#peter and lucy centered

[soffij]

While Narnia is fading I'm the one staying

No. I'll never return to Narnia. I can't. I don't need it anymore.

[northhopest]

Lasagna and Salad Forks

(tldr; Representation says to the audience, “I see you.” That’s been missing from Lucy for five seasons. It’s never once been present in Chenford.)

The Rookie actors are known to workshop lines with writers, and Alexi was on set for 7x16. There are opportunities to express even small cultural moments that align with Lucy's background. What could’ve been meaningful was yet another missed opportunity for Lucy. We got salad forks and lasagna instead.

I’ve spoken with friends who do peer-reviewed research on mixed-race couples and friends, and the lack of cultural reciprocity in Chenford’s portrayal stands out. While Chenford weren’t canonically a couple for very long, they’ve been “together” for over 120 episodes and across 7 seasons. In all that time, Lucy’s identity has never once been acknowledged between them—and hasn’t been referenced at all in over five seasons.

We don’t see this in other cross-cultural relationships on the show. Angela’s heritage has been thoroughly acknowledged in and out of Wopez across all seasons. Celina and Rodge aren’t even “together” and yet in one episode alone, they shared two conversations in separate scenes in her native tongue. Between episodes 7x14–7x16, Angela, Tim, Celina, Seth, and Rodge all speak Spanish. That’s meaningful.

Lucy doesn’t need to be constantly ‘ethnic-coded’ but the total absence of her heritage leaves her character defaulting into hegemonic whiteness within Asian packaging, especially when other characters’ cultures are proudly, consciously and consistently centered.

I’m not Italian or Mexican, but I love cooking and eating foods from those cultures. This isn’t about who’s “allowed” to make or enjoy what. It’s about a storytelling pattern that consistently sidelines Lucy’s identity—while giving other characters space to express and celebrate theirs.

Whether it’s through acting choices or the script, Lucy is not being given the same opportunities to express who she is. And without any counterbalancing moments that connect her to her heritage, even pasta becomes part of a larger pattern of minimization—especially when other characters’ cultures are depicted loudly and proudly in the same scenes. As they should be. But so should Lucy.

Lucy's dinner party hostess performance is white. Lucy calling her grandmother “Nana” in 5x18 is white. Lucy fussing over salad forks in 7x16 feels like something Patrice Evers would do—not Lucy Chen.

Some fans have exaggerated Lucy asking for salad forks into this idea that she’ll transform Tim’s home with every kind of fork imaginable. But this is the same Lucy who just a few episodes ago said that she budgets down to the cent. The same Lucy whose parents went bankrupt when she was in elementary school. She’s not someone preoccupied with white-coded domestic aesthetics. It’s frustrating to see her stretched into a version of white femininity that doesn’t reflect who she is—or who she’s been.

It honestly feels like Moira Kirkland, who wrote the episode, inserted a version of herself instead of writing Lucy true to character. Kirkland has written for Hawaii Five-0, a show with a main cast that included many Asian and Pacific Islander actors. She knows how to handle these dynamics—she’s done it with Celina. But she went the opposite direction with Lucy. And it seems like no one—Melissa, the producers, script supervisors—flagged it.

Tim’s father literally abused him yet his house is coded with white American boyhood. Meanwhile, Lucy’s culture is nowhere to be found. Why are we getting salad forks instead of anything meaningful that ties her back to her identity? Salad forks script her into this very specific, white suburban “perfect wife” image instead of anything connected to who she really is.

There’s a moment where Lucy walks past Tim’s rice cooker several times. He owns an “Aroma” brand. I did some research and found that “Aroma” was founded by Peter Chang in Southern California 50 years ago. It’s an Asian American kitchen staple. That suggests Lucy’s influence—because it’s unlikely Tim would own one otherwise—but it’s also never acknowledged by Lucy. She passes it after touching his arm to pull lasagna from the oven. She passes it again to get the door.

“Representation” isn’t a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appliance in the background. Representation is Celina and Zander using Spanish as code because he knows who she is. Representation says to the audience, “I see you.” That’s been missing from Lucy for five seasons. It’s never once been present in Chenford.

I would’ve loved to see Lucy scoop white rice out of that cooker. Just imagine if, instead of asking where the salad forks are, Lucy asked Tim where he keeps the soy sauce. Tim could still quip that he’s a 45-year-old who lives alone—that part doesn’t need to change—but that moment would suddenly reflect an interracial relationship.

[hedgiwithapen]

Sometimes you go for an early sunday walk to mediate and you end up composing an entire somewhat sacrilegious poem about cats in heaven in your brain so here you go. Sometimes in idle moments I think about the Other Side and the small furry friends who have passed through and are not waiting--no cat knows how to wait. Walker, I can see, pawing at the Gate, trying to pull it open and acting like he did when St. Peter holds it for him. He trots, his question mark tail twitching like his ears as he passes angels holding harps and trumpets Looking and finding one with an oboe and a pile of reedshavings just right to sit on. And Lucy, crossing the Rainbow bridge one dainty paw at a time, still only half her makeup on, until she reaches The dead center and stops, looking both ways before rolling onto her back, writhing into the best possible place for the sun to warm her. Charlie-- of the Baby, I am certain. He has Found his way in five minutes to the Throne and clawed his way up the soft white of His robes. Braced like a child on His knee, he puts paws on His shoulders, tail whacking against the place a spear entered He looks into the Creator’s eyes and bites His nose, as if to say: I was told there would be Loaves and Fishes.

[secretly-a-catamount]

Cut The Threads Of Fate

  Birthed wrong by the standards of every world, they were Aslan’s Scourge and Sword, his children-gods called to free the throne by slaughtering the Witch.

  They were the Pevensies, born of Frank and Helen.

  They were War.

  They were Pestilence.

  They were Famine.

  And they were Death.

Peter, golden-haired and ocean-eyed, with a sharp tongue and a sharper mind.

  Peter, who taught himself blade-work by the age of five with butter knives.

  Peter, who ran an underground fighting ring for the neighborhood children.

  Peter, who was always at the center of every schoolyard fight, despite never throwing a punch himself.

  Peter, who, when questioned about the aforementioned schoolyard scraps, would always smile a bit too sharp and laugh for a bit too long and then say the same things over and over, that it wasn’t him, that he had simply spoken, and that they had simply complied.

  Peter, who learned he liked the taste of blood as he licked his sword clean, a headless human corpse slumped beneath his boots.

  Peter, who was crowned in gold and blood.

  Peter, who was Magnificent.

  Peter, who was War.

  Lucy, slight and light-footed, slipping between the shadows easily and unnoticeable.

  Lucy, who only ate what she could find herself in an English forest when she was a child, lips stained from green leaves and black gnarled roots and poisonous berries as red as the lipstick her sister would someday wear.

  Lucy, who sent a girl home with an illness that would not heal, that would never heal, when she’d insulted her sister — why doesn’t she talk, she a retard or something? — simply tilting her head to the side and asking the other student why it mattered, when the news came back that the girl had died.

  Lucy, who slipped her hand into the embrace of the goat-man with a parasol and simply knew how deep the Witch’s corruption spread.

  Lucy, who received a cordial from Father Christmas to balance out the death she’d been able to give since birth.

  Lucy, who could take an arrow from her quiver, run her fingers down it, string it, and shoot it — the minions of the White Witch drowning in their own blood, skin falling off of bones, bones splintering into shards, cancerous growths bursting and twisting out of their bodies, rotting from the inside out, growing from the outside in, dying by the thousands.

  Lucy, who was crowned in ashes and copper.

  Lucy, who was Valiant.

  Lucy who was Pestilence.

  Edmund, pale as snow, eyes like dark hollows carved into his face, hair a tangle of brown soil and rotting red leaves.

  Edmund, always just out of the frame in photographs, always just out of the corner of eyes.

  Edmund, who only gained color in mirrors and looking glasses and the fear-widened pupils of others.

  Edmund, who was nothing but collection of bones and a gaping mouth with pointed teeth and cracked, bloody lips — when adam’s flesh and adam’s bone — and a Hunger that never went away, but was sometimes filled with his mother’s blisteringly-hot vegetable soup and his siblings understanding of their shared Otherness and his father’s words of kindness and love and gentle affections.

  Edmund, who stumbled into an another world with sneer and then stumbled out of it after a war and a decade-and-five years of peace with the blood of the sun running through his veins in place of his own and winter split into his bones instead of the marrow.

  Edmund, who felt full only once the Witch’s magic settled in his stomach like frostbitten-stones, spelled so he drew blood from his wrists with his teeth and called it hot chocolate, drew snow and ice from the ground and called it Turkish delight.

  Edmund, who sunk into a Witch’s embrace to distract her just long enough for his brother to run them both through.

  Edmund, who was crowned in dew and platinum.

  Edmund, who was Just.

  Edmund, who was Famine.

  The stone is broken here, cracked and shattered and splintered, the paper records burnt or molded or swallowed by the sea, the ending of the ballad of the god-children is simply: lost.

  Only a fragment remains, passing from mouth to mouth and drifting on the grief-soaked southern winds.

  Only a sentence remains.

  The only words, in memory and not, to ever be spoken by the god of death, the god of mourning, the god of silence.

  Take me with them

  If they ever was an answer, it is unknowable.

[gendzl]

Ooooh, I feel as your book club partner, I need to know everything about this Narnia WIP! Maybe both, if you're feeling charitable. XD

Thanks for playing!! :) [link to ask game]

You're the person who is most entitled to this knowledge, yes, haha. I thought I'd told you about them, but...maybe not? Oh well, here we go!

I had to fix the ending to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (the last three paragraphs in particular). Coming back from Narnia needed to be so much worse for the Pevensies; I needed them to never, ever be able to move on from either their going there or their coming back, in various terrible and awful ways. I need them traumatized and ready to tear into Aslan with their bare hands.

In the first fic, everything is much the same as the book, it's just that things aren't so "and then the adventure was over! ta-daaa!" after they come out of the wardrobe as their child selves. I reread what I've written so far, and here's my favorite bit:

They found Peter in the Professor's library one evening with a look of purest ire on his face. He was glaring down at a copy of the Bible laid open on one of the desks.

Lucy stepped forward and flipped some pages, landing on the opening to Isaiah. She huffed out something almost like a laugh. "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth," she read aloud, "for the Lord hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought up, and they have rebelled against Me."

Edmund the Just reached past her and closed the good book.

—

The other fic goes off the rails a little more. It starts at the same point in the book as the first one, and they deal with similar problems, but! the Pevensies come back through the wardrobe still looking like the adults that they are. They're experienced in war (albeit of a different sort), and they're grieving the loss of an entire world (again), and most importantly they are PISSED THE FUCK OFF.

Here's the opening:

...These Kings and Queens entered the thicket, and before they had gone a score of paces they all remembered that the thing they had seen was called a lamp-post, and before they had gone twenty more they noticed that they were making their way not through soft pine branches but through coats. And next moment before they fully realized what was happening they all came tumbling out of a wardrobe door into an empty room, Kings and Queens in their hunting array and just as they'd looked after twenty years in Narnia. It was the same day and the same hour of the day on which they had all gone into the wardrobe to hide, and yet everything was changed.

They heard voices in the hall, one of which must have belonged to the woman they knew to be the housekeeper, but whose name (after all this time) eluded them. They spent several long moments in a hushed silence, sitting in brushed leggings and dusty riding boots on the old hardwood floor, waiting for the door to either open or the visitors to pass by. At last the voices did move on, and the Pevensies rose up onto their feet to stand at full height. The room seemed smaller.

Lucy—beloved Lucy, who'd found it first—tentatively stepped back into the wardrobe, pushed aside fur coats in just her size, and let out a soft, mournful cry when her fingertips met the hard wooden back.

The door was closed.

She turned back toward the center of the room and found her siblings standing in a row behind her, their white-knuckled hands clasped together. Susan's long hair had started to fight at the binding of its braid, Edmund's free hand trembled, and even Peter was crying silent tears.

The sound of Narnia, that quiet hum of its very existence that had for so long hovered comfortably at the edge of their awareness, was gone. And each of them knew, then, in the same way they had known that Aslan was more than just a talking lion, that they weren't to get it back.

Everything was lost, and not only lost but their own fates unknowable to those they had loved, and who had loved them: Narnia would never learn what had happened to its Kings and Queens. To its Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve.

It was over.

It had just begun.

[quillnqueer]

Interesting New Releases | 26th March

Blood on Her Tongue: Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.

I Am the Swarm: When Nell’s own magic arrives in the form of ladybugs alighting on the keys of her beloved piano, the first thing she feels is joy. The ladybugs are a piece of her, a harmless and delicate manifestation of her creativity. But soon enough, the rest come. Thick-shelled glossy beetles that creep along her collarbone when her piano teacher stares at her. Soft gray moths that appear and die alongside a rush of disappointment. Worst of all are the wasps.

The Keeper Of Lonely Spirits: Immortality means Peter has lost everyone he’s ever loved. And so he centers his life on the dead—until his wandering brings him to Harrington, Ohio. As he searches for a vengeful spirit, Peter’s drawn into the townsfolk’s lives, homes and troubles. For the first time in over a century, he wants something other than death. But the people of Harrington will die someday. And he won’t.

The Notorious Virtues: At sixteen, Honora “Nora” Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in all of Walstad. When her mother is found dead in an alley, the family throne and fortune are suddenly up for grabs, and Nora will be pitted against her cousins in the Veritaz, the ultimate magical competition for power that determines the one family heir.

The Story of a Single Woman: This is the beginning of a life of questing independence, which will see Kazue forced to leave her home at eighteen following a love affair, going first to Korea and then to Tokyo. Driven by her impulses and an indomitable spirit of hope, Kazue moves from one relationship to another, hungry for experience. As her sense of identity and voice grows, she takes to writing as a means to live a life on her own terms.

[kwebtv]

Ralph Pierre LaCock (March 30, 1926 – August 15, 2024), better known by his stage name Peter Marshall. Game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor. He was the original host of The Hollywood Squares from 1966 to 1981 and had almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits.

Marshall appeared in the 1958 episode "The Big Hoax" of the syndicated television series Harbor Command. In 1963, he appeared as Lucy's brother-in-law, Hughie, in The Lucy Show episode "Lucy's Sister Pays A Visit".

Marshall was the host of his own short-lived syndicated music and comedy series, The Peter Marshall Variety Show, which aired during the 1976–1977 season in markets in the United States.

After the completion of the final run of The Hollywood Squares in 1981, Marshall continued working in game shows and playing character roles. He appeared on the game shows Fantasy (1982) with cohost Leslie Uggams, All-Star Blitz (1985), Yahtzee (1988), the "East Hollywood Squares" skit on In Living Color (1994), and Reel to Reel (1998).

In 1986, Marshall portrayed Bob Kenny, game show host accused of murder of a game show contestant on an episode "To Live and Die on TV" on Sledge Hammer!.

In 1989, Marshall hosted the unaired pilot for 3rd Degree! (a Burt & Bert Production in association with Kline & Friends).

In 2002, he returned to the new version of The Hollywood Squares as a panelist during a Game Show Week hosted by Tom Bergeron. Marshall occupied the prestigious center square. For one day that week, Marshall took his old position at the podium to host while Bergeron was the center square. (Wikipeda)

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[bikinibottomdayz]

MAY 10, 2024 RELEASE

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The release today includes: The Great Gatsby, Suffs, An Enemy of the People, Days of Wine and Roses, The Cher Show, To Kill a Mockingbird

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[fictionadventurer]

Since I'm talking about 2023 reads with the Fortnight of Books wrapup, I thought I'd show you the Penguin Clothbound Classics style covers I designed for two of my favorite obscure old-enough-to-be-classics books I discovered last year: The Good Comrade and Desire by Una Lucy Silsberrad.

I chose yellow as the main color for The Good Comrade, because it seems to fit the mostly-sunny adventurous vibe of the story, and it offers good contrast for the blue daffodils--the image that had to be chosen because of how the plot centers around Julia's scheme to solve her family's financial problems by getting her hands on a rare blue daffodil.

The cover for Desire required a bit more thought. Red and gold seemed like a good color scheme for a book focused on questions of wealth and romance and finding your passion--and for the autumn season when I first read it. I settled on plates for the imagery because the plot centers around Desire helping Peter to run his family's pottery business, which finds a new process for making plates. The silver platters symbolize Desire's wealthy background--she had everything in life handed to her on a silver platter. The more rustic plates are in gold, because the simple, but good, work is where Desire really finds fulfillment.

[oozieoozeborn]

Analyzing the Shadow Kings Part 4 - Wrath

Alright halfway point now lets go! Again mild spoilers and I haven't read every appearance of this character so may have missed something.

Name origin is prob the simplest of all the shadow kings Lucifer, the devil, the fallen angel etc. etc. Also means bearer of light in Latin.

Its just every other shadow king named after a demon follows Peter Binsfeld's classifications Beelzebub with gluttony, Azmond with lust, and later I'll get to Mammon with greed. Lucifer's place on Binsfeld's list is under the sin of pride, and the demon categorized under wrath is Satan. There is confusion on whether or not these are the same entity or if Lucifer becomes known as Satan after his fall. Either way I could not find a definitive answer.

In the bible Lucifer is used only once to refer to a Babylonian king and is also a translation for the planet Venus so some argue there was never a fallen angel, and it merely refers to the king mentioned in the passage. Others say Lucifer is speaking through the king.

Moving onto design and personality before I continue this rabbit hole:

Again Lucifer has a pretty simple design he wears anime biker gear (big leather coat, studded boots, studded gloves, etc.) and physically he is a red devil with the tail and the horns. He has some markings on his torso but I can't really make anything out cause he always has a hand on his chest.

From looking at the marking I could see that he has a treasure trail, and speaking of hair Lucy's is mostly black, but he has a funny super saiyan deal going on complete with blue eyes too.

Personality-wise unsurprisingly he has a very short temper especially if Atmos is involved at all. Lucifer when he isn't angry is very loyal to Atmos to the point that he doesn't really care as long as its not harmful to Atmos. The shadow king is very much in love with Atmos after being connected to the dragon for so long. What is surprising is that he isn't just angry at everything Lucifer can be pretty generous and even patient at times.

Story spoilers:

We are first introduced to Lucy in 4-12 where its revealed that whenever Atmos sleeps he dreams of the shadow king. During their meeting Lucifer urges Atmos to take the dragon king's throne from Gaia and become the God of El Dorado.

Turns out long time ago Barboros implanted the star ruby in Atmos which connected the fire dragon and shadow king of indignition together. Also if Atmos gets angry the volcano lair of Surtsey will erupt.

When Barboros shows up demanding Gaia back Atmos takes Gaia to the center of Surtsey's lair while Lucifer rallys the villagers against Barboros.

Gaia dumps Atmos and the dragon begins to rage. To stop the destruction of the world Gaia takes up the sword Balmung against Atmos. Lucifer dives in front of Atmos to defend him but both get stabbed. However Gaia only used his God powers to cut off Atmos and Lucifer's connection to the volcano so now Atmos and Lucifer can't end the world via volcano anymore.

After Chapter 4 Lucifer usually appears whenever Atmos does or as just another member of the Surtsey crew.

Wrapping up Lucifer is quite a bit. I like him he might be one of my favorite Surtsey characters mostly cause he has an actual character. Its pretty neat that unlike other shadow kings he isn't really using Atmos if anything its the other way around.

[soffij]

The problem of Lucy

If you are interested in stories about the Narnia aftermath of the Pevensie siblings you might enjoy this.

Watch it on 1080 quality for best experience.

There was a time, dark and divine, Exciting and new, shameful and true Free to explore, we had it all. Towering trust, insatiable lust Clouding the truth, both of us knew This sordid affair is ending in tears Yes we would go on knowing the wrong Until the day it was taken away Oh, all our love fell down to Earth. Here, broken and cold, with great remorse But for a while it all made sense It might have been just a dark pretense But you had me And I loved it To be with you, to be the one, To live a lie It really got me all excited. I felt wanted Then in the night the sorrow inside Was taken away. Deliverance came Fell from the sky. Heaven replied Salvation in streams, silent and clean All that we were, all that we knew Faded away with tears in the rain. Yes all that we were, all that we knew Is fading away like tears in the rain. All that we were, all that we knew Fading away All that we were, all that we knew Fading away All that we were, all that we knew Fading away All that we were, all that we knew Fading away

There's also a first draft of the first part of the video, it's a bit different and it's only 2 minutes long. I published it on YT and there's a tumblr post about it (with the thumbnail I created for it but couldn't attach to it), but soon I will upload it to vimeo.

[chronotopes]

my main critiques of my tutorial paper is that it's way too scattered. should focus on one Young Girl Protagonist per author (probably nan for jones, tiffany for pratchett, lyra for pullman). And then should probably mention them within the context of Lucy Pevensie and Alice Inwonderland (and, sigh, wendy, even though peter pan is not a book i ever read and i don't really gaf about it though perhaps i should), and the ways the characters of tiffany/lyra/nan continue and engage with with that tradition of Young Girl As Witness Of Magic. (coraline would def fit into the postmodern camp too, i'm just not as interested in gaiman's work as i am in the other three. No Im Biased Against Him.jpg). on one hand theres something really fun about how lucy is the moral center of the kids in narnia specifically because of her unwavering belief, whereas tiffany/nan/lyra/coraline's tasks are in large part to question and disbelieve the structural narratives that shape their worlds and/or the other worlds they enter. and on the other hand the pivotal importance of Questioning is not wholly a Poststructuralist Fantasy invention, asking questions is a key part of what alice does throughout her journey and is of course critical to unmasking the titular wizard of oz (which is not part of the british fantasy tradition but rather a much sparser american fantasy tradition, but is vaguely relevant here for obvious reasons)

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"The dean at the University of Georgia’s law school has ordered its first amendment law clinic to cease all work related to public records law – including a lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation, the non-profit organization behind a planned $109m training center colloquially known as Cop City.

Dean Peter B “Bo” Rutledge gave the order to clinic director Clare R Norins within weeks of the clinic’s February announcement that one of its attorneys would be representing the digital news outlet Atlanta Community Press Collective, or ACPC, and the Chicago-based digital transparency research organization Lucy Parsons Labs in a lawsuit against the police foundation. Both groups filed the suit after making numerous queries to the organization under Georgia’s open records act, only to be ignored.

Ed Vogel, a researcher at Lucy Parsons Labs and a plaintiff, called the timing of the decision “alarming”, adding that Rutledge “has a responsibility to be completely transparent about why it was made”.

....

Rutledge later sent the Guardian a statement asserting that the move was “part of ongoing efforts to align the First Amendment Clinic’s activities more closely with the institution’s educational mission”.

This is “puzzling” given that the clinic’s own website says the issues it focuses on include “government transparency”, and “that transparent government is essential to a free, open and democratic society”, noted Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.

���This is frankly impossible to achieve if the dean of the law school takes open-records work off the table. Government transparency is composed of ‘sunshine’ and public records laws,” he said.

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the fight against Cop City has drawn national and global headlines, particularly since 18 January of last year, when state troopers shot and killed Manuel Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita, who was camping in protest at a public park near the Cop City site – the first such incident in US history. Opposition to the project has come from a wide range of local and national supporters, with concerns such as unchecked police militarization and clearing forests in an era of climate crisis. Atlanta police say the center is needed for “world-class” training.

...

Rutledge clerked for Clarence Thomas, and is featured in a painting included in ProPublica’s reporting on Republican donor Harlan Crow’s gifts to the supreme court justice.

“The fact that this institution that embodies and makes up so much of the power structure in our state is limiting itself from supplying a critical tool for government transparency is appalling and disappointing,” Barnes added.

The decision doesn’t just affect the Cop City case. Various local press outlets this week have expressed concern after learning about losing free legal help with public records. Appen Media, based in the suburbs north of Atlanta, wrote that “[j]ournalists across Georgia are mourning the loss of a crucial service”.

The suit against the police foundation, meanwhile, could have an impact beyond Georgia, said Vogel.

“If a decision is made that makes them subject to open records requests,” he said, “it will set a precedent that others will follow around the country.”

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

1940s

40s Steven “Steve” Rodgers (Pre Serum)

40s Steven “Steve” Rodgers (Post Serum)

40s James “Bucky” Barnes

40s Margaret “Peggy” Carter

40s Howard Stark

Avengers & Family

Anthony “Tony” Stark/Iron Man

Steven “Steve” Rodgers

Natalia “Nat” Romanoff

Clinton “Clint” Barton

Wanda Maximoff

Pietro Maximoff

Samuel “Sam” Wilson

James “Bucky” Barnes

Kate Bishop

Yelena Belova

Lila Barton

Cassie Lang (Child)

Extras

TASM Peter Parker

TASM Gwen Stacey

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Samuel “Sam” Wilson & James “Bucky” Barnes

Natalia “Nat” Romanoff & Clinton “Clint” Barton

Steve Rodgers & Bucky Barnes

Twilight

Vampires

Carlisle Cullen

Esme Cullen

Alice Cullen

Emmett Cullen

Renesmee Cullen

Rosalie Hale

Jasper Whitlock/Hale

Bree Tanner

Wolves

Jacob Black

Seth Clearwater

Humans

Charlie Swan

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Emmett Cullen & Rosalie Hale

Alice Cullen & Rosalie Hale

Alice Cullen & Emmett Cullen

The Santa Clause

The Elves

Bernard The Head Elf

Curtis The Elf

Judy The Elf

Abby The Elf

The Claus Family

Scott Calvin/Santa Claus

Carol Newman/Mrs. Claus

Buddy Calvin-Claus

Sandra Calvin-Claus

Extras

Charlie Calvin

Lucy Miller

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Bernard The Head Elf & Curtis

Sandra Calvin-Claus & Bernard The Head Elf (What I Imagine Their Relationship Would Be Like)

Sandra Calvin-Claus & Lucy Miller (What I Imagine Their Relationship Would Be Like)

Five Nights at Freddy’s

The Afton Family

William Afton (Games)

Mrs. Afton

Michael Afton/Mike Schmidt (Games)

Michael Afton (Teen) (Games)

Elizabeth Afton

Crying Child

The Emily Family

Henry Emily

Charlotte “Charlie” Emily (Games)

Charlotte “Charlie” Emily (Books)

Sammy Emily

Missing Children’s Incident

Cassidy MCI

Susie MCI

Fritz MCI

Jeremy MCI

Gabriel MCI

Five Nights At Freddy’s One

Bonnie The Bunny

Chica The Chicken

Foxy The Pirate Fox

Five Nights At Freddy’s Two

Toy Freddy

Toy Bonnie

Toy Chica

Puppet

Mangle

Withered Bonnie

Withered Chica

Withered Foxy

Five Nights At Freddy’s Four

Nightmare Freddy

Nightmare Bonnie

Nightmare Chica

Nightmare Foxy

Nightmarionne

Nightmare Mangle

Nightmare Fredbear

Nightmare

Sister Location

Funtime Freddy

Bon Bon

Funtime Foxy

Circus Baby

Ballora

Bonnet

Lolbit

Pizzeria Simulator

Scrapbaby

L.E.F.T.E

Security Puppet

Helpy

Mr. Hippo

Happy Frog

Pigpatch

Security Breach

Glamrock Freddy Fazbear

Glamrock Chica

Roxanne Wolf

Montgomery Gator

Sundrop

Moondrop

Mini Music Man

DJ Music Man

Vanny

Vanessa (Games)

Gregory “Fazbear”

Ruin

Shattered Freddy

Shattered Chica

Shattered Roxy

Shattered Monty

Eclipse

Cassie

Five Nights At Freddy’s Movie

Mike Schmidt (Movie)

Vanessa (Movie)

Abby Schmidt

Garrett Schmidt

Fredbear’s Family Diner

Spring Bonnie

Fredbear

Springtrap

Golden Freddy

Golden Freddy

Extras

Glamrock Bonnie

Shattered Bonnie

Glamrock Foxy

Shattered Foxy

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Michael Afton & Charlie Emily

Charlie Emily & Elizabeth Afton

Michael Afton & Crying Child (Especially With The GlamMike And GregBot Theories in mind)

Stranger Things

The Kids

Eleven/Jane Hopper

Max Mayfield

Mike Wheeler

Will Byers

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Erica Sinclair

The Teens/Young Adults

Steve Harrington

High School Steve

Robin Buckley

High School Robin

Adults

Jim Hopper

Joyce Byers

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Eleven/Jane Hopper & Max Mayfield

Dustin Henderson & Steve Harrington

Steve Harrington & Robin Buckley

Harry Potter

Harry’s Year

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ron Weasley

Neville Longbottom

Draco Malfoy

Below Harry’s Year

Ginny Weasley

Luna Lovegood

Above Harry’s Year

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Teachers/Adults

Minerva Mcgonagall

Rubeus Hagrid

Severus Snape

Remus Lupin (Adult)

Sirius Black (Adult)

Molly Weasley

Marauders Era

Remus Lupins (Teen)

Sirius Black (Teen)

James Potter (Teen)

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Luna Lovegood & Neville Longbottom

Ginny Weasley & Hermione Granger

Fred Weasley & George Weasley

The Hunger Games

District 12

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Primrose “Prim” Everdeen

District 11

Rue

District 7

Johanna Mason

District 4

Finnick Odair

Annie Cresta

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Katniss Everdeen & Finnick Odair

Finnick Odair & Annie Cresta

Haymitch Abernathy & Effie Trinket

Anne With An E

The Kids

Anne Shirley

Ruby Gillis

Diana Berry

Ka’kwet

Tillie Boulter

Josie Pie

Jane Andrews

Minnie May Berry

Cole Mackenzie

Jerry Baynard

Gilbert Blythe

Moody Spurgeon

Billy Andrews

The Adults

Marilla Cuthbert

Matthew Cuthbert

Sebastian Lacroix

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Anne Shirley & Jerry Baynard

Ruby Gillis & Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley & Diana Berry

Julie And The Phantoms

Julie Molina

Luke Patterson

Reginald “Reggie” Peters

Alex Mercer

Flynn Taylor

Top Three Favorite Character Combos

Julie Molina & Luke Patterson

Alex Mercer & Julie Molina

Luke Patterson & Alex Mercer

And a couple others

What I Will Write And Will NOT Write

What I Will Write

Angst

Fluff

Hurt/comfort

Platonic Relationships

Romantic Relationships

What I Will Not Write

Smut

Incest

Anything that I am uncomfortable with

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1928, 1937, 1946, 1954, 1962

thanks friend!!!

1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)

several movies this year i just love (The Wind! The Crowd! The Circus! Steamboat Bill Jr.!) but everything about this film is kind of undeniable. between Falconetti's singular performance and the emotional wallop it manages to pull off, it's an unforgettable movie (and one i really need to rewatch)

1937 - Make Way for Tomorrow (dir. Leo McCarey) and The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey)

if i had to pick just one... i mean, i guess Make Way for Tomorrow, but the fact of the matter is that Leo McCarey directed the two best films of the year. and for my money, one of them is the saddest goddamn movie ever made and the other is funniest goddamn movie ever made. beulah bondi and irene dunne also both give the best performances of the year (and they both play women named lucy!). unreal that he was able to pull this off.

(i did 1946 yesterday but here's what i said!)

1946 - It’s a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra)

as basic or as predictable as this pick is, it’s undoubtedly my favorite film of the year. still knocks me over every time I watch it. plus it features arguably the best performance of all time, which is a huge plus.

but what a deep, rich year. the actual best picture winner, The Best Years of Our Lives would probably be my #1 in just about any other year. and then there’s My Darling Clementine, A Matter of Life and Death, Great Expectations, Notorious… lord!!

1954 - Sansho the Bailiff (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)

Mizoguchi quietly dominated the early 1950s, and Sansho is his masterpiece. as emotionally shattering as any film ever made, plus a whole slew of incredible performances, including the underrated kyoko kagawa.

incredible year, btw. other highlights for me include On the Waterfront, Rear Window, Johnny Guitar, Seven Samurai, A Star is Born, Twenty-Four Eyes, La Strada, It Should Happen to You, Sabrina, Hobson's Choice, Salt of the Earth, Senso, Godzilla, White Christmas, The Caine Mutiny, Dial M for Murder, Carmen Jones... i mean good lord. the well runs DEEP.

1962 - Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda)

i go back and forth between these two masterpieces so much. Lawrence of Arabia is as epic and breathtaking as a film can get, with an astounding human story at its center. Cléo from 5 to 7 is practically the opposite, a delicate and intimate and self-contained character study. Lawrence is so male-centric that it doesn't have a single credited woman in the cast, while the unabashedly feminine Cléo is a tour de force from Varda. and my god, the performances (Peter O'Toole! Omar Sharif! Corinne Marchand!). the music!! unreal. we're lucky to have both of these.

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Masterlist

Characters the fic centers around will follow the title (a ship name for romantic fics, "X and Y" for gen fics) as well as the rating of the fic (G, Teen, Mature)

☀︎ - Fics over 10k

★ - Fics over 5k

✮ - Fics over 3k

✩ - Fics over 1k

☾ - Fics under 1k

Bold - Fics posted to Tumblr, non-bolded fics are on ao3

Call of Duty

✩ Blank Shell (Makayuri) (M)

✩ Good Times for a Change (Nikprice) (G)

✩ I Don't Think It Happened Like That (Adlerbell) (T)

✩ I'll Follow You Down (Adlerbell) (M)

☾ It's A Long Walk Home (Woodsmason) (T)

✩ Its Been Awhile Since Beirut (Kamaprice) (G)

☾ Never Change (Woodsmason) (G)

✩ Roaches Can't Die (Roach and Ghost) (T)

✩ Sit With Me Awhile, Won’t You? (Bellazar) (T)

✩ Solace (Cherenko) (T)

✩ Two Steps Forward (Woodsmason, Rezmason) (T)

✩ Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve (Woodsmason) (T)

Black Ops Winter Fest 2024 Collection

☾ Caught in a Snowstorm (Bell and Lazar) (G)

✩ Home for the Holidays (Bell and Adler) (T)

☾ Cooking Together (Woodsmason) (T)

Dracula

✩ Jack Seward's First Campfire (Arthur, Jack and Quincy) (G)

✩ Mina's Train Station Dilemma (Mina and Lucy) (G)

✩ Triumph in Sin (Renward) (T)

Fallout

✮ Are You Looking to Get Stoned or Shot? (MacCready) (T)

✩ Deacon vs. the Deadly Washing Machine (Sole Survivor and Deacon) (T)

★ One if by Land, Two if by Balcony (Preston and MacCready) (M)

✮ Who Needs Morality When You Have Me? (Courier Six and Benny) (T)

Metal Gear Solid

☾ Afghanistan, 1984 (Kaz Miller) (M)

✩ I Wish We Never Did (Vamp/Raiden) (T)

★ Its Just Three Days, What Could Go Wrong? (Ocelot/Kaz Miller/Venom Snake) (T)

✩ Please Don't Say You Love Me (Venom Snake/Ocelot) (T)

X-Men

✩ Ghosts Aren’t Real…Right? (Jean, Scott, Ororo, Kurt, and Peter) (G)

✮ I Know the Way It Ends Before It’s Begun (Cherik) (T)

✮ I’ll Take a Quiet Life (Cherik) (T)

✮ Just Plane Stupid (Deadpool and Wolverine) (T)

☀︎ Right Here in My Arms (Enjoy the Silence) (Cherik) (T)

✩ A Silly Little Trick of the Mind (Cherik) (G)

✮ Talk It Out for Once (Romy) (G)