#james cameron gimme a job

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Lore for the Ash clans of Pandora

Meet Kesa of the txepìva

Kesa is one of the ash Na'vi, from a txepìva clan. She lives along an enormous volcanic fault with constant eruptions. The soil is very rich there, but due to the instability of their home, Kesa's people are nomadic. As a result, there can be fierce competition for resources.

Kesa is a Claimer. She scouts ahead of her clan with a small band in search of old or new oasis that will provide foraging, hunting, and water. If they encounter a party from another clan, they will engage in ritualistic combat. As a warrior, it's Kesa's speciality. She's an alright hunter, but she was trained to fight and kill other Na'vi specifically. If the claiming party makes a strong, frightful display, they might win the location and chase off the other tribe. If not, they'll alert their own to divert their path.

If things are desperate enough, clans might face off in actual combat. Conditions are much harsher along the volcanoes.

Txepìva Na'vi have darker skin with purplish stripes. Due to frequent low visibility caused by ash clouds and smoke, they have larger eyes, of a deep amber-red colour, and larger ears than their forest counterparts. Their nostrils are also wider, but can be closed completely shut. They share a good breathing capacity with the Metkayina, as they may cross patches of toxic gas and have to get under cover/upwind. Their sense of smell is the most acute of all Na'vi.

They don't practice war paints, but they make thick mixtures they smear around their eyes to help combat irritation from ash and gases and wards against insects.

Unlike other clans, Txepìva Na'vi have three leaders. One leads the clan according to memory. They keep track of their progress through the year, and the movements of the volcanoes and lava flows. They work closely with the Claimers/Scouts, as does the war leader. That leader has a more minor role, activated only when the clan decides to fight. At such times only the war leader's decisions are followed, to reduce confusion and division. The final leader is their Tsahìk.

Txepìva clans have no central leader, the way Tonowari has influence over other villages. How peaceful they are entirely depends on how resource rich the environment is at the time.

The Txepìva use no ikran or pa'li. Food is just too scarce and they aren't native to the volcanic plains. However they hunt alongside cousins of the nantang (viperwolf) that live in small family packs, are larger and adapted to desertic conditions. They also use birds, mated pairs that travel with them and use tsaheylu to communicate what they've seen from the sky. It's not uncommon for a young couple of Claimers to be gifted a pair of such birds, helping them to work in tandem over great distances, using them a lot like humans would messanger pigeons.

As you may imagine, Txepìva Na'vi are extremely powerful distance runners. They're one of the few Na'vi to favour shoes, which they make by braiding a fire resistant plant, and use to tread over lava flows that aren't fully cooled and over obsidian ground. They also value metal tools and have several RDA issue items in constant rotation among them as they get bartered and borrowed.

The Txepìva are masters of using fire to hunt, cornering animals and using smoke to asphyxiate, but also poison. They brew strong toxins and apply them to arrows (they use short, sturdy bows), or blow darts. When you don't have a lot of prey, you have to kill it, and fast. Though they remove contaminated flesh around the wound, Txepìva meat has a reputation for being unpalatable to strangers because of remaining toxins. The ash people have long since gained immunity and don't notice it.

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ᴘᴏᴘᴘʏ ᴘᴏᴍꜰʀᴇʏ · 33 · ʜᴏɢᴡᴀʀᴛꜱ ᴍᴀᴛʀᴏɴ · ꜰᴏʀᴍᴇʀ ʀᴀᴠᴇɴᴄʟᴀᴡ · ꜱᴛʀᴀᴅᴅʟɪɴɢ ʟɪɴᴇꜱ

❝ she was one of those girls who breathed fire when confronted but loved so gently that it made you forget she could. ❞

ᴀᴇꜱᴛʜᴇᴛɪᴄ;

peter pan collars; swing skirts; delicate lace; brushing fingers through tall grass; whiskey in a tea cup; pressed flowers; butterfly wings; chocolate squares; knitting needles working quietly; warm tea on a cold day; always carrying plasters; lavender; hand-written notes; sweet cream; ruffles; the smell of antiseptic; cool fingers; slim gold chains; leather-bound journals; protruding collarbones; mary janes with socks; pomegranate seeds; embroidered cardigans; homemade preserves

ᴘᴀʀᴀʟʟᴇʟꜱ;

jane eyre; anna bates; katara; ann perkins; elinor dashwood; meg march; eliza hamilton; dr allison cameron; dana polk; rosalind walker; linda martin; jane villanueva; dr sara tancredi; joan watson; marge simpson; jane bennet; clarice sterling; james gordon; catelyn stark; sailor mercury; molly hooper

ꜱʏɴᴏᴘꜱɪꜱ;

born to a half-blood witch and a squib physician; grew up in a small irish village with her father; sorted into ravenclaw; good grades but unremarkable presence; knitting club member; frequent library haunter; became matron after training at st mungo's; very good at her job; lost her father in her mid-20s; keeps helping out at the village; very unimpressed that she's still matron, unmarried & lonely after a decade at the school; order supporter but professionally neutral and oath-bound to help anyone who asks

ᴛʀᴀɪᴛꜱ;

calm; strict; kind; quick-witted; quiet; caring; sensitive; protective; withdrawn; understanding; pliable; forgiving; trusting; soft; hospitable; dependable; discreet; tender; humble, thoughtful; impressionable; indecisive; responsible; cautious; loyal; undemonstrative; trustworthy; open-minded; idealist; fair; emotional; strong sense of self-preservation; demanding; jealous; possessive; polemic; intuitive; perceptive; subtle; crafty; insecure; sentimental; hard-working; gentle

ɴᴇᴇᴅꜱ;

· several friends to pull her around, probably other hogwarts staff (gimme support staff bff irma maybe??) · former students that she still keeps up with and pesters like a mother · the auror/hit-wizard/witch she's been pining over for like a decade (listen i have a lot of screaming to do about this bc who doesn’t love some long, mutual pining, and self-sacrifice between hypocritical idiots?? and i’m not saying paranoid moody or disappearing dearborn would work gr8 for this, but they would, but poppy is also bi af so totally open to strong ladies for this too) · a slew of people that she will have/have had crushed on in the past & future · order members she's healing on the down-low · people of questionable morals she's also healing on the super down-low · tba

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hello..... i am once again for your financial support you to give me plots

briar rose goodwin / 30 / onyx / taylor swift

runs an online boutique (via instagram) and works as a makeup artist

needs: friends, clients, long list of ex boyfriends

mykenna st. james / 22 / opal / dove cameron

senior in university @ the university of texas, basic bitch sorority girl but also human sunshine. also works as a bartender 

needs: literally everything. friends, romance, family (including cousins) 

olyve tbd / 19 / sabrina carpenter / ruby

tiny lil thot, was v innocent all through high school and is going through a wild phase. sales associate / university freshman

needs: friends, enemies, many men - specifically an older man (nick jonas or open) who’s either a TA for one of her classes or a sibling’s friend/friend’s sibling?? pls gimme the drama

gwen fletcher / 28 / amethyst / lily collins

works as a consultant, spends 99% of her life working

needs: literally everything also i have so few ideas i just like her already

ember andrews / 24 / pearl / madelaine petsch

has no job bc her family has old, old, old money and she’s never had to work a day in her life

hera in a greek gods group

needs: her zeus, other greek gods (may may’s request), friends, etc etc

avery johnson / 26 / topaz / josephine skriver

casino waitress, lowkey insta famous and the winner of the bachelor!!!

needs: her bachelor man who they’re now tryna see if it works in ~real life, friends, co-workers etc etc

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Hey Sarge! (Chapter 1)

Summary: Due to the lack of jobs because of World War 2, Alexander Sami Hale joined the army to keep her family’s head above the water.

She falsified her enlistment form, convincing the officials that she was actually a boy named Alexander Hale.

When her sergeant, James Barnes, was captured by the German forces during a battle in Azzano, Alex went AWOL to aid a man named Steve Rogers to rescue his best friend.

This is her story.

(That eyebrow tho)

“Get the hell outta here! I’ll hold them off!”

“Sarge! No-” Alex cut herself off, wincing as another wave of pain shot through her arm. Her head throbbed painfully and her vision flickered as she tried to look for Bucky through the thick curtain of rain. Fear flashed through her as there were several gunshot sounds and flashes of blue light.

“James!” She screamed over the thunder, pushing away the soldier who tried to bring her to the trucks nearby, hot tears streaming down her cheeks, mixing with the rain.”Bucky!!”

Two months ago: Alex panted heavily as the mid-morning sun beat down on her, her hands on her knees, sweat dripping from her forehead onto the ground. Her legs trembled slightly from exertion as her fingers fumbled for her water canteen. She took a long swig from it and let out a long sigh.

“Yo, Alex.” Alex turned her head and saw Timothy not too far away, hand outreached. “Gimme some of that.” He wheezed.

“What ‘bout yours?” She heaved out, handing over her canteen.

“Stuck. Too lazy to get it.”

Alex rolled her eyes and stumbled over to Timothy’’s pack, reaching for his canteen and with a sharp tug, pulled it out with a tug. She uncapped it and downed half of the contents before handing it back to him, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

Timothy also handed her back her canteen, this time almost empty with a shit-eating grin on his face.

“Every time, Dugan.” Alex grumbled, tucking her water canteen back into her pack. “Every fucking time. You better watch ya hat next time, or you’ll find it hanging off the roof of the barracks one day.”

“Now that’ll be a sight.” A hand clapped Alex hard on the back, and she nearly bowled over. She turned and saw the wide grin of their squad sergeant.

“Sergeant Bucky.” She drawled, mimicking the deep voice of their camp commander, placing her small finger under her nose to imitate his limp mustache. “What brings you here to this rat-infested swamp?”

James paused, not expecting that reply, before his grin widened. “Well, I dunno.” He replied, putting on a lady’s voice. “Just wanted to ask if any of you charming lads have any water to spare for this thirsty dame.” Alex bit her lip savagely at James’ impression of a lady, batting his eyelashes and pulling down his collar a little to show some ‘cleavage’

“What happened to your water, Sergeant Buck?” Gabriel Jones, who was nearby, snorted when Timothy adopted a nasally voice and held his water canteen protectively to himself.

“Gave it to that dashing young man over there.” James replied in a breathless voice, taking off his helmet and grooming his ‘long’ hair. “He looked pretty hot, in more ways than one.”

There was a moment of silence, before the four of them dissolved into giggles, collapsing onto one another like a bunch of schoolboys. Alex reached up, snatched the canteen from Dugan and tossed it to James.

Camp was tough. Waking up as early as 4.30 am and 10 to 20 mile treks before breakfast. Gruelling training from the afternoon to evening, pausing only a few times for meals in the mess hall. Showers under cold water before falling asleep in cramped barracks and on thin mattresses, only to wake up and do it all again tomorrow with sore legs and aching arms. It didn’t help when Alex couldn’t take off her shirt when it was particularly hot, or her identity would be revealed.

Alex admitted to herself that the conditions were vastly different than back at home, perhaps better. She didn’t need to do a god-awful amount of push-ups in the early morning, but she appreciated the fact that she had a bed to rest on at the end of the day. And it was great having friends too. When she was still in Brooklyn, she was solely focussed on work to earn money and making sure her employers didn’t find out about her real gender.

However, being in the army was different. Alex was already being paid, whether she was working hard or not. She didn’t have to worry about needing to rush from one job to another. Just had to stay in the camp and follow orders. Bunking in close proximity with strangers brought everyone, quite literally, closer to each other. It brought a sense of camaraderie through the entire squad, and three men and one girl four men were even closer.

“In more ways than one…pffffftt- AHAHAHA!!” Jones snorted when he redid James’s impression of a lady, sending the other three into hysterics again. Alex clutched her sides as she tried not to land her face into her food. Even though the mess hall was always loud and noisy at mealtimes, she was sure that their table was one of the rowdiest.

Wiping away the tears from her eyes when the laughing fit was over, Alex finally started on her breakfast, which consisted of a bowl of bland, mushy oatmeal and an apple. She shrugged and ate it anyway. At least it was better than nothing.

“Whoa, look at the rat eat!” Alex turned at the voice behind them. It was Cameron, also in their squad, looking down at her in distaste. “I guess he’s really considered vermin, considering that he can stomach this trash.” He sneered gesturing to the bowl before walking away.

James stood up abruptly. “Hey! What did you just say-”

“Sarge! Calm down!” Alex cut in, coaxing him to sit back down on the bench.

“Are you sure about that, Alex?” Dugan asked. “He’s been real annoying to you ever since the start of camp, and it’s getting to be really irritating.”

James nodded angrily, and Gabe started cracking his knuckles threateningly. Alex immediately started trying to convince the three of them to calm down.

“I’m really fine about this. I’ll fight my fights when I want to. 'Sides, I think he’ll get bored and leave me anyways.”

Dugan, Jones and James conceded to lay back, but Alex could see that they weren’t so convinced.

Alex lifted her head, ears straining to hear any noises outside the barracks. She slowly moved up from her lying position on the bed, pausing every so often when one of the soldiers shifted in his sleep. She reached under her bed and grabbed a small bag of toiletries which she had hidden underneath.

Alex padded past the snoring recruits and slowly pushed the barracks door open. She stuck her head out, looking for any officers who might be patrolling the area, and then scampered off towards the showers.

She settled in a cubicle most hidden from the entrance, and turned on the tap at a minimal flow. Stripping down, Alex gave her hair a quick rinse and dampened a a towel to wipe herself down. Drying off, she dressed and washed her bra, the design adopted from an old newspaper advertisement when the flapper style was all the rage.

After wringing it out, Alex gathered her items and crept back towards the barracks, the whole ordeal only lasting her at most twenty minutes. She heaved a sigh of relief and grabbed the handle of the door, only for it to swing out towards her!

A small squeak of surprise escaped her as her amber eyes met a startled blue.

“Alex?! Whatcha doin’ out here?” James exclaimed, his voice lowered to a whisper.

“Uh, I mean- what are you doing out here as well?”

James paused, and then shrugged nonchalantly. “You got me. I couldn’t sleep, so I came out here for a smoke.”

“I-I didn’t know you smoked.”

“Not very often. What ‘bout you? Couldn’t sleep too?”

“You could say that.” Alex replied, suddenly thankful that she chose to rewear her pajamas so that there wouldn’t be a bundle of suspicious looking laundry, and her small bag of toiletries along with her bra was hidden in her pocket. “But I’m goin’ back in now.”

James nodded before opening the door slightly wider for her to pass through. She slipped in with a nod of thanks and power-walked as quietly as she could to her bed. She climbed into bed, heart beating furiously, only relaxing when she heard the door close.

After hiding away any incriminating evidence, Alex’s mind went back to their conversation:

“You got me. I couldn’t sleep, so I came out here for a smoke.”

Now that was strange. Training was so tiring that everyone usually immediately fell asleep once the day was done. Homesickness?

As Alex let her mind drift, she imagined James standing outside in the chilly night, with only the smoke of a cigarette for company. The thought brought an unknown ache to the bottom of her stomach as she slowly drifted to sleep.

Notes:

- Lets write Alex, Bucky, Dugan and Jones all fooling around after training immediately after a potentially angst-filled scene, shall we? ;)

- I read that “Dum Dum” Dugan and Gabriel “Gabe” Jones were in the 107th, just like Bucky, and I thought it would be best that all four of them would be friends.

- Alex is used to sleeping on just some cardboard at home, and not eating for days when there isn’t enough money for food, so she’s not complaining as much as the other recruits.

- Oooohhh, Cameron made an appearance. Ooooohhhh, Protective!Bucky has also made an appearance! Maybe because Alex is of a small stature, so (s)he kind of reminds Bucky of Pre-Serum Steve, making him go Mother Hen!Bucky.

- But I know y’all aren’t worried about Cameron, ‘cos just like what the sneak preview said, Alex is gonna punch him in the sucker one day :)

- As Alex has learned in the streets that bullies would leave her alone once they’re bored, she becomes mostly unreactive to taunts and blows so that they would go away sooner. Which is why she asked Bucky, Dugan and Jones not to go after Cameron. Also, three-on-one? Isn’t that kinda overkill?

- Alex showers when everyone is asleep, for obvious reasons. She also does it as quickly as she can so as not to get caught.

- About the design of the bra she saw in an old newspaper advertisement. I wasn’t actually lying. Check out the Symington Side Lacer from the Roaring Twenties. Alex’s version is mostly made out of cloth scraps and some help from Aunt Grace, made with the sole purpose of hiding her breasts during work, and in this case, the army.

- When Alex accidentally bumped into Bucky outside the barracks, she was wearing another makeshift Side Lacer, so he didn’t suspect anything. Thank goodness.

- Oooooohhhh what’s this? Alex is developing feelings for Bucky? Not blaming her though. That man looks delicious in the uniform ;) (She won’t be realizing her feelings until much later though)

- Any questions, just ask! Any feedback? Tell me! Comments are greatly appreciated!

Prologue  Chapter 2

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oranges

Friday upset the Christian-Egyptian Cameron, almost! Horrible to move England to Massachusetts. Good job! Good job! Line it up. The clock is ticking. 3rd down. C’mon defense. Get ‘em. Get ‘em. (whistle blow)

Time out. I’m done with all that. Cellphone ringing. It’s just different. It’s just the change. What’s the score? It’s six to six. Tie game. I’ve got extra chairs. 26 seconds. Let’s go! Set. Down. Hike. Good job, Nate. They don’t have the little things. I feel bad because that’s all I ordered. Good job, defense.

I never had county changed. Let’s go. We’ve only got 10 seconds. Yeah! Alright. Good hustle. Yeah, I wrote, “Only for families requests.” I think they interpreted it so they could get money. See if they’ve got any ice. Get some water, guys. C’mon over and get some water.

Is there anything else I should’ve written? I’ve had enough of it. I tell you what, gimme uh... Do you want ice? Nancy, shirts? Do we get that done? What happens to the old ones? Retire your #?

I”m gonna get you guys back in there. (Beeping continues) Yeah, you’re right. That’s a good idea. The winner of that game is who we’ll play. If you win, what time do you play Friday? Here at four.

I was just gonna try it, it’s a digital camera. If you get some good ones, turn them in. Oh, okay. Go, knights! When I get to my husband’s office I'm going got wash them. Tomorrow? So, the gold and blue were different things?

I don’t want to hear excuses. I want to hear tackles. Put pressure on ‘em, D. Let’s go. Hurry up! C’mon defense (Crowd cheers) Go, Nathan! Bates! He needs to grow. He’s so little. Those poor boys. Hoy many are juniors? And the rest, freshmen? Those poor freshmen boys have not meat on them. 3, 2, 1, knights. Down. Set, Hut.  Oooh. Oooh. Oooh. (The crowd moans in dismay)

C’mon James catch the next one, boy! OK, knights. Down. Set. Hut. Right there. Right there. (whistle) OK, punt it, Ty.

C’mon, big knights. I know. I know. 200. (kick) Nice. C’mon defense. Let’s make a play. Ready! Hike. Pass. You got ‘em. Yeah, thatta way, Luke. So, I guess we’re still tied. Be alert, D. Get ‘em, get ‘em, get ‘em, Luke. (crowd cheers)

Way to be, Josh. You’re gonna see some great freshmen. You just need Nathan to gain some weight. I don’t know if Nathan’s got the Micah genes. I don’t know. Have you seen the size of his feet? They’re like size 13.

Yes! Way to go defense. There’s no bathroom. The game’ll be over soon. Down. Set. Hike. (whistle blows) Time out. See, so there is hope. I don’t know what time it started. It’s a safety. If he dropped it in the in zone, it’s a safety. Oh, they have they’re cheerleaders. Who? Ben Franklin. They probably brought their BYU scouts. The quarterback last year had a 2 o’clock shadow. Once guy was balding. “Get a life, buddy.”

She was sitting... oh, no, that was before you came. Oh, did you see it. Yeah, it was great. They did something from Sound of Music. He dressed up as a girl. Josh’s voice is so nice. Are we the blue score? Are we 8? They’re discussing if it was a safety. Yeah, it was a safety. That’s good for us. 2 points. Gotta hold ‘em, knights. Yeah, but if we win we gotta come back tomorrow.

Go, Ty! Go, Ty! Did he get it? No. Good try, Ty! Go, knights! There you go! Down. Set. Hike. Good job, knights. It would be nice to get another touch down. Hey, Brett, how much time is left? About 10 minutes. 1. 2. 3. Knights.

That’s why I hate the Yankees too. Down. Set. Hike. (crowd roars) Good defense. Now would be really god. I heard, but I wasn’t able to make that game. Where do they practice? Put pressure on ‘em, D. Get in there. Run! Run! Way to go, Josh. Alright, knights! Run ‘em back, knights. Luke, use your outside shoulder. Loose kid! Whose child is that? I don’t know whose he is. There she is. Hey, baby. Hey, sweetie.

Is Nathan here? He’s playing. What is this? So, Nathan, Susanna. Who else is coming? Benjamin. Actually, we have 5 tickets, so Marina can sit with Susanna. Oh, she would love to. C’mon, D. Way to go, Alec. You have plenty of water. last time we took a picnic and had dinner around the water. Good job! Where’s the 1st down, ref?

C’mon, defense, Okay. Knights. Let’s go. Let’s go. Hustle up. 4th down. Time out. Time out, white. Right over here there’s a little home school club. Ready? 1, 2, 3, win!

C’mon, D. Put pressure on that guy. Alan, hi, I spoke to you about coming before 5, but it doesn’t look like we’re going to get out of here. They’re ready? Okay. What time are your hours on Saturday? Thanks alot. 1, 2, 3, knights. Let’s go. Down. Set. Hut. (whistle) Hold up. 1, 2, 3, knights. Whose that other ref? Oh, yeah, that’s the coach for that other school. (whistle and cheers)

Is it over? They won! Alright, knights. I wonder where it’s gonna be? Here. At four. I’ll do the oranges next time.

[junker-town]

Dolphins move into full rebuild by trading Ryan Tannehill to the Titans

The Dolphins start over, while the Titans get a solid backup for Marcus Mariota.

The Miami Dolphins haven’t ventured beyond Wild Card weekend since 2001, and general manager Chris Grier wasn’t content with a team whose ceiling topped out at 10 wins. That means a full rebuild is on the horizon in South Beach — and on March 15, that reset came for Ryan Tannehill.

The Dolphins’ former starting quarterback is now Marcus Mariota’s high-value backup. Miami shipped their once-prized passer to Tennessee Friday, ending a seven-year tenure that had a handful of high points, a few more lows, and mostly a long run of forgettable moments.

@Titans have traded for and signed @ryantannehill1 to a one year contract. #TitanUp pic.twitter.com/HjyOTi6qXE

— SportsTrust Advisors (@_SportsTrust) March 15, 2019

The move wasn’t an unexpected one for Miami. The franchise effectively announced its intention to move on from Tannehill at the end of the 2018 regular season, but held onto the sack-prone QB in hopes of recouping some value via trade. And much like the Ravens were able to re-home old dog Joe Flacco with Denver in exchange for a fourth round pick, the Dolphins were able to find a buyer — in this case, a Titans team with an injury-prone Mariota behind center.

Terms of of the deal have not yet been disclosed. This post will be updated with more details later.

Is this going to be a bottoming out year in Miami?

It sure looks that way.

New head coach Brian Flores is getting a gimme year in his debut, as the expectations in south Florida are extremely low. No team in the league has longer championship odds for 2019 than the Dolphins’ +30000, which means a bet of $100 would return $30K should Miami raise the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the year. Half of the NFL experts polled by ESPN picked Flores’ team to own the first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

The problem won’t just be breaking in a new quarterback. Stalwart pass rusher Cameron Wake is a 37-year-old free agent, and even a return to his prime won’t help a defense that ranked 29th in the league in yards allowed last fall. 2018’s biggest defensive acquisition, Robert Quinn, failed to make a major impact. And while young players like Minkah Fitzpatrick and Xavien Howard showcased some star potential, they got little support from a subpar supporting cast.

The Dolphins’ toothless offense got little production outside the productive duo of Kenyan Drake and Frank Gore. Danny Amendola was the club’s leading wideout and the only non-tailback to have more than 37 receptions. The club’s 2018 was one absurd miracle play and then a bunch of games that were forgotten by the following Tuesday.

2019 won’t be better. Amendola is an expensive 34 year old wideout who could be cut. So could DeVante Parker, who is owed more than $9 million following a 24-catch season. Gore is approaching 36 years old and a free agent. Ja’wuan James, an effective right tackle, may leave as well. And while the club can fill some of these holes through free agency and the draft, it may make sense to languish for a season, pick up a premier 2020 draft slot, and rebuild around a young core rather than limp along at 7-9 in perpetuity.

What’s next for Ryan Tannehill?

A release would have meant joining a robust market of flawed veteran quarterbacks competing for starting jobs in a saturated field. Instead, he’ll have the chance to prove himself behind Mariota, who has missed an average of two games per season since joining the league in 2015. That should give the veteran quarterback a chance to shine this fall, though his opportunities will be limited.

Tannehill is a decent replacement passer when upright and capable of winning games. But he’s also a massive injury risk after missing 24 games the past three seasons, and he’s a bit of a damage sponge; he’s averaged more than 41 sacks per season as a pro and was sacked on 11% of his dropbacks in 2018.

A change of scenery could be a boost for a high-floor, low-ceiling veteran. The Dolphins’ efforts to surround him with receiving talent failed to pay off, and a new group of targets could spur a Case Keenum-ish renaissance in the right spot. Of course, Keenum’s breakout 2017 season only came after he agreed to join the Vikings as their third option at quarterback, so Tannehill will have to catch some breaks to prove himself this fall.

Tannehill’s career has proven he’s good enough to go around .500 with a mediocre supporting cast. That’s a valuable trait for a backup quarterback, but not the kind of passer around which a franchise can be built. The Dolphins realized that and ate $13.4 million in dead cap space just to jump start their rebuild. Now it’s up to another team to take on a low-risk reclamation project and get a useful second string passer in the process.

[chershorowitzsarchive-blog]

you know who’s face i miss? adelaide kane’s no one can ever use her she’s mine fight me. but that’s not the point of this post i’m gonna follow suit and organize my characters cause i feel stuck and i need to move plots along so let’s get shit started? let’s plot and make new things up or idK let me kill something or someone damn it. 

alexandra ford - face claim: dove cameron ; little sister and high school senior she’s president of the art club, yearbook editor and she’s in the drama and music club in a committed relationship with food, she’s going to marry it someday. wants to be the next van gogh, but without the ear cutting and hearing voices deal and you know the suicide she wants to paint more flowers and kitty cats. honestly she’s more interested in the business side of art than she is in painting... wants to run her own gallery someday and you know finance new talents. resident airhead genius? good girl type, fam’s like the first family of fairwood ( her parents are full of themselves, although jace is the one that’s like done all the work for the fam ) honestly she’s fairwood’s own cher horowitz ( clueless as f ) raising big brothers is hard... like she has to do everything. 

big brothers: jace and finn

best friends: nathalia and uriah

like sisters: mia and ambob 

friends: she talks to everyone so be her friend tbh. 

unlikely friendship: axton 

accidental date: peter ross ( she interested tbh lmao. ) 

more than friends but not: uriah 

enemies: tbfH gimme idK who’d she’d fight but ya know lmao. gimme that whole “ i don’t like you thing... and she doesn’t get it because she’s alex and everyone likes her.. “

athena pearce - face claim: carlson young ; i can’t remember if she’s a sophomore or a junior idk wherever grade cass and rae are in that’s where she’s at. but anyway she’s co-captain of the soccer team currently captain ( which is a bad idea because who puts her in charge of anything? ) drunk 24/7, mommy and daddy issues af tw: suicide ( mommy killed herself when she started high school, which kinda brought out that whole wild child persona she has going on... dad had an affair while her mother was alive and is now married to that woman, thea doesn’t know yet but she still hates her step mom ) she honestly a me, me, me, me, party but it’s also like girl hates herself? ( tbh i’m getting hannah baker vibes here ) bisexual.. cause she doesn’t discriminate tbh she’s a hoe lmao. ( but i think she leans more towards girls ) resident dare devil like add the words dare to anything and she’ll do it without blinking an eye. 

best friends: reagan and cassie 

not blood but family: atlas 

coach: sebastian

friends: she could use some tbh lmao. 

hookups and exes: olivia, and you know half the school so gimme a list i want a JUSTIN and HANNAH plot u know that whole slide deal that happened gimme it. oh and the sex tape lmao she has one or six idK just gimme stuff. 

enemies: because she hates everyone mostly so yes i’m down. idk she cheated on your charrie or something cause like i said hoeeee as f. 

romantic interest: reagan, she in love with her oK

riley moore - face claim: emma watson ; baker extrodinare, runner up on ace of cakes and founder of queen of tarts bakery. which she’s in the works of franchising which means that she’s going to have to move to new york for a while ( which is why she’s putting it off, she doesn’t know if she wants to LEAVE.. but she does want her company to grow. ) she’s married to a cupcake and is basically a momma bear like 100% tw: abortion,  i think it comes from that whole you know i ended a pregnancy because i wanted to focus on my career type deal. ( only one person knows u know outside of the father of the kid lmao.. and that’s wren ). tbh she’s lorelai gilmore except instead of running an inn she feeds people... 

best friends: amelia davis and wren williams

ex baby daddy: idK it was one of emily’s characters but i don’t think she’s coming back? so like this open lmfao. 

self inserted mom role: uriah and james

romantic interest: noah kennedy ( she’s in denial lmao )

employees: she treats them like her kids tbH so like gimme 

enemies: she’s high strung as f, someone needs to be annoyed by her lmao. 

business partner: idK someone interested in her bakery or something.

areli echavarria - face claim: selena gomez ; resident serena vanderwoodsen, high school senior ( she’s like in some private school in town so she’s not in forwood high.. but idK i might change that get her expelled lmao. ) great white house and picket fence her parents are divorced her dad lives in spain and he’s like a big time CEO of a record company and her mother inherited a lot of money and then married dudes with a lot of money ( she gets married like once every two years i s2g ). she ran away to spain after sleeping with her best friend’s boyfriend... actually they had a relationship behind her back and she fell for him and she feels guilty. kind of came back with an entirely new attitude, she’s tired of that whole rich people vibe she wants to branch out ya feel... she thinks it’s like the fakest shit and u know typical serena plot lmao. 

best friend: billie ( idk is emily still here..)

boyfriend: atlas ( they are officially dating now bc u know what’s girl code. ) 

friends: gimme

enemies: same gimme

past hookups and exes: ^

gemma rhodes - face claim: amber heard ; heiress to a diamond cartel, her family controls 60% of the world’s diamonds and she’s basically rich as f. rich and pretty that’s gemma, she’s a shark like her entire life is business and she likes it that way, girl is an emily thorne type person. she just looks as people as stepping stones to achieving things and isn’t really in tune with her heart actually she pretends not to have one. that’s just a result of like parental control and brain washing and you know she has some mom issues here and there. and well basically i haven’t decided if she’s totally evil yet lmao. 

best friend: kat

fiance: jace

friends: she needs them

enemies: davis girls

romantic interest: idk why not hmu?  

charlotte lewis - face claim: candice patton ; her parents really suck, now they weren’t always that way for a few years of charlie’s life it wasn’t totally screwed up. her dad had a decent job, they weren’t rich by any means but they were middle class ya feel? and well basically she went to school like every other kid, with dreams and she was starry-eyed as f and then you know reality set in... her dad lost his job, her dolls lost their hair and her mom lost her mind. dad became a drunk, her mom walked out eventually and she was basically a six year old mother to her siblings.. and that’s where we are at now. charlie is a senior in high school but she isn’t exactly on the fast track to a university she skips too much of it to actually pass... ( she’s really smart tho... she just don’t got time. ) she works like 4 jobs to pay for the house and keep her siblings fed and all of that good stuff and well basically that just means she’s flunking out. kind of rough around the edges, with a shit ton of walls up and you know a bit of aggressive tbh she always ready to throw down lmao. 

best friend: 

friends:

enemies:

tutor: SOMEONE who wants to help her catch up and like not let her drop out like she’s thinking of doing. 

boss: idK she cleans someone rich kids house... so there’s that... and you know she has other odd jobs too. 

anything and everything.

james cunnigham - face claim: grant gustin ; nice guy 100%, no really he’s a good kid. he loves dogs and animals more than he loves actual people ( tbh he’s newt scamander... he’s awkward ok. ) will relate to them better than he does actual human beings and he’s like a giant fact book boy will talk and talk about random facts like good lord that’s just some talent. feel free to tell him to shut up at any time. wants to be a veterinarian or zoologist he hasn’t decided yet but he works at the local pet shelter he’s that weirdo always handing out flyers from the shelter and bringing awareness to the fact that the animals need homes. he has a siberian husky named summer and they are life partners he found him as a puppy and they have been inseparable ever since. ( tbh i get major clay vibes with him so like give me a hannah x clay dynamic for him please and thanks. ) his mom had an affair with a married man and that’s how he was born and he has a half brother who he just recently found out about... and well u know things have happened because of that.

half brother: uriah

cousin: wren

like a mom: riley 

best friends: lia and uriah

friends: he’s a good kid, he talks to everyone give him some friends he a nerd tho lmao.

enemies: omg someone dunk his head in the toilet and stuff like that pls lmfao. 

tutors: idK anyone want this spot? 

romantic interest: help he’s gonna marry his dog, no but like i said gimme. 

finnley gray - face claim: richard madden ; published author he’s at the top of the best sellers list, ex trust fund brat... gave up his family fortune to become a literature teacher. ( he loves books okay, he’s like mark sloan except he didn’t study medicine.. his passion is teaching and literature. ) things were going swell for him, except u know he left his ex fiance at the altar cause who wants responsibilities... he’s kind of an idiot idk who lets the dude teach i s2g. but yeah he’s a big man child who hates being accountable to anyone but it’s kind of changing? he doesn’t know... things are happening to him. he’s having an affair with one of his students cause you know he’s a hoe. 

best friends: jace and amelia 

like a sister: ambob and lexie 

friends: noah, and u know u can come here too lmao. 

ex fiance: kat 

girlfriend: yasmine 

enemies: gemma, gimme some k great thanks. u know outside of myself.

sebastian maradona - face claim: theo james ; ex soccer superstar, he played university level soccer then was signed to barcelona up until he got hurt and couldn’t play anymore he now coaches football at the high school and basically he’s about one step out the door lmao, he’s not cut out to deal with teenagers. he’s uptight and like super profesional and he tries to be laid back but it’s not working for him omg. 

best friends: 

protective over: cassidy, reagan and thea

crushing/crushed on?: reagan 

enemies: 

romantic interest: i’m down tbh lmao

connor whitaker - face claim: dominic sheroowd ; basketball captain, senior set to attend duke on a basketball scholarship ( resident nathan scott tbfh, but also like shane west in a walk to remember. ) kind of a douche, lone wolf and doesn’t associate with anyone who isn’t in his immediate circle of friends, intelligent but uninterested in school he wants to play for the NBA anyway. kind of lives a life where he’s the center of his own world and nothing really matters. 

best friends: give me

friends: i guess he runs with the popular crowd so sure he has friends.

enemies: he’s an arrogant as so let’s go for it

romantic interest: lia 

ex hookups and exes: go for it

saved faceclaims: nina dobrev, melissa benoist, katherine langford, douglas booth, sabrina carpenter, ADELAIDE KANE cause ya’ll can’t have her GRR. also i dropped chars that have some of these face claims cause idk wtf i was doing with them or who they were so yeah k bye.

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Errol Morris on New Docu 'The B-Side,' About Photographer Elsa Dorfman: 'I've Always Seen Her as a Major Artist'

Photographer Elsa Dorfman in Errol Morris documentary ‘The B-Side’ (Photo: Everett)

On the surface, The B-Side may look like a B-movie in Errol Morris‘s filmography. Clocking in at just 76 minutes and focusing on a single subject — the life and career of portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman — the movie isn’t as expansive or intensive a documentary experience as past Morris-directed features such as his groundbreaking 1988 true crime tale, The Thin Blue Line, or his Oscar-winning 2003 portrait of Vietnam-era U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, The Fog of War. But The B-Side‘s simplicity is also its chief virtue: As longtime friends Morris and Dorfman talk, they create an intimate space that allows for thoughtful ruminations on mortality, photography, and the impermanence of memory. The grade-A doc, which opened in limited release on June 30, made a lasting impression on us, earning it a place on Yahoo Movies’ list of the 21 best movies of 2017 so far.

The film’s title comes from a key piece of Dorfman’s artistic process: every client who sits in front of her large-format Polaroid camera is given a choice of two pictures. They leave with one, and the other, which the photographer calls a “B-Side,” goes into her personal archive, which houses pictures of notable creative types such as Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg. Yahoo Movies spoke with Morris about what it means to own a picture — or film footage — of someone else, how interviewing serial killer Ed Gein was a formative experience in his career as a filmmaker and author, and the 20th anniversary of his documentary Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control.

‘The B-Side’ director Errol Morris (Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images)

As we see in the film, Elsa Dorfman keeps all of her “B-Sides” in her home and office. You must have a library of outtakes and unused material from past films — where do you store your own B-Sides? I have so many projects that never got made, I suppose you might think of them as B-Sides. For Elsa, she came to call the rejected photographs a B-side, and the irony, of course, is that the B-Sides are often the better photographs. Which is really interesting: Why do we pick one photograph over another as being somehow better? But the term has all kinds of resonance, because Elsa tells us that she never got her due as a photographer. She was always an also-ran, never a gallery [artist], and never [received] acknowledgement as a serious photographer. That’s something that I hope the movie helps remedy, because I’ve always seen her as a major artist.

What interests me about the film is the idea of ownership: Elsa owns a piece of her clients’ lives in the form of these pictures, and you own the outtakes of projects that didn’t move forward. How does that make you feel, knowing that you, in a sense, own a little piece of your subjects’ lives? It’s strange. That’s [the process] of making a movie about someone; you change your life, you change their life. And it clearly is a way of reflecting back on the past. The Fog of War, for me, is a way of thinking about Robert S. McNamara, and reflecting on my relationship with him, and about the history that we’ve both been a part of. Elsa told me very early on, “If you don’t like a photograph, look at it in 10 years. Look at it in 15 or 20 or 25 years.” The McNamara who was in front of my camera — as opposed to the man I demonstrated against in the 1960s — is endlessly fascinating to me. I had come to know him. Was he a different person than he was at the time of the war in Vietnam?

I have thought quite often, and I think this idea comes from Elsa, of stopping time. She tells us [in the film] it’s about nailing down the “now,” but then she reminds us that nailing down the now is impossible. The now is fleeing in front of us, it’s racing on. And that, too, has made me think a lot about photography. The dream of somehow [ensuring] that the past doesn’t escape us altogether. That there can be some remnant, some residue of what’s gone before. And also a sense of loss. My most optimistic notion about my own film is that it’s a kind of elegy for the past where photography plays a very central role.

Elsa Dorfman’s picture of Allen Ginsberg (Photo: Everett)

Do you own any of your own films outright? And is that idea of ownership important to you? I’ve had to sell off most of my films, just in order to make them, or to go on making them. Many of my films I’ve had [creative] control over: it’s been my choice of how to make them and how to edit them. I own very few of them. I don’t know what I would do with them. But most artists end up selling their work in some way or another. That is, if there are people willing to buy.

In the film, we hear Elsa musing about donating her photographs to an archive. Have you made similar plans? There’s a number of people who have offered to take them. I’ve gotten offers from maybe half a dozen different institutions that are interested, but I haven’t done anything with them. I would like them to live somewhere, but I’m not going to worry about it for a while. I’d like to make a couple more films first!

Elsa expresses a similar attitude; part of her reticence to the idea seems to be that it acknowledges a mortality that perhaps she’s not ready to accept yet. I think that’s discussed on camera. Not directly: it’s not my asking her, “Elsa, how do you feel about dying?” [That’s] something that I would never do. But there are ways that you can discuss mortality without doing that kind of thing, and I think it’s something that is discussed, either directly or indirectly, throughout The B-Side. It’s very much part of that movie…the impermanence of everything, including ourselves.

Watch a clip from ‘The B-Side’

Speaking of your unfinished works, early on in your career, you interviewed the serial killer, Ed Gein, whose crimes where the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. What state does that material exist in now? Have you ever revisited it? I might. In fact, Penguin has asked me to do another book, and I proposed a book entitled, Murderers I Have Known, and certainly Gein would be one of them. I don’t have film footage [of him]. I wasn’t a filmmaker when I interviewed him. They were audiotapes. It’s a remarkable story [that] people are still fascinated with 70 years later. I’m not altogether sure why; perhaps because the crimes were so outlandish. And maybe also because of Psycho.

Was that a formative experience for you as an interviewer? And what techniques have you learned over the years about how you pose questions to people? All of those early interviews that I did were very much formative. [As was] reaching people to talk to, and investigating a murder. Those are all things that I started to do very early on, even before I became, technically speaking, a filmmaker. I don’t think there’s a technique [to interviewing people]. I think it’s the technique of actually engaging with people: talking to them, listening to them. It’s about a relationship. It’s about actually caring to listen to someone, and trying to uncover something about them that goes beyond the perfunctory, to a level of emotional engagement. If you’re not emotionally engaged in your subject, then you can’t do this, I don’t think. Or you can’t do it well.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, which is one of my favorites of yours. What are your reflections on that film, two decades later? I love it. My wife pointed out to me that Fast, Cheap is one of her favorite films, and she thinks that The B-Side is the closest film I’ve made to it. And I know why she thinks that’s the case, because that too was an elegy. I made it right after my mother and stepfather’s death, and it is about the loss of everything. All of the characters talk about disappearing, principally the topiary gardener [George Mendonça] and the lion tamer [Dave Hoover]. You have a feeling of, “We’re here today, but gone tomorrow,” but you also see the nobility of it all in carrying on and creating something. [George] gets up on those ladders and he’s trimming. It’s remarkable. He’s no longer with us; he died years ago.

Watch the trailer for ‘Fast, Cheap & Out of Control’ 

The one thing I learned from making The B-Side is that something does remain, and those are the things you can love. I love it when Elsa says about Allan Ginsberg, “He gave me the gift of friendship.” She was giving me that gift as well, and for that, I’m grateful.

We hear a lot today about jobs that are falling away because of automation; society overall seems to be moving in a more mechanized direction. Is there any fear in your mind that filmmakers might be replaced by machines? I think there’ll always be room for art. I mean, it’s part of what we do. It’s part of the human enterprise. So maybe that will endure. Will it endure forever? Well, maybe nothing will.

Would you be interested to watch a film directed by a robot? Sure, I’d watch it. If it was a nice robot. [Laughs]

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