#g goes to the theatre

[geeoharee]

Went to that student production of Guards Guards in Sheffield last night - had to figure out an unfamiliar tram system, and stay in the kind of hotel room where you don't get a kettle, but OH so worth it

I think the best way to put it is that it felt like when I saw Off The Wall, my favourite Pink Floyd tribute band - it felt like we were all there because we loved the same thing and wanted to celebrate it. When Elliott (the assistant director, as well as playing Vimes) asked "Any of them get out, Wonse?" I felt like he'd been waiting to say it as much as the audience had been waiting to hear it.

Interesting details: the Patrician and Wonse were played by women (which suggests a fascinating alternate universe where they try to sacrifice Havelock to the dragon, given the "she's not got a daughter" section) and the Librarian was wearing a wizard robe, which reduces the necessary costuming to a mask and big furry gloves.

Once Carrot flubbed and said "Sergeant Vimes" and they just worked it in ("Did you just call me Sergeant?") because he is the new boy after all. It was really cute.

It looked like mostly the casting was gender blind but Sybil was a Large Woman and Fred was three times everyone else's age, which is only right. I mean you have to cast Sybil properly or else you lose the bit at the end about the relative sizes of dragons. This is entirely practical and not at all about me being delighted to see someone who looked like me on stage.

I do think I need to go read the script, because I was sad how much of the theme of petty fascism was lost from the Brethren meetings - it becomes just about Wonse's personal lust for power, but you can't get a WHOLE novel into two hours. I did especially love seeing Sybil as a Lady Who Knows What She Wants (Vimes is terrified) and shout out to the girl playing Wonse - the mental breakdown in the second half was terrific. They did the feast scene without any food ("we'll eat later")! I've never seen Discworld adapted except on TV. This is so much cooler.

Vimes did the Dirty Harry scene in novelty dragon-paw slippers and a dressing gown with, I was utterly delighted to see, a rabbit on the pocket. It's the little things.

#g goes to the theatre #cheap theatre ceases to be cheap when you stay overnight to see it #worth it though

[nightgoodomens]

Can you elaborate your opinion on the coincidence of that BI with DT being in CA, Michael's PR explanation and miserable pics? The fact that Enty picked this very specific Disney story out of all the sus recent accidents sounds like a choice. Or jumping on MS's answer in less than 24h. AFAIK, Enty also gets info from reliable sources, could someone in CA participate in an "act of self-sabotage" to catalyze things? It sounds unlikely cause on the other hand it wouldn't be a good look to coincide coming out with breack ups and I think they know that. It's obvious whatever unhappiness there is between 2 couples( which is being put out, deliberately by themselves) has nothing to do with DT/MS, being poly and happy is a common thing. However, there seem to be separate conflicts between couples which we're not pervy to their nature but they're out there. (G admitted in a written press that she found an identity via social media and now she complains... says something.) As for media picking things up, I'm not sure what it'll take. If it was a hetero situation with 1/10 of the material we have from those two, surely it was the #1 hot gossip everywhere, years ago. I just hope whatever solution they come up with, doesn't smear a beautiful love with unrelated breakups.

Okay so what exactly is going on nobody can say apart from them but let’s just look at the timeline

(This is loooooong)

Since the beginning of GO there has been clear hints that something happened between Michael and David. Then it was made clear that they have gotten much closer during Staged. And then we saw them going a little insane over each other after lockdown all thorough GO2 promo including Michael not stopping on Twitter.

Then GT posts about the child being a drunk accident and MS goes a little nuts on Twitter telling people he sets David on fire fairly regularly, tells one of the major accounts to ask David face to face which part of him is 2% WELSH, and likes half naked GO fanart.

Then he goes dead quiet which was sudden and clearly related.

Then comes back only the moment David is on stage in New York. Quite obviously.

Goes quiet again, we start getting a lot less Good Omens and David content until the unfortunate moment where trolls made him basically quit Twitter for a while.

The answer to his 2% was that David is still thinking about it and he will let him know…

Then this timeline begins:

The infamous Macbeth look of love between the two of them in a room full of people

David arranging Lapland and takes a couple picture with Michael

David arranging BAFTAs to be about him and Michael, making a point of wearing a kilt that’s the main point of focus during the sketch and uses Gaiman’s infamous “wait and see”, from Good Omens, that brought him and Michael together.

Michael making this face after BAFTAs and later stating during his interview “He did good, the boy did good! And he looks good in a kilt doesn’t he?!”

Happy sincere smiles from both.

David promotes Michael’s NYE twice. Shows he’s been there on the opening night - during the day before the show - as he takes a selfie in front of the theatre.

Can you see how much “content” started coming from David for Michael? Now think back to the way Michael snapped at the end of the year and asked him how much of him is his… oh wait sorry what part of him is 2% Welsh. Maybe he wanted more than 2%… maybe the snap was that he didn’t want to be so hidden anymore hence his outburst of basically telling people they’re together. Whatever it was - funny how suddenly David started controlling the narrative.

Anyway

Another selfie on the press night, this time with the “real” Michael. Over the years is a nice hint. Also it starts to become clear that these two do not have an unhappy selfie together, yet Michael makes a point to look miserable with just AL, and David is not only looking more and more miserable with GT, but GT begins post breakup songs. She’s also known for humiliating David to the point of her own kids calling her a creep on video, and we hear him saying “this will never stop” as she videos him without his knowledge again. Or later “Oh god” “no they don’t need to see that”. What a happy chap.

The kilt keeps on getting mentioned by David, after Michael made a point of stating what he thinks about it.

Michael and David keep on bringing up each other in their interviews or media asks them about each other. They’re indeed seem the happiest when it’s about the other one.

GT and AL called them husbands and boyfriends.

Meanwhile:

Now the elephant in the room - the wives.

The wives began the second AL posted her modelling pics which she automatically assured everyone of not being paid for. Darling when you scream before anyone even had a chance to say anything… but this is something about AL - she is so insecure she keeps on snapping at fans and acting defensive regarding herself and her relationship. Which makes no sense considering she’s apparently in a happy happy happy arrangement.

GT was clearly asked to do the PR for her. So what did they do? After years of showing that they’re not even close friends, they called each other wives to mirror the husbands. It was so blatant it made me cringe how quickly their fans jumped on the bullshit that even GT laughed in their faces when she sarcastically replied to the fan “sooo linked.” Fair play, GT, I’d roll my eyes too seeing people eating it up so easily.

Just them on its own wasn’t enough so obviously they based their promotion on their men. Mirroring was awkward because the reason their men are popular is because their chemistry is real which AL/GT obviously don’t have. They knew they won’t stand on their own, hence the “family” (sooo close that David nearly fell off the bench to not touch AL accidentally) and they can be called husbands and boyfriends if they can be called wives, and they can have pics together… but mostly group shops so the women get promoted with them.

Hey, if you ignored them, at least we had lovely MS/DT moments who became a little more public.

It was clear the arrangement was only until BAFTAs - because this was the end.

David did three interesting things that day.

He did massive PR for GT - both magazines and red carpet and a kiss on front of the camera, which I said then will result in a job for her - soon after she announced a new agent - his agent - ding dong.

Then the rest was all Michael and him. Go figure.

And he completely excluded AL.

Next day we learned that Michael excluded AL from The Way. A show that included GT watching an intimate scene between two men who were neighbours. Which Michael and David are confirmed to be.

AL had a bit of a mental breakdown looking for validation on Twitter and Instagram. Obsessively reposting BAFTAs, whining about The Way.

Another blow came when GT cut her out. AL tried to keep the charade going but GT was done.

When GT announced her agent, AL ignored it.

There’s no more “family” things either.

My take is that AL perhaps was meant to have something sorted out for her by BAFTAs, unfortunately her totally not paid for photoshoot that she was totally picked up for… didn’t do the trick. GT got an agent out of David’s PR though.

AL’s heart grows fonder as she realises shit is going down and she starts hardcore convincing everyone that her and MS are happy because no modelling career is happening.

Meanwhile MS stays every night with fans or at the bar to not go home as he contradicts her.

GT meanwhile gets colder regarding David, showing she basically doesn’t give a shit about his accomplishments or tries to put her attention on herself instead. It’s a cold and harsh difference compared to what he did for her at BAFTAs.

Break up songs continue.

Both GT and AL go very quiet on social media. AL posts depressing things, GT is just being an ass about DT.

Both go to separate Disneylands.

Then a few things happen at once:

Neil posts that Michael and David are still very much in love.

David looks depressed as GT posts that picture with “Breakdown” in the background, song about a break up.

Michael struggles through a question about AL - talks about them not looking for it, but -the kids- so it was worth it - refuses to say he loves AL, refuses to say anything about her personally - it’s spoken like a rehearsed statement about an arrangement that at least they both have something out of.

Michael automatically switches to David unprompted - he turns into a sunshine, goes personal about him calling him lovely and very nice, and this is when asked about the rudest actor so also an awkward Q - which he made the most affectionate thing in the world.

Michael also keeps on bringing David up. Constantly.

David still in California.

Enty releases a blind about two men who went to Disneyland separately and one wife and one girlfriend are pushing a narrative of happy families while the men only look happy with each other or while talking about each other.

AL milks Assembly to her advantage for a whole day desperately while Michael stops performing because he’s too sick.

Neil reblogs all the moments Michael spoke about David.

Michael suddenly interacts with fans avoiding thousands of tweets of people totally seeing the love between him and AL (he didn’t use that word).

So what I think… - I don’t think the family unit was ever true. That was just PR to get the women out there. Because when they didn’t need it, it abruptly stopped. Perhaps men thought if these two get work, things will get easier. Unfortunately they’re not most employable.

The problem is that it looks like Michael and David are not happy with their women anymore and it’s bad enough that they’re showing it. The women know - perhaps AL is aware things are ending hence milking it until it gets public that they’re over. GT is hinting hardcore that things are falling apart - but are they going to sort it out or not? What stage these two couples are actually at - I don’t know.

Is David so unhappy he’d tip off Enty? I wouldn’t be shocked. Especially since his and Michael’s best friend told everyone David and Michael are in love right before the assembly. Which makes me wonder whether Enty and Neil dropping a 💣 was very much planned by Michael and David. Did they lose GT/AL support and looked for it in Neil, did the women only were happy to “help” when they were getting something out of it, or is this actually following a plan since the very beginning - Hard to tell. I’m not 100% sure because with GT promoting her and him being unhappy, maybe she is on it in some way. But… it is hard to tell at this stage. Maybe DT got her his agent so the agent would make sure GT doesn’t post shit about him when/if things are over. Maybe the agent is controlling the narrative now and helping to make the breakup least damaging for both.

We will see. This can still go so many different ways… the only stable thing is Michael and David and their love for each other.

#NightGoodOmens talks PR #NightGoodOmens talks Michael and David

[rottenpumpkin13]

(I just watched a musical 😂)

woe, Genesis has been tasked with getting together and directing a musical theatre production of his choice Loveless featuring the entire SOLDIER floor, for an official Shinra fundraiser gala. nightmare scenario or dream come true or both. the show must go on! also, you are incredibly funny and uplifting! :)

• Genesis has been tasked with organizing and directing the annual musical Shinra puts on for the charity gala, which has one of its departments as the actors. This year the roulette wheel landed on the worst combination—SOLDIER and Loveless.

• Rumors say Zack's anguished "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" as soon as it was announced was heard from 13 floors down.

• Genesis is being benign and letting everyone choose their parts.

Genesis: Who wants to play the goddess?

*Sephiroth raises his hand*

Genesis: Really? You want to play the goddess?

Sephiroth: It was an involuntary reaction. I don't know why I raised my hand.

Genesis: Too late, you're the goddess.

Sephiroth: But I don't want to play the goddess.

Genesis: If you don't play the goddess I'm going to shave your head in your sleep.

Sephiroth: !?

• Since NONE of the female SOLDIERs wanted to play Rosa, Genesis appointed one of the other guys to the role.

• Cloud walked in at an unfortunate time to deliver some documents from Heidegger.

Genesis: CLOUD. You're perfect for the role of Alphreid. Welcome to the show.

Cloud: Uhh, really? Okay. Who's playing Rosa?

Zack: I am!

Cloud: For fucks sake.

• Angeal was placed in the role of Varvados against his will, the same case for Kunsel, who was bribed with money to play Garm.

• The rest of SOLDIER is tasked with being the stage crew. They have a month to rehearse, something which would've been fine had GENESIS not been the director. He insists on getting a director's chair, and wearing the typical director's beret and scarf while shouting from a megaphone even though he's AT MOST 3 feet away from the stage.

Zack: I thought you said I was playing Rosa. Where's my dress and wig?

Genesis: No, no. Since you and Cloud are playing Rosa and Alphreid, I thought I'd make this the gay version of Loveless.

Zack: Ohhh, I get it now. That's why it's Loveless - G edition. The G stands for gay.

Genesis: No the G stands for Genesis.

Zack: What's the difference?

Genesis:

• Sephiroth wishes whoever sold Genesis the megaphone an eternity in the deepest pits of hell.

*Genesis is standing right beside Sephiroth. Too close, in fact*

Genesis: SEPHIROTH, LETS TAKE IT FROM SCENE 3 IN ACT 1 WHEN THE GODDESS HAS HER BIG MUSICAL NUMBER.

Sephiroth: Genesis I'm standing right here. There's no need to—

Genesis: DON'T QUESTION MY CREATIVE CHOICES.

*Sephiroth grabs the megaphone and smashes it over his head*

• If Genesis were not Angeal's best friend, he also would've choked him with his scarf by now.

Genesis, from his director chair: Angeal, great dancing, but go stage left.

*Angeal goes left*

Genesis: No, your other left.

*Angeal goes right*

Genesis: LEFT.

*Angeal goes further left*

Genesis: Your OTHER Left. Turn around and go right!

*Angeal goes right*

Genesis: LEFT. LEFT. GO LEFT.

*Angeal goes left and violently falls off the stage*

• Cloud wouldn't have agreed to play Alphreid if he had known Zack was playing Rosa. Not because he feels weird playing his love interest, but because Zack is a diva.

Genesis: Alright, Alphreid, this is the scene where you're seeing Rosa again. You're feeling passionate, you're feeling butterflies in your stomach, you're sensing—

Cloud: —Zack's onion breath from lunch.

Zack: Onion soup helps me get into character. Get it, because Rosa has so many layers?

Genesis: Zack, I love your dedication. Cloud, quit complaining. Now kiss, you two.

Cloud: I ain't kissing him with that breath.

Genesis: Kiss!

Cloud: He smells like something died.

Zack: I've never felt more insulted in my life.

Genesis: You're being overdramatic. KISS.

Cloud: Please god no.

Genesis: KISS HIM.

*Zack grabs Cloud by the collar and leans in. Cloud takes one whiff of Zack's breath and immediately passes out*

Zack: I can't work like this.

• Opening night rolls around.

*Angeal approaches Genesis*

Angeal: Zack ate an entire onion and his breath smells like depression.

Genesis: The show must go on.

Angeal: Cloud attempted to knock him out with a broom, but it was a prop, so it broke over his head and he attacked Cloud.

Genesis: The show must go on.

Angeal: Zack sat on him and is blowing his breath in his face as we speak.

Genesis: The show must go on.

Angeal: Cloud has literally passed away.

Genesis: The show must—

*Angeal chokes him*

• Somehow the show does go on. Everyone nails their musical numbers and scenes, all goes well. Until act 4, when Sephiroth forgets his lines.

*During a scene with all the characters*

Sephiroth: To engage in the battle for which I have selected you, I bequeath unto you a....a....uh....?

Genesis, whispering from the edge of the stage: Improvise!

Sephiroth: What? Demise? The goddess killing everyone wasn't in the script.

Genesis, still whispering: No! Improvise the lines!

Sephiroth: Demise to the guys? So I am supposed to kill everyone. Alright then.

Genesis: NO

*Sephiroth unsheathes a sword he wasn't supposed to have*

Cloud: Wait, WHAT?

Sephiroth: The goddess was never merciful.

*He takes a swipe at Cloud and now the two are engaged in an active duel*

Angeal: Guys, this wasn't in the script!

• Angeal dives forward and starts trying to haul Cloud away, who's kicking and struggling. Now Sephiroth veers his attention unto Zack and starts chasing him around with the sword. Zack has no weapon, and is screaming as he dodges Sephiroth's blows.

• Genesis, angered, climbs onto the stage with a ball of fire in hand, screaming and hurtling it at them ("ALL THAT HARD WORK GONE TO WASTE—NEVER BEEN MORE EMBARRASSED IN MY LIFE—SEPHIROTH STOP USING YOUR HAIR AS A WEAPON")

*Kunsel, in a last-ditch attempt to save everyone's dignity, closes the curtain, ending the show*

#ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #sephiroth #final fantasy vii #ffvii crisis core #genesis rhapsodos #ff7 crisis core #angeal hewley #zack fair #cloud strife #storytime

[lord-of-the-prompts]

HORROR/THRILLER/SUSPENSEFUL STORY SETTINGS AND PLOT IDEAS:

[Feel free to use any prompt that shouts out to you! I would very much appreciate a tag if you post a story that was inspired by a prompt of mine! Happy writing everyone!]

A

amusement park (where the ride breaks down with everyone trapped on them, and there is a killer loose in the park…)

art gallery (where paintings trap visitors inside the frame and force them relive the scene the painting was based on...)

aquarium (where the protagonist gets trapped inside one of the shark tanks...)

B

basement (where the basement floods, there’s no way out, and there’s something weird swimming in the water…)

blood bank (where a blood bank is run by a vampire cult…)

board game cafe (where a group of teenagers are forced to play a game of snakes and ladders in real life, with real snakes and real ladders…)

bunker (where the captor holds his victim hostage in an old bunker and convinces the girl that he is protecting her from a world apocalypse…)

C

car (where a taxi driver picks up the wrong person and fears he may never live to tell the tale…)

castle (where the gargoyles come to life and attack the royal family…)

circus (where everyone who is hypnotized by the magician turns into a member of his unholy cult…)

D

desert (where a group of travellers are swept away by a sand storm and wake up in a haunted oasis…)

dungeon (where the visitors pay to torture subjects and the subjects are paid to be tortured…)

F

farmhouse (where the scarecrow comes to life and attempts to create a new body for himself with the farming family’s bodies…)

forest (where a lone hiker is caught in a bear trap in the woods and unable to escape, the bear is close by…)

G

graveyard (where the dead buried at the local cemetery come back to life and all the living people in the town die, except for you…)

H

haunted house (where a house manages to kill anyone who enters it…)

hotel (where the concierge is a vampire with a thirst for his visitors’ blood…)

house (where the family home falls into a sinkhole that leads straight to hell…)

I

island (where a new species of insect is discovered, and when the travellers get bitten, they start mutating into bugs…)

J

jungle (where a group of explorers start disappearing one by one during a rescue mission deep in the jungle…)

L

library (where the ghost of character killed off in a series haunts anyone who reads the book…)

M

military base (where a group of soldiers end up face to face against their canines who have somehow turned into werewolves…)

O

opera house (where the killer murders the musicians with their instruments...)

operating theatre (where an unwilling subject wakes up part way through the operation and is unable to move no matter how hard they try...)

P

prison (where the inmates are released from their cells and the officers are locked up in their place, leaving them at the complete mercy of the prisoners…)

psychiatric ward (where patients are forced to fight to the death in padded cells…)

pyramid (where archeologists discover an ancient tomb and unleash an ancient curse…)

R

railroad (where a cowboy spends his final hours repenting his sins as he lays tied to a railroad track…)

research centre (where the subjects loose the ability to either see, hear, or speak…)

S

sewer (where a family takes cover in the sewers when a nuclear missile is headed towards the city…)

shipwreck (where divers explore an ancient shipwreck, but the pirates are very much still alive and do not take well trespassers…)

space (where there is an explosion on ship leaving the crew without enough oxygen, there are only four extra tanks left, but there are six people…)

submarine (where there's an unknown killer aboard and no way to escape the deep ocean...)

T

tavern (where a knight is seduced and kidnapped by a handmaid who plans on avenging he sisters murder in the most heartless of ways…)

U

underwater (where evil merpeople kidnap scuba divers...)

university (where a group of students engineers create an artificial intelligence that goes rogue and attempts to create a real life body out of human remains…)

V

virtual reality (where virtual reality becomes a true reality, and to escape, 10 players have to survive all levels of the game, but after every level, the loser dies…)

Z

zoo (where the animals turn into zombies and attack their abusers…)

#writing prompt #writing ideas #writing tips #creative writing #writers of tumblr #writers block #writing things #writing #writing advice #prompt list #horror #thriller #suspense

[rubyroboticalt]

QBLR QUARTERLY WEEK 2!

Minecrafters grab your pickaxes, and catch up on the QBLR QUATERLY! What's up guys, update just dropped! It sure is something to try and decipher, huh. We've got pages of new stuff to go over, so let's catch up on all the events and mishaps that happened on the server this week!

Desnay finishes his base, and Perrito has a concert!

A new emote touches the server, it's the purple guy stand emote. Surely, nothing can go wrong with that emote and so many creatures around.

Smashing last week's record, Cheez logs a total of just under four full 24-hour days on the server. It has been up for 9 days. Does this man sleep? Eat? Stretch maybe?

All this just in time for a special server event! The dark magician who clears dropped items every 15 minutes gathers up all the creatures running around the island, and distributes them to groups of carers! This goes about as well as you'd think for a server of people in the prime age to develop baby fever over a voxel egg.

And for folks who would rather remain childfree, no need for concern! Planned Parenthood opens a clinic on the server where both reproductive health and world hunger concerns can be addressed. Any unwilling parents can pick up an Abortion In A Bottle free of charge!

Of course, there are plenty of folks who have other ventures going on, including the theatre kids' first outpost on the server, and some autistic minecraft behaviors. No, I mean some really autistic minecraft behaviors. This is impressive.

The theme of this week's builds is farms! A lovely community farm where everyone on the server is coming together to create a seed vault and garden that anyone can take a seed from if they're missing a plant.

And of course, there are plenty of new seeds and plants found and collected by the several intrepid world border expeditions! All four borders were reached this week. The border is 30k x 30k in length and width.

If you thought there was only one server event this week, you'd be wrong! Due to timezones and lag reasons, a second creature event was planned and held a day after the original! This event came with complementary drugs!

With two creature events down, the creatures start settling into their new homes and bonding with their new carers. Some creatures are kept in utmost safety, and others partake in activities that perhaps a creature should not be partaking in. As of yet, there are no family vloggers on the server, so that's a win.

While Nightmare Stalkers are nightmarish as the name suggests for the first few nights of having such vulnerable creaturess around, they quickly become nothing more than a regular nuisance. As such, traps and poisons to dispatch them swiftly are set up around the server.

But wait, there's more! That's right it's a third creature event batch! The final group of creatures are assigned carers and begin to settle in.

With all these creatures now assigned, a creature task system begins to be implemented, and carers take photos of the tasks with their creatures to earn tokens. These tokens ARE valuable.

Otherwise, all the creatures begin to make their mark on the world, with players also building many important venues and farms for the server. This includes the server's XP farm, a mob farm designed for lag easing while still providing XP.

And, of course, there are shenanigans aplenty with creatures and residents alike, including picnics, pole dance classes, abyss exploration, and the birth of G-dzilla.

And the second week of the server is aborted peacefully.

#qblrsmp #qblr quarterly #ruby tv #we also had our first discourse but it was handled peacefully and maturely because reading comprehension is a rule on the server.

[unfortunately-i-love-it]

yeah so uh, Shadow Joker eh? 

this whole thing started with me thinking about a PhantomThief!Mishima, and then i started drawing stuff based off this one fic i read and then we got to here. oh well 

i might turn this into a comic maybe??? depends on how hard finals slaughter me, but I’ll cross that bridge when i get to it 

also here’s the lore on this guy cuz i legit spent too much mental energy scraping through the wiki figuring out how shadows and personas work and then coming up with a way it could work for joker 

Basically, since someone’s shadow is a manifestation of their distorted desires, then a Shadow Joker, would be the manifestation of the protagonist’s (I’m gonna call him Ren from here on. cool? cool) distorted desires. What might those be? Well, during his awakening, Arsene notes Ren’s strong desire to help people and makes him think about whether the resolve he’s shown in the past was valid or not. This becomes the basis of the rebellious will that allows him to forge a contract with Arsene. But now with Shadow Joker, that desire to help people has been distorted into a kind of mix of hero and savior complex. So instead of just helping people in need, on some subconscious level he has started to see himself as the only one that can help and save people. 

In personality he’s about the same as regular Joker. But that’s only at first glance. He’s much more unpredictable and dangerous, basically taking the whole “wildcard” thing very literally. I’d also like to think that all of Joker’s theatrics become even more emphasized with Shadow Joker.  

For his palace I was thinking of him seeing the whole of Tokyo as his stage, wherein he’s an actor in a play of which he is the hero. For this I was kinda looking to the “The show’s over” on his all out attack screen, as well as hero = play, play = theatre, theatre = stage, and all that jazz. I’m still not exactly sure on how it’d look; maybe just the city as it is at night with open stages everywhere, spotlights floating through the dark nigh sky both as aesthetic as well as acting as traps for the thieves to avoid, so if you step into one of them the security level goes up. Or maybe each area that they go through would be like a different part of a theatre, so the treasure room would be Shadow Joker’s changing room and the final confrontation would be on a grand stage, idk. One thing is though, I think that his Palace Tokyo would feel really empty. Like there’d be people, but they’ll be more like faceless ghosts kinda milling about, so not at all like the ATM-guys or robots in Kaneshira and Okumura’s palaces. Also probably no cognitive versions of the other thieves or anyone else he knows, as I was thinking that Shadow Joker would be going by an “I don’t need anyone but myself” idea, and since he’s the all-powerful hero he doesn’t need “sidekicks”.

His treasure is his Phantom Thieves mask, as that would be the source of his distorted desire to help, cuz it’s the thing that represents him getting his persona and being able to help people on a larger scale in the first place. 

When the other thieves first enter the palace, they won’t be in their thief outfits, as i think Shadow Joker’s desire to help would still outweigh him seeing them as a threat -- plus they’re people he knows. He’d talk and interact with them like regular Joker would, but maybe a bit more openly and with more theatrics, so the other thieves will have some trouble with thinking of him as a legit threat and not just their pal who’s a bit too quirked up. But when Shadow Joker realizes that they’re here to steal his mask, the switch flips completely, and the others have to really scramble to get out with their lives.

Then follows the general infiltration thing and blah blah blah. For the infiltration I thought it’d be neat if they go through all the different districts (that are walkable in-game) and the safe-rooms would be the areas where confidants hang out -- The Untouchable in Shibuya, Crossroads Bar in Shinjuku, Gigolo Arcade in Akihabara, Takemi Medical Clinic in Yongen-Jaya, etc. 

There might also be a progression reason for which the gang will have to go into Shinjuku Academy, wherein the safe-rooms would be Ren’s classroom and the roof. Maybe there’s something in the school that they need to clear before they can progress through Aoyama-Itchome and go to Shibuya, idk.

The treasure room would be in the Leblanc attic (because ofc). 

For the boss battle, when the other thieves try to steal his treasure but get caught on the way out (cuz that’s what always happens to these fools), Shadow Joker takes the mask from them and actually uses it in the battle, which allows him to switch between a number of different personas as a mechanic. Their levels and attack would be comparatively lower that the thieves’, but the sheer number of skills at his disposal as well as his unpredictability would be trouble enough. 

there might also be a phase two, where he rips off the mask he’s wearing and replaces it with his original phantom thieves one, and ends up transforming into a fusion of himself and Arsene, so now he’d be technically using only one persona, but with higher stats 

(also i was entertaining the thought of this being the general theme of the palace and this being the theme of the final confrontation. i feel like the first one’s just kinda eerie enough to suit prowling through your friend’s subconscious)

and then pertaining to the design itself, i was basing it off of the regular Joker outfit but spiced up with more flamboyance, because to Ren, Joker would be like the epitome of him feeling like a hero. I kept the mask on to also keep that Joker vibe going, however i made it a more extravagant variation on the original, to kinda push the theatre vibe. I also gave him a cape -- i think that one’s self-explanatory. The walking stick is to give him even more flair, but also uh, concealed weapons is like the perfect Shadow Joker thing to do. Basically think of Lucious Malfoy’s wand-walking stick but with a dagger instead of a wand.

anyway I want it to be clear for the record that I have never once looked up the shadow joker tag on here before i started drawing this but i’m glad we all share the same braincell when it comes to his outfit, fellas 

(also holy FUCK @waifujuju‘s Shadow Joker design is so fucking clever, i am in awe)

that PhantomThief!Mishima thing is still in the works by the way, though i’ve hit a roadblock trying to come up with a persona for him. So far i’ve been thinking of something along the lines of Merlin but idk, it doesn’t seem rebellious enough so the only thing that fits is the vibes, and even that’s a maybe. this whole process has also been exacerbated by the fact that i’ve got a really cool costume going for him that involves a bolt-action rifle which i am very fond of and very reluctant to let go off. all this to say, if you’ve got any ideas please shoot me a message or write a comment cuz rn my brain is kinda frying itself trying to think through this. ty

#shadow joker #persona 5 #p5 #akira kurusu #amamiya ren #joker persona 5 #persona 5 protagonist #man is joker fun to draw #all you do is sit down and draw a flamboyant little bastard (affectionate) #p5 joker palace au #joker palace au #p5 arsene #p5 protagonist #p5 protagonist palace au #can't get enough of joker's heels #my art

[yn-addams]

House MD in 2024

so I’ve been seeing everyone doing this and I needed to share some headcanons of my own. This is mainly going to be about the original ducklings because I haven’t gotten to where the others come in yet.

House definitely had an Emo phase and in some ways he’s still in it. He still flinches slightly when he hears a g note played on the piano by itself.

Similar to the episode when a actor from one of his soap shows was admitted a member of an Emo band(one of your choice) ends up at PPTH and he fanboys practically that entire episode and tries to hide it form the ducklings. he doesn’t.

house is bisexual, demiromantic

Cameron is pansexual

Hilson is canon but it’s not that big of a deal. They’re together and they love each other but it’s not always the center of the show.

house, Cuddy and Wilson have 100% had a drunken threesome, it was never really spoken about again except by house for teasing and blackmail purposes against Cuddy and sometimes Wilson.

Chase and house have fucked

house has a tumblr and regularly uses it an posts, I’m not sure what content though, it would probably be just shitposts and chaos

house was also a bit of a theatre kid

house speaks in only gen z slang for an episode and constantly quotes vines, the ducklings have to figure out wtf he’s talking about and chaos ensues.

house randomly goes to a bdsm club one day and sees chase there, they both never talk about it

the team has definitely had a foursome

Cuddy makes the team go on bonding trips (the real purpose is to get house out of her hair).

House and Cuddy used to be in a relationship but decided they’re better as friends. sometimes Wilson will just barge into cuddy’s office just to complain about house, it doesn’t have to be about some outrageously dangerous medical procedure, it could be about him leaving the dam toilet seat up.

I think that’s all but I’ll update this post as I get more.

#house md #hate crimes md #hilson #house x wilson #robert chase #house x chase #chouse #malpractice md #house md headcanon #headcanon

[inawearyworld]

little things in the wonka score/soundtrack that get me every time: a post made by a music major with severe brainrot (seriously it’s getting bad)

• even though i’m not sure how to feel abt what they did orchestrally to pure imagination when it was sung in full, i loved the way it was interwoven until then-the opening credits, the clock tower chiming its intro, etc

• when the intro to hatful of dreams ends and the instrumental HITS. that was the moment i was sitting in the theater like “…oh i’m going to be so charmed by this movie huh”

• something abt the way timmy sings “i’ve put everything i’ve got into my choc’late”. see above bullet point

• welcome to scrubbit’s has no right to be that much of a banger

• the low brass in scrub scrub HELLOOOOO?!?!? the chromatic slides. the muted trumpets. abacus’ bass moments (go off king). the song is literally about laundry and yet IT GOES SO HARD

• walk into the club on a friday night like FIRST YOU PICK UP THE APPAREL AND YOU

• the instrumental of ynhclt that plays while everyone’s flying is so cheesy and so golden-age-of-hollywood-children’s-musical and i cannot help but smile

• the cuh-lassic “one instrument at a time” opening of sweet tooth

• mathew baynton’s voice. that’s it that’s the bullet point.

• #GiveTheCartelMoreTight3PartHarmonies2k24

• well we’ve got lots and lots and lots and loTS AND LOTS AND LOWHY AM I SINGINGGGGGGG

• somethin about how the “noodle noodle” countermelody is a sort of arpeggiated outline of each chord, like a vocal warmup, like he’s letting her take the melody bc he knows she will in time. i’m gonna sob they’re literally family

• the orchestration of for a moment, esp while they’re dancing on the rooftop, just SOARS. idk if anyone here has seen mr magorium’s wonder emporium but that movie shaped my childhood, it’s probably my favorite film score ever, and this instrumental bit is SOOOO reminiscent of it

• clock tower. a fifty-second masterpiece

• CHOCOPOCALYPSE. (for those of us who were on the theatre kid side of the internet in 2018, i think chocopocalypse should be the new calculust. hear me out)

• mat’s voice gets a second bullet point bc what the hell man. literally the sonic embodiment of dark mint chocolate. h e l p m e

• …#fickelgruberisathinmint2k24

• noodle’s portion of ynhclt, while she’s teaching willy to read, has a few instrumental nods to mozart’s famous sonata in c, a typical piece for piano beginners-kids-to learn. in the 1971 film mrs teavee incorrectly identifies mozart as rachmaninoff. this MOVIE

• i wish there could have been more, and more involved/complex, ensemble vocal moments

• charlotte ritchie <3 (okay i’m biased sue me)

• the new orchestration for the oompa loompa song is straight fire

• the LEITMOTIFS the fucking LEITMOTIFS!!!!!!!! the opening fanfare that became the basis of hatful of dreams popping up here and there. the melody to a world of your own playing whenever he thinks of his mom. every time we think willy’s safe from the cartel, ope there’s that descending major sixth again.

• (now that i think about it. sweet tooth is in g major of all keys, rather atypical of a villain song. most of the intervals are major too. it’s the trembling strings that give it that “evil” sound. and it fits so well-like, “we’re not completely immoral! time for a fun little tango! there’s colorful lights! killthisguyplsOH LOOK CONFETTI!” they’re so sinister i love it)

• the way that the intro to a world of your own echoes the intro to pure imagination

• THE ORCHESTRATION DURING “chocolate bushes, chocolate trees” etc AND THE WAY IT BUILDS OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD. MY HEART JUST BURSTS. EVERY TIME. I AM NOT IMMUNE TO CHEESY MUSICALS.

• the!! chromatic!! basslines!! in!! that!! song!!!!!!!!

• the fact that the bridge comes before the second verse-name any other songs where that happens i dare you. just another example of willy changing the narrative in every way

• the fact that sorry noodle is AN ENTIRE *OTHER* COUNTERMELODY that then falls back into the for a moment melody at the end what the FUUUUUUUUUUUCK

• the monks chanting “giraffe. a massive giraffe”. so fucking funny

• stripping down pure imagination to its essence while willy sings it to noodle was a thousand percent the right decision. and the lyric changes for the situation are sooooooo clever

• as someone who grew up with the 71 movie and has been utterly enamored with its music her whole life, i’m not the world’s hugest fan of this version’s pure imagination orchestration; i get they felt they had to do something different, it just feels slightly too modern/disneyesque, but it had the vibe that they intended for the end of the movie

• anyway god i love this score

#wonka 2023 #wonka movie #wonka #neil hannon #joby talbot #timothée chalamet #calah lane #mathew baynton #charlotte ritchie

[aziraphales-library]

Hello extraordinary mods!

I was wondering if you knew of any fics where madame Tracy was trying to get Aziraphale to confess his feelings to Crowley or just trying to get them together in general.

Thank you! 😇😈

Hey there! You might want to check our #matchmaking tag for fics like this. Here are some where Tracy meddles in Aziraphale's love life...

Doorway to Paradise by TawnyOwl95 (E)

Crowley is the guy everyone goes to for a good time. He’s the fling, the hook up, even though he hopes for more. Still, waking up to an empty bed the morning after a one night stand is not something he should be surprised by. In Aziraphale’s defence, he's never had a one night stand before, and really doesn't know how they work.

I’ve Got This Friend by Ambra_Sue (T)

Neither Aziraphale nor Crowley needs help in the dating department, or so they claim. Their friends Anathema and Tracy have other ideas.

Honeysuckle and White Jasmine by HolyCatsAndRabbits (E)

While on a bad blind date at a coffee shop, bookshop owner Aziraphale meets a gorgeous red-haired barista. Also Aziraphale knows flower language and he's not afraid to use it. So now Aziraphale was going on a date with someone Tracy knew. Since Tracy had arranged it, Aziraphale let her pick the place as well: Double Double, a new coffee shop. Tracy had promised that the shop was lovely and had a selection of rich desserts, which was honestly the part that had convinced Aziraphale. Aziraphale’s one bit of defiance was the flowers. He had a book or two in his shop on flower language, and he’d decided that the bouquet was going to be the sweetener for the day (besides the dessert), the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down. Yellow carnations: Disdain, disappointment, rejection. Red snapdragon: Deception. Purple columbine: foolishness. White candytuft: indifference. And finally butterfly weed, a bright little orange cluster flower, which meant Let me go! Armed with his passive-aggressive (but quite lovely smelling) bouquet, Aziraphale took a cab to Double Double.

Vary my days by Aracloptia (G)

He could not recall how much time had passed between the invention of the book and himself owning a lot of books. He had simply woken up one day surrounded by them, as if he always had been. Crowley had been the first one to point it out. He always was. Except this time, he had not so much pointed it out as tripped over a pile of them, shouting ”FUCK, Angel, what's the DEAL with all these bloody BOOKS?” Aziraphale had tutted, put a drink in his hand and miracled up a sofa behind him without answering the question. The sofa was still there. Surrounded by piles and piles of books. ------ After Crowley leaves, Aziraphale needs a change. He sorts through his books, makes new friends (or tries to), and discovers the beauty of ansaphones.

I keep coming back to you by ducks_elise (T)

Aziraphale volunteers at the university library. Crowley usually doesn't go there but he went with two of his classmates to study. He keeps coming back to see Aziraphale, their relationship develops from there

The Invisible Touch by AppleSeeds (T)

Aziraphale is reduced to a quivering mess just looking at Crowley’s face smiling up at him from the programme, let alone sitting in the front row of the theatre watching him perform, or standing face-to-face with him, with Crowley's hand on his arm, after he summons him to the stage to help him with one of his tricks... When Aziraphale reveals that he too is a magician and the two actually become friends, Crowley soon realises that someone has severely knocked Aziraphale’s confidence, and becomes determined to do whatever he can to restore it.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #matchmaking #getting together #madame tracy #mod d

[geeoharee]

Review of the current My Fair Lady tour: HAS 'I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE' ALWAYS BEEN A VILLAIN SONG?

Seriously, amazing read. I always turn the movie off after 'Without You'. I had to check with a friend before I bought tickets to this one because the very idea of Eliza going back to Higgins gives me heartburn. Ending: tolerable! (she gives the famous last line, then walks downstage and into the wings while he stays on the sofa looking stricken)

Freddie is a Labrador puppy without two brain cells to rub together, just the sight of him still on the street for his reprise got a laugh, actually it was really good fun to see it with a crowd and see Higgins very much being laughed AT. Also they leaned right into the Confirmed Bachelor angle, the whole song crashed to a halt after 'Would you complain if I took out some other fellow?', I did enjoy that. Please just settle down with Pickering and don't inflict yourself on more people. Jesus christ.

Oh, and he was wearing an Inverness in the opera scene at the start because of course he was! No notes, amazing, best version.

Actually I had been trying to decide if anyone in the play would be worse off if Freddie tripped and pushed him under a cab in that scene. I thought Pickering might be sad but he hadn't met him yet so actually I think we're fine. Good.

Oh also 'I'm Getting Married In The Morning' was WILD, whole chorus in hot pink corsets, I had been saying 'someone please cheer up the audience before we ALL jump in the river' so I found that to be well judged. Really good show. Given I only got into this story at all because Jeremy Brett was in the movie I now have far too many feelings about it.

#g goes to the theatre

[saintmeghanmarkle]

RolloTheMagnificent on MM's narcissism and the BAFTAs by u/ElectricalAd9212

RolloTheMagnificent on MM's narcissism and the BAFTAs RolloTheMagnificent wrote an outstanding reply to my OP about William and the BAFTAS and it only received a few upvotes but is so good and well written I am going to post it here. I hope Rollo doesn't mind me doing so. It is really good!+++++On the surface, one would be drawn to the notion that the relationship between the BRF and the BAFTAs would have been perfect for Meghan's designs and desires if the couple had stayed in. A-list celebs who ignored the ageing, pick-me "starlet" in Hollywood would have to literally bow and scrape in front of the London cameras, to demonstrate in front of the world that Meghan was superior.Yet after listening to H G Tudor's observations on narcissism and Harry's Wife's case in particular, I have come to a different conclusion.I think the annual BAFTA awards would actually be a step down for Meghan, as deep down inside, her mind would be able to separate that the respect given towards her would be due to the Crown- a case of borrowed valour- and not because of the superior talent, beauty and general brilliance of Meghan herself (as she perceives it).In fact, the borrowed sheen of the Crown could start to grate quite quickly in the short attention span theatre that is her understanding of the world, as the protocol that surrounds the position of Princess would keep her public at arm's length.Even something as simple of a posey of flowers is proof to the Training Wheels Princess that she is the centre of attention and affection- a situation she is loath to abdicate. So much so that she famously refused to give posies over to her waiting staff on walkabouts. ​I can imagine her mindset.Those flowers are for me, not for the Crown. They want to smother my light, sideline me, claim what is rightfully mine, keep me from my public. But I can use their rules against them- can't make a fuss in public, so at least when the cameras are there, what I say goes. So those flowers, MY flowers, stay in MY hands, not for my position. Me. ME. ME!!!The BAFTAs would have been a gilded cage scenario for Meghan- look, but don't touch the world of adoration that could have been hers to own. The BAFTAs could have been torture for our Saint. In her mind, Meghan could have been up on that stage, both as an actress and Princess, if it weren't for those fusty, dusty, boring old Royals who don't have a clue as to what a fierce, independent, feminist momma bear with both a diamond tiara and a backbone of steel was capable of.But no, instead of the half-in, half-out scenario (so they only did the fun stuff), the Firm forced Meghan's hand. Those tears she turns on at convenient times? They are tears of mourning her natural, pre-ordained destiny, beyond mere single track identifiers of actress or Princess in her realm of understanding.For all this supposition though, I feel nothing but pity for Meghan. This is a woman who will never be satisfied past the fleeting moment of victory over one's enemies, which fades faster than a firework. The future, once there are no more secrets to tell, no more tea to spill, no more merchandise to peddle, will provide nothing but a lack of comfortable contentment, which will poison everyone and everything around her and Harry.The BAFTAs are going to be an annual wounding of Meghan and the hopes she had for her future- a ritualistic opening of the scar tissue on her tattered ego. I simply hope their children are able to escape this destructive cycle to find some measure of peace, as I doubt neither Meghan or Harry ever will.​ post link: https://ift.tt/sqyaICX author: ElectricalAd9212 submitted: February 19, 2024 at 06:17PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

#SaintMeghanMarkle #harry and meghan #meghan markle #prince harry #fucking grifters #Worldwide Privacy Tour #Instagram loving bitch wife #Backgrid #voetsek meghan #walmart wallis #markled #archewell #archewell foundation #megxit #duke and duchess of sussex #duke of sussex #duchess of sussex #doria ragland #rent a royal #clevr #clevr blends #lemonada media #archetypes #archetypes with meghan #invictus #invictus games #Sussex #ElectricalAd9212

[sunskate]

You hit on something that I’ve been thinking about as well - which is that F/G seem to have much more impact with crowds in the building, but it’s not really translating over TV or social media. Being able to get crowds in the arena excited is no small thing and they do have a real skill for it, but a television broadcast flattens that energy and you’re looking much more closely at the skaters themselves. The net result is it kinda cheesy-fies it. This is not an abnormal phenomenon, and I’ve seen it sometimes happen when big broadway shows are broadcast on tv. What works in the theatre doesn’t always look great on a screen. But the consequence is that the judges and audiences think this kind of skating is going viral and being embraced, when it’s just not. I get fed tons of skating content on tiktok. The stuff that goes viral are jumps, teams with blow-you-away chemistry, women free styling to beautiful pop songs, and some stuff from the Euros exhibition (which was FG-style, but frankly much more authentic and fun). I have literally never seen a FG clip go viral beyond the “disco brits” era. It’s just a baffling decision to stake your sport’s direction on a team that hasn’t made a blip in culture and who’s coach goes mega viral every year, years later for a romantic and technically difficult program.

⬆️ i don't see evidence that more Rocky and Gaga type programs will bring in the audiences skating is looking for - so i keep wondering what other factors are behind their rise

i saw FG live twice in their Gaga season, and at the time, Lewis was helping Lilah through turns, they had that push/pull and inconsistent flow that comes when one partner is more the engine than the other. the choreo was very clever but in the RD in particular Lewis had flashy moves to draw attention away from Lilah doing less. you get one sense of their energy watching their upper bodies and a different, slower picture if you watch their feet. the crowd loved the Gaga program, but it left me mostly cold

again, this is all fine, it’s where they were at. i'd feel supportive if their marks reflected their strengths and weaknesses. give them a higher presentation PCS but put their GOE for steps and PCS for skating skills and composition scores where they belong -- those marks are supposed to reflect pattern, ice coverage, glide, blade control, and power, and they generally don't

[chaoticevilorange]

Hey koala, I really love your work and was wondering if you could write a fic (f! reader or g! reader) where the reader is a theatre kid who does acting

Thanks!

Sure! Sorry for the delay 🐨✨💖

Acting

He would be amazed, he really admired your acting skills before, but when he saw you acting? He's proud! He wants to learn too, he's actually excited to ask you about it, he wants to help you too, so if you want to practice he's the perfect candidate for you to rehearse

Asahi, Hinata, Lev, Goshiki, Bokuto, Koganegawa

He's intrigued, he really wants to act with you however he thinks he will be more suitable as a tree or holding a prop, he likes to watch you act, and likes when you ask him to help you with your rehearsal, sometimes he will study your script to help you, he's committed

Kyotani, Kageyama, Yamaguchi, Kenma, Aone

He likes to watch you act, but he also likes to tease you about it, he helps you with some dialogues but mostly he forces you to improvise, he's sneaky about it too, he likes to create dialogues when you end up kissing him, after all, why wouldn't he take this opportunity to help you and kiss you?

Oikawa, Nishinoya, Sugawara, Kuroo, Satori, Atsumu, Terushima, Futakuchi

He likes it! He goes to your plays and helps you a lot, but sometimes he gets sad when he has a game and you a play the same day, he likes to help you when you ask him, he also likes when you cradle his face to whisper poetic sweet words, makes him blush every time

Iwaizumi, Daichi, Yaku, Ushijima, Akaashi, Kita, Aran

This boy says he doesn't mind when you act and have to play the lead rol, but he's on high alert when he heard you had to kiss someone in the play, he gets jealous, he makes you rehearse with him and takes the chance to kiss you several times while you reassure him you're only his

Tanaka, Tsukishima, Yamamoto, Semi, Osamu, Suna, Sakusa

Thanks for reading 🐨✨💖

#haikyuu x reader #haikyuu x y/n #haikyuu scenarios #🐨 imagines #haikyuu fluff #hq atsumu #hq ushijima #hq kuroo #hq osamu #hq daichi #tag your boy #🐨 anon #🐨 answers #hq suna #hq sugawara #hq satori #hq sakusa #hq semi #hq kageyama #hq hinata #hq yamaguchi #hq yamamoto #hq yaku #hq kenma #hq kita #hq koganegawa #hq goshiki #hq terushima #hq futakuchi #hq tsukishima

[musicalresolution]

Round 2 G Match 4

Propaganda under the cut

Seventeen

for a moment at the end of this song i thought things might turn out alright. hahahahahaaaa

Dear Theodosia

the last moment in the show before everything rapidly goes downhill that we're shown how hamilton and burr have more in common than they realise. it's a demonstration of how, despite all our differences, ultimately the one thing we share as humans is love.

the melody and piano and strings are absolutely incredible. literally the most beautiful song in musical theatre and i will die on this hill

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH

#round 2 #musical theater #heathers musical #heathers #hamilton musical #hamilton #seventeen #dear theodosia

[filmnoirfoundation]

Mr. Muller Goes to Washington

NOIR CITY D.C. returns to its home at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, October 13 -26 with 25 films from the heart of Hollywood's noir movement, 1948. The festival includes a selection of titles featured earlier this year at NOIR CITY flagship festival in Oakland, California. In addition, NOIR CITY D.C. features three films not screened in Oakland: Gordon Douglas's Atomic espionage tale Walk a Crooked Mile; Edgar G. Ulmer's rarely screened tale of avarice Ruthless; and Fred Zinnemann's revenge noir Act of Violence.

FNF president Eddie Muller will introduce screenings on the festival's opening weekend, Oct. 13–15. Muller's latest books, Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir and Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey," will be available for sale and signing.

Foster Hirsch, FNF board member and author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television will introduce screenings Oct. 20–22.

The lineup also includes three films starring Edward G. Robinson highlighting his remarkable range. In Irving Reis' All My Sons (based on the play by Arthur Miller) Robinson plays a small-town factory owner whose son (Burt Lancaster) suspects may have been responsible for the crime that his business partner was convicted of. In John Huston's Key Largo, he plays one of his most iconic roles, Johnny Rocco, an exiled mobster who has snuck in to the U.S. to complete the deal that will allow him to return to his former glory. Finally, he plays a tormented psychic who tries to save the life of the daughter of his onetime fiancé and the manger of their mind reading act in john Farrow's Night has a Thousand Eyes, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich.

Schedule and tickets are available at the AFI's NOIR CITY festival page. NOIR CITY passes ($200) can be purchased here.

#noir city #noir city dc #afi silver theatre #eddie muller #foster hirsch #film noir #film noir festival #35mm screenings #edward g robinson

[missezramay]

The Portwell Confession we deserved 💖

EXT. The Campfire, after the show.

The sparklers are dying down, but the campers are still celebrating, blasting Disney songs and dancing around the fire log. Corbin and his team head off.

“Love Is Open Door” starts playing, catching Gina off guard. The other campers are still singing along and dancing, but she suddenly notices that EJ has disappeared.

Cut to INT. The Cabin Lounge

EJ is sitting where he was an hour ago, where he had called his father. Head in his hands, tears in his eyes. He quickly brushes them away as the door opens. It's Gina.

“EJ? Are you in here? Is everything okay?”

“Oh hey, Gina. Um, yeah I’m fine.”

“I can’t believe we’re trending in Brazil!” she exclaims. Noticing EJ is not himself, she suddenly goes quiet. “We… you did it.”

“Yeah, I guess so. Hey, you were all stars on that stage tonight.” He cracks a half-smile. “You should be out there celebrating. I just uh, felt like packing up early.”

He stands up to grab his things as she comes in closer, noticing the red in his eyes. “EJ, you’ve been… crying. What’s wrong?”

He meets her eyes, now full of concern. “Oh it’s just…my dad. He didn't show up so I called him. I actually felt confident enough to confront him and thought... anyway it doesn’t matter. He hung up on me.“

She takes his right hand. “Eej, that’s horrible. I’m so sorry. If he saw what you did tonight, I’m sure he—”

He breaks away, embarrassed. “You know, I’ve been thinking and he was right. This theatre thing, it’s not good enough. So it makes sense. I should go to St. Louis and learn how to be a better leader—“

She interrupts, placing both of her hands on his shoulders. “Hey, none of that is true. You're already a leader. Tonight's show was incredible. We did it our way because you made us a team, even when Channing...” she stops herself, realising the kind of summer that EJ had. Her heart breaks, full of regret over their last conversation.

Taking a seat, she continues. “If no one has told you yet, thank you. For all the work you did this summer. For the Wildcats. I mean, you basically ran the camp with Maddox and Val while I was just… oh Eej, I’m sorry that I didn’t reach out—“

“G, it’s okay. You have nothing to apologise for." He sits down next to her, letting out a sigh. “This is not the summer I wanted for us. I certainly didn’t expect this job… and then my dad sent me that letter. So, I panicked. But I never wanted to hurt you.”

They turn to face each other; clearly the love between them never left, it just momentarily turned to frustration.

He continues. “G, I want you know that I only told Val about the letter because I was scared that you would think we were over… but I planned to tell you. I looked for you all night but I guess that's when you found it. Then the “Real Campers of Shallow Lake” happened. I never thought our first fight would go down like that.”

Feeling remorseful, she takes his right hand. “Can we never talk about that day again? I don’t know what came over me. I hated fighting with you. I felt like you didn’t trust me… and I was so mad. I didn't think you were trying to protect me from something."

He squeezes her hand. “Well Team Wonderstudy always have the best intentions at first…”

They laugh in agreement and are warmed at the sight of the other smiling, like old times. A minute passes as the end of summer dawns on them. "Listen Eej, I’m so sorry about your dad. But maybe there’s a way you don’t have to go. You can go and stay with Ashlyn or—"

“Gina, my gap year was never about just staying in Salt Lake. It was about being close to you. And also because…” He looks down for a second, shy, and then up again, meeting her eyes.

“Because…?" She asks.

He takes a breath before continuing. “I’ve been scared for a long time. Scared of disappointing my dad and scared of taking risks. But tonight I realised... that I don’t care about my dad, or my future... as much as I care about you.”

He braces himself. “Gina, I’m in love... with you.”

Her heart races as she finds the words to say.

Relief washes over him; he finally had the courage to say the words he meant to say all summer. ”You don't have to say it back. I wanted you to know it, whether or not it makes a difference with where we are.”

She feels her eyes welling up as she takes both of his hands in hers. “EJ...I was wrong. At prom. I’m not a 'maybe' to you. I mean, yes, I expected a different kind of summer, but in a way I still got it. I got the lead..." — a tear falls down her cheek as she suddenly recalls that he had brought her flowers that day — "...and I’ve never felt more like I had a sisterhood behind me. Spending time with Kourt and Ash was an experience only Shallow Lake could've given me... and that it was you who brought me - well, all of us - here.”

She collects herself. "When you were asked to direct, it broke my heart because I dreamed that we'd be the leads together. But really I just wanted to be with you every day, and I think the reason I took it all so hard is because…”

She smiles, “…I’m in love with you too.”

He takes her face in his hands and kisses her. She kisses back. It feels different to their last one… still tender, but intense at the same time… better. Fireworks start going off outside, and they both look to the window, overcome with surprise and a sense of comfort. Everything feels right again. She wraps her arms around his neck and he embraces her whole body in his.

“So, Elton, would you like to know what I wished for at the beginning of camp?" She asks, with a cheeky smile.

He smiles back, relieved. Finally.

—END—

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