#high school king of savvy

[kalena-henden]

Seo In Guk Fan Meet 2024 | LA: SEP 26 | DC: SEP 28

[link for tickets in source]

[dailyasiandramas]

[figr0llmouse]

From cold, calculating and ruthless, to vulnerable, anxious and lonely. What can I say; I have a weakness for fictional characters that are intimidating, even dangerous yet are still painfully human.

[dramashutup]

I haven't seen some of these but this mann is always 🔥🔥🚒

userdramas event 01: favorite roles (so far) of my favorite actor

LEE SOO HYUK

🍁 Park Joong Gil in TOMORROW (2022) 🍁 Cha Joo Ik in DOOM AT YOUR SERVICE (2021) 🍁 Gwi in THE SCHOLAR WHO WALKS THE NIGHT (2015) 🍁 Kim Joon in VALID LOVE (2014) 🍁 Yoo Jin Woo in HIGH SCHOOL KING OF SAVVY (2014)

[dramaswithasideofkimchi]

Podcast #247 Embracing the Umbrella Trope

Join The Fangirls as they discuss the importance of umbrellas in Kdramas. As well as their favorite dramas and scenes that involve this popular trope. Continue reading Podcast #247 Embracing the Umbrella Trope

[kaen-ace-of-diamonds]

Christmas Horror Kids Tournament

Because this isn't the Hunger Games, the kids are in competition but not in direct opposition to each other. Basically: there's some big monster/villain threatening their holiday, which of these main characters is not just surviving but is coming out on top the fastest?

Propaganda for each contender (and spoilers for all movies mentioned) under the cut:

Pietari: fears neither God nor death nor army of feral elves. good at keeping calm under pressure and making plans on the fly. carries a gun around the whole movie but never actually uses it, so not sure how well he could shoot. his actor was 11 when the movie came out but I think he's supposed to be a few years younger?

Luke: horrific demon child, zero moral limits so long as he gets what he wants, -5000/10 would not recommend babysitting. extremely good planner, but vulnerable to overlooking small details that ruin him. about 12: very smart but fairly immature for his age. has to be reminded not to kill his competition this time.

Thomas: literally just wanted to stay home and play trains with his grandpa, but now he's got to defend them both from a killer Santa. models himself after action movie heroes and is so good at Home Alone-ing his house that his director tried to sue for plagiarism. about 10-11 years old?

Anna: would be better with her friends to help her, but is pretty damn capable of making it in the zombie apocalypse on her own. not sure exactly how old she's supposed to be, since I'm not clear on how the New Zealand school system works, but she's an older teenager.

Billy: definitely has his wits closer about him than his dad does, that's for fucking sure. does get tricked into creating gremlins, but you know what, who would have expected them to have fucked with his clock? successfully takes on and kills an army of gremlins, albeit with help. probably the oldest competitor here since he's out of high school (?)

Max: definitely willing to go to bat for the Christmas spirit, and to put his own life on the line to protect his family, but is pretty severely lacking in strength or savvy. is good at dodging an army of killer toys, but might not do so well without a bunch of relatives around to also be targets. like Pietari, his actor was 12 but I think he's supposed to be a bit younger.

Trudy: ngl, might be a little weak in solo competition, since she's maybe 7-8 years old and so relies a lot on Santa the one-man army. but she's clever, has exactly zero fear of hardened criminals with machine guns, and is very good at turning Home Alone traps exactly as deadly as they should be.

Winnie: the most Final Girl (TM) out of all the competitors imho. learns very quickly how to improvise and use whatever's handy as a weapon, and while she's also best with a partner to distract an opponent, can handle herself very competently in a physical fight. about 17?

Samantha and Clara: actually, fuck Billy, does Clara even count as a kid at all, being an ancient demon in the form of a child? has telekinetic powers and is good at Breaking Speeches, but is bound by being sealed in the school and unable to kill her enemies herself. Samantha is a pretty normal middle schooler (?), but also has the guts to go face a cult of killers with an axe when she could have run away and saved herself, so don't count her out.

Kevin: is Home Alone a horror movie? no. could I possibly exclude the king, the champion, the future Jigsaw apprentice? also no. smart and absolutely cold-blooded when he needs to be, he's excellent at fending enemies off from a distance, but it's game over for him if he's actually caught.

[cyndalyssa]

Gnawpolis urban legend can be a crazy thing, and one such crazy tale is that of the fate of Oakley High School.

It's the story of a poor little guinea pig, who only wished for simple love and respect from those around her. Coming from a poor home, with a poor excuse of a single mother that partied it up and lay drunk on the couch, and bullied relentlessly for her shy, nerdy demeanor and unkempt appearance, Oakley High student Florence Hayber's wish was understandable.

She was somewhat of a scientist, having a fascination with biology and how living things--especially plants--tick, and watching them react to whatever stimuli she prodded them with. She was also fond of fairy tales, reading tales of of rags to riches, of kings and queens and princesses, of magic spells and grand adventures. Oh, to have a fairytale life instead of the garbage heap she lived, but daydreaming doesn't get you far.

On the recommendation of a teacher who noticed her science savvy, she was working on a science fair project, that of making her own homemade fertilizer... granted, she borrowed a few things from local farms, but it was in the name of science! How hard she worked, night after night, even missing the once-in-a-lifetime event of the Great Comet, hoping to make it perfect. If it was perfect, then perhaps she could win a great prize at the fair, and she could finally get some respect. And with respect, she could have friendship and perhaps even love.

Little did she realize, the Comet added an extra ingredient to her fertilizer, which made it more potent than she ever imagined.

All seemed to be going well on Science Fair night--judges were fascinated by the incredible rate plants grew with the fertilizer, almost like magic. Fellow students wondered if she was some sort of alchemist, and even her mother had begrudgingly come, even if she was calling her project "crap".

When she won first place for her project, it was as if she had been crowned prom queen. All the cheers for her as she went onstage to accept her ribbon, the radiant smile beaming to all in the room, the excitement over what could be coming next... she considered herself royalty in that moment.

Unfortunately, some of her bullies had pulled a switcheroo with her project with some other mixture, thinking it'd be hilarious to rain on her parade with her own project. From the catwalk, they dumped it on her head.

And there she was, covered from head to toe with fertilizer. As if the humiliation weren't enough, the fertilizer started having an effect on her... she was turning green!

When she heard the laughter (how much is not certain), she had a mental breakdown. To everyone's shock and horror, plants of every sort erupted in the gym, responding to her cries of anger and humiliation. Vines and flytraps and poison spewing flowers and angry trees... all were attacking the attendees at her command and without discrimination. They soon overtook the building and school grounds, making sure that no one attended Oakley ever again.

Rumor has it that she's still in the jungle that was once Oakley High, having now crowned herself Queen Flores, master of the plants, and lies in wait for anyone daring to enter her realm.

Whether you're friend or foe is entirely up to her.

~~~~~

Yes, her story is based on Carrie. But, she's got a little plant scientist twist courtesy of one of my favorite villains, Dr. Reginald Bushroot, another put upon soul who got fed up with being mistreated and got revenge after his mutation into a plant.

(And her mom's different, but still pretty cruddy)

[hughungrybear]

7 Comfort Movies

Tagged by @imlivingformyselfdontmindme (post here). I have to confess that I have not seen the inside of a cinema since the pandemic. However, I do have tons of subscriptions from different streaming services and most of my favourite movies are old anyway lol 😅

In no particular order

1. It Happened One Night (1934, United States)

Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

Synopsis: In Frank Capra's acclaimed romantic comedy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) impetuously marries the scheming King Westley, leading her tycoon father (Walter Connolly) to spirit her away on his yacht. After jumping ship, Ellie falls in with cynical newspaper reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable), who offers to help her reunite with her new husband in exchange for an exclusive story. But during their travels, the reporter finds himself falling for the feisty young heiress.

2. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2010, Thailand)

Starring Baifern Pimchanok, Mario Maurer

Synopsis: A junior schoolgirl Nam (Pimchanok Luevisetpaiboon) falls in love with her schoolboy senior Chone (Mario Maurer) but is afraid to show her feelings to him, partly because Chone is everyone’s idol, and Nam regards herself as unpopular, homely-looking, and average. She has nothing that can make him notice her. But with the support of her three best friends, Nam revolutionizes herself, starting with her looks and activities to get him to notice her.

3. That Thing Called Tadhana [Fate] (2014, Philippines)

Starring Angelica Panganiban, JM de Guzman

Synopsis: A story about a broken-hearted girl who meets a boy in a not-so-normal way. Together, they go to places and find out "Where do broken hearts go?"

4. Koe no Katachi [A Silent Voice] (2016, Japan)

Starring Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami

Synopsis: As a wild youth, elementary school student, Shouya Ishida sought to beat boredom in the cruelest ways. When the deaf Shouko Nishimiya transfers into his class, Shouya and the rest of his class thoughtlessly bully her for fun. However, when her mother notifies the school, he is singled out and blamed for everything done to her. With Shouko transferring out of the school, Shouya is left at the mercy of his classmates. He is heartlessly ostracized all throughout elementary and middle school, while teachers turn a blind eye. Now in his third year of high school, Shouya is still plagued by his wrongdoings as a young boy. Sincerely regretting his past actions, he sets out on a journey of redemption: to meet Shouko once more and make amends.

5. While You Were Sleeping (1995, United States)

Starring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: Lonely transit worker Lucy Eleanor Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) pulls her longtime crush, Peter (Peter Gallagher), from the path of an oncoming train. At the hospital, doctors report that he's in a coma, and a misplaced comment from Lucy causes Peter's family to assume that she is his fiancée. When Lucy doesn't correct them, they take her into their home and confidence. Things get even more complicated when she finds herself falling for Peter's sheepish brother, Jack (Bill Pullman).

6. Empire Records (1995, United States)

Starring Ethan Embry, Rory Cochrane, Robin Tunney, Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Joe (Anthony LaPaglia) runs Empire Records, an independent Delaware store that employs a tight-knit group of music-savvy youths. Hearing that the shop may be sold to a big chain, slacker employee Lucas (Rory Cochrane) bets a chunk of the store's money, hoping to get a big return. When this plan fails, Empire Records falls into serious trouble, and the various other clerks, including lovely Corey (Liv Tyler) and gloomy Deb (Robin Tunney), must deal with the problem, among many other issues.

7. Clerks (1994, United States)

Starring Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jay and Silent Bob

Synopsis: Dante (Brian O'Halloran) is called in to cover a shift at his New Jersey convenience store on his day off. His friend Randal (Jeff Anderson) helps him pass the time, neglecting his video-store customers next door to hang out in the Quick Stop. The uneventful day is disrupted by news that one of Dante's ex-girlfriends has died. After attending her memorial service, Dante muses over staying with current girlfriend Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti) or reuniting with ex Caitlin (Lisa Spoonhauer).

Tagging @lost-my-sanity1, @telomeke, @bengiyo @shortpplfedup and anyone who sees this and would want to play 😊

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Future Competitions

In light of recent requests and submissions, once this competition is over, we'll be starting back up again with a whole new set of books! If you'd like to submit a title, check my pinned post and the list below to make sure your submission is eligible. I can no longer add to this list. Any further titles are being kept privately by me, but there are there, I promise! I am now tagging asks with the titles submitted.

A to Z Mysteries

Abhorsen

A Dog's Life

Adventure (Blyton)

Adventures of the Bailey School Kids

Adventurers Wanted

Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians

Alex Rider

All-of-a-Kind Family

The American Girl Books

Amulet

Anne of Green Gables

Animal Ark

Animorphs

Applewhites

The Babysitter's Club

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Beacon Street Girls

Beatrice Bailey

The Belgariad

Bella Sara

Betsy-Tacy

Black Beauty

The Black Stallion

The Blackwell Pages

Books of Bayern

The Borrowers

Bridge to Terabithia

The Boxcar Children

Captain Underpants

Casson Family

The Cat Club

Catwings

Charlotte's Web

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Dragon

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Circle of Magic

Clementine

The Clique

The Cloak Society

Cobble Street Cousins

The Cooper Kids Adventures

Coraline

Damar (McKinley)

The Dark Hills Divide

The Dark Is Rising

Dear America

Dear Canada

Deltora Quest

The Divide (Kay)

Dork Diaries

Dragonbreath

The Dragonfly Pool

Dragonhaven

Dragon Rider

Dragon Slayer's Academy

Earthsea Cycle

East (Pattou)

Echo (Ryan)

Edgar & Ellen

Emily (Montgomery)

Emily Windsnap

The Enchanted Castle

Encyclopedia Brown

Esperanza Rising

The Ever Afters

The Faerie Realm

Fablehaven

Fairyland (Valente)

The Faraway Tree

Ferngully

First Light (Stead)

Five Children and It

Flat Stanley

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Gallagher Girls

Geronimo Stilton

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Giver

Goddess Girls

Goosebumps

Graceling

The Great Brain

The Greenglass House

Gunnerkrigg Court

Half Upon a Time

The Hardy Boys

Hatchet

Heist Society

Help, I'm Trapped...

His Dark Materials

Holes

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunger Games

Igraine the Brave

The Immortals Quartet

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place

Ingo (Dunmore)

The Inheritance Cycle

Inkheart

Iron Hearted Violet

Island of the Aunts

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Ivy & Bean

Journey to the River Sea

Julie of the Wolves

Junie B. Jones

The Kane Chronicles

The Kid Who Ran for President

Kiki Strike

Killer Unicorns

Kingdom Keepers

The Last Apprentice

The Letter for the King

La Quête d’Ewilan (in French)

Legend (Lu)

Les Chevaliers d’Émeraude (in French)

Leven Thumps

Liesl & Po

Little House on the Prairie

A Little Princess

Little Women

Lockwood & Co.

The Lost Conspiracy

Macdonald Hall

The Magic Thief

Magic Treehouse

The Magisterium

Magnus Chase

Malory Towers

Matt Cruse

Maximum Ride

Melissa (Gino)

Merlin (Barron)

Michael Vey

Miri and Molly

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Missing (Haddix)

Mister Max

The Mistmantle Chronicles

Misty (Henry)

Molly Moon

The Moorchild

Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

The Music of Dolphins

My Secret Unicorn

My Side of the Mountain

My Teacher Is an Alien

Nancy Drew

Nevermoor

The Neverending Story

Nimona

The Ogre Downstairs

Out of My Mind

The Penderwicks

Pendragon

Peter and the Starcatchers

The Phantom Stallion

The Phantom Tollbooth

Pillage (Skye)

Pippi Longstocking

Pixie Tricks

Poison (Zinn)

Pony Pals

Princess Academy

Protector of the Small

Rainbow Magic

Rain Reign

Ramona

Regarding the...

The Roman Mysteries

Rose (Webb)

Rowan of Rin

The Royal Diaries

Running Out of Time

Sammy Keyes

Savvy

School of Fear

The Search for Wondla

The Secret Garden

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secret Series

Septimus Heap

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Seventh Tower

Shadow Children (Haddix)

Silver Brumby

Silverwing

Skullduggery Pleasant

Song of the Lioness

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Stardust

Stargirl

The Strictest School in the World

Swallows and Amazons

Sweet Valley High

The Swiss Family Robinson

A Tale Dark & Grimm

The Tale of Despereaux

Tales of Alderley

Tales of Magic

Ten Kids, No Pets

The Thief Lord

Tiffany Aching

Tillerman Cycle

Time Hunters

The Trumpet of the Swan

Tuck Everlasting

Tuesday McGillycuddy

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Uglies

Un Lun Dun

Undertow

Unicorn Chronicles

Upon a Marigold

Upside-Down Magic

The Vengekeep Prophecies

The View from Saturday

The War That Saved My Life

Wayside School

The Westing Game

When You Reach Me

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wildwood Chronicles

Windsingers

Wings & Co.

Winnie the Pooh

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Worst Witch

You Be the Jury

[kalena-henden]

Shows I finished in 2024 so far...

A Good Day to be a Dog - A woman accidentally kisses her co-worker and turns into a dog during the night due to a family curse. She has to get her co-worker to kiss her as a dog to break stay human full-time or she will permanently remain a dog after 100 days. The first two-thirds were fun hijinks and a cute romance. The final third with the past life curse origin was a drag. Still upset the mountain god didn't apologize after wrongly punishing the wrong people due to his misunderstanding.

My Demon - A high powered business woman becomes entangled with a deal-making demon when she saves him and his powers transfer to her. This show stole plot heavily from shows like Goblin and Doom at Your Service and failed to do make those concepts their own. However, I still enjoyed it to the end, mostly due to the chemistry between the leads. They had such a fun and lively relationship.

The Story of Park's Marriage Contract - A Joseon-era bride who is widowed on her wedding day is transported to the future where she falls for a man who looks exactly like her dead husband. The story was okay but I was mainly here for the chemistry between the leads.

Fixer Upper: Hotel - Chip and Jo work their magic on an entire hotel. I love seeing the process and the design is beautiful as always.

Memorist - A detective who can see people's thoughts when he touches them teams up with a genius profiler to take down murders. As mysteries unfold and truths are revealed, everything is not as it seems forcing them to confront their traumatic pasts. I binged this in 4 days. The first half is dark but, just when I thought I had the villains pegged, the story opens up to explore the various sides of people to reveal the good, the bad, and the morally grey. I'm still thinking about this months later. I especially loved our detective/profiler team. I really want to rewatch.

Be Melodramatic - This a satire on the entertainment industry, grief, motherhood, and love that is done with 100% deadpan humor which is why I thought the concepts were interesting but fell flat due to not connecting with the humor. This took me almost 9 months to finish.

Death's Game - A man kills himself and then is given 12 chances to survive in someone else's body or he will be sent to hell. It's an anti-suicide version of A Christmas Carol. It was okay. While a host of great actors shine in their guest roles, it was maddening that the man didn't seem to learn along the way until the last body. Where the story ended felt like a copout. If this were a movie where you don't have much time, I would understand, but I wanted to see what would happen next. We needed just one more episode.

Marry My Husband - A woman with terminal cancer is murdered by her husband and best friend who were having an affair, when she is transported back in time before she was married to change her fate and find the love she deserves. This was such a great revenge story. Some of the best villains in kdramaland. A cute romance with a man who adores her. Real friendships. And the OSTs will stick with you.

Queen of Divorce - It started off okay but went downhill quickly. Honestly, such a waste of a great cast.

Daisy Jones & The Six - An interesting look at a fictional 70s rock band as they rise to the top before flaming out. I had listened to the audiobook but I liked the series better.

Doctor Slump - Two young doctors who were academic rivals in high school find themselves grappling with depression and fall in love as they heal together. This was a solid, even keel show for me. I enjoyed their healing journey and their romance.

Live Your Own Life - An outcast chaebol whose parents died in a mysterious car crash falls for his hardworking trainer who needs to learn to become independent from her family. I watched this 50-episode family drama for Ha Joon. There were some interesting things that kept me watching but it was just okay.

Princess Hours - The crown prince and a young artist, who are both high school seniors, navigate the complexities of an arranged marriage and court politics in modern day Korea. This was a really interesting study in how people can change and grow and fall in love as they grapple with the expectations of a nation. It's an old school kdrama and alot is meant to be inferred. It's almost as much about what is not shown or said as much as what is which was frustrating at times. However, when someone explained things, everything started to click for me and I saw all the things that were implied increasing my enjoyment.

Wedding Impossible - A gay chaebol asks his best friend to marry him to hide his sexuality from everyone. His brother who wants him to marry someone else for his own good decides to break them up by seducing his brother's fiance. It's a ridiculous premise with a fun, bickering enemies to lovers couple. It lags a bit in the last part but I still enjoyed this romance. Moon Sang Min is a new fave.

High School King of Savvy - A high school hockey player is asked by his older brother to pretend to be him at his job as a corporate executive while he investigates something nefarious. The high schooler then has to juggle both school and work life as he unexpectedly falls for his brother's secretary. This is a crazy, age-gap romance with Seo In Guk. The only reason the romance works is because both the leads are so pure hearted and kind. Lee Soo Hyuk is doing his best sexy, self-sabotaging second male lead, who even smiles! It was a bit much but it settled down in the second half and I loved the big found family feel of the cast.

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes - The first half was interesting with many characters’ selfish and dark intentions mixed with a little mystery were set up in contrast to our optimistic, self-sacrificing female lead. However, the second half drowned in major events happening and then being dismissed as if they never happened, multiple secret keepers refusing to tell the secret multiple times an episodes even when asked point blank when the answers could stop so many bad things from happening, and the existential dread I felt about what the big reveal was going to be only for it to completely dismissed. I knew this was a tragedy going in but still I felt angry and exhausted by the end.

Vigilante - A police university student decides to take the law into his own hands after his mother's murderer is let back on the streets to avenge her and other's like her who have been failed by the justice system. A manhunt for him ensues, bringing together an unlikely and at times unhinged group who decides to reveal the truth and bring justice. At 8 episode (six hours total), it felt like it was just starting to gel by the end. Definitely set up for more potential seasons after Nam Joo Hyuk gets out of the military.

Love Me Love Me Voice - A newer voice actor and singer is one day noticed online by her secretive voice acting idol and a whirlwind courtship begins. These are the sweetest, kindest people ever. I love how the dramatic readings and song performances are seamlessly woven into the story. Multiple romances, great friendships, mouthwatering food, and beautiful locals. This is a feel good story of first love.

[rosesnink]

Leo & Louise's Twins

Amelia Berenice Rys & Damian Constantine Rys

Amelia was named after her mother and grandmother on her mother's side and was born alongside her twin brother Damian on a spring evening of 2018. She was a smart, cunning, ambitious and witty girl, who loved living in luxury. She studied in Cordonian schools and earned two PhD's on Political Science and Law. Her uncle Liam, seeing potential in her, quickly put her in the Council. She was one of the savviest and smartest royal strategists. She's a biromantic demisexual woman and worked alongside Kiara in the embassy, and soon picked up some languages like French and Hindi, having spoken before English and Korean on her mother's side. She looks very much like her aunts Nicolette and Jessica.

Damian is his father's son. He loves surf, exploring and travelling, and since he was a boy, he always asked him to take him to his adventures and by the age of sixteen, he knew how to ride his father's multiple motorcycles. He went to university and earned a double PhD in Sports and Economics, being a math-savvy like his uncle Alexander. The country the former King Eirik offered him the crown, but he declined, loving his freedom way too much. He's a gay asexual and ended up joining the Cordonian Navy.

Eclipsa & Hana's Children

Stephanie Eleanor Regina Ice-Lee & Marcus Liam Constantine Ice-Lee

Stephanie is the crown princess and thus has grown up with a rich and privileged education. Being King Liam's protégé, she learned most European languages, especially their neighbour's languages, culture, history, customs and lifestyle. She was also given the king's love for history and sense of justice, as well as her mother's wicked sense of humour and her mama's pragmatism, elegance and poise. She earned four degrees: political science, law, history and economics. Despite not liking math, she soon discovered that she was naturally intelligent and rarely needed studying, for she memprised everything during the lesson and by taking a good look at the book's pages.

Marcus is Hana's son through and through. Being the heir to Valtoria, he learned the high society's skills, such as horseback, dances, court etiquette, languages, table manners, as well as Hana's love for music, food and books. He often volunteeted to help his grandfather Xinghai with his business and soon requested to study in the best school in China to be near his beloved grandfather, and Xinghai proved to be a terrific grandfather. He got his degree in history, as well as a PhD in Culinary Arts. He ends up building a restaurant that feeds the lower classes and sponsors several churches and cafes in exchange on giving the food that wasn't eaten today to the homeless.

Tagging @lizzybeth1986 because she inspired me to do this!!

[august-rivers]

August (he/him, cis man) was born on June 4, 1992 in Los Angeles, CA and arrived to Merrock in 2024. They prefer to be called Auggie, work as a chef at Evolution, and their stomping grounds are the downtown area.

CHARACTER INFORMATION:

full name: august graham rivers

nickname(s): auggie, gus, grammy

pronouns & gender: he/him, cis man

sexuality: homosexual

age: thirty-two

relationship status: it’s complicated but single

birth date: june 4 1992

birth place: los angeles, california

time in town: two weeks since june 13, 2024

occupation: chef

parents: logan & sarah rivers

siblings: sammy rivers, logan rivers, hunter rivers, & skylar rivers

personality: insecure, intelligent, reserved & savvy

pet: tabby cat named oli

APPEARANCE:

celebrity doppelgänger: oliver stark

height: 6'2"

hair color: brown

eye color: blue

FAVORITES:

color: navy blue

food: general tso’s chicken

non-alcoholic beverage: diet dr. pepper

alcoholic beverage: tequila seltzer with a splash of cranberry

season: autumn

candle scent: cranberry mandarin

book: addicted to you

video game: call of duty

tv show: anything hgtv

animated tv show: king of the hill

movie: anything marvel

holiday movie: national lampoon’s christmas vacation

disney movie: aladdin

pixar movie: ratatouille

disney original movie: minute men

candy: sweet tarts

chocolate candy: reeses peanut butter cups

Fruit: watermelon

Vegetable: broccoli

cuisine to eat: homemade macaroni and cheese

cuisine to make: risotto

genre of music: pop

artist: dua lipa

song: jaded by miley cyrus

BIOGRAPHY:

tw; drugs, parent illness, parent death

Being adopted was never something that bother August. As far as he knew, the family that he grew up with was his real family whether they were blood or not. Of course when he was young, he thought that everyone was truly family but then he learned that the world worked differently than that yet it still didn’t change the way he thought about the siblings that he grew up with. His biological parents were a young couple who were addicts and weren’t ready for a child and that’s how he ended up in foster care before ending up with his forever family. 

It was clear from a young age that August had a gift for cooking. He was constantly watching cooking shows on TV and wanted to recreate all of the different dishes with his parents. There were even times where he was preparing dinner in a masterchef style where they didn’t even know what they were getting. Once he was old enough and he was able to be trusted with the oven and stove on his own, he was cooking all of the holiday dinners, never feeling like he had to or being pressured to. He went to a school where being an athlete was very important and still he remained himself. He was pushed into a number of lockers and called multiple names, but it’s not something that ever got to him. 

August found James in high school and he thought that he met the man that he was going to spend the rest of his life with. It seemed like everything was perfect for them and there was nothing for them to worry about. When James went off to serve his country they decided that things needed to end so that they could focus on themselves.

It was no shocker that at the end of high school, August graduated at the top of his class and he was the valedictorian. College was completely different for him though. He wasn’t sure if it was just the atmosphere or his lack of caring what others thought of him but he felt a sort of solace with his cooking buddies. He made a friend in school, named Sadie and they became close to the point that others thought that the two of them were together romantically. They never were, but the best of friends.  

After graduating, he remained in Los Angeles and worked as hard as he could to gain a reputation for himself. He worked as well as he could and then James came home and the two of them reconnected and James had proposed. August was the happiest that he could be and then James left again. Everything seemed well with them then James came back after being hurt and he wasn’t sure if he could step up and be the man that James needed and so he ended things and was scared. 

Things happened at home that required August to have to be home with his family because his mom had fallen ill. He knew that he needed to step up and be the older brother that he knew his siblings needed and he was there for them and taking care of his mother. Unfortunately, she had passed in the beginning of June 2024 and that’s when August realized he couldn’t wait another minute to be sad and when he heard that James was in Merrock, Maine he decided he was going to go there and chase after James. 

[veronicatmakesthings]

One of the best things about working with Celes is the amount of freedom she gives me in deciding the course of her musical output. It means a lot to me that she trusts in my judgment, and when I proposed tackling this sugarcoated disco-inspired hit from 2020, it took some convincing. Whenever we decide to cover a song, we make a conscious effort to turn it into a truly transformative work, not just a karaoke-style exercise in mimesis. When taking on "I Really Want to Stay at Your House", my pitch was to turn it from a technopop banger into a mournful piano ballad. The version currently available on YouTube doesn't accurately reflect this, but it can be found within the performance she gave at Holiday Matsuri 2024.

For "Say So" we decided to turn into from a smooth dancefloor groove into a chilled out, lo-fi experience that keeps the playfulness of the original.

This "fun idea" that I came up with riding on the high of previous success would turn out to be a fucking nightmare.

I started working on this project almost immediately after finishing up our last effort, and almost immediately, the project stalled. I struggled to weave together Celes's tender vocal performance with a song that seeks to stubbornly avoid committing to what I consider traditional syncopated pop rhythms. It's not a Danny Elfman-esque commitment to switching up time signatures, but it was enough to frustrate me and stretch the limits of my admittedly rust-coated engineering abilities. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm not thrilled with the final product, but after sitting on it and procrastinating for the better part of two months, I forced myself to commit to a final render and send it to Celes.

It's true that we're our own worst critics, which has become somewhat impressive to me as the entire internet seems to have grown into the world's largest free-range hateclick troll farm to ever exist. Pretty much all the artists I know on personal level tend to look at a piece they've created and see only the things wrong with it. Those of us who made it through the soul-destroying machine of art school are typically savvy enough to keep our mouths shut if the viewing audience fails to notice them.

To put it bluntly, it's frustrating to see a piece of work that I'm frankly not happy with be the piece that begins to take off. To people who don't make art, that might sound a supremely ungrateful sentiment for me to hold. If you actually produce art (or "content", as I tend to refer to it through gritted teeth), then you understand exactly how I feel.

Have you ever played a game called Alan Wake? How about Control? It was in the process of creating this track for Celes that I rediscovered my love for the games that Remedy has produced, no doubt fueled by my nocturnal habits of binging YouTube video essays about decades-old video games. My tortured sleeping habits aside, my recollection of these games this time led me toward a facet of them that I hadn't really considered before, at least not consciously.

Within the shared world of Remedy's fiction, there exists a gloriously-1970s indebted metal band (think early King Crimson by way of Dio) known as Old Gods of Asgard, fronted by a pair of eccentric brothers who may or may not be either reincarnations of Norse gods, or even those selfsame gods, depending on how deep you want to read into the lore. Most people who have experienced the games are familiar with the metafictional role Old Gods of Asgard's music plays in-universe, but I don't know how many have gone on to look into the very real people who created the band's music.

Poets of the Fall is a Finnish rock band founded in 2003. They've since gone on to release a new record steadily every couple of years, their most recent (at time of this writing) being 2022's Ghostlight, which features the breathtaking single "Requiem for my Harlequin," a track that plucks the strings of my early-2000s goth heart as effectively as anything by Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, or Nightwish ever did. I sometimes wish I'd discovered Poets of the Fall far earlier in my life, but there were limits even to what a tech-savvy web 2.0 teen could achieve back then.

I bring up Poets of the Fall because, and I'm sure it will break my dear friend Celes's heart to read this, I often find myself looking at the work I've produced this year as not being my "real" work, or as lesser than my original compositions. Since falling in love with Old Gods of Asgard, I've gone on to comb through Poets of the Fall's discography, and I noticed something. There's not really a clear line where the bands diverge. Sure, the Anderson brothers have in-universe backstories and character arcs, but the exact point where the fictional band and the real one join up is less clear. It's interesting to note that Poets of the Fall's website describes Old Gods of Asgard as their "alter ego band that lives and rocks in the universe of Remedy Entertainment’s video games."

I think that's why there's not a tangible musical difference between the two, other than perhaps the metatextual lyrical content of Old Gods of Asgard's music. There simply isn't one. These songs (or the songs that HEALTH, another longtime favorite of mine who I similarly looked down upon for working on Cyberpunk, Grand Theft Auto, and Max Payne) don't fit neatly into my self-imposed binary of what is "real" versus "superficial," what is "art" and what is "content."

It seems profoundly stupid in retrospect that someone who detests arbitrary, reductive binaries as much as I do would cling to this myopic worldview for as long as I have. I claim to not be in the business of gatekeeping, and yet I perpetrated it upon myself unquestioningly, for over a decade. These songs are all works of art, which I've since come to define as merely "an act of creative expression that provokes an emotional reaction in the viewer."

I've seen firsthand the emotional reactions this cover has evoked.

I think that, just maybe, that's good enough for me.

[thekingofgymequipment]

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[bachmankingoverdrive]

The Introduction

I honestly cannot recall the first piece of Stephen King media I was exposed to, whether it was Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, or something else. But I can tell you that my prepubescent mind latched onto these classics before even knowing they were based on books. Let alone by the same author. Carrie was the first movie I watched fully knowing that it was based on Stephen King's work. Sitting on a couch, eating supper on an old TV tray at a friend's house. Due to the nudity and themes of religion, religious trauma and abuse, I never would have been allowed to watch it in my own house. Soon after I became a horror nut, as did many my age. The Grudge, Saw, Final Destination, The Hills Have Eyes (remake) all heavy hitters before high school graduation.

But that was then, and this is now. In my 30's I've returned to reading (in middle and high school I was a bookworm with an obsession for the Hannibal series). I've made efforts to broaden my tastes in genre, mediums, inclusivity, and subject matter. Before ever picking up a King book I'd seen (at least) 13 movie adaptations of varying quality. The first book I decided to try, with encouragement by more than one friend, was The Stand. I stampeded through the first third, and shelved it for years, bookmark still in it. I then succesfully read The Long Walk and was hooked. Soon after I consumed Thinner, Needful Things, It, and Eyes of the Dragon. That's when the first alarm bell went off... where had I seen that name before?

Randall Flagg.

With this blog I aim to tread ground that isn't unfamiliar to some reading this, but I'm putting in the leg work to cite my sources. I'm creating my own physical conspiracy board in my garage. It's four feet tall and six feet long, and I'm praying it's big enough. But I've got the power of the internet behind me to help make some of these connections, as well as an amazing local book club. Unfortunately anonymous reddit contributors rarely share where they spot the Easter eggs, so I've been banging my head against the wall trying to prove legitimacy for every claim. My pain is your gain, please enjoy my descent into madness not dissimilar to the one in N.

I will only be making posts regarding books and short stories that I have read. No, a specific location (Derry, Castle Rock) does not constitute a direct connection between books (with exception of a few specific instances that will be explained). There will need to be either a mention of events, characters, items, quotes, or otherwise to create a firm connection. I'm planning to bring up some theories that I feel have enough evidence to merit consideration (please reach out if I accidentally miscredit someone, I'm not particularly savvy in this way). At this point in time I own nearly all of King's fiction books and read nearly 30, in addition to the 47 adaptations and counting that I've watched. Revisions and updates will be made as I read further and find more common threads.

Thank you for your patience and diligence in making it this far. Fingers crossed that I will make it worthwhile.

Vir.