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About Me: Favorite Video Games

So you may not know this, but I’m a gamer. Shocking, right? Who’d ever have guessed it? But to be totally fair here, I rarely talk about video games on Tumblr. I talk about movies, and there have been a handful of times where I reviewed video games, but I focused more on the story, characters, and all that then I did on whether or not the gameplay was good. In my earliest days, before I found my niche, I talked about games a fair deal, but that fell by the wayside so I could focus on films (my true passion).

So hey, look at this! You’re all going to get to see what my favorite video games are now! Remember, everything here is just my personal opinions; I'm not trying to give actual reviews of each of these games in a couple of sentences or trying to sell you on them, I'm talking about the stuff in them that makes me love them. All of this is my subjective opinion, and I'm not asking you to agree with me here, I'm just trying to talk about stuff that I love.

Oh, and here are some honorable mentions: Super Mario Bros. 3, Banjo-Kazooie (I still haven’t finished it and I don’t want to include games I haven’t played through), Kid Icarus: Uprising, Bayonetta 2, Injustice 2, BioShock, Doom Eternal, Super Metroid, Dragon Age II, God of War II, Castlevania: Aria/Dawn of Sorrow, The Wolf Among Us, The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando/Up Your Arsenal, and Heritage for the Future. Also a shout out to Tell Me Why and Life is Strange, games I watched my wife play and loved the story of but that I didn’t actually play myself; the former in particular has all sorts of elements I love in my stories.

Now, without further ado, here’s my top 50! Oh, and only the top 30 have pictures because there's image limits on posts! What a load of BS!

50. Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Ok, maybe this game is lacking in a few areas at the expense of its massive customization system… but boy howdy what a system it is! I cannot tell you how much time I’ve sunk into decorating my island, reorganizing my villagers, and just making all sorts of weird themed areas. It’s a lot of fun, and I get to do all this work while hanging with a bunch of weird, cute animals.

49. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R

The original game was a lot of fun, but even I’ll admit it felt like it was missing something. That something was probably Foo Fighter, but guess what? She’s in the updated rerelease, along with aslew of other new characters like my favorite minor antagonist Mariah and the bane of Heritage for the Future players, Pet Shop! Add onto that a much better campaign mode with some fun little AU shenanigan matches and you have the most loving fighting game tribute to JJBA imaginable! Now if only they’d give Part 8 a little more love...

48. Batman: Arkham Origins

This is the redheaded stepchild of the Arkham series, and on some level I get why. It is very much aping City, right down to the map despite their being some expansions here and there, and the combat is much more of the same with little in the way of evolution, and don’t get me started on the fucking Joker showing up again. But this game also features some of the best bosses in the series such as Firefly and especially Deathstroke, a Bane who isn’t just a mindless mass of muscles like in the other games, and some interesting sidequests that make this early look at Batman’s superheroics a worthwhile entry in my eyes.

47. Miitopia

This is one of the easiest games out there, what with the autopilot combat and minimal difficulty (though there is a big spike late in the game). But the sheer vastness of the facial customization means that literally anyone from all of art or history can take part in a wacky, cliché RPG adventure. Hank Hill can fight the evil overlord Seth MacFarlane with a crew consisting of Chowder, Thor, and Japanese comedian/director/actor Beat Takeshi. If that’s not worth the price of admission, I don’t know what is.

46. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

The DS is where Castlevania truly shined, and my favorite of all the handheld entries is this portrait-hopping journey to defeat a mad artist and his evil vampire children. The locations are pretty great, there’s tons of sidequests and alternate game modes (my favorite is the one where you play as the Old Axe Armor), and there’s an awesome brutal bonus dungeon where you get to fight the bosses from Dawn of Sorrow without the stupid drawing bullshit!

45. Maximo vs. Army of Zin

The original game was a fun, yet very flawed action platformer. This game veers more into the hack-and-slash genre to great effect; it’s not the deepest combat ever, but it’s a lot of fun, with much better platform, bosses, and story than the first game. There’s just something cool about a world that mixes Gothic horror, steampunk, and other fantasy elements together all in one place.

44. God Hand

This is one of the most deceptive games you’ll ever come across. On the surface, it might seem like an ugly beat-em-up, but it’s so much more than that. The bosses are brutal yet fantastic, the music is fucking incredible, and the humor is just the right level of absurd to be incredibly charming. It’s ball-bustingly difficult, but let me tell you, when you finally overcome a fight or a boss battle that’s been giving you trouble? It is literally the best feeling in the world.

43. South Park: The Stick of Truth

‘Member when South Park was funny? I ‘member. And The Stick of Truth really brings back all those memories because this is a hilarious and loving tribute to the series made with the help of Trey Parker and Matt Stone to deliver the playable South Park experience of your dreams. It’s gross, immature, raunchy, and funny, and best of all it doesn’t get too preachy or up its own ass with messages—no, it gets up Mr. Slave’s ass to defuse a bomb. Peak South Park right here, though the gameplay is kind of basic. It’s all carried by that stellar writing.

42. Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity

This game mainly scores a spot on my list for being fucking hilarious. This is the funniest Crash Bandicoot ever got, with all sorts of wacky gags and clever dialogue. Cortex really is the MVP here, with the constant slapstick that befalls him combined with his snarky dialogue making him a standout. It’s a bummer so much was cut from the game, and it does feel a bit incomplete in some areas, but for what it is it’s a damn fun time.

41. Pokemon White/White 2

It was genuinely hard to pick a single game from the series to go on here considering how much I loved Gens III – V. Emerald perfected the generation I first got into the series, LeafGreen is the definitive Kanto experience to me, Platinum polished up Gen IV’s uneven debut and made it incredible, and SoulSilver is a fantastic remake of the first Pokemon game I ever played (Crystal). But I think I have to go with the Gen V games I played as my favorites. They’re fun and challenging, and while the first game has a ridiculously restrictive regional dex and the second has an overreliance on defunct wi-fi features, the fantastic story and fun new Pokemon make up for it. Can’t be too mad at the games that let me make trashy cult classic B-movies with my boy Garbodor, can I?

40. Batman: Arkham Knight

I put off playing this for years, because I wasn’t happy with some of the things I heard about it, such as a lack of traditional boss battles and an overreliance on the Batmobile. These are still problems, but not near as bad as I feared (obviously, since it’s on this list); everything about the gameplay is the series at its peak. The main story is a bit lacking and ends up being a tad too predictable for me to love it as much as the other entries in the series, but the fact it has Professor Pyg and Man-Bat really helps make up for its shortcomings.

39. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

This game is just as silly and clunky as I imagined an older Bethesda game would be, but to my surprise I think it holds up incredibly well even compared to Skyrim. It’s a bit more complex in a lot of areas, but it’s not too daunting. What really strikes me is how this game actually has a really good story; it’s nothing groundbreaking, but when you look at how bad the Civil War plot in Skyrim was it feels like Shakespeare in comparison. Throw in a ton of unique sidequests with interesting plotlines, a gruesome Dark Brotherhood plot, an interesting villain, and Patrick Stewart for all of about five minutes, and I’d almost say I like this more than Skyrim. Almost.

38. Wolfenstein: The New Order

Sure, it doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel when it comes to FPS games, but does it need to? All I want from a Wolfenstein game is a horde of Nazi motherfuckers to mow down, and guess what this game gives me? What really surprised me was how genuinely cool and likable BJ was. He might be one of my favorite heroes ever after this game. It’s a shame they couldn’t keep this level of polish up in the sequel.

37. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

In a lot of ways, this game is objectively worse than its predecessor. Like the story is ass for sure; I could not give less of a fuck about the Stormcloaks and the Imperials and their stupid civil war if I tried. But the vast world filled with things to do is so much fun to explore, and there’s all sorts of sidequests and shenanigans to get into. This game is pure, stupid fun, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve restarted it just to play as a different race or class. Maybe someday I’ll make it to the final boss. Maybe.

36. Psychonauts

The original Psychonauts is one of the last great platformers, and among them it’s a lot more unique than many of its peers as you’re platforming through the minds of all sorts of wacky characters to help them overcome their issues. Bouncing through the conspiracy theory-addled brain of a disturbed milkman or decimating a city kaiju style inside the mind of a hyper-intelligent mutant lungfish are the kind of off-the-wall ideas this game throws at you, and in my opinion the only thing that could hold it back is if it had a really janky final level that combines meat, circuses, escort missions, and an underwhelming final boss… Oops. Still a great game in my eyes, one that’s 95% perfect.

35. Final Fantasy VI

For a lot of people, this is the best Final Fantasy game, and I definitely see why. It has a truly massive playable roster of unique characters with their own special gimmicks (of which only a handful are actually useful, mind you) and one of the greatest video game villains ever conceived in the mad clown Kefka, plus it is so focused and tightly plotted for the first half of the game. I think that after Kefka takes over the story becomes a lot more aimless and unfocused, but that’s also where the game becomes a lot more fun and challenging too. It’s a bit uneven, but after how hard the opera house scene goes I think it’s allowed to trip a little bit.

34. Dragon Age: Origins

A lot more praise is thrown at this series’ sci-fi sibling Mass Effect, probably because that series is a lot more consistent with how good it is across the board (Andromeda notwithstanding), but I’m much more fond of fantasy settings myself and this game delivers a fantastic one in ways its sequels couldn’t quite manage. This is the only game in the series where I genuinely loved every single party member (especially Leliana) and actively tried to get them the happiest endings possible—yes, even the douchebag anti-villain who joins you if you play your cards right), and the plot is just the right level of epic fantasy cheese seasoned with some delicious side quests. If the dwarf plotline wasn’t such a slog and if Varric was in the game, this would be a lot higher on the list, but this game still holds a special place in my heart.

33. Batman: Arkham Asylum

Our first trip into the Asylum really did kill the notion that licensed games had to be the most obnoxious shovelware schlock imaginable by making a Batman game that actually makes you feel like Batman. Sure, the detective part is a bit minimal here compared to the sequels, but the combat is so fun and refreshing that I’m not too bothered by the lack of crime scene investigations. There’s a clear love for the entire mythos here, and best of all a clear love for the animated series—Hamill and Conroy reprise their roles as Joker and Batman respectively, and Arleen Sorkin gives Harley one last ride before her retirement. It’s a real love letter to the Dark Knight, and it spawned one of the most consistently good video game series around, so I’ll forgive it for having the lamest final boss I’ve ever fought just this once.

32. Kingdom Hearts

What I like about the original game is how it struck such a nice balance in its absurd premise, with it never feeling like the Final Fantasy or Disney elements are really overpowering each other. We have the grandiose, convoluted plots of the former and the magic, whimsy, and awesome villains of the latter combining together into one impressive package. Yeah, a lot of the level designs are dogshit (looking at you, Deep Jungle and Monstro), and some of the stunt casting is really bizarre (Lance Bass as Sephiroth?!) but overall this is a game way better than you’d think by hearing that it’s a game where Mickey Mouse and Cloud Strife exist side by side.

31. Super Mario 64

Mamma mia! It is genuinely impossible for me to not feel nostalgic for this game. So many 3D platformers that came out in its wake took what it did and polished it to absurd degrees, but there’s still something so special about diving back into one of the portraits in Peach’s castle and going through those levels again and again. The music and atmosphere of the game add onto it; every time I play it, I feel like a kid again. It’s just such a charming game.

30. MediEvil

If Tim Burton made a Gothic horror fantasy movie, I imagine it would be something like this game. It really uses the limitations of the PS1’s graphics to the fullest extent, with the jagged polygonal looks of the characters enhancing the experience, and it has such a crazy variety of levels and enemies, from a phantom pirate ship to a crystal cave with a dragon to a village of posessed villagers to an ant hill. Sir Daniel Fortesque is one of my favorite video game protagonists around because of his posthumous journey to live up to the legend fabricated around him.

29. God of War III

Every single one of these games just escalates from the previous one. Oh, you fight the hydra in the opening of the first game? How about you fight through Rhodes and then battle the animated colossus that once stood in its port in the second? And how do you top that for the third game? Beat the ever-loving shit out of Poseidon and gouge his eyes out from his POV. And this game only gets more brutal from there! Titans and gods all fall to Kratos in epic and gory boss battles, but honestly even without that I’d put the game on this list for the simple reason that you get to fucking murder Kevin Sorbo as Hercules.

28. EarthBound

Nintendo’s quirkiest RPG makes the cut, mostly on the basis of how weird and charming it is. At this point I’ve essentially memorized everything you need to do in this game, which is good because if it’s your first time you desperately need a guide or you’ll be fucked. There are points where things get a little too grindy (mostly for Poo’s weapons) but it’s genuinely a game whose charms outweigh any negatives there are. Plus, that final boss battle is something else entirely.

27. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Rebirth and all of its DLC updates took everything great about the original game and polished it into absolute perfection, with so many different item combos you could potentially get and so many bosses and endgames you could encounter. No two runs ever really feel the same, and it’s so satisfying to become so overpowered you nuke the screen every time you attack. The fact there’s a thriving modding community to continually generate new and crazier content also adds to why I have a ridiculous number of hours dumped into this game.

26. Resident Evil VII: Biohazard

This is the first Resident Evil game I ever played and, wow, I sure was missing out all those years! This is one of the most tense survival horror experiences I’ve played through, with a creepy family of hillbilly horrors to avoid as I creep through their ramshackle domicile. It’s fun, creepy, and even a little campy, and it has raised my interest in the rest of the series. Hopefully the game with the giant vampire mommy will live up to how good this one is when I finally get around to playing it.

25. Portal 2

Yes, the puzzles are great, but this game really soars due to its writing. The first game was fun and all, but it was mostly just GLaDOS insulting you the whole time with Chell being an entirely silent protagonist. In this game, we get the lovable idiot Wheatley and the greatest mad scientist ever conceived Cave Johnson to listen to as well, and the way GLaDOS bounces off the former and reacts to the latter help make this game a fun and engaging puzzle-solving adventure.

24. Doom

The legendary FPS series got revitalized after years on the edge of relevancy, and its return is one of the most metal games imaginable. Slaughtering your way through the forces of Hell while heavy metal blares in the background? It really doesn’t get much better than this. While I do think Eternal improved the formula and gameplay in a lot of ways (particularly with the addition of an awesome hub level), I find the original to be way more fun and balanced in terms of difficulty. The lack of Marauders is really what gives it the slightest of edges.

23. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Nobody got left behind for this one. Everyone across the series came back, and then they went and added even more to give us the most ambitious crossover of all time. Ridley, Simon Belmont, Sora, Sephiroth, Kazuya, and more all get to duke it out on the best stages of the series as well as some fresh new ones, and every character plays even better and more balanced than they ever have before. While the single player campaign isn’t quite as exciting as Subspace Emissary from Brawl, it still manages to be a pretty epic quest with fun boss battles. This is just the definitive Smash experience in my opinion.

22. Red Dead Redemption

My daughter has affectionately labeled this game “Horse Movie,” and she’s not wrong. This is a true cowboy experience right here, with lots of gunfights and horse wrangling, and it’s all a blast. The story in particular is really well done, and there’s plenty of fun side quests too. Maybe the gunfights get a bit samey after a while, but it’s an enjoyable open world to explore and is filled with oddities and mysteries galore.

21. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

The first Metal Gear game to make the list, and easily the most underrated of the bunch. It gets a lot of flak for the missing final episode that would have had Venom fight the young Liquid Snake, and while it does suck that that moment isn’t in the game, the story still feels plenty complete and well-done without it. Venom might be one of the most fascinating characters in the series, and the game has some of the most brutal gutpunches and tearjerking moments in the franchise. Maybe it’s just because I’m predisposed to love Metal Gear, but I loved this game even though I was well aware of what it didn’t have.

20. Final Fantasy VII

Not to be a basic bitch, but this is my favorite Final Fantasy. I mean, the cast is all so cool and fun, the story is great, Sephiroth is an amazing villain, and there’s plenty of obscure and obtuse ways of finding secrets that make a strategy guide practically mandatory if you want the most out of the game. What’s not to love? I think I was mostly surprised by how good the game actually was; it’s always high on lists of the best games ever, and it definitely earns that. The fact that Aerith’s death still made me tear up despite being common knowledge is a testament to just how amazing this Fantasy is.

19. Mother 3

EarthBound coasts by on its fun, lighthearted quirkiness… but what if you took that and applied heaping helpings of darkness and a more solid story? That’s Mother 3, a beautiful tale filled with the same out there humor as its predecessor as well as a lot of more mature and deeper themes than even the original tackled (mind you, Earthbound wasn’t devoid of deeper themes to begin with, so this is saying something). The ending is one of the few times I have openly sobbed while playing a video game. They need to officially release this in the West, because I will buy it day one. Fuck, I’ll pre-order it!

18. Yoshi’s Island

If this game was only one of the most charmingly animated games ever made, that would be enough to earn it at least some respect. But it’s also one of the best platformers in a series that invented the genre, centered around a truly inspired baby-carrying gimmick and featuring all manner of creative boss battles and one of the most earwormy soundtracks ever made. That’s enough to get it a spot on this list, but the fact it solidified Shy Guys as a Mario mainstay and not just a one-shot enemy? That gets it into my top 20.

17. Spyro Reignited Trilogy

It’s kind of cheating since it’s all three games in one package, but it’s my list, I make the rules. I view this as the definitive way to play Spyro; the redesigns are all fantastic (especially Elora) and the fact Tom Kenny is now the lovable purple scamp across all three games is wonderful. They even made the first game more enjoyable and even visually interesting, even though it’s still the weakest link in the series! And as much of a Crash Bandicoot stan as I am, the fact this game allows you to switch between the newly composed arrangements of the songs and the original Copeland tracks is a big W over the Bandicoot remakes only having the new versions of the songs.

16. Metal Gear Rising

This is perhaps the most badass game ever made. The first level has Raiden battling through a war zone and then fighting a RAY singlehandedly, leaping across missiles and slicing it in half while the most fucking awesome metal music blares in the background. The game just decides to get even more insane from there. People have argued against it being canon for years, but these people are stupid. This game is just as insane and politically-charged as the rest of the series, so in my book, it’s fucking canon.

15. Undertale

This game’s time in the spotlight has faded a bit, but that only makes it easier for me to look back on it and say, “Damn, that’s one of the finest games ever made.” It has all the quirkiness of the Mother series with unique combat and a stellar story, a cast of likable characters, and some of the best boss fights I’ve ever been through. Best of all, it’s a game that practically encourages and even rewards you for being nice! I still love it, even after all the discourse and skyrocketing popularity, and nothing will make me budge on that love.

14. Hades

I’m a big fan of Greek mythology, so this is yet another game that would have had to try really hard to make me hate it. Thankfully, all its efforts were put into areas that made me love it instead. While the roguelike gameplay is well done, the writing and story are really the stars here, with fantastic character interactions between desperate god Zagreus, the gods of Olympus, and the various denizens of the underworld really making this game something truly special.

13. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time

Sometimes this game feels like the designers saw all those articles and reviews comparing the first game to Dark Souls and took it to heart, because some of the levels in this game are absolutely brutal—especially if you’re going for 100% completion. But that same difficulty makes playing through the levels a lot of fun as well; it’s probably the most challenging Crash outing to date. It really polishes and updates the Crash formula for the modern age, and hopefully they expand on this in a future game. If nothing else, it finally lets you play as Dingodile, which is a dream come true.

12. Grand Theft Auto V

It’s wacky. It’s cartoonish. It has a surprisingly good story about three criminals from different walks of life becoming fire-forged friends as they violently work out their emotional issues. There’s just so much to do and so much to see, all sorts of collectibles and side missions, and more black comedy than you can shake a stick at, and all of it is made all the more enjoyable because the main villain protagonists are a likable bunch of nutjobs. Hell, sometimes I just like to hop into a car, put on some tunes, and cruise around until I can cause some mayhem, and the fact that’s just as valid as doing a bunch of story missions really makes me love the game.

11. Silent Hill 2

While the first and third games are good in their own rights, I vastly prefer the psychological horror and the monsters manifesting as living allegories for trauma with heavy and dark symbolism as opposed to the evil cult narrative. Plus, you know, this one has Pyramid Head in it, and his presence makes sense instead of simply being there cuz he’s cool.

10. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials & Tribulations

The Ace Attorney series is one of my favorites, and I love just about all the games in it and even the ones I don’t love always have one or two solid cases that keep me coming back. But pound for pound my favorite game in the series is the third one, the one that lets you play as Mia Fey, introduces the callous murderer Dahlia Hawthorne, and has you match wits with the coffee-guzzling prosecutor Godot. Even the filler cases are entertaining, with the one where Phoenix has to get to the bottom of a murder involving his evil doppleganger being wildly amusing (which is more than can be said for that circus case in the second game or cases two through three in the fourth).

9. Live A Live

Few games can boast the sheer variety this game has on display, with levels changing up their style to give everything from standard RPG fair to a prolonged timed puzzle to a fighting game pastiche to an incredibly tense survival horror experience. We also have the precursor to Undertale here in a ninja-themed level where you can spare everyone you come across or otherwise brutally murder them. And while the stories remain relatively simple in every time period you visit, it doesn’t stop them from hitting hard when they need to, like with the fantasy RPG deconstruction that is Oersted’s chapter. This game would easily have switched places with the next game if the final level played a bit more to the game’s strengths, but hey, it’s still good enough to be in the top 10.

8. Chrono Trigger

Square’s other time travel story is definitely the superior one even if it’s a traditional JRPG through and through. Of course, that is because it completely and fully takes advantage of its premise, with actions you take in one time period affecting others in turn, not to mention the vast amount of bonus bosses and sidequests there are to keep the multiple playthroughs to acquire all the endings fresh and fun. I’ve sunk so much time into getting all the endings on the DS version, and I’ve never once been bored even after visiting the Middle Ages or the ruined future world a dozen times.

7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

There are few games that I love revisiting more than this one. This is Metroidvania at its peak, a perfect blend of action, platforming, and RPG elements into one glorious Gothic horror monster mash package. What’s truly fun with this one is the myriad ways there are to bust the game right open. I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve grinded for hours so that I could dual-wield Crissaegrims and trivialize the Dracula and Galamoth battles.

6. Psychonauts 2

The original Psychonauts is fun and quirky, and is only really held back by a pretty sloppy final level. This game, though? This game is damn near perfect. Nearly every level here is fun and memorable, and the ways Raz has to help each person deal with their mental trauma is a lot more nuanced and tasteful than the original game’s fair-for-its-time takes on dealing with mental illness. The minds of Ford’s old crew as well as Ford himself provide some of the best Psychonauts content to date, and really, who can hate a level that ends with Jack Black as a gay psychic rock star viking performing a musical number to obliterate his own insecurities?

5. Kingdom Hearts II

This is where the Kingdom Hearts franchise peaked, and it’s a high note they’ve yet to reach again. Sure, the tutorial prologue level drags on for quite a long while, but once you get to play as Sora again, ooh boy is this basically the perfect meeting of the worlds of Disney and Square. The Disney worlds are a lot more fleshed out and have twice the plot due to midgame return visits, the combat is more exciting with fun little reaction commands to let you pull off crazy maneuvers, and you get to hang out with Tron and the most based of all Disney heroes, Chicken Little. Best of all, the story manages to strike the perfect balance between being complex and silly without disappearing all the way up its own ass like later entries would.

4. Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

In my house, there was a legend that I had beaten this game to completion one hundred times. I’m not entirely sure how accurate that is, but considering how often I replayed this growing up it can’t be too far off. This is one of the most gorgeous platformers around, and Naughty Dog’s final shot at a genre they’d perfected with their Crash Bandicoot games. Even all these years later the visuals are breathtaking; I still am in awe at how you can see the entire world from atop Snowy Mountain. Every day I cry because they decided to turn the series into GTA clones instead of continuing to explore the gorgeous fantasy world they created in this game.

3. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

The original Crash Bandicoot was the first game I ever played, and the rest of the series were cornerstones of my childhood. Imagine how elated I was when they not only remade the games, but they created the single definitive way to play them! Sure, the soundtrack being redone can be a little hit or miss, but they completely unfucked the brutal difficulty of the first game (and this is even with adding back the ball-bustingly hard “Stormy Ascent” level) and for the most part left the latter two games entirely untouched save a graphical boost and the ability to play as my girl Coco. Playable Coco alone makes this a dream come true.

2. Batman: Arkham City

The Arkham series is one of the most consistently great series, and this is its greatest entry. The titular city is massive, with so many things to do, and the combat and puzzles are polished to perfection. Add in some actual detective work, some truly epic boss battles against iconic Batman villains like Clayface and Mr. Freeze (and also Solomon Grundy, because why the fuck not?), the ability to play as Catwoman, and one of the most shocking and tragic tales the Dark Knight has ever been in, and I’m more than happy to call it my second favorite game ever.

1. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Of course, there was no hope Arkham City had at overcoming this game. This is Kojima’s magnum opus, not least because the entire rest of the Metal Gear series revolves around the events that transpire in this story. After the mindfuck that was the second game, it’s nice to return to a more coherent story, one detailing how Big Boss came to be the man that Snake fought in Zanzibar Land. Everything in the series sprang forth because of the actions the characters take here, and each subsequent game just makes this one better and better. Every single boss battle is unique and engaging, and the final battle is one of the most heartbreaking moments in all of gaming. I still cry every single time I get to the ending. It's such an amazing game, with a relatively simple yet still strong and convoluted story populated with a Russian madman with inexplicable lightning powers, a spirit medium's ghost, and a man who controls bees. God bless Hideo Kojima, that absolute madman.

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Meet the Opera Trolls

Grand Duchess Mary (voice actress- Patti Lupone)

Lance Soviet (voice actor - Seth MacFarlane)

His sister Linda Soviet (voice actress- Mariah Carey)

Her daughter Patricia or Patty for short (voice actress- Olivia Trajillo)

Location: Vocal Everest

Description: Opera Trolls are like Classical Trolls but a little taller and pale yellow with beige hair with a little yellow or white,and with antennas,and wings like pixies

[music-catalogue]

Christmas Vibes!

WOOOOO Christmas is around the corner motherfuckers which means its time to pull out the Christmas tunes and manifest those wholesome nostalgic Christmas vibes.

Looking to switch up and refresh your dated and over-listened Christmas playlist? Sick of hearing that same Mariah Carey album over and over? This mixtape is for you!!

Winter Wonderland - Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett

100 Degrees - Kylie Minogue, Danni Minogue

All I Want For Christmas Is You - My Chemical Romance

That Holiday Feeling - Liz Gillies, Seth MacFarlane

Cozy Little Christmas - Katy Perry

Santa Baby - The Pussycat Dolls

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Live At Union Chapel) - Amy Winehouse

My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears

Oh Santa! - Mariah Carey

Red And Green - Jinkx Monsoon

My Favourite Things - Mary J. Blige

Winter Wonderland - Lady Gaga

Christmas Without You - Trixie Mattel

Not Just On Christmas - Ariana Grande

Mary, Did You Know? - The Braxtons

#christmas #happy holidays #feliz navidad #christmas music #spotify #music #music blog #music recommendation #good music #musicislife #music lovers #music tumblr #xmas #musicblr

[becca-petersen]

“21 Guns” | November 29th, 2013 | Olivia Puckett, Taylor Iman Jones, Dan Tracy, Mariah MacFarlane, et al.

***please do not share outside of tumblr***

#american idiot #olivia puckett #taylor iman jones #dan tracy #jared nepute #casey o'farrell #mariah macfarlane #my master #audio gift #i'm just feeling so nostalgic for ai

[hyathumibis]

The “creative process“ of me creating/updating my christmas playlist is so funny to me ‘cause I’m just typing in artists I like with the word “christmas“ afterwards. Like how high is the chance that fka twigs has a christmas song? Anyway here is the result:

❀ Dance Of A Sugar Plum Fairy - Lindsey Stirling

❀ Ho Ho Ho - Sia

❀ All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

❀ Underneath The Tree - Kelly Clarkson

❀ Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande

❀ Baby It’s Cold Outside - Avril Lavigne

❀ You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Lindsey Stirling (ft. Sabrina Carpenter)

❀ 8 Days Of Christmas - Destiny’s Child

❀ Santa’s Coming For Us - Sia

❀ White December - Kylie Minouge

❀ What Child Is This - Tommee Profitt (ft. Avril Lavigne)

❀ Christmas C’mon - Lindsey Stirling (ft. Becky G)

❀ My Gift Is You - Gwen Stefani

❀ Winter Things - Ariana Grande

❀ Christmas Without You - Ava Max

❀ White Christmas - Taylor Swift

❀ Wonderful Christmastime - Hillary Duff

❀ Warmer In The Winter - Lindsey Stirling

❀ Snowman - Sia

❀ Little Drummer Boy - Pentatonix

❀ Say All You Want For Christmas - Shania Twain, Nick Jonas

❀ Christmas Tree Farm - Taylor Swift

❀ Home On Christmas Day - Cyndi Lauper

❀ Cozy Little Christmas - Katy Perry

❀ Santa Baby - Lindsey Stirling

❀ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pentatonix

❀ One I’ve Been Missing - Little Mix

❀ Christmas Isn’t Christmas ‘Til You Get Here

❀ Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Mariah Carey

❀ Chestnuts - Ariana Grande, Liz Gillies

❀ Under The Christmas Lights - Gwen Stefani

❀ Early Christmas Morning - Cyndi Lauper

❀ Christmas Makes Me Cry - Kacey Musgraves

❀ Time To Fall In Love - Lindsey Stirling

❀ Everday Is Christmas - Sia

❀ Thank God It’s Christmas - Queen

❀ What Christmas Should Be - Hillary Duff

❀ Let There Be Peace - Carrie Underwood

❀ Christmas Saves The Year - twenty one pilots

❀ Happy Holiday - Liz Gillies, Seth MacFarlane

❀ Mistletoe - Lucy Hale

❀ It’s Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries - Carly Rae Jepsen

❀ Christmas Is - Dolly Parton (ft. Miley Cyrus)

❀ Glittery - Kacey Musgraves ft. Troye Sivan

❀ My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears

❀ ... At The Holiday Party - St. Vincent

❀ Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes

❀ Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

❀ River - Joni Mitchell

❀ Snow Globe - Pistol Annies

❀ Make It To Christmas - Alessia Cara

❀ Home to You (This Christmas) - Sigrid

❀ Green & Gold - Lianne La Havas

❀ I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Kacey Musgraves ft. Lana Del Rey

❀ Light Of Hope - Vanilla Ninja

Feel free to add your personal favourite christmas songs.

#christmas #pop music #christmas music #playlist #pop #december #winter #xmas #lindsey stirling #sia #mariah carey #kelly clarkson #ariana grande #arianator #avril lavigne #beyonce #destiny's child #kylie minouge #sabrina carpenter #becky g #gwen stefani #ava max #taylor swift #hillary duff #disney #disney channel #pentatonix #acapella #cyndi lauper #90s

[chipandco]

‘Live With Kelly And Ryan’ Rings in the 2018 Holiday Season

Live with Kelly and Ryan Rings in the 2018 Holiday Season #LiveKellyRyan #Holidayseason #Disney #HolidaySweaters #UglySweaters #ABC #chipandco

‘Live With Kelly And Ryan’ Rings in the 2018 Holiday Season

Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest are at it again by bringing us fun festive themed weeks for the 2018 Holiday Season!  This dynamic duo always brings us fun and unique episodes and this holiday season will be no different.  Dubbed ‘Tis the season for holiday cheer on “Live with Kelly and Ryan”, Kelly and Ryanwill be getting their audience…

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#Catherine Zeta-Jones #Countdown to Christmas #Crafty Lumberjacks #Grace Vanderwaal #Holiday extravaganza #Ingrid Michaellson #JoJo Siwa #Kerry Washington #Lindsey Stirling #Live Kelly and Ryan #Maddie Poppe #Mariah Carey #Martina McBride #Michael Buble #Seth MacFarlane #Ugly Sweaters #Vanessa Hudgens #Viewers Choice Show

[joodiecomer]

seasons greetings 🥛🍪 mix of christmas classics new and old LISTEN HERE

fairytale of new york the pogues, christmas (baby, please come home) darlene love, warm this winter gabriella cilmi, sleigh ride the ronettes, white winter hymnal fleet foxes, all i want for christmas is you mariah carey, lonely this christmas mud, baby, it’s cold outside seth macfarlane & sara bareilles, wonderful christmastime blossoms, christmas time (don’t let the bells end) darkness, winter wonderland darlene love, little saint nick the beach boys, it’s the most wonderful time of the year andy williams, blue christmas elvis presley, frosty snowman the ronettes, santa baby wolf alice, do they know it’s christmas? band aid, thank god it’s christmas queen, a marshmallow world darlene love, a winter’s tale david essex, jingle bell rock bobby helms, i saw mommy kissing santa claus the ronettes, step into christmas elton john, god only knows the beach boys, the power of love gabrielle aplin, last christmas wham, can’t fight this feeling bastille .... and more

#playlist #spotify playlist #concept playlist #aesthetic playlist #spotify #bastille #christmas playlist #festivemood #festive playlist #winter playlist

[taytayb1993]

These Famous People You didn’t Know They’re Irish.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, followers, that’s right, I’m posting this dedicated to people who are Irish and have Irish ancestry, and I’m a black man with probably a little Irish ancestry in me. My last name is Burks and some of my family last name is O’Hara. So, anyway, here’s a post with pictures of some famous people people who are Irish and have Irish ancestry.  

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.

 Robert F. Kennedy, 64th U.S. Attorney General and politician. 

 John Lennon, musician, rock star, and rock legend. 

 Bono, lead vocal of the rock band, U2, rock star, and musician. 

Christina Aguilera, singer-songwriter, and musician. 

Ed Sheeran, musician and singer-songwriter. 

Mariah Carey, singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. 

Seth MacFarlane, creator of American animated hit TV series, Family Guy, comedian, and writer. 

Bill O’Reilly, political commentator, TV host, and author. 

Bill Maher, political commentator, comedian, TV host. 

Conan O’Brien, talk show host and comedian. 

Jimmy Fallon, talk show host and comedian. 

Ben Stiller, comedian and actor. 

Bill Murray, actor and comedian. 

John C. Reilly, actor. 

Anna Kendrick, actress. 

Tom Cruise, actor. 

Nicole Kidman, actress. 

Ben Affleck, actor and filmmaker. 

Casey Affleck, actor and film director. 

Meryl Streep, actress. 

Jack Nicholson, actor. 

Robert De Niro, actor, film producer, and film director. 

Colin Farrell, actor. 

Liam Neeson, actor. 

Sean Connery, actor. He’s retired, but he’s one of the greatest actors. 

Becky Lynch, WWE superstar, professional wrestler, and athlete. 

Mark Wahlberg, actor and film producer. 

Donnie Wahlberg, actor and singer-songwriter. 

Peter Dinklage, actor. 

Tom Brady, American football star, quarterback. 

Well, that’s all I got. I can’t tell if any famous person is Irish, but I hope you all like my post. Happy St. Patrick’s Day

#st. patrick's day #saint patrick's day #Irish #irish american #irish ancestry #celebrities #politics #athletes #famous irish #irish celebrities #ireland

[tabloidtoc]

Hollywood Reporter, November 13

I’m out of tabloids until Monday afternoon, but my OCD remains :)

Cover: Actress Roundtable -- Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez, Renee Zellweger, Awkawfina, Scarlett Johansson 

Page 4: Contents 

Page 6: Contents 

Page 13: The Report -- Streaming TV’s ‘Black Box’ and the coming Guild War 

Page 16: Disney’s ‘FX on Hulu’ Plan Snubs Pay TV to Boost Digital Battle, Viacom Makes ‘Agressive’ Play to Remake Its Leadership 

Page 18: Can NBC Halt Jimmy Fallon’s Long Ratings Tumble?, Amazon Takes Netflix’s Theater Playbook 

Page 20: Box Office, Broadcast TV, Cable TV, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Closer Look -- LGBTQ’s TV Visibility Grows 

Page 22: Awards Season -- Documentary Feature -- Apollo 11, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz, David Crosby: Remember My Name, Best Actress -- Charlize Theron, International Feature Film -- The Traitor (Italy), Lionheart (Nigeria)/Joy (Austria), Makeup/Hairstyling -- Rocketman 

Page 24: 7 Days of Deals -- Chernin Readies ‘2.0′ Media Fund: $700M to Shower on ‘Quality’ Buys, At AFM There’s the Best and Then Not Much Else, Rights Available -- Dangerous Alliance by Jennieke Cohen, Girl Serpent Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust, Film -- Colin Farrell and Andy Serkis are in talks to join The Batman as the Penquin and Alfred Pennyworth, Adam McKay, Emma Stone and Brad Pitt, Vanessa Hudgens and Alexandra Shipp

Page 25: Tenoch Huerta, Sadie Sink, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, Television -- Kate McKinnon, Ava DuVernay, Mary-Louise Parker, Courtney B. Vance, Digital -- Zoe Saldana and Reese Witherspoon, Adam Scott and Ben Stiller, D’Arcy Carden and Abbi Jacobson, Kaitlyn Dever and Jonathan Tucker, Will Graham, Kristen Bell, Michelle Wolf, Real Estate -- Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bridges, Rep Sheet -- Wesley Snipes, Hong Chau, Swizz Beatz, Chris Lowell, Adrien Brody, One to Watch -- Rachel Gao 

Page 27: About Town -- Jane Fonda and the ‘Ticking Existential Time Bomb’ in D.C. 

Page 28: ‘One of Michael Crichton’s Most Iconic Pieces of Work,’ THR Confidential -- Hollywood history questions answered -- Which Agent Shot Another Agent in the Groin? Walter Wanger, Joan Bennett and Jennings Lang 

Page 30: Yes I Did Say That! -- Reed Hastings, Katie McGrath, Kent Alterman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joy Behar, John Legend, Amy Robach, Chris Jack, Flashback -- Kelsey Grammer 

Page 32: Patron of the Artists Awards -- David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay, Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow, Courtney B. Vance and Norman Lear and Willem Dafoe, Cynthia Erivo, Olivia Wilde, Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne, Awkwafina and Constance Wu, Gabrielle Carteris, Greg Berlant and husband Robbie Rogers, JoBeth Williams and Paul Rudd, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chrissy Metz and Diane Warren, Esai Morales and David Harbour and Julia Garner 

Page 33: American Cinematheque Awards -- Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane, Kristen Stewart, Jason Reitman, Adam Aron and wife Abbe and son David and Les Coney, Donna Langley and Seth Rogen 

Page 34: Baby2Baby Gala -- Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba and Chrissy Teigen and Kelly Rowland and Katy Perry and Norah Weinstein, Kobe Bryant and wife Vanessa, Camilla Belle and Molly Sims and Monique Lhullier and Jordana Brewster, Nikki Reed and Gina Rodriguez, Frozen 2 -- Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, Bob Iger and Sterling K. Brown and wife Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jeremy Sisto and Jason Ritter, Jonathan Groff and Evan Rachel Wood and Josh Gad, Jennifer Lee and boyfriend Alfred Molina 

Page 36: Rambling Reporter -- Chuck Lorre’s ‘stupid’ Scientology phase, agent Nick LoPiccolo survives ‘horror film’ car crash by inches, Twinning with Christian Bale and Matt Damon, Power Dining -- David O. Russell, Indya Moore, Jeremy Zimmer and Rich Paul, Mariah Carey, Goldie Hawn, Tom Ford, Pete Davidson, Henry Winkler, John Lasseter, Bob Iger, Frank Marshall, Barry Josephson, Marvin Levy 

Page 38: Hitched, Hatched, Hired 

Page 40: The Business -- Howard Lee 

Page 42: Guest Column -- A ‘Disgrace’?! Netflix Should Avoid Wasting Money in Theaters 

Page 44: Digital -- Stars in Games: It’s More Than a Paycheck -- Keanu Reeves, Norman Reedus, Jeremy Davies, Angela Sarafyan 

Page 50: Behind the Screen -- Crafting a Scene-Stealing Cat in Captain Marvel 

Page 51: The Race -- Oscar Contenders Reckon with Fact Versus Fiction 

Page 56: Style -- Watches ‘to Impress and Express’ -- Niles Fitch, Aldis Hodge, Henry Golding, Chris Pratt 

Page 56: Marlon Brando’s Rolex Hits the Auction Block 

Page 58: Peak TV as Pop-Up Eateries: ‘It’s a Whole New Business Model’ 

Page 62: Cover Story -- The Actresses Roundtable 

Page 73: The Secret Past of a Hollywood Futurist -- Yves Bergquist, Alexis Debat 

Page 76: Awards Season -- Animated Feature -- Toothless, Elsa and Woody’s Three-Way Fight -- It’s a perfect storm with three giant franchises -- from Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks -- all competing against one another for the first time, and a slew of other films (including Netflix’s first original animated movie) aiming to earn a nomination slot 

Page 77: Animated Short 

Page 78: Makeup & Hairstyling -- crafting a ‘handmade’ joker, Production Design, Costume Design 

Page 80: Song & Score 

Page 82: The Making of Ford v Ferrari 

Page 87: Reviews -- Tina: The Tina Turner Musical 

Page 88: Dollface 

Page 90: Social Climbers -- Actors -- Kevin Hart, Marlon Wayans, Scripted TV -- Game of Thrones, TV Personalities -- Maria Celeste Arraras 

Page 92: Backlot -- ‘We’re Kicking Down the Doors’ -- Queen & Slim helmer Melina Matsoukas on pushing culture forward 

Page 96: 90 Years of THR -- High School Musical was an instant smash in 2006

#tabloid #hollywood #actress roundtable #laura dern #lupita nyong'o #jennifer lopez #renee zellweger #awkafina #scarlett johansson

[coppercorn-and-cauldron]

Wait, Dick-Slap McGee can actually sing?!

Don't mind me, I'm just trying to get rid of a Mariah Carey earworm.

I shouldn't have been surprised that Seth Macfarlane can sing, given the various voices that he does.

[songofbalduran]

he’s got a rock and roll girlfriend!

#american idiot #american idiot the musical #american idiot musical #green day #mary faber #jeanna de waal #leslie mcdonel #kennedy caughell #mariah macfarlane #broadwayedit

[nsula]

Spring 2018 Dean’s List

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University announced the names of 1,087 students named to the Dean’s List for the Spring 2018 semester.  Students on the Dean’s List maintained a 3.5-3.99 grade point average. Students, listed by hometown, are as follows.

 Abbeville -- MaKayla Lewis;

Albany -- Kaitlyn Kinchen;

Alexandria -- Chris Vincent Advincula, Evelyn Allen-Lewis, Lili Bedoya, Heather Bergeron, Tianna Bowens, Lydia Branch, Morgan Bryant, Thomas Crowe, Noel Cusick, Angela Dunn, Aubrey Farque, Claudia Gauthier, Ian Grant, Monnie Guillory, Tameka Hammonds, Tyraneisha Hayward, Roderick Henry, Martha Hopewell, Jaliyah Jasper, Whitney Joffrion, Jordan Johnson, Kelli Leone, Hunter Lewis, Jimmie Magee, Aaron Martin, Ceerah McNeal, Jennifer Miranda, Kylah Porter, Sailor Reed, Savannah Sices, Shacora Simpson, Christopher Warren, Shanequa Watkins, Amber Williams Taylor;

Anacoco -- Lindsey Alligood, Kinsley Blakeway, Kenneth Cochran, Alan Cosio, Nicole Fitzgerald, Rachel Fournier, Christopher Guy, Elizabeth Guy, Karlee Laurence, Brittany Lewis, Mahala Lewis, Caitlin McKee, Kayli O’Toole, Clarissa Owens, Katie Perkins, Bret Phillips, Amanda Shores, Cheyenne Taylor;

Anchorage, Alaska -- Sydney Bulot;

Angola -- Ursula Poarch;

Arlington, Texas -- Mariah Denson;

Arnaudville -- Zachary Leboeuf;

Ashland -- Victoria Roderick;

Atlanta -- Peyton Howell, Morgan Williams;

Atlanta, Texas -- Shannon Jones;

Aurora, Colorado -- William Mccullough;

Austin, Texas -- Ysmina Smith;

Avondale -- Brian Videau;

Baker -- Devante George;

Baldwin -- Lakesha Colar, Gerianna Lyons;

Ball -- Stephen Carpenter, Nickolas Juneau, Lauren Nugent, Vanessa Toney, Megan Wakefield, Alice Wilson;

Barksdale AFB -- Elysia Lanier, Tova Volcheck;

Barlanquillo Atlantico, Columbia -- Camilo Simancas Morelo;

Baton Rouge -- Emmanuel Dunn, Lydell Emerson, Madison Fry, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Maisyn Guillory, John Guillot, Kelly Guillot, Madison Harris, Jessica Joseph, Mckane Kinchen, Henrietta Mercer, Madalyn Mullins, Katie Pham, Colleen Reese, Reagan Smith, Jason Stampley;

Beaumont, Texas -- Dustin Burns;

Belcher -- Sierra Laing;

Belle Chasse -- Natalie Wilson;

Belmont -- Tristan Ponder;

Bentley -- Zachary Doucet;

Benton -- Kelyn Bihm, Christopher Heard, Kara Knippers, Jessica O'Neal, Jadyn Sepulvado, Torea Taylor, Kimberly Umphries;

Bernice -- Brandy Ganter;

Blanco, Texas -- Reagan Rogers;

Bogalusa -- Amanda Crawford;

Boise, Idaho -- Jessica Anderson;

Bossier City -- Alexander Bequette, Kendall Caple, Jael Ahmad, Lauryn Bakalis, Abigail Barkley, Breanna Black, Elizabeth Blair, Brittany Boothe, Steven Braddock, Katie Briggs, Jonathan Castillo, Peyton Davis, Anthonia Dogbey, Madison Edwards, Bailey Freeman, Karli Freeman, Laschae Gadson, Kelsey Gallman, Julie Golden, Mizzani Grigsby, Candace Guillory, Devonte Hall, Oai Lee Huynh, Anton Inyakov, Dejaney Jackson, Nourain Jamhour, Anqumesha Jeter, Shane Kaiser, Tina Kile, Danielle Lombardino, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maiette, Caroline McKee,  Amanda Mings, Stacy Moore, Katherine Parson, Kennedy Parson, Brittani Phillips, Kathryn Pierce, Rachael Pierce, Tatyana Porter, Timothy Rice, Jami Rivers, Jasmine Roberson, Kassidy Robideaux, Madison Rowland, Rheagan Rowland, Jeremy Ryals, Dakota Schudalla, Ranya Shihadeh, Hope Spaw, Tabitha Stevenson, Susan Stone, James Taylor,  Jazmine Tom-Jones, Giselle Trejo, Lacey Velasquez, Madalyn Watson, Meagan Willis, Nour Zeidan, Eric Zheng;

Bourg -- Micaiah Richie, Abigail Trahan;

Boyce -- Tiffany Barnhart, Ekaterina Bordelon, Sarah Hill, Sonya Hill, Hannah Miller, Ashley Smith;

Breaux Bridge -- Ashtin Mouton, Tyler Thibodeaux;

Brentwood, Tennessee -- Joe Tappel;

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma -- Madeline Drake;

Bunkie -- Emily Arnaud;

Burleson, Texas -- Eric Neeley;

Campti -- Alisha Bedgood, Paige Cason, Trenton Parker, Ronald Reliford, Madeline Valencia, Rebekah Wiley;

Carencro -- Malik Babin, Chaney Dodge, Destiny Kennerson;

Cartagena, Bolivar -- Carlos Camargo Patron, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Angela Coneo Valdez, Carlomagno Leon Jimenez, Paula Martinez Marrugo, Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Romulo Osorio Herrera, Ronald Rodriguez Herrera, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, Luis Osorio Betancourt, Juan Paternina Paez, Valeria Perez Espinosa, Alonso Restrepo Cardozo;

Cedar Hill, Texas -- Timmis Bonner;

Chalmette -- Sara Mendoza;

Cheneyville -- Katelyn Baronne;

Chicago, Illinois -- Brandon Hutton;

Choudrant -- Taylor Holley, Mya Melancon;

Clayton -- Glendalyn Boothe, Ruben Smith;

Colfax -- Camren Bell, Michael Dupre, Angela McCann, Lessie Rushing, Elizabeth Slayter, Morgan Vandegevel;

Colorado Springs, Colorado -- Rossana Potempa;

Columbia, South Carolina -- Brittany Bell;

Converse -- Samantha Davis, Ashley Forgues Brock, Hannah Womack;

Costa Mesa, California -- Keith Ford;

Cottonport -- Zachary Gauthier, Justin Tigner;

Coushatta -- Jason Bell, Nick Ezernack, Erikka Johnson, Jamary Jones, Sidney Jones, Aaron Murray, Jacob Shaver, Precious Smith, John Squires, Keyairrowa Thomas, Treasure Wilson, Caroline Wren, Lauren Young, Rena Yount;

Covington -- Justin Brogdon, Rachael Coyne, Margaret Denny, Titus McCann, Andrea Mier, Cathleen Oviedo, Catherine Sadler, Kenneth Sears, Jennifer Vo;

Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico -- Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

Creole -- Brooklyn Frerks;

Crowley -- Kylan Poullard, Desiree Robinson;

Cut Off -- Zachary Breaux;

Cypress, Texas -- Alexis Gomez;

Dayton, Texas -- Jerry Maddox;

DeBerry, Texas -- Sarah Britt;

Deer Park, Texas -- Blake Stephenson;

Denham Springs – Joey Carroll, James Fillingame, Caitlin Griffin, Keisha Johnson, Halle Mahfouz, Amy Thomas, Jenson Wall, Emily Williams;

DeQuincy -- Austin Nichols;

DeRidder -- Dawanna Burgess, Maygin Chesson, Alphonse Engram, John Ham, Michael Keeper, Kayla Kowalski, Reagan Laird, Brittney March, Shayla Miller, Zachary Pursley;

Derry -- Hannah Antee;

Desoto, Texas -- Nicholas Forde;

Destrehan – Patrick Juneau;

Deville -- Hailey Bolton, Savannah Carter, Hailie Coutee, Kinley Deville, Candice Dryden, Hannah Lewis, Caleb Rhodes, Sydney Ryder;

Dike, Texas -- Brynn Offutt;

Dodson -- Courtney Booker, Kierstyn Cyrus, Haley McClendon;

Doyline -- Lucas Darbonne, Zeke Wallace;

Dry Prong -- Megan Alwell, DeAnna Bartlett, Jacob Boydstun, Ashley Martin, Judith Mixon;

Dubberly -- Alex Robles;

East Windsor, New Jersey – Andreia Martins;

Edmond, Oklahoma -- Ashley Medawattage, Amanda Stokes;

El Paso, Texas -- Christopher Barron;

Elizabeth -- Kolby Friday, Clyde Hurst;

Elmer -- Tula Newman;

Eros -- Alecia Smith;

Eunice -- Jeremy Ortego;

Ferriday -- Dalenesha Wimley;

Flatwoods -- Taylor Nichols;

Florien -- Whitney Byles, Travis Cook, Emma Herrington, Jackson Kleven, Ashton Remedies, Megan Wagley, Shari Wilson;

Flower Mound, Texas -- Cody McGee;

Folsom -- Sarah Moore;

Forest Hill -- Brett Atkinson, Anna Doherty, Rafael Sierra, Charli Stanley, Nancy Vargas, Leslie Winners;

Fort Lauderdale -- Abigail Pangallo;

Fort Polk -- Brittany Chadwick, Molly Fields, Clarrissa Lancour, Blaise Nkengafac, Lindsay Romero, Shiela May Tabonares, Jimma Tear, Nohora Valencia Camacho, Leslie Whitsett;

Fort Worth, Texas -- Angelica Valdez;

Fouke, Arkansas -- Holly Tweedy;

FPO, AP -- Amber Travis;

Franklin -- Shelley Bell, Abriana Lanceslin;

Franklinton -- Brian Geraghty, Bethany McGinnis;

Freeland, Washington -- Paul Aune;

Frierson – Mason Barnes, Shelby Callens, Treanna Howard, Shawna Longoria, Clinton Oliver, John Rachal;

Frisco, Texas -- Adam Trupp;

Garland, Texas -- Joseph Goodson, Alec Horton, Nia Randall;

Geismar -- Emilee Hawkins;

Georgetown, Texas -- Kyle Bryant;

Glenmora -- Brooks Davis, Faith Lawrence;

Gloster -- Paris Gillum;

Goldonna -- Alexander Guillory, Brandon Smith;

Gonzales, Texas -- Ivan Longoria;

Gorman, Texas -- Kourtney Seaton;

Gorum -- Josephine White;

Grand Cane -- Nathan Graham, Rachel Kinman, Jaylen Mcintyre;

Grand Isle -- Abigail Frazier,

Grand Prairie, Texas -- Stephen Garrett;

Grant -- Regina Johnson;

Gray -- Cassie Becnel;

Greenwell Springs -- Katherine Bryant, Madison Shade, Jamie Brooks;

Greenwood -- Ragan Aple, Malory Jeter, Char'Tarian Wilson;

Gretna -- Donald Wagner;

Gun Barrel City, Texas -- Dustin Huffman;

Hallandale Beach, Florida -- Ralph Boereau;

Hallsville, Texas -- Emma Hawthorne;

Hamtramck, Michigan -- Mary Cotter;

Harlingen, Texas -- Frances Knight;

Harvey -- Tajalai Evans;

Hattiesburg, Mississippi -- Mary Mitchell;

Haughton – Benny Broadway, Kayla Bull, Brittony Cole, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Brandon Curry, Ashley Hamil, Tyler Holdsworth, Sydney MacFarlane, Tonya Morgan, Brooke Payton, Jamie Phillips, Makenzie Rains, Johnathan Schlicher, Logan Turner, Kaili Williams, Brigette Wilson, Chase Woltz;

Haynesville -- Eriel Fields;

Hempstead, Texas -- Joshua Roberts;

Henderson, Texas -- Andrew Blackmon, Asha Cormier;

Hermon, Maine -- Allessa Ingraham-Albert;

Hessmer -- Dana Lala, Molli Lamartiniere;

Hineston -- Richard Clark, Angela Merchant, Madison Morrison, April Nornholm;

Homer -- Madison Cain, Francene Ferguson;

Honolulu, Hawaii -- Melissa Baker;

Hornbeck -- Ronald Guess, Jerry Hughes Jr, Jaclyn Smith;

Hosston -- Alaysia Jaynes;

Houma -- Rhiannon Dean, Billy Gorr, Zoe Hebert, Corinne Paris, Sherrie Pena;

Houston, Texas -- Brittany Davis, Stephanie Hall, Natashia Jackson, Alyssa Jacobs, Kenneth Sheldon, Kendall Westfall, Madilyn Wood;

Hutchinson, Kansas -- Cassandra Childress;

Hutto -- Tommi Long;

Independence -- Sabrina Cook;

Iowa -- Nicholas Fisher, Matthew Phillips, Marvette Williams;

Jeanerette -- Selene Allain-Kovacs, Brandy Jackson;

Jefferson -- Matthew Broekman, Jaleia Parker, Codi Vernace, Amanda Wilburn;

Jena -- William Tradewell;

Jennings -- Emily Benoit, Destany Brown, Janee Charles, Rachel Edwards, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Lindsay Orgeron, Lydia Williams,

Jonesboro -- Dearo Nash;

Jonesville -- Rachel Eichmann, Shana Jefferson, Kayla Robertson, Memory Shriner;

Kaplan -- Gabriel LeMoine;

Katy, Texas -- Brittany Cecil, Clayton Holgorsen;

Keithville -- Eleanor Coleman, Erin McDonnell, Hannah Mikovich, Allie Neill, Cora Procell, Erica Sanders, Alexandra West, Deja White;

Kenner -- Christina Arrechavala, Willie Soniat, Kailyn Verdin;

Kentwood -- Iris Travis;

Kerens, Texas -- Brandon Brumbelow, Eric Guerra;

Kilgore, Texas -- Hannah Gribble;

Kinder -- Lorin All;

Kingwood, Texas -- Eric Piccione;

Klamath Fall, Oregon -- Megan Baker;

Lacey Washington -- Shana Sweeney;

Lafayette -- Samantha Donlon, Ashley Fontenot, Ashley Guidry, Bryce Hernandez, Emilee Leger, Nicole Neveu, Christina Poole, Hunter Robicheaux, Caleb Starks, Julia Towry, China Young;

Lake Providence -- Jayadra Campbell, Tamika Turner;

Lake Arthur -- Nicole Andrews, Hannah Worley;

Lake Charles -- Andrew Darbonne, Kennedy Fontenot, Marsha Heap, Karley Hebert;

LaPlace -- Jalen Haydel, Jacob St. Pierre, Doria Wilson;

Las Vegas, Nevada -- April Ficarrotta;

Lawtell -- Karoline Guidry, Olivia Guidry;

League City, Texas -- Emily Ornelas, Hunter Wamack, Christopher Zirkle;

Lecompte -- Allison Williams;

Leesville -- Junette Cutshaw, Skyler Abrams, Lyric Bacote, Marilyn Brooks, Kaylee Busby, Victoria Butler, Anthony Cantrell, Michael Carradine, Charlotte Cassin, Raven Collins, Haleigh Edinger, Brittany Edwards, Tyana Ellis, Caryllann Fermato, Ashley French, Brittany French, Jessica Gray, Gabriella Haymon, Kimberly Henley, Jessica Herring, Heather Hickman, Caitlan James, Zachary Keeton, Jessica Gray, Karl Marzahl, Kylie McAllister, Kelsea Mckinney, Emily Moore, Kaitlyn Pajinag, Montana Phillips, Charlotte Rivara, Chloe Rouleau, David Santos,  Hannah Scott, Heather Snell, Peggy Stanley, Collin Strickland, Haley Tucker, Matthew Ward, Jessica Taylor;

Lena -- Juan Gonzalez;

Lewisville, Texas -- Venus Par;

Little Elm, Texs -- Jasmine Ealy, Daniel Larin;

Little Rock, Arkansas – Tara Lane;

Livonia -- Ryann Bizette;

Logansport -- Amanda Hill, Ashley Wheless;

 Longview, Texas -- Gustavo Corrales, Hannah Dunn, Robdrick Halton, Joni Overman;

Julie Rawls;

Longville -- Johanna Braden;

Lonoke, Arkansas -- Rachel Terry;

Loranger -- Cambree Bailey, Laurie Lassalle;

Louisville, Mississippi -- Zachary Wilson;

Luling --- Nathan Roth;

Lumberton, Texas -- Joshua Terry;

Madisonville -- Alyce Lis, Jensen Volz;

Mandeville -- Evan Guillory, Guy Lecompte, Connor Loar, Carrie Maxwell, Blake Naquin, Prinice Neyland, Shannon Roussell, Sheridan Smith;

Mangham -- Rebekah Aultman;

Manito, Illinois -- Sarah Picken;

Mansfield -- Nicolette Hogan, Ashley Shelton, Brooke Smith;

Mansura -- Deaisha Johnson, Jonah Johnson, Katherin Lemoine, Distiny Thompson;

Many -- Rachel Bensinger, David Bourgeois, Toby Bruce, Jocelyn Cannon, Tyler Colston, Skyler Ezernack, Tiarra Frazier, Alison Garcia, Brittney Garcie, Savannah Garcie, Sheridan Gowen, Emmy Hinds, Emily Holcomb, Jenifer Meadows, Matthew Peace, Lincoln Pearce, Jonathan Pilcher, Bailey Walker;  

Maringouin -- Laura Scronce, Jalacia Toussant;

Marksville -- Andre Boyer, Erica Ducote, Andria Lachney, Chaterrika Lavalais, Zachary Moreau, Madeleine Morrow, Tanner Nugent;

Marrero -- Lorn Bourgeois, Jade Duthu, Luis Escobar, Addison Hinson;

Marshall, Texas -- Tiffany Cortes, Laurann Graham, Tristian Zamora;

Marthaville -- Dillon Hagan, Mallory Powell, Madeline Procell, Daniel Rachal-Claspill;

Masura -- Kate Losavio;

Maurice -- Jenna-Clair Courville, Nicole Levine;

Merryville -- Kalan Townsley;

Metairie -- Kathryn Bancroft, Cameron Duhe, Mary Gaffney, Ellie Mandel, Madysen Norra;

Midland, Texas -- Savannah Cantwell;

Minden -- Kadeem Bailey, Aubry Dennis, Erin Dotson, Abby Greene, Hutton Leppert, Madison Tanner, Kayla Theus, Heather White;

Mira -- Taylor Andrews;

Missouri City, Texas -- Cayla Jones;

Monroe -- Demonta Brown, Dataya Cummings, Deshon Hayes, Ashley Jackson Franklin, Tatianna Randle;

Montgomery --Laryn Graves, Teri Ogorek, Stephanie Sanders;

Mooringsport -- Jacklyn Dublin;

Mora -- Gracy Rowell;

Morgan City -- Norris Duthu;

Morrow -- Quaniqua Joseph;

Moscow, Russia -- Polina Ivanova,

Mt. Hermon -- Warren McFarlain;

Murrieta, California -- LaQuitta Wilkins;

Natchez -- Victoria Bradford, Courtney Sarpy;

Natchitoches -- Alissa Addison, James Armstrong, Cass Arnold, Adam Barnes, Behrend Behrendsen, Lauren Bennett, Joshua Bolton, Kayla Bordelon, Megan Bouchie, Taylor Burch, Deasia Burrell, Ebone Burton, John Byone, Ana Cardaba Garcia, Valerie Chadick, Hannah Chelette, Laura Coffey, Donna Cooper, Whitney Crooks, Dalton Dark, Cieara Davis, Sean Day, Jacob Ellis, Fred Fontenot, Daniela Forero Salcedo, Ashley Fortenberry, Mark Gallien, Luis Gallo Quintero, Taylor Garland, Christopher Gistarb, Samuel Greene, Pamela Gross, Hannah Haigh, Michaela Haigh, Jorgia Hamel, Jett Hayes, Emily Heard, Marcie Jenkins, Regina Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Jeremy Jones, Brian Jordan, Daniel Killian, Michael Kingsley, Abagael Kinney, Lyndon Knueppel, Jiyoon Lee, Robert Lee, John Lindsey, Luke Lucky, Kary-Katharine McCormick, Amber Minor, Shanteria Montgomery, Destiny Moody, Sarah Moody, Brooklyn Noe, Karmen O' Connor, Joseph Parrie, Kevin Price, LaKendria Remo, Antavious Roberson, Cayla Roberts, Tyler Roberts, Aaron Rogers, William Rogers, Kayla Roquemore, Dante Samuel, Spencer Sepulvado,  Anna Sibley, Josie Stamey, Scott Stewart, Harrison Thomas, Margaret Thompson, Victoria Thompson, Kaleb Usleton, Kristan Valdez, Ricardo Ventura, Ryan Wade, Kathryn White, Sarah Kay, Nicholas Wiggins;

New Iberia -- Tara Bonvillain, Bryson Bourque, Destinee Leger, Natalie Ortega, Madison Romero, Alexis Trosclair;

New Llano -Kendra Jones, Reaz Khan, Dennis Stein;

New Orleans -- Rayna Brantley, Beau Cook, Marquise Davis, Amy Favalora, Jaime Hendrickson, Karina Santiago, Jeffrey Swift;

Newman, Georgia -- Samantha Sims;

Norcross, Georiga -- Kailee Striplin;

Norwood -- Ty'Dashia McElwee;

Oakdale – Alyssa Cole, Kirstin Richard;

Oberlin -- Jonathon Villareal;

Opelousas -- Kierra Doucet, Diamond Leblanc, Amy Levier;

Pacifica, California -- Nicholas Pierotti;

Paris, Texas -- Emily Essary, Zachary Hevron, Cody Vorwerk, Jordan Whatley;

Pattison, Texas -- Morgan Hildebrand;

Pelican -- Mary Myers;

Pereira Risaralda, Columbia -- Mariana Ospina Rivas;

Pineville -- Connor Littleton, Aimee Ashworth, Christian Boudreaux, Raegan Brocato, Samantha Browning, Kaitlyn Burns, Taylor Campbell, Erika Carter, Luke Conway, Caitlin Crawford, Glory Deaton, Cory Franklin, Hannah Gaspard, Brooke Gongre, Leia Graham, Megan Gypin, Katelyn Hebert, Kaylin Jameson, Jacqueline Johnson, Alissa Joseph, Jessica King, Landon King, Carlee Lake, Brooke Leger, Jeffery Lepage, Ashlee Mitchell, Austin Nelson, Michalene Perry, Cinnamon Player, Wendi Powell, Brittany Shackleford, Odie Trusty, Wesley Williams, Alexis Williamson, Alan Winegeart, Jewel Woods, Madeline Wright;

Pitkin -- Jessica Jones;

Plain Dealing -- Hunter Horton;

Plaquemine -- Kameron Landry, Ma Kayla Washington;

Plum City, Wisconsin -- Brittany Reiter-Theeuwen;

Pollock -- Tanner Brazil, William Hardy;

Port Barre -- Olivia Lanclos, Danielle Schexnayder;

Prairieville -- Lauren Breaux, Joanna Bunnell, Claire Credeur, Andrea Gathercole, Jakalyn Hills, Bailey Mohler, Kyle Munson, Payton Stafford, Brooke Tompkins, Kaylon Wood;

Pride -- Leann Wills;

Princeton -- Ariell Shield;

Raceland -- Emily Adams, DQuincy McGuire;

Raeford, North Carolina -- Lauren Reilly;

Raleigh, North Carolina -- Aleida Alfonso;

Rayne -- Cameron Desselle;

Rayville -- Emily Rawls, Jennifer Rogers, Mary Rogers, Leslie Sharbono;

Reserve -- Ranata Coxie;

Rhinehart -- Bethany Russell;

Richardson, Texas -- Erin Wrozek;

Richmond, Texas -- Sidney Harris;

Ridgeland, Mississippi -- Jacqueline Fairley-Taylor;

Ringgold -- Alora Bryant, Abram Cook;

River Ridge -- Taylor Young;

Robeline -- Amy Bass, Hunter Dubois, Keira Huff, Bergen Oge, Laura Olguin, Megan Palmer, Rebecca Sparish, Christopher Taylor;

Rogers, Arkansas -- Taylor Bush;

Roseland -- Erin Verberne;

Rosepine -- Emily Camacho;

Rosharon, Texas -- Whitney Washington;

Rowlett, Texas --Daniel Miner;

Ruston -- Irene Hild, Qay'Shon Thurman, Jena Warren;

Saint Francisville – Claire Leming, Kathleen Morse, Katherine Noble, Hannah Prewitt;

Saint Gabriel -- Jainakee Cross;

Saint Ignace, Michigan -- Emilee Keuten;

Saint Martinville -- Blake Blanchard;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras -- Jonathan Andino Madrid, Vilma Castro Lopez, Cesia Corrales;

Santa Fe, Texas -- Micaela Bouvier;

Saratoga, Arkansas -- Christie Sain;

Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada -- Loren MacLennan;

Scott -- Tayla Soileau;

Scottsboro, Alabama -- Jessica Provenza;

Scurry, Texas -- Rebecca Blackshear;

Shreveport -- Foster Adams, Phillip Adams, Ashlee Arkansas, Chris Bankson, Angelica Bartlett, Austin Beene, Azhani Bennett, Jessica Bollingham, Hannah Bolton, Alyssa Bonacci, JiKeeriya-Jontay Bowden, Rakeisha Brown, Amanda Charles, Brandon Cockerham, Caitlin Coker, Elizabeth Cook, Colby Cranford, Naterria Davis, Emily Dean, Courtney Dehart, Kimberly Dennis, Kristina Doyal, Jada Dudley, Shalanda Duncan, Hannah Ellis, Reagan Escude, Ronald Evans, Candice Faith, Amye Flair, Sierra Foster, Sterlin, Samantha Freeman, Jamie French, Zachary Fussell, JaSae Gatlin, Rayvin Gaudet, Michael Ghattas, Destinee Green, Lashonda Hall, Madison Harper, Brea Housley, Melinda Hunt, April Hunter, Alyecia Ivory Stills, Ronesha Johnson, Randall Johnston, Lajarious Jones, Demariae Jordan, Molly Kelly, Emalee Kennon, Kaitlyn Knighton, Lakenya Lafitte, Katie Layfield, Hannah Lee, Jay Lester, Brandon Lewis-Graham, William Mahoney, Alaina McMillian, Destiny Mitchell, Damitron Moore, Latravia Mosley, Aaron Navarre,  Maria Ogletree, Haley Peace, Allison Pearah, TreSor Pennington, Jared Perkins, Hayden Pilcher, Laura Pritchard, Lindsey Ray, Patricia Reed, Harrison Reeves, Kendall Reeves, Keyonna Roberson, Ansley Rosett, Caleb Rounsavall, Amanda Rushing, Mallori Sanders, Elizabeth Scott, Lawson Scott, Catherine Shaw, Kathryn Shrader, Mary Sibley, Jackiesha Simmons,  John Slocum, Shelby Sowers, Christa Sprawls, Angel Stewart, Rashima Stewart, Somer Stratton, Amanda Strother, Khalil Sumlin, Destini Sweet, Joyce Taylor, Breyonna Thompson, Albert Tuiel, Kayla Waller, Ilyanna Warlen, Aaliyah Watkins, Dillion Wilkerson, Donald Williams, JeVannica Williams, Suzanne Williams, Emily Wingrove, Morgan Woodall,  Randy Woodle;

Sibley -- Julianna Schober;

Sierner -- Emily George;

Sieper -- Whitney Browning;

Sikes -- Dylan Kelly, Tonya LeBaron;

Simmesport -- Kimani Batiste, Bailie Marsh, Taylor Myers;

Slaughter -- Ciara Gibbs;

Slidell -- Katie Buttner, Robert Carter, William Jensen, John Norvel, Theresa Sharp, Sophia Toranto, Maci Walgamotte, Olivia Warren;

Spring, Texas -- Victoria Harris, Elyssa Hernandez;

Starks -- Triston Bussell,

Stockbridge, Georgia -- Rachel Jeane;

Stonewall -- Hailey Compton, Madison Parker, Chassidy Sutton;

Sugarland, Texas -- Jake Gore;

Sulphur -- Kobe Ardoin, Derek Henry, Bralyn James, Rylie Mcfarlain;

Summerfield, South Carolina -- Alexandria Hughes;

Talihina, Oklahoma -- Heidi Couch;

Texarkana, Texas -- Cody Hambly, Daphne Hammett;

The Woodlands, Texas -- Robyn Beatty, Tyler Rapp;

Thibodaux -- Tierra Johnson;

Tioga -- Hannah Pusateri;

Tomball, Texas -- Kylie Spencer;

Toms River, New Jersey -- Jacqueline Manza;

Trout -- Makayla King, Kalee Mcguffee, Jacie Paul;

Turkey Creek -- Kelsie King;

Tyler, Texas -- De'Shalyn Jones;

Vacherie -- Tameeka Ross;

Vidalia -- Kayla Banks, Charles Johnson;

Vierzon -- Lena Billault;

Ville Platte -- Gabrielle Chapman, Joseph Evans, Hannah Gallow;

Vinton -- Shae Cramer;

Vinton, Texas -- Alexis Frescas;

Virginia Beach, Texas -- Danielle Hill;

Walker -- David Kolb;

Washington -- Halie Briley;

Welsh -- Jordan Durio, Lauren LeDoux;

West Monroe -- Charles Allen, Abigail Beck, Laura Lovell;

Westlake -- Baleigh Derouen,

Wills Point, Texas -- Rebekah Clark;

Winnfield -- Jermesia Anderson, Taylor Burnett, Simona Curry, Trenton Dill, Rhonda Duff, Kerry Fitzgerald, Kara Grantadams, Ieishlia Lynch, Brittany Parker, Katreiona Starks, Caitlin Womack, Caroline Womack, Katy Zimmerman;

Winnsboro -- Hunter Cooper, Darrel Doyle, A'Lexus Johnson;

Woodville -- Tiera Trask;

Woodworth -- Taylor Henry;

Yaroslavl, Russia -- Polina Mutel;

Youngsville -- Randall Blair, Hannah Broussard, Jessica Gilmore, Alexys Hebert, Brian Horton, Devyn Shores;

 Zachary -- Carmeka Cooper, Neil Ahldwin;

 Zwolle -- Holly Laroux, Courtney McDaniel, Konner Parrie, Holden Rivers;

Rebecca Reine.

[cyber-girl544]

#Spotify

[kartiavelino]

Jenny McCarthy dishes on Mariah Carey, kissing cops and getting trolled online

Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest | Monday, 8 p.m., ABC Temperatures dipped into the single digits last New Year’s Eve, and that was enough for Jenny McCarthy to reconsider co-hosting “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” in 2018. “Last year was so cold. I was, like, ‘This is my last year.’ I remember crying and saying, ‘I quit’ — and it was only 9:30,” said a relaxed and perfectly coiffed McCarthy during a recent interview at SiriusXM, where she anchors a self-titled talk show. But she will be back to brave the elements, alongside performers like Christina Aguilera, Dan + Shay and New Kids on the Block (a group that includes her husband, “Blue Bloods” star Donnie Wahlberg, who is her guest in Times Square every year). On the following Wednesday, McCarthy will also be on “The Masked Singer” (premiering at 9 p.m. on Fox), in which she and other star panelists try to guess the identities of masked crooning celebrities. McCarthy, 46, talked with The Post about the Times Square vibe, Mariah Carey’s dreadful 2016 performance and what it’s like to be mocked. What’s it like to be in the thick of things in Times Square?Have you ever gone to a gospel church? I used to go with my sister. There’s, like, a vibration — and this is like that, a really magical buzz. You have everybody filled with love and happiness while the confetti’s coming down. It’s euphoric. Do you worry about dropping an f-bomb or messing up?You would think with my mouth I should be worried about that, but no — I get off on the idea of things going wrong. Last year it was so cold that the teleprompters weren’t working. That’s fine because I can wing it, no problem. That’s where rehearsal comes in handy. Two years ago Mariah Carey famously messed up on the show. I’m not trying to disparage her, by the way …Oh, I’m about to. [Laughs] Of course I have empathy for any performer that has a malfunction. Absolutely. But she wouldn’t do rehearsals. She had her assistant do her sound check while she stood off to the side. And she didn’t want to use Dick Clark’s people, who have been doing this forever. That’s what happens when you surround yourself with a bubble of yes-people. Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg steal a smooch at the Grammy Awards in January 2018.WireImage Did she redeem herself when she returned last year?I was the first one to doubt that she could pull it off ’cause I thought for sure she was gonna lip-sync. She sang [live] and knocked it out of the park. I gotta hand it to her: She did it. How do you tolerate the noise?It’s a good noise, that beautiful, energetic rumble of joy. And I know Donnie’s lips are about to touch mine, so everything fades away. What was it like before you and Donnie got together?The first few years were me kissing strangers at midnight. There were so many cops — new, young recruits out of police training, and their first day on the job is New Year’s Eve. The first year I was like, “Oh. My. God.” Since I was single I thought it’d be great to play “eenie, meenie, miney, mo,” pick a cop and say, “Will you kiss me at midnight?” It was awesome. Now my husband goes, “You’re no longer ever going to be alone on New Year’s.” What is your favorite part about hosting every year?My favorite thing every year: leave it to the internet to tell you who or what you look like and do a comparison side-by-side. I don’t mind when people make fun of me. Like, “You look like Joan Rivers,” and they’ll find a shot of her. One year I was compared to Dog the Bounty Hunter because my hair was done a certain way. One year I wore a nude-colored coat that had this big flap and people were like, “Oh my God, you look like a penis.” And I did — I couldn’t argue with them! What will you wear this year?Since I went so colorful last time, I might just go with black. My friend sent me a shiny, silver puffy coat, and I said, “You know I will be [called] a baked potato.” — Eric Hegedüs And here’s what else to watch this week: The Big Bang Theory | Thursday, 8 p.m., CBS Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) organize a paintball game that unhappily reveals Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) jealousy of Amy (Mayim Bialik). Escape at Dannemora | Sunday, 10 p.m., Showtime Series finale. The law closes in on prison escapees Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano), mere miles from the Canadian border. Meanwhile, Tilly (Patricia Arquette) is arrested for helping the inmates escape. With Bonnie Hunt. [embedded content] New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly | Monday, 11:30 p.m., NBC Daly, who hosts “The Voice” and is also a member of the crew at “Today,” welcomes performers such as Diana Ross, Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend. Chrissy Teigen is the co-host. Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club | Tuesday, 8 p.m., MTV Series premiere. Lindsay Lohan has moved to Mykonos, Greece, to launch the Lohan Beach House, a luxury destination. LiLo has a staff of VIP hosts, who are the focus of this soft introduction of the show, which will kick into full gear next week. [embedded content] Young Sheldon | Thursday, 8:30 p.m., CBS Georgie (Montana Jordan) joins Mary’s (Zoe Perry) bible study class to spend more time with his crush, Veronica (Isabel May). The Orville | Sunday, 8 p.m., Fox Season premiere. As The Orville heads toward Moclus for a special ceremony, Ed (Seth MacFarlane) discovers that Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) has started dating again. Meanwhile, Gordon (Scott Grimes) asks for John’s (J. Lee) help and Claire (Penny Johnson Jerald) asks Isaac (Mark Jackson) for parenting advice. [embedded content] Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey | Monday, 8 p.m., Fox Steve Harvey bundles up for his annual New Year’s Eve extravaganza. His guests include Sting, Florence + the Machine, Jason Aldean, Kenan Thompson and Robin Thicke. Harvey’s co-host is Maria Menounos. Share this: https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/jenny-mccarthy-dishes-on-mariah-carey-kissing-cops-and-getting-trolled-online/ The post Jenny McCarthy dishes on Mariah Carey, kissing cops and getting trolled online appeared first on My style by Kartia. https://www.kartiavelino.com/2018/12/jenny-mccarthy-dishes-on-mariah-carey-kissing-cops-and-getting-trolled-online.html

[becca-petersen]

American Idiot x Mean Girls Cast Swap

Cady Heron - Olivia Puckett 

Regina George - Taylor Iman Jones

Gretchen Wieners - Nicci Claspell

Karen Smith - Jillian Mueller

Janis Sarkisian - Kennedy Caughell

Damian Hubbard - Kelvin Moon Loh

Aaron Samuels - Brandon Kalm

Kevin G - Michael Pilato

Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George - Rebecca Naomi Jones

Mr. Duvall - Wallace Smith

Ensemble: Francesca Granell (Caitlin Caussin); Trent Saunders (Martin Jitla); John Krause (Tyler Kimble); Dan Tracy (Shane Oman); Mariah MacFarlane (Sonja Acquino); Dan Gleason (Mr. Heron/Mike T.); Jamal Shuriah (Christian Wiggins); Alison Marooney (Lizzie Therman); Josephine Spada (Dawn Schweitzer); Liam Fennecken (Coach Carr/Glen Coco); Antwaun Holley (Jason Weems); Aurie Ceylon (Grace Akinola); Jenna Rubaii (Sophie Kawachi); Gabrielle McClinton (Rachel Hamilton); Chelsea Turbin (Taylor Wedell). 

#mean girls bway #mean girls musical #american idiot musical #olivia puckett #taylor iman jones #nicci claspell #jillian mueller #kennedy caughell #kelvin moon loh #brandon kalm #michael pilato #rebecca naomi jones #wallace smith #francesca granell #trent saunders #john krause #mariah macfarlane #dan gleason #jamal shuriah #alison marooney #josephine spada #liam fennecken #antwaun holley #aurie ceylon #jenna rubaii #gabrielle mcclinton #chelsea turbin #dream cast #i know you love me baby that's why queue brought me here #I left Krystina off the cast swap because my dream was for her to play Gretchen and that was realized