#mary sommers

[sillygirlfun]

various doodles of apex girlies

bonus:

[diioonysus]

flower crowns + art

[sharonate]

SHARON TATE as Freya Carlson in ‘The Wrecking Crew’ (1968), directed by PHIL KARLSON ☁️

[alotofpockets]

France Appreciation

Request a player | with @totaly-obsessed

[themuselesswriter]

American Horror Story Thoughts

I did a whole thing about it, so enjoy suffering through my ranking and favorites.

[suricidal]

france vs ireland

05/04/24 w euro qualifiers

[bluntshavingrazor]

All the games I have on Steam that involve live-action FMV sections, ranked entirely in order of how good the acting is.

This is in ascending order, so while I might say something has a 'low' ranking, I actually mean it's near the top. Just to keep you on your toes. Also, please be aware that a low ranking on this list is not intended as comment on the gameplay itself, or meant as an insult towards the actors involved. Many of these games were recorded in front of blue-screens with minimal interaction with characters, props, or context. Anything that is intended as an insult towards the actors will be openly addressed as such.

BAD MOJO (REDUX) - 1996

Vaguely inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Bad Mojo sees the protagonist Roger Samms transformed into a cockroach moments before he attempts to run away to Mexico with a suitcase of stolen money. With how much he eats the scenery, he might have been better off getting transformed into a termite instead (affectionate insult). OK, they were clearly going for a surrealist vibe here so the acting choices are fitting, but I still ranked it lowest because most of the other speaking characters are insects who speak to you in rhyming couplets for some reason and that got real irritating after a while.

Roger Samms was played by Michael X. Sommers, who later went on to have a recurring role in the show Sense8 as 'Bug'.

HARVESTER - 1996

An young man named Steve wakes up to find himself in a small US town with no memory of who he is, how he got there, or who any of the people claiming to be his friends and family are. This is a really hard one to grade, because despite being an English-language game developed in the USA, the characters are dubbed over by different actors to the ones who play them physically. As far as I know it's the only game on this list that does that. Like Bad Mojo, it does help to increase the disturbing, surreal tone of the game. Unfortunately, that doesn't raise it higher on the list.

Steve Mason was voiced by Ryan Wickerham, who went on to voice act in many other video games including Turok 2, Deus Ex: Invisible War, and DC Universe Online. He was portrayed physically by Kurt Kistler, who went on to be arrested in 2010.

PHANTASMAGORIA - 1995

Remember when I said that the ranking on this list was not intended as an insult to the actors? This is why; Victoria Morsell does her best as Adrienne Delaney, a mystery writer who recently moved into a needlessly big and inevitably haunted house with her husband Don. But you can find the BTS footage of them doing the scenes, where she is acting in a set that is completely blue. You can't be expected to perform well under those conditions.

Then there's the housekeeper and her son, who are played by a comedy gnome and Lennie from Of Mice and Men, respectively. (Insult? I dunno.)

As far as I can tell, Victoria Morsell quit acting a few years after the game when she married David Hemingson, writer of 2023's festive comedy drama The Holdovers.

TOONSTRUCK - 1996

This is the part where we get into cast members that have actual IMDB credits to their name. The story of a cartoon animator who is pulled into a cartoon world to help save it from corruption, Toonstruck features Christopher Lloyd and Ben Stein, as well as some other people who don't count because they are voicing animated characters. Yeah, Lloyd and Stein (Protagonist Drew Blanc and his boss, Sam Schmaltz) are the only live-action actors in the game and Stein only appears briefly during the start and ending cutscenes. Honestly I debated even putting it on the list. I compromised by only rating it by the live-action parts; Lloyd is good throughout but Ben Stein sucks. Both as an actor and just in general.

Christopher Lloyd later went on to appear as Granddad in King of Van Nuys, the poorly conceived US remake of beloved British sitcom Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was never picked up. He also did some movies about time travel back in the 80s or something.

NOCTROPOLIS - 1994

Peter Grey, recently divorced and living in the back room of his failing bookshop, gets transported into the world of his favourite comic book superhero Darksheer and has to take the hero's place to fight five of his greatest enemies.

OK, I'm gonna be honest here, the acting in Noctropolis is also not that great. It's almost all character portrait things where the actors speak directly into the camera in response to the dialogue option chosen; there isn't much in the way of acted cutscenes I could make a proper opinion over. I would have put it before Toonstruck if not for one reason, and that is because during the ending credits they do a blooper reel from the recording sessions and the actress playing Stiletto (another superhero) has a really adorable laugh.

Peter Grey was played by Michael Berger, who was apparently in one episode of Malcolm in the Middle.

Stiletto was played by Hope Marie Carlton, who snorts when she laughs.

DOCTOR WHO - THE LONELY ASSASSINS - 2021

Yes, you read that right. This one is actually from the 2000s. Amazing. This is a tie-in game for Doctor Who and actually involves Ingrid Oliver and Finlay Robertson, who play Petronella Osgood and Larry Nightingale, respectively. The acting is fine, I guess, but the dialogue itself often comes across as very This Is Exposition-y, and that's hard to sell.

Sally Sparrow was played by Carey Mulligan, who does not appear in this game despite being the central character of Blink, which this game is a sequel to. Probably couldn't afford her these days.

PHANTASMAGORIA: A PUZZLE OF FLESH - 1996

The first Phantasmagoria was done entirely on a blue-screen set, and it shows. Phantasmagoria 2 was done almost entirely on an actual, physical set and holy shit it shows. Characters actually interact with their environment in a convincing, realistic way. Dialogue between them feels natural, like they're not simply reading their lines from a script. The game feels like you're watching a low budget, made-for-TV horror movie which, while that would be a terrible review for an actual movie, is a win for this list.

It also plays like you're watching a low budget, made-for-TV horror movie but gameplay is not a factor in this list.

Curtis Craig is played by Paul Morgan Stetler, who now has a YouTube channel where he talks about old adventure games and interviews people involved in the industry. He did a playthrough of the game there as well.

[reborn-from-your-ashes]

first training and all smiles

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The Autumn Kingdom #4 by Cullen Bunn and Christopher Mitten. Variant covers by (1) Chris Shehan and (2) Marie Enger. Main cover (3) by Mitten. Out in December.

"Behold! The last stand of the fall's phantasmagoric folk-horror odyssey is here — from master storytellers Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun) and Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & the BPRD)! Sommer and Winter descend into the Autumn Kingdom, so close to rescuing their parents, but shaken and more aware than ever with what they stand to lose in this fight. The sisters encounter the dreadful king of the dying fae realm and learn the truth behind the growing blight — but is it too late to return to their normal lives? Only their sword and their unbreakable bond will tell..."

[witchcraftandgeekness]

TVDU x Hogwarts AU, Part 3. Part 2 here

Warning: this is just my opinion

Jenna Sommers

She was always there for her ungrateful niece and nephew and was just a nice person all along. Her main goal was always to help them, even if it was extremely hard to combine parenting with studying and she tried to be as calm and understanding as possible. Rip, Aunt Jenna.

Alexia 'Lexi' Branson

Whoever you are, you just can't hate Lexi. Hating Lexi is a crime. She was nice, friendly and spent about every minute of her screen time helping her best friend Stefan, her devotion to their friendship went beyond life and death. Even when she was at risk of disappearing she was willing to vanish completely than act selfish towards Stefan and his feelings.

Rosemarie aka Rose

Little is known about Rose but what we know is, she spent five centuries running from Klaus because of her loyalty to her best friend, and even Elijah respected that. As she joined Scooby gang she tried to help them despite not having reasons to, and was helping them even from the Other side.

Lorenzo 'Enzo' St.John

Enzo is great example of loyalty, which he demonstrated by staying loyal to Damon who literally left him to die in fire and neglected him more than once after their reunion. But his loyalty has Slytherin-ish shade in it, and he is more than willing to murder innocents if it helps those he loves. Additionally, Enzo has cunning nature and is willing to get his hands dirty if needed.

Malachai 'Kai' Parker

Kai is in possession of the whole bunch of Slytherin-material traits. He wanted to prove his worth and become the leader of the coven, showing his ambition; Kai has literally no ideas of good and bad, and it makes it easy for him to do whatever is needed to reach his goals; as a sociopath Kai was perfectly okay with hurting other for fun his own benefit. Kai has peculiar intellect that helps him to manipulate others and to get his way.

Part 4 (Mikaelson siblings) here

[genevieveetguy]

. New Orleans is certainly not a place where a person needs to feel the pain of separation for long.

This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack (1966)

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Boy Did I get a Wrong Number 1966

[swynlake-spill]

i saw ralph went to visit herrrrrrr

btw in case u were wondering this is about boo and I'm p sure RALPH AND MARY R DATING!!! absolutely not what I expected esp considering all the heart eyes elsa and ralph were making at each other during all those events but guess ralph was 2 much man for her huh!

...probably too much man for mary but she took it like a champ!

[sharonate]

SHARON TATE on the set of ‘The Wrecking Crew”, 1968. 🤍

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious … at least to me.

—SHARON TATE

[sigalrm]

Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus by Pascal Volk