#meryl please marry me i need it so bad | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

jamesginortonblog · 5 years ago

Text

No one could accuse James Norton of allowing himself to be typecast. The 34-year-old has played a vicar-turned-sleuth in Grantchester, a violent rapist in Happy Valley, and the aristocratic hero of War & Peace. He’s also number three in the betting to be the new James Bond. And he’s just about to add to his library of opposites with two new roles: the staid tutor John Brooke, who marries Emma Watson’s Meg March, in the star-studded new film adaptation of Little Women; and the flamboyant real-life figure at the centre of the Profumo scandal – Stephen Ward – in BBC One’s The Trial of Christine Keeler.

“Ward was 100 per cent the fall guy,” says Norton, sporting a dark-blue crushed velvet jacket and settling in on a chaise longue in an upmarket London hotel. The actor looks every bit as debonair as you’d expect for a man playing the high-society osteopath with connections that ran from Soho to the aristocracy. “The government needed to clear their own name by tarnishing someone else’s.”

It was Ward who introduced the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War John Profumo (Ben Miles) to 19-year-old model and showgirl Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson) at a party at Lord Astor’s country house estate of Cliveden in 1961. It led to an affair that exposed Profumo as a security threat – thanks to Keeler’s simultaneous relationship with a Russian naval attaché.

Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies (Ellie Bamber) often stayed at Ward’s London mews flat, and the 50-year-old former public schoolboy would later be prosecuted for living off immoral earnings in a dubious case of establishment revenge. The two had contributed small amounts to household expenses. Ward committed suicide after the judge’s summing up amounted to a direction to the jury to find him guilty.

Amanda Coe’s stylish, evocative drama establishes Keeler and Rice-Davies as sexually liberated young women for their time. Does Norton think they were victims? “Ward definitely used certain relationships he had with young, beautiful women to ingratiate himself with the wealthy elite,” he says. “He also groomed them to a point… but it’s too simplistic to say he was a man who groomed young women. His relationship with these young girls was often a very positive one, he would enable them, take them out of poverty.” Keeler was from a disadvantaged background and fitted the mould of the “alley cats” Ward liked to befriend. Norton gives a terrific performance as the sleazy Pygmalion.

“I really warmed to him… you fall in love with these characters, and Stephen Ward was way ahead of his time, so brave in how he lived his life and expressed himself, his sexual tastes, his flirting with cross-dressing, in a world that was still incredibly repressed.

“And the final reckoning was that Stephen Ward had somehow corrupted these Tory ministers and it was all his fault, which is absurd.”

I wonder if Norton, the son of a retired college lecturer and a mother who taught medical ethics, is as dazzled by the truly posh as Ward was.

“Wealth or class are not things that I’m particularly dazzled by,” he says. “I am by talent.” He cites Little Women director Greta Gerwig and her partner Noah Baumbach, who made Netflix’s Marriage Story, as an example.

Norton himself is part of a powerhouse acting couple, with British star Imogen Poots, whom he became close to when they starred together in a play in 2017. They seem very happy. “It’s good,” he says, but adds, “my personal life is very normal, I have a house in Peckham, my [parents] live in Yorkshire. There's very little glamour and scandal.”

There was a little bit of the latter when his previous girlfriend, actress Jessie Buckley, said their break-up had been “acrimonious”, but Norton is far too canny to add fuel to that particular fire.

Similarly, he won’t comment on the rumours linking him to James Bond, insisting they are “based on nothing”. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have strong opinions on the series in general.

“We all know that with James Bond, large parts of it, and all the versions of it in the past, are now antiquated and it needs to be updated,” he says. “And I think that Barbara Broccoli and the producers are very aware of that. Bringing in people like Phoebe Waller-Bridge can only help.”

Might the spy be a little too one-dimensional for someone who has taken on so many interesting parts? Daniel Craig, who is stepping aside after the latest film No Time To Die comes out in April, has often seemed unhappy with the role.

“If I was to take on a franchise,” Norton says, “I would always want to complement it with something completely different.”

He has just taken on a big HBO sci-fi series, The Nevers, he says, and is in negotiations with the BBC about doing a second series of McMafia. We chat about the fact that the first series attracted a measure of criticism, including some for his own performance as Alex Godman, the scion of a Russian mafia family drawn reluctantly into the underworld. “There was an article about the three wooden faces of James Norton,” he says with a laugh.

How did he take it?

“It’s a rite of passage that you have [bad reviews],” he replies. “Ultimately, it’s an art form which is deeply subjective and you’re never going to please everyone.” The character was intended to be “inscrutable and calcified”, he adds. Nevertheless, he admits he might play it slightly differently second time around.

“Yeah, possibly,” he says. “But, then again, you don’t want to pander to the people who didn’t like it. There's so much content out there that people who don't like it can go and find something else.”

One of the factors that Norton and director James Watkins agreed upon when sketching out Godman’s background was his public school education. Norton is a public school boy too; a former pupil of Ampleforth, the leading Catholic boarding school which was found to have covered up the sexual abuse of scores of children in a devastating report in 2018.

Norton never saw any wrongdoing during his time there, but does admit to being “quite badly bullied” and credits one of the monks - a Father Peter - with helping him get through it. “I was able to go and just talk to him and he basically became my therapist,” says Norton. “I just sort of sobbed my eyes out.”

Has it left a mark? “It probably has a bit,” he says. “It’s not defined me, but it has informed who I am. I’m hyper aware if someone is being in any way ostracised on a film set, for example.”

On Little Women, he found himself on set with some of the industry’s biggest names, including Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep and Laura Dern. The film’s a deliriously romantic and sentimental take on the novel’s sibling rivalries, but it takes its duty to Louisa May Alcott’s study of the economic subjection of women seriously. “It's important for us to go back to those punctuation marks in the struggle towards equality and recognise how far we've come, but also how we're not quite there yet,” Norton says.

He and Watson were given the task of writing their own marriage vows for the film, which he says he laboured over but arrived with them unfinished to discover that Watson had already written hers and they were beautiful. He was just young enough to read the early Harry Potter books, he notes, but has only seen a couple of the films – “Don’t tell Emma.”

He plays Chalamet’s tutor – did he fancy the 23-year-old as everyone else seems to right now? He smiles. “He’s a beguiling and bizarre, unique force of nature,” he says. Norton had been wondering about wearing a suit to today’s photoshoot, but is glad he didn’t as he’s just bumped into the younger man in a Gorillaz tee-shirt and sunglasses. “Whenever he’s around, I feel about 10 years older than I am.”

Among all its bold women, I wonder if his own character – John Brooke – is just a teeny bit dull. He laughs. “He’s a little quieter than some of the other characters, but that allowed me to just witness all these great women actors. It was incredible.”

There’s certainly nothing dull or quiet about the character he plays in the film Mr Jones, which is released in February. It’s the surprisingly little-known story of Gareth Jones, the journalist who uncovered the Holodomor – the man-made famine genocide inflicted by the Soviet Union upon Ukraine in 1932-33, which is estimated to have killed up to 7.5 million people. “He blew the whistle on the Soviet Union,” says Norton. “He was the first person to go [to Ukraine], and come back and tell the world.”

In the West, the economic crash of 1929 had led to the Great Depression. “Everyone was looking at the Soviet experiment thinking, ‘Oh, it's working’,” Norton says. “They were getting into bed with Stalin and trade deals were being made. And no one was calling them out. Until this one serious, bespectacled, earnest Welsh journalist got on a train and risked his life to blow the whistle.”

I wonder if those types of films can command a big enough audience to keep getting made? He accepts that independent cinema is in a period of shrinkage, but says, “while the audience for this type of film might not be as big as a Marvel movie, we have to protect those stories because film isn't just about escapism. It's also about education.”

#james norton #little women #the trial of christine keeler #mr jones #interviews

15 notes · View notes

angrylizardjacket · 5 years ago

Text

Asher Kids Do An Interview

Choose an OC.

Answer them as that OC.

Tag 5 people to do the same.

Tagging @siriuslymooned @sam-writes @toplesstaylor @rogerandhishair and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!!

[aydtd]

Note: Astrid is the oldest. Cate is the middlest. Barney is the youngest.

1. What is your name?

Cate: Cate Taylor.

Barney: Barney Clarke- Taylor... Sun.

Astrid: Astrid Taylor.

2. Do you know why are you named that?

Cate: It’s short for Catherine.

Astrid: Is that what it’s short for?

Cate: Shut up.

Barney: What are you short for?

Astrid: That’s just how I grew.

Barney: You grew?

Astrid: I didn’t come out of ma at five-foot nothin’, yeah I fuckin’ grew, ya turnip.

Cate: Barney’s short for Barnabus.

Astrid: Barney’s short for a giant.

Barney: Taller than both of you.

Astrid: Taller than everyone.

Cate: ’s not difficult to be taller than Trid.

Astrid: Shut it; Barney what’s the deal with your last name?

Barney: Clarke is my professional name, I was born a Taylor, and I married into Sun. So legally I’m Barnabus Sun-Taylor, but I’m usually credited professionally as Barney Clarke.

Astrid: Huh. Nice; I didn’t realise you and Mickey [Barney’s partner] hyphenated. I’m named Astrid ‘cos dad liked how it sounded.

3. Are you single or taken?

Barney: Taken. [Barney wiggles the fingers off his left hand, to show where a wedding ring sits neatly on his ring finger.]

Cate: Taken? Taken. Not married though, almost made that mistake before.

Astrid: Single as.

4. Have any abilities or powers?

[There’s a long silence, the three of them look at one another with confusion.]

Barney: I played a superhero once.

Astrid: Oh yeah, you were good in that, what was it-?

Barney: X-Men.

Cate: Did you really forget X-Men?

Astrid: He’s been in a lot of movies!

5. Stop being a Mary Sue.

Cate: The next time you read an alcoholic, lesbian, disaster Mary Sue, can you please send me a link?

Astrid: Hey!

Barney: I’m pretty sure it’s ‘Gary Stu’ for me?

Cate: You’re not a Gary Stu... Actually-

Astrid: Maybe a little?

Barney: I’m successful, there’s a difference, I think.

Cate: (amused) Did you put yourself through the litmus test?

Astrid: There’s a litmus test?

6. What’s your eye color?

Astrid: Blue.

Cate: Blue.

Barney: Ma’s eyes all the way; green.

7. How about your hair color?

Barney: Ginger.

Cate: I dunno, I think I’d consider myself a strawberry blonde.

Astrid: We’re a weird sliding scale between mum and dad; I’ve got dad’s blonde hair.

8. Have any family members?

[They look at each other with amusement.]

Astrid: (sarcastically) No, I’ve never seen these people before in my life.

9. Oh? How about pets?

Cate: My daughter’s been asking about getting a dog and I’m pretty sure Joe’s gonna get her one if he gets wind of how much she wants it.

Astrid: God, imagine her little face if Joe gets her a puppy, oh Christ.

Cate: She’d cry, she’d absolutely cry, like happy tears but... oh, God I’m gonna get a dog aren’t I?

Barney: Pets are great; I love Sir more every day.

Astrid: I hope [Cate’s] dog is nothing like Sir, that cat is an asshole-

Barney: Only to you.

Astrid: Barn, your cat is an asshole.

Barney: You’re an asshole.

10. That’s cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don’t like?

Astrid: Barney’s fucking cat.

Barney: Astrid.

Cate: Calm down you babies. I don’t like wearing high heels.

Astrid: Seconded.

Barney: Thirded.

11. Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do?

Barney: I box.

Astrid: That’s your go-to, isn’t it?

Barney: Fine, I also enjoy swimming, spending time with Mickey, and mixing drinks.

Cate: That’s cute.

Astrid: I enjoy drinking the drinks he mixes.

Cate: That’s less cute.

Barney: Drinking isn’t a hobby.

Astrid: Alright, I enjoy going to pubs to listen to music, driving fast cars, and spending time with pretty people.

Cate: Yeah, that checks out. I don’t have a lot of time for hobbies, though I play music, my bass mostly, and, ah, studying languages I guess. And spending time with Claud [her daughter], obviously.

12. Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before?

Astrid: Bar fights, mostly. Smacked a few assholes who’ve heckled Barn’s movies while I’m trying to watch them.

Barney: That’s actually kind of sweet. I’ve only been in one bar fight, and Trid finished that guy off, but other than that, and a few stunts gone wrong, a few hits in boxing, not really.

Cate: (visibly uncomfortable) Not, uh, not physically.

13. Ever… killed anyone before?

Astrid: What the fuck? No.

14. What kind of animal are you?

Cate: I think I’m a meerkat.

[Astrid immediately raises her hands up to her chest like paws, perking up and looking around, imitating a meerkat. Cate smiles, and imitates the gesture.]

Barney: Yeah, I can see it. Trid’s that terribly taxidermied- ah, [he pulls out his phone, and taps away at the screen for a moment] cheetah!

[Astrid shoves him, but both he and Cate are laughing.]

Astrid: You’re your asshole cat.

15. Name your worst habits?

Barney: Oh, Mickey actually hit the nail on the head when we did the Husband Tag on their channel the other day- follow Mickey, they’re sunteamick, all one word, on YouTube.

Cate: What did they say?

Barney: I’m too unperturbed.

Astrid: You’re too chill?

Barney: They said I’m a danger to myself because of it; got hit in the face at boxing a few months ago, broke my nose - not the first time, but still not pleasant - and went home instead of to the hospital because I didn’t think it was that bad. It wasn’t; I still should have gone to hospital but it wasn’t that bad. Much worse things could have happened, it’s just a nose.

Cate: You need to be more perturbed?

Barney: I need to be more perturbed.

Astrid: Being unperturbed isn’t exactly a habit.

Barney: I also leave the cap off the toothpaste after I use it.

Cate: That’s bad and you should feel bad.

Barney: I do, but I’ll never change. It perturbs Mickey.

Astrid: My worst habit is that - I’m a stunt driver sometimes, right, and I do mad dangerous stunts, and every time I get injured or have like, a near death experience, I don’t think like ‘oh maybe I should slow down’, I think ‘how long until I can get this fuckin’ cast off and get back behind the wheel?’.

Cate: You’re an adrenaline junkie.

Astrid: But only with dangerous car stunts.

Barney: You perturb me.

Astrid: Good.

Cate: I bite my nails.

16. Do you look up to anyone at all?

Astrid: Physically or metaphorically?

Barney: You look up to everyone physically.

[Note; Barney Clarke is 6′4. Astrid Taylor is 5′0.]

Cate: Our parents, obviously. They’re very successful, and have been through a lot. I grew up idolising them because they’re my parents, but as I came to know more about them as people, it was just natural to idolise them as people too.

Barney: Yeah, mum and dad, also Alec Baldwin.

Cate: Alec Baldwin, really? I wouldn’t have picked that.

Barney: Did you see him in Streetcar? [he hums appreciatively] That man’s career, his talent, all the stuff of legend. Meryl Streep, too.

Cate: Yeah no, I get that.

Astrid: Meryl Streep can get it.

17. Are you gay, straight or bisexual?

Barney: Uh, I’m pan?

Cate: I’m probably on the asexual spectrum, I haven’t thought about it in a while. Not aromantic though, I guess I’d be bi or pan romantic? Queer. I’m queer.

Astrid: I’m- look at me, I’m a whole damn lesbian.

18. Do you go to school?

Astrid: I take a few classes here and there, but I actually didn’t finish high school, dropped out in Year 10 with my parent’s blessing and started working as a mechanic.

Cate: I haven’t studied in a while but I have a Masters in Public Relations.

Astrid: And she speaks like eight languages.

Cate: Five.

Astrid: Still, you’re a very impressive lady.

Cate: Thanks, Trid.

Barney: I finished high school, but I’ve been working pretty steadily since then, don’t have a degree or anything.

19. Ever want to marry and have kids one day?

Cate: I’ve got Claud, I almost married her dad, but... but that would have been bad for everyone. I’m not in a hurry to get married, let’s say.

Barney: Mickey and I don’t really want to be parents just yet, maybe one day, but we’re happy just spoiling Claud when we can.

Astrid: Oh, absolutely seconded; that kid is terrifyingly sweet for how spoiled she is.

Barney: She’s so great.

Cate: She really is.

20. Do you have any fangirls/fanboys?

Astrid: I run a Barney stan account on Twitter.

Barney: Really?

Astrid: Fuck no, but he does actually have fans.

Cate: I guess we all have fans in our own way, but a lot of that, like minus Barney, who’s genuinely a star, is more because of mum and dad.

Astrid: Imagine if Claud grows up to be a Queen stan on tumblr.

Cate: That’s horrifying.

21. What are you most afraid of?

Cate: The concept of Claud finding smut about Joe.

Astrid: The concept that Cate’s found and read smut about Joe.

Barney: Why would she need it? Couldn’t she just-

Astrid: Maybe before they were together?

Cate: I hate you both.

Barney: Well, that’s not a ‘no I haven’t read smut about my boyfriend’. Also I’m afraid of submarines.

Astrid: Submarines?

Barney: The big hole in the front of them gives me anxiety.

22. What do you usually wear?

Barney: Astrid doesn’t get to answer this one because she doesn’t know what fashion is, and dresses like a single dad in the middle of his mid-life crisis.

[Astrid shrugs but keeps quiet; her shorts have oil stains on them.]

Barney: Good. I’m a fan of colourful button-downs and slacks.

Astrid: Gucci [pronounced Gucky, like ducky but with a G] button-downs, you mean.

Barney: (quietly, but with a lot of feeling) I hate you.

[Cate is laughing too hard to answer. She wears a pastel sweater and well fitting jeans.]

23. What’s one food that tempts you?

Astrid: Kracken Rum.

Cate: That doesn’t count as food.

Astrid: I’m not changing my answer.

Cate: Fine. Original Glaze Krispy Cream Donuts.

Barney: Like the ones dad used to buy us when we’d visit him on tour in America?

Cate: Yeah! God they’re good.

Barney: I’m always tempted by whatever Mickey cooks, though they don’t do it a lot. I usually cook. I enjoy it a lot.

24. Am I annoying to you?

Cate: No, you’re fine.

25. Well, it’s still not over!

Astrid: How many questions left?

26. What class are you (low/middle/high)?

[All three of them seem to become uncomfortable with the question.]

Cate: We- we’re comfortable. Our parents are Roger and Ash Taylor, we’ll always be comfortable.

27. How many friends do you have?

Cate: I’d say we’ve all got good circles - very different circles, sure-

Barney: If Astrid could stop collecting my pretty-boy costars that is.

Astrid: (smugly) It’s not my fault I’m good at making friends with your pretty-boy costars.

Barney: I’m glad people don’t realise we’re related, sometimes.

Astrid: Because I embarrass you?

Barney: (grumbling under his breath) Because everyone thinks you’re cooler than me.

Astrid: Men are so easy to get; look good, drive fast, and drink hard. Once they find out I’m gay and I can help wingman them really well, and maybe fix their cars, I’ve got ‘em, hook, line, and sinker.

Barney: That’s a bit of a generalisation, don’t you think?

Astrid: Fine; pretty boys in Hollywood are easy to get.

Barney: That much I’ll give you.

28. What are your thoughts on pie?

Cate: Actually, Barney, that apple pie you made for Easter was stunning, I was meaning to tell you.

Astrid: Easter was months ago.

Cate: I’ve been busy!

Barney: Thanks, I can send you the recipe if you like.

Cate: I’d never have the time to cook it.

Barney: I’ll make it for you again, then.

29. Favorite drink?

Astrid: Kracken. Rum.

Barney: Peanut butter and chocolate milkshake.

Cate: (again, uncomfortable) Orange juice, I guess.

30. What’s your favorite place?

Barney: The kitchen of my LA apartment, with a roast dinner in the oven and Mickey sitting at the kitchen island talking to me about their day.

Cate: Awww!

Astrid: That’s really sweet, Barn.

Cate: Well mine’s probably being side of stage at one of dad’s concerts with Claud with me.

Astrid: (quiet) Mine’s gonna sound stupid.

Cate: No, it’s- well, maybe.

Astrid: It’s just- I don’t really have like a favourite favourite place, you know? I have like, moments with people that just stick with me. Like, I shared a cigarette with Ben [Hardy] during one of Cate’s gigs and I just remember talking and laughing and looking up at the stars, and I could hear my talented as all fuck sister playing inside, and I just- it was lovely.

Cate: Trid...

Astrid: And you know, I do remember X-Men, you know? Because when you flew with that scream-thing you do in the movie? I fucking cried. I was so fucking proud, dude. My favourite place is in a cinema watching my little brother on the big screen, or at a bar watching my sister smash out some of the best rock and roll of our generation, or watching dad play, or seeing mum’s smile when she’s finally happy with an outfit- fuck, sorry I didn’t mean to get all sappy and shit.

Barney: No- Trid, no, don’t apologise.

31. Are you interested in anyone?

Astrid: Not in a long-term sense.

[Cate and Barney share a frown, before turning their identical ‘are you kidding me?’ looks on the interviewer.]

32. That was a stupid question…

Barney: Yeah, I’m married.

33. Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean?

Cate: Ocean, always the ocean.

Barney: Yeah, I’m with you on that one.

Astrid: But the ocean has submarines in it.

Barney: Well I can’t see them so it’s fine.

Astrid: Fair cop, I also have to say ocean.

34. What’s your type?

Astrid: (teasingly) Cate likes cute, goofy actors with dumb perms and big grins and-

Cate: Astrid likes all girls ever, especially if they buy her a drink.

Astrid: Guilty as charged.

Barney: Two opposite ends of the spectrum? Every girl ever and Joe Mazzello specifically?

Cate: ... Pretty much.

35. Any fetishes?

[Astrid opens her mouth, but Cate smacks her hand over her mouth.]

Cate: That’s information I don’t need to know about my sister, thanks.

Barney: (grinning) Bondage.

Astrid: (muffled) Nice.

Cate: Christ.

Barney: That’s the tame shit, Catie.

Cate: You are my Baby Brother, shut your mouth. Ow!

[Astrid has bitten Cate’s hand. She removes her hand from Astrid’s mouth.]

Barney: I’m a married man!

Cate: I don’t want to know what you guys are into, and I don’t want you to know what I’m into, okay? We all know too much about our own family, I’d like some modicum of privacy.

Astrid: Yeah, after you see your mum bare it all in a photoshoot from the seventies with Bowie, life does get a little weird.

Barney: Oh, I forgot about that. Okay, moving on.

36. Camping or outdoors?

Astrid: Camper van.

Barney: I like hiking, but not really camping.

Cate: Claud camps in the backyard sometimes, it’s fun to join her, sometimes we stargaze.

Astrid: That’s a grossly cute image to end on.

Barney: Does Joe stargaze with you guys?

Cate: (blushing) Once or twice. Claud fell asleep on him last time. It was pretty cute.

Astrid: Oh that’s actually really cute.

Cate: Yeah, it was.

#aydtd extended universe #ask your destiny to dance #the angry lizard writes #joe mazzello x oc

13 notes · View notes

punkscowardschampions · 5 years ago

Text

Ali & Tommy

Ali: TOM BOMB Ali: you will never guess what Tommy: you're adopted? CALLED IT Tommy: too fabulous for those heathens Ali: way to make my actual news look less 😏 Ali: isn't don't oversell it like rule #1 Ali: [sends cast list so its all official] Tommy: darling, breaking every rule is rule #1 Tommy: you ain't that adopted Tommy: OH MY SWEET LORD! YOU BETTER NOT BE TROLLING ME ALISON Tommy: I know your genius extends to photoshop pro but you mustn't use it for such evil Ali: who would I really be hurting with that troll, huh Ali: no one but myself Ali: but if its good enough for Queen Meryl 😁😁😁 Tommy: Preach it sister Ali: I'm so fucking excited I could burst Tommy: Meanwhile my school is putting Fanny and Alexander Tommy: like that Ingmar Bergman fever dream can or should be adapted for the stage Tommy: Jesus Christ Ali: we LOVE child abuse for a fun family night out Ali: guess the parentals like to be shown their money is being spent SERIOUSLY on SERIOUS theatré Tommy: The guardian voted it 8th best arthouse film OF ALL TIME therefore it must be worthy Tommy: I will not hesitate to put on a wig and replace you, Kit Tommy: before I do, 1 question Tommy: WHY AND HOW THE FUCK IS MEENA'S BROTHER NOT PLAYING THE SWEDISH LOTHARIO?!! Tommy: what is your casting director 🚬? Ali: I dread to think what 9 and 10 were 😏 Ali: must put them on my not-to-watch list Ali: 😂 Ro literally called it, we all know, I will uninvite you if you even THINK of upstaging me 😉 Ali: IKR its so funny Ali: maybe he thought he was being subversive casting a black guy Ali: but then I wouldn't have my role if that was his jam so 🤷 go off Tommy: Yeah HARD same 🙄😴 Tommy: you can try but I've sent a congrats text to Carls and she'll re-invite me Tommy: if he was the baby daddy the whole island would know but alright, like Ali: also true Ali: 😂 SERIOUSLY Ali: like hmm, I wonder where this white blonde blue eyed baby came from Ali: when you get diverse with your casting and the plot falls apart 😏 god bless, they're trying Tommy: that's WHY he cast Drew, he's being very catholic and trying to marry you off to the right man at the end Tommy: Sir you can't be deciding he's the daddy like that, how dare you! Ali: and that's WHY he cast me as Donna Ali: knows our ma won't flip out on the implication her daughter hoe'd around all summer and has no idea who fathered her child Ali: the subtle shade of it all Tommy: 😂 Tommy: I can't wait to see her go full Molly Weasley when she realises the plot of the thing Tommy: my Alison COULD NEVER you wanker! Tommy: would never 'cause you'd be in chains 😏 Ali: that's the other possibility, he hasn't clocked I'm GayLite and he thinks the idea I'm knocked up is right jokes Ali: Ma wishes 🤞🤞🤞 Tommy: Or he's calling out his biphobia and everyone who is as a HUGE whore Tommy: that's awkward Ali: when you don't prove the haters wrong 😬 Ali: whoops Tommy: When's opening night? I gotta see this Ali: duh, I've already begged on your behalf Ali: [the date] Tommy: I'm so ready for my handbags at dawn moment with Robbie Tommy: always a pleasure Tommy: unlike witnessing Drew outdoing Pierce Brosnan as the hottie who can't hold a note and DYING on stage Ali: I'll hold your earrings, babe Ali: if he can wait for the show to be over Ali: and don't be mean 🤫 Ali: he...needs some work Ali: but I'm willing to be like your worst teacher on speed about it, have him west end ready in, however many weeks they're giving us Tommy: Cheers, 'course I was born ready whenever he wants to go though 🥊🩰 Tommy: You know I'm here if you need me, fairy gaybrother and all Tommy: he will go to the (disco) ball! Ali: I'll let him know as much 😏 Ali: 💚 Ali: Luckily the choreo is simple, so he's got that down Ali: and how hard is it to pretend you're in love with me, honestly Ali: the singing though Tommy: how many songs does he have? Are they staying movie true? Ali: WELL, the tea is we've already cut a me him duet flashback to a solo for moi, but he HAS to do SOS to drive the plot, then its minimal lines on Our Last Summer, which Robbie is THRILLED about obvs, but he also HAS to do When All Is Said And Done, though maybe I can convince the director that'd work better as a toast moment legit, sans singing Tommy: Fucking hell Tommy: yeah unless there's somebody he could mime for Tommy: or a girl they could drag up to resemble him for the musical numbers Ali: REALLY go in and make it obvious who the dad is 😂 Ali: comes to something when the only viable option is the out out gay kid Tommy: SOS is gonna be brutal but I reckon you're onto something cutting the last number down Tommy: by then the audience will either be LIVING for you or DYING over him and we all know how the drama dept would rather it Tommy: arts funding is already in the bog, like Ali: Truly... fuck it, if we don't get it then instead of taking turns at a verse each we'll do it together and I will belt the fuck out of it Ali: you don't have to tell me, the wardrobe is abhorrent Ali: but we're already on that, even if I have to dress the entire cast myself Tommy: Christ alive, I will come home early and help you save the show, bags full of stolen props and costumes Tommy: Sorry not sorry, mother Ali: Oh LORDT, what even is the costuming for fucking Ali: fanny and whathisface Ali: I bet you are LIVING Tommy: Everyone here has now said fuck it and we're sorting out watching Mamma Mia Tommy: the girls and gays are 💔😭 Tommy: Straight Simon alone is unaffected Tommy: SEND HELP ALL MY MATES ARE ASKING IF DREW'S TOO WHITE TO TURN SOS INTO A RAP 😂 Ali: that boy is an enigma Ali: do not encourage him PLEASE 😭😭😭 Ali: all for mixing it up but if I have to look 💔 at a boy rapping about what happened to our love...nah Ali: even Meryl couldn't Tommy: Quick, dish on the rest of your all star cast, that'll 100% work in amusing them Tommy: any room to judge and they don't give a fuck about a single thing else Ali: Oh well, let's see Tommy: I'm the proudest of my sweet baby Carls and know she'll be grand, but the people are restless and thirsty for that hot tea Ali: Rosie's a sweetie, she jams with us on the drums every now and then, so you'd recognize her face not her name, she's gonna be so funny, perf for that role so I can't slag on her, I'm afraid darlings Ali: right?! MY BABY 💕 Ali: we did our auditions in groups of about 3 so it was just me, her and Cavante, she killed it forreal Tommy: Yeah? I do remember her! She comments on many o' Meena posts and you can hear the 🍀 Tommy: I'm gonna call her later, Carls that is, not your drummer Ali: I'm DYING for her to give the brummie a go, if that's as hilariously bad as we're all imagining, I'll send that to quench your mates thirst 🍵 Tommy: You're a star on so many levels Ali: 🥰 Ali: Who else DON'T you know? 🤔 Ali: the girls playing Meena's friends, me either Ali: they're her year though Ali: one of them has the good=loud vibe so I wouldn't be surprised if she went to one of your theatre groups as a kid Tommy: The lad in her year too? I dunno him Ali: Yes, which is rude Ali: he's got hot over the summer clearly 'cos like, HELLO? Ali: he's decent though, fair craic Tommy: Every show needs a dark horse Ali: they're cute Ali: some of his friends, esp. the one Carls has to seduce are 😬 Ali: thank God she's talented Tommy: at least some fuckers'll have chemistry Tommy: you'll be full Meryl-ing to convince ANYONE that Drew's the love of your life Tommy: and Carly would never waste a second on a younger lad Ali: at least I get to be fuming at him most the time Ali: lying cheating bastard 😏 Tommy: 👀🔪 Tommy: I'm well jealous Ali: I know, babes, I know Tommy: less gutted now this sing-a-long is kicking off Tommy: you wanna be facetimed in? Ali: um YES Ali: counts as a rehearsal Tommy: [does call her so she can join]

1 note · View note

mymelancholiesblues · 6 years ago

Note

Just wondering, what your head canon for Leon's family?

Oh my god, I was planning to post this huge compilation of my RE Headcanons soon (starting with what I have for Leon) when I got your ask’s notification. Are you a mind reader? Hahaha. But really, thank you for providing me with a justification to start posting them.

I would like to please invite you to sit because I have plenty – honestly PLENTY – of things to share over this specific matter (Leon’s family). And, of course, to ask you to bear with me through them.

For anyone else whose interest might be picked over this: keep in mind that these are (obviously) my headcanons for Leon’s background and family and in no way is anyone else under the obligation to accept nor fully agree with them.

I wrote them down because I think A LOT about storytelling devices, stories structures, characterization and characters studies, world-building, fiction tropes, etc. and, since I’ve been a Resident Evil fan from age eight to this day, I also tend to spend a lot of time thinking about its characters – and the overall rest of its lore. Furthermore, as a way to help me write them in fanfictions or even in meta-analysis, I’m always thinking of what would make sense within these characters narratives and to their personalities.

Anyway. Back to Leon and his family!

There’s a very solid theory in RE Fandom that Raccoon City is set in Missouri. I really take this into account when I think about RE Characters because it helps me “placing them” before Raccoon, since not all of them were originally born/living there. Leon, for example, according to canon material, only decided to apply to be a police officer in Raccoon because “he was intrigued by the bizarre murders cases in Raccoon City” going in the news.

Because of this, *my* Leon S. Kennedy:

– Was born in small Galena/Illinois. His parents moved to Chicago/IL when he was around 8;

– So, huge fan of the Chicago Bears (and the Chicago Bulls);

– Leon was lovingly raised by a very Catholic couple, Liliana and Isaac;

– Since Kennedy and Scott are, respectively, an Irish surname and a Scottish name and Leon is not an unusual name in Polish (check out about Polish Americans in Illinois and you’ll have a more proper comprehension of my thought process) and German cultures, I think Isaac would be a man of mixed Irish and Scottish heritage, and Liliana of Polish and German heritage;

– Although, his biological parents were actually Roberto (Italo-American punk) and Abigail, Liliana’s youngest sister;

– Robby was a drunken deadbeat, while Abbie was an airhead obsessively in love. Leon was conceived when they were both very young – his mom had sixteen and his dad eighteen;

– Liliana had three daughters (ages 10, 13 and 15) by then (1977), but she and Isaac always dreamed of having a little boy. They even tried to, but the attempts led to miscarriage after miscarriage, so when Abbie gave birth to Leon, the couple was pretty much devoted to their nephew, always visiting to see him and make sure he was properly being taken care of;

– Robby took note of all that and when Leon was only barely one year old, he packed his and Abbie’s stuff and imposed that he was leaving and that she should go with him, leaving the baby behind, telling her that surely Liliana would raise him as if he were hers;

– Indeed she did, albeit feeling distraught by her sister’s complete negligence;

– Isaac adored the boy, and Leon’s three cousins always treated him as their little brother;

– Also: Liliana decided she wanted to erase Abbie’s true connection to Leon, so she got rid of all the photographies that led to those deductions, leaving only the ones that showed baby Leon alone or the ones with the rest of his relatives, but not with his biological parents. Isaac never agreed with this, though. He believed that once Leon got older, he had the right to know his origins, believing that if their love for the boy was true he’d love them back and recognise their role in his life, so there was no need to lie. Thus, he kept a photo that featured Robby resting a hand in Abbie’s shoulder while she was breast-feeding Leon;

– Isaac was very ill when Leon was nearing his eighteenth birthday, and passed away just five months prior to Leon turning nineteen (Isaac was sixty-three years old by his time of death). Leon found that hidden photo after Isaac’s death since his dad left most of his personal belongings to Leon;

– Leon never confronted his mother on it, putting together two and two and realising his biological parents haven’t thought twice before abandoning him, so he shouldn’t bother with them either as he was raised in a genuinely loving and supportive family;

– As I said, Leon has three older sisters: Lydia (born 1962), Meryl (born 1964) and Olivia (born 1967). Two nephews from Lyds’ side, and a niece from Liv’s;

– Parents personalities: I picture Leon’s dad as a mixture of both Jonathan Kent (DC Comics) and Eddard Stark (ASoIaF). A firm, caring, kind, upfront and sincere man with high moral values, strong ethics and unwavering sense of justice, who valued honesty above all else and always believed in the best of people and in helping others, true to the “love your neighbour as yourself” commandment. Liliana was the more stern parent (especially with Lydia, always wanting and expecting her to set out a good example for her siblings), so I picture her as a fierce, proud and honest woman, passionately protective and supportive of her family, that dedicated herself entirely to whatever she put her mind into (domestic activities, city projects, EVERYTHING);

– Lydia would be the “Patricia Arquette’s character in Boyhood (2014)�� kind of woman. Kind-hearted, hardworking and amazing, but guilty as charged of the serious flaw of always being romantically involved with scumbags. A Geriatric Nurse, divorced twice, mother to Kilian and Luke – both kids from her first marriage;

– By the way, Kilian is a problem-child and Lucas is the emo kid. Leon has trouble dealing with both;

– On top of it, Leon have several difficulties dealing with Lydia. Being the most distant from him in age terms, Lydia always came off as a bit distant to and unnecessarily strict with him;

– Meryl is Leon’s lesbian best buddy. Confidant, a bit arrogant, always open to give advice, prone to bluntly point out faults in her loved ones and to get angry with Lydia. She graduated in architecture and is a state employee, working as an Urban Planner. Has cleaning OCD;

– Olivia is the sister Leon was closest to since it was with her he had the “smallest” age difference. Driven, headstrong, empathetic and an introvert, she’s actually the one who inspired him to join Law Enforcement and is now a detective in Massachusetts. Liv has a long-time relationship with Peter, whom she met during her childhood in school, and they have a daughter, Harriet (any coincidence with Olivia Dunham from Fringe (2008-2013) is on purpose since Olivia would be Leon’s perfect older sister, ok);

– Leon’s sense of humour takes much after his brother-in-law’s one, Peter, considering he spent a lot of time with him as he would be a frequent guest to their house;

– He fell in love for the first time when he was in middle school in his seventh grade with an eighth grade girl, Allison, who was an exceptionally good basketball player and would kick his ass in all the practice games;

– Allie has very evident native-American heritage, skin and eye colour, hair;

– It was Allie the long-time girlfriend who broke up with him right before Raccoon. She felt he was being distant even prior to his decision to be a cop in Raccoon City. In truth, what happened was that Leon feared his future being set stone too early in his life the way things were going. His wishes to have more agency over the shaping of his own destiny started driving him further and further away from Allie as he felt she was expecting their relationship to progress over time to the building of a family etc.;

– Meryl and Olivia both loved Allie and to this day they don’t get over the fact that Leon didn’t marry her;

– Leon unwillingly distanced himself from his sisters, though, only contacting them for birthday calls and holidays alike because of all of that government recruitment stuff and classified shit and also dealing with a heavy emotional load after surviving Raccoon;

– The only reason Hunnigan found out that Leon had living relatives was that Lydia called to give Leon the news of Liliana’s death in 2010 (by seventy-two years of age) on work-time. Leon, of course, was very shaken with the news;

– While Leon only knows what Ada herself lets him about her past, family, childhood and the circumstances that put her precisely where she is now, Ada knows everything there is to know about his past, family, childhood and the circumstances that placed him precisely where he is now because she’s very competent at her job and did her homework as a spy (this will die with her, but for countless times she fantasized about him confiding all of those mundane details of his life and backstory in her);

– I’m very convinced that in one of those nights Ada visited him for some hoochie coochie after like, six to eight months without seeing or talking to him at all, Leon had to break up the news that she came in in a bad time since he already planned for a Thanksgiving dinner with his sisters. Ada accepts the challenge because she’s been REALLY missing him (horny on main). Ah, and he’s quite upset with her because of that “six to eight months with no news at all” “little” issue. So, picture that. Please.

And that is all I have for “Leon’s family” headcanons. For now. As I warned: PLENTY. Hahahahaha, sorry! Hope this can provide some entertainment and delight to you.

#Leon Scott Kennedy #Leon S Kennedy #Leon Kennedy #Resident Evil #rebel-the-way #OTP: like a part of me I can't let go #レオエイ #Aeon #Leon x Ada #♥#[games]#[mine]#//#golden puppy #///#asks and answers #Aeon fandom #my headcanons

100 notes · View notes

can-you-free-me · 5 years ago

Text

Get To Know the Blogger - fill it out, then tag 10 people you follow

Tagged by: @lifewithoutcosette and @fallingawaywithbellamy

Name/nickname: Annette

Height: 5′8″

Shoe size: 10 (8 in men’s)

Birthplace: California

Languages: English, very bad Spanish, even worse Japanese

What are you wearing right now: Dark wash jeans and gray “piano mushroom” t-shirt and dark blue socks

Favorite color: I really like mustard yellow lately. Also emerald green. Ooh and the Simulation Theory pink/blue bisexual colors

Favorite TV show: Fuuuuck. I can’t narrow it down to just one. One of my favorite shows of all time is The Mary Tyler Moore Show (don’t get me started cuz I’ll write too much about it). Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return (another one you don’t wanna get me started on). Firefly. Star Trek: The Original Series. And I’m sure I’m forgetting some.

Favorite movie: Uh oh. We could be here a while. I love films but I don’t talk about them here much. Here are 10 recent faves with some overly flippant commentary:

Hot Fuzz. Marry me, Simon Pegg. It’s for THE GREATER GOOD

Grand Budapest Hotel. Quirky humor and fun visuals and wonderful performances. Probably my fave Wes Anderson film.

Dawn of the Dead (1978). Best zombie movie. Fite me. Also lots of “vintage shopping mall interior” beauty shots for weirdos such as myself.

George A. Romero’s Martin. Dark, sad, strange little grimy 1970s film but I love it. Is Martin a monster or just fucked up and misguided? Romero lets us make up our own minds.

Avengers (2012). Best comic book movie. Tom Hiddleston as Loki... *sweating* I’ll never forget seeing this in a packed theater and everyone collectively losing their shit during the “puny god” scene

Drive. I love a slow burn. Also Ryan Gosling in that scorpion jacket.

Doubt. Meryl Streep and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman screaming at each other while Amy Adams does adorable things.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. I can’t recommend this to anyone because it’s hard to watch sometimes and you have to see the TV show first but HOLY FUCK WHY WASN’T SHERYL LEE IN MORE MOVIES

Possession (1981). Another one I can’t recommend to most people because it’s so fucked up but Isabelle Adjani is a fucking force of nature.

Ordinary People. This film brutalized me emotionally but I love it so much. Mary Tyler Moore kills it as the icy mother and I fucking love Donald Sutherland in it too. And much has already been said of Timothy Hutton’s performance.

Pride and Prejudice (2005), Moulin Rouge, Lord of the Rings, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Star Trek I-IV and VI, Back to the Future, UHF (so dumb but I love it), Ghostbusters, Poltergeist, Alien, Re-Animator (ridiculous but fun if you can handle gore), The Great Muppet Caper (for real), The Empire Strikes Back, Carrie, Jaws, Harold and Maude, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Sound of Music (a very important film to me as a child), and many more.

Favorite band: Muse is my muse. But also Bastille, Carpenters (I would die if it meant Karen Carpenter could come back), The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds is almost perfect and I love some of their weird experimental shit; they’re my Beatles), Simon and Garfunkel, ABBA, Rush, XTC (WHY DON’T MORE PEOPLE KNOW THEM), Coheed and Cambria (not ALL their albums tho), The Shins, Gackt, L’arc~en~Ciel, X Japan, Yoko Kanno (the queen of anime OSTs), Selena (would also die if it’d bring her back), and waaaaay too many more; please don’t ask me about film music or I’ll be here all day

Favorite author: I don’t follow authors that closely, to be honest. I’m weird about books. But I have enjoyed Terry Pratchett, Stephen King and Carrie Fisher in the past. I also love L.M. Montgomery (the author of the Anne of Green Gables series).

Last three songs you listened to: I’m not gonna bother listing them, I’ll just say I was listening to the album Doom Days again earlier.

Last three movies you watched: Rocketman (need to see it again cuz it blew me away), John Wick 3 (with friends; never saw the other two haha), Suspiria (2018) (W T F)

Last three books you read:

(These are all biographies)

Room to Dream, by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher

Out of this World: The Story of Muse, by Mark Beaumont

Following: 95

Followers: 150??????

Any other blogs you have: @good-times-bad-decisions, sideblog for non-Muse things, heavy on the Bastille for now but generally a huge conflagration of bullshit

1 fact about you: I can’t shut the fuck up once you get me talking. Obviously.

@tofuthebold, @cupiscent, @gentr0py, @1-ufo (and anyone else who wants to. as always, don’t feel obligated if I tagged you)

#tag game #this took way too long oof #posting on main cuz that's where I was tagged #long post sorry

5 notes · View notes

fcndpacificrimau · 6 years ago

Text

OC Interview Nathan & Ray Davis

This was made just for fun :-)

R : Ray answering the question

N: Nathan answering the question

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

read the interview under the cut

1. What is your name? N: Nathan Davis . You can call me Nate R: Ray Davis....

2. Do you know why are you named like that? R: I never asked. When you hear the name Raymond you might start thinking I'm an old dude... I don't think there's a special meaning behind my name. N: *laughs* You know that actor...that Nathan Fillion man? Do I need to explain more? Our mother was a fan so ...this is where my name is coming from. But still, I'm looking way much better then him.

3. Are you single or taken? R: I ...really don't want to talk about this... *crosses his arms* N: Taken by the most beautiful woman on the planet *winks at the camera for his girlfriend Amelia* R: ..... *pissed AF*

4. Have any abilities or powers? R: No...but apparently I can look like a puppy . In some situations it can be an advantage. N: My looks and my big p.....EGO! *smirks* Oh and don't forget. My charm! I'm a shitload of lucky charms! *thinks he is funny* R: *shakes his head in disbelief*

5. Stop being a Mary Sue! N: Please. I'm better than that. I'm like f**king John Wick. Wanna touch my family, my friends? I'm gonna John Wick your ass! R: You really don't wanna piss him off. Remember that Kaiju *insert whatever kaiju name here* . Yeah ...well you saw what happened just because it pissed him off...

6. What’s your eye color? R: Green. N: Brown...is that somehow relevant?

7. How about your hair color? R: You are sitting in front of us...*is not in the mood for this today* N: Blonde, Lady. You seem to like it. *flirts like he always does*

8. Have any family members? R: We lost our parents a long time ago. I was 13 back then and Nate 16... N: If It wouldn't be for Joanne Rhodes we would only have us... it would only be me and Ray. Joanne found us when our parents died. She and her Husband Omar took us in. Raised us like we where their own. We are more than grateful for that. The Rhodes are our Family.

9. Oh? How about pets? *the brothers are looking at each other* N: No...no pets. *that's a lie* *only Ray and Amelia know about Nathans parrots Marty McFly and Meryl Cheep* R: *only shakes his head as an answer*

10. That’s cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don’t like? R: Kaijus...obviously. N: Raisins. WHO likes raisins??? Why would you put raisins in cookies?? Huh? You know that feeling when you see a box of cookies. Thinking hell yes I got me a nice box of cookies with chocolate chunks. Then you take a bite and are like...urrgghh did a rabbit took a shit in there? WHO LIKES RAISINS???? R: He hates Raisins!!!

11. Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do? N: I like keeping this hot body in a good shape. Not only for my lady but also for my job. Being a Pilot requires a strong body. R: mmhhmm...you might not believe it but I like to read. No matter what. After a rough day a good story helps relaxing. 12. Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before? R: yes...but not on purpose... N: Did not everyone hurt someone?... 13. Ever… killed anyone before? N & R in sync: KAIJUS! R: But no people! N: Only those big blue ugly ass beef jerky aliens

14. What kind of animal are you? N: Oh lady~ I'm not an animal. I'm a BEAST! *winks* R: ohhh ...why am I doing this again..?*sighs*

15. Name your worst habits? N: Some people say I tend to act like an a*hole. R: He does!!! *laughs because Nathan seems a bit pissed now* I guess this acting like an a*hole is in our blood. I do sometimes the same thing. Mostly when I feel cornered. When I don't know what to say or to do...depends on the situation. At least I have something called regrets. When I acted like such a ...dick I feel guilty and really bad. Unlike my brother over there... *looks at Nathan* He is a dick 24/7. N : Let's move on to the next question.. *wants to switch the topic*

16. Do you look up to anyone at all? N: Oh there are a few like Persey Johnson. Marshal Grant. R: Don't forget Thomas Rush & Garret Barnes!

17. Are you gay, straight or bisexual? R: Pretty personal question... N : I just love women. Most beautiful creatures walking on earth. They deserve all the love the can get.

18. Do you go to school? N: *clears his throat* Ma'am you are joking, right? You are interviewing two Jaeger Pilots... R: DO you go to school? *simply asks the interviewer the same question*

19. Ever want to marry and have kids one day? N: Sure. But not only one kid. Maybe 3 or 4. Imagine me as a dad. I'm going to be not only a good daddy but also a damn hot daddy. R: *makes choking noises* jeez...Nate....can you not...please?

20. Do you have any fangirls /fanboys? N: Of course we have. Just look at us? We are Heros and we have the looks. *smirks* R: We even have some hardcore fangirls/fanboys...

21. What are you most afraid of? R: losing the people we love N : *nods*

22. What do you usually wear? N: What I am wearing now. *points at his Ranger suit* R: And when we are not wearing our uniform then it's mostly some casual clothing. Nothing special.

23. What’s one food that tempts you? R: Ice cream. Vanilla! N: Everything WITHOUT Raisins!

24. Am I annoying to you? R: maybe...a little? N: Sure not. Go on.

25. Well, it’s still not over! R: *sighs* ....why tho...? N: go ahead

26. What class are you (low/middle/high)? R: Uhm...I would say middle? N: Ask me a better question. Am I a top or a bottom? R: ...Nathan...NO. Stop it... N: What, brother? I just want- R: Ma'am let's move on...

27. How many friends do you have? R: a few. But those are the ones you can count on. N: He's right....for once.. R: *gives him the silent f**k you*

28. What are your thoughts on pie? R: Pumpkin Pie. Oh yes! That's my thing. N: Apple Pie. As long as there are no raisins in it. You knew that some people...in Europe put those damn things in their pies? Why??? Why ruining a perfectly fine apple pie with raisins ? *he really HATES raisins*

29. Favorite drink? R: I barely drink anything alcoholic. I'm more the soda kinda guy. Lemon Soda. N: Whiskey on the rocks.

30. What’s your favorite place? N: our Hometown R: *agrees with a nod*

31. Are you interested in anyone? R: Again...a very personal question... *still does not want to answer such question* N: Lady, I gave you already an answer to that.

32. That was a stupid question… R: indeed... N: ...

33. Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean? R: Lake! N: You can't trust the ocean nowadays . I'd rather swim in a lake. The only strange creature you can find in a lake is apparently my little brother. R: Lakes are not that safe... There are rumors going around that there is a giant turd floating in some lakes ... N: Ohhh OHHH I'm a giant turd now??? Really? That's all you can think of now??? How old are you again? Turd?? REALLY??

34. Okay okay... next question . What’s your type? N: only one type. And that type of woman will be waiting for me after this interview. R: Actually no special type. It depends on the person...

35. Any fetishes? N: I'm not gonna answer that. If I do, this interview will be banned all over this country including the states. I can ensure you that, Ma'am! R: I'm not gonna answer that either.

36. Camping or outdoors? R: Outdoors. Camping...is lame. I don't like it. N: Definitely Outdoors. Stargazing with my lady.

#oc interview #nathan davis #ray davis #pacifc rim au #thomas rush #garret barnes #owen grant #fcnd #au

8 notes · View notes

allthefilmsiveseenforfree · 6 years ago

Text

Mary Poppins Returns

I’m a bad Disney fan, because I have only seen the original Mary Poppins once, and that was probably 20 years ago. I recognize the spirit and emotional flavor of it more than I really remember it, you know? So forgive me if my comparisons of this sequel to the original are not quite accurate - I’m working off of feelings here more than anything. And there were quite a few feelings being felt during my showing of Mary Poppins Returns. What kind of feelings? Well...

Mainly wonder, a tiny bit of boredom, and a deep sadness followed by overwhelming joy. The plot of Mary Poppins Returns (as if that’s why you’re seeing it) follows young Michael and Jane Banks (Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer), the siblings from the original, now all grown up. Michael has three young children of his own and they’re struggling to keep the household running smoothly about a year after Michael’s wife has died. Jane is helping as best she can, but when lawyers come calling to collect on an overdue loan things look very dire, and the Banks family is going to lose the home that’s been theirs for over 30 years. If they can find the certificates of ownership showing they own shares in the bank, they can save the house but if not...the house is gone forever on Friday at midnight. Enter Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) to take care of the children during this time of crisis (with some help from lamp-lighter Lin Manuel Miranda) and help remind Michael of what’s really important.

Some thoughts:

Emily Blunt does an incredible job making the role her own as much as she can. It's impossible to measure up to the incomparable Julie Andrews, but I think this is as close as you could get. I love that her Mary Poppins is a little more brusque, a little more twinkling eye because she’s in on the joke. I couldn’t imagine this one singing “A Spoonful of Sugar” but that’s also not what these kids need, so it works really really well.

Colin Firth! How could you!

The scene stealer for me is honestly Ben Whishaw, but I've been his biggest fan since 2012. His song in which he sings to his dead wife because he misses her terribly and doesn’t know what to do had me literally sobbing. That’s what they don’t tell you about finding the love of your life and getting married - now any time I watch anything in which someone loses their spouse, I’m a wreck because I’m imagining what it would be like if I lost Wife and I cannot. handle. it. Combine that with the4 dulcet tones of maybe the sweetest, best actor in Britain and I just...*SOB*

I regret to say the film does feel longish. About 20 min too long. If it were me, I would have cut some of the extended dance numbers and honestly jettisoned Meryl Streep’s number as a crazy Russian(?) cousin who fixes unfixable things. I love Meryl as much as the next person, but this sequence felt like it took aaaaaages for very little payoff that could have been gotten elsewhere.

The big cameo appearances were excellently done in a way that didn't feel forced or pandering.

It’s honestly kind of weird to think of a big bank working FOR people's interests and swooping in to save the day rather than dancing in the flames of people’s misfortune. Although I suppose the film is set over 100 years ago, so maybe this is meant to be a quaint reminder of capitalism’s yesteryear when big banks weren’t predatory monsters? I’m happy we get a happy ending, but I grew up during the housing crisis, so you’ll excuse me if all is not forgiven after one feel-good movie.

Shockingly, I was very pleased with the children’s performances. Excellent casting, because the children are so integral to a movie like this successfully achieving its goals.

The lamplighter choreography was very Newsies-esque, but probably the closest to a showstopping number. Overall the choreography and dancing performances were lovely to watch.

The music! While none of the songs have that instant classic Sherman Brothers shine to them, they’re trying their damndest to get there. All are passable and worthy follow-ups to the original film’s songs. Wife pointed out that the songs seemed to specifically be written for the adult actors’ range, rather than the other way round, which leads to stronger vocal performances from Blunt and Miranda. There’s even a little rap section for Lin to do, which was charming.

Charming is the best word to describe anything regarding Mary Poppins, and this film is no exception. Strong performances from Blunt, with lively help from Miranda, keeps everything afloat, while the emotional heart of the film comes from Whishaw. Just like in the first film, this Mr. Banks needs saving, and watching that transformation happen is just as joyous as it was in the original.

#118in2018 #mary poppins returns #mary poppins returns review #emily blunt #ben whishaw #lin manuel miranda #meryl streep #emily mortimer #mary poppins #movie review #film reviews

43 notes · View notes

okdeaky-blog · 6 years ago

Text

okdeaky’s prompt list

well yes, i’m making a prompt list with things i have said and things my friends have said too!

i’m such a dumbass and here it shows!

you can request me any prompt that is listed here with a person/character you want (i mostly do queen and borhap cast)

note: mutuals please reblog? thank you? i can personally ask you 3000 questions thanking you???

my askbox here

let’s do it, lovies

“Oh my god, i’m 18, you know what that means...” “WE CAN MARRY EACHOTHER”

“Do you want to come and stay the night?” “Wtf it’s tuesday”

“Don’t worry, your hand is on my lower back, not on my ass”

“Stop touching eachother!”

“Fuck, my tree died.”

“The Italians speak french? OH MY GOD THEY SPEAK ITALIAN”

“I’m showing you the bible, not my tits.”

“Oh yes, the mandAla effect.”

“Today we can’t fuck, i’m in my period, tomorrow maybe.”

“I kissed *insert character*” “Mood.”

“You came just in time when I was kissing him and you said ‘OH MY GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’”

“Hey you, why are you so weird.”

“Ok maybe I’m slightly gay”

“WOW I LOVE MY NAKED DADS.”

“I love you please love me.”

“I gasped so hard.”

“Maybe you should try choke me in the bed, not in the middle of the museum.”

“Baby it’s cold outside” “Then perish”

“That’s so gay of you.” “Baby, you know i’m bisexual please stop that biphobia.”

“I would sell my soul and more for a night with John Richard Deacon.”

“Yes, I failed that exam, and you know why? It’s because of that season of Umbrella Academy.”

“I would like two Big Bell Boxes and a slap in the face please.”

“Yes, he dumped me. Yes, that’s because I showed him my collection of hair.”

“I can’t believe this, you’re so Donald Trump.”

“Are you sure about that? That’s seems terrific and an amazing way to die.”

“Don’t drink vodka, it’s bad for your legs.”

“I’m not the type of person who throws up.” “Is that a bet?”

“It’s 20biteen, you can’t tell me what to do.”

“Brian May wouldn’t do this.”

“Roger Taylor would do this.”

“Maybe I’m too aggressive...” “You literally threw me a knife.”

“Only skinny legends allowed here.”

“The only dancing queen here, it’s me bitch.”

“I can’t believe Roger Taylor’s son invented Lady Gaga”

“Isn’t that milk expired?” “Yes.”

“I’m not gay, please stop.”

“I’m your usual daddy long legs.”

“Play League of Legends made me humble.”

“I found your tinder profile, I swiped left.”

“ABBA it’s the best movie, you know that song? Mamma mia? Yes that’s from the singer Meryl Streep.”

“Hold me tight, or don’t, mostly don’t.”

“I’m bi, shy, and ready to DIE.”

“In public transport I’m more pretty.”

“Yes, I control fire. No, Avatar has nothing to do with this.”

“I would love an orgy, and a banquet.”

“If you need anything ring the bell.” “It has written ‘ring for sex’.” “Oh, I know.”

“Can you believe that Brian May’s hands cured my depression?

“I need more vaseline.”

“Maybe you didn’t get invited because you’re left handed.”

“I don’t care, I’m so going to jail.”

[ LAST UPDATE: 8 / 2 / 2019 ]

#prompt list #my fics #prompts #brian may #roger taylor #john deacon #writing tips #writing resources #writeblr #queen #bohemian rhapsody #borhap

15 notes · View notes

ugly-crying-over-bucky-barnes · 6 years ago

Text

Tearing Down Sandcastles Part 20

Summary: Sofia feels stuck in life and has for the better part of two decades. Now she’s nearing her 30th birthday and her luck begins to change when a handsome actor accidentally destroys her niece’s sandcastle.

Chapter Summary: The last two weeks of Sofia and Sebastian being apart.

Warnings: Anxiety, accidental injuries

A/N: Thank you to @what-the-buckybarnes for continuing to help me through my writers blocks. You’re the true mutual

Gif @ bluesteelstan in case you can’t read the watermark

After the little argument, we did our best to make the last two weeks apart work. Sebastian called and texted regularly and I was honest with my feelings. I told him how lots to people were trying to invade my privacy and it wasn’t doing anything to help my anxiety. Since Erica was my sister, it seemed easier for people to get information about men. I shockingly found my name in an online article listing celebrities who were dating ‘normal’ people.

=============

“’Marvel actor Sebastian Stan has been in the business for years, appearing alongside other notable stars like Nicole Kidman, Matt Damon, Margot Robbie, and Meryl Streep. The Romanian native recently announced his engagement to the sister of acclaimed director, Erica Valdez. Sofia Valdez now lives with Stan in New York but has remained out of the public eye despite her fiancée’s career.’ I mean do they want me to just suddenly become an actress because I’m going to marry you?” I huffed over the phone after reading the article excerpt.

“It’s just a trashy gossip site. They want drama.” Sebastian assured me.

“Yeah, I’m sure they’d love to hear that you’ve run off with my sister and in revenge, I got with Noah,” I replied sarcastically.

“A scandal for sure.” He chuckled and sighed. “Just try to take it as a grain of salt. No one else has a say in our relationship.”

“They feel like they do,” I mumbled and finished folding a load of laundry. Setting each neat pile on the bed.

“How’s everything else going?” He gently steered me away from the article.

“Busy, which is good. Just trying to juggle it all but I’m glad to be doing something. I sort of felt useless before when I wasn’t working.” I clamped the phone between my ear and shoulder so I could begin sorting the laundry away.

“Sofia, you’re never useless. I want you to do what makes you feel best. So if you feel good about work and classes, then I’ll support you every step of the way. But don’t think you’re useless.”

“You don’t make me feel useless.” I murmured. “You act like I’m the center of the universe.” I teased.

“Because you are.” He insisted lovingly. “You’re the center of my universe and that hasn’t changed since the day I met you.”

I stopped in the closet with a smile on my face. I touched one of his shirts and my heart ached for him. “I can’t wait for you to come home,” I said wistfully.

“I know, babe, but I’ll be home before you know it. I have an early morning though, so I have to let you go now. You have a lecture at four tomorrow right?”

“Yeah, I’m working in the morning.”

“So if I call you at seven, it’ll be noon there…” He thought through the time difference out loud. “Noon work?”

“Yeah, that works.”

“Okay, I love you. I’ll text you when I get up.”

“Love you too.”

==========

But the morning text wouldn’t come. Instead, I was woken up at one in the morning from a call. My sister’s name was on the screen and I knew it was urgent. She was aware of our own time difference and was mindful of the hour she called.

Disoriented, I sat up in bed and turned on the speakerphone. “Hello?”

“Sof, are you up?” My sister’s voice was tense and alarmed me.

“Well, I am now. What’s wrong?”

“Sebastian was in an accident.”

“What?” I bolted up in a panic and threw the sheets aside. “What accident? Is he okay?”

“His agent got in contact with mine because she couldn’t track down your number. She thinks it was a car crash but she’s trying to get more information from the film crew.”

“Oh my God.” My hand flew to my mouth and worst-case scenarios caused an instant panic attack. I sunk to my knees and hyperventilated into my thighs.

“Sof, Sofia, please just breathe with me, okay?”

“I need to get over there!” I exclaimed breathlessly. Frantic tears stained my cheeks and I felt so hopeless. He was on another continent, what if something really bad happened and I couldn’t be there for him?

“You have to get yourself calm first.” Erica did her best on dealing with my panic but Sebastian was much better at settling me.

“Erica, please. What if he’s dying?” I cried hysterically.

“Okay, let me just…” She sounded unnerved, probably because she couldn’t assure me that he wasn’t dying. There was a lack of information because of the disconnected trail of communication. “I will see what’s available for flights. I’m going to have to hang up though. Can you try to go through some breathing until I call you back?”

“Y-yes, yes, I will.”

When she hung up, I tried to calm my trembling body and close my eyes. It was nearly impossible to focus on my breathing because I was too scared. I ended up crumbled on the floor, shaking and begging God to keep my Sebastian alive.

=============

Erica came through and pulled out some big connections to get me on a flight as soon as possible.

No news came through and I was forced to keep my composure through the airport and on the long flight to Germany.

Then I waited in Frankfurt, on my layover, desperately trying to get news from Sebastian’s agent. Before boarding, my second flight to Greece, a text came through. She told me that last she’d heard he was still in surgery. She also explained that a member of the film crew would meet me at the airport to escort me to the hospital.

It was another three hours or so to Athens and the wait was excruciating. I was terrified to get off the airplane, turn on my phone, and read a text telling me my fiancee had died. When we landed, there wasn’t such a text. But there was another from his agent telling me the name of the man waiting for me, a bodyguard that worked for some of the cast.

============

“Sofia?” A tall man with a distinct Yankees ball cap waved me over.

“Yes, Isaac.” I hurried over to him. “Is he okay?” I could delay the polite introductions.

“He’s out of surgery.” He nodded and offered to take my hastily packed duffle. “He should be awake now. I’m sure there’ll be a doctor there to explain the injuries, I’m not entirely sure what happened yet.” He led me outside where a car was waiting for us.

The ride to the hospital was a little more bearable because I knew Sebastian was at least alive. But I didn’t waste time getting into the hospital and to the room, they directed me to.

=============

“Sofia?” He looked shocked to see me in the doorway, probably still under the impression that I was still in Manhattan.

I burst into tears when I saw the state he was in. Several rows of stitches covered over his eyebrow, down his and his left arm. His right arm was in a sling as well.

“Sebastian.” I rushed to his side and tried to hug him without causing further injury or messing with the IV tubes. “I was so worried. Erica called me and I just assumed the worst. I’m so glad you’re okay. I was terrified I’d lost you.” I rambled incoherently through my tears.

“Sh, draga mea, I’m okay.” He soothed and held me close with his good arm.

“What happened?” I hiccupped.

“We were driving to set and got in a bad crash. I didn’t really see what happened I just felt it…we flipped I guess. I don’t really remember anything after the initial impact. Got a little banged up though.” He kissed my hair. The reunion was a little different than we’d expected.

“Like what? Will you be okay? They said you were in surgery for a long time.” I drew back and tenderly touched his face. His skin was mostly cleaned up of the blood but his stitches were fresh and it made me sick to my stomach to realize how deep the gashes must’ve been.

“They said my lung was punctured.” He admitted. “But they said everything went well in surgery so it shouldn’t be a problem. My shoulder dislocated but it’s fine now and the rest of it was just glass.” He shrugged.

I looked at him. It was as if he were talking about a trip on the sidewalk. “Sebastian, I could’ve lost you.” I couldn’t hold back. There were so many emotions I’d kept pent up while traveling for hours.

“It’s okay, love, it was scary but I’m okay. I’m much better now that you’re here.” He sighed quietly.

“Are you in pain?”

“Nah, just drugged up.” He answered and closed his eyes. “

I sat on the edge of the bed and stroked his hair back. “Get some rest. I’ll be here.” After all the times Sebastian had taken care of me I knew it was my turn to step up. It wouldn’t be easy seeing him in pain but I loved him too much not to carry him every step of the way. Metaphorically, of course, I doubted I could carry him.

“Yeah? Even though I probably look like Frankenstein’s monster because of the stitches?” He mumbled playfully.

“You still look handsome, don’t worry.” I kissed his forehead. “You’ll always be gorgeous to me.”

“Hope they don’t scar too much.” He continued rambling on in a quiet, slurred grumble. “More time in the makeup chair. Fucking pain the in ass…” He exhaled and his words faded away before he conked out from the painkillers.

I stayed sitting beside him while he slept. I briefly sent a message to Erica and his agent, telling them everything that I knew. It was a relief to say he would be perfectly fine in the few weeks to come.

Permanent Tags: @what-the-buckybarnes @captainmarmel

Tag list: @tacohead13 @raulesparzalover @lovelybones81

Masterpost

My Masterlist

10 notes · View notes

kcookendrick · 6 years ago

Text

to build a home

Who: Adam Levine and Anna Kendrick (anam)

When: October 5th 2018 around 1am

Where: Adam and Annas home in California

What: Adam and Anna are trying to clean up after their house welcoming party but get a little distracted.

trigger warnings: small nswf

trigger warnings: small talk about ivf and fertility issues

Anna: The party had finally ended, it started at 7:30PM and ended around 1AM. She was exhuasted, she was still sick but Anna was wide awake. It overall was successful, and even though Anna wasn't a party person the women wouldn't mind doing this every once in a while. She liked hosting and putting every thing together, in another life Anna would probably be an event planner. Finally kicking her heels off in her own home, Anna walked into the kitchen to start cleaning up the food and anything that was left behind. The playlist she had put on was still playing, but it was low and Anna was wondering where Adam was. "Hey babe.." She called out, and started to wrap up the left over food from the catering place.

Adam: He wouldn't necessarily call himself sick anymore more than he just had the left over bits of a cough, but he was hoping to feel completely better by later on that morning. Their house-warming party had just ended, and it was a little later than Adam had expected but he had a good time. Most and if not all of their friends had showed up to welcome them into their new place, and now, Adam was exhausted. He'd have to go to this IVF appointment with Anna after just a short few hours of sleep, and then jump right back on a plane for a show later that night. It was a miracle that he hadn't burnt /himself/ out yet, with everything that he thought that he could manage and what he was doing. Adam walked down the stairs from their bedroom upstairs just as he heard Anna calling his name, and he lets out a yawn as he makes his way into the kitchen. "What's up?" He asks, watching her for a moment. "I wanted to change."

Anna: She knew how tired he was, and Anna didn't blame him. She was wide awake, and wasn't ready for bed yet but Anna figured she'd let him go to sleep and she could clean up. They did have to wake up early for a doctors appointment though, and the women couldn't tell if she was nervous or scared about it or both. Taking a breath, Anna continued to wrap up the food but continued to pick at it as well. She was hungry, considering she didn't eat much tonight. When Anna heard his voice, she smiled softly to herself and then looked at him "Do we keep all this food,or throw it out?" Ann questioned, and then looked at him "I'm wide awake, so you can sleep while I finish cleaning okay?" She questioned "I'm glad that your mom and siblings came tonight. It was nice seeing Sam and Liza. I haven't seen them since Dusty's party. Well I barley saw them there but it was nice."

Adam: "Depends, do you want it?" Adam asked, letting out a small laugh. He still didn't understand why they had even hired a caterer in the first place for things little like they had gotten, but he didn't mind it. There was just too much of it left over. "I'm not gonna make you clean up by yourself." He says, shaking his head. "Just keep a little bit of whatever you want and then we can throw the rest of it out, alright? I'm pretty sure everyone cared more about the alcohol than they did the food anyway." He kisses her cheek and then moves around the kitchen to help her clean up. "I know. Sam's reaching my height and it's scary, I don't like it. I think it's time to knock him down off his high horse a little bit." He teases, "Liza loves hanging out with you, you know."

Anna: "I do, since I don't cook. I should probably learn though." Anna laughed a little, and then closed her eyes for a few moments after taking a bite of a piece of bread. "Baby you're exhuasted, I'm fine. You need to leave again tomorrow right after the appointment." Anna said, and then looked at him "That's true, I think everyone loved the fact that we had a little bar." She laughed, and then closed her eyes once again as he kissed her cheek "He's not the youngest,right, isn't Liza?" Anna questioned, and then smiled softly "Does she? Cause I like her a lot, Sam's cool too."

Adam: “You can cook pancakes. Breakfast is a good start.” He grins, letting out a small laugh before shaking his head again. “No, don’t worry about it babe. The quicker we clean up, the quicker we get to go to bed.” He teases, his eyebrows raising playfully for a moment before he chuckles. “It’s always the bar that wins out before the food. Next time should be a bring your own booze party.” He nods, “Liza is, yeah. She’s still kind of not over the fact that you and I are dating. Wait until we finally tell them that we’re engaged.”

Anna: "Breakfast food is the only thing I know how to cook." Nodding her head, she rolled her eyebrows and then smiled softly "Yeah yeah. Wait, I actually like the sound of that. Do you.., do you think it was too obvious that I didn't have one thing to drink tonight? Considering tomorrow is our appointment.." Anna asked, and then looked at him "I.., about that when do you want to tell them we're engaged? Cause I think Liza already knows I can't have kids.., or well might not be able too." Taking a breath, she looked at him and continued to eat the sushi that was left over from the appetizer platter. "Please don't leave tomorrow, I don't want you to go back."

Adam: “You act like that’s a bad thing. It’s not.” He can’t help but to chuckle when she rolls her eyes at him, and then shakes his head. “No, I...I don’t think so.” He says, clearing his throat. “You were off and mingling around with everyone and everything, so I don’t really think anyone was paying much attention to it.” He sighs, “I...I don’t know, babe. She knows, I think, yeah, but the only person who knows we’re engaged right now in my family is my mom. I didn’t know what you wanted to do about that.” He watches her for a moment and then moved to the fridge to grab a bottle of water. “You know it’s only a few more days, right? I’m home on the 15th. For good.”

Anna: "I mean, I wish I can cook other things I'm just too lazy to do that though." Anna said, and leaned in to kiss him softly. When he cleared his throat, Anna let out a small breath and chewed her lips "I.., I mean only Zac and Aubrey know that I'm trying to get pregnant and Meryl. No one else, but Aubrey wasn't here so it was just Zac and Meryl but they wouldn't say anything." Anna said, beginning to feel her eyes close, she didn't realize /how/ tired she was until now. She thought she was wide awake but she wasn't "Well, she was there when your mom found out what I had just found out, and I think she overheard our conversation maybe." Shrugging her shoulders, Anna sighed "It doesn't bother me, if Liza knows." Finishing up the sushi, Anna headed for the crackers and cheeses platter, she didn't realize how hungry she was. "We can tell them baby, they're your siblings. I mean I want them to like me, but I.., are you ready to tell them and other people that we're engaged?" Anna questioned, and then looked at him "I know, but I hate it when youre gone. The house is too quiet, and too lonely." Taking a sip of water from the cup she had earlier, Anna moved over to him and wrapped her arms around her neck "Have I told you that I love you recently?"

Adam: “Has Aubrey talked to you at all yet? I talked to her a few days ago for a bit, she said she was sorry that she couldn’t make it but that she was sending us a gift.” He says, “I don’t think so. Speaking of Zac, we should think about how we want to or when we want to ask him and Alex to be the witnesses for our wedding.” He sighs. “Yeah, I...You’re right.” Pausing for a moment, he looks at her and then nods his head. “I am, yeah. If you are. You’re the one wearing the ring.” He teases, “I know. I miss you too much when I’m gone.” He whispers. Putting his bottle of water down on the counter, he begins to smile a little as he looks down at her. “Mm...not since this morning, I don’t think.” He whispers. “I love hearing it.”

Anna: "No." She said, looking down Anna stopped herself and took a breath "I feel like I haven't talked to her in months, /since/ I broke down in front of you about me and her. I.., I don't think I've fully talked to her since the first pregnancy test was negative. I didn't.., I didn't even talk to her then." Anna wasn't sure if she was making sense, but she missed her best friend. Swallowing hard, Anna sighed ant then looked up at him when he mentioned Zac "I'm not sure, I think you and I need to sit down and talk at least a little bit about this whole eloping thing. Are we waiting for the right moment, or are we just going to run back to Fiji in a few weeks and actually do it?" She questioned, Anna didn't know how this whole eloping/getting married thing worked. At least Adam knew a little bit about it since he /was/ married before. Chewing her lips, Anna pressed her forehead against hers and she smiled "And it's a beautiful ring." Anna said, and kissed him softly once more "Well I love you, very much and thank you for tonight."

Adam: “Baby...” Adam starts, voice quiet as he begins to frown now. He had told Aubrey when they were texting for a little bit the other night that it wasn’t his place to comment on her friendship with Anna. It never would be, but Anna missed her and he could tell. “I know you miss her,” He says, frown deepening. “She...she’s gonna try and make it up to you, I think.” He leans in to kiss her forehead once more. “I think we should figure it out. I don’t know when we want to do it but I know I want to do it at...some point soon, anyway.” As she smiled, he brings his hand up to her face and moves her hair away as he kisses her back. “Why are you thanking me?” He asks, chuckling. “I love you too, babe. Can the rest of the cleaning wait?”

Anna: When his voice becomes quiet, Anna swallowed hard again. It bothered her, it bothered her that Aubrey wasn't here tonight to help her celebrate her new home like she has every other home the women had purchased, since they've known each other. At times, it just felt like they were drifting apart and it upset her. "I know she's with Chris, and she's happy and they're in Italy but sometimes I just need my best friend you know? I mean she's my best friend here in LA, anyway. My real best friend is Meg, maybe you can meet her when we go to Maine. I miss her too, a lot" Anna felt like most of her friends were guys, and the women didn't mind that but at times she wished she had a few other friends that were girls. As he kisses her forehead once more, Anna closes her eyes and rests her head on his chest "I want to do it soon, please. Because I love you, and I can't wait to marry you and be a Levine.." And just when he pushes her hair away, Anna kisses him softly again an then looks at him "Becuase, I don't know. I just.. I surprisingly had fun tonight. I usually don't at parties." Anna shrugged her shoulders "I.., I mean I guess so."

Adam: “I know you do. I feel like that a lot too...” It’s all he says and his voice is still quiet. He hadn’t heard a lot from Jake these days, aside from the little bit of time that he had popped in and out for Dusty’s party before quickly leaving afterwards. The two weren’t as close as they were over the last couple of years and Adam would be lying if he said that it still didn’t bother him up to this day. “Oh yeah? I’d love to, babe.” He says. As she mentions his last name, he finally begins to smile again as he kisses her back once more. “Mm...I love that. That you’re gonna be a Levine...” He teases, wrapping his arms around her to pull her closer into him. “I wanna cuddle,” He whispers. “We have to get up early.”

Anna: Looking up at him, Anna had almost forgot that his best friend was Jake and Anna still felt guilty about everything that had happened between the three, but also happy since she had fallen in love with Adam. She knew that Jake had showed up at Dusty's party, but the man obviously didn't say hi to her or come find her anyway. Anna chewed her lips and then buried her head in his chest "I'm sorry baby." She whispered, and then looked at him "Yeah Meg, she's been through literally /everything/ with me. I was her maid of honor, and that's the /only/ wedding I'll ever be apart of because I hate them but since it was Meg, I had too." Anna said, and then looked at him "Do you think, do you think Dusty will like Maine?" The brunette was a little nervous bringing the two year old, but her mother was excited on the other hand. "Anna Levine.." Anna mumbled to herself, and then smiled softly "I like the sound of that.." When he pulls her closer, Anna whines "But.. I.., I have to clean it can't just lay out."

Adam: “It’s okay. I’m here...he’s doing his own thing. I can’t really fault him for it. I mean—he’s...he’s Dusty’s godfather, so he can’t really stay away for long, can he?” He’s asking a rhetorical question because he doesn’t expect Anna to answer it. “That’s cute, babe. It shows that you really care.” He chuckles. “I do...yeah. I’m a little worried about the paparazzi and stuff, if there’s any, finding us. She doesn’t really like it and I usually try to make her feel comfortable.” He gently runs his hand over her lower back and lets out a playful whine. “Okay, okay...but you’re mine after.”

Anna: "Wait he is? I didn't know that." Anna said, now feeling even more guilty. Taking a breath, she listened to him speak and then smiled softly "Shes basically my sister, she was the person I cried too when I first ever got hurt by a guy, she was the person I told I wanted to continued with the whole acting thing. She's been there, you know? And I've been there for her, and I don't know." Shrugging her shoulders, Anna sighed "I know, there were a few paparazzi's the last time we were there, but we'll go spots and restaurants that's hard to find in Portland. I know my way around babe, I think we'll be okay." Anna presses her forehead against his, and looks at him "I'm scared for tomorrow." She whispered, and finally admitted.

Adam: “He is...I never told you that?” He frowns at the fact that he had left out such an important factor until this moment, and now he begins to feel bad as she takes a breath. “I get that. I think it’s sweet that you were her maid of honor. You should show me pictures.” He teases, running his hand over her back as he nods his head and presses it back against hers. His eyes find her own and he looks at her for a few moments. “You sure you wanna do this all over again?” He whispers, “You took all the...meds and stuff?”

Anna: “No you didnt.” Anna said and chewed her lips, the brunette swallowed hard and looked at him “Oh no, that was fetus Kendrick Im not showing you pictures of me with curly hair.” Anna said and then looked at him “Yes. I mean sex obviously isn’t working so... and yeah i’ve been taking all the medicine and stuff like that.”

Adam: He lets out a small breath. It’s not a sigh as much as it is a breath from his left over thoughts of feeling bad, but he can’t help but to chuckle at her words afterwards. “No? That’s not fair. You know I think you were cute either way.” He teases, “Mm...Yeah, sex isn’t working...but that doesn’t mean we should stop doing it.” He grins, then nods his head. “Okay, so...maybe we’ll have some better luck this time around.”

Anna: "Baby no, me with curly hair is /not/ cute. They're not Kerri Russell curls, it's Winifred Sanderson curly hair and it's not nice." Anna said, and kissed him softly one more time. "No I know, but it's just a little frustrating." Anna said taking a breath, and then looked at him "Maybe." Was all she could say, Anna kissed his neck and then looked down "What if it does work, and our kid isn't cute?"

Adam: “Babe!” Adam can’t help it, he’s laughing again. He picks up on the reference from Hocus Pocus right away and he’s laughing to himself as he shakes his head. “I don’t care, I wanna see it.” He teases, against her lips for a moment before kissing her back gently, his lips gliding over her own. “I know it is,” He whispers, tilting his head slightly with a sigh as she kisses his neck, “Let’s finish cleaning so I can take you upstairs...” He mutters. “Have you seen us?” He joked, “Our kid /is/ going to be cute.”

Anna: Shoving him playfully since he's laughing, Anna shakes her head "Nope." Anna said, and smiled within the kiss "We have sex all the time, it's not happening." Anna rolled her eyes, but then closed them and moaned a little when he kisses her neck "Okay." Anna said, and she tilted her head, then moved her hair so he can continue to kiss her neck. "She will be." Anna whispered

Adam: “Stop!” He’s still laughing, but the sound seizes when she mentions sex and he begins to grin. “Oh please, like I’m gonna stop having sex with you over something silly like that. You’re hot. You’ll always be hot to me, and I’m always gonna want to have sex with you.” He says. Pressing his lips further into her neck, Adam gently backs Anna up against a counter in their kitchen and moves his hands down to her hips, lifting her onto the counter to stand between her legs instead. “She, hm?”

Anna: Seeing his grin, Anna smirked a little and laughed "I'm hot?" Anna questioned, she never considered herself to be hot /but/ she did have an award that told her otherwise. "I'm always going to want to have sex with you. I've wanted to have sex with you the moment you walked into my door that night." Anna said, she always loved thinking about that night. With his lips going further into her neck, Anna moaned a little louder and she squealed when he lifted her up onto the counter. Wrapping her arms around his neck, and her legs around his waist Anna nodded "I think we'll have a girl, if I get pregnant."

Adam: “Yes, you’re hot. I know that you hate being called those things...but you are. You’re so hot. To me, at least. You always will be.” He says, stepping closer as her legs wrap around his waist. He chuckles against the skin of her neck and the kisses continue until his lips close around her skin instead to gently suck on the places he was kissing, now intent to leave a mark on her. “Hm...” He whispers, “I think so too. I think...I think I want another girl, more than I would a boy. I’ll be happy either way.”

Anna: "I know I'm hot, I have an award that says hot&funny." Anna said, smirking and then laughed again. "I think you're hot, especially when you grow that full on beard." She said, and then Anna closed her eyes and licked her lips when he laughed against her skin. The breath on her skin sent chills all up and down her body. "I.." Moaning again, she took a breath "Try and give me a girl right now.." Anna whispered, she knew that wasn't sexy at all but the women was now turned on and didn't even care about the cleaning.

Adam: “The full beard still turns you on? Does what I have now get me anywhere?” He asks, whispering tone in his breath as he continues to suck on the skin of her neck, and he can’t help but to smirk at the sound of her moaned words. “What about...” He starts, “What about the cleaning...”

&*END

#&*para's #&*adam levine #&*anam #&*to build a home

1 note · View note

chelsanitys · 7 years ago

Text

anon post

for all 3 of my fans

i live for ur wit and sass

thx n same

Dont fuck with the best! Kate works hard to get the craziest anons to post in her yard, and I've got nothing but respect. There's no fan in the fandom as genuine and earnest as she is. Wishing her and her cats a long and healthy life!

lmao yall need to quit

you've probably answered this already but what do you think will give vm the best shot at the OG?

a good short dance + a good free dance + gui missing the catch-foot on his twizzle again

Are you taking the bar exam this summer?

no i just finished my first yr

I will cry if T&S end up together, They would be a horrible match. Surely I'm not the only one who sees this??

i am ashamed that this is the level of trollin i get. step up ur game!!

"i hope tessa marries semple so i can see all the shippers cry tbh" Poor Alex! Marrying him would probably restore his self confidence and prompt a return to the cfl! Still holding out hope!

honestly alex was the hottest of all her bfs. fedor is balding, has a dad bod n is wearing khakis on the beach now. and semple was always fug. also rl talk i didnt know canada had its own football league until this guy came around. thats so cute for canada

"i hope tessa marries semple so i can see all the shippers cry tbh" I want her with the Bitove guy. His family looks like the type that will post tons about them on sm afterward.

lmao yall know his grandfather started the toronto raptors?? i knew this brodie’s last name sounded familiar. also apparenty he and his fam golf at trump’s resort @ mar-a-lago VOM. tessa is 500% going to end up with a smarmy, filthy rich trust fund kid like him like its not even a question

Hey now. I want shippers to get overthemselves, too, but Tessa marrying Semple, god no. Basically, Tessa, open your eyes and save yourself.

lol i actually wish she was still dating him so all this mindless speculation rn would stop

Bitter and hateful is what I come here for. Anons should just fuck off and go to the Disney website if that's what they want.

vm fans are so damn soft n sensitive about everything lol, i rly wish some of yall would stop taking everything i say so seriously

Please come back, without your snark the fandom is controlled by the most delusional shippers.

i’ll post more when there r actually things 2 talk about. being around here when nothing is happening and ur all screaming into a vacuum about the same things over and over is like being institutionalized in a loony bin

why are you always up so late?

nhf for this east coast bias, it is a perfectly reasonable time in california

Which of the current/rising juniors do you see making tbe most impact next quad?

carreira/ponomarenko are going to win a olympic medal in 2022. even if the shibs, h/d and bock don’t retire, i see them easily rising through the pack - they just have the Look and aren’t without talent. i’m iffy on the rest - mcnamara/carpenter are too creepy and weird, parsons have no height difference and are siblings, both are coached by an unproven staff, everyone else are varying levels of mediocre. hawayek/baker will go to worlds 2018 if they’re lucky and prob never again if no one else retires.

i wouldn't take h/d's music choices as an indicator of what vm will have. they are the c team and vm are the a team in that camp. look at last season... h/d got stuck with marie-france's lame ass idea of the evolution of music and vm got prince.

true..... altho i think personal taste is important too. tessa would die b4 she ever approved an ‘evolution of dance’ sd

I want Tessa to steal Fedor back from Meryl. All that drama would be hilarious. Fedor lost his looks and is butt ugly now so he is exactly Tessa's type, even more so than in 2009.

i nvr thought he was that cute but he literally looks like he goes door to door selling pool cleaner now

I noticed that when Tessa shakes hands or kisses someone on the cheek (like during medal ceremony or interviews) Scott often puts a hand on her lower back even though there had not been any physical contact between the two of them before said handshake or kiss. It just always surprises me and I'm not sure I understand why he'd do this. What's your take on it ?

lmao ik u want me 2 say its bc his subconscious is screaming out in jealousy and he wants to covertly claim her and show the world she still belongs to him but i rly think they r just touchy ppl who like to touch. or hes makin sure she doesnt lose balance and fall off the podium as she’s leanin over

moulin rouge would've been a much cooler choice in 11/12 for their musical fd instead of funny face, but i don't see them doing it for their olympic fd. it's a bit tacky and overdone. i figure they'd want to do something that's a little bit more special and unique then that.

ia it wouldnt have been a bad filler fd for an off year. i just dont see it doing it for their Last Ever and for the olympics. its such a warhorse - what could they possibly say with it thats original? and its such a character piece - they r such overly emo, earnest ppl, i dont think they’d want to do something that different from themselves for their Last Ever.

huh what, vm don't stand a chance against moonlight sonata?? Pls... that would be a flop, such an overused piece of music everywhere, it's like Für Elise - hearing the first notes of it makes me vomit in my mouth a little

ya bc no one’s ever won a gold medal skating to a warhorse before

it sounds more believable to me than vm and moulin rouge tho

What interpretation? PC will just float around. They can do that in any key and judges will eat it up.

true, gui gui is a demon

No way. The judges will think they're watching Gordeeva/Grinkov again and just hand the gold to them immediately.

remember when pc said they didnt even know who torvill and dean and g/g were lmao

If scott doesn't cut his disgusting gutter frat boy hair I'm renouncing my Canadian citizenship and moving 2 Peru

was legit lookin @ pics from autumn classic n skate canada and i cant believe how short his hair was then, i can not believe i was complainin so much. i am honestly such a whiny bitch lmao this is my punishment

i have mixed feelings because Prince is the best short dance of VM's career so far but then Latch was one of the worst lol. It dragged in a lot of areas, especially the middle, and it never felt complete. I don't hate it by any means but considering we only had 2 free dances left and that was one of them... :| so I'm torn between trusting MF, and then thinking she's one misguided song choice away from ruining VM's swan song.

the thought of mf picking out the music for vm’s last ever fd makes me kind of sad. like yall have no ideas? at all?? ur relying on instagram suggestions and mf’s adult lite fm spotify playlists for inspiration? im surprised n disappointed tbh, like they arent kids anymore, i thought they would take more ownership of their careers.

but idk we’ll see. whenever i complain a lot, i usually like their material later lol

why do i feel like vm are gonna come out in their sd with despacito... the justin bieber version...

ok who is this person who keeps sending me despacito questions?? you sound like you want it to happen more than anyone else and are trying to will it into existence

It's funny because Tessa is SO cautious about everything she/they say, that she comes off/is rehearsed--I don't understand why she cares so much. They are not politicians or even super famous. Plus most people who watch (excluding Tumblr fans bc they're all extra) watch during high times like Worlds and Olympics. Most people don't watch interviews and press conferences. If they do watch one, it's usually only the fun "game" interviews or the mainstream ones like etalk which they are not tons of

idk what this is in reference to but ok lol. it prob matters to her bc its her life and she cares bc its happening to her? just spitballin here

Oh no what has Max Trankov said I'm scared to know now. If he's a Trump fan I might have to #nopeout lol he’s russian and a male chauvinist pig. he once said he wouldnt do a quad with tati until she had a baby for him...”and then maybe we try”

still gonna stan his trash ass to the end of time tho

Speaking of bad music cuts I could not stand the way HD's music was cut this year. Like I like all the songs they used individually but it just felt so weirdly put together like the songs didn't flow well into the next. The only part I liked was the last part with earned it.

really? i thought earned it was the part that seemed completely out of step with the first 2 pieces of music. the transition was way off and the tempo was so much faster than the other 2

The Facebook q&a is the first time I felt vm are actually compatible enough to be a couple.

should’ve published this steaming hot take when u sent it a month ago bc i have no idea what this is in reference to now

what do you look like?

tired mostly

haha funny how we went from vm are in a relationship to they hate each other.

dont ‘we’ me bitch i have nothing to do with this fandom’s daily emotional yo-yo-ing

Can you explain the Tessa/Kaitlyn Weaver friendship? Are they really friends? Kaitlyn seems like the kind of girl Tessa would make fun of behind her back.

more like kaitlyn weaver is tracy flick and is trying to bring down everyone in her path tbh

I get a bit of a superiority, cold vibe with Tessa, don't you?

no but i dont have self esteem issues

I think people who find Tessa cold and snobby do not get her at all. Yes, she is far from perfect and her feminism is all (...) but to call her cold and unfeeling means you haven't been paying attention at all. Like get off her dick and/or stop following her career.

i dont think shes cold either. standoffish maybe, but i dont feel like thats from superiority or aloofness. some ppl just want to mind their own business and chill?? not everyone’s a chatty cathy like scott

Music stresses me out. The only thing I've gathered from all of the various discussions is they should be exciting but not too exciting because it's an Olympic season. But they shouldn't also be too safe. Like I know you have mentioned various choices that would be good but what would be in your mind the ideal program, both SD and FD. It's their third Olympics, so how do they build on the past while still being fresh but also them. Or do they just not and give the audience what they want?

something original thats not a warhorse but is also audience friendly and is instantly musically palatable to a lot of ppl

so basically mahler

Which songs from moulin rouge should they use?

if they were doing mr (which i doubt), the orchestral score is 500x better than the cheesy ass nonsense from the soundtrack. like come what may with nicole kidman’s tremulous bird vocals and ewan mcgregor literally straining not to pop a vein would almost be too dramatic and Too Much. i think that kind of thing only works for a v specific kitschy, performative kind of team (a la russians) and wouldnt vibe with vm’s super earnest approach at all. but the orchestral score is genuinely moving and effective in a less garish way

but i dont think they’re doing moulin rouge lol

"the movies honestly made it hard 4 me to interpret hermione’s undying loyalty and devotion to harry as anything other than latent sexual attraction tbh lmao" Hahaha, pretty much. Plus, the whole Harry and Ginny thing, even more so in the movies, seemed to come out of nowhere and was cliche as fuck.

is bonnie wright still acting? i’ve seen dead fish more alive than her on screen

LMAO someone posted a clip from VM's show when they were having dinner with WP and they were talking about how WP live together and they ask VM how they deal with one another and LOL I stg I started loling cause their reactions were #priceless. S literally just had a WTF look on his face while he said something hella awkward & T looked like she wanted to slap him. Her follow up that she doesn't think they could ever spend all their time together just cements why they'll never date for me.

lmao that whole scene is so stupid. kaitlyn n andrew r such good friends i swear

Thanks for setting that anon straight. Set some boundaries so that they don't egg on shippers?? WTF. They're fine with doing what they're doing, and if they're dating others, those others are obviously fine with it too. Besides, it's not like they're filming porn or something. If you can't handle it, stop watching them.

idek what these r in reference to anymore but it sounds dumb as hell lmao

Wow I cannot believe that people actually think VM owe fans any explanation for their relationship/partnership. Like we don't know them, we're never going to know them or be friends with them? Why the fuck do they owe fans a detailed explanation of their personal business? I stg these shippers have lost their damn minds. As long as VM continue to put out good programs and do well I couldn't care less what they're doing off ice. Whatever it is it's clearly working for them. You do you VM.

the entitlement of some fans is insane. its STILL happening now with tessa’s ig now too. why dont yall just let her live n let her white-girl post to her hearts content. she is literally doing nothing differently to what every other skater does, idg this absurd criticism

Fr tho both of them have such nice teeth and I've never seen pics of them with braces, like how??!?!

tessa’s r so nice i cant believe she’s never had braces. and they r such a natural white? like u can tell w most skaters that they get it professionally whitened but hers dont have that artificial look at all

Are you in college? Your bio says 23 but it said that last year too.

i actually turned 24 a while ago im just 2 lazy to change it. im in law school currently

I just read an ancient interview with vm where they said Mahler was about getting married or something... WHAT

ya i cant remember if it was them that said or marina that said it tho. i remember a story about a guy who wrote them saying he and his gf were watching mahler at the olympics and once it was over, he was so moved he got down on one knee and proposed to her and marina was like ‘thats what that program is meant to do’ lol

Do you think Zach is a good skater and partner? I keep changing my mind on him.....

he is such a bland, wet noodle - no taste, no flavor, just empty white carbs. its up to madi to add any spark to the team bc she’s the real star, he just stands there and is tall and can lift her

Why the fuck are so many people freaking out because Tessa did not attend a wedding with Scott. 1. They are not dating so there are no reason for Scott to bring her. 2. She has people visiting 3. I bet they don't even hang out off ice 4. I think Scott has a secret girl in Ilderton. 5. TS not dating. I wish people would claim down.

this is so far back in my inbox i have no idea whats happening

I love it that whenever Tessa posts an IG story the fandom goes crazy analyzing and speculating about Scott what there even when he is clearly not Then there there are talks about TS wedding. WTF Soon it will be TS having babies. I am wondering if maybe the fandom (new fans) are mixing reality with those fanfics.

honestly no clue

I know this has been discussed before but I don't get how Scott and Jess even communicated. Jess could barely seem to understand English back then and Scott couldn't speak French. I wonder if them not being able to speak to each other is part of why they lasted so long actually

lol bryce davison actually learned french so he could communicate w/ her. not scott tho lol

I don't think T cares too much about fs friendships the way other skaters do. Of course she's friendly with a lot of them but she's not really close with anyone except her partner, which doesn't really count lol. She has her own friend group outside of skating and that's what she seems to stick to. It's funny you mention Meryl, Brooke, Tanith, and Lauren because they're all still really good friends.

honestly i think skating stressed (stresses?) her out so much back then that she really hated being in that world for too long. i dont blame her for wanting to disconnect and not having to hang out with skaters who just talk about other skaters and skating 24/7

I don't mean this in a mean way. Watching Avatar. If you paint Meryl's face blue she could be in the movie

it kills me when ppl say she looks like a disney princess? ya the ant queen from a bugs life maybe

I think Tessa sometimes forget that Scott is a huge part of why they are successful and she wouldn't have all of these deals w amazing brands if they weren't so strong+didn't win everything. it's easy to put her on the pedestal bc she's gorg and can dance, but he should get/deserves just as much credit-- i mean he is the one lifting her and she could not do any of this by herself. sometimes i get the vibe that she thinks she's too good for him. maybe he's not as fancy, but he has a heart of gold

i’ve literally never gotten that she thinks she’s too good for him...? they go out of their way to pay each other compliments all the time and dont even jokingly diss on each other. its actually kind of weird that after knowing each other so long their relationship isnt just one long roast section where they talk shit about each other bc thats what my relationship w/ all my lifelong friends r like....but then again im a flinty bitch and they’re super earnest and emo like all the time. like i bet they both cry during sex

i find it kinda gross, disturbing and a bit pathetic that so many people feel the need to write erotic fan fiction about Tessa and Scott--like they are real people not characters, and it's kinda creepy that people spend so much time writing and reading them. Also, i would pay a million dollars to have someone show TS what people write about them--they would literally die and so would i--some fans are kinda extreme crazy

u know how on graham norton when he’s always showing celebs really erotic fanfic and fanart of themselves and they’re just dying of embarrassment?? i would literally pay everything in my bank account (so like....twenty dollars) for someone to do that to vm

omg it's gonna be so awk when tessa and scott have to see klawes...poor klawes, she just could not hold a candle to tessa. still don't know why klawes still follows tessa's insta--like i would unfollow and would not wanna see some of the pics t posts of TS giving each other lovey looks/touchy regardless of whether ts are together or not. also, it's never like t and klawes would actually be friends bc they're polar opposites

v disappointed that the olympic summit did not deliver on this #drama

tessa and kl were real friends tho, i think its sweet. and its nice they still keep in touch even tho scott is a dog

Are you a fan of tessa's style? She wears so much expensive yet ugly shit in my opinion.

lmao no. i think some of her casual wear is cute, but she wears some of the most hideous high fashion shit ever when she’s going out. like that blue carpet jumpsuit? yall know wht im talking about. those hideous trousers??? also she wears an unbelievable amount of boring black dresses

also gf needs to do smth with her hair. tired of her high bun and slick pony. she looks way cuter w/ her hair down imo

Do you think Tessa pays for all the Adidas stuff she wears?

no she def gets it for free. i was a walk-on my freshman yr of college for half a second and even i got a bunch of free shit from nike

How do u as an ed sheeran unstanner feel about ts doing these songs their obviously using him for the sd next season and i wouldnt be suprised if they use him for the fd as well

reading this made my cholesterol go up

really hope they're exhausting all the ed sheeran options now so they won't actually use it for comps lol

ngl i do kind of dig that embarrassing white boy rapping galway girl song but that cld prob just be my girl saorise ronan hypnotizing me like she always does

Minus the horrific man bun, do you think Scott's hot? Also, do you think Tessa finds him attractive?

no and probably yes now that hes so fug

Do you think Scott's attractive?? Also, do you think Tessa being told she's beautiful constantly on sm has made her get a big head--she often comes across as a bit cold and stuck up prancing around in her $1000 + outfits? Love her and she's gorgeous but...

some of yall need to stop projecting your shit onto tessa for real

Power plays of the figure skating journalists. Inside Skating does a very literal interview and article with P/C which blows up and then they go to Jackie Wong so he can basically write up a damage control press release. Kind of fascinating to see both journalists doing their thing with the same content. Hard to believe Inside Skating didn't think their article would create a storm. Interesting.

speaking of jackie, skaters r really going to him for their exclusives now huh? dying that ashley gave him her big la la land fluff piece instead of tsl. pays 2 be nice and kiss ass

Doesn't look like KH/JLB will have much of a chance to advance cuzis so crowded with the current seniors not retiring and juniors moving up. KH/JLB needs to work on their twizzles, thier lines, skating skills, chemistry looks promising. Some of those junior and senior teams should consider representingif they want a chance at aCanada doesn't have any promising teams once VM-WP retire. I feel like CB, SS, HD ain't retiring till they win Wch or OG which may never with PC around.

hawayek/baker could prob skate for gb because jean-luc has citizenship and carreira/ponomarenko could prob skate for canada bc she’s from montreal but i doubt the us fed is letting either of them go. they’ve invested way too much at this point. i don’t think c/p need to move tho, i think they’re talented to rise organically through the ranks. i think they’re more likely to be us #1 instead of not tbh

I don't understand the whole David and Tessa affair; like some people say it happened after he was separated and others talk like it was a full blown affair. The only thing I do know is that her being called a "homewrecker" or anything else of that nature makes me want to punch something because it's disgusting, and it's society go-to response. Be cruel to the woman and basically give the man a free pass. But maybe he received shit, too? I just never heard about it.

i think he was basically separated but not divorced when it happened

Do you think if TS and Cappelini and Lanotte switched partners they would be a good team?

lol no. anna’s not a great skater and luca looks like he’s shorter than tessa

Wait is that Tessa's ex Semple in that photo you posted of her pre and post nose job? Cause if so damn does she lowball herself. Like she could have such better looking guys I do not understand. Girl is very pretty she needs someone to help her pick better guys.

~we accept the love we think we deserve~~

I think T is cringeworthy as a speaker bc she's sooo gd rehearsed. Not a things she says comes across like she didn't practice it in the bathroom mirror 75 times that morning. She would be pretty good if she could lose even half the pretension in her delivery and tossed out the eye rolly words she keeps littering the sentences with like privilege and journey.

they honestly both suck. she’s worse than he is, but they’re both super stiff. and they always do this forced banter bit at the start which just seems so awkward lol

That one anon pointing that some have denied the nose surgery - this is exactly what annoys me about those shipper blogs, not that they are shippers (you can want them two to be together- that by itself doesn't bother me), but their ways and how they always have to insist on vm's perfect image - they all get so upset and aggressive when you point some issue out, like why would you deny Tessa has done a nose job... so out of touch! vm are interesting exactly cause they're real people with flaws

i can not believe ppl r denying her nose job. like yo its right there. it does lend credence to my theory that all shipprs r just hallucinating n seeing things that arent there tho

If Tessa and Scott did hook up while officially with SOs I have a feeling they wouldn't consider it cheating.

ok lmao??? im sure something extremely profound i said provoked this

how rich do u think scott and tessa are???

prob millionaires by the time 2018 comes around if they get their sponsorships

i might do part 2 later if i can be bothered... but nothing really makes sense out of context lol, its like watching charlie kaufman do slam poetry

#Anonymous #vm #fs

8 notes · View notes

jack-thepumpkinking-blog1 · 6 years ago

Photo

Jack Skellington -- Character Sheet

everybody's waiting for the next surprise / skeleton Jack might catch you in the back / and scream like a banshee / make you jump out of your skin / this is halloween, everybody scream

won't ya please make way for a very special guy / our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch / everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!

Archetype — The Hero Birthday — October 31, 1960 Zodiac Sign — Scorpio MBTI — ENFP Enneagram — 7, the enthusiast Temperament — Sanguine Hogwarts House — Slytherpuff Moral Alignment — Chaotic Good Primary Vice — Pride Primary Virtue — Charity Element — Air

[tw -- miscarriage mention, implied abuse (but v vague)]

Overview:

Mother — Eve (nee Meyer) Schildkraut (deceased) Father — Benjamin Schildkraut (deceased) Mother’s Occupation — homemaker Father’s Occupation — construction worker Family Finances — Poor (until Jack got rich.) Birth Order — Only child. Brothers — None. Sisters — None. (Had a miscarried sister.) Other Close Family — Fern Bristlecape (second ex-wife) (FC: Sarah Michelle Gellar), Nemesis Hellsplat (first ex-wife) (FC: Katey Sagal), Hecuba Hellsplat (daughter, 32) (FC: Natalie Portman), Luna Bristlecape (daughter, 22) (FC: Emmy Rossum) Best Friend — None. Other Friends — None. They all dropped him when he fell out of favor, think about THAT. Enemies — None, tbh. Anti-Magick people probably. Pets — None. He should probably get a dog or something. Home Life During Childhood — Rough. His dad was a drinker and spent all their money, and he wouldn’t listen to his wife about needing to save any of it. Jack was always a...creative boy and his father saw it as emasculating, so he didn’t really tolerate Jack’s love of theatre. Which is why he moved out at such a young age (18). Once he had the money, he tried to convince his mom to move to LA with him, it didn’t work. Town or City Name(s) — Swynlake, England (born), LA, California, USA (where he’s lived most of his life.) What Did His or Her Bedroom Look Like — POSTERS. POSTERS EVERYWHERE. Jack spent the meager amount of money he did make as a young boy mowing lawns to go to the movies and to buy posters to decorate every surface of his room. Any Sports or Clubs — Drama club, secretly. Football, outwardly. Wasn’t actually half-bad but he got benched a lot because his heart just wasn’t in it. Also! Plays jazz piano. His mumma taught him. Favorite Toy or Game — Make-up. Dress-up. Dolls, so that he could act out his favorite scenes from movies. Spent a lot of time just--memorizing shit and monologuing to his mother while she cleaned the house. She called him her little parrot. Schooling — Went to Swynlake Primary and Secondary. No university. Favorite Subject — English and Drama. Popular or Loner — Popular. Definitely. Important Experiences or Events — Moving to LA! His first job! All his subsequent jobs! The birth of his daughters! The destruction of his career. Nationality — British Culture — LA (yes, that is a culture fight me.) Religion and beliefs — Jewish, but nonpracticing. Believes in hardwork.

Physical Appearance:

Face Claim — Jeff Goldblum Complexion — Darker skin tone but still fair. Hair Colour — Salt’n’pepper, used to be black. Eye Colour — Hazel. Height — 6’4 Build — Skeletal Tattoos — None. Piercings — None. Common Hairstyle — Coiffed. Clothing Style — Eccentric, loves a good turtleneck. Mannerisms — Very Loud and wiggly. Is never sitting still for long. Likes to climb on furniture. Doesn’t sit in chairs properly. Usual Expression —

Health:

Overall (do they get sick easily)? — Nah, he’s in good health. Physical Ailments — None. Neurological Conditions — None. Some depression? Allergies — Probably seasonal. Grooming Habits — Pretty good, ofc. Has to keep in Tip Top shape, even if he no longer has stylists Sleeping Habits — Has a bad case of insomnia. Eating Habits — Eats well, he’s a vegan. Exercise Habits — Exercises more or less regularly. Does yoga mostly. And like...cycling. Emotional Stability — Has a lot of shit going on underneath but pretty chill outwardly. Body Temperature — Runs a little cold actually. Always has cold af hands. Sociability — Super social! Though mostly for his own benefit. Addictions — None. Drug Use — Used to be heavier. Probably smokes weed, but also do we want a Jack high on the marijuana? Alcohol Use — Frequent but not abnormal.

Your Character’s Character:

Bad Habits — Talking over people, being self-centered, being insensitive. Good Habits — He tries !! and he’s very healthy aha Best Characteristic — He CARES, he’s just not great at showing it Worst Characteristic — Literally does not care. Worst Memory — Getting absolutely destroyed by all media outlets and falling from grace. Best Memory — The premiere of hemlock hill ofc! Proud of — His career. Embarrassed by — Not much, really, but deeply upset about his career being trashed. Driving Style — Erratic lmao Strong Points — He is a very good teacher, when he actually focuses properly. Temperament — Always good-natured! Unless you really piss him off, he can turn really cold and vicious almost without warning. Attitude — Happy-go-lucky, outwardly anyway. Weakness — Caring too much what other people think, while also not listening to anything people say when they give advice. Fears — becoming irrelevant. Phobias — None. Secrets — That he is Deeply Unhappy. Regrets — Lots of things, mostly not having a good relationship with his daughter, Hecuba, which is why he has a better one with Luna. Feels Vulnerable When — People drag up the shit that made him lose his career and fame. Pet Peeves — People not recognizing him or being purposefully obtuse. Conflicts — Wanting to continue to be famous v refusing to change. Motivation — To be Famous. Short Term Goals and Hopes — To be Famous again. Long Term Goals and Hopes — To be Famous again. Sexuality — Straight, but he can be convinced, probably has had dalliances with men. Exercise Routine — Does yoga every morning and evening. Day or Night Person — Night owl, for sure. Introvert or Extrovert — EXTROVERT. Optimist or Pessimist — Optimist.

Likes and Styles:

Music — Jack can play the piano and was in a jazz band for a while, so he loves music, especially jazz! But, really, he can get into anything. He tries to stay #hip for his students. Books — His book, of course, you should read it. Also reads a lot of plays/scripts. Magazines — Any magazine that mentions him. Foods — He’s a vegan! So, vegan food. Loves a good tofu. Has to eat well to keep his svelte figure. Drinks — Tall, half-caff, soy latte at 120 degrees. (I have absolutely no idea what this means but I googled “complicated starbucks orders” and this is what came up.) Also, likes tea. The like one piece of British culture he retained. Animals — Jack is very fond of strange animals–like okapis or the maned wolf. Animals that are just truly bizarre looking. Bonus points if they are obnoxiously large like giraffes. Sports — Played football in secondary. Wasn’t that bad. Social Issues — Magick Rights! Also, considers himself a feminist. (He’s not a terrible ally...but he’s also not perfect by any means.) Favorite Saying — “Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” ~ Meryl Streep Color — Jack is a big fan of black and white–a solid, classic combination that you can’t go wrong with. That’s not to say he doesn’t love color, because he ABSOLUTELY does. It is just that black and white is his favorite combination. Clothing — Loves to dress brightly and fashionably! Jewelry — Not a whole lot. Wears nice watches, probably some rings/necklaces. Websites — His website, which I should make lmao. TV Shows — Hemlock Hill. Movies — His movies, Greatest Want — To be famous. Greatest Need — To learn.

Where and How Does Your Character Live Now:

Home — A large, eccentric mansion on top of a hill. I like to think that it is across from Cruella’s house. It is, of course, called the Skellington Mansion. Household furnishings — An eclectic combination of modern with like the skeleton of a Victorian mansion, so like really ornate, heavy curtains--but a white leather sofa. Favorite Possession — His Emmys. Most Cherished Possession — Is this not the same thing - Jack Neighborhood — The Woods Married Before — Twice! Once to a sorceress-actress, once to a fairy-model. Significant Other Before — Lots of girlfriends probably (all Magicks). Children — Hecuba Hellsplat and Luna Bristlecape Relationship with Family — Estranged for the most part. He barely, if ever, speaks to his ex-wives. Talks with Hecuba very rarely. Has the best relationship with Luna. She’s his bb girl. Car — Some speedster probably, a nice fancy, flashy car. Career — Actor. Dream Career — Actor. Dream Life — He had his dream life. Cry. Love Life — More or less nonexistent. Talents or Skills — Excellent at memorization. A good parrot (can mimic mannerisms/speech patterns really well.) Can play the jazz piano! Intelligence Level — Quite high on certain things, absolutely clueless on others. There is not a lot of in between, really. Finances — Still wealthy af, he has like a successful 40 year career to live off of for the foreseeable future.

#about #character sheet #inspiration #love u my sweet son

0 notes

marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer · 8 years ago

Text

MTVS Epic Rewatch #165

VM 3x07 Of Vice and Men

Stray thoughts

1) This is probably the episode I relate the most to Veronica, and not precisely in a good way. I kind of see one of the worst parts of me in her, and it’s a sobering mirror to look into.

The previous episode ended with pretty much every man in her life disappointing her in some way or another. But the thing about Veronica is that she doesn’t settle with letting others know she’s disappointed in their actions. No. She has to torture them with her disappointment and to keep reminding them at every turn how low they have sunken and how big of a disappointment they are. She really does love riding her high horse.

2) EXHIBIT A.

KEITH: Where are you staying these days? If I can be so bold. You didn't come home last night. KEITH: I called Logan's room at the Grand. He...said he didn't know where you were. Thing is, I think he was telling the truth. VERONICA: I didn't come home last night, you didn't come home the night before that.

Veronica has every right to be disappointed in her dad. He’s not making stellar choices in his love life, that much is true. But a) I don’t think what he’s doing in his personal life constitutes a reason for Veronica to move out of his house, especially because he was keeping her out of it; and b) she was purposefully trying to hurt him and, worst of all, worry him. What’s more, not only is she worrying him by not letting him know where she’s staying at but also she’s trying to make him feel it’s his own fault she’s giving him reasons to be worried about. What kind of logic is that? “Oh, you’re having an affair with a married woman and I disapprove of it, so I’ll just stop sleeping at home, I won’t answer your calls and I won’t let you know where I’m at so that you can worry yourself sick believing I’m being kidnapped, raped, or murdered. Same thing!”

Keith was already aware that Veronica was disappointed in him and that she didn’t approve of what he was doing with Harmony. But that wasn’t good enough for Veronica. She had to make him suffer until he acted the way she wanted him to. She’d done it before (Rebecca, Alicia.) And every time, Keith gave in because his daughter is more important than any woman in his life. The problem is, no one is ever going to measure up to Veronica’s standards. So he’s giving up on having a life of his own just because his daughter is kind of a brat. And she’s not even a little kid, come on!

(I’m not saying Keith should’ve pursued his relationship with Harmony, all I’m saying is that he shouldn’t have been made to make that call because of Veronica, it should’ve been up to him.)

(also, let me be very clear about this, I may be too hard on Veronica in this review precisely because she reminds me too much of myself.)

3) It’s actually a miracle Piz didn’t ejaculate on the spot right there and then.

4) Rewatching this episode (and the season so far), I kind of get why someone who started watching the show during season 3 would ship Veronica and Piz and dislike Logan. So far, Logan had been painted as dubious at best, and Veronica was constantly suspecting him. Why would a new viewer distrust our narrator, you know? (of course, those of us who had been watching since the beginning knew better than judge anyone by Veronica’s book... the girl is not always right.) On the other hand, there was Piz, who is kinda cute (annoying haircut aside) and is clearly in love with her and pining over her with his puppy dog eyes and he’s like the ONLY man in her life who hasn’t disappointed her. It really was very heavy-handed, but whatever. And to top it all off, you have the writers putting them in this very rom-commy scenario...

(of course, I’m like ew ew ew look at that creep staring at her! but for someone who had zero idea about the history of the show and its characters, maybe this was cute?)

(but like ew ew ew)

(ew)

5) EXHIBIT B.

LANDRY: Veronica, I am recommending you for a summer internship at the FBI.He hands the papers to her. She scans the top sheet.

VERONICA: Fifteen hundred words on why I'll benefit from the program

LANDRY: Yeah. They take it seriously. Fill that out, and I'll accept that in lieu of your "plan a perfect murder" paper. We both know that you can do that in your sleep, right? The guy who runs the intern program in Quantico is an old undergrad buddy. I'll see that your application makes it into the small pile, if you know what I mean.

VERONICA: Got it. Thanks

VERONICA VOICEOVER: No term paper, a dream internship, and all I have to do is keep my mouth shut.

Veronica has made up her mind about what kind of person Landry is simply based on a specific detail she’d learned about his personal life. As quickly as she had put him on a pedestal, she had taken him down and envisioned him as a corrupt and sleazy would-be villain. Of course, he’s just trying to bribe her into keeping quiet! There’s no way he could actually want to help her out because he sees potential in her! Does the fact that he’s sleeping with the dean’s wife speak well of him as a person? Of course. Does it make him any less of a good professor? I don’t think so. Just don’t take lessons from him on personal stuff, you know? Keep it strictly curricular, girl!

6) And we come to the part where I kind of side with Veronica. I’m sorry, Logan, you’re my boy, but I can’t have your back on this one.

LOGAN: Look, I'm not here to talk about Mercer. Okay? I just... I don't know. I want to make things right between us. VERONICA: You tell me your friend couldn't have raped a girl because he was with you this summer. Then you won't tell me what you were doing or why you can't come forward to provide an alibi, so how exactly do you propose to make things right? Are you gonna hypnotize me? LOGAN: I don't know. I was hoping your desire to find the real rapist might outweigh your need to drag me over the coals. VERONICA: Who says I can't do both? LOGAN: Hey, Veronica! Trust me. It is better for everyone if this secret stays that way, okay? Please, have a little faith. VERONICA: How bad does your alibi have to be if Mercer would rather stay in jail than divulge it?

Veronica was right. If neither Logan nor Mercer wanted to come clean with their alibi, that meant that what they had been doing at the time of the rape had to be WORSE than RAPE. There’s no way around it. Logan was kind of asking the impossible of Veronica. He was telling her: “Hey, I’ve got this huge secret I am actively trying to keep from you because I don’t want you to know it, but you just have to trust me it’s all cool.” Sorry, but no. That’s not how it works. You can’t demand others to trust you. You need to prove yourself trustworthy. And Logan was doing the opposite of that. (I get why, like 100%, but more on that later.)

7) EXHIBIT C.

Logan was nothing short of falling to his knees and begging. You can see how much it scared him to see Veronica so angry and disappointed in him (they way he moves, how he plays with his shirt, how unsure he is when asking certain things...) Veronica is fully aware she has this power over him, she knows her disappointment in him is making him squirm and she’s kind of getting off on that (again, you can see it in the way she walks, hands in her pockets, chin lifted, barely looking at him when addressing him...) She’s in the position of power, and she wants to make the most of it. She wants to see him suffer just a bit more (of course, in her mind, this is payback because he’s keeping this huge secret from him, and let’s face it, she probably thinks he cheated on her because that’s what she always thinks even if history has always proven otherwise.) So, obviously, she leads him on to believe she could be cheating on him if she so pleased...

LOGAN: Your dad called me last night. He woke me up wanting to know where you were. VERONICA: Is that so? LOGAN: So, where are you staying these days? VERONICA: It's better for everyone if that secret stays that way.

8) Don’t you think Veronica should know better than to go for the Occam’s razor theory?

VERONICA: Have you ever heard of Occam's razor, Meryl?

MERYL: Is that a space laser? Has it already been invented?

VERONICA: No, it's a theory. Basically, the theory states that when given a set of possible explanations for a phenomenon, we should embrace the least complicated. So... I guess I'm saying that if on the one hand, you have Sully inventing a space laser, and on the other, maybe he wants to break up but is taking the coward's way out...

MERYL: You're saying maybe he's breaking up with me? I hope that's all it is. At least then I'd know he's okay.

There’s no doubt Meryl’s theory was ludicrous, but between her laser theory and Sully giving her the cold shoulder, there were a million other possibilities. And besides, this is Neptune. The easy answer is hardly ever the right one.

9) This was a Buffy cameo I wasn’t expecting...

10) Who was surprised Vinnie had been following Keith and Harmony and captured them on their illicit glory?

11) Yet again, Veronica gets on her high horse to judge Meryl. Throughout the whole episode, she considers Meryl is gullible and, well, stupid. I mean, how could anyone trust their boyfriend when they’re performing a disappearing act?

VERONICA: You have a fight, and then he's not around when you fly in. That doesn't make you the least bit suspicious?

MERYL: No.

Meryl was not stupid. She loved her boyfriend, and more importantly, knew him extremely well. And she knew for a fact everything that seemed to have happened was very unlike him. More importantly, whether he was cheating on her or trying to break up with her was a little importance to her. She just wanted to make sure he was okay because she loved him.

12) And this is the Veronica I like the least. (this reminds me a lot of how she immediately hated Parker just because she was a girly girl...)

VERONICA: When was the last time you saw him? SCARLETT: In physics lab, on Thursday. Wait. He's not around? Is he all right? MERYL: Actually... VERONICA: Dig the outfit. Is that from Dolce and Gabbana's study-buddy collection? MERYL: Veronica. SCARLETT: It's Friday. I'm going to a club after. VERONICA: Scarlett, did you happen to notice whether Sully invented a space laser of some sort? MERYL: You don't have to be mean. VERONICA: I'm sorry, Meryl, but Scarlett here has either stolen your boyfriend or she wants to. That's just the way it is. You can choose to be a patsy... Or you can choose not to be.

She was making a lot of judgments about this girl who she had just met based solely on the way she was dressed. That’s misogynistic and idiotic, and I’d like my heroine to be better than that, please and thank you.

13) Okay, I need to remember this. This was Mercer’s alibi so far...

VERONICA: Mercer couldn't have raped Stacy, either. Wait. Unless he pre-recorded his show so he knew he'd have an alibi. PIZ: I seriously doubt it. VERONICA: Why's that? PIZ: It's a call-in request show.

She figured it out right there! I seriously can’t believe I actually bought it wasn’t Mercer. Like, they revealed all the clues, it was all there!

14) Oh, and then we get to the scene...

VERONICA: I got what you need to get Mercer out of jail. It's yours, Logan. No one has to know where you were that night...no one except me. LOGAN: Can you leave it alone? Can you trust me? VERONICA: No, I can't. I'm not built that way. LOGAN: Who gets blackmailed by his girlfriend? Oh, I guess I do. We were in Tijuana. You know, we partied all night. I mean, it was no big deal. And when we got back to our rooms, he started making these drinks, flaming DPs. You know, you set a shot glass of rum and amaretto on fire, and you drop it in a beer. VERONICA: Hold on. Let me get a pen. I want to jot down this recipe. LOGAN: He set the room on fire. VERONICA: He did? And where were you for all this fun? LOGAN: Asleep in my room. VERONICA: Alone? LOGAN: Yeah, alone. VERONICA: Well, then, you're not really much of an alibi, are you? LOGAN: We were in Mexico, Veronica. We had adjoining rooms. I mean, the door between the rooms was open. I could hear them. VERONICA: Them? LOGAN: There were girls in his room. Is that what you want to know? I am your boyfriend, Veronica, and you're treating me like a criminal. VERONICA: You could have told all this to Lamb. LOGAN: By the time we got out of the room, the fire was spreading. The whole motel was going up in flames. Okay, w... And, I don't know, we had to get out of there. VERONICA: You didn't stick around to try to help? You didn't see if everyone was okay?

LOGAN: You know, it's because of the look on your face right now that I didn't want to tell you. I did what nine out of ten guys in my situation would have done. I ran. You know, so, either Mercer sits in jail here, or he gives his alibi and sits on his ass in some Mexican jail. At least here he's innocent.

I can understand both sides in this scene.

On the one hand, I get Veronica. I get why she needs to know what happened. Logan was keeping something secret from her that could potentially be worst than rape. How could she let that go? I know I wouldn’t. But even if it wasn’t about the gravity of the secret, there’s also the question of honesty. Logan was demanding Veronica to trust him while at the same time being dishonest. It’s a contradiction, one that can’t be overlooked.

On the other hand, I get why Logan was reluctant to be completely honest about what had gone down in Tijuana. He knew he’d been negligent and reckless, and that’s an understatement. He makes the point that 9 out of 10 guys would’ve done the same thing, but he knows Veronica expects him to be the only guy out of ten who would do things right. And he wishes he would be that guy, too, for her. He’s ashamed he couldn’t live up to her expectations, and disclosing this secret will remind him of how he will never measure up to her standards, of how he always fucks up.

And this is the part where I relate the most to Veronica. You know that look that she gives him? I’ve given people I love that look. I’ve judged them and made them feel like shit because they’d disappointed me or hadn’t lived up to my high standards. And why would people be honest with you when they know you’ll give them that look, when they know you’ll make them feel like a piece of shit? Who would willingly put themselves in a situation in which someone else makes you feel that way? Who would want to get that look? No one, of course. That’s when self-preservation kicks in. All it got me was people shutting me out because they knew how I’d react to things they’d done. They weren’t looking for someone to judge them. They were looking for a friend to hear them out and maybe help them go through something. I’ve learned my lesson. I’m not sure Veronica has.

footnote of sorts: I think that ultimately what hurt Veronica the most wasn’t the fact that Logan had run away from a building on fire but the suspicion of him cheating on her.

15) This is another flaw of Veronica. She has a tendency to use her personal experience and make overgeneralizations.

KEITH: But I want you to understand that this is not just some fling. Veronica... This is something special. VERONICA: "This is something special." Where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah, from every john we've ever caught with his pants down. KEITH: Veronica. VERONICA: So if Jake Kane thought he and mom had something special, would that have been okay? KEITH: Harmony is leaving her husband. VERONICA: Listen to yourself. Does her husband know this yet? Yeah. Look, Dad, do what you got to do, okay? I've seen too much working here to ever be surprised again.

This is yet another lesson she never quite learned. I’m sure that every cheating affair they had worked on had probably turned out the same way. Does that mean that every situation is the same? Of course not. There are exceptions, there always are! We might never know if Harmony was really going to leave her husband or not because she wasn’t given the chance to. For all we know, she might have done it. But that’s beside the point, really. The thing is, Veronica tends to decide the outcome of a situation or to make rash judgments of people she’s just met based on her previous knowledge of similar situations/people. And quite frequently, her preconceptions were proven to be wrong. Yet, every single time she sticks to them and she hardly ever keeps an open mind about considering a different possibility. (it doesn’t help that on the rare occasions in which she lets her guard down and lets herself believe people might act differently than expected, they disappoint her...)

16) If it wasn’t enough, she goes for the jugular.

KEITH: I know you, Veronica. You're not that jaded. VERONICA: I didn't used to be. I had this one shining example that gave me some faith.

poor Keith.

17) Vinnie might be one of the sleaziest and most corrupt characters in Neptune, but credit where credit’s due, he proved he wasn’t a total waste of a human being in this episode, ok? Not only that, he sort of kind of showed that he cares? One might think he’s an actual person with feelings and stuff? Like, I’ve never heard him sound as genuine as he did when he said this to Veronica:

VINNIE: What the hell are you thinking, Veronica? You got no business being in a place like that. You got me?

18) At least she apologizes and admits she was wrong...

VERONICA: Meryl?

MERYL: Yeah?

VERONICA: I'm so sorry that I, you know... jumped to the wrong conclusions.

MERYL: It's okay, Veronica. I never would have found him without you and I know what it looked like. If I hadn't been in love before, I wouldn't have believed it, either.

What Meryl tells her is very important. Meryl wasn’t an idiot. She understood perfectly well how the situation looked like to an outsider who didn’t know her or her boyfriend and what their relationship was like. And I don’t think it was just a question of being in love. After all, being in love can be one-sided. I think it was about Meryl knowing the person she loved better than anyone else.

19) At least one good thing came out of Veronica shutting out the two men in her life. I’ll always be a sucker for Logan and Keith talking and bonding, okay? Even if it’s over Veronica cutting them off of her life. And he showed some respect, okay?

LOGAN: Hey, Mr. Mars. KEITH: Logan, everything okay? LOGAN: Yeah. Uh, I'm looking for Veronica. I think she's trying to hide from me, actually. KEITH: Yeah, she's been keeping me out of the loop, too. You might try Wallace's. She said she was staying with him.

20) Okay, this is the part that doesn’t make sense and seems OOC to me. Veronica left her drink alone for a minute, returned, drank and started feeling groggy immediately. Her alarm should’ve gone off right then, but okay, the feeling passed and I guessed she was a momentary thing. But more on this later...

21) Oh, this little piece of shit, how I hate him.

LOGAN: Hey, I'm looking for Veronica. PIZ: She was around earlier, but I haven't- LOGAN: Is she with Wallace? PIZ: He's out of town at a motel... studying. LOGAN: Hey, 'cause Veronica's dad thought that, uh...

22) And then, as she’s still walking across campus, Veronica staggers and the dizziness returns. And yet she keeps on walking and she walks down the stairs to the parking garage? At that moment, we hear her voiceover. She knows what’s happening to her. She’s fully aware of it.

VERONICA: I know this feeling. I can't believe this is happening to me...again.

She’s dizzy but she understands. And yet she continues to walk into the garage, a place in which she would be most definitely at risk instead of trying to go back to campus and asking for help? This is what’s totally OOC to me. What was she gonna do? Drive her car in that state? I get that they had to get Veronica alone so that the rapist could ambush her, but don’t have the smartest character in the show act so stupidly and recklessly when she clearly knows better! This could’ve been easily avoided just by removing the voiceover. Like, she’s walking into the trap while saying to herself “oh I know what’s been done to me and I understand I’m walking into this trap.” ????????????????

This scene still gives me chills, though.

23)

VERONICA VOICEOVER: So, what would Stan Marsh say in a situation like this? I think we all learned a valuable lesson about faith. You give it to the people you love. But the people who really deserve it are the ones who come through even when you don't love them enough.

#Veronica Mars #Kristen Bell #VM #Jason Dohring #television #Rob Thomas #MTVSepicrewatch #VMrewatch2015 #mine #Of Vice and Men #recap #vmrecap

34 notes · View notes

latchingontoallofyou · 8 years ago

Text

We Are Us - Chapter 39

Chapter 39 - one of my favorite chapters

“Hi Charlie!” Meryl says excitedly through the phone.

“Hi Meryl. I miss you.”

“I miss you too. How are you guys?”

“Good. Madden’s finally warming up to preschool. Hunter is finally sleeping through the night.”

“Oh good. How has Madden been on the allergy front?”

“He doesn’t mind taking his medicine now. I guess he’s use to it. He always asks what the pens are for. We just keep saying it’s a pen in case he gets really sick. He’s still a little young to understand what it’s really about.”

“Good idea. Any new allergies?”

“Just the peanuts and some seasonal allergies.”

“Crazy.”

“How are the girls?”

“Great. Kamri’s loving Kindergarten. Rylan loves her little gym class we go to. I still think she’ll be a gymnast. That girl has so much energy. Olivianna is finally walking.”

“It’s only what, 2 weeks after her first birthday?”

“Yes.”

“Crazy. So, I called for a reason. Marina was telling me about this showcase the rink is doing. It’s a showcase for the skaters but she was also thinking of having former skaters come back and be in the showcase. I know you have three little ones and Maks is still doing the show on Monday’s but I was wondering if maybe you would be will to come and do a number with me.”

“That would be so much fun. When is the showcase?”

“May 18th.”

“The Friday before our anniversary.”

“Oh my goodness. I hadn’t realized it. Don’t worry about it. I’ll…”

“Whoa, I’m not saying no. I would love to do it. I just need to check our schedule. Maks will be done with the show on the Monday before.”

“Oh nice.”

“Maybe we could fly out Tuesday morning. Maks could come later if he needs. The girls would probably want to come to be with my parents longer. The girls will be so excited.”

“Meryl, I’m glad you are excited but remember, you have to talk to Maks first.”

“Oh right.”

“I’m sure he’ll say it’s ok. Maybe he’ll he take off work and we can all come down together after the show. What are we going to skate?”

“I’m not sure. Do we do something old?”

“I’d say ask Marina what she thinks. You know how set in her mind she can be.”

“I do. Remember how she kept pressing Fedor on you?”

“How could I not. He was a great guy just not my guy.”

“I’ve got to go Meryl. Call me after you’ve talked to Maks and let me know what you guys decide.”

“I will. Thanks Charlie. I miss you.”

“I miss you too Meryl.”

Meryl heads back into the house. She had stepped outside on the back porch when Charlie called. Rylan and Olivianna are napping and it is a beautiful March day. She fought the urge to call Maks and ask him if he thinks they can go but she figures it’s better to talk to him face to face about it.

To busy herself, Meryl heads inside and goes to Kamri’s room, sorting through her clothes, pulling out all of the clothes that don’t fit her anymore. She separates the clothes she wants to keep for Rylan and Olivianna to eventually wear and the clothes she is going to donate.

“Hi Teddy bear” Meryl says answering her cell phone.

“Hi Princess. I’m going to come home early today. Everything’s settled here. I’m pick up Kamri from the bus stop.”

“Are you sure? Is something wrong?”

“No. I just… I want to come home. I have something to show you.”

“Maks…”

“We’re ok. I promise. I’ll see you in a bit. I love you.”

“I love you too.”

A little worried about what is going on, Meryl tries to distract herself again. She gets down on the floor with Rylan and Olivianna and starts building towers with the blocks. It’s not really calming her mind but it will have to do. She finds herself constantly looking up at the clock to see how much time has passed, longing for Maks and Kamri to be home already.

“Hi Mommy! We’re home!”

“Lovey! Welcome home. How was your day?”

“Good but Ian wasn’t there today.”

“Aw, how come?”

“He had some doctors appointments Iyla said.”

“Well I’m glad he’s ok. Where is Daddy?”

“He’s coming. He was just getting the mail.”

“Oh, ok.”

“May I please go dance in the basement?”

“You don’t have homework?”

“No.”

“Ok. Go head. Put your backpack away first.”

“Yes Mommy” she says skipping off.

Meryl hears the garage door close and Maks make his way into the living room. He sits on the couch behind her and kisses the top of her head. He lets out a sigh and passes Meryl and envelope over her shoulder.

“What is this?” she asks scooting back and leaning on Maks’ legs.

“A letter I got at the studio today. Wait, where’s Kamri?”

“Dancing in the basement.”

“Ok good. It’s from Beth.”

“What?” Meryl says freezing, having only half opened the letter.

“It’s from Beth. She sent a letter.”

“Did you…”

“Yes.”

“It’s why you came home?”

“Yes.”

“Did you tell Kamri?”

“No. I want to talk to you about it.”

“What’s it about?”

“You can read it.”

“Is it bad?”

“No. It’s… um…��

“I’ll read it” Meryl says taking the letter all the way out of the envelope and unfolding it.

Maks,

I know, I’m probably the last person you want to hear from but I feel I have some explaining to do. Before I explain, I wanted to thank you. Thank you for welcoming Kamri and I into your home. I came to you as a long shot. I always knew you as a family first person so when I needed help, you came to mind.

Let me get back to the beginning. When I found out I was pregnant, I felt like my body had portrayed me. I had always thought I was careful and nothing would happen. I knew from the beginning that she wasn’t meant for me. I tried to ignore that feeling by having her and raising her. What am I kidding. I didn’t really raise her. I passed her off at every opportunity I could. If I’m honest, being around her scared me. I knew I’d let her down and I just kept waiting for that to come.

When I called you to ask if by chance we could come live with you, I was running. I was running from a life I didn’t want. I had met a guy who was so kind. He knew of Kamri but I had never introduced them. I knew it wasn’t right. He was so kind to me, willing to do anything to help me. He kept buying things for Kamri and had just asked to meet her. I had said I didn’t think it was a good idea yet. He said he loved me and was wanting to marry me but wanted to meet Kamri first to see how comfortable Kamri was with him. I just couldn’t do it. I still felt like I wasn’t her Mom. I still felt like she wasn’t mine to introduce so I called you and ran. I left him a note and never talked to him again. I’m good at that aren’t I? I think it’s something I get from my parents.

When I got to LA with you, I felt like I could breathe again. I felt so comfortable with having Kamri with you. She took to you so quickly and soon wanted to be with you more than me. I didn’t mind. I was actually happy to see it. She was starting to thrive. The more we were with you, the more I felt like I was starting to find myself. Then I got that job. It was leading me away from you two more and more. At first, I really didn’t like it but then something started to change. I started to like being away. I liked how my attention was off the little girl that I was supposed to love to be around and onto the work that I was learning to love.

I started to realize I didn’t want to be home. I wanted to be at work. I realized I didn’t want to come home and have a little one greeting me at the door. I wanted to be able to go out and not have to worry about a babysitter. I hadn’t felt bad about those feelings then. I do now. I couldn’t see a way out then though. I couldn’t bring myself to say to you that I couldn’t do this anymore and that I was leaving so I stayed. As you probably know, I was miserable and did what I could do to not be around you guys. I worked late. I offered to take the trips that I had turned down before. I not so slowly distanced myself.

When you suggested Kamri go to school, I secretly started to see my way out. It wasn’t right away but I remember a few days after you suggested it, I sat in my office and my mind started to think about Kamri being at school. I knew if she was at school, you’d be at work at the studio. That meant the house would be empty and I could do what I needed to do to leave. I had decided then and there that it’s what I’d do. I started to stay away as much as possible. I tried to be less present when I was around. I saw how much it hurt you both but I just kept saying it was for the better.

When school started, I thought about only giving it a few days before leaving. A few days turned into weeks. When I got sent on that business trip that was a few days long, I was relieved. The whole time I was away, I felt free. I felt that free feeling I had been longing for. That’s when I knew I had to do it. So, I planned to leave. On that Thursday I returned, I started packing my things, knowing I would be leaving the next day when you were at work and Kamri was at school. I kept myself at a distance that morning but gave Kamri one last big hug and kiss. Once you had left to take her to school, I finished packing and then loaded my car. I went to my office, asked to be transferred and they sent me to Minnesota. Why there, I still don’t know. It’s like they knew I was running.

I’d like to say I looked back. I wish I could say I had the desire to call. I wish I could say I was worried for you both. I can’t though. I never looked back. I never picked up the phone, wanting to call. I never looked at my phone when a call came in, wishing it was you. I blocked your number the day I left. I couldn’t be worried because I knew you were the best person for Kamri.

I hit rock bottom. I’m still working for the same company. I’m still in Minnesota. I still found myself wanting to be away from home as much as possible even though I didn’t have anyone to come home to. I met a lady who is a single parent to a little boy about the same age as Kamri. She and I went out to drinks one night when she had a babysitter. I had a little too much to drink and ended up telling her about Kamri. She told me how she has felt that way before but when she looks into his eye, she realizes she can’t do it. I told her how I never felt that. I said how I always felt she was meant for someone else. She would always listen to me and would talk through my feelings with me.

She helped me realize a lot of what I felt came from my parents sending me to America and never contacting me again. Instead of wanting something different for Kamri, I did the same thing. I, however, know it was for the better. I always knew you would do a better job of raising her than I would.

Thank you. Thank you for helping her through my leaving. Thank you for taking her as your own and loving her always. Thank you for finding a wonderful woman to be her Mom. Thank you for giving her the siblings I would never give her. Thank you for all that you have done for me.

I am better. I never thought I would say that but I am. I found someone who loves me and it doesn’t scare me. We are taking things extra slow because I am still working on bettering myself. He’s right by my side and willing to wait as we both better ourselves.

I know Kamri probably doesn’t want anything to do with me but if you think it would be ok for her, please let her know I’m ok. If she wants to talk to me, and you are ok with it, I’d be willing to do it. I’ll leave my number below. Just text me and we can set up some time to talk.

Thank you again Maks, for everything. Wishing you and your family well. May God continue to bless you. – Beth

“Wow” Meryl says lowering the letter and wiping the tears from her face.

“Yea, that’s all I could say too.”

“That’s big.”

“I know. I just don’t know what to do with it though. Do I tell Kamri?”

“I think we need to. She deserves to know Beth is ok. She’ll be upset if she finds out we didn’t tell her.”

“Yea, I guess you are right. Mer, what if she tries to come back for Kamri?”

“Maksim, she’s not going to do that. She just kept saying she felt Kamri wasn’t meant for her. She believes you are what’s best for Kamri. I don’t think she’ll come back for Kamri.”

“What if Kamri has some setbacks?”

“She might not even want to talk to her Maks but Kamri is strong. I don’t think talking to Beth would change her.”

“I’m proud of her you know.”

“Of Kamri? Me too.”

“I’m always proud of Kamri but I meant Beth. I’m proud she is working on herself. She always had some struggles in life but she usually just ignored them. I’m glad she’s finally doing something to better herself.”

“You are the kindest man I know Maksim Chmerkovskiy” Meryl says turning around and kissing him.

“I love you.”

“I love you. I have some news for you now.”

“Oh no.”

“No, it’s good news I think. I got a call from Charlie.”

“Is Tanith pregnant?”

“No. My old rink is having a showcase in May and Marina wants to have some former skates come and preform. Charlie called and was wondering if we could come to Michigan and preform at the showcase. We were thinking we’ll do one of our old dances so we could just go that week. The thing is, it’s on May 18th.”

“Our anniversary is that weekend.”

“Right but I was thinking we could leave after the show on Tuesday. Then Charlie and I would have Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning to practice.”

“We could do that.”

“Do you really think we can? You don’t have anything?”

“We can do it Mer.”

“You could always come later that week if you need to.”

“I’ll come with you.”

“I could get my parents to take off work.”

“I can watch the girls Meryl.”

“I know. My Mom might take off anyway. She’ll want as much time with them as possible.”

“If we stay till Monday, your parents can watch the girls on our anniversary and we can have the whole day to ourselves.”

“I’d love that.”

“Me too my love.”

“So I can tell Charlie we’ll do it?”

“Yes. And if you think you need to, you can always go to Michigan for a few days if you need to.”

“Thank you but I think we’ll be ok.”

“If your sure.”

“I’ll tell Charlie later. I think we need to talk to Kamri about Beth.”

“Yea, we can’t put it off too long or I’d be tempted to never tell her.”

“I’ll go call her up.”

Meryl calls down the basement stairs and has Kamri come up. They come back into the living and sit with Maks. Rylan has made her way over to Maks and is sitting in his lap where Olivianna is still playing around.

“Hi Daddy.”

“Hi Lovey. So, I got something in the mail today.”

“What?” Kamri says looking at the paper in his hand.

“It’s a letter.”

“From who?”

“It’s from Beth.”

“My birth mom?”

“Yes.”

“Oh.”

“She wants you to know she is ok.”

“Ok. Where did she go?”

“To a state called Minnesota.”

“Ok.”

“She said if you want to talk to her, you can call her. I have her new number now.”

“Oh.”

“If you don’t want to talk to her, that’s ok Lovey. It’s up to you.”

“Is she coming to get me?”

“No Lovey. You are still ours. We’ll always be your Mommy and Daddy” Meryl says hugging Kamri tight who has sunk into her lap.

“I don’t want to call her.”

“Ok Lovey” Maks says, letting out a sigh of relief.

“Maybe I can write her a letter like she did.”

“We could do that if that’s what you are comfortable with” Meryl says.

“I think I want to do that. I want her to know I’m happy and good.”

“I think that’s very nice of you.”

“Will she be mad if I call her Beth?”

“No Lovey. She knows she isn’t Mommy anymore.”

“Good. Do I have to write to her now?”

“No baby. It’s up to you to decide when you want to write or if you want to change your mind. I just want you to know we love you no matter what.”

“I know. I love you too. Can I go back and dance now?”

“Yes you may.”

“Mer, I think I’m going to text Beth and let her know we got her letter and let her know about Kamri’s wishes.”

“I think that’s a good idea. I’m going send Charlie a text and then I’ll start some dinner.”

“You’ve had a long day. I’ve got dinner.”

Just then, Maks’ phone rings. He looks down at it and see’s Val is calling. He laughs and answers the phone.

“Hey Val.”

“Hey Maks. Are you guys home tonight?”

“We are. What’s up?”

“We were thinking we need a family dinner tonight. I’ve got some chicken to grill and plenty of vegetables. Jenna is insisting on rice. What do you say?”

“Well Meryl and I were just trying to decide who is making dinner tonight so I think that sounds like a great idea. We’ll whip up some dessert to bring along.”

“Awesome. Come on over whenever. We’ll start cooking soon.”

“Thanks bro. See you soon.”

“Solved the dinner problem. We’re going to Jenna and Val’s. We’re in charge of dessert.”

“We have brownie mix. Think you could go pick up ice cream?”

“Of course.”

“Who’s ready for some dessert?” Jenna asks. They have eaten dinner and are in the basement, watching the girls run around playing.

“Me!” Kamri is the first to say.

Everyone nods in agreement and Meryl and Jenna go upstairs to make ice cream sundaes together. With brownies in each bowl and the ice cream and toppings out, they call down the stairs for everyone to come up.

Meryl helps Kamri make her sundae before fixing her own. Maks has made a bowl to split between Rylan and Olivianna and then made a bowl himself. Val has made a bowl himself but Jenna has the biggest bowl of them all.

“Wow there Jenna. That’s a lot of ice cream” Maks laughs.

“I can never get enough lately” Jenna says before taking a bite.

“That’s how Meryl was when she...”

“No way!” Meryl squeals. Jenna nods at her and the two wrap each other in a hug.

“Am I missing something?” Maks says looking at Val.

“She’s pregnant.”

“Hey, congrats bro!”

“I’m going to have a cousin?” Kamri asks excitedly.

“Yes” Val answers her while hugging Maks.

“Yay!”

“How are you feeling Jenna?” Meryl asks, holding her at arms distance.

“Ok. Morning are super tough. I’ve had to delay some practices because of the morning sickness. I’m always hungry, have to pee constantly, and am falling asleep all the time.”

“Sounds like the first trimester. How far along are you?”

“About 2 months. I just couldn’t hold it in anymore.”

“I’m so excited for you Jenna.”

“Thank you. I’m due in October. October 8th.”

“That’s so amazing.” Meryl pulls Jenna in close and whisper into Jenna’s ear, “I guess one of those hotel nights wasn’t all sleeping.” Jenna laughs and blushes.

A few night later, Meryl is doing the laundry as Maks gives Rylan and Olivianna their baths. Kamri had already finished her shower and was reading at the table. Meryl comes out with a basket of clothes to fold, Kamri looks up at her and puts the book she is reading down.

“Mommy?”

“What Lovey?”

“I think I’m ready to write to Beth.”

“Oh, ok.”

“I want to write it myself.”

“Ok. I’ll get you some paper and a pencil.”

“Ok.”

Meryl walks into the office with a deep breath and brings back some paper and a pencil. She puts it in front of Kamri and kisses her head. She goes to the other end of the table and gets to work folding the laundry. She watches on as Kamri thinks and writes. She can’t help but wonder what Kamri is writing but wants to give her time and privacy. She knows Kamri will as for help if she needs it. Kamri is still working when Meryl finishes folding.

“Lovey, I’ll be right back. I want to take this upstairs and check on Daddy and your sisters. Will you be ok?”

“Yes” she says, not looking up from her writing.

Meryl lets out a breath as she picks up the basket and heads upstairs. She leaves the basket in the hallway and goes on the search for Maks and the girls. She finds them in Rylan’s bathroom.

“How’s it going in here?” Meryl says leaning against the doorway.

“Mommy” Rylan squeals in delight.

“Hi Sissy. Hi Rusalka.”

“We’re good. Having fun splashing in the water right girls?”

“Good. So, um, Kamri is writing her letter to Beth.”

“Really?”

“Yea. I came out with some laundry and she said she was ready. She’s working really hard.”

“Do you know what she is writing?”

“No, I was giving her space. She hasn’t even asked for help with spelling.”

“She’s such a super girl.”

“She is. You finish up with them. I’m going to check on Kamri again.”

“Ok. Mer?”

“Yes?”

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

Meryl heads back downstairs and finds Kamri still at the table but her pencil is down and she is back to reading her book.

“All done Lovey?”

“I need help.”

“Ok Lovey” she says sitting down next to Kamri. “How can I help you?”

“I want to tell her about my arm but I can’t remember what that thing on my arm was.”

“Oh” Meryl breathes, having been worried what she needed help with. “Do you mean your cast?”

“No. The other thing. The one I could move in.”

“Oh your brace.”

“Yea!” she picks up her pencil and gets writing again. Meryl decides to busy herself again, this time packing Kamri’s lunch for tomorrow.

Soon Maks comes down with Rylan and Olivianna. Rylan rushes off to play in the living room but Olivianna who is tired, reaches out for Meryl when she and Maks come into the kitchen.

“She’s still working?”

“Yes. She needed help when I came back down because she couldn’t remember her brace.”

“I’m so curious what she is writing about.”

“Me too.”

“I think I’m all done” Kamri says suddenly.

“Ok Lovey. Do you want to read it to me?” Maks asks.

“I don’t want to read. You can” she says holding the papers out to Maks. He takes them and sits at the table. Kamri gets up and goes upstairs to her room. Meryl joins him at the table.

Maks slides over closer to Meryl so they can both read the letter. It’s a bit hard to read from her kid writing and they’ll probably have to either write her letter again and send it with hers or write underneath on the words that are hard to figure out. None the less, they struggle to make it through, mostly because of how much it hurts them to read her feelings.

Hi. It’s me Kamri. I used to be your daughter. Daddy takes really good care of me. He always makes sure I’m good. He never makes fun of my hair. He’s not good at picking my outfits though. Mommy usually does it. I have a really good Mommy now. She loves me and plays with me. She does my hair and buys me pretty clothes. When I missed you, she would make me happy. That’s how Daddy met her. I have two sisters now. Rylan is adopted like me but her birth Mommy and birth Daddy died. Mommy had Olivianna in her belly. I liked when she kicked my hand. Did I kick you? Mommy said it hurt sometimes. I still love to dance. I have a dance room in the basement. Did you know Daddy judges on a dance show? I love to go. Do you remember Caleb from when I would tell you about preschool? He’s still my best friend. I can talk to him with my hands now too. It’s called sign language. I went to the park with him one day and I fell and broke my arm. I had a big cast and then a brace. It’s all better now. Daddy told me you live in Minnesota now. Is it cold? When we go to see Grammy in Michigan, it’s usually cold. Do you miss me? I think about you sometimes but I really love my Mommy and Daddy. Thank you for letting them have me. I want to stay with them. Are you happy? I am. You can write me back if you want. Love, Kamri

“Wow” is all Maks can say.

“Yea” Meryl says back, just as shocked.

“I… That’s hard to read. It’s going to be tough on Beth.”

“The second sentence about did me in” Meryl says softly.

“Me too. It sucks that she has to deal with all of this but I’m so glad she’s ours.”

“Me too. She wants to stay with us” Meryl says with a hint of pride.

“Good because she isn’t going anywhere” he says, leaning in to kiss her.

“We should get the little ones their bottles and then to bed.”

“I could use an early bedtime myself” Maks says standing up.

“Oh…”

“Or not” he says noticing her disappointment.

“Let’s just get them to bed and go from there.”

After bottles and changed diapers, Rylan and Olivianna are put to bed. They go in to Kamri’s room and find her playing with her Barbies.

“Hey Lovey” Maks says walking into the room and sitting on Kamri’s bed with her. Meryl stands next to him, leaning onto him.

“Hi. Did you read my letter?”

“We did.”

“Is it ok?”

“It’s good.”

“Will she be mad?”

“I don’t think she’ll be mad Lovey.”

“I still don’t miss her.”

“You don’t have to miss her Kamri” Maks says pulling her to sit on his lap.

“But she was my Mommy.”

“I know but that doesn’t mean you need to miss her.”

“Why? I miss Mommy when I’m not with her.”

“I’m so glad you do Kamri but Beth was a different kind of Mom to you” Meryl says sweetly.

“She wasn’t a very good one. She didn’t do things all the Mommy’s I know do.”

“Kamri, I…”

“I’m so glad you are my Mommy” Kamri says looking up at Meryl.

“I’m so glad you are my daughter” Meryl says bending down and kissing her.

“Can we read from my chapter book now?”

“Sure. Why don’t you put you Barbies away and I’ll get settled. Daddy, are you going to join us tonight?”

“I’d love to.”

Meryl sits close to the wall and Maks waits for Kamri to climb in next to Meryl before he cuddles in at the edge of the bed. Kamri lays down with her head on the pillow as Meryl reads. Maks lays down with Kamri, snuggling as close to her as he can get.

They make it through almost 2 and a half chapters before Kamri falls asleep. Meryl and Maks carefully get off her bed, not wanting to wake her and then head out the room, turning off her lights as they go.

“Come on Princess” Maks says taking Meryl’s hand as they pass the laundry that’s still in the hallway, waiting to be put away, and into the bedroom, locking the door behind them.

A few days later, with her letter sent, Kamri is having a tough morning. She has been taking her time to eat breakfast and put her dishes away.

“Come on Kamri!” Meryl calls up the stairs.

“I’m coming” she tells back with an attitude. Meryl has to take a deep breath to not get upset and yell back.

Kamri comes down the stairs in pajama pants and a tank top, an outfit she is allowed to wear to school. Meryl has to take another deep breath, trying to calm herself down. Kamri knows better and Meryl just doesn’t know what has gotten into her.

“Kamri, you know you can’t wear that to school. Go upstairs and try again. “

“I don’t want to. I want to wear this.”

“You are not allowed. Go up and change now.”

“No” Kamri says sternly and walks past Meryl.

“Kamri Ellison, this is unacceptable. You either go upstairs now and pick an acceptable outfit for school or I’ll change you and you won’t get to go to dance tonight.”

“Fine” she says stomping past her. “My old Mommy would let me wear this.”

“No she wouldn’t. Mom’s want their kids to look their best and…”

“She didn’t care what I wore.”

“Well I do and you are not wearing that to school.”

“Ugh” she whines as she runs up the stairs.

She takes a deep breath and slowly follows Kamri up the stairs. Meryl walks into Kamri’s room and she is just pulling on her black and white striped leggings with gold hearts on the knees. The leggings are capris. The t-shirt that she has on is white with coral sleeves that says ‘I can’t even’ on it.

“That’s much better Lovey. Thank you.”

“This is comfier” Kamri says, pushing her glasses back up on her eyes. She’s wearing her black frames.

“I’m glad. Kamri, why where you so upset?”

“I don’t know” she says sadly, her eyes filling with tears.

“Oh, come here Lovey.” She wraps Kamri into her arms and holds her as the tears slide down her face.

“I’m so sorry Mommy. I love you.”

“I love you too. What’s bothering you Kamri?”

“Beth didn’t send me a letter” she barely gets out through her sobs.

“Oh Lovey, you sent the letter a few days ago. It takes a few days to get to her. Then she has to read it, write a back, and send it.”

“Oh.”

“I know it’s hard Lovey. I don’t want you to be upset if she doesn’t send a letter back though. I think she will but…”

“She has to Mommy. It’s not nice to no write back.”

“I know Lovey. Sometimes people don’t always do the right thing. I really hope Beth will though.”

“Me too” Kamri says wiping her face dry.

“Are you feeling better now?”

“Yes. I’m sorry Mommy.”

“I know baby. Promise me you’ll tell me or Daddy if something is bothering you?”

“I promise.” Meryl bends down and gives her a kiss before they head downstairs, grabbing their things and heading to the bus stop while Maks stays with Rylan and Olivianna.

When she comes back, Maks is sitting on the couch with the girls playing on the floor below him. She collapses on the couch next to him, leaning against him and letting out a sigh.

“Want to tell me what Kamri said?”

“Did you hear her say that her ‘old mom would let her wear this’?”

“No.”

“Well she did. She then had lots of attitude and stomping. I finally got out of her that she was upset that she hasn’t gotten a letter back yet.”

He lets out a sigh and kisses her head. “I really was hopeful this wouldn’t affect her. I was worried that a letter would make things harder.”

“I think it will be better for her though. We talked it through and I think it will be better now.”

“Good. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.”

“It’s ok. It comes with being a Mom.”

1 week later, when Kamri got the mail on the way up the driveway after school, she finally sees the letter she has been waiting for.

“Mommy, look! It’s for me! It must be from Beth!”

“You’re right. We can read it when we get inside and get your sisters settled.

“Ok.”

As Kamri puts her things away, never putting the letter down, Meryl gets Rylan and Olivianna set. They all head down to the basement. The two younger girls play nicely together. Kamri comes down and sits in Meryl’s lap, opening the envelope and pulling out the letter.

“Can you read it to me Mommy?”

“Of course.”

Kamri unfolds the letter and holds it so Meryl and herself can see. Meryl takes a deep breath and kisses Kamri’s head before reading the letter.

Kamri,

I’m so glad you are happy. You have the best Mommy and Daddy in the world and don’t ever forget that. I couldn’t ask for a better set of parents for you. I’m so glad you have sisters. I bet you are the best big sister in the world. I’m so glad you are still dancing. You were always so amazing at it. Yes, you did kick me like your sister kicked your Mommy. It did hurt sometimes. I’ve watched your Daddy on his show. He does a really good job. You must have so much fun there. Sorry, I don’t remember Caleb. I’m so glad you have good friends. It’s very cool that you know sign language. That must mean you can talk 3 ways, American, Russian, and sign language. That’s so special. I’m so sorry you broke your arm. I broke my arm when I was little too but I just had a cast. I’m happy to hear it’s all better. I do live in Minnesota. Yes, it’s cold. We get a lot of snow. I’ve been to Michigan once for a trip. I do miss you Kamri. I have thought about you. It makes me sad but I know you are happy and healthy. Don’t worry. I will never take you from your Mommy and Daddy. Keep being your best for them. They love you very much. Write whenever you want. I promise to write back when you do. Love Beth

When Meryl finishes reading, Kamri stands up with the letter and heads up the stairs without a word. Meryl herself was pretty happy with the response. Beth was very positive throughout the letter. She addressed everything that she could and answered her questions as well. She’s a bit surprised that Beth said she missed Kamri but she can’t tell if she said that because Kamri did or if she really did miss her. Either way, it was a very important letter. She decides to give Kamri some space for now and then will ask Kamri how she feels later.

A few minutes later, Kamri comes back downstairs. She comes over and sits in Meryl’s lap again. She doesn’t say anything at first. She just leans back against her.

“That was a nice letter” Kamri finally says.

“It was. How did it make you feel?”

“Good. I’m so happy she wrote back.”

“I’m happy for you.”

“I don’t want to write back now though. I don’t have anything else to say.”

“Ok. If you ever want to write again, just ask and we’ll get you some paper. Ok?”

“Ok Mommy. Thank you.”

I had no plan to have Beth contact them in any way until this chapter and then it just flew right out.

#weareus #mirandawrites

4 notes · View notes