#alt–righty now!

[versacethotty]

well

#their fanbases… #alt–righty now!

[laplacesdevil]

wonderous realization made some while ago

#FNF OC #Chico FNF #Objectum #Phone Arts #a week or so ago i came to the realization that i may be objectum n now im projecting that onto chico.. he can be gun polyamorous as a trea #if u dont read the alt text; his guns' names are lefty + righty! any pronouns #also sona jumpscare! #Reject Trio FNF

[in1-nutshell]

Hello again! I was wondering if I could two requests? Both involved batmobile buddy again.

So with the first request: Buddy has been on earth with team for a few weeks following her reuniting with Ratchet, Sari and Bumblebee notice that Buddy and Ratchet might actually like each other more than just friends. So they become Ratchet's unofficial wingmen but they are really bad at it.

And the second request is that Decepticons mostly Megatron find out Buddy is also still alive. And he is really angry because like 'I thought got rid of her permanently during the war!?' Context: The decepticons are the Buddy when missing. They blow up her ship but the stasis pod was still intact where it crash landed on earth. And Buddy's things for communication where also destroyed.

Thanks! Love your work :)

All righty! Here is the first request! The second request will follow shortly.

Hope you enjoy!

Bumblebee and Sari trying to set Ratchet up with Batmobile Buddy

SFW, Platonic, Romance, Cybertronain reader

TFA

It was a nice change when Buddy decided to stay with Team Prime on Earth.

She claimed it was because there was more work to be done here than on Cybertron right now.

She did contact Ultra Magnus letting him know that she was online.

Buddy appearing on the screen from Ultra Magnus’s office.

“Ultra Magnus sir.”--Buddy

“Buddy?”--Magnus

“You sound surprised sir.”--Buddy

“I thought…”--Magnus

“Such little faith Commander. I thought you had a little bit more trust in your former bodyguard to know it takes a lot more to keep me down.”--Buddy

“It is good to see that you are in good spirits Buddy. Will you be coming back to Cybertron with the Elite Guard?”--Magnus

Buddy looks at Sentinel who is looking at himself in the glass.

“…I am going to stay with Team Prime if that’s all right sir. There is more work to be done here.”--Buddy

Magnus nods.

“Very well. But do remember you will always have a place here on Cybertron.”--Magnus

Buddy nods and turns the video off.

Ratchet insisted on Buddy staying in the Plant for the first few days to adjust to everything.

To the humans and to their new alt mode.

Buddy liked the sleek car she chose but wasn’t too sure why so many humans called her ‘Batmobile’. Perhaps it was a human saying or something.

The two were often found chatting together.

The team had never seen another bot talking so casually with Ratchet.

And Ratchet not responding so sarcastically or rudely.

It was as if another bot had replaced their medic.

Sari and Bumblebee did a little digging on Buddy and Ratchet one day while they were on the Elite Guard’s ship.

The Jettwins help them snoop around for anything on the database.

The four of them eventually stumbled upon a video that had Ratchet and Buddy in the background.

Where they… hugging?

They were hugging.

…a rather long one too…

Was that a long hand hod too?!

Bee and Sari now have a new ship.

And they are determined to get it to sail.

The duo decides to get some information on Buddy.

“Any luck finding her?”--Sari

“Nope. She’s an even better hider than Prowl! Not to mention how quiet she is.”--Bumblebee

“I think we need to change tactic’s.”--Sari

“Like what? Ask Ratchet?”--Bumblebee

“Bingo!”--Sari

“… All right!”--Bumblebee

Bumblebee goes up to Ratchet.

“Hey Doc-bot I’ve gotta question for ya.”--Bumblebee

“What is it? Can’t you see—”--Ratchet

“Do you like Buddy?”--Bumblebee

Ratchet drops his wrench while trying to form a complete sentence which ends up with him kicking Bumblebee out of the med bay.

“Well?”--Sari

“He didn’t say no!”--Bumblebee

The duo then decides to take the fate of these two into their own hands.

They try and set up a candle ‘dinner’ for the pair.

That was romantic enough, right?

Buddy and Ratchet walking into the room filled with candles.

“Oh for—this better not be one of those internet challenges again! I swear I am not pumping someone else’s fuel tank again if I find those darn Skittles in there!”--Ratchet

Buddy and Ratchet grab a fire extinguisher and extinguish the flames and ‘dinner’.

So, they try a different approach.

They wanted to play some romantic music to set the mood.

The problem with that was that they could decide which song to to put on the speakers and accidentally put on death metal screaming.

Ratchet and Buddy casually read some data pads.

On the speakers…

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Ratchet and Buddy jump at the screaming.

“WHAT IN THE ALL SPARK!”--Ratchet

Buddy swiftly slings Ratchet over her shoulders and gets him out of the plant.

“You think that worked?”--Sari

Buddy comes back with a large iron pipe in both servos.

“SHOW YOURSELVES GHOST’S!”--Buddy

“Abort, abort, abort!”--Bumblebee

The final attempt was love letters.

They both placed the love letters outside their rooms and waited.

This had to work!

There was no way this wasn’t going to work!

Buddy reading her note.

Bumblebee and Sari are watching from a far.

Ratchet walks up to Buddy.

“Is it working?”--Bumblebee

“Maybe?”—Sari

They both tun back to Buddy.

“You got a letter too?”--Ratchet

“Yes, and besides the horrible handwriting, these are definitely threat notes.”--Buddy

“What?”--Ratchet

“What?!”—Bumblebee and Sari

“Don’t worrying Ratchet, I’ll keep an optic out for anything suspicious.”--Buddy

“Sure, you go do that then.”--Ratchet

Ratchet and Buddy go their separate ways as Bee and Sari die a little bit inside.

Bee and Sari just about give up for the day.

Maybe another day it’ll happen.

Meanwhile Buddy and Ratchet are watching them from a far with servos intertwined.

“Don’t you think we should tell them we’re Conjunx Endura?”--Buddy

“And spoil the fun? No, let them try and figure things out.”—Ratchet

Buddy chuckles a bit slightly squeezing his servo while watching the kids try to go over more plans for the couple.

#transformers x reader #maccadam #bot buddy #tfa x reader #tfa x platonic reader #tfa sari #tfa bumblebee #tfa ratchet #tfa ratchet x reader

[ladykailitha]

WIP Wednesday Game

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants.

Here’s how it works:

In a reblog (or new post w/ rules attached), post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to post!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an event fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. If you tag me in your post, I will send you an ask request!

If you’re reading this, you’re invited!

If you see someone posting a WIP Wednesday Game snippet, send them an ask! Make them write.

Stole this from @kedreeva because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to work on. My only problem is that I tend to file name what the title is so I can find it easier, so...here’s what they were called before I titled them.

“File” Names

Rockstar AU part 16

Soulmate AU chapter 1

Reconnect AU part 12

Boy with a Bat book 2

Snippet

From Rockstar AU

Steve was so excited that he wasn’t watching where he was going and ran into someone coming out of the studio.

“Shit,” Steve murmured. “I’m sorry.”

“You’re Steve Harrington, right?” the very British voice asked.

Steve looked up to see Luke Spiller standing there. “Uh, yeah...that’s me.”

“I really loved the metal arrangement of our song,” Luke said. “And if you decide to ever get away from pop crap, have your agent give our agent a call.”

Steve huffed out a short laugh. “Yeah. That would be amazing. I’m actually working on a alt rock album right now. So if you’re in town for a bit, I’d love to work with you.”

“Killer!” Luke said. “Keep in touch, darling.”

He walked off with a swagger in his step that Steve only wished he had. He immediately pulled out his phone.

*

All righty, my darlings! It is that most wonderful time of the week! Send in asks, make me write! I just have one more chapter to go on Rockstar. Help me finish it today. Send in as many as you like!

#My writing #stranger things #steddie #wip wednesday

[labcoatsaresexy]

for reasons unknown to me, I was reading an right-wing essay that is attacking the CLT, or Classical Learning Test (a sorta-alt-righty christian nationalist rejiggering of the SAT, recently mandated for Florida teenagers) for being too woke and insufficiently white.

The whole essay is a trip, which I'm not gonna get into, but part of the author's point is that the classics (by which he means variously all sorts of European writing from roughly 1000BC-1600 CE) are incompatible with the values of the modern left. Which, sure, okay, that's an interesting argument. Don't know if it's true, but it's interesting.

But as an example, the author writhes:

"The poem from whose shadow the classical tradition can never escape is The Iliad... [In contrast to modern ideas about equality] it is a hymn to the excellence—the virtue—of a hero whose power surpassed that of a whole generation of heroes. Achilles and Odysseus alike—the two epic heroes, found no way to live as heroes worthy of worship while avoiding death."

Now, I'm no classicist, but I'm pretty darn sure that the take away from "sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles/ murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses/ hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls/ great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion..." is not oh wow Achilles was such an upstanding dude deserving of worship!

#not to mention the ridiculousness of saying: “oh classics can't be read from a leftist framework” #when by your own admission “the classics” covers a whole host of different writing across over 2000 years #hundreds of distinct cultures #multiple differing economic systems #and at least 4 different mainstream religions #classics #alt-right #white nationalism #Classical learning test #fuck desantis

[fly-sky-high-09]

Since I've been on the "man people hating on SU so much was fucked up" thoughts for few months now, yt suggested me a video that goes on about the said hate

I didn't see all of the hate videos at the time but this is. This is really so alt-righty/bigoted/racist/terfy, it's incredible it didn't hit me as a realization sooner, I just thought people were creepy haters who enjoyed seeing fans cry about it

standing back and looking at it really makes sense why this show like SU was targeted the way it was, I just didn't dwell into the hateful stuff enough to realize BY WHO

#and what's worse is how many youngsters at the time were picked up by the said 'haters' #and got on the 'su hate' train without realizing WHY those teens or adults were making the hate videos #because all the 'problems' they list in the show are supposedly about how bad it was #but the points made were literally from people who would hurt minorities #how many stuck around to hating women and fem presenting and 'bad' animation done outside of US etc. #it's all undercover altright shit #they took the chance at the fact that the show wasn't perfect and that it suffered from weird airing schedule and rush #and fucking held it like a holy grail of reasons to be racist homophobic etc. #like goddamn

[evilvarric666-archive]

Shocking number of posts on this site are just "oh so now you're judging people for the things they do and say? Puritans."

#''oh so now it ''reflects poorly on me'' if im sexually attracted to the alt righty gamer villain from the batman?'' #i mean a little bit? yeah.

[intooned]

I'm sure you have already heard of r4cs0, as he is easily the most homophobic cringe blog on Tumblr. But it will be people like him who ruin Tumblr for the rest of us. As soon as tumblr+ was announced he vowed to sign up for it and all the alt-right Trump supporters who follow him have said they will gladly pay money so that he can "keep triggering the SJWs!"

First of all, that's just sad. Paying money just to hurt other people. And B, then this site and its staff will get exactly what it wanted: another cringe hotspot caught between extreme Leftists bitching about literally everything. If they can't force you to think what they think, then you're just wrong.

And extreme Right-wingers, turning every damned thing open-minded, critically obtuse, or emotionally nuanced into a joke. Like a bunch of douche-bros afraid of feelings, and queenbee-itches getting their friends to laugh at you.

This site is like a playground, but who has fun when all the adults charge you for playing with their kids? There will only be two major types of users:

Content creators, begging for donations from reluctant users who didn't want Post+, while being forced to generate add revenue,(and getting pennies for it). Opening themselves up to copyright legal bs. Ask any YouTuber! They'll just be used and thrown away, and damnit they don't deserve that, not for doing what makes people happy.

And asshat trollers and lolers just here to get their attention fix. Who don't and won't care about fandoms, their content creators, or the communities here that just want someplace to get away from life's crap and revel in what they love for a while.

Remember what YouTube used to be? Blissing out on videos for hours~. Finding something exciting, funny, or just "WTF???" A constant, seamless stream of new things you'd had no clue about and that other people made and did.

But now you are regularly ripped out of every video and unceremoniously punched in the face by shameless adverts and sociopaths in the comments being contrary, just to get a reaction to fuel their sad lives.

And if that's what Tumblr wants, then honestly... when has any establishment on the verge of monetization ever listened to the people who stuck by it? Websites, gaming companies, movies, it's all the same. Monetization trumps all! Even the threat of utter failure.

The truth of the matter is... if Tumblr wants to go through with Post+, it will, no matter what we want. And I for one won't stick around to watch the staff falling all over themselves trying to keep the site from degrading after we blatantly told them what would happen.

Personally I've been looking into packing up and moving to Amino, not that I have much to offer aside from wit and charm, but I've heard great things about the communities. It could be like when we all joined Tumblr for the first time! Bright-eyed and bubbly smiles, excited to meet and mingle with people who get you, and are weird too.

*I don't know who "r4cs0" is, but my Alt-Righty-Spidey-Tighties(trademark pending) are a' tinglin' so I'm sure I don't wanna. Appreciate the heads up, but keep it away sweets. I've got a sharp tongue and I'm not afraid to pick a fight.*

#post+ #post+ discourse #my first non-anti ask🤗 #thanks for the heads up sweets

[seaquestions]

uhh hey s/yboy jokes are transmisogynistic, started in altright/fash circles. the joke originated with "haha if you eat soy foods youll get estrogen and turn into a trans woman haha youll be a tr/p" and then other alt righties/fash took it seriously, which was memed to hell by tme ppl who decided for some fucking reason that calling each other that was funny and "reclaiming". sorry if im being like.. a killjoy but its super uncomfortable to see jokes about it on my dash and i wanted to lyk 🙁

oh damn thats not great!! ill delete it now

#asks #Anonymous

[bi-kisses]

The whole argument started because she called a baby cough medicine ad sexist against women (cause it was addressed to mums) n also im tired of finding problematic elements EVERYWHERE. Also mentioning the west and suggesting to google for proof is she doesnt believe me is now 'rightie' sjjsksjd i dont want to get into any debates anymore this is how it all goes

it's the same with my family, my dad is super white Knight and I just got tired of trying to explain myself. I'm left wing but any disagreement was seen as confirmation of me being "alt right".

I'm sorry about your sister Anon, sometimes all you can do is bite your tongue.

[the-master-cylinder]

SUMMARY Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures him he will learn why the protection is necessary. When they enter the school, Andrew is shocked to see everyone scanned by metal detectors and frisked. He spots a student with a knife, but the security guards let the kid go because they are so overworked.

The halls of the school are covered with graffiti. Andrew learns he is expected to patrol the halls as a security guard during his off periods. In his first class, a group of five disruptive students are roughhousing and causing trouble. The leader of the gang is Peter Stegman, the only member of the group who is actually registered in that class. They all eventually walk out, and Andrew discovers the rest of the students actually want to learn, especially Arthur, who plays the trumpet, and Deneen, who plays the clarinet.

As Andrew gets to know the school and the area, he decides that he wants to put together an orchestra with his more advanced students. Peter’s gang sells drugs, run a strip club, and cause all kinds of mayhem. They follow Andrew home and taunt him one night.

At school, Andrew is confronted with more and more evidence of Peter’s crimes. The two grow increasingly at odds. Eventually, after Stegman killed Terry’s animals in his lab, Andrew and Stegman wind up in a bathroom alone together. Peter throws himself into a mirror and beats himself, claiming that Andrew attacked him. Trying to clear things up, Andrew visits Peter’s mother at home. Frustrated when Peter still plays the victim and his mother will not hear Andrew out, he hotwires Peter’s car and drives it into a wall. During lunch, Stegman’s gang start a “food fight” and force their friend Vinnie to stab Arthur, which he does so and causes him to be sent to a hospital. Vinnie is arrested and held in a youth detention center. Terry is driven insane after the incident with the animals in his lab and is killed after crashing his car when trying to kill Stegman and the others.

Andrew’s orchestra is about to give its first concert. As his wife Diane gets ready at home, Peter’s gang breaks into the house and gang rapes her. One of them takes a Polaroid of her being raped and has it delivered to Andrew on the podium, just as he is about to start the concert. Horrified by the photo, he runs off the podium in pursuit of Peter’s gang. Andrew and the gang chase each other through the school. Andrew kills them off one by one, and finally confronts Peter on the roof. Their last scuffle ends with Peter falling through a skylight and getting tangled to his death in the ropes above the stage. His corpse falls into full view of the audience as his neck is broken by one of the ropes. Andrew is never charged because the police could not find a witness to the crime.

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Interview with Director Mark L. Lester

What was the initial inspiration for Class of 1984? Mark L. Lester: I was visiting my old high school, and I noticed there were gangs walking around with no shirts, really tough kids, and the whole school had changed. Then I started to do some investigating, and found that there were some schools, just a couple, that were starting with security and checking for guns. I thought, “Boy, that’d be a good idea for a movie,” and started researching violence in high schools. Over about a year, I came up with the story.

I read that the dialogue the detective (Al Waxman) has is verbatim from interviews you did with cops while researching the film. Mark L. Lester: Yes, I went to a police station and talked to the juvenile officer; I described a case like this and the scenes in the movie—“What would you do?” I just copied his answers down and put them in the script.

Mark L. Lester

Psycho II and Fright Night’s Tom Holland has story and co-screenplay credit; were there significant differences between his draft and what wound up on screen? Mark L. Lester: There was an additional writer [Barry Schneider] who didn’t take credit, but we worked on making it more like A Clockwork Orange, with the dialogue. None of that was in Tom Holland’s script, so we rewrote it to be more like Clockwork Orange, where the gang talked in their own kind of language. And then there was a large punk element added, because that movement was just taking hold in England. I got the costuming and the whole flavor of the punks from that, from British magazines and so forth.

How difficult was it to find a school to shoot in? I imagine a lot of high schools would object to a movie like this filming in their hallways. Mark L. Lester: Well, that was Toronto’s Central High. We shot it during the summertime, so the school was available. We did put graffiti on the walls and it was very hard to get it off, so when the kids came back to school, all the graffiti was still there. It caused quite a stir.

How did you wind up casting Perry King as Andy Norris? Mark L. Lester: I just interviewed him; I had seen him in Bad, the Andy Warhol film. But when it came time to do the scene in the wood shop, it was a mini-revolt. He said, “No, I can’t kill a kid on a table saw! That’s too gruesome, with the blood splattering on my face… That’s beyond anything I could do.” I said, “But Perry, don’t you remember, you boiled that slave alive in Mandingo!” He said, “Oh, that’s rightI guess it’s OK then.”

How about Roddy McDowall? He’s terrific as Corrigan. Mark L. Lester: I just knew him from Planet of the Apes and had always wanted to work with him. So I asked him to do it, and he was fantastic.

McDowall drove the car himself for the scene where Corrigan tries to run Stegman down. Was that his choice? Mark L. Lester: I was gonna use a stuntperson, but he said, “No, no, I want to drive, and I’m gonna drive really crazy.” I got in the back seat to do the sound, and he just took off and started driving insane, right up to the crash point. It was unbelievable; he was swerving all over the road.

So he didn’t have any qualms about the film’s violence? Mark L. Lester: No, he was a real professional. Everyone wanted to be involved in a hip, young movie that was different, and cutting-edge at the time. Even Lalo Schifrin, who was considered a very prestigious composer, wanted to do it, and he brought in Alice Cooper to do the theme song (“I Am the Future”).

That was quite an odd match of musical talents… Mark L. Lester: Yeah… Schifrin brought in a guy named Gary Osborne to write the song with him, and brought Alice Cooper in to perform it, and he did a really good job.

Another musical highlight is when Stegman surprises Andy by playing a piano concerto in his class. According to the credits, Van Patten wrote that piece himself. Mark L. Lester: That’s right. I was going to use another piece of music, and then he said, “No, no, let me use my own.”

How did Van Patten wind up being cast? Mark L. Lester: I saw him on a TV show, The White Shadow. He was playing a bad kidnot like he does in this movie, but he was perfect. This is his best work ever as an actor; he actually directs now. And Michael J. Fox I saw on TV also; it must have been Palmerstown, U.S.A. I hired him based on that, and it was only his second feature film.

Merrie Lynn Ross, who plays Andy’s wife, was also a producer on Class. How did that come about? Mark L. Lester: She put up some money for the film. I had worked with her before; she was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw for me.

It’s interesting that she would help with the financing of a movie in which she’s so rudely treated on screen… Mark L. Lester: Yeah, but she never complained. She’s not naked in [the rape scene], she’s fully clothed… Also, the Canadian producer, Arthur Kent, became the “Scud Stud.” During the first Gulf War with George Bush, he was the guy reporting for the TV news on the rooftop [from the war zone), and became known as the “Scud Stud.” Then he protested a dangerous assignment and started picketing the network that was Arthur Kent.

Your stunt coordinator was Terry J. Leonard, who had just done Conan the Barbarian and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Were there any stunt scenes that posed particular challenges? Mark L. Lester: In those days, there was no CGI, so the whole ending on the rooftop was actually a stunt guy crashing through glass and right into the auditorium. We flipped a car in another scene—but the movie revolved a lot more around the thriller aspects than any big stunts, so in that sense, it was different from films today. It didn’t rely on big action gags through the whole movie, it relied on the suspense of the teacher and what was going to happen to him.

Speaking of potentially injurious situations, you’ve said that a lot of extras in the club were real punk kids. Mark L. Lester: Yeah, I actually held auditions for them. They came in and were all handpicked; they had to have certain hairdos and all that, so it was very carefully done. And then they were really slam-dancing hard into people, hurting them, and we had to carry a few people out of there!

As far as the staged mayhem goes, were there concerns about the film’s violent content while you were shooting it? Mark L. Lester: I didn’t have any, but later on it was banned in certain countries, like Switzerland. It was considered too controversial, with the teacher killing the kids like that. But the wood-shop scene became the biggest crowd-pleaser of the movie. When the teacher and the boy go at it with the table saw, the audience just went wild every time that scene played; they couldn’t wait to see him kill that kid.

Class of 1984 was released in the U.S. by United Film Distribution, which had sent out movies like Dawn of the Dead and Mother’s Day unrated. Was there ever talk of releasing Class the same way? Mark L. Lester: No, they wanted to cut down the table-saw scene and a bunch of others, and it ended up getting an R rating. But the funny thing is, by mistake the prints ended up getting struck with the X version; those were the ones that got released, and no one ever questioned it.

The film got widely mixed reviews when it first came out-but surprisingly, one of the raves was from Roger Ebert, who was on a tear against “dead teenager” movies at the time. Mark L. Lester: Yeah, Ebert really kicked things off; he saw it at the Cannes Film Festival and gave it a great review. About half the reviews overall were great, and then some people didn’t like the violence and so forth. Newsweek was a bad review, Time was a good review, the New York papers liked it-and it did huge business.

Did you think that when you made this way back in the day, that it would have reached cult-status, much like it has now? Mark L. Lester: No, I had no idea that it would take off like it did, although until it opened, it was very controversial when it came out. It was in Time Magazine, and Ronald Reagan once had a speech about education, and they put the pictures from the movie into an editorial, and it had such controversial press, so it took off back then, and at the beginning of the film, I’d put a warning to the country that this would happen, the future couldn’t get much worse I don’t have the EXACT wording.

“Class of 1984” is not a great movie but it works with quiet, strong efficiency to achieve more or less what we expect from a movie with such a title. It is violent, funny, scary, contains boldly outlined characters, and gets us involved. It also has a lot of style. One of the reasons for the film’s style may be that it was made by people who knew what they were doing. …It tells a strong, simple story. It is acted well. It is not afraid to be comic at times and, even better, it’s not afraid at the end to pull out all the stops and give us the sort of Grand Guignol conclusion that the slasher movies always botch. You may or may not think it’s any good, but you’ll have to admit that it works. Roger Ebert – CLASS OF 1984 (1982) January 1, 1982

  Interview with Actress Lisa Langlois

Class of 1984, you played Patsy the Punk. A completely different character…as rotten-of-an-apple as you can get. Was it fun to be vicious and terrorizing rather than terrorized? Lisa Langlois: Well, it’s so much more interesting. Although understand, they brought me in to play the nice girl, Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend. I went in and they told me they really saw me in that part. I said, “You know what? Would you just let me come back dressed and acting like the other character?” I explained that I grew up with four brothers. I’ve been around a lot of their friends and I’ve seen these kinds of tough people. I know how to do it. So I came back in, did the role and they loved it.

You really stand out in that film. How much of your characterization was in the original script? Lisa Langlois: I’ve gotta tell you…there was really not a lot of dialogue for me in that film. Everything that I did was improv and they kept it in the final cut. That’s what I liked about the director, Mark Lester. He didn’t have an ego about you throwing a line in or some business. He loved it.

What was the experience like for you making Class of 1984? Lisa Langlois: Not good. One was that all the Canadians (not the Americans) got asked to work for scale. They said they would give us a buyout later because they didn’t really have the money to make this film. And then the movie became this big hit and none of us ever got paid any residuals for television or video, etc. The extras really got mistreated. They hardly got paid. They got peanut butter and jam sandwiches. That scene where the girl takes her clothes off in front of the punks…that was really hard to do. It involved real acting for Tim Van Patton and me because she didn’t want to do that scene. She didn’t want to take her clothes off. She was shaking.

It reminded me of what happened to me in Phobia. You get intimidated and you don’t want to make waves. You’re young. You want people to like you. And they make it sound like it’s no big deal. That poor girl was literally shaking. I remember it was so sad, my makeup artist was making her up and I was sitting next to her. She told the girl, “Don’t worry, I’ll make you up so that no one will recognize you.” And I thought, that’s NOT just the issue. It doesn’t matter whether someone can see your face…in front of everybody, you’re taking your clothes off! Right. Timothy and I were talking about how uncomfortable we were with that. He said something to Mark because that guy was a gentleman. I just loved him.

There’s an almost lascivious nature to your character Patsy in that scene with the naked girl…almost lesbianic…? Lisa Langlois: That was an acting choice I made. Like I mentioned, I made the choices with Patsy because in the script she was just…standing there. That was one of my complaints. We had this really terrific stunt coordinator with Terry Leonard, and he never gave me anything to do in the fight scenes. Nothing. I decided I would be this character who’s really perverted in that I got off on sex and violence. What I would do is, when they were beating people up, I would jump up and down, and dance around. And when someone had to take their clothes off, I would get excited.

Tim was generally unhappy on this shoot. At the time, the movie was very violent. To me, it seemed so surreal and over-the-top and exaggerated because where I came from, I could never imagine kids behaving like that in school or having to go through metal detectors to get into class. Again, it was the wild, wild west we talked about earlier. The punk rockers that were hired to be extras…they weren’t really extras, they were real punks.

Did they cause any problems on the set? Lisa Langlois: Well, for me personally, they knew I wasn’t a real punk rocker. I had my hair purple, pink and some other colors. So a) they knew I was an actor and not one of them, and b) they didn’t appreciate me wearing a dress. Several times, I had punk rocker women come up to me and say, “We’re gonna get you…”

That’s awful! Lisa Langlois: Mark really wanted reality. It would have made more sense for me to have a wig than to dye my hair all those colors anyway. It was hell getting my hair to look normal again. But I was terrified. You won’t notice in the movie, but whenever there were big scenes like in a club or whatever, you wouldn’t see me. Because I would literally disappear.

For your own safety… Lisa Langlois: Yes. I was afraid. When they were slamming people, they were actually doing it. It was for real. They were really hitting each other. The punk extras got off on it.

Lester has talked in documentaries about going out and finding these punks for the film. Lisa Langlois: It wasn’t well thought out for the actors. It wasn’t taking care of us. I was afraid because I knew there was no protection on that set.

Did the female punks consider you a poser? Lisa Langlois: I think that would be the term you would use now. They just felt I was a fraud, I guess you would say. We were embarrassed to be in that film and it ended up being this big, big hit.

What did you think when you saw the finished product? Lisa Langlois: I didn’t go see it for a long time. However, I remember my mother saying that it was the quintessential moment for her when she knew I had done a good job as an actress. Because she was in a theater watching it, and when I got killed at the end, the audience got up and cheered. It was a real memorable moment for her.

Great! The audience was so engaged, they cheered. Lisa Langlois: Although, honestly…I don’t think I’m killed. I think I survived.

A car comes crashing down on your head! We’d have to side with the people who think you died. It’s pretty extreme. Lisa Langlois: Yeah, but it IS the movies. And I’m still talking. Which reminds me, I had completely forgotten about the part where the gang members killed Roddy McDowall’s animal in the biology lab. That was horrible. That was really, really horrible. I watched it and just thought, “Oh, wow…” But it was really great to act opposite Roddy in that movie.

The scene where he has the gun pointed at you is quite a good moment. Lisa Langlois: It was one of those things where you’re thinking, “Oh my God, I have this scene with Roddy McDowall…how am I going to do this?”

Do you think Roddy was one of those people who was unhappy making this movie? Lisa Langlois: I don’t know. Because the scene with the gun was really the only one I had with him. When there’s a big scene like that with lots of people, you don’t get any instant one on one time.

We wanted to ask you about one of the most powerful, unnerving scenes in the movie. The sort of Clockwork Orange scene where the gang goes in and rapes Perry King’s wife. Was that difficult? Lisa Langlois: So upsetting. I just saw it. Again, that was my idea to get a Polaroid camera and take a picture of it.

That was a good idea. It’s certainly revolting! Lisa Langlois: It’s really revolting. And then to give the Polaroid of his raped wife to Perry at the event. It was also my idea to put my finger in my mouth…my middle finger…and summon him with it. I came up with the moment when Patsy, like a little juvenile delinquent, takes her finger and pushes it through a hole she makes with her index finger and thumb.

You should be really proud of yourself, Lisa. Lisa Langlois: You know what? I had to find something to do because they never gave me any lines. In fact, before I thought of lines and things to do, my boyfriend suggested I wear a chain that makes noise. So whenever the audience would hear that chain, they would know that character is present. I thought that would never fly because the sound department wouldn’t go for that. We have to say the choices you made are fantastic. We couldn’t take our eyes off you. Even in the scenes in which you aren’t necessarily supposed to be the focus of attention. There was a certain…unpredictability to your character that made us always want to watch you.

Was the “kissy kissy” thing your idea as well? Lisa Langlois: Yes, that too. Ironically, they gave me a Marilyn Monroe shirt to wear. I’m wearing a shirt with her face on it. I also really hated my makeup in Class of 1984 because in my mind, that was so not punk. The makeup artist that I had was this woman who was not a young person. Privately, I thought, “She doesn’t know what punk is.” She kept bringing out all the glitter stuff and everything. It was so not the character.

Interview with Actor Timothy Van Patten

How did you get cast in Class of 1984? Timothy Van Patten: I have to go in the wayback machine; it was 1980 or ’81 when we made it. I think it was just a routine casting call. You know, the part couldn’t have been further, at that point in time, from the person I actually was, which was sort of a health fanatic. The character was a thrasher, a total punk rocker. In order to prepare for the movie, I went up to Toronto and started hanging out in punk clubs, which was a whole new experience for me (laughs).

Did you get into any hairy situations doing that? Timothy Van Patten: I was with some other actors who were sharing the experience. I never got into any major situations.

What was your working relationship with Mark Lester? Timothy Van Patten: Mark was a very good director, very capable. Decisive. He had a vision, and has turned out quite a few memorable films. He absolutely knew what he wanted, and I remember the entire experience going smoothly.

You’ve got that great scene with Michael J. Fox in the bathroom. What do you remember from shooting it? Timothy Van Patten: Michael was the first person I met on the film. We befriended each other immediately and started hanging out. Actually, we went to a pawnshop and each bought a guitar, and in our free time we’d go to the park and play. We became pretty good friends. Man, so much time has passed. Michael was playing the opposite of me, sort of a clean-cut kid. You could tell the guy was really good even then. He made his small part memorable. As the years go on, I appreciate him more and more because of his body of work.

 In a interview Lester talked about the scene where you play the piano concerto, which you’re credited with composing yourself. Is that true, or did you work with the film’s composer Lalo Schifrin at all? Timothy Van Patten: You know something, it was totally improvised. I play the piano, but I don’t read music. At the time, it was just some sort of song I was fiddling around with; there was nothing written down for it. I was under the impression that I would play that piece, and they would replace it with different music by Lalo or something. They ended up keeping it, and they paid me a whopping $50 Canadian for it. I don’t think I even cashed the check. I may still have it somewhere.

In those days, was that like $15 American? Timothy Van Patten: Exactly! It’s hysterical. It totally works for the character. It totally works.

It’s clear that you’re really playing—your fingers are hitting those keys and that really adds to the scene. Timothy Van Patten: I haven’t seen the movie in a long time, but I think they left in the production sound. The sort of music-class, banged-up piano sound.

Do you recall the scene where you beat yourself up in the bathroom to get Andy Norris (Perry King) in trouble? Timothy Van Patten: All those scenes, they were all so heightened that for an actor, they were fun. There’s a lot of stuntwork in the movie, which I loved doing when I was that age. Perry was a very experienced actor, and I had just started acting three years before that. I had come off a television series called The White Shadow, and I wasn’t that experienced. Working with a guy like Perry made it easy. The writing was good, and those scenes worked between Perry and I. That bathroom was rigged, but I remember hitting the mirror as hard as I could, and it didn’t break. I said, “F**k it! I’ve got to stay with this!” and slammed my head into the mirror again, and it broke. If you look at the film, I’m a little bit dazed after that first hit.

Did they give you a stunt bump in pay for that? Timothy Van Patten: No! We all sort of did our own stunts in that film. The big fight with the African-American gang under where the highways converge, that was mostly us. The great Terry Leonard was the stunt coordinator. He was a legendary stuntman; he was Harrison Ford’s stunt double in the first Indiana Jones film. This guy has had every bone in his body broken twice, including his back and his neck. That was a thrill for me, working with Terry.

McDowall’s character “Mr. Corrigan”  is shown pointing the gun at the class is an alternate poster. Have you seen that one? Timothy Van Patten: No! I’d love a copy of that. I just thought that scene was extraordinary. I remember looking at his copy of the script, spying it when it was on a desk while he was rehearsing. Every page of scenes he was in was covered, front and back, with notes. Small, small handwriting, top to bottom. It just impressed the shit out of me. That guy was a total pro. He and Perry really anchored the movie. All the other actors like Stefan Arngrim, Lisa Langlois, Neil Clifford and those guys—they lifted me up. I was the oddest piece of the puzzle, because I really wasn’t as experienced as all of them. I didn’t relate to the material as much as they did; Stefan Arngrim had some experience in his life in that world. They were all totally invested in their characters, and they carried me along and taught me a lot.)

CAST/CREW Directed Mark L. Lester

Produced Arthur Kent

Screenplay by Tom Holland Mark Lester John Saxton

Story Tom Holland

Starring Perry King Merrie Lynn Ross Timothy Van Patten Lisa Langlois Stefan Arngrim Michael Fox Roddy McDowall

Music Lalo Schifrin Alice Cooper

CREDITS/REFERENCES/SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Fangoria#317 Fangoria#318 dreadcentral terrortrap.com

Class of 1984 (1982) Retrospective SUMMARY Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun.

#80sFilms

[probablyancientempirerpgideas]

The Akkadian empire was so fuckin cool Carl just had to come along and fuck it up with his fucking entrance-level alt-righty indoctrination spiel and now I can't talk about the coolest Akkadian ruler without one of my friends calling me dumb for listening to Carl Benjamin cry about video game reviews.

[in1-nutshell]

(Wondering if your doing buddy requests? Because I got a request!)

Is it okay if buddy is like— a atomic bomb type of cybertron.

Example: buddy pulls a pin from their neck which causes an automatically bomb change to buddy which their head turns into a atomic bomb called "Fat man" with sharp small teeth and then whenever buddy kicks or punch a explosion happens, a small explosion no big atomic bomb explosion (Thats too op🙏💀 but their punches and kicks are)

You can choose TFP or TFA as a onshot or scenario with the autobots❗🧎

I hope this isn't too much!! But thank you!

All righty! I think I got this Buddy down, please tell me if this isn't your interpretation of Buddy.

Hope you enjoy!

Bot Buddy who's alt mode is a 'reusable' bomb with Lugnut, Blitzwing, Optimus, and Bumblebee

SFW, Platonic, Cybertronain reader

TFA

Team Prime is so lucky to have Buddy on their side.

This explosive happy bot literally turns into a bomb.

A type of ‘reusable’ bomb.

They can make similar explosives to a regular bomb, but they won’t blow into itty bitty pieces in the process.

Have there been questions that this bot may have been a Decepticon in the early years of the war?

Of course.

Are there any questions about their loyalty?

Nope.

The reason behind this is simple.

If they wanted to hurt the team, they would have done it by now.

It still shocks the team from time to time whenever Buddy pulls the pin and throws themselves at the enemy, ready to explode at any moment.

They are lucky to not fully explode when that happens.

Ratchet has already grown a 6th sense for Buddy’s shenanigans.

Team who sees the bot and wants to fight them as soon as possible.

This team is reserved for those who want to fight Buddy. Do they know that Buddy explodes? Yes, they do. Is that going to stop them? No, in fact this might be an even bigger reason to fight them. So, what if Buddy explodes while they fight? They don’t care as long as they can still fight them. They want to see if their armor is really as dense as its made out to be.

Lugnut

Team who is done with all of this

This team is reserved for those who are just done with all the explosions. The war is already as loud as it is, do they really need to add more? Whether they are on their side or not they already have to deal with Lugnut and his explosives, they are not going to deal with one literally built like a bomb.

Blitzwing

Optimus

Team who wants to pull the pin themselves

This is reserved for those who are too curious for their own good. They have way too many questions regarding that pin. For example: What happens when someone who isn’t Buddy takes it off? Does the pin know who is taking it off? What happens if they do it right now? Please keep these Bots and Cons away from Buddy, for the safety of those around them.

Lugnut

Bumblebee

#transformers x reader #maccadam #bot buddy #tfa x reader #tfa x platonic reader #tfa optimus prime #tfa bumblebee #tfa blitzwing #tfa lugnut

[fierceawakening]

BTW i suspect that (a certain type of alt-righty atheist, discussed next post down) is in turn where some of my confusion about “rationalist” comes from. Because there are people who mean “I was positively influenced by Big Yud and like hanging out with other people who were too” and then there are other people who use different but very similar-sounding terms to say “Being devoted to ‘rationality,’ I think gooder than you think.”

And... honestly, full circle, my revulsion to that second group of people is probably a HUGE PART of why I’m suspicious of anyone who says “emotion isn’t part of the moral life” or “emotion needs to be abstracted out of the moral life.”

It’s not because MY AUTISTIC FRIENDS ARENT OOEY GOOEY HUGGY ENOUGH AND IM MAD

It’s because that second set of people, those people who claim “I am ‘rational,’ you are ‘triggered’“ are actually very frequently quite irrational.

Their positions are very emotion-grounded, but they insist that they are not, which creates a rhetorical imbalance:

Because I admit that my emotions are a piece of my psyche without which i don’t think i COULD reason morally at all, my interlocutor can say “Ah, you are feeling emotions right now!” And I have to bite that bullet, at which point their next turn is an eminently predictable one: “But I do not, which means at least prima facie I see this more clearly than you!”

Which doesn’t mean I lose the argument, but it means they’re on the hill and I’m in the valley. And the high ground is valuable real estate in any fight.

Whereas, since they say things like “emotions just lead us astray and we need to get beyond them,” then if I say “you sound hella emotional right now. Feminists (or w/e) REALLY PISS YOU OFF. That’s okay--understandable, even! I empathize with you!--but shouldn’t you consider that your anger is a part of your view here?” 

They can say “No, you’re the one who thinks people’s moral views have EMOTION-TAINT all over them! You simply cannot imagine pure reason!”

Which... I’m still in the valley, and he’s (usually a he) still up on the hill.

Whereas if we each admit we have both strongly and carefully thought out views AND passionate emotions about what those views mean and why they are important, we’re on the same footing.

THAT is why I dislike “emotions have nothing to do with morality” so much.

#the empathy discussion

[woolandcoffee]

Honestly, the fallout from the Sommers event has been both unsurprising and completely amazing. I truly thought better of my classmates, y’all, and I see now how naive I was. So many folks are upset over the negative light that the media is painting our school in over the protests disrupting Sommers’ talk - but all the negative stories written about it so far have been published on conserviative and alt-right trash sites. Why do y’all want alt-righties to think well of you?? The one reputable, reasonable newsite that has written about the event wrote in support of the protests, so I’m thinking our school rep will be just fine.

#woolly rambles #honestly wtf y'all #why do you want these people to like you??

[myheaddisananimal]

1-100 :)

lmao ok

1. Last kiss-last sunday2. Last phone call-my mom at 3:30 3. Last text message-i said “:/”4. Last song you listened to-In Cold Blood by alt-j5. Last time you cried-todayHAVE YOU EVER:6. Dated someone twice-sorta7. Been cheated on-hasn’t been admitted but ya8. Self harmed-yes9. Lost someone special-yes10. Been depressed-ooooooo hell ya11. Been drunk and threw up-lol couple of timesTHIS YEAR HAVE YOU:12. had sex-yes13. How many people have you had sex with this year?-215. Made a new friend-lots17. Laughed until you cried-afew times18. Met someone who changed you-hrmm yes?19. Found out who your true friends were-omg yes20. Found out someone was talking about you-yes26. What did you do for your last Birthday-i got so drunk i was carried to the car bc i couldn't walk27. What time did you wake up today-9 am29. Name something you CANNOT wait for-dcp ugh so close yet so far30. Last time you saw your all of your siblings at the same time-3 weeks ago 31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life-all my mental issues for sure32. What are you listening to right now-when you were young-the killers33. When is the last time you had sex?-bout 2 months ago :/34. Who's getting on your nerves right now-no one for once35. Most visited webpage-tumblr or netflix36. Favorite colour-pale pink37. Nicknames-wozo,roser,roz,roro38. Relationship Status-single but tryna persure maybe 39. Zodiac sign-taurus40. Male or female-female41. Primary school-montessori42. Secondary School-our lady of perpetual help 43. High school/college-st johns44. Eye color-brown46. Height-5′447. Do you have a crush on someone-hell ya48. What do you like about yourself-i have v good intentions and a huge heart49. Piercings-nada50. Tattoos-nope :/51. Righty or lefty-rightyFIRSTS:53. First piercing-never54. First best friend-her name was chrissy aw55. First hookup-this kid ryan 56. First Bestfriend-already answered?RIGHT NOW:59. Eating-pussy (jk nothing)60. Drinking-water61. I'm about to-watch netflix and sleep62. Listening to-when you were young by killers is still on 63. Waiting for-nothinYOUR FUTURE:64. Want kids?-465. Get married?-yes66. Career-casting directorWHICH IS BETTER:67. Lips or eyes-depends on the person68. Hugs or kisses-love a good hug69. Shorter or taller-doesnt matter70. Older or Younger-idc but i always end up dating girls a year younger than me 71. Romantic or spontaneous-those r two completely unrelated things lol both i guess72. Nice stomach or nice arms-stomach73. Sensitive or loud-theres a time for both74. Hook-up or relationship-relationshipHAVE YOU EVER:76. Kissed a stranger-i don't remember but probably 77. Drank hard liquor-yes78. Lost glasses/contacts-dont have either79. Had sex-yes80. Broken someone's heart-yes82. Been arrested-not yet 83. Turned someone down-yes84. Cried when someone died-yes85. Fallen for a friend-yesDO YOU BELIEVE IN:86. Yourself-depends on the day87. Miracles-yes88. Love at first sight-not for everyone but its happened to me 89. Heaven-eh i believe that your soul goes somewhere after u die but idk if its heaven90. Santa Clause-always91. Kiss on the first date-i always kiss on the first date lol92. Angels-i believe in positive spirits of loved ones but not angels necessarily 93. How would you label yourself?-gay as shit bih94. Someone You Pray Everyday For-i don't pray but I'm always trying to send positive vibes to my friends and family95. Did you sing today-probs96. Who From All Your Ex's have You Cared The Most About-i cared about all of them lol some of them more than i should've tho lol97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go?-middle school 98. Out Of Everything In The World What Do You Wish For-happiness and strength for myself99. Are you afraid of falling in love?-LMAO u have no idea100. Do you like the way you look?-depends on the day