#it’s a theatre degree but what ev

[teninchismyholmesboy]

Love how I left tumblr for a solid 4 years only to come back and dive head first back into a House MD obsession.

#house md #james wilson #gregory house #welcome back to tumblr #I graduated college in those four years #I have a degree now #it’s a theatre degree but what ev #but daddy i love him #him being James Wilson

[cyberr-v0id]

Could you tell me more about yourself?

It is for something important.

Oh yeah sure!

I’m cyberr, I go by a lot of names, currently my favourites are Phoenix, Leonardo, and Jackdaw. I use any pronouns and I am asexual.

I have numerous skin conditions, feet bones in the wrong place, and a really bad back at the moment, as well as chronic daily headaches . So uh. You could say that I am as fit as a fiddle, if the fiddle in question is the one in my garage, which has all its strings snapped.

I really enjoy reading, and have done since I was seven. I’m currently reading the reappearance of Rachel Price, as well as the Iliad. Some of my most favourite books include: the wizards of once, how to train your dragon, murder most unladylike, all about romance, Sherlock Holmes, and treasure island.

I’m also a writer, I’ve been working on this one story for five years now. Hopefully I’ll finish it one day. I write a lot of poetry.

I love mysteries and have been apart of numerous mystery solving groups, several founded by me.

I’m an artist, of course, and my top three mediums are pencil, watercolour, and digital. I’m not the best at digital tbh. I hate acrylic and acrylic hates me.

I usually do a lot of sports but right now because of my back I can’t do a few of them. I can still do swimming, archery, rounders (tragically:/), stand up paddle boarding, and roller booting. Because they don’t involve as much bending down.

I’m gay

I’m a part time goth, which is to say I listen to goth music (my favourites atm are fields of the Nephilim and all about Eve) but only sometimes dress goth, and in varying degrees of goth. I am the most inconsistently dressing person I know, and right now my catchphrase is ‘the duality of man’. For some reason.

Music wise I listen to a lot. One day I will truly be able to say that I listen to everything. But not yet. My most favourite band is the crane wives

I want to be a marine archaeologist when I’m older, or, failing that, a famous actor. Let’s be honest here, unless I do become a really famous actor, neither career path is likely to pay well. Marine archaeological, or maritime archaeology, is all about ships wrecks, and how cultures of the past interacted with the ocean and other bodies of water around it.

I like all the animals. Genuinely there is lot a single animal that I don’t like. Well- I’m not too keen on bugs but I wish them all the best, and may many of them please stay away. I have a severe phobia of moths, and slight arachnophobia that depends on how I’m feeling and what the spider is. Tarantula? No problem, big and hairy enough to be a kitten. Now let’s move away from it in case it sprays its hairs. Brown garden spider? Bloody Mary on a motor bike get it Away.

My attention span is low. I am a theatre kid. As I type this is have a musical going in the background.

. I’m so sorry I’ve kinda made this really long, idk how much information you need

Fandoms: rise: tmnt, Percy Jackson, the owl house, the dragon prince, httyd, the inheritance cycle, red wall, Sherlock Holmes, mythology, epic the musical, so much more I can’t think of right now

I love the ocean

Lmk if you need anything else, hope this has helped, and uh. Yeah it’s kind long winded

#cyberrs asks

[mellowwillowy]

hi!! i have a some questions abt the lore or whatever u want to call it!!

whats the relationship between yulian and eve or eve and reader

is there more facts abt A-01

also whats A-01's real name if she has one

ALSO LIVE LAUGH LOVE A-01 <3333 >:)

I shall officially nominate you as A-01's first follower *simba pose*

Old art warning

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

Yulian (Adam), Eve, and Reader are the three main subjects of a project called 'Project Eden' led by 3 exceptional scientists.

Diederich, Diana, Castiel (Scientists)

Adam, Eve, and 'Reader' are referred to as '𝙰𝚕𝚙𝚑𝚊' while Yulian and A-01 are referred to as '𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚊'.

Yulian/Adam, A-01, Eve

About this Alpha-Beta in a nutshell: Take Alpha as the original good while Beta is just a replica of Alpha, most Beta's appearance is strongly based on their Alpha's.

Yulian and Eve don't have that much of a history since the childhood timeline is supposed to be Adam and Eve. Due to one thing and another, Eve is set to fall in love with Adam no matter what the condition is but Adam's setting is still unknown. Eve and 'Reader' had a rather bad history because, in a nutshell (w/o spoiler because I'm delusional that one day I will write something for this), 'Reader' was married to Yulian (who is literally Adam's copy-paste) when Eve is set to love Adam no matter what the condition is? Oooh, sounds like Eve is about to push Reader down the stairs to death and make Yulian trials Eve for this first-degree murder ^^

A-01 is 'Reader's' Beta (Well, she might not actually take Reader's appearance since this Y/N based lol). A-01 only has one goal in her life and that is to pay back tenfold of what 'Reader' had done to her. A-01 reconciled with herself and accepted that Reader is Reader and not 'Reader' tho (yayyy).

A-01 doesn't have a name as she is only named after codes by the scientist. But here are some of the names she used: Aoi, Seong-Min, (spoiler), Acquillina (Counterpart Appearance), and so on. The rest are not so important as the most important is the name she used in the main story. It's confusing! It's a story I modified from all the stories I've had in mind since I was a middle schooler, you get the drill! A story that lacks any interesting shits! There is a lot of modification for everyone but they still stay true to their original lore, only a few additions and reductions!

Here is a treat for burdening your brain in trying to read everything.

A-01:

Alright, pretty little anon. Oh, I'm sure your brain couldn't contain this disastrous literary of a 13-year-old but your interest flatters me. I am considered as one of the 4 important protagonists to each respective story. Back then, I was written in a story that is so dumb that you will cough out blood from just reading the prologue, shameless! (Shakes Head) But now, I am given a new role and that is to take the role of an antagonist in the story of, urgh, 'lovebirds'.

I'm sure you will love every moment of my appearance, after all, I take the 'Mommy' role very seriously, child of man, you people never fail to fascinate me with such names.

In short, I am here to hunt down the protagonist, or should I say, 'Reader'. Let's just say I hold an immaculate grudge toward 'Reader', so much that I just want to rip apart their skull open and devastate their little husband.

Name? I can't tell you that. But in a much more light-hearted setting, I am often called Aoi, adorable no? Oh, and should you ever wander too far in this 'library' for just a speck of my information, I'd suggest you give up. The Master of the Theatre and Master of the Archive are not kind enough to write an encyclopedia of me so just send me a letter and I'll be kind enough to spare you some of my time to have a chat with you.

- 𝑨𝒐𝒊

#A-01 the Omission #LIfE Project #Yulian the Corruption #Adam the Genesis #Eve the Regular #Project Eden

[reviewinghiccup]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HTTYD FANDOM! | HTTYD TALKS | DRAWING PARALLELS

Can you imagine? It's has been 13 years since the world of Berk and the archipelago opened up to us. Since we entered this crazy, viking village 12 degrees north from hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death.

I reckon the HTTYD anniversaries might kick off a little differently for fans all over the globe depending on its opening, because DreamWorks commemorated the HTTYD's 13 years on the 22nd of March on Instagram, though I distinctly remember it opening where I was on the 27th because it was also my birthday and I wanted to watch a movie.

Which means, yes, guys, I'm turning 24 today! HAHA! To mark this double celebration, I thought of doing something fun and a little different from my usual posts just to get the ball rolling. So, question, have you guys ever watched She's Out of My League?

She's Out of My League is a Jay Baruchel movie. A rom-com produced by Paramount Pictures AND (wait for it...) DreamWorks Pictures. It was released in March 2010 which meant that our Hiccup-voice-actor here had two movies playing at the cinema simultaneously.

I remembered that I wasn't allowed to watch the movie, but my older brother (10 years older than me) snuck me into the theatres to watch. I remember him covering my eyes for a bit and not understanding a lot of the humour back then, but I did remember the premise, so here goes...

Premise:

Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is your everyday, average Joe. Coupled w the fact that he is somewhat a pushover and insidiously insecure, he tries to get back with his manipulative ex-girlfriend Marni. After that failed, he stumbles onto the path of the beautiful Molly, who by beauty standards, personality and life-style choices is considered a hard 10, while he is rated a mere 5.

When Molly seems to take an interest in Kirk, the whole world is put out of balance and their friends smell impending doom by virtue of their different "social ratings." However, are these standards real, or just a social construct that needs debunking?

______________________________________

I'm not here to criticise the movie. I'm sure we all have our thoughts. Nor am I saying that this movie or the romantic storyline holds a candle to the HTTYD franchise or Hiccstrid, but, it was hilarious to discover a number of parallels between these two worlds.

DRAWING PARALLELS

THE CHARACTERS

Kirk Kettner (Jay Baruchel) - The awkward underdog, highly underestimated by everyone including himself and doesn't see that he is, in fact, more than his make.

Molly (Alice Eve) - The beautiful, blonde and determined love interest. Lawyer turned successful events planner. Independent, fiercely confident and a real go-getter.

Devon (Nate Torrence) - The nicer friend in Kirk's friend group. An adorable, huggable sweetie pie who still believes in magic and romance.

Dylan (Kyle Bornheimer) - The guy you'd love to hate. He is Kirk's overbearing older brother who bullies Kirk to mask his own insecurities.

Stainer (T.J. Miller) - The quick talking, witty side-kick whose crazy ideas propels the storyline into an absurd direction. Who is actually, also Tuffnut.

Katie (Kim Shaw) - Molly's younger, dimwitted sister who is just getting by.

Patty (Krysten Ritter) - Molly's best friend and business partner. Strong-willed, independent and fiercely loyal.

THEME, MESSAGE & STORYLINE

(1) IT ISN'T ABOUT HOW YOU LOOK LIKE, BUT WHO YOU ARE ON THE INSIDE

It's a cliche to say, beauty is from within. But it doesn't make it less true. I think what makes Molly attractive is because she is a really nice person, adaptable. Her beauty is an aspect of it. Imagine if Molly had Marni's personality. The story would've turned differently.

This is also Kirk's selling point. The pinnacle of his entire personality is the nice guy card, it's what attracts Molly.

Likewise w Hiccup, he is a genuinely good guy. You can't fault him for his courtesy. Though Kirk's personality seems more like a caricature of Hiccup's, ironically. And, Hiccup's strength and leadership is not something you'd notice on his person but in him.

(2) YOU NEED TO BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOURSELF

I loved Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man [Episode 8, Season 1 (Riders of Berk)] for many reasons, but mainly because it was the episode Hiccup proves to himself that he is worthy.

She's Out of My League was a movie about Kirk learning that he is worthy. That he isn't just a five, that this whole rating system is nonsense. He was always good enough for Molly, he was never good enough for himself.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EPISODES FROM RIDERS OF BERK. THE LIST IS OPENED ALL WEEK!

Which is your favourite ROB episode (Part I)

Which is your favourite ROB episode (Part II)

Though She's Out of My League didn't dive into Kirk and Molly's relationship and life after they got back together, I am assuming Kirk found his courage in someways. He ends up flying a plane, which is a life long dream of his, he dreamt of becoming a pilot. And well, we all know that if Hiccup existed today, and was a real person, he would've been a pilot too. Maybe in the AirForce, on a jet black plane named Toothless.

HICCSTRID MOMENTS

No review of mine is complete without Hiccstrid.

Kirk and Molly have roughly the same hair colour as Hiccup and Astrid. My favourite scenes in She's Out of My League are the romantic montages of them going out. This is one of my favourite shots from the show:

I crushed hard on Jay Baruchel. I mean, the dude has got some game. I mean, awkward af, but still, he's pretty cute. I mean... let me show you...

I'm still smiling!

THE ROMANTIC MONTAGES IN SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE FELT LIKE A HICCSTRID AU FAN FICTION GOT PRODUCED INTO A MUSIC VIDEO!

I'm not recommending you guys watch this show by the way. If you haven't that is. If you're not used to this type of adult-comedy, you might not like it. The pacing is a little choppy, and it does slap you w many cringy moments. But sometimes, its just so ridiculously hopeless you can't help but laugh.

I don't remember if the show did well, but its not a bad movie (to me). It was underrated for what it was trying to accomplish, but it could definitely do w some refining . Like, I would've loved it if they developed the characters and the romance more.

But at the time the movie was released, I think a lot of people related to Kirk. The whole, "on a scale of 1 to 10" thing has messed w a lot of confidences.

As a teenager, I reckon that's more of a problem. I remember that popular girls in school were always pretty and the hot guys were always good looking. And well, it's hard to not believe that looks don't play a part.

But, once I grew out of it, I honestly found those attributes to come in second to many other qualities of a person. Looks just happen to be a bonus. Hahaha, look at me, a day older and already issuing unsolicited advice.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HTTYD FANDOM!

#HTTYD #How to Train Your Dragon #Hiccup x Astrid #Hiccstrid #she's out of my league #dreamworks movie #dreamworks dragons #kirk x molly #HTTYD anniversary #Happy Birthday #to me #happy birthday #httyd fandom #httyd franchise #httyd talks #jay baruchel #alice eve #hiccup HTTYD #krysten ritter

[chainofclovers]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks for the tag, @tunemyart!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

162

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

695,994

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Ted Lasso is the only fandom I'm actively writing in right now. In the past I've also written for Grace and Frankie and The Devil Wears Prada (DWP) as an actual active member of the fandom. I've also dabbled in Doubt, a specific National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Dead To Me, Killing Eve, 9 to 5 (film), Supergirl, and Carol.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Even now, all five are DWP Miranda/Andy fics. That is wild.

Clean Rooms and Dirty Light

Lightyear

Twenty Questions

Ice Water

Calibrated

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do! I think I've replied to nearly every comment I've received. I really, really appreciate comments no matter how quick or detailed they are and while I don't think writers have an obligation to respond to anything they don't want to, I always love hearing back from writers when I comment on their fic. Receiving a fic comment feels like an incredible opportunity to thank someone for reading and chat about the story. One of my favorite things about fandom is the interactive component; when I publish something in a lit mag, I might hear from a few people about it, but when I publish fic there's a built-in audience/community and I do not take that for granted.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Maybe "Millimeters" (Grace/Frankie), in which Grace ends the story pining for Frankie, who is in a relationship with someone else? But even that story doesn't actually have an angsty ending; by the time I published it, I was already in the process of publishing a multi-chapter fic that was the third and final part of the series and that has a very happy ending.

No matter how much angst I put characters through in fic, I am pretty committed to endings that have some degree of hope and at least the possibility of joy!

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I could answer with so many fics, but I'll go with "The Adventure" (Ted/Rebecca) because its ending is explicitly about Rebecca appreciating her life, sharing this appreciation with Ted, and feeling happy about her immediate future.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

If I have, I've blocked it out. I often put a note on my fics saying I am open to constructive criticism, and while I occasionally get criticism/questions/requests for additional tagging/etc. (all of which I welcome!), I've never gotten a properly hateful comment.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Absolutely! The sex I write tends to be relatively feelings-y, but that doesn't mean it isn't smutty! I absolutely love writing sex and a significant portion of my stories contain some kind of explicit content. I'm not totally sure what "what kind" means but by this point I've written solo sex, couple sex, and group sex in a variety of queer and hetero contexts. I've written more femslash sex than anything else, but I love writing it all!

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have tried but never successfully published any. I was really trying to make a DWP + Grace and Frankie crossover work for a long time but it just isn't the way my brain operates. I did write a story about Grace and Frankie watching Killing Eve with their ex husbands, though! :D

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not word-for-word/reposted, but I've had significant passages and concepts from fic plagiarized. It annoyed me.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not yet but some may be in the works?! I've had lots of fic podficced before, and while all the podfics are in the same language, they still feel in some ways like a delightful act of translation.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes! The Ted Lasso Ted/Beard podfic @boglady, @podklb, and @rockinhamburger "Just Missed You," which we created for @pod-together.

I've also collaborated more loosely on a couple fics, like the Ted/Rebecca fic "Rebecca Welton, 2021" (@boglady wrote the first chapter and gave me permission to write chapter two and @diane-lockharts permission to write chapter three) and the Beard/Ted + pre-Beard/Rebecca/Ted fic "Before and After" (@theodore-lasso wrote the first chapter and gave me permission to write a chapter two).

I might be forgetting something older, but those are the ones that come to mind.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Impossible question! When I'm fixated on something it's my most favorite thing forever in a way that sort of limits my ability to think broadly and actually answer the question. So it FEELS like my answer is a tie between Ted/Rebecca and Ted/Rebecca/Keeley/Roy and Beard/Rebecca/Ted and any Ted/soulmate situation and that might actually be accurate because I can't recall my brain deep-diving into character quite like this before. But also, Miranda/Andy?! To have started writing about them in 2008 and to still read them sometimes and to have beta-read stories about within the last few months...that's some wild staying power, man.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oof, I've had a couple barely-started AU ideas for Ted Lasso that I am just 100% sure I'll never have the energy to write. Everything else, never say never! Either I don't want to finish and won't or I want to finish and might!

16. What are your writing strengths?

Detail, I think? I really love thinking about super-specific sensory experiences and exactly how a character would feel and respond, and trying to carve "meaning" from the ordinary little details that stack up to form life.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I sometimes struggle with blocking and describing movements. I also struggle a lot with conveying big feeling transitions. For instance, I might be able to write yearning, and I might be able to write that same character in a reciprocal relationship with the person they once yearned for, but that moment when things change can be really hard to write.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

As long as it's in-character, yeah! I don't think I've really had cause to do this. The closest thing recently might be Rebecca sending a text message in Dutch. I didn't translate it; translating it wasn't required to understand the meaning of the story, so it was more like a bonus for anyone who cared to translate it.

I don't love it when a character who speaks multiple languages peppers their speech with random well-known-to-English-speaking-audiences words in a non-English language when it feels like the writers is just reminding the reader about this fact about the character. But I love it when it's done in a way that resembles how people actually switch between languages as they speak!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The Devil Wears Prada, back in 2008!

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Fic I haven't published yet! Always gotta have aspirations. <3

"Lavender II" (Beard/Rebecca/Ted) is a fic that I worked incredibly hard on and feel proud of because it just ended up being what I wanted and needed it to be, so maybe that's my favorite out of stuff I've actually already written.

tagging in a no-pressure way: anyone who was tagged throughout my answers + @talldecafcappuccino @dollsome-does-tumblr @broadwayfreak5357 @itsagutthing @kittensittin @thesumdancekid @fandomfrolics @waywardted @sapphicscholar @majolination + anyone who sees this and wants to do it (I probably meant to tag you anyway!)

#fic by me #about me #20 questions for fic writers #tunemyart #hot dork club

[bananakarenina]

20 questions writer meme!

Tagged by the wonderful @breakaway71! A little Friday night break to help me jumpstart some writing, hopefully?

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 26

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 219,077

3. What fandoms do you write for? Julie and the Phantoms, though I have a CW Nancy Drew fic percolating!

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

our hearts can speak ourselves unseen (first collab with @where-you-go, peterpatterlina + modern cyrano de bergerac)

complications you could do without (remix of crescent moon, peterpatterlina)

for love's sake only (the fake marriage historical/regency au, rulie)

want your midnights (the OG! new year's eve 1994, hint of peterpatter)

heaven above and closer (the other collab with @where-you-go, the 90s road trip coming of age au, julie x luke x reggie x bobby, willex)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Oh gosh. i try, for real, y'all. i often put it off because i want to get a good grade in commenting/responding, which is something real you can achieve, and then i end up not doing it at all. but i love each and every one i receive! i'm just so inconsistent about actually replying.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? hmmmmm. excellent question; even if i write angst i tend to veer toward a happy or at least hopeful ending (example: leave the light on)

actually you know what, heart like a wheel is probably the angstiest if you think about it. it's just that the main character doesn't know it, lol.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? oh gosh. i love a happy ending, so pick one. they're mostly all varying degrees of happy, lol

8. Do you get hate on fics? i have been very lucky so far in that i don't get outright hate, no.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? it's not the thrust (heh) of what i write, generally, but i have: for love's sake only and its sequel, to love's self alone, are both in the vein of a paperbook romance and are written as such. i do have a carrie x reggie smutfic in the queue though...

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? i can't say that i have! i might nod to another fandom but full crossovers seem so ambitious to me--two different worlds to track, two styles of story. i love reading them, though!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? if i have i'm not aware of it...

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? i have not!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? @where-you-go are now on our third collab (she, through some sorcery and witchcraft, got me to round robin on a luke x bobby fake dating story one week on here, and we're expanding it to a full fic, hopefully out before the end of the year!) and @daintyduck99 and i have put on that old song, aka the "i can't believe you married a rodeo cowboy" au, also hopefully coming soon! also maybe i'll poke @breakaway71 again about some dialogue i sent her ;)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? i am a proud multi-shipper and you can't make me choose lololol

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? lol is "all of them" a valid answer? kidding. i have been struggling with getting over the finish line with WIPs this year so.

16. What are your writing strengths? dialogue, def. that's my theatre training/playwright classes coming through. i can always tell when i'm tired because my drafts devolve into dialogue only, haha.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Oh gosh. endings! i can never seem to wrap things up in a snappy way! also lately stakes. like figuring out what the characters have at stake to lose in terms of the story.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? i'll do it sparingly but i generally avoid whole conversations. my grammar in spanish is terrible and that's the only other language i'd feel comfortable writing any dialogue at all in. maybe i'd ask family about tagalog.

19. First fandom you wrote for? oh man. hahahahahahahaha the real answer might be "self-insert o-town fanfic in which my friends and i fell in love with the band members"? but i think it might be gilmore girls. i do want to archive all my ff.net and livejournal (well, the stuff i can find :( ) things so you may see them on an ao3 near you

20. Favorite fic you've written? oh gosh. i love them all because they're mine! maybe for love's sake only because it really feels like i finished a full novella with that one. or heart like a wheel because i love tertiary character explorations. or want your midnights because it started this whole thing. see, i can't choose. don't make me

Tagging @innytoes, @jmrothwell, @daintyduck99, @invisibleraven, and anyone else who sees this and wants to participate in the fun!

#writing games #tag games #myfic #ourfic

[scotianostra]

Happy 56th  Birthday Scottish entertainer John Barrowman.

Born on 11th March 1967 in Glasgow, where he spent his early years, John moved with his family to Illinois in the United States and later studied Musical Theatre at the US International University in San Diego, California.

In 1989, while in the UK to study Shakespeare as part of his university course, he landed his first professional role starring as Billy Crocker opposite Elaine Paige in the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. Since then, John’s career as a leading man in musical theatre has seen him star in many West End shows, including Matador, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera and many others.  

I myself first came across him in Dr Who and the spin off series Torchwood, where he played Captain Jack Harkness, Barrowman has also appeared in Reign, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, more recently he is playing Malcolm Merlyn, Dark Archer in the US Superhero series Arrow. He also appeared in the TV movie Glamorous last year with Brooke Shields. John was also one of the judging panel on ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

Barrowman has worked with gay rights charity Stonewall, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, New Forest Nightstop, which provides free short-term emergency accommodation for homeless young people aged 16-24 in the homes of trained and approved volunteers around the New Forest and Down’s Syndrome Scotland.

In 2011 John was given a Doctor of Drama honorary degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama  

Barrowman has been embroiled in a scandal in the past year with stories coming out that he was a serial flasher in the past, on the set of the likes of Doctor Who, the star is trying to put it all behind him saying, ¬It was tom foolery and it was silly, we had a great time on set it wasn’t sexual harassment, bawdy behaviour could be fun – but these are different times'.

In last years post about John I said he was about to embark on a tour with his show  “I Am What I Am”, well poor ticket sales forced him to cancel this, it has been a tough couple of years for the Scots entertainer.

In December Barrowman deleted his Twitter account after a brief row with Eve Myles, his co-star on Torchwood from 2006 to 2011. 

The singer, responding to a video of themselves talking about their friendship many years ago, suggested Myles was 'spewing rhetoric'. 

The comment was criticised by fans, who told Barrowman that if there was an issue between himself and the actress it should be resolved in private rather than publicly on social media.  He has since reactivated his account.

I don't know what the future holds for John Barrowman, there is no doubting his talent, and amid the controversy he has never been charged with any criminal offence, he comes across as a genuine guy and I wish him well for what ever it holds.

#scotland #scottish #actor #singer #entertainer. #scots american #happy birhtday

[pages-and-potatoes]

A look back on the eve of my 30th birthday.

Over the past ten years…

I’ve read 620 books

I finished two degrees at uni (BA in English and American Studies and a teaching degree in English and History)

I’ve been in two relationships, one of which is still ongoing and a beautiful part of my life

I’ve lost two grandparents and one cat

I’ve become an aunt to four amazing niblings

I’ve gone through one bad relationship breakup and one devastating friendship breakup

I’ve made a handful of friends whom I cherish deeply

I’ve joined a theatre group which has given me a home

I’ve lost and gained weight, leaving me 12 kg heavier than I was at 20

I’ve been in therapy on and off

I discovered how much I love roleplaying with my friends

I rediscovered writing and especially poetry

I’ve died my hair red, bright green, dark green, purple, blonde, ginger, turquoise, blue, dark brown, and sometimes even back to my natural hair colour

I’ve volunteered for a political campaign and a charity bookshop

I’ve worked in museums, at university, and at my current school

I’ve cried so so many times

I’ve laughed even more

I’ve changed so much

I love lists and this is just a random and not extensive summary of the last ten years. My twenties sure have been eventful and I can't wait to see what my thirties have in store for me.

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Writer’s Round-Up 2022

I made a post following this writer’s meme on New Year’s Eve last year, so I thought I would repeat it for comparison. It isn’t one you need to be tagged in to do, nor do you need to tag others if you do it.

Total Word Count:

I have published a total of 68,570 words! Compared to 2021’s 31,021 that’s 2.2x as much!

New Things This Year:

There’s three main things that come to mind.

I started writing Hermitcraft/Life series fic!

I made some new writing friends I think deserve a shoutout. First @stitchthesewords and @atherix, and more recently @sparksnevadas and @mochiwrites. I love their works and admire each of them for their craft and their style of writing, so making their acquaintance has been lovely.

Finally I have rediscovered the joy in writing. Last year is struggled so much with anxiety about writing and publishing fic, to the point that it was preventing me from writing. I think I am a lot more confident in my own ability now, and more importantly I’ve become more comfortable with my own shortcomings. All writers have room to improve, and the best way to do that is by writing. If it is too frustrating I stop, and if not I write it as well as I can and accept that my writing is best when I am enjoying the process.

Fic I spent the most time on:

Could I Be The Sky for sure. I spent about four months working on it, and I am so proud of how far I came through the process of writing it. As such I think the story gets stronger the further you read, and the third chapter + the epilogue are by far my favourites.

Favourite thing I wrote:

Hmm. See, the thing is, I like a lot of what I wrote.

Other than CIBTS, which means a lot to me for a lot of reasons, I think the answer has to be one of the Equinox AU fics. However, because they are all part of one story I struggle to pick one. Possibly the latest, In the Darkness You Reap, or maybe the one before that Harbour Me, Guide Me Home

I also really enjoyed writing "We Double as a Drama Troupe" not least for the excuse to use a little bit of the 0.5 theatre degree I earned before dropping out of university. I think it’s funny, and that I got the characters pretty spot on.

Favourite thing I read:

Oh there’s so many. Genuinely.

I read less Warcraft fanfiction now than I did last year, but I still just want to give a shoutout to that fandom for the amazingly high level of writing quality. I specifically want to list @khadgarfield’s Convergence. I love the language it uses, especially for descriptions. In fact I think of it often while writing myself.

Another favourite was @milo-hypno’s Aftershocks of Divinity. This fic… wow, this fic. I don’t think I will ever read another romance/slowburn fic and not compare it to this. The way Aftershocks of Divinity treats the subject of love, of recovery, is genuine and poetic enough that it brought my to tears even as I was reading it for the third time - and it is one of those where rereading it adds to the story.

And lastly, I would be remiss not to mention the Midnight series by @atherix. Oh Midnight. I don’t even know where to start listing all the things I love about it. Atherix, friend, you are the master of world building and foreshadowing. Midnight is fun to read because it rewards paying attention to details. Oh, and then there’s the characterisation, of course. It has that perfect mix of accurate to canon and sensible in the context of the AU it is set within. This one is a masterclass in slowburn as well, and were it a little less late I would dig out a screenshot of me messaging the group chat full of people who do not read Hermitcraft fic, letting them know that the OT3 from the fic series I keep talking about finally got together.

Writing goals for next year:

There’s projects I want to start working on and ones I want to keep working on. Equinox and Kingdom of Boatem AU are the main two, but they aren’t necessarily a goal.

I think most of all I just want to keep working towards writing being something that brings me joy and creative satisfaction. I’ve come so far in 2022, I want to keep up that good work.

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Finally, something I couldn’t fit in anywhere else. I have to give a massive shoutout to @loombarrow for all of your help with writing through the year. Love you, friend!

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Just before the curtain came up on Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, producer Eleanor Lloyd spoke to the audience about its breakneck transposition from real-life courtroom drama to stage show and the “high-wire act” that such theatre becomes. The part-verbatim show dramatises the case that was detonated soon after Coleen Rooney dropped her Instagram grenade and Rebekah Vardy filed for libel.

Having run in the high court and been reported in the media only a few months earlier, here it was again, reprising the best lines, from chipolata-gate to Davy Jones’s Locker. Laying its public interest debate aside, it was indisputably the watercooler story of the spring and summer, its incredible WhatsApp turns holding us rapt.

That, in some ways, guarantees a degree of commercial appeal, although there are drawbacks too: a drama replicating reality so soon after the event runs the risk of setting up a competition with the real story’s own high drama. Lloyd wasn’t wrong to call it a “high-wire act” in the sense that the best might already have come in the news stories. How could this show replicate the sugar-rush of those revelations? It is not surprising that the tension was missing in the theatre’s courtroom: the case’s most car-crash lines were too familiar to us to really shock. We’d laughed or gasped at them only a few months earlier. Now we tittered with recognition but they sounded ersatz.

There are some instances when reality is simply a more powerful medium and fictional drama can’t raise the stakes, or value – at least not when we are still pressed up so close to the drama of the new story. At least the Wagatha play was based in verbatim form (there is a TV drama launching, groan). Real life gives us more drama than fiction ever could in this case, I think, because its central players are real and the form therefore carries the added sense of “truth”.

Mike Bartlett’s play about Donald Trump, The 47th, was anti-climactic for just this reason. Real life simply couldn’t be trumped, even with the imaginative re-framing of the story in a near-future with baroque plot-turns and a very amusing impersonation of the former president by an orange-skinned Bertie Carvel. The jokes, speeches and storming of the Capitol were too reminiscent of recent real events, and not half as shocking. Imagination clung too closely to fact in the end and was smothered by it.

A musical about Silvio Berlusconi is under way which I hope is not straitjacketed in the same way. It is billed as an “almost true story” – presumably weaving fiction into the facts we know of Berlusconi’s life and leadership. Produced by Francesca Moody, who was behind Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, the story will be told through a “fierce feminist lens” according to Moody, and perhaps this will liberate its imagination.

Often real-life-based dramas fail because they can’t illuminate anything new. But at their worst they appear to be riding on the back of a sensational news story. This was the case with David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat, and Steven Berkoff’s Harvey, both dramatising the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal. What exactly was the point, beyond salaciousness? Alongside this, the unsavoury decision to dramatise the scandal from Weinstein’s point of view, with the added discomfort of two male writers ventriloquising for him at a time when women might better have been given a voice.

There is an argument, more generally, to say that the creative process needs time to turn real life into something more than testimony or imitation alone – to gain insights, find new perspectives, plumb depths. That said, many of the quick-response dramas on screen made during the pandemic about frontline workers and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 reflected our world back at us with immense and immediate power. These were produced in real time, as events were occurring, rather like Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet series. They were mirrors of events churning in the world, which held value in that charged moment.

But after that moment is gone, we do need drama to bring something more, I think. One such show that recently ran at the Chisenhale Gallery, in London, featured excerpts of a film made inside a closed mental health hospital ward in 2021 to reflect the pandemic’s effects on young inpatients. This film was set against live performances by some of the same young people, since discharged (and included their responses to the film). Seth Pimlott, who curated the show, said it demonstrated how drama could help us better understand difficult real-world experience.

Maybe creative licence is key: to make a news story into something different. The 9/11 musical Come from Away, based on the true story of over 6,000 travellers grounded in the tiny town of Gander on the island of Newfoundland for five days after the Twin Towers attacks, sounds like the unlikeliest of hit shows. What is remarkable about the real-life aspect is that it is so marginal to the main event of the terrorist attacks, and the far bigger, more catastrophic drama happening in New York. It is clear in the musical that something else is being done with the use of the documentary material. The plot, as it stands, is slight. Nothing happens outwardly beyond the grounding of these planes and passengers, and yet so much happens in terms of relationships and emotional connections. By coming at the news story sideways, it becomes fresher. The imagination, in the end, needs to upstage the facts and so achieve the high-wire act of the real-life drama.

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Ch. XII.5 - Morocco - 1989 - 1991

And than the end of 1990 arrived, so we had the visit of a friend's family from Italy. Scarpanti's family and my friend Gianluigi came over to Morocco to spent End of the Year festivities together. There was enough room for everybody in the little Charaf's villa. The weather was great: sunny days, average temperature 20-22 °C. Meantime, Milan and Northern Italy were gripped by frost. Mr Alfonzo had called home and asked his son what the temperature there was in San Donato and if it was really cold in Milan, as we heard from the news on the TV.  Son: No Pa'.....here we have like +23 degrees….  Alfonzo: 23 degrees??  Son: yes…I just looked at the thermometer…it's 23 degrees in the apartment…  Alfonzo: ahh…ok…and out?  Son: outside…wait I'll check…outside – 7 C …  Alfonzo: okay…stay warm...bye….

We spent days on the beach, walking and having great food & drink. And then it was decided to accept Karim's suggestion to spend the New Year's Eve at the Le Jardin d'Eau, a cozy a place bythe sea managed by M. David. It was an unforgettable evening in many ways. The venue, the food, wine and champagne were impeccable. Then came the time for the midnight toast; cold Moet Chandon bottles were uncorked, everyone in the restaurant stood up and toasted the new year: Happy 1991!! It was here that my wife placed her coup de theatre:

Standing up with a flute of champagne in her hand she said: I have an announcent!! You know what?  Tell me what it is – I replied smiling

You will be father for the sencond time !!!

......................................................................................  ….. The glass of champagne slipped from my hands and fell onto the floor……

Mind you, not that I wasn't happy, but the announcement made like that it was somehow a shock!! It took a moment for me to recover, apparently Scarpanti's wife (a long time friend of my wife) and Andrea Lahbabi knew about the new pregnancy - the expression painted in their face was revealing.

That's the way we started 1991 the year in which, by September, my daughter Laura came into this world.

Later, around two o'clock, I accompanied Gianluigi for a tour of the Agadir Secteur Touristique (as the tourist area of Agadir) where there are several luxury of hotels and resorts. We moved on to Dune D'Or, then to Papagajo, but we wanted at all costs to end up to visit a friend of mine, Rafik, coincidentally another Moroccan Jew, who had recently taken over the management of then famous Agadir Discoteque: La Kasbah.

When we arrived in front of the beautiful club, and we noticed that strangely there wasn't the queue we expected. At the entrance a double line of waiters in white jackets and then him, Rafik with a funeral face.  What happened Rafik, why is the nightclub completely empty?  Well you know…….I wanted to implement the rejection policy like ''no you don't come in…no you don't come in'' because I wanted an exclusive evening in my club…….  So what?  And then you see the result…maybe I exaggerated…on the evening when I suppose the club be fully book!! Nobody here, just me and the waiters!! We had a drink with Rafik who seemed inconsolable, and than we left.

CAR ACCIDENT My wife had learned very well to use the Range Rover – she used it regularly to go into town for shopping – or to visit her friend Andrea Lahbabi. One day, however, I received a call at the site from Alfio Curreli: he had gone to the bank in Agadir and while he was returning to site, on the city ring road he had seen an accident involving my Range and a bus!!! Immediately I took the service car and went to the place. The road police were investigating the case. The dynamics of the accident seemed to have been that the bus had duly halted at the scheduled stop - two local women had gotten off and, taking advantage of the stopped bus, had passed it in front, peeking to see if there were any vehicles approaching from behind . At that moment my wife driving the SUV arrived and was about to overtake the stopped bus. One of the women decided to cross the road, while the other – fortunately – retreated. The impact was inevitable: the woman was hit on the head by the front of the Range Rover! The ambulance arrived in a short time took the injured woman to Agadir hospital, few kilometres away from accident spot. We were held for another half hour, and after signing the reports, I took my wife home. The next day, late in the afternoon, we went to visit the woman at hospital. Once there, we asked the receptionist ''about the woman who had a car accident yesterday''. We were taken to a room with 4 beds but just 3 occupants! The injured woman, according to the doctor we spoke to, was quite well, and she only suffered a severe headache. We were heartened by the doctor's report on the woman's condition - but astonished by the fact that the woman desappeared from the hospital. Just one day after the accident, the woman was no longer there!! The doctor told us that the woman had insisted on being discharged, on the grounds that ''she lived in a village in the hills near Agadir, but no one had probably notified her family of what had happened - and by now my family must have been worried. of his prolonged absence, so I want to leave". Shocked, we returned home, guessing that in the end most likely it was the large and thick traditional headdress of Berber women that saved her life. In fact, a deep indentation in the Range Rover front remained, a sign that the blow had been strong. We learned nothing more about the accident until about 1 year after our return to Italy, when a letter arrived from the Agadir Gendarmerie Royale which, based on the findings and testimonies, completely exonerated my wife from any accident responsibility – which was attributed to the woman's decision to cross the highway without checking whether an vehicle was coming.

In this regard I have to point out that at that time similar episodes happened very often. My colleagues and I had taken precise precautions to avoid unpleasant consequences. When we used to see a pedestrian on the side of a road, we immediately slowed down the vehicle, and gave broad signals to the pedestrian to cross.

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I overwhelmingly perform in this book what Eve Sedgwick calls a “paranoid” reading, seeking “to expose the ruses of power,” even when—as is the case with scripts of blackness—the agents of power are indistinct, the uses of power varied, and its reception open-ended. Yet I want to emphasize the less immediately visible “to and fro movement” between paranoid and reparative critical stances that informs this book. The reparative approach is clearest in the last chapter, where I assemble available traces of Afro-diasporic agency, as Afro-Europeans engaged with, responded to, and used for their own benefit the culture of kinetic blackness that was coined and wielded against them. Reparative leanings also inform the historiographic principle that I call recording, which I use at various points to reconstruct transnational genealogies of racial performance in the subjunctive mode when lacunar archives curtail the use of the indicative. In early modern English, while the noun record was attached to the legal domain (meaning a witness, a testimony), the verb to record was attached to the domain of memory (meaning to remember, to rehearse, to go over in one’s mind) and to the domain of performance (meaning to sing in counterpoint). Recording thus denotes a way of singing based on dialogue between two melodic lines. The contrapuntal structure does not undermine but enhances both melodic lines with a high degree of sophistication. As a historiographic metaphor, recording happens when theatre historians allow their work to operate on more than one mode, weaving a contrapuntal song that hinges on évidence—that luminous sense of presence—into their evidentiary work. No field has thought with more depth, complexity, and urgency than Black studies about the ethics of care that must drive historiographic inquiries into racial archives. By proposing the historiographic model of baroque recording, I am suggesting that the conceptual resources of early modernity may have something to contribute to that ongoing critical conversation. I see contrapuntal recording as a practice that resonates with “critical fabulation,” a method driven by Saidiya Hartman’s hope that “by advancing a series of speculative arguments and exploiting the capacities of the subjunctive (a grammatical mood that expresses doubts, wishes, and possibilities), in fashioning a narrative which is based upon archival research,” she could “tell an impossible story and amplify the impossibility of its telling.” Recording also has affinities with what Audre Lorde calls “biomythography,” which C. Riley Snorton invokes as a practice of invention for recounting Black Trans lives lost in the archives, a prosthetic “practice of symbolic surrogation, not as a supplemental thing, but through supplementarity,” which “is not about completion” and “does not perform or propose reconciliation.” Recording as I construe it uses the openness to changes, surprises, and hope proper to the reparative stance in order to support the paranoid drive toward exposure that is at the core of my inquiry. Such hybridity is pervasive, compounding what I playfully call this book’s reparanoia: its wide and conflicted range of affective responses to the early modern racial archives. Scripts of Blackness’s self-avowed reparanoia is grounded simultaneously in a reparative desire (shared with many) to account for an early modern Afro-diasporic life that exceeded the painful heinousness of racial formations, and in a paranoid distrust of the comfort and complacency that such accounts of early modern Black life can easily elicit among twenty-first-century readers prepared for any number of reasons to minimize the transhistorical reality of antiblackness.

- Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, 24-25

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the orphic  - everly alice de santis

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character inspo: Yennefer (The Witcher.) Persephone (Greek myths.) Cassandra (Promsing Young Woman.) Cass Tanner (Emma in the night.) Elphaba (Wicked.)

TW: death, murder, anxiety, religious guilt/trauma

Full name: Everly Alice De Santis

Nicknames: Ever, E, Evie

Age: 32

Birthdate: November 14th, 1989

Hometown: Napoli, Italy

Current residence: Vancouver BC, Downtown

Occupation: Actress (theatre)

Zodiac: Scorpio sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising

MBTI: INTJ-T

Enneagram - type 4w5 - the free spirit

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor 38% (Ravenclaw 32% Slytherin 27% Hufflepuff 3%)

Alignment:  Chaotic Neutral

Temperment -  Sanguine

about

Everly Alice De Santis was born the younger twin sister to Eden Luna De Santis. The girls were born late morning in Napoli, Italy.

Everly’s mother, Alessia, was a designer who gave way to her dreams when she married Vito. Vito was a headstrong traditionalist with strong Roman Catholic morals. Vito was a well-known and profitable tour guide offering boat tours during the peak season and supplemented income as a handyman during the offseason.

The girls were undeniably loved by their parents. However, it was apparent to them that there was only one way to live and Vito’s way. They grew to watch their mother bend to a mold of what was expected of her, and both girls vowed as children to never become someone who shrunk themselves to fit into someone else’s idea of “right.”

Eden was far more outgoing and sociable, she was also less reliable and far more flaky than her younger twin, but there was always the feeling of lacking in Everly. A sense that was flamed whenever she was compared to her twin.

Everly tried to live up to the shadow of Eden, to be as captivating, as entertaining, as extroverted as she was. She pushed herself harder for recognition and praise, and while Eden seemed to get it for simply existing, Everly knew that she had to overachieve for the same notice.

After finishing their primary education, Eden traveled all over Europe taking informal education while Everly was accepted in Stanford California. She had dreams of being an actress, telling stories, and studying for four years with a dual degree in French and theater.

After finishing her degree, Everly moved to NYC with dreams of Broadway. Dreams that proved difficult. For years, Everly worked waitressing jobs, taking any extra cash she could to make ends meet.

By the time she got any notice on Broadway, it had come to her attention that her twin, Eden, had burned some bridges under her name. Everly had to bend and beg to be heard before her name had any trust in the acting community. However, once she got her foot in the door, she went full force and didn’t look back.

Life was good, and despite her inability to count on Eden, Everly was there for her sister whenever she could be. Still, in their mid to late twenties, she became so elusive that it would be weeks, months before Everly would hear from Eden, and then it was because she needed help.

Much to her fiance’s dismay, Everly would never hesitate to help Eden out. She was her twin, her other half. There was nothing she wouldn’t do for her, no matter the cost.

So when Everly was thirty-one years old and was given the terrible news that Eden’s body was found outside of Paris, her life fell into disrepair. Every week Evely followed up with the detective heading the case. And every time, she was given the same dead end. It was almost three months in when Everly decided to take matters into her own hands and began looking into the life Eden had been living in Europe.

Her fiance knew he couldn’t keep doing this, and after six months of the chaos, he gave Everly an ultimatum. She knew he wouldn’t like her answer, and Everly packed a bag the next day- her flight had been booked weeks before.

It has been six months since she arrived in Vancouver and one year since her sister’s death, and the detectives are no closer to solving her murder than they were a year prior. Still, Everly is not so easily swayed and has made it her mission to finally give her family the answers they deserve.

timeline

Nov 1989 - birth Napoli Italy

1992 - 2008 - Classical ballet lessons

2000 - 2007 - Involved in local kids theatre

2003 - Pack made with Eden to never be put into “boxes” matching scars on their palms when they made the “oath.“

2007 - Accepted for Fall admission into Standford University for fall of 2008

Summer 2008 - Moves to Standford, California (roommates and classmates potential WC)

2008 - 2012 - Studies at the University of Standford a major in Theater with a minor in French. Everly was featured in several student films. She participated in a college band as a keyboardist. She entered art competitions, took Ballet classes, and considered switching her majors. Had several relationships and flings. Wrote and won an award for a short horror story published in a literary magazine.

Summer 2012 - Moved to Brooklyn, NYC. The adjustment was difficult for her, but she had several roommates, making it work. She got a few roles off-Broadway but mostly supported herself with odd jobs and ghostwriting.

Winter 2014 met her future fiance after a casting call for the Broadway production of Wicked. Unfortunately, she didn’t get the role.

2015 - Wins a Lucille Lortel award for her off-Broadway performances.

2016 - Starts seriously dating her future fiance and is making a name for herself Off-Broadway, with Broadway still being the goal.

2016 - Finally clears her name from the trouble caused by Eden and lands her first significant role on Broadway. Mama Mia, Sophie.

2017 - 2020 - Makes a strong name for herself on Broadway in roles such as Elphaba, Satine (Moulin Rogue), Christine (Phantom of the Opera), Roxie Hart (Chicago), and countless more.

2018 - Summer, Boyfriend proposes. She says no. Fall - no, he proposes one last time in Winter. She says yes.

Fall 2018 - Wins a Tony Award - Best Performance by an actress in a leading role.

2019 - Postpones the wedding the first time she flies to the Netherlands to help Eden out of a pickle and spends the spring and part of the summer with her there.

2020 - Begins writing more and is steadily planning her wedding. Suggest a date for summer 2021.

March 2021 - Eden’s body is found. Everly returns to Italy, where things are tense with the family. Alessia has had Eden cremated against her fathers’ wishes (it was what Eden wanted). Alessia doesn’t want to lay her remains to rest until the investigation is closed.

March 2021 - May 2021 - Everly breaks from acting and wedding planning. She throws all her focus into finding out what happened to Eden.

June 2021 - The detectives aren’t confident about any new evidence showing up. Everly is un-swayed.

July 2021 - Suggests pushing her wedding back a little further. Things get more noticeably tense with her and her fiance.

July - August 2021 - Finishes out her last play, gives notices of her leave, and books her plane ticket to BC.

September 2021 - Ends things with her fiance and moved to BC.

Sept - November 2021 - Bounces around until finding a more permanent place to live.

Decemeber 2021 - Resumes acting in local theater productions.

March 2022 - Nearing one year since Eden’s death.

personality traits

+ determined, assertive, intutive, ambitious, passionate, witty

- obsessive, pessimistic, unpredictable, envious, skeptical, perfectionist

#muse. everly #about. everly

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Top 10 Controversial Horror Films That Are Famous For All The Wrong Reasons *gags* *cries*

At the beating heart of horror is offence.

From that undeniable sense of something not being quite right, to the CGI-blood-spurtin’-adrenaline-fuelled scenes that leave us shaking in our boots, horror pivots on the knife edge of controversy.

It’s used to drive plots. It’s used to drive hype. And at the end of the month, it drives studio executives to the bank.

Horror films can be traumatic enough. But there are some films that bear the cross of controversy more than others. There are some films that have been branded as so damaging to their potential viewers that merely circulating copies of the film is illegal.

And yet their infamy has forged cult viewership. What was once shielded from us has now become ‘must see’.

Today we are going to be counting down horror’s most controversial films and what made them quite so topical.

*I’m going to star the ones that you can actually watch without getting traumatised. Some are controversial not because of their content but because some religious or political groups disagreed with them*

#10 - The Blair Witch Project (1999)*

Let’s ease in with a classic - a classic you can watch without sleeping with the light on.

In this found-footage flick we see a team of film students as they explore a local urban legend. But what they find leads them to unknown and ungodly territory.

The problem with this film is that it was marketed as a true story. No, not based on a true story, a true story. Yep, they claimed what we were seeing was real, found footage of some teens going mad as they forage deeper into mysterious woods.

IMBd went so far as to report that the actors were dead. Then, the movie studio super-charged their efforts to confirm to the public that not only was this film 100% real, the three main actors were still missing. The parents of the actors then started receiving sympathy cards.

There’s even a mocked up website that perpetuates these claims. 

#9 - Night Of The Living Dead (1968)*

Time for another not-too-disturbing film.

This is the original zombie apocalypse film saw a group of Americans attempt to survive an incoming attack of the undead while trapped in a rural farmhouse.

But the Motion Picture Association of America wasn’t too happy about it. The film rating system was yet to be in place, allowing children to also show up for an afternoon screening and be greeted by a 97 minute montage of extreme violence.

“The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying”

#8 - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

In this psychological film, we watch a random crime spree take place at the hands of a couple serial killers. Loosely based on real murderers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole, its controversial reputation was founded on the gore ‘n’ guts screened in the movie.

Whilst it didn’t receive much attention from the public, various classification boards across the world ensured new versions edited with certain scenes - often involving sexual assault and necrophilia - removed for viewers.

In 2003, the BBFC (the UK classification board) finally allowed the uncut version to be released and Australia followed suit in 2005.

#7 - I Spit On Your Grave (1978)

It’s the original rape-revenge flick. And it managed to piss everyone off.

Originally titled Day of the Woman, it tells the story of a fiction writer who exacts revenge on a group of four men who gang rape her.

Despite its pro-women claim-to-fame, the 30 minute rape scene begs to differ. Furious debate surrounds its feminist label as a film that forces the audience to endure rape from a female perspective and long-winded violence against men (something which is often reserved for women in horror). Regardless, the graphic violence earned it a steady ban in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, and West Germany.

#6 - Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)*

You don’t get many controversial Christmas films. They typically stick to a cookie-cutter plot ‘n’ purpose every holiday season. But there are no strong women who need to rediscover the meaning of Christmas here.

Instead, we see a child traumatised by seeing his parents murdered on Christmas Eve go on a seasonal rampage as an adult.

A week after its release in the early 80s, it was pulled from theatres due to backlash. Marketing was focused on a Santa Claus killer with adverts often airing during family-friendly TV programmes and meant numerous children developed a phobia of Father Christmas. Large crowds protested cinemas with one notable protest involving angry families singing carols at the Interboro Quad Theater in The Bronx.

It was only in 2009 - 25 years after its original release - that a DVD of the film was first made available for purchase in the UK.

#5 - Psycho (1960)*

This legendary film follows the disappearance of a young woman after her encounter with a strange man called Norman Bates, one of horror’s most iconic figures. The controversy that would engulf this fim lay not in the violent attack on an innocent woman or even the disturbing content of the film.

Oh, no. It was because of what the leading lady was wearing.

In the opening scene of the film, we see Janet Leigh wearing nothing but a bra.

*gasp*

This racy attire was emblazoned across promotional material, meeting Hitchcock’s high standards of creating controversy around the movie. There was a no late admission policy for movie theaters, and the posters told viewers “Do not reveal the surprises!” to maintain a mysterious aura around the plot twist.

#4 - The Human Centipede (2009) (all of ‘em)

I’ve watched a lot of horror films, in case you couldn’t tell.

I’m used to watching a scary movie, shaking off the anxiety, and moving on with my life. But there are some that stayed with me. I only watched the trailer for the first movie, and it legitimately traumatised me. It gave me quite a severe, sudden bout of a depression for a solid month when I was 13.

Throughout horror’s goriest franchise, we see an evil doctor and amateur mad scientist attempt to sow several people together into a centipede-like chain from mouth to anus.

*retches*

At the heart of promoting the franchise was controversy. Tom Six, the director, forced a narrative that claimed from the first film that this was "100% medically accurate". He even alleged a Dutch doctor helped inspire the film, confirming that with an IV drip, this was entirely possible.

Although it didn’t receive furore that amounted to serious censorship or long-term banning, it was infamous for having its viewers vomiting in the cinema aisles.

The second film, however, was subject to much more severe controversy and could not legally be supplied in the UK until 2011 due to its heavy focus on sexual abuse, more graphic violence than the original film, and it’s pretty vile depiction of a murderer that was intellectually disabled.

Audiences were used to the graphic nature of the franchise by the third and final release. As the least-controversial and least-enjoyable film according to critics, it barely made a dent in the horror community.

Good riddance, I guess?

#3 - Faces Of Death (1978)

I’m not sure I’d recommend this one per se - but I will give it credit for being an interesting project.

This documentary-style film is a montage of footage of people dying in different ways. As a result of its very graphic and very real content, it was banned and censored in many countries. Only in 2003 was it released on DVD in the UK after a scene was cut featuring dogs fighting and a monkey being beaten to death.

Germany, Australia, and New Zealand followed suit, reversing their bans and releasing edited versions.

However, 7 years after its release, the media revamped its interest in the film after a maths teacher showed it to his class at a Californian high school. Two of his students claimed they were so traumatised they received a costly settlement to reimburse their emotional distress. Things took a darker turn a year later, when a 14 year old bludgeoned a classmate to death with a baseball bat; he claimed he wanted to see what it would be like to actually kill someone after watching Faces of Death.

#2 - Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

This Italian film’s title alone hints towards two frightening things: flesh-eating humans and genocide. In this found-footage movie we see an anthropologist lead a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to find a group of filmmakers that went missing.

The rampant graphic content including sexual assault and animal cruelty showcased in the film (7 animals were killed during filming in some pretty horrific ways) led to it being banned in 50 countries.

Some also alleged that a handful of deaths seen in the film were real, as were the missing film crew. In fact, the actors portraying the documentarians signed contracts that stopped them appearing in motion pictures for an entire year to maintain the illusion of reality.

And only 10 days after its premiere, the director was charged with obscenity and the film confiscated. All copies were to be turned over to the authorities. There are currently a range of versions that have been edited to varying degrees and are allowed for circulation.

#1 - A Serbian Film (2010)

No.

Nope.

Don’t do it. Don’t watch this film.

A Serbian Film follows a retired porn star who agrees to feature in an “art film” for some cash. Little does he know this film will include rape, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia…

Just don’t watch it.

It is still banned in South Korea, New Zealand, Australia. It is supposedly a parody of politically correct films made in Serbia that are funded by foreign groups and allegedly speaks openly about post-war society and the struggle for survival.

*shakes head*

Off to have a 3 hour shower, brb.

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