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qsdblogging · 3 years

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10 More TV Shows You Need To See

This is the second installment of my recommendations of shows for you to add to your own lists. I watch a lot of television and I’ve got, what I consider to be at least, a wide variety of shows under my favorites.

If you haven’t seen the first list, you don’t need to unless you want to see another list of ten shows you may want to check out if you’re looking for anything new to watch.

Warning, though, some of these don’t end the best way and may end up more as a disappointment. I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

I. Warehouse 13.

Pete and Myka, U.S Secret Service Agents, are deployed to South Dakota’s Warehouse 13 with a new assignment from an authority above and outside the government.

Intrigued?

With the Warehouse comes assignments regarding objects that hold some sort of abilities that can cause people to do wild and crazy things. It’s their job to find the artifacts (as they all hold significance to history) and bring them back to the Warehouse for safe keeping.

Things get wild and some serious topics get handled, but the show isn’t alone. It’s connected to another on this list, Eureka. More on that when you get to Eureka.

Some familiar faces are Eddie McClintock who played a part in Bones, one episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Joanne Kelly who played a role in The Dresden Files television series, Allison Scagliotti who played roles in Stitchers, The Vampire Diaries, and Drake & Josh, Aaron Ashmore (twin brother to Shawn Ashmore, who has been in the X-Men movies alongside appearing in The Boys, and voicing Conrad in Man of Medan) from Killjoys, Lost Girl, and Smallville, and Jamie Murray from Castelvania, Gotham, The Originals, Once Upon a Time, Defiance, and Dexter.

I highly recommend, especially because the dynamic of the characters is really interesting and covers a lot.

II. Eureka.

As mentioned above, this is connected to Warehouse 13. But only in the last two seasons of this show are the two connected.

Eureka is a town full of geniuses and advanced technology that the government funds, and when a new sheriff comes to town, he’s exposed to all the daily occurrences the locals get up to. And maybe a couple instances of time travel that may or may not have to do with the connection.

The town is full of faces you may recognize. Colin Ferguson who has roles in Haven, The Vampire Diaries, and Maytag commercials, Erica Cerra who has roles in The 100, Supernatural, Deadly Class, and the first Percy Jackson film, Felicia Day who has roles in The Magicians, Supernatural, Con Man, The Guild, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Trevor Jackson who has roles in Grown-ish, and a couple Disney productions.

It’s a huge science fiction show and if you’re into that, give it a watch.

III. Alphas.

Now, like the two above is, Alphas is a science fiction packed drama. And it’s rumored to be connected, like be in the same universe, as Warehouse 13 and Eureka. It’s never been confirmed, but there is one character (same name and job) that plays a part in both Alphas and Warehouse 13, which is the stem for the theory. (Plus, some other ideas floating around).

But Alphas focuses on a team that investigates people with supernatural abilities while they, themselves, have abilities. These powered people are referred to as Alphas, due to their nature.

Unfortunately, this show ends on a cliffhanger in its second season.

Yet, I still recommend giving it a shot because it truly is an interesting show and it’s got some people you may recognize.

IV. Haven.

If you’re a fan of Stephen King’s “Colorado Kid”, you’ll most likely enjoy this show since it’s loosely based off of it.

Set in the coastal town of Haven, Maine, FBI Agent Audrey Parker comes to town to find that the residents have dormant curses, or rather troubles, that can be triggered at any given moment. She, along with the Sheriff and the town’s black sheep, must deal with the troubles’ deadly effects. And a few things may be revealed about herself too along the way.

It’s pretty interesting and I enjoyed it quite a lot when I first watched it. I’m not the biggest fan of Stephen King, and the connection seems to barely be there, but I wouldn’t know given my dislike for King.

I highly recommend giving Haven a shot, however, especially if you’re a crime and fantasy fan.

V. Lost Girl.

Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan system and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth of her own mysterious origins. (Taken from IMDB).

Plus, there a lesbian romance or two.

Now, the show itself is pretty strong holding in its own storyline and lore, but the last season does get a bit rocky feeling. It could’ve been better, and it definitely feels a little rushed, but it wasn’t too bad of an ending. However, it’s not a show that got cancelled before it could wrap things up and it leaves things pretty open-ended.

In my books, that’s a point. I highly recommend this is if you’re a fan of fantasy.

VI. Almost Human.

Unfortunately, this is one of the ones in the list that only has one season (that seems to be out of order and frankly I’m not entirely sure of the order myself, so rely on googling it yourself and hopefully you find the right order) and was cancelled not long after airing.

BUT, it’s a good watch. It’s set in the distant future, where cops are assigned an android partner to protect and serve. Things get pretty wild and I’m quite sure there are some bombs involved at some point, but there’s a bonus to all the madness of Almost Human.

Minka Kelly and Karl Urban. Two incredibly beautiful human beings.

I highly recommend bingeing this single season show.

VII. American Gods.

This shows feels very confusing. But it’s still a good watch.

It centers on a recently released ex-con named Shadow Moon. He runs into a man full of mystery named Wednesday (and you’ll later come to find out who he really is, or you may already know given your knowledge on the book of the same name or just how well you know mythology) who seems to know more than Shadow about his own life and past.

There are Gods, mischief, and a lot of crazy shit in this show. So far it’s on it’s third season as far as I know (I have to rewatch the first two before I pick it back up).

You should give it a shot, but I won’t blame you if you feel way too confused about the whole thing.

VIII. The Boys.

Now, there’s a lot of controversy regarding this Amazon Original Series, but honestly, I think everyone should at least give it a chance. I know a lot of Tumblr users were put off on trying to due to the advertisements on the site.

If you don’t know what this series is about, it follows a group of vigilantes set on taking down the corrupt superheroes that are abusing their powers and status.

It covers a lot of ground. Murder, sabotage, terrorism, capitalism, and a lot more. Feminism and sexual harassment occur, but there are warning before each episode for what you may see in the contents.

Some familiar faces include Karl Urban, who’s known for his roles in Thor: Ragnarok, the newer Star Trek movies, Almost Human, Lord of the Rings, and more, Erin Moriarty from Jessica Jones, Laz Alonso from The Mysteries of Laura, Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl and The Covenant, and Jensen Ackles from Supernatural has been confirmed to be joining the cast for its third season.

The Boys is currently on it’s second season, being released on a weekly schedule. So, if you like superheroes and graphic content, this show might be it for you.

IX. Chuck.

Chuck is the result of when a twenty-eight year old computer geek inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. assign two agents to protect him and exploit the knowledge, turning Chuck Bartowski’s life upside down. (Taken from IMDB).

This is one of the shows I cannot recommend enough to people. It’s the right mixture of action and comedy, plus a little romance. Spies, love, and murder, oh my! What more could you want?

Plus, Zachery Levi plays Chuck. If you don’t know him by name, you probably would recognize him from some of his roles with the most recent being in Shazam!, Fandral in the second and third Thor films, voicing Eugene Fitzherbert (or Flynn Rider) in Tangled, and Heroes: Reborn.

If Zachery Levi playing a lovable computer geek turned spy doesn’t interest you, maybe some more familiar faces will.

Yvonne Strahovski from The Handmaid’s Tale, The Astronaut Wives Club, acting as Daenerys in a Princess Rap Battle on Youtube, and Dexter. Adam Baldwin from Firefly/Serenity, Bones, Angel, The Last Ship, and Independence Day. Brandon Routh who plays Ray Palmer from the DC Shows. Matt Bomer from Doom Patrol, American Horror Story, White Collar, Magic Mike, and True Calling.

X. Deadly Class.

Unfortunately, I have a truly bad streak with new shows. Deadly Class, like others that have been mentioned in these lists of mine, got cancelled and on a cliffhanger no less. However, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the action-packed coming-of-age story set in the 1980s.

Following a new recruit for a high school training assassins, things get pretty wild when you pair death and teenagers.

#deadlyclass #watchlist #tvshows #chuck #eureka #americangods #alphas #theboys #almosthuman #lostgirl #haven #warehouse13 #qsdblogging #qsdbloggingpopculture #qsdpopculture #findingqsd

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cooloddball · 4 years

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DESTIEL AND COCKLES RANT

THIS IS A RANT ON ALL THINGS DESTIEL AND COCKLES

PS. I do not know how to make gifs and or use photos yet so feel free to add yours

I have said this before and I will say it again. I have been in this fandom for a month and I ship Destiel and Cockles anyone who has a problem with this then move along and/or if you are an anti and read this, keep your hateful comments to yourself.

That being said, I have read about almost all ships in the fandom but mostly Destiel, Cockles, Wincest, and J2. Through all the reading and discovery, I still have to say I ship Cockles and Destiel more than ever before. However, I have seen some things from the antis that did not sit well with me.

This is going to be a long post so brace yourself and it is mostly about the hate the antis (anti-cockles, anti-wives , and anti-Destiel Shippers spread). Also this is a rant so don’t mind me,

ON DESTIEL

The hate on Destiel is massive. Mostly this is from Bronlies who hate Cas like he is the anti-Christ, and the Wincest shippers.

Now I am not trying to rain on anyone’s parade but come on. Cas is Dean’s best friend. Whether you ship them romantically or not, it is canon that Cas Dean’s best friend. We have seen time and again how miserable Dean is every time Cas dies. Dea has also expressly stated that Cas is his best friend and even said they are better together; all three of them including Sam. He has called him his family. So why the hate? Chuck himself has said that he has rebuilt Cas more times than anyone.

Now, people who believe that it is better to ship Sam and Dean who are literally blood brother but it is not okay to ship Dean and Cas what is wrong with you? Is it okay for someone to fuck their brother and/or be in love with them? I mean come on.

Before I was even a shipper, I always looked forward to episodes that Cas was in. He brought a different dynamic to the show in a positive way. Yes, I love the brothers but Cas is just deifferent and all the sass he brings makes the show, at least to me 10 times better. Sue me.

People saying that JA would never be comfortable with Destine because he is a Christian. I mean, he can call Chuck a dick, call angels dicks, make deals with demons and all other unchristian things but kissing another man is where he draws the line? If he was such a Christian, why does he let another man straddle him on stage or want to kill God?

Someone once said that JA supports wincest. I saw the video and I get what he said is that whatever floats your boat or something like that. So why is it so hard for him when it comes to Destiel? I don’t understand this man. He is a paradox.

ON COCKLES

I have seen antis, mostly those who ship J2 throw shade at MC saying that JA doesn’t like him, he just tolerates him and everything they do is for PR. I have not once seen anyone say that JP doesn’t like MC. You know why? I believe they view MC as a threat to their J2 ship.

So I stumbledupon this antis blog who had a whole analysis (much like am doing here) on why JA cannot be a couple. Here are some that I remember from the top of my head:

1. That JA said that he thinks Matt Bomer is attractive.

2. That JA moved to Austin to be live next to JP.

3. That JA and MC have nothing in common being that JA plays golf and sings etc and that MC does woodwork, writes poetry and bicycle touring.

4. That JA is with JP hence no. 2.

5. That JA does not curse on stage but MC does.

6. That MC does not take acting seriously but JA does.

Now now now. This beats logic. All the above things I beg to differ with not because I am cockles shipper but it is just common sense.

Being with someone or rather being in love with someone does not mean any of the above things have to be true. Hear me out.

1. On finding Matt Bomer attractive. I have many celebrity crushes, there are also ordinary people that I find attractive. But then again, I have a boyfriend, who I am in love with; I have been with for six years. But he looks nothing like my celebrity crushes or the ordinary people I find attractive. Does that mean I am not in love with him? No. It means I have eyes and I can appreciate beauty and have a few fantasies but I chose to be with him because I love him. He also has other people he finds attractive that look nothing like me, does that mean he does not love me? I mean come on.

Oh the most hilarious thing is that the anti said you cannot compare Matt to MC since Matt is way attractive. I mean come on; they may not look alike but they both have dark hair, blue eyes. Seriously people! And MC is so handsome and adorable at the same time. Sometimes I feel like he looks better than JA and JP. Sue me.

2. On JA moving to Austin. Lol. This means that he went to live next to his best friend. I mean come on. I have moved to live next to my best friend (bff) who is married. Does that mean I am in love with her? Hell no! But I feel safer knowing that she is there for me.

Also people need to understand, MC and JA could be involved romantically or not (pick your poison) but you don’t need to be next to your lover to love them or be in a relationship with them. Lond distance relationships anyone? They have families and kids and other priorities. Just because you are in a relationship with someone does not necessarily mean you live together or evn in the same area. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and also they are where they are now because of other priorities in their lives. So, living together or in the same town doesn’t make you more or less in love.

3. On the issue of common interests. This made me laugh so hard. I mean comeon, People who are together do not need to share any interests. The diversity of their interests is probably what attracted them to each other. Also how can you say a poet and a singer have nothing in common? They are artists. MC can write poems that JA can sing. Oh also remember that video MC’s friend DM posted on Twitter where they did the whole bicycle touring in Germany? Uh huh? JA seemed to be interested in that a lot. So..

4. I could say a lot about JA being with Jp. This J2 being married and their wives being beards is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. Seriously, J2 tinhats have gone ahead to hate of D’s posts and call her names. Telling her to stop pretending that she is JA. It is laughable and not in a nice way, really. Can they just stop? Before I became a cockles shipper I watched J2 videos where they interact be it cons, red carpet moments or even gag reels. It is just different. All I see are two bros; one that is really playful like a little puppy and the other one trying to be the big brother. As for JA and MC, it is different, there are things that JA is comfortable when Mc does that he is not comfortable when JP does them. Neck kisses for a start.

Also most of the J2 tinhats evidence about J2 being real is rarely backed up by visual evidence and if there is any, it is usually from years ago. I am not hating on antis, just stating facts.

5. I mean, cursing on stage really? I curse all the time my bf doesn’t. Does that mean he doesn’t like me or love me? Hell to the Fucking No! Suck it!

6. On Mc not taking acting seriously. Yeah I can guess why he doesn’t. It is not his only priority unlike JA who has chosen it as a career path. From what I have seen, MC’s priorities include making the world a better place through charities, politics, and oh, he is also a writer. Oh so forgive him if he is not obsessed with acting. Besides JA says that he likes how he acts as Cas because it is not like anything he has seen from other guest stars that have come on the show. I mean not being serious about something does not mean that you are not good at it. Would he have lasted 11 seasons if he was not good at what he does?

There was also hate that JA is only around MC for PR and he actually hates him. There were some photos and gifs so the apparent hate. So, if he cannot stand him, why is there so much evidence of JA going to MC to give some love, Neck kisses, intimate IG posts, face caresses, ass smacks, calling him his baby dadfy, heart eyes, even when they don’t know that they are being filmed?

Also why is it during the Vegascon 2020 all JA did was bring up MC unnecessarily even when no one, absolutely nobody asked him to. Come on! stop the bs and admit that Cockles is the realest ship in the history of ships!!

ON THE WIVES

I swear bitches be crazy. How can you just hat someone for literally nothing? This is mostly from J2 tinhats at other J2 stans who do not ship J2 together romantically. I mean…comeon. You do not need to be a stan for the wives just because they are married to J2 but please stop with the madness.

I recently saw someone comment on various JA posts on IG asking why he is lying to the fans that he is with D when he is with JP. So many rude things have been said about the wives especially D that it breaks my heart.

Seiously? People have gone ahead even to say that she is with JA’s friend SC and that the twins are not JA’s they are SC’s since D and SC are ‘always’ hanging out together. My question is, so D is not supposed to hang out with their friends? And for Chuck’s sake, everyone can see that the twins especially the boy (idk their names, sorry) looks like JA’s twin. I mean come on people.

I believe that they hate D because she says how much she loves MC and that Cas is her favorite character and that they are also bitter that JA chose her and not them. Just my opinion, but what do I know. On JP and G. I don’t know much about them mostly because I do not follow either of them of IG or elsewhere but I have seen hate on G as well.

The antis have gone ahead to say that when JA said that he was hanging out with SC writing songs, that he was lying and that nothing was happening he was just trying to dampen the rumours. I wonder how they felt when the album by JA and Sc came out last year. Jokes on you haters. Bitches be crazy fr.

Oh, the antis also say that the same way JA looks at his wife is the same way he looks at MC. With contempt. I mean talk about hanging yourself with your own rope. What they are saying is, JA feels about his wife the same way he feels abouts MC. Aww! That is true love bitches.

If JA actually cannot stand MC, shouldn’t he have gotten him fired from the show or at least make sure he gets less screen time and that they don’t have any panels together being that JA is the star of the show and all. I mean Mark left and he was a major character to the plot so...

Also why would JA give and buy MC clothes if he hates him? Give him a ring, a bracelet? Huh? Explain it to me.

Oh, some anti also said that before every Cockles panel at JIBCON JA cries and has to be forced on stage by Daniella and JP has to give him a hug and that’s why he drinks a lot of apple juice. LOL. WTF? What do you say to such people. I cannot even..My question is, are we talking about the same Cockles panels that I have seen? Then JA deserves all the Oscars and Tony Awards for his impeccable acting skills when he is around MC. Must really hate him. *wink*

MY TWO CENTS ON COCKLES

I know JA gives off mixed actions about MC. But I think it is to confuse people like us, shippers. He does’t want to too out there so he tries so hard to be mean with his words. But his actions tell a different story. I mean, who gets a boner when their friend straddles them on stage and then goes ahead to post that chest to chest selfie on IG. That is the gayest thing I have ever seen.

Sharing clothes? I mean friends do share clothes but if it is like a daily thing. More than 20 articles of clothing exchanged between each other on various occasions even when they are apart does not make sense to me. And to make matters worse, JA does not deny it. One even had a tag on it. Lol. We are not children, we can see what is going on.

The 2014 DallasCon – Rob’s Birthday Party. WTF? Was all that between JA and MC? Why did he he swallow and react like that when he saw MC’s bare abdomen? Who does that? Also the looks when MC was leaving the stage. Come on.

Also what was up with the” I love you from the bottom of my heart” at the MTV top 10 in 2010.

The wife is my rock but I am glad to have some pebbles in my life.

Truth is, JA could post a video of him balls deep in MC and the antis could say that somehow MC manipulated JA to post it for PR.

People need to leave MC alone, he ie a human being who has made mistakes, JA and JP have too and I don’t see the antis hating on them. The double Standard s FOH.

I could write about this forever but the truth is JA loves MC, and D and V know that they love each other. All their friends know including JP and other castmates. I believe they know it is more than just friends and the antis can’t stand it because they also know it to be true.

JA LOVES MC. JP LOVES MC. J2M LOVE EACH OTHER. J2 LOVE THEIR WIVES. STOP THE HATE!!

I am not done but I am done for now. I could be here forever writing about this if I do not stop.

#destiel #cockles #cockles is real #cockles csi #stop the hate #antis are mean

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markcampbells · 4 years

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11, 23, 56, 84, 100?

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?

I trade memes with my friend Sarah pretty constantly. We both love John Mulaney and The Boys in the Band meant a lot to us, so memes and things that remind us of those things are common. One of the running gags in The Boys in the Band is a plate of cracked crab the host keeps obsessively offering to his significant other, so anytime I see something crab-related that makes me laugh it goes her way.

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?

I'd love to say read, but it's been a struggle to get my brain to focus on that. I'm starting to get it back, though. But lately it's been watching sitcoms; I'm working my way through Fresh Prince chronologically now and loving it.

56: what are some things you find endearing in people?

Patience is big, as I don't talk very easily and the friends who have endeared themselves are the ones who have been willing to work with me at my own place. My closest friendships also strike a balance between deep conversations and being able to laugh together a few minutes later. I also like passion, about anything. I enjoy some things to an extent some people would find baffling so someone being on that level themselves helps.

84: are you planning on getting tattoos? which ones?

For a long time I thought I didn't really have anything I loved enough to get it on my body (as much as I love Jane Austen, it isn't a tattoo kind of love). And then last month I saw some beautiful Spider-Man tattoos and realized how that character has been one I've loved and felt comforted by since childhood. So when the pandemic is over I'm thinking about a small Spider-Man tattoo on the left side of my chest, under my collarbone. A friend also suggested I should do something inspired by Matt Bomer's queer characters since his work has meant a lot to me, and there's not really anything that boils down easily to a tattoo, but it made me think about a line from "People Like Us" in my flag colors due to the Doom Patrol scene, with maybe some Larry iconography. That would probably go on the underside of one arm.

100: if you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? why?

I mean, at this point five years into the future could be a real hellscape, so I'm gonna be a no on that one. But I would pick five years into the past anyway. It's only now that I've figured out my sexuality that I really understand the way I shut myself down so much. I would want to go back to my past with the knowledge I have now and be more reassured and comfortable with myself sooner. I think 2015 was around when I had a job interview I really wish had worked out. And honestly I would make myself read all the books I thought I wouldn't like back then that I now know I do.

#ask box #rainbow-high #thank you!! :)

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afirewiel · 4 years

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I was tagged by @benjaminsoloss

rules: pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions. don’t cheat. tag some people.

1. Poldark 2. Doctor Who 3. Timeless 4. White Collar 5. The Mentalist

who is your favorite character in 2? Rose Tyler

who is your least favorite character in 1? Reverend Whitworth. That man was creepy!

what is your favorite episode of 4? Ooh, that’s a tough one. I think the episode where Keller had kidnapped Elle and Peter, Neal, and Mozzie have to work together to rescue her.

what is your favorite season of 5? The last one, season 7. The finale alone is worth watching the entire show for.

who is your favorite couple in 3? Lyatt! That is Wyatt Logan and Lucy Prseston

who is your favorite couple in 2? The Doctor and Rose

what is your favorite episode of 1? The series finale, I think. Because they are finally happy!

what is your favorite episode of 5? The series finale!

what is your favorite season of 2? Season 2 of NewWho because it’s the only season we get of Ten and Rose.

how long have you watched 1? I started in in April of 2019 and quickly caught up just because season 5 started.

how did you become interested in 3? When I saw the trailer for it.

who is your favorite actor in 4? Matt Bomer.

which do you prefer, 1, 2, or 5? Excuse me? You want me to choose!?

which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3? Well, 1 has more episodes so 1.

if you could be anyone from 4, who would you be? Sara Ellis.

would a crossover between 3 and 4 work? Yeah, it could.

pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple? Elizabeth and Dwight, I guess...

overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5? They are both great, okay! I can’t pick!

which has better theme music, 2 or 4? 2 for sure.

Tagging: @demigodofhoolemere, @lovesjustachemical, @allhailthemightyquattro, @oetravia

#tag game

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defineguilty · 6 years

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FULL CHARACTER INFO SHEET

BASIC INFORMATION

♛┋FULL NAME: Neal George Caffrey ♛┋NICKNAME(S): Do aliases count as nicknames? ♛┋OCCUPATION: FBI Consultant / Former Con-Artist ♛┋AGE: 32+ depending on verse ♛┋DATE OF BIRTH: March 21st ♛┋GENDER: cis male ♛┋PRONOUNS: he/him ♛┋ORIENTATION: bisexual biromantic ♛┋NATIONALITY: american ♛┋ETHNICITY: white ♛┋RELIGION: catholic, but not really practicing actively

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

♛┋FACE CLAIM: Matt Bomer ♛┋EYE COLOUR: blue ♛┋HAIR COLOUR: brown ♛┋DOMINANT HAND: right ♛┋HEIGHT: 5' 11½" // 182cm ♛┋BUILD: athletic ♛┋TATTOOS: none ♛┋SCARS: none to speak of ♛┋PIERCINGS: none ♛┋GLASSES: occasionally when undercover/under an alias, but he has perfect vision ♛┋STYLE: Sophisticated & elegant. He very rarely leaves the house without a suit, often accessorizing with a hat. Usually somewhat vintage, but styled on the modern side. The most casual he usually goes is suit pants with a T-shirt or sweater.

FAMILY

♛┋PARENT #1: James Bennett (father) ♛┋PARENT #2: Angela Caffrey-Bennett (mother) ♛┋SIBLING(S): n/a ♛┋CHILDREN: n/a ♛┋PET(S): n/a ♛┋RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS: Non-existent. His father was a corrupt cop who killed a fellow cop and was arrested for it. Until his 18th birthday, Neal was led to believe his dad was a hero who died on the job and knowing the truth about his definitely messed up his entire world view. Add to that the fact that James tried to use Neal to get off after running from authorities for a murder he did commit and Neal certainly has all of the daddy issues. His mother, Neal feels less strong dislike and anger for. She was never a very stable presence in his life and the arrest of his father didn’t exactly help her. Instability and substance abuse made her a rather unfit mother and even though Neal would never say she was bad to him, Ellen was always the only real mother-figure he had. He hasn’t talked to his mother since he was eighteen and she hasn’t reached out either. ♛┋RELATIONSHIP WITH SIBLING(S): n/a

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

♛┋HOMETOWN: St. Louis, Missouri ♛┋CURRENT: New York City, New York ♛┋LANGUAGE(S): English, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, conversational Italian & Swahili ♛┋SOCIAL CLASS: middle class ♛┋DEGREE: three MBAs and two doctorate degrees but... none of them legit. (in reality, Neal never graduated High School) ♛┋RAP SHEET? bond forgery (at least that’s the only thing they caught him on) ♛┋PRISON TIME? 4 years for bond forgery, another 4 years after breaking out of prison just before his sentence was up -- to be served as a consultant for the FBI

PSYCHOLOGY INFORMATION

♛┋JUNG TYPE: ESTP ♛┋ENNEATYPE: Type 3 -- The Achiever: Focused on the presentation of success, to attain validation & 7w8 ( Type 7 -- The Enthusiast: Pleasure seekers and planners, in search of distraction & Type 8 -- The Challenger: Taking charge, because they don't want to be controlled) ♛┋MORAL ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Neutral / Chaotic Good ♛┋TEMPERAMENT: Sanguine ♛┋SCHEMA: Insufficient self-control (very strong). Other contenders include Unrelenting standards, Emotional inhibation, Abandonment and Entitlement hahaaa ♛┋INTELLIGENCE TYPE: Linguistic & Visual are at the same score. Interpersonal is second place. ♛┋NEUROTYPE: Neurotypical

PERSONALITY DETAILS

♛┋POSITIVE: charming, witty, inventive, creative, intelligent ♛┋NEGATIVE: sly, dishonest, distrusting, guarded, detached ♛┋DREAMS/AMBITIONS: Neal’s main goal is always a sense of fun and adventure. he doesn’t have a set end-goal either way -- not the white picket fence life, but also not the life of the fancy villa in some country that doesn’t extradite as some sort of crime lord. He likes the thrill of a con, so if he can make it happen, keeping that alive is what he cares about most. ♛┋FEARS: Among is main fears is definitely turning out like his father. Having idolized him for so many years before he knew who he really was and then seeing a few similarities between them after all really does scare him. He’s aware he’s far from the most honest person alive, but he likes to believe he would never turn to murder or betraying his own closest family and friends the way his father did.

RELATIONSHIPS / SEX

♛┋RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Verse dependent ♛┋PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: Several ambivalent on-off relationships (see Alex Hunter), plenty of casual affairs and only a few more serious relationships. The first big one being with Kate which, obviously, was something he was incredibly serious and passionate about. Also the only relationship to date he was so open about and had no shame admitting he’s deeply in love and would do anything for her. The only other (canon) relationship, although also without labels attached, was with Sara which remains his most healthy relationship, though it was foiled by circumstance and perhaps, just Neal’s inability of honesty at the time. ♛┋LEVEL OF SEXUAL EXPERIENCE: high ♛┋STORY OF FIRST KISS: Technically, it happened in the third grade after he drew a girl in his class a nice picture and they then proceeded to date for three weeks, which really just consisted of them holding hands twice, Neal drawing more pictures and that one first kiss at recess. Showed Brittney Nicole too -- his tooth gap clearly wasn’t that bad. ♛┋STORY OF FIRST TIME: Neal had just turned 17 and at the time, had his first more serious girlfriend. They’d been dating for a few months at the time and it happened after a night of plenty of shenanigans on a random Saturday. For Neal, sneaking out was never an issue anyway since parental supervision wasn’t exactly a thing, so no sneaking had to take place, and she’d told her parents she was staying at a friend’s place. Originally, they’d planned to just do whatever they felt like, something they both enjoyed very much (usually that meant Neal rigging the games at a local Arcade and winning her a bunch of stuffed animals or them hanging out at his favorite pool hall where he’d regularly earn a little extra by making some older guys who underestimated him play for money) but that night, they decided to up the stakes a little. They stopped by a second-hand store in town, bought complete outfits (suit and a cocktail dress, respectively) and then proceeded to drive to one of the fancier hotels in town. Somehow, they convinced the guy at the reception that they were relatives of the owner and should have been announced. They ended up getting one of the nicer rooms in the hotel for the night (and, for free!) and the exhilaration of the con pulled off well led to both of their first time.

VICES / HABITS

♛┋SMOKES? No (unless it’s part of a cover) ♛┋DRINKS? Yes, but preferably something respectable and only for taste and enjoyment, not specifically to get drunk ♛┋DOES DRUGS? No ♛┋IS VIOLENT? No ♛┋HAS AN ADDICTION? Well, technically he did say that a con is an addiction and that he hasn’t kicked it yet, so. That. ♛┋IS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE? Yes. I think while he comes off very confident and considers himself very confident too, there’s a couple things he just doesn’t believe will happen in his life for him. Among those are stable relationships, so he can sometimes subconsciously be destructive towards those and therefore proof his belief-system. ♛┋HABITS: He likes to have something to do with his hands, especially when he’s nervous. Be it throwing something and catching it again, or just twirling a pen between his fingers. ♛┋HOBBIES: Art, Reading, Cooking, Languages ♛┋OBSESSION(S): Depends on what’s currently important. Kate and the music box definitely developed into a sort of obsession at the time. I think in general, when intense things come up, especially when they threaten his loved ones, Neal has the tendency to get obsessive about them and let those things take over his life (or at least his private life) for the time being.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

♛┋HOUSE: Raveclaw, though a serious contestant for Slytherin ♛┋VICE: Pride ♛┋VIRTUE: Willingness to do almost everything to protect/help those he cares about ♛┋ELEMENT: Air ♛┋MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Siren or Centaur ♛┋ANIMAL: Fox ♛┋WOULD SURVIVE POST-APOC? Probably not. He’s very smart and would probably find a way to survive for a little while by somehow securing food and the like, but he has practically no combat skills and the second he needs to fight for his life, he would die ♛┋SONG TO DESCRIBE THEM?: Alibis by Marianas Trench

DETAILS / QUIRKS

♛┋PET PEEVES: All of the pet peeves. For someone with an affinity for the illegal, a lot of little things really annoy him. Some examples: the toilet seat being left up, gum on the sidewalk, people eating very fragrant food in confined spaces just to name a few ♛┋NIGHT OWL OR EARLY BIRD?: Night owl ♛┋LIGHT OR HEAVY SLEEPER?: More on the heavy side ♛┋FAVORITE FOOD?: He couldn’t pick. But he does have a real soft spot for cheese. Also risotto. ♛┋LEAST FAVORITE FOOD?: Deviled ham ♛┋FAVORITE DRINK?: Red Wine ♛┋FAVORITE BOOK (GENRE)?: Non-fiction for genre. I don’t think he has a single favorite book though. ♛┋FAVORITE MOVIE?: He likes classic Hollywood movies, ngl. Sunset Boulevard is among one of his favorites. Romantic movies, in general. ♛┋LEAST FAVORITE MOVIE?: Anything super action-heavy or overly crude. ♛┋FAVORITE PLACE TO BE?: Not in jail is a great start. France, though, if he could have his choice. ♛┋COFFEE OR TEA?: Coffee. ♛┋FAVORITE COLOR?: Navy blue. ♛┋CUSSER? No. Shit is probably the worst thing he’ll say

#hi i was bored and wanted to do things #┊ ♔ to be an artist you must know who you are 【 CHARACTER STUDIES 】#long post

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Excerpt from Backstage Magazine

By Mark Peikert | Posted Nov. 12, 2014 ... his turn as real-life Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Bennett Miller’s retelling of a bizarre true story is a prime example of an actor at the peak of his powers. A former wrestler himself, Ruffalo took on the role partly because he had never seen the sport represented on film in the way he knew it to be. But a righty 46-year-old playing a lefty 33-year-old presented its own particular challenges. “Wrestling is hard. It looks like it’s easy, but it’s hard. It’s really hard,” Ruffalo says. “It was almost harder for me because I had to unlearn everything that I already knew, and that was really frustrating. Plus, Dave was 33 and at the height of his athletic powers, when I’m deeply waning in mine. Any fantasy I had about myself as an athletically adept young man was quickly discredited and debauched in the first two weeks.”

“Foxcatcher” is the too-true-to-be-fiction story of Olympic champion brothers Mark and Dave Schultz and John du Pont, the billionaire who draws them into his personal orbit by creating Team Foxcatcher on the grounds of his lavish, remote Pennsylvania estate. Du Pont originally approaches Mark about creating a new wrestling team to compete in the Olympics, but as Mark succumbs to the temptations of a life of wealth, du Pont turns instead to Dave. And what originally began as an eccentric experiment quickly devolves into obsession and pathology, ultimately leading to the 1996 murder of husband and father Dave at the hands of du Pont. Captured in the crime scene photos is a scrawled reminder on Dave’s hand to pick up his kids, something that provides “Foxcatcher” with one of its most chilling moments. “It says so much,” Ruffalo says, sipping a coffee before heading to the “Foxcatcher” press conference at the New York Film Festival. “It’s so cinematic. That’s one of those actor moments.”

Although the message was only included in the climax of the film, Ruffalo insisted that it be a recurring theme, part of the careful physicalization that he gave Dave. Steve Carell has received the lion’s share of press about his transformation into the seedy aristocrat du Pont, but Ruffalo himself underwent almost as startling a physical change. Gone is his signature hair, replaced by something closer to the real Dave’s receding hairline. And even his walk drastically changed.

“They used to call him Tyrannosaurus rex,” Ruffalo says. “He had this strange way of holding his arms”—Ruffalo repositions himself to illustrate, tucking his elbows against his torso and dangling his hands at the wrist—“and it felt so weird and unnatural and uncool and not very killer-like, which I knew him to be. But it really gave me so much of who he was. A guy who stands like that, he’s in the world in a way that other people aren’t.”

Ruffalo admits that a character’s physicality is something he’s increasingly interested in as he grows older—the ways that a person’s physical presence leads to instantaneous assumptions.

He points to his work as Ned Weeks as a second example. “If you put those two guys next to each other, they’re wildly different from each other,” he says. “Larry [Kramer] is open and thrust forward. Take it on the chin. So that’s another kind of person in the world. But I was also interested in the other side of Larry. What you hear about Larry is he’s the angriest man in the world. But that’s not my experience of Larry. To be that passionate, you have to have a lot of love. So it really became about trying to find that quality in him, too.” Creating that passion had to happen on the fly with the fast “Normal Heart” shoot; Ruffalo and Matt Bomer, as his lover, had almost no rehearsal time before shooting their scenes. But on “Foxcatcher,” Ruffalo benefited from seven months of wrestling training with Channing Tatum as Mark. “The difficulty of the wrestling and Bennett’s kind of exacting and very penetrating style of really digging into people pushed Channing and I into places where we were mostly just hanging out there, completely vulnerable,” Ruffalo says. “And that really [made me] look at Channing as my brother in a very real way.”

Again, that physical preparation paid huge dividends when the time came near the end of filming to shoot what became the film’s opening scene: Dave and Mark Schultz wrestling one another in near silence. The scene is memorable for all of the things that remain unsaid—including clunky exposition. As the two men circle and lunge, their relationship becomes manifest. The sequence is so telling that it comes as a surprise to hear from Ruffalo that the original script contained an additional 30 pages prior to that establishing the men’s relationship and explaining their shared past. “We started every practice with that warm-up,” Ruffalo says, “so by the time we got to that, we knew that shit like it was second nature. And that’s when magical stuff happens with acting: No mind, no body.”

#mark ruffalo #foxcatcher #characterphysicality #OpenInNewTab

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50 Questions! Yaayyy~

Rules: fill this out and tag at least one person you’d like to know more about! Or just fill it out! Or don’t! Answer only some of them! Make up your own questions! “What kind of requirement is that”, you ask? A reasonable one! Who am I to tell you what to do? Anything goes!

Tagged by @theempresskaizer and since I can’t sleep (and I really love tagging games), here I am. Thank you, Ythmir! :) I feel you about your favourite pens btw. The only store that sells my favourite pen closed down recently here and the other store that sells it is in Manila. ;^;

1. What kind of food can’t you stand? AMPALAYA (bitter gourd). It was a traumatic experience. D:

2. If you could choose one minor inconvenience to never have to deal with again, what would you pick? if my laptop would just stop malfunctioning every 2 weeks, it would be nice.

3. Have you got any useless talents? i play three different instruments, and it’s not useful now... i think. i really wanted to be either an astronaut or a musician when i was a kid. dad refused to let me enroll at a music school in favour of a “more prestigious” university (parents’ words) so i feel it’s kinda useless now.

4. If you could be really really good at one thing, what would it be? ha! i’m an awesome procrastinator. is there even a word? lol. but srsly, i could be a good musician. if i just put effort into it. XD

5. Name a few people you think are extremely good-looking - well, the concept of beauty is relative. my preferences are kuroba mario, cosplayers hikarin and syo seunghyo, kimura tatsunari, matt bomer

6. What was your favorite way to pass the time as a kid? my sister and i used to sneak into our parents’ room and play with our mom’s beauty kit, like we would mix the lotions, alcohols, colognes, powders and stuff while pretending to be scientists and whatnots. we even tried to eat our concoction, to see what it tastes like. xD good thing someone saw us. lol.

7. What is something you’re proud of? i can learn anything if i just put my mind into it. i’m good at studying (my dad made sure of it lol).

8. What’s one character flaw in people that you just can’t tolerate? nosy. i don’t like nosy people. i’m more of a keep-to-myself person so i really loathe these kind of people.

9. Do you consider yourself to be more of a leader or a follower? both. tho i really don’t like to lead that much since it’s too much work. the laziest person i know is me btw. but i can be a leader when i absolutely have to.

10. What kind of student are/were you? high school, both the teacher’s pet and the kind they hate since i tend to speak my mind. college, i am the ordinary student who doesn’t have any clubs since it’s too troublesome.

11. Butterfly effect question! Has there ever been a seemingly minor decision you’ve made (at the time) that ended up having a profound influence on your life? yepppp!

12. Name your most irrational fear/aversion clowns. i don’t like clowns. i hate mcdonald’s mascot.

13. Are there any fictional characters you find especially relatable? yes. kei tsukishima of haikyuu!! especially. :P

14. If you drink, what kind of drunk are you? Alternatively, what sort of person are you at parties? i don’t like parties. i never go to parties if i don’t have to. i hate large celebrations (birthdays, family and school reunions). i prefer the company of my closest friends and immediate family over parties. i only have 4 friends irl that i still keep in touch with tbh. on the other hand, drinking. i have yet to get drunk. lol. but when i have enough alcohol in me, i tend to become the philosopher. like, why do we even exist? are our existence significant or are we just a mere speck in this vast universe? yeah, that kind. oh, my friends and i usually go to karaoke when we get buzzed.

15. Do you fall in love easily? Or does it usually take a long time for you to trust someone? i’m not even sure i have fallen in love yet. i get long-time crushes tho. in fact, i still like this certain guy since i was in 1st year college. XD

16. Would you rather have one close friend or 100 casual friends? the former. please refer to question 14 for the explanation lol

17. Do you consider yourself to be more of a slob or a neat-freak? my dad tells me i have a landfill for a room. lol. i don’t mind. it’s organised chaos. XD

18. Describe a place (imaginary or real) that you would find incredibly cozy my room, on a rainy day with no one else at home and i have unlimited internet connection and books and coffee. and did i just mention i’m alone?

19. Do you have kids? If not, do you want them someday? i don’t have one. not seeing myself getting married or having a child. i’m having another baby sister/brother soon tho so i think it’s enough. :D

20. What was your favorite book as a child? the two-can first encyclopedia series. i love the one that features the solar system.

21. Name one thing you just don’t get what all the hype is about WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES A FIDGET SPINNER DO

22. Name one thing that you think is tragically underrated fanfiction writers. i have nothing against fanarts but i would appreciate it if the same attention is given to fanfiction writers.

23. If you had to be glued to a person for a month, real or fictional (who you have never met), who would you choose? kimura tatsunari hehehe

24. What’s something you’d like the chance to do someday? have the time, and the money, to visit japan and prague. and then go to russia. oh, travel the world. alone. XD

25. Do you typically speak your mind when you have a controversial opinion? Or do generally prefer to not rock the boat? depends on my mood. sometimes i just want to see the world burn.

26. What’s the dumbest fad you’ve been caught up in? what’s a fad?

27. What’s something you thought was cool as a kid/adolescent, but now cringe at yourself for? telenovelas. i wanna live like the heroine back then and now i try to forget all about it. XDD

28. What’s a trait you consider to be very admirable? kindness is something i admire and at the same time so foreign to me. sure, i can be nice but i’m never kind. i will never be kind. i know this person who’s so kind to everyone and i wonder what it’s like to be like that.

29. Is there a particular kind of item people always tend to give you as gifts? (For instance, people always get you things with ducks on them because you like ducks, etc.) i’m a hoarder of cute/pretty notebooks and pens so every year, during my birthday, my family and friends always have a new notebook/pen for me. i even got a fountain pen for my birthday last year which i haven’t used until now. XD

30. Do you speak multiple languages? Which ones? yep. filipino/tagalog, english. this native dialect called cebuano and a little bit of ilonggo. i’m currently studying japanese (self-study cos paying for lessons is expensive). i’m shit at kanji tho.

31. Would you rather live in the big city or the countryside? in the city tho not at the center of it.

32. Has there ever been something you were certain you’d hate, but ended up loving? HAIKYUU!! my online bff has been convincing me to watch haikyuu!! for 4 years now and i was adamant at refusing cos i’m sure i’d hate it. i don’t even like volleyball. but when i watched it last year, i got hooked. now my main fandom is haikyuu!! //facepalm

33. Do you mind being the center of attention, or do you prefer the spotlight to be on someone else? noooo. i don’t like being put on spotlight. lemme work quietly in the background.

34. Favorite holiday? CHRISTMAS! i love seeing the decorations and the lights. i even go to malls just to stare at the decors and listen to christmas songs. i even have my own christmas tree in my room. it’s a small one tho. with christmas lights and all. hihihi. and also my birthday. i can do whatever i want on my birthday. nyahahaha

35. Are you a more go-with-the-flow type of person, or do you need to have things planned meticulously? i only have a plan when i’m writing. i don’t even know what i’m going to do with my life. orz.

36. Is there something you loved so much you wish you could forget it and experience it all over again? (A tv show, book, series–anything.) yes, there is, but i’d rather not forget it and experience it all over again. i’m content with the fuzzy feeling i get whenever i remember it. ^^

37. What hobbies do you have? playing games, going to cons, sleeping a lot, reading, and writing. my only extreme hobby is going mountain climbing. we even went once without any gears. it was fun but i’d rather not do something that unsafe again. o3o

38. If you could have a superpower, but it was only mildly useful, what ability would you want to have? the ability to learn different languages easily. wait, how can this be mildly useful? or maybe change my hairstyle at will? lol

39. Something people are always surprised to learn about you that i’m 26. srsly, when i go to transact with government offices in behalf of the company i’m working for, they always think i’m an intern. wth.

40. Something that took you way too long to figure out this sounds silly, but putting back the chiller part of the fridge. i dislodged it once and i spent almost half an hour trying to put it back. XD

41. Worst injury you’ve had? i never had one. not a broken bone or anything. i only got hospitalized 2 times - when i was 2 and 9, respectively. and both because of dengue.

42. Any morbid fascinations? i like skulls and blowing zombies heads off. my most favourite game of all time is left 4 dead.

43. Describe your sense of humor corny and dry. sarcastic even.

44. If you had to be born in another era/place, which would you choose? in the gundam universe, like Cosmic Era, where people can live on another planet. i would relocate to saturn in a heartbeat.

45. Something you are irredeemably bad at being patient. patience is not my virtue.

46. Something that sucked but you’re glad you went through an hour of jogging for a whole month to prepare myself (and increase the stamina) for a mountain climbing activity 2 years ago

47. Would you rather have a really godawful ugly tattoo in a place that is only slightly inconvenient to conceal with clothing (upper arm, thigh, etc.), or the coolest, most beautiful tattoo ever in the middle of your face? (Neither tattoo can be removed or concealed with makeup, and the ugly tattoo will deeply offend anyone who sees it.) the ugly one. i don’t really like markings on my face.

48. Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? for a pessimist, i’m pretty optimistic. (wait, is that a song? lol)

49. What would be the most flattering compliment someone could give you? tbh, compliments about writing and work are the ones i’m usually flattered with. tho i suck at accepting compliments.

50. Something you feel people often misunderstand about you this is a fact. i have a resting bitch face so people often feel i’m always irritated/annoyed by them.

you don’t have to do it if you don’t want tbh, but i’m tagging @lustfullyleocrawford @kakihoden @passengersaraht @emigotchi @leorysxi @oh-my-otome @spyroeden @acrispyapple @devanofficial @astridapples

#tagging game #tag me more #hihihi

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A Beginner’s Guide To Ryan Murphy by Xander Kozak

Greetings! Welcome to the insane and wildly confusing world of Ryan Murphy’s TV shows. So, you’ve decided that you’d like to binge watch something and you think, “Hey, that Ryan Murphy sure does make a lot of TV shows these days. Maybe I should invest my time into them!”

What a great but mostly terrible idea, potential viewer!

I am here to help you make that decision. Whether it be ‘American Horror Story’, 'Feud: Bette and Joan’, or not watching anything he’s made at all, I am dedicated to making sure you reach the best conclusion.

The first thing you need to keep in mind is this. Any given Ryan Murphy series has only one good season in it before it starts to get as cocky as the quarterback of a high school football team. It did one thing really well, and will ride that victory for as long as it will go. Which in the case of ‘American Horror Story’ is more than seven years. Why don’t we use that as our prime example? Great idea, I know.

As an anthology series, the show will have a different theme and set of characters every year. Which is essentially a great way of saying “We are gonna milk this cow until it’s nothing but bones”. Season one, which centered around a haunted house which has the simple curse of harboring the ghosts of people who died inside of it began this congealed ball of tangled Christmas lights on fire.

To be perfectly honest, this season is legitimately well done, as to say, it is the least terrible of the 6 seasons we have available. That might be a slightly unfair statement, but season 5 is tantamount to ‘Death Bed: The Bed That Eats’, but with more wooden delivery from Lady Gaga and an overly excited Matt Bomer doing a victory dance to Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ and less beds that eat people. Not none, just less.

Once you get past certain terrible dialogue from the pilot such as “I HATE TREES” from perhaps the most annoying set of twins ever shot on film, you have a well thought out and interesting take on horror that blends atmosphere and camp better than it should.

It also effectively resurrected the career of the great Jessica Lange, so I certainly owed Murphy one for that.

You see, season one of AHS wrapped up nicely and left basically no unanswered questions, but still managed to have an ambiguous ending which was both satisfying and excitingly debatable. Season two, which was called ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’, was doing rather well up until they decided “Pssshhh... forget the whole haunted insane asylum thing, let’s go all ‘Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull’ on this bitch and make it about aliens!”.

A moment such as this is what I like to refer to as the Murphy point. A single moment in a series when he stops trying to make his content great and throws whatever skullduggery the writers think of on screen. It’s like if the ideas were darts, and the writers were the drunk patrons of a bar, throwing them at a target, hoping they will stick. Some of the ideas are bad, some are pretty good, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they weren’t looking when they pick up those darts. Was it a good idea to cast some of the greatest actresses we have such as Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates? It sure was! Was it a bad idea to exploit another great actress by having her masturbate to a Minotaur on screen for shock value? A thousand times yes, my friends. That is how a Murphy program works. Once the aforementioned Murphy point has been reached, for every good idea, there are five bad ones.

Don’t believe me?

Well, unfortunately for you non believers, I have first hand knowledge of this. I happened to be in a certain hotel lobby at the time Murphy was staying in a hotel (at the same time American Horror Story: Hotel aired on TV... I can only imagine he was doing research on hotels, but after his series aired, kinda like a high school junior studying for a mid term after already failing it) in NYC. He and some of his colleagues were in the lobby as well, and I decided to myself that I would be a nosy Nancy, because how many of you would say that you wouldn’t listen in on a celebrity conversation in public if you had the chance. I don’t see any raised hands. So I turned off my podcast about cooking while naked, and left my headphones in as to give the illusion that I wasn’t eavesdropping on Mr. Murphy. The following quote from is in fact verbatim. I heard Ryan Murphy himself say, “Is AHS: Hotel good or terrible? Because I can’t tell anymore”.

There you have it folks, straight from the horse on top of a high horse’s mouth. After enough time on a series, even he has no idea what to make of it.

If you want to see Murphy at his best, then I will turn you to his adaptations of real life events. Because if he isn’t in control of the original story telling, he can actually paint an excellent and surprisingly compelling picture of events from our past. His 10 episode ‘The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story’, and his 8 episode ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ are two of the best series I’ve ever seen. I’m not joking. I wish I was. I’m actually kind of angry that I have nothing bad to say about them. Because as evidenced by everything above, I clearly love to poke fun at Ryan Murphy. But I can’t scoff even slightly at what he did with ‘OJ’ and ‘Feud’. However... these are both the first seasons of new shows that he has created. Which means there will be more of each. Both anthology series will pick up their second seasons with the Versace murder on ‘American Crime Story’ and the heated relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana on ‘Feud’.

For anyone holding out hope that Murphy will break his formula and actually continue to give legitimately good work in future seasons of his successful shows, all I ask is that you don’t go all in with your chips, because you are betting with a terrible hand against a full house that says he won’t.

My advice to anyone who wishes to try out Murphy’s content is to simply stick to the first season of any of his shows. I can not recommend ‘Bette and Joan’ enough. It is truly genius, and the best thing he is capable of. That sounds like another jab, and it is, but the bar is now very high with television thanks to ‘Bette and Joan’. I struggle to think of many who can do better than that, so it’s not quite out of left field to say that Ryan Murphy will never top it. Few will, but he will definitely not be one of those few.

I hope this has proven to be helpful to you. I’ve navigated enough television dumpster fires to know that it’s easy to get lost in bad shows. Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

#ryanmurphy #american horror story #feud: bette and joan #bad tv #binge watching #murphypoint

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Impress Me

Request: Hey you’re really amazing and i love your writing. Can i have a shy, nerdy reader that loves cats and books. And the reader is an angel that likes humany stuff and has a crush on Gabriel and Gabriel likes them and they meet again after him disappearing for a while. and he does stuff to try to impress them. If you don’t want to write this i understand. You probably received better requests. You’re an amazing writer and person and i’m excited to read anything you write. - @fandomland7

A/N: Sorry it’s been so long! Things came up. I hope this is worth the wait! I snuck in references to Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, and Magic Mike (because my adoration for Matt Bomer burns like a slightly creepy fire). @fandomland7 , I want to say this, and I believe I speak for all admins on this blog: I don’t believe in “better” requests. While we’re flattered by your compliments, I’m saddened that it comes with this sentiment. Sure, I believe that some people are more willing to enjoy a request than others, but that depends on the person, not the prompt. I don’t feel comfortable writing smut, but that doesn’t mean I think smut is better or worse than any other kind of content. Okay? If anyone ever tells you that your desires or likes are less valid than or not as good as another person’s, remember that they’re probably coming from a very self-centered mindset.

Author: Holly

Warnings: Reference to an R-rated movie, but that’s all

Characters: Y/N, Gabriel, Castiel, Sam, Dean

Word Count: 3,173

Y/N = Your Name

Your favorite human was Sam, by far. He recommended the best literary endeavors. While Castiel followed Dean Winchester’s guidance and often found himself tasting various desserts, Sam offered you a plethora of intellectual challenges, such as novels, politics, and the internet’s seemingly-endless solutions to whatever questions you may have had about humanity. Currently, you were wrapped up in a book that you were truly enjoying.

“Y/N? Y/N!”

Dean yelling your name in the close confines of the Impala made you look up. The vehicle had come to a stop. You had failed to notice, because you coped with the cramping feeling of the car by immersing yourself in a book. “I apologize, Dean,” you said, closing the pages delicately. “I was distracted by the Master of Jewelry.”

Dean sent Sam a bewildered, questioning look. Sam frowned back at him and asked, “Do you mean the Lord of the Rings?”

“Yes, that’s what I said,” you answered, moving the book aside. “Is this the location?”

“Yeah…” Dean slowly said. Sam shook his head and took off his seat belt; they both got out of the car. You cocked your head at them and their tedious clambering, and between one blink and the next, you had flown yourself to the sidewalk outside. Sam turned to make sure you were getting out, only to come face-to-face with you, and he reeled back in surprise. “Anyway, Y/N, we’re not sure what we’ve got this time. That’s why we asked Cas for help. But since he can’t be bothered to come down-“

“He’s busy looking for Father,” you defended quietly. Castiel was the only fellow angel you had left that you could see. The others were under orders to kill you the moment they saw you. Defecting from Heaven for the sake of mutinying against their goal of destroying the earth left you lonely and with few friends. Usually you kept to yourself, only visiting Sam and Dean when Castiel asked for you to, but because they requested angelic help and he wasn’t in a position to provide it, he asked you to keep a watchful eye on them. “He would be here if he could.”

“Right,” Dean snorted. Although you wanted to be angry on your brother’s behalf, you quailed without even trying. Dean was aggressive and hostile towards you in the beginning. Since he’d held an angel blade to your throat before Castiel could stop him, you were understandably wary of the Winchesters. You’d learned not to underestimate them. “There’s definitely some freak-of-the-week hanging out around here. Last week, a guy was found with the skin of his face melted off. Something went all Ark-of-the-Covenant on the vic-“

“I don’t know what that means,” you said softly.

Sam smiled apologetically. “It means Dean needs to spend as much time working as he does watching TV.”

You followed them absently while they started conversing about what they thought could be causing the disturbances. Hunting wasn’t beneath you, per se, but very little was a match for an angel, and the Winchesters were possibly the only humans who could pose a threat to any of your species. Walking was excruciatingly slow compared to flying, but you kept your metaphysical wings tucked in the alternative plane and permitted them to lead you where they wanted to be.

“No way, man!” Sam said, louder, and you looked up. He and Dean both stopped walking by the corner of the street. You stayed back as they devolved into an argument.

These are the humans that trapped and unnerved Raphael? Sometimes it was still hard to believe.

Something soft brushed against your leg while you stood perfectly still, waiting for either of them to address you. Dean said it was freaky when you did that, but it was how you had been trained for millennia. Looking down, you saw a tiny, four-legged creature with perky ears and a pink nose. Its little paws were black and its back was spotted with white.

“Good afternoon,” you said to it politely. Neither brother noticed you talking to an animal. “May I be of assistance?”

“Meow!” It yowled up at you.

“Um, I’m not sure that I understand.”

It rubbed against your leg more insistently. You knelt down slowly so you didn’t scare it. Some animals were more sensitive to your supernatural powers than others. This one seemed to not care. You touched its forehead and stroked its fur carefully. It vibrated against your hand in a purr.

“Hey, Feathers,” Dean called over his shoulder, having seen you moving to get closer to the ground. “Leave the cat alone. It’s probably got rabies.”

Sam wasn’t done with his argument, so Dean’s distraction further upset him. “Look at it, Dean, it’s not rabid! Even if it were, do you really think rabies could hurt an angel?”

“You’re a cat?” You asked the animal curiously. It made the meowing sound at you again. You chose to take it as a yes. “Come here, please.” Scooping your hands under its belly, you lifted it up and cradled it against your vessel’s chest. The cat purred, mewed, and kneaded its paws against your breasts. You cleared your throat. “Sam has informed me that this is unacceptable behavior in public,” you said sternly to the animal, turning to hold it so that it couldn’t get its paws on you while you carried it. “I believe that, were you a human, I would be within my societal rights to harm you.”

The cat meowed once again and waved its right paw in the air. At the same time, something brushed your periphery and you stiffened, standing up straight at attention. The subtle touch of ethereal power didn’t belong to human inventions, and came from something supernatural. You cocked your head and slowly turned to the left, away from the brothers, pinpointing where you sensed it from.

“Something is here,” you whispered to the cat. It was easier to talk to the animal than it was to talk to humans. “Should we go see?” You turned over your shoulder to look at Sam and Dean, both still fighting, voices getting louder. “They would appreciate it if this was taken care of quickly,” you logically told your friend, holding it more firmly and beginning to walk towards the source of the ‘magic,’ as humans would call it.

The power source was in an alley between two larger corporate buildings. Paying no heed to the lesser foot traffic, you turned to walk down while the cat quieted respectfully, as if it too could detect that you were in the presence of something powerful. The closer you got, the stronger the feeling prickling deep within your Grace, until you stopped short and realized that what had seemed like a small nudge was actually part of a much more powerful being.

Just as you were preparing to turn around and go tell the Winchesters that they should summon Castiel, someone spoke.

“Well, well, well. How’re things since ditching the God Squad, Y/N?”

The voice wasn’t familiar to you, but with your name came the lingering touches of Grace. The essence was warm and gentle and you felt something soft affectionately clip your wing, out of sight.

“Gabriel?”

“Yeah, it’s me. Tell Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb to get off my tail, would you? You’d think after Motel Hell, they’d be a bit more considerate of my hobbies.”

Millenia ago, when God was still caring for his children and the archangels were only just beginning to get on each other’s nerves, you and Gabriel would play together. Sometimes Lucifer would join in to pick on Gabriel, and sometimes Balthazar and Anael would team up with you so that the lesser-powered seraphs stood a small chance of beating an archangel in a play fight. Gabriel had been the closest friend you had in Heaven, before things changed for the worse. Dad left. Michael, Lucifer, and Raphael started fighting and hurting each other, and then Lucifer was banished. Gabriel stopped spending time with you, and then he disappeared altogether, leaving you heartbroken and barely motivated enough to fly. Michael took over and began to rule in your father’s stead with an iron fist. Playing became a thing of the past. Brotherly bonds were forsaken, replaced with militaristic solidarity and uniform obedience.

Finding Gabriel again was a shock, but what stunned you the most was how much he had changed. Cuddling the cat in your arms, which made no complaints, you sat on the edge of a hotel bed while Sam, Dean, and Castiel discussed the very archangel you used to care so much for. Now that you knew he was alive, a switch had been flipped, and you cared all over again. But what were you supposed to do? Gabriel had been the one to melt the human man’s skin. He was hurting the very creatures you and Castiel wished to protect.

“Could you pay attention for more than two minutes?!” Dean snapped, stealing your focus back from the cat you had been sadly sharing eye contact with. You shrank back guiltily. “Since when do angels have ADD?!”

“Dean Winchester,” Castiel growled, his low voice deeper than normal. The light over your heads flickered and sparked. “You will not speak to my sister in that manner.”

The three of them went on to argue over what to do. Sam, the smartest of the trio, stayed on the sidelines except when necessary, and then he just threw in his voice before sitting back out on the bench. You pet the cat silently while you listened to them eventually decide to just move on. A fight with an archangel was not what any of you needed.

“Is this satisfactory to you, Y/N?” Castiel asked thoughtfully, turning his eyes to you to ask for assent.

You looked away from them. Having so many eyes on you at once was disarming. “Yes,” you mumbled. “Castiel?”

“Yes, Y/N?”

“I want to keep this cat.”

Dean threw his arms up and stormed away. “Keep that thing away from my Baby!”

Approximately nine Earth days after deciding to move on after reuniting shortly with Gabriel, the trickster appeared before you while you were scrutinizing a plastic replica of a blonde human. Dean had given it to you with a snort, calling it a “Barbie,” and Sam had smacked his arm for it and apologized to you. You failed to see its purpose, but when you touched its limbs, you could manipulate how it bent and posed.

“Hey, doll,” Gabriel scoffed when he saw “Barbie” in your hand. “Where’d you get that? Babies-R-Us?”

“Dean offered it to me to help me learn about human culture.” You tilted Barbie sideways. “I don’t understand the purpose.”

“It’s a kid’s toy.” Gabriel looked chagrined. “I’m gonna make him into a Ken doll for being rude to you.”

You leaned back and stared at him, aghast. “Why would you do that?!” You cried in horror.

“Because this is disrespectful,” Gabriel answered briskly, short-tempered and blunt. He took away Barbie and chucked her into a trash can near the table.

“Then sprinkle glitter on his upholstery,” you suggested, confused. “Turning him into a Ken doll would be enjoyable for him, from what I observe of his actions towards females.”

It was Gabriel’s turn to be confused. “Huh?”

“A Ken doll,” you repeated, frowning. “Is that not a dark-haired, blue-eyed male who strips for the pleasure of an audience?”

Gabriel stared, then he bent over, cackling and howling while gripping his sides. You sat impatiently, unimpressed and embarrassed. You were wrong. And apparently you were so wrong that it was hilarious. Your vessel’s physiognomy responded accordingly, turning her cheeks hot pink.

He swiped away the tears in his eyes, still hooting. “Oh, hell, sweetheart,” he giggled. “Where on earth did you hear that?”

You scooted back on the bed and tried not to meet his eyes. “Dean watched a movie with me so I would understand,” you whispered, understanding suddenly that Dean may not be the one to take much educational experience from. “He said Magic Mike was an academic endeavor.”

Gabriel laughed so hard again that you crossed your arms defensively, and when he didn’t stop, you just left, flying off to Hawaii. You’d found while exploring earth that you enjoyed the beaches were the ocean met the land. You wished you had never said anything. As your face burned and you tried to pretend Gabriel didn’t mean anything to you, you felt like you’d made an idiot of yourself and wanted to just stay away from everyone.

When Dean summoned you the next day through prayer, you returned to the hotel reluctantly. The Winchesters and Castiel were in the parking lot, and Dean was having a temper tantrum. His vehicle was coated with layer upon layer of glitter.

You responded to Castiel’s perplexed prayers to you directly. You flew to his location and found him standing in the quiet cabin you’d found for yourself in Honolulu. Felines were abound, and Castiel had several pawing for his attention, yowling at him for food. Your pet, whom you’d creatively named Kitten, sat on the counter by the sink, bathing its ears.

“Why would you acquire so many cats?” Castiel asked you, looking down to a tawny-colored cat as it scratched at the hem of his trench coat, batting at the thick fabric.

“I didn’t,” you responded helplessly. How would you take care of so many living things when you were often away, scouting out information or protecting Winchesters?

In the end, you made a generous donation to a humane shelter and dropped off the majority of your houseguests at the no-kill facility. You placed fractions of the group in other organizations so that no one facility was overwhelmed by the sudden increase in their numbers. Soon, the only cats left in your small little space were Kitten and a larger, fatter cat that your black-and-white pet had become inexplicably attached to. Castiel named your newest pet Stationary, because you had heard from a human that animals should be named with their personalities taken into account. Stationary seemed to fit him very well, as he only ever chose to move if he was hungry or being shoved at by Kitten.

You proudly told Sam about your new pet. Sam smiled and congratulated you. Dean snickered and asked who on earth would name a pet “Stationary.” When Castiel turned offended eyes to Dean, the hunter made a hasty exit.

Stationary slept on your stomach while Kitten kneaded your open hand. Gabriel regaled “Team Free Will” with an animated story about how he defeated a dozen demons at once, one of them being a crossroads demon and another a direct lieutenant of Lucifer. He boasted about his combat prowess to Sam and Dean, neither of whom were particularly engaged. The archangel kept pausing, calling your name for your attention, and then continuing with his story. When he finished, he looked at you expectantly.

“Yes?” You asked, cocking your head timidly. Were you supposed to say something?

Gabriel’s shoulders fell in disappointment at the nervousness on your face, and he waved it off as nothing before you could say you were sorry. He went on to strictly inform the hunters of a potential lead into demonic activity nearby, and was gone shortly after.

Sam pulled you aside after a reconnaissance report, a hand on your body’s elbow. You listened to him intently, but had no answers when he asked what you were making Gabriel work for.

“I don’t know what you mean.”

Sam sighed. “Look, Y/N, trust me, I get that you like him or whatever. I know that after Ruby I’m the last person to be judging other people’s friendships. No matter how much we don’t like the guy, we’ve gotta put up with him for your sake. If I don’t tell you to throw the angelic jerk a bone, then Dean’s going to. And he won’t be so nice.”

You stared and blinked. “Why would he want a bone?” You asked him. Humans were just so weird sometimes. It was difficult to keep up with them and their reasoning. “Does he have a pet dog he wants the bone for?”

Sam raked his hand through his hair. “No, look, I mean, the glitter? The cat-apocalypse? The dramatic war stories? Gabriel’s going out of his way to do things for your attention. He’s trying to impress you.” The hunter looked around quickly as though he expected Gabriel to be nearby. “Don’t tell him I let you in on it, but I think he just wants you to acknowledge him. You said you used to be friends, right?” You nodded. “Well, I think he wants to be friends again. Dean’s pretty sure it’s more than that, but I don’t think anything can happen if you don’t start at least letting him know you see him. And maybe if you were, you know, together, it might be good for both of you; he could help you actually learn about humans without Dean teaching you convoluted definitions of kids’ toys, and you could probably talk him out of melting people’s faces.”

Although you considered it later on, it took several days for you to decide how to react. Gabriel, an archangel, trying to impress you, a renegade seraph? He was already impressive. Why did he need to appear to be more so? You had already forgiven him for running away. Hurting humans made you upset, but you had chosen not to begin a battle you didn’t feel confident that you could win. What did Dean like to say? “Select your wars cautiously?”

“I believe it was more along the lines of ‘pick your battles carefully, Sammy,’” Castiel recited when you confided with him, asking if there was merit to what Sam had told you. “’Because if I have to spend one more night without getting any of my delicious heart attacks, I might salt and sauté your arm. Now take that rabbit food away from my face before I pop out whiskers and buck teeth.’”

“Dean is strange,” you noted, making an alarmed face.

Castiel sighed. “I am well aware.”

The next time Gabriel popped up for no apparent reason, you were prepared. A funny feeling in your stomach made you feel as if you understood what the brothers meant when they said they were nauseous, but you fought to keep your vessel from betraying your emotions with a blush.

As Gabriel wound down a story in which he boisterously recounted his adventures with a woman named Joan d’Arc and claimed that he saved her from certain death at the hands of her own people, gifting her instead with a quiet relocation to Poland and permitting the French to believe she had burned to death, your heart beat rigorously. Finally, you called his name quietly. Just the whisper of your voice perked him up excitedly.

“I’m impressed,” you told him with a nervous smile. “And I like you, too.”

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Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry’s perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country. – Vincent Bugliosi • Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. – Kazimir Malevich • People used to ask me: ‘Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?’ And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn’t that for me. 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Get us a memo on what we’re likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.’ – Harold H. Greene • The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country! – Hunter S. Thompson • The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. – Alan Dershowitz • The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. 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We don’t assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests. – Josh Marshall • The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney. – Douglas William Jerrold • The traditional practice is that the justices don’t ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn’t mind if they asked him questions and they did. – Harold H. Greene • There are a lot of people being duped with misinformation, and they’re all rejoicing over Donald Trump. And having a white nationalist be his chief strategist and have a racist be your attorney general, this is a really dangerous situation for our country. – Christian Picciolini • There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion’s share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps. – Dennis Hastert • There’s only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that’s about New York policemen. – Sherry Stringfield • To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small clique of attorneys in the Department of Justice can write how can we get around the Geneva Conventions so that we can torture during interrogations – I can’t even get their mentally. And when you read their briefs, they didn’t get there mentally. – John Dean • Tom Cruise’s attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin’s attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. – Conan O’Brien • Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. – Mehmet Oz • Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they’re just looking for sheep that are easily impressed. – Johnny Kelly • We aren’t upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can’t develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. – Dan Pallotta • We haven’t seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general who confirms, yes, I accept the recommendation of the FBI director. – Alberto Gonzales • We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney. – Virchand Gandhi • We really haven’t seen much of the attorney general or people from the Department of Justice. So it’s very consistent with the way this investigation has been handled, and that is that the decisions have been made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. -Alberto Gonzales • We think it’s time for the president Donald Trump to announce steps for the White House to undertake. We’d like to see a White House task force on hate crimes. This could be something again convened by the attorney general, but you would bring to bear DHS, the Department of Education, the FBI and other federal agencies to use all of their resources to deal with this problem. – Jonathan Greenblatt • Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. – Harry Connick, Jr. • Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it’s a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts. – Alberto Gonzales • What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general. The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia. And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing. – Adam Schiff • When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races. – Thomas Sowell • When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. – Christine Pelosi • When you look at the people that Donald Trump is actually put around him on his Cabinet, this is a pretty – I would argue a very conservative Cabinet. And whether it’s on issues of immigration, his pick for the attorney general, very conservative on that issue. – Amy Walter • When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. – Tommy Shaw • When…has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, ‘Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.’ – Peter David • Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off. – Conan O’Brien • You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management. – Charles Soule • You don’t lie to your own doctor. You don’t lie to your own attorney, and you don’t lie to your employees. – Gordon Bethune • You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. – Joe Biden • You know, as attorney general, there’s no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe. – Charlie Crist • You’re an Attorney. 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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan')

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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan')

“The only difference between me and the ten guys and women who were in my writing group when I first started out here in Hollywood is that I’m the only one of those people who just didn’t take no for an answer and didn’t become devastated over the rejection,” says Ryan Murphy, the writer, director, producer and showrunner best known for creating or co-creating The WB’s Popular, FX’s Nip/Tuck, Fox’s Glee, NBC’s The New Normal and Fox’s Scream Queens, as well as the ongoing FX anthology series American Horror Story, American Crime Story and Feud. As we sit down at the offices of Ryan Murphy Productions on the Fox lot to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast, Murphy continues, “I think that’s because when I was growing up, I would get pushed down. And what are you gonna do? You gonna stay on the ground? No, you’re gonna get up and you’re gonna keep going. I’ve always had that philosophy: ‘Okay, well, that didn’t work out — and it hurt — so what’s the next thing that might?'”

(Click above to listen to this episode or here to access all of our 165 episodes via iTunes. Past guests include Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Amy Schumer, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Louis C.K., Emma Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Natalie Portman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jane Fonda, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicole Kidman, Aziz Ansari, Taraji P. Henson, J.J. Abrams, Helen Mirren, Justin Timberlake, Brie Larson, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Vikander, Warren Beatty, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Kate Winslet, Sting, Isabelle Huppert, Tyler Perry, Sally Field, Michael Moore, Lily Collins, Denzel Washington, Mandy Moore, Ricky Gervais, Kristen Stewart, James Corden, Sarah Silverman, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin, Rami Malek, Allison Janney, Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Wilde, Trevor Noah and Elisabeth Moss.)

Murphy, 51, was born and raised in Indianapolis — partially by his grandmother, who helped to introduce him to film and TV — as part of “a very rigorous, conservative,” religious, middle-class family. He knew early on that he was gay, but remained in the closet until the age of 15, when his mother discovered love letters that he had exchanged with an older boy and sent him to a therapist. The therapist met with him several times and then told his parents that they could either love him or lose him, and they got on board — but even so, by the time he graduated from high school and college, he knew that he needed to get away. “I always wanted to come to Hollywood, even as a young kid, and I always knew I would end up here,” he says, “I just didn’t know how.”

After college, Murphy headed west “with nothing” but, nevertheless, “instantly loved it.” A journalism major in college, he started out as a freelance writer and eventually graduated to churning out celebrity profiles for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, while doing his own writing on the side. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the way in was to write,” he recalls, and indeed his first screenplay, Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?, was read by an agent and bought by Steven Spielberg. “From that, everyone wanted to meet me,” he recalls. Murphy spent the next two years selling movie pitches and writing scripts, but, he says, “I realized, at that point, that I didn’t really want to be a writer; what I really wanted to be was a director/producer.”

At the urging of Murphy’s agent at the time, he turned one of his film scripts into a TV pitch, and all four networks bid on it. It wound up at The WB in 1999 as Popular, and it helped to put him on the map. He loved much about working in television — “I loved the pace of it and the energy and I liked creating something and writing something and then you were shooting it a week later,” he explains — but his overall experience with that show was “really terrible”: “I had homophobic executives; I was constantly being told to change who I was and what I was writing; and I always felt like I was 15 years old, you know, back pre-shrink.” The show was canceled after two seasons.

At that point, Murphy says, “I just decided, ‘Okay, well, what do you want to do and what do you want to be? You’ve got a foot in the door and your next move has to be pretty good.” In 2003, inspired by Mike Nichols and his 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, as well as an article that he came across about plastic surgery, he created the series Nip/Tuck for FX, marking his first of many collaborations with that network; his first time doing a show that didn’t really fit into any pre-existing mold; and, with the exception of one episode of Popular, his first time directing. “That was sort of the birth of a different part of my life and career,” he says, and he was recognized for it with a best drama series Golden Globe Award in 2005.

With his stock soaring, Murphy poured his heart and soul into Pretty Handsome, a pilot about a small-town gynecologist who realizes he is a woman, but, to his devastation, FX passed on it. However, this proved to be the first of several times when a low moment paved the way for high ones soon after — in this case, Glee and American Horror Story. “Every great success that I’ve had in my life has come from a disappointment that I was devastated by,” he marvels. “From that Pretty Handsome melancholy came these two big hits in my career, and it only happened, I think, because I was forced to get quiet and say to myself, ‘Well what do you really want to talk about?'” (He notes that a similar thing happened years later when FX declined to pick up his pilot Open, soon after which he arrived at the idea for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.)

Glee was “an optimistic family musical” in which “the underdogs would always win,” Murphy says, noting, “There was a lot of my childhood in there.” Beyond being a musical series, the show — which ran on Fox from 2009 through 2015, arriving, like Modern Family, shortly after the election of America’s first black president — prominently featured LGBTQ and disabled characters, and became a full-fledged hit. “That was one of the biggest shocks of my life, that that show became what it became,” he confesses. Two years into its run, he launched a totally different sort of program — an anthology series in the mold of The Twilight Zone and others from TV’s Golden Age, only with a horror tint — and American Horror Story became an award-winning hit in its own right.

What’s with all the genre hopping, which most TV content creators never get to do because they either have more limited interests or get pigeon-holed into one sort of work? Murphy gets the chance, he says, because “Not everything [I do] does work, but I’ve had enough things that have that shouldn’t have” that he is given the benefit of the doubt. The desire, though, exists for deeper reasons. “I love all different genres and I just sort of bounce around between them because it keeps things fresh for me,” he explains. “And, I guess, maybe subconsciously, in the early days it was a way for me to not be stereotyped, when I have felt, as a minority, that I’m so stereotyped. He adds, “Now, I would say, it really is by design. I really love it.”

Another thing he loves: actors. He has built a veritable stock company over the years, led by his two queens from different generations, Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, and also including Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Angela Bassett, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Matt Bomer and Denis O’Hare, plus many behind-the-scenes collaborators. “I think it comes from me having a sense of, ‘I wish that I had more of a close-knit family growing up and maybe felt a part of a community growing up,’ and I didn’t,” he reflects. As for the disproportionate number of women, and particularly older women, with whom he works, he says, “I like writing roles for women over 40 because it just resurfaces them, and they’re great.” This year, he started the Half Foundation, an initiative within his production company, to make 50 percent of his on-set hires women.

Murphy also has used his pedestal to highlight stories about gay people, not only on Glee, but in his short-lived semi-autobiographical NBC sitcom The New Normal (2012-2013) and his HBO TV movie The Normal Heart (2014), on which he partnered with Larry Kramer to bring Kramer’s landmark play to the screen after years of roadblocks. Productions like these would not have been possible less than two decades ago, when Murphy was starting out in the business. “I feel like I haven’t changed,” he says. “I feel what changed is the executives. The executives are now great — like, they want those characters. They know that launching a conversation about anything in visibility means a more diversified audience, which leads to success.”

Recently, Murphy has devoted a lot of his time to launching new FX anthology series in the mold of American Horror Story. He started last year with American Crime Story and its first installment, The People v. O.J. Simpson, which proved a towering success. And this year he did so again with Feud and its first installment, Bette and Joan, an eight-part study of the complicated relationship between the legendary movie stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, two best actress Oscar winners, starring two other best actress Oscar winners, the aforementioned Lange, as Crawford, as well as Susan Sarandon, as Davis. For it, Murphy personally received three Emmy nominations in July — best limited series, best directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special and best writing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special — bringing his career tally to 23, four of which have turned into wins: best directing for a comedy series for Glee in 2010; best TV movie for The Normal Heart in 2014; best limited series for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016; and best short form nonfiction or reality series for Inside Look: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016.

Murphy, who grew up obsessed with Hollywood’s Golden Age and the Oscars, interviewed Davis when he first moved out to L.A., and created Feud using information from that conversation, tons of other research and a film script that he and Plan B bought years ago. He insists that the bickering of the two actresses featured on the show was not at all replicated by the two actresses who brought them back to life on his set. “It was a love-fest,” he says of Lange and Sarandon’s interactions. “They actually worked well together and supported each other and had great ideas for scenes for each other, so none of that happened. And hilariously, and thankfully, they were both nominated for best actress, as opposed to poor Joan Crawford, who wasn’t invited to the party [in 1963 for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, when the Academy nominated Davis but not Crawford for best actress]. Jessica and Susan are staunch feminists and believe in equality, and they’re not gonna do that bullshit. They’re just not those people. They’re not interested in petty gossiping. I’ve never met two women less interested in that.”

The one bit of drama that has been associated with Feud has come from the most unexpected of places: Olivia de Havilland, the sole legendary actress portrayed in the film who still is alive today. In June, on the eve of her 101st birthday, de Havilland sued Murphy for, allegedly, defaming her on the show (which she had not yet seen when I asked her about it in April). “I was saddened by it because I felt that I really had written and produced and directed a love letter to these women, and I was like, ‘Oh, no, really? I love her so much,'” Murphy says. “I’m sorry that she feels badly about it, but I don’t know why she feels badly.” In reference to Feud‘s depiction of de Havilland, he insists, “There is absolutely nothing but love — there is no malice, there is nothing said that’s not treating her like a lady.”

Murphy emphasizes, “The other thing that I think people should know about the docudramas that I do — be it Feud or American Crime Story with O.J. or [the subjects of an upcoming installment] Charles and Diana and on and on — you know, we don’t just write those and film them; we write them and lawyers read them and they say, ‘Where did you get this piece of information from? Where is this quote of Olivia de Havilland coming from?’ Obviously, the construct of doing a documentary wrap-around is a device of docudrama that’s been done since God was a boy. But everything that we have Olivia or Joan or Bette saying is, I would say, based completely on existing information, either research or interviews. And in the case of Olivia de Havilland, we have a very long document, as we did with Joan and Bette, where we say, ‘This is where we got this line from. She said this in an interview.’ Is it directly the exact line? No, some of it’s tweaked, but it’s all based on fact, it’s all based on research. And this had been vetted for months before we even shot any episode.”

He notes, “I feel like Olivia de Havilland is a historical figure, and I’m just sad she didn’t love it as much as everybody else seemed to. But I also have the support of Fox, and we have 15 lawyers who have reviewed every claim and think there absolutely is no claim.” But, he emphasizes, “I have nothing but love and admiration for her, and I do think it will all end up okay. Maybe I’ll get to meet her in court, but I hope it doesn’t go that far. The first thing I would do is say, ‘Can I have an autograph? I really love you! I really do!'”

Throughout our conversation, while discussing past traumas, personal and professional, and even lawsuits, Murphy exudes calm, but he says that doesn’t mean he isn’t upset about some of what’s going on around him. “I feel very angry about the state of the country,” he vents, “and I feel like the best thing that I can do is sit up straight and shut up and just write characters that are going through difficulties, so that people can see that and, as human beings, hopefully recognize that pain is pain is pain. That’s what I’m interested in doing as my sort of political activism.”

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Sundance 2017 Dispatches: ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Walking Out’ and the Final Tallies

A still from Patti Cake$, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

For everyone who felt Hustle and Flow would have been better if a zaftig white girl was the one spitting the raps, Patti Cake$ is for you. The raucous Sundance crowd-pleaser stars 25-year-old breakout Australian actress Danielle Macdonald as the titular teen, a Jersey girl named Patricia Dombrowski with the stage name Killa P who doesn’t let a plump profile stop her from chasing dreams of being a high-wattage hip-hop queen. Does it play? Fox Searchlight certainly thinks so: they dropped $10.5 million on distribution rights within hours of the film’s triumphant world premiere.

That nosebleed price might portend greatness for the Little Indie That Could but don’t forget that it was Fox Searchlight who sank $17.5 million into Birth of a Nation last year, only to see their #OscarsSoWhite frontrunner stumble out of the gate and quickly evaporate from multiplexes. (They scrambled to buy another award hopeful last fall with the Toronto pickup Jackie, a soft box office performer which at least eked out an Oscar nomination this week for Natalie Portman.) The company also came to Sundance to premiere/promote their quirky (and underwhelming) comedy Wilson, starring Woody Harrelson as Daniel Clowes’ charming misanthrope; and just spent $4 million for distribution and remake rights to the uplifting dance documentary Step, about a troupe of high school seniors trying to make it into college.

The mini-major is aptly doubling down on aspirational stories of scrappy success—and they’re going to need them, considering how Sundance has become one-stop shopping for 800-pound gorillas Netflix and Amazon Studios. At an event where a hungry distributor might pick up 2-3 films, those two companies, neophytes in the indie-film world, crushed the competition in 2016 by snatching up 6 titles each (including Amazon’s deal for newly-minted multiple Oscar nominee Manchester By the Sea).

This year Amazon only has 3 pickups so far, but one of them is the breakout hit The Big Sick, which they just nabbed for $12 million. Netflix, though, is on a rampage with a staggering 12 titles to date. The streaming service brought 3 movies to the festival, including the sci-fi thriller The Discovery with Robert Redford, Jason Segel, and Rooney Mara; plus I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore and Deidra & Laney Rob a Train; and then picked up another 9, mostly documentaries such as Casting JonBenet and Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press; as well as Marti Noxon’s well-received anorexia drama To the Bone, with Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins.

Reed Hastings’ juggernaut has so many Sundance films either already pegged for release in the next few months or just acquired for release later in the year that some jaded festgoers have consciously avoided scrambling for tickets, knowing they can just eventually Netflix and chill instead.

Quality will always trump quantity: there is still a need to savor, not binge.

The greedy appetite of a digital content leviathan like Netflix seems to reduce Sundance selections to a school of plankton ripe for devouring—especially ones with big stars, headline-grabbing gimmicks or newsworthy hooks—which makes it all the more deeply satisfying when the festival offers up choices that refute such a 21st-century mentality. Quality will always trump quantity: there is still a need to savor, not binge.

Two outstanding films that unspooled this past weekend, Alex and Andrew Smith’s Walking Out and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, are so visceral and spiritual in their harmonious communing with nature that technology barely makes a blip in its sous-vide storytelling. Walking Out is a modern-day father-son two-hander about a winter hunting trip that jarringly turns into a survivalist thriller worthy of Jack London; Call Me By Your Name is a rapturous 1983-set summer romance where homosexual passions percolate in the incandescent sunshine of Northern Italy.

Both films are immersive, unplugged experiences in analog worlds. The father in Walking Out barks at his son to stop playing video games on his iPhone and relishes the fact that there’s no cell reception in his hunting cabin. And in Call My By Your Name, a lover confides that he sneaks out at night to stare at the moon for hours. Time slows in both as scenes turn into reveries, and seeing them in darkened theaters makes the outside world slip away effortlessly.

Walking Out is a full-blooded, gun-toting generational male bonding movie—the kind of story where a plaid hunting cap gets subtly and wordlessly handed down from grandfather to father to son. And yet it’s the perfect balm for Trump-Era divisiveness, as a surly teen (Matt Bomer), child of divorce, flies to a remote corner of Montana to spend time with his estranged red-state father (Matt Bomer) and slowly learns to appreciate how intensely he communes with nature.

The dad only kills what he eats, and so thoroughly loves and respects the wildlife around him, as well as the rigorous physical demands that outdoor camping demands, that he slowly earns the deep respect of his son. A jolt of unexpected violence then turns the film into a harrowing tale of existential self-reliance that amazingly transforms the dark adventure into an elegiac study of human connection, and how family ties can endure even when they seem to be unraveling.

But Call Me By Your Name is on a whole other level of filmmaking, and felt like a master class compared with all the young directorial work that Sundance routinely spotlights. Guadagnino’s 2009 swooner I Am Love was an expressionistic thrill, and last year’s A Bigger Splash was a study in bohemian decadence. But his new picture is a bonafide masterpiece, a respectful adaptation of André Aciman’s acclaimed 2007 novel that nevertheless takes bold liberties with the material.

As stylish and sensual as anything from Bernardo Bertolucci, Call Me By Your Name chronicles with almost painfully tender care the budding romance between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a 17-year-old virgin just discovering his sexuality; and Oliver (Hammer), a tall, hunky twentysomething grad student studying Hellenistic sculpture for a few weeks with Elio’s professor father. The pas-de-deux between these two isn’t just erotic—there’s an undeniable intellectual and emotional connection that both grounds and elevates their relationship, which is why the movie is ultimately so profound by the end. This is delicate, mature, poetic drama at its best, accomplished work from a director at the height of his powers.

Cynics may snicker at the movie’s hothouse passions (OK, OK, it’s true: somebody fucks a peach), but the characters are just as quick to laugh at themselves as they are to break into tears over the precariousness of love. And rarely does an affair between two people climax with a parental talk that’s almost as heartbreakingly beautiful as the romance that precedes it. Film festivals are motley venues, with myriad political and social agendas, so it’s all the more revelatory when a movie expresses such universal emotion. It’s testament to Sundance at its best.

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http://observer.com/2017/01/sundance-2017-dispatches-patti-cake-walking-out/

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