#lainey and sarah

[raskies456]

still thinking about this fuckign film unfortunately. not even gonna call it a movie bc it’s more like a bunch of scenes in a trench coat cinched together with random quotes from philosophers as an excuse for dialogue and the plot and message is so deeply obfuscated as to be nonexistent, which is probably good bc at the core it’s just your ‘Misunderstood Genius with a Vision that No One Understands’ plus social commentary that is completely neutered by attempting to make it general and completely apolitical. I hate how interesting it is to think about on a meta level bc it is fundamentally a nothing burger not worth bothering with under a veneer of great art direction and experimental cinematography and incredible costume design.

Maybe potentially watchable if you can chemically alter your brain to find its own meaningful patterns in noise (aka take acid or something) or maybe watch it in a language you don’t know so you can pretend the dialogue and plot are actually good and relevant to the film bc you’ll get about the same amount of context

but really all of this is context for why I’m angry my echolalia has been this for the past few days:

watched megalopolis drunk with my friends and have been trying to make sense of what went wrong ever since

[the-milkyz]

I DOODLE ALL(MOST) MD CHARACTERS!!!! spent 5 minutes on each except group ones

ALRIGHT SHALL WE GO THOUGH THE LIST!!!!

Uzi, SD-N, SD-V and purple solver :P

Doll, Lizzy, and thad :p bro they look the best cause i draw them so many times

J, tessa and cyn

OVILIVa!!!! aka drone 029, Nori, Khan, Yeva and uhhhh that guy

Rebbecca and derren and uhh trever and unnamed two bg characters

A sentinel, Beau, Alice, and the bug key

Braidon, Sam, unnamed teacher guy, and penny and red solver

tessas parents and yellow solver !!!!!

Ok we are getting obscure now theres Ron, Reid, Riley and Ronathon

Its the gin rummy gang Todd, Makarov, Unnamed guy... and Braxdon

and now theres Frank, Grant, Sarah and tim

Unnamed detective and another unnamed wdf worker and posters are Lainey Gilmore, Kenzie Rivers, Dillan Hall, and Angela Palmer

and thats it, the last one is Emily and Kelsey Day :3

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

[texas-writes]

Right Enough for Me

CW: no outbreak, murder, domestic violence, descriptions of violence (Joel’s the good guy, I promise)

This fic is based off the song Wait in the Truck by HARDY and Lainey Wilson

Joel Miller liked to believe that he was a good man, that he tried his damndest to do the right thing, but as he sat in his truck parked by the bank of the Colorado looking down at the still-warm pistol in his trembling hands he’d wondered if he’d done wrong. In the eyes of the law he had, sure, but morally, truly, was it wrong?

He sighs as he climbs out of his truck and walks into the river until it lapped just below the tops of his work boots. It was eight a.m. on a Tuesday. There were no sunbathers, nobody playing in the water, nobody to see him wind his arm back and hurl the gun into the river. Hopefully the lifeblood of Texas would take his sins far east and spill them into the Gulf.

As Joel made his way to his jobsite he couldn’t seem to keep his mind from running. Part of him wanted to clam up and try to forget what he’d done, but another part wanted to clear his conscience. If he went to a confessional they weren’t allowed to go to the cops, but the penance they’d give wouldn’t absolve him. He could probably confide in Tommy, he was sure to understand, but what if he didn’t? Instead he just sighs and wipes the nervous sweat from his brow and goes to decide today's agenda. Despite it all, despite the horrible, horrible events of the morning, he was still the first one to work with ten fresh boxes of Carpenter’s nails and the crisp receipt to go with them. Maybe things would be okay.

One Month Earlier

A knock at the door raises Joel from the breakfast table, wordlessly ruffling Sarah’s hair as he passes on his way to the door. He swings the door wide and lets a dopey smile spread across his face when he sees you with your usual beer can sized rollers still in your hair. He takes notice of the split in your perfectly lined lips.

You weren’t prideful, but he knew you’d be humiliated if he mentioned it. He’d been there before, after all.

“Mornin’ Darlin’,” he greets, waving for you to come in. “We’ve still got plenty if you’re hungry,” he offers, gesturing to the dining room table where Sarah was strategically drizzling syrup onto a sausage link.

“Nah, I’m alright. Already ate with JP. I’ll take some coffee if you’ve got it though”

“Alright then.”

You give him a smile and join Sarah at the table while Joel fixes your coffee just how you liked it, sliding it in front of you before disappearing upstairs.

“Y/n,” Sarah questions, looking up from her plate.

“Yeah kiddo?”

“How’d you meet my dad again?”

“I grew up down the street, but we met ‘cause of you.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. You was real little when I started watching you, ‘bout three I think. Your dad needed someone to watch you and I’ve been your babysitter ever since.”

“How old were you?”

“Nineteen.”

She grins in response. “Seven years. That’s a long time. Why don’t you marry my dad, he really likes you, plus you’re basically my mom already.”

You cover your mouth in a feeble attempt to not spew coffee all over the naive girl in front of you.

“Honey, you know I can’t. I’m married to JP. He’s a good man.”

Her eyes narrow. “If he’s so great how come I’ve never met ‘em”

“He don’t like rugrats. You done eating?”

“Oh I see how it is, and yes. Can I go watch TV?”

“Go brush your teeth and then we’ll talk.”

“Okay.”

You can’t help but smile as Sarah slides out of her seat and runs upstairs. It was almost seven and you knew she didn’t want to miss the newest episode of Inuyasha. You get up and scrape what's left of her plate into the trash and put it into the dishwasher, smiling to yourself when you hear Joel jogging down the steps in his heavy boots.

“Alright Darlin’, I’m outta here,” he calls, punctuated by the jingling of his keys as he pulls them from their designated hook. “You got her?”

“Always do Joel,” you respond, giving him a lazy grin as you head into the bathroom to finish your hair.

Sarah knocks on the door and you let her in, telling her she can watch TV as long as it isn’t too loud and she already has her backpack together. She thanks you and scampers off, leaving the door open behind her, which was probably for the better since your hairspray was starting to choke you.

After you get Sarah off to school you head to work for another exciting day of taking phone calls and sharpening pencils, then using said pencils to record notes of said phone calls and then do it all over again the next time the phone rang.

Dale had come in again, bug-eyed and skittish as usual, trying his damndest to chat you up despite your obvious disinterest, pressing about how things were with you and JP, if he’d want to have beers with him after work sometime, how your tomatoes were, and on and on. Finally you’d gotten him to get to what he was there for, which was getting his truck's registration update put on file, and you’d promptly shooed him out after everything was squared away.

You’d finally gotten off and picked Sarah up from school, cracking open one of Joel’s High Lifes and propping your bare feet up on the coffee table to watch General Hospital while Sarah worked on her homework. Time crawled on and Sarah finished up and went outside to play on her tire swing before coming in and laying on the floor beside you with her copy of Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret, that you had gotten her last month. You figured you'd stop and get her Starring: Sally J Freedman as Herself next. It was always your favorite.

Around five fifteen you had called JP and let him know that you were going to be late getting home since there was no sign of Joel and he still hadn’t called. He’d gotten upset, so you just told him you loved him real sweetly and hung up and started dinner for Sarah.

Finally Joel got home around six and thanked you for staying late.

When you’d gotten home JP was furious, backing you into a corner and shouting into your face, calling you every name under the sun for God knows how long before he got bored and went back to the couch, demanding dinner and a beer.

JP had been a decent man for so long, you dated throughout highschool, parted ways, reconnected and got married at twenty-four. Things had been falling apart the last couple months and it had you looking for an out, hell you had the divorce papers shoved in your trunk under the spare tire, you were just too scared to tell him what you wanted, scared he wouldn’t let you leave, on the sunny side of a black bag at least. He got in your face like that for some reason or another at least three nights a week, and he'd busted your lip the night before over dinner being late. You knew it was too late to fix whatever you two used to have.

Things cooled off after that for about a week, then he came home drunker than a skunk and when you’d gone to get the mail the next morning you’d noticed a giant dent in his back bumper and that the front of his truck was barely an inch from the side of the trailer. You’d quietly made breakfast and went and woke JP when it was ready. He’d staggered his way into the kitchen and flopped into one of the chairs at the table.

“JP did you back into something last night?”

“What does it matter, woman?”

“You ain’t supposed to drive like that, you could’a hurt somebody, you could’a gotten hurt.”

“Last I checked this was a free country.”

“Last I checked, it's illegal to drive drunk.”

“Its only two miles back from Wyld’s”

“You almost drove through the damn house, JP.”

He’d risen sharply from his chair and come around the table, following you as you’d backed away from him. “C’mere, don’t act all scared now,” he growled, catching you by the arm and spinning you to face him and landing a heavy slap across your cheek. His breath still reeked of booze, and the look in his eyes told you that he was still extremely drunk, and that was probably what was keeping him from winding back on you. He was almost never drunk when he’d hit you.

“Teach you to fucking get smart with me again, bitch.”

It had only gotten worse from there, angry red marks became black eyes and hand-shaped bruises around your elbow that you’d so masterfully covered with more makeup than a Rodeo Queen, blotting your eyes when they’d water, and wearing those big sunglasses of yours as much as possible.

Joel had invited you and JP to a cookout at his place later that week and you’d both gone. JP played nice with the Millers and their friends until Tommy jokingly referred to you as ‘Sara’s new mama’ and then he’d dragged you inside, growling accusations under his breath at you while you tried your damndest to tell him that Tommy was just poking fun because you’re always looking after her. You open your mouth to tell him he didn’t mean nothing by it, but before you can speak he’s grabbed you by a fistfull of Texas-sized curls and you don’t have time to put your hands out before your face collides with the cold tile of the kitchen counter.

JP turns you loose and you stagger back a couple of steps, resting against the fridge to steady yourself as your vision swims, tinnitus setting in louder than it's ever been, and you’re vaguely aware of the warm ooze crawling down your top lip.

Finally your vision steadies some and you see that JP is gone. You wipe your nose on the back of your hand and feel around for fractures while you look around slowly, trying to remember where you are when you see Joel standing at the foot of the stairs

“How long’s he been doin’ that to you,” Joel questions, taking your clean hand and leading you into the bathroom, easing you to sit on the lid of the toilet and closing the door.

“It keeps bleeding,” you murmur, complying when Joel puts a wad of toilet paper in your hand and brings it to your nose, gently urging you to look down.

“You need to go to the hospital,” he informs you, steadying your chin and inspecting your eyes.

“I’m okay.”

“He slammed your face into the counter.”

“You seen that?”

“I heard it. You still bleeding?”

“No.”

“I’m gonna go get you some ice, just try to stay awake.”

“‘M’kay.”

He returns with a rag full of ice and gently presses it to your forehead in a couple places before focusing on your nose.

“I love you Joel,” you slur, finally giving into your heavy eyelids.

“No. No, hey. Look at me.” He taps at your cheek, sighing with relief when your eyes weakly flutter open again.

“Jesus fuckin’ Christ. I’m calling nine-one-one,” he mutters, reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.

Your hand flies out and grasps his wrist as harshly as you can manage, making your head throb. “No, mhmh, can’t. He’ll kill me if he knows anyone knows.”

“Then we’ll just tell everyone you slipped and hit your face on this sink here, how’s that?”

“I…don’t know.”

“Listen I can keep him away from you, but you’re goin’ to the hospital and that’s that.”

“Okay.”

“Good.”

You don’t remember much of what happened after that, but JP never found out that Joel knew, and Joel was pissed when you’d left the hospital and had him take you back to that trailer instead of letting him take you down to your parents in San Antonio like he wanted to.

“Honey, please let me take you to your mama.”

“Joel…”

“He didn’t even bother to come get you.”

“I gotta be strategic about this. He’s crazy. He’s got boys in Galveston that make it snow all over the state with guns you can’t buy.”

“Fuck, Jesus, fuck. Girl, what have you gotten yourself into?”

“I don’t want to think about it right now.”

“I’ll think about it for you.”

Current Day

JP hadn’t put his hands on you in the week you’d been out of the hospital, which was likely because the bill you’d been sent home with was more than hefty. Life was so close to back to normal, sending him off to work and looking after Sarah, who believed the sink story that Joel had made up for you.

Joel.

You’d finally said it that day, what you’d been feeling all those years but too scared to say, words that could have saved you all this trouble if you’d just said them sooner, sitting there in his bathroom thinking every word out of your mouth would be your last, you’d told him. You hoped he felt the same, but maybe he just thought it was delirium.

You’d decided to go home for lunch today since you’d forgotten to pack one and your deli meat was about to expire. When you pull into your driveway you’re surprised to see JP’s truck sitting there in the driveway. A dread bubbles up in your belly, but you steel yourself and climb the stairs to your door.

It’s unlocked. Weird.

You go inside and go straight to the fridge, pulling the meat, cheese and mayonnaise out, spinning around and closing it with your hip. As you look up your hands jerk, leaving everything you were holding to the mercy of gravity as you let out a scream. Your right hand reaches out, finding the wall to steady yourself, tapping around, seeking the phone before finding it and pulling it from the hook and calling the cops.

You explain the situation to the operator as best you can, periodically looking over your shoulder to make sure that you’re not just seeing things, but every time you look, JP’s still laying in the bedroom floor, his eyes wide and glassed over, staring directly at you, blood seeping into the creme colored carpet and flowing with the bow of the floor onto the dark linoleum of the hallway.

Finally the cops show up and start their investigation while one officer pulls you outside for questioning. After the investigators have all they need from the body, the coroner shows up and carts JP off.

They told you you couldn’t be there while they continued so you went back to work. You told your boss why you were late getting back and he told you to take the rest of the day, but you couldn’t go home, so you went to Joel’s.

You spend the rest of the time before you have to go get Sarah thinking about a lot of things. Finally your mind settles and you realize that no matter what, he can’t hurt you again and that’s good enough for you.

When Joel gets home you already have dinner made and Sarah’s finishing up setting the table. You can tell by the look of him that there’s some weight on his shoulders, but you can’t place why. You’d surely know before the end of the day. Joel was never one to keep things from you.

He thanks you and asks if you’re staying. You nod and take a seat, gesturing for him and Sarah to fix their plates first. After your own plate is settled, you reach out your hands.

“I think we should pray.”

Joel gives you a funny look but still takes your hand and bows his head. You can feel him knock his foot into Sarah’s and she takes your hand too.

You pray silently and signal your finish with an audible “Amen,” which the Miller’s echo.

“What’s got you feelin’ Grace again, Darlin’,” Joel questions, raising another forkful of meatloaf to his mouth as he speaks.

“Mysterious favors, I reckon.”

He shrugs and tries to give you a smile despite his concerned expression.

“Fair enough.”

After dinner is put away and Sarah’s been tucked in by the both of you, it’s just you and Joel downstairs, sitting at the dining room table in awkward silence, looking up at each other when you can’t stand the silence anymore.

“Joel,” you question, meeting his eyes with your own. They’re darker than usual and the lines around his eyes seem much deeper than they did the day before.

“Yes, Darlin’?”

“JP’s dead. I went home for lunch and…found him.”

“I’m sorry that you saw that. That’s God-awful.”

Something you’ve never felt bubbles up inside you, heavy, sore and unknown, not fear, not anger, but something dangerously toeing the line between them and something positive. There was nothing God-awful about finding someone who had died naturally, sad maybe, but not horrible. God-awful was ruined carpet and a gray splatter across the side of the dresser. Joel knew what you had seen.

It was always Joel, no matter what problem you had, he would take care of it.

“Joel?”

“Yes?”

You drop your voice to a whisper, scared that someone will hear, despite being in his home, terrified that he’d lose it all over you. “Did you do it?”

He drops his gaze from yours. “Did I do the right thing?”

“It’d been me if you didn’t.”

“That’s right enough for me.”

Tears well up in your eyes as they finally meet his gaze again. “I’ll protect you too.”

His eyes fall shut and he sighs, dropping his shoulders.

“No matter what I know you got Sarah.”

“I won’t have to. What’d you do with it? Was it yours?”

“It’s on its way to the Gulf, and no, dug it up on a site last year. Never did know why I kept it. Reckon I’m glad I did though.”

You take his rough hand in yours and squeeze, giving him a soft smile as you get up from the table. He follows without hesitation.

“Joel, I gotta get going.”

“You ain’t scared of me, are you,” he questions, his expression pained, his eyes silently pleading with you.

“I’d never be scared of you, no matter what you do. That day in the bathroom, that wasn’t the concussion talking. I meant what I said.”

Joel’s breath catches and his hand tightens around yours, lifting your arm even with your shoulder. Your fingers stiffen instinctively, and then relax as he presses a kiss to the inside of your wrist and then lets go.

You start making your way to the door and like always, he follows, opening the door for you and leaning on it. His face lacks its usual crooked smile, it’s somber as you step out onto the porch and turn to face him.

“Thank you, Joel.”

“Darlin’?”

“Yes, Joel?”

“Will you pray for me?”

“I’d do anything you asked me to.”

“Be safe gettin’ home, okay?”

“Always do” you call, making your way down the walkway to your car, noticing how Joel watches from the door as you duck in, only closing the door when you start backing out of the driveway.

[ao3feed-sambucky]

The Sky is Cryin Mamas Callin

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/waunYLt by Green_mmnm 5 times the universe hates Sam and Bucky and the one time everything works in their favor   Title from: Out Of Oklahoma- Lainey Wilson (no pun intended) Words: 11, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Sarah Wilson (Marvel), AJ Wilson, Cass Wilson, Alpine the Cat (Marvel) Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Bad Weather, sambucky - Freeform, Protective Bucky Barnes, Older Sibling Bucky Barnes, Protective Sam Wilson, Good Cat Alpine (Marvel), Sam Wilson is So Done, POV Sam Wilson (Marvel), Bucky Barnes Has Issues, 5+1 Things, Steve Rogers is dead i’m so sorry, Captain America Sam Wilson read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/waunYLt

[isildursestrid]

hi tiff <333🎶✨post 5 songs you have on repeat rn and then send this message to your favourite followers🎶✨!!

Thank you Sarah! You’re the sweetest! 🤎

1. Whirlwind by Lainey Wilson

2. Rain In The Rearview by Anne Wilson

3. What Could Go Right by Thomas Rhett

4. Backfire by Wild Rivers

5. Leave by Kingfishr

[darkangel1791]

This might be a controversial opinion piece on the movie, "The Apprentice."

I don't feel as if any insult to Sebastian as a person, or an actor is intended in this piece. There is a mention of seeing Sebastian in the make-up as something that would "ruin your day", but I believe this comment would be made by this author about any actor made-up to look like Donald Trump. There is criticism of his decision to play Donald Trump, and for the movie to be made, and a mention of John Mulaney, so continue at your own risk.

It was authored in December 2023 someone named Sarah. And published on a site called Lainey Gossip.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023 17:16:12 BY SARAH

I ignored it as long as I could but now there are photos and there is no denying it any longer—Sebastian Stan is playing Donald Trump in an upcoming movie, and this is a mistake. 

The film is called The Apprentice, but despite the millennial title, it’s about a younger Donald in the 1970s and 1980s, when he took over the family real estate business and turned himself into “what a hobo imagines a rich man to be” (when John Mulaney nails it, John Mulaney nails it). Per Deadline, Stan is joined by Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, and the film is being directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who won an Un Certain Regard award at Cannes for his 2018 film, Border, and competed for the Palme d’Or with his last film, 2022’s Holy Spider. There are now photos of Sebastian Stan done up as The Donald which you can see here, if you want to ruin your day.

These are VERY talented people, but this is a mistake. Making a movie about Donald Trump, no matter the intent or how vicious the portrayal may be, is a mistake. It is giving that guy exactly what he wants—validation by people who hate him. We would be SO much better off if Hollywood ignored him. He probably never would have become president if the media treated him like what he was in 2015: a joke, an unserious person running an unserious campaign. But the ratings were too good, they couldn’t ignore him because cable news—a dying industry—boomed during the Trump years, so they kept feeding the beast and now there’s a chance he will actually get to be president AGAIN and no Hollywood movie is going to stop it. 

I’m not saying we ignore Donald Trump entirely. At this point, we can’t. But he belongs to the realm of serious, investigative journalism, hopefully revealing and elucidating more (alleged) crimes that might halt his path back to the White House. Turning Trump, even a younger Trump, into entertainment is a mistake, just as it was a mistake with Vice and W. regarding Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, respectively. Some people don’t get the biopic treatment. Some people shouldn’t be converted to popcorn entertainment. 

But I get the appeal of this project on paper. Sebastian Stan has a knack for portraying rich assholes in a most unflattering way—his brief appearance as Robin Hood co-founder Vladimir Tenev in Dumb Money was a masterclass in turning a certain type of Silicon Valley bro into a walking punchline—but not even he will be able to overcome the simple fact that Donald Trump loves any and all attention and he especially loves living in people’s heads rent free. Don’t give it to him!

The other casting is equally good. Jeremy Strong excels at playing complicated, conflicted losers, and Roy Cohn was certainly that, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump is a stroke of genius. And Ali Abbasi probably has a lot to say about this man, but again, it won’t matter, the people who need to hear the message don’t even live in the same world as the messengers, and it will only give Donald Trump tingles that Hollywood can’t quit him. There is literally nothing to be gained here. 

But art! No. We’re too close to the morass of the Trump years—too threateningly close to more Trump years—to see it clearly, to have the perspective needed to create even halfway decent art about it. But people will insist, like I said, I see the appeal on paper, and no one has been able to resist the lure of ratings and attention that comes with anything connected to Trump. People will be curious about this movie which will undoubtedly be on the long list of Oscar contenders next year. I super look forward to giving Donald Trump extra attention during a contentious election year in the US. Or, you know, everyone could decide to do literally anything else rather than give Donald Trump what he wants, which is attention, any and all attention, and the knowledge that people who hate him can’t stop thinking about him. I am begging Hollywood to stop thinking about him.

[thedcvilherself]

i fear i haven't been quite as productive as i'd hoped though i am slowly but surely chipping through drafts. under the cut you can find an updated list of what i still owe, including new replies, but i also put a thread tracker on my blog that you can find here if you'd like. this is more for myself/my sanity, but it's there in case anyone is in search of something in particular. ❤️ also if you're a mutual and see a thread on there that you no longer have interest in, please don't hesitate to let me know and i can mark it as discontinued. i know muse can come and go but i also don't want to assume and mark anything discontinued that someone may want to come back to in the future as i, myself have skipped months between replies.

sugcrbites ; Dean & Cecilia

wickedlvst ; Dalia & Ivy & Lainey

wditdsmutblog ; Emira & Tempest

scarletsxnss ; Fallon & Arthur

wickedlvst ; Ivy & Lacey

lecheroustaint ; Sarah & Javier

wickedlvst ; Gwen & Anthony

scarletsxnss ; Melody & Logan

wickedlvst ; Connor & Mimmi & Ana

sugcrbites ; Veda & Fox

sugcrbites ; Dihiya & Edith

sugcrbites ; Dean & Victorine & Cecilia

sugcrbites ; Fernanda & Abel

[helmetkeeper]

[Paraluxx Nebula: 🤍/ Icarus]

Hello! Can I have some name suggestions for an Angel (Worldless) kin please? Themes could be angels, lightning/ storms and anything to do with light. Preferably on the shorter side too please, like 4-10 letter and either androgynous or feminine.

Sorry for being so picky, and thank you in advance!

~ 🤍 [Icarus]

hello!! and no worries, i don't mind! being "picky" in asks generally helps me figure out what y'all want :]

hopefully i mostly followed the prompt here ^_^;. all the names i found are under the cut!

aphim/phim

aella

alpine

amaya

audra

aura

aurora

autumn

bay

bea/bee

beam

breeze

celeste

charm

cherish

cherry/cherri

cherub

clari

creati

dawn

delta

dima

dusk

elaine

electra/elektra

elle

ellie

era

fair

flurry

frost/frosty

hala/halo

harbor

haven

haze/hazel

hazey

hila

illumin/illumina

jora/jove

jovi/jove

katri

katya

kenzie

lailah

laine/lane

lainey/lainie

llumin/lumin

lucia

lucille

lucy

luna

lux

luz

margo(t)

marvel

maya

miku

mist

mistral

misty/misti

mitra/mitri

ner/nera

neve

noor

nova

nur/nura

orana

oriane

peace

phoebe

raina

selene

sera/sarah

seraphim

seraphina

snow

solia/solial

storm

stormi(e)/stormy

sunniva

talia

tempest

tondra/tundra

tora

valley

valo(r)

viola

winter

[mwahmwahxo]

OMG HOLD ON I LOVE MUSIC OMG LET ME TELL U

weak-end (lainey wilson)

innocent (taylor swift)

sweet carolina (lana del rey)

every song from “there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard”

bathroom (montell fish)

the louvre (lorde)

whiskey and you (chris stapleton)

sweet deann (zach bryan)

sarah’s place (zach bryan)

hand me downs (mac miller)

that’s some of them rn

omg i don’t think i’ve listened to many of these i’ll definitely queue them up thanks for the list i appreciate it!!!🩷🩷🩷

[desireeh]

No Natal, a Desiree me uma masterlist de nomes

Aaliyah — Addison — Adalynn — Alina — Alice — Amara — Amelia — Amira — Anna — Ariana — Ashley — Athena — Audrey — Aurora — Ava — Avery — Ayla — Abigail — Alice — Allison — Aubrey — Bella — Brielle — Camila — Caroline — Catalina — Cecilia — Charlotte — Chloe — Clara — Cora — Claire — Daisy — Delilah — Eden —Eleanor — Eliana — Elena — Eliza — Eloise — Emily — Emery — Emma — Everleigh — Evelyn — Eva — Emily — Emery — Freya —Gabriella — Georgia — Gianna — Grace — Hailey — Hannah — Hazel — Isla — Iris — Ivy — Isabella — Jade — Jennifer — Josie —Julia — Lainey — Leah — Lily — Lucy — Luna — Lydia — Lyla — Madison — Maeve — Margot — Margaret — Maria — Maya — Melanie — Madelyn — Mila — Millie — Melody — Naomi — Natalie — Olivia — Penelope — Piper — Quinn — Raelynn — Riley — Rose — Ruby — Sienna — Sage — Sarah — Scarlett — Serenity — Sophia — Stella — Summer — Valerie — Violet — Victoria — Vivian — Willow — Zoe — Aaron —Adrian —Adriel —Aiden —Alfred —Alexander —Andrew —Anthony — Asher —August —Austin — Axel — Beau — Benjamin — Cameron —Caleb — Carson —Charles —Christian —Christopher — Cody —Colton —Cooper — Daniel — Damian — David — Dylan —Easton —Elijah —Enzo —Ezra —Gael —Gabriel — Grayson —Henry —Hudson —Ian —Isaac —Jackson — Jacob —Jace —James —Jaxon —Jeremiah —Joe —John —Joseph ——Josiah —Jordan —Joshua —Julian —Kai —Kayden —Leonardo —Levi —Lincoln —Liam —Luke —Landon — Matthew —Mason —Micah —Maverick — Matthew —Michael —Miles —Nathan —Nicolas —Noah —Nolan —Owen —Oliver —Roman —Robert —Rowan — Ryan —Samuel —Santiago —Sebastian - Silas —Theodore —Thomas —Thiago —Walker — Waylon —Weston —William —Wyatt —Xavier - Alex - Angel - Aspen - Avery - Bailey - Blake - Blair - Blue - Brighton - Brooks - Cameron - Casey - Charlie - Chris - Dakota - Dallas - Dylan - Harley - Hayden - Jaden - Jamie - Jaz - Jayden - Jordan - Jules - Kieran - Kim - Knox - Lane - Madison - Marley - Mason - Max - Micah - Morgan - Noah - Nova - Oakley - Orion - Parker - Payton - Phoenix - Quinn - Riley - River - Rowan - Sage - Sam - Sawyer - Scout - Sloane - Spencer - Stevie - Tatum - Taylor - Wilder - Wynn - Zion- Changho - Eunji - Eunjoo - Gwangho - Gyeong - Hana - Han - Haejin - Haeun - Hyeon - Hyojin - Jae - Jieun - Ji - Jiho - Jihye - Jinah - Jiwon - Jiwan - Jinhyun - Jongin - Jun - Kyung - Kyungmin - Kyungsoo - Kyuri - Min - Minho - Minji - Minseok - Nara - Nari - Seok - Seojin - Seon - Seung - Seungyeon - Shin - Sora - Soo - Sungmin - Sumin - Taeyang - Tae - Taeho - Won - Woojin - Yeojeong - Yeji - Yerin - Yeon - Yoon - Yumi - Yun - Yuna- Aiko - Akira - Aoi - Ayumi - Daiki - Emi - Hana - Haru - Haruka - Haruto - Hikari - Hikaru - Hiroshi - Ichika - Ichiro - Issei - Jiro - Jun - Kaito - Kenji - Kazuya - Makoto - Mai - Mei - Nanami - Natsuki - Ren - Riko - Rei - Riku - Ryota - Sakura - Saki - Sayaka - Shin - Shun - Takashi - Taro - Tatsuya - Taiki - Yoshito - Yuji - Yuki - Yui - Yuka - Yuriko

[rebel-spacecadet]

fanmix yourself challenge >> by sarah & meghan

What I Want by Gregor McMurray a song you’d kick ass to during the apocalypse

Don't Forget Me by Maggie Roggers a song you heard live

Close to You by Gracie Abrams a song that reminds you of your favorite fictional character

Good Luck, Babe! by Chapell Roan a song that would have been your high school anthem

Sinner by The Last Dinner Party a song that reminds you of your best friend

End of Beginning by Djo a song that would play in the movie trailer of your life

Out of Oklahoma by Lainey Wilson a song that reminds you of somewhere

Taking Things for Granted by Joy Oladokun a favorite song from the last year

The Black Dog by Taylor Swift a song with a color in the title

I Know a Place by MUNA a song that would be your own country’s national anthem

Juno by Sabrina Carpenter a song by an artist you’re not-so-secretly crushing on

Ode to a Conversation Stuck in Your Throat by Del Water Gap a song that reminds you of your favorite season

I Hate it Here by Taylor Swift a song you play when you need to go on a crying jag

Guess by Charlie xcx ft. Billie Eilish a song you’d like to kiss to

The Architect by Kacey Musgraves a song with lyrics you’d like to tattoo on yourself

{playlist here}

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

[bloodmoonlich]

My Most Streamed - September 2024

Gone Now by Bleachers - 103 streams

Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee - 99

Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii - 79

Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night by Bleachers - 76

Stick Season by Noah Kahan - 65

Short n' Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter - 61

Whirlwind by Lainey Wilson - 50

BRAT by Charli XCX - 45

Stardew Valley (OST) by ConcernedApe - 40

C,XOXO by Camila Cabello - 38

Escaper by Sarah Kinsley - 35

Over The Garden Wall (Soundtrack) by Petrojvic Blasting Company - 32

eternal sunshine by Ariana Grande - 30

Willson by Ashe - 28

Vertigo by Griff - 26

[whatwewrotepodcast]

URL Song Game

Thanks for the tag @agirlandherquill

rules: go to your playlist and find a song for each letter of your URL, then tag some friends to do the same

Oh my god our URL is so loooong

W - Whatever it takes - Imagine Dragons

H - How far I'll Go - Moana

A - Absolutely (Story of a girl) - Nine Days

T - Take me to Church - Hozier

W - Wake me up when September Ends - Greenday

E - Elsa's Song - The Amazing Devil

W - Welly Boots - The Amazing Devil

R - Ready for it? - Taylor Swift

O - One Last Time - Hamilton

T - Twinkling Lights - Annalise Emerick

E - Eve and Paradise Lost - Bastille

P - Painted him perfect - Alexandra Kay

O - Out of Oklahoma - Lainey Wilson

D - Damnit - Blink 182

C - Chasing Twisters - Delta Rae

A - All Good People - Delta Rae

S - Savage Daughter - Sarah Hester ross

T - Thanks fr th Mmrs - Fall out boy

Open tag! Tag us if you do it!