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wykart · 4 years

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Oneshot fic where I try to piece together Thirteen’s character post spyfall part 2, and extend the episode’s final scene. (read on ao3)

The Promise

She stands, bathed in blue, with three pairs of eyes boring holes into her back. Inquisitive eyes, reproachful, skeptical. Dissatisfied. She thinks that’s probably fair enough.

Behind her, the ship puts on a pale imitation of its usual golden hue – which is partly her fault, because the strength of her anguish resonates within the temporal engines. The ship mourns with her. It had been her home too.

She’s taken on more than she can handle; three humans – she hasn’t had to deal with that many at once in a long while. It’s exhausting, because behind her back, they talk. They conspire. They formulate attacks in the form of questions and furrowed brows. It’s her against them, and it has been for a while now. Her against them; how had it ever come to this? Friends or enemies? She’s always found it difficult to tell the difference.

It would be easy, perhaps, to drop them back on Earth, waltz off with a grin and a lie through bared teeth, and never return. She’s done it before.

But the promise she made claws at her, raging at her behind pale eyes. Eyebrows; with his lined face and harsh expression – easy to intimidate, with a face like that. Easy to lie. She craves that mask of lines, that icy stare. Maybe if she still wore that face, they wouldn’t ask so many questions.

He wanted to die, old Eyebrows had, and she’s starting to think that maybe he had the right idea. “Be a Doctor,” She had promised, but she doesn’t feel like the Doctor anymore. It all just feels like a game.

And what was the rest of the promise? Never be cruel, never be cowardly... oh, but she is a coward – she’s been afraid of the dark since she was a boy, and she’s been running for – how long? About three thousand years, half of her assures (more like four and a half billion, the other half answers). And – though this is harder to admit – she is cruel. She’s crueller, colder, older. Be a Doctor, but the Doctor is a lie. Now more than ever, she’s hiding behind a title. For the first time, stranded without her friends, marooned in history, the cruelty had boiled over, and she’d found that she was full of so much of it that it scared her, but she couldn’t stop it from spilling out. At least the Master knows he’s cruel, he revels in the fact. She is something worse, because she’s convinced herself that her cruelty is some sort of justice. Some sort of twisted kindness, because the rules of time are not hers, and she is just a traveller. Walking away, in Montgomery and the Punjab, leaving a young boy to burn and a horde of innocent creatures to starve, that was cruel, but it was necessary, because sometimes she loses. Because the rules of time were never hers.

Wiping Ada’s mind should have shaken her, it should have reminded her of pleading eyes and words of power; Donna, Clara, Bill. But it didn’t. (If you ever stop, I think the universe might just go cold). And what if I go cold, she asks no one, what happens to the universe then?

Always try to be nice. This one, she has down to an art. She can’t remember ever being nicer. She’s bubbly and hopeful and sweet - at least, when her friends are around. When she’s putting on a show, because the Doctor is a lie. Even when she’s cruel, she’s sweet. She’s nice. All wicked smile and steely eyes, teasing. A trickster’s stare. It was fun, at first, the youth, the constant movement and chatter and quirky quips. It was fun, because they didn’t question her. She revelled in their awe and their reverence in a way that filled her with sour guilt. She kept herself mysterious, confident, infallible. Vague. She stuck to the rules, when her friends were around. No weapons, no interference. Hasn’t she already seen where breaking the rules can get her? She is just a traveler; not a god or a monster or an impossible hero. Not anymore. She’s holding herself in, but the shell is too small. Jagged edges of her past jut through the edges of her silhouette, so she keeps her friends distracted. She keeps them moving and she never stays for tea, because the quiet is when questions are asked, and linear time makes her head ache and her fingers twitch. She’s hooked on the adventure. The lie. (It is Clara, she answers an old question, weary, it is like an addiction).

Never fail to be kind. But she was always failing. She’s told her friends who she is, using empty words robbed of their usual pride and significance. Her voice and her manner had been waspish, impatient. Cruel. (There, happy?). Their unending curiosity, their kindness, it grated against her in a way that told her she was becoming something awful. She holds them, her new best friends, at arm's reach, and never closer, because she knows what happens when she lets herself get too invested.

Oh, and never tell anyone your name. Well, that’s one promise she can keep - because everyone who can understand the cadence of her true name is dead. Killed by the only other person who still knows it. She will never be able to tell anyone her name again.

Laugh hard. She’s done all sorts of laughing. Triumphant exclamations of wonder, because she’s just a traveller, and everything is new to these dark eyes, everything inspires hope. Belly-clutching, strained reels of laughter when her friends are cracking jokes. When they’re travelling, never stopping, never still. The real sort of laughter comes when she’s alone. Low, cruel chuckles to the enemy that roil in her gut, that make her feel alive. Wind whistling through newly spun blonde hair, cold air against new bared teeth, old tattered clothes hanging loose as she shed the one she was before. It was a good feeling, intimidating. Darkness biting through the nice.

Run fast. She’s faster than ever. She’s running so fast that she can barely keep up with herself. Hands always moving, fixing, tweaking, tinkering. Mouth running off at a hundred miles an hour spouting tidbits and anecdotes that even she isn’t sure are truth or lie. That night on the train, she had hit the ground running, and hasn’t stopped since. Not until she’d taken a trip home, and she’s stopped dead in her tracks. All the adrenaline she’s been running off it gone, now. All she has is anger.

Be kind. And that’s the most difficult part of all. Nice is just a show you put on to the people around you, and pretending is easy. Kindness is deeper, and difficult to fake. Difficult, especially, because she can feel him – the Master – in the back of her mind like an itch, gloating. The ghost of a laugh, bright and spitting and maniacal, because this is exactly what he wanted. Where he is, that dark, dead dimension, the walls are thin. He can see her. Exiled to an unknown dimension, foiled and hopeless and alone, he’s still won. Laughing. Gloating. (Why would it stop). He tore apart the life she’d been building, ripped away the veil to show a glimpse of her true face; to her friends, and to herself. And she hates him. She hates him so much she wants to scream. Who is he but a reminder that it can never, ever stop. The grief and the running, and her, growing colder by the moment. A snarl twists at her face. She’s all anger, prowling, body wracked with energy that makes her want to break something, break him. The thought only makes him laugh harder.

“Doctor?” A voice that doesn’t come from inside her head. A voice without the bite of the telepathic. Simple, human. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

It’s Yaz. The Doctor turns, blinking against the golden light of the console and its amber pillars. Graham and Ryan stand under its canopy, concern knotted through their features. Yaz is closer, because she’s the only one who’s brave enough. Her eyes are wide and dark and kind. The sort of kind she hasn’t been in a long while.

“Yeah, I’m okay. I’m just tired, it’s been a long few days.” Five days, five planets. No trouble, just relaxing. She did it for them rather than herself, because her ideal vacation involved a lot more running and danger and mystery. Instead of sickly sweet ice cream and soft golden sands, she craved blood and ash, the slick oil and grease of weathered machines, the smell of fear and panic. The calm and emboldening feeling of being in charge, weaving together a solution, saving the day and bounding off on the next adventure. The past five days have been hell, because hell is quiet. Hell is being left to your own devices and thoughts and left to stew out in the sun like the the rocks baking on the shoreline by her faded luxury deck chair. Decaying. And all the while, his laughter, echoing inside her skull.

“Doctor?” The voice tries again, impatient.

“Hmm?” She murmurs, absently meandering back towards the console, looking for something to tinker with. Something to do with their hands to make herself look busy. Behind her back, she feels them shifting, casting glances at each other that speak a thousand words. Inwardly, she sighs. Friends or enemies?

Graham is the first to venture forth. “Look, I, err, we” – he amends, and nods pass between her friends, still behind her back – “we’ve been meanin’ to ask you something.” Of course it’s him, the most skeptical. She sees the way he looks at her, the way he worries. It’s true that she prefers the company of the young, because the young haven’t yet had the chance to learn what old eyes look like. They don’t recognise those eyes in her. “Why are you travelling with us, I mean really…” Because you were there. You were human and you were there and I was lonely, she doesn’t say, because that would be cruel.

“Yeah, and who are you? We’ve tried asking’ so many times but you always dodge the question.” Ryan cuts across, emboldened. She turns around, away from the nothing she was doing with her hands. She stares at them and tries to look nice, but fails to look kind.

“‘Cause we’re putting’ our metaphorical foot down, Doc,” Graham says, with a hint of a smile. Keeping it light. “We’ve been talkin’, and we think, if we’re gonna keep on travellin’ together, we should get to know who we’re travellin’ with.” There was a time when they wouldn’t have dared. They were so caught up in the adventure and so scared that it was going to end that they would never have asked her that question, not when she’d been so adamantly obvious about dodging it. They were afraid to lose her, but now, they know just how much power they hold. Her against them. They know she’s lonely, that she needs them just as much – maybe more – than they need her. Running from grief, from abandonment, from boredom. Human problems. Simple reasons. The other reason they are asking now is, she knows, because they’re afraid. She slipped up. All that time carefully calibrating the ultimate TARDIS experience; controlled, self-contained adventures, and never to those voluminous corners of the galaxy where the people knew her name; in reverence or in fear, because she’s just a traveller. Now they know that she can make mistakes, that she has a history, old enemies. It scares them, because they wanted, needed to believe that she was infallible. It made following her seemingly arbitrary and ever-shifting rules all too easy. Now, suddenly, travelling is difficult. Scary. Real.

“Not that we don’t want to keep on travellin’ with you,” Yaz assures her with that officer calm. “We just think we’re entitled to know a bit more, seein’ as you know us so well.”

“And I don’t mean some made up words that don’t mean anythin’ to us” Ryan says. Gallifrey, Kasterberous, Time Lord – what did any of that mean to them? Nothing, especially when her voice had been so cold, deflated, deflective. Trying to make them feel guilty for daring to ask. “I mean, why are you runnin’?” What a question... Of course, he doesn’t realise what he’s asking, the gravity of it. Boredom or exile or fear – or a mixture of all three. (And why, he asks, with his eyes, not his mouth, because he can’t quite articulate the feeling, why do we trust you?) It had been going so well. In her head, the Master laughs some more, and she doesn’t know whether he’s really there or if she’s imagining it.

“And who were you before we met you?” Yaz asks, eyes softening, begging her. “Who were you before that night on the train?” It’s the final question that makes her muscles seize up and her eyes go cold. It’s what makes the anger bubble to the surface and the laugher break from background noise to a shrill cackling inside her head. She had been a white-haired scottsman, and she made a promise. A contract, and she’d broken every clause.

“Why should I have to tell you?” She snaps. Maybe the ferocity should surprise her, but it doesn’t. Cruelty is becoming normal, for her, something that’s always lurking there, just below the surface. Yaz steps back from her stare, shocked. “I’m just a traveller, didn’t I already say, I’m nobody. Isn’t this enough for you?” she pleads, and he laughs. “Aren’t you having fun?” a different angle, because they can’t deny that. It’s been fun, it’s been lighthearted. It’s been good. “Why can’t you just let me be this?” her voice comes in strangled, breaking gasps, because there isn’t just cruelty under the surface, there’s grief as well. “Why can’t you just let me leave it all behind?” The ship rages beneath her; lights flashing, sparks spitting, crystalline pillars spiralling with blue and harsh red. It casts them all in shadow. The remnants of her voice rings out in the hollow space, the ship whirring back into silence, echoing her, understanding her like none of her new friends ever will.

In the silence, Graham hums, his mouth folded into a line. Ryan is staring at the ground, chest rising and falling with subsiding panic. Worse, though, is Yaz, because she’s staring right at her. There’s no fear in her eyes, just kindness and a twisted sort of satisfaction. Her face says ‘I was right,’ and in her cruellest moment yet, the Doctor hates her for it.

“I’m sorry – I…” she knows what she has to do, and all her previous faces are looking at her in disdain. In disgust. Shut up, she swats their images away. They aren’t her, not anymore. The Doctor is a lie, and she is just a traveller. “Yaz, I’m really, really sorry,” she whispers, voice like silk. Beckoning. The girl can’t resist.

“I know, it’s okay,” Yaz smiles, walking forwards. But the Doctor isn’t apologising for what she said, instead, she’s apologising for what she’s about to do, because she won’t get the chance after it’s done. More faces; Donna, Clara, Bill. Ada. She ignores them, and takes comfort in the cruelty of the act.

The Doctor reaches out, and Yaz leans in to her touch, thinking that she’s offering comfort. The Doctor places outstretched fingers against her temple and searches her mind. As she sifts through her timeline, the act pressed into the space of a moment, it occurs to her that she could pick apart the strands of her memories and pluck out the parts that don’t fit. The doubts, the fear. The time she spent in that horrible dimension; lost and alone in the endless forest. She could make her better. The ship hums a dissonant note; a warning, and she realises that she isn’t quite that cruel. Not yet, anyway. She only takes the past minute. It’s barely a touch upon her mind, barely a dent, so she stays conscious. Yaz sways for a moment, dizzy, while the Doctor strides over to the two boys. They aren’t paying attention. They’re talking amongst themselves in low, harsh whispers. Behind her back. Her against them.

There’s a moment when they notice her purposeful steps clanging against the metal floor, and they look up. They see her expression; flat and cold. Unyielding; and their eyes flash with fear. Graham opens his mouth to speak, but before he can, she raises both hands towards their heads. She takes Ryan in one hand and Graham in the other; outstretched arms reaching, the pads of her fingers running over the surface of their thoughts as their eyes brush closed. She could take back the memory of the Master, the panic on the plane, the bone-burrowing fear of being on the run - but she doesn’t. She thinks she will regret it later, when she’s grown a little colder still.

In their moment of confusion, time rewinding, she takes her position at the top of the stairs. The blue light on her face feels right, it feels honest. She waits for their eyes to open and adjust, once again trained on her back, and she walks away before they can pose their carefully constructed questions. She leaves them standing under the fading gold of the console, sharing those transparent, conspiratorial glances, forming a new plan to get her cornered. Her against them. She makes a new promise, and the promise is this; they can never know. You are nobody. You are just a traveller.

The Doctor is a lie, and they can never know.

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ghostofyaz · 8 months

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kiss, kiss, kiss.

Kissy babies! I love them so much! This one has been in the works forever and I feel like it came out very nicely.

Full transparency, I stole the Zaun background on the first pic from Arcane and enhanced it a little. Because I was too lazy to redraw the whole thing.

Anyhow, check out my links below!

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newwhoreview2016 · 4 years

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The Ghost Monument

Ghost monument

Sticking everyone in space for ages only a few episodes after Oxygen seems reckless. Having them all rescued without an infinite improbability drive seems implausible. Or is it supposed to evoke Douglas Adams? Does Chibnall think he’s doing Hitch Hiker here? Or Blake’s 7? Or Farscape? Or Firefly?

Everything is instantly very fast paced as two spaceships head for Desolation. The second one manages to crash onto the exact point where Ryan, Graham and Angstrom are standing, which is irritatingly convenient.

Have we had the concept of a universal translator in Who before? It feels very generically sci fi.

Then we meet Art Malik, a great actor totally wasted. He’s got some good lines and delivers them well, but no actual point except exposition. The Doctor starts rabbiting on in a surprisingly annoying manner and the plot, such as it is, is revealed. Cross the planet, reach the final square, do not pass Go.

Yeah, I’m liking individual moments in a tedious plot. The Venusian aikido bit is lovely. Ryan’s Call of Duty moment is really well played. On the other hand, Epzo’s story about his mum is stupidly on the nose and only almost saved by the Doctor’s “stronger together” button.

Oh, these names? Epzo? Angstrom? Ilin? This makes Terry Nation’s naming seem good. And the clanging exposition just carries on - there’s a startling bit with Yaz talking about her family.

Half an hour in and I just keep thinking of negative things to say which is upsetting. The seriousness with which Jodie Whittaker is forced to the claim that the robots with guns are – gasp – sniperbots! The fact that Epzo doesn’t convince as someone who’d survive round one of this contest. Using the sonic to turn a wheel for no reason.

A big mystery is repeatedly set up about what happened on this planet, but then the answer turns out to be depressingly predictable, although I had forgotten that the Stenza were involved. That doesn’t really go anywhere, does it? And there are sentient pieces of cloth which seem to be the main monster of the story.

The Timeless Child...what’s that about, then?

Then the story just - ends. Our three guest stars blink out of existence. It’s unsatisfying.

Structurally, ending episode 2 by revealing the TARDIS is a great idea. Unfortunately, the new interior is a little underwhelming.

Next week: 1955, Montgomery, Alabama

#doctor who #jodie whittaker #chris chibnall

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angryrabbit42 · 5 years

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Tag Me

If you like, tag ten people you’d like to know better! I was tagged by

@paigenotblank and I’m always trying to figure out this participation thing so why not?

Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first four songs.

Critical Mistakes - 888

You Might be the Killer - HARLO

DUI - The OffSpring

Every Other Freckle - Alt-J

Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 23, line 27.

Again Yaz’s intuition told her something had gone wrong, something more than just the Tardis being less reliable than the 32A bus. (The Good Doctor - Juno Dawson)

Ever had a song or a poem written about you?

I had an ex record a snippet of music into a Build-a-Bear for me. It’s very moody and I still love it.

When was the last time you played air guitar?

Um... wow. Long time.

Celebrity crushes? (I don’t really do crushes... can we do faves?)

David Tennant

Elizabeth Gillies

Richard Dean Anderson (gotta love MacGyver)

Sounds I hate/love?

Hate: babies or cats crying. I cannot stand high pitched sounds. Kills me.

Love: loud music, rain sounds, the Doctor Who theme... Loads of things.

Do you drive, and have you ever crashed?

Yes. I’ve never crashed my car. I have hit someone. I was driving home in the rain and a gold pickup had stopped dead in the middle of the street. I moved left to get in the turning lane and not hit them, and they chose that moment to turn left. I hit their back quarter panel and they U-turned out of there. Scary AF

Last book you read?

Combat Magicks - Steve Cole (I know it’s all DW)

Do you believe in ghosts?

I used to... My brother and mother see ghosts. I’ve been haunted before. But whether that is an actual ghost, a psychic projection or latent telekinesis, how can one know?

Do you believe in aliens?

I believe in them. I don’t think they’re here yet... Except for the Doctor of course.

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Nope. It’s up acrid and not fun, like cologne.

Last movie you saw?

Babylon 5: In the Beginning (I don’t watch a lot of movies and I am bullying everyone I know into watching Babylon5.)

Do you have an obsession right now?

I’m obsessed with loads of things: Knitting, Digital Art, Writing, Doctor Who, General Hospital, Babylon5, Good Omens, David & Georgia Tennant, TeenWolf, the list is endless. I do not like things. I love or loathe that is all. Oh, Star vs the Forces of Evil

Do you tend to hold grudges?

If I never see you, I’ll never think about it again. But yeah, I do, especially if you hurt a friend. They may forgive you but I won’t, not ever.

I’m tagging the following, but there’s no obligation unless you’d like to participate: @julibellule @marinxttes @spoonietimelordy @sunniebelle @darthtella @stevesharington @vorlonfucker

#no pressure #fun games

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comixconnection · 5 years

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One of the classics of comic book history, in this FCBD special Little Lulu is as bold, troublesome, and adventurous as ever! Despite being created in the 1930s, Lulu remains an empowering little girl: assertive, independent, and imbued with expert comedic timing, Lulu was a defining comic of post-war America today this protofeminist icon is ready to bring her gags and giggles to a new audience with a collection of reprints starting later this year. Get in on this not-so-lost treasure early. Want more? Sign-up for the upcoming first volume now, or begin with the John Stanley: Giving His Life to Little Lulu HC and learn about her seminal creator and the history he and Lulu influenced. [ALL AGES]

In this one-shot issue, the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends find themselves in an interstellar amusement park for some rest and recreation (and don’t forget the snacks!) until a rigged game of chance exposes a darker underside to all the shiny, happy fun. Can Yaz, Ryan, Graham, and the newest incarnation of the BBC’s famous Time Lord save the day? Find out here! Want more? Grab an issue of the new Thirteenth Doctor series off the rack, or explore the exploits of the previous twelve incarnations in some of our collected adventures off the shelf or by special order! [ALL AGES]

Written, drawn, and colored by legally blind (no, really!) New Zealander Richard Fairgray, Blastosaurus is the story of the titular mutant triceratops with fists of fury and a heart of gold and the two young kids who become his best friends. Overcoming his beastly nature, good ol' Blasto fights monsters, vampires, and mad scientists who use farts as a weapon. The result is a fun comic with a goofy sense of humor where anything is possible. Think Hellboy running through a MAD Magazine, with a little bit of the bizarreness of Creepy or Eerie thrown in. If you like dinosaurs, punching evil, and think flatulence is funny, this is the book for you (and your kids)! Want more? Grab a collection, or dig into the recent back issue bins for some single issues! [ALL AGES]

This treasury of British comics stacks-up a monstrous plethora of humorous hi-jinks, from sharks to soccer to super heroes and back again! In the grand tradition of classic comic strip funnies, this packed-to-the-brim collection of short tales is ready to tickle your funny bone from dawn to dusk to full moon! [ALL AGES]

Co-created by football star (or “soccer” for we uncultured Americans) Cristiano Ronaldo, this new secret super team stars a fictional version of the famed kicker turning his sports skills toward world-protecting. It’s bright, silly, and kids-centric, fleshed-out with sidekicks like the super-baseball bat-weilding Sita Shaolin and the hammerhead shark-headed hockey stick-swinging Kaiju King, but the key of the team is the power-borrowing sphere that Ronaldo has to deliver to the bad guys via his super soccer kicking skills! Think Teen Titans Go, but with football (soccer). Want more? Keep your eyes peeled for more Striker Force 7 comics in the near future! [ALL AGES]

Brought to you by the producers and animators of the hit TV show and features all your favorite characters; Bob, Linda, Tina, Gene & Louise, this issue reprints three impossible Bob’s Burgers stories: one featuring a carnival ride that does a lot more than just spin, one that involves a magic wish melting with regret, and one of Tina’s fanfiction extravaganzas! Want more? Order one of the earlier Bob’s Burgers collections and relive watching the show all over again! [ALL AGES]

The world of Marvel’s movies might have reached an end point for the moment, but things for the comic book Avengers are dicier than ever! Preview upcoming adventures for two series in this issue. First, Tony Stark finds himself facing eerily familiar faces in a time he never wanted to see, while Namor and the Squadron Supreme heat up the oceans and Captain America and Captain Marvel lead a team of heroes deep into Shi’ar space! Then, read the first chapter of the new Savage Avengers series staring such “classic” Avengers characters as Wolverine, Elektra, Punisher, Venom, Blade, and...Conan!? There’s no slowing these heroes down, True Believers! Want more? Grab the first issue of Savage Avengers off the shelves today, or dive into the ongoing Avengers title for adventures both near and far! [TEEN]

Read the full first issue of Hope, a brand-new ongoing superhero comic. The “Ultras” first showed up five years ago, changing the world with their powers. Some people love them, some people fear them, but for unassuming mom Julie Lavelle they were a carefully-guarded secret...until the car accident that changed everything. Where will the ultra named Hope go from here, and with so much loss will she be able to find her namesake within herself ever again? Find out here, than come back later this summer for Issue #2 where things, somehow, get worse! [TEEN]

Two of television’s most beloved series (one long-running and one far, far too short) return to comics! First, preview the new Firefly series set before the tragic events of the Serenity movie that reveals some ugly skeletons from Mal and Zoe’s wartime closets and strains the crew’s bonds like never before. Then, go back to Sunnydale where everything old is new again with a modern reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is back in high school again for the first time, surrounded by familiar faces...but how different will things be when she’s slaying in 2019 instead of 1997? Enjoy a modern twist with a classic taste (of blood!) and grab your stakes...and browncoats! Want more? Find the first issues of either series on the shelf today, or delve into the classic collections of the previous Dark Horse stories. [TEEN]

This two-for-one issue explores both the darker and lighter sides of the Spider-Man mythos! In the first story, prepare yourself for danger as Eddie Brock introduces us to the brutal beginning of Absolute Carnage, a Venom-event starting this August. Then enjoy the lighter side of super-heroics as Miles Morales and Peter Parker face-off over an epic conflict of their own...who really has the best pizza in NYC? Want more? Check out the latest issues of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales Spider-Man, Venom, or Amazing Spider-Man on the shelves today -- or read-up on previous events in our extensive collection of various spider-rific comics! [TEEN]

What if experiencing a school shooting was so traumatic that it, and other natural and human-produced horrors of the 21st century, actually triggered superpowers to manifest in the survivors? That is the brainstorm behind Humanoid’s first ongoing comics initiative, H1. This FCBD “Ignition” preview gives us a story about these brand-new superheroes (and villains!) trying to find their place in the world...and they aren’t content to stand by and watch the status quo! Also take a behind-the-scenes peek into the creative process and characters of this blisteringly topical political premise: Spearheaded by comic book legend Mark Waid, Humanoids looks ready to break into the superhero market with a set of relevant and wholly original stories. Want more? Sign-up for the first issue next month’s debut of Ignited now. [TEEN]

It’s School Picture Day in Riverdale, and that of course means drama -- but there might be more at work today than Cheryl Blossom’s demands for more flattering lighting! When nasty notes turn up anonymously dropped in the yearbook suggestion box, will our small town friends be able to stick together and solve the case, or will someone do something that everyone will regret? The new Riverdale: Season Three comic series features adventures set between the episodes of the hit show, and as always in the town of Riverdale the moment you start digging for answers the more secrets you expose! Also enjoy some behind-the-scenes sneak peeks as well as an excerpt from the prequel novel Riverdale: The Day Before. Want more? Grab the latest issue of the new Riverdale series off the rack, or explore our variety of collected editions from the traditional Archie Digests to the modern re-vamp of the Archie and Sabrina series and, of course, the show-inspired Riverdale comic itself! [TEEN]

Canada's perennial titular superhero has seen sporadic publication since its creation in 1975, but has been appearing more consistently since 2015 as part of Chapterhouse Comics. This preview of the newest Captain Canuck series starts with a "top secret" dossier to catch you up on recent in-world history, as well as background on some of his allies and enemies. We also receive a small hint of the action to come as the Captain and his French Canadian partner, Kebec, fly into an underground lair for some robot-bashing action! [TEEN]

The beloved Robotech series continues with a revolutionary new revisioning! Jump on board for the next big event right here with this mind-blowing first chapter of Robotech: Event Horizon, beginning this summer with Issue #21! Plus a Curtain Call backup featuring...Minmei!? Check it all out here, then grab a collected edition of the previous issues or sign-up for the start of Event Horizon this summer! [TEEN]

Time-displaced warrior-queen Malika struggles under the burden of the Dragon’s Doom in this preview of her newest adventure, Malika: Fire & Frost. An enchanted sleep sent Malika 500 years into the future but ancient curses do not give up their hold that easily...and neither do her adversaries! The quest for the Dragon Stones is a dangerous one, but what happens when someone new gets caught-up in the fight? Read the first chapter here, then check out the previous two volumes in her epic chronicles: Malika: Warrior Queen on shelves now! [TEEN]

What if one day, all the animals all over the world woke up and started talking? That is the story of Animosity, an epic adventure following human girl Jesse and dog Sandor across the resulting cataclysm. But Jesse and Sandor are not the only ones with a story to tell. In this one-shot, bio major Meredith and Neon, the beta fish who loves her, have to face the terror of life outside the tank. Want more? Grab the first volume of Animosity off the shelves today! [TEEN]

Mel has a secret: she thinks she’s dying. She’s also a clandestine superhero tasked with protecting all of mankind. A chance meeting in a cemetery between the bleeding woman and a kid hiding-out with her sketchbook changes everything...except the fact that being a superhero isn’t easy. Is Jessie up for the challenge? Find out in this FCBD reprint of the first issue of Punchline, the new super-powered super-star from Antarctic Press! Want more? Order the first volume of the sold-out series, Punchline: Blood Sisters, today! [TEEN]

In this adorably meta story, witness the epic throw-down between Sakura and Karin -- both in and out of the game! Can Sakura’s hard-earned skills perfected through after-hours practice at the arcade where she works compete with Karin’s meticulous, expensive training? Who will be the world champion of Super Chibi Puzzle Gem Fighter Ultra Turbo Arcade Edition? Fine out here! Want more? Raid the back issue bins for previous issues of Street Fighter, or grab a collected edition today! [TEEN]

This manga-style two-for-one issue features a story from the world of My Hero Academia and one from The Promised Neverland. In the first, enter a world where 80% of all people are born with “quirks” that give them super-powers! It’s an exciting, hyper-active world full of heroes and villains...but what about the 20% of people who aren’t born “super”? Jump straight into the action with a fight scene that’s more than meets the eye, and find out! Then in the second story, visit the orphanage where eleven-year-old Emma lives with her thirty-seven beloved siblings, enjoying an ordinary life of family, games, and companionship...along with the strange Daily Test, numbers tattooed on their necks, and a fence to keep them from ever going outside! Want more? There are multiple volumes of both manga available now, so grab one today! [TEEN]

Worlds collide in this special FCBD one-shot! When Tala and Eddie, estranged father-daughter duo on the run from good guys and bad guys alike, finally get their hands on an “escape hatch” to another world it seems like all their troubles are solved -- but the world where the Goon lives is never trouble free! When one pair contains a man trapped in the body of a pug and the other contains a newly-minted dogcatcher with a love of violence, is there any way things can end well? Plus, a back-up featuring Eric Powell’s appalachian horror comic, Hillbilly! Want more? Collections of all three series are available now, or grab the first issue of the new Goon today! [TEEN]

Red 5 Comics brings out a two-for-one sampler of high-concept post-apocalyptic stories. In The Dark Age, a mysterious mist destroys all the metal on Earth, immediately plunging society back into a medieval kingdom of wood, brick, and glass. In Afterburn, the world is scorched by a super-powerful solar flare and the story follows a group of thieves and mercenaries breaking into the most dangerous areas of the old world, attempting to recover lost artifacts for the remaining aristocracy. For readers looking for dark, mature stories of a dismal future, this comic is a perfect choice! [TEEN]

In this two-parter from Dark Horse, enjoy a one-shot set in the aftermath of Stranger Things where Nancy struggles to reconnect to her brother and find a way for both of them to return to normal life. Then preview the new series Black Hammer ‘45: Tales From the World of Black Hammer with a foray to the werewolf-riddled battlefields of World War II and a glimpse of the future of the ghostly Jack Sabbath. Want more? Pick up the first volume of Black Hammer, a series that takes the traditional tropes of the super hero world and twists them into new, marvelous, and weird new shapes, or grab the first volume of the Stranger Things tie-in comic exploring Will’s time in the Upside Down off the shelves. You can also sign up for the prequel series, Stranger Things: Six due out later this month! [TEEN]

In the sci-fi/horror world of Midnight Sky, things are always dark. But things are not always what they seem. In this unexpected dystopian tale, we enter a world where light reveals the people who have been replaced...but by what, and why? And how far will one mother go to protect her children when one of them is no longer human, and the other has a strange power that might save -- or doom -- them all? Plus, a preview of Long Live Pro Wrestling, when a fed-up announcer gets a little too honest for his boss and becomes a social media sensation, a short haunting by Gutt Ghost, and previews of several upcoming titles from Scout Comics! Want more? Sign-up for your favorites today! [TEEN]

Discover the strange, steampunk world of Lady Mechanika in this special issue which reprints her original 2010 debut one-shot as well as excerpts from two of her neweer adventures: The Clockwork Assassin and La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The mysterious mechanical woman stalks the streets in search of answers to her own origins -- but could she be a murderer herself? And how will she protect her friend Mr. Lewis from the dangers posed by an even more mysterious woman than herself? Gawk at the breadth of Lady Mechanika’s world, then grab a collection of her adventures off the shelves today! [TEEN]

In 1992, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn burst onto the comics scene. Today you can relive that moment with this reprint of that very first issue, complete with an exclusive new cover by Francesco Mattina. Enjoy a look back at the moment that started it all...or if you’ve never read Spawn before, now is the perfect time to jump on board before the movie! Want more? There are almost 300 issues of Spawn out there today, available in back issue singles and collections! Grab some today! [TEEN]

This two-part issue from Valiant Universe begins the newest saga in the life of nanite-infused ultimate soldier, Bloodshot, as well as setting the stage for the events of the Fallen World event due later this year which will pit the aforementioned Bloodshot against Rai, a haunted cyber-samurai. First witness Bloodshot at his most unstoppable as he seeks to save a doctor from those who would use her talents to make more beings like him; then explore the strain between truth and faith when “heaven” falls out of the sky in the opening salvo of Fallen World. Want more? Pick up a collection of Bloodshot or Rai or sign-up today for their new adventures in either the solo series or the Fallen World mini-series! [TEEN]

Return to the classics with this excerpt from Zagor: The Alien Saga. Originally created in 1961, the story of Zagor combines science fiction, horror, and westerns in one adventurous whole. Here, discover how the titular Zagor and his friend Chico first encountered beings from another world...and the darker, more familiar face beside them! Want more? Order a collection of this classic comic book today. [TEEN]

The main story of this one-shot features Dragonfly and Dragonflyman -- the same hero, but in two different worlds: one colorful and campy, the other gritty and dark! Juxtapose the biff, bam, pow! aesthetics of old school heroism with the grimdark hyper-violence of the nineties and today, and see how familiar faces can turn strange. But what will happen when cheerful Dragonflyman and grizzled Dragonfly change places in The Wrong Earth? Lay the groundwork of their worlds here, and then check out the back-up features introducing Captain Ginger, the feline captain of a ship full of interstellar cats, and a quick trip through the unfriendly world of Edgar Allen Poe’s A Snifter of Terror. Want more? All three series have collections available now! [TEEN]

When humanity left planet Earth behind, fleeing a dying world for a new start in the stars, they nuked it behind them in an attempt to wipe-out the vampires left behind. Unfortunately, in the shadow of that nuclear winter, those vampires evolved. Now with the bloodsucks on the brink of achieving space flight and coming after their wayward food source, humanity has one last chance to save itself: the Interceptor program. One surgically-modified, heavily-trained, even more heavily-armed warrior to wipe-out the vampire threat for good. But when she gets to Earth, she finds something she never expected... This kinetic, fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek comic sets up a battle for Earth the likes of which you’ve never seen! Want more? Pre-order the $17.99 graphic novel due out later this summer that reprints the original series, or jump straight to the sequel with the new four-issue Reactor mini-series, available now! [TEEN]

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the first appearance of the Vampirella character in Vampirella #1, a Warren Publishing horror magazine and sister publication to the company's Creepy and Eerie magazines. As is befitting such an anniversary, Dynamite Comics is bringing out a new series with a new creative team to craft stories for the wry badgirl vampire. In this preview, we see our favorite scantily-clad bloodsucker endure assaults on social media, determined to discover her whereabouts and her secrets. The real treat in this FCBD exclusive is a bonus story, originally published in 1993, written and illustrated by comic book legends Kurt Busiek and Arthur Adams. Want more? Sign-up now for the new ongoing Vampirella series beginning later this summer! [TEEN+]

Jump in mid-action to the latest adventure of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they race through the city to save their friend and survive multiple ambushes! Then, discover the history of the saga back to the very beginning a long, long time ago in the back-up feature. Want more? Check out the reading order in the back of this issue for where to get started and then grab one of the TMNT’s collected editions off the shelf, or just keep going from here with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes #94, out later this month! [MATURE READERS!]

Jump feet first into the frenetic world of Deadly Class, ongoing comic and hit television show! What do kids going to assassin school do to blow off steam? Hit a concert, of course...but sometimes the work comes with them. Does making art actually change the world? What about revenge? And can you hold onto who you are when the world is trying to shape you into something else? If all that can be packed into just one issue, imagine how much goes on in the entire series...or stop imagining it, and pick up the first volume today! [MATURE READERS!]

In 2017, Emil Ferris published her first graphic novel, the unprecedented and brilliant My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, an exploration of everything from the trauma of a lonely childhood, the Holocaust, and totally awesome horror comics, all drawn with ballpoint pen and a perspective never seen before in comics. This only came about after Ferris experienced severe brain damage from a severe case of West Nile Virus and used drawing with a ballpoint pen as a form of physical therapy. This FCBD-exclusive provides an inside look into how My Favorite Thing Is Monsters emerged from that tragedy and includes Ferris's own guide to drawing monsters. Want more? Find the original graphic novel on our shelves today! [MATURE READERS!]

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FINAL POST!! Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

It’s graduation week. Four years of sharing album-of-the-week are over. It’s important to wrap this up with a special album. I’ve decided to go with one of the best debut albums ever, by one of my favorite musicians, for whom I have the utmost respect. With this last album, I want to affirm that this effort was to support my daughter’s personal and professional interests in music (my aim was true). Also, I wanted the graduation album to welcome her to the grown-up world of working for a living (”Welcome To The Working Week”). And finally, since I’ve tied politics to so many of these albums, it feels appropriate - as President Trump continues to bring the country and perhaps the world to ruin (this week, by backing out of the Paris Climate Accord) - to close this project with the track, “Waiting For The End Of The World.”

1 "Welcome to the Working Week" 2 "Miracle Man" 3 "No Dancing" 4 "Blame It on Cain" 5 "Alison" 6 "Sneaky Feelings" 7 "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" 8 "Less Than Zero" 9 "Mystery Dance" 10 "Pay It Back" 11 "I'm Not Angry" 12 "Waiting for the End of the World"

Last week, T Bone Burnett’s name was one of those in the collaboration, and I mentioned his Academy Award winning work on the “Cold Mountain” soundtrack. Well, Elvis Costello collaborated with T Bone to write the track “Scarlett Tide” for that soundtrack. The collaborations Elvis has been a part of are numerous and, I’m sure, will go on and on. He has made so much music in genres outside his punk-pop, new-wave origins that it defies categorization. I recommend a Wikipedia search to keep track of it all. Of late, what I have been most impressed with from Elvis is the musically collaborative TV show he did called “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...” I only saw a few episodes, but they were brilliant. Check it out if you're so inclined. It’s all available on DVD or BluRay.

In closing, I’d like to thank everyone who read my foolish posts (with especially large portions of thanks to those of you who occasionally corrected me) and everyone who listened along with us. As a postscript, here is the entire list of 194 albums we listened to over this four-year project, and the date we started listening. We started a little late, so we did two albums per week through the first summer session to try to catch up on the total count. With occasional exceptions, the albums were pre-1999 (the year my daughter was born). We followed some themes here and there, but mostly we just rocked out!

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 10/20/2013

Deja Vu - Crosby Stills Nash & Young 10/27/2013

Best of the Doobies - The Doobie Brothers 11/3/2013

Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 - The Eagles 11/10/2013

Greatest Hits 1974-1978 - Steve Miller Band 11/17/2013

American Beauty - Grateful Dead 11/24/2013

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 12/1/2013

Loaded - The Velvet Underground 12/8/2013

The Monkees - The Monkees 12/15/2013

Jackson 5 Christmas Album - Jackson 5 12/22/2013

The #1's - Elvis Presley 12/29/2013

Legend from the Master Tapes - Buddy Holly 1/5/2014

The #1's - Diana Ross & The Supremes 1/12/2014

Singles 1969-1981 - The Carpenters 1/19/2014

16 Greatest Hits - The Mamas & Papas 1/26/2014

Greatest Hits - The Byrds 2/2/2014

Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan 2/9/2014

Greatest Hits - Simon & Garfunkel 2/16/2014

Greatest Hits - James Taylor 2/23/2014

Greatest Hits - Linda Ronstadt 3/2/2014

Greatest Hits - Janis Joplin 3/9/2014

Greatest Hits - The Doors 3/16/2014

Smash Hits - Jimi Hendrix 3/23/2014

Greatest Hits - Queen 3/30/2014

Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers 4/6/2014

Mania - The Ramones 4/13/2014

Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon - John Lennon 4/20/2014

The Hits - Johnny Cash 4/27/2014

A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon 5/4/2014

Gold - ABBA 5/11/2014

Greatest Hits - Cat Stevens 5/18/2014

The Best Of - Steely Dan 5/25/2014

Greatest Hits - Bruce Springsteen 6/1/2014

Greatest Hits - Elton John 6/8/2014

Endless Summer - The Beach Boys 6/15/2014

Hot Rocks - The Rolling Stones 6/22/2014

Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin 6/29/2014

Rubber Soul - The Beatles 7/6/2014

Revolver - The Beatles 7/6/2014

Who's Next - The Who 7/13/2014

The Who By Numbers - The Who 7/13/2014

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 7/20/2014

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 7/20/2014

One For The Road - The Kinks 7/27/2014

Pretenders - Pretenders 8/3/2014

Learning To Crawl - Pretenders 8/3/2014

Nevermind The Bollocks - The Sex Pistols 8/10/2014

Sound Affects - The Jam 8/17/2014

London Calling - The Clash 8/24/2014

Changesonebowie - David Bowie 8/31/2014

Ghost In The Machine - The Police 9/7/2014

I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat 9/14/2014

Absolutely - Madness 9/21/2014

Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs 9/28/2014

Hits - Joni Mitchell 10/5/2014

Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones 10/12/2014

Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 10/19/2014

The Best Of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading 10/26/2014

Upstairs At Eric's - Yaz 11/2/2014

Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 11/9/2014

Life's Too Good - The Sugarcubes 11/16/2014

The B-52's - The B-52's 11/23/2014

Out Of Time - R.E.M. 11/30/2014

In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs 12/7/2014

Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet 12/14/2014

Joy: A Holiday Collection - Jewel 12/21/2014

Fumbling Toward Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan 12/28/2014

Reading, Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays 1/4/2015

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths 1/11/2015

Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt 1/18/2015

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette 1/25/2015

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers 2/1/2015

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 2/8/2015

Ten - Pearl Jam ��2/15/2015

Nevermind - Nirvana 2/22/2015

Live Through This - Hole 3/1/2015

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair 3/8/2015

After - Lady Lamb the Beekeeper 3/15/2015

Garbage - Garbage 3/22/2015

Eight Arms To Hold You - Veruca Salt 3/29/2015

Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey 4/5/2015

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinead O'Connor 4/12/2015

Moondance - Van Morrison 4/19/2015

Joshua Tree - U2 4/26/2015

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys 5/3/2015

The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats 5/10/2015

To The Faithfully Departed - The Cranberries 5/17/2015

Sunshine On Leith - The Proclaimers 5/24/2015

Barricades and Brickwalls - Kasey Chambers 5/31/2015

Mars Needs Guitars - Hoodoo Gurus 6/7/2015

Kick - INXS 6/14/2015

Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett 6/21/2015

The Iron Man - Pete Townshend 6/28/2015

The Wall - Pink Floyd 7/5/2015

Hair - Original Broadway Musical 7/12/2015

Quadrophenia - The Who 7/19/2015

American Idiot - Green Day 7/26/2015

Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/2/2015

Grease - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/9/2015

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 8/16/2015

Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa 8/23/2015

Graceland - Paul Simon 8/30/2015

So - Peter Gabriel 9/6/2015

Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads 9/13/2015

The Cars - The Cars 9/20/2015

Boston Boston9/27/2015

Bachelor #2 or The Last Remains Of The Dodo - Aimee Mann 10/4/2015

Become What You Are - The Juliana Hatfield Three 10/11/2015

Verve Jazz Masters 51 - Blossom Dearie 10/18/2015

Come On Feel The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads 10/25/2015

Dizzy Up The Girl - Goo Goo Dolls 11/1/2015

Tiny Days - Scruffy The Cat 11/8/2015

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays 11/15/2015

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 11/22/2015

Electric Honey - Luscious Jackson 11/29/2015

Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps 12/6/2015

Let Go - Avril Lavigne 12/13/2015

Personal Christmas Collection - Doris Day 12/20/2015

The Grey Album - DJ Dangermouse 12/27/2015

St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley 1/3/2016

El Camino - The Black Keys 1/10/2016

The Good, The Bad, & The Queen - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen 1/17/2016

Little Broken Hearts - Norah Jones 1/24/2016

Avalanche - Thea Gilmore 1/31/2016

Born In The UK - Badly Drawn Boy 2/7/2016

Echo and the Bunnymen - Echo and the Bunnymen 2/14/2016

Central Reservation - Beth Orton 2/21/2016

Love Songs: Best of the Verve Song Books - Ella Fitzgerald 2/28/2016

The Sensual World - Kate Bush 3/6/2016

Arular - M.I.A. 3/13/2016

No Angel - Dido 3/20/2016

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 3/27/2016

White Blood Cells - The White Stripes 4/3/2016

Motown 40 Forever - Various Artists 4/10/2016

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne 4/17/2016

Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution 4/24/2016

Raw Power - Iggy & The Stooges 5/1/2016

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton 5/8/2016

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt 5/15/2016

Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 5/22/2016

Low Budget - The Kinks 5/29/2016

Making Movies - Dire Straits 6/5/2016

Look Sharp - Joe Jackson 6/12/2016

Live Killers - Queen 6/19/2016

Living In Clip - Ani DiFranco 6/26/2016

Live At Luther College - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds 7/3/2016

Carnegie Hall Live 1938 - Benny Goodman 7/10/2016

Bring On The Night - Sting 7/17/2016

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball - Various Artists 7/24/2016

Disraeli Gears - Cream 7/31/2016

Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys 8/7/2016

Down By The Old Mainstream - Golden Smog 8/14/2016

Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk 8/21/2016

Underachievers, Please Try Harder - Camera Obscura 8/28/2016

Horses - Patti Smith 9/4/2016

Under The Pink - Tori Amos 9/11/2016

Gordon - Barenaked Ladies 9/18/2016

#1 Record - Big Star 9/25/2016

Hello Starling - Josh Ritter 10/2/2016

Doolittle - Pixies 10/9/2016

Last Splash - The Breeders 10/16/2016

Star - Belly 10/23/2016

The Bends - Radiohead 10/30/2016

Medusa - Annie Lennox 11/6/2016

XO - Elliott Smith 11/13/2016

Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets 11/20/2016

violent femmes - violent femmes 11/27/2016

Tidal - Fiona Apple 12/4/2016

Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde 12/11/2016

We Three Kings - The Roches 12/18/2016

Holiday Songs and Lullabies - Shawn Colvin 12/25/2016

Marquee Moon - Television 1/1/2017

English Settlement - XTC 1/8/2017

Pelican West - Haircut One Hundred 1/15/2017

Weezer - Weezer 1/22/2017

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel 1/29/2017

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams 2/5/2017

Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls 2/12/2017

The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin 2/19/2017

All For You - Diana Krall 2/26/2017

Collective Soul - Collective Soul 3/5/2017

The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies 3/12/2017

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement 3/19/2017

Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow 3/26/2017

The Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain 4/2/2017

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 4/9/2017

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr. 4/16/2017

Sea Change - Beck 4/23/2017

Auf der Maur - Melissa Auf der Maur 4/30/2017

The Ballad of the Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 5/7/2017

Contraband - Velvet Revolver 5/14/2017

Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg and Wilco 5/21/2017

Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 5/28/2017

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello 6/4/2017

You read all the way to the end! Thank you very much for your attention to my father/daughter project. Much love to you, and keep on listening.....

#elvis costello #my aim is true #collaboration #album of the week

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nostalgia-tblr · 6 years

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The Ghost Monument

My thoughts:

OBVIOUSLY my main thought is that Doctor/TARDIS remains OTP. SHE WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE HER. I need to make an icon of their reunion when I can get screencaps. Sexy opened her door for the Doctor (belatedly proving that I needn't have worried about Clara throwing away the keys) and has a new insides and gives the Doctor biscuits to keep her strong and healthy. Not *that* keen on the new interior but it will probably grow on me. Bit steampunk. Was the sentient toilet paper talking about the Doctors' lonely emo childhood or anything else that will be Important Later On? It seemed to think the Doctor didn't know what it was on about, and one assumes she knows her own backstory, contradictory as her canon may be. I had zero issues accepting Thirteen as the Doctor this time, so it probably was just that thing where you don't instantly take to the new one, plus a slightly underwhelming episode last week. So far Thirteen looks to be the most genuinely nice of the Nu Doctors, but thankfully she's not bland and can do jokes and space-karate. She seems to be very pacifist other than when she fucks people's shit up with DNA bombs or EMPs. Guns are useless, just use explosives instead. I think she used the sonic a bit much this episode, but that's a minor annoyance and may not be an ongoing thing. Notice that the Doctors continue to look at the sonic even though there's clearly nothing on it that can relay information. Ryan is still my fave, and he still hates ladders. And the Doctor is immediately and whole-heart(s)edly nice to a black companion, wow! Graham is my second-fave, but only because Yaz hasn't really been that developed yet. We did hear about her family this week, very briefly. They don't really get on. On which point it seems a bit weird to ask your step-grandson you've known only in adolescence and adulthood to call you "grandad" but in my head Graham has no other family and is basically just longing to make a connection with someone. Certainly he doesn't appear to have kids despite seeming quite family-oriented in some ways. Some things were a bit predicatable in the plot, like The Magic Monument Thing being the TARDIS and the self-lighting cigar appearing only to be inevitably used to start a fire later on. I wasn't really sure about how fast the dick one agreed to share the prize with the Irish one, or about how easy it was to threaten Art Malik, but whatever, it happened. The Doctor inspiring goodness is apparently a thing again. Even if she has to give you a stern talking-to about working as a team and point out that your mother was wrong about everything. But the really important thing here is the Doctor/TARDIS content, because it proves that I am correct about things.

#the ghost monument #chibnall who #Thirteenth Doctor #dw

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mianelson15-blog · 7 years

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Your Light Has Fallen Dark Part 1 (Dark Ezra)

Okay so I’ve been DYING to write this, and I am finally going to! Yaz!

So! Here we go.

Also, thank you @meldy-arts for letting me use Mira. She’ll be in Part 2 more than she was in this one. (Also could you please read this? Thanks!)

Fic below the cut.

Night. The time things were normally calm. Were everyone could relax. Where Sabine had her husband to cuddle with, and Mira had her father to talk to. It wasn’t this way anymore. It would never be the same. Ezra was gone. The only thing left of him was the green lightsaber, but even now when it was activated, it looked like death. Everyone knew someone would die, previous friend or not. Sabine paced the floor, not being able to sleep. Hera’s voice broke the silence. “Sabine?” The Mandalorian jumped a little, and turned to look at Hera. “Why are you still up?” she asked. “I could ask the same,” Hera pointed out while sitting down. She motioned for Sabine to also sit. “Its Ezra,” Sabine sighed. “What if he came back in the middle of the night? What if he hurt one of you?” “What if he hurt you?” Hera looked directly into Sabine’s brown eyes. This left Sabine silent. “I know it’s hard, but we’re going to need to live, knowing that anything could happen,” Hera put an arm around Sabine. “It’s going to be fine.”

The next morning, Ezra quickly sat up in his bed, a cold sweat on his forehead. What had he been dreaming? Why was he so unsettled? He couldn’t remember. Ezra wiped away the sweat and threw his legs over the side of the bed, and grabbed his lightsaber. He didn’t have time to change the crystal, and he never thought he’d be able to. He put the weapon on his belt and then put his boots on. He walked slowly to the bridge, thinking. There was nothing but black, yet he had been so unsettled when he woke up. Ezra shook his head and sped up. When he reached the bridge, he sensed Vader’s presence inside. Taking a breath, the former Jedi entered. “You’re late,” Vader said, not looking away from the holomap. Taking a quick, sharp breath, Ezra said, “I know. It won’t happen again.” “The Ghost Crew is on Lothal. You, I know, are very familiar with the planet. Go, and capture as many as you can. If you have to kill them, do so,” Vader commanded. Ezra nodded, and exited the room as quickly as possible. As soon as he was ready, he took a shuttle and left for his homeplanet. He tried not to think about anything the whole way there, but he couldn’t help it. What if Sabine was there? What if Mira was there? Hurting the others didn’t matter, but his family... he couldn’t. Pushing the thought to the back of his mind, he exited hyperspace. Ezra looked at the planet. His hatred for it grew every time he saw it. Hatred towards the Empire? Or hatred for what happened on the planet? He wanted to forget that he was standing with the people who had killed his parents. But that was constantly nagging at him. This was something that was hard to push to the back of his mind. Ezra landed the shuttle, and he immediately sensed Sabine and Mira. “Kriff,” Ezra muttered, standing up. He exited the ship and followed the force signatures of Kanan and Hera, as he was trying to avoid his family.

Kanan turned around, sensing a familiar presence behind him. Hera also turned and saw Ezra. “What do you want?” Hera asked, grabbing her blaster. “I want both of you. You can make this easy by just coming with me, or you can make this hard,” Ezra activated his lightsaber. “No deal. You’ll have to force us,” Kanan grabbed his lightsaber. Ezra smirked, and knocked Hera out using the Force. “She’s counting on you, Jarrus. You’d better hope that you can defeat me,” Ezra took a step to the right. Kanan didn’t respond, but waited for Ezra to make a move. The latter threw a blow at Kanan, and the Jedi blocked it. Ezra continued to attack Kanan with so much speed and force that it surprised the Jedi. Ezra’s attacks caused Kanan to take steps backwards. Ezra hooked Kanan’s lightsaber out of Kanan’s hands, and he caught it. “Looks like you lost,” Ezra smirked, pointing his blade at Kanan’s throat. “You’re going to loose,” Kanan said to his former apprentice. “So you say,” Ezra muttered, knocking the Jedi out. He restrained Kanan and Hera, and took them to his shuttle, He locked them in the tiny hold and then decided to face his family. He was quickly, but didn’t have the real desire to see them. “Mom, it’s dad,” Mira whispered, grabbing both of her lightsabers. Ezra’s remained on his belt. “Get out of here,” Sabine said through her teeth, anger at him boiling up in her. “I’m not going to hurt you if I don’t have to. Just come with me,” Ezra said. Sabine looked into his yellow eyes. “How could I have married this? A monster? You don’t mind killing innocent people!” “I won’t hurt you!” Ezra raised his voice. “You already have!” Sabine shouted back, leaving nothing but a long silence. “Mom, what do we do?” Mira asked after this silence. “We fight,” Sabine answered, grabbing the darksaber. “Everyone wants to do this the hard way!” Ezra said loudly. “It never works for you!” he raised his right arm and started Force Choking Mira. “Let my daughter go!” Sabine glared. “Then come with me,” Ezra glared, lifting Mira off of the ground. The girl was gasping for air, and clutching her throat. “Fine... I’ll come!” Sabine yelled. Ezra let Mira go, but knocked her out. He carried her to the ship, and Sabine followed. After restraining them both, Ezra took off. Feeling only regret for what he did to his daughter.

#Dark Ezra #Part One #Ezra #Sabine #Kanan #Hera #Mira #Vader #Oh my gosh this turned out better than i expected

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rebeccadirects · 7 years

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On Water By The Spoonful

Everyone in Water by the Spoonful is, in one way or another, haunted. Elliot battles PTSD and addiction embodied in the ghost of the first person he killed in Iraq. Odessa fights to keep her addiction and the guilt from her daughter’s death at bay. Yaz and Orangutan struggle with the ghosts of selves left behind in different neighborhoods and countries. Chutes&Ladders’ ghost is his addiction and the loss of his family, while John wrestles with the possibilities of what may come if he does not get clean. Throughout the play, these ghosts do everything they can to prevent our heroes from achieving what they all desire: love, peace, and deep connection across the yawning chasm that is human loneliness. Some of them succeed. Some succumb. Some require rescuing. But the play’s conclusion offers a thesis that is courageous in its optimism: even our most malicious ghosts are conquerable provided we do not face them alone.

One of the most distinctive elements of Hudes’ play is the emotive, uniquely musical quality to her dialogue. Each play in The Elliot Trilogy is based around a specific style of music. That style of music informs the structure of the play and, in many ways, the language and content. Water by the Spoonful was inspired by the structure and dissonance of free jazz as played by John Coltrane. Free jazz often sounds like noise, but the structure is very clear: songs begin with the melody (or the “head”), followed by the verse, and then the band takes turn soloing and abstracting on the melody before returning to the head. When we hear the head again, we hear it with greater complexity. Water by the Spoonful mimics this structure. Hudes introduces us to Elliot and Yaz first and Odessa and the chatroom second, before she begins to overlap scenes and settings, creating both visual and auditory dissonance. Music will feature heavily in my work with the actors. I plan to both expose them to improvisational jazz both as listeners and as performers. I will need actors who are at least musically literate and ideally play an instrument or sing so that we can experiment with “singing” the play as well as learning how to improvise musically. We will investigate how this manifests both in language and physicality.

Because this play is so linguistically rich, it feels wrong to burden the audience with too much scenery. What’s more, the play bounces from location to location and much of the action takes place online. However, Hudes chose very specific places to locate her action. Like almost all of her plays, Water by the Spoonful takes place largely in Philadelphia, specifically the Swarthmore campus and the Puerto Rican neighborhood of North Philadelphia. Many of the locations Hudes uses in this play are bleak, gray spaces: the slums of North Philly, an IRS tax cubicle, cold, sterile Sapporo. However, we end in the verdant landscape of El Yunque National Park in Puerto Rico. Thus, the play requires a space that can be both specific and mutable. Philadelphia’s poorer neighborhoods are graced with thousands of murals, designed and executed by the people living in the community. They are glimmers of vibrant beauty in an otherwise depressed landscape. They offer hope and possibility, but also memorialize departed legends and offer an outlet to express collective pain. I want to incorporate both what those murals look like and what they represent in the design of this set, while still maintaining the spirit of the locations chosen by Hudes. The bulk of the set will be a white, animated floor that will display abstracted, mural-esque images that help suggest the varied locations. Color will be used sparingly and introduced slowly so that, when we arrive in El Yunque and the play’s emotional resolution, we feel the impact of the color and return to life.

The reasons for doing this play now are painfully clear. This play places the most vulnerable members of our society at the front and center of the narrative. Immigrants, refugees, veterans, people of color, the mentally ill, and the poor are all given equal time and visibility in the narrative. At a time when hate is rampant and the people depicted in this play are actively being threatened, it is critically important we tell their stories. It is hard to hate a group of people when you are presented with an opportunity to empathize with them. That is what this play does. I agree with Toni Morrison when she said:

All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’ We’ve just dirtied the word ‘politics,’ made it sound like it’s unpatriotic or something… My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language and the structure and what’s going on behind it. Anybody can make up a story.

Water by the Spoonful may not be laden with slogans and rallying cries, but its primary focus is on people and issues urgently important to modern audiences. It is for this reason that I want to produce this play as a touring production that can be taken across the country. It is not enough to continually perform for liberal audiences in cities and college towns. This play needs to be seen in rural Wisconsin as much as it does in North Philadelphia. This play offers an opportunity both for marginalized people to see themselves and their stories in action and for people stuck in homogenous communities to see past their front lawn.

I feel that I am uniquely equipped to tell this story. Reading this play felt like coming home. It felt like it spoke to the very heart of who I am and why I make theatre. I am the daughter of immigrants; the latest in a long line of refugees. I know, intimately, what it is to be followed by ghosts I cannot wish away. I grew up studying music at school and listening to my brother, a jazz guitarist, chew my ear off about the virtuosity of John Coltrane. I grew up in Baltimore, a city afflicted with many of the same problems as Philadelphia. More than anything, though, my work is rooted in empathy and emotion. This, coupled with a love of heightened, poetic language of all kinds. I feel my many years of performing and directing Shakespeare along with my music training will enable me to bring the vibrant, challenging writing of this play to life, both in the environment and the actors onstage.

#current project #grad school #Water by the Spoonful #Quiara Alegria Hudes

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