#leo and ritchie

[mr-smith-stories]

Mr. Smith #24: Calculus Class

It was April, just a week after Mr. Smith lost at Jeopardy, when Mr. Smith returned to his new favorite class- Advanced Differential Calculus. Mr. Smith had been doing well in the class, better than he ever had in college- he had a 20% as his overall grade! Mr. Smith was excited that he was finally passing a class, as he was sure this was a passing grade- Harold Smith had told him so.

Before class, Mr. Smith’s professor had arranged to meet with him. Mr. Smith was sure it was to congratulate Mr. Smith on how well he was doing in the class. Mr. Smith eagerly knocked on his professor’s door. “I’m here!” He yelled.

“Come in,” Professor Stanley quietly commanded. Mr. Smith opened the door, surprised he knew how. He was on a roll lately!

“Sit down, Mr. Smith,” Said Professor Stanley. “I have some bad news. As I am sure you are aware, you are failing my class.”

Mr. Smith gasped. “No I’m not! I have a 20% as my overall grade! Dad told me it’s passing!”

“It is unprofessional to call your father ‘Dad’ when addressing your professor,” Professor Stanley glowered.

“Dad likes when I call him Dad. He says it’s special because he’s the only person named Dad in the world.” Mr. Smith said.

“That’s nice. Anyway, 20% is not a passing grade, you have been misinformed.”

Mr. Smith scratched his head. “Does misinformed mean I miss my Dad? It has been a few hours since I last saw him, so that could be true.”

Professor Stanley gritted his teeth. “Misinformed means you are wrong.”

“WRONG?!” Mr. Smith yelled. “But my Dad TOLD ME IT’S TRUE! I CAN’T be WRONG, you big jerk! You’re MEAN!”

Professor Stanley sighed. “The only way you’ll pass my class is by scoring a 100 on this test. Otherwise, you will most certainly fail.”

Mr. Smith smiled cockily. “My Dad will just blackmail you into passing me. What do you say to THAT, huh? You jerk!”

“I’ll say that I will stay true to my integrity and fail you if your father tries to blackmail me.”

Mr. Smith pouted. “FINE. I’ll… TRY to do well on this test and boost my grade. But if I fail, it’s all YOUR FAULT.”

Professor Stanley narrowed his eyes. “No- if you do not show me the proper respect, I will kick you out of my class and you will receive a failing grade, instead of taking my generous opportunity to improve your score. Do you understand?”

Mr. Smith scratched his head. “What is an opportunity? Does it have something to do with an octopus? They have two of those at the aquarium where I swam with the sharks.”

Professor Stanley sighed. “I don’t even want to know. Just please try and do better on this test, and don’t disrespect me again, or I will kick you out of this class.”

“Alright,” Mr. Smith agreed.

Twenty minutes later, Mr. Smith sat in the classroom eagerly awaiting his test. He knew he’d do well, he spent five minutes practicing before class! He would easily score a 100, maybe even a 1,000 on this test! There was a first time for everything, right?

Then, four students came into the classroom- Leo, Ritchie, Alex, and a tall college age student Mr. Smith had never seen before. Mr. Smith covered his face with his hands. “Oh no! Not another genius! Someone help!”

Alex smiled. “This is my boyfriend, Chris. He has a 160 level IQ. I bet that makes you really nervous, doesn’t it, Mr. Smith?”

Mr. Smith trembled and peeked through his fingers. “Oh no! He’s… another GAY GENIUS!”

Alex smiled. “That’s right.”

Chris rolled his eyes. “Why do you care if I’m gay and a genius? What does it matter what my sexual orientation is?”

Ritchie nodded. “That’s what I said! He can’t stand if someone in the LGBTQ community is smarter than him. He’s really homophobic.”

Mr. Smith scratched his head. “Does homphobic mean I’m scared of spiders? Spiders are really scary. Philip says when I see them I scream like a girl.”

The four (actually intelligent) boys snickered. “It’s always amusing when homophobes emasculate themselves. Very hypocritical.” Chris said.

Mr. Smith began to gesture and mouth things. “Is a hypocrite the same thing as a hippopotamus?”

Chris sighed in annoyance. “No. A hypocrite is someone who acts like they’re better than everyone and then contradicts their own logic.”

Mr. Smith stared blankly. “Those were too many words for me to listen. Can you say that again, but slowly and with smaller words so I can understand?”

Chris rolled his eyes. “You’re a moron.”

Mr. Smith glared at Chris. “I know what THAT word means! You’re just jealous because I have a girlfriend and you don’t!”

Chris glared back. “I’m happy with my boyfriend. At least I’m not insecure and throwing stones in glass houses like you! I bet you don’t even HAVE a girlfriend!”

Mr. Smith began to gesture and mouth things. “Why would someone throw stones in glass houses? Wouldn’t the house break? Or would the stones just bounce off? I can never remember these things.”

Professor Stanely walked into the room. “Hello, class. Today we will be welcoming a few students to take the test with us, as they are from my other class that unfortunately I cannot have due to a family emergency I will need to take care of. Welcome Leonard, Richard, Alexander and Christian!”

People smiled and waved at them as Mr. Smith opened his backpack. “I brought my most sophisticated calculator!” Mr. Smith announced, taking it out.

Professor Stanely took a look. “This is a broken children’s toy calculator held together by Scotch tape and old glue, not a sophisticated graphing calculator like I instructed you to bring. Does this even turn on?”

Mr. Smith scratched his head. “I don’t know how to turn it on.”

“There’s a button that says ‘on’ in large letters at the top below the screen.” Professor Stanley said with a sigh.

Mr. Smith stared blankly. “This classroom has a wooden door, not a screen door. My Dad has a screen door ar home. He uses it so flies don’t get in the house in the summer. Wait, if you have summer classes, how do you keep flies out with that wooden door?”

“That’s hardly relevant,” Leo said. “The professor is trying to help you with this situation before your test and you’re completely off topic.”

“What is a topic and why is it off?” Asked Mr. Smith. “Does it have an on button too?”

“Oh my God,” Leo said. “You’re HOPELESS!”

Ritchie shook his head. “I’m sure he won’t last much longer in this class, Leo. Just ignore him.”

Leo sighed. “I guess you’re right.”

“You can use this calculator, Mr. Smith. I have a spare,” Alex said, handing Mr. Smith a graphing calculator.

Mr. Smith took the calculator from Alex. “What am I supposed to do with this? It has too many buttons!”

“I don’t know, Mr. Smith!” Professor Stanley snapped. “Figure it out!”

An hour later, Professor Stanley collected the tests. He addressed Mr. Smith after seeing his test. “What’s this?” He pointed to an illustration on the first page.

“It’s a drawing of the afterlife for members of the puppy farm! Did you know that people associated with the puppy farm have a special place in the afterlife reserved just for them? It’s called Puppytopia, and there are puppies, and unicorns, and endless amounts of ice cream to eat! It’s a beautiful paradise for loyal servants to the puppy farm where no one willl ever call you stupid again!”

Professor Stanley sighed. “Should I even turn the page or is it just more drawings?”

Mr. Smith peered at the professor as if confused. “I only drew one picture.”

Professor Stanley turned the page. “Why did you just write a story instead of answers for the rest of the test?!”

Mr. Smith smiled. “Read the story, it’s very clever, much more important than anything we learned in class!”

“It says, ‘Once upon a time, there was a boy named Mr. Smith. Now, Mr. Smith was no ordinary boy. One day Mr. Smith was walking in the forest and a spider came down and bit him. But it wasn’t just a spider. It was a radioactive spider, and soon, young Mr. Smith developed powers! He could climb walls upside down, had super strength and could shoot webs. He would swing through the city with Susan in his arms after he got a job at McDonald’s.

“But things soon turned sour for Mr. Smith. The Joker began terrorizing Gotham City, and Mr. Smith knew he had to stop it. He had a showdown with the Joker, who said he thought he was more of a genius than infinity level IQ Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith couldn’t have this. His reputation was at stake. Mr. Smith wrote up a list of reasons why he was smarter than the Joker.

“‘Reason number one,’ Mr. Smith said. ‘I am the hero of this story, so I must be smarter than you. Two, my Dad tells me I’m the smartest person to ever live, so it must be true. Three, I feel as if I’m a genius, so I am. And four, I’m a genius because I said so.’ Mr. Smith finished. The Joker clapped. ‘You really ARE a genius!’

The Joker said. ‘I’ll be sure to tell all the criminals, and then because of you, Mr. Smith, there will never be any crimes committed in the entire world again!’ Mr. Smith smiled. ‘Except for the bodies in my fridge.’ He said. The End.”

Professor Stanley lowered the test. “This test has served no purpose except to amuse yourself. Mr. Smith, your grade for this test is a negative 100. You officially have failed with a negative score as your overall grade.”

Mr. Smith’s face turned beet red. He turned to the four boys. “This is ALL YOUR FAULT! If you hadn’t distracted me I wouldn’t have tried to get a 5,000 on this test with that story! The professor didn’t even like it! I thought it was creative! That’s IT! I QUIT! I am officially dropping this course!”

Mr. Smith ran out of the room, but the four boys could hear crashing sounds from the hallway outside. “Oh God,” Leo muttered. There was the sound of Mr. Smith screaming in frustration as well as the shouts of startled students. Mr. Smith came back in the room with a mop from the Janitor’s and began chasing students in the class out of their seats. “If I can’t enjoy this class, neither can you!” He yelled. He ran over to the professor’s desk and began knocking things off the desk with the mop. “Take that!” He yelled. Then he suddenly dropped the mop on the ground after he forgot how to hold it, and then tried to leave the desk, but he tripped over the mop after he forgot it was there. “Oh no!” He yelled. “Help! Someone help! I’ve forgotten how to get up! I look so stupid!”

Students began to filter out of the room as the class ended, leaving Mr. Smith flailing around helplessly on the ground. “That’s what you get for being nothing but spiteful. This time we won’t even help you up,” Ritchie said, as Mr. Smith began clawing at the floor. The whole class left Mr. Smith in the class alone for some time as it was the last class in that room of the day, but eventually the janitor came in looking for his mop and helped Mr. Smith, who fled the campus around midnight in shame.

***

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Leo Season ♌️ 2023

[mariocki]

The Saint: Little Girl Lost (5.10, ITC, 1966)

"You're wonderful! Why should you do this for me, taking all these risks?"

"Oh, because you, uh, have a talent for embroidering the truth which fascinates me."

"But that's not the only reason, is it?"

"No. No, your father took over my favourite brewery and the beer's been terrible ever since."

[collecting-diamond-pieces]

If the roles were reversed and and Jo was Beckett’s rival instead of Leo and Leo the boxer this fandom would still be all: "I don't know why they added Leo to the story. He adds nothing to it."

Like guys just say it like it is: You're homophobic.

You'd rather read the same "woman is younger and less experienced than the guy/forbidden love"-trope we had in almost every Like Us and Addicted book than something that is interesting, new and actually has chemistry.

[faeannabelle]

𐔌  .  introduction  !  ౨ৎ

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┊name : annabelle

┊age / grade : sixteen — year eleven

┊birthday : sixteenth of december 🎉

┊height : 5'5"

┊status : 🤭

┊zodiac : sagittarius sun, leo moon, cancer rising

┊sexuality : bisexual

┊music : lana del rey, ella fitzgerald, laufey, frank sinatra, chet baker, nat king cole, louis armstrong, sarah vaughan, elvis, dean martin, ritchie valens, billie holiday, betty carter

┊books : lolita, the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, little women, les miserables, frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, wuthering heights, the vampyre, dracula, the phantom of the opera, hunchback of notre dame, fantastic mr fox, the chronicals of narnia

┊games : stardew valley, animal crossing

me:

[luckycharms1701]

Hihihi!

First and foremost, I hope you're doing great❤️

Could I get headcanons for Leo with a fem! reader who likes to bite him? Like, when he least expects it, she love bites his arm or shoulder?

oh hell yes i am doing great looking at this ask! you can absolutely get some headcanons for this anon-chan!

… normally i’d pick one, but i want to explore their differences and similarities so you can have both.

edit: you: asks for headcanons me: but what if? it turned into a story instead? (sorry anon-chan, i uh got carried away)

Bayverse Leo: He would hate it at first. I imagine that he and Raph used to fight a lot as kids (“used to” lol) and as we all know, turtles bite. So when you first start doing this, he’s going to jerk away and think you’re crazy. Why are you trying to fight with him??? When you explain that you were just so overwhelmed with affection that you couldn’t help yourself, he might check your temperature to make sure you’re not sick. Eventually, he’ll get used to it. He seems to tolerate it at best. You have to be careful, if he’s in a certain mood he will snap at you for it. No matter how adorable his pouting is.

The change is, to you at least, sudden. He’s never made any indication that he does more than tolerate you biting him. But there is a day when it seems like everything has gone wrong for Leo. Mikey and Raph literally crashed into him while he was meditating during a prank gone wrong. He spilled his tea on Splinter’s favorite Lionel Ritchie album. Patrol was a hot mess that ended up with Raph injured. By the time Leo makes it to your apartment, all he wants is to lie down and not get up again.

You already have his favorite pizza, so he just needs to eat it and lie down with his head in your lap while you turn on some mindless television to take his mind off things. Your fingers run absentmindedly down his arm as you keep your eyes on the TV. You have to bite your lip to stop yourself from biting him, you know it won’t be accepted. You’ll have to find another way to show him how much you love him.

So you startle badly when he lifts his arm and holds it in front of your face. You look down to find him watching you, an intense look you’ve never quite seen before in his eyes. He nods. You hesitate only a moment more before opening your mouth and gently biting down on his wrist. Leo sighs as all the tension leaves him, and your eyes widen as he picks up your hand and brings it to his own mouth. He holds your gaze as he bites down, even more gently than you did to him. Oh. Oh.

After that, he doesn’t do it often. But if you catch him just right, he’ll give you a little love bite back.

~~~

Rise Leo: He would be amused the first time, and a little confused.  Would definitely make a joke bad enough that you start gnawing on him in annoyance. When you explain to him that he is just too cute and you couldn’t stop yourself, he’s going to stare at you for a second as he tries to comprehend that you think he’s cute. Then he’s going to strike a pose and say something about knowing how irresistible he is. He doesn’t mind at all if you keep doing it, but gets super uncomfortable if you do it in public. Every time you bite him, his smile gets a little warmer and more genuine.

It’s a normal day, the day you realize exactly how important you biting him is to Leo. You’ve just arrived at the lair, excited to see him. You drape yourself over his back where he’s reading comics on the floor and snuggle into his cheek, proclaiming dramatically how much you missed him. He leans into you with his customary smirk, not taking his eyes off the page in front of him.

Before you can give him a little bite on the shoulder, practically a customary greeting for the two of you at this point, Mikey calls your name. He wants to show you a piece he recently finished. You get up and follow Mikey out, not noticing the way Leo sits up straight and watches you go with a look of distress. You don’t think anything of the fact that you didn’t give Leo a love bite.

When you return, it’s to find your turtle sulking. When you ask him what’s wrong, he studies you without a word. Then he manhandles you onto the nearest soft flat surface and lays down on top of you. Leo nuzzles your shoulder and stretches his mouth around it, biting down firmly enough for you to feel it but not enough to hurt. You’ll have to apologize later, but for now you just hold him and give him a love bite back.

After that, you can never give him a love bite in public again. But he will bite you back.

~~~~~~~

head bonks: @yorshie @avery73 @justalotoffanfiction @thejudiciousneurotic @writinandcrying

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Leo Venus style

Leo Vinz has a classy but tacky sort of wide y2k look. I feel very girly but in a glittery glamour way like a Paris Hill or Holly Madison, or even in Nicole Ritchie early 2000s, but also gives Alexa Demi in Euporia where it’s really classy and like I’m the queen and the attitude that comes with it and I put Pamela Anderson as well because she is in fact Leo Venus and I think when I think Leo Venus I do see Pam in her many outfits that’s why I’ve put one of her iconic ones there of her in the big big glittery hat with Tommy Lee And it’s very pretty and beautiful and almost like delicate but it’s a popular girl it’s a girl you love to hate it’s a girl you wanna be but you know you can’t and usually got model Lex Madonna also has this placement and so does Selena Gomez and everyone wants to be her don’t make for some reason I don’t, I don’t have a problem with her at all she starting to become that guy isn’t she so he gave Leo Venus I give you a classic pair of Chloe sunglasses or Rayban, and the couture that you don’t mind spending about £100 on a white top with nothing else just cause you know it’s fresh. But whatever you wear is gonna look stunning, but try and go over this kind of look because if you want a tea maybe even a Aaliyah core

[astro-royale]

🎶Signs in Venus~AsSongs

🚬👠Vintage edition🎶

1. Venus in Sagittarius

2. Scorpio Venus (🤣Come on you know it’s true)

3. Venus in Libra

4. Venus in Pisces ( I laughed)

5.Leo in Venus

6. Virgo in Venus

7. Venus in Cancer

8. Venus in Capricorn

9. Venus in Aquarius

10. Venus in Taurus

11. Venus in Gemini- Undecided, Ella Fitzgerald

12. Aries Venus - Call me irresponsible- Bobby Darin

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Ron Kapeas

Published: Jan 8, 2024

JTA — In a speech marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Rep. Ritchie Torres likened protesters who have celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacres to white people in the Jim Crow era who celebrated after the lynching of Black people.

“I was profoundly shaken not only by October 7, but by the aftermath,” Torres, a Black Bronx Democrat, said Friday in a speech at Central Synagogue, a prominent Reform congregation in midtown Manhattan. “I found it utterly horrifying. To see fellow Americans openly cheering and celebrating the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And for me, the aftermath of October 7 revealed a barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time in our nation’s history, a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African Americans.”

Protests have proliferated since October 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, kidnapped around 240 and brutalized thousands more in an invasion from Gaza. They have grown as Israel has waged a war in Gaza to eliminate the terror group, and especially as casualties mounted: So far, close to 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and non-combatants and is also believed to tally civilians killed by errant rockets fired by terror groups.

A number of the protests have decried the October 7 violence on Israelis, but others have skated over the initial massacres or have embraced Hamas and described its atrocities as resistance.

Torres, a member of the progressive caucus in Congress, has garnered a reputation as an unstinting supporter of Israel. He has duked it out online with fellow progressives in debates over Israel, a dynamic that has only intensified since October 7. Torres is heavily funded by AIPAC and donors aligned with the pro-Israel lobby, and spoke at a massive rally for Israel in Washington on November 14.

In his speech, Torres alluded to the controversies that assailed elite universities after the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania told Congress that calls to commit genocide against Jews did not necessarily violate the schools’ codes of conduct. The ensuing uproar drove Harvard’s and Penn’s presidents to resign.

“What we’ve seen in the aftermath of October 7, is appalling silence and indifference and cowardice from so called leaders in our society from institutions that we once respected and admired,” he said. “And if we as a society cannot bring ourselves to condemn the murder of innocents with moral clarity, then we must ask, what are we becoming as a society? What does that reveal about the depths of antisemitism in the American soul?”

I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.  My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope. pic.twitter.com/stxqxzgyLi — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 16, 2024

Central is a locus for some of the city’s wealthiest liberal Jewish families, many of whom are also firm supporters of Israel. Dr. Shonni Silverberg, the synagogue president, introduced Torres as a champion of progressive priorities as well as an advocate for Israel, and noted that he is the first openly LGBTQ representative elected from the Bronx.

“Ritchie remains steadfastly focused on the priorities of his South Bronx constituents, expanding access to safe and affordable housing, rebuilding New York economically and ensuring that no child goes hungry and that all receive a good education,” she said. “But he has also shown himself both in and out of Congress to be a great friend of the American Jewish community and Israel.”

--

==

I was shocked, but not surprised. Shocked at how openly, how loudly and how quickly pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism supporters emerged from their Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Intersectional Feminism Studies and other fraudulent sewers in the ivory towers long before Israel ever fired a shot back.

I was not surprised, however, since antisemitism is a cornerstone of Intersectionality, as I posted about more than two years ago:

I naïvely expected that they'd go, "whoa, we didn't mean it like that, that's not what we were after," the standard No True Scotman tactic to distance their enlightened antisemitism from the antisemitism of murderous Islamic jihadists.

But they went the other way and leaned into it, cheering it on, while others tried to gaslight everyone with the usual array of denials that they weren't saying what they were openly saying, and that anyway, if they were saying it, that's not what they meant.

[mysimsloveaffair]

I was tagged by @igglemouse. Thanks so much...this will be fun and challenging.

OC: Wade 'Dub' Banks

ANIMAL: Lion

COLORS: Red and Brown

MONTH: July

SONGS: You're A Man Now Boy, Raleigh Ritchie

NUMBER: 1

PLANTS: Philodendron

SMELLS: Fresh Air

GEMSTONE: Onyx

TIME OF DAY: Late Night

SEASON: Summer

PLACES: Batuu

FOOD: Lobster Roll

DRINKS: Sparkling Water

ELEMENT: Fire

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Leo

SEASONINGS: Allspice

SKY: Clear and Sunny

WEATHER: Warm

MAGICAL POWER: Flight

WEAPONS: Eyes

SOCIAL MEDIA: SimTube

MAKEUP PRODUCT: Facial Cleanser

CANDY: Red Hots

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: Airplane

ART STYLE: Classic

FEAR: Rejection

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Phoenix

PIECE OF STATIONARY: Highlighter

THREE EMOJIS: 😘🤑💲

CELESTIAL BODY: Star

Tagging: @meanttobepixels | @box-of-sims | @treason-and-plot | @deardiaryts4 | and @sheplayswithlifee

[weclassybouquetfun]

UK actors are having a moment!

-Hero Fiennes Tiffin late of Guy Ritchie's THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

is reporting back to Ritchie for the direct to series order for Amazon Prime's YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Will Fiennes Tiffin's Holmes be the young version of Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes that Ritchie famously directed? By Ritchie's comments, I'm thinking the two are unrelated. "In ‘Young Sherlock’ we’re going to see an exhilarating new version of the detective everyone thinks they know in a way they’ve never imagined before,” said Ritchie. “We’re going to crack open this enigmatic character, find out what makes him tick, and learn how he becomes the genius we all love.”

The Fiennes' family are no stranger to the Holmes universe. Hero's uncle Ralph Fiennes played Moriarty in the 2018 comedy HOLMES & WATSON starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

-Nicholas Galitzine has a hit Amazon film, hit songs on the chart, he's in FYC campaigns for both Amazon's RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE and Starz/Sky Atlantic's MARY & GEORGE and now he can put action hero under his belt. Galitzine has been tapped for the role they have seemingly been unable to give away - He-Man, Master of the Universe!

I know. Shocking.

It has been a hard road getting this property back into the live-action realm. Previously cast was Noah Centineo,

then bewildering Kyle Allen (WEST SIDE STORY, A HAUNTING IN VENICE)

and just slightly less bewildering Galitzine.

Thicc Nick. Get those muscles back up, Prince Adam, the People's Princess.

While the articles I've seen announcing Galitzine's casting say that the plot details are unknown, the film is still being directed by Travis Knight (BUMBLEBEE, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS) and when he was announced as director the synopsis was: “10-year-old Prince Adam who crashed to Earth in a spaceship and was separated from his magical Power Sword—the only link to his home on Eternia. After tracking it down almost two decades later, Prince Adam is whisked back across space to defend his home planet against the evil forces of Skeletor. But to defeat such a powerful villain, Prince Adam will first need to uncover the mysteries of his past and become He-Man: the most powerful man in the Universe!”

Until then, you can see Galitzine in Variety's ACTORS ON ACTORS (in support of MARY & GEORGE) where he is paired with Leo Woodall, (ONE DAY) and who will be in the next BRIDGET JONES film, BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY.

Galitzine's RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE costar Taylor Zakhar Perez will also be in ACTORS ON ACTORS and is paired with his friend and THE KISSING BOOTH costar Joey King (WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES).

The rest of the lineup

Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”) & Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”) 

Jodie Foster (“True Detective: Night Country”) & Robert Downey Jr. (“The Sympathizer”) 

Jon Hamm (“Fargo,” “The Morning Show”) & Kristen Wiig (“Palm Royale”) 

Tyler James Williams (“Abbott Elementary”) & Anthony Mackie (“Twisted Metal”) 

Anna Sawai (“Shōgun “) & Tom Hiddleston (“Loki”) 

Brie Larson (“Lessons in Chemistry”) & Andrew Scott (“Ripley”) 

Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) & Chloe Fineman (“Saturday Night Live”) 

Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”) & Emma Corrin (“A Murder at the End of the World”) 

Chloë Sevigny (“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”) & Kim Kardashian (“American Horror Story: Delicate”) 

Naomi Watts (“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”) & Jonathan Bailey (“Fellow Travelers”) 

-As Travis Knight has directed a TRANSFORMERS film, I move on to a TRANSFORMERS alum - Jack Reynor who was in the panned TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION. Dear Jack has been cast in series two of AppleTV+s CITADEL opposite Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden.

and another dear Jack, this time Jack "The Lad" O'Connell, who was recently seen in Michael Mann's FERRARI and Sam Taylor Johnson's Amy Winehouse biopic BACK TO BLACK has been cast in the next Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan collaboration (which is said to be a vampire film) and he's been cast in the upcoming 28 DAYS LATER sequel with Cillian Murphy, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

[mr-smith-stories]

Mr. Smith #26 Murder Mystery Part One

Mr. Smith woke up early that morning, excited to start his new job. He ran down the marble staircase of his new mansion like a child on Christmas morning. It was the perfect comparison- after all, children had a lot in common with Mr. Smith- their genius level IQ and their maturity level.

Mr. Smith saw his friends crowding around the middle of the stairs. Curious about the commotion, he called out to his friends. “Hello, Philip! Bob, Frankie! Where’s Simon? He’s supposed to help me with my Abnormal Psychology homework. My professor says if I continue to not do assignments, my grade will drop significantly! I’m already at a negative 200 in the class!”

“I’m right here,” Simon replied. Mr. Smith saw that Philip was dangling Simon over the edge of the stairs. “Philip wanted me to give him money, and I said no.”

Mr. Smith turned to Philip. “But you have $1 million in the bank after you blackmailed that movie star last week.”

Philip sighed. “I lost the check. I gave it to Amy for safekeeping. She said she put it somewhere secret, and then forgot where.”

“Oh. My. God!” Amy yelled from behind Mr. Smith. “I trust the wrong people with my money TOO! One time, I found a gold bar just sitting there in the middle of the street. Someone forgot it was there! I took it home, like, kaa- ching I’m rich! I gave it to Susan to hide, and then later I found out where she hid it- in the back of a random person’s truck! We ran out to the road only to see them driving away! I never saw that gold again. It was so ANNOY- ING!”

“That WAS annoying!” Susan walked up beside Amy. “Something like that happened to me TOO! One time, I was working as a security guard at a bank, and someone was robbing the bank, and they told me to guard the diamonds in the back because apparently, diamonds are like, really expensive! I realized that when robbing a bank, a robber would find the diamonds too easily in the safe! So I took them out and gave them to some guy in a black mask to hide! I still don’t know why I got fired!”

Mr. Smith scratched his head. “Why was he wearing a mask inside the bank? Was it Halloween?”

Susan sighed. “It was July. Sometimes they do Christmas in July, so I just thought it was Halloween in July.”

Mr. Smith began to gesture and mouth things. “What month is Halloween in again? Was it Smithtober?”

“That’s not a month-“ Simon interjected.

“Yes it is!” Mr. Smith yelled. “Smithtober is the thirteenth month of the year, after December! They named it that because, a hundred years ago, my great grandfather Everett Smith singlehandedly destroyed the Germans in World War Two! Everett Smith bribed the German troops in China with chocolate! The Germans surrendered the battle, all because they were too distracted eating chocolate to fight. Everett Smith was declared a hero, and that day, originally January 1st, officially marked the new month, Smithtober, which is the shortest month of the year at 7 days.”

Philip finally pulled Simon back on the staircase. “Everett Smith was a great man. To think, we wouldn’t have won the war without him!”

“Grandpappy Smith is a lucky man,” Mr. Smith said. “To be the son of an American hero! One who even knew Chinese, in addition to speaking American, his first language! Grandpappy Smith even taught me some Chinese! I can say hello and how are you! Quack quack, meow!”

“He is certainly a true genius,” Philip said. “Just as we are TRUE platonic lovers.”

“Yes!” Mr. Smith said. “We’re a platonic power couple!”

Philip glanced down at his watch. “We’d better get going. We’re supposed to be at the mansion in thirty minutes.”

***

Fifteen minutes later, Mr. Smith and his friends arrived at the mansion. They were supposed to help prepare meals in the kitchen for the owner’s guests. Mr. Smith may have been living in a mansion, but he was far from rich. He kept spending thousands of dollars on groceries because Simon ate all the food in the fridge every time Mr. Smith went shopping. Philip always said it was a miracle Simon was so skinny. Mr. Smith would have agreed, but he didn’t know what the word miracle meant, despite having worked as a missionary the previous year.

Mr. Smith knocked on the front door. They waited for a few minutes, then a man in a suit opened the door. Mr. Smith began to gesture and mouth things. “You’re wearing a suit! Are you Alfred, from Batman?”

The butler glowered at him. “No.”

Philip chimed in. “Alfred is Spiderman’s butler, Mr. Smith.”

Mr. Smith began counting on his fingers, pointing to places in space. “So I got the wrong movie? Is that why he said no?”

“I’m not Alfred. My name is Steven. Batman is a work of fiction!” The butler snapped.

Mr. Smith’s face went blank. “Fiction? I don’y know what that is.”

“It means it isn’t real!” Alfred Steven snapped. “There is no Batman!”

Next to Mr. Smith, Simon began to cry. “There, there, Simon,” Mr. Smith patted Simon’s back. “Don’t let the mean butler Alfred ruin your dreams.”

Steven huffed. “Please, come in. Mr. Crowley is expecting you.”

Mr. Smith followed Batman’s butler inside. They passed through the kitchen, where several other staff members were working. They were working hard preparing breakfast for Mr. Crowley, a man whose first name Mr. Smith had already forgotten. Mr. Smith noticed one man was making pancakes with blueberries, so Mr. Smith grabbed a handful of berries from the bowl, causing the man to glare at Mr. Smith.

They came upon the dining room. There, Mr. Crowley had several guests over for breakfast. Mr. Smith gasped when he saw all the guests. “YOU! The gay geniuses! And that famous movie actor, Harrison Crowley! Oh no! What are YOU doing HERE?!”

Harry glared at Mr. Smith. “I live here. Who hired you as my kitchen worker?!”

Mr. Smith gasped again. “I thought YOU were a different Harrison Crowley! Oh no! What do I do?!”

Harry sighed. “You can start by making us breakfast.”

“I don’t know if that’s the best idea,” Leo chimed in. “He might put rats in the food.”

Mr. Smith pouted. “I don’t want to serve you!” Mr. Smith paused, scratching his head for several minutes. “Oh I know! How about YOU make the food for ME! The we’ll see who has the power here! A TRUE genius or you fools!”

“I have 160 level IQ,” Harry said. “So it looks like you’ve got something right.”

Mr. Smith began to stare ahead blankly for several minutes. Finally, he spoke. “Is 160 higher or lower than infinity? I forgot.”

Leo snickered. “It’s lower.”

Mr. Smith threw his hands up in frustration. “Why did no one tell me this before?! I made it all the way through Elementary School!”

“They teach that in Elementary School,” Said a new person. It was a 19 year old boy, sitting next to a boy who looked about 20. “You must have fallen asleep in like, every class.”

Mr. Smith narrowed his eyes. “I’ve never seen you before! I recognize Alex, his mean boyfriend, Janie, Leo and Ritchie! Who are you two new people?”

“I’m Kevin, and this is David. We’re friends of Harry’s,” The 19 year old boy said.

Mr. Smith smirked. “I have more friends than you smart people! Ha! Who has the power now?”

“Us. You’re working for us, remember?” The 20 year old, David, smirked.

Mr. Smith stamped his foot. “You’re MEAN!”

Gerald scratched his head. “My Mama says I’m smart. That makes it true, don’t it?”

Dominic peered at his friend. “I think so. Don’t most people believe everything their Mama tells them, at age 30?”

Evan stroked his chin. “How old am I again? I thought I was negative 200.”

Harry chuckled. Chris facepalmed, and Leo and Ritchie groaned. Alex, David and Kevin were in hysterics. “So you haven’t been born for another 200 years?” Kevin asked.

“That’s completely illogical.” Leo added.

Mr. Smith began to gesture and mouth things, pointing to places in space. “Is illogical a type of math? Like the math Evan is trying to use to figure out his age? Oh no! I should have brought my calculator!”

“I doubt that would resolve the issue,” Leo sighed.

“My calculator can resolve any problem!” Mr. Smith pounded his fist on the table.

Harry clapped his hands. “Why don’t you stop arguing with my guests and go work in the kitchen with the others? Come on!”

Mr. Smith pouted, but Philip took hold of his arm. “Come on. Let’s show these chumps how much better we are than them by not getting fired this time! Or quitting!”

“Fine!” Mr. Smith huffed. “Mr. Smith won’t be a loser today!”

“Just tomorrow and every day after that,” David snickered.

Mr. Smith growled, but was lead into the kitchen by Philip. In the kitchen, workers were tirelessly slaving away, making sandwiches for Harry and his guests. They were complicated sandwiches too- peanut butter and jelly! Mr. Smith got right to work, eager to prove himself. He wouldn’t forget a single ingredient this time!

They were twenty minutes in when suddenly they heard a crash from the other room. “Oh no!” Mr. Smith yelled. “It must be my younger brother, here to ruin my day! Freddy Smith! When I try to be responsible, he shows up and ruins it! Oh no! What do I do? Now I’ll never prove to those chumps that I’m the TRUE genius!”

Philip sighed. “I’m sure Freddy isn’t here. I’ll go investigate the noise.”

To Be Continued In Part Two (Post Available Now)

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Rottmnt Megamind au.

I FINALLY DREW THE MEGAMIND AU!! Donnie is megamind. My character, star is Roxanne ritchi (Roxanne is megamind's love interest and the news reporter). Leo is metro man. Minion is Shelldon. Roles for other characters are yet to be decided.

Tagging people who might be interested!

@sweaterrat @chaoticspeedrun @hypocriticaltypwriter

[professionalpuckbunny]

Hi! I’m back. So sad I missed live blogging the draft :(

first round -

1. Connor Bedard 🇨🇦 Chicago

2. Leo Carlsson 🇸🇪 Anaheim

3. Adam Fantilli 🇨🇦 Columbus

4. Will Smith 🇺🇸 San Jose

5. David Reinbacher 🇦🇹 Montreal

6. Dmitriy Simashev 🇷🇺 Arizona

7. Matvei Michkov 🇷🇺 Philadelphia

8. Ryan Leonard 🇺🇸 Washington

9. Nate Danielson 🇨🇦 Detroit

10. Dalibor Dvorsky 🇸🇰 St Louis

11. Tom Willander 🇸🇪 Vancouver

12. Daniil But 🇷🇺 Arizona

13. Zach benson 🇨🇦 Buffalo

14. Brayden Yager 🇨🇦 Pittsburgh

15. Matthew Wood 🇨🇦 Nashville

16. Samuel Honzek 🇸🇰 Calgary

17. Axel Sandin Pellikka 🇸🇪 Detroit

18. Colby Barlow 🇨🇦 Winnipeg

19. Oliver Moore 🇺🇸 Chicago

20. Eduard Sale 🇨🇿 Seattle

21. Charlie Stramel 🇺🇸 Minnesota

22. Oliver Bonk 🇨🇦 Philadelphia

23. Gabe Perreault 🇺🇸 New York R

24. Tanner Molendyk 🇨🇦 Nashville

25. Otto Stenberg 🇸🇪 St Louis

26. Quentin Musty 🇺🇸 San Jose

27. Calum Ritchie 🇨🇦 Colorado

28. Easton Cowan 🇨🇦 Toronto

29. Theo Lindstein 🇸🇪 St Louis

30. Bradly Nadeau 🇨🇦 Carolina

31. Mikhail Gulyayev 🇷🇺 Colorado

32. David Edstrom 🇸🇪 Vegas

[onekisstotakewithme]

🔥 TWW

I have many opinions on TWW and some of them are fairly unpopular so uhhhh here goes.

I'll get the biggest one out of the way first: for when it happened, I actually don't find the shuttle leak storyline out of character for Toby, nor do I hate it. If it had happened back in season 4, sure, and I'm mad at the post-Sorkin writing team for their slow destruction of Toby's character, but by end of s6, start of s7, it's not out of character for him. Could it have been better executed? Sure. But where he is as a character, unfortunately, it doesn't feel supremely terrible to me.

Second, the best Donna is season 1 Donna. A bit of an audience surrogate sometimes but in a not-overly-clumsy way, funny and spunky and just a bit quirky... and her dynamic with Josh is SO fun in season 1. I'm almost through s1 in my rewatch and I'd genuinely forgotten how much I enjoyed Donna. I feel like she really got flattened out once they really committed to the will they/won't they with Josh, and then was worse because of the whole season 6/7 disaster (that was a mess!), PLUS they had her make some very dumb decisions to advance the plot that did not feel realistic (the dumb shit with Cliff Calley, the accidentally voting for Ritchie).

(more under the cut because apparently I'm not done!)

I know season 5 was the weakest season overall, BUT season 4 was the weakest Sorkin season. I'm not saying season 4 needed to be all about re-election, but I feel like there was a better balance to strike between the "rush through all the election stuff by episode 8-ish" and "stretch it out into a season and a half long affair" (as in 6-7). It also just, despite everything it took to get to this point, felt INCREDIBLY rushed and unsatisfying. it didn't feel like there were any stakes! I wanted to see the whole debate, I wanted to see a genuine election night with stakes, dammit! And I think, much as I love Will, that dedicating so much time to THAT storyline was part of the problem. This also wasn't helped by the fact that Ritchie was a caricature and a Bush expy which worked when the episodes were airing but just makes him look cartoonish and one-dimensional now. Like Arnie Vinick may be a unicorn of a Republican and impossible to believe in now, but at least he's a person and not a cardboard cutout. Anyway! It feels like for all the build-up to the difficulty of getting re-elected post-MS scandal, it was just. they won, shuffle them offscreen again.

Okay, fuck, this is getting long.

I don't MIND Annabeth but I find the whole Leo-Annabeth flirtation thing REALLY weird and honestly out of left field. That scene in the elevator where she says they shouldn't be spending too much time together 'because of the tension', I was RIGHT THERE with Leo like 'what tension?' Like I'm sorry, I just don't see it!

Okay a few more bullet-point gripes just because

I got used to it eventually but I'm still not a fan that CJ got promoted to COS. Like yeah by the end she did a damn good job and she has one of the best relationships with Jed, but c'mon. she loved being press secretary, and she was a damn good one.

CJ's dark hair in season 7 is not a good look on her, I'm sorry CJ my love, but it doesn't look good. The only non-canon part of the flashfoward is that she definitely does NOT still have that hair.

Amy was fun when she first appeared, but in seasons 6 and 7 her character definitely got worse.

For the most part, I actually wanted less election plot in season 7 and more focus on the west wing (and I say this as loving both Matt and Arnie!)

Gina Toscano/CJ is a great ship also. I rewatched "six meetings before lunch" last night and remembered that I ship them.

Episode specific: the B-plot of Requiem makes absolutely no sense to me and I've watched the episode about 6 or 7 times now (the whole 'meddling in the speaker race' plot).

And finally: Danny should've been in every single season, as a regularly recurring character. I know that Tim Busfield was busy with other commitments but Mr. Busfield, I'm begging you.

TL;DR:

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.9

Beer Birthdays

Julius Zupansky (1850)

Gregg Glaser

Ryan Niebuhr (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Hugh Grant; actor (1960)

Michael Keaton; actor, comedian (1951)

Otis Redding; R&B singer, songwriter (1941)

Harlan Sanders; chef (1890)

Leo Tolstoy; Russian writer (1828)

Famous Birthdays

James Agate; English writer (1877)

Mary Austin; writer (1868)

William Bligh; British navy admiral (1754)

Frank Chance; Chicago Cubs 1B (1876)

Frankie Frisch; New York Giants/St. Louis Cardinals 2B (1898)

Jane Greer; actor (1924)

James Hilton; English writer (1900)

Rachel Hunter; model (1966)

Doug Ingle; rock keyboardist (1946)

Michelle Johnson; actor (1965)

The Amazing Jonathan; comedian (1958)

John Kricfalusi; animator (1955)

Joseph Leidy; scientist (1823)

Garry Maddox; Philadelphia Phillies CF (1949)

Anna Malle; porn actor (1967)

Sylvia Miles; actor (1932)

Cesare Pavese; Italian writer (1908)

Dennis Ritchie; computer scientist (1941)

Cliff Robertson; actor (1925)

Adam Sandler; comedian, actor (1966)

Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder; television sportscaster, oddsmaker (1923)

David Stewart; rock musician (1952)

Joe Theismann; Washington Redskins QB (1949)

Henry Thomas; actor (1971)

Michelle Williams; actor (1980)

Tom Wompat; actor (1951)