#the Malcolm Mob

[mrcartulina]

MOBTOBER 2022 Day 21: Spirits and sush

#my art #fanart #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #serirei #kurata tome #kageyama shigeo #ekubo #spirits and such #malcolm in the middle #abba

[msclaritea]

"Biopics of massively famous musicians are rarely very good, often because they stumble at the question of whom exactly they’re being made for. Are you making a movie for the already initiated die-hard fans yearning to see the life and times of their hero reflected back at them in exacting detail? Or is your movie a welcome mat for novices, a breezy jukebox of greatest hits aimed at cultivating new generations of fans, goosing streaming tallies and catalog sales in the process? Most musician biopics never manage to resolve this tension, in part because they’re usually also serving a third master, namely the musician’s estate, which tends to hold its own, very specific ideas about on-screen depiction.

Bob Marley: One Love, the new movie about the late reggae superstar that’s produced by Marley’s widow, Rita, along with some of his children, is a biopic that does seem to know whom it’s for, which isn’t a point in its favor. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, who does his best with the role despite not really looking or sounding much like the real Marley. (Within the past four years Ben-Adir has played Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and Bob Marley, quite the triptych of historical figures.) Lashana Lynch plays Rita and steals the film in every scene she’s in, even if the movie’s script fails to elevate her character past the archetypical suffering-yet-supportive wife of a genius.

Rather than taking a cradle-to-grave approach to Marley’s life, One Love instead focuses on a single period of Marley’s career, his self-imposed exile to England in the aftermath of the 1976 attempt on his life at his home in Kingston, during which time he recorded Exodus, the 1977 LP that marked his full breakthrough into global superstardom. The film opens with the assassination attempt, after which we’re quickly whisked to London, where the film depicts Marley writing most of Exodus’ songs in a cloying series of “eureka!” moments that tend to populate movies of this kind. Snippets of Marley’s classic “Redemption Song” surface as a recurring musical motif in the film, and in one of the last scenes, we see Marley performing the song for his awestruck family in a sappy flourish that’s also anachronistic. (By most accounts, Marley didn’t write “Redemption Song” until 1979.) Periodically we’re treated to a series of flashbacks of the singer’s earlier life, a clichéd device that this movie could have used more of: Brief forays into Marley’s conversion to Rastafarianism are surprisingly well done, and a scene of a teenage Marley and the Wailing Wailers performing “Simmer Down” at Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One is the best moment in the film.

One Love is an inspirational tale about a Great Man who used music to unite the world, one that reduces one of the most consequential and complicated artists of the 20th century to a walking fount of genial aphorisms, the guy who suggested we all get together and feel all right. As such, the film indulges a decadeslong public appetite for a particular imagining of Marley that his estate now seems depressingly eager to feed. It’s been 42 years since Marley died of a rare form of melanoma at age 36, and I’m not sure there’s a musician who’s more literally iconic: Go to any commercial district in any part of the world and within minutes you’ll find an opportunity to buy something bearing Marley’s likeness. In the United States, Marley has been a staple of dorm-room walls for generations: The casual and underinformed co-optation of Marley by American bro culture has even inspired a recurring meme in which Marley’s name is erroneously affixed to an image of Jimi Hendrix.

To a certain brand of musical cynic, Marley has become the embodiment of a musician whom people own posters and T-shirts of but don’t actually listen to, which isn’t totally fair to most of the owners of those posters and T-shirts. Some of Marley’s music is still enormously popular: His 1984 greatest hits compilation Legend is currently enjoying its 820th week on the Billboard 200, a position it will likely maintain for the foreseeable future given One Love’s early, strikingly robust box-office projections. The only album that’s spent longer on the chart is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

But in the pop-cultural imagination, Legend has completely eclipsed everything else Marley ever released. The album has sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone, while no other Marley LP has sold even 1 million stateside. From a purely mathematical standpoint, this would indicate that for many fans, Legend is the first and only Marley album they’ll ever listen to. I’m not sure there’s another greatest hits compilation that has played such an outsize role in the public definition of an artist.

Legend is a fine little collection, but the idea that it’s some sort of one-stop synopsis of Marley’s career is absurd. For starters, 10 of its 14 tracks date from the period of 1977–80, a four-year time frame that represents the height of Marley’s global popularity but is a relatively minuscule cross section of a staggeringly prolific, nearly two-decade-long recording career. (Five of Exodus’ 10 tracks are included on Legend, which I suspect is one reason that One Love is so invested in the album’s significance.)

This period also coincides with a time when Marley’s music seemed to take a step back from revolutionary politics, a tack that may have been driven at least in part by the aforementioned assassination attempt. The Marley canonized on Legend is not the Marley who sang “I feel like bombin’ a church/ Now that you know that the preacher is lyin’ ” or who called for “burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight … burnin’ all illusion tonight” or declared that “Rasta don’t work for no CIA.” The dominance of Legend in the U.S. is particularly striking when one considers that Marley’s highest-selling album in this country during his lifetime was 1976’s Rastaman Vibration, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and includes such overtly political tracks as “Crazy Baldhead,” “Rat Race,” and “War.” Legend doesn’t include a single track from Rastaman Vibration, instead opting for romantic fare like “Is This Love” and “Waiting in Vain” and feel-good anthems like “One Love/People Get Ready” and “Jamming.” (For an excellent deep dive into the history and legacy of Legend, I recommend this article from the Ringer earlier this week.)

One Day’s Director Has No Regrets About the Movie’s Controversial Ending

Legend’s preeminence has helped turn Marley into the musical equivalent of a tourist destination, at which One Love is just one more cozy attraction. This is worse than a shame, because the real Bob Marley was one of the most remarkable musical talents of the 20th century. As a songwriter, he was so prolific that music seemed to pour out of him, a quality that has sometimes led to a naturalization of his gifts that veers into exoticizing primitivism. (One Love certainly partakes in this.) But rather than being some carefree savant, Marley was a fiercely disciplined and ambitious artist from the very beginning. He wrote and recorded his first single, “Judge Not,” in 1962 at the age of 16, and it remains an astonishing debut, an effortlessly catchy melody sung by a voice that sounds both nervous and supremely confident in a way that only a teenager can manage.

By the time he signed to Island Records in 1972 and began his ascent to international superstardom, Marley had already written a lifetime’s worth of great songs. He had a preternatural ear for hooks and crafted songs that were ready-made hit records, three-minute gems of perfectly crystalized musical ideas. As a singer, his indelible tenor rasp and thrillingly improvisational style were the byproducts of an extraordinarily well-honed sense of intonation and time. And during the 1970s, he fronted what might have been the best band on the face of the earth, grounded in the peerless rhythm section of drummer Carlton Barrett and bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett, the latter of whom died earlier this month at age 77. (Aston’s son and namesake, an accomplished musician in his own right, plays his father in the film.)

One Love doesn’t know how to begin exploring this artist and his art in any way that even begins to be interesting. Instead it just feeds back the same sanitized and saccharine idea of Bob Marley to the same audience who has been eating that up for generations. It’s a movie about a poster. Over the end credits of One Love, archival performance clips of Marley flash onto the screen, and for a few moments we’re treated to sounds and images that are infinitely more magnetic and thrillingly alive than anything we’ve seen over the preceding 100-ish minutes. That Bob Marley, and the extraordinary body of music he left behind, is still out there for those who go listening for it, but this movie isn’t where you’ll find him."

#Jamaica and The Legendary Marley Family Sell Patriarch Bob Marley Down The River For Weak Tepid White Washed One Love #Starring British Lavender Mafia Boy Kingsley Ben Adir #Irish Mob #Corrupt British Film Industry #British Thugs Allowed To Play Historic Black Figures #Malcolm X #Barack Obama #Hollywood Gay Mafia Connections #Scientology #Sony Pictures David Geffen #Warner Bros #David Zaslav #IAC #Barry Diller #Kingsley Ben Adir #David Oyelowo #Tom Hollander #Kristen Stewart #Elton John #Cillian Murphy #Stephen Fry #Mark Gatiss #Capote and The Swans Star Used In Threat Against Spiderman Star Tom Holland #British Parliament #BBC #ITV #Jamaica Compromised #Charlie Cox #Daredevil

[tricoufamily]

u r aware thats its already canon that malcolm is a landlord right,,, like in bustin out he is literally the antagonist bc he is a landlord

l + ratio + ts4 is an alternate universe + someone needs to study their malcolm lore

#djskfksk #anyway my malcolm is completely unproblematic! (billionaire family with mob ties + he can’t wait to be apart of it) #ask #anon

[hitchell-mope]

The Last Decent Man In New York

Just a little outline that I’ve had for a few years.

Mob wife Jessica Whitly used society’s misandry to her benefit and set up her husbands arrest and downfall all the while playing the helpless screaming woman. Now she rules the city with an iron fist with her son as the face and her daughter as the muscle. While also sending poor innocent lieutenant Arroyo down the deep dark path of corruption. After all. The more he falls for her the less he’s gonna say when an entire police precinct in Hoboken is wiped out live on the evening news. It helps that she’s got her sons girlfriend, an NYPD medical examiner, on her payroll too. So it all worked out in the end for dear Mrs Whitly.

#prodigal son #jessica whitly #gil arroyo #gilssica #malcolm bright #edrisa tanaka #maldrisa #mob au

[onderkaracay]

#önderkaraçay #mobbingbank #önder karaçay #mobbing bank #insan #atatürk #devrim #mahşer tufanı #zulüm #türk fırtınası #malcolm x #lütuf

[youngersiblingstournament]

Younger Siblings Tournament Bracket Reveal

A few things I want to mention before I reveal the bracket (and make the post really long because all the matchups will be listed in text):

Seeding of fictional characters in tumblr polls is inherently subjective. I did try to make it so that more popular characters/media would (most likely) face off against each other in later rounds, but I may be overestimating or underestimating the popularity of some characters/media, especially ones I'm not familiar with. There are some round 1 matchups that are probably a closer match but none of them are between the strongest candidates... I think.

The more niche characters will probably get obliterated in the first round as per Squimbus' Law. This is a tumblr poll and I do fully expect more popular characters to sweep, but that doesn't mean you can't encourage your friends to give your niche faves a fighting chance.

Also there are some matchups I literally just thought would be funny. Please don't take this too seriously.

I'm sorry BNHA fans.

(Preliminary Patch Notes 3/14: Swapped brackets 2 and 3, and brackets 19 and 21.)

[Image description: A 64-person tournament bracket labeled "younger siblings tournament" with a smiley face. The top-left quarter is labeled "quarter A" and color-coded red, the bottom-left quarter is labeled "quarter B" and color-coded green, the top-right quarter is labeled "quarter C" and color-coded purple, and the bottom-right quarter is labeled "quarter D" and color-coded gold. The starting brackets are labeled 1-32 and are as listed below. End ID]

Quarter A:

Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Ame (Wolf Children)

Malo (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) vs. Cat Valentine (Victorious)

Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs. Fern (Adventure Time)

Skeletor (Masters of the Universe) vs. Shuri (Marvel)

Ryotaro Nogami (Kamen Rider Den-O) vs. Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch) vs. Sir Agravain (Arthurian Legend)

Dewey Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) vs. Siobhan "Shiv" Roy (Succession)

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) vs. Razputin Aquato (Psychonauts)

Quarter B:

(9) Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) vs. Louie Duck (DuckTales)

(10) Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Saburo Yamada (Hypnosis Mic)

(11) Noelle Holiday (Deltarune) vs. Krel Tarron (Tales of Arcadia)

(12) Melinoë (Hades) vs. Han Yoohyun (The S-Classes That I Raised)

(13) Abel (The Bible) vs. Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6)

(14) Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) vs. Greg (Over the Garden Wall)

(15) Dante (Devil May Cry) vs. Alisaie Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

(16) Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) vs. Kofuku (Real Life)

Quarter C:

(17) Luigi (Super Mario) vs. Genji Shimada (Overwatch)

(18) Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist) vs. Saki Tenma (Project Sekai)

(19) Fleabag (Fleabag) vs. Emerald Haywood (Nope)

(20) Sam Winchester (Supernatural) vs. Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

(21) Nico Di Angelo (Percy Jackson) vs. Gaz Membrane (Invader Zim)

(22) Manny Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) vs. Jimmy "Saul Goodman" McGill (Better Call Saul)

(23) Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Sunny (Omori)

(24) Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Mugman (Cuphead)

Quarter D:

(25) Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. The Knight (Hollow Knight)

(26) Vash the Stampede (Trigun) vs. Ruby Rose (RWBY)

(27) Sensei Wu (Lego Ninjago) vs. King Clawthorne (The Owl House)

(28) Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

(29) Jinx (Arcane) vs. Caduceus Clay (Critical Role)

(30) Damian Wayne (DC) vs. Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

(31) Hop (Pokémon Sword and Shield) vs. Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto)

(32) Rhyme Bito (The World Ends With You) vs. Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Round 1 is ongoing! Matchups are linked (or if you prefer to scroll through the matchup posts, go to the "younger siblings tournament" tag on my blog)

#i think i like this bracket but if you have constructive criticism its subject to change #which is why round 1's start time hasnt been decided exactly yet #polls #younger siblings tournament #i will do my best to answer legitimate questions #info post

[gothicprep]

looking back on everything that’s happened wrt james somerton, part of me has got to wonder what hbomb’s and his viewers’ *real* problem with him was. when you see stories like this, and maybe I’m just cynical having been on the internet for too long, most people who get cancelled like this are kind of weird in some way. or people just don’t like them.

idk if you’ve ever watched “the traitors” before, but often the people who get voted out early don’t make eye contact or are slightly a bit weird. and people make up all sorts of conspiracy theories about why they can’t trust them, and blah blah blah. but it’s actually just a kind of “ick” fundamentally. these stories can be that, or they can be a kind of professional jealousy, or they can be “who’s the most marginalized in the marginalized pile”, or they can be smurfette syndrome (“there’s only room for there to be one gay disney youtuber, and by god, it’s gonna be me”). and beyond all that, it’s fun to be part of a mob.

maybe this is just growing pains on my end realizing that I used to have that tendency and over-indexing in the other direction. I’m weirdly sympathetic to villains. but john ronson points this out in his book, that the internet never doles out the correct amount of punishment. all things considered, plagiarism is a misdemeanor. ripping off articles and YouTube videos is a sin, but it’s a venial sin. he may have harmed people, but he didn’t hurt people if that makes any sense.

there’s a very good piece by malcolm gladwell in the New Yorker archive from like 10 or 15 years ago about how he doesn’t personally believe plagiarism to be that big of a deal. it’s very interesting and basically the lynchpin of his argument is that there isn’t any copyright on ideas. it’s not about the ideas, it’s the execution. think of that scene in the social network when jesse eisenberg says to the fucked up looking winklewhatever twins, “if you were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook”

lot of this seems to be prefaced on the idea of people making money that they “don’t deserve”, which is a philosophical question beyond the scope of this post.

#there’s another word for what somerton does and it’s ‘aggregation’. which happens all over the internet.

[best-tv-theme-song]

Polls will start to be posted within the next week or so.

Bracket list under the cut!

UPDATE: LIST CANCELLED

*Starred shows have multiple theme songs or I have combined shows in a franchise in an effort to include as much as possible. These will have preliminaries built-into their polls on the first round. This is how it works: 1. all of the songs will go into a poll together against one other show; 2. the COMBINED votes for those songs will determine which show wins that poll; 3. only the top voted song for that show/franchise will move on, if the show has won the poll. (If you are confused it will make more sense when we start, I promise!)

The 100

30 Rock

9-1-1*

The Addams Family

Adventure Time*

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

All That

The Amazing World of Gumball

American Dragon: Jake Long

Animaniacs

Arcane: League of Legends

Arrested Development

Arthur

Assassination Classroom*

Austin & Ally

The Backyardigans

Barney & Friends

Barry

Batman*

Bear in the Big Blue House

Ben 10*

Better Call Saul

Beverly Hills, 90210

The Big Bang Theory

Big Time Rush

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Black Sails

Bluey

Bob the Builder

Bob's Burgers

BoJack Horseman

Bones

Boy Meets World

The Brady Bunch

Breaking Bad

Bridgerton

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer*

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Charmed

Cheers

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Choo Choo Soul

Code Lyoko

Codename: Kids Next Door

Cold Case

Community

Cory in the House

Cowboy Bebop

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend*

Criminal Minds

CSI*

Cyberchase

Danny Phantom

Daredevil

Dawson's Creek

Death Note*

Desperate Housewives

Detective Conan

Dexter

Dexter's Laboratory

Diff'rent Strokes

Digimon*

Doctor Who*

Dora the Explorer

Downton Abbey

Dragon Ball*

Dragon Tales

Drake & Josh

Ducktales*

ER

Ever After High

The Fairly OddParents

Firefly

The Flintstones

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Fraggle Rock

Frasier

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Friends

Fringe

Full House

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*

Futurama

Game of Thrones

George Lopez

George of the Jungle

Gilmore Girls

Glee

The Golden Girls

Good Omens

Gravity Falls

Grey's Anatomy

H2O: Just Add Water

Hannah Montana

Hannibal

Happy Days

Hawaii Five-0*

His Dark Materials

Horrible Histories

House, M.D.

How I Met Your Mother

How It's Made

Hunter × Hunter

Huntik: Secrets & Seekers

I Dream of Jeannie

I Love Lucy

iCarly

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Jeffersons

Jeopardy!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*

Jonas

Justice League

Kim Possible

The Last of Us

Laverne & Shirley

Law & Order*

LazyTown

The Legend of Vox Machina

Leverage

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Little Einsteins

Lizzie McGuire

Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies

The Love Boat

M*A*S*H

Mad Men

Madoka Magica*

The Magic School Bus

Malcolm in the Middle

The Mandalorian

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Merlin

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mob Psycho 100

The Monkees

Monster High

The Muppet Show

Murder, She Wrote

Murdoch Mysteries

My Babysitter's a Vampire

My Hero Academia*

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

The Nanny

Naruto*

NCIS

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

New Girl

NFL (various network themes)*

Ninjago

The O.C.

The Office

One Day at a Time*

One Piece

Only Murders in the Building

Orange Is the New Black

Ouran High School Host Club

The Owl House

Parks and Recreation

The Partridge Family

Phil of the Future

Phineas and Ferb

Pinky and the Brain

Pippi Longstocking

Pokémon*

Power Rangers

The Powerpuff Girls

Pretty Little Liars

The Price Is Right

The Proud Family

Psych

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

Reading Rainbow

Reba

Red Dwarf

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Riverdale

Rugrats

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

Sailor Moon

Sanford and Son

Saturday Night Live

Schitt's Creek

Scooby-Doo*

Scrubs

Seinfeld

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Sesame Street

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Sherlock

The Simpsons

Smallville

Sofia the First

Sonny with a Chance

The Sopranos

Spider-Man

SpongeBob SquarePants

Star Trek (instrumental themes)*

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Stargate*

Steven Universe

Stranger Things

Succession

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody*

Suits

Taskmaster

Ted Lasso

Teen Titans

Teen Wolf

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teletubbies

That '70s Show

That's So Raven

Theory of Love

Thomas & Friends

Tokyo Ghoul

Total Drama

Totally Spies!

Transformers*

True Blood

The Twilight Zone

Twin Peaks

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

VeggieTales

Veronica Mars

Victorious

Voltron: Legendary Defender

W.I.T.C.H.

The Walking Dead

WandaVision*

Welcome Back, Kotter

The West Wing

Westworld

What We Do in the Shadows

The White Lotus

Wild Kratts

Winx Club

The Wire*

The Witcher

Wizards of Waverly Place

Wonder Pets!

Wonder Woman

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

The X-Files

Xena: Warrior Princess

Yellowjackets

Yu-Gi-Oh!*

Yuri on Ice

Zoboomafoo

Zoey 101

#mod post

[befickleforever]

If you liked [inside no 9 episode] watch [film] : a guide. Part 2

If you liked ‘Wuthering Heist’, consider:

- Mon Oncle (1958). Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs.

- A Night in the Show (1915). A man tries to find a seat for a show, while another man harasses both patrons and performers.

- Carry on Spying (1964). The dastardly organisation STENCH (Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) is in possession of the secret Formula X, and its clear that the British secret service must do something.

- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Henry Holland is a fussy supervisor who oversees gold bullion deliveries to the bank in which he works. Secretly, he is plotting to steal a load of bullion and retire early, but he cannot figure out a way to smuggle it out of the country.

If you liked ‘Last Night of the Proms’, consider:

- Eat the Rich (1987). Terrorists and a rude waiter attack a politician and take over an exclusive London club.

- The Last Supper (1995). A group of students meet every Sunday and invite a guest to discuss various topics. When one of them ends up killing a guest because of his views, they decide to rid society of such people.

- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1987). A gang leader's wife starts an affair with a bookseller who regularly visits her husband's restaurant. However, things complicate when she, her lover, a thief and a cook come together.

- In The Loop (2009). During an interview, British Cabinet Minister Simon Foster delivers an off-the-cuff remark Profane political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker tries to cover up Foster's faux pas, but the ill-conceived comment is picked up by a warmongering American official.

If you liked ‘The Riddle of the Sphinx’ consider:

- Pygmalion (1938). When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.

- The Game (1997). Nicholas Van Orton is a successful banker who keeps mostly to himself. When his estranged brother Conrad returns on his birthday with an odd gift - participation in a personalized, real-life game - Nicholas reluctantly accepts.

If you liked ‘Séance time’, consider:

- Ghostwatch (1992). The BBC gives over a whole evening to an 'investigation into the supernatural'

- Talk to Me (2023). When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits with an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill and high-stakes party game - until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

- Hereditary (2018). When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited.

- Ghost Stories (2017). Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases.

- Borley Rectory (2017). In 1937, leading paranormal investigator Harry Price is given an opportunity to investigate the most haunted house in England, the infamous Borley Rectory, where he hopes to discover the truth behind the hauntings that have plagued the property.

#inside no 9 #reece shearsmith #steve pemberton #films #movies #letterboxd #in9 #lists of mine

[freddie-77-ao3]

(Michael and Malcolm, being chased by an angry mortal mob) Michael: (covered in blood and panting) Michael: Okay, this may come as a shock to you but people don't like to be lied to. Malcolm: Wrong. They don't like finding out they've been lied to. Because a lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.

#pjo hoo toa #pjo #riordanverse #pjo series #pjo fandom #incorrect quotes #malcolm pace #michael yew

[courage-doodles-blog]

Introducing Barry!

Design

Species: Cat

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Asexual

Family: Nathan(Father), Teresa(Mother), Marie(Grandmother), Brandon(Grandfather), Nathaniel(Ancestor), Miranda(Ancestor), Barrett(Ancestor) Lauren(Grandmother), Oliver(Grandfather), Matt(Uncle)

Likes: Roses, fantasy movies, action movies, his parents Nathan and Teresa, rabbits, cats, spending time with Courage, Bunitty(platonic love interest), becoming a detective, mystery shows

Dislikes: Courage in danger, Muriel in danger, danger, his friends in danger, spiders(except Tyrone and his spider crew), Toxin(worst enemy), spicy food, getting scared, violence, his family in danger, Eustace Bagge(enemies)

Friends: Courage, Muriel, Felix, Clive, Justin, Maxwell, Olive, Geo, Charlie, Bunny, Kitty, Bunitty(platonic love interest), Gabriel, Russell, Platinum, Milo(Uncle to him), Grayson, Shady(Childhood best friend/brotherly figure), Computer, Team Frostbite(Damien the Wolf, Malcolm the Mountain Hare, Snowflake the Arctic Fox, Chief Azrael etc), Absolute Six(Jasper, Cyan, Marina, Hurley, Jackson and Carmen), Aden, Eight Tribes of Honour(Lucifer, Claude, Nigel, Krimson, Iram, Blizzard, Twigs and Possum Mob), Fred, Lord Blade VI, Cannibals of Vintage City, Bon, Cyril, Hunchback of Nowhere, Bigfoot, Duck Brothers, Dr Vindaloo, Courage's parents, Animals of Fear Gang

Neutral: Shirley, General, Lieutenant, Banana Suit Dealer

Enemies: Eustace, Fred(formerly), Katz, Le Quack, Cajun Fox, Weremole, Black Puddle Queen, Clutching Foot, Mad Dog, King Ramses, Sirius, Toxin, Alan, Jacob, Raven, Cruel Veterinarian, Vore, Thursday, Tuesday, Saber, Slice, Dice, Amaris, Sin Clowns(Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Envy and Sloth), Fear King, Fear Slaves, Di Lung, Mecha Courage, Ma Bagge, Gem, Evangeline the Musical Mistress, Bone Antler

Facts:

He has a fear of spiders because of the abuse he got from Toxin who is in fact a spider himself.

Barry knows how to hold a gun, however it's a toy gun that shoots corks instead of bullets. He learnt his technique of handling his toy gun by his ancestor Barrett.

He is neutral to Shirley the Medium. He shows respect to her but worries about the curses she puts onto others.

After rescuing Bunitty from Mad Dog, the two became really friends, until they both start to have platonic feelings for each other.

His interactions with the General and the Lieutenant left him in dismay, due to the them fighting with each other or their "antics" as Barry refers it all to.

Barry has become a victim hunted down by Thursday and Tuesday AKA Feline Hunters, since he is a cat.

In the crossover; Straight Outta Nowhere! Scooby Doo Meets Courage The Cowardly Dog. Barry becomes allies with the Mystery Inc. His favourite members of it are Shaggy and Scooby Doo.

Barry loves watching mystery shows, which got him dreaming of becoming an great detective.

Barry's relationship with Computer didn't go well at first, because Computer became (of course) a bit of a jerk to him, until Computer was aware that Barry has anxiety. By that, he now helps Barry how to cope with anxiety.

Barry is allies with Team Frostbite, Absolute Six and Eight Tribes of Honour, he sees Team Frostbite and Tribes of Honour as family figures.

He loves his grandparents Marie and Brandon. Marie loves him dearly and Brandon has a soft spot for him, he tends to nickname him "Scamp" if he forgets his grandson's name.

Whenever Courage isn't around with him, he takes the role as Courage himself. He does remember two of his catchphrases and says them whenever he is in a dangerous situation. The catchphrases being "The things i do for love!" and "I know something bad is gonna happen or if my name is [random name]! And I'm glad it's not."

Barry has the ability to sense any danger that is coming

Barry is the one who set Lucifer free by his order and he fully knows that he has gained freedom.

Barry had an ultimate regret by setting Fear King free. This is because the King was abusing him psychological and uses his anxiety for his goals, but only to make it more worse, but then Barry finally stands up to him, telling him that releasing him was the worse idea he had done and he now sends him back to his book for all eternity and throw it out.

Despite having a fear of spiders, Barry became allies with Tyrone and his spider crew. It was said by Barry that he doesn't fear spiders that show kindness to him

#ctcd oc #ctcd #courage the cowardly dog #oc reference #digital artwork #digital art #artwork #art #ctcd oc barry #oc info #cat oc

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

The New York Dolls, Waldorf Astoria, New York City, October 31, 1973

How are you celebrating Halloween this year? I'm taking a time machine 50 years back to see the New York Dolls in the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. Or, rather, I'm going to watch this raw video of this legendary occasion ... it's a blast, but I'm sure nothing could compare to actually being there.

Will Hermes set the scene in his Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: The Waldorf-Astoria was the epitome of uptown, up-tight, upper-crust New York; whoever agreed to give the ballroom over to the Dolls and their wasted fans was either clueless or wickedly subversive. By midnight, a thousand-some freaks of various stripes were packed into the ballroom entryway, pressing against doors that were supposed to have opened at 11:00. Tempers flared, doors were smashed, and someone lit a stink bomb in the hotel lobby in protest. Security guards admitted a portion of the mob but hundreds were turned away. Arthur Bell described the scene as "Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange and Joel Grey in Cabaret by the dozens, chains and hoods, silver buttocks, scarlet breasts, dildoed noses," with old-school trannies washing down demerol capsules with swigs of whiskey.

In other words ... Happy Halloween!

#new york dolls

[the-poniton-local-tribune]

Chemical plant explosion linked to serial murders

By Malcolm Gray

On the 13th of August, 2024, the Hound Chemicals Chemical plant (Located on Macher St, Closest to North Bridge) was set ablaze and exploded. We covered this story back in August when it first happened, However, a month later we now have we have some very interesting additions to the story. Unbeknownsted to anyone, on the scene was Detective Todd Hawkz of the PTPD. We were privileged with an interview with the detective after he had fully recovered from the explosion. It was while he was investigating the case of the PoniTon Vampire that he found an interesting link.

PLT

"How did you find yourself on the sight?"

Dt. Hawkz

"You remember those murders back in June and July? Those serial murders where the killer would eat his victim's necks bare? Leaving just their spines holding the heads to the torso?... Those pictures circulated of one of the victim's bashed open skulls with brains dripping down from the teeth-torn jaw into their esophagus?"

PLT

"..."

Dt. Hawkz

"No, I get it. That was the case of the PoniTon Vampire. A name curated and popularized by elementary kids talking too much. Well, I was investigating these murders in the latter half of July. I was swamped with files. my desk was covered in those kinds of photos, I had notebooks and notebooks of theories and links between suspects and victims but… no dice. after some research on a certain victim, whom I will not name, I found that they often frequented a building with little security and minimal staff as a hangout spot. The Hound Chemical Plant. On a whim, I looked further into it."

PLT

"What did you find?"

Dt. Hawkz

"Turns out that was the link I needed. The place was also a hangout for the rest of the victims and was gossiped to be a mob spot. The owners were real young people who would get real buddy-buddy with some of the folks in the area. Seeing as their chemical distribution company had gone the way of Hamlet's dad, they needed another source of income… Turns out those people also cut corners while running their business. One of their employees was heavily injured in an accident I have no knowledge of. Some kind of burn or melt. Messed with their face and… Brain and… Demeanor… When I met him He had a fucking spider melted to his face. Some legs were sticking, some were not. Some joints twitched… Some didn't… One thing I knew for certain was that when he opened his mouth, that tarantula's fangs raised as his jaw lowered… Those fangs raised higher than usual for tarantulas… Its eyes could see me… That bastard had ten eyes and all of them could see me. all of them had the same soul behind them… A soul that was hungry… Starved… Famished."

PLT

"... This was the vampire?"

Dt. Hawkz

"That was the vampire."

April 31st, 2024. A workplace incident sent Hound Chemicals employee Parker Laurels down the nearby ravine to the river. His body was never found and was suspected to be swept away or at the bottom of the said river. We covered this story back in May, however, the extent of our knowledge and interest in said story was limited[1]. Now, after the explosion and the murders we know more. During the investigation of the crime scene during the latter half of August, police found strange equipment relating to the chemical plant. Custom built and highly rusted, the equipment was damaged beyond repair. fortunately, our dear Det. Hawkz shares more.

PLT

"Do you have any insight regarding the nuclear-grade equipment found in the plant?"

Det. Hawkz

"When I confronted him, The vampire immediately shed light on the situation at Hound. Launched into a monologue about how I was "Avenging the lives of pathetic murderers". I'd be lying if I called him hysterical. He worked there. He knew the deal… He told me they were experimenting. He personally never knew what for or why but he knew they were experimenting in some kind of ignorant "Because I was told to" mindset. Said the owners had a conspiratorial attitude towards knowledge. said the government wasn't entitled to it all. Wanted to know what the deal was at Area 51. Real hubris-prone scientific types. Ignorant to the fact that some things, truly, do not matter. that sometimes the "Why" Isn't as important as the what. That some messes just need to be cleaned up, rather than explained… these were the kinds of cats curiosity killed. "

PLT

"...Do YOU have any personal insight on the equipment?"

Det. Hawkz

"Don't know, Don't care. All I know was that it was some real 50's sci-fi lookin, "Beep Boop" soundin, cartoon chemistry ass shit… Besides, It's not my problem anymore. Those pricks down at the police dept can go deal with it."

Upon researching the Hound building, Det. Hawks found that all and any calls, reports, and paperwork made or done about the Hound Chem Company were immediately disregarded, ignored, and shredded. When confronting his captain about these missing reports, He was immediately fired and discharged. We emailed the police dept asking about this. we have not yet received a response. Det. Hawkz currently works as a private investigator, available at 212-664-7665, however, the case he remains to obsess over is this very story.

PLT

"... Does that mean you're going to move on from this?"

Det. Hawkz

"Fuck no. That just means I don't give a shit about that nuclear science shit. Nobody found his body. I know damn well that spider-faced bastard is still out there. you weren't fucking there- NOBODY could move on from that shit. The vampire promised me that he'd haunt this town, and until that ten-eyed mother fucker stops winking at me at night, until his fucking corpse is found and buried I will continue to ensure his rage, and anger, and hatred do not hurt this town… Hurt people hurt people, Mr Gray. I won't allow him to use his hurt to melt a fucking spider to anyone's face just because someone melted one to his.

… the police dept and news station have kept quiet about this explosion. However, our fact checker and local expert, Lloyd Andonuts states that due to the equipment inside the building and due to the nature of this explosion, a zone of exclusion should be established all around this quaint little podunk. It is without a doubt that this event will affect the people of this town extremely and without mercy. But we here at the PoniTon Local Tribune news team are here to keep you updated, educated, knowledgeable, and safe.

With that, I'm Malcolm Gray. one of the few sincere and honest folks prepared to provide the truth, no matter how grizzly or gruesome. You can trust me, as I trust you to make the most of what this newspaper has to offer. Stay safe.

Malcolm Gray.

PoniTon, Saskatchewan.

PoniTon Local Tribune.

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[1]The PoniTon Local Tribune is now under new management and employ. this new news team is dedicated to nothing else but the publics knowledge. This story marks the beginning of a new era for the Tribune. An era dedicated to our harsh reality, the publics safety, and a better understanding of this town. chronicalling this towns history and the brutal, disgusting, horrifying truth of its people.

#unfiction #writing #ameteur #oc #horror #start #Tarantularism #short story

[lifewithaview]

Malcolm Barrett, Abigail Spencer, and Matt Lanter in Timeless (2016) Atomic City

S1E3

Agent Christopher wants team Wyatt to eliminate Rufus's coworker Anthony, whom Flynn abducted while stealing the time machine. They only can track them to 1962 (in or around) Las Vegas, when atomic tests were routine near the future Sin city. Only posing as staff on site at a mob casino, they work out Flynn targets John F. Kennedy and mob king Sam Giancana's mistress Judith Campbell, and after she betrays Wyatt and escapes, realize that Flynn blackmails her, using intimate photographs, to help steal a plutonium core. Her fling with the Air Force base general enables her to access a secure nuclear facility. Shocked, Rufus finds that Anthony is Flynn's willing collaborator, working to destroy Rittenhouse, not why. Anthony seemingly hands the core to Rufus, who prevents Wyatt from killing him, but it's a decoy while Flynn escapes with the real core. Wyatt sends a telegram to his wife in fifty years, attempting to save her life in 2012, in vain. Upon their return to the present, Wyatt covers up Rufus' protection of Anthony; Lucy tells her patient fiance Noah that she needs time, hence moves to her mother's to clear her head. In the Nevada desert, Flynn and Anthony dig up the plutonium core, which they buried to avoid risky time-travel with it.

*Though they had divorced by the time she met JFK, Judith Campbell, the historical figure played by Elena Satine, was married to actor William Campbell, a recognizable face to Star Trek (1966) fans as the Q-like being Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos (1967)" and Klingon captain Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles (1967)".

#Timeless #tv series #Atomic City #S1E3 #action #scifi #drama #time travel #1962 #Las Vegas #Malcolm Barrett #Abigail Spencer #Matt Lanter #Rittenhouse #bomb #history #JFK #Judith Campbell #just watched

[youngersiblingstournament]

Round 2 Matchups

There isn't a whole lot to say here except that I've announced the loser's bracket and you should check it out.

Round 2 starts Thursday, April 13 at 10:00 AM CST. Left side will be posted Thursday and right side will be posted Friday.

Anyway, round 2.

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Left Side, Quarter A:

Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Cat Valentine (Victorious)

Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs. Shuri (Marvel)

Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs. Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch)

Dewey Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) vs. Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

Left Side, Quarter B:

(5) Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) vs. Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi)

(6) Noelle Holiday (Deltarune) vs. Melinoë (Hades)

(7) Abel (The Bible) vs. Greg (Over the Garden Wall)

(8) Dante (Devil May Cry) vs. Kofuku (Real Life)

Right Side, Quarter C:

(9) Luigi (Super Mario) vs. Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist)

(10) Emerald Haywood (Nope) vs. Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

(11) Nico Di Angelo (Percy Jackson) vs. Manny Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

(12) Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Right Side, Quarter D:

(13) Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. Vash the Stampede (Trigun)

(14) King Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

(15) Jinx (Arcane) vs. Damian Wayne (DC)

(16) Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto) vs. Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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#tournament poll #younger siblings tournament #info post #round 2

[wamnak]

Five musical artists who have died within the past 20 years (and one song each).

1. Elliott Smith

He just makes the criteria because he passed October of 2003 (just a couple of days before my daughter was born). Eternal favorite.

2. Phil May of The Pretty Things (vocals). What a voice!

3. George Young (guitar/songwriting) and Stevie Wright of The Easybeats. The Australian Beatles! George is the older brother and mentor of his younger brothers Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC. Stevie had a varied career and ultimately a sad life when all was said and done.

4. Grant Hart. Best know as the drummer of Hüsker Dü but he was so much more. His post HD work is criminally underrated. Some punk rockers and some tearjerkers…

5 Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. He was way ahead of his time. A master of the early pop punk style while slyly inserting some challenging elements into the mix.

I’d also add “Fast Cars” to Pete’s list but I’ve hit the limit on audio for this post. (I prefer “Fast Cars” but “Ever Fallen In Love” is a cultural milestone)

I could keep going but I’ll stop.