#young jonathan davis

[gaykornography]

bitch of the band

[giantsorcowboys]

Tuesday's Titan 💪🏻👱🏼‍♂️💪🏻

Anybody For Some Arm Curls?💪🏻👱🏼‍♂️💪🏻🏋🏻‍♂️🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔥😍🔥😍🔥

Woof, Baby! 🌶🌶🌶

[myb4llsyourch1n]

Type shit I've been on

[bawltongue]

[demifiendrsa]

Alien: Earth | Official Teaser - Destination | FX

The Alien TV series, Alien: Earth, will premiere on Hulu in Summer 2025.

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Head and Jonathan drawing ♡☆

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[igotmyhashpipee]

im a poll monster now

I feel like realistically I only would've gone for friday and saturday, but everyone who went for sunday too are badasses frfr

[footballmanageraddict]

Rewriting Bolton History | Part 4 | Jääskeläinen Inspires Record-Breaking Defence

#FM24 Rewriting Bolton History Part 4: Jääskeläinen Inspires Record-Breaking Defence. A new record 26 clean sheets, plus Gareth Bale joining Nicolas Anelka in attack, sees #BWFC push Chelsea all the way in the #PremierLeague title race. Read here:

A historic season at Reebok Stadium saw Bolton Wanderers tie their all-time record league finish and reach a first European Final. So things were on the up for Trebor Mahtal as he usurped Big Sam Allardyce’s achievements within two seasons. Those successes saw Bolton begin Mahtal’s third season with £162m in the bank and a £98m transfer kitty. Mahtal knew he needed to put that money to work to…

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 1/7/2025

in which we embark upon a progamme of reading for our edification

listening

this was the first song of the year-- felt a little melancholy and a lot sleepy after watching the first movie of the year and this fit the vibe.

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reading

as a user, i think the magic link system is very annoying, but i also get that they don't want to fuck around with holding and protecting user data. they have been very firm but polite about various bells and whistles people want added to their site that do not contribute to their main goal of reporting various news beats. i DO really appreciate how they put in the time to create a private RSS feed for subscribers with the full text of all the articles so you don't have to log in with the magic link every time, or rather i will really appreciate this once i have a job and can subscribe.

i need to set myself a project and i keep forgetting i moved all this vintage gay and lesbian erotica from massachusetts down to texas with me, so we're going to read one a week until i get bored or we (heaven forbid) run out of gay or lesbian erotica.

the second purpose, and look, i hate the word normalized, but texas politicians are constantly working themselves into a screaming froth about protecting children from gay sex and gay books. i think we can look at various gay sex books each week in a calm and reasonable manner and ask the normal questions i try to ask of every work discussed in the tuesdayposts. since moving, my instinct is to be more stealth and less visibly gay, which is not the way i would like to live. this is the absolute babiest of baby steps since the tuesdayposts (to date) have never put me in any physical danger.

the main questions i will be trying to answer each week are:

is there anything cool about the physical object?

what's the author's deal?

did i like it/did it deliver on its premise?

the sex?

i don't know. chime in if there's some fifth thing you want regularly answered?

this is a 1997 british-printed perfect-bound paperback by The Gay Men's Press (a short history by one of the founders here). i'm not sure if this copy had ever been read, because i managed to break the spine in a very ugly way while trying to gently break the book in. this is either from a goodwill just over the border in ct or from bookends in florence (which you should go visit if you're ever in western ma, one of the few brick and mortar lesbian bookstores in the country).

not for me but i appreciate what it is and what it's trying to do. i have very rarely read something so clearly written by an author for an audience of themselves.

Growing up at a coaching inn on the Great North Road in the early 1700s, young Davy Gadd is enthralled by tales of the greatest of highwaymen, Claude Duval. Seeking his fortune in London, he is entangled in the machinations of Under City Marshal Charles Hitchin and the infamous Jonathan Wild, in their battle to divide up the spoils of the criminal underworld. At last, equipped with horse, pistols and velvet mask, he sets out as a Gentleman of the Road. But not before he has been loved by a Jacobite lord, dressed up by Lucinda and Aunty Mary, and been married at Mother Clap's Molly House. And at the end of the road, will he Pass into Legend, or does his fate lead to Tyburn tree, where so many glamorous adventurers have been hanged?

i think i would have enjoyed this book more if i were a gay man, really into daniel defoe, stuart restoration/early georgian england or very specific bits of historic london nightlife history. there are three hundred and sixty eight of god's own pages and we certainly do meander. it is a little bit of a slog in the dissatisfied middle portion of our hero Davy's young adulthood, but you are rewarded for sticking with it by all the important threads getting neatly tied off. it wraps up nicely if bittersweetly. the ending deals with community and vulnerability in a way that makes sense for a book written by a gay man in 1997. i wish i could explain my thoughts on this better. i think it is a perfectly fine ending that suits the book but again, overall, the book is not for me.

there is period-typical homophobia and gay bashing, but very little of it actually affects Davy. he is generally in fear for his life bc of some crime he committed unrelated to being gay. i think this is a pretty sensible way to make sure your historically accurate novel remains fairly historically accurate without being a fucking downer to write and read. on a related dealbreaker for many people, there is a good deal of phonetic dialect in this book, although it is mostly relegated to dialogue and slangy or shortened forms of words in dialogue spoken by people more connected to the criminal underclass.

i wrote all that and then i had to employ some stringent search techniques to find out anything about the author, who was not a very public person, and his feelings about homophobia vs historical accuracy. about three quarters of the way through this 1997 article about gay fiction from The Independent (interview conducted by letter!) we discover he also considers this a fine line to walk, and perhaps the only paragraph on the internet about his background

"The greatest influences on my writing to begin with were the swashbuckling films which I saw as a child in the Fifties," he says. "Errol Flynn and Stewart Grainger were particular heroes. Also around that time, John Buchan, whose Richard Hannay says, 'I have always had a boy's weakness for a yarn.' Later I acquired an English degree, and was influenced by medieval and Elizabethan literature, Thomas Hardy, Dickens, various historical novelists, Mary Renault and Daphne du Maurier."

"but kay, what about the sex?" my dear readers are probably crying out right now. i don't think this is a great book to jerk off to, even if you are a gay man and not a bisexual woman with the briefest passing familiarity about various periods of english history. davy fucks, a lot, don't get me wrong-- the fucks are not generally instrumental in driving the plot forward or delivering cool facts about london so they're all quite short, usually less than a page.

i don't know if including an example of a sex scene is interesting or useful information to anyone else but it feels strange Not to include it in a reading project about gay and lesbian erotica? gentle reader, i would love to hear your thoughts

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watching

at about 11:30 PM on new year's eve i like to start a new-to-me black and white classic film to take me into the new year. this year's was Filibus (1915, dir. Roncoroni, widely available in various niceties of restoration)

summary from wiki:

Filibus is a 1915 Italian silent adventure film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by the future science fiction author Giovanni Bertinetti (it). It features Valeria Creti (fr) as the title character, a mysterious sky pirate who makes daring heists with her technologically advanced airship. When an esteemed detective sets out on her trail, she begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with him, slipping between various male and female identities to romance the detective's sister and stage a midnight theft of a pair of valuable diamonds.

i found out about this film through the @hotvintagepoll scrungly poll, and i think Valeria Creti should have gone all the fuckin way. girl hobbyist detective/nobleman by day, gadget-loving gentleman thief by night. i support women's wrongs, and she causes so so many of them on purpose. there are some things that carbon date a film, like russian antagonists or gland problems, and this film is carbon dated by sleepwalking as a serious psychological event. she comes very close to taking a detective completely out of the policing game by drugging him and staging elaborate series of events to plant evidence that he did all her crimes while sleepwalking.

she LOVES being in boy mode and she's very good at it! it's never treated as a joke! she stages a rescue of the detective's sister in order to gain access to his house, but then the actual building of the relationship and courtship is completely on her own merits and charm!

this is a charming (if poorly paced for viewing all in one sitting) early gay serial film. if i saw this in the cinema in 1915 i would have been institutionalized for imitating filibus

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playing

genshin is not feeling as jazzy or fun lately. i think i have two issues. one is that Fontaine, the last major nation's main questline was a truly delightfully crafted (and fair! we had all the pieces just not all the context) murder mystery with a lot of lore. this nation, Natlan, is functionally a sports anime. not that one genre is better or more complex than the other, it's just. different. and recalibrating my expectations has been a little wonky.

the second kind of weird calibration thing is the rate of additions to the world map. genshin runs on a six-week update cycle, where every six weeks you get something major and new to progress the game story. usually there are nine patches, starting at X.0 and going up to X.8. you iterate up a full number with major patches introducing a new land, so with the introduction of Natlan we started the 5.X patch cycle and left Fontaine's 4.X cycle behind.

this is important bc there's usually there's new and fun and exciting stuff and puzzles to solve and new challenges only when they add to the map. in the 5.X patch cycle, there have only been two map expansions: one in 5.0 introducing the land, and one addition about doubling the map in 5.2. 5.3 dropped last week, where the main storyline of the nation typically wraps itself up in the last map update and then we get to fuck around in bonus areas or seasonal events. for example, in the last three nations, so from updates 2.0-4.2, there are typically three big map updates in a row that unlock the entire base map of whatever country we're in, no new map content for a patch, a new bonus area related to whatever area we're in, another break, and then a seasonal map, and then three more updates with no new maps but new events or new battle modes. for natlan, we're essentially "behind" unlocking a chunk of the map.

let's go to the maps: the last nation Fontaine's first introduction in 4.0 (these are all from IGN, they are not to scale with each other):

the second update in 4.1:

the third and final main map update in 4.2:

introduction of natlan in 5.0 on the right (these two screenshots i took are to scale with each other), no underwater regions or major underground areas in this one:

no map update in 5.1. second major map update in 5.2 on the left here, still no major underwater or underground regions. we are currently in 5.3 with no map update, with maybe the third and final map update in 5.4?

again, the problem with No New Map is that typically in genshin you go to new places to unlock more of the story. we're "behind" a map update, if you will. they've kind of shoehorned new story into existing map, and shoehorned new bosses into the existing map, which is very strange and makes the nation feel so much smaller and more limited than other nations.

it feels a lot like part of the map update we got in 4.2, ochkanatlan, an abandoned island city somewhat removed from the rest of the map, was supposed to be the bonus area map, but they didn't have enough ready? the 4.2 update also felt very medium sized- at this point in Fontaine we'd unlocked the Fortress and Institute, which really blow the dragon city right off the island with regards to complexity of exploration and length of quests. it's not really anywhere near the complexity or length of the first desert map expansion in Sumeru, which was honestly a really crazy thing to drop all at once. i will not be putting more nation map screenshots up here bc of the image limit but the desert in sumeru is ENORMOUS and it has an equally enormous underground labyrinth!

not my favorite nation so far! a little bit of it is recency bias bc Fontaine was SO good and is overall my favorite, but it feels off lately. i don't know if the really punishing every six weeks updates are finally catching up to the parent company, or if they're really deep in preproduction for the next land (it Feels like they're going to split the next land into two different X.0 update cycles. there's a lot of chatter in game from NPCs about how different and weird the next port is compared to the rest of the country. i could easily see them building that out to two major updates like natlan and then saving the bulk of the country for the next X.0 update in another year).

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making

bathrobe surgery under the armhole.

ive had this red/black/blue tattersall plaid in light cotton since high school, best guesstimate based on the tag style is early to mid sixties?

this thing is Solid. it is perhaps the most nicely constructed garment i own. every seam is a narrow, tidy french seam. the underside of the collar is lightly quilted to give it some body and make it stay down, and it has a facing over the top to make it look not quilted from the front. it has The best waist tie arrangement i've ever seen, with a tiny strap on the underside of the tie to permanently hold it to the belt loops but still give you a little bit of play.

it is so beloved that it's starting to completely wear through on the shoulders, and i have to think about how to patch it without losing any of the light breathable qualities i love it so much for.

[hedonistbyheart]

I just saw an acting showcase of George Rexstrew's (written by Russell T. Davies, fun fact!) And now I desperately want to see George play Jonathan Harker!

He would do so well with the mix of determination, curiosity and damsel in distress required of a good Jonathan. Also, that precise RP accent and guileless look is perfect for the young solicitor.

Is it a bit type cast? Sure, but it would be So Good!

[gaykornography]

Jonathan had a thing for guns

even back in the day

[marleneoftheopera]

Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

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Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

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got bored before school so i’m doing Eric’s AOL survey

1. ⁠Full name: V

2. ⁠Nicknames: nope

3. ⁠Birthplace: southern area of america

4. ⁠Birthday: 12/27

5. ⁠Where Do You Live Now?: same place i was born

6. ⁠Parent(s): mom and dad, divorced, both of them have new partners who i see frequently

7. ⁠Sibling(s): 2 sisters, 3 brothers

8. ⁠Looks: 5’1, 89 lbs, super awkward posture, chin length hair w/ layers and glasses

9. ⁠Favorite Animal(s): cats

10. ⁠Favorite TV Show(s): i don’t watch tv

11. ⁠Favorite Kind(s) Of Music: industrial or pretty much any genre of metal

12. ⁠Favorite Movie(s): edward scissor hands

13. ⁠School: hell

14. ⁠Future School: none

15. ⁠Future Job: body piercer

16. ⁠Boyfriend/Girlfriend: boyfriend

17. ⁠Best Buds: my boyfriend, another friend i’m keeping unnamed, and a few tumblr moots

18. ⁠Favorite Candy: i’m not huge on candy but i like chocolate, slim jim’s are good too,,,,

19. ⁠Hobbies: playing video games such as doom or ddr, drawing when i rarely feel like it, writing, playing w my cat

20. ⁠Things You Collect: knives, plushies, any little trinket tbh

21. ⁠Do You Have A Personal Phone Line: phone, i want to get a computer soon

22. ⁠Favorite Body Part Of The Opposite Sex.? i don’t like girls so idk, hair is always pretty but i don’t think that’s a body part

23. ⁠Any Tattoos And Where Of What?: no tattoos yet, im planning on getting a symbols (kmfdm album) tattoo and a spider tattoo

24. ⁠Piercing(s) And Where?: only my ears, i don’t wear earrings often though

25. ⁠What Do You Sleep in?: big ass shirt

26. ⁠Do you like Chain Letters: they piss me off

27. ⁠Best Advice: take risks, don’t be a pussy like me

28. ⁠Favorite Quotes: i don’t quote anything other than songs so just imagine a bunch of kmfdm quotes

29. ⁠Non-sport Activity You Enjoy: video games and listening to music

30. ⁠Dream Car: black 1970 ford

31. ⁠Favorite Thing To Do In Spring: going on walks in the woods

32. ⁠What’s Your Bedtime: 10:00 on weekdays

33. ⁠Where Do You Shop?: wherever i feel like it, i like spencer’s a lot

34. ⁠Coke or Pepsi: pepsi

35. ⁠Favorite Thing(s) To Wear?: baggy shirts, baggy shorts, spiked bracelets

36. ⁠Favorite Subject(s) In School?: art

37. ⁠Favorite Color(s): black and purple

38. ⁠Favorite People To Talk To Online: my boyfriend and tumblr moots

39. ⁠Root-Beer or Dr. Pepper? dr pepper

40. ⁠Do You Shave? when i feel like it

41. ⁠Favorite Vacation Spot(s): anywhere in the mountains, even though phone service SUCKS in those areas

42. ⁠Favorite Family Member(s): any of my siblings

43. ⁠Did You Eat Paint Chips When You Were a Kid? as in peeling paint???? no?? i ate playground rocks though

44. ⁠Favorite CD you own: my kmfdm shirt

45. ⁠The ONE Person Who You Hate The Most: my stupid yearbook teacher

46. ⁠Favorite Food(s): Veggie straws, beef jerky, sunflower seeds

47. ⁠Who Is The Hottest Guy or Girl In The World?: jonathan davis (young AND old)

48. ⁠What Is Your Favorite Salad Dressing?: i don’t eat salad

49. ⁠When You Die, Do You Wanna Be Buried or Burned Into Ashes? either or, doesn’t matter to me

50. ⁠Do You Believe In Aliens?: fuck yes

51. ⁠If You Had The Chance To Professionally Do Something, What would You Do?: sleeping

52. ⁠Things You Obsess Over: my looks

53. ⁠Favorite Day of the Week: saturday

54. ⁠A Teacher You Hate: my yearbook teacher i hope she ROTS

55. ⁠Favorite Disney Movie: the lion king

56. ⁠What Is Your Favorite Season? fall and the very early stages of spring

57. ⁠What Toppings Do You Like On Your Pizza? pepperoni, olives, green peppers

58. ⁠Do You Like Your School Food Itself (As In The District Food): eehhh some things are edible i guess, the pizza smacks down though

59. ⁠If You Could Live Anywhere, Where Would You Live? colorado, no not because of e and d ive wanted to live there for years

60. ⁠Favorite Thing(s) To Do On Weekends: go to the arcade, go on walks in the woods, or just sleep

61. ⁠Favorite Thing(s) To Get Clean up: excuse me?? as in things i like to clean??? cleaning my room makes me feel nice i guess

62. ⁠Favorite Magazine(s): i don’t read them

63. ⁠Favorite Flower(s): spider lillies

64. ⁠Favorite Number(s): 2

65. ⁠Favorite Ice Cream flavor(s): cookie dough, pistachio, mint choc

66. ⁠What Kind of Guys/Girls Are You Attracted to?: any of em, just don’t be a prick

67. ⁠What’s Your Most Embarrassing Moment? who knows i’ve done a bunch of embarrassing shit

68. ⁠If You Could Change One Thing About Yourself What Would It be? getting rid of my acne or make myself more calm, collected, and confident

69. ⁠Do You Eat Breakfast First Then Brush Your Teeth or Brush first ten eat breakfast: i eat breakfast and then i brush my teeth

70. ⁠Favorite Time of Day: 12 am

71. ⁠Can A Guy and Girl Be Just “Best Friends?”: sure

72. ⁠Do You Ask The Girl / Guy Out Or Do You Wait For Them To Come To You?: i wait

73. ⁠Do You Mind Paying For Sex? sex disgusts me

74. ⁠What’s The Most Important thing In Someone’s Personality: compassion

75. ⁠Do you have a pager or cell phone? what

76. ⁠Favorite Sport: fuck sports

77. ⁠What Was the Best Gift You Ever Received? my gengar squishmallow

78. ⁠How Long Did This Letter Take You To Finish?: maybe like 30 minutes idk

79. ⁠What Did You Listen To While Completing It?: jack shit

80. ⁠Are you or would you like to be married in the near future (next 5 years)? depends

81. ⁠Don’t u just hate how psychics never win the lottery? what are you even asking me here

[bawltongue]

Jon and Head <3

[demifiendrsa]

Alien: Earth | Official Teaser

The Alien TV series, Alien: Earth, will premiere on Hulu in 2025.

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