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mkaroy · 1 year

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headcanons of the spelling bee kids & adults for funzies ( most of which were influenced by fellow cast members )

Olive:

-she doesn’t like the idea of labelling herself but not straight, she/her

-dating barfee she totally forced her and barfee to have a ship name, it’s ovbarfvsky, chip thinks it’s funny

-dream job is a stay at home mom who runs a radio

-likes reading classical books

-still calls marcy occasionally but has lost contact with most of the other spellers

-her mom never came back, so she started sending her letters to mitch, in which he wrote back

Barfee:

-straight white man…, asexual, he/him

-autism

-started his sea anemone collection when he was 5 and has loved it since

-eventually grew out his ego

-also reads classical books but secretly reads those kids books that are diary style (ex: dear dumb diary)

-he stims a lot by tapping his foot or bouncing his legs, also a nail bitter, not out of anxiety but just out of boredom usually

Marcy:

-aromantic/questioning, she/her

-really into piano and violin but now she uses them to play really hard metal songs for fun

-she’s really into pop culture stuff but she’s also an environmentalist, so she keeps a closet of mostly graphic shirts of shows she likes and jeans

-stranger things fan; nancy is her favourite

-but i’m a cheerleader is one if not her favourite movies, she also finds megan relatable

Logainne:

-lesbian, had a crush on olive during the bee and a bit after that (obviously), she/her trans woman

-adhd & half jewish

-wears suits to any occasion, even in her sleep sometimes

-she’ll watch anything with gay or jewish rep in it and give it a surprisingly harsh rating

-her favourite show is bobs burgers

-stims include pacing, jumping, pulling of twirling hair and fumbling with her fingers

-doesn’t have volume control and often speaks too loudly for most people

-had to get braces on her top row of teeth in her later teen years

Chip:

-bisexual, he/him

-adhd diagnosed early

-a total try hard in school, especially gym

-he stims in ‘discrete’ ways, basically leg bouncing and pacing and his big 2

-kids at his school find him weird, but no one ever talks about it

-had a crush on olive but it went nowhere especially after his, distraction

-secretly a mama’s boy and tries hard to put his heart in his mother’s day gift

-super good at the piano for some reason

-the marigold thing only went on for 3 years before chip started liking a guy in his class instead of her

-great at public speaking and persuasive essays but sucks at talking to one person head on

-has braces AND a pubestache, the braces are colourful

-mom picks out most of his clothes still

-chip is the one that put peanuts in the brownies

Leaf:

-gay, he/they, adhd

-total outdoor kid

-tons of his clothes have pride flags sewn into them but most people don’t notice

-considers the spelling bee kids to be his best friends and sometimes just shows up at their house uninvited

-he likes spending time with logainne mostly because she’s loud and excitable like him

-plays the cat piano in his spare time

-always keeps cat food on him to give to stray cats he finds

-his homeschooling schedule absolutely terrible, sometimes he just walks into the woods for hours and doesn’t come back until dark, and nobody in his house notices

Panch:

-so straight, perhaps even homophobic on top of being misogynistic

-his favourite WAS chip, until the, erection business

-after courting rona and getting a restraining order, he moved onto another realtor, he has a thing for them

-doesn’t know how to iron or wash clothes properly

-went back to, unhealthy coping habits for lack of better words, after rona left

Rona:

-bisexual she/her

-the indigenous farmer she met was a woman obviously

-doing much better for herself after getting rid of panch

-didn’t find out about her sexuality until she met that farmer

-she truly loves kids and hopes to adopt someday

-her original dream job was a hairstylist, but she had no natural knack for the job and was much better at persuasion and public speaking

Mitch:

-TRANS

-acted out and went to jail for beating someone up

-cares about olive the most though he won’t tell

-his least favourite kid is chip but he doesn’t hate any of them

-as the years went on he started giving the losers more than juice boxes, stickers and participation awards were added

-one of those tough guys who has a flock of parrots in his house who he’s suprisingly gentle with

-went through a buzz cut phase, it was not cool.

#25thannualputnamcountyspellingbee #the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee #25apcsb #25th annual putnam county spelling bee #olive ostrovsky #william barfee #marcy park #logainne schwartzandgrubenierre #chip tolentino #leaf coneybear #douglas panch #rona lisa perreti #mitch mahoney

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long-sleeved-sandwich · 5 months

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i would like to share with you guys some interesting lines from my diary(a mix of poems, stories, etc etc) when i was maybe 11-12 and i didn’t really have any friends so i spent all my time watching bollywood/serials and reading poems.

“her lips are the sofa on which impurity rests” (i have no clue)

“the wedding dances will occur above my grave”(my mom was dating a guy i didn’t like)

“i will not look upon him. my eyes are filled with tears” (again about my mom’s asshole boyfriend from that era)

“rabba qismat mein rona kyun likha? i danced on rose petals, lekin ab, thorns are in my feet.” (a reference to the serial Khaani if none of yall caught that)

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mercyillustrator · 10 months

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project that I’m working on but busy + GSA headcanon Part 2 as an update ^^

Nonsurat voice changer has a deep male voice that sounded masculine in mask only so nobody not even the male puffballs is going to give her suspicions of her being a female and has a bag before becoming a knight herself. But sings really sweet as a head-canon like a siren I would say ( it gives me Mulan vibes ) When it comes to her human version and I know this is going to be different but it's like Mulan version but slightly different so she didn't cut her hair or anything like that but a puts on the bald cap so her hair doesn't get in the way and she has a binder on her so NME and his monsters doesn't see her as a female but a male as I mentioned about the voice changer to her mask only. When it comes to the comic ( current working on ) and be know that it will be heavy topic to share with the backstory and she has a secret diary where she talks about her feelings being an opposite gender and how it was like. She has her childhood pictures that she took that has her childhood book

Female puffballs abilities were ability to teleport and run like an animal as soon they attack with their claws with the evil eyes on it but I’m thinking what happened to them is that they either have memorial lost or smt that NME tells them what to do as a deep monster voice instead of their real voices

Dragato parents are very supportive to their own son and well caring of his dreams and protect everyone

Other knights besides Nonsurat like Dragato was a freelancer? and Falspar just doing computer stuff or smt and Arthur would maybe have been helping his father (or mother) building the GSA and Meta Knight maybe like a librarian or smt. Before joining the GSA. :0

I would say Meta Knight was made from NME and was considered as a mistake to NME and was gonna use him to fight the warriors out there

Falspar sees Dragato as strong and very serious later on become friends when they are in the GSA longue when they first met and Dragato sees him as a goof ball and very like childish at first.

Garlude well she grew up in the royal family and in my headcanon she could be related to Princess Rona cuz of the gem I would say this maybe and her joining to the GSA that she will do anything to protect her family even her daughter Sirica as well. Closet friend to Nonsurat cause they are both females and considered herself a strong women

Jecra He’s a fun dad who cares about his son a lot more then anything well he willing to teach his son how to fight someday as soon he gets older to watch him grow til monsters came and has to do what’s to protect his son and family. As well he considered GSA as family

Yamikage well I’m guessing he got his red eyes from NME cause he was controlled by him and I’m guessing he didn’t join NME but proved everyone wrong who hurt him as what his father has said so yea

Again not sure if freelancer exist back in medieval times but going to be a mixture with the 80’s theme.

Stuff that I will be pretty much busy working on

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Times before Kirby

Arthur - My father was a Star Warrior

Nonsurat - Inner Self: Reflection

Meta Knight - Abandonment?

Falspar - ???

Dragato - ???

Glass stained GSA knights with star warriors

Kirby anime characters as gijinka

GSA knights as gijinka version again lol

, sketches and other stuff

Little sneak peak on Sir Arthur backstories on his half sisters he doesn't just have one he has 3 I may or may not be familiar with King Arthur thing but he has three half sisters Morgause, Elaine, and Morgan ( this will be my AU).

Morgan - is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress

Elaine - identified as "The Grail Maiden" or "Grail Bearer"

Morgause - the mother of Gawain and Mordred

I wonder these half sisters were captured too by NME and were corrupted

Plus a foster brother name Sir Kay who he grew up with Arthur all his life

- Mercy :)

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thoraway125 · 2 years

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Every book/movie/show Sara Quin has recommended.

and some reviews at the bottom, not the ones on skq reads

Books

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos

After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction by Reneta Adler

Against Everything by Mark Grief

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & and Clay by Michael Chaboan

A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

*An Education by Susan Choi

*Anything That Moves, Dana Goodyear

*Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel

*Artful by Ali Smith

*A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

*A Widow for One Year by John Irving

A Zine Yearbook by Jason Kucsma

Barbarian Days Surfing Life by William Finegan

Bark by Lorrie Moore

Barney’s Version by Mortecai Richler

Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

Berlin Stories by Robert Walser

Borne by Jeff VadnerMeer

Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan

By Blood by Ellen Ullman

By Grand Central Station by Elizabeth Smart

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis

Cats & Plants by Stephen Eichhorn

Changed my Mind by Zadie Smith

Cleopathra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Colour by Icons by Never Apart

*Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Death & Co by Alex Day and more

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M Coetzee

Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Do What You Want by Ruby Tandoh

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechel

Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Empire Of Illusion by Chris Hedges

Empty Nest End of Eddy by Edouard Louis

Epilectic by David Beauchard Essays Against Everything by Mark Grief

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

*Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen

Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem

Feeding My Mother by Jane Arden

Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

*Flutter by Jennie Wood

Forty One False Starts by Janet Malcolms

Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz Waters

Fosse by Sam Wasson

Fraud Essays by David Rakoff

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechel

Getting A Life: Stories by Helen Simpson

Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks *Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Groomed by Jess Rona

*Habibi by Craig Thompson

Half Empty by David Rake

Helter Skelter by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Machado

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II by Christopher Warwick

*H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald

*Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I Am a Camera by John Van Druten

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morries, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton

*Independence Day by Richard Ford

Independent people by Halldor Laxness

Intimacy by Jean-Paul-Satre

I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames

I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro

Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

*Kramers Ergot by Sammy Harkham

Krazy! By Bruce Grenville

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

*Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls- David Sedaris

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

*Light Years by James Salter

Likewise by Ariel Shrag

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish by David Rakoff

Love In Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet

Making Nice by Matt Sumell

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall

May We Be Forgiven by A.M Homes

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Me before You by Jojo Moyes

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner

Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit Music for Torching by A.M Homes

*My Education by Susan Choi

My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike

My Lifte in France, Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme

My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum

Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes

My Struggle by Karl One Knausgaard

My Struggle 2 by Karl One Knausgaard

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

Nasty Woman by Heather McDaid

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

Nightfilm by Marisha Pessl

Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics by Justin Hall

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen

Nothing to be Frightened of by Julien Barnes

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

Open City by Teju Cole

Opposite of Hate by Sally Kohn

*Paper Lantern: Love Stories by Stuart Dybek

Pauline Kael: A Life In The Dark by Brian Kellow

Paying For It by Chester Brown

*Pirates and Farmers by Dave Hickey

*Pitch Dark by Renata Alder

Political Fictions by Joan Didion

Polyamorous Love Song by Jacob Wren

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

*Provence 1970 by Luke Barr

Pulphead-Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

*Random Family by Adrian NicoleLeBlanc

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya

She believed she could so she did by Julie ‘Hesta Prynn’ Slavin

She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill

Speedboat by Renata Adler

Special Exits by Joyce Farmer

State of Wonder by Ann Patchet

Stoner by John Williams

Summertime by J.M Coetzee

Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

**Tenth of December by George Saunders

That Summer Time Sound- Matthew Specktor (sara narrates a part in the audio version)

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

The Best American Comics 2007 by Charles Burns

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by David Eggers

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

The Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

The Dark Room by Susan Faludi

*The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

The Doors Of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions by Jonathan Lethem

The End of The Story by Lydia Davis

The Essential Elle Willis by Ellen Willis

The Fight by Norman Mailer

*The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

*The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Idiot by Elif Batumam

The Informed Air by Muriel Spark

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

*The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

The Irresponsible Self by James Woods

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom

**The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper

The Little Red Chairs by by Edna O’Brien

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein

The Missing Piece Meets The Big O by Shel Silverstein

The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

The Nobody by Jeff Lemire

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

The People in the Trees- Hanya Yanagihara

The Notebooks of Malte Laurid’s Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

The Property by Rutu Modan

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

This life by Martin hagglund

The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes

The Slow Man by J.M Coetzee

The Spirit catches you and you fall down by Anne Fadiman

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner65

The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

Things Are What You Make Of Them by Adam J. Kurtz

Thinking, Fast And Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman

*This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

To my Trans Sisters by Charlie Croggs

Tranny by Laura Jane Grace

True Stories by Helen Garner

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

Unless by Carol Shields

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov by Martin Amis

Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography by Rodrigo Alonso

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee

WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution by Cornelia Butler

*Wake In Fright by Kenneth Cook

Wanderlust A History of Walking by Rebecca Saint

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

*We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Whatever happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Colleens

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

When Things Go Missing by Kathryn Schulz

*White Girls by Hilton Als

Winter by Ali Smith

Women by Charles Bukowski

(Woman) Writer: by Joyce Carol Oates

Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

*100 Essays I don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl

-Any works written by Renata Adler, Edward Albee, Roland Barthes, Alison Bechel, Beverly Cleary, J.M Coetzee, Susan Faludi, David Hickey, Elena Ferrante, Stephen King, John Irving, Jeff Lemire, and Lorrie Moore, and David Rakoff, Anne Rice, Donna Tartt, and John Updike

Magazines Harper’s Lapham’s Quarterly Rolling Stones SPIN The Believer (August 2003, September 2004, November 2004, October 2008, November/December 2008, March/April 2009, June 2009) The New Yorker

Bookstores Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal Sam Wellers Zion in salt lake LA Strand Books Housingworks Mcleods in Vancouver Powells

Sara wrote something short in ‘do what you want’ by ruby tandoh

also wrote the preface to jess rona’s book

Movies, Documentaries, Shows, Podcasts etc

Adventures in Babysitting

Arrested Development

*Bachelorette

Beauty is EmbarrassingBlack Power Mix Tape

*Bojack Horsemen (same artist as the Hang On music video)Broadchurch

Brothers and Sisters

Brown Girls

Bugsy Malone

Call me By Your Name

Luca Guadagnino

Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson

*Charlie Rose

*ChungKing Express

*Dan Savage Lovecast

***DeadWood

Drinking Buddies

Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Friday Night Lights

Full House

Game of Thrones

GarfieldGolden Girls Goonies

*Holy Motors

Home ImprovementI

nside Out

In The Loop

Lake

Legion

Little Shop of Horrors

L.O.V.E (tv series)

Madmen

Milk 2008

Moonlight

Nashville

Neon Bull

Orange Is The New BlackPhantom of The Paradise Rocky Horror Picture Show Sense8ShamelessShort Cut because 1992 Julianne Moore

Simon Killer

Sopranos Talk

RadioSpeed the Plow by David Mamet

Still Processing

Terminator 2

Terry Gross Fresh air NPR

The Bridge

The Crown

The Fall

The Fugitive

The Leftovers

The Minipops

The Thick of It

The Office (UK)

The Property Brothers

The Real Housewives of (anywhere)

The Wire

*This American Life

Tom Petty- Running Down A Dream

Trueblood

WALL-E

War of the Worlds

War Witch

Weiner-Dog

West Wing

2Dope Queens

13 Monkeys

30 Rock

and here’s some more book reviews from Sara

Outline

by Rachel Cusk

The truth is that I struggled to pick my favorite book or writing from Rachel Cusk. All three novels in her

Outline series

are fantastic, and I’ve reread each of them first with passion and then again with a studious eye. For me there is the lonely, yet pragmatic, keen observational protagonist that appeals to me deeply. But also, a woman traveling, forever on the receiving end of looping conversation with strangers. I find her writing extremely romantic. What I’d most like to include on this list, is a piece of her writing from the

New York Times Magazine

: "Making House: Notes on Domesticity." It is a perfect piece of writing about the struggle of making a home and living it in comfortably. “Like the body itself, a home is something both looked at and lived in, a duality that in neither case I have managed to reconcile. I retain the belief that other people’s homes are real where mine is a fabrication, just as I imagine others to live inner lives less flawed than my own.

”

Fire Sermon

by Jamie Quatro

Jamie Quatro’s novel about devotion, longing, lust and god was impossible to put down. I read it in one giant gulp. While male writers are given ample opportunity to write about these ideas, it still feels rare and thrilling when women do.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

Everything Jesmyn Ward has written has haunted me afterward. Unblinking, brutal, heartbreaking stories. Her writing feels both modern and like something from a masterpiece that every student is meant to read in high school or college.

The Topeka School

by Ben Lerner

I love a hook, a melody that on first listen gives you goosebumps, or makes your stomach lurch up to your throat. Sometimes I hear one and I think, “that is a smash,” and then settle in to envy that I didn’t write the song myself. That was the feeling I had reading

I couldn’t help but compare our memoir because both books center adolescence and high school at their core. While Ben writes dazzlingly about masculinity and violence and the bubbling rage of teenage boys, I thought about the way we wrote about the paralysis and fear of being a queer girl in that same kind of world. While his boys turn their rage outward, we focused our violence inward, on the most tender parts of ourselves. Ben’s writing opens a door to understanding something about my own experience of those adolescent years. He sheds light on the parents and teachers whose complicated lives indelibly haunt our own, in ways we don’t realize until we become adults. It seems much of our public conversation revolves around what to do about and with men,

The Topeka School is a thrilling response. All of that to say, I think Ben’s book is a smash.

JUNE 3, 2009 1. The Flamethrowers by Rachel KushnerI was so captivated there was no choice but to finish it entirely in one long stretch of days. Passages so beautiful that I found myself re-reading them over and over again in amazement. I think it was in the Harpers Magazine review that they called it feminist and sexy. It’s true. An entirely fresh and inspiring heroine. 2. Light Years by James SalterSo many tears; on the tarmac, on the subway, tucked in my bus bunk. I will cherish this book forever. It is 40 years old and that made the discovery so much more powerful. It’s also a good reminder that I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. I’ll cozy up with my tears any day, you can’t shame me! 3. Tenth of December by George SaundersThere aren’t very many writers with a body of work I love so completely. But, I think this is my absolute favourite. I have total admiration/awe for a mind this strange and wonderful

#tegan wrote a song for this book called Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs #it sounds like it could be in the con #you can search it on youtube it's there #there's some * asteriks cause she spoke mo #more about those #or liked them more #Sara Quin #tegan and sara #i'm sorry if i'm spamming tns tags with so much text i only have like 5 posts to make i swear #i've had this shit in my notes for like literally 10 years #from like #and stuff from their insta story or other things #interviews #SKQREADS #arrested development and the crown are both so good #and Moonlight

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humankoalaa · 2 years

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P VALLEY!! 2X07

*SPOILERS*

been a minute since i did one of these!

LORETAAAA U BETTA SAAANGGGGGGG.

not this wig. p valley…. y’all know damn well wigs in the 60’s ain’t look like this.

baby clifford 😭 i needs to know how the “uncle” came to be.

UNT UNT. absolutely not. heaven can wait. not my graynmuva. bye.

timeout.. you can show all this cleavage in heaven? i ain never seen no angel let me stop playing.

you not offering me shit in joe dirts wig. absolutely not. im just not doing that. talm bout come home 🤣

ion wanna go where they’re letting her do the lords work in that wig cause that alone tells me they fake.

they got earnestine at the pynk in pajamas, bed slippers and a feather boa 😭 JAIL.

ONE TWO BREAK EM’

this the coldest theme song since

golden girls and the proud family. no debate. argue with your breakfast.

🎶 DEE NIGGAS GRAN HARD BUT DEE BITCHES GRAN HAHDUH 🎶

“grandaddy honeycomb” 😂

one thing about autumn knight ne lakeisha savage ne hailey colton.. she gon get cussed tf out deservingly and still be on some fuck shit.

UNT UNT not earnestine. talm bout 6 feet. .6 feet where? in the ground? because when and where 😒 alexa, play crime mob, knuck if you buck.

“what you not gon do is piss in my mouth and call it kool-aid” 😭😭 THE WAAAAAYYYYYY i hollered.

why they got hailey in earnestines wig from the 60’s 😫 JAIL!

OOP.

brandee evans is just 😍

not maybe paint my room.

terricka… you not that damn pregnant.

terricka: “can i drive?”

mercedes: “absolutely the hell not” 🤣

can’t believe teak gone 😭 lawd these flashbacks worst the second time.

“that chicken and dressing clifford made gon take me before that rona do” 😭

“okay chef negro dee” 😫💀 alexa, did we ever figure out if heaven got a ghetto because the waaaaaayyyyyy im on my way.

OOP.

smh.

keyshawn. sweetie.i know it’s hard… but the mf gotta shower at some point ANDDDDT i KNOW you’ve seen diary of a mad black woman and i KNOW you got baby oil. IYKYK.

“lil homicide” 🤣🤦🏾‍♀️

WAIT HOW DID I MISS THIS THE FRIST TIME 😭 “what if it’s a carbon peroxide leak” unc, please 😂

the chucalissa strangler 🤣

“lil calculator” 😭

cliff: “i thought you said you choose the money over love” oop.

lil murda: “i said i usually do” OOP. listen to these wedding vows. your faves could never.

“im scraight” lie.

cedes: “i know w you ain’t talm bout no weak pull out game in your condition” 😂

terricka: “well how do you think i

got in this condition” 😫💀

not mercedes asking tarricka if she gon make up her mind about keeping this child at the baby preschool graduation 😭

terricka: “well julissa said that taylor said that her mama said that getting an a portion gives you cancer”

Mercedes’: “well julissa, taylor, and her bald headed hoe mama ain’t got two brain cells between the three of them” 😭😭😭😭 the way she put her hand on her hip 😭 katori hall need to be locked up for that line. im crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀🤦🏾‍♀️

this episode is hell 😭

cliff ain’t no reason you being this loud.

“nigga you lready here ain’t it” OOP.

“this gucci 234 B.C.?” 💀 ima fight katori.

ive never seen black men let alone black men in a queen storyline written this well 😭

katori hall really said i know im straight and over qualified HOWEVER,i am a writer so writers, SPECIFICALLY AND ESPECIALLY queer writers im available 5 days a week from 9-5 since yall have no idea what you’re doing. argue with a pamper.

ernestine where in the hell you going.

uncle clifford running 🤣🤣

murda correcting the paramedics 😭😭😭😭 your faves could never!

“whatchu lookin at r. kelly” 😭😭

cedes don’t do this to yourself 😭 you are not patrice 🥺

terricka… 🤦🏾‍♀️ ugh i hate it here.

“cause im ya mama” 😭

mf’s don’t ever use soap in tv showers.

lamarcus please 🤣

besides… i want to.. feel yo..🫢

this sex scene 🫢🫣 your faves could never.

fill me who?! LAMARCUS 🤭

coach somewhere like damn.... pitter patter.

😭😭😭😭 they’re so in love i can’t.

ion know if patrice a preacher or ms cleo.

ion have a clue in hell what autumn is talking about.

same keyshawn.

watched it for a third time and now i get it…. hopefully she don’t pull that you owe me shit on keyshawn.

#p valley #uncle clifford #lil murda #nicco annan #brandee evans #the pynk #keyshawn #p valley spoilers #shannon thornton

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Dispatches from TIFF #1

Hey folks, after two long years, I’m doing TIFF again, so I figured I’d make a little diary out of it with reviews and other thoughts.

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels (Turajilic, 2022)

This was my first screening of TIFF this year (after not having attended the last 2 years thanks to Covid and whatnot), and either I mistimed my commute or they set it up later due to this movie's lower profile, but I miraculously managed to be the first one in line. During the wait, Steve Coogan arrived in front of the theatre, but because I was too slow in pulling out my phone, I only snapped the back of his head as he turned away. Also, it seems like the segment to thank the volunteers gets cringier every year, and I'm glad to see this tradition was continued despite the pandemic. I took a vacation from work to do a whole bunch of showings like I used to do in the pre-'rona days, so expect lots more exciting reportage from the front lines over the week (mostly when I don't have anything interesting to say about the actual movie).

As for the movie, the subject, about Yugoslavian cameraman Stevan Labudovic and his involvement in the Algerian War, is interesting enough to make this reasonably engaging viewing. Like a lot of modern documentaries, there is a certain formal dryness, but I think the access Turajilic had to her interview subjects and the actual footage alleviates that. That being said, I found the film a little frustrating. It reveals towards the end that despite the Labudovic's hero status in Algeria, very few Algerians had actually been able to see his footage. During the Q&A, Turajilic expanded on this, referring to the Algerian government's tight control of messaging around the Algerian War, and her difficulty filming in Algeria until she used Labudovic's name as a way to get access. For a movie as concerned as it is about propaganda and the way media can be an extension of warfare, I would have liked to see it interrogate that last revelation further.

Fixation (Morgan, 2022)

Jittery genre fun with an appealingly twitchy lead performance Maddie Hasson. I found her a bit much in We Summon the Darkness, and that’s probably true here as well, but it serves the material better this time around. This is a about trauma and whatnot like pretty much every modern horror movie is, but works better as it’s more concerned with translating the heroine’s experience into visceral terms than making sure all its themes tie out nicely. During the Q&A the director and cinematographer said they tried to work in a large number of references to their inspirations, but I appreciated that it wasn’t too distracting. I tend to be put off when movies are too studied in their homaging, as I’d usually prefer to watch the inspirations instead. Now, they didn’t cite any specific films in their answer, and I was too embarrassed to ask to confirm, but I’m 90% sure that between the premise and the inclusion of the line “I know you’re watching me” that the filmmakers have seen Nightdreams. I will say that I was less than enamoured by the ending, but I had a good time for most of this.

On a side note, this opens with a trigger warning indicating that the movie contains content some might find triggering, but provides no details as to what that content might be. I’m not inherently against content warnings (I’ll sometimes check the IMDb Parent’s Guide before putting on a movie), but what am I supposed to do with that warning? I imagine most people watching it in this setting bought tickets through the site, which gives more helpful descriptions of what’s in the movie, so it’s not exactly useful for them. And for people who got in from the rush line? The warning has no details. Are they just gonna get up and leave? Okay, rant over.

Sick (Hyams, 2022)

This review contains mild spoilers in the second paragraph and major spoilers in the third paragraph.

The things that stick out the most to me about John Hyams' action movies are the unwavering clarity of the steadicam cinematography and the sheer physicality of the violence, in a way that almost flirts with body horror. Both of those qualities are present here, so Hyams fans will likely have a good time with this. The camerawork is quite a bit choppier, but never hard to follow, as it tends to follow the action in a pretty natural way. In the Q&A, Hyams mentions a reluctance to intentionally shake the camera, and the shakes here feel like a natural extension of the messiness of the action, with confrontations between the killer and their victims drawn out to be much longer and less one sided than is usual in the slasher genre. Which also means that the gnarliest acts of violence make quite an impact (the hooting and hollering by the audience during my screening was well justified).

Now, I'm going to flirt with spoiler territory in this paragraph, so hold off from reading if you'd like to go in completely blind, even though I'll do my best not to give away outright plot points. This is written by Kevin Williamson, whose credit is essentially a spoiler as he recycles elements from the Scream franchise, but applying it to a story set in the early stages of the pandemic (April 2020, to be precise). I've been interested in how movies have been influenced by the pandemic in their production methods and particularly their storytelling. The COVID element is pretty explicit here, with our two heroines heading up to a secluded cottage. The movie presents some of the preventative measures which in retrospect seem a bit excessive (outdoor masking, wiping down groceries, constant spraying of disinfectant), and plays these as punchlines. Some of this is inevitable given that we have more information about how COVID spreads now, and some of that is the Williamson touch. But in the Q&A he discussed wanting to capture the ambient sense of fear in those days into the story, and I don't know if Hyams or Williamson deserve the greater share of blame, but I never felt that the usual slasher sense of isolation ever translated to COVID paranoia.

I am diving into outright spoiler territory in this paragraph, so skip to the bottom if you don't want it ruined. The way the movie tied COVID into the killers' motivations didn't sit right with me, and I'm going to spill over into my personal views here for a second, so bear with me. In the Q&A, Hyams and Williamson spoke about wanting to capture the need to find a specific target to blame to find some catharsis when the threat is more ambient and the causes are arguably systemic. I guess this is where I differ from from them in that I think individual actions absolutely have played a part making the situation worse. It's not an either or situation. I don't think Hyams or Williamson intend to minimize the harm caused by COVID (otherwise they wouldn't have made this a major plot element), but I think of the way the killers in Scream are given time to develop as actual characters ("humanize" seems like the wrong word, but I got a sense of them as people outside the plot). I guess you can blame Hyams' narrow storytelling focus, which arguably enhances the suspense, but I don't think that happens here. Okay, major spoilers over.

In short, this is a pretty effective piece of slashering, even if certain storytelling decisions left me deeply frustrated.

#film #movie review #tiff #tiff22 #Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels #Fixation #Sick #Mila Turajlić #Mercedes Bryce Morgan #John Hyams

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Book Asks: 3 & 6 pls! Tx

Thanks for the Ask, Anon!

3: what is your favourite genre?

Science Fiction and Fantasy; Romance; Murder Mystery/Police Procedural; Historical Fiction; Poetry; Plays; Non-Fiction. My reading tastes are pretty eclectic!

6: what books have you read in the last month?

Blimey, this is a list, given I've already ready nearly 170 books so far this year!

Deadly Wishes (Detective Zoe Finch, #1) - Rachel McLean Deadly Choices (Detective Zoe Finch, #2) - Rachel McLean The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary - Melissa Harrison Deadly Desires (Detective Zoe Finch, #3) - Rachel McLean Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups (memoir) - Anna McNuff Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery, #1) - Nicholas Rhea How to Paddle a Kayak: The 90 Minute Guide to Master Kayaking and Learn to Paddle Like a Pro - Scott Parsons Outrage on Gallows Hill (Thomas Littlejohn #13) - George Bellairs Dreaming of Flight - Catherine Ryan Hyde Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light - Rona Munro Deadly Terror (Detective Zoe Finch, #4) - Rachel McLean The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads - Alistair Moffat Deadly Reprisal (Detective Zoe Finch #5) - Rachel McLean Persuasion - Jane Austen Back in the Frame (memoir) - Jools Walker The Worry Tiger - Alexandra Page (illus Stef Murphy Deadly Fallout (Detective Zoe Finch #6) - Rachel McLean Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic edited Iona Datt Sharma

I'm currently reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain

[Ask me about Books]

#Ask Game #Books #A Nonymouse #Ask and you shall receive - possibly!

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Ummmhhh... Hi 🥺 this is a bit awkward. I don't normally do these things.

I'm just here to say that I love your content and wonder why have you stopped posting.

Btw, ur aesthetic it's gorgeous 👌👌

Oh man, it’s so sad that I JUST got to read this lovely message and I have no idea when was this sent to me. Either way, I stopped posting for a quite number of reasons, the main one was because I had a lot of uni work, then the rona restarted and I got a lil depressed, then suddenly I started focusing in other topics and and I logged out of this account, and for some reason I forgot I had it. I wanna get back to it but I don’t know what to write anymore. I guess I could use it as a diary. Idk.

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"They tried everything in their power to protect everyone. Yet in the end, their final gambit completely consumed them. All I could do was trap them in their shattered mind and hope we are never set free."

- Rona's final entry in her diary.

ehehehehe my gd ocs having "welp its time to self sacrifice" syndrome go brrrrr

#ocs #digital art #griffins destiny #art #drawing #random art post that took ten forevers to make

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#003

Sungguh ironi, aku pernah melewati ulang tahunku yang ke-19 ini dua kali, akibat kecelakaan itu. Namun, ulang tahun yang ke-19 sebelumnya tidak seperti yang sekarang.

Apakah ada orang yang mengulang kehidupannya dua kali seperti aku? Rasanya tidak. Bukan bermaksud pick me juga sih, tapi sepertinya, aku ini spesial?

Kalau sebelumnya aku melewati ulang tahun yang ke-19 ini dalam keadaan jomblo, tapi tahun ini aku punya pacar. Walau aku dan pacarku belum memiliki rencana apapun di hari ulang tahunku ini karena UAS-ku masih ada seminggu lagi.

Yeah, persamaan ulang tahun 19 yang dulu dan sekarang adalah: sama-sama dilakukan di minggu pertama UAS.

Mengulang kehidupan, tidak selamanya buruk sih. Walau aku sudah pernah mengalami beberapa seperti UAS, tapi ada sesuatu yang tak pernah kualami.

Satu, aku punya pacar. Padahal di kehidupan sebelumnya, aku jomblo sampai aku memutuskan untuk minum kopi racun.

Dua, banyak hal-hal menyenangkan yang terjadi, yang sebelumnya tak pernah kurasakan. Aku juga mendapat banyak teman baru, padahal di kehidupanku sebelumnya, aku tidak pernah mengenal mereka.

Karena hal inilah, aku bersyukur diberi kesempatan untuk hidup kembali—walau harus mundur empat tahun. Aku akan berhenti menjadi anak ambis, dan lebih menikmati kehidupan kuliahku.

Lagipula, buat apa jadi anak ambis kalau tidak lulus saat sidang skripsi?

Kalau di kehidupanku sebelumnya aku pernah menjadi asisten dosen saat semester empat sampai enam, di kehidupanku sekarang kayaknya enggak dulu deh, hehe.

Tapi, aku sangat menyukai menjadi asisten dosen. Honornya pun bisa kupakai jajan dan menambah uang saku adikku.

Oke, urusan menjadi asisten dosen, dipikir nanti saja.

Aku menghela napas, memandang buku diary yang sudah penuh dengan curhatanku mengenai kehidupan keduaku. Sebenarnya aku bukanlah orang yang suka menulis diary, tetapi untuk hal ini, aku tak bisa menceritakan pada siapapun. Maka itu aku menulis diary agar tidak menjadi beban pikiran.

Oke, hal positif ketiga yang kudapatkan adalah: rajin menulis diary. Catat.

Aku pun mengalihkan pandanganku, dari meja belajar ke arah tempat tidurku. Terdapat Melani, adik perempuanku tengah tertidur dengan lelapnya.

Sebenarnya, kami sudah pisah kamar sejak aku mulai masuk SMA, tetapi karena tadi kami menonton film horor bersama, ia jadi takut untuk tidur di kamarnya sendiri. Aku sih, tak masalah. Toh, aku tidak pernah berpikir untuk melakukan sesuatu yang buruk selama ia tidur. Hanya orang tidak waras yang sanggup berpikir begitu.

Kembali kupandangi buku diary-ku yang masih tergeletak di atas meja belajar. Bingung mau menulis apalagi soal ulang tahun dan kehidupan keduaku ini.

"Aa' Esa—?" tiba-tiba terdengar suara lirih memanggil, dan saat aku menoleh, rupanya adikku terbangun dari tidurnya. "Aa' belum tidur?"

"Belum Ni. Kamu sendiri kenapa bangun? Mimpi buruk?" tanyaku sambil menutup bukuku, lantas duduk di tepi ranjang.

Adikku hanya menggeleng, dengan wajah yang masih mengantuk, "kebangun mau pipis... Tapi nggak berani ke kamar mandi sendirian... Aa' mau nemenin?"

Aku hanya mengangguk, mana mungkin aku menolaknya?

"Yaudah ayo. Sekalian Aa' juga," kataku sambil berjalan lebih dulu.

"Aa'?"

"Kenapa?"

"Selamat ulang tahun!"

Aku tersenyum, mendapati ucapan pertama berasal dari adik kecilku.

Kuusap pucuk kepalanya dengan lembut, lantas mencium pipinya.

"Makasih, Ani!"

Melani pun turut tersenyum, walau wajahnya masih mengantuk. "Walau Aa' nyebelin, tapi Aa' itu cowok paling baik, selain bapak. Makasih udah jadi kakakku ya!"

"Bisa aja kamu! Ani juga, makasih udah jadi adiknya Aa' yang paling manis ya!"

Dipuji begitu, membuat rona merah muncul di pipi adikku.

"Ih si Aa' bisa aja! Yaudah ayo temenin ke kamar mandi!"

Aku hanya tertawa kecil melihat tingkahnya yang malu-malu itu.

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