#except Eddie has like 0 context

[estrellami-1]

Someone help because I don’t have nearly the legal jargon knowledge to turn this into the fic it could be.

“Nancy,” Eddie gasps into the receiver as soon as she answers. “I need a huge favor. Like, huge.”

Nancy hums. “What’s up?”

“I need you to expose the Harrington Firm.”

“For?”

“Uh. Fraud? Extortion?”

“Ah.” She chuckles lightly and says the one thing he’s never heard her say before. “No can do, Eddie, sorry.”

“What?” His brain helpfully supplies, you kick Miette? He ignores his brain.

“I can’t expose what’s not there, Eddie. Listen, I’ve gotta go, Robin just came in with an urgent look on her face, but I’ll call you later, okay? We’ll do lunch sometime!”

And without another word, she hangs up, leaving Eddie’s brain buzzing along with the dial tone in his ear.

Can’t expose what’s not there, she said. Which means-

Oh, no.

She doesn’t know.

Eddie rolls his shoulders and nods decisively to himself. She won’t do it? Fine. He’ll do it himself.

#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #eventual steddie #possibly #eventual ronance #Nancy is a journalist #Eddie isn’t. idk what he does #Steve is a lawyer in his dad’s company #Eddie overheard him planning to expose his dad #except Eddie has like 0 context #listen the ideas are here. execution is lacking though

[milenadaniels]

On Eddie/Shannon (and Ana and Buck)

So I was rewatching Eddie Begins for a thing I'm working on and I noticed almost a throwaway line I hadn't heard before. I've seen fandom talk a lot about Shannon as a mom but I've seen next to nothing about Eddie/Shannon as a couple and y'all, from what evidence we have, it was a pretty horrible relationship. I mean just god awful and irredeemable.

(Cut for length but as a teaser, I've been firmly on the Bi!Eddie boat since I fell into this trash bin but by the end of writing this I'm actually wondering if they don't mean to reveal him as gay instead because his relationships with women are nearly identical in the worst way.)

Obviously, we saw the fallout/arguments both times he came home and Shannon ended up leaving but there's a one-liner that points to how they were before Christopher was born too. Right at the start of the argument about Eddie re-enlisting without telling her, Shannon says, "Again. Without telling me. I got pregnant and you signed up. Surprise!"

This man literally heard he was about to be a father and went "how can I both provide for my growing family and not have to deal with this at all?" and joined the fucking army on the spot. And then he kept re-enlisting even though his continued absence was hell on his wife.

Honestly, from my POV, mad props to Shannon for dipping as soon as she could. Absolute dick move as a mother (she for sure could have taken/come back for Christopher) but as a wife I'm so on her side here. They got pregnant and Eddie bailed repeatedly and not only bailed but left her in El Paso with his family (her mother is implied to live farther away), and we don't know all the circumstances of her situation but we do know that A) she was very familiar with the Diaz' parents' criticism, and B) she had no life of her own to speak of!! She had no job, never mentioned anything other than her mother, and in their big fight Eddie even stresses that no, she can't get a job, her place is in the house raising Christopher.

I love Eddie Diaz an unhealthy amount but much like Buck 1.0 was painful to watch, Eddie pre-Shannon-leaving was a dick. Which is super telling me to me. Because Eddie's canonically an amazing father.....once he's a single father!

I still have a few important episodes of season 2 to watch that might provide more context but yeah, I think Shannon/Eddie were one of those couples that just were together cuz they had some interest (I always think of Sk8r Boi - he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?) but ultimately didn't really connect much? But they either got married because it was the Next Thing to do or because she got pregnant, it's not clear. And their relationship seems to have degraded with each milestone because they just weren't right for each other, they were just stuck.

Literally on the beach, they're admiring Christopher and his constant happiness and Shannon goes "yeah, I don't know where he gets that" ...maybe because happiness is not a defining trait of their relationship? And Shannon is also literally asking, bro what is this? What are we doing? What am I to you? And he can't answer! He can't say, "you're the woman I'm in love with". He just knows that he's supposed to be with the mother of his kid so there we go! :)

Throughout the entirety of Shannon's arc on the show, Eddie repeatedly is ambivalent about whether to get back with her. There's no consistent "I love her so much but X" or "I have no feelings for her anymore but I should try for Christopher", there's a consistent "I don't know, I don't know, I'm waiting for a sign I guess? I don't know".

WHICH

I think it's super interesting when it comes to Ana because our boy has learned precisely 0% of his lessons when it comes to romantic relationships. He's still operating under Sk8r Boi rules and looking for a vague cutout of what a "mother for Christopher" is supposed to look like, connection and shared values be-damned! And with Ana it's like ":) it's nice?" and correct me if I'm wrong but we haven't seen any actual kiss, or like big gesture or anything towards her, right? It's just more of the same "sure? I guess? waiting for a sign" kind of energy. And for those few who didn't see it very clearly from acting choices and writing, we have Carla stopping by to say "look at your life, look at your choices."

And it's so absurd because if this was any other show you'd just be like "aw, this poor guy really struggles to connect with people" EXCEPT HE DOESN'T. Eddie is shown very much connecting emotionally with other people - primarily Buck (and Bobby), then all of the 118 and Carla and his Abuela/Pepa. (Obviously Christopher is #1 but I'm talking connecting on equal footing as adults.)

And looking at his relationship with Buck...it's literally the opposite of ambivalence. As noted here, it literally took 1 whole day for Eddie "Mr. Broody, according to Shannon" Diaz to be dancing like a dork and throwing himself into Buck's space. He introduced Buck to Chris (offscreen) pretty much right after, made Buck a part of their Christmas when he didn't want to include Shannon. And yes there are more dynamics at play here (reintroducing a lost parent is a lot more disregulating to a kid than introducing a new coworker).

But I'm talking about active passion here vs passive indifference.

About pulling this coworker into his life to the point that Buck becomes a staple of the Diaz home, to the point that as Eddie's dying, he thinks of his son and half the memories include Buck too (and Shannon's there literally as a 'hey you can't leave him too' warning, there's not a single happy memory of her in that whole montage, not even at the beach which was super cinematically shot).

About the fact that when Shannon got pregnant, he signed up for the army without telling her.

The Big Thing he hid from Buck? Making him Christopher's legal guardian, tying him to his family legally for all time.

In conclusion, Shannon leaving was the best thing for both of them to have a chance at happiness (though healthy, well-adjusted people might have figured a divorce and living nearby would have been better for Christopher but alas). And now Eddie is repeating his pattern of not looking for or choosing his happiness with Ana. It's the exact same relationship dynamic, and I'm looking forward to him understanding that and moving on from it.

#eddie diaz #shannon diaz #do they even have a shipname? did people ship them? I'm very late to this fandom #this is not a shannon bashing post btw it's a eddie/shannon's relationship was garbage post #they both had no chance at happiness in it #does tumblr still operate on the 5 tags thing? #guess we'll see #911 meta #eddie x shannon #my meta #my posts #sorry for the ramble I've just had so many thoughts #and I'm too tired to write fic tonight but had to purge *something* #buddie parallels #eddieana

[simpbur]

hello! i would like ur 40 song wiblur playlist

anon thank you so much for asking <333 while it would’ve been easier to just drop the link i have so many thoughts about everything so i explained why every single song has its spot on this list which was IMMENSELY fun for me

(also: if anyone does want the link i can provide both apple music and spotify but if u would like the apple music link i’d rather it be through dms or an ask off anon that i can make private!)

another also: i bolded all the songs for ease of perusing if you don’t want the director’s commentary and bolded + italicized the ones that i think fit Very Well

another another also: wrote the second bit of this on my laptop and the keyboard is p funky so if there are any typos or things that do not make sense i will try to fix them asap haha

saint bernard by lincoln: this is one of those like. Dream SMP Songs that i added because it fits into so many different relationships and plot lines and arcs but i think there’s some connection to c!wlbur somewhere out there. idk i asked my friend and he said to add it so this one goes out to him

amnesia was her name by lemon demon: ghostbur song ghostbur song! mostly comes from this lovely animatic

o valencia! by the decemberists: okay this is one of those songs that only really has one lyric that fits but is an absolutely banger so it’s here anyway. you’ll also notice a trend of quasi love songs that i relate to c!wilbur’s perception of l’manburg and i think this song shows this in a really cool way, esp with the chorus (‘and i swear to the stars i’ll burn this whole city down’ is The Line)

achilles come down by gang of youths: another one of those Dream SMP Songs. i think this fits better with c!tommy but i like it too much to remove it. this is a somewhat common trend with the earlier songs on this playlist (i’ve been building this thing since january, for reference)

brave as a noun by ajj: another Dream SMP Song. i think certain verses fit better than others when it comes to wilbur’s character but that ones that work really work

harness your hopes by pavement: a song that is one here for vibes alone. i have no idea what these lyrics mean. all i know is that i heard it, thought of c!wilbur, and put it on the playlist. thank you all for being here

evelyn evelyn by evelyn evelyn: sad-ist made this a tommy and tubbo song (as she should) so it’s validity on this playlist is questionable but folks used to compare it to wilbur and tommy’s relationship during the pogtopia arc and i think some points were made there

the execution of all things by rilo kiley: i’m so excited to get here because this was the first song i put on the playlist that i think really works and i thumb nailed an animatic for the last verse and november 16th so! i think it’s a good l’manburg song and the last verse has some good ghostbur lines (‘and lately you’re all alone with nothing left but sleep/but sleep never comes to you, it’s the guilt and forever wakefulness of the weak’)

i’m just your problem from adventure time: this ones a bit tricky since at is my favorite show of all time and i cannot detach this song from its in-show context very well but there is a very cool animatic with this song that landed it a spot on the playlist

man burning by josh ritter: almost became an animatic but the audio i wanted to use (which i recorded at a josh ritter concert and it’s just him and his guitar and there’s echo and it’s very haunting and pretty) has my stepbrother singing in the background and i could not edit it out so. that will probably not happen. but anyways the only hole i would pick in this song is that it’s mostly about self sabotage which isn’t really applicable but i think the imagery is cool

mamma mia by abba: here me out. here me out. this is another song that fits so well and i have spent so many hours thinking about this and somewhere there is a note on my phone explaining how every single line relates to c!wilbur’s entire arc from founding l’manburg to the resurrection (made when we thought gbur was going to get resurrected in january) and just. the metaphorical ‘you’ is l’manburg does this make any sense (another almost animatic except now that wilbur’s actually back it might become an actual animatic)

the other side of paradise by glass animals: no idea why this is here other than being a Dream SMP Song. it’s good tho

infinitesimal by mother mother: they saaaaay it stared with a big bang but they saaaaaaaay it came out of a small thing latelyyyyy i’ve been feeling like a big bang You Know

curses by the crane wives: had a thing drawn out for this song showing the comparisons between c!wilbur and c!niki because of the chorus and i think the last two lyrics of said chorus are the best thing about this one

lonely eyes by the front bottoms: gotta admit that i have no idea how this song got on here but i’ve come to associate it with ghostbur based on vibes alone. it’s a friendly song he’s a friendly ghost it works. the other tfb song coming up fits a bit better methinks

king of new orleans by better than ezra: not to put better than ezra on my c!wilbur playlist but like. something about the whole ‘tasing something up to let it fall’ motif makes me think

get me away from here, i’m dying by belle and sebastian: another almost animatic song (there’s a trend here). not only does the story told in this song work i like the lines ‘play me a song to set me free/nobody writes them like they used to so it may as well be me’ in relation to my l’manburg

montgomery forever by the front bottoms: certain bits and pieces of this song fit so well, specifically the chorus and those bits in the last two choruses Yeah (’montgomery forever and ever and ever and now they’re blowing it up/(x2)/as you started laughing and crying and trying to explain how all you want to do is leave’)

don’t look back in anger by oasis: out of all my almost animatic songs, this one got the furthest. the animatic, which I got pretty far in thumbnailing, was about wilbur and tommy and kind of drawing comparisons between their characters, also about the revolution in general. maybe i’ll finish that animatic one day idk 

snow by ricky montgomery: i wish i had a link for this so bad but!! saw art on twitter!! with the lyric ‘bury me six feet in snow’!! and went ahfsdjfk!!

burning pile by mother mother: a Dream SMP Song. also a jam there’s no real specific connection for this one but i think it could fit in a couple of ways

rounds by the oh hellos: in the same position as snow except it was on tumblr..... @ whoever made this comic i saw these lyrics in your brain is massive and your art is incredible

lovely by mt. eddy: on here for vibes alone. there’s something in the lyrical content too, but my thoughts in that regard are not very fleshed out

adventures in solitude by the new pornographers: ah yes..... the song that prompted this all...... this is a beautiful and incredibly well written song and if you’re going to listen to any song off of this playlist i’d encourage you to listen to this one. it’s place of here is mostly cause of the chorus but the imagery in the verses could all represent a part of c!wilbur and i’d love to explore that more

caught in the middle by paramore: obligatory paramore song. i think it got on here because limbo = ‘middle’ but i’m not quite sure. on the verge of being deleted if i can find a better pmore song

delicate by damien rice: one of the oddest songs on this list and i am well aware that it sticks out like a sore thumb. a song that’s on here pretty much because of one lyric, which is ‘and why’d you sing hallelujah/if it means nothing to you’ which i related to both eret’s betrayal and how my l’manburg is hallelujah yknow

bang! by ajr: almost animatic song. i think we all know what the bang is here

somewhere only we know by lily allen: ik i said don’t look back in anger has the most potential to get made into an animatic but this song might actually take it place. on par with adventures in solitude in terms of how pretty of a song it is, and probably even moreso. it’s kind of turned into a ghostbur song in my head, and makes me cry like an infant child every time i hear it

a pearl by mitski: i cannot defend this song’s place on here past the line ‘it’s just that i fell in love with a war and nobody told me it ended’

eight by sleeping at last: the official c!wilbur song needs a spot on here <3 if i can dig up the clip of cc!wilbur talking about this song in relation to his character i’ll add it but until then yeah <3

always by rilo kiley: no idea why this is on here but it fits well!! could not tell you why!! banger!!

celebration guns by stars: it’s a hauntingly beautiful song about war, and kind of one of those that necessarily isn’t about wilbur but moreso his place in the story? idk how to explain it but yes

passerine by the oh hellos: it’s. it’s from the . the fic. yeah h

oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet and hold the earth in place by bright eyes: added this after the real resurrection and i think it’s because fo the imagery? also the last verse

we are beautiful, we are doomed by los campesinos!: all i have to say is ‘i cannot emphasize enough that my body/is a badly designed, poorly put together vessel/harboring these diminishing, so called vital organs/i hope my heart goes first, i hope my heart goes first!’ has always made me think of pogtopia era wilbur :(

dead weight by jack stauber: no real connection other than eret played this song during a break during the ghostbur’s january ‘resurrection’ and i heard it and went :0

point me at lost lands by tired pony: gives me season on l’manburg vibes..... i love how free and passionate it sounds and that's p much the only reason it’s on this list haha

ghosting by mother mother: added this five seconds ago because i could not BELIEVE it was not on here. ghostbur song. mans sang it on that one stream with the reverb and everything. the lyrics ‘i will be kind and i’ll be sweet/if you stop staring straight through me’ hit particularly hard back when everyone thought that ghostbur was actually wilbur in disguise 

#oh man. oh man #this was so fun ty anon #i'll do some spell checking after i write my english paper but for now take this #wooo boy #also if i interpreted canon wrong i do apologize i am here to have fun and think about fictional character #anon #ask

[pittarchives]

The “Swinging City Revolution”: Garner in the Land of the Rolling Stones

This post was written by Deanna Witkowski, pianist-composer, graduate student in Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul (Liturgical Press, August 2021).

In May and June of 1966, Erroll Garner played in London for several weeks with his longtime triomates, bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Kelly Martin. Leslie (Les) Perrin and Associates, publicity firm for the Rolling Stones and other big name pop acts, served as Garner’s publicist for his English tour dates. In many photos from 1966-1970, Perrin is seen with the Stones, Frank Sinatra, and Joni Mitchell. Mitchell’s website includes a feature page on Perrin with this article from a tabloid-looking paper entitled “Weekend— Feb. 25-Mar. 3, 1970.”

On June 12, after Garner had already been in England for over two weeks, Glaser typed a letter to Perrin, chastising him for not contacting her with any press coverage of Garner’s tour dates thus far—or, for that matter, with any news at all. Dispensing with formal niceties, Glaser begins her correspondence using all capital letters: “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING RECEIVED FROM YOU (EXCEPT BRIEF CABLE THIS WEEK) since tour began. Our disappointment beyond expression. We needed reviews for Variety ad. Blew the space reservation since you didn’t send reviews.”

Image from folder “Correspondence from Leslie Perrin (Associated LTD. UK Bookers),”  Erroll Garner Archive, 1942-2010, Box 1, Folder 119,  Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

As in my earlier post on his 1959 date at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, Glaser’s letter shows the interdependence of multiple behind-the-scenes players in shaping Garner’s career. Glaser cannot move forward with future publicity needs until Perrin generates publicity for the current tour and communicates the results of that publicity with her.

Glaser pulls no punches in her critique of Perrin—and is compelled to fight these battles so that Garner can focus on his own labor: creating music. Two-thirds of the way through her letter, she writes, “I can only surmise that with the ‘swinging city revolution’ of London, as we keep reading, your office has become too busy to write us . . . Leslie—I don’t know how or why this tour is different—but your silence and the lack of any written word from [Jack] Higgins or Harold [Davison] leads me to conclude that your operations now have bigger-money projects, and that is that.”

The two other names that Glaser mentions, Jack Higgins and Harold Davison, are additional players in Garner’s British tour production and publicity. Both names appear on the final page of this program from June 11, 1966:

(Above) “Erroll Garner Souvenir Brochure London, November 6, 1966.” PicClick UK. Accessed April 5, 2021. https://picclick.co.uk/1966-Erroll-Garner-Souvenir-Brochure-London-11-06-1966-373506567730.html.

Davison is listed as being the concert presenter, with Higgins handling “promotion direction” and Dougie Tobutt handing “tour direction.”

Enclosed with her letter Glaser includes a marked-up copy of a document titled “Backgrounder to Erroll Garner,” a one-sheet apparently created by Perrin for local press reporters. Claiming to provide “a fact-a-phrase for journalists-in-a-hurry,” the document is a list of twelve bullet-point facts about Garner.

Image from folder “Correspondence from Leslie Perrin (Associated LTD. UK Bookers),”  Erroll Garner Archive, 1942-2010, Box 1, Folder 1119,  Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

In response to two of the points, Glaser pens handwritten corrections:

Where the one-sheet reads: “ERROLL was a classmate of Dodo Marmarosa, brilliant contemporary of Charlie Parker at the advent of the bop era.”

Glaser responds:

“Garner had nothing to do with the “bop” scene—“ and “Why do you keep repeating Parker in the Garner bio?’” The truth is that Garner was indeed a childhood friend of bop pianist Marmarosa, who recorded with Parker on numerous occasions. Garner recorded with Parker as well, but was not a bop pianist, while Marmarosa was closely identified with that musical style.

 And where the sheet reads: 

“GARNER was also an early associate of Ellington’s colleague Billy Strayhorn.”

Glaser simply writes: “False info.”

In her letter, she goes into further detail on each point, writing, “I don’t know where this junk about being a contemporary etc of Parker in bog (sic) reveolution (sic) days keeps cropping up from . . .out of context, it is totally misleading.” And to the second point: “Garner and Strayhorn friends—never associates or associated, in any music situation.”

Perrin did respond to Glaser. Although his reply is undated, it likely followed soon after, as he references recent British concert dates and signs off promising “more tomorrow.” Most importantly, he sends ten quotes on Garner’s appearances from press including Melody Maker, the Evening News, and New Musical Express. He only includes this material, however, after making a snide comment: “My dear Martha, It is a warm afternoon, the shadows are creeping across the desk, and I am asking myself, “Do you think that Martha came to the Albert Hall after all? Because the concert was at the Royal Festival Hall?”

Image from folder “Correspondence from Leslie Perrin (Associated LTD. UK Bookers),”  Erroll Garner Archive, 1942-2010, Box 1, Folder 119,  Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Snide comment or not, Perrin produced the results that Glaser was asking for. This snapshot of two documents shows how sharp and direct she had to be in order to acquire the material she needed to continue her own work in moving Garner’s career forward.

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For additional listening:

Check out some of the the Garner albums included on the final page of the concert ad shown in the concert program shown above:

CBS ad:                                                                                                                Concert by the Sea 1955                                                https://www.errollgarner.com/listen-new (scroll down)

The Most Happy Piano 1956 

(Above) Audio for “Full Moon and Empty Arms” off The Most Happy Piano by Erroll Garner, originally released in 1957 by Columbia Records. 

EMI ad: A Night at the Movies 1965— original liner notes and audio samples at https://www.errollgarner.com/anightatthemovies-ors

Listen to the all-of-five-seconds “Newsreel Tag (Paramount on Parade)”

(Above) Audio for “Newsreel Tag (Paramount on Parade)” off A Night at the Movies by Erroll Garner, re-relseased by Octave Records in 2019. 

Works Cited:

Erroll Garner Archive, 1942-2010, AIS.2015.09,  Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Erroll Garner - Topic. “Full Moon and Empty Arms.” YouTube Video, 4:19. July 30, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlVnUXJApY.

Erroll Garner - Topic.  “Newsreel Tag (Paramount on Parade).” YouTube Video, 0:08. October 17, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hqVABcPSk

prettyjohn888. “1966 Erroll Garner Souvenir Brochure London 11/06/1966 • £4.00.” PicClick UK. Accessed April 5, 2021. https://picclick.co.uk/1966-Erroll-Garner-Souvenir-Brochure-London-11-06-1966-373506567730.html.

#erroll garner tuesdays #jazz #touring #martha glaser #music business #erroll garner

[wrestlingisfake]

Full Gear preview

Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston - Moxley is defending the AEW men’s world championship.  (He’s also the IWGP United States champion, but that title is not at stake.)  This is an “I quit” match, so the only rule in effect is that the match cannot end until one participant verbally concedes the match; the other participant thereby wins and will be the champion.

Kingston is an unlikely headliner for such a stacked show.  Despite a long and storied career, he’s mainly known for his work on the indies, and his reputation among wrestlers who hold his work in high regard.  It took him until 2020 to get to this level (when he was on the verge of retiring), and even now that he’s in the majors he’s not a top contender.  Lance Archer “eliminated” him to win a September 5 battle royale for a title shot, but the elimination was a blown call.  Kingston bellyached about the finish until he was granted a title match of his own, which Moxley won by ref stoppage.  Kingston continued to make excuses, and had his “family” beat down Moxley.  At this point, Mox is so pissed at his former friend that he’d probably demand this second title match even if Kingston hadn’t issued the challenge.

A big part of this match is that wrestling fandom has woken up about how great Eddie always was, and there’s a lot of excitement about him possibly disrupting the AEW topcard to score a rich reward for 18 years of hard work.  But to me the real selling point here is that it’s an “I quit” match where I genuinely believe both guys would rather die than say the words.  When WWE does these matches, they usually have a heel give in to cowardice, or a babyface surrender to save a friend in distress, or some screwjob with a tape recorder.  I don’t think any of that stuff is going to happen here.  These guys are going to endure some sick shit just for the sake of pride.

I think Moxley has to win and retain the championship, which means he has to make Kingston verbally quit.  I don’t know what the fuck Mox can do to achieve that condition, but it should be fun/gross finding out.

Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page - This is the final match in an eight-man elimination tournament to determine the next challenger for the AEW men’s world title.  Page defeated Colt Cabana and Wardlow to get here, while Omega defeated Sonny Kiss and Penta El 0M.

I was gonna run down the whole Hangman Page saga, from the day he lost to Chris Jericho to the day Omega walked out on him.  But then AEW did that “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)” video, so now any summary I can provide seems superfluous.  The point here is that Page fell into depression and let his friends down, so Omega broke up their tag team to return to singles competition, and now they’ve managed to cross paths once again.  Is Omega slowly turning heel?  Will he complete that apparent heel turn by mercilessly destroying Page?  Or can they work out their problems in the ring and shake hands when it’s over?  We’ll soon find out.

The smart money is on tonight’s show setting up Jon Moxley vs. Kenny Omega.  However, I don’t think AEW needs to get to that destination right away, so we could potentially see a Page win here to keep the story going.  Expectations are high for this match being very, very good.  Will the story be enough to put it over the top?  I’ve got a good feeling that it will, and that the icing on the cake will be an upset by Page.

Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson - Wheeler and Cash are FTR, the AEW tag team champions.  Matt and Nick are the Young Bucks, and they earned this title shot by winning a four-way match on October 21.  Matt Jackson has vowed that if the Bucks cannot win this match, they will never again challenge for this championship.

This match has been in the making for years, going back to when Wheeler and Harwood (as Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, the Revival) emerged as rivals for the Bucks’ status as the top tag team in pro wrestling.  “Fuck The Revival” became a running joke on the Bucks’ Youtube show, right up until Wheeler and Harwood got their releases from WWE in order to come here.  FTR stands for the kind of old-school wrestling that the Bucks thumb their noses at, and FTR’s gimmick is that they bitch just like the kind of old-school wrestling fans who thumb their noses at the Bucks.

The Bucks have been trying to win the tag title since it was first introduced, but they’ve always managed to come up short.  After FTR manipulated Hangman Page into screwing them out of a potential title shot (clearing the way for FTR to win the gold), the Bucks snapped and started trying to regain their edge.  This hasn’t really made a lot of sense, though, because instead of getting more ruthless and intense against their opponents in the ring, they’ve just been behaving like dicks to non-wrestlers backstage.  If their bad attitude had directly led to them getting this match, I think the story might have landed better; as it is, they were selected literally at random to enter the 10/21 four-way, so it didn’t really make any difference.

The stipulation has people buzzing because a) Cody Rhodes had a similar stip a year ago, so we know it’s not a joke, and b) Matt Jackson is working through a knee injury, so it may not make sense for him to win a championship right this minute.  I suppose it’s possible that Matt knows his in-ring days are numbered and this stip is the beginning of the end of his career.  But I think it’s more likely that they just want to set up a scenario where we know the Bucks are behind the 8-ball, to build to more drama when they finally win the belts.  The knock against a Bucks title win is that it’s too soon for FTR to drop the title, but then again I think it would work for the two teams to trade the championship back and forth for a few months.  I’m going with new champs here.

Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose - Shida is defending the AEW women’s world championship, after somebody finally remembered Rose exists.  I’m fine with some major title matches in AEW being thrown together without an epic drama behind them.  But in this case it’s just annoying because everything in the women’s division feels thrown together without much consideration.  I’m guessing Shida retains to keep everything on the same treadmill it’s been on.

Chris Jericho vs. MJF - This is a rare heel vs. heel battle.  If MJF wins, he will be permitted to join Jericho’s stable, the Inner Circle. I was curious what MJF’s next move would be after losing to Jon Moxley on September 5, and this is it.  He’s been angling to get into the group through a series of goofy skits, and he’s assured Jericho that he will do anything to win this match.

The main intrigue here is that the Inner Circle seems divided on whether they even want MJF to join.  Sammy Guevara and Ortiz are so down on MJF that they tried to take him out so he couldn’t get to this match.  Jake Hager and Santana are apparently cool with him, or at least uncommitted.  Jericho acts like he sees MJF as a kindred spirit, but he’s too wily to trust the guy, so his real intentions here are unclear.

The easy way to book this is for MJF to do “anything” by way of convincing some (or all) of Jericho’s lackeys to help him win the match and kick Jericho out of the group.  I think the only fans who aren’t expecting that are the ones who think it’s too obvious.  Of course, any such breakup doesn’t have to be on this show, so everything could be civil here and then the big angle happens in six weeks, or six months.  One way or another, though, we’re going to see how far MJF is willing to go to win, and we’ll be starting the next chapter of the story.  And I really think that chapter has to begin with an MJF victory.

Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin - Cody is defending the AEW TNT championship.  This will be their fourth match; Cody currently leads the series 2-0-1.  It feels like they’ve been building up to Darby getting a big win over Cody, and I don’t see the point of going back to this match now unless that win’s finally going to happen.  If Cody retains I think it’ll leave a sour taste in everyone’s mouth, regardless of whether it sets up a Darby win down the road.  So I sure hope Allin wins, because I can’t imagine what else will work in this context.

Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara - This is being billed as “The Elite Deletion,” and I’ve heard it was pre-taped, so I’m guessing it will be a mini-movie kind of match like Undertaker vs. AJ Styles.  Matt Hardy fans will of course recall that he was doing that kind of nonsense before it was cool, going all the way back to 2016′s Final Deletion in TNA and 2018′s Ultimate Deletion in WWE.  (How many deletions can one guy have?)

Everybody knows Hardy and Guevara have had a string of bad luck in their feud, with blowoff matches getting cut short or botched spots leaving Matt injured.  They were supposed to settle things once and for all on September 5, but that turned into a trainwreck so I guess they decided to call a mulligan on that.  The best thing you can say about this match is that, because it’s pre-taped, you can be assured that if anyone got severely hurt it would already be in the news, which makes it easier to watch.

I can’t remember Matt ever losing a mini-movie match, and I don’t think he’ll lose this one either.  Even if I’m not sure how one wins an elite deletion.

Orange Cassidy vs. John Silver - After going 2-1 with Chris Jericho, Cassidy made three unsuccessful attempts to win the TNT title, so he really needs to regain some momentum with a win.  Silver is a prelim guy, so he should be perfect to put Orange over...except there’s a lot of buzz around Silver lately, which is probably what got him booked for this show.  I don’t think Silver can win here, but watch for them to do some stuff to let him look good on his way to doing the job.

Serena Deeb vs. Allysin Kay -  This has been announced for the pre-show.  Deeb is defending the NWA women’s world title, as part of an ongoing collaboration between the NWA and AEW.  What makes this unusual is that Deeb recently signed with AEW, and Kay recently announced her NWA contract has expired, so no matter who wins the belt will be in the hands of an outsider.  I expect this is something of an AEW tryout match for Kay, and if so I doubt she would win here, but I’m rooting for her to do well because the women’s division can use all the help it can get.  I think Deeb retains, although I have no idea what that means for the future of the NWA women’s division.

#aew #full gear #jon moxley #eddie kingston #kenny omega #hangman page #ftr #the young bucks

[screamqvccn]

TASK 1 // WHO ARE YOU REALLY?

@murderclubhq

NAME.

FULL NAME: Edwina Agnes Clussy NAME/NICKNAMES: Eds (everyone), Eddie (Holly and Kaz), Edsy (her mom), Wee (her dad) GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS: Edwina or Eddie

APPEARANCE.

FACECLAIM: Kristine Froseth SEX: Female HEIGHT: 5′0″ WEIGHT: Basically a sack of flour; easy to pick up and throw over your shoulder BUILD: Scrawny HAIR: Mousy brown and straight, but she usually curls it. Sometimes she’s got a ribbon tying some of her hair back HANDS: Small and kind of cushiony (think of Pooh Bear’s hands). Her skin on her hands is usually dry because she uses a lot of hand sanitizer CLOTHES: Plaid skirts and dresses, comfy sweaters, knee high socks or socks with frills around them, overalls, mary janes, fannypacks, cross necklace

SPEECH.

ACCENT: North Carolinian twang VERBAL TICKS: Tends to stutter when nervous LANGUAGE: English ARTICULATION: She's educated and has the ideas in her head, but she’s just really bad at getting them out in an articulate manner EDUCATION: Edwina will occasionally substitute a really simple word for something longer. Besides that, she speaks like a typical teenager LAUGHTER: She snorts a lot and tends to try to bite back her laughter because she thinks her laugh is ugly BREATHING: Can usually sound like she’s out of breath especially from all the screaming and yelling she constantly does

MANNERISMS.

FACE: Edwina wears her heart on her sleeve and in her expressions. She’s very expressive and has a hard time fighting back microexpressions HANDS: Because she’s got a lot of anxiety and energy she tends to talk with her hands LEGS/FEET: Her legs are always kept very tightly together (she learned to do this from her parents not wanting her to flash people) EMOTIONAL OUTBURSTS: Literally cries all the time. Tends to get emotional easily and will yell and scream if upset HABITS: Hums when she’s thinking and will look around a lot if she’s nervous POSTURE: Stands up straight because she’ll look shorter if she doesn’t PERSONAL SPACE: Tends to like her personal space at first, but once she trusts people (which really isn’t hard to gain from her) then she’s okay with touching. She loves hugs, but if people are overtly touchy with her she may act like she’s annoyed, but will do nothing to fight it back

HEALTH:

DIET: Her mom takes good food really seriously so Edwina tends to eat well for breakfast and dinner. She gets all her food groups in, but tends to snack. Her guilty pleasure is Lunchables. SLEEP: Edwina loves sleep and if you wake her up she will probably kill you EXERCISE: LOL no ACTIVITY: Edwina is lazy as FUCK she would let someone carry her if she didn’t have to walk at all CLEANLINESS: Very cleanly. Grooms herself well and tends to clean everything else around her due to her thing with germs ODOR: Smells like strawberries due to her shampoo and the body spray she uses MEDICINAL DRUGS: She has an inhaler NARCOTICS: No ADDICTIONS: Addicted to One Direction ILLNESS: Asthma and lil bitch syndrome

PERSONAL.

INTROVERT/EXTROVERT?: She keeps to herself, but she gains her energy from being with people OPTIMIST/PESSIMIST: In between. She tends to think everything is the end of the world, but because of that she tries to look for the light in everything GENDER: Cisfemale SEXUALITY: Homosexual, but she’s in the closet. At this point Edwina doesn’t even fully realize she’s gay she just thinks there’s something wrong with her for not liking guys ROMANTIC: Soft romantic bitch. She wants love so bad like she just wants to get married and have like 5 babies MEMORY: Her memory is strong which is helpful with school, but not with her grudges PLANNING: Edwina prefers to plan things out because she knows that’s the safest thing to do, but is constantly getting swept away by people or acting on emotion so planning for things typically go out the window INTUITION: Edwina does everything with good intent, but most of the time it just blows up in her face PROBLEM SOLVING: She’s pretty good at figuring things out whether with context clues or doing research GOALS: Her goal that she tells people is to go to a school like Stanford for engineering, but she really doesn’t think she’s good enough to get into any big name universities. She wants to do something with cars, but her real goal is to get married and become a mom. INSECURITIES: Edwina is insecure about her everything lol. She especially hates her body because of how short and flat chested she is. Her gums and smile are also a really big thing to her and she’s also just ver insecure about her personality because people tell her she’s weird all the time ACHIEVEMENTS: Wins second place in the science fair every year and is in the top 50 of her class ANXIETY: Bitch is always anxious SELF-HELP: Edwina tends to cope by crying all the bad feelings out or screaming about her inner thoughts until she’s tuckered out COMFORTS: If she’s really upset she’ll want someone to just hug her while she cries, but if she can’t do that then she’ll sit in her bed under all the blankets and curl up with her stuffed rabbit BAD HABITS: Not standing up for herself, getting emotional over small things, trusting people too easy, overly washing and sanitizing her hands, screaming and being loud in inappropriate places, and crying easily PHILOSOPHY: Basically lives by the teachings and rules of the Catholic church, but she’s leans very much towards the New Testament and the idea that God is forgiving and therefore so should man TRIGGERS: Germs, blood, death, vomit, Satan, anything gay

THE PAST.

PARENTS/GUARDIANS: She’s very close with her parents, but mostly her mom. Her mom didn’t let her out of her arms for so long that Edwina learned how to walk pretty late. Her parents always made her feel loved, but her dad was a little more strict with her. Even so, he still was always affectionate with her. Her parents wanted a bunch of kids, but it took them almost 3 years of trying to have Edwina so they tend to helicopter her and treat her like a princess. Edwina loves both her parents and would put them first always LIFE EVENTS: Edwina met Raquel in kindergarten and that was the first friend she made. After that they became inseparable and didn’t really have people to hang out with besides each other. This was mostly due to people thinking Edwina was sorta weird growing up or Raquel would scare off guys that she thought were trying to ask her out or get with her. Eventually this made people think they were dating which wouldn’t be a problem to Edwina until people started calling her gay slurs. It got worse when she looked at Heidi Dods in the locker room for a little too long and the whole school labeled her as a predatory lesbian. It got so bad that Mr. Kobbs told her she wasn’t allowed to change in the locker rooms anymore for other girls’ comfortability. WORST DAY OF THEIR LIFE: When Raquel’s mom died because that was really her first experience with death and that was the start of her having to watch her best friend’s life start crumbling BEST DAY OF THEIR LIFE: When Jamie let her drive Johnnie’s ‘64 Mustang LOOKING BACK: Edwina has always believed that things happen for a reason, but if she could go back and do anything different it’d be not letting Tommy go so he wouldn’t die

RELATIONSHIPS.

FAMILY: Mom; Susan Clussy. Dad; Edward Clussy. She has uncles on her dad’s side and some cousins, but she isn’t that close with them. She also considers Raquel family since she’s always at her house anyway and Mr. Torrance is awful FRIENDSHIPS: Up until this year Edwina’s only close friend has been Raquel. She has some church friends (i.e. Norman Normal), but no one she really hangs out with. Now she considers everyone in MC a pal, except perhaps Dolly (but that’s more so because Edwina doubts she’d want to affiliate herself as Edwina’s friend). FRIENDS IN NEED: Edwina will usually drop everything to help a friend out even if she has to put them first before her own emotional needs. She’s always there with reassuring being her greatest weapon to fight off tears, but Edwina will make other meaningful gestures if she thinks it will help NEEDING A FRIEND: Edwina tends to bottle a lot in and then will end up exploding all her frustrations or tears onto one unlucky person. She likes to only really talk to people she can trust not to make her feel worse, but sometimes strangers get caught in the moment she finally snaps ANNOYANCES: She yells a lot and tends to be snarky and sarcastic when she’s annoyed with someone ROMANCE: When looking for something romantic, Edwina tends to gravitate towards people that make her laugh and like being affectionate. If you wanna woo her then literally just be a pretty girl, make her giggle, and compliment her (she’s not that hard to impress) ADVERSARIES: Edwina would honestly befriend anyone and give anybody a second chance at redemption, but if someone was just cruel and showed 0 signs of having any sort of remorse or good in them then she'd stay away completely ENEMIES: She has a hard time with people who just go after her with little reason other than she’s weird STRANGERS: She tries to be polite to everyone because that’s how her parents raised her. However, Edwina can be a bit judgmental when she doesn’t keep that side of her in check FUN STUFF: Fun stuff she likes to do with friends are going to Marie’s, driving around town, going to the movies or staying in and watching cheesy films, napping together, private karaoke or dance parties, or even just sitting in silence while her and the other person/people just do their own thing or sit on their phones showing each other funny memes they find DATING: Everything above, but with kissing LOVE: Her fanny pack WORST ENEMY: Heidi Dods, Shoprite Cruz, and Mr. Kobbs

INTERACTIONS.

MINGLING: She’s nice but awkward as fuck so making friends is hard COMFORT LEVELS: Edwina gets nervous and anxious easily so talking to people can take a lot outta her, but if she’s comfortable around you then she’s more lax PHYSICAL: She’s very affectionate (but if you’re dirty she’ll be more reluctant to won’t touch you, sorry Kaz) GROUPS: Prefers smaller groups OPENNESS: It depends? She’s pretty open about most things, but she still keeps a lot buried down in her lil fanny pack and won’t talk about openly or easily GENEROSITY: Bitch would give the shirt off her back if anyone needed it JEALOUSY: Can get very jealous very easily, but tends to not understand her own jealousy. She’d go home and cry whenever Raquel would be hooking up with some new person, but just think it was her period making her emotional or something lol TEMPER: The human embodiment of an angry pomeranian EMPATHY: Thinks about other people’s feelings first and is a very strong empath AFFECTION: Cuddling, hugging, touching, forehead or cheek kissing, kind words, and meaningful gestures DISTASTE: She doesn’t usually show it to their face, but if she’s talking about them to someone else she’ll just call them an asshole and stuff lol ETIQUETTE: Tries to be polite in public, but tends to cause scenes if she’s upset or emotional RESPONSIBILITY: If she’s wrong then she’ll always apologize SELF ESTEEM: Edwina has really low self esteem because of kids at school picking on her. Her parents always tried to make her feel good about herself, but it didn’t do much because she always felt as though they were obligated to say nice things to her. She let’s people push her around for the most part, but if she does stand up for herself it’s in a very quiet way CONFIDENCE: She doesn’t really care what most people think of her, but she just wishes that they’d keep it to themselves instead of beating her down for it. She cares about what her family thinks though HONESTY: Edwina has always been taught to be honest, but recently she’s been lying a lot LEADER OR FOLLOWER: Follower PRAISE: Loves compliments, but is super bad at accepting them CRITICISM: Really bad at reacting to criticism, but takes it. Will likely cry, but take it to heart INSULTS: Doesn’t take insults well and will 100% cry EMBARRASSMENT: If she’s embarrassed she’ll usually turn red and start stumbling. Again, will likely cry FLIRTING: She isn’t flirty because she doesn’t think anyone would ever reciprocate. If someone does flirt with her it goes over her head ATTENTION SPAN: Gets distracted by shiny objects and fuzzy animals. Very easy to divert her attention SITUATIONS: Really bad at handling stressful situations. She will start screaming or crying or even hyperventilating in which case she’ll crack her inhaler out

LIFE.

TECH: Very tech savvy. Great with computers and figuring out how to make things work POLITICS: Her dad is a very vocal republican, but Edwina’s mother is a lot more loving and liberal so Edwina takes after her mom’s views COMBAT SKILLS: She’s scrawny, but scrappy. She’d definitely lose a fight if she got in one, but she’d go for the jugular HOME: Keeps her room immaculately clean. She’s one of those kids who makes her bed everyday and organizes all her clothes. Her mother is always cleaning the house so the whole place is usually spotless COOKING: Learned how to cook from her mom. She’s no Top Chef, but her food is good BUILDING: Likes to put things together so on any project she’d want to take the lead. It’s like a big puzzle to her CLEANING: Mom does most cleaning, but Edwina helps out sometimes just because she loves her mom. Her parents don’t really give her chores SHOPPING: Likes shopping DRIVING: Loves to drive. Grew up around cars because her dad owns the local dealership. Edwina could likely figure out how to drive any car FINANCES: Family comes from a decent amount of money PETS: No pets, but she’d love a bunny or cat. Pet hair makes her allergies act up and her dad doesn’t like animals so there’s a no pet rule in the house TRAVELING: The only place she’s really gone outside of NC is Disney World. Other than that, most family vacations are in stand MEDICAL: Is constantly going to the doctor because her and her mom are kinda hypochondriacs. Edwina had some health complications when she was a baby because she was born premature so her mom just wants to make sure she doesn’t lose her kid. Edwina doesn’t mind the doctor though for they always give her a lollipop ILLNESS: Asthma WORRIES: Is literally worried about everything lmfao PEACE: Likes peace and quiet, but will occasionally listen to music and stuff if she’s working PARTYING: Doesn’t go to many parties because she doesn’t get invited HOBBIES: Working on her car, building stuff, watching bad movies, and reading

#†･ﾟ* ❝ what are you wondering what do you know . — ⸢ TASKS ⸥ #†･ﾟ* ❝ christ’s favorite lesbian . — ⸢ CHARACTER ⸥ #normal:task1 #leave it to me to be one of the last to do the task that I ASSIGNED asdfghjklkjhgfd

[jackymedan]

film ask game

stolen from @theniftycat

What’s the most depressing movie you’ve ever watched?

probably either The Green Mile, La Vita È Bella or Brokeback Mountain idk, I don’t watch that many depressing movies, I tend to avoid them

What’s the most disturbing movie you’ve ever watched?

probably Saw (I watched at least 1 and 2 idk if I ever saw 3 as well but none beyond that).. but the one that gave me the biggest trauma for a long time was possibly The Mummy but only because I was TOO YOUNG to see that scene with the scarabs going underneath someone’s skin and it freaked me the fuck out ok.. ALSO “Love me if you dare” a.k.a. “Jeux d’Enfants” ??????? ??? ? ?????? ?? ???? w h a t ? Also Cashback had some pretty disturbing blatant non-con nudity that was pretty icky and the nature of it was pretty disturbing as well (the guy can freeze time but he’s an “artist” so he decides to undress random women while they’re frozen in time and draw nudes of them without their consent and afterwards he just “fixes their clothes back on” and unfreezes time and acts as if nothing happened ????? ew.)

An actor/actress you’ve seen in more than 8 movies? Name the movies.

I’ve done that with multiple actors.. and with most of them it’s too many movies to name all of them so I’ll just name the actors: Callum Keith Rennie (SO MANY movies and I still haven’t seen all of them), Michael Palin, also probably John Cleese since he was in quite a lot of movies Michael was in as well, Channing Tatum also just about reaches 8 films I watched (mostly) just for him.. Jamie Bell is just a few movies short of that I think..

A film you could watch on repeat for the rest of your life?

Possibly Amélie since it’s my favourite movie and I know it by heart anyway and it has a great soundtrack.. but I’d rather watch other things as well instead of just one thing on repeat

What’s the very first film you remember watching?

no idea honestly.. I’m not great with figuring out the chronological order of my earlier memories..

A film you wish you hadn’t watched?

The Wicker Man just because it was awful and I actually spent money on it to see it in the cinema with my classmates.. everyone was very “?????????????? wtf did we just watch” at the end.. also I just hate nicholas cage in general tbh.. also Suspicious River.. I watched it for CKR and he wasn’t even remotely attractive in it anymore because he played an incredibly sleazy, gross, LITERAL rapist asshole.. also the plot was terrible and weird.. 0/10 would not recommend

A film you wish had a sequel?

sequels often suck though so idk..

Which book would you like to see adapted into a film?

movie adaptations of books rarely live up to my (too) high expectations tbh so idk.. are there movies of diana wynne jones’ chrestomanci series books?

The most aesthetically pleasing movie you’ve ever watched?

Anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet tbh, but especially Amélie.. also The Fall with Lee Pace was gorgeous too, but I should watch it on dvd quality (I have the dvd now) because that’ll probably be a lot better than the download I watched.. (The Fall was also pretty disturbing in some places imo btw) I also need to re-watch Big Fish, it was pretty but I watched it while I was down with the flu and I only processed half of it..

What’s your favourite movie director?

300000% Jean-Pierre Jeunet, no question about it.

Your favourite movie genre?

idk preferably things that aren’t straight up depressing + have a happy ending if possible.. things that make me laugh.. things that have one of my favourite actors in it :)))

A movie that holds a special place in your heart?

Ferngully lol idk.. probably more but idk

Your favourite comedy film?

idk Monty Python’s Holy Grail or Life of Brian? or idk

A music video you would love to see developed into a film?

no idea

A film everyone loves but you hate?

idk about hate.. but many people love st*r w*rs and I give maybe 1 or 2 fucks about it total (I only like the imperial march cover by rage against the machine and eddie izzard’s sketch about the death star canteen, I’ve never actually seen any of the movies and don’t really plan to change that.. I don’t “hate” them either though..) Also Action/Superhero movies in general.. anything in which there are 34567 explosions every 2 seconds and entire cities need to get destroyed because a couple of “super heroes” think a busy city is a good place to fight.. I hate p much every superhero movie with some slight exceptions.. I did like the first 2 captain america movies but hated the avengers (I only saw the first avengers movie because I needed to watch it to follow the plot of captain america 2).. also I watched deadpool and the spiderman movies with tobey maguire.. but that’s about it.. I’m also not a comic book person..

A film you love but everyone else hates?

idk who ‘everyone else’ is in this context.. most people have probably seen more movies in their lives than I have tbh, especially if you’re talking about recent productions.. I can’t really think of a movie “everyone” hates to begin with.. except like.. twilight or something.. I only saw the first movie of that and I didn’t have any strong feelings about it.. I didn’t hate it? (and actually kind of enjoyed the books, sue me)

Which cinematic universe would you like to live in?

Amélie please.. I’d love to live in paris with extra pretty colours <3

What’s your favourite biopic?

Milk about Harvey Milk (this might possibly be the only biopic I’ve seen tbh but it was good)

Mainstream movies or indie movies?

either/both idk.. although I do kind of tend to gravitate towards more obscure/weird movies a lot of the time.. I hardly ever watch the Big Hits “everybody” is talking about that “everybody” NEEDS to see etc.. that often makes me feel even less interested in watching it, I watch what I want >__>

Old movies or contemporary movies?

old-ish movies.. idk.. like I said, I’m not really the kind of person who goes to the cinema very often to watch all the big movie hits that “everybody” is telling you to watch etc.. I mostly watch things because an actor I love happens to be in it or I saw a gifset of it and it caught my interest..

A film with an amazing soundtrack?

I’m getting predictable: Amélie :)) also MicMacs à Tire-Larigot which is also by JP Jeunet :)))

#lalalameme #long post

[hollywoodjuliorivas]

OPINION UPWARD MOBILITY

Dave Chappelle Is Stuck in the ’80s

He made a career pushing the envelope, but his material—including the N-word—is no longer edgy.

By Jason L. Riley

Sept. 3, 2019 6:58 pm ET

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Watch the trailer for comedian Dave Chapelle's new stand-up comedy special, 'Sticks & Stones.' Image: Richard Shotwell/Associated Press

I had three major takeaways from comic Dave Chappelle ’s most recent Netflix special. The first was that his comedy has lost something. The flourishes are still there but less frequent. The observations are still amusing but less reliably insightful. Mr. Chappelle has made a career out of pushing the envelope, but his Michael Jackson pedophile bits aren’t edgy. They’re just icky.

A second takeaway was that black offense at use of the N-word is so much playacting. Mr. Chappelle spends an hour incessantly and gratuitously ramming it into our ears. Which is nothing new among black comics, of course. Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy also performed famously vulgar routines. What’s changed is the debate surrounding use of the N-word outside comedy clubs.

The founder of the Papa John’s pizza chain resigned as chairman following complaints that he used the word during a media-training session on race relations. A middle-school teacher in Wisconsin quit her job under pressure for citing the word as an example of inappropriate language. Princeton canceled a course on hate speech last year after students complained that a professor used the word during a discussion of offensive terms. Undoubtedly, there are some blacks who cringe at hearing the N-word in any context, but we can be fairly certain that none of them are undergraduates at Princeton.

White people are led to believe that a word that has permeated the most popular forms of comedy and music in the country for decades somehow sends black people into conniptions when they hear it in any other context. But the first time I recall hearing the word as a child, it was spoken by other blacks, and my experience is far from unique. Even today, blacks are far more likely than whites to use the term in public. And the selective outrage over its use has grown tiresome.

My third reaction to Mr. Chappelle’s show was how little black comedy seems to have evolved in recent decades. Racial themes still dominate. Harping on the otherworldliness of the black experience in America still wins laughs even as our neighborhoods and schools and workplaces become more diverse and integrated. Before Bill Cosby ’s monstrous offstage behavior caught up with him, his career offered evidence of a huge appetite for nonracial humor from a black comedian. But Mr. Cosby continues to be the exception. Two decades into the 21st century, much of black stand-up seems stuck in the 1980s. The jokes have been updated, but the nature of the humor hasn’t really changed.

Mr. Chappelle and fellow black comedian Chris Rock are still the best at what they do, but Mr. Rock’s work strikes me as more subversive. While others obsess over what white people are doing, many of Mr. Rock’s most memorable routines zero in on black attitudes toward education, parenting and law enforcement. His sensibilities can be as shocking as his language, especially in a political environment where personal responsibility is passé and calling attention to counterproductive behavior is a no-no. Drug companies are to blame for the opioid crisis. The gun lobby is to blame for mass shootings. Racism is to blame for racial disparities.

Last month the New York Times marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first black slaves to America. Slavery was a global evil dating back thousands of years, but it’s often discussed only in terms of Africans being enslaved by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere. The “legacy of slavery” is regularly invoked to explain black-white differences today in everything from homeownership to single parenting. But as far back as the late 1960s, U.S. census data show black immigrants from the Caribbean, which also has a legacy of slavery, far out-earning American blacks. And second-generation black West Indians were earning more than the U.S. average for all groups.

In 1907 Booker T. Washington, the educator and former slave, published a book detailing the economic progress of blacks since emancipation. He reported that between 1860 and 1900 black homeownership rates grew from infinitesimal to more than 20%, and that among homeowners a higher percentage of blacks than whites completely owned their residences. “I am unaware that history records such an example of substantial growth in civilization in a time so short,” wrote Washington. A hundred years ago, black marriage rates exceeded those of whites, and most black children were raised in two-parent homes. Today, that’s no longer true and slavery can’t explain the retrogression.

Liberals want to harp on how blacks have been treated, but a focus on how they progressed in earlier eras notwithstanding that treatment would be of far greater use to today’s black underclass. The black experience in America is much more than a history of what whites have done to blacks, even if our politicians, commentators and comedians often find it expedient to pretend otherwise.

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Book Review: “And Again” by John Hirsch

November 27th, 2017|Tags: photography, science|0 Comments

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By Dylan Stuntz, American Forests

The grey cover of “And Again: Photographs from the Harvard Forest” is adorned with a simple ink drawing of a small pine branch with cones, but much like the subject of the book, there is a hidden treasure found inside. There is both beauty and science found within the woods of the Harvard Forest, and John Hirsch works to uncover both, while demonstrating how each feeds into the other.

Map of sawmill site for 1938 hurricane salvage. Credit: John Hirsh

“And Again” is a deceptively complex volume, both in terms of the photos and essays inside, as well as the composition and design choices. The essays, written by David Foster, Clarisse Hart and Margot Anne Kelley, offer contextual background on the forest’s history and work.

Hemlock tree adjacent to Hemlock Eddy Flux Tower with sampling tubes. Credit: John Hirsch

The subject of the book is the Harvard Forest, a 3,750-acre plot of woodland used for scientific experimentation, research and study found in Petersham, Mass.

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“It is a place where technology and nature are so viscerally and overtly entwined that cables and wires emerge from the ground and descend from the sky. Trees are wrapped in plastic and metal, and the growth and movement of all things are tracked with unending precision.”

As other essays explain, the Harvard Forest is made up of so much more than simply the trees inside it. It is a place that has been cared for and observed for decades, making it a metaphor for most modern forests, as humanity traipses through and leaves impacts both intended and unintended.

Growth rings. Credit: John Hirsch

The boldest design choice throughout the story is the deliberate decision to leave almost a third of the pages blank. Opening the book to a random spread will most likely result in a photograph on the right-hand page, with the leftmost page remaining empty. However, this vacancy serves to emphasize pages that do feature a double spread, whether they be essays paired with photos or two photos placed together.

Oak transplant study. Credit: John Hirsch

The pairings initially seem random, however, after a moment, a larger design starts to emerge. Two photos placed side-by-side on pages 88 and 89 are titled “Relief Map of Petersham and the Harvard Forest” and “Air Sampling Tubes and Electrical Wires.” Both feature strong man-made lines in different contexts, with a relief map featuring the changes in elevation in one picture, while wires hang from trees and run through the air in the other. It creates a sense of artistic continuity between the pages, connecting two photos that seem to simply share a photographer and a location, expanding into so much more. The word “story” legitimately applies to this book of photos, because a sense of connection grows stronger the deeper one gets into the volume.

Transplanted pitcher plants. Credit: John Hirsch

Almost every photo featured shows humanity’s relationship with this piece of woodland, whether it be the shadow of a fire tower or punch cards from the archives. Some tell a more subtle story of the people, juxtaposing a tree stand titled “Clear-Cut” with a second stand, simply titled “Shelterwood.” People are featured in some photos, but they are never focused on the camera, either lost in a specific task or deep in thought, caught in a perfectly candid moment, as much a part of the environment as the trees they study. One photo, titled “Julian in the Hemlock Tower Shed,” features a figure (presumably Julian) standing in a moment of clarity, eyes closed and hand placed over his chest. It is a uniquely intimate moment that demonstrates the exceptional relationship between the forest and its stewards.

Audrey surveying understory of herbaceous plant with Harvard Forest Summer Ecology Program students. Credit: John Hirsch

The volume opens with a quote by Hugh M. Raup, who studied the previous owners of the land, farmers who cared for it from 1763 to 1845: “And again the land did not change, except in terms of the human values at the time.” Hirsch’s story shows that certain people are trying to maintain a reverence for this forest that remains as unchanging as the land.

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48 Hours Irrevocable: The New “Hold-Back”

TorontoRealtyBlog

I’m sure we’ve talked about this at some point in the last ten years of TRB, but as the market changes, so too do the games people play.  And this fall, when it comes to listings and offers, nobody has any idea what to expect.

We’ve seen a lot of “offer dates” on listings, with a specific day and time, usually a week after the listing hits the market, on which to review offers.

But we’ve also seen a lot of “soft offer dates” as well.

What the heck is a soft offer date?  I think many of you already know, but let me explain…

I’ve never actually seen that movie.

It’s one of the most famous movies to come out of the 1980’s, and as an amateur film buff, I’m aware that it was the first big-budget, mass-produced “buddy cop” movie that gave birth to the whole Lethal Weapon series, not to mention Eddie Murphy’s subsequent Beverly Hills Cop franchise, and yet I have still never seen it.

Well, I know what I’m doing this Saturday night after my wife falls asleep at 9:30pm…

“48 Hours” is a term that’s being thrown around a lot in real estate these days, and the context in which the term is used has changed.

“It’s forty-eight hours,” an agent will say, in reference to a listing, which is a short-form of, “The listing came out today and while there’s no set ‘offer date,’ they’re asking for any offers to have a 48-hour irrevocability.”

That’s a mouthful.  And who has time for that, in a busy market?

The term is also being used as a verb, if you can believe it.

“We’re bringing Pape out on Thursday,” one will say.  “We’ll probably just forty-eight hours it.”

Grammatically blasphemous, I know.  But those in the know, know.

What the hell am I talking about?

Why am I being confusing?

Because I’m trying to introduce you to what it’s like in the fall, 2017 real estate market, where the grey areas have a grey area.

Remember back in the spring, when every house that hit the market had an offer date?

List on Tuesday, “hold back” offers until next Monday, review them at 7pm, and likely end up with some insane 25%-over-list premium?

Those days, for the most part, are behind us.

Yes, we’re still seeing houses sell for 25% over list, and yes, we’re still seeing a majority of freehold homes listed with “offer dates.”

But we’re also seeing houses listed without offer dates.  And that is where things get interesting.

Consider that without a set offer date – without that text, “Offers Graciously Reviewed Wednesday, October 18th At 7:00pm By Email,” there are still a lot of ways the buyers and their agents could interpret the listing.

For example:

1) Offers anytime.  The property is over-priced, strategically, thus the sellers are just hoping for some good karma. 2) Offers anytime.  The property is priced fairly, and the sellers are hoping that the lack of an “offer date” will spur a buyer, or two buyers, into action. 3) Offers anytime, with a 48-hour irrevocable.  The property is priced fairly, but the sellers wondered if they should have done a “hold back,” so they want a couple of days to hang on to offers. 4) Offers anytime, with a 48-hour irrevocable.  The property is under-priced, and this is just a shorter version of the “hold back on offers.”

I’m sure there are some hybrid versions of those four examples, but for the most part, you get the picture.

What this means, ironically, is two things – both of which represent me taking a shot at the average Realtor:

1) Listing agents have to actually figure out what a property is worth, unlike the spring, when you’d just laughably under-list, and let the market price the house for you on offer-night.

2) Buyer agents have to actually figure out what a property is worth, to advise their buyer how to act, unlike the spring, when you’d just wait until offer night and find out how many offers you were up against.

If I could put a more positive spin on it, I would say this: there’s now an opportunity for buyers, to find an inefficiency in the market.

Now, before I delve into some examples, let me explain the legal part of this to you.

What does, for example, REBBA 2002 have to say about the 48-hour irrevocable?

Nothing.

Just like with offer nights, bully offers, and the rest of it.

Once again, we find ourselves in one giant grey area, trying to navigate our way through it.

Have a look at this:

That’s your typical “48 Hours” clause in the MLS listing.

And there’s always some nonsense about “Seller is Travelling” because you don’t want to say, “Offers Anytime With 48 Hours Irrevocable So We Can Shop Your Offer To Other Agents And Hold You By The Balls.”

So if you’re a buyer, or a buyer agent, and you see that “48 Hours” clause in the listing, what is your responsibility regarding what you put in your offer?

The answer, as you may have guessed, is a big, fat, NOTHING!

Nothing.

There is nothing that forces you to provide 48 hours irrevocability in your offer.

Just as when there are “Offers Reviewed Wednesday, October 25th,” and you’re free to submit a bully offer on Tuesday, October 16th when the listing hits the market, there’s nothing to stop you from making an offer on a listing that requests/demands/specifies there need be a 48 hour irrevocability, with only 4-hours to review the offer.

Having said that, there is a time, in the first case, when there is an offer date specified, and you can NOT make a bully offer.

That case is only when, and this is rare, the seller has specifically signed the “Seller Offer Direction Form” that says they “do not want to be informed of pre-emptive offers.”

That’s a form, believe it or not.

Because of just how crazy the market had become over the past year, we needed written direction from our sellers as to how offers would be handled.

And there is an option, that the seller can choose, to not be informed of pre-emptive offers.

It’s the only time when a listing agent can legally receive an offer, and refuse to present it.

At all other times, an offer must be presented to the seller “at the earliest opportunity.”

So what does this mean in our “48 hour irrevocable” example?

If a listing agent is in receipt of an offer that has only 6-hours irrevocable, and the listing specifically states that 48-hours are needed/wanted/demanded, can the listing agent simply say, “You didn’t provide me with 48 hours as per my listing, so I’m not going to present the offer”?

No.

No he can’t.

So what does that mean with respect to this whole “48 hour irrevocable” idea as a strategy, like holding back offers?

It means that, as a listing agent, you’d better have a Plan-B, you’d better forewarn your seller, and you’d better act quickly when you get an offer.

And is means that, as a buyer agent, you’d better be ready to fight.

Last weekend, I was showing properties to a couple of clients in the west end.

They had decided to pass on a property that I really liked, listed at $849,900, that truly “checked all the boxes,” and was completely renovated, and with excellent workmanship.

The day after the “offer date,” the property was increased in price to $950,000, and I felt as though we had dodged a bullet.

We went out on Saturday to see five houses, four of which were dogs.

One of them, however, was great.

Great was an understatement, actually.  It was too good to be true.

My clients didn’t have the required 20% down payment to buy for $1,000,000, so we were stuck looking at properties that would sell for $999,999 and under.

This house was priced at $964,800, and it was just exceptional.

The interesting part was – it hit MLS on Friday around 4pm.  Who brings out a listing at 4pm on a Friday?  I know many of you will argue “it doesn’t matter” as I have blogged on this subject before, but trust me when I say that once again, I respectfully disagree.

The property was also listed without any photos.

So by the time we saw the property at noon on Saturday, we were the only showing that had been booked.

Take my word for it – this house was worth over $1M, easily.  How much over?  $20K, $30K, $50K – somewhere in that range, in my professional opinion.

It had the same 3-beds and 2-baths as the renovated $849K house that I liked for them, but that was a semi-detached; this was fully-detached, with a private driveway, on a 25 x 150 foot lot.  The backyard was insane – truly “decked out” with a covered terrace and built-in BBQ, pool, about $30K worth of custom stamped concrete, and a small pool-house that served as a gym or games room.

Suffice it to say, we jumped on it.

We reviewed the home inspection, went to TD Bank to get a certified deposit cheque, and had our offer submitted by 4pm.

The listing, of course, specified a 24-48 hour irrevocable was needed.

So having submitted our offer at 4pm on a Saturday, what irrevocable did we give them?

11:00pm.

Seven hours.

That’s 17 less than they had asked for, but six more than I’d have wanted to give them, in a perfect world.

There was absolutely no way I was going to let them keep this offer overnight, and risk other buyers, or people venturing through the Sat/Sun open house, making competing offers.

I told the listing agent, “My client is a first-time buyer, and a nervous wreck, and she refuses to sleep on this.  You have to present this offer tonight.”

And he did.

And the seller signed, and we had a deal.

A “deal” as in an agreement, but a “deal” as in a bargain as well.

If I’m making it sound like I’m patting myself on the back here, I’m not.

This is common sense, in my opinion, and there’s no reason to give an agent 48 hours on an offer in this market, just because they want it.

If your offer expires, then re-submit a revised offer.

But let it get to that point first, before you give somebody two days to shop your offer around town.

These “soft offer dates” are present on houses and condos, low-end and high-end.

In cases where the listing agent doesn’t want to scare buyers away, or doesn’t think the property is under-priced enough and/or popular enough to result in multiple offers, you’re going to see these requests for 24-48 hours irrevocable.

Don’t give in.

As an agent, you merely need say, “My client has instructed me to present this offer with the terms and conditions that he outlined; I’m just doing my job.”  Blame your buyer, if you have to, and keep the dialogue with the listing agent as amicable as possible.

But trust me when I say if you give them 48 hours on your offer, you will be competing, in more cases than not…

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48 Hours Irrevocable: The New “Hold-Back”

TorontoRealtyBlog

I’m sure we’ve talked about this at some point in the last ten years of TRB, but as the market changes, so too do the games people play.  And this fall, when it comes to listings and offers, nobody has any idea what to expect.

We’ve seen a lot of “offer dates” on listings, with a specific day and time, usually a week after the listing hits the market, on which to review offers.

But we’ve also seen a lot of “soft offer dates” as well.

What the heck is a soft offer date?  I think many of you already know, but let me explain…

I’ve never actually seen that movie.

It’s one of the most famous movies to come out of the 1980’s, and as an amateur film buff, I’m aware that it was the first big-budget, mass-produced “buddy cop” movie that gave birth to the whole Lethal Weapon series, not to mention Eddie Murphy’s subsequent Beverly Hills Cop franchise, and yet I have still never seen it.

Well, I know what I’m doing this Saturday night after my wife falls asleep at 9:30pm…

“48 Hours” is a term that’s being thrown around a lot in real estate these days, and the context in which the term is used has changed.

“It’s forty-eight hours,” an agent will say, in reference to a listing, which is a short-form of, “The listing came out today and while there’s no set ‘offer date,’ they’re asking for any offers to have a 48-hour irrevocability.”

That’s a mouthful.  And who has time for that, in a busy market?

The term is also being used as a verb, if you can believe it.

“We’re bringing Pape out on Thursday,” one will say.  “We’ll probably just forty-eight hours it.”

Grammatically blasphemous, I know.  But those in the know, know.

What the hell am I talking about?

Why am I being confusing?

Because I’m trying to introduce you to what it’s like in the fall, 2017 real estate market, where the grey areas have a grey area.

Remember back in the spring, when every house that hit the market had an offer date?

List on Tuesday, “hold back” offers until next Monday, review them at 7pm, and likely end up with some insane 25%-over-list premium?

Those days, for the most part, are behind us.

Yes, we’re still seeing houses sell for 25% over list, and yes, we’re still seeing a majority of freehold homes listed with “offer dates.”

But we’re also seeing houses listed without offer dates.  And that is where things get interesting.

Consider that without a set offer date – without that text, “Offers Graciously Reviewed Wednesday, October 18th At 7:00pm By Email,” there are still a lot of ways the buyers and their agents could interpret the listing.

For example:

1) Offers anytime.  The property is over-priced, strategically, thus the sellers are just hoping for some good karma. 2) Offers anytime.  The property is priced fairly, and the sellers are hoping that the lack of an “offer date” will spur a buyer, or two buyers, into action. 3) Offers anytime, with a 48-hour irrevocable.  The property is priced fairly, but the sellers wondered if they should have done a “hold back,” so they want a couple of days to hang on to offers. 4) Offers anytime, with a 48-hour irrevocable.  The property is under-priced, and this is just a shorter version of the “hold back on offers.”

I’m sure there are some hybrid versions of those four examples, but for the most part, you get the picture.

What this means, ironically, is two things – both of which represent me taking a shot at the average Realtor:

1) Listing agents have to actually figure out what a property is worth, unlike the spring, when you’d just laughably under-list, and let the market price the house for you on offer-night.

2) Buyer agents have to actually figure out what a property is worth, to advise their buyer how to act, unlike the spring, when you’d just wait until offer night and find out how many offers you were up against.

If I could put a more positive spin on it, I would say this: there’s now an opportunity for buyers, to find an inefficiency in the market.

Now, before I delve into some examples, let me explain the legal part of this to you.

What does, for example, REBBA 2002 have to say about the 48-hour irrevocable?

Nothing.

Just like with offer nights, bully offers, and the rest of it.

Once again, we find ourselves in one giant grey area, trying to navigate our way through it.

Have a look at this:

That’s your typical “48 Hours” clause in the MLS listing.

And there’s always some nonsense about “Seller is Travelling” because you don’t want to say, “Offers Anytime With 48 Hours Irrevocable So We Can Shop Your Offer To Other Agents And Hold You By The Balls.”

So if you’re a buyer, or a buyer agent, and you see that “48 Hours” clause in the listing, what is your responsibility regarding what you put in your offer?

The answer, as you may have guessed, is a big, fat, NOTHING!

Nothing.

There is nothing that forces you to provide 48 hours irrevocability in your offer.

Just as when there are “Offers Reviewed Wednesday, October 25th,” and you’re free to submit a bully offer on Tuesday, October 16th when the listing hits the market, there’s nothing to stop you from making an offer on a listing that requests/demands/specifies there need be a 48 hour irrevocability, with only 4-hours to review the offer.

Having said that, there is a time, in the first case, when there is an offer date specified, and you can NOT make a bully offer.

That case is only when, and this is rare, the seller has specifically signed the “Seller Offer Direction Form” that says they “do not want to be informed of pre-emptive offers.”

That’s a form, believe it or not.

Because of just how crazy the market had become over the past year, we needed written direction from our sellers as to how offers would be handled.

And there is an option, that the seller can choose, to not be informed of pre-emptive offers.

It’s the only time when a listing agent can legally receive an offer, and refuse to present it.

At all other times, an offer must be presented to the seller “at the earliest opportunity.”

So what does this mean in our “48 hour irrevocable” example?

If a listing agent is in receipt of an offer that has only 6-hours irrevocable, and the listing specifically states that 48-hours are needed/wanted/demanded, can the listing agent simply say, “You didn’t provide me with 48 hours as per my listing, so I’m not going to present the offer”?

No.

No he can’t.

So what does that mean with respect to this whole “48 hour irrevocable” idea as a strategy, like holding back offers?

It means that, as a listing agent, you’d better have a Plan-B, you’d better forewarn your seller, and you’d better act quickly when you get an offer.

And is means that, as a buyer agent, you’d better be ready to fight.

Last weekend, I was showing properties to a couple of clients in the west end.

They had decided to pass on a property that I really liked, listed at $849,900, that truly “checked all the boxes,” and was completely renovated, and with excellent workmanship.

The day after the “offer date,” the property was increased in price to $950,000, and I felt as though we had dodged a bullet.

We went out on Saturday to see five houses, four of which were dogs.

One of them, however, was great.

Great was an understatement, actually.  It was too good to be true.

My clients didn’t have the required 20% down payment to buy for $1,000,000, so we were stuck looking at properties that would sell for $999,999 and under.

This house was priced at $964,800, and it was just exceptional.

The interesting part was – it hit MLS on Friday around 4pm.  Who brings out a listing at 4pm on a Friday?  I know many of you will argue “it doesn’t matter” as I have blogged on this subject before, but trust me when I say that once again, I respectfully disagree.

The property was also listed without any photos.

So by the time we saw the property at noon on Saturday, we were the only showing that had been booked.

Take my word for it – this house was worth over $1M, easily.  How much over?  $20K, $30K, $50K – somewhere in that range, in my professional opinion.

It had the same 3-beds and 2-baths as the renovated $849K house that I liked for them, but that was a semi-detached; this was fully-detached, with a private driveway, on a 25 x 150 foot lot.  The backyard was insane – truly “decked out” with a covered terrace and built-in BBQ, pool, about $30K worth of custom stamped concrete, and a small pool-house that served as a gym or games room.

Suffice it to say, we jumped on it.

We reviewed the home inspection, went to TD Bank to get a certified deposit cheque, and had our offer submitted by 4pm.

The listing, of course, specified a 24-48 hour irrevocable was needed.

So having submitted our offer at 4pm on a Saturday, what irrevocable did we give them?

11:00pm.

Seven hours.

That’s 17 less than they had asked for, but six more than I’d have wanted to give them, in a perfect world.

There was absolutely no way I was going to let them keep this offer overnight, and risk other buyers, or people venturing through the Sat/Sun open house, making competing offers.

I told the listing agent, “My client is a first-time buyer, and a nervous wreck, and she refuses to sleep on this.  You have to present this offer tonight.”

And he did.

And the seller signed, and we had a deal.

A “deal” as in an agreement, but a “deal” as in a bargain as well.

If I’m making it sound like I’m patting myself on the back here, I’m not.

This is common sense, in my opinion, and there’s no reason to give an agent 48 hours on an offer in this market, just because they want it.

If your offer expires, then re-submit a revised offer.

But let it get to that point first, before you give somebody two days to shop your offer around town.

These “soft offer dates” are present on houses and condos, low-end and high-end.

In cases where the listing agent doesn’t want to scare buyers away, or doesn’t think the property is under-priced enough and/or popular enough to result in multiple offers, you’re going to see these requests for 24-48 hours irrevocable.

Don’t give in.

As an agent, you merely need say, “My client has instructed me to present this offer with the terms and conditions that he outlined; I’m just doing my job.”  Blame your buyer, if you have to, and keep the dialogue with the listing agent as amicable as possible.

But trust me when I say if you give them 48 hours on your offer, you will be competing, in more cases than not…

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