#eighties fancast

[mrsmess]

We were watching WarGames (1983) and my daughter said “she [Ally Sheedy] looks like Emma Watson” and like, she’s right.

So we decided to do a retro HP-fancast. Which eighties actor would play which HP character? Here are our choices:

Harry: Emilio Estevez or Patrick Dempsey OR Corey Haim (lots of different vibes around this character)

Ron: Molly Ringwald (by far the most difficult character to cast, Ron is Ron, so we genderbent him)

Draco: James Spader!

Neville: Alan Ruck

Ginny: Kerri Green

Cedric: Michael Schoeffling

Dobby: Jon Cryer (idk what to tell you she took one look at his picture and dubbed him an elf)

Snape: Judd Nelson (yeah I know I know, but you gotta admit he’s got the looks down)

That’s all we got!

#fancast #harry potter #eighties fancast harry potter #posts for my daughter #posts with my daughter

[batarangsoundsdumb]

yet another ask dump yeehaw!

do you ever think that jay's mother was one of those bitch who believes in horoscope and tarots and things like that and so he believes in these things too, or it is just me projecting?

sheila haywood took one look at jason's birthchart said 'nah this won't do' and left.

Wait, but what happens when the justice league does find out that Bruce and John fucked? Lmao it sounds like it would be hilarious, really, I don’t want a justice league that doesn’t make fun of Bruce for like his entire life.

barry runs out of the meeting immediately and comes back with an entire sti testing kit. diana fully seriously wants bruce to get tested while bruce is sitting there like 'come on guys, you're being ridiculous, i already checked twice'

john is standing in the corner clearly offended while bruce is just like 'don't even say anything, constantine, you fucked a shark'

tim was like "i'm drake now" and everyone was like ahh so your fursona is a dragon and tim was like pffffft no. ducks.

on the one hand, good for him, on the other hand, bro, how do you still have a secret identity when your superhero name is just your last name,,,,

Your fic on ao3 was GOLD PLEASE CONTINUE I loved Dinah's cameo btw ( @purple-vixen

thanks so much! i already continued but this ask is like 10 years old because i'm a notorious procrastinator (also yes! i love dinah so much aahhhhhhhhhhhh)

I've FINALLY been watching the Batman animated series and I gotta say, after watching "the gray ghost" I am CONVINCED that Batman is a closeted super hero geek who was 100% freaking out the first time he met Superman and is just REALLY good at hiding it.

bruce internally: holy fuck holy shit holy fuck holy shit holy fuck holy shit holy fuck holy shit holy fuck holy shit bruce externally: get out of my city, alien

AHHH ur multimedia fic is the only thing that brings me happiness anymore continue it forever pls

uhh thanks, but can't continue it forever because my attention span is that of a toddler on crack on a good day and i can't function without at least 10 things going on at the same time and music in the background

Oi, so I'm getting into dc and watching batman the animated series, and they use fruitcake a lot. Which I thought was very funny and wanted to share w you - Denilla

wait like fruitcake (food) or fruitcake (derogatory) ?

young justice 🤝 teen titans slut shaming batman

tim drake and dick grayson to their respective teams 'you guys stop it, that's my dad'

Happyhoganon: If an eighty year old Batman had fought crime in Gotham City for decades and the only threats to him and the city lately are a wheel chair bounded Penguin, your usual purse snatchers and a few con artists popping up every now and then, how well could the Dark Knight do in maintaining the peace in Gotham despite him being just somewhat fit to do that as an elderly man (which says A LOT given how old he is)

uhh he'll probably do what my grandpa does and that is ruthlessly prank them until they die of shame.

in the death in the family interactive movie there's an ending where Jason is tasked with raising Damian and he decides he's gonna raise Damian to take down the waynes and al ghuls which uh maybe isn't great BUT the idea of Jason raising Damian... PRICELESS. CHAOTIC. I just need more people to know about this :)

yes i saw that wow holy shit but jason would accidentally drop damian on his head one (1) hour in and jason just yeets him into the lazarus pit.

Headcanon: The Penguin has a really hard time fighting any of the Robins because of his avian obsession means there's always a small part of his mind that's like "Birb. Child. Protect" ( @subspacecadet )

as soon as dick becomes nightwing the penguin is like 'you know what, fuck this dude' and shoots at him.

Y'all talking about King Shark dating Constantine, let's not forget about John literally hooking up with Satan

listen there's a clear difference between monsterfucker and satanfucker in that king shark is literally a shark and satan still looks like a normal dude

Does everyone in Gotham think Batman is a teen dad?

everyone in gotham thinks batman has been around since gotham was founded, but they do think that bruce wayne is actually a teen father and dick grayson's biological dad.

why. why would you do that fancast when you know it will only hurt people

what? i loved my fancast it was really well done. i did it with good representation in mind and i really managed that with alfred pennyworth being ✨italian✨

Seeing james charles a jason gave me psychic damage how dare you i need to wash my eyes

well that's a you problem isn't it?

do you think dick grayson thirst tweets about nightwing just to annoy his family/cause problems on purpose in general?

he thinks nightwing is hot, next question.

holy jiminy cricket batman, its as cold as the good lords ass crack in here!!

i- what? this is why i don't fuck with english expressions it's way too goddamn weird

Brooooooo, your teen dad!Bruce au is soooo good. I've got brainrot.

Honestly if you ever write anymore, I'd read that shit twice. Sign me the fuck up. Good stuff, Good Stuff.

uh yeah i'm thinking about writing a fic, but i have exams coming up and i don't wanna fail because that would suck. but after i'll certainly be writing more tho

your teen dad AU is so great! bruce acting like a big brother for all of like a week before he's telling everyone about his son. what if in the AU dick meets the JL because they need to rescue him? maybe he's in trouble/kidnapped at a gala and bruce starts calling for JL. clark finds him and has to fly with dick to bring him home - that's how dick and clark meet and superman becomes dick's fave hero. he goes around the manor thinking he can fly with a red blanket draped around him like a cape.

actually- if you want a young dad! bruce fic with like that kinda stuff(just with damian) go check uhh- in for a penny by cdelphiki. it's really good and bruce is like 24/25-ish. (and dick's there!!!)

This account has solely convinced me that Tim is a trash goblin ( @hamilcat-and-magic-turtle )

because he is. that boy has slept in dumpsters on multiple occasions even if he is the son of a billionaire.

Okay but when you said victory dance I did think of the whole justice league defeating the big bad and then they all start flossing

well that's exactly what hal jordan does and that's why batman uses a gun now. no but the victory dance in my opinion is like the 'we're all in this together' dance from high school musical.

The horrors in Invincible s1 was nothing compared to the comics, I cant wait for s2

oh well okay, i mean i personally react to horror and violence by laughing awkwardly so i can't wait to be called a monster for accidentally laughing at a mass murder.

I'm currently watching Batman: The Brave and The Bold and- Bruce is just talking about Oliver like he's an old love (@nightwings-kid)

okay im going to watch that lmao that's totally and completely in character for him tho.

The invincible comic is like super gratuitous with its violence so much so I'm shocked the show was able to adapt it in a faithful way! Anyway had the show been live action it absolutely wouldn't have the same impact as it does as an animated show and I'm so glad so many people agree with me on that

also because a live action casting would've been like uhh amanda stenberg for amber, the dude- the guy from the supernatural but with a mustache for omni-man, and scarlet johanssen for debbie grayson

Debbie grayson is a milf, yes. You're welcome for the invincible propoganda, now you can questions your life. Bruce def seems like the perfect father next to Omni-man. Like they really took a rip off justice league and I was like well, now I'm attached even tho I was like hah I know who they're supposed to be. And then bam- death gore death gore gore gore sad Mark grayson just had to have daddy issues. Why does every character have daddy issues. I'm sick of the attacks

because daddy issues make a person arguably funnier, that's why i'm not even remotely funny (haha good dad flex). i liked that it was dark contextually, but not in the colouring, bc i hate when it's like 'uh yeah graphic murder and now a shot so dark you have to sit in a dark room and squint at the screen to faintly see the characters. (like dcau ugh)

About the Wayne insurance, for a moment I thought you would put the video with moans over the waves.

i mean- i could've done that, but rick rolling seemed more family friendly.

Its the first time in forever that im surpise rickrolled, i usually expect it. Congratulations (i really should know better this is tumblr)

i get rickrolled so often but i actually like the song so i dont really give a fuck

Actually, my information about Damian and John's kids is outdated because it was revealed that the old men telling the kids stories about the Supersons were actually Jon and Damian the whole time. I was blinded by my thirst for Grandpa!Bruce Wayne but I was wrong... I liked my version better, tbh (@artemisa97)

fair enough. but i'd honestly like to see damian and jon getting together, just because it's a really fun dynamic and their friendship was really cute when they were kids. (also idk maybe it would be nice to have one (1) main batfam/superfam character that's not cishet)

How am i JUST finding your blog skdskfkd you're so fucking funny and ur takes are hot

i thought u were calling me hot :( but youre not :( crime detected (but lmao thanks)

So I have depression and I swear that your memes are one of the few things that have made me laugh so thank you 💛🥺 (@katekanebadass)

aw you're welcome, and i hope you're doing okay!

The metropolis memes are so funny, I love them 💀😌

i think metropolis is also so fucking funny it deserves more attention imagine having your entire police force being upstaged by an alien from kansas and his kids

as an american i feel your complete lack of knowledge of us geography is just so sexy (platonic) ❤️

thanks so much (i also don't know any other geography, i'm not kidding, like you can tell me you're from hungary and it will just blank, there will be nothing that comes to mind)

In the DC universe they don't say "Can't have shit in Detroit" they say "Can't have shit in Gotham"

this just reminds me of that guy whose porch got stolen like the steps to his door, and i'm thinking of people living in gotham and waking up without a front door and going "can't have shit in gotham"

honestly all i know about chicago is the bean, so. what would gotham's famous sculpture be?

gigantic gargoyle statue in front of one of the police precincts because a villain thought it was a smart way to keep the police inside, but it's too heavy to move.

why tf do people go on about how batman "works alone" or how he's the "lone wolf" when he like 38290202 members in his family

bc people think it's cool that a grown man in his 30s has no friends or family instead of calling it what it is (sad)

Bruce is gotham's sugar daddy

why would say something so controversial yet so brave.

my favorite batfamily fanfictions are the ones where they use their shitty codenames, unironically, in any context

dick: gerard way are you in position, gerard way are you in position

tim: for the last fucking time, my codename is 'totally not count olaf' this week, abbafan 3000

dick: shut up my codename isn't 'abbafan 3000'

dick: it's 'abbafan number 1' and you know it

I have a feeling Tim drake is ur favourite batfamily member but okay u don't have favs if u say so ok

i mean he is, i won't deny it. but i love each and every one of the batfam just the same, i just have a weak spot for short dumbass nerds, because i'm a short dumbass nerd.

Omg i fuckin love boy meets world too fam shsjkfk

bro boy meets world was the shit!!! it was just fire and awesome and so fucking great like bro. it was so good im not even going to be accepting criticism

you know I find the whole "joker completes batman" thing a bit disgusting considering the horrendous stuff the batfamily went through because of the joker and let's not get started on the "joker has a point" thing like yeah he's this cool complex villain but he's absolutely batshit crazy

like yes! i get what you mean the joker just fucking sucks man he doesn't do shit for batman's character or the batfam he's literally just annoying as fuck. like the joker has a point' shit is so stupid. i will accept 'magneto was right' because he fucking was and i think he didn't do anything wrong, but joker? he's just like that. he's not even cool and complex he's just a weirdo with a bleach kink at this point.

ALSO YOUR RACISM POST- SO TRUE BESTIE

thanks bestie, i'm glad you agree.

in today's essay of why I think cass should become batman- I was thinking Tim would probably be the most efficient batman in many ways but I also think he wouldn't want to be batman tbh none of the batfamily members would want to be batman because they're trying to outgrow him but cass is the one who wants to represent the symbol that is batman

absofuckinglutely i will say it again and again that cass represents the batsymbol more than anyone in the batfam, in batgirl (2000) she literally didn't care about anything else than bruce's oath to not kill, she thought the batsymbol was more important than anything in gotham. she's just an excellent character because her motivation to not kill is not 'i'm scared i can't come back from it' or 'well my dad says no murder so i'll go along with it' but that she's killed somebody as a young child and she never wants to kill a human ever again and that's so fucking beautiful for a new batman like yes.

need more cass, duke and tim inclusion in gothamite memes

yes yes, a tall order of cass, duke and tim coming up in 1-14 business days

oldest to youngest batfam members cus I'm confused as shit

okay order of being taken in: dick, jason, tim, cass, damian, duke order of age: alfred, bruce, dick, cass, jason, tim, duke, damian (though cass and jason are around the same age general consensus is that cass is a little older)

I'm so confused Steph is a redhead?? like how was it that hard to get this right? the source material is literally right there and free

cw is jared, 19

do you receive anon hate? if so, how do you deal with it

uh no, i'm not remotely popular enough to get anon hate and i also don't say a lot of things that would attract anon hate, but i do send anon hate to @the-real-peter-parker because he forgot about the specialists from winx club

Wait how many languages do you speak??

uhh- 5 if you include latin, but that's a dead language and i'm really bad at it. but english, my native language, german, and french also, tho german and french not fluently.

You can mix aguaepanela with aguardiente 😈 and is tasty

okay but now i'm curious if the liquor deserves the 😈 emoji or if that's a you problem. but i googled it and it looks like something you'd take one sip of and then not remember the rest of your evening.

#i love all of you guys so much thanks for all these asks #some of these are literally from march but fuck it #the day tumblr puts dates next to anon messages is the day i close my inbox crawl into a hole and die #it's such a basic task to answer asks but i don't want to bother anyone with asks clogging up their timeline #and if i don't have a funny or good answer i'm like 'uhh okay won't answer it now then' #so this is for you #also i deleted a few asks because it gives me mental pain to see my inbox go over 50 and it's almost at 100 #i was complaining about having too many asks to the-real-peter-parker like months ago and then i had 45 asks in my inbox #now it's amassed to going over 100 twice #but no i love all of you and you're great and you're all fantastic and i lvoe you #muchos kiss kiss #kiss kiss for my kiddies lvoe you #invincible spoilers #dc #dcu #dc comics #ask #anon #bataranswers #i really wanna try aguapanela now i'm gonna see if i can find panela somewhere and review it for you babes #uh yeah that's it #muchos gracias for all your questions babes

[jupitermelichios]

So I’ve been thinking about Britnatural

Full credit to @dreamprophet​ for the original idea

And I have thoughts. So many thoughts.

Sam and Dean are obviously from Essex now, and speak with a mild to medium Estuary accent. I haven’t fancast them but I need you to know that in my head they’re played by the two guys from Two Pints of Lager. Dean dresses exclusively in tracksuits. He probably has a burberry cap that is either put on or taken off to indicate that this time he means business. When not hunting demons, he makes his living hustling darts. In the first episode, he will defeat a ghost by throwing a holy-water soaked dart through the ghost’s head and then yelling “One Hundred and Eighty!” This will establish his character.

[artists rendition of Sam and Dean questioning witnesses]

Rather than salad and burgers, the class difference between Sam and Dean is now demonstrated by the fact that Sam drinks Aspels cider and Dean drinks Frosty Jacks (or White Lightning, depends who’ll sponsor us). Dean also has at least three embarrasing stories about Sam getting pissed on Lambrinis. Sam likes Irn Bru, because he went to Edinburgh for university, and Dean mocks him for this, whereas Sam mock dean for having inheritted all of John’s Cliff Richard tapes

John is played by Robson Green, aka McNair from Being Human

When he leaves to go looking for the demon which killed his wife (played by Jane Horrocks) he leaves Dean the keys to the family car

a morris traveller affectionately called Bastard. The fandom immediately fancasts Bastard’s human-sona as David Tennant despite the writers best efforts to the contrary. The traveller’s top speed of 50 mph explains how they’re able to spend so much time on the road in such a tiny country.

They investigate mysteries by posing as either DEFRA agents or Community Support Officers. There’s one episode where they’re supposed to pose as men of God but instead of sexy young priests they’re anglican vicars, Dean nearly blows their cover by refusing to wear a cardigan or eat slightly stale squashed fly biscuits.

Cas is played by Kris Marshall, best known for leaving My Family to become a film star and then never being in any films

He wears an anorak and his host body was very involved in running coffee mornings for the local CofE church

On their travels they will meet beloved recurring characters such as Ruby (Lauren Socha)

Charlie (Richard Aoyade)

Meg (Ruth Jones)

and yorkshire Bobby played by Steve Halliwell off of Emerdale

They’ll also face daunting villains like Crowley (still played by Mark Sheppard but we’ll dub in a voice so he’s now from Merthyr), Chuck (played by Rob Brydon, obviously) and Lucifer himself (played by Martin Kemp).

Episode concepts include

- A thinly veilled Midsommer Murders parody where they investigate a sleepy village with 900 x the national murder rate, in which John Nettles will cameo as the local police officer (the culprit will turn out to be his wife, who is placing curses on people)

- Three sepperate Jack the Ripper episodes (not a recurring villain, they just keep finding new culprits each time and never acknoledge they’ve done this before), and one where it looks like the Ripper but turns out to be the Trunk Killer

- Sam and Dean fight the Beast of Bodmin

- Nessie, obviously

- You know how everyone knows someone who found a dead body during Duke of Edinburgh? yeah, that.

- The ghost of that monkey that was hanged in the forrest of dean because the locals thought it was a french spy

- a wicker-man inspired folk horror episode full of actors from the Archers and including lots of creepy music being played over footage of southern white hanky morris dance

- they have exactly one actually scary episode, inspired by Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm and it gets so many complaints Broadcasting standards pull it

- the highgate cemetary vampire (played by Noel Fielding)

- that one pond in epping forrest that’s supposed to eat people

- they share locations with Dr Who a lot and extras from the wrong show end up in shot so often they have to do an aliens episode to explain it

- Tolkein epsiode where they fight Ents but this is Britnatural so instead of tree-men the Ents look like normal men, but can also turn into normal looking trees

- so many reformation era monks. so many. you know how SPN feels about civil-war era widows? that’s how Britnatural feels about monks

- a sponsored episode where they fight the witch of wooky hole and then go to the theme park and talk loudly about how great it is

- Dean’s dramatic death on the ranch when the hellhounds get him (they’re now Staffies, obviously) takes place on a farm in Herefordshire

- instead of LARPing Richard Ayoade’s Charlie is just a member of the Sealed Knot so Sam and Dean have to dress up as Cavaliers and Roundheads

- any ghosts of well known historical figures are played by whoever played them most often on Horrible Histories

- the ghost of someone heavily implied to be Bruce Forsythe is haunting the ballroom at Blackpool tower (there’s definitely at least one instance of a hammond organ playing itself) and when they go undercover Dean is forced to dance in a competition thus revealing his secret love of ballroom dancing

- the Changing Channels episode has a weirdly meta bit where they’re on goggle box watching themselves be on the basil brush show

#supernatural #long post #spn #britnatural #british comedy

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Defenders of the 1980s/1990s

1) Winona Ryder as Jessica Jones

2) Michael Biehn  as Matt Murdock / Daredevil 

3) Wesley Snipes as Carl Lucas / Luke Cage

4) Alex Winter as Danny Rand / Iron Fist

5) Ming-Na Wen as Colleen Wing 

6) Vivica A. Fox as Misty Knight 

7) Michael Keaton as Frank Castle / The Punisher 

#the defenders #Daredevil #Jessica Jones #Luke Cage #Iron Fist #Matt Murdock #carl lucas #danny rand #colleen wing #misty knight #frank castle #the punisher #fancast #1990s #nineties #1980s #eighties

[palmviolet]

Odd question..but how would you feel about a lesbian!Jopper AU lol

omg well as a lesbian myself this automatically appeals to me sksksksk

it would change a lot about the show, obviously, because a lot about the jopper dynamic is predicated on joyce’s condescending treatment by authority simply because she is a woman, and hopper being a man within the authority that actually takes the time to believe her and uses his privilege for good. if they were both women it would be more of a ‘the two of us against the world’ dynamic (more so than it is already, because there is an element of that there) which i would LOVE. 

okay so jane? jane hopper? im not settled on that, but let’s go with it, there’s no way she’s chief. she’s a secretary, probably, given this is the early eighties. her investigation into will’s disappearance is led by the fact that the chief - a lazy, sexist asshole - isn’t doing anything about it. it’s completely off-book, so she can’t rely on sheer police presence to get her way. she has to fight every step of the way. 

it would make her treatment of joyce so interesting. because on the one hand, she understands so completely the experience of being condescended and treated like shit by male authority, so she’d be more likely to see her side, to believe her. but on the other hand, she’s a woman in a male-dominated career, so she’s probably started to internalise some of that sexist rhetoric, when she was trying to get ahead in new york - she might even look down on joyce for a bit, for being so emotional. god i love this dynamic

obviously she can’t be a vietnam veteran, so it changes things there and also with high school jopper, depending on your thoughts on it...... 

see female hopper can’t be as messy as jim is. yes, in private absolutely. but if she is a complete mess in her job then she’ll be fired, unlike jim. and when she gets her act together..... wow. when she finally believes joyce it is POWERFUL. they’re so good together.

mentally im fancasting gillian anderson, because YES:

im thinking that maybe jane hopper is doubly sceptical of bob because he’s a man, and hasn’t joyce had enough crappy experiences with men in her time? (cough cough lonnie) jane and joyce made out a few times in high school and it never went further than that, and neither jane nor joyce know if the other actually likes women or if it was just a high school thing. remember, this is the 80s. but somehow they realise.... idk how yet but i LOVE THIS SO MUCH

i might try making some gifs for this au ngl.....

anyway thank you for blessing me with this concept <3

#joyce byers #jopper #jim hopper #jopper au #gillian anderson #asks

[faustandfurious]

Do you think Tuor rejuvenated when he went to Aman?

(My initial thought upon opening this ask was “Why on earth would Thor go to Aman?” but that, and my subsequent accidental fancast of Loki as Maeglin, is a can of worms I’m not prepared to open in this post)

According to Tolkien Gateway, Tuor was 53 years old when he sailed west with Idril. The easy thing would be to compare him to Aragorn, who even in his eighties looked fairly young, but Aragorn was graced with the longevity of the Men of Numenor, who were descended from Elros, and his lifespan is therefore not comparable to that of the First Age Edain.

Bëor the Old died of natural causes at the age of 93, and was considered to be very old at that point, hence the nickname. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the lifespan of the Edain matches up with the lifespan of real-world humans, and that Tuor at 53 would biologically be pretty similar to a man in his fifties in our society. That he “felt old age creep upon him” could easily be interpreted as him saying that he wanted to make the journey to westward before he would be hampered by old age.

There is generally speaking nothing physically wrong with being biologically in your fifties. Any potential loss of vitality in a 50-year-old would be caused by sickness, to which Tuor would have been impervious once he was counted amongst the Eldar. With a wife who’s at least 600 years old (not going into the exact duration of the Years of the Trees here because that’s a mess), I’m fairly certain he wouldn’t have minded looking his age either, to seem closer to Idril in terms of experience and maturity. So there isn’t necessarily much reason for him to be rejuvenated, but I guess the jury’s still out on that.

The real question here is: Did he get to keep his beard when he switched species?

#tuor #idril #silmarillion #tolkien #anonymous elf #answered #meta

[travllingbunny]

Book-accurate fancast: Bob Morley as Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day

Thanks to @folie-lex for making the manip of Bob (and Colin Firth as Darcy in Pride and Prejudice), I couldn’t do it with my poor Photoshop skills.

#bob morley #wuthering heights #heathcliff #heathcliff fancast #wuthering heights fancast #emily bronte #stop whitewashing #poc fancast #anti whitewashing #it would be cool if someone did a faithful adaptation of the novel #without whitewashing Heathcliff in either meaning of the word #but it's probably never gonna happen #he would be perfect not just for his looks but for his talent and presence #you need a lot of intensity and emotion for that role #dream fancast

[myscalesofjustice]

With the announcement of a new Ghoulia doll, I think I’m gonna post my headcanons and predictions for her reboot persona before Mattel makes them obsolete. I already posted about her being autistic, so this should be the other stuff:

I’m garbage at fancasting, but my first choice to voice her is Jad Saxton.

Ghoulia is a traditional zombie, sometimes pretentiously called a “Purebred,” which is a dead human risen from the grave by black magic. They are capable of fluent movement and speech, and can virally turn humans into zombies by a bite or scratch, a la Moanica’s Zomboyz.

She is physically and emotionally 14 instead of 16, and becomes a freshman at MH.

She still likes fast food, but is more partial to diablo-level spicy burritos than burgers.

As a human, her name was Julia, and she lived with her parents in a tiny Louisianan town. She doesn’t have much of an accent, but there’s a light Cajun twang in her vowels.

Ma Yelps comes from a long line of voodoo witches. Like monsterkind, they were pushed into the world’s dark corners during the Great Fright Flight, but being normies in all but ability allowed them to live out in the open as long as they did it quietly. She owned a homeopathy shop and told the occasional fortune.

Pa Yelps was a terminally average, pencil-pushing accountant. Knowing just how vanilla he was, he delighted in being married to an extraordinary woman like Ma Yelps.

Ghoulia and her father died in the mid-fifties, but were easily resurrected as the undead by Ma. The two of them cannot recall the whole event, but since Ma doesn’t like to talk about it, they don’t press it.

Although not a physically hybrid, having a zombie father and a human mother makes Ghoulia biracial by picky Monster standards.

After turning her husband and daughter into zombies, Ma naturally had to relocate the Yelps into the bayous to hide better. They lived there for four and a half decades, Ghoulia and Pa remaining the same, what with being dead, and Ma revitalizing herself with…mostly cruelty-free magic.

By the late eighties, the Yelps were forced to move again. This time, they crossed the border into Mexico.

Ghoulia got separated from her parents while looking for monsters, and took up residency in the nearest cemetery, to wait until they came back.

Here she would adopted a black rooster and name him Gree-Gree. (Sorry, Sir Hoots-a-Lot!)

She got her hands on some junked electronics to repurpose into a “nerd crypt” by making nice with the half-blind old caretaker. He thinks her pasty skin, blue hair and glowing eyes are the kids’ newfangled fashion.

Her gaming persona is a Mary Sue, but a legend in MMORPG circles.

After a few years, Moanica and her Zomboy army came to conquer Ghoulia’s cemetery. Rather than toss her out, the D’Kay girl decided having another Purebred Zombie around would be refreshing change, so she declared herself Hermana and made herself at home. Moanica is not a good tombmate and a worse big sis, but Ghoulia doesn’t want to be left alone again.

And I’m pretty sure that’s everything. Do your worst, Mattel.

#FYI black chickens are important in voodoo #Monster High #Ghoulia Yelps #Moanica D'Kay #MH #Mattel

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Howard Wilkinson success could be replicated if SWFC appoint reported manager target - opinion

This article is part of Football FanCast’s Pundit View series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent quotes from journalists, pundits, players and managers…

Leon Wobschall, of the Yorkshire Post, believes that Lincoln City manager Danny Cowley has the potential to be the ‘new Howard Wilkinson’ at Sheffield Wednesday, should he be appointed.

What’s he said?

The Owls enter the international break with an air of uncertainty hanging over caretaker boss Lee Bullen’s head after his side endured a poor run of results towards the end of August.

Pressure appears to be mounting on the 48-year-old’s head following three defeats in four matches in the Championship, which has led to rumours circulating in the press about who their next manager could be.

Early in the week, it was Tony Pulis, who The Sun claimed would be revisited should Bullen face the axe, but Sky Sports then reported that the club were in ‘advanced talks’ with Cowley.

Wobschall has weighed in with his own thoughts following this week’s news, declaring he could replicate Wilkinson’s footsteps of yesteryear, he said:

“Sheffield Wednesday followers will recall some heady days in the mid-Eighties under one-time Abbeydale School master Howard Wilkinson with genuine fondness to this day.

“The call of home-town club Wednesday proved irresistible for Wilkinson in 1983 when he was at an almost identical age to what the older and more senior Cowley brother is now at 40 and possessed a similar background in the game after starting out in non-league circles at Boston United before moving onto Notts County.”

Would help to resonate with the fanbase

The paths of these two managers, despite being over two decades apart is eerily similar, and if Cowley does get the job, it could help him settle right in at Hillsborough.

Wilkinson is regarded as one of Wednesday’s most successful managers having led the club to Division One for the first time in 14 years back in 1984.

The Owls have been without Premier League football since 2000, so if Cowley were to come in and replicate that he would have followed suit, but instead banishing an even longer period of time.

The fact that he would be following in the very same footsteps as Wilkinson, having been a school teacher and then working his way up through non-league football, will only help the fanbase resonate with a man that has never managed higher than the level he’s currently at.

If Cowley is appointed then the stars could well align.

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  Set in 2017: Based on Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Winston Smith (Gary Oldman) loses his identity while living in a repressive society. Smith is a government employee whose job is to rewrite history in a way that positively portrays his country’s leaders. His love affair with Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) gives him his only escape, and in a society like that, there is no escaping Big Brother.

I elected to set my fancast / story in 2017 because with each passing day, Orwell’s novel is looking more like reality. From doublethink to to newspeak to its depiction of people’s freedom (or lack of), Nineteen Eighty-Four looks like it belongs in the nonfiction section of the library and every bookshop.

A Few of Orwell’s Predictions

Telescreens

In the novel, there what we’d call televisions. The two-way screens in the story are called telescreens. They’re in everybody’s home and used for entertainment. However, Big Brother is always watching, making it impossible to do anything without him knowing about it.

Our televisions don’t this (do they?). Though, modern computers, smartphones, laptops and other portable devices do. They can be easily hacked, as shown by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden who exposed the NSA’s illegal surveillance programme in 2013. Our activities online are vulnerable and anyone can see our history, our emails, and follow our whereabouts with GPS.

Newspeak

Newspeak is media talk. It props up the totalitarian government through a language that the masses can’t really understand but still blindly follow. It takes out negative phrases and terminology to erase the chance of “crimethink” (rebellious thoughts against the system). e.g. Bad is “ungood”.

It encourages a way of thinking that makes most not question what they’re hearing. The media today uses the same methods to entice consumers. Network news stations (BBC, CNN, Fox) use certain words / turn of phrase to describe a certain person or group of people that incites praise or disdain for the said party.

Both British and American news programmes like to smear the Islamic faith when a terrorist attack occurs on European or American soil. This leads to Islamophobia, fear-mongering and the association between the religion and violent crimes.

War Is Peace

There are three nations: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. And two of them are always fighting at any one time. Wars are ongoing and when a new conflict starts the populous tends to forget about the previous war, focusing on the current one which leaves the planet in perpetual turmoil. Sound familiar?

Proles / Proletarians (Modern Society’s Mass Populous)

USA’s Mr Robot highlighted the fact that most people are happy when they’re clueless. Nobody really cares about injustice unless it is directly happening to them. The Proles in Nineteen Eighty-Four are a group of workers who are happy knowing nothing.

Big Brother pays them no mind because they don’t cause a fuss or any trouble, as long as they are fed. In modern society, they could be a symbol of the masses blindly following anything as long as they get paid. And this can be said for both the working and middle classes.

The Brotherhood

Whether we’re talking about religion, the media, or politics to name few, where there’s leaders there are followers not far behind. Organisations like Anonymous come to mind when one says “rebellion”, often portrayed as a nuisance hacker group who hide behind V for Vendetta masks worn by the comic’s lead character, V.

The Brotherhood in Nineteen Eighty-Four oppose the party much alike how groups like Anonymous keep to the shadows, as shown in Mr Robot’s fight against corporate America. Though V, in V for Vendetta (the comic at least) was a vigilante who showed society that the system can be beaten. Although, governments paint these secret groups as sinister, they’re just activists.

Once upon a time, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King were painted as terrorists. Even cricket players like Viv Richards were labelled as that too. They were just people fighting for their rights in trying to create a better world, a fairer one, through protest.

Some did it through marches, some through physical violence (a grey area) and others through sport. Someone once said: “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” and it begs the question what really is terrorism? And it shows what we now define as terrorism has changed over time.

My Cast

Narrator

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Creator: Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror)

Writers: Charlie Brooker & Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders)

Series Director: Lewis Arnold (Humans)

Musical Score: Max Richter (Taboo)

Main Characters

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Number of  Seasons: One

Number of Episodes: Six

Cinematographer: Simon Dennis (Peaky Blinders)

Distribution: BBC Two (UK) & FX (US)

Supporting Characters

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Production: BBC Wales

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Running Time: 60 mins

Certificate: 15

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“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”

George Orwell

Fancasting British Literature: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Set in 2017: Based on Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Winston Smith (Gary Oldman) loses his identity while living in a repressive society.