#libby fox

[doyelikehaggis]

Peter Beale & Lucy Beale | 19.07.10

[usermoon]

love is in the air living room

[jackbatchelor3]

How long has Libby been at uni?

[toobelieverperson]

[dailybuddie]

You know? Like she really sees me for who I am and what I've been through.

[ze0n-wuz-here]

Aki

🌹

[theknucklehead]

Here is the cast of The Ghost and Molly McGee if they were the Phantom Thieves.

Molly - Joker

Scratch - Morgana

Darryl - Skull

Andrea - Panther

Ollie - Fox

June - Oracle

Libby - Noir

Sorry I don't have anyone for Makoto Nijima (Queen) and Goro Akechi (Crow).

Artwork is from Persona Q2.

[liberty-barnes]

6×08 Christopher's first crush

Okay, so I get wanting Buck to be there for Chris' first crush moment but let me tell you, my brain cells had a DVD logo hitting the corner moment and I honestly think it was even better to have Carla there with Eddie instead.

Now before we get into it let's remember some already-established facts:

Eddie's parents never approved of his relationships (bar maybe Ana) and made him feel like he needed to find a Mom for Christopher, and he listens to it in some way proved by the fact he dated Ana

Eddie always feels like he's failing Christopher in some way or another (the examples are endless here)

Eddie has been going to therapy and working towards abolishing his toxic masculinity upbringing thoughts etc.

Eddie sees Carla as a voice of reason and listens to her advice (ie breaking up with Ana after remembering her advice)

Now for the explaining part.

So, first of all, I think it was incredibly important that Eddie be able to have this moment where he gets to focus solely on his relationship with Chris because it allows for things to be passed by more clearly. Like if Buck was there, there would be:

Eddie's relationship with Chris

Buck's relationship with Chris

Eddie's relationship with Buck

Eddie, Buck, and Chris as a family

With Carla we only have

Eddie's relationship with Chris

Carla and Eddie's friendship

(and a bit of Carla's relationship with Chris)

This means we have fewer angles to juggle and we get to focus on the important aspects of things, especially because Carla is very much a neutral character, a mediator who's already established and whose relationship with either Diaz has long since been defined. She's a permanent fixture in that household, which is important.

Because this episode was about two major realisations for Eddie:

The realisation that he's raising his son just fine despite his parents' less than favourable views

The realisation that his fantasies could become a reality

Okay so first off, to explain realisation number 1

Having Eddie do the first crush getting his son ready part without Buck was very much so we could get the single-parent Eddie vibe. Because with Buck, he's always gonna have a second parent there, unofficial as he might be. This was a him thing alone.

So seeing his son thrive and realising that the doctors, his parents, and even Shannon at some point, were wrong and that he can have high expectations because with the right support system, Chris will exceed them time and time again was just a big "huh, so maybe they were wrong about this too".

This was him realising that he's doing a good job with Christopher and that the support system he has going on (Buck, Carla, the firefam) is more than enough, and he doesn't need to find Chris a Mom for him to have a good life, he's doing better than anyone ever expected just like this.

And for all intents and purposes, Carla is the closest thing Chris has to a Mom. As his aide, she takes care of him, is the person to spend the most time with him bar Eddie and Buck, and she clearly loves him to pieces. Even though she is an employee, she does almost everything a Mom would. And she does all that while having her own husband and being friends with Eddie.

So her presence there serves as an acknowledgement that while Chris benefits from having a female role model in his life, especially since he spent so much of his early years with Shannon, that doesn't mean Eddie needs a wife. Carla fills the role of a Mom without filling the role of a second parent. She brings that feminine touch that Eddie's been indoctrinated to search for while also remaining enough on the outside that Eddie could have a partner.

This brings us to realisation number 2

Now that Eddie has seen that his fantasies can become a reality (Christopher thriving in school, having a maternal figure without having to be a ready-made family like with Ana), he realises that maybe some of his other fantasies (aka Buck) can become a reality too.

We especially see this when Carla talks to him about fantasies, and they immediately cut to Buck getting Jee's room ready. It's him realising that if his fantasies have become a reality, then maybe his Buck fantasy could too.

And what makes this even better is that we can see all throughout this episode where Buck can fit. He can be Chris' second parent while both of them would still be balanced out by Carla's never-ending patience and wisdom. He could be a partner for Eddie and a parent for Chris, and they don't have to "give up" anything to have that because Buck has his own space already.

And just overall it was important to have Buck still on the outside of that because Eddie is an established parent and Carla is an established feature, but Buck is still an unstable fantasy-type thing for Eddie and he needed to realise that he could have that without putting his son's stability or his own in jeopardy.

So yeah those are my thoughts, not fully sure how coherent this is or how much sense it made cause my mind's going at lightspeed with all the thoughts and excitement, but yes. Overall loved this episode.

[claudia1829things]

"LOST" Retrospect: Issues with (6.12) "Everybody Loves Hugo"

"LOST" RETROSPECT: ISSUES WITH (6.12) "EVERYBODY LOVES HUGO" I just finished a re-watch of the "LOST" Season Six episode, (6.12) "Everybody Loves Hugh". Needless to say . . . I found myself feeling pissed.

There were a few aspects of "Everybody Loves Hugo" that left me scratching my head or feeling slightly annoyed. One, the episode had Jack Shephard claiming responsibility for Juliet Burke’s death. As I had explained in another article, I do not accept this. I believe three people were mainly responsible - Juliet herself, Sayid Jarrah (because he had failed to ensure that the bomb would automatically go off) and especially DHARMA scientist Dr. Stuart Radzinsky. Mind you, I like Season Six. But one of my main frustrations was this narrative that Jack was responsible for Juliet’s death. James "Sawyer" Ford had initially accused Jack. Yet, fans had failed to pay attention to what really happened in the last few Season Five episodes. Come to think of it, so did the Season Six writers and showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. No one one had seemed to realize that Sawyer had wrongly accused Jack, because he had needed a scapegoat for his pain. Another aspect of "Everybody Loves Hugo" was Hugo "Hurley" Reyes' decision to use the dynamite from the stranded Black Rock slave ship and destroy the Ajira 316 plane on Hydra Island. Why? To prevent the show's main antagonist, the Man in Black, from leaving the island and endangering the world. Fortunately, the ghost of the late Oceanic survivor Michael Dawson managed to convince Hurley to drop this plan, claiming this act would cause the deaths of many on the island. Unfortunately, former members of the Others - Richard Alpert and Ben Linus, along with Miles Straume and Ilana Verdansky had all insisted upon going ahead with Hurley's original plan. And in the process, Illana accidentally killed herself by mishandling the dynamite. However, instead of using dynamite to destroy the Ajira plane, Hurley decided to lead other Losties - including Jack Shephard and Sun Kwon - to the Man in Black or "fake Locke". Why? Thirteen years have passed since this episode first aired. And to this day, I have no idea why Hurley had made this decision. The episodes writers, along with Lindelof and Cuse have never explained this decision. Or have they? Another aspect of this episode that annoyed me was this second attempt to build up Hurley’s potential romance with the late Oceanic survivor, Libby Smith. How can I put this? I had failed to buy their Season Two romance before Michael had killed her and Ana-Lucia Cortez in (2.20) "Two for the Road". After watching their interactions in this episode's flash forwards, I still cannot see the magic between the pair. What can I say? Jorge Garcia and Cynthia Watros had lacked any screen chemistry whatsoever. Garcia had better chemistry with an actress Marguerite Moreau, who had portrayed Starla, a young woman Hurley had been interested in before leaving Los Angeles in 2004. Also, Hurley and Libby's "romance" barely had a chance to start before her death. I simply could never buy it. But the one incident that really pissed me off in "Everybody Loves Hugo". As I had pointed out earlier, Michael's ghost appeared before Hurley to prevent him from continuing with the plan to blow up the Ajira plan in order to prevent the Man in Black from escaping the island. Michael also informed Hurley that he was a Whisperer - one of the island's ghosts, incapable of moving on. In Michael's case, he was incapable of moving on, because of his killing of Libby and Ana-Lucia. What really annoyed me was Michael’s fate, thanks to the series' showrunners. Why did Michael turn out to be the only one of the Oceanic 815 passengers who became a ghost on that damn island? Why him? Because he had killed Ana-Lucia and Libby? Michael was not the only Oceanic castaway who had committed murder or attempted murder. Nor was he the only castaway who had wronged another castaway. For example: *John Locke had committed a series of acts to prevent his fellow castaways from leaving the island - knocking out Sayid in order to prevent the latter from using a transmitter to get help; blowing up the Others' submarine and most importantly, killing Naomi Dorrit by throwing a machete into her back in order to prevent her from contacting her fellow passengers aboard the Kahuna freighter. Locke had also lied about the circumstances around the doomed Boone Carlyle's injuries, leading Jack to utilize the wrong treatment. *Kate Austen had murdered her biological father, Wayne Jensen, in cold blood after discovering that he was her real father. Kate had claimed she killed him to protect her mother from his abusive behavior and many fans still believe her to this day. But Kate had admitted in the Season Two episode, (2.09) "What Kate Did" that she had murdered him because she could not stand the idea of being related to him. She was having an identity crisis. She had planned a bank robbery that endangered the lives of some people in order to obtain a toy that once belonged to her first love. Kate had BETRAYED Claire Littleon and the Littleton family by pretending to be Aaron Littleton’s mother for selfish reasons. She kept Aaron from his grandmother Carole Littleton for nearly three years. Kate was a child KIDNAPPER. Other castaways who had escaped from the island in the Season Four finale - Jack, Hurley, Sun, Sayid, Frank Lapidus and Desmond Hume had either supported her lies or kept silent. *Jack had tried to murder Locke in the Season Four premiere. He was pissed at the latter for killing Naomi and possibly sabotaging their chances of getting off the island. He had never apologized for the murder attempt. Jack had also supported Sayid's torture of Sawyer in the Season One episode, (1.08) "Confidence Man". Both had erroneously believed that Sawyer had stolen Shannon Rutherford's inhaler without any real evidence to back them. For me, Jack's worst act was supporting Kate's lie about being Aaron Littleton's mother. During the three years off island, he had flipped flopped between keeping his distance from her out of guilt and supporting her lie. But Jack never really made a strong stance on the issue. I take that back. He did. In the end, he tried to help Kate keep Aaron and ensure she would not pay any legal price for the lie. *Sayid Jarrah had murdered a fellow Iraqi soldier in order to help the woman he had recently fallen in love with, Nadia Jazeem, escape from prison and possible execution. He had tortured Sawyer for Shannon's inhalers. But his real reason for torturing Sawyer was that he believed the latter was responsible for knocking him out and destroying the plane's transmitter. He tried to kill Ana-Lucia, who had accidently killed Shannon, believing the latter was an Other. While questioning a captured Ben in (2.14) "One of Them", he nearly killed the latter. Following Nadia's death in Los Angeles, Sayid had agreed to help Ben kill of many of Charles Widmore's men, because he believed the latter was responsible for Nadia's death. Many claimed Ben had manipulated Sayid into becoming his hitman, but Sayid was eager to do so anyway. While in 1977, Sayid tried to murder the twelve-to-thirteen-year-old Ben in order to change history. *Shannon Rutherford tried to murder John Locke for his lies regarding her stepbrother Boone Carlyle’s injuries in late Season One. She had never apologized for her murder attempt. Locke had initially apologized for lying about Boone’s injuries. However, he changed his mind and claimed that the island had demanded Boone’s death as a sacrifice . . . as if that was an excuse. *James "Sawyer" Ford had murdered three people in the space of three months, due to his penchant for resorting to violence to satisfy his anger. He murdered Frank Duckett because he thought the latter was the con man who had cheated his parents out of their money. When he finally met the actual con man, Anthony Cooper (who was Locke’s dad) on the island, Sawyer strangled him to death. Cooper was never really responsible for his parents’ deaths. Sawyer’s father had murdered his mother for her adultery and committed suicide rather than deal with rebuilding his life. Sawyer had murdered one of the Others, Tom Friendly in the Season Three finale, (3.23) "Through the Looking Glass, Part II", claiming he did it in retaliation for Walt Lloyd's kidnapping. But Sawyer had stopped caring about Walt by early Season Two. His real reason for murdering Tom was in retaliation for getting shot on Michael's raft, when the Others took Walt. But Tom had never shot Saywer. One of the Others with Tom had beat Sawyer to the draw and shot the latter in the shoulder, when Sawyer reached for his gun. However, Sawyer solely blamed Tom for what happened on the raft . . . even after he had learned that Ben Linus was Tom’s leader and had ordered Walt Lloyd’s kidnapping. Other castaways and island occupants like Charlie Pace, Ben Linus, Juliet Burke and Ana-Lucia had committed crimes or attempted to commit crimes. Yet, Michael was the only one fated to become a Whisperer on the island because "he could not move on". He could not forgive himself for his actions. Many other major characters had no problems with forgiving themselves or avoiding any kind of remorse. Yet, Michael was the only major character to suffer, despite his remorse. What a fucking joke! I suspect that racism was the real reason why Michael became doomed to be a ghost on that island. I believe that racism had negatively affected the series fans' attitude toward Michael. After learning about Maureen Ryan's book, "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call For Change in Hollywood", I wonder if Lindelof and Cuse had planned this for Michael after Season Two. Even to this day, many fans - including a lot of YOU TUBE influencers - made excuse after excuse for the crimes of characters like Sawyer and Kate. None of them have ever even bothered to discuss the crimes of the show's other characters - including Jack, Locke and Sayid. But many fans were not only quick to condemn Michael for his crimes in late Season Two, but also condemn him for not being a "perfect father" to Walt. I found the latter condemnation ridiculous, considering that Michael had very little experience as a father around the time of Oceanic 815’s crash. Like many other characters on "LOST", Michael Dawson was very complicated. And I suspect that was a big problem for a lot of the show's fans. Michael was never comic relief like Hurley. Nor was he a bad ass like Mr. Eko or Sayid. He was a complex, ordinary man with his own set of problems. Nor did he automatically turn to Jack or Locke to lead him. He certainly did not turn to them to help him rescue Walt from the Others. Considering that the Oceanic survivors never made any real effort to help him find Walt, except for one irrelevant move by Jack in (2.19) "S.O.S.", I am not surprised. In the end, Michael’s real crime was that he had failed to live up the fans’ expectations on what a non-white male character (especially an African-American) should have been. This disappointment of Michael not adhering to the expected trope of a non-white male character may have led to many fans disliking him. Either Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had dumped this shitty fate on Michael Dawson in "Everybody Loves Hugo" in attempt to kiss the fandom's collective asses. Or they had allowed their own feelings about the character, actor Harold Perrineau or any alleged racism on their parts to do so.

[calico-dan]

Libby and my nephew’s pick bunny played all afternoon while some of this bunny litter went to their new homes today. 

I got 2 does left, and a couple bucks of Silver Fox rabbit. I think my nephew named his bunny Vanny. 

[inevitablemoment]

Happy Birthday to Libby Bannister!

So, today not only marks the 26th anniversary of when The Frighteners was released into theaters...

But it also marks the twelfth birthday of Frank and Lucy’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth Serena Bannister, nicknamed “Libby.” Here she is at age six (fun fact: this is Hallie Eisenberg, who played Marie Alweather in the movie Paulie; Trini Alvarado, Lucy’s actress, played Marie as a grown-up).

And here she is today:

She will be celebrating her birthday with her family, going to the Fairwater Town Center Mall for some shopping and seeing a movie at the Cineplex. On Saturday, she will have her birthday party.

She takes dance classes and hopes to dance professionally one day.

Happy birthday, Libby!

[doyelikehaggis]

I screamed when they mentioned Libby and Darren, that makes me so happy! Let us see them again!!

[glimmerofawesome]

[jackbatchelor3]

At least she didn't swear on any of her kids’ lives.

[vinylfoxtalks]

Whomst decided that, upon establishing the library in my new town, there were to be five different library cards, and the non-county-residents (a college town, by the way, so it's bringing in new people all the time) have to pay $100 per year for a fuckimg card that only allows you to check out 2 books at a time for 21 days.

My library at home? $5 for a permanent library card (only one card that you can get) that let's you check out like 20 books for a month.

It's also the only library anywhere near me that has fiction books (which is what I read, almost exclusively) so I don't have a fucking choice. There are bookstores but I don't buy books if I don't know that I love them.

ALSO! I feel like having such large restrictions on library cards in the only library that holds fiction books in town (there are several w/ nonfiction books but I've got my school library for that should needbe) ruins the entire fucking premise of a library. I don't read that fast, and therefore don't need many books at a time, but a library should be a someway accessible way to get books and consume media. Why is there so many restrictions, rules, and money blocking people from just getting a fucking book?

[therealmrpositive]

My Boyfriend's Back (1993)

In today's review, I find out that being dead, might give you a new lease, on your love life. As I attempt a #positive review of the 1993 zombie rom-com, My Boyfriend's Back #AndrewLowery #TraciLind #DannyZorn #EdwardHerrmann #MaryBethHurt #JayOSanders

Growing up is hard enough, we have a sea of constantly changing emotions, bodies, and situations to navigate, and it can feel like you are a whole new person. Almost like coming back from a near-death experience gives you a completely new outlook. In 1993. A film that combined the teenage condition with a lot of EC Comics-style spookiness, a film known as My Boyfriend’s Back. Johnny’s dead, but…