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thewriterinthebatcave · 4 years

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So, I read The Phantom Of Manthattan

In its entirety. @baepsyche had tried to dissuade me, she did her best, but I wanted to wade through the sewage that book is by myself and form my own opinion on it. I mean, I had a very clear image of how bad it would be when I heard @lindsayetumbls give the rundown in the Musicalsplaining episode of Love Never Dies, but I had no idea how bad it could actually be!

TL:DR The book is a mess that makes no sense as a sequel to whatever, nor it makes sense on its own because of how it’s structured and written. It sucks, it’s poorly written and isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Love Never Dies is a fucking masterpiece worth of all the awards for musical theater out there in comparison.

I mean... I’ve read bad books in my life. Once upon another time I handled a blog dedicated to poor literature - both printed and online - I’ve read my big fat share of bad literature, I binged on the Fifty Shades trilogy but Sweet Jesus Christ POM makes 50 Shades look like high art!

Let’s start from the beginning, shall we?

1. Too many POV characters. There’s like... the Phantom, three different journalists two of which are there for one chapter alone and never return, there’s the priest, and a couple more I forgot. But... WHY? Why so many different POV characters in a book so short I literally finished it in a couple half hour long sessions? WHY? It makes no sense from a narration standpoint, it’s crowded and confusing and voyeuristic! Also, never including Christine’s POV you diminish her character to a paper thin token. Also, where’s Raoul?

2. Speaking of which, Raoul. Poor guy, the book shits on him from chapter 1 (the only barely readable chapter of the book), and by doing so right in the beginning the “big reveal” of Pierre/Gustave true parentage feels more of a “captain obvious” joke rather than a “I would have never guessed!”. Not that it is such a grand plot twist in Love Never Dies I mean, but Jesus, not like this!

3. Yeah, speaking of that. People shit on Love Never Dies for “Beneath A Moonless Sky” and the sex scene that never was, but this is way worse! At least the song gives you a context, a moment you can at least imagine what the hell happened and maybe even why, but here? Nothing! They don’t even TALK about that, let alone explain to the reader that those two had sex! What the fuck! Pierre just happened to be born and Raoul never even questioned his parentage! Or maybe he does, he just doesn’t care since he fullfills the nobility’s expectations of a male heir, who knows. HE DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING RELEVANT IN THE WHOLE BOOK! No wonder in LND they turned him in the abusive alcoholic, they had no material to build on in this... thing.

4. The Phantom and the backstory. I appreciate the fact that they tried to give him a past, and I really liked the fact that Forsythe took his time to even give at least a fraction of time/place context to the original book that hasn’t one by figuring out Leroux had a post-electricity Palais Garnier in mind, but the backstory for the Phantom... I’ve read more interesting fanfics. I haven’t read Kay’s Phantom, I have it but I haven’t started it yet so I can’t make comparisons, but seriously, I’ve really read fanfics retellings of Erik’s past more imaginative and fleshed out that this book.

Which leads me to...

5. Satanism? Really? Satanism? Of all the shock cards Forsythe could have dropped on the table, Satanism? Listen guys, I’m a metalhead, I listen to stuff that people have called “the music of the devil” (classic rock, blues and jazz included) for the past fifty years on daily basis, one of my favourite songs of all time is Emperor’s “Inno A Satana” which literally means “Hymn to Satan” in Italian. My parents were scared to death when I started dabbling in heavy metal because of the whole “satanism” thing, I know my shit about satanism (I actually have done my research), and let me tell you that shit is old. Like, dusty and moldy old, not just not fashionable, it’s such an old story no one finds it so shocking anymore. So... WHY? It makes no sense, drives no point in the story, it’s a damn McGuffin that isn’t even relevant anymore! It wasn’t at the time the book was published (the whole trial to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne had happened like... 10 years prior the book was written so... meh) and I really hope it will never be again because... seriously... nope, it’s stupid and pointless, why on Earth it was used as a plot device I have no fuckin’ idea.

6. Darius. Dude has no backstory, no descriptor except his greed and “devotion” to money and wealth. Oh and he smokes hashish. That’s it. We’ve got no other data on him. Jesus Christ, for the antagonist of the story he surely is kind of... bland? I mean, he’s non existent! Such a cop out, like really... WHY! At least Meg falling for the Phantom and getting all jealous crazy makes a teeny tiny bit of sense, but this guy? Bland, children’s book cutout satanism aside, which is a terrible choice of moving force for reasons above, the dude himself is so terribly fleshed out (ID, he isn’t) that his motivations are unclear at best and laughable at worst. You are the Phantom’s face in the world, he has so much money that if you start putting a side a grand here and a grand there he wouldn’t notice, you have power to make deals in his behalf, why don’t you just get the money and go? Have you learned nothing by working with the Phantom? Can’t you make your own money and become filthy rich yourself so you can honor your damn god on your fucking own? Don’t you think your god would appreciate more you making your own wealth instead of pigging on the Phantom’s back and take only morsels of his own wealth? Fuck this book is a mess.

7. Christine. I mean, she’s rarely there, for the time she is she’s either a hysterical mess or a an angel on stage, and she is supposed to be the reason everything happens. In reality, it looks like everything happens in spite of her. She has no power on her own, she’s like a piece of wood floating in the sea during a storm.

8... No, I’m not going further with this. I could shit on this book for the whole day, but I have other things to do, better things to do.

I’m going to wash my eyes with bleach now.

#phantom of the opera #phantom of manhattan #poto #love never dies #musical #musical theater #lnd

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hd-learns-korean · 4 years

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The Fiery Priest...my new drama obsession!

Warning! This post contains serious spoilers cos I’m going to geek out over this show like nobody’s business!

Hi all! I hope you all had a good week and are on track for having an awesome weekend! Sooo if you have guessed by now I love a good K-drama and boy have I found a new one to be singing praises about *pun intended* today.

I found this accidentally when I was scrolling through Netflix and thought the premise looked fun and interesting. I am so glad I gave it a go and ended up box watching all 20 full length episodes in less than a week! IT IS SO GOOOOD!

So the premise of the show is this;

Kim Hae-il is a kick ass Catholic Priest looking for vengeance! After someone close to him is murdered by a corrupt police force that has hands in the criminal underworld, Kim Hae-il and his team (which comprises of a priest with a background in acting, a nun that used to hustle money via gambling, a hip-hop obsessed rookie cop, a scaredy cat senior detective, and an equally fiery Prosecutor) are on a mission to bring the bad guys to justice.

This show is action packed, witty, and downright hilarious. I sooooo recommend this program and I really do hope they come back with a second series!

The literal translation of this show is Hot blooded priest 열혈 hot blood 사제 Catholic Priest.

Now watch as I fangirl over all the things I loved about this show!

Kim Hae-ils’s fiery temper and kick ass attitude. This guy takes no nonsense from anybody. He doesn’t like what somebody has to say to him, no problem they end up with a broken nose and probably a missing tooth! His one liners are amazing. The best one that got me was when he was told to use a plastic ruler instead of a metal one to beat a suspect up with, and his response was along the lines of ‘oh I don’t like plastic rulers, they don’t whip as much as metal ones!’ I mean... I think I may shit my pants every time I see a priest now...like are they all trained in military combat? Is that the deal now to become a priest you have to know how to knock somebody out cold with a bottle of holy water and rosary beads?

The friendship between the group and how it slowly grows until they become a family. They argue, they make fun of each other, however they have each others backs and if one of them is under attack they all come out ready for a fight! Word of warning don’t. Mess. With. Ssongsak!

I laughed so much at the scene when the mobsters are given laxative plant extract! Omg when they pooped their pants I couldn’t stop laughing as little flowers flew out of their arses!

I really enjoyed watching how the criminal underworld all had links within the police and prosecution services. It was shady as hell man, I mean all of them were in on it weren’t they! For all that money too… I was watching it thinking daaaaamn how high up the chain does this go to! From Russian mobsters, to cult leaders to the chief of police and then the secret service. It’s intense man….intense!

The friendship between Ssongsak and Oh Yo-Han. Their friendship is just too cute man! And what is going on with Oh Yo-Hans trippy audio skills. Give him a mocha bread and he’s like a human telephone mast!

Seo Seung-A’s rapping skills! I nearly popped a rib laughing when she turned up for her first day on the violent crimes squad and busted out rapping! I mean the girl can spit a bar or two...but it’s probably best left to karaoke and not a team meeting! All her colleges were like who the hell is this? Her clothing though is on point!...I want those jackets that she wears!

Kim In-Kyung’s fire gambling skills.

I love the way Kim Hae-il and detective Koo Dae-Young talk to each other. I mean if threatening each other wasn’t enough their fights are legendary. I mean I didn’t know a beef rib could be used as a weapon but now I do! Plus the dog masks guys...the dog masks alone! If you’ve seen that part you’ll know what I mean! Their BFFness is adorable and cute and I. Can. Not. Get. Enough. of. it!

I feel so sorry for detective Koo Dae-Young. I mean how many times does he have to get hit on the head? I really liked how the show used this to include a slapstick sort of vibe. He hallucinates the strangest things though…

Omg I nearly died when Kim Hae-il and Nam Suk-Goo go head to head and it took two teams of cops to drag them away from each other….their legs though...omg so funny when they still carried on trying to kick each other even when they were both lifted into the air by like 6 cops each!

Jang-Ryong’s character in general. He’s the worst bad guy ever. He can’t fight properly, his suits look like something from the 1980’s and that bob! I mean every time he went to fight he had to move it away from his face. It looked more like he was trying to film a L’oreal advert than beat the crap out of somebody. He deserved to poop his pants after the way he treated Ssongsak! However I did like how he and Ssongsak became friends in the end. He learnt his lesson….don’t tease a trained fighter!

The OST for this is pretty alright. The music style definitely fits in with the theme of the show! More songs to be added to my Spotify playlist!

And finally I have to say the acting in this is SPOT ON! One of my most favourite K dramas so far! I give 5 outa 5 stars to this heavenly drama!

Have you guys watched this show yet? I’d be so interested to hear your thoughts on this! Like I am the only one to fangirl over this show!

Overall I highly highly recommend this drama. It’s got something for everybody and if you find crime drama’s boring give this one a go, the comedy in it alone makes it a five out of five for me!

Right then lovelies I’m off to go find another drama to watch....

Until next time

Bye x

#kdrama #fiery priest #the fiery priest #korean drama #hot blooded priest #k-drama

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setsailslash · 4 years

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congrats on +200 followers, you totally deserve it! I was thinking maybe brujay with always a civilian priest!father todd and bruce who is either a) batman whose obsessed with protecting him even though jason makes it clear he doesn’t need help or b) never batman / well meaning socialite

this is father todd+brand new batman bruce 💖 also written for @brujayweek day 5 prompt: recovery. (also on ao3 here)

Father Todd has nearly forgotten how the smell of fresh blood clings. The stink of it is sour and pungent and sharp like a knife.

“I’m not a doctor.” He tells the man lying bleeding in the alley behind his church. And that’s just the thing, a kicker really. He’s not just a man, he’s a Bat in a cowl and a cape. The Bat that’s been swarming the worst parts of town, stringing up petty criminals and leaving them for the cops to pick up.

Father Todd isn’t a man to take sides, he can’t be. If he was younger and sweeter and hasn’t seen the things he’s seen or been through the kinds of things that ended up with him in a cassock and a clerical collar, he might even think Batman might be doing the city a favour.

But he isn’t fucking naive.

“You’re good enough, Father.“

The voice is a funny one, rough like the grate of gravel and distorted with static until it’s nearly unrecognizable as anything remotely human.

“Hardly,” Jason scoffs as he steadies the man on his feet, blood smearing like a fresh coat of paint across his hands as he holds him up, “but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.”

It’s so warm the way the bat-man’s blood drips from between his fingers.

Father Todd brings him inside of his church.

Sets the man down on the narrow bed after he lays down tarp. Stitches him and his three stab wounds up. Douses each one with antiseptic wash, and wraps it all up in clean gauze. A little tape that doesn’t quite stick and Jason winds the Bat up in saran wrap to keep everything in place. It’s a little do-it-yourself but there’s not much to be done about that.

“You’ve got every right to give me up.”

The man is solemn as Jason applies the last butterfly bandage to the long shallow cut made with a serrated blade across his torso. His voice is normal, edged in pain. And Jason almost wants the bat back if just so he didn’t have to deal with something so human.

He crosses the room to put away what is left of the first aid kit, telling the man shrouded in drama and a precarious placement of all the shadows in the room.

“You could just thank me, y'know.”

Father Todd thinks on what he said outside in the alleyway with him taking the majority of the bat’s weight, and has to let out a singular sound in amusement.

“I was wrong, you’ve really never had to beg once in your life. You’re a billionaire who chooses to dress up as a fuckin’ bat.”

Bruce Wayne’s eyes are blue, and he watches Jason come back to the end of the narrow bed. Here, where he keeps perfectly still on top of Jason’s thin mattress, looking nothing like Gotham’s golden boy when his hair is soaked in sweat, messy after a night stuffed inside a cowl, and his mouth is drawn tight into a thin flat line.

Jason stands back. “There’s nothing in it for me to go against either one of your… you.”

There is a pause while the man pulls himself to sit up, his breathing laboured even over the obnoxious noise of the tarp moving as he does. Jason doesn’t shift to help, figures if the man insists on leaving even though those stitches might tear then that’s none of his business.

It’s how he’s maintained his corner of peace here for so long, Jason keeps his head down.

“Thank you, Father.” Bruce Wayne’s eyes are really fucking blue.

Jason nods once in acknowledgement.

That was supposed to be the end of that.

But of course, it isn’t.

Father Todd remembers peace, like a distinct memory just out of reach. It is quiet and subdued and lovely. It isn’t whatever this is.

“You really need to get off my roof.”

Batman is a shadow that takes shape and form as he drops down behind him without a sound. Jason bites back a sigh that wants to escape from between his teeth.

“Bruce.”

“It’s Batman.”

“Bruce.”

“There were men that wanted to rob you.” Bruce tells him, a hard righteous edge to his Bat voice when the three men that tailed Jason all the way from the store have been everything but subtle. Jason is a priest, not an idiot. He’s dealt with men like them for far longer than Bruce Wayne has ever tried to stop crime by beating it into submission.

And he tells him exactly that: “Let them.”

Bruce turns his head to him in that way Jason has learned to mean the man is looking at him like he’s being ridiculous. And Jason almost gives him the exact same expression in response if he isn’t busy trying to find his keys.

“A little help?” Jason asks, and Bruce in his full Batman gear takes the grocery bags from him so he can unlock the backdoor to the church without dropping everything.

Father Todd saves a dying man. Watch if he’ll ever make that mistake again.

When he turns back at the silence that follows the drop of his keys in the little bowl by the door, he finds the man in the shape of a bat standing still in the threshold of his doorway. It’s a headache that builds from his temples to radiate down until he finds himself grinding down on his molars.

“You’re not a vampire. You can come in without an invitation.”

Jason cannot see Bruce’s eyes when he’s got the cowl up. And maybe, that’s for the best.

“I don’t want to intrude.” Batman tells him, and it’s that same gravel rough tone, scratching at the space that passes between them as he steps through the threshold while Jason crosses him to close the door behind them.

“A lil’ late for that, don’t you think?”

Bruce sets down the bags of groceries on to the kitchen table that sits on an uneven surface of the floor, wobbling a little as the weight settles. He pushes his cowl off over his head, grunts in question to what Jason means.

“Y'know, with you standing on my roof all night?”

Jason almost doesn’t notice the way Bruce’s shoulders tense up in answer.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Or so the saying goes.

Actions, Father Todd thinks, have consequences.

When he finds a man bleeding out behind the alley of his church, he brings him in, he stitches him up, and he doesn’t let him die.

Maybe he should have.

Because when he lets Bruce pin him against the wall, his first reaction isn’t to drive the short blade kept inside of his boot into the spot between two connecting plates of Batman’s armour. Well, he’s already lost his way. Instead, his reaction is a small, soft sigh that parts his lips to the hard press of Bruce’s tongue.

Jason has quite a few of his favourite literary prose coming to mind in description of just how Bruce is kissing him.

“You’re okay with this?” Bruce asks him when he finally draws back.

The two of them panting for breath, pink in the face, red in the mouth, and blinking a glassy sheen from the bright blue of their eyes.

Bruce’s gentleness starts and ends at the kind of behaviours that really should raise far more red flags than they do. Because they are that of a stalker (a protector). A bit of maniacal obsession when he is imprinting on the first person to show him any kindness (human decency really, it was a great deal of blood after all).

Bruce Wayne is not a stray (even if he acts like one), and Jason Todd is not a collector of strays.

“Probably not but I already kissed you back.” Jason lives a life in devotion. “There’s no such thing as taking back a sin.”

“Confessional?” Bruce asks as he goes down on his knees, pushing the hem of Jason’s cassock up to his hips.

Jason inhales sharply at the cool air that hits him when Bruce pulls him free, cock already hard with barely a kiss. He tells him, like any of it still matters when he’s already strayed this far from the path. “No one else here to forgive me for mine.”

“I do.” Bruce tells him, looking up at him with those eyes. And he is painfully earnest in his conviction, his belief in the good that is Jason Peter Todd.

Jason breathes out, and he is shaky with it when Bruce’s hands touch the bare skin of his hips, thumbs digging in against his pelvis to keep him pinned to the wall: “You don’t count.”

He doesn’t know the half of it.

Especially not when Bruce wraps the heat of his mouth around the head of Jason’s cock, sinking down and down and down until he hits the back of his throat, and Jason can feel him swallow.

God works in mysterious ways.

A tip of his head back, a shout, and Jason is seeing white.

#brujay #brujayweek #brujayweek2020 #bruce wayne #jason todd #dc #kuro's 200 subs promptathon #kuro writes #father todd reprimanding new batman bruce is a kink i didn't think i would be so into #😳😳😳

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eemolu · 4 years

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rules: pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions. don’t cheat. tag some people.

shoutout @datingdonovan anyways here we GO

west wing

parks & rec

sex education

fleabag

stranger things

who is your favourite character in 2?

uhhh shoot don’t make me do this. probably andy bc chris pratt is a comedic genius in this show. parks & rec is the only relevant chris pratt era and that’s that on that

who is your least favourite character in 1?

oof that’s mean of you to ask but maybe toby bc of grumpy:( but then he has babies and that’s cute of him. feel like i can’t choose any of the republicans because that’s a cop out but of the core staff yeah i think toby is my least fave. he’s still baby tho.

what is your favourite episode of 4?

um obviously the second to last episode of season two the HEIGHT of hot priest energy

what is your favourite season of 5?

season two. im not accepting comments at this time.

who is your favourite couple in 3?

ah that’s hard. lily/ola? otis’ mum and her side piece? one of the two although since i can only remember the names of one couple they’re probably the favorite lol

who is your favourite couple in 2?

leslie and ben. still not accepting comments.

what is your favourite episode of 1?

the one where josh gets therapy because i love therapy. or the one where josh gets shot and there are flashbacks because i love flashbacks. or do i just love josh?

wait no it’s “ellie” because it makes me cry and above all else i love to cry

what is your favourite episode of 5?

season 2 finale. and how many times to i have to say that im NOT ACCEPTING COMMENTS AT THIS TIME.

what is your favourite season of 2?

ok controversial opinion but season 7 because any show that understands its last season is its last can play into nostalgia and good vibes and i think parks&rec did that so well and i love nostalgia even more than i love to cry

how long have you watched 1?

junior year of hs so like 4/5 years

how did you become interested in 3?

i was bullied into it

who is your favourite actor in 4?

obviously our lord and savior phoebe waller bridge. you don’t make a shrine to someone on one of the walls of your dorm room using pages vogue magazine and carry around a wallet sized picture of someone unless they’re your favorite actor

which do you prefer, 1, 2, or 5?

ahhhh parks&rec for comfort west wing for smartboi vibes (and comfort? i guess) but probably p&r above all else

which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3?

1 definitely

if you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?

I WOULD BE THE SEXY PRIEST because i long to be sexy but also to believe in something so much that being sexy isn’t the most important thing in my life, you know?

would a crossover between 3 and 4 work?

god no

pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple?

dude imagine if sam hooked up with josh. can somebody say POWER COUPLE ?????????

overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5?

stranger things

which has better theme music, 2 or 4?

parks&rec no contest. catch your dream? duke silver? 5000 candles in the wind!?!?!? (also fleabag never pretended to be that kind of show lol)

i tag anyone who wants to do this bc im too lazy to type usernames ok bye

#tv #self indulgent #tag #west wing #fleabag #!!!!!!#my mom pwb

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yootaesowlwrites · 4 years

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The One Thing Chapter 26:

Chapter 26- The One Thing series.

This series has a taglist, if you want to be added, send me an ask.

More fanfiction.

AJ walks out of the house passing everyone and going straight towards Carlisle, who was talking to the Denali coven.

"Hello," AJ says as she reaches them.

"And here she is, my lovely wife," Carlisle says, he wraps his arm around her and kisses the top of her head, they had decided not to hide their affection for each other anymore.

"Long time no see, AJ," Kate says, AJ look sat Kate.

"It wasn't that long ago, only a year ago," AJ says. "Well, almost a year ago." Tanya smiles at them.

"How was the honeymoon?" Tanya asks.

"Lovely and passionate," AJ says.

"You two seem even more in love if that is even possible," Carmen says.

"The longer we're together, the more we fall in love with," AJ says. "I'm going to greet some of our other guests."

"Save me a dance," Eleazar says.

"I don't dance, Eleazar," AJ says, but a smile tugged at her lips.

"You danced perfectly fine at your wedding," Eleazar says.

"Did you not see me stand on his feet?" AJ asks. "Besides, Carmen is your dancing partner for the night, isn't that right?"

"That is correct," Carmen says, AJ walks away from them and towards another coven and greeted them, a few minutes passed when Alice walks up to her.

"It's time, it's time," Alice says, AJ nods her head and makes her way towards her seat and sits down next to Carlisle, everyone moves towards their seats as the music begins playing, they turn around and watch as Bella and Charlie exit the house and walk down the aisle towards Edward, they arrive at the altar everyone takes their seats as Bella is handed off to Edward.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are all gathered here today on to witness the union of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan." The Priests says, the ceremony continues with the two of them saying their vow to each other.

"I do," Edward says.

"Bella Swan, do you take Edward as your husband?" The Priest asks.

"I do," Bella says.

"Then you may kiss your bride." The Priest says, Edward kisses her as everyone stood up and clapped their hands, John and Esme shared a kiss as well while Carlisle kissed AJ's cheek, Emmett lets out a wolf-whistle showing his happiness, Bella and Edward walk down the aisle with everyone following behind them to the backyard which didn't look like a backyard at the moment.

"Hi, guys," Alice says as she and Jasper walk up to Bella's human friends who were staring at the cake, and debating if Bella was pregnant or not, AJ and Carlisle walk past them going towards their table.

"I see Irina's here." AJ softly says. "And she does not look happy." Carlisle looks towards Irna just as she leaves.

"She must've seen Seth," Carlisle says.

"Mh, yes, probably," AJ says, they take a seat at their table along with their family as Emmett makes his way on to the stage, he taps the microphone gaining everyone's attention.

"Excuse me, excuse me, is this on?" Emmett asks. "Hello?" Someone from the crowd whistles letting Emmett know they could hear him. "Okay, um, I'd like to propose a toast, to my new sister." Emmett raises his glass, everyone picks up their glasses. "Bella, I hope you've gotten enough sleep over these eighteen years because you won't be getting anymore for a while." Emmett chuckles awkwardly as no one else laughed, Charlie takes a sip from his champagne as Emmett leaves the stage and Jessica walks onto it.

"Um, hi everyone, seeing as we're doing speeches now, I prepared a speech, well, Bella, was just like everybody else, totally mesmerized by Edward, or the hair as I call him," Jessica says, everyone chuckles at her joke. "And then suddenly Edward is all about Bella, even though she's not captain of the volleyball team, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, Or the president of the student council."

"She's Jealous, right Jasper?" AJ whispers, she didn't have to ask Jasper to know but she wanted to know if she was right.

"Yes," Jasper whispers, AJ nods her head as Jessica leave the stage, Charlie took a sip of his champagne and stood from his chair, he makes his way to the stage.

"Edward will be a good husband, I know this." Charlie slurs out. "Because I'm a cop, I know things." Everyone could tell Charlie was tipsy. "Like, how to hunt someone down to the ends of the earth, and I know how to use a gun." Everyone chuckles as Charlie climbs off the stage, he takes another glass of champagne.

"My turn," Alice says as she stood, she walks up onto the stage smiling at everyone. "Bella, now that you're my sister, you'll have to get over your average fashion." Alice begins. "Skirts, heels, handbags."

"Oh gosh," Bella mumbles as Alice lists off more things, she leaves the stage and Renée decides that it was her turn.

"I uh used to sing you a lullaby every night, it went like this," Renée says, she sings her song before getting off the stage, Esme stood from her chair and makes her way onto the stage.

"I will keep it short," Esme says smiling at everyone. "I'd like to thank Renée and Charlie for bringing such a wonderful person into this world and into our lives, we will cherish and protect her forever." Esme climbs off the stage as Edward stood from his chair.

"It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to, and who'll accept you for who you are," Edward says. "I've been waiting, what seems like a very long time to get beyond what I am and with Bella, I feel like I can finally begin, so I'd like to propose a toast, to my beautiful wife." Edward lifts his glass. "No measure of time with you will be long enough, but let's start with forever." Everyone raises their glass along with Edward and takes a sip, the vampires pretend to take a sip as Edward climbs off the stage.

Soon everyone that wanted to give a speech had given one and it was time for the couple to open the dance floor, as they started to slow dance more and more couples joined them on the dance floor, dancing with their partners, as the slow song came to an end an upbeat song began playing, Eleazar and Carmen got up and started showing off.

"We can do better, Right, Alice?" Jasper asks, Alice smiles at him and takes his hand.

"Then show us, the dance floor is yours," Eleazar says, Jasper and Alice move onto the dance floor and began showing off their moves, Seth walks up next to AJ as she and Carlisle watched.

"Whoa, that's so cool," Seth says.

"They're just showing off," AJ says, Seth chuckles. "Do you want to dance, Seth?" Seth looks at AJ as she held her hand out for him.

"Really?" Seth asks.

"Yes, this is a wedding," AJ says, Seth nods his head and AJ looks up at Carlisle. "I'll be right back, Mi Amor."

"Have fun," Carlisle says, AJ nods her head and leads Seth onto the dance floor.

"Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't know how to dance," Seth says.

"Me neither," AJ says. "So let's wing it." She and Seth try to copy the moves Eleazar and Carmen's dance move but failed miserably. "Oh my gosh."

"We're so bad," Seth says, they laugh as they stop dancing. "Okay, I'm going to stop now." Eleazar walks up to them with a smile on his lips.

"May I cut in?" Eleazar asks, Seth nods his head and walks back to Billy, a slow song begins playing and Eleazar takes AJ's hand and the two of them begin slow dancing. "How's my favourite family member doing?"

"Did you not ask Carlisle before you came to dance?" AJ asks, Eleazar chuckles and nods his head. "I'm good, Eleazar."

"You seem happy," Eleazar says. "You seemed happy when we first met."

"I'm always happy when I'm with Carlisle," AJ says. "And you have only met me twice."

"I consider you to be my sister," Eleazar says.

"Don't joke, we might just be related in some way," AJ says, Eleazar looks past AJ and saw Carlisle.

"I'll talk to you soon, AJ," Eleazar says, he spins her and releases her hand, she spins into someone else's arms.

"May I have this dance?" Carlisle asks, AJ looks up at him and smiles.

"Yes, you may," AJ says, Carlisle smiles and pulls her closer to him.

"So, what did Eleazar want?" Carlisle asks.

"Are you jealous?" AJ asks, Carlisle chuckles. "He just asked how I was and told me that I was like a sister to him." Carlisle nods his head. "Why did you ask? Did you not hear?"

"The music is a tad loud," Carlisle says, AJ begins smiling before chuckling.

"So you were jealous." AJ states.

"I wasn't," Carlisle says.

"I can always ask Jasper," AJ says, Carlisle smiles and kisses the top of her head, he moves lower and kisses her cheek.

"Perhaps I was a little jealous," Carlisle admits, they look into each other's eyes.

"I knew it," AJ says. "I love you, Carlisle, only you, so do not concern yourself, Because I chose you, you will always be my first and only choice."

"I love you," Carlisle says. "And when the guest leave, I think we should spend some quality time together."

"That sounds perfect."

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5 male characters I love

So I got tagged by @antirococoreaction to name 5 male characters I love, and as always I asked myself the immortal question : do I pick characters I love as characters, as in, characters I love for how interesting they are, or do I pick characters I love as people ? And for once, I decided to go with the narrowest of the two, the second one, for two reasons.

First, because there’s this latent belief in media that bad is more interesting than good, leading to the pernicious trope that characters who are “good people” are boring. That’s patently false : just as it’s difficult to be a good person, and I think we should highlight characters who demonstrate that.

Second, because there’s this tendency, in tumblr culture, from which I am not at all exempt, to avoid giving focus to masculinity in a positive manner, because mainstream media would do that already. But you could argue that mainstream media is much more focused on toxic masculinity and masculinity as a “default” than on exploring masculinity in its richness and uniqueness. So I want to do that too : to highlight characters whose masculinity is a inherent and essential part of who they are and why I love them. Let’s roll.

Dionysus/Umar from The Wicked+The Divine (Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie)

He is such a good person. That’s what you think the first time you meet him, and that’s what you’ll continue to think, even as the comic goes on and adds nuance upon nuance on every character. The god of wine and parties reincarnated as a young man with rave/hivemind and ecstasy-like powers. And also a kind friend, a sensitive listener, someone who is keenly aware of the limits of what you can do for other people yet will give all he has so people can have at least that, be it one good night amidst sorrow and depression, or a shoulder to cry on. Dio is good to a fault, as in, his goodness is arguably his flaw. He gives himself so completely, to everyone, that it endangers his own sanity, and make other people’s selfishness and entitlement come out. He is a perfect illustration of why putting yourself first is not just a flaw when done in excess, it is at its core a survival skill : if you do not put barriers between you and the others, you will crumble. Dio is a study in true altruism that not many stories have the courage to make. He is also canonically asexual, and strongly implied to be biromantic, although that’s almost incidental in Wicdiv, in which almost every single character is lgbtqia+ and treated with respect. Seriously, read Wicdiv guys.

Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho (Yoshihiro Togashi)

YYH is one of the most insidious yet brilliant deconstructions of the shoûnen tropes out there. While some of its material, while groundbreaking at the time (starting with a fleshed-out, sympathetic gay character coming with a critique of japanese homophobia), has aged with the strides made in matters of representation, its commentary on masculinity and especially how it’s usually handled in the typical shoûnen holds up extremely well in my opinion. And one of its centers is Kurama. Created to be a riff on the classic “bishounen” character (to the point that one of the running gags of the manga is Kurama getting increasingly annoyed with the attitude of female side characters around him), Kurama is my favourite kind of good person, the one who is deeply aware that he is capable of horrible things. He is the rare character who begins the story at the tail end of his redemption arc, having already decided to change ; his arc in the manga is about trying to figure out what that means. And the manga does not pull punches with him : he has to reckon with what he’s done, to try and navigate his new moral compass in a world that’s just waiting to use it against him. And it gets... cruel. Kurama is a perfect example of how quickly and often certain traits can toe the line between making you a terrible person or a good one. Everytime he fights, Kurama has to make the choice to do good, over and over. And it’s not easy. It’s not supposed to be easy. And if YYH has one message, it’s that everyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Father Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) from The Exorcist series

Memory functions best by association, so reading @antirococoreaction‘s list immediately got me thinking about The Exorcist and Father Marcus. Just like Cardinal Gutierrez, he is both a man of faith and a mlm. And while his orientation is not the focus of the show, it’s present, layered and realistic in all of it - credit to openly gay actor Ben Daniels who portrays him. It’s especially present in his relationship with the other lead, portrayed by Alfonso Herrera as a young, charismatic priest whom the Church sees as a political pawn, whom I could also have chosen for this list. Just like I could have chosen John Cho as the single foster father of adopted “problem” children who has to cope with the death of his wife. See, what’s extraordinary about The Exorcist series is exactly what I was talking about in the intro : whatever masculinity means, it doesn’t take it for granted. Which is why the second season manages to have three male leads that are all incredible characters, incredibly good people, while vastly different from one another. Marcus is probably the most “morally grey” of the three, but in what that term sholuld mean rather than what mainstream media tends to make of it. Marcus in an unquestionably good person in a world where doing good often means making excrutiating choices. Marcus is someone devastated by these choices, who has to try and find hope again, guided in part by the young Father Tomas. While Marcus roughly fits the “jadded brooding lead” archetype, but in every detail of his character and portrayal he is imbued by a depth that’s rare in the horror genre. I will never forgive Fox for cancelling this gem of a series right as both the plot and the main characters were coming at a turning point. My advice if you want to watch it : don’t read anything, just go in blind.

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg from the Adamsberg novels (Fred Vargas)

Adamsberg is a cop. I know that’s a dealbreaker for some people, and I respect that. But his profession seems almost incidental to the character. Adamsberg shouldn’t be a cop, Adamsberg is that guy you see in the street who stops all of the sudden, fascinated by something, and it drives you crazy that you don’t see what. Adamsberg is a dreamer, he feels things rather that he knows them, and yet somehow is always right in the end. He’s like a magician. He’s not always kind. He can be violent. He’s not always clever. In fact, sometimes he acts downright stupid. Yet there is always this kindness, this intelligence around him, about the way people are and the way people should be. When I was a kid, the Adamsberg series was the first I read in which, hearing another man using a degrading language to talk about women, the main character immediately shut him down. As I grew up, I came to think of Adamsberg as the way women wished men were, though they weren’t. In reality, there is a lot in Adamsberg that’s exactly how men are, both good and bad. He’s a character who shouldn’t feel real yet does in the strange, poetic world created by Fred Vargas for what is one of the strangest crime series I’ve ever read. If the Doctor was the protagonist of a crime series, they would be Adamsberg. Growing up afab, Adamsberg was one of the few male protagonists I didn’t feel actively disrespected by as I was reading. The first four books of the series, The Chalk Circle Man, Seeking whom he may devour, Have mercy on us all and Wash this blood clean from my hand, are absolute classics I heartily recommend. It’s some of the smartest, weirdest crime novels out there.

Zeno Ligre from The Abyss (Marguerite Yourcenar)

I... God, what do you even say about what may well be your favourite character in all of literature, in what may well be your favourite book ? I fell in love in Zeno when I was fifteen, fell as hard as you could for someone who didn’t exist. Zeno starts the story as a young adult and ends it as an old man. You follow his entire life, from his childhood as the bastard child in a rich belgian family in the 16th Century, to becoming a respected yet feared and misunderstood alchemist, all through the turmoil of religious and political wars and plagues. Zeno is the best representation of what it was truly like to be a man ahead of his time in a time of intolerance and obscurantism. As an isolated high schooler who felt like I had nothing in common with my peers, you can imagine how I could relate. The Abyss is a strange, dense book which I probably read too soon, but which absolutely enthralled me to the point that I refused to even open another book weeks after finishing it because I simply couldn’t bear the thought not to be still reading The Abyss. It made History and Philosophy realer than any of my classes. And front and center of it is Zeno, Zeno you see grow and age, with whom you discover and fear, who utterly captures you with how grand a man can truly be, how extraordinary life itself, from beginning to end, is. Zeno is a man trying to shine a light on the world, trying to live by the precepts of philosophers, and once again is faced by what being a good man means, and whether it even matters to be one in a world such as the Middle Ages. I don’t know what to say except read it, and you’ll see why I’m at such a loss for words. Oh, and you might cry a lot. I know I did, not necessarily because it was sad, but simply because it was over, and I couldn’t read it for the first time again.

Here you have it. Wow, that was way too long.

And of course there’s almost no one left for me to tag, because we’re like 15 people talking in a circle.

#tag game

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HI HELLO, ¡HOLA! How have you all (Blogtress included duh) been??? Tis been SO long since I’ve dropped by to chat & as much as I wanna know all the tea™️ (like who is this new goth girl, has Kiki finally decided to give Wes a sister, did Wes just decide to give himself a daughter, is Collette still the sweetest lil bun on the planet, has Joss seen his soulmate again, have Harlan & Brianna had more pregnancy scares), I really needa know if Harvey has watched Diablero yet. (Blogtress too!)-Lily😈

The new Goth girl, Armanda is her name, she was in my AP Bio class last year I got interested in her when I heard her name because I thought she too was the child of a fan of vampire horror erotica. Turns out she was named after Armanda Degli Abbati and not The Vampire Armand AKA Amadeo AKA Andrei. So my pickup lines based on shared life experience of being named after one half of a couple with so few brain cells they decided to take their vampire asses to live in Miami didn’t work out. It’s OK though, cause we’re still hooking up and she knows so many things about the world like she’s always reading and her mom’s a screenwriter so any time we watch a horror movie she knows all these cool facts. She’s just really chill and it’s so easy to hang out with her.

I’m still not sure what I’m going to do about my eyebrow. I thought piercings were supposed to close, it’s not closing. Do I have to show up at the country club with this on me?

-Daniel

WES IS NOT GETTING A SISTER. THE BABY MAKING FACTORY IS CLOSED. AM I A BIT UPSET I NEVER GOT TO HAVE MY PENNY LANE OR ZOE SHORT FOR ZODIAC OR MY EUDOXIA OR ANY OF THE GIRL NAMES HARVEY AND I HAD AGREED ON BEFORE WE FOUND OUT THE GENDER? YES. DID AFTER I GAVE BIRTH TO DANIEL AND HARVEY AND I DECIDED THAT WE DIDN’T WANT MORE KIDS, I GOT A BIT TEARY EYED AT ALL THE DAUGHTERS IN MOMMY AND ME YOGA WHO WORE MATCHING OUTFITS WITH THEIR MOMMIES? YES. DO I GET A THRILL BUYING PINK UGGS FOR COCO? YES.

I’m trying!!! I told Summer in 2020 I want our baby to be born, in 2020 I want to physically hold my baby in my arms. She said OK, we can start trying in the summer of 2019. Obviously, I can’t pick and choose if it’s a girl or not but there are a few tips and tricks online based on old wives tales for increasing your chances of having a boy or a girl and you best believe that I will be doing all of them that I can (and so will Summer) to ensure I have a daughter.

And if it’s a boy that’s perfect because I’m going to love my baby no matter what. Plus, Summer and I agreed on four kids, what are the odds of them being all boys?....I really hope the odds aren’t high on that.

-Wes

Colette is still the most precious and cutest baby in the whole entire world!!! Even though she’s not really a baby anymore because she’s going to be two in three weeks!!! She’s going to be a whole toddler!!!

But still an angel!! Even if the only thing she did today was lounge around in her robe and eat pink Cheerios straight out of the box while watching Peppa Pig. She didn’t even want any milk to go along with it. It was straight Cheerios except for when I ordered boba and she snatched her rose milk boba and went straight back to her Peppa Pig. If you tried to get her to do anything else, she gave you her Coco glare and you walked away.

She’s becoming more aware of her power and the world isn’t ready for it.

-Micah

I HAVEN’T SEEN HER AND I EVEN BEEN TRYING!!! I SAW HER ON THE BUS TO THE MALL AND I’VE BEEN HANGING OUT AT THE MALL ANY CHANCE I GET!!! STREAM JAMES BLUNT YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL!!!!

-Joss

Briana Joo and I have not!!! Because we now spend most of our time in two different states living out our college dreams. Can’t have a pregnancy scare through phone sex although if technology ever goes that far I can promise you Briana Joo and I will be the unknowing guinea pigs for it.

-Harlan

I’ve watched Diablero twice through and I really enjoy it! It’s the urban fantasy Mexican buddy cop show I never knew I needed. Much better than that Supernatural show Micah tried to get me to watch.

I hope Son Hee and Elvis give us a good bellieregent sexual tension coupling and that Netflix doesn’t break my heart with this show like they did with so many others. I’m already fearing for Siemper Bruja and it hasn’t even aired yet.

-Harvey

I’VE WATCHED AND I LOVED IT ALTHOUGH I HAVE (vegetarian) BEEF WITH IT!!! HOW CAN YOU BE PUTTING CHRISTOPHER VON UCKERMANN AS A PRIEST? WHEN MY RBD FANGIRL SELF FOUND OUT HE WAS ON THE SHOW I WAS EXPECTING HIM TO BE A SEXY DEMON YOU KNOW LIKE AN INCUBUS NOT A WHOLE PRIEST!!! I CAN’T EVEN GO DAMN HE HOT AS HE WAS BACK IN RBD BECAUSE I FEEL WEIRD BUT HE STILL FINE. STILL MY SECOND FAVOURITE SCANDINAVIAN-LATINO. BECAUSE TO PARAPHRASE THE WORDS OF THE RBD GIRL MEMBERS EU NUNCA FUI SANTA.

I AM ALSO TRYING TO COP EVERY ONE OF KETA’S OUTFITS. AND NANCY MAKES ME REGRET CUTTING MY HAIR SO SHORT, I COULD BE HAVING THAT LONG FLOWING DEMÔNIA HAIR INSTEAD HAVING THIS BOB THAT MAKES ME LOOK LIKE I’M AUDITIONING FOR THE BROWN BRAZILIAN VERSION OF DOWNTON ABBEY BUT THAT’S A WHOLE OTHER THING.

DIABLERO IS AMAZING AND I DEMAND MORE OF IT AND I’M ALREADY COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS UNTIL SIEMPER BRUJA AIRS BECAUSE URBAN TIME TRAVEL FANTASY INVOLVING A BLACK SOUTH AMERICAN??? THAT IS E V E R Y T H I N G. EVEN IF WAKING UP IN CARTAGENA WITH NO MEMORY OF THE NIGHT BEFORE IS A SOUTH AMERICAN RITE OF PASSAGE AT THIS POINT BUT A TIME TRAVEL SPIN AND WITCHES???

I’M JUST IN LOVE OBRIGADO NETFLIX PARA ALIMENTAR MINHA ALMA LATINA QUE É ALUCINADA COM FANTASIA URBANA.

-the Blogtress

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Meet My New Roommate...

His knock on the door shouldn’t have had me as nervous as it did. It was only Neville for God’s sake. My best friend since college and colleague of some years now. Sure, his career was finally taking off and he was living out my dreams travelling, whilst I’m still stuck in the museum but that wasn’t his fault. That blame lied squarely at the feet of Richard, my boss, he’d never been fussed on me and like everyone else it seemed, just loved Nev. I stumbled around the apartment, mentally checking items off list. Kitchen: clean. Living room: tidy. Carpet: hoovered. Roommate: out. Hair: looking good. I opened the door.

“Adele, wow, you look great." He’d changed slightly since she had last saw him a few months ago, thinner, more worn, maybe it was just his new tan.

“Thanks, it’s so good to see you!” She hugged him, “Oh you shouldn’t have Nev.” He looked at her confused before remembering the bottle in his hand. She led him over to the kitchen counter.

“Only the best. Got this while I was away, had to trade half my share of the treasure for it.” He joked, “But before I get to that, how’ve you been? What was all the stories I heard about that mummy that went missing?” She was about to lie through her teeth when the apartment door slammed opened and Tamenuit stormed in.

“I swear to the gods I shall have my vengeance on those who test me. May Sekhmet’s rage fall just.” She froze when she saw us.

“Nev this is my roommate Tammy. Tammy, this is my good friend Neville, the one I told you about.” She was supposed to job hunting. “What happened to you?”

“You told me to do something I am good at. So, I went to the nearest temple to offer my services and did you know that women are not allowed as priests? Back in my country we had words for people like him, ser—”

“Tammy!”

“Well, it’s very nice to meet you,” Nev stood up to greet her, “How exactly did you two meet?”

“I put out an ad.”

Actually, I first met Tammy one day last spring, when I was about to do a routine scan on her 3000-year-old mummy. I was reading the results of the MRI scan we had just taken whilst my assistant prepped the next sarcophagus. I looked up when the idiot yelped, his glove was ripped from the splintering wood and blood was dripping on to the body inside. After that, some things were said. Mostly by me and none of them kind to him. Once I had sent him running, I went back to see what damage had been done to it, only it wasn’t there anymore. The mummy had just vanished.

I know that sounded dramatic. But believe me we were all stumped. Richard had called the cops who were equally as clueless. The surveillance tapes were just static as if they’d been fried and there was no evidence of a break in. I came to understand later that the mummy had simply just rose from the sarcophagus and went for a walk about. Tammy says she can’t remember much except for a shouty little man attacking her in an alley before she accidentally drained the life force from him. She likes to call it heka, which is some magical energy that sustains her. Whatever actually happened there, I think it scared her.

Not long after the police left I was cleaning up the lab- on my own, when she returned. Well it was more like stumbled in lost, she was still wrapped in the old cloth bandages she’d been buried in, along with a beaded necklace hanging from her neck. Her leathery skin only added to the gauntness of her exposed face. I’ll be honest, I screamed a little. It had been a long day.

To cut a long story short, there was no putting her back in the box, so I took her home with me. It hasn’t been easy. I mean the language barrier for one thing and don’t get me started on the cultural and age differences. Electricity wasn’t a simple thing to explain to someone new to the 21st century.

Back in the old days, my roommate had been a priestess to the great pharaoh Hatshepsut in the temple of Amun. Meaning she constantly sings and makes offerings of food and stuff to the gods all over my apartment. One time in June I found her down at the Hudson river, where she threw an offering to the god Hapi into the water, asking him for a good flood to bring fertile land. I then had to drag her away from fighting an angry tourist about pollution.

To put it plainly, she’s a nightmare. I’ve caught her on more than one occasion writing hieroglyphs on the wall of my spare room. I made the mistake of introducing her to the television, in my defence I thought it would help her assimilate better but now I can’t drag her away from her day time talk shows. And not to mention the death glare she gives me when I try to move my cat out of my favourite chair. My chair! She’s already cursed me and my future descendants for doing this sacrilegious act. I think she’s messing with me but I still sit on the floor, it’s less hassle.

She could also be the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. I don’t know why I never thought about it until now. The whole thing with Neville’s great discovery. That could be me with the help of Tammy. Taking her back to Egypt would be like using a metal detector in a junk yard. Nev soon made his awkward goodbye which I struggled to hear over the mental picture of me telling Richard where he could delightfully stick his geography PhD.

“He’s cute. Boring but still cute.” She said after the door closed. “You two would never work out.”

“And why’s that?”

“I’ve seen pharaohs with less self-importance.” She shrugged.

“About that…what would you say to one day going back?”

#stories #mummies #egypt #ancient egypt #priestess #magic #short story #archeaology #roommate troubles #comedy #supernatural

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Wes Craven’s CHILLER on the Schlocky Horror Picture Show

July 27, 2008

OPENING: Hello, good evening, and welcome to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show. I'm your host, Nigel Honeybone. "Welcome To The Wooorld Of Tomorrow!" as corporate executive Miles Creighton is cryogenically frozen for ten years until a suitable liver transplant is found and revive him. Unfortunately, his priest informs him his mind and body have been reanimated, but his soul...well his soul is gone...forever! Isn't a "get well soon" card more traditional? Watch, if you dare, as cult horror director Wes Craven attempts to break into the glamourous Made-For-TV movie market with a 1985 chiller called...Chiller! Talk about generic labeling... BREAK: Coming up we have more unfeeling monsters without souls, then after the ads we can get back to Wes Craven's Chiller...brrrrrr! MIDDLE: Welcome back to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show. What do I think is the best part of Wes Craven's Chiller? I like the introduction title sequence, maybe because it was inspired by the 1982 John Carpenter film The Thing, and almost as much inspired by the blood test they used in the 1998 film The Faculty. Did I say inspired? I meant to say ripped-off. Through no fault of actor Michael Beck, Miles is just a generic unfeeling monster. It doesn't work well for a TV movie because it's too restrained. He doesn't really kill anyone. His worst crime involves forcing an old man to walk up a long flight of stairs and suffer a heart attack. The fiend! Oh, has that happened in the film yet? I wouldn't want to give away any important plot points, of course. Just pretend I didn't say that...I know, I'll talk about the actors instead. Beck is probably best known for playing gang-leader Swan in the excellent 1979 cult action film The Warriors, probably the high point of his movie career. Low points in his career include playing Sonny Malone in the 1980 musical roller-flop Xanadu, and Lieutenant-Commander Dallas in the 1982 action roller-flop Megaforce, which was so bad...(how bad was it?)...it was so bad he received a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. He couldn't even win that. But more recently he can be spotted in television shows like JAG, Robin's Hoods, as the Mars-born terrorist-turned cyborg assassin Abel Horn in the Babylon 5 episode A Spider In The Web, and in Walker Texas Ranger, because you don't say no to Chuck Norris. So not promising so far, but then we have Jill Schoelen's sweet face to look at, so even if your intelligence is insulted your eyes won't be. Jill is much loved not so much for her movies but for her looks. In one Psycho-inspired scene, Miles is seen Peeping-Tomming...is that a word? Anyway, he takes a shufty at Stacy through a hole he drilled while she undresses. I can't fault the man for that, really. I'd probably be drilling a hole of my own, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. Jill can be seen in other schlocky efforts like DC Cab, The Stepfather, The Curse II: The Bite, Cutting Class, The Phantom of the Opera, Popcorn, and the 1993 sequel to When A Stranger Calls, and the cunningly titled When a Stranger Calls Back. Her roles in more than half-a-dozen low-budget horror films has earned her a minor cult following and raising her to the status of scream queen. Speaking of queens, Jill Schoelen also dated Brad Pitt for a while. They were engaged for about three months, but then she broke off the engagement for The Phantom of the Opera. I guess the best man won. It would be terribly amiss of me not to mention respected character actor Paul Sorvino as Reverend Penny, whose impressive career includes the 1970 cult film Where's Poppa?, Day Of The Dolphin, Oh God!, Cruising, The Stuff, Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, and was frighteningly convincing as Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's Nixon. Sorvino also became a favourite of Warren Beatty's, and can be seen alongside Woggles in Reds, Dick Tracy, Bulworth and far too many others. He also fathered, possibly with Warren Beatty, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino. In Chiller, director Wes Craven uses a sledgehammer to make the connection between Miles being emotionally cold

with being physically cold as well. For some reason Wes thinks being cold and dead make you a heartless bastard, but that's just retarded. The metaphor is threadbare as it is, and he drives it into our heads as if nobody would be able to pick up on it on their own. Give us a little credit! Over the last three decades Craven has become an efficient, dependable film-maker who is obviously comfortable behind the camera, but there's no flair, no style, and very little imagination when it comes to horror. Freddy Krueger is really his only memorable contribution to the genre...everyone's entitled to one good day. Speaking of which, although Wes would never admit it, he and Friday The Thirteenth producer Sean Cunningham had worked together on the 1973 soft porn vampire comedy The Case Of The Smiling Stiffs, also known as The Case Of The Full Moon Murders, which means Freddy Versus Jason in 2003 was a thirty-year celebration of sorts for the two film makers. Try to find The Case Of The Smiling Stiffs if you can, I guarantee you'll find it more entertaining than most of their other efforts! But you can do that tomorrow. In the meantime I urge you to remain for the From-The-Freezer-To-The-Oven-To-The-Table excitement that is...Wes Craven's...Chiller! CLOSING: What the hell was that all about? At first Miles seems to be just your average sociopath who has no regard for anyone but himself. Then for the finale, his eyes suddenly become demonic and he's got super strength, lifting cops off the ground with one arm, and all that. My guess is that Wes Craven thought Miles just wasn't evil enough and made a last-minute decision to make him seem 'otherworldly' for the ending. It's these kind of efforts that makes "Made For Television" such a bad reputation. Both acting and direction are rather pedestrian, at best. Cold, you might say. Anyway, please join me next week when I have another opportunity to make your stomach turn and your flesh crawl with another lusting, slashing, ripping flesh-hungry, blood-mad massacre from the back side of the Public Domain on...The Schlocky Horror Picture Show. Toodles!

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Christmas 2020: Day 1 - Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

a baster for the turkey!

Well, it’s December 1st once again and we’re already about a week removed from people arguing the toss about whether or not they should be allowed to use the F word when singing a particular festive favourite (no, not that F word...) so that must mean it’s time for some more holiday film fun times. As ever we open with a horror movie in an effort to continue on from the Halloween marathon which I actually gave a pretty fair shake to this year. Not quite the full 31 as in 2019 but pretty close when you factor in the bonus Stand posts.

Can’t help but feel there was some unfinished business in that regard though, plus I didn’t talk about the recent Friday the 13th we had in November which led me to watching the next one along in the series that was new to me; Part VII. And, surprise, I actually kind of liked it? I think my expectations are just rock bottom so it had a pretty low bar to clear. That and it had the gimmick of having him face off against this psychokinectic girl so that’s a big change from another cast of interchangeable horny teenagers.

Which actually brings a whole new level to the way watching Day 1 of this Christmas marathon is meant to bridge over from Halloween as, even though Friday the 13th wasn’t officially part of that, Silent Night Deadly Night 3 kinda follows a vaguely similar idea.

It sure has been a while since I looked at this series. I got through the remake first oddly and then the first two original movies but then it’s been in the wilderness for the past 5 years. I didn’t realise it had quite so many sequels, it gets up to part 5, so now I feel obligated to actually finishing this at some point.

It kinda ditches the whole ‘killer Santa’ thing for the most part and serves as something of a direct sequel to 2 in that it features the killer Ricky Caldwell, but sadly not played by Eric Freeman which I feel really sums up the movie as it really lacks the feel of the first two movies. That certain campy, cheesy quality. It opens up very differently with this girl in a dream where she’s being chased by Ricky through very non descript white hospital corridors before reaching some sort of safety with Santa Claus, who then promptly pulls a knife on her while she’s telling him all the gifts she wants this year. The whole dream sequence gives it this very surreal feeling but it doesn’t really last before we settle into generic slasher villain tropes.

The reason for likening it to Friday Part VII is that the girl here, Laura Anderson has some psychic abilities of her own. Apparently Ricky has been in a coma since the events of the last movie and a Dr Newbury is running experiments to see if someone can communicate with Ricky through their dreams. Laura seems to making some sort of connection as the image of Santa is coming through real strong, even going so far as to see the events of the first movie play out again when the crazed Santa flags down Ricky’s parents car before killing them both. Because it wouldn’t be a Silent Night Deadly Night sequel without using copious amounts of stock footage from that first movie.

It’s not really as bad as Part 2 where I think the footage totaled to something ridiculous like 40 minutes and also created some sort of weird continuity wormhole where scenes from the first movie were playing out as a different movie inside a cinema in the second.

At least we get to see the deaf priest being gunned down in front of the orphanage though. Still love that scene after all these years. I don’t remember the kid having blood splatter on him either, that makes it so much worse!

What they also make liberal use of here though is the KARLOFF and Jack Nicholson movie The Terror which I guess they’re free to do since it’s public domain. Doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence in your own movie though when archive footage of The Terror is outshining you but can you really compete with KARLOFF?

This one guy is riveted.

There’s some other padding on show as well, such as this one scene where the doctor and this cop are trying to follow Ricky to where they think he’s heading next, only for the cop to go into this whole sales pitch about mobile phones because he gets a discount on his bill if people sign up with his referral. What?!

I feel like Ricky does shift completely from the maniacal killer in Part 2 to something more in line with a Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers, this lumbering brute who seems oblivious to pain and injury. It’s just an utterly polar opposite character to go from Eric Freeman chewing scenery for fun to this completely mute guy, save for him creepily whispering Laura’s name a few times. Ricky does have a pretty cool look here though, I guess if you’re not able to get someone able to deliver Freeman’s level of...energy, why not make it part of the character?

Ricky has undergone some form of reconstructive brain surgery leaving him with some form of dome on his head that shows his exposed brain and also seems to fill with blood at some points during the movie. Bleeding from the brain can’t be good, surely? The design puts me in mind of The Thing from Another World or The Hills Have Eyes. Not that they have brain domes like that but that sort of strange cranial shape and odd face.

Friday Part VII did a much better job of following through on its promise of a ‘Jason vs Carrie’ scenario since the girl in that actually used her powers to save herself. Here, the girl doesn’t really do anything? Like, i’m not even sure what her abilities are outside of having this link to Ricky during the experiments. She has this premonition at the end where her murdered Granny encourages her to use her powers to save herself but all she really does is lay there with a pointy stick with Ricky just falls on whilst trying to get her.

She is kind of an interesting ‘final girl’ though since she’s also blind so that makes her even more vulnerable. I do like the idea though that she has something of a helping hand in that respect as this big showdown takes place at her Granny’s house where she spent lots of time as a kid so she knows where everything is. That’s not really developed very well though, that would have been a cool way to level the playing field a bit and have her able to outmanoeuvre Ricky as she knows little shortcuts and stuff.

Aside from the lack of real campiness/cheesiness, the other big thing missing is just any sense of urgency whatsoever. The girl playing Laura is just truly terrible and never reaches the level of panic one would imagine she should be going through. She screams sure but it feels like the kind of scream normally reserved when you find an unexpected spider on your bedroom wall, not when someone has shanked your Grandma. In general everything just feels really slow, none of the kills have any weight to them and Ricky doesn’t ever feel like a threat. He was never an imposing guy in 2 from a physical point of view but he had that real unhinged quality about him where you never knew what he was capable of. Without that, Braindead Ricky can’t hope to match up to the prescence of a Vorhees or Myers. Much like how this movie cannot compare with the two that came before it. It was still kinda fun in an absurdist way to see how weird it was but it lacks the real standout moments like Santa being killed at an orphanage or GARBAGE DAY!

At least it has boobs though so our old friend Santa Tor can make his return as well.

#Christmas 2020 #Silent Night Deadly Night #Silent Night Deadly Night 3

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Syfy’s Happy! Season 1, Episode 6: “The Scrapyard of Childish Things” Directed by David Petrarca Written by Ken Kristensen

* For a recap & review of the previous episode, “White Sauce? Hot Sauce?” – click here * For a recap & review of the next episode, “Thus Thrust Zarathustra” – click here

Now that Happy (Patton Oswalt) has parted with Nick Sax (Chris Meloni), he’s at a sort of AA meeting, except it’s a bunch of imaginary friends who’ve been discarded. “We have to learn to let go whenever they let go,” another “I.F.” named Raspberry tells him. Another wails about “great, big, nasty penises” and Judy Blume. A real sad place. As the world loses its imagination, so do the I.Fs lose their purpose. Unless they find themselves a new friend, one still holding onto their imagination. We see that Mikey Scaramucci (Gus Halper) is still alive, somehow, or whatever. Nick is trying to actually get the info about the password out of him. He gets some clothes on the guy, so he isn’t naked and masturbating constantly. He finds a priest, Father Appieh (Corey Allen), dropping the young man off for safekeeping. He asks the priest about talking to imaginary friends, wondering if it was wrong to have driven Happy away. In the classroom, Smoothie (Patrick Fischler) has all the kids dressed up as various characters, including Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo). At the real school, Mr. Blue (Ritchie Coster) and family are there to see the kids in their Christmas play, right behind him is Mr. Sax. Nick asks his old pal Blue about the Very Bad Santa (Joseph D. Reitman). He explains that he wants his daughter back. And that he’s got nephew Mikey. The priest is trying to take care of the young Scaramucci. He finds Mikey in the confessional booth, so he tries talking to him. That’s when the young man speaks a bit of Latin creepily, in a voice not his own. After that he leaves. Oh, shit. Smoothie knows now that one of the kids belongs to Sax, a girl named Hailey. So, he stalks around the class with a ruler, smacking all the kids across the knuckles, waiting for someone to confess. One girl steps up trying to claim she’s Hailey, but she can’t answer the question: “What is your father‘s name?” Before Smoothie can inflict more ruler pain, Hailey admits Nick is her father. He claims her dad is dead, he tries scaring her. But she’s too tough, he won’t break her. At the Scaramucci house, the old woman (Antonia Rey) calls out while Isabella (Debi Mazar) stirs the sauce with the “menstrual marinara.” And on the street, Mikey seems to smell something that he likes. Yuck. Raspberry brings Happy to meet his new friend. It’s a young boy who seems okay at first. That is, before it becomes clear he’s a bit of a little psychopath. They’re going to play Russian Roulette. The little blue unicorn has to pull the trigger first. Then, poor Captain Pancake, crying syrup, must take his turn. Only he can’t pull the trigger himself, so Raspberry does, and the guy’s fluffy, batter-y brains are blown out. This is the home of a child who tortures his toys. When Dt. Meredith McCarthy (Lili Mirojnick) gets home, she finds Blue creeping in the dark. The gangster explains his disappointment with her, she never told him about Sax having a kid. While she’s no saint, Meredith is unimpressed with the really shady dealings Blue has a hand in, the kids. Things are getting much more tense between these two. At home, Isabella and her family are drinking, the cameras on them, and she’s only concerned with her son. Soon a knock at the door. There, in front of them, is Mikey himself. As usual, all he can say is “Blue.” Nick goes to see his tenuous pal Le Dic (Michael Maize). Of course, they argue. Certainly the hitman’s not going to admit any wrongdoing, to anybody. He just wants some help. He opens up about Hailey, the selflessness of what he’s trying to do by saving her. “Maybe this is the moment that I can stand for something other than something than just my own skin,” he says, hoping Le Dic will sell him some C4. Meanwhile, Happy’s trying to make it out of that eerie kid’s house. He meets other imaginary friends who’ve been nailed to the wall like trophies. Later he’s chased by Raspberry, the I.F. complicit in helping this kid live out his sick torture fantasies. Believing her father’s dead, Hailey leads the other kids on a rebellion. All of them rush from their classroom. They burst out into a place they believe is the outside, into the city. It isn’t, it’s just an elaborate setup which looks of the city. They’re found by Smoothie, and think they can still get away. They’ve been locked up tight, nowhere to flee. Nick goes to Blue’s house. He says he has Mikey in the trunk, strapped with explosives. However, the gangster knows the difference, seeing as how the young Scaramucci is all over social media after walking into his mother’s place, alive once more. Shittier still, the explosives the hitman brought with him aren’t working correctly. Damn, Sax. Damn. The henchmen take Nick into the garage, so they can kill him out of view of the public. One of them has respect for the infamous cop-turned-hitman, giving him a moment before they blow his brains out. During his reflection, Nick talks about Happy being the last person who believes in him anymore – turns out the little blue unicorn is in the Scaramucci house. “Fate is real,” proclaims the imaginary friend after killing Raspberry. A commotion starts in the house after the kid runs, seeing Happy covered in Raspberry’s blood. This gives Nick the chance to get himself out of his jam, which includes a savage double chainsaw kill, blood spurting everywhere. When he’s finished, he picks up Happy, revealing his feelings: “I believe in you.” The team is back together! This episode is my favourite of them all. Wow. Just full of fun, disturbing, wild ideas, as well as a bit of the emotional stuff that makes the story feel grounded, despite all the fantasy elements amongst the comedy-crime. “Thus Thrust Zarathustra” – another amazingly titled episode – is next. Happy! – Season 1, Episode 6: “The Scrapyard of Childish Things” Syfy's Happy! Season 1, Episode 6: "The Scrapyard of Childish Things" Directed by David Petrarca…

#Captain Pancake #Chris Meloni #Gangster #Happy!#Imaginary Friend #Judy Blume #Menstrual Marinara #Patrick Fischler #Patton Oswalt #Russian Roulette

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TOKE2: Lookout

Don’t worry, I’m not planning to do a post for every single episode, but I do have 25 days left and 28 episodes to go, and I’m slightly worried about running out of time again. So I’m trying to squeeze in at least an episode a day, and I’ve learned from experience that even when I make notes I am quick to forget what I wanted to say soooo.... here we are with today’s episode:

Episode 4

Soo Ji was a lot less annoying this episode. That's really all I have to say about her.

I'm thinking maybe the fake priest == the guy who visited Yu Na's urn != Do Han? In which case there's potential for him to team up with the vigilantes later down the road, which is great, because there will be lots of angsty “do we trust him, do we not, he’s a sleazebag, but no look I have a sob story of my own from my broken childhood look isn’t this great we can be happy families together”. I sound cynical, but that’s just the long workday talking. Found/made families are one of my favourite things.

Do Han aside, I'm worried that our love-struck bespectacled prosecutor is going to just be a bumbling foil in all of this. And if Soo Ji ends up falling for Do Han I will be most upset. Poor Kim Tae Hoon just can’t catch a break.

Yes, I am writing this drama out in my head as I go along and acting like it’s canon. You’ll get used to it, I do this a lot.

A thought! So there’s this bit where boss-lady and minion detective are outside the station mooning over how they had to let the guy who confessed go, and then the other detective, played by Jung Suk Yong comes out and is all “I told you to just let it be”, and boss-lady gets all mad at him.... I would be so down with him also being in with the vigilantes. But I’m pretty sure he’s not. But how great would it be if he were.

Okay, speculation aside, moving on with thoughts on what actually happened this episode.

I like how boss-lady brings up the point of life beyond motherhood again. Perhaps the death of your only child is not the best example for this, but I do think people should lead lives of their own, and not be defined by any one role. You're not just a mother or just a daughter or just a cop, you're the sum of all that, and more, and I hope the series gives us a chance to explore this idea further. As it stands, they've just sort of shut it down by having Soo Ji shut down - which, to be fair, was a valid response in this particular situation.

Also, I have no concept of the inner workings of a car but I'm pretty sure just rolling over a bunch of nails should not, in fact, cause your car to overturn like that.

I suppose I should touch on the psycho killer child. I don’t really have anything noteworthy to say though. Except maybe that while I have nothing against Park Solomon’s performance, EXO’s Kyung Soo did such a good job of playing the creepy young serial killer in Hello Monster that I can’t help comparing the two. And unfortunately Kyung Soo wins. Hence my lack of commentary.

And that’s it from me for now! More Key and Kim Seul Gi and Do Han in the coming episodes, please! And if we could get their names so I can stop doing this weird mix of using some actors’ names and some characters’ names, that would be great.

... Actually I just looked up their names and Key’s character’s name is Kyung Soo, which made me wonder how I would have phrased things had I known that from the start, and now my head hurts. I really only have myself to blame.

#toke2 #mbc lookout #kim young kwang #shinee key #kim seul gi #kim tae hoon #park solomon #do kyung soo #jung suk yong

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The Big Read – Sheer Mag “So much rock music is so bad and meaningless”

Five years in the past, Sheer Mag had been the buzziest DIY band on the planet. Now, they’re a full-throttle unbiased rock ‘n’ roll machine who sort out home abuse, prejudice, loss of life and anxiousness on ferocious new album ‘A Distant Call’. Singer Tina Halladay tells Ben Homewood why the world wants the Philadelphians…

On November threerd 2015, Sheer Mag began a seven-week European tour with a present at Bologna’s Freakout Club. Its title was an ideal match.

Back then, Sheer Mag had been the 12 months’s most hyped band, freaking individuals out with their buzzing, big-hearted rock‘n’roll, and exploding out of south Philadelphia’s DIY circuit. Accentuating the perfect bits of the basic rock they beloved and subverting its macho stereotypes, that they had an excellent, scratchy emblem and appeared like a bar band excavated from the 1970s. They lived, and recorded, in a spot referred to as The Nuthouse, its compact areas the right incubator for his or her greasy noise. They had launched two self-made four-track EPs, ‘I’ and ‘II’, and their songs gave the impression of they had been on fireplace. The likes of ‘What You Want’, ‘Point Breeze’ and ‘Fan The Flames’ had been white sizzling, insanely good. Sheer Mag had been unsigned and they weren’t doing interviews. Word was spreading, and tickets had been scarce.

“That first European tour was insane,” says the group’s singer Tina Halladay. “Our tour manager messaged me beforehand and said, ‘You will probably break up!’ I was like, ‘Yeah whatever, I guess we’ll see…’”

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Sheer Mag simply needed to play, so they flew to Europe, employed a van and proceeded to spend infinite hours inside it, freezing. Halladay first met guitarist Matt Palmer and the Seely brothers, lead guitarist Kyle and bassist Hart, who grew up in Syracuse, at Purchase College, New York. Their pal Ian Dykstra was on drums in these days, certainly, Sheer Mag have by no means actually had a everlasting drummer (present touring member Giacomo Zatti is their fourth). Clearly, the shut confinement was intense.

“We only had one day without a show and it was spent travelling on an overnight boat to Finland, so we really didn’t have a day off,” Halladay remembers. “It was freezing cold, I don’t think any of us had headphones, mobile phone data or any distractions. It was a pretty torturous seven weeks, but every single venue and every single person was amazing. Every promoter was like, ‘This is the most people we’ve ever had and the most money we’ve ever made.’ The fans were the only reason we survived.”

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Four years later, Halladay can snort on the recollections. NME finds the singer recent from a go to to the publish workplace, at residence along with her brother in Philly. She’s getting ready to place her life in a bag as soon as once more to hit the street this week till early November, in assist of recent album ‘A Distant Call’. Another pulverising few months beckon, however Sheer Mag are nicely accustomed by now.

They accomplished their EP sequence with the blistering ‘III’ in 2016, and debut album ‘Need To Feel Your Love’ adopted in 2017, including disco, plus touches of Abba and Fleetwood Mac to the combination. If their debut confirmed their vary, ‘A Distant Call’ stands tall as their most full work up to now, 10 tracks of straight up rock‘n’roll, pressing and unruly. Mixing from Arthur Rizk provides heat and gloss to recordings first tracked within the freezing snow of DeRuyter, New York.

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It’s additionally their most private launch, ruthlessly exposing Halladay’s experiences (by a fictional protagonist, it offers with physique picture points and particulars a whirlwind interval during which she was fired, damaged up with and misplaced her abusive father) in a means that simply wasn’t potential till now. Sheer Mag wanted to develop into inseparable to make this report, and Halladay says freezing collectively of their van 4 years in the past was the primary main step in getting there.

“We’re all incredibly close, we’re like siblings at this point,” she says. “We struggle, we go on [laughs] and annoy one another and yell at one another. We’ve been by so much.”

Photo: Angela Owens

Halladay has come to cherish her relationship with Palmer specifically, after the group’s artistic course of thrust them collectively. Sheer Mag songs are made in a manufacturing line: first, the Seely brothers conjure groove, snap and corkscrew solos, then Halladay and Palmer summon melody and lyrics. On ‘A Distant Call’, Palmer got here to inhabit the singer’s thoughts like by no means earlier than.

“In the writing relationship we have, Matt ends up doing the final arrangements of the melody and lyrics, he writes most of them,” Halladay explains. “Our relationship had to get to this point for him to be able to do justice to my experiences, like my father and our relationship and his death and how that affected me, and body image and just going through the world as a fat woman. It took 24 other songs [on the EPs and ‘Need To Feel Your Love’] to get to the point where he could do it justice and make it really meaningful.”

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What they got here up with grabs you and doesn’t let go.

“How may I be taught to like from someone so abusive?” asks ‘Cold Sword’. “I pulled again and went away, to nurse my coronary heart’s bruises”. On ‘The Right Stuff’, Halladay sings, “Eyes stare and individuals flip, my coronary heart begins to race and my face burns.”

Looking again, she says, the recording course of was taxing within the excessive.

“The conversation around body image is a lot more open now, so that wasn’t too difficult, but the stuff with my father made me confront some things I’d maybe been ignoring or hadn’t been able to articulate,” Halladay explains. “That was really therapeutic and really hard, I think it was hard for Matt to even attempt it. You don’t want to mess something like that up.”

Perhaps the perfect instance of what she means could be discovered inside ‘Cold Sword’, the album’s motoring centerpiece. You’ll need to dance to its thrusting rhythm, however its message is altogether extra severe.

“It’s about my father and it’s the one that was the most difficult to write, record and deal with,” she says. “I’ve told Matt a lot about mine and my father’s relationship and his actions towards me and the rest of my family. I wrote it all down. I wrote everything I could remember, every experience, like being terrified and upset, just every moment that he terrorised mine and my family’s life. I wrote pages and pages of what I could remember in order and gave it to him to work with.”

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Elsewhere, in amongst the anxiousness and ache of Halladay’s revelations are bursts of Sheer Mag’s customary imagery: picket traces, crooks, dodgy offers, bombs, jail cells and the mayhem of conflict and politics. These songs are a blur of private candour and common truths, set to unrelenting groove and whole guitar hedonism, providing wonderful distinction to their blackened content material. Bass traces pulsate, guitars shimmy and shake, drums thwack. As at all times, it capabilities as one large rallying name, and Halladay is proud to say so. Sheer Mag are right here to say that the private and political aren’t divisible.

“What a lot of people in the world don’t realise is that politics is in everything,” the singer says. “The life that you live, the food you eat, the people you meet, it all has to do with politics and the way our systems are built and created. The people you’re attracted to, the people you see every day, all those things have to do with politics, so there’s no way to not be political. To say something like, ‘I’m not political’, is just showing your ignorance or your privilege.”

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Avoiding politics can be “a cop out” for Sheer Mag, and Halladay regales us with some latest drama round planning their tour merchandise for instance the purpose.

“We’re planning to sell a poster that will benefit some Planned Parenthood [sexual healthcare organisation] schemes in Wisconsin and they said, ‘Are there certain places you don’t want to sell it because maybe people will be upset and not agree with it?’” she says.

“Hell no! Anyone opposed to Planned Parenthood is not someone I want to be my fan or be at my shows, so no thank you. I just don’t see how someone who could feel that way would like our music.”

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Halladay spits out the tip of her sentence, completely mystified. Her confusion is no shock: Sheer Mag’s bond with their followers is apparent. People wait patiently to speak to the band after reveals, forming snaking traces for the merch desk, desperate to get nearer.

“It’s always very overwhelming and awesome, especially women coming up to me and telling me things like, ‘I started a band because of you.’ I’d never expected for people to care so much and be so excited, especially so early on,” says Halladay.

The singer has a idea to clarify the devotion and love, too.

“It’s a lot of [reasons], but the one I feel the most is that I don’t look like every other person in a band and I don’t sing about the same things every other person sings about,” she says. “It’s important for people to see themselves, people can relate to me because I’m other and I’m different and that is important to people.”

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Halladay noticed the identical in Judas Priest singer Rob Halford and Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott, who she describes as her “favourite” (she has Lynott inked on her proper thigh and named her canine The Rocker after him). But whereas she says “this band and me being in it wouldn’t have existed 30 or 40 years ago,” she notes there’s nonetheless “a lot of bullshit to deal with”.

“It’s like, bouncers automatically stopping me and no one else, if I don’t have my [backstage] pass or something,” she explains. “Even promoters who haven’t done their research saying, ‘Oh are you the tour manager? Or are you doing merch?’ I’m just like, ‘No, my picture is on the wall right behind me.’ It’s just ignorance, it’s silly. It makes them look stupid.”

Halladay has acquired used to setting such individuals straight in no unsure phrases. When NME first interviewed the singer at SXSW in 2015, it was after a present at which she shoved a person again into the gang as he came upon stage fumbling on the crotch of his denims. “Get your dick back in your pants dude,” she advised him.

Ever since their earliest days, there’s been a way of necessity about Sheer Mag; they’re a band the world wants and they understand it.

“There are a lot of people who want to see themselves. There are young girls out there who’ve never seen a person who looks like me leading a band like this, that representation and seeing yourself is really important for people to realise their potential and what kind of a person they want to be,” says Halladay. “White men have all of these different role models in the world being shown to them, it’s not the same for everyone.”

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Sheer Mag, then, current an exciting various. Two albums in, they’re thriving.

“So much rock music in popular culture is so bad and meaningless in my eyes,” Halladay continues. “I love rock‘n’roll, so for people to have to dig so deep to find music that is meaningful sucks.”

Thankfully, it’s not essential to dig to seek out Sheer Mag. They’re nonetheless placing music out by their very own Wilsuns RC imprint, ordering vinyl and dealing with merch, however their stance on the music press has softened and they’re extra seen than ever.

“At the beginning we were just trying to figure out what kind of a band we were, so we didn’t want to just latch onto these ideas or anyone that could take advantage of us or control us,” Halladay says of their preliminary reticence. “At this point we know who we are as a band, we know what we want and we have the confidence and power to say, ‘Ok, people want to hear this, so let’s see what’s important for us to say.’”

As for the mechanics behind constructing their empire, the band now have a supervisor and have simply taken on “people to help us with money and business stuff”. Halladay paints a easy, contented image.

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So, is the label chase over?

“If we are being chased then they’re not contacting me!”

The singer laughs, clearly blissful Sheer Mag are doing this on their very own. Really, it’s the one means it is sensible. Their music comes from a primal place, mixing our most instinctive emotions into hopeful, important rock‘n’roll, stuffed with motion.

“This band, it’s not a want, it’s a need. Every day,” Halladay sums up. “It’s so important and good for me to be able to perform and let out all that aggression, anger and energy inside of me that needs to come out. When I’m not on tour for a long time I lose my shit. I need that release, that feeling, to not feel totally crazy and restless.”

Tina Halladay can’t cover the thrill in her voice and no marvel. Sheer Mag are on the street once more.

A Distant Call

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'Good Luck, Father Ted' | Father Ted | Series 1 Episode 1 | Dead Parrot

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be right here Saturday oh yes this is the fairground thing oh i might no longer a lot curiosity in that type of factor myself to be sincere they’ve acquired a spider baby what a spider baby you realize it’s kind of a freak show factor you comprehend it’s received the body of a spider nevertheless it’s honestly a youngster how is that this a child does it have a nappy on us or something no when does it have the head of a little one no good if it appears like a spider and it does not truely gurgle at your anything how do you understand it’s in reality a little one to hold it in a pram Dugan are you definitely definite about this you’re now not complicated us with a dream your head or whatever no truthfully I saw it on the information truthfully oh oh wait no clearly no did you say it it was a dream yeah have you ever been finding out identical to I informed you Bob Ted i have yeah yeah sorry about that however we should go anyway Ted come on it would be excellent last 12 months I had to go together with the horse-using and it used to be simply great I did not understand you could trip horses well it wasn’t an actual horse Ted adore it it was once this ancient fella with a saddle on him go it have to’ve been about eighty you already know of direction he could not go very speedy like you know I was once form of lashing him with the weapon all could not get a lot of a response out of him you realize and how long have been you up on them i would say it used to be about but an hour so that you were upon an eight-yr-ancient man riding him round and deciding upon him for 60 minutes you realize that picture will stay with me for the leisure of my lifestyles I all said yeah it is satisfactory is not it come on we should go no i don’t think I could take the thrill to be honest believe I just say if there may be something on the television soap a style of jumper is basically but they’re simply going learn the historical diagram good day father Ted Kelly speakme howdy father sorry to disturb you my name is Terry McNamee i am producing the software religion of our fathers for small screen television Aaron at the second doing a designated on priests who work in isolated communities and i was questioning for those who’d be all for speakme to us good that is that’s very um that’s an awfully enjoyable fifth of Our Fathers is my favourite software you already know well you we’re the first individual we suggestion of address that I could come over and we would offer you a small rate in your drawback support a ailing ok nobody no have got to be anybody Ted only a second Oh rapid query how precisely do you get to craggy Island father it would not seem to be on any Maps no what wouldn’t be on any Maps no Terry we’re now not precisely new york now the pleasant way to to find it’s ordinarily to head out from Garlin or relatively north till you see the English boats with the nuclear image on the facet even very nearly the island when they’re dumping the old glow-in-the-dark one factor are there every other monks dwelling there with you our researcher would not mention any person else um good no there isn’t any one else right here i’m going to see what Saturday then i will provide you with a call after I get there I the reply back Ted certainly not activate the television when father Jack’s asleep you know how he is but he is normally asleep sure well any person who served the church as long as he has deserves a leisure simply particularly an honor for us to shield in his old age you recognize yeah look at him dreaming of earlier glories indubitably girls pay attention now we have received a certain deal with in these days it is very kindly volunteered to take him all by means of volleyball practice and he is simply reminded me that it can be very heat at present so there will be no need on your tracksuit tops hi there father Dougal McGuire right here and welcome to this week’s prime of the Pops after which at number 45 this week is father Ted Crilley when I’ve obtained the vigour and the quantity 15 for the 16th week in a row his father Jack Hackett with IMS Sleepy breeze how does that cup shake get on the tv is the tv broken once more father yes we have now an concern manner there may be nothing flawed with that that are not able to be fixed with the visual you understand chortle within the head to park and now then who’s pretty me please mrs.Doyle T sec I find mr. Doyle you need to have a cop i know thanks mrs. Doyle truthfully i would like have a cop are you definite an hour tart no i’m no longer in the mood types all right so like a while but you’re no longer have a drop oh thanks mrs. Owen oh i am satisfactory Noorie they take apart father and significantly no and what do you say to a cup take off cup this cup of tea take off oh gosh there was once a phone name prior from a Terry McNamee all correct who’s that Ted I’ve never heard of him anything to do with there wasn’t at the tv sure he is coming to Vic’s tv yeah good you’d be right here tomorrow or 12 grand yeah that’s good you called someone Ted nonetheless not working you are effortlessly the quality doo-doo-doo-doo better than the entire rest penis god Ted you nervous the life out of me they are doing the ancient pop megastar thing undergo dougela I was once Ted yeah it used to be fine being on television today I suppose I’ve caught the historic television tube guide with the mattress canine get some sleep you do not get overtired do you ever want to get into television you’re unhappy Ted annoy i would not imply to send that form of factor fairly yeah yeah i do not believe you’d be so much just right at it definitely why no longer well you realize you are a bit critical are not you and your eyes are bit crossed yeah they may be a little wonky tag you recognize the cameras can decide upon that up you recognize i’m not cross eyed Dugan you’re a bit of no Ted certain half the time I don’t know if you’re talking to me your father Jack dude why do not you just get some sleep right just must say the ancient prayers our Father who art in heaven hallowed hallowed be thy name Papa do not preach doodle you recognize that you can reward God with sleep flip your head a vegan for a tiring day God there’s tons of ways that you could praise God isn’t that head like that point you instructed me to reward Him by way of you recognize just leaving the room that used to be a just right one sure Ted mmm Ted yes knock-knock who’s there father Dugan McGuire goodnight Doga right here you bit better than others that’s it you made it then I consider so there isn’t a indication that it is craggy Island there is no indicators or whatever it is there a man looking at you with the t-shirt saying I shot junior ahh you are here so what the line could be very dangerous father you’re a giant muffled i am on a portable cellphone you caught me by using shock while you phoned me you know how i am on the toilet so the place will we meet at any place we can get just a few excellent photographs any nearby landmarks no what no there are no landmarks here now Terry no no longer all comprehend although the island itself is a kind of landmark relatively the general rule is if you are heading away from it you are going in the right course correct there’s the area feeling well that sounds good it’s not a discipline fairly nevertheless it has much less rocks in it than most areas father i’ll meet you on the area now how do I get there ask Tom there he’ll aid you out correct father Thanks Holy Mary mom of God content material i’m so sorry it was once just a shaggy dog story try to avoid doing that once more dougela hello idea used to be particularly herself it’s the final thing i need you are proper there Ted anyway it can be time for Jax walk time in your walk father Jack the clips can i convey up the mobile land head he’d love that no he would not take him around the cliffs and this time if you’re going close the edge placed on the brakes he was only simply lucky the final time and you are no longer coming your self i know I suppose i will stay here and pray for a at the same time Oh what are you after Ted i’m not after something dude it is now not unknown for contributors of the clergy to hope every now and then it likes more than to get out the fresh air that’s it now in your go is that bill however man this is given each single whatever once he is out thirty is a first-rate time he is aware of they will not kiss when I’d be half that father what you as much as your self well I suppose i will simply stay here and have a little of an historic pray all correct fill in the power it is to the weekend buyers are reminded that our services are at a reminder of the unavailability I don’t even was once on here hi there fatter hey Tom inform your nuts and did you get them listed below are made it EJ i might like to film a discuss with the island Faust I imply quality correct so I just wait within the field noticed her Farah this time I’ve killed him in newcomer i might have got to talk to about that later i am doing an interview for the television maintain your arms on the perimeters what’s rather cows database you could have a face like a parrot it well is he is got some unfair between us ah no fatherhood good day John Oh Paquito his father your thanks I’ve acquired to satisfy any one now actually i’m going to be interviewed for a tv software really are that’s first-rate you understand father i will kill you outstanding on tv well thank you I say you’ll be greater than a fit for a homosexual Borden or Terri Morgan or any of them give me a couple of weeks to get to their stage I have got to go now i’m trying to track down this film you’ll be able to they usually most often wish to do just a few shut-united statesof master shots and Nadi’s and that such thing we will be late onset get a popularity is the form of Marilyn Monroe variety see you soon don’t bother Ted get them i could not run cheese out of it over here at present come here look at me oh howdy Ken what are you doing right here anyway Ricky was once interested on this form of factor you are speculated to be taking Jack for his stroll well i am are the cliffs had been closed in these days i might kiss be shut doodle hope you are aware of it wasn’t that they had been long past you kissed forgot how could they just disappear corrosion come on off that me straight to the youngsters with you there may be just another cop returns to head with him you are straight house to you right here i might wish to hear to any extent further nonsense each person else is right here do just right you’re a priest you are purported to show some decorum this wasn’t a priest don’t you say that so he advised me one time he doesn’t even think in God take all the credit at head however what the crater demise it is called out considering it was a younger fella killed on it last yr come on i’m sick and worn out York dead appear there’s a fortune-teller come on we will have one go in there do not rest your money on that stuff – we’ll take you on no account comprehend there probably whatever in it it’s rubbish how might any one suppose any of that style of nonsense simply no extra ordinary than that stuff we learned in the cemetery you realize heaven and hell and eternal lifestyles bitch take it severely Ted well you are so two men to take it seriously oh yeah yes having had an everlasting life yes of direction I let you go in you go residence straight after that good i will I promise that every one correct whats up let’s go Ted cuts on one scared off favored i will do it and that you can watch hey there sit you have got to move my palm with silver silver i don’t elevate massive luggage of it around supply me a pound now i’ll interpret one card at a time please I wasn’t concentrating and perhaps it might opt for an extra no no this is a long-established misunderstanding the Grim Reaper doesn’t mean loss of life in a literal sense rather it’s going to imply the loss of life of an ancient culture and the beginning of a brand new one i do know what that is it can be regularly a couple of new lamp i am getting for my bicycle good it’ll not become clear at the subsequent auto that is really weird there’s simplest presupposed to be one in each % hiya Tom it can be as a substitute Crilley round but he’s yeah he is in Dale that is a foul scar you might have acquired there tongue the place did you get that it was a in an argument oh i am hoping you is not going to say anything II did Lester I’ve had worse than that i will weed past anteed that to me appear like a deer faux thank you my father jacket electing some residence it can be virtually 5:00 in time for his ingesting goodbye that is where I acquired this okay Shema Israel has lower back to me come on no father we higher be off come on there you might be father we obtained here at last yet another father’s useless to the arena do you don’t know what’s going on gende nevertheless it’s time Kiran come on yeah you heard from from from the tv well yes we simply asked you a few questions Wow am I going to be on the small screen television good sure we’ll off with a historical past of the island and then transfer on to how lifestyles has converted for the Islanders economically and socially father how would you say the individuals’s religious beliefs right here on craggy Island were littered with the arrival of tv and larger entry most of the time god no they’re speakme to generate great there i’m it’s me appear i’m on the telly no God does he relatively exist I mean little I have no idea i do not even consider in equipped religion spiderbaby it’s got the body of a spider but the mind of a baby it would not fairly chunk you uh on SN gotten older no I are not able to suppose it either i’m on the television yup shaking in the air a baby has been lodged in the tunnel of gods if that if we can have a nurse please to the tunnel of gods thanks a goat and child have now come to be potential together and the North has become involved in the within the instant and an additional Norse is required to unlock the Norse we asked for beforehand thanks you

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