#Doc. Morton

[chekhovs-tantrum]

I think it must have been 'bout midnight, first time that poor girl showed up to the cabin with her head twisted on all wrong, screamin' like nobody's business. 

I had been tryin’ for months to get Mary Alice a little trip away, y'know, she really needed it with the pandemic hittin' her hospital so hard, and her plantar fasciitis, she could use some time off her feet. So I went and rented a little cabin halfway to nowhere — figured she could curl up with one of them paperbacks, I could do a little trappin', we’d have ourselves a relaxin' week. 

But I guess the good Lord had other plans for us, because we didn't get a wink all that first night, what with that girl screamin' up a storm and poundin' on all the windows til the sun came up. I set out there all night tryin’ to tell her where I’d left traps so she didn’t step in ‘em and get her leg twisted some whole nother direction; but she wasn’t listenin’. Mary Alice tried making her famous peanut butter rolls — figured maybe the kid was just real hangry — but she must’ve been gluten-free or somethin' because we pointed ‘em out to her and she didn’t even look twice. We thought about leavin', but I'd paid for that dang cabin and Mary Alice needed time off her feet and we was just set on stayin' put. 

Well, by the third night of screamin' I'd about had enough of that, and I spent all that next day stuffin' an old garden hose with some Morton salt from the pantry. Night falls, midnight hits, our vocal friend comes out a-wailin' like her little ghostly backside is on fire, and I go outside and whip that salt hose round her like a lasso. Safe to say she didn't like that much. 

Anyways, I guess I was wrong about stayin' put, because now I've got this little lady in the backseat, and she's still got her head on wrong so she can't see I’m fixin' to drop her off at Mary Alice's hospital where the doc's goin’ to take a good look at her. 'Specially that throat of hers. Can't be healthy, screamin’ all the time on a backwards throat. 

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.14

Beer Birthdays

Eugene L. Husting (1848)

Brandon Hernández (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Halle Berry; actor (1968)

Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actor (1983)

Gary Larson; cartoonist (1950)

Steve Martin; comedian, actor, writer, banjo player (1945)

Bruce Thomas; English bass player (1948)

Famous Birthdays

Russell Baker; essayist (1925)

Emmanuelle Béart; French actress (1963)

Catherine Bell; actor (1968)

Herman Branson; African-American physicist, chemist (1914)

Sarah Brightman; English singer-songwriter (1960)

John Brodie; San Francisco 49ers QB (1935)

Lodewijk Bruckman; Dutch painter (1903)

Sharon Bryant; R&B singer (1956)

Kevin Cadogan; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (1970)

Méric Casaubon; Swiss-English author (1599)

Yannoulis Chalepas; Greek sculptor (1851)

Darrell "Dash" Crofts; singer-songwriter and musician (1940)

David Crosby; rock singer (1941)

Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin; Belgian mathematician (1866)

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky; Russian-Lithuanian-American artist (1875)

Slim Dunlap; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951)

Tracy Caldwell Dyson; chemist and astronaut (!969)

Richard R. Ernst; Swiss chemist (1933)

Erica Flapan; mathematician (1956)

Francis Ford; actor and director (1881)

John Galsworthy; English writer (1867)

Alice Ghostley; actor (1926)

Larry Graham; soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter (1946)

Buddy Greco; singer, pianist (1926)

Marcia Gay Harden; actor (1959)

Jackée Harry; actress (1956)

Robert Hayman; English-Canadian poet (1575)

Lee Hoffman; author (1932)

Leopold Hofmann; Austrian composer (1738)

Doc Holliday; dentist, wild west gambler (1851)

James Horner; composer (1953)

Ernest Everett Just; African-American biologist (1883)

Jan Koetsier; Dutch composer (1911)

Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Anglo-Irish astronomer (1848)

William Hutchinson; founder of Rhode Island (1586)

Magic Johnson; Los Angeles Lakers (1959)

Stanley A. McChrystal; American general (1954)

John McCutcheon; folksinger (1952)

Paddy McGuinness; English comedian (1973)

Lionel Morton; English singer-songwriter, guitarist (1942)

Bruce Nash; film director (1947)

Frank Oppenheimer; particle physicist (1912)

Hans Christian Ørsted; Danish physicist and chemist (1777)

Susan Saint James; actor (1946)

Paolo Sarpi; Italian writer (1552)

Ben Sidran; jazz and rock keyboardist (1943)

Stuff Smith; violinist (1909)

Danielle Steel; writer (1947)

Jiro Taniguchi; Japanese author and illustrator (1947)

Bruno Tesch; German chemist (1890)

Ernest Thayer; "Casey at the Bat" writer (1863)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Flemish painter (1502)

Carle Vernet; French painter and lithographer (1758)

Claude Joseph Vernet; French painter (1714)

Earl Weaver; Baltimore Orioles manager (1930)

Wim Wenders; German film director (1945)

Lina Wertmüller; Italian film director (1926)

[kittrrrr]

what's the wip 'home' about?

Tw: drugs, addiction

Oh boy. Oh boooyyyyy.

Back round:

This is a hollow knight AU where the Pale King just doesn't want any form of competition at all. His goal is to seal away all of the other Higher Beings that aren't him or the Pale Lady. Each Higher Being has a reward for their followers, which are, for all intents and purposes, drugs. The Pale King needs vessels to seal these drugs away, with the idea that if he can seal all of the other Higher Beings' drugs away, he can stop them from influencing followers, and therefore lose their power.

The Pale Lady and the Pale King don't know that (other) Higher Beings' power isn't connected to how many people are taking their drugs. They know that their power isn't, but they're assuming that they're different because their Pale Beings, and the retainers are taking their drugs.

All if that^^ is just background AU info, though!! And very vague- I gave the stuff that was important to the plot, but I'm totally up for discussing the effects of all of the Higher Beings' drugs.

Okay, Actual Plot Time:

We follow Locket (OCC* Lost Kin) as they try to beat their Lifeblood addiction with the help bugs they are just starting to open up to! The arguably most important being Morton (OC certified cinnamon roll), a new hire at the stag station where they work.

Yeah, not very descriptive, considering the 20k-ish words I've written about it, but I can't say much more without spoiling a lot of stuff. Like, I'm getting close to finishing up what I consider to be the first part of the story...

The projected length was singlehandedly tripled by one rule I implemented pretty early on: "every named character must be important". Not early enough, though, because I'd already named a throwaway character. So what's a gal to do but invent a plot twist that added a whole two arcs to something I started writing when I was bored in class?

That's the basics for Home, but if you want some world-building details or more characters, feel free to ask! I haven't really worked on Home for a while (it was started in December 2022)- I want to, but opening the doc just rubs me the wrong way. I think I should maybe put the outline in my head on paper....

*OCC- Original Canon Character: a character that appears in canon but isn't very present, which has been given an original personalit.

[stachebracket]

Round One 'Stache Match-ups

Peppino Spaghetti (Pizza Tower) vs Professor Rowan (Pokémon) Geppetto (Pinocchio 1940) vs Tim Lockwood (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)The Lorax (The Lorax) vs William Riker (Star Trek: Next Generation) The President (Pikmin) vs King Dice (Cuphead) Nigel Thornberry (The Wild Thornberrys) vs Kratos (God of War) Filbrick Pines (Gravity Falls) vs Mouse Kaboom (Happy Tree Friends) Tarzan's Dad (Tarzan 1999) vs Drayden (Pokémon) Morshu (Legend of Zelda) vs Magikarp (Pokémon) Luigi (Super Mario) vs Snidely Whiplash (Rocky and Bullwinkle) Dracula (Castlevania) vs Gaepora (Legend of Zelda) Hades (Hades) vs Geralt (The Witcher) Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction) vs Walrus Captain (A Hat in Time) Dr. Wily (Megaman) vs Charlie Swan (Twilight) King of All Cosmos (Katamari) vs Hizashi "Present Mic" Yamada (My Hero Academia) Drake (Pokémon) vs Craigor Smiff (Red Stitch Report) Blaine (Pokémon) vs Gimli (The Lord of the Rings)

Eggman (Sonic) vs Lando Calrissian (Star Wars) Archibald Dandy (The Adventures of Captain Wrongel) vs Walter White (Breaking Bad) Mung Daal (Chowder) vs Linebeck III (Legend of Zelda) Kingambit (Pokémon) vs Doc Louis (Punch-Out!!) Major Alex Louis Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Doctor Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot) Soichiro Yagami (Death Note) vs Murro Morton (Identity V) Baron Zeppeli (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood) vs J. Jonah Jameson (Marvel) Wulfric (Pokémon) vs Henry Henderson (Spy x Family) Gashu Satou (Your Turn to Die) vs Stanley Hudson (The Office) Alolan Golem (Pokémon) vs Landorus (Pokémon) King Harkinian (Legend of Zelda) vs Thundurus (Pokémon) Gustavo (Pizza Tower) vs Tornadus (Pokémon) Broque Monsieur (Mario & Luigi) vs Cadmus Ebcott (Red Stitch Report) Rhys Strongfork (Borderlands) vs Agustín Madrigal (Encanto) Bob Belcher (Bob's Burgers) vs Soseki Natsume (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles) Oscar (Duolingo) vs Professor Turo (Pokémon)

Soda Popinski (Punch-Out!!) vs Mario (Super Mario) Cliff Clavin (Cheers) vs King River Butterfly (Star vs the Forces of Evil) Stoutland (Pokémon) vs Grandpa Harley (Homestuck) Von Kaiser (Punch-Out!!) vs The Captain (BBC Ghosts) Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time) vs Tobias Fünke (Arrested Development) Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Randy Marsh (South Park) Wario (Super Mario) vs Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings) Kevin Ayuso (Identity V) vs Mr Pickels (Happy Tree Friends) Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride) vs Minimus Ambus (Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye) Kricketune (Pokémon) vs Eldstar (Paper Mario) Jane Crocker (clever disguise) (Homestuck) vs Advisor Mung (Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams) Saguaro (Pokémon) vs Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) GOING TO REMATCH Waluigi (Super Mario) vs Vincenzo Santorini (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) Mr. Rime (Pokémon) vs Raikou (Pokémon) Sportacus (Lazy Town) vs Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) Steven Magnet (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs Sir Humphrey Bone (BBC Ghosts) Sea Hawk (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs Duster (Mother 3) Varrick (The Legend of Korra) vs King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist) Omni-Man (Invincible) vs Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Doctor Who) William Murderface Murderface Murderface (Metalocalypse) vs Lolorito Nanarito (Final Fantasy XIV) Mumbo Jumbo (Hermitcraft) vs Probopass (Pokémon) The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms) vs Chancellor Cole (Legend of Zelda) Alakazam (Pokémon) vs Entei (Pokémon) Thom Merrilin (The Wheel of Time) vs James Gordon (DC Comics) Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) vs Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) GOING TO REMATCH Asgore Dreemurr (Undertale) vs Taryon Gary Darrington (Critical Role) Julius Pringle (Pringles) vs Netero (Hunter x Hunter) Dudley (Street Fighter) vs Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII) BJ Hunnicutt (M*A*S*H) vs Daruk (Legend of Zelda) Mabosstiff (Pokémon) vs Vito Corleone (The Godfather) Cervantes (Fire Emblem) vs Don Paolo (Professor Layton) Gordan Freeman (Half-Life) vs Zangief (Street Fighter)

[murder-ballad-ballot]

round 2, match 6: omie wise vs the murder ballad

examples & descriptions

omie wise

"the classic: an unfortunate pregnancy, a lover turned murderer, and a nagging feeling that perhaps this is a bit exploitative"

doc watson

the murder ballad

"half an hour long and it gets oddly gay halfway through"

jelly roll morton

[acosmicblizzard]

A Teaparty between two (Mike Morton x Reader oneshot)

Happy very very late halloween again and have this other oneshot

Warnings: Mentions of food

Story type: Fluff

Technically a part two too this barmaid x reader oneshot i made but can be read without having read part one.

Pairings/Characters: Quinlan (Halloween 2022 event/Teaparty skin version of Mike Morton) x Gender neutral Reader

(made while at school, possible low quality.)

You sighed as you stepped out of the ballroom, it was a long night of dancing and chatting. There were a ton of people attending the counts ball, and for a good reason too. The tome of prophecies, a powerful book that held a unfathomable amount of power. Though you were only recently awakened as a witch because of your place as the counts physician your master, Lady Eclectic wanted you to attend the banquet. However, you didn't care much for the tome's existence. You partially wished you didn't attend this now that your legs and feet felt as sore as they did due to the dancing. But you felt slightly better at the fact you were able to convince your master to have a dance with you instead of standing off in the corner, you were also able to fit in a dance with a old friend of yours, Quinlan. You chuckled thinking about that dance, while the dance with Eclectic felt more graceful, the dance with Quinlan felt way more laid back. It makes sense though, you've known Quinlan for years before Eclectic. You've had minimal contact with him for years recently though because of him searching for his mother, looking left and right and everywhere for any sort of clues he could find. Always hopping back and forth from places to find her, you had always hoped he'd find her or at least know what happened if she was no longer in this world. You always kept in contact via letter though, often sending him medicine and medical materials for anytime he got sick or injured on his travels which he thanked you for once he got the chance to talk to you during the ball. Taking a deep breath you stared up at the starry sky, it was late but every guest was inside dancing and drinking away. You wondered how they could keep going, and how much longer they'd all be able to keep up without getting exhausted. "Is the little doctor a bit tired? Oh dear, we can't have that now." A voice rang in your ears as a hand was set on your shoulder. You quickly turned your head to where you heard the voice ready to punch someone if needed but sighed in relief when you saw it was Quinlan. "Jeez Quinlan-, you know it's a bit rude to sneak up on people like that." He giggled at your response, "Well I'm sorry doc's, I didn't mean to scare you." You rolled your eyes with a smile on your face and took a seat at one of the chairs at one of the tables the count had the servants put outside for guests who wanted snacks without having to go into the ballroom. Quinlan soon took the seat next too you, continuing to strike up conversations. "So how has the doctor here that smells like sweets been doing?" You shook your head, slightly giggling. "I've been alright Quin, just slightly tired. Today's been a long day." Quinlan let out a hum as his expression changed from a smile to one that looked like he was trying to think really hard of something. His face quickly lit up again with a smile as he leaned over too you. "Hey, come with me for a sec doc. I wanna show you something." He said as he grabbed your hand. You were confused but followed along anyway. You soon ended up in a secluded area of the forest near the castle, you were brought down a seemingly man-made forest trail and soon arrived at a area where there was a table with a ton of treats on-top along with two chairs and two sets of teacups. "Ta-daaa! Here we are doc!" Quinlan announced as he guided you over too the table and pulled the chair out from underneath the table, inviting you to sit down. You sat down as he pushed you back towards the table and sat down in his own chair. "Quinlan... How did you get time to set this all up?" You questioned as he grabbed the tea pot and poured both himself and you a cup of tea. "That's my little secret doc! But if you want after the tea party I can spill it!" You made a small smile, "I appreciate this all Quinlan but I can't stay for long. God knows what lecture I'll get from

"We can head back to the ballroom later doc... Let's just enjoy this tea-party for now." You smiled, "Yeah.. let's just enjoy this tea party for two."

[runeians]

MAIN MUSE LIST. (temp post)

muses are split into primary, secondary, and tertiary muses depending on how comfortable / definite i am with them being written!! if you can’t find a character for a fandom you know i’m part of, just ask: most likely, i’m willing to play them :]

BOLDED muses are ones with biographies attached.

here for now until i make an aesthetically pleasing google docs page absksh

— PRIMARY.

william afton ( @slaughterlocked ) — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S.

michael afton — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S.

henry emily — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S.

vanny / vanessa adams - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: SECURITY BREACH.

cassidy "cassie" morton - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S.

coraline jones - HORROR MUSE / FNAF VERSE.

gregory house — HOUSE M.D.

c!dream — DREAM SMP.

c!quackity — DREAM SMP.

c!wilbur — DREAM SMP.

c!tommy — DREAM SMP.

the actor/wkm! mark — WHO KILLED MARKIPLIER? series [BIO COMPLETE].

head engineer mark — IN SPACE WITH MARKIPLIER.

zira xarosen — PROTÈGE TRILOGY / oc.

imilia cilch — PROTÈGE TRILOGY / oc.

ikah delivan — CODED / oc.

brei delivan — CODED / oc.

BIRDIE / ghild — CODED / oc.

ley slovenshield — CODED / oc.

jonah magnus / elias bouchard — THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

timothy stoker — THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

gerry keay — THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

—SECONDARY.

viktor — ARCANE.

silco — ARCANE.

hallander briggs — CODED / oc.

eli ever — VICIOUS [V.E. SCHWAB].

damien / “the mayor” — WHO KILLED MARKIPLIER? series.

celine / “the seer” — WHO KILLED MARKIPLIER? series.

rilan brecch — PROTÈGE TRILOGY / oc.

llevan markos — PROTÈGE TRILOGY / oc.

erzse xarosen — PROTÈGE TRILOGY / oc.

“moretti” — PROTÈGE TRILOGY: FATE’S PROTÉGÉS / oc.

charlotte / “charlie” emily — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S.

fitz angler / foxy - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S.

cassidy. — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S.

gregory / “ggy” — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: SECURITY BREACH.

evan afton - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S.

archer mills — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S / oc.

c!george — DREAM SMP.

c!schlatt — DREAM SMP.

robert chase — HOUSE M.D.

allison cameron — HOUSE M.D.

eric foreman — HOUSE M.D.

gertrude robinson — THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

“drowned man” mark — THE DROWNED MAN.

felix kranken — THE WALTEN FILES.

—TERTIARY.

lisa cuddy — HOUSE M.D.

mxes — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: SECURITY BREACH RUIN.

jonathan simms / the archivist — THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

william / “the colonel” — WHO KILLED MARKIPLIER?

ameian orill — CODED / oc.

“jules” — CODED / oc.

c!tubbo — DREAM SMP.

glamrock freddy — FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: SECURITY BREACH.

[phoenixthemenace]

Till Death

Day 27. Heated argument-

Dr. Joe Early is tired. He has four patients suffering from a virus that no one has ever seen. One was slowly recovering. One was at death's door.

Joe Early is worried. His best friend is in one of the isolation units fighting the virus that no one had a God damned clue how to fight.

Joe is fucking terrified. The closest thing he has to a son is in front of him writhing with delirium and there's next to nothing he can do about it.

When Dixie brings Roy DeSoto, distraught eyes filled with tears into the room, the algebra of anger sums up to the breaking point.

Calmly, Joe asks the nurse to let them have a minute alone.

"Go take a break. Grab a cup of coffee. I'll take it from here."

"Thanks Doc." Roy murmurs as he turns to Johnny.

"I don't think so, Roy." Joe's voice is flinty as he blocks Roy's path.

"Doc-"

"Joe." Dixie's voice is sharp, because she is also tired and terrified for nearly the same reasons. "Let him through."

"No. Not until he explains that bruise."

Joe saw Johnny before he fell ill, saw through the explanation that it was just grief, and soon heard Johnny’s side of the story, He suspected there was a lot more to it.

"I…I just did something I shouldn't have." Johnny had said softly. "And…and…we're through. I think."

He hung his head to hide his pain.

"Johnny, are you sure?"

"Yeah. No. I don't know." He rubbed his side and flinched when Roy called down the hall that they had a run. The brief expression in Johnny’s eyes set alarm bells off in Joe's mind which were screaming at him now.

"What bruise?" Dixie asks sharply. Neither man answers her or the ringing phone.

Roy looks sick.

"It was done unintentionally. If I could undo it I would."

"You hit him?" Dixie snarls. "After all he's been through?"

"You know his past, Roy." Joe forges on, his anger evident. "What could he have done that made you think that he deserved to be hurt like that? What if he's lost the will to fight. To live."

"I told you it was-" Roy begins, his temper rising.

"Stop with your excuses and answer the question." Joe cut him off.

"Listen, I don't know what you think you know about Johnny’s past, and I doubt any of us even know half of it, but what happened between me and Johnny is nobody's business, because it involves my past, which is also none of your business."

"If it means Johnny comes to harm it sure as hell is our business!" Dixie growls.

Chaos erupts as the trio burst into shouts, each fighting from the position of love for the man in the bed beside them. The man who is now thrashing about, agitated by more than his fever.

A shrill whistle silences the room.

"What is going on in here?" Mike Morton demands with a mix of shock and anger. When no one answered he pushes on. "We tried calling and no one answered. Now half the hospital is in a panic thinking that you're ill too. Now I've come in here to find you squabbling like children."

No one responds again and avoid all eye contact.

"Tim Duntley just died."

Roy makes an agonized noise, steps around Joe and takes the hand Johnny keeps trying to lift. To reach out, searching. Bending low over Johnny, his other hand strokes the sweat soaked hair.

"I'm here love, I'm here." He says quietly, lips almost against Johnny’s ear. "I'm not leaving you. Don't you dare leave me. I love you. I love you."

"R-royyy…" A ghostly sigh came as Johnny calmed at the touch. Roy reaches for a cooling cloth and begins to sponge his lover's sweat soaked face.

Joe and Dixie exchange a long look while Mike processes what he is hearing and seeing. Dixie finally sweeps Morton from the room.

"Why don't I go talk to Maddie with you." She says as the door shuts in Morton's unbelieving face, leaving Roy and Joe in tense silence.

"Thanks Doc." Roy finally says as Joe checks on his patient.

"For what?" Joe's voice is still sharp as he slips the thermometer under Johnny’s tongue.

"For caring about John. He's had so little of that."

Joe snorts.

"You certainly have not helped."

"Listen." Roy snaps. "Let's get him through this, then we can have it out."

Joe takes a deep steadying breath. Roy is right.

"Fine. Truce." Joe grumbles. "Something tells me that you're the best medicine I can give him right now."

"I probably should go, though, my temporary partner is going to be here soon."

"Sorry. You've been exposed. It's dangerous for you to be out with other people." He says with a slight smirk as he gives Johnny a shot of the only hope they have at the moment.

"You're needed here." He adds softly. "I'll work it out with your Captain."

He claps Roy on the shoulder.

"Keep up with the cooling measures. I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Thank you."

Roy turns back to Johnny and continues to sponge his face, their hands still clasped, as he says over and over, 'I'm here, I love you.'

[heloflor]

Have a doc filled with Mario headcanons and wanted to share the sexualities part because fuck it, it’s still pride month.

Disclaimer since it’s relevant to this post : I headcanon that Peach, Daisy, Wario and Waluigi are all creatures from the world of the Mushroom Kingdom who look the way they do due to magic gems (those blue and green gems that Peach and Daisy have respectively). Peach is a Toad, Daisy is a Dino-Rhino (unless those flower people from Mario Bros acid trip Wonder are from her Kingdom, then again I like Daisy being a giant cool Dino, plus the trailer for Wonder showed several other big animals), not sure for Wario and Waluigi but they’re not humans. The Super Crown works the way it does because there’s one of those gems in it.

Also, since it’s briefly mentioned, what I call the “main” continent is made out of the Mushroom, Koopa, Bomb-omb, Thwomp, and Goomba kingdoms. Sarasaland (retconned into Flower Kingdom now ?) and other kingdoms are on other continents (yes I know in Superstar Saga the Beanbean kingdom is neighbors with the Mushroom. But since they never appear in other games, I’ve chosen to ignore that detail).

Anyways, onto the headcanons :

- Mario : Transmasc Aromantic Heterosexual ; he realized he’s aro after finding out Peach is a Toad and losing sexual interest in her (felt bad about it at first because he thought he fell out of love upon discovering Peach at her most vulnerable, Bowser made it worse for him by accusing him of liking her only due to her human form) ; him being transmasc is why he’s named Mario Mario (he thought it would be funny)

- Luigi : Cis Bisexual ; had a fling with Peasley + loves Daisy ; he’s gender non-conforming and sometimes shares clothes with Peach, he also trains his voice to be higher-pitched for the heck of it (+ it can help in case he has to take Peach’s place for a kidnapping)

- Peach : Demiromantic Pansexual ; is cis-passing in human form but is technically transfem due to being a Toad

- Bowser : Omnisexual ; Cis tho I like the idea of him being transmasc and birthing Junior’s egg

- Yoshi and Birdetta are T4T + poly (hence Birdetta flirting with others) ; Birdetta’s eggs aren’t actually eggs (insert joke about her “eggs” being white) ; not sure if “all Yoshis that lay eggs are female” but at least all those that lay eggs that can be fertilized are female (and on that note YOSHI MIGHT BE CANONICALLY TRANSMASC ???!!!) ; Yoshi is straight while Birdetta is plurisexual (bi/pan/omni etc)

- Daisy : Straight + intersex + transfem (imagine if Prince Haru from the 1986 movie was her appearance pre-transition, but remove the whole “Peach’s fiancé” part of the plot, or the plot as a whole since the events of this movie didn’t happen here, just keep Haru’s design as “Daisy before transitioning”)

- Big fan of the headcanon that Kamek is gay ; he doesn’t date because 1. He’s busy 2. He’s getting too old for this 3. He’s devoted to his son and grandchildren which takes all his free time

- Depending on which creature he is Wario would be cishet though I could also see him be plurisexual (bi/pan/omni/other label that has to do with dating more than one gender ; I like putting diversity in queer headcanons but I’m not the most knowledgeable on labels past the most common ones)

- Not sure for Rosalina, either aroace or she’s allo but just stays single due to her life situation ; probably non-binary (she/it, could also be a play on the fact that some see her as some kind of goddess)

- Pauline is Cis Lesbian and her and Mario parted on good terms after he came out as trans on top of other reasons (basically they still care a lot about each other but realized they were better off as friends, the whole “unknown aro + transmasc with lesbian” simply gave them an easier excuse to break up)

- Really not sure for Bowser's kids, the only ideas that are "set in stone" are that Ludwig is gay, Wendy is attracted to boys (doesn't meant she can't like girls), Lemmy is demi-boy (they/him) and Morton is attracted to girls (like Wendy it doesn't close the door for liking men).

Not sure for the rest, though I could see Iggy using he/neopronouns (likely xe/xem) and at least one of them being interesex. Btw the older kids say they don’t date because they’re busy with royal duties but the truth is they are just incredibly awkward + they can’t ask their dad for advice since he’s a romantic disaster

- I could see Toadsworth be aroace, since even in his younger years he cared more about raising his surrogate daughter than dating + he never pressures Peach into marrying ? In general he doesn’t seem to care about romance ? ; he’s also transmasc because Toad

- After seeing Bowser’s Inside Story and the beginning of Dream Team, Starlow is a lesbian crushing on Peach (is very buddy-buddy with Peach despite barely knowing her, makes a big deal out of Peach being kept safe, calls her “Peach” instead of “Princess” from the get go, at times seems to see Peach as the best person in the room)

- Toads and Goombas are naturally agender because mushrooms ; some choose to express a specific gender (ex Toadsworth, Toadette, Peach, the Toads and Goombas from the first two Paper Mario) ; some may use gendered pronouns even if their presentation doesn’t display any specific gender (ex Captain Toad using he/him despite looking like any other Toad) ; basically every Toad/Goomba that use gendered pronouns (or neopronouns) is technically trans and/or non-binary ; cisgender Toads/Goombas go by they/it ; the Super Crown gem gives the shape the Toad see themselves as but it doesn’t have to be cis-passing or even gender conforming, can be androgyne (Daisy took a while to figure herself out, hence her gem giving her Haru’s look at first ; she's not from an agender species but the way the gems work still applies to hers, hence mentioning how her being trans worked on that front)

- That previous point implies either all Toads have the same metabolism and thus all grow facial hair (Peach having to shave tho) or they have mushrooms that serves as HRT for those who want more “masculine” or “feminine” traits (hair/facial hair and tone of voice) ; the color of their hats has nothing to do with gender for Toads (ignore Nintendo’s weird obsession with making every female character in the Mario franchise pink)

- Sexual dimorphism in general is very rare/limited in this world (only the Beanbean kingdom has it ?), in “main” continent, Koopas are the ones where it’s the most present and even then it’s very minimal (genitals, who can lay eggs, possibly size but even then not really since Pom Pom is the only one smaller than her male counterpart, Wendy and other female Koopas aren’t particularly small)

- Toads (and other species) experimenting with gender could be due to seeing Koopas make the distinction between “male” and “female” and finding the idea of changing your appearance based on how you feel to be fun (even though you have the concept of male and female Koopas, there’s no transphobia in Bowser’s kingdom) ; by that point it’s common for Toads to change however they feel and go by any pronouns they want, just because they’re aware of the concepts of masculinity and femininity doesn’t mean they have to follow it to the letter with their pronouns unless they want to

- On that note, I could see Toadette as genderfluid, though she most often goes by she/her ; I could also see one or several of the other main Toads (Ala Gold, Bucken Berry, Captain Toad, "The" Red ToadTM) be bi-gender

- Not sure what’s going on with Waluigi but he’s definitely queer

[inkstained-wretch]

Hot doc didn’t get married yet. So, they were NOT at his wedding, ha! Also, she’s not on their wedding list 😘. Ask me how I know. They were at Jackie’s co-workers wedding from Morton Plant Hospital. It’s on fb.

ooooouh gimme gimme link?

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday film director Michael Caton-Jones born in Broxburn, West Lothian, October 15th 1957.

Moving to London at age 17 to pursue a writing career, Caton-Jones paid the rent by working as a stagehand at London’s West End. He decided to attend Britain’s National Film School, where he quickly gained attention when his first project, entitled Leibe Mutter, won the Best Film at the European Student Awards.

After he completed his second student film, The Riveter, the BBC took no time in purchasing it.

By the time he had completed two years of film school, Caton-Jones was offered a job directing the three-part mini-series Brond. By the late 80s, he had decided to direct his first feature length film.

His breakthrough film was the excellent Scandal, a compelling look at the Profumo-Keeler sex scandal of the early 1960s. Not unlike his earlier films, Scandal became a critical and popular international hit resulting in numerous awards and nominations, including the Camera D'Or at Cannes, the European Oscars and the Golden Globes.

The exposure led to a demand for his talents in Hollywood; so he crossed the pond to direct features like Memphis Bell, Doc Hollywood and This Boy’s Life based on Tobias Wolff’s poignant autobiographical novel.

He returned to his roots in the mid-90s to film the story of one of his country’s most heroic patriots - Rob Roy. The film starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lang, Tim Roth and John Hurt, earned critical acclaim and won Roth an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

I loved his film Urban Hymn, which has an outstanding soundtrack, Caton-Jones described it as “one of the best film making experiences I’ve had.” and the period miniseries World Without End. The film, Hitman Redemption, which stars Sons of Anarchy actor Ron Perlman as a Mossad member-turned-gun-for-hire in New York got a few mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it.

By far my favourite film from  Michael Caton-Jones so far is Our Ladies, which he directed an co-wrote the screenplay. It is based on an excellent book by Alan Warner called  The Sopranos, but the name being so well known it they changed so as to avoid any confusion and possible lawsuit? Anyway, my favourite moment is when the girls go to a Northern Soul Karaoke in Edinburgh, if you want to watch it I will post a link for it. Warner previous wrote Morvern Callar which was made into a film by  Lynne Ramsay and starred Samantha Morton.

In October 2017, Michael Caton-Jones revealed he had chosen Sophie Okonedo, to star in B. Monkey. However producer, Harvey Weinstein, decided the actress was not "fuckable". 

Caton-Jones and Weinstein discussed the matter heatedly and Caton-Jones said, "'Don’t screw up the casting of this film because you want to get laid', whereupon he went mental." Weinstein then told Variety that Caton-Jones had left the production due to "creative differences". 

Asia Argento, who replaced Okonedo, was one of three women who in 2017 were reported in The New Yorker to have been raped by Weinstein; she said she submitted to Weinstein because, "I felt I had to, because I had the movie coming out and I didn’t want to anger him."

Michael Caton-Jones’ Our Ladies has scooped up two nominations for the  Bafta Scotland awards.

[ganhosdoelefante]

London, 31 de março do Ano 1 - Domingo - Doc - 25 anos.

09:00 - Acordamos e tomamos café:

09:55 - Chego em casa, tomo banho e me arrumo. 10:40 - Faço as unhas: L.Y. Beauty | London Kensington

11:30 - Faço umas comprinhas: Alexander Wang

11:50 - Outra: self-portrait London Flagship Store

12:40 - Visito um museu: Garden Museum

Depois: Morton's Tower

13:50 - Almoço: The Garden Cafe

14:40 - Saio. 15:10 - Chego na casa de Camille e tomamos um chá:

17:00 - Chego em casa e fico vendo um pouco de tv. 18:40 - Tomo banho e me arrumo para sair. 19:30 - Janto com Carl: London Secret Garden

21:20 - Vamos para minha casa e dormimos (L).

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.14

Beer Birthdays

Eugene L. Husting (1848)

Brandon Hernández (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Emmanuelle Beart; French actor (1965)

Halle Berry; actor (1968)

Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actor (1983)

Gary Larson; cartoonist (1950)

Steve Martin; comedian, actor, writer, banjo player (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Russell Baker; essayist (1925)

Emmanuelle Béart; French actress (1963)

Catherine Bell; actor (1968)

Herman Branson; African-American physicist, chemist (1914)

Sarah Brightman; English singer-songwriter (1960)

John Brodie; San Francisco 49ers QB (1935)

Lodewijk Bruckman; Dutch painter (1903)

Sharon Bryant; R&B singer (1956)

Kevin Cadogan; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (1970)

Méric Casaubon; Swiss-English author (1599)

Yannoulis Chalepas; Greek sculptor (1851)

Darrell "Dash" Crofts; singer-songwriter and musician (1940)

David Crosby; rock singer (1941)

Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin; Belgian mathematician (1866)

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky; Russian-Lithuanian-American artist (1875)

Slim Dunlap; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951)

Tracy Caldwell Dyson; chemist and astronaut (!969)

Richard R. Ernst; Swiss chemist (1933)

Erica Flapan; mathematician (1956)

Francis Ford; actor and director (1881)

John Galsworthy; English writer (1867)

Alice Ghostley; actor (1926)

Larry Graham; soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter (1946)

Buddy Greco; singer, pianist (1926)

Marcia Gay Harden; actor (1959)

Jackée Harry; actress (1956)

Robert Hayman; English-Canadian poet (1575)

Lee Hoffman; author (1932)

Leopold Hofmann; Austrian composer (1738)

Doc Holliday; dentist, wild west gambler (1851)

James Horner; composer (1953)

Ernest Everett Just; African-American biologist (1883)

Jan Koetsier; Dutch composer (1911)

Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Anglo-Irish astronomer (1848)

William Hutchinson; founder of Rhode Island (1586)

Magic Johnson; Los Angeles Lakers (1959)

Stanley A. McChrystal; American general (1954)

John McCutcheon; folksinger (1952)

Paddy McGuinness; English comedian (1973)

Lionel Morton; English singer-songwriter, guitarist (1942)

Bruce Nash; film director (1947)

Frank Oppenheimer; particle physicist (1912)

Hans Christian Ørsted; Danish physicist and chemist (1777)

Susan Saint James; actor (1946)

Paolo Sarpi; Italian writer (1552)

Ben Sidran; jazz and rock keyboardist (1943)

Stuff Smith; violinist (1909)

Danielle Steel; writer (1947)

Jiro Taniguchi; Japanese author and illustrator (1947)

Bruno Tesch; German chemist (1890)

Ernest Thayer; "Casey at the Bat" writer (1863)

Bruce Thomas; English bass playe (1948)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Flemish painter (1502)

Carle Vernet; French painter and lithographer (1758)

Claude Joseph Vernet; French painter (1714)

Earl Weaver; Baltimore Orioles manager (1930)

Wim Wenders; German film director (1945)

Lina Wertmüller; Italian film director (1926)

[film-book]

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2073 (2024) Movie Trailer: Asif Kapadia's Doc about Climate Change featuring Samantha Morton https://film-book.com/2073-2024-movie-trailer-asif-kapadias-doc-about-climate-change-featuring-samantha-morton/?feed_id=146578&_unique_id=66d689e6d485f

[doctorstrangereview]

Strange Tales #120

Cover Date: May 1964 On-Sale Date: February 11, 1964

The Haunted House story had to happen sooner or later, and here it is! Or is it? Read and find out. Doc only gets a text blurb on the cover. But his stories get a page longer. We're up to nine. And we have another first this issue. For the first time the eye in the All-Purpose Amulet attaches itself to Doc's head functioning as a mystical third eye. Lastly, the cloak's collar climbs to ever higher heights!

We start out with Doc walking the street (not like that!) in full regalia. This, naturally, causes everyone to stare at the rather spectacular sight. Ditko draws it as if looking up from the sidewalk. It's good! Doc has a destination in mind. In the next panel Doc walks up to a tiny, little house with a TV crew and audience gathered out front. (I've always wondered if this story was an inspiration for the Tales from the Crypt episode, Television Terror where Morton Downey, Jr. plays a TV personality who attempts to spend the night in a haunted house.)

The newscaster blah, blahs on about how the station reporter will take a microphone into the house and broadcast live. A little old woman warns one of the police officers cordoning off the area that the reporter shouldn't go in the creepy little house. All the clichés are present here. One of the audience asks another if the reporter will see a ghost. The other jokingly replies "Not a chance!" and gives Doc a friendly elbow. Doc gives them a creepy and ominous answer.

As the reporter enters the creepy cottage, Doc goes off to a secluded spot and first tries to enter the house in his astral (here called ectoplasmic) form. He's rebuffed and returns to his body. Time for Plan B. Doc concentrates, his All-Purpose Amulet opens (no mention of slowly this time) revealing the eye within. This time, the eye leaves the amulet and plants itself on Doc's forehead.

This allows Doc to watch what's going on inside creepy cottage. He follows the reporter around who see's a few "unusual" things. Finally, with a point of view that obscures the focus of the reporters horror, Doc sees what makes the reporter shout in terror at the same time the TV crew loses contact with him.

"Enough is enough!" thinks Doc as he puts the creepy eye back in the amulet and tries to get through the crowd to enter the cottage. But nobody will let him through. He calls on the power of flapping his cloak very fast to push the audience aside.

Doc uses his amulet to trip the door lock and enters. The same creepy things that happened to the reporter happen to Doc. Doc shouts out "I know your secret dude!" and is immediately trapped in cage of mist. After nearly an entire page of story padding, Doc escapes to confront his foe. In what amounts to a mystic dick-measuring contest which Doc apparently wins, his foe releases the reporter who gets the hell out of Dodge.

Back inside creepy cottage, we finally learn the secret of the "haunted house." It's not haunted, it's alive! Portrayed as a giant pair of eyes on one of the walls, Doc and the house parley. Doc decides Mr. House is too dangerous to remain. He exits and waves his cloak around some more which emits lots of mist. Viola! The house is gone!

As Doc leaves, the audience makes sure to give him plenty of roam, and without explanation he departs. It's a cool-looking exit. That cloak has some great flow!

Yay! Three stories in a row with new and original foes! The streak ends here. A familiar face returns next month. It's an original twist on the haunted house story. The brevity of the story doesn't allow much exploration of the house creature. It's here to observe us and kidnaps a few people here and there. Is it truly evil or maybe misguided. Why is it watching us in the first place? At least he actually cleans up loose ends as we've seen his previous reluctance about this bite him in his ass. The house creature will return a multiple times over the next decades. In fact, the next time we see it in an early issue of the licensed ROM series, it marks the first time the Spacekinght's story crosses with the Marvel Universe at-large. It's fun and mostly harmless (where have I heard that before?) Doc isn't as much of a dick to the population at large as usual. Perhaps the old duffer is softening up a bit. Ditko's art isn't overly detailed this issue. Perhaps he was giving himself a break. Still, there are a couple of cinema-worthy panels. Overall, a fun little break.