#pov you tried to murder sex pal

[scalierpepper]

#pov you tried to murder sex pal #knife wife #camilla hect #camilla the sixth #the locked tomb #tlt art #sixth house #gideon the ninth #go loud #my art

[marymauk]

Fic recs: a few things that didn't happen.

Okay idk what holds this rec list together, I am simply going with the vibes. And the vibes say: these guys belong on the same list! Okay, vibes.

time and hour runs through by StarryCleric, T, 6k, Caleb pov

The Mighty Nein are caught off guard and captured one night while traveling across Xhorhas.

Caleb stalls for time.

Caleb, getting tortured: *deep sigh* You're doing it wrong...

put them together and you can hear it (it's the song everyone knows) by elsinorerose, T, 4k, Widojest getting together

"So go on. Convince me."

He catches his breath. "Convince you?"

"Yeah, give me one good reason."

"One good — I can give you twenty good reasons."

"Oh yeah?" Jester says, raising her eyebrows, like she's just so surprised, like she's ready to be so convinced, you guys. "Okay. Go ahead then."

"Go ahead and…?"

"Give me twenty. If you can give me twenty good reasons why we shouldn't be together, you win."

Fluff and Angstttt

we all need someone to hold by QueenWithABeeThrone, T, 5k, Widomauk

The moon is shining bright above them, and in the moonlight Caleb almost seems to glow.

I don’t know if I can let this go, Molly thinks, and it’s a sharp, sobering thought.

or: Molly catches up with the Mighty Nein and pines after Caleb, the latter of which was a lot easier before he died. now things are a little more complicated.

okay okay the part where Caleb tries to pet the hallucinated cat lives in my head rent free

Snow angel by DefaultJane, T, 7k, pre relationship Beauyasha

Yasha and Beau have time to kill and decide to take a moment to experience what is marketed to them as the “authentic sauna experience” by the eccentric woman they meet at Balenpost, said experience including hanging out naked, washing each other’s hair, talking and laughing late into the night...You know, just gals being pals.

yeah, what the summary said

Super Secret Sex Handshakes by Somebodys_Hermione, T, 1k, background Beauyasha and Fjorester

Yasha and Jester keep running into each other at 3am sneaking out of their respective partner's rooms. Like, it *keeps* happening.

Asfdfgdsfsds this is so funny.

infinity in the palm of your hand by mousecookie, T, 6k, Caleb pov

At the end of the blood-spattered Aeorian hall, the Mighty Nein find a rusted iron door.  

They also find Essek.

uhh AU where *gasp* Essek is in Eiselcross too..! But like written before we knew Essek was in Eiselcross too. Anyway, remember all those Dynasty explorers Lucien murdered?... Hurt/comfort.

won't leave you behind in the void by essektheylyss (midnightindigo), T, 2k, Essek pov

If there is anything worse than losing all sensation and movement, it might be losing all sensation and movement while entirely untethered, floating in the aorta of a flesh city.

I've reread this... so many times. I simply like the vibes.

#good stuff here.. #not that I'd rec you something that wasn't #m9 #critical role #fic recs #the mighty nein #my post

[warynerd]

Destiel Month 2021 Wrap-up

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This event was fun, loved the prompts.

I had less traction on my stories with this event than the last event I did, but that didn���t take away from my enjoyment.

I tried to do both possible prompts when I could figure out a way to do so in a drabble. (Although, I did cheat and do a couple double drabbles. 😛)

Enjoy. o/ (Or don’t. All good. 😉)

Day 1: Fantasy AU & Gunpowder

a beautiful day, destiel, t, 100w ◌ This is a wake-up call Dean could get used to.

Day 2: Sports AU & Pet

Cas, Miracle. Miracle, Cas, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Cas meets a new family member

Day 3: 5 times + 1 time & Halo

I Can See Your Halo, destiel, t, 100w ◌ The cartoons aren’t wrong.

Day 4: Sharing A Bed & Scars

Do I need to wear a sign?, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Castiel thinks he’s been perfectly obvious, but Dean never makes a move – time for a different approach.

Day 5: Domestic & Y Yo A Ti, Cas

My Happiness is With You, destiel, g, 100w ◌ A quiet moment between the happy couple.

Day 6: Body Swap & Camping

Forest Quiet, destiel, t, 100w ◌ The camping trip gets rocky then turns rockin’.

Day 7: POV Outsider & Pride

Didn't Need This Today, destiel, g, 100w ◌ Slurpy is impossible to clean, Sandi wants needs Cas’ number.

Day 8: Sick Fic & Morning

Going To Be A Long Day, destiel, t, 200w ◌ Today’s not going as planned.

Day 9: Sex Pollen & Road Trip

A New Beginning, destiel, t, 200w ◌ They were supposed to be on the road ten minutes ago.

Day 10: Fluff & Whiskey

By Your Side, destiel, t, 100w Fluff & Angst, Cas POV ◌ Castiel thinks he knows where his happiness lies.

Day 11: Hero/Villain & Garden

Outside in the Garden, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Dean’s enjoying the view; Cas gardens.

Day 12: Time Travel & Cuddling

Hi! I’m Jack., destiel, t, 200w ◌ An unexpected visitor gives them all hope.

Day 13: Single Parent & Lake

Maybe We Can Share, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Dean’s getaway weekend hits a snag. He really doesn’t mind.

Day 14: Historical AU & Empty

Love Forge, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Dean’s used to waking early for the workshop, Cas is still struggling.

Day 15: Enemies to Lovers & Gentle

Not Exactly Good Omens, destiel, t, 100w ◌ After all these years, it’s time.

Day 16: Sam Knows & Feather

Who do you think you’re fooling?, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Rule number three of siblingship, take every opportunity given.

Day 17: Merfolk & Amnesia

Down Where It's Wetter, destiel, t, 200w ◌ Dean saves Jack from a spot of trouble and ends up with his own.

Day 18: Human AU & Baby

A Family of One’s Own, destiel, t, 200w ◌ It all started on a hunt without his dad, now look where he is.

Day 19: Fix-It & Dancing

Don’t Want to Miss A Thing, destiel, t, 100w ◌ They’d won.

Day 20: A/B/O & Flirting

Is that a flirtation?, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Cas has been trying for months, it’s not working.

Day 21: Humor/Crack & Wings

Nobody Has to Know, destiel, t, 100w ◌ He can’t have heard that right.

Day 22: Reincarnation & Freckles

Together Again, destiel, g, 100w ◌ From carriages to spells, Dean’s always saved him.

Day 23: Friends to Lovers & Music

Modern Love Letter, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Dean gives a very special gift to Castiel. Cas is just returning the favour.

Day 24: Sci-Fi AU & Food

Space Pie Surprise, destiel, g, 100w ◌ Dean makes a special treat.

Day 25: Coffee Shop AU & Holidays

Happiness Is Overwhelming, destiel, g, 100w ◌ Castiel always finds a way to surprise Dean, not that he’s complaining.

Day 26: Movie Night & Bunker

Welcome to the party, pal!, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Dean prepares the Dean Cave for their date night movie

Day 27: Murder Husbands & Tattoo

Filling in the Missing Pieces, destiel, m, 100w ◌ Castiel needs to more feathers to fill his wings. Dean’s eager to help.

Day 28: Couples Therapy & Karaoke

I will be waiting, destiel, t, 100w ◌ Communication is hard. They’re working on it.

Day 29: Royalty AU & Nightmare

Do Not Fear, destiel, t, 200w ◌ Jack has a nightmare.

Day 30: Hurt/Comfort & Anniversary

Promises Kept, destiel, t, 100w ◌ After celebrating their first year together, Dean’s tired, but not too tired for Cas.

#writing list

[its-ashleyreads]

Finished: 22/07/2020

Christmas Under the Stars by Karen Swan

Rating:  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Summary:

For best friends Mitch, Meg, Lucy and Tuck, life couldn’t be better than it is in their hometown of Banff, Alberta. Meg and Mitch are about to be married, Mitch and Tuck have a thriving snowboard business, Lucy is expecting her first child, but all that changes during a winter storm that leaves one of them dead. Suddenly everything that once seemed so perfect is thrown into a new light. Relationships are destroyed, dreams dashed, and nothing will ever be the same again. But at least with all that darkness it’s easier to see the stars.

Review:

This book was dramatic as fuck. Every time I thought it had reached the peak of ‘shocking revelations’ another one was unearthed. But somehow most of the characters never really seem to deal with them. There were so many secrets revealed within the last 50 pages or so and the author didn’t give them a chance to sink in which made it all just seem a bit pointless. The story was interesting, I love the idea of one death in the friend group throwing everything into turmoil, but that premise didn’t really work for me in this instance because the author couldn’t choose between telling the story from just Meg’s perspective or the perspectives of other characters as well. I think for this type of idea to work she should have written either entirely from Meg’s point of view or given equal weight to Lucy and Tuck’s experiences. As a reader, it felt like Swan didn’t give a shit about any characters other than Meg and Jonas. Every chapter from Lucy’s perspective seemed to be writing her off as crazy, she hardly mentioned or grieved about Mitch at all, and there were very few chapters from Tuck’s point of view, when he was the second most important person in Mitch’s life.

I really enjoyed Meg as a character, and I thought she was super well rounded and complex. I like that she didn’t grieve for Mitch in that stereotypical way of just crying and screaming, because grieving is so different for everyone and there doesn’t seem to be too much representation of people just kind of, getting on with things after someone they love dies (at least from what I’ve read). I loved how independent she was and how everyone wanted to treat her like a wounded animal, but she was like ‘fuck that’ and fought off a bear instead. Like a literal bear. Female protagonists in books are typically shown to be either shy and meek, or strong and outgoing, but Meg was the perfect blend of both. That being said, the one part that I really didn’t like her in was when she went to dinner with her sister, and that stranger, Hap, grabbed her ass and then she was really apologetic about ‘overreacting’ and ‘ruining the night’ after she’d gotten herself out of that situation. Like, dude, a strange man grabbed you ass and it made you uncomfortable, so you left. That is exactly what you should have done! But instead of making that a teaching moment about sexual harassment, Swan had Meg go out with and then have sex with the creep. Go feminism!

Lucy on the other hand was so poorly developed I had to stop reading twice just to rant to myself about how much more compelling she could have been. Lucy starts off as the seemingly shy and meek archetype but by the end, had only one personality trait: crazy. Every wrong thing that happens in the entire book is pretty much just blamed on Lucy, and yeah, Lucy sucks but making her the real reason behind Mitch’s death and making him her baby’s daddy was just lazy. The fact that the tourists were back before Mitch went out to save them was dumb, the fact that Swan tried to play off Mitch’s death like a murder, also very dumb, but the dumbest thing by far was that Lucy somehow orchestrated his death. I understood, and even liked, that it was written that she was abusing Tuck and not the other way around. Female – male domestic violence is only ever taken seriously unless it’s the woman being harmed and I like that Swan showed how even “manly” men can be abused by their female partners. I could see Lucy being prone to violence in that way, but the way I read her character I could not see her being capable of premeditated murder and then not even feeling bad about it! I mean, that’s just my interpretation, maybe other people can see it, but I just can’t. I thought it was lame and that there was a real chance to build a complex villain out of Lucy but it was quashed by just making her irredeemably evil and then at the end of it all just saying, ‘she’s got PTSD, oh well!’

Tuck was another character that I felt just had so much more in him. We got a few snippets of his inner turmoil and I really wish that we got to see more. I couldn’t imagine losing someone that was essentially a brother and best friend combo. They grew up together, ran a business together, did everything together! Tuck’s grief should have been more prominent, especially since every time he was mentioned from Meg’s POV he was demonised. And let’s be clear, he was a douchebag, but he was a douchebag who deserved to be understood.

The love story portion of the book was completely adorable, and I was rooting for Jonas and Meg from the moment Mitch died. Jonas was so sweet and kind and respected Meg’s boundaries! (Wow the bar is literally so low) Like, obviously their meet-cute, if you can even call it that, was a bit out there (literally), but I didn’t even care because meeting a hot astronaut over radio is now one of my ultimate fantasies. I loved how Meg seemed so conflicted about letting herself fall for someone else so soon after Mitch, and how she kept having to fight with how she was grieving vs. how everyone else wanted her to grieve. Even throughout the story I kept catching myself judging her for “moving on too fast,” which makes me a huge hypocrite because I used to hate when people did that to me after I lost someone I cared about. But the best things about a book is when it makes you question yourself and how you view things. And that’s what reading is all about, looking at things from other people’s perspectives. I would say writing is about that too. Slipping on someone else’s skin. Thinking how they think, speaking how they speak, living how they live.

Which brings me to my next point: Canada. The descriptions of the Canadian wilderness and the landscapes were spot on! Truly wonderful descriptions about both Toronto and Banff. But what really makes Canada, Canada, are the people. And let me tell you, a Canadian would NEVER call a goalie a “keeper”??? We’re not at Hogwarts, pal! Throughout the book Swan consistently used English terms for things, which I gave a pass when she was speaking from Meg’s perspective, Lucy on the other hand was Canadian born and bred. She would never have called a stroller a ‘pram’ or a vacuum a ‘hoover’ or Alberta a fucking ‘state’! When thinking logically, I know that these are very dumb things to be mad about, but I’m a Canadian woman living in the UK and the language over here is vastly different from the language back in Canada and I don’t know, maybe I feel like it’s a bit of a misrepresentation of Canadian culture and phrasing, or maybe I just like to be outraged over trivial things. Who knows? Sure as fuck not me.

Overall though I liked this book. It wasn’t great or terrible, it was just ok. I had trouble rating this book at first because I felt like it could only either be 2 or 4 stars. I still don’t really feel like 3 stars suits it but it’s the only number between 2 and 4 so I guess it must be.

 Also: There is literally no Christmas in the entire book. It gets mentioned near the end but that’s it.

#Christmas Under the Stars #christmas read #christmas romance #Karen Swan #fiction #romance #contemporary romance #contemporary fiction #chicklit #womens fiction #Ashley reviews #3/5

[nightmareonfilmstreet]

Your Friend Till the End: All of the CHUCKY Films Ranked From Best to Worst

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Your Friend Till the End: All of the CHUCKY Films Ranked From Best to Worst

The latest Chucky movie, Cult of Chucky, has been released to the horror delight of the killer doll’s many, many fans. It’s been a long road to get to seven movies. While it’s natural for any long running film series to experiment and change tones from one chapter to another, it’s hard to think another that has evolved as much as Child’s Play.

So, how successful has the Child’s Play/Chucky series been through the decades in adapting itself to the times and garnering fans across generations? To find out, let’s rank and analyze the series from the original trilogy; Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, and Curse of Chucky, and expand outward as we look from the Best of Chucky to his very worst…

  6) Seed of Chucky (2004)

It’s time for a lesson in the unintended consequence of unprotected doll sex. More than that though, Seed of Chucky is a lesson about how you can sometimes take the joke too far. Seemingly drunk with success following Bride, writer/director Don Mancini leaned hard into the changes he made to the series: more jokes and more winks to the audience to make sure they were in on those jokes.

So where did it go so horribly wrong? Like a lot of entries in long-running series, Chucky seemed to forget what it was all about, and tried to be about everything. Suddenly, this series was a Hollywood satire as the “I.R.L.” Jennifer Tilly is starring in some kind of film based on the in-movie murder spree/urban legend of the Chucky and Tiffany dolls. It’s also a family sitcom about Chucky and Tiffany reuniting with their child, Glen, and trying to be a “normal” non-murderous family with hilarious, counter-productive results.

Glen is possibly the best part of the film. A kind-hearted Pinocchio figure with the voice of Billy Boyd, Glen is tortured and enslaved as a ventriloquist dummy named “Shithead” until he sees his parents on TV and makes a break for it. Glen doesn’t want to kill, he can’t even swat a fly, but Glenda, you see, can. Yes, in a painful homage to Edward D. Wood Jr., Glen has split-personality as the female Glenda, who is every inch the homicidal maniac her parents are.

The new family dynamic might have given the Chucky series some new bite. Instead, we get cheap pot shots at Britney Spears, which now, given her practical disappearance from the pop culture landscape, seems tired and petty. At least Chucky didn’t end up the same way.

  5) Child’s Play 3 (1991)

First of all, Justin Whalin does not look like an older version of Alex Vincent. This must be said right away. While, Vincent had a quiet innocence, which, admittedly, was helped by his young age, Whalin looks like one of those early 90s surfer dudes who’s well-tanned, well-coiffed, and too dim to be convincing as a kid that’s seen too many horrors to count. Even Chucky’s bored with Andy in this one.

If the script and story suffer, it’s because Don Mancini was put to work writing part 3 almost immediate after part 2. The studio, evidently feeling that they struck horror gold with the second outing, wanted to strike while the iron was hot. Picking up several years after part 2, Andy’s status as a problem child sends him to a military academy where he encounters the usual suspects: sociopathic upper classmen, his cowardly roommate, the saucy hot chick, and Tyler, a kind-hearted boy who Chucky plans on body-napping. Or, as the doll himself puts it, “Chucky’s gonna be a bro!”

If that casual racism isn’t a turn-off, then you will likely make it to the end of the movie which takes place at, of all places, a carnival funhouse, one of the most over-used horror movie settings for a climactic final battle against the killer. On top of that, Andrew Robinson is here after bouts with both Pumpkinseed and Pinhead. He plays the maniacal barber that walks though the cafeteria measuring the boys’ cuts to make sure they’re regulation. Don’t worry, he’s only slightly pervy.

There are occasional moments of inspiration, particularly Chucky’s first kill of the movie, which is the teasing tortuous murder of the CEO of Play Pal Toys. Otherwise though, this Child’s Play felt, well, played out. Something pretty drastic would have to be done if the series was to progress further, which, obviously it did.

  4) Child’s Play (1988)

Submitted for your approval: a killer on the run from the cops who hides in a toy store. Shot twice and on the verge of death, he uses voodoo and a powerful amulet to transfer his soul into the only, remotely human thing available: a Good Guy doll. Charles Lee Ray passes from infamy into legend when he awakens as Chucky, a living doll that becomes a pox on the life of 6-year-old Andy Barclay after a birthday the kid will never forget.

Now “killer doll” is a pretty serviceable concept, even if the effects work of the time seems to generally let down the film, but what really drags on the original Child’s Play is the police investigation. The humourless cop played by Chris Sarandon does exactly what he needs to do, dig into the exposition and get to the bottom of Ray’s dalliances with the mystic arts. This isn’t Criminal Minds though, and we don’t need to get into the mechanics of how Chucky does what he does. It’s also fairly certain that Mancini’s research into voodoo practices, if any was done, was specious at best.

And the movie is far too straight given the concept. Is it a police drama? Is it a slasher movie? Is it a Twilight Zone episode? Even Chucky holds back having apparently not yet achieved at this point his masters in punning, although he does tell Andy at one point that, “This is the end, friend,” a spin on the Good Guy catchphrase. This original Child’s Play shows some signs of inventiveness, but it’s really not sure what tone it wants to take. Many times it feels like the movie is stopping to ask the audience: “Are you guys sure you’re buying this?”

It’s a solid beginning though, and it laid out a lot of ideas that the sequels were able to follow-up on. It also taught us a valuable lesson: no matter how desperate you are, it’s never okay to buy a doll off a bum in the alley behind your work.

  3) Bride of Chucky (1998)

As proof of just how deeply Scream changed the horror game, look at Bride of Chucky. It took a solid, serviceable horror film series about a scary doll, and turned it into a self-referential Bonnie and Clyde story that was goofy as well as gory. The change seemed to suit the Chucky series, so did the evil doll’s new Frankenstein-like stitches, and Bride became the most successful of the Child’s Play films.

Jennifer Tilly, then best known for her role in the highly-acclaimed Bound and an Academy Award nomination in the same year for Bullets Over Broadway, plays Chucky’s long-lost girlfriend Tiffany. Through a series of hilarious and disturbing misunderstandings, she ends up in a doll too, which leads to an inexplicable road trip cross-country featuring a pre-Grey’s Anatomy Katherine Heigl and John Ritter as her none-too-subtly inappropriate uncle. As of this film, Andy Barclay gets to safely go about his life. For now…

It’s a tribute to Don Mancini’s creation that he’s able to contort it, make it bend over backwards, and turned it from something that took itself seriously with humour into a wisecracking romp with serious moments that gross you out. Hong Kong director Ronny Yu, with his second English-language film, manages to find the right balance of tone. If you can smoothly segue from the grisly death of a couple with mirror shards impaling them on a water bed to gratuitous doll sex then you clearly know what you’re doing with this material.

Of course, balance is tricky. And that’s probably why the sequel that followed went a little too overboard with the self-referential commentary.

  2) Curse of Chucky (2013)

After a nine-year break, Chucky returned to the screen, and returned to his roots. Shirking the combination of yucks and over-the-top violence that drove the previous two entries, writer/director Don Mancini went back to straight horror: low budget with more emphasis on atmosphere and character. Missing, for the most part, is the over-the-top, joke-a-minute Chucky and his growing possessed doll family who are painfully aware they live in a horror movie world.

However, Curse did add another metatextual element, the casting of Fiona Dourif as Nica, the new final girl who just so happens to be the real-life daughter of Chucky portrayer Brad Dourif. In Curse, we learn the back story of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, and how he came to be on the run from the police at the beginning of the first Child’s Play. He kidnapped Nica’s pregnant mother after killing her father in an effort to create his own happy family. When the police arrived, Charles stabbed Nica in utero and created the disability that’s hobbled her since her birth. Incidentally, did Mancini write this script as family therapy?

In the franchise’s first direct-to-video effort, Mancini uses his limit monetary means to his advantage, setting the stage in an old home on a dark and stormy night for a classic gothic flavour while withholding Chucky’s full-blown living doll presence for nearly half the movie. POV shots, quick glimpses, and the sounds of small doll shoes scuttling across the floor are all that’s there to remind you that the doll is deadly, that is until Chucky finally reveals himself to Nica’s doubting sister, Barb (Danielle Bisutti).

And lest you think he completely re-conned the series, Mancini loads the film with a lot of Easter eggs and surprises, as well as a couple of welcome returns.

  1) Child’s Play 2 (1990)

Like a TV series that finds its centre after a difficult pilot, Child’s Play 2 managed to expand on the original and more fully capture the spirit that the first film was going for. Alex Vincent returned as Andy Barclay, and Brad Dourif was again the man behind Chucky, but everything else here was new and improved as both the stakes and the action got bigger. In other words, Chucky found his voice.

Even though it was the 90s at this point, the 80s theme of cold, heartless capitalism hovers in the background of this movie. The evil Play Pal toy company wants the bad publicity to go away, so they rebuild the possessed Good Guy doll to test it for defects. They find none, so all’s well, right? Andy, meanwhile, is in care because his mom won’t shut up about the evil doll that tried to kill her and her son; the police got the memo though, and to them there’s no such thing as an evil doll. But just when Andy thinks he’s safe, said evil doll finds him again, and no one will believe him that this “Good Guy” has the soul of a depraved killer named Chucky within it.

Smartly, series writer Don Mancini refocuses the story to reflect your typical cat-and-mouse game of most slasher films, and casts off the voodoo hokum and police drama. Suspense is used more smartly since we don’t have to build up to the reveal of Chucky as a killer doll, and the story teases us with anticipation waiting for Chucky to spring to life and kill again. The film’s climax, which takes place in the Play Pal toy factory where the Good Guys are made, is almost Hitchcockian with an assembly line ready to kill in a number of horrible ways, and maze after maze of boxed Good Guy dolls for Andy and his foster sister Kyle (Christine Elise) to run through.

On top of that, Dourif really finds himself as Chucky. It’s as if between parts 1 and 2 the actor said, “Hey, I’m a killer doll! Let’s have fun with this!!,” and he does. Child’s Play 2 is where Chucky takes its place next to other iconic horror villains, and it’s rightfully earned by the time the credits roll.

  But, where does the new film fit in all of this? That’s up to you! Read our review on Cult of Chucky and check it out now; the film is currently available to stream on Netflix.

#alex vincent #Brad Dourif #bride of chucky #Child's Play #Child's Play 2 #Child's Play 3 #child's play movies best to worst #child's play ranked #chucky movies best to worst #chucky movies ranked #curse of chucky #seed of chucky