WELCOME BACK TO HAWKINS, ALEX YOUNG (henry golding fc)
good luck and have a bitchin’ summer!
[HENRY GOLDING, MALE, HE/HIM] who’s that? oh it’s [ALEX YOUNG]. i hear they’re [THIRTY-FIVE] and are known as [THE HARDASS] around [THE OFFICE]. they’re also a [DISTRICT ATTORNEY] at [CITY HALL]. they’re known to be [DRIVEN, PASSIONATE] and [STEALTHY, ]. some people say they remind them of [WEARING THEIR COLLEGE SWEATSHIRT AT THIRTY, STACKS OF FILLED LEGAL PADS, THREE COFFEES BY NINE AM, REHEARSING HIS CASE TO AN EMPTY ROOM]. [kay, 23, she/her, dare i say u know me?]
Alex Young was adopted by a couple from Hawkins, Indiana when he was just under a year old. His parents couldn’t conceive children, leaving Alex the only child. He’d been born in the states, somewhere in New York, to a single mother who’d given him up. He never really wanted to find out who she was, nor did he really care. His parents were his parents, and that was that. They did tell him from a young age that he was adopted, which was kind of redundant, given that both of his parents are white, but he appreciated their attempt at trying to be honest with him.
Though he never really felt the need to compete for his parents’ affection, Alex channeled his competitive nature in every other aspect of life. He was involved in the debate team and student government as early as middle school, always going toe-to-toe with Spencer St. James. One year his elder, Alex had to push extra to try and beat out Spencer in anything he did. It eventually caught up to Alex, when he’d taken over as student body President when Spencer graduated and went off to college, but even then, it felt like Spencer had been campaigning against him.
Alex knew that he was meant for things bigger and better than Hawkins. He was desperate to get out of Hick Town, USA as fast as he could, and applied to colleges on the east coast, on the Ivy belt. He wound up at Yale, studying political science and setting his sights on law school. With a lot of late nights studying for the LSAT (and an overwhelming amount of student loans), he fought his way to stay in New Haven to go to law school at his alma mater.
Coming back to Hawkins was never the plan. Alex wanted to stay and join some big law firm in New York or Boston, but life happened, to say the least. His mother got sick, and his father was too old to take care of her on his own. Alex couldn’t burden them with putting the two in a nursing home, especially not after what they’d done for him all his life. He moved back to Hawkins after law school, getting a job first at a local defense attorney’s office.
Once his mother passed, Alex was dead set on getting back out and to New York, but things took a turn at home. All of a sudden, the mall was up in flames, and none other than Spencer himself was to be mayor. Alex couldn’t bear to see his hometown go down the toilet, especially not with his father still there. With so many people resigning from local offices, Alex decided to run for District Attorney, hoping he could try to do something around town to make a difference.
Now, Alex is pretty focused on tearing Spencer St. James, Eddie Munson, and Billy Hargrove down. The trial for the latter two is coming up soon, but he’s been building a case against the mayor for years now, trying to find a place where he’s slipped up against the law. It’s not easy, and he definitely doesn’t have the time for it, but Alex is determined to find something against Spencer by the time the election comes up. He’s expecting re-election, but really anything could happen, knowing how unpredictable Hawkins is. All Alex can hope for is that no other big cases stand in the way of his campaign and his subtle case against the mayor.
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Jason Vosler takes 32. Last worn by Luke Farrell in 2022.
Derek Law takes 47. Last worn by Mark Kolozsvary in 2022.
Alex Young takes 48. Last worn by Chase Anderson in 2022.
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Nick Tapalansky, Kate Glasheen, IDW, and Top Shelf's A Radical Shift of Gravity is being adapted for film
Nick Tapalansky, Kate Glasheen, IDW, and Top Shelf's A Radical Shift of Gravity is being adapted for film #comics #comicbooks
IDW has joined with Todd Lieberman’s Hidden Pictures to develop the IDW/Top Shelf graphic novel A Radical Shift of Gravity into a feature film. Academy Award nominee Matt Charman will adapt the widely acclaimed science fiction work created by Nick Tapalansky and Kate Glasheen. Charman earned his Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for the 2015 film Bridge of Spies.
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Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart
Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart
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A full summary with spoilers, analysis, quotes- and so much more on the subject of a book you should never read. This is a long piece. Like ‘Youtube Video Essay’ long.
Lightlark is joyless, a husk beyond parody, a checklist of every Island of Blood and Bone and Glass and Hearts that has come out in the last five years, built and sold on tropes and aesthetic boards. This is a book written by an author who is not a writer. It would fit in on the dregs of an amateur writing site with eerie perfection.
But Lightlark is more than that. You see, Lightlark is… a TikTok book.
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There's now a video version. I heard Tumblr likes video essay long watches on obscure very specific content... may I introduce you to:
I'm not making a dime on this, I have no horses, only like 70 hours of work looking at this mess of a book and I just want to make sure everyone knows how bad it is. Let's be bitter at this multimillionaires flop together.
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Spring Training:
Matt Reynolds assigned 3
Alex Young assigned 48
Tayron Guerrero assigned 50
Ben Lively assigned 59
Kevin Herget assigned 73
Richie Martin assigned 76
Alan Busenitz assigned 81
Silvino Bracho assigned 82
Henry Ramos assigned 87
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