#themothers

[onlineviolence]

I need to see gmail lighting a blunt on sisyphus's head please you painted an image into my head that NEEDS to become real. I beg of yee

:3

[ringleaderising]

My my those eyes like fire // I'm a winged insect // you're a funeral pyre.

As with all art I get I require a backup post, so here's my dragon OC Starling and my friend Cotton's Moth by the incredible Razrroth over on FR! I am absolutely over the moon, I've been looking at them since i got these back and I'm literally vibrating with affection for my knife hucking son and his mean pirate boyfriend.

[shahhrriar]

god!

[idontevenlistentomitski]

Just reminding you all that canonically this is the last year Tracy McConnell is still alive

[swimmingpoolsandmoviestars]

I told this story at The Moth's Snooping show on 5/7:

Last year I reported a story for a local NPR station about a Wedding Chapel in Long Beach. We’d been getting these press releases from the chapel’s owner and self proclaimed celebrity wedding officiant, Allan Katz, announcing he was going to offer $14 marriage packages on Valentine’s Day. You’d get married, you’d get some flowers and a photo shoot. All for less than twenty bucks.

Something you should probably know about me is I am always down for the weird. So, the more he kept sending these grammatically incorrect messy press releases written in the third person, the more I needed to know who this guy was. And what kind of person gets $14 married. It took some convincing to get my editor to agree because she was not typically the kind of person down for the weird, but eventually she gave in. So, bright and early Valentine’s morning I headed to Long Beach in a blue Vivienne Westwood dress with a full skirt, because if you’re going to attend people’s weddings, you should totally dress up, right? And I get my gear set up just as people start coming in. 

Self proclaimed celebrity wedding officiant Allan Katz is there and he is larger than life. He’s like 6 foot 4 with a big paunch and he’s wearing a red suit jacket with white hearts and a matching tie and white pants. He’s loud, he’s excited, he tells the same hack-y jokes at every ceremony I watch. He is exactly the kind of weird I was hoping for.

Then there’s the first couple of the day, I’ll call them Chad and Laura. They told me they'd been together for five years and thought they’d take the deal and then have a bigger ceremony later with their families. Laura had picked up a sleeveless white lacy number at David’s Bridal the day before, Chad was in a grey suit. They had no guests. Laura said she liked it that way, thought it was more intimate with just the two of them. Let’s remember that bit for later.

Next up were a couple of personal trainers who had taken a white stretch limo to the chapel from Redondo Beach with their dogs and some friends. They were very fit. She was from Sweden and needed a green card, was sporting a spray tan, a see-through white dress with a visible bright white thong underneath and a pair of red suede booties, he was in a black suit. Their dogs were also in wedding attire. And this is more like what I had been expecting.

Then a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend were up! Their families seemed like they were more excited about the baby on the way than the wedding of it all, but they’d been together since high school and looked pretty happy and in love to me. They also brought a dog in a tuxedo.

At this point I felt like I’d found out what kind of people get $14 married. So, I reported live from the field and then called it a day.

Cut to a month later in March, when Chad, from the first couple of the day, sends an email to the website demanding that his and Laura’s names be taken off the story. We can keep the pics up, but could we please change their names to something wacky like Chaz and Endora? I tried to email back to say “Uh, no” but he had written from a burner email so it just bounced back, which was curious.

A little more time goes by and in April I get a message on LinkedIn from a woman I don’t know––we’ll call her Candy––saying something like: Thanks for adding me. I have a strange question to ask, I saw your Valentine’s story and was wondering if all the stories were true and if all the couples were really there that day. Yeah. I guess she’d been dating Chad for a few months until, while doing some internet sleuthing, she saw the wedding article and had broken up with him after he gave her some line about how it’d been recorded months earlier for a promotion. Candy did not buy that. I super wanted to know more, but I just replied: "Hey, I reported that live on Valentine’s Day, hope this is helpful.” She thanked me, we haven’t talked since.

Cut to May, Chad writes back AGAIN. But this time he’s a little angrier and he demands the entire story come down, not just a name change. But he wrote from a burner email again, so, my email bounces back again. Finally, a couple weeks later, Chad writes from a real address and says he works “in legal” specifically “confidentiality and privacy” and asked for my point of contact in the legal department. And now I, like Candy, am super curious about this dirtbag. I do some digging. Turns out, he is actually a “product manager” at Chipotle. So I loop my editor in, because this is just getting bananas, and she writes Chad back a long treatise on how journalism ethics work and why she won’t be taking his name off the internet. Never heard from him again.

You probably want some closure. Are Laura and Chad still married? Did she find out about Candy? Well, he hasn’t posted on social media since 2020 and her name is too common to Google, so we may never know. But on LinkedIn, I do see that Chad, who works “in legal” is still in his project manager position at Chipotle. And though unresolved, I have to say this story definitely gave me the weird I was looking for and then some.

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Someone's watching The Mother (2023)

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#NowWatching The Mother (2023)

[hekkoto]

The Mother, High Priestess of Crystal Temple! Here comes one of Creators, beings who created universe of Terroether! Damn, Im so excited to finally be able post this! Damn, so soooooooo many months passed >XD yeah, one of my arts for my diploma work!

BIG UPDATE: Yo, Im speedrunning getting job as game tester ;p not gonna lie, Im just amazed that they seem to want me so much that it goes so fast! I hope background check will go right and I will get that job haha It was such nice feeling to see my recruiter to be amazed with my knowledge ;p not gonna lie, I have a lot of experience and knowledge in that field cause I do related stuff since years ahahaha If I get this job that means I will have way less time for art. So yeah, I gonna push it to the side a bit but donut worry, I feel like getting job might increase my productivity + Im person who takes sketchbook everywhere so I guess expect a lot of traditional works? ;D we will see how exactly this will work but yeah, I guess stuff might slow down. I will be still working on my big upcoming projects like my universe and comic set in its world, I started working on some vid game. And many more ;p I will make some changes, probably less uploads or less 'big' arts uploads and more sketchy like ones. But we will see!

Damn, last week brough so many changes to my life o.o its....odd. But I feel more calm now. Less stressed that stuff might fall apart. I archived a lot and Im proud of myself

I wanna thank you a lot for your support <3 especially lately, I wasnt too active cause so much was happening but I still was getting love from you uwu

wanna support my evil dark empire? Im accepting souls on Patreon and Ko-fi! -> Hekkoto Huge thanks to all of my Patrons and people who donate 🖤

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

"Flickering Dreams" Episode 15: reviews of 6 films (incl. Beau is Afraid and Are You There God...?).

Episode 15 of the Flickering Dreams podcast and Bob, Scott, Andy & Emma: review Beau is Afraid; Are You There God? ... ; Still; Book Club 2; Dead Shot & The Mother.

In Episode 15 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Scott Forbes of the Forbes Film & TV Reviews (https://www.facebook.com/theforbesfilmreview) and a new recruite – Emma Sewell of Emma@The Movies (https://twitter.com/EmmaAtTheMovies) . In this episode Bob, Scott, Emma and Andy review the following films: “Beau is Afraid”: the latest Ari Aster…

[onlineviolence]

I gift you a bug

He has a pink filter because he wanted to feel cute

Do you like his mustache?

i love his mustache

[welcometohomeworld]

The Mother- Abyss Black . I really wanted to draw her, I always use her in rp, but I never really draw her

[ringleaderising]

The Starling spreads their wings, the Moth is Pulling their strings- One final flight for vanity...

Friendship is making expensive money moves with your friend and then doing the digital equivalent of slapping your barbies into each other and making kiss kiss noises.

Starling and Moth are both fully gened G1s that my friend SweetCotton and I are roleplaying/writing paired lore for together! Starling is a Lanternkeeper, an escapee from a clan based in the Blacksand Annex that sought to have him mind the fire of their grand beacon for his entire life- a task he found grating, and above all else- half fulfilling, as unlike his predecessor, his Charge lies not with the flame of the beacon, but somewhere else- an urge that would send him from his home in the Annex into the company of the sideshow associated with Vaudemire Way.

But things of value always have their price in treasure, and Moth and his crew are quickly hired to bring the Starling home, a pirate-con-mercenary convinced at first this is a matter of a stolen bird. Their first meeting occurs in the canvas walls of a circus- and establishes for Starling exactly what his charge is- the very bounty hunter sent to drag him back into the hum-drum life of boredom he'd tried so terribly hard to escape.

[shahhrriar]

possessive daTe

[wherever-i-look-blog]

The Mother (2023) - Movie Review and Summary (with Spoilers)

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First look at The Mother

A new trailer has been released for The Mother, which is set to release May 12, 2023.

A military-trained assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she's never met from ruthless criminals gunning for revenge.