#Forrest Shaw

[bullet-prooflove]

Slowdancing in the Parking Lot Prompt List

Please check the updated character list on my pinned post to see who I am writing for before submitting a prompt!

Also read the rules and do not forget to put the entire prompt into your ask!

I'm rememberin' I promised to forget you now

Singing for you darlin' in the same old way I first saw you

The last time I was in the back of a cop car I fell in love

Watchin' your red dress fall to the floor

Corner pocket at 12 AM

I'm undressing you in my head, my bed

Let's get some candles burnin' And some records turnin'

And the only thing I wanna do is find a spot Stop this car and throw it in park and get just Slow dance with you

My face on a cold window trying to sober up

I can still recall the words you said to me back then

All the lights down low take it nice and slow

But it's rainin', and I'm callin' drunk

Hoping for a slow song to come on the radio now

Midnight into morning with you

And if you leave just give me one more night

Let's lay in the dead grass Stare at the stars

So I've been thinkin' we need A little time alone

I ain't proud of all the punches that I've thrown

So whatcha say we cancel our plans? Tonight, I'm only gonna be your man

Right now he's got a bargain that he's taken too far

Getting close to you Making the most of whatever we got

I gave your name as my emergency phone call

The way your body's movin' Keep doin' what you're doin' To me all night long

Let's just leave here 'Cause there's nothing left to see

Honey, it rang and rang, even the cops thought you were wrong for hangin' up

I'll rot with all the burnouts in the cell

Writin' our love song

Love that look in your eye

And I still see you walking away And I tried to say I'm sorry

But she won't believe you When you fall down on your knees

We were more than friends from the start

Even if it's just a slow dance in a parking lot

I'm saving you from sharing All the things that I've been through

The things you're looking for Are the things I'll never be

And I don't care what song comes next I'm falling right here, 

Let the passion take us to a higher place Makin' the kind of love we make

Cause there's no one That you'll find that's quite like me

"Son, are you a danger to yourself?"

Ain't nobody get you like I do

What I'd give to have you back and in my arms again

Well, there ain't no way, baby To get me out this house When you look this good

"Son, why do you do this to yourself?"

Girl, I wonder, should we make another mistake?

She's wearing an old dress

And I couldn't find the words to make you stay

Let's wait, I swear she'll call me back

Next to me tonight That's the ecstasy I like

And do you want to take my broken heart?

Don't get me wrong No I don't want to hurt you

And I tried to keep you wrapped in my arms

He's sitting in the corner with a six pack of Corona

So listen to me girl You're just wasting precious time

Hiding all my feelings in the dark

I'd change that in a heartbeat just to feel your body

And I still see your fingerprints Running across my frostbit skin

You think you know me so well Who gave you the lowdown

[thestonecuttersguild]

1939 HITS ARCHIVE: Thanks For Everything - Artie Shaw (Helen Forrest, vo...

[flashthunders]

This account is for an incredible young boy who gave his life during the Second World War.

It is dedicated to him and his enjoyments — most importantly, his personal life and who he was as a person.

That is what truly matters.

Edwin Gordon Thomas

Born 23 July 1921

Likes: 👍

Cinema 🎥 🎞️

Theatre 🎭

Beer 🍺

Cigarettes 🚬

Loves: ❤️

Lucky rare leave! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Nights out with friends 🌃 🍻

Favourite films:

Fantasia (1940)

Gasbags (1941)

The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)

49th Parallel (1941)

Favourite Songs:

Tangerine (Jimmy Dorsey + Helen O'Connell)

Skylark (Helen Forrest)

Dance of the Hours (Fantasia 1940, from the opera La Gioconda)

Please, follow Edwin's account to share your respect — and most importantly to remember Eddie for the sweet boy he is.

[teledyn]

Comes Love (1939)

Comes a rain storm, put your rubbers on your feet. Comes a snow storm, you can get a little heat. Comes love, nothing can be done…

[lostyesterday]

I was curious about which Star Trek shows had the most human vs non-human characters, so I made this graph. I counted all major characters plus characters who were in at least 10 episodes of each respective show (with a few exceptions for incredibly minor characters who are technically in more than ten episodes but have barely any/no lines). A full list of characters included is below the cut.

TOS:

Part/Non-Human: Spock

Human: Kirk, Mccoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Chapel

TNG:

Part/Non-Human: Data, Troi, Worf, Guinan

Human: Picard, Riker, La Forge, Crusher, Wesley, Yar, Pulaski, O’Brien, Ogawa

DS9:

Part/Non-Human: Kira, Odo, Quark, Jadzia, Rom, Nog, Garak, Dukat, Worf, Weyoun, Martok, Leeta, Ezri, Damar, Female Changeling, Winn

Human: Sisko, Bashir, Jake, O’Brien, Keiko, Kasidy, Ross

VOY:

Part/Non-Human: Torres, Neelix, EMH, Tuvok, Kes, Seven (part Borg counts as not entirely human to me), Seska, Naomi, Icheb

Human: Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, Kim

ENT:

Part/Non-Human: T’Pol, Phlox, Soval, Shran

Human: Archer, Reed, Tucker, Sato, Mayweather, Forrest

DIS:

Part/Non-Human: Saru, Tyler (debatable but I’m counting him as partly non-human), L’Rell, Book, T’Rina, Nhan, Rillak, Linus, Zora, Adira (again, debatable, but they’ve got a symbiont so they’re not entirely human to me), Gray

Human: Burnham, Stamets (complicated case but I counted him as still human), Tilly, Culber, Lorca (mirror universe characters are still human, I think), Georgiou, Detmer, Owosekun, Rhys, Bryce, Cornwell, Airiam (she’s still human), Pike, Jett, Nilsson, Pollard, Vance

PIC:

Part/Non-Human: Picard (for part of the show at least), Elnor, Soji, Narek, Seven, Laris/Talinn (I am just pretending they’re the same character for simplicity), Jack (I guess???)

Human: Musiker, Jurati, Rios, Adam, Riker, Crusher, Shaw, Sidney

LWD:

Part/Non-Human: Tendi, Shaxs, T’Ana, Barnes, Kayshon

Human: Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, Freeman, Ransom, Billups

PRO:

Part/Non-Human: Dal, Gwyn, Zero, Rok-Tahk, Jankom, Murf, Hologram Janeway, Diviner, Drednok

SNW:

Part/Non-Human: Spock, Una, Hemmer

Human: Pike, La’an, Uhura, Chapel, M’Benga, Ortegas

[myoldboyfriend]

💩 Michael Boston 🤑 DeAngelo Jackson 🥶 Matie Tundra 😍 Forrest (Sean Cody) 🥵 Carter Dane 😳 Eli Shaw

[companion-showdown]

Who is the best member of UNIT*?

*or its derivatives

SEMIFINALS

Martha Jones vs Liz Shaw

Jo Grant vs The Brigadier

QUARTERFINALS

Martha Jones vs Benton

Liz Shaw vs Kate Stewart

Winifred Bambera vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs The Brigadier

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 3

Martha Jones vs Other Osgood

Benton vs Osgood

Liz Shaw vs Erisa Magambo

Shirley Anne Bingham vs Kate Stewart

The Doctor vs Winifred Bambera

Harry Sullivan vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs Mike Yates

Iris Wildthyme vs The Brigadier

ROUND 2

Martha Jones vs Hamlet Macbeth

Other Osgood vs Ron Winters

Benton vs Inspector Drake

Captain Scarlet vs Osgood

Liz Shaw vs Tony Clare

Erisa Magambo vs Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Shirley Anne Bingham vs Roz Forrester

June Turner vs Kate Stewart

The Doctor vs Abby McPhail

Malcolm Taylor vs Winifred Bambera

Harry Sullivan vs CCPC

Anthony Sinclair vs Jo Grant

Mel Bush vs Jacqui McGee

Ross Bimmocombe-Wood vs Mike Yates

Chris Cwej vs Emily Chaudhry

Adrienne Kramer vs The Brigadier

ROUND 1 (Group Stage)

The Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Liz, Jo, Harry, Mel, The Doctor, Martha, Kate, and an Osgood will automatically proceed to the head-to-head rounds

Group 1

Winifred Bambera

Tom Osgood

Carol Bell

Erisa Magambo

Malcolm Taylor

Group 2

Other Osgood

Other Other Osgood

Shirley Anne Bingham

The Vlinx

Group 3

Joel

Anthony Sinclair

Kathleen Bregman

Abby McPhail

Ron Winters

Tony Clare

Group 4

Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Captain Scarlet

Captain Black

Adrienne Kramer

Muriel Frost

Hamlet Macbeth

Group 5

Sam Bishop

Josh Carter

Jacqui McGee

Ross Brimmicombe-Wood

Chris Cwej

Roz Forrester

Group 6

June Turner

Inspector Drake

Inspector Thorne

CCPC

Emily Chaudhry

Robert Dalton

Links to previous tournaments

[invisible-pink-toast]

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Janet Beeler Shaw “Changes For Kirsten: A Winter Story” / Eric Roth “Forrest Gump” / The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) / Howard Ashman “To Be Free” / Suzanne Collins “The Hunger Games” / AURORA “When I Become a Bird” / Carl Holsoe “Reflections” / Marije Geerts “Thoughts” / How Things Fly / Reuben J. Spaulding “Flying Machine Drawing” / Maya Angelou “Caged Bird” / Craig Knowles “Taking Flight” / L.M. Montgomery “Anne of Green Gables” / Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway” / Neil Gaiman “The Sandman” / Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield, Helen Park “Over the Moon” / Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

🔎 YA Under the Radar 7 🔍

I have been working on this list in the series all year 😂 it just took me that long to read a decent amount of underrated YA - but I got there in the end and I'm pretty happy with the recs on this list 🥰

there are rainbow flags next to LGBT+ rep, wheelchair symbols next to disability rep and koalas next to Australia YA simply because there's a lot of that on this particular list

so take a gander and maybe consider picking up a title or two (or ten) in 2024 to support lesser-known authors and books 😊

Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan & Jennifer Niven 🏳️‍🌈

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum 🏳️‍🌈♿️

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli 🏳️‍🌈

To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames 🏳️‍🌈

It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames 🏳️‍🌈

Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson 🏳️‍🌈

Grace Notes by Karen Comer 🐨

The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch 🏳️‍🌈

Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew

After Dark With Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

Blind Spot by Robyn Dennison 🐨

Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan 🏳️‍🌈

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest ♿️

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick 🏳️‍🌈

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey 🏳️‍🌈

The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin ♿️

Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard 🏳️‍🌈♿️

The Buried by Melissa Grey 🏳️‍🌈

Because of You by Pip Harry 🐨

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl 🏳️‍🌈

Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson

Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Out of the Blue by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko 🏳️‍🌈

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala 🏳️‍🌈

Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee

It Will End Like This by Kyra Leigh

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Ryan and Avery by David Levithan 🏳️‍🌈

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier 🏳️‍🌈

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo 🏳️‍🌈

We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough 🐨

Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over by Miranda Luby 🐨

None Shall Sleep series by Ellie Marney 🐨

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh ♿️

Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall 🏳️‍🌈

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall 🏳️‍🌈

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

Mask of Shadows duology by Linsey Miller 🏳️‍🌈

Sugar by Carly Nugent ♿️🐨

All Our Hidden Gifts trilogy by Caroline O’Donoghue 🏳️‍🌈

The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton

Lucky Girl by Jamie Pacton

The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton

Accidental by Alex Richards

Some Kind of Animal by Mar Romasco-Moore

Luminous by Mara Rutherford

The Poison Season by Mara Rutherford

The Midnight Lie duology by Marie Rutkoski 🏳️‍🌈

Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore 🏳️‍🌈

When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw 🏳️‍🌈

If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So 🏳️‍🌈

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon ♿️

Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester ♿️

Cold by Mariko Tamaki 🏳️‍🌈

Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi 🏳️‍🌈

The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas ♿️

Violet Ghosts by Leah Thomas 🏳️‍🌈

The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride by Hayli Thomson 🏳️‍🌈🐨

The Siren, the Song and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley 🏳️‍🌈

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley 🏳️‍🌈

Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall 🏳️‍🌈♿️

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 🏳️‍🌈

This Is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde 🏳️‍🌈♿️🐨

Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde 🏳️‍🌈🐨

Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong🐨

Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia

[bodhrancomedy]

Is there a curse?

Probably not, but here are some of the deaths and incidences apparently related to the Scottish curse because I don’t have access to my old essays since leaving uni.

“Macbeth has certainly had its fair share of mishaps. Theatre manager Lilian Baylis died on the night of the dress rehearsal for the Old Vic's 1937 production starring Laurence Olivier. A falling stage weight just missed landing on Olivier; then the director and the actress playing Lady Macbeth were involved in a car crash. The play's opening was postponed, and on its first night Baylis' portrait fell off the theatre wall. ‘They used real weapons, and one flew into the audience, giving someone a heart attack,’ adds Chouhan.

“In 1942, three actors died during the run of the Piccadilly Theatre's version, starring John Gielgud. The costume designer committed suicide.

‘And one of the most infamous incidents actually had very little to do with the play itself,’ says Chouhan. ‘In 1849, a much-loved English actor-manager called William Macready was touring in Macbeth in America. He had developed a rivalry with an American actor called Edwin Forrest, who was equally well-loved in America and was starring in another version. When Macready went to perform at the Astor Opera House in New York, Forrest's supporters showed up. The performance had to be heavily policed. Macready went onstage and riots broke out. Soldiers fired into the crowd – about 20 people died.’

However, the most intriguing story is the one that surrounds the play's first performance by Shakespeare's own company, in which the actor due to play Lady Macbeth is said to have died shortly before the first performance.

This, says Chouhan, is ‘all just a myth’.

‘In the 19th century, Macbeth was a particularly popular play, and some critics were getting fed up with it. One was Max Beerbohm, a cartoonist and critic. He made up a story that the actor playing Lady Macbeth in the first production had died. It was a parody of the way scholars take evidence from the period; of what George Bernard Shaw called ‘Bardology’. But everyone believed it, and that's where the myth of bad luck began.’”

[bullet-prooflove]

Thursday ‘Queen of the Night’ Radio Prompt List

Please check the updated character list on my pinned post to see who I am writing for before submitting a prompt!

Also read the rules and do not forget to put the entire prompt into your ask!

Never again, last time was the last time

you're kissing my fingers, and I kiss your tattoo's

Call me in the morning to apologize

Did you think that I would let you Crawl right back into my bedroom

Sometimes when I look at you, I see my wife

All my friends say you're dangerous, but I don't fucking care

Girl, you're a match, you're gasoline

I won't go down without a fight

Swear to God, cross my heart, no one does it better,

Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter

Fight so dirty, but you love so sweet

Lightin' up that spark, yeah, we tried to run

I try not to hold on to what is gone

It's hell and it's heaven with you, baby

Blood on my shirt, rose in my hand

I want it all or nothing, no more in between,

 I know all the consequences, I don't mind

Who'd've known when this started that we'd end up here, here?

Sometimes, you're a stranger in my bed

Too many flashing lights

Late night devil, put your hands on me

And you can wonder who I really am

I don't want to wait anymore

One hand on the wheel, and one hand on my thigh

 I know all the consequences, I don't mind

I want some satisfaction, take me to the stars

Don't know if you love me or you want me dead

But you reach out and touch me, say my name like a prayer

Every little lie gives me butterflies

We cry tears of mascara in the bathroom

Take me back to the time when the world was yours and mine

Show me devotion and take me all the way

You gotta touch that kills me, makes me feel alive

Talk so pretty, but your heart got teeth

With that sweet talk on your tongue

dance on the roof, you and me alone

Don't know if I'm gonna make it out alive

I've been denying how I feel, you've been denying what you want

We are too busy dancing

you keep calling Saying that you want it back

I will keep your secrets locked up

So keep turnin' me on and turn out the lights

Cause you had your chance and you blew it

But we're on the road to ruin

I don't know if I'm scared of dying

[thestonecuttersguild]

Deep In A Dream

[porterdavis]

Ah, des bons mots

1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;

Bring a friend, if you have one."

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.

"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one."

- Winston Churchill, in response.

2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."

· "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

- Clarence Darrow

5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

- Moses Hadas

7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

- Mark Twain

8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."

- Oscar Wilde

9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

- Stephen Bishop

10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."

- John Bright

11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

- Irvin S. Cobb

12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

- Samuel Johnson

13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

- Paul Keating

14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."

- Charles, Count Talleyrand

15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

- Forrest Tucker

16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

- Mark Twain

17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

- Mae West

18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."

- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

- Billy Wilder

21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx.

22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill

[elennemigo]

14th

✦ Benedict reading American author Andrew Forrester's highly important open letter to People Who Don’t Make Every Conceivable Effort to Ensure that the Bathroom Door is Locked.

16th

✦ Benedict visited an Argentinian stakehouse while being in Budapest filming "Eric".

17th

✦ At the opera house in Budapest, Benedict watched Don Quixote and then went behind the scenes to congratulate the cast.

(My post - Videos 1 2)

✦ Benedict Cumberbatch (FINALLY!!) to Star in TV Adaptation of Matt Haig Bestseller ‘How to Stop Time’

24th

✦ Event announcement: Benedict & Nick Hackworth Live in Conversation. JW3London | 27 June.

27th

✦ See what Benedict, Ian McKellen, Fiona Shaw and Nathan Lane thought praising Dickie Beau´s Re-member me.

✦ Benedict and Sophie visited restaurante Babel Budapest, in Hungary.

29th

✦ "Eric" wrapped production in Budapest. Lucy Forbes, director of the series shared on her Instagram that now they´re moving to NY!

                     ⊱ ────── { FIN } ────── ⊰

[fulgurmancy]

Names and Titles based on Forests / Nature . . . for @hisreturn's 150 follower event : a non-character thing you relate to

Titles, notes, and plain text below cut.

NAMES ,, rowan , birch , aspen , ash / ashwood , sequoia , redwood , sycamore , fir , pine , maple , allthorn , arrow / arrowwood , alder , elder , buck / buckthorn , boxwood , beech , cy / cypress , myrtle , cedar , ches / chestnut , juniper , hazel , holly , hawthorne , hickory , rose / rosewood , yew , oak / oakley , elm , willow , pop / poppen / poplar , mulbery , almond , fig , fern , moss , lichen , ginger , wormwood , thistle , valerian , hyrcinian , vercors , river , creek , reed / reid , shaw , wild / wilder , ainsley , amber , autumn , vern / vernal / vernon , clover , elwood , fern / ferne / fearne , florence , forest / forrest , rain / raine , ridley , robin / robyn / robynne , yale , wren , any flower name , any bird name , any animal name

( many are taken from my own hoard )

EPITHETS* ,, the forest guardian / forest guardian {name} , the woodsman , of the fallen leaves , the {forest animal} , the antlered one , the ent / {mythical forest creature}

SOBRIQUETS** ,, {prn} of the fallen leaves , {prn} of the towering trees , {prn} who sits in high branches , {prn} who guards the meadow , {prn} who dances in the glades / meadow / forest / woods , the {title of nobility*** / noun} of the glades / meadow / forest / woods , guardian of the woods / etc. , keeper of the woods / etc. , beloved by nature , beloved of the woods / etc. , {prn} covered in bark / (fallen) leaves , {prn} of the earth , {prn} to whom the forest belongs

*meant to be used following a name, but some can be used in isolation

**meant to be used solely in isolation

***examples: lord / lady / laird, duke / duchess, king / queen / monarch

[ Plain Text: Names and Titles based on Forests/Nature ... for @/hisreturn's 150 follower event (link to event post): a non-character thing you relate to. End Plain Text. ]