#╭ ⁞ ❏. narrations / henry clay.

[historiavn]

MUTUALS ONLY. All muses may reply!

“And who might you be?” Henry asks, tilting his head as he studies the stranger standing before him. “I know just about every soul here in Washington, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you around before.”

[rmstitanics]

List 5 topics you could talk about for an hour without preparing any material.

With Malice Toward None: a Musical of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. I’ve been developing this musical since summer 2020. With Malice Toward None focuses on exploring the mental health struggles that Lincoln experienced during his presidency. The musical is narrated by Robert Todd Lincoln, who recalls the storyline’s events with complete omniscience while at the 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedication. Relevant themes for the show include mental health, public history, teams that become brotherhoods, compassion, the stages of grief, leadership, and a bunch of other concepts that I’ll probably end up yapping about on here at some point. Orchestrally, the show can be described as “if Les Misérables, Hello Dolly, and Evita decided to have a threesome in my brain”.

all of my original characters. seriously. I have SO MANY OF THEM that I’ve developed over the years, mostly for historical fiction. 😭 the ones that are living rent free in my head the most right now are Anastasia Andrews-Ismay (the human personification of the Titanic), Lieutenant General Ethan Clay, and Dr. Constance Pierpont Morgan. Honorable mention goes to my Star Wars OC Shi’al Valorum 💅 if any of these muses seem familiar to you then we’ve probably either been in a discord server together or you’ve somehow stumbled across one of my roleplay blogs.

the rms titanic. literally EVERYTHING about this ship and her sinking is my Roman Empire. I’m particularly fond of yapping about Captain Smith, Thomas Andrews, Wallace Hartley, William Pirrie, J.P. Morgan, or any of the officers — but if you get me talking about the vilification of Bruce Ismay by the sensationalist yellow press in the aftermath of the sinking, then I WILL NEVER SHUT UP.

star wars. my first exposure to the Star Wars franchise was when I was a sophomore in high school and I got to see a screening of A New Hope where the soundtrack was played by a live orchestra. suffice to say, this altered my brain chemistry and I’ve never been the same since. I’m a Prequels girlie and Jedi apologist to my CORE; my favorite characters are probably Yoda, Dooku, Mace Windu, and Bail Organa.

film and tv soundtracks. …the fact that I once did a TWENTY FIVE MINUTE LONG presentation on the film score for Titanic (1997) should tell you everything that you need to know about this silly fixation of mine.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ghost hunting, tarot cards, classical music, Taylor Swift, creative liberties taken by Lin Manuel Miranda for Hamilton, historical fiction as a genre in an era where media literacy is on the decline, Antebellum America, the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster), the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and public history.

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[historiavn]

“You wouldn’t be imposing at all, son — you never do.” Henry reassures Nate, offering the boy a smile. “I’m always happy to be your sanctuary from that godforsaken man, who should never have taken up residence in the Executive Mansion at all.” LOATHING creeps into his voice as he speaks of Jackson, but then he lets out a sigh and shakes his head. Henry is not an angry man in any sense of the word, but even the mere act of THINKING about Andrew Jackson makes his blood BOIL. Oh, how he HATES that obnoxious, uncouth, divisive devill!

“But enough about him; I’d rather that Jackson refrain from occupying more of my mind than he needs to, especially after hours.” Henry adds, waving his hand in a dismissive way. “Unless there are other matters which require your attention, we ought to head back to my residence before the sun sets.”

╰► @audaciiae

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Tombstone Territory - Gunslinger from Galeyville - ABC - October 16, 1957

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Andy White

Produced by Frank Pittman and Andy White

Directed by Eddie Davis

Stars:

Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister

Richard Eastham as Harris Clayton Claiborne, Editor / Narrator

Robert Foulk as Curly Bill Brocius

Brett King as Monk

Thomas Browne Henry as J. Homer Ratcliffe

Gilman Rankin as Deputy Sheriff Charlie Riggs

Carol Kelly as Mag Davis

Lee Roberts as Howie

John Cason as Lank Strayhorn

Charles Seel as Otis, Bartender

Troy Melton as McLowery

[music-history-funfacts]

Why are Grandfather Clocks Called That?

Have you ever wondered why grandfather clocks are called grandfather clocks? Probably not, but there's an interesting story behind it! Invented in the late 1600s, these clocks used to mainly be referred to as 'longcase clocks'. In 1876, however, composer Henry Clay Work published the song 'My Grandfather's Clock', and they have been called grandfather clocks ever since! The lyrics of the song are more spooky than the title may suggest! The narrator recollects their grandfather's clock and how it mysteriously stops working the moment their grandfather dies. The clock seems to be connected to the grandfather somehow, knowing about important life events like marriage (and death).

My favorite cover of this song is the one by Johnny Cash: (spotify link) (youtube link), but it's also cool to listen to older versions, like this one from 1905! (link)

If the tune sounds familiar to you, you might be a FNAF fan! 'My Grandfather's Clock' is the song used for the marionette's music box that you wind up in FNAF 2. (and also apparently in the credits of the FNAF movie... i still need to watch that lol) Honestly this song is pretty fitting to use in a horror game, since it's about death.

sources: (wikipedia) (wikipedia) (wikipedia)

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Many of Lovecraft's stories contained names of people and places lifted from those of his own family and beloved hometown of Providence, RI. The following examples were featured in his most famous tale, THE CALL OF CTHULHU: The narrator of the story has a grand-uncle named George Gammell Angell. This character is a "Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages" at Brown University Providence, RI. Of course Brown University is a real place. As to the fictional great uncle, however, Lovecraft had an Aunt with the last name Gamwell (not Gammell, but close!) His beloved childhood home was on Angell Street in Providence. Later in the story the Providence Art Club and the Fleur-de-Lys Building mentioned in the story also exist in Providence. One of the ships mentioned in TCoC is the Vigilant. There is an actual 'Vigilant Street' not far from Lovecraft's College Hill neighborhood. A second ship, The Emma is also featured in the story. There is an Emma Street in Nantucket R. I. and though it is not in the College Hill area it's likely that HPL would have known of it. Lovecraft also had another aunt with the first name Emma. Lovecraft also references the beautiful Baptist Church pictured below that stands across the street from the Providence Art Club. There are other elements of THE CALL OF CTHULHU lifted from aspects of Providence - apparently their was once an actual citizen of the town named Anthony Wilcox. Henry Anthony Wilcox - the fictional youth who fashions a figure in clay representing Great Cthulhu figures as an important character therein. (Exhibit 539)

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

A real change of pace... To cool off... Here's a hyperfixation of mine that dates waaaaay back, to when I was little...

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & FRIENDS...

I've been thinking about the show's third season (1991-92) lately, for some reason.

Season 3, as I had learned in the recent years, was filmed in two separate portions - unusual in that every season in the classic series (approximately Seasons 1-7, 1984-2003ish) was typically filmed in one go. Not Season 3, for whatever reason.

It's been speculated by some fans that a showcase of the many props in London sometime in late 1991 impacted the filming, thus newer sets were built to accommodate the last portion of episodes. Maybe something else came up. Maybe something pertaining to the Japanese special THOMAS AND THE U.K. TRIP. Who knows...

And upon knowing the season's production history, you can't unsee it...

The first portion of Season 3, first released all at once on VHS - albeit with alternate, earlier narrations from Michael Angelis - in the UK in November 1991:

vs.

The second portion, aired in the spring/summer of 1992:

I kind of look at Season 3 as the coziest one. If Season 1 had a more pastoral, simplistic look with a chuffy synthesized soundtrack, and if Season 2 had a more dirty, sooty, industrial look... Season 3 is bright, colorful, cute, just warm and cozy really. Especially the nighttime scenes, which are real standouts here. Glossy models and softer faces constructed for the engine characters, too.

The music, composed by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell, is what holds the season together - tonally, along with Angelis' narrations - or George Carlin's, if you grew up with the U.S. version like I did.

Sets in Season 3, Part 1 included the likes of Henry's Forest in addition to a lot of countryside paths, and a much more spacious beach. Knapford is the big station here, while Tidmouth is the big station in Part 2. The roundhouse interior is a real giveaway, too. Season 3, Part 2 seems a little greener, you have the the three-way set (bottom left), those big harbor buildings (top right), and the castle tunnel. Whatever the story called for, they built it: A scrapyard that Oliver escapes from, the China Clay Works, Bulgy's bridge, etc. Even without their major sets, they still made up for it with the new ones.

It's still quite cohesive and distinctively season 3, but someone like me? I notice the minute differences. You can easily tell which episode is 3A, or 3B.

Season 3 is one that I didn't have much of on VHS growing up in the late '90s/early '00s. I had seen pretty much all of them via tape volumes I rented back in the day, or through SHINING TIME STATION when it returned to air in 2000 to promote the movie. SHINING TIME, the show that essentially trojanhorsed THOMAS onto American airwaves. The VHS tapes... Particularly the volumes "Thomas Gets Bumped", "Daisy", and "Percy's Ghostly Trick". All grab-bags of episodes from the first three seasons - but they had those Season 3 episodes I often couldn't come by. They were elusive in a way because of that. Everything else I saw was via a compilation tape, like "Thomas' Christmas Party" and "10 Years of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends".

And years later, I would be surprised to learn that an episode like 'Henry's Forest' was from that period - it feels like it could be a stealth Season 2 episode, albeit a calmer and less industrial-looking one. Maybe because it was on the aforementioned Christmas tape, my brain - as a 7-year-old kid - placed it in that era. Ditto 'A Scarf for Percy'. When I got a little bit older, I was able to place - sort of aesthetically - where each episode fell. A skim through IMDb would also help. Most I could reckon were from the '80s, and the rest from the early-to-mid '90s. Even with George Carlin narrating the majority of them.

Something about those episodes hit different to me when I was little, for sure, so I have a bit of an odd soft spot for them despite how I feel about that season overall. I think SHINING TIME's aesthetics and look also helps. I watched STS whenever it was on, as a really young kid circa 1995-96ish? I would remember asking "Why do the trains have faces? But no cowcatchers?" Then it was just the Thomas stories on VHS after that. I wouldn't really check out STS again until reruns came to Nick Jr., again, to promote THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD - which Shining Time Station itself was a big part of. And yet my head links that season and STS, more so than 1 & 2. The coziness of both, the nostalgic American train station setting of STS and the comfy visuals of Season 3, just goes together quite nicely. Throw in some unrelated other things I loved back then, and that's one of my nostalgia cocktails in a way lol.

[jack-is-a-self-decided-skrunkly]

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pronouns: he/him it/it's they/them void/voids you/your candle/candles

names: jack or steven (will sign posts as jack n. or steven n. to not get confused with our alters jack and steven)

alters (in order of most active in the sys): jack/steven (n), jack (k), dave, narrator/stanley, henry, steven, william, clay, fern, c, 6, 1, fell, nightmare, papyrus, and tord

dni: if your name is jasper, raven, or grey, you're homophobic/racist/etc etc., you don't believe in nonbinary/trans people, you're right-wing

ati: if you're a Christian

fandoms: dsaf/fnaf/dsac, tsp, undertale/deltarune, eddsworld, moral orel, portal, ddlc

[rockislandadultreads]

Summer Scares: Horror Picks

Looking for a good summer scare? Look no further than this reading list! And don't forget to Level Up at Your Library this summer with our all-ages reading challenge!

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. As Christmas approaches, she plans sinister gifts for her charges, revealing her true nature.

Appeals: Unreliable narrator; Unputdownable; Suspenseful

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS - a space-based condition most famous for a case that resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. When she's assigned to a small exploration crew, she's eager to make a difference. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something.

Appeals: Intricately plotted; Gruesome; World-building

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

When Noah Fairchild returns to his childhood home in Richmond to find his formerly polite Southern parents in a horrifying trance induced by far-right media, he and his young nephew must flee through a country overtaken by possessed, violent families tearing each other apart.

Appeals: Well-developed characters; Disturbing; Gruesome 

William by Mason Coile

Henry is a brilliant engineer who has achieved the breakthrough of his career - he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. Henry’s agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on his project keeps him away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily. When Lily’s coworkers show up, wanting to meet Henry and see the house, Henry decides to introduce William, and things go from strange to much worse.

Appeals: Intricately plotted; Fast-paced; Menacing

[rygoespop]

Thomas and Friends: Legends of Sodor (Story 114): Dockyard Ryan

Narrator: Dockyard Ryan

Story opens with Ryan arriving at Brendam Docks

Narrator: Following the Harwick Line going under repairs, Ryan was sent to work on Edward’s Branchline, he arrived at Brendam Docks

When Ryan arrived, Salty and Porter were surprise to see him

Salty: Ahoy there Ryan! What brings you here me hearty?

Ryan: Hello Salty! I been sent here to help you and Porter with the cars

Porter: Oh! How kind of ya Ryan! But uhhh, why are you here?

Ryan: Oh, Sir Topham Hatt has sent me here and Daisy on Thomas’s Branchline since the Harwick Line is under repairs

Salty: Yargh, is that true?

Ryan: Yes

Salty: Well, you’re more than welcome to shunt me hearty!

Ryan: Right away Captain! *blew his whistle*

Scene transitions to Ryan shunting 3 Flour Cars and 2 LNER Vans

Narrator: Soon, Ryan got to work, he spent the day shunting cars to the sidings, Salty and Porter were impressed

Salty: Yargh! Shiver me axels, he’s quite a shunter

Porter: Yeah, tell me about it!

Cranky: He’s quite the shunter

Carly: Ooh yes

Big Mickey: He knows what cars are for who

Bulstrode: Pah, at least he’s getting the job done

Ryan: Alright, where do these Tar Tankers go to?

Porter: Down to the other siding, Henry will collect them!

Ryan: Right! *blew his whistle and shunts the 7 Tar Tankers*

Salty: Yargh! Very impressive!

Ryan sees 8 Empty Trucks

Ryan: Hey, where do these trucks go?

Cranky: Oh those, they go to the Clay Pits, how about you take them

Ryan: R-really?! Well that’ll be easy!

Ryan was soon coupled up to the empty cars and puffed off to the Clay Pits

Narrator: Soon, Ryan headed to the Clay Pits with the Empty Cars

Scene transitions to Ryan arriving at the Clay Pits

Narrator: Soon, Ryan arrived at the Clay Pits with the empty cars

Ryan: Hello? Is anyone here?

Bill and Ben puff in

Bill: Why yes!

Ben: We’re here!

Ryan: Oh, hello Bill and Ben!

Bill: Why are you here on Edward’s Branchline?

Ben: Aren’t you suppose to be in Harwick?

Ryan: The Harwick Line is closed for repairs, so Daisy and I are on temporary lines until the repairs are done

Bill: Oh is that so?

Ben: Heh!

Derek oiled in

Derek: Ah Ryan! I see you brought the cars, excellent! Timothy and I will get the cars fully loaded with Clay

Ryan: Yes I did Derek, and they are ready

Derek: Excellent!

Scene transitions to Ryan arriving back at Brendam Docks

Narrator: Soon, Ryan arrived back at Brendam Docks

Ryan: I made back in time

Salty: Yargh, welcome back me hearty!

Porter: Looks like the cars have been delivered!

Ryan: Yeah, and now the Tar is set to be collected by Henry

Scene transitions to Henry arriving at the Docks, as he collected the Tar

Narrator: Soon, Henry collected the tar and hurried to George the Steamroller

Ryan: Good luck getting the tar to the workmen, Henry!

Porter: Looks like George will be satisfied

Salty; That be true me hearties!

Scene transitions to night, as Ryan slept at the shed at the docks with Salty and Porter

Narrator: That night, Ryan spend the night at the docks, he dreamt about today, and he felt proud of it

Steam clouds rolled in

Story end

[afieldofheather]

regular 1. a book with the word "leap" in the title | A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie 2. a bildungsroman book | Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire 3. a book about a 24-year-old | Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 4. a book about a writer | Kindred by Octavia E. Bulter 5. a book about K-pop | Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go by Cleo Qian 6. a book about pirates | Two Roads by Geonn Cannon 7. a book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete | The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie 8. a book by a blind or visually impaired author | The Color Purple by Alice Walker 9. a book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author | Not A Sound by Heather Gudenkauf 10. a book by a self-published author | The Seventh Bride by T Kingfisher 11. a book from a genre you typically avoid | In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire 12. a book from an animal's POV | Cold Clay by Juneau Black 13. a book originally published under a pen name | Twilight Falls by Juneau Black 14. a book recommended by a bookseller | The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie 15. a book recommended by a librarian | Murder Road by Simone St James 16. a book set 24 years before you were born | When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton 17. a book set in a travel destination on your bucket list | In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire 18. a book set in space | Behind Enemy Lines by Sally Malcolm 19. a book set in the future | Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire 20. a book set in the snow | Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher 21. a book that came out in a year that ends with "24" | Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire 22. a book that centers on video games | Homeworlds by Sally Malcolm 23. a book that features dragons | His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik 24. a book that takes place over the course of 24 hours | Orbital by Samantha Harvey 25. a book that was published 24 years ago (2000) | P is for Peril by Sue Grafton 26. a book that was turned into a musical | Mary Poppins by PL Travers 27. a book where someone dies in the first chapter | 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 28. a book with a main character who's 42 years old | None of this is True by Lisa Jewell 29. a book with a neurodivergent main character | Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire 30. a book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary | Points of Origin by Sally Malcolm 31. a book with a title that is a complete sentence | A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie 32. a book with an enemies to lovers plot | Violet in Bloom by Julia Quinn 33. a book with an unreliable narrator | The Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins 34. a book with at least 3 POVs | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker 35. a book with magical realism | Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire 36. a book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person | The Four Million by O Henry 37. a book written during NaNoWriMo | Shady Hollow by Juneau Black 38. a cozy fantasy book | Mirror Lake by Juneau Black 39. a fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author | A Quiet Afternoon by Grace Seybold 40. a horror book by a BIPOC author | The Cutting Season by Attica Locke 41. a memoir that explores queerness | How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler 42. a nonfiction book about Indigenous people | Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 43. a second-chance romance | Something Wilder by Christina Lauren 44. an autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll | Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage by Tori Amos 45. an LGBTQ+ romance novel | Female of the Species by Geonn Cannon

advanced 1. a book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours | Thornhedge by T Kingfisher 2. a book with 24 letters in the title | Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire 3. a collection of at least 24 poems | the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur 4. the 24th book of an author | Rolling in the Deep by Seanan McGuire 5. a book that starts with the letter "X" | X by Sue Grafton

completed | May 11, 2024

[historiavn]

Celeste Franklin (Revolutionary War Historical Fiction) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Megan Follows

America's patriarchal society would have proved otherwise, but nevertheless, CELESTE FRANKLIN still managed to leave her mark on the world. In her youth, she earned recognition as the apprentice of her father, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and acquired international fame upon beginning an opera career in Paris. During the American Revolution, Celeste served as a double agent within Benjamin Tallmadge's Culper Spy Ring, maintaining a façade of loyalty to Great Britain whilst feeding the information garnered from this endeavor to Major Tallmadge and General Washington.

Ethan Clay (Civil War Historical Fiction) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Henry Cavill

Born with the name ETHAN RICHARD HENRY LEE, Ethan was the younger brother of Robert Edward Lee, future commanding general of the Confederacy. A vast array of circumstances - including the foundations of intense Abolitionist moral convictions - prompted Ethan to run away from Stratford Hall at a young age, and so, the youngest Lee child was percieved dead. Shedding the surname Lee, Ethan was taken under the wing of Henry Clay, who gave the boy a family and patronage to West Point Military Academy. He then experienced numerous military successes which placed him in prime position to become one of the Union Army's leading generals during the Civil War.

Dr. Constance Morgan (Titanic Historical Fiction) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Vera Farminga

DR. CONSTANCE PIERPONT MORGAN was an iconic force of nature who broke the glass ceiling by aiding her father, J.P. Morgan, in constructing his financial empire. Possessing mental faculties which deemed her a "human calculator", Constance became a beloved mathematics professor at Columbia University, where she taught whilst balancing a career as the co-owner of her father's monopolized business, J.P. Morgan & Co. Despite Constance's status as a "Robber Baroness", she strove to provide checks and balances regarding corruption amongst society's elite, and published several whistleblower works categorized today as "yellow journalism". She perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Anastasia Andrews-Ismay (Titanic Historical Fiction) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Adelaide Kane

Conceptualized by the gods as a WARNING to Thomas Andrews Jr. that his ship was meant to be remembered within the annuls of human history, the being known to man as ANASTASIA ANDREWS-ISMAY is the living, breathing humanization of history's most infamous maritime vessel, the RMS TITANIC. As the Titanic's human embodiment, it is Anastasia's duty to protect both the ship itself and her passengers; however, the aforementioned ship's tragic sinking during her maiden voyage renders this endeavor a failure. Consequently, Anastasia loses her immortality, and thus must learn to live life as a mortal woman.

Emmeline Eisenhower (Second World War Fiction) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Hayley Atwell

EMMELINE EISENHOWER, the eldest child of the famed Second World War general by the same surname, broke the glass ceiling as a prominent activist and journalist during the Great Depression and Second World War. Although not allowed to handle copy, Emmeline still submitted information to the New York Times regarding domestic political developments, providing the American people a unique glimpse at the nation's inner workings. She spent the duration of the Second World War in England, where her genuine merit and familial background collided to grant her the opportunity to work for Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Justine Javert (Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Keira Knightley

If Inspector Javert is the personification of the law within the narrative of Les Misérables, then his daughter JUSTINE is the personification of ethics and morality. Relatively sheltered for the majority of her youth, the curious woman spends her teenage years winning over the hearts of Paris's common folk, for whom she frequently performs charitable acts despite her father's protests. During the June Rebellion of 1832, Justine works to spread revolutionary rhetoric through publishing poems, fictional stories, and other written works in local newspapers under the penname "Joan of Arc". After her father's demise, Justine acquires refuge, residence, and some semblance of familial support at the Opera Populaire, where she joins the Ballet Corps.

Cassandra Fatesworth (Bridgerton) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Faceclaim

The sole heiress of a prominent family in the ‘Ton, Cassandra is the pride and joy of her family — and yet, holds within her a debilitating secret. Born blessed with the psychic gifts of CLAIRVOYANCE and MEDIUMSHIP, Cassandra must learn to grapple with these gifts during a time where they are widely stigmatized, and conceal them from the public lest she bring scandal upon her widower father. Cassandra is regarded favorably by her peers, despite her reputation as a “most peculiar wallflower” and her uncanny intuitive perception capable of seeing behind even the most well crafted façades.

Ophelia Chronsturn (Fandomless) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Jenna Coleman

It is no secret that Fate is a cruel mistress, and no living soul knows this fact better than OPHELIA CHRONSTURN. By day, Ophelia is an archivist at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in Washington D.C.; however, by night, she is forced to bear the weight of an ANCIENT CURSE placed upon her family line long before her birth. Instead of DREAMING, Ophelia spends her slumber TRAVELING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME.

Theodosia Davy, the HMS Terror (AMC’S The Terror) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Keira Knightley

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS.

Sarah Phillips (Liberty's Kids) INTERACTION CALL | Casted With Amybeth McNulty

Raised in Britain but born in the Thirteen Colonies, SARAH PHILLIPS has returned to her homeland on the eve of the American Revolution in search of her missing father. Upon her arrival, she takes up residence in Pennsylvania with the famed Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and subsequently begins working for his Pennsylvania Gazette. She is an unapologetic loyalist who believes that the rebelling colonies owe loyalty to the crown and King George III.

[neverformetomakelove]

ALTER INDICATORS:

Jack Kennedy (Fuzztive) - 🍊

Dave Miller (Fictive) - 🍆

Henry Miller (Fictive) - 📕

Steven Stevenson (Fictive) - ☎

Phonegingi (Fuzztive) - 🟢

Jack Skellington - 💀

Spy (Fictive) - 🔪

Medic (Fictive) - 🧪

Pyro (Fictive) - 🔥

Engineer (Fictive) - 🛠

C - 🌾

Jack (Host) - Normal text

Tord (Fuzztive) - ❤

Clay Puppington (Fictive) - 🥃

Danielle Stopframe (Fuzztive) - 🏐

Narrator (Fictive) - 🕰

1 -  1⃣

5 - <3 5⃣

6 -  6⃣

Cypher - 🌈

Salem (Fictive) - 🕴

William Afton (Fictive) - 💜

Bonnie (Fictive) - 🎸

Charles (Fictive) - 🎧

AM (Fictive) - 💻

Peter (Fictive) - ♡

John Doe (Fictive) - 👁

Triangle - 📐

Gaster (Fictive) - 👐

Nightmare Sans (Fuzztive) - 🍎

Red (Fictive) - 🌹

Dreary (Fictive) - 🥀

Omori (Fictive) - 🤕

Ruvyzvat (Fictive) - 🐻

Tankman (Fictive) - 🔫

Monster (Fuzztive) - 🍋

Tabi (Fictive) - 🩻

Sarvente (Fictive) - ⛪

Wingdings (Fictive) - 🚬

Technoblade (Factive) - 🐷

Gray (Factive) - 🍺

Grelle (Fictive) - Pictures of herself

Ciel (Fictive) - Pictures of himself

Alastor (Fictive) - 📻

2p Alastor (Fictive) - 🎙

Stolas (Fictive) - 🦉

✎_ _ⅈꪀ𝕥𝕣ꪮ ρꪮડ𝕥! ▓▒░

ೃ⁀��,, Hi! My names are Jack, William, Ruv, Yakko, Pinky, Roachy, and Dan!

ೃ⁀➷,, I use they, it, flesh, uncanny, button, red, tape, eye, corpse, blood, church, stare, neon, maim, scar, razor, frog, war, void, radio, scary, love, lover, heart, spring, bunny, snow, toon, hate, cannibal, gore, and a few others that I probably forgot as my pronouns/neos!

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[coconut-cluster]

I’ve made quite a few new friends during my first few weeks at college and one of them is absolutely hilarious bc he looks so unassuming but in the two weeks I’ve known him he’s

cursed out a passing group of frat boys for not wearing a mask

drawn a sequel to my yee-claw lobster cowboy (his was a policeman on a lobster, with a caption that informed viewers that the policeman was a paid actor)

defended waffles against pancakes like his life depended on it during a game of I Dissent that we weren’t even playing for points

waved up at another group of frat boys on a roof and yelled across the street that they were idiots for not wearing masks

argued with me about what actually defines a chair (this is dangerous bc clearly we are both willing to argue about anything and everything at all times)

sent a 6-page list of possible band names to the group chat, which included gems such as Invisible Shark, Lavacado, and Federal Mistake

also a different new friend is very passionate about history and narrated the entirety of Henry Clay and John Calhoun’s definitely romantic relationship to us at dinner last night

[femalechibiblogger]

Celebrities Who Were In ‘Fallout’ Games Part 2

1. Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman is an actor who has been in both live-action productions, and has voice animated characters such as: ‘Matt Hagen/Clayface’ in Batman: The Animated Series, ‘The Stabbington Brothers’ in Tangled, ‘Slade Wilson/Deathstroke’ in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, and ‘Xibala’ in The Book of Life. 

As for his live-action roles, Ron Perlman has played characters such as: ‘Johner’ in Alien Resurrection, ‘Dieter Reinhardt’ in Blade II, ‘Hellboy’ in the 2004 Hellboy, ‘Luther Braxton’ in The Blacklist, and ‘Clay Morrow’ on Sons of Anarchy. 

Since 1997, Ron Perlman has narrated the intros for every game in the canon Fallout game franchise. Not only has he narrated the games, but also played two characters, a trader in The Hub named ‘Butch Harris’ in Fallout 1 and the ‘Newscaster’ in Fallout 4. 

Ron Perlman is a great actor who knows how to create a serious and dramatic scene in his roles. 

2. Lynda Carter

Lynda Carter is an actress, singer, and former model who was crown Miss World USA in 1972. When her acting career took off, Lynda Carter became very well-known for her role as ‘Wonder Woman’ in the 1975 tv series. Since then, she made guest appearances in other tv shows around the time her singing career took off.

Since 2002, Lynda Carter has voice characters in video games such as: ‘Female Nords’, ‘Gormlaith Golden-Hilt’ and ‘Azura’ in the Elder Scrolls franchise. 

In Fallout 4, Lynda Carter voiced a singer in Good Neighbor named ‘Magnolia’. Magnolia spends a majority of the game singing beautiful songs for the patrons of The Third Rail and can also be helpful at times.

No matter how many years have passed, Lynda Carter continues to shine bright and has a beautiful singing voice. 

3. Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton is another singer who is best known for his performances in Las Vegas, being one of Vegas’ most famous performers since the 1970′s. Besides signing, Wayne Newton has also made guest appearances as himself in movies and tv shows such as: The Lucy Show, Vegas Vacation, Dancing With The Stars, and The Price is Right. 

In Fallout: New Vegas, Wayne Newton voices an artificial intelligence named ‘Mr. New Vegas’, who was created by RobCo CEO ‘Mr. House’ to be a radio DJ in Las Vegas. Even after 200 years, Mr. New Vegas continues to host his radio show and will talk about the actions of ‘The Courier’ as they travel through New Vegas. 

Even today, Wayne Newton continues to be one of Las Vegas��� living legends. 

4. Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell is a British actor who is most well-known for his roles as: ‘Alex DeLarge’ in Clockwork Orange, ‘Max Gunter’ in Voyage of the Damned, ‘Metallo’ in Superman: The Animated Series, ‘Bret Stiles’ in The Mentalist, and ‘Grandpa Reginald ‘Reg’ Fletcher’ in Phineas and Ferb. 

Other than live-action and animated series, Malcolm McDowell has also voiced characters in video games such as: ‘Molag Bal’ in the Elder Scrolls franchise, ‘Dr. Monty’ in Call of Duty: Black OPs III, and ‘Daedalus’ in God of War III.

In Fallout 3, Malcolm McDowell voiced the President of the Enclave, ‘John Henry Eden’, an advanced computer AI who wants the Lone Wanderer to poison the water supply with a special form of FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus), and will declare war on the Capital Wasteland if he is not destroyed. 

Malcolm McDowell continues to play such dramatic roles that amazes the audience. 

5. Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is one of the greatest voice actors of all time. He has performed many characters that we all know from our childhoods and even our adult lives, such as: ‘Winnie the Pooh’ and ‘Tigger’ in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, Ed the Hyena from The Lion King, ‘Darkwing Duck’, ‘Pete the Bulldog’ in the Mickey Mouse franchise, ‘Chief Powtan’ in Pocahontas, and ‘Lord Boxman’ in O.K. K.O! Let’s Be Heroes. 

In the first Fallout game, Jim Cummings played three different characters: A wealthy casino owner in Junktown named ‘Gizmo’, the leader of a community of Ghouls named ‘Set, and the main voice for the game’s main antagonist ‘Master’. Jim Cummings would appear again in Fallout 4, where he mainly voiced Settlers and other minor characters. 

Nevertheless, Jim Cummings is someone who as been around throughout our childhoods and continues to make both children and adults smile today.

[maxwell-grant]

Can you write about the Shadow's disfigurement ? I read that originally he was supposed to have a bandaged injured face like Darkman but that changed later

(Fan-art by Ryan Thompson)

It's a great signifier of what kind of character The Shadow is and how interesting of a figure he is in that, even a detail as innocuous as just his face has a whole sprawling history of intrigue and contradictions to talk about, not even getting into the specific features of his like the eyes and the nose, just the face. It's really great how I never run out of stuff to talk about with this character.

The true nature of The Shadow's face is an interesting oddity from the early stories that was never resolved in them, and several stories later took for a spin. It was one of the bits of information about The Shadow that Gibson reserved for rare and critical occasions, but it never really had a resolution and seemed to have been ignored when it was time to reveal Kent Allard.

Thing is, though, it was never really officially retconned, and it wasn't something you could ignore, it played a crucial role in some stories. And Gibson wasn't at all the kind of author who forgets plot points, he was fond of keeping notes and occasionally referencing his own continuity, which makes it all the more odd that a detail as important as The Shadow's real face was just not brought up again past a certain point. So here's the story of The Shadow's "real" face:

In the very first story, when Gibson was still testing the waters of what the character was going to be, he included a passage that teases a backstory for the character, as a former aviator who was scarred in the war.

"I seen The Shadow..." said Spotter eagerly. "I looked for his face. I saw nothing but a piece of white that looked like a bandage. Maybe The Shadow ain't got no face to speak of. Looked like the bandage hid somethin' in back. There was a young guy once who the crooks was afraid of -- he was a famous spy in the War, and they say he was wounded over in France -- wounded in the face. I think The Shadow is this guy come back." - The Living Shadow

In many of the following novels, even past the point where Gibson would more or less drop the idea all together, The Shadow's face is repeteadly described as "mask-like", usually when he's Cranston, something that both refers to the fact that he's masking himself as Lamont Cranston as well as Cranston's general impassive character. Throughout the character's entire run, Gibson never drops the idea of The Shadow's face being mask-like.

Cranston's eyes were almost smiling, even though his lips weren't - Dictator of Crime

The Shadow's methods of disguise are vague, but usually described as him using make-up putty on his face, using wire contraptions or wire masks, or thin sheets that he drapes over his features, and etc, it usually changes depending on the story or is all of these at once. The idea that The Shadow's true face had some kind of bigger secret was brought back a couple of stories later, when a villain unmasks The Shadow for the first time.

An arm came from the curtain. It reached forward and plucked the black hat from The Shadow's head. A low sound of amazement came from the curtain when the face of The Shadow was revealed.

"The secret of The Shadow," came the monotonous voice. "At last it is understood! The man of many faces - with no face of his own!" - The Black Master

The events of this story were brought up later in a story called Green Eyes, and four months after Green Eyes, we got The Shadow's Shadow, a novel whose resolution incorporated The Shadow's face in the finale.

Zubian's snarl became a cry of triumph as he saw The Shadow roll upon the floor. The slouch hat was carried away by the bullet. The head of the Shadow lay obscured beneath the folds of his cloak.

Zubian was aiming to fire further shots, to make sure of the Shadow's death; but he never accomplished that final purpose. An arm swept upward from the floor. Behind it came those glowing eyes; but it was not the eyes that stopped Felix Zubian. He was staring into the face of The Shadow -- not the disguised features of Lamont Cranston or Henry Arnaud -- but the visage of The Shadow himself!

What Zubian saw there; what expression on The Shadow's countenance made even that fiendish villain gasp in horror; no one could ever know. For Felix Zubian knew his last moment of life in that fateful instant. His trembling finger faltered on the trigger of his gun. The Shadow's unfailing hand did not yield - The Shadow's Shadow

And then, a year after this story, we got The Black Falcon, which has the most overt usage of The Shadow's "horror" face as it's once again the secret tool that allows The Shadow to gain victory over the villain

"If you are not Cranston," he demanded. "Who are you?"

"You shall learn." The Shadow's tone was ominous. "It will be your deserved warning. For those who have seen the true face of The Shadow have never lived to recite their discovery."

The man's face was ashen. A whispered laugh came from The Shadow's lips.

Only The Shadow knew why the sight of his dread face had brought terror to this evil fiend who never before to-night had known fear.

The face of The Shadow! The face that was never seen except when disguised to represent some other countenance. Roland Ransdale had met The Shadow face to face. The Black Falcon, he who had terrorized the law, had lost all nerve when he had viewed the true visage of The Shadow!

Only brilliant eyes remained in view. Burning eyes that surveyed the gasping shape of a man who had once thought himself invincible. As the fierce crook caught the burn of The Shadow's eyes, that sight, he knew, had been his sentence of doom. His nerve had passed with that revelation."

Stooping above the body of The Black Falcon, The Shadow hovered like a monster of the night..." - The Black Falcon

The last time we'd get a mention of The Shadow's face undisguised came from The Python. After he gets attacked and falls on a river, he's rescued by a couple of fishermen, and the narration states that the Cranston make-up had been blown off.

Squarely in the center of the rowboat lay a form attired in black trousers and a bedraggled white shirt.

Most of The Shadow's make−up had survived; but his features were no longer a close resemblance of Lamont Cranston's. He was still disguised; but only in a fashion. A grotesque hollowness had come upon his hawklike countenance. To Tanker and Pete, however, The Shadow was no more than a chance swimmer exhausted in the river - The Python

For the most part, any and all references to The Shadow's face from that point onwards would only be about how he alters it when he disguises, a process that's vaguely alluded to and usually implies him using make-up or wire frames to mold his face. In The Man From Shanghai, he even switches from Henry Arnaud to Lamont Cranston in the span of a single cab ride, and apparently keeps the Cranston face underneath the Arnaud one.

Deft fingers, pressing against cheeks and lips, were molding the countenance as one might work with clay - Chain of Death

Opening the briefcase, he produced a make-up box. Surveying his countenance in a mirror, he laughed softly and began to remold his masklike features. His visage changed beneath the pressure of his finger tips - Cyro

So far, the things we'd learned about The Shadow's real face by this point were: whatever is in there is horrifying enough to terrify and even traumatize hardened criminals (even after The Black Falcon gets some nerve back, he still can't bring himself to look at The Shadow without shaking, and it ultimately kills him in a gunfight).

The first story stated it was wounded in the war, and word got out about said injury to the point even an American gangster in the 30s knows about it. However, this fact was never brought up again, and it doesn't seem like a debilitating injury, as his face is malleable to the point of being compared to clay, and he doesn't seem traumatized or upset about it, even laughing at those who see it (which raises the possibility that it wasn't a war injury at all and that's just the story that got out).

It's said to be like "a piece of white that looks like a bandage", and later it was described as something that doesn't even really constitute a face. The only parts of The Shadow's face that are consistent are his burning eyes and his hawklike visage and both of these are malleable, and the most of his facial features we ever get to see for ourselves are described as having a "grotesque hollowness" to it, which is a delightfully horrifying adjective to apply to a face.

7 years after The Living Shadow, we got The Shadow Unmasks, which established that The Shadow's real, undisguised face was that of aviator Kent Allard. There were no further mentions of there being a "horror face" in further stories. You'd think this would be it, but if you've followed me long enough, you should know by now that there is no such thing as an "end" to weird mysteries when it comes to The Shadow.

In some stories following this one, his abilities of disguise would acquire some strange aspects. He'd be able to disguise himself by actively contorting his face along with the make-up.

Steadily, carefully, he bulged the contour of his forehead; squared his jaw; added a putty−like substance to his cheeks. It required longer for The Shadow to shape his nose like Wadsford's. The Shadow faked a facial twitch that resembled Wadsford's manner. - The Radium Murders

His features squarer; more mobile. Only a slight contortion was required to give them hardness. Thus The Shadow posed as either a respectable pedestrian or a tough-faced thug, according to the places where his search has taken him. - Buried Evidence

In others, he wouldn't even need make-up at all to alter his face.

His slouch hat and his black robe slid away from him. The disguise was thrust into a hidden compartment with one swift gesture. The Shadow was now Lamont Cranston.

But a ripple passed over his mobile face. His mouth and features seemed to writhe. Without changing anything save the habitual expression of his face, Lamont Cranston also vanished.

In his place was a smiling stranger. A man whose mouth looked weak, whose expression seemed almost timid. Well−dressed, faultlessly groomed, he seemed like a harmless, good−natured citizen whose car had broken down on a lonely country road - The Crimson Phoenix

In Shadow Over Alcatraz, The Shadow is even able to even contort the rest of his body to squeeze himself through a seven-inch gap, which is physically impossible for a grown man to pass through without extreme injury

The window was about three feet high, two feet in width. It had two upright bars, dividing it into three spaces, each about seven inches across.

Thrusting one arm through the central sector, The Shadow turned his head sideways and poked it through. Bars grazed his ears; when he turned his head, they became a sort of collar. He was wedging outward, drawing his other shoulder.

Below, his hand gripped rock. The Shadow tugged. It was a tight squeeze for his body, but he seemed to elongate as he drew his chest in. His hips slid past. His tall form teetered outward.

Crime County even states that The Shadow had become adept at remodeling his face through touch alone, and I cannot find any lines in the story that mention he's using makeup.

He was remolding the features of Cranston when Sparrow looked up. It was a process that The Shadow could perform by touch alone, even in comparative darkness.

Cranston's face was not The Shadow's own; in itself it was a disguise. A spreading motion somewhat flattened the aristocratic profile; downward pressure added a bulldog effect to the jaw.

And as the magazine reached it's final stretch, we started to get mentions in story that alluded to The Shadow's "real" face, undisguised, being that of Lamont Cranston

If Jud had known that Cranston in his other life was The Shadow, he would have... A tug of The Shadow's hat brim and his own face, that of Cranston, was obscured - The White Skulls

The Shadow's eyes, yet strangely Cranston's, for this was one time The Shadow did not care to disguise them - The Whispering Eyes

Which only capped off the mystery of his real identity by bringing a loop around itself, as suddenly it seemed Kent Allard was Lamont Cranston who was Kent Allard who was The Shadow who was Lamont Cranston and so on.

So looking on it now, "disfigurement" isn't really accurate. It's how it's been utilized in some stories past the pulps, Michael Uslan's comic storylines in particular leaned more heavily into it as a war trauma for The Shadow and a dramatic backstory. I have mixed feelings on this and you could argue it's playing with some ugly and unnecessarily ableist tropes (like The Phantom of the Opera), but if you gotta give him a punchy superhero backstory, I definitely prefer that than what the movie went with. It works to emphasize a tragedy tothe character's background.

But "disfigurement" isn't really the right word for it, because we only got one mention, in the first story, that it was due to an injury, and it came from a third party who had only heard faint rumors about a guy who could have been The Shadow once. Being defined as someone who's sacrificed his identity to fight crime, it's easy to assume that The Shadow's face is horrible to look at because it was destroyed in the war which already took so much.

Maybe that's just what he'd like you to think. Maybe that's all you need to know.

Every other instance in the pulps where we got to peer into some secret of The Shadow's face, it was never played up as if it was an injury due to some dramatic past event, but rather as if it was some horrifying secret of his true self that we were only getting the barest glimpses of.

Something that's gotta be much grislier than just mangled features, if it gets hardened criminals to quake in abject fear. Something that somehow still allows him to distort his face far beyond what's humanly possible, with and without outside assistance. Something that allows his "real self" to be, at separate points in time, Kent Allard and Lamont Cranston.

Something that makes it so he can have many faces, and yet no true face of his own. The great secret of The Shadow, and one that's always going to have a different answer. One where he himself only has one thing to say about it

Those who have seen the true face of The Shadow have never lived to recite their discovery.

Y-You cannot frighten me, maniac! You are only a man!

Am I?