#Warren the whale whisperer

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Warren The Whale Whisperer enjoying some 'me' time aboard his cruiser, Seas the Day.

#warren the whale whisperer #warren #warren sandler #sims 3 #ts3 #non-story

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2023 Oscar nominations :

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Malte Grunert, Producer

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

“Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers

“The Fabelmans,” Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers

“Tár,” Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

“Triangle of Sadness,” Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers

“Women Talking,” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

Best Director 

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) 

Todd Field (“Tár”) 

Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Lead Actor

Austin Butler (“Elvis”) 

Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) 

Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) 

Bill Nighy (“Living”) 

Best Lead Actress

Cate Blanchett (“Tár”) 

Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) 

Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”)

Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) 

Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) 

Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)

Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) 

Hong Chau (“The Whale”) 

Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Written by Rian Johnson

“Living,” Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks

“Women Talking,” Screenplay by Sarah Polley

Best Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Written by Martin McDonagh

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

“The Fabelmans,” Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner

“Tár,” Written by Todd Field

“Triangle of Sadness,” Written by Ruben Östlund

All Quiet on the Western Front”, James Friend

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” Darius Khondji

“Elvis,” Mandy Walker

“Empire of Light,” Roger Deakins

“Tár,” Florian Hoffmeister

Best Documentary Feature Film 

“All That Breathes,” Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov

“Fire of Love,” Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman

“A House Made of Splinters,” Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström

“Navalny,” Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

Best Documentary Short Film 

“The Elephant Whisperers,” Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

“Haulout,” Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

“How Do You Measure a Year?” Jay Rosenblatt

“The Martha Mitchell Effect,” Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison

“Stranger at the Gate,” Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

Best Film Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

“Elvis,” Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Paul Rogers

“Tár,” Monika Willi

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Eddie Hamilton

Best International Feature Film 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) 

“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina) 

“Close” (Belgium)

“EO” (Poland) 

“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland) 

Best Original Song 

“Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman,” Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler

“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose  

“This Is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne 

Best Production Design 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole

“Babylon,” Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino

“Elvis,” Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn

“The Fabelmans,” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Best Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

“The Batman,” Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

Best Animated Feature Film 

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” Joel Crawford and Mark Swift

“The Sea Beast,” Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

“Turning Red,” Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Best Animated Short Film

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

“The Flying Sailor,” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

“Ice Merchants,” João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano

“My Year of Dicks,” Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It,” Lachlan Pendragon

Best Costume Design 

“Babylon,” Mary Zophres

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Ruth Carter

“Elvis,” Catherine Martin

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Shirley Kurata

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Jenny Beavan

Best Live Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye,” Tom Berkeley and Ross White

“Ivalu,” Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan

“Le Pupille,” Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón

“Night Ride,” Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen

“The Red Suitcase,” Cyrus Neshvad

Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová

“The Batman,” Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Camille Friend and Joel Harlow

“Elvis,” Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti

The Whale,” Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley

Best Original Score 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Volker Bertelmann

“Babylon,” Justin Hurwitz

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Carter Burwell

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Son Lux

“The Fabelmans,” John Williams

Best Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges

“The Batman,” Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson

“Elvis,” David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

#oscars #oscar nominations #2023 oscars #academy award nominations #oscar nods

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Predictions for the 95th Academy Awards (March 12, 2023)

And the Oscar goes to...

KEY: Predicted Winner | My pick*

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once*

The Banshees of Inisherin

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

Elvis

The Fabelmans

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

Best Actor

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Collin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)*

Austin Butler (Elvis)

Paul Mescal (Aftersun)

Bill Nighy (Living)

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)*

Ana de Armas (Blonde)

Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)

Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Michelle Williams (The Fablemans)

Best Supporting Actor

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)*

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)

Judd Hirsch (The Fablemans)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)*

Hong Chau (The Whale)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On*

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

The Sea Beast

Turning Red

Best Director

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)*

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Todd Field (Tár)

Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Women Talking (Sarah Polley)*

All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)

Living (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Peter Craig and Justin Marks)

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)*

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)

The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner)

Tár (Todd Field)

Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)

Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front

Tár*

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Elvis

Empire of Light

The Banshees of Inisherin was SNUBBED here

Best Film Editing

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Banshees of Inisherin*

Elvis

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Score

The Fabelmans

The Banshees of Inisherin*

All Quiet on the Western Front

Babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Song

Naatu Naatu (RRR)*

Applause (Tell it Like a Woman)

Hold my Hand (Top Gun: Maverick)

Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

This Is a Life (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water*

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Sound

Top Gun: Maverick

All Quiet on the Western Front*

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Batman

Elvis

Best Costume Design

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*

Bablyon

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

The Whale

The Batman*

All Quiet on the Western Front

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Best Production Design

Avatar: The Way of Water

All Quiet on the Western Front*

Babylon

Elvis

The Fabelmans

Best Documentary Feature

Fire of Love*

All That Breathes

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

A House Made of Splinters

Navalny

Best Documentary Short Subject

Haulout*

The Elephant Whisperers

How Do You Measure a Year

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Stranger at the Gate

Best Animated Short

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

The Flying Sailor

Ice Merchants

My Year of Dicks

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Best Live-Action Short

An Irish Goodbye

Ivalu

Le Pupille

Night Ride

The Red Suitcase

Best International Film

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)

EO (Poland)*

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Close (Belgium)

The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

DISCLAIMER:

It is unlikely I will be able to see everything nominated for an Award either due to time or accessibility (or both). I chose not to predict or say my pick in categories where I haven't seen enough of the nominations to form a good enough opinion.

Also, these are my opinions, if you have different predictions or are rooting for another film/person, please let me know! Please stay tuned for my next post: explaining my picks & predictions. Happy watching!

#oscars 2023 #95th academy awards #everything everywhere all at once #tár #the banshees of inisherin #all quiet on the western front #avatar the way of water #elvis #the fabelmans #top gun maverick #triangle of sadness #women talking #best picture #best actor #best actress #best director #movies #films #cinema #film blog #film critique #film criticism #movielover

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Confira todos os indicados do 95º cerimônia do Oscar.

-Melhor Filme Nada de Novo no Front Avatar: O Caminho da Água Os Banshees de Inisherin Elvis Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo Os Fabelmans Tár Top Gun: Maverick Triângulo da Tristeza Entre Mulheres

-Melhor Direção Martin McDonagh – Os Banshees de Inisherin Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo Steven Spielberg – Os Fabelmans Todd Field – Tár Ruben Östlund – Triângulo da Tristeza

-Melhor Atriz Cate Blanchett – Tár Ana de Armas – Blonde Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie Michelle Williams – Os Fabelmans Michelle Yeoh – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo

-Melhor Ator Austin Butler – Elvis Colin Farrell – Os Banshees de Inisherin Paul Mescal – Aftersun Bill Nighy – Living Brendan Fraser – The Whale

-Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante Angela Bassett – Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre Hong Chau – The Whale Kerry Condon – Os Banshees de Inisherin Jamie Lee Curtis – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo Stephanie Hsu – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo

-Melhor Ator Coadjuvante Brendan Gleeson – Os Banshees de Inisherin Barry Keoghan – Os Banshees de Inisherin Brian Tyree Henry – Passagem Judd Hirsch – Os Fabelmans Ke Huy Quan – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo

-Melhor Roteiro Original Os Banshees de Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo (Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert) Os Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg e Tony Kushner) Tár (Todd Field) Triângulo da Tristeza (Ruben Östlund)

-Melhor Roteiro Adaptado Nada de Novo no Front (Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson e Ian Stokell) Glass Onion: Um Mistério Knives Out (Rian Johnson) Living (Kazuo Ishiguro) Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer e Christopher McQuarrie) Entres Mulheres (Sarah Polley)

-Melhor Filme Internacional Nada de Novo no Front (Alemanha) Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) Close (Bélgica) EO (Polônia) The Quiet Girl (Irlanda)

-Melhor Animação (longa-metragem) Pinóquio de Guillermo del Toro Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Gato de Botas 2: O Último Pedido A Fera do Mar RED: Crescer é uma Fera

-Melhor Curta-Metragem em Live-Action An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille Night Ride The Red Suitcase

-Melhor Curta-Metragem Animado The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse The Flying Sailor Ice Merchants My Year of Dicks An Ostrich Told me The World is Fake and I Think I Believe It

-Melhor Documentário (longa-metragem) All that Breaths All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Fire of Love A House Made of Splinters Navalny

-Melhor Documentário (curta-metragem) The Elephant Whisperers Haulout How do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Stranger at the Gate

-Melhor Trilha Sonora Babilônia (Justin Hurwitz) Nada de Novo no Front (Volker Bertelmann) Os Banshees de Inisherin (Carter Burwell) Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo (Son Lux) Os Fabelmans (John Williams)

-Melhor Canção Original Hold my Hand (Lady Gaga e Bloodpop) – Top Gun: Maverick Lift me Up (Rihanna, Tems, Ryan Coogler e Ludwig Goransson) – Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre Naatu Naatu (M.M. Keeravaani e Chandrabose) – RRR Applause (Diane Warren) – Tell it Like a Woman This is a Life (Ryan Lott, David Byrne e Mitski) – Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo

-Melhor Design de Produção Nada de Novo no Front Avatar: O Caminho da Água Babilônia Elvis Os Fabelmans

-Melhor Maquiagem e Cabelo Nada de Novo no Front Batman Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre Elvis The Whale

-Melhor Figurino Babilônia Elvis Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre Sra. Harris Vai a Paris Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo

-Melhor Fotografia Nada de Novo no Front Bardo: Falsa Crônica de Algumas Verdades Elvis Empire of Light Tár

-Melhor Som Nada Novo no Front Avatar: O Caminho da Água Batman Elvis Top Gun: Maverick

-Melhor Montagem e Edição Os Banshees de Inisherin Elvis Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo Tár Top Gun: Maverick

-Melhores Efeitos Visuais Avatar: O Caminho da Água Nada de Novo no Front Batman Pantera Negra: Wakanda para Sempre Top Gun: Maverick

O Oscar acontece no dia 12 de março.

#Oscar #Oscar2023 #Premiação #Premiacao

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OSCAR NOMS

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front” “Avatar: The Way of Water” “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Elvis” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” “The Fabelmans” “TÁR” “Top Gun: Maverick” “Triangle of Sadness” “Women Talking”

Best Director

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Todd Field (“TÁR”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett (“TÁR”) Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Actor

Austin Butler (“Elvis”) Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) Bill Nighy (“Living”)

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”) Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) Hong Chau (“The Whale”) Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best International Feature Film

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Edward Berger, Germany) “Argentina, 1985” (Santiago Mitre, Argentina) “Close” (Lukas Dhont, Belgium) “EO” (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland) “The Quiet Girl” (Colm Bairéad, Ireland)

Best Cinematography

James Friend (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Darius Khondji (“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”) Mandy Walker (“Elvis”) Roger Deakins (“Empire of Light”) Florian Hoffmeister (“Tár”)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Rian Johnson (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”) Kazuo Ishiguro (“Living”) Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer (“Top Gun: Maverick”) Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”)

Best Original Screenplay

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Todd Field (“TÁR”) Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Animated Feature

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (ShadowMachine/Netflix) “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (A24) “Turning Red” (Pixar/Disney) “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks/Universal) “The Sea Beast” (Netflix)

Best Visual Effects

“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Disney/Marvel) “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)

Best Editing

“Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) “TÁR” (Focus Features) “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Production Design

“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “Babylon” (Paramount) “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “The Fabelmans” (Universal)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

“Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Whale” (A24)

Best Costume Design

“Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel/Disney) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) “Babylon” (Paramount) “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (Focus Features)

Best Sound

“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.)

Best Documentary Feature

“All That Breathes” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” “Fire of Love” “A House Made of Splinters” “Navalny”

Best Documentary Short Subject

“The Elephant Whisperers” “Haulout” “How Do You Measure a Year?” “The Martha Mitchell Effect” “Stranger at the Gate”

Best Live Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye” “Ivalu” “Le Pupille” “Night Ride” “The Red Suitcase”

Best Animated Short

“The Flying Sailor” “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” “Ice Merchants” “My Year of Dicks” “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

Best Original Song

“Hold My Hand” — Lady Gaga (“Top Gun: Maverick”) “Lift Me Up”— Rihanna (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) “Naatu Naatu”— Kaala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, and Rahul Sipligunj (“RRR”) “Applause”— Diane Warren (“Tell It Like a Woman”) “This Is a Life”— David Byrne, Ryan Lott, and Mitski (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Original Score

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Volker Bertelmann “Babylon,” Justin Hurwitz “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Carter Burwell “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Son Lux “The Fabelmans,” John Williams

#oscar nominations #oscars #elvis #everything all at once #the banshees of inisherin #the fabelmans #babylon #all quiet on the western front #top gun #wakanda forever #black panther #paul mescal #austin butler #avatar: the way of water #TAR #triangle of sadness #women talking #cate blanchett #angela bassett #ana de armas #andrea riseborough #blonde #michelle williams #michelle yeoh #colin farrell #brendon fraser #the whale #bill nighy #brian tyree henry #causeway

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New Post has been published on Harold Gross: The 5a.m. Critic

New Post has been published on http://literaryends.com/hgblog/oscars-2023-results/

Oscars 2023 (results)

Well, I did pretty well this year, especially on the main awards. And if I’d stuck with my gut, I’d have had a couple more (and even those I missed I called the actual winner as a possibility).

Major: 7 of 8 (88%) Minor:  6 of 8 (75%)  – those darned shorts again Technical:  4 of 7 (58%) Overall:  18 of 23 (78%)

The list with some minor commentary.

Actor In A Leading Role

Austin Butler (Elvis) Colin Farrell (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Brendan Fraser (The Whale) Paul Mescal (Aftersun) Bill Nighy (Living)

My Choice: Brendan Fraser Winner: Brendan Fraser

Actress In A Leading Role

Cate Blanchett (Tár) Ana De Armas (Blonde) Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans) Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

My Choice: Michelle Yeoh Winner: Michelle Yeoh

Actor In A Supporting Role

Brendan Gleeson  (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway) Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans) Barry Keoghan (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

My Choice: Ke Huy Quan Winner: Ke Huy Quan

Actress In A Supporting Role

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) Hong Chau (The Whale) Kerry Condon (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once) Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

My Choice: Angela Bassett Winner: Jamie Lee Curtis

This was always a toss-up and not at all disappointing. It was also out of the gate for the evening and it was clear at that moment that EEAAO was going to sweep the evening.

Directing

Martin Mcdonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Danel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once) Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) Todd Field (Tár) Ruben Östlund (Triangle Of Sadness)

My Choice: Danel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert Winner: Danel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert

Animated Feature Film

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Marcel The Shell With Shoes On Puss In Boots: The Last Wish The Sea Beast Turning Red

My Choice: Pinocchio Winner: Pinocchio

International Feature Film

All Quiet On The Western Front Argentina, 1985 Close Eo The Quiet Girl

My Choice: Argentina, 1985 My Prediction: All Quiet on the Western Front Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Picture

All Quiet On The Western Front Avatar: The Way Of Water The Banshees Of Inisherin Elvis Everything Everywhere All At Once The Fabelmans Tár Top Gun: Maverick Triangle Of Sadness Women Talking

My Choice: Women Taking My Prediction: Everything Everywhere All At Once Winner: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Documentary Feature Film

All That Breathes All The Beauty And The Bloodshed Fire Of Love A House Made Of Splinters Navalny

My Choice: Navalny Winner: Navalny

Documentary Short Film

The Elephant Whisperers Haulout How Do You Measure A Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Stranger At The Gate

My Choice: The Martha Mitchell Effect Winner: The Elephant Whispers

Again, not a huge surprise, but it wasn’t as effective a movie for me and I wasn’t willing to listen to the street whispers. Lesson learned: Never bet against baby animals.

Short Film (Animated)

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse The Flying Sailor Ice Merchants My Year Of Dicks An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It

My Choice: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse Winner: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse

Short Film (Live Action)

An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille Night Ride The Red Suitcase

My Choice: Le Pupille Winner: An Irish Goodbye

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

All Quiet On The Western Front Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Rian Johnson

Living Kazuo Ishiguro

Top Gun: Maverick Screenplay By Ehren Kruger And Eric Warren Singer And Christopher Mcquarrie; Story By Peter Craig And Justin Marks

Women Talking Sarah Polley

My Choice: Women Talking Winner: Women Talking

Writing (Original Screenplay)

The Banshees Of Inisherin Martin Mcdonagh

Everything Everywhere All At Once Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

The Fabelmans Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner

Tár Todd Field

Triangle Of Sadness Ruben Östlund

My Expectation: Everything Everywhere All At Once Winner: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Music (Original Score)

All Quiet On The Western Front Volker Bertelmann

Babylon Justin Hurwitz

The Banshees Of Inisherin Carter Burwell

Everything Everywhere All At Once Son Lux

The Fabelmans John Williams

My Expectation: All Quiet On The Western Front Winner: All Quiet On The Western Front

Music (Original Song)

Applause From Tell It Like A Woman; Music And Lyric By Diane Warren

Hold My Hand From Top Gun: Maverick; Music And Lyric By Lady Gaga And Bloodpop

Lift Me Up From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever); Music By Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler And Ludwig Goransson; Lyric By Tems And Ryan Coogler

Naatu Naatu From RRR; Music By M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric By Chandrabose

This Is A Life From Everything Everywhere All At Once) ; Music By Ryan Lott, David Byrne And Mitski; Lyric By Ryan Lott And David Byrne

My Choice: Naatu Naatu Winner: Naatu Naatu

Cinematography

James Friend (All Quiet On The Western Front) Darius Khondji (Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths) Mandy Walker (Elvis) Roger Deakins (Empire Of Light) Florian Hoffmeister (Tár)

My Choice: Mandy Walker Winner: James Friend

This was the early favorite and where I originally landed. But it felt like a year where more records were wanting to be set. And, honestly, none of the nominees were bad. Truly some beautiful work across the field, regardless of what you may think of any of the films.

Costume Design

Mary Zophres (Babylon) Ruth Carter (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) Catherine Martin (Elvis) Shirley Kurata (Everything Everywhere All At Once) Jenny Beavan (Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris)

My Choice: Catherine Martin Winner: Ruth Carter

OK, this one really did surprise me. While inventive, I expected this to go to something a bit more grounded in reality. But, then again, a genre film took Best Pic, so cool.

Film Editing

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (The Banshees Of Inisherin) Matt Villa And Jonathan Redmond (Elvis) Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All At Once) Monika Willi (Tár) Eddie Hamilton (Top Gun: Maverick)

My Choice: Everything Everywhere All At Once Winner:  Everything Everywhere All At Once

Makeup And Hairstyling

All Quiet On The Western Front The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis The Whale

My Choice: Elvis Winner: The Whale

I had this. I wanted this, and I blinked. Drat.

Production Design

All Quiet On The Western Front Avatar: The Way Of Water Babylon Elvis The Fabelmans

My Choice: Babylon Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front

Another actual surprise for me. I would have expected a domestic flick to pick up the award given the possibilities. Not a bad choice for the win, but Elvis and Babylon both had much greater scope. Perhaps they split the vote.

Sound

All Quiet On The Western Front Avatar: The Way Of Water The Batman Elvis Top Gun: Maverick

My Choice: Top Gun Winner: Top Gun

Visual Effects

All Quiet On The Western Front Avatar: The Way Of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Top Gun: Maverick

My Choice: Avatar Winner: Avatar

#craft #General #Movie Review

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See the Oscar nominations below.

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Malte Grunert, Producer

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

“Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers

“The Fabelmans,” Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers

“Tár,” Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

“Triangle of Sadness,” Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers

“Women Talking,” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

2. Best Director 

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) 

Todd Field (“Tár”) 

Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

3. Best Lead Actor

Austin Butler (“Elvis”) 

Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) 

Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) 

Bill Nighy (“Living”) 

4. Best Lead Actress

Cate Blanchett (“Tár”) 

Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) 

Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”)

Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) 

Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

5. Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) 

Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)

Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

6. Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) 

Hong Chau (“The Whale”) 

Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) 

Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

7. Best Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Written by Rian Johnson

“Living,” Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks

“Women Talking,” Screenplay by Sarah Polley

8. Best Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Written by Martin McDonagh

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

“The Fabelmans,” Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner

“Tár,” Written by Todd Field

“Triangle of Sadness,” Written by Ruben Östlund

9. Best Cinematography 

“All Quiet on the Western Front”, James Friend

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” Darius Khondji

“Elvis,” Mandy Walker

“Empire of Light,” Roger Deakins

“Tár,” Florian Hoffmeister

10. Best Documentary Feature Film 

“All That Breathes,” Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov

“Fire of Love,” Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman

“A House Made of Splinters,” Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström

“Navalny,” Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

11. Best Documentary Short Film 

“The Elephant Whisperers,” Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

“Haulout,” Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

“How Do You Measure a Year?” Jay Rosenblatt

“The Martha Mitchell Effect,” Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison

“Stranger at the Gate,” Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

12. Best Film Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

“Elvis,” Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Paul Rogers

“Tár,” Monika Willi

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Eddie Hamilton

13. Best International Feature Film 

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) 

“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina) 

“Close” (Belgium)

“EO” (Poland) 

“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland) 

14. Best Original Song 

“Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman,” Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler

��Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose  

“This Is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne 

15. Best Production Design 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole

“Babylon,” Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino

“Elvis,” Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn

“The Fabelmans,” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

16. Best Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

“The Batman,” Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

17. Best Animated Feature Film 

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” Joel Crawford and Mark Swift

“The Sea Beast,” Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

“Turning Red,” Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

18. Best Animated Short Film

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

“The Flying Sailor,” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

“Ice Merchants,” João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano

“My Year of Dicks,” Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It,” Lachlan Pendragon

19. Best Costume Design 

“Babylon,” Mary Zophres

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Ruth Carter

“Elvis,” Catherine Martin

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Shirley Kurata

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Jenny Beavan

20. Best Live Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye,” Tom Berkeley and Ross White

“Ivalu,” Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan

“Le Pupille,” Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón

“Night Ride,” Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen

“The Red Suitcase,” Cyrus Neshvad

21. Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová

“The Batman,” Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Camille Friend and Joel Harlow

“Elvis,” Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti

“The Whale,” Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley

Best Original Score 

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Volker Bertelmann

“Babylon,” Justin Hurwitz

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Carter Burwell

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Son Lux

“The Fabelmans,” John Williams

22. Best Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges

“The Batman,” Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson

“Elvis,” David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

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Listed: His Name Is Alive

While Warren Defever’s name is perhaps less recognizable than that of his band His Name Is Alive, he’s also been connected with a seemingly endless array of other projects: Princess Dragon-Mom, Elvis Hitler, ESP Beetles, Control Panel, and far more. This doesn’t get into his recording and production credits for the likes of Michael Hurley, Iggy and the Stooges, and Mdou Moctar. Forever associated with Michigan’s weirdo-underground music scene, Defever has recently been issuing a series of long-buried recordings as His Name Is Alive. In February, the Disciples label released Hope Is a Candle, the third and final volume in the "Home Recordings" trilogy exploring Defever's teenage tape experimentation as well as A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979 - 1990), a four-volume collection of many of Defever’s solo home recordings prior to His Name Is Alive releasing their debut album Livonia on 4AD in 1990. In his review of A Silver Thread, Tim Clarke writes “For a collection of home recordings, what’s most striking about this music is how fully realized and carefully executed it sounds, comparable at times to contemporary artists such as Grouper, Benoît Pioulard and Tim Hecker. This is not the 1980s that I remember.”

Defever gives us his “What Else Is New” list, a set of personal snapshots, memories of a life spent in music, warning the reader that “the descriptions don’t always have an obvious correlation to the video, but welcome to my nightmare brain.”

In The Line of Fire

I started performing when I was five. My grandfather was a self-taught musician from Saskatchewan in Western Canada and he showed me and my brothers how to play banjo, guitar and fiddle. One of my earliest memories is having a full size 127 lb. accordion placed onto my lap and my grandmother voicing her disappointment when I refused to play. I did learn slide guitar from her later though. I have many, often terrible, memories of performing at square dances with his band and we would play old timey country music, folk songs, polkas and waltzes. There were also gigs at the trailer park, old folks homes and a convent. Although my grandfather believed that popular music died with Hank Williams in 1953, he still found room in his heart for Lawrence Welk and Slim Whitman.

Meet Me By The Water

By age ten I had a tape recorder and was using it to capture the sounds of nearby lakes, thunderstorms, and my older brothers LP collection played at the wrong speeds. I recently found the cassette, Echo Lake (1983) which features waves crashing onto the beach on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair but it was recorded right after I got an echo pedal so it’s got a heavy dose of dreamy delay. Tape loops of the next door neighbor raking leaves and shoveling the driveway would be repurposed a few years later as rhythm tracks on the first His Name Is Alive LP, Livonia (4AD, 1990). Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s had totally insane radio and one of the highlights was Met-Ezzthetics, a late night show on WDET hosted by Faruq Z. Bey who also played saxophone in Griot Galaxy. Shortly before his death he played with His Name is Alive and we had a chance to formalize our student-teacher relationship.

Search For Higher Energies

In high school I was studying Bach Chorale harmonization and counterpoint during the day but recording and touring with the band Elvis Hitler at night. The other guys in band were older but at 16 I was a familiar sight at shitty Detroit punk clubs and Hamtramck dive bars, the nerdy teenager reading a book or doing homework sitting at the bar waiting ’til midnight or 1am for our slot to play our hellbilly hits, “It’s A Long Way From Berlin To Memphis,” and “Hot Rod To Hell.” I was still trying to make sense of the post 1953 music scene and when I met the guy with a giant afro and shiny super hero outfit complete with shiny cape I had no idea he was Rob Tyner of the MC5. We released three records before I was twenty one and played shows and toured with Devo, the Dwarves, the Dead Milkmen, Reverend Horton Heat, the Beat Farmers, Helios Creed, Babes In Toyland, the Cro-Mags, Corrosion of Conformity, the Frogs, the Gories, Pussy Galore, the Unsane and way more I can’t remember I was just a kid. It was some kind of education.

You Don’t Have To Go Home But You Can’t Stay Here

When I signed with 4AD I thought I was a composer and they let me write my own bio, so I called His Name Is Alive the work of a “fucked up, irresponsible teenage composer.” I had only been writing music for three years. When I heard “Tom Violence” by Sonic Youth I thought for the first time in my life, “I think I could do that.” In 1988 I made a mixtape with Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, Leadbelly and some of Big Star’s third album and I tried to arrange it like it was an album, then I made my own album in that same shape, it was called I Had Sex With God and I sent it to 4AD. Our first album contained three of the first five pieces of music I had ever written. Within a few years I was playing festivals for contemporary classical composers and new age artists who were thirty or forty years older than me. His Name Is Alive played the Musicas Visuales Festival in Mexico with Harold Budd, Paul Horn and Jorge Reyes. The mayor of the city presented me with a guitar but then dramatically walked out of the theater during our performance realizing he had made a terrible mistake. I remember the surreal moment when from across the room Harold Budd walked in and greeted me as “Mr. Defever.” He had a cold and was sniffling during his set, the audience thought he was crying. I recorded his show and when I got back home to Livonia I added my own guitar to some of his songs and then edited the tapes, looping my favorite parts and editing out the parts I didn’t like, also adding additional layers of reverb and echo. More recently I did a concert in a five hundred year old temple in Japan where the unamplified meditation music never rose above a whisper and the monk had to turn off the furnace because the heat molecules were too loud. The show was recorded and released under the name Mountain Ocean Sun and features Ian Masters and Hitoko Sakai.

Energy Dealer

Both my parents were born in Canada, my mother in Saskatchewan, my father in Ontario. I have dual citizenship as my father was American and my mother had Canadian citizenship. I spent summers, holidays and weekends in a tiny cottage on Lake St. Clair that did not have a telephone and had curtains instead of doors separating the two rooms. Myrt Fortin who lived next door would receive phone calls for my mom, walk over to our place and yell into the window, “Hey wake up your ma, your dad’s on the phone.” My mom took a lot of naps, so she was always asleep when something important was happening. I remember always getting cut on broken glass while swimming in the lake or getting stabbed by one of the neighbors and having to go wake up my mom to take me to the hospital.

Lord I Don’t Believe You Exist

When I was ten my parents sat me down and told me it was time that I got a summer job. There were only two businesses in town, a gas station and a hardware store so I walked up to the hardware store and asked the owner for a job and immediately fell to the ground crying. Completely fell apart. He asked me why I wanted to work in hardware. I didn’t know what to say, I was only ten but I knew not to tell the owner that his store was stupid and I didn’t think he could handle the truth. It turned out he also owned the gas station so that didn’t really work out. Later that summer, I began working for the Pickseed Corporation as corn de-tasseling season was just beginning. All the moms would drop off their kids in the church parking lot in Tecumseh, just outside of Windsor, around 4:30am where an unmarked windowless cargo van was waiting that had cinderblocks and 2'x4' boards instead of benches so they could squeeze in the maximum amount of children. There were three job requirements to work in a cornfield, the child (it was only children, no adults) needed to show up with a baseball hat, a thermos with water and a large black plastic garbage bag. I think this was before sunglasses were invented. Upon arriving at the cornfield, we were separated into pickers and checkers, younger kids each taking a row of corn (a row could extend a mile or more) and a slightly older kid would organize and manage several of the younger kids. In the morning we were instructed to poke two arm holes and a head hole into our garbage bags and put it on like a raincoat because the corn was covered in dew and kids wearing wet clothes would walk slower than dry kids. So almost every day there was a point, usually around 11am when the dew would dry and we would be roasted alive from the summer sun coming down on our ridiculous shiny black plastic outfits. We worked from sun up until sun down. I received three dollars and thirty five cents an hour. For all you city folks, corn is planted in alternating rows of types of corn so that when the top part of the plant is removed, or “de-tasseled,” it can seed or cross-pollinate easily. It’s a terrible job with a high turnover rate and every day I would hear the sound of kids in nearby rows that had given up hope, sat down in the middle of the field and crying for hours. The following year, at age 11, I was promoted from picker to checker, and was put in charge of a group of about ten sixteen year old’s.

Sleep It Off

Mostly I like to record – His Name is Alive has over a hundred releases and I’ve done another fifty records under various names, Control Panel, Warren Michael Defever, ESP BEETLES, ESP SUMMER, Forest People, Infinity People, Jeepers Creepers, Layla al-Akhyaliyya, Mirror Dream, Princess Dragon-Mom, the Dirt Eaters, the Fishcats, the Whales, plus way more I can’t remember probably because the names were so dumb. I’ve recorded about four hundred records for other bands at my house or other studios. I’ve worked on records with Danny Kroha, Ida, Fred Thomas, Elizabeth Mitchell, Wild Belle, Michael Hurley, and when I was a teenager I helped record the first Gories album which was especially unique as I was the junior assistant engineer who helped move their equipment into the dirt floor garage next to the studio where it was decided the acoustics would be way worse. Also, I helped collage about a hundred Destroy All Monsters tapes from the 70s for a couple of their releases which led to remastering a bunch of tapes from the John Sinclair White Panther Party archives. I’ve done remixes for Thurston Moore and Yoko Ono and when Iggy and The Stooges started touring again I got a phone call from Ron Asheton seeing if I would help them record demos for their reunion album with Mike Watt on bass. They wrote the songs together while they were recording in Niagara’s basement sort of simultaneously. Iggy didn’t have a notebook with all his lyric ideas, instead he just sang about whatever happened that day – one song was about the airline losing his luggage, one about ATM machines and another was about reading in a newspaper that Ray Davies of the Kinks had been shot in New Orleans. In the end they weren’t terribly excited by my suggested song titles including “No Shirt” (you know because it’s like “No Fun” plus you know Iggy never wears a shirt) and they didn’t seem to love the mixes that I did that sounded kind of like those crappy Raw Power bootlegs.

Cost Of Living

Two summers ago I recorded an incredible concert by Mdou Moctar live at Third Man Records in Detroit. They’re wild hypnotic Hendrix style jammers who live in the desert. The band didn’t speak much english but I think I was able to communicate to them how excited I was about their amazing fingerpicking and hot guitar solos after the show by screaming and replaying the best solos over and over again and then screaming the word fuzz and pointing at their fingers. It’s insane and having seen them a few times since then with a different drummer and the addition of a bass player, I’m convinced it’s their best album. It’s wild but it’s still not Tchin-tabaraden wedding wild.

Licked By Lions

Jonathan Richman walks into Ethan and Gretchen's studio and asks if I can remove all the rugs, take the acoustic treatments off the walls and strike the baffles which normally separate the instruments, drums and amps, so the room will have the most echo possible, he has also invited about ten friends including Johnny Bee Badanjek the drummer from Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and Mary Cobra from the Detroit Cobras to dance, sing and play percussion in the studio while he records. He has two vocal microphones set up at either end of the room and has brought his own microphones for the drums along with his own desired placement for them. He notices a tamboura near the control room and asks if I know how to play it or if I know how to tune it. Within seconds he’s tuned it and proceeds to sing Indian classical music accompanying himself on tamboura drone for about thirty five minutes. It’s beautiful and very surprising. He asks me if I recorded it, I lie and say no. Later he asks me not to play it for anyone. We record for hours. Some songs are quite long – ten and fifteen minutes, some are medleys of oldies or soft rock hits from the seventies segueing into new songs of his. It’s a confusing session as it’s not clear when songs are starting and ending and he often plays guitar and sings nowhere near a microphone. The distance between him and the microphone seems to have some meaning, there’s some formula to when he chooses to walk away in the middle of a verse but I am unable to determine the secret code. At the end of the session three or four songs are deemed usable, edited and mixed, although, sadly, an attempt at a completely insane and unexpected fuzz guitar solo is left unreleased. (The Harold Budd piece is at the opposite end of this spectrum.)

Calling All Believers

Shortly after Tecuciztecatl was released, I received an email from Dr. James Beacham at CERN inviting us to perform at a series of concerts that would combine experimental music with experimental science at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. He didn’t contact our booking agent, which would be how we generally receive offers for gigs, instead he sent an email to me, which would be how we generally receive crazy messages from our completely insane fans (murderous, delusional, poetic, threatening messages usually). I assumed the invitation was fake or a prank and replied that we would prefer to wait until they had successfully opened a pathway to interspatial dimensions and we’d play on the other side or that if that was unlikely to happen at a convenient time then perhaps we could set up our equipment right on the edge of a mini-black hole and perform as the Earth is being destroyed so we could release the concert film “Live At The End Of The World.” After a few messages back and forth, it was clear that he was legit and I apologized for being such a jerk. Soon I discovered poetry within the language of particle physics as well as a certain beauty in the idea that these scientists have devoted their lives to dreaming, searching and discovering basic principles that connect all things in existence. The song “Calling All Believers” refers to this devotion. “Energy Acceleration” compares the scientists to monastic life in medieval times and mystics trying to find and define the line between this world and the next and at the same time invoking the incredible amounts of energy needed to create the collisions experiments. The Patterns of Light LP was released in 2016 on London London Records and is about interpreting visions of light, trying to find universal truth with whatever tools available, it’s about the search for how everything works, why it works and how it got that way but also about being inspired on a basic level by the way a thing looks and how all your senses take in a thing. A thousand years ago Hildegard Von Bingen was writing about this same thing in letters, songs, medical texts, and had even developed her own language to use in her mystical writings, similar to Magma drummer Christian Vander using his own language for their concept albums or French black metalists Brenoritvrezorkre and Moëvöt.

The Light Inside You

We get a lot of letters from fans, mostly weirdos though. I think it started when we released Song of Schizophrenia, that sort of connected us to a certain demographic I suspect. Here’s a recent typical message we received. “Growing up in Panama City, Mouth By Mouth and Livonia were like passages to other realms. I drank a ton of cough syrup at the time but those albums helped make life more livable. I was about to go to art school for sculpture and graphic design and the textures I heard on those records had actual shapes to them. Most music I knew at that time was flat or linear. I got them on cassette via mail-order from an ad placed in a bmx magazine. Mouth By Mouth arrived just before going to work at the amusement park and I was able to listen to it twice on the way thanks to the never-ending beach traffic. As luck would have it, I worked on “The Abominable Snowman” ride, basically a tilt-a-whirl inside a dome with lots of fog machine action, blue lights, mirrors, and lots of air conditioning. It took about 10 listens that day before it wasn’t as weird as when I first put it on. Maybe it was my bubblegum flavor/robitussin combo slushie on top of no-doz that pulled it all together, but it was probably a weird ride for a lot of vacationing beach tourists and townies when all they really wanted to hear was “Naughty by Nature” by O.P.P. I had no business running those rides at the age of 17 but I really loved how disorienting that ride could be with all the mirrors, the fog, the cold and for the final 90 seconds the ride would go in reverse. I had a buddy named Kevin that did acid at work and would repeatedly run the mini-train off the tracks and all the riders had to walk back through the woods for about a half mile that summer.”

#dusted magazine #listed #his name is alive #warren defever #warren michael defever #poppy #griot galaxy #faruq z. bey #slim whitman #mdou moctar #sly stone #harold budd #steve wonder #elvis hitler #princess dragon-mom

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y’all: but what if Whale Song reboot.

me, a literal embodiment of an entire asshole:

NOTE: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you do not read this if you haven’t read all of Whale Song. It’s incredibly spoilery for the big twist of the fic. trust me.

just realized I put the warning for angst on an ask but not the actual post. warning for hardcore angst! but, I mean, you probably knew that already if you remembered how Whale Song almost ended. ;D

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[ INSERT WHOLE ASS STARTER WHERE WARREN WAKES UP IN RACHEL’S ROOM AFTER THE NEW YEAR’S EVE OUTLOOK SCENE, NOW BARE OF ALL BELONGINGS EXCEPT FOR THE COUCH, AND HE ASKS WHAT THE LOVING FUCK JUST HAPPENED.

I didn’t have the brain power to write that I’m sorry ]

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“I lied,” she tells him simply. Hollowly, her tone as empty as the void around them. Nothing near what she had been the last time Warren had met her. It was as if she were a completely different person—a shadow of the girl he thought he had gotten to know all that time ago.

“None— None of it was real?”

“No,” she whispers, and, for the first time, she sounds almost human. “I created it for you.” She pauses, her lips pressing a thin line in her face, and then she looks up. And, despite the way she had been speaking to Warren, she looks nothing short of the very person he thought he knew, though only in death. Despite the cold, detached creature she had tried to be—now, she looks completely human. Not otherworldly, not a god of time wrenched from a reality she had called her own. Just human. Just what she had always been.

Warren’s so caught up in who she suddenly is that he doesn’t quite hear what she says next. And then, he does, and the next thing he knows he’s on his knees, his head ringing and his long-dead heart trying to pound its way free of his chest.

“What?” he croaks. He doesn’t hear himself speak, but he knows he’s said the single word. He felt the way it scorched his throat on its way up, felt the way the air went still when Rachel stopped moving at all.

“I killed you,” she repeats softly. She sounds miles away, but Warren knows she’s standing right next to him. He’s so violently aware of her, even when he’s not looking at her. “I never got you involved, and you didn’t survive past the original loop. Because there were never any other loops. Max was my only creation, and I failed with her. By the time I learned how to turn time back enough, it was already too late. You all were gone.” She meets Warren’s eyes when he lifts his head sharply to look at her in shock. “I killed all of you. It was my fault.”

Warren can’t breathe. He doesn’t know if he needs to, but the tension in his throat keeps him from pulling in air all the same, and it sparks a panic in his brain that zaps along his spine, sending every nerve aflame.

He never saved anyone. He never even made it out of the diner. It was all a lie.

It was only ever a lie.

“Nathan?” he hears himself whisper, but it sounds more like a whimper borne of a plea than he wants it to. If it all was a lie—then so was Nathan.

Her face twists for a brief second, but she’s as cold as the stone she’d tried to be when Warren had first arrived when she says, “Jefferson still killed him. He never became anyone else.”

Warren’s vision goes white, then red, and only the sharp points of pain in his palms bring him back from the brink of a kind of rage he had never truly known. His hands aren’t bleeding when he looks down and releases his nails from the confines of his flesh, but he thinks that’s because he doesn't need to bleed anymore.

Rachel laughs a single, short laugh, laced with such a powerful bitterness that Warren feels it burn the back of his throat. “You’ll learn to handle that. The anger. You feel everything more strongly now, especially because I had you in my world for so long, but it’ll get easier. Just make sure you never let your battery get too full and nothing bad will ever come of the emotions.”

“My … battery?” Warren repeats slowly. Before Rachel can respond, he shakes his head once, violently, hard enough that the tips of his hair sting against his cheeks with the motion. “No. Stop. What? Why would I get used to— What are you talking about?”

And now, she frowns at him, like he was suddenly disappointing her. “You don’t understand why you’re here? Why I was able to create a world for you until you finished out a dream you thought you had?”

Warren only stares back. He doesn’t dare say a word. He knows exactly why he’s there. But he wants to hear her say it. She seems to think he’s serious in his uncomprehension, because she bites her lip hard, suddenly looking away like she didn’t want to be the one to explain. Warren follows her gaze for a brief moment, and realizes, with a jolting of his heart, that the collages are gone. That they’d probably never existed at all.

It was only ever a lie.

“You were killed by the storm, Warren,” Rachel tells him, bringing his attention back onto her. “The storm I created when I tried to change the strings of fate. You’re under its mercy now.”

“I’m under the mercy of time,” he states flatly, but she quickly corrects him.

“Fate,” she says, and the word feels like a weight has settled on his chest. “You have a new purpose now. Just like all the others, you have to figure out what that purpose is.”

“Others,” Warren repeats almost before the understanding has clicked into place. “Others?!” he repeats again, and his voice has risen several octaves in shock. He doesn’t have the time to stop himself before he’s blurting out, “Nathan—”

“Was not a victim of the storm,” Rachel finishes before Warren can even feel more than the bare beginnings of hope. He still feels like he’s been punched in the gut. He still feels like he’s had everything he’s ever needed ripped away from him.

It was only ever a lie.

Warren says hoarsely, “He’s not here.”

“No,” Rachel agrees. “He’s truly dead.”

“I’ll never see him again.”

This time, Rachel doesn’t correct him. It takes him almost too long of a moment for him to realize that, but then he does, and his head is snapping up so fast he feels the vertebrae in his neck crackle with the action. She’s watching him, those same green eyes wary and unsure of their action. So different from the proud god of time Warren remembered from a bunker in a life that never really existed.

“Rachel,” he starts slowly, pushing away the swell of loss that tries to surge up his throat again.

She doesn’t reply immediately. He can tell she’s chewing over her next words, deciding if what she was going to say was the wrong thing. Finally, she sighs, and then she asks, “What am I?”

Warren blinks. “Dead?” he tries, and she laughs. It’s a genuine laugh, one he thought she hadn’t actually been capable of making. The kind of laugh he’d been sure had only ever been in his head.

“Okay, you got me there. What else am I?”

“A— god of time?” he tries next, hesitantly. It’s the right choice, because Rachel nods her head once.

“When do you think that was decided?”

“It didn’t occur to me that it was decided at all. It thought it just” —Warren makes a vague hand gesture in Rachel’s direction— “was.”

She shakes her head solemnly, sending her long hair swaying and her blue feather earring dancing. “I had to make a decision. I didn’t realize what it was at the time, not until I’d already done it, but I got to choose what I reigned over.”

Warren swallows thickly. This was the information he’d never gotten when he’d visited her the first time. This was the information he had craved, the information she hadn’t given him time to learn. The information that potentially would have destroyed her facade if Warren had managed to puzzle too much out before she was done with him. “You chose time with Max.”

“I had to save Chloe,” Rachel agrees simply, raising her hands. “And, so, I gave Max time.”

“And took the power for you own.”

She nods, crouching down on the floor where Warren still sat crumpled, too controlled by his loss to do more than keep himself upright. She’s a level height with him when she faces him, so close he can feel the heat rolling off of her, and the coldness of her hand that time she had flashed him back pings in the back of his mind. She had felt like a corpse in that moment, but that’s not what she was. She was a god. And, now, so was he.

She speaks slowly, almost gravely, when she asks him, “Do you understand what I’m saying, Warren?”

“I have a decision in what I become the god of. The first move I make will determine what I become.”

She watches him, waiting for him to catch up. It only takes a moment before his breath catches in his throat, before he’s falling back to the ground with the weight of his realization, before he fully understands what it is she’s telling him.

“I can bring him back,” he says, but it’s on a breath of disbelief, and he’s not so sure he speaks at all. “I can bring them all back.”

The light that flares to life on Rachel’s face the moment he understands is blinding. She looks radiant with the joy of it, beautiful in ways Warren didn’t have words for. “Yes,” she says earnestly, reaching out to grab Warren’s hands in hers. “I turn it back, and you bring them back. You bring them back from death, and you keep them back until we can figure it out. Until we can save them from fate. We can make sure they’ll all be okay.”

Warren feels like he’s stepped off a cliff of sorts, weightless and dizzy and spinning with the unreality that is his new existence. Rachel’s hands burn white-hot in his grip, her fingers threading their way into the spaces between his until he wasn’t sure where his started and hers ended.

He would save Nathan. She would save Chloe. They would save the bay.

And, together, they could finally fix it all.

Rachel was the god of time. 

Warren would be the god of death.

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aaaaand that is all of that. I will never do anything more with it. I just kind of liked the idea of Rachel and Warren both being gods and then at the end of the story Warren is like “wait I’m the god of death can’t I just bring us back?” and Rachel’s like “shit dude maybe” and they all live happily ever after the end.

edit: I changed “Amber” back to “Rachel” again, I didn’t realize I never included the starting scene that explained why Warren wasn’t calling her Rachel, so it didn’t make sense. my bad.

#whale song spoilers #drabble #I'm not actually going to tag this with fandom stuff because it's so niche and no one will care except maybe people who already know #ilu guys I'm sorry #<3 #WiS AU extras #life is strange

[dalekofchaos]

Caulscott headcanons

My headcanons for Caulscott :D

 After the incident in the bathroom, Before Max could activate the fire alarm. Max had a thought. What if she just talked to him? So Max comes out of hiding and talks to Nathan. She talks him down and consoles him. He’s hesitant to trust her and angry for thinking this twee hipster could think of helping him, but something inside him just gives in and accepts Max’s help. He just sobs and silently says “I’m just sick of people trying to control me” and as Nathan breaks down, Max hugs Nathan

Because of Max’s act of kindness, empathy and understanding, this helps change Nathan’s outlook on life and inspires him to be better. He first starts off by finding Chloe on campus and apologizes to her and gives her the money to bury the hatchet and just tells her he’s sick of people trying to control him and she knows what he means, talks about her step-douche and they just share a smoke together. Then he uses the Prescott influence to bury Kate’s video and to tell everyone in the Vortex Club to delete it. Nathan and Victoria would then apologize to Kate and tell her it’s gone. Nathan feels good about himself and hope Max approves.

Instead of a violent confrontation, Nathan and Max would just talk. He’d invite her to find him by his SUV. They’d talk. Nathan would tell her of making amends and Max tells him she is proud of him and it’s a slow start to their relationship. And Max asks Nathan for advice about Chloe and about her dream. Nathan tells her he should just talk to her and as for the tornado, he goes “you.....you’ve seen the storm too?” It is at this instant that Nathan and Max feel closer than they’ve ever been to anyone

Nathan confides in Max just listens and empathize with him. He can trust Max with even the deepest secrets he hides. He could just vent it all out to Max and she’d just listen. He could tell her everything about his father, the dark room, Rachel and Jefferson and just cry on her shoulder and just having Max embrace him with a hug would just be what he deserves. After hearing all that, Max wouldn’t judge or doubt him. After he’s calmed down Max would try to give some advice and try to direct him into a better and healthy life and together they would take Jefferson down.

Max introduces Nathan to Warren. Warren is wary because it’s Nathan Prescott, but Max assures Warren that he’s different and better. Nathan and Warren become friends. 

Max, Nathan and Warren have movie nights together

Nathan tells Kate almost everytime he sees her that she’s sorry, but that it’s okay everytime.

Max and Kate play their guitar and Violin while Nathan watches cuddling Alice

They take a lot of photoshoot dates together, Max always says her pictures are bad, but Nathan shouts “WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CAULFIELD? THESE ARE AMAZING, NEVER DOUBT YOURSELF, OKAY?” And this makes Max smile

Eventually Max and Nathan hangout with Chloe. Nathan and Chloe become friends cause they are two sides of the same coin

Eventually, Nathan convinces Max and Victoria to make peace and become friends “Vic and Max, you just need to make up and put your differences aside. You are obviously similar and would be great friends.” this prompts Victoria and Max to become friends, this also prompts for Hayden, Taylor and Courtney to become friends with Max. Max has entered the Vortex Club and she surprisingly loves it

Max enjoys being in the Vortex Club. Aside from Zach and Logan, she gets along with everyone. 

Max has girls nights with Victoria, Taylor, Courtney and Dana. Max has so much fun and tells Nathan all about it

Nathan loves buying Max expensive jewelry and dressing her up with expensive and fashionable outfits. Max rarely wears them, but on rare occasions she does and it makes Nathan happy. On the rare occasions where Max wears a dress or skirt, Nathan blushes and tells her “you look so pretty”

In order not to get her pricey jewelry dirty, Max takes Nathan to antique shops and thrift stores to buy instant film and on a rare outing, he picks out a deer pendant that Max wears everyday. She also buys Nathan a Whale pendant it makes them both smile at each other

Victoria is the first to notice that Nathan has feelings for Max and when confronted he says “she just makes me feel really good about myself, more than my sister ever did. I really love her Vic”

Chloe notices that Max has a thing for Nathan, they talk and Max just tells Chloe “He’s changed for the better and I just find him soothing and I love him” and convinces her to make the first move. Then Hayden sends Max a text “please ask him out on a date already, he won’t shut up about you.” This prompts Max to make the first move 

Max and Nathan’s first date is at the aquarium and Max takes Nathan to see the whales. This lights Nathan’s face up and embraces Max and the two of them smile at the whales as they hold hands. The date ends with Max and Nathan going to the Lighthouse and sharing their first kiss

On really cold days and as a way to show off his love for her to the school, Nathan gives Max his red jacket and Max decides to buy Nathan a Blue Jacket so he won’t get cold and so she could show everyone her love for him and the jacket would remind them of their first date with the whales. Now they each wear their jackets every day.

Nathan wears the blue jacket, but he’s inspired by Max’s Doe shirts, that Nathan starts to wear Whale shirts

Nathan calls Max his “precious Doe” and Max calls Nathan her “soothing Whale”

Max always does her best to help Nathan through his episodes. She leaves him little post its that remind him that she loves him or like really affectionately rubbing his arm when he’s getting riled up or even just cuddling with him while they listen to whale sounds and neglect their homework and shut off the world.

Max has a hard time helping Nathan cope through episodes. She wants to just smother him in love and support but a lot of times he needs space, and she has a hard time adjusting to and accepting that. Sometimes she can be doting and thinks she knows what Nathan "really” needs. They marathon movies, binge shows and play video games together a lot. They cuddle up on the couch with some junk food and just play for hours.

Max is very nervous to her first Vortex Club party, but Nathan is there for her and his confidence just rubs off on her and they have so much fun at the parties and they especially love dancing together.

Before every date and Vortex Club party, Victoria, Courtney, Taylor and Dana dress and doll Max up. Max didn’t like it at first but it grew on her and she loves looking great for Nathan and girls night out

Max always reminds Nathan to take his meds and to drink his water

Nathan assures her every day that her photos are amazing and she needs to stop doubting herself. He is this close to organizing an intervention to get Chloe, Kate, Warren, Victoria, Hayden, Taylor and Courtney together just to tell Max “love your work already”

During his violent outbursts or during his breakdowns, Max just hugs him from behind and just holds him and Nathan just lets her

They go on midnight drives, and lie down stargazing in the back of his truck.

They 50-50 on being big and little spoons

They enjoy holding hand and cuddling and kissing

They are there for each other when either of them have nightmares about Jefferson. Max is especially there for Nathan about his nightmares regarding Sean

Upon taking Max to meet his family. Kristine loves Max and tells her “I can’t wait till we become sisters” Nathan’s mother approves. Sean is Sean and tells Nathan he is disappointed in Nathan in how low he has fallen. This is the final straw and finally snaps and stands up to him. “NO, YOU DON’T EVER TALK ABOUT HER OR TALK TO HER LIKE THAT. I LOVE MAX. SHE MAKES ME FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF. SHE’S DONE MORE FOR ME THAN YOU EVER DONE. AND I DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU DO, I AM DONE WITH YOU AND I AM DONE WITH THE PRESCOTT NAME.” Max and Kristine are proud of him. When Victoria and Hayden hears this they send him texts telling him how proud that he finally stood up to that bastard.

During their first time having sex, they are gentle and soft with each other. But after seeing the displays in Nathan’s dorm, Max gives Nathan permission to be rough with her and to explore kinks together

Max is kinda quiet when they first start to get it on but Nathan can tell when she’s getting close because her back will start to arch and shake, her hands will tremble and grip his hair, and she’ll start to pant and say his name a lot

Nathan introduces Max into BDSM. At first He believes Max to be innocent about it, but in time Max reveals herself to be a freak in the sheets

Max is into oral and Nathan loves to give it to her while caressing her face and kissing her afterwords and Nathan loves to return the favor  by eating her out and Max plays with his hair

Max really likes it when he uses his fingers to thrust in and out while he strokes her clit with his tongue. she’s basically screamed while coming after a while of this

Max likes to tease him a lot. she’ll barely brush against his cock and he’ll feel how wet she is and cry out in ecstasy, begging her to let him touch her or eat her out

Nathan’s not super loud but he can get more noisy. he’ll whisper “oh, fuck” when he enters her and positively sob when he comes

They’ll usually fall asleep and cuddle after they finish. Nathan will either hold Max in his arms or he’ll fall asleep with his cheek pressed against her chest, hugging her waist

Max is into bondage

They are both switches. When it’s Nathan’s turn to be the dom, Max calls him “Sir” and when it’s Max’s turn to be the dom, Nathan calls her “Mistress”

They can be more intimate than sexual

They are rough, but soft with each other. 

The safeword is “whatever”

Max would be his solid rock but Nathan would want to be someone for Max who she can rely on, too. and they would show each other with little gestures how much they care for each other. Max is his universe and Nathan is her whale

Upon graduating from Blackwell, Max would become a successful photographer, while Nathan pursues a career in Marine Biology 

Soon they get married. Nathan takes Max’s last name as the final end to his father’s influence and just because “Nathan Caulfield” sounds so good to him

When Max walks down the aisle, Nathan is in tears

Warren, Hayden and Victoria are Nathan’s Fellowship(thanks to Warren’s suggestion) Victoria prepares a speech for him that makes Nathan cry

Chloe is Max’s best man and prepares a speech that makes her cry...Max and Nathan cry together

Nathan cries again after exchanging vows

Max and Nathan have taken photos of each other throughout their entire time together and they each made photo albums for each other and present it as wedding presents to each other

Max and Nathan are at peace and just happy together

#Life Is Strange #Caulscott #Nathan Prescott #Max Caulfield

[witchoil]

[     WHITE WHALE     /     WAR PIG     ]

companion playlists that draw different conclusions using the same albums

YOUR SELF CAN SEEM TO BE IN ONE PART OF YOUR BODY, BEHIND THE RIGHT EYE RATHER THAN THE LEFT. IT'S BETTER NOT TO SUPPORT THIS SPLIT BETWEEN ONE AND THE OTHER THAT MAKES CIVIL WAR POSSIBLE.

 available on spotify (1,2) and google play (1,2) || my playlists || tracklists below the cut 

WHITE WHALE 

> warren zevon / roland the headless thompson gunner * > fennesz / circassian > foals / give it all > sufjan stevens, nico muhly, bryce dessner / jupiter * > lawrence english / wilderness of mirrors > atoms for peace / before your very eyes > eurythmics / the walk * > radiohead / stop whispering > kate bush / running up that hill > joywave / nice house * > the handsome family / far from any road > fleet foxes / crack-up > radiohead / videotape * > panda bear / lonely wanderer * > cream / as you said * > bon iver / 22 (over soon) > buffalo springfield / for what it’s worth  WAR PIG

> eurythmics / sweet dreams (are made of this) * > warren zevon / excitable boy * > edwin starr / war > sims / spinning away > black pistol fire / beelzebub > black sabbath / war pigs  > cream / white room * > panda bear / tropic of cancer * > joywave / bad dreams * > david bowie / blackstar > sufjan stevens, nico muhly, bryce dessner / saturn * > the jimi hendrix experience / all along the watchtower > barns courtney / hellfire > tom waits / misery is the river of the world  > jim croce / bad, bad leroy brown > pink floyd / breathe (in the air) > radiohead / bodysnatchers * 

#adventures in fanmixing #metal gear solid #mgs #mgsv #venom snake #big boss

[treason-and-plot]

Cookie jumps up from her chair, knocking her knee against the counter. Her eyes fill with water again. The rest of her senses are clouded by the smell of Warren’s cologne and his effortless charm, his aura of never having known what it’s like to have a bad hair day.

“It’s very brave of you to come in here, Warren,” she says. “Considering what Raj would do to you if he caught you.”

“I’m not scared of Raj,” says Warren. “Besides, I just saw his boat leave the jetty. So I’m safe for at least a little while, right?”

Cookie is dismayed by the fact that Raj has taken off somewhere without telling her, or maybe he did tell her and she’s forgotten, because she is so incompetent.

“Maybe,” she says, trying to be off hand. “What do you want, anyway?”

“I want you,” Warren says, temporarily disabling her with one of his famous grins. All she can do is stare at him. It feels as dangerous and fool-hardy as staring at the sun, but she can’t tear her eyes away.

“My office manager’s leaving soon to go on maternity leave,” he continues. “I want you to take her place. Whatever Raj is paying you, I’ll double it. What do you say?”

“Raj doesn’t pay me anything,” she says.

“Are you kidding me?” says Warren. “He’s doing that badly?”

Cookie swallows a smile.

“I volunteered to help him out,” she says. “I don’t need money, Warren. Yours or anyone else’s.”

“So how else can I entice you to come and work for me?”

“You can’t,” she says. “And don’t waste time trying to poach any of his other staff, either. It won’t work, and when Raj finds out he will make your life a living hell.”

“But I don’t want any of his other staff,” says Warren. “And I already told you, he doesn’t scare me.”

“Then you’re an even bigger fool than he says you are,” says Cookie. ”I think you’d better leave.”

“I’m mortally wounded, Cookie. Why-“

“NOW!" shouts Cookie.

#Warren the whale whisperer #5 years later #Cookie #Warren #sims 3 #ts3

[xoccsoka213-blog]

Dirty thoughts (( A Doggoscott one shot))

((@shibethedweeb​ i told you i was gonna do it...>:) and sorry if it’s a bit cringy BTW))  

“ WARREN HELPPP!!” Nathan yelled, ruing into the Brunettes dorm. “NATHAN?!” Warren yelled and took a step back but he hit the desk with his butt “ ya gotta hide me nerd!” the Light brown haired boy said, Scrambling around the dorm room looking for a hiding spot. “ why do you--” “ Nathannn~! where are you?”  that voice belonged to no other than shibe “ oh i see,” the brunette teased placing a old Math book on his crammed bookshelf “Shibey after you huh?” Warren continued “ yeah and--oh PERFECT!” Nathan saw in the coner of his eye, the perfect hiding spot to use as a cover up from his lover. He dove head first under Warren’s bed as his head slightly hit the frame of the bed. “ Oh Nathan~!!!” Shibe said teasingly  once again and walked into the brunettes room. “ hello Warren!” Shibe said once again in her happy bubbly tone “ hi...shibey” Warren said in a flirty tone “ uh...W-warren? what’s with you saying that? you know it’s only Nathan that calls me tha--” her word’s got cut off by Warren placing his fingers on the blondes lips “ Nathan’s hiding under the bed, i’m trying to cox him out” Warren whispered “ by making him jealous!” she whispered/yelled back to him. “ so just play along” Warren Whispered and shibe nodded in responds “ Oh warren! your sooooo cute!” Shibe said, playing along with the act “ And Smart as well! you COULD even be the next Einstein!”  those where the last word’s to set off Nathan, he got up from under the bed and walked passed them with out another word coming from his mouth but a slamming door

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Nathan plopped down in his dorm room bed and kicked his shoes off, inserting his headphones into he’s ear’s and turning on his favourite song...Whale songs. These tunes always seemed to clam him in these kinda of things and for some kinda silly reason he always imagined that he as laying at the bottem of the sea floor and looking up at the Whale’s that where singing there song’s through the big blue sea. He’s eyes soon felt heavy, and the sounded of the whale song grew away  and he drifted into a peaceful sleep.....

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When he reopened his eye’s, he noticed that he was standing he his home’s shower and it was over flowing with steam, it even made it slightly hard to breathe. The right temp of water flowed over Nathan’s body and some shampoo went done his chest. His cheeked where flushed from the heat but it felt pleasant. He desided to continued to wash his all ready half washed body, he reached for the shampoo and..to his surprise,it was his favourite shampoo that went out of store’s year’s ago ‘ how in the heck...?’ Nathan thoughts but... he just ignored it and pored a blob out of the plam on his hand and scrubbed it onto his messy hair. This was the life, nothing to annoy him, just this clam steamy shower until: “ awww~ your so cute when your when your relaxed Natey~~” A soft yet lustful voice came behind him. He jumped slightly and turned to shibe...looking almost like a painting than a human. “ S-SHIBE W-WHAT ARE Y-YOU DOING IN H-HERE!?! GET OUT!!!” Nathan yelled covering himself “ a pudden’  you don’t need to cover yourself up..i like to see your cute body~~” Shibe said biting the coner of her mouth and in a heartbeat, Shibe’s lips where pressed gently on Nathan’s “ M-Mhh!! m-mmm..~~” That’s all that Nathan could respond with following with some blush creeping up on his cheek the same with Shibe. Shibe bit Nathan’s bottem lip asking for entrance and Nathan happily granted it. Both there toughs didn’t bother fighting for dominants. Soon, Shibe moved down to the light browns haired boys neck a started biting and nibbling at Nathan’s soft neck skin. “ n-nhgg...~~ w-wait shibe i-i ...plea..i should be doing this to y-you..I should b-be the one pleasing y-you~~” he said almost breathless “ i just wanted to change it up a bit sugar ~~” soon after those word’s she bit down on his neck “ A-AHH ~~~!!” Nathan moaned out but...soon... * Knock knock knock knocks* cam from somewhere in the bathroom...and suddenly everything went white

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Nathan jolted awake with a cold sweat going down the side of his head and his face hot ‘ did...did i really just have a wet dream about shibe?!’ Nathan though to himself. The knocking continued and Nathan got up a opened it reviling shibe “ what are you doing here? why aren’t you flirty with your new BF Warren?” Nathan said, clearly pissed “ i....well...” she let out a Sigh “ Nathan...it was really just a joke you know i love you and i’ll always cuddle with you...” she lends in a set a soft peck on Nathan’s cheek ans soon a small smile came across his lip and the two lips where together “ love you Nathan..~” “ love you too....shibey” 

(( UGHHHHHHH THIS CRINGEY BUT ALSO CUTE AND I’M TO TRIED TO FIX ANY MISTAKE CUZ IT’S 03;38 PM...but i hope you liked this @shibethedweeb))

[amazestuff]

A MAZE. Awards 2017 - Our Nominees and Honorable Mentions.

It’s time again to reveal the most AMAZING list of games for the 2017 year. We’re excited, enthralled and amazed to share our selection for the A MAZE. Awards nominees for 2017 with you. We had over 200 entries from 30 countries,  and selecting from such an excellent pool of works wasn’t easy:

“We had this year so many amazing submissions and to be honest, we had lots of discussion in the committee when making this A MAZE. selection. Now we are very happy and excited to see those 25 nominees competing in our 5 new categories. In order to express our devotion to the visions of the developers we’re going to have this year 12 honorable mentions out of competition, and giving them a spotlight in our festival exhibition. Thank you to all submitters and congratulation to all the nominees and honorable mentions of the A MAZE. Awards 2017. The team and I can’t wait having you in Berlin.” Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Festival Director

The process our 160 strong selection committee had each game being reviewed by the committee, before a smaller pool was reviewed by the A MAZE. / team and works were finally selected as nominees. It will be up to our 2017 judging panel to decide which games contest each category, and ultimately, which game wins the section.

Without further ado...

The nominees of the A MAZE. Awards at A MAZE. / Berlin 2016 - 6th International Independent Games and Playful Media Festival are:

The Nominees:

A Short History of the Gaze by Molleindustria (United States of America)

Bokida - Heartfelt Reunion by Rice Cooker Republic (France)

Bucket Detective by The Whale Husband (United States of America)

Everything Is Going To Be OK by Nathalie Lawhead (United State of America)

Everything by David O´Reilly (United State of America)

Far from Noise by George Batchelor (United Kingdom)

Future Unfolding by Spaces of Play (Germany)

Flat Heroes by Parallel Circles (United Kingdom)

FRU by Through Games (Netherlands)

Flippaper by Jérémie Cortial + Roman Miletitch (France)

GNOSIS by Fathomable Ltd (Ireland)

Karambola by Agata Nawrot (Poland)

Manual Samuel by Perfectly Paranormal AS (Norway)

Noodles by zerbamine | Erwin Kho (Netherlands)

Oἶκοςpiel Book 1 by David Kanaga (United State of America)

Orwell by Osmotic Studios (Germany)

Panopticon by Katherine Louise Boehm (United State of America)

SENS VR by Red Corner (France)

SIHEYU4N by We Are Müesli (Italy)

SOLITUNE by Rat King (Germany)

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two by Other Tales Interactive (Denmark)

The Fallen by gold extra (Austria)

VR Pidgeons by Simone Pivetta (Germany)

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine by Dim Bulb Games (United States of America)

Word After Word by Jonah Warren (United State of America)

The Honorable Mentions:

Frog Climbers by TeamCrew (Sweden)

Fugl by Team Fugl (Norway)

Keyboard Sports by Triband (Denmark)

Long Distance Caller by Olivié Keck and Free Lives (South Africa)

OCTA VR by oCtA aka Thomas F (Germany)

One Night Stand by Kinmoku (Germany)

Ooooo by polysoul (Germany)

Phone Home by Superglue Games / Katharina Tillmanns (Germany)

The Berry Garden by Menno Stas (Netherlands)

The Wild Eternal by Ilsanjo (United State of America)

vinylOS by Josef Who? & Jonas Bo! (Austria)

Whisper by crdmrn (Germany)

More infos about the awards, ticketing and the program. Please follow the www.amaze-berlin.de #AMaze2017

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As the World Falls Down- Part 2

A/N: This is just a continuation of my Bickering Professors AU! that was requested a while ago. You can read that absolute delight here. But brace yourselves for the X-kids wearing the Worst™ Best™ that 1980s prom fashion has to offer.

And if none of you haven’t seen Labyrinth, this is the song both pieces were inspired by. {here}

Also, are ya’ll aware that there’s a website that lists all these condom slogans? It’s simultaneously the best and worst thing I’ve read all my life. (x)

Word Count: 2081 Prompt List: (x) Masterlist: (x)

Part 2- As the World Falls Down

You managed to drag yourself down the mahogany staircase on the way to the first floor, admiring the sunlight drifting through the stain glass windows and warming your tired face. Did you care that your hair resembled a bird’s nest? No, not particularly, with the bright red scarfed tying back the strands it probably looked closer to the Madonna-inspired look you were going for. To be honest, you were faking the sense of being alive with bright red lipstick.

A few of the older students were already awake, upon seeing you they pointed towards the general direction of the gym and pool, you nodded in permission, deciding you were way too tired to deal with any of this. Either way your feet carried you down the empty hallways, students only beginning to emerge and enter the breakfast hall, to the heavy carved door of the staff room.

Professor Xavier sat at the head, Mystique to his left and Erik to his right, all three nursing ridiculously large mugs of coffee. Several of the other teachers from various faculties took their seats at the table on their swivelly-plastic chairs, conveniently leaving a space beside Professor McCoy.

Wait- you did a head count.

McCoy, Xavier, Mystique, Erik, mathematics teacher whose name you weren’t entirely sure of, Logan, Frost-

Shit, Peter wasn’t here yet-

No you take that back, as you sat down, a small breeze by your arm notified you that the speedster had indeed arrived and taken the seat beside you with a cheery wave. Clearing his throat, Professor Xavier began to hand out sheets of stapled paper regarding small details about the senior ball. You remembered with a shudder of terror the previous years of senior balls, of angry teenagers nearly killing each other because salmon was not the trending colour and the balloons should most definitely be rose-gold. You guessed with a fair amount of certainty that the final straw for the Professor had been the fact two senior students last year succeeded in imploding the lake, effectively draining it and displacing the current occupants of ducks and geese and decimating the fish population.

“I wasn’t entirely sure what was ‘hip’-“

“To be fair Professor, no one says ‘hip’ anymore,” Peter interrupted with a smile, you shook your head fondly, smiling at the Professor to continue despite his mutterings of how old he had gotten.

“What do you say then, ‘rad’?” He sounded exasperated before turning the page and bringing everyone’s attention to the choice of theme colours (cobalt blue and gold), food (you supposed they’d be alright with it) and according to the paper, Xavier had the students democratically vote upon the music to be played by the band. “Anyway, this final meeting is just to determine that we don’t have any potential problems- yes Frost?”

“I see we’ve removed the open bar?” Emma Frost raised her hand, tucking loose strands of hair back into her sleek bun before glowering at the Professor.

“They’re children-“

“Not for the children Charles,” Erik stated with a sip of his coffee “It’s for the faculty.”

“Dad’s got a point, other dad, if we all have to deal with Scott and Jean shoving their tongues down each other’s throats, I’m going to need something to bleach my mind with.” Peter piped up from beside you, however you too also grimaced from the image of several hormonal teenaged-couples viciously making out on the dancefloor while Careless Whisper played in the background. No, the open bar was definitely a faculty requirement.

“Alright, there’s no need for all of you to imagine hormonal students simultaneously. As several of our students are adept at telekinesis it may be worthwhile if we were to have you, Erik in charge, wearing the helmet and just to double check, did you call me ‘other dad’?” Charles added to Peter, every head at the table turning to face him.

“Maybe you’re imagining things, sir.” Peter smiled what could only be described as a shit-eating grin, you choked a little on your coffee, trying to supress a dying-whale laugh. “Have you even got a date to the ball?”

“I hear Moira’s free,” McCoy slyly suggested beside you with a wink.

“I’m also free as a pity date, Charles, it’s not 1963.” Mystique added in a playfully condescending manner. “We all know you’re finding it harder to get back on the dating market.”

“So’s my dad, he’s also conveniently here.” Peter pointed over to Erik.

“You don’t even have a date, Peter, let alone a suit to wear.” Professor Xavier fired back. You kept your mind blank. Don’t give the game away, don’t give the game away, don’t let Professor Xavier make a dad joke about having Peter as a date-

Shit.

“No, don’t be ridiculous Peter, I can’t have Charles as a date; he hasn’t any hair. I can’t be seen in public with a bald man. Think of my image.” Erik snidely remarked, earning a round of raucous laughs from the teachers. Charles rolled his eyes before continuing down the list, shuddering progressively as he went further down the finalised music playlist.

For now you were safe. All you had to do now was avoid Charles Xavier for the next few days until the ball.

Wonderful.

“You look beautiful,” Peter held out a small corsage of baby’s breath and small asters wrapped in a sheer silver ribbon, your gaze travelled from the corsage as you took a step back to take a good look at him. No, he didn’t own a suit, but he wore his silver jacket and silvery leather jeans in a charming enough manner that it was almost an improvement to the suits everyone else surely must be wearing. “I mean it’s a usual for you, but wow,”

“You don’t have to try too hard, Peter,”

“No I mean it, babe,” He said in all earnest, fumbling with your left wrist to tie the corsage onto it with his goofy, lopsided grin. “Now, off to the ball, Cinderella?”

“I don’t have a pumpkin, but I suppose you’ll do,” You teased gently, taking Peter’s proffered arm. His other hand moved to support your neck and he sped you to the converted auditorium. While you weren’t entirely fond of speeding about (see: running late, terrible nausea and the senior chemistry exam of 1982), you had to admit it was pretty damn cool.

The senior ball was as you’d expect it to be. Chaotic, energetic and with terrible choice in music. But the kids seemed ecstatic to be wearing their new suits and dresses, running around arm-in-arm to the punch bowl or to the dance floor as they excitedly greeted each other and complimented their friends. It seemed that electric blue was very en vogue this year.

“Summers, get your tongue out of Grey’s throat.” Peter cleared his throat at the couple who immediately vacated with red faces, scuttling away to find the rest of their trouble-making friends. “My lady, your throne,” He dramatically swept a grovelling bow and with a laugh, you took the chair and Peter following.

“So I suppose we’ll be stuck here all night?” You asked your ‘date’.

“I guess, whole part of the teaching gig, you feel?” He folded his arms at an attempt to look stern at a pair of giggling teens who were about halfway to getting into each other’s pants in public, “Kiddos, just remember, always wrap it before you tap it.”

“Don’t be silly, wrap your willy.” You added with a conspiratorial smirk, watching the kids’ mouths fall open in horror.

“Sex is cleaner with a packaged weiner,” Peter pointed out. You bit back the most ungodly snort.

“Ew, Professor M, that’s just gross,” They winced before levitating away to the other side of the dancefloor, presumably where there were teachers who were too deep into their alcoholic cups of denial to care.

“Wow, so apparently; I can’t even take an active interest in preventative measures.” Peter scoffed lightly. “Kids these days, what’s going on with the world?”

“I’m not sure, but apparently it’s the latest fashion to wear sashes and frilly shirts to a formal event.” You added in disgust, not entirely sure how Scott or Warren were managing to strut their egos in their flamboyant suits. But all the power to them, you supposed.

“So, I think you’re meant to ask people to dance at these kind of things,” Peter offered an outstretched hand as you recognised the opening bars of that song from Labyrinth. You were surprised that he even offered his hand, having given you every sad indication of taking his job seriously and sitting some wonderful songs out. “Okay, I don’t sing as good as David Bowie, but c’mon, a dance?”

“Yeah, alright Maximoff.” You were pulled flushed to him, wrapping your arms in a languid manner around his neck while his moved to your hips, swaying gently to the music as the crowd began to move closer together in a slow-dance. Well, it was better than Lady in Red, you supposed.

The proximity to Peter was enough to make you weak in the knees, his soft silvery hair falling against your cheeks and making you feel as if there was nothing else in the world in that moment. Just you and the ever-intoxicating Peter Maximoff. You were closer now, if such a thing were possibly, practically flush against his chest as he hummed the song under his breath.

“What? What are you thinking?” He asked softly, a gentle smile pulling at his pink lips. Your eyes flickered towards them, your mind already half made-up. “C’mon, tell meeeeee.”

“I can’t say,” You said gently, staring up at him through your lashes, quite unable to meet his gaze.

“No? Please babe?”

“No, I’ll show you,” Gathering your courage you leaned into the speedster, finally moving at your pace for once in his chaotic life, fully shutting your eyes.

His reaction was instantaneous; a gasp caught in his throat as your lips met his, melting and moving together. His hands tightened upon your hips, one of his teasing hands pleasurably drifting towards your waist and settling there, warmth seeping through cool silk. Your own hands gently traced patterns at the nape of his neck, feeling smooth skin and then tangling in thick locks of silver hair that you had so carefully matched your dress to.

“So,” he finally exhaled, pulling away, resting his forehead against yours. “Where do we go from here?”

“I think we both know, and it’s certainly not making sure these kiddos leave room for Jesus.”

“I gotcha babe,”

“And so as we observe the need to maintain moderate pressure and heat as a result of the equilibrium- Yes Mr Summers?” You asked tiredly, staring at the usually smug bastard with the same tiredness you usually showed.

“I can’t believe you and Professor Maximoff had the audacity to tell me and Jean off for making out when he was practically eating your face on the dancefloor.”

Once again you winced, watching as your class descended into a chaotic riot of shouts and hi-fives and dollar bills being handed about before settling a little at your well-honed ‘teacher glare’.

“Man, I hope you guys didn’t bang because I got twenty bucks riding on that.” Summers’ final statement had you ready to fling yourself out of the window. But you composed yourself with a couple of deep breaths, calmly collecting your things as your ridiculous class prepared itself for the final bell, clearing up two minutes early.

“Summers?” Your voice rang through the hum of student prattle.

“Yes Professor Y/N? Sorry about that, I didn’t mean offence.” He had the contrite look of a sinner in confession, it almost made you double-think what you were about to do.

“None taken but,” You’d moved to the doorway, ready to dismiss the class, “I hope you accept my apology.”

“Why?”

“You’ve just lost twenty bucks,” You grinned evilly at the sight of your Senior Chemistry class, for once, shocked into silence, Jubilee even dropping her designer Chloe handbag upon the dusty floor. The atmosphere was thick with the impending storm and with a hearty laugh, you sprinted out of your designated classroom, halfway-down the corridor before you heard the roar of the class.

You found out on Monday’s first period Chemistry class that Kurt Wagner was now in possession of Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, funded by a won bet.

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#19 Pricefield

“Aftereverything… I’d still choose you”

From this list of prompts

It had been ayear.

A year since Maxdeveloped her time rewind powers, since she reunited with Chloe, sinceJefferson was found out as a psycho, and since the tornado destroyed ArcadiaBay.  

It was weird togo back, but both Max and Chloe felt like they needed to, to pay theirrespects.  Or something.  

But driving backdown the main street felt wrong, unreal. The last time they’d been there, the place was nothing more than rubbleand corpses.  

Now, though,they’d rebuilt.  Not completely, andthings were far too new looking to fit with the Arcadia Bay aesthetic, but thestreets were clear and the buildings had been restored.  

After thetornado, Chloe and Max had driven away and hadn’t been back since thatday.  Max’s parents had picked up whatremained of her things in the remnants of Blackwell and Joyce met Chloe outsideof town.  After a while, the pair movedto San Francisco and gotten a little apartment together.  Max’s photography had been featured in a fewgalleries, and Chloe was working odd jobs here and there.  Things were good, all things considered.

Neither of thegirls wanted to think of Arcadia Bay or see what they’d done.  And it wasn’t as if they could explain it toanyone.  

And when theywalked through the streets, a year later, they felt like they were in ahaze.  Even the people they’d knownbefore, their acquaintances and neighbors, looked different.  Tired, but strong.  They’d survived.  All of them had lost, but they made it out.

“This is fuckedup,” Chloe finally said as they walked along. “This doesn’t… none of it looks right.”

“I know,” Maxechoed.  “It’s messed.”

Max gently tookhold of Chloe’s hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze.  Everything else was a blur, but togetherthings became a little clearer.  Theyalways had.  

Walking a littlefurther down the street, they both stopped in shock.  

The Two WhalesDiner had been restored, but they’d attempted to retain its old school, rusticstyle.  Outside, there was a memorial tothose who had lost their lives in the tornado.

Too many familiarnames.  Too many names, period.  

It was selfish,but Max was grateful at least that Joyce and Warren made it out alive.  With a bunch of broken bones and burns andbruises, but they made it.  Pompidoutoo.  But Frank hadn’t been so lucky,along with so many others.  

Max’s eyesscanned over the flowers and messages that dotted the memorial and felt thetears start to rise up from inside her.  

It was all herfault.

Before she couldthink any more of it, she felt Chloe’s hand pull away and the other girl bolteddown the street.  

“Chloe!”  Max cried, but she was gone.  

Her new purplehair was pretty easy to spot, however, so Max trotted after her.  This wasn’t easy for either of them, butChloe was suffering more than she let on. Not as if she’d ever been that easy to read.

It wasn’t longbefore the streets died out and they wound up at the beach, and Chloe could beseen running up the path to the new lighthouse. With her long legs, she beat Max to the top easily.  

“Chloe!”  Max yelled again as she reached the top,breathing heavily.  

Chloe was crumpledup on the ground in front of the bench that overlooked the bay.  Her body shook with heavy sobs and she letout whispers of “sorry… I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…”

Slowly, Maxwalked around to the other girl and fell down beside her, pulling her into anembrace.  “Chloe… Chloe…”  

She didn’t haveany reassuring words, though, so the pair just wrapped each other up in theirarms and cried together.  

“I’m sorry, Max,”Chloe finally whimpered, pulling away to wipe her face.  “This is my fault.”

“What?  No it’s not.”

“How many peopledied because you kept me alive?  That’snot your fault, you’re too good to actively take a life, but… my shit lifeversus all of theirs?  Versus all ofArcadia Bay?  You should’ve traded me.”

“Chloe, never,”Max insisted.  “Coming back here andseeing it all, it’s fucked.  And it’s notas if it doesn’t haunt me every day what happened here.  I made the choice.  It’s my fault.  But after everything… I’d still chooseyou.  The universe can fuck itself fortrying to take you away from me.  I’llchoose you every time.”

Chloe startedcrying again, and reached out to Max for a hug. Sometimes there weren’t any words. But sometimes, there were only a few words that could be said.

“Thank you, Max,”Chloe whispered.

“I love you.”

“I love you too.  More than anything.”

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