#A Fistful Of Alice (UK)

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𝔄𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔢 ℭ𝔬𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯 - 𝔘𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔶 𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔰

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Character Playlist: Gwen (Shújūn) Liu

Number four in our character playlist series, this time for episode 4, which is focused on our beloved Gwen / Shújūn. Like the other playlists for Dai, Morgan and Perry, I'll be going through track by track and talking a bit more about Gwen's character and why I included these specific songs. Enjoy!

1.Mirror Mirror by Juniper Vale

Followed me into a dream And twirled me out of time Down a trail of twisted tales That mythemized my mind All my memories they ring a bell But taper with each toll Mirror, mirror who am I now? I don't know

Like everyone, Gwen is struggling with identity in this apocalypse. Especially as a woman who grew up in Hong Kong and is now stranded in the UK, with no way to know what's happened to her friends and family, being judged and shaped by a British story, she's being pulled in a lot of different directions at once. For her, it feels like a very strange waking dream. She's probably the most Alice in Wonderland character in the series.

2. Paper Mache by Iris Lune

I almost lost everything I got to this Scratch at my soul, I clench my fist Counting the lights on my way out There is no time to lose, must replay the scene

Fundamentally Gwen is a survivor. She was alone in a monster-infested wilderness for far too long, and as to what happened to the other survivors she was with? It wasn't pretty. Gwen is the definition of that quote about hope being covered in blood and mud and getting up again anyway.

3. Eastward of Eden by Amelia Day

Our children, they spread to outnumber the stars Oh, Eastward of Eden, where day turns to dark Dark Leave it all, leave it all, leave it all behind

The world ended. And again, Gwen in particular feels lost in an alien and foreign landscape, completely disconnected from the world she knew. She has family in the UK - aunts and cousins, but she only moved to Leicester for university. Now she's 6,000 miles from Hong Kong and trapped, forced to forge a new path for herself with no one there to help her. And on top of all of that, she's inherited this strange, massive power that influences her interactions with everything and everyone she meets.

4. All Things Devour by aeseaes

worms and spiders spin inside her like the story make me holy this thing all things devours

Gwen, like the others in the gang with Names, has a very conflicted relationship with Guinevere. She sees the name as a tool, a weapon in her arsenal that's helped her survive. But she's also painfully aware that she's dancing with fire, and she's seen the ways that her Name puts her and the people she loves in danger, too. She worries that one day she'll put the costume on and not be able to take it off.

5. Sad Forever by Lauv

'Cause lately, I've been in the backseat to my own life Trying to take control, but I don't know how to I don't wanna be sad forever I don't wanna be sad no more I don't wanna wake up and wonder What the hell am I doing this for?

Gwen is a woman whose actions speak louder than words. She has to be careful around Perry, Morgan and Dai because she's a stranger and she needs the shelter they offer. But privately, she's determined not to give into fear or despair, despite all the grief and horror she's suffered. She's so frustrated by the way she's being pulled around this apocalypse like a puppet, and she's determined to take the reins.

6. Only Lonely by The Ballroom Thieves

She knows I have a tendency I make mountains out of stones And with that timber, burn a hundred fires

The first time they meet, Morgan brings Gwen back to reality. Morgan's stubbornness, her directness and her anger help snap Gwen out of the daydream of the story and back into reality. Gwen finds Morgan fascinating, and funny, and grounding like nothing and no one else she's ever met. Whenever Gwen is scared of getting lost in the clouds and being unable to come back, Morgan anchors her.

7. On Board by Alana Henderson

I'll be the figurehead On your ship's bow I'll be the last glimpse of a topsail As we go down I'll be waiting on the seabed Repeating the words Don't forget (you said), ships were not built to be safe

Gwen is maybe more conscious than Morgan of how explosive and dangerous to both of them their closeness can be - the way that others might see it as a threat, the way their own stories might react in ways they can't predict. And despite this, despite knowing that Morgan is an objectively dangerous woman to her, Gwen can't help but be drawn to her.

8. Throw Me in the Water by WILD

Pushin' away Only gets me closer Fallin' fast Can we move it slower?

Morgan is not good at creating relationships. Gwen is amazing at making new friends, and Gwen can see all the ways that Morgan prickles and pushes her away. Gwen chooses to ignore the spiky armour Morgan wears. If anything, she finds it an interesting challenge. Morgan is the wild untamed stallion and Gwen is the horse girl in this movie. Gwen desperately wants to untangle the knot that Morgan is and see what lies underneath, again, despite all the danger that presents.

9. We Will All Be Changed by Seryn

We look for home, but we'll never know Distance will grow, but I'll always know

What happened to Hong Kong and her dad, Kai, is a huge unanswered question that lingers over Gwen's head every day, this unresolved grief that she has to get up every day and live with. But she keeps going, in the hope that one day she'll answer it.

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(G) (Word Count: 1,800) Future Fic, Fluff, Kid-Fic

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"Again! Again!"

"I don't know you two…"

"Just one more time, and then we'll stop asking, we promise."

Alex sighs and looks down at Andrew and Alice's sweet, cherubic faces, cheeks flushed from the cold and hair wild from the wind.

Tiny tyrants. Master negotiators. They have Alex wrapped around their little, royal fingers, and they know it.

"Please, Uncle Alex," Alice asks as she steps forward. She's the older of the two, the mouthpiece, and Alex can't look directly at her, or else he knows he'll fold.

"Your Uncle Alex is tired, okay? He's old."

"Uncle Henry is older and plays with us longer."

A dirty trick, tapping into Alex's love of competition. She's brutal, destined to rule the UK with an iron fist, but for now, she's only a six-year-old girl who cannot boss Alex around.

"Maybe when your Uncle Henry comes back from talking with your dad, he can take over, but until then—."

"Please, please, please, please!" Alice chants as she throws her arms around Alex's leg.

Andrew toddles his way over and wraps his arms around Alex's other leg, looking up at Alex with a pronounced pout.

"Jesus Christ," Alex mumbles under his breath.

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" Sammy, The Way-Out Seal 1962 Superdad 1973 G 1h 36m Charley And The Angel 1973 G 1h 33m The Castaway Cowboy (1974) G The Hunter And The Rockstar 1980 Nr 60 Min "Escapade in Florence 1962 1h 21m " "The Ghosts of Buxley Hall 1980 G 1h 33m

" "Condorman 1981 PG 1h 30m" Double Switch 1987 G 1h 32m The Love Bug 1997 Bruce Campbell Nr 1h 28m Herbie Fully Loaded 2005 G 1h 41m The Parent Trap 1998 PG 2h 8m Swiss Family Robinson 1960 G 2h 6min Blackbeard's Ghost 1968 G 1h 46m The Princess Bride PG 1987 · 1h 38m The Rocketeer 1991 PG 1h 48min The Three Musketeers 1993 PG 1h 45m The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 PG-13 2h 11m "Shanghai Noon 2000 PG-13 1h 50m Shanghai Knights 2003 PG-13 1h 54m" "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 PG 2h 23m" "Cast Away 2000 PG-13 2h 23m" Holes 2003 PG 1h 57m National Treasure 2004 PG 2h 11m National Treasure: Book Of Secrets Pg 2007  2h 11m Sky High 2005 PG 1h 40min Sahara 2005 PG-13 2h 4m Bedtime Stories PG 2008  1h 39m "The Martian 2015 PG-13 2h 24m The Martian  extended edition 2016 " true story Tombstone 1993 R 2h 10m Miracle 2004 PG 2h 15m Ford v Ferrari PG-13 2019  2h 32m other Cheaper by the Dozen PG 2003 ‧ 1h 46m home improvement 1991–1999 Dreamworks Wb Mousehunt 1997 PG 1h 39m Warner Bros "1. The Jazz Singer 1927 NR  Yes no 2. Broadway Melody 1929 NR Yes 3. The Public Enemy 1931 NR Yes 4. Cimarron 1931 NR Yes 5. Grand Hotel 1932 NR Yes 6. 42nd Street 1933 NR Yes 7. Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 NR Yes 8. A Night at the Opera 1935 NR Yes 9. The Great Ziegfeld 1936 NR Yes 10. The Life of Emile Zola 1937 NR Yes 11. The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 PG Yes 12. Dark Victory 1939 NR Yes 13. Gone with The Wind 1939 G Yes 14. Wizard of Oz 1939 G Yes 15. The Philadelphia Story 1940 NR Yes 16. The Maltese Falcon 1941 NR Yes 17. Citizen Kane 1941 PG Yes no 18. Mrs. Miniver 1942 NR Yes 19. Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 NR Yes 20. Casablanca 1943 PG Yes 21. Gaslight 1944 NR Yes no 22. Anchors Aweigh 1944 NR Yes 23. Mildred Pierce 1945 NR Yes 24. Best Years of Our Lives 1946 NR Yes 25. The Big Sleep 1946 NR Yes 26. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 NR Yes 27. A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version) 1951 PG Yes 28. An American in Paris 1951 NR Yes no 29. Singin' in the Rain 1952 G Yes 30. A Star Is Born 1954 PG Yes 31. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 G Yes 32. East of Eden 1955 PG Yes no 33. Rebel Without A Cause 1955 PG13 Yes 34. The Searchers 1956 NR Yes 35. Around the World in 80 Days 1956 G Yes no 36. Giant 1956 G Yes 37. A Face in the Crowd 1957 NR Yes 38. Gigi 1958 G Yes 39. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 NR Yes 40. North By Northwest 1959 NR Yes 41. Ben-Hur 1962 G Yes 42. How the West Was Won 1962 G Yes 43. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? 1962 NR Yes 44. Viva Las Vegas 1964 NR Yes 45. Doctor Zhivago 1965 PG13 Yes 46. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? 1966 NR Yes 47. The Dirty Dozen 1967 NR Yes 48. Cool Hand Luke 1967 GP ? 49. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 G Yes 50. Bullitt 1968 PG Yes no 51. The Wild Bunch The Original Director's Cut 1969 R yes filtered maybe 53. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 1971 G Yes no 52. Dirty Harry 1971 R yes filtered 54. Cabaret 1972 PG Yes 55. A Clockwork Orange 1972 R yes filtered skip scenes 56. Enter the Dragon 1973 R Yes no 57. the exorcist extended director's cut 1973 R NO 58. Blazing Saddles 1974 R yes filtered 59. Dog Day Afternoon 1975 R yes filtered 60. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975 R yes filtered 61. All The President's Men 1976 PG Yes 62. superman the movie expanded edition 1977 PG Yes 64. The Shining 1980 R NO 63. Caddyshack 1980 R yes filtered 65. Clash of the Titans 1981 PG Yes 66. Chariots of Fire 1981 PG Yes 67. the outsiders the complete novel 1983 PG13 Yes 68. National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 R NO 69. Risky Business 1983 R NO 70. The Right Stuff 1983 PG Yes 71. amadeus director's cut 1984 R yes 72. The Goonies 1985 PG Yes 73. The Color Purple 1985 PG13 no 74. lethal weapon director's cut 1987 NR Yes 75. Full Metal Jacket 1987 R NO 76. Batman 1989 PG13 Yes 77. Driving Miss Daisy 1989 PG Yes 78. Goodfellas 1990 R yes filtered 79. Unforgiven 1992 R yes filtered skip scenes 80. The Bodyguard 1992 R yes filtered skip scenes 81. The Fugitive 1993 PG13 Yes 82. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) 1994 NR Yes 83. Shawshank Redemption 1994 R Yes Filtered 84. Interview with the Vampire 1994 R Yes Filtered 85. Se7en 1995 R yes filtered 86. L.A. Confidential 1997 R yes filtered skip scenes 87. The Matrix 1999 R yes filtered 88. The Notebook 2004 PG13 Yes 89. Million Dollar Baby 2005 PG13 Yes 90. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 PG Yes 91. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring T 2001 PG13 Yes 92. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers T 2002 PG13 Yes 93. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King T 2003 PG13 Yes 94. The Departed 2006 R yes filtered 95. 300 2007 R NO 96. The Dark Knight 2008 PG13 Yes 97. The Hangover 2009 R NO 98. The Blind Side 2009 PG13 Yes 99. Sherlock Holmes 2009 PG13 Yes no 100. Inception 2010 PG13 Yes bonus disc Yes

" Angels in the Outfield 1951 nr 1h 39m The Flintstones 1960–1966 Looney Tunes Golden Collection NR "Tom and Jerry: Classic Collection Side 1 (Volume 1) Puss Gets the Boot The Midnight Snack The Night Before Christmas Fraidy Cat Dog Trouble Puss n' Toots The Yankee Doodle Mouse Sufferin' Cats! The Bowling Alley-Cat Fine Feathered Friend The Lonesome Mouse Baby Puss Side 2 The Zoot Cat The Bodyguard Puttin' on the Dog Mouse Trouble 3 The Mouse Comes to Dinner Mouse in Manhattan Tee for Two Flirty Birdy Quiet Please! Springtime for Thomas The Milky Waif Trap Happy Volume 2 Side 1 Solid Serenade Cat Fishin' Part Time Pal The Cat Concerto Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse Salt Water Tabby A Mouse in the House The Invisible Mouse Kitty Foiled The Truce Hurts Old Rockin' Chair Tom Professor Tom Mouse Cleaning Side 2 Polka-Dot Puss The Little Orphan Hatch Up Your Troubles Heavenly Puss The Cat and the Mermouse Love That Pup Jerry's Diary Tennis Chumps Little Quacker Saturday Evening Puss Texas Tom Jerry and the Lion Safety Second Volume 3 Side 1 Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl The Framed Cat Cue Ball Cat Casanova Cat Jerry and the Goldfish Jerry's Cousin Sleepy-Time Tom His Mouse Friday Slicked-up Pup Nit-Witty Kitty Cat Napping The Flying Cat The Duck Doctor Side 2 The Two Mouseketeers Smitten Kitten Triplet Trouble Little Runaway Fit To Be Tied Push-Button Kitty Cruise Cat The Dog House The Missing Mouse Jerry and Jumbo Johann Mouse That's My Pup Just Ducky Volume 4 Side 1 Two Little Indians Life with Tom Puppy Tale Posse Cat Hic-cup Pup Little School Mouse Baby Butch Mice Follies Neapolitan Mouse Downhearted Duckling Pet Peeve 2 Touché, Pussy Cat! Southbound Duckling Side 2 Pup on a Picnic Mouse for Sale Designs on Jerry Tom and Chérie Smarty Cat Pecos Pest That's My Mommy The Flying Sorceress The Egg and Jerry Muscle Beach Tom Down Beat Bear Blue Cat Blues Barbecue Brawl Volume 5 Side 1 Tops with Pops Timid Tabby Feedin' the Kiddie Mucho Mouse Tom's Photo Finish Happy Go Ducky Royal Cat Nap The Vanishing Duck Robin Hoodwinked Tot Watchers Side 2 Switchin' Kitten Down and Outing It's Greek to Me-ow! High Steaks Mouse into Space Landing Stripling Calypso Cat Dicky Moe The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit Tall in the Trap Sorry Safari Buddies Thicker Than Water Carmen Get It! Volume 6 Side 1 Pent-House Mouse The Cat Above and The Mouse Below Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? Much Ado About Mousing Snowbody Loves Me The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life Tom-ic Energy Bad Day at Cat Rock The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off Haunted Mouse I'm Just Wild About Jerry Of Feline Bondage The Year of the Mouse The Cat's Me-Ouch! Duel Personality Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary Side 2 Jerry-Go-Round Love Me, Love My Mouse Puss 'n' Boats Filet Meow Matinee Mouse The A-Tom-Inable Snowman Catty-Cornered Cat and Dupli-cat O-Solar Meow Guided Mouse-ille Rock 'n' Rodent Cannery Rodent The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. Surf-Bored Cat Shutter Bugged Cat Advance and Be Mechanized Purr-Chance to Dream

" Tom And Jerry Spotlight Collection NR "Tom and Jerry's ultimate collection ""Tom and Jerry's Winter Wackiness Buddies Thicker Than Water Snowbody Loves Me The A-Tom-Inable Snowman Northern Light Fish Fight Doggone Hill Hog Sasquashed Snow Mouse "" ""Tom and Jerry: In the Dog House 24 Karat Kat Destruction Junction Beefcake Tom Bend It Like Thomas Tom's Photo Finish Game Set Match Cat Napping Cat Fishin' The Bodyguard Quiet Please! Solid Serenade Slicked-Up Pup Puttin' on the Dog The Framed Cat Tot Watchers The Invisible Mouse Pet Peeve Feeding Time DJ Jerry Beach Bully Bingo A Life Less Guarded The Dog House "" ""Wizard of Oz Tom and Jerry Back to Oz Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz Classic Style"" ""Tom and Jerry: Mouse Trouble EPISODES Dise One Down ae Ocing-Tee for Twe-Rock wRvden Jery, emy, Quile Contary 6ed Day at Crt Pack Love Me, Love y Mouse s hee a Doclsr in the Hociny Schtick Lme Scheel Mse Desins o Mouse Troable Done Bat Boar emy and the L Mouse fr Sae Pratisderls Disc Two ackhanvnered Cat Toncat Superstar uite Bg Mouse-Cat Show Catastrie Don't Bmg Your Pet to Sehocl Dey Cry Uncle Ca Gor our Lugage? Feedg are Surmer Squrstig Salt water Tably The mtsbe Meuse-D/ Jey Gane af Meuse od Cat Zot Ovt er Soape itty Focd La rge& (ne Sees pish4wngi"" ""Tom & Jerry No Mice Allowed Disc 1 Smitten Kitten Baby Puss Sufferin' Cats! Baby Butch Timid Tabby Beach Bully Bingo Cat and Dupli-cat The Zoot Cat Blue Cat Blues Jerry's Cousin Springtime for Thomas The League of Cats Game of Mouse & Cat Catfish Follies Smarty Cat Disc 2 Joy Riding Jokers Power Tom Abracadumb Piranha Be Loved Spaced Out Cat Kitty Cat Blues Tom and Cherie Octo Suave aka Bully Binge The Bodyguard Solid Serenade 24 Karat Kat Salt Water Tabby Over the River and Boo! The Woods (Magic Forest) Busy Buddies Tiger Cat"" ""Tom and Jerry's Global Games "" Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes ""Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures, Vol. 2 Cortoons Taps woh AopMortr Con Tom n Jiyate Renod Bd Fro Bodg Sevday Eeiny Pss A-Tminde $rewnunSuf-Berrm Srendoy Laes Pu Porsanusy Thoy a Dectar a he oe? Kuntee Movse The eiran af rdpdnve y aod Mi Moedy Urgas Egin &Eowd etm Erol, Fronqan& Fspavs"" ""Tom and Jerry and Friends Volume 1 Barbecue Brawl Happy Go Ducky Hic-cup Pup Little Quacker Rock 'N' Rodent Neapolitan Mouse Pet Peeve Pup on a Picnic 0-Solar-Meow Robin Hoodwinked Guided Mouse-ille Timid Tabby The Vanishing Duck That's My Mommy "" ""Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon Special Medieval Mouse Fire Breathing Tom Cat Medieval Menace The Itch "" ""Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 5 Mucho Mouse Tot Watchers A Mouse in the House Tennis Chumps The Framed Cat His Mouse Friday The Duck Doctor Little Runaway Fit To Be Tied The Dog House That's My Pup! Life with Tom Puppy Tale Posse Cat"" Tom and Jerry - The Fast and the Furry ""Tom and Jerry - The Movie Special The Invisible Mouse Just Ducky The Great Race "" ""Tom and Jerry's Musical Mayhem The Cat Concerto Setarday venig Pus Tom and jeryin the Mollyweod Boel Johamm Movne Carmen Get It Rock NRodeat 0fy"" Tom and Jerry: Santa's Little Helpers ""4 Kid Favorites: Tom and Jerry Adventures Tom and Jerry Tales, Vol. 5 magical misadventures tom and jerry magic ring The Flying Sorceress Haunted Mouse Get the Picture! Jerry's Magic Recipes The Sorcerer's Surprise Tom and Jerry - Cartoon Superstars Friends and Foes ... Mostly Foes

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" Gilligan's Island Season NR 1-3 1964–1992 "It's About Time NR 1966–1967

" Get Smart NR 1965–1970 Get Smart 2008 PG-13 1h 50m "Hobbit Extended Edition 1-2 PG-13 2h 50m 2 3h 6m 3 R 2h 24m

Lotr Extended Edition PG-13 11h 21m" Ocean's 8 2018 Pg 13 1h 51m Super Heroes Adventures Of Captain Marvel NR1941 3h 36m Spy Smasher NR 1942 3h 35m Wonder Woman NR 1975–1979 Batman Serial NR 1943-1949 Hop Harrigan America's Ace Of The Airways NR 1946 The Vigilante NR 1947 Congo Bill 1948 NR 4h 30m Blackhawk NR 1952 Superman Serials: The Complete 1948 & 1950 NR Adventures Of Superman  NR 1952–1958 The Superman Motion Picture Anthology PG 1978-2006 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman PG 1993–1997 "Smallville PG 2001–2011 season 5 dvd Vengeance Chronicles" Batman 1966–1968 G 25min The Flash PG 1990-1991 Wonder Woman NR 1974 "Superman:  The Animated Series PG 1996–2000 " The Six Million Dollar Man NR 1974–1978 Bionic Woman NR 1976–1978 The Incredible Hulk NR 1977–1982  68h 47m "The Incredible Hulk Returns NR 1988 The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk NR 1989 The Death Of The Incredible Hulk NR " British Avengers-new Avengers NR Dreamworks Universal "1 Antz October 2, 1998 Pg  83 Min 2 The Prince Of Egypt December 18, 1998 Pg  99 Min 3 The Road To El Dorado March 31, 2000 Pg  89 Min 4 Chicken Run Pg  84 Min June 23, 2000 5 Joseph: King Of Dreams November 7, 2000 Nr 75 Min 6 Shrek May 18, 2001 Pg  90 Min 7 Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron May 24, 2002 G  83 Min 8 Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas July 2, 2003 Pg  86 Min 9 Shrek 2 May 19, 2004 Pg  93 Min 10 Shark Tale October 1, 2004 Pg  90 Min 11 Madagascar May 27, 2005 Pg  86 Min 12 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-rabbit October 7, 2005 Pg  85 Min 13 Over The Hedge May 19, 2006 Pg  83 Min 14 Flushed Away November 3, 2006 Pg  85 Min 15 Shrek The Third May 18, 2007 Pg  93 Min 16 Bee Movie November 2, 2007 Pg  91 Min 17 Kung Fu Panda June 6, 2008 Pg  92 Min 18 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa November 7, 2008 Pg  89 Min 19 Monsters Vs. Aliens March 27, 2009 Pg  94 Min 20 How To Train Your Dragon March 26, 2010 Pg  98 Min 21 Shrek Forever After May 21, 2010 Pg  93 Min 22 Megamind November 5, 2010 Pg  95 Min 23 Kung Fu Panda 2 May 26, 2011 Pg  90 Min 24 Puss In Boots October 28, 2011 Pg  90 Min 25 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted June 8, 2012 Pg  93 Min 26 Rise Of The Guardians November 21, 2012 Pg  97 Min 27 The Croods March 22, 2013 Pg  98 Min 28 Turbo July 17, 2013 Pg  96 Min 29 Mr. Peabody & Sherman March 7, 2014 Pg  92 Min 30 How To Train Your Dragon 2 June 13, 2014 Pg  102 Min 31 Penguins Of Madagascar November 26, 2014 Pg  92 Min 32 Home March 27, 2015 Pg  94 Min 33 Kung Fu Panda 3 January 29, 2016 Pg  95 Min 34 Trolls November 4, 2016 Pg  92 Min 35 The Boss Baby March 31, 2017 Pg  97 Min 36 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie June 2, 2017 Pg  89 Min 37 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World February 22, 2019 Pg  104 Min 38 Abominable September 27, 2019 Pg 1h 37m 39 Trolls World Tour April 10, 2020 Pg  91 Min 40 The Croods: A New Age November 25, 2020 Pg  95 Min 41 Spirit Untamed June 4, 2021 Pg 1h 28m 42 The Boss Baby: Family Business July 2, 2021 Pg  107 Min/" Universal It Takes A Thief NR 1968–1970 Emergency! NR 1972–1979 Ellery Queen NR 1975–1976 TV PG 1h 40min The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries NR 1977–1979 "Smokey And The Bandit 1977 Smokey And The Bandit II 1980 Smokey And The Bandit Part 3 1983 Bandit: Bandit Goes Country 1994 Bandit: Bandit, Bandit 1994 Beauty And The Bandit Bandit's Silver Angel" Magnum Pi NR 1980–1988 A Team NR 1983–1987 Murder, She Wrote 1984–1996 Nr Murder, She Wrote Movie Collection 1997 2000 2001 2003 House TV-14 2004–2012  44min Big Miracle PG 2012  1h 47min Timeless Media Shout Factory Father Knows Best NR 1954–1960 Leave It To Beaver NR 1957–1963 Mister Ed 1961–1966 G 58h Daniel Boone Season NR 1964–1970 Beverly Hillbillies NR 1962–1966 Petticoat Junction Seasons 1-3 NR 1963-1966 Green Acres Season NR  1965–1971 return to green acres  Rescue From Gilligan's island "alias smith and jones NR 1971–1973" Quincy Me NR 1976–1983 The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams NR  1977–1978 Hart To Hart Season 1-5 1979–1984 PG 88h 20m Hart To Hart - Movies Are Murder Collection - 8 Films 1993-1996 1 In Dvd Case The Rest In Big Box hill street blues 1981–1987 T.J. Hooker NR 1982–1986 Street Hawk NR 1985 Family Or Dove pink panther classic cartoons bluray Addams Family NR  1964–1966 mrs arris goes to paris 1992 g 1h 32m A Green Journey (aka The Love She Sought) 1990 nr 1h 40m Mickey 2004 G 1h 44m Letters To Juliet 2010 G 1h 45 What To Expect When You're Expecting 2012 Pg13 1h 50 Decision 2012 1h 30min God's Country 2012 1h 36m Lukewarm 2012 1h 38min Nr 16 Stones 2014 Pg 1h 33min Nowhere Safe 2014 Pg 1h 32m The Ultimate Legacy 2015 PG 1h 30min Faith Of Our Fathers 2015 Pg13 1h 36m Blu-ray Cleaner Nr

[horselover107]

Captain John Hart, Note the Sarcasm

A Playlist for Torchwood Villians Fest. Descriptions and key lyrics under the cut (spoiler:most of those descriptions are just "was a vibe")

Warning for adult themes and sexuality explicit lyrics in some songs

Song 2 by Blur

It's from the soundtrack but also it sets a vibe

The Cult of Dionysus by the Orion Experience

I'm feeling devious You're looking glamorous Let's get mischievous And polyamorous Wine and women and wonderful vices Welcome to the cult of Dionysus

Sex, Drugs, and Violence by Green Day

Mainly here for the title tbh

Ex and Ohs by Elle King

John is the ex in this song

'Cause I found me a better lover in the UK Hey, hey, until I made my getaway

One, two, three, they gonna run back to me 'Cause I'm the best baby that they never gotta keep One, two, three, they gonna run back to me They always wanna come, but they never wanna leave

Ex's and the oh, oh, oh's they haunt me Like ghosts they want me to make 'em all They won't let go Ex's and oh's

Hit and Run by Lolo

I previously did a fic based on this song for Alice/Emiy but this song is ALSO a Jack and John backstory vibe

Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time by Panic! at the Disco

Really just here for the vibe

Champagne, cocaine, gasoline And most things in between

Bad Reputation by Joan Jett

I Don't Give a Damn Bout My Bad Reputation is a VIBE

So What by P!nk

A Jack/John vibe from the bar fight to "you weren't there, you let me fall"

Toxic by Britney Spears

Aside from the relationship vibe, literally just poison lipstick and the whole thing about The Rules

Kiss With a Fist by Florence and the Machine

Literally just this whole song is the bar fight make out scene

Bad Boyfriend by Garbage

Once again here for more vibes than anything else.

It's wild, the way you tease me It's wild, the way you free me It's wild, the way you reach me Wrapped me up in your wire from the start

Kill All Your Friends by My Chemical Romance

Here for the title because you know, exit wounds

It's been eight bitter years since I've been seeing your face Ba ba ba, ba ba ba And you're walking away And I will die in this place

Sometimes you scrape and sink so low I'm shocked at what you're capable of And if this is the coronation, I ain't feeling the love 'Cause we are all a bunch of animals that never paid attention in school So, tell me all about your problems, I was killing before killing was cool

I'm Going to be a Slut by Pansy Divison

I wanna live for pleasure I wanna live for fun So many lovely guys I want to sleep with every one

I'm gonna be a slut

Fuck Machine by Mindless Self Indulgence

Now we don't care If you're a girl or a toy If you're a game or a boy If you're nerd or a whore

You can have the sex with me (Woah-oh-oh) Science fiction fantasy

Also just the title and artist

Science Fiction by Rufio

Here for the future boy time agent vibes

Toxic Valentine by All Time Low

This is also kind of ALSO a Jack/John vibe.

Sex and white lies Handcuffs and alibis She lays her halo on the pillow where she sleeps Her heart beats, red wine My toxic valentine Lays her halo on her pillow that used to be... She lays her halo on her pillow that used to be mine

Whiskey in Hell by Anarbor

I hope they serve whiskey in hell, 'Cause I'm already on my way. And I've fucked up, You can't save me now. 'Cause I'm already on my way And I'll buy the first round If you come down. I hope they serve whiskey in hell.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: My Body Is Not an Apology by Megha Sood

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Megha Sood is a Pushcart-nominated Poet, Editor, and Blogger based in New Jersey, USA. She is a Poetry Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine” with Stanford University, USA. Works widely featured in journals, Poetry Society of New York, Kissing Dynamite, and many more. Author of Chapbook ( “My Body is Not an Apology”, FinishingLine press, 2021) and Full Length (“My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSongPress,2021).Recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize 2020, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR My Body Is Not an Apology by Megha Sood

My Body is Not An Apology is a testimony of female rebellion and a journey of self-discovery in a most wanted and unwanted way. The poems roar to voice the pain of silent torture, cruelty, and agony of a woman’s heart to reclaim her dignity not only as a female but also as an individual. This book is a fierce approach to life in poetry, and the poet dissects the ironies of women’s existence with razor-sharp language, intellect, and courage like Simone de Beauvoir. In the poet’s own words, it is a triumphant proclamation and an unfettered declaration.

–Kalpna Singh-Chitnis (Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker)

Sometimes with acerbic irony, sometimes with wise comeuppance, but never with hopeless resignation no matter how bleak the refracted rays of reality, Megha’s stanzas find their way through the blind alleys of patriarchy and misogyny looking it unblinking in the eye. The vulnerability of her perception is also her strength, as each stanza duals with difficult truths using the female body and the form of poetry as weapons of grit and gumption. This little book is a fist of fury and unveiling.

–Rochelle Potkar, Author of Paper Asylum & Bombay Hangovers

These poems recognize the body as the ‘eye of the storm’ in the turbulent churning of our age. The guttural cry of the feminine forges these poems with a primal rawness cast in images as varied as radishes, pickles, broken book spines, and armchairs. Megha Sood joins her unapologetic voice with urgency to erase any error of ambiguity, ‘You don’t own shit’. These poems will ‘sit like a welt’ on the tongue of the world.

–Usha Akella, Poet & Founder, Matwaala, South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival

A unique feminist exploration through the written word, investigating the body and the world society overlays atop women, Megha Sood does justice uncovering, discovering, and discarding herself to find an inexorably beautiful woman within. Sood’s My Body Is Not an Apology chisels away at the construct our society imposes on women, revealing an exemplar poet of the highest caliber.

–Joshua Corwin, author of Becoming Vulnerable

Megha Sood’s “My Body is Not an Apology” is a powerful debut with poetry that contains multitudes. These poems are fierce and unapologetic as they explore the toxic culture around gender-based discrimination and reproductive rights. Sood crafts with cutting precision as we read about personal experience and the influence of these issues in the wider world. Far from a desperate cry of the disenfranchised, these poems raise a fist and demand to be heard from a position of strength. Woven in and around every poem is the question that asks: what would life be like if we could change this? This book is a clarion call to eradicating gender-based injustice. It is also a book full of hope and empowerment.

–Juliette van der Molen, Poet, Writer,Feminist

My Body is Not an Apology by Megha Sood is a woman’s journey through gender-based discrimination. It is a cry and a plea as Sood questions, “How can you live a life like a broken spine of a book?” In her poems, we see a parallel to Sylvia Plath, and her words bring alive the voices of the Bronte Sisters, Emily Dickinson, and Phyllis Wheatley. At the same time, we see similarities to Sarojini Naidu’s rage and certitude when Sood says, “But I never give up …as I learned from the footsteps of warriors.” Sood’s My Body is Not An Apology is a whimper, a roar, an awakening in the feminist world.

–Meenakshi Mohan, Ed.D., Professor, writer, painter, critic

Megha Sood’s poems show a vulnerability that is welded to resilience in remarkably ingenious ways because poetry occupies the interstice between the felt and the unspoken.

Don’t let the aroma leave the pickle jar

Keep the lid tight

my granny used to say–

Some things are better left unspoken. (Even My Grief Should Be Productive)

Here’s the wisdom of an entire civilization. Sometimes it comes pickled in a jar. Call it Indian or South Asian, or what you will. It teaches you how to hold one’s own, anywhere.

–Lakshmi Kannan, Poet, Novelist, Short story writer, and Translator.

Megha Sood’s chapbook, My Body Is Not An Apology is exactly what the title says. The human body is not an apology for anyone. It’s not meant to make us feel ashamed simply for being born as we are, for existing, for belonging to any race, religion, gender, age, or any diversity markers that exist in our world. Our body is also not space where anyone can reside with abuse, disdain, or evil. Our body is a temple where our soul lives protected and safe. Megha through her deeply sensitive and poignant poems urges readers to ponder, deliberate, and act upon ensuring that our body is not an apology. Megha’s poems are fierce and tender at the same time. They are like raging storms or quiet whispers; both compel us to listen, look and consider. Megha delves into a plethora of issues that plague the human mind and in consequence the body. She questions and pulls the reader back again and again to her poems leaving behind a memory of heightened awareness. Very few writers can do as such. This collection of twenty-five poems will surely leave a mark upon your heart. Among the contemporary diaspora writers, Megha Sood is one to definitely read!

–Anita Nahal, poet, professor, flash fictionist & children’s writer. Find her works at: https://anitanahal.wixsite.com/anitanahal

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

The gripping, riveting poems of Megha Sood’s chapbook ‘My Body Is Not An Apology’ carries the inherent legacy of the truths that our exemplary literary predecessors Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Nikki Giovani, Alice Walker, Kamala Das, and others, embodying unabashed feminism, upheld in their poetic creations.

When the poet utters her angst and her rhetoric reflects a discourse, built around the quintessential strength of a woman, these lines are born from her pen: “My body is not an apology/ it’s a roar: a declaration/ an unapologetic/ unabashed/ straight truth in your face/ a war cry:/ a deafening scream from the silence.” These lines hit the nail at just the right place, confronting the age-old power dynamics of a patriarchal social structure. As a strong woman of color, as a sensitive poet, her verses in the collection are like smoking cinders of the thinking feminine voice, empowering and liberating the feminine psyche. In the growth of her poetic voice, she has successfully absorbed the little nuances of her Indian roots and her grandmother’s legacy of truth (reflected in the poem ‘Even My Grief Should Be Productive), at the same time, having the deep insight of a woman acknowledging that her ‘body goes from a shade darker than yesterday’, as she gives birth to her ‘own revolution’. In the collection, the body and being of the poet as a woman reaches its zenith of celebration as she categorically unfolds the themes of the feminine identity, body politics, repression of womanhood, and also, the rampant rhetorics of violence ingrained in our postmodern society. Her voice is both subtle and empowering, essential and redeeming, hence the chapbook will indeed be an asset in the ever-evolving arena of feminist writing and art.

–Lopa Banerjee, Critically acclaimed author, poet, translator, editor from Texas, USA

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[feuilly-cakes]

Midnight Sun - 2.5* review

I would first like the thank the academy for getting me through this nightmare of a book. I'd also like to thank my stubborn nature for not DNFing it before it got good around the 550 mark. Overall, this book was a drag. The pacing was way off and the narration was irritating. Edward is whiny and angsty and can drag a scene out for 10 more pages than it was from Bella's perspective. The way his super vampire thought processes are described is extremely pretentious and obviously an attempt to seem cool, and to be frank, I hated every second of it. The only time these dramatics let up was during the action sequences, which are all crowded in during the last 200 pages of the book and are the only parts I actually cared about seeing from his perspective. I've been waiting for this book for 10 years so I was very much disappointed that I only enjoyed the last bit. I will be going into depth about some things I noticed, good, bad, and ugly, so beware of spoilers beyond this point if for some reason you don't already know what happened. The Interesting Bits -Edward and Alice have whole conversations without the others knowing by her thinking at him and him changing his expressions or moving slightly. I thought this was pretty smart. Edward is the lookout for his family. He's in charge of knowing public opinion and if someone suspects them to be vampires, but he's also the one to keep an eye on Jasper to make sure he's not struggling. -Edward hates Bella to begin with, especially during their first meeting. He also likes "violent music" and uses it while doing his usual angst routine. Once he gets over that, he observes Bella doing kind, selfless things that bring her out of her comfort zone, just to help others. He also wanted things with Bella he hadn't ever wanted before, and its implied in the context of the scene that this includes a physical relationship. He honestly gives me demisexual vibes and has done since I read Twilight. -Alice is the only one who is acting with empathy and consistently thinking of humans as people. "Her name is Whitney. She has a baby sister she adores." "She's Charlie Swan's only family. It would kill him, too." -Tanya is Russian. Just throwing that in there. -Jasper's brother Peter was turned in the 1940s, so Jasper was with Maria for approximately 90 years, owing to Peter being in the army at least a year and however long it took Peter to make his way back to him after leaving. Also owing to the time between Jasper leaving and finding Alice, he could only have been with the Cullens for 50 years at the most. -Humans have to put in effort to move vampires as they are very heavy. Edward moves his hand along with Bella when she wants to pick it up. Also when he jumps back he has to check to make sure he didn't rip her hands off. -Vampires feel thirst differently. Some feel fire and some feel dryness or acid. -Turning into a vampire is usually described in the books and the fandom spaces as burning, but here it's described as pain, and it packs more of a punch, makes it more real. Edward flinches when thinking about the pain and refuses to subject Bella to it. -Charlie's thoughts are very difficult to hear, and are mostly vague impressions. Renee's are extremely loud and influence those around her without anyone knowing. -My favourite part is where Jasper shines through, because he is my fave for character complexity reasons. Basically, there's a huge car chase to get to Bella at the ballet studio, Edward and Alice are doing some very cool things with their powers, but Alice sees Bella in the studio and Edward freaks out until he doesn't anymore. Jasper has been influencing them into a battle state, which is how the coolness of the scene has been going so smoothly and he can get them both back on track after each vision. He has a very tight grip on Edward's emotions, "like a fist clenched tight around [his] throat". For reference: pages 648-654 UK hardback. It's the coolest scene in the book and I forgot Carlisle and Emmett were also there. The bad/questionable -Alice sees how Bella reacts to Edward leaving her, and how messed up she gets, but he still chooses to leave her in New Moon. -Edward has this whole pages long inner monologue during the meadow scene about how many things he can think about in detail and how smart he is and how perfect his memory is. It's highly pretentious and annoying. -On page 508-509 Edward licks Bella's teardrop and dramatically monologues to himself about how he, as a vampire, can't digest or absorb water, so when Bella inevitably leaves him to become a puddle of sadness he will still have a part of her with him in the form of that tear. I'll admit I laughed, then went to go tell someone about it and laughed some more, because it's so ridiculous and I couldn't make it up if I tried. This entire section was 4 paragraphs long. -The plot hole of why the nomads can't tell Bella is human before the wind comes gets solved, and then immediately creates another plot hole. Edward disguises her heartbeat with foot tapping, and they magically can't smell her, and then Edward realises Jasper has made most of them seem very boring with his empathy powers but in a way Edward has never seen before despite being a mind reader in his head when he remembers the past. Somehow his convenient powers have never been so much as thought of in 50 years. The huge red flags: -Edward refers to Bella's classmates as "children" twice and yet he is still willing to date her, despite them being the same age as her.* -Bella asks Edward if he has multiple personality disorder because he is avoiding her and then talking to her seemingly at random.* -Bella says she is "So clumsy that [she's] almost disabled."* -Edward calls Jacob a "child" and when Bella points out he's almost the same age as her, he says he knows. This is super creepy.* -Alice stole Bella's crutch to stop her escaping when tricking her into going to prom. *These are also in Twilight, and as such have already been talked about. In conclusion, this book sucks except the last 200 or so pages. This has been the longest 2 1/2 months of my life.

[harryandmolly]

Ten Years - Part One

summary: ten years after 2007 Warped Tour, Shawn and Val come face to face in London

warnings: Language, that good yearning

WC: 3.3k

A/N: this is a post-epilogue miniseries of I Could Write It Better Than You Ever Felt It. I recommend you read that first or this will make you go 🤔

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Shawn has never felt further from his 19-year-old self than right now, squished into what has to be the world’s tiniest lift with Val and Alice and Alice’s very large, fancy pram.

The rickety lift slowly drags them up to the third floor of the old building. In the mirrored doors, Shawn watches them, saved from Val’s returning gaze as she focuses on making faces at her sleepy baby. Her back is pressed up against his chest. He can smell the achingly familiar citrus scent of her hair. But he can barely recognize the boy that ran away from this girl.

The lift stops with an alarming little jolt but Val looks unbothered. She hands the pram off to Shawn to steer while she fishes keys out of her purse. Shawn walks slowly, gazing down at Alice’s round and curious face. Who are you to be taking up my mommy’s attention? She seems to say. Shawn’s lower lip twitches. Who, indeed.

Val lets them into the dark flat. It’s roomier than Shawn expected, having seen the modest building from the outside. As Val flips on lights, Shawn’s hungry eyes suck in as much as they can, committing it to memory for further study.

The walls are a rich shade of deep, deep red. The furniture is modern but comfortable. There are bookshelves in every corner, packed full of fantasy, art texts and music biographies. He stumbles over a stuffed colorful caterpillar toy. It makes Val chuckle.

He looks up at her and watches as she drops her jacket onto a hanger and kicks her boots into a corner next to a teeny tiny pair of cleats that make him smile.

“Already got her on a club team?” he rasps, finding his voice has failed him slightly. Val graciously ignores it and glances over at the cleats.

“Aren’t those hilarious? Raf sent those for her a few weeks ago. They were his daughter’s when she was Alice’s size.”

Shawn smiles and tucks his hands into his jacket pockets, rocking back and forth. He’s gazing around, memorizing as casually as possible, when he feels her warmth again. He looks down to see her smirking up at him. He ducks his head and chuckles. There never was any hiding from Val.

“Wanna stay for dinner? I was going to order takeaway.”

He grins at her British -ism and bites into his lower lip, nodding at her fridge. “I can cook if you want.”

Val’s eyebrows lift. Shawn’s laugh is low and gravelly. His voice is still not working quite right. He thinks it’s prolonged exposure to her coming out of nowhere. He doesn’t really mind. She could always understand exactly what he was saying even when he was babbling helplessly, even when he wasn’t speaking at all.

“You can… cook?”

Shawn rolls his eyes and shucks off his jacket, placing it on the back of a barstool at her modest kitchen island.

“I did grow up a little in the last ten years,” he sighs, wandering into her kitchen curiously.

“I noticed.”

Shawn freezes almost comically. His hand is halfway to the fridge handle. He blinks and turns his head slightly to look at her. She’s wearing the smile that’s haunted him for ten years, the one that’s so signature Val -- it’s a dare and a promise all in one. He swallows so hard his throat visibly bobs.

She’s fucking flirting with him. And she doesn’t look like she did it accidentally.

His motor function comes back enough to open the refrigerator and look around, and also hope the cool air will reduce the pink burning in his cheeks. Val busies herself with freeing fussy Alice from the pram, holding her against her hip after shedding all her tiny little layers down to a pair of leggings and a long sleeved tee with the Arsenal FC logo on it.

Shawn studies the contents of the fridge. It doesn’t take long. He looks up at her, frowning disapprovingly.

“You don’t cook,” he says plainly.

Val snorts, which makes Alice wriggle against her chest.

“I don’t cook. Never have, never will. It horrifies my mother, who sends five pounds of frozen homemade empanadas every month packed with dry ice.”

Shawn groans and lets his head loll back. “Fuck, I love your mom’s empanadas.”

A moment later, his head snaps up. His eyes widen. He claps a hand over his mouth.

“I’m so sorry!” The sound is garbled against the skin of his hand. He removes it to Val’s amusement.

“Don’t worry,” Val hums, pressing her nose and lips up against Alice’s patch of dark hair above her little ear, “I swear around her all the fucking time. Don’t I, nina?”

Shawn grins and turns back to the fridge. With a sigh, he unloads a carton of old Waitrose eggs, some wilted spinach and a bag of shiitake mushrooms. He snuggles the ingredients into his arms and nudges the door shut with his foot, glancing at her reproachfully.

“Don’t judge me on this, it won’t be my best work. But I have limited resources.”

Val takes a deep, calming breath, watching him start to sort out a cutting board and a pathetically dull knife at her kitchen counter. Because Shawn Mendes is cooking her dinner.

It’s been a weird six hours.

Val props herself up on a stool, planting Alice in front of her, holding her by the waist so her floppy, energetic baby doesn’t squirm onto the floor. Alice also serves as an excellent shield between herself and the man in her kitchen she can’t stop staring at.

She listens to him chop and crack eggs and melt butter like making dinner for her is some kind of Food Network challenge. She tries to tamp down a goofy smile at the thought. Alice smacks her tiny palm against Val’s lips for her attention. She holds her daughter’s hand and mimes nibbling at her fingers, making Alice squeal with laughter. Val peeks over Alice’s shoulder to see Shawn grinning at a frying pan, expertly flipping an omelette. Val’s stomach flips with it.

“So,” Val coughs, “How’ve you found London so far?”

Shawn slides the omelette sizzling onto a plate and cracks pepper over the top. He slides it over to her with a fork, slinging a dish towel over his shoulder while he gets to work on the second. Val mouths thank you, sealing it with a wink as she lifts the baby into a high chair and pops open a can of mashed carrot and swede from the countertop.

“I love it,” Shawn murmurs, nodding, “I’ve always really liked it here. My mum has family here. I’m over here a lot for work.”

He slides his tongue over his lower lip, making the black enameled ring quiver as he thinks about the comment he left out -- he’s long been considering getting a place here. Many of his favorite producers are based out of London. He and the guys love working out here. Forefront has remained more popular in the UK after the scene faded in the US. It makes sense.

“And… how long are you staying?”

Val hopes the eagerness doesn’t cut too deeply into her voice. If Shawn notices, he’s mercifully cool about it.

“I’m leaving Thursday to go home for the holidays.”

Val’s jaw tightens. She straightens up and stares at Alice, watching as she takes a fist of Val’s hair and shoves it into her mouth instead of the spoon of food Val is offering.

“I’ll be back after New Years to write the new album. Gonna spend a few months here.”

Val’s stomach swoops. She jams the spoon into Alice’s cheek by accident, reaching for her bib to wipe the food away before Alice can protest.

“That’s nice,” Val replies airily.

Shawn plops into the stool next to her with his plate and eyes her as she takes one bite of her food and feeds her daughter with her other hand.

“Ever accidentally mixed up the spoons and eaten baby food by mistake?”

Val barks a laugh. “Happens like, once a week.”

Shawn, Val and Alice eat in comfortable silence. Shawn chews a little slower than usual because he knows he’s probably getting kicked out after dinner and he’s not really ready to let go of this just yet.

This.

What is this?

Shawn shakes the thought before it can sprout in his brain. He’s not going to freak out over this. This is fine. It’s dinner with an old friend and her baby. Nothing weird can happen with a baby around, right?

Val stands and scoops a squirming Alice out of her high chair, walking toward the nursery with a glance over her shoulder.

“I’m gonna get her changed and put her down for the night. Want to open that bottle of wine there?” She nods at a bottle of cabernet and Shawn’s eyes get a little brighter.

“Yeah,” he responds enthusiastically, nodding, “Good night, Alice!”

Val beams and flaps Alice’s little hand at him. “Night night, Shawn!”

When Val emerges twenty minutes later with the baby monitor, Shawn has the dishes cleaned and the wine breathing with two glasses out on the counter while he flips absently through his phone.

“I’m gonna get changed, too,” Val says softly, gesturing down at her leather pants and chewing on the inside of her lip, trying not to read too much into all the different cozy-cute outfit ideas in her head.

Before she can overthink it, she swaps out her urban mom chic look for clingy charcoal leggings and a black camisole with her favorite cable knit cardigan over top. She gives her hair a flip in the mirror and pinches some color into her cheeks.

You know, just because.

When she walks back into the living room, Shawn has the wine poured. She tips her glass against his and murmurs “cheers,” willfully ignoring the way Shawn is trying not to check her out.

They sit at the bar. Shawn watches Val cross her long, slender legs, her bare, black-lacquered toes glinting up at him. He hums a chuckle and sips his wine.

“What?” she giggles.

He nods at her. “You. Your black nail polish. Some things never change, I guess.”

The words feel heavy as soon as they leave him. It swirls around them, all that has changed, all that hasn’t.

It would be easy to look over at Val now and see a stranger. It’s been a full decade. The amount of life experience packed into the ten years between 22 and 32 could have made her an entirely different person. But Shawn’s been watching her, listening to her all day. She’s still Val.

It’s a comfort and a curse, he thinks. It’s not like he hasn’t wondered about her, about how much the years have changed all the things that drew him in. It hurt to think she was changing and he didn’t even know it, couldn’t see it. And now he knows just how… Val she still is.

This night won’t last forever, even if they did just open a nice bottle of wine. He’ll go back to the hotel, he’ll leave London. He’ll be stuck with knowing the woman he loved is still every bit as incredible as he remembers her. Hell, she got better. He can’t believe it, but Val Moreno got better with time.

He shakes his head and pushes a hand through his hair. “Wow,” he mutters.

Val takes a gulp from her glass and nods. “I’m kind of feeling that, too.”

“It’s just…” Shawn hisses, finally cracking with the help of the fine cabernet, “It’s been… ten fucking years.”

Val looks over at him. She’s silent for a few long, slow seconds.

“So tell me about them.”

Shawn looks at her as she stands and reaches for the bottle and her glass, heading for the couch.

“Didn’t we do that all afternoon?” he laughs, standing and ambling after her.

Hey moron, he thinks to himself, Do you really want to give her a reason to make you leave sooner than you have to?

To his relief, Val persists, swinging her legs up to fold beside her and patting the cushions. He settles in and continues sipping from his glass for courage.

“Well,” she starts, looking a bit uncertain as she gazes into her glass, “If your ten years has been anything like mine, you have a list of things you’ve been wanting to tell me, saving up for if we’d ever see each other again.”

Shawn’s fucking fingers tingle. She’s been making a list. For him.

He nods. “Y-yeah. I mean… yeah.”

Val smiles. It’s soft and encouraging. “Ok. I’ll start.”

Shawn’s heart softens its battering ram motion in his chest. He bobs his head.

“I was… so scared when I got pregnant with Alice. God, it was the most frightened I’ve ever been of anything. More scared than when I told Raf I was leaving Streets, even more scared than when I was pregnant with Rafael. Because I felt so ready this time. If she was taken from me… god, I swear to god, I held my breath the entire nine months with her. Even after she was born, I just stared at her. Like if I blinked, that would be it. She’d be gone. I think it’s only in the last six months that I’ve started to fucking relax.”

Shawn’s body surges with affection and protective instincts he barely recognizes. He nods eagerly.

“I think it’s amazing you decided to do it on your own. I mean, I bet you hear that all the time. But…”

“But you know better than most how much of a risk I felt I was taking,” she says softly, leveling him with her gaze.

Shawn is quiet remembering the night she finally released it into him, a flood of words he was too young to hear, to feel, to accept. It was the night they said ‘I love you.’ It was the night he ran.

“Your turn,” Val whispers, refilling their glasses. Shawn drinks eagerly.

“Uhm… I… fuck. The closest I ever came to calling you was six years ago, after Making Midnight. I felt like shit. I think I knew all along it wasn’t right -- none of it. It wasn’t me, it wasn’t us. It was a bad album. I had no business being as pissed as I was that it sucked and everyone hated it. But I was so angry with myself. I just felt powerless. It took me so long to be ok with speaking up and saying when I thought something was wrong. It took me so long to find a way to be a leader. I think that’s the way I’ve changed the most in the last ten years.”

Val watches him thoughtfully. She takes a short sip and shakes her head.

“Maybe that’s one of the ways. I’m not sure it’s the biggest. I think 19-year-old you wouldn’t have lasted through a walk in the park with me and my kid. 29-year-old you held her for over an hour. I think you fell a little bit in love with her.”

She chuckles but she’s not joking. Shawn goes crimson.

“She’s… god, Val, she’s amazing. You’re so lucky. You… you both are.”

Val’s eyes drift shut. She drains her second glass. When she opens her eyes again, Shawn’s warm honeyed eyes are watching her. He doesn’t look scared. He doesn’t look anxious. He looks a little lonely.

Val fills their glasses again. She’s warm enough now to slip out of her cardigan and leave it beside her on the sofa. She watches Shawn watch her toss her hair over her shoulders. He chews on his lip until it’s red and swollen.

“Say it.”

He looks up from his already half empty third glass. He blinks quickly. “What?”

“Say it, whatever it is.”

Her voice is calm and smooth. He swallows.

“I was just… wondering if you’ve been in love in the last ten years.”

Val’s head tilts. “Honestly? I didn’t really try. I didn’t want to be. I just wanted Alice. Even before I was ready for her, though, I wasn’t all that interested in looking around. I guess I figured it would fall into my lap when it was right.”

“Why didn’t you look?” Shawn asks, a little too quickly.

Val notices. She takes a slow, deep breath. Shawn watches it inflate and deflate her chest as his tightens. With a resigned smile, Val reaches out and cups his cheek. Her whole body is warm, humming with alcohol in her veins. Her fingers have him choking down a gasp.

“Do you know what I think is really the most incredible part?” she breathes. He blinks at her again, dumbstruck.

“We were together less than three months. It was Warped Tour. We were… fuck, we were kids. I never expected that I’d be hung up on it after all this time. That years later, I’d be on dates and thinking of you. That I’d be sleeping with other people and still thinking of you. I thought this is something that would fade. When I saw you in the garden today, it felt exactly the same as waking up next to you in my bunk on that stupid tour bus, like it was 2007 all over again.”

Shawn’s eyes have fallen shut. He’s overwhelmed, breathing heavily. He turns his face to nudge his lips against her thumb, leaving a gentle kiss.

“God, I still write songs about you. Like, all the time. I thought I was crazy. Maybe I am. I don’t know. Maybe we both are.”

Val waits a beat, then drags his lips to hers. Her kiss is firm but sweet. Her face softens as soon as his mouth touches hers. His fingers curls into the ends of her hair as he edges closer, carefully, dropping himself headfirst into the kiss because who knows if he’ll get another.

They break apart, panting for air. Val plants her hands on his shoulders and wastes no time hauling herself into his lap.

Shawn whimpers, gasping into her mouth. She feels… perfect. Fuck, he’s on fire. It’s been so long. Her tongue slips against his, she groans into his mouth. Her arms are slung around his neck so all he can see and hear and feel is her. How did he go without this for so long? How did he let her go? How could he leave?

But he knows why he left. He left because he was a kid. It took every ounce of strength and maturity he had to walk away when he let himself realize it. He left for him.

Shawn inhales deeply and scoops his hands around her cheeks, easing her back gently. Val’s eyes are heavy. She’s panting.

“Wait… wait,” he grunts, shaking his head as he breathes heavily, in synch with her, “It can’t be like this this time.”

Val feels his words snapping into place in her head. She looks down at the baby monitor she dropped next to her sweater. She lets her head fall forward as she laughs breathlessly.

“Ok. Add that to the list of things you wouldn’t have done ten years ago.”

Shawn grins and tugs her forward until her head rests against his shoulder and his arms drape around her back.

“You deserve so much better than what I gave you last time,” he says softly. It’s not pained or self-deprecating, it’s simple and honest. “I want it to be real.”

She turns her lips against his neck and sighs. The same scurry of goosebumps she remembers she always left on him marches across his skin.

“Then let’s talk about it in the morning,” Val murmurs. Carefully, she unfolds her body from his, takes his hand, and leads the way to her bedroom.

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[maikatc]

Black Sun Tale | A Mother

honestly i feel like i don’t appreciate this chapter enough, but this is where the storm dies down a lil

remember that this is a first draft with only minor edits and enjoy! comments and reception are heavily appreciated 

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Leaves being damp didn’t help when Oliver tried breaking those in his path. 

The scent of those around him weakened as he paced his way back home. The day started to dim with the sunset. The rays hitting against the tall buildings once the rain clouds began to disappear. 

Oliver bit his healed lip, gnawing at it with his own frustration. 

Ayu’s final reaction would happen sooner or later. And the ideas of what could come made Oliver’s head spin. His attempts to draw attention elsewhere were futile.

“It’s not like they’ll kill me, right?” He questioned himself under his breath. Yeah, yeah, no kid would do that to a human-like thing. 

The future was unsettled for Oliver then. It twisted up more than he expected in the matter of a single two hours. 

He groaned. I’m gonna have to get close with him now, don’t I? He face-palmed himself. “I didn’t even realize that he’s actually almost in the exact same boat as me… Fuck… Fuck.”

He eyed down to his bloody hands. The scent wasn’t all as strong as before, started drying out and got messed up by dirt already. However, it was still enough for him to take a small lick. 

His memories of when he became unconscious grew on him as he cleaned off some of his mess –he figured whatever magic there was would keep him covered-. Though, after reading through the foggy visions, he only took a breath. 

“I’m gonna have more things to deal with.” 

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“… Just what was that?” 

Oliver threw a ball up and down from one hand as a replacement of destroying his apartment furniture. On his other hand was a squeezed-up stress ball. 

He dabbled around Ayu’s initial reaction, studying what he could from memory. Overall, the black-haired boy was reasonable. Though Oliver admitted to himself that if it weren’t for Ayu chasing after him, he would’ve cut ties immediately after running. 

However, one image stuck with him. Despite it being so recent, the memory was disappearing as he tried deciphering. Perhaps it was because he was in such a shock, but Oliver doubted that idea. If fear could make his recollection worse, he wouldn’t have remembered anything from his first ever meal. 

The vision itself wasn’t so terrible, simply questionable in Oliver’s eyes. Ayu’s appearance has always been strange to him, from his nimble structure to his dry skin and alien eyes. However, it was a first to see both of his eyes glow a vibrant vermillion. 

Oliver clenched on the ball he threw. “He’s never mentioned that before to me, hasn’t he?” Then again, there isn’t much I know about him either. 

“How’re you doing after all that?”

Oliver cocked his head to the corner of the living room, finding Vittorino standing right then and there. “You saw all of it, didn’t you?”

Vittorino nodded with a grin. “You panic way too much.”

Oliver’s eyes narrowed, dumbfounded from his comment. “…Really?”

“It was entertaining to watch at least,” he shrugged. 

Oliver took a moment to process just how ignorant Vittorino really was. He only scoffed at the end, “You’re more of an ass than I expected.” 

After Vittorino’s short chuckling, Oliver remembered he needed something of confirmation. “This is probably obvious,” he started, “but before that, you already knew, right?”

“Of course, I did,” Vittorino rose a hand. “Almost every- I already knew for a while.” 

Every- body? The slip-up was there but Oliver pushed it aside. “Did Faustus know too, then?”

“What makes you think that?” Oliver noted Vittorino’s eyes drifted off at the question. 

“He left right before my seventh birthday, it’s been leaving me suspicious for four years. Anybody would.”

Vittorino didn’t reply immediately. Oliver waited but only for a satisfying answer. 

“Well, I’m not exactly allowed to say.”

What the hell. “But why? Why would he leave before all of it?” He squeezed up the stress ball with all he had. “Why is this even happening in the first place? Why- … Who’s Alice?”

“Oh,” Vittorino leaned towards the wall behind him, “So you’ve met her already.” 

“Who is she?”

“First off, what did she tell you?” 

“She-.” He won’t answer until I do first. He sighed, “She was crying, hugged me out of nowhere and just kept saying she was sorry, for ‘all of this’. I asked and she just told me she was my mom… It didn’t make any sense so I kept asking. But I woke up before she could answer.”

“Ah, well she tried as much as she could for the time being.” Vittorino moved over to a seat.

Oliver’s brows furrowed. “Of course, you know her…”

Vittorino shrugged, “She’s high up in reputation, and second in charge. I always saw her as depressing though, boring for the most part.” He leaned over his chair, keeping his elbows on his knees. 

“But what does she mean that she’s my mom?”

“Simple enough,” he answered, “she’s your mother.” 

Oliver took a gulp, doubt ridden in his head. 

Vittorino added, “I hadn’t heard much about what went down. That was like, what, three centuries ago?”

“Three centuries ago?”

“Oh yeah- we never mentioned that,” he blinked. “I’m older than you’d expect, Oliver.” 

“Just how old?” Oliver asked in disbelief. 

Vittorino hummed, “About three centuries, yeah. Alice’s about four-hundred more or less but that doesn’t really matter right now.”

“But… how-”

“Alice is your mother, that’s a fact.” He crossed his arms, resting his back upon the chair cushions. “From what I can tell, you’ll have to figure the rest out by yourself.” 

Oliver groaned. He threw both of the balls he held across the room, making loud thuds. “That’s helpful, isn’t it?”

He dragged his steps back to his room. His exhaustion didn’t come from his lack of a meal for once. Instead, pure stress and vex loomed over him as he prayed for a day where he could just clear his mind. 

He passed through the narrow hallway between each room. Above his head laid arrays of framed photos staggering from throughout his life. He dawned upon them, each carried photos of him and his mother together. They all held bright smiles from both of them. His face went blank once the newer pictures came around. His eyes were dull and tired in each one, while his mother stayed the same as ever. 

She was the only mother he knew, even if they weren’t related by blood. Oliver himself had no recollection of an original family or parent, no real father to teach him how to be a man, or whatever they showed on television. Though, someone like Alice wouldn’t be his guess on who his birth mother would be. 

Her peachy skin and neat, blonde hair was nothing near his light brown and burgundy. Nothing of her was similar aside from her speckles of freckles. She was just an average white woman. If she were his mother than everything should have come from his father, but then the question would be about where he was. 

Oliver gave up thinking about it all, taking a sigh and leaving the photos to shine like always. He entered back to his own room, walking and leaning over to the corner of his nightstand’s legs. Grabbing and setting up his ukulele, he plucked tabs and rhythms in silence. 

Vittorino appeared again in short time. He sat on the ground along with Oliver beside the bookshelf. However, he didn’t say a word, only watched from afar. Oliver took no mind of it, focusing solely on the music he played. 

His breathing calmed down as the chill melodies rung throughout the room. He mumbled the lyrics of the song he played, they didn’t matter much to him at the moment, he only wanted the rhythm. 

Music was the only thing that could clear his mind almost completely, yet something he detached from through the years. It was something his mother raised him with, playing songs for him when he wasn’t thinking so much. He grew up only a year after she gave him his own uke to play with. 

He continued to play with whatever he came up with, only for Vittorino to interrupt by asking, “Do you know any hymns?”

“Hymns?” Oliver stopped playing. He raised a brow by the question. “I don’t know any. Caeli Desuper is bound to be easy… but why hymns?”

Vittorino rolled his eyes over. “I remember learning lots of ‘em as a kid. Forgot most of them though. Barely remembered Caeli existing…” He shrugged it off quickly, “So, how’re you feeling now?”

Oliver eyed him at the suddenness of the topic, though didn’t ask. “Eh, still wondering about stuff. ‘Least things are going somewhere for once.” 

“That’s good then.” Vittorino sat up from his slouched state. He grabbed a book from behind him, opening it up and staring at a middle section of a fairy-tale book. He only muttered after seconds of not moving, “I forgot I can’t read in this language.”

They both sat, Oliver playing on his ukulele again and Vittorino sitting around. The quiet relaxed Oliver’s body for once. He was replenished with barely any pain, no headache with the music, and no Vittorino annoying him at every waking second. However, there was one more thing he had to question before any resolve for the day. “Hey Vittorino,” 

“Yeah?” He looked up from looking at a picture book. 

“Do you know why Faustus gave me a switchblade in the first place?”

Vittorino’s face softened, to Oliver’s surprise. “He knew you would want it for the future, I believe.”

Oliver bit his lip. He then crawled over to his ukulele case, opening the small pocket inside and grabbed the blade. He stared at it in his hands. The handle was carved with a beautiful silver, showing patterns of roses and other items he couldn’t tell as easily. 

He fisted the switchblade handle in his hand. “I want to see him again, just so I could know what the hell he was doing.”

With no words, he put the switchblade back in place. “… Ayu’s gonna ask about my mark again, isn’t he?”

“Maybe, maybe not,” Vittorino suggested. “Depends on how he thinks the privacy is.”

Oliver listened to Vittorino in the back of his head, spacing out with ideas swirling. He pulled down his left sleeve barely. What encased was a sliver of a black sun mark like beforehand. He refused to pull the sleeve down more, shameful of what was underneath. 

The idea of blood was already craving his mind. 

“… It was a mistake for Faustus to give me that thing.” 

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[timelock97]

Time Never Stops

Chapter One: Always Interrupting

Word Count: 1763

Prologue

Warnings: Language, fluff

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[Present Day]

I enter my newly furnished recording studio with a water bottle in one hand and a plate with a sandwich on it in the other. I set the plate down and reach under my desk to start my computer for today's events. While I wait, I spin around in my swivel chair and look at the room. The black and green padding on the walls were set in a diagonal pattern, and a white board with this weeks schedule placed in between some of the padding. Two bookshelves sit nestled against the back wall on either side of the door; the shelves are covered in merch, fan gifts, and several pictures of friends and me. Most of the pictures had been of Tom and I throughout the years, my favorite of the bunch sitting beside my monitor on my desk. His arm is around my waist while he stands behind me, donning a pair of black swim trunks, smiling into the side of my face as I laugh in a black and white checkered bikini. We are standing in the ocean, vacationing in Hilton Head, South Carolina, when we were seventeen.

Tom Holland, my best friend for as long as I can remember, and long time crush. Gotta love that the one person that knows you the best, happens to be the one that you fall for so easily. I didn't know if it was his sunshine smile, the infectious laugh, or the fact that he knows me better than I know myself; but, he is the one person I wish nothing more to have at my side for the rest of my life. However, it isn't that simple. With him being busy with his acting career and me being busy with YouTube, we hadn't had much time to spend together, not that it would have changed anything. Tom is my best friend, and that was that. I just have to be happy that he is still in my life after all these years, and hadn't lost contact while we went from immature teens to slightly more mature adults.

I smiled when my computer finally loads. I log on and set up my software before I clap my hands together, testing the frequency of the mic. I set up the game, placing my headphones over my beanie covered hair, and check to make sure that everything is running smoothly before I click record on the second monitor. I smile at the camera and begin my intro, "What's up, guys? You're on with Timelock! And today, as you can already tell, we are playing Detroit: Become Human. I have been beyond excited to play this game for the past three weeks, but of course since I was away in the UK visiting with Dan and Phil doing some fun videos and joining Sean, aka Jacksepticeye, and Mark, aka Markiplier, for a charity livestream kept me from starting the game. Which reminds me, I cannot believe how well we did on the livestream and I wanted to thank everyone who watched and participated with us across all platforms. You guys are amazing. Now going back to the game, Sean said that it is worth the wait, so without anymore interruptions, I hope, let's get started!"

~

"Holy shit, so that's what happened to Kara." I breathe as I move the character from Alice's room down to the first floor. I glance up at the next activity for the character, "See Todd for further instructions." I let out a gasp as I watch the scene unfold in front of me, watching as Todd yells at his daughter and frighten her. "Shit, I thought that was going to end badly, I mean, it could have. This game is already super interesting, now I know why everyone has been talking this game up! But, guys, the clock is ticking! Thank you so much for watching, and if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to give that like button a little bit of love. And I will see you, in the next one! Time-" I jump as my phone begins to blare the old Spider-Man theme song from inside my desk. I glance at the drawer and pull it out to see a picture of Tom sticking his middle finger up his nose, his name place directly over his face. I roll my eyes and look back at the camera. "I said there would be no interruptions, I stand corrected." I answer the phone, "Hold up thirty seconds, I'm saying my outro."

Tom's laugh echoes through the receiver, "Okay, okay."

"Let's try this again. Time resume." I point at the screen for a few seconds before I end the recording and place my phone back against my ear. "You really have impeccable timing. What is this, the sixth time in the past two weeks?"

"Sorry, love, figured you would be done by now." He chuckled, "And I miss you."

"I miss you too, Thomas." I smile, grabbing my camera so I can begin uploading the recording to my editing software. "How's filming?"

"Good, good," he pauses, shifting in the background. "We actually finished yesterday and are going to be heading out to start promoting the movie, then I am off to start filming for the newest Avengers movie."

"Ooh," I enthuse, plugging in my camera and shifting to save and close out of the game, "That sounds amazing, Tom." I sigh, happy to hear that he was doing well after long months of filming, advertising, repeating. "But it also sounds exhausting."

"Honestly, it is," he sighs. "How was London and Brighton? My mum said you visited and Harrison was sending me snapchats of you at the flat."

"It was really nice. Actually, Harrison decided, even though I discussed it with him a month previous, that he did not want to let me stay. However, Tessa pushed past him into the hallway when she heard me." I pause my rant as I hear Tom laugh at the statement, "It was an entertaining two weeks in London, and I spend two days with your mum, dad, and brothers. It was nice spending time with them and not having to worry about working." I say, watching the video finally load up into the editing software. "And Brighton was amazing. When you're home, and I can find time to fly out, we have to go and spend a week out there. Its beautiful."

"Sounds like a plan, bug." He sighs.

"I do have to edit, do you wanna Skype so we can continue the conversation?"

"Yeah, I'd love that," he whispered. I quickly pulled up my Skype, after a few minutes, his face popped up into my screen.

"Hey! Its my favorite boy!" I yell, throwing my hands over my head. I watched as Tom's smile fades as he looks behind me with knitted eyebrows. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"That's not your normal studio, is it?" He asked, sounding concerned.

"Oh, I thought I told you the good news?" I said rolling backwards so that I was in the middle of my recording studio, "I got the apartment!" I looked at him in excitement, but I noticed he wasn't smiling. "What's wrong? I thought you would be happy."

"I- I am, I just," he runs his hand through his hair, "God, I've missed so much by being gone all the time."

"Tom..." I murmur, "Hey, it's okay. What you're doing is just as important-"

"But, it's your first flat," he whispers, "I was going to come and help you unpack, make sure that your first night wasn't spent alone," he pouts at me, but I can see the small smile on his lips at the promise he made me years ago.

"I didn't spend it alone! I made a girls night out of it! I had Izzy, Haley, and Mia spend the night with me and it was a lot of fun. I know you wanted it to be you, but when you get done with everything I can show you the place." Tom sighs and places his head on his fist. "I know what'll make you feel better, how about I promise next time you are here we marathon all the Marvel movies."

"All the movies?" he teases, his frown disappearing. I nod and he smiles back, "That sounds awesome." He laughs.

I roll back up to my desk to start editing while Tom tells me about some of the more entertaining things that have happened the last few weeks. Another Skype message pops up from JacKyleGameplays, interrupting his rambling. Hey, TL. We and the girls are going to play some prop hunt, wanna join? ~Jac

"What was that?" Tom asks, tilting his head to the side.

"GameSquad wants to play prophunt," I state, getting ready to tell them that I had some things to finish and wouldn't be able to get on today.

"I'll let you go then-"

"No, it's okay, I can stay on." I tell him, looking back at the camera, "We always get interrupted, I can play prophunt any other time. I almost never see you anymore."

"You sure? I don't mind, I can just call later." Even though he says it's fine, I can see in his eyes he really doesn't want me to hang up.

"Nope, I want to talk to you, I can always talk to the GameSquad." I finish sending the message and mute the rest of my chats, "There, no interruptions this time."

"Is it because I am Mr. Always Interrupting?"

"Damn straight," I say giggling, "Now, who out of all the people you have played as is your favorite character? And you can't pick Spider-Man."

"But, I am Spider-Man!"

"No, you are Thomas Stanley Holland!" I shout playfully, making him laugh, "My best friend since two years old, my tiny-toddling husband, knight in shining armor, and the one person that knows me better than I know myself."

He immediately begins to laugh harder, "My Mum sent me that video of us "getting married" last week."

"I asked if she would since we found it. I was hoping it would make you smile."

"It did, my little lovely wife." He sighs, "and my favorite character? Definitely your best friend, because that's the one I get to play for the rest of my life."

A blush creeps up my neck as I look away from the screen, "That's cheesy, and you're only saying it because I said it first!"

"But being your best friend is my favorite thing, you know me more than I know myself."

"I should, I've known you my whole life" I whisper.

"And I wouldn't have it any other way," he says with a dopey smile. "Now, what were you recording before I so rudely interrupted?"

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A/N: Comment and reblog! What did you think? Let me know if you want to be tagged. IDK what else I’m supposed to put at the bottom. I’m going to try and post chapters Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday (since I already finished writing it).

@revenantwriting

Chapter Two

[johnnymundano]

Class of 1984 (1982)

Directed by Mark L. Lester

Screenplay by Tom Holland, Mark Lester and John Saxton

Story by Tom Holland

Music by Lalo Schifrin

Country: United States

Running Time: 94 minutes

CAST

Perry King as Andrew Norris

Merrie Lynn Ross as Diane Norris

Timothy Van Patten as Peter Stegman

Stefan Arngrim as Drugstore

Michael J. Fox as Arthur

Roddy McDowall as Terry Corrigan

Keith Knight as Barnyard

Lisa Langlois as Patsy

Neil Clifford as Fallon

Al Waxman as Detective Stewiski

Erin Flannery as Deneen

David Gardner as Principal Morganthau

Linda Sorensen as Mrs. Stegman

Teenage Head as themselves

Note: If you enjoyed Class of 1984 you may also be interested in the thematic sequel Class of 1999 by the same prime movers, which is much more overtly comedic, and Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971) a very British spin on the same themes starring David Hemmings.

Also: I took the images from the Internet like the anarchist hell child that I am. No rules! no future! Rip the system!

I remember reading about Class of 1984 when it came out and thinking the review in Starburst made it  sound like an incredibly exploitative and deeply unpleasant movie. Being 12 I immediately made a mental note to see it as soon as possible. Unfortunately the movie wasn’t passed uncut in the UK until 2005, by which time I was no longer 12 and thus somewhat preoccupied by the labyrinth of idiocy which is adult life. But that mental note still niggled, and so in 2019 that 12 year old’s simple ambition was belatedly fulfilled thanks to the UK blu-ray release of the movie. Turns out that not only is Class of 1984 incredibly exploitative and deeply unpleasant, but also (spoiler) my taste hasn’t evolved much since I was 12, because, me? I thought it was a hoot. A hoot and a half in fact.

Class of 1984 asks the old, old question Hollywood loves to ask - how far do you have to push a liberal milquetoast until he starts biting folk’s throats out? Because, as any decent hard working common sense fella with dirt under his fingernails will tell ya, it’s okay to have high-falutin’ ideas about equality and decency and edjumacation but, let’s face facts, when their wife’s blood soaks their corduroy jacket these liberal schmucks won’t hesitate to dip their fists in the basin of other people’s faces. It’s a small-minded, nasty genre that takes unseemly delight in demonstrating that the self-appointed avatars of civilisation have feet of clay. But it isn’t a stupid genre; it also recognises the fact that being a pigeon chested liberal weakling takes some doing against very stiff resistance. Basically, the genre exploits the fact that small-mindedness and mean-spiritedness are universal levellers. To err may very well be human, but to wish for violent revenge is, well, very human. Class of 1984 is one of the smartest of this, uh, cathartic genre; it is simultaneously a Push The Liberal Until He Snaps Movie and an Impotent White Male Liberal Revenge Fantasy movie. Everyone wins. Except women; it was made in 1982 so women get short shrift; being (mainly) either whores or wives to be sacrificed on the altar of manliness. If you are a regular reader of comics I should probably point out that this is not representative of women’s roles in the real world.

But then Class of 1984 is not set in the real world. For a start it was made in 1982 so it is set in the (then) near-future. “We are the future!” is the regular mocking  refrain of the violent urchins, and also of the typically ridiculous Alice Cooper title song, which exists only to remind you just how seriously you should take any of this. (Not very.) This is the near future of every frothing right wingers most secretive wet dreams. The inner city schools are crumbling concrete nests of perversion and lawlessness. Kids carry knives and deal drugs while the feeble faculty fall apart, turn to drink, or turn a blind eye. Feral monsters in torn clothes roam the halls; rulers of the fallen kingdom of academia. This is where weak-kneed liberalism, left-wing learning and the kind word in place of the hard fist get you: a violent hellish maelstrom only the force of a quiet white man pushed too damn far can tame. Yes, Class of 1984 is the kind of movie that makes rightwingers spaff so hard and so often that by the time the credits roll only dust is puffing out. But by the time the put upon teacher is putting the buzzsaw to bloody good use in the woodwork room, effete liberal cheesecakes will also be readjusting their tortoiseshell glasses and getting sweaty under their white collars. Something for everyone, like I said.

There’s little point unfolding the plot of Class of 1984 since it’s familiar stuff, but it is very well done stuff. It certainly delivers the expected multiple frissons as Andrew Norris (Perry King) finds every humane alternative barred to him as he is remorselessly forced down the rat run built from liberal society’s failure to face his inner beast. And there is a lovely build to the finale; in which the hopes and dreams of the normal students, in the form of a concert, is contrasted with the ultra-violent theatre of vengeance unfolding in the corridors beyond. For a movie aimed squarely at the amygdala Class of 1984 is surprisingly wittily and smartly written. it is also surprisingly wittily and smartly acted. Perry King is ridiculously chiselled of chin, but elicits much sympathy as his flailing increases, and you feel a sense of both triumph and loss as he finally grasps the nettle of his inner ferocity. Merrie Lynn Ross has little do as the sacrificial wife, Diane, but she effectively provides the foil of the sheltered person who doesn’t understand how bad things are in the real world. Unfortunately, in a very, very, (very) tough to watch scene, the bad things finally become impossible for her to ignore. The actual class are pretty great too. Really horrible, each and every one of the scrofulous, disrespectful little shits. Special mention, though, for Timothy Van Patten as the sociopathic ringleader, Peter Stegman. A truly nasty piece of work who plays the system and his single mother with even more finesse than the piano he unexpectedly excels at.

(The kids’ convincingly unhinged viciousness is vital since you are supposed to cheer as they fall before the force they have unleashed, a force more dangerous than nuclear fire; the angry white man pushed too far. And you will holler as they drop, because the young cast have done their awful work well. Mind you, you are only able to applaud their painful demises since they all look to be in their mid-20s. Had they actually looked like the teenagers they represent the whole thing would have been too unpleasant for anybody, well, anybody not in the NRA. Movies like this can’t get too near the knuckle; it’s part of the unspoken arrangement with the audience.)

But, unpopular news as it may be, not all the kids are shits. Future star Michael J. Fox plays the thankless role of Arthur, The Good Student, complete with puppy fat. Together with Erin Flannery’s Deneen he represents the kids who get left behind but just might make it. Bit of optimism there, snuck in amongst the eruptions of violence. But… Roddy McDowall! Dear, sweet, Roddy McDowall is a revelation. His slightly theatrical aspect is just spot on for Terry Corrigan, the teacher ground down to a desperate, alcoholic wreck, who cracks in a different way to Norris. His heart-breaking descent, together with Fox and Flannery’s kids are the secret heart of the movie. Class of 1984 flirts hot and heavy with nihilism, but is brave enough to finally put out for humanity. All the sturm und drang pandering to the basest emotions is camouflage for a small sliver of optimism. Which isn’t half bad for what’s basically Straw Dogs (1971) set in a 1980s American inner city high school. But, Christ, that Roddy McDowall. Respect is due, sir. As if kids today even know what respect is. The little shits.

[hollyethecurious]

I wanted to tell you that I am loving We Make Our Own Fate! Any idea when you might have an update? I don't mean to put any pressure on you. I just really need to know what happens next!

Thank you, Nonny! 

No worries. I don’t find your needs pressuring at all, lol! I’m thrilled you are enjoying the story. 

I wish I could give you a specific time frame, but the truth is I only just started on the next chapter. I took some time off while visiting the UK and attending Enchanted and have had other projects elbowing their way to the front of the writing queue, but I’m back in the wmoof zone so hopefully it won’t be too much longer.

Would you like a very small (unbeta’d) snippet to hold you over??

~/~

Alice nodded at them both before turning and heading off towards the dining hall, pausing briefly to say something to Margot as she passed. Killian knelt there in awe of seeing his daughter scamper about in the sunlight. Her usually weak limbs were steady and strong, the pallor of her skin had been exchanged for a healthy vibrancy that shown from her face and twinkled in her Jones blue eyes. Killian pressed his fist against his lips and his head fell forward. The pressure in his chest increased to a welcomed ache as hot tears of rejoicing streamed down his face.

Emma’s hand rested on his shoulder and he felt her crouch down next to him. “Come on,” she breathed in his ear while tucking an arm around him. “Let’s get you up and back inside.”