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samnia · 5 months

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ERICSON KIDS WITH AN S/O WHO USED TO BE APART OF A SINGING TRIO PT.1

For example, think about rnb, hip-hop, pop, and K-pop girl groups.

Fem reader

Marlon:

You never told him, he found out by himself. Marlon was looking through the principal's office for shits and giggles, right? Then he came across an album that contained a picture of you and 2 other people. You all looked pretty young. That's how he knew it was before the walkers existed.

"Y/n, come here for a second." Marlon said, excitement in his tone. You walked over, and he helped you huddle down. "Look what I found!" He handed you the cd. "Oh my god! I forgot about this. Marlon, where'd you find it?" You asked in shock.

"I guess the headmaster had a copy. Y/n, I didn't see you as that type of girl." He teased, you took a relieved sigh. "What can I say? The chance was presented, so I took it." You rested your head on Marlon's shoulder.

"This was my favorite, I swear there was a Cd player layin around."

Violet:

She found out at another one of Ruby's hootenanny. It was time for music to play. A.J. and Willy was dancing with glee while Tenn hyped them up. You sat down and watched with Violet. Dancing just isn't your strong suit. "Now this song is more modern.

It was my Mama's favorite!" Ruby voiced, she played the song. the beat gave you deja vu. "Y/n, you alright? You look kinda pale." Violet asked with concern. You nodded your head. It was only when the first chorus started to play. You realized something.

It was the song you made with some other girls and made a song.. It was getting deadly close to your part of it. You started to sweat a bit. "You don't seem fine. What's wrong?" Violet muttered. She wrapped her hand around your shoulder

"This is my song. My part is coming up real soon." You chuckled out. before she could reply, your voice came on the player, bright as ever. Everyone and anybody looked at you in shock. "Wow, you sound really amazing." Violet claimed, "you think so?" You asked. "Yeah."

Louis:

He first found out through the card game. When Clementine asked if they ever met anyone famous, you decided to speak on your own experiences.

"Kinda, I was a part of singing trio. Those kinds of things. It was for 3 years, though.." Soon as you uttered those words, he started to flood you with questions. Did you ever blow up like crazy? What were your favorite tunes to perform? Oh, and where in the world are the other two? You seemed to like and entertain his questions.

Eventually, someone intervened, " Louis, knock it off!" But that didn't stop the both of you from fooling around somewhere else. Just two melodic idiots whistling into the distance.

Mitch:

You and Mitch had just found a working van capable of carrying a lot of people. But it needs a bit of renovation if everyone wants in. You bought Clementine, Willy, A.J., and Assim along. Mostly because Mitch and Clementine want this to be a learning moment for their adoptive siblings. But Assim is there to actually work. "Mitch and Y/n, we're going to need some parts to get this thing going. It'd be nice if you went and got us these things. Go out further if you have to." Clementine offered.

"Sure, anything to get out of here," Mitch exaggerated. Clem handed me the paper. It had all the car parts and where they're located.You two have been walking for a while. You came across a vehicle with some stuff inside, "Mitch, I found one." You yelled. He came over quick. "No walkers?" Mitch checked. "Nope," you reassured. He used a crowbar to force it open and then started to search.

You joined him, looking into the front seat. You found a rolled up poster in arm rest. You were about to unroll it until Mitch called your name, "Y/n! Come here, we really hit the jackpot!" Y/n came out with the poster in hand. Mitch was supposedly siphoning gas. A whole lot was coming out of the tube and in the canister. "Damn, this can last us a lifetime." You claimed. "What's that?" He asked, pointing to your hand. "A poster I found. Im gonna open it up right now." You told him. Mitch got up from the ground and standed next to her

Y/n unraveled it, only for a wave of shock to overrun her face. Mitch had catched a glimpse of it, too. "Holy shit, y/n- is that you?" He beamed, a picture of you and two other girls were holding bubble letters, spelling something out. A lot of junk was on it, so it wasn't readable. One word was crystal clear, "concert."

"It's been so long, I didn't even get to perform." You marveled. "How did you even get the chance?" He questioned. "Oh, I didn't mean it like that!"

Y/n sighed, "My parents were friends with one of the girls' mom. She got me on set." You paused, "if I remember the poster came with an cd. Maybe it's in here."

Please send requests, no smut.

#twdg marlon headcanon #x reader #female #fem reader #violet x reader #twdg louis x reader #twdg marlon #twdg marlon imagine #louis twdg #mitch twdg x reader #mitch x reader #mitchtwdg #twdg fanfiction #twdg fanfic

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madsmilfelsen · 5 months

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Hello! I'm really curious, what books/authors would you recommend to someone who's new to writing horror?

Hi! Here is what I have on hand (minus my loaned out copies of my favorite book ever Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and Never Whistle At Night: an indigenous anthology of dark fiction which made me cry on an airplane and made the person next to me very uncomfortable, like she was just trying to build a cart at banana republic, apologies to seat 17B)

God’s Cruel Joke Lit Mag because I’m in them and will be in issue 4, too :) published either mid-January or February 2024– @labyrinthphanlivingafacade is in issue 3 with a great short story that I won’t spoil ***right now the magazines are available to purchase in physical copies but I was told all issues will be free to download as pdfs pretty soon!

Severance by Ling Ma (body horror but not in the way you think, the real horror is repetition and loneliness)

Wilder Girls by Rory Power (body horror)

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (adjacent the horror genre but a hell of a read)

ANYTHING BY STEPHAN GRAHAM JONES ANYTHING

We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirely Jackson (I read this for the first time last spring boy howdy, I also included The Lottery for its suspense)

Dean Koontz because my husband suggested it for the list— this was just the first title I grabbed, I think he said Patrician Crowell too but I was busy looking for Mongrels

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans (I didn’t finish this because depression set in shortly after I started but the first chapter plays with second pov which I really liked, I’m determined to read it this year)

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (I really enjoyed HBO’s adaptation)

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey (likely the only zombie stories that made me weep uncontrollably)

Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein (non-fiction: explores modern young women navigating sexuality and because I have a thing for loss of autonomy— it’s been a few years since I read it but there is discussion of sexual assault, but I appreciate the expanse of her research and even included a conversation with someone who is asexual)

Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (got a chill just typing this out— the audio book is exquisite)

You’ll notice some nonfiction because, as a historian undergrad, nothing scares me more than man. The battles of Leningrad and Stalingrad are particularly stomach churning. America’s Reconstruction Era is full of acted out malice and under taught in my opinion.

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury

Enemy at the Gates by William Craig

(On the other side of WW2 I have a book of the experiences of German solider’s left over from a paper I wrote on the inadequacy of Nazi uniforms and how it expedited their failure in Russia, Frontsoldaten by Stephen G. Fritz)

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr (one of my favorite authors, try finding “How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism” Time Magazine, April 2, 2019, I used it as a source for a paper on the history of voting rights)

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers— folk tales of Canadians, Lumberjacks & Indians by Richard M. Dorson (published around 1952 but content collected from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 40’s)

Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing (I’m Alutiiq and the museum on Kodiak has a lot of stories recorded under Alutiiq Museum Podcast— my kids and I listen on Spotify)

I think the genre of horror is really mastering tension and playing on peoples fears which is why I included old school folk stories (An Underground Education had a great write up on the Grimm Brothers and the original fairy tales from around the world such as the Chinese and Egyptian Cinderella, as well as several different sections of funny tales, torture techniques, absolute weirdos etc etc) in this vein of thought The Uses of Enchanment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim could prove to be useful

If you’re writing a character with Bad Parents— Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Toxic Parents (it has a longer subtitle but I don’t see my copy anywhere) might be able to help you shape character traits

I reached out to @littleredwritingcat who has a mind plentiful in sources who recommended

The Gathering Dark: an anthology of folk horror (I will be picking this one up asap)

Toll by Cherie Priest (southern gothic)

Anything by Jennifer MacMahon

The Elementals by Michael McDowell

#book recommendations #answered #is that my ask box tag? I never get them and forget everytime lmao #I feel like I should have prefaced this with how I’m just dipping my toes into horror myself #so I’d love to hear what other people are reading too!!!!

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the-dumpster-fire-of-life · 2 years

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Hello! Please could you possibly do a TWDG Marlon, Mitch ( and maybe Louis if you have the time <3) with a S/O who’s likes to give them random things they find. For example they see a cool bottle cap and give it to their Partner with no context? <<333

(Hey! I sure can, here ya go! Enjoy!)

MARLON, MITCH AND LOUIS X READER

MARLON

He would be a little confused at first

He thought you were either going to throw it at him or just show it to him real quick

But when you opened his fist and gave it to him before walking away he was confused as hell

Stood there for a few minutes trying to figure out if it was a trap or trick

When you didn't come back he messed with it in his hand for a second

He then walked back up to his office/room

He opened a drawer and empties its contents before placing your single bottle cap inside

His collection has now grown tremendously

Uses them for little decoration sometime

Rosie also really likes them

Will never destroy them

Marlon once placed it on her nose as she just stared at it

Has one on her collar now

Just a single pink bottle cap with the initial R on it

Cherishes them forever

"Hey, Marlon!" The boy looked up as he saw you walking over, sitting on the desk in front of him.

"Hey, got any more souvenirs?" He asked. You shook your head. "No, not today. I think I found them all." You laughed.

"Then we'll just have to find more. My drawer is still kinda small." He shrugged, you looked at him utterly confused.

"Your drawer? What's in your drawer?" You asked. "The bottle caps and rocks." Marlon answered, not looking up from the drawer out map.

You still were confused, you stood up, walking around the desk and opening the top drawer.

Your eyes widened to see all the bottle caps and pretty rocks you had collected piled inside.

"Marlon," you started, your boyfriend finally looking up. "What?" He asked, you holding up a hand pull of the bottle caps.

"You saved them all?" You asked, looking up at him with a smile. "Yeah, why wouldn't I?" He chuckled, letting out a yelp as you lunged at him, hugging him.

"U didn't know you kept them!" You laughed, Marlon chuckling as he hugged you back.

"I'm getting more!" You said, pulling away from the hug and heading towards the door, waving over your shoulder.

Marlon shook his head.

He didn't mind adding more of your findings to his collection.

MITCH

He was also shocked

But he didn't know what to do with it

He kinda was questioning giving it back

Until he looked at your smiling face

You looked so proud of the single bottle cap you had found

You even painted it and added your initials

The first conversation went a little like this

"Mitch!"

"What?"

"Here!"

"....Y/n, what am I supposed to do with a bottle cap?"

"Keep it. I painted it, look!"

"...Okay then."

You were confused as you watched him walk off, stuffing his hand with the bottle cap in his pocket

You missed the small blush on his face though

It's his little good luck charm now

Even if he would never admit it to anyone

Whenever he's on a run?

His hand is in his jacket pocket, holding the bottle cap

"You still have this?" You asked, pulling your hand out of your boyfriend's pocket where you were holding hands to see the bottle cap.

"Why in hell wouldn't I?" Mitch asked, making a face as he took the bottle cap back. "I just thought you wouldn't have it anymore." You chuckled.

"Well, you're wrong." Mitch stated, going back to carving his weapon as you shook your head, leaning into his side to watch.

What you didn't know was that his hand was still in his pocket, fidgeting with the bottle cap.

LOUIS

Boy wasn't confused or nothing

He loves you

He loves anything you give to him

You find any that weren't even for him?

He took them

No questions asked

Absolutely worships them

Takes them as a token of your love

Keeps them in the finest condition known to man

Treats them better than anything

Has a entire little basket for them

Keeps them under his bed

Rotates between them all in his pockets

His little charms

If I do say so myself

Uses them as gifts sometimes too

Got some glue and stuck them to a little board to say

"Louis is the best"

He gave it to you for your anniversary

You thought it was a gag gift but loved it anyway

Now is stuck on your wall for eternity

"Y/n! I made the best gift." Louis stated, handing you the board as you stared at it for a second.

"Louie, what is this?" You asked, chuckling.

"My amazing name? You should be lucky." He stated, smug as you shook your head. "Yeah, this is going on the wall."

"Of course it is! It was either way." Louis stated, taking it back to stick it on the wall.

"Best anniversary ever." He stated, his hands on his hips as he backed away to admire his handy work.

Behind him you laugh, face palming at the boy.

#twdg x reader #twdg louis x reader #twdg marlon x reader #twdg mitch x reader #twdg mitch #twdg marlon #twdg louis #twdg season 4 #the walking dead game x reader #the walking dead game

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littlesugarwords · 3 years

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We’ve had the Brody fluff, now we need the Brody angst to balance it out. What are some headcanons for Brody’s s/o taking the flashlight to the skull instead of her during the basement scene? You can decide if the reader dies (like Brody, rip ;-;) or miraculously recovers. Thank youuuu!!!

oh BOY HERE WE GO prepare yourselves oh no

Brody didn’t know much about what was going on.

All she knew was that Marlon and Clementine were bickering.

At odds.

Maybe fighting, but that felt like a strong word.

She had no real reason to be concerned.

She just hated it whenever Marlon was fighting with anyone.

He was always on edge and angry.

Easy to set off.

She hated walking on eggshells around him.

So when he went to help Y/N in the boiler room, she stayed away.

Especially when she caught wind that Clem wanted to talk to him.

Seriously talk to him.

And that worried her.

She minded her own business as much as she could,

Wondering when Marlon and Y/N would be done,

Wondering when she would be able to share a meal and conversation with her sweet again.

But then, there was loud shuffling,

Panicked, muffled yelling,

And the loud jamming of the basement metal doors.

Brody’s heart jumped into her throat,

Panic seizing her muscles.

When the blood pounding in her ears stopped,

And when she was able to clench her quivering palms into fists,

She ran,

And refused to stop.

By the time she hit the basement doors, they were thrown closed,

And weakly, he struggled to get them open,

Her legs and arms shaking.

She forced it open,

Allowing the rain to scatter the pavement steps,

And she scurried down, the setting sun streaming light into the dark room.

“Hello?”

There was a groan,

And Brody’s chest seized again.

Her heart pounding so hard against her ribcage that it ached.

“Who is it?” Clem’s voice shook as she spoke,

Quivering on her hesitant breaths.

Brody frowned, worried.

Another groan,

Longer and louder this time.

“Shh, shh,” Clem hushed.

Brody continued to slide closer.

“It’s Brod—“

The moment she rounded the final metal shelf, she spotted it.

She saw everything.

The puddle of blood on the floor,

The smears and streaks from shuffling around,

The blooded and broken flashlight discarded on the ground,

And Clementine, holding her dying love in her arms,

Trying to stop the bleeding of the gash on their forehead.

She broke into a bloodcurdling scream.

“No! No, no, why!” She sobbed,

Collapsing to the ground,

Not caring about the blood smearing her jeans and shirt,

Her hands and feet.

She wrapped her love in her arms,

Unable to catch her breath from the depth of her sobs.

“Y/N, can you hear me?”

They head tilted to the side,

Out of Clementine’s grasp and into Brody’s.

They offered her a weak smile,

Their cheeks pale and blank,

Eyes growing dimmer and dimmer.

“Yeah,” they hushed,

Holding their eyes closed for a beat before opening them again.

“W-What happened? What happened to you?”

Brody turned to Clem in a panic,

Tears and blood streaking her cheeks.

“What happened to them?”

“It was Marlon.” Clem said,

Hands up and backing away.

“I need to go get him.”

“Marlon,” Y/N wheezed.

Nodding faintly,

Squeezing Brody’s hand as hard as they could.

Which wasn’t much.

“Why?” Brody sobbed,

Holding each side of her partner’s face,

Horrified that she was about to lose them.

Their right eye was gloss over,

They were limp as a rag doll,

And were pale and cold all over.

“I’m so sorry I wasn’t here,” Brody said, shaking her head.

She couldn’t think about why anymore.

She needed to say goodbye.

Goodbye?

“No,”

Brody shook her head to silence them. “I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.”

“Oh Brody,”

Y/N brushed at her cheek.

She sobbed even harder,

Holding the frozen limb tightly to her cheek.

“Is there anything I can do?”

Y/N only smiled,

Brushing their finger back and forth on Brody’s cheek.

“I love you.” They said.

It was the first time they had ever said it.

Brody squeezed her eyes closed,

Waterfalls,

And nodded.

“I love you so much.”

For the last time, she held them close,

Placed a kiss on their cheek, lips, and head, and settled her head on their still chest.

Soon, Clementine would come back.

She would find them there and ‘handle’ him.

Ensuring he wouldn’t turn.

But maybe, he would reanimate before she got the chance.

Maybe she would be out of her misery sooner than she thought.

Because the one thing she refused to do was leave them alone.

She had lost them that way.

The least she could do was stay now.

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dsoe-masteroftheheavenlyyard · 3 years

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Chapter 7–End of the Capriccio; Scene 5

master of the heavenly yard pages 184-190

The wheelchair in which the “Doll Director” had once sat.

Now Gammon Octo had taken it for his seat.

Gallerian Marlon stood next to him, watching Riliane and the others as they came into the room with no expression on his face.

There was a door that led to even further inside the director’s room, and from there they could hear children playing in high spirits.

There was no sign of the Sleep Princess who had entered before them. She had probably gone to the room farther in.

“—It’s been a while, ‘Gardener’,” Riliane said to Gammon.

“Princess Riliane—or rather, you’re…’Waiter’, aren’t you? So, it’s true that you had been reincarnated.”

“You have some gall to come after me even knowing that much. You’ve forgotten that I’m the one who helped you.”

“Come on, don’t say that. There are extenuating circumstances.”

“We came in here because the Sleep Princess said she’d tell us those circumstances.”

“The Sleep Princess—you mean Michelle. She’s currently a bit occupied for the moment. I’ll tell you in her stead…What do you wish to know?”

Venomania pushed past Riliane and stood before Gammon. “…You look nearly identical. To me.”

“That’s because I’m your descendent. It’s a privilege to meet you, Duke Sateriasis Venomania.”

“Hmph, I couldn’t care one way or the other. …Is this theater an illusion? Why is it floating in the air?”

“This building is not a construct of the imagination, but the real thing. It once housed the ‘Vessels of Deadly Sin’, and after that this theater’s—You saw from outside that there was a clocktower, yes?”

“I did.”

“There is a man named Adam, who became a ‘gear’ of the clocktower. Explaining him is a bit complicated, but…Well, you could say that he’s a being similar to the ‘Demons of Deadly Sin’ that you must surely know of. He made plans in advance before the world was destroyed. To revive this theater.”

“Why would he do that?”

“We think it’s to protect the ‘Doll Director’. –The fact that it’s flying in the air was also his idea, but there’s no deep meaning in that. It’s likely just a child’s whimsy.”

“This Adam character is…a child?”

“To be more accurate—he ‘became a child’. He was reborn as the ‘Doll Director’’s son.”

Kayo stood next to Venomania and asked Gammon, “Where is this ‘Doll Director’ now?”

Gammon gave a rueful smile and pointed to the ceiling. “Right here.”

“…I’m afraid I don’t follow.”

“This very theater. The ‘Evils Theater’ itself has become her new body.”

“--!?”

At that moment, they could hear a noise coming from outside the room.

It was from the direction of the theater’s entrance.

“Oh my…It seems we have more visitors. …Mr. Gallerian, would you mind taking over the discussion for me?”

“—Not at all.”

After seeing Gallerian nod, Gammon left the room.

Gallerian sat down in the now vacated wheelchair.

“Now then…About the ‘Doll Director’. –Postman. She once dwelled inside that doll that you’re holding now. Ma had breathed her life into it.”

“Weren’t you convinced that this was your own daughter?”

“I was. But I was mistaken. Her true name—is the ‘Red Cat Sorceress’, Irina Clockworker.”

“The ‘Red Cat Sorceress’!?” Venomania was stunned. “IR…That woman must have been wandering the earth for close to a thousand years.”

“Technically speaking she spent about half that time inside Ma’s spirit. To Ma, who was herself trying to become a ‘pure being’, Irina’s existence was little more than a nuisance. So—she shoved her soul out into the doll.”

But Ma had, in the end, been unable to become a ‘pure being’—

“So then…what is your goal, ultimately?” Riliane asked. Gallerian quietly stood.

“…The revival of the world. We already have everything we need assembled here. This theater, and the new ‘Twins of God’—”

He went further into the room and opened the door there a little.

--Inside they could see the Sleep Princess playing with two children.

“The boy is Adam. And the girl is Eve…Perhaps you would recognize her better if I called her the ‘Demon of Sloth’. Michelle made a ‘contract’ with her, and obtained her power as the Sleep Princess.”

“I’m…not getting this. Gammon said that Adam was ‘reborn’. Did that happen with Eve too?”

“That’s exactly right, Postman. The theory at play is the same for what Ma did to Nemesis. The children of the ‘Doll Director’ were caught up in the destruction of ‘Punishment’ immediately after they were born. Because of that they became souls without a sense of self…By fusing different souls with theirs, they were able to obtain a will of their own.”

Having listened to the conversation thus far, Kayo heaved a sigh. “This has become quite complicated… That a doll could give birth in the first place—”

“Is impossible—that’s what you mean to say, isn’t it Kayo Sudou?” Gallerian grinned. “From time to time, things that defy logic and reason occur in this world. A mud king having children with a human woman, a witch conceiving children while a virgin—Those who are born in such a fashion are called ‘Irregular’, and they all have golden hair. They become ‘golden keys’ who shoulder the resurrection of the world.”

Suddenly Venomania approached Gallerian and moved to strike his face.

But Gallerian stopped his blow with his right hand.

“—What are you doing, Duke Venomania?”

“It’s a grand speech, Gallerian. But how did you get ahold of such knowledge? You must have been in hell this whole time just like me, you bastard.”

“…The ‘Moon Goddess’.”

“…? What?”

“I found something. In hell…A path that led to the ‘Grave yard’. And there—with a ‘black box’ I was able to read the thoughts…of the ‘Moon Goddess’!”

Gallerian threw aside Venomania’s hand, and then slammed a fist into his stomach.

“Oof!”

“…And then the world was destroyed and I came up to the ground world, and was reunited with Michelle.”

Gallerian raised up his fist for another blow.

--Riliane gripped his arm to stop him.

“…Then you met with Gammon at this theater, and the three of you started conspiring together?”

“Conspiring? I’m offended. We’re just trying to bring the world salvation.”

“Didn’t you say you needed to erase us to achieve that salvation?”

“Not just you all. Myself…and Michelle as well.”

“…Huh!?”

“The seven selected ‘Deadly Sin Contractors’—Their power is what the target. The ‘Demons of Deadly Sin’ weren’t enough to become a ‘pure being’.”

“You couldn’t possibly mean—”

Bam!

The door to the room suddenly flew open.

“--Oh my, quite a gathering here.”

Standing there was the “Master of the Graveyard”—Banica.

Behind her were her servants and Lich.

“Gallerian, Riliane…Oh, and who is this fine man here?”

The instant that Venomania saw Banica, he deeply bowed to her.

“I am the duke of Asmodean, Sateriasis Venomania. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

“…Ah. My notorious ancestor.”

“…Another descendant. I’m meeting a lot of those today.”

Kayo—a descendant of Venomania herself—asked Banica, “There was another man who I thought went out to greet you just now—”

“If you mean the ‘gardener’, he’s currently fighting with my two new lackeys in the hall—Now then, we ought to be able to make a fuss well enough on our own.”

Banica signaled to her servants with her hand.

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dipplie · 3 years

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Temporary list of my stories and OC’s until one day I make a comprehensive and well made list:

Blinded:

Polli: My oldest OC and fun fact was my persona till she become edgy and I wasn’t 12 anymore. Everyone’s favorite yes yes I’m aware. Yellow, energetic, eats dirt and bugs, I can’t tell if she’s evil because of a wisp possession or just crazy. Breaks the 4th wall. Is she a Mary Sue???????? Who knows.

Melody: NOT Polli’s girlfriend despite Polli’s delousions. Has an abusive mom :(. Only has one eye and then no eyes and then robot eyes or smthn idk she becomes a badass when she gets older. But otherwise trembling in her shoes all the time.

Melodys Mom/Sharren: Bitch. Okay well all I’ll say is she’s old and grumpy and probably smells bad.

Louise: Total hotty, rich kid, FtM, got bullied as a kid for his weight. Had a squad of fans basically in high school. Lived with his mom after his parents got a divorce but his mom was semi abusive, projected her femininity onto him, and wouldn’t have been supportive of his transition, so between middle and high school he went to live with his dad and got his sex change and testosterone. His best friend in elementary and middle school stopped talking to him after his transition, and became his competition for the most attractive and sought after boy in school (except Louise is a sweetheart while his friend Tommy is a dick and really gross) His dad runs a company that specializes in technology, and after meeting and falling in love with Melody (even after all her abusive trauma and losing both her eyes) he has his dad and some of the developers create a way to get her vision back and I mean honestly I love him how could you not love him he’s so perfect.

Watching:

Fick: Big nerd boy with thick glasses. I feel like he’d use Reddit but don’t quote me on that. Big crush on Vivinya. Boy don’t wander into the woods- oh look dead body with a curse on it don’t touch it- aaaand now he has a wisp that makes him kill people, way to go kid. Panic attack central.

Vivinya: True crime girl, yucky yucky. Probably had a knife collection. “uwu I’m insane” except she actually is and starts using Fick to kill people for her and treats him like her “Yandere boyfriend” or something cringe and gross oh god. She deserves jail. JAIL. Needs to learn guys need to give consent too. Just overall sucks 1/10.

Tommy: I mentioned him early to be Louises ex best friend and rival. He used to have a crush on Louise actually but that don’t excuse being a BITCH!!!! Also needs to learn people gotta give consent he is just as gross as Vivinya. Cheats on all the girls he gets with because he’s again, a bitch. Idk if he deserved to get murdered though I mean he was still a teenager but it’s fine. Thinks of the song Seventeen from Heathers actually this story does feel a tad reminiscent of heathers with vivinya being a crazy and wanting to off a bunch of students. Huh.

Suzannie: Tommy’s older sister who’s a detective. What a coincidence. Monotone and depressed. Probably because her little brother got murdered. Gets real awkward when she’s talking about her brothers murder(s) to Fick and Vivinya like “when I find who did this to him they’ll regret being born”. Kind of really pretty actually.

Adolescents (there isn’t actually a story here yet but don’t worry about it shhhh):

Nelson: HIMBO HIMBO H- Jock stupid idiot big dork god he’s so awkward and his main personality trait is having a crush on Naomi and being a dork when talking to her. Probably could benchpress you.

Naomi: Gamer or something and a nerd geek. Her main personality trait is having a crush on Nelson and also being a dork when talking to him. Probably a weeb and fandom dweller. Can’t draw but she commissions artists to draw. She does write copious amounts of fanfiction though.

Andrés: Ohhh the school bad boy babyyyy. Baseball bat with nails in it or something. There’s like... A thing between him in Charlotte and he wants to be a thing but she’s being difficult and makes it hard to talk to her or about her and ugh.

Charlotte: Princess, high school princess. She’s actually pretty nice when you get to know her- but she’s a diva. Ballerina after school. Best friends with Naomi and doesn’t know what she’s talking about when she mentions ships or OTPs but she listens anyways because she’s a good friend. There’s like... A thing between her and Andrés but she doesn’t know if she’s super into him but geez he’s really hot but she gets such mixed responses when she asks her friends about it and what if it doesn’t work outttt.

Marlon: They/Them but they’re okay with either pronouns they aren’t sure yet, he or she is okay... Box boy box boy. Autism... He doesn’t want to admit He’s attracted to men but he’s totally attracted to men. He lives alone which is probably illegal for his age but somehow he manages. Everyone thinks he’s “the quiet kid” and he’s really sad about it no don’t make jokes like that please guys ahh-

Sing for Me:

Kat: The color pink, addahadda(adhd), angry and loud and short. For being only like 10 and being an adorable little lesbian dressing in sparkly pink dresses she actually likes screaming a lot and would totally sing heavy metal if her producers let her. Loud and mad but gets so soft around her girlfriend. “If anything happens to Brie I’m killing everyone in this room and then myself”.

Brie: French... Birds and stuff. Loves her girlfriend even though she is so loud. So fast. So much. Likes to write pretty things. Is only like an inch taller than Kat. Filled with so much love for everything.

Elliot: The girls manager. Lots of coffee. Stressed out of his MIND please help this man. Probably gay. Seems like a smug dick but he is just a tall and lanky dork that loves puppies and wants nothing more than for Kat and Brie to be happy. Accidentally brands them as sisters and then Kat kisses Brie and- oh fuck oh shit oh no what has he done. Hides the fan and non fan responses from them. Poor guy.

Horror Hosts:

Ichabod: Hot demon who’s the son of the current ruler of hell or something. I mean he’s hot, smart, and royalty, what more do you want. I very specifically hear the dub voice of Kyoya Ootori from OHHC as his voice don’t @ me. Goat legs????? Yeah??? Don’t be rude.

Barnabie: Ohhhhhhhhh big orc teddy bear I’m crying I love him????? He puts up a more confident ploy and the given stereotypical personality orcs supposedly have but he’s just a shy boy that wants to give girls flowers and call boys pretty. Help him.

Garrison: Gary Burger. Fat hairy gay man. I mean werewolf. Wouldn’t it be funny if I made the whole werewolf thing backwards and made him transform into a HUMAN only on the full moon??? Party animal, pun absolutely intended. LOUD AND FUNNY he’s a dork. Bites. Horny on main Garrison please you’re supposed pamper and flirt with the guests but not quite that much.

Vincenzo: Token Vampire but he’s Italian because I felt like it. Talk and lanky of course. Bitch face. Blood coffee? Yeah lots of coffee. Tired. Let him sleep in Ichabod. Steps on people. Can summon and reanimate corpses but has a bitter attitude towards them because they get annoyed with him as much as he gets annoyed with- everyone else. He does have a soft spot but idk where it is. When he’s talking to guests he’s more suave and sexy though.

Kai: Genderfluid haha get it because slime fluid-... I’ll stop. Probably objectively the hottest because they can look anyway they want and shift their vocals to sound like almost anything, also probably objectively the best in bed (if you’re okay with the texture of Jell-o) and honestly come on save some for the rest of us it’s not fair. This boy can SING oh my god seranade me and whisper in my ear baby. Spunky and sassy.

Hallvor: BABY OCTOPOD BOY OHHHHH I LOVE HIM HE’S SO SWEET AND IS AN ANGEL DARLING BOY SO EMBARRASSED SO SHY SOFTEST VOICE OHHH- ohhh nooo he’s got a knife ohhhhh Hallvor baby don’t be like that ohhhh... Used to work in hentai actually (I wonder why) but quit because of immoral practices and good for him we love that. Okay he’s not actually a yandere or whatever but he DEFINITELY wants to squeeze you a little too hard and has those crazy eyes.

Carla: Main character of this OHHC monster clone. She sucks I don’t like her because listen listen she kills monsters as a living and when she tries to kill our boys here, Ichabod catches her and goes “no” but then the rest (not knowing her murderous intent) fall in love with her and Ichabod is like: “shoot well I’ll keep you alive and around but I’m watching you” and blah blah romance and feelings and character development and wow she seems like she’s grown to care about them... So Ichabod removes a curse he put to prevent her from harming them or leaving... AND THEN SHE STABS THEM ALL IN THE BACK IM CRYING. I mean she might have an extra reason for needing to kill them but I haven’t decided if I want to actually put it in the story yet so.

Fingertips:

Maria/Marianna: Was this goth angry chick and the head of these losers but after a failed heist, fire, and being betrayed and dropped from a window on a 3rd or 4th story down into flames, and going to the hospital and changing her name, she changed totally and become a soft pretty girl... And then the next three boys went “HEY BOSS WE FOUND YOU” and she went “oh no” and now she’s just an anxious wreck like “no no no no no I don’t shoot people in the face anymore no no no no no” And has a fear of hands. Also was Diamontés best friend in primary school and yes all these characters went to the K-12 school all the other characters do/did. Pretty voice. The story is mostly about her being anxious around all the other characters because who was it that betrayed her and dropped her into the flames below? Find out next week on th-

Nikki: He’s that character that you see and immediately go “oh he’s gross and is angry and is a bitch” and you’re right he is and has a cockney accent and screams a lot and probably swings a knife around a lot, but he’s got a sweet interior (somewhere in there... somewhere) Screamo heavy metal. Him and the rest of these character briefly talked about having a band and then they didn’t and then at the end of the story they do and although he plays guitar mostly, if he does do lead vocals he screams a lot. Bitch.

Anthony: Pretty boy but like the “was in the army” pretty boy vibe. Probably played football in highschool. Pyromaniac. Punches Nikki a lot. Almost gives himbo vibes sometimes, almost. Kind of likes the old timey cozy aesthetic. Plays the piano sometimes but “oh I’m not very good at it” Plays extremely well

Diamonté: TALL. Purple goth boy aesthetic hellll yeahhhh. CRAZY EYES AND THEY SPEAK VOLUMES WATCH OUT. Drums. The scary kind of quiet because he just smiles at you. Crowbar. Okay but he’s actually really sweet though. Secretly loves watching Anthony and Nikki get into fights so that’s why he rarely puts a stop to it. I think he’s a sadist. Can be a gentle giant, but can also be a not so gentle giant. The only time he’s really talkative is after copious amounts of booze.

Unnamed/Undesigned 1: Literally a pimp and he’s pretty gross. Blonde hair and pink and white clothes.

Unnamed/Undesigned 2: Chick that likes to throw knives and be angry and threatens Marianna a lot but in a quiet and monotone way, Marianna is pretty scared and hopes that these are just shallow threats uhhhhh.

Unnamed/Undesigned 3: Sells guns (without a lisence of course) and wears a bandana over his face a lot. Tired. Grumpy.

Unnamed/Undesigned 4: Like Marianna, was cold hearted and cool but then got caught in the fire and got all soft. He only has one eyes but how sweet his eyepatch is a heart. Recoved along side Marianna and they are good friends good friends tha- wait Marianna are you going back with them oh god you can’t do that oh dear oh no oh-

(I don’t have a story or name for these two but they’re my comfort ship OC’s and my current hyper fixaction right now):

Rodriquéz: I literally designed him with almost all the traits I find attractive in a guy other than freckles so as you can imagine I find him super HOT. I also designed his personality on what I find attractive from a guy so as you can imagine I find him super GREAT. But anyways he’s grumpy and closed off and monotone and smug. I really could go on for hours about how I want him to step on me I’m so sorry guys. Both him and Samantha give the “21 and having immature fun” vibes. They’re a thing but they like going to bars together and splitting off and doing their own thing (or doing someone else’s thing if you get what I mean haHhahHhahGahGhaha-) But so help them if anyone doesn’t oblige by the “no” from one of these two, someone’s gonna get beat up.

Samantha: (She literally just my personality shhhhh don’t tell anyone it’s a secret) Bubbly, energetic, a little shy by extroverted, bombshell blonde or something? It took me way too much time and effort to design her but I’m really happy with how I finally designed her, I love her outfit. She could kick me in the face and I’d say thank you. Girly drinks at the bar. Got that trauma and anxiety™️ secretly though. Skips and jumps a lot. As I’m typing this I keep looking up at the drawing of her and more and more I would want her to also step on me.

(Space Story I don’t have a nice title for):

Unnamed/Undesigned 1: So... Funny story this story originally was with me and uh... My ex I guess... So I gotta replace the MC’s... Whoops ahaha... Awkward. But anyways the MC is a robot and a girl and is a slight tsundere or smthn.

Unamed/Undesigned 2: Has a space ship, works for this organization in space that protects the galaxy. Is cocky, lazy, sly, oblivious, and an idiot. The love interest- obviously. Probably accidentally committing space crimes. (Like space pirating hAHAHA-) Kind of cool when he wants to be.

Dandelion/Dandy: CAT. WITH A JET PACK. Kind of an asshole. Fun fact used to be Polli’s cat but then when the Second MC crash landed on earth she was like “fuck this noise I’m going with space boy laterz” (okay she can’t talk but she thought it).

Zizii: Lesbian alien? Yeah???? Okay but I mean her main character trait is being a dorky back alley doctor and engineer obsessed with the MC because they’re a sentient robot with emotions and a lazer arm and rocket boots WOW!!!!!!!!

Story I want to revive:

So I had a story I started writing a long time ago about this tech theatre kid that had a crush on this other theatre kid character, but in a play that other character has to kiss another person for the show, and as the story progresses the MC convinces themselves that it isn’t just a play and that their crush actually loves and is kissing that other kid. And in the play, that other character is supposed to die. Show night comes along and they die, but like actually, and by the hands of the MC (Idk maybe like a light falls on em or smthn). So it’s a grotesque scene the audience sees as just an act. (Mutters I dunno I think my idea’s cool...) So I’ve been wanting to design these characters and work more on the story but I’m busy being obsessed with Rodriquez and Samantha so. (And the Horror Host Club too I love them too still).

Other Characters that either don’t have a specific story or are kind of like background characters:

Jacqueiliquinne Merril: Sara Berry vibes from 35mm (go look up The Ballad of Sara Berry, maybe like an animatic idk the first one that comes up is nice) But otherwise rich, pretty, popular, bitch. Tries to like, steal Louise from his squad and it’s like bro that’s unnecessary who hurt you that’s so rude. She gives Nui from Kill La Kill Vibes too. Oh she knows her name is long and annoying but you have to say the whole thing.

Brianna: Jaqueiliquinne’s sister. Big titty goth gf??? She’s pretty popular too and kind of a bitch too but to a much lesser degree. Her and he sister throw hands a lot when no one is around, you know, “THEY GIRLS ARE FIGHTINNGGGG”.

The Louise Fan Club: 4 characters I haven’t named yet. One writes fanfiction of Louise and shares it with the others and with him sometimes and although he thinks it’s a bit weird he also finds it a tad endearing and supports her. One is an aspiring photographer and is constantly asking Louise to model for him. One is an artist and draws Louise all the time. And one is an aspiring musician who writes songs based of Louise’s relationships which again he finds a little weird but endearing and supports her.

The Jacquiliquinne Merril Fan Club: Genderbent-ish (I say ish because one of the characters is a little bit less defined gender wise) versions of the Louise Fan Club. Yes I’m lazy, and no they don’t get along with them, infact they hate each others club with a passion.

Unnamed/Undesigned: I wanna make some hacker kid just because I wanna have one.

Unnamed/Undesigned: I also really wanna have a super cutesy magical girl and then a really super duper generic boring character probably like star vs the forces of evil idk I never watched that show but it looks cute.

Me: I exist in the universe fukc you I can do what I want it’s my story and I get to chose the who also if you wanna be in the mess of a universe go ahead draw yourself with my OC’s I allow and encourage and appreciate it. I literally made the Horror Host Club as a sort of Harem story and you are absolutely allowed to make out with them if you’re a monster fucker DO it GO ahead it’s canon.

and that is ALL I have FOR now Knowing me I’ll make like 12 more characters by July, and I mean I need more characters for the high school anyways so...

#Super Long #Characters #OC's #ALL my characters so far

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This Month in History - October

What a month of landmark anniversaries to celebrate! Here’s a few!

Oct. 1, 1974: Texas Chain Saw Massacre opens in Dallas

In Oct. 1974, one of the scariest low-budget horror movies ever was released. Tobe Hooper went all in on this low budget slasher, which surprisingly had a body count of only 5. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014 after attending a 40th anniversary screening. Happy 45th TCSM!

Oct. 1, 1999: Three Kings opens

In October 1999, David O. Russell’s best movie was released. Set during Operation Desert Storm, it had a real kinetic energy to it: LOL funny one minute, social commentary the next, heist movie action throughout. In a year of so many 5 star movies, this one was of the highlights. Happy 20th Three Kings!

Oct. 2, 1974: The Taking of Pelham 123 opens

In Oct. 1974, one of the great 70s crime movies thrillers was released. An NYC subway filled with commuters get taken hostage. Joseph Sargent really swung it out of the park here. Happy 45th Taking of Pelham 123!

Oct. 2, 1984: Let It Be released

In October 1984, the third album by The Replacements was released. The Beatles’ aren’t the only band to have a legendary album titled Let It Be. It’s one of the most influential albums in alt-rock’s history, by a band that was truly going for it. Got my copy on vinyl. Happy 35th Let It Be (Mats album that is)!

Oct. 2, 2009: Zombieland opens

In Oct. 2009, one of the coolest horror-comedies in recent memory was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 10 Zombieland!

Oct. 6, 1989: Drugstore Cowboy opens

In Oct. 1989, Gus Van San’t best movie was released, and that is saying something. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 30th Drugstore Cowboy!

Oct. 8, 1999: The Limey opens

In Oct. 1999, Steven Soderbergh’s most underrated movie was released. Coming off the success of 1998′s phenomenal Out of Sight, he returned to the crime genre and this time the editing was even more noticeable: crosscutting, flashbacks intercutting into current scenes to the point where you wonder what is past and what’s present. 1999 was a year where a ton of movies pushed film editing to new limits (i.e. Go; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Three Kings; Magnolia; Fight Club...I could go on for a while), but this was among the standouts. Happy 20th Limey!

Oct. 14, 1994: Pulp Fiction opens

In October 1994, Quentin Tarantino’s Magnum Opus was released. Still a shot of cinematic adrenaline to the heart! Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. Happy 25th Pulp Fiction!

Oct. 18, 1984: Stop Making Sense opens

In Oct. 1984, one of the all-time greatest concert films ever made was released. Jonathan Demme in his prime captured the Talking Heads in their prime as they performed over the course of 4 nights in Hollywood. I’m not even the biggest Talking Heads fan, but it was amazing. In 2015, I was at Noise Pop with my V66 documentary and I caught a special anniversary screening of Stop Making Sense on the big screen with excellent sound system and the whole audience was dancing the whole time. It is still the Gold Standard of concert movies and one of Demme’s best docs. Happy 35th Stop Making Sense!

Oct. 19, 1999: Fight Club opens

In Oct. 1999, David Fincher powderkeg of a movie was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2014. This is Jack wishing Fight Club a Happy 20th!

Oct. 20, 1974: The Godfather Part II opens

In October 1974, one of the greatest sequels of all time was released. Following the epic crime saga (not just saying epic, it really was an epic) The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola followed it up and really tried to one-up the first movie. The parts I liked the best was the flashback story line with young Vito (played by Robert De Niro here, Marlon Brando in the first). I am one of the few who likes part 1 better than 2, but 2 is still pretty spectacular. Happy 45th Godfather Part II!

Oct. 22, 1969: Led Zeppelin II released

In October 1969, the second album from Led Zeppelin was released (hence the album title). If you look at the track list, it’s almost like a greatest hits album! One of my favorites for sure. Happy 50th Led Zep II!

Oct. 22, 2004: Sideways opens

In Oct. 2004, Alexander Payne’s magnum opus (and with his filmography that is seriously saying something) was released. Here is my piece from 2014. Happy 15 Sideways!

Oct. 26, 1984: Body Double / The Terminator both open

Two of my favorite movies of 1984 were released on the same day in Oct. 1984. Brian De Palma’s noir thriller that is both a tribute to Hitchcock (I know, big news “De Palma loves Hitchcock”!?!) and a stylish 80s erotic thriller. It’s a movie I saw years later on VHS and really dug the visual language of film as a driving force in this story. Happy 35th Body Double!

The Terminator - the original - was released the same day. Here is my piece from 2014. Hard to believe after all these sequels, TV shows and more, there’s a new one opening this Friday! Happy 35th Terminator!

Oct. 29, 1999: Being John Malkovich opens in limited release

In Oct. 1999, Spike Jonze’s feature film debut opened. It was a wildly original fantasy comedy from a brilliant screenplay from Charlie Kaufman. At the time, Jonze was already an in-demand music video director, but this leap to feature film was one of the greatest debuts in history. 1999 was such a fantastic year for movies (just look at This Month in History), but this was one of the most out and out original films released that year and it still is fantastic: actors cast so far against type that it worked; the monkey’s flashback, the 7-and-a-half floor, a love triangle that can’t even be explained because it involves one only being in love while the other is inside John Malkovich’s mind, and Malkovich going into his own mind!?! Happy 20th Being John Malkovich!

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Hollywood Reporter, November 13

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

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

Page 4: Contents

Page 6: Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Page 38: Hitched, Hatched, Hired

Page 40: The Business -- Howard Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Page 62: Cover Story -- The Actresses Roundtable

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

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

Page 77: Animated Short

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

Page 80: Song & Score

Page 82: The Making of Ford v Ferrari

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

Page 88: Dollface

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

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

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

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

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I just played ep 3 and you wanna know what things fucking ripped my heart out and fucking stomped on it and tried to shove it back in with scotch tape and glitter glue? SPOILERS, DUH.

*Also this might be the most in-depth and analytical thing I've done so... it's long.

A) When Louis picks up Minnie's crossbow and fucking accidentally shoots that woman and he's like "i..I didn't mean...fuck" or something like that. That fucking voice acting shredded me and I will never be over that. Louis, Louis of all people, the lighthearted jokester that just wants everyone to be happy was forced to shoot a woman in the skull! In one of the most grisly deaths in the season at that! Skybound can throw hands with me for that one. Also when Clem goes to get Aj Louis, even as broken and torn as he is at this point, he still tries to come with her. The best boy honestly.

B) Look, I know Lilly is the villian of this season. I'm fully aware of this. But she obviously still kinda cares about Clementine, as in ep 2 she said, and I quote "this SHOULD be easy." But it's not. It's not easy to shoot clem. But then she just fucking takes Aj? And then tries to strangle Clem on the side of the boat? And then when I mercied her and tried to let her live, she just???fucking kills James??? Like, I already didn't like James (I'm sorry James stans) but he didn't deserve that. And then the bomb goes off and we don't even get to Aj in time??? Like, 👊👊👊 throw hands.

C) When Aj talks about Clem getting bit and how he'd want her to bite him. Like, fucking James just had to say something. This boy is 6, maybe 7 at the absolute latest. He's impressionable, he learns from what he hears. You can't just tell him that walkers are still kinda human. If they had any shred of humanity left, they would not kill people. Especially those close to them, like Lee's brother tried to kill Lee when he was under that lamppost. Just fucking stop I'm crying.

D) LOUIS' STORY. If you did the Violet path and didn't hear Louis', basically he was rich. Like, filthy rich. But the only thing his dad wouldn't buy him was singing lessons. Louis got so mad at what his dad said to him, "You can either be happy or you can be rich," that he wanted to teach his dad a lesson. He started buying things on his dad's credit card that eluded to his dad having an affair (jewelry, hotel rooms, etc.) And when this worked, his parents got the divorce, he came clean. He told his dad "You can either be rich or you can be happy." A week later he was at the school. And just fucking??? How much his character has grown in the 8-9 apocalypse years??I'm so proud of him. Sure, younger Louis was a little shit, but he knows how fucked up what he did was. If you watch the scene, it's so....heartbreaking. like it's his biggest regret, even with all the Marlon shit thrown in. I love Violet with my whole heart, but I fucking love Louis' storyline.

E) VIOLET WHAT THE FUCK??? As I stated before, I love Violet. She's my favorite gay/gal in the whole apocalypse. But what the fuck? Like, you...I get it. I saved Louis instead of you, but wait a fucking minute I made it blatantly obvious that I love Louis (my son) and when you see me in the prison cell you're like "fuck you I'm staying here with my psychotic gf." Like??? I think the writers made a huge character mistake with that because there's no way Violet would have actually done that to me. Also especially after Minnie admits to killing Sophie, which I'll touch on later. Like, her character would NOT do that. Idgaf if she still loved Minnie or not, she'd be fucking pissed.

F) We have to talk about Minnie. Just....ugh. Props to telltale/skybound because holy fuck. That got me. That got me good. She just??? Is completely brainwashed by the delta and lilly? She killed her own sister, and despite me telling her what Tenn told me to she still locked me in the cell? Also she doesn't say one loving thing to Violet, who literally is willing to get herself blown up just to be with her. And when that woman tells her her family is the delta and to forget about Tenn she just fucking accepts it? Like??? Fuck off bitch?

G) Louis' date was the cutest shit

H) I'm sorry but at the party that first bio sounded a fuck ton like Marlon and Idc what anyone else says you cannot convince me that my love Ruby ever did such things.

I) I hate that the story is so compelling that, even after all she's fucking done, I still care about Lilly. I call this "the Kenny effect." We have history, and that matters a lot to me. Even if I don't agree with her ever, I still don't want her to die. (Like with the Kenny/Arvo thing) I see her as family, which is why in s1 I let her stay after she shot carley and in ep 2 of this season I told her we were family. I do care about Lilly, and then she just kills James??? Like, ugh. I wish she would just fucking stop and I could hug her and everything would be fine and Lee isn't actually dead and Christa and Molly and Kenny and everyone's alive and AAHHHHH.

J) The scene where Minnie has clem's knife against clem's chest and is pushing down is so fucking similar to the Kenny/Jane situation is s2. Minnie is Jane and Clem is Kenny, this time all of the kids from the school is clem. Both Minnie and Clem want them to be safe, but they have very different ideas on how they'll be safe. Clem wants to protect them at all costs, and Minnie wants to protect them by getting rid of clem. (Like how Jane wanted to get rid of kenny) I'm crying in the club.

K) James fucking making me walk in the barn full of walkers to touch the wind chime. I was literally so anxious during this and I knew that it's a game but just??? That would have been a pointless death.

L) ABEL. NO! Look I don't like this guy as much as the rest of ya'll, but they way he just breaks down??? I refused to torture him, and I put out his cigarette. He begs to be killed because he doesn't want to turn. This is so visceral and raw that I almost cried when my knife went through his head. Then the screen thing told me I tortured him in front of Aj?? Hello? When did I do that??? I gave him mercy, I gave him peace.

M) Louis toasting to the fact that he thinks he's gonna die at the boat just fucking destroys me.

N) Rosie is the goodest girl and didn't get enough screen time.

O) Louis helping clem up when she gets pulled under water by a walker is cleansing for my soul

P) Omar and Aasim got like 4 lines between them and that's fucking breaking the law

Q) I literally only found 1 collectible where the fuck where they all???

R) I was legitimately going to not kill any of the walkers when James was getting his mask, but I honest to God kept dying over and over so I literally had to kill one of them.

S) the fact that James kept bringing up how much of a heartless bitch I am for not caring about dead people that are walking and killing the living and everyone I've ever cared about.

T) The sheer genuis of the dialogue option that asks James if he knows the names of the walkers and he's confused and clem is just like "Omar, Aasim...Violet." like, he doesn't know the walkers. They're killing machines that he has no attachment to. Clem's friends are alive, and she cares about them deeply. Like fuck off m8.

U) Aj is so broken and confused and scared I don't know how to fix him he's a murderer but he's trying to atone and I just hope to God Lee would actually be proud of Clem and I just wish he was alive and Clem and Aj and him were a family and he could meet the boarding school kids at then Louis would learn about history, something I hc him as never being good at in school, and Louis teaches him how to play the piano and he teaches Violet how to actually map the stars and she teaches him all the fighting skills she's learned and Lee takes a liking to Tenn and makes sure to thank Omar for cooking and appreciates willy and mitch and what they do and supports and learns medicine from ruby and stops Aj from killing Marlon and talks him through the bad shit and helps him atone for his sins and then he meets Rosie and when he sees Lilly again she stops being a hateful cunt and we kill all the delta people and go back to the school and everyone, including mitch and James and Minerva and Sophie is alive and this is getting way to long aahhhh.

V) When Louis is freaking out about the responsibility of planting the bomb, and it gives you to either slap him or kiss him and that's the fucking cutest shit

W) the fact that it never let's me hug Tenn or Willy, nor have a funeral for Mitch. Like I know we were crunched for time, but it would've taken 10 minutes tops.

X) to my knowledge, Tenn and Menerva never see eachother. Maybe she would have changed if she saw him? I don't know...

Y) I don't have the option to cuddle with Rosie and that's an actual crime.

Z) When the kids are talking about all the people they've lost. 34 people. 34. We've lost a lot, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's 34. It might be close, but some of those people we weren't close to nor knew for very long. Also the fact that they've lost 34 but only have like 5 graves. Wtf?

*) AND THE BIGGEST THING THAT TORE MY HEART INTO PRICES WAS THE LEE SCENE, AND THE DIALOGUE OPTION OF TELLING LEE HE'S NOT REAL AND HE TELLS CLEM THAT IT'S OKAY TO BE A LITTLE NUTS AND THEN THE HUG AND THE "LOOK AT YOU..." FROM LEE AND AAAHHHH I MISS HIM SO FUCKING MUCH.

*Edit: I'm not saying I love Lilly as much as I do Kenny, I could never like her that much, even if she had a change of heart and died protecting clem or Aj. I'm saying "the Kenny effect" because he was being an asshole, however you try to defend him. He wasn't in the right, and harmed an innocent kid (Arvo) just like Lilly does. Cool? Cool.

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Mirror, Mirror: When Movie Characters Look Back at Themselves by Sheila O’Malley

“I always feel it behind me. It’s myself. And I follow me. In silence. But I can hear it. Yes, sometimes it’s like I’m chasing myself. I want to escape from myself. But I can’t!” —Peter Lorre as child-murderer, M (1931)

There was a period in the ‘60s and ‘70s when you could barely call yourself a male movie star if you didn’t do a scene where you stared at yourself in the mirror, doing various “private” things. The device shows up before then, too, but the floodgates opened in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Meryl Streep has observed, “Often the scenes that are the most exciting, and most illuminating in film, are the ones with no dialogue…where a character is doing something alone, where the deepest most private self is revealed or explored. Exposed.”

Mirrors have multiple thematic uses (as well as the obvious directorial choice to add visual interest to the frame). But if a character is inarticulate, then seeing him “deal with” his reflection can fill in some gaps. It’s a great storytelling shortcut. If the character has a firm public “mask,” a “mirror scene” can let us see who he is when no one is watching. We all lie, to some degree, out there in the world (or on social media). We construct a “self” and a mirror scene allows the character to strip that away.

Speaking stereotypically (or, in archetypes), what is expected of male characters in terms of public persona is different from the pressures on female characters. Not better or worse, just different. Crying, showing uncertainty, weakness, vulnerability … can be a minefield. This is why the glut of male mirror scenes in the 70s makes a kind of sense: as the women’s movement rose, men began to wonder about their place, as well as buck against some of the gender norms imposed on them (or, in some cases, re-entrench said gender norms, Travis Bickle’s “You talkin’ to me” the most classic example).

Shakespeare’s use of the soliloquy—in particular for Kings and prospective Kings—could be seen as mirror scenes, with the audience as the mirror. A man goes into a private space, showing the audience things he cannot show on the battlefield or in the court. Hamlet, one of the most introverted of Shakespeare’s characters, showing non-gender-norm qualities of uncertainty and sensitivity, has a massive six soliloquies. (“O that this too too solid flesh would melt”, “O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”, “To be or not to be”, “Tis now the very witching time of night”, “Now might I do it pat” and “How all occasions do inform against me.”) It is impossible to imagine the play—or Hamlet—without them. In Richard II, after Richard is forced to surrender his crown, what is the first thing he does? Like a true narcissist, he calls for a mirror. As he stares at himself, he wonders,

“Was this face the face That every day under his household roof Did keep ten thousand men?”

and throws the mirror on the ground.

Mirrors are powerful and mysterious symbols. The doubling-up can mean all kinds of things. Alice steps through the looking glass into another world. Goethe’s Faust looks into the witch’s mirror and sees a beautiful woman staring back. Dorian Gray takes a mirror to compare his face with the one in the attic portrait. (Like Richard III, Dorian smashes the mirror.) A mirror is crucial in Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” where “The Lady” is cursed to view the world only through a mirror. But then Lancelot rides by and she can’t help it, she has to sneak a peek. Maybe the most famous fictional mirror is the Evil Queen’s in “Snow White,” the one she asks every day, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” Richard III doesn’t look for a reflection of his beauty. He wonders where his “self” even is, without the crown.

An early male mirror scene—and one of the best—is Peter Lorre’s in Fritz Lang’s M (1931). Our first glimpse of Lorre’s face comes without warning. As a handwriting-analyst theorizes in voiceover about the child-killer’s psychology, we see him, staring at himself in the mirror. He pulls at his face, slowly, manipulating his mouth into a smile, trying it on for size, maybe seeing what it looks like to the children he seduces. He bugs his eyes out, turning this way, that, a maniacal presence, almost like a shark rolling its eyes backwards as it attacks. He has no sense of what human beings feel like, of what he looks like, of how to even make a facial expression. It’s one of the most chilling private moments in cinema.

Speaking of “private moments”: Constantin Stanislavski wrote a lot about how actors needed to feel “solitude in public.” He wrote: ”During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle…You can carry it with you wherever you go.” Lee Strasberg developed his “private moment exercise” to help actors achieve “solitude in public.” There are things you do when you are alone which you would stop doing if someone walked in. Maybe you sing along to the radio. Maybe you talk to yourself. Maybe you pick your nose. Maybe you do all of these things simultaneously. Our “public” selves are drilled into us from a very young age. There are “good manners,” there are “contexts” to be memorized—what flies at home will not fly outside the home. Breaking down the public face, letting an audience see who you are when you are by yourself, is part of the actor’s job. (It’s not a surprise that the '70s came to be dominated by private-moment mirror scenes, considering the influence of the Strasberg method on acting styles.)

One of the most important mirror scenes, and a huge influence on Martin Scorsese, is Marlon Brando’s in Reflections in a Golden Eye, directed by John Huston. Brando plays Major Weldon Penderton, a closeted gay man married to a frustrated, luscious Elizabeth Taylor. Late at night, Penderton sits alone, staring at pictures of naked male statues from Greek antiquity. The character lives in an almost totally male world (the military), turned on by young soldiers, and terrified of revealing himself. In one scene, alone downstairs in the house, he walks into the hall and stares at himself in the mirror. After a moment of vacuity, he begins to talk to himself, or, more vulnerably, to an imaginary other person. He pretends to respond to what the other person says, he practices laughing, and he smiles, but the smile is superimposed. He can’t get it to look real. What he says is a kind of murmur, a “pretense” of conversation. This is the kind of vulnerability Brando could achieve like no other. Without this scene, the Major could have been a caricature. All we see is his fuddy-duddy sexless stiff public mask. The mirror scene shows his confusion at how to be a man, how to navigate even a casual conversation.

Alain Delon has a stunning mirror moment in Purple Noon (1960), Rene Clement’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. Delon plays the sociopath Tom Ripley, in thrall to his casually masculine friend Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet). Delon’s chilly presence onscreen works to beautiful effect: He doesn’t show us much. But then, he tries on Philippe’s clothes, a sleek pinstripe jacket, fancy shoes. He checks himself out in the mirror. Most actors would leave it at that. But Delon understood the homoerotic implications of the script, not to mention the character’s dangerous narcissism. Delon leans into the mirror and gives himself a rapturous long kiss, slitting his eyes open at one point, to check out what he looks like.

It’s interesting to contrast this with the same scene in the 1999 adaptation, The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon. Director Anthony Minghella makes the subtext practically text, by placing mirrors in almost every scene (the final shot of Ripley is through a mirror). When Ripley tries on his friend’s clothes, he dances around to Bing Crosby’s “May I,” doing a vaudeville burlesque. It’s a different kind of rapture than Delon’s swooning kiss. Damon’s drag-style dance is more for the audience, an explicit display of inner gay-ness, what Ripley is hiding beneath his good-natured submissive public persona. It’s a good scene, although I prefer Delon’s. Delon’s kiss is Stanislavsky’s “public solitude”—and it shows the terrifying void within the character. There is no self. The entire world is a mirror.

In Karel Reisz’s gritty Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Albert Finney’s Arthur, in a whirl of work, sex, and alcohol, is suddenly caught by his reflection one hungover morning. He was beat up the night before. He plays at being a sniper through his window, targeting local women with pellets. It’s a thin line between playfulness and murderous acting-out. Finney digs into this aspect of the character when he suddenly speaks to his reflection. It is a statement of bravado before descending into confusion: ”I’m me and nobody else. Whatever people say I am that’s what I am not, because they don’t know a bloody thing about me. God knows what I am.”

For the opening sequences of Rocky, we see Rocky Balboa’s normal “day in the life.” We are introduced to him through various public selves. But when he goes home to his dank apartment, feeding his turtles, gentle and quiet, his loneliness is so acute it reverbs off the screen. Childhood photographs of him line the mirror frame, and Rocky stares at them, his big-lug face almost crushed in disappointment. Holding a container of turtle food, he starts to talk to himself. What he’s saying doesn’t sound like anything, just private-moment murmurings, but in the next scene, when he goes to visit the girl in the pet store, it becomes clear. He was practicing a joke to tell her, a joke designed to make her laugh, show her he’s a safe person, he’s nice. Rocky practicing a joke in the mirror is one of Stallone’s most vulnerable moments as an actor (and evidence of his gift as a screenwriter).

John Travolta’s mirror moment in 1977’s Saturday Night Fever is star-making, not just because of Travolta’s almost otherworldly gorgeousness (as well as how he revels in said gorgeousness, behavior considered coded-female). Surrounded by 1970s icons—posters of Rocky, Serpico, and Farrah Fawcett—he blow-dries his hair, places gold chains around his neck, and stands like a superhero in his black speedo briefs, shot from below. Perhaps the most revealing thing about the scene is that when his father barges into the room, Travolta’s Tony Manero does not stop what he is doing. His lack of embarrassment tells us everything we need to know about the character.

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, Apocalypse Now begins with a hallucinatory sequence showing a PTSD-rattled Martin Sheen, holed up in a hotel room in Saigon, tormented by memories. In one shocking moment, Sheen stands unsteadily, and lurches around in front of the mirror, flailing his arms out in imitation martial-arts moves, an attempt to combat his helplessness and anguish, his impotence. But the gap between reality and fantasy is too great, and he, like Richard III, smashes the mirror.

Richard Gere’s mirror moment in American Gigolo is a distant cousin of John Travolta’s. His Julian has carefully crafted an immaculate persona for his female clients, and part of the movie’s pull is watching it get stripped away. At home, Julian wanders around, practicing Swedish, working out, picking out clothes for his next appointment. He’s vain, but vanity is part of his job. Smokey Robinson’s “The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage,” and it’s perfect because Julian literally is a mirage. To his clients, to himself, even. When he stands in front of the mirror, flexing his muscles, he is more Evil Queen than Richard III, a destabilizing of gender norms around male sexuality (and self-presentation) which is so much a part of the film. (When Julian meets a private detective, it’s at a joint called the Me & Me Coffee Shop. Julian’s hall of mirrors shatters by the end of American Gigolo: in the final scene, he talks to Lauren Hutton through a glass partition in prison. The mirror is no more. He can see through it now to the other person, and, crucially, he can be seen, too, as he really is.)

The most famous mirror moment is, of course, Robert De Niro’s in Taxi Driver. In the insomniac voiceover, his Travis Bickle says, “I think that someone should become a person like other people,” showing the character’s alienation from other humans. You aren’t already a person, to Travis: you have to become one. As Travis descends into psychosis, dreaming of 1. impressing the cool blonde (Cybill Shepherd) who rejected him after he took her to a porn movie on their first date and 2. rescuing the child prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster), he begins to amass a small arsenal, putting together boot holsters and straps to go around his wiry body. In the unforgettable moment when he checks himself out in the mirror, he goes into a zone of macho fantasy. (Schrader’s script said only “Travis speaks to himself in the mirror.” De Niro’s “You talkin’ to me” was his improvisation.) De Niro goes so far into his sense of privacy, it’s almost embarrassing to watch. And yet it’s so human, too. (If you say you’ve never talked to yourself in the mirror, or sung in the shower, you’re lying.)

De Niro’s second mirror moment is Raging Bull’s final scene, when the bloated Jake La Motta recites Marlon Brando’s “I coulda been a contender” monologue from On the Waterfront, before standing up and doing a series of “pumping up” exercises, to get ready to go onstage. (Side note: Mary Elizabeth Winstead closes out Eva Vives’ wonderful 2018 film All About Nina, about a troubled stand-up comic, with a re-creation of the scene from Raging Bull.) What’s fascinating about the Raging Bull scene is that Jake La Motta has no “self” to reveal. It’s almost like there’s no inner life at all. He doesn’t “get it.” He never did, he never will. De Niro blanks himself out in a very unnerving way, opposite to the dangerous vengeful-spirit fantasy he inhabits in Taxi Driver.

Although Walter Hill’s Johnny Handsome descends into a cliched crime movie with paper-thin characters, the opening sequences are dark, cynical, and atmospheric. Mickey Rourke plays Johnny, a man with a deformed head, an “ugly” appearance which has separated him from other humans. Reminiscent of the Joan Crawford film A Woman’s Face, a caring plastic surgeon (Forest Whittaker) offers to operate on Johnny, to give him a chance at a new life. When Rourke unwraps the bandages and sees his new face (i.e. Rourke’s real face), Rourke has a mirror moment like almost no other, a moment worthy to be placed alongside Brando’s and De Niro’s. He touches his face with wonder, bursting into tears. That’s touching enough, but then, as he glances back at Whitaker, Rourke goes deeper. A look of fear, and lifelong anguish floods his eyes, as he says, “I feel like I still have a mask on” and then, after that, Rourke goes even deeper into a maelstrom of emotion: gratitude, bafflement, awe, despair. The scene is Rourke’s finest hour.

Up until recently (with a couple of exceptions), when women stared at themselves in the mirror in the movies, it was obvious what they are doing: touching up their makeup, checking out their mask. Once again, in the 1960s and 70s, women started doing “mirror scenes” equivalent to men’s mirror scenes, where the purpose was not perfecting the public mask, but to - as Sylvia Plath wrote in her poem “Mirror” - search “my reaches for what she really is.” Faye Dunaway has a great one in Jerry Schatzberg’s Puzzle of a Downfall Child. Gena Rowlands has quite a few “mirror scenes” in the movies she did with Cassavetes (there’s a couple of stunners in Opening Night). In my favorite moment in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, after breaking into Paris Hilton’s house, Katie Chang goes into a daze of mad-woman fantasy, staring at herself in Paris’ mirror. It’s not hard to imagine the character slipping into the Manson family, if a Manson came along. She’s as blank as Jake La Motta. In La Verite’s opening scene, Brigitte Bardot stares at her face in a broken shard of a mirror, right before marching off for her court date. Her “self” is fragmented, broken. Jennifer Jason Leigh has an extraordinary extended “mirror scene” in Georgia. The moment is everything: self-hatred, rage, searching and longing, and bone-deep narcissism.

Men staring at themselves in the mirror let us into their secret worlds, their fantasies and anxieties, uncertainties and vulnerabilities. It’s not about being self-obsessed. It’s trying to find the self, the self that is not allowed free rein, be it a benign self or a malevolent one.

In Caravaggio’s “Narcissus,” Narcissus leans towards his reflection in the water, his posture pulled downwards with a seductive tug. He braces himself by his hands on the ground, and his knee, bulging out beneath his torso, is the only barrier between Narcissus and his reflection (and, perhaps, drowning). In the painting the reflection below is cut off; all we see are the forearms and that gleaming sturdy knee. Even though Narcissus’ body is barely visible, even though he’s hunched over himself, his energy is childlike, soft and open. He gives his reflection a caressing stare, a swooning look. He yields. This is not just vanity. This is something else.

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Desire for an Escape ~ Violetine

((A.N. final episode, am i right, fellas? well, it fucked me up a lot and uhh yeah i really like violetine and violet she’s baby,,, so is clem,,, im fucking soft for them both.))

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FINAL EPISODE BC WHO BOY I DID NOT SPARE ANY DETAILS

ok angst time!!

There is truly something special about the starry sky. The way it glimmers, the way it shines, and the way it reflects. Three different processes happening simultaneously, without the need of some kind of machinery or outside help. It does all those things by itself, only reaching out to mother nature itself for assistance. It seems independant, even if it does need that little bit of help once in a while. It was something that showcased human nature quite well.

Ericson had become quiet place over the coming months. There was hardly any threat, nor immediate danger. In other words, boring. But, that wasn’t really a bad thing either. The chance to settle down for once was a welcome change of pace. Now it was the time to develop something more than just simple combat skills or the like. Now, it was the best time to enhance relationships. Strengthen bonds, learn about each other’s past, and most importantly, evolve already established relationships, making them bloom into something larger.

“Clementine?”

“H-Huh? Oh, good morning, Violet.”

“You look pretty out of it. Were you daydreaming again?”

“Ah. Maybe…”

Clementine barely realized where she was for a moment before looking around the rundown, relatively small area she called her own room. She could barely hear Violet as she started dozing off again. Flashbacks ran through the girl’s head, more detailed than they have ever been before. It still didn’t feel real that she was still somehow alive. It all happened so fast that her own quick wit was dumbfounded. All the events that happened in less than a day, all that happened over the course of weeks, months, years, were all seemingly flooding back. She honestly couldn’t help but feel guilty. Making AJ nearly die in the process of saving her, not being able to help Tenn, or James, or Brody, Mitch, even Marlon. Some part of her was eternally aching for some kind of escape, some kind of closure that she’ll never get. And to think, it all happened so many years ago.

She was so caught up in her daydream, she didn’t even realize she was shedding a few tears externally as well. Even before she could fully open her eyes, she felt her bed getting heavier before turning to her side and seeing Violet looking at her with a look of concern. Those eyes were stern, yet compassionate. A unique trait only being visible in the blond that only Clementine had picked up on since they started hanging out more after the incident.

“Hey, c’mon, Clem… What’s up?”

Violet’s voice was just as direct, yet weak as her eyes were. Violet put her arm on Clementine’s knee and closed her eyes, as if waiting for a response. Honestly, whenever Violet did that, Clementine’s heart always skipped a beat. Even she couldn’t ignore the fact that she was head over heels in love with this girl. And that it would be incredibly rude to just ignore her like that. After some hesitation, the brunette slowly inhaled, and started speaking.

“Vi, can I ask you a question?”

“O-Oh, yeah… Shoot.”

“Have you ever wanted closure for something that you know you’ll never received? Like, just know if the people you’ve left behind are safe? O-Or just t-talk to the people we’ve lost one more time… Have some kind of hope to call our own?”

“C-Clem…?”

“I’ve always needed that kind of escape, e-ever since Lee died, it’s like I became a walker as well. The way I think, the way I live, the way I feel, it’s all just melting into something I don’t know what to call. I-I left behind someone who was like a mother to me and went off to a different group, I left the only people who cared about me and ran away, a-and then the New Frontier, and when does it end? It just… sucks…”

The room fell silent. A forced silence. Both Clementine and Violet were holding back their thoughts, much less emotions. The phrase stunned to silence would fit perfectly in this situation. It was years of pent up emotion that Clementine just let out. Years of doubt, sadness and regret, and she just compiled it all to one and finally said it. A part of the girl was so relieved that she finally got it out of her system, it was like cutting loose a ball and chain you’ve had around your ankle for years. Yet, the other side couldn’t help but be angry at her for piling this all on Violet all at once without any warning. How selfish could you be for not even taking into account her feelings before hers? Idiot. How the hell could you do such a thing to her?

Even looking at her facial expression it was clear to see that Violet was way more than stunned. She seemed almost mortified, terrified. Her nails were digging into her own and Clementine’s skin, before what seemed like no time at all, she stood up quickly and faced the brunette, a seemingly empty expression present clearly on her pale face.

“Clementine… I-I don’t care about your past?”

“H-Huh?”

“The person you are now is the person I fell in love with. It isn’t your fault at all, Clementine. Your reasons were justified. What the fuck did you think a 12 year old could do? Stay in a group that would have fallen eventually? Even back then you were smart, Clem. You almost have like a sixth sense. And, to be honest, without you… I probably would have went on alone to look for Minnie… I was at my limit at the time, and then you showed up… You saved my life! You saved everyone here! Lee would be so proud of you to see how much you’ve grown…! A-And I understand you… I would kill for a chance to talk to Minnie, and just, talk it out, I guess… I would have apologised to so many people if I knew what I know now. B-But, it’s not like we can change the past or something, w-we have to move on and crap… S-Shit… I’m bad with words… S-Sorry I can’t be as encouraging as you, Cle-”

“T-Thank you, Vi…! Thank you so much...!”

“C-Clem?”

“And shut up, you’re not bad at words. Look at me! I’m a mess because of you!”

“Ditto. You make me feel like shit, and you also make me feel so fucking happy. How do you do it?”

“I have you.”

“H-Huh?”

Reality was nonexistant at that point. Clementine was hugging the Violet’s torso as best she could, not really being able to go higher than that. But that didn’t matter. Both of them were off in their own little world now. Somewhere that seemed… hopeful. An escape, for both of them.

“H-Hey, since when are you the emotional one? T-That’s my job…”

“Oh, shut up, Vi!”

Their world was something that nobody could take away. It was filled with joy, happiness, laughter in which their emotions didn’t have to be restrained. A place where honesty was the only requirement. It was something that was that one source of hope that could not be replaced.

Maybe there is some hope a world filled with walkers after all.

#violetine #twdg violet #clementine x violet #violet x clementine #twdg clementine #twdg season 4 #twdg spoilers #twgd final season #twg done running

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“So this card is damn good, eh?” UFC Fight Night From Brazil

Joey

Jan 27th, 2019

The first card for ESPN+ had a little bit of everything; there was a big title fight with two division relevance, a big clash between a rising LW contender and an old war horse, familiar faces, up and coming prospects and some good old fashioned low brow chaos for all to take in. This card is different across the board but that's not in a bad way. In the weirdest way, it's just a collection of really great fights up and down the marquee. You have a bantamweight #1 contender type clash as the headliner, Jose Aldo vs Renato Moicano as the co-main event in what should be a fuckin' great fight, potentially the last fight of Demian Maia's career and a collection of fights with prospects facing prospects, prospects facing proven UFC veterans and some good sleeper fights across weight classes like flyweight (both men and women) and lightweight. This card probably won't Ready to have some fun?

Fights: 13

Debuts: Sarah Frota, Talia Santos, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Rogério Bontorin, Geraldo de Freitas, Felipe Colares

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 1 (Dmitry Sosnovskiy OUT, Jairzinho Rozenstruik IN vs Junior Albini)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC): 7 (Jose Aldo, Demian Maia, Raphael Assuncao, Marlon Moraes, Charles Oliveira, David Teymur, Thiago Santos)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC: 2 (Demian Maia, Junior Albini)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC: 6 (Marlon Moraes, Raphael Assuncao, Renato Moicano, Charles Oliveira, David Teymur, Ricardo Ramos)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2017 (in the UFC): 23-10

Raphael Assuncao- 4-0 Marlon Moraes- 3-1 Jose Aldo- 1-2 Renato Moicano- 3-1 Demian Maia- 1-3 Lyman Good- 1-1 Charles Oliveira- 4-1 David Teymur- 3-0 Johnny Walker- 1-0 Justin Ledet- 1-1 Livia Souza- 1-0 Sarah Frota- 0-0

Fights By Weight Class (yearly number here):

Bantamweight- 2 (3) Featherweight- 2 (2) Welterweight- 2 (4) Lightweight- 1 (4) Middlewieght- 1 (1) Flyweight- 1 (3) Light Heavyweight- 1 (2) Heavyweight- 1 (2) Women's Strawweight- 1 (1) Women's Flyweight- 1 (3)

2019’s Records We Keepin Track Of:

Debuting Fighters (0-4): Sarah Frota, Talia Santos, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Rogério Bontorin, Geraldo de Freitas, Felipe Colares, Anthony Hernandez

Short Notice Fighters (0-2): Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Second Fight (2-1): Said Nurmagomedov, Livia Souza, Johnny Walker

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (2-0): Magomed Bibulatov

Undefeated Fighters (1-2): Sarah Frota, Anthony Hernandez, Talia Santos, Felipe Colares

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization:

Weight Class Jumpers (Fighters competing outside of the weight class of their last fight even if they’re returning BACK to their “normal weight class”) (2-3): Said Nurmagomedov

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- The biggest "pondering" I have is whether or not the result of Cejudo vs Dillashaw wrecked the relevance for our main event. To be 100% fair and on the nose, the winner of this fight had to face TJ Dillashaw for the title should he have beaten Cejudo. Even if Raphael is a drab fight on paper due to Dillashaw dominating the second fight, Raphael would've been beyond every other potential title contender by a sizable margin with little room for debate. If Moraes became the first guy since Dillashaw to beat Assuncao over the past like four years? I can't imagine there being an argument about him as the #1 contender either. Cejudo finishing Dillashaw forces everybody to sit back down and try to reconfigure what this fight really means. Now it's no longer in theory a #1 contender fight outright since you're probably getting a Dillashaw vs Cejudo rematch soon. How soon and what weight class (rematch at flyweight? Cejudo going for two?) puts the winner of this fight in a potential year long limbo (if Cejudo vs Dillashaw happens in July, chances are we're not seeing Moraes/Assuncao vs Cejudo/Dillashaw winner until 2019). What a weird stupid spot to be in.

2- It's weird that the co-main event is eerily similar while also being completely different if that makes any sort of sense at all. This is a #1 contender fight that may not be one and yet I'm pretty intrigued in the number of ways it can go. It's like a weird RL Stein Choose Your MMA Adventure Book:

Holloway stays at 145 lbs, Moicano wins so you get Moicano vs Holloway eventually.

Holloway goes up to 155 lbs, Moicano wins means you have no Holloway so do you do Moicano/Ortega 2 or Moicano/Volkanovski or does Frankie Edgar come into play?

Holloway stays at 145 lbs, Aldo wins so it's down to either Edgar getting a shot at Holloway despite losing to Aldo twice (aka the UFC 222 main event on paper) or you go with Holloway vs Volkanovski or you try to convince yourself that fans will want to see Holloway scrub Aldo a third time.

Holloway goes up to 155 lbs, Aldo wins means all sorts of chaos. Can't do Aldo vs Edgar III when Aldo won the first two fights so you might go with Volkanovski vs Aldo but at the same time does Aldo get a title shot if he wants to retire so do you just ignore Aldo/Moicano and go with Volkanosvki vs Ortega or Edgar vs Ortega 2 or does Yair get involved or so on so forth.

A lot of unique scenarios at play here.

3- The first Assuncao vs Moraes fight could be summed up as a better version of every big Assuncao fight. He neutralizes guys, does enough to win rounds, stifles their offensive gameplan and then leaves with a tight decision win. Moraes looked pretty nervous in his UFC debut, got dropped by Assuncao early and a late rally (in many ways punctuating a staring contest where the guy who did something gets the boost) wasn't enough. What changes has Moraes made to his game and can they be implemented against a bigger sturdier guy. For all of Assuncao's physical limitations (he looked like he was moving at Tim Boetsch speed vs TJ Dillashaw), his style works because of his size, how he implements his size/strength advantage and his ability to always get opponents to commit to fighting his style of fight. Assuncao beats you like the Patriots; he takes away whatever you deem to be your best path to victory and then asks you if you've got a good enough back up plan. Moraes didn't----so what's changing?

4- This is the first UFC card in quite some time that really seems 100% cool with loading up on Brazil vs Brazil fights without a short notice caveat (or a TUF finale). Your main and co-main events both have Brazil vs Brazil and outside of those two there are two other Brazil vs Brazil fights on the card. Wonder if that's just happenstance or the UFC is softening up on its stance of making these cards Brazil vs The World?

5- How ugly will rounds 2 and 3 of Good vs Maia be if it follows the usual Maia protocol?

6- Her debut went about as well as it could so color me intrigued in seeing Livia Souza again. This fight is a weird one though as rather than get a serious step up or some challenging middle of the road fighter who exists JUST for fights like these (looking at you, Randa Markos), she gets a DWCS debutante in Sarah Frota. There are some REAL Thiago Silva vibes from Sarah Frota from a fighter's perspective; the crazy tats, the menacing glare, the stalking with a heavy lead leg and the all power in every strike style she utilizes with extend-o arms to match. She's way too wild for Livia Souza in my estimation but if you watched Frota's Contender Series fight (as well as her SFL works), there's some danger here. It's a pretty compelling fight on paper.

7- The UFC rushing Johnny Walker into a fight with a guy who can strike really well but lacks any sort of power/wrestling game feels like the exact opposite of a set up fight. Ledet has boxed up heavyweights and while Walker's athleticism and versatility should lead him to the win, why put together a fight this dicey? Were there no OTHER clunky 205ers to find for the job?

8- Ricardo Ramos vs Said Nurmagomedov is a damn good fight but this feels like asking a lot of Said.

9- The UFC still wants Junior Albini to be a thing, huh?

10- Thiago Alves vs Max Griffin feels like a really weird fight to be excited about but alas I'm still with it. Griffin has developed pretty well in the UFC from the somewhat limited KO artist on the regional circuit. He's beaten Mike Perry, had success vs Curtis Millender in a losing effort and his fight with Elizeu Zaleski is one of those hidden gem sleeper classics. At this point in his career Thiago Alves is not the man who dominated the WW scene in 2009 and so forth but he's still got moments and glimpses of that guy. Griffin's improved everything but his striking defense as evidenced by him getting rocked in fights with Zaleski (multiple times), Millender and even a slim moment or two of trouble vs Mike Perry. This fight could be fun in a phone booth.

11- Kind of hidden on this card is Charles Oliveira vs David Teymur in a WHALE of a fight. Teymur came off of the failed TUF: Faber vs McGregor season where Artem Lobov and Ryan Hall were the two finalists. I think it's fair to say Teymur has eclipsed both of guys and in pretty short order. Wins over Drakkar Klose, Lando Vannata and Nik Lentz, all in fairly decisive fashion, have put Teymur in that weird breaking point spot other LWs have been before; he's good enough to be a top 10 guy but not flashy enough to get the fights necessary to creep into that mark. He's facing Charles Oliveira who is sort of the opposite of Teymur. Oliveira is a dynamic finisher with a slooowly developing middle game to get there whereas Teymur seemingly lacks the extra gear necessary to finish things against more competent opposition. This is fun stuff.

12- So does Lyman Good get RDA next if he wins?

#MMA #UFC #Aldo #Moicano #Teymur #Assuncao #Moraes #Brazil #Fight Night

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xuxibelle · 5 years

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28 Question Tag Game:

I was tagged by @sleepwalkingdragon

1. How tall are you?

5′7″

2. What color and style is your hair?

dark brown/dark red ombre, couple inches below my shoulders. Just had it dyed and cut for Christmas

3. What color are your eyes?

Hazel, and they tend to change colors depending on my mood and sometimes what I’m wearing.

4. Do you wear glasses?

yes..... I’m not supposed to be... I had LASIK surgery and I thought I wasn’t going to have to wear glasses or contacts again... I didn’t know it could go bad again...

5. Do you wear braces?

nope

6. What is your fashion style?

depends on where I am or where I’m going. I want to be comfortable. at home usually pajamas or sweats and a tshirt. Out anywhere, usually leggings and a tshirt or blouse depending on where I’m going. I’m transitioning between clothing sizes right now so leggings are easier lol

7. Full name?

Jessica (i ain’t telling my lastname)

8. When were you born?

9. Where were are you from and where do you live now?

in a lame city where nothing ever happens

10. What school do you go to?

none

11. What kind of student are you?

I was a horrible student until I got to college lol My mom would actually do some of my homework in elementary/primary school and then I would copy it....

12. Do you like school?

I did not until I got to college

13. What are your favorite school subjects?

Art, music, film appreciation, medical coding, medical assisting

14. Favorite 📺 Shows?

Vikings, WWE, Teen Wolf, Prison Break, True Blood, Friends, Harper’s Island, Hannibal, Game of Thrones, Arrow, Flash

15. Favorite Movies?

The greatest showman, Princess Bride, Godfather, Guys & Dolls, anything Marlon Brando, Clueless, Mr. Right, The Nice Guys, A Million Ways To Die in the West, East Side Sushi, Harry Potter, Frozen, Moana, Deadpool, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, At World’s End, anything Marvel

16: Favorite 📚?

The Bell Jar

18: Do you have any regrets?

Plenty...

19: Dream Job?

does trophy wife count LMAO... no but really, I’d like to work from home doing medical coding

20: Would you like to get married some day?

maybe... depends on if I find the right person. So far, in my mind guys are jerks so until one can change my mind enough lol not really planning on it

21: Would you like to have kids some day?

22: How many?

none

23: Do you like shopping?

sometimes. depends on what it’s for

24: What countries have you visited?

none! *sobs in a corner!

25: What is the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had?

I had recently been broken up with for a friend of mine that was much younger than me (in real life). In my dream, I was in a crowded store with the guy that left me. We were walking around shopping. He sees her across the store and waves with a smile. All of a sudden something was happening that made everyone panic and want to get out. So, what does he do? He flipping leaves me standing there to go get her and help her get out. He turns to look back at me just before they walk out the door, no look of regret or anything on his face. I’m just left standing there in the middle of this chaos, people running and shouting, things falling and being thrown...

26: Do you have any enemies?

I am my own worst enemy

27: Do you have any s/o?

nope

28: Do you believe in miracles?

absolutely!!

Tagging (if you’ve already done it ignore it) @nerdraging4point0 @summernykole @twilightparker @dtftomholland @underoossss @h-osterfield @sunshine112 @tomsh0lland @tomhollanders2013 @rakkaroses

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littlesugarwords · 3 years

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Okay, so I read one of the headcanons you wrote a while back, the one where the Ericson kids react to their s/o betraying them with the Delta. Well, I had a thought. How would the Ericson kids react to their s/o betraying them to the Delta but then the s/o themself gets betrayed? And then the s/o gets put in the same cell as them? Sorry if this is worded weird, I am very tired.

OOOOH DAMN THIS IS GETTING REAL. here is the link to the previous head canon they’re referring to :)

thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy buddy!!

Clementine: At first, Clem refused to look at them. She sat in one of the corners, carving pictures into the brick wall, ignoring them. “I’m sorry.” They said. “Let’s not talk.” Clem said back. It wasn’t angry, just tired. “You locked me and AJ up in here. I’m not interested in talking.” If it was just her, she wouldn’t have cared. But their negligence led to the trauma of AJ, and that was unforgivable. “Clem-“ “I have nothing to say to you anymore, Y/N.” She snapped back. “We’re sitting in silence. Stop trying.” She meant it, and Y/N knew that entirely.

Marlon: Marlon sat on their dingy bed, staring at the wall, ignoring them. His silence was killing Y/N. “Marlon-“ “Just shut up.” Marlon snapped. “I get to go first.” He stood, wandering toward them, fists knit and anger swelling. “You landed us both in here because you used my fucking care for you as a weapon.” He scoffed. “You deserve to be in here. Not me. You dragged me and my fucking family in here.” He gestured to the cells across the hall, housing his fellow members of Ericson. “You’ve put everything on the line because I cared for you. Fuck. You.” He seethed anger through every word.

Louis: Louis had been sitting in the corner, tossing a rock against a nearby wall, when Y/N was tossed in. He didn’t look their way, even though his stomach twisted in three knots. “Louis?” He said nothing. “Louis, it’s-“ “Don’t.” He said. He held the pebble he was fiddling with in his palm, squeezing his fingers around it. “I really don’t feel like talking to you.” “Louis, please-“ “Don’t ‘please’ me.” Louis scoffed, angrily tossing his pebble against the wall and discarding it. Only then did the tear stains on his cheeks become evident to Y/N. “You trapped me and everyone I care about here, Y/N. You put us all in into this mess and now look!” He scoffed, settling his voice from where it had been aggressively growing louder. “Messing with me is expected, but the moment you roped my family in,” he clenched his jaw and squeezed his eyes shut. “Just don’t talk to me. I don’t want anything to do with you.”

Violet: Violet was laying on their wooden bed when Y/N was tossed in. The moment she saw who it was, she closed her eyes and rolled her head away. “Violet?” “Fuck you.” “Violet please, I just want to-“ “I don’t care what you want, Y/N. Fuck you.” She rolled over and sat up, shooting daggers their way with her gaze. “If anyone should be making demands here, it should be me. And you know what I want?” There was a beat of silence. “You to get fucking bent. Don’t talk to me and sit in the damn corner.”

Mitch: Mitch sat, his head in his hands, his eyes swollen from how hard he had been rubbing at them. When Y/N was tossed in later, he scoffed and rocketed to his feet. “No. Fuck this. Send her to a different fucking cell.” Being ignored, Mitch slapped a hand on the iron door. “I’ll keep screaming if I have to! Get me a different /fucking/ cellmate!” “Mitch-“ “No. /No/. Fuck you. Don’t even consider talking to me. I don’t want to deck you and get blood on the walls. I’ve been cleaning them for the past eight fucking hours.” He smacked their shoulder bitterly. “No thanks to you.”

Aasim: Aasim turned, recognizing the person immediately. His stomach seized and he threw himself into an upright position. “No. No, they can’t be in here.” He tried to plead with the guard to no avail, leaving the two. “Aasim-“ “Don’t. Don’t even bother.” When he turned to face them, tears were already streaming down his cheeks. “I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t even want to be near you.” He turned away, wiping at his face and returning to curl up on their small bed. “Just don’t talk to me. Act as though I don’t exist.” That’s what he wished was the case right then.

Ruby: Ruby, who had been crying since she’d first arrived, brushed at her silent tears when a new figure was tossed into her cell. At first, she was hopeful - maybe someone she could finally talk to - but seeing who it was she collapsed into sobs again. “No! No, get away from me.” “Ruby, I’m not here to hurt you-“ “I don’t care!” She wailed, swatting them away from her. “Don’t touch me, don’t look at me, don’t anything to me!” She was screaming like Y/N had never heard before. “Leave me alone.”

Omar: Omar was sitting in the corner of the cell, his head in his hands, weeping. He had been for the past hour, hungry, cold, and lonely. When another person was tossed in, he nearly jumped out of his skin. He just about threw up spotting Y/N. “You’re cursing me, right?” “Omar, come on.” “No, you’re a curse.” He glared, more tears sliding out as he did so. “Because all you have done since entering my life is cause me and my family pain.” His voice caught and he turned away. “I don’t want anything to do with you.”

Brody: Brody had been crying since they’d arrived days ago. Her eyes were practically swollen shut, she couldn’t eat, and threw up every time she had a panic attack. By the time Y/N was thrown into the room, her panic only grew worse. “No no no no,” she sobbed, collapsing back onto there bed. She clamped her hands over her ears and rolled away, sobbing and breathing deeply, trying to keep herself as calm as she could muster. “Leave me alone! on’t touch me!” She yelled, hands pressed tighter against her scalp. he trusted no one, anymore. Not since what they did to her. Who knew if she would ever be able to trust again.

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