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lcveruind · 2 years ago

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[ ana de armas | cisfemale | she/her | thirty ] —— welcome to grimrose, CAMILIA PÉREZ. it’s cool that you’re here, you know. haven’t you heard of the history of this place… anyway, how’s being a NEWCOMER who has been in town for ONE YEAR, especially since you spend most of your days as an EDITOR & JOURNALIST AT GRIMROSE POST? also, not that it’s a bad thing, of course, but i’ve heard people say you can be a little REPRESSED more than you are ALLOCENTRIC but that’s just coming from people who are bored here, i promise. to me, you remind me of BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY by THE VERVE and a worn out beanie, ink stained fingernails with coffee stained sleeves, dark circles and a heavy heart, a corner full of stacked journals, nostalgia everytime she sees her now daughter, hope to see you around, MILA.

full name: camilia pérez

age: thirty

dob: april 2nd

place of birth: roswell, new mexico

current location: grimrose, new hampshire

gender: cis-female

sexuality: bisexual

pronouns: she/her

religion: it’s complicated

occupation: editor journalist at grimrose post

finances: comfortable

spoken languages: english can read spanish

pinterest & connections

& the story so far

Raised by a single-father because her mother left them when she was only 5. Camilia’s father was always the hardest worker in the room and instilled the sense that hard work means everything into young camilia’s brain.

She learned rather quickly how to take care of herself due to the long hours her father worked, and spent most of her time studying or her nose in books to get her out of her town. Her father constantly telling her she needed to do better than what he did.

Got a full ride scholarship to a college in chicago and milia had her bags packed and was out of new mexico faster than you could blink.

In college she finally felt like she was on the right track to being who she was meant to be especially when she met winnie. The girl was quite literally camilia’s better half and without her mila had no idea where she’d be. Winnie got her out of her head and brought her into the world, taught her to look at life through ‘the glass is half-full’ glasses.

Through winnie mila met danny and jesse and while winnie & danny’s attempts at trying to match the latter and her up didn’t work they were like a family and that was enough for mila besides relationships definitely scared the girl.

After graduating, Mila immediately took a job in Chicago as an investigative journalist. She stayed for a year before moving toNew York to work at New York Times. Her life was solely her work until winnie called to tell her she was expecting. Over the moon for her friends she couldn’t have been happier. promising that she’d always be there for her friend's child, and after meeting little iris camilia knew she hadn’t lied.

TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH Life was going great and then the dreaded call came that her best friends had passed. Her whole world changed overnight. Resigning from the times and packing her bags to move to grimrose, new hampshire to be a parent. Camilia picked up a job at the local newspaper and while it wasn’t as fancy as her old job it’s slow and steady which is maybe what she needs.

other facts !

super career motivated, but is trying really hard to take a step back and not let it consume her world.

She comes off stoic but wears her heart on her sleeve.

definitely a big pessimist at heart even if she’s currently a ‘glass half-full’ person.

Hasn’t actually begun to grieve her friend's death & is throwing all of her focus into iris so she is definitely overdo for a big cry.

Was obsessed with ufo’s and aliens when she was younger because of where she grew up.

will be your biggest cheerleader if you need one.

Has always dreamed of being an author & has a novel in the works, but is terrified of actually publishing it.

the idea of having a family terrified her, but now that she's doing it she's still mortified that she will screw it all up.

camilia volunteers at the animal shelter to get her daily dose of serotonin and is very very tempted to adopt a kitten.

burns water, absolutely cannot cook to save her life so anytime she hosts she orders food beforehand. no one’s caught on to her act.

#grimrosehqs.intro #this is late & might be slightly incoherent so i apologize #tw;death mention #tw;death #intro

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boycalledric · 6 months ago

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"Mayor of Kingstown" Main Title from Elastic on Vimeo.

Post Production Design Studio: Elastic Creative Director: Lisa Bolan Designers: Tnaya Witmer, Huy Dang, Sky Bird, June Cho Lead Animators: Lucy Kim, Tnaya Witmer Animators: Laura Reedy, Trix Taylor, Zack Citro, Eugene Hyun Editor: Jessica Ledoux Technical Supervisor: Andrew Young Producer: Sheima Hassanlou Associate Producer: Mitchell Fraser Production Coordinator: Hannah Roswell Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield Executive Producer: Luke Colson Executive Producer / Head of Production: Kate Berry Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall

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docrotten · 1 year ago

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THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) – Episode 162 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“I’m sorry. I’d hoped to have prepared you somewhat beforehand. This is a mutant.” A Metaluna Mutant to be precise! Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they journey to Metaluna and back, survive an encounter with said mutant, and make it back to This Island Earth (1955).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 162 – This Island Earth (1955)

Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine

ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.

Director: Joseph M. Newman (as Joseph Newman)

Writers: Franklin Coen & George Callahan (as Edward G. O’Callaghan)(screenplay); Raymond F. Jones (story “The Alien Machine”)

Producer: William Alland

Music: Herman Stein (Universal staff composer) (uncredited), Henry Mancini (uncredited), Hans J. Salter (uncredited)

Cinematographer: Clifford Stine (director of photography)

Editor: Virgil W. Vogel (film editor) (as Virgil Vogel)

Costume Design: Rosemary Odell (gowns)

Makeup Department:

Hair stylist: Joan St. Oegger

Special Makeup: Bud Westmore, Jack Kevan, Chris Mueller, Millicent Patrick, Robert Hickman

Special Photography: David S. Horsley, Clifford Stine, Cleo E. Baker (uncredited)

Visual Effects: Roswell A. Hoffmann (optical printing) (as Roswell A. Hoffman), Frank Tipper (effects animator) (uncredited)

Matte Painting: Russell Lawson (uncredited)

Rotoscope Artist: Millie Winebrenner (head rotoscoper) & the roto-girls (uncredited)

Mutant Constructors: Robert Hickman (uncredited), Jack Kevan (uncredited), Chris Mueller (uncredited)

Mutant Design: Millicent Patrick

Movie Poster Art: Reynold Brown (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Jeff Morrow as Exeter

Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams

Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham

Lance Fuller as Brack

Russell Johnson as Dr. Steve Carlson

Douglas Spencer as The Monitor

Robert Nichols as Joe Wilson

Karl Ludwig Lindt as Dr. Adolph Engelborg (credited as Karl L. Lindt)

Charlotte Alpert as Metaluna Woman at Decompression Console (uncredited)

Orangey as Neutron the cat

Regis Parton as Mutant (uncredited)

Olan Soule as First Reporter (uncredited)

Richard Deacon as Pilot (uncredited)

Ah! The Metaluna Mutant! This beloved Universal Monster stands proudly alongside the classics such as Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and even the Creature from the Black Lagoon, while the film in which it is featured is often overlooked as being included as a Universal Monster movie. Regardless, it’s time for the Grue Crew to revisit this cherished 50s Sci-Fi landmark entry, This Island Earth (1955). In the film, Rex Reason and Faith Domergue unwillingly follow high-browed, white-hair-domed alien Jeff Morrow to his distant home planet where they finally, in the last few minutes, encounter the Metaluna Mutant face-to-face. Fun, sometimes goofy, always entertaining, the film delivers! During the episode, the Classic Era crew debunk a Hollywood myth about the film and uncover some key behind-the-scenes contributions from the film’s crew.

At the time of this writing, a stray copy of This Island Earth might be found streaming from Dailymotion or YouTube. The film is currently available on disc as a Blu-ray from Shout! Factory.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Jeff, is Isle of the Dead (1945), a Val Lewton RKO film with an Oscar-nominated director starring Boris Karloff! Beware the vorvolaka!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

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gra-sonas · 2 years ago

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Roswell, New Mexico's favorite doctor has had a hell of a season.

While Kyle Valenti continues to be an integral part of this final season, his portrayer, Michael Trevino, traded in his stethoscope for a director's chair as he got behind the camera to helm Roswell, New Mexico Season 4 Episode 9.

It's a twisty hour that takes viewers into a mindscape that looks much more like an episode of Gunsmoke than Roswell. We asked Michael about the hour and the differences between acting and directing. We also had to sneak in a Kybel question for all you shippers!

Michael is always a pleasure to speak with, and it's always a good time talking to him about Roswell. Enjoy!

What did you think when you got the script and were like, this is going to be my episode because it's unlike anything we've seen on Roswell?

The initial reaction was that I was so excited and grateful for how big the episode is and how they threw so much at me. And then I was terrified because I had no idea how I was going to shoot it.

So, a lot of prep went into it because there are just a lot of moving parts in this one. And I'm just grateful for the opportunity but was also just a bit nervous going in, until you do the prep and do the work and then you figure out like, "Oh, okay, this is how I'm going to tell your story."

You really got a lot there. There are emotional beats, romantic beats, action, and comedy. You really got a little bit of everything.

I did. I did. And I don't know if that was by design, but I'm very lucky that for this episode, they decided to make it a big one and that I was going to be the one to tell it. I'm happy about that.

Yeah, what was the experience of directing like, as opposed to acting?

To me, it's much harder. There were days you spend so much time in prep that you're already exhausted before you shoot one frame of day one. Every day it's a marathon, so many challenges and so many things can go wrong, but you just have to have a plan in place.

But I will say, honestly, when I prepped, and then we shot it, and then I was in the editing room and finally turned it in, it's just such a rewarding feeling, such a rewarding feeling. And I've never felt so fulfilled creatively ever, if I'm being honest because I love acting, but sometimes it can be a bit isolating.

And with this being behind the camera, you have to collaborate with each department head, every crew member, your cast, and it never stops.

Then you go into post-production, you're working with the editor, so it's much more collaborative, and it's that much harder, but that much more fulfilling once it's all said and done because you had your hand in every aspect to tell that story. So, I love it, and I hope I'm lucky enough to do it again.

And some of the things you were just describing, the collaboration and such, are those some of the things that appeal to you about directing?

It does, yeah. It does. I love challenges, but I do love collaborating with certain department heads because to me, everybody in this business, from the crew, everybody is a filmmaker in some way, shape, or form. They love the filmmaking process. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing for a living.

And everybody on this crew brings great ideas. They really do. So it doesn't matter who you're listening to, but if you just give people the opportunity to help out, to have a voice, people have great ideas, and they may have a great idea that'll save you some time on the day to tell the story.

So yeah, you have to lean on those around you, and that is just a great feeling because it is so difficult. When you can get through just a day and have everything go right, it's such a win, such a win.

Was there a particular scene that you liked shooting? And in that vein, is there a scene that you're most excited for the audience to see?

Most excited for the audience to see? I think it's our showdown. Our whole episode is leading up to this showdown with Clyde, who ends up being a bit bad in the episode and to see the stunts that we were doing and the little gags here and there, and just the insanity that happens with Liz and in this landscape and how tortured she's being.

I think the stakes rise higher and higher, so I hope it's earned. I hope that the pace is right and that people buy into that mindscape. As long as it's being told and they buy into what's happening, they are going to go along for the ride, and I hope that happens. Otherwise, I didn't do my job.

Yeah, you did. You did for sure.

Thank you.

The showdown is such a cool moment. I had no idea what was going to happen, honestly.

Right, right, yeah.

So I have to ask about Kybel.

Yes, indeed.

I know that they've been separated for a bit now on screen. So how do you think Kyle feels about where they stand and where they go from here? And can you tease anything about Kybel for the rest of the season?

Well, I don't think Kyle's satisfied. I feel like he's more invested in the relationship, but in some way, they're both honestly sussing each other out a little bit. They're both playing it a little too cool.

I will say that in our world of Roswell, there's going to be so many outside circumstances that bring them together as much as these circumstances pull them apart, and so we'll see that over the course of the remainder of the season.

But I will say that they very much stay together towards the end of the season, the end of our series. And I'm happy about that.

Okay, that's great. Kyle is a huge fan favorite, and I always refer to him as the Roswell MVP because I think he really is the glue that holds everyone together and the story together.

It's true, it's true.

So yeah, I think so.

You're not lying. I hear no lies.

With Roswell ending soon, is there anything you'd like to tell the fans who've supported the show and your character?

Yes, I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you for watching.

Thank you for staying with these characters over these four seasons, supporting us, buying into the world that we were a part of or that we were creating, and seeing these characters that you maybe haven't seen on television before, or seen the families that they're coming from, the way they talk, the way they look.

Thank you for being a part of that. And we felt like...we're a CW show, and we were shooting out in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We feel like the little engine that could on that network, to be honest, or at least that's how I felt. And I love that we've just been going strong, no hiccups, no problems.

Even during COVID lockdowns, we never had to shut down. And I will say that we have a great cast. Everybody loved showing up to work, day in and day out, and were committed. And truthfully speaking, that can be rare, but we all genuinely love and support one another, and we were happy with the job that we were doing out there.

And if it could have gone on longer, I know we'd all be a part of it. So thank you for watching.

And piggybacking off that, is there anything you hope the audience takes away from Roswell long-term?

Long term? Well, when they wrote this season and when we ended it, we all figured we were getting one more season. So it ends in a certain way that, sure, this puts an ending to this chapter, but the way it ends, this could easily have gone on a few more seasons.

I think there are more worlds to explore that could be interesting for us to see play out. But I think that this was a reimagining of an original Roswell series years past. So those that love it, who knows? Maybe down the road, there'll be another version of this story to be told, but I'm thankful for everybody tuning into this one.

Yes, and the last question for me here. As you're near the end, can you describe the rest of the season in a few words or maybe even a sentence?

Ooh, tease the rest of the season. Let's see. Yeah, all the words that are coming to mind are very spoilery, but let's see, let's see, let's see. Hold on. Oh, okay. Oh, no, I'm trying to be clever here. I'm trying to be good. I want to give something click-worthy-

Yes, a sound byte.

My mind's racing, my mind's racing. Okay, hold on. It's coming to me a little bit in my head right now. Okay, I'm going to go with the last episodes of Roswell will give you our version of the Upside Down.

Ooh, okay.

How's that? How's that?

Honestly, I don't know what to feel about that.

Do we know what the Upside Down is?

Yes!

Okay, so we're talking Stranger Things, right? Stranger Things have things that could be bad, a bad place, but they go to a different world, a different dimension, a different place.

So what would that look like in Roswell with people maybe visiting a different place, a different version of something? I don't know. Maybe you'll watch, and then that'll make zero sense, and you'll be like, "Michael's way off. I don't know why the hell he said. It makes zero sense."

Or maybe it will make sense. I don't know. But that's what came to my mind right now, and I'm sticking with it.

No, I love it. I've been calling it The Underground, and I'm like, I want to call it the Upside Down.

Yeah! There you go, yeah.

#michael trevino #rnm cast interviews #rnm 4x09 #rnm spoilers #kybel

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midgemoment · 2 years ago

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READ ALL ABOUT IT

ADAMANDI BY MELLIOT (MEL HORNYAK AND ELLIOT VALENTINE LEE)

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dizzyinglydaisy · 9 months ago

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Ask me some about the Scapegoats AU for Adamandi!

Everyone here is disabled, and also Roswell, Adrian, and Preston get arcs too bc autism

+@maedaze @woofberry @mountain-dew-tickledpink

#adamandi #beatrix campbell #vincent lin #quincy martin #ambrose bassford #portia harper #head editor roswell #adrian farthington #preston Montgomery #The Scapegoats/breathe but your choking

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andrea-lyn · 3 years ago

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The Recs (Less Travelled)

I’m excited to bring you the first installment of my ‘roads less travelled’ recs! I will be doing another round of this, probably once the Ted Lasso fic tag hits about 25 pages, and then I’ll also grab a couple more fandoms to collect in there!

The Rules:

Each fandom/pairing was sorted on Archive of Our Own by completed works. Anything recced here was not in the first ten pages when sorted by kudos at the time of reccing. There may be some more well-known authors on this list, but the specific fics I’ve picked are ones that didn’t crack that top ten or just didn’t get much traction and I think deserve it, so hopefully I have also balanced it out with other under the radar (and still great!) works. As ever, I have a pinned post of my other recs (none have been duplicated from there), so you can also check those out! Under the cut you’ll find 10 recs in each fandom for:

Raven Cycle

Roswell New Mexico

The Old Guard

Inception

Star Trek (mainly Kirk/McCoy)

The Raven Cycle

savor all the little pieces by littlelionvanz

“Since when do you garden?”

Ronan snorted, “Since I grew up on a fucking farm, genius. Jesus who gave you permission to pursue higher education.”

the old grip of the familiar by littleseal

"There is a single black feather and a printed out picture of Gansey, Blue and Cheng standing in front of some fucking monument Ronan didn’t care enough to remember the name of. Gansey sent it to Ronan’s phone some time ago, but it sat in his messages until Adam picked it up and grinned at it so hard that, one afternoon later, Ronan cursed and kicked and glared his old printer back to life in order to print it out.

Fuck, he thinks, I’m in love with a hoarder."

Adam collects things. Ronan is in love with him.

No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin by gansey_is_our_king

Ronan Lynch has wanted to kiss Adam Parrish for a long time.

(alternately titled: four times that Ronan could have kissed Adam)

Cheers to Another Seven Years! by skyermirth

Adam left Henrietta for Harvard and never returned. Now, seven years has passed, and an unexpected work assignment has brought him back to a place and people he hardly recognizes.

Row, row, row your boat by emmerrr

“What. Why are you smiling at me,” he says suspiciously.

Adam shrugs. “You’re cute.”

“I’m not cute, I’m terrifying.”

“Terrifyingly cute,” Adam says.

and now the world is ours to take / and every single move is ours to make by thatlittleblackcat

"Adam was the scientist, Ronan was the data, and Orphan Girl was the key that explained the strange outliers that Ronan presented, his previously unexplainable actions."

Adam sorts out his feelings, Ronan helps him, Gansey is the number one dad friend, Blue is the number one mom friend and Henry tries to make Ronan smile. Otherwise known as the story of how Orphan Girl became Opal.

All These Things You Make Me Feel by SilverOpals394

It was late. Adam could feel the long day catching up to him as he left Boyd’s, all his energy exhausted. When he started his car, the tape deck whirred to life once more. He sighed and raised his hand to turn it off, but before he did a soft melody began to play.

AU in which the mixtape Ronan made for Adam only plays the murder squash song until Adam realizes he's in love with Ronan, too.

Ways to Communicate by Jalules

Blue Sargent reflects on an early memory (and gets busy with her boyfriends.)

(The two things are related, trust me.)

Hold Me Closer, I'm Safe in Your Arms by actuallyronanlynch

“You wanna tell me why I had to hear from Henry Cheng that my boyfriend was at the hospital?” Adam hissed, though his voice wasn’t as acidic as it could’ve been. Ronan took small victories where he could.

“You don’t have a cellphone,” Ronan pointed out flatly. “It’s not like I could’ve gotten a hold of you.”

arts and crafts and the inevitability of death by sunshineinthestorm

Adam comes to the public library in search of a study spot, not a boyfriend.

But it must be his lucky day—because he ends up with a bit of both.

Roswell New Mexico

a conversation between insignificant others by Bellakitse

“Hey…have you noticed that our boyfriends are madly in love with each other?"

“You noticed that too, huh,” she answers dryly, letting out a huff of reluctant amusement.

***

Forrest and Maria share a drink and a conversation and start a friendship.

Own Personal Hell by BeStillMySlashyHeart

Now that Isobel's getting the hang of her telekinesis, Michael decides to test out his telepathic abilities. It backfires. Badly. Now Michael's trapped inside his own mind and only one person can break him out.

Drop the Hammer by brightloveee

Max makes a new friend at the shooting range, who turns out to be even more bad-ass than he expected.

(Takes place mid-S1)

Boys Like You by forgadgetsandgizmos

Curly, dirty blond hair (the mere description ‘curly’ felt like an injustice) twisted in every direction off his head, a sharp contrast with the scruff darkening his strong jawline and scowl-ridden face.

Alex made a mental note to compliment Maria on her excellent taste in men.

—

Or, Alex has coffee with Maria's one-night stand, a man who he definitely does not have a crush on.

let's exchange the experience by lostin_space

Michael decides they need to quarantine.

Michael floods Alex with love and care over and over and over.

This Is Hardcore by Anonymous

Michael makes a proposal. Alex accepts. Michael wonders what the hell he’s gotten himself into.

i don't know what to think (but i think of supernovas) by Milzilla

michael discovers that the console can talk. then, he discovers it can do far more than that.

iridescence on skin by Lire_Casander

In a world where (almost) everyone has a tattoo on their right wrist with one set of coordinates that point to the place where their soulmate is born, Alex thought he wouldn't be any different. He couldn't be more mistaken.

He has two.

The Real Thing by elliebird

Max checks on Michael the morning after Michael saves Max’s ass from Wyatt Long and his dumbass buddies. He sees more than he’s supposed to.

Written for a Tumblr anon who one of their friends walking in on them or anyone of them finding out about Michael and Alex in an interesting way

Sundering by romancandles

“You know it was just an Air Force balloon, right?” says Alex.

Michael smirks. “That’s what they want you to think,” he says, with a wink.

The Old Guard

Peer Reviewed by ishandahalf

[From:] Journal of Medieval Studies ([email protected])

[Subject:] Ad-hoc note from the editor

I have noticed an uncommon level of animosity in your responses to your reviewers (or rather, one reviewer in particular). I am writing to ask if you would please do your best to keep your interactions civil. In fairness, I have also sent a similar request to the reviewer you seem to have this friction with. I trust you will both try and remain more professional in the future.

Again, thank you for submitting your work to this journal.

Sincerely,

James Copley, PhD

Editor-in-Chief

Journal of Medieval Studies

An (accidental) academic epistolary romance as (inadvertently) documented via a (theoretically) rigorously blinded peer review process.[citation needed]

third for a word and the song keeps going Macremae

It was honestly shaping up to be a pretty uneventful year before the Vatican got on Nicky’s bad side.

Or: three times in 2008 that the team genuinely thought about killing Nicky if only to get him to shut up about the changes to the Catholic English Mass and his unrelenting opinions on them, and one time Nile did.

Apex Predators In Island Ecosystems (Freeman et al., in press) by Sixthlight

Palaeobotany PhD student Nile Freeman and her supervisor Joe al-Kaysani are invited to billionaire Stephen Merrick’s new project – a theme park full of cloned dinosaurs. What could possibly go wrong?

This Rough Magic by Marivan

When Joe came to Scotland to study the sea, he did not expect to also encounter a beautiful man claiming that A. he’s a selkie and B. they’re married because Joe picked up his scarf.

It sounds like a fairy tale and that’s a problem. Because Joe’s a scientist. And selkies don’t exist.

Wars for the broken by Yuliares

Five years into his exile, Booker is joined by a companion he never expected to meet. Together, they try to work on healing.

Sometimes they go down to the sewers just so she can scream and scream. “I like to hear it echo,” she explains. “Underwater, you can’t hear anything. Here, at least I can be heard.”

“I don’t feel like a warrior anymore,” she tells him, throwing bread crumbs at pigeons. “I feel broken.”

“You’re still a warrior,” he says roughly. “This is still fighting.”

a good (eighth) impression by deanniker

Over the next few months, Joe runs into Nicky every so often at the farmer’s market. Some weekends Nicky doesn’t make it, because of his work schedule - Joe doesn’t understand it because he doesn’t ask, though he does start to recognize when one of those missing weekends is coming up because Nicky will stock up on things with longer shelf-life. When they do run into each other, they make small talk and move through the stalls together.

Joe doesn’t mention it to Lykon when he stops by, because it is kind of weird, that Lykon’s ex-boyfriend texts Joe things like - If you’re here, the apples look particularly good this week and thank you for that recipe, I did not know what I was going to do with that much couscous

Or,

Joe wouldn't usually consider starting anything with his best friend's ex, but as long as they keep it casual, it shouldn't be weird... right?

get back to where you once belonged by tenderjock

Nile takes a sip of her cappuccino and closes her eyes.

(Booker and Nile get that coffee. Life happens, along the way.)

a house; a home by mehm

“Is this a kidnapping?” Joe asks as Nicky checks both their seat belts. “Like, I don’t mind. It’s just not quite what I expected for my birthday.”

In which Joe gets a birthday surprise, because that’s the stuff you have time for when you and the love of your life become mortal at the same time.

the ties that bind by damaskrose

“There’s a story I heard many times,” Andy begins, “in the Mediterranean. Threads of fate and three sisters. One to spin, one to measure, and one to cut.”

Clutter And Croutons by flawedamythyst

Joe and Nicky have an argument, and then Nicky talks to Nile about what it really means to be in a relationship for 900 years.

Inception

My Big Fat Slightly Annoying Wedding by jibrailis

Arthur and Eames elope for ~tax reasons. Certain people in their lives are not happy at the lack of a wedding.

Remember Sydney by pathera

When Eames shambles into the safe house outside of London, he finds a red light blinking on the phone.

For the inception_kink prompt:

Arthur is on a plane which is about to crash. No way anyone is going to survive. Instead of panicking he calmly calls the team's office and gets the answering machine. He hangs up before the plane crashes.

Give me Arthur's last message to the team.

(TW: Character Death / Angst)

Of Such Deceitfulness and Suavity by delires

In which emotions manifest themselves in unusual ways.

YO, K2tog (it's like a code) by lazulisong

“Oh my God,” moans Arthur. “I’ve paid less for Somnacin. Good Somnacin.” A horrible thought strikes him. “How much is the yarn --”

“I want you to have an unguarded reaction,” Eames tells him, and pulls him up from the floor.

(They run an extraction on a knitter.)

hit the ground running by orphan_account

"I travelled halfway around the world for you. I dealt with the French for you."

Valley by wldnst

It's an old story: a knight, a prince, a kingdom in peril.

If This Is Rain Let It Fall On Me and Drown Me by Brangwen

We used to be so brave, Eames thought. Of the two of them, Arthur had always been the more fearless.

a gentle familiarity by jollypuppet

Two weeks later, Eames is on his doorstep with bad Italian takeout and a grin, and Arthur tells him he can sleep on the couch.

Your Crisis Cannot Be Completed As Dialed by sevenimpossiblethings

Arthur doesn't do snow, Ariadne is determined to be as Midwestern as possible, and blizzards make cell phone service unreliable.

Let’s Say I Do (I Do) by xsilverdreamsx

There were, perhaps some things worse that this, Arthur thinks, as he glares at the letter in his hand with his name printed clearly in bold ink, indicating his presence in two weeks for his esteemed marriage to one William H. Eames, III, at St. Catherine's Church in London, England.

Star Trek (predominantly Kirk/McCoy)

Show the World That Something Good Can Work by knune

Leonard McCoy is a doctor, not a personal assistant, and maybe that's why he can't stand working for Jim Kirk.

It's in the little things by winterover

Bones is bemused by a persistent secret admirer.

"Wedding" Away with It by pendrogon

One morning, Bones wakes up and he's single. By the same afternoon, he's married to Jim Kirk for Arbitrary Fic Reasons(TM).

How Long Will You Stay (For Your Whole Life) by withthepilot

Jim Kirk, deputy director of the Enterprise parks and recreation department, sees all of his hard work fall to pieces when budget specialist Leonard McCoy arrives from the state capital to cut Jim's budget and threaten the livelihoods of his colleagues. But thanks to a major parks project, Leonard finds a place in the department, as well as in Jim's life—and when all is said and done, Jim doesn't want him to leave.

All-Time Favorite by mardia

What to do when your best friend suddenly starts making new friends.

Joy Ride by Cards_Slash

While running for their lives from an alien species Kirk had accidentally enraged, they come across a car. And well, if you were to come across a car while being chased by aliens that wanted you dead, and you possessed some lingering knowledge of how to drive a car similar to said car, you would have decided to drive it toward the nearest cliff too.

Also a gunfight.

Syncytia by epistolic

He’d signed up for Starfleet on an impulse, but Starfleet meant James Tiberius Kirk: the first – and second, and third, and fourth – big mistake of Leonard McCoy’s life.

Renovation by canistakahari

Jim has a whammy put on him by an alien death ray and he suddenly craves domesticity. He's crazy with longing to shop at space!Ikea and get potted bamboo and he starts looking into adopting AND HE HATES HIMSELF AND CANNOT CONTROL THE SHIT. Luckily, McCoy is drunk all the time and plays house.

17:08 by butterflycell

She'd watched the news holos with a sick feeling, searching for information that was completely obvious in its absence. Amidst the reports of the the Enterprise's miraculous recovery and the damages sustained, there had been next to nothing about the crew or her captain. Jim had been mentioned only in passing, his name shied away from as his first officer limited interaction to the bare essentials.

The Honey of Hybla by shrift

"Bones, prepare to be my date."

#recs #fic recs #recs project #star trek recs #inception recs #the raven cycle recs #the old guard recs #roswell new mexico recs

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zerogate · 3 years ago

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The strangest irony of the Roswell affair is that the US military’s clumsy response did much to encourage the perception, in the minds of a substantial portion of the American public, that there was indeed some kind of cover-up. This is because the US Air Force has given four different explanations for what supposedly happened at Roswell in 1947. Officials definitely lied and covered up; the big question is, why?

What we do know is that Roswell ranch foreman Mac Brazel took army intelligence officers Major Jesse Marcel and his colleague Captain Sheridan Cavitt out to the crash site and Marcel came back clearly convinced that a flying disc of extra-terrestrial origin had crashed on the ranch. Marcel described a massive field of debris 1200 metres long and 60 to 90 metres wide. There was allegedly a gouge in the field that extended up to 150 metres long, which looked as if ‘something had touched down and skipped along’. Marcel later showed his family some of the strange debris, saying it was wreckage from a ‘flying saucer’. This included foil metal sheets that were as light as a feather yet incredibly strong and impervious to tearing. He also described light metal beams on which there was strange hieroglyphic writing.

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Jesse Marcel did not speak up until 1978, but for eight years from 1978 until he died in 1986, he claimed he had been ordered to collude in a cover-up and dramatically alleged in multiple interviews that the real debris he brought with him that day from Roswell was substituted by General Ramey with wreckage from an old weather balloon, and that he actually believed what crashed at Roswell was extra-terrestrial.

Marcel, who left the Air Force Reserves as a decorated lieutenant colonel in 1958, said he was forced to pose for photographs with pieces of a weather balloon to debunk the flying disc crash story. In retirement, Marcel told the ‘real’ story to nuclear physicist and self-described flying saucer researcher Stanton Friedman.

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There are an enormous number of unanswered questions behind the official response to Roswell that do raise suspicion. As the US Congress’s General Accounting Office discovered during its 1995 review of the incident’s paperwork, not a single document from the Roswell Army Airfield in the crash period survives; every bit of paper relating to this 1947 incident was destroyed with no apparent authorisation. Multiple alleged first-hand witnesses also suggest there was something very unusual about the debris recovered, including supposedly indestructible metal of an apparently highly advanced technology, clearly not just spy balloon wreckage. Colonel Blanchard even confided to his friend, the editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch newspaper, that, ‘The stuff I saw, I’ve never seen anyplace else in my life.’

There is also the extraordinary deathbed affidavit of former US Army public information officer Lieutenant Walter Haut, who testified in 2002 that he was taken out to a hangar by Colonel Blanchard to view recovered child-sized bodies with abnormally large heads, lying under a tarpaulin at the base. In a statement released after his death, he alleged that Blanchard allowed him to see an apparent alien craft in a hangar ‘approx. 12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high and more of an egg shape. Lighting was poor, but its surface did appear metallic’. Haut said, ‘I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space.’ Haut also alleged Blanchard’s press release was a ruse to divert public attention from the main recovery operation of the craft from a different site.

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As the Roswell story unfolded, a new breed of aggressive sceptics also surfaced, questioning the excessive credulity of those all too willing to believe in elaborate alien cover-up conspiracies. But suspicions linger about who was driving the agendas of one or two of the more vociferous sceptics. It was only revealed after his death that Harvard astronomer and self-described ‘UFO sceptic’ Donald Menzel had a clandestine association with the US National Security Agency, CIA and Navy (holding a top-secret-ultra clearance). It was a secret relationship he never disclosed, even to his university. Researcher Stanton Friedman has accused Menzel of being a deep-cover disinformation agent tasked to shut down UAP stories.

-- Ross Coulthart, In Plain Sight

#quotes

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prestonmonterey · 10 months ago

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ok gang

so if adamandi wins

in my silly poll for a new rp character

theyre only minor characters bc i said so...

also bc i wanna let other people get main characters (plz yall im begging you)

uhh

ill look for their full name if they get picked i guess

except for sophie

she doesnt have one

yk what actually dont pick her i dont like her >:(

uhh

pick lucia

she seems fun

(definitely not me rigging my own polls)

(knowing yall i bet ur gonna pick sophie just to spite me) >:(

#marble musings

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bisexualalienss · 3 years ago

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I have a playlist for the malex handprint in my head at all times roswell nm editors please contact me <3

#to build a home #holding on and letting go #saturn #we might be dead by tomorrow

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greensparty · 4 years ago

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Talking with What Drives Us crew

In addition to Dave Grohl being known as one of the nicest guys in rock and one of the most hard-working (this year alone has seen the release of a new Foo Fighters album, a memoir book later in the year, a documentary film and a documentary mini-series), he is also slowly becoming a prolific filmmaker too. Beginning with Foo Fighters’ music video for “Monkey Wrench” in 1997, Grohl has directed several music videos for his band and he even directed Soundgarden’s video for “By Crooked Steps” too. Over the last decade, Grohl has made the leap to documentary director as well. 2013′s Sound City profiled the LA recording studio and went deeper to look at the human element in music and recording technology. I named the doc my #1 Doc of 2013 and my #6 of the 2010s. He followed that doc up in 2014 the HBO documentary series Foo Fighters Sonic Highways which showed the band recording a different song in 8 different cities as they explore the music and culture of each city. This past week, Grohl’s newest feature-length doc What Drives Us was released on Amazon’s The Coda Collection. The doc looks at the drive and ambition of musicians to get into a van and follow their rock and roll dreams. Grohl has a tremendous list of musician pals he interviewed including Ringo Starr, Steven Tyler, Brian Johnson, St. Vincent, Flea, Lars Ulrich, Slash, Duff McKagan, and too many more to name here.

Through Grohl’s Roswell Films (a subsidiary of Roswell Records) he has worked with several key collaborators on his documentaries. I was lucky enough to speak with his producers James A. Rota and John Ramsay as well as editor Dean Gonzalez via zoom about this terrific new doc. It was super fascinating to learn about Grohl’s creative process.

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Me: How exactly did this project come about and start?

James Rota: As always it begins with a very excited text from Dave [Grohl]. For example, when we made Sound City, that was really the first one, and as the story goes I was with him when we were moving the console out of the actual Sound City. We got this printout from the owner of Sound City of all the records that had been made there. It was about an inch thick document. And as [John] Ramsay can attest, you see the wheels turning in Dave’s head and then he goes “we should interview as many people on this list who recorded there and make some YouTube clips”. And I said “yeah that sounds cool, that’d be great. Go and interview Tom Petty, that’s awesome”. So we were walking around the parking lot and he says “we should make a movie of this”. I said to him “You don’t want to make a movie”. Knowing the commitment that had to be done, and he’s already a pretty committed guy. That guy doesn’t take no for an answer, so I was standing there wracking my brain, so I said “You’re serious about making a movie? We need to call my friend John Ramsay that I think you’ve met before.” John and I met when I was in 10th grade and he was in 9th grade back in New Jersey. I’ll put it this way, we’ve been putting up with each other for that long. John and I love music, we always have. And we just got really lucky that Dave wanted to make all this awesome stuff and put it out into the world. That’s how it happened.

John Ramsay: Yeah, specifically for this project: Dave owned this van, it was the original Foo Fighters tour van. They did their first tour in it 26 years ago. Then after they graduated to bigger touring vehicles, he sold the van to a mutual friend of all of ours, Brian Brown. Then Brian toured around the country in that van and then his brother was using the van for his construction business. Then all of a sudden the 25th anniversary of the Foo Fighters was coming around and Dave started talking about wanting to get that original van and re-do the original tour. The idea just kind of evolved over the last 5 years. So he bought the van back from our friend Brian Brown. Then he was like “I got my original tour van back”. Then the idea was they were going to bring the van all across the country and into the shows. Then, of course that whole tour got blown up. But we were in the midst of making this film to coincide with the tour and the release of the new record. So when the pandemic blew up the whole tour, we were like “well we still have this great movie”, so we dug in extra deep at that point and tortured poor Dean [Gonzalez] many more months than he was expecting. But it all kinda stemmed from the idea that Dave wanted to pay tribute to this vehicle. He’s talked about how a big part of why they are still a band is because they started out in this van and had those experiences together.

Rota and Ramsay on the set of Sonic Highways

Me: At this point you’ve done enough projects with Roswell Films and Dave Grohl, so did this documentary feel really organic and natural jumping right into it?

John: Yeah, for sure. Like Jim was saying before, Dave’s process is, he mainly communicates through text messages. So he’ll just be on a roll one day and boom, boom, boom, boom. Text after text after text, he’ll be like “I got this cool idea, I want to do this, do that”. His rolodex is pretty impressive, so he’ll just say “oh, I’m going to be interviewing Ringo Starr for this thing in Rolling Stone next week. Get a camera crew together and let’s interview him about touring with The Beatles in the early days.” And that was our first interview. And from there it was just reaching out and he knows everybody and everybody knows him. And the calls them up and just says “Hey, I want to talk to you about when you were a baby band and just getting started. Let’s get together and talk”. And we’re off to the races. We’re always racing to keep up with his ideas.

Grohl is cruising in the van in What Drives Us

Me: The topic of this one was a little broader than Sound City, which was focused on the recording studio, or Sonic Highways, which was about the band recording in various cities. The topic of this one could’ve gone in any number of directions. Tell me about the structure.

Jim: I would say really fast - when we were doing that Ringo interview and Ringo told us that The Beatles fart in the van, that was the moment I knew we were making the right movie. What I mean by that is that - the great thing about working with Dave is that its rare that you have a peer interviewing a peer. In other words, if Jim Rota and John Ramsay sat down with Ringo Starr, it’s a very different conversation than if Dave Grohl sits down with him, for obvious reasons. But that brings a lot of the passion and the vibe to a lot of these projects.

John: I do feel like a lot of walls get taken down with these big talent, just because they’re speaking to a peer.

Jim: I think Dean can speak to that the best because he sifted through all the talking.

Dean Gonzalez: Yeah, I mean all of the conversations were so great. I think the first week, he brought [AC/DC’s] Brian Johnson into the office and they were doing the interview. That alone is mind-blowing. And I was very upset because I came in the day after he had interviewed Dave Lombardo [of Slayer]. But yeah, I feel like everyone across the board connected with his inquiries about being in a band. Everyone loves that they come from that world. Everyone was so incredible and so gracious with their time. Everything that they said was so heartfelt. Its a part of their history that not everyone might know and that’s what Dave really wanted to show.

Jim: My favorite interview of all of them was the Steven Tyler interview, because it was like following a ribbon in the sky. You had to pay attention to know what the fuck he was talking about. Listening to that guy’s brain, I could do that for like 100 hours. Then he sang “Back in the Saddle” in Steven Tyler voice in the van. He was doing an interview voice and answering questions and then suddenly his voice changed and he sang “Back in the Saddle”.

Dave has lived a pretty substantial life. And every time that we get in the room with someone like The Edge or Brian Johnson, they are legendary artists and Dave’s vibe is that he is equally shocked that we are getting to do this as we are.

Dean: And even after every interview, instead of just ending “hey thank you for your time” even after we stopped rolling, he’d spend an extra 20 minutes just talking to them. About anything - their kids, family. He would continue because they are friends. I think that’s what really comes across is that its a common connection that they share.

Me: One of the things I really liked was that there was a a real variety to the interview subjects. It wasn’t just U.S. bands from the 90s, it was artists of all different locations and time periods. Was there anyone who he wanted to get and for one reason or another couldn’t get them to be interviewed for this documentary?

John: I’m trying to think if there was anyone we chased and didn’t get? I mean its such a treat working with Dave because he has such access to everybody. [Pause] I think we might’ve gotten to everybody we wanted to.

Jim: At this point, not to sound like an asshole, but if you’re an artist and you’ve seen Sound City and Sonic Highways, you’re probably thinking “that seems like some quality shit, so I’ll do the interview.” Dave has a reputation for setting up an environment where people can come in and talk and feel comfortable. Like John said, that’s the magic of working with Dave. You know, when Tom Petty doesn’t call you back for Sound City, Dave sends an email. Again, they’re all peers.

editor Dean Gonzalez

Me: Dean, I wanted to ask you because you were the editor on Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two (which I reviewed in 2017). Can you contrast the experience of editing What Drives Us, which wasn’t just about Foo Fighters but several musicians, to editing Pearl Jam’s concert doc about playing Wrigley Field?

Dean: Yeah, that was a completely different animal. It was 2 nights at Wrigley Field that Pearl Jam played. I never even met the band. I was at one of the shows. The band walked by me and Eddie [Vedder] kind of stared at me for a minute - he probably thought I was somebody - and then he went out onstage.

Jim: He probably thought you were Dave!

Dean: I think he did! [laughs] So it was completely different. We were asking the band what songs they wanted in the concert film. Basically Ed wrote back “whatever you want”. It was 2 nights, 3 hours, I think they did 64 songs. There was only a few duplications the next night. So I think we had a list of like 30. Me and [director] Danny Clinch just put together a list that was story vs. song of what we thought could work. That project was supposed to be 3 months. Actually kind of like this film! [laughs] 3 months turned into a year. Docs are always that way, but that was more of a concert film, and the reason it kept going longer is because the Chicago Cubs kept winning. No offense, but nobody expected the Cubs to keep winning. So once they did, we were like “Shit, we need to keep filming.” So we kept rolling out, Danny had to keep filming all of the World Series playoff events. And like I said, the band was gracious and just said “you guys pick whatever you want”. They gave Danny free reign. I think I actually cut 32 songs for that. But I think we only used something like 15.

So on this film [What Drives Us] I started with the interviews, whereas on that film I started with the concert. This one had a lot of archival stuff. With Pearl Jam it had some archival stuff, like Ed walking around Wrigley Field. But you know, it was 2 totally different things. I was actually editing out of Dave’s actual office. He converted his office so that I could edit out of, because he was working on another project From Cradle to Stage. And he was also finished the new record [Medicine at Midnight]. So he’d be working on the album, take a break and stop in on the guys working on From Cradle to Stage, then stop in and talk to me. As he is in the interviews with the icons he talks to, with me, he was like a kid in a candy store. He would just watch the footage and be like “Awww that’s so rad!” That was amazing, it was really fun! I think the first clip I showed Dave, it’s in the film it was the first time Foo Fighters ever played “My Hero”. I showed it to him and he knew instantly where it was and when it was. He was like “I know that shirt! I wore that shirt everyday!” He knows every aspect of his tour life. It really comes across, his enthusiasm. I think that’s why it really stands out, its not just like “here’s a bunch of questions”, he truly believes every word he says. And that’s what brings in other artists because they see his excitement and they’re all talking about living in a van, sleeping on people’s floors. That is a connection of the heart.

Jim: That’s what I like about this movie so much. This started out as this thing about getting in a van and having fun, to this follow-your-heart story. If you’re a person who has a dream and the rest of the world is telling you “you’re fucking nuts” then it’s always been a sign to me personally that that’s what I should do. The minute everyone tells me I’m being an idiot that’s when I know I’m doing the right thing. It hasn’t always worked out, but in a lot of instances it has. And I think that’s true for most people. That’s what I love about the movie the most. As you arrive in your golden years (or silver years), you want to tell young people to follow your dream. Because a lot of people my age didn’t get told that. I know so many talented people who just were never nurtured right to follow their dreams, and its depressing.

I think with everyone from Dave, to the band, to the management, to John and his company Therapy Studios to Dean (whose an amazing editor) and the entire crew, it’s just nice because everyone feels included in the process. That’s what I think makes our project special.

Me: John mentioned the upcoming mini-series From Cradle to Stage. What is everyone working on next, with Roswell Films or otherwise?

John: Honestly, we’ve been going so hard all through the pandemic, so I’m looking forward to a nice long nap. [laughs] I mean Dave always has ideas. He’s a never ending fountain of creativity. He’s sort of mentioned casually in conversation, maybe another feature-length doc. But he’s still kind of work shopping the idea in his own head. So I don’t think I want to spoil the surprise before he’s ready to talk about it. You know, he’s such a force of nature. He has to be creating all the time, whether its music, or film or TV. So I’m quite certain there will be more.

Jim: Since 2010, I’m going to tell you Eric, there hasn’t been a single moment where Dave hasn’t told us about the next project before we finish the current project. That is not a complaint, that’s fabulous. We have a few projects going with him at the moment, and then we all have other things. So I’m ready for some relaxation, but I’m also ready to fire it up if he called in an hour and said “let’s go interview”.

For info on What Drives Us: https://codacollection.co/films/what-drives-us

#what drives us #Dave Grohl #interview #james a. rota #john ramsay #dean gonzalez #documentary #filmmaking #music documentary #Foo Fighters #Pearl Jam #pearl jam: let's play two #sound city #foo fighters sonic highways #roswell films

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