#mike ryerson

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Bonjour ,bonne journée ☕️ ☔️

Vespa un jour de pluie 🛵 1954

Photo de Mike Ryerson

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Spencer Treat Clark as Mike Ryerson

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Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Navigating Success

Great leaders aren’t born — they’re molded by experiences, fuelled by passion, and often, seasoned by failure. Every Wednesday, we have candid conversations with outstanding leaders from various business verticals who share their growth journeys and learning experiences. Whether through stories of triumphs or adversities, the gold lies within what these leaders have weathered. Today’s spotlight…

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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him

Ezra Klein, Feb. 2, 2025

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:

Steve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. …

All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to —

Michael Kirk: What was the word?

Bannon: Muzzle velocity.

Muzzle velocity. Bannon’s insight here is real. Focus is the fundamental substance of democracy. It is particularly the substance of opposition. People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently.

Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over.

Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him.

Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true. Trump clawed his way back to great wealth by playing a fearsome billionaire on TV; he remade himself as a winner by refusing to admit he had ever lost. The American presidency is a limited office. But Trump has never wanted to be president, at least not as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to first play king on TV. If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king.

Don’t believe him. Trump has real powers — but they are the powers of the presidency. The pardon power is vast and unrestricted, and so he could pardon the Jan. 6 rioters. Federal security protection is under the discretion of the executive branch, and so he could remove it from Anthony Fauci and Mike Pompeo and John Bolton and Mark Milley and even Brian Hook, a largely unknown former State Department official under threat from Iran who donated time to Trump’s transition team. It was an act of astonishing cruelty and callousness from a man who nearly died by an assassin’s bullet — as much as anything ever has been, this, to me, was an X-ray of the smallness of Trump’s soul — but it was an act that was within his power.

But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.” A judge froze the spending freeze before it was even scheduled to go into effect, and shortly thereafter, the Trump administration rescinded the order, in part to avoid the court case.

What Bannon wanted — what the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity, remember. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him.

You could see this a few ways: Is Trump playing a part, making a bet or triggering a crisis? Those are the options. I am not certain he knows the answer. Trump has always been an improviser. But if you take it as calculated, here is the calculation: Perhaps this Supreme Court, stocked with his appointees, gives him powers no peacetime president has ever possessed. Perhaps all of this becomes legal now that he has asserted its legality. It is not impossible to imagine that bet paying off.

But Trump’s odds are bad. So what if the bet fails and his arrogations of power are soundly rejected by the courts? Then comes the question of constitutional crisis: Does he ignore the court’s ruling? To do that would be to attempt a coup. I wonder if they have the stomach for it. The withdrawal of the Office of Management and Budget’s order to freeze spending suggests they don’t. Bravado aside, Trump’s political capital is thin. Both in his first and second terms, he has entered office with approval ratings below that of any president in the modern era. Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent — about 10 points beneath Joe Biden’s in January 2021.

There is a reason Trump is doing all of this through executive orders rather than submitting these same directives as legislation to pass through Congress. A more powerful executive could persuade Congress to eliminate the spending he opposes or reform the civil service to give himself the powers of hiring and firing that he seeks. To write these changes into legislation would make them more durable and allow him to argue their merits in a more strategic way. Even if Trump’s aim is to bring the civil service to heel — to rid it of his opponents and turn it to his own ends — he would be better off arguing that he is simply trying to bring the high-performance management culture of Silicon Valley to the federal government. You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.

But Republicans have a three-seat edge in the House and a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Trump has done nothing to reach out to Democrats. If Trump tried to pass this agenda as legislation, it would most likely fail in the House, and it would certainly die before the filibuster in the Senate. And that would make Trump look weak. Trump does not want to look weak. He remembers John McCain humiliating him in his first term by casting the deciding vote against Obamacare repeal.

That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.

The flurry of activity is meant to suggest the existence of a plan. The Trump team wants it known that they’re ready this time. They will control events rather than be controlled by them. The closer you look, the less true that seems. They are scrambling and flailing already. They are leaking against one another already. We’ve learned, already, that the O.M.B. directive was drafted, reportedly, without the input or oversight of key Trump officials — “it didn’t go through the proper approval process,” an administration official told The Washington Post. For this to be the process and product of a signature initiative in the second week of a president’s second term is embarrassing.

But it’s not just the O.M.B. directive. The Trump administration is waging an immediate war on the bureaucracy, trying to replace the “deep state” it believes hampered it in the first term. A big part of this project seems to have been outsourced to Elon Musk, who is bringing the tactics he used at Twitter to the federal government. He has longtime aides at the Office of Personnel Management, and the email sent to nearly all federal employees even reused the subject line of the email he sent to Twitter employees: “Fork in the Road.” Musk wants you to know it was him.

The email offers millions of civil servants a backdoor buyout: Agree to resign and in theory, at least, you can collect your paycheck and benefits until the end of September without doing any work. The Department of Government Efficiency account on X described it this way: “Take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.” The Washington Post reported that the email “blindsided” many in the Trump administration who would normally have consulted on a notice like that.

I suspect Musk thinks of the federal work force as a huge mass of woke ideologues. But most federal workers have very little to do with politics. About 16 percent of the federal work force is in health care. These are, for instance, nurses and doctors who work for the Veterans Affairs department. How many of them does Musk want to lose? What plans does the V.A. have for attracting and training their replacements? How quickly can he do it?

The Social Security Administration has more than 59,000 employees. Does Musk know which ones are essential to operations and unusually difficult to replace? One likely outcome of this scheme is that a lot of talented people who work in nonpolitical jobs and could make more elsewhere take the lengthy vacation and leave government services in tatters. Twitter worked poorly after Musk’s takeover, with more frequent outages and bugs, but its outages are not a national scandal. When V.A. health care degrades, it is. To have sprung this attack on the civil service so loudly and publicly and brazenly is to be assured of the blame if anything goes wrong.

What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos. They do not have some secret reservoir of focus and attention the rest of us do not. They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them.

I had a conversation a couple months ago with someone who knows how the federal government works about as well as anyone alive. I asked him what would worry him most if he saw Trump doing it. What he told me is that he would worry most if Trump went slowly. If he began his term by doing things that made him more popular and made his opposition weaker and more confused. If he tried to build strength for the midterms while slowly expanding his powers and chipping away at the deep state where it was weakest.

There is a subreddit for federal employees where one of the top posts reads: “This non ‘buyout’ really seems to have backfired. I’ll be honest, before that email went out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell. But now I am fired up to make these goons as frustrated as possible.” As I write this, it’s been upvoted more than 39,000 times and civil servant after civil servant is echoing the initial sentiment.

But he didn’t. And so the opposition to Trump, which seemed so listless after the election, is beginning to rouse itself.

In Iowa this week, Democrats flipped a State Senate seat in a district that Trump won easily in 2024. The attempted spending freeze gave Democrats their voice back, as they zeroed in on the popular programs Trump had imperiled. Trump isn’t building support; he’s losing it. Trump isn’t fracturing his opposition; he’s uniting it.

This is the weakness of the strategy that Bannon proposed and Trump is following. It is a strategy that forces you into overreach. To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear. You overwhelm yourself. And there’s only so much you can do through executive orders. Soon enough, you have to go beyond what you can actually do. And when you do that, you either trigger a constitutional crisis or you reveal your own weakness.

Trump may not see his own fork in the road coming. He may believe he has the power he is claiming. That would be a mistake on his part — a self-deception that could doom his presidency. But the real threat is if he persuades the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.

The first two weeks of Trump’s presidency have not shown his strength. He is trying to overwhelm you. He is trying to keep you off-balance. He is trying to persuade you of something that isn’t true. Don’t believe him.

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M'dear I hope you don't think this weird but I just saw the full Salem's Lot trailer and now I'm having some um.......thoughts (lol). Some of the characters who were turned I included just for reasons of my own.

I can totally see Ben Mears x wifey!reader living with the entire gang under one roof and running a vampire/monster hunter coven. Like all of them in a gigantic Victorian house at the end of the street, everybody has a room of their own that's personalized to suit their personalities. The house is absolute chaos most days, but ya'll wouldn't have it any other way.

When the guys have their "guy hunts" it's soooooooo much fun. It gives you and the girls of the house some time to yourselves to decompress and not have to deal with shenanigans. Ben will literally send you as many memes as possible from the hunt and his favorite one so far is of Mike Ryerson and Matt Burke standing over an exhumed coffin and Father Callahan is in there with his arms crossed.

When you guys all go on a hunt together? Even more fun. Mark will join you if it's on a Friday night after he's done with his homework. Ben will literally keep Baby Randy strapped to his back (you guys adopted him and changed his name from Randy McDougal to Randy Mears upon his official adoption) as you're all walkin through the woods to the cemetery. Matt Burke brings a portable mix-tape player and he's got all the good shit on there (you guys were all singing along to "Shake Your Rump" by the Beastie Boys to lure in a creature that loves loud noises, lol).

Dahling I'm happy to send in more when and where I can. That trailer has me by the metaphorical nuggets already (lol).

Omg I didn’t even know the trailer dropped!! I take one nap and look what happens.

I absolutely love this. They’re all one big monster hunting family (I bull body laughed at father Callahan I’m the coffin) and imagine even though they’re all there for vampire hunting they get into a comfortable family type of relax with each other and just in the middle of the night sometimes wifey!reader and mark will join in together to prank Ben.

Also, baby Randy, yes in my head he’s actually been adopted since the first page of the book by Ben so this checks out lol.

If you have more keep ‘‘em coming lol

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If Glee Did Phineas and Ferb Songs, Who Would Sing What?

Note: these would not be all in the same episode, for various reasons, including that in some cases they take place at different times in canon, also Sue would never sing multiple songs per episode. I'm also going to highlight the absolute non-negotiables to me.

Gitchee Gitchee Goo--New Directions, Sam and Mercedes lead (either an end-of-episode performance in the auditorium, or a competition performance)

Busted--Santana and Brittany (there could be context for this, or it could just be for the heck of it. I'm sure you see my vision)

When We Didn't Get Along--Will Schuester (serenading Sue after she gets fired in S6)

Truck Drivin' Girl--Coach Beiste (I have a very specific context in mind for this, and that is a scene that does not take place in the show, where Beiste teaches Emma to parallel park)

Do Nothing Day--Blaine (like Busted, this pick does not strictly require context, but it could have some)

Ain't Got Rhythm--Mike and Finn (I NEED you to see my vision here, because this is a non-negotiable to me. Mike's dancing, Finn's inability to dance, Finn drumming--beautiful)

You're Going Down--Sue (to Will,at any time, really)

Whatcha Doin'--Emma (to Will, early season one)

The Perry The Platypus Theme--Blaine, Sam, Tina, Artie, Brittany (messing around together in S4)

There's A Platypus Controlling Me--Sue, with the New Directions (Sue did not consent to this)

Takin' Care Of Things--Blaine, Sam, Artie and Tina (this song encapsulates Blamartina--my beloveds--perfectly, and I love it)

Carpe Diem--New Directions, led by Finn and Rachel (end-of episode auditorium performance or comp performance)

The Ballad Of Klimpaloon--Puck with The Boys (just one of the rock songs they do just because)

I Believe We Can--Mason and Jane (for fun)

Real Boy--Artie with Quinn, Santana and Brittany (no context. This should have zero plot relevance, but just one of those numbers that Artie and the UHT do for the sake of it)

I'm Me--Santana (no specific context, but much like Busted, it definitely doesn't need it)

Evil For Extra Credit--MS. BECKY JACKSON

Just The Two Of Us--Mercedes (while third-wheeling Klaine. Or Blam)

Quirky Worky Song--The Warblers (random cut scene to the Warblers)

Livin' With Monkeys--Rachel (heartbroken, on stage in the auditorium, gesturing tragically, big facial expressions, peak Rachel Barbra Berry dramatics)

My Evil Buddies And Me--Sue, Terri, Sandy Ryerson, Dustin Goolsby (During the Legion of Doom arc)

Izzy's Got The Frizzies--Unique (no context whatsoever. at all. none.)

Summer All Over The World--New Directions (beginning of episode group number)

Jump Right To It--Tina, Brittany, Sugar, Unique *maybe Kitty* (telling Marley to go for it with Jake)

They Left Me Standing Outside--Artie (literally any time in the series)

Us Against The Universe: OG Five, with the New Directions (final episode, it's beautiful)

If you have any ideas/reactions/thoughts, please rb with your additions, addendums or thoughts

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1x05 The Rhodes Not Taken

Quote of the ep: Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy.

Rating: 2/6 on the Kinsey Scale

Best song: Maybe This Time

Worst song: Alone

Cat:

(x) Because the New Directions wear cowboy costumes in Last Name.

Now for the Review: These reviews, by the way, show me that I don’t know a lot of Glee.

Because all I remember from this episode is the introduction of April Rhodes, played by Kristen Chenowith. She’s the first guest star in the show! She is an old classmate of Mr. Schue and she’s never graduated. Park that in your mind.

Rachel wants to play Sally Bowles in Cabaret, which, now that I have actually seen this show, is a big ask. But she doesn’t get the role or something, and quits Glee club. By now, three new people have joined the glee club: Puck, Mike and Matt, all football players who are happy with the football win. Can’t remember if they joined last episode or now. So they have more members, but it’s not enough, so Mr. Schue recruits April. They sing a cool duet called Alone and I know I named that as the worst song, but it slaps. Gosh, this ep had good music, which is needed after 3 episodes with lacklustre songs.

April is convinced, but the others aren’t, so April decides to sing Maybe This Time to convince them. The scenes alter between her and Rachel singing the song. Yes. Rachel. She has joined Mr. Ryerson, who is doing a production of Cabaret. But anyway, both April and Rachel are flattered. And another fun behind the scenes thing: Chris was a fan of Kristen and genuinely started crying when she did she song. They put that in the episode.

April warms up to the others by buttering them up. She gives Kurt alcohol and magazines with naked men. She teaches some girls how to shoplift meat in their vagina. She’s actually a bad influence and Mr. Schue begins to realise that.

The New Directions have another public performance with April on lead and it’s going alright, but it’s not the same. Finn has been trying to flirt with Rachel in order to get her back to the club, but by now, rumours have started spreading and she finds out Finn’s girlfriend Quinn is pregnant. Still, for some reason, she returns to the club and replaces April in the final song.

After all, April has also realised that this is not a good idea. She’s decided to move on and actually follow her theatre dreams and she needs more than a glee club in a high school in Ohio. Not only that, but she is stealing the spotlight of the glee kids and she thinks that is unfair.

Really. I am missing some stuff. We’re on episode 5 and I have barely discussed anything about Sue Sylvester, or the Mr. Schue-Emma-Tanaka storyline. I assume those storylines are going on. Gosh. Did Tanaka already propose to Emma? I don’t know. I don’t think so.

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Which Glee characters are included in this tournament?

Short answer: a lot of them.

I've included nearly a hundred characters, just to be thorough. Below the cut is a list of all the characters who will get polls. If there is an obscure character who is not on this list but you really want them to be included, send an ask and I'll probably add them in.

Updated 2/6/25

Adam Crawford

Alistair

Alma Lopez

Andrea Carmichael

April Rhodes

Artie Abrams

Azimio Adams

Becky Jackson

Blaine Anderson

Brad

Bree

Brittany Pierce

Brody Weston

Bryan Ryan

Burt Hummel

Carl Howell

Carmen Tibideaux

Carole Hudson-Hummel

Cassandra July

Chandler Kiehl

Clint

Cooper Anderson

Cooter Menkins

Dalton Rumba

Dani

Dave Karofsky

David Martinez

Dottie Kazatori

Dustin Goolsby

Elliott Gilbert

Emma Pillsbury

Finn Hudson

Harmony

Hiram Berry

Holly Holliday

Howard Bamboo

Hunter Clarington

Isabelle Wright

Jacob Ben Israel

Jake Puckerman

Jane Hayward

Jean Baptiste

Jean Sylvester

Jeremiah

Jesse St. James

Joe Hart

Judy Fabray

Julia Chang

June Dolloway

Ken Tanaka

Kendra Giardi

Kitty Wilde

Kurt Hummel

Lauren Zizes

LeRoy Berry

Lord Tubbington

Madison McCarthy

Maribel Lopez

Marley Rose

Mason McCarthy

Matt Rutherford

Mercedes Jones

Mike Chang

Mike Chang Sr.

Millie Rose

Mrs. Puckerman

Myron Muskovitz

Nancy Abrams

Noah "Puck" Puckerman

Pavarotti

Penny Owen

Pierce Pierce

Principal Figgins

Quinn Fabray

Rachel Berry

Richard "Rick The Stick" Nelson

Rod Remington

Roderick Meeks

Rory Flanagan

Roz Washington

Russell Fabray

Ryder Lynn

Sam Evans

Sandy Ryerson

Santana Lopez

Sebastian Smythe

Shelby Corcoran

Sheldon Beiste

Skylar

Spencer Porter

Stoner Brett Bukowski

Sue Sylvester

Sugar Motta

Sunshine Corazon

Terri Del Monico

Tina Cohen-Chang

Unique Adams

Walter

Whitney Pierce

Will Schuester

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Mo-Mo, I just had the funniest thought ever regarding Mr. Mears. It's fitting but it's also quite funny (lol).

Ben and Matt Burke are both literature teachers so imagine their shock and disgust when they get the reading list for when school starts. The lady who runs the department and who was also a town board member, basically told them that under no circumstances were they to teach any of the classics, gothic literature, humor books or epic fantasy. Needless to say, both were pissed, especially when they also got the call that Mark was being sent home for having copies of books like Treasure Island, Lord Of The Rings, The Wheel Of Time and Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives in his locker (kid's a voracious reader thanks to these two).

Ben felt kinda bad about being so pissed off about it, but damn if it didn't lead to you two engaging in the hottest angry hate sex you two have ever had. He's fucked you good before but letting that out was probably the best thing he ever did (lol).

Not only did Matt and Ben decide they were gonna do something about it, but basically the entire coven decided they were gonna get in on it, including Mark's gang of neighborhood goonies. Father Callahan is totally a fan of banned books so he was more than eager to get in on the action.

Matt and Ben grabbed a bunch of books from the shelves in the house library, literally everything you can think of, Dracula, Frankenstein, Huck Finn, Last Of The Mohicans, Jane Eyre, Emma, literally all the good reads, and they hide them in the dust jackets of the "prescribed" books and take them down to the school where they have their students read them. Father Callahan even smuggles a few to the students in his Sunday youth group at the church while Mark and his gang of miscreants do a book swap in their treehouse. Mike Ryerson will sneak a few to his fellow cemetery workers and when Corey Bryant is on his lunchbreak and not repairing the phone lines, he'll sneak a few paperbacks around. A bunch of Ben's books like "Air Dance" have been passed around like a bad case of poison ivy (lol).

One day Matt and Ben are in the middle of a secret lesson when they hear a commotion in the halls and they find that the lady who banned all the good books in the schools has finally gotten her just desserts and her walking papers. Turns out she was fudging a bunch of stuff and a school board member squealed on her. The day she was given her walking papers, everybody in the hall, Ben and Matt included, were all chanting "walk of shame" as she left.

Mo-Mo if you want me to continue this, I might do it as a series when Salem's Lot comes out next month (lol).

Yes! Rage against the banned books! Ben and Matt are truly a dream vampire killing team and would fully be manning the stations to make sure all the good reads are still fully available to the children.

I am so ready for all the 'Salem's Lot lore and headcanons! After re-reading the book I am full on vampire slayer vibes - grab your stakes and crosses and my pus-

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"Still vaguely troubled and still not knowing why, Mike Ryerson went back into the woods to sit by the brook and eat his lunch."

[occasional-ghost]

Glee OC Masterlist

Name: Adrien Bieste

Faceclaim: Timothée Chalamet

Love Interest: Elphie Jones

Story: Unlimited

Name: Alma Berry

Faceclaim: Ashley Tisdale

Love Interest: Tiffany Fabrey (in the Status Quo universe)

Story: Multi

Name: Andrew Berry

Faceclaim: Logan Lerman

Love Interest: Mercedes Jones

Story: Being Alive

Name: Andrew Cartwright

Faceclaim: Logan Lerman

Love Interest: Various

Story: To Being An Us

*a variation of Andrew Berry who exists in crossovers with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Colton Cartwright and a variety of their other ocs

Name: Andrew Cartwright

Faceclaim: Logan Lerman

Love Interest: Kirsty Gilmore*

Story: Everything Changes

*a variation of the standard To Being An Us Verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs but combined with the Gilmore Girls Delicate crossover

Name: Annie Shuester

Faceclaim: Zoey Coletti

Love Interest: n/a

Story: Nothing To Fear

Name: Aro Flores

Faceclaim: Frankie A. Rodriguez

Love Interest: Artie Abrams

Story: Something’s Coming*

*Same universe as Brax Pierce

Name: Billy Gilbert

Faceclaim: Austin Abrams

Love Interest: Mary Tibideaux

Story: Being Alive (and connected @randomestfandoms-ocs crossovers)

Name: Brax Pierce

Faceclaim: Joe Serafini

Love Interest: Rory Flannigan

Story: The Climb

Name: Christopher Tibideaux

Faceclaim: Nathan Mitchell

Love Interest: n/a

Story: Being Alive

Name: Corbin Adams

Faceclaim: Corbin Bleu

Love Interests: Ezra Berry & Simone Adams

Story: Multi

Name: Elliot Berry

Faceclaim: Larry Saperstein

Love Interest: Sugar Motta

Story: Status Quo

Name: Elphie Jones

Faceclaim: Zendaya

Love Interest: Adrien Bieste

Story: Unlimited

Name: Esther Berry

Faceclaim: Gideon Aldon

Love Interest: N/A

Story: A Cautionary Tale

Name: Ezra Berry

Faceclaim: Lucas Grabeel

Love Interests: Corbin Adams & Simone Adams

Story: multi

Name: Faith Hudson

Faceclaim: Julia Lester

Story: Staus Quo

Name: George Bieste

Faceclaim: Joel Courtney

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Story: Free

Name: Hayden Holiday-Motta

Faceclaim: Kit Conner

Love Interest: N/A

Story: N/A

Name: Henry Shuester

Faceclaim: Tom Holland

Love Interests: Artie Abrams & Tina Cohen-Chang

Story: Start Of Something New

Name: Janet Howell

Faceclaim: Ariel Winter

Love Interest: (possible Quinn Fabrey)

Story: Damn It, Janet

Name: Lorelei Zisis

Faceclaim: Beanie Feldstein

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Story: Don’t Rain On My Parade

Name: Mabel Fabrey

Faceclaim: Maisie Peters

Love Interests: Artie Abrams & Kitty Wilde

Story: Coming of Age

Name: Mary Tibideaux

Faceclaim: Antonia Gentry

Love Interest: Billy Gilbert

Story: Being Alive (and connected @randomestfandoms-ocs crossovers)

Name: Mona Adams

Faceclaim: Dara Reneé

Love Interests: Jake Puckerman & Marley Rose

Story: What I’ve Been Looking For*, Being Alive (and various @randomestfandoms-ocs crossovers)

*What I’ve Been Looking For Is Mona’s POV of the Being Alive-verse, starting in season 2

Name: Rosalia Lopez

Faceclaim: Rachel Zegler

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Story: Opening Up

Name: Simone Adams

Faceclaim: Monique Colman

Love Interests: Corbin Adams & Ezra Berry

Story: Multi

Name: Tiffany Fabrey

Faceclaim: Candice King

Love Interest: Alma Berry

Story: Status Quo

Name: Theo Ryerson

Faceclaim: Jake Able

Love Interest: N/A

Story: N/A

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The whip-poor-will has been an omen of death for centuries − what happened to this iconic bird of American horror?

An illustration, drawn and engraved, of an eastern whip-poor-will, by Richard Polydore Nodder. Florilegius/Universal Images Group via Getty Images by Jared Del Rosso, University of Denver In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King’s 1975 novel “Salem’s Lot,” a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a troubling…

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Salem's Lot (2024)

Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire and his loyal servant.   After many delayed release dates, THR reports that the film is now officially going straight to HBO Max later this year. No release date has been given yet, but a "fourth quarter release is likely." (3/12/24) Originally set for a September 9, 2022 then a April 21, 2023 theatrical release. Actor Lewis Pullman spoke highly of the film in a recent interview, saying: "It's a scary thing doing these remakes, man. It's like, this and , there's such pressure, it's a hard concoction to conjure up to make it successful. But Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book. But also, the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it's such a hefty book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters. So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he's really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. He's a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn't wanna do Stephen dirty." He added... "So I think it's in good hands, Gary's a really smart guy who has a keen eye for things. I think, not just lean on the jump scares, but lean on the more conceptual and visual things that, rather than a shock that fades out of your body in the next five minutes, something that's more visual, like an imprint that burnt into your retinas as a disturbing image that you'll wake up in the middle of the night that you can't shake out of your head." (11/3/22) Filmed in Boston. The film's storyline is said to be set in 1975. Jordan Preston Carter plays "Mark Petrie, a 12-year old boy who becomes a key member of the group fighting the evil." Nicholas Crovetti plays "Danny Glick, who becomes the town’s first vampire and helps turn other townspeople into bloodsuckers." Cade Woodward plays "Ralph Glick, his brother who mysteriously (well, maybe not so mysteriously) disappears." John Benjamin Hickey plays "Father Callahan." Pilou Asbæk plays "Richard Straker, the vampire’s familiar who prepares for the arrival of his master and does plenty of dirty work." Alfre Woodard plays "Dr. Cody, who in the novel is a guy, Dr. Jimmy Cody. Cody assists Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman in the film), Susan Norton (Makenzie Leigh) and Matt Burke (Bill Camp) in fighting the spread of vampires." Makenzie Leigh plays Susan Norton, who in the book "is a resident of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. Ben and her eventually fall in love, and she has a knowledge of the vampires in town." Bill Camp plays Matthew Burke, who is "a former high school English teacher who knows about the Marten’s House evil past and helps out Ben." Spencer Treat Clark plays Mike Ryerson, who is "one of the town’s simple folk and becomes a victim to the events at hand." Lewis Pullman (son of actor Bill Pullman, and has starred in films like The Strangers: Prey at Night, Bad Times at the El Royale) stars as the lead, Ben Mears. Co-produced by James Wan. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman (Annabelle, It, The Nun). Based on the book by Stephen King, which was turned into a TV-movie in 1979 by director Tobe Hooper. The film received a weirdly comedic sequel in 1987, then remade as a mini-series in 2004 starring Rob Lowe. Salem's Lot premiered on Max on October 3, 2024. Warner Bros. UK & Ireland releases Salem's Lot in Cinemas in the UK and Ireland on October 11, 2024. IMDb Director: Gary Dauberman Bloody Disgusting:  ‘Salem’s Lot’ – Watch the Trailer for Max’s Stephen King Horror Movie Flickering Myth:  Sink your teeth into the trailer for Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot Rue Morgue:  EXCLUSIVE COMMENTS: The Cast of Gary Dauberman’s long-awaited “SALEM’S LOT” Talk Changes And Chemistry FANGORIA:  Interview: The Cast Talks Playing In SALEM’S LOT, Vamping Out And More     Read the full article

[poltergeistbook]

"LOOK AT ME TEACHER!"

Remembering actor Geoffrey Lewis on his birthday. Born July 31, 1935. Lewis appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He often portrayed villains or quirky characters, and he memorably played Mike Ryerson in Tobe Hooper’s TV mini series Salems Lot.

[halflingkima]

as much as tariq is like. the sitcom trope of useless flop (essentially used as a sponge for conflict consequences), i love what they've done with the trope.

idk if it's a catalogued trope or what it's actually called, but it seems every sitcom has a recurring minor character that serves as a hate sink. it's this pathetic little man (gender neutral) that you're intended to (at least) dislike that soaks up the unavoidable consequences of sitcom hijinks. youre intentionally set up/trained to have low empathy for them, so when actually bad things happen to them specifically, it doesn't truly break the tone of the sitcom.

[[for example, glee had a full b-cast of these characters in s1, but responded (imo wisely & genuinely) to criticisms, and dumped them by mid-s2; s1 was the rachel/finn/quinn & will/emma & kurt/mercedes show, leaving not just caricatures like sandy and terri as these hate-sinks, but effectively everyone else in glee as well. by effectively dumping characters like ken tanaka and sandy ryerson and fleshing out characters like mike, brittany, and even terri, they lost these hate-sinks, leading – arguably – to a teen audience (with more rudimentary media comprehension) to confuse the show's genre]]

the mcpoyles in iasip are the most egregious example of this trope, because the show is satirizing it, as it does with the whole genre – the main characters are already bad enough (and not immune to Narrative), the audience doesn't really need this hate sink so it feels extra absurd. but parks & rec does it, the good place does it, b99 does it, himym does it, crazy ex girlfriend does it. Every show has its own flavor, but it's there. So when someone needs to do jail time, suffer an injury, have a bad breakup, whatever, we can point and laugh and move on instead of making a whole story beat about it.

i usually hate it and grit my teeth until the character's gone, but i'm finding that's not the case with tariq. in s1 he was more typically the hate-sink, as an obvious obstruction to the main romance, a direct obstacle to all of the main character's goals, actively making situations worse – resulting in the "please leave and never come back feelings" and the relief when he leaves the show. [[idr if he's in s2 lmfao]] But I like that they a) didn't drag that out and b) have reintroduced him in a wholly different context and he's like. the sunshine version of this trope? he's like pathetic wet dog that needs to be contained for his own safety and more dumb as rocks golden retriever that can be easily corralled voluntarily

idk if i'm making this whole thing up – like maybe he'll get more character work or maybe he'll cause more problems, maybe he has a more significant narrative function (which many of these flop characters do) – but it's a pattern i see and i wanted to note it for myself.

[lewinblue]

Sunny my love I was gonna send this in earlier but I didn't want it to be so sudden (lol). I promised I'd send in more Salem's Lot headcannons and here they are.

-Mark Petrie and his gang of neighborhood goonies love to run wild all over the lot. They're literally the goonies and will refer to themselves as such and so won't their teachers. One of their antics that made you especially proud was when they tee-peed Richie Bodden's house after he was picking on a new kid at school. Ben gave Mark $20 for his allowance that week because Richie and his two hoodlum buddies broke the living room window with a rock (Parkins let the stupid bully absolutely HAVE IT when he walked out the door that morning).

-Which then led to the little goonies inciting the great neighborhood rock war two weeks after school started. Mark came home with his glasses broken but the rest of the coven didn't bat an eyelash.

-Mike Ryerson's wife, Lucy, is from Tennessee and oh the duality of this woman. On the one hand she is definitely a well brought up southern girl but she is not afraid to stake a bloodsucker when the need arises. Her grandma was the head of a coven that consisted mainly of Irish, Black, Cherokee and Muskogee-Creek members in its early days and they all passed their knowledge down to Lucy.

-Hank Peters and Royal Snow are the MASTERS at booby traps. These two idjits will hide in the trees while Nolly Gardiner lures whatever creature is bound for it into the trap and it never fails.

-You guys always get the super advanced copies of Ben's books and you and the whole house cannot stop reading them for the life of you. He loves to write about you guys, but especially you and him.

-You and Ben once went to the drive-in on date night to go and see a reshowing of Young Frankenstein and you were both making out so hard that you ended up recreating Madeline Kahn's operatic orgasm not once, but twice (the other was at home on a super chilly night). Mrs. Curless was being extra nosey when everyone was on the porch for breakfast the next day and Randy suddenly blurted out that "Daddy made mommy sing last night!". Father Callahan spit his coffee out right over the porch rail and it went all over Mrs. Curless who immediately turned and walked away.

-You guys have snuck off so many times especially on a hunt and come back covered in hickeys. Ben's always guilty of having hickeys on his chest and when he couldn't button his shirt back up quick enough everybody just rolled their eyes and laughed.

-He especially loves it when he's writing and you come over to kiss his cheek but your hand dips into his button down to play with his tit. He always has to choke back a moan when your fingertips gently brush against his nip because he has no idea who's gonna walk through the door.

-You guys adopted a stray cat that Father Callahan had been feeding for about a week. He was a black cat with a little white mark on the top of his head and Randy named him "Oreo." Turns out Oreo also had a mate and lo and behold, when you guys woke up, there was a litter of kittens in their basket.

-Oreo loves to curl himself in Ben's lap when he writes but Ben gets a little freaked out when Oreo starts making biscuits on his thighs because the cat is super close to his junk. You laughed when you heard him yell "Darlin! The cat's dangerously close to my schwantz again!"

There’s a chill in the air and I’m counting down the days for the movie to be released. It’s like I’m running a marathon and these headcannons are Gatorade to keep me going.

I’m now picturing everyone having a little boo club with ben’s books and he doesn’t know and walking in on it one day. He looks surprised and a little embarrassed but no one has any shame