#shannon mcfarland

[backfliips]

Give me attention. Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break.

[n3wy0rkd011]

I’m going to blow my face off like Shannon McFarland for the opposite reason she did

[theauthorityvol1]

🫀

[half-as-big-as-life]

Lestat invisible monsters-ing it up

[lungthief]

rereading invisible monsters shannon mcfarland i could fix you

[chirsu]

"Shane, I know you can't hear, but that's okay, since I can't talk. [...]

I have to go, Shane, while you're still asleep. But I want to give you something. I want to give you life. This is my third chance, and I don't want to blow it. I could've opened my bedroom window. I could've stopped Evie shooting you. The truth is I didn't so I'm giving you my life because I don't want it anymore. [...]

This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everyone. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left. [...]

Shane, you go back to my career. [...] You're Shannon fucking McFarland now. You go right to the top. A year from now, I want to turn on the TV and see you drinking a diet cola naked in slow motion. [...]

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.

Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. [...]

Shane, I'm giving you my life, my driver's license, my old report cards, because you look more like me than I can ever remember looking. Because I'm tired of hating and preening and telling myself old stories that were never true in the first place.

Mirror, mirror on the wall.

And please don't come after me. Be the new center of attention. Be a big success, be beautiful and loved and everything else I wanted to be. I'm over that now. I just want to be invisible. [...]

I stroke Shane's pale hand.

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

I lean in, as if I could kiss my brother's face.

I leave my purse and any idea of who I am tucked under Shane's hand. And I leave behind the story that I was ever this beautiful, that I could walk into a room deep fried in a tight dress and everyone would look at me. A million reporters would take my picture. And I leave behind the idea that this attention was worth what I did to get it. [...]

Sister Katherine brings me what I asked for, please, and it's the pictures, the eight-by-ten glosses of me in my white sheet. They aren't good or bad, ugly or beautiful. They're just the way that I look. The truth. My future. Just regular reality. And I take off my veils, the cut-work and muslin and lace, and leave them for Shane to find at his feet.

I don't need them at this moment, or the next, or the next, forever. [...]

Completely and totally, permanently and without hope, forever and ever I love Brandy Alexander.

And that's enough."

[camcorderrevival]

i can’t get weird about invisible monsters again because it’s humiliating. these characters are called shane and shannon mcfarland....

[college-girl199328]

Broncos players are reportedly furious that Russell Wilson has his own office and private parking spaces

Russell Wilson’s first season as a Denver Bronco couldn’t have ended any differently. It began with a loss to his former team—and replacement Geno Smith—in primetime and has only spiraled down from there. On Monday, the Broncos' first-year head coach Nathaniel Hacket took the fall, but much of the blame belongs to Wilson, who is 29th out of 33 qualified players in total QBR while playing out the first year of a five-year, $243-million-dollar mega deal.

But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. As success on the field has dried up, Wilson’s good-guy veneer has been peeled back. Reports that Wilson had yet to learn the offense and was confusing Broncos players by using old audibles from Seattle soon surfaced. Current teammates were seen screaming at him on the sidelines. Former players such as Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman revealed how unapproachable he was as a teammate. He made himself only available via his manager, while Pete Carroll publicly criticized Wilson’s refusal to wear a wristband while in Seattle.

According to Shannon Sharpe, one of the biggest divides in Denver is the fact that Wilson, a player, has his own private office and private parking spaces (plural) at Broncos HQ.

Are these normal perks for a star quarterback in the NFL? Judging by the reaction of Sharpe and former pros like Booger McFarland and Andrew Whitworth, hell no it is not.

So what do the Broncos do with a problem like Russ? Can they really take back the keys to the kingdom now that they’ve willingly handed them over? That’s the $48-million-dollar-a-year question, and the Broncos better find an answer by OTAs or risk another soap opera season.

[headgehug]

in my shannon mcfarland invisiblemonsters era (going up to the walk in clinic counter like ghrrrjffnnng cause I can't speak)

[planecrashdreams]

Birds Ate My Face

I wrote a lil song / poem one day when I was bored and it was laying around for a solid year, but never shared it cause I don’t think it’s all that good. I still don’t really think so but hey it’s whatever. It’s based around my favourite book in the universe; Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. • • So let’s set the scene! Wedding reception *FLASH* big foyer staircase *FLASH* the clock ticks as moments pass before her eyes, revenge transcends from the stairs, nothing matters this is all just practice and she had it coming. Blood flows as no sign of regret shows, betrayal goes both ways and she strays as the ballroom’s ablaze. I asked for attention, I asked for love, I asked to be beautiful but now I’m invisible. I told them all what happened but it remains a mystery, but I’ll tell you one thing; beauty is a power and that’s for damn sure. I’d do anything, you could tear me limb from limb as long as you love me but as much as you said you did, I know you’d step back as the pool of blood edged too close. Give me attention *FLASH* give me adoration *FLASH* give me lust *FLASH* give me malice *FLASH* I’m nothing original

🖤💋🖤💋🖤💋🖤💋🖤💋🖤💋🖤

[horrorwaveofgrain00000]

[scenesandscreens]

The Conjuring (2013)

Director - James Wan, Cinematography - John R. Leonetti

"When the music stops, you'll see him in the mirror standing behind you."

[pigckle]

now we wait.

[half-as-big-as-life]

Um. Lestat shannon mcfarland. Do you get me. Do you inderstand

[professorpski]

Interweave Crochet Fall 2018

I always think the cool weather months bring out the best in crochet patterns. Summer has its string bikinis, and stringy beach coverups, but some autumnal breezes make the most of what woolly yarn has to offer. This issue has a playful crop top called Suave Sweater by Isa Catepillan in an orange wool blend. It would look even better over a fit and flare dress, and it is possibly you could lengthen the bodice if you wanted it not quite so cropped. This issue has several cabled looks including the oversized Dashing Cardigan by Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby shown here in a camel color, and the Low Key Afghan by Anne McFarland.  Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby offer a pictorial tutorial on shadow-stitch cables to go along with those projects. The most sophisticated garment in the issue is Poised Cardigan by Natasha Robarge which uses two shades of color to create a pattern that looks good from both sides. There are more garments and more house projects, including, yep, a stuff unicorn head if you are feeling whimsical this fall.

You can find it at your local bookstore or newsstand, or on-line here:

https://www.interweave.com/interweave-crochet-fall-2018-lookbook/

[dragonnan]

In light of the disgraceful and asinine decision to cancel Prodigal Son, what are some other shows that make your list of “WTF WHY WERE THESE CANCELLED????????”

Here’s some of mine (and I’m nearly half a century old so I may go back before some ya’ll were born...)

Early Edition (CBS 1996-2000):  Starring Kyle Chandler, Shanésia Davis-Williams, Fisher Stevens, Kristy Swanson, and Billie Worley.  Gary Hobson was just a regular dude when one day he got a paper (and a cat) at his door.  Thing is, this paper has tomorrow’s news.  The character of Gary has a little bit of a Peter Parker flavor to him - this guy who loves his city (Chicago) and wants to save everyone.  As the series goes on, he starts to realize the awful truth that sometimes he’s going to be too late.  As well, the stress of managing daily rescues means he’ll never be able to miss a day because someone could die.  That doesn’t mean he hasn’t tried getting rid of the paper a few times.  Two episodes stand out to me in particular.  The first is where Gary fails to save someone and they fall to their death.  Gary himself, later, will end up in a life and death situation and is faced with whether or not he even wants to live.  Another episode has Gary repeating the same day, over and over, as he desperately tries to stop his friend from getting killed - only to fail every time.

Invisible Man (SciFi Network 2000-2002): Starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty.  Darien Fawkes was a fairly successful cat burglar (think Scott Lang) until he was finally caught by police.  However, instead of being locked away he was handed over to his older brother; a scientist working on some top secret, and highly dubious, experiments.  Darien became the guinea pig - implanted with a gland that can flush the body with a compound called Quicksilver - which turns anyone with the gland invisible.  Sadly, before further research can be done, Darien’s brother is murdered and he’s left alone - stuck with this gland he barely understands.  Worse still, the gland comes with a nasty side effect.  It slowly turns the user insane.  Long story short, Darien is captured/recruited by another top secret agency funded by the government.  Their doctor/scientist did some preliminary research on the gland and was able to develop a sort of stop gap injection to help control the side effects of the gland.  It is a painful but necessary treatment but accidents can still happen - such as over using the gland which means a quicker build-up of toxins in the system.  So Darien was given a tattoo (LIKE THOSE COLOR CHANGE PICTURES ON COFFEE MUGS hahahaha!) that will gradually change color the more the toxins build up (guys this is fucking scifi - don’t ask how the hell that works like this is a series about an invisible dude, okay??).  ANYWAY TL;DR Darien is partnered with a former CIA agent and the two of them chase bad guys and it’s awesome and whumpy as fuck and basically was cancelled cause the show blew its special effects budget.   

Moonlight (SyFy 2007-2008):  Starring Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Jason Dohring, and Shannyn Sossamon.  The series is about a private investigator named Mick St. John who, among other thing, is also a vampire.  Mick ends up working with a reporter named Beth Turner as the two of them investigate various crimes.  What I really love is the spin on the usual sorta vampire mythology.  Mick is able to go out in sunlight (though within reason. Too long - too hot and he can get really sick or even die).  Getting a stake to the heart isn’t fatal but it does cause paralysis and hurts like fuck.  Silver CAN be fatal as it acts like a poison.  Fire is absolutely fatal as it will turn exposed vampires to ash.  On top of all that vampires can get triggers of the past via the blood they ingest (think iZombie) or even through scent.  Also some vampires have “gifts” - like there are some who don’t burn when exposed to fire.  Part of their culture, and what keeps them protected from exposure to humanity, are the “Cleaners”.  Cleaners (like the Blacklist) will get rid of all evidence of vampire activity such as dead vampires or humans killed by rogues.  And that’s another thing.  Vampire hierarchy is very important.  Vampires who create other vampires are referred to as Sires and their turned “offspring” are called fledglings.  Whatever gift the sire has they will pass on to their fledglings.  Sadly there was only 1 season of this series so there is a TON of mythology that was never explored but they managed to pack a whole lot into that 1 season.    

Lie to Me (Fucking Fox 2009-2011): Starring Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines, Monica Raymund, and Hayley McFarland.  Dr. Cal Lightman is the founder of a company with highly skilled “human lie detectors”.  The series is based on the real world work of Paul Ekman, who is a specialist in detecting micro-expressions.  The series itself deals with various criminals and members of the group, primarily Lighman, sussing out the lies from the truth.  It also has one of my absolute favorite parent and child relationships between Cal and his daughter.

Whitechapel (BBC 2009-2013): Starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, and Steve Pemberton.  Sorta like a low budget X-Files (no offense!)  It’s creepy and mysterious with elements of supernatural happenings mixed with investigations in the area of Whitechapel.  It all has to do with murders that reflect Jack the Ripper.