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ggebba · 6 months

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I decided to translate Andrei Svechnikov's interview for the Russian press.

Here is a direct link to the article:

— The journalist: In the USA they always talk about the fact that you are from Barnaul, but every year you come back to Kazan.

- Svechnikov: I haven't been to Barnaul for a long time. And we came to Kazan when I was 10 years old - my conscious childhood was spent here. My parents are here, my home. I come to Kazan on vacation, it's always great in the summer. As soon as my season was over, I was in Raleigh for a week and a half, there were meetings with coaches, then we went to dinners with the team. As soon as it was over, the guys left, and I flew to Kazan. My older brother (Evgeniy) also flew in and was in Kazan for about a month. We saw our friends, had a rest, prepared for the season. It's always great at home, it's good to sleep in your own bed.

-The journalist: Have you bought an apartment in America yet or are you renting?

- Svechnikov: I bought a house this season. I was there a couple of times when I negotiated the purchase, and now I will move in with my stuff. I was renting an apartment before, but now I am happy - I will have my own house.

- The journalist: Have you done the renovations yet? Have you furnished it?

- Svechnikov: Yes, I'm renovating it now. When I get there, I'll have to order a couple things and it'll be fine.

- The journalist: You're moving in alone?

- Svechnikov: Yeah, alone.

-The journalist: You said that you trained in Kazan three times a day. Did the club send you its own program or did you train on an individual basis?

- Svechnikov: Vanya Provorov and I practiced in Yaroslavl for several years in a row. This year I decided to hold a training camp in Kazan, and it was about the same program as in Yaroslavl. Cycling, athletics, gym and ice. On June 1, I arrived in Kazan, had a rest and at the beginning of July I started training according to the program, before that I did jogging to be in shape.

—The journalist: Do Canadians, Americans prepare for the season the same way or do they have easier preparation?

- Svechnikov: I have my own program, I like to prepare like this, I feel good after it. To be honest, I don't know exactly how the others do, I trained with them one year, when was Kovid - it was hard to fly home then. We just had the gym, the ice. That’s all.

-The journalist: You signed a new contract last summer, the first big contract of your career. How much pressure did that put on you during the season? And how much did you put it on your mind?

- Svechnikov: It didn't really bother me at all. Why should it? You go out, do your job, try to play for the money you were given and even better. My task is to play better. I do my job and follow the coach's instructions.

-The journalist: Did in the team say something about it? After all, now you are one of the most expensive players on the team, not a rookie.

- Svechnikov: No, everyone's just taking it easy, nobody reminds me about it once in a while. Obviously, they give you money, and you have to work for it.

-The journalist: Are you happy with the contract?

- Svechnikov: Sure, eight years, I'm happy with everything. We have a good team in Carolina, we're in the playoffs every season, we have a chance at the Cup every year. The most important thing for me is to win the Stanley Cup. That's what we're going for.

— The journalist: For a couple years now, it's felt like this is Carolina's season, they should be winning now. What didn't work last season?

-Svechnikov: I don't know myself, seemed like a good team, all the pieces came together. You can say that we lacked experience, but that's not right. We're in the playoffs for the fourth year, we have experience. I guess all the stars have to come together, and then it will work out. So far they haven't. We need to play better in some situations - play short-handed, power play. Then maybe everything will work out.

-The journalist: Carolina always plays the same style. And when you have to change something, it seems like you don't have a plan B. Is that true?

-Svechnikov: I agree, we play by the same system. It's clear that in the playoffs we change things, adjust to the opponent, analyze their game. In the playoffs, we also studied teams, changed game in the zone a little bit, added lateral passes. We'll see what happens this season, what the coaches give us. If they want to make a change, we'll execute.

-The journalist: Shestyorkin stopped you. How can you even score on him?

- Svechnikov: I didn't know. He's a very good goalie, it's really hard for me to score when he’s in the net. He played in the KHL, came to the NHL, gained experience. He's one of the best goalies in the NHL, everybody knows that. Obviously, it's hard when you realize that one of the best goalies is playing against you. We tried to go under the net, to block the view. When Igor sees a shot, it's very hard to score to him - he's technical and moves quickly.

-The journalist: Who would you rank as one of the top three goaltenders in the NHL?

- Svechnikov: Obviously, Vasya (Andrei Vasilevskiy) 100%, Shestyora (Igor Shesterkin) 100%. It's hard to say about the third one, I would single out two, it's very hard to play against them.

-The journalist: You were friends with Hamilton, who went to "New Jersey." How much did he fall short?

- Svechnikov: That's a tough question, because we were able to sign Tony Deangelo, who is also a very good defenseman, one of the best, skates well, moves the puck. Maybe if Hamilton had played for us we would have won, maybe not. Dougie is one of the best defensemen in the NHL, he's always a pleasure to play with.

— The journalist: You never played for the adult national team at international tournaments. Now there is a pause again, and it is not clear how long it will last.

— Svechnikov: Actually, I'd really like to play for the Russian main national team, if they call me. I have never played at this level, it would be nice to play for the national team. It's an experience, but at the same time you enjoy this moment, because you are in one team for a whole season, and when you come to the national team, everything is completely different. New guys, new communication - it would be great to play, I can't wait for this moment.

— The journalist: What do you miss in America that you have in Russia? What do you miss the most?

— Svechnikov: It's definitely the food. Obviously, friends, family, although my mom and dad come to visit us, but I still miss them. It's just our whole Russian atmosphere: going to the banya, going to the dacha, grilling shashliki - it's such a buzz. You come there (America), you have no time, the season is coming up, you're always working, games every 2-3 day. The season ends, you fly home, you immediately plunge into your native atmosphere. I can't find that in America.

— The journalist: After the well known political events, did you feel any special treatment because you are Russian?

— Svechnikov: Everything's the same as it was, I didn't even think about it. I came, did my job. The guys treated me well, as they always do in principle.

— The journalist: Did you ever discuss politics in the locker room? Or didn't touch on the subject?

— Svechnikov: I think they tried not to discuss it in front of me. Well, they might have discussed something among themselves. I didn't really talk to anyone about it.

-The journalist: There are 82 games in the NHL. How great is the value of each one?

-Svechnikov: We have a lot of games. Yeah, we lost, but you realize you can't win them all. It's got to be some kind of Dream Team. I immediately forget the past game and tune in for the next one. Naturally, we will look at some mistakes, the next day they show us the video, we sort it out so that it doesn't happen in the next match. We try to learn from our mistakes so that we don't make them later.

-The journalist: How much easier is it in America to deal with losing?

-Svechnikov: Our coach will find his own approach for each player, communicate with everyone, talk, and demand from everyone what is needed from him. We don't have such a thing that we come to the bench, and he yells at us. He can tell you calmly where you need to play easier, throw a defender or not lose the puck in the middle zone. It's very simple for us in this regard, even if we make a mistake, he won't say anything, just show it the next day and we'll sort it out. In this regard, the coach does not put so much pressure on us, treats everyone calmly and, most importantly, finds an approach to each player.

-The journalist: Doesn't that change in the playoffs, doesn't it build up?

- Svechnikov: No, everybody understands that it's the playoffs, everybody wants to win the Cup, everybody tries and gives a hundred percent. There's no such thing as a player going out there and skating around for nothing. Everyone is playing the system and trying to give their all to the team and do everything to win.

— The journalist: You're stable, but there's a feeling that it's like you're missing something to become a superstar.

— Svechnikov: Of course, I realize that I still have potential. And there are so many details in which I need to progress.

— The journalist: Does the club pay attention to any details? Skating, throwing, power play.

— Svechnikov: No, they didn't say anything specific. They asked me to play differently in certain situations.

— The journalist: Your brother Evgeniy played a full season for Winnipeg. Were you surprised he wasn't offered a full contract?

— Svechnikov: He had three options on where to go, Winnipeg was one of them. We all decided together that it would be better to go to San Jose. Last season was the best season of his career, and I want this one to be even better.

— The journalist: Is there a player in the NHL that surprises you?

— Svechnikov: I would say probably Makar, the most valuable player in the playoffs. Otherwise, MacKinnon, McDavid are the best players in the league. I'd like to highlight Nikita Kucherov, it's interesting to watch him, how he skates, how he handles the puck.

— The journalist: How do you relax between games?

— Svechnikov: We have games every other day. We played a match, underwent recovery procedures, then the next day we have a regular training session. Then I come home, rest, watch movies. I went out to dinner with the guys, and that's it. Nothing special.

— The journalist: You watch movies in Russian?

— Svechnikov: I watch movies both in Russian and in English. But more in Russian.

— The journalist: What do you watch in Russian? Russian movies?

— Svechnikov: I watch some of the most popular movies on YouTube in Russian. No, I watch TV series on Netflix. I don't watch Russian series, but, for example, I watched the Spanish series"La casa de papel" in Russian.

— The journalist: Do you watch "Brother-2" when you miss Russia?

— Svechnikov: Well I've watched this movie a couple of times, but I don't like watching the same movies. I'm always looking for new ones, I don't like repeating myself.

— The journalist: How did you learn English when you left?

— Svechnikov: I arrived at 16, I didn't know the language at all, of course, I learned most of it in the locker room with the guys. Some words were spoken, I always wrote them down in my notes and translated them immediately. I read it a couple of times in the morning and you already memorized the word. I spent the first year learning that way, going to dinners and lunches with the guys.

In the second year I had a teacher, I went to her a little bit, she helped me with grammar. And in the third year I came to the NHL. And it's a different life there. You have to do everything yourself, rent a car, an apartment. The club, of course, helps in this regard, but there was still a need to learn the language. Every year you learn more and more, but you can't learn everything. It’s really hard.

— The journalist: You drive a car there? Is it hard?

— Svechnikov: Yeah, I drive myself. It's easy.

— The journalist: Is it more difficult in Russia?

— Svechnikov: I don't have a car here, I borrow my father's. But I've driven here too. It feels like the roads here are narrower than in America. Daredevils? It seems to me, everyone drives calmly here. In America they drive on the highway too.

— The journalist: How's the atmosphere in Raleigh?

— Svechnikov: Everything is calm for me, a quiet small town, a lot of families live, they walk with children. In this regard, everything is peaceful and safe.

— The journalist: Are there neighborhoods that you are asked not to drive into?

— Svechnikov: I guess so, I don't really drive anywhere. I usually go from home to the arena, to lunch and to the airport to fly to the games. I didn't drive around much, I didn't look around.

—The journalist : You got a big contract. I see, you bought a house. What would you be saving up for?

-Svechnikov: That's a hard question, probably just for the future, for my family to be well, for my children to be well, just for that now, I think.

- The journalist : In Russia, many hockey players buy themselves expensive watches and clothes. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought yourself?

- Svechnikov: Probably an expensive suit, a sweater of some kind. It's not that I spend on it all the time, I just have a couple of things, like all the guys who play at this level.

- The journalist: For how much? 2-3 thousand dollars?

- Svechnikov: Yeah, about that.

- The journal: Does the NHL have strict rules about dressing for the game?

- Svechnikov: It used to be much stricter, in fact, you had to wear a tie and shoes. This year it's much easier, a lot of people don't wear a tie, sometimes they come in sneakers, I'm a fan of that too. It used to be much more difficult, we had to wear a suit on the airplane.

The coach was asked if we could wear regular clothes. He said he played 20 years in this league and always wore a suit. There hasn't been a single game that he's come in regular clothes. "And you're going to violate my ritual?" We have a coach who is an NHL star, I completely agree in that respect, because the game is a celebration and you have to be serious, solid. If I was in normal clothes, I wouldn't feel like I was going to the game.

— The journalist: Where would you like to live after you finish playing: in Russia or in America?

— Svechnikov: It's still a long way off, but I love Russia very much, it's my home, I will definitely live in Russia, 100%. And perhaps I will come to America for a while.

— The journalist: How American do you feel you are? How much percent American do you have in you?

— Svechnikov: I'd say I'm one hundred percent Russian. That's not even up for debate! I go there to play hockey, to do my job. I come to Russia right after the season, I feel at home.

— The journalist: Are you going to apply for American passports like Ovechkin or Malkin?

— Svechnikov: Well. No, I'm not. What's the point? They've been there for a long time, I haven't lived there that long yet.

— The journalist: A few years ago you got into a fight with Ovechkin. Did you get to talk to him after that?

— Svechnikov: Yes, it turns out, we even exchanged sticks with him, we’re fine. Fighting is part of hockey, especially in the playoffs. You had a fight, you got out of the game, you're fine, you've forgotten all about it. I don't think about it at all, that we had a fight and now we're going to have bad relations. No, we’re good.

— The journalist: Doesn't it surprise you that a 37 year old man is scoring 50 goals for the season?

— Svechnikov: Of course it's surprising. I don't think there have been any Russians in the league who have played like that at that age. I hope he breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for goals in NHL history. I'm rooting for Alexander to succeed. What can I say here? He’s a real superstar.

- The journalist: Your main goal for next season?

- Svechnikov: Play better than I have in the past, and God willing, we'll do well and have a good playoff run. Only goals like that. The highest goal is obviously to win the Stanley Cup. Well, you always want to do that.

- The journalist: Kochetkov surprised everyone last season. How was he received by the team?

- Svechnikov: Petya did well, he's just great! He also had a hard road, he played in the AHL, NHL, KHL. When he came here, I knew he had experience, everyone knew that he had played at the professional level for a few years. Obviously, he came and proved to everyone that he could play in the NHL easily. It was hard for him without knowing English, I tried to help him in some moments. Then he won the Cup in the AHL. I hope he will do well this year, he will play in the NHL. He has a great talent, he can do everything, he's a fast big guy, the NHL always needs that kind of player.

-The journalist: Do you play a lot of consoles when you're traveling?

- Svechnikov: No, we don't play consoles at all.

- The journalist: On the pc: CS, Dota?

- Svechnikov: We play CS, yes. I bought a computer last year, and sometimes I play with guys, with friends. I also play with my brother, when I have free time, we play for an hour. It helps to distract myself a little bit.

- The journalist: Doesn't it ever get so addictive that you forget about bedtime?

- Svechnikov: No, I'm the same as my brother, everything is on schedule. We go to bed at the same time, eat at the same time. And we don't like sitting at the computer for two hours, it's better to go for a walk.

#carolina hurricanes #andrei svechnikov

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ilikethisacompletelynormalamount · 3 months

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Congratulations to Andrew and the whole team behind Vanya!

Coming soon to theaters worldwide via NT Live.

#andrew scott #vanya #whatsonstage #simon stephens #sam yates #rossana vize #wessex grove

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broadwaydivastournament · 20 days

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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 4

Two-time Tony-winning dancer-extraordinaire Bebe Neuwirth (1958) is best known for her winning role as Velma Kelly in Chicago (1996) alongside her beloved Annie Reinking. After playing Velma off-and-on for some years, she then took on Roxie, and later Matron "Mama" Morton. Bebe has also won for Sweet Charity (1986), and is a two-time Emmy winner for, of course, Lilith in Cheers. Other credits include Here Lies Jenny (2004), Fosse (2001), and Cabaret (2024), which opened to glowing reviews for Bebe, and dismal reviews for basically everything else. In addition to her beloved stage, Bebe is a devoted cat-lover, and activist. She founded the Dancers' Resource program to provide support for injured and/or aging dancers.

Anika Noni Rose (1972) is a Tony-winning actress known for Caroline, or Change (2004), A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and the 2013 first workshop of Hamilton where she originated Angelica Schuyler. She is also known for being one of the iconic Dreamgirls in the 2006 film, as well as the voice of Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog. In 2011, alongside Lea Salonga, she was named a certified, official, Disney Legend. Her latest Broadway show, Uncle Vanya, just opened this past week.

NEW PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

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"Bebe Neuwirth, my beloved, I have at last seen you in Cabaret, and I am so sorry. You deserve a far better production, and a far better show social media team that recognizes your abundant talent and rave reviews. Please continue to post cat photos, because they bring me nothing but joy."

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"Does Anika Noni Rose not have a pet? In my quest to get a photo of every Diva with their animal, she turned up empty, so...that's something. Also, her Vanya revival wasn't well-received, so that's two Divas in this poll in substandard revivals. Woo-hoo."

#broadwaydivastournament #broadway #tournament poll #broadway divas #musical theatre #bebe neuwirth #anika noni rose #round 4 #look i tried to get them on the same song wavelength like everyone else but i couldn't locate bebe's “another hundred people” in time

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celebratetheclassics · 2 years

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Universal Weekly (1927-1930) Vol. 25, No. 9

#magazines #articles #ivan mosjoukine #team vanya #silent era #silent film stars #1920s #vintage

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reluctantjoe · 5 months

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‘After rehearsal, my face hurts from laughing!’ The Ghosts cast on fun, fame and their festive farewell

One of the UK’s most cherished comedies is bowing out for ever. The stars talk about nicking things from the set – and being called ‘outrageous and shameful’ by Piers Morgan

Thanks, I tell the creators of Ghosts sarcastically, for making my daughter cry. The evening before, my family watched the supernatural sitcom’s final episode, and the only dry eyes in the house were mine.

This reaction, I tell Martha Howe-Douglas, Laurence Rickard, Jim Howick and Mathew Baynton over Zoom call, is going to be replicated across Britain. Did you think about how you were going to ruin everybody’s Christmas when you wrote this tearjerker? “Ah, you can but dream,” says Baynton, who plays the Romantic poet Thomas, wistfully.

The Ghosts team implore me not to reveal plot twists from the last episode, but there are some tantalising details I can share without spoiling the viewing experience. First, this is the episode where the final secret about the ghosts is revealed, namely how the Captain died. Second, there is a flash-forward to Alison and Mike in their dotage. But most of all, this is where we learn the fates of everybody, living and dead. I’d like to reveal more about whether Alison and Mike do sell land from the estate to build a golf course, or if any ghost is going to emulate Katy Wix’s character Mary and be sucked off (their words) into the spirit realm, but if I did it’s quite possible the cast would hunt me down and chop off my head. Or maybe they’d just haunt me for ever which, to be honest, doesn’t sound so bad.

The show’s premise – that the ghosts can never leave the grounds of the house – is a tragicomic trope of Britcoms, ie that the protagonists can’t escape their fate. It was Harold’s psychic wound in Steptoe and Son, and now in Ghosts all the spirits are stuck in each others’ company for good as if Button House is a home counties Hotel California. Or if you prefer, the Horrible Histories team have made a funny Uncle Vanya.

Four talking heads nod on their respective Zoom screens.

“I always think Chekhov is funnier than it’s usually done,” says Rickard – who plays two parts, Humphrey the headless and Robin the caveman. “They’re fixed somewhere and also utterly baffled as to why they’re there. So you have these existential crises going on with people who are already dead.” “I was in a production of Vanya once,” says Howick, who plays Scout leader Pat. “It was nothing like this.”

Baynton says: “On the face of it, it’s about ghosts, but it’s really just a metaphor for what it’s like to be a person. You’re born into the world and everyone’s got different opinions about what everything means. To do that in a family sitcom always felt like an amazing trick to me. It kind of is Beckett, but it’s um ... silly Beckett.”

Cast your mind back to April 2019, when the team behind Horrible Histories unveiled a new comedy. Did your careers ever recover from Horrible Histories being endorsed by Michael Gove as a tool for teaching? “I think that was nicely ballasted by James Cleverly or Piers Morgan a few years later around Brexit saying that it was a waste of licence fee,” says Baynton. It was actually Morgan who, with his unerring grasp of the national mood, in 2020 tweeted that the show was “an outrageous, shameful abuse of public money”.

At the outset, Ghosts seemed like a spin-off from Horrible Histories’ Stupid Deaths segment, in which the team recreated a laughable demise (King Harold shot in the eye at Hastings, self-styled gong farmer Richard the Raker drowning in his own poo, Aeschylus killed by an eagle dropping a tortoise on his head). The eponymous Ghosts often died similarly stupidly: Howick’s Scout leader Pat died in an archery accident and wears an arrow through his neck for all eternity; Lolly Adefope’s Georgian noblewoman Kitty was slain by a spider bite from a transatlantically imported pineapple.

In episode one, thirtysomething herberts Alison and Mike move into an ancestral pile that she’s inherited, only to find that it’s haunted. After she falls through a window and cracks her head open, Alison can see the ghosts but Mike can’t – though if he could he would probably put out the lights of the dead Romantic poet who keeps putting the moves on his wife.

Ghosts has been a lovely antidote to our times. For the cast too, making it has been a joy. “We’re very different people,” says Rickard, “but the thing we’ve got in common is a sense of humour. And if you can have one thing in common, that is the best thing, because it’s a light, fun, nice thing you want to keep returning to.

“At the end of rehearsal day, my face hurts from laughing. It’s a really unusual feeling that you’re giving yourself a headache from having a good time, without being horribly drunk.”

A few days later, I interview Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe, who play Alison and Mike. “I think it has real kindness at the heart of it,” says Ritchie. “The core of the show, I think, is that all these people you might label as different are navigating things together.”

That said, Ghosts also manages to tackle some pretty important social issues. The second world war army veteran Captain, whose love for a junior officer dare not speak its name, is fondly imagined. More significant yet is the representation of people of colour. Smith-Bynoe says he was especially delighted when last year’s Christmas special depicted something he’d never seen on TV before: a Black family having Christmas dinner. “I’ve had couples come up to me and, them being an interracial couple, say that it means a lot to them to see that at the forefront. It’s not talked about, just there.”

Ghosts has made the pair famous. “If I wear Alison’s jumpers when I go out, I get recognised,” says Ritchie. Or misrecognised: “I was out the other day and this woman came up to me and said: ‘Liked you in Fleabag.’ So I went with it.” “Why not?” laughs Smith-Bynoe. “I had a thing where somebody was convinced I did a warm-up for Mo Gilligan.” But you never have done? “Of course not! But it was hard to convince them I knew better.”

Both Ritchie and Smith-Bynoe would like to have a word with the writers. They’re not happy the show has come to an end. “I’ve got nothing in January,” she says. “Me neither.” They have a point. They are unemployed in a cost of living crisis while several of the writer-actors on the show have parlayed their fame into work on other lucrative franchises. Baynton can now be seen as Fickelgruber opposite Timothée Chalamet as the eponymous Wonka, while Simon Farnaby co-wrote Wonka, Paddington 2 and the forthcoming Paddington in Peru.

In theory, Ghosts need never end: spirits are eternal, so shouldn’t a sitcom about them be, too? Perhaps the Ghosts team should consider making a spin-off. What would be the Frasier to Ghosts’ Cheers, I ask. “Mick,” says Baynton. He means the ghost who shares the cellar of Button House with other plague victims, each one played by a member of the main cast. “It’d be called Mick with an exclamation mark. And it’d have a live audience. I’d come on and say: ‘Hello everyone! Hiya! I’m home!’ Like Happy Days. Don’t even bother with the makeup, the lights aren’t on.” It sounds terrible, to be fair.

Perhaps we have to accept that Ghosts is dead. Certainly, the cast have plundered the set for memorabilia. Ritchie has snaffled Alison’s jumpers, Smith-Bynoe took Mike’s monocle, Howe-Douglas has Lady Button’s rings and Ben Willbond has taken the Captain’s stick. Rickard proudly holds up Humphrey’s severed head to camera.

All that remains now are the repeats. “I think, more so than drama, people will go back to comedies they love and want to experience them again and find more in them,” says Baynton. “There are plenty of shows that are comfort. Sometimes you put them on so you can have a nap.” He seems to be suggesting that Ghosts is part of that soporific canon. I look at the four screens, each interviewee giggling happily at the thought of Britain not sobbing over the last episode, but dozing through repeats. It may be ending with a Christmas special, but Ghosts will be haunting us for many years to come.

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tf2shit · 1 year

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I FINALLY MADE A RED VER!!!

original and separate versions under the cut 😊

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aro-ortega · 1 year

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i put together the team that i think vanya would have in a pokemon au, along with the pokedex entries that made me feel that they would be a good fit for him

#also makuhita involves into hariyama which was the pokemon that i was originally looked at #but makuhita was a fitting choice as well and its okay that it hasnt evolved yet #fh pokemon au #i know that you can have six poekmon in a team in the games but i prefer teams of 4-5 for stuff like this #vanya mikhailov #op

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madebyrolo · 1 year

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Ignoring Prank / Five Hargreeves

She/her pronouns

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Enjoy!!

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Y/n's POV

I went over to the Hargreeves mansion while the team was out training because I was bored and I wanted to wait for five and the others to hang out. It's been an hour and I was thinking after having a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich and pretending to be apart of the academy while using Alison's extra uniform(god you would do it too don't laugh.) you know what would be fun to do, a prank. And what better sibling to do it on then the most. mature ,serious,stern,angry eyebrows Hargreeves sibling (and my lovely boyfriend) five.

Even tho five may seem like a though guy, he is a MAJOR lover boy in private. I know that after a long day of training he's going to want to cuddle and just want some love and comfort. Thinking about it, this prank might be too mean....Yolo.

-Time skip 30 minutes-

I hear the door open and there faint voices which mean it's go time.

I walk down stairs and start to greet everyone but five. Since Klaus and Ben are literally my besties go up to them first.

"OMGGGG KLAUSYYY I MISSED YOU" I say while giving him a big hug.

Five notices but you are bestfriends and klaus can't really be competition because he's five and Klaus is, well yk Klaus.

"Y/N/N YOURE HERE FINALLY. BEN NEEDS SOMEONE ELS TO HANG OUT WITH. He's

So clingy girl....." he says while hugging back.

"I heard that" said Ben

"You were supposed too" Klaus responded

"Klaus leave Benito alone. You just don't appreciate him like I do" I said while giving him a peck on the cheek and a hug.

I know what I was doing.

Five sees this and he doesn't think any much of it because you guys are also besties.....right?

After Y/n says hi to the others (expect for five), she goes upstairs with Klaus while Ben takes her by the hand and they follow Klaus.

-Fives POV-

Diego whispers a snarky comment my ear "woah Benito getting girls who would've though..."

"Shut.up." said I with a Locked jaw.

"Diego leave five alone y/n and Ben don't have something going on." Said Luther

"Yea they're just friends. Me and Luther are like that" Alison said but that didn't help because everyone knew there was something between them.

"I'm just saying Ben and y/n have been getting closer. They're always doing their own things and running off to his room" said Diego

That got me thinking. It's true what Diego is saying. They've had their own special connection before we started dating. Did y/n ever have feelings for Ben and does she still have them?

"Diego enough stop it. He's just messing with you five" said Vanya attempting to ease my thoughts.

"You're right! I'm just probably jumping to conclusions. They're just close like Luther and Alison...." Diego said while leaving the room.

With that comment I felt a pit in my stomach.

My face fell. Is y/n cheating on me? She didn't even say hi to me and she ran off with Ben.

I blink into my room.

-in fives room-

still his POV

I lay down on my bed and just think. Does she not love me anymore? Am I boring her? Is ben better then me? How is that even possible ? He's quiet,shy,kept to himself ever since he was young but never around y/n. Whenever she was here he would just change into this whole different person. That's what y/n does. She lights up a room. Her confidence,her energy,her smile,her personality, her eyes. Everything about her is perfect I can't blame Ben for liking her.

-Y/n's POV-

It's been like 5 hours and I still haven't seen or talked to five. He's been in his room this whole time. I feel bad. Does he know I'm ignoring him? (He obviously does you're his girlfriend.)

It's getting late and I'm sleeping over so I head to fives room.

-entering fives room-

I see him laying in his bed. I can't tell if he's sleeping or not but he doesn't sleep till 10 and it's 8:45 pm rn

"Hi love" I say but I hear no response.

I get in bed with five and I try to cuddle with him but he just stays still.

"Fiveee" and still no response

Who knew my ignoring prank would turn into him ignoring me.

"Five I know you're not sleeping talk to me"

"Go talk Ben."

So that's what this is about.

"What do you mean?" I tell him

"What I mean is that you guys are way closer than we are." He says while sitting up.

"You guys are clearly perfect for each other. You guys are practically glued to the hip and you've just hung out out with him for 5 hours instead of me, your boyfriend"

"Five are you seriously jealous of Ben?" I said

"No it's the fact that you completely ignored me all day and expect me to be fine with it. I'm your boyfriend. Not Ben." Five responded.

I move onto his lap and cup fives face

"I only want you. I love you five. You're my boyfriend and the thought of me being with anybody els doesn't even exist in my world. Don't you ever think that I would leave you because I wont. Ever I swear." I say while I kiss him.

He kisses me back and we just continue for what seems like forever.

"I'm sorry y/n. I don't know why I jumped to conclusions. It's just that Diego got to my head and..."

"Diego. You seriously listen to Diego? The dude who treats his knifes as a gf. He cares for those knifes more than his own siblings." I say trying to lighten the mood.

Five smiles at the comment

"There's that smile." I say while placing kissing all over his face"

After I good make out shesh we end up cuddling asleep. I will NEVER tell him that was a prank because I know he would try to get me back and it would be 100x worse.

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After a year I’m back 🥹

It’s summer break so might start writing again

#aidan gallagher #five hargreeves #five hargreaves x reader #ben hargreeves #diego hargreeves #luther hargreeves #alison hargreeves #vanya hargreeves

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I have seen maybe half a season of TUA and didn’t read the comics so let me tell you seeing those panels where Vanya is yelling “We belong on that stage” (and in reference to herself and her taller blonde bass-playing brother) drawn in profile with literally Gerard’s haircut and outfit was a big shock to the system. I never even considered that he’d inserted elements of himself and his bandmates into TUA except for a bunch of weird edits people made comparing how much Aiden Gallagher looks like Frank but now I feel like I really need to read it.

im really looking forward to rereading all of the comics after this semester's over because i haven't done that since volume 3's run ended and i'll definitely make more coherent posts about it then but like. it's really really interesting to compare to all of gerard's other art because he is just...so distinctively him, even across different mediums and genres. tua and mcr and hesitant alien and kjna and his visual art etc etc etc like his artistic fingerprint is stamped so boldly and unapologetically all over them and that's something i really love about him. like his art, love it or hate it, is sooooo genuine always. even when he's purposely imitating other artists, he's very consciously doing it in his own voice, putting his own spin on it.

when i say tua and mcr are completely separate projects i mean it - i don't think one should only ever be discussed in relation to/in the context of the other - and, above all, tua is certainly not like...autobiographical, or a direct representation of real people/events. it's led by gerard but it has a different creative team than mcr does and that really shows as well - i definitely wanna talk ant this when i have more time but part of the reason im not sold on conweap as an album is because it's too umbrella academy - it's really evident that gerard was working on both of them at the same time, and letting one influence the other too directly. mcr's a band, not a Gerard Project, and umbrella academy is largely a duo (w gabriel bá), so they can't just be transplanted onto each other yk.

anyway I'm rambling but all this to say - tua isn't meant to be "about" mcr any more than bullets is "about" 9/11. but gerard's life was changed and shaped by his experiences in the music scene throughout his life, by dropping everything and living as a penniless artist, by becoming suddenly (in)famous, and that really shines through in tua. he says he drew inspiration from touring band life to write a dysfunctional family, and the dehumanising effects of fame and attention, and of being categorised and scrutinised on a private or public level, are huge themes - as is addiction, mental health, complicated grief.

like...i actually got into mcr through the tua comics lmaooo. i read volume 1 because of wonderful @blackmoldmp3 talking about it and immediately said oh. i need more from this dude's brain right now. and i was soooo not disappointed haha. i really am obsessed with quite a lot of the things gerard is also obsessed with as an artist. the particular themes and imagery and scenarios he's fixated on are really very consistent throughout everything he does - only the way they're discussed or portrayed does change over time. i don't rly subscribe to the idea of gleaning specifics abt artists' personal lives from their works because, beside all else, it just does them a huge disservice (that's my number one gripe with the popular talking pounts around hes alien and frank's solo work in particular; however "confessional" you wanna read art as, it's still art that was created with skill and intent.)

anyway that's way off topic dkfnfj. what i do love about this kind of thing is looking at distinct creations in the context of the rest of an artist's body of work. like...yeah, gerard's said there's a lot of mikey in klaus. has dressed similarly to vanya and the kraken and the seance at times etc etc. has compared himself to the rumor, because she's the one he relates to most. puts a lot of his familiar ideology surrounding music and performance into vanya. puts angry teenage vanya in a shitty punk band with her disillusioned teenage brother on bass, and puts a classical music prodigy in a punk band as an excellent guitarist, writing songs about killing the president etc etc. i could go on! because these things are just scattered everywhere through the comic, just like all of gerard thematic and aesthetic and ideologic fingerprints.

so what's reallyyy interesting to me is looking at umbrella academy as something gerard wrote on the road with mcr across multiple years. volume one was released while the tbp world tour was ongoing, and volume two only a few months after. the progression of parade -> tua -> conweap -> danger days is SOOOO fascinating to me, especially because one of the things that really works about danger days imo is the way it kind of shakes off some of the tua-style gritty cynicism and returns to mcr's defiant, extravagant theatricality. if you go through tua with a fine-tooth comb you'll definitely find the most direct comparisons to conweap, in terms of mcr. the way dd approaches the themes it has in common with tua is just.....so different, and so so mcr. and then you can see the at times self-referential development on those things in hesitant alien - AND THEN VOLUME 3 COMES AROUND AND LIKE. AUUUGGGGHHHHH the change and growth there is SO apparent. btw i don't mean "growth" "progression" etc in this post to mean "improving" - i just mean change and development in a neutral sense, bc it's so interesting to see it laid out there in an artist's body of work. but like. man it makes me crazeeee actually the way gerard picked tua back up....almost certainly around the same time mcr started discussing a potential reunion. and the way that foundations revisits and reconceptualises mcr's existing catalogue is paralleled in the way vol 3 of tua is, like...........like there's so much life lived there, between those things. gerard's even said he's changed his plan for the ending (if we ever see it 🥲) because he has more compassion for his own characters now and doesn't want to see them broken down for good. he says he's gotten better at listening to other people - for starters, he's a lot more conscious of his own subconscious racism/whiteness that came through at times in the original run and has expressed regret for that (namely, the entire main cast being white, with a couple of side characters being uncomfortably stereotyped).

but just like. augh. im not gonna lie man i have no idea what i've just typed im sorry it's probably so rambly bc I'm so dizzy rn and definitely am not gonna proofread it or whatever skdjfj but. I LOVE ART! I LOVE ARTISTS! I LOVE DIVING DEEP INTO AN ARTIST'S BODY OF WORK AND WATCHING THEM REINVENT THEMSELF AND/OR DOUBLE DOWN ON THEMSELF (SOMETIMES FOR BETTER, SOMETIMES FOR WORSE). obvs this fandom genuinely does have a big issue with invasive/un-self-aware parasocial behaviour but there's a difference between that and like. getting obsessed with a particular artist. that's so normal and in fact necessary to life imo. i think every artist literally has to have ppl like that i can't imagine any other way to live it's just a specific type of human connection at a distance baby. don't get me wrong tho i also wanna chew on his thigh. anyway.

my god. how did i get here what even was your question. tua. yes it's crazy. it's not for everyone for sure but it has enough of the shit that makes me crazzzzyyyyy that it got me into mcr which made me crazierrrr so. yes i can recommend. especially if ur like me and lovvvve stories that are a little bit fractured by design. that dance around big parts of the story, where there's as much significance in an absence or in a tiny background detail than there is in any dialogue or action scene. most of the criticism i see of tua is about the pacing but like. to my tastes it's a really great use of the comic medium yk? lmk if you want content warnings or something there are plenty skdjfj.

#how was i completely braindead today and then too dizzy to read text. and then somehow type this shit on my phone with my eyes half-closed.#am i literally just lazy or is a hyperfixation strong enough to kvercome any illness lolz #sorry if this went in a billion circles but the room im in is also spinning a little so. skfndkfndjdjfjdj #umbrella academy #tua #mcr talk #*#answered

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