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danlusional · 4 years

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06 - damn sure

book: My Two First Loves pairing: Noah Harris x Jules Price rating: PG-13 (light making out) word count: 1,301 summary: Despite Mason’s sudden “confession”, Jules know - have known - that she wants someone else.

The chilly wind bit into her, getting underneath her jeans and sweater as she stood on the front porch to wait for him. It was past midnight and only 13 minutes after Noah’s last text, meaning he had only two minutes left to make it as he promised.

Jules was more concerned about the impending return of her father, darting her gaze from each end of the street, almost anticipating the headlights of his car. As if the world heard her thoughts, something shined its way from the end of the street. She gulped as her stomach bubbled with nerves.

It was a singular headlight and Noah with his red hot bike stopped on her curb. She sighed a breath she didn’t realize she was holding and made her way towards him. “Right on time.”

“I’m a man of my word.”, he casually replied before getting off from his ride. She could see his eyes looking down at her wrapped-up wrist. All the commotion that happened this afternoon seemed so far away already, but the pain and soreness she felt reminded her it was still fresh. “You look badass with that cast.”

“Not as much of a badass as you, though.”, Jules grinned and nudged him softly with her elbow. “How about that walk?”

Noah replied with his signature smirk before starting to walk, expecting her to follow. She fell into the steps next to him, carefully keeping a distance as to not bump her injured hand against him. They walked in silence, letting the soft sounds of wind, crickets, or the streetlights humming above them filled the air.

Despite the almost complete silence, Jules couldn’t stop thinking. She was glad Noah and Mason could set aside their differences for a moment back in the football field. She was happy to have two people cared for her that much. But she also felt guilty, knowing she led one of them on all these times.

She felt vulnerable. Something she didn’t really like, because being the oldest daughter in the family meant she needed the emotional capability to take care of her dad, Mackenzie, and everything that could go wrong in the household. She had to have control over everything.

Now, with Noah? Everything could happen. She had to trust him and her feelings for him.

Their path took a turn towards a small playground just a few blocks away from where they started. Her eyes gazed left and right, looking for a sign of someone else’s presence, but there was none. She couldn’t risk being seen by one of the neighbors that might snitch about her and Noah being out in the middle of the night to her dad.

As Jules was still busy with her thoughts, he already stopped and took a seat on the grass, facing the street they came from. She quietly sat down next to him, shoulders brushing as the comfortable silence enveloped them once more. “Can I say something?”, she spoke up, turning her head to face him.

“I’m being true and honest with you. I like you, Noah... and I’m sorry if it seems like I’m playing games with you and Mason. That wasn’t and isn’t my intention at all.”, she took a deep breath in between with her arms wrapping around herself, fingers gingerly tightened on the sleeves of her sweater. “Yes, I did like - no, love - Mason back then but after he dated Ava, I just stopped and moved on. They were my friends, for God’s sake! Then, I met you and I just liked hanging out with you and now I like you—“

Without saying anything, Noah wrapped an arm around her shoulder to bring her closer to him. Their sides flushed against each other, making her arm had to snake around his waist. “You don’t really have to give me the whole thing.”

“Well, I feel like I do...”, she said quietly, as if she was scared anyone else would be around to hear it. “You deserved my explanation and more.”

“Yeah... Maybe. But, as I said before, I don’t own you, so your past with Jennings or whatever isn’t my business.”, his voice matched her volume and his eyes softened as he looked at her face in the dimmed lighting, only shined by the lamppost at the playground. “Thank you for that, though.”

“Hey, you were the one who helped with first aid today and... Take a beating for me. Sorry if it became a routine.”, Jules could only smile bashfully. Now, she didn’t know what was going to happen next to them. Would they be okay?

After what felt like a tense moment in her head, Noah gave her a smile. A genuine one that she rarely saw since she knew him. “Nah, Jennings didn’t get anything on me. Him being judgmental is the real pain in the ass.”

They shared a laugh and any questions or doubt she had about whatever it was between them melted away. She was sure about this, about him. He made her feel safe and gave her the confidence and courage she always wished to have. Maybe, just a maybe, she never could be with Mason because she supposed to be with Noah. Jules secretly thanked her past self for never having the guts to confess to her best friend.

“So, can we continue our little locker room rendezvous? We did say we’d take a rain check.”, Jules flashed him a mischievous grin with her eyelashes batting in jest. It didn’t take a whole second for Noah to closed the distance between them, lips finding hers perfectly in the dark.

She laced her fingers on the back of his neck, bringing him closer while his own locked on either side of her hips. The kiss was more carefree than the one they shared earlier, with no worry of anyone going to walk in on them. Jules could feel the affection he exuded with each movement of his lips, and the respect he had for her with the way his hands softly traveled up and down her sides. He never wanted to make her uncomfortable and his actions definitely spoke louder.

Noah carefully guided her to his lap, with a small pause to wait for her confirmation. She gladly let him and let her legs wrapped around his waist. How could she not get enough of him? They were practically pressed against one another, limbs wrapping around each other. Noah Harris drove her crazy, physically, and mentally.

What felt like a while, they finally broke the kiss with a soft gasp. Jules scanned the aftermath of their connection; his lips reddened and slightly swollen, his eyes focused on her as if he was doing the same, and arms still strongly holding her close. “That was definitely better than before.”, she giggled softly while her thumb gently brushed across his bottom lip.

“You deserve the best.”, he shrugged cooly with a shadow of a smirk on the corner of his lips. “I guess I should take you home before you get into trouble.”

He was right. After the broken wrist commotion, her dad could’ve just put her under house arrest. He didn’t give her any hard time but it was apparent that his way of worrying was to put more pressure and protection. “What if I ask you to whisk me away?”

“Don’t, you rebel.”, Noah chuckled and softly pinched the tip of her nose. “I might take you up on that.”

With much hesitation, Jules sighed and stood up from his lap, wishing wistfully for the what-ifs. What if they could? At least, for the time being, she just wished they could be together with no one bothering them again.

Well, now it was up to her to make sure it happened.

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rabbitfeet200 · 3 years

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twoidiotwriters1 · 3 years

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Written In The Stars CLXX (Harry Potter xF!Oc)

A/N: I saved Hedwig so I’m not entirely evil -Danny

Words: 4,089

Warnings: Mentions of death, and underaged drinking ig

Series’ Masterlist

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Listen to: ‘Anyway’ -by Noah Kahan

Chapter Four: A Dark Revelation.

Kingsley walked past her and entered the drawing-room, Mel drew out her wand and pointed it to his chest when he came back.

"Mel!" Hermione gasped, she was still looking like Harry. "What are you doing?"

"Stay back," She replied without looking away from Kingsley. "Two years ago Umbridge took Harry and me to Dumbledore's office, you were there. I had an injury— What was it?"

"Your hand," Kingsley replied calmly. "Your wrist was broken."

Mel looked at Hermione, she sighed.

"Okay then," She pointed her wand at the fake Harry. "When you were twelve you wrote a valentine's letter... Who was it for?"

"Lockhart," Hermione blushed faintly. "Honestly, is this necessary?"

"That's okay, Hermione," Kingsley retorted. "We should all be more careful if there really is a spy," He showed them a bent coat hanger. "We're leaving in a minute, come closer."

As soon as they saw the burrow both Kingsley and Mel drew out their wands and pointed to the figures approaching. Hermione was back on her original body, she quickly ran towards the Harry that had to be the original one, everyone else should've turned into themselves at this point. Hermione hugged him tightly while Mel and Kingsley stood shoulder to shoulder ready to strike.

"The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us!" Kingsley demanded.

"Harry and Mel are the best hope we have. Trust them," Remus looked at Mel. "I assume you've checked my goddaughter?"

"She checked me," Kingsley replied.

Mel lowered her wand and squeezed Remus in a tight hug, Kingsley pointed at Harry.

"It's him, I've checked!" Her uncle said promptly.

"All right, all right!" Kingsley growled. "But somebody betrayed us! They knew, they knew it was tonight!"

"So it seems, but apparently they did not realize that there would be seven Harrys."

"Small comfort! Who else is back?"

"Only Harry, Hagrid, George, and me."

"What?" Mel stared at him. "All of you should've been back by now!"

"What happened to you?"

"Followed by five, we got rid of the lot," Kingsley nodded towards her. "Dumbledore's a pretty good Phoenix. Before she arrived we saw You-Know-Who as well, he joined the chase halfway through but vanished pretty quickly. Remus, he can—"

"Fly," Harry finished. "I saw him too, he came after Hagrid and me."

"So that's why he left, to follow you! I couldn't understand why he'd vanished. But what made him change targets?"

"Harry behaved a little too kindly to Stan Shunpike," Remus explained.

Mel's eyes went to Harry, who threw a sharp glare at her uncle.

"Stan?" Hermione blinked. "But I thought he was in Azkaban?"

Kingsley laughed bitterly. "Hermione, there's obviously been a mass breakout which the Ministry has hushed up. Traver's hood fell off when I cursed him, he's supposed to be inside too."

"Dolohov and Lestrange went to my house and I'd caught them two years ago in the ministry," Mel added.

Harry approached and hugged her tightly.

"I should've stayed with you—"

"No," He moved away and cupped her face. "I'm alive, see? You did a good job."

"So did you..."

"What happened to you, Remus? Where's George?" Kingsley asked.

"He's inside," He grimaced. "He wants to talk to you, Mel."

"Me?"

"Snape tried to kill him. He's alright though, don't be scared... but he wants to speak for himself."

As she moved away from Harry's hold and into the house, she listened to his complaints.

"Snape? You didn't say—"

"He lost his hood during the chase, he tried to use Sectumsempra on George..."

Mel quickened her pace and stormed into the burrow, her eyes landed on George, who was seated at the kitchen table. He had a few scratches here and there and a cut that he was cleaning on his ear.

"Georgie," Mel whispered in relief, he stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "But Remus said Snape—"

"Yeah," The twin scowled. "He threw that curse at me but Fawkes got in the way... He got the full blow, Mel, I'm sorry..."

She stepped back and frowned a little. "Did he burst into flames?"

George blinked in surprise. "Yeah— wait, is that normal?"

"Oh, Forge," Mel hit his head lightly. "If you'd paid attention in class you would know that Phoenixes can't die!"

"Well, sorry for bothering you then!" He exclaimed grumpily. "I'm never worrying about you or your pets again..."

"It's alright," She smiled a little, feeling sympathy for him. "Hopefully he landed somewhere safe... I'm sure he can survive on his own..."

"He saved my life, he did," George sighed.

"Saved your pretty face from getting one of these, that's all," Mel vaguely pointed at her scars.

"...I'll prove who I am, Kingsley, after I've seen my family, now back off if you know what's good for you!"

Weasley father and Fred stormed into the kitchen, paler than usual but without a single scratch.

"Arthur!" Mrs Weasley ran up to meet him. "Oh thank goodness!"

"How is everyone?" Mr Weasley asked, taking a quick look around the room. "Who's missing?"

Fred and George hugged each other happily, they started to report what they'd done during the fight as if they'd just managed to get away with some kind of mischief.

"What do you mean Bill and Ron are missing?" Mr Weasley's voice interrupted the brief moment of joy.

Mel walked out of the house without speaking, she joined Kingsley's pacing while Harry stood next to Remus, Hermione, Ginny and Hagrid, all of them looking at the sky.

"You need to rest," Kingsley told her. "Bet flying isn't as easy when you're using wings."

"I'll sleep once everyone's back," She said, eyes fixed above. "We have to find the spy."

"We will."

After twenty long minutes of waiting, Tonks and Ron finally crossed the barrier, they landed softly in front of them.

"Remus!" Tonks ran up to his arms, her uncle was looking paler than she'd ever seen him.

Ron stumbled to a stop in front of Harry and Hermione. He mumbled something Mel couldn't quite catch, Hermione pulled him in for a hug.

"Ron was great," Tonks' arms tightened around her husband. "Wonderful. He stunned one of the Death Eaters straight to the head, and when you're aiming at a moving target from a flying broom— "

"You did?" Hermione gazed up at Ron in awe.

"Always the tone of surprise," He grumbled, stepping away from her. Mel almost wanted to yell at him for not seizing his chance. "Are we the last back?"

"No," said Ginny. "We're still waiting for Bill and Fleur and Mad-Eye and Mundungus. I'm going to tell Mum and Dad you're okay, Ron—"

Ron turned to Mel, they stared at each other, both looking for any injuries, then she spoke.

"Welcome home."

His face lit up a bit, he opened his arms and she promptly stepped forward to hug him.

"So what kept you? What happened?" Remus demanded.

"Bellatrix," Tonks growled. "She wants me quite as much as she wants Harry, Remus, she tried very hard to kill me. I just wish I'd got her, I owe Bellatrix... she said," Tonks's eyes landed on her. "Said that since she didn't have the opportunity to kill the Black bastard, I would have to do."

Mel was stunned, she distinctly remembered Erick saying he was going to take Regulus to Bellatrix and Greyback.

Could it be that... that he'd been lying?

Mel moved away from Ron and went back to her pacing.

"But you definitely injured Rodolphus, Mel. Pretty sure you blinded him," Tonks misunderstood her frustration. "Then we got to Ron's Auntie Muriel's and we'd missed our Portkey and she was fussing over us— So what happened to you lot?"

After the others explained what had happened during the fight, Kingsley touched Mel's shoulder to get her attention.

"I'm going to have to get back to Downing Street, I should have been there an hour ago. Let me know when they're back... and try to rest."

"Thank you," Mel replied. "We'll be seeing you."

As soon as he disapparated, Ron's parents ran out of the house and engulfed the boy in a tight hug.

"Thank you," said Mrs Weasley looking at Lupin and Tonks, "for our sons."

"Don't be silly, Molly—"

"I SEE THEM!" Mel exclaimed.

Everyone turned to the place she was pointing, Mel's grip tightened around her wand and she prepared.

The Thestral landed softly and Bill came down of it right after Fleur.

"Bill! Thank God, thank God—"

The young man hugged her mother briefly, then he stood right in front of Mel and his dad.

"Mad-Eye's dead."

Mel lowered her wand. "What?"

"We saw it. It happened just after we broke out of the circle: Mad-Eye and Dung were close by us, they were heading north too, Voldemort— he can fly— went straight for them. Dung panicked, I heard him cry out, Mad-Eye tried to stop him, but he Disapparated. Voldemort's curse hit Mad-Eye full in the face, he fell backward off his broom and— there was nothing we could do, nothing, we had half a dozen of them on our own tail—"

"Of course you couldn't have done anything," said Remus.

It felt completely anticlimatic, having an experienced Auror dying at the very start of the fight. It was impossible. Moody had trained her, she'd survived this round because of him, how on earth would he not make it out alive?

"You say Mundungus escaped?" She asked, her voice abnormally even. Bill nodded. "Well, we know where to start looking for our spy."

"Come off it," Ron spoke. "Dung's a coward, there's no way he—"

"Did you forget who brought Voldemort back?" Mel looked at him. "If Pettigrew had the courage to betray his friends, Mundungus certainly has the strength to betray people who weren't nice to him to start with."

No one spoke against her, she took a deep, long breath.

"It's just a thought anyway," She avoided all of their eyes. "Not saying he's the one we should hunt down or anything... Let's go inside, you all fought bravely, and you need to rest."

Everyone followed her back into the house, the twins and Ginny were talking animatedly.

"What's wrong?" said Fred, standing up and staring at the grim group. "What happened? Who's—?"

"Mad-Eye," said Mr Weasley. "Dead."

"I know I just turned seventeen," Mel took off her cloak and hung it on the chair in front of her. "But I really need a drink."

Bill walked up to one of the shelves and grabbed a bottle of firewhisky. Mel heard Tonks's soft cries next to her and put an arm around her shoulders, Remus gently rubbed their backs.

"Here," Bill said, handing one tiny glass to her and sending the rest to everyone in the room. "Mad-Eye."

"Mad-Eye," Everyone replied.

"Mad-Eye," Hagrid mumbled tiredly.

"Mel," Bill said after a moment. "Don't think we aren't all considering it, because they seemed to be expecting us, didn't they? But Mundungus can't have betrayed us."

Mel was about to reply, but he pressed on.

"They didn't know there would be seven Harrys, that confused them the moment we appeared, and in case you've forgotten, it was Mundungus who suggested that little bit of skullduggery. Why wouldn't he have told them the essential point? I think Dung panicked, it's as simple as that. He didn't want to come in the first place, but Mad-Eye made him, and You-Know-Who went straight for them. It was enough to make anyone panic."

"You-Know-Who acted exactly as Mad-Eye expected him to," Tonks shook her head. "Mad-Eye said he'd expected the real Harry to be with the toughest, most skilled Aurors. He chased Mad-Eye first, and when Mundungus gave them away he switched to Kingsley..."

"And I didn't run into him because I started the other way around," Mel groaned. "I should've known..."

"It takes more than just animagus magic to defeat him, Mel, you out of all people should know that," Remus replied.

"I would've died fighting at least, instead of—"

"Don't even say it," Ron intervened. "You can't trade one life for another, Mel, it's not up to you."

He was right, she'd almost sounded like her great-uncle. She shook her head and drank the last bit of her drink.

"That's all very good," Fleur scowled, "but still it does not explain how they knew we were moving Harry tonight, does it? Somebody must 'ave been careless. Somebody slipped the date to an outsider. It is the only explanation for them knowing the date but not the whole plan."

Mel put the empty glass on the table and pushed her hair back, she couldn't stop thinking about how Erick had gone to her house, which was certainly a risky move, but he hadn't appeared during tonight's encounter.

A desperate thought occurred to her: What if Erick was also a victim? He didn't look exactly happy last time. What if they'd coerced him into helping them? What if he was under the Imperius curse, forced to pull the information out of her mother's mind right before killing her?

"No," Harry spoke up. "I mean... if somebody made a mistake and let something slip, I know they didn't mean to do it. It's not their fault. We've got to trust each other. I trust all of you, I don't think anyone in this room would ever sell me to Voldemort."

His voice came out louder than he would usually speak, and she almost believed him. The problem was that she'd stopped assuming every person in her life was inherently good. She still remembered Erick's words clearly:

"You're sacrificing yourself for someone who might not do the same in return."

Mundungus Fletcher had proven his point.

Moody would always say how foolish was to trust everyone simply because you considered them friends. That was the one thing he would criticize about Dumbledore, now she couldn't help but agree.

"Well said, Harry," said Fred, taking her by surprise.

"Yeah, there's no need to get all aggressive," said George.

"You think I'm a fool?" Harry asked staring at Remus, the man had a strange expression on his face.

"No, I think you're like James, who would have regarded it as the height of dishonour to mistrust his friends."

"And look how that turned out," Mel replied before she could stop herself.

Harry's gaze shifted at her remark, he was not happy.

"There's work to do," Remus spoke quickly, sensing an argument was on the verge of exploding. "I can ask Kingsley whether—"

"No, I'll do it, I'll come," Bill intervened.

"Where are you going?" said Tonks and Fleur.

"Mad-Eye's body. We need to recover it."

"Can't it—?"

"Wait?" said Bill. "Not unless you'd rather the Death Eaters took it?"

"I'm—"

"You're staying," Remus interrupted Mel harshly. "You're not leaving this house. Not tonight."

She gritted her teeth but knew she was fighting a losing battle. When the men left, Harry spoke.

"I've got to go too."

Mel sat down throwing her head back and closing her eyes tiredly, she knew this was going to happen.

"Don't be silly, Harry," said Mrs Weasley. "What are you talking about?"

"I can't stay here. You're all in danger while I'm here. I don't want—"

"But don't be so silly! The whole point of tonight was to get you here safely, and thank goodness it worked. And Fleur's agreed to get married here rather than in France, and we've arranged everything so that we can all stay together and look after you—"

"If Voldemort finds out I'm here—"

"But why should he?"

"There are a dozen places you might be now, Harry," said Mr Weasley. "He's got no way of knowing which safe house you're in."

"It's not me I'm worried for!"

"We know that, but it would make our efforts tonight seem rather pointless if you left."

"Yer not goin' anywhere. Blimey, Harry, after all we wen' through ter get you here?"

"Yeah, what about poor Fawkes?" George frowned. "He died for you!"

"He's not dead, George, don't scare him," Mel scolded him without opening her eyes.

"Mad-Eye wouldn't want—"

"I KNOW!"

"It's been a long night," She leaned forward on her seat and opened her eyes, keeping them on Harry. "I know you worry about Voldemort killing us in our sleep. I'm telling you now there's no way he can break the barriers without giving us at least a five-minute notice."

She stood up and supported both hands on the table.

"We're staying. You'll feel worse if you leave and Voldemort comes anyway."

"I think your comforting speeches got a bit rusty," Fred raised a brow.

"I'm sorry if it's not up to your standards, mister 'Nothing-a-snog-can't-fix'," She scowled, but her tone softened when she turned back to her boyfriend. "You know this is the right thing to do, Glasses."

Harry looked down in frustration, shaking his head slowly.

"Hedwig's with Pigwidgeon, Harry, we've given her something to eat... in case you want to see her," Mrs Weasley tried gently.

"I do. Where is she?"

"In Ron's room, dear..."

"Where's Grey?"

"He's asleep in my room," Ginny retorted.

Harry turned around to leave, but Hagrid spoke up.

"Wait till it gets out yeh did it again, Harry— Escaped him, fought him off when he was right on top of yeh!"

"It wasn't me," He stopped at the entrance of the kitchen. "It was my wand. My wand acted of its own accord."

"But that's impossible, Harry," Hermione replied. "You mean that you did magic without meaning to, you reacted instinctively."

"No. The bike was falling. I couldn't have told you where Voldemort was, but my wand spun in my hand and found him and shot a spell at him, and it wasn't even a spell I recognized. I've never made gold flames appear before."

This caught Mel's attention.

"Often," said Mr Weasley quietly, "when you're in a pressured situation you can often produce magic you've never dreamed of. Small children often find, before they're trained—"

"It wasn't like that," Harry's hand closed into a tight fist and trembled. She knew that face, his scar was hurting. "I think I need some fresh air before I see Hedwig..."

He turned around and crossed the kitchen, walking out without another word. Several of her friends stood up to follow but she stopped them.

"I'll keep an eye on him, don't worry."

He was standing in the same spot where they'd maintained their talk with the Minister last Christmas. Mel approached slowly, strange butterflies moved around her stomach, maybe they could find out who the spy was after all.

"Harry," She spoke, squeezing his shoulder lightly.

He shook his head and suddenly he doubled in pain, closing his eyes tightly. Mel snapped her fingers and a blindfold covered his eyes.

"I'm here," She said. "Be quick..."

Harry let out a painful cry and soon enough she felt the burning sensation on her forehead. Around thirty seconds passed until he came back to her, Harry took a staggering breath and straightened up.

"Harry?" She asked in concern.

"What... what is..." He touched the fabric on his face. "What is this?"

"He's probably too angry to notice if you're watching," She explained. "But I had to cover your eyes anyway, if he'd followed you back he wouldn't be able to see where you're standing... Was he talking to the spy?"

"No, he was talking to Ollivander— He's angry," He took off the blindfold. "Said that the problem would be solved by using someone else's wand... then Ollivander said that the connection only existed between his wand and mine, that he didn't understand why Lucius' wand had been destroyed..."

"Okay," She responded. "Then whatever happened with your wand has to do with you only..."

He looked up at her. "You believe me?"

"Of course I believe you. Your mind is at its best when you're duelling and your memory has never suffered from it, not like mine anyway... you're not the kind of person that makes up crazy stories when they're scared. If you say something happened and it wasn't you, I believe you."

Harry looked immensely grateful for that, Hermione and Ron walked out of the house to meet them.

"Guys, come back in the house... You aren't still thinking of leaving?"

"Yeah, you've got to stay," said Ron.

"Are you all right?" Hermione examined Harry closely. "You look awful!"

"Well," He shared a look with Mel. "I probably look better than Ollivander..."

He repeated his story to his friends, Hermione wasn't happy.

"But it was supposed to have stopped! Your scar— it wasn't supposed to do this anymore! You mustn't let that connection open up again— Dumbledore wanted you to close your mind!"

"He can close his mind, I taught him well," Mel grimaced. "He chose to do this."

Ron gaped. "Why would you do that, Harry? That was dangerous!"

"We were careful with it! I just thought... I thought that if Voldemort was talking to the spy—"

"That it would be a good idea to put us all at risk?" Hermione scowled, she looked at Harry with a piercing glare and continued. "Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too!"

Her friend turned around abruptly, Ron followed her quickly, not without sending Mel and Harry a sharp glare first. She felt ashamed of herself, they were right. Their loved ones' protection was far more important than any revenge.

"Mel," Harry spoke gently. "I did it because I wanted to, you just wanted to help—"

When he reached out to touch her, she moved away.

"This isn't a game, Harry. If we make a mistake, we could put everyone at risk."

"I know that," He said tensely. "But you taught me how to protect my mind— All I ask is for you to be near so you can watch after me while I look into his head. We're a team, right?"

She nodded wordlessly, unsure about Harry's decision. She didn't want to argue with him, it'd been a long day and she needed his affection. He tried to touch her again, this time she let him.

"We should go back," He mumbled, hugging her and speaking against her cheek. "You were amazing today, and I don't mean the fight only."

A small smile adorned her face, she held onto his robes, clutching the fabric tightly between her fingers. The girl moved her face a little and planted a short kiss on his cheek.

"I'm glad you enjoyed it, it'll be quite a while until we get to do that again."

"I think the wait's worth it..."

"I'm sorry, about what I said earlier, I didn't mean to make you feel bad about trusting our friends," She started to guide him back into the house. "I'm letting Flint's words affect me more than they should. He said not everyone would be willing to sacrifice their lives for our fight, that they would betray us in the end... now someone's done it..."

"We don't know that," Harry replied. "We've made mistakes before too, didn't we? When we made that reunion at the Hog's Head, and when Ron left that letter about Norbert in the book Malfoy took... Ginny almost got a few students killed when she was eleven!"

Mel hadn't considered that, but it was true. Mistakes like that happened all the time! Mundungus had a flimsy mind anyway, she could use legilimency next time and check, there was no need to get paranoid.

"You're no fool, Harry," She held his hand and squeezed. "You're sweet. I wasn't trying to upset you, truly... I guess I got a little scared. Remind me not to jump to the worst conclusions next time?"

"I'll try my best," She was a few weeks older than him, but something about his weary looks made her feel like a child in comparison.

Mel wanted to get rid of the weight he'd been dragging for years. He'd gone through so much, had seen so many people die for him... and soon he would have to face Voldemort. Mel was one of the few things left in Harry's life that made him happy, but she certainly didn't want to be one of the lasts.

"C'mon, I'll pour you another glass of firewhisky before bed..." Harry wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed the top of her head, unaware of her dreadful thoughts. "If you get drunk I'll carry you."

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thecringefailintherye · 4 years

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Oliver! (1968) Live (re) watch!

i have already seen oliver!, but not in ages, so i decided to watch it again, enjoy

very long post warning

fuckin hell these opening credits are LONG

i love the fact instrumentals of songs in the movie are playing

i have chocolate popcorn, apple lucozade and oliver! on, life is good

yes i know mark lester is oliver ive seen this like 20 times can i watch the film now

OH ABOUT FUCKING TIME

god is love

IS IT WORTH THE WAITING FOR IF WE LIVE TILL 84 ALL WE EVER GET IS GRUELL

i forgot how much of a banger food glorious food is

LOOK AT BABY MARK LESTER 🥺🥺🥺

ads in middle of movie be like

its harry secombe!

AMENNNN

oliver gets bullied the movie

look at this poor kid

MOREE????????

oh yes oliver i love this song

O L I V E R

poor kid

without any bannister yikes

the one who named him........O-L-IV-ERRR

oh were outside now

olivers just been kicked out oh shit

but on the plus side he has a cute ass hat on

BOY FOR SAY AL

look at oliver 🥺 he deserves better

SOWERBERRY MORE LIKE SHITTERBERRY

theres a severe lack of thats your funeral and i shall scream

noah claypole more like noah clayprick

“perhaps... if i had a tall hat?” BABEY

HES GOT HIS TALL HAT ON YES OLIVER

oliver said dab on them haters from your old gaff youre a funeral advisor now and theyre still homeless

DONT INSULT HIS MUM FUCK YOU NOAH

YES OLIVER KILL HIM

yes stuff the nine year old in a coffin and sit on it well done

"OLIVAH ??" "Yes im here: ((("

ITS MEAT!

oliver deserves better man

im gonna cry and were like 25 minutes in.

ik its not mark singing but whoever it is CAN SING WTF

i want to give him a hug

OH SHIT HES RUNNING AWAY

hes in the lettuce

LONDON YOU MADE IT !

yes oliver trains exist

DODGER!!!

whach you starin at aint ya ever seen a toff

the beak

look at lil jack wild

me more hintimate friends

cockney accent™️

the artful dodga

CONSIDERR YOURSSELF AT HOEME COSNIDER YOURSWLF OEN OF THE FAMILY !!!!!!!!!!

im sorry i love this song

look this scene is awesome, but it would be COMPLETE with charley oh wait he was demoted to extra and everything interesting abt him was given to dodger

he should have gotten the nobody tries to be ladeeda or uppity bit I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

this cast is BIG

okay i am a Charger Enthusiast but do we all agree there is something oddly homosexual about oliver and dodger in this song

note how dodger is scared of the police FORESHADOWING

ive taken to this SO STRONGITSCLEARWEREGOINGTOGETALONG

how many extras is this ???? yall better be gettin paid

its dodga comin up

this set is sraight out of the book i love it

CHARLEY MATE IM SORRY THEY MADE YOU AN EXTRA

“oh not again” does dodger just always show up with random workhouse kids

ah yes fagin the character whos still a negative jewish stereotype

more and more big cast

THESE SAUSAGES ARE MOULDY! (am i going to freak out whenever charley does anything because i love him? yes)

stfu drink your gin

is this a laundry?? no fam

THE BEST FUCKING SONG IN THIS MUSICAL

IN THIS LIFE ONE THING COUNTS

sorry if i dont add to this until pick a pocket or two is done bc its a straight banger

this song is EVERYTHING

hard at work lol ok

did he make those himself??? no

couple a wipes

EMBROIDERED THEM??? no

petition for all oliver twist adaptations to refer to charley as master bates like the book and for him to have actual lines and not have his actor switched at least three times

i dont even now who charley is at this point because his actor is switched many a time im just gonna say purple blazer kid is charley

anyway charley bates supremacy

whos bill sikes??? NO

fuck bill all my homies hate bill

rum tum tum is a banger

go bed now

take your hat off in bed dodger

movie fagin has rights

fagin leaving where will he go

BET IS THAT YOU

FUCK OFF BILL NO ONE LIKES YOU

NANCY NANCY HES HERE !!!!!! bet deserves everything and more ily 💖

NANCYYYY!!!!!!

its a fine life more like its a banger

wheres all of bets lines gone

bet 🤝 charley (being demoted to extras)

its not funny anyore bet.. bet girl please sing youre the best fucking thing about this song

such a happy song about domestic abuse

THERE SHE IS THATS MY GIRL BET I FUCKING LOVE YOU

bullsye rights!

i hate how this movie made fagin more symathetic but he’s still a “greedy jew” stereotype

oliver?????

at this moment fagin knew he fucked up

nancy you deserve better than bill

oh hi dodger forgot you existed

and the rest of you except oliver

ah yes charley “sausages” bates i missed you

THESE FUCKING KIDS THEY ALL LOVE BET AND NANCY MY HEART

im a regular gent i am. no dodger you arent

why is “permit me to assist you across the road” so fucking funny

pov dodgers back on his bullshit so you have to pretend to be a horse and cart for him

not “sir artful” 😭😭😭

anyfink for youu

WHAT FISTICUFFS???!!!

i feel sorry for the child extras man theyve prob had to film this scene like ten times

THESE KIDS CAN SING

the boys dancing with eachother is too fucking wholesome i love this

again, movie fagin rights

weed riissk lifee and limmbb

you promised we could go see the angin!!!!!

ats on boys time were off

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SONG

HOW COULD WE LET HOW COULD WE FORGET OUR DEAR OLD FAGIN WORRY!!

mate that aint single file did you not hear him

am i the only one who can hear london bridge is falling down in the back??

our pockets hold a watch of gold that chimes upon the hour!!! a wallet fat an old mans hat!!! the jewels from the tower!!!

WE KNOW THE NOSEY POLICEMEENNNN

dodger and charley (i am SURE charley is purple blazer kid even if havent seen this film in ages) are GETTING INTO THIS

oliver 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

movie fagin rights pt 27238227

DODGER OLIVER COME ON!!!!!!!!! alright dude chill

ARE YALL SEEING THIS SHIT, I WAS RIGHT, I TOLD YOU THAT THE LAD IN THE PURPLE BLAZER WHO SINGS “a wallet fat an old mans hat” WAS CHARLEY BATES AND GUESS WHAT HE FUCKING IS. I WAS RIGHT, PURPLE BLAZER KID IS CHARLEY YOU CAN LEAVE NOW

no dont were only an hour in

three kids on the back of the omnibus what will they do

dodger and charley said be gay do crimes

ah shit now look what youve gotten us into dodger

IT WASNT EVEN OLIVER IT WAS CHARLEY AND DODGER GO AFTER THEM

are dodger and charley straight up framing oliver for a crime they commited while also helping him escape

yes they are why are we surprised

i hate to break it to you dodger but hiding oliver in a meat sack doesnt work

OLIVERS ON THE ROOF????

charley and dodger got oliver into this mess and they are not going to get him out

WHY DIDNT YOU LOOK AFTER HIM????? right calm down fagin

how could i help it :((((

no bill!

stan nancy

“two other boys stole it” no shit

BROWNLOW !

run bitch run

right intermission time now

AND WE’RE BACK!

entr acte

who will buyyy

strawberry girl is carrying this

oliver owns my heart pt 278983728938728

this is a banger wtf

okay its done now right

right?????

UHH BILL???? DODGER???? BITCH WHY TF ARE YOU HERE

have bill fagin nancy and the boys been stalking oliver???

NO SHE WONT FAGIN!

shit.

fuck bill

this scene is far more sadder when you think of how the boys have just seen the only woman they see as a mother figure been hit to the flo or, im not crying, you are

as long as he needs me :(

FUCK YOU BILL

rose maylie is that you?!

look at lil oliver!!

BILL FUCK OFF

i hate bill

“look at his togs! he’s got books too!” charley and dodger are my emotional support kids

anyway have i mentioned i hate bill, bc i hate bill.

I REALLY REALLY HATE BILL

even fagin aka the guy whos keeping these kids as pickpockets has more morals than bill

WE STAY CALM!!

no bill i havent heard a dying chicken

act one was just childish antics now we have THIS

fuck bill

YOURE TELLING ME THE BOYS WATCHED THAT????

jack wild is a banging actor. he genuinely looks terrified 🥺

this film..

a mans got a heart hasnt he?? yes you do!!!

a full song dedicated to movie fagin rights?? did i ghostwrite this?? probably

banger

ithinkidbetterthinkitoutagain!

villains theives and nine year olds

MR BUMBLE?????!!!!!!!!!!

fuck bill pt72898376728909878199

bill youre traumatising him

cmon nance do something!!

also completely forgot abt this but uh does monks exist in this i forgot bc we have had no mentions of him yet

nancy tell him who bill is!!!

bullseye deserves better

uhm what is going on

bill sikes more like bill yikes

oliver what are you doing

BILL TERRIFIES ME

FUCK

omg oom pah pah????

leave oliver alone bill hes like nine

oh banger

OOM PAH PAH THATS HOW IT GOES!!!!!!!!!

just asking are nancy and bet lesbians bc they look it

COULD IT BE OOM PAH PAHHHHHH

god i love this song

IT SHOOOOOWSSSSSS

its the same oom pah pah

“She was from the country but now shes up a gumtree she let a fella feed her then lead her a long” foreshadowiinnggg

OOM PAH PAH! OOM PAH PAH! OOM PAH PAH!

nancy is so fucking smart

getting the whole pub singing and dancing to smuggle out oliver? clever

fuck

bill.. no.. bill.. bill????

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKC

BILL GET OFF HER

NANCY NO

HE STRAIGHT UP COMMIT MURDER AGAINST THE NICEST CHARACTER

BROWNLOW DO YOU NOT HEAR NOTHING

nancy deserved a better death than to be killed by bill fuck bill

EVEN BULLSEYE HATES YOU BILL

ARE THEY ACCUSING BULLSEYE OF MURDER

FUCK YOU BILL

movie fagin rights + fuck bill combo?

youre telling me fagin had an ESCAPE ROUTE??? AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOUSE THING??? THE WHOLE TIME???

BILL DONT KILL THE CHILD

BILL

fuck, well. #

“WHAT DO I DO!?” “LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME, DODGE ABOUT”

ten quid says dodgers been caught

oh no all fagins shit is gone

BILL DONT KILL THE CHILD PT 2

FUCK YOU BILL

GOD I HATE HIM

OLIVER MATE ARE YOU OK

never have i been so happy to see a character die

rest in shit bill

hi dodger thought you got caught n went to australia

god, this film is so fucking good.

reviewing the situation 2.0 goes hard

MOVIE. FAGIN. RIGHTS!

FAGIN YOU CAN BE A GOOD MAN YOU KNOW YOU CAN

DODGER??????????

IM TOTALLY NOT CRYING RN

FAGIN NO DONT TAKE IT

FUCKING PLOTTWIST

IT MADE IT LOOK LIKE FAGIN WAS GONNA GIVE THE WALLET BACK TO DODGER BUT NO

once the villain you’re the villain to the end

i completely forgot abt this scene since i’ve been reading the oliver twist book and in that dodger gets arrested and fagin gets hanged but here they get away?

god this is bittersweet

I THINK WE’D OUGHT TO THINK IT OUT AGAIN!!!!!

thats where the film should have ended, i get olivers the main character but it ending on dodger and fagin walking out into the sunset is such a pleasing ending man

oliver gets his happy ending abt time

YES CONSIDER YOURSELF AND BE BACK SOON (THE BIGGEST BANGERS IN THE FILM) CREDITS SONGS!!

well.. that was a journey and half

#oliver!#oliver twist #oliver #oliver! 1968 #oliver 1968 #charlie’s comfort movies #oliver twist 1968 #oliver! the musical #oliver the musical #musicals #1960s #1960s movies #60s #mark lester #jack wild #oliver reed #ron moody #shani wallis #and everyone else in the huge ass cast

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trespia · 4 years

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Im a lesbian, but honestly, i love Noah. In this house we love and appreciate noah Harris.

we stan a king truly

#answered #mtfl #anonymous

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emma-what-son · 4 years

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(Echee post) Emma Watson has stalkers and a bodyguard

Posted on March 23 2014

From dailymail.co.uk March 2014, "Harry Potter star Emma Watson has hired a former NYPD officer as a bodyguard to protect her from obsessed stalkers. The actress – thought to be worth £23 million – is believed to be paying the female officer £90,000 a year after a number of incidents of threatening behaviour towards her. The latest came as Emma, 23, right, was working on her new movie Noah, when an over-zealous ‘fan’ duped studio security staff and got on to the set. Emma, was left screaming, believing she was in danger, and filming had to stop. The British actress, who played Hermione Granger in the Potter films, is now constantly shadowed by blonde former New York Police Department officer Denise Morrone. A source said: ‘The one person Emma is never without is Denise. 'Emma has had problems with stalkers in the past and, because of her wealth, there is always the threat of kidnap. 'She pays for her bodyguard out of her own pocket and Denise accompanies her everywhere, even when Emma is out for dinner. Denise is always there, making sure she is safe.’ Another source said: ‘Denise is on high alert for one particular stalker who tracked Emma down on the set of her latest film. ‘She is very discreet and very good at her job. She is always there looking after Emma, but you wouldn’t know. ‘She makes sure Emma has plenty of space and freedom. If they are at dinner, Denise is part of the gathering, but is always on duty.’ The new arrangement marks a departure for Emma, who has seemed determined to try to live a low-key, normal private life unencumbered by a security detail. Post-Potter she went to Brown University in Rhode Island, New England, and Worcester College, Oxford, to study for a degree. When she has appeared in public she has had no visible entourage. A spokesman for Miss Watson, who has homes in London and New York, declined to comment." ^That's what the dailymail says but here below is what Emma said at the time.

From fansshare.com October 2012, "There was a lot of fuss made recently about the fact that a man who has been stalking Emma Watson managed to get onto her set before being chased off into the woods. It was claimed that Emma was terrified by the incident and feared for her safety. However, it appears that the claims were not true, as Emma has spoken out about the “incident” stating that nothing of the sort happened. Emma felt that she needed to let everybody know what’s what and hoped to clear up any confusion about the stalker situation. Watson took to her official Twitter account to say, “Ok. Few things to clear up. I was not terrified by a stalker in the woods. And he was not fought off by martial arts experts.#whowrotethisstory”. I don't get this DM article because Emma has had this bodyguard for ten years. I think this might be a great big dose of media sensationalism or maybe a planted story so everyone will go, "Aww poor Emma" because she has said some really dumb things lately. I've seen photos of Denise (the older blonde lady we always see her with) with Emma as far back as 2005 Here they are outside the Regis and Kelly show (USA) in 2005 and to the right currently in 2014

^She still looks 15 doesn't she? I've seen one or two candids of Denise with Emma at Brown. I've read an article from a Brown website (thank anonymous for tipping me off) where they were talking about her bodyguards on campus that followed her around. Here's Emma, some guy and Denise at Brown in the fall of 2010 (I can't find the others)

Here she is talking about stalkers in her GQ interview from last year From gq-magazine.co.uk May 2013, "Did you have stalkers? 'Yes. I do have people who show up from time to time in different parts of the world. I've never really known how to respond; I've never really known if I should be afraid or not. This is how I put it into perspective: thousands of women all over the world have to deal with feeling afraid when they walk home from the Tube, on their way to work, when they go out for a drink. Feeling not safe isn't something that is singular to me or my experience as a woman, and I don't think any of these people mean me any harm. They just tend to be people caught up, who don't really realise what they are doing, and I think it is very important that I don't allow it to isolate me further, to be another reason why I shouldn't go out and meet people or walk down the street. Weird guys sometimes take it too far, and that is it. I just keep a friend with me. I don't have a full-time security guard or anything like that. Even at university I went everywhere completely alone, which looking back was probably a pretty ambitious thing that I tried to do there, but somehow I got away with it. There were times when I did feel stressed and anxious and could probably have done with a bit more support. At the same time I would rather make my own mistakes and learn what I need. I think it is so easy when you get famous to just disengage from having a life and that can make some things really dangerous.'" Remember she told rookie magazine she used to lie about walking to places but had a car waiting for her? She was trying to make it seem she has this normal life. I reckon this could be another little white lie about not having a full-time guard because we've seen Denise with her for years. She's the woman that pushes people away and pulls her from signing autographs and even refuses people. How about other instances like Glastonbury where that big muscular man tailed her everywhere. At airports when Denise is not there she has men which looks to be bodyguards to me. When she went to the Box Night Club she had a bodyguard. They're rare shots because most candids are just of Emma and Denise or Emma and a friend or boyfriend. You really think Emma travels alone? For example

Last photo from 2011: Check this out and seethe altercation You rarely catch her bodyguards photographed other than Denise who looks more than just a bodyguard. I think she's more like a bodyguard/assistant. I bet they are always around but you wouldn't know it. I'd go as far as saying they probably follow her from a distance to make it seem like she's really by herself. Here's something she said in 2009 and it was really stupid From wonderwall.msn.com July 2009 (interview with Dan, Rupert and Emma. she started brown in Sept 09) In this film, Ron has sort of a stalker girlfriend. Has it ever gotten strange where you're dating people who are more interested in dating Harry, Ron or Hermione rather than yourselves? Emma Watson: "I'm dating my stalker, actually." It's dumb to even give a stalker the time or day in a magazine discussing them. It will probably embolden them by fueling whatever twisted fantasies they have in their head. If it were me I would not even mention it. In 2010 she said this From digitalspy.com November 2010, "Emma Watson has revealed that she and her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint used to hide from their security guards. The actress admitted that she "hates" having bodyguards and prefers to deal with the attention she receives on her own. Watson explained: "I hate having bodyguards and when we were younger, Dan, Rupert and I used to try to hide from the people trying to keep an eye on us." The 20-year-old went on to say that she now feels comfortable traveling on public transport by herself. She added: "Now it's like, 'Really, I'm fine'. I take the train and the bus and, if I don't dress up too much, I'm usually fine. Occasionally people stop me but I'd rather deal with that than not go out at all. That'd be really tragic." In her most recent interview for Elle she said this From snitchseeker.com March 2014, “So while Radcliffe reportedly rarely leaves his house without a bodyguard, Watson memorably began her college career by moving into the freshman dorm-the very definition of exposed. She lopped off her hair, appeared in a student production of Chekhov. There were moment, she says, when she thought, “I don’t know if I can do this. Or if this is sensible anymore.” But she held firm, turning down high-profile work that would interfere with her studies. “I just don’t want a life where I can’t have a life, “she says. “And so I’ve been just unbelievably stubborn about it.” ^Peculiar and then this article comes out about her hired bodyguard. Could it have been Radcliffe's people saying, "Hey, wait a minute" and then ratted Emma out? That last quote, the newer one, is of course a total contradiction from what she said about Brown before. I don't know it's that's the truth or this is some rouse to plant the idea she was heckled out of college life. I don't know but one thing is for sure I don't believe most of what comes out of this girls mouth. I'm like those towns people that had it with the games of the little boy that cried wolf. As for the stalking it's the only thing I'll give her sympathy for. I think it would suck. If it's an over zealous stan or a weirdo I don't think it's cool. If you like or even dislike her there are still lines you should never cross and that includes invading her space. She's just one fake ass actress that lives in her own head that plays make believe and makes millions off it. Then of course she complains about it and manipulates the media and her fan base to cover up "the real Emma Watson". She's a prettily weaved illusion designed to trick you. There is no such thing as the perfect person and just because she is pretty it does not make her perfect girlfriend material. Stans and weirdos please understand this.

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hey noah!! if it's not too much to ask, can i ask for an it (2019) drabble? something like you and the loser's club reunite and throw a silly halloween party just for fun (and you insist everyone wears a costume, no matter how lame), and while you're all drinking and eating too much candy and watching scary movies, you all reminisce about spending halloween together as kids and trick or treating together? i'm so sorry if isn't clear/too much detail for a drabble! hope you're having a great day!

AN: This is an Eddie and Stan live AU

Ben dug through the candy bowl in search of a Twix, eyes still focused on the movie that was playing. Bev leaned up against him, her witches hat thrown on the ground in an effort to keep from hitting Ben in the face when she moved around.

“See know what I don’t get is why you would willing go back inside the house” she spoke

“Would you leave all your valuables in there?’ Bill questioned

“Absolutely. Besides I thought they didn’t even own the place, they were just there for vacation. It’s not as though anything inside belongs to them, just leave” Eddie chimed in.

Mike reached over and grabbed a pack of Skittles, throwing them at Richie “Before you say anything stupid, have some more candy”

It had been over a year since the Losers Club officially defeated Pennywise. While each person was living life far apart a group text kept you in each others lives. As kids Halloween had been a big deal for you all, planning costumes months in advance, mapping out which houses were supposed to have the best candy, and figuring out how to convince Eddie’s mom to let him come with you all. Often that meant lying about the amount of adult supervision. None became everyone’s parents going which you were surprised she’d never seen through.

It had been your idea to throw a Halloween party and to see who could make it. Only one requirement if someone was coming. Everyone had to wear a costume. Ben and Beverly had come as a witch and wizard. Bill was straight out The Shining as Jack Torrance only toting a laptop rather than a typewriter, Eddie a pirate constantly adjusting his eyepatch. Richie had decided to come Frankenstein which worked well with his height, Stan was a werewolf (you all called him out on the fact he’d fallen into old habits as he was once a werewolf three years in a row back in Derry). Mike decided he’d be Will Smith in Men In Black, it was simple and he’d pulled it off well.

You’d banned any films based on Bill’s books although he understood and had gotten better with his endings, none of the movies reflected that as they were based on older novels. Instead everyone had voted on a handful of ‘classic’ horror films, good old fashioned slashers and a few Universal monster films.

With the entire Losers Club back together again you’d found yourself falling back on regained memories.

“Hey remember that year Mrs Harris gave everyone in Derry oranges rather than candy”

Bill groaned, “Yes! Only thing worse than giving someone a toothbrush is giving someone fruit”

“Was that the year before or after you guys had to sneak me out of the house because we used all the bandages in my house turning me into a mummy and my mom thought I was severely injured” Eddie questioned.

Ben shrugged, “I swore they were the same year but either I'm wrong or she gave out oranges more than once”

“More than once. But they were good oranges.”

Stan shook his head, “Only you’d actually go and eat them Richie.”

#locke writes #it #the losers club #it drabble #the losers club drabble

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My Emmy’s 2018 Predictions

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

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

COMEDY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DRAMA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOVIE/MINI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REALITY/VARIETY

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

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

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

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

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

#emmys #emmys 2018 #emmy nominations #Emmys winners #Emmys prediction list #nbc #emmys on tumblr #paper--planes

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post event starters call!

can double as a starter/plotting call.

for the after effects of the ball or whatever really!

if we do a new thread here, then most likely we’ll end the event thread (a swap-aroo if you will)

( 3 / 5 ) audrey rose | sarah jeffery | descendants | 22 | not aware

prince phillip ( @papcrrings )

daphne blake ( @hiddenpxpercuts )

erica reyes ( @irongcld )

( 1 / 5 ) dani powell | aurora perrineau | prodigal son | 32 | aware

malcolm bright ( @mccnlighht )

( 1 / 5 ) tara carpenter | becky g | scream | 19 | not aware

zed necrodopolis ( @hiddenpxpercuts )

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( 4 / 5 ) arya stark | bailee madison | game of thrones | 19 | not aware

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( 3 / 5 ) missandei | nathalie emmanuel | game of thrones | 33 | aware

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blathers ( @mvsicinthedvrk )

( 2 / 5 ) reva sevander | dewanda wise | star wars | 28 | aware

leia organa ( @mcrcki )

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( 1 / 5 ) bail organa | adam rodriguez | star wars | 30 | aware

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( 2 / 5 ) emily fields | cassie steele | pretty little liars | 25 | aware

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( 1 / 5 ) ekko | jonathan daviss | arcane | 20 | newly unaware

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( 1 / 5 ) laenor velaryon | jordan fisher | house of the dragon | 24 | not aware

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( 0 / 5 ) kiara carrera | madison bailey | outerbanks | 22 | newly aware (and now a vampire)

( 1 / 5 ) jacen solo | jacob elordi | star wars | 27 | not aware

winter celchu ( @skyfcll )

( 3 / 5 ) rue | celeste o’connor | the hunger games | 20 | not aware

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( 4 / 5 ) pietro maximoff | jesus castro | marvel comics | 29 | aware

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( 2 / 5 ) america chavez | herizon guardiola | marvel | 23 | aware

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( 6 / 5 ) alaric saltzman | andrew koji | the vampire diaries | 34 | aware

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( 6 / 5 ) roxanne weasley | zendaya | harry potter | 21 | aware

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( 3 / 5 ) cindy berman | emily rudd | fear street | 25 | not aware

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( 5 / 5 ) rachel green | haley lu richardson | friends | 27 | not aware

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~Admin Hidari Ver.~ elliott and I talked about this a little and being the great content creators we are,,,, decided to copy paste an ask meme to satisfy your curiosity. questions are from here --> http://fyeahaskmemes.tumblr.com/post/152629812132/identity-askoh-shit

I’ll now answer them under a cut so if you don’t give a shit you don’t have to read it. it’s 30 questions.

if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? -deep inhale- let’s see, on the trash side, just sO much gay manga, kpop, and youtube filth. on my Intellectual™ side, I quite like sci-fi and horror, a lot of Stephen King, right now my favorite novels/series are House of Leaves and The Monstrumologist. So the answer is, a mix of wholesome sparkly gay content, and just like, the darkest shit out there. Shout out to My Favorite Murder, the podcast I’m listening to now. Stay sexy, don’t get murdered.

have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who? It’s hard to tell since I mostly read fiction, but i’ve read a couple of comedic biographies/memoirs I really feel, like you go through this Bad Shit™ but you laugh at it, y’know? Trevor Noah is a fuckin icon, I read his book Born a Crime in one night, it was so fascinating and funny.

list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. listen. We could be here all day. let’s just boil it down to what I’m currently following in the weeb world. anime: violet evergarden, no one on this show is really relatable to me, but I love Violet and anyone who’s ever mean to her will catch these hands sanrio boys, I stan Hasegawa Kouta gakuen babysitters, I identify with the guy running the daycare tbh, I just always wanna take a fuckin nap manhua: their story, both girls are super cute and super gay, HEAVY RELATE 19 days, Guan Shan, probably because I also want to slam dunk He Tian into a trash can kpop: ikon, probably Chanwoo, I’m always ready to roast someone bts, Yoongi is absolutely just me 1000% blackpink, idk but I want each and every one of them to punch me in the face

do you like your name? is there another name you think would fit you better? I use ‘hidari’ here, which is just the kanji reading for my last name. which reminds me, y’all can follow me @hidariprince on insta even tho I never post u can see some of my art

do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do? mate, I’m barely even a human

are you religious/spiritual? nope, wasn’t raised that way, never picked it up.

do you care about your ethnicity? I have a slightly complicated family history that’s not directly acknowledged, so in the broader sense I just refer to myself as Asian, or east Asian. but I’m totally here for racial equality, representation, and making fun of white people lol

what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? my all time favorite band is 2NE1, and I will never fucking forgive YG for disbanding them what a fuckin gremlin that man is.

are you an artist? yes, but I’m aiming to be an animator. even though I’m awful at digital stuff.

do you have a creed? things I repeat to myself a lot are ‘do no harm, take no shit’ and also ‘but did you die though’

describe your ideal day. I sleep until noon. we eat the most calorie/carb filled brunch, then we go to the dog park. we stay there until sundown. we buy more disgusting junk food, and go home to binge watch movies or shows. it’s 3am, we’re eating cereal and talking about everything and nothing. we fall asleep at sunrise.

dog person or cat person? both, but definitely more dog

inside or outdoors? hella indoors, my bedroom is a dank cave with the blinds always closed, I emerge once in a blue moon

are you a musician? a terrible one. I played flute and piano but it’s just a casual hobby, I guess.

five most influential books over your lifetime. the bell jar -sylvia plath house of leaves -mark z. danielewski one hundered years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez the shining -stephen king complete h.p. lovecraft collection

if you’d grown up in a different environment, do you think you’d have turned out the same? I grew up in a totally great environment and I’m still constantly on the verge of losing my fucking mind, so yeah, maybe. genetic predispositions and all that.

would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”? not this one, but my personal, @skribblindaydreamer, is 100% me, just a living shitpost, just,,,, a mess

what’s your patronus? a polecat, according to pottermore.

which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle? we all know I’m a hugeass fucking slytherin, I’m not even in the hp fandom and I knew well before I took the pottermore thing

would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else? I wanna be wherever the wi-fi is, tbh

do you love easily? my first thought was ‘god I fall in love with every dog I see’ but then it occured to me this question probably means people, and in a romantic sense, listen I’m more about platonic love ok

list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order. -staying the fuck in bed -watching/reading/listening to something -drawing/writing -taking a fuckin nap -spending time with my doggo

how often would you want to see your family every year? I kinda live with them. I’m like,,, move out?? in this economy???

have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone? I don’t fucking know what that means, but I heavy relate with anyone who’s depressed, anxious, and gay af

could you live as a hermit? oh yeah abso-fucking-lutely, as long as I can have everything I need shipped to me. But also keep communication open and not run off into the woods because that’s how you get fucking murdered.

how would you describe your gender/sexuality? am I a pretty boy or a cute girl? who knows? I’m pan, so it doesn’t matter either way.

do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”? absolutely not. I’ve had many friends refer to me as ‘cute, until you open your mouth and speak’

on a scale from 1 to 10, how hard is it for someone to get under your skin? I mean, on a superficial level, it’s easy to make me snap something harsh if you’re being an asshole, but really get under my skin?? you’d have to have done something pretty bad because I’m honestly dead inside. Like, something goes wrong and I skip straight through the 5 stages of grief to acceptance.

three songs that you connect with right now. honestly, anything from the kimi no na wa (your name) soundtrack immediately hits me straight in the kokoro, especially Nandemonaiya not today -bts also literally any of Big Marvel’s screaming chicken covers is such a Big Mood

pick one of your favorite quotes. ‘Get a job. Buy your own shit. Stay out of the forest.’ -MFM

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kevinhaas · 7 years

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Homewreckage.

@sv-ev asked for Stan Frederick fanfiction. I, being the loch ness monster at the bottom of the Slenderverse cesspool, obliged.

80% awful comedy, 20% awful melodrama and 100% bullshitted nonsense, this is the antitheses of “In-Character” writing. I hope you still enjoy it, dude, and that is makes you laugh.

(Also, it’s a “““ship”““ fic (bc ofc it is), so if you wanted to maybe you could convince that other guy to read it with you. 👀 asdfghioiuhgvb )

"We can't keep meeting like this," Stan says. His tone is flat and in the darkness of the motel room, his expression is hidden. Like always, Noah notes bitterly, he keeps himself unreadable.

Noah snorts. "Uhh, whose idea was this in the first place, Stan? It sure as fuck wasn't mine."

Stan drags his hands down his face with a long, drawn-out sigh. Noah had a point, but Noah was also kind of a bitch.

He twists his wedding band between his fingers and reminds himself that he only loves Noah for his sweet, sweet bod. Much like the very heterosexual Harvey Milk or Oscar Wilde, Stan was not gay-- he simply appreciated the male form. He especially appreciated Noah's flat ass and unkempt beard when he was pounding him into the mattress-- platonically, of course.

"So, what? You wanna break up?" Stan suggests, tired. That would probably be the best solution. As much as Stan would miss having someone to do weird butt stuff with-- since he could only do weird knee and elbow stuff with his wife-- it had become hard to justify all the trips down to Florida. Originally, he had just told Susan that Slenderman's tomb was in the tropical rainforests of Miami and that in order to vanquish him, he had to exum his horcruxes and expose him to the morning sun after destroying them.

Susan, who read Harry Potter and thought horcruxes were real, was originally sympathetic. But when it took him more than a few months to machete his way through the lush Miamian canopy, she began to grow suspicious. He had told her-- while hastily concealing the lipstick mark from Noah that decorated his collar-- that Suitman Mansuit had sealed a chunk of his soul in a Nokia cellphone and instantly her anger softened.

Fondly, Stan regarded how open-minded and magical his wife was. She was beautiful and loving and funny and perfect; their personalities meshed together well and every day with her was a gift. Unfortunately, as I mentioned two paragraphs ago, there was no butt stuff, and since Stan was a heterosexual man, that was enough to make him stray.

His thoughts are interrupted by a pillow right to his got-damn head. "Stop inner-monologuing like you're on daytime TV!" Noah shouts. His lips quibble, and as hard as he tries to perpetuate his internal anger engine, he can't will himself to stay entempered with his paramour.

"Of course I don't want to break up!" Noah flings himself into Stan's waiting arms. Noah looks up at him, eyes moist and shining. "Why can't you just leave your wife? I want to be together."

It was a loaded question, so complicated but so simple.

The long answer was Henrich's Theory or Fates. First studied in 1717 by Hemlick Henrich, the Theory essentially states that the time at which one met a person determined the relationship those two might have. The younger the age two persons are when meeting, the more likely they are to retain incredible importance in each other's lives. However, the persons one might meet in adulthood often fail to have a lasting impact. (It was for this reason that 97% of eHarmony users that has met their spouses online would later kill and devour them. [Citation needed]) It was a complicated psychological theory, and the second-most praised one in Quacks Quarterly, right after every single thing Sigmund Freud had ever written.

Stan had met Susan and Connor in his impressionable post-fetal stage. They'd all grown up together, forming an intense bond. As a result, Stan had porked both of them and married at least one. Noah, however, hadn't come into his life until many years later, when his brain had already formed a protective cocoon around itself in order to keep out the sexy (but negative) influences that came with adulthood. Specifically, telemarketers and the Amish. The short answer was--

"Dude, I'm straight. YOU'RE straight. 'No homo' doesn't work if we run away together."

Noah rubs his eyes and shrugs. "I just thought it could be a bro thing, ya know? Just us traveling the country in a convertible, sharing a bed in seedy motels." He smiles shyly, sniffling. "Maybe buy a house in the 'burbs together, adopt a couple kids. Have a garden and a dog. There's nothing gay about co-parenting a dog, Stan"

Stan tenderly rests his hand on Noah's own. With an equal amount of soft tenderness, he whispers, "Noah, co-parenting a dog is kinda gay."

Noah grasps his hand. "It doesn't have to be gay," he murmurs. "It doesn't have to be."

"But you mentioned kids too."

"Nothing gay about two non-related men raising kids together."

"Noah." Stan sighs. He strokes Noah's hair, pressing their foreheads together. "We need to be realistic. We can't go on like this."

"What're you saying, dude?"

Stan's eyes flicker down and he smiles, bittersweet. He knew this was coming-- he'd known it for a while. He should have brought this up months ago, when their relationship was fresh, not so attached. It would have hurt then, certainly, but not to the extent that it did now.

The words that rested on his tongue made his stomach churn and his lungs ache. A lesser man would chalk this up to heartburn, but despite the Supreme Taco Party Pack from Taco Bell that they had shared before holing up in their love nest, Stan knew deep inside that this feeling was not gas, but regret. Regret that he couldn't bifuricate himself into two equally handsome dudes, like a sexy little worm.

But he couldn't. He had to choose between the love of his life-- his shining star, his rock, his hope. The one whose very presence could paint the grey sky blue and who was also really good at everything, especially late-night cuddlepiles-- And Noah, who let him put it in for free.

It was a tough call.

"What I'm saying, Noah, is... we're brover."

Noah stares at him for a moment-- or, Stan assumes he does. It's still too dark to see- in stunned silence. Then, wordlessly, he gets up and dresses, most likely putting his shirt on backwards before he walks out the door, slamming it behind him.

Stan isn't sure what did it: the finality of the declaration, so much like a knife in Noah's guts-- or the shitty fucking pun. Like his sexuality, Noah's temper really could go either fucking way.

Regardless, as Noah walks out of his life, there's an enormous amount of relief. It was a euphoric release of burden, comparable only to the feeling one might get by telling every one of their Twitter and YouTube followers to literally fuck off.

Stan flops back into the bed, which still smells of...whatever it is people in Florida bathe with. Orange juice, he thinks. He finds his phone, with its bulky waterproof case.

Stan calls his wife.

#Stan Frederick #the record of stan frederick #Mine #Fanfiction

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travllingbunny · 8 years

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What even is a Draco in Leather Pants?

Look, I really like the Television Tropes website. It’s fun and you can spend a lot of time reading it. The tropes it has formulated are, for the most part, the tropes you can actually discern and find quite often in fictional works, and the descriptions are usually quite witty and well supported. The examples and their justifications can be...questionable, since anyone can provide them, and may lead to a debate between contributors (i.e. anyone who has bothered to register and post), but still, usually the majority of examples make sense and more or less fit with the description provided at the top of the page.

But not always.

There’s supposed to be a trope called Draco in Leather Pants, which I had been vaguely aware for a while (basically, that it had something to do with people in the Harry Potter fandom stanning the character of Draco Malfoy and thinking he’s hot), and have been recently reminded because I’ve recently seen at least a couple of mentions of “leather pantsing”in various comments in fandom discussions, or links to the Television Trope page for said trope (for instance, a link to that page was provided in a page of a podcast about Jaime Lannister... who isn’t even among the examples listed on that page, BTW). So, it seems that this is supposed to be an actual trope and that people know what it’s supposed to be about.

Well, since I’ve actually looked at the above mentioned page, read the description and looked through the list of examples from various media given on that page, I understand even less what it’s supposed to be about. If anyone has a better understanding of it, please help me.

So, here’s the description from the Television Tropes page called Draco in Leather Pants:

”A form of Misaimed Fandom, when a fandom takes a controversial or downright villainous character and downplays his/her flaws, often turning him/her into an object of desire and/or a victim in the process. This can cause conflicts if the writers are not willing to retool the character to fit this demand.”

Then the text proceeds to talk about how such a character is treated in fanfiction, why this happens, and finally explains the origin of the term:

“ Named for a term in the Harry Potter fandom, for the mostly sympathetic Fan Fic portrayals of Draco Malfoy, who, in Canon, is a petty, smug, elitist Spoiled Brat. (The term originated in Hurt/Comfort Fics, where Draco was the comforter and Ron was the abuser, usually with Hermione being the victim. Not coincidentally, the Inverted Trope Ron the Death Eater also originated from such fics.) “

I have never read any of the Harry Potter books, and have only seen a couple of early movies on TV, so I’m largely unfamiliar with this entire franchise. But from what I gather, the point is Draco Malfoy is supposed to be merely an antagonistic bully and not a particularly sympathetic character or a sex symbol in canon, but fanon and/or fanfiction made him into both these things? Right?

However, the description is both highly specific, because it includes several different things that don’t necessarily have to go together, but at the same time strangely vague and wide:

The character in question has to be “controversial or downright villainous”. What exactly does this mean? Does it have to be a villainous character, or a controversial one? Many characters are both of these things at the same time, but a villainous character does not need to be controversial (if almost everyone agrees they’re awful and almost nobody likes them, there’s no controversy there), and there are plenty of controversial characters that aren’t villainous. Controversial merely means that there are very strong and very different and polarizing opinions about something or someone, with opposing views being both shared by a significant number of people. Heroic characters or characters meant to be sympathetic can be very controversial.

The “fandom” takes this character and “downplays his.her flaws”. What exactly does this mean? What is meant by “fandom”? It’s really unlikely that it means “literally everyone who’s a fan of that franchise”, since it’s extremely unlikely that 100% of any group of people feel the same about something, so what percentage are we talking about? 90%? 75%? Two thirds? Over 50%? At least 20%? A vocal minority? A reviewer/blogger or two? Anyone who writes a fanfic or posts a Youtube fanvideo? Someone you’ve just argued with online? What is the cutoff?

...” often turning him/her into an object of desire and/or a victim in the process”. So, apparently the fandom, whatever that means, does not necessarily have to turn this character into an object of desire and/or victim, but what I gather from this must be a character who is not presented as an object of desire in canon, and is not presented as a victim in canon. At least not intentionally, by the creators of said media.

OK, now we’re getting somewhere. This is pretty specific. The character may or may not be a villain, but absolutely must not be presented in canon as either 1) sexy/desirable or as 2) victimized/suffering in any notable way? Got it.

Now, I’m not sure why exactly this description suggests that it’s necessary to downplay someone’s flaws in order for that someone to be an object of desire or for that someone to be a victim. I mean, these are clearly three different concepts:

(relatively) flawless person

object of desire

victim

Of course, a real person or a fictional character can be two or all three at the same time, but that’s not at all necessary. They may be just one or those things, or two of these things, but not the third. They may be a character or characters who are none of the three in canon but are all three in fanon/fanfics - I’ll trust the Television Tropes page that Draco Malfoy is all of these things. But I’m not sure how many other fictional characters there actually are that fit that entire description. I can’t think of many.

But since the term “leather pants” is in the title, this should suggest that it’s the sex symbol status that’s the emphasis of this trope, right? Not downplaying of flaws or victimization? Because I really don’t see the connection between people wearing leather pants and people being victims or not having notable flaws.

So, I guess we could say that Ramsay Bolton in his Villain Sue version in the TV show Game of Thrones is a Draco In Leather Pants, if we treat GoT as a fanfic, taking the canon Ramsay Bolton from George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, who’s described as a very ugly, fleshy dude with no appealing qualities, with a certain low cunning but no great intelligence or skill or courage, who’s not considered as sexy by anyone in universe (and has no consensual sexual relationship with anyone, instead only being interested in raping and torturing people) and turning him into a cute, frequently shirtless Rambo-style fighter with a loving girlfriend who even finds himself as an apex of a love triangle of sorts (even if it’s a one-sided triangle, in that the abused but smitten girlfriend is jealous of the hot new wife Ramsay will get to rape). This fits the trope pretty closely, no?

However, Ramsay is not in the list of examples on the page. Here are, instead, some of the characters listed by various contributors as examples of this trope. These are about 90% of all character listed that I’m familiar with:

Film:

Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) from Labyrinth

Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Pirates of the Caribbean

Riddick (Van Diesel)

Frank N Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tony Montana from Scarface

Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs

Darth Vader from the Star Wars saga

Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (as played by Marlon Brando)

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator from The Terminator (it's actually mentioned that he literally wears leather pants in the movie)

Sarah Connor (specifically in Terminator II: Judgment Day)

Harry Lime (Orson Welles) from The Third Man (it's actually acknowledged that he's that "both Out and In-Universe)

Loki from MCU

Tony Stark from MCU, called an "Odd heroic variation"

Magneto from X-Men:First Class

Literature:

Hannibal Lecter (again) from Thomas Harris' novels (The Silence of the Lambs and Hanibal Rising are specifically mentioned)

Sandor Clegane from A Song of Ice and Fire

Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights

Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice (called "an unusual example of this trope”)

Live-Action TV:

Grant Ward from Agents of SHIELD

Dandy Mott from American Horror Story: Freak Show

Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Faith from Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

The Master from Dr Who ("particularly in his Athony Ainley and John Simm incarnations")

The Tenth Doctor

Ianto from Torchwood (called "an odd heroic version")

Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica

Alex Krycek from The X-Files

Sylar from Heroes

Noah Bennet from Heroes

Cole Turner from Charmed

Phoebe from Charmed

Scorpius from Farscape

Eric Northman from True Blood

Lex Luthor from Smallville

Furio from The Sopranos

Ben Linus from Lost

Gene Hunt from Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes

Alex from Dark Angel ("somewhat. While he's a good guy by the end..." starts the description)

Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones

Dr Gregory House

Barney from How I Met Your Mother

Tate Langdon from American Horror Story: Murder House

Regina Mills from Once Upon a Time

Rumpelstilskin from OUAT

Jefferson from OUAT

Captain Hook/Killian Jones from OUAT

Tony DiNozzo from NCIS (the description actually says "He's good person deep down (...) and isn't by definition an actual villain" before going into why he's supposedly a Draco In Leather Pants)

Walter White from Breaking Bad

Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries

Klaus from The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Now, hold on. After going through this list, I’m even more confused. Either the above description of the trope is incorrect or really poorly worded, or most of the people who have posted supposed examples have no idea what that trope is supposed to be about.

Because, while quite a few of these characters - but not all! - are villains/antagonists or were villains at some point, many (in fact, the majority) of these characters are actually sexualized and presented as objects of desire in canon, by actual creators of the media in question. Now, I’m not sure if the writers, producers and directors of The Silence of the Lambs initially intended to make Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter a sex symbol (unlike Mads Mikkelsen’s Hanibal Lecter from the TV show, who clearly was intentionally presented that way and treated as such in-universe) - but I’m pretty sure they always meant for him to be fascinating and strangely appealing while also being super-evil and scary - the way they clearly did not portray Buffalo Bill, or even Chilton, who’s not really a villain but is clearly intentionally portrayed as annoying and hateful. However, I really want to know if someone is seriously going to argue that David Bowie’s extremely tight pants in The Labyrinth happened because the costuming department just couldn’t find anything bigger and looser for him to wear, or that characters such as (among others) Faith, Spike, Damon Salvatore, Klaus, Eric Northman, Grant Ward or Captain Hook from OUAT were not intended to be objects of desire, and that it was somehow the fandom that “turned” them into sex symbols, totally unprovoked, to the total shock and horror of the creators of these shows, who refused to “retool” these characters that were totally not meant to be sexy, no sir! I don’t think that anyone is going to argue that, and if they did, they either did not watch these shows at all, or are being completely dishonest.

What are we even talking about here? It’s really strange if not downright hypocritical to complain about the “fandom” putting certain characters in “leather pants”, when the canon has already put them in (metaphorical and in some cases also literal) leather pants to begin with. That’s not “Misaimed Fandom”. That’s the opposite of it - the showrunners were aiming for it and hit the target, intentionally playing up the actors’/characters’ sex appeal, often in really obvious ways. Unless I’m supposed to believe that things like frequent shirtless or nude scenes, tight/leather clothes, female gazey/male gazey (whichever applies) camera shots, and other fanservicey moments are there for no plot-related reason, just happened by accident, and that the writers wrote these characters as sexy and desirable in-universe with a bunch of other characters commenting on or falling for their charms, not to mention blatant ship teases or actual romantic/sexual relationships with protagonists - but somehow expected the audience to not see them as desirable, at all.

Which, BTW, does not necessarily have anything to do with downplaying a character’s flaws, or to what extent they are portrayed sympathetically. Many of the characters on the list are both given some sympathetic qualities and complexity and intentionally presented as desirable, but you can have one without the other. Case in point: Dandy Mott from AHS:FS - totally evil, no redeeming qualities, not sympathetic at all, but Finn Wittrock sure did not have all the nude scenes because the plot demanded it.

Furthermore, on the second point: most (actually, the majority, although there are some exceptions) of these characters were actually given tragic backstories and/or had terrible things happen to them in canon in scenes that were supposed to be dramatic and tragic and were clearly intended to elicit at least some degree of sympathy or empathy. For instance, you may argue how bad or evil or good Sandor Clegane is, but can anyone deny that he’s canonically a victim of horrible abuse by his brother, which has left him physically scarred and disfigured for life, and left even an harsher psychological and emotional trauma that’s defined his life? No. You can’t deny that. And some of the other above mentioned characters have had entire episodes and storyarcs or, heck, even entire movies devoted to their tragic backstories. It doesn’t make sense to accuse the fandom of “turning (x) into a victim”, when that character is already portrayed as a victim (among other things, and at least at some point in their arc or their backstory) in canon, intentionally, by the actual creators of said media.

Which, BTW, has absolutely nothing to do with downplaying a characters’ flaws or the villain/hero status in the narrative. You don’t have to be a flawless person or even a good person in order to be or have been a victim (of abuse, rape, torture, murder etc.) and being a bad person or doing bad things does not disqualify you from the victim status. Conversely, being victimized at some point in your life does not automatically make you a good person or a hero, and does not preclude you from doing evil things and/or being a perpetrator of crime/abuse. I shouldn’t really need to explain this, it’s pretty obvious and basic.

In short, there is no reason why villainous, semi-villainous, anti-heroic or super flawed characters can’t canonically be objects of desire, victims, or both. Many, in fact, are.

So then, maybe half of the description of this trope should really be scrapped, and it’s all just about downplaying the flaws of villainous characters?

But that doesn’t fit either, because quite a few of the characters listed on this page either did not remain villains and eventually became heroes (Faith and Spike, for instance - and heck, even Darth Vader got last minute redemption) or simply aren’t and have never been villains. In fact, several of these - such as the Doctor, Sarah Connor or MCU Tony Stark - are definitely heroes and protagonists of their stories. Flawed heroes are still heroes. RDJ’s Tony Stark is clearly meant to be super flawed and occasionally annoying, but still likable, and certainly heroic. Others aren’t heroic, but are clearly not meant to be disliked by the audience, in spite of their shitty behavior (e.g. Barney from HIMYM).

In fact, people who wrote some of these entries even admit that the character they think is a Draco in Leather Pants is “a heroic example” or “a good person deep down” - which contradicts what the trope is supposed to be about. Some entries are even complaining about the treatment of said characters not by fandom, but in the actual canon - which, again, completely contradicts what the description says the trope is all about (Misaimed Fandom).

OK, maybe listing heroic or other non-villainous characters does not contradict the description - because it says “controversial or downright villainous character”? But a controversial character is simply one that polarizes opinions. It’s usually pretty clear which characters are supposed to be villainous, but any character can be controversial. For instance, someone has listed Sarah Connor and said that people see her as “flawless icon of feminism” and then proceeded to criticize her character flaws - but someone else replied that many people may actually see the character as feminist exactly because she’s a heroine who is flawed and complex, rather than a flawless paragon of anything, and that it’s great to see female characters allowed to be flawed heroes, just like male characters so often are.

How do you actually separate the controversial from the non-controversial characters? If a bunch of people think a character is smart and awesome, and a bunch of others think the same character is stupid and annoying, that’s a controversial character. But do these groups have to be roughly the same in size for a character to be controversial? How many people in fandom need to hold one or the other opinion? Is Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer a controversial character, or just an unpopular one? Many people often go about how hated she was, but I know quite a few BtVS fans who love Dawn.

And even if we agree on that, well - whether people are “downplaying” a character’s flaws is pretty debatable in itself, isn’t it? Yes, sometimes people ignore canon flaws or bad actions of their faves in fanfiction or fandom debates. But what if some fans acknowledge that their faves are flawed and have done shitty things, but insist that they also have good traits and the bad doesn’t outweigh the good, or even simply that they still like them in spite of all? Someone else who hates that character and thinks that they’re the Worst Ever and pretty much the closest thing to Antichrist may say that they are “downplaying their flaws”. But the other party may reply that it’s in fact the hater who’s overplaying their flaws. It’s not really an exact science - and that’s exactly what makes a character controversial.

And, well, if the point of the trope is to complain that there are different and opposing opinions about controversial characters, in other words, that there’s controversy about controversial characters... well, duh?

So, at the end of this analysis that’s probably way too long... I’m even more confused than I was at the beginning. I’d really appreciate it if someone would help me understand what this trope is about, if it’s even a trope, and why it’s called what it’s called. Is it supposed to be about:

complaining about characters that aren’t supposed to be sexy /desirable/ appealing in canon, but some rather sizable portion of the fandom treats them as if they were? (Which would be the one explanation that would fit the name of the trope.)

complaining about characters that aren’t victimized/don’t suffer in canon, but some reasonably large portion of the fandom treats them as if they are?

complaining about characters that fit both of the above, at the same time?

complaining about characters that are villainous, but a lot of people like them and sympathize with them anyway (regardless of whether the canon offers them material for that)?

complaining about the fact that authors of some canon works like to make their villains complex and somewhat sympathetic or give them heartbreaking moments and tragic backstories?

not being upset with canon for giving villains heartbreaking moments and tragic backstories, but complaining anyway about the fact that a lot of fans sympathize with them, because you think that fandom should be stronger than that and bravely resist the authors’ attempts to elicit sympathy for bad people?

complaining about the fact that authors of some canon works portray their villains/antagonists as desirable and try to make them into sex symbols?

complaining about the fact that they’ve actually succeeded in that, which upsets you because you think that fans should all be morally stronger and be able to resists for the authors’ blatant fanservice and sexualization of morally corrupt characters?

just an umbrella term for people’s tendency to downplay or ignore their favorite characters’ flaws (which may apply to not just to villains, but to any character who has any flaws or has done something wrong or morally dubious)?

merely an excuse to bitch about the fact that, shockingly, there are some fans who have a different opinion than you and like a character that you strongly dislike?

#fandom #tropes #Television Tropes #Draco in Leather Pants #what even is a Draco in Leather Pants

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starwarsnonsense · 8 years

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Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2017

And here’s my list of the most anticipated films of 2017! There are loads of really exciting films coming out this year, and while my most anticipated film is a no-brainer I hope you find the rest of the list interesting.

Honourable mentions: The Handmaiden, Okja, Mute, Beauty and the Beast, Manchester by the Sea, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Moonlight, Wonder Woman, Kong: Skull Island, Baby Driver, Split, The Book of Henry and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

n.b. I’m in the UK, so several of the films I include here have already has a release in the US. We’re always playing catch-up!

1. Star Wars Episode VIII

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher

Plot: Having taken her first steps into a larger world, Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the saga.

Why be excited? I could just write ‘because it’s Star Wars’, but since I believe in putting effort into these things I’ll try to be somewhat more articulate. I really adored The Force Awakens, and it filled me with a sense of wonder and joy I hadn’t experienced in the cinema for a long, long time. I loved the new characters it introduced (particularly Rey, Kylo and Finn) even more than the stalwarts of old, so the promise of seeing their stories continued in the next episode is thrilling in the extreme. I also happen to be a huge admirer of Rian Johnson’s work (I particularly love The Brothers Bloom), so I’m incredibly excited to see Rian’s “weird thing” (imo, the weirder the better!)

2. Silence

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Issey Ogata, Tadanobu Asano

Plot: The young Portuguese Jesuit Sebastião Rodrigues is sent to Japan to succor the local Church and investigate reports that his mentor, a Jesuit priest in Japan named Ferreira, based on Cristóvão Ferreira, has committed apostasy.

Why be excited? I’ve long admired Scorsese and shamelessly stan his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, so am thrilled to see them collaborating on a film that tackles such an obscure and fascinating period of history. The cast is top flight, and the magnificent trailer does a fantastic job of evoking the tension of the scenario. Silence is also Scorsese’s passion project (he’s been trying to get it made since the 1980s), and suffice to say I happen to find passion positively infectious.

3. La La Land

Director: Damien Chazelle

Cast: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons

Plot: The story of Mia, an aspiring actress, and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musician, struggling to make ends meet while pursuing their dreams in a city known for destroying hopes and breaking hearts.

Why be excited? Whiplash hit me like a ton of bricks when I caught it on blu-ray last year, and it easily has one of the best endings of any film I’ve ever scene. The quality of Chazelle’s previous offering alone would have been enough to get me hyped for this, but it’s also a musical that honours the golden age of Hollywood. That, combined with the stellar reviews, makes this unmissable for me.

4. Mother

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Brian Gleeson

Plot: Mother concerns a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence

Why be excited? This will be Aronofsky’s first film since the batshit crazy biblical film that is Noah, and I’m fascinated to find out what the hell Mother even is (seriously - we know much more about Episode VIII than we know about this). All I know is that I will follow Aronofsky’s career for as long as he continues to make movies.

5. The Shape of Water

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones

Plot: A Cold War-era fairytale about a mute woman who falls for an amphibious man.

Why be excited? Much like Mother, we know very little about The Shape of Water. I’m very excited for this film for the same reason that I’m excited for Mother - I love del Toro’s work, from The Devil’s Backbone right through to Crimson Peak. Del Toro is fantastic at melding fantasy with real-world struggles (see: The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth), so I’m extremely intrigued to see him returning to a theme that he’s handled with aplomb before. The delightfully surreal synopsis only compounds my excitement.

The list is continued below the cut!

6. Dunkirk

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, James D'Arcy, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Barry Keoghan, Jack Lowden, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance

Plot: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Why be excited? I’m not exactly a huge Nolan-ite (though I respect him and enjoy his work, he’s not exactly one of my favourites), but the preview for Dunkirk that played before my IMAX screening of Rogue One blew me away. The scope and intensity of the preview literally made the auditorium shake, and the cast Nolan has lined up is simply fantastic. While war movies aren’t normally my thing, the spectacle promised by Dunkirk is enough to make me very excited to witness it on the big screen.

7. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Director: Luc Besson

Cast: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, Clive Owen, John Goodman, Ethan Hawke, Rutger Hauer

Plot: In the 28th century, special operatives Valerian and Laureline maintain order throughout the universe for the government of the human territories. Under orders from their commander, the duo embark on a mission to Alpha, an intergalactic city where diverse species share their technology and resources for the betterment of all. The ever-expanding metropolis is also home to sinister forces that jeopardize the future of mankind.

Why be excited? I expect and need Valerian to fill a Jupiter Ascending-shaped hole in my soul, and it looks set to deliver. The extravagant and bizarre alien worlds depicted in the trailer, along with the cheerfully gonzo pedigree of Luc Besson (the mind behind The Fifth Element and Lucy), make me optimistic that 2017 is going to mark a return to the weird and unrestrained big-budget filmmaking that helped make 2015 such a great year for cinema.

8. Jackie

Director: Pablo Larraín

Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt

Plot: Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

Why be excited? The trailers for this film have all been exquisite, and Natalie Portman’s performance has really struck me as powerful and compelling just in the brief glimpses I’ve seen of it so far - I’ve loved her as an actress since V for Vendetta (having previously loved her as a clothes horse in the prequels) and have been following her career closely ever since. The fairy tale of the Kennedys in the White House has always fascinated me, and I’m particularly drawn to this film because it promises a tightly focused examination of how that fairy tale fell apart.

9. Blade Runner 2049

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis

Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Why be excited? I love the original Blade Runner, and that love would normally make me avoid a film titled Blade Runner 2049 like the plague. However, everything seems to be aligned for this to be a great film: it was co-written by Hampton Fancher, who wrote the original screenplay; the cinematography is by the legend Roger Deakins (who filled the same position on the original); and the director’s chair is filled by the marvellous Denis Villeneuve, whose film Arrival was one of my favourites of 2016. With that team assembled, I have faith that this will be something special.

10. War for the Planet of the Apes

Director: Matt Reeves

Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson

Plot: Following the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar and the apes are embroiled in a war against an army of humans. As the apes suffer heavy losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts as he resolves to avenge his kind. The war pits Caesar against the humans' leader, a ruthless Colonel, in an encounter that will determine the fate of their species and Earth's future.

Why be excited? This new Apes trilogy is shaping up to be one of the best cinematic trilogies we’ve had yet, taking a fascinating concept first visualised in the 1960s and bringing it bang up to date. These films also maximise the potential of mo-cap technology to its fullest extent, and one of the main reasons I’ve loved and admired the previous Ape films so much has been how they manage to get you rooting for the apes far more than the humans. I’m excited to see this story continued, especially with the promise of seeing the apes well and truly inherit the Earth.

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New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: TIFF Reviews: From Romance Fizzling ‘Mondays’ to Historic Bros in ‘One Night in Miami’

The Toronto International Film Festival Kicked off on Thursday, September 9th with a film that so many Black critics were waiting for, Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami. The film is as of press time, the best film of the fest for me. That does not mean that TIFF2020 is devoid of stories. There are so many tales from so many perspectives that this year’s festival has me watching films until the wee hours of the night. I ended last night with The Third Day, at about midnight–after doing some anxiety baking (peach cobbler). The series is a thriller that will really make you anxious and unable to stop watching at the same time!

Yes, I said baking. TIFF this year is a virtual affair that has most critics taking in the fest from home or wherever they can comfortably view them. My family has been tolerating me roaming the house with noise-canceling headphones on my ears and my eyes glued to the film on my tablet or phone. Here are capsule reviews for the films I viewed at the virtual TIFF over the first two days of the fest.

One Night in Miami

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I’ve read countless accounts of the friendships that our most legendary figures formed while fighting for the rights we take for granted today. Regina King brings this musing to life in her directorial debut film One Night in Miami. In it was Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), and Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), as four best friends who come together to celebrate a monumental win.

One Night in Miami is not set up like a biopic or historic narrative this is not. King pulls these four off their pedestal and drops them into a moment that is reminiscent of the Big Chill. She shows us their stark realities in conversations that you will only hear Black people speak amongst themselves. Then she takes us to a hotel room where some of the most explosive action happens, along with the most quotable phrases (“most people want a piece of the pie I want the whole damn recipe”), and raw revelations (Malcolm X realizing that the Nation was corrupt and he recruited Clay to help him leave without incident). The most powerful men of the movement are thus reduced to the human men they truly are, frustrated about their past and petrified of their future.

King’s (and Kemp Powers’s script) depiction is fun and thoroughly entertaining. Audiences will feel like they are a part of the moment. Just prepare tissue for those closing credits.

One Night in Miami premiered at TIFF on September 9. It will be released on Amazon Prime at a later date.

Rating 5 of 5

Penguin Bloom

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A traumatic event can change a person’s life, but what about the rest of the family? In Penguin Bloom, we follow the Bloom family of five as they try to adapt to a new life after an accident that changes the way they live and love forever.

The oldest child Noah, played by (Griffin Murray-Johnston and Essi Murray Johnson as a younger Noah), narrates the tale of a family vacation gone tragically wrong. Noah, his mother Sam (Naomi Watts), father Cam (Andrew Lincoln), and brothers Oli (Abe Clifford-Barr) and Rue (Felix Cameron) are an Australian family that loves the outdoors. They are very active until Sam leans on a fence of a rooftop overlook and falls to the ground. Her injuries leave her in pain and two-thirds of her body paralyzed. At home after all the surgeries, the family tries to adjust to the new way of life, but Sam has the hardest time. Without her, the family seems helpless, until a broken baby bird comes into their lives.

Suddenly, Sam has somewhere to put her energy, a place where she can’t fail (as she feels she is doing in caring for her family). As the bird becomes a part of the family and heals from its injuries, Sam and the rest of the Blooms find their way out the darkness of trauma. Penguin Bloom is more than a saccharine story of a woman’s resilience. It’s about an entire family damaged by trauma and how the healing must include everyone, even those who don’t wear their injuries on the outside.

Noah’s narration drives this home, meanwhile, the cast, which includes Jacki Weaver who plays Sam’s annoyingly cheerful mom, all deliver stellar performances. This is important because Penguin Bloom, despite being a true story, treads the dangerous line between a feel-good drama and a corny Hallmark movie.

Rating 3.5 of 5

Akilla’s Escape

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Akilla (Saul Williams) is a grown man in the drug business, just as the government comes in to legalize things. He’s been in the illicit business all his life, so he knows a boy in trouble when he sees Sheppard. The boy is part of a team that robs Akilla. So, he keeps Sheppard in an attempt to track down the cash. Along the way, Akilla goes back over his own life and remembers how the cycle of trauma is manifesting before his eyes in Akilla.

Charles King’s use of this noir story of drug dealers and gangsters isn’t the type of film the audience will expect. The film is actually a commentary on multigenerational violence and toxic masculinity. Both take a toll on Black men everywhere. The international setting will give Americans a new perspective on a topic that has tackled for far too long. Watch out for Thamela Mpumlwana, the young actor who plays young Akilla and Sheppard. He carries the film well, easily sliding between roles. Audiences will also appreciate King’s depiction of violence as it is more implicit than we are used to from films that delve into the drug trade and gang violence. Akilla’s Escape is a movie that may end up being an education for us all.

Rating 4.5 of 5

Monday

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Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough are Mickey and Chloe, two people who fall hopelessly in love after a Friday night together in Athens, Greece. They are passionate and so deeply in love that by Monday, Chloe decides not to fly out to take a job in the US. That weekend was her last one before the big move. After falling for Mickey, Monday brings a whole new life for her. Monday picks up at the place where most romances end, right after the moment that true love is confirmed, and the couple commits themselves to be together. What ensues is the reality of loving a person you hardly know. For Chloe and Mickey, this also means asking if that first romantic feeling is really enough to keep a couple going after the lust has rubbed off.

Monday offers the stark reality of romance, something that fans of the genre will find interesting. The beginning is shot so well and feels so rich that it feels like enough. The second act, however, flips the entire script onto its head as we see the chemistry influence some very misguided choices that both end up having to live with if they ultimately stay together. There’s a drugged, drunken, desperate dash to rekindle things in the end that may end up making this situation monumentally worse.

Rating 4 of 5

The Third Day

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Jude Law, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston lead this cast of an HBO miniseries about a curious little island that can only be reached by a road that appears in low tide. The Law is Sam, a father, and a husband who goes into the woods on a serious sentimental mission. There he finds a girl attempting suicide. His day ends at this little island where they are preparing for a music festival. However, all signs point to shenanigans afoot. Viewers won’t be able to shake the feeling that Sam should’ve gone home when he had a chance. Not the tide is in and the road is gone until morning. He meets Jess (Waterson) who is there for the festival too, but also well aware of the ancient, Celtic rituals that the island residents are so proud of. They come in Summer.

Winter is Helen, Naomie, is a mother of two biracial girls who come to the island on an outing. She booked the Air BnB, but now no one wants her and the girls in their place. Everyone is inhospitable and they really should leave. However, that means getting to the causeway before the tide comes in. Their stay on the island comes after Sam’s, after the festival. The vibrant, charming community is now ravaged, feral, and the site of a gory happening that may not be over.

TIFF showcased two episodes of the show that were definitely not enough. This eerie show has the feel of that old FOX series Wayward Pines. Nothing is as it seems, and a sinister power seems to be in control of things. These two visits prove that. What is going on and why are two things we must figure out when the show airs on HBO.

The Third Day premieres on HBO September 14, 2020.

Rating 4.5 of 5

Holler

Ruth, played by Jessica Barden, is a girl living in the Rust Belt, in Ohio. Her mother is struggling with opioid addiction, and her brother is a high school dropout. Blaze (played by Gus Halper) is struggling to keep himself and his sister from being hungry and homeless.

The factory that is the only decent workaround has no room. Worse, Ruth gets accepted to college and needs to pay the bill. She and Blaze team up with a no-good scrapper to do nightly raids on construction sites of their precious metals. This illegal job is bringing some real cash and also some danger. Can Ruth get her money and get out safely?

The story is one by the director, Nicole Riegel. I can’t help but wonder why she made Ruth so ambivalent to all the people trying to help her. Blaze even says at one point “I am getting tired of being the only one sticking up for Ruth.” This hints at his annoyance with her ambivalence. I am not sure if it’s a survival mechanism or something more. I also had a tough time getting into this film because it triggered me a bit on a story from earlier this year. Ahmad Arbery was run down by two white men who saw him coming from a construction site. They accused him of doing what Ruth nonchalantly calls work. Ruth and a whole crew of white men and later a woman. The girl’s ambivalence comes off worse with this knowledge on my mind.

Holler is an interesting look at white America in the Rust Belt, their struggle. It drags a bit and is sometimes tedious. However, they do offer a message of struggle to get out of poverty that some may find intriguing.

Rating 3 of 5

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