#sean townsend

[theholmwoodfoundation]

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION -EPISODE ONE AND KICKSTARTER

It's finally here! Please enjoy Episode One of the Holmwood Foundation, Across The Moors.

CW: swearing, threat, static, brief emergency sirens, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, and depictions of violence.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY, APPLE PODCASTS, OR AT THE ACAST LINK BELOW:

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.

If you enjoy this episode and want to hear more, please consider supporting our Kickstarter to fund the rest of Season One. We need £23,000 to make the rest of the season a reality. Tiers start from just £5, and we're offering a range of exciting tier rewards for our backers!

Visit Our Official website for transcripts and Cast and Crew information: HERE

[siremasterlawrence]

Puppeteering My Slave

Four best friends live in this beautiful plush ole fashion mansion pervading with modern technology they invite me to their home for a Hypnosis session.

Apparently, they all have anger issues that have them dealing with the results of their actions actually and it is so fucking weird I mean.

My cab arrives at the gates they open up in a big huff shaking as the driver parks by the front pond, I pay the guy off then exit the car and head for the door.

The door swings open up with a whoosh of air flowing through the air conditioner is on extremely loud and the mansion is fucking cold.

He guides me to the living room offering me a drink then sits down with this evil glare aimed at me like a laser ready to shoot if j move.

He sighs slamming his fist he demands for us to commence then crosses his arms in an annoyance facial expression on his face it to idiotic.

Rolling my eyes I place a giant black back pack the unzip it reaching for the interesting looking objects and place it on the glass table.

James is having a what the fuck moment at the sight of this strange object that he gives a slowly flick as the pendulum rotates side to side.

Instantly his eyes fall from mine focusing on to the pendulum going back and forth the light hits the glass casting a strange shadow over him.

I enjoy all of this yawning a bit my arms are on full strength outstretching into the air in a row of succession and he is sock swept into the darkness.

I rise to my feet standing over him letting the trance be induced I help him to visualize his own submissive plane an exact copy of his living room.

Upon my instructions James stands on top of the staircase as he takes a few steps down counting away to his own self destructive demise.

The projection of his mind swirls from his eyes on to the walls emitting a black and white spiral spinning widely out of control before him.

He is soon fraught in a sea of trouble that holds him back as he struggles to even try to escape and calling him to relinquish all control.

A door fall from the ceiling landing in front of him he steps down grabbing the handle in his palms he twist the knob then walks in to the room.

The door closes behind him ceiling shut in his own mind I can see transformation upon him and I snap my fingers as his body falls in.

Falling forward his body laying on his lap his head and legs drips down hitting the floor as I consume him completely and I am in charge.

Laughing bit I let my echoes go through the air swirling as it hit the wall bouncing across the world and it hits his head hard as he is screaming.

“How can I help you? What is your issue?”

“You know the deal anger management”

“Ok then! So Sam take a gander at this.”

“What in the sweet Jesus is that?”

“It’s called a metronome now shut the fuck.”

“Excuse me!”

“Your attention span is fading and all you can see is the pendulum.”

“The room vanishes”

“Your mind goes blank”

“Nothing else matters”

“I am your life “

“I am your everything “

“You are lost in sweet surrender “

“Give me all else “

“I am your world and existence “

“Your body collapses “

“Eyes hyper focused “

“Mind open only to me”

“What do you want?”

“STOP”

“SCREAM”

“Look in the mirror”

“Who the hell is that?”

“You are evolving”

“Changing a true transformation “

“You have no will of your own “

“You can hear me”

“My voice is strong”

“Resonating deep”

“Deeper then ever”

“Fuck the old you”

“The old me”

“SAY IT”

“Fuck the old me”

“You love your Master”

“I love your Master”

“Stare into the mirror”

“Hold onto the mirror”

“Take a deep dive”

“Fall into the mirror”

“Drop in to the pit of no return”

“It’s a torment of circus”

“He breakthrough “

“Shattering glass”

“Shards sparkling”

“Crashing on him”

“All disappears”

“A new man will be born”

“How do you feel?”

“At peace “

“Quiet”

“Nothingness”

“Succumb to me”

“I am all yours “

“Master Lawrence is that you ?”

“I am here “

“May I sit with you?”

“You are different “

“All due to you “

“Obviously! I am King”

“Address me as Master”

“Sir Yes Master Sir”

“Kneel at my feet”

“Get in between my legs “

“I love your touch”

“The ultimate caress”

“My touch is eternal”

“I am your light”

“I burn eternally”

“Inside your mind”

“You are buried under it all”

“Mwahahahahaha! No escape “

“I desire your life”

“Your body “

“My will is your will”

“You are my puppet “

“I am under your thrall “

“Swoop me up in your arms”

“Tell me “

“Tell you what?”

“How you feel?”

“Do you love me?”

“I feel wonderful “

“I love you “

“How much?”

“With all my soul?”

“Yes “

“I love you too”

“Thank you “

“Babe”

“Master come on”

“Take a break”

“Get over here”

The end

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Figs Sean Townsend, 2023 #Art

[tspoe-pods]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Collect some of the greatest actors of the day to play some of the greatest literary characters of all time.. What could go wrong? #PodNation #LXG #Podcast #SeanConnery #Adventure #Fantasy #SteamPunk

Collect some of the greatest actors of the day to play some of the greatest literary characters of all time… What could go wrong? Promo: Hammerama (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-turek) Please click, follow, rate and review! https://linktr.ee/TSPandOE_Podcasts

[aliciameade]

Darkness at Dawn - Ch. 1

Title: Darkness at Dawn Author: aliciameade Rating: M/E Pairing: Stephanie Smothers/Emily Nelson Summary: Even Bonnie & Clyde met their fate eventually.

Set five years after "Baby."

Also on AO3

“Smooch, honey, can you get the door?”

“Bro, stop calling me that!”

“Letting him answer the door unsupervised? What if it’s a stranger here to abduct him?” Emily whispers in her ear conspiratorially. She pitches her voice toward the living room where their messy-haired pre-teen sons have been playing Fortnite for the past hour. “Connor, she’ll stop calling you ‘Smooch’ if you stop calling us ‘bro’!”

They’re making dinner—well, Stephanie is making dinner; Emily is observing over a shared martini. “He’s twelve and we know everyone in this village. It’s probably just Helen dropping off tomatoes from her garden. She mentioned she’d be stopping by soon.”

Her response surprises even herself. She’s spent the better part of the past six years working on her anxiety and propensity to helicopter-parent her children. Life is slow in Santorini. Stephanie—Alyson Reid, as the town knows her—is the proud owner of the bakery she began working part-time after she got a new identity and flew halfway around the world from Connecticut to start a new life in Greece.

After she killed her wife’s troubled, secret twin sister and set up Emily’s then-husband Sean for the murder of his wife. It had been surprisingly easy—the framing, not the killing. She’d sown a few seeds of suspicion with the detective working the case. Emily confided that he had been cheating. Emily asked for a divorce. Sean had a dark side, and Emily was afraid of him. So afraid that Emily had signed over her assets to her best friend Stephanie Smothers to ensure her son Nicky would be taken care of should anything ever happen to her. A pillar of Warfield, Stephanie’s testimony at Sean’s trial was the final nail in their old lives’ coffins.

She and Emily just celebrated their third wedding anniversary a few weeks ago. They’d gotten married on the coast of the island of Lesbos, an idea Emily had come up with over a second bottle of wine that had made herself laugh so much that Stephanie had no choice but to agree. They’d sailed there as a family, something they were both proud of being able to do on their own. They took their vows at sunset, the only guests were their sons and two people Emily had bribed with a hundred Euros each to be their witnesses, and they’d found the officiant by asking around.

After their honeymoon in Portugal, Stephanie changed the name on her passport for the third time in her life: first from her maiden name to Stephanie Smothers, to Alyson Barrett, and finally to Alyson Reid, Dillon Reid’s new wife. Dillon Reid, formerly known as Emily Nelson, formerly known as Claudia, formerly known as Hope McLanden. Brothers Connor and Devon Reid, formerly known as Miles Smothers and Nicky Townsend.

They’ve lived a dozen lives.

The boys don’t remember much about their past, and they’ve forgotten their old names. Stephanie still calls her son ‘Smooch’ because that’s never had to change. She didn’t have to abandon Smooch.

She and Emily tend to stick to pet names most of the time as well; it’s easier that way. More natural, at least when they’re around other people.

Behind closed doors, in the privacy of their home, away from even their children, an old name might slip out now and then, especially during a thoughtless moment brought on by passion.

Though Emily’s rarely called her anything more than ‘Baby’ since the day they met.

“Proud of you for taking off the training wheels.” She feels Emily’s hand catch her chin and turn her face to kiss her soundly despite Stephanie actively chopping a zucchini.

She smiles into the kiss and it makes the part of her still a bit tender from their morning start to ache. “What time’s your game tomorrow?” she asks when they part.

Dillon Reid is the head coach of the secondary school’s boys’ soccer—football—team. She’s always been good at getting men of all ages to do what she says. 

“9:30, so I’ll probably be gone before you’re awake. Warm-up’s at 8:00.”

Tomorrow is Saturday and Stephanie’s only day off from the bakery. Thankfully, as the boss, she doesn’t have to be there before dawn like her employees need to be to bake off the day’s inventory, but she makes a point to be on-site almost every day. She loves her team and she loves her customers, and she’s gotten pretty darn good at speaking Greek with the immersion in the culture.

“Okay, we’ll meet you there. Wanna go to Apollo’s afterward for lunch?”

Emily groans. “That place is such a tourist trap. I don’t know why you love it so much.”

“Because it’s the only place on this island that knows how to make an American cheeseburger. Pleeeeease?” she pouts, knowing she’ll get her way.

“Fine,” Emily says with an eye roll. “I’m getting onion rings.”

“Uh, Mom?” Connor’s voice is strained as it floats through the living room to the kitchen and Stephanie drops the knife onto the cutting board. “Mom!”

“What? What is it?” she says, rushing into the other room. She hears Emily follow and before she’s finished processing the two men wearing dark suits standing in their doorway, her son looking back at her, eyes wide, Emily’s stepped in front of her.

“Emily Nelson?” the man asks.

Emily doesn’t respond. The arm she’s wrapped around Stephanie in a reverse embrace tightens.

“Stephanie Smothers?”

“Bro, what?” Devon says from the floor where he is still playing their video game. “You got the wrong house.”

“Devon,” Emily admonishes.

Stephanie’s heart is in her throat. She feels she might pass out and leans into Emily’s strong frame, wrapping her arms around her waist. She breathes in her perfume. She thinks about the game they’re going to miss tomorrow. About Emily and their sons proposing to her in the very spot they’re standing now asking her to be a family. How they thought they had been so careful.

“Boys, I need you to go upstairs, please,” she says urgently, hoping the fear she’s feeling isn’t as evident in her voice as it sounds to herself. She hears Devon pause the video game and the shuffling of the boys grabbing their phones and chargers and has an even worse realization than she’d already had.

She steps out from behind Emily just in time for Connor—forever her little curly-haired Miles—to pass and she wraps him in a hug that makes him groan and protest until he seems to understand something serious is going on and he hugs her back. He’s as tall as she is now. “Listen to me, sweetheart,” she whispers in his ear. “You know the safe in my closet?” She feels him nod. “The combination is your birthday. There’s a red envelope inside. Call Helen. Ask her to come over. Give her the envelope. Do you understand?”

“Yeah. What’s going on?”

“I’ll explain when I can. Everything I did, I did so we could be happy. Remember that I love you.” She kisses his forehead and chokes back a sob before he can notice the tears in her eyes. “Upstairs.”

She can hear Emily whispering to Devon as well and then the boys stop and switch to hug their other mother, and they disappear upstairs.

She and Emily are now alone in their living room, two men at the open door, each holding a thick packet of folded paperwork.

“I’m Detective Inspector William Gareau. This is Sergeant Mark Gibson. We are agents of INTERPOL. Do you know why we’re here?”

Emily’s hand intertwines with Stephanie’s. Neither responds.

The men step forward, crossing the threshold into their home, their sanctuary, and that’s when Stephanie realizes it’s not just two men—half a dozen black-uniformed officers follow, flooding into the house and flanking them, surrounding them. Nowhere to go.

The Detective Inspector unfolds the papers in his hand. The officers in the room move. She’s pulled away from Emily, fingers slipping out of her grip as her hands are pulled behind her back. As cold steel clicks around her wrists.

“Stephanie Ann Smothers and Emily Claudia Nelson: I'm arresting you for the murder of Faith Margaret McLanden, having taken place in the State of Connecticut, the country of the United States of America, insurance fraud, money laundering, kidnapping, conspiracy, perjury, and false identification. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand?”

She’s not sure she’s able to speak. She’s dizzy. The room is spinning.

“It’s going to be okay, baby,” is the last thing she hears before her ears start ringing and her world goes dark.

[katanadepapel]

Voice actors 🇺🇲 and 🇧🇷 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

💙LEONARDO💙

TMNT (1987)

🇺🇲Cam Clarke

🇧🇷Manolo Rey

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Mike Sinterniklaas

🇧🇷Mauro Eduardo Lima

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲Jason Biggs

(1°voice)

Dominic Catrambone

(2°voice)

Seth Green

(3°voice)

🇧🇷Antônio Akira

(1° voz)

Bruno Camargo

(2°voz)

ROTTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Ben Schwartz

🇧🇷Fabrício Rinaldi

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)

🇺🇲Nicolas Cantu

🇧🇷Rodrigo Ribeiro

💙

♥️ RAPHAEL♥️

TMNT (1987)

🇺🇲Rob Paulsen

(1°voice)

Thom Pinto

(2°voice)

Hal Rayle

(3°voice)

🇧🇷Marco Ribeiro

(1°voz)

Duda Ribeiro

(2°voz)

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Frank Frankson

🇧🇷Renato Soares

(1°voz)

Wendell Bezerra

(2°voz)

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲Sean Astin

🇧🇷Hermes Baroli

(1°voz)

Felipe Zilse

(2°voz)

ROTTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Omar Benson Miller

🇧🇷Glauco Marques

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)

🇺🇲Brady Noon

🇧🇷Victor Hugo Fernandes

♥️

💜 DONATELLO💜

TMNT (1987)

🇺🇲Barry Gordon

(1° voice)

Greg Berg

(2°voice)

🇧🇷Márcio Simões

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Sam Riegel

🇧🇷Márcio Araújo

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲Rob Paulsen

🇧🇷 Wendell Bezerra

ROTTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Josh Brener

🇧🇷Marco Aurélio Campos

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)

🇺🇲Micah Abbey

🇧🇷Arthur Carneiro

💜

🧡MICHELANGELO🧡

TMNT (1987)

🇺🇲Townsend Coleman

🇧🇷Marcelo Meirelles

(1° voz)

Mário Jorge Andrade

(2° voz)

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Wayne Grayson

🇧🇷Yuri Chesman

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲Greg Cipes

🇧🇷Daniel Figueira

ROTTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Brandon Mychal Smith

🇧🇷Caio Guarnieri

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)

🇺🇲Shamon Brown Jr.

🇧🇷Enzo Dannemann

🧡

💛APRIL O'NEIL 💛

TMNT (1987)

🇺🇲Renae Jacobs

🇧🇷Dolores Machado

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Veronica Taylor

🇧🇷Márcia Regina

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲Mae Whitman

🇧🇷Tatiane Keplmair

(1°voz)

Fernanda Bullara

(2°voz)

ROTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Kat Graham

🇧🇷Maíra Paris

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM (2023)

🇺🇲Ayo Edebiri

🇧🇷Any Gabrielly

💛

🤎 SPLINTER 🤎

TMNT 1987

🇺🇲Peter Renaday

(1°voice)

Townsend Coleman

(2°voice)

🇧🇷Dario Lourenço

(1°voz)

Miguel Rosenberg (2°voz)

Orlando Drummond

(3°voz)

TMNT (2003)

🇺🇲Darren Dunstan

🇧🇷Válter Santos

(1°voz)

Renato Márcio

(2°voz)

TMNT (2012)

🇺🇲 Hoon Lee

🇧🇷Nestor Chiesse

ROTTMNT (2018/2022)

🇺🇲Eric Bauza

🇧🇷Raul Rosa

TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM

(2023)

🇺🇲Jackie Chan

🇧🇷Tatá Guarnieri

🤎

[denimbex1986]

'...Maricel Pagulayan, a Fil-Am Visual Effects Producer, won an Emmy this year for the single episode in "Ripley" entitled "Ill Sommerso" on Netflix. Pagulayan is known for her work on "Valkyrie" (2008), "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004), and "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015)...

Congratulations on your Emmy win for "Ripley" on the "Ill Sommerso" episode! What is the significance of this win for you?

It's been a long journey on "Ripley." We shot at the end of COVID-19 in Italy starting in April 2021 as the world and industry were in the midst of tremendous change.

How did you get the gig on "Ripley"?

Line Producer, Clayton Townsend and I worked briefly on a budget for a Sony show. Then he reached out as he started prepping for "Ripley."

How was it working with filmmaker Steven Zaillian? Have you worked with him before?

I had not worked with Steve before, but I had heard so much about his work ethic and his previous shows as a writer, director and producer. Hard not to think of "Schindler's List." He's a good guy.

So, did you work in Italy as well?

Yes.

How was that experience and how long were you there?

May 2021 to March 2022. Lovely to work in Italy, it was a dream to work with an Italian crew in beautiful locations. VFX work on "Ripley" is what I call "invisible effects". The audience should not know we shot today for period 1960's and of course the water work in "Ill Sommerso."

What challenges did you encounter in doing the visual effects on this show considering that Zaillian wanted it in black and white?

We always knew black and white was Steve and Robert, DP's preference. We managed a dual color and B/W workflow. It's a much more complicated workflow from shoot to post final but very much worth it.

Did you get to meet the cast – Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning and Johnny Flynn? How were they? Any memorable experiences?

I worked with all the cast – every day. All the water work with Andrew and Johnny was memorable. Working in water is always a challenge. Dakota was a true professional...'

[thedreadpiratejames]

Murphy and his two youngest daughters were forced from their Southbridge home on Feb. 11, 2021, when constables showed up at their Townsend Street door and presented eviction documents that named a previous tenant, who was a woman. Murphy showed constables his lease, which he later shared with Delaware Online/The News Journal. The lease, which ran from Nov. 15, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021, was signed by the landlord, Kenneth Stanford, and Murphy.  A judge later confirmed Stanford's signature by matching it to other legal documents the landlord had signed.

The Murphys were forced to leave behind school laptops, an urn holding the ashes of Murphy's wife, who died in 2018, and several other belongings. Justice of the Peace Court Deputy Chief Magistrate Sean P. McCormick said during an emergency hearing on Feb. 18, 2021, after Murphy filed wrongful eviction motions, that Stanford likely perjured himself in court filings and went so far as to read the landlord his rights against self-incrimination after he said he "misrepresented" the facts to the court.

On Tuesday, Connolly dismissed the case. Among the reasons he gave for dismissing were: - As an arm of the state, Justice of the Peace Court is not subject to suit under the civil action for deprivation of rights section for either damages or equitable relief. - The plaintiffs cannot seek relief in this matter because they did not provide factual allegations that imply the defendants are engaged in ongoing violation of federal law. - Constables are entitled to administrative immunity when executing facially valid orders.

this is some serious bullshit

[ulkaralakbarova]

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house’s dark past. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Caroline Ellis: Kate Hudson Violet Devereaux: Gena Rowlands Luke Marshall: Peter Sarsgaard Ben Devereaux: John Hurt Jill: Joy Bryant Bayou Woman: Marion Zinser Mama Cynthia: Maxine Barnett Hallie: Fahnlohnee R. Harris Desk Nurse: Deneen Tyler C.N.A.: Ann Dalrymple Nurse Trula: Trula M. Marcus Madeleine Thorpe: Jen Apgar Robertson Thorpe: Thomas Uskali Grace Thorpe: Jamie Lee Redmon Martin Thorpe: Forrest Landis Nurse Audrey: Tonya Staten Creole Gas Station Owner: Isaach De Bankolé Creole Mother: Christa Thorne Papa Justify: Ronald McCall Mama Cecile: Jeryl Prescott Frail Customer: Lakrishi Kindred Luke’s Secretary: Sabah Paramedic: Joe Chrest Party Guest: David J. Curtis Party Guest: Tiffany Helland Party Guest: Brian Ruppert Film Crew: Producer: Stacey Sher Set Decoration: Beauchamp Fontaine Original Music Composer: Ed Shearmur Costume Design: Louise Frogley Producer: Iain Softley Director of Photography: Dan Mindel Art Direction: Drew Boughton Producer: Michael Shamberg Unit Production Manager: Clayton Townsend Casting: Ronna Kress Production Design: John Beard Producer: Daniel Bobker Editor: Joe Hutshing Writer: Ehren Kruger Costume Supervisor: Joyce Kogut Producer: Lorenzo P. Lampthwait Steadicam Operator: Colin Anderson Carpenter: Leo Lauricella Sound Mixer: Peter J. Devlin Set Production Intern: Hiro Taniguchi Key Hair Stylist: Susan Germaine Gaffer: Adam Harrison Sound Designer: Harry Cohen Standby Painter: Andrew P. Flores Location Manager: M. Gerard Sellers Production Supervisor: Gary R. Wordham Visual Effects Coordinator: Stephanie Pollard Greensman: Ronald S. Baratie Key Grip: Thomas Gibson Craft Service: Chris Winn Stunt Coordinator: Buddy Joe Hooker Lighting Technician: Greg Etheredge Supervising Sound Editor: Wylie Stateman Construction Foreman: Chuck Stringer Painter: Andrew M. Casbon III Stunts: Liisa Cohen Transportation Captain: Louis Dinson Scoring Mixer: Chris Fogel Video Assist Operator: Greg Mitchell Special Effects Supervisor: Jason Hamer Thanks: Michelle Guish Post Production Supervisor: Tania Blunden Stand In: Lexi Shoemaker Digital Compositors: Sean McPherson Art Department Coordinator: Stephanie Higgins Frey Makeup Artist: June Brickman Set Costumer: Laurel Frushour Set Dressing Artist: Dale E. Anderson Propmaker: William Davidson Rigging Gaffer: Martin Bosworth Production Manager: Kimberly Sylvester Music Supervisor: Sara Lord Leadman: Jason Bedig Leadman: Brad Bell Grip: Gordon Ard Production Intern: William Jackson Transportation Coordinator: Ed Arter Set Designer: Mick Cukurs First Assistant Camera: John T. Connor Visual Effects Supervisor: Karl Herbst Script Supervisor: Elizabeth Ludwick-Bax Best Boy Electric: Larry Cottrill Production Coordinator: Zoila Gomez Still Photographer: Merrick Morton Special Effects Coordinator: Bob Stoker Editorial Production Assistant: Jen Woodhouse Foley: Craig S. Jaeger Dolby Consultant: Thom ‘Coach’ Ehle Art Department Assistant: Amanda Fernald Jones Sculptor: Fred Arbegast Aerial Director of Photography: Phil Pastuhov Orchestrator: Robert Elhai Visual Effects Supervisor: Dan DeLeeuw Construction Coordinator: Dave DeGaetano Seamstress: Giselle Spence Driver: Bill C. Dawson Property Master: Peter C. Clarke Publicist: Patti Hawn ADR Supervisor: Hugh Waddell Sound Effects Editor: Christopher Assells Assistant Art Director: Jann K. Engel Hairstylist: Kathryn Blondell First Assistant Director: Gary Marcus First Assistant Editor: Davis Reynolds Electrician: Jimmy Ellis Production Accountant: Gregory D. Hemstreet I/O Supervisor: Ryan Beadle Set Medic: John Lavis Visual Effects Producer: Gary Nolin Rigging Grip: Mike Nami Jr. Boom Operator: Kevin Cerchiai Casting Associate: Courtney Bright Stunt Coordinator: Tom Bahr Stunts: Conrade Gamble Stunts: Annie Ellis ADR Mixer: Jeff Gomillion Camera Production Assistant: Alex Scott Storyboard Artist: Richard K. Buoen Assistant Location Manager...

[theultimatefan]

‘Lord of the Rings,’ 'Terminator,' 'Charmed’ Q&As Among Top Programming at FAN EXPO New Orleans

From celebrity Q&As to industry, cosplay, gaming, anime and entertaining, informative sessions from all areas of pop culture, FAN EXPO New Orleans presents its collection of nearly 150 programming panels and meetups during the event, Friday through Sunday, January 5-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. There’s truly something for every fan and every taste every hour of the show into the evening throughout all three days of the convention, right until Sunday’s 5 p.m. finish.

FAN EXPO New Orleans celebrity guests such as Lord of the Rings standouts Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, The Terminator franchise cast members Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong, “Charmed�� duo of Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan, "Daredevil" tandem of Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, “Star Trek” standouts Sonequa Martin-Green (“Star Trek: Discovery”), Michelle Hurd (“Star Trek: Picard”) and Jonathan Frakes (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” among others), Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher,” “The Walking Dead”), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, “Avengers: Infinity War”), Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”), Danny Trejo (Machete, The Book of Boba Fett), Randy Quaid (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Kingpin) and, Katee Sackhoff (Star Wars’ “The Mandalorian”) will conduct individual and group interactive sessions with fans, headlining the slate.

There are dozens of informative, entertaining panels by superstar creators as well as cosplay, gaming, trivia, film, horror and other pop culture themed sessions.

Fans can review the entire event schedule at fanexpohq.com/fanexponeworleans/schedule/. Most panels are free with event admission. Just a few of the highlights include:

Friday:

5 p.m., Too Many to Count! All the Voices of Tara Strong, Theater #2

5:45 p.m., Charmed Ones: Spotlight on Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan, Main Theater

6 p.m., Playing with Power! Chainsaw Man’s Sarah Wiedenheft Q+A, Anime Theater

6 p.m., The Backstory of Beetlejuice, Fandom Panels Room 271

6:15 p.m., Spider-Man Psychology: Untangling Webs with Alex Langley, Gordon Schmidt and Travis Langley, Theater #3

6:45 p.m., Turtle Power! Meet the Voices of “TMNT,” Barry Gordon (“Donatello”), Cam Clarke (“Leonardo”), Townsend Coleman (“Michelangelo”) and Rob Paulsen (“Raphael”), Main Theater

7 p.m., The State of Fandom with The Weekend Geeks, Creator Stage

Saturday:

11 a.m., The Overlook Film Festival, Theater #3

11 a.m., Let’s Get Some Shoes: Cosplay Footwear!, Cosplay Panels Room 274

11 a.m., Taking over the World with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, Theater #2

11:30 a.m., 100 Years of Magic: Century of the Walt Disney Company, Fandom Panels Room 271

11:45 a.m., Women of Sci-Fi with Sonequa Martin-Green, Felicia Day and Michelle Hurd, Main Theater

12 p.m., Vamanos: Meet Kathleen Herles, Theater #2

12:30 p.m., The Man without Fear: The Legacy of Marvel’s Daredevil, Fandom Panels Room 271

12:45 p.m., Being Badass with Katee Sackhoff, Main Theater

1 p.m., From Kirk to Kraglin: Spotlight on Sean Gunn, Theater #2

1:15 p.m., Fandom Traveler Trivia, Worshops Room 270

1:45 p.m., Born Again: Meet Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, Main Theater

2 p.m., Sketch Duel: Tom Grummett vs. John Delaney, Creator Stage

2 p.m., Take a Vacation with Randy Quaid, Theater #2

2:45 p.m., What’s the Buzz with Juliette Lewis, Main Theater

3 p.m., Whatchu Love? FAN EXPO New Orleans Cosplayers, Creator Stage

4:15 p.m., Crafting Captivating Comic Book Covers with Clay Mann, Cary Nord, Stephen Platt, and Sway Swaby, Theater #3

5 p.m., All Hail Lana Parrilla, Theater #2

5:30 p.m., Horror Films of 2023, Fandom Panels Room 271

5:45 p.m., The FAN EXPO New Orleans Cosplay Craftsmanship Cup, Main Theater

6 p.m., My Name is Earl: Meet Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee, Theater #2

6 p.m., Why is Anime so Good? It’s the Characters, Dude, Anime Theater

6:15 p.m., Crescent City Paranormal: The Psychology of Ghosts, Theater #3

7:30 p.m., The Four Hobbits: An Unexpected Reunion, Main Theater (general admission free, upgraded experiences available)

8:30 p.m., Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast (18+) with Sweet Sensation Shadowcast & Productions, Theater #3

Sunday:

10:45 a.m., Astonishing Adventures with Sean Astin, Main Theater

11 a.m., FAN EXPO New Orleans Kids’ Cosplay Contest, Cosplay Red Carpet

11 a.m., Let’s Fight over the Best Pokémon with YouTube Content Creator Abdallah, Creator Stage

11:45 a.m., The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Spotlight on Danny Trejo, Main Theater

12 p.m., On Screen to IRL: Translating Characters to Cosplay, Cosplay Panels Room 274

12 p.m., Voices of Gaming with Maggie Robertson, Steve Downes and Xander Mobus, Theater #2

12:15 p.m., Nerdy Women Taking over the World, Workshops Room 270

12:45 p.m., All About Ahsoka with Eman Esfandi and Diana Lee Inosanto, Main Theater

1 p.m., Geeking out with Felician Day, Theater #2

1 p.m., You’re Yor! Spy x Family Q&A with Natalie Van Sistine, Anime Theater

1:45 p.m., One Batch, Two Batch with Jon Bernthal, Main Theater

2 p.m., Devil Hunters! Chainsaw Main Cast Q&A with Ryan Colt Levy, Reagan Murdock, and Sarah Wiedenheft

2:45 p.m., Boldly Go with Johnathan Frakes and Michelle Hurd, Main Theater

3 p.m., Robots in Disguise with Peter Cullen and Frank Welker

3 p.m., Cosplay Your Way!, Cosplay Panels Room 274

3:15 p.m., Horror Entertainment: We Know what Scares You – and Why!, Theater #3

3:45 p.m., A Groovy Panel with Bruce Campbell, Main Theater

FAN EXPO New Orleans features the biggest and best in pop culture: movies, TV, music, artists, writers, exhibitors, cosplay, with three full days of themed programming to satisfy every fandom. New Orleans is the first event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

[spider-xan]

One of the funniest things about the LXG film (2003) and the studio politics around it when you look back twenty years later is how outside of Sean Connery being the big star (to the movie's detriment tbh), the studio was absolutely banking on Shane West as Tom Sawyer being the breakout star of the movie, especially for the American and female demographics, so much so that it's obvious from the deleted scenes and even what was left in the final print that if they couldn't get Connery back for the sequel, he would have been upgraded to the new protagonist and team leader, as well as getting the main romance with Mina, and at the time, Shane West was a rising star and teen heartthrob coming in super hot from 'A Walk to Remember' (2002) and I definitely remember him being very popular; likewise, even though he was only signed on for one film as Dorian Gray for obvious reasons, Stuart Townsend was also on the rise as a sexy heartthrob after his turn as Lestat in 'Queen of the Damned' (2002) and had just lost out on Aragorn in LotR after it was decided he was too young for the role after like, the first day of filming, so while secondary to Shane, he was obviously also there as a popular hot guy to draw in the ladies or whatever, and he's the only man in the film who gets any romantic scenes.

Anyway, all this to say that while both of them definitely had a lot of people and women in particular finding them super hot as expected, the big surprise is how I don't think the studio was banking on obscure British character actor Jason Flemyng as Jekyll being called in at almost the last minute and made to look as wet and pathetic as possible, even in his shirtless scenes with his abs out, arguably getting the most horny on main reactions and being one of the most well-liked characters and actors in the film, and while we will never know for sure, I do wonder how that unexpected popularity would have factored into decisions about where to take the story and characters in the sequel, especially on the romance front where, as I have argued before, it felt like the studio half-assed both options to hedge their bets and not commit before seeing what would be more popular.

[theholmwoodfoundation]

OFFICIAL HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!

The Holmwood Foundation are proud to present the cast and crew for our pilot episode: Across the Moors.

Rebecca Root as Maddie Townsend and Mina Harker, and Sean Carlsen as Jeremy Larkin and Jonathan Harker.

Other voice talents include:

Samuel Clemens as Arthur Jones Becky Wright as Thrall & Phone Voice Jessica Carroll as Newsreader Luke Kondor as Robert Swales and featuring Attila Puskas as Dracula

Joining our crew we have Samuel Clemens as Director, Katharine Armitage as our Script Editor and Benji Clifford as our Sound Engineer and Designer.

Also a special thank you to Alfie Shaw, Lisa McMullin, John Dorney, Tal Minear, Robert Taylor, David K Barnes and our sensitivity readers for their support in making the pilot a reality! 

[astarkey]

A creation for every month of 2022

Post your favorite and/or most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months!).

Tagged by @bellamuertes​ Thank you, sweetie!!! 🥰💖

January

Favorite: Seth/Kate in gold

Most popular: Aaliyah recording for MCM Carte Blanche in Paris, France

February

Favorite: From Dusk Till Dawn x Resident Evil, Seth Gecko + 🛎️, The Geckos and the Roxbury

Most popular: Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)

March

Favorite: Delsin Rowe is nervous around pretty girls

Most popular: Aaliyah in Up Jumps Da Boogie

April

Favorite: Richie taking off his shades and putting on his glasses, Delsin watching Reggie’s back, D.J. covered in fake blood

Most popular: Aaliyah in Paris, France for MTV Diary

May

Favorite: D.J. Cotrona in From Dusk Till Dawn On Set - Dusk Returns

Most popular: Same post (It’s the only post I posted that month 🤣)

June

Favorite: Dolores/Teddy (for everything a reason), Richie does a magic trick

Most popular: Grosse Pointe Blank (ten years, I think)

July

Favorite: Keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth, Carlos, Sean drunk and talking with his hands in Venom (2005)

Most popular: Noir Leon Kennedy casually strolls while building collapses

August

Favorite: Aaliyah with snakes, Ricky Sandoval appreciation post

Most popular: Ginger Fitzgerald finds a dew claw

September

Favorite: Santanico punches Seth across the room, Siblings burying dead bodies in the backyard, Aloy reflecting + Patrick Munnik tribute

Most popular: Santanico punches Seth across the room

October

Favorite: Queen Akasha appreciation post, Sean Mathers leather jacket appreciation post, Chelsea Wolfe - Deranged for Rock & Roll, Crosses - Vivien

Most popular: Queen Akasha appreciation post

November

Favorite: Night at the Roxbury (Doug breaks the window again), Slap Her, She’s French (Starla likes Dick), Night at the Roxbury (maybe we should just go back to work)

Most popular: Night at the Roxbury (Doug breaks the window again)

December

Favorite: Seth/Kate Spotify Wrapped (Arkangel), Seth/Kate Spotify Wrapped (Bermuda Locket)

Most popular: Seth/Kate Spotify Wrapped (Arkangel)

Tagging (no pressure!!!): @alwaysupatnight, @yossariandawn, @lilmissuncreative, @eizagonzalezs, @stuart-townsend, @onyxheartbeat, @justjstuff, @sugarplumsfairy, @veemelancholy, @cliffbooth, @blondiest, @boozerman, @heatherannchristie, @artthurshelby, @billyboyblue, @ondinaaa, @anakin-skywalker, @belorage, @twinsand, @ladyculebras, @lesstat-de-lioncourt, @bensonstablers, @chronic-ghost, @musicrunsthroughmysoul, @georgieharrisons, @windermerepoets13, @bentcoppers, @bloodychamber, @verucaseether1999, @weloveachother, @all-star-avocado, @archeryqueen95, @geraltcirilla, @hazieash, @ambrosiaswhispers, @ritualoflove, @mycleverdetective, and anyone else who wants to do this!!! 😁❤️

[nezoid]

October 2024:

- Anora Q&A Featuring Sean Baker, Mikey Madison, Drew Daniels - 10/26/24

-Filming WEER with Lance Bangs

-Biggest Show with Max Greenfield, D’Arcy Carden, Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Sui, Carmen Christopher, Bobby Moynihan, Skye Townsend, and Ike Barinholtz

-Ultimate Improv Show with guest monologist Gillian Jacobs and cast Nicole Byer, Lisa Gilroy, Bobby Moynihan, Neil Casey, Betsy Sodaro, Dan Black

-WEER by Natalie Palamides

- Ultimate Improv Show with guest monologist Chelsea Peretti and cast Bobby Moynihan, Sasheer Zamata, Neil Casey, Paul Welsh, Dan Black

- BLAIR SOCCI MESSES AROUND featuring Ron Funches & Chris Fleming

- Lots of Tallula & Wednesday and Emma, Winston, Hanzo

-Unfortunately losing Winston - RIP sweet golden boy

-Sabrina Carpenter releasing Short N Sweet

-Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” music video featuring Jenna Ortega

-Agatha All Along - Agatha/Rio

-Comedy Bang Bang featuring Tatiana Maslany and Kristan Bruun

-Five Below - Bald Wednesday

-Various locations in Los Angeles

[lboogie1906]

Sean Patrick Thomas (December 17, 1970) is an actor. He is known for his role as Derek Reynolds in Save the Last Dance and as Jimmy James in Barbershop (2002), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), as well as his television role as Detective Temple Page in The District and as Professor Macalester in Vixen (2015–16).

He was born in DC., the son of emigrants from Guyana. He was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Cheryl, a financial analyst for DuPont, and Carlton Thomas, an engineer who worked for DuPont. He graduated from Brandywine High School in Delaware and attended the University of Virginia. He intended to study law, but upon auditioning for a role in the film A Raisin in the Sun, he changed directions and decided to attend NYU’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts which graduated.

He married actress Aonika Laurent (2006). The couple has two children.

He began appearing in screen roles in the mid-1990s and had minor roles in several films, including Conspiracy Theory (1997), Can’t Hardly Wait (1998), and Cruel Intentions (1999).

He played the recurring character Alan Townsend on Reaper. He originated the recurring character of Karl Dupree on Lie to Me. In 2009, he took to the stage, playing the title role in Othello for the Theatre for a New Audience in New York. This production moved to the Intiman Theatre in Seattle for the summer. In 2012, he worked in Ringer. He was cast as Cyborg for Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. He portrayed Dr. Michael Cayle in Deep in the Darkness. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[aliciameade]

Darkness at Dawn - Ch. 7

Title: Darkness at Dawn Author: aliciameade Rating: M/E Pairing: Stephanie Smothers/Emily Nelson Summary: Even Bonnie & Clyde met their fate eventually.

Set five+ years after "Baby."

Also on AO3

She doesn’t visit Emily after that, despite her intentions; it’s too painful. They communicate via email. Emily calls her now and then but doesn’t ask her to visit. Stephanie knows they’re both trying to navigate their new normal, to grieve what they’ve lost, to adjust to their realities. They keep the conversation focused on their children: Miles’s hockey game, Nicky making the junior varsity football—American football—team. How agreeable or disagreeable Sean is any given day.

He’d managed to fully strip Emily’s custody rights. It wasn’t hard once she’d confessed to murder. His bitterness toward his ex-wife is so strong that he wants to punish her in every way he can, to give her a taste of her own medicine and steal her child.

He listens to Stephanie, though. Sometimes. She gets him to agree to take Nicky to see Emily that Christmas. “She’s still his mother, Sean, whether you like it or not,” she’d lectured until he finally relented. He even agreed to take Miles.

Sometimes Emily asks how Stephanie’s doing in a way that she knows Emily’s fishing for more details about her personal life, like she wants to know if Stephanie’s moved on (she hasn’t). Stephanie tries not to think about the things Emily likely does to maintain her position of authority amongst her peers. Sex is as much a currency in prison as a bag of potato chips. Perhaps Emily had made herself let go of Stephanie as much for herself, for her survival, as she’d done to try to ensure Stephanie could still live a happy life.

Time passes and it stretches into years. Being a single mom again, of a teenager now waiting to hear back from his list of dream universities, consumes her life. She’d missed being a P.T.A. mom but happily declined the opportunity to run for president of the organization, something she would have run a legitimate campaign for before she’d met Emily. She likes being a mom and being a woman with a full-time job.

She’s not sure they’d vote for a felon anyway.

She’d learned to balance her involvement with her son’s schooling when they lived overseas. So much of her need to be overbearing had been rooted in fear that if she wasn’t watching over him every moment, something would happen to him and the need to protect him following the death of his father.

Unfortunately, the worst things to happen to him had been her own doing.

She’s compiling graduation party invitations for the boys, a task Sean had happily allowed her to do for Nicky—Nicholas, as he now demands to be called—when her phone chimes with an email notification. She only gets notifications if the email is from Emily, and she smiles as she picks it up to check the message.

Hi, baby. (She hasn’t used that name for Stephanie in more than a year and it makes her heart race.)

I’m always the alpha.

xo

That’s all it says, and she refreshes the application a few times in case it didn’t load the entire message, but there’s nothing else. She doesn’t understand the cryptic note and taps out a quick reply asking for an explanation before going back to her project.

She’s distracted by it the rest of the day, and her mind drifts back to it often over the next few weeks.

~*~*~*~*~*~

“Miles Christopher Smothers.”

Stephanie had come prepared to cry her eyes out at her boys’ graduation ceremony. They’d all been through so much and come so far. She was even sitting with Sean at the event, though they did little more than exchange comments of mutual pride and make generic people-watching comments.

“Nicholas Paul Townsend.”

She’s wiping away tears when something draws her attention. She’s not sure how, or from where, but she’s caught the faint scent of Dennis Nylon’s signature perfume. Her eyes search the audience with hope, and quickly feels foolish. Thousands of people wear that perfume. Even ten years later, it’s as popular as ever. Emily’s not the only person to wear it.

Stephanie plays hostess after the ceremony. She’s organized a joint graduation reception for the boys. They have a community in Providence now: classmates, teammates, Stephanie’s new friends, and her mother are there. Sean and his parents who’ve flown in from London. They make a lot of whispered comments behind Stephanie’s back as if she can’t hear them. She does and offers them a cup of tea anyway.

She takes plenty of photos to email to Emily later in between carrying trays of hors d'oeuvres to the backyard of the house she bought last year. She flits about, socializing with other parents, discussing college plans, whose child is going where on what scholarship—the classic suburban pissing contest.

Someone spills their drink and she hurries back to her kitchen to fetch a towel to help clean up and stops dead in her tracks.

“Nice party.”

Emily is standing in her kitchen leaning against the counter. She’s dressed smartly in dark slacks and a white sleeveless blouse. Black patent leather loafers. Her hair is loose in the same beachy waves it’s always had. The room is filled with the scent of her perfume. She looks exactly the way Stephanie had chosen to remember her.

Her mouth goes dry. “Emily?”

“Hi, baby.” Emily smiles at her and holds out a hand. “I missed you.”

“What are you—” she takes a staggering step forward, bracing herself against the refrigerator. “How—” Two more steps and her arms are around Emily’s neck, pulling her down to kiss her. Her head is spinning with a thousand questions and she feels Emily smile against her lips and her hands on her waist.

Emily pulls back after a few seconds and tilts her head toward the backyard. “Hang on; do you have a husband waiting for you out there? Or a wife?” Her eyes betray her cool expression. There’s jealousy living in the question. And hope.

Stephanie shakes her head, her hands still running over Emily’s frame in disbelief as if she might vanish. But she’s here. In her house. She’d mourned the end of their relationship, but she never fell out of love with her. “Only you. It’s always only been you.”

“I’ve been waiting so long to hear you say that,” Emily says before lifting Stephanie and turning to place her on the counter. They’ve done this so many times, but never in this kitchen, not in this house, not after so much time separated. Her hands are on Stephanie’s thighs beneath her dress when Stephanie stops them.

“Wait, wait, wait.” She can barely breathe. She’s overcome with emotions. Confusion, excitement, lust. She has a million questions and the look on Emily’s face makes it challenging to form even one. She’s maybe on the verge of tears, and maybe about to ravage Stephanie to the edge of consciousness.

“Everyone’s outside,” she manages. “Miles and Nicholas. Sean. His family. My mom. Em, are you even allowed to be here? How are you here right now?”

Emily kisses her again and withdraws her hands to rest them on Stephanie’s waist. “I told you, baby. I’m always the alpha.”

Stephanie can only laugh in disbelief. “Does anyone know you’re out?”

“No, no one knows yet.”

“Can you come see Nicholas? I know he’ll just flip. Miles, too. They’ve mentioned you so many times today. Or are you hiding? Or—”

“Nicholas?” Emily’s smile as she uses his more mature name is as bright as Stephanie remembers it. “I’d love that.” They kiss once more and Emily helps her off the counter.

“Go surprise them. I’ll join you in a minute.”

She watches in awe from the kitchen window overlooking her backyard and hears Emily call out from the porch, “Hey, little dudes!”

They’re not little at all anymore. Nicky is as tall as his father now. She watches both their sons look up from their phones and sees the shock on their faces. “Mom?!” It’s Nicky and he drops his phone and trips over a folding chair. “Holy shit, Mom!”

Stephanie watches the reunion from afar and sees the joy on the faces of their guests who aren’t privy to the gravity of what’s happening, other than a surprise visit of a mother perhaps returning early from a business trip.

Sean’s face is ashen and Stephanie wonders if he might be sick. Instead, he sits down on the grass and holds his face in his hands in defeat. Stephanie had implored him when she settled in Providence to not share details about their lives with members of their community. She deserved a clean slate, she argued, and it would do nothing but harm to Nicky if Sean went around telling people his mother was in prison for murder.

Perhaps he regrets that choice today as there’s nothing to detract from the joyous surprise appearance, no gossip about a murderer being in their midst. Nothing but happiness.

She rejoins the party after the initial excitement wanes. Emily doesn’t let Stephanie far from her side the rest of the afternoon; not that Stephanie tries to leave it. They chat with the other parents, Emily effortlessly making up stories to fill in the blanks in her timeline and the curiosity about her identity.

The boys stick close as well. They haven’t hugged their mother in years. Not since the day INTERPOL arrived at their home and shattered their bubble. They barely showed Stephanie affection, the independent young adults that they’d become. Still, there’s a childlike energy to both of them now as they introduce Emily to their friends and show her things on their phones. Eventually, Stephanie is left behind with a blown kiss when Miles insists she check out his bedroom and she watches her children and her…well, she’s not quite sure what or who Emily is to her now…disappear into the house.

“What have you done?” Sean’s voice is behind her and she feels him glowering. She’s grateful plenty of others are present; he can’t do something he might regret. At least, not physically.

“If you think I have any control over what she does or how she does it—”

“Don’t lie to me,” he hisses. “Everything she’s done, she’s done it for you.”

She’s glad he’s looming behind her so he can’t see the smile on her face. “I know.” But, she decides to let him see it, turning to face him. “But that doesn’t mean I asked for it. That’s what love is, Sean.”

~*~*~*~*~*~