#look at my queen Kathy bates

[peachesofteal]

ngl I’m kinda scared of Johnny and Simon in the winter time au 😳

Still intrigued though

[pluckysidekick]

Hello, Drewds! The Drew Crew actors have all been active this week, a very rare occurrence. The most recent is this morning we got this fabulous photo from Amanda Row, director of many classic Nancy Drew episodes (e.g. Burning Bride, Uninvited Guest, S2 finale) and both the S4 premiere and finale. She was out last night with none other than Alex Saxon AND RJ Hatanaka.

Love seeing these people back together - and extra points for Alex sporting a classic Ace snapback. How amazing would it be if we got to see Alex and RJ together in something directed by Amanda? Ace and Tamura did have the best scenes together. A person can dream…

Meanwhile, we caught our first glimpse of Tunji in the “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” trailer. He looks (and sounds) so amazing in period garb.

Sadly it appears from IMDB that he’s only in the first episode - hopefully we’ll see more added as we get closer. No matter what really looking forward to seeing him on my screen again come May 4!

Onto the women of Nancy Drew. Kennedy, who we’re waiting to hear if her backdoor pilot The Good Lawyer was picked up for the fall, gifted us with a duet to Taylor’s “Invisible String” on TikTok. I’ve only listened to it fifty or so times. More please, Kennedy!

Speaking of pilots AND singing, Leah similarly has her own pilot (a Matlock reboot), which started filming on Monday in Toronto. Really hope this one gets picked up - I want to see Leah sparring with the brilliant Kathy Bates. Network TV has room for both of our favs as up and coming lawyers!

Leah has also been singing for us in her spare time in her IG stories this week, her voice is sick. Maybe a Nancy and George duet could be arranged? In the meantime you can envision them putting on an entire musical in my Nancy Drew AU fic No One Mourns the Wicked!

Last but definitely not least, Maddison has been out and about in Vancouver and around B.C., taking some fabulous photos, baking, and visiting her friend who’s building a house. She also mentioned on IG she’d be traveling back to England soon to visit family and enjoy British comfort foods. Hope she has a great time, and that we get to see her on our screens again soon in something new!

Craving Nancy Drew S4, but glad to see what our favorite crew members are up to in the meantime.

[reefer-reelz-n-reviews]

Alice (2009)

Smoking: Neil Bongstrong

So, this technically isn’t a movie, but a tv mini Series and definitely one of my favorites. We follow Caterina Scorsone, Alice, as she travels to… you guessed it! Wonderland.

My husband and I are currently watching Law and Order SVU, and there is a new ADA played by Philip Winchester who is Jack Chase in this series. So, I’ve been itching to watch it every time we see him pop up on the screen.

This week’s is a little bit harder. I have a poor sick kitten who is demanding love and attention so having double duty.

We basically have all of the characters from the original in here. There is the white rabbit, played by Alan Gray. He isn’t really a rabbit just a man that is running from CS and his hair is long and in two low pony tails that look as if they are his ears.

CS goes through the looking glass into almost half a world. It is floating and boy is it a long way down if you fall. I like to think of this as more of a modern-day Alice, where she is smarter 😂 By smarter I mean she doesn’t take the bate to drink the vile, but still gets captured. Also, not a blonde but brunette. Maybe that’s why she is smarter 🤣 don’t take offense if you’re blonde please, just making a joke.

The first time I watched it was with my friend Rachel and I was soooo baked! There is a scene where people are almost like at the stock market yelling out numbers to purchase emotions. The first time I watched it I thought they were all whispering. Almost like they were in a bubble. Totally not what happens 😂

This happens at the Tea House. And guess who runs it? None other than Hatter, played by Andrew Lee Potts. I’ve been in love with him ever since I’ve watched it 😍

There is even a larger gentleman, Dave ‘Squatch’ Ward that plays the Walrus. Though he is more of an enforcer if you will.

In this adaptation The Queen of Hearts, played by THE Kathy Bates, is married to of course the King of Hearts, Colm Meaney.

Not only do we have KB in here. But the magnificent Tim Curry!! He plays Dodo. He isn’t in too much of the series. But just having him in it is enough for me 😄

KB still likes to take the heads of those who oppose her.

I love how ALP gets shot by TC and he acts like he’s all super hurt and CS is all concerned just to find out that he is wearing a bullet proof vest.

What did I say about it being a long way down? There is the March Hair looking for CS. Though he is called Mad March in this. He straight up threw a guy off of the edge and you just hear him scream allllll the way down.

There is even a Jabberwock! It looks nothing like the one from the one from Tim Burton’s Alice. It actually looks a little derpy 😂

My favorite character is the White Knight, played by Matt Frewer. He is goofy, does a lot of synonyms. Or as I pronounce them cinnamons lolololol. He also apparently does toe nail readings 🤔 whatever that means.

Another similarity is that there is the same cat, Dinah, that surprise CS follows in the forest. Though she turns into the Cheshire Cat.

The part with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum is played by Eugene Lipinski, and he’s some kind of mind doctor where they try to find out information form CS. There are some trippy backgrounds that are almost like a hypnosis.

Love when ALP and MF are trying to sneak in to the Casino and ALP has this hat trick 🤣 wish I was that cool.

There is a different kind of flamingo. They don’t play croquet, more of fly on them. Watching them on it makes me think of “Choking the Chicken” 😂☠️

How trippy is it to make a reality extend when you enter it from another door. Press of a button, boom the rest of the roof of a building, plus the remaining part of the decaying world.

Definitely a good thing that SC was doing Karate in the real world. Helps her to be able to escape. Then she takes a flamingo through the forest almost like she’s racing on Endor with Leia 🤣

It would be so weird to sit in a room full of eyeballs just staring at you. And way to have terrible hiding skills. Literally they hid behind a pillar but there were people coming form the left. They so would have seen them 🙄

Alice of course brings down the house and wins. She set Wonderland free from the evil queen of hearts.

Thanks for reading!

Toke on! 😶‍🌫️

-RRR

[labyrinthofcrystals]

Oh nvm that lady wasn't the March Hare...turns out he's an assassin. Eh.

Is that Tim fucking Curry?! WAIT AND KATHY BATES IS THE QUEEN?!?! Don't @ me idc abt actors lmao

Nah bc how tf is this thing 3hrs like oh my god...

Mad March looks stupid as shit what the fuck is that.

"Jack is innocent" girl....no he ain't.

Okay imma go watch 2009!Alice. This shit better be good.

[mariusslonelysoul]

Alice (2009) is one of THEE most ridiculous pieces of media i have ever had the pleasure of watching. We've got mid century decor, 60s outfits, a hatter who looks like he came straight out of the 70s, the classic lovable and kinda crazy old man who eventually helps, hot seemingly shallow blonde who eventually helps, guardsmen turning on their queen for absolutely no reason at all, tim curry is in it for like three minutes, an undeserving trust fund kid who for some reason becomes king, a hatter who looks a lot like my childhood friend turned first crush and who looks so boring when he goes into the real world, alice and the hatter kissing while her mother watches confused and probably concerned, kathy bates, weird uniforms for the guards or whatever they are, an android... i could go on. Truly an experience, i absolutely adored it.

[tuiyla]

Ahh literally everything you're saying is just like parts of the bigger reason s3 sucks so bad. They start off the season with Will like "This year everyone's dreams will come true!" and then like Santana gets outed, Mercedes and Tina are constantly struggling to have their voices heard, Quinn is forced to confront her Beth trauma then gets in a car wreck, Kurt gets passed over for literally every big thing he wanted this season, also literally laughed out of an audition for being Too Gay, Blaine is butting heads with Sam and Finn cause they're both acting dumb lol, also Klaine relationship troubles. Swear to god I think Mike is the only one with a conflict that feels like it gets satisfyingly resolved this whole season rip

And then at the end of the season everyone is like "wow what a great year thank you mr schuester for doing everything for us <3" when he literally never cared about anyone but Finn aslfkjsklfsl and then the whole dick sucking ego stroking parade of everyone to Finn, and Kurt to all the guys and it's just like ??? hello? what? where? when? did i miss some episodes??? What is going on

I literally feel like Kathy Bates in Misery when I talk about season 3.

and all the kids cheered - but I didn't cheer, I stood right up and started shouting, "This isn't what happened last week - have you all got amnesia?! THEY JUST CHEATED US - THIS WASN'T FAIR!"

Omg you so hit the nail on the head with that quote, wow. I have to fess up and say that I liked season 3 when I first watched and looked back on the seasons because I trauma-blocked IKAG and many other awful parts and was blinded by the graduation glamour and the soundtrack. Upon rewatch, it's incredibly infuriating and embodies a lot of what was wrong with this show. And it's made worse by everyone always saying s3 was the good old days and then the show declined in quality, which is just not true.

All the things you listed, yes. And I'm gonna repeat some of them here but just cause it's worth stressing just how bad some of this is. Will, teacher of the year, didn't do shit for most students this year and actively made some of their lives worse. He yelled at Quinn and threw Santana to the wolves, scolded both Tina and Mercedes when they asked for an ounce of the respect they deserved. His treatment of Mercedes!! Oh. My god. He should go to jail for booty camp. All the while we had to endure the ups and downs of his sex life and while he, like the whole show, was so far up Finn's ass it was hard to see anything else. Quinn was put through a revolving trauma door and not one adult really cared. All three main women of colour were demonized for wanting a taste of the spotlight and the one canon lesbian given the most offensive "coming out" (i.e. outing) known to tv. Brittany was mute for most of the season and when they do give her something it's the fucking sex tape. Sam had such big flop moments and Blaine was only pulled out for songs and Klaine conflict. Kurt's dreams were shattered despite him doing his best and nailing the audition. Oh and yeah let's have him thank the boys for,,,, whatever reason? Insulting. No one cared about the newbies because the show didn't either. Yeah, Mike's storyline was more or less done well but it was so brief and the only standalone story arc he ever got. Finchel had to be prom king and queen for some godforsaken reason. I mean let's not get into how season 3 Finn is somehow even worse than he usually is because jfc it just never stops with him. I guess Puck's storyline was the most decent? But they also had him fuck the adoptive mother of his bio child also his teacher also his ex's mom so, like. Most of Rachel's stuff was also fine but the Finchel things were intolerable and elevating her by putting others down is not it.

And it's not just the shafted characters and bad storylines and the overall bad execution of even the ones that had potential. It's this tonal inconsistency, this insistence that the sun is shining out of Finn's ass, that Finchel are meant to be and are more important than anyone else on this show, the trainwreck of season 3A especially, the issue episodes. The fact that the show swears it cares about all these kids when it's so quick to discard them and do their stories a disservice. It's not a triumphant last lap of the OGs but a tragedy for most and a wank fest for a select few.

[nicnacsnonsense]

Top Ten Reasons why SyFy’s Alice miniseries is the best Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass adaptation actually.

10) They go the “it’s a sequel” route, but make the bold choice to have Alice not be grown Alice or even a descendent of the original Alice, but just some woman who happens to be named Alice.

9) Alice has a black belt in karate, but they don’t make a thing about it. We see her teaching a class at the beginning of the show, and she’s capable of handling herself in a fight, but they don’t try to turn that into some defining character trait.

8) Excellent world-building that blends together elements of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and makes it dark and gritty without becoming Dark and Gritty(TM)

7) The time has come, Walrus, old friend/To test our many stills/The oohs, the ahs, the healing drops/The passions, the thrills/And see how joy and awe and lust/Can all be turned to pills

6) Some superb performances by some iconic actors, including Kathy Bates as the Queen of Hearts, Colm Meany as the King of Hearts, Tim Curry as Dodo (a resistance leader), and especially, especially Matt Frewer as the White Knight.

5) Mad March is a ruthless cunning bloodthirsty assassin who, due to some shortcuts taken in bringing him back from the dead, has a rabbit head-shaped cookie jar for a head.

4) Andrew-Lee Potts as the Hatter makes me swoon.

3) It’s got a lot of morally grey characters, but that moral ambiguity is rooted in the fact that fighting a revolution is messy and not everyone is going to agree about the best approach and what lines can and can’t be crossed.

2) Some solid anti-capitalist messages in there you can pull out.

1) OH MY GOD Y’ALL, THEY ACTUALLY CALLED IT THE JABBERWOCK. Nary a jabberwocky in sight. I’m going to cry y’all; just look how faithfully they recreated my doofy-looking baby:

[dear-indies]

do you have any suggestions for good plus size fcs with period/historical credits? i'm looking for some people to make resources for!

Women:

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton & Harlots) - has two gif packs from Bridgerton - would be classed as midsized but worth a mention regardless! 

Bronwyn James (Harlots, The ABC Murders & Outlander) -  has an icon pack from Harlots. 

Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water, Hidden Figures & The Help) - has a gif pack from The Help and an icon pack from Hidden Figures.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite Is My Name) African-American - has a gif pack from Dolemite Is My Name.

Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country) Yoruba Nigerian - has a gif pack from Lovecraft Country.

Lolly Adefope (Ghosts) Nigerian.

Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes & Year of the Rabbit) Nigerian.

Queen Latifah (Bessie & Hairspray) African-American, some European.

Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) Ashkenazi Jewish / Slovak, Irish - has an icon pack from Hairspray. 

Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Ella Smith (The Nevers) 

Joanna Scanlan (Tulip Fever & Death Comes to Pemberley) 

Kathy Bates (American Horror Story as Madame LaLaurie)

Yuliya Aug (Ekaterina) 

Danielle Brooks (Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia) African-American - sexuality unlabelled but is dating a woman. 

Dascha Polanco (The Irishman) Afro-Dominican.

Deborah Mailman (The Sapphires) Bidjara, Ngati Porou Maori, Te Arawa Maori.

Chrissy Metz (American Horror Story as Ima 'Barbara' Wiggles)

Danielle Macdonald (I Am Woman)

Jordan Raskopoulos (I Am Woman) - trans. 

Stefanie Reinsperger (Maria Theresa)

Beanie Feldstein (American Crime Story) Ashkenazi Jewish - chosen not to label her sexuality.

Men:

Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) Mexican - queer - has a gif pack from  What We Do in the Shadows.

Nick Frost (The Nevers & Into the Badlands) - has an icon pack from Badlands. 

Nonso Anozie (Cinderella, Entebbe, Tut, Game of Thrones, Pan, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dracula, Conan the Barbarian) Igbo Nigerian - has a gif pack from Cinderella.

Mark Addy (Game of Thrones, Atlantis, Downtown Abbey & A Knight's Tale) - has a gif pack from both roles.

Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast) Afghan Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish.

Matt Berry (Year of the Rabbit & What We Do in the Shadows)

Rasmus Bjerg (Lykke-Per & Så længe jeg lever)

Dan Folger (Fantastic Beasts) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Kristian Nairn (Game of Thrones)

John Bradley (Game of Thrones)

Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones)

Danny DeVito (Dumbo)

Jack Black (Drunk History & Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot & Year One) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, as well as Northern Irish, Scottish, English, remote French and Welsh (converted to Judaism).

Cliff Parisi (Call The Midwife)

Robert Crayton (Destiny & Knight's End) African-Ameican - filming in production at time of posting for both but worth a mention!  

Jimmy Blais (Romeo and Juliet) Plains Cree.

Richard Ridings (Dickinson) 

People who have played Winston Churchill so obviously don’t use to roleplay Winston Churchill but noting down because they might be worth doing faceless resources of? 

Timothy Spall (King's Speech)

Tim Hudson (De Gaulle)

Richard McCabe (Peaky Blinders)

Neil Maskell (Peaky Blinders)

Non-binary:

N/A

Hey anon! I’m not familiar with period / historical media but thank you so much for wanting to make resources of plus size people -  if anyone has any suggestions please let me know and I’ll update the post! Thanks to @sweetiesplum for giving me some fabulous suggestions too! 

[ahsnewsupdates]

Exclusive Interview with Xander Smith: ‘AHS’ Concept Artist!

Xander Smith, the über skilled and talented concept artist who worked on four seasons of American Horror Story (Hotel, Roanoke, Cult, Apocalypse), was generous enough to answer some of our burning questions about the designs that he created for the show!

Throughout this interview, we will attach images of Xander’s work that pertain to the questions asked. You can check out his full, expansive portfolio by clicking here. 

Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview! How did your involvement with American Horror Story begin? Were you a fan of the show beforehand?

Thanks, it's one of my favorite projects to have been a part of, so happy to talk about AHS!

I've loved the genre of horror my whole life, to me it's the one genre that you can push all emotions to their limits, and explore the human experience on a much deeper level than other genres. I think this accounts for some of the greatest stories being so horrific in nature: because it's innately human. This also accounts for the genre having the most lame movies too, haha, because it prompts storytellers to try to push boundaries, and oftentimes there's no reason to push a boundary if there's nothing substantive behind it. I think with American Horror Story though, that's not the case. It's deep, it's intricate, and it's very culturally significant.

I had seen the first season on television, and I remember thinking beforehand, 'this is going to be lame, you can't go as deep with TV as you can with an R rated film...' man was I wrong. It pushed boundaries and asked dark, human questions, all while staying relevant and mysterious. I never once thought that they were holding back due to it being on television.

As for the beginnings of my involvement with the franchise, that actually starts with my parent's love of genre films. When I was a kid they would take me to conventions, like Comic-Con, to learn more about film making and meet the cast and crews of various films. That's where my love of design came from. When I was in college, my Dad met Heather Langenkamp at a horror convention, and told her about my pursuit of concept art when I was going to school in Los Angeles. Heather was really kind, and said that when I graduate, I should send her my portfolio; her and her husband, David Anderson, own the legendary special FX studio, AFX. When I graduated in 2014 I did exactly that, they loved my work, and they hired me to work on American Horror Story: Hotel which would come out later that year. Since then, they've hired me to work on the next 3 seasons, I've also been hired by 20th Century Fox on 2 seasons, and by legendary Costume Designer Lou Eyrich for 2 seasons. I'm very fortunate and always have a blast working with the diverse teams that bring AHS to life.

Starting with American Horror Story: Hotel, you were part of the design process for the Addiction Demon [see above]. Can you talk about that? It was such an obscene being, but at the same time so true to form for the show.

Ah yes, the lovely Addiction Demon. That's one hell of a design to have worked on, ha.

I read that part of the script with David Anderson at AFX Studio, as they would be building the prosthetics, and the infamous 'drilldo'. He looked at me and just, 'alright, do your thing, make it horrific.' And that's what I did. I've seen people in the throes of addiction, and actually lost a good friend in my teen years to drug addiction, so when designing the Demon, I wanted it to be really visceral, painful to even look at. In the script, the Demon rapes a character, and as horrific of a concept as that is, I knew that it's one of those concepts that fits with AHS; pushing the limits, but for a good reason. That's exactly what addiction is: you think it's going to be like great consensual sex when it starts, but quickly the Addiction Demon materializes and it has its way with you whether you like it or not. Truly disgusting, but that's what I thought the design should encompass. So I sketched about 20 different versions, and 1 of those versions stuck, and we decided to take that one further. I sculpted the final design in Zbrush, and that's the concept that Ryan Murphy picked. The brilliant team at AFX brought it to life, and that's the demon you see in the show.

You also produced fantastic concept artwork for Lady Gaga’s character’s chain mail glove [see above], alongside costume designer Lou Eyrich and designer Michael Schmidt. How did that design develop? Was it fun designing for Gaga?

Thanks! Yes that might actually be my favorite piece I worked on. Lou Eyrich and Michael Schmidt were awesome, I think we came up with an iconic piece that's uniquely elegant and fit for a horror queen. It was very motivating knowing that it would be worn by Gaga, so as I was translating Michael's sketch, I wanted to maintain a balance of stylishness and darkness, something that both Lady Gaga and American Horror Story is known for. It was incredible to see it in the posters. Definitely a highlight for me.

Moving on to American Horror Story: Roanoke, you produced terrifyingly good concept art for another one of the show’s iconic villains, the Piggyman entity [see above]. Since that same figure was also featured in the first season, did you look back for inspiration?

Great question, because for Piggyman I was back at AFX Studio, working on the design with David Anderson, and we certainly had a lot of the same inspiration and ideas on how to do the design justice for such a horrific piece. There was a lot of shocking content surrounding him, like pig fetuses and butchery, and we just went all out on letting the character bathe in so much debauchery. It was also really fascinating to be designing while their FX team was sculpting the prosthetics (the production schedule was very intense), and I got to see sculptor Glen Eisner working on the pig head and stomach pieces in clay, only a few days after I had worked on the concept art. Incredible process.

On the same season you collaborated quite closely with the makeup department to design concept art for some of the season’s makeup looks, including illustrations for Kathy Bates’ and Finn Wittrock’s characters [see above]. Wittrock played incestuous hillbilly Jether Polk and the final product was quite frightening. How did that process go?

Also a really fun process, I got to meet some of the actors as they came in for face castings, while I was deforming their faces in the concept art- I almost felt guilty! We pulled a lot of inspiration from medical journals relating to birth defects, and we stayed pretty close to reality, as we saw fit for the Roanoke season. I was also busy terrorizing Kathy Bates image while designing what the character's demise would look like. Since there are a lot of complicated practical effects involved in the gory scenes, we spent time illustrating what the wounds would look like ahead of time. By the end of it, I had like 2 full pages of various gory ways Kathy Bates could meet her end that we presented to production, and they chose one of the most horrific ways that fit with the script (of course). Hopefully Kathy is used to it after so many years as a horror icon!

Arguably your most prolific designs for the show were for season seven, Cult. You produced some stunning concept art for the clown masks and general appearance [see above], some of which weren’t seen in the show but absolutely should’ve been. They look slightly ‘mechanical’. What was Ryan Murphy’s pitch there?

Completely agree, I really love the final designs. Unfortunately, for as much art as I did for this season, none of my designs fit the script well enough, I just couldn't hit the mark, and so my work did not make it to production. It happens, and that's why there are many artists on a project! I appreciate you saying they should have been in the show though! I think I focussed too much on the clown/mask angle, and less on the political/cultish angle, which is where the magic of that script was. In true American Horror Story form, it is a cultural commentary on the times, and I feel I was not paying as much attention as I could have. That being said though, I had a blast working with the crew at AFX Studio again, and we worked on a lot of pieces that at least helped move production forward. Sometimes it's useful to see a design that's not quite right, just to move the production in the right direction.

The last season you worked on was of course the crossover season, Apocalypse, for which you designed the Outpost Three hazmat suits [see above]. The plague doctor influences in those designs was a stroke of genius. How was it blending dystopia with 17th century Europe? Also, were you aware that Apocalypse was the crossover season when you started work on it?

I think I got my mojo back on this season, since not only were my illustrations on those hazmat suits finalized for the script, but I was also able to do some of the 3D modeling for the Plague Doctor masks that were 3D printed and worn by the cast as props in the show. That was a really rewarding experience, and I was working under Lou Eyrich again who is the genius behind the blend of dystopia and 17th Century Europe that characterizes Apocalypse. We did probably about 50 different sketches of those suits, and explored such a wide variety of directions and blends of dated technologies, medieval influences, hazmat suits, and gas masks. When we had a solid direction, I did a tighter illustration of a generic suit that could be worn by any one of those characters (one of the keys to the design was that they could be worn by several different body types, as per the script), and then did a final piece that showed Kathy Bates wearing the mask. I'm really pleased to have come up with the idea of the 'plastic plague doctor' design, and thrilled to see it on screen.

I wasn't aware that it was the crossover season either, I wasn't given that part of the script, but that let me watch the revelation in real time with the rest of the world!

Lastly, would you like to design for American Horror Story again in the future? What is your “dream theme” that you’d like the show to explore?

Absolutely I would love to return some day and help flesh out some new designs. Some of the later seasons have been less concept-heavy, but I've also had to pass on the work as I've been involved in other projects, and of course have been busy helping found my current company, Aliza Technologies.

But you never know what the future holds!

As for a 'dream theme', that's such a good question because I feel there are so many interesting directions the show could take. They've built such a rich world where stories can take place across a range of time periods and genres, and that's a real gift to horror fans. One of the elements I really love about AHS is that when it delves into the supernatural, it does it in a really measured way. I've always found ghost stories to be a little bland and heavy-handed, but since AHS is so nuanced in its supernatural material, especially in season 1, I think it would be really interesting to see them go the heavy handed way, lead the audience down a super super-natural route for half a season, and then absolutely pull the rig from underneath them halfway through, and have a natural explanation for all the 'supernatural' elements. It would be a complete mind-f**k, like 'wait, there were no ghosts at all??' and have that realization be even more horrifying. I'm no writer, but I think a concept like that could be really interesting... Also set the mystery across several different generations so that the supernatural explanation is more appropriate for an older generation, and is busted open by the modern take. Image what the flashback reveals could look like, and imagine the types of 'ghosts' I could illustrate...

Thanks for the questions, now I'm off to do some script-writing myself...

(Also, special mention to Eryn Krueger Mekash and Mike Mekash who designed the makeup looks!)

Xander’s links:

Official Website: https://www.xandersmithdesign.com/

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/xandersmith

Behance: https://www.behance.net/XanderSmithDesign

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xandersmith_design/

[princessmo]

i was tagged by @baycitystygian to do this cool thing! thank you Heather! here goes...

name: mo, but you can call me whatever you want

gender: girl

sign: virgo

height: 5′7″?

birthday: august 31st

favorite bands: styx, rush, tpath, indigo girls, great big sea, the carpenters, old crow medicine show, the mountain goats

favorite solo artist: billy joel, bruce springsteen, gowan

song stuck in my head: town called malice by the jam

last movie: misery w queen kathy bates

when did I create this blog: march 2014. i was 12...yuck

what do I post?: a combination of funny shit and whatever i’m interested in at the current moment

last thing I googled: brett somers imdb :/

other blogs: i have an archer sideblog, an f is for family sideblog, and i run incorrect-styx and styxyoutubecomments but i haven’t used them in a long time

following: 278

followers: 1,077

average hours of sleep: 10. i promise i need that much to have a chance at properly functioning during the day

lucky number: 23 and any number that’s all 5s bc i was born at 5:55pm and i think that’s neat

instruments: i played the flute in 6th grade and i’ve spent the past 8 years thinking about picking it up again

dream job: i think deep down i want to act but they don’t put people who look like me in movies or plays or on tv so a tv writer or comedian maybe or whatever the fuck brett somers was doing in the 70s where you could make 100K a year as a game show panelist. idk? i have lots of issues with myself but i don’t want to air them all out here

dream trip: i’d mostly like to meet my internet friends but i’ve always wanted to go to vermont and maine

favorite food: ice cream and hamburger helper are classics

nationality: american of white trash/irish descent

favorite song: castles in the air by don mclean but really who has a favorite song. most music is fantastic i can’t just pick one

last book I read: fuck i think it was the sun also rises even though i finished that forever ago. i need to pick up something new but i can’t motivate myself to read

fictional universe I want to live in: one where i can be truly happy

idk who to tag for this so if you wanna do it, by all means go ahead and say i tagged you

[tabloidtoc]

Globe, November 30

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: The palace lured Princess Diana into death trap 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Sienna Miller shooting Anatomy of a Scandal, former soap star Wanda De Jesus and longtime partner Jimmy Smits take a walk in Brentwood, Mama June Shannon gambles on plastic surgery 

Page 3: Billy Dee Williams may walk with a cane but he doesn’t let that stop him from taking the wheel in West Hollywood, Joey Fatone at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Ariel Winter lugs around a massive roll of bubble wrap in L.A. 

Page 4: Courageous Al Roker has battled health problems for years and now his new devastating prostate cancer diagnosis seals his rep as the unluckiest man on TV

* Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl are proof that love can be just as wonderful in your golden years and now pals predict their whirlwind romance will lead them to an elopement -- the former Dallas star was heartbroken after his wife of 43 years died of cancer in 2017 but Happy Days alum Linda brought joy back into his life -- the greying sweethearts plan to spend the holidays with both their families and then go house hunting for their own place

Page 5: Kanye West thinks he’s so smart and wonderful and creative he’s showering bucks on a project to make a posse of his own personal mini-mes and he sees his clones as his gift to the world claiming it’s his duty to keep himself on the planet at all costs long after he’s gone so death doesn’t have to be the end of Kanye -- Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian has given Kanye permission to double down on himself -- he’s also fascinated by cryogenics and no one would be surprised if he arranges to have himself stored in a chamber when he dies so he can be revived years later 

Page 6: Britney Spears is having another family feud because she wants her dad Jamie Spears suspended immediately from his role as co-conservator of her estate claiming he installed a new business manager to run her $60 million fortune without consulting his daughter in what she brands a blatant attempt to get full functional control of her assets and books and records in the face of Britney’s objections

* Ryan Seacrest is turning into a bloated recluse as career and personal problems have worried pals thinking about an intervention -- he’s so devastated by his breakup with Shayna Taylor and the end of cash cow Keeping Up with the Kardashians that he’s shutting himself away for days on end and ignoring calls from friends and co-workers and only responding to texts and he’s stuffing his face with junk food and sloppy takeout and pizzas and he’s come close to belching on camera a few times 

Page 7: Devastated widow Paulina Porizkova who her bitter husband Ric Ocasek cut out of his will even though she took care of him in his final days suffered a shocking collapse -- she had gone to Costa Rica with her sons for a change of scenery following the death of Ric who was divorcing her -- she says she had a total nervous breakdown in the airport and they had to put her in a wheelchair to take her back to the plane

* Abby Lee Miller is learning to walking again -- the former Dance Moms star had been using a wheelchair after undergoing chemo for Burkitt lymphoma and having life-saving spinal surgery but she’s now cancer-free and recently underwent an elective operation to help regain mobility -- even though Lifetime canned her plan spinoff Abby’s Virtual Dance Off over charges she’s racist she claims to have a scripted show and two reality series in the works 

Page 8: Mike Tyson says he once used a prosthetic penis loaded with his infant son’s pee to pass a drug test during his hard-hitting heyday in the ring and although he swears he never took performance-enhancing drugs he has been blunt about his history of toking weed and snorting cocaine 

* Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond reveals she has a foster son named Jamar -- Ree who has four children explains she couldn’t talk about Jamar until he turned 18 and state agency restrictions no longer applied 

Page 9: Beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek went to his grave harboring a bitter grudge against talk star and game show rival Regis Philbin -- Alex and Regis began their feud in 2000 when Alex slammed Regis’ Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as a game show for dummies and Regis was deeply hurt by the dig and shot back that face to face if Alex says anything about Millionaire he’d just look him in the eye and say is that your final answer, Alex? 

Page 10: Inside the modern Mafia -- blogs and blunders and killer cops

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Adam Brody shows off his bod in Malibu (picture), Lamar Odom was seemingly back on a marriage track to wed fitness instructor Sabrina Parr next year but Lamar’s engagement was abruptly called off amid ominous sparks of ongoing trouble for the athlete and Sabrina sad she’s no longer able to be by Lamar’s side while he seeks the help he so desperately needs, Mina Starsiak of Good Bones wants a postpartum tummy tuck pronto, things got bristlier than an old broom for Anne Hathaway groveling her way out of massive fan backlash for her appearance on The Witches remake for the insensitive way she portrayed a three-fingered witch with split hands, behind the scenes at The Tonight Show where Jimmy Fallon recently extended his lucrative contract to host the struggling late-night talk show past 2021 but his head writer Rebecca Drysdale lasted six months of butting heads with Jimmy and his cronies before getting dumped 

Page 13: Katie Holmes and boyfriend Emilio Vitolo Jr. (picture), Sean Stewart in a leg cast in Beverly Hills (picture), Busy Philipps puts on lip gloss on the NYC set of Girls5Eva (picture)

Page 14: Dave Grohl got scared stiff recording an upcoming album in an eerie L.A. home reportedly rocking with paranormal activity and when he got nosy about the place’s past he apparently got answers from the landlord along with an NDA form meant to keep him from spilling secrets, RHOBH star Kyle Richards’ half-sister Kathy Hilton is joining the show; socialite Kathy cold-shouldered Kyle and her husband Mauricio Umansky when he left her husband Rick Hilton’s real estate company to launch a rival biz 

* Fashion Verdict -- Jana Kramer 7/10, Michelle Dockery 4/10, Gretta Monahan 3/10, Charlize Theron 2/10

Page 16: Ailing pop star Phil Collins is being so publicly humiliated by his two-timing ex-wife Orianne Cevey who dashed his dreams of a permanent reunion by secretly marrying another guy pals now fear for his life -- Phil is currently battling Orianne in court over his $38.6 million waterside Miami mansion which she and new husband Thomas Bates have now agreed to vacate but Orianne is demanding half of the home insisting Phil promised her a 50 percent share when they moved into it in 2016 -- Orianne also claims that Phil became a hopeless addict in 2017 hooked on booze and pain pills and after two years of drug hell he was incapable of having sex and he stopped showering and brushing his teeth and had become a hermit 

Page 17: Troubled Jonathan Rhys Meyers crashed his car in Malibu and failed a field sobriety test and was slapped with a misdemeanor DUI 

* Teresa Giudice has found new love with business man Louie Ruelas just two months after divorcing deported jailbird Joe Giudice -- the Real Housewives of New Jersey star who has four girls with Joe hooked up with the dad of two and digital marketing whiz and both are very happy 

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About David Giuntoli 

* Sophia Loren says early in her career she told a director to buzz off when he suggested she surgically alter her nose -- she recalls telling the meddling moviemakers her nose is going to stay there forever and it has a lot of personality 

* Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox admits he may be forced to say goodbye to Hollywood because his short-term memory is shot and acting is getting tougher to do 

Page 20: True Crime 

Page 21: Desperate to salvage his tarnished reputation and career Johnny Depp is hoping to hook up with another Hollywood outcast in former co-star Angelina Jolie -- Johnny and Angie first flirted while filming The Tourist in 2010 but at the time Johnny was with Vanessa Paradis and Angie was with Brad Pitt -- Johnny recently reached out to Angie to jumpstart their friendship and he’s been sending her poems written with her in mind and suggestions for book to read and music to listen to and they’ve exchanged a series of emails and texts and talk on the phone quite a bit so Johnny has hope to win her heart and they’re making plans to meet in L.A. very soon but the ball is in Angie’s court and she’s open to having a little fun but don’t count on anything getting too serious 

* Johnny Depp’s career has taken another hit as he’s been axed from the Fantastic Beasts film franchise after a British court determined he beat ex-wife Amber Heard at least a dozen times

Page 24: Cover Story -- Princess Diana was lured to her death by a twisted dirty tricks campaign orchestrated by the palace -- acting at the direction of Queen Elizabeth’s hard-case husband Prince Philip British intelligence officers mounted a clever operation to drive Prince Charles’ emotionally fragile wife to the breaking point and they knew she was frantic and suicidal and vulnerable and played on her worst fears -- Diana’s own brother Charles Spencer has also broken a 25-year silence to expose a plot against the People’s Princess and he reveals forged documents and a whisper campaign hinting at treacherous betrayals fueled her paranoia and desperation and despair and pushed her into a decision that ultimately cost her life 

Page 26: Health Report

Page 30: Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis vowed to keep wailing ‘til the end but the 85-year-old stroke victim now spends his days listening to his old hits and staring out the window and his health has taken a tragic turn for the worse since he was clobbered by the stroke last year -- he’s hunched over and seems confused and he’s forgetful and can’t remember some of the lyrics to his oldest hits; he tries to play the piano and just can’t because his hands are so stiff and don’t move the way he wants them to 

* Mel B claims she’ll go bankrupt if a judge doesn’t lower the $500,000 she’s been ordered to pay her ex-husband and if the sum isn’t modified she will in all likelihood have to file for bankruptcy -- Mel and ex Stephen Belafonte divorced three years ago and have been slugging it out in court ever since

Page 44: Straight Talk -- lifestyle queen bees Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow are at each other’s throats but their furious feud is hard to understand because they’re not really in the same business -- Martha is the ultimate homemaker peddling recipes and furnishings and decorating tips while Gwyneth’s New Age-style Goop website is a sleazy sex shop with items normally found in tacky joints along West Hollywood’s sleazy Santa Monica Boulevard 

Page 45: Sinead O’Connor is taking a break to enter a one-year trauma and addiction treatment program after losing a loved one and she admits she’s been addicted to weed for 34 years but became briefly addicted to another drug following her loss

* Sean Connery’s wealthy widow Micheline Roquebrune could end up behind bars and fined a whopping $28 million if convicted of stiffing the Spanish taxman -- the tax-cheat case spans back to 1999 when Sean sold their Marbella mansion on the glitzy Costa del Sol; Connery’s lawyer and the mayor of Marbella and six other elected officials were jailed over a tax-cheat scam involving the property but in 2014 Sean was told he wouldn’t be prosecuted but now Spanish bigwigs say the case has not gone away and want to indict his widow for tax fraud

[haileymorelikestupid]

17 questions, 17 people - tagged by @schofielded

Nickname: i don’t have one but if someone gave me one i’d cry tears of joy (if you’re wondering if this is an invitation to do so, it is)

Zodiac: Leo

Height: 5’0”

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Last thing I googled: top end wedding

Song stuck in my head: at this exact moment it’s the icarly theme song

Number of followers: 179

Amount of sleep: 8 hours for the most part

Lucky number: i don’t have one but i vibe with 24 and 37 for unknown reasons

Dream job: girl hell if i know i’m too indecisive but recently i’ve been thinking about being a lawyer? i think i could do it and be good at it but i’m not sure if i really want that

Wearing: athletic shorts and a t-shirt

Favorite song: impossible to choose but i’ve been listening to “Spread Your Wings” by Queen a lot recently

Favorite instrument: i don’t play anything but i wish i could play piano

Aesthetic: sunny days at the beach, music in the car with the windows down, photos in a huge collage on the wall, laughing so hard you tear up, the warmth in your chest when loved ones call you by terms of endearment, long hugs (literally all that is soft and happy and loving)

Favorite author: maybe khaled hosseini ?

Favorite animal noise: lil puppy yawns

Random: i have an aunt who looks like kathy bates

alrighttt i’m tagging @etherealallure @jenna-louise-jamie and @yonderlight and anyone else who wants to do this can consider this me tagging them :)

[howardshum]

2019 Howard M. Shum Awards

As we usher the new year, let’s take one final and definitive look at the best of 2019.

Film - “Parasite”  Directed by Bong Joon Ho. With all the twists and surprises in this great film, the less you know going in, the better it’ll be. Just know it’s about a family of con artists in South Korea.

Foreign Language Film - “Birds of Passage” Directed by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego. Written by Jacques Toulemonde Vidal, Maria Camila Arias. Instead of choosing Parasite again, I’m picking another good film. This is set in Columbia in the late ’60s - early ’70s and about the start of the drug trade there. It is Godfather-esque.

Director - Bong Joon Ho. “Parasite” South Korea has been making some of the best cinema in the past decade not just of Asia, but of the world.

Actor - Eddie Murphy “Dolemite Is My Name” Murphy plays Rudy Ray Moore who wants to make a movie and nothing will stop him, be it lack of funds or acting skills.

Actress - Jessie Buckley, “Wild Rose“ Just out of prison with kids she doesn’t know how to raise, this aspiring country singer living in Scotland longs to sing in Nashville. Things happen, not in a Hollywood way and that’s a good thing.

Supporting Actress - Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell” Sam Rockwell was also excellent in this true story by Clint Eastwood.  

Supporting Actor - Shia LeBeouf “Honey Boy“ It’s interesting to see LeBeouf play a character based on his father who shouldn’t be looking over a kid.

Screenplay - “Parasite”  Written by Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won. Too many TV shows and movies are predictable. I like watching things that I can’t guess will happen such as Parasite.  

Cinematographer - Roger Deakins “1917” Set in World War I, Deakins made it seem as if the entire film was made with one continuous shot. It’s an incredible feat!

Television Show Drama - “Mr Inbetween” The life of a hitman in Australia when he’s not killing people.  

Television Show Comedy - “PEN15”  Two adult women playing 13-year-olds is good comedy.

Television Actor - Mahershala Ali “True Detective” I liked all the True Detective seasons, yes including season 2.

Television Actress - Emilia Clarke “Game of Thrones” Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Queen of Meereen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Protector of the Realm, Lady Regent of the Seven Kingdoms, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons.

Cartoon - South Park. Matt Stone and Trey Parker continue to be the at the top in satire in our generation. The good thing is they have no fear to go to where other fear to tread. Mega corporations and dictatorial governments beware.

[sunshinemossboy]

which is your fav ahs season

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME I CAN'T DECIDE????!!

I'm just gonna be extra as hell and list my pros and cons... get ready for a long ass answer sorrynotsorry you're dealing with a writer here:

Murder House

just gonna say it - overrated

I do appreciate it because it sparked the rest of AHS

created some iconic characters

in hindsight, at least Tate is better than Kai

still a really good concept

a bit boring at times though

Jessica Lange is fucking superb

lowkey started trend of Lily Rabe's characters either dying or already being dead and me no likey that so much

Francis Conroy talking about men is always great but I liked the more subtle hints to her speeches this time

Asylum

LANA BANA BO BANA BANANA FANA FO FANA FE FI MO MANA, LANA

Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe were ICONIC in this season holy fckin christ

so was Jessica Lange

and Zachary Quinto

basically the characters had really good like writing and rounding out and such

but wtf was with the alien subplot??

some damn good writing

while I do not approve of Sister Mary Satan raping the monsignor I can never get "There was a priest, the dirty beast, his name was Alexander. His mighty dick was inches thick, he called it Salamander" out of my head

Jude and Kit at the end was so sweet

Coven

honestly at times bit off more than they could chew with the subplots, not all of those were really resolved

Jessica Lange somehow even more iconic

same with Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett, what QUEENS

Foxxay

seriously both Misty and Cordelia are adorable on their own, and together I just can't handle it

STEVIE NICKS

the music in this season provokes an emotional response from me

"Can we please not move things? Some of us are blind!"

*stuffs bagels into bag* "Who's takin me home?"

Myrtle Snow calmly playing that instrument while Cordelia had a breakdown

those all black looks were good shit

Freak Show

this shit was SAD AS HELL

like literally how they killed all the characters was fucking gut wrenching

also Pepper? at Briarcliff?? seeing that magazine with Elsa on it??? I cry every time

once again proved the crazy talent of Sarah Paulson

at least Lily Rabe was kinda there

despite being a little shit Dandy was a great character

last time they had some really long episodes, or at least varied between 45 min and longer, which I liked bc I think it let them do quite a bit

I want Sarah Paulson's cover of Criminal to play at my funeral or my wedding or goddamn something ugh

"We might not be on a farm but something sure smells like bullshit to me" (paraphrased)

I can't believe they made me feel so damn bad for a scary clown dude, he didn't deserve that

Hotel

the fucking style? and music? SUPERB

"I FUCKING LIVE HERE"

when Iris was gonna off herself and made that video

I have a love/hate relationship with John Lowe 'cause he kinda stupid

Evan Peters looking like Spongebob as a fancy waiter

Lady Gaga and Matt Bomer drenched in blood

everything about Liz Taylor was like beautiful

somehow the vampire thing worked

could (should) have used literally any song other than hotline bling

Devil's Night was great but then they made an inconsistency with the zodiac killer in Cult

aT lEaSt LiLy RaBe WaS kInDa ThErE

loved it when Billie came back

Roanoke

enjoyed the documentary style and kudos to Ryan for doing something different

with that being said it was pretty predictable and cliche

so damn happy to see Lily Rabe back

favorite fan promo thing I saw: "Lily Rabe is back and she has a gluten allergy and questionable judgement" (paraphrased but hilarious and accurate)

wish they had time to round out the actor characters (Audrey, Monet, etc)

RIP an accent 2016-2016

still though, it brought some good people back into the cast

good call with Adina Porter, she's amazing

"I'm not American, I'm not used to all this carnage!"

honestly a lot of Audrey's lines were great

and her reaction to Shelby's death holy fuck that honestly startled me

Cricket Marlowe looking like Danny Devito in that one episode of Always Sunny

Cult

I liked how they worked phobias into it

a good deal of the sexual stuff just made me really uncomfortable, like especially when it was directed at Ally (or Ivy I guess), idk I think as a lesbian myself it felt like they were pushing all this phallic shit on her and challenging her sexuality which just really rubbed me the wrong way (my take on it, anyway)

Ally's character development though goddamn

Ally in general, she was so fckin cute ugh

I feel like they made Ivy too dislikable? like she could've had SOME redeeming qualities but nah

Kai was fucking awful

people shit on Winter as a character but I still think Billie Lourd acted wonderfully

why do all of Emma Roberts' characters have to be such bitches? lol

still don't know how I feel about it ending with Ally supposedly like becoming leader of the SCUM group or whatever

loved that they used extreme stereotypes of both conservatives and liberals

Apocalypse

they killed Venable too soon

she and Mead were so extra together I loved it

MISTY IS BAAAAACK

again, Foxxay (they better kiss and be happy by the end of this season I stg)

Cordelia's vision was terrifying, like she got her throat torn out jfc

if Cordelia (or, hell, even Billie) die too I'm going to be 2-3 times more heartbroken than I already am about Venable

especially excited to see Mallory's character develop

I both love and hate Michael Langdon

Leslie Grossman still getting all the wack, iconic one-liners

BD Wong being in it was lowkey hilarious to me bc I've only ever seen him in SVU before

"Because I'm the FUCKING Supreme"

can't wait to get more Billie Dean Howard

Jessica Lange! it's been so long, how ya been?

where the hell did Brock go after he broke in to kill Coco? did he just fuck off back into the wastelands?

Ryan, USE LILY RABE'S TALENT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD even if she doesn't stay for long this season (plz let Misty be okay and while I don't quite think it'll happen I'm still hoping to see Nora) bring her back sometime with another major character I miss her so much

I'm excited to see more!

[hyenahunny]

AHS 8x07 Promo Breakdown

Heads up - possible/definite spoilers for the next episode

Welp I’m back on my bullshit, here we go - a fucking long shot-for-shot breakdown of the promo for American Horror Story Apocalypse’s 7th episode. This is hella long so I’m gonna put it under the cut but give it a look and tell me your thoughts.

1. It’s Mead! And she’s in the same store she was in when Michael knifed that butcher! It’s not that same day tho - her outfit is different.

2. Butcher guy behind his counter looking confused/shook, looking at something behind him and then turning back to face the camera

- pretty sure it’s not the same butcher Michael killed

3. Butcher guy wrappin’ up a hoof (what type idk i’m not a vet nor a farmer)

4. Mead lookin’ excited, and she’s finishing saying: “Just give me a pound and a half of goat’s hooves for Satanic zing.”

5. NEXT WEDNESDAY

6. Obviously in Robichaux’s. Ariel DrAmaTIcALLy walking through, holding a silver canister. A bunch of students droppin’ all around him, but he pays em no mind

7. Shot of his hand holding that same canister during that walk

8. Myrtle and Joan Collins (who is she playing for real is she still evie or??) sitting side by side at a table with hella food.

- it’s def in warlock high based on the background and lighting

- Joan says “Now they need to kill one of ours.” Which um makes it sound like they’ve killed a warlock? holy shit do they blame john henry moore’s death on the witches?? shit???

9. Baldwin Pennypacker (that’s literally on BD Wong’s imdb i can’t that’s the character’s actual name) in the dining room of Robichaux’s dining room blowing white dust off the top of the same canister we saw in shot 6 and 7 

- the plates are empty so dang they didn’t even get to eat

- Cordelia is standing at the head of the table with Joan Collins, who is still sitting while all the students behind them seem like they’re SCRAMBLIN’

10. oh SHEEEET it’s Cordy, Myrtle, Zoe, and one of their fuckin cool as hell henchmen are walking with their black parasols in an empty open area - and the henchman is carrying rope and a gasoline can. IT’S WITCH BURNIN TIME

- we know some of the people in attendance based on THIS pic from RM’s insta.

Cordelia, Myrtle, Zoe, Queenie, Coco, 3 henchmen, Michael (based on all of those photos of Cody with Sarah Paulson and that one pic of him bein a cutie on that same set) and also... JOHN HENRY MOORE? a bitch won’t stay bbq in this show this is gonna be w i l d 

11. Myrtle during the dinner scene in shot 8 saying “It’s kill or be killed” dramatic but v accurate which is very on brand for Myrtle

12. Someone sticking the barrel of a gun out a car window and shooting someone wearing a hooded cloak or something similar.

- the person they shot has shorter blonde hair but I really, really don’t think it’s Cordelia - her hair is longer

13. Joan Collins screaming on the floor and boy oh boy is that tacky wallpaper

14. a shot of the silver canister with white powder

15. Ariel looking at... Balwin Pennypacker (I can’t I just can’t) really intensely

16. Baldw - fuck imma just say BD - talking to Ariel. He says “Careful, it’s the deadliest I’ve ever created.” Great so they’re definitely murder bois now

17, 18. two SpOoPy shots of Dinah decked out in African-inspired prints with her hand up on a black background

19. Cordelia talking to Dinah outside (with like FANCY landscaping behind her) - she says “I need your help Dinah”

20. Cordelia and Dinah in a room that I thinkkkk is in Robichaux’s? They’re in the same outfits as the last shot and they seem to be doing some magic shiz

21. Dinah with some dope earrings in the same scene as shot 19 in front of a nice house and she says “I don’t do favors.”

22. A black woman’s hand making a doll with a tiny like rodent? skull for a head with voodoo markings on it

- I’m guessing it’s Dinah and I’m guessing she’s tryna summon Legba

23. PAPA LEGBA SHIT’S GONNA POP OFF

- He says “The Witch Queen? HAHAHAHAHA (echoing lols)”

24. Zoom in on Cordy on the leather couch in the warlock hogwarts’ library looking v serious

25. AMERICAN HORROR STORY APOCALYPSE ALL NEW NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 10PM hunny we been knew

so...

MY PREDICTIONS (i’m such trash)

Things I think are gonna happen: the witches are gonna be blamed for John Henry Moore’s death. 

So in retaliation Ariel and Baldwin Pennybaker (ugh) try and straight up murder all the witches. Idk what happens, looks like they’re pretty successful. BUT WAIT what if Mallory survived or resurrected herself and she brings back Zoe, Queenie, Cordelia, Coco, and Myrtle (and maybe she resurrects everyone else too) or something like that. Commence Operation IMMEDIATE MALE REGRET.

The witches somehow bring back John Henry Moore. Because JHM might be barbeque, but I don’t see that as a problem for Mallory.  and he’s like nope I wasn’t killed by them, I was killed by Kathy Bates. And they burn ol’ Baldy and Ariel for what they did. And maybe this makes JHM the eponymous traitor of the episode for helping the witches. 

And maybe they find Mead and burn her too. Michael couldn’t reveal his connection to her without outing himself as connected to the crime of killing the one guy who wasn’t on Team Michael at the time. So he watches Mead burn and decides welp i better start really doubling down on this ending the world business. Let’s murder people and start a business venture that makes fallout shelters and robots.

ALTERNATIVELY the burning scene is at the beginning and they’re burning three (a number based on the instas taken on set) warlocks. For some reason. Idk. No matter what Cordelia wouldn’t allow the burning of any witches.

But this doesn’t really make sense because JHM is in the burning scene. So?

I’m not sure why or when Cordelia tries to contact Papa Legba.

Maybe Behold and Madison communicate somehow to Cordy what they found out and Cordy goes to the one person she knows who can contact (a) devil. IT’S DINAH Y’ALL. It seems like Dinah does help her but as she said - she doesn’t do favors. So who knows what Cordelia gives up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe instead of just asking Papa Legba about Michael she asks to be made temporarily un-killable - like Marie Laveau bc tbt when she was dismembered but still serving sass before she was BeTRaYeD (i’m bitter she could have just been reassembled like Kyle goddammit.) Because if she’s not dead, she’s still the FUCKING Supreme. 

It’s gonna be an intense episode.

[sexydeathparty]

RuPaul's Drag Race UK Vs The World Just Aired One Of The Most Shocking Eliminations Ever, And People Have Thoughts

Warning! This article contains major spoilers about the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World.

RuPaul’s Drag Race fans have been left reeling after one of the most shocking eliminations ever, as the UK vs The World spin-off continued on Tuesday. 

Fan favourite Pangina Heals had to sashay away despite being one of the strongest queens in the competition, after Blu Hydrangea made the jaw-dropping decision to send her home following her lip-sync win. 

The episode had seen the remaining queens take part in the Snatch Game, with Blu and Baga Chipz named the top two queens of the week for their impersonations of Mike Myers and Kathy Bates respectively. 

The other four queens then faced the chop, with Blu and Baga going head-to-head in the lip-sync to decide the winner of the challenge and who would ultimately be sent home. 

While Pangina – who had won two previous challenges – received mixed reviews from the judges for her turn as Mariah Carey in the Snatch Game, she stunned on the runway with her slot machine-themed look. 

However, seemingly choosing to eliminate a big threat from the competition, Blu opted to send Pangina home, who had a heartbreaking reaction to the news. 

their reactions to pangina's elimination.. #dragraceukpic.twitter.com/pgl9PsAkln

— drag (race) queens archive (@dragracearchive) February 23, 2022

The judges could also not hide their shock, with guest panellist Clara Amfo even appearing to be in tears at the result.

On social media, people had a lot of thoughts about how the events unfolded...

Watched #DragRaceUK this morning while I had the house to myself and two hours later I still cannot pick my jaw up off the floor.

— Caroline H (@CarolineJHogg) February 23, 2022

At this rate Ru himself won’t even make it to the final #DragRaceUK

— jack rem x (@jackremmington) February 22, 2022

Me waiting for Ru to stop Pangina from leaving and say she can continue in the competition #DragRaceUKpic.twitter.com/EPyMeQEiZW

— dain (@dainareIIano) February 22, 2022

Pangina was one of the most incredible, most well rounded Drag Queens to ever set foot on Drag Race. I'm gutted. #DragRaceUK

— Joe🥤 (@JoePassmore) February 22, 2022

Me trying to find a reason to keep watching #DragRaceUK now that both Jimbo and Pangina are gone pic.twitter.com/hyD8kkeaHc

— Meh (@Spilling_The_T) February 22, 2022

The wrong person went home, but guess what girlies! Pangina played the same game Blu just did with her lipstick last week, and that’s the way it goes. Don’t blame the queens for playing the game, blame RuPaul for letting them x #DragRaceUK

— Harrison Brocklehurst (@harrisonjbrock) February 22, 2022

#DragRaceUk Ru saying “if you don’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else” while Pangina is a having a full on mental breakdown backstage is SENDING ME. Oh my gods this hurts even more than last week’s elimination. My soul just left my body pic.twitter.com/2W1l19IXSK

— ant (@BluelNto) February 22, 2022

literally everyone after seeing Pangina's elimination #DragRaceUKpic.twitter.com/Sn5IgRXjga

— maybe: igig (@igiglim) February 22, 2022

hands down the saddest elimination in drag race herstory, we adore you pangina #DragRaceUkpic.twitter.com/lWjZoc9iwH

— fern (@_fernfernfern) February 22, 2022

She was the winner of the season regardless and we all know it. Pangina did us all proud and did not disappoint anyone. I’m very proud of her and can’t wait to see her continue to take on the world. #TEAMPANGINA forever! #DragRaceUkpic.twitter.com/VIIEPJ2D6p

— Alex💚 (@andwegonwin) February 23, 2022

Not @BluHydrangea_ pressing the violence button, this is actually good TV 😅❤️ even though deep down I'm hurting for @PanginaHeals still love you 😘 #DragRaceUK

— Lesedinone77 (@lesedinone77) February 22, 2022

This season really said chaos 😭😭 #DragRaceUK

— Laura (@_sadz95) February 23, 2022

Me not watching drag race uk next week after THAT ELIMINATION #DragRaceUKpic.twitter.com/uvDJ3SXX3w

— Michael (@michaelgermnota) February 22, 2022

After her elimination aired, Pangina asked Drag Race fans not to direct any hate towards Blu. 

“I was heart broken but never angry,” she said. “So be the best version of yourself and do not send hate to @BluHydrangea_. I won’t have ANY of it. Just because I did not get first place does not mean I do not feel like a winner. Because I do. No regrets.

“Also I am such an ugly crier,” she joked. 

I was heart broken but never angry. So be the best version of yourself and do not send hate to @BluHydrangea_ I won’t have ANY of it. Just because I did not get first place does not mean I do not feel like a winner. Because I do. No regrets. Also I am such an ugly crier

— Pangina Heals (@PanginaHeals) February 22, 2022

Blu also hailed Pangina – who is a judge on the Thai version of Drag Race, rather than a previous competitor like the other queens on UK vs The World – as “one of the best queens I’ve ever met in my life”.

One of the best queens I’ve ever met in my life 💙 https://t.co/5Dfl5C702h

— Blu Hydrangea (@BluHydrangea_) February 22, 2022

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World continues on Tuesday at 9pm on BBC Three. 

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