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questintheskies · 27 days

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1. CM Punk says people in AEW felt “betrayed” when he visited WWE Raw backstage in May 2023.

2. CM Punk confirms that no one came to pick him up at the airport for AEW All In, didn’t cry about it, calls it irresponsible.

3. CM Punk says he told Tony Khan that “this place [AEW] is a fucking joke, you're a clown”. Then he quit AEW.

4. “I don't like the drama but the truth is the truth. He's not a boss, he's a nice guy. That's a detriment to the company [AEW] but it's not my company." — CM Punk when asked about Tony Khan

5. CM Punk talking about AEW: Says it’s not a real or sustainable business, not about selling tickets, not about drawing money. Having good matches maybe which there’s nothing wrong with. Will always exist as long as Tony Khan keeps pumping money into it.

6. “If you're more than happy with some goof saying you had a 5 star match & the building is a quarter full…then we're not in the same business." — CM Punk

7. CM Punk was a consultant to Tony Khan in AEW, working with 2 contracts. One was a talent contract, the other was the consultant contract.

8. CM Punk believed AEW was an alternative to what WWE was. But 90% of the problems he had or identified about AEW were the very things that made AEW different…

He's happy that AEW exists because it allows wrestlers to make more money, but then also says "guaranteed money kind of ruined pro wrestling. If you had to get paid off the house, things would be a lot different"

9. CM Punk on the infamous Hangman Page promo before DoN.

Says Hangman went off the script, and that he wanted to double leg him and “murder” him on live TV if it wasn't for his professionalism. Says he went to TK and the lawyers to get the situation fixed.

10. CM Punk says nobody in AEW talked to him for 6 months after Brawl Out, he had to sort his tricep surgery by himself. He says the difference between getting injured in both companies is “night and day”

11. “I don’t regret my time there (AEW). Im just brutally honest about some things — And it’s done.

I hope they’re happy, I known I am. I would like to leave it at that. I understand fans and the tribalism, I’m a Blackhawks, I’m a Chicago Cubs fan, so I will always troll and needle White Sox fans, or Blues fans, or Predator’s you know?

But some of the shit was so outlandish, talking about my Dog and all this awful stuff”

12. CM Punk says before joining AEW, he was close to re-joining WWE, even before being on WWE Backstage.

He said they had a handshake deal in place but then it didn’t happen. He says Nick Khan lead the charge even before Khan joined WWE as he was with CAA.

13. CM Punk says stories of him being violent backstage are overblown and not true. (Earlier he admitted to choking a co-worker backstage and wanting to murder Hangman Adam Page for going off script)

14. CM Punk didn't have a non-compete clause after being fired from AEW.

15. Samoa Joe told him to stop acting up at All In Wembley, so he did. Then he turned to Khan and told him, “This place is fucking joke, man. You’re a clown. I quit.” Joe and Jerry Lynn came to his room and got him to do the PPV opening match. He said he was “too fired up” then and now rehashing it, and will probably regret talking about it, but “that’s what happened.”

16. He says he wrestled the match for Joe, referee Paul Turner, Lynn who was the agent on the match, and the fans. But he knew it was his last time wrestling Joe, and in the company.

17. He hasn’t spoken to Khan since backstage at Wembley when he quit. He didn’t do anything to make him fear for his life, as Khan said when announcing Punk’s firing on Dynamite, but Punk sayd “he is who he is.” He believes there was a “concerted effort to try to slander [him] and try to ruin [his] character.”

18. Spreading “rumors and lies and bullshit” was the genesis of all his issues at AEW. He thinks it might have been jealousy or envy, but doesn’t understand why anyone would try to dim the star of the company’s top guy.

19. Punk says his remarks at the post-All In scrum weren’t planned, but when he saw “reporters” there who are friends with other wrestlers and who wrote things about him without checking with him, it set him off. He does say it’s in his “top three CM Punk promos”, though.

20. There was nothing it the scrum that Khan hadn’t heard before. Punk doesn’t think he can talk about what happened afterwards. Confirms he is referring to Brawl Out, but says he “didn’t have to sign an NDA for anything I did wrong.” He has nothing he wanted to hide, but Khan wanted him to sign an NDA — he doesn’t know why.

21. As to why he did agree to come back, “I have a lot of friends there”, and Khan wasn’t going to let him go. Rather than sit at home, he thought he’d try to “get some guys together and have some fun shows.”

22. Asked if there’s anything he’s proud of from his time in AEW, he says he made a lot of friends and got to a lot of “cool shit” — specifically mentioning getting to work with Sting. “I think the positives outweigh the negatives”.

23. He talks about attending an indie show recently and telling someone that what happens there works at that level, as evidenced by it selling out an arcade bar, “but that shit doesn’t fly on national television — I think that’s being proven right now.”

24. He’s proud of the work he did with MJF, and thinks MJF’s future is bright as he’s immensely talented. He wasn’t great when he catered to the “niche internet audience”.

25. Punk doesn’t think he’ll ever bury the hatchet with Colt Cabana. He says Cabana approached him at some point before the All Out ‘22 incident, but he told him he wouldn’t speak to him without a lawyer present.

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alotogifs · 2 years

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A League of Their Own Cast Live Tweets 1x08 Pt.1

Abbi: Gotta love an extreme close up... :/ :) Will: Our writers talked a lot about what it's like feeling out of your groove when you're in charge.

Will: I love D’arcy Carden intensity in this scene. Will: Hahahaha. I love Patrick J. Adams in this scene. This was based on one of our writers stories about doing this to her boyfriend who was trying to be too supportive. Abbi: I LOVE Patrick J. Adams -- what a treat to get to work with him. Will: The story of Carson becoming the coach of the team is based on a real incident from the AAGPBL where the coach was fired mid-season and three of the players had to take over! Abbi: ESG babay.

D’arcy: THANK YOU CHERYL Will: I LOVE CHERYL. Also Chanté Adams and Gbemi Ikumelo were VERY excited for this scene and they really killed it. Lots of improv!

D’arcy: 5,000 more scenes with Cecil please. Abbi: It's "Big C" D'Arc. Will: The Chicago Defender was one of the biggest black papers in the US. The papers were distributed by train couriers on their routes! D’arcy: i love frens ��

Chanté: When I read this scene I knew it was gonna be epic and I knew it was missing one thing…SUNGLASSES. I schemed all day begging the producers and our director if we could wear sunglasses and they all agreed. Action was called, magic was made, the rest is herstory. Will: THIS WAS CHANTÉ’S MOMENT. Well one of them. She had strong feeling about the glasses and now it's m favorite moment!

Will: To the five has become something we kinda say a lot now.

Will: I LOVE A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. That is why. Abbi: This is the Peaches theme our composers created. You'll hear it throughout the whole season. Will: I am SO proud of and in love with Abbi's performance in this scene. Justine Siegal said she'd never seen a woman give a speech like this on TV. Justine: It’s true. I had never heard a sport’s pep talk from a woman on TV. I hadn’t heard too many in real life either. I was really touched by how Carson was leading her team! Made me take a moment. Abbi: This is our moment! #LeagueWatchParty Hahah sorry I'm just repeating my lines. Will: I also love how Carson has taken on Greta's advice from episode 1. Will: We wanted to do a story about leadership that grew slowly and was more about being vulnerable than controlling -- That came from Abbi.

Abbi: Kate Berlant is incredible in this scene. D’arcy: Kate Berlant supremacy 😍 Will: True fact! I did not know about Botulism before this script. I am not a worrier? Learning! Will: We had a lot of conversations about what Carson's moment here should sound like, since "coming out" wasn't a real possibility in this time. It comes down to Carson saying I am the thing you're afraid of -- What are you going to do now?

Abbi: D’arcy Carden came over to watch with me. D’arcy: shaw&gill 🍑 Chanté: Look at you cutiesssss. D’arcy: Hiiiiiiii chanteeeeeeeee ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Will: I'm obsessed with the intensity in D’arcy Carden eyes before she hits. Bring me home Shaw! Will: They real AAGPBL players were very proud of all their bruises and scrapes.

Abbi: You ALWAYS need a code word! Will: I love Chanté Adams and Gbemi Ikumelo in this BUFFALO scene. "IS SHE SMILING?"

Will: Worth mentioning Anya Adams is the director of this episode! It was a HUGE challenge. Massive episode. We are so lucky to have had her. Will: Our writer Mfoniso Udofia contributed so much to this Max and Toni scene. Max and Toni are trying so hard to find a way to talk. Will: A lot of the pictures in Max's house are of Chanté Adams’s family.

Chanté: This is a photo of me next to my grandfather. He’s also in the smaller photos along with some of my other family as well. He passed away in 2009 but this was his era. So happy to have him watching over me through this process. I think he would have loved Max 🖤

Will: I love Le Robinson swagger in this scene. And some important S2 threads in here!

#aloto #a league of their own #alotoedit #abbi jacobson #will graham #d'arcy carden #chante adams #peaches #s1 #1x08 #cast #bts #live tweeting #twitter

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sharpened--edges · 1 year

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On May 30th, 2020, thousands of people descended on downtown Chicago for a raucous daytime march. The gathering was part of a nationwide crescendo of rebellion that began in Minneapolis five days prior in response to the police murder of George Floyd. After being cooped up for months amid the uncertainty of the Covid pandemic, fearful of everyone as a potential carrier of disease, we had been set free by the images of Minneapolis’s Third Precinct aflame. Hitting the streets that day was something akin to a religious experience. From the onset it was clear that the crowd would not follow the shopworn “peaceful” Black Lives Matter protest script. I watched with glee as teenagers scurried through the crowd graffitiing every conceivable surface with anti-cop slogans like ACAB and Fuck 12, alongside their own confrontational reappropriation of “Black Lives Matter,” a long stalled out movement which many of them were too young to have participated in. An American flag was summarily lowered and burned, and after some spirited debate involving sentimental locals, the Chicago flag was similarly put to the torch. Chicago Police cars were attacked, their windows smashed with the skateboards preferred by many young people, or whatever else people could get their hands on. Multiple CPD cars were set on fire. The cops themselves were outmaneuvered by a massive crowd swarming a sprawling downtown grid, and formed defensive lines unprotected from behind, wantonly swinging clubs and deploying pepper spray with no clear purpose save perhaps their proximity to particularly valuable sites of potential looting. […] By the standards of the summer of 2020, this was not a particularly remarkable turn of events. Cops were outflanked and overrun in cities across the United States all summer. They were confounded by the ferocity of the riots, the abuse rained down on them by even the so-called peaceful protesters, and perhaps most shockingly, the people whom they ordinarily harass and intimidate with impunity defending themselves—and even going on the attack. Perhaps some cops were surprised by the realization that tens of millions of Americans hate their guts and want them to quit their jobs or else just die. If they were honest with themselves, though, they’d admit this was all a long time coming. The biggest surprise of the George Floyd Rebellion is how long it took to arrive.

Jarrod Shanahan, “Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help,” Endnotes, 2022.

#jarrod shanahan

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sheetsonfire · 2 years

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In The Morning

Fandom: Chicago Fire

Pairing: Brian Zvonecek x Fem Reader

Genre: Fluff, romance

Warnings: None

Word Count: 754

Summary: Brian comes home to his girlfriend from a shift, a cute little one-shot.

It’s around 7am when you hear the muffled thunk of the door closing and the faint click of the latch being connected. You can envision it in your head, the toeing off of his shoes, the rustle of his jacket as he tries to hang it up without knocking anything over - he had an irrational fear of being clumsy when coming home, and he hated waking you up.

You smile in your bleary-eyed haze of sleep, scooting over from your sprawled position on the bed to make room for your companion coming up the stairs, you hear his awkward halted steps and it makes you shake slightly with giggles beneath the duvet, he really was too much of a worrier for his own good.

The door swooshes quietly open and then closes once again with a quiet click too, then comes the sound of his jeans and t-shirt hitting the pile of other clothes in the laundry bag, and you finally encourage your eyes to open properly. The faint light of the street lamp illuminates his kind face, daylight not yet fully appearing. You smile at his soft expression as you catch his hazel eyes already looking at you, adoring.

Your voice is thick with sleep when you speak, “Mhm, hey, love. How was it?” You scoot yourself up a little so you can focus on him properly, wiggling your fingers as you invite him into bed. He wastes no time in scooting under the covers, freshly showered from the firehouse, you took a second to inhale his conditioner as you carded your hand through his hair, kissing his cheek, moving to brush your lips against his softly, his moustache scratching ever so slightly. He hums, a warm hand resting on your waist.

“It was alright, daytime had a construction mishap, plenty of stove fires, not too busy tonight, a few car wrecks, a small car fire, no fatalities. Got to come home to you, I’d say that I’m doing alright.”

You smile sleepily, “Mhm, that does sound like a fair enough deal.” Tugging him down against the pillows so you can nestle into him, feeling him kiss the top of your head.

“Smells like Baba’s baking downstairs…” He murmurs, humming happily as you stroke along his arm, coming to rest your hand on his chest.

“That’s good to hear, I did use Baba’s recipe…” You tease, not quite revealing what you’d made. He turns slightly to look at you with excitement,

“You baked something using Baba’s handwriting?” His eyebrows go up, not even he could really make head nor tails of Baba’s delicate yet cryptic script sometimes.

You snort, “Yes, using Baba’s handwriting, I’ve got good at reading it. Besides, she taught me last time she was here and I made notes then too.”

You feel Brian squeeze you closer, nuzzling into your neck, “Why are you the best?” He sighs happily, you knew how much giving him little pieces of home made him feel closer to his family, his Baba especially.

“Oh shush, it’s just baking, but I’m glad it puts a smile on that handsome little face of yours.” You pinch his cheek lightly and he chuckles softly.

“You’ve spent too much time with that woman.” He remarks, amused and touched that you loved his grandma too, Joe had been harder to convince at first.

“We’ll see if it’s been enough when we try my Medovik later.” Brian groans,

“God, if I wasn’t so tired I’d get back out of this bed and grab a slice now.”

You playfully swat his arm, “No Medovik until you’ve got some proper rest… Besides, you’ve got a parcel from GameStop downstairs, so we can enjoy a morning of cake and cats.”

Brian’s copy of Stray for PS5 had finally arrived, and even you had been excited to muscle in on having a go.

Your boyfriend sighs happily, rolling over with you to spoon you close, “Best day ever, let’s get some more sleep so it can come sooner.”

You giggle, nodding, “Sounds good, baby, sounds good.” You would most likely get up in a few hours and let Brian sleep peacefully whilst you got some work done on your laptop and did the errands you needed to before spending time with him.

Holding onto Brian’s arms around you, you let yourself get a little more shuteye, the comforting weight of his body against yours lulls you into a deeper slumber than before, and the soft snores of your boyfriend go unheard by your ears.

Fin.

@dumb-fawkin-bitch

#brian zvonecek #chicago fire #one chicago #brian zvonecek x reader

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911bts · 1 year

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Variety | Fall 2022 TV Ratings: CBS Has Ups and Downs While NBC Remains Top-Rated and Most-Viewed

Quote from article:

'In adults 18-49 ratings, the top three entertainment shows, with sports and news removed, are all unscripted. ABC’s “The Bachelorette” takes first place with a 1.1 average; “Survivor” and the Sunday time slot for “Big Brother” are tied for second at a 1.0 rating. Next, all with a 0.9, are NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as well as Fox’s “9-1-1” and “The Simpsons.”'

So 9-1-1 is tied for top scripted show with Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Law and Order SVU and The Simpsons!

#911 fox #ratings

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uomo-accattivante · 1 year

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Great article about The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, which starts previews this Saturday…

Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” began performances on Broadway in the fall of 1964. It closed the following January, days before Hansberry’s death, having run 101 performances.

“Isn’t that insane?” the director Anne Kauffman asked.

This was on a recent afternoon in a rehearsal room of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Kauffman and her stars, the actors Rachel Brosnahan and Oscar Isaac, were preparing for the play’s first major New York revival since a 14-performance run in 1972. Combining the published script with earlier drafts, Kauffman’s production is scheduled to begin performances on Saturday. She directed a revival of “Sign” at Chicago’s Goodman Theater in 2016. But she didn’t feel finished with it.

“I loved that production. I really did,” she said. “But I had no idea what I was doing compared to the depths that we’re going to on this one.”

A couple of days earlier, I’d watch a half-dozen actors, mostly off book, dip their toes in, negotiating a brisk scene that touched — sardonically, sincerely — on issues of race, gender and sexuality. The sign itself, a campaign poster for a local politician, had yet to be hung, which led to jokes: The Sign on Sidney Brustein’s Balcony, The Sign on Sidney Brustein’s Fire Escape. The actors navigated the scene’s particular rhythms and its many props: cigarettes, ashtrays, a fruit bowl, liquor bottles.

“I don’t know where this will go,” Brosnahan, holding a glass, said.

Kauffman responded: “That’s the fun of rehearsal.”

“Sign” is set in Greenwich Village in 1964, territory more or less familiar to both Isaac (“Inside Llewyn Davis”) and Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”). Dedicated to “the committed everywhere,” the script moves between naturalism and a more heightened, poetic style. At its center is the fraught marriage between Sidney (Isaac), a small-business owner and onetime idealist, and Iris (Brosnahan), a would-be actress. All around them are the tumults of the time, which are also the tumults of our time, as each character measures the gulf between who they were, who they are and who they would like to become. In exploring Sidney’s allegiances, some of them misplaced, and Iris’s bid for self-determination, the play opens up questions of competing loyalties, identities and habits of mind.

James Baldwin, who was Hansberry’s friend, described himself, in a speech that he gave to raise funds for it, as deeply moved by the play. “If it cannot survive then we are in trouble,” he said, “because it is about nothing less than our responsibility to ourselves and each other.”

Why was the life of “Sign” so brief? “Very simply put, it’s not a play about Black people,” said Joi Gresham, the director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust and an adviser on this production. “She was seen as going out of her lane.”

Only one character in “Sign” identifies as Black, which surprised white critics who had buttonholed Hansberry as a writer devoted to Black characters. They had expected another “A Raisin in the Sun,” and not a protest play about Village bohemians.

All these decades later, the play can be understood as a prescient work about apathy, action and mutual aid. David Binder, the outgoing artistic director of BAM and a longtime champion of Hansberry’s oeuvre, sees it as a work whose time has come. “It’s a play about folks trying to do well in the world, in an incredibly turbulent time,” he said during a recent interview. “They’re trying to do right, personally, politically, socially. There’s never been a better time than now to do this play.”

Isaac agreed. “I want it to feel very alive,” he said. This was on that recent Saturday afternoon. Isaac, curled, beside Brosnahan, into a corner of a prop sofa, with Kauffman just opposite. They had stayed after rehearsal to discuss commitment, change and the ways in which a nearly 60-year-old play can still surprise us. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Are you sign people? Are there signs that you hang in your own windows?

OSCAR ISAAC My mom’s house is in Vero Beach. Trump country. During the election I put a bunch of Biden stickers on the golf carts.

RACHEL BROSNAHAN My husband and I drove cross country in an RV in 2020. There was signage everywhere. Lawns filled with hundreds of Trump flags. I put a tiny Biden sticker in our window. It couldn’t be too big. We had to sleep there. If we did the play now it would be, “The Post on Sidney Brustein’s Instagram.” It’s all signs and not a lot of substance. You can hang a sign about anything. It’s maybe why I’ve always been a little bit allergic to signs.

ISAAC Makes you feel like a hypocrite.

BROSNAHAN But I go back and forth all the time. I sit on the board of a charitable organization, and I’ve learned how powerful it is to make a post on my Instagram. I guess the answer is you have to do both. You can say what you want, then you have to do it.

What made you want to do this play?

ISAAC It’s around the corner from where I live, a really easy sell. But I tried to get out of it. It’s nights. It’s a big commitment, energetically. I was like, ‘I’m going to read it just to make sure.’ I started reading the first pages. And I was like, ‘No, of course, I’m doing this.’ There’s something about the music of it. It’s undeniable. The draw is just too strong.

BROSNAHAN I had a similar experience. And it couldn’t be further from my house. I’ve spent the last 10 months shooting and really needed a break. But there is a magnetism to this play. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and dreaming about it.

ISAAC It’s like this lost Bach piece. People should hear this music.

Who is Sidney, and what does he believe in?

ISAAC I don’t know. I don’t know if he knows. He is a feeler and someone who’s trying to stop himself from feeling. He’s committed to a lot to things that haven’t panned out. So his hope has dried up. He has a very broad mind and a really keen aesthetic. He’s steeped in the culture of the moment and in the culture of the Village but it’s all starting to dissolve and change. There’s a wave coming — the civil rights movement, the psychedelic movement, Dylan plugging in. And at the heart is this relationship that’s also mutating and shifting. He can’t hold on to anything.

Who is Iris?

BROSNAHAN Iris is also a feeler. And a dreamer. But she doesn’t know how to achieve the dreams. She has a clear picture of what the dream is and no road map. She’s caught between two different waves of feminism. She’s caught between wanting to be cared for and wanting to take care of herself. When she entered into this relationship, she was really happy to be whatever he wanted her to be, to do whatever he wanted her to do, to go wherever he wanted. That was enough. But the world is changing, new conversations are happening. She is in a moment of tremendous change.

The play is nearly 60 years old. What has surprised you about it?

ISAAC The way she talks about identity, that feels eerily prophetic. What’s surprising to me is that this queer Black young woman, in the ’60s, wrote this play that has so much freedom. Every character has moments of extreme selfishness, ignorance and ugliness. Then, within a sentence, they say something that breaks your heart. You don’t see that kind of bravery these days.

BROSNAHAN She gives each and every character the grace to be exactly who they are. She’s extraordinary. And so much of her extraordinary self is in this play. She could hold so many prophetic ideas in her head at once. We are revisiting a huge conversation right now about white apathy and the consequences of that in our political system and world. She explores that with such nuance in this play.

Oscar, you mention identity. Sidney is Jewish as written and you were not raised Jewish. Does that make you feel any particular responsibility?

ISAAC We could play that game: How Jewish are you? It is part of my family, part of my life. I feel the responsibility to not feel like a phony. That’s the responsibility, to feel like I can say these things, do these things and feel like I’m doing it honestly and truthfully.

Has the play made you reflect about your own commitments, your own beliefs?

BROSNAHAN I’ve been very inspired by the play’s criticism of inaction. As someone who can be an absolutist, very all or nothing, it feels like a very hopeful and healthy reminder that you can do something, even something small, even something local. If that’s all you can do, that is enough. If we all do a little bit, we have the ability to make great change. Lorraine believed deeply in people’s ability to make change.

ANNE KAUFFMAN Doing this play and having people come watch it and making sure that it’s accessible, that’s my mission. People need to hear her voice and they need to see this play.

BROSNAHAN We need her in this moment.

KAUFFMAN In every moment. We haven’t even caught up to her. The way that she thinks.

What do you want the audience to experience?

ISAAC I want it to feel very alive. I want it to feel like a happening.

BROSNAHAN I want it to come off of the page. Hopefully people will consider where they do or don’t see themselves in this play and how that moves them.

KAUFFMAN I want people to be exposed to these words at this moment and to know Lorraine Hansberry in a different way. I want to have this be part of the canon. This is not a well-made play. You come expecting to see a Lorraine Hansberry play and this colors way outside the lines. My goal is to let it be wild, not try to tame it.

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#oscar isaac #rachel brosnahan #the sign in sidney brustein's window #anne kauffman #lorraine hansberry #bam #brooklyn academy of music #new york city #new york times

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sirensorisons · 1 year

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"He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America."

(THG chapter 1)

"In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia."

(THG chapter 3)

Where do you think location of Capitol and Panem's districts exactly?

The Appalachian’s span multiple states. Where do you picture District 12?

How long between this time and Panem rise? 200 hundred years? More?

Thank you so much

@curiousnonny

the capitol - i subscribe to it being in salt lake city, utah.

district 1 - i've always imagined it as being in southern california, just because that's where hollywood and beverly hills are. luxury district, land of celebrity... los angeles makes sense to me. i could also see it encompassing las vegas, to bring it closer to where the capitol is located.

district 2 - it's a mountainous area near the capitol, so i've always pictured it in denver, colorado.

district 3 - it only makes sense to me for it to be in san jose, california, the home of silicon valley.

district 4 - i picture it as being in northern california. in thg, katniss sees the lights of another district and wonders if it's 7 or 4, so they might be near each other. katniss also suggests in catching fire that part of the reason she has trouble understanding mags is because of her accent making words indistinct, which seems consistent with norcal. then in mockingjay, finnick tells a story about a sea turtle, so district 4 must be somewhere warm. cali checks out.

district 5 - i imagine it being a very urban district (explained more thoroughly in my foxface meta), so i think it might be somewhere that was already very urban in the beforetimes. possibly chicago?

district 6 - i could either see it being in detroit, michigan, where the automotive industry lived and died, or more centrally located at the intersection of various railways, like st louis, missouri.

district 7 - in as long as i'm burning (shameless self-promo), i've placed it in eugene, oregon.

district 8 - i imagine it being close to district 12, since bonnie and twill were able to make it there in catching fire. since they pass through there on their way north to district 13, i think it's somewhere in the midwest. maybe ohio.

district 9 - it's the grain district, and most of the usa's wheat comes from kansas, so it's probably right in there.

district 10 - as the livestock district, it's probably in texas and oklahoma.

district 11 - probably takes up a broad swath of the south so they can work the land, but i've always pictured the largest settlement as being in georgia.

district 12 - i always pictured it in west virginia, but the first movie was filmed in north carolina, and based on the accent suzanne collins used for lucy gray here (contains tbosas spoilers), i think it could go either way. west virginia works better imo because it's closer to where i think district 8 is.

district 13 - since the cover story for their industry was graphite, i could see it being in upstate new york. there used to be some graphite mines up there.

as for the time period... the original script for thg says that the series takes place 300 years from the present day, but personally i think it's more like 300 to 400 years. i could see the technological advances described in the series could probably happen on a timeline of only 100-200 years, and the natural disasters described in chapter 1 could happen even sooner than that.

but based on the changes in dialect and naming conventions between now and the time of panem, i think 300-400 years makes sense. that's analogous to the time between now and 1600 - so their english would be intelligible to us, but still markedly different. (of course, given that amount of time, accents could be very different to what we recognize, rendering my points about mags and lucy gray obsolete... but since the books are written in present-day english and not some projected future dialect, i think we can assume those accents are tied to what we would recognize.)

#welcome to the shitshow.txt #hunger games #thg meta #sorry about the weird linguistic tangents #long post

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The dual Hollywood strikes wiped out much of the scripted programming this fall on the linear networks. And yet, according to Variety‘s annual list of the year’s 100 most-watched primetime telecasts, we actually watched more entertainment fare this year. CBS’ “NCIS” led the pack in 2023 with 12 episodes making the list, followed by the Eye’s “Blue Bloods,” with five.

Among regular episodic entertainment fare, the ranker included 35 entries — and it was represented by a wider range of shows. Part of that is because Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone” only aired one episode in 2023, freeing up more space for others.

Besides “NCIS” and “Blue Bloods,” other regular series with multiple episodes on the ranker include CBS’ “FBI,” NBC’s “Chicago Fire” and CBS’ “Young Sheldon,” at four each. On the news front, CBS’ “60 Minutes” continues to be a dominant force (its NFL lead-in doesn’t hurt), landing seven slots this year.

MOST-WATCHED PRIMETIME TELECASTS OF 2023 (TOTAL VIEWERS)

#ratings #ncis #ncis la #ncis hawaii

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BREAKING: A source close to the production confirmed Taylor Kinney is taking a leave of absence from "Chicago Fire" to deal with a personal matter. Cast and crew were apparently informed of Kinney’s leave earlier Friday. It is likely that future scripts will have to be rewritten to accommodate his absence.

Deadline | January 20, 2023

#taylor kinney #kelly severide #chicago fire #news #s11

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Ramirez and Sara meet Lukas Williams part 1,2 3,4 and final

@jakkiisthatboy2

Part 1:

Lukas: *rapping* the fire is burning! It burns through your body and eyes! Watch me light up the flame as I start to get hot.

Lukas: too hot to make two girls walk right to us..

Kevin: hold up!

Kevin: two girls? Really?

Ryan: that’s not on the script.

Kevin: well who ever did it, they ruined our script!

Part 2:

Sara: I’m so sorry we had to bother you.

Ramirez: we think your rapping is good.

Chris: technically it was Lukas you have to thank.

Sara: I’m Sara, and this is my bestie Ramirez.

Lukas: you two met my dad, I’m Lukas Williams pickles cia junior.

Ramirez: what? He never told me he had a son.

Lukas: anyway, I’m the lead singer of the Chicago cigarettes! Kevin is the back up rapper, Kenny writes the lyrics, Ryan makes the beats and Chris is the rhythm of the lyrics.

Ramirez: wow.

Sara: wait a minute you rap?

Lukas; heck yah. I’ve been rapping my whole life since I met these guys.

Part 3:

Kevin: you remind me of someone…

Ramirez: who?

Kevin: wait! Are you a friend of Reena?

Ramirez: technically I’m her older sister.

All men: what! Yo!

Sara: older sister?

Kenny: you’re very lucky. Reena is a hero!

Roger: yeah. She’s the leader of the Chicago Cats cheerleading squad!

Sara: cheerleading?

Christopher: yeah. On her first day, she got bullied by the mean queen bee.

Ramirez: not Tiffany mordon again.

Kevin: mhm.

Kevin: yet. Thanks to her, she stood up to her once!

Lukas: even me.

Lukas: except the day my dad was our sub and I got embarrassed too. Poor Minnie and Reena.

Part 4:

Jessie: seriously. What are they talking about? And who are these two?

Kelsey: I don’t know. Probably our neighbors.

Snowy: what else would it be? Bears?

Jessie: ladies! we need to focus on the strategy of what’s going on.

Nagham: I agree. Let’s keep listening.

Final:

Kenny: have you heard about the noise from your neighbor?

Sara: who?

Roger: Mr tad stones.

Sara: tad? Of course I know him. He’s my boyfriend.

All men even Jessie and Kelsey: what yo!

Flora: I can sense romance!

Minnie: ew.

Chai: don’t even get me started

Kevin: maybe you should talk to him.

Sara: we have. But not in a good way.

Ramirez: he got into a bet of the mean queen bees.

All the men even the ladies except Sara and Ramirez: what! Yo!

Sara: don’t worry. He’s fine. He cried a lot and we managed to cheer him up.

Kenny: you do know upset stomachs can lead you to moody attitudes.

#tad the lost explorer #tadeo jones #tad the lost explorer 4 #tadeo jones 4

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1, 20, 53 - any or all three for the ask game, whatever you feel like answering!

1. favorite place to write

tbh i mostly write in bed, for some reason i was ON FIRE when i was living in LA, but part of that may have been a) i was still in classes, so i had no choice but to write (i wrote a stranger things season five spec script, which, imo is basically fanfiction for my last tv writing class) and b) when i wasn’t working on the aforementioned spec script, i was writing ted lasso fic and the show was still actively airing. but yeah, all this to say, i usually write in bed, on my phone, in google docs.

20. post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on

“Babes,” Keeley says, sinking down onto the edge of the bed beside him, “it’s my job to know you lot better than you know yourselves. I mean, the amount of PR nightmares I’m prepared to tackle would keep you both awake at night.”

“...We’re a PR nightmare?” Jamie says quietly, almost crushed, and Keeley’s quick to squeeze his hand.

“No,” she backtracks, “Roy killin’ you is a PR nightmare.”

Roy hums then, intrigued, “You’ve thought about me killing him?”

“You’ve only threatened to do it a million times.” Keeley reasons.

from chapter five of there’s a magic there (in chicago)

53. what does writing mean to you?

oh god, this feels like such a loaded question. i don’t even know what writing means to me really, i just know that i can’t imagine not writing for the rest of my life? i graduated with a degree in tv writing, and i hope to do that one day once ive finished paying off school! i have some original ideas, but i got my start writing in fanfiction, right? that’s where my passions lie. i’d love to work on an adaptation, or jump into a show that’s already a couple seasons in. that’s what excites me about things like the new percy jackson show, or the potential for a ted lasso spin off.

ask me about my writing!

#ask game #about me #jamietarttdodododododo #ted lasso #ted lasso WIP

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JUSTICE LEAGUE: WARWORLD Available July 25th, 2023

DC’s Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman find themselves in mysterious lands and precarious circumstances with no memory of how they arrived there and only vague recollections of their true selves in Justice League: Warworld, available to purchase Digitally and on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Blu-ray on July 25, 2023. The all-new, feature-length film brings together DC’s “Trinity” for the first time during the Butch Lukic-helmed DC Universe Movies arc.

Reprising their roles as DC’s key trio of Super Heroes are Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, The Boys, The Winchesters) as Batman and Officer Wayne, Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Glee) as Superman and Agent Kent, and Stana Katic (Castle, Absentia) as Wonder Woman and Diana Prince.

Also featured in the voice cast are Ike Amadi (Mortal Kombat: Onslaught) as Martian Manhunter/J’onn J’onzz, Troy Baker (The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite) as Jonah Hex, Matt Bomer (Doom Patrol, American Horror Story) as Old Man, Roger R. Cross (Coroner, Dark Matter, 24) as Machiste, Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Chicago Fire) as Bat Lash, John DiMaggio (Futurama, The Super Mario Bros. Movie) as Lobo, Robin Atkin Downes (Batman: The Long Halloween, The Strain) as Mongul, Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Billions) as Agent Faraday, Rachel Kimsey (Justice League Action, The Young and the Restless) as Mariah Romanova, Damian O’Hare (Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2) as Deimos, and Teddy Sears (The Flash, Chicago Fire) as Warlord. Additional voices include Trevor Devall (F is for Family, Guardians of the Galaxy), David Lodge (Naruto: Shippuden) and Kari Wahlgren (Rick and Morty, DC Super Hero Girls).

Jeff Wamester (Legion of Super-Heroes) directs Justice League: Warworld from a script by a trio of screenwriters – Jeremy Adams (Supernatural), Ernie Altbacker (Justice League Dark: Apocalypse War) and Josie Campbell (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power). Producers are Jim Krieg (The Death and Return of Superman) and Kimberly S. Moreau (Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham). Executive Producer is Michael Uslan. Butch Lukic (Batman: The Long Halloween) and Sam Register is Executive Producer.

Justice League: Warworld will be available on July 25 to purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu and more. 4K Ultra HD and Blu-Ray Discs will be available to purchase online and in-store at major retailers. Pre-order your copy now.

SYNOPSIS: Until now, DC’s Justice League has been a loose association of super-powered individuals. But when they are swept away to Warworld, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.

SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE: Illusions on Warworld (New Featurette) – Go behind the scenes and inside the process of designing and creating three distinct genres for the Justice League to inhabit on Warworld.

The Heroic, the Horrible and the Hideous (New Featurette) – Dive deep into the origins and histories of the key players on Warworld and learn how the filmmakers brought them to life.

#digital news #4k ultra news #blu-ray news #justice league #dc universe #Warner Bros. Animation #justice league: warworld #batman #WONDER WOMAN #SUPERMAN #DIGITALLY #JLWarworld

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TAG GAME: EIGHT SHOWS TO GET TO KNOW ME

Thanks for the tag Merel! @twvstedsouls 🥰

Peaky Blinders - I found this through Tom Hardy (because he was amazing in The Revenant) but I instantly fell in love with every aspect of the show.

One Chicago - technically this is 3 shows, but I’ve lumped them together for the sake of the game … these shows (specifically Fire and PD) are what got me into watching scripted television shows and I love them deeply.

Yellowstone - this show fuels my desire to be out west…my heart yearns for Big Sky country, so seeing these landscapes as they’re beautifully shot on here makes me so happy. It’s another show that’s so well done in every sense of the word - from the characters, to the storylines, to the cinematography.

Ghosts (US) - I love this show because it’s light-hearted and makes me laugh … and the history references that are sprinkled in absolutely make my day.

Mom - another show that I’ll put on whenever I need a laugh — it’s one of those shows that you can watch the episodes over and over again and still laugh each time.

Fire Country - I’m loving how this show’s developing…it was slow at first but I’m happy I stuck with it because the characters and plotlines are interesting.

Damnation - I’m only halfway through this show’s only season (because it was cancelled :( ) but I love the twists in the plot and how it was shot … also I love a good period drama (but I’m sure you’ve noticed that by now)

The Sopranos - I feel like I had to include this one on here…it was easy to see why most say that this was the show that changed television to what it is today…it’s storylines were so, so intriguing and their characters (while rather messy) were so well done.

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Tagging (no pressure - create your own post instead of reblogging this one…don’t want the chain to get super long): @acewritesfics @forgottenpeakywriter @cillmequick @peakyltd @notyour-valentine @raincoffeeandfandoms @thesoldiersminute

#tagged in #tag game

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