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mariocki · 1 year
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Winter Kills (1979)
"They will run you dizzy. They will pile falsehood on top of falsehood until you can't tell a lie from the truth and you won't even want to. That's how the powerful keep their power, don't you read the papers?"
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superspookyjanelle · 9 months
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Dorothy Coonan Wellman, an unidentified man, Sterling Holloway and Rochelle Hudson in a screencap from Wild Boys of the Road (1933).
Rochelle Hudson as Grace in Wild Boys of the Road (1933). Rochelle was born in Oklahoma City and had 115 acting credits, from a voice in a 1930 short, to Gallery of Horror in 1967. Her other notable credits include the voice of Honey in 35 early Looney Tunes cartoon shorts 1930-37, She Done Him Wrong, Judge Priest, Imitation of Life, Les Miserables, Curly Top, Rebel Without a Cause, and Strait-Jacket.
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raynbowclown · 3 months
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm is a patriotic WWII musical comedy featuring all the biggest Paramount Studio stars of the era. Musical mayhem ensues when an attendant at Paramount (Victor Moore) tries to impress his navy son (Eddie Bracken) … by claiming that he is a studio mogul! Continue reading Untitled
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streamondemand · 2 years
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'Winter Kills' – The great American conspiracy movie free on Kanopy and Hoopla
‘Winter Kills’ – The great American conspiracy movie free on Kanopy and Hoopla
Though technically a work of fiction, Winter Kills (1979, R) is the maddest and most entertaining of Kennedy conspiracy thrillers, a wild kaleidoscope of clashing theories directed with wit and performed with gusto by an astounding cast. Jeff Bridges is the half-brother of an assassinated President who digs up the “truth” 20 years later and John Huston is his snarling kingmaker of a Dad (imagine…
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sterliingz · 1 month
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( modern au. ) fluff. established relationship. texting.
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━━━ TEXTS WITH THE HASHIRA. . . muichiro, giyuu, shinobu, kyojuro, tengen, mitsuri, sanemi, obanai.
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━━━ MUICHIRO.
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hiya!! this is a very simple start to my blog, so i apologise if it’s short. lmk if this is too ooc, i still have a lot of improving to do. i hope you enjoyed, the other hashira should be posted soon! ^_^
( if you understand the dorothy reference i’ll love you forever. )
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love, sterling x
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closed-door-if · 4 months
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In the corridors of power, whispers echo louder than the truth.
Working for Sterling Dynamics sounds like a great idea, with the constantly rising stocks and the glorifying public opinion. Having the ear of the current boss is just the cherry on top.
But, of course, nothing is as good as it seems.
Your boss (and friend) goes missing, in the middle of the day, a news that reaches the public before it reaches you. If that wasn't bad enough, his absence has made you acutely aware just how many people hated you within the company. And to top it all off, his brother is making a play for the throne.
You definitely don't get paid enough for this.
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Choose your name, gender, and appearance.
Customize your character's personality and past- decide how you got where you are.
Make choices that affect the plot, other characters, and the company!
Manage the company in your friend's absence. Or try to, at least.
Romance one of four characters- your friend, your boss, your ex, or the investigator!
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Bennett Sterling [He/Him]
Your boss. Uptight and professional to the end. Everyone insists he is a robot, and honestly, some days you really do believe it. Other days, you think you can see behind the mask, see who he actually is- someone who has no idea who they are supposed to be.
Samuel/Samantha Wallace [He/Him or She/Her]
Your best friend. Quite possibly the only sane person in this entire company. Charming, quirky and sarcastic- you get on like a house on fire. You've been with each other for as long as you can remember, always half wrapped up in the other. So why does it seem like they're pulling away?
Aster/Esther King [He/Him or She/Her]
Your ex. You haven't talked to each other for more than half a decade, now, for which the fault lies mostly on their shoulders. You made promises to stay friends and keep in touch when you broke up, but neither of you spared a thought to the other after the 'amicable' breakup. That's what you choose to believe, anyway.
Dorothy Williams [She/Her]
The investigator. You don't know each other that well just yet, unless to five background checks you ordered on her count. She seems nice, professional, and calm. Hired by Bennett's family, you don't exactly get a say in her being there, but her personality makes it easy to forget she hasn't always been a part of your group.
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CHARACTER PROFILES!
DEMO out now!
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midnightcowboy1969 · 7 months
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My bookshelf
Hey, @beanifred <3 So, here's a big peak at my bookshelf (way too many books as I said)
Beginning with my treasures:
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The "Real" Bob Steele and a man called "Brad" by Bob Nareau
The Photostory of "Battling Bob" Bob Steele by Mario DeMarco
2. The Columbo Collection
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Just One More thing by Peter Falk
The Grassy Knoll by William Harrington (my enemy)
Murder by the Book by Steven Bochco
And now there's chaos:
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Psycho 1 & 2 and Night-World by Robert Bolch (Norwegian edition)
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Body Snatcher by Jack Finney
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Trash by Dorothy Allison (lesbian but at what cost)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Buddah of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (I also have American Gods but I cannot find it)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Complete Short Stories: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
The Hunter by Richard Stark
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The System by John Burke (novelization)
Alien Nation by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)
Edge of the City by Fredrick Pohl (novelization)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Collector by John Fowels
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Norwegian edition)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (novelization)
Ninteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden (the actor)
The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer (Novelization (?))
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
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Terror by Dan Simmons
Papillon 1 & 2 by Henri Charrière (Norwegian editions)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (book of all time)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Midnight Cowboy by John L. Herlihy
Shooting Midnight Cowboy by Glenn Frankel
Cape Fear by John D. McDonald (watch the movies)
The Bretheren by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorgood
Glitz by Elmore Leonard (Norwegian edition)
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler (the other novels are Farwell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Client by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Legion (Exorcist 2) by William Peter Blatty
La Peste by Albert Camu (Norwegian edition)
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffery Cranor (not read)
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg
The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
Local Hero by David Benedictus (novelization)
The Glass Cage by Colin Wilson
American Psycho by Brett E. Ellis
Fools Die by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)
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Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Norwegian edition) + Four different Game of Thrones books in Norwegian
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
The Betsy by Harold Robbins (Norwegian edition)
Aliens by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Dune, The Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galxy by Douglas Adams
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (short story collection that made me dislike short stories)
Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg (my enemy)
Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop by Lee Goldberg (I hate him)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Maurice by E. M. Forster
The Case of the Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Norwegian edition)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurt
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Norwegian edition)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey (bad)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Killing Time by Della Van Hise (Star Trek Spinoff Spirk book)
Star Trek: Department of Temportal Investigations: Forgotten History by Christopher L. Bennet
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Missing by Una McCormack
Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett
7. Stephen King Collection
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Outsider
If it Bleeds
On Writing
Blaze
Carrie
The Stand
Hearts in Atlantis (Norwegian edition)
The Tommyknockers
Cujo
Thinner (Norwegian edition)
The Shining
Night Shift
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Norwegian edition)
Dreamcatcher
Doctor Sleep
Rose Madder
Pet Sematary
Christine
Salem's Lot
Dolores Claiborne (Norwegian edition)
The Bachman Books
The Institute
Insomnia
Misery
Finders Keepers
End of Watch
Firestarter
The Body
Needful Things (Norwegian edition)
Bag of Bones
8. Not pictured
A collection of Sherlock Holmes books
Many Hardy Boys books
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Some comic books
I believe this is approximately everything lol.
My dream is to have a small cozy rooms dedicated to the books I own. It won't happen any time soon.
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powells · 1 year
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir "Who is the meanest girl in this beautiful, harsh, hilarious, badass, confusing-as-hell book? It's obviously Ianthe Tridentarius"
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When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zeran "What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity and how do we treat them when they do?"
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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett "You'll find a plethora of mean girls in this dystopian novel about a group of 16-year-old girls who are sent into the woods to release their 'magic' so they may return ready for marriage. This book examines the ways outside influence (see: the patriarchy) can cause women to behave very poorly to each other"
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My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix "After a night out, Gretchen starts to act like a typical high school mean girl. Well, as typical as a mean girl possessed by a demon."
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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers "I love apologetically devious women, I love challenging sexist assumptions of gender, and I love a good memoir. Dorothy Daniels truly made for my ideal protagonist..."
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Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle "A group of teens who turn into werewolves and eat misbehaving boys? I'd be part of this squad of mean girls any day."
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson "This retelling of Carrie packs a punch! Featuring the brutal mean girls of the original, but with the added complexities of a biracial main character in a small southern town, this book holds its own against the iconic work of horror."
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Browse ALL the titles on this display here
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loosesodamarble · 11 months
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What the Faust kids inherited from Papa Nacht
Dawn: I can’t heal with my magic.
Dusk: My magic is a poor match for the girl I like.
Sirius: My Magic is always compared to Lady Dorothy’s.
Merel: I’m scared of my own magic attribute.
Vivian: I can’t shape my magic into any form.
Sterling: I can’t attack with my magic. At all…
Off to the side…
Zoisite: What’s with this family and their hang ups?
Lukian: Mental hang ups run in the family as far as I know.
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nothingtowear05 · 11 months
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Top: Dorothy Perkins Navy Blue Embroidered Sleeveless Shirt (£24.00) | Jeans: Dorothy Perkins White Rip Darcy Ankle-Grazer Jeans (£17.50) | Ankle boots: Loeffler Randall Raquel Chelsea Boots ($395.00) | Handbag: Chloé Marcie Suede Shoulder Bag ($1,950) | Ring: Reggie Sterling Silver Rock Ring ($145) | Headband: Jennifer Behr Leon Headband ($128.00)
This week’s random Disney hotel is Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa which takes inspiration from the town of Saratoga Springs in New York. The resort has an equestrian theme, so I created an outfit with that in mind.
To start, I chose a pair of white jeans to reference the light-coloured breeches equestrians wear during competitions. For the top, I went with a white and navy blue embroidered shirt inspired by the navy blazers often worn during these competitions. Something about the shirt gave me a bit of a western vibe, making it a perfect reference to Western riding in this outfit mostly inspired by English riding attire.
For footwear, I opted for ankle boots in a light brown color instead of the standard black knee-high boots. This change was made to suit Florida's weather better. The headband is black, which is a reference to the black equestrian helmet. Did you know those helmets are called “bombe” in French? Literally, it means bomb.
To complete the outfit, I chose a handbag that reminded me of a saddle and a ring that was the perfect touch of bling that fit the simplicity of the outfit.
This outfit is ideal for exploring the resort's stunning surroundings, which are filled with lush greenery, sparkling water features, and charming walking paths, or to visit Disney Springs, a vibrant shopping and dining destination that can be easily reached on foot or by boat from the resort.
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grandhotelabyss · 10 months
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About interim American lit- I know the feeling, I'm of two minds about it as well. On one hand there's a part of me that thinks we should be more cognizant of our pre-imperial* literary heritage, on the other as you've said a lot of it was trailing behind Europe in the period. Even Dos Passos could be read as a footnote to Joyce for the most part, although I'm sure Pynchon and DeLillo must have read him: there's something of the flow of Manhattan Transfer and U.S.A. in Underworld, and that sense of ordinary people trapped in history that those books convey so well, (and that you mostly don't get in Joyce and Döblin) is all over early Pynchon. I haven't read a ton of it either-when I read Alfred Kazin's magisterial survey of the period On Native Grounds** last year I was shocked at how many of the big names of the period I'd flat-out never heard of. I must read something by Thomas (with an H!) Wolfe one of these days though.
*here meaning before the second world war, although I understand the argument that there's really never been a moment when we weren't if only in an ethnological sense an "empire"
** If memory serves he also barely considers the late James, which I find odd, even if the argument surely stands that by that point he was as much an English novelist as anything else
It's a minor period in Brit Lit, too, where it probably counts as "late imperial." This minority could be understood as a virtue in some kind of Deleuzean "minor literature" sense. Introducing Stephen Crane's Maggie, I once wrote this about it:
The short-lived and hard-living American writer Stephen Crane exemplifies the aesthetic ambiguity of the 1890s. On both sides of the Atlantic and even both sides of the English Channel, it is an in-between period, fecund with avant-garde literary schools and movements (naturalism, impressionism, Symbolism, Decadence, Aestheticism, regionalism) and incubating the popular genres in their modern forms (science fiction, detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction). It is a literary epoch harder to define than the seemingly more settled moments of high realism and high modernism that precede and succeed it, and its own experimental variations on realism and modernism are intriguingly “low,” in the dual senses of provisional rather than monumental and de-idealizing rather than championing the human spirit.
But yes, there was a whole panoply of writers once enormous, Pulitzer winners, cited admiringly by the big figures of subsequent generations, published in early Modern Library Editions even, and now forgotten. James Branch Cabell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ellen Glasgow, George Sterling, George Washington Cable, Joaquin Miller...who are these people? I picked up their names along the way, but nothing else. Wolfe was huge, mentioned in the same breath as Joyce; Faulkner judged him superior to Hemingway; he's the fount of modern southern literature; but who reads him? Edward Arlington Robinson, possibly better than Frost! I should check out the Kazin—I read his American Procession in high school, focused almost exclusively on the big figures, when I was first reading Poe-Hawthorne-Melville-Twain-Hemingway-Faulkner-Eliot, but then never revisited.
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femslashrevolution · 2 years
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Popular Pairing List Update
The following pairings have more than 10 recent posts in their pairing tag, and are therefore too popular to be posted on Rarepair Thursdays:
Andie Bustamante x Liv Rooney (Liv and Maddie)
Bernadetta von Varley x Petra Macneary (Fire Emblem)
Bess Francis Till x Miss Audrey (Snowpiercer)
Carson Shaw x Greta Gill (Amazon A League of Their Own)
Darcy Olsson x Tara Jones (Heartstopper)
Dorothy Gale x Ruby (Once Upon A Time)
Ei x Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)
Gideon Nav x Harrowhark Nonagesimus (Gideon the Ninth)
Jester Lavorre x Yasha Nydoorin (Critical Role)
Ji yeong x Kang Sae byeok (Squid Game)
Kate Bishop x Yelena Belova (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Sarah Alder x Tally Craven (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Taissa Turner x Vanessa Palmer (Yellowjackets)
The following pairings have been posted less frequently recently, and have therefore been removed from the popular pairing list:
Abby Holland x Harper Caldwell (Happiest Season)
Aino Minako x Hino Rei (Sailor Moon)
Alyssa Greene x Emma Nolan (The Prom)
Amae Rali x Elida Al Feyr (Vagrant Queen)
April Stevens x Sterling Wesley (Teenage Bounty Hunters)
Asahina Aoi x Ogami Sakura (Dangan Ronpa)
Bernadetta von Varley x Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem)
Bonnie Bennett x Nora Hildegard (The Vampire Diaries)
Carrie x Flynn (Julie and the Phantoms)
Charlotte Murchison x Mary Anning (Ammonite)
Daphne Blake x Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo)
Debbie Ocean x Lou (Ocean’s Eight)
Elphaba Thropp x Glinda Upland (Wicked)
Elsa x Honeymaren (Disney Princesses)
Gwendolyn Briggs x Mildred Ratched (Ratched)
Max Baker x Sophie Sanchez (Ginny & Georgia)
Michael Burnham x Philippa Georgiou (Star Trek: Discovery)
Neopolitan x Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)
Nyssa al Ghul x Sara Lance (Arrow)
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enkisstories · 1 year
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You can take the deviant out of Park Avenue, but not Park Avenue out of the deviant - confronted with the reality of having to work for a mining & lumber company now, Daniel’s first impulse is to negotiate his wage and an advance.
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Curtis: “So I understand you want to get today’s wage up front?”
Daniel: “No. For all of November! And not just me - all of us! Plus, our contracts will get back-dated to November 1st!”
Curtis: “Not gonna happen. November 15 it is. Mid-month, fifteen days. No advance.”
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Daniel: “Alright, I'll concede. Fifteen days, paid in advance.”
Curtis: “I understand deviants are more than mere machines. You have hopes and dreams... so you should like hearing me say: Dream on!”
Daniel: “Maybe I was a bit too forward? In this case let’s talk our sign on bonus first! Three monthly wages is customary, but I think with what you are getting in us, twelve are more like it!”
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Curtis: “Your what? A sign on bonus for some trash I picked up at the DPD? Getting airs here, spare parts? Who do you think you are to make demands like that?!”
Daniel: “Good question! I am the closest thing to the last remnant in this world of John Phillips’ y-chromosome! As such I won’t let a small scale timber merchant haggle me down! I’m prepared to do this all day, and it won’t be me getting up first from the cold. - By the way, I’m faster than you. Running away won’t help you.”
Curtis: “I don’t know about this John Phillips, but you are a son of a bitch!”
Daniel: “Oh, is that so? Who’s YOUR progenitor, huh?”
Curtis: “Dorothy McGavin, second daughter of Logan McGavin, head of the american branch of clan Gow! We practically built this city up after the English took it from the French!”
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Curtis’ words imply that his family has enabled the car industry to no small degree. And Daniel’s human family had owned a car dealership with a driving school on the side... In a way, they owe Curtis’ ancestors their wealth.
But the man is neither looking nor acting the part of an old money scion. He is only a spare, just like Daniel hadn’t really been considered a part of the family by his owners. In this, human and android are scarily alike.
Daniel does his best to cover his emotions up by a haughty retort:
Daniel: “I probably wouldn’t brag about having co-founded Detroit of all places... What did your other parent bring to the table?”
Curtis: “My f... father?”
Daniel: “Uh-huh!”
Curtis: “I don’t have... one of those.”
Daniel: “Divorce kid?”
Curtis: “Nope. Never had a dad. Gramps Logan filled the role, sort of... after driving away my sire.”
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Daniel: “So you never even knew the man? Like, you grew up with only half of a family? Oh my god, Curtis... I had no idea! Really not!”
Curtis: “Can I unsubscribe from your endangered species list, please? You’re pathetic!”
Daniel: “You never had... a father... Oh, Curtis...”
Curtis: “Could have been worse. I could have been John’s and the result of his sterling parenting.”
Daniel: “No joke.”
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Curtis: “Now let’s go! The trees aren’t cutting themselves.”
Daniel: “I won’t cut trees for you for the promise of maybe getting a compensation at the end of the month!”
Curtis: “You won’t have to. It just dawned me what position you’re much better suited for. Hint: It’s neither accounting nor negotiation.”
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powderblueblood · 28 days
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the old Hollywood au makes me want to rattle the bars of my enclosure like coco the gorilla so 6 and 19 for the old Hollywood gang?
interrogate me about my characters
goddammit you know how this gets my motor runnin!!!!!!
6. THEIR VICES (PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL)
steve harrington is a semi functional alcoholic with a fully functional penis that rarely gets hard these days without the help of a little playful roughhousing aka he loves getting hit in the face sexual style by women, especially unassuming women such as…
beadie pike, who likes playing human dress up but even better if her life sized dolls whimper when she harmlessly pricks them with a sewing pin. she loves a man who’s good about letting her tie him to his carved mahogsny four poster bed and letting her take control. she also loves caramels!
eddie munson (as in every universe) likes to be swept off his feet and treated a little special. even a country boy like him can turn a taste for the finer things in life, like caviar and blowjobs from flappers with double barrelled names.
pidge sterling likes guns, moonshine, cocaine and semi-public fornication (sometimes with blowjob giving flappers and company), otherwise known as puttin’ on the ritz. she’s a company man.
19. PEOPLE WHO THEY’VE HURT OR INDIRECTLY KILLED AND HOW IT AFFECTED THEM
steve harrington has three ex wives to his young name and sends them all extravagant easter baskets every year (always easter, for the nonsensical reason that christmas or valentines is too gauche), but nothing makes up for the fact that he was a bastard that became more and more evasive with each trip up the aisle. the flowers wilt, the fruit rots, yet each year he sends maude, dorothy and norma a weak but genuine attempt at an apology. like his father used to do. steve is not quite so low that he’d attempt to send one to his mother—the harrington estate must be full of them by now.
beadie pike still sees her family every sunday for tea, even if she doesn’t go to church with them. she lies and says that the studio keeps her at such strange hours that she attends a different service in west hollywood, and watches her sister bounce a baby on her knee, a baby that doesn’t belong to her. beadie brings her mother scarves of silk stolen from the wardrobe department in the hopes that she’ll look her in the eye again one day, but a woman of god will not be swayed by frills of vanity.
eddie munson doesn’t think much about the people he’s shot in the swinging wind of grand railroad larceny, except with the booze runs out and the night becomes thin and the car doesn’t tear fast enough through the arid valley he sometimes rides through. he knows this is a new lease on life, in the eternal sunshine of los angeles, but he’s still paying off an old lease in kentucky. each week, eddie tucks a quarter of his steadily growing pay check into an envelope bound for kentucky, addressed to wayne munson, care of allen munson and hopes the money doesn’t liquify into hooch before it reaches his ailing uncle’s hands. it’s the least eddie can do, stealing away into the night like that, all those years ago.
pidge sterling wonders if her family blame her for her late ex-husband’s demise. it’d be easy to—died of a broken heart after she left, or more accurately almost drowned face down in his own claw foot bathtub under mysterious circumstances. it would’ve been easy for his family to pin it on her too, but the fact that sterling senior is a district attorney probably made them reconsider. but, he survived, if now non-verbal and confined to a sick bed for the rest of his days. pidge knows the depth and extent of what a disappointment she is; not only an embarrassment to her family having left this once fine man, but a tragedy following it, seeing what became of him. that small, pathetic line of thinking makes pidge wish she had killed him. at least then her family could demonise her for something that was actually her fault, not something that was done to her within the confines of marriage.
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karenlacorte · 2 months
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Mary Jane By Dorothy Sterling.
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