Captures de l’Ep. 1.08 - Le Premier Noël de Jarod (V.O. : Not Even A Mouse) de la série Le Caméléon (V.O. : The Pretender).
Réalisation : Thomas J. Wright, qui a
- réalisé 44 épisodes de la série NCIS
- retrouvé l’acteur Ryan Merriman dans la série Veritas The Quest (Ep. 1.09 et 1.11).
- réalisé 3 épisodes de la série Les Experts.
- réalisé 3 épisodes de la série X-Files.
Distribution :
- Tony Plana, qui a joué dans 5 épisodes de la série Desperate Housewives et a retrouvé l’actrice Andrea Parker dans l’Ep. 8.06 qu’il en a réalisé (2011) ainsi que dans l’Ep. 4.06 de la série Less Than Perfect (2002);
- Bruce Bohne, qui a retrouvé l’acteur Harve Presnell dans les films Fargo (1996), Julian Po (1997) et Dr Patch (1998);
- Kevin E. West, qui a joué dans l’Ep. 1.23 (2005) de la série Desperate Housewives ;
- Roberta Bassin, qui a joué dans J. Edgar (2011) et l’Ep. 2.10 de la série Shut Eye (2017)...
Il s’agit du 1er épisode où apparaît Kelsey Mulrooney avant son rôle de Debbie dans la série.
Jarod découvre les cakes aux fruits de Noel.
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Ses collègues disent qu'il s'est fait une super bamboula toute la nuit !”
- Jarod : "J'ignore qui est cette Bamboula Lieutenant, mais c'est exact."
- Jarod : (devant le corps sans papier d’identité dans la neige) "Comment savoir qui elle est ?”
- Dr. Lizabeth Drake : “Aucune chance, c’est une A.F. Mettez lui une étiquette. Et la prochaine fois ne me dérangez pas pour si peu” (s’en va)
- Jarod : "une A.F. ?”
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Adolescente Fugueuse. Pas d’identité, pas de témoin.”
- Jarod : “ Et sa famille doit être morte d’inquiétude, et se demander où elle est...”
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Oui c’est vrai c’est moche. On ne peut prévenir personne, on trouve leur corps, on ne sait même pas quoi en faire... ils ne sont plus qu’un numéro sur un fichier, comme tous les autres...” (s’en va)
I hope you know that literally nobody is going to be able to live up to the standard you, V*v, and Glitch have set and your arrogance and exploitation of your fanbase and connections has screwed millions of creatives out of their dreams because Hollywood is a joke that isn't worth telling and wealthy e-celebs like yourself have claimed the indie scene all to yourselves and moved the goalposts into the stratosphere.
Nope. This isn't a zero sum game. There is not some limited, prescribed number of indie trophy slots that a few studios greedily filled up, blocking everyone else out. That is not how it works. Nothing any other creator is doing - short of personally sending hired goons to your doorstep or stealing your credit cards - is taking anything away from you or preventing your success. In fact if an indie creator can manage to demonstrate that they've got something viable going, it may help to map out a pathway for others.
I think I'm not going to bother trying to address whether or not cartoons in return for support from fans - an entirely voluntary exchange - constitutes exploitation. And I'm living in the Midwest driving a 2007 economy car with 200k+ miles on it, but let's just skip past the assumptions that I'm wealthy and connected too.
Instead, let's get to the weirdly myopic notion that the indie scene is held captive by three studios. Maybe YouTube algorithms or Twitter bubbles are somewhat to blame, but in actuality there are so, so many individual people, friend groups, and small production houses out there making independent animation, I cannot possibly name them all.
Here are some anyway:
Far-Fetched
Worthikids
Satina | Scumhouse
Noodle and Bun
Punch Punch Forever
Ramshackle
Noodle
Papajoolia | Pipi
Angel Hare | The East Patch
Jonni Peppers
Salad Fingers
Monkey Wrench
Studio Heartbreak
Felix Colgrave
JelloApocalypse
Odd1sout (started indie, got picked up by Netflix)
Allie Mehner
JaidenAnimations
Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy
Cloudrise | The Worlds Divide
Telepurte
RubberRoss
James Lee
ENA
Godspeed | Olan Rogers
Ollie and Scoops
Meat Canyon
Port by the Sea
Kekeflipnote
Boxtown
Kevin Temmer
Weebl
Joel Haver
CircleToons
Long Gone Gulch
Atlas and the Stars
Animist
Skibidi Toilet
A Fox in Space
Alex Henderson
Talon
Toniko Pantoja
Sr. Pelo
Hullabaloo
Kane Pixels (started indie, picked up by A24)
Homestar Runner
Fennah
Gods' School
Alan Becker
Dungeon Flippers
JazLyte
Psychicpebbles (started indie, Smiling Friends picked up by AS)
Piemations
vewn
Metal Family
Dead Sound
chluaid
Jacknjellify
Betsy Lee | No Evil
My Pride
Cranbersher
GeoExe | Gwain Saga
Horatio the Vampire
Mech West
Playground | Rodrigo Sousa
The Brave Locomotive
Finchwing (+ many other Warrior Cats animators)
Quazies
SamBakZa
Kamikaze: Trial by Fire
By no means a full list. That's just YouTube, and mostly just English language stuff, and I didn't even get to the multitudes of Warrior Cats animation collabs.
The point is, the indie landscape is vast and populated by creators new and old, making all kinds of animated media from skits, to shows, to ARGs, to films. Audience sizes vary as much as the content, stylistic approaches, subject matter, and budgets do. There are no compliance standards, no gateways to entry, no goalposts. There's not even any preset definition of success except what you decide for yourself.
Anyway, instead of nurturing your resentments, consider making something. I assure you, it's a far more rewarding use of your time and energy, and pretty much no one can stop you.
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EDIT- Made some additions to the list based on comments. Thanks!
If you notice any issues with the matchups or submissions please let me know!
Matchups under the cut, polls will be linked once they're posted.
Bracket A
Jess McCready (A League of Their Own) vs. Shelley Byron (Doom Patrol)
Lupe García (A League of Their Own) vs. Desdemona (Fortnite)
Jo DeLuca (A League of Their Own) vs. Min Suh (My Princess Charming)
Vi (A League of Their Own) vs. Darling Charming (Ever After High)
Max Chapman (A League of Their Own) vs. Faye (Questionable Content)
Chloe Kitagawa (Belle of the Ball) vs. Imtura Tal Kaelen (Choices: Blades of Light and Shadow)
Kase Tomoka (Kase-san snd Morning Glories) vs. Miyake Aoi (D4DJ)
Hoshiumi Asa (Haikyuu) vs. Kyoutani Kentarou (Haikyuu)
Annabelle Cheddar (Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy) vs. Sir Amanda Maillard (Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy) vs. Captain Jan De La Vega (Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey)
Kristen Applebees (Dimension 20: Fantasy High) vs. Evan Kelmp (Dimension 20: Misfits and Magic) vs. Chieftess Cleva Katzon (Dimension 20: The Ravening War)
Cynthia Zdunowski (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies) vs. Lake (Infinity Train)
Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack) vs. Sasha Nein (Psychonauts)
Tracer/Lena Oxton (Overwatch) vs. Zarya/Aleksandra Zaryanova (Overwatch)
Moira O'Deorain (Overwatch) vs. Junker Queen (Overwatch)
Brigitte Lindholm (Overwatch) vs. Susie (Deltarune)
Riot Maidstone (Hello from the Hallowoods) vs. Striga (Castlevania)
Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventiure Time: Fionna and Cake) vs. Cassie Sandsmark (DC Comics)
The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who) vs. The Twelfth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Sevika (Arcane) vs. Vi (Arcane)
Geeta (Pokémon Scarlet/Violet) vs. Rika (Pokémon Scarlet/Violet)
Kim (My Candy Love) vs. Jean (Blue Jean)
Naberius Kalego (Mairimashita! Iruma-Kun) vs. Opera (Mairimashita! Iruma-Kun)
Zen'in Maki (Jujutsu Kaisen) vs. Jane Crocker (Homestuck)
Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony) vs. Applejack (My Little Pony)
Dame Aylin (Baldur's Gate 3) vs. Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate 3)
Karlach (Baldur's Gate 3) vs. Kevin E. Levin (Ben 10 Ultimate Alien/Alien Force)
Jillian Holtzmann (Ghostbusters (2016)) vs. Kena Mwaura (Rafiki)
Emmy Altava (Professor Layton) vs. Chloe Price (Life Is Strange)
Lois (Dykes to Watch Out For) vs. Kora (Rebel Moon)
Mo (Dykes to Watch Out For) vs. Kipo (Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts)
Niamh Brody (Any Way The Wind Blows) vs. Jamie (Butch Jamie)
Kenjou Akira/Cure Chocolat (KiraKira Precure a la Mode) vs. Hinomori Shiho (Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage)
Bracket B
Tenoh Haruka/Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon) vs. Arkady Patel (The Strange Case of Starship Iris)
Nahara Satrinava (The Arcana) vs. Nazali Satrinava (The Arcana)
Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Isabel Lovelace (Wolf 359)
Pyrrha Dve (The Locked Tomb) vs. Alice "Daisy" Tonner (The Magnus Archives)
Park Jae-In (Sora & Haena!) vs. Thatcher Davis (The Mandela Catalogue)
Jess Goldberg (Stone Butch Blues) vs. Lady Lesso (The School for Good And Evil)
Undyne (Undertale) vs. Van Palmer (Yellowjackets)
Amaya (The Dragon Prince) vs. Tenjou Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Burn (Wings of Fire) vs. Moonwatcher (Wings of Fire)
Tsunami (Wings of Fire) vs. Asha (Wings of Fire)
Moonlight (Warriors) vs. Mothwing (Warriors)
Anybodys (West Side Story (1961)) vs. Anybodys (West Side Story (2021))
Mitsuki Koga (The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All) vs. Rachel Lindt/Hellhound/Bitch (Worm)
Warthog (Trinity) vs. Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
Jay (Star Stable) vs. Sabine (Star Stable)
Alex Cloudmill (Star Stable) vs. Korra (The Legend of Korra)
Adora (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Huntara (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Scorpia (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Pearl (Splatoon) vs. Kit Tanthalos (Willow)
Sun Jing (Tamen De Gushi) vs. Coral (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
Buliara (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom) vs. Urbosa (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda) vs. Impa (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
Tetra (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) vs. Linkle (Hyrule Warriors)
Queen Barb (Trolls) vs. Viva (Trolls)
Hunter (The Owl House) vs. Willow Park (The Owl House)
Luz Noceda (The Owl House) vs. Raine Whispers (The Owl House)
Blaze the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Vector the Crocodile (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Surge the Tenrec (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Ali (The Big Con)
Garnet (Steven Universe) vs. Ruby (Steven Universe)
Bismuth (Steven Universe) vs. Roman (Sanders Sides)
Saira (We Are Lady Parts) vs. Kim (Yes Or No)
Lucy Kensington (Where The Stars Fell) vs. Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)
Storia Di Musica #319 - Black Country Communion, Black Country Communion, 2010
Il mese delle storia degli album delle band con "black" nel nome si conclude oggi. Vorrei ringraziare i suggerimenti, alcuni davvero interessanti, come Federica che mi ha suggerito i Beast Of Black (un gruppo heavy metal scandinavo che ama inserire le tastiere stile anni '80 nelle loro canzoni, e fa cover di qualsiasi cosa, persino di Michael Jackson e non solo dei Manowar), ma ho scelto per chiudere questa carrellata, necessariamente parziale e soprattutto cercando di andare oltre le scelte più ovvie (i Black Sabbath, già protagonisti di questa rubrica, o i Black Keys) un gruppo che ritengo estremamente interessante. L'ultima storia riguarda un supergruppo, che i più attenti hanno già percepito essere un'altra di quelle piccole passioni musicali personali. Questo è uno dei più recenti, e soprattutto uno tra i meglio amalgamati e capace di cose, a mio avviso, davvero notevoli. Tutto nasce quando, per una serie di concerti, Glen Hughes e Joe Bonamassa iniziano a suonare insieme nel 2009. Sono due personaggi grandiosi: Hughes, bassista, è stata una delle voci più belle degli anni '70. Iniziò con i Trapeze, prima un quintetto, poi un trio, che pubblicò nel 1970 due dischi bellissimi, Trapeze e Medusa, quest'ultimo uno dei dischi "tesoro nascosto" di quel periodo, poi nel 1973 viene chiamato a sostituire Roger Glover e Ian Gillian nei Deep Purple: è la seconda voce con David Coverdale in Burn, grandioso disco della band inglese, sebbene non venga accreditato tra gli autori per problemi legali. Continuerà nei Deep Purple fino al 1976, poi deciderà a lungo di andare a suonare un po' a piacere (i suoi anni da zingaro li ha sempre definiti), dischi solisti, cantante anche dei Black Sabbath al posto di Ozzy Osbourne e tante altre cose tra cui ricoveri, dipendenze, collaborazioni. Joe Bonamassa è uno dei più grandi chitarristi rock\blues di questa generazione, collezionista di strumenti vintage, amante del suono puro della chitarra con pochissimi effetti, fondatore e presidente della Keeping The Blues Alive Records, etichetta che permette ai giovani di avvicinarsi al genere e produce i più talentuosi giovani performer. Insieme a loro c'è il grande produttore Kevin Shirley (conosciuto come The Caveman, produttore e ingegnere del suono tra gli altri di Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Journey, Rush, gli ultimi dischi dei Led Zeppelin) che è incaricato di trovare altri musicisti per un progetto di supergruppo. Shirley chiama due suoni amici: Derek Sherinian, tastierista ex Dream Theater, che furono prodotti da Kevin, e Jason Bonham, figlio del leggendario John "Bonzo", batterista come il padre. Scelgono come nome, in questa sorta di unione anglo americana (Hughes e Bohnam sono inglese, Bonamassa e Sherinian americani) Black Country Communion, dal nome della contea delle West Midlands che si chiamana così per l'effetto dello smog provocato sia dalle miniere che dalle fabbriche che usavano il carbone per l'energia.
L'idea della band è di riprendere il suono vintage del rock anni '70 e di catapultarlo in una atmosfera contemporanea. Non sempre le individualità favolose dei singoli nei supergruppi funzionano come le aspettative vorrebbero, ma stavolta l'amalgama e la musica non lasciano dubbi: sebbene non sia un disco innovativo, Black Country Communion, che esce nel Settembre del 2010 è un disco di grande rock "classico", registrato in poco tempo, con pochi aggiustamenti, sincero, fiero e suonato alla grande. Basta l'intro di Black Country e la sua evoluzione hard rock, per capire che questo non è solo un omaggio ad uno dei periodi storici del rock, ma è la voglia di mostrarsi ancora capaci: sono tre minuti e quindici da antologia. One Last Soul, che fu il singolo di promozione, è più leggera ma prepara il terreno per una prima parte di disco stupenda: The Great Divide, Down Again, Beggarman con assolo favoloso di Bonamassa, ma soprattutto la stupenda Song Of Yesterday, che parte come uno slow blues, sale fino in cima e negli ultimi minuti sfodera una cavalcata che sa di ore passate a suonare insieme. Nella second parte, la bella No Time, la ripresa di uno dei brani che Hughes scrisse con i Trapeze, Medusa, che perde l'atmosfera folk prog della sua versione originale, diviene più muscolare e potente ma si mantiene convincente. Il disco si chiude con due brani molto particolari: Stand, che fa della complessità dei ritmi e della stratificazione degli stili (è il brano più progressive in repertorio) il suo fascino, Sista Jane è un brano in stile AC\DC e gli 11 minuti di Too Late For The Sun sono il commiato jam rock di questo disco, tra acrobazie strumentali da pelle d'oca. In tutto il disco, la voce di Hughes giganteggia, a ricordare che negli anni '70 era soprannominato The Voice of Rock, con la solidità tecnica di Bonamassa, di Bonham e di Sherinian a creare un suono che rimane convincente. Il progetto continuerà con un Black Country Communion II nel 2011, un tour in Europa, racchiuso in parte nello splendido Live Over Europe (con alcune gemme, tipo Burn dei Deep Purple, The Ballad Of John Henry di Mississippi John Hurt suonata dal solo Bonamassa, l'intro di Won't Get Fooled Again degli Who prima di Sista Jane) ma dopo Afterglow del 2012 Bonamassa si chiama fuori. Durerà poco, perchè il piacere è così tanto che già nel 2016 ritornano insieme, e proprio di questi giorni è l'uscita del loro ultimo lavoro, V, a 7 anni da BCCIV.
Questi sono i miei auguri di Pasqua. Decisamente rock.
This month, follow along with me as I post a variety of short fics using some of the daily prompts from @whumptober. Fandoms and pairings will vary! You can click 'Keep reading' below to view a list of works, or go directly to my Whumptober series on AO3.
collide —
John Carter/Lucy Knight [ER]
Rated T, 1K words
DAY 1: "How many fingers am I holding up?"
man down —
Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz [9-1-1]
Rated M, 777 words
DAY 5: Debris | Pinned Down
pawns —
Fox Mulder & Dana Scully [The X-Files]
Rated T, 1K words
DAY 7: Alleyway | Radio Silence
rescue me —
Kerry Weaver/Kim Legaspi [ER]
Rated M, 3K words
DAY 8: Overcrowded ER | Outnumbered
outlast —
Original Character [Survivor]
Rated T, 841 words
DAY 12: Insomnia
let faith oust fact —
Fox Mulder/Dana Scully [The X-Files]
Rated M, 1K words
DAY 14: Water Inhalation
sanguis —
Spike/Buffy Summers [BtVS]
Rated M, 1K words
DAY 17: Touch Aversion
headlights on dark roads —
Danny Concannon/C.J. Cregg [The West Wing]
Rated M, 3K words
DAY 22: Vehicular Accidents
dearly departed —
Kevin Garvey Jr./Laurie Garvey [The Leftovers]
Rated M, 1K words
DAY 23: Stalking | "Who's there?"
midnight oil —
Josh Lyman/Donna Moss [The West Wing]
Rated T, 2K words
DAY 26: Working to Exhaustion
choke —
Alex Law/David Stephens [Shallow Grave]
Rated E, 2K words
DAY 28: Bloody Knife
paper bag —
Fox Mulder/Dana Scully [The X-Files]
Rated T, 1K words
DAY 30: Borrowed Clothing
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Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January 2023 to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before he was president, released his report. It begins: “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.” The Department of Justice closed a similar case against former Vice President Mike Pence on June 1, 2023, days before Pence announced his presidential bid, with a brief, one-page letter.
But in Biden’s case, what followed the announcement that he had not broken a law was more than 300 pages of commentary, including assertions that Biden was old, infirm, and losing his marbles and even that “[h]e did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” (p. 208).
As television host and former Republican representative from Florida Joe Scarborough put it: “He couldn’t indict Biden legally so he tried to indict Biden politically.”
Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their teams came out swinging against what amounted to a partisan hit job by a Republican special counsel. The president’s lawyers noted that it is not Department of Justice practice and protocol to criticize someone who is not going to be charged, and tore apart Hur’s nine references to Biden’s memory in contrast to his willingness to “accept…other witnesses’ memory loss as completely understandable given the passage of time.”
They pointed out that “there is ample evidence from your interview that the President did well in answering your questions about years-old events over the course of five hours. This is especially true under the circumstances, which you do not mention in your report, that his interview began the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. In the lead up to the interview, the President was conducting calls with heads of state, Cabinet members, members of Congress, and meeting repeatedly with his national security team.”
Nonetheless, they note, Biden provided “often detailed recollections across a wide range of questions, from staff management of paper flow in the West Wing to the events surrounding the creation of the 2009 memorandum on the Afghanistan surge. He engaged at length on theories you offered about the way materials were packed and moved during the transition out of the vice presidency and between residences. He pointed to flaws in the assumptions behind specific lines of questioning.”
They were not alone in their criticism. Others pointed out that Republicans have made Biden’s age a central point of attack, but Politico reported last October that while former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was publicly mocking Biden’s age and mental fitness, he was “privately telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations.” Dan Pfeiffer of Pod Save America and Message Box noted that the report’s “characterizations of Biden don't match those relayed by everyone who talks to him, including [Republicans].”
He explained: “There are few secrets in [Washington], and if Joe Biden acted like Hur says, we would all know. Biden meets with dozens of people daily—staffers, members of Congress, CEOs, labor officials, foreign leaders, and military and intelligence officials…. If Biden was regularly misremembering obvious pieces of information or making other mistakes that suggested he was not up to the job, it would be in the press. Washington is not capable of keeping something like that secret."
But the media ran not with the official takeaway of the investigation—that Biden had not committed a crime—or with a reflection on the accuracy or partisan reason for Hur’s commentary, but with Hur’s insinuations. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo noted that the New York Times today ran five front-page stories above the fold about the report and Biden’s memory.
Matt Gertz of Media Matters collected some of the day’s headlines: “Eight Words and a Verbal Slip Put Biden’s Age Back at the Center of 2024 (New York Times); “1 Big thing: Report Questions Biden’s memory (Axios)”; “Biden tries to lay to rest age concerns, but may have exacerbated them” (CNN); “Biden disputes special counsel findings, insists his memory is fine” (CBS News); “Age isn’t just a number. It’s a profound and growing problem for Biden” (Politico); and so on.
As far back as 1950, when Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) insisted—without evidence—that the Department of State under Democratic president Harry Truman had been infiltrated by Communists, Republicans have used official investigations to smear their opponents. State Department officials condemned McCarthy’s “Sewer Politics” and the New York Times complained about his “hit-and-run” attacks, but McCarthy’s outrageous statements and hearings kept his accusations in the news. That media coverage, in turn, convinced many Americans that his charges were true.
Other Republicans finally rejected McCarthy, but in 1996, congressional Republicans frustrated by the election of Democratic president Bill Clinton in 1992 and the Democrats’ subsequent expansion of the vote with the so-called Motor Voter law in 1993 resurrected his tactics. They launched investigations into two elections they insisted the Democrats had stolen. They discovered no fraud, but their investigation convinced a number of Americans that voter fraud was a serious problem.
There were ten investigations into the 2012 attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed and several others wounded; Republican-dominated House committees held six of them. Kevin McCarthy bragged to Fox News personality Sean Hannity that the Benghazi special committee was part of a “strategy to fight and win” against then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The strategy of weaponizing investigations went on to be central to the 2016 election, when Trump ran on the investigation of Clinton’s email practices, and to the 2020 election, when Trump tried to weaken Biden’s candidacy by trying to force Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to say that Ukraine was opening an investigation into Hunter Biden and the company he worked for.
Going into 2024, the House is investigating Hunter Biden, and while witness testimony and evidence has not supported their contention that President Biden is corrupt, the stench of the hearings has convinced a number of MAGA voters of the opposite.
And now the media appears to be falling for this strategy yet again.
Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen outlined how Biden’s performance disproves the argument that he is unfit for the presidency: “The thing about Biden’s memory,” Cohen wrote, “is that he’s presided over the addition of ~15 million jobs & 800k manufacturing jobs, 23 straight months of sub-4% unemployment, surging consumer sentiment, wages outpacing inflation, the American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs Act, PACT Act, infrastructure law, gun safety law, VAWA, codified marriage equality, canceled $136 billion in student loan debt for 3.7 million borrowers, bolstered NATO, and presided over electoral wins in ‘20, ‘22 and ‘23.”
Political strategist Simon Rosenberg had his own take: “As we end this crazy week I am struck that somehow the claim that Biden's memory is faulty has gotten more attention than a jury confirming that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.”
It may be, though, that the report has been a game changer in a different way than Hur intended it. Hur’s suggestion that Biden does not remember when his son died seems to echo the moment in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings in which Senator McCarthy was trying to prove that the U.S. Army had been infiltrated by Communists. Sensing himself losing, McCarthy attacked on national television a young aide of Joseph Nye Welch, the lawyer defending the Army.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Welch demanded. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” McCarthy didn’t, but Americans did, and they finally threw him off the public stage.
Biden supporters took their gloves off today, producing videos of Trump’s incoherence, gaffes, and wandering off stages, and noting that he mistook writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually assaulted, for his second wife, Marla Maples, when asked to identify Carroll in a photograph. They also produced clips of Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters messing up names themselves on screen, and gaffes from Republican lawmakers.
Senior communications advisor for the Biden-Harris campaign T.J. Ducklo released a statement lambasting Trump for a speech he gave tonight in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, saying: “Tonight, he lied more than two dozen times, slurred his words, confused basic facts, and placated the gun lobby weeks after telling parents to ‘get over it’ after their kids were gunned down at school. But you won’t hear about any of it if you watch cable news, read this weekend’s papers, or watch the Sunday shows.”
But it was Biden who responded most powerfully. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” he told reporters. “How in the hell dare he raise that…. I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.” And when asked about Hur’s dismissal of him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden responded with justified anger: “I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been President. I put this country back on its feet.”
Really loved Mexico, even after the taxi people scammed us and tried charging $2500 on our credit cards 🥲
Thank goodness Citibank security is very good. Within 10 minutes of the people’s charges, they shut off my card.
After speaking with a Mexican real estate agent and lawyer, we decided Mexico is not the place where we’d feel comfortable buying land for a future meditation center. It’s just the Wild Wild West down there in a lot of ways. But my gosh - we LOVED the northern Quintana Roo region ✨ And honestly felt super safe EXCEPT at the airport because they have a crazy mafia (like if you try to order an Uber at the airport, the taxi people with literally attack the car). Bali was really bad with their taxi mafia and ATM scams as well. Would honestly say a super unpopular opinion is that Bali is fucking awful in terms of financial safety / governmental control and I would never go back (Bali belly is also the worst illness I’ve ever had outside of an HG pregnancy).
Anyways - love Eastern MX, but be careful at the airport 😭
Back in Miami and it feels both really lovely and heavy to be back in the USA. Kevin and I immediately just became more mentally involved in the war in the M/E today and it really just feels completely fucked.
I’m sad that the world has honestly never been much better than it is right now. Im sad that my children will more than likely know a world just like this one when they’re (G-d willing) my age and older.
I’m just exhausted. Every couple days I think about the parents and the babies (on BOTH sides) and I fall apart.
Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from January 21 – January 27. Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing!
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@thefinestmuffin and @JessBakesCakes are hosting the 3rd Annual Josh/Donna Rom-Com Fest. Anyone can prompt or claim, and the fest reveals on February 14. Details here.
This Week in Canon:
Welcome back to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.
Season 1, Episode 13: Take Out the Trash Day aired on January 26, 2000.
Season 2, Episode 12: The Drop-In aired on January 24, 2001.
Season 6, Episode 13: King Corn aired on January 26, 2005.
Season 7, Episode 12: Duck and Cover aired on January 22, 2006.
Photos/Videos:
Here’s what was posted from January 21 - January 27:
Allison Janney posted a screenshot from Deadline about her upcoming role in Miss You, Love You.
Allison Janney posted a screenshot from Variety announcing her role in season two of Netflix’s The Diplomat.
Allison Janney posted photos of herself from a recent photo shoot.
Bradley Whitford posted a poster for a Natalie Morales and “The Night Crew” event he will be appearing in at the Lodge Room on February 3.
Dule Hill posted photos and a supportive message celebrating POC actors nominated for Oscars this year.
Dule Hill posted an image announcing his nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for the NAACP Image Awards.
Mary McCormack and Melissa Fitzgerald posted photos of themselves with Allison Janney and an announcement about their upcoming book about The West Wing, called What’s Next? which will drop in August and is now available for preorder. (Allison Janney, Dule Hill, and The West Wing Weekly also posted photos promoting the book.)
Rob Lowe posted a video of himself and Kevin Bacon talking for his podcast, Literally.
Donna Moss Daily: January 26 | January 27
Daily Josh Lyman: January 21 | January 22 | January 23 | January 24 | January 25 | January 26 | January 27
No Context BWhit: January 21 | January 22 | January 23 | January 24 | January 25 | January 26 | January 27
@twwarchive: January 22 | January 23 | January 24 | January 25 | January 26 | January 27
Edits/Artwork
#joshlyman: boyfriend material by @nacejisbon [VIDEO EDIT]
Editors’ Choice:
We’re skipping recommendations this week. We’ll catch you with more great stories next week!
Fics:
Presenting your weekly roundup of fics posted in the tag for The West Wing on Archive of Our Own.
Josh/Donna
Locus Amoenus by spooky_spacegirl | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress
like a kennedy when camelot went down in flames by MarvelousAvengfulSlytherin | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Joey Lucas/Sam Seaborn | In Progress
Come Back, Be Here by MatthewsMary | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete [Editor’s Note: While this fic is listed on AO3 as complete, it has continued to update and appears to be a WIP]
Taking Care of You by wootcanal | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete
where time of our lives is all we have by flowersinapril | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete
Surprise Suprise by Shonio | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete
Fairytale Ending? by Tyrols | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress
everybody talks (it started with a whisper) by JessBakesCakes | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress
CJ/Danny
oh, and I will be with you to feel the California sun by Luppiters | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg | Complete
Make the Leap by onekisstotakewithme for daylight_angel, miabicicletta, Luppiters | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg | Complete
Other Pairings/Gen Fic
A Different Life by PreppyPrincess5103 (JAG crossover) | Rated M | Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie/Sam Seaborn | In Progress
And the Silence Haunts our Bedchamber by unseenacademic | Rated T | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | Complete
written in red ink by helsinkibaby | Rated G | Will Bailey/Kate Harper | Complete
Multiple Pairings
What Sons Do by kcat1971 | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Helen Santos/Matt Santos, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet, Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn, Zoey Bartlet/Charlie Young | In Progress
War & Peace by miabicicletta for krazykitkat, onekisstotakewithme | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg, Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress
Interpreting by ladyemma42 | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Joey Lucas/Josh Lyman, Joey Lucas/Donna Moss, Donna Moss/Kenny Thurman | Complete
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List your top 5 fics ranked by kudos on AO3. are you surprised by what's most popular to your readers? then provide your ranking of your personal top 5 fics, and tag a few fellow writers!
oh boi these make me nervous but thank you @mostlymaudlin ;; (tagging: @skvaaader @jaywalkers @annawrites @marianjos @kevneildependant @takitalks)
i'll follow format cus this looks pretty and personal favs first feels nicer to share. (i havent posted a lot of fic so there's a bit of overlap)
that's just something people say (T), 119k, andreil || slowburn road trip au where neil steals andrew's car and andrew makes a deal to take neil west before they part ways again (haha...unless? 👀) this is my baby that i worked on for several months and posted every chapter in one day lmao it was my first chapter fic and my first major au. im still very proud of it <3
better safe than damned (E), 18k, andreil || a smuttier au of an au with demon!neil and witch!andrew and tentacles lol it sounds depraved, and the tags make it sound really depraved but half that word count is aftercare and exploring ones comfort zones and sexuality? so its personal and one of my best written smutfics imo
what a chatty creature (T), 14.7k, kandreil || 5 times neil goes nonverbal and the one time he finds his voice. i wrote this for my friend gull and had them give me 6 of their favourite words and included those in each part. i liked exploring communication with kandreil when in a slightly different font
messy (E), 10.3k, kandrew || au where kevin and trans!andrew are fwb (but more because feelings are fun) its another soft smut where andrew thinks too much, and hes a bit further in his healing, but reservations are still that. i like playing with their dynamic a whole lot. i was incredibly nervous to post this but im glad i did <3
taptaptap (T), 7.2k, kandreil || canon divergence kandreil where theyre a year or so removed from college and in love, but kevin and andrew never resolved The Incident after baltimore. this was my first big softie fic of them. i love kevin with my whole heart and i think he should be happy always so this one is close to me
taptaptap (T), 7.2k, kandreil || this one doesn't surprise me when it comes to popularity. its super soft and canon divergent and my first non exchange/gift fic!
that's just something people say (T), 119k, andreil || its a 100k+ slowburn andreil fic. it was bound to do numbers but its also very validating because i worked so hard ;;
like you swallowed a bone (T), 7.6k, gen twinyards and nicky || mixtape post canon fic exploring what happened with the twins and nicky's relationship years down the road. i think this got popular because of age and i still really like it, but im not sure what sparked this one for people lol
what a chatty creature (T), 14.7k, kandreil || this def got popular because fuzzy and kandreil and its relatively low stakes in drama (not that i write particularly dramatic things but yknow)
morning coffee (E), 9.8k, kandreil || post canon divergence smut with the boys before neil has an interview. kandreil smut speaks for itself in popularity lol i am still incredibly fond of this one and its gotten a lot of comments recently which has been nice. wrote it because i wanted to see more fic that felt like kandreil and not just andreil + kevin
im terrible at boosting my own stuff because i never feel like i explain myself well enough to sell my ideas or fics which is definitely reflected in my summaries that i have often been told "do not do the fic any justice" lol that and im horrified of people saying theyre silly but at least a few people think theyre pretty neat! :^)
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January 2023 to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before he was president, released his report. It begins: “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.” The Department of Justice closed a similar case against former Vice President Mike Pence on June 1, 2023, days before Pence announced his presidential bid, with a brief, one-page letter.
But in Biden’s case, what followed the announcement that he had not broken a law was more than 300 pages of commentary, including assertions that Biden was old, infirm, and losing his marbles and even that “[h]e did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” (p. 208).
As television host and former Republican representative from Florida Joe Scarborough put it: “He couldn’t indict Biden legally so he tried to indict Biden politically.”
Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their teams came out swinging against what amounted to a partisan hit job by a Republican special counsel. The president’s lawyers noted that it is not Department of Justice practice and protocol to criticize someone who is not going to be charged, and tore apart Hur’s nine references to Biden’s memory in contrast to his willingness to “accept…other witnesses’ memory loss as completely understandable given the passage of time.”
They pointed out that “there is ample evidence from your interview that the President did well in answering your questions about years-old events over the course of five hours. This is especially true under the circumstances, which you do not mention in your report, that his interview began the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. In the lead up to the interview, the President was conducting calls with heads of state, Cabinet members, members of Congress, and meeting repeatedly with his national security team.”
Nonetheless, they note, Biden provided “often detailed recollections across a wide range of questions, from staff management of paper flow in the West Wing to the events surrounding the creation of the 2009 memorandum on the Afghanistan surge. He engaged at length on theories you offered about the way materials were packed and moved during the transition out of the vice presidency and between residences. He pointed to flaws in the assumptions behind specific lines of questioning.”
They were not alone in their criticism. Others pointed out that Republicans have made Biden’s age a central point of attack, but Politico reported last October that while former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was publicly mocking Biden’s age and mental fitness, he was “privately telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations.” Dan Pfeiffer of Pod Save America and Message Box noted that the report’s “characterizations of Biden don't match those relayed by everyone who talks to him, including [Republicans].”
He explained: “There are few secrets in [Washington], and if Joe Biden acted like Hur says, we would all know. Biden meets with dozens of people daily—staffers, members of Congress, CEOs, labor officials, foreign leaders, and military and intelligence officials…. If Biden was regularly misremembering obvious pieces of information or making other mistakes that suggested he was not up to the job, it would be in the press. Washington is not capable of keeping something like that secret."
But the media ran not with the official takeaway of the investigation—that Biden had not committed a crime—or with a reflection on the accuracy or partisan reason for Hur’s commentary, but with Hur’s insinuations. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo noted that the New York Times today ran five front-page stories above the fold about the report and Biden’s memory.
Matt Gertz of Media Matters collected some of the day’s headlines: “Eight Words and a Verbal Slip Put Biden’s Age Back at the Center of 2024 (New York Times); “1 Big thing: Report Questions Biden’s memory (Axios)”; “Biden tries to lay to rest age concerns, but may have exacerbated them” (CNN); “Biden disputes special counsel findings, insists his memory is fine” (CBS News); “Age isn’t just a number. It’s a profound and growing problem for Biden” (Politico); and so on.
As far back as 1950, when Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) insisted—without evidence—that the Department of State under Democratic president Harry Truman had been infiltrated by Communists, Republicans have used official investigations to smear their opponents. State Department officials condemned McCarthy’s “Sewer Politics” and the New York Times complained about his “hit-and-run” attacks, but McCarthy’s outrageous statements and hearings kept his accusations in the news. That media coverage, in turn, convinced many Americans that his charges were true.
Other Republicans finally rejected McCarthy, but in 1996, congressional Republicans frustrated by the election of Democratic president Bill Clinton in 1992 and the Democrats’ subsequent expansion of the vote with the so-called Motor Voter law in 1993 resurrected his tactics. They launched investigations into two elections they insisted the Democrats had stolen. They discovered no fraud, but their investigation convinced a number of Americans that voter fraud was a serious problem.
There were ten investigations into the 2012 attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed and several others wounded; Republican-dominated House committees held six of them. Kevin McCarthy bragged to Fox News personality Sean Hannity that the Benghazi special committee was part of a “strategy to fight and win” against then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The strategy of weaponizing investigations went on to be central to the 2016 election, when Trump ran on the investigation of Clinton’s email practices, and to the 2020 election, when Trump tried to weaken Biden’s candidacy by trying to force Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to say that Ukraine was opening an investigation into Hunter Biden and the company he worked for.
Going into 2024, the House is investigating Hunter Biden, and while witness testimony and evidence has not supported their contention that President Biden is corrupt, the stench of the hearings has convinced a number of MAGA voters of the opposite.
And now the media appears to be falling for this strategy yet again.
Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen outlined how Biden’s performance disproves the argument that he is unfit for the presidency: “The thing about Biden’s memory,” Cohen wrote, “is that he’s presided over the addition of ~15 million jobs & 800k manufacturing jobs, 23 straight months of sub-4% unemployment, surging consumer sentiment, wages outpacing inflation, the American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs Act, PACT Act, infrastructure law, gun safety law, VAWA, codified marriage equality, canceled $136 billion in student loan debt for 3.7 million borrowers, bolstered NATO, and presided over electoral wins in ‘20, ‘22 and ‘23.”
Political strategist Simon Rosenberg had his own take: “As we end this crazy week I am struck that somehow the claim that Biden's memory is faulty has gotten more attention than a jury confirming that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.”
It may be, though, that the report has been a game changer in a different way than Hur intended it. Hur’s suggestion that Biden does not remember when his son died seems to echo the moment in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings in which Senator McCarthy was trying to prove that the U.S. Army had been infiltrated by Communists. Sensing himself losing, McCarthy attacked on national television a young aide of Joseph Nye Welch, the lawyer defending the Army.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Welch demanded. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” McCarthy didn’t, but Americans did, and they finally threw him off the public stage.
Biden supporters took their gloves off today, producing videos of Trump’s incoherence, gaffes, and wandering off stages, and noting that he mistook writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually assaulted, for his second wife, Marla Maples, when asked to identify Carroll in a photograph. They also produced clips of Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters messing up names themselves on screen, and gaffes from Republican lawmakers.
Senior communications advisor for the Biden-Harris campaign T.J. Ducklo released a statement lambasting Trump for a speech he gave tonight in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, saying: “Tonight, he lied more than two dozen times, slurred his words, confused basic facts, and placated the gun lobby weeks after telling parents to ‘get over it’ after their kids were gunned down at school. But you won’t hear about any of it if you watch cable news, read this weekend’s papers, or watch the Sunday shows.”
But it was Biden who responded most powerfully. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” he told reporters. “How in the hell dare he raise that…. I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.” And when asked about Hur’s dismissal of him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden responded with justified anger: “I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been President. I put this country back on its feet.”
If you wanna know what's my Number 1 best aside from Matilda here it is, "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" is one my favorites written by Roald Dahl himself it even featured two films starring the late Gene Wilder & Johnny Depp and also produced a musical in 2013 to 2017 in Broadway. So for Musical AU decided to draw in some characters also guest stars take the roles, Here's what I had planned recently down below;
🎩Willy Wonka - Marlin E. Disney
🎫 Charlie Bucket - Greg, Captain Jake, Cubby(JATNP)
Mrs. Bucket - Giselle Phillip
Grandpa Joe - Captain Archibald Haddock
🎫 Agustus Gloop - Gunther, Squirt, Cubby(Peter Pan)
Mrs. Gloop - Cheryl Farrell
🎫 Veruca Salt - Amber, Hildegard, Grace
Mr. Salt - King Frederic of Corona
🎫 Violet Beaureguarde - Chelsea, Maya, Valerie
Mr. Beaureguarde - Duane Williams
🎫 Mike Teavee - Johnny Test, Kevin, Edgar
Mrs. Teavee - Lila Test
Cherry Sunday - Daphne Blake/ Rita Loud
Jerry Jubilee - Fred Jones/ Lynn Loud
Oompa Loompas - ??????????
Note: Some the Guest Casts belong to Disney, Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon and some belong to other Cartoonists, But on reference of this idea for the AU it's actually a combination of both West & Broadway of each musical numbers...
I saw something like this on youtube and it looked like fun so I thought I'd try one here
How it works:
this is the video I'm gonna be editing
comment a ship from my list and a part and I'll make a fanvid of the ones chosen
it'll be first come first serve and I'm not repeating couples
Part 1: Roy x Keeley (for @obsessivedaydreamer)
Part 2: Sawyer x Juliet (for @obsessivedaydreamer)
Part 3: Kate x Toby (for @unorthodox-oblivion)
Part 4: Hazel x Augustus (for @ur-average-farp) Part 5: Jack x Kate (for @unorthodox-oblivion)
Part 6: Luke x Lorelei (for @theycallme-thejackal)
Part 7: Midge x Lenny (for @theycallme-thejackal)
Part 8: Lane x Dave (for @ethereal-veggie and רחל דב on youtube)
Part 9: Sookie x Jackson ( for רחל דב on youtube)
Part 10: Josh x Donna (for @theycallme-thejackal)
list of ships i'll do under the cut
Anne with an E
Anne x Gilbert
Brooklyn 99
Jake x Amy
Holt x Kevin
Community
Troy x Abed
Jeff x Annie
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt x Tina
The Fault In Our Stars
Hazel x Augustus
Gilmore Girls
Luke x Lorelai
Rory x Jess
Lane x Dave
Sookie x Jackson
The Good Place
Eleanor x Chidi
Janet x Jason
Harry Potter
Harry x Ginny
Ron x Hermione
Heartstopper
Nick x Charlie
Tara x Darcy
Tao x Elle
The Hunger Games
Katniss x Peeta
Juno
Juno x Paulie
Looking for Alaska
Miles x Alaska
Lost
Sawyer x Juliet
Jack x Kate
Claire x Charlie
Kate x Claire
Desmond x Penny
Daniel x Charlotte
Sun x Jin
Sayid x Shannon
Sawyer x Kate
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Midge x Lenny
Midge x Joel
Joel x Mei
Modern Family
Haley x Andy
Phil x Claire
Mitch x Cam
New Girl
Nick x Jess
Cece x Schmidt
Winston x Aly
The Newsroom
Will x Mac
Don x Sloan
Jim x Maggie
Once Upon a Time
Emma x Killian
Snow x Charming
Mulan x Aurora
Robin x Alice
Regina x Robin Hood
Rumple x Belle
Parks and Recreation
Leslie x Ben
April x Andy
Ron x Diane
Tom x Lucy
Ann x Chris
Pitch Perfect
Beca x Chloe
The Princess Bride
Westley x Buttercup
Rosaline
Rosaline x Dario
Schitt’s Creek
David x Patrick
Ted x Alexis
Moira x Johnny
Love, Simon
Simon x Bram
Ted Lasso
Ted x Rebecca
Roy x Keeley
This Is Us
Kevin x Sophie
Kate x Toby
Jack x Rebecca
Randall x Beth
Timeless
Lucy x Wyatt
Rufus x Jiya
The Vampire Diaries
Damon x Elena
Klaus x Caroline
Katherine x Stefan
18 fics, 36k words, 10 fandoms. all of the fics i wrote during the year are linked under the cut to read and re-read!
honorable mentions ↓
most kudos: la petit mort
most comments: for your eyes only
author’s favorite: choke
📍 for your eyes only (9.3k, M, James Bond and 1D fusion. main fic post)
While on a dangerous mission, 007 reunites with an old flame.
📍 weak hands, sore feet (1.5k, T, hockey rpf)
Sore from a Game 7 loss, Carson and Will decide to shave their playoff beards together.
📍 collide (1.1k, T, ER 1994)
The IV - her first real IV - is almost in the patient's limp arm. Lucy stills her nervous hand to guide the needle in further towards the correct vein, notes the dip in the arm as she attempts to break it past the first layer of skin. It slips out, goes to the right.
📍 man down (777, M, 9-1-1)
Buck didn't see it coming.
He didn't see the cracks in the beams. Didn't use caution in where he stepped, didn't run away fast enough when the freeway came crumbling down and took him with it.
📍 pawns (1.7k, T, the x files)
“Decided to show up late this time, huh?” Mulder asks the man, bristling as he shoves his hands into his coat pockets.
📍 rescue me (3.1k, M, ER 1994)
A five-car pileup in the middle of winter means that County General is at capacity. A short-staffed hospital means that Kerry Weaver isn’t having a good day.
📍 outlast (841, T, survivor)
The humidity on the Fiji island gets to you, and you can't sleep.
📍 let faith oust fact (1.2k, M, the x files)
Big Blue attacks their boat. Instead of finding a rock, the agents nearly drown.
📍 sanguis (1k, M, buffy the vampire slayer)
Gasping, Buffy spins around quickly, raising her stake, and she doesn't even move an inch when the stake meets an undead body, too close to her.
📍 headlights on dark roads (3.4k, M, the west wing)
"You didn't save me a seat? Come on," she whines, hanging on the frame of the car as her shoulders slump, growing desperate to get away from Danny's curiosity.
Toby says, "Sorry. All full."
📍 dearly departed (1.7k, M, the leftovers)
Not too long after Laurie joins the Remnant, she shows up at Kevin's house.
📍 midnight oil (2.3k, T, west wing)
Donna's eyes traveled down to her hands, holding a steaming mug with the presidential seal on it. It was one of Josh's favorites despite it being widely available at the White House gift shop. "I was making you coffee." She squinted at him, speaking slowly. "You know, like you asked me to do five minutes ago. By the way, our coffeepot is a pain in the neck, and we really should-"
📍 choke (2.7k, E, shallow grave)
Juliet leaves Alex and David for dead. Little does she know...
📍 paper bag (1.1k, T, the x files)
Mulder and Scully travel for a case, and the airline loses Scully's bag.
📍 know your number (100, G, ER 1994)
Post-'Union Station,' Mark considers calling Susan.
📍 the oven was broken. (825, T, hrpf)
Matty and Will attempt to bake birthday cookies.
📍 la petit mort (1.6k, E, the x files)
Intimately aware of her mortality, she's asked you to prove your worth to her.
📍 the cold moon (1.3k, T, the x files)
Scully shifts when the moon is full, and Mulder follows. That's how it always is.
I'm sure some of you have fallen in love with a supervillain. What happens when the superhero does the same? Day thirteen of 30 Covers, 30 Days brings us Romance novel My Lovely Villain by YWP Participant Lev Silver! This cover was designed by returning designer, Kevin Perry, who also provided a mock-up.
My Lovely Villain
Hero versus villain. It’s a classic showdown—thanks to the city of Newhurst, it’s now a worldwide commercialized sport; a modern gladiator fight. And for those with superpowers, playing is the only option. Supremely morally-conscious hero Theo Sparks (alias: Silver Angel, for his wings) must fight Caspian Hunt (alias: Schrödinger), a chaotic shapeshifting villain with an affinity for cats. But at night, when they’re not on camera battling in the streets of Newhurst for entertainment, something unexpected is happening: Theo and Cas are falling for each other.
About the Author
Lev is an avid writer who hopes to one day actually finish a novel and publish it. They love creating stories with villain protagonists and morally grey characters. When not writing, they can be found thinking about getting a chapter done, or researching realistic injuries for one of their many fight scenes.
About the Designer
Kevin Perry is a designer, educator and organizational leader. He currently oversees talent and operations at Struck, an internationally acclaimed creative agency whose clients include the Utah Office of Tourism, Universal Studios, Snowbird and Nickelodeon. Kevin has long been involved in the local and national design community, serving in AIGA leadership, cofounding Salt Lake Design Week, and teaching at the University of Utah. Kevin’s calm and confidence are contagious. He finds inspiration in the far-flung wilds of the dusty American West—and in the feel of the summer night air of Salt Lake City streets as he cruises on his trusty e-bike.