#Ted Parsons

[guerrilla-operator]

PRONG

[spilladabalia]

Of Cabbages And Kings - Sister

[yourlocalabomination]

Ted and Tinky sketch but it’s that one Jesus painting.

[desertsquiet]

Gram Parsons, Michelle Phillips, Ted Markland, and Andee Nathanson at the 1969 Giant Rock Space Convention

[lgbtqjockshowdown]

LGBTQ Jock Showdown Round 1D

[ashe-withane]

Characters I want Jamie Tartt to meet

(Not all at once)

(You can decide if it goes well and what happens, I just want them to meet)

Kent Parson (omg check please)

Parker/Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer (Leverage)

Evan Buckley (911)

Arthur Pendragon (bbc Merlin)

Dick Grayson (Nightwing)

Adam Young (+the rest of The Them) (Good Omens)

[abstract-hellbender]

Hey folks !! Doing something new right now. I've always meant to post the silly critters I've found while out and about, I've just never gotten around to it 😭😭 I'll try to ID the animals in my pics, though feel free to correct me if I get any wrong 😈😈 I'm posting insects here and I'll post the snakes n frogs next.

First off is this American Dagger Moth caterpillar. I don't recommend touching them - their bristles irritate skin ☹️ This guy was chill though.

Heres a MASSIVE praying mantis, I think a Chinese mantis? This guy was BIG, maybe about 6 or 7 inches long. Very calm, flew away into a tree after I took this pic.

Here's a SUPER SLAY cicada, either an Eastern Scissor Grinder or some Dog Day Cicada? I'm not really sure - this guy has a funky pattern. It let me get incredibly close (a FOOT AWAY IM SERIOUS)

Here are a WHOLE BUNCH of pics I took when the 17 year cicadas came out around 2 years ago. It was probably the coolest thing I've ever experienced in my life (so SO loud, but so fucking cool. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE!!! First time a cicada flew into my shirt also 😎😎😎) I LOOOOVE cicadas they're one of my favourite animals of all time 😭😭😭😭😭

Finally, the coolest damn guy I've ever seen in my life - a polyphemus moth. A POLYPHEMUS MOTH. Literally the coolest moth I have a picture of. It was MASSIVE. Such a beautiful moth 😭😭😭😭

[my-movie-diary]

November 10, 2023. 👍 Streaming on Netflix. My wife and I enjoy shows about serial killers. This one was different as the killings were not the focus. Zac Efron was great in this as was Lily Collins. Plus, we were surprised to see baby-faced Haley Joel Osment acting like an adult!

[aleprouswitch]

Four years ago, I shared a personal story in the Avalanchers group about how Godflesh's music kept me from going through with a su1c1d3 attempt back in 2018. Most responses were incredibly kind, but Ted Parsons, ex-Godflesh, Swans, Prong, etc. drummer, decided to be horrible. He already didn't like me and had insulted me on other posts in the past, but what he said here is the absolute worst.

I blocked him, because fuck that noise. Fuck all of it. I don't care who he is or what industry clout he has, men do not get to fucking talk to me like this. Justin grew up without his father and had a rough childhood, too. What's the difference? I'm young-ish, female, and not worthy of respect to misogynists like this. Emotional vulnerability is not a sign of weakness. That's like 90% of what Justin tries to convey with his music in the first place.

This exchange, combined with the absolutely awful message Ben sent to me back in August implying my life is "meaningless" (yeah, when Godflesh saved my life years earlier - the world is cruel, folks), just goes to show that underground and experimental music circles are full of the same harsh realities in terms of men's behavior as any other genres. Those words still hurt. They took the light out of my eyes.

Yeah, I did grow up with a verbally, emotionally, and at times physically abusive father who subjected me to shit I don't want to discuss here. Some of my earliest memories involve him yelling at me and me crying in a dark room for hours. I am still damaged from all of that, and maybe I don't hide that damage well, but do old men with industry clout get to salt the wounds?

No. No they don't.

[cleolinda]

Creepypasta: The Dionaea House (2004-2006)

I wanted to post a few of my favorite creepypasta/Weird Internet Fiction stories this month, so of course one of the first I looked up was "The Dionaea House." Dated somewhere back around 2004-2006, it's one of the earliest entries in the genre; I’m not sure how many people know about it now, but Back in the Day, it was one of the creepypasta classics. Then, while researching all this, I discovered to my utter astonishment that it was written by Eric Heisserer—who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Arrival and is currently best known here, I'd bet, as the show runner of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone.

Years ago, the story was at dionaea-house.com (now offline), and it was the kind of thing you'd stumble across somehow—maybe on a friend's recommendation, maybe from a forum discussion—and then lose yourself in for a whole afternoon. It starts out as the story of a fictionalized Eric posting the emails of an old buddy, Mark, who's trying to figure out why their friend Drew... snapped. And "Eric" is posting these emails because Mark now has disappeared. And before too long... someone else has to pick up the story. Because it turns out that, at the heart of the mystery, there is a house, and going to that house is a mistake. I would describe it a little like House of Leaves, except also smelling like cake, and projecting out to multiple locations rather than pulling you into one infinite labyrinth. Also, a shit ton easier to read.

Relatively speaking, at least. "The Dionaea House" started out as “emails” posted on a blog at that original URL [unofficial mirror], then spun out into a Blogspot, an AIM chat, two separate Livejournals, and multiple commenters interacting on them. Some of them seem to be strangers walking in off the street, as it were, but the trick is, we don’t know which commenters are part of the story, which gives the “flesh puppet” comments, for example, a weird jolt of realism:

(I would like to think “TELL THE HOUSE TO FUCK OFF” is one of the in-story commenters, honestly; I like to think this is who I’d be in a horror story.)

So while "The Dionaea House" doesn't have the single-minded realism of "Ted the Caver," the blog-and-comment format—a found document subgenre for the 21st century—also allows for multiple perspectives. (I’ve lost count of the number of protagonists the house consumes, but it’s at least three, maybe four.) Tumblr is currently in year two of the Dracula Daily read-along, and I’ve always argued that Dracula was a techno-thriller for the nineteenth century: correspondence, newspaper articles, diaries, and even audio journaling on a phonograph. Emails, blogs, chats, phone messages, comments, and an article about the murder-suicide that starts the story—“The Dionaea House” is pretty much in the same multi-perspective, multimedia genre. Unlike Stoker’s bound novel, however, “The Dionaea House” wanders the physical space of the internet, and it trusts that either you'll see that the story has a new branch, or you won't, and that's okay.

In fact, I'm not sure if Eric Heisserer didn't know how to bring the story to a conclusion, or he got busy and couldn't keep going—or maybe there is an ending and I just never found it. (The Loreen Mathers blog doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me and seems like one giant loose end, although the mention of engineer-occultist Jack Parsons adds a new dimension at the last minute.) But as with "Ted the Caver," the lack of a concrete ending makes sense for a shaggy dog story like this, as frustrating as it might be. Maybe Loreen got got, just like everyone else! Isn’t “disappearing before explaining what the hell she’s talking about” exactly what that would look like? We don’t know! If there's a scary house and you manage to burn it down to the ground in a complex denouement, that's a story. If there's a scary house out there, somewhere, and we'll never know how it came to be or what happened to the people who tried to take it on—that's a creepypasta. That’s a legend.

[guerrilla-operator]

GODFLESH

[voices-of-hope-county]

Are there, by chance, voice files of the female deputy actually speaking, or a name of the voice actor who recorded the sound effects?

The female Deputy never speaks, but it sounds to me like she has the same voice actor as one of the cultists. You can find a transcript of most of her lines in this document if you search for “CULT_FOLLOWER_FEMALE_05”. One of the Angels might be played by the same person too.

I know Randy Yuen did motion capture for the Deputy in general, and maybe the male Deputy has his voice, but there is no information about who played “CULT_FOLLOWER_FEMALE_05” and the female Deputy…

The actor’s name must be in the credits, however, so probably one of these people:

VOICE TALENT Doug Abrahams Marty Adams Claire Armstrong Ted Atherton Kailea Banka Carolina Bartczak Lawrence Bayne Bruce Blain Jesse Bond Sarah Booth Marc-André Boulanger Wyatt Bowen Paul Braunstein Kimberly D. Brooks Jason Bryden Nicki Burke Mark Camacho Braeden Clarke Lucinda Davis Stacey DePass Bruce Edwards Jake Epstein Jonathan Goad Amber Goldfarb Alain Goulem Rob Greenway Gavin Hammon Ian Hanlin Lauren Jackson Julianne Jain Mara Junot Helen King Jameson Kraemer Gabe Kunda Tristan D. Lalla Erica Lindbeck Erin Mathews James Mathis III Jon McLaren Scott McNeil Cynthia Kaye McWilliams Chimwemwe Miller Julie Nathanson Mayko Nguyen Peter Outerbridge Lindsay Owen-Pierre Giles Panton Christopher Parson Kristen Peace Murry Peeters Simon Lee Phillips Geoffrey Pounsett Claire Rankin David Richmond-Peck Cara Ricketts Kyle Rideout Charlotte Rogers Paula Shaw Jesse Sherman Ivan Sherry Howard Siegel Jonathan Silver Dylan Taylor Jeff Teravainen Brett Watson Jane Wheeler Dan White Scott Whyte Debra Wilson Kim Yarbrough Farid Yazdani

And there is a little more information about who played who on IMDb.

This is all I know for the moment... but I hope it helps :)

[rom-e-o]

Despite being an 1840s character, Connie is definitely based on Gibson Girl archetypes.

Queen Victorian, (of "Victorian, England") (1837-1901) considered make-up to be "rude and impolite". This created a disdain for make-up across England, at least, during this time period. Make-up artist Erin Parsons compared it to the "clean girl" make-up and I....can never unhear that. OBVIOUSLY, back then, Victorian England called for skin to be scrubbed clean, and anything else was pretty frowned upon, to my understanding.

On the other side of the pond in America, things shifted greatly. By the mid-1890s (still the Victorian Era in England) Gibson Girls were the thing. The term was coined from illustrations by Massachusetts-born and New York-residing artist Charles Dana Gibson in an endeavor to depict American women of the late 1800s and onward into the 1910s, around the end of the Edwardian Era and riiiight before the start of WWI. More ample bosoms/hips, hair piled high, and make-up!

These women were seen as more progressive (well, for the time - the suffrage movement hadn't occurred yet, and this is still very much a fashion magazine aesthetic). But it was a big deal.

GGs were athletic (ladies started playing cycling and play ball games more often), sought out careers and even went to university! They were also portrayed as dominant figures in the rituals of courtship and marriage.

Miss Langtree from OTC is super GG-coded (no wonder I like her.)

Fun fact: Charles Gibson also did some sketches and art for some notable Victorian works. Namely, stories by Charles Dickens, including "A Christmas Carol." Because of course.

So yeah, Connie is much more Gibson Girl-coded than traditional "Victorian."

That's the TED talk.

[jkflesh]

JK Flesh remixes This Celestial Engine

This Celestial Engine: Gong bassist meets Swans drummer and Laswell keyboardist for experimental ambient avant-rock improv.

Dave Sturt — bass (Gong, Steve Hillage, Bill Nelson) Ted Parsons — drums (Swans, Prong) Roy Powell — keys (Anthony Braxton, Bill Laswell)

[poohkeepsee]

I would like these three things to happen in Ted Lasso's season finale

The whole team doing Ted's viral dance

Ted calling out an offside

Sirius by Alan Parsons Project to play when the team comes out of the dugout on the last game

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Rating: R

Director: Joe Berlinger

Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Haley Joel Osment, Grace Victoria Cox, Forba Shepherd, Grace Balbo, Morgan Pyle, Ava Inman, Macie Carmosino

Release year: 2019

Genres: crime, history

Blurb: Ted Bundy’s crimes are chronicled by his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.