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thewardenofwinter · 1 year

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Writeblr Introduction | Morana Warrin

I have finally created a Tumblr for my writing. I haven't been on here since I just got internet access (around 2013 so you can probably guess the things I saw) but I need a place to throw all my ideas at a wall and watch as they trickle down into a puddle of lost nights of sleep and aesthetic pinterest boards.

▸ About

▸My name is Morana, I would prefer they/them pronouns but, to be frank, I do not care what you refer to me as. I have been writing for a long time (too long if you ask some people) but in the past three years, I have been taking the profession much more seriously in hopes of starting a career. Besides being a writer and a threat to modern society, I also dabble in drawing/graphic design and character design.

▸I adore 19th-century Russian literature (Mikhail Bulgakov is my personal favourite) and absurdist texts. There isn't a moment of my day when I'm not listening to some sort of music, I do not discriminate genres in the slightest but I am partial to rock and its many subgenres. I love any 90s and early 2000s movies, early Hollywood horror flicks, and Soviet films from the 80s.

▸ Current Projects

(I am horrible at summaries so please take pity on me. also check TWs)

The Resurrectioners

You only live twice.

(TW: Mentions of s*icide)

After the deaths of her two sisters in a car crash, twenty-seven-year-old Samara Dombroski decides that her life is no longer worth living and makes a successful attempt at her own life. Only there's one problem:

She doesn’t stay dead for very long.

An indeterminate amount of time later, Samara wakes up in a strange, vast estate plagued by visions of the past that she can’t control. She learns that this place is run by a man known only as The Resurrectionist, a necromancer armed with a group of assassins possessing strange abilities called Resurrectioners, an eclectic group of individuals who all share her story: people who found death by their own hand or by some other tragic means.

Now a resurrectioner herself, Samara must repay the debt of her second chance at life to The Resurrectionist by disposing of cadavers for him: violent, ghoulish beings that result from misused necromancy who feast on flesh and bone. Once she has killed enough to satisfy The Resurrectionist, she will be released from the estate she is trapped in and free to live the rest of her life.

genre: dark fantasy, thriller

What We Undertake

Some things are better left undead.

Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak meets Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow in this paranormal mystery and gothic romance set in the late 19th century.

Our tale follows one Dolores Clive, resident medium and the daughter of the late Warren Clive, Boston's most beloved undertaker. After her father's death and subsequent take over of the family business, Dolores has become a recluse haunted by ghosts of her past and near future which all comes to head when her step-sister arrives in town with her newly acquired fiancé and his rather strange but beautiful brother in tow following a string of murders.

Genre: horror/supernatural fiction, gothic fiction

The Stray Girls

It's not drugs that are killing these teens.

(TW: Mentions of drugs and alcohol)

Set in the fictional city of Maynard, The Stray Girls is a retelling of The Lost Boys centred around a cast of troubled teen girls set 10 years later in 1997'.

After once again deciding to move across the country with her daughters, Magdelena's mother decides that cheap rent is worth more than her daughter's lives when she moves to Maynard, Washington— which currently boasts the largest missing girl population in the country. While settling into their new home, Magda notices her elder sister Roxanne is beginning to act strange: leaving the house in the middle of the night, wearing sunglasses indoors, and sleeping all day. First suspecting it to be drugs, Magda thinks nothing of it, but as time goes on and her sister's personality makes a sudden shift in the wrong direction, she can no longer pretend like everything is alright. Meeting the group of troubled girls that her sister now calls 'friends' slowly leads her down a path of crime, thrill and peer pressure. But it's not booze that these girls are drinking: it's blood.

Genre: Teen Adventure/Horror

▸ LINKS

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Though my aesthetic and writing style may scream morbid academic pretentiousness, I assure you my online presence and writing greatly contrast with my personality (and looks for that matter) so please do not be alarmed by my frequent buffoonery, general bastardness, and bombastic vulgarity.

Thank you for reading! (or skipping to the end)

— M. Warrin

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silent-era-of-cinema · 4 years

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Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress and painter.

Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Gaynor's career success continued into the sound film era, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937), for which she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination.

After retiring from acting in 1939, Gaynor married film costume designer Adrian with whom she had a son. She briefly returned to acting in films and television in the 1950s and later became an accomplished oil painter. In 1980, Gaynor made her Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of the 1971 film Harold and Maude and appeared in the touring theatrical production of On Golden Pond in February 1982. In September 1982, she sustained multiple injuries when the taxicab in which she and others were passengers was struck by a drunken driver. These injuries eventually caused her death in September 1984.

Gaynor was born Laura Augusta Gainor (some sources stated Gainer) in Germantown, Philadelphia. Nicknamed "Lolly" as a child, she was the younger of two daughters born to Laura (Buhl) and Frank De Witt Gainor. Frank Gainor worked as a theatrical painter and paperhanger. When Gaynor was a toddler, her father began teaching her how to sing, dance, and perform acrobatics. As a child in Philadelphia, she began acting in school plays. After her parents divorced in 1914, Gaynor, her sister, and her mother moved to Chicago. Shortly thereafter, her mother married electrician Harry C. Jones. The family later moved west to San Francisco.

After graduating from San Francisco Polytechnic High School in 1923, Gaynor spent the winter vacationing in Melbourne, Florida, where she did stage work. Upon returning to San Francisco, Gaynor, her mother, and stepfather moved to Los Angeles, where she could pursue an acting career. She was initially hesitant to do so, and enrolled at Hollywood Secretarial School. She supported herself by working in a shoe store and later as a theatre usher. Her mother and stepfather continued to encourage her to become an actress and she began making the rounds to the studios (accompanied by her stepfather) to find film work.

Gaynor won her first professional acting job on December 26, 1924, as an extra in a Hal Roach comedy short. This led to more extra work in feature films and shorts for Film Booking Offices of America and Universal. Universal eventually hired her as a stock player for $50 a week. Six weeks after being hired by Universal, an executive at Fox Film Corporation offered her a screen test for a supporting role in the film The Johnstown Flood (1926). Her performance in the film caught the attention of Fox executives, who signed her to a five-year contract and began to cast her in leading roles. Later that year, Gaynor was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars (along with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Mary Astor, and others).

By 1927, Gaynor was one of Hollywood's leading ladies. Her image was that of a sweet, wholesome, and pure young woman who was notable for playing her roles with depth and sensitivity. Her performances in 7th Heaven, the first of 12 films she would make with actor Charles Farrell; Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau; and Street Angel, also with Charles Farrell, earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929, when for the first and only time the award was granted for multiple roles, on the basis of total recent work rather than for one particular performance. This practice was prohibited three years later by a new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rule. Gaynor was not only the first actress to win the award, but at 22, was also the youngest until 1986, when actress Marlee Matlin, 21, won for her role in Children of a Lesser God.

Gaynor was one of only a handful of established lead actresses who made a successful transition to sound films. In 1929, she was reteamed with Charles Farrell (the pair was known as "America's favorite love birds") for the musical film Sunny Side Up. During the early 1930s, Gaynor was one of Fox's most popular actresses and one of Hollywood's biggest box office draws. In 1931 and 1932, she and Marie Dressler were tied as the number-one box office draws. After Dressler's death in 1934, Gaynor held the top spot alone.[9] She was often cited as a successor to Mary Pickford, and was cast in remakes of two Pickford films, Daddy Long Legs (1931) and Tess of the Storm Country (1932). Gaynor drew the line at a proposed remake of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which she considered "too juvenile".

Gaynor continued to garner top billing for roles in State Fair (1933) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man. However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, Twentieth Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form 20th Century-Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to those of burgeoning actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple. According to press reports at the time, Gaynor held out on signing with the new 20th Century-Fox until her salary was raised from $1,000 a week to $3,000. The studio quickly issued a statement denying that Gaynor was holding out for more money. She quietly signed a new contract, the terms of which were never made public.

Gaynor received top billing above Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, and Tyrone Power in Ladies in Love (1937) but her box office appeal had already begun to wane: once ranked number one, she had dropped to number 24. She considered retiring due to her frustration with studio executives, who continued to cast her in the same type of role that brought her fame while audiences' tastes were changing. After 20th Century-Fox executives proposed that her contract be renegotiated and she be demoted to featured player status, Gaynor left the studio, but her retirement plans were quashed when David O. Selznick offered her the leading role in a new film to be produced by his company, Selznick International Pictures. Selznick, who was friendly with Gaynor off-screen, was convinced that audiences would enjoy seeing her portray a character closer to her true personality. He believed that she possessed the perfect combination of humor, charm, vulnerability, and innocence for the role of aspiring actress Esther Blodgett (later "Vicki Lester") in A Star Is Born. Gaynor accepted the role. The romantic drama was filmed in Technicolor and co-starred Fredric March. Released in 1937, it was an enormous hit and earned Gaynor her second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; she lost to Luise Rainer for The Good Earth.

A Star Is Born revitalized Gaynor's career, and she was cast in the screwball comedy The Young in Heart (1938) with Paulette Goddard. That film was a modest hit, but by then Gaynor had definitely decided to retire. She later explained, "I had been working steadily for 17 long years, making movies was really all I knew of life. I just wanted to have time to know other things. Most of all I wanted to fall in love. I wanted to get married. I wanted a child. And I knew that in order to have these things one had to make time for them. So I simply stopped making movies. Then as if by a miracle, everything I really wanted happened." At the top of the industry, she retired at age 33.

In August 1939, Gaynor married Hollywood costume designer Adrian with whom she had a son in 1940. The couple divided their time between their 250-acre cattle ranch in Anápolis, Brazil, and their homes in New York and California. Both were also heavily involved in the fashion and arts community. Gaynor returned to acting in the early 1950s with appearances in live television anthology series including Medallion Theatre, Lux Video Theatre, and General Electric Theater.[8] In 1957, she appeared in her final film role as Dick Sargent's mother in the musical comedy Bernardine, starring Pat Boone and Terry Moore. In November 1959, she made her stage debut in the play The Midnight Sun, in New Haven, Connecticut. The play, which Gaynor later called "a disaster", was not well received and closed shortly after its debut.

Gaynor also became an accomplished oil painter of vegetable and flower still lifes. She sold over 200 paintings and had four showings under the Wally Findlay Galleries banner in New York, Chicago, and Palm Beach from 1975 to February 1982.

In 1980, Gaynor made her Broadway debut as "Maude" in the stage adaptation of the 1971 film Harold and Maude. She received good reviews for her performance, but the play was panned by critics and closed after 21 performances. Later that year, she reunited with her Servants' Entrance co-star Lew Ayres to film an episode of the anthology series The Love Boat. It was the first television appearance Gaynor had made since the 1950s and was her last screen role. In February 1982, she starred in the touring production of On Golden Pond. This was her final acting role.

Gaynor was romantically involved with her friend and frequent co-star, Charles Farrell, during the time of their work together in silent film, until she married her first husband. Choosing to keep their relationship out of the public eye, Gaynor and Farrell were often assisted by mutual friend Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in maintaining the ruse. Looking back, Fairbanks would later recall, "We three were so chummy that I became their 'beard,' the cover-up for their secret romance. I would drive them out to a little rundown, wooden house well south of Los Angeles, near the sea. I'd leave them there and go sailing or swimming until [it was] time to collect them and then we'd all have a bit of dinner."

According to Gaynor's biographer Sarah Baker, Farrell proposed marriage during the filming of Lucky Star, but the two never followed through with it. In her later years, Gaynor would hold their different personalities accountable for their eventual separation.

Gaynor was married three times and had one child. Her first marriage was to lawyer Jesse Lydell Peck, whom she married on September 11, 1929. Gaynor's attorney announced the couple's separation in late December 1932.

She was granted a divorce on April 7, 1933. On August 14, 1939, she married MGM costume designer Adrian in Yuma, Arizona. This relationship has been called a lavender marriage, since Adrian was openly gay within the film community while Gaynor was rumored to be gay or bisexual. The couple had one son, Robin Gaynor Adrian, born in 1940. Those rumors were never hinted at in newspapers or magazines. Gaynor and Adrian remained married until Adrian's death from a stroke on September 13, 1959.

On December 24, 1964, Gaynor married her longtime friend, stage producer Paul Gregory, to whom she remained married until her death. The two maintained a home in Desert Hot Springs, California and also owned 3,000 acres of land near Brasília.

Gaynor and her husband traveled frequently with her close friend Mary Martin and her husband. A Brazilian press report noted that Gaynor and Martin briefly lived with their respective husbands in Anapolis, state of Goiás at a ranch (fazenda in Portuguese) in the 1950s and 1960s – both houses are still there nowadays. There is a project by the Jan Magalinski Institute to restore their houses to create a Cinema Museum of Goiás.

On the evening of September 5, 1982, Gaynor, her husband Paul Gregory, actress Mary Martin, and Martin's manager Ben Washer were involved in a serious car accident in San Francisco. A van ran a red light at the corner of California and Franklin Streets and crashed into the Luxor taxicab in which the group was riding, knocking it into a tree. Ben Washer was killed, Mary Martin sustained two broken ribs and a broken pelvis, and Gaynor's husband suffered two broken legs. Gaynor sustained several serious injuries, including 11 broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, a punctured lung, and injuries to her bladder and kidney. The driver of the van, Robert Cato, was arrested on two counts of felony drunk driving, reckless driving, speeding, running a red light, and vehicular homicide. Cato pleaded not guilty and was later released on $10,000 bail. On March 15, 1983, he was found guilty of drunk driving and vehicular homicide and was sentenced to three years in prison.

As a result of her injuries, Gaynor was hospitalized for four months and underwent two surgeries to repair a perforated bladder and internal bleeding. She recovered sufficiently to return to her home in Desert Hot Springs, but continued to experience health issues due to the injuries and required frequent hospitalizations. Shortly before her death, she was hospitalized for pneumonia and other ailments. On September 14, 1984, Gaynor died at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs at the age of 77. Her doctor, Bart Apfelbaum, attributed her death to the 1982 car accident and stated that Gaynor "...never recovered" from her injuries.

Gaynor is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her second husband, Adrian. Her headstone reads "Janet Gaynor Gregory", her legal name after her marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Janet Gaynor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Blvd.

On March 1, 1978, Howard W. Koch, then the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presented Gaynor with a citation for her "truly immeasurable contribution to the art of motion pictures".

In 1979, Gaynor was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross for her cultural contributions to Brazil.

#janet gaynor #silent era #silent movie stars #silent hollywood #golden age of hollywood #classic movie stars #classic hollywood #1920s hollywood #1930s hollywood

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zontiky · 5 years

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Day 25: Soundtrack

@totallyevan i..... tried. second person is fun to write!

read it on ao3

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You do not hear angels sing as you begin your descent into hell. You didn’t expect any, anyway, but some accompanying music would have been nice. A chord or two to draw in somebody, to make them see the visual in all of its glory.

It would have been nice.

One foot in front of the other. You wonder if it’s too late to turn back. It is, of course, but the thought that returning home is an option is comforting.

You walk.

Your hand grips hers, and then it’s all gone. He has his hand around her throat, and you rush to catch her before she hits the ground and shatters into pieces. It’s all too raw, too tender, the wound festering in your middle. The gun clatters to the floor.

You decide that it’s time for her to go. She can’t keep walking along with you, because she deserves more than you could ever give. You make a detour to drop her off where she began her journey, and wish her the best of luck in finishing it.

“She likes sequins,” you tell the woman walking past. She looks at you like you’re insane, and as the light hits Dolores’s face you think that maybe you are. It’s all a blur.

The woman in black gives you a shark-like smile - sharp teeth ready to dig into your flesh and rip you apart hidden by clean-painted lips, the color almost as bright as freshly spilled blood. You would know. The longing for a steady beat to sync your footsteps to grows stronger.

You walk past your siblings, their shocked faces staring after you in fear. You don’t even bother. Replenishing your energy is much more important. The kitchen is on your way.

Peanut butter, jelly, bread, marshmallows. Knife. You think you might focus too much on the knife, but it doesn’t matter, because if you focus on the wrong thing there will be no more knife and no more sandwich. There will be nothing at all except for you and Dolores and billions of dead bodies rotting around you.

You can feel music fade from the air, and you almost throw your food to the ground in frustration. You were so close. So fucking- So fucking close.

When everything is shaking with the force of the euphony, you allow yourself a quick smile. It fades just as fast, because everything shakes harder and the ceiling starts to cave.

A gunshot echoes, and for once, you’re not the one pulling the trigger. Your sister - the other one, with the slit throat that you can’t remember being there the first time - is holding the barrel mere inches away from the violinist’s head.

The Man in the Moon came tumbling down, and- something something. You can’t remember the rest of the rhyme, the little story your mother used to tell you sometimes before bed. It seems fitting, right now, with the chunk of moon hurtling toward all of you puny humans, all equal to absolutely nothing in the face of this great destruction.

Your brother was right. The moon is part of the apocalypse.

You think you hear music crescendo, and feel it, you’ve reached the last stop, Orpheus looking for salvation finally arriving in the dark of the underworld.

Tomorrow is another day, and when the night fades away, you’ll be a man, boy.

But for now, it’s time to run.

You grip two hands, your sister and your brother, and you make a dash toward the escape you were promised years ago.

#nik words #fic tag #ficlet #tua #the umbrella academy #tua inktober #the umbrella academy inktober #five hargreeves #five & dolores

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timeless-hollywood-classics · 4 years

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Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress and painter.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Janet Gaynor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Blvd.

In 1979, Gaynor was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross for her cultural contributions to Brazil.

#janet gaynor #golden age of hollywood #classic hollywood #classic movie stars #old hollywood #classic cinema #classic movies #silent era #silent stars #silent cinema #silent hollywood #1920s hollywood #1930s hollywood

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cleaduvalls · 5 years

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i watched all 20 episodes of spy kids: mission critical in about a week and here are my thoughts (3/5)

1.9

i havent watched this in like 2 days i dont even remember what happened last time

why is everything in the desert the desert sucks

alsjhiajgdf i love tom kenny

listen i know hes like a superandroid or whatever but i really hope he and therese fall in love

wait hold up. i thought they already had midterms???? like the did that before scorpion went to her fashion shoot. AND they were kupkakkes midterms. whats up with this school

no drinking in class???? rude. let them hydrate

that seems imbalanced

aHh

thats only like 10

also that book is dummy thicc

its ok ace my nose whistles too

shut up carmen youre just jealous because shes pretty

there are no seasons its a desert

ok dude stop breathing so hard

he JUST said that

anywhere between an hour and umm... 11 months

you put it on one page why are all the pages back

me but with physics

thats literally the best line in the whole series

juni how do you not know that you were at a safe H O U S E

theyve been gone for like 2 hours are they not allowed to study?????

what even is AWOL???

absent without leave. neat

talon gives off some big draco energy

tick tock???? how dare you

slkdhfa she called sir awesome honey shes such a mom

dont make it obvious

oh look they made it obvious

roll credits

i was in cleveland when i watched this episode - well actually i left that day - and i was s h o o k e t h

also hes right. no spy would be in cleveland. theres 3 buildings

oh me too

right bc shes the only “I.A.”

this isnt HARRY POTTER. or maybe it is. talon is a hardcore draco

oh right bc swearing is for Men™

update tumblr decided to break AGAIN (im boutta cry btw) so we lost about 5 minutes from the end of 1.9 and 7 from the beginning of 1.10

1.10

its a DOORBELL do they not have those in the outback steakhouse

lots of people. doofenshmirtz, other people who i cant think of right now, etc

???? no it wont????

did your troop leader not give you The Talk??? you NEVER go in the customers house

ace no. youre allowed to not buy treats

theres a triforce on her vest, too

shes just gonna go to another house yall. shell be f i n e

oh my God shes holding hands with mauly im gonna c r y

yeah its called saliva

nope only scorpion lives in a castle

stop bringing up spy sense and tell him you saw her glare at you

HES ALLOWED TO LIKE FOOD

how do you know that he doesnt have his phone if YOU dont know where it is and HE cant tell you

i love how she says "floor. ceiling. more thumb"

haha i found the birth of venus

oh and the creation of adam

hes like squidward, which would make sense bc goldies voiced by tom kenny who voices spongebob

"sebastian oliver" "shadow operative" S.O. nice

why do you have a trailblazers badge. youre 4. i didnt get one til i was a cadette

also sebastian???? isnt that the toymakers first name????? you cant have 2 sebastians

also why do you have braces. youre still 4

"SIR MEANIE FACE" IF SOMEONE SAID THAT TO ME ID BE D E V A S T A T E D

SCORPION LET HER CRY SHES F O U R

so really, spy sense DID help

oooooh, sentry duty, thats gotta hurt

WHAT THE H E C K YOURE F O U R

she looks like frickin plushtrap

aCE NO YOURW GONNA D I E

oh trust me they hurt me more than you know

dude theyre so thin youre f i n e

eh, still worked

clicking her teeth together so hard must H U R T

i think she can get out of there. also shes concussed now

why was that so quiet. why did it get louder

thats not a y shape

no, they spy kids

oh shiitake mushrooms thats what THEY said

whenever they say pinnoquinoxx i always think of pinnochio

ahdhhsjak i miss pizza parties 😔

well now we ALL expect it

also, no one????? pick a cooler code name. your regular name was cool and now youve ruined it

2.1

oh theres finally a skip intro option. im not taking it

stop saying that its weird

EWWWWWW CRUSTY THATS SO G R O S S

haha shes shopping w the goon. love that

oh yeah i didnt get to tell yall yet but i absolutely h a t e gablet

a lot of people, juni

listen i know a jt (but he doesnt go by jt) and uhhhhhhh were not gonna go there

why are you happy. what about second semester makes you so happy

boi thats a tardis

the design on his hoverboard looks like the aperture science logo

i paused to read the Floops label and it says "fried corn and sugar loop shaped breakfast substitute, net wt. 13 oz" ITS NOT EVEN A CEREAL ITS A BREAKFAST SUBSTITUTE IM C R Y I N G

listen i know hes technically scorpions dad but i dont think he can legally be in the dorm rooms

aww, thats sweet

i dont think gablet has an attached printer

gablet always sounds like shes mocking people

oh dear God its dolores umbridge

haha nerd

awesome no im gonna die

whenever carmen yells she sounds like link

ok so i didnt find a reason why she sounds like link but i DID find that theyre making a wherea waldo tv series so uhhhh thats fun

why does the cat have a bandaid

GABLET S T O P

OH!!!!!! ON THE WALL!!!!!!! ITS THE TUMBLR POST WITH THE FORK AND KNIFE ETIQUETTE PICTURE!!!!! YOU KNOW THE ONE!!!!!

oh no fart jokes

its even the basic fart sound effect

BAHAHAH MY PHONE VIBRATED AT THE SAME TIME HE FARTED THAT WAS WEIRD

oh no i hate him

stop SLURPING

uh yeah???? you heard them yelling about it

how??? does that work??? you cant just like catch electricity in a cup.... can you???? i havent studied it since 4th grade

oh worm??

goldies such a boomer

worm??

psi shouldnt be at the drawing board right now. he also shouldnt be confused

what happened to the lasers

wait nvm we havent gotten to that episode yet

ace is valid, dark is Scary

im gonna punch gablet in the face

that doesnt sound realistic

do you not have stairs??????

dont you mean inside AND out??

that flashlight did NOTHING

how did it die so fast?????

who else would you be talking to??

isnt that bowser from the mario movie we dont speak of??

i havent gotten a chance to tell yall but i absolutely love clemp. hes such a mood

hes the greatest spy

does it use a mini transmooker???? ig it doesnt bc gablet works but thatd be lit

SEE SHES IMMORTAL

me when i see something interesting

ME WHEN IM NOT ON MY PHONE

i dont think you can legally say that

you killed her

wow nice promo

also just???? bring a charger????? like youre the tech girl why do you not have one at all times

how?????? did you go so fast

machete electric bubbles??? nice

just task manager him

mother of all boards sounds like it could be a cuss...mother of all fuckers

also throwback to 1.7 when she says "his ai firewalled his motherboard" i keep expecting her to say "his ai firewalled this motherfucker"

yes i said keep ive watched that episode too many times to count

worm??

why did you giggle and make a flirty pose. are yall supposed to get together???

did you????? kill him????????? holy shit

2.2

thats what my dad does. he loves hospital corners

idc what it is you have a bazooka

ok if it was a spider id get it, australia has some deadly ones, but does it have deadly ants too???? like is that a Thing????

also ants in your room are gross

was that just a cameo??? i dont remember what happens in this one

haha because he said grapevines and wine has dregs and wine is made of grapes

for the boys??? thats so cute

listen idc how evil you are EVERYONE should cry over otters

so one of the parents has a sister or sister in law named roxanna..... hmmm.......

if you dont use your turn signal h*ck u

hes gonna D I E

i just looked at my shoe and i think theres blood on it???? what the h*ck

suspicious??? about.... what???? having fears???? not being perfect?????

juni that was awful wording

JUNI WHAT DID YOU D O TO HIM

like i know what he DID but the way it plays out makes it seem like something significant

i thought his name was heavy meddle not.... deth metal???? thats how the subtitles spell it

hahah me

he sounds like bling bling boy

yeah ik im a fool thanks for reminding me

what are you gonna do??? kill juni????

POOR WORD CHOICE JUNI

oh he gives exactly 0 h*cks

a shoe doesnt make that sound

crack bugs?????

see thats why you dont mess with things

im a god among boys??????? what????

did you... kill them????????????

thats any australian person

theyre so stupid i love them

good i hate her

i thought the gunk just like... disappeared from the guitar but actually it shot off

he died... 😔

uhh.... yeah????? was it not obvious?????

me when i have 5 dollars

#spy kids #spy kids spoilers #spy kids mission critical #carmen cortez #juni cortez

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thotyssey · 6 years

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On Point With: Laé D. Boi

A face of the new era of Brooklyn nightlife, this socially conscious fashionista has carved out a niche all her own in just about a year’s time. Spearheading events and shows with purposes ranging from celebrating the city’s POC queens to geeked-out Pokemon tournaments, she has certainly gotten her lay of the land... it’s Laé D. Boi!

Thotyssey: Hey Laé D., thanks for talking to us! So Pride is nearly upon us... are you excited, or are you dreading it at all?

Laé D. Boi: Thanks Jim! The pleasure is all mine. Really excited, because it’s my first working Pride as a drag queen. So it sorta, like, feels like my first Pride altogether.

This is only your first drag year? You’ve come so far!

Thank you! I like to think so! I’ve been “dragging it up” for a year and a half now. But I have major imposter syndrome, so I always feel like I’m playing catch-up to my peers.

That's, like, an epidemic for performers.

It truly is! I feel like that would be my “inner saboteur.” But in all honesty, it has been my main motivation to grow--mainly because this community is such a “pressure cooker.” But I grew up in similar scenes in Los Angeles, so you think i’d be used to it!

Speaking of inner saboteurs, you were with Crystal Hart for her Drag Race viewing party at The Bedford last night. So for the second season in a row, the Top Four will all move on to the finale as a Top Four. Um, are we surprised?

We aren’t surprised in the least bit. It’s on mainstream TV now, so they are gonna milk the seasons dry.

Who is standing out for you as the winner?

My Top 2 out of the 4 are Asia and Aquaria. They are both fierce competitors, but also amazing performers. I’m a visual person, and the looks they turned out were out of this world. I mean, Asia’s “Hats Incredible” and Aquaria’s saboteur looks were right up my alley.

Then right after the episode, you went and hosted the Wallbreaker benefit show at Macri Park. Yes, and It was so surreal. I am always humbled when performers lend their time and talent for a great cause. We raised $635. Major shout out to Anna-Lisa for being a great producer.

So, growing up in LA, were you very connected to showbiz people?

Not so much showbiz, but fashion. I worked as a stylist in LA, which is what brought me to NYC. Super-competitive, but I learned a lot! I kinda fell into drag / showbiz, funny enough.

What drew you to drag in the beginning?

Heartbreak, haha! 2016 was a rough year for me. I had a falling out from my childhood best friend who moved out here with me, the guy I was dating at the time and I had a traumatic breakup, and then Donald Trump became president. I was feeling a lot all at once, so I wrote about it as a poem, added music to it, then premiered it at a birthday performance at [The Deep End party] Otter Box. I kept going out in face until I got my first booked gig.

Is there a story about how your drag name came to you?

I love puns and dad jokes. My off-duty name is Ololade (o-la-luh-day). One of my cousins growing up would always call me Laday, and I love androgyny, so I thought lady boy. Originally it was Lae DuBoi (lay-du-boy), but people would always mess it up, so I shortened it to Laé D. Boi.

I remember seeing your name that other way!

How did you fall into the Brooklyn scene in particular?

I only knew of Otter Box at the time because i was friends with [The Deep End’s co-owner] JEM, and followed them to The Deep End. There I met Thee Suburbia while she was working the door one day, and she gave me the lay of the land, so to speak. Still one of my best judys.

Do you sew or design for other queens?

I WISH... I can’t even sew for myself! However, I just got my first hot glue gun about a month ago, and it has been life-changing! I’ve been making all sorts of new props. Though I’ve always believed, it’s not what you wear, but how you wear it that counts.

Absolutely! So, how would you describe your performing style to the uninitiated?

Live and in color. I predominately do raps and live numbers, though when I do lip syncs, I’m a total prop princess. I live for the drama.

Props to props! And you did this past MR(S) BK pageant, right? Yes!! It was such a fun experience! I consider it to be like a drag cotillion--a fun way to “introduce” yourself into to the scene.

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One great thing about the Brooklyn scene today is that there is such a diversity of performers, as far as race, ethnicity, gender, aesthetic, etc. There are more young BK queens of color turning it than ever before. But the BK audiences are still made up mostly of cis white guys. Is this a weird dynamic?

It’s so funny that you say that. This was the inspiration behind my bi-monthly party REPARATIONS at the Deep End. My co-producer Maé B. Dolores and I discussed how queer spaces that draw predominantly cis white males often use our culture, language, and music. But we would often not feel welcome in those spaces, so we decided to create our own. We feature all black performers, and have raised over $1,000 to different POC organizations like The Audre Lorde Project and Black Lives Matter.

The next REPARATIONS is coming up soon, right?

Yes!! Its June 30th. I’m so excited because its our Pride theme. We have Munroe Lilly and Merlot, and starting this month we will feature a non-black POC performer--because all POC’s deserve Reparations--and our first feature is Magenta.

Reperations underway! Before this, you’re going to perform this Saturday in the West Village for Emi Grate's “A+” revue at the Monster, which usually consists of all-Asian queens. Are you Asian at all?

I am! My grandfather on my mother’s side has family in Bihar, which is eastern India. Though I’m a huge mutt: my Dad is From Nigeria, and my Mother is Indian, black, and white.

You're Everything in every way!

Aw, shucks!

And you're gonna perform a cute party / show at Macri Park this Sunday, Resident Shevil! What's the theme behind that one?

Well, Resident Is an open platform dance party that is focused around club beats. It’s the love child of my URL-to-IRL friend DJ Dreamcast--it’s his resident party in San Francisco. If you love to dance, this is the party for you!

Then you’re kicking off Pride Weekend with "Lets Have a Tiki" at the Dromedary Bar, where I believe you've previously hosted a Pokemon Tournament! Angelica Sundae, Mini Horrorwitz, Mary Con & DJ Lady Simon will be there with you. This should be cute!

Anyone who’s worked with me knows that I love food, and Dromedary has a great menu. I’ve had my anime-inspired party there, Annie Maé, and thought, “why not have another party there too?” It’s gonna be a Pride bash that celebrates the past, with a twist. There’s even gonna be a virgin sacrifice!

Anything else coming up?

Yes, I’m releasing my first mixtape at the end of July. It’s called The Mx. Tape, and will have all my original songs I've performed over the past year: songs like, “Boyfriend Twins,” “Breaking Binary” and “Baroque n’ Boujee,” to name a few!

That’s incredible, congratulations! And finally... if you were stuck on a desert island with a BK nightlife sister or brother, who would you choose to be stuck with?

Hmmm... that’s a tough one! I’d say my drag sister Yoya. No other queen makes me laugh like she can. She’s crazy and a mess, but also vastly loyal... and taking care of people brings out the best in me.

Thanks, gurl!

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Ever thrown or been to a party where things have got a little out of hand? Yep, me too. In fact, there was a certain party where……. Well, I can’t say any more because my mother sometimes reads these reviews. However, no matter what has happened at your party, it pales into insignificance compared to the shenanigans at Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s The Wild Party which has re-launched The Other Palace (formerly the St James Theatre) in Victoria.

1920s New York and Vaudeville performer Queenie (Frances Ruffelle) is getting bored with her relationship with fellow performer Burrs (John Owen-Jones). In an effort to calm her after one particularly nasty fight threatens to get out of hand, Burrs suggests they throw a party and invite all their old friends. This is destined to be some party and Queenie is planning to really enjoy herself and see that her guests do too. And what guests there are: The guests include fading star Dolores (Donna McKechnie); Kate (Victoria Hamilton-Barritt), Queenie’s best friend and rival; Black (Simon Thomas), Kate’s younger lover, who has his eye on Queenie; Jackie (Dex Lee), a rich, “ambisextrous” kid who has his eye on everyone, regardless of gender or age; Oscar and Phil D’Armano (Gloria Obianyo and Genesis Lynea), a ‘brother act’; lesbian stripper Miss Madelaine True (Tiffany Graves) and her morphine-addicted girlfriend Sally (Melanie Bright); black prizefighter Eddie (Ako Mitchell), his white wife Mae (Lizzy Connolly) and Mae’s fourteen year old Lolita-like sister, Nadine (Bronte Barbe). And finally would-be Vaudeville producers Gold and Goldberg (Sebastian Torkla and Steven Serlin). As the bathtub gin flows, and the white powder disappears, the guests’ inhibitions – such as they were – disappear out of the door. Secrets come out, lust raises its head, swiftly followed by jealousy and rage as the party goes from wild to uncontrolled to its almost inevitable ending.

The Wild Party starts with a bang with the song Queenie was a Blonde’ and goes charging through the nearly two and a half hour runtime at full pelt until the final moments. This is Musical Theatre with a capital M and T. Virtually no script, the story is pretty much told in song and dance and looks like it really tests both the actors and the band – under MD Theo Jamieson – who are in constant sight thanks to Soutra Gilmour’s multi-level set. For the actors, this is high energy and Director/Choreographer Drew McOnie really evokes the spirit of the age – ably assisted by the sumptuous costumes which look stunning on men and women alike – and keeps the narrative moving at a fair old pace. Also worth mentioning is the excellent atmospheric lighting design of Richard Howell, who manages to make the performing space look so much bigger than it is.

Every character in The Wild Party is an individual and has a story to tell, so each gets their moment in the spotlight as they bring the audience into their lives. This technique works really well sometimes, and two solo numbers in particular, stood out for me in the production. The first was Burr’s song ‘Wouldn’t it be Nice?’ which, while being light and airy on the outside is actually quite emotional. The second, which I have to say really hit me emotionally was Dolores solo ‘When it Ends’ which Donna McKechnie sang with every fibre of her body drawing the loudest cheer of the night for her bravura performance.

[See image gallery at http://ift.tt/1FpwFUw] This leads us nicely into the actors, and this is a strong cast with no less than two ‘Tony’ award winners on the stage. Due to the nature of the characters, there is a real mixture of ages and genders and the entire team pull together brilliantly to make this the party of the century. Frances Ruffelle as Queenie particularly shines as does John Owen-Jones as Burr and the two of them really do seem like lovers at loggerheads with each other, and there is a nice chemistry between Queenie and Simon Thomas’s very smooth gigolo Mr Black. Really great work by Frances to build realistic appearing relationships with two such different characters. Thinking back, I don’t think there were any performances that were less than perfect.

So, with all this praise heaped upon the show, why does it not have five stars I hear you ask. The truth is that for some reason I just didn’t fully connect with The Wild Party. I think the problem was that there was so much going on at a frantic pace that, at times it all got a little overwhelming at times as to who was doing what to or with whom. This show has everything except the kitchen sink, though there is a bath instead. Since every character has a story within the overarching party, I found it very difficult to get to know and really care about anyone in particular which was a shame as there were some really interesting characters and scenarios being portrayed on the stage. However, in some respects, the musical reflects real life since if we had been at an actual party, then it would be impossible to keep up with the comings and goings of everyone throughout the course of the night.

To summarise, the music is amazing, if you like 1920s American jazz, blues and everything else, then this is for you. I’ve been listening to the original Broadway cast album this morning and loved every minute of it. The staging is fantastic and the acting first rate. All told, if you like your party to be wild, carefree and hang all consequences then this is the show for you.

Review by Terry Eastham

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE HAD A REAL PARTY? The hugely acclaimed THE WILD PARTY makes its UK premiere.

Directed and choreographed by 2016 Olivier Award-winner Drew McOnie (In the Heights) and starring the Tony Award-winning Frances Ruffelle (Les Miserables), this sizzling new production of the Tony Award-nominated sensation is not to be missed.

A glittering, blackly comic musical set against the backdrop of Manhattan decadence and 1920s excess, THE WILD PARTY tells the story of Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville showgirl and vaudeville clown, who decide to throw the party to end all parties in a bid to save their toxic relationship. But as the gin flows, the jazz swings and the sexual tension smoulders, debauchery soon turns to tragedy, as even the wildest of parties can’t last forever.

Please note this show has an age recommendation of 16 + as it contains scenes of a sexual nature and adult language.

CAST Frances Ruffelle – Queenie John Owen-Jones – Burrs Simon Thomas – Black Donna McKechnie – Dolores Dex Lee – Jackie Victoria Hamilton-Barritt – Kate Ako Mitchell Eddie Gloria Obianyo – The D’armano Bros Genesis Lynea – The D’armano Bros Melanie Bright – Sally Lizzy Connolly – Mae Steven Serlin – Goldberg Sebastien Torkia – Gold Bronté Barbé – Nadine Tiffany Graves – Madelaine

The Wild Party Approx. 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 20 minute interval. 13 February – 1 April 2017 The Other Palace Theatre

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