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genderflu1dwh0r · 9 months

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Steve young parent AU

This probably isn't written well, I'm kinda out of it but I wanted to write it.

Steve hooked up with some girl at 16, got her pregnant and was terrified. He didn't tell his parents until like 4 months later.

When his parents found out, his dad was very upset, while his mom freaked out, but tried to comfort Steve but couldn't do it too well.

Since he came from a rich family, he could afford baby stuff.

When the baby came, it was a girl. The mother didn't want the kid, so she gave her to Steve and moved away with her family cause her parents were not about to have another child. Especially cause she was out of wedlock.

Steve named the girl Kimberly Christina Harrington, she was a bit difficult to deal with, but she was overall pretty good. He couldn't hide her, soon the school found out and he got harassed, he turned violent against anyone who talked about it. People eventually stopped and he became king of the school.

When Billy Hargrove came in, things got started up again. They took their frustrations out with basketball. Billy found Steve out at the park after school one day with a little girl, he was confused. He walked over and sat on the swing next to Steve, pointing at Kimberly with his cigarette. "Who's that? Your sister? Cousin?" He asked.

Steve looked at him confused. "Why do you care?" He asked, getting off of the swing with Kimberly in his arms. Billy got up too, "cause you seem like you hate children." He said following. Steve laughed. "I constantly babysit my cousins, I don't hate kids." He said dodging the question about who the girl was.

Billy smiled. "Damn, I didn't know Stevie was so good with kids. You can take my sister." He said looking at Kimberly. "So, who's this?" He asked. Steve pursed his lips. "Kimberly." He said, looking at Billy. Billy nodded. "Yeah, but who is she? A cousin?" He asked. Steve sighed. "I don't really like talking about it." He mumbled. "People hold it over me." He continued.

Billy stopped smiling, he took his cigarette out of his lips. "I know we aren't the best of buds, but I can hold a secret." He said making Steve stop walking, he looked into his eyes. "How about we go to 7eleven? On me, you can get whatever you want. Even her, she can get whatever." He said, looking away so he wouldn't get embarrassed.

Steve smiled. "Who knew William could have a heart." He cooed, patting his shoulder. "Alrighty, we can do that." He said walking. Billy quickly caught up and smiled. "Steven." He whispered, cause Steve called him William.

They went off to get 7eleven, talked and Billy got to know more of Steve's and Kimberly's backstory.

After highschool, Billy and Steve got to know each other way more and ended up together. They take care of Kimberly together and eventually got married.

#jamies au #parent au #stranger things #steve harrington #kimberly christina harrington #stranger things steve #billy stranger things #stranger things billy #st billy #steve x billy #billy x steve #billy hargrove #harringrove

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dayshift-loop · 1 year

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Steven, if you’re motivated by your programming, I guarantee William will run Freddy’s into the ground. Worse than Dave and Jack ever could. He gives off bad vibes. Plus that virus is a mimic of him, meaning he probably had some hand in its presence, he’s actively installing viruses to phone guys. On every level this is a bad choice.

A bullet dodged. For now.

One thing's for certain: you're pretty sure this is not actually Dave's feral side. Which raises another question...

Where the fuck is Dave's feral side? Is there a FOURTH Dave out there somewhere? Because it's 100% certain the one here is reasonable Dave. So, if William isn't his feral side, who is he and where the hell did he come from?

...

You're gonna have to ask Glitchtrap about that later.

#dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf au #dayshift timeloop au

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kwebtv · 10 months

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TV Guide - July 20 - 26, 1963

William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) Actor best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until not long before his death in 2006. Weaver’s two most notable roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon’s trusty partner Chester Goode on the CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. He appeared in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.

From 1964 to 1965, he portrayed a friendly veterinary physician in NBC’s comedy-drama Kentucky Jones. His next substantial role was as Tom Wedloe on the CBS family series Gentle Ben, with co-star Clint Howard, from 1967 to 1969. In 1970 Weaver landed the title role in the NBC series McCloud, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. Later series during the 1980s (both of which lasted only one season) were Stone in which Weaver played a Joseph Wambaugh-esque police sergeant turned crime novelist and Buck James in which he played a Texas-based surgeon and rancher. (Buck James was loosely based on real-life Texas doctor James “Red” Duke.) He portrayed a Navy rear admiral for 22 episodes of a 1983–1984 series, Emerald Point N.A.S.. Weaver’s last work was done on an ABC Family cable television show called Wildfire, where he played Henry Ritter, the father of Jean Ritter and the co-owner of Raintree Ranch. His role on the show was cut short due to his death. (Wikipedia)

James Arness (May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) Actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the television series Gunsmoke. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five separate decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.

After Gunsmoke ended, Arness performed in Western-themed movies and television series, including How the West Was Won, and in five made-for-television Gunsmoke movies between 1987 and 1994. An exception was as a big-city police officer in a short-lived 1981-1982 series, McClain’s Law, co-starring with Marshall Colt. His role as mountain man Zeb Macahan in How the West Was Won made him a cult figure in many European countries, where it became even more popular than in the United States, as the series has been rebroadcast many times across Europe. (Wikipedia)

#TV Guide #TV #1963 #James Arness #Dennis Weaver #Gunsmoke

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dani-the-mark · 2 years

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Before My Time (Throwback Match): Lord Steven Regal vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat WCW Fall Brawl 1993

Another in my line of William/Steven Regal matches!

Thank you again to @vileandvenom and @unlikelywrestlingfan, as well as thesportster.com for helping me pin down which match between these two would be best.

Before I even get into the match: If you want to watch this match, watch it on mute. This is 1993, and commentary jumps out with some offensive comments that I will not be put here. You will not miss anything and will probably enjoy the match more f you just turn it off.

So, we are in Houston! This is the opening match for Fall Brawl, and it’s for the World TV Championship. Even with the quality, which took a bit to get used to, Steamboat’s entrance is beautiful. Regal has his sniveling heel entrance, and I find it very funny that his manager’s name is Sir William, considering he will eventually adopt that name.

Right away, Steamboat goes for Regal’s head and upper body. While there were some return shots, Regal ends up thrown over the ropes onto the entrance ramp. While he works his way back into the ring, Steamboat hits a chop off the ropes. It clearly doesn’t hit, but this is the only botch I got in the whole match. Regal again tries to gain momentum but is twisted around into a donkey kick. Steamboat was in superhero mode, playing up that he was injured, but fueled by rage against Regal.

After a gorgeous hammerlock, Steamboat literally lays down in the ring to bait Regal into a takedown. Steamboat was playing a little dirty, pushing the rules without entirely breaking them.

Regal focused on Steamboat’s injured ribs for any offense he does get, and there’s a real fight for a pin. They try to flip each other, getting a two-count back and forth. It happened slowly and methodically, which you never see today. This segment was broken up with Steamboat having to be tossed out of the ring.

Regal goes for the ribs again. And transfers into a long chin lock. Which, Steamboat technically tapped out of, but we’re not playing by those rules, apparently. I don’t know if that’s the 90s or WCW specifically. It very well could be both.

Steamboat was able to lift Regal up through the lock, but doesn't get much momentum for it. They go into an equal exchange of offense, but once again at a much slower pace than I’m used to. I really enjoyed that.

Steamboat is doing everything to not get caught up in Regal’s submissions and big moves, for example, turning a butterfly suplex into a catapult that sent Regal into the turnbuckle.

My favorite moment of the match is a pile driver reversal into another pile driver, which puts Steamboat back on top. In the beautiful words of Bayley:

(yes, I did say that out loud)

Steamboat was able to flip out of an attempt at Regal throwing him over the ropes again, but not able to dodge a cane shot from Sir William. 1-2-3 Regal is the new World TV Champion.

Outside of one or two moments of clunk, this match was beautiful. I probably wouldn't even have noticed these moments had I not been watching so closely. I was even seeing tastes of today’s “flippy shit” from Steamboat, but using those moves as either a distraction or a power play. It would be another decade before that style of wrestling even began to get popular, but this was one of the inches closer.

#wcw #throwback #before my time #william regal #steven regal #ricky steamboat

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byneddiedingo · 5 months

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Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart in The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, 1951)

Cast: Valentina Cortese, Richard Basehart, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert, Steven Geray, Herb Butterfield, Natasha Lytess, Kei Thin Chung, John Burton, Katherine Meskill, Mario Siletti. Screenplay: Elick Moll, Frank Partos, based on a novel by Dana Lyon. Cinematography: Lucien Ballard. Art direction: John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Nick DeMaggio. Music: Sol Kaplan.

The key to a successful thriller is to keep the audience from asking those questions you're not supposed to ask: Why did X do that instead of that? What caused Y to act that way? Would a sane person really behave that way? And when the film ends, have all the loose threads been accounted for? The House on Telegraph Hill just barely manages to dodge those questions, except at the end. It's sometimes rather clumsily put together. For example, we are led to believe at the beginning that the film is being narrated in voiceover by the protagonist, Viktoria Kowalska (Valentina Cortese). But in mid-film we watch a conversation that Viktoria could not have overheard. We later find that the voiceover is actually Viktoria telling her story to investigators, but the momentary break in point of view is jarring. The ending, too, feels rushed. We have invested enough time in the story that we need a clearer outcome for Viktoria and others. The premise is a familiar one, given a postwar spin: A woman pretends to be someone she isn't and suffers the consequences. In Viktoria's case, she was a prisoner in the Belsen concentration camp, where she befriended Karin Dernakova (Natasha Lytess), who died there after telling Viktoria that she had a son who had been sent at the start of the war to live with her aunt in San Francisco. When the camp is liberated, Viktoria, who has no family of her own left in Poland, finds it expedient to assume the identity of Karin, whose papers she has been given for safekeeping. Viktoria is well-meaning; she doesn't really plan to defraud anyone, but through a rather rushed-through series of circumstances, she winds up in San Francisco pretending to be the mother of Karin's child, Chris (Gordon Gebert). Not only that, she also marries Chris's guardian, Alan Spender (Richard Basehart). So now she finds herself in an elegant mansion on the top of Telegraph Hill, playing mother to a boy who stands to inherit a fortune. And of course she also finds herself in danger. Cortese's performance makes some of this credible, but it was her only important film in America: She married her co-star, Basehart, and returned to Italy. He went with her, but except for Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954) and Il Bidone (1955), his European films were undistinguished, and he returned to the States after their divorce in 1960. The House on Telegraph Hill is plenty watchable, if only because of cinematographer Lucien Ballard's use of the San Francisco location.

#The House on Telegraph Hill #Robert Wise #Valentina Cortese #Richard Basehart

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kolsmikaelson · 6 months

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WHO I WRITE FOR —

OUTER RANGE —

- rhett abbott

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON —

- aegon ii targaryen

- aemond targaryen

- jacaerys velaryon

- alicent hightower

- rhaenyra targaryen

- daemon targaryen

TOP GUN (1986) / TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) —

- bradley “rooster” bradshaw

- robert “bob” floyd

- jake “hangman”seresin

TED LASSO —

- jamie tartt

- roy kent

SCREAM —

- ethan landry

- chad meeks-martin

- stu macher

- tara carpenter

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE —

- peter parker (th!peter or ag!peter)

- bucky barnes

- frank castle

- matt murdock

- sam wilson

- druig

- steven grant / marc spector / jake lockley

NHL —

- jamie drysdale (anaheim ducks)

- johnny beecher (boston bruins)

- cale makar (colorado avalanche)

- kent johnson (columbus blue jackets)

- adam fantilli (columbus blue jackets)

- arber xhekaj (montreal canadiens)

- juraj slafkovsky (montreal canadiens)

- nico hischier (new jersey devils)

- mat barzal (new york islanders)

- joel farabee (philadelphia flyers)

- anthony beauvillier (vancouver canucks)

- quinn hughes (vancouver canucks)

AVATAR (2009) / AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER —

- jake sully

- neytiri te tskaha mo'at'ite

- kiri te suli kìreysì'ite

- neteyam te suli tsyeyk'tan

- lo’ak te suli tsyeyk'tan

- miles “spider” socorro

MISCELLANEOUS —

- dodge mason (panic)

- art donaldson (challengers)

- ellie williams (the last of us ; video game)

- abby anderson (the last of us ; video game)

- joel miller (the last of us ; video game or show)

- carmen berzatto (the bear)

- richie jerimovich (the bear)

- michael gavey (saltburn)

- mike schmidt (five nights at freddy’s)

- conrad fisher (the summer i turned pretty)

- angus tully (the holdovers)

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN CHARACTERS — (categorized under miscellaneous)

- clay beresford

- scott barringer

STAR WARS —

- anakin skywalker

- obi-wan kenobi

- han solo (younger!han(2018 movie) or older!han)

- padme amidala

- poe dameron

OUTER BANKS —

- jj maybank

- pope heyward

- rafe cameron

- sarah cameron

- kiara carerra

STRANGER THINGS -

- steve harrington

- eddie munson

- nancy wheeler (wlw / nblw only)

- robin buckley (wlw / nblw only)

- mike wheeler

dividers by : @cafekitsune

#who i write for #blog stuff #find easily

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xtruss · 10 months

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The Secrets of Indiana Jones

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is his last adventure. It wasn’t all just fortune and glory, kid

— Culture | Back Story | 29th June, 2023

Image: Jonathan Olley/Lucasfilm Ltd.

We saw the whip—and saw him use it—before we saw his face, Harrison Ford’s rugged features perspiring beneath that battered fedora. The first blast of the triumphant music sounded early in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (released in 1981), as, dodging poison darts, Indiana Jones Tarzan-swung to a moving seaplane. The pilot’s pet python slithered onto his lap. Snakes! He hated them.

The whip, the hat, John Williams’s theme and the phobia of snakes have punctuated all Indy’s adventures. He cracked the whip as part of his combative seduction technique in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”; while being whacked in the kidneys in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, he used it to secure his father to a runaway tank. He grabbed the hat from beneath a deadly descending door and had it blown back to him after falling off a cliff. He was entombed with snakes and fed them.

These accoutrements have two origin stories. “Crusade” traced the whip, hat and snake issues to a teenage tussle on a circus train in Utah. They also came from the magical pairing of Steven Spielberg (director of the first four Indy films) and George Lucas (who dreamed up the idea). So many bits of old Westerns and war movies, James Bond and Bogart, went into Indy that he was almost a walking homage. Yet he was his own man: an archaeology professor but a fighter, whose punches made a special kerpow! snap; a guy who took his own whisky to face down the Nazis in a Cairo bar.

Just when Indy thought he was out, he has been pulled back in for a fifth and last caper in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, directed by James Mangold (Mr Lucas and Mr Spielberg are executive producers). It is 1969 and Indy is set to retire; female students no longer swoon at him. Mr Ford is 80, but he and Indy are put through the usual stunt-a-minute frenzy, taking breaths only for wisecracks and just enough exposition for the plot to make sense, more or less. The quarry is the dial of Archimedes, an ancient calculator. Indy teams up with his louche goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), who comes with her own sidekick, a Moroccan urchin named Teddy (Ethann Isidore).

The greatest-hits motifs return for the finale, including a rickety rope-bridge, creepy-crawlies and giant eels in lieu of snakes. The dial is kicked around a mêlée like the vial of antidote in “Doom”. The red lines on the map that track Indy’s odysseys streak from Tangier to the Aegean. Where he’s going, though, he won’t need maps, for the wondrous dial can predict “fissures in time”. To reverse an old line of Indy’s: it’s not the mileage, honey, it’s the years.

So, after five films, four decades and all those booby traps, cobwebby cadavers and cryptic clues; all the chases through souks, palisaded walls, fisticuffs on the bonnets of trucks and messy encounters with propellers; all the planes, trains, automobiles, zeppelins and horses (in “Dial” Indy rides one into the New York subway): what was it all about? The main meaning of Indiana Jones lies in the joy he has given generations of viewers. But it wasn’t just fortune and glory, kid.

First, those Nazis. Bumbling American Feds got in the way, but the Nazis were Indy’s main foe. (The fourth film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, roped in both the Soviets and aliens, a classic case of more equalling less.) With its ineffable Sieg-Heiling monkey, “Raiders”, like “Crusade”, was specifically a fantasy of besting the Nazis in the 1930s, before the horrors of war. Indy is still beating them in “Dial”, in the form of a renegade physicist enlisted in the Moon-landing programme.

Next, the dreadful allure of knowledge. In Indy’s world, knowledge is noble and sexy—“the search for fact” is his calling—but too much, or the wrong sort, is hubristic and malign. The Ark of the Covenant in “Raiders”, the Holy Grail in “Crusade”, the urge to “know everything” in “Crystal”, that time-scrambling dial: pursuing these mysteries can make a baddy’s face melt amid a sandy whirlwind. Stay in school, runs the moral of Indy’s story, but stay in your lane.

Another, everyday tension courses through his quests. In each he must balance his mission against his personal feelings—for a hard-drinking ex-lover, a young apprentice, an absentee dad (it was complicated), a long-lost son and finally his godchild. The future of the world is at stake, too, but Indy’s basic dilemma—work or family?—is shared by every office schlub who yearns to head home from a desk, or vice versa. His darkest secret is that he was always one of us. As a villain says in “Raiders”, then prematurely: “Indiana Jones, adieu!” ■

#Indiana Jones #Secrets #Harrison Ford #Crusade #Cowboy #Nazis #Raiders

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mcdannowave · 3 years

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When your favorite SEAL tells you another of his crazy plans.

#h50 1x06 #nonsense #stupid #scott caan #reaction gif #hawaii five 0 #danny williams #daniel dae kim #chin ho kelly #''So..in the end.I signed us both for the school's charity marathon. It's only 10km''Steve said.Already waiting resistance from Danny #''I'm gonna pretend you didn't just say that''.Danny was finishing to dry the dishes.He knew he should've taken that call #''Ah. C'mon Danno it's good for yo--''...''Oh don't you 'Danno' me here Steven.I love u.but you had /one job/ here''#The look on Danny's face was saying 'Determination' but deep down he knew that it was already done and sealed his fate #''Steven..You were supposed to call Charlie's school.Inform he gonna hav to leave early on Friday.And that's it''#''I did! But the lady there just kept talking and talking and suddenly there was this school event and i mentioned i liked running and...''#Danny pinched his nose.took a deep breath.He married a SEAL.But it would take yrs until Steve learned how to dodge 'school stuff'#''Okay. babe. Okay.It's done.When it's this avoidable running we need to participate?''.Steve only gave him a 'Sry' face #''Oh.My./God/...don't tell me it's this Sunday afternoon.''.Which was Danny's football game. He even washed his 'Lucky Tshirt'#''I'm so so sry Danny.I should've thought more before agreeing things for you.Don't worry.i'm gonna record it for you''#''Oh..''Danny chuckled.'U gonna own me /so much more/ than that.Just u know.I'm gonna complain the whole time there''#''That's fair''..Steve frowned.It was still a win.sort of. On this scenario.he even thought he would have to use 'I'm sry-s/ex'...again #''Btw.I was going to do the laundry.but u know what? I'm gonna watch TV. Don't forget to pick the clothes on our bathroom too''#Steve rolled his eyes.He knew this was coming.But it didn't bother him.He would still have a niceSunday w/ Danny #A sweaty & exhausted (and complaining all the time) Danny. but he would love it any way #headcanon tags #mine

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sgt-morgan · 2 years

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The Audible Experience

DD Masterlist

Well, I finally started watching Daredevil!

“Mathew, I read you the giving tree. I have that memorized. I can’t read aloud all the time.” You give a breathy laugh in mock frustration.

“But I like your voice better!” He huffs as you continue to type in your card information for the subscription to audible.

“Mathew, you’re blind and I’m dyslexic, let’s leave the reading to the professionals? Or, even better, almost every book known to man is in braille now, YOU can read to ME!”

You laugh, putting your hands on your hips, you know it’s a worthless gesture but he can probably feel it in the air or something.

“Okay, point taken!” He laughs, reaching to hand you your credit card.

“It’s at 9 o’clock,” you laugh, “don’t knock my water over.”

“I know, I know!” Matt laughs handing you the offensive piece of plastic.

“Now, start thinking of books to read, I’m starting with the Ender’s Game novels.” You giggle buying a few extra credits to fluff out your library for your first few times.

“Why a sci-fi coming of age novel from the 80’s?” Matt smirked wrinkling his nose in confusion.

“Because, the novels, especially the sequel, pose a very fascinating moral and legal quandary about the discovery of new life and Xenocide.” You shrug, “You’re catholic, it should, theoretically, be right up your alley!”

“Okay, that’s fair. But if I’m not mistaken, you cannot say the same about the Hunger Games.” Matt laughs as your thumb pauses over the download button.

“Okay now THAT’S just freaky, there is no possible way for you to discern that from anything I just did.” You gape, eyes wide in what Matt assumed to be a very comical version of shock.

“Nope, no freaky sense needed, I just know you very well.” Matt laughed using his hand to snap your floundering mouth shut.

“Okay, fine, But I’m not reading The Devil in the White City. No serial killers for me, I got one devil in my life and that’s more than enough!” You say settling back into Matt’s side.

“Oh wow! How did you know?” He asked looking rather impressed at your guess work.

“I saw you fingering a copy of it at that book store with the braille section.” You shrug.

“I could be fingering other things.” Matt smirks wiggling his eyebrows face forward.

“Matthew! I’m appalled, Jesus is listening you know.” You laughed, throwing a pillow at his head that he didn’t attempt to dodge.

After your afternoon of debating books, you settled on your first four. Orson Scott Card’s Enders Game, Steven King’s Black House, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride.

You worked your way through each title, some new, some treasured favorites. These little pockets of time that you had carved out to read were your favorite. Some nights you and Matt would snuggle up to one another and drink a glass of wine letting the book play, just reveling in each others company. These nights were always pleasant, normally accompanied by Matt feeling out your features, or gently placing his hands on your pulse points one at a time. Your very skin seeming to soothe him.

Some nights you would put together a puzzle while you listened, hands fidgety and restless needing a menial task to help you concentrate. (Your favorite instance of this was when Matt bought an all red puzzle, the objective being much harder than a normal puzzle, so that he could show you how worthless he thought your pastime was. (He ended up enjoying it so much he bought you 7 more.)

Some nights you were overstimulated, Matt’s super senses were always tough to navigate, and you also tended to get overly stimulated in your own way. Sometimes for you, the lights were too bright all day and you would rest next to Matt , audiobook lulling you back to yourself as he kept his hand resting over your eyelids to block out the harsh glow of the billboard outside of the apartment. Sometimes it played into your sound proof headphones, hands placed over top of the headphones in Matt’s ears in an attempt to block as much noise as possible. It was always a perfect distraction on those nights when all you needed most, was to escape.

The nights you loved best though, we’re the ones where you conversed non stop, forcing yourselves to pause the novel to talk about plot points that tickled your brain, or struck a cord. You loved being able to pick Matt’s brain in any situation, so taking advantage of his longing to understand a plot, or see your enjoyment for something he thought to be dreadful, or something fascinating about how the law would work in that scenario, always felt rewarding.

Each book had its own fascinating qualities. You picked them mostly based on your mutual enjoyment of certain topics.

Ender’s Game was of course your pick, it was the book series that sparked your interest in ethics. If you hadn’t read this novel, you had explained to your loving partner, you wouldn’t have become a lawyer.

“Okay wait, so its illegal to have three kids?”

Yes Mathew, they have a surplus population and it’s to prevent overcrowding the planet.”

You sigh.

“So they get to have three because?” Matt questions, asking softballs so he can tee up for his big point.

“His sister was too nice, his brother was too

Mean.” You shrug, “ Needed someone who’s compassionate nature would allow them to understand the enemy in order to defeat them.”

“So Ender was just a terrible weapon, from age six, and they figured this all out by letting him kill another child?” Matt says outraged.

“Yes Mathew, that’s correct.” You nod brushing hair from his eyes.

“Hiram Graff is a war criminal.” Matt grumbles, once again pressing play on the novel.

Steven King’s Black House was the sequel to his first novel The Talisman, and your second audio book. You had both read the first novel together in the book club, where you met, in college. Your interest in the ethics of sending a child on a deadly cross country road trip, and your scathing false take down of the Sunlight Gardner’s Children’s Home were what endeared you to Matt, he found it particularly adorable that a fake scenario could make you this angry. He thought it a sin you hadn’t bothered to see where the rest of the story went, so it went on the list.

“Oh my god Matt, I’ll never drink beer again.” You shudder, nauseated by the description of a horrific death in the novel.

“Yeah, almost makes you wanna stop drinking forever.” Matt nods in affirmation.

“Also, that crow? I’m so disgusted. That’s deranged Matthew. Jack needs a break. If I were Jack, Speedy Parker would have a broken nose.” You sigh, for once thankful Matt’s apartment was never fully dark.

“I know, but hey, I’m glad you’re not a detective! Or a magical kid from LA! You also don’t have to hunt down a serial killer.” He laughs cheerfully.

“Your right! All I have to do is pin down a mafioso and his crew of neighborhood ruining cronies.” You laugh, “well, Jack and I at least have one thing in common!” You sigh.

“What’s that?” Mat laughs stroking your hair as you lay in his lap.

“We can sleep when we’re dead!”

Dune was another classic from your youth. You had read it as a child with your father, and you thought it would be nice to share a story so close to your heart with someone else. You also thought that the politics of it all would be interesting to your favorite vigilante, and enjoyed making jokes about a certain Wilson Fisk being quite similar to the titular villain in the novel.

“Oh my God!” Foggy cackles as you begin to impersonate Wilson Fisk. You had come into work that day, and every one was down in the dumps, so you tried to make light of it with jokes.

“This is MY CITY! MY HELLS KITCHEN! MY DUNE!” You shout in his gravelly style, doing a very poor job of catching his essence.

“Oh my God that’s awful!” Matt laughed, “The dune quote? Really?”

“Yes my dear Piter! He who controls the Heroine controls the universe!” You laugh manically.

“That was Madam Gao.” Foggy said swiping a tear from his eye.

“Yeah, well, joke’s still good.” You shrug.

“We’re gonna have to take their audible subscription!” Karen laughed, “ I won’t survive anymore of this Dune.”

“Ah, but Karen! The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience, and you are experiencing the very best that science fiction has to offer!” You smile kissing Matt on the head as you stood from your seat. “Now my children, who needs a cup of coffee!” You smile.

“Ah, yes, the spice water. I’m assuming the sleeper must awaken?” Foggy grins and you gasp.

“Ah! Foggward! You do know Dune!” You laugh.

“Yes Y/n, I too did not get laid in college!” Foggy laughed, and Matt smiled.

“Oh yes I did! Ask Matt!”

After Dune, there was Matt’s final choice. William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. This, to you, was a shock. The Princess Bride was one of your favorite films, and one of the last Matt ever saw that left enough of an impression for him to care. What you DIDN’T know is that unlike you and your ability to rewatch the movie with great pleasure, After Matt went blind, instead of watching the film over and over, he opted for the book in braille.

“Darling? Did you drink the whole pot of coffee?” You shouted to Matt as you stared in disbelief at the empty coffee pot.

“Indeed I did.” He said solemnly from where he sat, running his hands over a legal document.

“That’s not fair Matthew! I made that pot for me and Karen!” You whined going to fill up the pot for the third time that day.

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death,that’s all.” Matt sniggered.

“Shut up Matthew.”

“Sorry love.”

The Princess bride became your comfort story. You were sick? Princess bride. Couldn’t sleep? Princess Bride. Beat to hell and back? Princess bride. You started quoting it more and more in everyday life, and Karen and Foggy thought it was adorable, and so did you.

“Matt, why are we reading it if you know it line for line!” You giggled one night while you were laying in bed listening to Matt quote one of his favorite lines.

“Because, it reminds me of us!” Matt laughed. “I’m the Man in Black, and you’re my Buttercup.” He smirked.

“Matt that was terrible!” You laughed, “You don’t wear a black suit anymore!”

“Eh, it seemed like that romantic stuff you’d love so I went for it.” He smiled softly at you stroking your hair. “Ooh! Here’s the best line.

‘There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey. Do you want me to follow you for the rest of your days? I will do that. Do you want me to crawl? I will crawl. I will be quiet for you or sing for you, or if you are hungry, let me bring you food, or if you have thirst and nothing will quench it but Arabian wine, I will go to Araby, even though it is across the world, and bring a bottle back for your lunch. Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.’ It’s perfect I think.” Matt smiles nuzzling into your neck.

In that moment you’re so totally captivated you find it hard to breathe. Matt of course could tell this and kept that little devilish grin on his face as you stared at him with moon eyes, glazed over in total affection.

“I would do anything for you, my Buttercup.” Matt smiled, loving the smell of your skin and the frantic beating of your heart.

“Do I love you?” You smiled, purposefully sounding puzzled, making Matt chuckle softly. “My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

To sum up this final moment, more perfect words were ever said than were said in The Princess Bride.

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

#matt murdock #matt murdock x reader #matt murdock fanfic #daredevil #daredevil fanfiction #charlie cox #Marvel #Matt Murdock au

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wqp88888 · 2 years

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Nickname

Abbreviation

Proper Name

Abe

Abrm

Abel, Abraham, Absalom

Abner

Abraham

Addy, Atty

Adam

Albert, Allan, Allen, Alfred

Alec, Alex, Alick, Ally

Alexander

Alf

Alfred

Andy, Andie

Andrew, Alexander

Archie

Archibald

Arnie

Arnold

Art

Arthur

Baldie

Archibald

Barnie, Barney

Barnabas

Bart

Bartholomew

Ben

Benjn

Benedict, Benjamin, Ebenezer

Benezer

Ebenezer

Bern, Bernie

Bernard

Bert, Bertie

Albert, Bertram, Cuthbert, Egbert, Halbert, Herbert, Hubert, Lambert, Osbert

Bill, Billie

William

Bob

Robt

Robert

Bram, Bramley

Abraham

Cal

Caleb

Charlie, Chuck (American)

Chas

Charles

Chris

Xian, Xopher

Christian, Christopher

Clem

Clement

Cliff

Clifford

Colin

Nicholas

Cuddie, Cuddy

Cuthbert

Cyprian, Cyril, Cyrus

Dai, Dave, Davie

David

Dan, Danny

Danl

Daniel

Dand, Dandie

Andrew

Daniel

Donald

Derick

Frederick

Des

Desmond

Dewi

David

Dick

Ricd

Richard

Dixon

Benedict

Dobb

Robert

Dod, Doddy

George

Dodge

Roger

Dom

Dominick

Don, Donnie

Dond

Donald

Daniel

Doug

Douglas

Drew

Andrew

Dump

Humphrey

Duke

Marmaduke

Eben

Ebenezer

Ed, Eddie

Edgar, Edwin

Ed, Eddie

Edwd

Edward

Ed, Eddie

Edmd

Edmund

Eli

Elliot, Elias, Elijah

Elmo

Erasmus

Eph

Ephraim

Erik

Frederick

Ern

Ernt

Ernest

Ewen

Owen

Frank, Frankie

Fras

Francis

Fred

Fredk

Alfred, Frederick

Gabe, Gaby

Gabriel

Gary, Garret, Garth

Gareth, Gerard

Ged

Jedidiah

Gene

Eugene

Geoff, Giff

Geoffrey, Jeffrey

Geo

George

Gerard

Jarrett

Gerry

Gerald, Gerard

Gervase

Jarvis, Jervise

Gib

Gilbert

Gord

Gordon

Gorry

Godfrey

Greg

Gregory

Guido

Guy

Gus

Angus, Augustus, Gustav

Hab

Herbert, Robert, Halbert

Hal

Harold, Henry

Hank (American)

Henry

Hank (English)

Hankin

Harry

Harold, Henry

Heck

Hector

Henery, Henrie

Henry

Hez

Hezekiah

Hick, Hitch

Richard

Hodge

Roger

Hobb, Hop, Hopkin

Robert

Hy (American)

Henry

Ike

Isaac

Izzy

Isadore

Jabe

Jabez

Jack

Jno

John

Jake (American)

Jacob

Jamie, Jim

Jas

James

Jarrett

Gerard

Jarvis

Gervase, Jervise

Jed

Jedidiah

Jeff

Jeffrey, Geoffrey

Jerry

Jerh

Jeremiah

Jerry

Jery

Jeremy

Jerry

Jere

Jerome

Jon

Jonn

Jonathan

Joe, Joey

Josh

Joseph, Josiah

Jock

John, or any Scotsman

Josh

Joseph, Joshua, Josiah

Ken

Kenneth

Kit

Christopher

Larry

Laurence, Lawrence

Lem

Lemuel

Len

Leonard

Leo

Leopold

Les

Leslie

Lew, Lou

Lewis, Louis

Mac

Malcolm

Manny

Emanuel, Immanuel, Manuel

Matt

Matthew

Max

Maximilian, Maxwell

Mickey, Mike, Miles

Michl

Michael

Monty

Montague

Morie

Maurice, Morris

Nab

Abel, Abraham

Nat, Nate

Nathl

Nathan, Nathaniel

Ned, Neddy

Edward

Nick

Nichs

Dominick, Nicholas

Nobb

Robert

Noll

Oliver

Norm

Norman

Numps

Humphrey

Nye

Aneurin

Owen

Ewen

Oz, Ozzie

Oswald, Oscar, Osbert, Osmund

Paddy, Pat

Patrick, or any Irishman

Perce, Percy

Percival

Perrin

Peter

Perry

Peregrine

Pete

Peter

Phil

Philip, Theophilus

Phippin, Pip

Philip

Rab, Rabbie

Robert

Rafe, Ralf, Rauf

Ralph

Randy

Randell, Randolph

Ray

Raymond

Reg, Reggie, Rex

Reginald

Rich, Rick

Rd, Ricd

Richard

Rob, Robin

Robt

Robert

Rod

Broderick, Roderick, Rodney

Rolf

Ralph

Rolley

Roland, Rowland

Ron, Ronnie

Ronald

Rory

Roderick

Rube

Reuben

Rudy

Rudolph

Russ, Rusty

Russell

Sam, Sammy

Saml

Samson, Samuel

Sacha, Sandy

Alexander

Seb

Sebastian

Sepp

Joseph

Si, Sy

Josiah

Sid, Syd

Sidney, Sydney

Sim, Sym

Simon, Symeon

Solly

Solomon

Stan

Stanley

Steve

Stephen, Steven

Stew, Stu

Stewart, Stuart

Taddy

Adam

Taffy

David, or any Welshman

Ted, Teddy

Edward, Theodore

Terry

Terence

Thad

Thadeus

Theo

Theodore

Tim, Timmy

Timothy

Toby

Tobias

Tolly

Bartholomew

Tom, Tommy Thos Thomas

Tony Anty Anthony

Val

Valentine

Vic

Victor

Vince

Vincent

Vib

Vivian

Waldo

Oswald

Wally

Wallace, Walter

Walt, Wat

Walter

Wes

Wesley

Wido

Guy

Wilf

Wilfred

Will, Willie, Wilkin Wm, Willm William, Wilbur

Zac, Zach, Zack

Isaac, Zachary

Zac, Zach, Zack Zachh, Zachs Zachariah, Zacharias

Zeb

Zebulon, Zebediah, Zebedee

Zeke

Ezakiah, Ezekiel

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coolmomdean · 3 years

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any time i see rufus on the dash i can only hear steven williams in the blues brothers saying “there’s that shitbox dodge again”

#blues brothers formative child memories stay with you forever

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degen-studio · 3 years

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Halsey McKay Gallery is celebrating 10 years of putting on shows, collaborating with artists and generally working their tails off to make beautiful things happen. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Viva la Artist run gallery spaces!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ If you’re out East this weekend, check out the celebration. You can peep this painting “Shell on a Sill” and then hit the beach for rill. The show is up through June 21st at @halseymckaygallery and features: Josh Abelow, Polly Apfelbaum, Glen Baldridge, Lisha Bai, Gina Beavers, Bianca Beck, Timothy Bergstrom, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Colby Bird, Ben Blatt, Patrick Brennan, Ernesto Burgos, Ryan Travis Christian, Graham Collins, John Copeland, Anne-Lise Coste, Steven Cox, David Kennedy Cutler, Benjamin Degen, Alexander Deschamps, Alex Dodge, Chris Duncan, Sally Egbert, Cory Escoto, Arielle Falk, Elise Ferguson, Rachel Foullon, Saskia Friedrich, Joe Fyfe, Ted Gahl, Hope Gangloff, Henry Glavin, Bryan Graf, Ethan Greenbaum, Joanne Greenbaum, Joseph Hart, Elias Hansen, Hilary Harnischfeger, Virva Hinnemo, An Hoang, Sheree Hovsepian, Raymie Iadevaia, Jodie Vicenta Jacobson, David-Jeremiah, Matt Kenny, Matthew Kirk, Andrew Kuo, Denise Kupferschmidt, Jennie Jieun Lee, Jose Lerma, Hanna Liden, Christian Little, Lauren Luloff, Charlie Ly, Adam Marnie, Eddie Martinez, Sam Moyer, Keegan McHargue, Augusutus Nazzaro, Shaun O’Dell, Scott Olson, Hilary Pecis, Ann Pibal, Eli Ping, Walter Price, Joey Piziali, Nathlie Provosty, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Matt Rich, Mariah Robertson, Brion Nuda Rosch, Adrianne Rubenstein, Andrew Schoultz, Beverley Semmes, Shelter Serra, Kate Shepherd, David B. Smith, Ruby Sky Stiler, Ryan Steadman, Kianja Strobert, Mika Tajima, Richard Tinkler, Betty Tompkins, Johannes VanDerBeek , William Villalongo, Jessica Vaughn, Wilmer Wilson IV, Miranda Fengyuan Zhang, Almond Zigmund https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtP69OFL08/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Private equity firms should be abolished

In his latest BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller (previously) relates the key moments in the history of private equity, from its roots in the notorious "leveraged buyouts" of the 1980s, and explains exactly how the PE con works: successful, productive business are acquired through debt financing, drained of their cash and assets, and then killed, leaving workers unemployed and with their pension funds looted, and with the business's creditors out in the cold.

Private equity's story begins with William Simon, "a mean, nasty, tough bond trader who took no BS from anyone" whose idea of child-rearing was the douse his children with buckets of ice-water to rouse them from bed on weekend mornings. Simon was given senior Treasury appointments under Nixon/Ford, then became America's energy czar during the oil crisis. He was pro-austerity and blocked the bailout of NYC in 1975.

Once out of government service, Simon set about to create a Republican "counter-intelligentsia" to swing the party to the right. He ran the influential far-right think-tank the Olin Foundation, and dispersed money to fund law and economics scholars who were devoted to discrediting the New Deal and the idea of any limits on corporate power, all cloaked in "scientific" rhetoric.

The darlings of this movement -- Henry Manne, Milton Friedman, Michael Jenson -- promoted the idea of "shareholder capitalism" and the notion that managers have a single duty: to put as much money in the pockets of investors, even at the expense of the business's sustainability or the well-being of its workers. They joined forces with Robert Bork, who had set about discrediting antitrust law, arguing (successfully) that the only time laws against monopolies should be enforced was when monopolists raised prices immediately after attaining their monopolies -- everything else was fair game (Bork is a major reason that every industry in the economy is now super-concentrated, with only a handful of major firms).

Simon's policy prescriptions -- massive reductions in capital gains taxes, deregulation of trucking, finance and transport, and a move from guaranteed pensions to 401(k)s that only provide in old age if you make the right bets in the stock market -- were adopted by Carter and the Democrats, flooding the market with huge amounts of cash to be invested.

That's when the leveraged buyout industry was born. In 1982, Simon convinced Barclays and General Electric to loan him $80m to buy Gibson Greeting Cards from its parent company RCA. Once the company was theirs, they looted its bank account to pay themselves a $900k "special dividend," sold off its real-estate holdings for $4m, and took the company public for $270m, with Simon cashing out $70m from the transaction (Simon's total investment was $330k).

This was the starter pistol for future leveraged buyouts, through which companies like Bain Capital and the Carlyle Group buy multiple companies in the same sector and transmit "winning strategies" between them: new ways to dodge taxes, raise prices, and avoid regulation. PE owners suck any financial cushion out of companies -- funds that firms set aside for downturns or R&D -- and replace it with "brutal debt schedules." The PE owners benefit massively when this drives up share prices, but take no downsides when the companies fail.

Under PE, companies have emphasized firing workers and replacing them with overseas subcontractors, and amassing "brands, patents and tax loopholes" as their primary assets. PE firms specialize in self-dealing, cutting in the banks and brokers who set up the deals for a share of the upside. A company bought by a private equity firm is ten times more likely to go bankrupt than one with a traditional capital/management structure.

Elizabeth Warren has proposed some commonsense reforms to private equity: making PE investors liable for the debts they load their companies up with (including an obligation to fund workers' pensions); ending special fees and dividends; and reforming bankruptcy and tax laws to force PE companies to operate on the same terms as other businesses. Stoller calls this "reunifying ownership and responsibility": making the people who assume ownership of these productive companies take responsibility for their liabilities, not just their profits.

As Stoller points out, critics of Warren's plan say that this would end private equity investing as we know it ("Unfortunately, Warren’s fixes for these problems... would pretty much guarantee that nobody invests in or lends to private equity firms" -- Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post), but of course, that's the whole point.

But centrist Democrats love private equity, as the firms are major political donors, and many's the politician who cycled out of public office and into a cushy job with a PE firm.

Stoller discusses this further in his new book Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/16/capitalisms-grave-diggers.html

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