#stephen jameson

[zanephillips]

ROBBIE AMELL The Tomorrow People 1.10 "The Citadel"

[bht-of-tardis]

RIP! Godspeed Stephen.

[comicwaren]

From Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 #065, “Signifying Nothing”

Art by CAFU and Frank D’Armata

Written by Joe Kelly

[piscsprincsa]

That’s princess!! (I say about my favorite male fictional character)

[mostsanescarletspiderfan]

Amazing Spider-Man 1963 annual #1 is one of the best Spidey comics of all time but what I think really makes it stand out (outside of the first meeting of the sinister six) is the fact that it's also a giant ad for other comics.

Like goddamn they really tried to put everyone here, Thor doesn't even do anything.

[frieslxver]

my fav type of couple right now is "when they are similar but not the same"

like avery grambs x jameson hawthorne (the inheritance games), nora stephens x charlie lastra (book lovers), tory nichols x robby keene (cobra kai), yeo reum x dae beom (summer strike)

for me there is something very special about these couples that consist of people who are so similar that they understand each other better than anyone else, but still there are differences between them that help elevate the relationship

i know many people love the "opposites attract" type of couple and nothing against it, but the "we are similar" (i think you can call it that, right?) is simply superior to me

[braveclementine]

Chapter 17

Warnings: None

Copyright: I do not own any Marvel characters or locations. However, I do own a few OCs like Elizabeth, Katherine, Stacy, and Jessie. I do not condone any copying of this.

You were up the next day, going downstairs so that you could make pancakes, waffles, and french toast. Minerva liked Eggos- just like her mother- so you popped two of those into the toaster.

It was very rare that you cooked a breakfast like this. For one thing, you simply didn't have the eyes and hands to watch all of the burners and make sure you flipped all of the food at the right time. It was something that you would have done with Elizabeth. Or really, Elizabeth could've managed it at the same time.

But with Wanda and Bucky helping you out in the kitchen today, it seemed like a good time to make everyone's favorite delicacies.

"How was the carnival?" You asked Wanda, as she had never been to something like it before. "Did the boys like it?"

"Oh yeah! It was a lot of fun." Wanda said with a smile. "They enjoyed it, a lot. Billy even won a couple of stuffed animals from one of the games. Tommy just wanted to eat though."

She flipped the pancakes with her magic while rummaging in the refrigerator and bringing out one of the jars of blueberries that was labelled to be used in the next three days before they went bad. "I saw that Minerva was hanging out a lot with Vision last night."

"Yes, I think she likes him a lot." You said slowly. "I haven't seen her this morning yet though. The kids like to sleep in late."

"Steve said he'll eventually break them of that habit. But he wants to wait till their older." Bucky said with a grin.

"Well as long as they aren't like Tony and Stephen with their sleep schedules, I don't mind one single bit." You admitted. "Those two need a lot more sleep than they're getting."

The Eggos popped out of the toaster and you quickly put them on a plate, lathering one of them up with whip cream, and the other you slathered with cream cheese. You quickly took them out to the kitchen.

Most of the kids were up now and waiting in their places like good kids. The table had been set, although their cups weren't full of any drink, probably because they knew they'd be getting something different on pancake morning.

"Here you go Minnie." You said, setting the plate in front of her. "What do you want to drink? It's between apple, orange, and grape today. Or milk or water."

"Milk." She said with a smile. "Thank you Auntie."

"No problem sweetheart. Oi! Buck!" You called for Bucky so that he could get the rest of the kids drinks. He took the short cut, putting the three juices, the carton of milk, and the large gallon of spring water on the table.

"Don't let them spill anything on the tablecloth at least." You warned Bucky, threateningly pointing the spatula in his face.

He grinned, backtracking to the kitchen, muttering about how sexy it was when you were dominant.

You rolled your eyes, turning back to the stove.

The French toast and waffles were done before the pancakes and from that point, it was just a lot of filling up plates with food and bringing them out.

You didn't do sugar, because you guys didn't grow a lot of it. Just some white sugar from sugar cane in the greenhouse. You didn't have powdered sugar or brown sugar though to put on the french toast. However, you did have maple syrup and so you set that out along with fruit for the meal.

There was also bacon.

Bacon was made every single day in the house to everyone but T'Challa's insistence.

Everyone was finally downstairs and all the plates were dishes out before you finally sat down with your own plate of (Breakfast Food), putting (fruit) on the side of the dish, and then did/didn't put maple syrup all over it.

You poured yourself a glass of F/D, before settling in and starting to eat. Everything smelled wonderful and the atmosphere was pleasant.

Most of the kids scarfed down their food and scampered outside before F.R.I.D.A.Y. interrupted breakfast and said. "I would recommend turning on the TV. Channel for the Daily Bugle."

"Why would we want to watch that garbage?" Tony asked. "No one believes anything that's on that channel."

"Well, I would beg to differ." F.R.I.D.A.Y. said and if you didn't know better, you'd think she actually sounded worried.

You got up from the table, moving into the living room to turn the TV on. You flipped through the channels before finding the Daily Bugle.

J. Jameson was sitting in his chair, leaning forward, and speaking. A picture of Bucky as the winter soldier was up on the TV screen.

"What the hell?" Sam asked as the others came into the living room. You glanced over nervously at Bucky's face and saw that he was frowning.

"Last night at a carnival for Memorial Day, it seems that the Winter Soldier is back." Jameson said.

"What?" Steve scoffed.

"Though details are unknown, the Winter Soldier was seen chasing his victim, a young girl, through the carnival. Not even bothering to hide his face, it has been confirmed that he managed to catch his target and neither have been seen again."

"This is satire, right?" You asked, gaping at the TV screen.

This couldn't possibly be real, could it? Surely they had to know you were Bucky's mate. And Bucky didn't have his trigger words anymore. Shuri had taken care of those.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y. I need to get in contact with the Daily Bugle and sue them for libel." Tony snapped. "And turn off the damn TV."

F.R.I.D.A.Y. said that she would get into contact immediately with J. Jameson's secretary and the TV flipped off.

You caught another glimpse of Bucky's face, which was both hardened against emotions and sad as well.

Tony was moving through the living room now, grabbing things and shoving them into other people's arms.

"What are you doing Tony?" Clint asked, looking a little worried. Neither Sam or Steve had reacted yet, nor had Bucky, and the fact that Tony was the only one reacting was a little weird.

"Bucky and Y/N are the only ones that need to stay here." Tony said, swiping his fingers across a tablet. "Everyone else needs to retreat. You're going to take the kids to a secure safe house far from here in case things get worse. They don't need to be dragged through this. Bucky and Y/N can't leave the state though. If Bucky leaves, then they'll think he's actually guilty of something. And Y/N will need to clear his name. Now that I'm thinking about it, Steve and Stephen should stay as well as you're both witnesses."

Tony had really thought this through.

"Whoa, wait, why are we moving the kids?" T'Challa asked, though Tony's speech had gotten Fury and Pietro moving. Everyone else was just trying to understand why Tony was saying what he was saying.

"Anyone looking for Bucky is going to come here first." Tony said. "The police, the Feds, enemies. We have to get the kids to safety first. But Bucky has to stay here. He'll be under investigation soon enough."

"Weren't you just saying no one believed anything on the Daily Bugle?" Wanda asked. "How do we know anyone's going to come after Bucky."

"Because." You said softly. You were looking at social media and you now turned your phone to show the pictures escalating on the pages. "HYDRA is behind it."

They looked at the photo of Bucky chasing you through the carnival. It was very slight, so slight no one else was going to see it, but in the corner was a man taking an opposite picture of the two of you. The inside of his wrist had the HYDRA mark tattooed there.

"Bucky can't stay here." Steve protested. "Now with HYDRA being the cause behind this. Neither can Y/N."

"We can't go on the run again." Clint said, rubbing the back of his head. "But the kids definitely need to be taken to a safe house."

"I've got the kids upstairs now." Fury said, slinging a bag over his shoulder. You had no idea how he had packed so quickly. He shoved his gun into his holster. "We need to get them out of here immediately."

"I don't think all of us should leave." Loki protested. "There has to be some protection here as well for Y/N."

"What do you think we are?" Stephen asked, gesturing between himself and Steve.

"Not Gods, that's for sure." Loki snapped.

"Okay, wait, calm down." You protested, trying not to let them get mad at each other. "I really think the kids need more protection than I do."

"Thor and I will stay behind as well. Everyone else besides Stark, Roger, Strange, and Barnes will go with the kids." Loki decided.

You actually really liked that, except you also really wanted Thor to go with the kids.

"I don't like this splitting up." Sam protested, "Can't I stay here too?"

Pietro was back and the kids were trooping down the stairs.

"We don't have time." Tony snapped, "F.R.I.D.A.Y. picked up that we have cars heading our way already. Ten minutes out at the shortest."

"What about Buster?" Lucy asked, looking up at Tony with puppy eyes as she made her way into the living room. The other kids were filing behind her. "We can't leave him behind!"

"Daddy Stephen is going to take all of the pets to the Sanctorum." Tony said, kissing the top of her head. I could hear a vehicle pulling up and peeking out the window, I saw Happy and Pepper driving separate, large vehicles that looked like they could've been busses but were more car shaped and not as long.

It was sudden chaos, getting the kids on the bus. Ginny and Buster jumped into the car anyways and Minerva had scooped up the two rabbits. Most of the pets were with them now and you watched as they drove away.

Sam had stayed behind as well, refusing to go if Steve and Bucky were staying behind.

You could hear the sounds of screeching tires as cars started to pull up. Bucky seemed nervous and Steve held him in his arms.

"Buck, it's okay." You said, hugging him from the front. "We'll get everything fixed in no time."

"Everyone's in danger again because of me." He whispered.

"No. Don't think like that." You scolded him, running a hand through his hair. "Everything and everyone is going to be just fine."

The door bell rang and you stalked forward, extremely angry with the people who were going to be there. You wrenched open the door and came face to face with General Ross.

"Oh bloody hell." You cursed. "What do you want?"

General Ross squinted his eyes at you. "And who are you?"

"Y/N Marvel." You said. "Soulmate to the Avengers. Which, by the way, includes Bucky Barnes. And, just in case you're blind, I'm the girl he was chasing through the carnival. And he was chasing me, because I was teasing him. And he was being himself and having fun, which I do believe we're allowed to do at the carnival."

"Can anyone verify that Bucky Barnes wasn't the Winter Soldier?" General Ross asked skeptically.

You scoffed, "Steve Rogers, Stephen Strange, Tony Stark, and myself. I would also say Shuri, Princess of Wakanda, as she worked on his brain, took his trigger words out of his head. They can't be used anymore, you can ask King T'Challa's royal guard Okoye."

General Ross looked a little intimidated at the thought of confronting T'Challa and his guard. "I just need to confirm-"

"Confirm what exactly?" You hissed. "You're tearing our life apart here."

"If you don't want problems, don't cause them." He retorted.

"We didn't cause any problems. We were having fun at a carnival." You were seething. How dare he! How dare all of them! They just picked on Bucky because they could. It was disgusting.

"When you say you were teasing him, what were you teasing him about? Was it anything that could possibly trigger the Winter Soldier?" General Ross questioned.

You laughed in disbelief. "Are you serious? I just told you that he can't become the Winter Soldier anymore. He isn't the Winter Soldier. He hasn't been the Winter Soldier for over ten years now! Stop picking on him! And about the teasing? Do you really want me to give you descriptive details about our love life? Oh! And why didn't the news cover the fact that Rogers, Strange, and Stark were all chasing me too? We were playing a bloody game. Get a stick out of your ass and leave the Avengers alone."

You slammed the door in his face, breathing heavily. You seemed to have a red rage washing over you and you stormed away from the door, furious.

"Who was it?" Stephen asked. He was sitting down calmly in the living room, one leg crossed over the other.

"General Ross." You grumbled.

The doorbell rang again and you stopped short, spinning around to go back. Steve got up, placing a hand on your shoulder. "Just go sit down Y/N. Don't work yourself up so much."

You went ahead, crawling into Bucky's lap to hug him. He wrapped his arms around you tightly. Sam sat next to him, holding onto both of you in a comforting way.

Steve came back very soon with General Ross, who glanced over at you guys and then away.

"I'm suing Jameson for libel." Tony said calmly. "And be careful what you say now or I'll sue you as well."

"Is that blackmail Mr. Stark?" General Ross questioned evenly and Stephen started to bristle as the General went after Tony.

"No. It's a promise." Tony said with a cocky smirk. "I'm pretty sure Y/N already told you everything you needed to know."

General Ross sighed, glancing over at you again. "For the most part. But I still need to take Mr. Barnes in and get an official statement from him."

You clutched Bucky tighter, feeling Sam's hands tighten on you.

"Then we'll meet you there." Sam said evenly. "I'm sure you can give us the address."

General Ross narrowed his eyes. "It's classified."

"Then we're not going." You said simply. "We know what happens when we get separated. It never ends well for either party."

"We're not Hydra Miss. . ."

"Mrs." You growled possessively. "And my last name can go on any of theirs. They're all my soulmates."

"Right. I forgot." He replied sardonically. It was a complete lie. You doubted he could forget it when you said you were soulmated to all the Avengers. "As I was saying, we're not HYDRA."

"No, but someone is." You said, before the picture was pulled up on the TV and the picture was enlargened to show him what you had found. "Someone is after Bucky and we're not going to let them get him. So if you don't mind, we'd like that address."

General Ross glanced around the room. Tony was perched on the edge of Stephen's armchair. Steve, Thor, and Loki looked almost identical in their wide stance, arms crossed over their chests. Sam was still sitting beside Bucky and you. You were still snuggled into Bucky's lap and he was still holding you tightly.

"I can't give you the address." The General sighed. "However, I can fit most of you into the van. The others can pile into another van."

That still meant we were splitting up. You glanced nervously between the others.

"Rogers, Barnes, Wilson, and Thor can go in one." Loki said slowly. "Stark, Strange, Y/N, and I will be in the second."

"That sounds good to me." Steve said.

"Very well." Tony said.

Ross nodded, and you got up so that you could follow him out of the house. You kissed Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Thor before you climbed into one of the vans, sitting between Stephen and Loki.

You settled in for a long ride as the vans quickly peeled away from the house. You wondered just what was going to happen, and if Bucky was going to be okay.

[marvelousmrm]

Marvel Team-Up #51 (Mantlo/Buscema, Nov 1976). The Wraith saga ends with a courtroom drama that rivals Reed and Sue’s wedding as an iconic Marvel crossover event. Surprised I never heard about this tale, it was great!

[hitchell-mope]

Ten things I want from the fourth film.

Be warned. I’m pissed off. And I’m petty. So be prepared for Unpopular Opinions.

Peter having a villain arc. Wanda had one i don’t see why Peter shouldn’t have one as well. I need The Arachnid to RISE. It’s what he deserves.

Michelle and Ned remembering Peter. Whether by Peter telling them or by Michelle figuring it all out again. Just so as long as it happens.

PETER ENDING THE MOVIE FILTHY, STINKING, OBSCENELY, RICH!!!!

May being resurrected and giving the Dumbass Motherfucker hell for ruining Peter’s life. Or just beating him to death with her bare hands.

Dumbass Motherfucker dying a brutal, drawn out, disturbingly explicit death. Ideally at the hands of Peter. But I’ll take what I can get.

Add some fucking nuance to the responsibility bullshit. No one can exist on good faith alone. Take a page out of the Snyderverse and piss off the purists please.

A cameo by Pepper and/or Tony. In which ever way it’s possible really. And give Peter back all of his call Stark Industries gadgets while you’re at it.

Venom attaching itself to Peter. Hopefully it will help with The Arachnid’s ascension.

WONG!!!! Aka. The Superior Sorcerer Supreme.

Someone finally, finally beating the shit out of Jameson. I need the catharsis.

[facial-hair-fight]

Bracket 1, Round 1

[atheneum-of-you]

I'm so happy so many people have found my tiny library useful! l've added a few more books for everyone!

Books Inside:

Ancient Greek Religion Jon D. Mikalson

Ancient Greek Cults Jennifer Larson

Ancient Greek Divination Sarah /les Johnston

The Odyssey Homer

The Homeric Hymns A Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Rayor Diane J

The llyad Homer translated by Stanley Lombardo

Apollodorus The Library, Volumes 1 and Il Sir James George Frazer

The Orphic Hymns Athanassakis

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

A History of Ancient Greece Robin Waterfield

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt

A Companion to Greek Religion Daniel Ogden

Theogony Hesiod

( donated by @angieisreading )

Magika Hiera Ancient Greek Magic and Religion Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra Sophocles, H.D.F. Kitto, Edith Hall

The Bacchantes Euripides

The Oresteia Agamemnon The Libation Bearers The Eumenides Aeschylus W. B. Stanford, Robert Fagles

Euripides II Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra The Complete Greek Tragedies - Euripides II

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Medea Euripides, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer

Aristophanes Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs A Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes Stephen Halliwell

Heracles of Euripides Euripides Michael R. Halleran

Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis Christopher Collard James Morwood

Lysistrata Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson

(donated by @anyrisse )

Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Ellie Mackin Roberts

Understanding Greek Religion Jennifer Larson

The Gods of Ancient Greece Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine

Restless Dead Sarah Isles Johnston

Myths of the Underworld Journey Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Marriage to Death Rush Rehm

Greek Religion Walter Burkert

Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy Jon D. Mikalson

Greek Magic J.C.B. Petropoulos

Greek and Roman Necromancy Daniel Qgden

Gods and Garments Cecile Brøns

Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ Abbe Lind Walker

Aphrodite's Tortoise Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Ancient Mystery Cults Walter Burkert

Ancient Greek Love Magic Christopher A. Faraone

Cult of Aphrodite Laurelei Black

Aphrodite's Priestess Laurelei Black

Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary Erika Simon

Games and sanctuaries in Ancient Greece Panos Valavanis translated by David Harty

Divine Mania Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece Yulia Ustinova

Omens and oracles Divination in ancient Greece Matthew Dillon

Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece Essays on Religion and Society Michael H. Jameson, Allaire B. Stallsmith etc.

Pharnabazos, the Diviner of Hermes. Two Ostraka with Curse Letters from Olbia Andrei Lebedev

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[scarletofhufflepuff]

My new favorite au? Bruce Wayne adopting Peter Parker. Or at least, an au where either Bruce(or Batman, or at least the Batkids) or Clark(as Superman) befriend him when Peter is Spider-Man. I blame the following fics and their fantastic writing for this:

Dark Matter by mysterycyclone, Spider-Man Reborn by Karireiin, and the series of fics titled “Convergence”(with the first Fic in the series being titled “Unforeseen Consequences”) also by mysterycyclone.

These fics are a very good read, I highly recommend them.

I didn’t want to crowd my post with too many words so I added the break up above to hopefully avoid that. Here I just wanted to add the summaries of each fic I recommended.

Dark Matter:

“The last thing Peter sees is Tony's horrified, heartbroken expression leaning over him. The guilt in his eyes is almost worse than the burning pain that's taking Peter apart piece by piece. The world starts to go dark.

There's a flash of gold and green. For one moment, he finds himself standing amongst the Guardians and others. And then darkness again. It feels like blinking; an extended period of nothingness that ends as abruptly as it begins. One moment there’s nothing, the next there’s light.

“Easy,” a woman says. Her words are gentle, and carry a slight accent that he can’t place. "I'm called Wonder Woman. What's your name?"”

Spider-Man Reborn:

“The spell Dr. Stephen Strange cast did not only make the world forget Peter Parker- it unmade him.

Peter is reborn in Gotham, born into a new family with a second chance at life. Could he save them from Parker Luck before he loses his family again? Can Peter survive Gotham and it's Rogues?

————

Incomplete: Part 1 is done but it splits to two separate endings which are still being written.”

Unforeseen Consequences:

“Tony Stark saves the world. He dies minutes later. Peter comes back from the battle to a world that’s changed three times over: first with the Snap and his death, the next with the Reverse Snap that ends the Blip, and one more change, courtesy of an accidental thought during the Reverse Snap: the unification of two separate universes into one. This last results in a physically larger planet, and several new cities, fully formed and inhabited, popping into existence around the world. Gotham City. Metropolis, Keystone City. A few others.

Peter takes this news the only way he can: he accepts it and moves on. So he does. Peter is still reeling from the war against Thanos, but he keeps pushing forward. The realities of this new world find him later, when he visits Metropolis with J. Jonah Jameson for a conference.”

[queenpiranhadon]

- Love Like You, Rebecca Sugar

I...write for pretty much anything! You can check my fandoms list through the main navigation on my intro post!

Here are the ones I'm most comfortable writing for though:

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› My Hero Academia / Boku No Hero Academia

› Jujutsu Kaisen

› Spy x Family

› Demon Slayer

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› Harry Potter

› Riordanverse (check my fandoms list to which series I've read)

› The Inheritance Games

› Keeper of the Lost Cities

› The Hunger Games

ᴛᴠ ꜱʜᴏᴡꜱ + ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇꜱ ➜

› MCU

› Avatar the Last Airbender & Legend of Korra

› Lego Ninjago

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› Stardew Valley

› Genshin Impact

ᡣ𐭩 = romantic pairing; ✩ = platonic pairing, ✿ = x another character (usually canon ship)

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› ⎸ Bakugou Katsuki ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Kirishima Ejirou ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Takami Keigo / Hawks ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Todoroki Touya / Dabi ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Aizawa Shouta ✩ ⎸ Hitoshi Shinsou ✩ ⎸ Todoroki Shouto ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Midoriya Izuku ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸

› ⎸ Eri ✩ ⎸ Ashido Mina ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Jirou Kyoka ✩ ⎸ Asui Tsuyu ✩ ⎸ Yaoyorozu Momo ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Usagiyama Rumi ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸

› ⎸ Gojo Satoru ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Sukuna Ryomen ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Itadori Yuji ✩ ⎸ Fushiguro Megumi ✩ ⎸ Nanami Kento ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Geto Suguru ᡣ𐭩 ⎸

› ⎸Kugisaki Nobara ✩ ⎸ Maki Zen'in ✩ ⎸

› ⎸ Anya Forger ✩ ⎸ Yor Forger ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Loid Forger ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Kamado Tanjirou ✩ ⎸ Hashibira Inosuke ✩ ⎸ Agatsuma Zenitsu ✩ ⎸ Tomika Giyu ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Uzui Tengen ᡣ𐭩 ⎸

› ⎸ Kamado Nezuko ✩ ⎸ Kanroji Mitsuri ✩ ⎸

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› ⎸ Sirius Black ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Fred Weasley ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Remus Lupin ✩✿ ⎸ James Potter ✩ ⎸

› ⎸ Hermione Granger ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Luna Lovegood ✩ ⎸ Ginny Weasley ✩ ⎸ Nymphadora Tonks ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Percy Jackson ✩✿ ⎸ Grover Underwood ✩ ⎸ Nico DiAngelo ✩✿ ⎸ Will Solace ✩✿ ⎸ Jason Grace ✩ ⎸ Leo Valdez ✩ ⎸ Luke Castellan ✩ ⎸ Frank Zhang ✩✿ ⎸ Carter Kane ✩✿ ⎸ Walt Stone ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Annabeth Chase ✩✿ ⎸ Piper McLean ✩ ⎸ Thalia Grace ✩ ⎸ Hazel Levesque ✩✿ ⎸ Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano ✩ ⎸ Sadie Kane ✩✿ ⎸ Zia Rashid ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Jameson Hawthorne ✩✿ ⎸ Grayson Hawthorne ᡣ𐭩 ⎸ Nash Hawthorne ✩✿ ⎸ Xander Hawthorne ✩ ⎸

› ⎸ Avery Kylie Grambs ✩✿ ⎸ Libby Grambs ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Keefe Sencen ✩✿ ⎸ Fitz Vacker ✩ ⎸ Dex Dizznee ✩✿ ⎸ Tam Song ✩✿ ⎸ Kesler Dizznee ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Sophie Foster ✩✿ ⎸ Biana Vacker ✩✿ ⎸ Marella Redek ✩✿ ⎸ Linh Song ✩✿ ⎸ Juline Dizznee ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Finnick Odair ᡣ𐭩✩ ⎸ Peeta Mellark ✩✿ ⎸ Haymitch Abernathy ✩ ⎸ Coriolanus Snow ✩✿ ⎸

› ⎸ Katniss Everdeen ✩✿ ⎸ Rue Barnette ✩ ⎸ Cressida ✩ ⎸ Lucy Gray Baird ✩✿ ⎸ Johanna Mason ✩ ⎸

ᴛᴠ ꜱʜᴏᴡꜱ + ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇꜱ ➜

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Cosplay the Classics: Elizabeth Montgomery in “Two”

“Two” first aired on 15 September 1961 and is the first episode of the third season of The Twilight Zone. Sadly, “Two” is the only episode that features Elizabeth Montgomery.

Montgomery was nearly ten years into her professional career in 1961. She had already carved out a solid resume in television, appearing prolifically on anthology and episodic shows and occasionally stretched her legs on the New York stage. Samantha Stephens was still three years away when Montgomery took her voyage through The Twilight Zone.

In its five seasons, The Twilight Zone was a crossroads of up-and-coming and well-established performers. “Two” paired the rising star Montgomery with Charles Bronson, who had a decade more acting experience in TV and film than Montgomery. Though Bronson was the more established star, “Two” is Montgomery’s showcase.

Read on below the jump!

“Two” relies on minimal dialogue throughout and notably Montgomery only has a single line spoken. The role relies almost entirely on Montgomery’s action/reaction, expression, and styling. The episode begins on Montgomery as The Woman wandering an abandoned city. The first nine minutes of the episode pass with no dialogue, with context given by visual elements and Serling’s opening narration. The entire episode takes place on a small section of city street (at the old Hal Roach studios, conveniently already in disrepair). 

We learn through newspapers and magazines that this city is in The Man’s homeland, invaded by The Woman’s nation’s army. Signs of the city’s long five-year abandonment are everywhere, including full skeletons left where they fell. (The macabre element of skeletons is used sparingly across the Twilight Zone and usually in circumstances less grounded in reality than “Two,” such as “Long Live Walter Jameson” and “Queen of the Nile.”) As The Man mulls over his first encounter with The Woman a dove flies up behind him as a symbol of his genuine desire for peace. Through a variety of posters and advertisements, we learn that The Man’s homeland had a culture heavily invested in war.

Collage of the war-related paraphernalia in “Two”

All of that is solid storytelling, but Montgomery’s acting adds an extra something. When The Woman first encounters The Man, Montgomery performs hair-trigger reactivity. Despite The Woman’s dire situation—a stranded foreigner in a decimated country with seemingly no chance to ever return home—her reluctance to trust The Man is significant. Pairing Montgomery’s wordless portrayal of these responses with the jingoistic quality of The Man’s homeland and the notable length of time that the city has been abandoned makes me feel that her feelings might not be a simple holdover of wartime hostility on her part but potentially extended trauma. Perhaps The Woman had previous awful experiences with other straggling remnants of The Man’s military, who may not have been as ready as The Man to give up wartime attitudes in spite of the war clearly being over.

The Woman is understandably acting like a cornered animal. As the episode progresses, The Man tries to be as calculated as possible in communicating to The Woman that he doesn’t want a fight through his actions, turning his back to her, and not retaliating the third time she launches an attack on him. Montgomery, in turn, does a great job of drawing out the cornered animal characterization—alternating between curiosity, hope, mistrust, and open hostility. Montgomery’s characterization gives the role the added dimension that saves the episode from feeling too much like an overly simple fable.

Unfortunately, it’s in executing the fabular aspect of the story where “Two” falters. The opening narration by Serling specifies: 

“It’s been five years since a human being walked these streets. This is the first day of the sixth year as man used to measure time.  “The time: perhaps a hundred years from now, or sooner, or perhaps it’s already happened two-million years ago. The place: The signposts are in English so that we may read them more easily, but the place is The Twilight Zone.”

It’s established here that the location is meant to be a stand-in for any city in any country, and that the use of English is merely a storytelling convenience. So, even though “Two” is intended as a Cold-War era anti-war statement, they are intentionally distancing the fiction from the contemporary real-world conflict. To create further distance from a contemporary place/time, they establish that the rifles are laser guns.

But, then, that one line that Montgomery speaks in “Two,” seventeen minutes in, is “Prekrasny” or “прекрасны,” a Russian word for beautiful or pretty. This pretty much grinds to a halt the concept that this is a cautionary fable and not a vision of a dark future where the Soviet Union and the United States moved to open warfare. While I’ll admit that the conventions used to establish “Two” as a fable are cheeky and a little on the corny side, the episode itself would have been stronger without the suggestion that The Woman is Russian.

I’m not sure who made the call to use a Russian word. I wonder if perhaps Serling wrote his introduction and he had a different read on the story than its writer, Montgomery Pittman. Maybe Pittman intended “Two” to be more of a dark premonition with a twist of optimism and Serling thought of it more as a fable and the two approaches hampered each other in the final product? This is pure speculation on my part of course, but it’s a black mark on what I think could have been an even better episode than it is.

Regardless, I think “Two” is a strong episode and a fine example of a Serling-esque story written by someone brought on to lighten the load of Serling, who worked himself to the bone on Twilight Zone. I also appreciate Pittman’s confidence to rely so heavily on visual storytelling techniques, taking into account that the high quality at which we watch the show now does not reflect the quality home viewers would have had in 1961. It reflects both Serling and the producers belief that viewers would be fully engaged in watching the show as it aired rather than just passively having it on in the family room while unwinding after dinner. 

Elizabeth Montgomery’s performance heightens the whole affair considerably. That’s no shade on Charles Bronson, in fact I think the monologuing he’s given could have come off as unbearably hokey if delivered by a lesser actor.

If you can believe it, this is my very first time cosplaying The Twilight Zone! (Though I did play Rod Serling in a set of sketches in high school. I was as weird as a teenager as I am an adult, okay?) If you didn’t already know, I run another blog called Twilight Zone in Close-ups, examining the powerful use of close-up shots on the show by testing out how much of each episode’s story can be communicated solely by its close-up shots.

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Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Round 1 - Part 1/2 (Polls 1-99)

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My fancast for an expanded Raimiverse fancast

Only recasting Venom since Topher was just not Venom. He wasn't.

Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker

Kirsten Dunst as Mary-Jane Watson

Sadie Sink as Spider-Girl/Mayday Parker

James Franco as Harry Osborn/New Goblin

Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy

Rosemary Harris as Aunt May Parker

JK Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson

Bill Nunn as Robbie Robertson

Elizabeth Banks as Betty Brant

James Cromwell as Captain George Stacy

Gina Torres as Jean DeWolff

Glenn Close as Madame Webb

Joe Manganiello as Flash Thompson/Agent Venom

Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin/Norman Osborn

Alfred Molina as Doc Ock/Otto Octavius

Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko

Skeet Ulrich as Venom/Eddie Brock

Matthew Lillard as Carnage/Cletus Cassidy

John Malkovich as The Vulture/Adrian Toombs

Anne Hathaway as Black Cat/Felicia Hardy(I know Raimi originally intended for her to be Vulture's daughter and the She-Vulture, but that was dumb)

Dylan Baker as The Lizard/Curt Connors

Bruce Campbell as Mysterio/Quentin Beck

Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk

Arnold Vosloo as Scorpion/Mac Gargan

Ben Foster as Electro/Max Dillon

Kevin Grevioux as Tombstone/Lonnie Lincoln

Jackie Chan as Mister Negative/Martin Li

Keanu Reeves as Dr. Michael Morbius

Doug Jones as Chameleon

Matthew McConaughey as Hydro Man

Due to tumblr's bullshit 30 photo limit, cann't post anymore

Ben Stiller as Shocker

Russell Crowe as Kraven the Hunter

Vinnie Jones as The Rhino/Aleksei Sytsevich

Brad Douriff as Hobgoblin/Roderick Kingsley

Daniel Day-Lewis as Iron Man/Tony Stark

Brad Pitt as Captain America/Steve Rogers

Karl Urban as Thor Odinson

Eric Bana as The Hulk/Bruce Banner

Milla Jovovich as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

Paul Walker as Hawkeye/Clint Barton

Kurt Russell as Nick Cage

Ewan McGregor as Ant-Man/Hank Pym

Natalie Portman as Wasp/Janet Van Dyne

Rachel Weisz as Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff

Jake Gyllenhaal as Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff

Denzel Washington as Black Panther/T'Challa

Charlize Theron as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers

Cuba Gooding Jr. as War/Machine/James Rhodes

Hugh Jackmas as Wolverine

Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier

Famke Janssen as Jean Grey

James Marsden as Cyclops/Scott Summers

Halle Berry as Storm/Ororo Munroe

Ioan Gruffudd as Mr Fantastic/Reed Richards

Jessica Alba as Invisible Woman/Sue Storm

Chris Evans as Human Torch/Johnny Storm

Michael Chiklis as The Thing/Ben Grimm

Laurence Fishburne as Silver Surfer

Oded Fehr as Doctor Strange/Stephen Strange

Ben Affleck as Daredevil/Matt Murdock

Jennifer Garner as Elektra

Thomas Jane as The Punisher

Terry Crews as Luke Cage

Nicholas Cage as Ghost Rider

Jim Carrey as Loki Laufeyson

Jude Law as Ultron

Ron Pearlman as Thanos

Ian McKellan as Magneto

Julian McMahon as Dr Doom

Rufus Sewell as Baron Mordo