#terry a rich girl he has all the money in the world

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Wip post woaahhh!!!

This might never get finished

[mrgriffiths]

Hey there! I'm new to the Fandom, and I love love love your blog and all that you share about TIG/Terry Silver. I couldn't help but ask..

What are your thoughts on kk3!terry falling for a beloved that's from Vietnam?

I noticed that you haven't done these types of asks, so I wanted to know your thoughts on it!

You don't have to reply to this, but thank you so much for all that you do!

xoxo

Hi there, anon! Welcome to the Fandom <3

Thank you for your kind words!

I haven't really answered an ask like this, but I'll share my thoughts on it. You're always welcome to send me an ask!

If you're looking for similar content, then @terrence-silver is your blog! They have the best chatacter analysis of Terry and some of TIGs' other characters, too!

And if you're looking for a reader/oc insert stories/one shots for Terry or other TIG characters, then I certainly recommend these awesome blogs for you! @karatekels @virgo-mess @eemcintyre @thedeadsingforme @larussos-left-sock

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- Terry had come a long way from the person he once was during his Vietnam days. He's no longer the skinny, doe-eyed, somewhat innocent kid who came from a rich family all to prove to his father(and himself) that he is a man.

- He had an empire of his own now, dynatix industries, a nuclear waste disposal company that had been handed down to him by his father. He's done plenty of shady things, getting on the cover of the latest magazine and news papers was a regular thing for him. His physique was envied by men who were associated with him even. Perfectly sculpted face and an equally perfect charm to go with it.

- He had a playboy reputation with more money than most in the upper crust society. He's manipulative and will use any tactic he sees fit if needed. Everyone else is below him and he always had a good time toying with people. He's had his time with girls of every race, age , color, you name it. When Terry Silver wants something, he will definitely get it. So when he sets his sites on his beloved for the first time, he isn't bewildered immediately until he finds out more about them.

- If anything he sees them as the enemy at first, a stigma that's been around since the time he's been to Vietnam. He never forgot what happened there. Waking up in cold sweat after seeing his friend killed right infront of him, the bomb blasts and torture they all had gone through. A parting gift of the war.

- his beloved has certainly perked his interests though, whether they're apart of his upper crust society or simply a nobody there's definitely something about them that he can't seem to look past them. Maybe it's their features that is embedded in his head after he first saw them.

- Or it could be their characteristics or personality that's different from every woman he's ever been with. Maybe it's the way they walk, the way they talk, heck maybe it's the way they breathe. Terry will notice everything.

- Terry finds himself looking for beloved all the more. No amount of coke or bedding woman who even looks like them does the trick. He finds himself needing to find out everything about his beloved. He'd immediately thought of hiring an entire team of private investigators to find out every little thing about them. He wants to know their history, who is responsible for bringing his newly formed 'problem' into this world.

- He eventually sets on doing the job by himself. Stalking them, breaking in and entering into their home whilst they're in a deep sleep. He by hearted they're daily routine, he knows when they're in a deep sleep during the late hours of the night. He knows what they eat, what they wear, what hobbies they have, all down to what brand of shampoo they use. He utilizes anything that will help him understand what they are all about.

- He'd sometimes leave something behind in they're home, a dingy apartment unworthy of beloved in his eyes regardless of how well maintainedit is or not. Maybe a hundred dollar bill or even his own semen on their pillows after jerking off on their bed. He'd take something for himself too. Maybe a pair or two of beloved underwear suddenly goes missing.

- After everything he's come to know of beloved with them being none the wiser, he curates a persona of himself that fits all of beloved needs and wants ultimately becoming their dream man before he comes face to face with them again.

- Terry entraps beloved in his web afterwards. He makes sure they're smitten with him and never suspects a thing, giving them everything he knows they want from a partner gaining their trust over a short span of time. Once he's got them where he wants them he would reveal his true self. Ultimately hurting beloved so deeply because they are in fact the enemy. There's a price you have to pay for taking up so much of his time and consuming his mind.

- He thinks he's finally gotten what he wanted after breaking beloved completely but he still isn't able to move past them. It finally dawns upon him that he is in fact in love with beloved and no matter what he tells himself he cannot find anyone to replace them, no amount of coke or people who look like them.

- Terry sets about getting them back this time as himself. No matter where beloved goes he will find them. He will kidnap them if need be in the occasion of them denying everything he's offering them. He will help them see reason in time. He will go to any lengths to make sure beloved remains at his side.

- Stockholm syndrome will be in full swing. He erases the identity beloved once had as no one has the right to so much as know what beloved looks like without his permission. He'd estrange beloved from they're friends and family making them see how he's the only one they need.

- Preparations for the wedding will be in full swing. The wedding of the century. Everyone will know and will be ultimately shocked that playboy Terrence Silver has settled down. The entire world would know months in advance yet they would never see the actual ceremony regardless of the royal standard preparations that's been made. Terry's beloved is for his eyes only.

- The media only gets a single glimpse of beloved and they're rarely seen afterwards. Only when Terry deems it fit at some gala or event. Rest assured, no other woman ever crosses his mind again. He's fully consumed by beloved without them knowing the power they truly have on him. He'd go to any lengths to sure them his devotion too.

- beloved is the only one he'd trust with the truly gruesome parts of his life, through the Vietnam flashbacks where he'd sometimes need to hold them tightly the entire night or sometimes just their presence in the room at a distance. They've seen it all with him including the way he's beloved friend John Kreese had left him when things went down south. Beloved is the only thing that helps keep him grounded.

- Terry eventually starts a legacy of his own with beloved making sure that everything goes as he planned. Nothing is too much or unnecessary for his Silver empire.

Decades later he looks at himself in the bathroom mirror, thinking of how everything had suddenly took a turn in his life that one fateful day he'd set his eyes on beloved. His reflection stares back at him and next to it, ponytail stands with a smile on his face. His long lost war buddy whose personality and traits he's personally taken over as a tribute to his friend.

"You've chosen well twig." , ponytail says and vanishes in the next second leaving Terry smiling faintly at the thought. Letting his now silver colored hair down from its confines, he goes into his bedroom joining his beloved in bed.

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Ahh, I hope I've done this ask justice!

Thank you for sending it in anon!

Much love🤍

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Knights and Pawns seems to be both a safe place and a dangerous place for omegas at the same time. There's omega-only schools where Alphas are not allowed to attend, and societal rules that claim omegas should not be harmed, as it is deeply frowned upon to do so. Many omegas live sheltered, and dare I say, spoiled lives (like Daniel). They're petted and adored, and allowed to indulge in non-traditional gender norms.

And yet...

On the flip side, there's omegas, immigrant ones, sold so easily into the sex trade. Omegas seem to be a way of barter in situations like Daniel's. "Kitties" are lusted over and Alphas seem to barely contain themselves around them. Even married omegas, like Daniel, aren't always safe from either their spouses, or even rogue Alphas who hit on them (and might do more if they could get away with it).

Overall it seems like a deeply sensual, sexy little world, and omegas are both treated as the madonna and the whore all at once.

Omegas are super rare, and physically vastly less powerful than Alphas and a lot of betas, when the omega is female moreso than males, but still. And though generally 20% of the polulation is born omega, only 5 to 10% are omegas born to non rich parents. (Usually because somehow Alphas with a recessive omega gene mated a beta with a recessive omega gene, or two betas with an omega gene mated, or a young unmated Alpha knocked up a poor omega sex worker). So that's only 10% poorer omegas for 40% Alphas straight through all layers of society. Which means only one in four Alphas can even meet an omega in their social circle when they're not at the very top, and even 10% of the elite Alphas cannot mate an omega in their circle. Now as we know in our world when the male female ratio gets seriously out of whack, men go to pretty extreme lengths to find a wife. Mail order brides? Totally a thing. The Alpha omega ratio is definitely unbalanced in my world. So poor omegas may get sold away to rich Alphas, or simply sold! Young poor omega sex workers are a goldmine, especially prostituted to young Alphas with no prospect of mating one ever. And what happens to those pups, hm? Does someone intervene? Do they get adopted out? Can a kitty keep their puppies and do the omega ones get prostituted out like their mothers? Wherever he came from, Johnny made a run for it. Which is not to say that all poorer parents sell their omega pups. Far from it. And some marry regular Alpha or beta partners from their circle of life. But parents will try to marry them 'up', which decreases the already scarce dating pool even further. It's really ugly, there's whole mob schemes to get families from all over the world to the US with an omega pup and then to pressure them into bartering their child away. That's what Daniel is fighting: to get to those omegas and pretty girls - Alphas are not immune to beta pretty girls - and set him up in his mob. Yes, still mob, but with Church backing. These kitties are properly mated and certainly not only to gangsters, but simply to decent Alphas and if anyone comes for their pups looking to make them into sex workers they can expect a visit from the likes of Louie LaRusso, John Kreese, Mike Barnes or Dutch, who we all know is feral. Or indeed Sister George who has a very mean right hook.

So on the one hand, you have omegas who come from generations of rich Alpha/omega parents, Daniel, who wasn't born quite there but has money and would be very attractive to the 10% rich Alphas who couldn't marry an omega acquaintance, and Johnny, who fled his sex worker mother after presenting rather late and was taken under the wing of John and Betsy Kreese.

Finishing school omegas? Set for life. Working class omegas mating their childhood sweetheart? Poor, but very cherished. Kitties that got bartered away or kidnapped? Yeah, that's ugly. Remember Anna, Terry's drunken revenge side piece? Got caught up in a shootout, the Alpha cop involved took her home, and that was that. He was 'gonna get around' to setting her up somewhere safe, but she went into heat, he bit her, was discharged from the force for misconduct, couldn't care less and now they run a Chicago bar.

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I recently finished reading all of the books in the Discworld series, the expansive series written by Terry Pratchett that follows a range of characters that live on the same disc? (This was never completely clear, but I assume so?) Our main leads being Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching, Rincewind and Moist Von Lipwig.

Probably one of the greatest fantasy series of all time, Discworld is makes you cry, makes you laugh, makes you think, and it makes you kind of mad, but all in all, it is a very human experience on a world that is completely incredible (and has a monkey for a librarian, and is there anything better than that?).

These are my favourite books from the series.

Going Postal (book 33) - Moist Von Lipwig is a conman who is then moved into running the Postal Service by Lord Vetinari and what a job to get to be honest. This story is funny and I was laughing out loud several times. The characters are fantastic especially those that work in the post office and it makes for an incredible introduction to the character of Von Lipwig who truly is a great lead character and it makes sense why Pratchett used him in more books.

Monstrous Regiment (book 31) - Truly the story of war? what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Monstrous Regiment is the story of Polly Perks who is looking for her brother on the frontline and ends up in Vimes' monstrous regiment. The characters are endearing and funny, the plot moves fast and really allows you to invest in everyone in the story and leaves you thinking and that for me is truly the sign of a good book.

Mort (book 4) - I loved this book so much and really appreciated the incredible plot, the amazing characters particularly that of Death. Mort is the apprentice of death and it makes for a good life, freedom to the horse, board and a wage, and it makes for a pretty good adventure too. I wasn't sure if I wasn't going to continue the series at this point, but this one made me keep going and I am so glad I did.

Witches Abroad (book 12) - Granny Weatherwax is probably one of the best characters in this series, and this book is so good. The plot is to stop a happy ending of a prince ending up with a servant girl it really does make for a funny and also a thought provoking read. The quote from Granny Weatherwax in this book:

“Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy,” said Granny, glaring at the sky. “But you can’t make ’em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin’ their heads off as soon as they say ‘I do’, yes? You can’t make happiness…” Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city. “All you can do,” she said, “is make an ending.”

Witches Abroad is iconic.

Night Watch (book 29) - I do feel as the series goes on, the better it gets and Night Watch is definitely one of those books where you are left with an incredible array of characters, a story that pulls you in and a way in to a series that you will never want to end. Vimes is probably one of my favourite characters in a series ever, this book is one of the reasons why.

Also this quote is from Night Watch Men At Arms and it's spot on:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.”

To take this series apart is a difficult one, even if they can be read separately. I really appreciate how connected these books feel and the different perspectives we get. I like the spotlight we get on people's lives as we move through the series and how even in the maddest of moments there's a moment you can relate to.

I loved reading this series, and it bookslumped me when I finished it, so I hope if you're going to do this and read them all I highly recommend some books to reread you love to save yourself.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

Vee xo.

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My Hockey Masterlist

General Masterlist

My complete and cohesive Hockey masterlist as of 4/15/24

All my fics will be linked below the cut. Requested players will be addressed on an individual basis.

✮ - Personal favorite

New York Islanders

Mat Barzal

Black and White ✧ After attending one of the isles’ many fundraising events, a simple walk in the park turns into a moment the two of you will never forget.

Designer Dress + Old Shoes ✧ Mat takes you to an Islanders Gala, but being surrounded by expensive things and even more expensive people, you start to feel like a total imposter to this new world.

He’s An Idiot ✧ When Mat unceremoniously reveals he’s had a girlfriend for two months without telling you, something goes terribly wrong as you turn toward a good friend for comfort.

✮ Like That ✧ When Mat forgets your evening plans and accidentally stands you up, he makes a 1 a.m. apology with the help of your cat, Luna.

Ruins ✧ Your relationship is falling apart faster than you can think of a solution.

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Anaheim Ducks

Jamie Drysdale

Mini-Series

First Meet ✧ Meet-cute with Jamie Drysdale in a smoothie shop.

First Date ✧ Jamie invites you over and cooks dinner for your first date, complete with bottle service and banter. 

First I Love You ✧ After a day that gets increasingly worse, Jamie plans a date night to indirectly celebrate your two-month anniversary.

Coming soon: First Time.

Oneshots

Sweet Creature ✧ Domestic bliss featuring everyone’s favorite baby ducks.

✮ About a Month ✧ A rest day with Jamie is rudely interrupted by Trevor’s return home, and your relationship is uncovered once and for all.

I Can’t Remember ✧ Attending a complete stranger’s party can be super cool if he’s rich and he has a cute face.

Enough For You ✧ Your boyfriend of one year breaks things off leaving you to turn to your best friend like you always do.

Dating Jamie Drysdale Would Include... ✧ Bullet points of boyfriend!Jamie headcanons.

It’s the 21st Century ✧ You and Jamie both are antsy about sharing your first kiss together, but the moment is swiftly ruined by those pesky American boys.

Trevor Zegras

IG edits

Trevor x Actress ✧ you’re the star of your own Netflix show when a certain fanboy becomes a whirlwind romance.

Trevor x Model ✧ soft launching Trevor on your ig as a big fashion model.

Mini-series

Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl ✧ Your birthday celebration is under threat by the impending doom that is Trevor Zegras's presence.

part 2 ✧ A heated moment with Trevor in the kitchen has you screaming crying throwing up.

part 3 ✧ Maybe your hatred for Trevor was misplaced after all...

PDA ✧ Trevor comes to visit you for the holidays, and your relationship is quite an adjustment for your brothers. (Informal part 4)

Baby Fever

Baby Fever ✧ You and Trevor watch after Baby Terry, which incites conversation about your own family future.

part 2 ✧ A collection of moments at the pumpkin patch add incentive to the baby making conversation.

Oneshots

I Don’t Just Like You ✧ Tension builds with Trevor over his new partnership until the two of you confess your feelings.

I Love You ✧ When Trevor accidentally lets it slip that he's in love with you, the heat of the moment confession turns into the fuck of a lifetime. (18+)

Thought of You ✧ Trevor is extra clingy after a long trip of away games.

Princess Antics ✧ Dating a famous hockey player is tough sometimes, but dating a Disney Princess may just give Trevor a run for his money.

Do It, Then ✧ Today was not your day and your only hope for any kind of redemption lies in the hands of your TKE boy.

House Rules ✧ This is the first time Trevor’s invited you over to hang at TKE outside of party hours and the evening goes better than anticipated. (Informal part 2 to TKE House.)

Team Spirit ✧ Attending games at the Honda Center is risky when you’re a famous singer but maybe a certain fan experience will make the risk worth taking.

✮ TKE House ✧ Trevor refuses to leave you alone until you attend a party at his frat, and the night takes an unexpected turn.

Media Day ✧ What a great day to be an aspiring photographer on media day when your model keeps flirting with you.

Birthday Girl, part 2, part 3 ✧ Your birthday celebration is under threat by the impending doom that is Trevor Zegras's presence.

PDA ✧ Trevor comes to visit you for the holidays, and your relationship is quite an adjustment for your brothers. (Informal part 4 to Birthday Girl.)

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Vancouver Canucks

Quinn Hughes

RollerMagic ✧ When your only snack gets caught in the vending machine, another snack swoops in to save the day (I’m sorry Idek what I’m saying)

✵                   ✵                   ✵

Los Angeles Kings

Alex Turcotte

Distraction ✧ Alex Turcotte is utterly smitten with the girl from his history class and his teammates are not helpful when it comes to playing wingmen.

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[merv606]

samtory college au, thoughts?

Hello Anon, who I definitely do not know 😈

This turned into a Drabble - maybe a short story lol it’s not 🌶 but maybe I’ll add to it, and clean it up - post it on AO3.

Maybe a belated bday present 😂 I mean if by chance oh great anon it has been your bday recently 😏

Maybe, they end up at the same college.

They had reached an easy truce at the end of High School. Mainly because they had to - Tory had joined Miyagi-Do after one lesson on Terry’s dummy - she was able to recognize a lot faster than Daniel did how messed up his methods were, even if he didn’t look at any of them the way he had Daniel.

Chalk it up to Daniel being more naive than Tory at that age in some regards to life - but maybe she had enough sources of pain without adding another one to it. Karate had been a safe space and it was quickly being eroded at Cobra Kai, but she found it again under Daniel’s teachings.

Turns out she and Daniel are a lot more alike than she realized. They both have a strong work ethic and sense of duty when it comes to family and those they love - would do anything for those people. He knew what poverty felt like, what hopelessness and powerlessness felt like. How that leaves a stain - a feeling of not being good enough - that you always have to be so much better just to show you’re half as good (even if you’re so much more) just so someone will give you a shot. That feeling like you always have something to prove - although the chip on Daniel’s shoulder about that has lessened over the years, it gives Tory hope that maybe hers will too.

Plus there is their tempers - Amanda calls them both her hot heads.

She understands now though, why he tries so hard to protect Sam from it - that life - and she starts to see the girl in another light as well.

Sam works just as hard, in her own way, and has her own problems - some Tory would never have even realized before.

That people dismiss her the same way for different reasons - thinking she never deserves what she gets. That it’s all handed to her and she has no cares in the world - how wrong Tory was. How wrong both girls were about each other.

With learning though, comes understanding and with that acceptance, even if it is hard to shake off the manufactured hate they felt for each other.

And when Tory realizes she may be mistaking hate for something else, well she buries that too - she has a good thing going.

She gives the brunette her Trophy at graduation - explaining it’s hers anyway- and that easy truce grows into a friendship. Both girls realizing that in each other they found a type of friendship they never really had before but then college looms, and it threatens this new found thing they have, this thing that is their own. Although both girls don’t really know what this thing is yet, they both want to protect it, nurture it and see what it can grow into.

But, Tory has been working hard. With Amanda and Daniel’s help, not as much on her plate to worry about because of them, her grades were good and she allowed herself some hope that maybe college and all those things she had long since given up on getting might actually be within her grasp. Opportunity; a better life.

She won’t take their money - her pride she will not compromise on but she is willing to accept help now at least - so she agrees on a loan.

Turns out both Amanda and Daniel never went to college and it kind of makes what they achieved that much more impressive in her eyes / these “rich people” she assumed were so snobby and entitled, know hard work.

Turns out, she was doing to them the same that people did to her, and she has to admit, we all need to learn to look at things through different perspectives sometimes.

But she and Sam make a deal that, when they get letters, they wait for each other to open them together and Sam gets into a few and so does Tory but they manage to get one together.

Daniel and Amanda think it’s a great idea - at least they’ll have each other - some support and familiarity.

And one night, at college, after a few too many drinks for both of them, liquid courage, although Tory will swear she’s never been afraid of anything ever - even when Sam is one the warpath - she’s tiny but scary, okay (like father like daughter) - this new found thing morphs into something else. In the form of breathy sighs, smooth skin under rough hands, wetness and heat between both of their legs, and frantic movements as they try to get into each other’s skin, the same way they realize they’ve already gotten into each other in so many other ways.

Still.

She’s walking past a shop one day and it’s in the window - and she laughs to herself / she can’t not buy it. She hasn’t called Sam that that for many moons, but just for old time’s sake.

Besides, it’ll show off her tiny waist and small chest, and Tory will be able to slide her hand up the shorts where her girl is always welcoming for her, and have some fun with her “princess” later on.

[terrence-silver]

What son names would Terry like? I feel he’d have several of them? And also like some daughter names :)

Oh, man, John would definitely be there as a name option. In the 80's, it is abundantly clear it would be, as a homage, as gratitude, and as a crown of Terry's and John's lifelong friendship and camaraderie. In present day, it is somehow far more insidious, worrying (and funny?) because Terry would be naming his kid John...after he put the original John in jail on trumped up charges. A kind of a you're named after the greatest man I know situation (because John still is the greatest man Terry knows, even with all this mutual baggage and messiness --- great enough to name his son after), except, Terry feels hideously betrayed by John. Hurt. Heartbroken. Done dirty. So, he'll produce and raise himself a more devoted John, singlehandedly through his own offspring, flesh and bone. A John that doesn't step out of line or bring him ache. Now, John will forever be his, in a sense, because this John is also his child, and his child will only ever love him.

Would probably utilize whatever Ponytail's real name was?

That way, all of his friends are always with him and part of him.

Terrence is always there as an option, of course. Naturally. Terry has a cult of personality, Terry is arrogant, Terry is haughty, so it is undeniable he'd have at least one kid named after himself. Terrence Jr? Terrence Silver the 2nd? There's something undeniably rich about all of these variations of names and he's well aware of that. That much is deliberate. The Valley is saddled with not just one Terry Silver, but two, and he's here establishing a dynastical order through naming practices. Might even make it a tradition. Immortalize himself through his sons and grandsons and great grandsons. Make himself into a living Ouroboros. Might even include whatever his father's name was into that concoction of titles. Doesn't matter what he feels his relationship with his own father was in the first place --- Terry is building himself as an Emperor in small. An Emperor needs elaborate legacy.

I always personally headcanoned that all of Terry's children would have insanely cutesy names. You know how all the OG Cobras have cutesy names? Bobbies and Johnnies and --- well, anyway, I imagine Terry doing something very similar and very much on purpose, where all of his slightly unhinged, very dangerous, very dastardly children all have names like Sammy, Timmy, Tammy, Terry (of course) Ronnie, Morty, Rory, Riley, Gary, Larry, Olly, Kerry and the likes --- a great many of which can be unisex. He definitely would have a daughter called Terrie or Terri. It gets more hilarious the more children he actually has. It think it is a personal joke of Terry's, meant to slightly trick the perception of the world around him. His kids would never be bad or misbehave. One of them is called Timmy, for crying out loud! Never-mind that little Timmy Silver broke someone's arm on the bleachers at his private school. His sons are a matching set of baby snakes with tremendously precious names, but watch out, it is all just a (marketing) ploy.

Possibly any (highly self-indulgent) name actually meaning or alluding to Silver, as in, the precious metal? Arian (Welsh) --- Arianell, for girls, also Welsh or Ariene in Irish. Airgead, in Irish, for boys? Aridai, in Hebrew, that is just...well, yeah, Silver? Going full VIP, upper class eccentricity and naming a son Sterling Silver? Crosses his mind, of course. Gives him a good chuckle.

Now, for girls; oh the girls get the full brunt of his excessiveness, I feel. They, again, sound wealthy, and that is very much a choice in the likes of Casiphia, blatantly meaning silver and money? That one is a bit giddy and on the nose admittedly, so he'd probably scrap that. But, dropping the references, I think a great many of Terry's idea's for girl's names would be very lofty. Downright fanciful. Aurelia? Gold and Silver in one name? A win. Allegra? Especially in reference of classical music? Another win. Octavia, just due to how it sounds as a nod to several Roman Empresses? Helena, after Helen of Troy? Anything and everything associated with Terry's own mother? Cressida? Again, a name meaning gold --- the synchronicity isn't lost on Terry. Olympia? Does get more haughty and victorious than that. Something traditionally fancy with a bit of archaic flare to it, maybe, like Beatrice? Ursula? Dahlia? Vivienne? Delilah? Who doesn't like a clever seductress who overcomes men ten times her size? If we headcanon that Terry has even an ounce of Irish in him, probably something like Ailonora (a version of Eleanor) or just Orla, which again means Golden Princess. Now his daughter can be his silver and his gold. That, or, he can just go full on control freak and flat out name his daughter California like he really owns the place.

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Easy Rider (1969); AFI# 84

The current movie under review from the AFI top 100 is the counterculture road film, Easy Rider (1969). As a note for anybody looking for screen captures, this is also the title of a magazine with many scantily dressed women next to vehicles, so be specific with your google image search. The film combines the hippie lifestyle with the beatnik concept of being free from "the man." It spoke to a lot of Americans at the time who were fighting back against government restrictions on one hand and the freedom of Civil Rights on the other. The film ended up making almost 100x the budget and was one of the first super performing, low budget indie films. The film was written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern. It was produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It is funny to think about now, but it was basically Peter Fonda's hippie son and some of his buddies getting together and making a movie about a road trip. Well done! Before we go any further, let's get the normal warning out of the way...

SPOILER WARNING!!! I AM GOING TO SPOIL THE MOVIE THAT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A MAJOR PLOT!!! WHAT STORY THERE IS I HAVE SPOILED SO WATCH THE FILM FIRST IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO RUIN IT FOR YOU!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

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Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money. With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival. This all happens either in silence, in Spanish, or beneath the in-coming planes at an airport, so there really isn't any dialogue. It truly is exposition at the most basic level. What the director is basically communicating is "two guys got some money, here's how, now don't worry about it and enjoy the travel montage."

During their trip, Wyatt and Billy stop to repair a flat tire on Wyatt's bike at a farmstead in Arizona and have a meal with the farmer and his family. It is kind of interesting because Wyatt talks later about nobody being willing to help him, yet he is invited to use the barn and tools and then invited to have dinner with the whole family. Later, Wyatt picks up a hippie hitch-hiker, and he invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day. The notion of "free love" appears to be practiced, with two of the women, Lisa and Sarah, seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking commune member before turning their attention to Wyatt and Billy. The people at the commune seem to like Wyatt and want him to stay, but Billy doesn't seem to fit in and he is antsy to get back on the road. As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with "the right people".

Further down the road, the two see a parade and playfully join the back. The pair are immediately arrested for "parading without a permit" and thrown in jail. There, they befriend lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who has spent the night in jail after overindulging in alcohol. After the mention of having done work for the ACLU along with other conversation, George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square", George is reluctant to try it due to his fear of becoming "hooked" and it leading to worse drugs but he quickly relents. It is funny when Wyatt calls it "grass" and George doesn't know what that means. I don't know about other areas, but any 13-year-old where I live would most likely know what Wyatt was talking about.

Stopping to eat at a small-town Louisiana diner, the trio attract the attention of the locals. There is a booth packed with young girls next to a booth packed with what I can best describe as hicks. The girls in the restaurant think the trio are exciting, but the local men and a police officer make degrading comments and taunts. Wyatt, Billy, and George decide to leave without any fuss. They make camp outside town and talk about how their freedom scares a lot of people. In the middle of the night, a group of locals attack the sleeping trio, beating them with clubs. Billy screams and brandishes a knife, and the attackers leave. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George has been bludgeoned to death. Wyatt and Billy wrap George's body in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his family. This happens really fast and I wasn't really sure what had occurred or that George was dead. First time I saw this, I was looking at something else for 30 seconds and turned back to see Wyatt and Billy going through a wallet. I rewatched and the time between George going to sleep and the duo going through his wallet after death was about 37 seconds.

Wyatt and Billy continue to New Orleans and find a brothel that George had told them about. Taking prostitutes Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil) with them, Wyatt and Billy wander the parade-filled streets of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a French Quarter cemetery, where all four ingest the LSD the hitch-hiker had given to Wyatt and experience a bad trip. I had to double check the name, but it is the same Toni Basil of "Oh Mickey, You're so fine, You're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Mickey!" fame.

The next morning, as they are overtaken on a two-lane country road by two local men in an older pickup truck, the passenger in the truck reaches for a shotgun, saying he will scare them. As they pass Billy, the passenger fires, and Billy has a lowside crash. The truck passes Wyatt who has stopped, and Wyatt rides back to Billy, finding him lying flat on the side of the road and covered in blood. Wyatt tells Billy he's going to get help and covers Billy's wound with his own leather jacket. Wyatt then rides down the road toward the pickup as it makes a U-turn.

Passing in the opposite direction, the passenger fires the shotgun again, this time through the driver's-side window. Wyatt's riderless motorcycle flies through the air and comes apart before landing and becoming engulfed in flames. A helicopter shot shows the carnage as the truck drives away and the credits roll.

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This movie is not what I would call my personal favorite, but many critics have praised it for the dialogue, visuals, and story. I am assuming when mention is made of the dialogue, it is in reference to Jack Nicholson, because the two lead characters are that mix of uncomfortable and annoying that you get with sometimes who is inebriated in some way. They repeat themselves, say phrases that make no sense and then laugh about it, and constantly say "what?" so the line is just repeated. The actors were often high during the making of the film and that is not at all surprising.

It seems funny to me that Dennis Hopper acted, directed, and partly wrote the script for the film, yet he gave himself the part of basically the third wheel. The character of Billy seems like he wants to be rich and have nice things but has fallen into the hippie lifestyle. He seems uncomfortable with the drug deal at the beginning. He doesn't want to pick up the hitcher. He wants to leave the commune and get back on the road. He insults George and has to apologize. He is the first to talk about the girls at the diner. He wants to go get prostitutes at the place that George talked about. He is the one that flips off the guys in the truck. Billy is the driving force of everything that goes wrong.

We can't talk about this film without mentioning the soundtrack, because it is kind of what the movie is famous for. Songs on the sound track include: "The Pusher" and "Born to Be Wild" (Steppenwolf), "The Weight" (The Band), "If 6 Was 9" (Jimi Hendrix), and "It's Alright, Ma" (Bob Dylan). Try putting this soundtrack on while driving and you will realize how perfect it is for a road trip. I don't think there has been a better grouping of driving songs.

So does this movie belong on the Top 100 American movies? Well, I guess. It was a watershed independent film during a time of major change in America and the world. It caught the interest of many in a generation and that is interesting enough to experience. Now would I recommend it? Not really. The film was kind of boring and the end is not satisfying. It is fascinating on many levels and I thought that the conversations that involved the character of George were good, but all lot of the movie is kind of slog. The campfire conversation between Wyatt, Billy and the hippie is just painful. It is maybe ironic, but this is a road trip movie that doesn't really move. It is worth watching if you are interested in the time period.

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The thing is, Ian was right. Mickey doesn't know any better, the writers on the show made sure of that, because for them the only important thing about Mickey is his devotion to Ian. But we're a bit more realistic about it and can analyze Ian's actions without being limited by someone's poor imagination.

There’s a lot to address here, so please forgive me for the lengthy response, anon! 🙂 I’ll preface all of it by saying this: my general opinion is that if Mickey has what makes him happy, we should support that regardless of how we feel about the other party (with obvious exceptions like physical abuse, etc.). If Byron was what made him happy, I would support him even if I couldn’t stand the guy. The same goes for any other character in any other franchise, at least for me. Now, onto your points:

I’m not sure which scene you mean when you mention Ian saying he doesn’t know any better, but I’m definitely with you on our ability to analyze Ian’s actions. The problem here is that analyzing will always be colored by perspective and implicit bias. If your fave is Mickey, anything that hurts him will look a whole lot worse than what he does that hurts Ian and perhaps lead to conducting a less than thorough analysis or rejecting sensible arguments about Ian’s character. Based on the number of posts I see about how Mickey is the only good thing on the show, I’d argue that that is a very real danger in many of the takes on Ian as well as everyone else. I’ve seen some pretty heavy demonizing of characters who hurt Mickey’s feelings or aren’t actively sweet to him, which is a bit unrealistic since that’s life and Mickey certainly never seems to mind or let it keep him down for long.

As far as him not knowing better, on the whole, I don’t think that gives Mickey much credit at all. Actually, it doesn’t really give him any credit, which is sort of surprising given how vehemently people defend his IQ, academically and emotionally, against what amounted to a joke. Mickey knows that Ian messes up and does things that are questionable at best and hurtful at worst. He’s not an innocent, pure character who endures heartache after heartache to throw himself at the brick wall of earning Ian’s attention. He gives as good as he gets and has hurt Ian too. They’re human and written very realistically in that regard. Their love for one another allows them to forgive transgressions and move on, not hold grudges or “not know any better” with regards to what they deserve. Love isn’t about what we deserve, and I think it’s important to remember that a relationship won’t last if it’s based on an arbitrary numerical score of who has done more harm than the other. Things happen. Poor decisions are made. They can allow that to break them or work through it. Mickey has actively chosen to work through it because at the end of the day, he loves Ian more than he is interested in finding something else. In earlier seasons, Ian similarly chose to work through it with someone who might never be in a position to come out and begin the full relationship that he so desperately wanted. That’s beautiful to me, not contemptible.

As far as the only important thing about Mickey being his devotion to Ian, we’ll also have to agree to disagree. 🙂 In the early seasons, while Ian was certainly the catalyst for it, Mickey’s story was about coming out more than his devotion to Ian. That’s why we have the scenes where he taunted Kash (focus: keeping his secret), purposely got sent back to juvie (focus: hiding from Terry if he found out), and got married (focus: self-preservation). We do absolutely see a rising devotion for Ian during this period, of course, and there’s no argument that his character was written expressly to be Ian’s love interest. The writers still made him a well-developed one with his own motives, fears, and desires outside of Ian in a way that later love interests didn’t get. (My own belief is that they didn’t intend for the later relationships to last like they did Mickey, but regardless of the validity there, Mickey was written as a character with more depth from the very beginning and existed before anything with Ian ever happened.)

The first half of s4 shows Mickey on his own merits. He’s handling his new position as a patriarch of the family, running the business while Terry is fairly hands-off and watches. He decides to help the Russian girls and ends up going into business with Kev. We learn a lot about Mickey’s character outside of Ian during that time. In fact, there are only a couple of scenes that really focus on him missing Ian until finding him becomes Mickey’s task: asking Kev if anyone has heard from him, the bathroom scene, and the later Alibi scene. Otherwise, the early s4 writers showed us a Mickey who was compassionate, ambitious, utilitarian, entrepreneurial, and collaborative—all without tying it back to Ian. Kev and V are renowned friends of the Gallaghers, but Mickey doesn’t grow closer to Kev in an attempt to learn more about what happened to Ian. He doesn’t help the girls because he thinks Ian would want him to. In fact, with the exception of those scenes I mentioned, we have no reason to believe that Ian is on Mickey’s mind at all while he’s doing these other things. He has a life outside of Ian just like the opposite is true, and s4 went to great lengths to show us that.

The second half of s4 is, once again, about keeping his secret until he decides to come out. (Read: decides to, is not forced to. More on that in a moment.) Yes, his devotion to Ian is once again the catalyst for some of his decisions, but there’s much more to it than that. Once again, we still see scenes with Mickey operating on his own for his own purposes. He doesn’t leave home entirely because he wants to be with Ian—he also wants to escape from his wife and pretend that things are the way they used to be. He doesn’t scam money from the rich guy or take more than his cut from the register at the Alibi to protect Ian—he does it for self-preservation so that Svetlana won’t get him killed. He doesn’t go to the baptism to keep up appearances and protect Ian—he does it to keep up appearances for himself and because...well, like it or not, that’s his son. The lattermost is something Ian specifically does not want him to do, and if he does, he wants to be there. Mickey goes against his wishes because it’s about protecting himself (and perhaps, by extension, their relationship), and rightfully so. Coming out at the Alibi does once again tie to Ian as a catalyst for change in Mickey’s life, but it didn’t have to happen. Mickey could have grabbed his coat, told everyone goodnight, and left with Ian. At no time did Ian tell him that he would leave if Mickey didn’t come out to everyone or admit they’re a couple, even if he did make reference to the fact that Mickey was hiding and not free. All Ian wanted was for Mickey not to treat him like a mistress or expect him to stick around if he did. Instead, it was a logical culmination of Mickey’s written development to come out. He’s stronger and more independent than he used to be. He’s capable of taking care of himself and surviving in the world without relying on Terry. He’s in a position where yes, he’s still justifiably terrified of coming out and what it’ll mean where Terry is concerned, but he’s able to do it. Ian is a catalyst for it, but being devoted to him isn’t Mickey’s only reason.

In s5, a lot of Mickey’s story does revolve around his devotion to Ian, but not any more than Ian’s revolves around devotion to him in the second half of s3. We still see Mickey doing business and running the family, but having Ian be his more central concern makes sense because Ian is sick and the writers have already told us that his health is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. In denial or not, Mickey knows this. And so we see his story center around Ian because, to an extent, it has to. Ian is mentally and physically sick. He’s adjusting not only to meds, but to a label that makes him feel ashamed and afraid. Mickey is devoted to him, and so Mickey does everything he can to take care of him. But here’s the thing: that scares Ian too. He’s seen what happens to the people who try to take care of Monica. He knows how it felt to try only to be ignored or betrayed or abandoned. The breakup isn’t about anger at being coddled or, by my interpretation and Ian’s own words, him being selfish. It’s about him seeing that Mickey’s devotion is going to keep him from living his life and ultimately (in his opinion) hurt him beyond repair, and so he sets Mickey free. It hurts him, yes, but it does work.

Because even though we don’t see it happen on-screen, s6 through s9 can’t possibly be Mickey sitting in a prison cell pining over Ian. If that was going to happen, we’d have seen it in s4. By this point, we know who Mickey is outside of Ian and can assume that he’s operating in much the same way on the inside until he figures out what he wants to do. We know he and Svetlana had a business arrangement where they took out contracts for work he could do in prison. We know that he makes a business acquaintanceship with Damon, which means he was probably involved in dealing or smuggling while there. Neither of these things can possibly revolve around devotion to Ian because they could conceivably keep him from Ian longer. His sentence is fifteen years, and if he’s counting on being out in eight to be with Ian, he needs to be on his best behavior. He’s not. He’s unapologetically not when he sees Ian again and talks about what Damon is. Ian looks less than comfortable with it, but that’s not why they ditch him—it’s because he might get Mickey caught with his behavior. Even breaking out happened once he was able to solidify an opportunity working for a cartel, so while Ian may have been another catalyst (besides the obvious desire to get out of prison), the decision wasn’t about devotion to him. The only decision that was about that was the one he made at the border to let Ian go without making him feel worse about it. He’s devoted to Ian, so he knows that dragging him along on the run into the unknown won’t be good for him. He needs stability and a support system and medication, none of which Mickey can provide if they cross that border together. So, out of his devotion, he lets Ian go. They have a heartfelt goodbye and separate for what they think is the last time.

Does Mickey’s devotion lead him to turning himself in? Absolutely. But not before spending another long stint living his own life. The writers make sure we know that he had a life without Ian playing a role in it, once again conducting business and operating successfully on his own merits. They’re limited in what they can show because Noel wasn’t available, which made logistics important, but they didn’t leave him high and dry or insinuate that he was waiting around in Mexico for an excuse to return to Ian. He was once again a successful businessman in the illicit economy. When he returns in s10, his storyline does then appear to revolve around devotion to Ian more—but it doesn’t. Mickey has people he hangs out with in prison separate from Ian and with no ties to him. With the Byron situation, it wasn’t about proving devotion for Ian when he thought Ian questioned it—it was about hurting Ian because of what happened at the courthouse, even after he found out what Ian was really afraid of. If the writers were only interested in showing his devotion to Ian, he would have ditched Byron the second Ian told him that he was scared of his disorder and ruining them. He doesn’t. He sticks it out because Mickey is so much more than his relationship with Ian: he’s independent, vengeful, hot-headed, impulsive, and stubborn. These are traits that have been set up by the writers throughout the series both with and without ties to their relationship, and he very adamantly adheres to his revenge-plot-turned-catalyst-for-Ian-pulling-his-head-out-of-his-ass because he isn’t all about devotion to Ian.

I completely respect your opinion on the matter and appreciate the opportunity to discuss it at length! Ultimately, it boils down to this for me: the writers get a lot off flack for some of the narrative decisions and, of course, they won’t always be to our liking. Opinions and preferences assure us of that. I don’t think it’s about us being more realistic or more capable of analyzing a character, though. Everything above was written. It wasn’t spelled out and handed to us, no, but the writers put it there so that we could then analyze it. There’s no analyzing a blank slate or someone whose only narrative is devotion to Ian. The writers have given us a wealth of things to consider when it comes to all the characters, Mickey included, and we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation if they didn’t. Mickey is intelligent, thoughtful, insightful, and more than capable of standing on his own two feet as both a fictional person and a character. If he chose Ian, then it’s because he has weighed all these things and found them to be nothing in the grand scheme of their love for one another. Again, though, we can agree to disagree. Thank you for this ask—I find myself writing more about Ian, so I had a lot of fun thinking back over the series to answer it! 😃🧡

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Ep 205: Terry Carnation's "Dark Air" and Rich Hatem

“Imagine the universe, compressed on the head of a pin…”

– Scott’s remembrance of a Carl Sagan quote, which, turns out, probably originates from a parody impression of Carl Sagan

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We have a very special guest joining us tonight, metaphysical "astralnaut," philosopher of the liminal, "Pope of the Paranormal," and host of the AM Radio talk show Dark Air, Terry Carnation. Terry first got his start in the paranormal radio genre when unexpectedly thrust into taking over for another show. While working as a late-night rock n' roll Disc Jockey for an FM station in Buffalo, NY, in 1992, Reginald Wilcox, the host of the paranormal call-in show that aired after Terry's slot was mysteriously murdered while Terry was in the bathroom... or so he claims. In his unflappable sense of duty, apparently stronger than his sense of legal obligation, Terry immediately took over the role of consigliere for listeners stupefied by the supernatural. And in Terry's words, "that's how a legend was created." Now, after a three-year hiatus, Terry Carnation returns with a new podcast, also called Dark Air, available starting April 1, 2021, wherever podcasts are given away for free. While you may not have heard of him, there will be something uneasily familiar about his voice and visage. And the audience will come to know his strange power for tearing off the head of disbelief and reaching down deep into our souls to yank out the viscera of our darkest fears and mysteries. Wrapped around our interview with Terry, our good buddy Rich Hatem joins us once again to discuss his latest adventures and projects. We'll also con him into playing our version of a game show, in the spirit of America's NPR radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and Britain's Would I Lie to You? We'll tell Rich three outrageous paranormal stories, and he has to guess which one is fake. Please join us for an episode of inscrutable levity.

Reference Links:

Terry Carnation’s website, TerryCarnation.com

Terry Carnation and Dark Air on Audioboom, where you can subscribe to the platform of your choice

Dark Air with Terry Carnation on Apple Podcasts

Follow Terry Carnation on Instagram

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Terry Carnation on Facebook

Where to stream DC Titans

“TERRIBLE FLYING JELLY BAGS aka DOMSTEN BLOBS: (SWEDEN)” by Rob Morphy on cryptopia.us

National Public Radio’s Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

The BBC One panel show involving true and false tales, Would I Lie To You?

“The Story Behind The Haunted Donkey Lady Bridge In Texas Will Send Chills Down Your Spine” from OnlyInYourState.com

“South Texas Haunted Folklore: The Tale of the Converse Werewolf” from KSAT.com

On a totally unrelated subject…

Rainn Wilson is best known for playing the role of Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office. Additional film and television credits include Galaxy Quest, Almost Famous, The Rocker, Super, Six Feet Under, Juno, Backstrom, Star Trek Discovery, Thom Pain, The Meg, Mom, Don't Tell a Soul and Utopia.  He will also be appearing in the forthcoming podcast Dark Air with Terry Carnation. Wilson co-founded SoulPancake, a digital media company, and the Lide Foundation, an educational initiative in rural Haiti that empowers at-risk women and girls through the arts.

Dark Air with Terry Carnation was created by Rainn Wilson and Aaron Lee and is produced by Thom Harp and Chris Kelly. Dark Air with Terry Carnation is a production of Imperial Mammoth, Audioboom and Kelly&Kelly. Theme music by Marcos Moscat

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Myself as a writer and Death of the Author

I’m trying to write a novel, and it’s really hard. I feel like I’m not getting anywhere, I’m on my fifth draft and trying to create a lengthy enough narrative that doesn’t feel like filler. It is difficult, to say the least, and I really admire people with the ability to write quickly and well. 

But there’s a lot about She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named going around again, and it made me think. We all know that she’s not the best person, but she is a writer, and she is a creator, and her works are widespread. And that... causes problems.

Is it ok to consume her work? How much do her opinions reflect in her work, and can we spot it? I have no idea, but here’s my best shot, as an aspiring writer and a high-school literature student.

Please be warned I have no experience, and I’m kind of making this up as I go along, but here we go.

Last year, at the start of the school year, in Literature, my class watched Midnight in Paris. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen, who is... well-known for all the wrong reasons, namely allegedly assulting seven-year-old Dylan Farrow. One of the girls in my class pointed out this fact, and my teacher nodded and said that we were discussing Death of the Author.

Death of the Author is an interesting topic. It holds that an author’s intentions and background should have no impact on interpreting a text. It is interesting, and it is really bloody hard to do.

Keep in mind that if you pick up a book by a relatively famous author, you will know something about them. If you take Mrs Dalloway, for example, if you’ve ever heard of Virginia Woolf, you will doubtless know that she was a writer and that she committed suicide, even if you know nothing else. The fact that she did commit suicide will influence the way you read Mrs Dalloway.

If you read Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath, for example, you will probably know that Plath was not mentally healthy and committed suicide by sticking her head in an oven. And that will influence the way you read Lady Lazarus. If you read any of Lovecraft’s work, you will come to the conclusion that he is a racist. It’s not hard to figure out.

Death of the Author means separating these facts from the way you interpret a work. It is really hard, trust me.

Because we look for links, everywhere we look for these links. We know that Sylvia Plath committed suicide, so when you read Lady Lazarus, you make connections. Go read Lady Lazarus now, go read it knowing that Plath committed suicide, and keep that fact in mind. Here’s the link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus

Now read it again, and try to forget it, all the connections you made knowing that Plath stuck her head in an oven. It is really hard to do, because you know, and you remember. Death of the Author is forgetting the context of the author, forgetting their impact on the text.

Here’s a thing, I write a lot. Like, a lot. Not published, obviously, but I write about as much as I read, and that is a lot. And I believe, that when you write, you put a bit of yourself into it. It doesn’t have to be obvious, maybe just the way you connect to a character, or your views on a topic. I can’t say I don’t do this - my main character is an asexual lesbian who panics a lot and loves her girlfriend. Her competence doesn’t come from me, but the gender, the sexuality, the panic? All of that is inspired by, you know, me. My experiences, my opinions. I am conscious in my word choices, I’m trying not to use gendered language for the soldiers, because they are men, women, non-binary, genderfluid and others, all together, so my main character can’t call them her men, they are her soldiers. It’s hard. I’m aware that I have biases, and my reading experiences are usually texts that ... do not do this. 

Sorry, I’m rambling, and no-one wants to know. 

But I as a writer, put a bit of myself in my work. And I think that’s what makes Death of the Author so hard to do, so hard to remember. 

And now onto HER. I can’t remember what brought my attention to her in the first place, maybe a post about a Harry Potter tv show?

The problem about JK Rowling is that she wrote Harry Potter. And Harry Potter is... huge. The problem is that we grew up on Harry Potter. 

Looking back, there are big problems with the series; plot holes bigger than my fist, a lack of original plot lines, and little creativity. Harry Potter is a mishmash of already well-established genres and archetypes, and it... doesn’t fit together particularly well. 

(Take Dumbledore, at once the mentor archetype from the fantasy genre and the authority figure in the boarding school genre. The problem is that being both causes a bit of dissonance. He mimics the typical ‘wise old mentor wizard’ from fantasy, like Gandalf, but he is also a school headmaster. He is a grandfatherly teacher who takes an interest in the son of two of his past students, nothing particularly new, but at the same time, he’s a figure out of legend, an incredibly powerful man, both magically and politically. It is hard for my brain to fit them together well because they are two different archetypes and they don’t mesh. They belong in different genres, because the way he is written can’t seem to decide which one he is. I might write more on this later if anyone’s interested)

But Rowling’s a TERF. And she’s been on Twitter and said all sorts of bizarre things about the odd mish-mash of genres she’s created. I’m not really a fan of Harry Potter anymore, I grew up with it. I have seven books in a shoebox under my bed. I have read far better books, I have read many, many books with more interesting stories, better internal consistency and characters with actual depth, who don’t need fandom to be interesting. 

And yet I still have all seven books in a shoebox under my bed. It’s hard. I genuinely liked the books - when I was twelve. I’d sooner recommend the Discworld books by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett than Harry Potter, and not just because of HER. They’re better books. Harry Potter is average. 

But we loved them. 

And Rowling’s a TERF. Her views on trans people are... not okay, by any measure. I don’t have words for ... how great the cognitive dissonance is. She wrote a series, a seven-book, eight-movie series, about the power of unconditional love. Over a million words, just under 20 hours about acceptance and tolerance. And yet she doesn’t believe that trans women are women. 

The problem is that it is hard to apply Death of the Author. Once you know that JK discriminates against transgender people, it is hard to read Harry Potter without remembering that. 

Then you get into other issues about how all of the endgame couples are straight. And Dumbledore’s only gay when the series is ended. And there’s a lack of diversity in the books and the movies. And once you start reading into it, it gets ... iffy. Because it’s not meant to be read into, not meant to be analysed. It’s a children’s series. But it’s problematic, not for the things it says, but fo the things it doesn’t say.

The thing is that SHE is impressive. As a writer, at least, not as a person. Because it is hard to write, and she managed an extensive, relatively-coherent storyline across seven books, released over ten years. But her first book got rejected, again and again. 

Her net worth is somewhere between 650 million and 1.2 billion. And she earns all that money off a book series whose main themes are friendship and love. And she’s a TERF.

I can’t say I hate her - I don’t know her. She might be a genuinely nice person, but she’s a TERF. She doesn’t believe that trans people are the gender that they say they are. I cannot understand how you can believe that, but. She does, apparently. She wrote so much about love conquering all evil, and friendship saving the day, but she doesn’t think that trans women should be allowed into female bathrooms.

I hate her ideology. 

Go read Discworld instead. Think about Death of the Author, then read Night Watch. It’s a great book. Or go read Good Omens, because Pratchett co-wrote that. 

The thing about Discworld is that you can tell what Pratchett thinks is worth paying attention to. Small Gods is primarily about religion, about belief, and about people. The last one is the most important, because Pratchett believed that the greatest thing you can be is human and kind, and he’s right. The witches on the Discworld are... perhaps not nice, but they are decent, and they are fundamentally people. They are human, and they are kind, and that is what makes them good people. 

The thing about Harry Potter is that “Muggle” sounds like a slur. There’s all this attention paid to the whole “mudblood” thing that people forget that behind all the blood purity nonsense - which sounds a lot like eugenics - the purebloods, the rich entitled kids, believe that non-magical people are less than animals. The Wizarding world is stuck in the Middle Ages, not even the bloody Renaissance. Human history has passed them by. It is so hard now to read Harry Potter without finding problems, like how all the magicals are fundamentally stupid, how a literal one-year-old is praised for supposedly killing an extremely powerful mass-murdering psycopath. A one-year-old. The Wizarding World is not a functional society, and it’s not meant to be. It’s not meant to hold up to scrutiny.

Look, Harry Potter is average, at best. Ask me for good kids books and I will point you in a dozen different directions, and I will point you in a dozen different directions - but not there. 

Because Death of the Author is hard. Not taking the creator’s intentions and background into account when interpreting a work is hard. You can know that an author is queer, or a person of colour, or of a certain religion, but once you know it, it is hard to not see it. 

You see, all the main characters in Harry Potter are white. They’re also all straight. Everyone not Harry Potter is flat. There is very little depth to anyone in those books, because they don’t matter. Hermione is defined by her relationship with Ron because her relationship is the most debated part of her character. Ron - in the movies at least - is seen as stupid because he is written stupid, he is written as comic relief. Book-verse Ron is a strategist, but that’s only really shown in the first two books. They’re not written with depth, they don’t need it. Harry’s the protagonist, Hermione’s the smart one, Ron’s the dumb-but-loyal comic-relief best friend. Ginny is the love interest, Luna’s the crazy one, the twins are comic-relief pranksters. Draco is the racist antagonist, Voldemort is a more extreme mass-murdering version. There are exactly zero trust-worth adults in a whole seven-book series, there are three? characters with depth in the whole series, everyone else is defined by a role and a single characteristic.

It is so hard to look critically at Harry Potter and not see everything that relates to Rowling. It is problematic as a series, and problematic as content created by a TERF. It is problematic as literature in the first place. It’s written as a kids book, but for all its ‘adult’ themes, it can’t stand up to scrutiny.

This got long - I got a bit carried away. Sorry.

Tell me what you think, tell me your opinion. I’d love to discuss this with you because it so hard to write about. Argue with me, tell me I’m wrong. Tell me I’m right if you think I am. Have I said anything problematic? Please lets start talking about this because it’s interesting and a difficult topic, and I think we need to start looking closer at authors and content creators. 

[henrikvanderswoon]

Double the Kill: A Nancy Drew Play Written by 12-year-old Yours Truly - Readthrough Reactions

Okay, guys, I went through two cups of super strong coffee reading through this thing and I think I can hear colors now so… Have fun reading this!

I sincerely haven’t read this thing in probably ten years and I legitimately forgot almost everything about this play I wrote for myself and my twin/two best friends to perform. We used to write plays for each other all the time, as well as play Nancy Drew games together, so… this was all very fitting.

Anyway, this is a super long one and I APOLOGIZE but also I hope you enjoy reading this thing as much as I enjoyed writing it 😂

Okay, for starters, this story is titled: “Double the Kill” for two reasons that I can remember: (1) someone actually gets murdered, and (2) someone beheaded the Lincoln Memorial statue. 

…

You know when you’re in middle school and you’re assigned some topic to research for a project and suddenly you have this stupid amount of knowledge about something you don’t know what to do with? 

That’s what happened here. 

Anyway.

So, apparently I didn’t know what the word “pervert” was when I was 12 (poor, sheltered creature) so I legitimately named a character Blake Pervey and I’m gonna fling myself into the sun. 

Oh my gosh, I wrote up a case profile for this, complete with character roles and everything. Incredible.  

Let’s provide that for you guys:

The Case: Billionaire Erving Nickels is holding a benefit concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., where the band “One Love” will be performing. Erv senses trouble, so he calls Nancy Drew and her best friend Bess Marvin to watch out for anything “suspicious.” But about an hour before the concert’s about to start, One Love’s lead singer Terri James is found dead near the Lincoln statue and the head of the statue is gone!

Contact: Erving Nickels - a billionaire who’d arranged the benefit concert. He asked Nancy to come and watch for anything “suspicious.” 

Suspects: 

Erving Nickels: Goes by Erv, for short. As it turns out, this man has actually gone bankrupt recently. Could he go to desperate measures to gain back his wealth?

Blake Pervey (I still want to die): One Love’s back-up singer. Terri had broken up with him recently because he’d attempted to cheat on her (huh, maybe he really is a pervert after all). Did he murder her to get revenge and take her place as the lead singer? 

Lyza Benton: The make-up artist. Lyza is always on the prowl for the next juicy gossip to spill to the press and gain publicity. Could she have killed Terri to create the ultimate story?

Myra “Ryan” Williams: One Love’s guitarist. She was the person Blake had attempted to cheat with, but she’d refused. Terri didn’t believe Ryan’s story and blamed her for everything, which caused the two women to hate each other.

Victim: Terry James

Okay. Already this is a little better than “Murder at Turquoise Inn,” because there are actual suspects with actual motives??? aMAZING. 

Wow, Nancy’s a bitch. She didn’t even tell Erving that Bess was coming along. 

Erv keeps saying that he thinks something bad is going to happen tonight, and Nancy and Bess are both like,“Can you please explain why?” And he’s like, “I just have a feeling.” Like boi, that’s sketch. 

Bess: “Sorry to change the subject, Mr. Nickels.” 

Erv: “Please, just call me Erv.” 

Bess: “No thank you.” 

Bess…I know Erv is a weird name, but…why? 

Mr. Nickels is taking Nancy and Bess on a tour, right? And I keep peppering in random facts about the Lincoln Memorial I learned for school and it’s SENDING ME. 

“I’ll watch and wait for our groovy band to arrive, while you girls split up and watch for suspicious activity. Now, let’s boogie!”

Asfbadka Erv, no one talks liKE That! 

I would just like to take a moment to preface the rest of this post with the fact that I wrote this for me and my friends, and we were always writing the stupidest dialogue for each other because we thought it was hilarious. Um…which hopefully explains lines like these: 

(1) No one calls Erv Nickels, the handsome billionaire, “Darling.” Except his mother.

(2) [We’re going to change.] No, don’t change. We like you guys just the way you are. *laughs obnoxiously* 

…

I hate myself. 

So Blake and Terri arrive in the limo and let me tell ya’ll Blake is definitely flirting with Erv right now and I’m so fucking confused. 

Terri: That man’s got problems. I guess money does that to people. 

Blake: But we have money and we don’t have problems. 

Terri: Maybe it only happens to men.” 

Blake: But… I am a man. 

Terri: Exactly.

Okay, you can tell my love for writing banter was here from the fuckin get-go. 

Oh god, now Blake is flirting with Nancy. Fuckin hell. I may not have known what the word “pervert” was when I was 12, but this man was aptly named. 

Suspicious, suspicious.*Mocking* ‘Can you girls watch for anything suspicious?’ Something suspicious, yeah right. Oh look! A BUG. Oh, soooo suspicious.

Bess…. I love you. 

Okay, as dumb as everything is in this thing, some of this dialogue is fucking cracking me up so hard.

Bess: No! Honestly. I swear, it’s almost like he’s trying to keep us busy so something bad can happen.

*A faraway scream cuts in from offstage*

*Nancy and Bess look off in the direction it came from, way too casual*

Bess: What was that?

Nancy: I dunno. 

*They pause, then their eyes widen in realization* 

Nancy: Oh crap.

Listen, I know I’m a comedic genius, but this is getting out of hand. Dsbfsjkdsjfbk

Bess: Mr. Nickels! What woman was screaming so high like that?

Erv: That was me. 

I CAN’T BREATHE. 

I saw Terri lying there on the floor, apparently dead. 

Erving… the woman is DEAD. What do you mean “apparently?” 

Nancy and Bess find a letter Terri was going to give to Erving to tell him she can’t do the concert because she also felt like something terrible was going to happen to her, and all Bess can do is repeatedly laugh at the word, “Flee.” 

Hey, too bad “Honest Abe” is missing his head, otherwise he could tell us whodunnit.

Wow, yall. Bess is my favorite. 

You know, the funniest thing about this is that you can definitely tell how many of the games I played between writing my horrible novel at the age of ten and writing this. If this thing had better dialogue and more fleshed out story/characterization, I could picture this as an actual game, not gonna lie. 

And… maybe if it didn’t involve removing the whole-ass head of the Lincoln statue…

Yanno, tiny details like that.

Lyza: *laughing* Scared you, didn’t I? 

Bess: Oh, “scared’"is such a strong word. I’d say more… "severely startled.”

So Erving reveals to Nancy that he’s actually not dumb as bricks, but puts up the facade because he’s broke and doesn’t want anyone thinking he’s not still super rich and air-headed. I’m crying. 

You sensed something bad was going to happen. You should have called the police to stand guard! Not some amatuer teenager who calls herself a detective and her little friend!

…. The pervert has a point. 

So Lyza likes to meddle in people’s business. Ryan had written about Blake’s advances in her journal and Lyza blackmailed her about it, Terri blamed Ryan for Blake’s attempted cheating. Blake tried to bribe Ryan into going out with him by telling her he’d discovered a way to get his hands on a fabulous collection of priceless jewels, and Terri broke it off with him. He’s upset, Ryan’s pissed that Terri thinks she went along with Blake, Erving borrowed money to organize the benefit concert (in order to benefit himself) and now he’s in even deeper debt because the concert has been cancelled and Lyza is having a fuckin field day. 

BOY AM I ON BOARD FOR THIS SHIT.

Before he came into wealth, Erving worked in a museum in Chicago, and Bess finds a piece of paper on the floor of Ryan’s trailer with the phone number to this exact museum. Nancy calls to see if there is any connection between that museum and the Lincoln Memorial and apparently there’s a theory that the head of the Lincoln statue contains jewels that the museum talks about in a part of their exhibit. 

*kronk’s face* Oh yeah. It’s all coming together.

Nancy: For all I know, you could be the murderer. 

Erv: Why would I do that? I needed the money from the concert!

Nancy: No you didn’t. You could’ve just–I dunno–stolen the head of Abe over there in search for the ALLEGED JEWELS INSIDE.

Ya’ll… please don’t ask me how the FUCK one person would get tools to remove that head without anyone noticing. Please. 

Blake: Hey, guys, have you seen Ryan anywhere? 

Nancy: Why? You gonna ask her out again?

Kjdbfisfdosidnf FUCKIN’ SAVAGE, NANCE. 

oH MY GOD THE CULPRIT SLIPPED UP SO EASILY I’M SCREAMING. 

oH my god, Nancy told Erving they needed something to pick the lock on one of the trailers and he’s all: “Like a bobby pin?” And just takes off his hat, removes a bobby pin, and “lets his long hair cascade down and over his shoulders like a waterfall” and I’m crying. I can’t fuckin’ breathe.

Oh shit, wait… the first culprit was actually covering for the real culprit all along I’m losing my mind. My twelve-year-old brain was so advanced I just threw a curveball at myself sjdbfshdbfagh

Okay, so I’m not gonna spoil anything because I think it’s hilarious to keep you all wondering what the fuck is going on and who the hell did it and why, but I would just like you all to know that this play literally ends with one of the characters singing Hannah Montana’s “The Best of Both Worlds” completely off key because I thought it would be hilarious and I think that really tells you a lot about who I am as a person.

[motivationalfitness88]

I'm just the messenger... But here you go....

I’ve been researching this crap for awhile...The FBI uncovered a sex trafficking ring in Boystown, right outside of Omaha Ne. That was back in the late 80’s early 90’s when Barney Franks was a Senator. The FBI field director’s name was run into the ground , he was forced out of the FBI, and eventually was suicided.

Pizzagate is real.

It isn’t some conspiracy theory.

It's real. It’s always been real. And you can’t convince me otherwise.

If you think the Wayfair Stuff makes you sick, then wait.

Because what you’re seeing is just a small piece to a HUGE puzzle.

This runs deep.

People laughed at Pizzagate…. They aren’t laughing anymore.

Human trafficking is real.

It’s one of the classes you take when you’re fostering/adopting. It’s at least 4 hours.

Elite paedophilia is real. Organ harvesting is real.

It’s not a new phenomenon. It’s not something that just started. It’s been going on for YEARS.

It’s not something that is just going on in the US. It’s happening all over the world.

It involves Hollywood. It involves politicians on both sides. It involves the Rich. People you look up to are involved.

And I get it. It’s hard to wrap your head around what’s going on. It’s hard to imagine something so dark and disgusting going on right under your nose.

It’s hard to imagine something so evil is happening to our children.

It’s easy to laugh it off as some conspiracy theory.

Oh no, not my favourite actor, singer, or politician. Oh no, not Hillary. She can’t be involved. She was going to save us from Trump.

The international Labor Organisation estimates 40.3 MILLION human trafficking victims GLOBALLY.

If you think this is still a hoax or don’t want to come to terms with the fact that an Elite Paedophilia ring exists, ask yourself this:

⭐️Everyone knew about Epstein and his love for underage girls.

⭐️People were calling Little Saint James "Paedophile Island" since Epstein purchased the island in 1998.

⭐️With that knowledge, why did Bill Clinton and Obama visit Epstein’s paedophile Island? Multiple times?

⭐️Why did the locals report seeing dozens of young kids being taken across there for years?

⭐️Why was Bill Gates a regular visitor there?

⭐️Prince Andrew…. Do I need to say more and why is The Queen going around threatening anyone to run the story if it’s not true?

⭐️You mean to tell me that all these prominent men and women went to this paedophile island for one big party? Knowing what they knew about him? It wasn’t a secret.

⭐️What was Epstein using the underground tunnels for?

⭐️Who was Ghislaine Maxwell?

⭐️Did you know she owned a submarine company?

⭐️Did you know she has her sub pilot license?

What could she possibly need a submarine pilot license for?

⭐️Did you know that yachts with submarines were used to transport kidnapped children from Haiti to Epstein's paedophile Island?

⭐️What about Laura Silsby? The woman who was tried in Haiti for trying to sneak and KIDNAP 30 children to bring them to the US. Clinton’s used executive order to bring her back without being charged.

⭐️The kicker…… guess who changed their legal name and is in charge of amber alert— Laura Silsby… but let’s not mention that…. People who dig down that hole end up dying….

⭐️Did you know the TerraMar project was founded by Clinton Foundation and was located in the Lynn De Rothschild property in Manhattan?

⭐️Chelsea Clinton and Ghislaine are reported to be very close and actually vacationed together. You mean to tell me that Chelsea didn’t know about Ghislaine?

⭐️Remember when Chelsea’s wedding was paid for with money that was supposed to feed starving Haitian children?

⭐️Why did Hillary put Ghislaine’s nephew in charge of key Middle East policy decisions when she ran the State Department? You know… the one overseeing US/Libya policy that got an ambassador killed.

⭐️What about the Podesta Emails?

⭐️What was up with John and Tony Podesta’s artwork?

⭐️Would you own any of that creepy “art”?

⭐️Why would Obama buy $65,000 worth of tax payers money to have hot dogs fly in from Chicago for a private party?

⭐️Did you know that hotdog is an FBI code word for young boys?

⭐️Who is James Alefantis?

⭐️A pizza restaurant owner in DC. Who happens to be named one of the most powerful people in DC-A pizza place? A man that owns a children's pizza place? A man that has close ties with the Clinton's, Obama, Epstein and many more?

⭐️Have you seen his Instagram? Oh you probably haven’t… you’re just now looking into everything.

⭐️Have you looked up the art that is in his pizza place?

⭐️You want your kids seeing that stuff?

⭐️What about the dark web login to get into his site and order pizza that cost thousands of dollars? Oh wait… that was taken down.

⭐️What is a pizza place owner doing communicating with the White House?

⭐️What about the Hollywood actor that walked into comet pizza and shot at a locked closet door? The same closet that housed his computer which ended up with a bullet through the hard drive? Odd.

⭐️What about Anthony Weiner? All the emails found on his laptop?

⭐️You mean to tell me that his wife, Huma Abedin, had no knowledge of what was going on?

⭐️Huma and her friend Hillary had NO clue about this 15 year old girl?

⭐️What about the folder titled “Life Insurance”?

⭐️You know the one that housed the now famous videos titled "Frazzledrip" with Huma and Hillary. You want nightmares, read about those videos!!

⭐️The same Huma and Hillary who 9 NYPD have “committed” suicide after watching a horrific video of them doing unspeakable things to little girl? The same NYPD who threw up because what they saw was horrific?

⭐️Speaking of suicide, why have 57 former colleagues and associated ended up dead in the past 30 years? 15 have died of suicide. 8 died in a plane, car, or motorcycle accident and 14 have been found mysteriously murdered. All of these people had info that could have potentially hurt the Clinton's career. I don’t even have 57 friends 😂😂 let alone know 57 people that I need to add to a hit list.

⭐️Why is James Comey’s daughter the lead prosecutor on the Epstein sex trafficking case?

⭐️Former CEO of Reddit, Ellen Pao admitted they Knew Ghislaine supplied underage girls for Epstein and his pedo buddies?

⭐️The Norwegian Royal Family implicated in Epstein Scandal? Why? Not surprising considering Prince Andrew.

⭐️What about Oprah’s mentor? John of God and Weinstein. You mean to tell me Oprah didn’t know? Come on nowww...

⭐️Have you even heard of the NXIVM case? They were just running a sex cult where Smallville actress, Allison Mack was arrested and indicted on federal charges related to sex trafficking.

⭐️The McMartin Preschool. The Franklin Cover up. Seth Rich. Isaac Kappy. Boystown. The Finders. The list goes on and on...

⭐️Denish Hastert…. Do you know him? You should. Good buddies with Podesta….

⭐️Robert Menendez. Mike Folmer. Prominent democratic donor, Terry Bean. David Byrd. George Byrd. All known prominent paedophiles.

Why don’t we hear more about Biden’s Island? Very close to Epstein’s Island.

The Podesta brothers were known suspect’s years ago when little Madeline McCain was stolen from her parent’s hotel while on vacation.

What ever happened to her?

This doesn’t even cover a quarter of what is going on. This is so much more than Epstein. It’s so much more than Ghislaine. This runs deep and you’re going to be shocked at the ending.

I’m not interested in hypotheticals, rumours or factless connections.

Everything. Everything ties together. Everything is connected.

So while others are more concerned about COVID, I’m more concerned about saving our children. Aren't you?

Pass it on... if you believe one scintilla of the above before the Facebook police get rid of it...

[kiingbiing]

bro Please show us ur ocs what

gladly

just know that names will change bevause i have too many characters woops (im a bad character maker lol)

i made them children who murder but now i dont know what to do with them, soon i will make a story for them

king and jester raise a baby and fall inlove :]

theyre originally humans but with a potion gone wrong, they end up as animals and now they have to work together to turn themselves back, also the snake works with the law and the mouse is a crook

dnd character, but i never got to play him cause i never played dnd, lol, one day, i will

ethan works at a cafe and got turned into a vampire, carter is a monster hunter and wendy is his assisstant. carter has the hots for ethan and ethan doesnt want to acknolwedge his existence. maggie and callie is ethan’s friend, barry LIKES wendy

the triplets were inspired by moosop ngl, but i do remember making triplets in 5th grade lol

inspired by tarzan, but i changed the story cause i made these characters when i was younger and i cant abandon them. meriam raised talia (i changed her name) when she decided to leave london and live in the jungle. talia barely speaks because her speech isnt good. mark comes to visit his mother and to try and see if the island can be used for good money, mark and talia hate each other for this fact.

made this in 4th grade cause my first lesbian ship was bubbaline and i was like, i dont have enough lesbian ships, gotta make my own then,

no name for them but its set in the philippines, inspired by our monsters :]

a fellow monster has to be in love with their food

fairly odd parents oc, josh and penny got adopted by this rich couple, and everything was fine till they figured out that they only got adopted because the parents would get more money from their parents if the wanted kids, this warrented a god parent and francis is here. francis HATES children and is onyl doing this because its good money. penny is too energetic, josh is the quiet kid and francis hates kids, but he can handle one, hes not gonna be able to handle 2

theres 2 stories for this, bt judas and merith were in an arranged marriage and percy became merith’s crying buddy when judas is mean, they can be in a threesome, still dont know. still have to upadte this story

dominic goes savage during the full moon and his sister is the only one who knows this secret. the two rodents have a thing for dominic

these were just random ocs with no actual plot line, dino and cloudy are buddies and they go everywhere together

the colony of ants have a thing for the ant eater, not the tables have turned lol

dad is forced to raise a baby and he cant cause hes sad depressed, and he just doesnt know what to do but he can abandon her. jerry is like, buddy, BUDDY, if u let me crash, i can help out, hes helpful, 

used to be an adventure time oc but i scrapped it, 

princess aya runs away from the royal family to find her missing sister cause she doesnt want to be queen 

she meets with red, a thief who dabbles with magic, which is illegal, 

due to unfortunate events, red helps aya find her sister

animal crossing ocs. kenny and lola are dating :]

one and two are childhood friends? one was mean and two got depressed, but now one is trying to make up for it

kylan is failing his class, so richard has to tutor him to make sure hes on the right track, kylan just doesnt want to do anything with him, and when he realises that richard has a hard time making friends, he makes it his task to help him make a friend, in return, richard has to leave him alone

just two teenagers coming to terms about their feelings for each other.

braden never gave romance a thought until he reached middle school. he started to crush on george hard and he doesnt know how to handle this and he tries to deny it.

george is straight and is just vibing, and he thought things were fine until braden confessed his feelings.

braden is demisexual (im demi, hes very special to me)

this ones old, (also i made another oc thats named carter WOOPS)

no name (teddy) got kicked out from home when his mom figured out hes gay, and carter is a rich art student that needs a model and he ask teddy to become his model. carter pays teddy a good sum of money, (i need to work on this story woops)’

melissa is a rich blind girl and shes not allowed to party and go outside if she doesnt hire a body guard (thanks dad), she hired danny, an ex underground boxer to help her around the city. 

in this world, magic welders are getting killed because only officials are allowed to use magic. momma summons demote, a demon, with a deal that he keeps her daughter safe. demote and harper hate each other and they have to tolerate each other in order to get away from the hunters. dewey is a forest entity that latched onto harper

my little pony oc 

madison loves flowers, she tends flowers and honestly? flowers only.

valentine is a match maker and she stumbles upon madison, and her match making skills dont work on madison, just ponies being ponies :]

characters made with my friends but i lost contact with them and one day, ill work on their stories

david is in his first public school and he meets molly and he doesnt vibe with her cause she doesnt talk to him and it didnt settle with him right, so he bullies her, and when he figures out that shes deaf and maliciously bullied her, hes just, not happy and tries to make it up to her, and shes not having it

life and death, my friend wanted me to make a comic bout life and death,

just ur standard life and death ship

used to be an adventure time oc but i changed it

andrew grew up in a religious household with strict parents, making him study. hes not allowed to be with friends

margee is raised by her uncle because her dad died in a car accident,

dally has a strained relationship with his dad, his dad being an alcoholic and not taking care of his health

they were all childhood friends and then they got seperated, when they got older, they all saw each other and got together for support

(ok imm a fool and i try to make a webcomic but i keep not not finishing it so, woops)

bunny ocs when i was younger, i need to work on their stories, sorry, no other info except they want to beat each other lol

cupid accidentally shots an arrown at ching and now they fell inlove with mar, and mar just wants to vibe and be ignored but with ching contantly trying to woo mar, cupid thinks thats enough and tried to help mar because that wasnt suppposed to happen lol

girl realises that the monsters under her bed and in her closet are real and tries to get her mother to help her.

her mother abuses her and the girl is just scared and she doesnt know what to do

(im getting lazy)

baintly wants to be a good wizard but she sucks at everything

butters(the broom) is accidentally made when she tried to summon her animal

she was about to get kicked out of school but out of sepretation, she promised her school that she’ll go get a gem from a feared dragon in order to prove her place in the school

she got lonely and got a pet bunny and fox

terry accidentally summoned perry and she doesnt know how to handle a demon in her room, ralph is terry’s friend

set in space and theyre all animals

the top are a bunch of criminals and the bottoms arer in the police forces

and they both have to work toegether to get rid of a dangerious villian set to destroy the galaxy

ok so i lost their names but basically, big demon goes to the human world and befriends a child. other demon is the right hand and he follows his master and hes just a ball anxiety. the older sister is a monster hunter and she tries to kill the big demon living in her house

[polygamyff]

54.

Watching my daughter slowly sit down on her Minnie Mouse chair, she seems so pleased with herself. She got her bottle and is now sat down but she has left her snack “dada!” she pointed; how did she even know I was here. I have been trying to stay out the way and just watch her, I just find it so adorable. My daughter just sitting down on her tiny ass chair “dada!” she screamed out again “ok, ok. I am here, what is it?” walking around the chair, Reign looked up at me “yes Mi Amor? What is wrong?” Reign pointed at her snack “you get it Reign, go on” leaning down to take her bottle from her, Reign whined out “I am not your servant, go and get it” Reign refused me to take the bottle “I will get it then” I sighed out walking towards the paper plate, picking it up “you the only woman to boss me about, you know that” crouching down near her “say thank you then” I said but Reign reached over and grabbed one from the plate “mhmm” sitting on the floor next to her “so what we watching then?” my daughter is growing up too fast “Maurice, what time is the driver coming? Also take that chair with you, and please take Reign’ slides off of her. That is for her walking around inside, they are not for outdoors” Robyn always walking in to give orders “yes boss, you and Reign boss me about, and he will be here in the next hour, are you all ready to go? Anymore suitcases to add. Anymore orders?” looking behind me “don’t be so dramatic, acting like you some maid. And no, I don’t have anymore suitcases. I really mean it when I say that chair better be on the jet, it keeps her still” rolling my eyes “sure, you hear that. Apparently you are too much Mi Amor, this chair keeps you quiet” Robyn is not lying though, she does love this little chair “wow Maurice, you put water in her milk bottle?” Robyn keeps checking on me “well I couldn’t be bothered; she is happy like that. Leave us alone you bully” frowning at Robyn “boy bye, you are marrying this” Robyn pushed my head forward “divorce also comes easy to me” I retorted “so does that divorce money boo, call me the next millionaire” Robyn is a whole trip, look at her ass flaunting and shit “you aint’ shit” I said while laughing, she is funny.

Reign thinks she is a strong independent woman now she can walk; she doesn’t want nobody to help her “Reign, say bye to Khaleesi. She wants a hug” crouching down to her “see you when we come back girl. Krista going to be looking after you, be nice to her ok” placing my arm around her, she was going to lick my face but I moved it “I will miss you too, come on” Reign is a little unsteady when wearing shoes, she is a little everywhere but determined “good girl” grabbing her arm “say bye Khaleesi” Reign patted her nose “you feeling emotional girl” I think she knows we going, Khaleesi rested her head on my knee “awww it’s ok, Krista if you need anything then please call me. I got you” Krista is good “I will Mr Davenport, enjoy your wedding. I will wait to see pictures; Robyn will be so beautiful. I just know it” I cooed out “not as beautiful as me Krista, come on now” I chuckled “Maurice, let’s go now” Robyn said “that is us” Khaleesi ran off towards Robyn “big girl, I am going now. I will come back with some goodies ok?” Khaleesi jumped at Robyn “hey” watching Khaleesi sniff Robyn’ stomach “what you are doing, stop it. I love you too, Krista thank you for taking care of her for us too” Khaleesi moved away from Robyn, she is so excited “come here” scooping up Reign “you will be back as Mr and Mrs Davenport, that is so exciting for you both. You will be married” Krista said “scary right, imagine marrying Robyn. She is a bully” Krista laughed “it’s loving, she loves you too much Mr Davenport. I already miss you all, be back soon” I cooed out “bye Krista, say bye Reign” I waved, Reign shook her head “ok diva” she is acting out already.

I am a little unsure with staying at Terry’ home, I hope she don’t pull something like have Thomas there but she is not that type of lady, I don’t think anyways. I don’t mind staying there but I don’t want to see Thomas, I feel like he also let me down. He wasn’t there in a way of telling me son, don’t give up your rights, it’s your daughter see her. He wanted me gone, I was so lost then “I wanted to ask actually” I jumped a little bit, Robyn scared me “yeah?” Robyn laughed “why do you look scared?” shaking my head smiling “nothing, just was staring at the clouds” sitting back in the seat “I just wanted to ask, how are you feeling with getting married? Are you happy, nervous?” Robyn asked me, do I seem it “what you think?” I questioned back, I would like to know what she thinks I am feeling “I think you are feeling a little nervous Maurice, I feel it from you” I breathed out laughing “I am feeling nervous, not in a bad way. I just want things to go ok, I am feeling a little angry at things. I would rather want Mami there but no, I am just kind of scared. If I can be a good enough husband to you, I didn’t know how to be a husband at all or even a father. But at times I am like will I be good enough for you, I try my best all of the time for you but you deserve the world” Robyn cooed out “Maurice, we’re not even married yet but you have been already treating me like your wife, you are my husband in my heart already. Would I ever want to marry you if you treated me wrong? When you did I left you, I left you many times because yes you was lost, you was confused with yourself and everything around you, but you have changed so much. You are the best dad to Reign, don’t doubt yourself. Just that now it will be on paper for us both. I am excited, it’s been long overdue for us anyways” Robyn is too kind, I love her the most.

Tina be tripping hard “you know when I told you about Tina” I said while staring at the contract she sent me “Robyn” looking up from my laptop and then smiled “why you taking pictures of me?” she is funny “did you get it!?” Ally shouted from across the jet “I did, just reading it now” Robyn turned her phone to me “I muted the sound but look at how cute you look concentrating and then they way you look up, god. I can’t wait to ride your face” shaking my head laughing “so anyways, the contract. Do you want to be a model? Tina is pushing for it, I mean it could be a side thing?” snatching Robyn’ phone from her “listen to me, you are just as bad as Reign” Robyn huffed out “listening?” I said, Robyn nodded “so, Balmain? Photoshoot is in France by the way? Don’t ask, they are requesting it. I am your manager, I ain’t playing. I don’t have lazy people on my team” I pointed and Robyn hit my hand “bye, I mean I don’t know. You tell me? I have this thing with Jay Z, I am scared for him to call me Maurice. I don’t know?” Robyn is stupid “is that why you never picked up his call huh?” I laughed “ok, you know what. I will decline this, you just need to get your head in gear. You need to speak to Jay, I will come with you one time and after that, you need to do it. You can’t drag me constantly with you, like the play dates you create with Bey” she needs to delve into the rich life a little more “It’s Beyoncé Maurice! What the hell you want me to do, I can’t do it” passing Robyn’ phone back to her “so when you scope out places with him, then what? When you with the Roc Nation team, then what?” Robyn is too damn shy “I will die in side a little” I can’t help but laugh “oh Bonita, what are you going to do. Like, he is willing to work around your schedule, but dodging his calls is a no. At the wedding, you and Jay will speak. He is a great guy Robyn, he listens and will take care of you” she needs some time, she needs me to hold on too still.

Resting my head back sighing out, I am stressed a little bit just thinking on things “you not going to like my post?” looking at Robyn “what do you mean?” I questioned “I uhm, posted something cute. You not going to like it, or anything?” pulling a face “not really, why? I probably will if and when I go on, why? What did you post?” I don’t check for it unless I am bored “just you know” Robyn looked at her nails “I just put up a selfie, I just want to know if you like. I just put leaving New York as Robyn Willis, you know” Robyn is being weird “right, I will. Ally” shuffling out of the seat to ask Ally something “what now? I received it” walking over to her and Jay “yes but, I need to make sure that Bey and Jay get the full works, I told my dad, but his mind is everywhere, they are my main guests. Plus, my dad was not thinking of them, he has some much other things. So, I need you to make sure they good, also have fun. You’re off work during that time right?” I forgot if I did give her time off “you did, you said have fun. You are not shit. You are trying to give me work” she is not wrong, I was trying too “be quiet” waving her off “but honestly, both of you after the take over happens. Have fun” holding my fist out to Jay “my brother” dapping him, I have a lot of shit to think and do. It’s like I can’t get everyone out there, Nalah is in New York still, she will be coming a little later. We left early because we have other affairs to handle.

I feel like Robyn has a face on with me, she said she is going to lay down with Reign on the bed. I will see the damn selfie because honestly social media is the devil and I do hate it at times, waiting for it to load up, and there you go the first picture is Robyn’ selfie. She looks beautiful as always, liking the post as I rolled my eyes. Tapping on the comments, I will leave a comment to make her happy if that works. Squinting my eyes “huh” I said to myself “the second wife” I read to myself, so this is what is happening then. Scrolling down ‘your pussy must bombe for him to want that....’ another malicious comment ‘sold your soul for money’ I can see why the sadness, she shouldn’t exactly see to those messages “welcome to the family” I read, Elena coming through with the comment, locking my phone. Well I better go and see to my baby, sighing out heavily as I made my way to her “Robyn” I said, I mean I knew she wouldn’t be asleep “yes?” sitting on the edge of the bed “I saw the comments, people are haters. I didn’t want them like I wanted you, it’s nothing. I don’t want you to let these people upset you. They hate will come through more and more now, please don’t let them taint your mind. I love you” Robyn poked her lips out “I just needed reassurance from you, like I know you don’t do social media but you do when you want to message the whore house owner or your family from Spain. You were posting so much” she is spoilt “why do I got to prove anything to anyone besides you? When I post it’s special and they hate it, please Robyn don’t play that with me talking about when I was in Spain I posted, why do I want to air out everything about my family? Why? Don’t be so stupid, I post Reign randomly at times, and then you. Why do I care for them? Is it because they called you my second wife? It’s facts, you are. I can’t change that; I can’t change that I have fucked so many women!? I am sorry Robyn, and I will post when I want, I don’t need to clarify anything to anyone besides you, and if you want to feel that way, then so be it but it’s bullshit, and this is what I mean by I am not a good enough husband to you” getting off of the bed.

Watching Jay and Ally talk, I have nothing else to do I guess now that Robyn doesn’t wish to speak to me, or I have offended her still “did you ever see yourself married? Because I can’t, hand on heart. No offence Ally” Jay is going to be on the same boat as me if he don’t be quiet “I don’t think marriage does anything, I mean I guess in your case it gives Robyn a lot of leverage in your money and gaining but a nigga like me, no. I just rather live in sin, marriage is nothing to me” Ally is staring at Jay all offended “I was thinking you’re about to be in the same situation as me” staring at Robyn as I said so “how so?” Robyn asked “getting offended, so Robyn is not happy because girls that I know or maybe had sex with have been commenting under her selfie that she is the second wife and stuff. She wanted me to more or less post her to make her feel a type of way. But listen to me, I don’t care for it. Robyn knows me, I have changed for her, why care about the outside” Robyn is not happy at all “you’re just being a dick now” I laughed in shock “because I don’t care for social media, am I wrong?” Jay eye balled me “actually Maurice, I get it. It’s like Jay doesn’t have one picture of me, he doesn’t even follow me. And I do feel a type of way about it” Jay and I both groaned out “oh see, look at that women understanding each other” Robyn said, Jay mean mugged me “I don’t see the issue? Fuck social media, why do you feel the need to be claimed like that?” I shrugged laughing “because we like to know we are claimed, Robyn feels like I do. Yes, you are all hers but why not show that? Like wise with Jay, am I not good enough? You post your topless pictures enough” Jay pointed at me “this is your fault nigga, I hate you” shaking my head “it don’t anything fine but you have a lot of women on your dick and still want it and do not care who I am to you, I get you are popular with the women but sometimes I feel like wanting to be flaunted and don’t bother posting shit, I will block you” shaking my head sighing out.

I am not angry with Maurice, just slightly annoyed. I do not blame him for his past, I certainly don’t blame him for what happened then, but I got hounded by these women saying mean things. That was just half of the things I deleted a lot, and it’s so random because first that didn’t happen but I posted a selfie on a jet and I got abuse, maybe because I am marrying him now, I don’t know. I just feel like if Maurice posted me and you know, I just wanted to shut them down even more but what can I say. It is mean, I feel like this one girl is trying to get at me but I have blocked her but she came back with another page, just talking some shit and saying I am selling my soul, he had sex with me too, he ain’t shit. I don’t care, maybe I do but it gets me down a little bit. As I grow as a person in the limelight with him, so does this hate. There are some sweet people, that do say nice things but wow, they do hate me. Even with Reign, putting how did you even get pregnant, he doesn’t slip so clearly they know him behind these fake pages “are you wanting to sit down?” Maurice is clearly floating around me “can I?” he asks like he can’t just sit down “yes” this flight is taking forever today, doesn’t help that it had to fly around again because we couldn’t land just yet “like I am sorry if I have offended you, that is not what I wanted or my intention to do so. I just don’t see the issue because I am with you. Social media is just a mess in general, I am not going to be fake and start jumping on to post, why. You need to understand you and I are ok and out there, they will try and ruin that. You know I love you right?” nodding my head “I do and I don’t want you to start posting anything, you do what you need to do but like Ally said, it’s nice sometimes. I am not angry at you, or that this is an issue for us. It’s not, just an annoyance I will have to get used to it ok?” Maurice smiled at me “I think Jay hates me” I laughed “I think he does; you need to not put your two piece in their business” Maurice is annoying.

Taking in a deep breath, back home. I am so happy “hello!” seeing this white guy just waving, I think that is Rich, I think the photographer that they wanted Maurice to have “I have missed you guys!!” he shouted, walking off of the jet “does this mean you are going to be with us?” I asked “yes I am, I am staying with you. Marquis orders, but also I am always supposed to be around you both. Maurice!” he shouted, “but we are staying at my mother’?” I said, “oh cool, spare room?” shaking my head “my daughter’ crib?” I retorted “I will take that” is he crazy “waiting for us huh? What is this?” turning around to see Reign and Maurice, she has just woke up “I am part of the family, come on now” I didn’t agree to this, I mean it’s not in my contract  “wait till you see my team, we are getting these shots in” I laughed looking at Maurice “sorry what?” Maurice said “you know what I mean, welcome” making my way to the SUV “shall I get rid of him” overhearing Jay say “no, my dad will not be happy so leave him” climbing into the SUV, so Marquis thinks I am going to let this photographer be everywhere with us.

Rich turned around in the front seat “when you all accept me, I can then start to take great pictures. It’s for your portfolio too, every celebrity has a photographer with them, Maurice I need your log in to Instagram too, you knew this was going to happen. You are taking over the business, and just like Jay is part of the family, so am I. So hi, I am Rich, Richard. I am white, and I am twenty four, and I have no girlfriend. Lost my virginity at nineteen, and that was the last time I ever had it. So hey” I laughed looking out of the window “where did my dad find you? On the streets?” Maurice asked “no, I mean maybe. My parents are pretty known, Marvel people. Let’s not speak on them, so this is my first gig with you guys, I am pretty excited. I just think we never get to speak, you’re always busy for me so this is bonding. I am even moving to New York for you, I am your end all, your everything. Me” he pointed at himself “so your purpose is what?” I asked, “to make the second class Bey and Jay prosper” Maurice and I laughed out “you are funny!” Maurice said while laughing “I try, but I am here to make this family prosper. Keeping it all professional. Including both of your social media. I will handle it mostly for Maurice and sometimes if you want Robyn. But I am here for you both, I mean not like when you get freaky I will be there but if you say you want a sex tape, I can also do that and yes I have signed the disclaimer, everything is here. Your dad has sorted it all out. So what you think?” I think I am going to like him “you’re pretty cute for a white guy, I can’t be mean to him. Those blonde curls on his head, adorable” Rich blushed “oh wow, I mean. If you got friends, then send them to me” he is very funny.

It feels good to be home, I am happy “I just wanted to add anything I do, take pictures of. I will discuss with you all, I will be here and there doing things. But other than that, I won’t annoy any of you at all” he talks a lot “I see, we will see if you don’t get in the way” opening the SUV door “mommy, look at you waiting for me. Oh my god” I can’t be bothered to wait for the driver to open my door “I have been counting the days, hours and minutes. I have missed my daughter” hugging my mother close “I miss you so much mom, I just miss you. I am glad to be back home” my mother’ hugs, they are the best “same, I got your room ready and everything. My baby” moving back from the hug, my mom stared at me in awe “I miss your face around the home” my mom looked me up and down “mother” I stepped back “creep, touching me up for” I laughed “because you’re pregnant, that is why” frowning at my mom “what?” my mom pointed at me “Robbie, come on now. You are pregnant, I know my daughter. Your face, your glow and your body. You are pregnant” I am speechless “Reign! Hello, what happened to your hair, oh my god. Yes, hello Maurice. Welcome back” looking at Reign pulling at her hair as my mom hugged Maurice “my family is all home, so good to see you” could I possibly be pregnant, my mother just saying that and I have been feeling a little like shit about things “who is the white boy?” my mom asked “it’s our new son, we adopted him. Say hi to Richard, he will be staying with us too” I am just taking in what my mom said “Robbie, don’t act so shocked” I shushed my mom “come here, and hello Richard” my mom held my arm “baby this is a good thing, we sometimes never realise things like this” I feel so stupid right now, my mind is just overworking thinking.

[humboldtfog]

Years of depression has prepared me very well for the current state of affairs which is weird but whatever here’s a list of my faves on netflix, if I’m missing something let me know cause now’s the time, right?

I'm kinda embarrassed by how long this list is but also kinda like fuck that, there have been very long periods of time where it was either sit and watch shows all day or lie down and stare at the wall in silence all day so I chose the former and it adds up and there's nothing wrong with that.

Glow (Badass ladies learn to wrestle, great 80s aesthetics and grrrrl power.)

Our Planet (Netflix version of Planet Earth, beautiful, cute, terrifying that we aren’t doing more to save us all.)

Bojack Horseman (Hilarious and “deep” critique of LA and celebrity culture for people who don’t care about LA or celebrity culture. Also very funny visual jokes about how if animals were also kinda humans, and lots of great jokes about cliches and tropes, puns, and weirdly rhyming and alliteration? I don’t know how to explain it just watch it.)

Father Brown (BBC, based on mystery novels about a priest who always meddles in police business and solves murders in his small English countryside town.)

Pose (The Ball scene in NY in the 80s, poc queer and trans writers and actors bringing their people’s stories to life. So much joy, so much beauty, but also NYC in the 80s so you will cry.)

Paris is Burning (Documentary made during the Ball scene Pose is based on.)

Sex Education (Such empowering representations of all walks of gender and sexuality, and actually very educational, like I would straight up show this in schools because everyone would be very entertained and would learn a lot more than they teach in a lot of schools.)

What Happened Miss Simone (Documentary about Nina Simone’s life, music and the activism the establishment/ government worked to suppress and used to blacklist her.)

Night on Earth (Low light camera technology has gotten hella good and they’re starting to learn stuff about animals’ behaviors at night that they’ve never been able to study before.)

Call the Midwife (Follows stories from the midwives that worked in the East End of London after the war, based on memoirs. Interesting look at the kind of life of poverty people led before there were many large hospitals or birth control, right as the British were implementing their universal healthcare program.)

The Great British Baking Show (Everyone’s so nice and everything looks so good!)

Atypical (Dramady about a high schooler with autism and his family, very funny and great representations of autism and how to be a good dude.)

Parks and Recreation (Just very funny and everyone knows it. Amazing ensemble cast, and they still keeps in touch through a group chat awww doesn’t that say something!)

Kim’s Convenience (Canadian comedy about family of first and second gen Korean immigrants that’s just a really solid funny modern day sitcom.)

Queer Eye (I feel like if everyone in this world could get a life makeover from these guys we just wouldn’t be here right now.)

Obvious Child (Jenny Slate accidentally gets pregnant and gets an abortion. It’s funny and it’s realistic, we’re not all Juno.)

Maria Bamford: the Special Special Special (Rad lady comedian not afraid to talk about her mental health and lack thereof and very vocal about the stigma surrounding mental health problems and I very much relate to. My favorite standup probably ever. I could make a list just for standup so message me if you’d like more suggestions.)

Monty Python (Flying Circus, movies, doc, ect. “The Beatles of comedy” is the cliche but it's true.)

Easy (Very unconventional non-narrative structure and editing, following random people in Chicago in a very real life feeling way. Different story each episode, but sometimes characters show up briefly in each other’s lives or return for a second episode.)

Everything Sucks! (High school nerds and lesbians and theater geeks in the 90s! I’m so sad this only got one season I rewatched it recently and it’s just so solid.)

She’s Gotta Have It (Revival of Spike Lee’s first movie, black girl magic, art world, gentrified New York, lots of sex.)

The Office (Classic, holds up very well, totally solid throughout, worth a rewatch. Also if you're a fan Jenna Ficher and Angela Davis are doing a rewatch podcast jsyk.)

Billy on the Street (Mindless game show for laughs, amazing gay comedian runs around New York yelling questions at them. I watch this with my dad and he can’t help but snort even when it’s “inappropriate” or “juvenile” so you know it’s good.)

Good Girls (Some lower middle class family ladies that are all about to be broke decide to rob the grocery store one of them works at, but they accidentally cross a gang that stored their cash there, so they gotta pay it back, and of course can’t help but get deeper and deeper into it. Very suspenseful like your heart rate will go up and stay up. )

Arrested Development (It’s just funny, as you've probably heard, but I'm telling you it just really is.)

The Laundromat (Tells the stories of a few of the people involved in the panama papers in different ways, explains in an entertaining way how money laundering works in a way that made it mostly make sense even to me. The rich get richer, and Meryl Streep is here to tell them to fuck off and pay their taxes.)

Russian Doll (She keeps dying and coming back to the same moment over and over and can’t figure out how to stop the cycle or why so kinda sci fi, very suspenseful, big cliff hanger ending, or rather no ending, and just found out season two filming is delayed because virus which is very annoying!!)

Dear White People (Show picking up where the movie left off, after a frat hosts a black face party and the ivy league college is forced to deal with racism.)

Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Stories based on Dolly songs. Very Hallmark channel, you will cry.)

Episodes (Show about two British writers making a version of their BBC show for American tv. Kind of meta, very funny, Matt LaBlanc plays himself and it's great.)

Dumplin’ (Fat girl grows up with a beauty pageant winning mom and enters one herself with the help of her late aunt’s Dolly Parton drag queen friends.)

Lunatics (Chris Lilley is the best character actor ever, all his shows are just him playing different parts and you seriously forget it’s all one actor, even when he’s playing teenage girls.)

Jane the Virgin (Prime time soap opera about a girl who is engaged and waiting until marrige and is accidentally inseminated with the only sperm sample of a man who’s had cancer so decides to keep the baby, very heavy on the soap opera cliches in a meta way but also that’s what it is. So good at first but after the first three or so seasons it gets too much tbh though.)

Zumbo’s Just Desserts (Australian Bake show but with just sweet stuff and pressure to be avant garde.)

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Jerry Sienfeld goes out with funny people to coffee and lunch in fancy cars and they have funny conversations.)

One Day at a Time (Very very cheesy laugh track sitcom, like the kind of thing my grandma would watch, but it makes me so happy it’s doing a great job eplaining really woke concepts like queer pronouns and ptsd and addiction and white privilege to people like my grandma!)

Orange is the New Black (Good stories about very diverse characters, I’d say by starting it off about a upper middle class white girl it tricks privileged white people into watching and then encountering the more realistic stories of women who go to prison and how the system treats prisoners. Ending of season two is super solid and you can stop it there, season three is a really great critique of the privatization of prisons. I admit it goes on and on to the point that it’s stressful and after watching it spread out over years I can’t remember/ keep up with all the different story lines, though they’re all good stories to tell.)

Space Jam (Just saw while scrolling for more ideas this was added! One of the greatest sports movies of all time obviously.)

Bonus amazon prime shows, I try to avoid Amazon in general but these are just too good if you know a prime member who you can't convince not to give their money to amazon so they might as well give you their login (like yer dad).

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (A 1950s New York upper class Jewish house wife gets dumped and starts doing stand up, so funny, great actors, and they seriously transform NY back into another era.)

Good Omens (Mini series based off Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s satirical novel about the biblical apocalypse, very funny, very smart, very British, does the book pretty solid justice.)

There are other decent things that aren’t included, I’d say these are solid recs for a general list of genres all over the map without letting it get to a ridiculously unhelpful length. I feel like I’d be good at the “if you like this then you’ll also like…” so let me know if some of these are your favorites too and want personal recs for what to watch next based on a brain instead of an algorithm.

If you want to have a remote date and watch things together on video chat or one of those watch party sites or just tell me what to watch next here’s some stuff on my list I’ve been curious about or not sure about or don’t want to watch alone or have been putting off, and now’s the time right?: Strangers Things, I Am Not Okay With This, Black Panther, The Betty White doc, John Mulaney Snack Lunch Bunch, Dead to Me, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, A Wrinkle in Time, The Little Prince, Maniac, Wet Hot American Summer reboots, and a bunch of different standup specials from comedians I like.