (1984), before making his feature-film debut in Youngblood (1986). Reeves had his breakthrough role in the science-fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in the sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991). He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994). Following several box-office disappointments, Reeves's performance in the horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997) was well received. Greater stardom came with his role as Neo in The Matrix (1999); Reeves became the highest paid actor for a single production for reprising the role in its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003).

He played John Constantine in Constantine (2005) and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006), the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still and the crime thriller Street Kings (both 2008). He made his feature-film directorial debut with Man of Tai Chi (2013). Following another commercially down period, Reeves made a career comeback by playing the titular assassin in the action John Wick film series (2014–present). He voiced Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4 (2019) and Johnny Silverhand in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) as well as its expansion. He also reprised his roles of Ted in Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) and Neo in The Matrix: Resurrections (2021). Reeves reunited and toured with his band Dogstar in support of their first album in over two decades, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023).

In addition to his career as an actor and musician, Reeves is the co-writer and creator of the BRZRKR franchise, which started with the original comic book (2021–2023) and since expanded to include numerous spin-offs, including the BRZRKR spin-off The Book of Elsewhere with China Miéville. An avid motorcyclist, Reeves is the co-founder of the custom manufacturer ARCH Motorcycle, and is a co-founder of the production company Company Films with his associate Stephen Hamel.

PLEASE WISH THIS LEGENDARY ICONIC CANADIAN ACTOR & MUSICIAN 🇨🇦🎶

IN ENTERTAINMENT IN ALL OF CINEMA 🎥

YOU KNOW HIM

YOU LOVE HIS MOVIES 🎥 YOU GREW TO ALL OF HIS GREATEST MOVIES 🎥

& THE LADIES CANT HELP BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.

THE ONE

& ONLY

MR. KEANU CHARLES REEVES 👨🏻 AKA NEO , THE ONE OF WARNER BROS PICTURES, THE MATRIX 🟢 & LIONSGATE PICTURES, JOHN WICK👨🏻 & PARAMOUNT PICTURES , SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG ⚫🦔 OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 🔵🦔

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR. REEVES & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME #KeanuReeves #BillandTed #Speed #TheMatrixTrilogy #JohnWick #SonicTheHedgeHog #Ted #Neo #JohnWick #ShadowTheHedghog

[foofygoldfish]

tagged by @nightwingshero

rules: answer all thirty questions and tag as many people, as you can. let’s get to know each other a little better!

Name/Nickname: mariah/riah!

Gender: female

Star Sign: virgo!

Height: 5'4

Time: just about 8pm

Favourite Bands: i don't have a specific one? but i've seen fall out boy in concert three(?) times and i'm seeing them a fourth(? fifth???) time when we're able to have concerts again so uh... they probably count lmao

Birthday: 9/9!

Favorite solo artists: all that's running through my head is "it's britney bitch" (i don't have a favorite, really, but she's so memorable)

Song stuck in my head right now: "chippin in" 😔 i'm watching cyberpunk lore vids lol

Last movie: mad max fury road!

Last show: i'm re-watching all of new who!

When did I create this blog?: november 22nd, 2010 😔😔😔😔

What I post: whatever makes my brain go :D (shitposts, cute animals, whatever video game/show i'm currently hyperfocusing on...)

Other blogs: i have a writing blog that's just a dumping ground for plots and used to have a simblr, but that was ages ago

Why I chose my URL: ... it was my name on gaia

Do I get asks?: sometimes! it always makes me happy when i see them ☺

Last thing I googled: a news station that was covering the tornadoes down south, i was worried about my cousin

I follow: 150ish?

Followers: 871

Average hours of sleep: 6 to 9

Lucky number: 9!

Instruments: nope

What I'm wearing: a sweatshirt from the fiber fest my mom is a vendor at and sweatpants from target that are the comfiest thing ever

Dream trip: at this point of the 2020s, my dream trip is anywhere that isn't in my town lskdjf. i really want to go back to new zealand someday, though, and my mom and i have a theoretical england trip planned

Favorite food: real pizza. not allergy-friendly pizza...

Nationality: american, unfortunately

Favorite song: i don't really have one?

Last book read: shadow and bone!

Top three fictional universes I want to be a part of: percy jackson, star trek, and.... y'know i used to say harry potter buT. does american girl count? can i say american girl?

Favorite color: pink/purple! though i tend to wear more blue than anything else

[literarypilgrim]

Winter Studying Challenge 1st - 16th December

I’m late to the game but whatever. Kept seeing this in studyblr and thought it might be fun so, here we go.

1st December - Do you like winter?

I like all four seasons for different reasons, and while I do like winter, I also hate being cold so I like winter on the days when it’s not freezing. It’s really pretty though so...

2nd December - What is your favourite thing about winter?

My birthday is in winter, and so’s Christmas of course, although it doesn’t really excite me anymore because it’s changed so much from when I was a kid.

So I guess my favourite thing about winter now would be... that winter smell in the late evening and really early morning? When the air isn’t contaminated by the movement of people yet, and there’s that kind of really light fog that isn’t quite fog, and the trees are stark but still beautiful... I guess the short answer would be nature.

3rd December - What is your least favourite thing about winter?

THE COLD!

4th December - What is an unpopular opinion that you have about winter?

Um... That constantly playing Christmas music in stores is really annoying? 

5th December - Are you usually busy during winter?

Well, usually I would have exams, but it’s my fourth year and I’m doing a dissertation which is both semesters instead of just one, so I don’t have an exam this year so I’m not as busy as I would usually be. Of course, that’ll all change when I’ve finished my degree... Personally I think we should hibernate during winter.

6th December - Do you get a break from school/uni/work during winter?

Yeah, I think we break up this Friday, so the 18th? I don’t really like breaks from Uni because I lose my momentum and struggle to get it back when uni starts up again. I mean, a couple of days is okay, but usually I find them way to long.

7th December - How do you stay motivated during winter?

Hahaha. Bold of you to assume I stay motivated. Seriously though, I really struggle with motivation all the time for various reasons. Usually I just try and remind myself why I’m doing what I’m doing, why it’s important to me, and try to make it as fun and engaging as I can. It doesn’t always work, but sometimes it does.

8th December - When should people start preparing for, decorating and celebrating Christmas?

December first. I always get annoyed that Christmas stuff comes out so early, because a lot of the time, people don’t even let us fully enjoy Halloween, and that’s my favourite holiday, so...

9th December - What do you usually do during the holidays?

I usually eat crap and veg in front of movies and TV shows. This year I will be working on my dissertation because I can’t afford not to.

10th December - What is a cherished family tradition from your childhood?

Hmm... Well, when I was a kid, and ‘cause I have three older sisters, it used to be that on Christmas morning we would line up on the stairs to wait for mum and dad to have their coffee and take us into the living room. To make it fair we’d take it in turns to be at the front of the line. 

11th December - What is a favourite family Christmas/holiday memory that has stuck with you through the years? Why?

I don’t really have a specific one. I always loved Christmas as a kid because no matter what shit went on in the year, Christmas was ‘happy time’. Even if we got into arguments or whatever, they didn’t last long because we weren’t allowed to be shitty on Christmas. I suppose my favourite memory though is my 14th Christmas. My mum bought me a keyboard. That year it was my turn to be at the back of the line, so I was the last one into the living room, and my mum was sat in her chair specifically waiting to see my reaction - she says that’s still her favourite because of the way my face lit up when I realised she’d bought me a keyboard.

12th December - Does your family have any odd traditions during the holidays?

Not really. We just tend to use it as a period of chilling and letting the stresses of the year fall away. 

13th December - When do you buy your Christmas presents?

I’m not always in the position to buy Christmas presents so I don’t have a set time or anything. Plus, now that we’re all adults and two of my sisters have had several kids (I have eight nieces and nephews now I think, and one of my sister has more kids from her partner’s previous relationship so there are a lot of kids), we don’t really do the present thing. I have done presents this year thought, because I could. I mostly got them after the 10th because I had my dad’s present on pre-order (Cyberpunk on xbox), I haven’t wrapped the rest yet though.

14th December - Share a memorable gift-opening moment from your childhood.

I don’t really have one. Well, I guess - when we were really little, my nan used to buy us many little things and put them on her Christmas tree, so one of us would stand at the tree and pick one out, read out whose it was and hand it to them, we’d watch them open it, then they’d pick the next, and so on. That was always fun.

15th December - What is the coolest gift you ever gave someone?

I’m really not very good at presents. I prefer people telling me what they want, and a lot of the time I just get it when they want it rather than doing specific holidays and stuff. I guess one of my favourites though was when I was in Bath and I found a pewter bunny ornament, and I bought it for my sister because I knew she’d love it, and because it was just a totally out of the blue gift, it was just really great and she loved it.

16th December - What is your favourite Christmas movie?

Muppet’s Christmas Carol.

[tachyonpub]

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, ten annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] andSeventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), and The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (2018), 

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

[tachyonpub]

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as ...& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, nine annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year. Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

Art by Dave McKean

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror And the Supernatural [2008] , Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story