#maurice beverly

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fartz

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Gates McFadden discusses her departure at the end of the first season of TNG (x)

[goodblacknews]

MUSIC MONDAY: "Golden Time of Day" - A Tribute to Frankie Beverly Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Being your groove chauffeur at GBN is the closest I’ll ever come to having a blog or column. In the years I’ve pecked write-ups for these Music Monday playlists, I have often discovered new tracks and artists in an attempt to be comprehensive in my collections. I have more than once received wonderful…

[pixiereblogs]

Pixie Recaps Picard | The Next Generation

[cultfaction]

Torture Garden (1967)

Torture Garden, a horror anthology film released in 1967, stands as a mesmerising example of the genre’s penchant for weaving macabre tales that captivate and terrify audiences. Directed by Freddie Francis, the film weaves together a series of chilling stories centered around a mysterious carnival sideshow. In this article, we will delve into the film’s gripping plot, the talented cast that…

[infernalrampage]

beverly stares at him like it is a big question. her green eyes narrowing and she shakes her head. no would not be the answer she was taking today.

" save your money, i just wanna talk. "

"how much to make you go away?" he opens his wallet.

OPEN STARTER

[astoldbychae]

Carmelo (and his cousins TJ & Ashanti).

It took forever and a day for Melo and TJ to stop goofin' around so they could get the shot (clearly Ashanti was OVER it!)...but we got it!

Backstory below the cut

These two are literally his right-hand and left-hand women. When I say he would go to war over his girls...Listen, he doesn't play about the women in his life. That's really all he's ever been around (his aunt, cousins, ex-wife and now his girlfriend and daughters...He's always been outnumbered!)

✨He was raised by his Aunt Beverly & Uncle Maurice (which are Ashanti & TJ's parents). His mom passed away when he was in the 1st grade and he didn't have a relationship with his dad. He has a plethora of siblings on his dad's side but he isn't close with them. His Uncle was a Paramedic (that's who inspired him to become a Paramedic/Firefighter)

✨ Melo is the oldest (33), Ashanti is 30, then there's TJ who's 27. He's close with both of them but TJ was literally his shadow growing up. He's the reason she loves basketball as much as she does. They used to get in trouble for staying out past curfew (cause they were challenging each other to dunk contest and shit!). She's a shooting guard for the Del Sol Valley Suns, so it definitely paid off!

✨ Ashanti is married to Mekhi (Monet's older brother) and they have an infant daughter (Jacquelyn) together.

✨ TJ is (secretly) engaged to her short-term girl friend, Deijah (they met a few months ago on a dating app and it's been going well). Although things are moving pretty fast, they aren't in a rush to walk down the aisle just yet. They currently live on opposite ends of the simverse and have pretty busy schedules, so adding wedding planning to the mix (right now) is a bit much. They are content with being in love and being engaged.

Mel & Jacquelyn (Ashanti & Mekhi's daughter) Chile, those Giordano genes are STRONG!

POSES USED FOR FAMILY PHOTOS: One // Two // Three // Four

[episodicnostalgia]

Star Trek: The Next Generation, 125 (May 16, 1988) - “The Neutral Zone”

Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley Story by: Deborah McIntyre & Mona Clee Directed by: James L. Conway

The Breakdown

This is one of those “multiple story lines going on at the same time” episodes, so first let’s deal with…

Plotline  #1 – After the Enterprise scanners pick up an old earth space capsule that piques Data’s interest, he and Worf decide to hop over and take a look. There they find three preserved bodies in cryonic chambers, which are beamed over to sick bay.  Turns out these three bodies have been sitting out in space since the late 20th century, y’know, from 25 years ago when people began the common practice of preserving their deceased loved ones (it was like Tamagotchi’s, everyone was doing it) in the hope of reviving them when medical science had advanced far enough.  That’s right, I said deceased.  These three people were frozen at the exact moment of their death (that’s gotta be tricky to pull off), and now revived 300 years by Dr. Beverly Crusher herself; their company is comprised of a Rich Guy who played the stock market, A mother of two, and a drug addicted musician. 

The episode follows the newly resurrected boomers, as they grapple with the fact that they’ve jumped 300+ years into the future, and that their loved ones are all dead, etc. The Rich dude (Ralph ) has a particularly hard time coping with the fact that his fortune is both nonexistent and (even if it weren’t) meaningless, since the pursuit of wealth and power no longer holds any sway in the post-scarcity 24th century. The mother (Clare) understandably spends most of the runtime being depressed, until Troi points out that she has a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson, who will undoubtedly welcome his displaced ancient ancestor with open arms. Lastly, the musician (Sonny) pretty much stays a lecherous, sexist, alcoholic, but he’s mostly having a good time enjoying the replicators and hanging out with his new guitar. At various points they inconvenience Picard (who’s dealing with more important things in the other plotline), but mostly they kind of sit around as the Enterprise crew smugly judge them for being ignorant and confused, until they’re transferred to another ship that will take them back to earth and become someone else’s problem.

Plotline #2 -  Starfleet outposts along the Neutral Zone (the established border between the Federation and the Romulan Empire) are being destroyed, and Picard has been ordered to check out if the Romulans are to blame.  Most of the Episode deals with Picard getting the bridge crew to study the Romulans so they can form a strategy, but that’s easier said than done, since it’s been decades since anyone has heard from them.

Anyways, when they finally arrive along the edge of ‘the zone’, Worf makes a shocking revelation that their outposts aren’t destroyed, but rather completely missing, since there would be some sign of debris otherwise.  Shortly thereafter a Romulan ship decloaks, and their captain explains to Picard that their outposts are also missing, and figured it was the Federation’s doing, but now realize it must have been someone-or-something else. Thankfully cooler heads prevail, and both sides agree to collaborate on solving this mystery later on, and then leave, but not before making a thinly-veiled threat that they’ll be back to cause more trouble down the road.

So, on that disconcerting note, the Enterprise optimistically heads back to its regular business because this is the finale, and we need to wrap things up until next season!

The Verdict

The thing is, both plot outlines have plenty of potential, in their own right.  A story about displaced-wealthy-20th-century-folk struggling to fit into a society that has no place for their ideologies, is a perfect theme for Star Trek. And I’ll admit, there’s every chance that the execution of such a story would come off as pretentious and out-of-touch as anything else the show put out during this season, but even a failed attempt would be interesting to watch… provided of course that it was the primary focus of the episode.  My biggest issue wasn’t how hilariously proud of itself the Hurley's script is for criticizing capitalism (while we’re at it, did you know slavery and genocide are also bad? Follow me, for more deep insights!), but rather that the story doesn’t really go anywhere, or do anything with the subject matter.

Ralph (the survivor with the most screen time) is arrogant and demeaning to the crew because he’s used to getting his own way, and we are made to understand that his love of money is directly tied to his character flaws, which is fine, but then what? At one point there’s a scene where he disregards Picard’s orders (to calm the fuck down and stay out of the way), and chooses to intrude on bridge just in time to see the Romulans being space-jerks, but there are no real consequences or thematic correlation, rendering the moment pointless. In the end Ralph seemingly resigns himself to accepting his new lot in life, but has nothing in the way of a meaningful epiphany to help him reach that point. Clare and Sonny both have similarly meandering “journeys” as well. Clare ultimately takes comfort in knowing she has living a descendant (who doesn’t know her, or share any cultural values), while Sonny just happily concludes that since everyone he knows is dead, he doesn’t need to worry about facing any accountability for his past (and seemingly hurtful) life choices.  Remember kids, the secret to finding inner peace is in outliving everyone you've ever wronged!

Meanwhile, the “Romulans-are-back” story line is conceptually more exciting, but it takes almost the entire episode for anything to happen. The most intriguing development is the revelation that some other unknown entity may pose a threat big enough to challenge both the Federation and Romulan empire simultaneously, but then it’s quickly tossed away in favour of a generalized tease about the Romulans stepping up as the show’s primary antagonist. It’s not so much that it’s bad, but like the “boomers-in-space” story, it doesn’t really go anywhere, leaving us with what is essentially a promise that more interesting episodes will continue the story “some other time.”

Now before anyone gets up in arms, yes I am aware that this episode was originally intended as the first in a multi-episode arc, before the writers strike forced them to rework their plan [more on this below].  Be that as it may, even if part 2 had both A) existed, and B) rocked hard, this is still a weakly structured episode.  That’s not to say I hated ‘the neutral zone’ altogether, but I certainly can’t say I thought it was good. 

Nice try guys, maybe next time.

1.5 stars (out of 5)

Parting Thoughts

Apathetic utopia: One thing that doesn’t sit right with me is the sheer disregard that Picard and many of his crew show for the space-boomer’s safety and well being. For starters, Riker was barely willing to let Data check out the capsule to begin with (even after Data points out that it could have historical value, if nothing else), but even after Data and Worf discover the bodies, Riker seems put out by Data’s insistence that they be preserved.  Then, to make matters worse, when Picard hears that the SB’s have been revived he’s downright irritable with Data, arguing that he should have left the survivors behind because “they WERE dead at the time.”  But like… here’s the thing, Dr. Crusher examined their bodies and discovered that all of them could be revived with relative ease, which suggests they were only clinically dead, and it’s commonly accepted that the window of revival in the Trek universe is significantly larger than our present day reality.  So yeah, they were technically dead, I suppose, but not irretrievably, which I would argue comes with a clear moral responsibility. The context for Picard’s ambivalence toward the situation is that he’s stressed about the upcoming Romulan mission, but that’s still an oddly callous stance for a man who professes the sanctity of life.

Silly things I find interesting: Introducing, the Borg! …kinda.  I can’t remember if the missing outposts are ever mentioned again in the show, but the intended continuation of this story was originally meant to serve as an introduction to the Borg, who would have been revealed as the true culprits. Obviously that didn’t pan out, but it’s interesting to think what might have been.

In fairness to the writers, a big part of why the script was so lacklustre is, once again, due to the strike. Basically, once a writers strike is underway, productions aren’t allowed to make any changes to a script until the union signs an agreement. Knowing the strike was imminent, it seems Maurice Hurley had no choice but to whip up a completed script based on the first draft, in only a couple days time.  Needless to say, the results speak for themselves.  Ultimately, I think it would have made more sense for the studio to keep the script for the following season; ‘Conspiracy’ was already a much more exciting episode, and would have served as a stronger season finale.

Did you know that... in Canada (where I'm from) our "Universal health coverage" still doesn't cover cryogenic suspension. So reach out to your MP and let them know we demand better comprehensive coverage before the next federal election! [All kidding aside, we should be doing that anyway. Seriously, how is dental not inherently included in that?]

[ronanlynchian]

break rhythm here: your kiss is my justice masterpost

break rhythm here is my modern au enjoltaire fic where enjolras is a brit lit professor with weird roots, him and grantaire hook up, they accidentally ghost each other, and everything works out! it's still currently a work in progress, but you can read it here !!!

if you're here *from the fic*, welcome divas! this is a masterpost of everything that's been referenced so far-- including LINKS! hit the see more; i'll also be updating this post as i update the fic :)

here is the playlist where you can listen to every song i've referenced :)

title: a poem of love in eleven lines - gerrit lansing

chapter one:

ulysses - alfred, lord tennyson (title and ref'd in-text)

chapter two:

grace - jeff buckley

transatlanticism - death cab for cutie

lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd)

mojo pin - jeff buckley

chapter three:

lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd)

chapter four:

grace - jeff buckley (title)

maurice - e.m. forster

chapter five:

you & i - jeff buckley (title)

mojo pin - jeff buckley (again)

farewell, my queen - chantal thomas (no link, sorry friends)

everybody here wants you - jeff buckley

the burning heart - louise gluck

marriage morning - alfred, lord tennyson

the princess bride (no link again)

chapter six:

nightmares by the sea - jeff buckley (title)

letters between henry miller & anais nin

THE alex turner/alexa chung love letter

chapter seven:

the ghosts of beverly drive - death cab for cutie (title)

mortal kombat 9 (no link sorry)

wuthering heights - emily bronte

villette - charlotte bronte

the tenant of wildfell hall - anne bronte

jane eyre - charlotte bronte

frankenstein - mary shelley

an ideal husband - oscar wilde

emma - jane austen

playing it cool (no link sorry)

so we'll go no more a roving - lord byron guiding star - benjamin gibbard (even tho i don't specify, this is the song that r plays him)

panthea - oscar wilde

since feeling is first - e.e. cummings

to you - frank o'hara

chapter eight:

thousand fold - jeff buckley (title)

the birthday of the world - marge piercy

a birthday - christina rossetti

salvation - bell hooks

the new remorse - oscar wilde

the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera

greek love-talk - rainer maria rilke

for hans carossa - rainer maria rilke

[dekuneta]

Bi mout

[misterfeller]

the cryptic asks are fun :)

you'll never know who i am

mainly because we're not mutuals and i dont follow anyone, so i'm invisible to you

so uh

you can call me whatever you want

ohhh okay!!!! i thought you would be one of my mutuals. you kind of remind me of faggot mouse. i am okay with more cryptic asks this is so fun yay! deciding what to call you is going to be really hard bc i barely know anything about you. i have this stupid thing in my phone where it gives me cats and i name them. maybe you could look through them and see if any names feel like you. i would put screenshots of all the names here but there would be too many. i will copy and paste some for you. under the cut bc there are 5 million even with some taken out

a kiss without the moustache is like an egg without salt

agate

al crane

alabaster

alberta

aldebaran

alexandra vondude

alfie

alma

andromeda

aphid

arnold babatunji

arthur

aziraphale

baas kwaadwillig

bat masterson

bcos

beach ball

bebop

betty

beverly

big audrey

big louise

billy brown

billy the phantom bellboy

birdie

blubbert

blynken

bobby

bobo botn

bora karaca

bruce bunyip

cab calloway

captain buffalo birnbaum

carl azuz

cassiopeia

catskills

catsup

chase

chick the cherub

chicken nancy

chris harrington

clarinda quackenboss

clive montague

colonel ken krenwinkle

copper

cordelia

crowley

d'artagnan

dandelion

darlin companion

davy

davy jones

dawn

deady bye bye

dinner

dionne

dirty bobby

doris

dot

dr. charlotte

electric larry

elizabeth van vreemdeling

elizatryst

erlking

eunice

fancy

fats waller

flapsur

flop

flossie

floyd

flying saucer

ford

found

francine

francis

frankanon

frosted mini spooners

fuffy

ganymede

gee wilikers

gizmodgery

gladys

gloopy

gnash

go to bed

good

goopy bloppy drippy sparkly

gradene

gwendolyn marshrat

hammersmith odeon

harold boonstangle

her majesty

hergeschleimer

hootenanny

horatius birnbaum

hot dog supper

ichabod

iggy birnbaum

irving

japonica

jason

jaws

juno

jurgen leitner

k spar

kitty nebelstreif

leitmotif

little bunny foo foo

live at the beeb

lola

louis

lullabye

mab

magic

maple leaf rag

marlon

mary

matches

maurice

melvin

meowy

milk

millicent

minnie the moocher

molly o'malley

moly b. denum

molybdenum

monkberry moon delight

mr bloodvessel

mr moon

mr moonlight

mr. plumbean

mrs. wimpydimple

ms. magistra

muffin man

nash

neddie wentworthstein

nick bluegum

nod

odds bodkins

nick bluegum

nod

odds bodkins

opal

orion

orthoclase feldspar

pajama

paloma

pearl

peppernut

percy "thrills" thrillington

peterkins

pickled pepper

pierre

pizza pie

plagioclase feldspar

pleistocene

polly pocket

potassium feldspar

povitica

prairiedog birnbaum

presyncope

prime meridian

professor tag

rex the wonder horse

ricky

rip van winkle

roberta

roger van tussenvuxel

ronnie wolfspit

rural

sadie

sally

samuel klugarsh

sandor eucalyptus

sargent caleb

satin spar

scarecrow

seamus finn

serutan yob

shangri-la

sheridan

sholmos bunyip

sinister

smokey joe

sorghum

space station level 7

sparkle

spookhuizen

sporty

stella octangula

steve craft

strega nona

suzie bunny boo boo

sweetie

syncope

the baritone buckaroo

thine

time machine

topsy

tough bananas

uncle borgel

valentine

wah watusi

wallace

wanda

weer

wendell

whorlygig

wicked anabella

wing ding

winnifred

wolluf

woofy davis

woopty doo

wynken

yggdrasil birnbaum

zaphod beeblebrox

zooxanthellae

[graceandfamily]

Related to Los Angeles Times article, "City of Hope Pays Tribute to Four L.A. Publishers." 24 Oct. 1955: A1. Richard A. Carrington Jr., David W. Hearst, Maurice Kantro, Grace Kelly, Philip Chandler, Virgil Pinkley, and Neil Petree, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills for the City of Hope's annual award banquet honoring Los Angeles' four major newspapers for their contributions to community betterment.

[fibula-rasa]

Torture Garden (1967)  

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Freddie Francis

Cinematographer: Norman Warwick

Performers: Michael Ripper, Maurice Denham, Catherine Finn, Michael Bryant, Nicole Shelby, Beverly Adams, Robert Hutton, Ursula Howells, Barbara Ewing, & Burgess Meredith

[pixiereblogs]

Pixie Recaps Picard | Võx

[willgrahamsbecoming]

despite the abundance of hannigram content out there my brain has gone and gotten attached to a silly little rarepair so i present to you: my silly little will graham/frederick chilton "fake" marriage au!

it's got the general setting of the edwardian era since i was thinking about maurice when planning it but i'm not sticking to that too strictly, this is just a self-indulgent fic

some other significant characters in future chapters include freddie lounds, margot verger, and probably beverly katz!

chapter 1 is posted here:

[einsteinsugly]

Bernard "Buddy" Chase Morgan

Date of Birth: May 5, 1960

Parents: Bernard "Bern" Morgan and Beverly "Bev" Chase.

Siblings: Suzanne Silva (nee Morgan) (born 1956) and Julia Velasco (nee Morgan) (born 1958).

Nieces and Nephews: Nicole "Nikki" Velasco (born 1979), Kristen Silva (born 1986), Morgan Silva (born 1989), Jeremy Silva (born 1991)

Adopted children: Kevin Maurice Acosta (born 1984) (Vic's son), Daniel "Danny" Victor Acosta (born 1987) (Vic's son), Lily Hope Morgan-Acosta (born 1999)

Personality type: ENFP, 3w4.

Known Romances: Fez (July-August 1985; fling), Victor "Vic" Acosta (partner, 1989-2014. Husband, 2014-present)

Occupation: Advocacy lawyer (like father, like son).

Locations: Point Place, Wisconsin (1960-1978), Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1978-1990), Chicago, Illinois (1990-present)