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buckysimp101 · 2 years ago

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Clear Blue (1) | Mickey Henry 18+

Summary: You and Mickey have known each other since he moved to Greece. A couple of ex-pats, you flocked to each other for company. You were the first to find out his ex was pregnant and he was going to be a dad. You watched him try, and honestly fail, at the whole “being a dad” thing. And the two of you had a nice couple times hooking up. But Mickey has Chloe now and Mickey does what Mickey does best...he ghosts you. But now you have to break the silence.

Mickey Henry x female reader, Mickey Henry x Chloe Gains

a/n: Okay so we’re taking a quick right turn away from Bucky for a second (don’t worry, First Grade Updates are coming back soon!) But I just think Seb’s character Mickey Henry from Monday does not get NEARLY enough love/fics on this app. So. Time to change that. This will be a short little mini-series! I’m not certain if there will be legit smut yet so I’m just gonna be safe and mark it as 18+

chapter warnings: language, mention of drug usage, a lil angsty really, mentions of sex/sex locations but no specific smut, daddy kink if you squint.

Part 2

Clear blue. It’s the color of the Aegean Sea as it moves throughout the day, tides coming in and going out. It is the color of Mickey Henry’s eyes, twin pools of the ocean situated on his face. Brightening as he laughs, darkening as he frowns. It’s also the name of the stupid pregnancy test you’re about to take. Thanks in part to the aforementioned blue eyed God. Except, Mickey Henry isn’t a God. Mickey Henry is a man, a very good looking man, that you have known for years. Ever since he moved to Greece really.

You and Mickey moved to Greece around the same time. You partied in the same circles, with the same crowd. You explored Greece together. You explored each other a couple times. And then came Aspa. Mickey’s relationship with Aspa showed you that to him, you were replaceable. Mickey had a tendency to pick you up and put you down whenever another newer, shinier toy came along. And with Aspa, came Hector. When Mickey told you he was going to be a dad you were...concerned to say the least.

Never had Mickey Henry proven to you that he was responsible enough to be a dad, you’d also never even talked about if he wanted to be one. But his carelessness put him right in the middle of fatherhood when his son was born. That was six years ago. Not much changed.

In the six years since Aspa had Hector, she and Mickey fought and they fought and they fought. They had broken up not long after Hector was born due to Mickey acting like “a man-child who does drugs and doesn’t have a real job.” Aspa’s words. Not yours. But you silently agreed. Mickey never wanted to grow up. He worked as a Deejay on the weekends and during the week he was kissing whoever’s ass he needed to in order to produce a new jingle.

One thing you had to hand to Mickey, he did love being a dad. He loved Hector, you could see it in his eyes and in the way he spoke about his son. His entire body lit up with excitement and enthusiasm whenever he told you about what his son was learning or doing, even though most of that information came second-hand from Aspa. You could say that Mickey tried to be a dad. He did. But he didn’t really try. He half-assed everything, was constantly late, and on top of that he practically refused to learn Greek to even speak with Hector. Needless to say, the whole situation with Aspa and Hector was pretty touchy now.

In the years since Aspa and Mickey’s break up, the two of you hooked up a few times. You were prone to fucking each other’s brains out after a few lines of coke at one of Mickey’s gigs. When Argyris found out, by accident after rounding the corner at one of the parties to find Mickey pounding into you from behind as you leaned over his vespa, he was ecstatic. “This is just what he needs! An American girl! Now go fuck! Make more babies!” Argyris had practically cried tears of joy, while you were too focused on crying Mickey’s name.

This happened more times than you could count. You’d do a little blow, drink a little drink, and start kissing just a little after his set. Kissing just a little led to making out intensely. Making out would lead to dry humping. Dry humping would lead to the two of you fucking wherever you could. Leaned over his vespa with one hand on your back holding you in place. Wrapped around his waist in a bathroom stall in between songs. On his lap in the corner booth with the skirt of your dress covering where the two of you met. You didn’t particularly care when or how Mickey fucked you, you just knew that you liked it when he did.

That meant that you two weren’t particularly careful. You were on the pill and both of you were clean, when you started up the tryst that was the one thing the two of you agreed on, regular STD tests if you were gonna sleep with other people. You both really liked it when he fucked you without a condom, and while Mickey wasn’t too certain about the possibility of becoming a dad again, boy did he like being daddy.

But you knew the last couple months of consistent hookups with Mickey were bound to end soon. You just didn’t expect to be there when he met his shiny new toy. You tried to support Mickey at all his gigs, well all the ones you could make it to. You saw her, another American, with her short blonde hair as she yelled into her phone on the other side of the party. And as you watched her, you saw Mickey. You watched him take note of her. You watched Argyris push the two of them together in a forced kiss. You watched them make out on the dance floor. And you watched them drunkenly stumble away together.

“Why are you so grouchy, huh? You need Argyris to kiss it and make it better?” he’d drunkenly uttered as he mock-pouted in your direction. You ignored him, threw back your shot, and elbowed him in the stomach as you walked away.

Chloe was different. She was different from all the other girls Mickey had dated, or slept with casually. She reminded you of Aspa. She was driven, career oriented, she was big shot immigration lawyer for fucks sake. Even you were impressed by her resume. It still didn’t make it hurt any less when Mickey decided to ghost you, and all your other friends except Argyris, after the weekend he spent with Chloe. The weekend turned to Sunday, and Sunday to Monday and the next thing you knew you were hearing the story of how Mickey had chased Chloe down through the Athens airport and convinced her to stay with him.

You were nice to Chloe. Why wouldn’t you be. You were nice to all of Mickey’s girlfriends whenever he’d deem you worthy of meeting them. You never understood how the fuck Argyris always made the cut of the list of friends who could meet the girls. Probably something to do with the fact that you relationship with Mickey was never purely platonic. But when you met Chloe you knew. You knew she wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

But you may have made a mistake. You should’ve known that sooner or later your exploits with Mickey would come to light. He and Chloe have been together for three months now. The two of you had hooked up last mere days before he met Chloe. You didn’t seem to notice anything different. But when your boobs were more sore than they’d ever been? When the smell of gyros made you want to vomit? When your body was just so tired that all you wanted to do was go home and sleep after doing nothing all do? You started doing the math. You counted. And you counted. And you recounted. And you realized... it had been four months. Four months since your last period.

And that’s how you ended up here. Squatting over your toilet and trying to pee on a stick that’s too damn small, all while thinking there has got to be a better way to test for this. And then you waited. Fifteen minutes you waited. Your stomach rolling and threatening to empty all its contents yet again. The shrill beeping of your timer going off set off a new bout of nausea. And so you took a deep breath, you brought the stick up to your face and you opened your eyes.

Two lines.

And you blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. And then you had to quickly remove your body from the toilet to vomit.

Pregnant.

“Holy fucking shit.”

a/n: I hope y’all liked this first chapter!!!

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buckysswinter · 2 years ago

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☽ angst|❁ dark|♡ fluff|✧ smut (18+)

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cjsinkythoughts · 4 years ago

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WIP List!

Mickey Henry x fem!Reader - You hate his music taste. He hates yours. You have a bad habit of stealing his gigs. He has a bad habit of fucking you until you can’t walk straight. Everyone has flaws. What are you to do about it?

This one will be a few firsts for me; first published smut, first Mickey Henry fic, and first enemies-to-lovers ever! I’m attached to friends-to-lovers (my parents’ fault), so going in the opposite direction is exciting and I hope it works out! (We’ll see what it can become after it’s been written.) Also! This is gonna be for @honeysucklesteve’s 4k honeybunswritingchallenge!

Part 2 of Ocean Eyes, Cherry Lips, Ivory Keys

I’m honestly in love with the idea of Bucky playing the piano (guys who can do music just *chefs kiss*) and I love 40’s!Bucky so, while I don’t have any solid ideas for this and it’ll probably end up just being a double parter, maybe a mini series, but I wanna explore it a bit more.

Steve Rogers x Stark!Reader

This one kinda came outta nowhere (for you guys at least), but I’ve been working on it for a few months now and I’m kinda in love with the idea. It’s a bit intense - it deals with some really serious stuff (drugs, depression, attempted suicide) - but I really like angst. Plus, I wanna write more Steve! I love my Brooklyn Blondie! This would be a full series.

Bucky Barnes x fem!Reader

This is one that people have been asking quite a bit about. The whole “Bucky shoots the love of his life” one. It starts in the early 1900’s but it does have a modern day story added. The thing is - I can cut it short and make the ending really really depressing OR I can make it a full series with a happier ending. This one will make you feel even worse for Bucky, so there’s that. This story is my baby! I started it over a year ago and keep coming to it to edit it or add something, but it kinda lacks direction, so…maybe posting it here will actually force me to develop it more.

Bucky Barnes x genius!fem!Reader

This one is one of my favorites that I’ve written. I’m in love with it. It’s been…around a year? I think? Since I started this one. It’s got some rough family stuff on her part - like really rough so there will be major warnings - and it’s a bit tough for Bucky lovers at first because it does involve HYDRA and the Winter Soldier and that’s always heart breaking. I don’t wanna give out too many spoilers, but there will be angst, but also lots of fluff (especially domestic fluff that takes place in *REDACTED*.)

I also have a few singledad!Bucky fics that I love, but I wouldn’t know which ones to choose and which ones I would add a reader to, because there isn’t one, it’s just Bucky with kids! (Different kids/different AUs! I have quite a few! 😅)

I’m gonna try working on Erased from the Stars as well, but I’ve just lost myself with that series and the desire just isn’t coming (yet), so I think that one will stay on hiatus for the time being.

These don’t include FATWS One Shots, because I will continue posting those throughout the week until they’re finished! I kinda wanna shift when I post them to Friday to continue FATWS Friday, but we’ll see what my future schedule looks like!

This is not in order of when they’ll be posted! These are just what I’m gonna be working on. Feel free to tell me which one you wanna see first! (The only one I know is coming out soon is the Mickey x Reader, which will be out sometime next week!)

Note: Most of these that I’ve been developing for a while started out with an OC! I’d love to tell you about them, but I will be shifting the story some to make it x Reader for you lovelies!

WARNING: From here on out, most of my work will contain some 18+ stuff! Minors DNI! I’ve been lenient on it because my FATWS Series didn’t have 18+ stuff, but I’m gonna start writing it more into these works! Those are the rules and I don’t wanna get in trouble, so please follow them! Thank you!

I won’t be able to crank out a chapter of every series every week and most likely, once I start a series, I won’t start another one. I’m thinking about getting another job in a couple months and my family’s getting together soon so after May I’m gonna be a lot busier. Thank you so much for all the love and support I’ve gotten! I really appreciate all of you!

Be kind to yourself and others and stay tuned! 💕

~CJ

(Here’s my Masterlist, too!)

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redshirtgal · 5 years ago

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At the beginning of “Catspaw” Lt. Jackson opens communications with Uhura and says “One to beam up, Enterprise!” Shortly after Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy reach the transporter room, Jackson begins to materialize and then falls flat to the floor without moving a muscle. It almost hurts to watch, but it is just one of the perfectly executed stunts performed by Jay Jones. Jones recalls that at the time, he had never watched the show. So when he received his copy of the script, he was puzzled by the phrase “beam up.” It took until the next day for him to find out after he had flagged down a young boy on a bicycle and asked. By the way, look at Shatner’s quick reaction as Jones tumbles past his feet. Some fancy footwork there, Captain!

But this was not the only place you saw him during this episode. During the scene just after Korob dies trying to help Kirk and Spock escape, the two are attacked by Sulu, Scotty, and Bones himself - all under the control of Sylvia, of course. In the photo above, that is not Dr. McCoy you see attempting to swing a morning-star. That is his stunt double, Jay Jones. Jay claimed that Gene Roddenberry took a liking to him and sent the word down that he should be given all the work he wanted.

Jay played a number of other crewmen in the series, and several times his stuntman experience came in handy. In the redshirt bloodbath episode known as “The Apple,” he appeared as Ensign Mallory. The hapless young man was not there when Spock first found out the rocks were explosive. While scouting, he manages to find another one the hard way and is killed. This was one of the two episodes where Jones suffered serious injuries. In this case, he had even lobbied director Joe Pevney to do the stunt, saying he did not want to do it “the Mickey Mouse way.” Pevney refused the request at first because of the danger and then relented. According to Jay, there was a jumper trampoline buried under the ground that he was supposed to hit and then the explosive would go off. However, the special effects person timed it just a split second too late. In his own words, “The force hit me in the stomach, burned my side, blew the skin off my rib cage and impacted all this dirt into my sinuses. I couldn’t open my eyes or breathe.” Still, he told an interviewer that it could have been a lot worse even though he did wind up in an emergency room. (The explosion also caused short term hearing loss in both Shatner and Nimoy as well as permanent tinnitus). Most of his roles did not involve much dialogue, but he had his largest number of lines in this episode.

Actually, his worst injuries on the set occurred on another episode, ”Who Mourns for Adonais?” This time he was doubling for James Doohan as Scotty. The first injury occurred when Apollo slaps Scotty and Jay had to do a backflip over the stone table shown in the above photo. The first time, he hit the corner, so the table was chained down for the next attempt. This time, he caught the table’s edge in the kidneys. Already sore from that injury, he had to do another stunt where he was strapped into a wire vest, raised up six feet in the air and then propelled backward. In the stunt industry, it’s known as a neckbreaker. However, the wire pulley yanked him four or five yards farther than planned and he went through the wall, striking his head on the concrete floor. He was taken to the hospital with a concussion. And actually Jay did have a stroke of good fortune - he narrowly missed another prop which could have caused an even more serious injury (according to The Star Trek Compendium). Again, he brushed off the injury as not all that bad.

Despite these injuries Jay Jones continued as Scotty’s stunt double for two years. Above you see him encountering a railing on the bridge in “The Changeling.” (Scotty certainly got smacked around a lot, didn’t he?) And he would often double for other guest stars. More on that later. In the book Science Fiction Television Series, Jay claimed that he was the unofficial stunt coordinator for The Original Series. He would come up with new stunts and work with the directors and cameramen on how best to implement them in certain episodes. Jay complimented Star Trek on calling back the same stunt people to work again because they all were familiar with the production staff and had built a rapport with them and each other. He said in some TV series, the director sometimes asked the impossible and could have possibly gotten someone killed. On the Star Trek set, he knew the directors cared about the stunt workers.

And he continued as an extra in episodes during that time, including one as the gangster Mirt in “A Piece of the Action” and several as an engineer. You would think he’d want to stay as far away from a redshirt as he could after his injuries.

Jay got to appear as a Klingon three times during his time on Star Trek. His first appearance was as Tige Andrew’s stunt double in the role of Kras in “Friday’s Child.” (left) And he doubled for Ned Romero as Krell in “A Private Little War.” (top right). He donned the Klingon costume one last time as one of Kang’s crewmen in “Day of the Dove.”

And what does Pavel Chekov have to do with this story? Jay Jones says that there was a push to add some more recurring characters at the time he made his first appearance on “Catspaw.” In fact, they asked him if he would try out some accents in a few test shots. However, he had recently tried a French accent in a stage production and botched it terribly, so he refused. Only later did he realize he would have been trying out for the role that eventually became that of Chekov. Oh, well.... at least he didn’t have to wear that terrible wig until his own hair grew in.

Jimmy (”Jay”) D. Jones came to Hollywood after being in the rodeo circuit. His first work as a stuntman on television was in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. where he was often Robert Vaughn’s stunt double. He also had an acting part in one episode - that of Professor Walter Powers in the episode “Yo-ho-ho and a Bottle of Rum.” This was the job he left when he joined Star Trek. (credit to Brad Fillipone for finding the above photos for me)

Jay came from good stuntman stock. His dad was Carl Pitti, a very well known stuntman/actor in the industry who had worked on such shows as The High Chaparral. He was Henry Darrow’s double in his role of Manolito for an episode.

Interesting side note: Carl Pitti was a fan of The Original Series and watched it religiously. But he was aghast when he watched his son get thrown in the air by the mistimed explosion in “The Apple.” Jay said it literally made his dad sick to his stomach.

Jay often appeared in the same series as his father, starting with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. After Star Trek ended, he was also stuntman for The High Chaparral and appeared in the episode “Alliance” as Lt. Cooper. (Photo above)

Jay appeared on other Westerns as well. In fact, he doubled for Slim Pickens in a brutal bullwhipping scene in the 1967 movie Rough Night in Jericho. He used the same bullwhipping skills against Dan Blocker (Hoss) in a 1971 episode of Bonanza titled “Kingdom of Fear.”

One of his last acting jobs was in Kung Fu, playing a demon Caine encounters in the spiritual world during the episode “One Step to Darkness.” If you want to watch that segment of the show, here is a link. https://youtu.be/EDmvigzLJHw

In 1977, Jones left stunt work and acting for the racquetball courts. He began playing the amateur circuit in the 1972-73 area. Despite getting off to a rough start, in 1975 he won the national amateur division at Las Vegas. From there, he began competing in the pros and over the years had a decent showing. Keep in mind he was in his thirties when he started and most of the pros were a lot younger. He did win the 1981 U.S. National Singles Championship for his age group of 35+. Jay was interviewed in 1977 by the Tucson Daily Citizen after he had advanced to the semifinals of of the Tucson Pro-Am Racquetball Tournament. He admitted to using a mini-receiver which emitted a steady hum that helped him concentrate. But it also allowed him to hear advice from a friend who was women’s pro player as well. The interviewer went on to mention that Jay Jones was also a hypnotist and psychologist. Now how amazing is that?

Above photo - Hall of Famer Ed Remen and Jay Jones at the men’s semi-finals. Unknown what year, but from the website where it appeared, most likely around 1981. Jay is on the right.

Over the years, Jay Jones seems to be quite active, appearing at conventions for The High Chaparral (above he appears on an interview panel for the 50th anniversary) And I am not positive about this, but he may be the reporter whose byline is Jay Jones in at least two articles for the Los Angeles Times. In a 2013 article, he reports on a charity racquetball event. And in a story dated this past May, the same person reports on a rodeo event. What other person do we know who has experience in both activities?

Jay Jones!

#Star Trek TOS #redshirt #The Apple #Catspaw #stuntman #stunt double #stunt actor #Jay Jones #Jay D. Jones #racquetball pro

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empathos · 4 years ago

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MOBILE MUSES !

movies / musicals

ELLA ENCHANTED: prince charmont, ella of frell

PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER: patrick

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: pt barnum, anne wheeler, phillip carlyle

THE ADDAMS FAMILY: morticia addams, gomez addams, debbie jillinksky

BURLESQUE: tess, sean, ali rose, jack, nikki

MAMMA MIA: sam carmichael, donna sheridan, tanya, bill anderson, harry bright, sophie sheridan, ruby sheridan

MEAN GIRLS: regina george, janis ian

REPO THE GENETIC OPERA: nathan

MOULIN ROUGE: christian, satine

BEETLEJUICE: lydia deetz, barbara maitland

DEAR EVAN HANSEN: connor murphy, evan hansen, larry murphy

BABY DRIVER: darling, buddy

BRING IT ON: missy pantone, cliff pantone

BRING IT ON AGAIN: tina

BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING: britney allen

BRING IT ON: IN IT TO WIN IT: carson

BRING IT ON: WORLDWIDE #CHEERSMACK: destiny

HEATHERS: veronica sawyer, jason dean, heather chandler

PITCH PERFECT: jesse swanson, beca mitchell, chloe beale, aubrey posen

JENNIFERS BODY: jennifer check, nikolai

THE PRINCESS BRIDE: westley, inigo montoya

THE PRINCESS DIARIES 1 & 2: nicholas devereaux, mia thermopolis, charisse renaldi, joe

RENT: mark cohen, maureen johnsen, mimi marquez, roger davis

SCOOBY DOO: daphne blake, sibella dracula, fred jones

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: sharpay evans, troy bolton, ryan evans

SKY HIGH: warren peace

SPIDERMAN: peter parker, harry osborn

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: mantis, drax, peter quill

HOCUS POCUS: thackery binx, max dennison, sarah sanderson

MALEFICENT: maleficent

TWILIGHT: jasper hale, rosalie hale, carlisle cullen, emmett cullen

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: max carrigan, jude, sadie

HARRY POTTER: draco malfoy, sirius black, hermione granger, andromeda tonks. bill weasley, charlie weasley, fleur delacour

HAIRSPRAY: link larkin, penny pingleton, amber von tussle, velma von tussle

ANOTHER CINDERELLA STORY: mary santiago, joey parker

tv shows

THE MAGICIANS: eliot waugh on his own blog, margo hanson

GLEE: santana lopez on her own blog, hunter clarington on his own blog, jesse st james on his own blog, quinn fabray, blaine anderson, kurt hummel, sam evans/evan evans, rachel berry, jean baptiste

DYNASTY: fallon carrington, sammy jo flores/carrington, kirby anders

RIVERDALE: veronica lodge, cheryl blossom

SHAMELESS: ian gallagher, mandy milkovich, veronica fisher, kevin ball, mickey milkovich, colin mikovich

TEEN WOLF: isaac lahey, jackson whittemore, lydia martin, stiles stilinski, peter hale

LOST: james ford, charlie pace, claire littleton, desmond hume, boone carlyle

YOU: joe goldberg on his own blog, love quinn, forty quinn

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES/THE ORIGINALS: caroline forbes, bonnie bennett, lorenzo st. john, niklaus mikaelson

LEGACIES: lizzie saltzman, alaric saltzman, josie saltzman, hope mikaelson, kaleb hawkins

IMPOSTERS: maddie johnson

SKINS: effy stonem, tony stonem on his own blog, mini mcguinness, chris miles

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: spencer hastings

CRIMINAL MINDS: penelope garcia, spencer reid, derek morgan

EUPHORIA: cassie howard, maddie perez, nate jacobs

THE POLITICIAN: astrid sloan, river barkley

SEX EDUCATION: eric effiong, aimee gibbs, adam broff, maeve wiley, jackson marchetti

BROOKLYN 99: jake peralta, gina linetti, amy santiago, terry jeffords

NEW GIRL: cece parekh, winston schmidt

THE OFFICE: jim halpert, pam beesley, dwight schrute, angela martin, andy bernard

COMMUNITY: annie edison, troy barnes, abed nadir

SCHITTS CREEK: david rose, alexis rose

PSYCH: shawn spencer, carlton lassiter, pierre despereaux, juliet o'hara, henry spencer

PARKS & RECREATION: april ludgate, chris traeger, donna meagle, jean ralphio saperstein, mona lisa saperstein

SCREAM: brooke maddox, noah foster

ONCE UPON A TIME: rumpelstiltskin/gold, killian jones, belle french, regina mills, robin hood, neal cassidy

DEGRASSI NEXT GENERATION: eli goldsworthy, marco del rossi, fiona coyne, manuella santos, craig manning, gavin mason, jay hogart, paige michalchuk, jane vaughn, ellie nash, mia jones

DEGRASSI NEXT CLASS: miles hollingsworth, lola pacini, jonah haak, zoe rivas

DEXTER: dexter morgan

FAKING IT: shane harvey, liam booker, lauren cooper

THE FLASH: barry allen, iris west, caitlin snow, harrison wells (earth 2)

SUPERGIRL: kara danvers, cat grant, mon-el, lena luthor

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: spike, buffy summers, rupert giles

IN THE FLESH: simon monroe

BATES MOTEL: dylan massett, gunner

STRANGER THINGS: steve harrington, jim hopper

MERLIN: arthur pendragon, morgana pendragon, gwaine

GALAVANT: galavant, king richard

THAT 70’S SHOW: jackie burkhart, steven hyde

GOSSIP GIRL: blair waldorf, chuck bass

HEMLOCK GROVE: roman godfrey

DRACULA: lucy westenra

THE FOSTERS: mariana adams-foster, jesus adams-foster, mat tan

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: count olaf, uncle monty

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: madison montgomery, tate langdon, oliver thredson, maggie esmerelda, the countess elizabeth, tristan duffy, donovan, jimmy darling

SCREAM QUEENS: chanel oberlin, chad radwell

THE NANNY: fran fine

VICTORIOUS: jade west, beck oliver

SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY: cody martin, zack martin, london tipton

WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE: alex russo, mason greyback, juliet van heusen

LIV & MADDIE: liv rooney, holden dippledorf

cartoons & anime

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: howl jenkins pendragon

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER: iroh, zuko, mai, sokka

STEVEN UNIVERSE: pearl, greg universe, lapis lazuli, steven universe, peridot, sourcream

BEAUTY & THE BEAST: belle, adam, gaston

FROZEN: elsa, hans

TANGLED: rapunzel, flynn ryder

MOANA: maui

THE INCREDIBLES 1 & 2: violet parr, tony rydinger

KIM POSSIBLE: shego, drakken

ANASTASIA: dimitri

BARBIE: LIFE IN THE DREAM HOUSE: barbie roberts, ryan, raquelle

BARBIE: PRINCESS & THE PAUPER: anneliese, julian, dominic

DANNY PHANTOM: danny fenton, sam manson, vlad masters, paulina

TEEN TITANS: raven, terra

6TEEN: jonesy garcia, wyatt williams, nikki wong

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB: hikaru hitachiin

FRUITS BASKET: haru sohma, kyo sohma, shigure sohma

video games

MYSTIC MESSENGER: jumin han, jihyun kim ( v ), ryu hyun ( zen )

ARCANA: julian, azra

webcomics

LORE OLYMPUS: eros, hades, persephone, hera

CASTLE SWIMMER: siren

EDITH: edith, phillip

#mobile muses #hope this helps ! for future reference #lmao this took so long #i am happy to have it though #made me realize a few mistakes on my page #ᴍʏ ᴀɴxɪᴇᴛʏ ʜᴀs ᴋᴇᴘᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴜᴘ ғᴏʀ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ₅₀ ʜᴏᴜʀs ( ooc )

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Hey uh ;; Feel free to ignore but I saw you did a k-drama and anime list.. I was wondering if you could do some suggestions for tv shows?? You don't have to -

Sure I can! The lists where a long while ago though so I’ll probably make a master post for them too?

1. House - The series follows the life of anti-social, pain killer addict, witty and arrogant medical doctor Gregory House with only half a muscle in his right leg. He and his team of medical doctors try to cure complex and rare diseases from very ill ordinary people in the United States of America.

2. Person of interest - An ex-assassin and a wealthy programmer saves lives via a surveillance AI named the machine that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes–including the civilians’ roles–are left a mystery and things take a twist when another Ai declares war against the machine. Honestly it’s amazing, and if you like the shows where the heroes aren’t always the ones to survive then it’s the one for you (and there’s a pretty darn good dog in it too).

3. New Tricks - After a hostage rescue goes wrong, superintendent Sandra Pullman is put in charge of unsolved crimes. With little resources and no back-up she decides to recruit three ex policeman. However times have changed, unlike her new recruits. Jack Halford is yet to get over the loss of his wife, Brian Lane is over obsessed and over medicated, and Gerry Standing is not quite the ladies man he used to be. They may have the experience but it’s not like the old days. Not only are they chasing criminals, but they are having to deal with a new police force which does not always appreciate their old style policing. Unsolved cases with a group of witty elderly, what’s not to love?

4. Hustle - The story of a group of elite con artists, who each week pull off a complicated scam with several twists. Mickey is the group’s leader, who comes up with the plans. Albert is a veteran con man who in his later years is a “roper,” searching out suitable victims and introducing them to his cohorts. Ash comes up with all the locations and equipment needed for the cons. Stacie steps in whenever she needs to use her feminine wiles. The group is rounded off by Danny, a young amateur grifter who Mickey takes under his wing. Honestly? Some of their plans are pretty darn good.

5. Primeval - When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth’s distant past and near future putting their lives at risk whilst trying their best to keep it a secret from the public or possibly bribing the people who do see. Want to see people on mini bikes chasing a velociraptor in a mall? Then this is definitely the show for you-

6. Once upon a time - A story of a new world, one in which fairy-tale legends and modern life collide. Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) is comfortable in her life as a bail bonds collector when Henry – the child she gave up a decade earlier – suddenly shows up. He is convinced that she is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who sent her away before the Evil Queen could cast a spell, freezing the fairy tale world in time and bringing them to present-day Storybrooke, Maine. After taking Henry home, Emma decides to stay in the town to keep an eye on him, and she discovers he may not be wrong after all. Seriously you get really into it and root for the characters really quickly.

7. Buffy the vampire slayer - "In every generation there is a chosen one… she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.“ Buffy Summers knows this tale by heart, and no matter how hard she tries to be just a "normal girl”, she can not escape from her destiny… Thankfully, she is not alone in her quest to save the world, as she has the help of her friends, the hilarious evil-fighting team called “The Scooby Gang”. Together, Buffy & co. will slay their demons, survive one apocalypse after another, attend high school and college… and above all, understand that growing up can truly be Hell sometimes… literally.

8. The x files - Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully work in an unassigned detail of the bureau called the X-Files investigating cases dealing with unexplained paranormal phenomena (aliens). Mulder, a true believer, and Scully, a skeptic, perceive their cases from stand points of science and the paranormal. This can literally get really weird but to be honest it’s one hell of a ride.

9. Death in paradise - Scotland Yard DI Richard Poole is sent to the Caribbean island of Sainte Marie to solve a fellow policeman’s murder. Having done so, he finds himself seconded to the local police force as the dead man’s replacement. Poole proves to be a brilliant detective, solving several complex murders. He’s not quite suited to either the pace of life on the island or the heat and sand, neither of which he likes very much. He also doesn’t like seafood. That aside, the place is just great. Of course there are some changes along the road with main characters but over all this is a pretty good show

10. Brooklyn nine-nine - Captain Ray Holt takes over Brooklyn’s 99th precinct, which includes Detective Jake Peralta, a talented but carefree detective who’s used to doing whatever he wants. The other employees of the 99th precinct include Detective Amy Santiago, Jake’s over achieving and competitive partner; Detective Rosa Diaz, a tough and kept to herself coworker; Detective Charles Boyle, Jake’s best friend who also has crush on Rosa; Detective Sergeant Terry Jeffords, who was recently taken off the field after the birth of his twin girls; and Gina Linetti, the precinct’s sarcastic administrator. If you love comedy and idiotic situations this is a great show to watch

Bonus shows that are worth mentioning:

Sherlock

Doctor who

The walking dead

The passage

#tv shows #house #gregory house #person of interest #new tricks #primeval #hustle #once upon a time #buffy the vampire slayer #death in paradise #x files #brooklyn nine nine #recommendations

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The Weekend Warrior Jan. 24, 2020 – THE GENTLEMEN, THE TURNING, THE LAST FULL MEASURE

If you read last week’s column, you’ll already know that I’m no longer with The Beat, so I’ll more than likely be doing all of my box office stuff here for a while. I just won’t promise to write so much about each movie as I did in my Box Office Preview, because a.) I don’t have time, and b.) I’m not getting paid to write this. Sorry if that’s a bit too blatantly honest, but getting paid for my writing matters to me, especially having done it for 25 years.

Before I forget, tonight, Wednesday, January 22, I’m hosting a 30thanniversary screening of Brain Dead, the freaky thriller starring Bills Pullman and Paxton, Bud Cort and George Kennedy. If you’re looking to check out crazy mind-fuck of a movie from 1990, there are still a few tickets left.

Anyway, it’s probably a good thing I didn’t get paid for last week’s column cause I way, way, WAY underestimated the power of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to bring in audiences after 17 years since Bad Boys II. I thought the movie would make somewhere between $35 and 40 million over the four-day weekend, but it ended up making almost $60 million just over the three-day weekend, and $73 million for the four day, the second best after American Sniper. Obviously, Sony is already developing a fourth movie in the series and presumably they won’t wait another 18 years. Personally, I really liked Bad Boys for Life, as it was way better than Bad Boys II and it was a generally enjoyable and entertaining action-comedy.

Universal’s Dolittlealso did more than I predicted, but it wasn’t as vastly different, just closer to my original prediction last Wednesday before I thought I might be overestimating and lowered it. Waugh, Waugh…

Let’s get to this week…

The movie I’m most excited about this week is THE GENTLEMEN (STXfilms), which is Guy Ritchie’s return to ensemble crime comedy after his foray into large-scale Disney adaptations like Aladdin, which I quite liked, and his “Sherlock Holmes” movies, the first of which I also loved. Ritchie has a great cast for this one including Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding (from Crazy Rich Asians and the underrated 2019 film Last Christmas), Michelle Dockery (from Downton Abbey) and one of my favorite character actors, Eddie Marsan! Honestly, I don’t know very much else about the movie (as I’m only seeing it on Monday night) but I loved what I saw at CinemaCon last year, and I’ve just been such a huge Ritchie fan going all the way back to Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels. (Sadly, I wasn’t able to interview him for this movie due to my other part-time job, but you’ll get an actual review instead!) Also, I think the movie will do decently but probably not more than $10 million since STX is dropping it into around 2,000 theaters, which isn’t particularly wide.

Mini-Review: Back in the late ‘90s, when Guy Ritchie first made his big debut with Lock, Stock, he was coming on the tail end of a new breed of directors like Tarantino and Smith who proved that screenplay-driven ensemble movies could deliver big audiences. In the time since then, Tarantino has gotten bigger and bigger for that feat, while Ritchie has tried a lot of different things, including last year’s Aladdin.

It’s pretty exciting to see Ritchie returning to the world of crime and to jolly old England with the addition of a few Americans like Matthew McConaughey as mega-wealthy drugdealer Mickey Pearson, who has turned his upper-class connections quite literally into a farm industry. Mickey is ready to sell the business, hoping to get $400 million from Jeremy Strong’s interested investor.

The story is told through a framing sequence involving a strange character named Fletcher, played by Hugh Grant, having an extended conversation with Charlie Hunnam’s Ray, Mickey’s “fixer,” of sorts. It’s another fantastic performance by Grant that really allows him to push the envelope with a heavy cockney accent. Another great performance comes from Colin Farrell as the coach of a group of young and bratty MMA fighers who break into one of Mickey’s farms.

Using this storytelling method, Ritchie doesn’t give his entire hand away at once, instead revealing just what’s necessary to keep the viewer tuned in. The film features another witty script and it’s thoroughly entertaining, although it’s also somewhat confounding at times trying to keep track of all the characters and how they relate.

In that sense, The Gentlemen is slightly flawed, but it’s also a welcome return for Ritchie to do what he does best, and there’s no denying that there’s quite a bit to enjoy here. Rating: 7/10

The third horror movie of January (with another one next week!) is THE TURNING (Universal), a horror take on Henry James’ novel “The Turn of the Screw,” starring Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate), Finn Wolfhard (It) and the adorable Brooklynn Prince from The Florida Project. The basic premise involves a nanny played by Davis, who is brought to an enormous mansion to care for two kids. Once there, she is told by the kids that there are dark forces in the house, and she starts to believe them. I had a chance to speak to the film’s director, Floria Sigismondi, an amazing visual artist whose only previous feature film was The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart. The movie is also written by the Hayes Brothers, who wrote the original The Conjuring, and produced by Roy Lee (The Conjuring and It), so there’s quite a decent pedigree for this movie. I also conducted a great interview with Ms. Sigismondi that you can check out on Next Best Picture.

As the third horror movie this month, I’m not sure this can deliver where the previous two (The Grudge and Underwater) failed, especially without much star power, but because it’s January, and there’s very little else to do, it can probably make $8 to 10 million in its 2,500 theaters.

Opening in moderate release this weekend (theater count TBD) is filmmaker Todd Robinson’s THE LAST FULL MEASURE (Roadside Attractions), a military drama that the director has been trying to make for a decade. He’s pulled together an amazing cast that includes Christopher Plummer, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Diane Ladd, Sebastian Stan, Bradley Whitford, Peter Fonda, William Hurt, Jeremy Irvine and Michael Imperioli. I still remember Robinson mentioning this project when I spoke to him for his excellent movie Lonely Heartswhen we spoke for ComingSoon.netway back in 2007, having seen that movie at the Tribeca Film Festival.

It involves a group of Vietnam vets trying to get a brave soldier, Airman William H. Pitsenberger Jr. (played by Irvine), the Medal of Honor for his actions on the battlefield to save them 34 years after his death. It sounds like a terrific premise, so it’s a movie I’ve been waiting to see for a very long time. I’m not sure exactly how many theaters Roadside Attractions will release the movie into, but I doubt it will be enough to get it into the top 10, as I think it will end up making $2 to 3 million at best. (This probably would have been a good movie to release over Veterans’ Day, but I guess it was afraid of Roland Emmerich’s Midway, which did end up winning that weekend.)

Mini-Review: It’s pretty obvious what a passion project this must have been for filmmaker Todd Robinson from the time it’s taken for him to get this movie made, but once watch how this story plays out, it’s much more obvious why he was so driven. Even fifty years after the events depicted in the film’s Vietnam War flashback

It’s 1999, and Sebastian Stan plays Scott Huffman, an Air Force attorney working at the Pentagon who is assigned the duty of investigating the heroics of Airman William H. Pitsenberger Jr., who dropped into one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War to save a number of soldiers. William Hurt plays Tulley, the soldier that comes to Huffman, although the lawyer tries to put him off due to the upcoming regime change. Against his will, Scott has to pursue this endeavor, so he goes to interview a number of the living men who were there on that fateful day.

What’s amazing about Robinson’s film is that while it focuses mainly on Stan’s character, the various actors he meets on his journey deliver some absolutely amazing performances, from Christopher Plummer (as the dead airman’s dying father), Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris and the late Peter Fonda.

At its worst, The Last Full Measure veers into TV movie melodrama, so it takes some of the stronger actors to drag it back. The worst example of this are the scenes between Stan and his ersatz family, which seems the most like needless scenes added to create some sort of artistic license. It probably will be little surprise that many of the names and circumstances have been changed for similar reason.

It’s a shame that Roadside Attractions doesn’t have enough faith in this movie to give this a bigger push, instead dumping it into a January weekend with little fanfare. Sure, this is certainly the type of movie that cynical film critics like tearing apart, trying to find faults over the good…. And there’s a lot of good to be had. There’s no denying that this is an important story that needs to be told, and hopefully, the audiences that might appreciate it will be able to find it. Rating: 7.5/10

What should be interesting to see if the horror film The Turning does well enough to surpass Dolittle for third place or falls just short. Either way, Universal will have three movies in the top 5, which is quite remarkable considering what a horrid December the studio had.

This week’s Top 10 should look something like this…

1. Bad Boys for Life (Sony) - $29.5 million -53%

2. 1917 (Universal) - $13 million -41% (up 1 million)*

3. Dolittle (Universal) - $10.1 million -54%

4. The Turning (Universal) - $9.3 million N/A (up .2 million)*

5. The Gentlemen (STXfilms) - $8.6 million N/A (up .1 million)*

6. Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony) - $5 million -48%

7. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm/Disney) - $4 million -52%

8. Little Women (Sony) - $3.5 million -45%

9. Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) - $3.1 million -47%

10. Knives Out (Lionsgate) - $2.6 million -40%

- The Last Full Measure (Roadside Attractions) - $2 million N/A (down .5 million)*

* UPDATE: Not a ton of changes but mainly a little bit of tweaking due to revised theater counts

LIMITED RELEASES

Not a ton of limited releases of note that I’ve seen, although I did see Richard Stanley’s sci-fi thriller COLOR OUT OF SPACE (RLJE Films), starring the one and only Nicolas Cage, and I even spoke to Stanley, an interview you’ll be able to read on Next Best Picturehopefully later this week. It’s based on HP Lovecraft’s short story, and in the movie, Cage plays an Alpaca farmer whose family is affected by a meteorite that falls on the property, causing all sorts of bizarre changes both mentally and physically. It’s another movie where Cage can go a little nuts, but I also liked the performances by Madeleine Arthur and Joely Richardson, who ALSO appears in The Turning this weekend. There are also some smaller roles from Q’orianka Kilcher (from Malick’s The New World) and the great comic, Tommy Chong. There will be a special screening tonight in select cities with a satellite QnA with Stanley and Cage, and then it opens for real Friday. Being RLJE, it should be On Demand shortly afterwards.

Oddly, I haven’t seen any of the movies in the franchise that brings us DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 3 (Wanda Pictures/WB International), but the previous installments of director Sicheng Chen’s police action-comedy must have done well enough for people to want to see more of detectives Tang Ren (Baoquiang Wang) and Qin Feng (Haoran Liu) to get a third movie. The first movie made $120.6 million worldwide while the sequel made $544 million, so yeah, a third movie was inevitable. The sequel made less than $2 million domestically but one can expect that Chinese audiences in America will help the third movie do similarly. For comparison, the latest installment of the Ip Man franchise, starring Donny Yen, has grossed $3.5 million in North America. This will open in about 150 theaters.

Sadly, I also didn’t get a chance to see Dante Lam’s The Rescue (CMC Pictures), the Chinese filmmaker’s follow-up to his global blockbuster Operation Red Sea, before writing this column, but this is clearly one of the major Chinese tentpoles being released for the Lunar New Year movie season. It stars Eddie Peng from Operation Mekong as the captain of an elite rescue team, and it’s shot by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s Oscar-winning cinematographer Peter Pau. I’m hoping to see it this coming Friday.

Terry Crews stars as John Henry (Saban/Paramount) in Will Forbes, in this case Henry being an ex-gang member who puts aside his life of violence to take care of his aging father (played by Ken Foree from Dawn of the Dead )in South L.A. where he meets two immigrant kids on the run from his former gang leader (Ludacris), putting him in a tough spot. It will open in select cities and On Demand this Friday.

Bertrand Bonello, who made the excellent Nocturama a few weeks back, returns with his eighth feature Zombi Child (Film Movement), which is a very different take on the genre. It draws from the true story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was reportedly zombified in 1962 Haiti, this one centering around Narcisse’s (fictional) orphaned granddaughter who is trying to fit in with the mostly white girls at her boarding school. It will open in New York at the Quad Cinemaand at Lincoln Center.

Lastly, there’s the Bollywood film Panga (FIP) from director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, starring Kangana Ranaut as a middle-class Indian woman and former kabaddiworld champion looking for new meaning as a wife and mother, who decides to return to the sport despite her age and responsibility to family. It will open in roughly 100 theaters.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

Opening Friday at the Metrograph is the 1stU.S. release of the director’s cut of Jia Zhangke’s 2010 documentary I Wish I Knew,which looks at the past and present of Shanghai in a documentary full of interviews with people from all different walks of life including local actresses and fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. It also follows Zhangke’s favorite actress Zhao Tao, who was amazing in last year’s Ash is Purest White, as she explores the site of the Shanghai World Expo Park as it’s under construction. It’s a great film to learn more about the history of mainland China, something I greatly appreciated having been such a longtime inhabitant of Chinatown.

Even more exciting is that the Metrograph is starting a retrospective series for indie filmmaker Hal Hartleythis Friday, which is exciting since I’ve been such a big fan but haven’t seen nearly as many of his films as there are out there, having only seen his debut The Unbelievable Truth (1989) a few years back, also at the Metrograph. Hal Hartley will be at the Metrograph this Friday night, January 24, and then back on February 1 for screenings of Henry Fool (1997) and its 2006 sequel, Fay Grim. This weekend, you can see Trust from 1990, Simple Men (1992), 1994’s Amateur and more.

With the nomination of Julia Reichert and Steven Bonar’s American Factory receiving an Oscar nomination, Metrograph has put together a last-minute series, “The Academy-Nominated Films of Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar,” a program of three shorts including the 2009 short The Last Truck(shown with American Factory), 1976’s Union Maids and 1971’s Growing Up Female, and the 2006 miniseries A Lion in the House.

This weekend’s Late Nites at Metrograph is the Jackie Chan action classic Police Story (1985). Oops, I made a little error as Playtime: Family Matinees, was supposed to be Taika Waititi’s 2016 film The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, but it got changed to Peter Weir’s 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams, which is also quite good.

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BROOKLYN (NYC)

Besides tonight’s “Weird Wednesday” of Brain Dead (1990), they’re doing a Troop Beverly Hills “Quote-Along” tomorrow night. If that isn’t good enough, on Monday, you can see the Lonely Island’s amazing Popstar: Never Stop Stopping either as part of the monthly “Out of Tune” hosted by my pal Jeremy Wein at 7pm or at 9:30 as a Sing-Along, well except that both are very close to sold out. Next week’s “Terror Tuesday” is the Japanese horror classic Ringu (1998) (I’ll be there) and then “Weird Wednesday” is 1979’s Killer Nun.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

Wednesday’s “Afternoon Classics” is Ernest Borgnine’s 1955 film Marty, and then Weds. and Thurs’ night’s double feature is Bob & Carol & Ted & Aliceand Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, both from 1969. Friday’s “Freaky Friday”… um… “Afternoon Classics” is the 1985 vampire thriller Fright Night, and Friday night’s midnight screening is Tarantino’s Django Unchained. (The Saturday midnight screening of Scorsese’s Goodfellasis already sold out.) The weekend’s “Kiddee Matinee” is Miyazaki’s How’s Moving Castleand then the Monday Matinee is the 1971 thriller Klute. (Most of the weekend evening slots are taken up by Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, just to make sure all the Oscar voters have a chance to see it in the next couple weeks.) Monday and Tuesday night is a Henry Hathaway double feature of The Lives of a Bengal Lancer(1935) and The Trailer of the Lonesome Pine (1936).

FILM FORUM (NYC):

While the “Black Women: Trailblazing African American Performers & Images, 1920 – 2001” continues this weekend with the 1934 and 1959 iterations of Imitation of Life, as well as screenings of What’s Love Got To Do with It, the Tina Turner biopic starring Angela Basset, who received an Oscar nomination for it, and then the Film Forum Jr. screening is The Wiz, starring Michael Jackson and Donna Summer. Other movies in the series include Cleopatra Jones, Gone with the Wind and Spike Lee’s debut She’s Gotta Have it. Film Forum is also doing a special Homage to Anna Karenina, the late Jean-Luc Godard muse who starred in many of his classics including Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Pierrot Le Fou, plus six other films will be screened beginning Wednesday and through January 30. On Sunday, Film Forum is showing Lee Grant’s 2005 documentary A Father … a Son … Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is about Kirk and Michael Douglas with Grant in person doing a QnA. The theater will also screen William Wyler’s 1951 film Detective Story, which stars Grant on Sunday and next Tuesday.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

This weekend begins “Cinematic Void 2020” with the Friday selection being Dario Argento’s The Cat O’Nine Tails (1971), followed on Saturday by a 5-movie Giallo Marathon, including Argento’s Opera(1987), Bava’s A Blade in the Dark (1983), Fulci’s The Black Cat (1981), and two more. Joe Dantewill be on Sunday for his 16mm Spotlight, showing 1972’s Richard. This week’s “Sunday Print Edition” is Carol Reed’s Night Train to Munich(1940) in 35mm in the afternoon and then Richard Benjamin and Dyan Cannon will be on hand to discuss the amazing 1973 thriller The Last of Sheila, one of my favorite movies.

AERO (LA):

Besides a matinee screening of Scorsese’s Goodfellas on Thursday (free to Cinemateque members), the AERO begins a “Ford Vs.” series with a double feature of John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952) with Sam Peckinpah’s classic Straw Dogs (1971). Friday is Ford’ sStagecoach(1939) with Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010). Saturday at 9AM, you can watch a triple-feature of Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, and then in the afternoon, the AERO will show Toy Story 4 with guests. That’s a full day of Toy Story viewing! Saturday night’s “Ford Vs.” is Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance with Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, both from 1962. Sunday night’s double is Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) with Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946). Tuesday’s Scorsese matinee is his debut Mean Streets.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

You can still catch a few of the movies in the lead-up to Bonello’s Zombi Child with another screening of I Walked with a Zombie on Weds. night, as well as De Palma’s Carrie and the Extended Director’s Cut of The Exorcist on Thursday.

MOMA (NYC):

Modern Matinees: Jack Lemmon will present the classic Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (1959) on Wednesday, Black Edwards’ The Great Race (1965) on Thursday and 1968’s The Odd Couple on Friday.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

This week’s Weekend Classics: Luis Buñuelwill screen a double feature of the classic short Un Chien Andalou (1929) with the doc L’Age D’or (1930) while Waverly Midnights: Hindsight is 2020s will screen Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men and Late Night Favorites: Winter 2020goes with Argento’s Suspiria… again.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

On Saturday, there will be a “Texas Chainsaw Double Feature” of the first two movies from 1974 and 1986 as part of the “Disreputable Series.” Also, the museum continues to screen Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of its exhibition.

ROXY CINEMA(NYC)

The Nicolas Cage love continues on Weds. with Martin Scorsese’s 1999 movie Brinigng Out the Dead, and then on Saturday, Bottleneck Gallery will screen 1987’s The Monster Squad and 1986’s Night of the Creeps.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Friday’s night’s midnight movie is John Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine (1983).

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

The New York Jewish Film Festival continues through next week so no rep stuff.

STREAMING AND CABLE

On Sunday, Netflix will stream the first season of Fast and Furious: Spy Racers, which I have little to no interest in. I have a little more interest in Star Trek: Picard, which will begin streaming on CBS All Access on Thursday.

That’s it for this week. Next weekend is the Super Bowl, but that’s not gonna stop the releases of Gretel and Hansel(U.A. Releasing) and Blake Lively’s The Rhythm Section (Pararamount).

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dividedsingularity · 8 years ago

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Stories I like/know

Edit (March 2022) - this list is pretty outdated by now, and doesn’t include a lot of the newer additions - I don’t know when I’ll be able to change that or make a new better one, so it’s best to ask, especially if something’s not on here at all.

Here’s a neat list of things I’m into (in no particular order) + my favourite characters. I’m usually up for a conversation about any of them at any time, but not all of them are fresh in my memory.

Video games:

Minecraft

Minecraft: Story Mode - Lukas and Ivor (haven’t played Season 2 yet)

Monkey Island (all parts except 4) - Murray

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

The Neverhood Chronicles - Willie and Bil

Armikrog

A Hat in Time

Patapon (playing Pata3)

Hiveswap Act 1 (+ the Friendsims and Pesterquest)

Five Nights at Freddy’s (novels included) - Will Afton/Springtrap/Purple Guy

Undertale - Mettaton, Flowey and the skelebros. It’s a weird sort of tie between them

Deltarune (what’s out anyway) - Rouxls Kaard

OneShot - Prophetbot

Henry Stickmin Collection - Reginald Copperbottom

Hollow Knight - Quirrel

Machinarium

Portal (both) - GLaDOS

Just Shapes & Beats - the boss

Inside My Radio

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Cuphead

Animated shows/cartoons:

Wakfu (+ ‘Mini’) - Nox

Dofus: the Treasures of Kerub (+ the film)

Gravity Falls (+ comics) - Bill Cipher

Wander Over Yonder - Commander Peepers

Over the Garden Wall (+ comics)

Hero 108 - Commander Apetrully

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (+ comics and some fanfics) - Discord

Villainous

Hilda - Alfur

Beetlejuice - Beetlejuice

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu - Zane, Garmadon

Danny Phantom

Dan Vs. - Dan

Daria - Mr. Anthony Demartino

Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? - Robot (with the original voice)

Avatar: the Last Airbender (+ comics) - Iroh

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts - Dave

Owl House

ET Excursion (+ Haunted Library comics)

Metal Family - Glam

Daystone

Pink Corruption

Tarboy

My Little Portal

Infinity Train

Mickey Mouse Shorts

Avatar: Legend of Korra - the dynamic duo of Varrick and Zhu Li (maybe)

Steven Universe (+ movie and Future)

The Dragon Prince

Voltron: Legendary Defender (+comics)

Invader Zim (+ comics and movie) - Zim

Moominvalley

Superjail! - the Warden (actually, I don’t exactly like them, but I know them, so they stay)

Tangled: the Series (no, I haven’t seen the film yet) - King Trevor

Moomins

I also like Nergal from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but he and Grim are the only comparatively good things in the show

Books - series and authors:

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl

John Tolkien - The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (in progress)

Stanisław Lem’s science fiction (in progress)

George Martin - Tuf Voyaging

Clive Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

Jules Verne’s science fiction - the more known ones, like Around the Moon

Roger Lancelyn Green - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Philip Reeve - Larklight Trilogy (I haven’t read #3 yet)

John Flanagan - Ranger’s Apprentice, Brotherband Chronicles

I mostly read fantasy and science fiction, as you can probably guess

Ask me if you want to know anything else, I only listed the more memorable part of all the books I’ve read

Comics:

Homestuck (+ some fanfics) - all the Noirs, Scratch, Sollux

Problem Sleuth - GPI

Helvetica

Glitch: Jinn Devodist - so far, obviously, Cadwalader

The Property of Hate - RGB, Time

Ava’s Demon

Shenanigansen’s Live With Yourself and Bluechair

xkcd

PVP Online - Scratch Fury/Kringus, Brent Sienna

Garfield

Dilbert

Jake’s Onions

Pilot

Sarah Andersen’s comics

@zarla-s’ Handplates

Nothing Special

Glacias

Gone with the Blastwave

He Is a Good Boy

Vast Error - White Noise, probably

W.I.T.C.H.

D.Gray-Man - Lero/Rero

Noragami

Other:

Doctor Who (+ Dalek comics) - the Daleks (I’m on series 13, Doctor 13)

Star Wars - C3PO

HLVRAI

Asterix et Obelix movies (animated) - Asterix

The LEGO movie franchise

Mythbusters (what I managed to catch on TV (read: not much))

Most Popular Girls in School - not exactly up to my standards with the crude language, but it is incredibly well done in many other aspects

“Atlantis: The Lost Empire” might be my favourite animated film (I haven’t thought about it extensively, but it’s way up the ranks anyway)

“The Book of Life” - Xibalba (It is another good one)

Aviators (musician)

I know “Hamilton: an American Musical”, “Heathers: The Musical” and “Les Misérables” (2012 film)

Minecraft animation in general, there are some great original series out there I could recommend (like Minequest, The Egg’s Guide or Annoying Villagers)

2D animation fan

I love songs about video games

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EAST AURORA, NEW YORK— Friendship is taking center stage on the Island of Sodor in 2017, and to kick off the year-long celebration, Fisher-Price is debuting an all-new lineup of Thomas & Friends MINIS inspired by some of pop culture’s most powerful friend squads. Building on the successful Thomas & Friends MINIS collections in 2015 and 2016, the line will be expanded with the addition of all-new mash-up MINIS featuring Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and brand-new MINIS of DC Super Friends. The line is part of Thomas & Friends yearlong “Set Friendship in Motion™” campaign that began this month.

Iconic 90s superheroes Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers venture to Sodor just in time for the March 2017 release of the new Saban’s Power Rangers live-action feature film. Thomas and his best pals will morph into 13 train mash-ups, including Thomas as Blue Ranger, Percy as Green Ranger, Rosie as Pink Ranger, Belle as Rita Repulsa, and more.

Additionally, this summer Thomas & Friends is taking on the pizza-loving and sewer-dwelling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with 9 all-new MINIS inspired by Nickelodeon’s crime-fighting turtles, including Thomas as Leonardo, James as Raphael, Percy as Donatello, Gordon as Michelangelo, Rosie as April O’Neill, and others.

Finally, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, Thomas & Friends has also expanded its collection of DCSuper Friends MINIS featuring Thomas & Friends characters taking on the personas of the world’s most powerful DC Super Heroes. The 24 new trains will find Hiro as Steel, Victor as Superboy, Rosie as Star Sapphire, Henry as Batman Beyond, and many more.

The Thomas & Friends™ mash-up MINIS are part of a line of small-scale, collectible Thomas & Friends engines. Since the line’s debut in 2015, more than 13 million Minis have been sold worldwide in over 20 countries. The new mash-up MINIS will be available as 4-packs retailing for $7.49 and 9-packs retailing for $15.99 in March 2017 in the U.S. and in select international markets.

“The new Thomas & Friends MINIS based on famous pop culture teams are a cool way of celebrating legendary, epic friendships,” said Mike Pisors, Director of Thomas & Friends Toy Global Brand Marketing. “We love that Thomas & Friends is a leader is showcasing positive friendship role models for young children, and we’re thrilled to combine the brand with other popular franchises such as the DC Super Friends and Power Rangers for kids to collect.”

The new train mash-ups join a lineup of existing DC Super Friends MINIS and a collection of SpongeBob SquarePants inspired trains. In addition to bringing MINIS to toy aisles, Fisher-Price is also planning to develop exciting online content around the lines.

The lineup of brand new mash-up MINIS hitting retail this month includes:

Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:

Blue Ranger/Thomas

Black Ranger/Hiro

Pink Ranger/Rosie

Goldar/Victor

Red Ranger/James

Green Ranger/Percy

Yellow Ranger/Emily

White Ranger/Stanley

Alpha 5/Diesel

Rita Repulsa/Belle

Finster/Salty

Putty Patroller/Gordon

Lord Zedd/D-10

DC Super Friends:

Nightwing/Toby

Swamp Thing/Gator

Superboy/ Victor

Batman/ Thomas

Black Lightning/ Dash

Star Sapphire/Rosie

Krypton Armor Superman/James

Batman Beyond/Henry

Booster Gold/Dash

Red Tornado/ Percy

Steel/Hiro

Black Hand/Stanley

Big Barda/Belle

Azrael/Gordon

Ice Batman/Edward

Boomerang/Diesel

D-Shot/D10

Bumblebee/Millie

Mr. Miracle/Sidney

Vixen/Emily

Mr. Freeze/Ferdinand

Clark Kent Superman/Salty

Armor Batman/Scruff

Arsenal/Skarloey

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mash-Up MINIs will hit retail this summer.

About Thomas & Friends™

Thomas the Tank Engine™ was created over 70 years ago by a British clergyman, the Rev W Awdry, as a storybook for his son. That story quickly grew to become the award-winning global brand franchise it is today, enjoyed by families in more than 150 territories and in over 40 languages across multiple touch-points and formats, including: 400+ original TV shows; 12 feature-length films; 14 websites in nine languages; apps; toys; consumer products; publishing; live attractions and much more. Thomas & Friends has scooped prestigious accolades including a Parent’s Choice Award, a Webby and a Licensing Award for Best Classic Licensed Property. Based on NPD data, the property is currently ranked number 2 in the pre-school toys category in the US and number 3 worldwide. The famous and cheeky No.1 blue engine and his friends invite children to enter a world of imagination through the tracks of a train. Together, the children and engines embark on timeless adventures while experiencing valuable yet fun life lessons of discovery, friendship and cooperation. Thomas & Friends™ is viewable on more than 30 world-class broadcasters including PBS KIDS® in the US, Super RTL in Germany, CCTV in China and on Five’s Milkshake! and Nick Jr. in the UK. Downloadable episodes are available through iTunes, Amazon and Google Play. For more information about the wonderful world of Thomas & Friends please visit: www.thomasandfriends.com, www.facebook.com/thomasandfriends and for bonus material and exclusive content www.youtube.com/user/thomasandfriends.

About Fisher-Price

In 1931, Herman Fisher and Irving Price embarked on a journey to change the toy industry. Their goal: creating playthings that inspire a child’s development. More than 85 years later, Fisher-Price remains deeply rooted in the belief that play is the way children learn best. To this day, understanding the importance of play in building a child’s skills is the fundamental principle, as the company strives to enrich the lives of families with young children around the globe. United by the passion for a child’s safe care and development at each age and stage, the people of Fisher-Price work tirelessly to bring families the best toys and baby products in the world. Some of the company’s best-known brands include Laugh & Learn®, Little People®, Power Wheels®, and Imaginext®, and it’s also a leading developer of character-based toys for children’s programming such as Thomas & Friends™, Blaze and the Monster Machines™ and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Fisher-Price is a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT). For more information, visit www.fisher-price.com (U.S.) and www.fisher-price.ca (Canada) or connect with Fisher-Price on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

About Saban’s Power Rangers

Saban’s Power Rangers franchise is the brainchild of Haim Saban, creator and producer of the original “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” hit series that launched in 1993. Following its introduction, “Power Rangers” quickly became the most-watched children’s television program in the United States and remains one of the top-rated and longest running kids live-action series in television history. The series follows the adventures of a group of ordinary teens who morph into superheroes and save the world from evil. It is seen in more than 150 markets, translated into numerous languages and a favorite on many key international children’s programming blocks around the world. For more information, visit www.powerrangers.com.

About Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

About DC Entertainment

DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is one of the largest English-language publishers of comics in the world.

About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon, now in its 37th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon’s U.S. television network is seen in more than 90 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 20 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).

New Thomas the Train Minis Mashups! EAST AURORA, NEW YORK— Friendship is taking center stage on the Island of Sodor in 2017, and to kick off the year-long celebration, Fisher-Price is debuting an all-new lineup of Thomas & Friends MINIS inspired by some of pop culture’s most powerful friend squads.

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New Fic-y Fic!

I’m in the process of writing a new little mini-series! I’ve had this idea in my drafts for a hot minute now but I’m excited to write it! It will only be like a 2-3 part fic at the most. It will be a Mickey Henry (Sebastian Stan’s character in Monday) x F!Reader fic. I just feel like Mickey doesn’t get enough love on this platform, so. Time to write for him! If you’d like to be tagged, let me know! It’ll be a lil angsty and a lil fluffy!

I mean seriously. He deserves all the fics.

Here’s Part 1 !

#mickey henry #mickey henry fanfiction #mickey henry x reader #mickey henry x yn #buckysimp101 #buckysimp101 fanfic #Sebastian Stan characters #sebastian stan character fanfiction

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Two Artists of Color Boldly Provoke a Conservative Museum Locked in the Past

Carolina Caycedo, still from “Apariciones /Apparitions.” Choreographed by Marina Magalhães and shot by David de Rozas. Courtesy of the artist.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, opened to the public in 1928 to showcase the rare English tomes and early American paintings that Henry E. Huntington acquired with the wealth earned off of the backs of the minorities who built his railways. It is a Gilded Age palace built out of exquisite taste and whitewashed pain.

Yet today, in its ordinarily staid galleries, visitors will now see people of color convulsing among the books. Captured on film while dressed in white and tossing their beautiful hair, these banshees throb and jerk in the institution’s main exhibition hall, which hosts rarities such as a first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America and a Shakespeare First Folio. The video then jumps, revealing the provocateurs flanking pallid marble busts of 17th- and 18th-century English grandees, staring at their observers with fierce expressions. The performers then tumble and crawl down the staircase of Henry E. Huntington’s Beaux-Arts mansion. Finally, while draped in bright fiber nets, they romp and tremble through the property’s empire-tastic “themed gardens,” which boast mini “Australian,” “Jungle,” “Chinese,” “Japanese,” and “Camellia” parklands.

Carolina Caycedo, still from “ Apariciones /Apparitions.” Choreographed by Marina Magalhães and shot by David de Rozas. Courtesy of the artist.

These scenes—from Carolina Caycedo’s Apariciones (“Apparitions”)—form part of the Huntington Library’s “Rituals of Labor and Engagement” show, which displays Caycedo’s collages and film alongside the drawings of artist Mario Ybarra Jr. Featuring works all made in 2018, and staged in collaboration with the Vincent Price Art Museum, the exhibition is the third installment of the Huntington’s exciting “/five” series. This endeavor sees the library partnering with cultural organizations and allowing artists to engage with its vast and precious collection.

The series initiated in 2016, when the Huntington invited scientists from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build a sound installation that represented the movement of the International Space Station. The next year, the Huntington’s hushed halls filled with the tumult caused by artists affiliated with the Los Angeles–based Women’s Center for Creative Work. For that exhibition, Jheanelle Garriques responded to the Huntington’s Anglomaniac bent by curating a bluestocking storytelling, letter-writing, and dance event; Kiki Loveday reacted to the library’s rich holdings of classical images through her creation of a Sapphic and queer florilegium of ephemera.

Now, it’s Caycedo and Ybarra’s turn to shake the Huntington down to its foundations with their interventions. Caycedo, born in London of Colombian parents and currently living in L.A., possesses an art practice that invests deeply in community engagement. Her past projects include Be Dammed,an installation of fishing nets, which reflected the impacts of water privatization in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala; as well as 2013’s Less Than Lethal,a series of inkjet prints depicting how state police suppress dissent through technologies such as rubber bullets, water cannons, and electric tasers.

Carolina Caycedo, photo from “Apariciones /Apparitions.” Choreographed by Marina Magalhães and shot by David de Rozas. Courtesy of the artist.

Caycedo’s commitment to the collective informs her two-part contribution to “Rituals of Labor and Engagement.” In the aforementioned video, Apariciones, the performers clash and fuse with the Huntington’s massive assemblage of cultural products, purchased with the largesse arrogated by the Huntington family when it steered the Central Pacific Railroad and built Southern California’s Pacific Electric Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both of these transportation behemoths exacted terrible injustices on people of color: While under the leadership of Henry Huntington’s uncle, Collis, more than 7,000 Chinese laborers built the Central Pacific under bone-shattering conditions. When they struck for higher wages in 1867, foremen cut off their food supply. Henry Huntington himself later focused on Southern California’s “Red Car” system with Pacific Electric Railway, and continued the tradition of playing hardball with protesters. In 1903, Latino laborers struck to protest wages and to seek an increase in overtime pay. Huntington ordered L.A. police to arrest any picketers.

The Huntington’s massive cache reflects its troubling origin story, as Henry Huntington proved just as passionate and selective an art collector as he was an overseer. Beyond celebrating the genius of Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, George Washington, and other glitterati of American cultural and political history, the galleries’ lavish paintings—such as The Blue Boy (ca. 1770), the library’s famous Thomas Gainsborough portrait of a peach-cheeked child squire; and Pinkie (1794), Thomas Lawrence’s beautifully kitschy glamour shot of an 11-year-old descendent of wealthy white sugar magnates and slaveowners—glorify Anglo histories of distinction and standards of beauty.

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, ca. 1770. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Thomas Lawrence, Pinkie, 1794. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

In Apariciones, Caycedo meditates on the significance of her own labor within this haunted space, and also alters our readings of the collections with her disruptions. When the dancers shudder and quake next to the gorgeously bound books, we worry about what those publications’ covers might contain. And when Caycedo features two women embracing in the gardens while draped with a fishing net, we can fret over several overlapping problems at the same time—the exclusion of queer people from American history and the dilemma of water inequality in a drought-ridden state.

Caycedo’s second contribution is a three-panel screen, entitled To walk in the present looking forward towards the past, carrying the future on our back / Caminar por el presente mirando de frente hacia el pasado, cargando el futuro en nuestra espalda. Here, Caycedo creates a new and necessary archive through a collage of photographs and clippings that she has glued to the screen’s wood surfaces. Scanning this album, we find largely black-and-white portraits of black people, Native Americans, and Mexican folks who pose for family portraits, submit to 19th-century taxonomist-racists, or vogue in fancy likenesses that show off their cool clothes.

Mario Ybarra Jr., It’s Okay 2 Slay, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

The late photographer Laura Aguilar’s work looms large in To walk in the present, as the collage includes several images from her 1990s “Nature Self Portrait” and “Clothed/Unclothed” series. “Nature Self Portrait” reveals the nude and large-bodied Aguilar draping herself over boulders in the Southern California desert. Aguilar died of complications of diabetes in 2018; Caycedo’s use of her work makes it clear that Aguilar’s legacy provided the inspiration for Apariciones.

The photograph included from Aguilar’s “Clothed/Unclothed” series depicts the photographer Willie Middlebrook embracing his sons. Aguilar found much creative and emotional support in her friendship with Middlebrook, who lent her equipment and encouraged her vision. “Clothed/Unclothed,” then, offers a glimpse into the sort of artistic family tree that otherwise finds zero expression in the Huntington’s exclusionary archives.

Albrecht Dürer, Knight, death, and the devil, 1513. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Mario Ybarra Jr., In The Beginning, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Mario Ybarra Jr., who grew up in Wilmington, a blue-collar neighborhood by the Los Angeles harbor, also reworks the Huntington’s splendors. His series of drawings cast Albrecht Dürer and the anonymous European geniuses who illuminated early modern manuscripts as harbingers of contemporary Latinx mythmaking. Ybarra places his intricate drawings next to a 16th-century Venetian illumination of a ferocious undine about to strike down an aged Neptune and a 1513 Dürer etching of a sword-bearing knight riding upon a steed. Ybarra’s work echoes these Renaissance marvels, but adds in hip-hop references, saturated color, cartoons, and brown pride. Ybarra reconfigures a Book of Hours’s careful calligraphy in In the Beginning, an abecedarium inscribed in a mash-up of Flintstones-meets-Gothic font and foliated by pen-and-inks of Gizmo from Gremlins and Disney’s Mickey Mouse. And in It’s Okay 2 Slay, Ybarra puts Dürer’s knight’s sword in a brown hand and surrounds it with a royal crown, a skull-and-crossbones, and indecipherable neon tags.

Together, Caycedo’s and Ybarra’s art reimagines the Huntington as a site of hidden history and necessary accountability. Caycedo has said that she regards her artistic process as “rhizomatic”—that is, as one that branches out in a network of roots and tendrils. In this way, both her and Ybarra’s work at the Huntington evokes the writings of Simone Weil, the 20th-century theologian, anarchist, and theorist of displacement. In Weil’s book The Need for Roots (1949), she observed that “to be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” “Rituals of Engagement and Labor” allows us to contemplate the difficult question of how people of color can fulfill this need within an inheritance of dispossession. By seeding the Huntington with their labor, the artists plant an unthemed garden that spreads wide and deep throughout the Huntingon’s lavish façades and treasuries, which once only magnified white supremacy and its crimes.

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FISHER-PRICE CELEBRATES POP CULTURE’S MOST POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS WITH ALL-NEW THOMAS & FRIENDS™ MINIS TRAIN MASH-UPS FEATURING SABAN’S MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS & DC SUPER FRIENDS

Thomas & Friends™ Characters Reimagined as Iconic Friendship Squads with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and DC Super Friends; and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collection to be Released in Summer 2017

Finally, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, Thomas & Friends has also expanded its collection of DC Super Friends MINIS featuring Thomas & Friends characters taking on the personas of the world’s most powerful DC Super Heroes. The 24 new trains will find Hiro as Steel, Victor as Superboy, Rosie as Star Sapphire, Henry as Batman Beyond, and many more.

The lineup of brand new mash-up MINIS hitting retail this month includes:

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Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:

Blue Ranger/Thomas

Black Ranger/Hiro

Pink Ranger/Rosie

Goldar/Victor

Red Ranger/James

Green Ranger/Percy

Yellow Ranger/Emily

White Ranger/Stanley

Alpha 5/Diesel

Rita Repulsa/Belle

Finster/Salty

Putty Patroller/Gordon

Lord Zedd/D-10

DC Super Friends:

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Nightwing/Toby

Swamp Thing/Gator

Superboy/ Victor

Batman/ Thomas

Black Lightning/ Dash

Star Sapphire/Rosie

Krypton Armor Superman/James

Batman Beyond/Henry

Booster Gold/Dash

Red Tornado/ Percy

Steel/Hiro

Black Hand/Stanley

Big Barda/Belle

Azrael/Gordon

Ice Batman/Edward

Boomerang/Diesel

D-Shot/D10

Bumblebee/Millie

Mr. Miracle/Sidney

Vixen/Emily

Mr. Freeze/Ferdinand

Clark Kent Superman/Salty

Armor Batman/Scruff

Arsenal/Skarloey

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mash-Up MINIs will hit retail this summer.

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About Thomas & Friends™

About Fisher-Price

About Saban’s Power Rangers

About Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

About DC Entertainment

About Nickelodeon

Thomas & Friends Morph into Power Rangers, TMNT, & DC Super Friends in New MINIS Collection FISHER-PRICE CELEBRATES POP CULTURE’S MOST POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS WITH ALL-NEW THOMAS & FRIENDS™ MINIS TRAIN MASH-UPS FEATURING SABAN’S…

#DC Comics #DC Entertainment #Fisher Price #Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #MMPR #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #Thomas and Friends #trains

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