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Chamberlain Park

#DoodlewashOctober2022 prompt: Cliff. #Inktober prompt: Bluff. Did you know that a cliff has a vertical face while a bluff has a slanted face? This is one of the beautiful views of the Columbia Gorge to be found at the Chamberlain Park rest area in Washington. Hahnemühle Rough Harmony Watercolor paper Zebra Zensations Technical Pen Supervision Watercolors Image inspiration – my own…

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in between building and trying not to drive myself crazy with my indecisiveness, i've been populating my save with men™

adam bardot, 27: local fuccboi, usually spotted at the boba shop shooting his shot with the vendor

barry king, 72: self-made millionaire (or so he claims), owns the 'kingpin gentlemen's club' in del sol valley. he's lowkey forcing his son to take over the business after his retirement

bryn chamberlain, 22: youngest of 4 siblings. he makes bank on simhub but his parents believe he's simply tipped well at the fancy seafood restaurant in downtown san sequoia 🤷

houston morrisey, 26: lowkey has anger issues and denies it while being argumentative and angry... an amazing photographer, loves media production and any music genre as long as it can be played loudly. always in competition with his best friend shayne

jaxon guzman, 31: kinda unhinged, you just don't know what goes on in that mind of his. freaks out customers works at a marijuana dispensary in del sol valley and has a gf that's equally unhinged

kevin offerman, 25: studies early childhood development at ubrite, loves 2000's pop music, green tea and cozy video games. he's also hope and jamison's nanny 🤍

kieran panzacola, 33: looks tough bc he is. definitely the strong and silent type but has a super soft spot for his puppy maddie ;-;

kristian wang, 21: lifestyle influencer from san myshuno, rarely interacts with sims not in his social circle. claims to be humble and down to earth while bragging about purchasing his first home at 19

myles cook, 26: has tons of friends, the guy to go to if you wanna know where the best parties are. lost count of the amount of piercings he has but wants more smh (if you can't tell i love my alt boys sm)

noel easley, 20: lives solely on ramen, granola bars and mcdonald's french fries. very easy going, is absolutely loved by his friends and peers. he's also an expert at crochet and sells his creations on plopsy! (pls buy a hat he needs more fries)

prof. cliff woodruff, 55: foxbury's renowned robotics professor, divorcee, father of 2 and sugar daddy. 👀

shayne goins, 25: friendly but mysterious, wants to be a rockstar when he grows up, has 3 unrequited love interests bc of his fear of vulnerability and commitment :((( always in competition with his best friend houston

#the sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 #i miss writing so i gave them all descriptions if you're interested hehe #and yes i'm still obsessed with giving all my sims piercings

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Narnia Fic Recs - Golden Age

I’m starting a short fic rec series to spread some love for Narnia authors, they aren’t in any sort of order other than the really long ones are on the bottom.

A lot of these stories are on ff.net which I know is a pain of a site to use, however, I sorted through a lot of Narnia fics to find these and I think they deserve some love. I did check if anything was on ao3 and put that link instead if I could find it. Please give these authors some love, kudos, favorites, comments, etc. They’re all great and it’s always fun to find older fics!

If y’all have any fic recs you can send them my way, or if you know if any of these authors are on tumblr let me know. I’ll be releasing more rec lists sorted roughly by era so look out for those under #lillys fic recs

The Silver Crown by todreaminscarlet

Rated Gen, 1.5k words

A conversation between Edmund and Susan late at night after their coronation.

A Very Taxing Christmas Eve by acacia59601

Rated K+, 2.5k words

One of my favorite fics, Peter is just trying to figure out things like Taxes for Narnia on Christmas Eve and he ends up having a good talk with Father Christmas.

In Dangerous Places by ilysia

Rated K+, 6k words

Edmund gets captured but they don’t know who he is, so he’s trying to get out without them figuring out exactly who they have.

The Dream Dasher by Thalion King’s Daughter

Rating K+, 21.5k words

Okay so this is definitely crack, it’s basically a Mary Sue trying to win Peter’s heart despite the very clear signals that he’s not interested. Based on a document Edmund makes in Elecktrum’s They Also Serve that forbids anyone who marries one of the four from actually gaining a title or right to the throne. She has good character growth though and by the end she’s not an annoying mary sue.

Neville the Chamberlin by Elecktrum

Rated Gen, 10k words

A fun, silly fic focusing on Neville, a new Hyena member of the court of Cair Paravel trying to find a place for himself. It’s written in letter form and shows the siblings from an outside perspective as they try to find a temporary chamberlain and fail, a lot. Part of the series by Elecktrum but can be read alone.

Only Children by Thalion King’s Daughter

Rating K, 74k words

I’m normally very wary of OC centered fics, but this one is great. Set in Elecktrum’s world from series Sword and Shield, Jewel and Song, Peridan (from A Horse and His Boy) comes to Narnia with his family, including his sons Jaer and Jaerin. They are similar ages to Edmund and Lucy and show an interesting perspective on the Narnian court and the beginning of the Golden Age. All the characters are very 3D and fun to read about. It’s technically not finished, but doesn’t end on a cliff hanger and since it feels a bit more ‘a day in the life’ it’s not too bad.

Kingdoms Come by Adalet

Rated K+, 132k words

I haven’t read this one in a while, but it’s another good Pevensies sorting out Narnia, fixing the mess the White Witch left, calling back all the people fled 100 years ago, and generally figuring out how to be Kings and Queens.

Carpetbaggers by cofax

Rated Gen, 119k words

Starting right after the coronation festivities, the siblings have to figure out how to help Narnia and how to find their place in this new world. As they travel around Narnia they meet lots of different groups and dealing with some of the witches army. The side characters are great, and the magical connection that the siblings form with the land is also wonderful. Lots of just hard work to build the kingdom in a very satisfying way.

Black Dwarves, Blue River by Elecktrum

Rated Gen, 53.5k words

In the first year of their reign, Edmund goes to visit a very stubborn clan of black dwarves. It has great side characters, great worldbuilding for Narnian customs and culture, and Edmund being sassy and stubborn in return while really settling into being King. The other Pevensies feature a bit but it’s really about Edmund. Also has some fun blacksmithing info if you’re curious about that kind of thing. Part of the series by Elecktrum but can be read alone.

Sword and Shield, Jewel and Song by @elecktrum

Rated G-T, 26 Works

Okay so this series is really great for world building, the basic premise is just that the golden age longer than a lot of people think, a couple decades instead of 15 years. Most fics are still set early in the Golden Age (a few are set in the other eras or after), as the siblings are figuring out how to lead and also rebuild from the destruction of the witch. Most of the fics can be read as stand alones, are less than 10k, and don’t even have to be read in order.

A few should be read in order like: Into the West, which is one of the novel length fics with a companion called They Also Serve where Peter journey’s west to undo the Witches’ magic attacking Edmund, lots of adventure and angst between the two. Black Dwarves, Blue River now has a companion sequel called Belana, both are about Edmund trying to gain the good will of a dwarven clan and getting to know Narnia. Thole is another novel length fic about the giants invading and capturing Peter which has a kind of epilouge/transition sequel A Blessing of Rain. The whole series has amazing world building, great characterization, and wonderfully complex side characters. I really enjoy how the series dives into the interactions between creatures and humans, while also acknowledging the magic of Narnia.

Shipping Fics - I generally don’t really read shipping fics for Narnia, but these ones were fun. I’m currently finding new fics, so I might make a separate list for shipping fics eventually.

To Seek a Newer World by Francienyc

Rated T, 133.5k words

A Peridan/Edmund fic that has some really interesting world building for the Lone Islands and the start of Narnia’s reign. I really like Peridan in this, he’s very interesting. There is blatant external homophobia though so be aware of that, as well as a lot of fear from Peridan. Lots of pining and a solid slowburn between them. It does cover the events of Horse and His Boy, but from the Narnian side, obviously.

A Tenuous Alliance by platinum_firebird

Rated T, 8.5k words

AU where the Telmarines have a strong empire during the Golden Age and Caspian gets an arranged marriage with Edmund. Overall cute and fun to see the siblings and Caspian trying to figure each other out.

#narnia #fic recs #golden age #fanfiction #lillys fic recs

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Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 15x01 Back and to the Future

“This is the last season?” Yup. Our blog is almost over

“Hopefully it’s the end of that cocksucker. I’m done staring at Nick/Lucifer. Early seasons Lucifer was fine, but he just got horrible” “that was a halfassed jump kid. Kinda funny” “Unless he was running him over” “what in the hell” “feel like we’ve been in this crypt dungeon shit before” “might want to reinforce that fkn door” “just that easy huh?” laughter

Laughter “what the fuck” “get to the point already. Jesus Christ” “they cut their hands way too fkn much. There’s gotta be easier ways” “so if they can blast away demons like that, why didn’t they know that spell earlier?” “Seems a little…” “Is this a different birthday party than the last episode?” “uh fine” “thats a lot of acid in that fkn makeup or something” “Jesus” “so now that Jack is gone, they had to repurpose his actor or something/“ “that’s it? They have more people alive on the planet right now but I suppose they keep sending them to the empty” “we never had a season on the empty” “it’s turtles all the way down. We gotta go to the empty and then what happens after that?” “just got attacked by a fkn zombie shit and you’re worried about some guy in the woods?” “wasn’t that some season 1 shit?” “well that sucks” “They’d be more efficient at it the 2nd time. I’d watch that show” “you should have picked a different brand. Fuck chamberlain” “see?” “this is why you need laser pointers. Get his attention then start banging on the glass” “get in the car and drive through the door already. Holy shit” “just kick the door down” “of course I’ve never faced off with a fkn killer clown I guess” “thanks to educational TV, I will now know how to kill one” “And we get the cliff notes version because everything came back so it’s like a little short study guide” “how would the FBI have anything to do with this?” “what?” “talking like human camel hybrids here?” “he’s doing a good um DiCaprio thing.” “just like Pokemon - walk into someone’s house and say what’s up bitch” “wanna trade? I’ve got shotgun shells; I’ll take two poke balls. and some angel grace too” “that’s a weird lens choice for that. The picture got less distorted as he went down the stairs. It was weird” “really?” “wouldn’t he already have the gun cocked at that point? He had a weird cocking sound when they were found. Seriously? What the fuck is wrong with you?” “see whenever’s it’s sam’s fault. It’s not the editor’s fault, it’s Sam’s fault” “Don’t lie to her like that” “eardrums destroyed” “that’s good” “like you do” “Michael 1.0 is in the Cage? He’s back on the loose” laughter

Laughter “it’s absurd” “oh that’s not good” “one problem at a time” “oh he’s fkn dead” “FBI OPEN UP” “lot of screaming for not much throat” “is he going to take the cop?” “sawed off shotgun angel” “they need that for a spell or something?” Yeah they said that

“Ouch” “that would actually kill you” “could you imagine filming that? YOu’re just some make-uped chick in the pond. Holy shit that’s so funny to me. What do you do when the scene is over?” laughter

“It’s so far fetched dude” “he cocked it after the first shot and didn’t need to cock it again. It was ready to go” “are you trapping them all inside or outside?” “oh yeah more self sacrifice. Excellent” “there’s no way he could run that fast and laugh like that at the same time” “might want to keep moving. Spell’s going to fail eventually. Especially these demon ones; they’re kinda shit” “surprised Cas doesn’t have a tie clip” laughter “Thats pretty funny” “you can also go forward and backward. In a 3D maze, you could go upward and downwards, too” “This is just a maze for 90 degree corners too. There are other types of mazes. Like spiral mazes or the corn maze” “hell yeah brother. Let’s do it” “it’s fkn party time”

#beautifulspouserewatchesspn #supernatural rewatch #supernatural #supernatural s15

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“A lot of people’s lives are better because you’re in them.”

Goldribbon??

nice things to say to people

Sometimes Aikanaro still wonders how it is that he has Findekano sitting with him. Like today. It is a fine day in Vinyamar: since Turgon and his people's disappearance, the rule of Nevrast and its capital Vinyamar had fallen back to Findekano, and they were obliged to visit the seaside territory now and then. There is talk, Egg knows, that the High King is thinking of giving him Nevrast, since the territory is too rich to be abandoned, and Cirdan their neighbor too busy with the Falas already an extensive territory in itself.

But eh. Ruling? Egg can do it, if he is put up to it, but he would really rather not. Ruling entailed many responsibilities he rather avoid, if he could. Yet on the other hand, it means Fingolfin is acknowledging him and Findekano, and for that, Egg was willing to put on the responsible one's boots and rule.

The seaside castle of Vinyamar stands over a cliff overlooking the sea, and it was said if one squinted hard enough of a very clear day, they would be able to see the lighthouse at Tol Eressea. Egg has never tried.

Finno's household staff is moving about briskly, all business, which leaves Egg and Finno by the balcony, enjoying the sea breeze. Vorosanya the High Prince's chamberlain will take care of everything for them. Egg is already contemplating the blue waters of the ocean. Maybe they could swim...

They do this. They go out, follow an old path to the coast, and in the privacy of that hidden little beach they swim around in the warm waters, chasing each other, splashing each other. More and more the idea of having Vinyamar and Nevrast as his seat appeals to Egg.

It is early afternoon when they sit by the sand, sheltered by the shade of many coconut trees there. Egg sleepily leans into Findekano's side, his cheek on his spouse's dark hair.

"Do you think I can rule Nevrast properly?" Egg asks sleepily.

Somewhere he feels Finno kiss his cheek. “A lot of people’s lives are better because you’re in them. I do not see why you cannot do a good job as Nevrast's new lord. Dorthonion was a job well done, my love."

Egg pinks. Uh. Uhhhh. Now he's shy, dammit. His end of their bond bubbles with it. He tucks his face into Finno's dark hair.

"Alright. If you say so. I'll do my best, Finno-Finno." "Mmhm. I know you will."

@skaelds

#silmarillion #my drabs #findekano #fingon #aegnor #egg the elf #aikanaro #goldribbon #aegnor x fingon #finno for the winno

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Maker’s Marks

Chapter 4: Old Friends (And Others)

Five people Celebrimbor finds again in Rivendell, and one he doesn't.

[NB: some new material, some previous published on tumblr but now partly revised]

1. Erestor (Friend through Shared Survival)

Imladris—Rivendell—was an architectural amalgamation that had no right to be as beautiful as it was. In this, it resembled Lindon's cities, but even moreso: Silvan rope bridges stretched between Gondolindrim towers, which grew like trees out of what Celebrimbor was certain, from the outside, were underground chambers in the style of Nargothrond or Menegroth. Motifs of birds and stars were predominant in the carvings on wide Indisian arches and twisting Telerin cliff-stairs, stars with four, five, six, seven, and eight points. Celebrimbor didn't even know all those sigils.

He had little time to appreciate the outer view, however, before he and his companions were hurried indoors (where the general theme did remain stone wrought to flow as smoothly as plant-life, all with an air of rest and welcome like just around the corner was a cozy fireplace).

Frodo was rushed off to the infirmary, his kin followed close at his heels, and Rivendell's seneschal finished directing people and turned to Celebrimbor with tired exasperation. It was much the same expression he had given to unexpected disturbances as the king’s chamberlain in Lindon, as a captain in besieged Balar, as a young Avarin refugee and aboveground-scout in Nargothrond.

Despite the circumstances, Celebrimbor couldn’t help but grin at the sheer familiarity.

Erestor, no longer young at all, shook his head and complained, “Noldor. You truly can’t help but turn up with as much fuss as possible, can you?”

But he, too, smiled as he beckoned Celebrimbor down a gently curving corridor, perpendicular to the one along which the hobbits had been bustled.

“It is good to see you whole and well! I’ll put you in one of the family guest rooms. Young Mr. Baggins looked badly off—Elrond will be busy for at least a day, unless I miss my guess. And you need a bed sooner than that.” Erestor wrinkled his nose delicately. “And a bath.”

[keep reading on AO3]

#the silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #celebrimbor #elrond #yeah i apparently cannot focus on work at home anymore ok #time to aggressively and guiltily screw my brain in the right direction #instead of...whatever i've been doing for hte past couple hours here #my fic

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“Mineru, you said that there was something else you wanted to show me?” Zelda asked after setting the Purah Pad down.

Mineru smiled at Zelda. “I think you will enjoy this surprise.” She walked around the rock face, completely out of sight.

Anika had no idea what was about to happen. She had seen one of Mineru’s surprises before. One time, she invited the royal family to her research facility in Faron, and brought out a giant armored cart, equipped with shock emitters, cannons, and dangerous spikes on the wheels. She mentioned using it on whatever demons still remained on the surface, but Queen Sonia warned her not to because of the collateral damage it would cause.

What came back around the cliff was not as scary as that, but Anika’s face dropped. It was a giant construct, probably 3 or 4 times the size of herself. Its face was a mask in the shape of an owl, one of Mineru’s signature features. The arms reached to the ground, with stubby legs moving the machine slowly towards Zelda.

“Hello,” Mineru’s voice said. It seemed to come from the construct. “Don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe.”

“What in the–” Anika started.

“My spirit is currently residing in this construct. I am in full control of it.” The construct waved its hand as if to demonstrate. “This is what I have been working on over the past year.”

“Amazing,” Zelda said.

Anika was speechless. Mineru had actually separated her spirit from her body. And now it was living in this construct. It was a work of genius for certain, but it meant that the Sheikah were right. She was playing with immortality.

The construct turned around. On its back, there were two footholds and what looked like handles. It knelt down low enough that someone could reach the handles. “Want a ride, Princess?” Mineru asked.

“You can’t be serious,” Anika finally said, though it was too quiet for the princess to hear. She was already climbing on the machine.

(taken from the newest chapter in my TotK fic. It's been more than a month since the last update. I'm excited to be writing again!)

(Btw, Anika is the name for the chamberlain/attendant to the royal family from the Wortsworth quest in TotK)

#totk #totk fanfic #6 out of 21 chapters finished!#still going strong #how do you get people to read your writing?

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What To Expect From Mac In Weekly Girls Season 2 Giving To Star – In a recent interview, Paper Girls megastar Sophia Rosinski teased what audiences can expect from her person Mackenzie “Mac” Coyle in Season 2. Paper Girls superstar Sophia Rosinski these days teased what viewers can count on from Mackenzie “Mac” Coyle in Season 2. Based on Brian K. Vaughan’s Eisner Award-winning comedian e book collection of the equal call, Amazon’s live-action variation facilities round a crew of four stuck in a struggle among time-journeying factions on Halloween night in 1988. Rosinski teams up with Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin, Riley Lai Neret as Erin Tien, and Fina Straza as KJ Brandman. Rosinsky plays Mac, Rosinsky plays Mac, the abusive youngest child of a terrible, dysfunctional family. Throughout Season 1’s journey, Mac affords himself with a hard outdoors by leaving those around him behind and revealing most effective the negative components of his existence as a manner to make the fortunate ones feel terrible. Emotionally shielding. However, after traveling into the destiny and assembly a far older model of his older brother Dylan (Cliff Chamberlain), Mac discovers that most cancers will not allow him to live on past sixteen. It weighs closely on Mack and courses his moves for the rest of the season. But, in a current meeting with Collider, Rosinsky teased what audiences can expect from his character Mac in Paper Girls Season 2. He turned into once a “very careful” Mac however struggled to preserve a hard outdoors. Rosinsky referred to as the Mac series arc “beautiful” and appears ahead to the possibility to drag it off. Read the actor’s declaration under. “Mac’s humorousness feels very present at some point of season 1, “Mac’s sense of humor feels very gift in the course of season 1, of direction, until he learns some stunning information. It is because that starts to vanish a chunk. But perhaps at the start of the collection, Mack may be very cautious and tough to crack. When she hears certain news, the shell starts to soften a chunk. There’s no point in looking to maintain it up, seeking to keep his vigilance. Really, It doesn’t make sense. No greater. In a manner, I think it’s quite claustrophobic for her, but on the same time, the want It’s pretty freeing due to the fact there is no. She has followed this shell into the environment around her house. So, he has a callous home life. She has a callous existence to get via all of it. It had to be strong. Interestingly, she can forget it based on the coolest and superb impact these women had on her, and simply based totally in this data.

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From June 2020 … #repost

DEATH RACE 2000 | d. PAUL BARTEL | 1975

https://www.hilobrow.com/2020/06/11/klaatu-enthusiasm-24/

“It’s Kung Fu,” we say, with glee. We are at Laredo’s Pla-Mor Entertainment Center, not far from the Rio Grande. Pla-Mor is a wonderland: bowling, roller skating, pinball, videogames like Pong and (in 1976) Death Race. The movie house’s décor is one part Shakey’s Pizza, one part cineaste. In the same way, some years later, that Richard Chamberlain will come to be known as “El ‘Thorn Birds’,” in Laredo Kung Fu star David Carradine is known as “Kung Fu.” In Death Race 2000, during which he mostly wears a mask, he’s a bit of a disappointment: one-dimensional, mumbling, with the facial expression range of a mannequin. And 1976’s Rocky phenomena is still to come, so Sylvester Stallone’s appearance in this schlock sci-fi film does not excite us. But we’re not disappointed by the movie’s riotous violence: race car drivers running down the elderly and kids, blood spatterings, decapitations. Not to mention the R-rated female nudity. What I didn’t and couldn’t register at the time was how brilliantly this Roger Corman-produced satire presaged the the rise of the religious right, a neoliberal-infected news media, and the schlockster politics of Trump and Hannity. It’s a lurid, Vonnegut-esque dissection of the America to come: The Death Race’s fans are addicted to mindless television, inured to violence and titillation. The movie holds up a mirror, and the monster we see there isn’t Carradine’s Frankenstein, it’s us: pandemic-paralyzed, watching in horror as a demented old madman drives our national schoolbus off a cliff.

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The Minutes

Time has caught up to The Minutes. When the civic comedy was announced for the 2020 Broadway season, it seemed like a prescient choice, full of up-to-the-moment thoughts about governance. Tracy Letts is the rare playwright whose own celebrity is enough to prompt a Broadway run; ever since the runaway success of August: Osage County, he has had that green-light touch. But then, of course, there were delays.

Between the parentheses of March 2020 and April 2022, actor Armie Hammer left the cast after his reputation combusted; Trump befouled the transfer of power; and the insurrectionists revealed the chaos at the heart of our democracy. Every postponed production has had to account for lost time and changed context, but the gap posed a special challenge for The Minutes: The show deals with a city council meeting, and we’ve spent 700 days watching such conclaves accelerate beyond fractiousness into Kafka-esque terror. Events raced past Letts’s script, with death threats and violence interrupting school-board meetings and public health hearings. Juvenalian satire requires that it be more extreme than reality. Imagine Jonathan Swift having supply-chain issues — only to discover that the English had actually started eating babies before he could publish.

Mr. Peel (Noah Reid), a novice assemblyman in a small town, has missed a closed session of the town council due to his mother’s funeral. He’s a bit of a naïf, thrilled to show pictures of his infant daughter to his colleagues, wandering out of the rain still dazed from grief. “You feel untethered,” says another man, as they gather. “Well, I suppose you are.” Now that Mr. Peel is back in their chamber, the other councilors are being weirdly cagey about whatever happened the previous week, and they refuse to distribute that meeting’s minutes. Plus one of the councilmen is missing. Mr. Peel begs the clerk (Jessie Mueller), Mayor Superba (Letts himself), and the room at large for clarification — but everyone ducks his questions. There’s plenty of new business to distract him: Mr. Blake (K. Todd Freeman) proposes a cage-match attraction to raise money for the town’s festival; Mr. Hanratty (the firework Danny McCarthy) hopes to make the civic fountain accessible; Mr. Oldfield (Austin Pendleton) wants a parking spot. Still, the town’s old business — very, very old business — will not be denied.

Having trouble remembering all those names? No problem, most of them are mnemonics. Mr. Peel is the hero with thin skin; Superba is top man. The dithery, fluttery Ms. Matz (Sally Murphy) is mad; Mr. Oldfield is old; Superba’s sidekick, the contemptuous Mr. Breeding (Cliff Chamberlain), struts and preens like a gorilla in season. And grouchy Mr. Assalone (Jeff Still) is … look, I’m not going to spoil the plot for you.

This determinative nomenclature is a little nod to Dickens and a peep into Letts’s comic methods. Like Dickens, he’s a connoisseur of folly — he rolls human silliness against his palate as if he’s testing it for notes of stone fruit. He therefore finds much to be delighted by in meeting minutiae. The clerk mispronounces Mr. Assalone’s name every time she calls the roll. Mr. Oldfield and Ms. Innes (Blair Brown) squabble in increasingly hilarious ways, and people bicker over points of order and word choice. “Oh, here we go, the language police,” grumbles Mr. Breeding, after saying ten offensive things in a row. “Language police” might describe Letts too: He has fun with infractions.

There’s overwhelming abundance in having a cast that includes so many heavy hitters, all contentedly kibitzing on the bench. There are a lot of Tony Awards on that stage. Reid — already beloved from his role on Schitt’s Creek and new to Broadway — has the wide eyes of a rookie; some of the drifting menace in the room is our vicarious sense of what it feels like to be a young actor with a thousand years of collected theatrical experience arrayed before him. (The laugh-a-minute Pendleton was in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof, but sure, don’t let that intimidate you.) Letts has a rapid pinprick wit, and he inflicts real damage in the play’s early sections. Part of his cleverness lies in this interplay of the actors’ outsize magnificence and his message about small-town city fathers. These fools think they’re Olympians, and who gave them power? Look around.

The Minutes begins as sly frustration comedy. From the moment the lights flicker and the thunder crashes, we can tell Letts is planning to steer this thing into absurdist dread. At first, how he gets there is dramaturgically impressive, full of flashbacks and a bizarre, all-hands-on-deck reenactment of the town’s own history. Letts clearly finds pleasure in the way archives work, from their little notations (Peel’s greatest triumph comes from knowing what NB means when he sees it written on a document) to the way that records render up the past. It’s the opening of one such record that plunges the play from lightness into desperate gravity. The show suddenly becomes clumsy. Letts and director Anna D. Shapiro fumble the first pivot into seriousness, and they do far worse than that in the final turn.

I think Letts has important issues on his mind, so I’m sorry I couldn’t follow him as he goes more fully into them. As he did in August: Osage County, he wants to deal with the state’s foundational sin — the wholesale slaughter of Native Americans. In that play, the house (synecdoche for the country) has a literal Indian in the attic, and the housekeeper character Johnna only reminds and presides. But in The Minutes, Letts isn’t content simply to point at history: He wants to impart its horror. This tonal shift requires a huge stylistic swing, and The Minutes — so fine and deft and wicked for its first 60 minutes — can’t take it. The play shakes and starts to fly to pieces, a Superleggera car taken off-road. I read The Minutes back in the early days of the shutdown, and I remember the moment when I began to think our real absurdities outstripped Letts’s fictional ones. His touch is so perfect and light when he’s doing realism that reality obliged and caught up to him. Knowing what he does now, what play would he write? Would that blunt ending be the same? I won’t believe it. You can’t just leave your satire lying around for two years; you have to measure it down to the minute.

The Minutes is at Studio 54.

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ynwa1892 · 2 years

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Takeshi Kovacs. Subtlety and Stealth.

Altered Carbon || 1x09 || Rage in Heaven

#altered carbon #joel kinnaman #takeshi kovacs #vernon elliot #ato essandoh #ava elliot #cliff chamberlain #gifs #television #ynwa1892gifs

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leighlim · 3 years

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While catching up on Twitter...I noticed a particular account on the right hand side of my screen.

It was the mini-bio that caught my attention rather than the splashback.

It's been awhile since I got hyped about something that I couldn't watch in the next few days (sorry Netflix...it might be awhile before I return as a subscriber)...and I am really looking forward to this. Maybe by the time I return...I'll also get a bonus of Season 2 of 'Living with Yourself'? :)

(Extra pumped because this seems like Amanda Peet's first foray as a showrunner! I think I get excited whenever a fellow human attempts a pivot....be it small or super sugnificant)

PS: I guess things sometimes happen REALLY fast with development? I was still thinking about Season 4 of 'Killing Eve' --- and at one point thought that I ended up missing a season (apparently I'm good...nothing was released in 2021...yet?)...

#The Chair #Featured #Sandra Oh #Jay Duplass #Bob Balaban #David Morse #Cliff Chamberlain #Mallory Low #Comedies #Comedy #Amanda Peet #Viewing Queue #My Viewing Queue

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dalliansss · 1 year

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All my Fingon headcanons for @skaelds and @antares0606

Third shortest in the House of Finwë

Smol but Terrible. And fast. His combat style he specifically adapted to suit his small stature. He is among the fastest combatants there is in the family. Think Rogue class on steroids. (Which also means he isn’t much of a Tank like Maedhros or Celegorm or Turgon.)

Eats in a slow, turtle-like pace when he’s in comfortable, safe and peaceful settings. He especially uses this as a torture device when he becomes High King, because the meal courses cannot advance without the King finishing his current plate. So if he doesn’t like you, he will starve you.

Looks so generic a Noldo he can vanish into a crowd without enchantments by simply removing the gold cloth he braids in his hair.

Has jet black, wavy hair. Thick individual strands. His luxurious mane he inherited from Anairë.

Grew up under Fëanor’s Formenos Summers™️ system. Knows how to keep himself alive; knows how to do all household chores, can cook the meanest dumplings and fried rice in Arda. Likes to do the dishes and finds it therapeutic. Don’t depend on him with laundry, tho. He hates doing laundry.

Kill count in Alqualondë: 42

Can play: lute, harp, flute

Has pale blue eyes (made even brighter by Treelight)

Most soft-spoken among the Eldests

Not as adventurous as Finrod or Maedhros, who will flout and/or cross certain lines of morality and decorum. He thinks first on what a certain action entails, especially for himself and others around him.

He’ll keep your secret until his death and even in Mandos

Likes hanging about Ents and sleeping on their branches, if they allow

Has the friendship of all the Ents and Entwives of Hithlum

Has 11 Loremastery titles

Had one of the most extensive gossip information network in Tirion

Isn’t actually close with Nolofinwë or Anairë. He is closer to his Uncle Fëanor and Aunt Nerdanel; they practically raised him.

Youthful best friends with Maedhros. Then as he grew up, he also became best of friends with Angrod and Aegnor

Weapons of choice: sword, spear, bow and arrows, dual elven daggers

Enjoys spelunking and hiking

Enjoys jumping off waterfall cliffs and/or seaside cliffs

Enjoys painting

Closest to Ìrissë among all of his siblings.

Took Turgon and Aredhel’s sudden departure from Nevrast badly. They never informed him or Nolofinwë where they were going, and he resented them for this.

Envies Finrod and Maedhros, who seem to be better loved and better trusted by their siblings.

Notorious for his enforcement of stricter tax measures. In retaliation, Caranthir and Finrod had to devise a clever way of increasing their deductions so they can keep profits for Nargothrond and Eastern Beleriand

Also in close friendship with the Noldo Vorosanya, his chamberlain since he was a child in Tirion.

Favorite colors: navy blue, radiant silver, crimson

Favorite food: apple pie, olives, grapes

In-family nickname: Apple. Nolofinwë and Anairë call their children by fruit nicknames.

Kick-started the banking system in Beleriand by calling in all debts owed to him, so he can buy groceries from Caranthir and Finrod

Had the longest crush on Maitimo, but never acted on it.

Was Indis’s first victim with her Matchmaking Mission, but he dodged all set-ups and arrangements so successfully no match was ever announced for him.

#silm #fingon #my hcs #my writing #goldenribbon #finno for the winno #my silm hcs

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