#Sean watkins

[paulftompkins]

AVAILABLE NOW ON VOD!

VARIETOPIY’ALL recorded live at The Elysian Theatre

With special guests:

Mary Sohn

Tawny Newsome

Jana Schmieding

Sean & Sara Watkins

Andrew Daly

James Bladon

Matt Gourley

Mark McConville

Music by Jordan Katz

Original songs by Paul F. Tompkins & Jordan Katz

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#Varietopia #varietopiy'all #paul f. tompkins #mr. jordan katz #tawny newsome #mary sohn #james bladon #jana schmieding #mark mcconville #sara watkins #matt gourley #sean watkins #hee-haw #beckett mariner #hey randy #suoerego #pistol shrimps radio #nickel creek

[bluemakesgifs]

Nickel Creek perform "Where the Long Line Leads" on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 3/22/23

#Nickel Creek #Chris Thile #Sara Watkins #Sean Watkins #Jimmy Kimmel Live #Celebrants #Where the Long Line Leads

[awellrespectedcavetroll]

Wish I was as good at anything as Nickel Creek is at playing music.

#specifically playing music #nickel creek #Sara watkins #Chris thile #Sean watkins #bluegrass

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads”

Despite Sara Watkins and Chris Thile’s inimitable vocals and the mandolin and bass that accompany Sean Watkins’ acoustic guitar, the similarities between “Where the Long Line Leads” and “Johnny 99” are unmissable.

Nickel Creek pretty obviously - intentionally or not - nicked Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska cut for single No. 3 from the forthcoming (March 24) Celebrants.

And then, they super-charged the melody.

We’re gonna have a big time/where the long line leads/we only have a short time/so make it a big one/and instead of the list you’ll be on the marquee, the band sings.

It rocks as much as unplugged music can - but a touch too much, as these musicians, who rarely struggle, seem to have difficulty keeping up with themselves.

Grade card: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” - B-

3/10/23

#Youtube #nickel creek #chris thile #sara watkins #sean watkins #celebrants #i’m with her #watkins family hour #bruce springsteen #nebraska

[downthetubes]

Athenaeum Comic Art latest round of “Athenaeum Gives” offer for budding cartoonists closes soon

US-based independent comic art seller Athenaeum Comic Art is offering grants to new comic creators to help them develop their craft

US-based Athenaeum Comic Art is currently running its latest round of Athenaeum Gives, a project, open internationally, giving microgrants to cartoonists that are early in their careers. Applications must be made by 17th April 2023. Athenaeum Comic Art was started in 2021 by Sean Watkins, a lifetime comic book lover and original art collector. In his years of collecting, he noticed many…

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#Athenaeum Comic Art #Athenaeum Gives #Creating Comics #downthetubes News #Sean Watkins

[coffeejoshy]

Nickel Creek’s first studio album in almost a decade is a joyous romp about reconnection and shredding mandolins.

Playlist:

#music reviews #new music #soty #2023 music #folk #bluegrass #Americana folk #nickel creek #celebrants #sara watkins #chris thile #sean watkins #Spotify

[claudia1829things]

"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" Season One (2021) Episodes Ranking

Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes of the adventure series, "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS". Based on Jules Verne's 1973 novel and created by Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, the series stars David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch:

"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" SEASON ONE (2021) EPISODES RANKING

1. (1.03) "Episode 1.3" - Stuck on Yemen's west coast, gentleman traveler Phineas Fogg decides on a dangerous desert crossing with his valet Jean Passepartout, leaving news reporter and traveling companion Abigail Fortescue aka Fix in a place where even a fellow Englishwoman proves hostile. Lindsay Duncan and Faical Elkihel guest starred.

2. 1.05) "Episode 1.5" - Passepartout's knowledge of the Hong Kong colony proves useful when Fogg's finances are blocked by his London bank and Scotland Yard. Abigail's latest article threatens to humiliate Phileas at a party held in his honor at the Govenor's estate. Victoria Smurfit, Patrick Kennedy and Thomas Chaanhing guest starred.

3. (1.04) "Episode 1.4" - The traveling trio are stranded at a village in British India, where a wedding is about to take place and the groom, a deserter from the British Army has been arrested. Shivaani Ghai, Kiroshan Naidoo and Charlie Hamblett guest starred.

4. (1.07) "Episode 1.7" - While Fogg and his companions travel through the Rockies in a chartered stagecoah, he unwillingly lets famous lawman Bass Reeves and the latter's prisoner share the stagecoach, unaware the captive's cronies are in hot pursuit. John Light and Gary Beadle guest starred.

5. (1.08) "Episode 1.8" - In the season finale, Fogg's reunion with an old love, deadly dockside danger and red tape in New York City might spell failure for Fogg's "around the world" bet. Dolly Wells guest starred.

6. (1.01) "Episode 1.1" - In the series opener, Fogg is goaded by corrupt fellow Reform Club member Nyle Bellamy into a bet that he can circle the globe in just 80 days, despite never having been abroad before. He is accompanied by Passepartout and Abigail, who wants to record his journey. Their first major stop is Paris, where Fogg inadvertently foils an assassination attempt on the President of France, Adolphe Thiers, by rebels led by Passepartout's brother. Loic Djani, Richard Wilson and Masali Baduza guest starred.

7. (1.02) "Episode 1.2" - Fogg's self-respect is threatened by ridicule from Italian industrialist and widower Niccolo Moretti during a train journey to Brindisi, Italy; worrying Abigail and Passepartout before a disaster strikes. Giovanni Scifoni guest starred.

8. (1.06) "Episode 1.6" - Thanks to Bellamy's henchman Thomas Kneedling; Fogg, Abigail and Passepartout find themselves stranded on a desert island in the East China Sea. With the clock ticking, the trio must learn to forgive and work together to escape the island and resume their journey.

#around the world in 80 days #around the world in eighty days #Jules Verne #David Tennant #ibrahim koma #leonie benesch #phineas fogg #jason watkins #peter sullivan #lindsay duncan #around the world in 80 days 2021 #faical elkihel #victoria smurfit #british empire #patrick kennedy #anthony flanagan #thomas chaanhing #sean cameron michael #jane digby #shivaani ghai #charlie hamblett #kiroshan naidoo #bass reeves #gary beadle #john light #old west #dolly wells #gilded age #adolphe thiers #loic djani

[justforbooks]

For the opening scene of Shaft – the 1971 film that helped inaugurate the “blaxploitation” genre and spawned an Oscar-winning song in Isaac Hayes’s call-and-response classic Theme from Shaft – the director Gordon Parks mapped out to the actor Richard Roundtree exactly what would happen.

Roundtree – playing the New York detective John Shaft who “won’t cop out when there’s danger all about” as the song puts it – was to stride out of the subway near Times Square, tracked by assorted cameras positioned opposite him and at high angles. “I want you to walk across 42nd Street,” Parks said. “And I want you to own it.”

Own it he did. In his beige turtleneck and brown leather trench coat, Roundtree swaggers and weaves through the hubbub, looking bemused at a demonstration going on around him (which was nothing to do with the film itself but a real-life protest by the Gay Activists Alliance) and improvising the moment when he raises his middle finger at an impatient cabbie. “I did own it,” he reflected. “Much better than I could ever have imagined.”

It was the first major screen appearance for Roundtree, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, and the one that defined him for the rest of his life. He was cast after a meeting with Parks, a former photojournalist, who showed him a magazine advertisement and said: “We’re kind of looking for a guy who looks like this.” Serendipitously, it was an ad featuring Roundtree himself.

In optioning Ernest Tidyman’s 1970 novel, in which Shaft is hired to rescue a gangster’s kidnapped daughter, MGM had considered making the characters white. But Parks defended the novel’s vision, including its acute awareness of Black culture. He wanted audiences “to see the Black guy winning”.

That single-mindedness paid off, saving the troubled studio from bankruptcy. “Ghetto kids were coming downtown to see their hero, Shaft, and here was a Black man on the screen they didn’t have to be ashamed of,” the director said in 1972. “We need movies about the history of our people, yes, but we need heroic fantasies about our people, too. We all need a little James Bond now and then.”

John Shaft was suave and uncompromising, free to dispense justice his own way, and cut from a snazzier cloth than the nobler roles for which African-American stars such as Sidney Poitier were known. In 2000, the critic Elvis Mitchell noted that Roundtree’s “on-screen relish, which was itself a kind of dynamism, connected to an audience hunger. And he held the screen like an aristocrat.” Mitchell compared him to Sean Connery, identifying “the same outsize wellspring of charm and virility, but with a leavening … sense of self-deprecation”.

He did many of his own stunts. “We could get close with our helicopter shots because you could see it really was Roundtree and not a stunt driver,” said Parks. “We spent 12 days on that chase, and wrecked four cars, two boats and a mock-up chopper.”

The actor returned for two sequels, Shaft’s Big Score! (1972), which was also directed by Parks, and Shaft in Africa (1973), which, regrettably, was not. After a brief Shaft TV series in the same year, which Roundtree described as “an ugly point in my long, illustrious career”, he was done with John Shaft. For now.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, to Kathryn (nee Watkins), a cook and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a refuse collector and later church minister, Richard attended New Rochelle high school and won a football scholarship to Southern Illinois University. After working at Barneys department store, he modelled clothes and became one of the stars of the Ebony Fashion Fair, a touring spin-off of Ebony magazine. He then joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City and starred in its 1967 production of The Great White Hope.

Capitalising on the heat from Shaft, he joined Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner in the disaster movie Earthquake (1974), played the title character in Man Friday (1975) opposite Peter O’Toole as Robinson Crusoe, and appeared as a rakish carriage driver in the slavery-era TV drama Roots (1977).

In between TV series, including most recently Family Reunion on Netflix, he was in the action comedy City Heat (1984), set during the Depression and starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, the gruesome serial-killer hit Seven (1995) alongside Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, the Disney comedy George of the Jungle (1997) and Rian Johnson’s witty neo-noir thriller Brick (2005).

Having declined various Shaft-related offers, he finally relented and appeared in John Singleton’s reboot, Shaft (2000), with Samuel L Jackson as his nephew. He returned for a misguided comic riff on the franchise, also called Shaft (2019), which revealed that Jackson’s character was in fact his son, and brought in a new generation in the form of a sensitive, gun-hating grandson.

“Everybody wanted to be you for a very long time,” Jackson told Roundtree in a 2019 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “You defined what cool was – you had the look, the walk, the attitude.”

Pigeonholed by the part in the 1970s, Roundtree finally made peace with it. “Sometimes it’s much easier to ride the horse in the direction that it’s going,” he said.

He was married and divorced twice, to Mary Jane Grant, then Karen Ciernia. He is survived by two daughters, Kelli and Nicole, from his first marriage, and two daughters, Tayler and Morgan, and a son, John, from his second.

🔔 Richard Arnold Roundtree, actor, born 9 July 1942; died 24 October 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #richard roundtree #shaft #in memoriam

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” (“Kimmel”)

Overflowing with enthusiasm, Nickel Creek declared “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is “Where the Long Line Leads.”

Sara Watkins, Chris Thile and Sean Watkins performed the previously released third single from Celebrants on late-night television in the run up to the LP’s March 24 release. And though they were exuberant and then some, precision - particularly on the vocals - suffered for it.

Sara Watkins was a little hoarse - this was not just the usual, and terribly effective, breaking in her voice - while Thile and Sean Watkins had difficulty finding their sweet harmony spot.

The playing? Top-notch as always. But “Where the Long Line Leads” is one of those tracks whose vocal arrangement calls for strong singing in order to reach its potential.

Grade card: Nickel Creek - “Where the Long Line Leads” (“Kimmel”) - C

3/23/23

#Youtube #nickel creek #sara watkins #i’m with her #chris thile #the punch brothers #sean watkins #watkins family hour #celebrants #where the long line leads #jimmy kimmel live!

[fionaapplerocks]

Fiona Apple with Sarah and Sean Watkins backstage at the New Yorker show in 2007

#Fiona Apple #Watkins #2007

[more-better-words]

shuffled playlist meme

tagged by @subrosa03 Thank you!

Rules: you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your mp3 player, iTunes, Spotify, etc. on shuffle and list the first 10 songs and then tag 10 people. Rules: No Skipping!

Bridal Veil Falls - Chris Thile

World Turning - Fleetwood Mac

Let It Fall - Sean Watkins

Three to Get Ready - Dave Brubeck Quartet

Paper Boats - Darren Korb (Transistor OST)

Spark - Until the Ribbon Breaks

Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek (hey, I stole that one lol)

La Femme D'argent - Air

Wildfire - Seafret

Our Lady of the Underground - Hadestown Broadway Cast

Hmmm...tagging @iamstartraveller776, @pajamasecrets, @leliesblou, @spocksings, @killjoyfabulous, and anybody else who wants to play :D

#tag game

[animesickos]

The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes.

EPISODE 4: DR. FIONA FIREWIRE

In the year 42069, humanity survives in the last livable place on Earth: the domed cyberpunk dystopia Sicko City. In Sicko City, all citizens are required to jack in to cyberspace every day to view and engage with content generated by “Posters,” mega-celebrities who live like gods. But beneath its shimmering surface, five forgotten people are about to make history...

Dr. Fiona Firewire is a professor. Her area of study, anthropology, is the laughingstock of Sicko University. Her brilliance is infectious and undeniable, but has suffered years of disrespect and obscurity. Sicko City works hard to bury its history, but what might happen if someone was dedicated enough to bring the truth to light?

STARRING Gwynn Fulcher as Dr. Fiona Firewire Zoe Lee as Defrag Clemens Megan Scharlau as Mysterious Woman Sean Rose as Dr. Reeve Overclock Andrew Sherman as Port Browser Edward Selvey IV as Dome Guard Josh Watkins as Todd Kill Tom Harrison as Tom Dylan Mullins as Jordi

Additional voices by Isa Harrison, Sara McHenry, Stevie Mattos, John Hasier, Lily Mae Randles, Rayne Klar, Vince White, Scott Blaha, Cory Wilmarth, Brandon Kirkman, Em Havery, Hobert Thompson, Marc Harrison, Josh McVety, John Keogh, Whitney Reynolds, Alice Kyra, and Sarah McClintock.

Episode 4 art is by KC Green.

Sicko Shock 2 is recorded where possible by Geramie Causley at Mystery Street Studios in Chicago Illinois.

Audio editing is by Eric Garneau.

Special thanks to Chelsea Harfoush, Aleks M, Tom and Sara McHenry, and Adam Goron.

Sicko Shock 2 was made possible by support from our Patrons. You can support Anime Sickos at patreon.com/animesickos

Sicko Shock 2 is written and directed by Tom Harrison.

#anime sickos #please listen to us or we'll die #comedy #podcast #audio drama #sicko shock 2

[waheelawhisperer]

I can't draw for shit so my catalyst isn't art. Instead, have a nice list of sea shanties in hopes of attracting a Specter (the Unchained) of your own: THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN

Wellerman - Nathan Evans

Santiano - Santiano

Drunken Sailor - Irish Rovers

Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns

Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers

Keelhauled - Alestorm

Leave Her Johnny - Sean Dagher/Nils Brown/Michiel Schrey

Tyme Flies When You're Havin' Rum - Pirates For Sail

Over and Under - Colm McGuinness

Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers

Bound For South Australia - Fisherman's Friends

Randy Dandy Oh (metal ver.) - Jonathan Young feat. Caleb Hyles/annapantsu/RichaadEB/Colm McGuinness

John Kanaka - Fiddler's Green

Cape Cod Girls - The Captain's Beard

Santiana - Seth Staton Watkins

#arknights #specter #wife

[luxcassidysstuff]

ronancetober day 4! || Horror Movie AU

this is gonna be a fun one! Inspired by the movie “Scream,” and an additional character from "Fear Street: 1994," let’s do this!

Late one night, just a few weeks shy of Halloween, when the air smelled sweet and orange and red leaves were falling off the trees, Heather Watkins was getting ready for a cozy night in with her favorite scary movies.

Heather was known for being a horror movie fanatic. She's seen everything from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" to Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th." She loved the rush of adrenaline the jump scares gave her, and the feeling of watching the killer's truth come to light.

But what Heather didn't know, despite her priding herself in being "the final girl," was that tonight all she ever knew about horror movies was about to change.

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~earlier that day~

Walking into Scoops Ahoy with an uncharacteristic bounce to her step, Nancy Wheeler leans against the front counter and dings the bell about a hundred times before Steve appears, sliding the glass window doors that separate the backroom and the counter open. Steve Harrington was all too familiar with this situation: Nancy would show up randomly throughout the day, ding the bell a million times, make puppy dog eyes at Steve, and eventually get let into the backroom where she and Robin would talk for hours.

However, today felt different, and Steve couldn’t quite put a finger on why. Nancy was practically vibrating. “What’s up with you? You seem....” She was rocking on the balls of her feet, craning her neck to peer into the backroom, “preppier then usual.” With a big smile, Nancy snaps her attention back to Steve. 

“No reason. Just really looking forward to seeing Robin today, that’s all.” Nancy steadies herself, pointing to the backroom. “Yeah yeah go ahead.” Steve replies, and as she makes her way into the back Steve shakes his head, chuckling a bit. “I do not get paid enough for this.” 

Nancy opens the heavy door that leads to where her most important and memorable conversations are held. Looking around she finds a few maps laid out on the table in the middle of the room. All marked up with red circles and “x’s” and lines connecting one place to another. Nancy smiles to herself when she comes across an “x” dragged over a certain neighborhood, remembering that night and how much fun her and Robin had.

As if on cue, Robin Buckley in all her Scoops Ahoy gloriousness comes bounding through the door where deliveries are made. She’s out of breath, but the tiniest of smirks appear on her face when she spots the curly haired girl.

“Jesus, Robin, did you run here?” Nancy frets over her girlfriend, walking up to her and checking every inch of her body to make sure nothing is injured or no bones are missing. Robin catches her breath finally, playfully swatting Nancy’s hands away. “I was double checking something, you know that thing you gave me yesterday at school? I was making sure it was still there.” Robin watches Nancy’s face light up, the newer circles on one of the maps making a lot more sense now.

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Heather glides through the kitchen, shaking the instant popcorn on the stove every so often. She’s planning on inviting a friend over to watch the movies with her, figuring that it would be more fun with someone else. She sets out a few drinks on the coffee table, a few bowls of snacks and candies and returns to tend to the now buttery smelling popcorn.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the phone rings. Heather jumps at the sudden sound, laughing to herself as she picks up the receiver. “Watkins residence.”

A gruff voice appears on the receiving end of the phone, “Hello there.” Heather pulls the phone away from her ear to stare at it, as if the person who answered was standing right in front of her. Lifting the phone back up, Heather slowly answers, “Hello, do I know you?” 

“I don’t know, do you?” The voice replies, and Heather can hear a sort of echo after the last word. She scrunches up her face, thinking hard about who could possibly be calling at this time of night, then remembers her friend. “Amber, is that you? That’s funny thing you’re doing with your voice.”

“Oh so you like my voice, that’s good to know.” Heather walks around her kitchen, checking on the popcorn and just keeping herself busy while she talks on the phone. “Why did you call me? Aren’t you supposed to be on your way over here?” 

“I’m walking there now, I was just bored. Couldn’t wait to see you again.” 

Heather laughs, “Well that’s sweet of you.” The voice lets out a throaty chuckle and Heather could have sworn her heart dropped into stomach. She’s heard that laugh before, but it couldn’t possibly be who she’s thinking about. Shaking her head, Heather leans against her kitchen counter and twirls the phone cord around her fingers. “So, did you wanna talk about something, Amber?” 

There’s a pause, then, “I’d like to know...”

“Yes?” She’s leaning into the phone, trying to hear her friend better.

“Do you like scary movies?” 

Heather audibly laughs. She can’t believe that her friend is actually asking her this. “Amber, you know I do. It’s all I watch!” The person on the other end chuckles a bit. “Perfect. What’s your favorite scary movie?” She takes a minute to think about this, going through the many movie titles in her head that she can remember. Landing on one she likes, Heather gasps excitedly, “Child’s Play. That one is so cool.” 

“The one with the possessed doll, right? Good choice.” With every word that’s said, something begins to eat away at Heather’s insides. Something feels off. “Amber?” No response. Heather’s heart drums in her chest. “Are you really Amber?”

“Whatcha doin’ tonight?” She freezes. This wasn’t Amber. The other person she could think of would be Jason Carver, the town’s favorite high school basketball player, prankster on the side. With this thought, Heather visibly relaxes. It’s just Jason, she tells herself, nothing to worry about.

“Well, Jason,” Heather smiles, proud of herself that she figured out who it really was, “I’m planning on watching some movies.” 

“What movie?”  They says. 

“Oh just Gremlins, some kid movie that Amber wanted to watch.” Heather walks over to the tv on flicks on the VHS player, the box whirring to life before her. 

“That’s a scary movie. You sure you can handle it?” She laughs loudly, throwing her back. “Of course I can handle--” The person on the end chuckles darkly. Heather’s stomach drops. “Wait, Jason knows me,” the person just keeps laughing, making Heather’s pulse spike, “Who is this?” 

“I’ll tell you my name if you tell me yours.” 

Heather was almost shaking in fear. “No. No, I don’t think so.”

“Awe c’mon, we’re having a good time, aren’t we, Heather?” Her blood runs cold. Her arms and legs feel numb. 

“How do you know my name?” There’s a pause, like the person is considering their next words very carefully. “You said it when you picked up the phone.” 

“No, I didn’t. I said Watkins residence. Who is this?” 

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Flipping through the maps, Nancy and Robin chatter away about what scary movie they’re going to watch tonight. It’s kind of like a tradition for them, every other week they get together and watch a scary movie, laughing at all the gore and screaming girls. Tonight, however, Nancy had the perfect movie to watch.

“Oh, Rob, I almost forgot! I picked out the absolute perfect movie for tonight.” Robin swivels in her chair, facing the girl and giving her her full attention. “You remember the one that came out last year? About the bookstore killings?” Robin stares at her girlfriend for a minute, trying to remember which movie she could possibly be talking about. Nancy rolls her eyes playfully and makes an open-close motion with her hands, representing a book. Robin’s eyes widen in recognition. 

“Oh my god yes! Nance, that’s an amazing idea!” Robin, not one for containing her emotions, grabs Nancy’s face and kisses her. “You are brilliant.” She says, after pulling away for air. Nancy blushes, ducking her face a little at the compliment. “When do you wanna come over tonight? I was thinking around ten or eleven, but if that’s too late then you can get there earlier.” 

The rambling stops short when there’s a loud crash outside. Robin looks over at Nancy, who shrugs, and decides to open the windows to find where the noise came from. A smug smiles appears on her face, and she snaps a bunch of times to get Nancy’s attention. Both girls watch intently as Steve tries to help a tallish girl gather her books that fell out of her arms. She’s apologizing way too much, her cheeks flushed with red heat, and Steve just nervously rambles as the tension between them grows more awkward. 

“You find a new girlfriend, Stevie?” Robin calls from her spot behind the windows. Steve and the girl whip their heads around to follow the voice. Steve stammers more, while the girl turns bright red. A deep throaty laugh escapes Robin, and she watches as the girl picks up the rest of her books and scurries away. Steve scowls at Robin, who shrugs innocently, pulling Nancy backwards into the room. “C’mon, Nance, we’ve got work to do.” Nancy smirks at Robin and they retreat to their own little sanctuary.  

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Heart thundering in her chest, Heather waits for an answer.

“We’ve been talking for this long and that’s your first red flag? Damn, Heather, I thought you’d be smarter than this.” Their voice sounds slippery, hiding a smug look behind the safety of the phone. Heather can’t take this anymore. 

“That’s it. I’m hanging up.” But the person had other ideas.

“Wait! Don’t hang up on me.” 

“Bye!” 

Heather slams the phone back onto the receiver, taking slow deep breaths. For someone who loves adrenaline rushes, this is not what she had in mind when she planned a horror movie marathon. Pacing back and forth in the kitchen, running her fingers through her hair nervously, Heather awaits the knock on the door signifying that her friend finally arrived to her house. Safely. Instead, the phone rings again, startling Heather into a near heart attack.

Staring at it as it rings, Heather’s curiosity gets the best of her. She picks it up again, and holds her breath.

“Helllooo Heatherrrr.” Letting out a shaking breath, Heather closes her eyes.

“Listen, asshole, I don’t know who you are or how you know me, but I’m really not in the mood for you’re twisted pranks.” 

That deep laugh pours into Heather’s ear. A shiver runs down her spine. She still can’t quite figure out where she’s heard that laugh before, but now is not the time to think about that. She needs to get this guy off her back.

“Oh, but we’re just having a little fun.” 

“I don’t think it’s fun anymore.” Heather went to go hang up again.

“Heather! Don’t hang up on me!” 

“Oh my god, I swear I’m gonna call the police!” Not only is Heather is scared out of her mind, but now she’s getting really pissed off.

“They wouldn’t make it in time.” She wanted to say something, to scream at the guy and tell him to fuck off, but the words caught in her throat. For the first time in her life, Heather Watkins was terrified.

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“Nancy! Finally! I’ve been waiting hours for you. Look, there’s a dent in where I’ve been pacing.” Robin points to the carpet, with nothing but a few dirt spots on it. Nancy smiles endearingly at her. Walking up to the frazzled looking girl, Nancy slowly wraps her arms around Robin’s waist, pulling her out of her chaotic head. Robin sighs into Nancy’s arms, resting her head on top of Nancy’s. 

After a moment of peace, Nancy softly whispers into Robin’s ear, hair tickling Robin’s exposed neck, “You ready for some fun tonight, Robbie?"

Robin smiles into Nancy's hair. "You have no idea."

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"What do you want!" Heather cried, desperation dripping from every word.

"To hear you SCREAM, Heather Watkins!" Heather lets out a shaky gasp, stumbly backwards into the kitchen table as if she's been punched in the gut. She goes to slam the phone down, completely and utterly done with this. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

She froze, stunned into paralysis. "How'd you know I was going to hang up?"

"Lucky guess?"

Heather wrapped her arms around herself, trying to soothe her nerves. "My friend will be here any minute. She plays lacrosse."

"Oooh I'm so scared." The person replies, mocking Heather's shrill voice.

"I'm serious! She can throw as hard as she can hit!"

"Tell me something, Heather," there's a long pause, only the sounds of heaving breathing on both ends, "why do you think I'd be afraid of some measly lacrosse player, when I've already beat her here?"

For the second time tonight, Heather's blood ran cold. Her mouth went dry. Her vision blurred and all she could feel was the beating of her racing heart.

"Where are you?" She whispers, not trusting her voice anymore.

"You won't have to find out. That is, if you play a little game for me. Will you do that, Heather?"

Taking in a shaky breath, Heather balls her hand into a first. "Y-yes. I can do that."

"That's a good girl. Now, you say you're a horror fanfic, right?"

Not surprised anymore by anything this guy says, Heather nods her head, "yes."

"Good. Let's start there. Can you tell me who the killer was in Psycho?"

Heather squeezed her eyes shut, trying hard to rack her brain for the plot of the old movie.

"C'mon, Heather. You know this one. It was your favorite movie in middle school."

Her mind is blank. She can't think past the woman getting stabbed to death in the shower.

"Tick-tock, Heather. Time's running out. Tick, tock, tick, tock--"

"Norman Bates! It was Norman Bates!"

"Correct. That was a close one, could've been bad." Heather takes a deep breath, trying to fill her lungs with air as she hyperventilates on the kitchen floor. "You're doing great. Now for the real question."

"No, please just please let me go!" Heather screams into the phone. She's sobbing by now, hot tears streaming down her face. And for a split second she thinks, this is it. She's done for.

"We can't stop now! We've just started!"

"Please, I'll do anything! Just please stop!" Heather hiccuped through sobs.

"Just a little bit longer, Heather. A little longer and we'll let you on the hook."

Heather shuddered, she paws at her face trying to wipe away the tears. "Do-don't you mean 'off'?"

"Sure, Heather." The person whispers, making the hair on the back of Heather's neck prick up. "Heatherrrr."

"Yeah?" She replies quietly. She could practically hear the dark smile on the person's face. "What was the first scary movie to air on tv?"

Heather knew this. She'd seen this movie a thousand times as a kid, she knew every word, every movement of every character. She knew this. But she couldn't remember the name of it. And she knew that--

"Time is running out, Heather."

"I don't know." She whispers.

"C'mon, yes you do."

"Just let me go already!"

"What was the movie." They demanded, scaring her even more than she already was.

"Frankenstein!" Heather shouted, praying for dear life that this ridiculous answer would save her life.

"That's." Her stomach drops again. "A." Her ears flood with the sound of her racing heart, visibly hammering through her shirt. It's silent for a minute too long, and Heather thinks she might be off the hook. Until, "MISS!" They scream into the phone, causing Heather to pull it away from her face.

"Please please just stop and let me go? I answered the other questions right, doesn't that count for something!" Heather pleads, trying her best to choke back sobs. They tsk into the receiver, chuckling again.

"I like you, Heather. I really do. And it's such a shame, but we can't let you go, not after you've failed the test."

Heather is up and pacing around her kitchen. This can't be happening. What is she going to do? She can't think clearly, her head is fuzzy. She needs an out. What do they do in the horror movies? Shit, what do they do?? Bargain!

"Please just, just one more question. I'll get it right this time I promise! One more question!" She holds her breath, listening to rustling sounds of the person on the phone.

"Hmmm....alright, Heather. I'll give you one last chance to redeem yourself. If you get this question right, we'll let you go, and this will all be some fantastic nightmare." Heather lets out a shaky breath. She's done it, she's saved herself. She'll be okay. "If you get it wrong," they husk, her face paling, "Well, just look at what happened to the kids at Crystal Lake." Heather gasps, gripping the phone so tight her knuckles turned white. "Heather."

"Y-yes?"

"Where's your backpack?"

Heather's eyes widened, the blood drained from her face. She slowly peels away from the phone, turning her head to look at the couch, where she always puts her backpack after school. However this time, the couch was bare. Within seconds, Heather dropped the phone and scrambled to the front door, her sweaty hands trying to grasp the doorknob so she can finally get the fuck out of there. She heard a click, and snapped her head in the direction of the sound. Behind her, the backyard lights flicked on, and Heather let out a horrid blood curdling scream that ripped through the entire house.

Just outside, so delicately placed, was Amber, her best friend of five years, tied up by a rope to a chair. Blood pooling under her, gashes and various cuts decorated her body. Her throat, completely ripped apart.

Heather threw up, all over the floor. She couldn't stop screaming at the sight of her dead friend. She turned back to the door and tried with all her might to pull it open. And it did. But not by her doing.

Standing in the doorway of her fancy white house, was someone a few inches taller than her, wearing a dark black cloak and a ghostface mask. Heather stumbled backwards, sobbing and coughing and begging for her life.

Her foot caught on something behind her and she reached out, instinct over fear, grabbing the person with the mask and pulling them down with her. In the process, ripping their mask off.

Heather stopped screaming, and stammered to say something. Anything.

Looming over her, with a smirk plastered on their face, covered in freckles and short brown hair disheveled, was someone Heather never in a million years thought would do something so heinous as this.

"Robin Buckley?"

Robin's face lit up at the recognition, her teeth showing through her smile. A psychotic sparkle flashes in her piercing blue eyes. "Nice to see you again, Heather. Thanks again for lending me that book on the Zodiac Killer. Really came in clutch." Robin winked at Heather, and Heather got up to her feet, spun around ready to sprint out the back door, and crashed into something - someone - else. Heather steps back, taking in the blood covered black cloak and dripping red knife held tightly in their hand.

They laughed, and slowly pulled off their matching ghostface mask. Shiny white teeth flashed Heather charmingly. Curly hair sticking to their face from sweat. Their eyes gleamed as bright and insane as Robin's.

"Nancy. You too?" Heather's voice came out hoarse. She couldn't believe her eyes. Nancy was in her biology class. She was a good student. She was nice.

"Never judge a book by its cover, Heather. Didn't I teach you that?" Nancy says condescendingly, narrowing her eyes at the terrified girl in front of her.

"Nance, I'm loving this bloody look on you, you are incredibly hot right now, but can we please get to the good part of the movie?" Robin bounces on her feet, bottom lip sucked into her teeth in anticipation. Nancy chuckled at her very eager, yet impatient, girlfriend.

"Hold her still, baby. This is gonna be a fun one."

#ronancetober #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #robin x nancy #ronance #ronance is endgame #stranger things #stranger things fic #scream #horror movies #scream movie

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Drew Sidora Pittman (Jordan; born May 1, 1985) is an actress and singer. She is known for her recurring role as Chantel in That’s So Raven, as Lucy Avila in Step Up, and as Tionne Watkins in CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, Blessed & Cursed, and The Game. She joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

She completed numerous industrial films and was the youngest member of the “Hook Players Theater Ensemble” in Hollywood with residence at the Richard Pryor Theater. At age 9, she appeared in Divas.

She has guest-starred in Girlfriends as a High School Girl Group recruiter, as well as Without a Trace, and What I Like About You. She has appeared in the feature films White Chicks and Never Die Alone, and made a cameo appearance in GLC’s single “Honor Me”. She starred as Genesis “Genny” Winters in One Love. She co-starred in Line Sisters.

She featured on the Step Up (Original Soundtrack) with two songs entitled “For The Love” and “Til The Dawn”. She featured on the Three Can Play That Game soundtrack with a song entitled “Three Can Play”. She signed a record deal with Slip-n-Slide Records. The album’s first single titled “Juke It” was released. She played Trey Songz’s lover in the video for “Last Time” of the album Trey Day. She appears in Yung Berg’s “Sexy Lady” video as the girlfriend. She danced in Sean Paul’s “Give It Up to Me” video. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Review: Dead Simple - Peter James (Roy Grace, 1)

Title: Dead Simple Author: Peter James Series: Roy Grace, 1 Release Date: December 2005 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 3.5 stars

Favourite character: Emma-Jane Least favourite character: Mark

Mini-Review: I'm not entirely sure what to make of this. I didn't hate it, but the writing felt… all over the place in some ways. Or maybe it was just me, but there were a lot of plot twists that were explained in a passing sentence. Other than that and some of the more scandalous descriptions of sex or an autopsy, I did enjoy this. Numerous plot twists had me going: EXCUSE ME?!?!!?

Fan Cast: Roy Grace - Matt Smith Glenn Branson - John Boyega Nick Nicholls - Dino Fetscher Bella Moy - Charlie Murphy Emma-Jane "EJ" Boutwood - Erin Kellyman Cleo Morey - Vanessa Kirby Alison Vosper - Jemma Redgrave Michael Harrison - Harry Treadaway Ashley Harper - Samara Weaving Mark Warren - Harry Lloyd Gill Harrison - Miranda Richardson Phil Wheeler - Sean Gilder Joe Tindall - Jason Watkins Harry Frame - David Bradley Vic - Noah Taylor Sandy Grace - Juno Temple

#runilaposts #series: roy grace #book: dead simple #author: peter james #genre: mystery #vibe: book review