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demoreelrewound · 11 months

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Donnie DuPré

I almost let something hurtful from my past consume me. I'm done doing that.

Canon traits: ambitious, demanding, passionate, charismatic, stubborn, workaholic, secretive, prone to sarcasm and snideness when annoyed. He wishes to bring Hollywood down for how it treated his mother and him, using his amateur films to do so.

A bisexual man with a strained and distant marriage.

Canon backstory:

Donnie was born as Jimmy Boyd. The son of Elissa Huffman, star of Blue Patches, he was a child actor infamous for his poor performances. During the filming of Jingle Sells, he lost his mother to suicide after years of mistreatment as an aging actress in Hollywood, as well as her declining mental health. During the remainder of the shoot he was looked after by Arnold Schwarzenegger but beyond that his caretakers are unknown.

He disappeared from the public eye and changed his name to Donnie DuPré, after which he married a woman who earned much more money than him. While he is able to live off of her and not work to fund his film-making passion, she is very distant from him in the present and even arranged a pre-nup stipulating that he wasn't to visit either his or her family for holidays.

At some point in his life, he was violently raped and similar depictions in film are intense for him. His coping mechanism with this, as with his other trauma, is to use dark/snide humour and minimisation of the events and emotions to keep his true feelings hidden from others. Only in vulnerable moments does the bubbling anger and frustration surface.

My ideas:

As mentioned in my post on little and big changes, Elissa Huffman -> Alice Harper. But also, to make the Jake Lloyd parallels less blatant and help do the same generalised parable, Jimmy Boyd -> Timmy Blair and the films will be slightly more generalised.

The sci-fi epic might be some sort of homage to Jules Verne, Weird Tales, and old silent films with elaborate cut-out sets á la Georges Mélies. It was a production tied together with string and a wish that Donnie was and still sort of is attached to due to its sheer ambition and ingenuity. It inspired his interest in the craft but its failure intimidated him from such an original project. He played the wise-beyond-his-years prince of an alien planet and was directed to remain perfectly calm with every line. As a six-year-old, this was understandably hard.

(I haven't thought nearly as much about the Christmas movie replacement, only that it not be nearly as close to Jingle All The Way as Jingle Sells is.)

After his mother's death, he was pushed into the arms of his bio father, fellow actor and producer Will Blair. This was mainly to avoid the scandal of "abandoning" Timmy and Will didn't care that much about him so long as he stayed out of the way and had good grades. This neglect left him to fend for himself emotionally and try his hardest to be seen and appreciated in the patchy minor roles and school. (I am somewhat influenced here by the HPD Donnie headcanon, though I'm not sure who was the first to come up with it.)

He began acting out in his teenage years, attracting bad press like many former child stars did. Reckless driving, risky situations with people who should have known better. (As it's never said when the Dragon Tattoo incident occurred, it could be placed here and act as a catalyst for self-destruction. In which case, poor young Donnie!)

This all culminated in an accident that left him in the hospital in critical condition. It was then that he was basically disowned by Will, and Donnie DuPré was born. He used his trust fund to finance a false death verdict and made it out of the state with the help of his future father-in-law, Hank Simmons.

He starts out with more positive intentions, wishing to make them better in his eyes. But as the low view counts and negative words build, his directing and writing become more spiteful in tone, characters more mean. Due to his default self-referential/deprecating humour style however, it isn't as apparent at first.

That's all I have for now, ideas or questions or critique welcome!

#{original reel}#{reel rewound}#donnie dupré #reel rewound: donnie dupré #rape mention #rape cw #csa implied #(perhaps - subject to change)

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razzle-zazzle · 3 years

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Whumptober Day 26: If you thought the head trauma was bad...

Migraine

658 Words; Pebble in their Shoes

TW for the kidnapping of a minor, that scene is very sketchy. Also mind control

Cole winced as the pain in his head spiked, the pain sliding from the front of his head to the back. He groaned, shoving his head into the pillow.

The headache had been an intermittent pain all day, blinking in and out ever since the Serpentine Generals had made their attempt on the bank. They hadn’t gotten away with much—but of course it’d been enough to get Cole fired—but that was the moment Cole could pinpoint as the start of the headache.

He couldn’t remember the Hypnobrai General being there, so it was probably just a migraine. A very unusual migraine that seemed to shift around his head, as though his mind was being rifled through. But surely, it couldn’t be…?

Cole was probably worried over nothing.

Really, he should just try to get some sleep.

+=+=+=+=+

Lloyd blinked his eyes open blearily. Why wasn’t he in bed?

Lloyd moved his hands to push the gunk from his eyes—

His wrists and ankles had been tied up with rope.

If Lloyd was still at Darkley’s, he would have comforted himself with the fact that it was probably just a stupid prank.

But he wasn’t at Darkley’s.

And hadn’t Skales attempted to kidnap him earlier today?

Lloyd’s eyes snapped open as realization dawned on him. His eyes darted around wildly, trying to make out Skales’ figure in the gloom.

But Skales was nowhere in sight.

Squinting, Lloyd could make out someone shuffling around the room. But who…?

And then Cole was in front of him, eyes a dull red.

Lloyd breathed a sigh of relief. It was just Cole. He had nothing to worry about.

Except Cole wasn’t talking. Or moving. Just standing there, staring off into space.

“Cole.” Lloyd whispered, struggling against the ropes. “Can you untie me?”

And then Cole shoved some cloth in Lloyd’s mouth, before taping it shut.

Lloyd’s eyes widened in surprise. “MMMPH?”

Cole said nothing, grabbing the child and holding him under his arm. He moved towards the window—and oh, Lloyd was not letting that happen, no sir. He kicked his legs, screaming through the makeshift gag as Cole propped the window open.

Lloyd’s efforts weren’t entirely in vain, though. Just as Cole was halfway out the window, Kai opened the door, panting.

Kai paused in shock for only a moment before moving, lunging at Cole with all the fury of an older brother.

Lloyd was dropped onto the fire escape outside the window as the two scuffled, kicking his legs as he tried to stand up. He had no idea what was going on in the room, but he did know one thing:

Cole’s eyes had been red.

Which probably wasn’t good.

There was a splash, and then Cole was out the window, Lloyd held under his arm like a football. Behind them, Lloyd could hear Kai shrieking. Below him, he could see the ground—now the rooftops—moving past at a rapid clip as Cole all but dashed away from the apartment.

To where, Lloyd wasn’t sure, but he had a sneaking suspicion as to who was behind all this.

In the distance, Lloyd could hear the others calling out. Could hear them scrambling to keep up with Cole.

Those sounds faded into the night as Cole made his escape.

+=+=+=+=+

Cole was floating.

Everything was just so simple, so easy. And all he had to do was listen to the voice telling him what to do. Every order seemed so wonderful, so compelling—

The voice would call to him, and Cole would listen.

The kid mumbled something through the gag. Which really wasn’t all that necessary, now that Cole thought of it—it certainly hadn’t kept the ninja from waking up.

Ah, but little details like that were unimportant. Cole just needed to get the kid to Skales.

And indeed, Cole had lost the ninja a while ago. He was safe to slip down into the sewers now.

He wouldn’t want to keep Skales waiting.

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rosiehunterwolf · 3 years

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Ninbingo Fics Masterlist

A complete collection of all the fics I wrote for the Ninbingo event on Tumblr.

And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down

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(Pix and Lloyd bonding)

Summary: Pixal has been Samurai X for awhile, now- a role that allows her to be herself, to be happy. But it's also... incredibly lonely. Luckily, she's not the only one alone- Lloyd has been left in the city while his friends go after Master Wu, and his presence is comforting. But as they struggle with a mysterious biker gang, Pixal can't help feeling the want to be part of something more.

Face the Music

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(Cole, Kai, and Jay shenanigans)

Summary: If you ask Cole, there are some things in life better left forgotten. Especially embarrassing experiences that you would prefer not to talk about. They certainly shouldn't be used as blackmail or as entertainment for others, and everyone should just learn to move on.

Although maybe his friends aren't the only ones that need to move on.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Are You There?

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(Lloyd reflects on getting kidnapped)

Summary: All he wanted to do was help his team. It was his mistakes that got them into this mess, after all. It would make sense that he was the one to get them out of it. But if there’s one thing Lloyd’s learned over the course of his life, it’s that things don’t have a habit of going his way.

That, and the fact that stars don’t make very good company.

let me down gently

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(Lloyd and Kai let out some pent-up feelings about fathers)

Summary: The thing about spending nearly every waking moment of the last several years of your life with a group of friends is that you really get to know them, inside and out, so much so that sometimes you know what they’re thinking before they do.

And, sometimes that means it’s easy to overlook what they’re actually trying to say.

rainy days

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(Jay, Nya, and Lloyd vibing over storms)

Summary: There are many reasons why people may dislike storms. Maybe, like Kai, they find few things worse than being cold and wet. Or maybe, they dislike the eerie sounds of the whistling wind and booming thunder, like Cole. Or maybe, like Zane, they are concerned about the safety hazards. But for the other three members of the ninja team, storms offer a much more pleasant experience.

There's Sand Everywhere!

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(There's sand everywhere, the Great Gull Caper, and other hijinks from the City's Greatest Ninja. Fluffy beachfic.)

Summary: It was just supposed to be a day off. A simple beach day. But when your family consists of six ninja and a samurai, including a nindroid convinced he’s a detective, his reluctant sidekick, an aquaphobe, a girl who can command the sea, an unassuming teen who seems to attract every animal he crosses paths with, and a bunch of argumentative idiots, nothing is ever that easy.

wait

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(Juxtapose style fanfic with Lloyd and Garmadon in early season 2 and pre-Darkley's)

Summary: Lloyd’s not so great at being patient. It’s not his fault though- maybe he would be better at it if waiting didn’t always end up being so disappointing- if people actually kept their promises. But this time’s going to be different, he knows it. His father will come back for him. And Lloyd’s going to wait.

As long as it takes.

little things

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(Lloyd has a mini identity crisis post child's play)

Summary: "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."

-Kurt Vonnegut

Lloyd’s tired of being left behind. How is he meant to be the green ninja when he always has to work harder, train better, and wait longer to go on missions with his team? He wants nothing more than to be their equal.

At least, that’s what he thought he wanted.

oh take me back to the start

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(Cole helps Jay out after a particularly disturbing nightmare)

Summary: The past should be left in the past. Or, at least, that’s what Jay keeps telling himself. Nadakhan is gone. It’s not logical to still be afraid. But he is, and now everything that he left behind suddenly feels like it’s never going to be the same again.

Cole isn’t so convinced.

two halves of a broken whole

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(Nya and Zane patch each other up after the events of s9)

Summary: The Sons of Garmadon have been defeated. Garmadon is in prison. The city has been saved.

In the aftermath of the battle, Nya is more than ready to take a much-needed break. But the life of a ninja is messy. Recovery is never that simple. Although the wounds may have healed, the scars still remain.

Zane’s scars seem to match up, though. And maybe together, they can begin to heal.

Never Put Off Until Tomorrow

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(Whole team + Pixal shenanigans and hijinks involving a video game tournament and forgotten chores)

Summary: …what can be done today, yada, yada, yada, we all know the saying. So do the ninja- when Master Wu is drilling it into their heads every minute of every day, it’s kind of hard to forget.

Naturally, it only takes them a week (and the biggest new video game in Ninjago) to do so.

stuck with you (through bright and blue)

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(This also doubles as my Lloyd birthday contribution. Movie!verse squad tries to throw Lloyd a birthday party)

Summary: Kai only wants two things: to protect Lloyd, and to give him the best birthday ever. Unfortunately, Lloyd seems hell-bent on making that as difficult as possible. Kai’s always prided himself on achieving the impossible, but dealing with human emotions is much more complicated than beating up Garmadon’s generals or shooting enemies with fire, as he quickly learns. Movie!verse

permafrost

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(Kai helps out Zane after they return from the Never Realm)

Summary: It’s not like this is the first time this has happened. It’s not like none of his teammates have ever suffered this kind of guilt and pain. It’s not like Zane himself hasn’t walked through hell before and come out the other side (mostly) in one piece.

Except, this time, it's different. It shouldn’t be, but it is.

Star-Ninja!

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(Lloyd introduces the ninja to Starfarer, 5+1 fic)

Summary: What happens when the loveable gremlin the ninja adopted off of the streets introduces them to Starfarer comics? Chaos ensues, of course.

#so.#um.#i hit the limit for links on my main masterlist XD #so now i have to break it up into smaller ones rip #ninjago #ninbingo #rosiehunterwolf #my masterlist #my fic #rosie writes

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nazghoulz · 4 years

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The Definitive Ranking of Richard Armitage’s Acting Roles, Rated Exclusively by How Hot I Find Him In Screengrabs

Richard Armitage. As a diehard Thorin Oakenshield fan I certainly have a complicated relationship with him, mainly because I can never decide if I find him inherently hot or not. On the one hand, I’m a hardcore Thorinfucker. On the other hand my gay ass sees a headshot of Mr. Armitage and I’m just like, “Oh, no thank you.” So in order to set myself to rights, I have gone through Mr. Armitage’s IMDB and done a definitive ranking of all his 44 screen roles on there, based completely and arbitrarily on how hot I find him in screenshots. (Thank you to all the hardcore Armitage Fuckers who keep wordpress blogs with screengrabs of his various cameos and bit parts; my respect for you cannot be put into words.) I haven’t seen like 90% of these properties, and I didn’t bother to research them, so these are mainly just gut first impressions. I hope this helps anyone else out there who as confused by him as I am. Enjoy ?

44. Father Quart in The Seville Communion/The Man From Rome (2020) — ??/10

I don’t think this movie is out yet? Idk I haven’t been able to find any stills of him, let alone much information about the movie itself. It’s listed on his IMDB though! And apparently he’s playing a priest...which could be extremely 👁️👁️ if done correctly.

43. Unnamed Naboo Fighter Pilot in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) — 1/10

OH SWEETIE NO!!!!! This physically pains me to say this, because I unironically love this terrible movie with my whole heart, but unlike a yung Kiera Knightley’s role (pictured front and center) as Padmé’s loyal body double Sabé, this is probably a cameo that we would all like to forget about. The only thing Richard has to offer is this unfortunate turtle-faced realness. This helmet does him no favors.

42. Man in Pub in Boon (1992) — 2/10

As far as I know this is Richard’s first acting credit on IMDB, and he for sure is working the background extra energy. Go on girl give us nothing! He does have a decent backside though, and it’s better than looking at unfortunate turtle face, so I give this one a 2.

41. Paul Andrews in Between the Sheets (2003) — 2/10

I can’t really articulate why, but I absolutely despise every screenshot I see of Richard Armitage in this role. He is completely unhot, and not even in a way I can laugh at. He takes no advantage of his assets, he has no charisma, no magnetism, no nothing. This is Richard Armitage at his most white bread rando, in a way that makes me actively dislike him. Pbbbbttth. Bad. Throw this whole thing away.

40. Craig Parker in Casualty (2001) — 2/10

I don’t know, it’s like the perfect storm of the gelled 2001 hair, the terrible quarter? eighth? zip sweater, and overall, er, skeezy vibes that he gives off that makes him particularly unhot in this role. Perhaps not as reprehensible as Unhot Paul, but still. I think the sheer boringness of this has to count for something. Blech.

39. Dr. Tom Steele in Doctors (2001) — 2.5/10

He honestly looks like a villain in an early season of Alias, which... well. Quentin Tarantino was cast as a bit-part villain in Alias season one, so take that as you will. But at least he’s compelling here, which is why he gets half a point over Unhot Paul.

38. Steven in Frozen (2005) — 3/10

Get some rest, tall child! You can’t keep burning the candle at both ends! Also short haircuts do nothing for you, Richard. Styled like this, they just serve to make you look sort of like a sleaze.

37. Peter Macduff in ShakespeaRe-Told (2005) — 3/10

He honestly looks like he could be a guest star in Friends in this one, where he’s a guy named Jason who Ross meets in Central Perk where they find they have a lot in common. Ross introduces Jason to Monica and they really hit it off, but it all comes crashing down because while Jason is sensitive and writes poetry, he also thinks that the Earth is flat. The rest of the episode is trying to get rid of Jason while he becomes increasingly obsessed with Monica, and Ross cannot quite let go trying to prove to Jason that the world is round. Anyway. Macduff Flat Earth Jason isn’t quite as unhot as Unhot Paul, but he’s pretty much on the same level as Tired Steven.

36. Phillip Durrant in Marple (2007) — 3/10

Something about him in this image really makes me want to punch him in the face. It’s huge Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3 energy.

35. Young Claude Monet in The Impressionists (2006) — 3.5/10

I’M LOSING MY FUCKING MIND THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS !!! CARNIVAL BARKER !!!!! STEP RIGHT UP TO SEE THE WORST GOATEE IN HISTORY !!! I was actually going to give Yung Claude a 2 but the more I look at this terrible beard the more impressed I am with the boldness of this look, so I had to bump it up to 3.5. Idk. Just look at this. It’s incredible, especially knowing what kind of beard Armitage can grow himself !!!!!!!!

34. Heinz Kruger in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) — 3.5/10

This is definitely the best looking he’s been so far in this list, but he’s a Nazi in this one, which makes him unsexy on principle. But do I feel a little something when he gets pinned to the ground by jacked Chris Evans with the above look on his face right before he swallows his cyanide pill? Can neither confirm nor deny. They are also truly playing into his inherently sinister bone structure, so I can respect that.

33. Percy Courtney in Miss Marie Lloyd (2007) — 4/10

Even including Yung Claude and Nazi Heinz, I think Nothing Percy is probably the weakest of Richard’s period looks, mostly because he looks like, well, nothing. He certainly doesn’t pull off that top hat like he does in North and South, and the secret to that might be the lack of sideburns. In this one he just sort of reminds me of the asshole fiance in Titanic.

32. Philip Turner in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005) — 4/10

He’s really giving off bargain bin Hugh Jackman as Wolverine vibes here, if Logan’s energy was more “murderer in a Hallmark channel mystery” than “superhero.” Though, given what sort of show this is, that may be the point! Idk, this isn’t the worst. At least he has a decent haircut in this one. Still, I feel absolutely nothing when I look at him. He’s simply royalty-free stock music given human form.

31. Dr. Alec Track in The Golden Hour (2005) — 4.5/10

I could see how this conceivably be sexy in this role, but to be honest, he’s still nothing to me, sorry. He gets some extra points because he obviously worked out for this role and the hard nips through a white undershirt is a commendable look. I whole-heartedly respect Doctor Alec’s thottitude.

30. Daryl in Staged (1999) — 4.5/10

Speaking of thottitude!!!!! This is one cream-faced business boy that I can certainly get into! He looks like the love interest in a pre-Hayes code homoerotic thriller from the early 1930s. I’m sure that’s just because of the lighting and general staging of this production, but hm... demure. Love it.

29. Capt. Ian Macalwain in Ultimate Force (2003) — 4.5/10

Well, he looks like a character from M*A*S*H but with no charisma, or like an extra in The Great Escape who snitches on Steve McQueen to the Nazis. Also in half the pictures I find of him from this he’s wearing this terrible beret, which I know he can pull off because of a role that ranks much higher on this list. Whoever styles this man really needs to pay attention to what sort of headgear they put on him.

28. Epiphanes in Cleopatra (1999) — 5/10

Speaking of headgear, you know what?? He doesn’t look awful here. A solid 5, perfectly acceptable. I think the helmet does a lot to accentuate the sharpness of his face in this extremely bit part, though the eyeliner definitely also helps as well.

27. John Mulligan in Moving On (2009) — 5/10

Mr. Armitage’s characters can really have potential when a production’s stylist allows him to wear scruff (IN A WAY THAT LOOKS NATURAL, LOOKING AT YOU YUNG CLAUDE). However, as it is with John Mulligan in Moving On here, he just sort of looks like a rando? They’re not playing into the inherent angularity of his face, which for me makes it sort of confusing regarding what sort of emotion I’m supposed to feel while looking at him. As it is, I’m just like, “Yup, that sure is a regular human man, right there.”

26. Smug Man at Party in This Year’s Love (1999) — 5/10

This is the face of a man who less smug and is more DRUNK OUT OF HIS MIND !!!! Idk. He’s cute here, I’ll admit. That’s all I have to say about it.

25. John Standring in Sparkhouse (2002) — 5.5/10

I enjoy the bold choice of giving him wavy hair in this one, but I’m not sure he quite pulls it off. It doesn’t look bad, per se, just... he looks completely nonthreatening. Which I guess could be someone’s thing, but not mine. He honestly looks like a knock-off Will Graham, sans dogs and trauma.

24. Gary in Into the Storm (2014) — 5.5/10

I think the thing that really gets me is that this character’s name is Gary. Who on God’s green Earth looks at Richard Armitage and goes, “Ah yes, you do look like a Gary” ??? I don’t think I know of a single non-American Gary, especially since the name Gary only got popularized after Gary Cooper renamed himself after his hometown of Gary, Indiana!!!! It wasn’t really a name for human men before that!!!! I want to live in the alternate universe where Frank Cooper was originally from Albuquerque and named himself Albuquerque Cooper and this character is named as such. Gary. Really.

23. King Oleron in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) — 5.5/10

I truly hate how much his facial expressions in these stills remind me of Thorin, considering how bad he looks otherwise. Like his face his fine, I guess, especially since this is the first instance of his full beard. I’m charmed despite myself! Take me to wonderland, O King.

22. Adam Price in The Stranger (2020) — 5.5/10

For as compelling as people call this series, Richard here isn’t very much so imo. But despite my utter lack of interest, he doesn’t look bad per se. He just sort of has that stubbly white man blandness that colors a lot of his more recent roles. Like, at least his bad mid-2000′s styling had character. This is just the visual representation of a vague handwave.

21. Harry Kennedy in The Vicar of Dibley (2006) — 6/10

Gosh... floppy hair, cute sweaters... he also seems to be smiling a lot in this one, which is nice! The only thing I have to complain about is that he looks very much like if Bradley Cooper and Hugh Jackman circa Kate and Leopold had a baby, which may not necessarily be too much of a bad thing, but I can’t unsee it.

20. Sgt. John Porter in Strike Back (2010) — 6/10

Ah, back to poorly suited haircuts. At least he’s a little bit gritter and grimier than we’ve seen so far, and I will say Richard Armitage does look good covered in dirt, as we will see later on. Also he’s got biceps in this one, which, hell yeah.

19. Ricky Deeming in Inspector George Gently (2007) — 6/10

I’M HAVING THE HARDEST TIME RIGHT NOW RANKING THIS ONE BC OF THIS INCREDIBLE LITTLE WHITE SCARF-RIDING LEATHERS COMBO!!! WHICH ABSOLUTE GENIUS DECIDED THIS!!!! EVERY SCREENSHOT OF HIM IN HIS EPISODE HAS THIS!!! Part of me just wants to give Stylish Ricky a big fat 10 because I’m gay and adore the sheer audacity of this look, but I still have to be fair and rank his overall aura accordingly. I think he’s a handsome extremely gay-coded motorcycle lad in this one, but he doesn’t exactly rev my engine, so to speak.

18. Lucas North in Spooks (2008) — 6/10

The tattoos really spice this one up. Luke could have been plagued by the problems inherent in Regular Mulligan’s Moving On styling, but this guy has an edge to him. He has a good haircut and 5′ o’clock shadow, which is something I’ve figured out is integral to Armitage Hotness. I feel like if I got to know this character I could possibly find him sexy.

17. Raymond de Merville in Pilgrimage (2017) — 6.5/10

Speaking of bad haircuts, this one is his undoing. This is almost the perfect balance between full beard and short haircut, which is the only way a short haircut works on this man, but they ruined it with this one! They gave him a bad bowl fade, which completely undoes any inherent sexiness that comes with being a knight. Not even the fact that he’s covered in dirt can turn me on at this point, ugh. Guy of Gisbourne he is not!!!

16. Tom Calahan in Brain on Fire (2016) — 6.5/10

Oh hell yes, WELCUM 2 DA DILF ZONE!!! I’m not super duper thrilled with the looks I’ve seen from this movie, but he seems scruffy and comfy in a way that is slightly refreshing for ol’ Richard. This is certainly the best of his normie looks so far. I’m just sad it took them 24 years to figure out how to style him properly for sympathetic roles in a contemporary setting.

15. James in My Zoe (2019) — 6.5/10

It’s another DILF look, slightly edgier than Comfy Tom but none of that sexy tired energy that we’ll see from Ocean’s 8. I don’t know !! Jimmy here doesn’t exactly thrill me, I think I prefer Tom’s flannels to this sharp bomber jacket/white t shirt combo seen here. Oh well! I am extremely 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 that he can just casually palm that soccer ball like that.

14. John Thornton in North & South (2004) — 7/10

Alright. I’m sorry. I just don’t find him that hot in this role. Like yeah, he’s got the scruff and the sideburns that work to his advantage, and the setting does make this character inherently sexy, but in some screenshots he screams too much of an aforementioned Kate and Leopold (the best Meg Ryan movie, imo) era Hugh Jackman to me. And if I was particularly into that, I would just watch Kate and Leopold again. I will admit, however, that this rating could be subject to change if I actually took the time to watch this show.

13. Chop in Urban and the Shed Crew (2015) — 7/10

...I’M??? INTO IT??? He’s dirty and scruffy but also has kind eyes.... I feel like this is knock off Will Graham who has blossomed into his own. His run down, grime-covered own. He’s back edging into Bradley Cooper territory, but somehow it works for him in this one. Like, I’m 89% sure it’s the DILF vibes I’ve been getting from the other screengrabs I’ve seen of this role, and this particular flavor of DILF is way sexier than Jimmy or Comfy Tom.

12. Francis Dolarhyde in Hannibal (2015) — 7/10

His Caesar cut doesn’t bother me quite so much in this, probably because he is pretty explicitly playing a villain in a series that doesn’t have any basis in reality. A villain who is ripped, and who can effortlessly throw real Will Graham around. Armitage uses his inherent sinisterness to great effect as the Red Dragon, which is good actually! I think a lot of how hot he is in any particular role really depends on whether the styling allows him to play to his strengths...idk! I’m not usually a huge fan of clean shaven Armitage, but it works for Frank here.

11. Daniel Miller in Berlin Station (2016) — 7/10

As much as I adore this particular look (beard + fade + green army jacket), I have to compromise and give Danny a 7/10 because it seems like the first season they styled him in usual stubbly white man blandness. I’d say screengrabs from s1 are a solid 6, while this might be an 8, so the average is a 7. That’s all I have to say about this!

10. Claude Becker in Ocean’s 8 (2018) — 7.5/10

!!!!! I love him in this role, I about had a conniption in the theater because I absolutely was not expecting him!! He looks perfectly ruffled and scruffy, edgier than either Comfy Tom or Jimmy, which I’m very into. That plus his two borzois (objectively the best looking dogs on the planet) really put Old Claude over the top for me. Thank you, thank you Hollywood stylists for finally figuring out what to do with him for roles as a Normal Man.

9. Richard Hall in The Lodge (2019) — 7.5/10

I don’t know anything about this movie, but it seems pretty spooky, which I’m into. I think Richard is well suited for this sort of horror/thriller role, where his angular features can play into the overall vibe rather than some hapless stylist trying to work around them. He looks like another cozy DILF here but with a bite to him, like someone who would do anything to protect his brood. I mean, he’s teaching this child to shoot! But idk, he also has the potential for Jack Nicholson in The Shining energy, which I also could be....hm... into. Idk. Is this on Netflix??

8. Lee in Cold Feet (2003) — 7.5/10

FUN!!! FLIRTY!!!! OTTER VIBES!!!!! I LOVE THIS, he seems so goofy here, and Armitage doesn’t usually pull off goofy that well! I’ve giggled at literally every screenshot I could find from the four episodes he was in this show, he seems like a real himbo. I’m a huge fan, even if it comes at the cost of dehydration abs.

7. William Chatford in Malice Aforethought (2005) — 7.5/10

Hoo hoo HOO DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!!!! Maybe it’s just because I’ve been watching the new season of The Alienist and the new dark and gritty HBO reboot of Perry Mason back to back, but sue me, I love the bold choice they made with giving him a pencil moustache here. He looks like a hot Howard Hughes; if cream-faced business boy Daryl from Staged is the young ingenue in the pre-Hayes Code thriller I cast him in, Bill here is the sexy antagonist. I desperately want to hear a perfect Transatlantic accent coming out out of that mouth. This look fucks and I’m sticking to that no matter what.

6. Trevor Belmont in Castlevania (2017) — 8/10

Ah, yes, speaking of king himbos... do me a favor and look me right in the eye and tell me that you wouldn’t fuck Trevor Belmont. You can’t, can you?????? At least 80% of Richard Armitage’s inherent hotness stems from his voice, and you can’t tell me there isn’t anything sexier than thinking about letting that guy loose in a recording studio and letting him say fuck. Look, Trevor may be drawn that way, but it’s the absolute stupidity coming out of his mouth in that sweet baritone that makes me want to be raw-dogged by 100% pure Romanian beef.

5. Dr. Scott White in Sleepwalker (2017) — 8/10

Much like I had intimated when talking about Hot Danny in Berlin Station, this is Peak contemporary normie Richard Armitage styling. I honestly think The Hobbit either awakened something in him, or casting directors finally figured out he looks way good with a full beard. His crew cut even works with his whole look, which is a miracle!!!! I think he should be contractually obligated to have a full beard in all of his future roles, but that’s just me.

4. Guy of Gisbourne in Robin Hood (2006) — 8.5/10

I honestly can’t believe I’m ranking Guy so far up here, but honestly, THIS RULES!!!!!! THIS FUCKS!!!!!!!!! Which is incredible due to Guy’s lack of beard, but I’m weirdly okay with it? Like sure, he looks like he’d probably call me a slur in front of his shitty friends, but he also looks like he could tenderly pound me into the mattress in a way that would have me questioning my commitment to the “no emotions” clause of our clandestine no-strings-attached sex agreement. Anyway. Guy of Gisbourne if you see this im free thursday night. please message me back if you’re free thursday night when i am fr

3. Angus in Macbeth (1999) — 8.5/10

HHHNGHGNHNGHGN HE’S SO HOT.....!!! HE’S SO HOT!!!!! Leather jacket!!! Scruff!! Dirt!!!! Flattering beret!!!!! He’s so hot, and the worst part about this is that this was filmed in NINETEEN NINETY NINE!!!!!!!!!!!! Which means we could have always had this, had stylists and makeup artists PLAYED TO HIS STRENGTHS!!!!! He’s so hot I’m getting legitimately angry. Without scruff and dirt this man is nothing. N o t h i n g.

2. John Proctor in The Crucible (2014) — 9/10

Look, I know I have a type. But... this guy is just so hot, Daniel Day Lewis please step aside!!!! Contemporary theater historians describe John Proctor as a “strong beast of a man,” and... hhhHHOOOGH HELL YEAH!!! HELL !!!! YEAH !!!!! Like, his dick got almost his entire Puritan village, including himself, accused of witchcraft and like, looking at this guy, I kind of get it. I would probably go to war over the raw animal beauty of this horrible dirty, greasy man. Sue me, I confess. I saw Goody Osburn with the devil.

1. Thorin II Oakenshield in The Hobbit Trilogy — 9.5/10

Come on. You knew it was going to be this guy. Look at my icon for christ’s sake. I am completely biased, I cannot look at his pictures objectively. Anyway. Thank you so much for reading, this was a very stupid list.

#rene rambles #this is the worst thing ive ever done tbh #richard armitage

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💛 Please!

Okay, I know I said “one of”, but there’s too many for me to do only one at a time...

The Grass is Always Greener by Sunny Lighter

This story is awesome. I just re-read it a couple of days ago, even! Basically, pre-Child’s Play, Garmadon accidentally switches Show!Lloyd and Movie!Lloyd using the Mega Weapon, and chaos ensues as everyone tries to switch them back. There’s even a completed sequel, In Need of Polish, a series of One-Shots, Greener Pastures, and a third story on the way, One Heck of a Wedding.

Ashes of the Past by Saphroneth

THE Pokémon anime fanfiction. Basically, the world ends, so Ash gets sent back in time to stop it. And hilarity ensues. Featuring quite a lot of hilarity in hindsight (there’s an ongoing theory that some of the people at GameFreak read this story for ideas). It’s also OVER 300 CHAPTERS WHAT THE HECK-

The Ice Emperor and the Earth Dragon by @mcfanely

And to finish off for now, a very recent read. As in it was just finished this week. Fane, you are insanely awesome! This is an AU of Ninjago S11’s Ice Chapter where Cole ends up banished with Zane. I don’t want to spoil too much, but I will say that the last few chapters I literally had to keep myself from SCREAMING.

#ask game #mint’s response #💛#fanfic recs #ninjago #pokemon #pokeani #lego ninjago

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eraserhead-baby-girl · 4 years

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I’ve been tagged by total cutie @c0ttagecorew1re to share ten songs I’m obsessed with at the moment. Prepare yourselves for an incredibly sexy deep dive into my psyche via my current musical hyper fixations 💖

Smog - Natural Decline

I’ve had Rain on Lens playing pretty much none stop for the past month so it was really hard to narrow it down to one song but Natural Decline really captures the essence of the album as well as typifying Bill Callahan’s output under the Smog moniker. A song that both acknowledges the absurdity of life whilst laughing into the void.

“I see the night sky as a jewelry store window And my mind is half a brick”

Mariee Sioux - Bundles

An exquisite exploration of the intersection between femininity and Native American ancestry, that’s both gentle in sound whilst containing some of the most viscerally unpleasant imagery of the commodification of the body I’ve ever heard. Sonically manages to be both ancient and totally in keeping with the mid-2000′s Nevada city folk scene (yes i’m a JNew stan). Honestly the entirety of Faces in the Rocks is such a delight.

“I'm eating my own hide to hide in my own skin 'Till I am left a hanging Upside down and draining Like skinned does a dangling From a hunters oak limb Like my sisters those does, woven in red shrouds Wearing bare ribbons of tightly wrapped muscles”

Shampoo - Bare Knuckle Girl

The perfect song for when you're drunk, pissed off at the world but also feeling sexy as hell (a niche emotion I seem to inhabit most nights). Glorifying whilst satirising the idea of the fucked up young girl. Really good fun.

“Her Skin Is Dead Pale She's Broken All Her Nails And She Spent All Her Life Just Going Off The Rails”

Sufjan Stevens - Eugene

Sufjan Steven’s album Carrie & Lowell has been a constant in my life for years but until the last month this was a song I always skipped. But sometime in the last few months, during a middle of the night sad song session™, listening to it was like a revelation. It sits at the intersection of pain and joy that surrounds childhood memories; the joy of loving and being loved, the emptiness of knowing it has passed and complex grief of seeing yourself slipping into the role of adult and how that interacts with our understanding of our own mortality. There’s a real sense of fragility, weariness and resignation in the vocal that both mirrors and enhances the lyrics and makes for an incredibly powerful listen.

totally don’t listen to it thinking of my fav child from my old job or the passing of my grandmother

“What's left is only bittersweet For the rest of my life, admitting the best is behind me Now I'm drunk and afraid, wishing the world would go away What's the point of singing songs If they'll never even hear you?”

Angel Olsen - So That We Can Be Still

An understated lament for the passing of time and the way in which the diminishing of memories creates a twofold death; a cessation of the past interactions of self. The vocals on the entire ep (Strange Cacti) seem to coming from somewhere beyond the veil and make this song in particular especially evocative.

“Must all of my memories drown into infinity? Try to grasp them, but I always miss Time goes by so fast as if it hardly wants to exist”

Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best

High energy bop about female success and self image. I defy anyone to listen to this and not want to throw themselves around the room and possibly kick the coffee table. Perfect for anyone who thinks they are the both the best and worst at the same time.

“Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint you Tell me I'm exceptional, I promise to exploit you Give me all your money, and I'll make some origami, honey I think you're a joke, but I don't find you very funny”

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

Whenever my mother feels particularly tenderly about me she plays me this, pats my hair and tells me it could've been written about me. As such, it’s my ultimate pick me up song and I’ve been playing it constantly the last couple of weeks. A tribute to every confused young woman, wrapped up in philosophy, flightiness and an unending sense of her own boredom. also feeds my ego that my mother genuinely thinks i look like eve marie saint

“Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay She says that a girl needs a gun these days Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance Her heart, heart's like crazy paving Upside down and back to front”

Manic Street Preachers - Builder of Routines

There’s never a point where I’m not overplaying at least one of the manics songs and at the moment it’s Builder of Routines (Rewind the Film is criminally underrated in my almost humble opinion). Perfect exploration of the tension between the safety adult life provides and the suffocating nature it has on the soul.

“Builder of Routines It makes me safe and clean It crucifies parts of me But never seems to make me bleed”

Golden Shoulders - the Honey, the Power, the Light (Kyle’s Blues)

As an obsessive Joanna Newsom fan, I thought I’d heard everything she’d ever done. So discovering her pre Milk Eyed Mender work with Golden Shoulders was probably the most exciting thing to happen to me this month. A pertinent rally cry against the soul sucking nature of capitalism with a sound redolent of Bright Eyes’ Landlock Blues.

“I cannot be swayed and I will not be quiet, Tell the fat cats and big wigs to go on a diet. They're taking up space that has better uses, So let's jump the tracks and unhitch their cabooses.”

Sibylle Baier - I Lost Something in the Hills

As soon as the weather turns, I play Colour Green on a loop whilst sitting on my windowsill, coffee in hand, staring out of the window blankly. It’s basically an autumnal tradition at this point. I’ve spent my entire life living semi rural on one side on a steep and densely wooded valley and I Lost Something in the Hills perfectly encapsulates the unique feeling of growing up somewhere that’s beautiful yet remote and enclosed. A song for autumn days spent in moments of abstract yearning and formless nostalgia.

“I grew up in declivities Others grow up in cities Where first love and soul takes rise

There where times in my life When I felt mad and deprived And only the slopes gave me hope”

Why did I write this like I’m being paid by vice to self indulgently talk about my own music taste??? Who knows. is it obvious i miss being a lit student?

I’m tagging @lipsticktraces and @ki-flor as I’m pretty sure they have solid tastes in music and I’m always after song recs.

#smog #bill callahan #mariee sioux #shampoo #sufjan stevens #angel olsen #courtney barnett #lloyd cole #manic street preachers #golden shoulders #joanna newsom #sibylle baier

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Towards the end of 2017, Zawe Ashton quit acting. She was 33 years old, with a CV that included roles in the cult TV comedy Fresh Meat, films such as Dreams of a Life and Nocturnal Animals and a solid 12 years on the stage, with appearances at the Royal Court and the Old Vic. But something no longer felt right. “There was an artistic chasm opening up between the work I felt I was meant for,” she says, “and the work that was coming my way.”

Less than two years later, Ashton is on Broadway, receiving rave reviews for her performance as Emma in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. Tom Hiddleston plays her husband, Robert, and Charlie Cox her lover. “At the moment,” she acknowledges with a wry smile, “quitting acting is going very badly for me.”

It’s Friday morning in Manhattan and Ashton and I are talking over almond croissants in a French café around the corner from her digs. Being superstitious, she claims not to have read Betrayal’s reviews. But when I tell her that The New York Times called her the show’s “breakout star”, she grins. “Oh, that bit I have seen. It’s written above my massive head on a poster outside the theatre.”

Jamie Lloyd’s pared-back production had already been a hit in London before transferring to New York last month, and the three primary cast members are making their Broadway debuts together. “Thank God,” she says. “It’s like losing your virginity with another virgin.”

The last time Betrayal was staged on Broadway, in 2013, it starred Rachel Weisz, Daniel Craig and Rafe Spall, and broke box office records in its opening week. “I’m obsessed with Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig,” says Ashton. The couple live nearby: I ask if she has she hung out with them while in town. “Absolutely not!” she cries, pulling a face as if I’ve just suggested we sprint naked up Ninth Avenue.

Despite barely being out of work since signing up, aged six, for weekend acting classes at the Anna Scher school in north London – and landing her first paid job, on Jackanory, that same year – Ashton says: “I don’t consider myself in the public eye at all. I still sit in the window of the threading place I’ve been going to since I was 15, and have a woman thread my moustache.”

How much longer that anonymity will last is open to question; news stories linking her romantically with Hiddleston – The Night Manager star catapulted to Hollywood heart-throb status by his role in the Avengers films – are already flooding the internet.

“We’re in a play called Betrayal – of course people are going to speculate,” she laughs, when I broach the subject, but refuses to be drawn on it. “Being in dialogue with that is just so weird to me. It’s surreal.

“Is [the speculation] selling tickets?” she asks, rhetorically. “I bloody hope so – it’s got to be good for something, hasn’t it?”

If the castmates are dating, Ashton must be a master of time management. Betrayal may be getting all the attention, but as of Monday, she will have a hand in three theatrical productions running simultaneously. for all the women who thought they were Mad, Ashton’s play about mental health in the black community and the overmedication of black women, is opening on the same night in the Hackney Showroom in London and the SoHo Rep Theatre, off-Broadway in New York.

Ashton wrote the play in 24 hours in a “fever dream,” at the end of a 2008 Young Writers program at the Royal Court Theatre – where her fellow students included playwrights Nick Payne (Constellations) and James Graham (This House, Ink) – and with the help of a group called the Black Women’s Mental Health Project (“Now defunct, of course, because: austerity measures”).

“A woman there gave me facts and figures that seemed to unlock parts of the play that I’d started to write,” says Ashton, “and it confirmed something I knew on a very deep instinctual level, about the cultural biases that happen on a daily basis.” Ashton has first-hand experience of those biases, not least since, as she notes, “this play has taken 11 years to produce. I can’t help think that if I were a 24-year-old white male, it would have been on in every theatre in the land.”

Ashton grew up in north London, the eldest child of an English father and a Ugandan mother, who met while teaching; her father went on to become a commissioning editor at Channel 4. Home was “an environment where I was very much allowed to be the creative soul that I was,” says Ashton – her younger brother is now an artist and musician and her sister, a producer.

At school (state, single sex) things were less rosy. "I was so badly bullied,” she says. “I was this tall, skinny misfit who was unapologetic about the things that I was passionate about. I had a sense of who I was and what I was into, and you’re not supposed to have that. You’re just supposed to blend in.”

Even in the face of “a huge physical threat, a lot of the time,” she refused to conform and instead developed a resilience that would serve her well at drama school in Manchester. “By the end, they couldn’t wait for me to leave,” she says. “I’d turned against the institution in such a major way; you can’t grow creativity in a vacuum like that.”

Creativity is not something Ashton lacks. In the past couple of years alone she has directed a short film for Tate Modern about the artist Lorraine O’Grady, presented the Channel 4 arts programme Random Acts, guest-edited BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and in April, had her first book published.

Character Breakdown is a comic novel based “absolutely, one hundred per cent” on Ashton’s own experiences as a woman in the entertainment industry. It features a catalogue of bullying, body image issues, insecurity, objectification and misogyny.

She began writing it, “pre- pre- pre-” the inception of the #MeToo movement two years ago. “When I started writing it, I was nervous that no one would give a s--- – who’s going to want to hear about an actress’s problems? Then, suddenly, all anyone’s talking about are actresses’ problems – I was, like, I’ve got to finish this book!”

Although she describes herself as “not someone who’s always asking: what’s next?” she admits that directing something substantial is high on her to-do list. “I love putting all the components together,” she says. “I want to draw the map rather than follow the map.”

for all the women who thought they were Mad is  at Hackney Showroom, London N16 (020 3095 9747) from Mon

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misc muses

Ok I have joined in the past those indie groups, where you could have as many characters a you wanted. Because of that, I’ve created a looooong list of muses I never got to play much, but would lot. So under the cut are those I’d be most interested in trying out again. If you’d be interested in playing against one of them, please message me!

Alessandra “Sandy” Caravalho: Camila Mendes fc, cisfemale(she/her), panromantic asexual, actress(most principally in musicals), quite popular but she tries to act and live as normally as possible.

Amber Jackson: Emily Browning fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, “looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you” trope, acts like a vigilante, I also have a superpower AU in which she has pyrokinesis.

Angelica Cain: Crystal Reed fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, inherited the family business which includes a crime ring.

Anthony Powell(Anton Popov): Skeet Ulrich fc, cismale(he/him), heterosexual, part of the Russian mafia, was expatriated to the States for his own safety, had a daughter when he was 18 that he loves a lot but the mother is now deceased.

Arina Kosolova: Natalie Dormer fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, kinda Black Widow inspired, she moved to the States after the Russian organization she worked for was disbanded.

Beverly Jordan: Vanessa Morgan fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, a science nerd, she ran away from home because of a gang harassing her and had to stop her studies, she now works as a cashier.

Bianca Rutherford: Caitlin Stasey fc, cisfemale(she/her), homosexual, a hacker with a thing against men, I have a vampire AU for her in which she was turned by a men who manipulated her centuries ago.

Bradley Hines(Patrick Langford): Zane Holtz fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, an hired assassin/spy, he was hired to track a specific target, get close to them, and take them down.

Cassiopée Monaghan: Lily Collins fc, cisfemale(she/her), heterosexual, has a twin, her father was a big time criminal in Russia but her mother moved her and her twin to the States to protect them, totally boy obsessed.

Cecelia Rose: Shailene Woodley fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, a writer who took time off to travel the world after her mentor overworked her to the point she couldn’t write anything anymore.

Charles Myers: Matthew Daddario fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, a police officer dating his work partner’s kid.

Darren Bates: Ryan Mccartan fc, cismale(he/him), homosexual, a quite popular model who’s been on/off with his non celeb boyfriend for a long time, kinda stupid.

Elliott Whitley: Luke Bilyk fc, cismale(he/him), homosexual, was kicked out of his house and now works as a bouncer, definitely dates girls just to cover up the fact he’s gay.

Emely Lindner: Alexandra Daddario fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, a ballerina dancer turned model, she moved to the States in order to find out who her real father is.

Evan Rendall: Harry Lloyd fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, Norman Bates inspired, owns a motel that rarely gets clients, and the clients often disappear.

Felicia Porter: Elizabeth Olsen fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, an overly sweet journalist who got pulled into a polyamorous relationship and is trying to make it work as best as she could.

Finlay Ainsworth: Jack Falahee fc, cismale(he/him), pansexual, a recovering addict who now works as a waiter in a restaurant, I have a supernatural AU in which he is a hybrid.

Gail Erickson: Katie McGrath fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, an artist who opened her own little gallery, but she also does forgery.

Isabella Perez: Becky G fc, cisfemale(she/her), homosexual, comes form a dysfunctional family, ran away many times but always came back home, but now it’s been almost a year and she doesn’t plan on going back soon, works in a movie theater.

Janet Montrose: Evangeline Lilly fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, a con artist who doesn’t trust anyone.

Kavia Desai: Naomi Scott fc, demigirl(she/her/they/them), homosexual, an ex popular soft child turned rock singer, she has a twin sister.

Kieran Doyle: Aidan Turner fc, cismale(he/him), demiromantic bisexual, part of the Irish mafia, also a forensic pathologist, I have mythology AUs for him in which he’s either a son of Thanatos or Thanatos himself.

Laurence Juneau: Bryce Dallas Howard fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, a fashion designer with a growing brand across the country, has definitely designed a dress for a celeb at one point.

Madeleine Stokes: Kylie Bunbury fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, Regina George is her idol, complete bitch with an actual burn book, became a weather girl for the visibility.

Monica Hunt: Felicity Jones fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, stupid/innocent girl who was abandoned by her parents, she still thinks they’re coming back soon, works as a barmaid now.

Natalie Calloway: Jenna Louise Coleman fc, cisfemale(she/her), heteroflexible, a corrupt detective, married to a criminal and helping him in secret without him knowing that.

Natasha Grimes: Danielle Campbell fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, Michelle Richardson inspired, she was in a toxic relationship and just got out from it, but is lowkey still into her ex.

Philip McGee: Dacre Montgomery fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, has anger issues he got from his dad, his mom abandoned him when he was a kid because of that, but he’s actually a softie.

Preston Wagner: Cody Christian fc, cismale(he/him), pansexual, a college student who was facetiming his ex when she was murdered.

Raphaelle Delong: Zoey Deutch fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, a personal assistant who takes her job very seriously, definitely needs someone to make her loosen up.

Rebecca Blackstone: Eliza Taylor fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, had a kid when she was 19 and has been struggling a lot with money, single mom who changes job often.

Robert Jefferson: Tom Hiddleston fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, a politician son who was forced into this life even if he doesn’t want it.

Timothy Watts: Landon Liboiron fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, soft boy who got mixed in the wrong crowd and now has a bad reputation, he’s a mechanics.

Valda Blake: Chloe Bridges fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, an ex pageant queen and Queen Bee who fell down and now works as a barmaid, still a total bitch.

THE FINAL GIRLS: they’re a group of sorority sisters, and the only survivors of a serial killer targetting their sorority. They’re also heavily inspired by Scream and Scream Queens characters, obviously.

Alyssa Mullins: Carlson Young fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, she was the mayor’s daughter and vice resident of the sorority, she never got over the incident and stopped her studies to become a stripper.

Lea Cole: Billie Lourd fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, a ‘bastard’ child with a criminal father, her emotions have always been a little dissociated but she’s working on that, during the killings, she was saved by someone who had a crush on her so she’s been trying to explore that possibility, she’s an on-set assistant for tv shows.

Phoebe Newton: Abigail Breslin fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, she was kind of the idiot of the sorority, the one they made fun of, but she had money so they wanted her, after the incident she started studying in pre-med.

Seraphina Brisbane: Willa Fitzgerald fc, cisfemale(she/her), bisexual, the only reason the sorority wanted her in the first place was because she was smart and pretty, but she didn’t come from a privileged family like any of them, she has a lot of PTSD and has continued her journalism and criminology studies.

THE CONFECTIONERY BROTHERS: just two brothers who started a confectionery because they felt there weren’t enough of those in their town.

Edward Hale: Luke Benward fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, the soft one in the two, he grew up in the shadows of his brother, he usually work the front of the shop since he never pursued studies after high school.

Terrence Hale: Glen Powell fc, cismale(he/him), pansexual, a complete mess, but a smart mess, studied accounting because that’s what his parents wanted, decided he wanted a confectionery after watching Harry Potter.

THE RUNAWAY SIBLINGS: they have a complicated backstory, he was taken at 7, she was 1, and she ended up in an orphanage. When they finally found each other, they just ran away.

Elena Richmond: Alycia Debnam-Carey fc, cisfemale(she/her), pansexual, at 10, her parents were murdered in front of her, and she was taken to an orphanage, she was always troubled and went out to find her brother when she was 18, thinking he’d abandoned her.

Tyler Oaks: Nicholas Hoult fc, cismale(he/him), bisexual, he was taken from his family at 7 and was forced into the mafia and hitman life, very mentally troubled with the only goal being to find his sister.

#wanted muse #wanted #look they've mostly all lived in my head for so long i need to write them now

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so. you ever just. cruxis!lloyd,

first of all: this post isn’t coherent. this au isn’t coherent. one day i’m going to actually sit down and write it and it still, probably, won’t be coherent.

so jot that down.

a lot of the cruxis lloyd fics out there are of one of two kinds: mid/post game, where at some point (usually the tower) lloyd gets airlifted and indoctrinated into cruxis, or pre game divergences, where kratos finds and raises lloyd in cruxis.

something these aus seem to all have in common is the fact that Mithos Doesn’t Like Lloyd.

and i mean. yeah, that’s fair, that’s valid, in canon, Yggdrasil very much Does Hate Lloyd, but i think the key part there is canon. Yggdrasil - Mithos - hates Lloyd nearly grown, hates this person that can pull Kratos from him, hates every part of himself he can see in Lloyd, all idealism and Never Say Die.

He hates Lloyd in the same way he hated Anna.

a lloyd raised in cruxis? i think yggdrasil would have hated him at first. i think lloyd would be leverage, a way to ensure kratos stayed in line this time. insurance to make sure kratos would always come back. he would, ironically, be a way for yggdrasil to keep his family together as time has broken them apart, even if he’d never think in those terms.

mithos yggdrasil, by the time of canon, is insane. but he isn’t stupid. kratos’ betrayal would have made him lash out, stew in anger - but eventually, i think, he would have calmed down. maybe not Seen Reason, because ha, but i think he would have Seen something.

Kratos’ son, Mithos thinks, and remembers Martel dreaming of the day she and Yuan would have children in peacetime, her worry that they’d see Kratos grow old and die as all humans do, but alone, her hope that one day, their children would play together. Martel would have loved Kratos’ son.

Martel, he thinks, would have wanted to meet him.

and suddenly, in his mind, the little boy kratos calls “lloyd irving” becomes someone else. ignore the mother, ignore the betrayal. lloyd aurion - he’s family.

mithos has always wanted a little brother.

i want a cruxis!lloyd where he grows up on stories of martel as mithos knows her, not the goddess. i want a cruxis!lloyd where he’ll spend hours talking to martel like a big sister, even thinking he can’t hear her, because he doesn’t want her to be alone. i want a mithos who’s love is equal parts genuine and manipulation, who keeps lloyd by his side as much because that’s his little brother as it is he loves me more than he loves his absent father - the father mithos keeps sending away.

i want this scene:

“I think it’s about time for you to get a haircut, Lloyd,” Kratos says, and watches as his son screws up his face.

“He doesn’t need one,” Mithos tells him, expression identical to Lloyd’s. “I have long hair, Yuan has long hair, you’re getting there - he should match.” He tugs Lloyd from Kratos’ grasp, to hug him close.

“He isn’t a doll, Mithos,” Kratos reminds him, uneasy.

“Of course he isn’t,” Mithos agrees, and smiles. “He’s my little brother.”

i want lloyd on the chosen’s journey, that one weird devout guy as far as everyone’s concerned, realising hey, i was kind of okay with people dying to bring martel back (because he’s never known anything else, because he loves his big sister, because he wants to meet her) but i’m maybe?? not okay?? with people being colette?

but then at the tower he stands back anyway because this is mithos, this is martel, and as much as colette is coming to mean to him, a few months on the road is nothing to a live lived in cruxis.

the big divergence is here: martel has been watching. she has seen mithos at his worst, and his lowest, but she has seen lloyd. she has seen mithos love again, she has watched this child grow up, heard the stories he’s told her, seen the way he’s helped mithos begin to heal.

her brother is broken, she knows, but aren’t they all? aren’t they all?

lloyd has shown her he isn’t beyond salvation. if there’s still a chance for a happy ending for them, martel wants it.

she doesn’t want to leave her brothers alone. she doesn’t want to die, not again.

the idea is that colette and martel bodyshare for a while with martel in the driver’s seat (sorry colette) before finding??? a way to get martel her own body and gonna be real the entire Post Martel Possession plot Does Not Exist just yet but the end goal. is happiness - or at least peace and closure that canon did not Quite give us - for everyone.

anyway yeah cruxis lloyd is great

#tales of symphonia #cruxis!lloyd #echo rambles #echo writes #maybe one day...#adds to wip list

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Press: Aldis Hodge Is A Real-Life Superhero, So Give This Man What He Wants

After years of dramatic roles, the “What Men Want” star wants to make you laugh and fulfill his dreams of being a super-powered badass

BET – Legend has it that Aldis Hodge worked cheap early in his career. Really cheap. Like, McDonald’s Happy Meal cheap. The pre-schooler was tagging along on a photo shoot for Ebony Magazine, where his older brother, Edwin, was working. The producers had a last-minute need for another cute kid and Aldis’ mother convinced him to take the gig in exchange for a coveted Batman toy. Thanks to mom’s quick thinking, Hollywood has been gifted one of its most intense and versatile acting talents.

Hodge has amassed a colorful acting resume that includes stints on shows like A.T.O.M.: Alpha Teens on Machines, Friday Night Lights, Supernatural and Leverage. But it was his moving portrayal of a restless slave named Noah on WGN’s Underground that made viewers sit up at attention and cheer with their fingers across social media. In the same year his appearance in Black Mirror as a somewhat single father named Jack living with his girlfriend’s voice literally in his head, allowed him to blend his piercing stares with subdued comedic timing. But now Hodge gets to go for the full belly laughs in the R-rated comedy What Men Want as the bartending, romantic, very single father named Will, who gets caught up in Taraji P. Henson’s mind-reading male-strom.

During a stop at BET, Hodge is adorned in gold, beads and denim fabrics that accent flawless skin that has benefited from the sun’s full attention. He walks with squared shoulders inherited from his retired Marine parents. His cape is invisible. If not for the disarming laughs cracking his intense looks, you might think he’s one cartoonish horn blare away from taking off through the ceiling to catch a meteor hurtling toward earth. Between bites of his lunch we talk about the comedy of sex, his fascination with controlling time, engineering the perfect date and being a champion for the people.

I didn’t cross reference it until just today. I just recently did an interview where I was like, “Dang, she was inside my head, too! What’s going on?” But it was pretty cool. The synergy was awesome. But with each role, I come at it with a clean slate and figure out where the tones are. I had been out of comedy for a long time, not my choice, but for the past five to seven years my career has been swinging up into the drama area. But most people don’t realize comedy is a big part of my life. I started stand-up when I was 11. When I was 13 I used to host a room at the L.A. Improv and I did that ‘til I was 17 or 18 years old. Then on Leverage we did five seasons of that. It was an action caper show but I still got to flex my comedic muscles. We killed that in 2012, so it’s been a minute. I was happy to reintroduce people to my idea of humor. Will is not inherently the braggadocios funny one. He’s not the big personality in the room. He’s reactionary. He’s gonna have a sense of realism, so his comedic timing is subtle. The tones and notes are a little more subdued, and that’s a different tone to play. But our director, Adam [Shankman], took so many different types of comedians with very different timing and put as all together and kept us on the same note. We were always on the same page. You had Josh Brenner, who most people know from Silicon Valley, Pete Davidson from SNL, Wendi McLendon-Covey from Bridesmaids, Tracy Morgan, obviously. Everybody has a different style that they’ve been hitting for a minute, and he just figured out how to weave together. And there are some people you’re not gonna expect to be funny but are hilarious, i.e. Erykah Badu. She’s hysterical. And then I’m there in the mix. As an actor, I’m always hungry for fresh challenges. I don’t like to feel like I’m sitting in a box, and when this opportunity came up, naturally I was nervous at whether or not I could still be funny, and I was hoping. But I just let Adam take care of me on that one.

Speaking of your comedic side, you pranked Taraji with honey buns on the set of Hidden Figures. Did anything else like that go down on set for What Men Want?

Nah. The prank for us was getting through the sex scenes. We wanted to get through those as fast as possible. It’s tough. It’s always a nervous environment when you’re doing scenes like that. But the biggest thing is, because it’s physical comedy, how do you do that without looking stupid? You want people to laugh with you and not at you. But thank God for Adam and Taraji. It’s easy to keep a straight face when you have nerves. We had fun with it. You let yourself fall into it. And Taraji’s a pro. If you see the movie, I took a couple of those hits for real. Some of them reactions are real!

Is it worse to know she knows your thoughts, or is ignorance bliss?

Better not to know, of course. I would not want to know who knows my thoughts. I wouldn’t want anyone to be in my head like that, but if you did know, imagine how anxious you’d be all day. You’d be like Brandon, Josh Brenner’s character, all day. Just rambling to keep people out of your head.

If you had to disguise your thoughts, what would you think about?

Man, most of my thoughts on a regular basis go to design. As soon as I step into a room I’m taking in the square footage, I’m measuring in distances, everything is art to me. Or I’m putting my engineering cap on to see how it’s built. So I don’t think anyone would want to be in my head, because it’s pretty boring. I’m a nerd, bruh.

Speaking of engineering, horology sounds like something men do after a breakup. How did you get into watch making?

I’ve been doing that since I was 19. I just love building things. I’ve always had a natural inclination to create and build, and it satisfies a necessary art. It got to a point in my career, I think I was 13 or 14, where I didn’t have enough life experience to add gravitas to some of these characters I’m trying to play. I started drafting blueprints for my dream house when I was 12. I always loved designing and building, because that’s where my imagination lives. Art is my language, and acting is just an emotional exposition of my art. So, it’s the same thing to me, just a different conduit. But the other side of me is like building, I love crafting things. Horology satisfies a lot of different things. I wanted to be an architect in school but that would mean I’d have to quit acting, and I’m not gonna do that. I’m gonna die in a director’s chair when I’m 110 years old. But what I found about the intricacy of horology and watch design is that it was architecture and painting and mechanical engineering. It satisfied so many points for me, and I could do it at my own pace.

You rarely hear of men discussing their dream house. What did yours look like?

I like space, I like nature. I like to bring the outside inside. There’s a couple of architects that I really love. I grew up on the work of John Lautner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry. But one of the firms I love now is Olson Kundig, particularly Thomas Kundig’s work. His houses are machines. He’ll cantilever a side or a roof and all you gotta do is crank it and you’re lifting the side of your house off. I can’t afford that in New York, but one of these days I’ll have to partner with him for a house.

Your son, Ben, in the film is adorable. What was it like working with him?

Auston Jon Moore. He’s a fun kid. I’m excited to see what happens with his career. He was five years old when we were doing it. Really spunky, good instincts. We had a good time. I was actor-parent-child wrangler. When we were shooting the rooftop scene, we had all this food out, and he kept eating the food. “We need continuity, baby. You gotta put the food back.” He’d say OK, and then we’d come back and he’d have a mouth full of chips. He was awesome.

He had one of my favorite scenes with the panties. Was your “don’t breathe” line ad-libbed?

Yes, that was ad-libbed. I was like, “The baby! What do you do?’ What would I say?” We had fun with that scene because Adam just let us be free and add as much color to the characters as possible. That was a fun day, trying to get him to put on the underwear. When he realized what it was he was like, “Hold up, fam.” So, I had to put the underwear on my head to show him it was cool.

You pulled a Mars Blackmon?

Yeah, yeah. I sacrificed [laughs].

There are two scenes in What Men Want that you’re not in, the card scene and the wedding. Which would you be in if you could?

I definitely would have loved to have worked with Erykah and have a little Taro reading. She was just pouring herself into that character. That’s her imagination splayed out on camera. But I would have loved to see Will have a session with Sistah.

What about the poker game with the athletes?

I think Will might be a card shark, but I don’t know if he got the chips to sit at that table. That was a very high-stakes game, and he’s too smart to bet his rent money. But if he had the chips, I think because of his bartending skills he could read people really well and take home a nice healthy pot.

You’ve been the subject of a lot of wish-casting, particularly to be Green Lantern. Have you ever thought of playing a superhero?

I’d love to be a superhero. I’ve been trying to be a superhero for 12 years. If that opportunity came that way, I’d eat it up immediately. I got into this business as a kid because I loved Batman. I was trying to get my Batman toys. I grew up on Marvel and DC.

Noah from Underground definitely was a superhero. How do you feel about that role years later and the impact he had?

I took it as a grand opportunity just because of the fact, when the initial idea of the show came to me, I was like, “If this is a series about enslavement, how does it work for five or six seasons? Do we want to see our people in persecution for that long? Where is the gratitude that comes out of this for the audience?” But when I read the pilot I was like, “Oh, it shows us in the situation, but not made of the situation.” It showed people in bondage, not slaves. It gave us dignity. It gave the people who went through that an actual identity. They didn’t bring slaves to America, they brought engineers and doctors, brilliant people. So, for me to be able to expose that they had hopes and dreams and still had the strength to find love in those times was immensely powerful, because we’d never see it in our history books. Our schools failed us in that. So the opportunity to add to the dignity of our people was a high honor. I look at all of those characters as superheroes. They actually added the show to curriculum in schools. This is the effect that you can have as an artist. That’s what I love.

With Valentine’s Day is coming up, how would you engineer the perfect date?

That’s tough, man, because you gotta work off the person. It depends on who she is and what she wants. Some ladies want dinner and flowers and some ladies just want to kick back and watch a movie. My ideal date would start with a little dinner, some champagne, maybe some chocolates. Then we’re gonna go to the movie theater, we’re gonna see What Men Want, I’m not even lying. Get her laughing, feeling good, then probably go dancing. Then if I really feel like I’m on my mack-ness, I’mma be like, “Hey, boo. Real quick though, I just wanted you to know that I got your mom a ticket to the movie, too. I wanna let her know it’s her Valentine’s Day, too.” And that’s my ideal date: Dinner, What Men Want and a little dancing.

What Men Want starring Taraji P. Henson and Aldis Hodge is in theaters now!

Press: Aldis Hodge Is A Real-Life Superhero, So Give This Man What He Wants was originally published on Aldis Hodge Online | Est 2010

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NOS4A2 (July 2019)

In the scene, Manx travels to a bar called Parnassus for some advice. Though it initially seems like this bar is real, it becomes clear that this is actually most likely the Inscape — short for inner landscape, a dimension created in the mind — of Abe (Reg Rogers), a steampunk-esque dude who runs the bar. Parnassus is a gathering place for some of the darker elements of the world, creatures/people who use their Inscapes for bad, instead of good (like Vic).

…and though it’s pretty clear that Manx is the baddest of the bad, as his mere presence makes everyone else clear out immediately, the venue is packed full of horror icons. Most of which I, uh, could not identify. To be honest. I tried! I’m sorry! That said, here’s who I did notice:

Pennywise: This is the most obvious one, a clown with a red balloon prominently featured at the bar. That’s Pennywise, from Stephen King’s “IT” and the recent hit movies. And in fact, this isn’t the first time the show has referenced one of NOS4A2 writer Joe Hill’s father’s most famous creations. Back in the first episode, Pennywise’s Circus was referenced on Charlie Manx’s map of Inscapes, roughly around where Derry is in King’s book. And if the idea of Pennywise and Manx exchanging tips doesn’t send a shiver up your spine, I don’t know what would. That isn’t the only King character in the bar, though…

Lloyd: Who else would be tending bar other than the Overlook Hotel’s creepy bartender, Lloyd? Played by Joe Turkel in Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie The Shining, the Lloyd here is sporting the same suit as his cinematic counterpart — though he does look a little younger. And it makes sense to incorporate Overlook into the Inscape universe, as most of that seems to be happening at least partially in Jack Torrance’s mind, as well.

Freddy Krueger: Hey, if you’re going to have a bar full of child-murderers who can enter dreamscapes, why wouldn’t you invite the star of the Nightmare on Elm Street series? This is a decidedly pre-burning Krueger, but he is sporting the iconic sweater, and holding a teddy bear; though he doesn’t have his claw gloves on, so grain of salt there. Krueger is neither from Hill or King’s work, but it’s a natural fit nonetheless.

The final few, I had a little trouble identifying. There’s a character identified as “Steampunk” in the credits, played by New York actress Sarah Boatright. That seems to be the green-haired woman spotted as Manx is entering, wearing a leather outfit and sporting big hoop rings in her ears. She’s opposite a man in a black suit who looks to only have one arm, who I initially thought might be The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) from the Phantasm movies, which also deal with nightmare type scenarios, but the man here is too young, and The Tall Man has both his arms.

Also going by quickly, a shadowy woman drinking with Krueger wearing a cable-knit sweater and blonde hair, who could be Carrie’s Mom Margaret (Piper Laurie), though that doesn’t exactly track with the whole Inscape thing? There’s also a man who seems to have a gun or something else sticking out of his back, and a woman with a gold mask who gets up before Pennywise. It’s clear that they’re either literary or filmic references, and most likely have access to dreamscapes like the other characters. But I’m drawing a blank, sorry folks.

Regardless, it’s a neat sequence, and one that again opens up a world of possibilities for the show. Where the book was very focused on a few Strong Creatives, the series is adding details that could keep the show going far beyond the initial conflict between Vic and Charlie. At the very least, we need to see much more of Parnassus (though drink there at your own peril).

Source: Decider

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#television #NOS4A2 #It #The Shining #Nightmare on Elm Street #Carrie

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The Ninjagotale comic has been discontinued

This is not early April Fools. It is unfortunately the reality of the situation right now. Let me explain (synopsis of the story also under the cut).

There are several reasons that I am discontinuing the comic.

1. I can't get myself to do the next page. I just... can’t. Its not that I don’t want to get it out. I just lack the motivation once I open the file on my computer.

2. I feel like it’s not original enough. I can't call it my own. I got the idea from someone else (with their permission), and I know there are at least 3 more interpretations out there.

3. I want to dedicate the spare time I have to Insanity Brothers. Its a story that didn’t exist before, there's only one. And I’m far more excited about it.

4. Ninjagotale doesn't need to have anything to do with Ninjago anymore. That’s not what its about anymore. Its about the struggle between Yellow and the Chara of the world. The fact that the characters are all from Ninjago doesn't impact the story at all. Their personalities are the same as in Undertale, the rules are pretty much the same, it’s not that different. It can just be an Undertale AT with the regular characters and an entity that is chasing Yellow around, trying to get rid of them.

5. I am going through an extremely hard time right now. My brother has become emotionally and verbally abusive to the entire family and I need to get something off of my plate to deal with all of the stress of that.

I think I need to rethink the world and turn it into its own Undertale AU where it’s the same characters of Undertale except for Yellow. Yellow is very much their own thing. I also think what I’ll do is make it a concept/story that I continue to make content for, just not an actual comic. So I’ll release the story synopsis, everything, and I might make new designs and an illustration or joke comic or two, but not an official comic or fic.

Alright. Here’s the story that was going to happen.

Yellow has an actual name: Rhynn. Rhynn is the “Reindeer” child mentioned in the discord.

They were a kid from another AU whose creator was going to destroy it. Their parents were scientists post-pacifist route who worked with Sans on the surface studying the anomaly, and they discovered their world was about to be destroyed. So they sent Rhynn into the multiverse to settle in an empty world so that their world would build back up around them. But something went wrong, and their code broke apart and rearranged itself into a virus that can use anyone as a vessel as long as they have their soul. This virus then traveled between Universes, feeding off of the destruction they left in their place. Here is a little thing I made practicing gender neutral hairstyles that actually is concept art of Rhynn’s past vessels. It gives you an idea of what their stage one form is:

Rhynn’s stage 2 form is when they have a vessel but aren’t concealing themselves. It varies according to just how much they want to reveal. It can be anything between this:

and this:

The creature behind Frisk!Rhynn here is their true form:

The Overlord is not a virus, but a super powerful antivirus software trying to destroy the Rhynn virus.

Fast forward a thousand years of destroying things to Ninjagotale. The Frisk of the AU is about to fall into the Underground for the first time, but Rhynn intervenes and kills them, taking over their soul and body before they gain the ability to save and load. They then play Undertale normally, intending to reach the surface and spread destruction there.

However, the Overlord antivirus finds the Rhynn virus when Rhynn tells Lloyd/Asriel their true name. To throw the Overlord off, Rhynn swaps the AU and resets to “refresh” and activate the new code.

Hence we now have Ninjagoswap. Rhynn and Morro travel through the Underground, only to discover there is already a Morro/swap!Chara going through the Underground, doing a genocide route because he and much of the underground have been affected by the Overlord’s presence.

Morro, now the “fallen child” with a ghost Rhynn following them, hurries to Kai/swap!Papyrus to warn him about the murderous human. Kai joins them in hurrying to prevent Cole/swap!Sans from being killed, and they arrive, only to find swap!Morro already there. Instead of killing Cole, however, he uses his knife to corrupt him as well. Hence this illustration:

Kai knows he can’t win, so the good guys retreat. Swap!Morro and Cole then move through the Underground, corrupting everything. When they reach Jay/swap!Alphys, Cole easily overpowers him and corrupts him as well.

Meanwhile, Kai and Morro head to Nya/swap!Undyne’s lab to find her crying over Jay, having seen everything on the cameras. Nya agrees to help them, and builds the technoblades. They will have to enter the digiverse/void and use them to destroy the Overlord. Remember, they still don’t know that Rhynn is the true villain, so they’re all just going by what Morro relays to them from Rhynn.

Suddenly Jay, Cole, and swap!Morro all barge in and attack. Nya and the amalgamates hold them back while Rhynn creates a new save file, and this time they turn it into a fell world. They escape just before the corruption is too much and the world collapses. But unbeknownst to everyone else, the Overlord saves Cole just in time and brings him to the digiverse.

The Overlord tells Cole the truth and makes him his right hand. Cole asks if they have to kill his brother, because he still cares about Kai. The Overlord says if he manages to bring Kai to their side, he can be spared. Cole makes a vow to save his brother.

Meanwhile in Ninjagofell, Morro and Rhynn have switched places again since they’re not in a swap world anymore. Kai goes off to mourn for his brother by himself, so while he’s gone, Rhynn takes the opportunity to think about what to do next. They figure once they’re in the digiverse, they will be able to break rules enough to make Morro physical. So they have three people, but four technoblades. So they decide that they need Lloyd/Asriel because a god-like being would be a nice thing to have. But in order to do that you’d need seven human souls, and there are only six here, Morro points out. But Rhynn disagrees. Because Frisk has fallen down at this point.

Morro realizes what they are about to do, and they try to argue against it, but as a ghost, they can’t do much else. He watches helplessly as Rhynn steals the six captured souls and goes to find Frisk. They encounter them and Lolley as they are leaving the ruins and entering snowdin forest.

They access the code and rob Frisk of their control of the save file. Without having to worry about Frisk respawning, they kill them and take their soul. They then tell Lolley that they have seven souls now, and they need him to turn into Asriel to help them save the world. Lolley is too scared, so Rhynn changes the code again so that everyone forgets Frisk existed, and Lolley then complies.

Lloyd, Kai, Morro and Rhynn then head to fell!Cole to get him to help them enter the digiverse. They do, and upon entering, they turn Morro corporeal. Kai decides he’s had enough of following this suspicious child around and demands answers. Instead of telling him everything, Rhynn corrupts Kai and makes him a pawn of their own. Unlike the overlord’s corruption, the influence is less suggestion and more force by inflicting pain on the victim to get them to comply.

With the other three in tow, Rhynn makes their way through the digiverse, which is basically the Underground but looks like the digiverse from Rebooted. They arrive at Judgement hall, the Overlord’s lair, and try to use the technoblades to wipe him out, but it only forces him out of the code and he becomes a giant dragon. Cole suddenly appears and corrupts Lloyd. Three fights break out at once, Kai vs. Cole, Morro vs. Lloyd, and Rhynn vs. the Overlord.

Kai is eventually knocked to the ground by Cole, and Cole starts to reason with him. We have this scene:

Cole corrupts Kai. Realizing they are losing, Rhynn turns into their stage two form. This allows them enough power to defeat the Overlord, releasing all those under his influence. They then say that they no longer need the others and can now dispose of them. Morro then engages Rhynn in a fight. Hence we have the private version of this illustration, where you can see Rhynn in Morro’s blade:

The fight then goes into a stage 3 in a separate dimension when Rhynn turns into their true form. Eventually Morro beats them, and suddenly... pre-virus!Rhynn appears, cleansed of the virus. They then thank Morro and tell him that they will fix the code and send them all back to the original Ninjagotale timeline. This scene then happens:

...They give Morro their stolen soul from Frisk. Now Morro can stay corporeal without the need for a host. With a final goodbye, Rhynn fixes the code and sends Morro and the others back. Without a soul or a vessel, they then disappear and finally gain the peace they were robbed of so long ago.

The story ends with Lloyd using his seven human souls to break the barrier in Ninjagotale. The monsters are then freed without the presence of a Frisk. swap!Kai and Cole go to live with classic!Kai and Cole (swap!Kai may or may not be introduced to Skylor/Grillby by classic!Cole) and Morro and Lloyd go to live with Misako.

And that’s the end of it. I may release more about the reconstruction of it later, like redesigns and little content snippets like blurb comics and illustrations, and explanations of other ending ideas, but that’s about it. I’m sorry for disappointing you all. I hope you all can understand about the circumstances, and I hope you stick around for more Insanity Brothers. It’ll be an animatic series, so I’m real excited for it!

Love, Piper

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Geektown: Harry, you’ve had an interesting journey as well, because, although we don’t know anything about Quayle’s counterpart, your character’s turned from being this smarmy privileged guy to somebody for whom everything could fall apart for at any moment. How was it playing the evolution of that character?

Harry: I kind of get the sense that he’s someone who’s never really been out of his comfort zone and now, he’s not only is he out of his comfort zone, but every step he takes he’s fucked. He’s about to lose his life, his privilege, his job, his wife, his marriage, his child. He’s on his own and is a man who’s never really been on his own before. I think we’re gonna learn what he’s made of. I don’t think he knows himself. I don’t think he’s ever really been challenged and so the beginning of Season 2, he’s still trying to have it both ways.

He’s got his uneasy alliance with his wife. He’s trying to make this fake new alliance with the new character that Betty Gabriel plays [a former FBI agent hired to root out moles in the organisation] in terms of finding his wife. He’s stalling for time. He’s pretending to catch Lambert, but he’s not really. All we can know for sure is this is not gonna last very long. Shit’s gonna hit the fan.

Geektown: Do you ever have problems trying to keep the plot line straight in your head because you’re dealing with two different versions of characters? Or, in your case Olivia, three different versions of the character. Do you find it easy to keep that plot going in your head and does it get confusing sometimes on set which versions you’re dealing with?

Harry: When there are lots of different things happening at the same time, I think it was a really good idea for Season 2 is that Episode 1 is totally on this side, then Episode 2 is entirely on the other side. Episodes 1 and 2 are really setting up where we are now, it’s this very uneasy peace. The doors [between universes] are closed, the other side is not acknowledging this body. Everyone knows that Indigo are the antagonists, but no one’s really taken responsibility. We look like we’re on a very slippery slope to all-out war, but no one’s really saying it. And management itself, it seems, can’t be trusted.

We’re setting that up. I think Episodes 1 & 2 very cleverly separates it, and then Episode 3 is where we start linking the storyline, and that’s when the thriller aspect kicks in again. I’ve always just thought Justin’s writing is brilliant in terms of structure. He knows how to write a 10 episode movie, for want of a better phrase. As I thought last year, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 set it up. Episodes 4, 5, 6 are the big twist. Episode 7 was the reveal, then Episodes 8, 9 and 10, were similar but with a different inimicality to it. It’s got a wonderful flow to it when you see it together.

Geektown: You mentioned management there and up until now, we’ve only really seen management as this disembodied set of cameras on this weird device. We are we gonna get to see a bit more of the management now. Do you wanna just talk about a bit about dealing with that side of things?

Olivia: Who told you that? Are we allowed to talk about this?

Geektown: Well, you do see a bit more of that in the 2nd Episode of the new season. I don’t know…

Olivia: It’s completely brilliantly done and brings in this other generation. I’m 50, and so much of our politics that we’re dealing with now in the world are to do with what my parents did, or what my parent’s generation did. Justin is not intimidated by producers, and is prepared to put octogenarian actors on screen, and have them have an incredibly important role in what happens in this drama and the choices they made. I was in a series with Harry about the invention of the first atomic weapon, about Los Alamos, but what those guys did on that mountaintop 50 years ago has brought us to this place and Justin explores that in this season. I don’t think I’m telling too many spoilers by saying that [laughs].

Geektown: No. I think you’re okay! The production design throughout the show I think is really fascinating because you’ve got our technology which seems a bit more advanced than theirs… But one thing that has slightly bugged me all the way through, which hopefully you can explain… The old office computers on our side of the line – they’re these old, 80’s/90s green text, CRT computers. Is it ever explained why the offices use those sort of old equipment?

Olivia: Yes. Yes! Because every piece of equipment that we have now can be hacked. And, actually, when the American embassy was built in Berlin, they ended up writing to each other on pieces of paper with pencil because the place was so bugged and so completely rigged that no other form of communication could be guaranteed that it couldn’t listened in to. Harry is so desperate to speak to you that he’s snatching the phone out of my… [laughs]

Harry: Also because at the point of departure, when these two worlds kind of split and they ended up forming the office of interchange the technology remained along this baseline, so we still have the same 1989 IBM computers because that’s what we both shared. Since then, they had to spend all their money into distant technology to deal with the flu virus. Our side turned out smart phones and Apple and all that kind of stuff, but in terms of the computers we had the shared files on, it deliberately set pre-split, as it were, which also then gives it this Cold War aesthetic. There is kind of a plot reason for it.

Geektown: Last question. If there was another parallel world you could visit, what’s the one change you’d like to see compared to here?

Harry: World peace, no conflict.

Olivia: Yeah. I don’t know, which invention fucked it up? Do you think it was the atomic weapon?

Harry: I was just thinking about Brexit… we could probably do without that…

Olivia: Actually, can we just do without 2016, I think?

Harry: Yeah!

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