#matt and jesse B plot

[willothewispwisteriadawn]

There’s someone on Reddit I’ve seen trying to spread “Chris hates Jess” around. They just say it in the comments like fact as a way to support Emily and to argue that Emily x Chris is a good ship. When asked what they’re talking about, they say it’s from the beta. And a) This is misleading? I feel like you’d only just say it like fact if you’re trying to mislead b) So? The beta isn’t the final game. c) Chris… doesn’t hate Jess in the beta that I recall? I only remember him asking if she wants to come with them but maybe I missed a clip.

Anyway. I need to do my analysis on Emily soon because I feel like her fan base is starting to make me straight up dislike her. She has her merits, but I slog through misinformation or misleading comments pertaining to Emily every day it feels like. Her fans edit the wiki with false info and get really unfair in debates. The other day, someone got mad at me for saying “Emily helped Matt off the cliff” because they wanted me to admit she completely hauled him up, making her stronger than Sam? I’ve seen people say Sam doesn’t like Mike or Jess because she supports Emily. And now I’m seeing “Chris x Emily because Chris hates Jess too.”

Like if you have to lie about Emily to like her, do you really like Emily? If you have to intentionally misread scenes and frame them not for what they actually mean for the plot but more for a way to bolster your fave, do you really care about the lore? I feel treated like a massive Emily and Ashley hater just because I’m trying to understand the story and, yes, they did things wrong. And it’s not hating on Em to be like “this didn’t happen in the game.”

[badtouchs]

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dynamics: incest, teacher/student, boss/worker, kidnapper/victim, home invader/victim, abusive husband/victim, stalker/victim, nerd/jock, cowboy/city guy, fraternity bros, cop/thug, dirty cop/victim, rock star/groupie, priest/altar boy, cruising, grindr date (goes wrong), cult leader/follower(s), stripper/customer, creep neighbor, fandom characters. settings: medieval/historical, apocalypse, disaster, supernatural, dystopian, horror/slasher, camping settings. kinks: age difference, gangbangs, cuckolding, breeding, monsterfucking, humiliation, size difference, bodily fluids, gooning/ahegao, humping, frotting, namecalling, facials, degradation, feminization, pec play, watersports, slapping, impact play. extreme: dub-con, non-con, raceplay, underage/age play, orientation play, gender play, beastility (selective), bigotry, political play. more tba.

faceclaims :

andrew garfield. adam scott. zane phillips. idris elba. chris hemsworth. chris evans. sebastian stan. jack quaid. jake gyllenhaal. trevante rhodes. froy gutierrez. richard madden. jason momoa. brandon perea. david corenswet. michael b jordan. evan mock. henry cavill. kj apa. charles melton. jacob elordi. eric dane. aldis hodge. matt bomer. jonathan bailey. jonathan groff. aaron taylor-johnson. bob morley. danny pino. andre lamoglia. carloto cotta. alexander ludwig. alexander skarsgard. bill skarsgard. michael evans behling. dylan o'brien. winston duke. lewis tan. will sharpe. theo james. rege-jean page. jensen ackles. jared padalecki. jeffrey dean morgan. chace crawford. alessandro bedetti. jon bernthal. andrew lincoln. clayton cardenas. jeremy allen white. avan jogia. dylan minnette. thomas doherty. ross lynch. lee pace. leo woodall. timothee chalamet. oscar isaac. matt barr. travis van winkle. chay suede. wagner moura. jesse williams. ricky whittle. mason gooding. jack champion. pedro pascal. ethan hawke. drew starkey. harris dickinson. joshua bassett. david harbour. milo ventimiglia. paul mescal. non-comprehensive.

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writers under the age of eighteen. faceclaims under the age of eighteen. faces: most tiktokers/influencers/models. johnny depp. harry styles. noah schnapp. more tba. kinks: scat, rosebud. more tba.

[orangeispice]

it's so hard explaining how i imagine the dynamics of luke cage, danny rand and jessica jones

a) it's important that at some point they've had some weirdass romance pentagon with matt murdock and peter parker and misty knight (who had something with colleen). ahem.

b) lukedannyjess is wholesome bc it's the world where all three of them are happy. usually the three of them raising dani cage

c) lukedanny is good because THIS is a real example of best friends to lovers.

d) lukejess is good because it's canon, and they make each other better people and i just love them so much

e) dannyjess gets overlooked a lot, part of which is because of the fact that danny really didn't like jess when luke first brought her around, but they're since cleared that up. but the narrative potential of luke being injured and falling in love with the partner of the man you're in love with has a lot of hgnnnngnggh good plot to it

f) dannymisty, where lukedannyjess does NOT happen. though in this timeline, danny definitely had feelings for luke at some point, can't convince me otherwise. but in this timeline, we get lucy rand, who CANONICALLY ends up marrying dani cage in a timeline where they both exist

guys im so normal aboout this i swear--

[devonsrugbyexgirlfriend]

Jess Watches // Mon 19 Aug // Day 326 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Sunny (with B) 1x07 There's Been a Shift

Mixxy is sucker-punched by the realities of her friendship with Suzie. Himé confronts Jin.

The Soho, in Odaiba, Japan - A modern 13-storey collaborative complex in Tokyo’s most prominent waterfront area. In this usage, “SOHO” is short for “small office/home office.”

Ugly Betty (rw with mum) 4x03 Blue on Blue

Betty fires on all cylinders to get a big scoop with Gucci's new designer, Evan York, with the help of Hilda's connected customer, Sammy. But Marc plots to sabotage her, enlisting a clueless Amanda and Matt in his efforts.

I'm Hamish Linklater, high-tailing it out of the restaurant, away from all the second-hand embarrassment.

Frasier (with mum) 6x13 The Show Where Woody Shows Up

Frasier's old bartender at Cheers in Boston, Woody, shows up in Seattle to visit his old friend. Things turn bad after their first night reunion when Frasier realizes that he has moved on with his life and left Woody in the past.

Frasier, introducing Daphne: This is my father's healthcare worker. Frasier, 10 seconds later: Daphne, get us some beers. Me: *wacking him on the legs with Martin's cane* Just checking they work.

The Umbrella Academy 4x03 The Squid and the Girl

The group splits up to find Jennifer. Later on, they pay Reginald a visit, confronting memories that hold critical clues to their mission.

I was born in the wagon of a travelling show. My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw. My Papa forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity.

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[incorrectlasthours]

Final Chain of Thorns Predictions!

This is SPOILER FREE - I have managed to avoid all of the spoilers that leaked early!

This is my last post before getting the kindle book at midnight and logging off until I finish… I’ll see you all on the other side 🫡

And happy book birthday, Chain of Thorns! We’ve all been waiting for a long time (I started this blog in 2016… who knew it would take until 2023 to get the final book?!)

As a quick note, I will be using the tags #chain of thorns spoilers and #chot spoilers after I finish the book, and I will continue using the tags for the next month!

Without further ado, here are my final predictions (split by category):

Overall Plot:

Belial will be more desperate in this book than the other two to see his plan succeed. He is going to do something much bigger than we’ve seen before.

I think Belial will either a) unleash his shadow monsters through to Gate to Nowhere into London while our heroes are isolated there alone, or b) pull our heroes into another realm (a shadowy version of London) and unleash a massive invasion on them there

We know the truth about Tessa, James, and Lucie’s connection to Belial will come out. I believe the Herondale’s will be punished for this and lose access to the institute (but I think they’ll get it back in the end).

We also know something will happen with the artifacts found in Jesse’s coffin in SoBH (James’ gun, Cordelia’s scabbard, Jesse’s sword). I have no idea why these ended up there, but we know something bad happened at least with the gun (remember Tessa’s traumatic reaction to it and the way she stepped in front of Mina?) I think James is going to shoot someone (either accidentally or be forced to if someone is possessed/being controlled by Belial/etc.) and even if it’s not fatal I think it will be traumatic. I know a lot of people think he will shoot Lucie (maybe to protect Cordelia), and while the thought breaks my heart it does explain Tessa’s reaction.

Speaking of Jesse’s sword, I think he will use it to kill Tatiana. It was foreshadowed that Jesse would kill her in the ChoG prologue (remember Lucie’s game, that he’d cut off his evil stepmother’s head?) and I really think he will have to be the one to do it, because he’s the only character with a little sympathy for her (although Grace could also be the one to take her down I suppose!)

As for the chess metaphor… honestly, the way I see this going down is Belial vs. Lilith, using the different characters as their pawns. Lilith has Cordelia as her paladin, and I highly suspect that Lucie will somehow fall under Belial’s control (remember the snippet where Jesse said what Lucie did raising him made her more vulnerable to Belial?) I think Cordelia and Lucie might have to fight one another (under their respective demon’s control) and James might have to shoot one of them. Imagine the angst!! (Also side thought: maybe shooting Cordelia with the gun would break her connection to Lilith?)

Contrary to popular belief, I actually don’t think Matthew will die! I could see him sacrificing himself (getting stuck in Faerie, perhaps, or staying behind in another realm) or perhaps getting turned into a vampire (although I think this is too obvious now that Cassie has teased it so much). However, I do think he will be the character to stay alive and carry over into TWP!

Character Deaths:

Tatiana - I don’t really see a version where she survives this. If she somehow survives I think she’ll have her marks stripped and/or end up in prison in the Silent City for life.

Sona - A popular theory, but unfortunately I think it’s likely. There have already been so many hints that Sona is not doing well and will not survive the birth of Baby Carstairs. I hope I’m wrong about this though!

A Gabrily Kid - I HATE THIS, but I think they are the most likely of our “main cast” to be killed. Sophie and Gideon already lost Barbara, and losing Eugenia would not have the same emotional toll (we don’t know her as well as Anna and Christopher). I don’t think Matthew will die either (Cassie already killed one alcoholic, and it wouldn’t be an uplifting message if neither of them manages to recover/lead fulfilling lives) so it will have to be Anna or Christopher. BUT I HOPE I’M WRONG

Grace - Okay I hate this a little less than the one above, but I still hate it. I feel like it’s cheap writing for her “redemption arc” to end with death, especially for a character whose story is already so morally gray. It’s also a little misogynistic, but that’s a whole long conversation (the gist though: men who make “morally gray” mistakes are easily forgiven, women who do the same are often only redeemed with death).

One of the TID gang: I don’t think so, but I could see her writing off Gideon or Henry (PLEASE NO)

Romantic Endgames:

James/Cordelia - will definitely end up together. I believe they will both survive, decide to stay married, and continue the Herondale line that eventually leads to Jace.

Matthew/Cordelia - might have a brief thing together at the start of the book, but Matthew’s alcoholism/Cordelia’s feelings for James will quickly interfere. I don’t think this will last long, if it happens at all.

Lucie/Jesse - my faves! I’m 99.99% sure they will end up together and maybe about 70% sure that their line will lead to the current LA Blackthorns. I do think there is a chance that they will be exiled, but I really don’t want to see that happen to them.

Thomas/Alastair - I’m also 99.99% sure that they will both survive and get together by the end. I could see them raising Baby Carstairs if Sona passes away; if not, I’m sure they will adopt kids of their own!

Christopher/Grace - I love the potential, but I’m worried Christopher and/or Grace could be killed during the book. If they both survive, I think there’s about a 60 - 70% chance of this one happening?

Anna/Ariadne - Again, I’m not sure if Anna will survive. If she does, I do think they will end up together!

Future Generations:

James/Cordelia - I am certain they continue the Herondale line through their son Owen, and that line will eventually lead to Jace.

Lucie/Jesse - I see two possibilities for their line. The first is that it eventually leads to the TDA Blackthorns in LA; the other is that their line leads to the Blackthorn “cousins” we hear about but never see in TDA. In SoBH, Great Aunt Marjorie leaves her main house to one of these unnamed cousins; a lot of people think Marjorie could be Lucie and Jesse’s daughter (because Marjorie = the English version of Margaret, and what is the nickname for Margaret? That’s right, Daisy… we all know Lucie would do this in a heartbeat), so it would make sense that she would leave her main house to a “direct descendant” (probably a grand-niece or -nephew here) rather than a relation from the other line of Blackthorns. If this is the case, we can think of the Blackthorns as two separate lines; there are the Cornwall Blackthorns (Annabel, Felix, that Sticky-Hands guy James and Lucie talk about, etc. etc. all the way down to Andrew and his children) and the Leeds Blackthorns (Rupert, Jesse, down to these unnamed cousins today). If this is the case, hopefully we can meet these other Blackthorns in TWP!

Thomas/Alastair - I believe they will adopt Baby Carstairs (and perhaps some other children too), but I think Baby Carstairs will be a boy and Emma will come from his line.

Christopher/Grace - On the CP2 family tree (I KNOW, I KNOW), their line eventually leads to Alec and Izzy. However, I think Alec and Izzy could also come from Alexander - hence Alec’s name.

Anna/Ariadne - I really, really hope they end up together and adopt children, especially because Ariadne dreams of being a mother - I want her to fulfill that dream while still being true to her authentic self!

Connection to TDA/TWP:

Okay, so my big theory for TWP (for years!) has been that all the characters will have to come back to fight the big threat (maybe all of the princes of hell working together and attacking at once?) Perhaps the TID/TLH characters are raised as the consequence of these attacks/threats, or maybe they just come back briefly to fight? Maybe Lucie or Livvy or someone with ~ghost powers~ has something to do with it? Either way, we NEED this to happen. I scream about it all the time, but the POTENTIAL.

If Lucie and Jesse’s line leads to these unnamed Blackthorn cousins, I think they will come into play in TWP.

Those are all my theories for now! Happy reading all 🫶

[fina13]

#TH1RTE3N  is  a  group  verse  based  around  original  slasher  lore.  if  you  want  to  know  more  or  you’re  interested  in  joining,  please  read  the  CARRD.

the plot follows a slasher in two different timelines, targeting a group of friends who all went to school together. the first timeline takes place in the summer of 2009, following graduation leading up to the first six victims being killed. there was a thirteen year gap, where most of the survivors fled town and moved on with their lives. the second time line picks up in the summer of 2022 with kill #7, when first hale came back to hell and ended up being the first kill of the new timeline. the killer used the funeral and threatened family members and friends to lure the other six names on the list back to hell. the original six victims are available to be written in the 2009 timeline. to make this plot work best, we need other citizens of hell, ohio too. think of the characters in your favorite slasher films. cops, classmates, siblings and cousins, exes, anyone that could spice up the plot through dynamics. you are welcome to make another character affiliated with any other existing character in the plot, as long as you discuss it with the mun of the character you are affiliating with first (i will check, don't be weird.)

TH1RTE3N CANONS:

#01 : MAKENA WU — natasha liu bordizzo. (deceased) ABI.

#02 : DANIEL MILLER — jacob elordi. (deceased) HANNAH.

#03 : FAYE CASSIDY — ashley moore. (deceased) RORA.

#04 : MARIE AUGUSTINE — lucy boynton. (deceased) MAISIE.

#05 : SLOAN CARTER — kaylee bryant. (deceased) LYNS.

#06 : MAEVE KESSLER — ella purnell. (deceased) RISSA.

#07 : EASTON HALE — felix mallard + tyler hoechlin. (deceased) MERCURY.

#08 : LAVENDER  DAWSON — ginny gardner + elizabeth lail. CAROLINE.

#09 : CASPIAN MICHAELS — carlson young + cam richardson. QUIN.

#10 : LIAM WYATT — alex fitzalan + adam brody. RISSA.

#11 : HANNAH PHILLIPS — sadie sink + kat mcnamara. KELS.

#12 : RICHIE VALENTINE — austin butler + joe anderson. BRE.

#13 : TRYSTAN HALE — danielle rose russell + phoebe tonkin. KT.

THE KILLER : THE KILLER — ???. ANONYMOUS.

TH1RTE3N AFFILIATED CHARACTERS: *under the cut because there are so many!

BLAKE DARLING — mia healey + tracy spirodakos. CAROLINE. police officer. ex-wife of noah darling.

BENJAMIN DAVIS — cody christian + chris wood. ASTER. married to tate scott.

BRADLEY KING — jan luis castellanos + rick gonzalez. QUIN. faye’s partner in crime.

CAMERON BANKS — joe keery. KT. out of towner. it for penny’s podcast.

CASPER MICHAELS — austin north. ASTER. twin brother of caspian. unlisted murder victim.

DAISY DAWSON — olivia holt + brianne howley. MERCURY. older sister of lavender dawson.

DAKOTA JACKSON — yandeh salah + tbd. QUIN. high school photographer.

ELI ERIKSON — andrew garfield. KELS. ex-boyfriend of liam wyatt.

ELIJAH PUCK — jordan calloway + michael b jordan. QUIN. lindsey’s high school sweetheart.

ELODIE WU — peyton lee + brianne tju. MERCURY. makena + parker’s sister.

GENEVIEVE CRAWFORD — sydney sweeney + margot robbie. CAROLINE. kindergarten teacher.

ISABELLA HALE — alexandra daddario. KELS. younger sister of easton + trystan hale. girlfriend of matt phillips.

JENNIFER DAILY — emily alyn lind + samara weaving. DOE. news reporter.

JUDE MICHAELS — michel biel + casey deidrick. KT. bartender. brother of caspian michaels + casper michaels.

JUSTIN MITCHELL — dan stevens. BRE. out of towner. fiancé of lavender dawson.

LENNON LEMIEUX — natalie alyn lind + hilary duff. BRITT. publicist, maeve’s best friend

LINDSEY WYATT — maude apatow + emmy rossum. ABI. sister of liam wyatt.

MACKENZIE LAINE — abigail cowen + alexandra breckenridge. CAROLINE. penny laine’s older sister.

MATT PHILLIPS — dylan minnette. BRE. brother of hannah phillips. boyfriend of izzi hale.

NOAH DARLING — dylan sprayberry + jesse lee soffer. KT. homicide detective. ex-husband of blake darling. partner of regan driscoll.

PARKER WU — ross butler + tbd. QUIN. makena and elodie’s older brother.

PENELOPE LAINE — kennedy mcmann. LYNS. out of towner. true crime fanatic + podcaster.

POPPY DAWSON — mckenna grace + meagann fahy. KT. younger sister of lavender dawson.

REGAN DRISCOLL — katheryn winnick. BRITT. homicide detective. partner of noah darling.

ROSARIO DELGADO — jenna ortega + melissa barrera. KT. forensic scientist.

TATUM SCOTT — rudy pankow + lucas till. QUIN. former murder suspect. married to benji davis.

[tomwambsmilk]

tell us about your daddy Tom headcanons 👀

Okay so what it boils down to for me is that I think Tom genuinely wants to be a father. I think part of it for him definitely is the checklist of like ✅ high-powered job ✅ beautiful wife ✅ beautiful kids that I think he’s mentally had since he was young. But I also think that as he’s gotten older he does genuinely want to be a dad. Matt Mac has talked about how part of Tom’s affection for Greg is rooted in a desire to be a sort of father-figure to somebody; I think Tom genuinely loves being able to lavish love and affection on people. With Shiv and with Greg it’s complicated by other factors, but kids are a less complicated bc they haven’t yet been battered into cynicism by the forces of the world (hopefully).

(Obviously within the context of succ their are other more strategic factors at play in terms of why he wants to have a baby with Shiv, but I do think he still wants to be a dad regardless.)

So because of all that I think that Tom would actually be an affectionate father. There’s been some discussion over whether a Shiv pregnancy plot line would be a good or bad thing; I see the potential pitfalls but I have faith in Jesse Armstrong handling it well if they went that route. And I would be interested in seeing Tom and Shiv have a kid in confluence with Tom becoming increasingly Logan-esque in the workplace. I don’t think it would necessarily transfer over to his home life bc I think he would be able to compartmentalize in a way Logan never did, but the contrast would be interesting. It also opens the door to the potential of his kids getting older and struggling to reconcile the loving affectionate dad they know with the morally bankrupt abusive boss they discover he is in the workplace.

Aside from that I think if he had kids in any context (tomshiv or tomgreg or any other Tom ship) he would absolutely spoil them. He would buy them all sorts of stuff all the time. He would need his partner to reign him in from actually legitimately turning them into spoiled brats by accident. He would HATE to be the ‘bad guy’ when it came to discipline. If he did have to do it (bc his partner rightfully objected to having to always be the bad guy) I think he would get very morose afterwards.

I also think he would be one of those parents who just. Legitimately believes their child is better than all other children objectively and in every way. Anything his kids are good at he’s gonna absolutely crow to other parents over. Other parents and teachers will all hate him. He’s also going to be SUPER effusive with the praise whenever his kids do even moderately well at something, and it’s not even an act! If little Ariadne brings home a B+ on her math test she’s doing absolutely amazing. If she brings home a C+ it’s probably just that the math was unusually difficult for her brilliant brain. It does have the potential to become a legitimate problem if he doesn’t have a partner who’s more grounded and can flag any actual issues that Tom would overlook.

(If Tom had a special needs kid I think he’d still be the same way. When they got diagnosed I think he’d be 😕 for all of five seconds and then he would go ‘okay but my child is still the best and smartest and most special of all the other children regardless’.)

I also think he’d definitely play with his kids and go all-in. To me he is one of those guys who tries to be all mAsCuLiNe and whatever in the workplace and then he goes home and lets his daughter use him as a pony in her Princess castle who is also the royal advisor in her surprisingly complicated make-believe games of political intrigue. If he’s having a conversation with another adult and Perseus interrupts with some nonsense about the state of centaurs in the magic kingdom Tom treats it with all the seriousness of someone telling him Waystar’s in a brand new PR crisis. One of them gives him a crown they made out of pipe cleaners and he solemnly accepts it and then genuinely forgets to take it off until he goes to bed.

As they get older I think he stays very supportive and engaged in whatever their interests are. I don’t think he would miss a recital or a game unless there was really truly an emergency he absolutely had to deal with. He’s also, unfortunately, the kind of parent that needs to be involved in whatever their kid’s hobby is. If one of his kids is into dance he’s gonna be a dance mom. If it’s theatre he’s gonna be a theatre mom. If it’s little league he’s gonna try and coach from the sidelines. Once again other parents are going to hate him. I do think it reaches the point of being embarrassing for his kids, and every time they complain he backs off for about a week and then goes back to being just as bad as before.

When they host sleepovers (which is very often) Tom needs them to be objectively the best sleepovers. He buys too much junk food, and then he does the whole ‘okay lights out’ routine while fully aware the kids are sneaking out to the living room to watch TV and he lets them so that they can have the thrill of rebellion. When they do eventually fall asleep in front of the TV he goes out and throws blankets over everybody. Then he makes pancakes in the morning and lets them go absolutely hogwild on the whipped cream and candy, and sends them home with a sugar high. Once again. The other parents WILL hate him. (This is a major theme in Tom's life as a parent.) They will keep sending their kids for sleepovers though because he hosts SO often and it's basically free babysitting.

I think in high school when his kids start dating he’s gonna get weird about it. He is gonna be the dad who’s like “no one’s good enough for my little girl” except it’ll go for all his kids regardless of gender. He has obscenely high standards for his kids and no boyfriend or girlfriend is ever going to meet them. He does resign himself to this pretty early, and he doesn’t forbid them from dating because he knows how that ends, but when SOs come over for dinner they always feel kind of like he’s subtly death glaring them. He lets his kids invite their SOs to family vacations, which the kids think is great but the SOs are always mildly afraid he’s gonna murder them. The kids think they’re just being paranoid.

He also gives good, thoughtful advice. Once they hit high school he starts making a deliberate conscious effort to be the kind of parent they feel comfortable going to about tricky or uncomfortable things. He’s not always good at not immediately reacting emotionally if they tell him something upsetting or they’ve gotten into some kind of trouble, but he makes a real effort to be non-judgmental and open, and to take the approach of ‘okay, so that was a bad decision but now I’m gonna help you fix it’, so his kids do feel comfortable going to him, and they know to just wait out the initial emotional reaction until he gets a hold of himself (which he gets better at doing more quickly over time).

Also I think he’s AMAZING at dealing with breakups. When his kids dump or get dumped it’s all-out, ice cream on the couch, a weekend of whatever breakup movies are most gonna help them. He does immediately jump to the ‘I always though you were too good for them anyways’ which is sometimes kind of annoying, but it is well-intentioned so they let it slide.

I think he’s going to try to be super in-contact with his kids as adults. The whole ‘saw a snail today, effervescent’ meme will be him but with his kids. They don’t always answer his texts because he texts them literally all the time, but they will try to do an emoji react or something bc if he thinks they’re ignoring him he will just start texting more. He sends them memes he thinks are funny, or that they’ll find funny. They generally are not funny to them bc they’re very much Gen X memes, but they laugh react anyways. They go home to visit pretty regularly and Tom always makes a production of it, like they haven’t seen each other in AGES, even though actually they saw each other 6 weeks ago at their cousin’s wedding wedding and then 4 weeks before for somebody’s birthday, and also they’re coming back to visit again 3 weeks just because they’re gonna be in town for work reasons.

And finally - he’s gonna cry when they go to college. He’s also going to cry when they graduate. And he’s going to cry at their weddings. And he’s going to cry when they get their first job and on their eighteenth birthdays and if they move out of the state and just. At literally any life event that reminds him that they’re getting older and leaving the nest. Not full on weeping, but definitely the kind of almost-crying we saw during his wedding toast. They all know to just pretend they don’t see it because he gets weird and defensive if you draw any attention to it.

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How would you fix The Defenders? My ideas are A) some acknowledgement that Matt and Claire know each other 🙄 and B) Foggy, Karen, Malcolm and Trish participated somehow in the finale at Midland Circle rather than be stuck back at the precinct. 🤔

The Defenders. Ugh.

Tbh I’m gonna scrap, like, all of it. Matt and Elektra’s dynamic is powerful and hypnotizing but EVERYTHING ELSE is just…bleh, imo.

Long post, guys. This is me just ranting because it could've been SO GOOD but instead—

Like first off, why is the villain the Hand? Not only is there gross racism with everything Hand-related, but why are you forcing Jess and Luke to deal with mysterious ninja stuff? Like okay it’s kinda funny the first couple times Jess jokes about ninjas and karate and all that, but it’s not THAT funny. Plus, her jokes about how absurd it is don’t feel genuine; it feels like the writers awkwardly going, “Yeah, we know it’s ridiculous.” PLUS, her jokes actually break the immersion because we, the audience, agree with her that it’s weird! Jokes about the plot where your audience agrees with the joke just makes the plot feel like a joke! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

Sorry, I’m fine.

Anyway, Jessica’s humor is one of the only pros to the Hand storyline. The other pro is Matt and Elektra, and Matt and Stick. And as a Daredevil fan, I’m kinda cool with those pros, but dang, that’s pretty unfair to the other characters, isn’t it?

And the cons. The cons are severe.

Suspension of disbelief. I’m sorry, no, I don’t believe there are dragons under New York City.

Related: the worldbuilding? Broken. Why would you take a city as interesting as New York and make it a backdrop for ninjas?

Stakes? Gone. The Hand isn’t scary! What do they even do? They can’t kill any of our main four heroes, they can’t kill any of our heroes’ friends…they just cause an earthquake and kidnap Danny and chop of Misty’s arm and that’s it. And I knew from the beginning that they wouldn’t do anything more than that because no way would an impactful character be killed off in a spinoff series. (Elektra doesn’t count. She’s definitely not dead.)

Rising action? Ugh. Okay we gotta kidnap Danny from faceless and fairly incompetent ninjas and surprise surprise, it goes off without a hitch except for Matt’s self-sacrificing love for Elektra which is a *Matt* thing and no thanks at all to the Hand actually being effective villains.

Climax’s relation to the characters’ individual arcs? Nonexistent – again, except for Matt.

Space to actually explore characters? Reduced. We kept having to check in with Alexandra who, I’m sorry, was just really boring, and Elektra got a cool little character arc I guess but when you already have to balance four leads in a single show, that’s NOT the time to also try to flesh out TWO BAD GUYS because then we just don’t have enough time to get to know any of the characters with nuance. I would’ve rather had one single scene of Matt and Claire interacting than all the scenes of Alexandra looking pensively at pill bottles and contemplating her own mortality or whatever she was doing.

Adlksfjdklwe.

No, I will not be taking constructive criticism. The Hand storyline was just awful.

What Defenders should’ve been was about crime. Some crime boss like Matt's or Luke's villains, but who does NOT need to be complex or developed as a character; in a series like Defenders, give me a two-dimensional villain that actually HURTS PEOPLE and DOES STUFF). That way we get to have real stakes and we get real people getting hurt and needing to be saved from an actual and present threat and we get New York being, like, a character in its own right, and we get to really explore stuff like Luke’s efforts to protect young poor Black kids and Danny trying to adapt to modern life, and Jessica could spend less time rolling her eyes at the LITERAL PLOT and more time rolling her eyes at Danny. Plus, we get the humor of Danny trying to be all mystical in a world that’s decidedly NOT (way funnier and less immersion-breaking than Jessica trying to deal with a world that’s objectively crazy).

AND! We’d get to save the gut-wrenching stuff with Stick and Elektra for a season of Daredevil where it can actually be thoroughly explored. And there’s no reason Matt couldn’t still make some self-sacrificing/suicidal choice at the end that sets up Season 3 the same as before, but this time it wouldn’t have to involve somehow-escaping-from-a-collapsed-building-while-unconscious which ????

AND! The side characters could actually be involved without being immediately and obviously overpowered! Trish and Karen could’ve teamed up to dig up dirt on the bad guy and Matt and Foggy could’ve done some lawyerly things together to protect the people being hurt by the crime boss and Malcolm could’ve talked to Danny because I just think those two would be hilarious together. And Claire could’ve healed Matt when he got hurt in a fight at the halfway point and it would’ve been painful and sweet and awkward and—and we would’ve had time for it because the show could’ve focused on the main characters instead of skipping back and forth between them and the villain.

Anyway. That’s how I would’ve rewritten Defenders.

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I like thinking about what characters might collect.

I think Ashley is the type to have a pretty decent sized vinyl collection. A good portion passed down from her parents as they got her into the addiction, with worn out jackets of heavily classic rock records which she loves flipping through but refuses to allow others to touch as well as everything's she's bought or been gifted the past few years. I want to say her own personal taste is indie rock/pop, maybe indietronica.

Jess has a corkboard on her wall of memories. Selfies and photos with friends with concert tickets in between of all the biggest popstars, decorated like an unorganized scrapbook which she insists she's not lame enough to get into that hobby despite the fact most of her materials come from that aisle at the art store.

Emily and Matt like fashion. It's how they really started talking and connected. Sure, definitely not the same brands, designers, or type of accessories, but their excitement over plotting out how to be able to catch a new release and turning around to flip products is a passionate conversation and nothing matches their excitement for new lines or being able to brag about exclusivity. They have so many shoes. Matt's untouched sneakerhead collection can match Emily's unused purse variety.

Josh is obvious. Floor to ceiling shelving units of DVDs, vhs, sometimes even a literal film reel of any and all movies. Indie, directors cuts, B-films, award winners, backyard projects, you name it. It is not uncommon to be shuffling through them and see covers or discs casually signed by those who created it. They don't seem to be organized by name or genre. Maybe director? You can't tell and he won't explain but he does know where every single one is. Buying him a movie as a gift is a pain in the ass because he probably already has it.

Sam likes to collect tiny handcarved animals. Small creatures whittled out stones and wood, never bone. Any time she travels you can catch her staring and huffing at display cases of those tiny artistic glass and crystal animals that are overpriced. She prefers ones made by local artists. She has a shelf in her room full that she refuses to call knick knacks.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: “ The Bad Batch”-Review

Seven years since its cancellation and six since the final episodes aired, Star Wars: The Clone Wars makes its final triumphant return on Disney+. Beginning this twelve episode conclusion is a familiar story to fans of the series that has been brought to thrilling new life. It may not be a series best, but The Clone Wars fans will be more than pleased with “The Bad Batch.”

(Review Contains Episode Spoilers)

The Republic defense of the shipyards of Anaxes have taken a turn for the worse. Separatist forces led by Admiral Trench have updated their tactics and are outpacing clone forces before they can react. Captain Rex has a theory, that Trench’s forces have somehow gotten hold of his battle playbook developed alongside deceased ARC trooper Echo. In the hopes of proving this theory and potentially changing the tide of the campaign, Commander Cody and Rex propose a behind enemy lines stealth mission, which will be assisted by experimental clone force 99, aka “The Bad Batch.”

Wow. On just a purely personal level, watching and reviewing a new episode of The Clone Wars is a surreal experience. Reviewing episodes of the series is how I became a Star Wars blogger and even when we first heard the series was returning in 2018, I still didn’t fully believe that we would be getting new episodes. Yet here I am, in 2020, watching a brand new (sort of) episode of The Clone Wars and the show doesn’t even seem to acknowledge that it’s been gone for over half a decade. Tom Kane voice over, fortune cookie, triumphant ending credits fanfare, it’s all there. In all its goofy, beautiful, and wonderfully strange glory. The Clone Wars is back for one last time. Just wow.

I’ll admit I was initially a little disappointed that one of the three arcs we would be receiving in the final Clone Wars season would be “The Bad Batch.” The unfinished story reels were a fun experience, but as a whole, even with some of the plot twists that will come in later episodes, this arc was never really a favorite of mine. Yes, I love clones and getting to see more clone episodes is always a joy, but I was hungry for new stories and it was hard not to see a redeveloped “Bad Batch” as taking away from any number of other Clone Wars plots that never saw the light of day such as the ever elusive Cad Bane/Boba Fett arc. ��

Boy was I underestimating just how much this animated glow up would add to this story though. In its final seasons, The Clone Wars was undeniably some of the best looking television on the airwaves and now with production assets that are helped by a robust and experienced studio and seven years of technological advancement, the result is truly stunning. However, it’s not just that the show looks prettier, The Clone Wars is now a more confident and stylistically directed show then it’s ever been.

“The Bad Batch” ends up having two real stars. The obvious one is Dee Bradley Baker who once again gets to flex his voice acting muscles. Baker proved early on into the series’ run that he was more than able to carry entire episodes on his own by voicing ensemble casts of almost a dozen near vocally identical characters and giving them unique personalities and traits. Baker does more heavy lifting here since season four’s classic Umbara story arc and the results are no less impressive.

The second star is director Kyle Dunlevy. Dunlevy worked on many classic episodes of The Clone Wars and “The Bad Batch” may be his most assured stylistically. In addition to the improvement in animation quality, The Clone Wars in its final seasons was really beginning to experiment with creative shot composition and cinematography. I think most often of the stellar sequence in “The Unknown” which follows a single clone officer cowering from a droid invasion. Dunlevy takes this and ups it, delivering outstandingly shot action sequences and even some outstanding tracking sequences that feel more intimate and cinematic than almost anything the series has ever pulled off, or any Star Wars animated show for that matter.

I may be talking a lot about the technical aspects of “The Bad Batch” and that may be that at the end of the day, they prove to be the most impressive parts. As a narrative, “The Bad Batch” is pretty standard Clone Wars fare. Undeniably fun and explosive at times, but there isn’t quite anything here that massively strays outside some of the shows traditional formula.

In a way, it’s interesting to see that many of The Clone Wars’ old storytelling shortcomings are very much on display. The anthologized seasonal structure allowed for many things in the series’ original run such as a sprawling cast and freedom to tell stories of widely different tones and genres. However, The Clone Wars always struggled as a result in being a serialized story. Sure, events from some arcs would undoubtedly influence others, but the sort of stop and start nature of the show lead to many moments where character and story arcs disappear or burst into existence with surprising frequency.

This is very much the case with “The Bad Batch.” At its heart, “The Bad Batch” is two clone related stories. One, a narrative of clones coming to accept diversity within their own community and another in Rex having to grapple with the loss of so many brothers over the war. The second is the most emotionally interesting and engaging as Rex is easily the most war weary character the show has at this point and in a way has always functioned as something of a mouthpiece for the clones as a whole. However, Brent Friedman and Matt Michnnovetz’s script makes some logical swerves here that end up feeling surprisingly hollow. Having Rex mourn his clone brothers makes sense and its direction at some specific clones such as Fives, whom he worked closely with in multiple episodes, feels emotionally appropriate. It’s the focus on Echo and even more oddly, Hevy, that feels odd. Echo and Rex certainly appeared in tandem in multiple episodes but the only time the two really appeared as equals was in the Citadel arc where the character perished. We don’t understand Rex’s emotional connection to Echo because it was never really established in past episodes and we have no cues to fall back upon. The work done here to build context for their relationship, both professionally and emotionally, can’t help but feel a little stilted. Regardless, Baker is still able to sell Rex’s hurt and longing for hope with the right resonance and it helps carry us through these rough patches.

Also, on a very basic level, The Bad Batch are just a really fun bunch of characters. At the moment they fit a little too cleanly into various archetypes: the brutish dumb clone, the cool and badass tracker, the silent sniper, the nerdy tech, but they are fun archetypes. Their designs are creative and vivid. Baker has a hell of a time voicing them. The action with these characters is, as mentioned before, enjoyably creative and visceral. Having classic clones like Jesse and Kix get to butt heads and also grow to appreciate these new clones is a fun and upbeat little story beat for a story that’s otherwise about the lingering trauma of war. Also, Jesse got a promotion and Kix let his hair grow out! Good for them. I hope nothing bad happens to them and their futures remain Sith free.

It’s overall just a joy to have The Clone Wars back, hiccups and all. It’s a special piece of the Star Wars franchise and it’s going to be great to have it in our lives again for a few months. I can’t wait to blast more clankers alongside you all.

Score: B+

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The Happening

When titles like “The Event” were already taken.

tw: will mention different types of suicides, will start/end paragraph with tw

So....that happened. Ha, I’m hilarious.

I don’t know if this is cheating or not, but for a while I would watch reviews of movies I haven’t seen or read the wikipedia plot for movies I don’t care to see to get the story without actually seeing the film. And The Happening just happened to be one of them. So I knew from the beginning what the twist was.

But what I forgotten from those reviews was how dead and robotic the actors where.

Overview: In New York City and all over the Northeast of the U.S, people are performing mass suicide in a daze. Fearful for his family, high school teacher Elliot flees with his wife, friend, and friend’s child to avoid the catastrophe, unaware that the danger is all around them.

Let’s get the elephant in the review out of the way first otherwise it’s gonna be on my mind all the time.

Plants did it. I knew that the Plants did it. It was the only thing that I actually retained from my review watching habit. And you know what, when I heard it I knew it was going to be stupid. They came up with some psudo-science bullshit about plant pheramones being so so strong that it affects the self-preservation part of our brains to make us want to kill ourselves. Like, this is just so easy to pick apart with basic scientific and logic.

The thing is that I don’t care.

I’ve seen bad anime with worse logical reasoning for having the plot happen. Like evil virus that only affect men so there’s like 10 guys left on the planet filled with women. Or waking up on an island via LOST style and having to fight off against giant insects. So I get it. The reasoning of “who did it” or “how did this happened” doesn’t really matter in the context of the movie. The plant thing is dumb, but it is something that I can understand people ignoring it to just enjoy the movie.

The Problem is that the rest of the movie is boring as shit.

tw The beginning of the film, Very Beginning, it was interesting. It had me by my seats. People are killing themselves, that’s pretty fuck up. And the movie doesn’t hold back in how fucked up it was. Seeing people just calmly in a daze just stab themselves in the neck with their own hair pin? Like, I had to take a step back. Was not expecting that shit at all. It certainly sets the mood, though I don’t know why they do this...backwards walking thing before they die. To show them being rewired? But my favorite part was with the construction workers dealing with people jumping off the building. That was really emotional to me. You just see the heartbreak during this slowburn of one person jumping, then another, then just 30 in one go. It went from sad to horrific in a great way. tw

TOO BAD it was freaking undercut by Matt Wallburg’s science class which killed ALL MOOD that was set up.

You CAN’T set up a thriller movie with the actual scary thing happening, only for the main character to just....completely ignore it/not know it for a long ass time! It ruins the whole thing!!

Like, HINTS!!! HINTS ARE A THING!! I thought you were supposed to be good at subtly Shyamalan! 

Ok, so here’s a quick sidebar. Train to Busan. Great movie. Go watch it. Same director as Parasite. It’s about surviving the zombie apocalypse on a train. Highly recommended. But the thing with THAT movie, is that we get Hints that the zombies exist in the beginning. We get some information that there could be danger, but we don’t SEE the actual zombies until it is too late.

HERE, we SEE people literally off themselves in some very realistic ways. You can’t expect me to mood shift that fast to Matt Wallburg just casually teaching about the death of nature and bees! That kills the mood! And makes the main cast look like an idiot because WE know what’s going on, but THEY DON’T!! It’s hard to feel connected to the main characters when we know more than they do.

And these characters SUUUUUUUUCK!

Matt...you stink. If I have to judge your acting career based on this movie, I will never watch anything with you in it again. He’s just so boring! And Dull! Everything he says sounds like a blank empty husk of a man. He has the worst reactions to Everything around him. Like a woman accuses him of killed her in her sleep (which is a bizarre scene anyway) and we get THIS

God he’s the worst! And this dull-ass line-reading bleeds to every other character!

Apparently her name is actually Alma. And here I thought that it was Emma. Doesn’t matter, did not give a shit about her. I really couldn’t give a shit about the romance. At all. Like, not one ounce. I was actually rooting for them to get a divorce that was so how uninvested I was in them. They are both bland. The whole thing hinged on them working things out and not emotionally cheat I guess, but it just seemed like Emma was getting worked up over Nothing. She ate cake after work with a coworker. Alright. You see her getting calls from him and when she does answer saying “no I love my husband it was just cake we had nothing between us” except it was just the guy talking about all the bad shit happening in whatever area he was. So, again, she just blew things up all out of proportion here.

Then the children....the little child Jess gets a pass. She’s not the greatest, but she’s a tiny child. There’s a lot more things to worry about than her acting. Like the other teen boys they meet while escaping, Jake and John. They have them randomly show up as part of their small group. Only for the Next Scene for them to be killed. Like, what the fuck movie? There’s dramatic tension, then there’s just bad writing.

Most of this is just a bunch of bad tiny plot decisions like....why the fuck did they add this in the movie? Just a lot of them trying to add in characterization...but it falls flat so so bad. Humor of Matt talking to a plastic plant? Lame. Trying to distract a person from horrors with a math problem? Possibly could have worked if they actually had any personality of a rock. Matt talking about how he...I guess was thinking of emotionally cheating on his wife with a pharmacist but was just lying.....just why??

Hotdog Man who first said it was the plants to begin with? He actually gets a pass. The hotdog thing is weird as fuck but he seems like the ONLY genuine actual human in this movie. I like Hotdog man. He was just trying his goddamn best.

Then different moments of trying to add tension when there shouldn’t really be? Like...some random ass hyper tension of Matt walking into a room that just has a doll? And I guess it is to...MAYBE imply that the old woman is nuts and thinks the doll is actually her daughter? That’s a bit of a stretch coming from me, but that’s all I got for why that scene exists. But that was soooo unneeded, unnecessary, no purpose to the plot for ANY REASON! Like, just....it’s shit like this that’s bad.

Look, Disaster Films need 2 things for it to work: A) showing the destruction that the disaster is causing, and B) Showing people trying to survive through said destruction. The Happening has a decent pass for the 1st part, mostly. The suicides are creative and disturbing. Just seeing people randomly grabbing the nearest thing to passively kill themselves does make you step back. Like driving through a street where people hung themselves. Or watching 30 people jump off of buildings. Or a guy sees a nearby lawn mower and just lays down before him. (The one where a dude just sits down casually to cut himself with glass, really fucked me up).

It’s the second half that needs work. None of these guys seem to give any actual human responses to that’s going on, whether it was the main cast or any of the side characters. It was like the movie was trying to make everything high tension and that comes off forced, boring, and bizarre.

Overall: I was not a fan of this movie. Did not like this movie one way or another. There was so much bad in it, but not in the fun bad. Just bad bad. The only two good things I liked were the Hotdog Man and the beginning scene with the construction workers. That’s it, and it does not save the movie.

If you want something similar to this that is a little better, try Cell by Stephen King. Instead of Plants it was Cell Phone reception. Just as ridiculous but a lot more heartfelt and frightening that whatever this mess was.

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Life & Style, February 10

Cover: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle love their new lives 

Page 1: Photo Flash -- Morning madness with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and kids North and Saint and Chicago and Psalm 

Page 2: Contents 

Page 4: The Top 10 Zendaya Looks 

Page 6: Twinning! Olivia Wilde vs.Natalie Portman, Dua Lipa vs. Sofia Richie 

Page 7: Idina Menzel vs. Kate Walsh, Eva Longoria vs. Hannah Brown 

Page 8: Jessica Simpson -- how motherhood saved me 

Page 9: Beyonce has a personal doorman who opens all doors for her even inside her own house, Throwback -- Matt Bomer, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Cardi B and Offset, Drake, Zayn Malik, Rita Ora 

Page 10: Jennifer Lopez and Shakira were bitter rival during the Super Bowl halftime show because Jennifer sees herself as the bigger star and hates the thought of Shakira stealing her thunder, since severing ties with BFF Jordyn Woods and boyfriend Travis Scott Kylie Jenner’s inner circle has been growing smaller by the day 

Page 12: Rihanna’s rebound romance with A$AP Rocky 

Page 13: Rebel Wilson has been hitting the gym six days a week and has lost 70 pounds or more, The Bachelor Pete Weber might be falling hard for Victoria Fuller but a source close to the front-runner claims she’s hiding a shady past, VIP Style -- Nicole Kidman (pictured), D’Arcy Carden, Adam Driver and Billy Porter (pictured), Karlie Kloss, Conor McGregor (pictured), Hailey Baldwin, Will Ferrell, James Van Der Beek (pictured) 

Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Pink and Carey Hart and kids Willow and Jameson at Disneyland 

Page 15: Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon at the Producers Guild Awards, Celine Dion 

Page 16: Jennie Garth, Stephen Colbert, Dan and Eugene Levy 

Page 18: DJ Pauly D at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel’s Sugar Factory in Tampa, Kaia Gerber hit the catwalk in Chanel and Givenchy during Paris Fashion Week 

Page 19: Josh Gad and Kristen Bell, Jason Biggs and sons Sid and Lazlo 

Page 22: Gigi Hadid blew kisses to fans outside her Paris hotel, Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton, Jimmy Fallon and Kate Upton and Ken Jeong 

Page 23: Aubrey Plaza on Ellen DeGeneres 

Page 24: Stars Behaving Badly -- Selena Gomez gave Rami Malek bunny ears while posing with Robert Downey Jr. at the premiere of Dolittle, Tom Hardy picking his nose on the set of Fonzo in New Orleans, Jerry O’Connell hopped into bed without pajama bottoms with Ryan Seacrest and Kelly Ripa 

Page 26: Say What?! Cardi B, Ryan Reynolds, James Corden, Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Foxx 

Page 28: Sandra Bullock and Bryan Randall  secretly married 

Page 29: Halsey and Evan Peters heating up 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle happier than ever 

Page 34: After Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s recent PDA Angelina Jolie plots financial and emotional revenge 

Page 36: Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson eloping and her family’s not invited 

Page 38: Varsity Blues bombshell -- an explosive documentary about the college admission scam shed new light on the scandal that continues to rock Hollywood 

Page 42: Who Lives Here? Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick 

Page 44: Entertainment 

Page 45: Star Review -- Andrew Rannells, As Seen On-Screen -- Selena Gomez’s Miu Miu’s Faille Cady dress that she wore on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 

Page 48: Style Special -- Fashion Favorites -- SAG Awards -- Zoe Kravitz, Sophie Turner 

Page 49: Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Garner, Charlize Theron 

Page 50: Beauty Crush -- Margot Robbie at the SAG Awards by her makeup artist Pati Dubroff 

Page 52: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Diva Kit Harington, down-to-earth Mark Zuckerberg shopping for bargains, down-to-earth Vanessa Hudgens takes out the trash 

Page 54: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart with wife Eniko and kids Heaven and Hendrix and Kenzo, Robert Downey Jr. and Jimmy Fallon, Kerry Washington 

Page 55: David Beckham and kids and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer and her baby boy Oliver, Jennifer Lopez and twins Max and Emme 

Page 56: Horoscope -- Aquarius Amal Clooney, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Sagittarius Brad Pitt and Leo Charlize Theron 

Page 58: Made Ya Look -- Kaia Gerber poses for Louis Vuitton in Miami 

Page 60: What I’m Into -- Kyle Cooke 

[hollywoodfamerp]

PACK YOUR BAGS FAMERS!

We’re heading to Santorini, Greece! On July 7th - July 13th the entire roleplay will be located in Greece for our annual summer trip! Please remember, this event is mandatory. So whether you are on hiatus or not, you must state that your celeb is/was there.

Celebs will be staying at the Santorini Luxury Hotel Ambassador! The Santorini Luxury Hotel Ambassador will have all celebs stay in vaulted suites that have a private pool in each room and a private patio that will enthrall guests with front row seats to the island's world famous sunsets, as well as great panoramic views of the caldera, with villages comprised of traditional white cube houses scattered along the cliff's edge. Guests can sit back and enjoy amenities that include: spas, lounges, bars, indoor and outdoor pools, 5 star restaurants, babysitting, and fitness center. 

Under the cut you will find your roommates! Please know, your roommate is also your SYNC partner for the month of July. That means you will have the entire month (until July 31st at midnight EST) to get a thread done with your partner! Because we are giving the entire month to get this done, everyone is included on the list regardless if they are on hiatus or not. However, those on reduced activity were NOT included. The subject of your thread does not have to be about the Greece trip! Please remember the following:

This is a mandatory thread. We will be keeping track, please do not make us give out strikes :(

Please tag the main in your chatzy, para, gif chat or f2f when you reach at least 8 notes. 

Texts also count! Please send your text thread to the main via IM once you reach at least 12 notes since those don’t require as much.

No matter what type of thread you and your partner choose, please make sure it has substantial replies (on both ends) and not just a three word reply - the point is to build new connections!

New members coming into the group will be added up until July 10th. 

After that they will not be added into the list since it wouldn’t be fair to hold them to the same requirements with less time.

If your partner goes inactive or decides to leave the rp - we will message you and you can decide if you’d like a new partner or you can just be removed from the current list.

Please do message us if your roommate has not replied to you to plot or if they are on the verge of going inactive, as we will take everything into consideration <3 

If you got paired with another FC that you play, please send us a message and we’ll fix that for you right away!

If you cannot find your FC in the list, please let us know so we can fix that as well!

All pairs were made with a random generator!

Please be mindful that this list can and will change because of unfollows, activity checks, and/or new members being added into the group. So please make sure to like this notice so you can keep track of things :)

If you’re reading this list, go ahead and reach out to your partner! Please do not wait to for them to reach out to you.

Please like this notice so we know you’re all up to date! :)

* Bold means waiting for account Strike through means account was unfollowed in activity check. Will be removed 24 hours after activity check.

Dacre Montgomery and Nick Jonas

Ashley Tisdale and Candice Swanepoel

Winston Duke and Kim Taehyung

Blake Lively and Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins)

Connor Franta and Anthony Mackie

Pierce Brosnan and Brandon Flynn

Keanu Reeves and Zendaya Coleman

Charlotte Flair and Gigi Hadid

Matt Bomer and Emma Stone

Melissa Benoist and Taylor Swift

Harry Styles and Zac Efron

Nina Dobrev and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Joe Jonas and Michael B. Jordan

Shawn Mendes and Meryl Streep

Dylan Minnette and Ryan Higa

Priyanka Chopra and Paul Wesley

Shay Mitchell and Suzy Berhow

Charlie Hunnam and Minatozaki Sana

Selena Gomez and Dianna Agron

Ben Barnes and Hirai Momo

Jesse Lingard and Ashley Benson

Margot Robbie and Kim Dahyun

Sophia Bush and David Dobrik

Sophie Turner and Brie Larson

Lauren Jauregui and Bebe Rexha

Adam Levine and Evan Rachel Wood

Kristine Froseth and Kendall Jenner

Beth Behrs and Adelaide Kane

Naomi Scott and Arin Hanson

Jeremy Jordan and Kelley O'Hara

Khloe Kardashian and Jerome Flynn

Perrie Edwards and Nikki Bella

Jon Hamm and Mark Fischbach

Rami Malek and Jeon Jeongguk

Natalia Dyer and Jesse Lee Soffer

Brendon Urie and Zoey Deutch

Aubrey Plaza and Scarlett Johansson

Kim Seokjin and Park JungSoo (Leeteuk)

Aaron Tveit and Christopher Gorham

Ashton Irwin and Normani Kordei

Emma Watson and Jung Hoseok

Hailey Baldwin and Cara Delevingne

Kit Harington and Jade Chynoweth

Kim Hyuna and Bella Hadid

Tessa Thompson and Emilia Clarke

Camila Cabello and Becky Lynch

Armie Hammer and Chris Hemsworth

Richard Madden and Jade Thirlwall

Sebastian Stan and Demi Lovato

Sam Claflin and Maisie Williams

Keith Duffy and Byun Baekhyun

Luke Hemmings and Chloe Bennet

Kate Middleton and Alex Morgan

Marzia Bisognin and Michael Clifford

Timothée Chalamet and Lights Poxleitner

Hunter Hayes and Leighton Meester

Mena Massoud and Rihanna

Lee Chaerin (CL) and Ansel Elgort

Jake Gyllenhaal and Fergal Devitt

Dylan O'Brien and Adria Arjona

Lily Singh and Madelaine Petsch

Danneel Harris and Park Chanyeol

Park Jimin and Maryse Mizanin

Chris Evans and Niall Horan

Gal Gadot and Jensen Ackles

Ariana Grande and Kim Nanjoon

Takumi Kizuckson and Marina Diamandis

Bill Skarsgard and James Rodriguez

Nathan Sharp and Sarah Drew

Dove Cameron and Jennifer Morrison

Maia Mitchell and Kim Yongsun (Solar)

Vanessa Hudgens and Saoirse Ronan

Miles Heizer and Kristen Bell

Debby Ryan and Dan Avidan

Jared Padalecki and Pedro Pascal

Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot

Zayn Malik and Jesy Nelson

Kehlani Parrish and Min Yoongi

Behati Prinsloo and Daisy Ridley

Joe Keery and Tyler Posey

Lucas Wong and Jeremy Irvine 

Jennie Kim and Karlie Kloss

Carlos Valdes and Brie Bella

Liza Koshy and Jackson Wang

Seán McLoughlin (Jacksepticeye) and Chyler Leigh

Florence Pugh and Kim Jisoo

Lee Donghae and Bae Joohyun

Alex Fitzalan and Kang Seulgi

Lea Michele and Troye Sivan

Gina Rodriguez and Kim Heechul

Katherine Langford & Louis Tomlinson 

Kathryn Newton and Camila Mendes

Taika Waititi and Christen Press

Marcus Rashford and Maya Hawke

Jessica Chastain and Joe Dempsie

[wrestlingatthemovies]

Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies

A group of wrestlers are hired to perform a private show at an abandoned prison only to realise they have been lured there to be fed to a zombie hoard.

The main roster of wrestlers are for the most part real wrestlers including Former TNA champion Matt Hardy and his wife Reby Sky, inaugural Royal Rumble winner Hacksaw Jim Duggan, 4 time ECW champion Shane Douglas, Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, WWE Hall of Famer Rowdy Roddy Piper and ROH wrestler Facade.

The film starts with highlights of a local wrestling show which features former TNA knockout So Cal Val, WCW booker Kevin Sullivan, ECW wrestler Thomas Rodman and WWF Superstar The Barbarian along with independent wrestlers including Brandon Graver and Doc Sampson.

Other notable performers are former Zero-One United States champion Sylvester Terkay and Shanon Hart who appeared alongside the Hardy family on their WWE Network House Hardy Halloween special.

Featured Wrestlers:

As themselves:

Roddy Piper

Matt Hardy

Kurt Angle

Reby Sky

Jim Duggan

Shane Douglas

Facade (as Neon Ninja)

As wrestling performers:

The Barbarian

Kevin Sullivan

Thomas Rodman 

Doc Sampson

Brandon Graver

So Cal Val

As Zombies:

Chris Taylor

Ryan Edmunds 

Cody Michaels 

Ryan Mitchell

Jesse Mitchell

Sylvester Terkay

Wrestle Rating:

4.5 out of 5 blunt machete 

An independent horror film funded by a Kickstarter campaign, distributed by low budget B Movie company Troma and co produced by The Franchise himself. Pro Wrestlers Vs Zombies has a clumsy plot, some unfunny jokes and a confusingly repetitive set. However, it's a film about wrestlers fighting for their lives against zombies so none of those things matter. What does matter is seeing main event level wrestlers becoming zombified or torn in half or killing their best friend as an act of mercy... or alternatively you could just watch it to see The Hot Rod somehow drag an shockingly emotional performance out of a surreal script.

[givedeanhisangel]

Was tagged by @supernaturaldevoted thank you!

1. When did you start watching Supernatural?

December 2017. It was an accident, I swear. I used to be really into Overwatch (before uni took over my gaming life (I dont play anymore)) and I came across this post. At first I thought it was like Dr. Who or something, I didn't know. So I reverse image searched it on Google, and found Supernatural. I found out it was on Netflix, and watched the pilot. I was scared, but didn't think it was anything special. But then Jess burned. And then at Sam's "we have work to do" line, I was sold.

(And then I sat through 7 seasons trying to spot the scene that was in the gif that started it all.)

2. Who is your favorite in TFW?

Castiel, easily. That isn't to say I dont like Sam and Dean though. I love all of them. All of them. I just have a preference for Cas

3. Who is your least favorite in TFW?

Stop.

4. Tag your top 5 Supernatural blogs.

@aloha-cowgirl @malevolent-dean @alexander8calvert @bisexualdemondean @dimples-of-discontent

5. Who is your favorite character (not including TFW)?

I lump Gabriel into tfw 2.0, so i'm gonna go with Garth

6. Who is your favorite woman in Supernatural?

Claire. I love Claire so much, but i'm probably biased b/c I'm a huge Kathryn Newton fan.

7. John or Mary?

Uhhh I loved Matt Cohen's Michael!John, but I've had more time to love Mary

8. What were your first opinions of Sam, Dean, Cas, and Jack?

Sam: I was genuinely worried about him not making it back to his interview on time. I just wanted him to be alright.

Dean: I wanted him to be my older brother ngl. He just cares so much, and I loved that about him.

Cas: "Holy shit that's Castiel. Oh my god that's his voice?" (I thought he would lose the voice and the trench coat over time. He did neither.)

Jack: I just wanted him to be good so bad. I was so relieved when he turned out to be an actual bean.

9. What’s your favorite season?

Season 12, probably. I didn't like the whole BMOL thing, but 12 has a ton of my favorite episodes (Stuck in the Middle (With You), Lily Sunder has Some Regrets, Baby, All Along the Watchtower)

10. What’s your least favorite season?

Season 7. There's just... not a lot there? Leviathan weren't as big of a threat as I thought, and there was a substantial lack of Cas.

11. Opinions on Destiel?

Oh god, it's taken over my life. I love it, I really do, because you know what? It's so goddamn sweet, and soft, and romantic, but at the same time it's tough, it's gritty, and it's just two guys trying their best under almost impossible circumstances. And at the end of the day, when the world is safe, they deserve each other. They've earned some semblance of peace, which they can find in each other. No one understands Castiel like Dean does and vice versa. They're a match made in hell and they're perfect for one another. I just want them to be happy

12. Do you believe Supernatural queerbaits?

Well, to some extent yes, but not on purpose.

13. Seasons 1-7 or 8-14?

8-14. Maybe it's because there's more Cas, or maybe it's the character development. Maybe it's just personal preference.

14. Favorite villain (plot wise)?

Lucifer from s4-5. In case any of you didn't know, I used to adore Lucifer when I first watched the show. He was my favorite character when I was watching seasons 4-5, (like almost toppled Cas for 1st place favorite). I really liked Lucifer. When they brought him back officially in season 11 I was ecstatic. Then they kept him in 12, but his personality wasn't the same. Then 13. It just really ruined the character for me, and I wish they just let him get his closure in 11 before ending his storyline completely. But no. They just. Kept. Bringing. Him. Back. And now he's like a whole different character entirely. I hate it. I miss old Lucifer :( Sorry for the rant

15. Do you think they should end the Lucifer plot line?

Lucifer is dead, so technically it's already over. But I would be really upset if they brought him back if that answers that question.

16. Who do you think has gone through more trauma (Sam, Dean, or Cas)?

It's not a contest.

17. What’s your favorite Supernatural episode?

It's a tie between Stuck in the Middle (With You) (12x12) and Lazarus Rising (4x01)

18. Do you like case episodes?

Yes. It reminds me of Old Supernatural, and it's just nice to see the boys helping people no matter what. End of the world be damned that lady has a poltergeist and hell, if they aren't gonna help her who will?

19. Who do you relate most to in TFW?

Dean. I dont know if it's the music, the cars, billiards, humor, cowboy obsession, or being a closeted bisexual, but we've got a lot in common.

20. Why do you like Supernatural?

It's such a unique show. When I first joined the fandom, and I saw the tag SPN family, I was like haha sure. But once I got involved, holy hell. Absolutely no fandom is like the Supernatural fandom. Yes we may have our differences in opinions, ships, characters, but everyone here loves this show. And I love everyone here. It really does feel like a family. This is kind of the same reason I adore the show. The theme of found family, and the way that Team Free Will will always find a better way because that's what they do. I love this fucking show and I love this fandom. Thank you

21. If you could bring back one character and kill off another who would they be?

G o o d b y e  N i c k. I would like one (1) Gabriel back please

Tagging @aloha-cowgirl @malevolent-dean @moosesquirrelandwings @cas-you-assbutt-dean-needs-you @trenchcoatsandfreckles and whoever else wants to play