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mirage-ocs · 4 months

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「 ✦ Dane ✦ 」

“Sup sweets, oh don’t try runnin’ now. That shit ya stole? Yea that’s mine.”

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❦ codename; host

❦ their voice has a sweet tone but husky with hints of an Australian accent

❦ they/them ❦ asexual [but might change to Demi in the future], poly ❦ 30 ❦ 03/01 ❦ 5’7

❦ knows of the other realities, one of their mirrors can actually look through the different realities

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“Oh that’s cute, but ain’t gonna work babes. That’s what makes me so great at what I do, I don’t go home with anyone.”

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❦ short dark hair with the sides shaved, long on top that usually gets styled back ❦ blue eyes normal ❦ will have glimmers of wine red eyes ❦ tattoos sleeves, over chest and back ❦

❦ they are:

❦ secretive

❦ flirtatious

❦ short patience

❦ eidetic memory

❦ sharp

❦ always alert

❦ always observing

❦ dominant

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“Not happenin’, take your business outside. With me? Ya ain’t got nothin, well… nothin’ that ya wouldn’t survive.”

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❦ human (the emissaries are still confused, honestly)

❦ both the host of Aphrodite and Ares

❦ runs a bar/venue/casino

❦ feeds off of both attraction and anger in the air

❦ wants nothing to do with the emissaries

❦ doesn’t put up with any other the reality shifting bullshit

❦ took over the building that they have because they knew it was a portal

❦ abilities:

❦ enhanced strength

❦ enhanced reflexes

❦ charm speak (but hates using it)

❦ weapon mastery

❦ likes banana melon bars ❦ peppermint ❦ caramel apple lollipops ❦ street tacos ❦ nachos ❦ fried ravioli ❦ tortellini

❦ owns 15 dogs ❦ 3 Great Danes named Draco, Nobs, and Chip ❦ 3 Dobermans named Samson, Nyx, and Dollie ❦ 1 Rottweiler named Koko ❦ 2 cane corso named Trouble and Brutus ❦ 1 Great Pyrenees named Casper ❦ 1 Saint Bernard named Gerald ❦ 1 Belgian malinois named Max ❦ 1 Akita named Jacks ❦ 1 Chow Chow named Bear ❦ 1 Xolo named Sisco ❦ and owns one goat named Fancy

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Friends: ❦ Dextrose [little cub] ❦ Casen [hyper sunny boi]

Interests: ❦ @livealittleoc-cb’s Set and Bas [pup and pissy feline]

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“Mind, mind games until you lose control.”

Face claim; Ruby Rose

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#「 ✦ Dane ✦ 」

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its-moopoint · 10 months

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A shipper zoomed in on CB's books left in the house on the market and found Bear Grylls', A Ginspiration and Secret Barrister on the shelves. By her logic, which has been agreed upon by the rest of the gang, it means Rolando lived there with her because the "assistant" would not be reading these kinds of books. I, along with many in my family love Bear Grylls and have his book too. In fact, I also have an autograph copy, which by the crazies' logic means that I lived in the same house. As for the other 2 books, C and T have created their own gin which means a book like this is not unexpected and the second is easy considering that T owned 2 bars and knows about liquor. Neither is there because of Rolando. Still, it's insane that they snoop around and zoom in, in search of something that only makes sense in their atrophied brains.

In Spanish there's a saying, "go look for something and you shall find" which along with their own projecting turns everything into a fake "receipt" that's vicius from the moment it's born.

Let's debunk the book stupid logic in a few sentences:

- C created her own gin with her own husband before Rolando got his nose on one. Forget me Not is a gin last time I checked so it's normal there would be gin related books and files at C's home. Her home with her real husband by the way, the name appearing in marriage certificates, property purchases and sells, companies....

- In that same home there in the background she had on display a picture of her wedding church. Shippers weren't interested in that. Or in some music records either.

Now for some jeopardy game trivia style, solve me this:

C talked the other day about her son singing to her Smooth Operator. She told that live on a talk show, it was all over the internet and I bet it's something she's shared with her circle as in typical stuff you share when you want to show how cute your kid is, but as "fate" and "luck" has it, Rolando shares a new post of his alcohol and he uses as song for the IG post.... SMOOTH OPERATOR. Now, what does this mean

1) SC are obviously married and fucking. No doubt about it whatsoever.

2) Rolando is an old dog that still needs SC shippers more than anyone, so he likes playing their stupid game.

3) The song randomly showed up as one of the newest hits on Spotify list and he already had it in mind recalling C's "mom tale" story.

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cbsxreader · 1 year

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Cbs valentines day?

Ok, a bit late to the party but here goes!

(There's a small bit of NSFW)

Valentine's day with Christian!

It's a wild ride to be honest.

Not only do you wake up and are already getting smothered with gifts, but Christian promises to do anything you wish with a wide grin on his face.

You want to go to the carnival and let Christian win you a fuckton of pink teddy bears? You got it!

You want a romantic dinner with him in the fanciest restaurant of the city? Well, he'll get a bit impatient while waiting for the food to arrive, but sure, why not?

You want to take a walk with him through the park and have your lunch on a bench together? He finds that boring, but he can go to hell, if that's what you want, that's what you're getting!

The thing is, Christian doesn't have a plan for the day, so he asks you instead..

Also, he doesn't like the last idea, because he can't flex how strong he is or how much money he's willing to spend on you.

Anyways, he's also more affectionate than usual. Christian places quick kisses on your forehead, cheeks and lips more often.

And maybe a few secret hickeys and make-out sessions in storage rooms and broom closets

He calls you Love a lot. No, but like at the end of almost every sentence when he's talking to you. At the end of the day it doesn't sound like a word anymore.

When you finally get home, he, somehow, has already changed the bedding to a red colour. The bed is a bit of a mess, since Christian doesn't really know how to tidy it, but it was never really going to stay tidy, so what's the point?

Also, you can get a hot bath or a massage, but just inform him before you get home.

#tf2 #tf2 x reader #freak fortress #freak fortress x reader #tf2 freaks #tf2 freaks x reader #tf2 freakshow #tf2 freakshow x reader #tf2 sniper #tf2 sniper x reader #christian brutal sniper x reader #christian brutal sniper

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livealittleoc-cb · 4 months

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Merry Christmas Sea Prince, Puppy & Boo

🎐: Merry Christmas Baby! *smiles* I hope you like your gifts I got you two swimsuits, one I found matching trunks for with little dinosaurs on them. I also went out and looked for shells and made you this little bracelet. I hope you like them and enjoy them *looks around with a mischievous smile* I may have also found our honeymoon spot butttt that’s a secret~

♥️: MERRY CHRISTMAS PUPPY! This is your second Christmas with us and we really hope we can make it special for you! I sewed the three of us some matching bear onesies, I thought it would be cute to wear them and watch movies together and drink hot chocolate together all warm and cozy 🥰

🍷: Merry Christmas~ *smiles and kisses his head* I made you a little sewing kit…more like decorated a little tin and put sewing stuff inside *snorts softly* but I made sure you can take it around with you. I also made us some cookies, Ace helped…he licked the spoon~ *laughs*

♥️: I DID HELP! *whines*

🍷: I’m kidding I’m kidding he did help~ We can eat them while we watch movies together~

💀: MERRY HUMAN CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY! *snorts* I got us matching outfits 😎 we’re going to be the baddest bitches around *proud smile and hugs her* we can take pictures inside and I was hoping we could go outside and take pictures in the snow and get a snow kiss *puppy eyes* please? 🥺

@monsterhigh-cb

#🎄Merry Christmas Sea Prince #🎄Merry Christmas Puppy!#🎄Merry Christmas Boo!#🎐leo.txt #♥️ace.txt #🍷dionysus.txt #💀jay.txt

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laresearchette · 9 months

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Friday, August 04, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: EVA THE OWLET (Apple TV+) WITNESS TO MURDER (A&E Canada) 9:00pm WOMEN ON DEATH ROW (A&E Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION (CBS Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART MAMBA’S DIAMOND WNBA: ATLANTA DREAM AT PHOENIX MERCURY

CBC GEM CHATEAU DIY (Season 6) HEY DUGGEE (Season 2)

CRAVE TV 65 BLIZZARD THE CHI (Season 6, Episode 1 *Season 6 Premiere) THE DISHWASHER EAST HARBOUR HEROES (Season 1) GOOD MORNING CHUCK (Season 1) THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN MONKEY BEACH NATURAL BORN KILLERS ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST PACO RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS SIMULANT SUPERBAD

DISNEY + STAR BULL SHARK BANDITS BULL SHARK VS. HAMMERHEAD THE RANDALL SCANDAL: LOVE, LOATHING, AND VANDERPUMP RETURN OF THE WHITE SHARK SAVED FROM A SHARK SHARK EAT SHARK

NETFLIX CANADA THE BIG NAILED IT BAKING CHALLENGE FATAL SEDUCTION (Volume 2)

ESPN THE OCHO!!!!! (TSN2) 1:00am: Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational 1:30am: USA Mullet Championships 2:00am: 2023 ACL Pro Shootout Championship 3:00am: Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship 4:00am: Marble Runs 4:30am: Financial Modeling World Championships 5:00am: 2023 Table Hockey World Championships 5:30am: Death Diving 6:00am: Teqball 6:30am: Auctioneer's Championship 7:00am: Microsoft Excel eSports: Elimination Race 7:30am: Truck and Tractor Pulling 8:00am: One Wheel World Championship 8:30 am: Arm Wrestling Reborn 9:00am: Extreme Axe & Knife Games 10:00am: Omegaball Women's Invitational 11:00am: Bullshooter 12:00pm: Omegaball Men's Invitational 1:00pm: Professional Cuesports League 2:00pm: Kickball Championship 3:00pm: The Ocho Show 4:00pm: 2023 Wiffleball All-Stars 5:00pm: Major League Table Tennis 6:00pm: Slippery Stairs 7:00pm: ACL World Championships 9:00pm: Viii Sports 10:00pm: Pillow Fighting Championship 11:00pm: 2023 FootGolf World Cup 11:30pm: Stein Holding Competition 12:00am: 2023 Corgi Races 12:30am: World Dog Surfing Championship 1:00am: Dodgeball All-Star Showcase 2:00am: 2023 Table Hockey World Championships 2:30am: Truck and Tractor Pulling

HLINKA GRETZKY CUP (TSN4) 1:00pm: Semifinal: Canada vs. United States (TSN5) 1:00pm: Semifinal: Czechia vs. Finland

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 2:00pm: Atlanta vs. Cubs (SN) 7:00pm: Jays vs. Red Sox (SN Now) 7:00pm: Mets vs. Orioles (TSN3/TSN5) 8:00pm: Rays vs. Astros (SN1) 9:30pm: Dodgers vs. Padres

CEBL BASKETBALL (TSN5) 7:00pm: East Play-In - Brampton Honey Badgers vs. Scarborough Shooting Stars (TSN5) 9:00pm: West Play-In - Edmonton Stingers vs. Winnipeg Sea Bears

LEAGUES CUP SOCCER (TSN3) 8:30pm: Round of 32: Chicago vs Club America (TSN3) 10:30pm: Round of 32: Monterey vs. Portland

LEGENDS VS. MODERN ICONS (Cottage Life) 8:00pm: The competition kicks off with a cage match between the Colosseum, the ancient world's top arena, and Wembley Stadium, the most expensive football venue ever built; a look at their architectural features and which one offers the best fan experience.

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN4) 9:00pm: Argos vs. Stamps

GIANT POP-UP CONSTRUCTIONS (Cottage Life) 9:00pm/10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Workers gather in India to build a railway underpass in just five hours; they battle stifling heat and deadly obstacles to reconnect the tracks and ensure they're safe before the first scheduled train roars through.

STIMULANT (Crave) 9:00pm: A humanoid A.I.'s attempt at winning a grieving widow's heart puts it in the path of a government agent trying to stop the rise of machine consciousness.

NATURAL BORN KILLERS: DIRECTOR'S CUT (Starz Canada) 9:00pm: Two young lovers (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis) embark on a blood-drenched killing spree that quickly propels them to celebrity status.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #legends vs. modern icons #the ocho #hockey #mlb baseball #cebl basketball #leagues cup #cfl football

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sohannabarberaesque · 9 months

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

So Duluth was meant to be laughed at, no?

ON THE SKYLINE PARKWAY IN DULUTH, MN: The motorhome whence Huckleberry Hound and yours truly have decided to continue our everlasting road trip is parked close to the Engler Tower, itself a landmark of Duluth as much as the Aerial Bridge in Duluth Harbour, essentially THE only access between downtown and Park Point. And sipping coffee besides as we drink in a somewhat misty view unto Duluth's downtown below.

"Uh, Huck--did I tell you about the one time I found the CB Bears and reconnected with them practically in this same spot in the parking lot?"

"I think the memory escapes me on that point, Snag," Huck remarked as he took another drag on the coffee--which turned out being the Arco brand, a well-known local such in the Twin Ports and the North Shore regions.

"It was early on in my road trip experiences. Not exactly Route 66, to be honest about it, but the Mini Cooper was my vehicle of choice ... I was driving along the Skyline Parkway, just drinking in the view as we are now ... and just near the Engler Tower, even, I couldn't help but notice the trio of Hustle, Bump and Boogie."

"THEY were the CB Bears, Snag?"

"You had best believe it, recall them, even!" Which had Huckleberry Hound chuckling a modest bit. "Shucks ... how easily yours truly, being one of the earliest of us Funtastics, forgets newer stuff like the CB Bears. Were they those bears named for disco dance moves?"

"Correct, Huck, correct. At any rate, yours truly could not help but be surprised at such a meeting, and with their Perfume Wagon still managing to hold on with the proverbial baling wire ... even though the cases they got from 'Charlie' seemed few and far between."

"So what are they nowadays doing?"

"Huck, that ursine trio happens to be into fishing, and serving their catch on cedarwood planks. But later on, after we met, they decided to try some surfing in as unlikely a spot as on Lake Superior. Up by Palmers, even, along the Lake Superior Scenic Drive--"

"You mean to tell me, Snagglepuss," Huck remarked, "that people can actually surf in such otherwise chilly waters as on Lake Superior?!"

"Correct. And not long afterward, Hustle let me in on a little secret ... that he was originally from along the Gunflint Trail. Out of Grand Marais, even!"

"So where were Bump and Boogie from, if I may ask?"

"Bump turned out to be from somewhere near Yellowstone, having managed to escape from a rather intense forest fire ... and Boogie was originally from Alaska himself!"

"Rather amazing, these backstories we all have. And you wonder if many of us have stumbled on Breezly Bruin, understood, naturally enough, to be from Nome, Alaska."

"Have you seen Underwater America with Peter Potamus, Huck?"

"Snag, now that you mention it--I have. And I couldn't help but find Breezly Bruin looking rather crazy in diver's gear. Even if, as a polar bear, he manages to otherwise dive rather well breathhold."

Stepping out of our motorhome and into the parking lot, the mist had started to clear somewhat to allow for that impressive view down upon Duluth ... even enough to notice another vessel or two crossing under the Aerial Bridge heading outbound. Leaving me to ponder to myself just why "Duluth" was among those names that still brought down the house on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville's zenith (and I could still picture George and Joey Bungle trying to generate laughs with the sheer mention of "Duluth").

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@warnerbrosentertainment @zodiacfan32 @jellystone-enjoyer @iheartgod175 @haiyis-dark-void @archive-archives @thylordshipofbutts @screamingtoosoftly @princessgalaxy505 @themineralyoucrave @thebigdingle @warnerbros-blog1 @indigo-corvus @xdiver71 @theweekenddigest @railguner34 @warnerbrosent-blog

#hanna barbera #fanfiction #fanfic #road trip experience #motorhome #postcards from snagglepuss #huckleberry hound #duluth #skyline parkway #engler tower #onlyinmn #cb bears #hannabarberaforever

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grumpycurbur · 1 year

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Who Remembers (CB)

Can i challenge your Care Bears knowledge for a second?

youtube

Who's aware of this?

This was a PSA TV special produced by a local news station in Chicago back in 1985 called Care Bears: Be A Safe Kid.

Obviously this was meant to teach children about stranger danger, but it's interesting to know that even The Care Bears got in on the PSA craze of the 1980's, let alone the fact that something like this exists.

It's a hidden gem to say the least and in many ways, worth a watch.

Also talk about uncommon seeing Secret Bear and Grams Bear together.

#care bears #old psa #1980s #nostalgia #Youtube

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college-girl199328 · 3 months

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As the possible No. 1 pick in this year's draft, Caleb Williams has already drawn lofty comparisons before playing an NFL snap. Some pundits have aggressively likened the USC quarterback's skills to Patrick Mahomes. Speaking to CBS Sports, Williams called it "really cool" to get mentioned in the same breath as the Kansas City Chiefs star. He's not shying away from the elevated bar.

Williams has been likened to Mahomes for his strong arm, athleticism, and improvisational traits. Plenty of scouts see the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner as a generational talent. He handled the Mahomes comparisons differently over the summer.

The Chicago Bears infamously drafted Mitchell Trubisky over Mahomes in 2017, so fans may be sensitive about hearing that name with the team unofficially on the clock. Chicago again must decide whether to use the No. 1 pick on a new franchise signal-caller or stick with Justin Fields. All the hype around Williams could make it for the Bears to risk passing on another star quarterback.

Mark Zuckerberg laid out Meta's game plan for "playing to win" against Alphabet and Microsoft in the high-stakes AI arms race. Meta's secret weapon: its walled garden of data.

Beyond the generative AI technology that Meta already offers in its battle against the other Big Tech powers (including Apple, which teased on its earnings call Thursday that it would launch a generative AI product later this year), Zuckerberg is aiming for “general intelligence,” the still unproven concept of a general purpose AI that can handle most tasks better than humans.

The company suggested this could be the new normal, noting that “we expect our ambitious long-term AI research and product development efforts will require growing infrastructure investments beyond this year.”

It’s probably no coincidence that Meta announced its first-ever cash dividend to investors on Thursday. The new 50-cent quarterly dividend ignited Meta’s stock, which shot up 14.5% in after-hours trading. Zuckerberg initially unveiled his vision for artificial general intelligence last month in an Instagram Reels video. On Thursday, he expanded on the plan, describing it as not just a far-off science project but an effort that will incorporate AGI into Meta products like Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp.

To realize his vision of Meta as the AI leader, Zuckerberg has yet to expand on how exactly Meta user activity will be used as training data for Meta’s AI and how the company will navigate the potential issues around user privacy. And it remains to be seen whether Zuckerberg’s confidence in the value of Meta’s training data compared to the vast corpus of web data used by Google is as big of an advantage as he believes. Google has the data treasure trove of YouTube, Google Office, and its search engine. Still, Google AI is close-sourced, so as fast as engineering talent, whereas Zuckerberg pointed to his company’s open-source Llama model as another advantage.

Earnings aside, this has been a big week for Meta’s head honcho. Yesterday, Zuckerberg was skewered during a U.S. Senate hearing where he, most notably, stood up and apologized to families whose children died from harm inflicted by social media. (Though he did not agree to compensate the families for what they suffered at Senator Hawley’s request.) While the apology may have been wrenching for Zuckerberg, his net worth rose by $1.6 billion (per Forbes) on Thursday with Meta’s stock performance.

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crossfire-essays-collected · 6 months

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From Crossfire #2, June 1984

I have these things in my life called “markers.” You have them too, though you probably don’t know it. Markers are those things that remind us of who we are and how far we’ve come from… well, from wherever we were. Unless you stubbornly resist all change in your life, things happen to you that cause you to say, “Gee, five years ago, I couldn’t have believed I’d be doing this.” Or, “Gee, I sure have come a long way.”

Well, whatever causes you to say that… that’s a marker.

Some markers from my memory:

1959: I’m seven and a devout watcher of Soupy Sales’ TV show even though I have both of Soupy’s jokes committed to memory. As much as I love Soupy, his crew loves him more. You can always hear them laughing off-camera and it is those laughs that give me my first desires to be in the TV business… to be a part of this magic. Now, FLASH FORWARD TO 1980: I’m Head Writer on a variety special for NBC, we’re taping at a rental studio in Hollywood and who should be taping his new syndicated series on the adjoining stage but Soupy! Whenever I’m not needed on my show, I’m over watching his, chatting with Clyde “White Fang” Adler, talking to Soupy and being one of those off-camera folks you hear laughing in the background. Clyde even lets me hurl a pie shell of Gillette Foamy into Mr. Sales’ kisser at the close of one sketch; now, that’s a marker!

1961: Now I’m nine and most of the big things in my life, TV-wise, have the Hanna-Barbera logotype on the end: Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, et al. My favorite actor in the whole world (no contest) is the voice of the above characters, Daws Butler. FLASH FORWARD TO 1977: It is the day after I have completed my stint writing “Welcome Back, Kotter.” I get a call from my former editor at Gold Key Comics, Chase Craig, who’s editing a line of comics for H-B of Yogi Bear, The Flintstones and company. He says, “I know you’re out of comics and making a ton of money in TV but would you like to write a comic or two on the side? Dan Spiegle’s going to be drawing “Scooby Doo” and he asked for you.” I say, “Sure, if I can write everything” and I happily set to work, writing the characters I loved when I was nine, often working with the same artists who drew the comics I loved at the time. (Marker no. 1) Now, FLASH FORWARD TO 1982: Joe Barbera calls me in, which can only mean one thing — H-B has a script crisis. They never call Evanier unless there’s a script crisis. CBS has ordered a prime-time Yogi Bear Christmas Special and, to get the animation done in time, it should have been written two months ago. The problem? Every staff writer in the H-B building has done one or more outlines and CBS has bounced every last one of them. “You know these characters,” Mr. B says. “You’re always nagging me we ought to revive them. Well, here’s your chance. CBS wants to guest star Huckleberry, Quick Draw, Augie Doggie, Snagglepuss and all the rest.” Forty-eight hours after my agent closes the deal, CBS okays my outline and, before long, the script is approved. A few days later, I get home and play back the messages on my Record-a-Call. There, in the unmistakeable voice of Daws Butler is: “Hey, hey, hey, Mark. This is Yogi Bear. I just called to say that this is the first good script I’ve had in almost twenty years.” I’ve had actors like scripts before but when John Travolta liked something I wrote for him, that wasn’t even a marker. Yogi Bear liking his script, now that’s a marker.

1963: I’m eleven and my best friend is named Brian Jacobson. Brain [sic] has, secreted away in his room, a pile of Playboy magazines and it is there that I first find out what women look like under their clothes, a big moment in any boy’s life. Brian and I talk about the fold-out ladies and there is, of course, nothing more beautiful than them, especially when you’re at the age when your glands are just beginning to kick in. They are, of course, unattainable. If women like that even exist (we have our doubts), they are surely and forever out of the reach of guys like Brian and me. FLASH FORWARD TO 1976, I think, for two markers in rapid succession: One is that I meet a Miss September of my childhood and, while she is now married and a mother, that’s not the point. It’s like meeting Wonder Woman and finding out that she really exists, even though she’s hung up her tiara. Marker no. 2 is dating a then-current Playmate who turns out to be, contrary to my ’63 beliefs, a real live human being and not some glossy-paper fantasy. Intellectually, of course, I knew that all along. But while walking into a party at the Playboy Mansion with Miss February, I couldn’t help but think how far l’d come from when Brian and I would desperately hide his Playboy stash from his mother.

And I’ve had other markers: Meeting Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Phil Silvers, George Burns. Writing for Gale Gordon, Eve Arden, Sid Caeser and others I loved when I was younger. I even, under duress, wrote a sketch once for Jerry Lewis, proving that not all markers are pleasant.

A lot of my markers have to do with comic books I loved as a kid and wound up writing as a bigger kid — and with the artists with whom I was teamed.

When Brian and I played at his house, we looked at the Playboys. When we were at mine, we looked at comic books. I had the biggest collection in town — and remember, this was years before there were any conventions or Price Guide or fanzines or mylar snugs or any of those things. Comics were ten, going up to twelve cents. And old comics were worth less, never more. The few bookstores that sold old comics priced them at a nickel each, six for a quarter.

One day, I decided to file all my comics. I had never heard of anyone doing such a thing but I did it because, I guess, they were important to me and it seemed like a gesture of respect. It took all day… The Harveys in this pile, the DCs in that stack. The biggest pile was the Dells and, when I had them all segregated by company, I broke them down into mini-stacks of licensors: The Disneys here, the Hanna-Barberas there. Dell was my favorite company. Of course, at the time, it was everyone’s favorite company. In the fifties and early sixties, they published a line of comics that made them, to this date, the best-selling comics company in the history of mankind. At one point, they were selling more comic books per week than all of today’s companies, collectively, sell in a month. Their worst-selling book was selling about double what X-Men now sells. (And I’ve got to explain this because it confuses everyone: Dell was the publisher of this line of Disney/Warner Bros./Lantz/etc. comics but the books were edited, written, drawn and printed by Western Printing and Lithography, a wholly-separate firm which owned the comic book rights to all those great characters. Dell was Publisher in that they handled the finances and distribution. In the early sixties, the two companies got a divorce and Western began publishing the same books themselves under the Gold Key colophon while Dell scrambled to assemble a new line. This, I find incredibly amusing: For at least one brief moment there, around 1962, Dell was the bestselling comic book publisher in America despite the fact that they had no characters, no titles, no editors, no writers, no artists and no printing facilities. Apart from those minor omissions, they were in great shape.)

As I pored through my newly-separated pile of Dell “adventure-type” comics, I began to recognize artists’ styles. I didn’t know how a comic book came to be but I figured that there were artists and that they didn’t draw exactly the same. There were no credits but I did manage to deduce that the guy who drew Maverick was the same guy who drew certain issues of Sea Hunt. He did a lot of the Dell (later Gold Key) books: Days later, paging through the Disney stack, I found him in The Hardy Boys and most of the adaptations of live-action Disney movies. His work was wonderful and dramatic and fascinating. No one could draw Hayley Mills like this fellow. Years later - in one of the best-selling comics of all time, Space Family Robinson — he got to sign his work and I got a name to go with the style. He was Dan Spiegle.

Still later, I learned about his background. In 1949, fresh from art school, he got his first job, drawing the “Hopalong Cassidy” newspaper strip. (True story: He got it when he answered a newspaper ad for a strip artist, only to find that the job was on Bozo the Clown. Dan was skilled at adventure, not humor and he was about to leave when the executive doing the interviewing said, “My brother-in-law is Hopalong Cassidy’s manager and he’s looking for someone to draw a strip too.” That’s how Dan wound up drawing one of the best western strips of its day.)

Westerns were big at the time and Western Printing, true to its name, produced zillions of cowboy comics for Dell to publish. They lassoed Dan and made him their “star” adventure artist. In the sixties, if you walked into Marvel and inquired about work, they told you you had to draw like Jack Kirby. At DC, you had to draw like Curt Swan. At Western, if you aspired to draw adventure material, they handed you Dan Spiegle comics and said, “This is what we’re looking for.” But this did not apply to their humor comics; there, the works of Paul Murry and Carl Barks were the ideal. Dan Spiegle could draw anything… except humor —

— which posed a problem after Western lost the rights to the Edgar Rice Burroughs characters. They’d been publishing Tarzan and Korak with Spiegle on the latter. Dan’s Korak was the better-selling of the two, making it the best selling of all the E.R.B. comic book adaptations ever, not just in this country, but everywhere. Chase Craig was the editor at Western’s L.A. office then and he found himself with no book suited for Mr. Spiegle’s art style. Cautiously, Chase assigned him the Scooby-Doo comic based on the Hanna-Barbera hound of the same name. It was a stretch for Dan and, at first, the results were un-impressive. Spiegle tried like hell but it was like Pavarotti trying to be the lead singer in Culture Club. Chase decided that, if the art wasn’t going to be special, the scripts had better be - so he reassigned that task to this new kid he had writing (literally) a third of their line, a kid named Evanier.

Marker!

I was thrilled to be writing something that would be going to the artist whose work I’d so admired. I was even more pleased when I met Dan Spiegle and found him to be, easily, one of the three nicest people in the whole comic book business and, no, I won’t tell who the other two are. As a team, we “clicked” and I learned an awful lot about comic book writing by seeing how Dan staged my scripts. I wasn’t the only one who learned from him: A great number of comic book artists - new and old - avidly study his work and are impressed with how devoid it is of comic book drawing cliches and how solid he is in visual imagery, perspective and a dogged determination to never repeat a pose or composition.

We work together whenever possible. When foreign publishers of Tarzan and Korak comics demanded them, we did a batch of Korak comics for overseas consumption. Later, I edited a batch of comics for Japan and the first artist I called was Spiegle. When Hanna-Barbera made a deal with Marvel to publish Scooby-Doo and other H-B comics, we were again reunited. When I was off doing TV work, Dan was snatched up by DC and they had him — sans M.E. — on Jonah Hex, Nemesis, Bat Lash, Zatanna, Green Arrow and others. But when they assigned him to a revival of Blackhawk, I came out of my funnybook retirement and joined him on what came to be known around the DC offices as “The Unknown Comic.” In spite of DC’s best efforts, the book developed a small but loyal following due to Dan’s excellent artwork Recently, along with co-writer Sharman DiVono, Dan and I did a new adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes for the Burroughs folks. He was their first choice as illustrator and, also, the choice of foreign publishers who are issuing the book by the millions. I love the way he draws and I’m not alone.

I’m writing this the day after Dan sent me the artwork for Crossfire number one. It is, perhaps, the two hundredth Evanier script he’s illustrated and the two hundredth time I’ve gotten this giddy grin on my face over the way he takes what I give him and makes it look like a real comic book. He’s improved leaps and bounds since his Maverick days and, yet, I can still see that he’s the same artist whose work got me all excited over comics. back when I was eleven. You see, to you folks, Crossfire may be a comic but, to me, it’s a monthly marker.

— Mark Evanier

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Chemical Romance

This rhythmic rapture is about a different kind of love

Not the hand-written romantic vows strapped to the leg of a messenger dove

Or the palpitating scarlet letter, fallen from the courier and left in the mud

It is a secret swan song, undercutting a police state circling high above

I share this surreptitious subject because it needs to be discussed

It’s important, a must, like freedom of speech, in danger of being lost in the dust

And I won’t pander to you with black and white issues

Or cite the wrongs of the world, to pull on heart strings, with cheap shot virtues

Instead, trigger warning alerts, the descriptions will be overt,

But the intention is not to resurrect long dead hurt

The aim is to divert off the beaten path most poets walk their words

And cover new ground, a little less tightly wound

To avoid red rose lovers, and sun and moon significant others

Both gone rotten with an overuse in culture

Because I want to talk about my love for those magical substances we call drugs

Our back-pocket relationship has the magnitude of any star-crossed love

And I don’t love drugs because they fill a hole I’m so desperate to control

Or because they expand my mind to three times it’s expected size

The moment that first milligram touched my blood I knew the future

Legendary nights stretching out like the echo of a rumour

Their flavour to savour, the kind billionaires pay for

Drugs are my healing factor

Allowing me to decipher the anger splattered across my body’s tattered armour

They knot an umbilical cord to strangers I wouldn’t know

And lift my sleep deprived party soul from morning lows

But company is the coagulant that consolidates these chemicals into gold

Their magic stays static until shared with similar enlightened souls

Coz I don’t need twenty-four seven consumption to feel whole

Without them, I don’t wallow and wine

My mood stuck in a clinical landslide nose-dive

Things are fine, I’m fine

Even when the days are a sickening grind I manage to survive

I stay sober and alive, no suicide

But why watch the world go by with colourblind frosted eyes

When you could indulge in a 4K high-def Friday night high?

Mandy Monroe takes me dancing

Till the last empathetic drips of energy have evaporated

Kelly Coke keeps me going

Her eternal heart-pounding hope never stops flowing

Katrina Ket-Ket-Kettlehead is a blessed mess,

Dragging me backwards through the night in a state of undress

Alice Acid is my go-to-girl

She shows me the Wonderland colours of the rabbit hole

And the two CB siblings hold me close to consolidate the evening

Their magic sandwiches me in a waterbed of teddy bear feelings

Now I know the little gears between your ears are whirling with fictions

Making conscious connections this sounds like an advertisement campaign for addiction

But you’ve identified the wrong negative symbol in this equation

Addiction and recreation are separate beings, with no genetic relation

Recreation creates elation, spreading love in all the clubs

Like a superpower handed down from the Gods above.

Addiction’s a different shape, with it’s own backbreaking weight

A hopeless fate, chasing your shadow for a made-up taste

Body dissolving into waste

It’s true they breath the same air, that’s fair

But only one keeps you bound and gaged in a basement of despair

I separate the two with boundaries, walls to keep you functioning in society

But thinking one always follows the other like fraternity brothers is an absurdity

I have three culprits banned from my body’s shop floor

Crack, meth and heroine always get ignored, doesn’t matter how many red roses they leave at my door

Half of you in here share these truths

You’re chemical romantics too, with your own riptide stories to boot

And the rest of you think I’m a social deformity with a screw loose

Spewing self-justifying delusions from the bottom of my stomach as proof

And that’s fine, I’m happy to walk the duality of that tight rope line

But please recognise the hypocrisy littering your mind

As an indulgent glass of wine becomes a ritual bottle sacrifice every night

Because I think alcohol was the devil’s design, his trick to destroy us, body and mind

There are so many more efficient ways of feeling good

And drowning your sorrows just drowns you

Trust me, I’ve tried it more times than a few

We all have our vices, it’s one of the human strings that ties us

So bring your vice out of the cold weather,

Embrace it, face it, wear it to your skin like tight fitting leather

Because your connection can’t be severed, you’re tethered,

And a balance must develop, like the falling dance of a feather

I’m not saying my love hasn’t had it’s issues,

I’ve been guilty of pushing the relationship to misuse

The early years deliver new frontiers, but a level of conscious responsibility also disappears

So to avoid salted tears, a reciprocation of respect must be adhered to

Each love is special, and in the throws of its arms one should be careful

I respect drugs like a sacred new love

I don’t burry my head in its bosom, ignoring when to say enough is enough

I choose the red pill, because ignorance isn’t a skill

It kills opening up our third-eye with cheap throw-away thrills

So this has been a love letter to one of life’s unspoken treasures

In the hope that our perception of them gets better…

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Sleeveless Cropped Layered Blouse.

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tvrundown USA 2023.04.14

Friday, April 14th:

(exclusive): Sago Mini Friends: "Earth Day Special" (apple+), Jane (apple+, kid environmentalist family series, all 10 eps), Queenmaker (netflix, Korean political drama, all 11 eps), Rugrats (Para+, season 2A available, all 13 eps), Greek Salad (amazon, young adults in Greece mini-series, all 8 eps)

(movies): "Cocaine Bear: The True Story" (Peacock, documentary), "Kids vs Aliens" (Shudder, horror), "Dead Hot" (Tubi, witchcraft, ~100mins), "Weathering" (netflix, thriller, 20-minute short), "Phenomena" (netflix, Spanish paranormal comedy, ~95mins), "Queens on the Run" (netflix, "Fuga de Reinas" adventure-comedy, ~100mins), The Last Kingdom: "Seven Kings Must Die" (netflix, UK historical series wrap-up, ~2hrs)

(streaming weekly): DOM (amazon, season 2 finale), The Power (amazon), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (amazon, season 5 opener, first 3 eps), "#BringBackAlice" (HMax, teen mini-series premiere, first 2 eps), Extrapolations (apple+, penultimate), The Last Thing He Told Me (apple+, limited series premiere, first 2 eps), Jury Duty (freevee, next 2 eps), Love Is Blind (netflix, season 4 finale)

(broadcast movies): "A Nurse To Die For" (LIFE, 2hrs+), "Personality Crisis: One Night Only" (SHO, singer David Johansen profile, 2hrs++)

(hour 1): Shark Tank (ABC), Lopez vs. Lopez (NBC, repeat) / / Grand Crew (NBC), Penn & Teller: Fool Us (theCW), Secrets of Sulphur Springs (disney) / / Saturdays (disney, 60mins), RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV, 90mins), Power Book II: Ghost (Starz, 65mins)

(hour 2): Whose Line Is It Anyway? (theCW) / / The Great American Joke-Off (theCW), Saturdays (disney, contd), RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV, contd, season 15 finale), Blindspotting (Starz, season 2 opener, new night, ~70mins)

(hour 3): Minx (Starz, ~40mins), Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

(hour 4 - latenight): A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO, season 4 opener)

[repeats, returning next week: S.W.A.T. (CBS), Fire Country (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS) ]

#JaneGoodall #TheLastKingdom #LastThingHeToldMe #MarvelousMrsMaisel #BusterPoindexter #television

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Fantasy au? BUT cbs as the king with a renowned knight s/o: who was a guard of an enemy king that fired her, so she became cbs' knight and murderous wife with promise of the king's head before the wedding

Do whatever you want with this!

King!CBS x Fem!Knight!S/o (Fantasy AU)

Notes: Forbidden love (kinda), I replaced "S/o" with ''knight'', S/o is Fem!, CBS is sometimes referred to as "King Christian"

Cw: Mention of cannibalism, Gore (handling of a decapitated head), mention of murder, mention of assassination

The rejected and confused knight wandered the lands endlessly, hoping to get someone to guard with her life. Through sun and rain, through cottages and taverns, she eventually found the dark king's castle.

Tales of his dungeons being the darkest and most merciless in all the lands made her stomach swirl. Threats from his guards about him eating unwanted visitors' livers for dinner as she was escorted to meet the king himself. She kneeled before King Christian with her heart almost jumping out of her throat.

"You're one of King Charles' knights..." He slightly snarled at seeing one of his enemy's knights in his castle.

"Not anymore. Apparently, I wasn't loyal enough." The knight replied, trying to sound collected.

It was subtle, but King Christian noticed how the stray knight slightly clenched her fist in frustration. It made him curious of what she could do when she's fueled by wanting to take revenge on King Charles, who just so happened to be an enemy of Christian's. But he wasn't yet convinced of letting her in his army.

Convinced that she wouldn't last, King Christian sent the knight for dangerous tasks, such as slaying a bear for a rug, fetching a bag of goblin teeth for a mantle and a sacred flower protected by the fiercest elves. Though, he was surprised when the knight returned with everything he asked for.

Impressed, Christian let her join his group of personal guards, but that didn't stop her from exceeding more than the other knights. This went on for a while, she kept up a good performance and eventually she became a sort of right-hand to him.

Not only did he want to have a brave knight by his side to seem like he was important or just for show, it came in handy quite a few times too. Like stopping assassination attempts, or murder plots, or attempts to poison him.

Though, having his knight by his side so often, made King Christian realize he didn't have a queen. Well, alright, he knew that, but he realized that he wanted someone to rule his kingdom together with. He felt insuperior to other kings, for once. Other kings had queens, while he just had a loyal knight.

Christian may have considered a few ladies from neighboring kingdoms but his eyes soon drifted over to his knight. What would she think of ruling a kingdom with him? He doesn't know, but might as well find out. What would the kingdom think? Wait- who cares? He's the king and he can do whatever he pleases!

He hadn't noticed it, but the knight already had a soft spot for the king. It seemed silly, she was just a knight yet she was in love with royalty, with her own king. It seemed like they could never be.

That was, until King Christian admitted his feelings towards his knight and started to give her luxurious gifts to show her that she's really special. Though this all needed to be kept a secret to not let any rumors spread to other kingdoms.

It may have been suspicious to other castle staff on why the king and his closest knight spend so much time in private, but he just threatened them to not ask questions. It was forbidden love, yes, but the two really felt passion for one another.

After some going back and fourth, Christian finally asked his kingdom's finest jeweler to make him and his love rings with only the best stones, he felt ready to make a knight into a queen. His queen. Though, when he proposed, he noticed something weird in her eyes.

"I'm just a simple knight, I don't deserve to be your queen." She looked at the ground, wanting to accept the proposal but something stopped her.

"Love, don't say that. I'd move mountains for you." The king, once again, showed his secret. more sympathetic side and placed a peck on his lover's forehead before looking at her again "Are you alright?"

"If I'm going to be your queen, I don't want King Charles getting in the midst of it all. What if he finds out I'm marrying you?" She looked at him again, though her eyes were unreadable.

"Are you saying-''

"I want to kill him, he wronged me. And I want to show how grateful I am that you gave me a chance." The knight now had a determined look in her eyes, giving meaning to her words.

"Go on then. Get back at him. For us." With a smile, King Christian put his hands on her shoulders and sent her off.

It takes a lot of scheming and plotting to execute King Charles' downfall but when she's ready, she leaves with a promise to come back in time for their wedding. The king is left with all the preparations, though the franticness of it all and his love being who knows where gets to him at times.

It's a few days before the wedding when the king stands alone looking through his window, anxious about his love's return. Just about when he thinks about trying to look for her, she comes through the door, slightly panting, covered in some bruises and blood, dragging her sword behind her and gripping King Charles' head by it's hair.

King Christian rushes over to his beloved knight, cupping her face softly. He makes sure she's alright before taking the head from her, looking at it from all sides, and praising her. "Look at that, he's still got rosy cheeks."

He takes one last look at the head in his hands and uses his thumbs to push up it's lips, trying to make it smile. "Cheer up, mate! You're going to a wedding!" The slight messed up line makes the knight chuckle.

He then hands the head back to his knight with a rather soft look "As my last order to you while you're ''just a knight'', get this to the doctor, he'll get his skull for us."

The wedding is huge, a lot of flowers, furs, decorations, music, drinks, traveling the kingdom, and everyone knows about it from how grand it is.

If his wife wants to, she can still be murderous and fight. Christian doesn't complain though, he loves to see her by his side and covered in blood, guts and anything else that comes from slaying.

Ok I think I might get out of writer's block with this one (forgot to post anything original for like, a week)

#christian brutal sniper x reader #freak fortress x reader #tf2 freakshow x reader #tf2 freaks x reader #fantasy au

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