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brokecorviknight · 1 year ago

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Hatchetfield Pokémon AU - Partner List:

Main Characters:

TGWDLM:

Paul Matthews - Exploud

Emma Perkins - Porygon

BF:

Tom Houston - Donphan

Becky Barnes - Comfey

Lex Foster - Zigzagoon (Cressellia is also here)

Hannah Foster - Mew

NPMD:

Pete Spankoffski - Stoutland

Steph Lauter - Luxray

Grace Chasity - Hatterene

Max Jägerman - Passimian

LIB:

Wiggly (Wiggog Y’rath) / Wendell (Dark/Psychic)

Nibbly (Nibblenephim) / Nicky (Dark/Psychic)

Pokey (Pokotho) / Porter (Dark/Psychic)

Blinky (Bliklotep) / Blaine (Dark/Psychic)

Tinky (T’noy Karaxis) / Theo (Theodore) (Dark/Psychic)

Webby (Queen in White) / Wendy (Psychic/Dark)

Important Characters:

TGWDLM:

Ted Spankoffski - Volcarona

Bill Woodward - Leavanny

Alice Woodward - Skitty

Prof. Henry Hidgens - Liligant

Gen. John MacNamara - Genesect

BF:

Ethan Greene - Cyclizar

Linda Monroe - Vespiqueen

Tim Houston - Cubone

NPMD:

Richie Lipschitz - Gallade

Ruth Fleming - Sprigatito

Solomon Lauter - Honchkrow

Detective Shapiro - Pikachu

NT:

Henry (Fake Prof. Henry Hidgens) - Mimikyu

Lucy Stockworth - Gholdengo

Wooly-Foot - Galrian Darmanitan

Konk (Ted Spankoffski) - Darmanitan

Pryce Perkins (Paul Matthews 23) - Ditto

Emilia Matthews (Emma Perkins Android) - MissingNo

Time Bastard / Homeless Man (Ted Spankoffski) - Iron Moth and Slither Wing

Jane Houston (Perkins) - Revaroom

Miss Holloway - Hypno

Duke Keane - Snorlax

Gerald Monroe - Vivallon

Perky (Emma Perkins) - Aribolva

Ziggy - Shiftry

Jeri - Nidoqueen

Jerry - Nidoking

Lumber Axe (Lil’ Jerry) - Witchwood Haxorus

Shelia Young - Froslass

Rose - Toxtricity

Melissa - Meowstick (Female)

Puss - Espeon

Named Characters:

TGWDLM:

Greenpeace girl / Harmony Jones - Shaymin

Ken Davidson - Grumpig

Charlotte Sweetly - Oinkalogne

Sam Sweetly - Braviary

Nora - Minccino

Zoey Chambers - Alcreamie

Deb - Liepard

BF:

Frank Pricely - Sableye

Sherman Young - Salazzle

Gary Goldstein - Meowth

Uncle Wiley / Wilbur Cross - Tentacruel

Man in a Hurry / Barry Swift - Yanmega

Dude with Peanut - Pachirisu (Peanut)

Xander Lee - Empoleon

President - Unfezant (Male)

NPMD:

Mark Chasity - Flapple

Karen Chasity - Appletun

Off. Bailey - Skarmory

Kyle - Chesnaught

Brenda - Oricorio (Electric)

Jason - Bastiodon

Caitlyn - Altaria

Ms. Mulberry- Audino

Ms. Tessburger - Corsola

Rudolph - Sawsbuck

Brook - Finneon

Trevor Lipschitz - Magcargo

NT:

Allison - Lanturn

Madame Iris - Reuniclus

Craig - Tropius

Barker - Coalossal

Rupert - Gigalith

Jonathan Brisby - Tyrantrum

Sylvia - Floatzel

Andy / Executive Kilgore - Aggron

Jenny - Milotic

Dan Reynolds - Karrablast

Donna Daggit - Shelmet

Tony Greene - Klingklang

Jacqueline Frost - Glaceon

Pamala Foster - Komala

Roman Murray - Morpeko

River Monroe - Combee (Male) or Teddyursa

Trent Monroe - Venomoth

Seaton Monroe - Ninjask

Jordan Monroe - Shuckle

Malone - Octillery

Hailey - Skuntank

Zach Chambers - Gogoat

Liz - Beartic

Judith - Butterfree

Martha - Clawitzer

Mary - Bibarel

Mima Chambers - Drampa

Bob Metzger - Witchwood Aegislash

Carl Metzger - Witchwood Doublade

Larz Metzger - Witchwood Doublade

Louie Metzger - Witchwood Honedge

Mary - Medichan

Noah - Furret

Gabe - Sudowoodo

Marco - Copperajah

Kale - Chatot

Thrash - Noivern

Skud - Rillaboom

Courtney - Zebstrika

Russ - Scovillain

Beth - Centiskorch

Eddie Chiplucky - Krookodile

Stopwatch / Daniel - Phantump

Spitfire / Sophia - Blaziken

Charles - Type: Null

Bruno - Pangoro

Otho - Flamigo

Freddie Biggs - Corviknight

Mina - Pyroar (Female)

Chrissy - Alolan Persian

Aubrey - Purugly

Teddy Bear - Mabosstiff

Jerrie - Golurk

Different Actors:

Hot Chocolate Boy (Peter Spankoffski) (TGWDLM) - Polteageist

Pete Spankoffski (AC) - Aromatisse

Prof. Henry Hidgens (HQ) - Jigglypuff

Prof. Henry Hidgens (WB) - Spinda

Max Jägerman (TGWDLM) - Cinderace

Ethan Greene (YJ) - Goodra

(I’ve been working on this for a few weeks. I thought it would be fun to share. Hope you all enjoy it)

#the lords in black #hatchetfield #team starkid #starkid #paul matthews #emma perkins #becky barnes #tom houston #grace chasity #steph lauter #pete spankoffski #max jagerman #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time

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ubu507 · 4 months ago

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In an episode near the end of their marriage, Ted Hughes found a joint in the house, and the ensuing crisis prompted Sylvia Plath to reveal to him a secret from her past.

"I did a little experimenting myself," Sylvia said. "With JFK. I want you to know I've smoked pot."

Tensions rose in the air she prepared to confess. “JFK?” said Ted sharply. "What do you know?"

In fact, insiders say Sylvia Plath visited JFK when First Lady Jackie was out of town, turning him on to marijuana and LSD while he bared his administration's darkest secrets.

And Sylvia, cool casual Sylvia, without emotion, would she fit better into JFK's mold – with the help of those drugged cigarettes?

Sylvia rolled a couple of joints for Jack before going to the party and they tentatively chatted.

"You seem to know all about it," JFK said. "I wish I could turn-on. All the groovy people seem to."

"Well, don't worry," she said. "We'll fix you up. I know a Stone"

"You have to be a nut to go for them psychedelic drugs," the cabbie said, enjoying the captive audience as he drove them to Brian Jones’s estate. "How do you know what's going to happen to you when you turn-on with that stuff?"

“The politics of imagination and the hallucinogenic drugs used in the 1960s as part of the drive towards a visionary quest have always incited material opposition,” said Sylvia. “Western materialism considers decadent those whose preoccupations are with inner events. Like Brian.”

Brian Jones had withdrawn into his own private world, experimenting with drugs alongside his close friend Sylvia Plath and, some say JFK.

When they arrived they were both conscious of an oversweet scent in the air. "Pot" Sylvia said in answer to JFK's quizzical look. "Don't worry," she mocked. "I don't freak out on drugs."

For a while, Smith dorms were sweet with pot parties. It hadn't lasted.

When they got there The usual groover types were lying about the front room, stoned and hypnotized by the dream machine.

Hundreds of slender joints had been rolled and were accessible in bowls and on paper plates while fruit jars of the manicured pot had

been set out for those who might bring their own special smoking devices.

Incense smoke curled out of three or four empty coffee cans and clouded the apartment with murky fragrance.

JFK went in and frankly was a bit surprised at the scene. There were five or six sets of hippies sitting around the place.

They were smoking pot no doubt about that. Mostly they were just sitting there gazing rapturously at the lights surrounding them.

The dream machine experience begins with what visually approximates a perpetually metamorphosing Persian rug.

As the color spectrum broadens so the symmetrical patterns

grow increasingly intricate.

From where Sylvia sat she could see the narrow hall with walls all swirling colors, painted with exploding women and acid flowers, plus the odd monster or two.

Purple walls. And a Reynolds Wrap ceiling. And on the purple walls and Reynolds Wrap ceiling gold circles and half-moons. And on the gold circles and half-moons, on the purple walls and Reynolds Wrap ceiling black red and green letters spelling out words Like LOVE or phrases like: There is no life above the grasstops or Reveal Your Nature! And Let Me Lick it! Over it all hung a miasma of marijuana.

Brian Jones had never appeared so radically divorced from reality

As he wandered amongst the crowd as the unofficial Shaman of ceremonies or perhaps as the drug-addled Acid King.

I'm so high and so dry

I'm sailin' in the sky

Just blow some gage

I'm on a rampage,

Jack, I'm mellow

The blond, long-haired Brian put down his guitar and

came over and flopped down on the cot near JFK's chair.

Brian Jones smiled, took out a joint and lit up in a moment another sweet, sickening odor was added to the room's collection.

He took a few drags and said "Jack, you don't seem to fit in."

Sylvia reached over, lifted Brian Jones's cigarette and had a deep puff.

"Smoke the marijuana sometime. You know a little in the evening.

Every now and then."

Without a word she handed the cigarette over to JFK.

"None of us are habitual smokers but it is nice to have sometimes on a quiet night when there is nothing special to do"

A sharp pain like a knife slashed down JFK's windpipe into his lungs

"Hold it" Sylvia coached. "Hold it" She pressed the flat of his hand across JFK's mouth for a minute preventing him from exhaling.

He dropped the joint and Brian picked up the fallen reefer and handed it back to JFK.

Sylvia moved to sit in the exact center of the rug, lighting one of the tiny cigarettes, and shaking the daisy petals of her bright head.

She sucked in her breath hard, studying the stick of tea holding it in front of her eyes, concentrating on the spiral of smoke

"Real crazy stuff" Brian Jones said proudly. "This cat came back from Vietnam with a barracks bag full of it. Wild, man. He says you're walking through the jungle over there, 90 miles from the asshole of nowhere, all spooky and mean, and some little guy will run out of the grass and grab your arm and say “Hey Mac you want to buy some hash?"

Then he stood a minute watching. "Take another drag, Jack," he said finally. Slowly JFK's hand rose to his mouth almost against his will, but it rose. The pain was not nearly as sharp this time.

"If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish," said Brian.

If he had gotten high JFK didn't know it, or even what high was supposed to be. He remembered now still blinking at Sylvia's freckled back becoming terribly sleepy after smoking the bitter cigarettes, then eating the sweet crunchy bars of chocolate.

Brian Jones had let them share his vibrations – a tape of Moroccan ear-zonkers that Brion Gysin had lifted somewhere. And the rockets of music flew overhead.

Brahim Jones Joujouka Very Stoned

"Listen to that sound," Brian Jones said excitedly. "Isn't that beautiful? It sounds like a bag of snakes."

Inspired, he picked up his guitar:

I'm so high and so dry

I'm way up in the sky

The world seems light

And I'm so right

Jack, I'm mellow

"It's crazy" Brian Jones said. "But I figure if we can get a commission on how pot doesn't corrupt anybody – except the fuzz. Look at Sylvia over there. Does she look corrupted?"

Sylvia inhaled deeply and held the smoke deep within her lungs, her large tits jutting out from her chest as she sucked on the small cigarette

“Capitalist ideologies function by the manipulative means of keeping the collective immersed in real time,” she said, after she’d exhaled.

But right now JFK wanted something that would reassure him that this was really a great kick.

Mentally, he tallied the effects: Euphoria. Thought magnification all the way to thought animation. Formal structures seen on their own terms. Aesthetic experiences, all brought into high relief. Self and other mix and pull apart. Perspective.

It was absolutely the greatest JFK told himself, enveloped in exhilaration. What a kook he'd been, to miss this.

Brian was still talking. Meditation and self-discipline were part of his ideas, he explained, but the whole process should be combined with drugs.

"Wow, You kids are really hip." JFK's eyes strayed religiously to the high rise of Sylvia’s breasts, pushing audaciously against her blue cashmere sweater.

Both of them stayed quietly, with their backs to a wall, super stoned while it happened all around them. Then she felt his arm around her waist.

“Drugs accelerate the opening of the mind.” Brian Jones kept on saying that drugs were part of our evolution

“Cannabis may be mankind's first cultivated plant, but it has never lost its wildness.” he said as he wandered off, guitar in hand.

Sylvia drew on her joint, and began to sway with the music, head back , eyes closed, mouth slightly parted. She gyrated to the beat of the music, mentally willing JFK to join her.

JFK grinned his eyes fastened to the tight stretch of fabric across her breasts.

It was not Sylvia who danced. He thought. It was the dope.

For a moment JFK felt that he was above it all, beyond the reach of ordinary rules and laws. He could have done any sort of physical task no matter how difficult. He was amazed at himself as compared to what he had been only a few moments before.

"Take off your sweater and let me look at you," he urgently ordered.

Sylvia moved her shoulders backward in a deliberately provocative gesture.

"Crazy" JFK muttered but his hand found its way beneath the cashmere sweater. Beneath the filmy bra.

"Take off your clothes and let me see your gorgeous body." JFK said, removing his coat and tie.

Sylvia pulled her sweater slowly above her breasts, over her head. Dropped it at her feet.

She arched toward him so that he could find the snaps that restrained the pulsating rise of her breasts.

His swift intake of breath at the sight of her popping above the limp lace was like a good chew of khat – the old African aphrodisiac that the CIA had brought to him.

Sylvia stretched her arms high above her head lifting her breasts into freestanding mounds, tips stiffening audaciously.

His hand that wasn't occupied with his joint clutched at the high rise of her.

So what JFK thought defiantly. His mouth descended in a sudden hunger that brought forth a gasp of pleasure.

Oh Golly, he thought in sweet abandon, I could go ape this way!

She knew how she looked hovering there before him in brief panties and nylons. She was glad her breasts were full and firm,with the nipples pushing out enticingly from huge dark circles that no longer embarrassed her.

She felt strange, high, like she was someone else.

When she was naked, she went over and kneeled down before JFK.

On the floor he reached down and took her breasts in his hands and started squeezing them.

She lay close against him, not moving except for the lift of her round breasts.

The masturbation scene was something she had been into before.

She had been taught to masturbate by a far out guy named Wilhelm Reich.

In time she grew to enjoy the caress. Enjoy having him firm and demanding in her hands, enjoy the excitement that coursed through him and the pleasure that her hands brought him.

JFK was trance-like and intent on reaching his mind-climax. But Sylvia couldn't concentrate. Too many walls were bending and colors changing, and she couldn't get the words or ideas together in her head.

As his cock pumped deeper and deeper down her throat she was struck by the idea that, at that moment, all his power rested in her mouth. I may never go down in history, she couldn't help thinking, but I am certainly going down on it.

Then she heard a ghost of a memory say a Leary thing that No trip is a real trip without... but she could not hear the ghost's whisper. She could only feel the wetness of his hands on her body and the rhythm of his words.

The floor beneath her felt as comfortable and soft as her own bed. The hands that touched and prodded, the mouth that kissed, felt absolutely one hundred percent out of this world

Really will go ape JFK thought dizzily. It was too marvelous to be real.

This was one of those crazy drugs that make everything bigger than reality. “Let it never end, he gasped in soaring ecstasy.

And then there was no need for talk because they were all-absorbed in this compulsion to merge completely, the sounds of their labored breathing, blending with the sultry beat of the recording repeating itself endlessly.

Don't let this ever be over, JFK thought, passion lifting him to incredible ecstasy, Don't let it ever be over! And then the dam of his passion bathed her and he spilled over with soft moans of satisfaction.

It was nice to know how lost he got in the sensation, because it helped Sylvia get lost as well and until she got lost she could never get there.

I'm so high and so dry

I'm sailin' in the sky

I got my roach around

I can't come down

Jack, I'm mellow

JFK was dazed, rather drugged with experience and sensation.

He understood a lot of what happened at the party. But a lot of it baffled him. He'd been blowing pot true, but a lot of what Brian had been saying made sense.

He decided to call for serious research in the public and private sector

To determine whether there are benefits from marijuana. A Presidential panel to end the politicized debate by conducting in-depth and impartial scientific research into possible benefits for some patients.

"Her eyes were red, white and blue, hurrah," added JFK and lit a joint, handing it to Sylvia.

JFK slipped by in slow motion. He slid his eyes into slits. He reconnoitered reefer wracked and wrapped in a marijuana mushroom cloud.

Brian Jones listened superciliously and said "Really, Sylvia." And spreading his legs asked her to suck him off to make him less uptight.

Maybe if he'd asked her to plate him, she might have obliged, feeling guilty as she did about Jack’s cum on the rug, but she hated the "suck me off" expression, and together with all his cracks about her and JFK, she didn't feel very cooperative.

So she told him no she really couldn't manage it right now

He gave her a disappointed look and asked her to roll him a joint instead. Which she did

She wandered off for a bath hoping Brian Jones would forget about JFK.

The same afternoon, Detective Inspector raided a London flat belonging to Brian Jones and confiscated for chemical analysis 11 different items, including suspicious vegetative matter.

My mother's friend Sylvia smoked pot with JFK and he told her that it's actually better for you than cigarettes because it doesn't have all the extra chemicals that cigarette makers put in tobacco. Was he right?

FH, 14, Missouri

Dear FH,

What if Sylvia is with her guy JFK when he's busted for possession, she's going to get in lots of trouble. Or what if he’s “holding” when he happens to be assassinated, what would our nation think of that?

Let Sylvia know that if she really wants to be a great girlfriend she needs to help her guy JFK get off drugs.

You shall hear from Detective Inspector, of the Drug Squad of Scotland Yard, who has taken part in raids on many premises

Where cannabis resin was being smoked and who is familiar with its effects.

You have heard about a naked girl and a strong unusual smell. We are not in any way concerned with who that young woman was or may have been. But was she someone who had lost her inhibitions? And had she lost them because she had been smoking Indian Hemp?

The passing on of the habit, which seems to be one of the strongest desires of the drug fiend, makes Mr. Jones even more dangerous to society than he might otherwise become.

What had to be proved by the Crown is that Brian Jones knew and permitted someone else to smoke cannabis in his house.

It presumably wasn’t the drugs per se which caused the authorities such vindictive consternation, it was more the altered states of consciousness with which they are associated.

Sylvia’s drug case came and went. She got off with a small fine, by playing it very straight, saying that she had just been trying to find out what it was all about, that she didn't like it, and she was sorry and never again.

Actually, Sylvia did not truly understand the reason why she did drugs. She guessed her reason was quite shallow. She enjoyed them.

When she thought about it, whenever she smoked some bud with her buddies she ended up having a great time. When she was stoned Everything was kind of fun – you could just play records and have a good time when you might normally be kind of bored. It was pretty darn sad really. Wasn't it?

Brian Jones was unable to shrug off his drug charges so flippantly. Slipping further into notoriety at his own case on October 30, he was found guilty of possessing cannabis and allowing his flat to be used for the smoking of the drug.

Brian in a convincingly repentant mood, spoke from the witness box of drugs as having “only brought me trouble and disrupted my career, and I hope this will be an example for all young people who wish to try them.”

In the end it is understandably difficult to believe that a woman who had performed sex acts with Kennedy, smoking pot with him, perhaps turning him on to LSD, a woman who knew Brian Jones and believed Kennedy had been murdered as the result of high level conspiracy to prevent him from legalizing marijuana –

Moreover a woman who was married to a poet who was a known CIA asset in charge of “dirty tricks” against the UK's leftist writers – how could her mysterious “suicide” not be related to Kennedy’s assassination and its cover-up?

And what of Brain Jones’s own inexplicable drowning?

At the end Sylvia saw JFK at a far window, beyond her reach in a golden haze. She wanted to shout a warning, but couldn't spring the words. She could only taste marijuana on her tongue.

"Anything wrong? JFK asked

"No, nothing," Sylvia said. "It's just the marijuana.”

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warningsine · 1 year ago

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In the second-season premiere of GLOW, which hit Netflix June 29, Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) surprises her boss, frustrated filmmaker and wrestling-show director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), with a dinky promo she filmed at a local mall during a free afternoon. The assembled wrestlers love it, as does network rep Glen (Andrew Friedman). But Sam doesn’t. He yells at his employees, who are all young women: “Who here is confused about who the director is? Really? No one is confused? Because I’m fucking confused.” When Ruth attempts to shield the others from responsibility, he directs his ire at her. “Are you making a move on my job, Ruth? . . . Honey, I don’t need your help. I need you to be a fucking actress . . . You’re not a director just 'cause you take a fucking camera to the mall."

When Reggie (Marianna Palka) interrupts to defend Ruth’s work—and points out that time in the Season 1 finale when Ruth covered for Sam—he immediately, inexplicably fires her. Ruth follows him to his office, and tries to talk him out of the decision. “I had ideas,” she says defensively. “O.K., well, put ’em in your diary,” he responds. “You’re all replaceable. Even you, Ruth.”

Throughout all of this, Maron is fantastic in the role of Sam. His character is a frustrating and frustrated creative leader, well-intentioned but constantly angry, obsessed with his own narrative of failure. Maron’s performance is magnetic; it’s as if every scene bends toward his all-too-period-appropriate aviators and his Burt Reynolds mustache.

In fact, he’s so good as the show-within-a-show’s demanding, exploitative creative lead that he might just be GLOW’s stealth protagonist—which is a problem, because GLOW, created by showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch and executive produced by Jenji Kohan, is supposed to be an ensemble comedy about a diverse group of women. Brie frequently uses the word “empowering” to describe the show and its ethos; recently, she called GLOW a “feminist oasis”. In Season 1, it was: Ruth, a protagonist who became a heel (wrestling jargon for “villain”), was an unexpected kind of female character—an unlikeable heroine discovering her talents and herself through an athletic, muscle-bound medium. The show’s premise offered its characters some combination of grit and glitter as a means to liberate themselves from the prison of oppressive history—a cathartic, rare feat, still, for women on television.

In its second season, though, the show never quite seems to know who it’s about. There is hardly a plot to be found; wrestling is no longer in the foreground, and what wrestling we do see lacks the convincing stunts or arresting ugliness of the genre. That cadre of diverse women is mostly shunted to the background as well—Ellen Wong and Britney Young get little screen time; Sunita Mani and Sydelle Noel have more material, but their stories still feel marginal. And they rarely, if ever, interact with the lead performers. (That these actresses all play characters whose wrestling personas are racist stereotypes does not help the overall effect.) Instead, the show ends up focusing on easier stories: material about the white male billionaire Bash Howard (Chris Lowell), for example, and Sam’s evolving relationship with his daughter Justine (Britt Baron). The family plot is an opportunity for Maron to play Sam as an abrasive, gruff, good-hearted dad with an unconventional but perceptive parenting style. Both Bash’s and Sam’s story lines are fine, but they take up precious space—and have nothing to do with wrestling or women.

Perhaps this shift wouldn’t rankle quite so much if Sam weren’t such an unrepentant asshole, specifically toward women. After dressing down Ruth in the premiere, Sam spends the next several episodes punishing her—alternating between refusing to give her airtime and giving her the worst spots in the show, and eventually doing what he can to sabotage her flirtation with the new cameraman, Russell (Victor Quinaz). Five episodes later, he apologizes, after Ruth attends a screening for one of his long-forgotten films—an action that essentially reinforces his superiority as a director.

She sits a few rows behind him, wreathed in apologetic smiles. He disdains her careful management of his feelings, calling it “creepy.” Eventually he apologizes—if one can call this an apology: “I’m not angry with you. I’m an insecure old man. I get defensive. Sue me.” Three episodes after that, Sam tries to kiss Ruth.

The show has no trouble casting Ruth as the creative punching bag for Sam’s on-set tantrums, the subject of endless put-downs about her looks and personality. Ruth and Sam appear to be engaged in an abusive dynamic, but GLOW doesn’t quite seem to know that, or care. Worst of all, in its second season, the show trades Ruth’s dignity for Sam’s interiority; by the end, our supposed lead has almost no substance to her character, aside from her constant, painful drive to matter. Brie throws her all into that aspect, but there’s no masking that Season 2 of GLOW has become a show where Ruth Wilder waits for Sam to do something mean to her, before quietly picking up the pieces.

In the show’s defense, there is a subtler story being told here. Ruth’s victim complex is activated by both Sam and Debbie (Betty Gilpin), her former best friend; she’s primed to fall into a relationship where she's taken advantage of. If the show is purposefully trying to explore how Ruth keeps falling into gendered traps, there’s value to that story—especially if its gentle rendering indicates how insidious these complexes can be.

GLOW nods toward this interpretation most obviously in the fifth episode, "Perverts Are People, Too," which we might as well call its #MeToo episode. In it, Ruth takes a business meeting, only to find herself targeted by a studio executive hoping for some flirty “fun” in his Jacuzzi bath. She flees, terrified, before realizing that this experience reflects the dynamics of her industry more broadly; the episode ends with a subtle, profound moment in which Ruth, surveying the male fans crowding around her co-workers, is forced to reckon with an existence built on female theatrics for male consumption.

But Ruth’s journey is separate from Sam’s, and what’s perplexing about the sexual harassment episode is how a plot point designed to critique the patriarchy ends up mainly serving to paint Sam as a good guy. Two episodes later—during the screening, right after Sam’s non-apology—Ruth tells her boss what happened to her. He emotes more than she does: “Fuck that guy! What a fucking sleazebag dickhead!” By the end of the season, Sam has been reborn as both a benign but curmudgeonly white knight whose fondness for strip clubs ends up delivering the team to a much-needed gig in Las Vegas, and a good dad who finds a new way to understand and communicate with his newfound daughter.

But while Sam’s being offered up as the moral guy, the I’d-never-harass-an-employee guy, he already has harassed his employees. He’s tried to kiss multiple women who work for him; he’s withheld advancement from Ruth out of petulance; he ignores Debbie as nothing more than a pretty face when she tries to assert her role as a producer. Maron himself has admitted Sam’s complicity to Deadline: “Can this guy be an asshole? Yes. Was he a guy that was possibly guilty of transgressing in the way of the casting couch, or showing favor to women professionally for sexual attention? Probably. I think that’s sort of established at the beginning. This guy’s no saint, but he also shows up for these women.”

In a way, the suggestion that Sam’s not that bad reveals something significant about the insidious reach of the patriarchy: you can be the guy who knows what bad behavior looks like, and still be complicit in it. It makes sense that Ruth is too naive to see this, and even that Sam’s too deluded to admit it. But it doesn’t make sense that in a season driven partially by a harassment story line—as part of a show ostensibly about women’s empowerment—GLOW would avoid acknowledging Sam’s previous behavior, to the point of failing to honestly reckon with his flaws. Hints of that reckoning are present: it’s significant, if opaque, that Ruth realizes falling for Sam is a bad idea, and instead throws herself into the arms of age-appropriate, respectful Russell. But diminishing her story to the status of background noise—while building up Sam’s backstory and screen time—is an astonishing disservice, both to GLOW’s characters and audience.

In the very first episode of GLOW, Ruth’s terrible, desperate audition for the titular wrestling show becomes sublime—and successful—when Debbie walks in, clutching her infant, screaming obscenities because she’s discovered that Ruth slept with Debbie’s husband. Debbie hands off her baby and steps into the ring; Ruth’s mimicry of aggression turns into a frantic, failed attempt at de-escalation. Debbie slaps her full in the face, and eventually pins Ruth to the ground; a smear of blood disfigures Ruth’s face. On the sidelines, the girl who will eventually become Fortune Cookie (Wong) asks, “Is this real?” The girl who will become Melrose (Jackie Tohn) shrugs: “Who the fuck cares?”

This might be a more prophetic line than GLOW intended. The show tends to skim the surface of its heavy subtext, and is quick to turn drama into a punch line, regardless of where the drama comes from or at whose expense the comedy hits. The show wants to nimbly engage with this stuff, and sometimes it’s able to. But either GLOW can’t see itself clearly, or it’s not communicating well what it’s trying to be about. Take that pilot scene: as Debbie and Ruth fight, GLOW superimposes what Sam wants to see, or what he thinks he can make happen, over their very real angst. In his vision, which is shot as a fantasy wrestling sequence, Debbie thrusts her crotch into Ruth’s face, and gyrates her spandex-covered behind in a slow circle for the audience’s benefit. By the time Sam snaps out of his reverie, the fight is over; he, and the viewer, have missed much of the real conflict in order to look at the manufactured version.

Similarly, in spending so much time inside Sam’s mind, GLOW is missing out on the stories right under Sam’s nose. They’re there—if he, and the show, would care to look.

#glow

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killed-by-choice · 2 years ago

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Sylvia Moore, 18 (USA 1986)

18-year-old Sylvia Moore underwent an abortion on December 31, 1986. Thanks to the extreme malpractice of abortionist Arnold Bickham, she wouldn’t live to see the new year.

Sylvia was in severe pain after the abortion, but instead of finding the problem, Bickham just repeatedly injected the teenage girl with Demerol even though she was bleeding, weak, and unable to walk. When Sylvia tried to get to her feet, she collapsed.

Bickham kept calling Sylvia "lazy," plunked her in a wheelchair, and physically ejected her from his Chicago abortion facility. Sylvia's mother was horrified. She got her daughter into the car and tried to drive her to the hospital since Bickham hadn’t even called an ambulance, but by the time the car made it to the ER, Sylvia had no detectable blood pressure and no heartbeat.

An emergency hysterectomy revealed a shocking amount of malpractice. Sylvia had a 6.5 cm laceration in her uterus with a plastic tool embedded inside. Bickham had somehow left the large piece of plastic inside of Sylvia during the abortion. Another bleeding laceration was found in her vagina, which was 2.2 cm long. Doctors at the hospital were unable to save Sylvia’s life because of the extent of her injuries. She died painfully of internal bleeding on the same day as the abortion.

When questioned on his horrific treatment of Sylvia, Bickham claimed that he hadn’t noticed anything was even wrong with her (despite the fact that she couldn’t walk, was bleeding internally and had a piece of plastic lodged in one of her organs). He claimed that Sylvia died because the hospital perforated an artery and left blood in the chest cavity, but Sylvia’s autopsy proved his claims false. In fact, the chest cavities were “free of fluid and adhesions" according to the coroner.

The postmortum report stated that "The circumstances of injury, review of the Medical records, the findings at autopsy examination, and subsequent investigation of the circumstances of the case provide evidence of gross negligence and abandonment on the part of the original treating physician. In consideration of the above, the manner of death is determined to be Homicide."

Sylvia’s family sued for her homicide. The lawsuit noted that the abortionist failed to perform an ultrasound and failed to have adequate staff or equipment. Bickham's license was revoked by Illinois in October of 1988 due to Sylvia's death. Despite the autopsy findings, he was not charged with the homicide of Sylvia Moore. He was, however, arrested in September of 1989 for practicing medicine without license, and sentenced to 30 months probation and 2,600 hours of community service in lieu of 6 months jail, in addition to a $10,000 fine. He accumulated a long record of malpractice, including but not limited to performing “abortions” on clients who were not pregnant and sometimes not fully under anesthesia.

Eventually Bickham retired from the abortion business, but someone made the questionable decision to hire him as a public school administrator. Nobody guilty of the homicide of a teenage girl has any business overseeing the welfare or education of children.

Other Americans killed by legal abortion in 1986 include Christella Marie Forte, Luz Maria Rodriguez, Janyth Caldwell, Laniece Dorsey, Magnolia Thomas, Gail Elaine Flowers Wright, Gloria Aponte, Carol Cunningham, Claudia Caventou, Dorothy Bryant, Liliana Cortez, Donna Heim, Jacqueline Reynolds, Michelle Madden and Rosael Rodriguez-Rosado.

Cook County Circuit Court: case 87L 15971

"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, (18 March 2018), Sylvia Jane Moore, 31 Dec 1986; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm.

#tw abortion #tw murder #tw ab*rtion #pro life #abortion #abortion debate #pro choice #unsafe yet legal #tw death #unsafe but legal #death from legal abortion #abortion kills women #abortion is murder #tw homicide #victims of roe

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wedontgiveashitaboutyourpot · 11 months ago

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Hatchetfield-WIDM cast maar met de meest competente mensen

komen we überhaupt aan 10 deelnemers

Presentator: Nog steeds uiteraard Dan Reynolds

Kandidaten (in no particular order):

Miss Holloway

John MacNamara

Xander Lee

Becky Barnes

Hannah Foster

Lex Foster

Solomon Lauter

Detective Shapiro

Sylvia Foreverandalways

Freddie Biggs

(ik weet dat het er 10 zijn maar voor hoe moeilijk het is om serieus competente mensen te vinden in hatchetfield is heel moeilijk, en twee van hen zijn ook nog de fucking Fosters die alle tijd bij widm beter in therapie kunnen doorbrengen)

Mol: Melissa

#ik heb nog steeds een hey melissa trauma #wie is de mol: hatchetfield editie #widm #starkid

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ao3feed-jeevesandwooster · 1 year ago

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Pugs for a Wedding (Fandom Trumps Hate 2023)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/WFtIgjH " by Esbe Bertie is called once again to the aid of a friend. When he rushes to the countryside along with his 'man' Jeeves to provide an ear to rave and rant he finds the usual tangle of people and happenstances. Words: 10210, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Reginald Jeeves, Sylvia "Sylv" Reynolds (OC), Ronald "Ronnie" Dallas (OC), Col. (Retd.) Reynolds (OC), Thomas "Tommy" the pug (OC) Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, OFC/OMC, Bertie & Sylvia Additional Tags: Fandom Trumps Hate, FTH 2023, FTH 2023 contribution, Fandom Trumps Hate 2023, Mentions of period typical and setting typical killing of animals, Established Relationship, A friendship for Bertie where its not all take take and take " read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/51867586

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Esbe #Jeeves and Wooster

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dwsidecharacterpoll · 2 years ago

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Ongoing list of characters who will be included in the bracket under the cut—still adding but please ask for any you don't see:

Clive (Rose)

Steward (The End of the World)

Raffalo from Crespellion (The End of the World)

Moxx of Balhoon (The End of the World)

Jabe (The End of the World)

Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)

Gabriel Sneed (The Unquiet Dead)

Redpath (The Unquiet Dead)

Toshiko Sato (Aliens of London/World War III)

Indra Ganesh (Aliens of London/World War III)

Diana Goddard (Dalek)

De Maggio (Dalek)

More under the cut!

Cathica (The Long Game)

Suki (The Long Game)

Nurse (The Long Game)

Sarah Clark and Stuart Hoskins (Father’s Day)

Dr. Constantine (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)

Nancy (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)

Kathy Salt (Boom Town)

Idris Hopper (Boom Town)

Rodrick (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways)

Lynda Moss (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways)

Unnamed Male Programmer (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways)

Unnamed Female Programmer (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways)

Danny Llewellyn (The Christmas Invasion)

Major Blake (The Christmas Invasion)

Alex (The Christmas Invasion)

Sally Jacobs (The Christmas Invasion)

Chip (New Earth)

Duke of Manhattan (New Earth)

Clovis (New Earth)

Novice Hame (New Earth)

Captain Reynolds (Tooth and Claw)

Lady Isobel and Sir Robert (Tooth and Claw)

Parsons (School Reunion)

Katherine (The Girl in the Fireplace)

Sally Phelan (The Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel)

Rita-Ann Smith (The Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel)

Mr. Crane (The Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel)

Mrs. Moore (The Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel)

The Connellys (The Idiot’s Lantern)

Zachary Cross Flane (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)

Ida Scott (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)

Danny Bartock (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)

Scooti Manista (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)

Ursula Blake (Love and Monsters)

Bliss (Love and Monsters)

Bridget (Love and Monsters)

Mr. Skinner (Love and Monsters)

Trish Webber (Fear Her)

Yvonne Hartman (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)

Dr. Rajesh Singh (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)

Adeola (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)

Gareth (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)

Nerys (The Runaway Bride)

Julia Swales (Smith and Jones)

Mr. Stoker (Smith and Jones)

Oliver Morgenstern (Smith and Jones)

Dolly Bailey (The Shakespeare Code)

Milo and Cheen (Gridlock)

Pale Woman (Gridlock)

Thomas Kincade Brannigan and Valerie (Gridlock)

Businessman (Gridlock)

Alice and May Cassini (Gridlock)

Tallulah (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Frank (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Sylvia Thaw (The Lazarus Experiment)

Jenny (Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Tim Latimer (Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Kath McDonnell (42)

Billy Shipton (Blink)

Kathy Nightingale (Blink)

Chantho (Utopia)

Professor Docherty (The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords)

Vivien Rook (The Sound of Drums)

Albert Dumphries (The Sound of Drums)

Thomas Milligan (The Last of the Time Lords)

Mr. Copper (Voyage of the Damned)

Morvin and Foon (Voyage of the Damned)

Bannakaffalatta (Voyage of the Damned)

Alonso Frane (Voyage of the Damned)

Penny Carter (Partners in Crime)

Caecilius (Fires of Pompeii)

Evelina (Fires of Pompeii)

Metella (Fires of Pompeii)

Quintus (Fires of Pompeii)

Soothsayer (Fires of Pompeii)

Ryder (Planet of the Ood)

Solana Mercurio (Planet of the Ood)

Ross Jenkins (The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)

Cline (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Hath Peck (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Lady Eddison (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Miss Chandrakala (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Roger Curbishley (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Hugh Curbishley (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Robina Redmond (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Miss Evangelista (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Other Dave (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Proper Dave (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Anita (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Strackman Lux (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Lee McAvoy (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Dee Dee Blasco (Midnight)

Professor Hobbes (Midnight)

Val, Biff, and Jethro Cane (Midnight)

Unnamed Hostess (Midnight)

Rocco Colasanto (Turn Left)

Jival Chowdry (Turn Left)

The Shadow Architect (The Stolen Earth)

The German Woman (The Stolen Earth)

Rosita Farisi (The Next Doctor)

Malcolm Taylor (Planet of the Dead)

Capt. Erisa Magambo (Planet of the Dead)

Barclay (Planet of the Dead)

DI McMillan (Planet of the Dead)

Lou and Carmen (Planet of the Dead)

Nathan (Planet of the Dead)

Angela Whittaker (Planet of the Dead)

Yuri Kerenski (The Waters of Mars)

Mia Bennett (The Waters of Mars)

Steffi Ehrlich (The Waters of Mars)

Roman Groom (The Waters of Mars)

Ed Gold (The Waters of Mars)

Maggie Cain (The Waters of Mars)

Tarak Ital (The Waters of Mars)

Joshua and Abigail Naismith (The End of Time)

Minnie Hooper (The End of Time)

Addams and Rossiter of Vinvocci (The End of Time)

Jeff (The Eleventh Hour)

Dr. Ramsden (The Eleventh Hour)

Lilian Breen (Victory of the Daleks)

Edwin Bracewell (Victory of the Daleks)

Guido (The Vampires of Venice)

Isabella (The Vampires of Venice)

Nasreen Chaudhry (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)

Ambrose Northover (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)

Sophie Benson (The Lodger)

The Unnamed Curator (Vincent and the Doctor)

Aunt Sharon (The Big Bang)

Amy’s parents (The Big Bang/The Pandorica Opens)

Dorium Maldovar (The Pandoria Opens)

Canton Everett Delaware III (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon)

Jennifer (The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)

Lorna Bucket (A Good Man Goes To War)

Alex (Night Terrors)

Auntie and Uncle (The Doctor’s Wife)

Rita (The God Complex)

Howie Spragg (The God Complex)

Joe Buchanan (The God Complex)

Gibbis (The God Complex)

Cassandra (Asylum of the Daleks)

Harvey (Asylum of the Daleks)

Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

John Riddell (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Indira (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Ellie and Dave Oswald (Rings of Akhaten)

Onegin (Cold War)

Stepashin (Cold War)

Grisenko (Cold War)

Hila Tacorien (Hide)

Professor Alec Palmer (Hide)

Emma Grayling (Hide)

The Van Baalen brothers (Journey to the Center of the TARDIS)

Ada Gillyflower (The Crimson Horror)

Porridge (Nightmare in Silver)

Alice Ferrin (Nightmare in Silver)

Missy (Nightmare in Silver)

Handles (Time of the Doctor)

Tasha Lem (Time of the Doctor)

Clara’s Gran (Time of the Doctor)

Linda (Time of the Doctor)

Abramal and Marta (Time of the Doctor)

Journey Blue (Into the Dalek)

Gretchen Allison Carlisle (Into the Dalek)

Orson Pink (Listen)

Psi (Time Heist)

Sabra (Time Heist)

Adrian (The Caretaker)

Captain Lundvik (Kill the Moon)

Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Ecpress)

Rigsy (Flatline)

Seb (Death in Heaven/Dark Water)

Shona (Last Christmas)

Albert Smithe (Last Christmas)

Fiona Bellows (Last Christmas)

Ashley Carter (Last Christmas)

Jac (The Magician’s Apprentice)

O'Donnell (Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Cass (Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Lunn (Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Bennett (Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

Lofty (The Girl who Died)

Walsh (The Zygon Invasion)

Anahson (Face the Raven)

The General (Hell Bent)

Ohila (Hell Bent)

Moira (The Pilot)

Heather (the Pilot)

Felicity (Knock Knock)

Paul (Knock Knock)

Harry (Knock Knock)

Pavel (Knock Knock)

Shireen (Knock Knock)

Dahh-Ren (Oxygen)

Abby (Oxygen)

Ivan (Oxygen)

Penny (Extremis)

Erica (the pyramid at the end of the world)

Colonel Babbit (pyramid)

Kar (The Eaters of Light)

Lucius, Simon, and Thracius (The Eaters of Light)

The Captain (Twice Upon a Time)

Karl (The Woman Who Fell to Earth)

Angstrom (The Ghost Monument)

Epzo (The Ghost Monument)

Jade McIntyre (Arachnids in the UK)

Astos (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Mabli (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Eve Cicero (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Yoss Inkl (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Prem (Demons of the Punjab)

Kira Arlo (kerblam)

Dan Cooper (kerblam)

Willa Twiston (the witchfinders)

Ribbons (it takes you away)

Andinio and Delph (The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos)

Lee Clayton (fugitive of the judoon)

Jamila and Gabriela (Praxeus)

Jake Willis and Adam Lang (Praxeus)

Tibo (Can You Hear Me?)

Shaw (Village of the Angels)

Professor Jericho (Village of the Angels)

Gerald and Jean (Village of the Angels)

Sarah (Eve of the Daleks)

Nick (Eve of the Daleks)

Ying Ki (Legend of the Sea Devils)

Ji-Hun (Sea Devils)

#dw polls

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yourlocalabomination · 1 year ago

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Hi! So a process video of this artwork kinda got popular on tiktok and a commenter pointed out a few of the references. So here’s a concise list of all of them for you! (Also a close up picture of the newspaper and missing poster without the dark overlay in the undercut below. You can now appreciate how long I spent rendering bees/honey).

Missing poster:

The clothing mentioned on the missing poster was what Ted was wearing in Time Bastard (dark grey pants from TGWDLM).

The baby blue studebaker Ted owns was mentioned in Abstinence Camp.

Detective Shapiro was in NPMD. Missing person cases are usually suspected to be homicide after a week, hence why to call her.

The phone number on the poster, 200-419-2104, is a reference to the years Ted time travels to in Time Bastard. He starts in 2019, goes to 2104, and gets stuck in 2004.

He has long hair in the missing photo because it’s in a bun during Time Bastard. Long hair Spankoffski supremacy.

I know that Joey is like 6” but I imagine Ted being slightly taller then Peter, hence why I gave him a few more inches.

Not a reference but I made his birthday Valentine’s Day because I think that’s funny.

Newspaper:

The missing article mentions he was last physically seen at the Hatchetfield Natural History Museum, which is where Paul 23 and Android Emma’s wedding was held (Forever & Always)

Watcher World Ad. The text itself is actually combination of the official promo synopsis and the text of “Blinkys watch party” shown on the back of the playbill in the Workin’ Boys short film.

CCRP is hiring for a technical support position….you know the position Ted worked….mans only been ‘missing’ a week and they already replacing him. You know full well Sylvia already nailed his office door shut at this point.

Mamma Mia Ad as a reference to TGWDLM.

The Birdhouse being burnt down is a reference to when Android Emma burnt it down in Forever & Always to cover up her massacre. This whole piece is suppose to be the day after that occurred, yk the day he gets murdered….

Sam Sweedly, Officer Bailey, Mayor Solomon Lauter and Dan Reynolds are all mentioned in the article about The Birdhouse burning down.

Honey Queen Auditions for the honey queen festival. The text itself is actually straight from the EP, from the beginning where Dan talks about it on Morning Cup O’ News. Yes, they straight up post Clivesdale slander in their newspaper. Fuck Clivesdale.

The photo of the bees is actually just a painted screencap from the honey queen song in the nightmare time ep.

Also I had to work out all the hypothetical dates and times for this-

Paul and Emma’s wedding happens in the summer of 2019, and it would have had to been on a Sunday (idk why they did that) for Ted to wake up the next day (not realising he’s in the future) to go to his Monday meeting.

He was last seen physically on the 21st of July 2019, leaving the Hatchetfield Natural History Museum at 11.10pm (when Paul called him a cab). Then his last sighting was on CCRP security cameras at 11.24pm entering the building.

Paul got back from his honeymoon a week after his wedding, so would have been back to work on Monday the 29th. Then the events of Forever & Always happen and Android Emma burns down The Birdhouse to cover up her massacre. The newspaper is reporting on this the morning after, on the 30th of July.

Uh that’s about it folks! I put in wayyyyy to much effort into writing a fake newspaper that idk if some people even realise can be read. Thanks for loving the art guys!

This is Hatchetfield, People go missing everyday!

#reblog #abomy talks #art explanation

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thehodgepodgearchive · 18 days ago

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READING LIST: Children's Books

Green: Currently Reading

Pink: LOVED IT!

Orange: Liked It

Strikethrough: DNF/Not For Me

A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac

A Carp for Kimiko by Virginia Kroll

A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce

A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean

A Starlit Somersault Downhill by Nancy Willard

All Aboard Trains by Mary Harding

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner by Amy Schwartz

Anno's Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold

Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney

Bad Day at Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg

The Bamboo Flute by Garry Disher

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Machizuki

Belinda by Pamela Allen

Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett

Big Al by Andrew Clements

Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine

Black and White by Tana Hoban

Black Like Kyra, White Like Me by Judith Vigna

Blue and The Gray by Eve Bunting

The Boggart by Susan Cooper

Boo to a Goose by Mem Fox

Boomer Goes to School by Constance McGeorge

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida

The Call of the Wolves by Jim Murphy

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Clippity-Clop by Pamela Allen

Dandelions by Eve Bunting

Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with The Family Lazardo by William Joyce

Dinosaur Roar! by Paula and Henrietta Strickland

Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

Drylongso by Virginia Hamilton

Eleanor by Barbara Cooney

The Empty Pot by Demi

Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

Free Fall by David Wiesner

Frogs by Gail Gibbons

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons

Gentle Willow by Joyce C. Mills

George Shrinks by William Joyce

Going West by Jean Van Leeuwen

Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesleá Newman

The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons

Horace by Holly Keller

How Night Came From the Sea by Mary-Joan Gerson

I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco

I Love My Daddy Because... by Laurel Porter-Gaylord

If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz

In for Winter, Out for Spring by Arnold Adoff

It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach

Island Boy by Barbara Cooney

John Henry by Julius Lester

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Koala Lou by Mem Fox

Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley

Let the Celebrations Begin! by Margaret Wild

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

Magic Beach by Alison Lester

Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M Joosse

The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket by Sonia Levitin

Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Matzah that Papa Brought Home by Fran Manushkin

Max's Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells

Max's Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells

Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen

Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder

Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack

The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen

Mrs/ Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco

My Body Belongs to Me from My Head to My Toes by Pro Familia

My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

New Shoes for Sylvia by Johanna Hurwitz

Nothing but the Truth by Avi

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant

Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French

One Hundred Angry Ants by Elinor J. Pinzes

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

Pit Pony by Joyce Barkhouse

The Planets by Gail Gibbons

Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion by Verna Aardema

The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus

Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco

Reuben and the Fire by Merle Good

The Rough-Face Girl by Rage Martin

Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan

The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer

Sam and The Tigers by Julius Lester

Seashells Crabs and Seastars by Christiane Lump Tibbitts

The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy

Shrek by William Steig

Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch

The Sunday Outing by Gloria Jean Pinkney

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Sciezka

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburg

The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back by Joseph Bruchac

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

Tillie and the Wall by Leo Lionni

Time For Bed by Mem Fox

Tough Boris by Mem Fox

Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszcka

Tuesday by David Wiesner

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan

The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose

Voyage of The Basset by James C. Christensen

Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo

War Boy by Michael Foreman

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

What Lives in a Shell? by Kathleen Weidner Ziegfeld

Why the Sky is Far Away by Mary-Joan Gerson

The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg

Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Kroll

The Wolf by Margaret Barbalet

The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg

Zomo The Rabbit by Gerald McDermott

#HodgePodgeReadingList

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lboogie1906 · 1 month ago

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Ellas McDaniel (Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008) known as Bo Diddley, was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and The Clash.

His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accenthambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip-hop, rock, and pop music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is recognized for his technical innovations, including his distinctive rectangular guitar, with its unique booming, resonant, shimmering tones.

He was born in McComb, Mississippi. He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper’s teenage daughter, and Eugene Bates, whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel adopted him, and he assumed her surname.

The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. He claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult. He said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian’s name, which Leonard Chess adopted as his stage name and the title of his first single. He stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.

A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument played mainly by farm workers in the South. It has influences from the West African coast.

He married Louise Willingham (1946-47), and married Ethel Mae Smith (1949); they had two children. He married Kay Reynolds (1960-80) they had two daughters, He married Sylvia Paiz (1992); they were divorced at the time of his death. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Playwrights Set for THE FIRE THIS TIME Festival 7th Cycle Of New Works Lab

The seventh cycle began in October 2024 and will meet monthly through May 2025.

By: Chloe Rabinowitz Oct. 24, 2024

The Fire This Time Festival, an annual festival of new work by playwrights of African and African-American descent, has revealed that playwrights Melda Beaty (2022 International Black Theatre Festival's Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin Rolling World Premiere Award for "Coconut Cake"), Rachel Herron (2022-2023 resident playwright with Colt Coeur), and Marcus Scott (Princess Grace Award finalist) have been selected to develop full-length plays in the seventh cycle of their New Works Lab. The seventh cycle began in October 2024 and will meet monthly through May 2025.

In 2015 The Fire This Time established The Fire This Time Writers' Group with the mission to provide TFTT alumni and writers from the TFTT community the opportunity to develop new work in a nurturing and supportive environment. In 2017, the initiative was renamed the New Works Lab. From its inception to the present, the lab has been co-directed by educator and playwright Cynthia Grace Robinson ("Letters From Loretta," "Freedom Summer" "What If?" "Dancing on Eggshells") and A.J. Muhammad, a producer with TFTT. Funding for the 7th cycle of the New Works Lab was made possible by generous support from The Black Seed Fund.

Since its launch, over twenty playwrights have developed work in the New Works Lab including Kendra Augustin, Ngozi Anyanwu, France-Luce Benson, Kim Brockington, Tyrell Bennett, Christine Jean Chambers, Edgar Chisholm, Adrienne Dawes, Danielle Davenport, Khalil Kain, Jay Mazyck, Maia Matsushita, Liz Morgan, Shawn Nabors, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, T.R. Riggins, James Anthony Tyler, William Watkins, Shamar S. White, Mars Wolfe, and Antu Yacob.

Melda Beaty is an enthusiastic playwright of eight stage plays: "Front Porch Society," "Coconut Cake," "Thirty," "The Lawsons: A Civil Rights Love Story," "Feebleminded," "COVID Be Damned," "Gaslight Garden" and "Guess What's for Dinner?" Her plays have enjoyed national productions and/or recognition. Most recently, she received the 2022 International Black Theatre Festival's Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin Rolling World Premiere Award for her stage play, "Coconut Cake." The play will receive five professional productions between 2024-2025. She was also a 2021 Confluence Fellow with the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. In addition, Melda is the author of two books. When not writing, she serves on the Board of Directors for the August Wilson Society and as a contributing editor for Black Masks magazine. Melda resides in Chicago, Illinois with her three talented daughters and is an assistant professor of English at Olive-Harvey Community College. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her graduate degree from Illinois State University.

Rachel Herron is a Black, queer, multidisciplinary artist residing in Brooklyn. She is currently a company member of Colt Coeur Theater, where she was a 2022-2023 resident playwright. Her plays include "It's Only a High School Reunion" (Live and In Color 24 Hour Festival), "Red Red Wine" (Fire This Time Festival 13th annual Ten-Minute Play Program), and "Token" (O'Neill Center Semifinalist). Additionally, her playwriting portfolio has landed her as a finalist for the WP Theater Lab and a semi-finalist for the June Bingham Commission with Live and In Color. She's written several original pilots, of which she was named a CBS Writers Mentoring Program finalist (2019), a Mentorship Matters semifinalist (2021), and a two-time Disney Writing Program finalist (2022 and 2023). She is a mentee in the #startwith8 program for women of color trying to break into television writing. She wrote, directed, and starred in a short film called IDOL CHASER, which premiered in Fall 2024 at Katra Film Series and took home the Audience Choice Award. Her satirical writing is featured on McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She received a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Marcus Scott is a dramatist and journalist. Full-length works: TUMBLEWEED (finalist: 2017 BAPF & 2017 Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays; semifinalist: 2022 O'Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 Princess Grace Award), SIBLING RIVALRIES (finalist: 2023 Normal Ave's NAPseries, 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & 2021 Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi-finalist: 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2021 Princess Grace Award), THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (finalist: 2023 Princess Grace Award, 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award; semifinalist: 2024 BAPF, 2024 Fault Line Theater's Irons in the Fire & 2024 O'Neill NPC), CHERRY BOMB (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence). Heartbeat Opera commissioned Scott to adapt Beethoven's FIDELIO (Co-writer; Met Live Arts at the MET Museum, NY Times Critics' Pick). Scott is the recipient of the Chelsey/Bumbalo Playwriting Award (2024). He is a finalist for the 2024-2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows Program, 2022 Many Voices Fellowship, 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award and is a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. MFA: NYU Tisch.

The Fire This Time Festival was founded in 2009 by playwright and producer Kelley Girod to provide a platform for playwrights of African and African-American descent to write and produce evocative material for diverse audiences. Since the debut of the first 10-minute play program in 2010, presented in collaboration with FRIGID New York, The Fire This Time Festival has has produced and developed the work of more than 90 playwrights including Katori Hall, Dominique Morisseau, Radha Blank, Antoinette Nwandu, Jocelyn Bioh, korde arrington tuttle, Stacey Rose, Aziza Barnes, C.A. Johnson, Kevin R. Free, Charly Evon Simpson, Angelica Cheri, James Anthony Tyler, Jordan Cooper, Nathan Yungerberg, Nia A. Robinson, and Cris Eli Blak.

The Fire This Time's first anthology, "25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Rebirth, and Black Theater" edited by Kelley Girod was released by Bloomsbury Publishing in February 2022. www.firethistimefestival.com

FRIGID New York's mission is to provide both emerging and established artists the opportunity to create and produce original work of varied content, form, and style, and to amplify their diverse voices. We do this by presenting an array of monthly programming, mainstage productions, an artist residency, and eight annual theater festivals that create an environment of collaboration, resourcefulness, and innovation. Founded in 1998, the aim was and is to form a structure, allowing multiple artists to focus on creating and staging new work and providing affordable rental space to scores of independent artists. Now in our third decade we have produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. www.frigid.nyc

#marcus scott #marcusscott #write marcus #writemarcus #black playwrights #The Fire This Time Festival #Emerging Playwrights #Emerging Artist #Emerging Artists #Black writers #black theatre #black theater #Rachel Herron #Melda Beaty

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