#mr. reyes is Washington
Note
I’m making a miraculous theater kid au, do you have suggestions for the play or the cast? ( the main Heroes are ladybug! Sabrina and Cat! Alix btw
I have like ten ideas for a cast for different plays
(Gonna assume you want canon characters, but just in case, I got OCs in red. Also, slashes means different choices)
Be More Chill💊
Jeremy: Jean
Michael: Nino
Christine: Mireille/Ondine
Jenna: Alya
Rich: Ismael/Alix
Jake: Kim
Chloe: Aurore/Zoe (Ha!)
Brooke: Myléne
Mr. Heere: Ivan
Mr. Reyes: Max
Squip: Denise/Austin T/Marc/Rose/Kagami
Dear Evan Hansen📝
Evan: Adrien
Connor: Marc
Jared: Nathaniel
Zoe: Reshma/Sabrina
Alana: Cosette/Alya
Heidi: Zoé
Larry: Simon/Adrien
Cynthia: Aurore
Heathers💣
Veronica: Juleka
JD: Jean/Mireille (JD was female in some versions. Look it up)
Heather C: Reshma/Alya
Heather M: Sabrina/Lacey
Heather D: Aurore/Ondine/Cosette
Kurt: Kim
Ram: Nino
Martha: Denise/Rose
Miss. Flemming: Myléne
Bud Dean: Ivan
Mr. Sawyer: Nathaniel
Mrs. Sawyer: Marinette/Zoe
Hamilton🪶
Alexander Hamilton: Jean
Eliza Hamilton: Mireille/Lacey
Aaron Burr: Nino
Angelica Schuyler: Kagami
George Washington: Ivan
Marquis de Lafayette & Thomas Jefferson: Max/Simon
Hercules Mulligan & James Madison: Ismael/Adrien
John Laurens & Philip Hamilton: Austin T/Nathaniel
Peggy Schuyler & Maria Reynolds: Marinette/Alya/Reshma
King George III: Kim
SIX (Just… Screw gender for this. A guy understudied for one performance, let’s just do this)👑
Catherine of Aragon: Denise/Aurore
Anne Boleyn: Nathaniel/Cosette/Marinette
Jane Seymour: Sabrina/Ondine
Anne of Cleves: Alix/Nino
Katherine Howard: Reshma/Kim
Catherine Parr: Myléne/Juleka/Jean
The Lightning Thief⚡️
Percy: Jean
Annabeth: Kagami
Grover: Nino
Mr. D: Ivan
Luke: Marc/Simon
Ares: Nathaniel
Charon: Cosette/Alix
Silena: Reshma/Juleka/Sabrina
Sally: Denise/Alya
The Oracle: Nathaniel
Mrs. Dodds: Marinette
Clarisse: Ondine/Zoe
Katie: Myléne/Aurore
Mr. Brunner/Chiron: Adrien
Poseidon: Kim
Hades: Marc
Medusa: Rose
Kronos: Ismael/Max
Emojiland (Also screw gender because they’re emojis) ✌️👍👊👌✋
Princess: Reshma/Aurore/Jean
Prince: Marc/Rose/Adrien
Skull: Ivan/Juleka
Pile of Poo: Lacey
Police Officer: Alya
Construction Worker: Ondine/Alix
Nerd Face: Nathaniel/Marinette
Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes: Cosette/Sabrina/Zoe
Person in Business Suit Levitating: Alix/Max/
Smiling Face with Sunglasses: Ismael/Myléne
Guard: Nino/Kagami
Kissy Face: Mireille
Beetlejuice🪲
Beetlejuice: Jean/Kim
Lydia: Rose/Sabrina
Adam: Nathaniel
Barbara: Lacey/Zoe/Marinette
Charles: Nino
Delia: Myléne
Miss. Argentina: Alya/Denise
Otho: Ivan
Girl Scout: Juleka/Mireille/Cosette
Maxie Dean: Austin T/Adrien
SpongeBob the Musical🌊
SpongeBob: Jean
Sandy: Alya/Reshma
Patrick: Kim/Adrien
Squidward: Ismael/Nino
Mr. Krabs: Ivan
Plankton: Max/Simon
Karen: Cosette/Sabrina/Denise
Pearl: Rose
Carrie🩸
Carrie: Zoé
Sue: Myléne/Sabrina
Tommy: Nino/Jean
Chris: Kagami
Billy: Adrien/Ismael
Miss Gardner: Juleka/Cosette
Margaret: Denise/Aurore
Mr. Stephens: Ivan
Norma: Alya
Frieda: Marinette
Helen: Mireille
George: Kim
Stokes: Marc
Freddy: Nathaniel
Pippin 🎪
Leading Player: Nino/Reshma/Zoe
Pippin: Jean/Adrien
Berthe: Cosette/Sabrina
Catherine: Mireille
Charlemagne: Nathaniel/Kim
Fastrada: Marinette/Denise/Lacey
Theo: Rose
Lewis: Ismael/Ivan
Take your pick
#miraculous ladybug#miraculous#musicals#kwami swap#be more chill#dear Evan Hansen#heathers#Hamilton#carrie the musical#six the musical#spongebob the musical#pippin#the lightning theif musical#emojiland#beetlejuice#cast list
32 notes
·
View notes
Text
Holidays 1.5
Holidays
American Divorce Day
Apple Howling Day
Carnival begins (Old Bohemia)
Carnaval Blancos Negros, Day 2: The Day of the Blacks (Colombia)
Dia de la Toma (Spain)
Eve of Wonder
Fair Deal Day
Fathers' Day (Оци; Serbia)
501st Legion Day (UK)
Flint Day (French Republic)
FM Radio Day
George Washington Carver Day
Get on the Computer Day
International Declutter Day
International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
Joma Shinji (Kamakura, Japan)
Kappa Alpha Psi Day
Little Cold begins (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)
Monopoly Game Day
Mr. Ed Day
National Bird Day
National Day of Dialogue
National Don’t Talk Day
National Ellen Day
National Screenwriters Day
National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day
Nellie Ross Day (Wyoming)
Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria)
Red Hackle Anniversary Day of the Black Watch
Review Your Wrestling Holds Day
Right of Self Determination Day (Pakistan)
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney; Australia)
Tucindan (Serbia, Montenegro)
Turn Up the Heat Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Can Opener Day
Granny Smith Day
National Keto Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Sausage Day (UK)
Strawberry Day (Ichigo No Hi; Japan)
Take the Cake Day
Whipped Cream Day
1st Friday in January
Gals Night Out [1st Friday]
Thermopolis Day (Wyoming) [1st Friday]
Independence & Related Days
Ajdinland (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Monarchy of Craztonia (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Pitchfork Union (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Seirlandia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Avian Day (Pagan)
Befana (Ancient Roman Goddess)
Burning of the Evergreen (Pagan)
Charles of Mount Argus (Christian)
The Eve of Epiphany (Christian; Transition Between Christmas & Carnival Season)
Feast of Poseidon (Ancient Greece)
Festival of Kore (Greek Goddess of Good Fortune & Zeal)
Festival of Lares Compitales (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Pyrotechnics
Gerlac of Valkenberg (Christian; Saint)
Hayao Miyazaki (Jayism)
Hoots the Owl (Muppetism)
International Sarcasm Day (Pastafarian)
John Neumann (Catholic Church)
Ludwig II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lycurgus (Positivist; Saint)
Mungday (aka Hung Mung’s Day; Discordian)
Nicolas de Staël (Artology)
Noche De Reyes (Three Wise Men; Mexico)
Nones of January (Ancient Rome)
Old Christmas Eve
Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)
Telesphorus, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Trettondagsafton (Epiphany Eve; Sweden)
Tucindan (Old Serbian Pagan Folk Festival)
Twelfth Day of Christmas
Twelfth Night
Twelve Holy Days #11 (Aquarius, the lower limbs; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #12 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Ullr Festival (Norse)
Umberto Eco (Jayism)
Verbal Abuse Day (Pastafarian)
The Voyage of Hathor to See Her Seven Sisters (Ancient Egypt)
Yves Tanguy (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [4 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [4 of 32]
Prime Number Day: 5 [3 of 72]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [4 of 60]
Premieres
All My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1970)
Any Rags? (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Armed Forces, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1979)
Buddy the Gob (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
Cavalcade (Film; 1933)
Chica Chica Boom Chic, by Carmen Miranda (Song; 1941)
Come Dance with Me!, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1959)
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, by Clark Ashton Smith (Short Stories; 1935)
Desire, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1976)
Dog, Cat and Canary (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)
The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy (Novel; 1958)
Giasone, by Francesco Cavalli (Opera; 1649)
Greetings From Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1973)
Happily N’Ever After (Animated Film; 2007)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (UK TV Series; 1981)
In the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams (History Book; 1925)
Lion Down (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Book of Poetry; 1798)
Maze Craze (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1980)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series; 1976)
Nixon (Film; 1996)
The Shannara Chronicles (TV Series; 2016)
Stop! In The Name Of Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1965)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel; 1886)
The Swiss Summer, by Stella Gibbons (Novel; 1951)
Three Little Bops (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)
Tiger Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
The Tortoise and the Hare (Disney SS Cartoon; 1935)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1953)
What’s Sweepin’ (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)
Who’s Kitten Who? (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)
The Wiz (Broadway Musical; 1975)
Today’s Name Days
Emilia, Johann (Austria)
Emilijana, Gaudencije, Miljenko, Radoslavl (Croatia)
Dalimil (Czech Republic)
Simeon (Denmark)
Lea, Leana, Liia (Estonia)
Lea, Leea (Finland)
Édouard (France)
Emilia, Johann (Germany)
Syglitiki, Theoni, Theopemptos (Greece)
Simon (Hungary)
Amelia (Italy)
Sīmanis, Zintis (Latvia)
Gaudentas, Telesforas, Vytautas, Vytautė (Lithuania)
Hanna, Hanne (Norway)
Edward, Emilian, Emiliusz, Hanna, Symeon, Szymon, Telesfor, Włościbor (Poland)
Sinclitichia, Teona, Teotempt (Romania)
Andrea (Slovakia)
Amelia, Emiliana, Juan, Simeón, Telesforo (Spain)
Hanna, Hannele (Sweden)
Apollinaria, Teon (Ukraine)
Ladarius, Ladd, Laird, Lamont, Lane, Tania, Tanya, Tatiana, Tatyana, Tawni, Tawnya, Tia, Tiana, Tianna, Tonya (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 5 of 2024; 361 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 1 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 24 (Wu-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 23 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 5 White; Fryday [5 of 30]
Julian: 23 December 2023
Moon: 35%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 5 Moses (1st Month) [Lycurgus]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 16 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 15 of 31)
1 note
·
View note
Text
Holidays 1.5
Holidays
American Divorce Day
Apple Howling Day
Carnival begins (Old Bohemia)
Carnaval Blancos Negros, Day 2: The Day of the Blacks (Colombia)
Dia de la Toma (Spain)
Eve of Wonder
Fair Deal Day
Fathers' Day (Оци; Serbia)
501st Legion Day (UK)
Flint Day (French Republic)
FM Radio Day
George Washington Carver Day
Get on the Computer Day
International Declutter Day
International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
Joma Shinji (Kamakura, Japan)
Kappa Alpha Psi Day
Little Cold begins (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)
Monopoly Game Day
Mr. Ed Day
National Bird Day
National Day of Dialogue
National Don’t Talk Day
National Ellen Day
National Screenwriters Day
National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day
Nellie Ross Day (Wyoming)
Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria)
Red Hackle Anniversary Day of the Black Watch
Review Your Wrestling Holds Day
Right of Self Determination Day (Pakistan)
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney; Australia)
Tucindan (Serbia, Montenegro)
Turn Up the Heat Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Can Opener Day
Granny Smith Day
National Keto Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Sausage Day (UK)
Strawberry Day (Ichigo No Hi; Japan)
Take the Cake Day
Whipped Cream Day
1st Friday in January
Gals Night Out [1st Friday]
Thermopolis Day (Wyoming) [1st Friday]
Independence & Related Days
Ajdinland (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Monarchy of Craztonia (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Pitchfork Union (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Seirlandia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Avian Day (Pagan)
Befana (Ancient Roman Goddess)
Burning of the Evergreen (Pagan)
Charles of Mount Argus (Christian)
The Eve of Epiphany (Christian; Transition Between Christmas & Carnival Season)
Feast of Poseidon (Ancient Greece)
Festival of Kore (Greek Goddess of Good Fortune & Zeal)
Festival of Lares Compitales (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Pyrotechnics
Gerlac of Valkenberg (Christian; Saint)
Hayao Miyazaki (Jayism)
Hoots the Owl (Muppetism)
International Sarcasm Day (Pastafarian)
John Neumann (Catholic Church)
Ludwig II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lycurgus (Positivist; Saint)
Mungday (aka Hung Mung’s Day; Discordian)
Nicolas de Staël (Artology)
Noche De Reyes (Three Wise Men; Mexico)
Nones of January (Ancient Rome)
Old Christmas Eve
Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)
Telesphorus, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Trettondagsafton (Epiphany Eve; Sweden)
Tucindan (Old Serbian Pagan Folk Festival)
Twelfth Day of Christmas
Twelfth Night
Twelve Holy Days #11 (Aquarius, the lower limbs; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #12 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Ullr Festival (Norse)
Umberto Eco (Jayism)
Verbal Abuse Day (Pastafarian)
The Voyage of Hathor to See Her Seven Sisters (Ancient Egypt)
Yves Tanguy (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [4 of 71]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [4 of 32]
Prime Number Day: 5 [3 of 72]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [4 of 60]
Premieres
All My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1970)
Any Rags? (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Armed Forces, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1979)
Buddy the Gob (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
Cavalcade (Film; 1933)
Chica Chica Boom Chic, by Carmen Miranda (Song; 1941)
Come Dance with Me!, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1959)
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, by Clark Ashton Smith (Short Stories; 1935)
Desire, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1976)
Dog, Cat and Canary (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1945)
The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy (Novel; 1958)
Giasone, by Francesco Cavalli (Opera; 1649)
Greetings From Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1973)
Happily N’Ever After (Animated Film; 2007)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (UK TV Series; 1981)
In the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams (History Book; 1925)
Lion Down (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Book of Poetry; 1798)
Maze Craze (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1980)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series; 1976)
Nixon (Film; 1996)
The Shannara Chronicles (TV Series; 2016)
Stop! In The Name Of Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1965)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel; 1886)
The Swiss Summer, by Stella Gibbons (Novel; 1951)
Three Little Bops (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)
Tiger Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
The Tortoise and the Hare (Disney SS Cartoon; 1935)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1953)
What’s Sweepin’ (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)
Who’s Kitten Who? (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)
The Wiz (Broadway Musical; 1975)
Today’s Name Days
Emilia, Johann (Austria)
Emilijana, Gaudencije, Miljenko, Radoslavl (Croatia)
Dalimil (Czech Republic)
Simeon (Denmark)
Lea, Leana, Liia (Estonia)
Lea, Leea (Finland)
Édouard (France)
Emilia, Johann (Germany)
Syglitiki, Theoni, Theopemptos (Greece)
Simon (Hungary)
Amelia (Italy)
Sīmanis, Zintis (Latvia)
Gaudentas, Telesforas, Vytautas, Vytautė (Lithuania)
Hanna, Hanne (Norway)
Edward, Emilian, Emiliusz, Hanna, Symeon, Szymon, Telesfor, Włościbor (Poland)
Sinclitichia, Teona, Teotempt (Romania)
Andrea (Slovakia)
Amelia, Emiliana, Juan, Simeón, Telesforo (Spain)
Hanna, Hannele (Sweden)
Apollinaria, Teon (Ukraine)
Ladarius, Ladd, Laird, Lamont, Lane, Tania, Tanya, Tatiana, Tatyana, Tawni, Tawnya, Tia, Tiana, Tianna, Tonya (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 5 of 2024; 361 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 1 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 24 (Wu-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 23 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 5 White; Fryday [5 of 30]
Julian: 23 December 2023
Moon: 35%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 5 Moses (1st Month) [Lycurgus]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 16 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 15 of 31)
0 notes
Text
ALMANACCO DEL FESTIVAL DI MONTECARLO – 11° EDIZIONE 1985
ALMANACCO DEL FESTIVAL DI MONTECARLO – 11° EDIZIONE 1985
5-9 dicembre 1985
GIURIA
- François Bronett
- Heinz Geier
- Leonid Kostiuk
- Stanislav Novotny
- Bobby Roberts
- Lu Yi
- Achille Zavatta
- Urs Pilz, interprete
PALMARES DEL FESTIVAL
CLOWN D’ORO
TROUPE DI PYONYANG - ACROBATI ALLA BARRA VERTICALE E BASCULE
TROUPE DOVEIKO - BASCULE CON TRAMPOLI
CLOWN D’ARGENTO
YASMINE SMART - CAVALLERIA IN LIBERTA
TRIO ZALEWSKI - TRAMPOLINO ELASTICO
YURI KUKLACHEV - RIPRESE COMICHE CON GATTI
KONG HONG WEN - PAGODA DI SEDIE
Tagliato il traguardo delle 10 edizioni, il Festival prosegue nel solco degli ultimi anni in cui i numeri dell’est la fanno da padrone. Anche nel 1985 nel palmares svettano Russia, Corea, Polonia e Cina, dove le scuole di stato sfornano numeri a raffica, mescolando le tecniche e mettendo in circolo centinaia di artisti ogni anno. Delusione per il risultato della famiglia Bellucci presente gli elefanti di Mario in due versioni del numero e soprattutto per le 14 magnifiche tigri di Roberto che in tanti avrebbero voluto sul podio per la ricchezza del repertorio e la precisione delle esecuzioni; si porterà a casa solo il Premio Henry Thetard. L’Italia è in gara anche con l’entrata musicale di Elder Miletti e Mauro che tornano dopo due anni dopo aver partecipato con il loro repertorio di riprese; anche in questo caso la giuria propende per il russo Yuri Kuklatchev, la sua comicità soft e l’ammaestramento di gatti. Grande attesa per i Flying Caballeros il cui agile diciassettenne Ruben ha da poco “girato” il suo primo quadruplo e porta l’exploit al Festival. Nonostante 3 tentativi a spettacolo, non riuscirà nell’impresa. Yasmine Smart si riconferma una vera star e Dame du Cirque con la sua cavalleria. Cary Grant impreziosisce ancora il parterre e illumina il Festival con il suo charme. Sarà l’ultima edizione sotto gli chapiteau “itineranti” del Circo Americano. Si annuncia infatti la costruzione di una struttura semi permanente consolidando così il futuro della manifestazione.
ELENCO PARTECIPANTI
1985
Sergio
Mr Loyal
Dubsky
Cani calciatori
Zalewski
Trampolino elastico
Yasmine Smart
Cavalleria in libertà
Mark Lotz
Trapezio
Famiglia Streicher
Scimpanzé
Dorys e Mario
Mano a mano
Cirque National de Pyong Yang
Bascule & Palo cinese
Bubi e Jule
Clown di ripresa
Gottani
Leoni
Flying Caballeros
Trapezio volante
Dany Cesar
La posta
Circo di stato di Mongolia
Contorsioniste
Petrovi (La troupe)
Pertiche - Altalene
Kouklatchev
Gatti
Wojtyla (La troupe)
Altalena russa
Mario Bellucci
Elefanti
Swing Brothers
Cascatori comici
Georgi Monika
Mucche
Consuelo Reyes
Antipodista
Rudolf Reyes
Equilibrista sulla testa
Alvarez (La troupe)
Corda doppia
Streicher Bobby
Scale libere
Sabu
Trapezio washington
Roberto Bellucci
14 Tigri
Survivors
Quadro aereo
Elder Miletti & Co,
Clowns musicali
Alegria Arturo
Giocoliere
Troupe acrobatica di Zhengzhou
Pagoda di sedie
Kludski
Elefante e oranghi
Doveiko troupe
Bascule con i trampoli
Schupka Zdenek
Cavalleria
Vassiliev Victor
Giocoliere
Clarisson
Otarie
Joseph Bouglione
Filo d'acciaio
TROUPE DOVEIKO
TROUPE DI PYONGYANG
YASMINE SMART
TRIO ZALEWSKI
YURI KUKLACEV
KONG HONG WEN
Premio Henry Thetard a Roberto Bellucci
ROBERTO BELLUCCI
MARIO BELLUCCI
Mario Bellucci
Consuelo Reyes
The Flying Caballeros
Arturo Alegria
I Kludski
Rudolf Reyes
Elder Miletti & Mauro
Sabu
Dorys e Mario
Yasmine Smart con Armando Bellucci
La famiglia Bellucci
Yasmine Smart e Roberto Pandini l'Ingegnere.
Kong Hong Wen
Credit della XI edizione del Festival:
- Alain Frere, Relazioni con gli artisti e i direttori di circo
- Enis e Willy Togni, direttori delle installazioni tecniche
- Eduardo Murillo, regia di pista
PHOTO GALLERY
ALMANACCO DEL FESTIVAL DI MONTECARLO – 11° EDIZIONE 1985
Se questo articolo ti è piaciuto condividilo sui tuoi social utilizzando i bottoni che trovi qui sotto
Read the full article
#achillezavatta#almanaccodelfestivaldimontecarlo#bronett#circo#circus#cirkusz#cirque#consueloreyes#cyrk#dubsky#eldermiletti#festivaldimonte-carlo#festivaldimontecarlo1985#flyingcaballero#josephbouglione#leonidkostiuk#mariobellucci#mauroguarda#patclarisson#quadruplosaltomortale#robertobellucci#RobertoPandini#sabualegria#sergio#sirkus#tsirk#yasminesmart#yvonnekludsky#zirk#zirkus
0 notes
Text
Raquel Welch Is Reinvented As a Latina; A Familiar Actress Now Boasts Her Heritage
By Mireya Navarro
June 11, 2002
On ''American Family,'' the PBS television series about a Mexican-American family in East Los Angeles, now in its first season, Aunt Dora is the drama queen of the family, a passionate, romantic woman who might have become a Hollywood star had she vigorously pursued her acting career. The actress playing Aunt Dora is Raquel Welch, who infuses the role with her familiar sultriness and smoky voice.
Nevertheless the sight of Ms. Welch in that role might bewilder some fans who remember her best for films like ''Fantastic Voyage,'' ''One Million Years B.C.,'' ''Kansas City Bomber'' and ''The Four Musketeers,'' as ''Woman of the Year'' on Broadway and in nightclub acts in Las Vegas. Dora, you see, is a Latina, a title Ms. Welch herself is claiming for the first time after nearly 40 years in show business.
''I'm happy to acknowledge it and it's long overdue and it's very welcome,'' she said in a recent interview at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. ''There's been kind of an empty place here in my heart and also in my work for a long, long time.''
Jo-Raquel Tejada, born in Chicago of a Bolivian father and an American mother, is taking to her heritage with gusto. Not only is she playing Dora as well as the film role of Hortensia in the 2001 romantic farce ''Tortilla Soup,'' she is also strutting her ethnicity in events like the American Latino Media Arts Awards and other public appearances.
''Latinos are here to stay,'' she told her audience at a National Press Club luncheon last month. ''As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.''
As both citizen Raquel and Raquel Welch, sex symbol and pinup girl, Ms. Welch has bridged two eras. She has worked in the Hollywood that made her a blonde and tried to take away her first name as well as in the Hollywood that now considers Latinos hip and pays Jennifer Lopez up to $12 million a picture.
Ms. Welch grew up with a father who tried to assimilate at all costs, even banning Spanish at home. But now, at 61, she is riding the wave of new Latino generations that flaunt their ethnic pride and behave with the confidence of a major demographic force.
These days Ms. Welch is learning Spanish from tapes, planning her first trip to Bolivia in August to meet relatives and working on her own Latino film project. After fifty-some movies and worldwide celebrity, she is embracing the identity she said she had to reject to break into film.
''It was told to me that if I wanted to be typecast, I would play into that,'' she said, by emphasizing her Hispanic background. ''You just couldn't be too different. My first big breakthrough part in 'One Million Years B.C.' they died my hair blond. It's a marketing thing. And now I'm sure there are a lot of people who are marketing specialists just for the Latino community. They want those 35 million people to buy their products and to vote for them.''
Today, some people note, there is still plenty of casting of Latino actors as non-Latinos. Felix Sanchez, president of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts in Washington, an advocacy group for Hispanics in entertainment, said the message to many actors still was that they had to eliminate ethnicity to succeed.
''They're able to be ethnically present to the Latino audience but ethnically invisible to a majority audience,'' Mr. Sanchez said. ''That's the comfort level of film and television today. We need to move it beyond that to where our culture and identity are fully integrated in a character.''
But others argued that for every Martin Sheen or Cameron Diaz, actors of Spanish and Latin descent who usually portray non-Latin characters, there is an Esai Morales or Andy Garcia, who play Latino characters or alternate ethnic roles.
''We can have Latino actors play Latinos or non-Latinos -- it doesn't matter,'' said Luis Reyes, co-author of ''Hispanics in Hollywood: A Celebration of 100 Years in Film and Television'' (Lone Eagle, 2000). ''We just need a diversity of images. If you have diversity, at least the negative images don't bother you because that's not all you see.''
That Ms. Welch feels comfortable calling herself Latina and has found solid Latina roles to play reflect fundamental changes in Hollywood. Latinos have been part of motion pictures since the industry's inception, but their depiction in movies has fluctuated wildly, from amoral bandits to aristocratic Latin lovers, for instance, depending on the politics and events of the time, film historians say.
Some portrayals were so offensive that in the 1920's Mexico and other Latin American countries called for a boycott of American films. But there were also periods when Latinos were popular -- the Latin lover craze, the Carmen Miranda comedies -- particularly in World War II when much of Europe was closed off as a market and movies turned to Latin America instead.
For many Latino actors, success depended on fitting the all-American mold. There was Rita Hayworth, the sex symbol of the 1940's who in real life was Margarita Carmen Cansino, born to a Spanish father and an Irish mother. And there was Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn, born in Chihuahua, Mexico, of Mexican-Indian and Mexican-Irish parents, and better known as Anthony Quinn.
''He had to be somewhat Anglo or European in order not to be dismissed,'' Ms. Welch said Quinn told her when they discussed the subject before his death last year.
In her own case, Ms. Welch gave in on the hair but not on Raquel, her paternal grandmother's name. (Welch was her first husband's name.)
''I thought, well, if I can't even have the Raquel, that's really selling out completely, that's really turning my back on everything that I really am,'' she said.
She played a Latina in only two movies, a Mexican in ''Bandolero!'' and a Mexican Yaqui Indian in ''100 Rifles,'' in which she is better remembered for her interracial love scenes with Jim Brown.
Ms. Welch said she never hid her ethnic background, but it never became common knowledge. Instead, she wore a fur bikini and was typecast as a sex symbol.
Then again, for Ms. Welch, who grew up in La Jolla and San Diego, playing a Latina would have been more of a departure than playing a glamorous bombshell. She said her father was dead set on raising his three children as American as apple pie. An ambitious immigrant who came to the United States from Bolivia to study engineering, Armando Carlos Tejada never looked back. Ms. Welch said her family never visited Bolivia. And it was not until her 30's, when her grandmother came for a visit, that Ms. Welch finally met her namesake.
''Those people who wanted to make it in the American system found it necessary and desirable to kind of suppress their Latino quality,'' she said of her father. ''He never spoke any Spanish in the home, so as not to have us have an accent. We never were in a neighborhood where there were other Latinos around. I didn't know any Latin people.''
For a long time, she said, she resented her father for what she calls overkill. She said his effort to erase his ethnicity was ''a lie, a lie that worked as far as blending in.'' But eventually she came to understand him.
''In a way he didn't have a choice,'' she said. ''There was a sense of shame on his part, of the confusion and the prejudice around against Latins,'' Ms. Welch said. ''So he suffered a great deal. I suffered some. My suffering is more of a kind of psychological feeling of not knowing who I am.''
But the Mexican-American director and writer Gregory Nava (''El Norte,'' ''Mi Familia,'' ''Selena''), who grew up in San Diego, said he knew about Raquel Tejada. As a boy he remembered her winning the title Fairest of the Fair at the San Diego County Fair, part of a pageant trifecta in 1958 in which she also won Miss La Jolla and Maid of California.
''She was the most beautiful girl in town,'' Mr. Nava said. ''The whole Latino community was very proud of her.''
When the time came to cast Dora for ''American Family,'' a character based on one of Mr. Nava's aunts, he needed an actress who was not only beautiful but also charismatic. Mr. Nava, 53, decided to take Ms. Welch out to dinner and ask her to play Dora.
''She said, it's too late for me to be Latina,'' he recalled. ''I said, it's never too late.''
On the series, alongside actors like Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga and Esai Morales, ''she's totally believable,'' Mr. Nava said. ''Obviously, it's there,'' he said of her Latina essence.
Mr. Reyes, the writer, says Ms. Welch has nothing to lose by taking Latina roles.
''She's 60 years old, and how many roles are there for 60-year-old women?'' he said.
But while Ms. Welch, who can still wear tight jeans and a low cut T-shirt, may be finding new roles in her current incarnation, she said she had not been showered with offers. Despite signs of a more auspicious climate for Latinos in Hollywood, they are still largely absent from movies and prime-time television.
Ms. Welch has developed her own wig and beauty product lines. She has a son, Damon James Welch, a computer consultant and aspiring actor, and a daughter, the actress Tahnee Welch. Richard Palmer, a restaurateur, is her fourth husband, and they live in Beverly Hills.
''I do feel very fortunate now at this point in my career, where I'm definitely middle aged and I'm not getting the kind of young leading lady parts anymore, that I have discovered and have been gifted with this role on 'American Family' where I can feed myself personally as a human being,'' she said.
On the set of this other American family, she said, ''I feel completely like I belong.''
0 notes
Text
Employers Pay More To Hire Migrants - The Wall Street Journal
See on Scoop.it - Kids Global Climate Change Institute (KGCCI) Leaders [are] throwing their people to the wolves of energy insecurity, price volatility & climate chaos. The [Third] IPCC report lays out a saner, safer approach.... António Guterres
“Migrants who come to the U.S. to find work are now being hired more quickly, at higher pay and under better working conditions than at any time in recent memory. In many cases, employers and economists say, migrant workers are being paid as well as their American counterparts.”
“Mr. Reyes has raised wages and boosted benefits to retain staff, the vast majority of whom are migrants. As a Christmas bonus, he said he used to distribute free lunch certificates before the Covid-19 pandemic. Last December, he handed out cash bonuses ranging from $250 to $5,000 for “those in the kitchen who represent the soul of the restaurant.””
“‘The difference is remarkable,’” said Josué Morillo, a Honduran migrant who crossed the border into the U.S. undetected two years ago. His first job upon arriving paid about $13 an hour. He said he now makes $18 an hour assembling shelves in warehouses in Florida. He also receives more benefits, including lodging, as job assignments take him to New York, New Jersey and Kansas. “It’s a significant saving,” he said.
Migrant construction laborers in the Washington area made on average $120 a day before the pandemic. That has since risen more than 60% to about $200 a day, said Lenin Cálix, an Ecuadorean migrant who belongs to the United Workers of Washington D.C., which provides training and legal support and aims to ensure newly arrived migrants aren’t paid below market rates. Hourly pay for all U.S. construction workers has risen about 15% since late 2019, according to the Labor Department.”
0 notes
Text
Video Game One-Shots and Drabbles Master List.
-Drabbles are up to 300 words and less than 1000
-One-Shots are more than 1000 words
- ✦ means it is a drabble
- ★ means it is a one-shot.
- ♥ means it has sexual content or implied smut
-💔means it is an angst fic.
-★ means it is a Headcanon.
-⚜ means it is a Mini Series.
Assassin’s Creed:
Uncanny || Jacob Frye ||-✦
Smooth Talk || Deimos!Alexios ||- ✦ + - ♥
Marry me || Jacob Frye ||- ✦ + - ♥
Patching up a wound || Edward Kenway ||
Beautiful Music || Jacob Frye ||
A Scared Kiss || Ezio Auditore ||
Fierce Moon || Jacob Frye || - ♥
Bang Bang || Jacob Frye || - ♥
tall buff characters opening pickle jars (◕‿◕✿) || Jacob Frye ||
Tall Buff characters that are actually gentle giants || Connor Kenway ||
tall buff characters that are afraid of breaking their lovers || Shay Cormac ||
The Five Senses-Hearing || Alexios ||
Uncharted:
Did you hear? I’m going to be a dad! || Samuel Drake || ✦
You can call me Daddy Drake || Nathan Drake ||- ✦
Snowball Fight || Nathan Drake ||-✦
It’s just an Epilogue || Nathan Drake ||-✦
Mr. Wonderful || Nathan Drake || *Rewrite*-✦
Mr. Wonderful || Nathan Drake ||
Raging Storm || Sam Drake ||.
Being Pregnant has it quirks || Sam Drake ||
Turkey Trouble || Sam Drake ||
What if I'm a bad dad? || Sam Drake ||
Red Dead Redemption:
Tonight We Dance|| Arthur Morgan ||- ✦
I’m Crazy About You || Arthur Morgan ||- ✦
I’m Gonna Be A Daddy? || Arthur Morgan |||- ✦
I’ll Be The Best Father Around || Arthur Morgan |||- ✦
Stage 1 — The Meeting || Arthur Morgan ||- ✦
Stage 2 — Courting || Arthur Morgan ||- ✦
Let Me Stay Here By Your Side || Arthur Morgan ||- ✦
Mistletoe kisses || Modern!Charles Smith ||- ✦
Just Some fun in the camp || Arthur Morgan ||- ✦-♥
Arthur Morgan’s 25 Day’s of Christmas {{ Full List }}- ✦
A Bambi Kiss || Arthur Morgan ||
Arthur Morgan Sex Headcanon.- ♥ -✨
Resident Evil / Day’s Gone:
To The Man Who Let Her Go || Chris Redfield ||
So Many Kisses || Carlos Oliveira ||
I’ll never stop living you || James O'Brian ||
So many kisses || Carlos Oliveira ||
First Kiss || Carlos Oliveira ||
Sleepy Hug || Carlos Oliveira ||
The Little Things || Carlos Oliveira ||
She Wouldn’t Be Gone || Leon S. Kennedy ||.
The Lift hug || Carlos Oliveira ||
A Forehead Kiss || Carlos Oliveira ||
My Life ; My Princess || Carlos Oliveira ||
I’m going to hug you now || Carlos Oliveira ||
Fuck IKEA || Leon S.Kennedy ||
You look! I’m to Nervous || Rookie!Leon ||
Get your dad jokes ready || Rookie!Leon ||
Get your dad jokes ready || Leon S. Kennedy ||
Silent Comfort || Rookie!Leon ||
A kiss…. in relief || Billy Coen ||
Jealousy || Leon S. Kennedy ||
A kiss … …to pretend.|| Leon S. Kennedy ||.
an adrenaline kiss || Rookie!Leon ||
Summer Bike Rides and Picnics || Deacon St. John ||.
Hallway Sex is the best kind of sex || Deacon St. John ||
Supermassive Games:
{ Little Hope / Until Dawn / Men Of Medan }
Forget-me-not’s & Foxglove’s || Mike Munroe ||-✦.
Don’t You dare throw that snow ba-” || Mike Munore ||- ✦
First Date || Mike Munroe ||- ✦
I think I might be Pregnant || Josh Washington ||- ✦
It’s Not Just Make Believe || David Milton || - ✦.
He’s One Of The Good One’s || Anthony Clark ||-✦.
Keep Bleeding Love || Abraham Alastor || Pt I-✦.
Keep Bleeding Love || Abraham Alastor || Pt II-✦.
I’m so sorry || Daniel ||-✦.
Just kiss already || Abraham Alastor ||-✦
Love In The Mountains || Josh Washington ||
Lovin In The Forest || Wendigo Josh Washington ||
You’re Safe Now || Mike Munore ||
Take it off || Josh Washington ||
I think i might be pregnant || Josh Washington ||
Devil May Cry-
Baby Hog || Dante Sparda || - ✦
Please Don’t Cry || Nero ||
Baby’s First Kicks || Nero ||
What a wonderful Christmas Surprise. || Dante Sparda ||
Silent Night || V ||
Just this once || Dante ||
I said a book…not a poem || V ||
Leave it To Dante || Dante ||
Do you think they’ll have your eyes?|| Vergil ||
Expecting || Nero ||
Miscellaneous Games:
{ Wolf Among Us / Detroit Become Human }
Ralph likes to kiss! || Ralph x Reader ||- ✦
“Am I too old to go trick-or-treating?”|| Connor ||- ✦
It’s getting hot in here || Connor ||-✦
Romantic Kiss || Connor ||-✦
You want me to what? || Hank Anderson ||-✦
Sweet Boy || Connor ||- ✦
December 3rd: Snow || Bigby Wolf ||- ✦
Morning Kisses || Bigby Wolf ||- ✦
Cuddles || Bigby Wolf ||- ✦
Christmas Morning || Bigby Wolf ||- ✦
First Snow || Bigby Wolf ||- ✦.
Amortentia Bigby-★.
Then you kissed me || Bigby Wolf ||
Little Red Ridin’ Hood || Bigby Wolf ||
Everyone Needs a little lovin || Bigby Wolf ||
'So... Hypothetically, if we were to have a baby, how would you react? || Bigby Wolf ||
tall buff characters that are actually gentle giants || Bigby Wolf ||
What A Handsome Wolf || Bigby Wolf ||
Miscellaneous Games 2:
{OverWatch / Mortal Kombat / Far Cry 5}
Heelllloooo || Johnny Cage x Reader |||- ✦
Vampire!Gabriel Reyes - ✦
Bats || Jesse McCree ||- ✦
Laughter || Gabriel Reyes ||- ✦
First Kiss || Sub-Zero ||- ✦
Oh My God || Kenshi ||- ✦
You’re Alive || Eli Palmer || -✦
I’ve Missed you || Sharky Boshaw ||-✦
The Dragon’s Nest || Hanzo ||
Miscellaneous Games 3:
{Call Of Duty / Marvel Avengers / Ghost Of Tsushima}
Bambi Kiss || Steve Rogers ||
Tall buff characters that are actually gentle giants || Daniels ||
I’m so sorry. || Steve Rogers ||
When I am dead || Taka ||-💔
but it’s all coming back to me || Jin Sakai ||
Friendship is the Best Medicine. || Jin Sakai / Ryuzo ||
Pure love. || Jin Sakai ||
It’s Just A Kiss || Jin Sakai ||
I’ll make you feel better || Jin Sakai ||
Be The One You Need || Joseph Turner ||
The Ghost & The Kitsune. || Jin Sakai ||
The Last Of Us:
Amortentia Joel-★
A kiss to bruised skin || Joel Miller ||
Baby’s First Kicks || Joel Miller ||
You’re My Light || Joel Miller ||
tall buff characters || Joel Miller ||
Final Fantasy:
A kiss on the nose || Tseng ||
You’re glowing || Cloud Strife ||
The SOLDIER and The Baker || Cloud Strife || The Date-⚜
A Kiss…Out Of Love.|| Biggs ||
Just a little confession of love || Biggs ||
The SOLDIER and The Baker || Cloud Strife ||-⚜ Part 1 || Part 2. || Part 3 || Part 4. || Part 5.
I’m Scared || Cloud Strife ||
Cheiloproclitic || Cloud Strife ||
Sleepy Kiss|| Cloud Strife ||.
#video games#video games master list#writings master list#drabbles#drabble#one shot#resident evil#Final Fantasy#the last of us#days gone#Assassin's Creed#assassins creed#ghost of tsushima#call of duty#overwatch#Mortal Kombat#Far Cry#far cry 5#wolf among us#detroit: become human#devil may cry#supermassive games#until dawn#little hope#the dark pictures little hope#Red Dead Redemption#uncharted
386 notes
·
View notes
Text
All You Need to Know About Matchups!
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WAITLIST
Hi y'all!
This account is solely for matchups for several different fandoms. That means requests for imagines, oneshots, headcanons, etc. will NOT be taken.
Here are some basic things to know about requesting a matchup!
Unless otherwise specified for a certain fandom, a request yields one romantic pairing AND one friendship pairing as well as information on why I think you work well with the individuals I choose. Of course, if you only wish to receive either just the romantic matchup or just the friendship matchup, just let me know!
You can request matchups for several different fandoms at once! For each fandom you request, I will match you up with one romantic partner and one friend unless you request differently.
You can ask to exclude any character(s)!
Where can I request a matchup?
Requests can be made in the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab.
What do I need to include in my request?
Required
Fandom(s)
Your gender and/or pronouns
Your sexual orientation and/or preferences
Description of personality
Optional (but definitely helps me out!)
Description of appearance
Hobbies
Personality alignment (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Hogwarts House, etc.)
What you would look for in a partner and/or friend
Any other information you think would be helpful – the more you provide, the more I can work with!
Now with that out of the way, onto the fandoms!
Listed directly below is a shortlist of all the fandoms I take requests for as well as some extra information as needed.
Disclaimers
If a title is in italics, it means that while I feel comfortable providing matchups for this show, I have not watched every season. If a character drastically changes after a certain point, I may not be aware. The last season I watched of these shows will be included in parentheses.
All movies/shows based on novels will most likely focus on the on-screen adaptations of characters.
SHOWS
The 100 (6)
Good Omens
The Good Place (3)
Lucifer (4)
On My Block
Parks and Recreation (4)
Prodigal Son (1)
Sherlock
Space Force
Supernatural (14)
The Walking Dead (8)
MOVIES
Clueless
The Greatest Showman
Harry Potter -- Unless specified in request, will entail 2 sets of matchups as a student (Golden Trio and Marauders eras respectively)
The Hunger Games
Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Unless age is specified, underage characters will NOT be available for romantic matchups
BROADWAY
Anastasia
Beetlejuice
Carrie (2012 Off-Broadway)
Hadestown
Hamilton
Les Misérables
The Phantom of the Opera
Six
VIDEO GAMES
Detroit: Become Human
Red Dead Redemption 2
What’s below the cut?
A masterlist of characters in each fandom that will be considered for each request (unless marked with an asterisk (*), all characters are assumed to be available for both romantic AND friendly matchups while names marked with an asterisk are only available for friendly matchups). Listed alphabetically by first name.
Don’t be afraid to tell me about a typo!
Any questions? Just want to talk? You can also use the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab to get ahold of me!
SHOWS
Bellamy Blake
Clarke Griffin
Echo
Finn Collins
Harper McIntyre
Jasper Jordan
Johnathan “John” Murphy
Jordan Green
Lexa
Lincoln
Marcus Kane
Monty Green
Octavia Blake
Raven Reyes
Roan
Wells Jaha
Aziraphale
Anathema Device
Crowley
Newton Pulsifer
Mme. Tracy*
Witchfinder Sgt. Shadwell*
Chidi Anagonye
Eleanor Shellstrop
Jason Mendoza
Michael*
Tahani Al-Jamil
Amenadiel
Det. Chloe Decker
Det. Daniel “Dan” Espinoza
Ella Lopez
Eve
Dr. Linda Martin*
Lucifer Morningstar
Mazikeen “Maze”
Cesar Diaz
Jamal Turner
Jasmine Flores
Monsé Finnie
Oscar “Spooky” Diaz
Ruben “Ruby” Martinez Jr.
Andrew “Andy” Dwyer
Ann Perkins
April Ludgate
Benjamin “Ben” Wyatt
Christopher “Chris” Traeger
Donna Meagle*
Gerald “Jerry” Gergich*
Jean-Ralphio Saperstein*
Leslie Knope
Ronald “Ron” Swanson*
Ainsley Whitly
Det. Dani Powell
Edrisa Tanaka
Lt. Gil Arroyo
Det. James “JT” Tarmel
Jessica Whitly
Malcolm Bright
DI Greg Lestrade
Mrs. Hudson*
James “Jim” Moriarty
Dr. John Watson
Mary Morstan*
Molly Hooper
Mycroft Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Adrian Mallory*
Capt. Angela Ali
Brig. Gen. Bradley Gregory*
Dr. Chan Kaifang
Duncan Tabner
Erin Naird
F. Tony Scarapiducci
Kelly King
Maggie Naird*
Gen. Mark Naird*
Abbie “Bela” Talbot*
Adam Milligan
Alex Jones
Balthazar
Benjamin “Benny” Lafitte
Castiel
Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury
Claire Novak
Crowley
Dean Winchester
Sheriff Donna Hanscum
Eileen Leahy
Ellen Harvelle*
Gabriel
Garth Fitzgerald IV
Jack Kline
Jessica “Jess” Moore*
Joanna “Jo” Harvelle
Sheriff Jody Mills*
John Winchester
Kaia Nieves
Kevin Tran
Lucifer
Meg Masters
Michael “Mick” Davies
Patience Turner
Robert “Bobby” Singer*
Rowena MacLeod
Rufus Turner*
Samuel “Sam” Winchester
Aaron
Abraham Ford
Andrea*
Beth Greene
Carl Grimes*
Carol Peletier*
Dale Horvath*
Daryl Dixon
Dwight
Enid*
Eugene Porter*
King Ezekiel*
Father Gabriel Stokes
Glenn Rhee
Hershel Greene*
Maggie Greene
Michonne
Morgan Jones*
Negan Smith
Paul “Jesus” Rovia
Rick Grimes
Rosita Espinosa
Sasha Williams
Tara Chambler
Tyreese Williams
MOVIES
Cher Horowitz
Dionne Davenport
Josh Lucas
Tai Frasier
Travis Birkenstock
Anne Wheeler
Charity Barnum
Jenny Lind
Lettie Lutz*
Phillip Carlyle
Phineas “P.T.” Barnum
W.D. Wheeler
Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody*
Albus Dumbledore*
Arthur Weasley*
Cedric Diggory
Cho Chang
Draco Malfoy
Fleur Delacour
Fred Weasley
George Weasley
Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger
James Potter
Lily Evans
Luna Lovegood
Minerva McGonagall*
Molly Weasley*
Neville Longbottom
Nymphadora Tonks*
Oliver Wood
Remus Lupin
Ronald “Ron” Weasley
Rubeus Hagrid*
Severus Snape
Sirius Black
Viktor Krum
Cinna
Effie Trinket*
Finnick Odair
Gale Hawthorne
Haymitch Abernathy*
Johanna Mason
Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Anthony “Tony” Stark -- Iron Man
Dr. Bruce Banner -- Hulk
Carol Danvers -- Captain Marvel
Dr. Christine Palmer*
Clint Barton -- Hawkeye
Drax the Destroyer*
Edward “Ned” Leeds
Gamora
Groot*
Harold “Happy” Hogan*
Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym*\
Hope van Dyne -- Wasp
Sgt. James “Bucky” Barnes -- Winter Soldier
Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes -- War Machine
Loki Laufeyson
Luis*
Mantis*
Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Carter*
Cdr. Maria Hill*
May Parker*
Lord M’Baku
Michelle “MJ” Jones
Nakia
Natasha Romanoff -- Black Widow
Nebula*
Col. Nicholas “Nick” Fury*
Okoye
Peter Parker -- Spider-Man
Peter Quill -- Star-Lord
Agt. Phillip “Phil” Coulson*
Pietro Maximoff -- Quicksilver
Rocket*
Samuel “Sam” Wilson -- Falcon
Scott Lang -- Ant-Man
Shuri
Dr. Stephen Strange
Steven “Steve” Rogers -- Captain America
King T’Challa -- Black Panther
Thor Odinson
Valkyrie
Virginia “Pepper” Potts
Vision
Wanda Maximoff -- Scarlet Witch
W’Kabi
Wong*
Yelena Belova
Yondu Udonta*
BROADWAY
Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
Dimitri Sudayev
Gleb Vaganov
Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch*
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna*
Vladimir “Vlad” Popov*
Adam Maitland
Barbara Maitland
Beetlejuice*
Delia Schlimmer
Lydia Deetz*
Carrie White
Christine “Chris” Hargensen
Susan “Sue” Snell
Thomas “Tommy” Ross
Eurydice
Hades
Hermes*
Orpheus
Persephone
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Angelica Schuyler
Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler
George Washington
Hercules Mulligan
James Madison
John Laurens
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler
Maria Reynolds
Marquis de Lafayette
Philip Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Cosette
Enjolras
Éponine Thénardier
Fantine
Insp. Javert
Jean Valjean
Marius Pontmercy
Carlotta Giudicelli*
Christine Daaé
Erik “The Phantom”
Mme. Giry*
Meg Giry
Raoul de Chagny
Anna of Cleves
Anne Boleyn
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine Parr
Jane Seymour
Katherine Howard
VIDEO GAMES
Carl Manfred*
Chloe
Det. Chris Miller*
Connor
Elijah Kamski
Lt. Hank Anderson*
Capt. Jeffrey Fowler*
Josh
Kara
Leo Manfred
Lucy*
Luther
Markus
North
Rose Chapman*
Simon
Abigail Roberts
Arthur Morgan
Beau Gray*
Charles Smith
Daniël “Dutch” Van der Linde
Eagle Flies
Hosea Matthews*
Javier Escuella
Johnathan “John” Marston Sr.
Josiah Trelawny
Karen Jones
Kieran Duffy
Leonard “Lenny” Summers
Marion “Bill” Williamson
Mary-Beth Gaskill
Micah Bell
Molly O’Shea
Penelope Braithwaite*
Rev. Orville Swanson*
Sadie Adler
Sean MacGuire
Simon Pearson*
Tilly Jackson
#fandom matchups#matchups#the 100#good omens#the good place#lucifer#on my block#parks and rec#prodigal son#space force#supernatural#the walking dead#clueless#the greatest showman#harry potter#the hunger games#mcu#marvel#broadway#anastasia#beetlejuice#hadestown#carrie the musical#hamilton#les mis#phantom of the opera#six the musical#detroit become human#red dead redemption 2#rdr2
25 notes
·
View notes
Text
Fic: Embracing Parenthood 5/?
Get caught up: (1) | (2) | (3) (4) or AO3
A/N: I’ve been writing while trying to figure out my depression but it’s not as much as I would like. I finally got this done and have two other things I am working on. Looking at episodes 4-D and Lord of the Flies, I decided to consolidate this chapter and do a focus on “Lord of the Flies”. I’m still not 100% on the direction this will be taking. I borrowed lines from the episode so, just an fyi. I used the transcript from Inside the X. Bit of light smut at the end.
Tagging @baronessblixen @suitablyaggrieved @today-in-fic @improlificinsarcasm
After a few more months, they seemed to finally be hitting their stride. This new...whatever it was...took some getting used to for Mulder and Scully. Aside from the one time they caught William’s mobile spinning under its own accord, they had not caught anything else. Scully was fine with this and shut down any attempt Mulder made to bring it up. She kept telling herself that their son was just fine and normal like any other baby. After a couple of weeks, Mulder gave up. It became an unspoken agreement between them. Aside from this, things at the academy and x-files remained quiet.
Agent Reyes settled in an apartment in Foggy Bottom. A few x-files have been solved. Despite Agent Reyes’s claim of an interdimensional serial killer nearly ending his life, Doggett was still alive. Mulder and Scully settled into their teaching roles at the academy, William was growing in size, and they both were beginning to believe that they were getting that happy ending that they both deserved.
On a regular Wednesday afternoon, as Mulder graded quizzes in his office, he heard a light knocking at the door. “Come in,” he called looking up from his desks.
Scully smiled at him. “How’s the grading, Agent Mulder?”
“I want to know your secret,” he confessed. He held out his hand, offering a chair across from him. She surprised him instead by taking his hand, squeezing it, and kissed him deeply. “Well, hello to you too.”
“I like this, Scully.”
“I’m glad. I have to go to New Jersey though. Agents Doggett and Reyes need my medical opinion about a matter.”
“Do you need me to tag along?”
She didn’t answer his question. She sat in the chair across from him. “Teaching suits you, Mulder. Are you happy?”
“I can do without the grading,” he confided. “So, back to the case? Is this what...for an afternoon?”
“Maybe.”
“Maybe?”
“Maybe. I’m sure it’s fairly straightforward. A teenager was found with half of the head collapsed in, and many flies came swarming out.”
“Flies? Is this a case of Lord of the Flies? Or Jeff Goldum’s The Fly?”
“Thankfully not. I just suspect something weird. However, I need to travel to New Jersey to lend a helping hand.”
“You never answered my question. Do you need me to tag along?”
“No. I’ve already called my mother to let her know. I’m taking a car from the pool and I’ll be stopping by the apartment before making my way to New Jersey.”
Mulder shifted uncomfortably in his chair. The suddenness of this news made him feel very uncomfortable. He did not have much time to sort through these new feelings as Scully continued. “It’s a three-hour drive from Washington. I’ll be spending the night up there. I should be back in a day or two.”
Mulder cleared his throat. “Just like that?”
She titled her head. “Why? Is there something wrong with it?”
“No,” he lied. He fiddled with the pen in front of him, rolling it back and forth on his desk. “I’ll pick up William from your mother.”
“It’s only for 48 hours,” she said.
“It’s not a big deal, Scully. Do you not have faith in me taking care of William?”
“I didn’t say that but you are pouting.”
“I’m not pouting. Look, I probably need a guy’s night anyway.”
“The Gunmen?” She asked.
“I was just thinking about me, Will, and Plan 9 From Outer Space. You know a guy’s night.”
“Maybe pick a less depressing film?”
“We’ll be fine, mom. Promise.” Scully arched her eyebrow, clearly unconvinced. “Promise, Scully. Nothing will go wrong.”
Her cellphone started to ring and she sighed, looking at the caller ID. “It’s Agent Doggett,” she sighed. She got up from her chair and hastily kissed his cheek as she left. “I’ll call you when I get there. Love you.”
“Love you too.” He replied, watching her retreating form.
As the emotions welled in his chest. Mulder pushed the rest of the ungraded quizzes to the side and began to search for movies. As a psychologist, he knew pushing his emotions aside and burying them was unhealthy. He and Scully spent seven years doing that. Unfortunately, he was no longer a bachelor and had a baby to worry about as well.
* * * * * *
Traffic was a beast in driving the length of I-95 to Quantico to drive the hour to Annapolis to Marget Scully’s house. Two accidents just added to Mulder’s sour mood. As he sat in traffic, he tried to distract himself by switching it to NPR and ultimately switched it off. As traffic inched towards Maryland, he finally identified and named just a few of the emotions that were swirling in his chest. Jealousy. Feelings of inadequacy. Sadness.
He sighed, finally sighting the exit to Mrs. Scully’s and signaled the right turn signal. As he pulled off, he was bitterly reminded of the initial shock and awe he felt coming back from the dead. He struggled to find this place in a Twilight Zone-like universe where he no longer had the x-files and had Scully seven months pregnant. They struggled to find their footing. Mulder remembered feeling left out and bitter that Scully had a new partner in Doggett. He didn’t necessarily dislike this man. He was a good agent, just like Scully had said, but he was the one investigating x-files with Scully. Mulder wasn’t. He didn’t mind Agent Reyes either. He liked her and thought her addition to the x-files office in place of Scully would help balance the skeptical Doggett. But that didn’t stop him from feeling jealous and left out.
As he slowed, pulling into a residential neighborhood, he saw Mrs. Scully’s white sedan in the driveway and the lights throughout the house. He jogged up the front steps and raised his hand to knock. Mrs. Scully opened the door before his knuckles could rap against the wood. “Fox, I’m glad to see you weren’t caught up in traffic too badly!”
“I still hit a couple of accidents, Mrs. Scully.” He forced a smile. “Were you expecting someone?”
“What? Oh, no! I saw your headlights in the driveway. Come in! I was just about to pull out dinner.”
“I couldn’t…” he stammered out of instinct.
“Nonsense. Besides, William will be very happy to see you.”
Oh yeah, he thought, I’m a father. “You need to get past the formalities, Fox. Don’t you think Maggie will do? You are the father to my grandson after all.” Mrs. Scully was already pulling on his hand, tugging him inside before he could put up a fight. “Besides, as much as I love my daughter, Dana does not know how to cook.”
“Actually, she’s quite good,” Mulder defended.
Mrs. Scully chuckled to herself. “What I meant is she doesn’t know how to cook for a family. I raised four children by myself for the most part when the Captain was at sea. Now that William is here, I’m not going to dismiss the possibility. Take off your shoes, Fox.”
Mulder slid off his polished Oxford shoes and loosened his tie. “The possibility of what?”
Maggie stopped and smiled. “Of what could be. Come on. I bet William will be excited to see you.”
Mulder followed Mrs. Scully into the kitchen and saw his son light up. William began to babble happily and stretch his arms for his father. He smiled and bent down to kiss his forehead. “I think he is going to have Scully’s eyes.”
“They might still turn brown. I don’t know, Fox. I think William is beginning to look like you. Have a seat. Do you want a beer with dinner?”
“Water would be fine.”
Mulder sat closest to William as Mrs. Scully served them. “William was fine today,” she said. “Dana called and let me know. If it is more convenient, I can come to Georgetown and watch William tomorrow if you want.”
Mulder nodded and replied, “I would appreciate that. I wish I could simply take the time off.”
Mrs. Scully played with her shepherd’s pie. And how are you feeling, Fox with Dana in New Jersey and you here?”
He was caught off guard with the question. “What do you mean?”
“Seven years you two were practically glued together. She would always answer your calls. Now you’re here and she's out in the field.” She paused. “I know you two had some difficulties when you came back.”
He chuckled hollowly. “Not every day you come back from the dead.”
“Exactly. She was alone for six months.”
“I didn’t leave her intentionally,” he defended quietly.
“I’m not saying that you did. I’m not my oldest son, Fox.”
“I’m that bad?”
“Worse than Dana,” she chuckled. “I know what it’s like to feel left behind and on the sidelines. I imagine you felt some sort of jealousy with Agent Doggett when you first met him?”
“I, uh, punched him in the jaw.”
Mrs. Scully nodded. “Dana mentioned something about that. The point is, Fox, I know what is like feeling out of the loop when your partner is out doing something. I felt the same way when Bill was out to sea and I was left to raise four kids of my own. He would joke that I was the admiral in the family.” She gave a small smile. “And you find yourself in a similar situation.”
“I guess so,” he whispered. He pushed his food around. “Even though we’re both teaching at the academy, it doesn’t feel the same.”
“You could always propose.”
William squealed eagerly and threw something across the table making Mulder jump. “Excuse me?”
Mrs. Scully shrugged. “I just figured after 8 years, a child, and sharing an apartment...it’s time you make it permanent, Fox.”
“I…”
She held up her hand. “You don’t have to say anything. Just think about it. In the meantime, are you sure I can’t get you anything else right now?”
“Yeah,” he stammered. “Yeah, I’m fine.”
As it neared 8 o’clock, Mulder gathered his son and Mrs. Scully piled leftovers into a brown grocery bag to walk him out. “I’ll be up by 10 tomorrow. What time will you be home?”
“About six,” he replied, shifting William in his arms. “Scully said she might be home by tomorrow.”
“Well, I’ll set one extra place at the table.”
Mulder, still feeling insecure, interrupted. “You don’t have to, Mrs. Scully. I can take care of William. I don’t want to trouble you.”
“Nonsense,” she dismissed. “I love seeing my grandson.” She kissed Mulder’s cheek goodbye. “And I don’t do these things because I pity you or think you unworthy of Dana, Fox. I do it out of love for you and William. Now, I’ll see you tomorrow!”
As the door closed behind him and Mulder tucked William into his car seat, his thoughts became distracted yet again. Scully did need him, right? He hadn’t brushed aside. And what did Mrs. Scully insinuate with their dinner conversation?
* * * * * *
A few states away in Manahawkin, New Jersey, Scully retired from examining the half-collapsed head of “Captain Dare” and the persistent flirting of Dr. Rocky Bronzino earlier than she anticipated. She politely declined the dinner invitation from Agents Doggett and Reyes as well. She found her attention drifting towards various journal articles about the Spanish fly and their mating rituals. After a few hours, Scully abandoned her research.
She tried to take a bath and felt distracted. Her mind couldn’t wrap itself around the facts of the case. As she dressed for bed, she sleepily looked at the motel clock and saw it was nine o’clock. How could she have let time get away from her? Without a second thought, she found her cell and called the apartment’s landline. When there was no answer, she quickly called Mulder’s cell phone. He answered the third thing.
“Mulder,” he greeted automatically.
She could hear him hiding a yawn in his voice. “Mulder, it’s me,” she spoke softly. “Did I catch you at a bad moment?”
“No,” he sighed. “I just put William to bed. A late bath, a lot of crying, and a partially read bedtime story and he is down for the count. He misses you terribly.”
“I bet,” she said. Scully shifted the files around. “And what about you?”
“What about me?” He yawned again.
“How are you?”
“Tired,” he admitted simply. “And very much missing you. Your bed is too big without you. But never mind me. Tell me about the case?”
“I am dealing with a human head half-collapsed in with flies exploding it before I arrived. Agents Doggett and Reyes are chasing down a teenager suspect.”
“Oh,” he hummed. “Bugs. Is this like those teenagers from Pittsfield, Virginia, Scully?”
“Not at all,” she said. “I’m not entirely sure if this is an x-file yet. I mean it has bugs. It’s all about the bugs, Mulder.”
“Washington state. One of our first cases.”
“Well, no one has been found cocooned in the web.”
“Yet.”
“Yet,” she repeated. Scully sighed and looked at the empty side of the motel bed. “I should be done by tomorrow evening. Hey, we have the weekend at least. One perk of teaching at the academy: normal 9-5 jobs.”
“Unless you get called away on another case.” Scully could hear a hint of bitterness in his voice. “But yeah, I’ll look forward to it.”
“Mulder, are you okay?”
She could hear the phone shifting on his end. “Hm? Yeah. I was just getting the blankets pulled down. I thought about putting William in the bassinet but I guess he needs to learn about sleeping in his room.”
Scully groaned inwardly. “You’re not helping,” she told him.
“What did I do?”
There was a weariness in his voice she could not place. “Mulder, what’s wrong? What aren’t you telling me?”
“Nothing, nothing. Everything is okay. I’m handling it just fine.”
She heard his voice rise defensively and the baby crying in the background. “Look, Scully. I’m going to check on William. I’ll talk to you later okay?”
“Okay but…” Mulder hung up the phone before Scully had a chance to reply. “Great.”
Scully looked back at the clock, wondering if she should call her partner back. She felt hurt about the shortness in her voice. What had happened? Did her mother say something to Mulder? Did she do something? Did something else happen to William that he wasn’t telling her? In the end, she decided not to call him back lest she wake the baby again and cause Mulder to lose any sleep. As she settled in the motel bed, she turned onto her side and swept her arm up and down the empty side. She missed being away from him and their son.
Three hours away in Georgetown, Mulder, unable to sleep found himself on the couch in front of the television. William held contently against his chest. William sleepily watched his father as Mulder settled on TCM for a black and white horror film. A small gurgling brought Mulder’s attention back to his son. “We’ll just keep daddy sleeping on the couch a secret from mom,” he said.
William yawned and twisted his head towards Mulder’s chest. “Well, the important thing is that you’re comfortable,” Mulder continued. “You’re just like your mother; she can sleep anywhere too. I think her favorite place is to fall asleep on me.”
He shifted his attention back to the television and then back at his son. “I can’t help but feel forgotten,” he confessed to William. “I mean, your mom was all by herself when she found out she was pregnant with you and I was abducted. She got a new partner.” Mulder thought of Doggett’s straight-laced demeanor. “He is just the opposite of what I expected. And of course, I am jealous of him. He was the one watching Scully’s back because I ran off to chase down a damn UFO. Look at what that got me, Will. Six feet under.” He looked down at his son. “Does that make me a bad person?”
William met him with silence.
“Well, I value your opinion so don’t hold back,” he told the baby. More silence except for a sleepy blink. “I think that is why I was so distant tonight. I’m jealous. I’m upset. I feel left behind.” Mulder watched his son grow sleepier. He had Scully’s blue eyes. “I feel like she’s moved on without me. I have since I came back. Even with you and all your glory, bud, I still feel inadequate.” William grabbed a fistful of Mulder’s t-shirt as his eyes grew heavier. “Are you trying to reassure me?” Mulder chuckled slightly. “I wish I could tell Scully how I felt.”
One day, he promised himself. As William drifted off to sleep, Mulder found himself wide awake still, his thoughts going to Scully and the bitterness he felt over the fact she was out in the field and he felt left behind.
* * * * *
Back in New Jersey, Scully left the motel to head straight to the medical examiner’s office. Agents Doggett and Reyes had texted her that they were going to follow up with some matters at the high school before meeting her at the medical examiner. On her way there, Scully tried to call Mulder again first at his office and then his cell. This was the second time since last night that he hadn’t answered his phone. Trying to dismiss the growing insecurities into the back of her mind, she tried to focus on the case instead. As Scully strolled into the main medical lab, it was much to her dismay that Dr. Bronzino was waiting for her.
“Dr. Scully,” the overly tanned scientist greeted. “How are you this fine morning?”
“Well,” she greeted with some reserve. “Have Agents Doggett and Reyes arrived yet?”
“Not at all! But I’ve been examining the flies that exploded from that young man’s skull. It’s quite fascinating really. Being a forensic pathologist, you might find this particularly interesting. Have you ever heard of the coffins fly?”
Scully took a step back and forced a smile. “I can’t say I have.”
“Well, they’re amazing creatures. A female coffin fly has been known to bury its way through over two meters of dirt just to lay its eggs on the cadaver. That is the equivalent of a human digging two miles into the ground.” He flashed her a dazzling smile of whitened teeth. “Isn’t it amazing of the lengths one will go to procreate?”
“Fascinating,” she replied quickly, “but what does this have to do with the victim?”
“Oh,” the entomologist exclaimed, “all the flies that came for the young victim’s head were female. There is probably nothing to it but isn't it fascinating?”
Scully’s mind was already firing and meaning connections. “It is. And it could be nothing or it could mean everything. Did you set any aside for the examination?”
Dr. Bronzino waved to the other end of the room where the microscope was. “I was going to prepare some samples to examine.”
She moved towards the microscope. “Why don’t I start on that and you do whatever it is that you are doing, Dr. Bronzino”
“Excellent suggestion, Dr. Scully! Divide and conquer! I like the sound of that!”
“I’m sure,” she answered.
“Which reminds me. I’m going to run back to my lab real quickly to gather another instrument of my invention. I’ll be back.”
“I’ll be here,” she said.
Scully was secretly glad to see him retreat as she set to work. She laid out her research of flies that she had started the night before and her morning coffee. She paused, trying to collect her thoughts before she delved into the day’s work, however, she couldn’t. Her thoughts kept going back to the abrupt conversation that she had with Mulder the night before. He sounded distant and aloof. She was reminded of his jealousy when he came back from the dead. She found her phone and dialed his office at Quantico. At nine a.m., he should have been strolling right then. However, it went straight to messages. She hung up before she could leave one. Growing disgruntled, Scully called the Georgetown apartment. To her surprise, it was her mother that answered.
“Hello?” Her mother answered.
“Hi, mom,” she greeted quickly. “What are you doing at the apartment?”
“Oh, I thought I would save Fox driving to drop off William with me this morning,” she said. “One less hassle to do. I also picked you and Fox up some groceries that you desperately needed.”
“We were fine,” she said. “Where is Mulder? Is everything okay?”
“Yeah,” her mom replied vaguely. “I found him sleeping on the couch last night with the tv on. William must have kept him up all night.”
She felt a twinge of regret twist her heart. “Is he okay?”
“I guess so. He seemed fine and left for the office with no issue. Why? Is there something that I should be aware of?”
“No, no,” Scully said. She pushed the thoughts of insecurity deep down. Now was not the time. “He seemed distracted last night. We only chatted briefly. Is William okay?”
“He’s a fat, happy baby who can sleep through anything. Just like you were. I’m here until Fox comes home if you need anything. Do you want me to tell Fox that you called?”
“No, no. Everything’s fine.”
Her mother was silent on the other end. “Well, if you do need anything, Dana, I’m here with William. Love you.”
“Love you too, mom.”
She hung up her phone and tried to ignore the new signs that taunted her. Nothing was fine except she was not going to say anything. Scully sat at the microscope and began to work.
A couple of hours later, Dr. Rocky Bronzino rejoined her with a crude-looking invention to he promised to give a giant break in the case. She half-listened to ramble on about the various mating rituals of insects until she noticed a pattern emerging with the insects. It took Bronzino to confirm her suspicions and identify the peculiar fact about the case. As she continued to examine the flys, at a quarter till noon, Agents Reyes and Doggett walked in. Scully looked at both of them and announced, “I’m glad you’re here. I think we just got our first real break in the case.”
“What did you find?” Reyes asked.
“Well, it's what the entomologist Rocky Bronzino found. The flies that ate at the brain and skull of the victim are all female. Every last one of them.” Scully motioned to a fly under the microscope as she spoke.
Doggett looked towards Monica Reyes and asked, “Exactly how is that a break”
Scully thought for a moment and answered, “Well, what are the chances of that?”
Agent Reyes clarified, “You mean that the absence of males suggests there's a reason for the attack. Behaviourally.”
“Well, something biological is going on. Whether it's hormonal or chemical something has caused these bugs to attack,” Scully theorized.
Doggett added, “Or a need to express themselves.”
Scully asked, “To what?”
Agent Doggett continued, “This is a kid that calls himself "Sky Commander Winky." Agent Reyes and I were interviewing him as a suspect when this happened.” He showed photos of the victim’s back were the words ‘DUMB ASS’ shined a bright, red welt. “The paramedics arrived and treated him for an aggressive attack of bodily lice.”
She took the photos to examine them closer. “Hmm. Lice are not altogether uncommon in a school environment.”
Doggett snorted. “Except that these are better spellers than most of the kids.”
“Maybe they stayed late for after-school lessons,” she snorted. “So what are you saying? That this is just another dumb ass stunt?”
Reyes interjected, “Well, that was my first thought. But the victim here was just too freaked out by this incident to make me believe he'd staged this. Which leads me to think that while you may be right about this being a matter of biology, someone is directing the biology.” She paused. “Maybe you might want to consult Mulder?”
“Why?” Doggett asked. “These are bugs we are talking about.”
“And how does one direct bugs?” She added.
Reyes shrugged and replied, “I don't know how but we've been running down a long list of witnesses.” She passed Scully the rest of the photographs. “A loner who was present at every dumb ass stunt and who had a run-in with this kid Winky at school just prior to the lice attacking. His name is Dylan Lokensgard. We're going to want to talk to him.”
“He seems like a promising start,” Scully replied. “Dr. Bronzino should be back soon. He promised to bring a piece of equipment that will help break the case.”
“We’ll be back then. Call us if you have anything. Let’s head back, Monica.”
“I’ll call you when I have something,” Scully replied.
She watched the two agents retreating. She glanced at the clock on the wall and did the math in her head. She probably wasn’t going to be home that evening that she had promised.
* * * * * *
Having Mrs. Scully watch William in Georgetown instead of Maryland was a bigger relief than Mulder had realized. Although he hit traffic on the way to Quantico, the extra hour of not driving had put him in a somewhat fairer mood. However, as the morning dragged on and he did not hear anything from Scully began to sour his fair mood. By lunch, he was mad. Well not mad, but pouting and being gloomy. If Scully were here, she would have chewed him out and told him to pull his head out of his ass. But that was just it. Scully wasn’t here to do that.
As noon droned on, Mulder heard a light knocking at his door and looked up with some surprise to see A.D. Skinner standing in the doorway. “Wow, Mulder. Even having an office out of the basement and looking depressed as hell.”
“And it’s good to see you too, sir.” Mulder rose to greet the man and offered his hand. “I suspect you did not come down to comment on my office.”
“No.” Skinner paused. “I had a meeting I needed to attend. I wanted to check in on you and see how things were. You know, just to see if you threaten to burn down the establishment yet.”
“Haha,” Mulder said lamely. “No. Things are normal. Just perfectly normal.”
“And you are a terrible liar. Why don’t you come to lunch, Mulder? Get your head out of your ass and get some fresh air.”
“I’m fine where I am,” he said.
“And I know you well enough to know when you’re lying. You’re jealous aren’t you?”
“About what?”
“I know Scully’s out in the field,” Skinner stated, “and you’re not.”
“Way to rub it in.” Mulder glanced at his computer clock and relented. “Fine, fine. It isn’t like I have anything else to do today.”
“Good. You could use the distraction.”
. . . . . .
Back in New Jersey, Doggett and Reyes were still canvassing the school looking for more witnesses, Scully found herself out in the streets with the brazen etymologist, Dr. Rocky Bronzino. His continued efforts of flirting with her wearing down on her last nerves. She surveyed the empty street and how idyllic it reminded her. Dr. Bronzino focused on the tool he had brought from his lap that was designed to help them. He took a step back from the tracker to examine the surroundings.
“So many flowers ... so little time,” he murmured
Scully looked up from the trunk of the Land Rover. “Excuse me?”
The etymologist stated excitedly. “Pheromones, Dr. Scully. Heavy in the air. Nature's natural attractions. Driving the insect world to go forth and pollinate.”
As Dr. Bronzino began to advance on her, she took a few steps back. She shifted her gaze to the device he had brought with him. “I'm aware of how pheromones work. But according to this device, there isn't a single pheromone to be found out here.”
He began to tweak his machine and Scully rolled her eyes, looking back up to the sky. She smirked, remembering the time she was with Mulder when frogs rained from the sky. Dr. Bronzino was growing frustrated. “Well, that can't be right. The biosensor uses an actual fly antenna over which the pheromones pass. But I modified the EAG to measure in picograms which makes it sensitive to traces a mile in any direction.”
Scully watched an overly casual Rocky lean against the car, a confident hand on his hip, as he tried to charm her. Scully tried to remain professional and keep them on track. “But I'm still not sure why you think that pheromones might cause an otherwise harmless fly to attack a human so violently, Doctor…”
“Rocky,” he corrected. His whitened teeth shined as brightly as he flirted with her.
“Rocky,” she repeated
He smiled, thinking his charm was working. “Bugs are small-minded creatures, and therefore very predictable. They don't have moods. They react to circumstance and stimuli as they have been doing for millennia.”
“How wonderful.” She tried to keep it professional. “So what do you suppose they're reacting to out here?”
Dr. Bronzino puffed out his chest like a mating dove and took a few steps forward. “It may be the bugs are being somehow driven crazy with desire. You know, they say we humans respond to pheromones, too.”
Scully put her hands on her hips, clearly uncomfortable. “Yeah, I tend to agree with that, yeah.”
Rocky pressed on. “‘Women's dormitory syndrome.’ It's believed that pheromones are the reason that women who live together share the same menstrual cycle.”
“Fascinating,” she deadpanned.
Dr. Bronzino felt emboldened. “You know, when a male and female calliphorid fly mate they stay joined for up to one and a half hours. One and a half, doctor.” He punctuated the last few words for emphasis. “What do you think of that?”
Scully stood unfazed. This was not the first time she had to deal with this, however, this time was different. “You know, Rocky ... I'm a mother.”
He arched an eyebrow, not dissuaded. He looked at her left hand. “Mothers are women, too.” He took a moment to look at Scully surveying her. “I noticed a lack of a ring. And what does it matters? Women have biological needs, just like men do.”
“You are drawing dangerous conclusions without lack of evidence, doctor.”
“Well, as a trained scientist, I observe you are a woman. There is no ring on your finger to denote a marriage or a serious relationship in what we consider legally.”
“I can assure you that I am very serious. I am in a committed, nine-year relationship with the baby’s father.”
“Well, he is not here. You are.”
“Doesn’t matter, Rocky. Let’s keep focused here, please.”
“Well, relationships aren’t known to be monogamous,” he countered.
“Seahorses, macaroni penguins, gray wolves, barn owls, and bald eagles,” she said.
“What do those animals have to do with relationships?”
“If you were a real scientist,” she pressed, “you would be aware of some of the animal species that are known to mate for life. There are some cracks in your argument. ”
“Well, there are numerous insects that perform a variety of mating rituals. Give it time, Dr. Scully and I’ll win you over.” She was about to reply but was interrupted by the beeping of the pheromone bio-sensor. Dr. Bronzino turned excitedly to the machine. “Big hit!”
“What is it?”
“A high concentration of c-13 calliphorone...incoming.” He looked up at the sky. Scully did the same and heard the beeping increase and then suddenly dissipate. “What? What happened?” He quickly went to check his machine.
“Nothing, apparently,” Scully commented drily. “We should get back to the lab. Agents Doggett and Reyes might have something for us there.”
“Are we going to continue our discussion of animal mating and ritual habits?” He asked, his voice heavily laced with innuendo.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s done.”
“Dr. Scully, are you blushing? As the great Charles Darwin once said, ‘Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.’”
“Don’t make me shoot you,” she sighed.
“I consider it a challenge.”
. . . . . .
“How do you like teaching at the academy,” Skinner asked. He watched Mulder use his plastic fork to push the mac and cheese around on his plate. “Mulder?”
“Um, interesting. A lot better than having to deal with the profiling cases in VCU even though I’m sure I will come calling. That’s part of the deal with teaching? We help out and consult as needed.”
“Are you that bitter that Scully is on an x-file and you’re not,” he asked.
“Am I that obvious?” Mulder asked.
“I’ve had hemorrhoids that weren’t as annoying with you,” he replied. “Or is it the fact that you don’t have the x-files anymore?”
The bluntness of Skinner’s observations caught Mulder off guard. He looked up from his food and took a few moments to reflect. “In theory, I shouldn’t. I have Scully and our son, things are about as normal as we can make them. But I can’t help but feel connected to them in some way. Seeing Scully out in the field, me not there…” He shrugged. “It brings up a lot of baggage.”
“Especially with Doggett?”
Mulder was quiet. “I blame myself. I should have stayed with her instead of chasing UFOs.”
“Doggett’s a good agent, Mulder. It was hard watching her, Mulder, during those months she was gone. Having to keep her pregnancy a secret. It was tough.” Skinner took a napkin and wiped his mouth. “You know, Sharon used to get mad at me when we first got married. I was still a field agent but the jealousy she would get. She felt inadequate with everything that was going on between us. Said she felt left behind.”
Well, Mulder thought, certainly hitting everything on the topic. Skinner continued to stare at Mulder. “And?” he asked. “What did Sharon do?”
“Well, we had a real nasty fight that was the start of our quarrels at the very beginning of our quarrels. I was in the field, missed an important date, you know how it goes.” He smiled to himself, remembering her. He thumbed at the wedding band thoughtfully. “But we made time. Communication wise. It didn’t always go well but we tried.”
“So, in addition to being an assistant director, you are secretly a marriage counselor. Wow, sir.”
“Knock it off, Mulder. All I am saying is that something is bothering you about this...arrangement, then make sure you take the time to talk to Scully.”
Mulder nodded. He decided to change the subject. “So, how is our old buddy Kersh?”
Skinner chuckled. “Tap dancing his way on the top floor so that you’re no longer there to bother him.”
“Well, at least some things never change,” he answered. “My advice, Mulder, from one man who tried to balance a career and relationship? Make sure you always leave time to talk and communicate. If not, the whole thing can go to shit.”
“Thanks, sir,” he nodded. His mind drifted to Scully. “I appreciate the advice. You should come down to Quantico more often. Skinner’s Lunch Hour wisdom.”
“Knock it off, Mulder,” he dismissed.
. . . . . . .
After getting John’s call from the school, Scully took her car to investigate and meet them there. According to Monica, Dylan had somehow controlled the bugs during their confrontation. She was surprised by the number of cops, firefighters, and EMTs. She was even surprised to see people in hazmat suits. But to her surprise, Monica had found them a clue. A used tissue. They rode back to the medical examiner. As they rode the elevator to the second floor. Scully was the first to emerge carrying the tissue in a metal container with Doggett and Reyes flanking her. “Where did you get this again?” She asked.
“Dylan Lokensgard provided it to us when we interviewed him,” Doggett answered.
“I have to warn you, there's typically not a lot to be found in a teenage boy's sweaty kleenex.”
“Well, a teenage boy can produce other things,” Reyes replied.
“Don’t remind me of the future,” Scully laughed thinking of William.
“But we were looking for pheromones. Aren't there pheromones produced in adolescent sweat?” Reyes continued.
“Yes, it's what causes B.O., But all too obviously it's not all that attractive--to anything,” Scully countered. “While I was out with Dr. Bronzino this morning, we thought we had a possible hit this morning but it turned out to be nothing.”
“A possible hit?” Doggett asked.
“Well, Dr. Bronzino was more than trying to hit on pheromones.”
“Well, at least Mulder isn’t here to punch him in the face,” Doggett chuckled.
“Yeah,” she said distantly. Scully’s brief thought of Mulder drifted away as she entered into the medical examiner’s office where Dr. Bronzino was bent over a microscope. She still needed to call him. The lack of communication between them was growing. “Let’s see what we uncover.”
As they entered, the biosensor’s beeps became progressively faster, startling the etymologist grew excited. “Finally! I knew it wasn’t broken!” He glanced up seeing Scully, Doggett, and Reyes. “Dr. Scully, I’m so glad you’re back! I've got a reading here that's going right off the scale. Holy Toledo! We've got pheromones coming out of the ying-yang here. C-13 calliphorene and how.”
As they got closer, the beeping became a steady tone, and then suddenly stopped. Doggett raised an eyebrow. “What happened?”
“I think my electroantennogram just... tilted,” Bronzino spoke in disbelief.
“What's c-13 calliphorone?” Reyes asked.
“Insect pheromone,” Scully supplied.
Dr. Bronzino’s attention shifted to the sample the FBI agents had brought. “Where did you find this mother lode?”
Agent Reyes answered, “A boy named Dylan Lokensgard. That specimen came from him.”
Rocky Bronzino sputtered, “A boy ... is secreting bug pheromones? That's impossible. Preposterous.”
Doggett glanced at Scully who met his gaze, trying to hide her smirk. He glanced back at the doctor. “You're the expert, Dr. Bronzino. How else do you explain it, then?”
When he didn’t respond, Scully asked, “Rocky?”
“A boy is a boy, a bug is a bug. You can't have it both ways,” he explained trying to wrap his mind around it, “science doesn’t allow it. Period.”
“I have a few theories,” Scully began, “Okay, so this boy's going through puberty, right? I mean, maybe his body chemistry is somehow just going crazy and it's his raging teenage hormones that are attracting all these insects.”
Reyes nodded in thought. “What if it's more than chemistry and hormones? More than biology? Dylan's not just attracting these bugs he's using them to act out.”
“Yes, but against what?” Scully asked.
“We saw him talking to a girl,” Reyes answered.
“Well, that makes sense. In a way. Teenage love,” Doggett connected. “The girl is the one in the dumb ass video. Captain dare's girlfriend.”
“How on Earth are you all making these connections,” Rocky said.
“We’ve experienced with cases like these,” Scully said. “Agent Doggett, why don’t you and Agent Reyes try to chase down the girl and check on her. Dr. Bronzino and I will check on Dylan.”
“We will?” He asked, confused.
“We are,” Scully confirmed. “Call each other in about two hours and meet back here?”
“Sounds like a plan,” Doggett nodded.
. . . . . .
It was evening by the time they got to the Lokensgards’ home. As Scully and Bronzino pulled up in front of Dylan Lokensgard’s house, her mind was elsewhere. She did not remember to call Mulder. As they walked up the sidewalk to the front door, Scully slowed and saw the front door slightly open. Scully slowed and drew out her flashlight. She knocked lightly on the door. “Mrs. Lokensgard? Dylan?” She called out.
Rocky Bronzino behind her was fiddling with the machine, trying to fix it, and it started emitting a series of steady beats. “Ah, got it! I'm getting a reading here. Trace levels inside the house.”
Scully shifted her gaze and replied, “Well, I guess that's probable cause.” Scully began her trek up the stairs when she was stopped by Rock Bronzino. “What now?”
Bronzino said quickly, “Dr. Scully? I just wanted to say this while I had a chance.” He smiled with bleached teeth. “This is so exciting. I've never had a partner before. And this isn’t a thing. This is a professional collaboration that happens only one time.”
Scully thought of Mulder and felt her heart twist. “I have. Don’t forget what I told you, Dr. Bronzino.”
“Semantics, Dr. Scully. I'd like to think of it as a hymenopteran relationship. Two scientists using their special knowledge reaching higher than either of them could ever reach alone. And if I may say so, Doctor, you complete me.”
“I’ve already completed. I already have a partner. I’ve told you this. Now, I got upstairs, you takedown.” She shook her head and thought of Mulder. She needed to call him once this was done.
“All right,” he exclaimed, “Partner!”
She rolled her eyes and jogged up the stairs. As she slowly examined the upstairs, her thoughts drifted back to Mulder and how she hadn’t communicated with him. Or her mother. As she neared Dylan’s room, Scully spied Natalie’s class picture on the bed. As her phone rang, she jumped, digging it out. “Scully?”
“Where are you?” It was John Doggett. He sounded rushed.
She looked around the room. “I’m with Dr. Branzino at the Lokengard’s house. But there’s nobody here.
“Yeah, well, I'm afraid the kid's on a tear. He's caused a car accident out here on Glenhaven road,” Doggett explained.
“How'd he do that?”
“You'd better see for yourself.”
“I’m on my way.”
Scully turned to make her downstairs while Rocky was just getting his equipment working properly. He looked up. “It’s everywhere, Dr. Scully. C-13 calliphorone. I'm getting a stiff new reading from up here.”
Scully nodded, “Yeah, Dylan's bedroom's up there. That’s probably what you’re reading. Unfortunately, he's not in it.”
“Where are you going?”
“The kid's on a rampage. I’m going to meet Agent Doggett.” The pheromone machine began to beep loudly and Dr. Bronzino cried in surprise. She called, “You got my number.”
Dr. Bronzino smiled and called out. “Does that mean you’ve changed your mind, Dr. Scully?”
“Not in your wildest dreams, Rocky.”
. . . . . .
Mulder came home, hoping to see, Scully but his heart fell when it was only Mrs. Scully smiling with William. He should be happy to have his son but he was missing his partner more. After a simple dinner and promises of coming to dinner Saturday night, Mrs. Scully left Mulder alone with William on a Friday night. William was quick to fall asleep and Mulde put him to bed. He surveyed the empty apartment. It felt foreign without Scully there with him.
He went back to the couch and tried to get comfortable. Flipping on the TV, he found the Sports Center. He glanced at his cell phone. He checked it one last time before turning it off. If she wasn’t busy saving the world without him, she would find a way to let him know what is going on.
. . . . .
As Scully drove to meet Agent Doggett, her phone started to ring again. She sighed and answered, “Scully.”
“Agent Scully,” Doggett’s voice filtered through the voice piece, “I need you to turn around and go back to Dylan’s house. Monica just called. She got knocked out and Natalie is gone. I think Dylan got her.”
“Is Agent Reyes okay?”
“Yes, I think so. I found her covered in some sort of web. Like a spider.”
Scully’s mind flashed to one of the first cases she and Mulder had on what was supposed to be a walk through the forest. “Call the EMTs and make sure they bring hazmat gear. I’m on my way back to Dylan’s house.”
“I’ll meet you there.”
“Take care of Agent Reyes first. And call back up for me as well.”
“You got it. I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
She tried to dial Rocky’s number but it was disconnected. As Scully pulled back up at the Lokensgard home, it was still eerily quiet and something felt amiss. She drew her weapon and flashlight and took a few steps in. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Natalie Gordon, the girl that Doggett and Reyes had been after, sitting in a chair and crying. She asked, “Where are they?” Natalie shook her head, unable to speak. “Natalie!”
Natalie’s crying continued. She pointed upstairs wordlessly. Scully pointed her weapon upstairs and began to make her way to the attic. She widened her eyes in disbelief to see large human-sized sacs of web hanging from various positions. She instantly recalled the mysterious web-slinging, glowing insects from Washington state and how her, Mulder, and the park ranger were almost swallowed alive. As she examined them, a small voice emitted, “Help me. Dr. Scully, help me!”
Scully bent down to tear off the web. “Dr. Bronzino?”
“It’s the boy! And the mother!”
“Where are they?”
“I don’t know.” His voice sounded faint. “I don’t feel so good.”
In the distance, she could hear sirens. That must have been Doggett and Reyes coming with the cavalry. She tried to tear the webbing away as she heard the sirens sound to a stop. Bronzino looked faint suddenly and lolled his head backward and his eyes shut. She dragged him out and checked for a pulse. Feeling one, although faint, she began CPR. She heard footsteps running up the stairs and as the flashlight shined on her.
“Agent Scully!” Doggett greeted. “Is that Branzino?”
“He was in one of the web sacks,” she explained quickly, continuing CPR.
“He’s smiling,” Reyes observed.
“He’s what?”
Scully looked down to see Bronzino with his eyes closed but he was smiling. “That sonofabitch,” she cried.
Caught up in the moment, she slapped him against the cheek and got to her feet. The smack was resounding and caused Dr. Bronzino to sit up suddenly and place his hand against the red cheek. “What kind of care was that?”
“A dose of reality,” she snapped. “Make sure the EMTs check him out.”
“I thought we were partners,” he pouted.
“We worked together on this one case. That’s it.” She turned to Doggett and Reyes. “I found him cocooned up like these unknown victims. I had seen something like this once before when I first started on the x-files. That might be worth checking out.”
“We will,” Doggett said, trying to fight from grinning. “But um, do you find any signs of Dylan?”
“Gone. How is Natalie?” Scully answered.
“Fine. Shaken up but I think she’ll be okay,” Reyes said, trying to fight the urge to laugh.
“What?” Scully asked. She turned as the two agents stared at Bronzino who was now trying to charm a female EMT about his close brush with death. “Oh, come on!”
“I’m just saying,” Doggett said. “If Mulder were here, he would have slugged the guy.”
“Just because you were on the receiving end of the man’s fist once, John doesn’t mean he would slug another guy.”
Scully rolled her eyes and cast one lingering glance at Bronzino. “Speaking of Mulder, I need to call him.”
“Let him know about the human fly trap?” Doggett grinned.
“Both of you knock it off,” she grumbled.
“Agent Scully,” one of the police officers called, “I need to get your statement!”
“Can it wait?”
“I’m afraid not, ma’am unless you want to do it in the morning,” the officer said.
Scully sighed. “Fine, fine, I’ll do it tonight.”
Her plans of going home or evening calling Mulder disappeared as she was left with Agents Doggett, Reyes, and the cops investigating the scenes.
. . . . . .
Saturday morning. The sun was just peeking through the windows of the Georgetown apartment as Mulder sipped his coffee. He was preparing to wake William up to take him to do a morning run to the shop down the street for donuts and a newspaper. Despite the jealousy and sour feelings, he had with Scully being in the field, being home on a Saturday morning with his son was nice.
His attention was drawn to the door when he heard a key sliding into the lock, the deadbolt turning, and the door open. In came Scully, still wearing the suit from the night before. She came in, kicked off her boots, and dropped her keys on the table next to the door. She sighed and Mulder stood quietly. “You look like you’ve had a tough case,” he called softly.
Scully looked surprised. “You’re awake.”
“I’m not much of one for sleep. You should know that by now,” he replied. “You didn’t call.”
“I’m sorry,” she started. Her tired mind tried to piece the past 24 hours. “I got busy and distracted. Everything came to a head last night. I didn’t want to wait to see you so I drove through the night…”
“You drove through the night,” he said.
“Yeah.”
“As a doctor, you should know better.” He made his way to her in a few steps and wrapped his arms tightly around her. Scully was shocked by the greeting but relaxed a few seconds later. Her arms came under his and she hugged him tightly. Mulder squeezed his eyes tightly and buried his face into her hair and breathed deeply. “I missed you.”
Scully buried her face into her chest. His cotton shirt smelled of William, old sweat, and just home. “I missed you too.” She lifted her head and kissed him. Mulder smiled and kissed her deeply, not relinquishing his grasp. She chuckled tiredly. “You missed me.”
“Words fail to describe it.”
She smiled again and looked about the empty apartment. “Where is William?”
“Still sleeping. He’ll wake up in another hour or so. What about you? When was the last time you slept?”
“I napped at the station before I hit the road.”
“You’re a doctor,” he admonished.
“I know, I know.”
“So you know bed rest is the thing you need right now. I’ll call your mother later and cancel dinner plans.”
“Dinner plans?”
Mulder nodded. “We thought you were coming home last night so we were going to have dinner as a family. No worries. We can do it tomorrow.”
“Mom usually goes to church first thing.”
“I’m sure she’ll make an exception.”
Scully was already moving towards their son’s bedroom. The need to see her son was killing her. She opened the door slowly to see William still sleeping soundly. “He sleeps like you but like clockwork, he’ll be up ready for his bottle. We were going to run to the store to get donuts and the Saturday paper. I can pick you up for breakfast if you want?”
“That’d be nice.”
At the sound of his mother’s voice, William sleepily opened his eyes and gurgled happily. “He was up earlier, about three, with a diaper. Go ahead. I’ll get his bottle ready and get you some coffee. Unless you want to change.”
“No, no, this is fine.”
Scully bent down to pick up her son, cradled him, and sat in the rocking chair. Mulder smiled at the image before he went to fetch the bottle and coffee. As he came back and saw Scully, still disheveled from her case, smiling and cooing at their son, the anger and bitterness he had been nursing the past few days momentarily vanished.
. . . . . .
“Is William asleep?”
“Yeah,” Mulder replied, crawling into bed with her. “He’ll probably be up around two or three. He’s been consistent the past few nights with you gone. Don’t worry about it. I’ll take the first shift when he wakes up.”
Scully flipped the covers down for him further. “I missed this.”
“Missed what?”
“You, William, us.”
Skinner’s advice came back to him suddenly and Mulder said, “I have something to ask you. Rather something to tell you?”
“What?”
“I was quite moody and jealous when you were gone. I felt...I felt left behind,” he confessed searching for the right words. “I know I screwed up being abducted and dying and putting you through all that before William was born. With you gone…” He sighed. “I’m sorry.”
“You did nothing wrong. I may have gotten caught up in the work,” she said. Scully reached for his hand. “But this parenthood thing, our relationship, we just need to strike a balance and find out what that is. I enjoyed Saturday with you and William. That’s something we wouldn’t have if we were still on the x-files.”
“True. But I still feel bad.” He pulled her suddenly towards her and she let out a yelp of surprise. He kissed her neck and nuzzled her pajama top open. “William can sleep through anything. And, correct me if I’m wrong, doctor, you’ve healed enough.”
She giggled and slide down so he had better access. “On the case, there was this etymologist that had helped us. Rocky Bronzino. The man kept flirting with me to no end. He ended up in a cocoon…”
“A cocoon you say,” Mulder murmured.
His fingers were already unbuttoning her pajama top, his hand sinking beneath the elastic waistband of her undergarments. She shivered to feel his fingers touch her. “Yes. I got to say I was in a relationship,” she smiled. She sought more kisses from him. “Publicly. Openly. I am in a committed relationship with my partner.”
Mulder smiled and whispered, “You sound so sexy saying that.”
“What? I am in a committed relationship with my partner?”
“Yes.” Scully found herself topless and pulled off Mulder’s shirt. “He made me perform CPR on him.”
Mulder paused. “He did what?”
“Don’t worry. I gave him a good dose of reality.” She snickered. “By slapping him.”
“There’s the Agent Scully I know,” he breathed. “And good. I don’t share.”
Scully let him continue his ministrations, relishing being home and with him again. Her thoughts about the case as she just let herself be present and let herself be free. Mulder moved and loved her, silently thanking whoever was listening he had her and William in his life. After a passionate reunion, Scully cuddled against Mulder, resting her head on his heart. “I missed you.”
He held her and gently played with her hair. “I missed you too.”
On the baby monitor, William began to make noses, crying from one of his parents. “I got it,” Mulder whispered. He kissed her quickly. “And you’re right, we’ll try to find a balance.”
Scully laid back down in bed and watch his naked behind jog to the nursery. She lay back down to watch the shadows on the ceiling and he was back five minutes later. Mulder slid effortlessly back next to her, embracing her again. “Everything okay?”
“Yeah, yeah,” he said. “He was just talking in his sleep. Like you do.”
“You mean you,” she yawned.
“I mean you.” He pulled her closer. “It’s good to have you home, Scully.”
“It’s good to be home.”
#xfiles#xf fic#msr#txf#txf fic#msr fic#embracing parenthood fic#mulder#scully#mulder and scully#season 9#au
21 notes
·
View notes
Text
ALTHAAR Actors - Live on Stage!
November used to be the month that Gemini CollisionWorks would present one to four plays in rep at The Brick, a theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC where Berit & Ian were the in-house tech directors from 2005-2017.
So it's been 4 years since we had a show up onstage, our longest gap by double since 1997, and it's a little melancholy, especially with various automated "memories" functions pulling up pictures of our past shows every day so far this month. We love making Life With Althaar, but we'd really like to be back together in a rehearsal room building something.
So - while I know some people might not want to see the faces behind the voices of Althaar, we'll share a few images (by company member Mark Veltman) of some later shows of ours, during which the more formal company that creates Althaar was coming together:
This is from NORD HAUSEN FLY ROBOT (Invisible Republic #3), November, 2015. An interpretation of an anonymous 50-page-long online text comment from an apparent schizophrenic, detailing an apophanic battle between the Military-Industrial Complex and Pop Culture.
Sitting, L-R: John Amir (writer/John B on Althaar), Amanda La Pergola (writer/Mrs. Frondrinax), Derrick Peterson (Xtopps), Clara Francesca (Dinorbiax); Standing: Lex Friedman (writer/Bubbles), David Arthur Bachrach (Radio Free Fairgrounds), Alyssa Simon (Lt. Frall), Olivia Baseman (Amber on the Bridge), Linus Gelber (writer/Stalin-Bot).
This is from CANT, November, 2016. An original piece that starts as a satire of traditional liberal well-meaning plays about the rise of fascism, and descends into horror as the Play Itself becomes an authoritarian capitalist force fighting the actors.
L-R: Anna Stefanic (composer/Stella Reyes), Zuri Washington (Dee), (on screen) Rebecca Gray Davis, David Arthur, Ivanna Cullinan (Cmdr. Torianna), Derrick, Alyssa, John, Olivia.
And this is from ReFUSE, November, 2017. Another original in which a band of performers attempts to recreate a better world through memories of a day's TV programming from the 1970s, only to find their nostalgia coming up short.
Standing left: Ivanna; On Screen: Leila Okafor (Dr. Mwangi); top row, L-R: Olivia, David Arthur, Anna, Rolls Andre (George Foreman-Bot); bottom row: John, Amanda, Linus, Zuri, Philip Cruise (writer/Cpl. Dormer).
With any luck -- and if COVID really abates and we can raise the money to rent a theater space, Gemini CollisionWorks will return to the stage in late 2022 with HAUNT, or: HAUNT POINT.
Fingers crossed.
5 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Marginal Mennonite Society
Photo: Mabel Vernon marching to the White House.
* * * *
Happy birthday, Mabel Vernon (Sept. 19, 1883 - Sept. 2, 1975). Quaker. Pacifist. Feminist. Suffragist. Graduate of Swarthmore College (1906).
Mabel was a key organizer of the "Silent Sentinels," a network of women who took turns picketing the White House every day from January 1917 to June 1919. After President Wilson announced U.S. entry into World War I, Mabel was part of a group who met with Wilson. She said to him: "If the right of those who want to have a voice in their government is so sacred a cause as to constitute the reason for entering the war in its defense, will you not, Mr. President, give immediate aid to the measure before Congress demanding self-government for the women of this country?"
In her later years Mabel was active with the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF). She lived in Washington, D.C., with her companion, Consuelo Reyes-Calderon, from 1951 until her death in 1975. Born in Wilmington, Delaware. Died in Washington, D.C.
~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series
#pacifists#Marginal Mennonite Society#Silent Sentinels#protest#Mabel Vernon#WWI#quaker#Pacifist#history
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
世界最遅tulaladd2020best DL list
年間ベストを始めて以来、初の事態。
なんと9か月遅れのポスト。あと3か月で次の年ベスの発表時期じゃないですか…唯一にして最大の理由が、もちろんあるにはある。
暗夜行路のような唄声が車内から眺める某庁舎前の雪景色と甘酸っぱい感情を喚起させるRY Xや、このリストには登場しない自分用に作ったプレイリスト（日本語ラップ編、シティーポップ編）をひとりで何度も諳んじては胸を焦がした。それらの音楽が本来持つ資質にプラスして思い出補正でランクインした作品がいくつかある（最たるものがサントラ部門かな）。そんな変化があった2020年でした。
それを除けば、音楽ライフは基本的に前年を踏襲。つまり引き続きapple music依存型で、DIG活動もほほ休止（荷物の山に埋もれたタンテをセッティングし直せるまともな精神状態じゃなかった…）。落第生の体たらくをここ何年も続けてるわけです。とはいえ昨年と比べれば、リスト入り作品の数が格段に増えた＝それなりに楽しい音楽生活が営めていたのも事実。その充実を支えたものがアルゴリズムって点がものすごく納得はいかないけれど。（毎年書いてるけど、手当たり次第サブスクを横断する中で「もう一度聴きたい」と思えたものが以下のDLリスト。感覚的には昨年より緩い5枚に1枚。それでも昨年比3倍の約250枚！）
いつまで延命できるか分からないローカルラジオを継続できたのもラッキーだった。相変わらずみんなとあーだこーだ言いながらいろんな曲を聴く時間が音楽ライフを豊かにしてくれました。感謝。過去最高に音楽への熱が薄いテキストになっちゃうけど、9か月遅れだと致し方なしか。
三ツ星評価のうち、エル・ミシェルズ・アフェアのシングルはラジオの一戸くんレコメン、今年も熱量が持続しているサウスロンドン・ジャズ・シーンのマンスール・ブラウンEPはおなじみWOZNIAK星くんのオススメ、ほかにも人から教わってお気に入りになった作品が少なくないのは、サブスクじゃ届かないリアルの強みが感じられて、そこだけは希望があるのかな。
youtube
特筆するとすれば、Bartosz KruczynskiのEARTH TRAX以来追い続けてきたリズムセクション・インターナショナルが、旬のサウスロンドン・シーンと地下ハウス/テクノ・シーンのメルティング・ポットだったことが分かって興味が再燃させられた個人的な事件。そのセンセーションのグラウンド・ゼロにあたるTHE COLOURS THAT RISEの発見が今年No.1の成果かな。
youtube
唯一職場で音楽談義ができるために相互レコメンに特化したLINEを展開中のT氏に教えられたエディ・チャコンのアルバム、そのエディの復活劇を手掛け、若林恵さん経由でずっぽりハマったソランジュ『A Seat At The Table』の禅的ミニマリズのデザイナーでもあることが事後に発覚したジョン・キャロル・カービーの2人は、今年ならではの幸福な時間の中で何度も繰り返し聴いた一生の思い出確定盤。ジョンなんか3カテゴリーに分かれてのランクインだもんな。
youtube
youtube
さて2021年。あと3か月しかない。今年はやる？やらない？いろいろ越えるべきものが多くすぎてそれ以前の問題かもしれないなけど。
youtube
【TECHNO / HOUSE / (NU)DISCO / ELECTRONICS】
★★★THE COLOURS THAT RISE / Grey Doubt
★★THE COLOURS THAT RISE / 2020 EP（2017）
★★THEO PARRISH / Wuddaji
★★Machinedrum / A View of U
★Kuniyuki Takahashi / Flying Music EP
★Oneohtrix Point Never / Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
★VLADISLAV DELAY / Rakka
★LUKE SLATER / berghain fünfzehn
★Jayda G / Both of Us / Are U Down EP
★TSHA / Flowers EP
★DISCLOSURE / Energy
★DARKSTAR / Civic Jams
★Chari Chari / We Hear the Last Decades Dreaming
★HUNEE / Boiler Room : an hour with HUNEE（DJ Mix）
★Autechre / SIGN
Arca / @@@@@
BURIAL / Chemz
FOUR TET / Sixteen Oceans
JAMES BLAKE / Before EP
GLOBAL COMMUNICATION / Transmissions Sampler
JOHN FRUSCIANTE / Maya
TRICKFINGER / She Smiles Because She Presses the Button EP
TRICKFINGER / Look Down, See Us EP
60 Miles / Swamp 2 Sea EP
EARTH TRAX / LP1
EARTH TRAX / LP2
BIG YAWN / No!
HIATT dB / Palimpsest EP
GL / You Read My Mind
DJ SOFA / Elsewhere Junior I - a Collection of Cosmic Children’s Song
Mr President / One Night feat.Celia Kameni & Cindy Pooch
J.A.K.A.M. / ASTRAL DUB WORX
Inner Science / Made
パソコン音楽クラブ / Ambience EP
LOCUSSOLUS / Locussolus（Expanded）
Various Artists / South
DAN KYE / Small Moments
OFF THE MEDS / Off The Meds
BASSO / Proper Sunburn - Forgotten Sunscreen Applied By Basso（2019）
Copenema / Dexia a Musica Tocar（2019）
Seahawks / Eyes of the Moon（2019）
Jayda G / Significant Changes（2019）
MMM / Que Barbaro（2013）
【HIPHOP / R&B / BEATS / FUNK】
★★★EDDIE CHACON / Outside（Laraaji Remix）
★★EDDIE CHACON / Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
★★Lil Narnia / Pain Extract
★★VHOOR / Baile & Sauce
★AG CLUB / Halfway Off the Porch
★MAC MILLER / Circles
★THUNDRCAT / It Is What It Is
★WILMA ARCHER / A Western Circular
★OXP, ONRA & POMRAD / Swing Convention
★DJ KRUSH / TRICKSTER
★BENEDEK / Bene’s World（2017）
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / High feat.Eddie Chacon & Nailah Hunter
THE WEEKND / After Hours
DRAKE / Dark Lane Demo Tapes
POP SMOKE / Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
IVAN AVE / DOUBLE GOODBYES
MOSES SUMNEY / græ
PETER COTTON TALE / CATCH
NNAMDI / BRAT
Yves Tumor / Heaven Ta a Toutured Mind
Teebs / Ardour（10th Anniversary Edition）
Wajatta / Don’t Let Get You Down
Lapalux / Esrevoinma EP
Kutmah / New Appliance
THE HELIOCENTRICS / Telemetric Sounds
VULFPECK / The Joy of Music, The Job of Real Estate
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Lazzara（2019）
Various Artists / Kutmah presents : Sketchbook Radio Archives, Vol.1（2018）
Invisibl Skratch Piklz / The 13th Foor（2016）
D-STYLES / Phantazagorea（2002）
【JAZZ（the New Chapter） / WORLD】
★★★MANSUR BROWN / Tesuto
★★★JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / My Garden
★★KAMASI WASHINGTON / Harmony of Difference EP（2017）
★JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Love Theme
★MANSUR BROWN / Shiroi
★JEFF PARKER / Suite for Max Brown
★CHICAGO UNDERGROUND QUARTET / Good Days
★TOM MISCH & YUSSEF DAYES / What Kinda Music
★KAMAAL WILLIAMS / Wu Hen
★ROB MAZUREK & EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA / Dimentional Stardust:
★ORLANDO LE FLEMING / Romantic Funk : The Unfamiliar
★SAM WILKES / WILKES（2019）
★YUSSEF KAMAAL / Black Focus（2016）
★ZSOFIA BOROS / Local Objects（2016）
JYOTI & GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW / Mama, You Can Bet!
BUTCHER BROWN / #KingButch
BRAXTON COOK / Fire Sign
PAT METHENY / From This Place
Fabiano do Nascimento / Preludio
SAM GENDEL / Satin Doll
SAM GENDEL / Pass If Music（2018）
SAM WILKES / Live on the Green（2019）
BRANDON COLEMAN / Resistance（2018）
KIEFER / Superbloom（2019）
鈴木良雄 / モーニング・ピクチャー（1984）
鈴木良雄 / ウイングス（1987）
JOHN EBERSON, BJ0RNAR ANDRESEN, PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE / Mind the Gap（2001）
【（INDIE）ROCK / （INDIE） POP / SSW】
★★★EL MICHELS AFFAIR / Reasons feat.Bobby Oroza
★★EL MICHELS AFFAIR / Adult Themes
★★THE FLAMING LIPS / American Head
★★SUFJAN STEVENS / The Ascension
★★FLEET FOXES / Shore
★★COLDPLAY / Everyday Life（2019）
★★RY X / Unfurl（2019）
★★THE WAR ON DRUGS / Lost in the Dream（2014）
★PHOEBE BRIDGERS / Copycat Killer feat. ROB MOOSE - EP
★Mk.gee / A Museum of Contradiction
★PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE / Agitprop Alterna
★BLAKE MILLS / Mutable Set
★THE STROKES / The New Abnormal
★CHS / Jungle Sauna（2019）
★KINDNESS / Something Like A War（2019）
★〝Blue〟Gene Tyranny & Peter Gordon / Trust In Rock（2019）
★STATE RIVER WIDENING / Early Music（2003）
BIBIO / Sleep On The Wing
Jonsi / Shiver
JEFF TWEEDY / Love Is The King
REAL ESTATE / The Main Thing
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE / Bridge to Quite
LITTLE DRAGON / New Me . Same us
JAGA JAZZIST / Pyramid
TAME IMPAlA / The Slow Rush
TRAVIS / 10 Songs
SORRY / 925
JOSEPH OF MERCURY / WAVE Ⅱ
Khruangbin / Mordechai
Various Artists / Hiding From the Landlord
HOWLING / Colure
DEVENDRA BANHART / Ma（2019）
LANA DEL REY / Norman Fucking Rockwell（2019）
DAVE GROHL / Play（2018）
CRITERIA / En Garde（2003）
【PUNK / HEAVEY / EXTREAM】
★★envy / The Fallen Crimson
★★lang / There is no reply, but sweet wind blew（2018）
★envy / LAST WISH（Live at Liquidroom Tokyo）
★SLIFT / UMMON
★HORSE LORDS / The Common Task
★coriky / coriky
★Sans Visage, Look at moment / Split Single
★Sans Visage / moments（2017）
★LIGHTNING BOIL / Sonic Citadel（2019）
★Harvey Milk / Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men（2006）
DEFTONES / Ohms
Converge / Endless Arrow
JESU / Terminus
JESU / Never
JESU / Ascension（Delux）
KRUELTY / A Dying Truth
XIBALBA / Anos En Infierno
Various Artists / Speedy Wunderground Year 4（2019）
RUSSIAN CIRCLE / Russian Circle Audiotree Far Out（2019）
EARTH / Live at Third Man Records（2017）
THE ARMED / Only Love（2018）
THE ARMED / Untitled（2015）
【AMBIENT / NEW AGE / DRONE / MINIMAL MUSIC / EXPERIMENTAL】
★★JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Conflict
★★Dukes of Chutney / Hazel
★HEATHERED PEARLS / Cast
★SAM PREKOP / Comma
BING & RUTH / Species
FRANKIE REYES / Originalitos
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG / Red Sun Through Smoke
WINDY & CARL / Allegiance and Conviction
JONNY NASH & SUZANNE KRAFT / A Heart So White
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Tuscany（2019）
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Meditation In Music（2018）
JOHN CARROLL KIRBY / Travel（2017）
ALEXANDER RISHAUG / Shadow of Events（2011）
【CLASSIC / OST】
★LUDWIG GORANSSON / Tenet OST
★JOHN WILLIAMS / Double Trouble ※from OST of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban（2004）
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN / Ammonite OST
KAMASI WASHINGTON / Becoming（Music from the Netflix Original Documentary）
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN / Lumiere（2011）
BETH GIBBONS, The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Krzysztof Penderecki / Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No.3（2019）
ANTONI WIT, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra(Katowice) & Polish Choir of Krakow / Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No.2（2001）
ZSOFIA BOROS / Local Objects（2016）
【DOMESTIC（without HIPHOP）】
★★★METAFIVE / 環境と心理
★★GEZAN / 狂（KLUE）
★★downy / 第七作品集「無題」
★★岡村靖幸 / 操
★★崎山蒼志 / ソフト ※FEVER LIVE ver. on YouTube
★★SILENT POETS / dawn（2018）
★WOZNIAK / Vegetable Home Run
★Ai Aso / The Faintest Hint
★jan and naomi / YES
★mei ehara / Ampersands
★ディーン・フジオカ / Neo Dimension
★LUNA SEA / Make a vow
★坂本慎太郎 / 好きっていう気持ち / おぼろげナイトクラブ
★Cuushe / Waken
★sassya- / 脊髄（2019）
★小袋成彬 / Piercing（2019）
★She Her Her Hers / stereochrome（2014）
WOZNIAK / Lost
WOZNIAK / Double Face
mouse on the keys / Arche
5kai / Untitled #2
KAN SANO / Susanna
Ovall / Ovall（2019）
mabanua / Blurred（2018）
D.A.N. / Aechma
ふさえ / そのまま
相馬智行 & 鳴海徹朗 / 春の闇
jan and naomi / Neutrino
王舟 / Pulchra Ondo
春ねむり / LOVETHEISM
井出健介と母船 / Contact From Exne Kedy And The Poltergeists（エクスネ・ケディと騒がしい幽霊からのコンタクト）
吉田一郎不可触世界 / えぴせし
岡田拓郎 / Morning Sun
blgtz / Feature EP
Coff / Tiny Music（2019）
【DOMESTIC（HIPHOP）】
★★DJ CHARI & DJ TATSUKI / GOLDEN ROUTE
★★Weny Dacillo / Hapitable Hotel
★Hideyoshi / Dead End Adventure
★GG UJIHARA / WEAKNESS EP（2018）
★DJ CHARI & DJ TATSUKI / Time feat.Yo-Sea & KEIJU（2019）
★GG UJIHARA / WEAKNESS EP（2018）
KOHH / worst
KEIJU / T.A.T.O.
Sauce81 / S8100
MARTER / Weltraumasthetik 2020
Normcore Boyz / MEDIAGE
なみちえ / 毎日来日
徳利 / REVOLUTION
starscream & Page Hiiragi / Ghost(s)
DJ CHARI / GAME（2019）
YOUNG HASTLE & GG UJIHARA / YOUNG UJIHARA EP（2019）
Weny Dacillo / AMPM EP（2017）
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
about me
tags for reach
so i’ve been wanting to make one of these for years. and now here i am.
i take x reader requests, but my first couple of posts might be scenes from various fics of mine to gain awareness. i’d prefer to write for underrated characters but i’ll absolutely do more popular characters as well. i’ll take smut requests but i can’t guarantee they’ll be good and not awkward lol.
also please please please be specific when sending in requests 🖤
fandoms i’ll write for can be found under read more (plus characters i’m eager to write).
keep in mind i’ll write for other characters as well these are just personal favorites of mine
marvel (mcu/netflix/fox/sony/blade/etc)
hank mccoy
alex summers
raven darkholme
kraglin obfonteri
frank castle
joshua “scud” frohmeyer
asm/ps4 peter parker
asm/ps4/raimi harry osborn
dc (dceu/dcau/cw/older films like burtonschumacher batman/etc)
wally west (arrowverse)
rory regan (arrowverse)
rene ramirez (arrowverse)
thea queen
roy harper
jason todd
helena bertinelli
harley quinn
diana prince
cisco ramon
conner kent
star trek (preferably aos)
pavel chekov
leonard mccoy
nyota uhura
spock
star wars (original/prequel/au sequel)
luke skywalker
anakin skywalker
poe dameron
rey skywalker
finn
din djarin
ezra bridger
kanan jarrus
teen wolf
brett talbot
liam dunbar
scott mccall
isaac lahey
lydia martin
allison argent
derek hale
malia hale
the vampire diaries
jeremy gilbert
stefan salvatore
katherine pierce
rebekah mikaelson
tyler lockwood
matt donovan
bonnie bennett
caroline forbes
supernatural
jack kline
twilight
seth clearwater
leah clearwater
bella swan
emmett cullen
jasper cullen
jacob black
resident evil
leon s kenney
claire redfield
ada wong
jill valentine
carlos oliveira
piers nivans
jake mueller
(fear) the walking dead
carl grimes
daryl dixon
benjamin
siddiq
glenn rhee
maggie rhee
beth greene
enid
nick clark
alicia clarke
z nation
10k
roberta warren
addy carver
cassandra
the 100
jasper jordan
john murphy
raven reyes
teenage mutant ninja turtles (bayverse)
raphael
april o’neil
stranger things
steve harrington
jonathan byers
robin buckley
death note
mail jeevas/matt
mihael keehl/mello
nate river/near
misa amane
touta matsuda
l lawliet/l
black butler
soma asman kadar
agni
mey-rin
finnian
bardroy
grell suttcliffe
my hero academia
touya todoroki
tomura shigaraki
jin bubaigawara
shota aizawa
keigo takami
shoto todoroki
demon slayer
kyojuro rengoku
tengen uzui
tomioka giyu
mitsuri kanroji
tokyo revengers
ken ryuguji
manjiro sano
keisuke baji
percy jackson
percy jackson
annabeth chase
friday the 13th
tommy jarvis
until dawn
josh washington
sam giddings
mike munroe
mr robot
elliot alderson
darlene alderson
buffy the vampire slayer
william pratt/spike
buffy summers
willow rosenberg
cordelia chase
faith lehane
the outsiders
ponyboy curtis
darry curtis
dallas winston
it (adult losers preferred)
adult!stanley uris
the last of us
ellie williams
dina
terminator
john connor
harry potter
neville longbottom
ron weasley
fred weasley
george weasley
luna lovegood
hermione granger
draco malfoy
ginny weasley
transformers (bayverse + prime)
mikaela banes
cade yeager
jack darby
charlie watson
shadowhunters
jace herondale
isabelle lightwood
clary fray
pacific rim
raleigh becket
mako mori
jake pentecost
amara namani
misc
tomb raider
the magnificent seven
game of thrones
bones
criminal minds
kick-ass
mtv scream
the vampire chronicles
now you see me
the umbrella academy
saw
american horror story
there’s most definitely more but these are all i have documented somewhere. if you don’t see something here, don’t hesitate to ask!
now, onto characters i absolutely will not write for reasons i won’t specify (unless you really want to know, then i suppose you could ask).
kylo ren
armitage hux
negan
pennywise
jason voorhees
freddy krueger
michael myers
tate langdon
marius de romanus
thanos
transformers x human (the concept makes me uncomfortable, but if you really want it, i might consider it)
billy hargrove
theo raeken
peter hale
the bowers gang
enji todoroki
also any requests for canonly gay characters will be written with the proper gender reader in mind
#marvel#dc#star trek#star wars#teen wolf#the vampire diaries#supernatural#twilight#resident evil#the walking dead#z nation#the 100#teenage mutant ninja turtles#stranger things#death note#black butler#percy jackson#friday the 13th#until dawn#mr robot#buffy the vampire slayer#the outsiders#it#the last of us#terminator#harry potter#transformers#shadowhunters#pacific rim#my hero acedamia
61 notes
·
View notes
Text
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cast and Crew thank you for the Past SEVEN years
Agent Phil Coulson - Clark Gregg
Agent Melinda May - Ming-Na
Skye/Daisy Johnson - Chloe Bennet
Agent Leo Fitz - Iain De Caestecker
Agent Jemma Simmons - Elizabeth Henstridge
Agent Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie - Henry Simmons
Agent Elena Rodriguez - Natalie Cordova-Buckley
Holden Radcliffe - John Hannah
Agent Grant Ward - Brett Dalton
Agent Lance Hunter - Nick Blood
Agent Bobbi Morse - Adrianne Palicki
Lincoln Campbell - Luke Mitchell
Agent Piper - Briana Venskus
GHOSTRIDER / Robbie Reyes - Gabriel Luna
Patriot / The Director / Jeffrey Mace - Jason O'Mara
Calvin Johnson / The Doctor - Kyle MacLachlan
The Superior / Anton Ivanov - Zach McGowan
Hope MacKenzie - Jordan Rivera
Gabe Reyes - James Henrie
Vin-Tak - Eddie McClintock
Agent Davis - Max Osinski
Agent Anderson - Alexander Wraith
Burrows - Patrick Cavanaugh
Ellen Nadeer - Parminder Nagra
Mr Giyera - Mark Dacascos
Rosalind Price - Constance Zimmer
Luther Banks - Andrew Howard
Lash - Matthew Willig
Jiaying Johnson - Dichen Lachman
Gordon - Jamie Harris
Robert Gonzales - Edward James Olmos
Kara - Maya Stojan
Agent Weaver - Christine Adams
Agent Oliver - Mark Allan Stewart
Agent Antoine Triplett- BJ Britt
Danial Whitehall - Reed Diamond
Graviton/Colonel Glenn Talbot - Adrian Pasdar
Deathlok / Mike Peterson - J. August Richards
Ian Quinn - David Conrad
Raina - Ruth Negga
Ruby Hale - Dove Cameron
Werner von Strucker - Spencer Treat Clark
Polly Hinton - Lola Glaudini
Agent Tomas Calderon - Kirk Acevedo
Toad - T.J. Alvarado
Qovas - Peter Mensah
Agent Jasper Sitwell - Maximiliano Hernandez
Agent Flix Blake - Titus Welliver
Agent Victoria Hand - Saffron Burrows
Doctor J. Streiten - Ron Glass
Lash/Doctor Andrew Garner- Blair Underwood
General Rick Stoner - Patrick Warburton
Gabe - James Henrie
Isabelle Hartley - Lucy Lawless
Agent Shaw - Charles Halford
Zav - Kaleti Williams
Agent Phelps - Anthony D. Washington
Zack Bynum - Bryan Keith
Diego - Carlos Rivera Marchand
Agent Kim - Chen Tang
Sunil Bakshi - Simon Kassianides
Carl Creel - Brian Patrick Wade
Kara Palamas / Agent 33 - Maya Stojan
Alisha Whitley - Alicia Vela-Bailey
Joey Gutierrez - Juan Pablo Raba
R. Giyera - Mark Dacascos
Hellfire / J.T. James - Axle Whitehead
Nathaniel Malick - Joel Dabney Courtney
Madame Hydra / Aida "Ophelia" - Mallory Jansen
Lucy Bauer - Lilli Birdsell
Elias "Eli" Morrow - José Zúñiga
Enoch Coltrane - Joel Stoffer
Tess - Eve Harlow
Kasius - Dominic Rains
Grill - Pruitt Taylor Vince
Flint - Coy Stewart
Hale - Catherine Dent
Ruby Hale - Dove Cameron
Marcus Benson - Barry Shabaka Henley
Keller - Lucas Bryant
Jaco - Winston James Francis
Snowflake - Brooke Williams
Pax - Matt O'Leary
Malachi - Christopher James Baker
Izel - Karolina Wydra
Wilfred "Freddy" Malick - Darren Barnet
Luke - Luke Baines
Sibyl - Tamara Taylor
Kora - Dianne Doan
Sequoia - Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon
Special Guest Stars
Eric / Sam / Billy Koenig - Patton Oswalt
Gideon Malick - Powers Boothe
The Clairvoyant / Agent John Garrett - Bill Paxton
Agent Peggy Carter - Hayley Atwell
Dum Dum Dugan - Neal McDonough
Agent Maira Hill - Cobie Smulders
Nick Fury - Samuel L. Jackson
Sif - Jaimie Alexander
STAN LEE
Director / Writer Joss Whedon
Director / Writer Jed Whedon
Producer / Writer Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon
26 notes
·
View notes
Text
Existence (Part Three)
It occurs to Mulder, when the nurse comes to tell Agent Reyes she has a phone call, that there’s someone he should probably call, too. He sits up slowly, eases the sleeping baby from his chest to the crook of his arm, and carefully stands. There’s a pay phone at the end of the hall, and he makes his way over to it, hoping there’s still money left on the phone card he hasn’t used in over a year.
It rings all the way through to the answering machine, but the recorded message cuts off abruptly with a breathless, “Hello?”
“Oh, uh, hi, Mrs. Scully,” he stammers, thrown. “I’m sorry to call at this hour, but I thought you’d want to know--”
“Fox?! Where’s Dana, is she all right? I haven’t been able to reach her, and her doctor hasn’t seen her, and nobody will tell me where she is or if she’s alive, or--”
“She’s okay,” he says quickly, cursing himself for not even thinking about how upset she would be when Scully disappeared without warning. “She’s okay, and the baby’s okay, and I’m sorry you were worried, but everything’s--”
“Worried?” Her voice cracks, and when she speaks again, it is with a near sob. “Do you have any idea what I have been through these past three days? How terrifying it is to… to not know where your pregnant daughter is or if she’s even… if she…”
He looks at the floor, shame burning through him, as Mrs. Scully loses her composure on the other end of the line. Every hitching breath and muffled sob cuts like broken glass, and he bears them all, letting the impact of it hit him square in the chest.
He deserves this. All of it.
It doesn’t matter that he was trying to protect Scully, that he thought she would be safest if even he didn’t know where she was going. It doesn’t even matter whether he was right or wrong about that. What matters is that he didn’t even consider Margaret Scully’s feelings, that she didn’t enter into the equation at all, as far as he was concerned. He owes her more than that. After everything that has happened, from the moment her daughter walked into his office eight years ago, he owes her so much more.
“I’m sorry,” he whispers.
“You should be.” Her voice is thick, angry. “I know I’m supposed to tell you that it’s okay. I’m supposed to just quietly accept this life Dana has chosen, accept the dangers and the risks because she has accepted them. But it is not okay! How many times, Fox? How many times is she going to disappear, or get sick, or have people trying to hurt her? How many times am I going to have to wonder where she is or if she’s ever coming home? Or if I’m going to have to bury her like we buried you?”
“I don’t… I don’t know.”
“No. Of course you don’t. And to be honest, Fox, I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”
He has no answer to that. Mrs. Scully sighs into the receiver.
“Can you at least tell me where my daughter is now? And why you’re the one calling me instead of her?”
“She’s… resting,” he hedges, turning his gaze to the baby. He can’t help the soft smile that comes to his face, and a warmth blooms in his chest that has nothing to do with guilt or shame. “I was, um… I was calling to tell you that your grandson’s been born.”
She gasps. “Oh! Oh, but that’s… But I asked Dr. Speake to call me right away if Dana came to the hospital! I’ll be right there, just--”
“We’re not at Washington Memorial,” Mulder says quickly.
“You’re not? But… well, then where?”
He winces as he answers, “Blairsville, Georgia.”
“Georgia,” she breathes. “But that’s impossible. I don’t understand, Fox. She was supposed to be on maternity leave. No work, no travel, certainly no flying--”
“This wasn’t about work.” At least not directly. “I thought… there was a chance someone wanted to hurt her, and I… I couldn’t let that happen.”
“So you took her to Georgia? And couldn’t take five minutes to let me know she was going away?”
He squeezes his eyes closed. This is not how this phone call was supposed to go. He was supposed to deliver the happy news about the baby and reassure Mrs. Scully that everything was okay. Instead, here they are. And none of it is her fault. It is entirely his own shortsightedness that got them here.
“I’m sorry. I really am.”
“I know you are, Fox. You’re always sorry. But I can’t think of a time that’s ever actually changed anything.”
He’s stunned into silence, the wind figuratively knocked right out of him. She’s not wrong, and it’s not as though he hasn’t told himself the same damned thing, any one of the billion times he’s wallowed in shame and self-flagellation. Somehow, though, it hits that much harder, coming from her.
“Please ask Dana to call me when she can,” she says after a bit. “I would appreciate someone letting me know when she is coming home. Goodbye, Fox.”
“I--”
But she’s already hung up.
***
Monica doesn’t see Mulder and the baby at first, when she returns to the waiting area, and wonders if they’ve been let in to see Dana. She starts to try and find someone to ask, but then she spots him at the end of the hall, baby in one arm, phone to his ear, shoulders hunched. He’s too far away to hear what he’s saying, but his posture alone speaks volumes. Whoever he’s talking to, it’s not going well.
Looking away, she goes back to the chair she was sitting in before and wearily lowers herself into it. What I wouldn’t give for a cigarette right about now. Of all the reasons to want to quit, it’s the inconvenience of the habit that’s always been the most powerful motivator. Yes, she should want to quit because it’s terrible for her, and it’s not as if that isn’t a factor. It’s just… whenever she’s in a situation where she can’t stop for a smoke, it’s usually already stressful enough without throwing cravings into the mix. Being free of those cravings would be liberating, has been liberating, each time she’s managed to “quit” in the past.
“Probably time to try again,” she mutters aloud, rubbing her forehead.
She looks up again at the sound of footsteps down the hall and sees Mulder coming back toward her, his face ashen. Before she can ask him what’s wrong, though, the door at the end of the hall opens, and a nurse walks toward them.
“Mr. Mulder? Ms. Reyes? I’m pleased to tell you that Ms. Scully is waking up. You can come see her if you’d like, but only for a few minutes. She still needs a lot of rest.”
“That’s wonderful news,” Monica says, standing.
She turns her head to glance at Mulder, but instead of the relief she expected to see and feel from him, his jaw muscle bulges, and an anxious energy is rolling off of him in waves. They follow the nurse together in silence, and it is not until the door opens to Dana’s room and they can see her for themselves that he relaxes. He practically floats the last few steps to her bedside, while Monica hangs back at the doorway. Though clearly exhausted, Dana immediately brightens at the sight of him and the baby, and though Monica can only see Mulder’s back, she has no doubt there is a matching smile on his face.
When Mulder leans down to kiss Dana on the forehead, their son cradled between them, Monica eases back into the hallway to give them some privacy. There will be time for her to talk to Dana later; for now, Monica is just so glad to see that she’s all right.
***
“You’re really here,” she croaks, her own voice sounding foreign to her ears. “I was afraid maybe I’d dreamed it.”
Mulder eases himself onto the edge of the bed, beside her hip. “I’m really here.”
He slowly places the sleeping baby, all wrapped in new blankets, on the bed next to her, and her eyes fill with tears. He is still really here, too. They didn’t take him.
“Oh, Mulder, I was so scared…” she whispers, too choked up to say more than that.
“Shh,” he says, his fingertips grazing her forehead. “Everything’s okay. You’re safe, and he’s safe, and I’m not gonna let anything happen to either of you.”
A shadow flits across his expression; he has to know as well as she does that this isn’t a thing he can promise. There were just so many of them, and all like Billy Miles. If they’d wanted to hurt her, to take the baby, there wouldn’t have been a single thing Mulder or anyone else could have done to stop them.
She squeezes her eyes shut, shaking her head, and instantly she’s back in that room, Monica yelling at her to push, and all of them there, watching, waiting…
“Okay,” someone says, and she opens her eyes with a gasp as a hand touches her shoulder. Dimly, she realizes the ECG monitor is beeping like crazy, and the nurse has come to stand beside the bed, across from Mulder. “Take a deep breath, sugar. Easy does it. Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to step outside and--”
“No,” Scully says, shaking her head again. “No, please… please let him stay. I just need… I need…”
She feels Mulder take her hand in his, lets the familiar slide of his thumb across her knuckles ground her. That simple gesture, just one of many in the compendium of physical shorthand they have developed over the years, conveys without words that he is here, with her, in this moment. It’s support and concern and love, all communicated silently but no less earnestly for it.
Tucked between them, his head resting against her upper arm and his body snugly nestled against her side, is their son. The miracle she never expected to have and was terrified she wouldn’t get to keep. It is still a little hard to believe that he is finally here, whole and healthy and human. She spent so many months afraid, despite the tests and all of the attempts to reassure herself that he was normal, and some part of her never really relaxed enough to truly believe that she could have this. For that matter, she still keeps thinking she is going to wake up to discover the last couple of months never happened, that Mulder is still dead and buried in North Carolina, lost to her forever. It hardly seems possible she could be granted two things so extraordinarily miraculous and be permitted to keep them both, but maybe… just maybe…
Gradually, her heart stops racing.
“All right.” The nurse gives a wary nod, then turns to Mulder. “Y’all can visit a little while longer, but then she needs to rest some more. I’ll come back when it’s time.” Looking back at Scully, she adds, “But if you need anything before then, just press that call button. Okay?”
“Thank you,” Scully says.
When they’re alone, Mulder brings her knuckles briefly to his lips, then releases her hand to let it rest on the baby. She watches for a while as the small chest rises and falls under her palm, and when she looks back up at Mulder’s face, she sees him gazing at her with such a look of wonder that she can’t help smiling back at him.
“The, uh, the doctors were asking me about his name,” he says softly. “I didn’t know what to tell them. I never, um… I never asked if you had one picked out or…”
Right. That.
When Mulder was missing, she put off a lot of things, hoping against hope that he would be returned and they would have a chance do those things together. When he was “dead,” she was really only existing day by day; even something as seemingly simple as thinking about potential baby names was more forward-looking than she could manage. Since he’s been back, things were so shaky at first, and then he didn’t even want to know the baby’s sex, and so it’s really only been in the last week or two that she’s felt like she could even consider bringing up the subject of names with him.
And somehow, because their lives are the way they are, she just never quite got around to it. That’s not to say she hasn’t thought about names at all, but she is definitely nowhere near having chosen one for certain.
“No, I… I suppose I thought we’d have time to talk about it. Together. Then everything happened so fast in the last few days, and…” She shrugs, trying not to slip back into thinking too deeply about the last few days. “I don’t know. What do you think?”
“Me?” He looks surprised, like it never occurred to him he might have a say in this. “I don’t know. I was… gone… for so much of your pregnancy, and… I guess I just assumed you would’ve already had something in mind.”
“Nothing definite, no,” she says, shaking her head.
“Well, my father’s family had a tradition of always naming children after someone else. Of course, that’s how you end up saddled with a name like Fox, so I’m not sure I actually endorse the practice.”
She smiles. “So there’s another Fox Mulder somewhere in your family tree?”
“No, actually. But my grandmother’s maiden name was Fuchs, which is--”
“German for ‘fox,’” she says along with him, nodding in recognition.
“Yeah.” He chuckles. “Could’ve been worse, I guess.” Looking down, he reaches to touch the baby's cheek with one finger. “Still. Let's do this kid a favor and not name him after his old man, all right? I like him too much already to do that to him.”
“Mulder…”
“And not… not Sam,” he adds quietly. “There’s too much weight there, and I just… not Sam, okay?”
She reaches for his hand again, and he takes it, giving her fingers a little squeeze. “Okay.”
As legacy names go, there is one obvious answer. It’s one she thought about, briefly, when she was starting the IVF process over a year ago. One she could brush off as an homage to her father, if Mulder had decided he wanted nothing to do with anything past the sperm donation, but which would still (at least in her mind) acknowledge his contribution.
Of course, it might also be too obvious a choice, which is enough to make her question whether it is the right one.
“I think,” he says after a while, “it should be your decision. And I also think there’s no need to rush and decide right now. Hang out with him for a few days, see what feels right.”
It’s not what she wanted -- the burden of making this decision all on her own -- but she’s suddenly too tired again to argue, and she supposes Mulder is right that there’s no rush. So she nods and covers a yawn with her free hand. As if on cue, there’s a light tap on the door, and the nurse comes back into the room, along with a doctor.
“How are you feeling, Ms. Scully?”
“I’m okay,” says through another yawn.
Mulder leans forward to press a kiss against her forehead. “You rest. The little man and I will be right outside.”
“Actually,” the doctor says, “we’re going to go ahead and move you out of recovery and over into the L&D wing. We’ll get you all set up in a family room together. How does that sound?”
Family. The word gives her a happy, swoopy feeling in her stomach, and from the way Mulder is beaming down at her, he must be feeling the same way. She squeezes his hand.
“That sounds great.”
#x-files fanfic#txf: existence#mulderfic#scullyfic#monica whalesong reyes#baby william#maggie scully#msr
188 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Nursery Files and Bump in the Night's Still Here Challenge
On Halloween night your main character has unexpectedly found him or herself returning to a place that’s meaningful to a lost loved one. It doesn’t have to be the home where they lived or the scene of their death, but a meaningful place to the deceased. They’ve dragged at least one companion along for the (mis)adventure. Tell us what happens!
For this challenge, it’s Halloween night - of any year - and your task is to pick a location, a focal character, a companion, and a ghost to craft your story. Although the As are mostly meant to go together, and the Bs etc. you can of course mix and match if you’d like: for example, your location could be a California Mulder family vacation spot and maybe you want Dana and Monica to see Samantha there…really, whatever strikes your muse’s fancy.
Note: This is a join challenge between The Nursery Files and Bump in the Night. If you want to do the Nursery Files’ version please choose a child ghost and/or have a baby/child/teen/pregnant character be included as as a second dragged along companion.
Please select your a la carte choices below
Choose a haunted location
A. Massachusetts
B. New York
C. California
D. Washington, DC
Choose a character that shall be haunted
A. Mulder
B. Doggett
C. Scully
D. Skinner
Choose a companion dragged along (if your plot requires it, multiple companions are ok)
A. Scully
B. Reyes
C. Mulder
D. Any canon character other than A, B or C
Choose a ghost (if your plot requires it, multiple ghosts are also ok)
A. Samantha or Mr. or Mrs. Mulder
B. Luke Doggett
C. Emily or Mr. or Mrs. Scully
D. Sharon Skinner* or Alex Krycek or a Lone Gunman
*We don’t know for sure what happened to Sharon, but for the purpose of this challenge you can go with her having died
Please submit your story or the link to it to [email protected] or post here in on our submissions Tumblr - or send me a message with your fic on Tumblr to reblog by midnight your time on November 9
9 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
girlsinstringbikinis-blog
Girls in String Bikinis
cosmoanimato
CosmoAnimato
memewgirl102
Mewmewgirl
venim-filled-heart-x
LANDEUTCH
guarda-talk-to-me-italiano-hd
¡Guarda! Talk to Me 2023 Streaming Ita In Altadefinizione