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radioactive-earthshine · 5 months

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cw child abuse, exploitation

Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #93

The DC comic universe is ripe with a lot of child exploitation but nothing really hit quite like this.

#orla reads losh #andrew nolan #ferro lad #ferro #douglas nolan

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hoechlinsdicksblog · 6 months

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Scream Kings 🪓

Trilogía

1. Scream Kings: Bloody fraternity

Después de regresar a la ciudad que lo vió crecer, Stiles se inscribe en una de las mejores universidades de Beacon Hills. Sin imaginar que luego de unirse a una fraternidad donde reinan las fiestas, el sexo alocado y los niños ricos; terminaría siendo acosado junto a sus compañeros por un asesino serial.

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AO3:

II. Scream Kings: Summer camp

Aún no publicada.

III. Scream Kings: Spring Break massacre

Aún no publicada.

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 6 months

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Best Anne Hathaway movies and performances:

1. The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan (2012)

2. Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee (2005)

3. Nicholas Nickleby - Douglas McGrath (2002)

4. 猫の恩返し - Hiroyuki Morita (2002)

5. The Intern - Nancy Meyers (2015)

6. Becoming Jane - Julian Jarrold (2007)

7. One Day - Lone Scherfig (2011)

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perfettamentechic · 2 years

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5 giugno … ricordiamo …

5 giugno … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2018: Kate Spade, stilista e imprenditrice statunitense (n. 1962) 2015: Colette Marchand, attrice, ballerina e coreografa francese, scelta per interpretare Marie Charlet nel film Moulin Rouge, che le diede fama in tutta l’America e non solo. (n. 1925) 2015: Richard Johnson, attore, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico inglese. (n. 1927) 2015: Giacomo Furia, attore italiano. (n.…

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shoshiwrites · 5 months

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Band of Brothers Ages: IRL vs. Actors

Did you know that according to a 1947 study, almost half the men who served in WWII were still under age 26 by the end of the war?

What this is : A (very long) post comparing the ages of the actors in Band of Brothers vs. the IRL figures they are portraying.

Background: Did I need to do this? No. Did anyone ask for this? Also no. Did I do it anyway? Yes.

Disclaimers: This is SUPER approximate for the most part. I based IRL ages off of D-Day unless otherwise noted, and actor ages off of January 1, 2000, the year filming took place (the latter is where the most variation will be because I didn't try to figure out what month filming started). I also didn't fact-check birthdays beyond googling. Most are sourced from the Band of Brothers and Military Wikis on fandom.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

I broke them up into rough categories, which are, again, approximate. I know I often forget how young the real life people were here, and this was a good reminder of that. I also found it interesting to see which actors were actually younger than their roles!

Check it all out under the cut ⬇️

~10+ years older

Dale Dye (55) as Col. Robert F. Sink (39) (~16 years)

Michael Cudlitz (35) as Denver "Bull" Randleman (23) (~12)

Marc Warren (32) as Albert Blithe (20) (~12)

Rocky Marshall (33) as Earl J. McClung (21) (~12)

Frank John Hughes (32) as William J. Guarnere (21) (~11)

Neal McDonough (33) as Lynn D. (Buck) Compton (22) (~11)

Dexter Fletcher (33) as John W. Martin (22) (~11)

~5+ years older

Simon Schatzberger (32) as Joseph A. Lesniewski (23) (~9)

Richard Speight Jr. (30) Warren H. (Skip) Muck (22) (~8)

Jason O'Mara (30) as Thomas Meehan (22) (~8)

Ron Livingston (32) as Lewis Nixon (25) (~7)

Donnie Wahlberg (30) as C. Carwood Lipton (24) (~6)

Matthew Settle (30) as Ronald C. Speirs (24) (~6)

Nolan Hemmings (28) as Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (22) (~6)

Douglas Spain (25) as Antonio C. Garcia (19) (~6)

George Calil (26) as James H. "Mo" Alley Jr. (21) (~5)

Rick Gomez (27) as George Luz (22) (~5 year)

Scott Grimes (28) as Donald G. Malarkey (23) (~5)

Stephen Graham (26) as Myron "Mike" Ranney (21) (~5)

~less than 5 years older

Shane Taylor (25) as Eugene G. Roe (21) (~4)

Tim Matthews (23) as Alex M. Penkala Jr. (19) (~4)

Matthew Leitch (24) as Floyd M. "Tab" Talbert (20) (~4)

Peter O'Meara (30) as Norman S. Dike Jr. (26) (~4)

Tom Hardy (22) as John A. Janovec (18) (~4)

Rick Warden (28) as Harry F. Welsh (25) (~3)

Kirk Acevedo (28) as Joseph D. Toye (25) (~3)

Eion Bailey (25) as David Kenyon Webster (22) (~3)

Craig Heaney (26) as Roy W. Cobb (29) (~3)

Damian Lewis (28) as Richard D. Winters (26) (~2)

Robin Laing as Edward J. "Babe" Heffron (~2, 21/23)

Ben Caplan (26) as Walter S. "Smokey" Gordon Jr. (24) (~2)

David Schwimmer (32) as Herbert M. Sobel (33) (~1 year)

Michael Fassbender (22) as Burton P. "Pat" Christenson (21) (~1)

Colin Hanks (22) as Lt. Henry Jones (21) (~1) (age around Bastogne)

Bart Ruspoli (23) as Edward J. Tipper (22) (~1)

~Same age

Peter Youngblood Hills as Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers (21)

Mark Huberman as Lester "Les" Hashey (19)

Younger

Lucie Jeanne (23) as Renée Lemaire (30) (age around Bastogne) (~7)

Ross McCall (23) as Joseph D. Liebgott (29) (~6)

Simon Pegg (29) as William S. Evans (~33) (~4)

Philip Barantini (19) as Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk (22) (~3)

James Madio (24) as Frank J. Perconte (27) (~3)

Stephen McCole (25) as Frederick "Moose" Heyliger (27) (~2)

Matt Hickey (~16) as Patrick S. O'Keefe (18) (~2)

Incomplete/not found

Phil McKee as Maj. Robert L. Strayer (34)

Rene L. Moreno as Joseph Ramirez (30)

Doug Allen as Alton M. More (24)

David Nicolle as Lt. Thomas A. Peacock (24)

Rebecca Okot as Anna (Augusta Chiwy) (24) (age around Bastogne)

Alex Sabga-Brady as Francis J. Mellet (23)

Mark Lawrence as William H. Dukeman Jr. (22)

Nicholas Aaron as Robert E. (Popeye) Wynn (22)

Peter McCabe as Donald B. Hoobler (21)

Marcos D'Cruze as Joseph P. Domingus (not found)

#ty mercurygray for that sweet sweet jstor access #band of brothers #uhh one more disclaimer it's entirely possible that i mistyped stuff here and that i switched ages/etc.#i did try to proofread though!#anyway. i apologize if anyone has already done this.#shoshi.txt #sort of #it's also very possible that i spent too much time online today

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 months

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Dinkclump Linkdump

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in LA (Saturday night, with Adam Conover), Seattle (Monday, with Neal Stephenson), then Portland, Phoenix and more!

Some Saturday mornings, I look at the week's blogging and realize I have a lot more links saved up than I managed to write about this week, and then I do a linkdump. There've been 14 of these, and this is number 15:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

Attentive readers will note that this isn't Saturday. You're right. But I'm on a book tour and every day is shatterday, because damn, it's grueling and I'm not the spry manchild who took Little Brother on the road in 2008 – I'm a 52 year old with two artificial hips. Hence: an out-of-cycle linkdump. Come see me on tour and marvel at my verticality!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

Best thing I read this week, hands down, was Ryan Broderick's Garbage Day piece, "AI search is a doomsday cult":

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

Broderick makes so many excellent points in this piece. First among them: AI search sucks, but that's OK, because no one is asking for AI search. This only got more true later in the week when everyone's favorite spicy autocomplete accidentally loaded the James Joyce module:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/chatgpt-alarms-users-by-spitting-out-shakespearean-nonsense-and-rambling/

(As Matt Webb noted, Chatbots have slid rapidly from Star Trek (computers give you useful information in a timely fashion) to Douglas Adams (computers spout hostile, impenetrable nonsense at you):

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/21/adams

But beyond the unsuitability of AI for search results and beyond the public's yawning indifference to AI-infused search, Broderick makes a more important point: AI search is about summarizing web results so you don't have to click links and read the pages yourself.

If that's the future of the web, who the fuck is going to write those pages that the summarizer summarizes? What is the incentive, the business-model, the rational explanation for predicting a world in which millions of us go on writing web-pages, when the gatekeepers to the web have promised to rig the game so that no one will ever visit those pages, or read what we've written there, or even know it was us who wrote the underlying material the summarizer just summarized?

If we stop writing the web, AIs will have to summarize each other, forming an inhuman centipede of botshit-ingestion. This is bad news, because there's pretty solid mathematical evidence that training a bot on botshit makes it absolutely useless. Or, as the authors of the paper – including the eminent cryptographer Ross Anderson – put it, "using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects":

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

This is the mathematical evidence for Jathan Sadowski's "Hapsburg AI," or, as the mathematicians call it, "The Curse of Recursion" (new band-name just dropped).

But if you really have your heart set on living in a ruined dystopia dominated by hostile artificial life-forms, have no fear. As Hamilton Nolan writes in "Radical Capital," a rogues gallery of worker-maiming corporations have asked a court to rule that the NLRB can't punish them for violating labor law:

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/radical-capital

Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX have all made this argument to various courts. If they prevail, then there will be no one in charge of enforcing federal labor law. Yes, this will let these companies go on ruining their workers' lives, but more importantly, it will give carte blanche to every other employer in the land. At one end of this process is a boss who doesn't want to recognize a union – and at the other end are farmers dying of heat-stroke.

The right wing coalition that has put this demand before the court has all sorts of demands, from forced birth to (I kid you not), the end of recreational sex:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/getting-rid-of-birth-control-is-a-key-gop-agenda-item-for-the-second-trump-term

That coalition is backed by ultra-rich monopolists who want wreck the nation that their rank-and-file useful idiots want to wreck your body. These are the monopoly cheerleaders who gave us the abomination that is the Pharmacy Benefit Manager – a useless intermediary that gets to screw patients and pharmacists – and then let PBMs consolidate and merge with pharmacy monopolists.

One such inbred colossus is Change Healthcare, a giant PBM that is, in turn, a mere tendril of United Healthcare, which merged the company with Optum. The resulting system – held together with spit and wishful thinking – has access to the health records of a third of Americans and processes 15 billion prescriptions per day.

Or rather, it did process that amount – until the all-your-eggs-in-one-badly-maintained basket strategy failed on Wednesday, and Change's systems went down due to an unspecified "cybersecurity incident." In the short term, this meant that tens of millions of Americans who tried to refill their prescriptions were told to either pay cash or come back later (if you don't die first). That was the first shoe dropping. The second shoe is the medical records of a third of the country.

Don't worry, I'm sure those records are fine. After all, nothing says security like "merging several disparate legacy IT systems together while simultaneously laying off half your IT staff as surplus to requirements and an impediment to extracting a special dividend for the private equity owners who are, of course, widely recognized as the world's greatest information security practitioners."

Look, not everything is terrible. Some computers are actually getting better. Framework's user-serviceable, super-rugged, easy-to-repair, powerful laptops are the most exciting computers I've ever owned – or broken:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/#frame

Now you can get one for $500!

https://frame.work/blog/first-framework-laptop-16-shipments-and-a-499-framework

And the next generation is turning our surprisingly well, despite all our worst efforts. My kid – now 16! – and I just launched our latest joint project, "The Sushi Chronicles," a small website recording our idiosyncratic scores for nearly every sushi restaurant in Burbank, Glendale, Studio City and North Hollywood:

https://sushichronicles.org/

This is the record of two years' worth of Daughter-Daddy sushi nights that started as a way to get my picky eater to try new things and has turned into the highlight of my week. If you're in the area and looking for a nice piece of fish, give it a spin (also, we belatedly realized that we've never reviewed our favorite place, Kuru Kuru in the CVS Plaza on North Hollywood Way – we'll be rectifying that soon).

And yes, we have a lavishly corrupt Supreme Court, but at least now everyone knows it. Glenn Haumann's even set up a Gofundme to raise money to bribe Clarence Thomas (now deleted, alas):

https://www.gofundme.com/f/pzhj4q-the-clarence-thomas-signing-bonus-fund-give-now

The funds are intended as a "signing bonus" in the event that Thomas takes up John Oliver on his offer of a $2.4m luxury RV and $1m/year for life if he'll resign from the court:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug

This is truly one of Oliver's greatest bits, showcasing his mastery over the increasingly vital art of turning abstruse technical issues into entertainment that negates the performative complexity used by today's greatest villains to hide their misdeeds behind a Shield of Boringness (h/t Dana Clare).

The Bezzle is my contribution to turning abstruse scams into a high-impact technothriller that pierces that Shield of Boringness. The key to this is to master exposition, ignoring the (vastly overrated) rule that one must "show, not tell." Good exposition is hard to do, but when it works, it's amazing (as anyone who's read Neal Stephenson's 1,600-word explanation of how to eat Cap'n Crunch cereal in Cryptonomicon can attest). I wrote about this for Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" this week:

https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-cory-doctorow-talks-about-the-bezzle/

Of course, an undisputed master of this form is Adam Conover, whose Adam Ruins Everything show helped invent it. Adam is joining me on stage in LA tomorrow night at Vroman's at 5:30PM, to host me in a book-tour event for my novel The Bezzle:

https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle

Image: Peter Craven (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aggregate_output_%287637833962%29.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #the bezzle #ryan broderick #mary robinette kowal #exposition #john oliver #margot robbie #adam conover #ai #ai search #change healthcare #centralization #pharma #pbms #pharmacy benefit managers #corruption #scotus #crowdfunding #clarence thomas

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transmutationisms · 10 months

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hi can you recommend any books on the histories of medical practices?

ok this is scattershot & disorganised geographically and temporally but, some starting points for medical practice & practitioners:

indian doctors in kenya, 1895–1940: the forgotten history, by anna greenwood & harshad topiwala

migrant architects of the nhs: south asian doctors and the reinvention of british general practice, by julian m simpson

herbs and roots: a history of chinese doctors in the american medical marketplace, by tamara venit shelton

the people's hospital: a history of mccords, durban, 1890s–1970s, by julie parle, vanessa noble, & christopher merrett

nationalizing the body: the medical market, print, and daktari medicine, by projit mukharji

doctors beyond borders: the transnational migration of physicians in the twentieth century, ed. laurence monnais & david wright

physicians, colonial racism, and diaspora in west africa, by adell patton

doctors of empire: medical and cultural encounters between imperial germany and meiji japan, by hoi-eun kim

the emergence of tropical medicine in france, by michael a osborne

the professionalisation of african medicine, ed. murray last & g.l. chavunduka

aaron mcduffie moore: an african american physician, educator, and founder of durham's black wall street, by blake hill-saya

atomic doctors: conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age, by nolan l james

beyond the state: the colonial medical service in british africa, ed. anna greenwood

before bioethics: a history of american medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution, by robert baker

medicine and memory in tibet: amchi physicians in an age of reform, by theresia hofer

domingos álvares, african healing, and the intellectual history of the atlantic world, by james h sweet

pushing silence: modernizing puerto rico and the medicalization of childbirth, by isabel m cordova

the business of private medical practice: doctors, specialization, and urban change in philadelphia, 1900–1940, by james a schafer, jr

the lomidine files: the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial africa, by guillaume lachenal

fit to practice: empire, race, gender, and the making of british medicine, 1850–1980, by douglas haynes

the racial divide in american medicine: black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care, by richard d deshazo

#history of medicine #long post #book recs

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eludin-realm · 6 months

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Character Name Ideas (Male)

So I've been browsing through BehindTheName (great resource!) recently and have compiled several name lists. Here are some names, A-Z, that I like. NOTE: If you want to use any of these please verify sources, meanings etc, I just used BehindTheName to browse and find all of these. Under the cut:

A: Austin, Aiden, Adam, Alex, Angus, Anthony, Archie, Argo, Ari, Aric, Arno, Atlas, August, Aurelius, Alexei, Archer, Angelo, Adric, Acarius, Achilou, Alphard, Amelian, Archander B: Bodhi, Bastian, Baz, Beau, Beck, Buck, Basil, Benny, Bentley, Blake, Bowie, Brad, Brady, Brody, Brennan, Brent, Brett, Brycen C: Cab, Cal, Caden, Cáel, Caelan, Caleb, Cameron, Chase, Carlos, Cooper, Carter, Cas, Cash, Cassian, Castiel, Cedric, Cenric, Chance, Chandler, Chaz, Chad, Chester, Chet, Chip, Christian, Cillian, Claude, Cicero, Clint, Cody, Cory, Coy, Cole, Colt, Colton, Colin, Colorado, Colum, Conan, Conrad, Conway, Connor, Cornelius, Creed, Cyneric, Cynric, Cyrano, Cyril, Cyrus, Crestian, Ceric D: Dallas, Damien, Daniel, Darach, Dash, Dax, Dayton, Denver, Derek, Des, Desmond, Devin, Dewey, Dexter, Dietrich, Dion, Dmitri, Dominic, Dorian, Douglas, Draco, Drake, Drew, Dudley, Dustin, Dusty, Dylan, Danièu E: Eadric, Evan, Ethan, Easton, Eddie, Eddy, Einar, Eli, Eilas, Eiljah, Elliott, Elton, Emanuel, Emile, Emmett, Enzo, Erik, Evander, Everett, Ezio F: Faolán, Faron, Ferlin, Felix, Fenrir, Fergus, Finley, Finlay, Finn, Finnian, Finnegan, Flint, Flip, Flynn, Florian, Forrest, Fritz G: Gage, Gabe, Grady, Grant, Gray, Grayson, Gunnar, Gunther, Galahad H: Hale, Harley, Harper, Harvey, Harry, Huey, Hugh, Hunter, Huxley I: Ian, Ianto, Ike, Inigo, Isaac, Isaias, Ivan, Ísak J: Jack, Jacob, Jake, Jason, Jasper, Jax, Jay, Jensen, Jed, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jesse, Jett, Jimmie, Jonas, Jonas, Jonathan, Jordan, Josh, Julien, Jovian, Jun, Justin, Joseph, Joni, K: Kaden, Kai, Kale, Kane, Kaz, Keane, Keaton, Keith, Kenji, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kieran, Kip, Knox, Kris, Kristian, Kyle, Kay, Kristján, Kristófer L: Lamont, Lance, Landon, Lane, Lars, László, Laurent, Layton, Leander, Leif, Leo, Leonidas, Leopold, Levi, Lewis, Louie, Liam, Liberty, Lincoln, Linc, Linus, Lionel, Logan, Loki, Lucas, Lucian, Lucio, Lucky, Luke, Luther, Lyall, Lycus, Lykos, Lyle, Lyndon, Llewellyn, Landri, Laurian, Lionç M: Major, Manny, Manuel, Marcus, Mason, Matt, Matthew, Matthias, Maverick, Maxim, Memphis, Midas, Mikko, Miles, Mitch, Mordecai, Mordred, Morgan, Macari, Maïus, Maxenci, Micolau, Miro N: Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Niall, Nico, Niels, Nik, Noah, Nolan, Niilo, Nikander, Novak, O: Oakley, Octavian, Odin, Orlando, Orrick, Ǫrvar, Othello, Otis, Otto, Ovid, Owain, Owen, Øyvind, Ozzie, Ollie, Oliver, Onni P: Paisley, Palmer, Percival, Percy, Perry, Peyton, Phelan, Phineas, Phoenix, Piers, Pierce, Porter, Presley, Preston, Pacian Q: Quinn, Quincy, Quintin R: Ragnar, Raiden, Ren, Rain, Rainier, Ramos, Ramsey, Ransom, Raul, Ray, Roy, Reagan, Redd, Reese, Rhys, Rhett, Reginald, Remiel, Remy, Ridge, Ridley, Ripley, Rigby, Riggs, Riley, River, Robert, Rocky, Rokas, Roman, Ronan, Ronin, Romeo, Rory, Ross, Ruairí, Rufus, Rusty, Ryder, Ryker, Rylan, Riku, Roni S: Sammie, Sammy, Samuel, Samson, Sanford, Sawyer, Scout, Seán, Seth, Sebastian, Seymour, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Sheldon, Shiloh, Shun, Sid, Sidney, Silas, Skip, Skipper, Skyler, Slade, Spencer, Spike, Stan, Stanford, Sterling, Stevie, Stijn, Suni, Sylvan, Sylvester T: Tab, Tad, Tanner, Tate, Tennessee, Tero, Terrance, Tevin, Thatcher, Tierno, Tino, Titus, Tobias, Tony, Torin, Trace, Trent, Trenton, Trev, Trevor, Trey, Troy, Tripp, Tristan, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Ty, Teemu U: Ulric V: Valerius, Valor, Van, Vernon, Vespasian, Vic, Victor, Vico, Vince, Vinny, Vincent W: Wade, Walker, Wallis, Wally, Walt, Wardell, Warwick, Watson, Waylon, Wayne, Wes, Wesley, Weston, Whitley, Wilder, Wiley, William, Wolfe, Wolfgang, Woody, Wulfric, Wyatt, Wynn X: Xander, Xavier Z: Zachary, Zach, Zane, Zeb, Zebediah, Zed, Zeke, Zeph, Zaccai

#will i use these names for future characters? absolutely yes #okay to reblog this #okay to reblog

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kmomof4 · 9 months

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For Self Promo Sunday…

I decided to highlight a fic that got a bit of attention on ao3 last week…

In the Vipers Den

Posted almost two years ago for the @cshistfic event, this WWII spy fic was inspired by the movie Shining Through, starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson. If you haven’t read it, I hope you do and let me know what you think, and if you have read it, maybe have a reread!

Summary: Emma Nolan, age 22, goes to work for attorney Killian Jones in the fall of 1940. Over the next year, she comes to believe her boss is a spy, only to have her suspicions confirmed when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. When a German spy working for Killian turns up dead, Emma kisses her lover goodbye and attempts to continue his work of finding and stopping the development of a flying bomb that could spell disaster for the Allied forces.

Find the fic here on ao3.

Below is the original movie poster @suwya maniped with Emma and Killian for her Once Upon a Movie collection after reading the fic. Please go give her all the love!!!

Tagging the usuals, please let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.

@jrob64 @teamhook @winterbaby89 @hollyethecurious @artistic-writer @xarandomdreamx @undercaffinatednightmare @the-darkdragonfly @stahlop @superchocovian @pirateprincessofpizza @tiganasummertree @anmylica @cosette141 @motherkatereloyshipper @zaharadessert @jonesfandomfanatic @ultraluckycatnd @jennjenn615 @allons-y-to-hogwarts-713 @kymbersmith-90 @booksteaandtoomuchtv @wistfulcynic @mie779 @snowbellewells @lfh1226-linda @aprilqueen84 @whimsicallyenchantedrose @pirateherokillian @elfiola @ilovemesomekillianjones @justanother-unluckysoul @poptart-cat-78 @myfearless-love @goforlaunchcee @searchingwardrobes @gingerpolyglot @gingerchangeling @djlbg @cocohook38 @cs-rylie @thisonesatellite @donteattheappleshook @deckerstarblanche @veryverynotgoodwrites @wefoundloveunderthelight @fleurdepetite @alexa-fangirl-forever

#self promo sunday #in the vipers den #krystal writes #art by krystal #art by suwya

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nikkinwk · 5 months

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Essa é a KATIE DOUGLAS chegando no Paddock? Ah não, é a NICOLE “NIKKI” NOWAK, de 22 ANOS e da INGLATERRA que é PILOTO NÚMERO 31 da ASTON MARTIN. Nos melhores dias ela é DEDICADA e CUIDADOSA, mas às vezes também é ATRAPALHADA e ENVERGONHADA.

Sempre o último lugar em tudo, óculos grossos ao redor dos olhos, dormir demais e acordar atrasada, passar as sextas feiras em casa assistindo reality shows, tropeçar e destruir alguma coisa no paddock, balas industrializadas, fugir da academia.

Obs.: Gente, eu queria muito publicar logo a bio da Nikki, mas tava sem tempo, então decidi escrever algo bem do ponto de vista de player dela pra conseguir apresentar de forma geral e plotar, e depois eu faço um about bonitinho! Espero que vocês gostem.

Nikki é filha de um Nolan Nowak, um mecânico que trabalhou a vida toda para a Aston Martin, até se aposentar. A ruivinha cresceu pulando de país em país, cidade por cidade para qual seu pai era mandado, e em todo lugar que ela ia, ela sempre era a grande perdedora. Tal qual uma loser de filme, nunca teve muita sorte em fazer amizades e sempre acabava falando demais. E claro que seu jeito desastrado e seu famoso "toque de merdas" (sua versão do "toque de Midas", em que tudo que ela tocava virava uma grande porcaria, quebrava, caía, era destruído) não ajudava muito.

É uma garota animada e risonha, cheia de piadas, manias e hábitos curiosos. Infelizmente, tem seu potencial reduzido graças a sua preguiça. Correu por muitos anos nas divisões menores, até ter uma expressão melhor na Fórmula 2 e conseguir se livrar de sua reputação de perdedora. Entretanto, este é seu primeiro ano na Fórmula 1 e não tem tido resultados muito bons.

#𝐛𝐢𝐨.

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byneddiedingo · 3 months

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Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924)

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Julianne Johnston, Anna May Wong, Snitz Edwards, Sojin Kamayama, Brandon Hurst, Tote Du Crow, Noble Johnson. Screenplay: Lotta Woods, Douglas Fairbanks, Achmed Abdullah, James T. O'Donohoe. Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Production design: William Cameron Menzies. Film editing: William Nolan.

Back when Bagdad was synonymous with flying carpets and not prolonged international conflict, Douglas Fairbanks produced what is either a magical romp or an example of Orientalism at its worst, depending on your point of view. But for the purposes of film history, let's suspend political and social consciousness and appreciate The Thief of Bagdad for what it accomplished: an amusing spectacle, with marvelous sets and (for the time) remarkable special effects. Add to that Fairbanks's energetic performance -- if you can endure the balletic pantomime he often slips into -- and you've got a classic for the usual kids of all ages. It holds up well even today, in part because it's all spectacle: Sound would be superfluous. And yes, Sojin Kamayama's Mongol prince adheres to the "yellow peril" stereotype, a foreshadowing of Flash Gordon's Ming the Merciless, with Anna May Wong slinking around as his partner in malfeasance, but we're treating this as camp, right? Julianne Johnston's princess is a little vapid, not quite the astonishing beauty who's supposed to sweep the thief off his feet and turn him away from larceny toward love. The movie is a shade too long, and it loses some momentum when the thief goes off on his quest to find the thing that will win the princess's love. Even though it helps him save Bagdad from the Mongol hordes, I found his box of magic powder (if that's what it is -- the movie is a little vague about it) less impressive than the Persian prince's (Mathilde Comont) flying carpet, the Indian Prince's (Noble Johnson) crystal ball, and the Mongol prince's golden apple that gives him power over life and death. But even when the story lags, there's always something fun to watch.

#The Thief of Bagdad #Raoul Walsh #Douglas Fairbanks

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tengomilpalabrasparati · 8 months

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Cumpleaños 🎂

Michael Keaton cumple 72 años

¿Qué esconde la sonrisa de Michael Keaton? Esta pregunta sin respuesta es la que ha permitido al popular actor dar vida al hombre murciélago, y a personajes tan inquietantes como Bitelchus y psicópatas varios.

Michael Keaton nació en Coraopolis (Pensilvania) el 5 de Septiembre de 1951, y es el menor de una familia de siete hermanos. En realidad, fue bautizado como Michael John Douglas, pero se vio obligado a cambiar su nombre artístico para no coincidir con el del célebre hijo de Kirk Douglas.

Entre los años 1982 y 1990 estuvo casado con la actriz Carolina McWilliams, con la que tuvo a su hijo Sean Maxwell Douglas.

Debutó como actor a finales de los setenta apareciendo en varias comedias. Tras dar el salto al cine, durante sus primeros años fue conocido como actor cómico por su participación en cintas como "Turno de noche" en 1982 o "Bitelchus" en 1988, sin duda, una de las cintas por las que más se le recuerda.

Durante los años siguientes y, hasta finales de los años noventa, Michael Keaton viviría sus años dorados, en los que hizo sus trabajos más destacados y tocó diferentes géneros: de la acción de "Un buen policía", al regusto clásico de "Mucho ruido y pocas nueces". También se atrevió con papeles más oscuros como el que interpretó en "De repente, un extraño" y con dramas lacrimógenos como "Mi vida".

Pero, durante esos años, haría uno de los papeles más icónicos de su carrera, Batman (1989), en la que fue la adaptación cinematográfica más aplaudida hasta ese momento de los comics del hombre murciélago. Sin embargo, cuando Michael Keaton fue anunciado como el elegido para encarnar a Bruce Wayne, la Warner recibió miles de cartas de fans contrariados porque creían que no daría la talla.

Finalmente hizo Batman (1989) y Batman vuelve, ambas dirigidas por Tim Burton. Sin embargo, rechazó una oferta de quince millones de dólares para interpretar la tercera entrega, ya que no estaba de acuerdo con el guión. De hecho, su idea para una tercera película era remontarse a los orígenes del héroe, tal y como hizo Christopher Nolan en Batman Begins. Sobre este tema declaró recientemente: “Eso es exactamente lo que hizo Chris Nolan. Hizo exactamente lo que dije que había que hacer.”

Otro personaje al que dio vida en dos producciones fue el de Ray Nicolette. Curiosamente, interpretó a ese personaje en dos películas diferentes y que no eran una secuela. La primera de ellas fue "Jackie Brown" de Quentin Tarantino, en 1997 y repetiría con un cameo no acreditado un año después en Un romance muy peligroso, de Steven Soderbergh, ambas adaptaciones de sendas novelas de "Elmore Leonard".

Desde el comienzo del nuevo siglo, se ha prodigado como actor de televisión, donde ha cosechado varios reconocimientos. Fue nominado a los Globos de Oro en 2003 por su trabajo en "Fuego sobre Bagdad" y, en 2008 fue nominado a los Premios del Sindicato de Actores por su papel en la miniserie "The Company". Sus papeles en el cine durante la última década han sido casi siempre como secundario, aunque hay excepciones como la inquietante "White Noise" y su debut en la dirección, la notable "Caballero y asesino".

También ha trabajado como doblador de películas de animación como "Cars" y "Toy Story 3", así como del videojuego "Call of Duty: Blacks Ops II". Además, colaboró en la redacción del libro “Astream: American writers on Fly Fishing”, publicado en 2012, ya que es un gran aficionado a la pesca.

#Cumpleaños 🎂#Michael Keaton

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perfectly-clear-from-here · 9 months

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9 people you want to get to know better !

i was tagged by @a-reality-dream tysmmm i swear these tag games are like wee life checkpoints <3

fav color: oh christ i have no clue ahh id say maybe really light denim blue and black (because leather and denim is literally all i wear) but like proper colour wise i think pink and green go dead nice together so there ya go

currently reading: just got Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart a couple days ago so ive been reading that and ahhhh i absolutely love it!!

last song: well it was can't stand me now by the libertines (who ive just gotten totally obsessed with again ahhh bless them) but it literally just changed to parabola by tool and GOD i still cant get over how good the guitar is in this song-

last series: oh im actually not sure i havent been watching anything really rn but my brother's been stickin on breaking bad again so i guess im rewatching it!!

last movie: went to see oppenheimer the other day and OH MY JESUS it was so incredible, ive got such a soft spot for christopher nolan films and i swear cillian murphy and his feckin big blue eyes are gonna be the death of me-

currently working on: chapter 4 for inhaler!! ive been dragged through the bushes backwards with this one but i swear its on the way 😭

right. do what ye want of course. no pressure. (and sorry if youve already been tagged ahh!!) but- here ya go:

@uhbasicallyjustmilex

@yellowloid

@paperlovesadness

@blokeykisses

@drinkingbitterboy

@blacktrickle

@bandomgay

@barmans-fault

@doiwannaknow5

and if ye want it, just say user perfectly-clear-from-here gave you full permission <3

#you know whats coming:#oversharing and its bitter aftertaste #tag games

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aragarna · 9 months

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tag game

Tag nine (9) people you'd like to know better

got tagged by @ladymisteria, thank you <3

Last song: Flowers, by Miley Cyrus. And lots of French stuff that I'm sure no one has ever heard of outside of France.

Currently reading: I just finished Terrible Virtue, by Ellen Feldman. A very interesting book about Margaret Sanger, the activist for birth control and founder of planned parenthood, in the 1910's. Very enlighting.

Currently watching: Just back from viewing Oppenheimer, by Christopher Nolan. Which was great! (if a bit long). As a scientist, I always find it funny all those name dropping of famous scientists who are otherwise reduced to laws and equations. Fermi, Bohr, Feyman, even Lawrence! You know, from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! Also, I went to see it in 70 mm. I had missed film. And thank god for good old Nolan and his minimal use of CGI. it's a nice eye cleanser after all the CGI from the last Indiana Jones.

Current obsession: As you may have noticed, I'm in a Zorro phase. I've rewatched the Disney show and the Banderas movies, watched the adaptations with Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Alain Delon and Frank Langella. Also, the Gay Blade. And I'm currently working my way through the 1990 New World Zorro show. the Disney show and the Banderas movies still remain my favorite though. And I'm working on some fanfictions and gifs, naturally :)

tagging @spinner-sophie @gneissgneissbaby @critterkeeper01 @donfadrique @whirlwind-lancer-dilan @thesymphonytrue @ascreamintothevoid-blog @padfootagain (with no pressure and no obligation of course)

#a meme!#thanks for the tag!#about me

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crybabytecrs · 1 year

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M U S E S

FEMALES / without fandom

・❥・VALERIE | [19-25] | madelyn cline ・❥・HAILEE | [19-26] | emily alyn lind ・❥・BROOKLYN | [19-25] | maia reficco ・❥・EMORY | [21-26] | sydney sweeney ・❥・DELILAH | [20-25] | kathryn newton ・❥・VICTORIA | [20-25] | abigail cowen ・❥・VIOLET | [18-25] | lily rose depp ・❥・OPHELIA | [20-26] | kristine froseth ・❥・AURORA | [19-26] | dove cameron ・❥・AYLEEN | [19-26] | jenna ortega ・❥・CASSIDY | [19-24] | hailee steinfeld ・❥・NOVA | [19-24] | grace van dien ・❥・JORDYN | [19-25] | natalia dyer ・❥・BLAIR | [20-27] | alexa demie ・❥・MADDIE | [18-24] | katie douglas

MALES / without fandom

・❥・LOGAN | [20-26] | benjamin wadsworth ・❥・MILES | [21-29] | drew starkey ・❥・AIDEN | [20-26] | jacob elordi ・❥・ELIJAH | [21-26] | rudy pankow ・❥・NOLAN | [20-25] | ross lynch ・❥・VINCE | [20-25] | gavin casalegno ・❥・FYNN | [21-27] | timothée chalamet ・❥・NIC | [20-26] | chase stokes ・❥・JUSTIN | [21-28] | thomas doherty ・❥・TONY | [34-42] | chris evans ・❥・MILO | [19-24] | joe kerry ・❥・JESSE | [21-30] | dylan o'brien ・❥・AARON | [22-29] | tyler posey ・❥・CHASE | [20-27] | cody christian ・❥・BENJI | [19-26] | christopher briney

FEMALES / with fandom

MALES / with fandom

— my fandom muses are usually just for rp’s on discord, means i probably wont use them in threads on tumblr. but still, if you’re feeling like doing a canon x oc just ask!!

FEMALES / canon

MALES / canon

#𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬. [-𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬.]

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manhwalizando · 11 months

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Star Wars: Curiosidades Aleatórias que Todo Fã Deveria Saber

Olá, galáxia distante! Sejam bem-vindos a mais um episódio do nosso programa, onde exploramos o universo de Star Wars. Hoje, prepare-se para mergulhar em algumas curiosidades incríveis sobre essa franquia que conquistou corações ao redor do mundo. Eu sou [seu nome], e neste episódio, vamos revelar segredos e histórias por trás de Star Wars. Vamos começar!

1: A Origem do Sabre de Luz

Sabe esse icônico sabre de luz? Você acreditaria se eu te dissesse que sua origem está ligada a um dispositivo fotográfico? Sim, o designer de produção John Stears usou um flash de uma câmera antiga como base para criar esse efeito visual único. É fascinante como uma simples inspiração se tornou um símbolo tão poderoso em Star Wars.

2: Código-fonte em Star Wars

Prepare-se para uma surpresa nerd! Em uma cena de "O Ataque dos Clones", enquanto Obi-Wan está investigando os clones, é possível ver trechos de código-fonte de um programa de DNA na tela. Uma pequena referência que certamente agrada aos fãs mais atentos.

3: Os Ewoks quase falaram inglês

Você já se perguntou como os adoráveis Ewoks se comunicavam? Bem, inicialmente, eles estavam planejados para falar inglês. Mas George Lucas decidiu que eles teriam uma linguagem própria. Os sons dos Ewoks foram criados combinando vocais de animais, como ursos e guinchos de lontras. É uma língua única que adiciona um toque especial à sua fofura.

4: O Retorno do Jedi

Sabia que o título original do terceiro filme da trilogia original era "Revenge of the Jedi" (A Vingança do Jedi)? Porém, pouco antes do lançamento, George Lucas decidiu alterá-lo para "Return of the Jedi" (O Retorno do Jedi). Ele sentiu que "vingança" não era um traço adequado para os Jedi, que buscam a paz e a harmonia. Uma mudança sutil, mas significativa.

5: Nomes inspirados

Muitos dos nomes cativantes em Star Wars têm uma história interessante por trás. Por exemplo, o nome "Han Solo" foi uma homenagem ao cineasta Han Nolan. Já o sobrenome "Skywalker" foi inspirado no cineasta Douglas Trumbull, apelidado de "Skywalker". É incrível como pequenos detalhes têm grandes significados na criação desses personagens.

6: A história por trás de R2-D2 e C-3PO

Sabe aqueles dois robôs adoráveis, R2-D2 e C-3PO? Eles foram originalmente planejados para serem personagens secundários, mas sua popularidade os elevou ao status de protagonistas. Eles conquistaram o coração dos fãs com sua química única e suas aventuras hilárias. Não é incrível como algo que começou como um papel menor se tornou tão icônico?

7: O segredo do som do sabre de luz

Ah, o som inconfundível do sabre de luz! Você sabia que ele foi criado combinando o som de um motor de projetor antigo com o zumbido de um tubo de televisão antigo? Ben Burtt, o designer de som, utilizou essa combinação para criar um som icônico que acompanha cada luta de sabre de luz. É uma verdadeira sinfonia para os nossos ouvidos!

8: Princesa Leia e Jabba the Hutt

Uma das cenas mais marcantes de "O Retorno de Jedi" é quando a corajosa Princesa Leia se torna escrava de Jabba the Hutt. Mas você sabia que a atriz Carrie Fisher teve que suportar o desconforto de usar uma fantasia de metal pesada sob as luzes quentes do set de filmagem? Mesmo assim, ela entregou uma performance inesquecível, mostrando sua força e determinação.

E aí está! Espero que você tenha apreciado essas curiosidades fascinantes sobre Star Wars tanto quanto eu. A franquia nos surpreende com tantos detalhes interessantes que nos permitem mergulhar ainda mais no universo criado por George Lucas. Lembre-se de compartilhar suas próprias curiosidades e opiniões nos comentários abaixo. Que a Força esteja com você!

#star wars #return of jedi #curiosidades #curiosity #Curious #Sabre de Luz #r2 d2 #c3p0 #r2d2 and c3po #han solo #Skywalker #ewoks #O ataque dos clones #attack of the clones

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