#bailey does a poll

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this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland (rip)

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper (rip)

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

Thomas Bilder, zookeeper—Lon Chaney Jr.

Thomas Bilder's wife—Elsa Lanchester

The Reporter from the Pall Mall Gazette—Hattie McDaniel

Patrick Hennessey M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I.—George Takei

The Cockneys from the carrier's cart—Wilkins and Wontkins

This character does not speak, but Mina is so enraptured by her she doesn't notice the nearby Dracula, so I’m including her for kicks.

[anghraine]

Okay, the previous Star Trek poll wrapped up with a close but pretty obviously inevitable victory for the Uhura/Chapel kiss ... but while I'm in the TOS trash bin, another poll concept struck me. I'll add the full quotes/episode citations below, but I wanted the people's opinion:

1— "The Immunity Syndrome"

I've noticed that about your people, doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

The context: in this episode, the Enterprise arrives in the area just in time to see, but not prevent, the deaths of 400 Vulcans on another Starfleet ship. Spock psychically experiences their deaths, and spends much of the episode quietly upset and grieving, while McCoy is just kind of a dick to him for 90% of the episode.

2— "The Galileo Seven"

MCCOY: Well, I can't say much for the circumstances, but at least it's your big chance. SPOCK: My big chance? For what, doctor? MCCOY: Command. Oh, I know you, Mr. Spock. You've never voiced it, but you've always thought that logic was the best basis on which to build command. Am I right? SPOCK: I am a logical man, doctor. MCCOY: It'll take more than logic to get us out of this. SPOCK: Perhaps, doctor, but I know of no better way to begin. I realize command does have its fascinations, even under circumstances such as these. But I neither enjoy the idea of command, nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists. And I will do whatever logically needs to be done. Excuse me.

The context: I've talked about how TOS is so often Spock vs. Microaggressions, but this episode is like... what if that were an entire episode and the bigots were really stressed, okay.

3— "The Naked Time"

My mother—I could never tell her I loved her.

An Earth woman, living on a planet where love, emotion, is bad taste.

I respected my father, our customs. I was ashamed of my Earth blood. Jim, when I feel friendship for you, I'm ashamed.

The context: a bunch of the crew contract a disease that causes their inhibitions to drop, bringing out repressed but strongly-felt emotions and/or desires. This means swashbuckling for Sulu, Riley fantasizing about ruling the ship as an Irish king, Kirk admitting to his feelings for Janice Rand that are eclipsed by his feelings for the Enterprise, etc. But Spock without inhibitions is just profoundly unhappy and, well, ashamed.

4— "The Corbomite Maneuver"

BAILEY: It's blocking the way! SPOCK: Quite unnecessary to raise your voice, Mr. Bailey. All engines stop. Sound the alert. [a little bit later] SPOCK: And when the captain arrives, he will expect a full report on— BAILEY [sharply]: The cube's range and position. I'll have it by then. Raising my voice back there doesn't mean I was scared or couldn't do my job. It means I happen to have a human thing called an adrenaline gland. SPOCK: It does sound most inconvenient, however. Have you considered having it removed? BAILEY: Very funny. SULU: You try to cross brains with Spock, he'll cut you to pieces every time.

5— "The Conscience of the King"

SPOCK: Apparently, he [Kodos] had his own theories of eugenics. MCCOY: Unfortunately, he wasn't the first. SPOCK: But he was certainly among the most ruthless, to decide arbitrarily who would survive and who would not, using his own personal standards, and then to implement his decision without mercy. Children watching their parents die. Whole families destroyed. Over four thousand people. They died quickly, without pain, but they died.

The context: this is the "Kirk is a genocide survivor" episode, in which Spock notices enough unusual behavior from Kirk to go investigating. He's horrified by what he finds, and horrified about the harm and danger to Kirk specifically, and repeatedly tries to convince McCoy of how bad the situation really is. He is also firmly on team "your memory isn't deceiving you, this guy is totally Kodos and you should launch him out the airlock."

6— "The Enemy Within"

Being split in two halves is no theory with me, doctor. I have a human half, you see, as well as an alien half, submerged, constantly at war with each other. Personal experience, doctor. I survive it because my intelligence wins over both, makes them live together. [To Kirk] Your intelligence would enable you to survive as well.

7— "Shore Leave"

SPOCK: Very well, captain. Something I did come to discuss. KIRK: Yes, Mister Spock, what is it? SPOCK: I picked this up from Dr. McCoy's log. We have a crewmember aboard who's showing signs of stress and fatigue. Reaction time down nine to twelve percent, associational reading norm minus three. KIRK: That's much too low a rating. SPOCK: He's becoming irritable and quarrelsome, yet he refuses to take rest and rehabilitation. Now, he has that right, but we've found— KIRK: A crewman's right ends where the safety of the ship begins. That man will go ashore on my orders. What's his name? SPOCK: James Kirk. Enjoy yourself, captain.

The context: Kirk is obviously exhausted and refusing to take shore leave with everyone else, despite McCoy trying to badger him into it. Spock manipulates him into it far more effectively, and is clearly smug about his success.

8— "The Squire of Gothos"

TRELANE: You do realize, don't you, that it's in deference to the captain that I brought you here? SPOCK: Affirmative. TRELANE: I don't know if I like your tone. It's most challenging. That's what you're doing, challenging me? SPOCK: I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose.

9— "A Taste of Armageddon"

SPOCK: Then the attack by Vendikar was theoretical. ANAN: Oh, no, quite real. An attack is mathematically launched. I lost my wife in the last attack. Our civilization lives. The people die, but our culture goes on. KIRK: You mean to tell me your people just walk into a disintegration machine when they're told to? ANAN: We have a high consciousness of duty, Captain. SPOCK: There is a certain scientific logic about it. ANAN: I'm glad you approve. SPOCK: I do not approve. I understand.

10— "Operation: Annihilate!"

KIRK: Sam. It is my brother. Was my brother. MCCOY: I'm sorry, Jim. The boy's unconscious, but he's still alive. KIRK: Peter? MCCOY: I'd better get the boy and his mother back to the ship. I can't do much for them down here. KIRK: Get ready to beam up. MCCOY: McCoy to Enterprise. Prepare to beam up party of four. SPOCK: Captain, I understand how you must— KIRK: Yes. Yes, Mr. Spock. You heard my sister-in-law say something about they being here. Your guess. SPOCK: Notice the ventilator, Captain.

Spock's approach to comfort tends to be figuring out some concrete or pragmatic assistance, or loyally defending someone, rather than trying to reach out in such a direct emotional way. Kirk (like Spock himself tends to be) can't really handle it and Spock immediately shifts to making himself useful throughout the episode, enduring excruciating pain, high danger, and blindness.

[svnnyd4ys]

Grey's Anatomy incorrect quotes even tho most of these characters never fully interacted with each other

Lexie: You know what bothers me? Bats. Why can bats fly? Owen: Not again! Lexie: No. Seriously, who gave them the right? They're mammals! Mammals walk on land, no exceptions. Callie: Just wait until you hear about whales. Lexie: What now?

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Mark: Pose as a team because SHIT JUST GOT REAL!

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George: On the count of three, what’s your favourite cake? George & April: One, two, three- George & April: Chocolate cake, peanut butter frosting, and chocolate chunks! Mark: Our turn, Derek! One, two, three- Mark: Vanilla! Derek: I’ve never had cake before. What is cake?

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Jackson: The first time I saw you, you stole my heart. Cristina: But I'm a kleptomaniac, so that doesn't mean anything.

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Richard: If you think I’m playing favourites, you’re wrong. I love all of you equally! Richard, earlier: I don’t care for Alex.

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Mark: I spy with my little eye something that begins with the letter “s”. Cristina: *looks over at Meredith and Addison* Cristina: Is it “sexual tension”?

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*after discussing a plan* Alex: Does anyone have any questions? April: Is this legal? Alex: Does anyone have any relevant questions?

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Callie: I hope no one lowkey hates me. Callie: Highkey hate me. Hate me with every fiber of your being. Callie: Go big or go home.

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Meredith: You’re such a dumbass (affectionate). Alex: Aww, you’re such a whore (complimentary). Mark: How are you talking like that in real life? Alex: Witchcraft (derogatory).

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Cristina: The results are in, I’m afraid you have updog… Patient: What’s updog? Cristina: Alex! Get in here, I told you I could do it!

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Kidnapper: I have your partner. Jackson: What? I don't have a partner... Kidnapper: Then who just called me a lowlife bitch and spit in my face? Jackson: Oh my god, you have Cristina.

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Jackson: So, are they your friend or... Bailey: They’re like April, but if April was ordered to be around you. Jackson: Oh, so Meredith. Bailey: Precisely!

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Callie: Unfollow me if you think the Earth is flat. Cristina: *seriously pretends to be a flat-earther to antagonize the anti-flat-earther. Owen: *neutral but makes polls to start fights, "Is the Earth flat? Let's discuss!"* Meredith: *not a flat-earther but makes "the Earth may be flat but this ass ain't" jokes for viral tweets*. Derek: *actual flat-earther.*

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Jackson: Once Cristina thanked me and I couldn’t decide between “No problem!” and “No worries!” so I yelled “No worms!” to them as they walked away.

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Meredith: Am I a good person? No. But do I try to be better every single day? Also no.

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Callie: What’s your favourite colour? Bailey: Stop asking stupid questions. Ask me something logical and mature. Callie: How many moles of sodium bicarbonate are needed to neutralise 0.8ml of sulphuric acid at STP? Bailey: My favourite colour is purple.

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April: Does everyone know their job for today? Arizona: Water the flowers. Callie: Vacuum the carpet. Meredith: Wash the dishes. Alex: Pretend to be a wolverine. April: Close enough.

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Meredith: Here’s the cold medicine you asked for. Meredith: *dumps 3 shopping bags of wine on the table* Owen: ...Thanks.

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Derek: You’re jealous. Meredith: Jealous? Derek: That’s why you were being so negative about this. Meredith: That’s absurd. I’m always negative.

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April: The first time I ever got upset in front of Meredith, they put their arms around me and it was so awkward that I had to ask them if they were hugging me or reaching for something on the shelf behind me. Meredith: I was doing both, for your information. Arizona: The first time Meredith hugged me, it was such a disaster we didn’t make eye contact for, like, a week after.

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Callie: Who would you kill out of the four of us, Arizona? Arizona: Derek, easily. Derek, laughing: What the fuck, man. Arizona: Well, Owen would be too easy. They’d probably be into it. Owen, now standing in the doorway: What the fuck, man!?

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*during a group project* Owen: *does 99% of the work* Jackson: *has no idea what’s going on* Derek: *says they’re gonna help but does not* Callie: *disappears at the very beginning and doesn’t show up again until the very end*

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Alex: Cristina won’t come out of their room! Meredith: Just tell them I said something. Alex: Like what? Meredith: Anything factually incorrect. Alex, shrugging: If you say so. Cristina, arriving moments later: Did you just say the sun is a PLANET?

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Callie: Compliment me. Alex: You have eyes. Callie: Yeah, that works.

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Arizona: That sounds super! Doesn’t that sound super, Callie? Callie: No. Arizona: I think I speak for Callie when I say it sounds really super.

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Jackson: Caffeine no longer keeps me awake while I work, so instead I have April periodically send me texts saying ‘we need to talk.’ Jackson: It gives me the right amount of adrenaline and fear I need to keep going.

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*Meredith is speaking on the phone* Meredith: Yeah, I'm with Owen. Owen: Im fucking dying- Meredith: Yep, they're okay. Owen: I have a knife in my chest! Meredith: No, they can't talk right now. They're sleeping, sorry. Owen: IM BLEEDING OUT-

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Derek, on the phone: So no head? Derek: *Throws phone and breaks skateboard*

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Arizona: I would never say that my partner is a bitch and I don’t don’t like them. That’s not true… My partner is a bitch and I like them so much!

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Lexie: If we were in prison you guys would be like my bitches.

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Alex: I was put on this earth to do one thing. Alex: Luckily I forgot what it was so I can do whatever I want.

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Owen: "What are you into?" is such a broad question, like do I reply with a TV series or choking?

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Bailey: You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon. Bailey: It's me.

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Meredith: Self-care is suppressing all your trauma until it comes back and hits you in the face with the force of 7 very large trucks.

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April: I can’t believe my birth certificate says F... April: ...How did I fail being born?

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[baileythebean]

HI HII ALL MY MOOTIES so I have recently decided I am going to be holding a ⭐️BAILEY FANART COMPETITION⭐️ !!!

You can make it any scene, any pose, any scenario that you would like! You can even draw your own ocs or canon characters in it. In a week, on September 22nd, the period for submissions will end, and I will make a poll for everyone to judge the best art!

‼️YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR YOURSELF‼️

Don’t worry about your art skills, or even participating, I’m just curious to see what you all come up with :D

Should probably mention, you can draw either Genshin Bailey OR Ramshackle Bailey - the refs for Ramshackle bailey are in my Masterpost on this blog, and Genshin Bailey’s refs are on the masterpost of @boxer-boi.

There is no limit to the amount of art you submit, and multiple pieces DOES give you a higher chance of winning! I will be making an art piece of your choice for the winner. (Within my capabilities, which we will discuss at the appropriate time.)

Reblog with your art to submit a piece!

GOOD LUCK!

Tagging mooties ⬇️

@sillyariii @averagetmntfan @schnozzlebozzle @clown-prince-of-gay @rebootgrimm

@thesilliestofallqueers @dmr-au @weirdassartist @foxnikki @candycoffinss

@nyuclearic @clockwork-freminet @lightning-jay @msmpictures

@itznotquinn @seabunnyprincess @lilacquintet @cz3rqv @aspenartzz

@vv4loe

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Tropes Draft #1: Apocalypse

Hi there! My friends @nakedmonkey, @smashingmagicklovely, @fat-fem-and-asian, and @harrietdyker played a game on Discord this week where we drafted a cast for a film based on common tropes in an apocalypse story, and now we're looking to settle a winner via poll! See short synopses of each movie under cut, but, of course, you're welcome just to vote based on vibes alone! At the end of the week, we'll reveal whose film was which.

[01.] sarah snook and ayo edebiri star in indie zombie drama ALL OF THE MEN ARE DEAD. snook plays alice, a world weary survivor trying to locate her younger sibling lachlan (liv hewson), who vanished after a fight. she rescues lost survivors brianna (ayo edebiri) and her younger sister lily (violet mcgraw), along with their dog tiger (DITTO THE DOG ! #1 on the call sheet) from a horde of zombies. In return, brianna says that she met lachlan a few weeks ago and directed them to the safe zone her mother zoya (sheryl lee ralph) leads before getting separated. she offers alice the same safety if they find their way back. despite her growing fondness for lily, alice can't shake a feeling of unease with her new companions. how does brianna know these lands so well? how did lily know alice's name? why did they leave the safe zone at all?

[02.] At Rainbow House, everyone is welcome and treated like family. At least, that’s what Eleanor Glass (Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver) and her wife Marcia (Academy Award winner Allison Janney) intended when they opened their LGBTQ youth center, which is under existential threat by the ominous corporation CTOA, headed by Maxwell Price (Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo). Now, in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, Eleanor and Marcia have made efforts to turn the center into a safe house for all those who lost everything. Alongside longtime program director Charlie (Academy Award winner Ian McKellen) and Eleanor’s street-smart protege Sunny (Emmy winner Zendaya), they work tirelessly to protect everyone - even as CTOA continues its efforts to dismantle the organization. But when Price and his daughter Ashlyn (Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega) show up seeking shelter, Eleanor and Marcia must choose between their commitment to welcoming everyone as equals and their fight with Maxwell Price. Sunny’s secret relationship with Ashlyn complicates matters further, not to mention the possibility that CTOA had more to do with this nuclear fallout than anyone could have expected. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress (Weaver), Everyone’s Inn is a bold tale about love, found family, and the secrets we keep.

[03.] The Letum Project: In a near distant future, the lethal Letum Virus that targets both the developmental and nervous systems simultaneously is turning victims into distorted, violent walking corpses, and is running rampant, dismantling societal infrastructures at a rapid pace and wreaking havoc on a global scale. A team of elite medical professionals, spearheaded by Dr. Freya Wright (Olivia Colman) and partner Dr. August Beck (Mads Mikkelsen), has been working tirelessly in an underground facility to find a cure for the past 10 months, but an unexpected death in the team brings into question what the motivation behind the project really is. Propelled by the mysterious and tragic death of her wife and fellow researcher, Allison Harris (Rebecca Hall), and the unexplained disappearance of friend and mentor, Dr. Amelia Bailey (Harriet Walker), Dr. Greta Harris (Dagmara Dominczyk) embarks on a rogue quest to find answers along with colleague and famed vascular neurologist, Gabrielle Gomez (Gina Torres). What they find above ground is a nightmarish scene; entire towns of infected people left to rot in now fenced zones, while survivors now live off of rationed food and essentials in a highly militarized state, the rich prioritized over the poor. But those aren’t the only truths Greta is forced to face. Allison and Gabrielle had been working alongside Amelia on a project they had kept from the rest of the team; a potential cure that might have been successful had Allison not found herself suddenly infected. Betrayed by the revelation, and now finding themselves hunted by Dr. Wright and Dr. Beck, Greta is left to wonder if there’s anyone left to trust. Aided only by sporadic morse code messages received through an old radio left to them by an anonymous source shortly before their escape from the facility, Greta and Gabrielle embark on a dangerous quest to find out.

[04.] Gödshead: A deadly virus has ravaged North America, leaving only sparse pockets of healthy populations behind in its wake: small towns and even smaller villages, family compounds, isolated homesteads surrounded by barbed wire fences. For years, former real estate agent Parker Kingston (Tawny Cypress) lived in such a protected home with her two daughters, the responsible Audrey (Jasmin Savoy-Brown) and the younger, far more rebellious Ryan (Amandla Stenberg), but the start of the film finds both Parker and Ryan reeling after a raider attack results in Audrey’s death and the sudden loss of their home. Grief-stricken, wounded, and utterly undone, mother and daughter must carry on anyway, taking sanctuary in a heavily walled village called Gödshead. Though their personal relationship is tumultuous, both Kingston women settle into something of a routine in the quaint village as they get to know its colorful denizens. They share a house with Dr. Hutchings (Paul Giamatti), a cantankerous but well-meaning history professor; Parker forges an intimate bond with Marnie Thompson (Samantha Sloyan), a kind if strangely fragile teacher who takes care of the village’s children while their parents work. They also get to know Mayor Willa Thompson (Frances McDormand), Marnie’s mother, whose stern but fair hand has ensured the village’s continued prosperity. But what exactly is the price of prosperity in an apocalypse? Parker and Ryan soon discover that there’s more to the village that lies beneath its seemingly peaceful surface—indeed that the trade-off for peace is a sacrifice that all citizens of Gödshead must be prepared to make. Winters are brutal in the mountains, and meat is scarce; there’s a lottery every winter in Gödshead, and everyone has a number.

[05.] The Sick: The zombie apocalypse did not end the world as we know it. Nobody knows how the infection works, who can pass it on and why, and what, exactly, it does to a person: they just know who is sick. They just know who to kill. When Claire (Romola Garai), an exhausted local news reporter, is assigned to report on Refuge, an organisation fighting to protect the hunted sick, she finds out her best friend, the good-hearted Raul (Diego Luna), has been a part of the organisation for months now, but she does not get to confront him about it before he strangely dies. Claire takes it upon herself to get his latest case, the young and funny Layla (Hunter Schafer) to safety in his honor. With the help of Raul’s boss, the eccentric Eddie (Ncuti Gatwa), they go on a cross-country journey towards the shelter built by Refuge. But on their way, Claire’s investigative tendencies can’t let go of the feeling that Eddie is hiding something, and Layla is getting sicker, worried for her companions’ safety around her. It’s a rest-stop encounter with Harper (Harriet Dyer) that gives Claire her answers and Layla the opportunity to protect her friends: a former colleague of Eddie, left to die by Eddie after getting infected, Harper, now part of a resistance organisation fighting for liberation of the sick, is out for revenge, but revenge is not as clear-cut a thing as people think. She tries to convince Layla to abandon Claire and Eddie’s shelter idea and join her, because Eddie can’t be trusted and Claire is too naive. And if Claire was not conflicted enough about the discovery, Raul’s cousin, the mysterious Mateo (Vico Ortiz), who blames Eddie for Raul’s death, is working with Harper, and tries to convince Claire to join the revolution, too, so she won’t die in it.

[wolfeyedwitch]

Idea and poll for Bailey having a Bad Time!

So I had a wonderful idea for Bailey having a no-good, horrible, terrible, very bad day.

Okay. So. If anyone remembers back waaaay at the beginning when I was first planning this out, I found a bunch of prompts for enemy-to-caretaker, basically. And asked for some prompts of my own from a couple lovely people on here. On one of the ones I asked for (since I specified a villain going to heroes for rescue), someone mentioned "hey what if the heroes weren't any better than the supervillain the villain is running from though?"

And now, forever and a day later, I'm finally finding a good use for that.

Idea: Bailey turned themself in to a group of heroes other than the one that Zera is in. These 'heroes' don't actually deserve the name, and proceed to be terrible. Zera comes in and finds out and has to pull off a rescue without tipping the 'heroes' off that it really is a rescue.

The question for you lot is: how does Zera get there? Two options:

Zera is specifically investigating this team because the team is suspected of being shady

Zera was coming to hang out and have a good time and this was NOT what they had envisioned when they were invited to the party

Cast your votes!

[relatableblorbopoll]

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 3

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Conner Bailey (The Land of Stories)

"He falls asleep in class and never hands in his work and gets bad grades but has lots of friends and a big imagination. Likes to write fantasy and science fiction (and maybe other genres as well), and bases a lot of his stories on his own adventures with his sister."

Lucy Honeychurch (A Room With A View)

"trapped in a relationship they feel obligated to maintain ? meanwhile meeting this weirdo who makes question marks out of his dinner and stuff? yeah this was so me and one point and literally helped me break up with my shitty ex. i love lucy honeychurch so much, she just wants to play dumb games with her brother and not be suffocated and live"

Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

"Let's be honest, most of us in middle school were a whiny self-centric bitches, and he's a prefect example of this. He will make snarky comments and wonder why a small child cired becuase of them, find his older brother annoying, be disgusted by his younger sib, make mean jokes towards his closest friend and just KNOW that one day he'll be rich and do nothing"

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

"She's a cocky butch lesbian who can't pull, and I would bet real money she's adhd. Incredibly unreliable narrator, partially because she tunes out of anything uninteresting to her (like the plot), partially because she's not on speaking terms with her own feelings. Deep down she's angry, and lonely, and convinced she's not good enough, and she's terrified to look it all in the eye. She'll keep all her feelings right here and then someday she'll die joking about it."

Akaashi Keiji (Haikyuu!!)

"Outwardly chill 99% of the time but a serial overthinker. Once screamed into his hands when stressed and acted like nothing was wrong right after (see: Image link)."

Burgerpants (Undertale)

"My propaganda is his game dialogue: - "(WHY IS THIS PERSON TRYING TO SELL ME SOMETHING THIS IS A HAMBURGER RESTAURANT I'M JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE)" - "What? Why do you keep trying to talk to me? I'll get in trouble if I get chummy with the customers. Sorry. ... SO, I wanted to be an ACTOR-." - "You've still got time. Don't live like me. I'm 19 years old and I've already wasted my entire life." - "Listen. I like you, little buddy. So I'm gonna save you a lot of trouble. Never interact with attractive people." - "Future? WHAT future? Nothing down here EVER changes. I'll probably be trapped at this stupid job forever. - "Ah... my boss. I love that guy. And by that I mean I hate him so, so much." - "Here's a trick, little buddy: Lie to yourself all the time. It makes you feel better." - "Even if it was just working this awful job... I think I did something! I don't know if it's true, but I'll believe it anyway!" - "Huh? Everyone else is DEAD? ... Does that mean I don't have to work today? God. That it were true, little weirdo. That it were true." - "I can't go to hell. I'm all out of vacation days." "

[spellscarred]

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

I was tagged by @lealdog + @astrangedoor 💛

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Tagging @dear-indies @imagine-eragons @oopsydaisyjohnson @svejarph @crimsonphoenix0

Edward Kenway

My man is equal parts charming and whiny, particularly in the first part, and what can I say? I like a little whiny cunt in a charming, competent man. I also like his character arc from opportunistic self-serving lil bitch to solid morals and thinking about others before his own gain.

Morrigan

She's a competent caster, does what she has to do to survive in a world that would rather see her dead, and she's funny to boot (in a kinda mean way lbr, but). I also really love her arc throughout the series, from resentful i-hate-you-and-i'll-let-you-know to abused daughter turned loving mother who genuinely cares for other people, but none above her son. Like talk about healing for your child and breaking the cycle of abuse.

G'raha Tia

Listen, he's my little boy and also my husband, okay? Meeting him over and over and over (basically) was honestly an emotional rollercoaster. He's also the character that made me giddy about hearing Jonathan Bailey in anything else, bc that's Raha 💛 For anyone who hasn't played FFXIV but still wants to, I'm not gonna spoil, but for anyone who has played past Endwalker, if you know you know. I love him.

Handsome Jack

Funny, shitty, and completely unhinged. He made Borderlands 2, and Borderlands honestly isn't interesting to me without Handsome Jack. What, you want me to shoot people and get loot without an unhinged asshole continuously taunting me in the most mind-boggling of ways? I can do that in any game. Any time he contacts you in BL2 is a delight and an absolute mindfuck that leaves you in tears for different reasons.

Lucien Lachance

I was thinking about who my fifth could be, and then I remembered Lucien. Look, I played Oblivion when I was like 14 or 15, and if I remember nothing about the game and the story, I'll still remember the Dark Brotherhood, specifically because of Lucien Lachance. That questline and that character made that game for me. It's why I was excited about the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim, only to be thoroughly disappointed (though the chance to be able to summon Lucien as a spooky follower was a little bit of a balm). He's been in my heart forever, and if I ever play Oblivion again, it'll be only and singularly for the Dark Brotherhood storyline.

[aggold15hi01]

An update on a writing project in process

Ever since I had read the official novel of the Disney's 'The little mermaid' which is the adaption of the 2023 version with Halle Bailey; in there as Ariel; I have decided to write up a Fan Fiction on female reader goes on an actual date with an F1 driver for both the movie and also a hearty and delicious meal at a restaurant called Dome where it is newly opened back at the Kahala Mall in the month of February and the date actually does take place in the month of March ever since March is one of my personal favorite month as the beginning of the spring season however the question is 'Who do you want the driver to go on the date with the reader?'

In case if you are wondering what is Dome; Dome is a local fusion restaurant you can find it over in Malaysia especially both Kuala Lumpur and Selangor thus they are usually popular amongst the local Malaysians. (Don't know about the other states outside of Kuala Lumpur or Selangor since I am from Kuala Lumpur but currently living in Selangor now in real life obviously.)

Plus yes, I am an actual Malaysian Chinese woman who does imaginatively lives in the island of Oahu, vividly and actively as well despite all I can say is . . . 'it is just a dream'.

Anyway; here is the poll:

Plus yes, there will be a sneak peek by Sunday ever since the current winter season is truthfully draining me and my level of energy these days lately with the lack of daylight thus no 'true' offense to anyone or anybody who are 'Pro winter' and who does loves the winter season as well in general.

Also, please don't ask about the title choice thus I am not the best when it comes to putting up an actual title on many of Fan Fictions obviously to be honest; sorry.

[pardontheglueman]

Rewatching It's A Wonderful Life

Not a year goes by without a nationwide re-release of Frank Capra’s festive classic It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). Over recent years, the film has regularly been screened by mainstream cinema chains in Wales as well as independent venues like Chapter and Tramshed in the capital. This year’s most imaginative showing will take place at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. With a musical adaptation by Paul McCartney and Lee Hall (Billy Elliott & Rocketman) seemingly set to bring this magical tale to a whole new generation of fans, Kevin McGrath takes a look at the unique story of how a movie that flopped at the Oscars and which barely made a dent at the box office somehow became an enduring part of Christmas for so many.

Frank Capra’s post-war masterpiece It’s A Wonderful Life has rightly gone down in film history as one of the greatest feel-good movies of all time. From its humble beginnings as The Greatest Gift, an unpublished short story that author Philip Van Doren Stern turned into a 24-page pamphlet-come-Christmas card, it has become the most cherished of all movies, regularly figuring in best picture polls either side of the Atlantic. For many in America, Christmas simply isn’t Christmas without the family gathering around the TV to watch this incredibly affecting festive tale. And it was TV, of course, that had rescued the film from relative obscurity when its copyright was allowed to lapse in 1974. By 1984, The Wall Street Journal discovered, 152 public stations and 175 commercial stations had taken up the rights to broadcast the movie).

The reason that It’s A Wonderful Life continues to stand the test of time today must surely be attributed to the flawless filmmaking of its visionary director Frank Capra. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War (during which he made the exemplary documentary series, Why We Fight), Capra had established himself as one of Hollywood’s premiere directors, with a string of box office smashes to his name. The most notable of which, 1934’s romantic comedy It Happened One Night, became the first film to win all five major Academy Awards picking up Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and, of course, Best Director. Capra had become a master craftsman and a master storyteller, specialising in crowd-pleasing ‘moral fables’ about the honest Joe, the American everyman, who stands up for ‘liberal’ ideals and values against corrupt businessmen and politicians.

Screen giants like James Stewart and Gary Cooper had turned in widely acclaimed performances in Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Meet John Doe respectively, and it was to Stewart, his most trusted actor, that Capra turned when casting the part of quintessential nice-guy George Bailey. Stewart, one of the few major stars to enlist in the war against fascism, had been away from Hollywood for the best part of five years, and was in anguish about resuming his acting career when Capra called to offer him the role, that ultimately, film critics would regard as the finest of his distinguished career. Luckily, the director was able to talk Stewart around, and the rest, as they say, is history!

Stewart’s nuanced portrayal of the decent, unselfish, yet ultimately tormented Bailey, offers us a masterclass in screen acting. It’s as if Stewart had never been away as he plays through a succession of comic, romantic and dramatic scenes with absolute confidence. Stewart is able to convince us of George’s good heart and of his deeply felt moral opposition to scurrilous Banker Henry Potter, whilst also capturing the frustration eating away at his character’s soul as he sees life passing him by and his friends making their own mark on the world. George Bailey is a man desperately divided against himself, as Stewart’s reflective performance gradually makes clear.

Thankfully, his fellow actors are equally as good, with Lionel Barrymore proving to be an inspired piece of casting in the role of Potter, the Dickensian villain who tries to drive the Bailey family business into ruin in his quest to monopolise the wealth of Bedford Falls. (Capra had surely noted Barrymore’s legendary portrayal of Scrooge for the Campbell Playhouse dramatisation of A Christmas Carol, broadcast each Christmas Eve since 1934). And, as the years have gone by, it’s become impossible to imagine anyone other than the whimsical Henry Travers as the very special emissary Clarence Oddbody, whose celestial mission it is to save George Bailey from the tragic fate that awaits him on Christmas Eve.

The movie begins with George’s family and friends frantically seeking divine intervention to help him through a spiritual crisis at Christmas and uses the device of extended flashbacks to tell the tale of a young boy/college student determined to travel the world, all the while threatening to “shake the dust of this crummy little town off my feet”. He subscribes to National Geographic magazine and spends his days dreaming of “going out exploring someday’.  A family tragedy and financial difficulties combine, though, to ensure George’s ambitions are thwarted at every turn, as he finds himself trapped into running the family Building and Loan Company, the only institution in town not owned by slum landlord Potter. George is loved by the whole of Bedford Falls for standing alone against Potter time and again, and, in a crucial scene which illustrates Capra’s humanitarian message, Bailey challenges Potter over his scandalous business practices –

‘Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, this rabble you keep talking about…they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn’t think so. People were human beings to him’.

Stewart is acting out of his straight-laced skin here, violently trembling with anger. For me, it’s one of the most genuinely moving scenes in film history.

Though George has quietly transformed the lives of all those who reside in Bailey Park, he is unable to find consolation in his own achievements. He simply cannot free himself from the resentment he feels, as first his younger brother Harry takes up his place at College, and then as his old friend Sam Wainwright cuts a dash through the business world. Drunk and despairing on Christmas Eve, he wishes he’d never been born.

Throughout the film, Capra remains in complete control of the story. Each scene plays perfectly, the transition between episodes is seamless and the script cohesive from start to finish. This is all the more remarkable given the number of writers involved in developing a screenplay that proved almost impossible to knock into shape. Whilst the final screen credit went to husband and wife screenwriting team Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, as well as Capra himself, there were already three fully developed scripts in existence when Capra bought the property from RKO in 1945.

Three of the biggest names in the business had failed spectacularly in adapting Van Doren Stern’s quirky fantasy. Neither Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer winning playwright and fully paid-up member of the Alongquin roundtable, Dalton Trumbo (an Oscar winner for The Brave One) or Clifford Odets, the left-wing firebrand whose work with the Group Theatre had revolutionised Broadway in the thirties, found a way to incorporate the various fantasy/reality elements of the plot into a coherent whole.

While Connolly and Trumbo’s contributions were dismissed out of hand by Capra, some key scenes from the Odets script were retained. According to Jeanine Basinger, curator of the Capra archives, his scripts “bring into focus the elements found in the final movie: the accident on the ice in which Harry nearly drowns; the Gower drug store sequence and George’s marriage to Mary.” It’s worth noting that at this stage the Potter character simply did not exist. The dramatic conflict in each of these scripts was between a good George and an evil George.

None of this turmoil is reflected in the finished movie itself. Capra was able to unfold his story with clarity, balancing the requirements of the plot with his need to convey an uncompromising message to the audience. In the same way that Dickens, who was on a lifelong crusade to improve the conditions of the poor, wrote A Christmas Carol to try and progress social change in Victorian England, so Capra, who was just back from the Second World War, his film cans stuffed with footage of the horrors of the concentration camps, passionately wanted to tell a story that would make a serious statement about the times in which he lived.

Dickens’ plea to his readers was for them to follow the example of a reformed Scrooge when, at the novella’s end, he pledges to “honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year round”. Capra’s motivation was equally straightforward. He had in mind a reaffirmation of John Donne’s view of the human condition

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”

Still haunted by a war, in which Historians currently estimate, up to 70 million people died, Capra was at pains to point out how one man’s life touches another. His Christmas message was for us all to extend a helping hand to the next fellow.

When I went to see It’s A Wonderful Life at my local cinema, last Christmas, the usherette, on taking my ticket said: “I hope you’ve brought a supply of hankies”. Indeed, I had. I can never get past that early scene in Gower’s drugstore, where the distraught and drunk chemist brutally slaps a young George Bailey around, without breaking down. And, of course, the famous finale with George, having escaped from his nightmare existence in Pottersville, charging joyously through the snowy streets of Bedford Falls on Christmas Eve, wishing everyone and everything a Merry Christmas, has me in floods of tears every time I have the privilege of viewing it.

Watching It’s a Wonderful Life every Christmas, making it a part of the ritual and tradition of the festive period means it can be hard to be wholly objective about the film as a work of art. For good or bad the film comes imbued, perhaps even burdened, with our own memories and associations. In the darkness, as the credits begin to roll, we suddenly sense The Ghost of Christmas past sitting next to us in the cheap seats.

For others, Capra is too sentimental and the derogatory term “Capra-corn” applied by some cynics to his films has stuck over the years. Look beyond the joyous, feel-good message at the centre of It’s A Wonderful Life though, and there is a real darkness rooted within the heart of small-town America. Capra, having witnessed at first hand the atrocities of a World War, knew all about the evil ordinary people were capable of but remained an optimist and a believer in the brotherhood of man, nonetheless.

[the-firebird69]

circus strongman huge Ringling vitamin Bailey - Google Search

It was me and I heard is that Mr Bean and people say Mr Bean is usually a boxer and he used to cream everybody so they went around looking and said you know who that is and people are asking around and I hear it's coming back to me and I said he can't make money for any reason at all and said oh oh and they're trying to store it and stuff and they're not doing anything quite often so I said laughing and said what do you think of that and say it doesn't require as much strength as I have then it requires athletic ability which I don't think I have so he hasn't got big yet and I said how big you're going to get I said well I don't want to say you're trying to have me tell you I said my nose but she doesn't know now and so I said it's like his kids so I went and I looked and I said what do they like you know like monsters they're huge he will say they see some running around and we're back to the present and I said no way so he says it is not afraid of me because they can become very big and I said that's ridiculous so you want to see him get big because we have seen them and they look like the hulk and their monstrous okay just like he says he will be gigantic and that's right the coppertone monster the Statue of Liberty have been a man he says no like someone who's new at it and over does the 10 stuff spray on tan and Jen do it and she doesn't want me to look too good. Listen I saw something you have to fix the image it's way too dark it says I can try it's really tough but it might work because it kind of doing it again so I get that but really this is me and yeah Mr Bean and I was a deadly opponent just like he says knock everybody out including Tyson nobody can stop me and I'm up here and my grand nephew wants to go up and do some ass he said he could do this one alone but he need to train and train for a while probably on his shoulders that makes sense and the girls want to do it and they would find it amazing if they find an amazing when we did it and he said it is a feat of strength and skill that is probably nobody in the audience could do and it's true too they tried to do it and they couldn't and it's very difficult so you have to be careful where you're walking and how you walk and walking with a load is tough but we saw Jason carrying a horse and that was ridiculous it's a smaller horse with that that's terribly crazy no matter what you do but these ladies in the polls were probably a thousand pounds so it's kind of a similar feat that he could not do the pole thing with anybody it was impossible he said I can't even do it with Lily and they do tons of stuff like that and now they're going nuts doesn't go up to that area and he says that the metal is making you nuts and weak and because it's like an extension of the skillet and they start looking at and said yeah that's probably true and it works reverse too sometimes so they're going through it in their examining it and they're going nuts by going there with that spot in LA it's probably the same material and the max are probably mining it and

Mac Daddy

I'm aware this is my circus but we're going to have a good time cuz he says he wants to come up and do something we have actually can do this is actually one of them once he gets over the hernia he says I really he's going to be a monster we talked to his mom and it's Camilla and she said that he's going to be gigantic and has seen them and we see him pictures and the health looks like them but they look like a monster it actually could be doping for armor and speed and he says well that's great and who are they and he doesn't know and he's her son so we're amazed that we do see the traits of the same cuz she described when they look young they're kind of pudgy and their arms and hands look small but they're kind of normal sized and the legs are short she started laughing cuz she didn't notice he's kind of stretched out on purpose because father and mother did it that's crazy he's going to be gigantic but really and act like this and you do it about three times and he's amazed and feels a little nauseous I can see it is probably going to give you about $3,200 total and he says wow that's a lot of money how did he get that much money just from the show says it's more than the gate entrance fee and when you would do it with one person it would be sensational it says he wants him to do it with him but the show up and say until Ken just to stand there but he's going to use him as a spotter and to make sure he doesn't get hurt and we do see something that's kind of funny

Ben Arnold

I'm not going to do that yeah I think I will I'll get part of the money and have to bring me out to eat I do see something though he'll probably eat $500 with a food he says probably it's not that easy but it'll be a lot and it'd be pretty big they said 8-ft to do that and I agree it doesn't have to be that tall and his smell almost sick so it's only a foot or a foot and a half but he would triple in weight and be about 700 lb or 600 lb that's what they weigh together so it's about right but he says their skill is way up there because they don't have as much muscle as he would but he could overpower it and that's what he'd have to do. The girls are laughing cuz he drops it it's not a big deal but it is cuz the pole is Right overhead so he's suggesting helmets with the feathers on it because he's a young guy and they agree

Ken

That's what we can do and we're trying to figure it out we can't wear the ski helmet it's not strong that's to be a real helmet but you get one like a hard knock helmet it's thinner and you put the feathers on it and the like a showgirl and we have done that and it works it's actually one reason why they look like that is that we were helmets cuz we used to do acrobatics with it and we have those helmets and they're very sturdy and they're strong and they don't crush and the new ones are in the sturdy so we just wear those that's a good idea he says I'm not going to drop it but if anything you see me it goes down slow it's kind of set you down on one side then it'll go the other way so they're kind of laughing

Alicia

Yeah I wasn't the top part with Alicia there too

Tricia

We were on that thing too and it was fun and they were strong I mean very strong there's there's almost nothing they can do we thought and he says it is strength and it does require a lot of skill and they can do a lot of stuff and he was Mr Bean and his truly people and he's fast and skilled so we know about that but they kind of finding us

Jenna

Don't drive me you pig I mean it too no I won't be huge I have to be kind of the same weight though send me too hard LOL that's freaking crazy you just one guy doing it don't look like Samson like Tommy f probably was Samson and he says yeah the cut his hair and I've had enough of this crap it could be a lot of fun maybe like 2500 bucks just for Wheeling around a few times and he can recover in between and he uses the drink that's just a protein thing with some fruit drinks or fruit stuff like that he says he can come up with so we're going to try and do that it sounds like fun that just kind of half-assing it it's quite a trick he says it really is it was fun Wheeling around on it and it was fun getting off once I didn't like it I thought if it fell my head would be hurt and we get roughed up by that pole that's why they do it it's kind of dangerous and it's not weird stories of other people doing it and the women got hit so you got to be careful and he'd have to practice that Brian on it lol

Lily

No way you talking about this act it's hilarious you jerk I don't think so though

Hera

Oh yeah we see it now you can't do that so we're going to try for it

Sarah

Olympus yeah you can go ahead and publish

Let me see it was speaking American but boy that would be good fun look what our boy can do that's what you're two leaders are doing okay they got deposed they just having fun

Thor Freya

Yey

Mac

Good

Ben lol oh yeah I'm Ben

[darling-to-death]

Robin the Orphan vs Robin the Caretaker  So there’s this AU created by @angrelysimpping.  It’s called the Future Corrupt Robin or Fuct!Robin AU.  Basically, PC falls into a coma or otherwise gets incapacitated for an extended period of time, and in order to protect them and pay their medical bills, Robin has this whole corruption arc and enters his villain era.  

He basically becomes Bailey 2.0, an evil, power-hungry man willing to do anything for money.  It’s a very fun AU, and I wanted to do fanart inspired by it! @banned-for-horny told me to tag them if I went through with drawing it. 

Also, Robin won that poll for which thing I should draw next, so this really worked out in my favor.  (Although technically, the poll still has a day left, but Robin’s been leading all week and by like 10 percent, so I’m gonna call it.)  

Below the read more I’m gonna put headcanons and art notes so this already long post doesn’t clutter the dash. 

1. Robin gets sunburnt a lot, because he spends so much time at the beach selling Lemonade.  But every penny he earned had to go to Bailey, so he never had profits left over to buy sunscreen.  // In the AU, I tried to make Robin paler, because now all the business he does is under the cover of night. 

2. I think Robin has the longest, prettiest eyelashes.  <3  He crossdresses, so I always kinda pictured him as a more feminine looking guy.  (Even tho obviously you don’t have to look feminine to crossdress, but this is just my personal representation of him in my mind.)  // In the AU, I think he still has that urge/hobby, so he paints his nails black and gets a bunch of piercings.  When he’s alone, he swaps out the “tough” jewelry for something cuter.  

3. I kinda worry I made Robin look too young in the first picture, but I’m happy he looks way older in the second one.  Even though I don’t think PC is in the coma for SUPER long, I think the stress would age him really fast.  He never sleeps, and he barely eats, which doesn’t help. 

4. I think Robin lost a tooth from the Garbage Dump Incident.  He was beaten pretty badly, and it’s not like Bailey’s gonna pay for dental.  So I imagine him with a gap in his smile. 

5. Haircuts cost money, so he just forgoes them.  Less money on haircare equal more money to protect PC with. 

6. Bailey is often depicted in fanart with a Snake tattoo, so I gave Robin snakes around him in the second picture.  Snakes are also a symbol of temptation and falling into sin, which is absolutely what he does in the Fuct!AU.  Also, blood money... literally.  

7. Idk if the Fuct!AU says anything about the other LIs, but sometimes I wonder what would happen to everyone else is PC went into a coma and was no longer with them.  I don’t have headcanons for everyone, but I have a couple! 

Kylar gets taken under Dr. Harper’s wing, and also becomes a doctor with a totally real medical license.  Kylar finally learns how to do hypnosis properly and uses it on the patients to get them to act like PC.  The Asylum is just full of people convinced they’re all you, so Kylar can pretend you’re still with them. 

Whitney now works at the brothel.  Now whether that’s in a willing capacity or not, I think it’s up to how high their Dominance stat was when PC fell into the coma.  He either pissed off the wrong people and got taken to the underground, or he became Briar 2.0.  I mean he already likes watching other people with PC and tries to rent her out.  Is it that far of a leap to think he becomes a pimp?   

Sydney either grows up to become a wierd teacher like his old man, or and I think this is only if you kept him pure, loses his fucking mind.  Sydney has some dialogues line about PC being the only person to not pressure him to do stuff (obviously this turns out to be untrue depending on how you play the game), but I think the combination of loses the only person who accepted him as he is and then finding out what happened to her, having his eyes fully exposed to the town, would just give him a mental breakdown and he ends up completely deranged like Morgan.  

Idk what Alex is up to, but he absolutely lost the farm.  Perhaps he is now in the unfortunate position of working for the man who destroys his life in order to not be completely destitute.  Or perhaps he just fucked off into the moor and became a hermit like Eden only with way more alcoholism.  

[feelingofcontent]

DNP Rewatch: Making whipped tiktok Coffee - Easter Edition! 🐰

Date video was published: 04/11/2020 (X)

DNP Main Channel Rewatch: 412

I already know this is one of my favorite videos from 2020.

0:00 - love all the cutout eggs just randomly stuck in the background. and the animal magnets still in the same...position...as they were in his birthday video

0:15 - so much hair! it’s still over a month before he cuts it though

0:34 - great sound effect use there

0:45 - of course he’s got his own twist for it!

1:07 - not interesting enough for him...gotta make it more complicated

1:26 - can’t believe he drank the same instant coffee for that many years. they’ve got a fancy coffee machine in the new house now though

1:36 - this video is not going to be relaxing

1:52 - they DO own actual measuring spoons...he just didn’t bother last time he needed one

2:06 - banana milk still does not appealing to me at all. though I’ve been told it tastes more like fake banana than real banana, which I think I would like better. someday I will try some

2:11 - “that’s satisfying to slap” ...getting a bit into it there

2:25 - really would love to know what “baking experiment” involved this white chocolate sauce (and maybe also the red velvet Baileys he uses later)...Valentine’s Day treats or cocktails? 🤔

2:43 - that is hilarious but I bet he wasn’t too upset about it, lol

2:55 - well this seems like a good idea. still...this ends up being SO MUCH caffeine and sugar. if he’s filming this at his usual evening time, I bet he did not sleep at all

3:08 - “look...Debra...we’re in lockdown I’m not a fashion week” 😂 love offended Phil

3:35 - playing the word association game with himself there hahaha

3:45 - he dropped something 5 seconds ago...WHY would he think tossing the glass was a good idea

4:00 - love the zoom in on his face after realizing how that sounded

4:09 - he’s not wrong...just generally you’re not able to actually see that

4:20 - you would think he would have learned what happens when you try to color brown things green...but no

4:33 -  the never-ending green-or-yellow DNP domestic debate. he polled instagram again on that too

4:57 - glad he didn’t leave that close up shot for long...it does not look appetizing

5:10 - “it’s looking nothing like I imagined in my head” could be the slogan for several of Phil’s videos from this era

5:19 - swearing in German. they do not have well-placed outlets in that kitchen

5:28 - eww, no...the clean-up after one of his videos must take almost as long as filming

6:16 - love the random peep commentary

6:22 - more mess...he’s regretting getting as much foam out of the bowl as possible, which he just said to do

6:41 - and then not even wiping it before picking it up

6:54 - cackling at the “my hottest moment” annotation, the slow motion, and the music 😂😂

7:13 - at least he did some mid-video clean up

7:20 - I wonder if he also did some googling to figure that out

7:33 - “artisanal...anal” Phil’s mind is always...somewhere

7:40 - again, with the annotation here. actually laughing

7:56 - his poor laptop

8:15 - yes, just what this needs...even more sugar

8:39 - finally actually looking somewhat pleasant

8:55 - he barely put any Baileys in that

9:17 - this foam does look much better than the first one...the whole thing looks much more appetizing

9:51 - he’s so excited when something works 😊

9:58 - and even more sugar!

10:20 - Phil claimed he did finish drinking that which is slightly horrifying

10:37 - the spoon just slowly sinking in as Phil gestures without paying attention 😂

11:20 - yeah this seems like too much effort before you’ve had your coffee in the morning

11:44 - the endscreen annotation on this one is great

The absolute chaos of this video. I love it so much. This is one that makes me laugh every time I watch it.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

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fine morning out at 8 about at the Lodge – breakfast at 9 to 10 – out again about – at the meer till 10 ¾ - then had Mr. Mercer (Robert) gave him a check dated Monday for £80 in a/c of the glazering at Northgate – all done, but the great room – off with A- (both walked) to H-x at 11 ½ (Mercer having staid near ½ hour after I had paid him) – if there should be an election now, thinks we can not bring in Mr. Wortley – M- is a staunch blue – great pity that Mr. James Norris got into such disgrace about the late contest for the west Riding – there ought not to have been a contest – Mr. Wortley (John) had no chance – there would not have been a contest but for Mr. James Norris – who said he could poll more thousands in this district than he polled hundreds – had Mrs. widow Hall of late little marsh to give up the key of the house – told her to give it up to Womersley – off with A- at 11 ½ down the old bank left her at Whitley’s and went to Mr. Parker’s office – 20 minutes there with Mr. Adam – explained about Aquilla Green, that I had seen him, and what had passed yesterday evening – Mr. A- to write a safe notice so that if the mill is given up, I shall be as safe as to damages as possible – but told A- that if it should be satisfactory shewn that there really was water enough, I saw the disappointment in giving the mill up would be so great to AG- that I thought I should build it – I was anxious to do what was honourable and right – A- asked if I had got his letter respecting the Bailey hall land – no! would call for it (which I afterwards did) at the Post office – the right of road from church lane to the canal wharf (free of paying anything towards repairs or anything else) seems clear – but the Bailey hall land 6 yards and more above the level of the wharf – better built on the present level of the Bailey hall land, and have a road thro’ the premises now occupied by Patterson – asked A- if, supposing my remittances did not arrive in time for money, my deferring the payment of one thousand till the end of the week could be managed – yes! – as soon as I got the money P. and A- would be glad of the £500 advanced to Nelson – P- and A- one thousand overdraw at the bank yes! they shall have the £500 immediately that I can pay it, as also the amount of the bill due from A- and myself for the law expense – then to the bank – said I expected the fifteen thousand or at least 7 or 8 thousand would be paid into their branch bank at York on Saturday but I was not yet advised of it – I would let Mr. Mackean know the moment I heard of it – if I heard in time, a draught for £1016+ would be presented for payment on Monday – if not, I would take some steps about it so as to prevent its presentation till the money was paid in on my account – but that I had just given a check to Mercer the glazier for £80 which I should be obliged to the bank to pay on Monday at all rates, as also to let me have £50 or £60 or what I might send for on Saturday – oh! yes! said Mr. Davidson – McK- from home – then got my letter or note from Mr. A- at the P.O. and then went for A- (had left her about 35 minutes) – found her at Nicholson’s – sometime there – Mrs. Waterhouse came up and spoke to us – Mr. R- of Stony Royde quite well again – I might see her anything from 10 to 1 ½ her dinner hour – Mrs. W- talked of calling at Shibden hall soon – walked slowly back with A- up the old bank home at 2 25 – with Booth the mason about windows for the new (2nd new) coach house – and wet with Joseph Mann to the wheel-race – the water (only the Spiggs water or its equivalent) running thro’ the meer-drift – must be turned off by tomorrow morning (before Charles Howarth goes to bed tonight) for the meer to finish puddling about the meer-drift head – and because I see we should not have it in the wheel-race till the bottom is flagged and made water tight – as Holt and the Manns always said the water would, so it does boil up in the Engine pit, thro’ the looseness of the measures and the nearness of the pit to the wheel-race, so that we should have nearly the whole meer to pump if the wheel-race bottom could be made water-tight – Charles H- (too clear-headed to be always disregarded in these matter) does not like Mr. Husbands’ plan of the gearing of the wheel – thinks Bates’s plan and the long beams and the engine pit far enough off would have been cheaper and better! I only hope all this is not true, and that Holt will not be right in thinking we shall have a new engine-pit to sink after all – went down to Mrs. Aquilla Green – sent her off (at 3 40) to H-x to tell her husband the water was let into the wheel-race, and that he had best come and see it if he could – then at the meer-drift head – walked round the meer – musing about a boat-house and a cottage somewhere (where? just over the clow? or near and below the old useless clow-house opening into Pearson’s field and out of sight? for conservator (concierge) of the clow meer, and boat etc then with Mark Hepworth who has been here all day carting manure (brought the large stone to hang over the meer-drift head this morning and brought Joseph Mann a couple of loads of clay for puddling here at the meer or at the Little field cistern) – Mark’s broad wheeled cart and my own carted loads [dung] good old and rotten, on to what used to be the calf croft the low end and along the Hall wood side – Robert Mann helping to fill the carts and his 3 men spreading the manure – came in at 6 50 just before A- returned from Cliff Hill to where she set off on her pony soon after 3 pm – dressed – dinner at 7 10 – tea – read the newspaper – A- very much tired – came up to bed at 9 ¾ at which  hour F42° - fine day – not much sun – if there are a few gloomy days and a little rain I shall have been lucky about my manure carting out