#Madeline Douglas

[purplesimmer455]

I decided to do a random AU gameplay. So, I put down Pearl Costa (she's Luna’s great-grandma) and her girlfriend Kendall Douglas. They're both spellcasters, and met at the Magic HQ College*. So in the original story with Luna and all, Pearl ended up breaking up with Kendall, moving back to the sim-human world, and married a non-spellcaster man (she's pansexual), and had Alicia Costa, who then had Luke, Maya, Angie, and Abby with her husband, and then they had their respective kids such as Luna, Rowan, Nick, Imran, Tess, Yaritza and some of those kids grew up and had their kids.

In this AU, Pearl stayed with Kendall, and they moved into a starter house in their mid-20s. They ended up getting pregnant, and had their daughter, who they named Madeline Douglas. She's a cutie, and she looks like both moms and has Pearl's pretty green eyes. 😊 Unfortunately, Pearl's parents are very strict on moving in and having kids before marriage, so they're a bit estranged from Pearl, Kendall, and Madeline.

#ts4 #mysims #Kendall Douglas #Pearl Costa #Madeline Douglas #*It's a magic building so it can fit in an elementary middle high school and college

[hellostarrynightblr]

favourite movies wached in 2022

1. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) dir. John Cromwell

The King lives.

#john cromwell #ronald colman #madeline carroll #1937 #douglas fairbanks jr #david niven #1930s #30s #adventure #romance #oldhollywoodedit #classic hollywood #favourite 2022 #the prisoner of zenda

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

#THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) #The Karnstein Trilogy #HAMMER HORROR #PETER CUSHING #INGRID PITT #MADELINE SMITH #KATE O'MARA #Pippa Steel #George Cole #Dawn Addams #Douglas Wilmer #Jon Finch #Ferdy Mayne #Roy Ward Baker #Tudor Gates #carmilla book #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu #VAMPIRE MOVIE #GOTHIC HORROR #British horror #WATCHING #Lesbian

[coffeeandcuriosities]

#books #booktok #fourth wing #a court of thorns and roses #the song of achilles #credence #sarah j maas #rebecca yarros #madeline miller #penelope douglas

[thoughtfulfangirling]

Finished Song of Achilles and while I can't say I like it more than Circe, it's probably right there with it. They feel so different to me despite being the same author and the same sort of thing that I find it hard to compare.

Man I love Patroclus so much.

And man can Odysseus be insufferable 😂

#the song of achilles #Madeline Miller #tf reads #books #great narrator on this one #I didn't do the audiobook for Circe so can't speak to that #but Frazer Douglas did fantastic #I wasn't sure about him to start but he really pulled it off #tfgoc

[horrorwaveofgrain00000]

#the changeling #horror movies #horror movie #horror #old horror #george c scott #trish van devere #melvyn douglas #john colicos #jean marsh #helen burns #madeline sherwood #1980

[fierykitten2]

I counted (because AO3 doesn’t tell you how many works there are for tags not considered common) - there are 9 fanfics for Captain Falcon/Dr. Stewart

And the sad thing is I can’t make a joke about this being homophobic even if I’m just overreacting/joking because SamusxMadeline is a lesbian ship anyway so it’s actually just a case of Metroid being a larger fandom than F-Zero and/or there just being a greater variety of fanfic writers writing SamusxMadeline than DouglasxRobert

#captain falcon x dr. stewart #samus aran x madeline bergman #additional sad news is that Robert has been in about 6 times the amount of games Madeline has been in #(counting AX and GX separately and not including Smash games/crossover appearances) #and the one game Madeline appears in is probably the least popular Metroid game anyway #it’s like the Command of Metroid games #excuse me using Star Fox as an example the F-Zero fandom chooses a least favourite by forgettableness not actively hating on it #ao3 #F-Zero x Metroid #random fanfic idea: Douglas and Samus on a double date and they’re just tryna prove Robert/Madeline are better than Samus/Douglas #as in Douglas is like Robert>Samus and Samus is like Madeline>Douglas #this feels like the exact setup for Robert and Madeline to just be like “congrats on ruining it with your competitiveness” #is it worth pointing out I headcanon Falcon and Samus to both be autistic #even though I suggested it I think the ruining date thing would make me sad

[canyousonicme]

"Douglas Is Cancelled": Doctor Who's Alex Kingston and Karen Gillan reunite for Steven Moffat series

ITV has commissioned a four-part series about cancel culture, set in the world of television news, with an array of stars helming the cast. The show features Hugh Bonneville as news presenter Douglas, and Karen Gillan as his savvy co-anchor Madeline. Steven Moffat, who wrote and will executive produce show, said, "I just sat down and wrote this - didn't even tell anyone what I was doing. And now it's all happening, thanks to the amazing Sue Vertue (renowned TV producer and, in a rare moment of weakness, my wife). I can't quite believe we've managed to get the mighty Hugh Bonneville involved as Douglas and that we've lured my old friend Karen Gillan back from Hollywood, to play Madeline. And like that's not enough, we've got Ben Miles, Alex Kingston, Nick Mohammed and Simon Russell Beale. It's the kind of cast that makes you terrified about stepping into the room." [X]

#Alex Kingston #Karen Gillan #Hugh Bonneville #Ben Miles #Douglas Is Cancelled #ITV #Steven Moffat #2024 #New Series #News

[tabl3]

the headcanons (canons to my universe)

chase: bi, trans, demisexual; partner: kaz

bree: pan; partner: skylar

kaz: gay; partner: chase

skylar: lesbian; partner: bree

oliver: hetero, ace (sex repulsed), trans

adam: aroace (romance/sex repulsed)

leo: queer/unlabeled; partner: logan

tasha: bi

douglas: bi

daniel: hetero

logan: gay; partner: leo

taylor: lesbian, poly; partner: offscreen gf <3

donald: hetero

krane: gay

giselle: bi

marcus: aroace (sex/romance repulsed), non-binary (he/they)

sebastian🤮: gay

horace: hetero

tecton (sam): bi; fiance: megahertz

megahertz (leslie): bi; fiance: tecton

solar flare (violet II): lesbian; spouse: gamma girl

gamma girl (madeline): lesbian; spouse: solar flare

snowstorm (brianna): omni

blue tornado (richard): hetero

alan: aroace (sex repulsed, romance positive)

jordan: aroace (sex/romance repulsed)

gus: omni

roman: hetero

reese: bi

riker: aromantic

scarlet: hetero

experion: pan

mr. terror (bridget): hetero

rodissius: hetero

#i think that's everyone lmao #lab rats #mighty med #lref #elite force #lab rats elite force #disney #chase davenport #bree davenport #kaz #skylar storm #oliver #adam davenport #leo dooley #tasha davenport #douglas davenport #donald davenport #horace diaz #tecton #megahertz #marcus davenport

[secretlystephaniebrown]

any sci-fi book recs? i’m a big sci-if enjoyer but it’s hard to find good sci-fi books through goodreads/amazon, so i figured i’d ask a fellow murderbot enjoyer!

Absolutely!

My favorite sci-fi this year absolutely has to be Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. A fantastic examination of space-opera, fascism, and growth. Check the triggers, it's rough, but I absolutely adore that book.

Other favorite sci-fi:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisen (waffled on whether this one is fantasy or sci-fi but I love it a lot so I'll rec it anyways)

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

World War Z by Max Brooks (zombie novel, only dubiously sci-fi, but I enjoyed it. Also: listen to the audio book. Absolutely worth it.)

Older stuff that I read a while ago but were very formative to my love of sci-fi

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The White Mountains by John Christopher

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

#Steph Replies #asks #kodirox

[purplesimmer455]

Kendall experimented in the kitchen cauldron before cooking a big vat of mac and cheese in it. Plus, she tried to feed Maddy while Pearl worked out, but Maddy stopped every few seconds to roll to the side and give her mom a suspicious look before allowing her to feed her again. 😂

Plus, Pearl and Kendall got spellcaster supply kits and Pearl got a cute raven familiar who she named Mr. Floof.

#ts4 #mysims #Kendall Douglas #Pearl Costa #Madeline Douglas

[girljeremystrong]

COMING OF AGE

YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars (Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic) and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends. (TW abuse)

LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

RAINBOW MILK by Paul Mendez

At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity.

HISTORICAL FICTION

THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai

In 1985, Yale Tishman is about to pull off an amazing coup. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. The AIDS crisis and how it affects a group of Chicago friends and the survivors who meet decades later in Paris.

STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman

A sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a richly drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms. A group of english outcasts used to meeting in a London pub end up in Florence.

SWIMMING IN THE DARK by Tomasz Jedrowski

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide.

A TIP FOR THE HANGMAN by Alison Epstein

Christopher Marlowe, brilliant aspiring playwright, is pulled into the duplicitous world of international espionage on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. A many-layered historical thriller combining state secrets, intrigue, and romance.

TELL THE WOLVES I’M HOME by Carol Rifka Brunt

A moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. 

 CONTEMPORARY FICTION

THE GOLDEN SEASON by Madeline Kay Sneed

A love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated love for people and places that might not love us back—at least, not for who we really are.

JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM by Ryan O’Connell

A darkly witty and touching novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.

REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses.

SKYE FALLING by Mia McKenzie

Told in a fresh, lively voice, this novel is a relentlessly clever, deeply moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.

FUTURE FEELING by Joss Lake

An embittered Trans dog walker obsessed with social media inadvertently puts a curse a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the future.

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by Bernardine Evaristo

Follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

MEMORIAL by Bryan Washington

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple.

THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel

Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong

a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.

DETRANSITION, BABY by Torrey Peters

A whipsmart novel about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.

EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD by Emily Austin

Gilda, a twenty-something lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

 SHORT STORIES

FILTHY ANIMALS by Brandon Taylor

It’s a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by Deesha Philyaw

Explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.

 NON FICTION (MEMOIRS)

IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado

About the complexities of abuse in same-sex relationships. (TW abuse)

ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE by George M. JohnsoN

Weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

 THRILLERS & MYSTERIES

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES by Anna Bailey

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novel.

BATH HAUS by P.J. Vernon

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving partner. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed.

DEAD DEAD GIRLS by Nekesa Afia

Set in 1920s Harlem featuring Louise Lloyd, a young black woman caught up in a series of murders way too close to home.

#THESE ARE ALL REALLY REALLY GOOD BOOKS #would love for you to read them and then come screaming at me #books #book recs #book recommendations #bookblr #lgbt #young mungo #last night at the telegraph club #in the dream house #brandon taylor #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #ocean vuong #swimming in the dark #the great believers

[fairycosmos]

chlo do u have any lgbtq+ book recommendations?? ☺️

yes!! i would like to read more lgbt books but here r some i've read that i think were. considerable.

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz (this is THE classic), boy parts (you need to look up the triggers on gooddreads before reading to decide if you want to, not really an LGBT love story, but an LGBT main character with a lesbian relationship through a chunk of it), you exist too much by zaina arafat, all the things we don't talk about by amy feltman, young mungo by douglas stewart, the atlas six by olivie blake, sorrowland by rivers soloman (!!!), the song of achilles by madeline miller, the house in the cerulean sea (very sweet + gay + magical + cheesy),  maurice by e.m. forster, less by andrew sean greer. <3

#anon #as always my brain blanks when asked anything ....uagh....

[f-arelos]

madeline hutchinson / the thing is - ellen bass / shchemelinskii aleksandr (x) / douglas marterson / try to praise the mutilated world - adam zagajewski (tr. clare cavanagh) / anna remich / sujeito de sorte - belchior / belchior / @orpheuslament

#web weaving #a lil hopeful for a change #poetry #belchior #mpb #art

[fantasticalleigh]

LEIGH'S RIDICULOUSLY BIG TBR/TBW LISTS

like i mentioned before i am too busy/hesitant to actually consume a lot of new media (or at least be able to focus on it) so i'm critically behind on so much stuff. don't judge me pls :S lmao

anything in bold is something that i've begun but not finished :P tagging @snow-in-the-desert bc you expressed interest in seeing the lists!

TO READ:

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon

Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos

The Stand - Stephen King

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Work - Louisa May Alcott

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Sleep - Stephen King

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Last Duel - Erik Jager

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The Great Mortality - John Kelly

Dead by Sunset - Ann Rule

Dracula - Bram Stoker

It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth - Zoe Thorogood

The Great Influenza - John M. Barry

The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston

The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson

Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

White Noise - Don DeLilo

Icebreaker - Hannah Grace

She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran

This Thing Between Us: A Novel - Gus Moreno

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler

^^ This is an incomplete list--I know there are others but these are the books I've bought over the past couple years and have not yet finished/ready. They are stacked on my desk and around my room, silently accusing me of neglect. I wither in shame. The rest of the list escapes me currently. This also doesn't include the tbrs currently on my e-reader since I can't remember where it is to see what's on there.

MOVIES/MEDIA TO WATCH:

Any Adam Driver movie that isn't on Netflix (House of Gucci, Annette, Paterson etc.) I have seen the Last Duel, Blackkklansman, This is where I leave you, Marriage Story, White Noise, Frances Ha and a few others). I know Ferarri is in theaters right now but I've kind of developed a phobia of theaters since 2020 :S

a ridiculous number of documentaries/video essays on youtube that I do not have the energy to go look for right now

Fall of the House of Usher (I love Mike Flanagan's work but I'm still hooked on Midnight Mass and Daddy Father Prewitt)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (I know everyone was obsessed with this and I meant to watch it but I was reading the Turn of the Screw when it came out and didn't want to get spoiled for it so I avoided it like the plague and finished the book but never got to watching the show)

Blue Eye Samurai

The Beguiled

Ugly Betty (I'm actually on season 2 and it's charming and funny but holy shit the amount of body shaming/slut shaming/ homophobia in this show. definitely a product of its time.)

Anne with an E

Fleabag (never finished it but thought it was amazing)

What we do in the shadows (have seen all but the most current season)

Reservation dogs

The Batman (2023)

Black Swan

The Crown

Band of Brothers

Demon Slayer

Whiplash

Wolf of Wall Street

Birds of Prey

Downton Abbey

Peaky Blinders

Nimona

Drag me to Hell

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Queen Charlotte (halfway through but haven't finished. i hate things that make me cry when i watch them so i have to be in a very specific mood to watch emotional heavy things)

Lady Bird

The Banshees of Inisherin

BARBIE (*ducks thrown rocks* I'll get to it, i SWEAR) (but i'm amazing at avoiding spoilers at this point i still know very little about the movie)

Men

Pearl

The Invisible Man

The Turning

Succession

Suspiria

Promising Young Woman

Shiva Baby

Luca

The Green Knight

Licorice Pizza

Bullet Train

The Menu

Women Talking

Knives Out + Glass Onion (*ducks more thrown rocks*)

Paddington 2!!!!

SHadow and Bone (honestly I lost almost all interest in reading/watching this once I heard the hot villain dies. BOOOO)

Carol

That one newish show with Adam Scott that looks super liminal and sci fi i can't remember the name

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

M3gan

Turning Red

Everything Everywhere All At once

Nope

Barbarian

Just like the book list, I'm sure there's many other titles I'm forgetting to put here. I actually have branched out and watched a fair amount of new movies this year so i'm going to keep it going! and here's one more list just because this is fun

Stuff I watched or read in 2023 that I loved/recommend (with the caveat that not all of this came out in 2023): (and i'm not including obvious stuff like Spider man across the spiderverse)

White Noise

Don't Look Up

Living in the Time of Dying (documentary on Youtube. It is HEAVY on existentialism and the science/data on the current state of climate change. This WILL ruin your day so I'm warning you now. Definitely don't watch it today. This really affected me and I cried for a long time after watching this but it is incredibly important to keep in mind.)

Blackkklansman (i had to watch this with the volume on the lowest setting bc of all the n words being dropped so frequently lmao but goddamn this was so good and funnier than i expected.)

DIMENSION 20: Burrow's End!!!!! As well as The Unsleeping City season 1. Neverafter and A Crown of Candy are probably at the lower end of the list but I still love them. (thank you to @rogueimperator for cluing me onto how amazing D20 and Dropout are. <3 this is a whole new world lol)

Midnight Sun :)

7. Christine and the Queens - Redcar les adorables étoiles Full show on Youtube. I was supposed to see him live in October but he got injured and had to cancel the rest of his tour :( but this album and the video are incredible! Slight warning for semi nudity.

8. Game Changer on Dropout. he's been here the whole time!

9. The 1975 live at Madison Square Garden. I was lucky enough to see them twice this tour with my twin sister and we had an absolutely amazing time. They always put on amazing shows and this particular tour/their latest album meant so much to us. Even our younger brother has come with us for some of these shows so it's something we all share. (Last time they came to Chicago in 2022 the venue was too small so they didn't have the House set with them so we didn't get to see it in action until this year) Sex and The Sound will always be the perfect closers for their shows and I get so emotional every time I hear them. Core memories for sure.

10. Puss in Boots: the last wish. this seems like another obvious answer that i probably could have left off but this gets an honorary mention because our family cat was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer in August, and we had to put him down very soon after that diagnosis. We spent an agonizing week tending to him and cherishing every last second we could get with him. I've been fortunate enough to never experience the death of a pet until this year, and i almost wish we didn't have any pets at all because I've never felt such excruciating grief. He was a fat, grumpy orange boy with beautiful yellow stripes and a little yellow mustache. I was trying to distract myself and found this movie on Netflix and watched it, then recommended it to my sister (who is actually Thomas's owner but we all shared him) though I warned her the movie did deal with themes on mortality. We all watched it together the night before his final vet visit and Tommy was there with us on a comfy pillow. I hope he approved of the movie, because now any time I think of Puss in Boots i think of him. <3

I could add more to this but my eyes are tired and I'm wired up from coffee. I know this is long as hell so sorry but I had fun making it! I'll probably keep coming back to this post in the future to cross out what I've watched.

#leigh speaks

[aezuria]

okay it wouldn’t let me type all this on the comment you left about all for the game so i’m bringing it here hope you don’t mind

are you ready for a paragraph(s) about these books? bc i’m obsessed w them. it’s def not literary fiction so if you do read them don’t go in w an expectation that it’s going to be on the level of like madeline miller (my fav) or emily henry type stuff (idk what you read! those are just two authors staring at me from my personal library rn)

but also the characters have so much depth? it’s a silly little world with a silly little made up sport (it also helps that i love silly little sports. i’m an avid hockey and formula one racing fan. so silly) but also it’s VERY dark so please please look up content warnings before hand (i will send a list of what’s in the first book only if you’d like. but it’s a lot.)

compared to author dark fiction writers i’ve read (looking at you penelope douglas) i’ve found it approached better yk? like the content in it is dark stuff and my friends keep asking me if i’m okay when i’m describing the plot (i can also do that!! i literally never will shut up about any book i’ve ever read!!) but it’s still enjoyable. there have been multiple times where i had to step away from penelope douglas stuff bc i simply could not but i read the first all for the game book in 24 hrs.

i’m going to shut up now but plz plz lmk if you want to know more!! i simply am starting to fixate on this series and need an outlet to talk about it with others.

silly little sport?? dark?? omg the two extremes lmao you make it sound so interesting putting it on my list rn!! also id love to know more!!! you can yap all u want fr like whats the plot that makes ur friends ask u if ur good 👀

#*ੈ✎ inquiries