#michael C chen

[drewlyyours]

THE HAUNTED CAROUSEL FANCAST

ND #8

Harlan Bishop - Michael Cera

Ingrid Corey - Arsema Thomas

Elliot Chen - William Gao

Joy Trent - Aubrey Plaza

even bad memories have a place in a good life

MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG

[brentchua]

k.ngsley collection 3, show

do you understand?

featuring from top to bottom SIRI LEHLAND, DIEGO MAZZAFERRO, SPENCER FINN, OLIVIA NOVAK, JAGGER ALDRICH, MICHAEL ODETTE, VERONIKA COLLINS, LUCA GRIMONE, FUJI NG, KENNEDY WHITLOCK, PETAR C, JORDAN LOVE, ASHER CHEN, JULIAN CARDONA, LUCVAS TARRAGO, KRISTY BAEZ, MONTE SEVEN, OSMAN CEESAY, JARROD LEES, TIMOTHY RAMOS, JULES SANTIAGO, CHRISTIAN ARCIAGA, DOMINIKA J, ZORIA BREAUX, ADIL ESSAFI, MATTHEW MCCABE, SHADERSKA VALDEZ, ALIYA PROTTO, JUSTIN VALSECHI, and SASHA PAYTON.

creative director KINGSLEY GBADEDGESIN

stylist MAX WEINSTEIN

casting BRENT CHUA

hair SEAN BENNETT + CODY AINEY

make up REZA TERASSI

music SECUCCI

show design JED SKRZPCZAK

production ZARA AKPAN for MODEM CREATIVE PROJECTS

pr AND SUCH NYC

video MYLO BUTLER

for full story please visit:

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models.com

[maximiliano-aedo]

What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

[mosscoveredpages]

after the biggest identity crisis, feelings of failure and major breakdowns, i've decided that my next academic year will be... different. i need a break from uni, which still hurts to admit. i intend to make learning enjoyable again, so i will start my year of rest and slow learning. the idea is to go back to learning at my own pace about whatever im curious about and NOT for obligation. so! this is a list of nonfic titles i am considering picking up!

- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, by Angela Chen

- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong

- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor

- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton

- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, by Amanda Leduc

- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake

- Having and Being Had, by Eula Biss

- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens

- Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World, by Honor Cargill-Martin

- Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power, Eleanor Herman

- Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses, by Jackie Higgins

- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan

- The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy, by Tristam Adams

- Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, by Elinor Cleghorn

- Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, by Linda Nochlin

- Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

- Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

[dear-indies]

Hi dears, I hope you are doing well! Are you taking questions? If not, please feel free to ignore! But if you are, would you be able to suggest a father for a Havana Rose Liu fc? Please and thank you! 💗

Michael J. Fox (1961) - has Parkinson’s disease.

Christopher Eccleston (1964)

Peter Dinklage (1969) - has achondroplasia.

Hu Bing (1971) Chinese.

Michael C. Hall (1971) - is sexually fluid.

Brett Tucker (1972)

Andrew Lincoln (1973)

Kris Holden-Ried (1973)

He Jiong (1974) Chinese.

Tu Song Yan (1974) Chinese.

Dash Mihok (1974) - has Tourette Syndrome.

David Harbour (1975)

Jin Dong (1976) Chinese.

Chen Kun (1976) Chinese.

Lu Yi (1976) Chinese.

Huang Xiao Ming (1977) Chinese.

Here you go, anon!

[princessamyrose87]

knuckles spin-off series cast

Vector the Crocodile - Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Micheal B. Jordan, Seth rogen

Espio the Chameleon - Daisuke Tsuji, l.j. benet

Charmy Bee - Colleen o'Shaughnessey, Jacob Tremblay

Mighty The Armadillo - Micheal Mando, Micheal B. Jordan, Brady noon

Ray The flying squirrel - Tara Strong, Hudson Meek

Fang The Sniper - John Patrick Lowrie, Hugh Jackman, Karl Urban,

Bean The Dynamite - Aziz Ansari, Steven Ogg

Chief Pachacamac - Danny Trejo Sofía

Tikal the Echidna - Díana Bermudez, Ana de la Reguera, Selene Luna, Sofía Espinosa, Isabela Merced, Salma Hayek, Nisa Gunduz

E-102 Gamma - Corey Burton

Wendy Witchcart - Mia Goth, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Harriet Samson Harris

Battle Kukku XV - Nolan North

Speedy XVI - Maria Bakalova

Dr. Fukurokov - Mark Ivanar

Breezie The Hedgehog - Regina King, Janelle Monáe, Jena Malone, Pollyanna McIntosh

Vanilla The Rabbit - Maggie Robertson

Amy Rose - Kimiko Glenn, Anna kendrick

Big The Cat - Dave Fennoy, Patrick Warburton, Micheal B Jordan, Kevin Chamberlin

Cream the Rabbit - Melissa Hutchison, sabrina glow

Sticks the Badger - Margot Robbie, Paola Lázaro

Gerald Kintobor - Ron Perlman

Maria Kintobor - Mkeena Grace

Commander Abraham Tower - Frank Anthony Grillo

Subject Shadow The Hedgehog (Terios Kintobor) - (Paramount stated they want an A-list celebrity to voice Shadow) Keanu Reeves, Robert Pattinson, Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, Micheal B Jordan

Rouge The Bat - Chloé Hollings, Marion Cotillard, Mélanie Laurent, Camille Cottin, Jordana Lajoie, Scarlett johansson

Tom Wachowski’s father - Bob Odinkirk, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Micheal Keaton, Kurt Russell, John Goodman

Metal Sonic - Ben Schwartz(robotic filter)

E-123 Omega - Micheal B Jordan, Terry Crews, Jon Bernthal

Hazard The Bio-Lizard (Marzanna Kintobor) - Ivana Miličević

Void TrapDark - Jude Law, Dane DeHaan, Gerald Way, Scott Williams, Freddie Highmore,

Lumina Flowlight - Tabitha St. Germain

Blaze’s Mother - Janina Gavankar, Sakina Jaffrey

Blaze The Cat (Indian/British accent) - Priyanka Chopra, Devika Bhise, Varada Sethu, Simone Ashley, Ulka Simone Mohanty, Natasha Chandel

Marine the Raccoon - Sia, Katie Bergin, Bella Heathcote, Isla Lang Fisher, Rylee Alazraqui, Kendal Rae

Blaze’s Rival: Frost The Axotol(example)- Michelle Yeoh, Fala Chen, Antony Starr

Jet’s Father - Matt Ryan, Iwan Rheon

Jet The Hawk - Tony Hawk, Aaron Paul, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dante Basco, Ken Jeong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jimmy O. Yang

Wave The Swallow - Sarah Margaret Qualley

Storm the Albatross (pacific, Oceania) - Dave Batista, Taylor Wily

Emerl The Gizoid - Augus Imrie, Kendal Rae,

Clutch The Possum - Micheal Rooker, Benjamin Byron Davis, Robert Allen Wiethoff

Tangle The Lemur - Lauren Keke Palmer, Brenda Song

Whisper The Wolf - Stefanie Joosten, Ana de Armas

Mimic The Octopus - Richard Colin Brake

Doctor Starline - Troy Baker, Hugh Grant,

Starline’s Love interest and partner -

Rough and Tumble the Skunks - Will Ferrell and John C. Reily, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

Surge The Tenrec - Rachel Bloom, AJ Michalka

Kitsunami The Fennec Fox - Michael Cera, Kyle McCarley

Zavok - Christopher Judge, John Cena, Jon Bernthal

Master Zik - Frank Oz, Randall Duk Kim, Dustin Hoffman

Zeena -Mindy Kaling

Zor - Jaeden Martell, Dane DeHaan, Gerald Way

Zazz - Danny Brown,

Zomom - T.J. Miller

Black Doom -

,Keith David https://youtu.be/9LmOwEfPHUo

, Jackie Earle Haley - https://youtu.be/sF8zxctevXc

, Jon Bernthal - https://youtu.be/sDp4AuNen0Y

, Sean Schemmel -

, Ray Porter - https://youtu.be/aR8p4DIpxxE

,Karl Urban - https://youtu.be/ccF3uvpJ96I

Eclipse The Darkling - Norman Reedus

Callisto The Darkling - Carrie-Anne Moss

Dark Oak - Jeremy Irons

Black Narcissus - Angelina Jolie

Pala Bayleaf - John Leguizamo

Yellow Zelkova - Terry Crews

Red Pine - Pat Casey or Josh Miller

Cosmo The Seedrian - Carol Anne Day, Liliana Mumy

Lyric The Ancient(Owl like Longclaw) - Jackie Earle Haley

Johnny Lightfoot - Taron Egerton

Tekno The Canary - Paula Burrows

Porker Lewis - John Boyega, Daniel Radcliffe

Shorty “Shortfuse” The Cybernik - Cillian Murphy, Barry Sloane

Ebony The Cat - Gratiela Brancusi

Sonia The Hedgehog - Kiernan Shipka, Evan Rachel Wood, Isabella Merced, Jena Malone

Manic The Hedgehog - Joe Keery

Sally Acorn - Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman

Antoine D’Coolette - Tomer Capone, Bradley Cooper(hes fluent in French)

Bunnie Rabbot - Alex McKenna

Rotor The “Boomer” Walrus - John Cena

Nicole The Holo-Lynx - Ashly Burch

Lupe The Wolf - Amber Midthunder

Dulcy The Dragon - America Ferrera

Chip - Tom Holland, Freddie Highmore

Professor Dillion Pickle - Ian McKellen

Imperator Ix - Gary Oldman

Shade The Echidna - Lady Gaga

Infinite The Jackal - Kit Harington, Jon Bernthal

Silver The Hedgehog - Steven Yeun

Gold The Tenrec - Simone Ashley

Professor Von Schlemmer - Matthias Schweighöfer

Dr. Negan Robotnik a.k.a Eggman Neo - J.K. Simmons, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Giancarlo Esposito, Bryan Cranston, Pedro Pascal

Dr. Grimer Wormtongue - Ian McShane, Jackie Earle Haley

Chris thorndyke - Graham Verchere

Frost the hobidon - Dakota lotus

Juliet suter - Sydney Scotia

Antia/tania - Cassie glow

Perci - Stephanie lemelin

Preteen bokkun - Brett Gray

Park ranger - Patrick Warburton

Ashe - peyton r. perrine iii

Burst wisp - cherami Leigh

Uncle Charles - David Lengel

Bernadette - Melanie Zanetti

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 20, 2023

Working memory capacity estimates moderate value learning for outcome-irrelevant features. Ben-Artzi, I., Luria, R., & Shahar, N. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 19677.

Mutual interference in working memory updating: A hierarchical Bayesian model. Chen, Y., Peruggia, M., & Van Zandt, T. (2022). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 111, 102706.

Perceptual bias contextualized in visually ambiguous stimuli. Esposito, A., Chiarella, S. G., Raffone, A., Nikolaev, A. R., & van Leeuwen, C. (2023). Cognition, 230, 105284.

Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle. Galvez-Pol, A., Virdee, P., Villacampa, J., & Kilner, J. (2022). eLife, 11, e78126.

Prospective and retrospective values integrated in frontal cortex drive predictive choice. Hamaguchi, K., Takahashi-Aoki, H., & Watanabe, D. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(48), e2206067119.

Testing models of context-dependent outcome encoding in reinforcement learning. Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2023). Cognition, 230, 105280.

Long-term stability of single neuron activity in the motor system. Jensen, K. T., Kadmon Harpaz, N., Dhawale, A. K., Wolff, S. B. E., & Ölveczky, B. P. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(12), 1664–1674.

Hippocampal representations of foraging trajectories depend upon spatial context. Jiang, W.-C., Xu, S., & Dudman, J. T. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(12), 1693–1705.

Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion. Jovanovic, L., Trichanh, M., Martin, B., & Giersch, A. (2023). Cognition, 230, 105279.

Phase separation of competing memories along the human hippocampal theta rhythm. Kerrén, C., van Bree, S., Griffiths, B. J., & Wimber, M. (2022). eLife, 11, e80633.

Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex modulates rationality of human decision-making. Kroker, T., Wyczesany, M., Rehbein, M. A., Roesmann, K., Wessing, I., & Junghöfer, M. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 20213.

Spatiotemporally heterogeneous coordination of cholinergic and neocortical activity. Lohani, S., Moberly, A. H., Benisty, H., Landa, B., Jing, M., Li, Y., … Cardin, J. A. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(12), 1706–1713.

Dorsal striatum coding for the timely execution of action sequences. Martinez, M. C., Zold, C. L., Coletti, M. A., Murer, M. G., & Belluscio, M. A. (2022). eLife, 11, e74929.

Mesoscale cortex-wide neural dynamics predict self-initiated actions in mice several seconds prior to movement. Mitelut, C., Zhang, Y., Sekino, Y., Boyd, J. D., Bollanos, F., Swindale, N. V, … Murphy, T. H. (2022). eLife, 11, e76506.

Coding of latent variables in sensory, parietal, and frontal cortices during closed-loop virtual navigation. Noel, J.-P., Balzani, E., Avila, E., Lakshminarasimhan, K. J., Bruni, S., Alefantis, P., … Angelaki, D. E. (2022). eLife, 11, e80280.

Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula. Soyman, E., Bruls, R., Ioumpa, K., Müller-Pinzler, L., Gallo, S., Qin, C., … Gazzola, V. (2022). eLife, 11, e75197.

Spatiotemporal properties of glutamate input support direction selectivity in the dendrites of retinal starburst amacrine cells. Srivastava, P., de Rosenroll, G., Matsumoto, A., Michaels, T., Turple, Z., Jain, V., … Awatramani, G. B. (2022). eLife, 11, e81533.

Visual working memory representations bias attention more when they are the target of an action plan. Trentin, C., Slagter, H. A., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2023). Cognition, 230, 105274.

Self-configuring feedback loops for sensorimotor control. Verduzco-Flores, S. O., & De Schutter, E. (2022).eELife, 11, e77216.

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

NADIA HATTA AND KRISTOFFER POLAHA PAIR UP FOR ‘A WINNING TEAM,’ A NEW, ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERING MARCH 18, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

STUDIO CITY, CA – February 14, 2023 – Nadia Hatta (“Away”) and Kristoffer Polaha (Jurassic World Dominion) reach for their goals in “A Winning Team,” a new, original movie premiering Saturday, March 18 (8 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Channel.

After getting fired for lack of sportsmanship, professional soccer player Emily Chen (Hatta) travels home to spend some much-needed downtime with her widowed brother. When she accidentally injures her niece Ava’s coach, Ian Vermette (Polaha), she covers for him and leads Ava’s team into the playoffs. With a shot at the championship at stake, Emily and Ian’s differing coaching styles threaten their objective, but as they begin to warm up to each other on and off the field, they each make strides toward healing old wounds. But when Emily gets an offer from her old coach to return, their romantic relationship is threatened. Can these two get back on the same team before the big game?

“A Winning Team” is from Winning Team Productions inc. Ben C. Silverman, Aidan Heatley, Alexandre Coscas, Michael R. Goldstein, Antonio Cupo, Steve Stabler, Ryan M. Murphy, and Joie Botkin are executive producers. Richard Greenhalgh is producer. Jason Furukawa directed from a script by Ronee Uyeshiro.

[sahraeyll]

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[rewritingthepasttraumatohope]

78 Days of Survival: How a Wrong Turn in the Mountains Almost Killed Me

I never thought my last granola bar would become the most precious thing I’d ever own. Sitting here now, months after my rescue, I can still taste that final crumb I rationed on day twelve. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

My name is Michael Chen, and this is the story of how a simple day hike turned into a 78-day fight for survival in the Northern Cascades. A story that would test every limit of human endurance, force me to confront my mortality, and fundamentally change who I am as a person.

It started on September 15th, 2022. The weather forecast promised a perfect autumn day — crisp, clear, with temperatures in the mid-60s. I packed light: a day pack containing three bottles of water, five granola bars, a light rain jacket, my phone (which would later prove useless), a small first-aid kit, and a lighter. I’d hiked the Thunder Creek Trail dozens of times before. It was my go-to weekend escape from Seattle’s tech scene, where I worked as a software developer.

The first two hours were exactly what I expected. The fall colors were starting to emerge, painting the landscape in subtle golds and reds. The air had that distinct mountain crispness that makes you feel more alive with each breath. I remember stopping to photograph a family of deer grazing in a meadow. That photo would be the last thing I’d send to anyone before losing cell service.

The fork in the trail came around noon. I’d always taken the right path, which led to my usual viewpoint. But that day, something pulled me left. Maybe it was curiosity, or perhaps fate has a twisted sense of humor. The trail looked well-maintained enough, and my GPS still showed I was on a marked path. I decided to explore.

That single decision would nearly cost me my life.

The first sign that something was wrong came three hours later. The trail had gradually become less distinct, but I’d pressed on, convinced it would loop back to the main path. The terrain had grown increasingly rocky, and the forest was thickening. When I finally stopped to check my location, my phone showed no signal, and my GPS app had frozen on its last known position.

I felt the first flutter of panic in my chest but pushed it down. I was an experienced hiker. All I needed to do was retrace my steps. But as the afternoon shadows lengthened, I realized with growing horror that nothing looked familiar. The forest had taken on that eerie uniformity where every tree, every rock formation, started to look the same.

By sunset, I had to accept the terrible truth: I was lost.

That first night, I tried to stay calm. I found a relatively flat spot between two large boulders, put on my rain jacket, and used my day pack as a makeshift pillow. The temperature dropped dramatically after dark, and I couldn’t stop shivering. I had no sleeping bag, no tent, and only the clothes I was wearing: hiking boots, cargo pants, a moisture-wicking t-shirt, and my light rain jacket.

I kept telling myself that in the morning, I’d get my bearings. Someone would notice I was missing. Search parties would be organized. But as I lay there, listening to the unfamiliar sounds of the wilderness at night, a chilling thought crept in: I had told no one about my hiking plans that day.

The first week tested everything I thought I knew about survival. By day three, my granola bars were already running dangerously low, and the reality of my situation began to sink in. Each morning, I would wake up with stiff joints from sleeping on the hard ground, my clothes damp from the morning dew.

I remembered the basics from survival shows: find water, build shelter, and try to signal for help. The water part was manageable — I found a clear stream and used my empty water bottles to collect it. I didn’t have any way to purify it, but dehydration seemed a more immediate threat than waterborne illness.

Building a shelter became my obsession during those first few days. I gathered pine boughs and created a lean-to against a rock face, using fallen branches and my rain jacket as a roof. It wasn’t much, but it kept the worst of the elements off me. Each night, I would curl up in a bed of pine needles, trying to conserve body heat.

Food was the real challenge. When my last granola bar was gone, panic set in. I had never hunted in my life, and now I was forced to learn through desperate trial and error. I fashioned primitive traps from branches and vines, hoping to catch small game. Most days, I ended up eating berries I recognized and pine bark. My stomach was in constant pain from hunger.

On day six, I got lucky — one of my traps caught a rabbit. With trembling hands and using a sharp rock, I did what I had to do. The thought of it still makes me queasy, but survival has a way of stripping away civilization’s niceties. I cooked it over a small fire, which I managed to start using my lighter. That lighter became my most precious possession.

I tried to maintain a routine to keep my sanity. Each morning, I would mark another day on a stick. I would gather wood for the fire, check my traps, collect water, and search for edible plants. But as the days wore on, I began to realize I was moving further into unfamiliar territory in my search for food.

The nights were the worst. The darkness brought not just cold, but an overwhelming sense of loneliness. The forest sounds — rustling leaves, breaking branches, and distant animal calls — kept me on edge. Sometimes I would hear what sounded like voices in the wind, only to realize it was just my mind playing tricks on me.

By the end of the first week, I had lost at least 15 pounds. My clothes hung loose on my frame, and my belt needed two new notches. But worse than the physical deterioration was the psychological toll. Every helicopter sound made me sprint to clearings, waving frantically, only to watch them pass by, too far away to see me.

By the third week, I had developed a routine that was keeping me alive, but just barely. Then came the day that nearly ended everything — the day of the ankle.

I had been following what looked like deer tracks, hoping they might lead to a water source or, better yet, a trail. The autumn weather had been deteriorating, with temperatures dropping sharply. That morning, a light frost had covered my makeshift shelter, a warning of what was to come.

The accident happened so fast. One moment I was carefully picking my way down a steep slope, the next, my foot caught between two rocks. I heard the snap before I felt it. The pain came a second later, explosive and nauseating. I rolled down the slope, finally coming to rest against a tree, my left ankle twisted at an unnatural angle.

For what felt like hours, I just lay there, screaming into the vast wilderness. No one answered. No one was coming. The realization hit me harder than the fall — I was completely on my own, and now I was injured.

Using my minimal first aid supplies and strips torn from my t-shirt, I fashioned a crude splint using straight branches. Every movement was agony. I couldn’t put any weight on the ankle, and I knew this injury could be my death sentence.

That night, as I dragged myself back to my shelter, the first snowflakes began to fall.

The snow started gentle, almost beautiful. Within days, it turned brutal. My lean-to shelter, adequate for autumn, was desperately insufficient for winter conditions. The temperature plummeted, and my fire became harder to maintain as wood grew scarce and wet.

I was now crawling or hopping to gather supplies, my injured ankle making every task take three times as long. The traps I’d set went empty — the animals were either hibernating or had moved on to warmer areas. I resorted to eating snow for water, as reaching the stream became nearly impossible.

The hunger was constant now, a gnawing emptiness that never left. I started hallucinating — seeing cars on non-existent roads, hearing phones ringing in the distance. My dreams were filled with warm beds and hot meals, making reality even harder to face when I woke up shivering.

One particularly bad night, as the wind howled through my shelter and the temperature dropped well below freezing, I wrote a goodbye note to my family on a piece of bark using charcoal from my fire. I tucked it into my pocket, certain I wouldn’t survive another week.

But something in me refused to give up. Maybe it was stubbornness, maybe survival instinct, or maybe just plain fear of death. I began to adapt to my new reality, even with my limiting injury.

December arrived with a vengeance. The snow was now knee-deep, and my injured ankle had healed just enough to bear minimal weight, though every step was still excruciating. My world had shrunk to a small radius around my shelter, which I’d desperately tried to reinforce against the relentless cold.

I’d learned to create a better shelter by then — necessity is a harsh teacher. Using fallen pine branches and packed snow, I’d built what resembled an igloo-meets-debris hut. The small entrance faced away from the prevailing winds, and I’d created a small smoke hole at the top. Inside, I kept a tiny fire going constantly, more for survival than comfort.

My diet had become desperately primitive. The deep snow made hunting impossible, and most plants were buried or dead. I survived on tree bark, boiled pine needles for tea, and occasionally, if I was lucky, fish from holes I carved in the frozen stream. I had lost so much weight that my ribs were clearly visible, and my face in the reflection of ice looked like a stranger’s.

The worst storm hit in what I guessed was mid-December. For three days straight, the wind howled like a wounded animal, and the snow fell so thick I couldn’t see three feet in front of me. My shelter nearly collapsed twice. I spent those days huddled in the dark, burning my precious remaining dry wood, and fighting to keep the fire alive. Each time it nearly went out, I thought of my family, wondering if they’d given up searching for me.

One morning, after the storm, I woke to an eerie silence. The world was wrapped in white, and the temperature had dropped so low that my breath froze instantly in front of my face. As I hobbled out to check my surroundings, I saw them — wolf tracks in the fresh snow, circling my shelter.

That night, I heard them howling. They were close, too close. I kept my fire burning bright and stayed awake all night, clutching a sharpened stick — my only weapon. Their eyes glowed in the darkness beyond my shelter’s entrance, watching, waiting. I realized then that I wasn’t just fighting the cold anymore; I had become part of the food chain.

The wolves visited three more times that week. Each time, I could sense their growing desperation matching my own. We were all hungry, all fighting to survive this merciless winter. I began to understand a primal fear our ancestors must have known — the feeling of being both predator and prey.

By this point, I’d lost track of the exact number of days I’d been lost. The marks on my counting stick had become confused with the passing of multiple storms. Time became measured only in moments of light and dark, in hunger and brief respite, in the constant battle against the cold.

The turning point came after what I later learned was 78 days in the wilderness. By then, I was barely human — more a creature of instinct and survival. My clothes hung in tatters, my body was skeletal, and my mind wavered between clarity and delirium.

That morning started like any other. The sun was a pale disk behind gray clouds, and the temperature had risen slightly, making the snow wet and heavy. I had just finished melting snow for water when I heard it — a sound that didn’t belong to the wilderness. A mechanical whirring, distant but distinct.

At first, I thought it was another hallucination. I’d had plenty of those, especially in the last few weeks. But this sound persisted, growing louder. A helicopter. My heart began to race, but I’d been disappointed too many times before. I’d seen dozens of aircraft pass overhead, none close enough to spot my small camp.

This time was different. The sound was lower, closer. With an energy I didn’t know I still possessed, I hobbled to my wood pile and grabbed the driest branches. My hands shaking, I built a small pyramid and set it ablaze, then threw wet pine needles on top. Green smoke began to rise above the trees.

The helicopter’s sound faded, and my heart sank. But then, incredibly, it returned. They had seen the smoke. Through breaks in the forest canopy, I could see it now — a search and rescue helicopter circling back. I screamed and waved my arms frantically, not caring about the pain in my ankle or the tears freezing on my face.

The rescue itself is a blur in my memory. I remember the downdraft from the helicopter blades, the faces of the rescue team looking at me with shock, and the warmth of the emergency blanket they wrapped around me. One of the rescuers later told me they had almost ended their search pattern for the day. If I hadn’t lit that fire when I did, they would have missed me entirely.

At the hospital, I learned the full story. My car had been found at the trailhead, but the search area was vast, and after weeks, most had assumed I was dead. Only my sister had refused to give up, continuing to pressure authorities to keep searching. She had somehow known I was still alive.

The medical list was long: severe malnutrition, frostbite on two toes, a badly healed ankle fracture that would require surgery, and various infections. I had lost 47 pounds. But I was alive.

Recovery was a long process, not just physically but mentally. For months after my rescue, I would wake up in a panic, thinking I was back in that snow-covered forest. I would stockpile food in my apartment and couldn’t sleep without a light on. The sound of wolves howling on nature documentaries would send me into a cold sweat.

But survival changed me in positive ways too. I gained a profound respect for nature’s power and our own fragility. Simple things — a warm bed, a hot meal, the company of loved ones — became precious gifts rather than everyday occurrences.

Today, a year later, I still hike. But never alone, and never without proper equipment and emergency supplies. My ankle serves as a permanent reminder of those 78 days, a slight limp that appears when I’m tired. Sometimes, on cold nights, I find myself staring out my window at the distant mountains, remembering the lessons they taught me about life, death, and the incredible will to survive.

[The End]

EPILOGUE: The Truth

One year after my rescue, I received a strange package. Inside was a worn leather journal, its pages warped by water damage. The return address was from Dr. Harrison at the psychiatric facility where I’d received therapy after my rescue.

With trembling hands, I opened it. The handwriting was mine, but I had no memory of writing it. The entries were dated from five years ago:

“Day 45 in the facility. The doctors keep insisting that what I experienced wasn’t real. They say I was never lost in the mountains. That I was found in my apartment after three months of isolation, suffering from extreme psychosis. They claim I never left the city.

But how do they explain my injuries? The ankle, the frostbite, the weight loss?

Dr. Harrison showed me the security footage today. In it, I’m in my apartment, acting out everything — building imaginary shelters with my furniture, catching invisible rabbits, fighting off hallucinated wolves. They say I broke my own ankle jumping from my second-story window, convinced I was being stalked by predators.

The most disturbing part? The footage shows me eating things… things I don’t want to remember. They found animal remains in my apartment. Strays that had disappeared from the neighborhood. That’s why they committed me.

But the wolves… I swear they were real. I can still see their eyes in the darkness. Sometimes, late at night, I hear them howling outside my window here at the facility. The staff say there are no wolves in the city.

Yesterday, I saw one of them wearing a white coat, walking on two legs, checking my charts…”

The journal ends there. But what terrifies me most isn’t the journal itself — it’s that as I read it, memories started flooding back. The “wilderness” looking suspiciously like my apartment furniture. The “stream” being my bathtub. The “wolves” being the police trying to enter my apartment.

And worst of all? Right now, looking out my window at the “mountains,” I’m starting to see the padded walls of my room again. And somewhere, in the distance, I hear howling.

[The Real End]

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Werewolves: when the supermoon returns

Frank Grillo's upcoming horror film Werewolves is set to hit theaters on December 6, 2024. Directed by Steven C. Miller, known for his work on Silent Night, the film presents a thrilling and chaotic premise: a supermoon event triggers a latent gene in every human, turning anyone exposed to its light into a werewolf for one night, resulting in catastrophic consequences where nearly a billion people died. Now, as the supermoon returns a year later, society braces for the impending chaos once again.

Key Details

Premise: The film's narrative centers around the aftermath of this catastrophic transformation, exploring how humanity prepares for the second occurrence of the supermoon and the potential resurgence of werewolf attacks.

Cast: The film features an impressive ensemble, including:

Frank Grillo as Wesley Marshall

Katrina Law as Dr. Amy Chen

Ilfenesh Hadera as Lucy Marshall

Lou Diamond Phillips as Dr. Aranda

James Michael Cummings as Cody Walker.

Production Insights

Miller's direction aims to revitalize the horror genre by utilizing practical effects, crafted by industry veterans Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., who are renowned for their work on the Alien and Predator franchises. This approach is intended to bring authenticity back to werewolf portrayals, moving away from heavy CGI reliance.

The screenplay is penned by Matthew Kennedy, who has previously worked on Inheritance, and the film has been described as akin to The Purge but with werewolves, emphasizing both horror and action elements.

Anticipation and Marketing

The marketing campaign has included an official trailer that showcases intense action sequences and highlights Grillo's character preparing for the impending threat while also delving into the scientific attempts to understand and possibly reverse the transformations caused by the supermoon. The film has garnered attention not only for its unique premise but also for its blend of horror and action, appealing to fans of both genres.

As the release date approaches, excitement builds around Werewolves, promising a fresh take on classic horror themes with a modern twist.

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Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Leon S. Kennedy (voice): Paul Mercier Claire Redfield (voice): Alyson Court Angela Miller (voice): Laura Bailey Curtis Miller (voice): Roger Craig Smith Frederic Downing (voice): Crispin Freeman Senator Ron Davis (voice): Michael Sorich Ingrid Hunnigan (voice): Salli Saffioti Rani Chawla (voice): Michelle Ruff Rani’s aunt (voice): Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Greg Glenn (voice): Steve Blum WilPharma CEO (voice): Michael McConnohie U.S. President (voice): Kirk Thornton Various (voice): Cindy Robinson Various (voice): Dave Wittenberg Various (voice): Kari Wahlgren Various (voice): Kyle Hebert Various (voice): Barbara Goodson Various (voice): Keith Silverstein Various (voice): Yuri Lowenthal Various (voice): Megan Hollingshead Various (voice): Skip Stellrecht Various (voice): Troy Baker Various (voice): Karen Strassman Various (voice): JB Blanc Various (voice): Johnny Yong Bosch Greg Glenn / G-Curtis (motion capture): Derek Mears Film Crew: Executive Producer: Masao Takiyama Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga Director: Makoto Kamiya Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka Editor: Ryuji Miyajima Layout: Nobuhito Sue Sound Designer: Koji Kasamatsu Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama Costume Design: Kuniko Hôjô Compositor: Naoyuki Fujii Stunts: Satoshi Hakuzen Executive Producer: Haruhiro Tsujimoto Executive Producer: Keiji Inafune Original Music Composer: Tetsuya Takahashi Co-Producer: Hidenori Ueki Story: Hiroyuki Kobayashi CGI Director: Atsushi Doi Casting Producer: Michelle Ladd Stunts: Naohiro Kawamoto Storyboard Artist: Shinji Nishikawa Casting Producer: Thom Williams Producer: Taro Morishima Associate Producer: Scott Dolph Video Game: Shinji Mikami Stunts: Jersey Maki Itosu Sound Editor: Yoshiki Matsunaga Casting Producer: Hiroyuki Yoshida Compositor: Hiroki Ando Storyboard Artist: Kiyoshi Okuyama Production Manager: Sareana Sun Associate Producer: Daisuke Gomi Stunts: Koji Kawamoto Video Game: Kenichi Iwao Story Editor: Father Video Game: Tokuro Fujiwara Video Game: Takahiro Arimitsu Modelling Supervisor: Yoshiaki Hirabayashi Producer: Seiji Iseda Associate Producer: Aki Kiuchi Executive Producer: Ivan C. Shih Co-Executive Producer: Toshi Tokumaru Associate Producer: Mareo Yamada Production Design: Shiho Tamura Production Manager: Alena Fang Production Manager: Kumiko Oguri Second Assistant Director: Kentaro Fujisawa First Assistant Director: Gaku Nagao Prop Designer: Takumi Sakura Storyboard Artist: Hiromitsu Soma Dialogue Editor: Les Claypool III Character Designer: Kazuhiro Asakawa VFX Artist: Wu Bin Lighting Artist: Zhang Bei Modeling: Stacy Chang Lighting Artist: Peng Chao Modeling: Hsin-Che Chen Modeling: Soyoung Cheng Modeling: Chaucer Chiu Lighting Artist: Liu Dexin Compositor: Nobutaka Emoto Lighting Artist: Le Gao Compositing Lead: Tsubasa Harikae Lighting Artist: Yifang He Lighting Artist: Zhang Hongkun Animation: Ni Hongtao Stunts: Nobuhiro Inohara Post Production Producer: Yuuki Hashimoto Assistant Editor: Narihiko Kôno Movie Reviews: Andre Gonzales: It’s just like if I was watching the video game. Pretty cool movie. These are the 2 characters I remember the most because I loved Code Veronica so much.

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Canadian procedural Wild Cards is coming back for a second season on The CW.

The renewal news came this morning as originating broadcaster CBC renewed the show and unveiled it at its Upfronts.

It marks a bit of good news for The CW, which canceled Walker earlier this week, while Canadian drama The Spencer Sisters, which it also aired, was canceled at CTV.

The show, stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Giacomo Gianniotti, Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan and Jason Priestley, has been one of The CW’s stronger performers over the last year.

Earlier this month, The CW’s President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz told Deadline that he was keen to bring back the show for more episodes.

Wild Cards is a crime-solving procedural with a comedic twist that follows the unlikely duo of a gruff, sardonic cop and a spirited, clever con woman. Ellis (Gianniotti) plays a demoted detective who has spent the last year on the maritime unit, while Max (Morgan) has been living a transient life elaborately scamming everyone she meets. But when Max gets arrested and ends up helping Ellis solve a local crime, the two are offered the opportunity to redeem themselves, with Ellis going back to detective and Max staying out of jail. The catch? They have to work together, with each using their unique skills to solve crimes. Terry Chen and Karin Konoval also star.

It is produced by Blink49 Studios, Front Street Pictures and Piller/Segan with Michael Konyves as showrunner. He exec produces alongside Shawn Piller, James Genn, Lloyd Segan, Alexandra Zarowny and James Thorpe. Produced by Charles Cooper and Virginia Rankin, it is distributed internationally by Fifth Season.

The second season will premiere in winter 2025 on both The CW and CBC and consists of 13 episodes.

“We are thrilled to order a second season of The CW’s breakout series Wild Cards,” said Liz Wise Lyall, Head of Scripted Programming, The CW Network. “Wild Cards has clearly captured the imagination of our viewers thanks to exhilarating storytelling and the crackling chemistry between Vanessa and Giacomo. We are confident Wild Cards is the kind of smart and sexy blue-sky drama that could continually build its audience for years.” 

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Terravenger Season 6 - Episode 477 (Do Not Copy) - 10.16.2023

    At a large land which was part of the Chen Islands, the great army of villainous soldiers led by Barbarus landed by the edge to the beautiful ocean.

    Once Barbarus who was the last began to land, a large square made of blue energy appeared floating around all the soldiers including Barbarus and Goran.

    A male voice quietly called "Caelesti Cellula!"

    Goran cried "What in the hell?"

    The energy surrounding the square crossed through ten of soldiers as the rest including Goran and Barbarus crouched quickly.

    After the squared ring of energy vanished, another army of soldiers floated from the sky.

    The cowardly Goran hid behind a pair of his soldiers as Barbarus remained at the front.

    The wicked Barbarus gave a large smile as he spotted the person standing before the opposing team.

    He responded "Well, if it isn't you."

    And Barbarus thought to himself.

Barbarus's thoughts:

By the small library somewhere in Silver Jay City, Mercury Fakinos and his commander named Beau Ravenstone both discovered the body of the student Michael Eden laying on the ground.

As soon as Mercury walked toward the distraught Rus Glan, Beau and Cama Veil spotted another person walking into the area.

"It appears..." The person implied. "...Eden failed in killin' Veil."

Barbarus who was the commander of the Green Opal Armed Forces at the time stood at the other side of the field with a large smile on his face. Meanwhile, the commander of the Pluto Armed Forces -- Cama Veil -- lifted his head and faced his opponent.

"No matter," replied Barbarus. "I'll do what that punk-ass couldn't. You're dead, Pluto Commander!"

    After that, a coat of purple lightning gathered around him as Barbarus continued to stare at his enemy with a bloodthirsty grin.

    "If it isn't the Pluto Commander!" He implied. "Come to kill me?"

    The blue color of his eyes soon glowed pale-violet as the coat of his lightning began to lift.

    "And you're wearing a mask?" added Barbarus. "What for? To hide your plain face?"

    The young commander felt his mask using the fingers from his left hand and informed his opponent "I made this mask for this occasion. Both sides of my mask represent the two people you brought out to murder."

    "Two people?" questioned the strong-faced soldier. "Did that scum kill somebody besides Onni?"

    And Cama explained.

    "The right side of this mask resembles my good friend who you killed personally, one Officer Wesley Onni."

    Barbarus spotted the right side of the enemy's mask and commented "Yes, my best work yet!"

Barbarus's thoughts:

During one late night, two soldiers from the Midas Armed Forces stood by the farmlands near the city as someone was guarded by them.

It was the officer from the Pluto Armed Forces named Wesley Onni. He was the young man with bright skin and blue-gray eyes. His dark-brown hair was short and spiked up. And he had a thick beard. He had on a long-sleeved white shirt, long blue jeans, and blue shoes with white laces. He also wore an unzipped brown coat and a brown backpack.

Onni looked at his surroundings until he discovered both his guards slowly falling onto the grassy ground.

After that, he faced forward and spotted another person walking toward him.

"You?" He yelled. "But why?"

The wicked man called Barbarus stood before him with a large smile on his face. He pointed his right finger at Onni which blew out a long ray of purple lightning.

Then Barbarus yelled "See you in hell, Onni!"

    After that, Cama pointeed his right finger at the left side of his mask.

    "But this side," He informed Barbarus. "This represents my best friend. His name was... He was Officer Andrew Bries. He's the one you led to his death."

    The strong-faced soldier from Pluto City had asked "What, Commander? This guy's the reason why Captain Bries was killed too? How?"

    Cama answered "While I was at the Armed Forces Exams, Andy went on a routine check away from Pluto City. He and his fleet were soon captured by Barbarus who was still undercover."

Terravenger: Season 6

Episode 477:  The Mask Representing Two Great Friends

    Suddenly, the vicious Barbarus blew a large straight stream of purple lightning from his right palm after pushing it forward.

    "Cutlerpurpureus!" He yelled. "Infernum Onis!"

    The slender soldier hurried in front of his commander as he threw his left hand forward.

    The soldier yelled out "Triangulus Claudus!"

    A medium-sized inverted triangle of golden energy appeared from his left hand and grew as large as a dumpster. And the triangle-like barrier negated the projectile of dark lightning from their enemy.

    "Well done Rex!" yelled the strong-faced soldier. "The commander wasn't off choosing you to come with us! Your shield can block pretty much every projectile!"

    The lightning continued to shine on his body as Barbarus floated away from the two armies.

    "Screw this!" yelled the enraged man. "I can just destroy everyone of you bastards here!"

    Barbarus faced his left palm to the soldiers below. A large circle of his purple energy formed before him. And the projectile began rotating to the right side repeatedly as it floated toward all the soldiers including his own.

    "Are you insane?" cried Goran. "You will kill us all!"

    The angry Barbarus roared "Cutlerpurpureus! Rolling Circus Wheel!"

    The strong-faced soldier hurried before his team as he cheered "That's my cue!"

    A green light shined around him as the strong-faced soldier named Richard Grim called out "Exhaurie Naturae!"

    The large circle of rolling energy was quickly drained into the body of Officer Grim who gave a cheerful smile.

    Then Grim informed Barbarus "As long as your energy comes from Nature, I'm able to suck your blasts!"

    Barbarus gave a strong grin and thought to himself "Those two shit-heads are gonna be trouble for me!"

    Barbarus soon blew his right fist forward and fired a large wave of purple lightning that had the shape of a snake.

    "Cutlerpurpureus!" He yelled. "Serpenspontus!"

    The projectile slithered toward the two guards of the Pluto Commander. Before the head of the lightning figure could bite the head of the slender soldier named Cory Rex, Cama began defending. Once he generated a large amount of light blue-green lightning into his left hand, Cama gave a slash using his hand which made the appearance of the energy formed into a long slash. The slash of energy sliced through the neck of the snake-like projectile. And the two parts of the snake vanished into thin air along with the energy slash.

    After that, the colors of his body changed as Cama ran toward the bottom of his opponent. The disguised Cama hopped behind the floating Barbarus. Then Cama removed his mask and blew a large cabinet of golden fire from his mouth.

    Cama yelled "Fire Release! Renewal of the King!"

    Barbarus flung his right hand in an outer-crescent manner which blew the large flame away.

    "Are you scared?" yelled the devious man. "Can you withstand me?"

    Next, Cama blew out a large bubble made of green acid from his mouth.

    "Bulla Acidum!" He called.

    The coated Barbarus swung his right arm once again which sliced the bubble in half. And the bubble popped into a small patch of air.

    After he threw his mask down, Cama threw his left palm behind the face of his enemy.

    A large ball of white energy formed from the commander's hand and exploded into a large splash of water which blew Barbarus away from him.

    Once his true colors returned, Cama remained floating in the air while his enemy floated at the other side.

    "You were right," claimed Barbarus. "I was the one that led that guy to his death."

    And the determined Cama listened as Barbarus revealed "Your friend, Andrew Bries or whatever his name is... Or... was. I found out before I was near the hideout that I was being followed. So, I went ahead and led those idiots to the entrance of the hideout. And that was when they had a meeting with her, Mother Blight."

    "Mother Blight?" repeated Cama.

    Barbarus gave a short chuckle and replied "She's one of the oldest followers that our lord has right now. Mother Blight's just one of her names. So, I wouldn't be surprised if you never heard that name."

    And the vicious man described "Mother Blight's probably the most cunning and deadly out of all his old team. She's not to be messed with, I shit you not. See, she has these weird powers. She can kill anyone with just a look. And that's just a small piece of her power."

    Then Cama thought to himself.

Cama's thoughts:

Walking outside from a small library in Silver Jay City was the calm Cama Veil.

On the screen of the tablet he held with his right hand was the dead body of Andrew Bries laying on a slab inside a lab.

The female voice who was revealed as his head-doctor reported to Cama "There was no injury shown on any part of his body. But the other doctors claim that his death was caused by witchcraft."

    After that, Cama shook his head and responded.

    "So, it was her. She was the one who killed them that day. She did that to Andy. You are talking about the Head Witch of Hell. That makes sense now. She's probably the only witch that can destroy a person like that."

    "Yes," replied Barbarus. "Now you know. But I'm gonna have to do this. That's right. I'm gonna have to kill you now."

    The devious Barbarus pointed both his right middle and index fingers at his opponent. Meanwhile, the lightning from the coat that he wore had risen as Barbarus continued to give out a vicious grin. And the form of the coat began to change. A pair of pointy ears rose as a long bushy tail swung from behind him.

    The purple-eyed Barbarus yelled "I'M GONNA END YOU LIKE I SHOULDA DONE LONG AGO! YOU'RE TOAST, PLUTO COMMANDER!"

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757: MAWNY 2023 - One Day Convention Report

Sunday, April 30th

Registration Opens - 9:00 am

Auction (NO BOOKS OR MAGAZINES) - 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

(NOTE: All auction items must be checked-in no later than 10:15 am)

Lunch and Mingle with Your Fellow Magicians - 12:00 pm

Close-Up Performers - 2:00-ish pm hosted by Eric Decamps with Bernardo Sedlacek, Jimmy C., Michael Ammar, Quentin Reynolds, Aaron Isaac, Alexandra Duvivier

Lecture - 3:30-ish pm

Dinner Buffet - 5:00 pm

(Doors open at 6:30 pm) (Time subject to change) for Dealers

International Evening Show - 7:00 pm (Time subject to change) hosted by Christian and Katalina with Martin Braessas, Michael Dardant, Darryl Rose, Sara Crasson, Greg Frewin, Christian Mocia, Meadow Perry, and Juliana Chen.

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - TIME STAMPS WILL BE UPDATED AFTER I GET SOME SLEEP

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Park Avenue Apartment, New York, United States,

by MKCA