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shihlun · 8 months
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"Himiko" (directed and written by Masahiro Shinoda / script by Taeko Tomioka / Hyogen-sha, ATG / 1974), poster design by Kiyoshi Awazu.
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kenpiercemedia · 2 years
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Scenes From BroadwayCon 2022 @ Manhattan Center (Part One)
Greetings Broadway lovers and welcome to our coverage of the one and only “BroadwayCon”. This convention celebrates and specializes in all things Broadway and if you’re a fan of the theatre then this is the kind of event that you want to participate in. For the last few years its been held at the New York Hilton Midtown but now as we come out of the pandemic, it would be held at the Manhattan…
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prompt-heaven · 1 month
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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town
academy
adventurer's guild
alchemist
apiary
apothecary
aquarium
armory
art gallery
bakery
bank
barber
barracks
bathhouse
blacksmith
boathouse
book store
bookbinder
botanical garden
brothel
butcher
carpenter
cartographer
casino
castle
cobbler
coffee shop
council chamber
court house
crypt for the noble family
dentist
distillery
docks
dovecot
dyer
embassy
farmer's market
fighting pit
fishmonger
fortune teller
gallows
gatehouse
general store
graveyard
greenhouses
guard post
guildhall
gymnasium
haberdashery
haunted house
hedge maze
herbalist
hospice
hospital
house for sale
inn
jail
jeweller
leatherworker
library
locksmith
mail courier
manor house
market
mayor's house
monastery
morgue
museum
music shop
observatory
orchard
orphanage
outhouse
paper maker
pawn shop
pet shop
potion shop
potter
printmaker
quest board
residence
restricted zone
sawmill
school
scribe
sewer entrance
sheriff's office
shrine
silversmith
spa
speakeasy
spice merchant
sports stadium
stables
street market
tailor
tannery
tavern
tax collector
tea house
temple
textile shop
theatre
thieves guild
thrift store
tinker's workshop
town crier post
town square
townhall
toy store
trinket shop
warehouse
watchtower
water mill
weaver
well
wind mill
wishing well
wizard tower
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idrellegames · 2 years
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Wayfarer Episode 2 Has Released! ✨
The complete episode is now available to play on the public build. This is a massive update that adds 340k words of total new content to the game, with multiple paths, consequences, and outcomes.
An average playthrough of the episode is 81k words, or around 4.4 hours of gameplay.
What Is Wayfarer?
Wayfarer is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game. With the storytelling of a novel, the player choice of an RPG, and the dice roll mechanics of a tabletop game, the game creates a unique experience that changes with every playthrough.
You play as a Wayfarer, a mercenary from an order of warriors immune to magic. An important contract brings you to the city of Velantis, where you are tasked with the mission of retrieving an ancient magical artefact. Along the way, you are embroiled in enemy factions, meddling guilds, and escalating political tensions. Your choices will ultimately determine the city’s fate – and the fate of every person who lives there.
To ensure the update works properly on a browser:
Launch the game from a fresh tab or window
If your save file is from September 2021, you MUST start a new file
If you encounter errors at launch or issues with saves, please read Troubleshooting Game Launch & Save Errors
Use Save to Disk to save to your device rather than your browser. This will prevent save data loss if your browser clears its history and you lose your browser saves.
Play the new episode here! 
✦ New Story Content
Episode 2 picks up a month after where Episode 1 left off and includes:
The Wayfarer and Aeran’s arrival in Velantis
Surprise politics!
Two new factions to make an impression on, for good or ill
Name your sword and choose its history
A fancy gala
The introduction of several major recurring characters and potential romance interests
Actors! Theatre! Art!
Lore (oh so much lore)
A (potential) entanglement of a certain nature… or two
The ripple effects of your past choices as the story continues to evolve around you
✦ Game Statistics
Episodes Released: Prologue, Episode 1, Episode 2 Average Word Count Per Playthrough: 156,000 words Average Playtime: 8.5 hours Total Cumulative Word Count: 927,000 words
Statistics are for the entire game, not just the update.                                              
✦ Bug Report
If you encounter a bug, please file a bug report through the official form. Bug reports will not be processed until August at the earliest.
✦ Discord
Wayfarer has an official Discord server! It's a chill place to chat with other players about the game, your playthroughs, the characters, lore, and possible theories about what might happen next. You can join it here! 
Please note that the server is 17+ only.
✦ Thank You, Playtesters & Patrons!
A huge thank you to the playtester team for their incredible work checking for errors and bugs, and thank you to all my patrons! Wayfarer would not be possible without their generous support, and I would never have been able to create Episode 2 without them.
If you’ve enjoyed Wayfarer and would like to support my work, please consider supporting the game's development on Patreon! Patrons receive access to the alpha build, private channels in the Discord server, exclusive previews, bonus content, and other benefits. 
Wayfarer is a passion project and creating it is a full-time commitment. Any little bit goes a long way to help me bring it to fruition.
Enjoy Episode 2! 💕
Anna (Idrelle Games)
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aniketsanimationblog · 7 months
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The SUMMARY Of This Whole Current Debacles Of Animation Industry
Netflix Canceled Majority of their Original Animated Kids Content after the Realignment of their Animation Department and their Stocks Plummeted at NASDAQ e.g. City Of Ghosts!!
HBO Max (Now called Max, By Warner Bros. Discovery) Canceled and erased majority of Cartoon Network Content and their Kids Animated Original Content, e.g. Over The Garden Wall, Infinity Train, Final Space etc. To Cut Costs!!
The Walt Disney Company is just replacing Human Jobs with AI, for Art Creating and Script Writing Purposes, however there's no Animated Content in this year's massive Purged Content list of Disney+ had been announced, but who knows what will happen next!!
Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures are going to rely on Popular IP based Movies (SpongeBob, PAW Patrol, Avatar, Transformers) to be released in Theatres over the Original Ideas based Movies!!
Speaking of Nickelodeon and Paramount, their Streaming Service, Paramount+ removed several Animated Content from their Platform, after the Cancelation and Removal of Star Trek: Prodigy, e.g. Pig Goat Banana Cricket, Becca's Bunch, Digby Dragon, Monsters vs. Aliens and Most Notably, My Favourite Nick Jr. Show after Oswald ended, Peter Rabbit!! Also, Star Trek: Prodigy has been removed everywhere on Nickelodeon, including, Nickelodeon's Website, nick.com!!
As of August 2023, Cartoon Network Studios at Burbank, California, got officially Shut Down, as the Studio Operations merged with Warner Bros. Television Animation, just like Hanna-Barbera Studios!!
And Finally, when WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes are ongoing, The Unemployment Rate in The Animation Industry has gone at an Insane High!!
The Animation Fandom have gone way more Toxic than ever before!!
Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are not interested to Greenlit any project for the better or worse!!
Ain't this Depressing, as an Ardent Animation Fan?? When Last Year, The Owl House got canceled, the fans protested on Twitter/X by using #SaveTheOwlHouse, and when this year, Star Trek: Prodigy got canceled and removed from existence, we are protesting by using #SaveStarTrekProdigy, I will ask you this question!!
"Will you Accept these Debacles in Animation World as The Future of Animation??"
Because, right now, it is true fact, that the Animation Fandom is not quiet ready to see the destruction of Animation in their bare eyes!!
But what shall we do?? The Fandom of This Miraculous Ladybug/PAW Patrol Duopoly and the Bootlickers of Egoistic Showrunners like Thomas Astruc, will still support the Duopoly, no matter how much we make them the noises that respect and give other shows a chance, don't sleep on them!! We will listen, we will see, we won't take any action, and we still be in Silence after all the Debacles, and the Freedom of Speech will be taken away from us!!
And in Next Year, when The Animation Guild (TAG) goes on Strike, we see more and more animated series gets the Cancelation and Purge from Streaming Services, like suppose at this rate of condition, if Next Year, Disney Channel's Series, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, cancels at Disney TVA, and the fans will again protest on Social media by Using #SaveMGADD, I will come back and ask the Question again!! And this cycle will go on and on and on!! Unless, we have to take action against the unfairness, this Corporate Studios and Money-hungry Showrunners have created!!
So, let me ask you this question one last time, Animation Fans all over the world!!
"Will You Accept these Debacles of this Animation World as The Future of Animation??"
We have to Take Action Right Now, Before it's too Late!!
But,
Is this one Tumblr Post enough, to Reach Out to Others, and Talk about this Issue???
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a-birdhorse · 10 months
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Hey! Everyone should support the writers strike! It’s incredibly important! If you love theatre as well as television, I would like to draw your attention to another group of writers in this country (the USA, unfortunately) that desperately need help.
Playwrights only make on average ten-thousand dollars for each show they produce. This is accounting for royalties, although with incredible luck or a really nice commission those can bring it up to around twenty-thousand. To make matters worse, the average playwright can only produce one show per year. To put that into perspective, in order to make the average American yearly wage of thirty-thousand dollars, a playwright would need to write and produce two to four plays every year in high-end regional theatres. That’s a feature-length original play every three to six months. Most plays take over a year to fully develop.
On top of that, unlike screenwriters who are often employees of a company, playwrights are considered to be owners of capital, as we own the exclusive rights to produce their show. Because of that, we are not allowed to unionize. This means that our only form of protection, the Playwrights Guild of America, can’t do much other than help playwrights avoid bad contracts. This is an extremely valuable service to be sure, but it can’t solve the problem that only the luckiest playwrights in the country can make a living on this art form.
There are a lot of other issues that compound this problem. Most plays only ever receive one run, which means that playwrights don’t usually earn residuals. Many theaters will contract staged readings of a play for which they do not pay the author. While theaters expect playwrights to be present during the development of a new play, they won’t pay them for their time during early production meetings, auditions, or rehearsals. It all combines to make kind of a perfect storm.
If you like live theatre, this should concern you! If you feel like modern theatre is stale and repetitive, it’s because people who are truly passionate about play writing are forced to split their time between multiple forms. Without enough dedicated theatre writers, we lose access to the originality and novelty that set the stage apart from the screen. Don’t get me wrong, there are some extremely talented and devoted playwrights out there who are able to make things work. But how can people expect great work from us when we can’t even do this work full-time?
So what can you do to help? The first thing you can do is SUPPORT THE WRITER’S STRIKE. Because most playwrights can’t make a living writing plays, they often supplement work in the theatre with work on TV or in other spaces. Helping out Hollywood writers will help put a lot of playwrights in better positions.
You can also support theaters like Playwrights Horizons in Washington DC who provide playwrights with full fellowships in exchange for their plays. These are valuable as they allow a playwright to spend all of their time on their chosen medium rather than needing to juggle multiple jobs to make ends meet.
Other than this, it’s hard to say what normal people can actually do here. It would be nice if there could be a union for playwrights like there is for actors, but as long as playwrights own the means of production this would probably only shift the problem from our backs onto the backs of actors, directors, and designers. And budgets for new shows are already tight enough as things stand, it seems like a lot to ask to carve more of that money out for writers when things are already difficult.
Here’s an excellent article about the situation from American Theatre that goes over a lot of the information I did here in more detail (without the pro-union editorialization.) https://www.americantheatre.org/2014/12/10/paying-playwrights-more-than-play-money/
TLDR; Helping screenwriters helps playwrights too, but a lot more needs to be done before we’re out of the woods. The average playwright can’t make a living play writing, and the only writers in the industry who can are extremely lucky. Trying to solve this problem is critical for the future of theatre.
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undescribed1mage · 11 months
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Every May — August 2023 RTC production that I know about !! (If you see any of these, please get a recording of some kind!)
Abingdon Community Theater, Bel Air, Maryland — May 6th — May 7th
Stone Soup Theatre, Durham, North Carolina — June 8th – 11th & June 23rd — 25th
Santa Barbara High school, Santa Barbara, California — June 1st — 4th
Tribble School For The Performing Arts, Houston, Texas — June 1st — 4th
Mini Mirage Theatre, Kendall, Florida — June 2nd — June 11th
Oddfellows Youth Theatre Playhouse, Middletown, Connecticut — June 16th — June 17th
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas — June 22nd — June 25th
Skiing Squirrel Productions, Clinton, New York — July 7th — July 8th
Forest Theater Guild, Carmel, California — June 16th — July 9th
Trinity Theatre Company, San Diego, California — July 21st — August 12th
Opera Wyoming, Casper, Wyoming — August 4th — 13th (with a preview on the 2nd)
Brown Cow Collective, Alberta, Canada — August 11th — 26th
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sylviareviar · 1 month
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I was reading my theatre textbook and it mentioned something really interesting that I think should become a widely shared headcanon about the Diamond and Pearl Clans in Hisui.
It mentioned that visual arts, like painting, photography, architecture, etc. are considered spatial arts, whilst specifically music is considered a temporal art, as it does not take up any space, but it does move through time, using the length and pitch of notes to create invisible vibrations that our ears can comprehend.
Now, I know they had Irida as the only character playing her flute for a reason other than to summon the Noble Pokemon, but could you imagine if the Diamond and Pearl Clans actually made use of spatial and temporal art as a part of their heritage and culture?
The Pearl Clan would be more well known as visual artists, who are able to make use of the bounty their land has given them to create beautiful works such as carvings, designs, tapestries, paintings, clothes, etc. Meanwhile, the Diamond Clan would have a heavy emphasis on music and dance, and maybe even some theatre. All along, they would spend their time crafting and stringing instruments and choreographing movements to honor their respective deities and Nobles, using their voices in ways the likes of the Ginkgo Guild or Galaxy Team (or villagers in Jubilife) could never even dream of doing.
Then, imagine if they came together in the end, thanks to the Galaxy Team's efforts, and as a result of coexisting, they invent the first ever kabuki shows. Wouldn't that be sick?!
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pers-books · 3 months
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The 2024 Shortlist
The BBC’s 13th Annual Celebration of Audio Drama
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2023 marked the centenary year for audio/radio drama at the BBC. For 100 years of this unique genre, audio drama and comedy have provided enjoyment, diversion, illumination, insight and escape for listeners, evolving in approach and style as audio practitioners have responded to new ideas and technology with ingenuity, imagination and inspiration. These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers and all who work in this vibrant art-form.
The winners will be announced on Sunday 24 March 2024 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House London. The winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards (judged and administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) will also be announced at this ceremony.
Best Original Single Drama
Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
Churchill versus Reith by Mike Harris, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North
Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
Eat and Run by Paolo Chianta, producer Lorna Newman, BBC Audio Drama North
Rare Earth by Richard Monks, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica
Voices From the End of the World by Lucy Catherine, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London
Best Adaptation
The Age of Anxiety by W.H.Auden, adapted by Robin Brooks, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions
Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama London
Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward, adapted by Roy Williams, producer Gill Parry, feral inc
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, adapted by Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicite
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard, adapted by Rhiannon Boyle, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales
Best Original Series or Serial
The 5000 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producers Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
An Eye for a Killing by Colin Macdonald, producer Bruce Young, BBC Scotland
Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft
There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions
The Tomb by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producer Joby Waldman, Reduced Listening
Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Actor
Hiran Abeysekera, Dear Harry Kane, director Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London
Max Irons, The Bronze Horseman, director Susan Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North
Toby Jones, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
Lorn Macdonald, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland
Tim McInerny, Benny & Hitch, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
Tom Walker, Call Jonathan Pie, Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio
Best Actress
Gabrielle Brooks, Bess Loves Porgy, director Michael Buffong, feral inc
Dinita Gohil, Victory City, producer Alison Crawford, BBC Bristol
Maxine Peake, The Women of Troy, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
Rosamund Pike, People Who Knew Me, director Daniella Isaacs, Merman
Lydia Wilson, Happy Birthday, Mr President, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
Fenella Woolgar, Lines in the Sand: The Journeys of Gertrude Bell, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Supporting Performance
Sacha Dhawan, Anna Karenina, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
Erin Doherty, The Seagull, director Toby Swift, BBC Audio Drama London
Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions
Sophia Del Pizzo, There’s Something I Need to Tell You, director John Scott Dryden, Goldhawk Productions
The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance
Izzy Campbell, Of a Night, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North
Rosie Ekenna, Faith, Hope and Glory, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, BBC Audio Drama London
Rosalind Eleazar, Hindsight, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland
Jadie Rose Hobson, Exposure, director Anne Isger, BBC Audio Drama London
Dan Parr, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London
Olivia Triste, Rise, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions
Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama
Call Jonathan Pie by Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio
Kat Sadler’s Screen Time by Kat Sadler and Cameron Loxdale, producer Gwyn Rhys Davies, BBC Studios Audio
Michael Spicer: Before Next Door by Michael Spicer, producer Matt Tiller, Starstruck Media
Mockery Manor by Lindsay Sharman, producer Laurence Owen, Long Cat Media
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O’Shaughnessy, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales
Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
Best Stand Up Comedy
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere by Daliso Chaponda, additional material Meryl O’Rourke, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio
Janey Godley: The C Bomb by Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions
Maisie Adam: The Beautiful Game by Maisie Adam, producer Georgia Keating, BBC Studios Audio
Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios Audio
Rob Newman on Air by Rob Newman, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio
Best Use of Sound
The Adventurers, sound by Alisdair McGregor, producer Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain
The Dark is Rising, sound by Gareth Fry, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicité
Hamlet Noir, sound by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen, producers Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black, Almost Tangible
Slow Air, sound by Alisdair McGregor and Eloise Whitmore, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions
Voices From the End of the World, sound by Peter Ringrose, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London
The Women of Troy, sound by Sharon Hughes, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North
Best Podcast Audio Drama
Badger and the Blitz by Richard Turley and Darren Francis, producer Richard Turley, Roxo Ltd
Below by Aaron Gray and Paul Skillen, producer John Wakefield, HTM Television
Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft
The Haunter of the Dark – The Lovecraft Investigations by Julian Simpson, producer Sarah Tombling, Sweet Talk Productions
The Salvation by Justin Lockey, Jeffrey Aidoo, and AK Benedict, producers John Hamm and Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain and Free Turn
Tagged by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden, producer Emma Hearn, Sony Music Entertainment and Goldhawk Productions
Best European Drama
Evicted by Karel Klostermann, adapted by Tomáš Loužný, producer Renata Venclová, CZR Czech Radio
Faust (I Never Read It) by Noam Brusilovsky, producer Andrea Oetzmann, SWR Südwestrundfunk with Deutschlandfunk
Irina’s Soul Is Like a Precious Piano by Rona Žulj, producer Katja Šimunić, Croatian Radiotelevision
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave, adapted by Kai Grehn, producer Lina Kokaly, Radio Bremen
The Supervisor by Nis-Momme Stockmann, producer Michael Becker, NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk
This Word by Marta Rebzda, producer Waldemar Modestowicz, Polish Radio Theatre
-- WooHOO! The Haunter of the Dark, part 4 of The Lovecraft Investigations, is up for a BBC Audio Drama Award! I am made up!
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mybleedingboy · 1 year
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free recordings of shakespeare plays
in alphabetical order for convenience (but pls use CTRL+F) disclaimer: i have not watched all of these.
all's well that ends well to julius caesar (part 1, here)
king john to the winter's tale (part 2, coming tomorrow maybe idk)
*login with public library card or university, italicized are audio recordings, ! means I don't want the video to get taken down so I didn't add it but search it up and you'll find a good production on a specific website...
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare by the Sea (2013)
UC Davis Playing Shakespeare (2010)
BBC Television Shakespeare* or (1981)
Plainfield Little Theatre (2016)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Antony and Cleopatra !
Royal Shakespeare Company (1974)
Unbound Theatre (2019)
Shakespeare & Company (2018)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Greatest Audio Books (2013)
As You Like It
movie adapted by JM Barrie and Robert Cullen (1936)
The Public Theater of MN (2013)
Rice University (2019)
Oxford Theatre Guild (2020)
Shakespeare & Company (2014)
Battle Ground High School Drama Club (2017)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Greatest Audio Books (2015)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1978)
Comedy of Errors
Steam-Punk Performance (2014)
Shakespeare by the Sea (2019)
Shakespeare in the Park NZ (2007)
Coronado Playhouse (2021)
Highland Arts Theatre (2021)
Theatre Company of Saugus, pt. 2 (2023)
Shakespeare Network (2020)
Greatest Audio Books (2013)
BBC Movie* (1984)
Coriolanus !
Brussels Shakespeare Society (2017)
Movie (1964)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Cymbeline
Shakespeare by the Sea (2016)
Shakespeare & Company (2012)
Movie* (1984)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Hamlet ! (hint: Moriarty)
adapted and dir. Laurence Olivier (1948)
Abrahamse & Meyer Production (2015)
Bob Jones University (2020)
Broadway Production (1964)
starr. Maxine Peake (2015)
BLC Theatre (2013)
Hamlet as a Rock Opera (2007)
Radio Drama (2018?)
Studio Album star. 1964 Broadway cast (1964)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1980)
Royal Shakespeare Company* (2013)
Wooster Group Re-making* (?) (2012)
Henry IV, Part I
English Shakespeare Company (1990)
Brussels Shakespeare Society (adapted I and II, 2017)
TVO (1990)
Shakespeare & Company (2017)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1950)
Oakshot Press (2017)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
H4* (Henry IV parts I and II in futuristic Los Angeles, 2012)
Henry IV, Part II
English Shakespeare Company (1990)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Oakshot Press (2017)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
Henry V
Laurence Olivier (1944)
English Shakespeare Company (1990)
Barn Theatre (2020?)
St. Louis Shakespeare,pt. 2 (2011)
ASC Theatre Company (2022)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
AudioBookBuzz (2018)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1979)
Henry VI, Part I
Royal Shakespeare Company (parts I, II, and III, 1956)
English Shakespeare Company (1990)
Shakespeare by the Sea (2021)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
Henry VI, Part II
English Shakespeare Company (1990)
ASC Theatre Camp (2020)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1954)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
Henry VI, Part III
English Shakespeare Company (1990?)
Whitman College (1992)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1955)
(BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
Henry VIII
Shakespeare Happy Hours (online, 2020)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1957)
BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)
Julius Caesar !
starr. Gielgud, dir. Stuart Burge (1970)
Festival Series (1960)
Flint Hills Shakespeare Festival (2016)
Shakespeare at Winedale (2018)
Acting for a Cause (2022)
Shakespeare Network (1998)
Greatest AudioBooks (2013)
dir. Gregory Doran* (2012)
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scotianostra · 9 months
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Happy Birthday Scottish actor Richard Madden born June 18th 1986 in Elderslie.
Richard was raised by his mother, Pat, a classroom assistant and his father, Richard, who worked for the fire service. He also has two sisters, Cara and Lauren.
His parents were “hippies”, he says, and their house was pretty open, with friends always piling in for big vegetarian meals. Madden spent a lot of time outside, in the woods behind their house. He has several injuries: he shows me where he shot his dad’s old air pistol and blew off part of his finger, then managed to wreck the same finger when he nailed a wooden plank to his skateboard, then crashed it, so apart from the Hippie parents it was much like most of our own days as bairns.
Despite growing up wanting to be an actor, Richard was very shy during his childhood. To overcome this, at age 11, he joined Paisley Arts Centre’s youth theatre program. In 1999 he was given the lead role as Sebastian Simpkins in BBC1’s children’s TV comedy series Barmy Aunt Boomerang, that’s him aged 12 in the first pic with co-star Toyah Wilcox.. By 2000, he’d made his feature film debut in the Iain Banks adaptation, Complicity.
After high school he was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland and in 2007, he graduated.
Less than two years later, Richard had a recurring role as Dean McKenzie on the 2009 BBC series Hope Springs. Soon after, he landed the role of Ripley in the 2010 movie Chatroom, a film about a group of teenagers who encourage each other’s bad behaviours after meeting online. In the same year, Richard played punk band Theatre of Hate singer Kirk Brandon in Worried About the Boy, a TV film about the life of British singer-songwriter Boy George.
In 2011 Richard landed his breakthrough role as Robb Stark in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. Also in 2011, he played gay paramedic Ashley Greenwick on the short-lived British comedy-drama Sirens. During hiatus from filming Game of Thrones in 2013, Richard was cast to star as Prince Charming in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.
Richard won his first Screen Actors Guild award in 2014 for the Discovery Channel mini-series, Klondike. He played Bill Haskell, one of two adventurers who travel to Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. He further enhanced his reputation as a good actor when he appeared in the BBC drama Bodyguard in 2018, the following year he played Lieutenant Joseph Blake in the film 2017 and was Elton John’s manager/lover in the biop of the star Rocketman.
In January 2019 Madden won  a prestigious Golden Globe for his role as war veteran David Budd in the BBC show Bodyguard. He also appeared in the 2019 war movie 1917.
We last saw Richard in the movie,  Eternals, which was okay, but nothing great, he is one of several actors being touted as the next James Bond,
James is currently in the Amazon Prime series Citadel, I've watched the first three episodes and am not really impressed with it,I think he does pull of the American accent well, but I noticed there have been people saying he doesn't pull it off, Madden revealed he spoke in the accent for two years straight to prepare for the series. The show has been earmarked for a second series. Richard is set to appear in the feature film Killer Heat next.
In July 2019, Madden received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. When asked about his personal life during a New York Times interview following speculation about his relationships and sexuality, Madden stated: “I just keep my personal life personal.”
Madden was recently named one of ‘Scotland’s Sexiest Men'  following a new study that identifies the most attractive features for men, he has competition though,  also in the running are Bathgate’s David Tennant  and Glasgow’s James McAvoy,
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NUVO MAGAZINE | Noah Reid on Switching Gears and Making Adjustments
Writer Josh Greenblatt | Photographer Ted Belton
From Schitt’s Creek to a Broadway debut, the screen and stage actor is now pouring his emotions into music. When Noah Reid appears on our video chat, he’s sitting in what looks like the prototypical New York apartment with a gallery wall obscured by lush monstera plants. The Toronto native has been staying at a friend’s place in Queens during his run in the Tony-nominated Broadway show The Minutes, which has earned rave reviews, though Reid ignores them. To his right sits the cover of his third album, Adjustments, which features boarded-up storefronts, an image of a period marked by immense change. “During the pandemic, the visual texture of neighbourhoods changed so much,” Reid says of the inspiration behind the eerie album art. “So many businesses that didn’t make it through, the boarded-up stores, they became part of the tapestry of the streetscape, certainly in Toronto, and I’m guessing in a lot of places.” He wonders what happened to the owners. “If you had to close your business, where would you go? What would you do?”
Reid starting writing songs for the album, the follow-up to his sophomore effort, 2020’s Gemini, before the pandemic, but when the world locked down, his Gemini tour was cancelled. It was just a month before the final episode of Schitt’s Creek aired. The beloved sitcom became a cultural phenomenon, winning a record number of Emmy Awards plus a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble, and made Reid a star as Patrick Brewer, the love interest to Dan Levy’s character, David.
Noah Reid was photographed in Toronto this past June, while on a trip to his hometown from New York, where he is staying during his run in the Tony-nominated Broadway show, The Minutes.
Lockdown was an intensely creative time for Reid, if a trying one. “I was staying up way too late and just couldn’t differentiate the hours of the day,” he says, his casual approach to making music allowing him to hone his voice without the noise or pressure of a major label. Recorded live at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced by Juno Award nom­inee Matthew Barber (who also collaborated with Reid on Gemini and his 2016 debut album, Songs from a Broken Chair), Adjustments came to life over a series of sessions with musicians including Bahamian guitarist Christine Bougie and Great Lake Swimmers drummer Joshua Van Tassel. The result is an intensely personal, emotionally raw examination of our new, uncertain reality. “Everyday,” the effervescent album-opening lead single, encapsulates Reid’s headspace during the making of the album. “I wrote that song in the early days of the pandemic, when I’d look out the window at this park that’s usually full of kids and families but now was totally desolate,” he says. “It came from a feeling of being forced into a sort of loneliness and not really knowing what to do about that.”
Reid knows his genre of music isn’t exactly made for radio play. Alt-rock isn’t the most culturally relevant right now, he says. “I’m not trying to write hit songs. I just am writing from my own perspective.” Unlike in Hollywood or on Broadway, where producers, development executives, and casting directors determine actors’ fates, having full creative control over his music is paramount. So what is Reid’s perspective? “Finding that undercurrent of adjustments,” the artist says. “Sometimes the adjustment is about kind of letting go of what you can’t control, and sometimes it’s about trying to try to put a better foot forward.”
Noah Reid’s latest album, Adjustments, is an eight-track disc of smooth alt-rock.
Reid, 35, was born in Toronto to visual artist parents and began performing in local theatre productions as a young boy. A sensitive kid with energy to burn, he sang in his school choir, played on sports teams, and did typical extracurricular activities. But at the same time, he says, “I was going off and doing these other things that felt special and creative,” for which he sometimes felt isolated from his peers—feelings he explores on the song “Left Behind.” He originally thought the song was about the end of Schitt’s Creek, he says, but now feels it has more to do with “deeper-seated feelings of being left out of things or moving through different groups of people when you’re involved in these casts.” He and Levy remain close. “We had so much stuff together, and that became a real foundation of a really loving, trusting friendship,” Reid says. “And you know, that on-screen partnership, we had to really rely on each other and build that trust with each other. A lot of projects, I’ve taken a few friends with me from each thing, and Schitt’s Creek, it’s just that special thing where if I’m in the same place as any of those people, that’s a terrific day for me.”
Noah Reid knows his genre of music isn’t exactly made for radio play. Alt-rock isn’t the most culturally relevant right now, he says. “I’m not trying to write hit songs. I just am writing from my own perspective.”
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Reid is a rare example of a child actor who made it to the big leagues. His disarming sincerity recalls the wholesome affability of his Schitt’s Creek character. “I don’t consider myself famous,” he says. “I know some famous people. They live differently from me.” Recently, in New York, Levy asked him how he’s been handling his new-found celebrity after the premiere of The Minutes. “That guy can’t walk down the street,” Reid says of his famous friend. “I can walk down the street, and maybe people are, like, ‘I know you from somewhere.’”
Despite his current stardom, Reid has found his fumbles more meaningful than his successes. “I think some of the best moments in my life have been when things professionally weren’t working out,” he says. “And I found things that grounded me—relationships and an understanding that you can contribute to the world around you and your community in ways that don’t involve people clapping for you or inviting you to fancy parties and stuff.” This healthy remove from Hollywood excess feels like a more honest place to make music audiences can relate to, which is more important to Reid than commercial success or industry praise. Not that they are irrelevant, but “now, interestingly, professional success is abundant, and it’s a hard time to focus on it because I’ve got other family matters that I value more deeply,” Reid says. “And so that kind of balancing act can be really tricky.”
As his run in The Minutes ends, Reid is adjusting to his new gig: fatherhood. And he’s approaching it like he has everything else that’s come his way: with a level head and grace. “I’ve always had a sense that rolling with the punches is important, that things are going to come and go,” he says. “I don’t get too high, don’t get too low, just be chill. Take what comes and try to do what you can with it. There’s always another day. If that thing doesn’t work out, there’ll be something else.”
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Daniel van den Dyck (Attr.) - Portrait of Antonio Canal - 1647
oil on canvas, height: 113 cm (44.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 98.4 cm (38.7 in)
Birmingham Museums Trust, UK
Daniel van den Dyck, known in Italy as Daniel Vandich (baptized on 3 December 1614, Antwerp – 1663, Mantua) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, architect and engineer. After training in Antwerp he left for Italy where he first worked in Venice and later became a court painter in Mantua. He was a versatile artist who created mythological and religious scenes, as well as portraits and flower-pieces.
Very little is known about the early life of Daniel van den Dyck. He was born in Antwerp as the son of Jan van den Dyck and Cornelia Kerstboom. He was baptized in Antwerp Cathedral on 3 December 1614. He was registered as a pupil of Peter Verhaeght in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1631-1632. He was registered as a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1633-1634. It is assumed that shortly after becoming a master he left Antwerp as he was not involved in any of the large commissions on which Antwerp painters worked in the middle of the 1630s such as the decorations for the Joyous Entry into Antwerp of the new governor of the Habsburg Netherlands Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and the decorations for the hunting pavilion Torre de la Parada of the Spanish king Philip IV near Madrid.
The artist passed first through Bergamo where he created a few signed and dated portraits. He was in Venice likely from 1634 onwards. Here he married Lucrezia Renieri, the eldest daughter of Nicolas Régnier, a Flemish painter active in Venice who was herself a painter. The couple had three sons. His father-in-law had been active in Venice since 1626 not only as a painter but also as an art dealer and art collector. Clorinda, the younger sister of van den Dyck's wife was married to the prominent Italian painter Pietro della Vecchia (1605-1678). These family ties meant that van den Dyck could rely on a network of Flemish and Italian artists in Venice. This allowed him to gain many commissions for religious paintings in churches as well as for portraits. He painted wall decorations in the Palazzo Pesaro in Preganziol together with his brother-in-law della Vecchia and their respective spouses.
Evidence of the esteem in which he was held in his time is the fact that one of his works - a portrait - was included in the early biographer Carlo Ridolfi's book on Venetian painters of 1648 entitled Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti and dello Stato. He was also praised by Marco Boschini in his La carta del navegar pitoresco of 1660, a panygeric poem about Venetian painting. Boschini dedicated two pages to van den Dyck and represented the artist in a print as Jupiter embellishing Virtue with a royal mantle.
Giovan Francesco Loredano, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incogniti, a learned society of freethinking intellectuals established in 1630 in Venice, often ordered the illustrations for his multiple writings from van den Dyck, Pietro della Vecchia and Francesco Ruschi.[3] One of these prints was a portrait of Loredano which he made for Loredano's Opere (Collected works).
From late 1657 van den Dyck was living with his family in Mantua. On 2 April of the next year he was named by duke Carlo II Gonzaga as his official court painter, architect, surveyor of his building program and engineer for stage designs for the theatre. He also was made the superintendent of the duke's gallery and tasked with reconstituting the ducal art collection which had become dispersed during the previous two dukes' reign. Possibly his appointment was made on the recommendation of his father-in-law who had provided services to the duke on various occasions. As the prefetto delle fabbriche (surveyor of works) van den Dyck had to move between the various construction sites such as Maderno, Marmirolo, Mantua and Venice, to check the transportation of the many marble statues, inspect the progress and quality of the various construction works undertaken at the ducal palace as well as the suburban residences, ordered supplies and tools, organized the daily assignments of the workers and made sure the duke was informed timely through frequent correspondence. The constant and exhausting travel in this role did not allow van den Dyck to work as a painter, the premier reason for his appointment to the court. This may explain why van den Dyck operated a large workshop with assistants. These assistants would produce his works which he would then 'touch up'.
The date of his death is not known with certainty. It is placed shortly after he drew up his will on 27 June 1662. On 4 April 1663 the duke of Mantua appointed another Flemish painter called Frans Geffels as his new court painter. Van den Dyck's son may have become a painter as his grandfather Nicolas Régnier bequeathed onto him all his prints, drawings and reliefs to study.
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The Stella Maris (part 1)
"the dark star" "constellation"...since three years ago this name is whispered all around the criminal underground of japan and the supernatural worl, all are names for the same organization. The Stella Maris
Despite they exist since more time than the criminal underground itself the stella maris just out from the shadows recently but in that time they filled all the underground and supernatural with chaos and fear but,how?
Steales,assasinate, arson are only a few of they crimes. in the three years where The Stella started to be know they striked without warning, this group who apparently come from nowhere make clear that his goal it's just pure and absolute chaos and anarchy but ¿That's true? The trained eye can say that they're not driving by that,they have a bigger and darker intention and what's that intention?...and not mentioned the supernatural yet
Both sides can say The Stella Maris is possibily one of the most dangerous group that existed until now and they power isn't just from weapons, intelligence and strong
Any people related to spiritual and supernatural has good reasons to be afraid because all the members of The Stella Maris has contracts and bonds with supernatural and in they power have spirits,devils, phantoms and other criatures and more recently, somehow a few of members found a way of fusinated with criatures getting abilities and traits that would be impossible for normal humans non related to the supernatural or spiritual worl
With those powers and impulsed by the pure wish of chaos, The Stella Maris is more than decided to cause all the chaos that they can and protect the supernatural madness of they city
But who are the members?.... let's starts with
1. the Undertaker
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Alias:La Mort
Full name:"Undertaker"
Real Name:???
Age:???
Specie:??? (But he definitely is not human)
Position:leader
Supernatural abilities
shadow control
blood manipulation
Affiliation:
The Stella Maris
Supernatural underground
Starless Theatre
Weapon:
scythe
Hypnosis microphone
Phantometal
Gadgets
Mechanic haunted dolls
Skills and abilities
Genius level intelligence
Combat skills
Bio:"appeared from nothing" it's probabily the best drescription about him,this strange being who is know as someone eccentric and joking is too much misterious but something obvious to all who knows about the supernatural is the fact Undertaker is not human...but what's him? A death spirit? A devil? Or perhaps....the reaper himself? No one in the supernatural worl. even in Stella Maris who (or what) is him
But something sure for all kumamoto is this Undertaker is the boss of all the Stella Maris and the leader of kumamoto city but even with the knowledge of his inmortal soul, Undertaker knew he could't do it alone then he recruited people with potential not only in his great passion,The show Business! but in the supernatural worl and the art of death he created a guild of vigilants,assasins and informants to made anything neccesary to cause chaos and protect the supernatural madness of kumamoto no matter what
-"chaos and anarchy, despite it's bad image those are neccesary to preserve the order of reality and madness"-Undertaker
Team I (nmate)
This team, is a team where just 1/3 is part of the Starless theater but they are dangerous by their own right not only for they infamous acts in the criminal underground but also due to they combat skills and a madness notorious even beetwen the rest of the group. called by Undertaker as "Stella Maris's attack dogs" is not strange for them that the "missions" they do are for "make clear a point" but they has a reason to be so dreaded in the supernatural worl. The same reason that gave they team name "inmate"
.... because the three was the first inmates in very much time that escaped from the most dreaded prison in the supernatural worl but they scape left them sequels
The time they were jailed there despite be just a few of weeks for mundane people was enough to made them more crazy they already was...and the dark energy from that place is slowly fragmenting their sanity
And without they knowledge a team in the DRB did a treat with the same prison to capture them
1. the executioner
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Alias:Hollow
M (as assasin)
Corrupt romance (with Semiramis)
Full name: Kunio "Kurome" Chōten
Age:22
Specie:human???/ [REDACTED]
Team:team I (leader)
Supernatural abilities:
Soul manipulation
Shadow control
"Shinigami's Eyes"
Blood manipulation
Supernatural contracts:
Jester spirits
[REDACTED]
Profession
Theater actor
Stage magician
Position
Informant
Assasin
Afilliation
Stella Maris
Starless Theatre
Strange Magic
Weapon
Knifes
Sword
Electric cane
Hypnosis microphone
Phantometal (feather ring)
Modified gun (calico M950)
Gadgets
"Hana" (bird bot)
Mechanic mask
Sharp cards
Truth serum
Skills and abilities
Combat skills
Manipulation
Persuation
Strathegist
Adaptability
Bio: isn't funny how the second son of a family from aoyama is working on destriy that city?,since kid contrary to his older brother Kunio noticed the darkest side of aoyama...the abuses and corruption and since kid he prefered be with the "lower class". that "desobedience" bringed him to received abuses from his own parents,the jokes,the humillation, the mental and physical abuses that ended up in different scars all over his body (especially the whiped scars on his back) but he don't losed completely the faith in Aoyama until he discovered all the corrupt and illegal business on aoyama...drugs and people traffics,blackmail and explotation...that was enough for him,taking advantage of his bad reputation beetwen the upper class he decided to go with his "exile"
His path bringed him to Kumamoto city,where he started to work as theater actor and stage magician,exposing all the crimes of the upper class and give information in the underground with the name "Hollow"
...but he always had a bad feeling that made real with a reason:Reiji Enjouji....the oddballs incident that damaged him and his love not could minded him but...once he realized how extreme was Reiji's actions and the people who he demaged .. give information was not enough and that was the begins of his reputation not only as informant or actor when slowly but surely members of The upper class started to appear dead ,murdered in the worst but carefully ways and they crimes exposed. was The Stella Maris who answered to the ask in the criminal underground of "who's the assasin?" they just said "his name is M"
Dreaded not only for his abilities to obtain information or his combat skills, in the supernatural that fear is due to the jester devils and mischievous spirits that sometimes help him on his magic shows are not his only supernatural bonds
He has a contract and abilities related to a death being that gave him the power of controls blood and even the soul itself but that contract he made to save his spouse's life after a murder attempt from Enjouji heir had a price that got worse after his time with his team in ARCA prison inffected by the dark energy from that place...he becomes into someone (or something) completely different when the state he calls "mara" dominate him....but all in Stella Maris is sure of something, neither all the supernatural or mundane underground could stop on his goal:eliminate all the corrupt rich people and upper class
-"all those people who just think on money and power are not bettee than rats...eliminate all of them feels so good"-Kunio "Hollow" Kurome
2. The Witch
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Alias: Semiramis
Corrupt romance (with hollow)
Full name:Natsume Kurome
Age:22
Specie:human (warlock)
Team:team I
Supernatural abilities:
Magic
Memories manipulation
Supernatural contracts:
Flowers spirits
Pagan spirits
Profession:
Artist
Position:
Poisoner
Affiliation:
Strange Magic
Stella Maris
Weapon:
Different types of poison
Kana knifes
Hypnosis microphone
Phantometal (charm bracelet)
Gadgets:
Mechanical broom (anti-gravity)
Truth serum
Hallucigen gast
Poisonous nail polish
Poisonous lipstick
Skills and abilities:
Fashion expert
Combat skills
Poison knowledge
Bio: sometimes,people in stella maris wonder how Natsume joined in first place or,how he fell in his path of death and poison but he have the answer to himself "his mother"
after she attacked him and ingresed to a psychiatric he always wondered why she did that. After years he learned the truth:his mother was bullyed and torture mentally by a rich woman until her collapsed and when Natsume knew it he used his knowledge in different types of plants and toxicology and killed the same woman,knowing that bitch not was the only one who made things like his mother's situation he accepted the offert from his fiance (now his husband) and joined to Stella Maris using his poison and magic to help on the goal of causing chaos and help Kunio on his revenge
Considered as the corrupt romance of Stella Maris,but this red haired is not only a deadly poisoner known for the price of his services by people who contract him but for be a powerful warlock who know different types of magic that he learned traveling with his father but in the supernatural he's well know by his powers in the memorie manipulation watching people's memories throught a crystal ball and manipuling them with cards being able of manipuling them,erase them and some rumors say he has a deck of tarot cards with memories that catched his attention and now are part of his collection
his time on ARCA prison inffected him less than his teammates and now he's working on a way of undo what's left of the dark energy inffection
-"i was clear about the terms and price of my poison but my magic?, that has no price and is just for me so if you don't accepted it then rest...this poison is not painful"-Natsume "Semiramis" Kurome
3. the queen
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Alias: Bluefire
La signora (in Stella Maris)
"the lady on the lake" (codename)
Full name:Aoba Yamamura
Age:21
Specie:human
Team:team I
Supernatural abilities:
Frost and cold manipulation
Supernatural mystique
Profession:
librarian
terrorist bomber
Position:
bomber
Affiliation:
Strange Magic
Stella Maris
Double Face
Weapon:
Dagger
whip
Gatgets:
Aphrodisiac perfume
Poisonous nail polish
Knockout gas (in form of different jewels)
High-grade explosives
Ice bombs
Skills and abilities:
Genius level intelligence
Combat skills
Persuation
chemical expertise
escape skills
Adaptability
Bio: contrary to his teammates, Aoba commited criminal acts so much before than them,his childhood was in a middle beetwen the white and black with a drunk mother who burned him in a whole leg and eye and tried to kill his sister,the faith he could had for that bitch losed when he met his younger half brother who was abandoned by Ukina,but he has lights in his siblings and father but all that days ended with his father's death, murdered by Aoyama's upper class that moment was the starts of the same hate towards all the corrupt upper class and his revenge when he bombed his father killer's houses. But that wasn't the only things that happened, after his father died he only saw sadness,a abusive "boyfriend", the "war", suicides and abuses provoked by the same person that affected him and his friends was destroyng his sanity
all those things seemed better a bit with his relationship and love for certain arsonist but with Himura's arrest the cycle started again, his lover's arrest,a miscarriage that broke him and his mind and made him try to suicide he begins his own reign of terror that started with the massive arsons and bombings know as "the blue hell" where at least a considerable part of japan was burned leaving around of 2000 hurts and deads incluiding civilians and Chuokhu workers, tthe event that gave him the name "Bluefire"
Initially his attacks just happened time a time and was only in places like drugs trafficcants basis but 1 one years ago his attacks are more often and in places completely random, especially zones with several buildings at the same time but the reason why he was never catched yet it's for his great intelect and escape abilities, researching the places where he will to attack and all the possible scapes routes,and also for his seductive attractive even with the mask and his great mystique and charm who use as distraction before kill all poeple who could catch him
He joined to Stella Maris due to his teammates. with all the mental breakdowns and things that happened him his mental state got worse and his behavior normally pyromaniac and crazy but calming was more erratic and unstable. then "Hollow" and "Semiramis" bringed him to Stella Maris and he joined just because "it's better than nothing"
Although Bluefire strangely do missions for the supernatural group (out of his normal attacks). he's more use by Undertaker for starts fire and causing his burning destruction to people and groups who made the dark star mad and let clear a point. something that make him feel happy because he can unleash his pyromaniac insanity with freedom
But the truth it's that under the surface he's the most unstable beetwen team I and strange magic. his time in ARCA prison inffected him the most and impulsed by things like his bipolar disorder it's neccesary be careful dealing with him because his great intelligence, knowledge about explosives and escape skills,and his unstable mind are reasons why he's considered so dangerous in the mundane underground
Although he not has the same supernatural abilities than Hollow and Semiramis. he is able of provoke frost around him but can't manipulate ice itself
-"i don't know what i did in a past life to deserve all that happened thekse last years...if the worl give me this then...then.... THEN I WILL TO BURN IT ALL, BURN EVERYTHING UNTIL IT BECOMES TO ASHES JAJAJAJAJAJA"-Aoba "Bluefire" Yamamura
Team K
1. The songbird
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Alias: "Doll"
Full name:Hanami Yamamura
Real name:[REDACTED)
Age: 2 (21 physically)
Specie:Cybernetic doll. Human (formely)
Team: team K
Supernatural abilities
Seductive charm
Siren voice
String magic
Profession
Theater actor/singer
Fashion designer
Position
Diplomatic
Informant
"assasin"
Affiliation
Theater Starless
Stella Maris
Strange Magic
Double Face
Weapon:
Extase (enchanted scissor)
Daggers
Gadgets
Bird bot (second form)
Heels with guns
Nanobots
High-grade explosives
Poisonous nail polish
Phantometal (symbol beetwen his shoulder blades)
Skills and abilities
Diplomatic skills
Persuation
Manipulation
Genius level intelligence
Combat skills
Bio:the four Stella Maris member who is a supernatural criature and the first one "artifitial". "Hanami Yamamura" borned as the "project bizarre doll". Originally a human-size porcelain doll his creator. Kururi Yamamura changed the most of his porcelain parts with synthetic flesh and metal turning him into a type of robot. but technology isn't the only thing that gave him life. He was also created by "Semiramis" who made rituals in the porcelain doll to give him "life", "Hollow" used his supernatural abilities and taked a human soul that he put into the doll. the result was Hanami's "rebirth"
Although initially shocked and confused for being alive again. this time as a cybernetic/magic being the doll with time accepted his situation with joy of have a second chance in life. The doll named himself "Hanami". The name of cherry blossom bloom and adopted his creator's lastname "Yamamura".
Hanami started to work in the theater initially as the costume designer with time his talent singing and dancing was more evident. Seeing it Undertaker and Kunio decided made him a singer and dancer affiliated to the Starless Theater. Usually giving him a good position in the "show restaurant" nights made by the Starless (to Hanami's joy).
Despite have a joy and warmth personality the truth is that Hanami is ruthless and sadic. Taking advantage of being able to connect to cyberspace he started to attack any hacker or A.I who try to fuck with him and Starless. That same ruthless and bloody nature bringed him to be another Starless's assasin. Usually going for hackers and possible cybernetic menaces to supernatural (actually that is how he met the android A.R.K and both becomes lovers)
Although he's happy with his new life. Hanami can't help but feel certain intrigue for his life as human, a life he cannot remember with a reason. When he looked at his soul by first time Kunio "Hollow" Kurome was shocked for all his grief and how he died. Knowing Hanami could't live "normally" with those type of memories after talked with Kururi and Natsume. Natsume used his magic and sealed Hanami's human life memories
Although he was angry with them. Hanami thought on the little things he remember from his human life (the blood,the grief, and the pain) understanding their good intention he forgive them...but even with it. Hanami sometimes wonder ¿How was his former human existence?
-"i'm so happy with this life but....what if I remember?"-Hanami "Songbird" Yamamura
2. the cat
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Alias:"Nekomata"
Full name:Nekonari Wataru
Age:24
Specie:human (with nekomata blood)
Team:team K
Supernatural abilities:
Cat instints
Feline reflects
Spiritual comunication
Profession:
Acrobat
Theater actor
Waiter
Position:
Spy
Undertaker's secretary
Affiliation:
Stella Maris
Starless Theater
Undertaker
Weapon:
Kunai knifes
Neko-te
War fans
Gadgets:
Nanobots
Spider bots
Electric cane
Knockout gas
Truth serum
Skills and abilities
Stealth expert
Combat skills
Genius level intelligence
Manipulation
Bio: originally a child with a loving and normal family,except for the fact he was able to see and feel spirits but he never toll his parents about his power. to them Nekonari was just a sleepy but smart boy with affinity for cats. Until the day when desperate for q evil spirit who wanted attack his family he tell them that he can see phantoms and about the evil one that wanted hurt them. Although confused both of them listened his son but sadly they Wataru family was attacked by dark spirits. The parents just protected and tell their son to run away before died. Completely destroyed by his parents dead Nekonari wandered in the streets just to be kidnaped and almost sold as slave until certain being appeared
Noticing the presence of souls Undertaker appeared on the basis where Nekonari and too many children were locked up and he killed and eated the souls of all the trafficcants. Impressed by Undertaker's supernatural powers and how handsome he was. Nekonari introduced himself and told Undertaker about his instincs and ability of see phantoms
Intrigued by his soul and power Undertaker bringed the teenager to Stella Maris basis and examinated him noticing a presence of nekomata assendence
Surprised for the casuality of find him Undertaker asked him what he wants to do now and to his shock the boy answered "i want to stay by your side and be useful for you. Sir". Surprised and amussement Undertaker taked Nekonari under his wing as spy and informant. The boy learned and trained to take advantage of his feline features to be useful. Learning the art ancient ninja arts and weapons and especially how control his ability of see spiritis
Now Nekonari is the second leader (unnoffically) of Stella maris but he acts more as Undertaker's assitance and secretary being especially loyal to his savior and crush. He's respect by the other members due to his hardworking and confident nature
-"Undertaker sama. All my loyaltu is with you and our group nobody else"-Nekonari "Nekomata" Wataru
Facts
The Stella Maris is in neutral terms/allies with
Scorpion Den (having similar goals and a team affiliated to them)
The Kairikiru productions (having a alliance beetwen informants)
The Kito-Gumi of Shizuoka due to deals beetwen Undertaker and Sakura Kito
But Stella Maris are in bad terms/enemies with
The Aoyama's Upper Class
The Crossroads of Ginza
The Katen-Gumi of Yokohama
The ARCA prison
And recently Avici criminal syndycate once Undertaker found out Avici work with a group dedicate to human experimentation
If Undertaker is the leader he considers the Team I as Stella Maris's "attack dogs" and the team K as the "brain" of the group
Although the group has they basis in Kumamoto their has a team who operates in Hamamatsu and a alliance with Verne publishing-house's that sends them hidden information
Although is not confirmate yet, it is assumed Stella Maris has contacts and allies all over the supernatural worl
The reason why the Team I(nmate) is so dreaded is not just for their madness and skills. but also for be the first inmates who escaped from ARCA in centuries and caused a massive prison break
Stella Maris is the responsibles of the creation of the accesories called "Phantometals" with help of the scientist Nadya Kuromiya
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