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alyandajsource · 5 months
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iamaly: Make sure to pick up a copy of @ hodinkee magazine Vol. 12 for a special piece on our song Pretty Places & the meaning behind the Daytona lyric…. I will always cherish the memories of writing this song & shooting the music video during the pandemic. Thanks for including our story @ glassofmilt
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radroller · 1 year
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WH- HAYAKAWA KEN????? AND ON FEBRUARY 2nd NO LESS????????
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abs0luteb4stard · 11 months
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W A T C H I N G
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fineprintedsunsets · 8 months
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all marvel oneshots/imagines i've written in one place. Most of my shit is 18+, I am NOT responsible for the content you consume, Minors DNI! All my master-lists follow the same key, exampled below.
🌼- Angst 🍒-Smut 🌸- Fluff ❣- Comfort
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Stephen Strange
-Study Buddies 🍒 | Your Doctor Stephen Stranges Student at the New York Hospital, You decide to ask him for help on medical papers with a due date up and coming. After all, he is your mentor, how could he refuse you?
-Shower Thoughts 🍒🌸 | Stephen Strange was known to be a dick, but what his could do far outweighed his smart mouth.
-Ray Of Sunshine 🌸❣ | You and Stephen establish a safe word, fluffy aftercare + guilty Stephen wanting to make it up to the reader.
-Below Zero 🍒🌼 | The Rotunda Gateways have filled the Sanctum with snow, when you come to Master Strange with your issue, he insists you fall asleep with his cock inside of you, to warm you up, of course.
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Loki Laufeyson
-Birthday Girl 🍒🌸 | It’s Kasey’s 23rd birthday, and her boyfriend, Loki Laufeyson being who he is, must go all out. They catch a film at a real 1960s drive-in, but a movie isn’t the only thing Loki came here to watch.
-Club Kisses 🍒🌼 | Kasey has just broken up with her boyfriend, while at a bar nursing, her wounds she meets two brothers, and one of them offers her a deal.
-God Of Mischief 🍒 | After receiving an invitation to one of Stark Industries Launch Partys, a certain god pays you a visit. Is Loki Laufeyson here to cause trouble, or perhaps seek it out?
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Tony Stark
-Honey 🍒 | Tony Stark is your boss, nothing more. So why is it that when you admit to him your having certain “issues” he takes it into his own hands? Or legs, per se.
-Pushing The Wrong Buttons 🍒🌸❣ | Stark Distrubution’s Literary Department houses Anna, and her (rational) fear of tight spaces and heights. It is until she finds herself stuck in an elevator with the one person she hoped to avoid. (mild panic attack comfort).
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Bucky Barnes
-Pinky Promises Master-List 🍒🌸🌼| You met Bucky while delivering something for a friend, and from that night on, he’s regretted it.
-Red Room Toy Collection Master-List 🍒🌸🌼 | Bucky loves toys, when he uses them on you, that is.
-Pick Up, Doll 🍒🌸 | You receive a face time call in the dead of night from the winter soldier himself, and he sounds very needy.
-Dead Ringer 🍒🌼 | You and Bucky have found refuge in an underground bunker, and it's breaking you both.
-Buck In The Backrooms | just a short comedic imagine
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Steve Rogers
-Teddy Bear ❣| Your skin is crawling, but Steve is there, he always is.
-Muted 🍒❣| Steve's been rather busy, all you want is his attention, but the way you go about it gets you in a bit of trouble.
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brokehorrorfan · 6 months
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The Dead Zone will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 19 via Scream Factory. The 1983 science fiction-horror-thriller is based on Stephen King’s 1979 novel.
David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) directs from a script by Jeffrey Boam (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, and Martin Sheen star.
Special features are in progress and will be announced at a later date.
School teacher Johnny Smith (Chistopher Walken) had a beautiful fiancée, a rewarding career and a fortunate life… until one tragic accident changed everything. After slamming into an 18-wheeler, Johnny is plunged into a five-year coma. When he awakens, he finds his true collision was with destiny – he now has the remarkable gift (or curse) of seeing into the future. From horror master Stephen King and Director David Cronenberg (Scanners, Dead Ringers), this supernatural thriller turns an everyday guy into a reluctant hero… saving children in danger, helping the police and finding a serial killer. But Johnny’s next vision may be his most terrifying yet.
Pre-order The Dead Zone.
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romanceyourdemons · 1 month
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one perhaps underrated element of david cronenberg’s style, as exemplified in the dead zone (1983), is his ability to stay incredibly faithful to the tone and style of his source material in adaptation. as with m. butterfly (1993), this film does not bear much of the twisting, surreal, associative qualities cronenberg’s more classic films are known for, and indeed the literary flavor of stephen king is as always strong enough to overlay most other adaptational artistic influences. compared to other king adaptations, though, this film is more concise and cohesive than any i have seen except perhaps for christine (1983), neatly avoiding the pitfalls of excessive meandering worldbuilding and poorly established stakes that dog king adaptations from salem’s lot (1975) to the shining (1980). unlike (for instance) stanley kubrick, cronenberg knows how to step back as an adaptor, and his visual style in this film is unobtrusive and understated, allowing the semi-rural american northeast aesthetic so central to king’s writing to shine through in all its beiges and browns and gazeboes and pervasive fundamentalist christianity. i certainly appreciate the respect he shows for his source in adaptation. however, an element of cronenberg’s style that i wish he had retained in this film is his brilliant skill for depicting the slow detaching of a character’s perceptions from reality—shown off to great effect in videodrome (1983) and dead ringers (1988) and central to martin scorsese’s taxi driver (1976), which shares similar plot devices with this film. calling into question the veracity of the central character’s perceptions would not only establish him as a more effective foil for the delusional politician whom he is convinced he must assassinate, but would also add more urgency to the plot, and more ambiguity to the very pat ending. regardless, the dead zone (1983) functions very well as a king adaptation and shows off cronenberg’s skill for faithful but still artistic adaptation, and is overall a very good film
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Hiii 2, 30, 44 <3
hiiii :)))
2. What movie(s) could you watch over and over and not get tired of?
hmm i rewatch movies constantly, so this could be a lot of things but i'm gonna say the 1995 remake of sabrina. it's my comfort movie and i've seen it a million times <3
30. Movie you wish was never made?
90 percent of jane eyre adaptations ㅠ.ㅠ the 2006 version is my one true love and i believe wholeheartedly in its superiority. like i know it doesn't stick as closely to the exact plot points and dialogue as some others but it's just truer in spirit to me. nobody gets their dynamic like ruth wilson/toby stephens
44. Top 5 favorite films?
this is about to be the hardest choices of my life but...
brideshead revisited (granada version ofc), yentl, dead ringers, my own private idaho, and holiday (1938)
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myreyisbae · 11 days
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Put together a list of songs found in moonlight promos/commercials since @moonlight-fan2008 did lists for episodes 1-16 if any are missing please let me know
For reference I used my promo Archive and Shazam + other older moonlight blogs/forms
❌ = Can't find
🎹= No lyrics
"Taking Chances" by Celine Dion
"Save Me" by Marc Lane and Greg Hatwell
"Los Angeles" performed by Sugarcult
*(Heating up Promo)
"How Do You Do" by Natasha Bedingfield
*(Meet Mick promo)
Apologize (feat. OneRepublic) by Timbaland
*Moonlight summer promo (WIN TV Australia)
"Heroes" by Shinedown
*Ghost Whisperer.Moonlight Promos
"Savin' Me" performed by Nickelback
"Original Man" by Ronn L Chick, Dennis Winslow & Robert J Walsh
*still wort living promo)
"How Does It Feel" by Deep Sounds
*(2 minute drill) S01E10 Sleeping Beauty promo
"Driftwood" by Deep Sounds
*(2 Minute Drill) S01E11 Love Lasts Forever
"Long Way from Home" Stephen Spiro & Paul Wickens
*(2 Minute Drill) S01E13 Fated to Pretend
"Beautiful Day" by 3 Colours Red
*(2 Minute Drill) S01E13 Fated to Pretend
A Different Girl (Full Mix Vocal)
By Chris Goulstone
*(Eyelab) Bloody Valentine promo
"Here She Comes" by Other Star People❌
*(Eyelab) Moonlight for Dummies
"Secret" by inque❌
*(Eyelab) immortal observations with Mick st. John
"Moving Backwards" by Ross Golan❌
*(Eyelab) Rewind
"Hands" by TriggerPimp ❌
*(Eyelab) MickBeth
Rpm by Michael Caen 🎹
*(Eyelab) How Do You Like Your Mick? promo
"Lullaby for a Loss" by Paul Reeves🎹
*(Eyelab) immortal observations with Mick st. John promo
"Stormbreaker" by Paul Reeves 🎹
*(Eyelab) immortal observations with Mick st. John promo
"Behind It All" by Conte Conte
*S01E04 Fever promo
"Get Your Way" by Jamie Cullum
*S01E05 Arrested Development
"Losing You" by Sia
*S01E07 The Ringer
"Final Onslaught" by the Action Machine
*S01E08 12:04 AM
"Like Yesterday" (Version 1) by Mike Shepstone & Steve Ennever
*S01E09 Fleur de Lis promo
"Dream Catch Me" by Newton Faulkner
*S01E11 Love Lasts Forever promo
"Mercy" by Duffy
*S01E13 Fated to Pretend promo
"When I'm Gone" by Simple Plan
*S01E16 Sonata promo
"Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional
*S01E16 Sonata promo (Malaysia TV9)
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tlbodine · 2 years
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I was wondering how I am able to write a quick, but horrific death for a short story. Everytime I try, I accidentally end up dragging it.
Hi nonny! Great question!
So here's the trick with sudden, shocking events in storytelling (but especially in writing): The thing that makes it shocking is that it happens quickly, and the way to make it happen quickly is to spend not-very-many words on it.
The more detail you pour onto something, the more description you use, the more diluted the emotional impact will be.
But you don't want it to happen *so* quickly that the reader skims right past it without noticing. And you don't want the moment to fall flat in a "rocks fall, everyone dies" way.
So what do you do?
1 - You build up the suspense leading up to the moment.
2 - You choose really tight, evocative writing for the impactful scene.
3 - You let it rest for a beat, with line breaks, before characters start to react.
One way to build up the suspense is what we might call the "Final Destination" technique -- allow your description to linger over small, threatening details, building up foreshadowing before the event. Something like:
The barn door swung forward with a screech on its rusted hinges, and she crept forward, the lantern flame throwing flickering light over the walls. She could barely hear over the sound of her own breath and the way the wind moaned through the eaves. The lantern cast a sheen over something metallic, the sparkle catching her eye, and she turned her attention toward it, not hearing the footsteps behind her, then --
-- searing pain, a terrible pressure in her chest.
She looked down, uncomprehending, at the three bloodied points poking through the front of her sweater. Then then were gone, sliding out of her back just as easily as they'd gone in, and she tried to take in a breath but it felt like an iron band was tightening around her.
Blood bubbled up into her mouth, spilled between her teeth, and she slumped to her knees.
By spending a little bit of time building up sensory details in advance, you have your reader keyed in to be paying attention for what's going to happen next. Then, when the violence happens, zero in on a key specific detail or sensation rather than trying to describe the whole scene. Here I focus on the specific detail of her lungs puncturing and collapsing after being stabbed with a pitchfork. No other details are necessary -- not how the barn looks, not what she looks like or is thinking about or even where the killer is. For the moment, 100% of my attention is on the death. That's how you keep it tight and move along.
In Stephen King's Pet Sematary, the scene where Gage dies actually is not written directly in the book, the way it appears in the film. Instead, the story spends quite a few pages detailing out a fun father-son bonding scene. There's a chapter break, and the next chapter starts in with the funeral. That itself is already shocking! But we linger at the funeral and the emotions of that event for several more pages before we finally get a description of the death itself:
...one minute he was there on the road and the next minute he was lying in it, but way down by the Ringers' house. It hit him and killed him and then it dragged him and you better believe it was quick. A hundred yards or more all told, the length of a football field, I ran after him, Missy, I was screaming his name over and over again, almost as if I expected he would still be alive, me, a doctor. I ran ten yards and there was his baseball cap and I ran twenty yards and there was one of his Star Wars sneakers, I ran forty yards and by then the truck had run off the road and the box had jackknifed in that field beyond the Ringers' barn. People were coming out of their houses and I went on screaming his name, Missy, and at the fifty-yard line there was his jumper, it was turned inside-out, and on the seventy-yard line there was the other sneaker, and then there was Gage.
I think this is SO wonderfully effective for multiple reasons:
1 - It focuses entirely on the mood and experience of Louis, whose perspective we're in right here. He is a father absolutely beside himself with grief and trauma, and the form follows that. The long run-on sentences are breathless and rambling and sound like someone who's come a little bit unhinged as he starts explaining. You can really feel his pain in this.
2 - The juxtaposition of a football field is such a mundane but effective detail. Not only does it provide effective information (we know exactly how far this is), but the mismatch of the mundane and the horrible beside each other drives it home.
3 - We don't actually need to see the body to comprehend the sheer violence and horror of this death. We don't need to see blood on the highway. Focusing on the details of his clothing items scattered at such a distance does a great job of portraying the speed and violence of the collision, and it's unsettling. It paints a mental picture of a dismemberment without ever saying as much outright. And the idea of being hit and dragged with enough force to turn a jumper inside out and leave it behind on the road is absolutely horrific.
So there's a few techniques to try playing with. If you're interested, I have a couple of guides that might provide more ideas:
Description Writing guide: https://tlbodine.gumroad.com/l/pulqq
Suspense Writing guide: https://tlbodine.gumroad.com/l/uyevh
Thanks for the ask, and happy writing!
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sloanaffirmations · 1 year
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🤟🤩🤟Like,Share,or type "LET IT SHINE" to affirm💖💿🎧🎵
✅My current aesthetic is me does 90s does 60s but the 90s. They're doing the 60s but they are mostly doing the 90s. My current aesthetic is Sloan Coax Me music video 1994 but not actually the Clothes they are wearing but the vibes of the Clothes and the vibes of the Song. I would never wear what They are wearing. Which I know doesn't tell you anything but understand what I am going for I have no proof of I Believe I am the first to Do it. I think Sloan Look Good Here but I am doing Sloan 90s does 60s but through a Beat Happening lense. I am doing it as I approach the band from a Butterfly Rock Perspective. It is the same general vibe, but I am baby Teeifying it. I am doing it with subtle Lisa Frank flare. But it is all so oversized longsleeve nonetheless. Of Course, the thrift store only provides so much of what I am Looking for. It all depends on what i have to work with. And of course, some looks are more Twee than others.🤩🤟
✅Take for example my Orange cardigan with the Blue and Yellow checkered skirt and tulip pattern. This is what Jay Ferguson would wear if he were a member of early 80s Tweepunk band Dolly Mixture. This is the perfect look to wear to a Super Friendz concert in 1997 because the Super Friendz are so Swangin Sixties. I wore this look when I worked at Goodwill and this woman said that that was exactly how they dressed in the Sixties. This is Christine by Stephen King the novel. 🚗💖
✅However, I am even more in favor of my longsleeve Pink turtleneck with the baby tank with the Pink and Orange butterfly in the middle and lettuce hem effect layered over top, with my long dark-wash denim skirt, Pink liz claiborne belt, and Silver daisy chain hanging on one side. This look is Revolutionary because I don't even know what to tell you. I take my Inspiration from lots of places. I guess it is why I dropped the Lisa Frank label earlier. But I imagine that if I were Chris Murphy's girlfriend in the 90s I would get him into wearing more brightly colored Ringer Tees that fit him small like a baby tee. He Would look kind of like Kelso from That 70s Show but also a Depop girlie. And we would look nice together, me in that outfit.🦋💖
✅Overall, though the Default is the 90s light washed Bill Blass Easy Fit jeans with the distressed hem at the bottom underneath my oversized Matthew Sweet "100% Fun" lite brite t shirt and yes the daisy chain belt on the side for this look as well. Matthew Sweet is not Sloan but of course if I knew Sloan in the 90s I would have Self-Consciousness due to having Limited experience online to learn about Self-Consciousness and how to combat it and I would be too scared to wear Sloan merch in front of Sloan so I would wear other power pop merch. Today I wore this look with a Black cardigan because it was cold, but I took the Black cardigan off so that this guy who sits behind me in Class could read the Matthew Sweet song titles because it Doesn't matter if he Doesn't know who he is, it makes me feel cool. I will wear these thrifted Doc knock offs until my sweat Wears off every part of the Inside. I am so power pop vibe. I am...in so many ways am Sloan Coax Me music video 1994🎵🤟
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mermaidinthecity · 1 year
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By Stephen Ringer for Listen!!! Single - 2021
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alyandajsource · 2 months
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marriedandttc · 1 year
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The road to Aurora…
On September 6th we checked in for induction at 10:00 pm and began medication around midnight thanks to lots of paperwork! We initially thought I wasn’t responding well to the pitocin because I never felt contractions… but with the sun up and my wits about me I discovered the pain I’d been feeling in my back all night long was actually back labor and we were making progress! On September 7th at 8:00 am Dr. Eastman came in to check on me. I was dilated to about a 3 which was some progress. I consented to a breaking of the waters and they inserted an internal monitor. I loved the internal monitor, it was so much more reliable. The entire night before was spent readjusting my straps and monitors and it was really tiresome after a while. Following the water breaking I called my doula and she booked it up to come help us! She arrived just in time as contractions picked up following the breaking. Thanks to the internal monitor I had an easy time moving around (just had to carry my IV pole) so we were able to labor in many positions. We began with me bending over at the side of the bed and my doula taught Stephen about counter pressure. He spent the entire time rubbing my back through the back labor - while utilizing some peppermint lotion! This helped a lot as I was battling a headache. When I got tired of that position we moved to the birthing ball and I did some bouncing and some rolling, Stephen still helping my back. And the last switch up we tried was hands and knees on the bed, leaning over/using a peanut ball for support. I think the hands and knees was my favorite! But by this time I’d been going at it for a couple hours and was exhausted so I took some time to lay in bed with the peanut ball. And I have to say… I am incredibly proud of myself. I’ve always said I have no pain tolerance and that I couldn’t do this part. My goal was to make it to 4 CM before the epidural but I didn’t believe I could. But when it came time I focused on my breathing, relaxed every muscle in my body, and just closed my eyes. I was silent and didn’t speak with anyone or make a sound. It was just me and my body, and I did it! When the pain reached a point I could no longer tolerate without some level of panic I requested my epidural. This was a step I feared! Getting one and using it was always a part of my plan but I’d watched videos on how it’s done and I was terrified! My anesthesiologist came in and blew every expectation out of the water. He was fast but organized, explained every touch before he did it, and got it in with ease. I couldn’t believe how simple he made it for me. They laid me back in bed and began waiting on the medicine to work. My blood pressure tolerated it well and I was grateful for the relief. It took away almost all the pelvic pressure and decreased the back labor pain, though never took it away. I continued to labor with the epidural for quite some time. My nurse and my doula worked together and changed my position every 30 minutes for hours upon hours. I used the peanut ball, the stirrups, and various seated bed positions to get baby to drop. We discovered the dilation and effacement was going great, but her station was not changing. No matter how close we got down south she wasn’t finding her way down.
I’m proud to report that all the changing of positions did work and by 8:00 pm I was able to push! I had my doula and Stephen working together on holding my legs for me and I got to work pushing. Baby started off with a posterior face, which made it extra difficult. About an hour into pushing I told them I needed a break and that I felt like I was going to pass out - and then my body began to shake out of my control, I lost nearly all color, and Stephen informed me that my lips turned purple. My blood sugar bottomed out and I was not doing well. They quickly changed my IV from regular lactated ringers to a kind with dextrose in it to help me, and I ate a sucker. After about 15 minutes of this I recovered and went straight back into pushing. We restarted pushing and eventually got the baby past the pelvic bone. It was a glorious moment… until we discovered my temperature was nearly 102. Everything came to a halt while they gathered me some Tylenol and two kinds of IV antibiotics. The fear was that laboring so long after having the waters manually broken had introduced infection to the uterus. While they took care of me they cleaned up beneath me and we took notice that the amniotic fluid now presented with meconium, so we really wanted baby to get out. With my temperature coming down and the antibiotics started we returned to pushing. I got a few in and the baby began to show signs of distress. As it was explained to me the heart decelerating during a push is to be expected to some extent but what they’re watching for is it to go back up AND have variance - wiggles in the heart monitor instead of it being flat when it went up. Aurora’s heart was presenting flat after every return, nearly no variance at all. We decided to roll me onto my side and try laboring that way to get pressure off my blood vessels. We gave it a few solid pushes and saw no improvement - and things went south when my own heart began to act up too and my pulse was lingering around 130-150.
Dr. Holtz took a temporary pause and came up to talk with me. “You are a rockstar. You’ve put every ounce of your energy into pushing and laboring. You did everything absolutely right and I’ve tried every position I can. But you told me all you cared about was that you and baby are healthy and safe at the end of this. It’s my professional opinion that the way we ensure that is a c-section.” I fully agreed. I was exhausted and in pain. My baby was in distress, and my own body seemed to begin following suit. She called for an emergency c-section and everything happened very fast. Within 20 minutes I was on the table and they were working miracles to get us all safe.
Aurora was born at 11:32 pm and came out screaming - beautiful lungs on that girl. Stephen and I locked eyes and we both began to cry. He stayed with me for a short while before he left to go check on our girl. She got apgar scores of 9, which they said they rarely give out! She returned to the room pretty quickly with her dad while they got me stitched up.
At the end of the day it was 12 hours of active labor, 2.5 hours of pushing, and one c-section.
I feel like I’ve been run over by a steam roller today and I can’t do much. I haven’t been able to feed, change, or lift the baby. I do get to hold her with pillow support and Stephen putting her in my arms. It’s very defeating, but hopefully I’ll make enough progress the next few days or experience some of her first days as an active parent and partner.
That said, I have no regrets about my birth experience. I got to at least try everything I was interested in and experience a lot of parts of birth. Unmedicated contractions, medicated contractions, pushing, and a c! I felt supported and heard every step of the way, and always believed I was fully in charge. I feel horrible physically but so empowered and capable emotionally. It could not have gone better.
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ariesbilly · 11 months
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tag 9 people you want to get to know better
tagged by @ayaravensong and @discodeviant
Three Ships: shory leyton fredsythe
First Ever Ship: shory (boy meets world) probably? before i knew what shipping was lol i just knew they were in love. intuitively.
Last Song: shockingly i have not listened to music today so i have no idea
Last Movie: i watched a little bit of bridesmaids just now on tv but last full movie i watched was catacombs (it was not good)
Currently Reading: the wedding - nicholas sparks, carrie - stephen king, and from dead to worse - charlaine harris
Currently Watching: vanderpump rules, orange is the new black, the sopranos, barry, real housewives of beverly hills and potomac, daisy jones and the six, a town called malice, dead ringers, gene simmons family jewels lmao so many things i keep a heavy rotation going because uh... binging is reserved for something that captures the brain rot and that just hasnt happened in a while
Currently Consuming: nothing
Currently Craving: ice cream
tagging @lazybakerart @littlewinter1917 @cyberwebz @bbygirlbilly @misha-misha @cassandracorvo @oneshortdamnfuse @frogprincelucio
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/44049645
ghost in the machine by theincredibleholland Spider-Man was everything that Peter Parker wanted to be. He was like a game of pretend and sometimes when the suit was on, he could pretend that nothing had changed. People recognized him with the suit, Spider-Man was remembered. Peter Parker was not. A little over a year had passed since his existence had been erased and he was building a life for himself. He was in his second semester of college, he had a job, his apartment could be worse. Things were okay. But still, he couldn't help but feel that he was existing outside of himself. He sometimes felt disconnected from his body and it only seemed to get worse when both new and old foes seem to be intent on taking him down, no matter the consequences. Words: 7236, Chapters: 2/20, Language: English Series: Part 1 of slow dancing in the dark Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Peter Parker, Kate Bishop, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Pepper Potts, Morgan Stark, Happy Hogan, Sam Wilson, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, James "Bucky" Barnes, Matt Murdock, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Karen Page, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Felicia Hardy, Wilson Fisk, Adrian Toomes, Phineas Mason, Aaron Davis (Marvel), Olivia Octavius, Kraven the Hunter, Mac Gargan, Yelena Belova, Scott Lang, Stephen Strange, Harley Keener, Cooper Barton Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Kate Bishop, Peter Parker & Felicia Hardy, Peter Parker & Matt Murdock, Peter Parker & The Avengers Team, Michelle Jones/Peter Parker (past), Ned Leeds & Peter Parker (Past) Additional Tags: Depressed Peter Parker, Post-Spider-Man: No Way Home (Movie), Canon Divergence - Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), BAMF Peter Parker, Genius Peter Parker, Peter and Kate are besties bc I said so, Dead May Parker (Spider-Man), Tony Stark Has A Heart, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Peter is literally the most selfless character I love him, about to put him through the ringer just prepare yourself, more tags to come
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Movie Review | Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981)
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I've seen Scanners a few times now, and with each viewing I seem to go back and forth on Stephen Lack's performance. No, I've never thought that it was actually "good", but I'm torn between whether he's a bad actor who is used well in the movie or a bad actor who deflates the centre of the movie. With this viewing, I'm leaning towards the former. To put it kindly, Lack is a limited actor, perhaps because he wasn't primarily an actor in the first place. I understand he was mostly a painter and sculptor, and one can speculate whether David Cronenberg cast him to help out one of his art world buddies, or to brutally dunk on an art world rival. (The former is more likely, the latter is funnier to imagine.) It's worth noting that Cronenberg later cast him in a small but affecting role in Dead Ringers.
There are probably two effective qualities that Lack brings to the material. One, as a relative void of charisma, he comes across as out of his element compared to his more experienced co-stars, and as a result ends up being a good audience vantage point. We are uneasy as this strange story hurtles forward, so it makes sense that we latch onto a character who seems as uneasy as ourselves. Two, Lack has large, spherical eyes, which lend themselves well to this story of malevolent psychics. The psychic battles here are depicted through a combination of stares, tilts of the head, and contorted and bulging faces, sometimes assisted by bladder effects. (If any of this sounds silly, it's a credit to Cronenberg's craft that he knows exactly how to shoot and cut these scenes for maximum energy.) While Lack is not the smoothest at executing these gestures, his stares photograph well, and his relatively affectless demeanour gives him a certain zen quality that works well in the final confrontation.
The cast around Lack however is a lot easier to defend without qualifiers. Michael Ironside provides an intense contrast to Lack in an early role, and it's easy to see why he became a go-to character actor in the years since. (Ironside also does those tilts and contortions a lot more naturally, perhaps because he seems ready to explode at any given moment.) There's Jennifer O'Neill, anticipating the tension of the Debbie Harry role in Videodrome with conceptually challenging hair (she isn't old, why is her hair so grey? okay, I'm only thirty and have a bunch of grey hairs too, the point is, she's good in the movie). There's Lawrence Dane as the kind of conniving executive that would be played by Ronny Cox were this a Paul Verhoeven movie. There's a brief but quite moving appearance by Robert A. Silverman as a tortured artist who has found other ways to manage his psychic powers. And there's Patrick McGoohan, providing the closest thing to a warm, paternal character in the movie, and whose rich, deep voice feels at one with the movie's textures.
Of Cronenberg's filmography, this is the first one in my opinion that really nails that sense of coldness we associate with him. A great deal of assistance comes from Howard Shore's vaguely futuristic score, but there's a certain sterility in the cinematography, a good eye for cold, unwelcoming interiors and great use of locations. This was shot in Toronto and Montreal, and while the movie doesn't specify the setting, Cronenberg is able to imbue these places with a subtly dystopian quality. Has Yorkdale subway station ever looked this sinister? (This quality continues in Videodrome, which is perhaps the definitive Toronto movie, giving the city some of the sleazy charge of a pre-cleanup New York.) And this quality even extends to the corporate names in the movie, with "ConSec" and "Biocarbon Amalgamate" both carrying a certain obfuscating coldness.
As body horror, this falls well into his pet concerns, and while it maybe isn't as sophisticated as some of his other movies in this regard, it benefits from a relentless forward momentum in the narrative and some memorable special effects. This is far from the grossest thing Cronenberg has made, but when you bookend your movie with the most famous exploding head in cinema and a gruesome psychic duel that evokes Thich Quang Duc, it's safe to say you've made an impact.
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