#the little one is Piper the two big ones at the top are Robin and Batman

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The lovely ladies that greeted me today as I stepped out of my car

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EPISODE VOLUME 1 DISC 1 BASEBALL BUGS RABBIT SEASONING LONG-HAIRED HARE HIGH DIVING HARE BULLY FOR BUGS WHATS UP DOC? RABBIT'S KIN "WATER WATER EVERY HARE H" BIG HOUSE BUNNY BIG TOP BUNNY My Bunny Lies Over the Sea WABBIT TWOUBLE BALLOT BOX BUNNY RABBIT OF SEVILLE DISC 2 DUCK AMUCK DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO DRIP- ALONG DAFFY SCAREDY CAT THE DUCKSTERS THE SCARLET PUMPERNICKEL YANKEE DOODLE DAFFY PORKY CHOPS WEARING OF THE GRIN DEDUCE YOU SAY BOOBS IN THE WOODS GOLDEN YEGGS RABBIT FIRE DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½2TH CENTURY DISC 3 ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA BUGS BUNNY AND THE TREE BEARS Fast and Furry-ous HAIR-RAISING HARE Awful Orphan HAREDEVIL HARE FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS FRIGID HARE THE HYPO-CHONDRI-CAT BATON BUNNY FEED THE KIMY DON'T GIVE UP THE SHEEP BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE DISC 4 CANARY ROW BUNKER HILL BUNNY KIT FOR CAT Putty Tat Trouble BUGS AND THUGS Canned Feud Lumber Jerks Speedy Gonzales Tweety's S.O.S. The Foghorn Leghorn Daffy Duck Hunt Early to Bet A Broken Leghorn DEVIL MAY HARE VOLUME 2 DISC 1 THE BIG SNOOZE BROOMSTICK BUNNY BUGS BUNNY RIDES AGAIN BUNNY HUGGED FRENCH RAREBIT Gorilla My Dreams The Hare-Brained Hypnotist HARE CONDITIONED The Heckling Hare LITTLE RED RIDING RABBIT TORTOISE BEATS HARE RABBI TRANSIT Slick Hare BABY BUGGY BUNNY HYDE AND HARE DISC 2 BEEP, BEEP Going! Going! Gosh! ZIPPING ALONG STOP LOOK AND HASTEN READY SET, ZOOM! Guided Muscle Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z There They Go-Go-Go! Scrambled Aches ZOOM AND BORED WHOA BE GONE CHEESE CHASERS THE DOVER BOYS MOUSE WRECKERS A BEAR FOR PUNISHMENT DISC 3 Bad Ol' Putty Tat All a Bir-r-r-d ROOM AND BIRD "GIFT WRAPPED C" Ain't She Tweet A BIRD IN A GUILITY CAGE "SNOW BUSINESS C" Tweetie Pie KITTY KORNERED BABY BOTTLENECK OlD GIORY The Great Piggy Bank Robbery Duck Soup to Nuts PORKY IN WACKYLAND DISC 4 Back Alley Oproar Book Revue A Corny Concerto Have You Got Any Castles? HOLYWOOD STEPS OUT I LOVE TO SINGA Katnip Kollege The Hep Cat THE THREE LITTLEST BOPS ONE FROGGY EVENNING RIAPSODY RABBIT SHOW BIZ BUGS STAGE DOOR CARTOON What's Opera, Doc? YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES VOLUME 3 DISC 1 HARE FORCE HARE REMOVER HARE TONIC A HARE GROWS IN MANHATTAN EASTER YEGGS The Wabbit Who Came to Supper BOWERY BUGS HOMELESS HARE CASE OF THE MISSING HARE ACROBATTY BUNNY Wackiki Wabbit HARE DO REBEL RABBIT HILLBILLY HARE DUCK RABBIT, DUCK DISC 2 DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD CAPERS THE COOCOO NUT GROVE PORKY'S ROAD RACE THE WOODS ARE FULL OF CUCKOOS SHE WAS ANACROBAT'S DAUGHTER THE FILM FAN SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER THUGS WITH DIRTY MUGS GOOFY GROCERIES SWOONER CROONER WIDEO WABBIT THE HONEY MOUSERS THE LAST HUNGRY CAT THE MOUSE THAT JACK BUILT DISC 3 I HAVEN'T GOT A HAT PORKY'S ROMANCE PORKY'S PARTY PORKY IN EGYPT PORKY AND TEABISCUIT PIGS IS PIGS PIGS IN A POLKA PORKY PIG'S FEAT DAFFY DUCK SLEPT HERE BYE, BYE BLUEBEARD AN EGG SCRAMBLE ROBIN HOOD DAFFY THE WINDBLOWN HARE CLAWS FOR ALARM ROCKET SQUAD DISC 4 Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur SUPER-RABBIT DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD A GRUESOME TWOSOME DRAFTEE DAFFY FALLING HARE STEAL WOOL BIRDS ANONYMOUS NO BARKING RABBIT PUNCH AN ITCH IN TIME Odor-Able Kitty WALKY TALKY HAWKY GONZALES' TAMALES TO BEEP OR NOT TO BEEP VOLUME 4 DISC 1 ROMAN LEGION-HARE THE GREY HOUNDED HARE RABBIT HOOD OPERATION: RABBIT KNIGHT-MARE HARE SOUTHERN FRIED RABBIT MISSISSIPPI HARE HURDY-GURDY HARE FORWARD MARCH HARE SAHARA HARE Barbary Coast Bunny 8 BALL BUNNY KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS RABBIT ROMEO DISC 2 THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING PIG LITTLE PANCHO VANILLA LITTLE BEAU PORKY NOW THAT SUMMER IS GONE A PORKY IN THE NORTH WOODS YOU'RE AN EDUCATION PORKY'S RAILROAD PLANE DAFFY PORKY THE FIREMAN "A CRACKED ICE C" PUSS N' BOOTY LI GOT PLENTY OF MUTTON BOOBY HATCHED 12 PORKY'S POULTRY PLANT THE STUPID CUPID DISC 3 CAT-TAILS FOR TWO TABASCO ROAD TORTILLA FLAPS Mexicali Shmoes HERE TODAY GONE TAMALE WEST OF THE PESOS CANNERY WOE THE PIED PIPER OF GUADALUPE MEXICAN BOARDERS CHILI WEATHER A MESSAGE TO GRACIAS NUTS AND VOLTS Pancho's Hideaway THE WILD CHASE "A-HAUNTING WE WALL GO H" DISC 4 THE NIGHT WATCHMAN CONRAD THE SAILOR THE SOUR PUSS THE ARISTO-CAT DOUGH RAY ME-OW PIZZICATO PUSSYCAT KISS ME CAT CAT FEUD THE UNEXPECTED PEST GO FLY A KIT KIDDIN' THE KITTEN A PECK O' TROUBLE MOUSE AND GARDEN PORKY'S POOR FISH SWALLOW THE LEADER VOLUME 5 DISC 1 CARROT RABBIT ALI BABA BUNNY BUCCANEER BUNNY BUGS' BONNETS A STAR IS BORED A Pest in the House "TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000 H" OILY HARE STUPOR DUCK THE STUPOR SALESMAN " The Abominable Snow Rabbit" The Super Snooper The Up-Standing Sitter Hollywood Daffy You Were Never Duckier DISC 2 BEWITCHED BUNNY PAYING THE PIPER THE BEAR'S TALE FONEY FABLES GOLDIMOUSE AND THE THREE CATS HOLIDAY FOR SHOESTRINGS LITTLE RED RODENT HOOD LTTLE RED WALKING HOOD RED RIDING HOODWINKED THE TRIAL OF MR, WOLF TURN-TALE WOLF TOM THUMB IN TROUBLE TWEETY AND THE BEANSTALK A GANDER AT MOTHER GOOSE SEÑORELLA AND THE GLASS HUARACHE DISC 3 BACALL TO ARMS BUCKAROO BUGS CRAZY CRUISE FARM FROLICS HARE RIBBIN' PATIENT PORKY PREHISTORIC PORKY THE BASHFUL BUZZARD THE OLD GREY HARE THE WACKY WABBIT THE WISH QUACKING DUCK WAGON HEELS THE DAFFY DOC A TALE OF TWO KITTIES PORKY'S POOCH DISC 4 ALPINE ANTICS EATIN' ON THE CUFF OR THE MOTH WHO CAME TO DINNER MILK AND MONEY I'VE GOT TO SING A TORCH SONG PORKY AT THE CROCADERO POLAR PALS SCRAP HAPPY DAFFY PORKY'S DOUBLE TROUBLE GOLD DIGGERS OF '49 "PILGRIM PORKY T" Wise Quackers porky's preview Porky's Poppa Wholly Smoke What Price Porky VOLUME 6 DISC 1 HARE TRIGGER TO DUCK. OR NOT TO DUCK BIRTH OF A NOTION MY LITTLE DUCKAROO CROWING PAINS Raw! Raw! Rooster! HEAVEN SCENT MY FAVORITE DUCK JUMPIN' JUPITER SATAN'S WAITIN HOOK, LINE AND STINKER BEAR FEAT DOG GONE SOUTH A HAM IN A ROLE OFTEN AN ORPHAN DISC 2 HERR MEETS HARE RUSSIAN RHAPSODY DAFFY - THE COMMANDO BOSKO THE DOUGHBOY ROOKIE REVUE THE DRAFT HORSE WACKY BLACKOUT THE DUCKTATORS THE WEAKLY REPORTER FIFTH COLUMN MOUSE MEET JOHN DOUGHBOY Hollywood Canine Canteen BY WORD OF MOUSE HEIR-CONDITIONED YANKEE DOOD IT DISC 3 CONGO JAZZ SMILE, DARN YA, SMILE! THE BOOZE HANGS HIGH ONE MORE TIME BOSKO'S PICTURE SHOW YOU'RE DOIN'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DOIN WERE IN THE MONEY RIDE HIM. BOSKO! SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO BOSKO IN PERSON THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON BUDDY'S DAY OUT BUDDY'S BEER GARDEN BUDDY'S CIRCUS A CARTOONIST'S NIGHTMARE DISC 4 HORTON HATCHES THE EGG LIGHTS FANTASTIC FRESH AIREDALE CHOW HOUND THE OILY AMERICAN IT'S HUMMER TIME ROCKET-BYE BABY GOO GO0 GOLIATH WILD WIFE MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING THE HOLE IDEA NOW HEAR THIS MARTIAN THROUGH GEORGIA PAGE MISS GLORY NORMAN NORMAL

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Honestly I loved your Villain Wally and was wondering how do others react? I just loved it and want more

Hey! First of all, sorry for the late response. I’ve been super busy and have only had enough time to make short chat posts, and I wanted to answer this ask a bit thoroughly. So be prepared for a really long answer. I’ll be approaching this from both a brotp and otp point of view with wally and dick.

Barry: - Barry had no idea who Charge was for a really long time. To him, Wally West was his girlfriend’s nephew that went missing days after he accidentally found out Flash’s identity. When Charge emerged two years after Wally disappeared, Barry thought it was possible that he could be Wally. He tried to discover his identity. He really did. But the guy was just too fast, he slipped by every single time. And the one time he finally got him, Charge had started begging and crying! And, well, if Barry doesn’t let anyone know his identity, then what right did he have to know this guy’s? So he let it be - When he did find out, he was pretty confused. And pissed off. Pissed off at Dick, mostly. Because Dick knew. Dick had known for YEARS who Charge was and he never told Barry. So what the hell? But yeah, he was mostly confused and upset

Bart: - Oh Bart knew the whole time. I mean he’s from the future, he did his research on his family. He knew who Charge was. It made for a very shocking moment when Wally met him for the first time and Bart goes, “hey Wally!” and Wally’s reply is “... who are you and how do you know who I am?”

Jason: - Okay I think Jason has the best reaction to Charge, and any relationship he has with Dick. First of all, as soon as he becomes Robin one of his first duties is to find and confront Charge. He saw online that Charge is one of Robin’s top three nemeses, and well, he’s Robin now, so, declaring Charge as his enemy is the way to go. Wally of course argues against this because excuse you, Robin, I’m now NIGHTWING’S nemesis so jot that down. Nightwing then jumps in out of nowhere before Charge can throw fists with a 13-year-old - (BROTP) *to Dick* “You’re even weirder than I originally thought you were” - (OTP) “Gross.” “Sure, I’ll keep this a secret from the old man, are you serious? Finally, I know something he doesn’t.”

Okay so in this AU, since Wally’s a villain he can’t really have the same friends he has in the comics, you know Roy and Donna and all the other Titans, so I scoured the wikis to look for friends that Wally has outside the hero business, and friends who were ever villains. I found a few, and added them to this AU as the closest people in Wally’s life. The first four lived with Wally in an abandoned warehouse he found. Here’s their reactions.

Christina “Tina” Weller: - In this AU, she’s just three years older than Wally instead of like twelve. She’s basically a big sister to him. She was the first friend he made after running away from home and beginning to live on the streets. He tells her about his powers a couple of months after knowing her. She, as an aspiring scientist, was SO excited! A speedster! She had so many questions!! Questions that she asked Wally every single day even though they both knew he didn’t have the answers, Tina! - The two of them never passed up the opportunity to use Wally’s powers to their advantage. He used his speed to steal what they needed in order to survive. So she was no stranger to thievery. When Wally comes up to her with the idea of a name and a suit, she was all for it! Even helped him with the colours and name. - (BROTP) “I don’t think Batman would approve of this if he knew” - (OTP) “Oh my god Batman is going to kill you. Oh my god my little brother is going to be killed by Batman”

 Mason Trollbridge: - Two years older than Wally, Mason acts as the annoying older brother. In the group Wally coined as the “Two Syllable Squad��� he was the last to join, as he was skeptic of the other four. As the last to join, he was also the last to find out about Wally’s powers. He was confused, because if he was a speedster then shouldn’t he be running around with the Flash? This resulted in an argument between Wally and Mason, which resulted in the group realising that the Flash is a sensitive topic, so don’t bring him up - He found out that Wally was Charge when he was out on a walk one day, and suddenly Charge was in front of him and handing him an Xbox and an apple and telling him to start running, police sirens blaring in the distance. Mason of course ran and hid, but as soon as he got back to the warehouse he was walking up to Wally, saying, “seriously, man? You’ve joined Flash’s weird colourful bank-robbing fanbase?” and Wally replies, “first of all, no. Second of all how’d you know!?” “You’re the only one I’ve told that I wanted an Xbox and I told you I was craving an apple this morning!!” - (BROTP) “Can you even do that?” - (OTP) He laughs for like two minutes before going “wait you’re serious. How does that even WORK?”

Ashley Fox: - Mason finding out about Wally being Charge led to the rest of the group finding out. Ashley claims that she already knew because “who else do we know who’s a speedster, has Wally’s physique and steals a bunch? Come on, it was obvious.”  - (BROTP) “Robin? As in Batman’s Robin? The Boy Wonder? He wants to be your friend? ... Why?” - (OTP) “You kissed WHO? WHEN? He wants to WHAT? YOU SAID YES? HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET THE BOY WONDER TO WANT TO DATE YOU? No offense.”

Connie Noleski: - She’s upset at first that Wally didn’t tell her as soon as he began being Charge, but after he explains to her the dangers of all of them knowing, she understands and promises to keep it a secret. So long as HE promises to steal the brand new line of barbie dolls that came out last week for her. - (BROTP) “Does this mean I can meet him? I’ve always wanted to meet him.” - (OTP) “I... oh my god, really? Way to go King! ... wait I called dibs on Robin like three years ago!” (Wally and Connie’s nicknames for each other are King and Queen because of that one time they pretended to be King and Queen of a magical kingdom. The names kind of stuck)

Hartley Rathaway: - Hartley and Wally first met when they bumped into each other at a park. Wally was 14 and Hartley 13. They quickly became good friends, Wally learning sign language with Robin’s help so he could easily communicate with his new friend. - Hartley becomes Pied Piper when he’s sixteen. Immediately recognising him at a Rogues meeting, Wally pulls him aside and confronts him, asking “what the hell do you think you’re doing?” Hartley stares at him for a moment before whispering, “Wally?” the conversation delves into a loud and heated argument, which ends with Wally snapping at him to “just be careful” and storming off. Needless to say, Hartley was pretty pissed at Wally when he first found out, but after a while he was just happy to have someone familiar on his side - (BROTP) “That makes sense” - (OTP) “Pretty sure I already knew. Pretty sure everyone knew. Except for Batman, because if he knew you wouldn’t be standing here right now”

Frances Kane: - Frances was Wally’s best friend before he ran away. When she bumps into him four years later, she gets as angry as an 11-year-old can get, frustrated beyond belief that he’s ALIVE and he never TOLD HER!? Her! His best friend! She thought they trusted each other with everything, but she guessed she was wrong. - They reunite slowly over the next couple of years, and when she starts experiencing the development of her powers she confides in him. She does end up becoming a villain and takes her anger out on him for abandoning her, but through it all she never knew that he was Charge. - She finds out after he comes back from the speed force. After she remembers him, he confesses to her who he was. This sets off Magenta, who immediately attacks Wally for lying to her all those years. All that disappointment she got from him for her becoming a rogue, and he was one the entire time!? How dare he? After he tells her his side of things, she calms down and eventually forgives him. 

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Cold As Ice

The Flash Captain Cold stars in: Cold As Ice

Dramatis Personae

Captain Cold, the pragmatic, constantly grumpy leader of the Rogues, alias Leonard Snart

Pied Piper, a Robin Hood-esque thief, alias Hartley Rathaway

Heat Wave, the dimwitted but surprisingly friendly pyromaniac, alias Mick Rory

Iris Allen, the daredevil reporter who is also the wife of Barry Allen

Mirror Master II, an extremely odd, extremely Scottish criminal, alias Evan McCulloch

Script

Act I

(Captain Cold is onstage. Enter Heat Wave)

Heat Wave: Captain Cold! It’s so good to see ya! (Hugs Cold)  

Captain Cold: Two words, Mick: Personal. Space.

Heat Wave: Oh. Sorry, boss. I just got excited. (Releases Cold)  It’s been so long since I’ve seen you. Are you okay, buddy? Where’ve you been?

Captain Cold: Mainly, the prison infirmary. Got double pneumonia, and somethin’ called septic shock along with it, so I was in there for like a month. And then my ulcer started actin’ up again, so I was there for even longer. And THEN I had appendicitis on top of everything else. So, long story short, I was stuck in there until last week, and I only escaped two days ago.

Heat Wave: Oh, so THAT’s why I couldn’t find you!

Captain Cold: Yeah, that would probably be why. (Pause) What happened while I was out? I spent most of my time in the infirmary coughing, vomiting, or unconscious, so I wasn’t able to keep track of nothing.

Heat Wave: Well, the Trickster’s back in town, Captain Boomerang’s broken leg is healed, and your sister and the Top are in Hawaii for the fifth anniversary of their first date.

Captain Cold: WHAT? Heat Wave: Don’t worry, boss. I’m sure they’ll be back soon.

Captain Cold: That’s not what I’m worried about.

Heat Wave: Then what are you worried about? It’s not like they’re chasing tornadoes or anything.

Captain Cold: I’m worried about what that stuck-up snob might do to my baby sister when I’m not there to protect her. He thinks people like us are trash, and it would be just like him to decide that she’s not worthy of his affections and dump her. I don’t want her to get hurt like that.

(Enter Pied Piper)

Heat Wave: Boss, the Top wouldn’t do that. He’s our friend.

Captain Cold: No, he ain’t. He’s an arrogant creep who thinks he’s better than us.

Heat Wave: If you say so, boss. (Notices Piper) Boss, look who’s here! It’s the Pied Piper! I’ve been trying to find him for weeks! (To Piper) Hiya, little buddy!

Pied Piper: (Slightly surprised) Hello, Mick. It’s a pleasure to see you.

Heat Wave: How are you? Pied Piper: Homeless. Again. You see, I was going to get a nice little cottage in the suburbs somewhere, but then I ran into a very pregnant woman whose husband had just lost his job, so I had to give her some money, and then I met a poor little boy who really wanted a football, so I bought it for him, and then I stumbled upon a youth center that was about to close for lack of funds, so I gave them some money, and then I met a really nice old lady who needed an operation that she couldn’t afford, so I gave her some money, and then I heard about a flood in India, and so I had to donate some money to that cause, and then I met a family with a little girl who needed a wheelchair, so I gave her some money, and then I was broke, so I couldn’t buy the cottage.

Heat Wave: I can give you some money, little buddy.

Captain Cold: Don’t bother. He’ll just give that away, too. (To Piper) Kid, how many times do we have to go over this? You ain’t rich no more. If you don’t wanna be homeless, you have to keep some of the money you steal for  yourself.

Pied Piper: I can’t do that! I spent the first twenty years of my life in palatial luxury. If I’m going without now, it’s only fair. My family has utterly ignored the plight of the poor in this city, and if I have to be homeless to make things right, so be it!

Captain Cold: You’re crazy. (Pause) When was the last time you ate, kid? You’re so thin I can see your ribs!

Pied Piper: Um ...three days ago? I think?

Captain Cold: Three days ago? Are you tryin’ to kill yourself? You ain’t used to bein’ cold and hungry. If you keep this up, one of these days the Flash is gonna be arresting your corpse!

Heat Wave: The boss is right, little buddy. It ain’t healthy to starve yourself to help people.

Pied Piper: I wasn’t planning to not eat for three days. It just happened.

Captain Cold: Then plan better, you idiot!

Heat Wave: (pulls out granola bar) Here, little buddy.

Pied Piper: Thank you, Mick. (Takes bar, eats ravenously) Do you have more? Heat Wave: No...but I can take you to lunch with me.

Pied Piper: That would be nice….

Heat Wave: Okay! Then let’s go eat! I’ve found a really great new barbeque chicken place!

Captain Cold: And by really great, you mean “full of chicken so spicy that no normal person can eat it”.

Heat Wave: Oh, yeah. I didn’t think about that. (Pause) Okay, how about we go to Steak ‘n’ Shake? I love their sandwiches.  

Captain Cold: After three months of eating the stuff they give you in the infirmary? That’d be good. They have some great milkshakes.

Pied Piper: Right now, I’m so hungry that I could probably eat dog food. I’m happy with anything that won’t make my mouth catch on fire.

Heat Wave: Okay, then let’s go! I can’t wait to talk with you guys and catch you up on what you’ve missed while you were gone!

Act II

(Iris is onstage)

Iris: I’ll say this for being a superhero’s wife-it gets you the best stories! Unless I miss my guess, the information Animal Man gave me will get me on the front page. Why, this is the biggest government cover-up since Watergate! Just wait until Barry hears about this! He’ll be so proud! Maybe it’ll even cheer him up a bit. (Pause) Poor Barry. He just hasn’t been the same since Abra Kadabra stole his super speed. I hope Wally’s mission to get it back is successful, because he feels so bad about not being able to help people as the Flash. (Pause) Oh, well. Worrying about it won’t help, so I’ll just go back to my investigation. Watch out, bad guys-Iris Allen is on your case!

(Enter Evan McCulloch, the second Mirror Master)

Evan McCulloch: Howzitgoan, Mrs. Allen?

Iris: (Spins around) Who are you? And how did you get in here?

Evan McCulloch: My name is Evan; Evan McCulloch. As for your second question: well, I’ll give you a wee hint: it’s all done with mirrors.

Iris: With mirrors? (Pause) You’re a Mirror Master, aren’t you?

Evan McCulloch: Mirror Master? That’s a well good name, but up until now it wasnae mine.

Iris: But you can use mirrors as weapons or for transportation?

Evan McCulloch: Aye. Wasnae aware doing that came with a title.

Iris: My husband’s a superhero, and he fights a criminal named Sam Scudder, who calls himself the Mirror Master. By all appearances, you’re using his tech, but the only people who have access to any of it-besides Scudder himself, unfortunately-work for the government.

Evan McCulloch: Aye. How do ye think I got ahold of it?

Iris: You work for the government?

Evan McCulloch: Officially, nae. They’ve made it well clear that if I get lifted, they’ll deny that they had anything tae do with me.

Iris: So you’re working for the government.

Evan McCulloch: They’re paying me, aye. Ye see, in Glasgow, I had a reputation for making people's ...problems… disappear, and apparently your government decided that I’d be useful in making their problems disappear.

Iris: And I’m a problem? Evan McCulloch: Aye. Certain members of your government will be in big trouble if ye reveal what they’ve been up tae, so they told me to make sure that ye cannae tell anyone about what ye’ve found.

Iris: My husband and nephew are superheroes. If anything happens to me, you’ll answer for it.

Evan McCulloch: Calmy doony. I’m nae here tae kill ye. I’m nae saint, but I’m nae going to kill a woman, especially nae tae keep a secret that will come out anyway.

Iris: Then why are you here?

Evan McCulloch: Tae warn ye. I’m nae the only dangerous man on their payroll. They need ye silenced, so when I refused to kill ye, they sent another man.

Iris : Forgive me if I’m less than convinced that your intentions are benevolent.  

Evan McCulloch: Nae danger. But I’d still advise ye tae come with me.

Iris: I’m licensed to carry a gun. I think that I can handle myself now that I’m forewarned.

Evan McCulloch: Not against the man they’re sending. I’m nae the only one they gave well dangerous technology, ye ken?

Iris: Is that so? Then I think I’ll borrow this! (Grabs mirror and disappears)

Evan McCulloch: Jings! She’s clever, isnae she? (Shakes head) I’d better follow her. She’s brave, but she does nae ken what’s after her.

(Exit Evan)

Act III

(Pied Piper, Heat Wave, and Captain Cold are onstage)

Heat Wave: Are you feeling better, little buddy?

Pied Piper: Yes, and thank you.

Heat Wave: You’re welcome. (Pause) By the way, do you know when Golden Glider and the Top are coming back from their vacation?

Pied Piper: Wait. You didn’t hear?

Heat Wave: Hear what?

Pied Piper: The Top and Golden Glider never went on vacation. They’ve been in Central City the whole time. James even told me that he, Sam, and Mark did a heist with the Top.

Heat Wave: They’re still in Central City?

Pied Piper: It seems that way, yes.

Captain Cold: Then where’s my sister?

Pied Piper: That’s the thing: no one knows. James said that he never saw her-although he does think that the Top knows where she is.

Captain Cold: If he’s hurt her, I’ll kill him!

Pied Piper: Captain Cold, the Top worships your sister. He would never hurt her.

Captain Cold: Then where is she, and why isn’t she with him?

Heat Wave: You know, boss, just because your sister’s not in our immediate line of sight doesn’t mean that she’s in trouble. She can take care of herself. After all, up until a few years ago, we only saw her a few times a year.

Captain Cold: She wasn’t dating the Top or a member of the Rogues until a few years ago either.

Heat Wave: So, uh, why don’t you just call her if you’re that worried about her, boss?

Captain Cold: Don’t be stupid, Mick. (Long pause) Hey, I’ve got it! I can just call Lisa and make sure she’s okay!

Heat Wave: You’re so smart, boss.

Pied Piper: Wait...didn’t you just say that Mick was being stupid for suggesting that idea?

Captain Cold: We’ll talk about it later. (Pulls out phone, dials number. Pause) Lisa! Hi! It’s so good to hear from you! (Pause) I was in the prison infirmary. I had double pneumonia, septic shock, and appendicitis. Oh, and my ulcer acted up some, too. What have you been doing? (Pause) You’re doing what? Why? (Pause) He’s sick, too? What are the odds? Do you know what his problem is? Mmm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yes, I’m sure you’ll get whatever it is he needs to get better. (Pause) No, I don’t want him dead. I hate his guts, but for some mysterious reason he makes you happy, so I want him to stay alive. (Pause) Have you been feeling all right? Has anyone tried to hurt you? No? Good. (Pause) Are you sure ? (Pause) Okay, okay, I’ll stop asking. Good luck, little sis. I love you. Good-bye. (Puts phone away) My little sister’s a genius.

Heat Wave: Where’s she been?

Captain Cold: Apparently, her snob of a boyfriend is dying, and the only cure is at CCPD headquarters, so she’s posing as a police scientist named Patty Spivot in order to steal it. She’s even befriended Barry Allen! I’m so proud of her.

Heat Wave: Aww, that’s adorable! I always knew that little Lisa was one smart cookie.

(Iris appears in the background, then disappears again)

Pied Piper: So, um, now that we’ve finished eating, are we going to do something, or are we just going to go our separate ways?

Captain Cold: I’m not going to lead a heist today, if that’s what you’re asking. I’m still too far behind on recent events right now.

(Enter Evan McCulloch)

Evan McCulloch: Have any of ye seen a bonny woman with red hair around here?

Captain Cold: Who are you? And where did you come from?

Evan McCulloch: I dinnae have time for that right now! I need tae make sure that a hitman does nae kill a woman named Iris Allen!

Pied Piper: Iris Allen? The wife of the Flash?

Evan McCulloch: Aye, that’s the one.

Captain Cold: AGGH! (Collapses)

Heat Wave: Boss, what’s wrong?

Captain Cold: I ...I think it’s my ulcer. My stomach is-ARGH!-killing me!

Heat Wave: Bros befores wives of heroes, random guy! I’ve gotta get my boss to the hospital, so we can’t help you save Iris. Sorry. I’ll buy you dinner later to make up for it if you want.

Captain Cold: I’m-UGH!-fine, Heat Wave!

Heat Wave: No, you’re not, boss. You just collapsed, and you’re obviously in pain. We are going to the hospital.

Pied Piper: Can you get him to the hospital without me?

Heat Wave: Yeah. Why?

Pied Piper: Because Iris Allen is an amazing woman who definitely deserves my help.

Heat Wave: I guess I can get Captain Cold to the hospital on my own. So yeah, if you wanna go help the Flash’s wife, I guess you can.

Pied Piper: Great. (To Evan) I’ll help you.

Evan McCulloch: Ah’m glad for your help, wee man in green. Now brace yourself. Traveling through Wonderland is well tricky at first.

Pied Piper: What’s Wonderla-AAAH!

(Evan McCulloch and Pied Piper disappear)

Heat Wave: (Pulls out phone and dials) Hello? Operator? My friend needs an ambulance…

Act IV

(Enter Pied Piper and Evan McCulloch)

Pied Piper: Could you give me a little warning the next time you pull me through the Mirror Realm?

Evan McCulloch: The Mirror Realm? Is that what ye call Wonderland?

Pied Piper: No, it’s what the Mirror Master calls “Wonderland”. How did you get ahold of his  technology, anyway? And who are you?

Evan McCulloch: Evan. Evan McCulloch. I was given the tech by members of the US Government who are buried so deep in a scandal they’ll do anything tae keep it covered. They hired me tae kill Iris Allen, but I refused, so I dinnae think they’re still paying me. In fact, if I’m nae careful, they might try tae off me tae cover all their loose ends. Who are ye?

Pied Piper: I’m the Pied Piper, one of the Rogues. The other two men you saw with me are Heat Wave, another member of the group, and Captain Cold, our leader.

Evan McCulloch: Rogues?

Pied Piper: Yes. We’re a group of thieves who work together to fight the Flash.

Evan McCulloch: What sort of thieves are so concerned about each others’ health that they’ll call ambulances for each other?

Pied Piper: I don’t know. What sort of hired gun refuses to kill a target and then goes out of his way to warn her about the planned assassination?

Evan McCulloch: Point taken, laddie. I’d like tae be in a group like that. I have nae been able tae trust anyone since I left Mrs. McCulloch, and it’d be nice tae not have tae watch my back all the time, ye ken?

Pied Piper: You abandoned your wife?

Evan McCulloch: I dinnae have a wife. Mrs. McCulloch ran the orphanage where I grew up. She’s the closest thing I have tae a mother.

Pied Piper: My apologies.

Evan McCulloch: Nae danger. Ye didn’t ken.

Pied Piper: Well, if you really want to join the Rogues, you’ll probably have to ask Captain Cold. He’s the one who makes the final decisions about who becomes a member of the group. (Pause) Oh, and you’ll also have to come up with a supervillain name.

Evan McCulloch: Oh, I’ve already got one. I can be the Mirror Master.

Pied Piper: I don’t think Sam will like that. It’s bad enough that you’re using his gear. I don’t think he’d take very kindly to you taking his name, too.

Evan McCulloch: Then I’ll call myself Mirror Master II.

Pied Piper: That would probably just make him angrier.

Evan McCulloch: Well, if he makes a fuss aboot it, I’ll just punch him.

Pied Piper: (Aside) If nothing else, he’ll fit in well. (To Evan) Why don’t we talk more about potential names later?

Evan McCulloch: That would be fine, aye.

Pied Piper: Good. So where do you think Iris is going?

(Enter Iris)

Iris: Hello, Evan. Hello, Pied Piper. What are you doing here?

Pied Piper: I’m helping Evan rescue you, I think.

Iris: That’s sweet of you, Hartley, but I don’t need rescuing. Thanks to the Mirror Gun, I took out my would-be assassin, and Jay’s taking him to jail right now. Now I just need to finish writing my article, and I can put this whole mess behind me.

Pied Piper: Well, I’m very glad you’re alright, Mrs. Allen. Good luck with your expose. I’m sure it will have the high quality of all your work.

Iris: Thanks, Piper.

Evan McCulloch: (Aside) If she defeated that assassin, we’d better get oot of here before she defeats us, tae. After all, we aren’t exactly innocent ourselves. (Aloud) In that case, my work here is doon. Ta! (Evan grabs the Mirror Gun, then grabs Piper, and both disappear)

Iris: Looks like I’d better tell Barry, Wally, and Jay that the Rogues have a new member. Hmmm ...that could actually be a story all on its own! If I play my cards right, I could have two award winning stories and help defeat two separate groups of bad guys all from one investigation. This is awesome! I love it when I help my loved ones bring justice. (Pause) I should probably get back home, though. Those stories aren’t going to write themselves!

 (Exit Iris)

Act V

(Captain Cold is lying down onstage; Heat Wave is standing by him)

Heat Wave: You feeling better, boss?

Captain Cold: A little. I can’t believe that my stupid ulcer put me in the hospital twice in less than three months!

Heat Wave: Maybe it’s all the stress in your life. I’ve heard that stress makes ulcers worse, and your job is really stressful. Maybe you should take a vacation.

Captain Cold: And let the Top run the Rogues into the ground? Not a chance.

Heat Wave: It wouldn’t have to be for very long ...just a couple of days, maybe.

Captain Cold: I’m not taking a vacation, and that’s final!

Heat Wave: I guess you know best, boss. If you don’t want to take a vacation, you don’t have to.

(Enter Evan McCulloch and Pied Piper)

Pied Piper: Hello, Mick. Hello, Captain Cold.

Heat Wave: Hi, little buddy! How’d the rescue go?

Pied Piper: As it turned out, she rescued herself, so our presence turned out to be completely superfluous. That being said, I think I did find us a potential new member of the Rogues. His name is Evan McCulloch, and he wants to be part of a group that he knows will have his back.

Evan McCulloch: Howzitgoan?

Heat Wave: Hi, Evan! I’m Heat Wave, but you can call me Mick Rory. Where are you from?

Evan McCulloch: Glasgow, Scotland. The city of culture!

Heat Wave: Oh, so that’s why you sound so funny. (To Captain Cold) Can he stay, Captain Cold? Please? He’s funny sounding, and I like him.

Captain Cold: I can see that you have Mirror Master’s gear. The original is one of my best friends, and I don’t think he’d like you using his tech. That being said, my health hasn’t been great lately, so we could probably use another guy with his powers in the case of an emergency. (Pause) All right, Scostman, you’re in…...but you’re on probation until I say otherwise.

Evan McCulloch: That’s good eno for me, Captain Cold.

Captain Cold: In that case, your first job is to help me find the other Rogues. When we face the Flashes next, I want to be as well prepared as possible.

Pied Piper: Well, if everything is all right here, then I will be going. You know where to find me if you need me, and this city has a lot of people who need my help.

[bitchinrichie]

Fears of the Past ch 6

Major IT ch 2 Spoilers

Ayyyyyy I’m back babey, this is the last chapter of this fic I hope you all enjoy it. Thank you for being patient with me

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You left Stanley’s side, running and panicking to see if IT had really killed your friends, Stan was calling after you but you kept going up the incline to the edge where you saw Richie and Eddie disappear. Reaching the top, you found nothing,

“Richie!! Eddie!”

“Down here!” You heard Eddie’s faint voice from below in a another cavern. Gaining the attention of the others, you all make your way down to them; Eddie is hovering over Richie who seems to be unconscious. His glasses were broken but still intact and he sort of looked peaceful. Eddie, however, was about to go into cardiac arrest,

“Why isn’t he waking up? This isn’t- he’s gonna wake up. GUYS WHY ARE YOU JUST FUCKING STANDING AROUND WE HAVE TO HELP HIM”

“What do you want us to do? He’s unconscious, we can’t do much-” Stan stated in all fairness but Eddie wasn’t having it.

“HE’S YOUR BEST FUCKING FRIEND AND YOU AREN’T GONNA FUCKING DO ANYTHING?!” You all knew that Eddie was just upset but as you looked at Stan, you could see him break inside. He backed away from beside Richie while you glared at Eddie but he was looking at Richie again. Mike went over to console Stan while the others tried to form a plan.

After just moments of silence, IT started digging its claws into the cavern, trying to get to you all, drooling and screaming. A plan was made to sneak past IT and make it into the narrow passage back toward the sewers, you helped Eddie grab Richie following behind the others.

‘I SEE YOU LOSERS YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME” The dumb clown had found you again, clown, he was just a clown….

“Guys, I have an idea, everything in nature must act in the shape or form they come in right? IT’s just a clown, we just have to make IT believe that,” you set Richie down or tried to at least as you felt his hand grip yours,

“Fuck, what did I miss?”

“Richie! Fuck are you okay? Are you bleeding? What hurts-” Eddie was promptly cut by Richie pulling him down and kissing him. It was very quick but his point was made,

“You worry too much, Eds” Richie hazily smiled before realizing what he had just done, quickly standing up, not looking at Eddie; on the other hand, Eddie was blushing and his mouth was in the shape of an ‘O’.

“Not that you guys aren’t adorable but we should probably take on the killer clown first,” you joked and they both nodded standing further away from each other. You all were joined as a group again facing Pennywise, standing side by side, once again ready to fight. Stanley wasted no time,

“YOU’RE A STUPID FUCKING CLOWN, THAT’S ALL YOU ARE AND EVER WILL BE!”

IT cowered into itself even if it was the slightest bit, you all saw. IT was angry and it wouldn’t back down easily but neither would any of you. You looked over and saw Stan was shaking, grabbing his hand and intertwining your fingers, nodding at the other losers. The Losers Club was going to win this fight, your fears subsiding, it was only an outdated clown.

***

No matter how terrifying Pennywise could be, he was still a coward and if none of you showed fear, he would have nothing over you. So long story short you all basically bully IT to death and it’s very therapeutic, this was what set you all free. IT had terrorized you as a clown, father, friends, family, and monsters to feed on childlike innocence. And now you were free.

No more lost memories or hesitation due to a killer clown, you all could live out the rest of your lives with the people you truly loved and who truly loved you back. Unfortunately now was not the time for that because the cavern started to collapse. Running to get back up into Neibolt was very stressful but since everyone was on an adrenaline high from murdering a demon, it went pretty quickly.

Stan pulls you close as you run out of the rotting house that was currently sinking into the ground. He buries his face in the crook of your neck and you can feel his heart beating insanely fast. The others crowd together as the house disappears,

“Honey, it’s over, it’s gone. We’re free,” you whisper to him and some to yourself. He nods and lifts his head up to look at you,

“Is Rich okay?”

“He’s fine, he wasn’t seriously injured.” He nods again, his eyes holding all of his pent up emotions and you wish he wasn’t so hard on himself.

“I almost didn’t come, I thought- I wanted to end it.” He didn’t look at you in fear of the shame he guessed he’d see on your face.

“We were all scared, I understand, we all do. IT hurt you really badly. But we defeated it together and without you, it wouldn’t be the same. You saved us Stan,” you wipe his tears and kiss his cheek. He finally looks at you and his eyes hold pride and love, a look you missed on him.

***

The quarry. It was peaceful, just like it was when you were teenagers and swam around in your underwear. One last place that wasn’t touched by the horrors you all witnessed, you wanted to cleanse yourselves.

“No, this is stupid and gross and we could get like seven diseases from swimming in that water, fuck you guys.” Eddie was complaining profusely that you’d all die, he was always kind of a protector. Not that you listened to him.

Bev jumps off first, followed by you and Stan and of course the others. Richie having to put Eddie over his shoulder as he jumped in. You could hear Richie laughing as Eddie screamed at him for making him jump into the dirty water,

“Hey! Are we gonna talk about what happened between you two?” Bev smirks at the two and they freeze.

“Uh listen I um I wasn’t thinking- it was a spur of the moment, I’m so sorry Eds I just-” Eddie cut him off by kissing him again,

“You talk too much.” He smiles nervously, pulling away from Richie but he just hugs him tight, crying into Eddie’s shoulder. You were so happy, you knew Richie loved him, even if he didn’t tell you. The looks he gave Eddie were the same ones you gave Stan. Oh. Stan.

“Uh hey guys? If we’re sharing stuff. Um I’m- I am bisexual.” You didn’t dare look at anyone’s face, you were too scared of being rejected by your friends and your true love.

“Thanks for running it bi us,” you whip your head up and find Richie smiling at you with understanding and encouragement. Bev squeezes your arm, Bill and Mike giving you a thumbs up, Ben and Eddie high five while smiling at you, and Stan looks at you with pure adoration.

“There is nothing in the world that change my feelings for you, I love you Y/n,” he wraps you in his arms and feel so loved and supported than you have in decades. Richie and Eddie join you two, hugging you tight which induces an all out group hug. This was your family, your friends, your love, and your life.

***

2 years later

You were currently sitting on the couch while your lovely husband makes you lunch because he won’t let you do anything around the house anymore. You still lived in Los Angeles, Stan wanted to move in with you after everything that happened in Derry. He told you that he wouldn’t make you move since you were a famous animator for Disney, you told him it wasn’t a big deal but he was so proud of you. You had dreamed of working for Disney since you were 11, Stan always encouraged your drawing so you dedicated a short to him, Piper that played before Finding Dory.

You and Stan had always been huge Disney fans and when you took him to see the movie, you watched his reaction to the short before it. He cried. That was two years ago and now you were married, he proposed not even a week after that and you were married two months later. It wasn’t a huge wedding but all the losers came and your father was there as were Stan’s parents. It was beautiful but you were just happy to finally be with your soulmate and now with a little one on the way. Stan was beyond ecstatic when you told him you were pregnant, his little songbird.

“Honey, are you sure you don’t need help? I’m not crippled you know”

“Yes! I can make lunch, Y/n. No, but you’re carrying our child and I don’t want you stressed out,” Stan was dedicated to making you comfortable and doing everything so you didn’t have to.

“Richie did ask me to be his maid of honor so I’m going to be doing something eventually,” Richie and Eddie were getting married in three months and Richie claimed both you and Stan as maid of honor and groomsman and Bev as a bridesmaid. Eddie was pissed at first but he gets Mike and Bill and Ben. Richie clarifying that he very much was the wife in the marriage.

Stan sighed and you could hear him laughing to himself as he approached you with your soup, he kisses your stomach and then your lips before eating his food,

“So I’ve been thinking about names.. If it’s a boy I was thinking Wren or Robin. If it’s a girl, Aya or Rosella,” he smiles warmly at you. You haven’t told him about the gender yet,

“I like Aya.” he smiles but looks at you in confusion until it clicks.

“You- it’s a girl?” you nod and he immediately wraps you in his arms, hugging you tightly and he’s crying. He lets go to kiss your tummy again,

“My beautiful girls. Aya means bird in Hebrew, so my little birdie, you’re gonna be daddy’s little girl huh?” You smile and you feel tears on your cheeks. You never thought you would be here, that any of you would be free.

You married the love of your life and having his child. Bev and Ben got married last year and travel all over the world, Bill and Mike are engaged and moved down to Florida and Bill finally finishing a book well, and Eddie and Richie finally getting married soon. You all took back your lives and now you’re making up for lost time but by now those 27 years don’t matter. No longer did you have nightmares of your fears of the past but dreams of what awaited you, you’d always be losers but you no longer had anything to lose.

@honeybunthegalwithteethforeyes @eddiegaykaspbrak @tozierchee @chipoisaloser @multi-parker @tropicaluris @checkontherep @adritozier @happyhanlon @itsbaconheree

[drcasmeadows]

❛ she wasn’t looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword. ❜

cis woman / she/her. ┊ if you’re looking for DORCAS MEADOWES, you’ll probably find HER in the SLYTHERIN dorm with the rest of the SEVENTH years. they’re the TWENTY year old PUREBLOOD who looks kind of like TATI GABRIELLE. they seem CLEVER, DETERMINED & ENTERPRISING to me, but apparently they’re also ARROGANT, SCRUTINISING & OBSTINATE. maybe that’s why they remind me of rolling eyes beneath pitch black sunglasses, half drunk glasses of red wine stained with red lipstick, a roaring lion now strangled with a quick slithering snake, stacks upon stacks of perfectly completed assignments, rolling through an empty and hollow mansion on dusty, old roller-skates, a permanent smirk on the large and important portrait that takes up half the wall.

links: stats, pinterest character parallels: robin buckley (stranger things), britta perry (community), donna paulsen (suits), cassandra pressman (the society), jessica huang (fresh off the boat), piper chapman (orange is the new black) triggers: nsfw

BACKGROUND

miss dorcas meadowes: one of a kind. not your classmate's younger sister’s tutor. not your friend’s cousin’s twin. not the girl who gave your friend head in a cupboard on the fourth floor. she’s dorcas - and she demands your attention.

dorcas has always been rather exceptional. from a young age she has shown herself to be far more advanced than anyone is ever expected to be - a prodigy, if you wish to put a label on it. she was walking and talking before her twin brother had even got a handle on crawling and she’s been muttering incantations from the age of five. she’s exceptionally talented at everything she attempts, perfecting complicated spells and maneuvers and twenty-letter words far before anyone expects her to. or at least, when she was younger it was a surprise. now she’ll be damned if you don’t know what she can do. but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

mr and mrs meadowes were rather sweet parents. they were kind and softly spoken and damn good with a wand. they were so kind, in fact, that they pandered to dorcas’s rather big ego and always made sure she knew she was special, an extraordinary little girl. she was paraded at pureblood events as the best her generation had to offer, and even some of pureblood society’s greatest elitists had respect for the meadowes’ simply because of how exceptional their eldest daughter was. dorcas was proud, for a while - she loved her mother and father, and she loved her twin and their little sibling and it delighted her to know she could make this family known.

as she grew up, of course, her mother and father’s backbone started to show. though they wouldn’t announce it at parties or the like, they made sure their children knew that blood elitism was beneath them. they were accepting of anyone who deserved their respect, no matter what their blood lineage said about them. mr and mrs meadowes might not have been loud about that to the public, but dorcas certainly was - by the time she was ten, all the respect she had earnt from her fellow purebloods vanished as she made it widely known that she didn’t give a damn if you were muggleborn - she would love you just the same.

when dorcas started at hogwarts, no one was particularly surprised that she didn’t follow in her mother and brother’s footsteps of joining hufflepuff - though perhaps there was a certain expectation that she was a gryffindor, like her father. exactly fifty-two seconds after the hat was placed on her head, dorcas was inducted into the house of the snakes, and a part of her was disappointed. although she knew deep down that this was where she belonged (she’d always been ambitious, cunning, intelligent beyond compare), she had no particular wish to join the nasty children who had shunned her from pureblood society. she wouldn’t let them know of her disappointment, of course, in fact she would push to be the best witch that damned house had ever seen, but late at night sometimes, behind the curtains of her four-poster, she would wish she was with her brother, or even her knew friends - slytherin felt isolating.

it didn’t take long for dorcas to cement her in hogwarts’ popularity scale - right at the top. she was one of the brightest witches the school had seen in a long time, but she was also fun and loving and the life of hogwarts’ party scene. she might’ve had a head two sizes too big, but many believed she had deserved it. she topped every class she partook in, she was keeper for the slytherin quidditch team by her third year, and she’d even taken to tutoring students in the years above her. she was dorcas meadowes: exceptionally exceptional. 

PERSONALITY & MISCELLANEOUS 

if you couldn’t already tell, dorcas is incredibly arrogant. she’s talented at pretty much everything and she knows it. and she’ll tell you. some people resent her for it, whereas others just see it as a confidence they aspire towards. my hot take is she’s a dumbass.

she is of the undeniable belief that her word is gold and if you try and challenge that, you’re wrong. sometimes these beliefs are good, sometimes they’re questionable, but good luck trying to tell her that. she’s stubborn and obstinate and, yet again, super arrogant.

she’s incredibly ambitious, but don���t try and ask her what she wants to do once she graduates - she doesn’t know. of course the clearest path for her would be straight to the ministry, but there is not a bone in dorcas’s body that trusts politics. she believes the ministry of magic is as corrupt as they come and believes her talents would be wasted at such a place, but it’s difficult for her to conceive where else she’d be useful. she’s mcstruggling.

she adores her family a lot. try and mess with her twin and she’ll cut you. try and mess with their younger sibling and you’re dead. a family gal first and foremost!

she’s obviously talented at everything she does, but she has a particular gift for duelling - and she has every intention of using that to her advantage in the upcoming war. she hates pureblood supremacy and will fight tooth and nail to ensure that muggleborn’s can keep the rights they earned. 

her empathy for muggleborn’s likely comes from the racism she experienced as a child. as a young black girl, even though the older pureblood’s were respectful of her and would shower her in compliments, it was almost always followed with ‘especially for a black girl’. not only that, but she had been isolated for the colour of her skin when she was a child, away from the other young kids, as they would often say they were ‘scared’ of her. this discrimination she feels can be likened to what muggleborn’s experience, and for that reason, she is particularly loud about her stance - something about it just hits a little too close to home for her. 

pansexual but tired of men. 

a bit of a serial dater, she finds it hard to settle down. it’s not that she doesn’t believe in monogamy, she’s just so hard to keep up with and she knows that and there’s so few people who can calm her down, but it’s what she needs. 

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Pinkie here!! So now is your turn!! I want to know your top 5 female characters!!! Thank you!!

Phoebe Halliwell, Charmed - Even though I love all of the sisters and I am probably more like Piper, Phoebe was my favorite.  She is beautiful, sexy, and funny.  Phoebe has some of my favorite powers, premonition and empathy.  Levitation is pretty cool, too.  Phoebe is a style queen!  I love nearly all of her hair styles and clothes.  She has also had the most romances on the show.  Phoebe has grown so much in the show’s eight years.  And she is played by the ever awesome Alyssa Milano, a favorite actress since my childhood.

Leia Organa (Solo), Star Wars - One of my favorite characters since I was a little girl and one of the first main female scifi characters.  Leia was smart, strong, and sarcastic.  She cares about doing the right thing, despite the danger and cost.  Leia is a princess, a senator, a rebel/freedom fighter, and a mother.  I grew up reading the books and some comics of the Expanded Universe, now termed “Legends”.  The Leia I grew up with married Han, was a mother to three amazing and powerful children, went on to become the Chief of State of the New Republic (twice, I believe), became a Jedi, and just kept fighting for the safety and good of the people and the galaxy.  The new canon still has Leia as an inspiring figure as a general in the Resistance.  I also loved Leia’s various hairstyles and clothes in the films and on book covers.

Kimberly Hart, Power Rangers - Kim was one of my first female superheroes.  As the first Pink Power Ranger, she was very feminine and still could kick villain ass.  Kimberly could do almost anything: gymnast, Power Ranger, cheerleader, environmental activist, volunteer.  She could even sing and play the guitar.  I always thought that Kimberly was incredible beautiful and kind.  I loved her romance with Tommy and never forgave Power Rangers Zeo (or Kat) for breaking them up.  I even love her when she is briefly turned evil in the Turbo movie.

Martha Jones, Doctor Who - Martha is one of my favorite companions of the Doctor.  She is one of the few women of color on the show and to be a regular companion to the Doctor.  I love that she is a doctor in her own right.  Her family is important to her.  I hate how the Doctor didn’t see how awesome she was until too late because he was so hung up on Rose.  I didn’t mind her crush on the Doctor, because why wouldn’t you fall for him?  Martha grew a lot over the course of the show.  She was jealous of Rose in the beginning, but when she finally met her, she was so happy that Rose and the Doctor found each other.  I love how Martha made the decision to leave the TARDIS on her own terms.

Daenerys Targaryen, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones - Dany is compassionate and strong.  She has gone through so much in her young life and keeps fighting.  She cares about the people, particularly women and children.  She tried to get the Dothraki to stop raping the women of the people that they conquered and pillaged.  Daenerys abolished slavery in Meereen.  She has a personality that inspires respect, love and loyalty, as seen with the Unsullied, Missandei, Jorah, and now Jon on the show.  I love the storied history of House Targaryen, despite some of its darker moments and rulers.  I love the dragons and how she brought them and magic back to the world.  Daenerys shares qualities with her ancestors, such as Aegon I and his sister-wives, Jaehaerys I & Alysanne, and Aegon V.  I also love the parallels with Jon and their love story.

And here are the additional five @cobrakaiseriesfan allotted me:

Fran Fine Sheffield, The Nanny - The Nanny was one of my favorite shows when I was growing up.  Fran was a style icon.  I always wanted to dress like her.  And even though my hair is dark and curly, I wish I could pull off some of her hairstyles.  But maybe not as big.  She is gorgeous and funny.  Fran is from a working class/working poor family, so she is easily relatable.  I love her relationships with love interest/boss Maxwell Sheffield, his kids, Niles, her own family, and Val.  Fran teaches the kids great lessons in unconventional ways.  She may not be book-smart, but she is street-smart.  Fran is such a warm and compassionate person.

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter - I relate to Hermione because she loves to read, is intelligent, and her friends are very important to her.  Hermione will also fight for who and what she believes in.  She can be a bit narrow-minded at times, but she does learn from her mistakes.

Usagi Tsukino/Serena Tsukino, Sailor Moon - I was a little girl when I first saw the English dub of Sailor Moon, which I loved.  She was one of my first female superheroes.  I love how much her friends mean to her and that she would do anything to save and protect them.  I loved the love story between her and Mamoru/Darien.  I love how she has a big appetite.  I also loved the clothes she wore.  Sailor Moon was my introduction to anime.

Dr. Robin Scorpio-Drake, General Hospital - Robin is a strong and compassionate person.  She has a strong moral compass, which she usually follows.  Robin has overcome many struggles in her life (”death” of her parents, HIV+ diagnosis and living with the disease, Stone’s death via AIDS, romances, being a hostage, postpartum depression, Lisa, etc.) and has come through them with grace.  I love all of her romances and how they are each an important chapter in her life, even though Patrick is my favorite.  Robin is a great friend to have, a dedicated doctor, and probably one of the most stable mothers on the soap.  Her story provides an education on HIV/AIDS.

Bianca Montgomery, All My Children - Much like Robin, Bianca is a strong and compassionate character that has seen many struggles.  She is the heart of her family, which includes her mother, daytime legend Erica Kane and her half-sister Kendall, but that doesn’t mean she is a pushover.  Bianca is an iconic character, in that she is the first lesbian lead on a daytime soap opera.  I have loved watching her romances with Maggie, Zoe, Reese, and to a lesser extent, Marissa.  Her baby swap story was one of the first soap opera stories to real hook me and get me hooked on two soaps at one time.

I am so sorry that it has taken me this long to finish this post!  Please forgive me.

[marlcenemck]

rolling eyes beneath pitch black sunglasses. half drunk glasses of red wine stained with red lipstick. a roaring lion now strangled with a quick slithering snake. stacks upon stacks of perfectly completed assignments. rolling through an empty and hollow mansion on dusty, old roller-skates. a permanent smirk on the large and important portrait that takes up half the wall.

if you’re looking for MARLENE MCKINNON, you’ll probably find HER in the SLYTHERIN dorm with the rest of the SEVENTH years. they’re the TWENTY-ONE year old PUREBLOOD who looks kind of like MAYA HAWKE. they seem CLEVER, DETERMINED & ENTERPRISING to me, but apparently they’re also ARROGANT, SCRUTINISING & OBSTINATE. maybe that’s why their patronus is A CROW.

links: stats character inspo: robin buckley (stranger things), britta perry (community), donna paulsen (suits), cassandra pressman (the society), jessica huang (fresh off the boat), piper chapman (orange is the new black) triggers: nsfw

                                                                                                                     BACKGROUND

Miss Marlene McKinnon : one of a kind. Not your classmates younger sister’s tutor. Not your friend’s cousin’s twin. Not the girl who gave your friend head in a cupboard on the fourth floor. She’s Marlene - and she demands your attention.

Marlene has always been rather exceptional. From a young age she has shown herself to be far more advanced then anyone is ever expected to be - a prodigy, if you wish to put a label on it. She was walking and talking before her twin brother had even got a handle on crawling and she’s been muttering incantations from the age of five. She’s exceptionally talented at everything she attempts, perfecting complicated spells and manevours and twenty-letter words far before anyone expects her to. Or at least, when she was younger it was a surprise. Now she’ll be damned if you don’t know what she can do. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Mr and Mrs McKinnon were rather kind parents. They were kind and softly spoken and damn good with a wand. They were so kind, in fact, that they pandered to Marlene’s rather big ego and always made sure she knew she was special, an extraordinary little girl. She was paraded at Pureblood events as the best her generation had to offer, and even some of Pureblood society’s greatest elitists had respect for the McKinnon’s simply because of how exceptional their eldest daughter was. Marlene was proud, for a while - she loved her mother and father, and she loved her twin and their little sibling and it delighted her to know she could make this family known.

As she grew up, of course, her mother and father’s backbone started to show. Though they wouldn’t announce it at parties or the like, they made sure their children knew that blood elitism was beneath them. They were accepting of anyone who deserved their respect, no matter what their blood lineage said about them. Mr and Mrs McKinnon might not have been loud about that to the public, but Marlene certainly did - by the time she was ten, all the respect she had earned from her fellow Purebloods vanished as she made it widely known that she didn’t give a damn if you were Muggleborn - she would love you just the same.

When Marlene started at Hogwarts, no one was particularly surprised that she didn’t follow in her mother and brother’s footsteps of joining Hufflepuff - though perhaps there was a certain expectation that she was a Gryffindor, like her father. Exactly fifty-two seconds after the hat was placed on her head, Marlene was inducted into the house of the snakes, and a part of her was disappointed. Although she knew deep down that this was where she belonged (she’d always been ambitious, cunning, intelligent beyond compare), she had no particular wish to join the nasty children who had shunned her from Pureblood society. She wouldn’t let them know of her disappointment, of course, in fact she would push to be the best witch that damned house had ever seen, but late at night sometimes, behind the curtains of her four-poster, she would wish she was with her brother, or even her knew friends - Slytherin felt isolating.

It didn’t take long for Marlene to cement her in Hogwarts’ popularity scale - right at the top. She was one of the brightest witches the school had seen in a long time, but she was also fun and loving and the life of Hogwarts’ party scene. She might’ve had a head two sizes too big, but many believed she had deserved it. She topped every class she partoke in, she was Keeper for the Slytherin Quidditch team by her third year, and she’d even taken to tutoring students in the years above her. She was Marlene McKinnon : exceptionally exceptional. 

                                                                         PERSONALITY & MISCELLANEOUS 

If you couldn’t already tell, Marlene is incredibly arrogant. She’s talented at pretty much everything and she knows it. And she’ll tell you. Some people resent her for it, whereas others just see it as a confidence they aspire towards. My hot take is she’s a dumbass.

She is of the undeniable belief that her word is gold and if you try and challenge that, you’re wrong. Sometimes these beliefs are good, sometimes they’re questionable, but good luck trying to tell her that. She’s stubborn and obstinate and, yet again, super arrogant.

She’s incredibly ambitious, but don’t try and ask her what she wants to do once she graduates - she doesn’t know. Of course the clearest path for her would be straight to the Ministry, but there is not a bone in Marlene���s body that trusts politics. She believes the Ministry of Magic is as corrupt as they come and believes her talents would be wasted at such a place, but it’s difficult for her to conceive where else she’d be useful. She’s McStruggling.

She adores her family a lot. Try and mess with Marc (her twin) and she’ll Cut You. Try and mess with their younger sibling and you’re dead. A family gal first and foremost!

She’s obviously talented at everything she does, but she has a particular gift for duelling - and she has every intention of using that to her advantage in the upcoming war. She hates Pureblood supremacy and will fight tooth and nail to ensure that Muggleborn’s can keep the rights they earned. 

Pansexual but tired of men. 

A bit of a serial dater, she finds it hard to settle down. It’s not that she doesn’t believe in monogamy, she’s just so hard to keep up with and she knows that and there’s so few people who can calm her down, but it’s what she needs. 

[stenka-razin]

Every Best Picture Nominee

the one’s I’ve seen are bolded

Wings (1927, won)

The Racket (1928)

7th Heaven (1927)

The Broadway Melody (1929, won)

Alibi (1929)

Hollywood Revenue (1929)

In Old Arizona (1928)

The Patriot (1928)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, won)

The Big House (1930)

Disraeli (1929)

The Divorcee (1930)

The Love Parade (1929)

Cimarron (1931, won)

East Lynne (1931)

The Front Page (1931)

Skippy (1931)

Trader Horn (1931)

Grand Hotel (1932, won)

Arrowsmith (1931)

Bad Girl (1931)

The Champ (1931)

Five Star Final (1931)

One Hour with You (1932)

Shanghai Express (1932)

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Cavalcade (1933, won)

42nd Street (1933)

A Farewell to Arms (1932)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Lady for a Day (1933)

Little Women (1933)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Smilin’ Through (1932)

State Fair (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934, won)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Cleopatra (1934)

Flirtation Walk (1934)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

One Night of Love (1934)

The Thin Man (1934)

Viva VIlla! (1934)

The White Parade (1934)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, won)

Alice Adams (1935)

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Captain Blood (1935)

David Copperfield (1935)

The Informer (1935)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Les Misérables (1935)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936, won)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Dodsworth (1936)

Libeled Lady (1936)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Romeo and Juliet (1936)

San Francisco (1936)

The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

A Tale of Two Cities (1936)

Three Smart Girls (1936)

The Life of Emile Zola (1937, won)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Captain Courageous (1937)

Dead End (1937)

The Good Earth (1937)

In Old Chicago (1937)

Lost Horizon (1937)

One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Stage Door (1937)

A Star Is Born (1937)

You Can’t Take It with You (1938, won)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

The Citadel (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)

Grand Illusion (1938)

Jezebel (1938)

Pygmalion (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)

Gone with the Wind (1939, won)

Dark Victory (1939)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Love Affair (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)

Of Mice and Men (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Rebecca (1940, won)

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Kitty Foyle (1940)

The Letter (1940)

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

Our Town (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

How Green Was My Valley (1941, won)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

The Little Foxes (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Sergeant York (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

Mrs. Miniver (1942, won)

The Invaders (1942)

Kings Row (1942)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

The Pied Piper (1942)

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Random Harvest (1942)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

Wake Island (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Casablanca (1943, won)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

The Human Comedy (1943)

In Which We Serve (1943)

Madame Curie (1943)

The More the Merrier (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Watch on the Rhine (1943)

Going My Way (1944, won)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Gaslight (1944)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Wilson (1944)

The Lost Weekend (1945, won)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

Mildred Piece (1945)

Spellbound (1945)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, won)

Henry V (1946)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

The Yearling (1946)

Gentleman’s Agreement (1947, won)

The Bishop’s Wife (1947)

Crossfire (1947)

Great Expectations (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Hamlet (1948, won)

Johnny Belinda (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Snake Pit (1948)

The Treasures of the Sierra Madre (1948)

All the King’s Men (1949, won)

Battleground (1949)

The Heiress (1949)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

All About Eve (1950, won)

Born Yesterday (1950)

Father of the Bride (1950)

King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

An American in Paris (1951, won)

Decision Before Dawn (1951)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Quo Vadis (1951)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952, won)

High Noon (1952)

Ivanhoe (1952)

Moulin Rouge (1952)

The Quiet Man (1952)

From Here to Eternity (1953, won)

Julius Caesar (1953)

The Robe (1953)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Shane (1953)

On the Waterfront (1954, won)

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

The Country Girl (1954)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

Marty (1955, won)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Mister Roberts (1955)

Picnic (1955)

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956, won)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Giant (1956)

The King and I (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, won)

12 Angry Men (1957)

Peyton Place (1957)

Sayonara (1957)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Gigi (1958, won)

Auntie Mame (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Separate Tables (1958)

Ben-Hur (1959, won)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

The Nun’s Story (1959)

Room at the Top (1959)

The Apartment (1960, won)

The Alamo (1960)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Sons and Lovers (1960)

The Sundowners (1960)

West Side Story (1961, won)

Fanny (1961)

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

The Hustler (1961)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, won)

The Longest Day (1962)

The Music Man (1962)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Tom Jones (1963, won)

America America (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)

How the West Was Won (1963)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Becket (1964)

Dr. Strangelove of: How I Learned to Stop WOrrying and     Love the Bomb (1964)

Mary Poppins (1964)

Zorba the Greek (1964)

The Sound of Music (1965, won)

Darling (1965)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Ship of Fools (1965)

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

A Man for All Seasons (1966, won)

Alfie (1966)

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

In the Heat of the Night (1967, won)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

The Graduate (1967)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Oliver! (1968, won)

Funny Girl (1968)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Midnight Cowboy (1969, won)

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Z (1969)

Patton (1970, won)

Airport (1970)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Love Story (1970)

MASH (1970)

The French Connection (1971, won)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

The Godfather (1972, won)

Cabaret (1972)

Deliverance (1972)

The Emigrants (1972)

Sounder (1972)

The Sting (1973, won)

American Graffiti (1973)

Cries and Whispers (1973)

The Exorcist (1973)

A Touch of Class (1973)

The Godfather Part II (1974, won)

Chinatown (1974)

The Conversation (1974)

Lenny (1974)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, won)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Jaws (1975)

Nashville (1975)

Rocky (1976, won)

All the President’s Men (1976)

Bound for Glory (1976)

Network (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Annie Hall (1977, won)

The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Julia (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

The Turning Point (1977)

The Deer Hunter (1978, won)

Coming Home (1978)

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Midnight Express (1978)

An Unmarried Woman (1978)

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, won)

All That Jazz (1979)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Breaking Away (1979)

Norma Rae (1979)

Ordinary People (1980, won)

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

The Elephant Man (1980)

Raging Bull (1980)

Tess (1980)

Chariots of Fire (1981, won)

Atlantic CIty (1981)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Reds (1981)

Gandhi (1982, won)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Missing (1982)

Tootsie (1982)

The Verdict (1982)

Terms of Endearment (1983, won)

The Big Chill (1983)

The Dresser (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Tender Mercies (1983)

Amadeus (1984, won)

The Killing Field (1984)

A Passage to India (1984)

Places in the Heart (1984)

A Soldier’s Story (1984)

Out of Africa (1985, won)

The Color Purple (1985)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

Witness (1985)

Platoon (1986, won)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

The Mission (1986)

A Room with a View (1986)

The Last Emperor (1987, won)

Broadcast News (1987)

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Hope and Glory (1987)

Moonstruck (1987)

Rain Man (1988, won)

The Accidental Tourist (1988)

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Working Girl (1988)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989, won)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Field of Dreams (1989)

My Left Foot (1989)

Dances with Wolves (1990, won)

Awakenings (1990)

Ghost (1990)

The Godfather Part III

Goodfellas (1990)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, won)

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Bugsy (1991)

JFK (1991)

The Prince of Tides (1991)

Unforgiven (1992, won)

The Crying Game (1992)

A Few Good Men (1992)

Howards End (1992)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

Schindler’s List (1993, won)

The Fugitive (1993)

In the Name of the Father (1993)

The Piano (1993)

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Forrest Gump (1994, won)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Quiz Show (1994)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Braveheart (1995, won)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Babe (1995)

The Postman (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

The English Patient (1996, won)

Fargo (1996)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Secrets & Lies (1996)

Shine (1996)

Titanic (1997, won)

As Good as It Gets (1997)

The Full Monty (1997)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Shakespeare in Love (1998, won)

Elizabeth (1998)

Life is Beautiful (1998)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

American Beauty (1999, won)

The Cider House Rules (1999)

The Green Mile (1999)

The Insider (1999)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Gladiator (2000, won)

Chocolat (2000)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Erin Brockovich (2000)

Traffic (2000)

A Beautiful Mind (2001, won)

Gosford Park (2001)

In the Bedroom (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring     (2001)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Chicago (2002, won)

Gangs of New York (2002)

The Hours (2002)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Pianist (2002)

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003, won)

Lost in Translation (2003)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Mystic River (2003)

Seabiscuit (2003)

Million Dollar Baby (2004, won)

The Aviator (2004)

Finding Neverland (2004)

Ray (2004)

Sideways (2004)

Crash (2005, won)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Capote (2005)

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Munich (2005)

The Departed (2006, won)

Babel (2006)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

The Queen (2006)

No Country for Old Men (2007, won)

Atonement (2007)

Juno (2007)

Michael Clayton (2007)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008, won)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

Milk (2008)

The Reader (2008)

The Hurt Locker (2009, won)

Avatar (2009)

The Blind Side (2009)

District 9 (2009)

An Education (2009)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (2009)

A Serious Man (2009)

Up (2009)

Up in the Air (2009)

The King’s Speech (2010, won)

127 Hours (2010)

Black Swan (2010)

The Fighter (2010)

Inception (2010)

The Kids Are All Right (2010)

The Social Network (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

True Grit (2010)

Winter’s Bone (2010)

The Artist (2011, won)

The Descendants (2011)

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

The Help (2011)

Hugo (2011)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Moneyball (2011)

The Tree of Life (2011)

War Horse (2011)

Argo (2012, won)

Amour (2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Django Unchained (2012)

Les Misérables (2012)

Life of Pi (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

12 Years a Slave (2013, won)

American Hustle (2013)

Captain Phillips (2013)

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Gravity (2013)

Her (2013)

Nebraska (2013)

Philomena (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014,     won)

American Sniper (2014)

Boyhood (2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Imitation Game (2014)

Selma (2014)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Whiplash (2014)

Spotlight (2015, won)

The Big Short (2015)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Brooklyn (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

The Martian (2015)

The Revenant (2015)

Room (2015)

Moonlight (2016, won)

Arrival (2016)

Fences (2016)

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Hidden Figures (2016)

La La Land (2016)

Lion (2016)

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

The Shape of Water (2017, won)

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Darkest Hour (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

Get Out (2017)

Lady Bird (2017)

Phantom Thread (2017)

The Post (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Green Book (2018, won)

Black Panther (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

The Favourite (2018)

Roma (2018)

A Star is Born (2018)

Vice (2018)

[amtopmthoughts]

OSCARS

Legenda:

Legenda  -  Winners I have watched

Legenda  -  Winners I don’t know of

Legenda  - Winners I know of

Legenda  -  Nominees I have watched

Legenda  -  Nominees I don’t know of

Legenda  -  Nominees I know of

1927/28

BEST MOVIE

Wings

The Racket

7th Heaven

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Janet Gaynor:

for her role as Diane Angela, The Wife in 7th Heaven and Street Angel Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Louise Dresser:

for her role as Mrs. Pleznik in A Ship Comes In

Gloria Swanson:

for her role as Sadie Thompson in Sadie Thompson

1928/29

BEST MOVIE

The Broadway Melody

Alibi

Hollywood Revue

In Old Arizona

The Patriot

= 0

Mary Pickford:

for her role as Norma Besant in Coquette

Ruth Chatterton: 

for her role as Jacqueline Floriot in Madame X

Betty Compson:

for her role as Carrie in The Barker

Jeanne Eagels:

for her role as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter

Corinne Griffith:

for her role as Emma Hamilton in The Divine Lady

Bessie Love:

for her role as Hank Mahoney in The Broadway Melody

1929/30

BEST MOVIE

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Big House

Disraeli

The Divorcee

The Love Parade

= 0

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee

Nancy Carroll:

for her role as Hallie Hobart in The Devil’s Holiday

Ruth Chatterton:

for her role as Sarah Storm in Sarah and Son

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Anna Christie/Madame Rita Cavallini in Anna Christie Romance

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Lucia Marlett in Their Own Desire

Gloria Swanson:

for her role as Marion Donnell in The Trespasser

1930/31

BEST MOVIE

Cimarron

East Lynne

The Front Page

Skippy

Trader Horn

= 0

Marie Dressler:

for her role as Min Divot in Min and Bill

Marlene Dietrich:

for her role as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly in Morocco

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Sabra Cravat in Cimarron

Ann Harding:

for her role as Linda Seton in Holiday

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Jan Ashe in A Free Soul

1931/32

BEST MOVIE

Grand Hotel

Arrowsmith

Bad Girl

The Champ

Five Star Final

One Hour with You

Shanghai Express

The Smiling Lieutenant

= 0

Helen Hayes:

for her role as Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Marie Dressler:

for her role as Emma Thatcher Smith in Emma

Lynn Fontanne:

for her role as The Actress in The Guardsman

1932/33

BEST MOVIE

Cavalcade

42nd Street

A Farewell to Arms

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Lady for a Day

Little Women

The Private Life of Henry VIII

She Done Him Wrong

Smilin’ Through

State Fair

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory

May Robson:

for her role as Apple Annie in Lady for a Day

Diana Wynyard:

for her role as Jane Marryot in Cavalcade

1934

BEST MOVIE

It Happened One Night

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Cleopatra

Flirtation Walk

The Gay Divorcee

Here Comes the Navy

The House of Rothschild

Imitation of Life

One Night of Life

The Thin Man

Viva Villa!

The White Parade

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Claudette Colbert:

for her role as Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night

Grace Moore:

for her role as Mary Barrett in One Night of Love

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Elizabeth Barrett in The Barrett of Wimpole Street

Bette Davis:

for her role as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage

1935

BEST MOVIE

Munity on the Bounty

Alice Adams

Broadway Melody of 1936

Captain Blood

David Copperfield

The Informer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Les Misérables

Naughty Marietta

Rugs of Red Gap

Top Hat

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Bette Davis:

for her role as Joyce Heath in Dangerous

Elisabeth Bergner:

for her role as Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never

Claudette Colbert:

for her role as Jane Everest in Private Words

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Alice Adams in Alice Adams

Miriam Hopkins:

for her role as Becky Sharp in Becky Sharp

Merle Oberon:

for her role as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel

1936

BEST MOVIE

The Great Ziegfeld

Anthony Adverse

Dodsworth

Libeled Lady

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Romeo and Juliet

San Francisco

The Story of Louis Pasteur

A Tale of Two Cities

Three Smart Girls

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Luise Rainer:

for her role as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Theodora Lynn in Theodora Goes Wild

Gladys George:

for her role as Carrie Snyder in Valiant is the Word for Carrie

Carole Lombard:

for her role as Irene Bullock in My Man Godfey

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet

1937

BEST MOVIE

The Life of Emile Zola

The Awful Truth

Captain Courageous

Dead End

The Good Earth

In Old Chicago

Lost Horizon

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Stage Door

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Luise Rainer:

for her role as O-Lan in The Good Earth

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Marguerite Gautier in Camille

Janet Gaynor:

for her role as Esther Victoria Blodgett/Vicki Lester in A Star is Born

Barbara Stanwyck:

for her role as Stella Martin Dallas in Stella Dallas

1938

BEST MOVIE

You Can’t Take It With You

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Boys Town

The Citadel

Four Daughters

Grand Illusion

Jezebel

Pygmalion

Test Pilot

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Bette Davis:

for her role as Julie Marsden in Jezebel

Fay Bainter:

for her role as Hannah Parmalee in White Banners

Wendy Hiller:

for her role as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion

Norma Shearer:

for her role as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette

Margaret Sullavan:

for her role as Patricia “Pat” Hollmann in Three Comrades

1939

BEST MOVIE

Gone With The Wind

Dark Victory

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Love Affair

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Ninotchka

Of Mice and Men

Stagecoach

The Wizard of Oz

Wuthering Heights

= 0

BEST ACTRESS

Vivien Leigh:

for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind

Bette Davis:

for her role as Judith Traherne in Dark Victory

Irene Dunne:

for her role as Terry McKay in Love Affair

Greta Garbo:

for her role as Nina Yakushnova “Ninotchka” Ivanoff” in Ninotchka

Greer Garson:

for her role as Katherine Bridges in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1940

BEST MOVIE

Rebecca

All This, and Heaven Too

Foreign Correspondent

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Dictator

Kitty Foyle

The Letter

The Long Voyage Home

Our Town

The Philadelphia Story

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Ginger Rogers:

for her role as Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle

Bette Davis:

for her role as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter

Joan Fontaine:

for her role as The Second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca

Katharine Hepburn:

for her role as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story

Martha Scott:

for her role as Emily Webb in Our Town

1941

BEST MOVIE

How Green Was My Valley

Blossoms in the Dust

Citizen Kane

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Hold Back the Dawn

The Little Foxes

The Maltese Falcon

One Foot in Heaven

Sargeant York

Suspicion

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Joan Fontaine:

for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion

Bette Davis:

for her role as Regina Giddens, The Little Foxes

Olivia de Havilland:

Emmy Brown, Hold Back the Dawn

Greer Garson, Blossoms in the Dust

Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire

1942

BEST MOVIE

Mrs. Miniver

The Invaders

Kings Row

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Pied Piper

The Pride of the Yankees

Random Harvest

The Talk of the Town

Wake Island

Yankee Doodle Dandy

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver

Bette Davis, Now, Voyager

Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year

Rosalind Russel, My Sister Eileen

Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees

1943

BEST MOVIE

Casablanca

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Heaven Can Wait

The Human Comedy

In Which We Serve

Madame Curie

The More the Merrier

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Song of Bernadette

Watch on the Rhine

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette

Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier

Ingrid Bergman, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph

Greer Garson, Madame Curie

1944

BEST MOVIE

Going My Way

Double Indemnity

Gaslight

Since You Went Away

Wilson

= 0

BEST ACTRESS:

Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight

Claudette Colbert, Since You Went Away

1945

BEST MOVIE

The Lost Weekend

Anchors Aweigh

The Bells of St. Mary’s

Mildred Pierce

Spellbound

= 0

1946

BEST MOVIE

The Best Years of Our Lives

Henry V

= 0

1947

BEST MOVIE

Gentleman’s Agreement

The Bishop’s Wife

Crossfire

Great Expectations

Miracle on 34th Street

= 0

1948

BEST MOVIE

Hamlet

Johnny Belinda

The Red Shoes

The Snake Pit

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

= 0

1949

BEST MOVIE

All the King’s Men

Battleground

The Heiress

A Letter to Three Wives

Twelve O’Clock High

= 0

1950

BEST MOVIE

All About Eve

Born Yesterday

Father of the Bride

King Solomon’s Mines

Sunset Boulevard

= 0

1951

BEST MOVIE

An American In Paris

Decision Before Dawn

A Place in the Sun

Quo Vadis

A Streetcar Named Desire

= 0

1952

BEST MOVIE

The Greatest Show on Earth

High Noon

Ivanhoe

Moulin Rouge

The Quiet Man

= 0

1953

BEST MOVIE

From Here to Eternity

Julius Caesar

The Robe

Roman Holiday

Shane

= 1

1954

BEST MOVIE

On The Waterfront

The Caine Mutiny

The Country Girl

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Three Coins in the Fountain

= 0

1955

BEST MOVIE

Marty

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Mister Roberts

Picnic

The Rose Tattoo

= 0

1956

BEST MOVIE

Around the World in 80 Days

Friendly Persuasion

Giant

The King and I

The Ten Commandments

= 0

1957

BEST MOVIE

The Bridge On The River Kwai

12 Angry Men

Peyton Place

Sayonara

Witness for the Prosecution

= 0

1958

BEST MOVIE

Gigi

Auntie Mame

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Defiant Ones

Separate Tables

= 0

1959

BEST MOVIE

Ben-Hur

Anatomy of a Murder

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Nun’s Story

Room at the Top

= 0

1960

BEST MOVIE

The Apartment

The Alamo

Elmer Gantry

Sons and Lovers

The Sundowners

= 0

1961

BEST MOVIE

West Side Story

Fanny

The Guns of Navarone

The Hustler

Judgment at Nuremberg

= 1

1962

BEST MOVIE

Lawrence of Arabia

The Longest Day

The Music Man

Mutiny on the Bounty

To Kill a Mockingbird

= 0

1963

BEST MOVIE

Tom Jones

America America

Cleopatra

How the West Was Won

Lilies of the Field

= 0

1964

BEST MOVIE

My Fair Lady

Becket

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Mary Poppins

Zorba the Greek

= 1

1965

BEST MOVIE

The Sound of Music

Darling

Doctor Zhivago

Ship of Fools

A Thousand Clowns

= 1

1966

BEST MOVIE

A Man for All Seasons

Alfie

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

The Sand Pebbles

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf

= 0

1967

BEST MOVIE

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Doctor Dolittle

The Graduate

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

= 0

1968

Oliver!

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Rachel, Rachel

Romeo and Juliet

= 1

1969

BEST MOVIE

Midnight Cowboy

Anne of the Thousand Days

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Hello, Dolly!

Z

= 0

1970

BEST MOVIE

Patton

Airport

Five Easy Pieces

Love Story

M*A*S*H

= 0

1971

BEST MOVIE

The French Connection

A Clockwork Orange

Fiddler on the Roof

The Last Picture

Nicholas and Alexandra

= 0

1972

BEST MOVIE

The Godfather

Cabaret

Deliverance

The Emigrants

Sounder

= 0

1973

BEST MOVIE

The Sting

American Graffitti

Cries and Whispers

The Exorcist

A Touch of Class

= 0

1974

 BEST MOVIE

The Godfather Part II

Chinatown

The Conversation

Lenny

The Towering Inferno

= 0

1975

BEST MOVIE

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Barry Lyndon

Dog Day Afternoon

Jaws

Nashville

= 0

1976

BEST MOVIE

Rocky

All the President’s Men

Bound for Glory

Network

Taxi Driver

= 0

1977

BEST MOVIE

Annie Hall

The Goodbye Girl

Julia

Star Wars

The Turning Point

= 0

1978

BEST MOVIE

The Deer Hunter

Coming Home

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Express

An Unmarried Woman

= 0

1979

BEST MOVIE

Kraver vs. Kramer

All That Jazz

Apocalypse Now

Breaking Away

Norma Rae

= 1

1980

BEST MOVIE

Ordinary People

Coal Miner’s Daughter

The Elephant Man

Raging Bull

Tess

= 0

1981

BEST MOVIE

Chariots of Fire

Atlantic City

On Golden Pond

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Reds

= 0

1982

BEST MOVIE

Ghandi

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Missing

Tootsie

The Verdict

= 1

1983

BEST MOVIE

Terms of Endearment

The Big Chill

The Dresser

The Right Stuff

Tender Mercies

= 0

1984

BEST MOVIE

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

A Passage to India

Places in the Heart

A Soldier’s Story

= 0

1985

BEST MOVIE

Out of Africa

The Color Purple

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Prizzi’s Honor

Witness

= 0

1986

BEST MOVIE

Platoon

Children of a Lesser God

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Mission

A Room with a View

= 0

1987

BEST MOVIE

The Last Emperor

Broadcast News

Fatal Attraction

Hope and Glory

Moonstruck

= 2

1988

BEST MOVIE

Rain Man

The Accidental Tourist

Dangerous Liaisons

Mississipi Burning

Working Girl

= 0

1989

BEST MOVIE

Driving Miss Daisy

Born on the Fourth of July

Dead Poets Society

Field of Dreams

My Left Foot

= 1

1990

BEST MOVIE

Dances with Wolves

Awakenings

Ghost

The Godfather III

Goodfellas

= 1

1991

BEST MOVIE

The Silence of the Lambs

Beauty and the Beast

Bugsy

JFK

The Prince of Tides

= 1

1992

BEST MOVIE

Unforgiven

The Crying Game

A Few Good Men

Howards End

Scent of a Woman

= 0

1993

BEST MOVIE

Schindler’s List

The Fugitive

In the Name of the Father

The Piano

The Remains of the Day

= 1

1994

BEST MOVIE

Forrest Gump

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Pulp Fiction

Quiz Show

The Shawshank Redemption

= 3

1995

BEST MOVIE

Braveheart

Apollo 13

Babe

The Postman (Il Postino)

Sense and Sensibility

= 4

1996

BEST MOVIE

The English Patient

Fargo

Jerry McGuire

Secrets & Lies

Shine

= 0

1997

BEST MOVIE

Titanic

As Good as it Gets

The Full Monty

Good Will Hunting

L.A. Confidential

= 3

1998

BEST MOVIE

Shakespeare in Love

Elizabeth

Life is Beautiful

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

= 3

1999

BEST MOVIE

American Beauty

The Cider House Rules

The Green Mile

The Insider

The Sixth Sense

= 1

2000

BEST MOVIE

Gladiator

Chocolat

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Erin Brokovich

Traffic

= 3

2001

BEST MOVIE

A Beautiful Mind

Gosfrod Park

In the Bedroom

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Moulin Rouge!

= 1

2002

BEST MOVIE

Chicago

Gangs of New York

The Hours

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Pianist

= 1

2003

BEST MOVIE

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Mystic River

Seabiscuit

= 0

2004

BEST MOVIE

Million Dollar Baby

The Aviator

Finding Neverland

Ray

Sideways

= 1

2005

BEST MOVIE

Crash

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

Good Night, and Good Luck

Munich

= 0

2006

BEST MOVIE

The Departed

Babel

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

= 2

2007

BEST MOVIE

No Country for Old Men

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

There Will Be Blood

= 1

2008

BEST MOVIE

Slumdog Millionaire

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

= 1

2009

BEST MOVIE

The Hurt Locker

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

Inglorious Basterds

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Saphire

A Serious Man

Up

Up in the Air

= 4

2010

BEST MOVIE

The King’s Speech

127 Hours

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids Are All Right

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter’s Bone

= 5

2011

BEST MOVIE

The Artist

The Descendants

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Help

Hugo

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Tree of Life

War Horse

= 3

2012

BEST MOVIE

Argo

Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserábles

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

= 4

2013

BEST MOVIE

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Philips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

= 4

2014

BEST MOVIE

Birdman

American Sniper

Boyhood

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Whiplash

= 2

2015

BEST MOVIE

Spotlight

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

= 3

BEST ACTRESS:

Brie Larson, Room

Cate Blanchett, Carol

Jennifer Lawrence, Joy

Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years

Saoirse, Brooklyn

2016

BEST MOIVE

Moonlight

La La Land

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

Lion

Manchester by the Sea

= 5

BEST ACTRESS:

Emma Stone, La La Land

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

2017

BEST MOVIE

The Shape of Water

Lady Bird

Call Me by Your Name

Get Out

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Post

Three Billboards Outside Ebbig, Missouri

= 4

BEST ACTRESS:

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Meryl Streep, The Post

TOTAL = 71/

[doux-ciel]

Victim Chapter One

Time.

The big idea is that once it's lost it can never be regained. - Robin Sharma

"Now ladies and gentlemen introducing the new face of Harp, Leyla"

Leyla steps out in her red Valentino custom gown and approaches the stage. Hearing the roar of applause and the smiles on everyone's faces made her feel alive. It made her feel overjoyed with gladness that so much hard work was put into her career she felt that she deserved it 1000%.

She cleared her throat before speaking into the microphone standing in front of her.

"I'm so happy to be sharing this wonderful moment with everyone in this room if it wasn't for Melanie or my awesome management I couldn't have done any of this. Peace and blessings to all....thank you". She grabs the hand of the young man, that was on the other side of the stage and walks off. When she went out into the crowd she was greeted with a bombardment of hugs and "Congratulations" from a multitude of people.

A few minutes after her best friend/photographer Melanie walks up to her, embracing her in a big heartfelt hug. 

Just then Piper rushed towards them in a panic. "Where's Joslyn? Where is she?". The Asian beauty, Piper said referring to the infamous Joslyn Logan. She was a model, actress you name it she did it. Joslyn was also working with Leyla's same management company but she quit days before the ceremony because she didn't get the offer.

Leyla was confused as to why she wasn't at the event too but it never crossed her mind that she never saw Joslyn. "I don't know"

Piper looks at the two young women standing before her, a tear nearly slips from her brown eyes. "She said she would be here, she wouldn't miss this".

Melanie seemed amused by Pipers concern. "Oh, really she wouldn't miss this? Leyla got the offer and Joslyn didn't. You really think she would be happy to come here?"

Piper started to get agitated, clenching her jaw and waving her finger in Melanie's face. "Well, Melanie-"

Leyla came in between the two women, one her best friend and the other a co-worker. "Guys stop! This a celebration now come on and have some drinks and be nice"

Piper backed away from Leyla and moved towards her left. Opposite of where Melanie stood. "Maybe you need to tell your friend that because she seems like she's a little heated right now"

Melanie spoke "Maybe you need to walk away before I really get angry"

Piper was silent.

"I'm going to get some punch," Melanie said lowly under her breath, to no one in particular. She walked off towards the Beverage station.

Leyla turns her body towards Piper. "I'm sure she's around here somewhere"

                                  ¤ ¤ ¤

Leyla

After 3 hours of nonstop dancing, with my sister Esther, Melanie and a couple of other models, I had to sit down. These heels were killing me. I never knew I would hate these Giuseppe heels, but I do. I'm sipping on this fruit punch Vanessa, my manager got for me. I see his Tassel black loafers, I know it's him by his cologne. I honestly didn't think he would come but I guess he changed his mind, that's when I look up and see his handsome face.

Grey Torrez my boyfriend....well ex-boyfriend.

"Please, dance with me" Grey speaks in a low voice. He seems a little bit nervous because of the breakup two days ago. He strokes his fingers nervously through his hair.

How could I say no to him?

His green eyes rest on mine in a tense way.

"Sure," I say lowly.

His hand covers my delicate small one as he leads me onto the dance floor. He stretches out his arm and twirls me. I collide clumsily with his chest and I feel the rumble in his chest as he laughs softly. Grey presses me tightly against his chest, holding my right hand in his hand and his other hand rests with a comfortable pressure on the naked skin on my back.

"Thank you for dancing with me" He whispers in my ear.

"Your welcome," I say back.

I almost have a fan girl moment when I saw James Arthur come in. 2 days ago when we were planning this elaborate event, Grey told me he had a surprise but I didn't think he would actually go through with it. He still told James to come perform even though we weren't together anymore... knowing Grey he always had a plan and I think this one was working.

James Arthur starts to sing the first few sentences. I start to feel butterflies in my tummy. 

"I met you in the dark you lit me up, you made me feel as though I was enough"

"We danced the night away, we drank too much I held your hair back when you were throwing up."

I smile because I remember the time when Grey ever saw me drunk when I first got to New York I had a convivial attitude.

Flashback

I hadn't meant to have as many drinks as I did, but they just kept being offered and I was having the time of my life, so I didn't even really notice.

"Greyyyyyyy!" I cried, stumbling over to where he was leaning against the bar.

He put out his hands to steady me before I went crashing into something and smirked.

"Alright there, babe?"

"I'm...on top of the world!" I giggled. Suddenly, my face went serious and I looked around the room, nervously.

"What's wrong?"

"Grey...the room is spinning. We should hold on to something."

Grey chuckled and brought my hand to his lips. "It's okay baby, I've got you. The room will stop spinning once I get you home to bed."

I turned to him and wiggled my eyebrows. "Home to bed, huh? You in a hurry to get me naked, Torrez?"

"Any other night, yes," Grey nodded, "But not tonight. You're drunk off your ass."

End of Flashback

"And then you smiled over your shoulder for a minute I was stone cold sober I pulled you closer to my chest"

His leg slides between mines, and he turns us both around in an easy way.

"And you asked me to stay over, I said I already told ya I think that you should get some rest"

As James sings this sentence I blush. Remembering that night, I almost got in bed with him that night, thank the Lord he stopped me, now I don't blame anyone for sleeping with anyone early into the relationship but that's just not me.

"I knew I loved you then but you'd never know cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go. I knew I needed you but I never showed" 

He lifts his head, looking into my eyes. His right hand holding mines encompasses my hand in a new way, he places my hand flat on his chest. Covering my small hand with his big one. Sensing his heart beating, I look up and meet his eyes.

"I wanna stay with you until we're gray and old just say you won't let go"

My heart starts to race. I know that I shouldn't let this little dance mess with my head but I can't help it, he was my first love, the first person who ever loved me back and now we are broken up but dancing together. This is wrong very wrong but I couldn't just let go of this, let go of what we had.

 I'm so glad that I used waterproof makeup. Putting my head on my right hand, which rests on his shoulder. 

His hair tickles my nose and I close my eyes smelling his scent one last time. As he turns us I open my eyes taking this time to scan the room. My brown eyes fall on Melanie and my oldest sister Esther probably talking about if I and Grey are getting back together. Luke, Joslyn's boyfriend is at the bar drinking of course; I swear he's an alcoholic. But I don't see Piper, I remember moments before Grey whisked me onto the dance floor she was heading towards the hallway towards the bathroom or maybe down the elevator? hmm... she probably went to go search for Joslyn wherever she is.

As the song ends and he spins me around I turn my head to the left and see a police badge, that's when I felt Grey's hand leave mines and another hand grabs mines. 

I look down at the new hand and see that it favors a woman's, my eyes slowly lift up to see the face staring directly at me. It was a police officer. "Do you know Joslyn Logan?"

"Yes? Why...what's the problem?"

The room got silent

"Joslyn Logan was found dead."

                        ¤ ¤ ¤

After the police arrived, everyone was evacuated from the building. A tall blonde woman with a tight blue shirt with some casual black slacks and black boots walked over to the group of young models and photographer. She flashes her badge at everyone and starts asking questions. "I know this is incredibly difficult but I'm going to need to ask you some questions with this still fresh in your minds."

"How could this happen?" Piper says as she is still processing in her head what she just heard, Luke takes off his jacket placing it on her shoulders.

"I'm Officer Harrison" she stated. Giving nods to everyone she made eye contact with. Her stern presence made it known she meant business, she looks at Piper. "That's what I'm trying to figure out, as I understand there was a party going on upstairs.....Why were you celebrating?"

Melanie steps towards the police officer. "Leyla just made a big achievement in her modeling career and she got the new face of this new fashion line"

"Was anyone unhappy about that?" Harrison questioned again, this time bringing her notepad out. 

"No, we were all very happy for her" Melanie once spoke again. 

"What about Joslyn was she happy for her as well?"

Melanie looks annoyed, to say the least, crossing her arms across her chest, slightly shivering from the cold New York weather.  "I'm sure the questions can wait." 

Officer Harrison smirks at her actions. "Melanie Davis.....your father works at the public defender's office."

Now it's Melanie's turn to smirk, "Yes, And when you do question my best friend," she says referring to Leyla "I would like my father to be her council"

"Of course" Officer Harrison walks off to console the mother and father of Joslyn. They stood by their Rolls Royce looking devastated, Leyla felt awful for what happened. 

Luke speaks up. "Why did you stop her?"

Melanie turns to him, "Joslyn was murdered, they are going to investigate and when they do they are going to look at the people closest to her, which is all of us."

[mxlfoydraco]

Queer Book Recs

Are you as frustrated with fandoms as i am? I got you! Here are some queer books i’ve read recently, and more under my book recs tag. This list is too long already, so i’ll put in summaries instead of my own comments.

Broken by Nikola Haken When Theodore Davenport decides to switch his mundane job for a career, he walks into Holden House Publishing with enthusiasm and determination to succeed. As he settles into his new role, makes new friends, and dreams of making it to the top, everything is going to plan. Until he meets James Holden, CEO of Holden House. James Holden hasn’t been able to stop thinking about his encounter with the timid man he met in a club bathroom last week, and when he discovers the one haunting his dreams is an employee, he can’t seem to stop himself from pursuing him. Just a little fun - that’s what James tells himself. He can’t afford to care for someone who can never reciprocate, not once they find out who he really is. James believes nobody deserves the burden of being attached to him. He’s a complicated man. Damaged. Difficult. Demanding. Broken. Is Theodore strong enough to confront James’ demons? More importantly, is James? Please note:This book contains scenes of self harm, mental illness and suicidal ideation which may be uncomfortable for some readers.

The Rules by Jamie Fessenden When Hans Bauer, a college student in New Hampshire, accepts a job as a housekeeper for an older gay couple, he soon learns the reason they've hired someone with no experience is that professional agencies won't work there. Thomas is a successful businessman whose biggest goal in life appears to be giving his husband anything he wants. Boris is a writer who immigrated to this country from Russia, and suffers from depression and PTSD because of the things he endured in his native country. He also refuses to wear clothes—ever. While Hans is working alone in the house with Naked Boris all day, things start getting a little weird. Boris gets flirtatious and Hans backs away, not wanting to come between him and his husband. So Boris calls Thomas at work and asks permission. At that moment, The Rules are born—rules about touching and kissing and pet names that the three men use to keep jealousies at bay, as they explore the possibilities in a new type of relationship.... WARNING: This story deals with themes of sexual assault and past abuse. The Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote When a professional relationship turns personal, it’s impossible to resist the law of attraction. Alec Rowland is a high-flying lawyer in a London firm whose career is his life. He doesn’t have time for relationships and his sexuality is a closely guarded secret. After picking up a cute guy on a Friday night, Alec’s world is rocked to its foundations when his one night stand shows up in the office on Monday morning—as the new temp on his team. Ed Piper is desperate to prove himself in his new job. The last thing he needs is to be distracted by a crush on his boss. It’s hard to ignore the attraction he feels, even though Alec’s a difficult bastard to work for. Both men strive to maintain a professional relationship, but tempers fray, passions ignite, and soon they’re both falling hard and fast. If they’re ever going to find a way to be together, Alec needs to be honest about who he really is because Ed won’t go back in the closet for anyone.

The Half Wolf by Jay Northcote Mate, family, pack, home… can Quinn and Kellan have it all? Quinn grew up feeling out of place in the small town he calls home. Yearning for something he can’t name, he’s always felt different but never known why. Kellan is part of a nomadic shifter pack. When they set up camp in the woods near Quinn’s town, the humans are unwelcoming and suspicious of the newcomers. The moment Kellan catches sight—and scent—of Quinn, he knows Quinn is special. But for the first time in his life, Kellan can’t trust his instincts. Quinn is human, and Kellan is a wolf shifter, so how can they ever be mates? Their bond is instant and exhilarating. It breaks Quinn’s heart to know their relationship can only be temporary. Love isn’t enough when pack law forbids shifters to mate with humans. Tension explodes between pack and humans, and when Quinn discovers a shocking truth about himself that changes everything, he fears he’ll have to choose between the only life he’s ever known and the man he loves. 

Step by Step by K.C. Wells Jamie’s life is one big financial mess, and it really isn’t his fault. However, the last thing he expected to find in the library was a Good Samaritan. He might have been suspicious of Guy’s motives at first, but it soon becomes apparent that his savior is a good man who has been lucky in life and is looking to pay it forward. Guy being gay is not a problem. Jamie’s not interested… or so he thinks. Guy is happy to help Jamie, and the two men get along fine. But when Jamie’s curiosity leads him from one thing to another, Guy finds himself looking at the young man with new eyes. What started out as a hand up is now something completely different…. His Convenient Husband by Robin Covington  NFL football player Isaiah Blackwell lost his husband three years ago and is raising their teen son alone. He lives his life as quietly as his job allows, playing ball to support his family but trying not to draw unwanted attention. His quiet life is shaken up when a mutual friend introduces him to Victor, a visiting principal ballet dancer who is everything Isaiah is not. Brash and loud, Victor Aleksandrov has applied for political asylum to avoid returning to Russia, where gay men are targeted and persecuted. He’s been outspoken about gay rights in his home country, and if he doesn’t get asylum, going back to Russia is a death sentence. Their one-night stand turns into a tentative friendship, a relationship they both agree is temporary... until Victor’s denied asylum. Isaiah can’t offer Victor a happily ever after, but he can propose something that’ll keep Victor in the US and safe... marriage He just doesn’t expect his new husband to dance away with his heart. Finding Home by Garrett Leigh How do you find a home when your heart is in ashes? With their mum dead and their father on remand for her murder, Leo Hendry and his little sister, Lila, have nothing in the world but each other. Broken and burned, they’re thrust into the foster care system. Leo shields Lila from the fake families and forced affection, until the Poulton household is the only place left to go. Charlie de Sousa is used to other kids passing through the Poulton home, but there’s never been anyone like his new foster brother. Leo’s physical injuries are plain to see, but it’s the pain in his eyes that draws Charlie in the most. Day by day, they grow closer, but the darkness inside Leo consumes him. He rejects his foster parents, and when Charlie gets into trouble, Leo’s attempt to protect him turns violent. When Leo loses control, no one can reach him—except Charlie. He desperately needs a family—a home—and only Charlie can show him the way. Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Allison Evans Jalen, lover of B-grade sci-fi movies, meets the far-too-handsome P in a cafe while deciding whether or not to skip uni again. When P invites them along to a double feature of Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon, Jalen can hardly believe that hot boys like bad sci-fi, too. But as their relationship progresses, Jalen realizes P leaves him wondering if they're on the same page about what dating means, and if that's what they're doing. [NB protag!] Dirty Mind by Roe Horvat Alexander Popescu is a university lecturer in a quiet German town. He’s a respectable man in his thirties who stays fit, has a decent career and travels alone—his only vice is an occasional greasy meal. And beer. And violent computer games. Nobody has to know about the other Alex—the acclaimed porn writer. His ingenious erotic fantasies earn him good money and keep his capricious mind harmlessly entertained. When his young friend and protégé Christian transfers to Freiburg for medical school, Alex is overjoyed…and terrified that Christian will find out about Alex’s indecent alter ego. The time they spend together, as lovely as it is, could overturn Alex’s carefully balanced life. Suddenly, the writing is not good enough, his hair seems to be thinning, his careful hookups leave him unfulfilled, and his dreams are haunted by the innocent young man he’s vowed to protect. However, Christian is not a boy anymore. He’s a grown man of twenty-one, clever and deadly attractive. And he’s hiding some secrets of his own.

[thenamegarden]

The Name Garden: Q&A Monday

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Q&A Monday! Sorry for the lack of Q&A’s the last couple of weeks - I hadn’t had internet due to moving house, then we found out we were too rural to have internet and needed to order in a satellite, followed by the death of my computer and the death of my partner’s computer! Most of these issues have resolved now, and I’ll be getting my new computer today. As always, I am also ill, and at this time am unfortunately going through quite a big flare. I’m hoping that I can queue posts for each day to make sure that content isn’t lacking, but please do understand if there’s a day or two of missing content!

Anyway, off that topic, and onto the new: How has everyone’s holidays and new year been? I hope you’re having a wonderful time! Here are the questions that I received anonymously over the holidays - let’s jump back into the baby names!

If you have a question that you’d like to see featured in next week’s Q&A, please submit it here.

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Q: Can you find any middle names that go with Elika?

A: Elika is really interesting, I really like it! Here are some ideas for you:

Elika Brynn

Elika Paris

Elika Lilly

Elika Morgan

Elika Rochelle

Elika Miriam

Elika Wendy

Elika Jane

Elika Reese

Elika Jordan

Elika Jade

Elika Dominique

Elika Sabine

Elika Madeleine

Elika Josefine

Elika Danielle

Elika Lucille

Elika Robin

Elika Valerie

Elika Charlotte

Elika Lovelle

Elika Raven

Elika Jacqueline

Elika Celine

Elika Daisy

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Q: Stonep.

A: Hey there. I’m not sure if this was a spelling error or not, or if it was a request for me to post the name. Could I just get you to clarify for me, so I can help out? Thanks!

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Q: Hello, I'm writing a story about a female detective, could you suggest a few name please? She's an extrovert and has a tendency to attract problems.

A: Sure! Here are some ideas for you:

Lacey

Harley

Pippa

Charlie

Ellie

Molly

Tara

Madeline

Amelia

Piper

Carissa

Tasmin

Kennedy

Cassandra

Tessa

Sienna 

Olivia

Emily

Bria

Macey

Alana

Riley

Eliza

Carly

Raegan

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Q: What do you think of the name Myla but spelt Milsa?

A: I’m sorry, but I’m not a fan at all. I don’t think it’d be natural for anyone to pronounce it the way that you’re wanting. How about removing the ‘s’ and making it Mila?

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Q: Which is your favorite out of Fredericka, Augusta, Claudine, Henrietta and Wilhelmina? Do you think any of them are usable for a child?

A: I think that they’re all very usable for a child! The current trend is slowly bringing older names right to the forefront of the popularity charts, so I say go for it! My favourite of the names is Henrietta.

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Q: Do you prefer Melody or Rose as a middle name for Carole?

A: I like Melody, I think it’s really sweet. It’s also a little more unique compared to Rose. They’re both very pretty, but Melody is my choice.

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Q: What’s a cute middle name for Hazel? Last name begins with a W.

A: I love the name Hazel. Here are some ideas for you:

Hazel Maeve

Hazel Clara

Hazel Grace

Hazel Millicent

Hazel June

Hazel Catherine

Hazel Iris

Hazel Anne

Hazel Claire

Hazel Lillian

Hazel Valerie

Hazel Dorothy

Hazel Violet

Hazel Jean

Hazel Florence

Hazel Joy

Hazel Evelyn

Hazel Rose

Hazel Emma

Hazel Louise

Hazel Marie

Hazel Vera

Hazel Charlotte

Hazel Martha

Hazel Lucy

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Q: Please help! My baby girl is due soon but we don’t have a name for her! Her sisters are Callie Grace and Payslie Rayne, so the names have to sound good together. We’d also really like to stay with the “e” or “lee” sound ending.

A: Congratulations on your little girl! Here are some ideas that may work for you:

Emily Sloane

Avery Faith

Lily Madison

Sophie Brooke

Trinity Ava

Molly Summer

Chloe Elizabeth

Hailey Paige

Maisie Hope

Daisy Piper

Sadie Ella

Natalie Skye

Ashley Jade

Lacey Nicole

Riley Charlotte

Sydney Rose

Destiny Cadence

Everley Skylar

Bailey Hannah

Brinley Willow

Aubrey Anne

Jolie Claire

Harley Sophia

Kimberly Emse

Hadley Amelia

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Q: How do you feel about the name Adelaide? Like, love or hate?

A: I like it quite a lot. It’s very old fashioned, beautiful, sweet, charming, and works for a person of any age.

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Q: Hi. We’re looking for a girls name to suit the last name Ryan. If we have a boy, his name will be Elijah James Ryan. We want a name with the same vibe as Elijah, like unique and not really common. Thank you.

A: Hello! Elijah James is sweet. Though I should let you know that if you’re searching for a unique and uncommon name, Elijah is currently in the top 50 in the US, England, Wales, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. So it’s not all that uncommon at all! For that reason, I’ll give you two lists of names - one for the same vibe as Elijah, and one with the same vibe that are out of the top names.

Names with a similar vibe, ignoring the top 100:

Isabelle Ryan

Olivia Ryan

Alexia Ryan

Savannah Ryan

Sienna Ryan

Ava Ryan

Sophia Ryan

Chloe Ryan

Lily Ryan

Scarlett Ryan

Gabrielle Ryan

Zoe Ryan

Evie Ryan

Delilah Ryan

Amelia Ryan

Ivy Ryan

Charlotte Ryan

Sadie Ryan

Ella Ryan

Lucy Ryan

Lydia Ryan

Penelope Ryan

Isla Ryan

Lila Ryan

Alice Ryan

Ruby Ryan

Layla Ryan

Names with a soft feel, that are out of the top 100:

Elena Ryan

Lucille Ryan

Evangeline Ryan

Felicity Ryan

Luna Ryan

Eloise Ryan

Estella Ryan

Juliet Ryan

Phoebe Ryan

Annabelle Ryan

Adelaide Ryan

Elise Ryan

Lorelei Ryan

Natalia Ryan

Rowena Ryan

Amalia Ryan

Edie Ryan

Arabella Ryan

Anneliese Ryan

May Ryan

Melody Ryan

Helena Ryan

Talia Ryan

Viola Ryan

Aurelia Ryan

Giselle Ryan

Rosalie Ryan

Lilia Ryan

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[gokinjeespot]

off the rack #1245

Monday, January 14, 2019

 Sorry this is going out later than usual. It's freezing outside this morning -18 degrees C (or 0 degrees F for all you non-metric folks). A good reason to stay under the flannel sheets and down comforter a couple of hours longer.

 We had a National Geographic moment here yesterday when a hawk managed to capture a male cardinal right at our bird feeders. They are both beautiful birds and the hawk was only doing what comes naturally but it's still traumatic to witness the circle of life being played out right outside your window. Penny saw the raptor fly off with its bright red meal clutched in its talons.

 X-23 #8 - Mariko Tamaki (writer) Diego Olortegui (pencils) Walden Wong (inks) Chris O'Halloran (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). X-Assassin part 2. Laura and Gabby rescue their "sister" from the bad guys. Whether the X-Assassin appreciates it is still to be determined. I like this straight forward story where the girls are trying to do the right thing and the villain is clearly defined.

 Thor #9 - Jason Aaron (writer) Mike del Mundo (art) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). This lead up to "The War of the Realms" features Roz Solomon and it's great. Sometimes I'll read a comic book with a lot of writing and wonder partway through when is it going to finish? This time each word balloon and caption just carried me along as Roz fights a frost giant and gathers important intel as an Agent of Wakanda. I loved the little scene with ex-boyfriend Thor.

 Domino #10 - Gail Simone (writer) David Baldeon, Michael Shelfer, Alberto Alburquerque & Anthony Piper (art) Victor Olazaba, Ed Tadeo & Michael Shelfer (inks) Carlos Lopez (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Soldier of Fortune conclusion. The team up with Longshot ends, tied up with a big fat bow. I found the pacing of this story to be too fast. The good guys go to the Mojoverse to see if they can heal Longshot, fight through an army of guards and get into the hospital where a doctor cures their friend. Then it's back to their own universe and a long nap. All in 20 pages. They glossed over the fact that both Domino and Longshot have a luck power, which was what made me want to keep reading this story. I would have liked more depth. I'm also not a fan of art by committee. I don't mind a couple of artists working on an issue but four different styles is too jarring visually for me.

 Young Justice #1 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Patrick Gleason (art) Alejandro Sanchez (colours) DC Lettering (letters). Yay Young Justice. When I saw the ads for the new Bendis books I was most excited to see this teen team. I loved the old series written by Peter David. I am so happy to see Impulse/Bart (RIP Mike Wieringo), Robin/Tim, Superboy/Conner, and Wonder Girl/Cassie back on the racks. It's going to be neat to see how Amethyst, Jenny Hex and Teen Lantern fit into the team. This intro is a pulse-pounding fight between the teen heroes and warriors from Gemworld. I probably would have read this no matter who drew it but Patrick Gleason makes this new book an automatic add to my "must read" list.

 Criminal #1 - Ed Brubaker (writer) Sean Phillips (art & letters) Jacob Phillips (colours). Meet lowlife Teeg Lawless fresh out of prison and already in the hole for 23 K. How's he going to pay that off? You'll find out if you stick with this story of a hardened criminal. I love how Ed Brubaker writes about these extraordinary ordinary people and Sean Phillips is perfect for this slice of noir life.

 Captain Marvel #1 - Kelly Thompson (writer) Carmen Carnero (art) Tamra Bonvillain (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Yep, it's another number one for Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and you can jump right in and follow her new adventures without missing a beat. You know there's a Captain Marvel movie starring Brie Larson hitting the big screens in March right? I've followed Captain Marvel ever since she was a he in 1967 wearing the green costume with the fin on his helmet. Carol is my favourite character to use the moniker. This first issue is a standard introduction with the requisite super hero fight where Carol saves the city from a giant monster with the help of another of my favourite super heroes, Spiderwoman. Nice to see Jessica back on the racks. The twist at the end will surprise fans expecting another boring super hero comic book as Captain Marvel finds herself leading a whole new crew of do gooders. I'm going to stay tuned.

 Batman #62 - Tom King (writer) Mitch Gerads (art) Clayton Cowles (letters). Knightmares part 2. This is a very intense fight between Batman and the villain Pyg. The last two pages makes this issue more than what it seems.

 Die #2 - Kieron Gillen (writer) Stephanie Hans (art) Clayton Cowles (letters). Die is not just the singular for dice but it's also the name of the place that five former Dungeons and Dragons players find themselves trapped in. It's a very scary place and I think their quest to get home will ultimately fail. I'm sure some of them will die in Die. I wish I liked this more but none of the characters appeal to me and I find the story depressing. This fantasy with real life characters can go on without me.

 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1 - Tom Taylor (writer) Juann Cabal (art) Nolan Woodard (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I was hooked on this new Spider-Man book as soon as I saw the names in the credits. Tom and Juann are in my top five list of writers and artists and they didn't disappoint me. Check out their X-23 story that just hit the racks as a trade paperback. Everything you need for a good comic book is here. You've got a little bit of super heroic action, mysterious bad guys, a damsel in distress and two little kids with glowing eyes on the last page to make you want to read the next issue right away. You have to wait until January 23 for that though. I know some Marvelites have complained that Marvel's new number ones are priced higher at $4.99 US but this one has a back-up story worth the extra buck. Peter Parker's Aunt May has been around since day one and has faced many threats. This latest one by Tom Taylor (writer) Marcelo Ferreira (pencils) Roberto Poggi (inks) Jim Campbell (colours) & VC's Travis Lanham (letters) might just break the two of them. If you've stopped reading Amazing, Friendly Neighborhood is a good replacement.

 Prodigy #2 - Mark Millar (writer) Rafael Albuquerque (art) Marcelo Maiolo (colours) Peter Doherty (letters). I love this kind of pure fantasy where the hero is a super intelligent guy with unlimited resources and the bad guys are pure evil. Showing the villains hunting children with rifles leaves no doubt. The threat is pure science fiction and the stakes are impossibly high. This is the kind of story that keeps me wanting to read every issue.

 Man Without Fear #2 - Jed MacKay (writer) Stefano Landini (art) Andres Mossa (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Oh, so that's what happened. Matt was hit by a truck while saving a kid. That's why he's lying in a hospital crippled to the point where he has decided to retire Daredevil. This issue's narrator was a surprise and made me wonder if they're going to resurrect this character again. Jed has done a good enough writing this weekly mini so that I want to keep reading to see how Matt recovers to don the devil costume again.

 Avengers #12 - Jason Aaron (writer) Ed McGuinness & Cory Smith (pencils) Mark Morales, Karl Kesel & Scott Hanna (inks) Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). S.H.I.E.L.D. is gone. Now we have the Agents of Wakanda. This issue introduces some of those agents. They're a mix of misfits and oddballs. I like the I.T. guy and the guy out in space. Ka-Zar is a surprise but I like him too because I hope to see Zabu soon. These Avengers are dealing with Namor and his Defenders of the Deep but also another threat coming out of Transylvania. I like who they recruit to deal with the vampires but I thought he was in prison. Nope, just checked. He got 3 years for tax evasion and was released in April 2013.

 Miles Morales: Spider-Man #2 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Javier Garron (art) David Curiel (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). I love the cover showing everything this young man has to juggle while living a dual life. Imagine trying to do it without a smart phone? I like that the Rhino doesn't have one just like me. So Miles and Rhino are trying to find some missing kids. The trail leads them to an old warehouse where they fight the bad guy but lose him. The good guy showing up on the last page will help them continue the search. Saladin must have gotten some writing tips from Brian Bendis to keep the audience panting for more.

[longitudinalwaveme]

A Pipe Dream

The Flash stars in: A Pipe Dream

Dramatis Personae

Wally West, the garrulous, impulsive, and friendly third Flash

Joan Garrick, Jay Garrick’s wife, who is patient, loving, and supportive of everyone

Iris Allen, Barry Allen’s wife, an inquisitive daredevil reporter

The Pied Piper, alias Hartley Rathaway, a Robin Hood-esque thief

The Top, alias Roscoe Dillon, an arrogant, elitist, and top-obsessed criminal

Weather Wizard, alias Mark Mardon, an overconfident, rather stupid robber

Heat Wave, alias Mick Rory, a dim, shockingly gentle pyromaniac

Script

Act I

(Joan and Iris are onstage)

Iris: So, how’s Jay?

Joan: He’s doing well enough, I suppose, but, to be honest, I’m a little worried about him. He keeps claiming that he’s retired from crime fighting, but every time I turn around, he’s wearing that silly hat of his and racing off to fight bank robbers or carjackers or giant, murderous, telepathic gorillas. It was one thing when he was fifty, but now he’s 99 years old, and the doctors say that his heart won’t be able to take much more of his running at super speed.

Iris: What does he say about that?

Joan: That (strikes a heroic pose) “ it will be a pleasure to die in the line of duty.”

Iris: (Laughs) That sounds just like Barry.

Joan: I know, and it’s not funny. Our husbands spend so much time saving everyone else that they never stop to worry about themselves.

Iris: I guess that’s true-but hey, that’s part of what we’re here for, to make sure our husbands take some “me time” occasionally.

Joan: In speaking of husbands, how’s Barry?

Iris: He’s not doing so well. He came down with the flu a few days ago, and I’ve been going crazy trying to keep him from leaving his bed so that he can go fight crime.

Joan: Oh, I’ve had that happen with Jay before. Once, when he had pneumonia, he heard about a shoplifting ring, and I had to call in Ted and Alan-you know them as Wildcat and the original Green Lantern-to physically restrain him so that he wouldn’t leave the house to go stop them.

Iris: Well, I haven’t had to resort to calling the Justice League to restrain Barry yet, so things could be worse.

Joan: You’re right. Things could be worse. We could be having to deal with two sick speedsters each. Or a sick Superman!

Iris: Man, that would be a nightmare. I have no idea how that Lois Lane woman does it.

Joan: Maybe Clark just doesn’t get sick. After all, he isn’t a human, so maybe our diseases don’t affect him and he’s as invulnerable to getting sick as he is to everything else.

Iris: Maybe so.

(Enter Wally)

Wally: Hi, Joan. Hi, Aunt Iris. (Sneezes) How are you?

Iris: Hi, Wally. We’re doing all right. How are you?

Wally: I’m fine, but Linda and the kids all have the flu (Sneezes) and the twins also both have strep. (Sneezes) It sure is lucky that I don’t get sick, or we’d have a real mess on our hands.

Iris: Um, Wally, are you sure you’re not sick?

Wally: Yeah, I’m sure. (Sneezes three times) I never get sick. I had perfect attendance all throughout school, and you can check my records if you don’t believe me.

Joan: Can you at least try to take it easy, Wally?

Wally: I can’t do that! Jay’s retired and Uncle Barry has the flu, and someone has to protect the city! Besides, I can’t deny my adoring fans the chance to see me because I have a few sniffles. (Sneezes) I’ll be fine!

Iris: (To Joan) Is there a single superhero in the entire world who actually rests when they get sick?

Joan: Speaking from experience, I don’t think there is.

Wally: I said that I’m fine! (Sneezes) So, do you want to get lunch? I’m starving!

Iris: Wally, it’s 8:00 in the morning!

Wally: Okay, so let’s get brunch!

Iris: But I just ate breakfast!

Wally: I don’t follow. (Sneezes) I just ate breakfast, too, and I’m already hungry again.

Joan: Wally, dear, you have to consume 980,000 calories per day just to survive, so you have to eat almost constantly. We simply don’t have the appetite or the metabolism to keep up with you.

Wally: Oh, right. I forget that fact a lot-especially (Sneezes) since my kids inherited my metabolism and have to (Sneezes) eat even more than I do.

Iris: It’s all right, Wally.

Wally: So, um, do you want to go to McDonalds with me (Sneezes) and watch me eat? With Linda and the kids all sick, I’ve been cooped up in the house for a week, and I’m going stir-crazy!

Iris: I suppose so. After all, with Barry sick, I haven’t been able to get out much, either.

Joan: I’ll go, too. After all, if you really are sick despite your claims, someone needs to keep an eye on you so that you don’t run yourself into the ground.

Wally: Great! I love you guys so much, and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into (Sneezes) 340 Big Macs! I love McDonalds food!

Iris: (Shakes head) Never change, Wally. Never change.

(Exit All)

Act II

(The Pied Piper is onstage, playing an instrument. Enter the Top)

Top: Top of the morning to you, Piper.

Piper: Oh, good, you were able to make it. Did you have any trouble getting here?

Top: No. There is not a person in this city who would dare inconvenience the Top.

Piper: What about our friends in the red pajamas?

Top: Don’t make me laugh, Piper. The old one is feeble and retired, the young one is impulsive and stupid, and the only one that poses a threat has the flu, and therefore cannot be on top of his game. They could not bother me if they tried. What of you, my friend? Are you still in tip- top shape, or has your life spun out of control?  

Piper: I’m as fit as a fiddle, Roscoe. The Flashes have no reason to hunt down a peaceable man who steals money from drug lords and self-absorbed starlets and gives it to the poor. In fact, if I could only make them realize that the real villains are the members of the 1% who enrich themselves at the expense of the poor, we would be good friends.

Top: But I heard you were homeless?

Piper: I am.

Top: How, exactly, did that come to pass?

Piper: Well, after my last heist, I was going to buy an apartment for myself, but while I was on my way to buying it, I saw a very pregnant woman with two small children crying, and when I asked her what was wrong, she told me that she was trying to escape from her abusive boyfriend but that she had no money, and so I gave her the money and told her to use it to make a good life for herself and her children, and so I was unable to buy anything.

Top: You gave all of the money away?

Piper: Of course! They needed it more than I did.

Top: You, sir, are a fool. This is the fifth time that you have given up a permanent home to help some wretch-the fifth time!

Piper: Roscoe, you of all people should understand what it is like to be an outcast. How can you criticize my desire to help others that the world has forgotten?

Top: Because I am a genius, something that decidedly does not apply to the people for whom you constantly risk your freedom and your own safety.

Piper: Roscoe, my early life was spent in scandalous luxury, luxury that my parents took at the expense of the poor who helped build their empire. It’s only fair that I go without to help them now. (Pause) So, do you know if anyone else is coming to our little meeting?

Top: No. I do not concern myself with the behavior of lesser men like them.

(Enter Heat Wave)

Heat Wave: Hi, Piper! Hi, Top! Seeing you two really warms my heart! (Hugs Piper)

Piper: Mick, I love hugs, but…I….can’t….breathe!

Heat Wave: Oh, sorry. (Releases him)

Piper: Hi, Mick. How have you been?

Heat Wave: I’m okay. I was burning up with fever a couple days ago, but I’m all better now.

Piper: I’m glad to hear that. Do you know if any of the others are coming?

Heat Wave: Captain Cold won’t be here. He’s got a bad case of the chills , and besides, he’s still in prison, and so is Mirror Master. They say hi.

Piper: And what about Glider?

Top: My love is on vacation in the Bahamas. She won’t be able to come.

Piper: Wait. I thought you said that you didn’t know if anyone else could come!

Top: Did I? Oh. My apologies.

Piper: (To Heat Wave) Do you know if Digger is coming?

Heat Wave: He won’t be coming. He broke his leg and told me that he didn’t feel like messing with crutches when I brought him chocolate and flowers.

Piper: Okay, and what about Mardon?

Heat Wave: I don’t know. Last I heard, he was feeling a little under the weather.

(Enter Weather Wizard)

Wizard: Nope, I’m as right as rain!

Piper: Hi, Mark!

Wizard: Hi, Piper! Hey, Mick.

Heat Wave: How’ve you been? I heard you were sick.

Wizard: Nope. I’ve just been taking it easy.

Top: What a surprise.

Wizard: What’s that supposed to mean?

Top: It means that you are a lazy fool who hasn’t done a day’s work in his life.

Wizard: Am not! Why, I stole an entire tractor-trailer full of sports cars in an hour once!

Top: Yes, by sitting on your couch and allowing a tornado to detach the trailer from the cab of the truck and deliver the loot to your house.

Wizard: So? You can’t fault me for conserving energy!

Top: “Conserving energy”, my foot.

Wizard: What’s the matter, Top? Are you jealous of my power?

Top: No. I simply think it is wasted on a man who uses it only to commit petty thefts.

Wizard: (Raises weather wand) Petty? (Waves wand) I’ll show you petty! (Thunderclap)

Heat Wave: Whoa there, Mark, let’s not get hasty. I don’t want you to do something in the heat of the moment that you’ll regret-like destroying this building with all of us in it!

Piper: Mick’s right, Mark. It’s too dangerous to get into a fight here.

Wizard: (Lowers weather wand) Fine. But if you expect me to take his stupid comments forever, you’re chasing rainbows, Piper.

Piper: (to Top) Roscoe, please don’t antagonize Mark. You really don’t want him to make you face the music .

Top: I am not afraid of him, Piper.

Wizard: Well, you should be, because if you don’t start respecting me, our little truce will be nothing more than the calm before the storm!

Top: Whatever you say, Mardon. Whatever you say. (Pause) Shall we get down to business?

Heat Wave: Yeah, we should. Who has a plan for our next heist?

Piper: I do, actually, so if you don’t mind, I’ll be calling the tune on this job. You see, some friends of my parents are importing some very fine jewelery, and I think that those jewels will make for a tidy sum for the poor….

Act III

(Wally, Iris, and Joan are sitting at a table)

Wally: Boy, that was delicious! (Sneezes) I don’t care what Uncle Barry says-McDonalds has the best food in the world!

Joan: It isn’t exactly the healthiest food, you know.

Wally: Yeah, I know-but with the way I burn calories (Sneezes) , it isn’t going to hurt me any!

Iris: Um, I’m not sure that’s how it works, Wally.

Wally: Well, even if it isn’t, I’m young and it tastes good, so who cares?

Joan: I do, for one.

Iris: And so do I.

Wally: Good grief! When are you two (Sneezes) going to stop treating me like a little kid?

Iris: Wally, I watched you grow up. It’s going to take awhile for me to adjust-especially when you keep acting like a crazy teenager.

Wally: I don’t act like a crazy teenager! (Sneezes) I act like a crazy adult!

Joan: Wally, there isn’t much difference between a crazy teenager and a crazy adult.

Wally: Oh, yeah? (Sneezes) Prove it!

Joan: The Trickster.

Wally: Yeah, you’ve pretty much got me there. (Sneezes) Sorry I’m so annoying.

Joan: It’s all right. You’re not annoying most of the time, dear.

Iris: Just some of the time.

Wally: I love you guys. (Sneezes) So, what should we do next?

Iris: We could go shoe shopping. I’ve been needing a new pair of heels.

Wally: No! Not shoe shopping! Linda’s taken me on enough shoe shopping trips to last a lifetime! (Sneezes)

Iris: I was only kidding, Wally.

Wally: Good. Oooh, why don’t we get ice cream?

Joan: You can get ice cream. It probably isn’t a good idea for us to get it.

Wally: Yes! (Disappears, then returns with ice cream and cake)

Joan: Where did you get the cake from?

Wally: China. (Sneezes) They make everything there these days.

Iris: (Laughs) You ran all the way to China just to get cake?

Wally: Well, I was aiming for Hungary, but I overshot.

Joan: How did you overshoot Hungry? You have a full-time residency there.

Wally: Huh? (Pauses, then laughs) Oh, I get it! That’s hilarious, Joan!  

Joan: Why thank you, Wally. I think you and your aunt are rubbing off on me.

Iris: I’m glad we decided to do this. Barry’s a dear, but when he gets sick, he can be a bit of a nightmare.

Wally: Wait, Uncle Barry can be a nightmare?

Iris: Believe it or not, yes. Now, he’s not rude or whiny, but he keeps trying to leave his bed and stop crimes instead of resting so that he can get well, and it’s very irritating to make him stay put, because he gives me these really sad puppy dog eyes when I tell him to stay at home.

Wally: Hah! I knew he (Sneezes) had a weakness besides punctuality!

Joan: All three of you have that weakness, Wally.

Wally: I do not! (His phone rings) Sorry. I need to take this. (Pulls out phone) Hello, Commissioner? The Rogues? What are they doing? Mmm-hmm. Uh-huh. All right. I’ll be there as soon as possible, Commish! (Sneezes) You’re welcome. Good-bye. (Puts away phone) Sorry, guys, I’ve gotta run! The Rogues are trying to steal some jewelry, and I need to stop them.

Iris: No problem, Wally. Go get them!

Joan: And be careful!

(Exit Wally)

Iris: You know, just once, I would like to have an outing that isn’t interrupted by criminals, the Rogues, telepathic gorillas, or aliens who want to take over the world.

Joan: I fully agree with you, Iris. (Pause) Would you like to go shoe shopping with me while he’s gone?

Iris: That sounds terrific, Joan.

Commercial Break!

Act IV

(Enter the Rogues, running)

Piper: (Yelling over his shoulder) Thank you for your generous donation to the poor, Mr. Englewood!

Top: Oh, that was terrific fun! I’m feeling on top of the world right now!

Heat Wave: You’re right, Top. There’s nothing like a nice heist with all of my bestest friends to give me those nice warm and fuzzy feelings.

Wizard: Tell me about it. I’m on cloud nine!

Top: What are you going to do with your money, Piper? I am going to buy a nice suit and some new tops for my collection.

Heat Wave: I’m going to buy some presents for all of my friends so that I can warm their hearts. I’m sure Captain Cold will love a new parka.

Top: I was not asking you, you imbecile.

Heat Wave: Oh. I’m sorry, Top.

Top: Just be sure it does not happen again.

Wizard: I’m going to buy me a new car so that I can finally get a girlfriend!

Top: That will never happen, Mark, and I was not asking you either.

Wizard: Well gee, thanks for destroying my ray of hope, Roscoe.

Top: Moron. (To Piper) Well, my friend? What are you going to do with your share of the loot?

Piper: I’m going to donate it to a charity for sick children. The cries of joy that will produce will be music to my ears.

Top: You are giving away your money again? (Pause) I do not believe you.

Piper: What’s so wrong about wanting to help people?

(Enter Wally)

Wally: Because you’re going about it all wrong, Piper.

Wizard: By the four seasons! It’s the Flash!

Top: Not to worry, Mardon. This one is a mere child. (To Wally) Spin.

Wally: Whoa! (Stumbles, but keeps his balance) You should become a ride at Disney World or something, Top, because you make me just as dizzy.

Heat Wave: It’s time for you to take the heat, Kid Flash! (Fires at Wally, who narrowly dodges)

Wally: No thanks!

Wizard: (Waves his wand) We’re too powerful for you to stop, Flash. Why don’t you take a rain check?

Wally: No way! Defeating a bunch of clowns like you will be a breeze!

Top: Perhaps. Then again, perhaps not. (Spins out of Wally’s way)

Heat Wave: This situation is too hot for you to handle, Flash! You should leave before you get hurt or something.

Wally: Get hurt by one of you? Yeah, right. (He sneezes, and Top grabs him from behind)

Top: You were saying?

Wizard: Nighty night, Flash. (Raises his wand, and Wally sneezes again, causing the wand to go flying out of his hand) My wand!

Wally: (Breaks free) Nice try, Mardon. (He handcuffs Wizard and Top to one another)

Heat Wave: Hey, nobody hurts my friends like that!

Wally: (Taps him on the shoulder) You need better friends. (Handcuffs him to a lamp)

Piper: Flash, I’m not going to fight you. I abhor violence, as a general rule, and I know as well as anyone that my musical hypnosis doesn’t work well on you. However, before you take me away, I want to ask you something. Mr. Englewood hardly needs more money, and everyone knows that his factories are some of the most hazardous in the country for his workers. Why is it so wrong that I take money from him and give it to children who are dying from preventable diseases because of lack of money? You can’t argue that he deserves it more than they do, and he’s wealthy enough that he won’t even miss the money we took from him. Can’t you at least let me give the money away before you take me to jail? Please?

Wally: Piper, if I’m being honest, part of me wants to let you, but here’s the thing. I can’t let you break the law in order to help people. I’m sorry.

Piper: That’s all right. You’re just doing what you were told is right. I can’t fault you for that.

(Wally handcuffs him)

Wally: A word of advice, Piper? If you really want to help the poor, and I think you do, I think you’ll find it more rewarding if you do it on the right side of the law.

(Exit Wally)

Wizard: Well, that was a bust.

Top: For once, Mardon, we agree about something.

Heat Wave: Hey, guys, look at the bright side! At least we’re all still together.

Wizard: True. Nobody can call us fair-weather friends!

Heat Wave: And you know what’s even better? When we go back to prison, we can see Captain Cold again!

Top: I’m thrilled.

Wizard: Aww, don’t be such a downer, Top. You should learn to see the silver lining.

Top: I hate you both.

Piper: (Aside) All I wanted was to give the poor justice. Why is that a crime? The idea of people like my parents helping the poor is just a pipe dream...isn’t it?

Act V

(Iris and Joan are onstage. Enter Wally)

Wally: Hi, Iris! Hi, Joan! (Sneezes)

Joan: Oh, hi, Wally. Are you all right?

Wally: I’m okay. (Sneezes) But I think you were right about me being sick. I just took my temperature, and I’m 114 degrees. (Sneezes)

Joan: 114? How are you still alive?

Wally: Because the baseline body temperature for speedsters is 107 degrees.

Joan: Oh, that’s right.

Iris: Were you able to stop the Rogues?

Wally: Yep! (Sneezes) They’re being transported back to prison now, and all the jewelry has been returned. (Sneezes)

Iris: So, what do you want to do now, Wally?

Wally: I want to go home and sleep. (Sneezes) Running around sick won’t help anything.

Iris: Yes! A hero finally sees reason!

Wally: (Sneezes) Oh, and one more thing? Would you mind (Sneezes) donating money to the Children’s Health Foundation? I have a certain….friend who would really appreciate it.

Joan: Of course we will, Wally.

Wally: Thanks. You two are the greatest! (Sneezes)

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#TWDFamily Part 4

“It’s not just fandom. It’s family.” If you are at all familiar with Walker Stalker Convention or Heroes and Villains Fan Fest, you’ve probably seen this tag line before. Though I’d seen it, I had never put much thought into what it meant until I experienced this family for myself. From attending the conventions as a fan to beginning this podcast with Kia, I have witnessed a fandom that supports each other with their whole hearts. I have seen people come together for each other in a way that can only be described as magical. Their one common thread? They love The Walking Dead and attending the conventions that celebrate their favorite show.

In this four part series, I will be chatting with many of the people that make up this family. In this final installment, we take a look at some of the amazing vendors you may see this weekend or at Walker Stalker Conventions in the future!

Meet our vendors!

Drawing of King Ezekiel by Aislinn Draws

MDG Art and Customs: mdgartandcustoms.etsy.com Illustrations and customized vinyl figures

**Benny from Benny Miller Art: **www.bennymillerart.com Artist

**Aislinn from Aislinn Draws: **aislinndraws.co.uk Prints, t-shirts, and pins of her hand-drawn fan art.

**Piper from CreepynCuteShop: **www.etsy.com/shop/CreepynCuteShop The metro Detroit-based, original, authentic, CreepynCuteShop zombie doll designers and gifters.

Ginger from Creation 13 SPFX: www.facebook.com/creation13spfx SPFX artist and creator of Monster Junkie Magazine.

Have you been a vendor at Walker Stalker Con?

Aislinn Draws: I have been a vendor twice before, at the two London Walker Stalkers. I decided to become a vendor after hearing about WSC London too late and discovering all the general admission tickets were gone. For a while, people had been suggesting I ‘do something’ with my artwork, which was just a hobby until then. So I bit the bullet, reserved a vendor table, ordered some prints and hoped for the best! It was, at the time, the best thing I had ever done. So of course I returned the next year!

The ladies of CreepynCute Shop with Danai Gurira with her custom Michonne doll

CreepynCuteShop: Yes. 3 WSC Atlanta (plus 2017, will make 4), 1 WSC London, 1 WSC NY/New Jersey, 2 WSC Chicago, and 1 WSC Orlando.

Creation 13 SPFX: Have been a vendor 2 times for Tennessee and Georgia.

Which upcoming Walker Stalker Con can we find you at? Please list your booth number (if applicable, plus any other identifying factors to help people find you.

Aislinn Draws: I’ll be at Walker Stalker Atlanta this weekend. My booth number is 119 and I’m along the row of booths facing the big entrance doors to the main convention hall. It’s a hella big place but I’m hoping that makes me a little easier to find! If you’re still stuck trying to find me, I’d recommend listening out for an excitable British accent!

MDG Art and Customs: I’ll be at booth 344.

Benny Miller Art: I attended my first Walker Stalker last year but not as a vendor. My first one will be in April at the Walker Stalker Con 2018 Chicago. I am way excited for it. It’s happening simultaneously with FanFest Heroes and Villains, but I’ll be on the Walker Stalker side. I don’t have a booth number yet, but my booth will be the one with the sweet art and the handsome, long-haired dude working it (haha).

CreepynCuteShop: WSC Atlanta 2017 and WSC Nashville 2018. For WSC Atlanta, we shall be at Booth #331. WSC Nashville booth numbers have not yet been assigned and/or released yet by WSC.

Creation 13 SPFX: My booth is 372, Creation 13 SPFX. Look for my husband standing on his soap box wearing a top hat, selling a freak show like setting zombie experience for $10.

What made you decide to become a vendor at WSC?

Custom RIchonne print by MDG Art and Customs

MDG Art and Customs: It was a moment of madness. I tend to create art that I wanna see and though I love the gore and guts and action or the lovely character portraits, I was frustrated at not finding the type of art I wanted at conventions; very specifically Richonne art. I went to 3 conventions last year and only the awesome Kirk Manley had artwork that included Michonne and Rick as a couple (that I could find, anyway) and since I’m basically obsessed with drawing the softer side of Richonne. I decided to go for it. I know there are others out there who do too, and I just wanted to share in on that.

CreepynCuteShop: We are vendors at WSC as a result of fans’ requests. We are also vendors because of our passion for all things 'The Walking Dead’ related. We love the fans and feel we are now a part of WSC Family and WSC Fandom. We are also vendors because we love to design & gift celebrities their character and/or portrait dolls in appreciation for the best entertainment they provide for the fans!!!

Custom Carl drawing by Benny Miller Art

Benny Miller Art: As for what made me become a vendor, I’ve been struggling for a while to find a niche for my art. I was kind of all over the place, but started doing portraits a few years back and found that I was decent at it. I started doing them mostly with oil paint on a large scale. They were very time consuming and labor intensive. I then stumbled upon the wonders of Copic markers, and decided to give them a whirl. I began doing smaller, gray-scale portraits with them on toned paper and just REALLY liked the effect. Plus, they took a fraction of the time. I began doing a lot of them, and before I knew it, had a collection. I had been thinking that maybe I could start selling them at cons, but my wife was the one that was really vocal about the idea and the driving force behind all of this. I have my first booth in Chicago only because of her support.

Creation 13 SPFX: I do it for the laughs, scares and experience. Hearing someone scream, “That’s Winslow,” answering questions on how to do make up to old and young. Talking with the teenagers who aspire to be makeup artists. It’s about the experience the customers walk away with.

How has the Walker Stalker Community helped to expand your business?

Aislinn Draws: Walker Stalker has helped me expand my business in that I literally did not HAVE a business before WSC came along. It has helped me to not only find a very focused audience for my work, but also to make friends who support my work both financially and through moral support. One friend in particular, Heather, is someone who I quite honestly would not have been able to do this without.

Benny Miller Art: Through Walker Stalker, my wife has met a number of incredibly generous and supportive people who helped us figure out the vendor process, giving us ideas for sales, how to advertise, quantity of product, how to display, and just about everything else involved with this. My first customers were also people from Walker Stalker, and the whole community has just been so supportive and wonderful. There are just some really incredibly generous people involved in this whole thing.

**CreepynCuteShop: **

The WSC community, family, and fandom have helped expand our very 'organic’ business by welcoming us and our “Share the Love” mission & motto. They have also helped by sharing our business name on their website, sharing social media posts, and sharing some of our doll gifting experiences where we have gifted character and/or portrait dolls to various celebrities.

Creation 13 SPFX

Creation 13 SPFX: Walker Stalker Con has helped expand my business by letting the public see me and my magazine. I have also been introduced to new artists causing new issues for the magazine. I am able to advertise for other booths. I do it for free. Art is to be shared, not hidden. I suffer from anxiety disorder. Walker Stalker has helped me interact and somewhat helped me deal with understanding my limits and how to fight it off and enjoy the beautiful souls around me.

What do you love most about Walker Stalker Con?

Aislinn Draws: The people! Not even the celebrities - as great as they are - but the other attendees, vendors and staff. If I scroll back through my inbox, about 90% of my recent messages are from people I’ve met through Walker Stalker. I went to Atlanta last year as an attendee knowing not a single person, and I return this year with over thirty different friends to reunite with!

MDG Art and Customs: I love everything. There’s art, there’s cosplay, there’s Andrew Lincoln spending his precious Sunday taking photos with us and it’s all about The Walking Dead. If you’re lucky, you might get to tell your favorite actor how much the work they do means to you. You get to meet up with friends you might not see all year round otherwise; you make new ones. It’s like one big family reunion….with family you actually want to spend time with!

Benny Miller Art: It’s got to be the people. My wife and I have met so many supportive, creative, and just all around incredible people. I think my wife talks to her Walker Stalker family more than she talks to her real family. I know she’s made some life long friends and they’ve all extended such wonderful acts of kindness to us and our family. I remember before our first Walker Stalker, we were really unsure of what to do and needed some general guidance on the workings of it. A complete stranger, Heather, messaged my wife on a message board and told her “you can call me, I promise I’m not a weirdo.” It’s a year later and they talk on the phone daily, along with a number of other friends my wife made there. I feel really fortunate to have such a huge number of supportive and generous people in our lives. Who would have thought that such a family could be created from a mutual love of zombies!!!

CreepynCuteShop: The fans, the celebrities, the overall convention experience, and especially the hugs, smiles and out pouring of love!!!

Creation 13 SPFX: James and Robin get all these amazing actresses and actors under one roof for so many to express love to, take pictures with, and share the positive energy experience. And of course, the Walker Stalker Con fans. Watching children cry in love, not horror, when they see a hero character. The respect and love the actors and actresses give to strangers, thanking them for enjoying the work they do is great to see.