#Anti-Tom Keen

[ace-of-spaders]

"We've decided to keep the baby."

#raymond reddington #james spader #elizabeth keen #megan boone #tbl 3x16 #tbl the caretaker #the way she talks about him keeping an open mind as if he is the only one who has reasons to think badly of Tom #while he thinks badly about him to put it mildly mainly because Tom was abusive towards *her* #also #Red in the last gif being like “what am I gonna do about you?” and then changing subject #because her stubborn ignorance of Tom's faults cannot be matched by any reason #anti-tom keen

[kiss-my-freckle]

2 of 2: The Pretty Loner

Not the prom, but her birthday. Not punch, but wine.

#Keenler baby theory #Anti-Tom Keen #Anti-Keen2

[maidmerrymint]

SPOILER ALERT

Rewatching the Blacklist because I missed a bunch of episode. Just started season 2 and I've just got to say I don't really like Tom Keen. His whole relationship with Elizabeth in season 1 makes me feel really yucky.

And from the episodes I did see I know Liz and Tom get back together and have Agnes. But I just don't like Tom. I just can't get over how he was the first couple seasons.

I think Elizabeth and Ressler would have made such a better couple. Ressler and Liz have such a good working relationship that if Tom was out of the picture I think that they would have gotten together and Agnes would have been their child.

#the blacklist #anti tom keen #elizabeth keen x donald ressler #elizabeth keen #donald ressler #raymond reddington #keenler #spoiler alert

[justforbooks]

Although there was never any such phenomenon as Whittakermania, Roger Whittaker, who has died aged 87, built a huge international following in a career that spanned six decades. As the Boston Globe noted of his stage performances: “No one gets high. No one gets hysterical with excitement. And yet Roger Whittaker is one of the most popular entertainers in the world.”

Whittaker’s smooth baritone voice and songs of love, loss and yearning endeared him to audiences worldwide. His best known songs, where his voice was invariably accompanied by keening strings, included 1969’s Durham Town (the Leavin’), I Don’t Believe in If Anymore (1970), which reached No 8 in the UK, The Last Farewell (1971, reissued in 1975 to become a Top 20 hit in the US and a chart-topper in 11 countries), and Wind Beneath My Wings (1982).

He also had a trademark whistling ability, which he used to perform The Skye Boat Song in a duet with Des O’Connor, reaching the UK Top 10 in 1986.

Though he did not rack up chart hits as prolifically as the Beatles or Abba, his frequent TV and live appearances made him a household name in many countries. In the mid-1980s, he was acknowledged as Germany’s most successful recording artist. He made several recordings in German, singing the lyrics phonetically since he could not speak the language.

He was never fashionable, but never out of fashion with his audience. When he recorded a song such as Green, Green Grass of Home, it lacked the drama of Tom Jones’s version and his treatment of Song Sung Blue was homelier and more avuncular than Neil Diamond’s original, but it all became Whittaker music.

He liked to say he represented the “silent majority”. He defined this as “the kind of person who when he marries becomes a parent and a taxpayer and devotes himself to bringing up his children properly – all in all, a pretty straight-down-the-line guy”.

In the 70s, when rock music was dominating the record industry, Whittaker was dropped by his label, RCA, despite the fact that he had sold several million discs. He decided to market his 1977 album, All My Best, on TV. “I was the first act to go on TV with records,” he said. All My Best sold nearly 1m copies.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he was the son of Vi (nee Showan) and Edward Whittaker, who had owned a grocery shop in Staffordshire, but moved to a farm near Thika after Edward sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle accident and had been advised that a hot, dry climate would aid his recuperation.

Edward developed a new grocery business, while Vi worked as a teacher. Roger, who could speak Swahili before he learned English, attended the Prince of Wales school (now Nairobi school). He had begun learning the guitar at seven.

After school, where he had sung in the choir, he was called up for national service. He was posted to the Kenya Regiment, and for two years was involved in fighting the anti-colonial Mau Mau rebels. He subsequently attended the University of Cape Town to study medicine, but after 18 months he left and trained to be a teacher.

In 1959 he moved to Britain and enrolled at Bangor University in north Wales, where he studied zoology, biochemistry and marine biology. He also began to make his first moves into music, playing gigs to earn some cash and recording songs on flexi discs distributed with the university newspaper.

These provoked interest from Fontana records, and in 1962 his first single releases were The Charge of the Light Brigade and Steel Men.

He played concerts in Northern Ireland and appeared on the Ulster TV show This and That, and his career developed with constant touring around Britain.

“I learned how to entertain in the clubs of the north-east of England, the working men’s clubs where the miners go,” he said. In 1964 he married Natalie O’Brien.

By 1968 he was touring internationally and even had a TV showcase in the Soviet Union. At the 1968 Knokke song contest in Belgium, Whittaker performed If I Were a Rich Man, from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and his own whistling composition, Mexican Whistler, helping Britain to win the competition, and both tunes were hits in France, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1969 he scored his first UK Top 20 hit with Durham Town (the Leavin’), which reached No 12. Its easy-listening mixture of sentimentality and nostalgia, with its mournful references to war and bereavement, was typical of Whittaker’s work.

He revisited his African background in the documentary film Roger Whittaker in Kenya: A Musical Safari (1982), and in 1986 he published his autobiography (written with his wife), So Far, So Good. Three years later, he received the news that his parents had been attacked by a gang of robbers in Kenya, leaving his father dead and his mother brutally beaten. She subsequently moved back to Britain.

Outside music, Whittaker had a shrewd eye for antiques. His collection of paintings, furniture and works of art was auctioned by Sotheby’s in 1999 for more than £1m, at the same time as he sold his Herefordshire home and moved to Essex. Latterly he lived in the south of France.

He is survived by Natalie and by their five children, Emily, Lauren, Jessica, Guy and Alexander, 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and his sister, Betty.

🔔 Roger Henry Brough Whittaker, singer and songwriter, born 22 March 1936; died 13 September 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #Roger Whittaker #in memoriam

[darth-rainbow]

Rewatching the Blacklist and dayum. Season 1, Episode 5 Tom Keen is the original Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss. Like sir, you will always be an icon. He lied through his TEETH. With such talent and aplomb woah, I am shooketh. He was out there telling Elizabeth that all that is bad and evil was brought into their home by her, that he'd never used a gun or a fake passport in his life, shook about the amount of money in a box because he'd never seen that much, that he is her husband and that this is a big misunderstanding. Wow. Yikes, but wow.

I don't even know if this is pro or anti Tom Keen ptdrrrrrr just sharing random thoughts.

#Tom Keen #The legend you are #the blacklist #0105 #The Blacklist season 1 #The Blacklist 0105 #Blacklist 0105 #Blacklist Season 1

[nerianasims]

A central Florida district flipped to Democrats. https://www.floridadems.org/2024/01/16/florida-democrats-flip-house-seat-elect-tom-keen-to-florida-house-district-35/

District 35 is not a panhandle district, so not hugely right-wing. It's very swingy; if you're looking for "undecided" voters, there they are. It used to be DeSantis' district at one point. Keen really hammered on abortion access, the environment, and opposition to book bans. Despite what so many major media outlets claim, voters do care about our rights and principles.

(My district is blue blue blue and also blue, and yet not terribly left wing. People here are NOT HAPPY about abortion bans, book bans, anti-queer bullshit, etc. But they're not going to be receptive to the "tear it all down" crap from the far left either.)

#us politics

[destinyc1020]

'And I think Tom already gets enough of that as is. So, forgive some of us as fans if some of us are just sick and tired of the nitpicking.'

yessss destiny!! also i just am a little sus that some of your anons pretending to be 'concerned' fans might be antis (or that one JE fan, which lmao it's totally fine to like him!! but just dont put tom down to be a fan of him cause that is silly and vice versa!), so it is just pretty exhausting when anons come in wanting to condemn him for something that hasn't even happened yet. like sure if we get more info, then make judgements, but nitpicking stuff from so little information is just kind of tiring.

Thanks Anon for your input. 😊

Yea, I'm just not really too keen on judging a film TOO harshly before we've even seen a trailer yet....before the film has even started FILMING yet! Like GEEZ! 🥴 Can we please not?

We don't even know all of the facts with the FA biopic, and some "experts" can't even agree on whether or not he actually had that clause in his will.

I say we just all chill and wait until we at least get more info about this movie. So many fans were foaming at the mouth and jumping at Tom's neck to berate him for taking the TCR project, and it ended up being so TOTALLY DIFFERENT from what they originally assumed it to be. 😏

So I just think it's always better to wait until we have more facts before judging a project so harshly.

RE: JE....

Yea, I mean people can go ahead and like JE if they want. It's not a big deal to me lol. I'm not the "fandom police". 😅 Like who/whatever you want to like! Why would I care?? 🤷🏾‍♀️ But we don't need to put down Tom in order to lift up JE.....and vice versa.

#cleaning out my inbox

[folansstuff]

So I'm not caught up what's going on with illyana and realm of x that you seem frustrated about

So, my issues with Realm of X is not really based on Illyana specifically, but more an issue with the book as a whole?

The TLDR is like; the books massively disconnected from the main FoX plot, but also doesn't follow up on plot threads from previous books, and gives it's characters little to do despite telling us things are happening. I'll slap the rest under the read more cause it might get long.

So the book has a really interesting set up (the gals are stuck in Vanheim, Curse has brought them there, etc etc) and feels like it's going to follow up on some of the plot threads from Vita Ayala's New Mutants run + X of Swords (eg, Illyana no longer being bonded to Limbo, Satyurne no longer having control of Otherworld) + the post-Hellfire Gala thing.

The issue is that it's none of these things? It's techincally connected to FoX since they mention mutants being stuck there other than them, but we never see them and it never seems to really matter outside the first issue. Illyana's lack of magic has nothing to do with being separated from Limbo, but is instead because Vanheim is anti-magic and it only rarely touches on her thoughts about that than "she's sad". And we so far don't really understand what Saturyne is doing at all other than some really 'power' with Vanheim and... aliens? Some sort of cosmic thing? Who knows.

Typhoid Mary is around, Marrow does even less, Dust gets to do some cool stuff, but she's still sidelined, Illyana's general headstrongness that defines her character, even in the Krakoan era is gone (which is still wild even with the concept that she's struggling without her powers, she would still be throwing hands! Instead Typhoid Mary just calls her useless and she instantly cowers to that assessment.) And Dani, poor fucking Dani, is cut off from her Valkyrie powers for reasons we may only find out 4 issues in. (And that's only if Sif being in the preview means anything). We don't see Curse develop either, even though this should really be her star showing post-Nature Girl stuff.

So things are just sort of happening. And the narration tells us things are happening kinda aimlessly? And that's wild since this is supposedly a four issue miniseries, but even the preview from the last issue doesn't seem to be interested in plot progression at all.

The only, like, truly nice thing I can say is that issues 1, 2 and 4 look nice. The art is cool, the characters have neat outfits, and any book that makes Illyana this pretty looking is a positive to me. But then there's issue 3, which looks Not Great, but with comics I understand that can happen sometimes.

Now I'm not editorial, obviously, but I can only assume the book is like this because of some sort of strange circumstances. This does feel like a book that is only in the FoX line because of like, a release date change or something? Or scheduling? Cause even with the other FoX books, which I've generally thought were okay on average, they at least felt like they were meant to be there.

And I want to clarify, this new issue could completely 180 my opinion! We've only seen previews, and stranger things have certainly happened, but I am not optimistic about it. Ultimately don't know where this goes. My old theory was that they were going to kill/seal off Dani and Yana, but Dani is heading a Unlimited book and Yana is so popular that only Tom Breevort's weird hatred of her could get in the way. So I'm just sorta lost. Maybe they'll all just stick around and have magic adventures until the House of X stuff.

Either way I'm not keen.

#asks #kawaiiempoleon #thanks for the ask! #sorry its so long lmao #but i appreciate getting the chance to ramble a little here. good to organize the thoughts even if its still a little jumbled #realm of x #fall of x #x-men

[ao3feed-irondadspiderson]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43040685

And they were roommates! by Plantgraph Steve is back, and he wants to move on. Peter finds out about the Sokovia accords, and needs some space from Tony. Sam, Clint and Natasha aren't too keen on living in the tower either. Words: 1491, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Sam Wilson (Marvel) Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Steve Rogers, Peter Parker & Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Everyone, Avengers Team & Peter Parker, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson Additional Tags: Protective Steve Rogers, POV Steve Rogers, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, BAMF Clint Barton, BAMF Peter Parker, Hurt Peter Parker, Tony Stark Has Issues, Anti-Sokovia Accords, Civil War Team Captain America, Team as Family, Team Dynamics, Deaf Clint Barton, Past Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #iron dad and spider son #spider son #iron dad #peter parker #tony stark

[187days]

Day Sixty-Three

So, if you’ve been reading my last few entries, you’ll know that I’ve been teaching some pretty dark parts of US history in order to explain the origins of the US white supremacist movement. Today I turned my class over to Tom White, a brilliant lecturer from Keene State College and, as long time readers know, my AP Euro teacher in twelfth grade. He explained the connections between the KKK, the anti-immigration movement, and the eugenics movement in the 1920s and 1930s. Then he explained the connections between policies enacted in the US and policies enacted in Nazi Germany. It gave my students a taste of what a college lecture is like, and took them through some really heavy, shocking stuff. The one thing they said over and over afterwards was, “I didn’t know...” 

So now they do know, and they’ll understand how significant the activism and policy changes that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement really were. That’s what I’ll pick up with tomorrow. 

It’s all about connecting historical dots!

I did that in World, too, albeit with a different time period. I’d ended last class on the fact that one of the longterm effects of the Cold War was the proliferation of weapons. I picked up today with two conflicts in which some of those weapons were used: the Ugandan and Somali civil wars. I had students research topics related to those wars (and get a bit of citation practice in the process), and used their research to compile a set of board notes to explain what happened in each. It went really well Block 2, and mostly well Block 3 (more questions, predictions of what I was going to say next, etc... in Block 2), and afterwards we had just enough time to read an article about another civil war: the one in Rwanda. 

Ultimately, I’m going to be teaching about the Rwandan Genocide. It’s easier to do that if students have a little background knowledge about Uganda (because the RPF was trained and armed there), and Somalia (because the deaths of 18 Army Rangers in Mogadishu definitely impacted the American decision not to intervene), so that’s why I tackled those two conflicts, as well. The article we summarized Rwanda’s history from the colonial era through the war, and concluded with a paragraph about the night the genocide started. 

Several of my Block 2 students yelled, “Cliffhanger!” as the bell rang.

They’ve learned how I roll.

#teaching #teacher #teachblr #edublr #educhums #education #high school #social studies #guest speaker #tom white #see the whole board #my timing is impeccable #day sixty three

[xtruss]

With An Espionage Fever, UK Politicians Are Keen On Defaming China

— Mark Blacklock | April 24, 2024

Illustration: Chen Xia/Global Times

When certain types of events or topics become a regular part of the news cycle, they are almost guaranteed to receive extensive coverage in the British media. These subjects typically include the weather, the Royal Family, cute animals and children, corrupt politicians, and espionage. Britain has a particular fondness for spy stories.

The peak of espionage narratives in the UK, as well as in the wider Western world, was likely during the Cold War era, when hardly a year went by without news of a spy ring being uncovered, or covert operatives being arrested, tried, jailed or expelled from the country. This reality was mirrored in popular culture at the time, with James Bond standing out as perhaps the most well-known fictional British spy in novels, television and film.

Today, the genre appears to be making a comeback as intelligence communities seek out new foes. On Monday, two British men were charged and three German citizens arrested over separate allegations of spying for China. The German cases are at an early stage and involve allegations of sharing confidential technology intelligence with Beijing.

The British cases are at a more advanced stage, as the two accused will appear before a preliminary hearing at a lower court in London on Friday. It sounds - and is - very serious, though few people know how the strict rules controlling the release of information connected to the legal proceedings limit what can be shared. Ironically, it means that for now the secrets of the trial will remain a secret.

Chris Cash, a 29-year-old former parliamentary aide for senior British politician Alicia Kearns and close associate of security minister Tom Tugendhat - both China hawks linked to a China-critical think tank where Cash once worked - is accused under Britain's 113-year-old Official Secrets Act of providing prejudicial information to a foreign state. A colleague, Christopher Berry, 32, faces a similar charge. The allegations are framed in archaic language which claim that they obtained, recorded and published information "for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state" and which could be "directly or indirectly, useful to an enemy." In its announcement of the charges, London's Metropolitan Police force specified that the other country said to be involved was China. That is, they regard China as "an enemy." The Chinese embassy in London said the allegation that China was trying to steal British intelligence was "completely fabricated." "We firmly oppose it and urge the UK side to stop anti-China political manipulation and stop putting on such self-staged political farce," an embassy spokesperson said in a statement.

The air of intrigue and mystery that typically surrounds such stories is unintentionally intensified by the reporting restrictions which apply to court cases in England. Once charges are filed, few details of the allegations are allowed to be made public before trial. Naturally, as a matter of great public interest, there has been some speculation in public forums on social media, but the evidence against the accused will not be revealed until the matter is referred to a higher court for disposal. Even then, because this is classed as a matter of national security, legal rules allow for some evidence to be heard in secret if deemed necessary, never to be reported. So, theoretically at least, what Messrs Cash and Berry are supposed to have done may never be made public.

This situation reflects the current febrile atmosphere pervading Britain, as well as its allies in Europe and America, where anything associated with China is automatically assumed to involve espionage. The list of supposed conduits for this activity contains some ludicrous examples such as Chinese garlic, shipyard cranes, EV vehicles, TikTok, and weather balloons, to name but a few, all of which have come under suspicion. It seems that Western politicians and their lapdogs in the Western media have developed a fetish about Chinese "spying" activities every bit as febrile as existed against Russia during the Cold War.

In real-life cases within the legal system, there is a presumption of innocence, and any prosecuting authority bears the burden of proving its case against individuals accused of espionage. If this rule also applied to politics and the media, there might be less feverish defamation of China.

— The Author is a Journalist and Lecturer in Britain.

#Global Times #China 🇨🇳 #UK 🇬🇧 #Espionage Fever #UK | Hegemonic | Liar | Boak Bollocks | Politicians #Defaming | China 🇨🇳 #Mark Blacklock | UK 🇬🇧 Journalist | Lecturer

[kiss-my-freckle]

1 of 2: Between Sleep and Awake

#Keenler baby theory #Anti-Tom Keen #Anti-Keen2

[ephyz-universe]

Catwoman Movie 2004

About Catwoman Movie 2004 Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips, a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

- Genre: Action, Fantasy - Stars: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone - Runtime: 104mins

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#2004Movies #Hollywood

[diisplxced]

MUSES

THE AGE OF ADALINE

Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively)

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

Madison Montgomery (Tati Gabrielle)

Misty Day (Lily Rabe)

Nora Montgomery (Lily Rabe)

Violet Harmon (Tessa Farmiga)

THE CALL

Oh Young Sook (Jeon Jong-seo)

THE COVENANT

Tyler Simms (Chace Crawford)

DC

Barbara Gordon / Batgirl (Teresa Palmer)

Billy Batson (Asher Angel)

Cassandra Cain / Batgirl (Ella Jay Basco)

June Moon / Enchantress (Cara Delevingne)

Koriand'r / Starfire (Vanessa Morgan)

Lucy Quinzel (Chloé Moretz)

Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy (Madelaine Petsch)

Selina Kyle / Catwoman (Ana De Armas)

THE DESCENDANTS

Carlos Deville

Evie Grimhilde (Sofia Carson)

Jay (BooBoo Stewart)

Mal Bertha (Dove Cameron)

DISNEY

Anna (Sadie Sink)

Belle (Emily Carey)

Chip Potts (Asa Butterfield)

Elsa (Gabriella Wilde)

Eugene Fitzherbert (Thomas McDonell)

Fix-It Felix

Maui (Jason Momoa)

Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho)

Olaf

Peter Pan (Robbie Kay / Thomas Brody Sangster)

Rapunzel (Lily James)

Tinkerbell (Freya Allan)

Vanellolpe Von Schweetz (Mackenzie Foy)

FEAR STREET

Deena Johnson (Kiana Madeira)

Ruby Lane (India Eisley)

Sarah Fier

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Aphrodite (Nyané Lebajoa)

Apollo (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Cerberus (Aidan Turner)

Hades (Cheyenne Jackson)

Hermes (Alex Pettyfer)

Icarus (Evan Mock)

Persephone (Gugu Mbtha Raw)

Poseidon (Jason Momoa)

HARRY POTTER (ANTI JKR)

Albus Severus Potter (Freddie Highmore)

Cormac McLaggen (Freddie Stroma / Daniel Sharman)

Dominique Weasley (Kat McNamara)

George Weasley (James/Oliver Phelps)

Hannah Abbott (Olivia Holt)

Hermione Granger (Jessica Sula)

Lucy Weasley (Luca Hollestelle)

Luna Lovegood (Saoirse Ronan)

Padma Patil (Anya Chalotra)

Parvati Patil (Jameela Jamil)

Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint)

Rose Weasley (Zendaya)

Roxanne Weasley (Ashley Moore)

Scorpius Malfoy (Austin Butler)

Victoire Weasley (Dove Cameron)

IT

Ben Hanscom (Jay Ryan)

Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis / Jessica Chastain)

Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Martell / James McAvoy)

Eddie Kaspbrak (Timothée Chamalet)

Greta Keene (Sabrina Carpenter)

Henry Bowers (Nicholas Hamilton)

Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs / Isaiah Mustafa)

Stanley Uris (Wyatt Oleff / Andy Bean)

JURASSIC WORLD

Maisie Lockwood (Mackenzie Foy)

LUCIFER

Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia)

Lucifer (Tom Ellis)

Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt)

Trixie Espinoza (Scarlett Estevez)

MARVEL

Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings)

Maybelle Parker / Aunt May (Sally Field)

Michelle Jones (Zendaya)

THE OUTSIDERS

Ponyboy Curtis (Jake T Austin)

TWISTED WONDERLAND

Ace Trappola

Azul Ashengrotto

Cater Diamond (Ross Lynch)

Deuce Spade

Epel Felmier

Floyd Leech

Idia Shroud

Jamil Viper (BooBoo Stewart)

Kalim Al-Asim

Lilia Vanrouge (Kyle Gallner)

Malleus Draconia (Felix Mallard)

Ortho Shroud

+ their tsums !

US

Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o)

Red (Lupita Nyong'o)

THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES

Lestat de Lioncourt (Cody Fern)

Louis de Pointe du Lac (Freddy Carter)

#( muses. )

[ao3feed-stevebucky]

And they were roommates!

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/fcZdn5B

by Plantgraph

Steve is back, and he wants to move on. Peter finds out about the Sokovia accords, and needs some space from Tony. Sam, Clint and Natasha aren't too keen on living in the tower either.

Words: 1491, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Steve Rogers, Peter Parker & Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Everyone, Avengers Team & Peter Parker, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson

Additional Tags: Protective Steve Rogers, POV Steve Rogers, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, BAMF Clint Barton, BAMF Peter Parker, Hurt Peter Parker, Tony Stark Has Issues, Anti-Sokovia Accords, Civil War Team Captain America, Team as Family, Team Dynamics, Deaf Clint Barton, Past Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/fcZdn5B

#ao3feed #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stevebucky #stucky #steve/bucky #stevexbucky #fanfic

[seyoung230]

Exhibition

Cornelia Parker

THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER

'Drawn to broken things, I decided it was time to give in to my destructive urges on an epic scale. I collected as much silver plate as I could from car-boot sales, markets and auctions.

Friends even donated their wedding presents. All these objects, with their various histories, shared the same fate: they were all robbed of their third dimension on the same day, on the same dusty road by a steamroller.

I took the fragments and assembled them into thirty separate pools. Every piece was suspended to hover a few inches above the ground, resurrecting the objects and replacing their lost volume.

Inspired by my childhood love of the cartoon 'deaths' of Roadrunner or Tom and Jerry, I thought I was abandoning the traditional seriousness of sculptural technique. But perhaps there was another unconscious reason for my need to squash things. My home in east London was due to be demolished to make way for the M11 link road. The sense of anxiety lingers even now.

The title was borrowed from the Bible. Thirty pieces of silver was the amount of money Judas received for betraying Jesus.'

Embryo Firearms

1995

Colt 45 guns in the earliest stage of production

While in Hartford, Connecticut, in the US, visited the firearms factory where the Colt 45 handgun is made. I was amazed by the first stage in their manufacture, in which blank pieces of cast metal already take on the iconic shape of the gun. I asked the factory foreman if I could have a pair of guns at this early stage in production.

He gave them the polish of the finished article. They became Embryo Firearms, combining the idea of birth and death in the same object.

Embryo Money

1996

Ten pence pieces in the earliest stage of production

Money seems such a powerful material, but in the end it's only metal. I was keen to see how it was made and managed to get behind the scenes at the Royal Mint, in Pontyclun, Wales. I asked if I could have some coins without a face. Removing these metal discs from the process just before they were struck made them a currency interrupted before it had value, before it accrued power.

Poison and Antidote Drawings

2010-13

Rattlesnake venom and black ink, anti-venom and white ink on paper

While I was on a residency in Texas, US, I asked the nearby rattlesnake farm if they could milk some snakes for me.

They procured enough bright yellow venom to kill at least ten people. I then approached a local doctor to prescribe an antidote. I combined the poison with black ink, and the anti-venom with white ink. In theory, these drawings could poison you and save your life at the same time.

PERPETUAL CANON

'I was invited to make a work for a circular space with a beautiful domed ceiling. I first thought of filling it with sound. This evolved into the idea of a mute marching band, frozen breathlessly in limbo

Perpetual Canon is a musical term that means repeating a phrase over and over again. The old instruments had experienced thousands of breaths circulating through them in their lifetime.

They had their last breath squeezed out of them when they were squashed flat.

Suspended pointing upwards around a central light bulb, their shadows march around the walls. This shadow performance replaces the cacophonous sound of their flattened hosts.

Viewers and their shadows stand in for the absent plavers.'

COLD DARK MATTER:

AN EXPLODED VIEW

'We watch explosions daily, in action films, documentaries and on the news in never-ending reports of conflict. I wanted to create a real explosion, not a representation. I chose the garden shed because it's the place where you store things you can't quite throw away.

The shed was blown up at the Army School of Ammunition.

We used Semtex, a plastic explosive popular with terrorists.

I pressed the plunger that blew the shed skywards. The soldiers helped me comb the field afterwards, picking up the blackened, mangled objects.

In the gallery, as I suspended the objects one by one, they began to lose their aura of death and appeared reanimated. The light inside created huge shadows on the wall. The shed looked as if it was re-exploding or perhaps coming back together again.

The first part of the title is a scientific term for all the matter in the universe that can't be seen or measured. The second part describes a diagram in which a machine's parts are laid out and labelled to show how it works.'

WAR ROOM

'I was invited to make a piece of work about the First World War.

I had always wanted to go to the poppy factory in Richmond, London. Artificial poppies have been made there since 1922.

They are sold to raise for money for ex-military personnel and their families.

When I visited the factory, I saw this machine that had rolls of red paper with perforations where the poppies had been punched out. The fact that the poppies are absent is poignant, because obviously a lot of people didn't come back from the First World War, and other wars since. In this room there's something like 300,000 holes, and there's many more lives lost than that.

I decided to make War Room like a tent, suspending the material like fabric. It's based on the magnificent tent which Henry VIll had made for a peace summit with the French king in 1520, known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold. About a year later they were at war again.'

JUST THINKING

It doesn't seem meaningful in itself to find the meaning and definition of art in modern times. Now all of these phenomena can be talked art. There is no need for art to be put into a lofty, ancient, and mysterious frame. So in this modern era we can't absolutely say that it's art or not. It's art for someone to say it's not art.

To be honest, the responsibility for how designers influence what they make is important, but do I have to make what others want to see? People will watch whatever they want anyway, so do we have to be nice? If Some artist or designer compromises what other people want to see, the reason is the money. What if I pursue an ideal of something other than money? Oh, that's right. You know, when I'm responsible for the design, shouldn't be scared of being cursed at or loved by others, have to build a solid pillar in my heart, whether it's art or design. I know responsibility is too important, so I'm getting more and more scared...