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[locustandwildhoney]

Far Cry 5 OC: Lianne (lee-anne) Buchanon

ABOUT

Eden's Gate Sniper/skilled hunter -Main sin: ENVY, Written in huge letters across her back, inked -Lianne joined the cult very young to escape her home life, had many good interactions with the cult since she was at least 8 or 9, Baptized by 14 - She’s enamored with Jacobs Chosen because of their Strength, she’s power hungry and wants to protect herself by becoming a weapon -Very young looking, is about 19 during the reaping, but can easily pass for much younger -Cropped red hair Around the same age as Wheaty, went to the same school. -Passed Jacobs trials at 17 -John Refers to her as "Jacobs little Mascot" with disdain -Some describe her as a "Chosen in Training,” Jacob refuses to let her fully join, he sees her weaknesses and her short stature isn’t winning her any points with him. -Some Implied relation to Sharky Boshaw, or at least he sees her as a cousin or younger sister -Often trains with Judges, painting the cross on her forehead to signify she sees herself as one of them -Hesitates to kill Wheaty, lets him go. -"Little CuChulainn" -had an older sister, and at least one younger sibling Face-claim: Sophia Lillis Art by me!

[msclaritea]

"Looking back, I’ve been researching this UFO crew since at least 2007, very directly. UFO cultist Steven Greer met his wife Emily in Israel studying with meditation guru Maharishi. This is all tied to David Lynch and the related transcendental meditation (TM) groups. 🧵

This relevant now because his UFO cultist cohort Dennis Kucinich is now managing RFK Jr’s presidential campaign. Kucinich ran for POTUS in 2007 on a UFO platform based out of none other than… Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas, NV.

John Hagelin runs the Maharishi meditation organization out of LA. Hagelin "is a theoretical physicist who ran for the U.S. presidency three times on the Maharishi-backed Natural Law Party" (1992, 1996, 2000).”

In 2000 race he was backed by the Perot faction and disrupted Pat Buchanon. In 2004 he handed the ropes over and endorsed Kucinich.

This same culty, meditation, UFO crew has been trying to run for POTUS for nearly 20 years. It continues through today with RFK Jr.

Is it a coincidence that people threatening President Biden via his son Hunter, suggesting he is “stealing the election” per a hooker they know? I don’t think it is at all. This group is assaulting the US democracy and the integrity of the office of the President.

I think they’ve been storming the US Presidential position since the fall of the Soviet Union, using propaganda, cults, misinformation, and sadly via trying to compromise the sons of US presidents from JFK to Hunter Biden.

Maharishi seems like Indian intelligence. A lot of these 1970s new age space gurus interacted with these “space love sex LSD” guru types for decades. Is it a coincidence that Howard Bloom has worked with Modhi on space initiatives for DECADES?

Is it a coincidence that I know Howard Bloom and that he and Moonie NEWT GINGRICH were advocating for a moon colony during the Trump Admin? Can I sound any… crazier? 🤣 Reality is stranger than any fiction.

Newt Gingrich trying to sell Trump on a cheap moon plan A general, Gingrich and Michael Jackson's publicist are proposing a $2 billion contest to return Americans to the moon.

Why is Jeff Bezos pushing this UFO propaganda with Harvard and the Luis Elizondo guy? See the L5 Society hippy space cult shit. Both Bezos and Newt were part of that since teenagers (I think, find the reference.) L5 Society is connected to Timothy Leary and the usual suspects.

This all looks to me like a BRICS assault on the US Presidency and space industry since literally JFK challenged us to go to the moon. End thread."

Kukral even knew these 🌙 cults would try this. What is it with all of these cults? I'll just take a wild guess the Moonies came from yet another Freemasons group and no surprise that it considers Democracy Satanic. Projection as big as the Empire State building. I can't believe it hasn't occurred to people these objects probably came from some mad scientist and his billionaire backers. That's where we are, now.

[quoththemaven]

2022′s Favoritest Great Reads

THE BEST

33 1/3 The National’s Boxer, Ryan Pinkard

Anthem, Noah Hawley

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanon

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum

Liberation Day, George Saunders

Mickey7, Ashton Edward

Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart

Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard #2), Scott Lynch

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

The Candy House, Jennifer Egan

The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

THE REST

33 1/3 Bjork’s Homogenic, Emily MacKay

33 1/3 Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, Charles Fairchild

33 1/3 LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver, Ryan Leas

33 1/3 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads, Santi Elijah Holley

33 1/3 PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Kate Schatz

33 1/3 Portishead’s Dummy, RJ Wheaton

33 1/3 Sigur Ros’s (), Ethan Hayden

33 1/3 Siouxsie & the Banshees’ Peepshow, Samantha Bennett

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, Tom Perrotta

Deacon King Kong, James McBride

Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2034, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2035, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Oval, Elvia Wilk

The Adventurer’s Son, Roman Dial

The Book of Form and Happiness, Ruth Ozeki

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami

The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

The Institute, Stephen King

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

The Regulators, Richard Bachman

Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

[alledherlu-q-pereon]

George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madisin

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Martin van Buuren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

James K. Polk

Zachary Taylor

Mallard Filmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanon

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

James A. Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland, again.

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coilidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S Truman

Dwight D. Eishenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagen

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Joe Biden

Pretty sure that's correct

Presidents

Name all the presidents.

Now name all the first ladies.

Exactly.

[shaylogic]

One of my first thoughts when I woke up this morning was that--out of EVERYONE in the MCU--James Buchanan Barnes has had the weirdest freaking perspective on the change the world went through in all the movies.

Like he starts out as just a normal human dude--guy in the 40s joining the war effort, like most other young adult men at the time would have.

Then his scrawny pal gets super tall and buff but he could maybe chalk that up to Steroids or something. He, himself got captured and experimented on, which is awful, but not a thing unheard of at the time.

Then he’s “KIA” and doesn’t know anything. For a bit.

Then almost a century goes by that he probably only remembers like snippets of nightmare after nightmare, dissociated from the experiences but unable to fully reject or accept them. Who is he anymore? What has the world become? Is this Purgatory? Is this Hell? He doesn’t have much time or lucid consciousness to consciously take in the newer world around him.

Then, when he finally breaks free, he has to go on the run and piece it all together on his own. This future world, the new technology, how history remembers him and his friends, all these crazy and colorful superheroes. Aliens, magic, themed villains.

And it’s all A Lot but he’s doing his best to get by. But after all the hurt he’s caused others, and all the craziness of the Civil War being over him, when he doesn’t even have a good sense of identity anymore as it is, it’s too much. He needs to have time to process and heal, and deprogram.

Then it’s assumed he’s been woken periodically for Shuri to help deprogram him and for the Wakandans to kindly take him in and help him readjust. But he’s in a totally foreign country, a secret country that’s been hidden forever and that he could never have imagined! He’s in a very different time, place, and mindset now. He looks different, he feels different, he’s missing an arm. This isn’t what he signed up for in the 40s. This isn’t how he thought his life would go.

But at least his ridiculous friend is still here with him, despite everything. Just like he said, with him until the end of the line.

And then aliens attack and magic is flying everywhere and the army of a secret society is leading the assault and and and and

there’s a fucking norse god, a humanoid tree, and a talking raccoon

and the raccoon is fighting with him

and at this point, Bucky just fucking accepts it

TLDR: Bucky Barnes is the epitome of the Mood™:

[malfoyfarms]

Behind His Back

maybe a rafe imagine? i get it if you don’t want to write for him :) -nonnie

hi can you do a fluff/angst with rafe pls 🥺🥺-nonnie

Pairing: Rafe Cameron x Reader

Word Count: 1.4k

T/W: couple a swear words

A/N: So I managed to finish three requests bc I’m sitting in the barn waiting for my last three cows to calve... hopefully they’ll all be posted soon! 

You pushed the lobster and pasta around your plate trying to avoid any conversation with the adults who were gathered around you. The polka dotted dress you were wearing was constricting your movement, probably on purpose so you wouldn’t mess up the perfectly pinned back hair. 

Your family had invited the Cameron’s over this evening, celebrating you and Rafe’s one and a half years of dating. To you it felt like a business deal, but all you wanted from your parents was to hear “We’re proud of you,” and if that meant dating Rafe Cameron, then so be it. 

You weren’t one to lie, you had fallen in love with the boy, but things between the two of you weren’t exactly the same as when you had first announced your partnership. Deep down you two understood each other, but it still didn’t completely outweigh the unhealthy behavior. 

“So Y/N, where have you been looking for college? I know your Mom’s an alum of Wake Forest,” Ward asked you from across the large table. Swallowing your bite and wiping your mouth, you prepared your answer. Rafe and I were a year apart, him already attending the university in Chapel Hill.

“It was supposed to be a surprise for next week, but I accepted a position to play field hockey at Dartmouth College,” you responded absentmindedly. You flashed a large smile, feeling Rafe’s hand tighten around your thigh. He hated thinking about the two of you parting ways for college, therefore you never talked about it. 

“Y/N, I thought you were applying to UNC Chapel Hill?” Rafe asked, caught off guard by the response you gave his father. 

“No, not anymore. With double legacy, a first-gen woman at Dartmouth, and a position to keep playing field hockey, I’d be stupid not to accept,” I stated, getting heated. My two older brothers made eye contact with Sarah, John B and Wheezie, knowing it was about to get interesting. 

“It’s beautiful here in North Carolina, why would you want to leave?”

“I can ski in New Hampshire,” I retorted.

“We’re a team, Y/N, I thought we talked about decisions before we made them,” Rafe was turning red. You were challenging him, in front of both families and a pogue. 

“We’re not married, Rafe, I can make my own decisions,” You rolled your eyes. As if anything more could go wrong, your eldest brother threw in a comment about a friend of his he could introduce you to so you can acclimate to the campus properly. 

“I just can’t believe you went behind my back when making such a life altering decision. What you chose affects my reputation,” He was looking down at you, like you were a dog and he was your owner. You were ready to destroy, destroy, destroy, just like Daddy had taught his little girl. 

“Oh, so it’s okay to go behind my back and do drugs with Topper and Kelce, or go around beating the shit out of the kids from the cut?” His eyes were starting to dart around as the entire table kept watching. You weren’t finished though. “It’s okay to go behind my back and take my tip money to pay your drug lord? Rafe, your actions affect my reputation.” You spat with a mocking tone. Everyone was silent. 

You stood up, pushed in your chair and made your way to your bedroom. You hadn’t even had the door closed before you stripped your dress off, replacing it with shorts and a sweatshirt representing your future commitment.

Tears were pricking your eyes due to the scene you had caused downstairs. Your mother would be furious without a doubt, but your dad may let you off the hook, you were his baby girl. All you wanted to do was impress your parents with the academic and athletic achievement, but once again you let Rafe’s words cause actions that took that very moment away from you. 

~

It was going on 3:30 in the morning, when you heard your brother walk down the hall towards your room. Quickly wiping your eyes, and standing up to greet him.

“Rafe is on the front porch waiting for you. He called me like nine times because you decided to turn off your phone,” he said. “I can make him go away if you want.”

You shrugged your shoulders and silently made your way to your boyfriend. Once you opened the door and took in his appearance as it matched your own. Red-rimmed eyes, runny nose and twitchy hands. 

Here the vicious cycle began again. You’d fight, make a fool of each other, and then run right back to each other. You slid right into his arms, holding onto him as tight as your hands could. This cycle was the only way you knew how to love. You had learned from your parents, seeing many situations such as the one that had just played out between you and Rafe. 

What you noticed was that as you gripped him, he didn’t return the favor. He gently peeled your arms off of his body, then turning away and wiping his eyes. 

“Look, Y/N, after the scene you caused tonight, I think we,” he paused. You knew exactly where this was going. You had thrown too big of a fit this time. “We need to take a break for a little, get ourselves on the right path, then possibly rejoin.”

“Rafe what the fuck, did you just recite that from a script?” he wouldn’t make eye contact with you, proving your theory correct. 

“No, I just think it’s best for us, this way we can figure out what we’re doing before you leave in the fall.”

“Rafe, I leave the second week of May to start practices, we either fix this now, or end it now,” you whimpered, revealing another secret you hadn’t had time to tell anyone yet.

“Goodbye Y/N.”

~

It was the annual Christmas Party at the Country Club, and you were not looking forward to it. All the kook families were going to be there, including the Cameron’s. It wasn’t Ward, or Rose, or even Sarah that you were scared to see, it was Rafe. Ward wasn’t as upset as you thought he would be to find out you had ended things with his son, probably more focused on cleaning the reputation his son had picked up. 

The preppy skirt and sweater combination you had on complemented your new body type, highlighting the now more developed muscles. One semester of collegiate sports had completely changed you. You finished pinning back your front pieces of hair and made your way to the living room where your family and your new boyfriend were waiting. 

His name was Wilder Buchanon, a third year at Dartmouth, you had met over the summer as he was another fellow athlete. Your families adored one another, almost more than the two of you’s attraction to each other.

As you made your way into the venue, all eyes were on you once again. You were flooded with greetings from other kook kids, asking how New Hampshire was, about your studies, and most importantly the man standing next to you. Everything around was a blur when your eyes met Rafe’s from across the room. 

He didn’t look the same. His eyes had dark circles around them, his shoulders were slightly hunched as if he was trying to hide. He overall just didn’t look well.

“Wilder, I’m going to go get something to drink, I’ll be right back,” he nodded in acknowledgement and removed his hand from your back. 

Your feet carried you towards the former lover, and he instantly looked at you. He flashed a soft smile and took in your new appearance. Your y/h/c hair had grown long, you had put on muscle, not in a bad way. 

“You look good kid,” he chuckled softly.

“How have you been doing Rafe?” There was a genuine tone to your voice.

“Better, I’m officially two months sober, and I’ll be going back to Chapel Hill in the spring,” he responded. 

He didn’t expect you to envelope him in a hug, and tell him you were proud of him, but he accepted it greatly. Of course his smile softened when he met Wilder, but he was right. The two of you needed to work on yourselves as the relationship the two of you shared was unhealthy. He couldn’t be mad at Wilder for falling for such a wonderful girl like you. 

“Go back to be with your boy,” he said softly. “Just remember kid, I’ll always be in your corner.” He moved your hair behind your ear, and sent you on your way.

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fc suggestions for the families of color?

      we  answered  woc  over  here  ,   and  here’s  a  list moc :  darren chen  ,   steven r mcqueen  ,   aubrey joseph  ,   jeon jungkook  ,   kim namjoon  ,   ceasar wu  ,   rami malek  ,   arjun gupta  ,   steven yeun  ,  alex landi  ,  brian michael smith  ,  laith ashley  ,  aria shahghasemi  ,   jordan  fisher  ,  diego tinoco  ,   brandon perea  ,   ryan potter  ,   booboo stewart  ,   jordan rodrgues  ,   zeeko zaki  ,   lakeith stanfield  ,  tanner  buchanon  ,   ross butler  ,   chris pang  ,   oscar isaac  ,  rami malek  ,  rege jean page  ,  blaire redford  ,  sean teale  ,  dev patel  ,   jordan  conner  ,   tommy  martinez  ,  drew  ray  tanner  ,   rahul kohli  ,   john boyega  ,   keiynan lonsdale  ,   gabriel luna  ,   tom maden  ,   deniz can atkas  ,   tyler posey  ,   justice smith  ,   chae hyungwon  ,   lee jongsuk  ,   and  park hyungsik !  

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“HARRIET” (2019) Review

"HARRIET" (2019) Review Many people are familiar with Harriet Tubman, the former slave-turned-Underground Railroad conductor-turned-Civil War operative-turned-political activist. She has appeared as a supporting character in a handful of television productions and the leading character in two other television productions. However, a full-length feature film has finally been made about the famous historical figure. That film is called "HARRIET".

As I had earlier stated, there have been two television productions about the famous Underground Railroad conductor. One of them was an episode from the 1963-1964 historical anthology series "THE GREAT ADVENTURE" called (1.06) "Go Down, Moses". It starred Ruby Dee. The other television production was the 1978 miniseries "A WOMAN CALLED MOSES", which starred Cicely Tyson. Following the latter, the Harriet Tubman figure appeared in a few television productions about slavery and the Underground Railroad until the release of this new film. "HARRIET" basically covered Tubman's life during a nine-year period between 1849 and 1850, along with a sequence set in 1858. The movie began in 1849 Maryland with Harriet (or Araminta "Minty" Ross Tubman, as she was known then), along with her husband John Tubman and father Ben Ross (both who were free) approached Harriet's owner Edward Bodress with a promise made by the latter's ancestor that her mother Harriet "Rit" Ross would be freed by the age of 45, along with their children (including Harriet). Bodress refused to acknowledge the promise. He also forbade Harriet from seeing her husband John. Brodess's adult son Gideon caught Minty praying for God to take Mr. Brodess. The latter died shortly afterward. Alarmed by this, Gideon decided to sell Minty as punishment. Suffering from spells that began after she had been struck in the head as a child, Minty had a vision of her being free and decided to run away. She convinced John to remain behind, in case he got caught and punished for escaping with her. Minty eventually reached Philadelphia and freedom. She managed to acquire a job, thanks to the assistance of Underground Railroad abolitionist/writer William Still and a fashionable free black woman named Marie Buchanon. After a few months in Philadelphia, Minty (who renamed herself as Harriet Tubman) returned to Maryland to retrieve John and discovered that he had remarried, believing she was dead. Instead, Harriet decided to escort some family members north to freedom and began her career as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. I have been aware of Harriet Tubman ever since I was a child of nine years old. My mother had purchased a copy of Marcy Heidish's 1976 novel called "A Woman Called Moses", the basis for the 1978 miniseries. But "HARRIET" marked the first time that Tubman was featured as the a character in a motion picture, let alone the leading character. So naturally, I had to see it. I had some problems with the movie. One, I could easily see that it was not historical accurate. This is not a real problem for me. After seeing two television productions that erroneously featured Harriet Tubman operating in the Ohio River Valley, the historical inaccuracies in this film struck me as a piece of cake. One example would be the scene during her own escape in which her new owner, Gideon Bodress, and a slave patrol cornered her on a bridge. Instead of surrendering, she evaded them by jumping into the river. Needless to say, no such thing happened, since her owner (Anthony Thompson), or any slave patrol were able to capture her during her journey to Philadelphia. But . . . I was able to tolerate this scene. Somewhat. I was also a bit confused about her relationship with John Tubman in this film. Director-writer Kasi Lemmons and co-writer Gregory Allen Howard portrayed Harriet or Minty's marriage as loving and trouble free. This has not been the case in another Hollywood production I could think of. Unfortunately, no one really knows whether the Tubmans had experienced any marital strife before her flight from Maryland. So . . . I tolerated this portrayal. However, the movie indicated that Minty had suggested John not run with her so that he would not be caught aiding a runaway. This is false. According to history, John did not want her to run in the first place. They also made it clear that John had remarried because he had assumed Minty/Harriet was dead. I do not know whether this is true or not. But it seemed as if Lemmons and Howard seemed hell bent upon portraying John in a positive light as much as possible. But there were changes in the narrative that left me scratching my head. "HARRIET" featured Minty making her escape from Maryland in the middle of the day . . . which I found odd. The movie had her working in a garden when someone warned her that Bodress had plans to sell her to the Deep South in order to alleviate family debts. No sooner had she received the warning, one of the plantation's foremen appeared to grab her. Minty ran and . . . hid. She hid around the plantation for hours before she contacted her family and left. What made this even more odd is that Bodress did not learn of her escape from the foreman until hours later. Which I found very odd. Historically, most slave escapes began in the middle of the night, not in the middle of the day. Why did Minty wait so long to contact her family before her escape? And why did the plantation foreman wait so long to inform Bodress? Also, she made most of her journey by night and hid during the daytime. Which would have made that daytime encounter on the bridge with Bodress somewhat implausible. I can only assume Lemmons and Howard had added it for dramatic reasons. In the movie, Minty/Harriet did not wait very long to return to Maryland and contact her family and John. After escorting several members of her family north, she returned to Maryland and helped others escape on several occasions before the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Now this is ridiculous. One, Tubman returned to Maryland to help some relatives escape at least three to four months after the law's passage. I find it very hard to believe that she had made so many trips to Maryland between her own escape in September 1849 and when the fugitive law was passed in September 1850. Another troubling aspect of the movie was the sequence featuring the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. The movie featured a scene with former slaves - including Harriet - leaving en masse from the Philadelphia docks, while God knows how many slave catchers suddenly appeared to capture these fugitives. What the hell? I had felt as if I was watching a war movie with refugees escaping from an invaded city. Yes, many fugitive slaves were forced to flee the Northern states for Canada following the law's passage. But not like THAT. Not like a scene from "CASABLANCA" or "THE WINDS OF WAR". I have two more complaints. Why did Lemmons and Howard added that . . . relationship between Harriet and Bodress? Why? It was bad enough that Gideon Bodress never existed. But Tubman had never recounted having to deal with the unwanted sexual interest or assault from any white man. And I got the impression that Lemmons wanted to include some watered down version of the Patsey-Edwin Epps relationship from the Oscar winning film, "12 YEARS A SLAVE" - but without the overt violence and sex. It was obvious that Bodress had never laid a violent hand on Harriet in the film, aside from the slap on the face after he had overheard her wish for his father's death. But I find it implausible that Gideon Bodress had never attempted to sexually assault her. Even when his father was alive. Another sequence featured Northern black and white members discussing the Fugitive Slave Act passage and whether it would be safe to continue the Underground Railroad. What I disliked about this sequence is that most of them seemed to have this attitude without the organization's conductors appearing on Southern plantations to lead them, many slaves would not be willing to escape or would not succeed in escaping. And this was far from the truth. One could argue that this scene was a perfect example of patronization from Northern abolitionists. But Harriet did not point out that slaves were capable of escaping on their own. Instead, she simply argued for the continuation of the Underground Railroad. Which simply made her equally patronizing to me. One would think that I disliked "HARRIET". That person would be wrong. I actually enjoyed it very much. Despite some of the narrative choices, lightweight characterizations and historical inaccuracies; "HARRIET" was both an entertaining and interesting film. One, it is nice to see Hollywood produce a feature film about the former abolitionist. "HARRIET" is a thoughtful drama about a period in United States history about which very few Americans want to discuss, let alone contemplate. Like other Hollywood productions, the movie mainly featured Tubman's early career as an Underground Railroad conductor. I had assumed that it would also focus on her Civil War experiences, due to some publicity stills released before the film hit the theaters. But the movie only included a coda, featuring Tubman's participation in a raid during the war. "HARRIET" was, without a doubt, about her role with the Underground Railroady. Due to the film's focus on Harriet's career as an Underground Railroad conductor, it did not focus that strongly on her family life . . . with the exceptions of her attempts to lead them to freedom. Many critics have complained about this. But I can understand why Lemmons only focused on one aspect of Harriet's life. This was a feature-length film that ran nearly two hours, not a television miniseries. Frankly, I thought it was smart of her to focus one one aspect of Harriet's life, considering the format she had used. And she focused on one of the former slave/abolitionist's most famous period in her life - namely that as an Underground Railroad conductor. Only through this story arc was the movie able to somewhat focus on her connection to her family. In fact, one the most interesting arcs in this narrative proved to be a sequence that featured Tubman's attempts to rescue her sister Rachel and the latter's children. This focus on Harriet's career with the Underground Railroad allowed Lemmons and Howard to reveal Harriet as action heroine she truly was. The writers' narrative arc also featured some well staged action sequences. Among my favorite sequences are Harriet's initial escape from Maryland and her successful rescue of Rachel's children in the film's second half. Both struck me as well-shot sequences that featured a great deal of more tension and drama than action. And I thought the focus on these two aspects may have allowed the sequences to be more effective without the obvious action. I also enjoyed the movie's final action sequence in which Harriet attempted to rescue and lead her parents to freedom in the late 1850s. Not only was this sequence filled with the usual solid action for this trope, it featured a tense-filled final confrontation between Harriet and Bodress. I certainly did not have a problem with the film's production values. I thought Warren Alan Young did an exceptional job in re-creating antebellum America, especially in scenes that featured the Bodress plantation, Baltimore (at least I think it is), Canada and especially Philadelphia. I believe Young was ably supported by John Troll's sharp and colorful cinematography, Wyatt Smith's film editing, Kevin Hardison and Christina Eunji Kim's art direction, and Marthe Pineau's set decorations. I also have to commend Paul Tazewell for his costume designs. I thought Tazewell did an excellent job of conveying the movie's setting and characters through his costumes, as shown in the images below:

I have a confession to make. Aside from a handful, I was not exactly blown away by the performances featured in "HARRIET". I am not claiming that most of the performances were terrible or even mediocre. I simply found them solid . . . or serviceable. There were a few that I found slightly above being serviceable - like Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Zackary Momoh, Tim Guinee, Henry Hunter Hall, Joseph Lee Anderson, Jennifer Nettles and Omar J. Dorsey. But like I had said, there were a few that struck me as memorable. One of them Clarke Peters, who gave a subtle, yet warm portrayal of Harriet/Minty's father, Ben Ross. I was also impressed by Vanessa Bell Calloway, who gave an exceptional performance as the abolitionist's emotional and slightly edgy mother, Harriet Ritt Ross. Joe Alwyn did an excellent job of portraying Gideon Bodress as a slightly complex character without transforming the character into a one-note, mustache-twirling villain. And I really enjoyed Vondie Curtis-Hall's subtle, yet colorful portrayal of Reverend Green, the local free black minister, who also happened to be a member of the Underground Railroad. But the performance that really counted in "HARRIET" came from leading lady Cynthia Erivo. It is almost a miracle that Erivo managed to give such an exceptional performance as Harriet Tubman. I say this, because Lemmons and Howard had failed to fully portray Tubman as a complex human being with not only virtues, but also a few flaws. Their Tubman almost struck me as a borderline Mary Sue, due to their determination to basically portray her as an action heroine. But they did provide some intimate moments between Tubman, her family and friends. And this gave Erivo the opportunity to skillfully convey the warm, yet strong-willed individual underneath the heroic facade. This was especially apparent in scenes that featured Tubman's desperation to put as much distance between her and the Bodress plantation as possible; her determination to return to Maryland to rescue her family; and her discovery that her husband had married another woman. Thanks to her superb performance, Erivo managed to earn both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. And if I must be brutally honest, she deserved them. Overall, I enjoyed "HARRIET". I have always been interested in Harriet Tubman as a historical figure and was happy to see a motion picture about her. It was not the best or most compelling biopic I have ever seen. Nor was it the best biopic about Tubman I have ever seen. But I cannot deny that thanks to Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard's interesting screenplay, Lemmons' solid direction and a first-rate cast led by Cynthia Erivo, "HARRIET" is a movie that I will be more than happy to watch on many occasions in the future.

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Captain America: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/41416440

by aeiodeehrt

Today is a lucky day for Marvel fans. It turns out that Kevin Feige fast-tracked the 4th Captain America film and aptly renamed it from “Captain America: New World Order'' to “Captain America: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.” It also turns out that this is not only the MCU’s fourth Captain America film, but also the 6th and final installment of the Disney+ series “The Walcon and The Finter Soldier.” Let’s hope they don’t fuck up the ending this time.

Sam Wilson (AKA The Falcon) and James Buchanon “Bucky” Wilson (AKA The Winter Soldier) are happily married and living their best life in Jersey City, when suddenly, an old friend pays them a visit and warns of an coming threat from their archnemesis, Sharon Carter (AKA Agent 13/The Power Broker).

Words: 2787, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 6 of The Walcon and the Finter Soldier

Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Movies), Ms. Marvel (TV 2022), Thunderbolts (Comics)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Wilson, Steve Rogers, Helmut Zemo, Scott Lang, Redwing (Marvel), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Yelena Belova, Emil Blonsky, Sharon Carter (Marvel), Georges Batroc, Karli Morgenthau, Kamala Khan, Bruno Carrelli, Loki (Marvel), Charles Xavier, Wong (Marvel), Joaquín Torres

Relationships: James "Bucky" Wilson/Sam Wilson, Scott Lang/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Captain America: New World Order, Mentioned Johan Schmidt, Mentioned Peggy Carter, Mentioned John Walker (Marvel), Mentioned Peter Parker, Mentioned Natasha Romanov, Mentioned Clint Barton, Mentioned Thanos (Marvel), Mentioned Carol Danvers, Avengers: Endgame references, Morbius References, Hawkeye References, She-Hulk References, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness References, WandaVision References, Thor (2011) References, My Chemical Romance References, Song references, Anal Sex, Hand Jobs, Big Bully Dance Off, barbeque, New Jersey, Camp Lehigh

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Biografie, Drama, Historie / Von Kasi Lemmons

Mit Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn

INHALTSANGABE Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts lebt und arbeitet die Sklavin Minty (Cynthia Erivo) auf einer Plantage von Edward Brodess (Mike Marunde) in Maryland und träumt von einem besseren Leben für sich und ihre Familie in Freiheit. Mit dem Tod ihres Besitzers steht der Leibeigenen ein hartes Schicksal bevor, denn sie soll von ihrer Familie getrennt und an einen neuen Besitzer im Süden des Landes verkauft werden. Bevor es soweit kommen kann, ergreift sie die Flucht. Sie schafft es bis zur Anti-Slavery Society nach Pennsylvania, wo sie William Still (Leslie Odom Jr.) kennenlernt und sich fortan Harriet Tubmann nennt. Um unabhängig zu werden, hilft ihr die Unternehmerin Marie Buchanon (Janelle Monáe) dabei, sich eine eigene Existenz aufzubauen. Ihr neues Leben kann Harriet nicht genießen, denn noch immer gibt es Menschen, die das gleiche Schicksal wie sie teilen und als Sklaven arbeiten. Kurzerhand fasst sie den Plan, ihren Mann John Tubmann (Zackary Momoh) zu retten, der ist zwar ein freier Mann, aber als Afroamerikaner in Maryland Freiwild. Sie reist in ihre alte Heimat zurück und macht sich als „Moses“ der „Underground Railroad“-Organisation einen Namen als Flüchtlingshelferin...

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[fortunaterpg]

NAME: Orson Kennedy AGE: Thirty three GENDER: Cisgender (he/him) SEXUALITY: UTP OCCUPATION: Internet entrepreneur  FACECLAIM: Kofi Siriboe (negotiable) STATUS: OPEN

KEY INFORMATION

You were chiseled from marble; you were a teenage demigod. There was something about you that reminded people of the ‘60s heyday, like you were an echo of John and Jackie at their country house, all tanned skin and crinkled eye-smiles and gleaming teeth. You learned at your father’s side never to dissuade someone of their first opinion. Who knew if you were of that hallowed clan, some distant cousin four times removed? When you said your last name, all breezy confidence, tables miraculously opened up in packed restaurants, assistants stood up straighter. Right away, Mister Kennedy. God, you’ll never get sick of that easy thrill.

A kinder person would describe you as image conscious. The truth is: you’re vain, and self-aggrandizing, and almost laughably sensitive. Most people tend to look past your stellar school results and ambitious, cutthroat demeanor. It doesn’t matter to them that you’re wickedly smart, that your mathematical mind calculates answers at a lightning rate, that you courted the Ivy League without Daddy’s help and still received a first round offer to MIT. Who knows if you really are your father’s child, demanding and petulant, or if there’s more of your mother than you’ll ever know: her even temperament, cool-headed intelligence, patient and kind.

You look the part, but you’ve never lead the pack. That role belonged to your younger cousin, Arthur, or your other friends, like Daisy and Susanna. You were an odd foursome, quarrelsome and fun, and though you knew you looked like a cover of TIME, they never looked to you for advice. No one ever did. You nurse your grudges like a miserly old-timer, and can never help spitting out some self-serving, sarcastic remark.

CONNECTIONS

ARTHUR HAVEMEYER, DAISY MILLER, SUSANNA HADANI: The terrible four. You were a collector’s set, each pristine and glamorous, an incestuous unit that bickered like children and partied like gods. Your dynamic differs depending on who you’re with. Arthur was always one step ahead of you, which you resented; and Susanna had a selfish, bored streak like a cat that reminded you of your father. Daisy, though. Your sparring is on another level: hers is the only mind you’ve ever been fascinated by.

HUGO BUCHANON: Once upon a time you were bosom buddies. Egging each other on, casually bullying your classmates, laughing and falling over drunk. But his dabbling with drugs went beyond what you were willing to do, and you could divine what the future would hold if you stayed friends: some vulgar scandal, a drug bust, being disowned. Far easier to let Hugo go gently into the current; he’d be pulled down and disappear before you’d know it.

[aronsonfilm]

Electric Guest - Dear To Me from Pomp&Clout on Vimeo.

Directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz

Production Company: Pomp&Clout
 Executive Producer: Ryen Bartlett
 Producer: John Edwards Curtis Director of Photography: Brandon Kapelow

Production Coordinator: Matthew Josselyn Production Assistant: Anthony Gourdine Production Assistant: Patricia Ramirez

1st Assistant Camera: Jacob Perry
Gaffer: Jordan Black
Swing: Aaron Pong
Key Grip: Ely Gonzalez Best Boy Grip: Victor Wang HMU: Amy Hanlin Stylst: Lisa Madonna

Commissioner: Jared Shelton Label: Interscope

Cast: Asa Taccone Todd Dahlhoff Andy Samberg HAIM Reese Richardson

Belgica Vargas Amber Whittington Ava Pearl Michael Buchanon Gabriel Kenny Eber Palma Oliva McClintock Elizabeth Twaits Brice Pendergraff Phillip Kim  Grace Mason

Reese Richardson Sara Anne Richardson Ezra Richardson Michael Smith Breandain Langlois Christopher Langlois Xiomara Batin Su Ellen Ehnebuske Sofia W. Sarkisian Darrell Cockerham Clifton Noble Drew Campbell Takama M. Drew Campbell Luke Mertz Thais Aquino De Arujo Camilla Padilla Rhodrik Durr Maryam Katouli Michael Harrig Sam Fishman Alice Engelson Marcquet Hill D. Bull Emilio D. Rodney Chonia

[kwebtv]

Eastbound and Down  -  HBO  -  February 15, 2009 – November 17, 2013

Sports Comedy (29 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Danny McBride as Kenny Powers

Steve Little as Steven Bernard "Stevie" Janowski

Katy Mixon as April Buchanon (seasons 1 & 4, recurring seasons 2–3)

John Hawkes as Dustin Powers (season 1, recurring seasons 2–4)

Jennifer Irwin as Cassie Powers (season 1, recurring seasons 2–4)

Andy Daly as Terrence Cutler (season 1, recurring seasons 2–3)

Ben Best as Clegg (season 1, recurring season 2)

Elizabeth De Razzo as Maria Janowski (seasons 2–4)

Ana de la Reguera as Vida (season 2)

Michael Peña as Sebastian Cisneros (season 2)

Marco Rodríguez as Roger Hernandez (season 2)

Efren Ramirez as Catuey (season 2)

Recurring cast

Adam Scott as Pat Anderson (seasons 1–2)

Will Ferrell as Ashley Schaeffer (season 1, season 3)

Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy (season 1, season 3)

Bo Mitchell as Wayne Powers (seasons 1–3)

Don Johnson as Eduardo Sanchez Powers (seasons 2–3)

Marlene Forte as Soledad Sanchez (season 2)

Erick Chavarria as Casper (seasons 2–3)

Matthew McConaughey as Roy McDaniel (seasons 2–3)

Jerry Minor as Jamie Laing (seasons 2–4)

Sylvia Jefferies as Tracy (seasons 1–2)

Deep Roy as Aaron (season 2)

Joaquin Cosío as Hector (season 2)

Eduardo "Piolín" Sotelo as Announcer (season 2)

Jason Sudeikis as Shane Gerald/Cole Gerald (season 3)

Jon Michael Hill as Darnell (season 3)

Ike Barinholtz as Ivan Dochenko (season 3)

Lily Tomlin as Tammy Powers (season 3)

Alexander Ethan McGee as Dustin Powers Jr. (season 3)

Ken Marino as Guy Young (season 4)

Tim Heidecker as Gene (season 4)

Jillian Bell as Dixie (season 4)

Jon Reep as Jed Forney (season 4)

Omar Dorsey as Dontel Benjamin (season 4)

[cultural-engineer]

Beyond "There's always a black issue Dear' from claire lawrie on Vimeo.

Spread the Word this is a grassroots project you are the distributor!. Please visit beyondtheresalwaysablackissuedear.com For more info on screenings and on the cast. The film explores and celebrates black LGBT identities. Demarcating the particular influence that Black LGBT culture has had upon Fashion, Fine art, Dance, Music and Language, much of which has been appropriated by the cultural mainstream. The cast vividly recall daring to be different. Ballet dancing boys, and make-up wearing, gender-fluid school days, are described with humour and honesty. Their experiences shed new light on the UK in the 1970s/80s. Creating their own identities in a time when, ‘if you were black you could be either Reggae or Soul’, these are the untold stories where 1970s, Soul, Disco, Punks and Blitz Kids met in underground clubs, like The Four Aces in Dalston and Crackers in Soho. Beyond captures a vital historical period, moving through the 70s, 80s and early 90s into the explosion of queer culture at Taboo. With a score by Dennis Bovell and Robb Scott. Through her close friendships with the cast Claire Lawrie captures the recollections of an amazing cast. Here are the Trailblazers! Cast: Andy Polaris, Frank Akinsete, Ken Davis, Kenny Campbell, Lanah P, Les Child, Nicky Green, Roy Brown, Winn Austin. Archive footage: Body Map, Dave Swindells, Derek Ridgers, Devon Buchanon, Dick Jewell, John Maybury, Kino Library, Nicola Tyson, Michael Costiff, Pam Hogg.

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New from Al and Linda Lerner on Movies and Shakers: Harriet

Finally, this female American hero gets her due in the first feature-length film about Harriet Tubman that times feels more like a history lesson than a big studio biopic. It’s amazing Tubman’s story has not been told before on the big screen. However, Director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Talk to Me) cast right with Cynthia Erivo who embodies this American treasure and what she went through to earn freedom from slavery before and during the Civil War. 

Lemmons took a script from the 1990’s, updated and re-envisioned it, adding more accurate details of Tubman’s life. The screenplay, written by Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard, dwells more on family separation than the violence against slaves in the years leading up to the war. Writer/Director Lemmons describes the film as a cross between 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, and Wonder Woman, but in this film, Tubman was just trying to keep her family together. 

Lemmons cast Cynthia Erivo (Tony, Grammy and Emmy winner) because she could act, sing, and she could run fast. She did a lot of running in Widows and has to do even more in this film. Erivo plays Tubman as a woman who literally ran for her life to get freedom from slavery, for herself and for others. 

There’s been was some question about Erivo playing the role, instead of an American actress, because she is British, having been born in London of Nigerian parents. But she handles the role well, along with a Southern accent, of the 5-foot tall freedom fighter who brought more than 100 slaves North. Tubman became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. It was thought to have been guided by God, having visions, some attribute  to her being hit hard on the head with a heavy hammer when she was 13. The scene of her walking slowly, neck deep, across a river, looking to God for help, is a graphic example showing why she was called Moses for leading her people to freedom. It also shows the religious overtones of the film.

The tenor of the film is more tense than violent following her solo perilous journey. It is rather slow moving and not with a lot of dialogue. Cinematographer John Toll (Iron Man 3, Tropic Thunder, The Last Samurai) shoots so many closeups of Harriet’s face as a still blank stare into the camera that we think it loses some of its dramatic power. Seeing how small she appears in overhead shots of her running in the shadows and then in open fields with the sun glowing on her face, you see how impossible her journey must have been 150 years ago. This film shows how she only had the North Star and her quiet strength and determination to guide her to freedom.

Tubman’s real name was Araminta, “Minty” Ross. When her sisters were sold to leave their farm in Maryland to work in the deep South, that was her breaking point. The Ross family had been promised freedom when Minty’s mother reached the  age of 45 by her landowner. But he died and this heirs didn’t honor the promise. Eliza Brodess (Jennifer Nettles) and her son Gideon (Joe Alwyn) are the mean masters selling off Minty’s relatives to get money to keep their struggling farm alive. Even though Gideon was not a real person, his character helped flush out what Harriet was up against. 

When Harriet escapes the first time, she gets support from Pennsylvania abolitionist and civil rights activist, William Still (Leslie Odom Jr.). Odom Jr.   plays Still with fire and passion for the cause. He is convincing. Harriet also gets supports from Marie Buchanon (Janelle Monáe) who takes her in. Monae (Hidden Figures, Moonlight) is excellent playing a soft spoken, sympathetic free woman and business owner who plays a major role in Harriet’s life. Unfortunately, Buchanon was not a real person but Monáe is able to help fill in some gaps and make the story more interesting through her presence. 

The score and songs in this film added by Terence Blanchard add emotion throughout. Vondie Curtis-Hall (actor and husband of Director Lemmons) plays the Reverend singing two songs. Blanchard also used Nina Simone’s “Sinner Man” to good effect when Harriet is being chased by slaveowners. Erivo wrote “Stand Up” for the film and worked with Blanchard to write, “Our Time is Near (Our People are Free),” a more contemporary song,  that plays over the credits. 

Harriet Tubman was, and still is, a female superhero who symbolizes freedom. Lemmons picked a leading lady loaded with talent to play this important American in a film which has been a long time coming. But, this film is really more of a textbook lesson than an emotional heart tugger. Erivo plays Tubman like the photo we know, so serious and stoic, she’s practically devoid of personality. And this movie shows that Harriet Tubman deserves to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Focus Features            2 Hours 5 Minutes            PG-13

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