#moments before disaster when Klein suddenly comes between them

[wapdyn]

"You kept ignoring me, so I thought you were having trouble telling me apart from the flowers because of my beauty. You can hardly tell us apart, no?”

Latil stepping on his feet LOL 😂

Not him pretending to be hurt 💀

[sweetrosetta-martin]

Beatle tag (cause why not ✌💗) 

I’m new to this fandom online, so what best way to present myself but doing this (plz don't kill me guys I come in peace).

 But I do have to give an special to @sgt-revolver cause thanks to their post I decided to do it. 

How long have you been a fan ?: About two years if I’m not wrong, but god it has been two intense ones. Long story short, this band never was part of my life (grew up in a different culture) until the day I was reading some fanfiction in AO3 and stumbled across one about them. I then found out they were the guys behind “Let it be” and “Here comes the sun” so I decided do dig even deeper..... (Now I’m here simping and crying to their music at 2am) 🙃

 Favorite Beatle: Used to be Paul (man got a charm) but when I better discovered George as a hole human being, and not only a Beatle, I went 💥. Tho, sometimes I do get frustrated with him and stay on John’s side cause he was lowkey relatable and a big bi-disaster mood. (I suddenly feel bad for Rings.... srry bro ) 

Favorite era for music: At the beginning I didn't like the mop top era and practically only listened from Help! to then end, but now I appreciate each period as a part of the band’s musical history and can’t help to fangirl to most songs. (Tho I’ll always have a soft spot for 1966)

Favorite era for lewks: Each Beatles had its own I think. Ringo as a teddy boy (he looks like the bad boy of your dreams), George in 65` (longer hair but not to long and just overlay hotness) and Paul/John in 66`. (The perfect balance between early and late looks)

Favorite song: Guess it depends on my mood, but it’s surely a tight between “Strawberry fields forever”, “Happiness is a warm gun”, “Lovely Rita” “While my guitar gently weeps”, “Don't bother me” and “Across the universe”. (This is such an unfair question xd)

Favorite album: Honestly I just can’t decide.. Its prob either “The Beatles (aka white album)”, “With the Beatles” or “Revolver” 

Unpopular/Controversial Beatles opinion: “Revolution 9″ is not an unlistenable song and has an actual artistic value. I mean, I don’t think is a song meant to be listened during a car ride, but I do think it encapsulates pretty well the chaotic and changing vibe of the late 60s. This song makes you feel unwell because it’s meant to. Despite that, I do believe it should not have been included on the album, but rather as a John/Yoko project. (Ik Geo had a input though)

A song everyone loves but you dislike: Never was the biggest fan of “Come together” or “With a little help from my friends”. They are not necessarily bad, but rather average for me

A song everyone dislikes but you love: “Run for your life”... I know the lyrics are quite nasty but its so catchy and I love George’s guitar in it. I also really like “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”, but I don’t know if it really is that unpopular among people

Your fantasy involving The Beatles: The PG one or the ??.. 

JK, but I would have love to meet them during their cavern/casbah days. Like about 1961, just to chat with them about rock n roll and even jam some songs. (Even if I’m not sure that I would love to do that as a girl or a guy). And I sincerely wish I could just have some deep conversations with George and John while we share a joint . I just wish I could have known them better... 

Tell us about the moment you knew you were a fan: When returning home after a long school day I decided to look after some live material (At the time I only knew like 4 songs). I put YouTube on my tv, and found “She loves you” . I was not the same girl after watching that video. If I could explain how I suddenly felt so much joy and excitement looking at them that I even started singing and dancing. The rest is history 😉

Did you ever have a genuine ‘The Beatles suck !’ phase before becoming a fan?: Because their music was not around me 24/7 growing up, I never got fed up with their music. For me almost everything was new and interesting, so I never had a hater phase 

Favorite Beatle’s book: Have not read any for the moment, but I’m dying to buy Cynthia’s and May’s books. (Also the autobiography “I me mine” by George) 

Thoughts on the old generation of fans: Even if the few experiences I’ve had with them have not been good, I know most of them are chill people. I also love some podcasts made by first or second gen fans. The only thing that I dislike, is the average boomer who will claim they know more than you cause they were alive at the time, even if the only song they know its “Hey Jude” . (Or those who treat John as a saint, and blame the hole break-up on Paul... smh)

If Hollywood were to make a high budget Beatles biopic, what is one thing you desperately hope they include?: I wish they wont do it (We already got enough movies), but if they do something, it would be better if it was a series and not a film. If it had to happen, they better not forget how young the guys really were and how they were actual people. I know they were ground-breaking in so many ways, but they were also human beings with many defaults and even a bit naïve in some aspects. If you only give me a wife-beater (nasty) John, delicate flower Paul, silent George and dumb Ringo, the cartoon series has done a better job than you. 

Do you read/write fanfic: One word.... Yes... *Hides her unfinished drafts*

Are you the only one in your family/friend group to enjoy them?: Sadly yes. I have to force my dad to play some Beatle music while driving cause most of the music he plays is raegetton, and even if I’m proud of my Latino roots.. I’ll do salsa or merengue anytime but not some Bad Bunny ok. 

Are you a shipper?:  Yup

Favorite movie starring/made by them?: Help!.. I mean I also love AHDN, but it’s just so funny to see them run around being high af as they play music despite Ringo being in mortal danger. (Also the visuals we get each song just give me such a MTV vibe. Its genuinely beautiful)

Do you believe in McLennon?: *smirks at the camera*

General opinions on McLennon?: Oh boy. The Lennon/McCartney relationship is one that seems out of my grandma telenovelas. From Paris to the breakup, their story is one of up and downs, but they never really stopped loving each other. Not even death could stop their link as Paul still dreams of him and thinks about John when composing songs. I understand that not everyone may be convinced that something really happened, but I think we all should be open to the possibility. 

If you got to change ONE thing about their history, what would be and why?: Brian’s death. The beginning of the end was the moment he passed away. With Brian the band would still have broke up (All things must pass, even the good ones), but it would have been less messed up. No Paul trying to take the lead a bit too much, Apple Corps probably being better handled and no Allen Klein messing up everything. (And probably no Yoko in the studio but that may be a bit of a stretch) 

What song has the best vocals?: As a group, “Because” it’s probably the one. Such a simple, yet perfectly well put vocals. The peak of their talent for harmonizing in my opinion. In another side “Oh Darling!” is prob Paul best and John’s voice in “This Boy” always get me

What song do you feel had no effort put into it?: Prob an unpopular opinion but “Eight Days a Week” is such a basic song. It’s not innovative, it just uses the formula, and I feel like around this time the guys were kind of tired and just fabricated the song to be a single. It simply not feels genuine, and for me it shows the biggest problem from the “Beatles for Sale” era. 

What is a well talked moment in Beatles history you genuinely believe to be false?: The way Yoko met John. The most known story is that they met each other at a Yoko art gallery, but many sources (such a Cynthia or Brian personal assistant) tell us a complete different truth. I do believe she knew the band, stalked John and force herself into his life, despite of the romantic tale she keeps repeating. 

What is something you KNOW to be true, but often gets erased in their history: John. So many things about John. Many see him as only a funny character and ignore so many cues that he was a man struggling with his own self esteem to the point of having eating disorders. Not forgetting his fluid sexuality, the fact that many think that as house husband all his problems went away or that he was a wife beater. John was more than the “Imagine” martyr or  monster so many people (even some fans) make out of him.

Least favorite look from a Beatle(s): Ringo in the Help! movie. Horrible mushroom hair 😂

Favorite look from a Beatle(s):  George Harrison in the “Hey Bulldog”/”Lady Madonna” videoclip. (I also want that cherry SG Standard so bad omg)

I really don’t know how many others have done it but here are my tags 

@rocknroll-imagines @moreofthatdrowse @cultofbeatle @joan-deserved-the-silver-hammer

Thanks a lot guys !! ❤✌🥦🐘🎵😎

[lynchgirl90]

In Praise of Laura Dern: TV's MVP of 2017

From #BigLittleLies to #TwinPeaks, 2017 truly was the year of the Dernassaince

In a year in which one man's Twitter account became the world's barometer of international crisis, it can be difficult to find things upon which we can all agree. However, here's one truth that seems irrefutable across party lines: Laura Dern makes everything better. Whether it's her broad comedy in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, her refashioning of an iconic character in Twin Peaks: The Return, or her award-winning work on Big Little Lies, her year was as varied as it was memorable. And that's not even including the fact that she was in a little movie called Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Sure, 1993 was a strong Dern year – with Jurassic Park and A Perfect World – and we could talk about her underrated work on Enlightened for hours, but 2017 truly was the Dernassaince.

Appearing on no less than five programs this year, she was 2017’s clear television MVP, displaying her stunning range and uncanny ability to ground even the most atypical narratives. But make no mistake – Dern's TV ascendance in 2017 is about quality far more than quantity. We may have witnessed the best year of this Oscar nominee and Emmy winner’s career, and we’d be blessed if she even comes close to repeating it in 2018.

Was there a more heart-stopping moment in television this year than when Albert finally found the legendary Diane on Twin Peaks: The Return, and it turned out the woman Agent Cooper had been talking to since 1990 was actually Laura Dern?

All preconceptions fans had about the identity of Cooper's unseen assistant from the original series were shattered. In every moment Kyle MacLachlan rambled into his Dictaphone, he had been talking to his co-star from Blue Velvet all along. Try watching the original series now without immediately picturing Dern on the other side of that conversation – it's impossible. And by putting Dern in Diane’s unforgettable outfits, Lynch drew a throughline from his 1986 masterpiece through Wild at Heart and even Inland Empire, tying the entire project even more intrinsically to everything he's done before. But this was no mere casting stunt. Dern served a greater purpose, tying us to the history of Twin Peaks, her work with David Lynch, and her brilliant take on this traumatized character.

On a show that often spun off into the surreal, Laura Dern was a grounding, relatable force. Her Diane would light a cigarette and take a drag before saying a word, cynically assessing the situation around her with every puff. And her dark past with Cooper (whose evil doppelganger raped Diane) just enhanced how this new series amplified the malevolence around the entire history of Twin Peaks. David Lynch often seemed to be saying with The Return, “All of this is much darker than you remember,” and Dern called out our rose-colored nostalgia through the pessimism that pervaded Diane, even the way she carefully spoke and moved. Laura Dern didn’t have as many scenes as Kyle MacLachlan or Naomi Watts, but it’s hard to imagine Twin Peaks: The Return – the best show of 2017 – without her.

That's actually true for every time Dern appeared on television in 2017. It's cliched to call such an accomplished performer a scene-stealer, but Dern makes roles so completely her own that you can't imagine anyone else in the part. Take, for example, her work on the new season of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she again finds the balance between surreal comedy and the truth of her character.

Appearing in just one episode, Dern plays Wendy Hebert, a woman who comes to Kimmy with divorce papers because she’s planning to marry Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm), the religious zealot who imprisoned Kimmy for years. Wendy could have been a babbling lunatic, but Dern finds gravity even in someone willing to marry a maniac. She conveys a special kind of delusion, one that stems from her character's need to hold on to anyone who sees value in her. It's so memorable that she almost makes us want to watch a spin-off with her and Hamm.

She brought a completely different energy to an episode of Fox's underrated The Last Man on Earth and did solid voice work on Netflix's F is For Family. Together, those three comedies display the range of the year she had, especially when placed alongside Twin Peaks: The Return and her award-winning work in HBO's Big Little Lies.

As Renata Klein on the HBO hit, Dern serves several different purposes, and she knows how to lean into all of them as an actress. First, she's an instigator. The premiere sets her up as a villain, someone who pushes the buttons of the two characters clearly designed as our heroines, Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon) and Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley). Renata initially appears to be little more than an overcompensating, overprotective mother who’s merely going to be the catalyst to the action of the story – someone to accuse Ziggy of bullying or meddle in other places she doesn’t belong. But, even from the beginning, viewers know there must be more to this character than a mere supporting villain. It's Laura Dern! There has to be.

And there is. In the way she always seems to, Dern makes Klein absolutely essential to the overall picture of Big Little Lies. Not only is her character involved in nearly every aspect of the unfolding mystery – the bullying, the Avenue Q disaster, the party scenes – but she also becomes a thematic tentpole of the series. Renata Klein is often angry, but Dern never plays that anger in a traditional "scorned housewife" way. She recognizes that Renata is the kind of person who has found vast success in her life but can't figure out why that success isn't making her happier or providing a greater sense of comfort and justice.

The world to Renata is unfair. It's unfair that her daughter gets bullied. It's unfair that Chloe won't come to Amabella’s birthday party. It's unfair that people see her as the bad guy. She has a line near the end, where she says, "You think you're at wit's end? My daughter is the one getting hurt and I can't stop it." In that moment, you suddenly see Renata Klein in a whole new light. She can be the smartest, most successful person in the room, but she can't stop her daughter from experiencing pain. That's unfair. Dern beautifully conveys the crippling frustration of a control freak being confronted with the harsh fact that they can’t fix everything. Whether she was laying herself emotionally bare about her past with Agent Cooper, begging a mom to let her daughter come to a birthday party, or finding hilarious truths in a madman's haiku, Laura Dern never faltered in 2017. Every decision she made felt not only like the exact right choice, but also like one that no other actor could have done the same way. Her output this year wasn't just a creative peak in a career filled with highlights. It was a kindness for the entire medium – televised comfort food for 2017's weary soul. More than anything, her performances finally gave us a reason to stop worrying for a bit, as we glanced at the screen and thought, "Oh, look, it's Laura Dern. Maybe everything really will be OK after all."

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[thereal-worldscollide-blog]

Chapter One

I have no idea how long I sat there with her. All I know is that I was there long enough to feel all of the warmth seep from her corpse. Even the blood dripping down her chest had started to solidify as it cooled.

Right after I felt the last breath leave her body, I’d buried my face in the crook of her neck and cried until my throat was raw. She meant everything to me. Until I met her, I never thought I was capable of such love and trust. I thought I was destined to hide in the shadows and never grow close to anyone. Then this beautiful young woman came along. She taught me how to relax and have fun, not to mention how to love and be loved. She never once saw me as the monster I saw myself as. Everything about her made it so hard to not fall in love with her.

I start to sob again, burying my face in her shoulder. Her limp body folds in against me the tighter I hug her. I remember all too clearly the day I failed her. The day she came home with a deep, bloody bite in her shoulder. She was so strong, not even crying when I poured peroxide into the bite and stitched it closed. Instead she was consoling me. I was panicking and apologizing and acting like a total mess. I was supposed to protect her from this kind of thing. It was my fault she got into this whole supernatural mess to begin with.

You’re a fool for thinking this would work out in the first place. You know you’re a freak, you know you draw bad things to you. You had to have known this would eventually happen. If you had just-

My self loathing is cut off by knocking from downstairs. I raise my head slowly, swollen eyes narrowed to slits. Whoever the fuck that is, they must have a death wish. I mean who comes to cabin in the middle of nowhere at nearly 1am? I completely rule a lost hiker out of the list of possibilities when another, more urgent, knock comes from the door. Hunter. I connect the dots just in time to hear the front door slam against the wall as it’s forced open. Fury starts to swallow up my inner pain. How dare they come here? Looking for my Sara. I very, very slowly get up and gently ease Sara’s body on the bed. Then pull the knife out of her chest. My whole body involuntarily grimaces.

“Hello?” A man’s voice calls from downstairs.

“This place is a wreck.” Another voice mutters.

Perfect. Two hunters. As if it wasn’t bad enough that I just killed the only person I loved in this fucked up world, now I have to deal with two cocky assholes who think they’re just going to barge in and kill my girlfriend.

I silently walk across the room, into the hallway, and head downstairs. Clutching the bloodied knife in one hand. When I reach the bottom step, I see two men heading into the kitchen. Just seeing them is enough to make my eyes flood with darkness. By the time I reach the entrance to the kitchen, they’ve both thoroughly searched the disaster. I plunge the knife deep into the island in the middle of the kitchen. They both whirl around, guns raised.

“Well hello to you too.” I spit sarcastically. “Is that any way to greet someone in their own home? Anyways, the werewolf is dead, so kindly get the hell out.”

“A demon killing other monsters? That’s a new one, even for us.” The shorter of the two finally says after a brief moment of silence. He has brilliant green eyes and short, sandy hair. His tone is joking, but the expression on his face says otherwise.

“You’re half right pretty boy. But that doesn’t matter. You were here for the werewolf right? Yeah, well she’s dead, so you need to leave.” I lean against the island on my forearms, their eyes never leaving me.

“Half right?” The taller one asks. He’s got longer brown hair and hazel eyes.

“Demon or not, we can’t just leave and let you off the hook that easily.” The shorter one speaks with force behind his voice.

“And why’s that?” I cock my head to the side. “Concerned I might be a threat to society? Not that I am, but it wouldn’t matter anyways. I’m pretty much indestructible.” I smile, though it doesn’t reach my eyes. “So I’m gonna give you two one chance to run on back to your Calvin Klein photo shoot so I can go deal with my dead girlfriend.”

A muscle tics in the blonde’s jaw, so naturally I chuckle and continue. “Awww, am I making you mad? I am so very sorry.” My sarcasm only seems to be pissing them off more, but in this moment, nothing matters.

The tall hunter doesn’t take the bait. “Girlfriend? You knew her personally then?” I roll my eyes. “Yes sasquatch. I knew her personally. Now will you please leave before I have to make you.” It’s not really a question. More of a demand or a threat.

“Sam we’re supposed to question the victim of the monster before the monster is dead. The monster is dead and this clearly isn’t a victim. So what are you doing? Trying to make a new demon friend?” The blond speaks up again, sounding more agitated now.

    I sigh deeply and stand upright. “I’ll be going now. I have more important shit to deal with. You two know your way out.”

    As soon as I move, they jump back to their stiff, ready-to-shoot positions. Which I ignore and whirl around to head back to the stairway. A gun fires and I feel a mild pain tear through my back and out my chest. I look down at the bleeding bullet hole in my chest, slowly looking up and turning back around.

    “Are you always so stupid?” My irises, which had been previously drowned in black, starting to glow bright, sapphire blue. Pupils solid white. “You have no clue what you’re fucking with, and even if I was a demon, what the hell did you expect a gun to do?”

    The pair actually looks shocked that nothing happened. Even more so that my eyes had changed. “Th- they’re special bullets. For demons..” The tall one -Sam- sputters, eyes locked on mine.

    “Th- th- th- speak clearly or shut up.” I snap. “I asked you nicely to leave. Now I guess I’ll just have to make you.”

    More bullets tear through my clothes and burrow into my flesh when I start towards them. They begin to back up, tripping over debris on the floor. I reach the shorter one first, reaching out quickly and grabbing a handful of his jacket. I open my mouth to speak, but instead cough up a mouthful of blood. A searing pain suddenly blossoming in my stomach. I shove the man away and tear out the demon blade embedded in my gut.

    “Did you really just stab me with this shit?” I look between the man and the blade. “You bastard, that tickled.” I chuckle and toss the blade to the side. “Wanna try an angel blade?  I’ll even let you try it.”

    They’re both staring at me with disbelief in their eyes. Almost a hint of fear. Almost. I speak again, “You hate not knowing what I am and how to kill me, don’t you?” I cross my arms over my chest, my eyes fading back to their normal dark blue. “Will you two please leave now? You’ve exhausted your options already.”

    “I don’t understand, your eyes, they-” Sam is cut off by the other man.

    “They looked like a demon’s, and an angel’s.” He says curtly.

    “No shit,” I reply. “I know what they look like. And if you hunters would take two seconds to step out of your little box of what you think things should and shouldn’t be, you’d understand a lot more about this world.”

    “So what exactly are you?” Sam asks.

    “You two ask too many questions.” I sigh and cross my arms over my chest. “I’ll tell you, but that doesn’t change things. You still can’t kill me. And you still need to leave. You’re both already lucky I have something against killing innocents, or you would have been dead the second you walked through the door. It’s simple, really. I’m a hybrid.”