#Formula jere

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What is going on?! What is this madness?!! 💚💚

Stepped away to get some work done and coming back to:

K being chased by Erika serial ki11er style 😂😂 (gotta say Erika is hot as f and K looks super cute next to that pink dress)

K in Sweden at some LGBTQ event 🌈❤️ 

K-coded new Formula1 car for the Sauber team where one of the drivers is Finnish - this is not a drill!! aaaahhh love it😍

Stop this madness!! (Actually, please don't! As they say - toiset samanlaiset! Kipu kiihottaa - hell yeah!!)

[still-we-rise]

Btw here's Jere impersonating an F1 car

[gremlinwithakeyboard]

Welp guess who gave into their curiosity about the 9/11 fic and went down the "rpf where käärijä and possibly bojan die in a historic tragedy" rabbit hole this evening

[musicalislife]

Käärijä and bulbasaur.

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newsies — MV1 (smau)

pairing: max verstappen x musical theater fem!reader faceclaim; kara lindsay !

summary: when lando drags max to his favorite musical, max takes a liking to the leading lady

warnings: none!

a/n: this is 100% made for me, i can't shut up abt newsies or jeremy jordan... sooo why not combine my two loves (newsies and f1 😁)

masterlist !

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user1 tickets have been secured since last year IM SO EXCITED

user2 oh to get a hug from jeremy jordan 😞

jeremymjordan IM EXCITED ARE YOU EXCITED

yourusername I CAN'T SIT STILL JERE

user3 "jere" they're too cute 😭😭

mikefaist guess who has a front row seat 😁

yourusername MIKEEE 🥹🥹

user4 OH MY GOD ITS HAPPENING OKAY EVERYBODY STAY CALM

user5 oh i've been waiting YEARS to see y/n in a broadway musical

landonorris missing fp1 to be there 🫡

yourusername lando no that's your job??

landonorris not that important 🤷‍♂️ plus there's someone i want you to meet

user6 someone to meet?? another driver??

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yourusername opening night, race weekend, and max picking me up from rehearsals! (eventful week if you ask me)

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user1 ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE SHOW!!!!!!!!

user2 y/n and jeremy being the power duo on stage IKTR!!

user3 lando looks like he's hating the rain 😭

user4 WAIT PAUSE WHATS MAX DOING THERE

user5 PICKING HER UP TOO??????

landonorris your fault i dnf'd ☹️

yourusername not my fault it was raining??

user6 WAIT WHAT IF MAX WAS THE ONE LANDO BROUGHT WITH HIM TO OPENING NIGHT

user7 oh your onto something

maxverstappen1 still can't believe you know how to tap dance AND sing at the same time

yourusername i'd say it's harder to be on broadway than it is being an f1 driver

maxverstappen1 no need to go around lying on social media sweetheart

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yourusername spent my time off with this guy, anyone know who he is?

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user1 he's so pookie ugh

jeremymjordan come back to new york ben and mike won't shut up about you (i guess i miss you too)

yourusername only if max can come too

user2 the duo i didn't know i needed

user3 okay but what's max's favorite newsies song 👀

maxverstappen1 i think he's a formula one driver, could be mistaken

yourusername thanks for clearing that up!

user4 max slowly becoming all of y/n's feed is so entertaining

user5 y/n and max the unexpected duo i didn't know i needed

landonorris you didn't hang out with me 😔😔😔

yourusername sorry max is just better company???

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yourusername when f1 update accounts expose you and your boyfriend 😞😞

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user1 SO IT WAS THEM??????

user2 PLS THE CAPTION SHE'S TOO FUNNY

maxverstappen1 the secret was coming out sooner or later love

yourusername i know but now we can't soft launch ☹️☹️

user3 THE CUTEST COUPLE ON THE GRID

landonorris call me cupid 😏

yourusername no

maxverstappen1 no

user4 NEW BF MAX CONTENT IM SO READY

jeremymjordan proud to say i knew before twitter did 😁

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maxverstappen1 dating y/n means listening to the newsies soundtrack on repeat ❤️

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user1 THE MIDDLE SLIDE THEYRE TOO CUTE

user2 this had to mean max has a fav newsies song omg

jeremymjordan take care of her please

maxverstappen1 never plan on stopping

user3 y/n's bway bf 🤝 y/n's real bf

landonorris CALL. ME. CUPID.

maxverstappen1 still no

user4 THEY'RE MY EVERYTHING OMG

yourusername i don't think you can have your phone out in the theater sir 🤨🤨

yousuername but seriously you love the newsies soundtrack

maxverstappen1 i never said that

yourusername so what do you go to all the shows for??

maxverstappen1 my beautiful talented stunning girlfriend of course 😉

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Bookmarks and recs

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Fics and series for F1, Joker Out & Käärijä, and the band Ghost in descending chronological order below

All fics privated and only available to account holders

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Formula One RPF

Pup Daniel Snippets – Max Verstappen/Daniel Ricciardo, Explicit, Ongoing

Poodle Emoji In Caption (dirty work for a pretty puppy) – Max Verstappen/Daniel Ricciardo, Explicit

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Eurovision 2023/Joker Out/Käärijä RP

Em’s Bojere/Joker Out Brainrot Fics — Series

The Weight Of The World On One’s Shoulders (and balls) – Bojan Cvjetićanin/Jan Peteh/Nace Jordan, Explicit

Sauna Dick Measuring Contest – Bojan Cvjetićanin/Jere Pöyhönen, Mature

Guys being dudes, dudes being gay – Bojan Cvjetićanin/Jere Pöyhönen, Explicit

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The band Ghost

Ghoul Shenaniganery — Series, General and Teen and Up fics

Ratboy Copia Agenda — Series, Mature and Explicit fics

Warmth – Aether/Cardinal Copia, Mature

Show Poodle – Cumulus/Sunshine, Explicit

Their Adorable Pet Rat – Cardinal Copia/Swiss/Cirrus, Explicit

Testing the Waters - Cardinal Copia & the ghouls, Mature

An Unfortunate Intrusion – Cardinal Copia & Aether, Explicit

Snow Is Just Frozen Water – Aether & Rain, Teen and Up

Rat Cage – Cardinal Copia/Reader, Explicit

Mommy Dust – Cardinal Copia/Cirrus, Explicit

Practice Toy – Ather/Dewdrop, Explicit

Rainstorm – Cardinal Copia & Rain, Teen and Up

Caught in a Rat Trap – Cardinal Copia, Explicit

Copia's NSFW Alphabet Challenge – Cardinal Copia, Mature

Candle Flavour – Cirrus & Dewdrop, General

This is the worst part – Dewdrop & Cardinal Copia, General

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Jere’s formula bedsheets > real formula1

[thefilmsimps]

Glass Onion (dir. Rian Johnson)

-Jere Pilapil- 8/10 Folks, it’s good. I’m happy to see and happy to say that Rian Johnson seems to have found a repeatable formula where he can indulge a bit in his interest in meta commentary and rule breaking without enraging nerds who’ve formed a parasocial relationship with the Skywalker family. The Knives Out franchise, in so far as its two entries show, as ensemble mysteries anchored by Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc. Each movie is a murder mystery where a gaggle of famous actors are the suspects, and each blows up the formula for a murder mystery story a little bit. Each one also revels in the dysfunction of the upper class. This time around, Edward Norton is, in a sense, the patriarch of a group of friends who call themselves The Disruptors (the movie rolls its eyes at this as much as you do). Norton’s Miles Bron is a tech billionaire who invites the rest of the cast to a remote Greek Island for a murder mystery party. Every guest is a success story - in politics, fashion, science, uh, men’s rights - but Bron is the biggest success of all, as shown by the excesses in architecture and décor throughout his island. As one might expect, a real murder happens. Sometimes it’s just good to see a cast having fun, and in this case that’s enough for me. Midway through the movie, we gain some new information in a somewhat cumbersome and tiring way, but the performances carry the audience through this. Daniel Craig spent my entire adult life as James Bond, excellently, but it’s still a joy to see him playing silly as Blanc in both of these movies (and shout out to the underrated Logan Lucky). Ditto Kate Hudson, whose turn in Music was as agonizing as that movie itself. Norton has fun as the smarmy Bron, and Janelle Monaé runs away with much of the movie via a fantastic performance as the Disruptor on the outs with the rest. There is a lot of poking fun at Miles the billionaire here, to say nothing of how vapid or fake these other prominent figure stand-ins are. That shouldn’t be surprising considering the class consciousness (or attempt at it) of Johnson’s The Last Jedi and Knives Out. It’s strangely gotten more attention this time, but I think this movie was conceived with a general “fuck billionaire worship” perspective and lucked into some of our most famous billionaires exposing their own idiocy for the last quarter of 2022. There was no way to know that people would have incidents like Ye’s antisemitism and financial and cultural implosion or Elon Musk’s [gestures vaguely at Twitter and Tesla stock] fresh in their minds when this movie dropped in time for Christmas. That’s just some good timing that not even Miles Bron can buy.

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“I’m so in love with her/him, I don’t know what to do.” for who else but Jean and Jeremy

Here you go! Enjoy!

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Falling in love was a tricky business. Jeremy had grown up with fairy tales, so he wanted there to be a formula, a quick guide that made falling in love easy. “10 Steps To Guarantee You Fall Deeply and Madly in Love.”

Unfortunately, as he grew older, he learned that life didn’t quite work that way and that falling in love felt different every time. The last time Jeremy had fallen in love, it was his sophomore year of college and it felt like easing into a pool, letting himself get slowly more and more submerged.

To keep with the metaphor, falling in love with Jean felt like being pushed face first into the pool and told to swim. One day, Jean was his best friend that he had just graduated to kissing and the next…

He rolled over and saw Jean next to him sleeping, his face for once at peace. He was smiling softly, another rarity, and in his sleepy haze, Jeremy thought, “I’m so in love with him. I don’t know what to do.”

The sudden realization had him pulling back slightly out of Jean’s arms. At the loss of warmth, Jean frowned a bit and reached out. “Jere…”

Jeremy swallowed his panic and folded himself back against Jean. Jean stroked his hair and murmured, “Go back to sleep, angel. It’s too early.”

Jeremy nodded and tried to fall back asleep, but his thoughts were still racing. What did he do about his feelings? He wanted to tell Jean, but kept second-guessing himself. Was it too soon? Did Jean feel the same way? What if Jeremy freaked him out by telling him? It was a lot to think about.

Eventually, he must have fallen into a fitful sleep, because he woke to the feeling of Jean chuckling against his neck. “You’re thinking very loudly this morning, my love.”

Jeremy was poised to respond when it finally registered what Jean had said. Jeremy whirled around to face him. “You…love me?”

Jean tilted his head and ran his hand down Jeremy’s cheek. “Of course. You’re amazing, Jeremy. Your kindness, your bravery. I love every bit of you.”

Jeremy’s heart fluttered. “I love you too. This feels like a dream…”

Jean smiled. “Would you feel this if you were dreaming?” He leaned in to kiss Jeremy and before Jeremy could melt into it, he nipped at his bottom lip.

Jeremy jumped slightly before letting his mouth split into a wide grin. “No…I don’t think I would.”

They both smiled goofily and Jean pulled him into a kiss with both hands on his cheeks. They giggled into the kiss and Jean moved them both so Jeremy was laying on his back with Jean hovering above him. “This okay?”

Jeremy nodded hastily and Jean smiled before leaning in to kiss him again. “I love you,” he said, pressing a kiss to Jeremy’s cheek. “I love you.” The hollow of his throat. He showed his love to every centimeter of Jeremy’s body, until Jeremy felt like a blissed out puddle. In return, Jeremy kissed the pads of each of Jean’s fingers, making him shiver. “I love you, too.”

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CANTLON: UCONN LOSES UGLY TO MERRIMACK

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - If there was ever a must win game for the UCONN Huskies this season, this was it. Yet despite knowing they needed a win coming into the contest, the Huskies were out-hustled, out-worked, and out-gunned by the second-to-worst team in the conference, the Merrimack Warriors. The Huskies lost 6-2 on Tuesday night at the XL Center before a hearty crowd of 2,953. The loss, was the Huskies third straight. “It hasn’t been a good week for UCONN hockey," UCONN head coach Mike Cavanaugh said, not sugar coating his team's poor performance. "I apologize to all those fans who came out tonight. They didn’t see a team that we customarily put on the ice. We didn’t compete for sixty minutes. They (Merrimack) were the team that deserved to win. We haven’t played well the last two games.” UCONN’s record drops to 7-9-5 overall, 4-6-2 HEA. Merrimack improves it's record to 5-14-2 overall, 3-6-2 HEA. The schedule is not kind to UCONN. Still to come is a trip to Schneider Arena where they will take on the Providence College Friars who have a high-octane offense. The Friars lead the conference with 73 goals scored as of Saturday at 5 PM. The Friars are the 12th ranked team in the country according to the national polls and presently sit in third place in Hockey East. They are just a point behind UMASS-Lowell and are tied with Northeastern (15 points). The red flags are up and the red lights are flashing for UCONN this season. It started out with so much promise and is presently in peril. “There’s no magic formula here. We have to come out and be ready to play. I thought we were ready to play, I liked our energy. We just didn’t have it on the ice,” Cavanaugh said with a rare level of sarcasm, but the shoe fit. Merrimack reestablished a three-goal lead just 2:09 into the third period and pulled away from the Huskies. Ben Brar got a great feed from Sami Tavernier and snapped off a wrist shot that was blocked. Brar had a second shot at sophomore netminder, Tomas Vomacka, as the puck came right back to him and he didn’t miss, depositing his second goal of the season. Merrimack shut the door for good after UCONN’s most effective offensive zone pressure of the evening led to a goal, the Warriors had some effective zone pressure of their own. Patrick Holway sent a pass across the blue line from the left side to his defense partner at the right point, Liam Dennison. Dennison marched 25-feet in below the face-off dot on the right-wing uncontested and then snapped a wrister with Vomacka screened. His wrist shot sailed past Vomacka to the short-side to put the final nail in the coffin for UCONN. In the second period, things were a little better at the beginning and at a little better at the end of the period for UCONN. In-between however, it was all Merrimack who stretched their lead to three goals. At 46 seconds Logan Drevitch had all sorts of open ice and took a pass from deep on the right-wing side from Chase Gresock. The Warrior then went straight to the net and from twenty-feet out scored his fifth of the season. The play was precisely what the team game plan was looking for. “We attacked very well on that play. We supported each other well tonight. We talked about that before the game, that open space, when you don’t have the puck, play outside the dots. We did a very good job in the game with that and on that goal, the whole play happened between the dots. That was a highlight for the team. We played right down the middle of the ice,” second-year Merrimack head coach, Scott Borek, said. The Huskies answered quickly at 2:12 with one of their few solid efforts as Jordan Timmons made a quick, clean entry in the zone got to the left wing corner. There he sent a pass to Justin Howell in the slot. Howell turned and fired his second goal of the season past Warriors goalie and Finnish freshmen, Jere Huhtama. UCONN then got a fantastic chance to build on the momentum when Zach Uens was nailed for a major penalty and a game misconduct for cross-checking Brian Rigali into the boards in front of the UCONN bench. But the Huskies managed to garner just three shots on goal over four of the five-minutes as a minute was scratched off when the Huskies took a needless penalty of their own. Killing off the major penalty gave Merrimack the emotional boost and swing in momentum. “The (PK) was the biggest part of the game. We got a lot of momentum out of that five-minute major and they lost a lot of momentum from that. Number seven (Uens) plays every situation for us, and (helps) kill a lot of (other teams') power-plays, so it was tough to lose him. Our guys stepped up and lifted our whole bench up. We blocked a couple of shots and they got frustrated a little bit. I can’t say enough about our penalty kill. They did a great job,” said Borek. The Pack's will to win the one-on-one battles and superior puck management was missing in the first to start the game. “It was missing the whole game,” said a dead-panned Cavanaugh. “We're not a very good team if we think skill goes before will, and right now we're relying on a lot more skill than will. We're doing the work it takes to create scoring chances." Merrimack’s Mac Welsher was in front of then et and easily converted a pass from Gresock for his third goal to push the Warrior lead to 3-1 at 9:17. Merrimack made it 4-1 at 15:59 off of one of many odd man rushes. On this rush, a two-on-one, Merrimack's Tyler Irvine raced in off the right-wing and tucked the puck past Vomacka's outstretched left leg for his eighth goal of the season. The Huskies shrunk the lead to 4-2 with 26.6 seconds left in regulation when Marc Gatcomb picked up a Jonny Evans rebound off a semi-busted play. Jachym Kondelik's shot from an off-angle went off a skate over to Wyatt Newpower for a right-point shot that was stopped. The Huskies started the game and picked up where they left off with Northeastern... a lethargic effort and fell behind at 6:01. Regan Kimens was stopped on the first shot by Vomacka seconds earlier, but this time he was on the left-wing, behind the goal line. He sent a pass to a wide-open, Hugo Esselin, who completed the easy redirect past Vomacka for his second of the season. “The last two games started out exactly the same way, and maybe it's confidence, maybe it's not. Instead of playing downhill we're playing uphill all game. One goal is turning into two goals, and then into three goals, and I don’t know if it's confidence, but I know its not the way we want to play,” said a stern speaking Cavanaugh. UCONN was held to just to one shot on goal in the final 10:45 of the period. NOTES: Senior Alexander Payusov and junior Bradley Stone were scratched because of illness. The flu is running through the locker room. Merrimack has several players with CT and NHL ties. Logan and Tyler Drevitch are both the sons of former New Haven Nighthawk, Scott Drevitch. Tyler Heidt is the son of former Nighthawk, Mike Heidt. Jacob Modry is the son of former NHL’er, Jaroslav Modry, who's now an assistant coach with Ontario (AHL). The SNY Connecticut Ice Tournament is two weeks away. The tournament schedule is as follows: Mite jamboree at Noon. That is followed by a high school girls game. It kicks off at 4 PM as Guilford plays Sacred Heart Academy. That will be followed by a HS boys prep school game between Loomis Chaffe (Windsor) vs. Westminster (Simsbury) at 6:15 PM and concludes with a public high school contest between Division One powerhouses, Darien and Notre Dame - West Haven at 8:30 PM. Saturday at 11:00 AM will be a U-10 Boys championship game followed by a girls U-12 championship game. Then the big boys will play. UCONN plays Quinnipiac University at 3:30 PM followed by Sacred Heart University vs. Yale at 7pm. Then Sunday at Noon, there's a U-12 Boys championship game and then the SNY Connecticut Consolation game at 3:30 PM and then to conclude the inaugural event, the trophy championship game will be at 7 PM. Former QU Bobcat, Mike Dalhuisen, was traded from HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL) to HK Poprad (Slovakia-SLEL). Australia has announced it's full squad for the Division II, Group A, 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship taking place in Zagreb, Croatia from the 19th-25th April 2020. Cheshire's Rob "Bert" Malloy, a dual citizen will represent the Mighty Roos for a fifth time in international competition. He currently plays for the Newcastle Northstars of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) and the season runs from May until early September. Double good news, Mallloy reports that his family is doing well and found safety from the horrible brush fires in eastern Australia where they reside in NSW (New South Wales). Read the full article

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Other story types described by R. Jere Black in “The Pseudo-Scientific Field” included tales of the future (including new inventions), giant insect tales, and fourth dimension tales. According to Black, all the story types pretty much followed the same formula: “It is the conventional wish-fulfillment plot so dear to all magazines, except this variety takes place beneath strange skies, and consequently the writer can unleash his imagination in depicting the forms of life, the cities, and the customs of other worlds” (or times or dimensions). Even in the giant insect or alien invasion stories (which Black considers an interplanetary tale, but in reverse), there’s some sort of battle that the hero wins. Of course, to the victor belong the spoils (and the girl). Nathan Schachner’s “The Time Express” is the cover story for the December 1932 issue, featuring cover art by Frank R. Paul. So we guess that’s some sort of time machine depicted. Note the new price on the cover. WONDER STORIES dropped its price to 15 cents with the November 1932 issue. The Great Depression was taking its toll. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzeVo-hh8ot/?igshid=1vumam4y31tom

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A Bad Case of Influencer Part 3

The finale of A Bad Case of Influencer.

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 Garry squints as he sends the drone up. Jeres has pulled some serious strings to get this shot done. He notes that this past month since she dropped in ranking, Jeres has suddenly caught some sort of daredevil bug. It seems to work.

Her first “New Jeres” shot was of her lying on the tarmac in a car park, wearing a gold bikini, her body dangerously near the wheels of a BMW cabriolet. That post went viral when a famous Instagrammer from America reposted it, commenting “<3 this—reminds me of Helmut Newton.” Jeres got over 18,000 Likes and 396 new Instagram followers that day.

To celebrate, Colin brought over a nice chilled bottle of moscato that they enjoyed with McDonald’s French fries.

Jeres had struck on the magic formula: sexy girl + slightly scary position. Her daily posts were gathering Followers like dropped hair on a Magiclean dry mop. The most popular ones were the one of her doing a yoga Dancer Pose at the edge of an infinity pool in a full-body corset, and the one of her running away from a motorcycle gang, wearing a gorgeous ensemble by an iconic Italian brand, complete with handbag “flying” behind her.

The photos were so attention-grabbing, Mr Brown even spoofed her yoga one. Jeres was a bit insulted at first but soon realized that his post drove even more people to her Instagram account. As a thank-you, she reposted his photo.

Now standing on this steel platform, Jeres feels this is going to be her most important Instagram shot yet. This will shoot her into hyperspace of Instagram fame. This will make her the Kim Kardashian of Singapore.

Clad in a long, see-through floral print chiffon gown, paired with vertiginous Kurt Geiger heels, Jeres feels like a million dollars standing on the metal platform 50 metres from the ground, smack in the middle of the construction site. She hopes that that idiot Garry understands what she’s after.

The drone flies up to her eye level. She taps on her phone and puts Garry on speaker.

“Yes. You can pose liao.”

Jeres puts on her best fashion face, tightens her core, makes sure the split in the skirt shows off the length of her artificially bronzed legs.

After three minutes, she stares down at her phone. “Garry, are you done?”

Silence.

“Garry! What the hell?!”

“Jeres, sorry… I can’t get the shot.”

“What do you mean?”

“There’s this ugly plastic thing in the background lah.”

Jeres turns around slowly. True enough, a big blue-and-white sheet is flapping hideously from the structure behind her. She lets off a string of unimaginative expletives.

“What am I supposed to do now?”

“Come down lah, we go and find somewhere else.”

“WTF Garry!” Tears are threatening to ruin her perfectly sculpted face.

“Never mind lah, we can find another spot. Come down now lah. It’s dangerous and also it’s getting hot. And the cement trucks are coming in already.”

It’s true. The perfect plan to shoot at sunrise is being foiled. But Jeres just cannot let it go. Suddenly she has a brainwave. She’ll take a selfie. She has her phone and she has her selfie stick.

“I’m going to take a selfie, Garry. Just wait for me. I don’t want to waste this effort.”

“Jer— ”

She presses the red icon on her phone, and pulls out the selfie stick from her pouch, attaching it to her phone. She can still do this. Yes. She. Can.

She positions herself at the edge of the platform and, looking away, does a test shot.

Doesn’t work. Can’t see the dress. Can still see that fugly blue tarpaulin. The only way is to get all the way to the edge, raise the stick higher to capture the dress.  Wind, she needs some wind.

The wind comes. Jeres is ecstatic, this is going to be perfect. She shifts her left foot an inch to the right.

Garry stares in disbelief as he watches Jeres fall from the platform like a scarf with a stone tied to it. His feet are rooted to the ground. His mind seems to be in a million places: Run forward and catch her! Forget it, she’s going to die! Film it! Call the police! How to save her? Quick, take photo!

For such a thin girl, her body makes a very loud sound, is his last thought before he dials nine-nine-five.

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 The Straits Times runs a two-page obituary on Jeresalynne Chionh. “Life of a genius cut short”, it declares. Her famous Instagram photos are replicated in vivid colour. The one that goes on to win a social media award is the final photo she took.

To everyone’s amazement, Jeres’ iPhone survived the fall. When the police checked her photo album, they discovered something amazing. Her last shot was of her in mid-air, eyes shut and lips slightly parted as if she was having a wonderful dream. Her turquoise hair formed a pair of exquisite wings around her head. The dress floated gloriously around her. It is a stunning image.

Sok Choo posts it on her sister’s Instagram account, and it trends for a week. Jeres becomes so famous in death even Ellen DeGeneres mentions her on The Ellen Show (“a triumph for Singapore!” crows the Straits Times).

But if she could look down from whatever heaven she’s in now, Jeres would surely be most touched by Kim Kardashian’s sweet Instagram post, featuring a sad-face selfie and the words “YOLO. RIP.”

 #influencer #shortstory #fiction #satire #KimKardashian 

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A QUICK POLL:

1. Should Jeres have died?

YES or NO.

2. Would you like to see this as an ongoing series?

YES or NO. 

3. Why?

(write me a line or an essay)

[thefilmsimps]

Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton)

-Jere Pilapil- 8.5/10 Folks, it’s good. I’m happy to see and happy to say that Rian Johnson seems to have found a repeatable formula where he can indulge a bit in his interest in meta commentary and rule breaking without enraging nerds who’ve formed a parasocial relationship with the Skywalker family. The Knives Out franchise, in so far as its two entries show, as ensemble mysteries anchored by Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc. Each movie is a murder mystery where a gaggle of famous actors are the suspects, and each blows up the formula for a murder mystery story a little bit. Each one also revels in the dysfunction of the upper class. This time around, Edward Norton is, in a sense, the patriarch of a group of friends who call themselves The Disruptors (the movie rolls its eyes at this as much as you do). Norton’s Miles Bron is a tech billionaire who invites the rest of the cast to a remote Greek Island for a murder mystery party. Every guest is a success story - in politics, fashion, science, uh, men’s rights - but Bron is the biggest success of all, as shown by the excesses in architecture and décor throughout his island. As one might expect, a real murder happens. Sometimes it’s just good to see a cast having fun, and in this case that’s enough for me. Midway through the movie, we gain some new information in a somewhat cumbersome and tiring way, but the performances carry the audience through this. Daniel Craig spent my entire adult life as James Bond, excellently, but it’s still a joy to see him playing silly as Blanc in both of these movies (and shout out to the underrated Logan Lucky). Ditto Kate Hudson, whose turn in Music was as agonizing as that movie itself. Norton has fun as the smarmy Bron, and Janelle Monaé runs away with much of the movie via a fantastic performance as the Disruptor on the outs with the rest. There is a lot of poking fun at Miles the billionaire here, to say nothing of how vapid or fake these other prominent figure stand-ins are. That shouldn’t be surprising considering the class consciousness (or attempt at it) of Johnson’s The Last Jedi and Knives Out. It’s strangely gotten more attention this time, but I think this movie was conceived with a general “fuck billionaire worship” perspective and lucked into some of our most famous billionaires exposing their own idiocy for the last quarter of 2022. There was no way to know that people would have incidents like Ye’s antisemitism and financial and cultural implosion or Elon Musk’s [gestures vaguely at Twitter and Tesla stock] fresh in their minds when this movie dropped in time for Christmas. That’s just some good timing that not even Miles Bron can buy.

[rerunstudios-blog]

The Screenwriter’s Game

Hello! My name is Jere and I’m working as a screenwriter in our game studio Rerun Studios. I’ve been working mainly on the game’s story, script and level design together with our game designer. The script for our studio’s first videogame Memory of Light has been in works for a couple of months and now it’s really close to being completed.

It has been interesting and educational to work on a videogame script for the very first time. I haven’t been a huge fan of the fantasy genre but I’ve found so much enjoyment from creating a new interesting world and a background story for it. Our major influences for the game’s story are Inca mythology, Finnish fictional characters called Moomins and many pieces of entertainment inside the fantasy genre.

Working on a platform-puzzle game like Memory of Light has been a pleasure for me because I’m a fan of games that include platform and puzzle elements. I’m glad that this game is small-scaled and very simple to work on from the screenwriter’s point of view. Although at first it was difficult to find the main formula on how to write the game-script, now the writing process has turned much easier.

(This is a drawing I made of our main character.)

The script for any kind of videogame has to include all the basic things and elements that the finished game will feature. The game script includes for example the descriptions of all levels, graphics, sounds and puzzles, all possible dialogues or monologues and lists of assets that help the rest of the game development team on their work. Everything is of course mainly in text-form but concept art and pictures always help to perceive the detailed text.

My journey on writing the videogame Memory of Light has been wild in a good way. It might have felt like every workday has rolled within the same formula, but working with our awesome team it has never been boring. My work has been creating something new and modifying it with other people and their great ideas. After this project I can only imagine if I would get a chance to work on writing a bigger game in the future. That could be something else but it still would be a learning experience in script writing. Just like how this project has been all along.

- Jere

[blkwidowsweb]

A Conversation with Summer Oasis Guest DJ, Vick Lavender

Vick Lavender started his career in the late 80's, playing in such Chicago clubs as Red Dog, Sonotech ,Betty's blue star lounge, Sinabar, and The Funky Budda Lounge. He's been a staple at WMC since the late 90's and frequently travels around the world.  His production career started in the mid 90's with The SJU, then continued after leaving The SJU and becoming one of the co-founder's along with Jere Mcallister of Mr Ali, the Chicago based live house music ensemble has been responsible for some of the new classics such as " Missing you", Rainy day, Cast your spell, About us, and many more.   He now runs his own digital label, Sophisticado Recordings, along with Steven Stewert, and the releases continue to flow. Recordings such as "What a poor boy wants feat Peter Jericho, Respect our love feat Carla Prather," Better baby feat Peter Jericho, just to name a few.

I chatted with Vick about his record label, Sophisticado Recordings, his personal DJ Philosophy and his upcoming appearance at the Summer Oasis Music Festival. 

Black Widow:   How did your upbringing influence you musically?

Vick Lavender:  There was a lot of music in the house.  I come from a pretty big family. I’m the youngest boy of 10 siblings, so there is a huge generation gap.  There was everything from Led Zeppelin, Parliament Funkadelic, Rufus and Chaka Khan…you name it.  My father was born in Santiago, Cuba so there was also  a lot of Afro-Cuban jazz played.  All of that cultivated my musical tastes now.

Black Widow:  When were you introduced to the art of DJing and what made you want to learn how to do it?

Vick Lavender:  It was early. I was a freshman in high school and I saw someone doing it. We were already listening to house music on the radio and such with the Hot Mix 5. Once I saw him do it, I knew I wanted to learn it.

Black Widow:  So are you self-taught?

Vick Lavender:   Yeah, we didn’t have much money but my mom pitched in and bought me a set of 12’s. I worked and picked out my mixer and started piecing it all together. Then I started buying records. That’s how it all started for me.

Black Widow:  What was your introduction to the house music scene and genre?

Vick Lavender:   My mom was very strict so there were many places I couldn’t go.  My introduction to it came through my older brother.  He was going to those parties and places and he would bring back these tapes.  It was after I got my turntables that I got those tapes. My brother would say, “Vick, you should be playing this stuff” and he would let me listen to them.  Between that, listening to the radio and hanging out with friends was how I was introduced to it but honestly I was into so much.  I was listening to everything, house music was actually last. I was into a lot of alternative rock, new wave and a lot of music coming out of the UK at that time.  The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, Early Tears for Fears...I was listening to it all.  

Black Widow:  Tell me about Sophisticado Recordings, your label.

Vick Lavender:  When I started production, people would always tell me that my music was a more intricate version of house music…more sophisticated. My friend, Vita gave it that name back in 2006. 

Black Widow:  As a label owner, what is your vision?

Vick Lavender:  My vision was to make music.  It wasn't even to make music in a particular genre even though house music was driving it. I wanted the music to be a fusion of jazz and Caribbean sounds.  Jazz was always the operative word.  I wanted to make house music but I wanted to keep the live instrumentation and mix it with soul.  I wanted to have that mixture of 70s soul, Afro Cuban and jazz.  That’s been the goal and it’s worked out for me.  All of those influences show up in my music and production. 

Black Widow:  What was the driving force behind learning production and creating your own music? 

Vick Lavender:  It was a natural progression. It wasn’t enough for me to play someone else’s records. I wanted to play my own.  I would listen to other people’s records and say, “I would have done this or I would have done that”, so what better way to put your ideas out there then to do it yourself.

Black Widow: You have a monthly event, Sophisticado Live. Is this an extension of the label to introduce people to what you do? What’s the purpose behind this event? 

Vick Lavender:  This is my 2nd time doing this.  I used to produce another outfit, named Mr. Ali. We would do Green Dolphin with Peven Everett from 2001-2003 every Thursday night. That was my 1st chance to bring the whole vibe. Jerry McAllister and I started a production group called Mr. Ali with live instrumentation. When I left that and started Sophisticado I wanted to take it even further.  I wanted to go deeper. Not just house music, I wanted to do broken beat, afro beat, afro Cuban and jazz records but it all started with the Mr. Ali production group.

Black Widow:  What is your role as a DJ?

Vick Lavender: I may not be the right person to ask! (Laughter)

Black Widow: That’s exactly why I asked you! (Laughter)

Vick Lavender: Well…I’m a firm believer that the DJ sets the tone.  I don’t believe people that come to hear you set the tone. People that come to hear you come because you are you.  It’s not that I don’t care what the dancer thinks but I just think that I can make the dancer come to where I am.

Black Widow:  There are many who say, you have to read a room, know your crowd and play for your crowd.  Are you saying you don’t believe that?

Vick Lavender:  I don’t believe that at all. I believe the crowd has to know you.  If you think about it, Frankie (Knuckles) and Ron (Hardy) didn’t take requests.  They did what they thought was in the best interest of you dancing. Now…everyone doesn’t have that gift. So you have to know where your gift lies and your limitations. You have to know what you can and cannot do. I’ve always been this way. Even when people on the Southside (of Chicago) didn’t know who I was, people heard that I played a little bit left of what many people play. Thankfully, it’s worked out.

Black Widow: So, how do you navigate that? Especially in Chicago where we are so particular about what we like and what we want to hear? How do maintain who you are and still gain new fans?

Vick Lavender:   I grew up out west so I didn’t have anyone to pattern myself after. If you grew up south, you patterned yourself after Lewis, Frankie or Ron.  I was west so I wasn’t privy to those guys. When I started playing music, it was about playing what I loved. I tell people I don’t play stuff I like…I have to absolutely love it.  I fell into that not knowing that there was a protocol to follow.

Black Widow:  Was that a good thing for you?

Vick Lavender:  Oh absolutely! It was a great thing!  In the 90s, I would do a lot of loft parties in the Wicker Park area. That’s where I was able to find out who my crowd was, what I liked to play and such.  I was playing a lot of the newer stuff there.  I stopped playing disco in 1990. I gave all my disco records to Brian Reaves.  I told him he could have it because this stuff I was playing was the future. A lot of people thought I was crazy.  I was just tired of hearing it. There were so many forms of music.  You had the Jamiroquai explosion, Brand New Heavies,  Masters at Work, Blaze, Joe Clausell, DJ Spinna, and Keri Chandler. You had all these producers who were starting to do a soulful brand of music and that’s what I gravitated to.  I took what I was experimenting with to those loft parties in Wicker Park and they loved it!

Black Widow:   I’m going to assume you don’t really care for disco?

Vick Lavender:  No!  That’s one of the biggest misconceptions that people have about me.  It’s not that I don’t like disco, I don’t like the same 20 disco records being played. A lot of cats aren’t experimenting with different disco records.   That’s my issue with it. I like disco. I just can’t listen to the same thing all the time. 

Black Widow:  Oh ok…so you just like variety in musical selection?

Vick Lavender:  Right!  I can’t listen to any one genre of music all night. That's boring.   It has to be a healthy balance. That comes from the spirit of the DJ. You can’t go into a party saying I’m going to play 45 minutes of this and 45 minutes of that.  It has to be a feel.  You have to have a feel for when you transition.  I think all great DJs have different gears that they can shift to.  That’s why when you hear me play; you’ll never hear me play one form of music all night.  I may get to a point where I break it all the way down and play Summer Madness, Brand New Heavies or Jamiroquai.  That’s how you keep the party going in my opinion.

Black Widow:   I literally interviewed another DJ who said the very same thing.

Vick Lavender:  See... those DJs are music lovers.   There’s a difference.   You have music lovers who are DJs and then you have DJs.  DJs subscribe to a formula.  They know what's going to work and what's not going to work.    Music Lovers who are DJs really go to uncharted waters because they don’t if it’s going to work but they don’t give a shit because it’s about the love of music.  If you are a good selector, when you shift gears, you can't go wrong.

Black Widow:  So do you think you take more risks?

Vick Lavender:  Some would say that but I don’t think that’s it. I think it’s just being true to what I do. I play music, I make music and I love what I do. When you love something, you’ll always feed it and please it.  I’m always trying to please the music lover in me and sometimes it takes me off the beaten path.   If that’s where I have to go then so be it. I never go into a gig with a formula…ever!  It’s always a free form.

Black Widow:  You are playing again at the Summer Oasis Music Festival.  What makes Summer Oasis so unique and special? 

Vick Lavender:  It’s like a Woodstock. It’s outdoors and you are in nature. People are camping and out there 24 hours for 3 days straight.  Then when you add the music is makes it a 3 day excursion…a nonstop party.

Black Widow: Yes, I'll be one of them out in nature for 3 whole days. I've never done this before!

Vick Lavender:  Trust me, you won’t be alone.   Once the music stops around 2am, people are still partying in their tents until 5 in the morning. It goes down like that.

Black Widow: Oh wow! Cool!  What do you love most about playing Summer Oasis?

Vick Lavender: I love playing for people who appreciate it.  They get it.

Black Widow:  What does the future hold for Vick Lavender? What do you want to accomplish this year?

Vick Lavender:   I will be on the road a lot more.  I’ll be in South African and Italy. I have a lot of music I'm working on as well.  I'm working on Spike Rebels project.   I’m also working on a project with singer, Angel-A. There are quite a few remix projects in the works too and I’m really focusing on vinyl now more than digital.

Black Widow:  Oh really?   Why is that?

Vick Lavender:   Digital depreciates the minute you put it out.  With vinyl it has a longer lifespan and impact.  I still put out digital.  I wouldn’t have an issue putting out my stuff on digital if people respected it and didn’t just rip it off and pass it around.

Black Widow:  As an artist, I totally get it.

Vick Lavender:    When someone pays $16 to $17 for vinyl, they are less likely to just give it away, you know what I mean? 

Black Widow:   Ha! True! Thanks you so much for speaking with me and I’m looking forward to hearing you play at my 1st Summer Oasis Music Festival!

Vick Lavender:  My pleasure! Thank you and see you there!

You can find Vick Lavender and his music at the following:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/biz/Vick-Lavender-66215036176/ https://www.mixcloud.com/vick-lavender/stream/ https://www.traxsource.com/artist/4665/vick-lavender https://www.beatport.com/artist/vick-lavender/26025 https://soundcloud.com/vick-lavender

I hope you enjoyed this interview with one of the Summer Oasis Festival DJs.  Look forward to more interviews and articles as our Summer Oasis special blog series continues!!!

As always, 

See you at the Summer Oasis Festival

Black Widow

 For more information on the Summer Music Festival check out their website www.summermusicoasisfestival.com