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Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

Iron Man (1968) #15-18

In this batch of Iron Man solo comics I went from April 1969 to July 1969. These issues were all written by Archie Goodwin, penciled by George Tuska, and inked by Johnny Craig.

Last week I noted that, while Tony had ended his relationship with Janice despite their mutual feelings for one another because he thought it was wrong to have that kind of relationship when he was Iron Man and with his weak heart, I hoped that she would still be appearing in the book as the owner of a competitor company that he had complicated feelings about. That's exactly what she was in issue #15; Tony and her kissed for a publicity photo at a party celebrating the reopening of her company, but Tony pretended to be unaffected and was otherwise distant from her. This is an interesting approach to his character's feelings towards his identity as a playboy, which I feel has been inconsistently approached as sometimes a natural part of himself that he enjoys and sometimes an act that he uses to push people away or preserve his secret identity. It had him in that natural playboy habitat but with more of a specific reason for it to be an act and for it to be emotionally painful for him. Later throughout these issues we saw that one of Janice's employees was seducing her as part of a revenge plot against Tony, wanting to take away the only woman who cares for him away from him. I'd also talked about last week how Janice was being portrayed as this perfect girl who was always understanding and always forgave Tony when his Iron Man responsibilities made him look bad, but not before we got to see Tony freaking out about whether or not she'd forgive him, and that that wasn't a pattern that could play out forever and be interesting. This new plot development with her employee has become a way to change things up without diverging from how she's previously been characterized.

We also saw Whitney Frost again in these issues, who I'd been made to be interested in just as her previous role in the book was being concluded. We'd gotten a backstory reveal for her where she had not originally wanted to become a criminal but finally accepted that path once she had been made to believe she had no other choice. We last saw her fleeing a crime scene in a ship, said crime being one she had been conflicted about because she had developed genuine feelings for a SHIELD agent she'd conned as a part of it, but which she'd ultimately gone through with because she didn't think she had a way out of the criminal path she was set on. In these issues we learn that she became horribly disfigured when that ship crashed, which she frames as a sort of divine punishment for her criminal life, and barely considers herself a woman anymore and hardly believes that anyone could feel real emotions for her. I don't expect that she'll be a recurring villain in Iron Man's comics going forward and think that she'll be appearing elsewhere in other villain plots in other books, but I might at some point try to follow her around.

There was a very absurd plotline across issues #17-18 where Tony's life was taken over by a life model decoy he'd previously made to appear as him publicly while he was Iron Man to deter suspicions about his secret identity but then didn't have the time to dismantle afterwards. The LMD has Tony thrown out as an attempted imposter, promptly making him homeless and penniless and without his Iron Man armor or a reliable way to charge his chest plate. He's saved from this fate when he's recruited by villains, who believe that he was an impersonator and not the real Tony Stark, to replace the LMD, who they believe is the real Tony Stark, as part of a plot to transfer Tony's wealth over to them. Tony goes along with this, then once they'd made it inside of his plant, he ends up fighting the LMD while wearing the original bulky Iron Man armor while it's in the latest model. The fight ends with Tony destroying the LMD, but his heart gives out immediately after, and the story ends with a cliffhanger of the Avengers trying to save Tony Stark.

Timely Comics:

the Blonde Phantom stories in All-Select Comics (1943) #11 and Blonde Phantom (1946) #12

The All-Select Comics issue was published in September 1946 and the Blonde Phantom issue was published in December 1946. Both issues contained one 2-part story with nine pages per part and one stand-alone 8-page story. I'm referencing the Grand Comics Database for creator credits. The two-part story in All-Select Comics #11 was written by Stan Lee, penciled by Syd Shores, and inked by Charles Nicholas. The stand-alone story was penciled by Pete Riss and inked by Ed Winiarksi with no known writer. The two-part story in Blonde Phantom #12 was written by Bill Woolfolk, possibly penciled by Syd Shores, and possibly inked by Al Avison. The stand-alone story was penciled by Pete Riss and possibly inked by Vern Henkel with no known writer.

I read these stories because it’s my understanding that a modern incarnation becomes a character in She-Hulk’s comics at some point and I’m near She-Hulk’s introduction in my Hulk comics publication order readthrough. I had originally intended on reading through all of the Blonde’s Phantom’s appearances in the Golden Age, but I think I may actually call it good with these stories here, at least for now, as I did not really enjoy them.

As I was reading these stories I kept comparing them to what I’ve read of Harvey Comics’ Black Cat character. Louise Grant, the Blonde Phantom’s regular identity, is Mark Mason’s assistant. He’s a O.S.S. Agent and so far all of the stories have been based around cases that he was assigned to, meaning that our main superheroine comes across as assisting him in both her identities. Whereas the Black Cat and Rick Horne both have their own separate careers and plots usually came out of her career as a movie star rather than his career as a reporter and they both discovered the cases independently then happened upon the other in the middle of their own investigation.

In the second part of the two-part story in All Select Comics #11 the Blonde Phantom pretends to faint so that Mark Mason will catch her, saying “I was knocked out- ohhh- help me, you big, strong man!” In the Black Cat stories I’ve read so far, Rick Horne is deeply admiring of how capable the Black Cat is. This sort of act would not do anything for him. I’m not actually sure what it is about the Blonde Phantom that Mark Mason admires, other than that he does. That story ends with the Blonde Phantom kidnapped and Mark Mason rescuing her, which is much more in line with the lady protagonists I’ve read in the sexy comics reprinted in Spicy Tales than in the straightforward female superhero comics I’ve read so far.

I felt that there was a real resistant to actually portraying the Blonde Phantom as a superhero. In the first part of the 2-part story in Blonde Phantom #12 there’s a scene where the character is on a roof and spots a fight in the next building over. She proceeds to balance a board between the two buildings and carefully walks across it, saying afterwards “Made it across! But I wouldn’t want to do a retake on that stunt!” Any serious superhero would have just jumped from one building to another and it wouldn’t have been a thing. She also gets there after the fight had ended and the person she went to help had already lost.

And the stand-alone story in Blonde Phantom #12 isn’t even technically a superhero story at all. It’s really a detective story with a costumed identity, because it lacks the proper crime fighting element. There is no action in it whatsoever, even with characters other than the Blonde Phantom. It has Mark Mason invite her to a dinner for government officials and their wives because he’s looking for someone that’s been leaking government secrets and hopes that one of them will stumble across a clue there. At the party the Blonde Phantom ends up talking beauty practices with the wives while the men are having a private talk about government business. This does actually lead to the Blonde Phantom finding a clue, one that has her making an appointment in her Blonde Phantom identity at a beauty parlor. Despite the fact that this is supposed to be a superhero, that the Blonde Phantom is in these casual settings like a fancy party and a beauty salon doesn’t feel out of place because her superhero costume is a full length dress with a black mask. She fits in just fine and she actually attended two other parties as the Blonde Phantom within these two issues.

DC Comics:

the Doctor Fate stories in More Fun Comics (1935) #55-61

In this batch of Doctor Fate solo stories I went from March 1940 to September 1940. All of these stories were six pages and were written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Howard Sherman. These stories really reminded me of some of the public domain comics that I've read because of the strange visuals and random turns in the stories, but I enjoy that and this character's bizarre elements. I was most interested in the relationship between Doctor Fate and Inza. Some things I noted while I was reading:

Inza is a constant presence in the Doctor Fate stories and has yet to not be included. She seems to be Doctor Fate's assistant and sole connection to the human world. In several of these stories she has to explain to him some problem that she was able to learn about simply by paying attention to the news. In the story in issue #58 he says that he needs Inza's assistance with a case because "she may discover a clue that I- because I must spend my life in the tower- may miss!" Inza is vulnerable because she's only human and some of the things Doctor Fate deals with are too much for her to even see. Even so, he brings her with him on almost everywhere on his missions, where she's largely providing just someone for him to talk to, rather than having the main character just talk to himself throughout the story, and doesn't physically assist. But he does sometimes give her tasks like at the end of the story in issue #57 he tells her to take a villain that he's turned into a statue and seal it in a cabinet of ebony and in the story in issue #61 he has her contact the world's scientists for him to warn them of a forthcoming danger.

There's a point in the story in issue #59 where there are aliens attacking humans on a ship and Doctor Fate heads to their spaceship first rather than to help the people immediatly and Inza protests "Doctor Fate- Those people on the liner- They'll all be killed!" but he says that he has to learn about the aliens before he can fight them. This isn't really an element that was repeated in these stories, but I wonder if her role as a sort of moral compass will be emphasized more later on.

In the first story Inza says "Doctor Fate! I'd hoped and prayed you'd return!" Later, in the story in issue #59, she used a crystal ball given to her by Doctor Fate to contact him.

Doctor Fate's tower first appears in the story in issue #58 which we see when Doctor Fate takes Inza there. Later, in the story in issue #60, Inza goes to the tower to see him but while she knows how to get there she doesn't know how to get inside as there aren't any doors.

In these stories Inza is targeted by villains multiple times, seemingly but not explicitly for the purpose of emotionally hurting Doctor Fate. In the story in issue #58 when the villain is first confronted by Doctor Fate he says "Then my attempt on Inza in the penthouse failed!" which I feel implies that killing her would have actually hindered or physically hurt Doctor Fate and prevented him from fighting the villain, making me wonder whether there's some magical tether between the two of them at this point. Another interpretation would be that he's so reliant on her to learn about missions that he's not expected to be able to do anything without her, but that doesn't track with how he does sense magical issues with his powers without any notice from her multiple times across these stories.

Fawcett Comics:

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #47 and in Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #28

With these issues I read through the Captain Marvel stories published in October 1943. There is one Captain Marvel story per every issue of Whiz Comics and four per issue of Captain Marvel Adventures for a total of five Captain Marvel stories read in this batch. These stories ranged from twelve to sixteen pages.

The standout story here was “Captain Marvel’s Birthday” from Whiz Comics #47. The story had Billy wanting to vote for his boss Sterling Morris in a local election but unable to because he’s underage. Billy then assumes that Captain Marvel would be able vote since he’s an adult but that’s complicated by Captain Marvel having to prove that he’s an American citizen and him not actually knowing his own age.

In the process of trying to figuring out Captain Marvel’s birthday, Billy Batson visits the orphanage in which he was raised to try to find records of his own birth because “Captain Marvel is myself- only older! So if I find my age, I’ll know his!” Of course, Billy’s backstory was very famously presented in his first ever appearance in Whiz Comics #2 as him having been kicked out by his Uncle Ebenezer who stole his inheritance when it came in. The evil uncle backstory wasn’t entirely dropped in favor of an orphanage backstory, however, as a later story published in Captain Marvel Adventures #88 titled “Billy Batson’s Boyhood” expanded on what Billy’s life was like with his Uncle Ebenezer.

While at the orphanage he was raised at Billy says that “I can’t be more than fourteen years old!” This purposefully vague statement ends up being the final word on Billy’s age in this story. In the Fawcett character writing guidelines from 1942 (printed in Fawcett Companion: The Best of the FCA) it’s stated that “Billy Batson is now about 14 years old. He was 12 when the strip began. Don’t ever state his real age- that would spoil a reader’s conception of Billy as being his own age, or younger, or older, as he may prefer to believe. However, for our benefit, Billy has the reactions and characteristics of a boy of 14.” It seems that no older than fourteen ended up being what was settled on for Billy’s age, as this story was published late in 1943 yet Billy has not aged one year to be fifteen, when he had aged two years in the writers’ minds from 1940 to 1942 to go from twelve to fourteen.

And the ending of “Captain Marvel’s Birthday” was incredibly cute with Captain Marvel being all dejected that he can’t have birthday parties because he doesn’t have a birthday and Sterling Morris throwing him one anyway with a big cake and inviting Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Junior, and other Fawcett heroes like Ibis the Invincible and Spy Smasher. This story was also used to announce a contest to give Caption Marvel a birthday where readers could write in to offer him the use of theirs.

Eastern Color Printing Company:

the Jane Arden strips in Famous Funnies (1934) #19-26

Famous Funnies was a comic book series that primarily reprinted newspapers comics. It was standard procedure for them to remove the publication dates from the original art, so there isn't a way for me to check when these Jane Arden strips were first published. But within the Famous Funnies series I went from January 1936 to August 1936. There were four strips (with four paper doll cut-out sections) in issues #19-24 and three strips (with three paper doll cut-out sections) in issues #25-26 for a total of thirty Jane Arden strips read in this batch. All of these strips were written by Monte Barrett. The strips from issues #19-22 were drawn by Jack W. McGuire and the strips from issues #23-26 were drawn by Russell E. Ross.

The first story had a convoluted plot that I really enjoyed. It lasted seventeen strips across issues #19-23 and had Jane Arden and Prince Henry- who had actually previously appeared in the first Jane Arden storyline reprinted in Famous Funnies- trying to save Princess Tania from Duke Victor. The story begins with Princess Tania and Prince Henry engaged, even though Prince Henry is and has been in love with Jane Arden, but Duke Victor is able to machinate events to make Princess Tania believe that Prince Henry was sneaking around with another woman, Irene, and then later that Jane Arden tried to kill her. Separated from these two loyal friends, the Duke further distances Princess Tania from anyone else who might give her wise counsel, and tries to assume more command of her kingdom, with the end goal of getting her to marry him and allow him to rule Anderia on his own. Jane Arden and Prince Henry work together to kidnap Princess Tania and replace her with Jane Arden, who happens to look so much like her that an impersonation is very effective, which Duke Victor doesn’t suspect because he believes that he already killed Jane Arden. Having spent time away from Duke Victor and his manipulations, Princess Tania is made to listen in on Duke Victor trying to convince Jane-Arden-disguised-as-Princess-Tania to sign over Anderia’s oil leases, and she finally accepts the truth that he had bad intentions for her and who she had been made to believe were enemies and spies were really loyal friends. While Jane Arden reciprocates Prince Henry’s feelings, at the end of the story she’s convinced that it’s in the best interest of the kingdoms to trick Prince Henry into confessing his love for Princess Tania by pretending to be her and directing him to confess to Princess Tania by telling him that she’s Jane Arden.

The second plot was six strips across issues #23-24 and had Jane Arden with fellow reporter Steve solving the case of a hit-and-run that killed a child, which I thought was a notably intense story concept. And the third plot went eight strips across issues #24-26 with the final ninth conclusion strip being published in issue #27 and had Jane Arden and Steve again working to catch money swindlers, a case that goes awry when in the middle of it Steve unknowingly invests company money with one of the swindlers.

Eternity Comics:

Spicy Tales (1988) #12-14

Spicy Tales was a series that primarily reprinted comic strips from Frank Armer's line of pulp magazines at Culture Publications from the 1930s and 40s and then stories from comic books published by Trojan Magazines in the 1950s. The comic strips were unique as the editorial in issue #6 explains, quoting Will Murray that "Sexy comics strips were a staple in the girlie pulps before the Spicies came along- in mags like Pep, Breezy Stories and College Humor. But they usually revolved around college girl situations, not genre stuff." Those sexy comics frequently contained scenes such as women being striped to their underwear and restrained or tortured erotically, but the stories reprinted from comic book from the 50s-as well as some of the comic strips from the 40s- would be more aptly described as having 'good girl art' than as being 'sexy' as they did not have those kinds of sexual scenes.

There was one 5-page Special Agent Hendrix story- which was written by an unknown writer, possibly penciled by Sol Brodsky, and possibly inked by Christopher Rule- reprinted from Spy Cases (1950) #26, which was actually a book from Timely Comics. This story revolved around detecting and deciphering hidden coded messages in a woman's sunbathing positions, which was just amusing to me as a premise more than anything else.

There was one 7-page Ray Hale, News Ace story- which was written and drawn by Newton H. Alfred- reprinted from the March 1949 issue of Super Detective. This story stood out to me because the beginning has Ray Hale attending a performance of hula dancers and- before one of the women mysteriously dies- the narration says that "Hale finds only boredom" and he himself says that there's "nothing of interest here" because it "doesn't look like I'll get a story out of this." The dancing women are there for the reader's enjoyment, but this is the first time I've seen one of the male protagonists be disinterested and dissatisfied in these elements of the story.

There was one 8-page Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, story- written by Robert Leslie Bellum and drawn by an unknown artist- from the April 1950 issue of Hollywood Detective. This was the first Dan Turner story reprinted in Spicy Tales that I actually found the mystery of to be interesting. It has Dan Turner intend to assist a paranoid movie star who claims to be receiving strange threatening phone calls and is too afraid to handle the stunt work he's meant to, a case that's derailed by the director of the movie actually dying when demonstrating to the actor how safe a stunt was. At first it seems that the primary suspects are two people who were angry with the movie star after they lost a lot of money in a oil well he got them to invest in, but then it's revealed that the movie star actually set the whole thing up as a cover to kill the director because he's the one that got the movie star to invest in that oil well in the first place and he also lost a lot of money from it.

And there were two 8-page Gail Ford, Girl Friday, stories- written and drawn by Gene Leslie- from the March 1950 and April 1950 issues of Super Detective. Both of these stories were actually really unique and well-executed. The story from the March 1950 issue was genuinely effectively suspenseful. It had Gail Ford get a job at a department store after a woman was found murdered there to see if she can figure out who did it. While snooping around at night after the store had closed and everyone was supposed to have gone home, Gail Ford sees a man walking around in the dark who she’s unable to tell if he is a watchmen or somebody that’s not supposed to be there. Just after finding a clue that points to a specific person as the killer, Gail Ford is spotted by the man, leading to a prologued chase, which ends with her getting the drop on the guy and overpowering him. At one point she pretended to be a store mannequin to avoid detection and at another she hide and rolled a toy car to make a sound in a part of the store that she wasn’t in to mislead the man. This story is also notable as this chase between two people in a limited space meant that there was no one to appear to save Gail Ford, so unlike in her other stories she took the criminal down entirely by herself. This being a change to form actually helped make the story more suspenseful, as it would have usually been expected for her to get caught at some point. And the story in the April 1950 issue begins with Gail Ford already undercover as “Mimi,” the girlfriend of a prominent mobster. The story depicts Mimi attending a meeting the mobster where his men turn on him and kill him, so then Mimi seduces the new head of the mob. She’s shown to sneak out and speak to a mysterious figure after learning about the mob’s plans and then after the deal goes through she messed with the shades, supposedly so that “nobody’ll see you guys” but which is clearly a signal for the police to begin the raid. And it’s not until all of the criminals are caught that it’s finally stated that Mimi is actually Gail Ford. This is a completely different structure that the usual where the story begins with the police officer characters explaining the case and telling Gail Ford what her role will be.

There were four 2-page Sally the Sleuth stories, written and drawn by the character's creator Adolphe Barreaux, from the June 1938, August 1938, September 1938, and November 1938 issues of Spicy Detective. There were a few startling things that stood out to me in this batch of stories. In the story from the June 1938 issue it’s an essential part of the plot that a kidnapped Sally gives her underwear which has her initials embroidered on it to a dog that then finds the Chief and leads him to Sally. The end of the story in the September 1938 issue has the Chief telling Sally “That shows you can’t judge people by their clothes” and her telling him “Then I guess I’m no mystery right now, Chief.” And the story in the November 1938 issue has the Chief saying “Good work, Sally, you can buy some new underwear with the reward” as hers had gotten torn in the fight.

And there was also one 7-page Sally the Sleuth story- the artist and writer of which are unknown- from Crime Smashers (1950) #5, published in July 1951. I believe that it was actually originally published in a pulp magazine but I'm not sure which one. This story was notably partially copying a 2-page Betty Blake story that was written and drawn by Harry Lemon Parkhurst and printed in the July 1935 issue of Super Detective. That Betty Blake story began with her receiving an invitation to a bohemian ball a few days before she was due to testify in court against someone and purchasing a harem outfit to attend the ball. Then the story showed a woman appearing to be her stabbed to death at the party by a man in a devil costume before revealing that Betty Blake had gotten there late and that was another woman who was coincidentally wearing the same costume and mistakenly killed in her place. Betty Blake then confronts the costume seller who admits that he told the man she was due to testify against what she was going to be wearing. When Betty Blake confronts the criminals, the man who stabbed her, who hasn't had time to take off his devil costume yet, shrieks "It's her ghost!" All of that also happens in this Sally the Sleuth story, except that it covers fives pages instead of two, and then there's two more pages of Sally chasing down one of the criminals who tried to escape and a conclusion where the man Sally was meant to testify against shoots the man who stabbed the wrong woman and then shoots himself, rather than go to jail. Also, it's unfortunate that the artist of this story isn't known because I enjoyed the style and would have liked to have been able to look up more of their work.

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And, finally, there were twelve 2-page Diana Daw stories, written by Clayton Maxwell and drawn by Max Plaisted, from the June 1937 to January 1938 and February to March 1938 and May to June 1938 issues of Spicy Adventure. This batch of stories actually had a significant change to the strip's premise as, throughout the stories from the February to March 1938 and May to June 1938 issues, the setting changed from India to Shanghai where, instead of always wandering around the desert and getting captured and then escaping harems to wander around the desert some more and get captured again and so on, Diana is going to be working as a spy for China in a night club popular with Japanese officers. I did find what preceded that change to be interesting too, but it's coming right as the series' concept was being played out. The stories from the June to August 1937 issues did have a unique approach to the typical harem plots where Diana escaped, not just by herself, but with a bunch of other women. It was particularily unique to see Diana working with these women and trying to set up a proper community with them to fight back against the men who would hold women as slaves as typically the only positive characters are our two white recurring characters, Diana Daw and Ted Morton, and everyone else is or eventually becomes antagonistic to them. This is because the portrayal of non-white characters is very limited and stereotypical and there are few other white characters in this strip, but when there are other white people that aren't bad then they typically die very quickly. Unfortunately this pattern did play out again as some of the women turned on Diana in hopes that that they'd then get favored treatment for defeating her when they returned to the harem, but there were a few that still supported her and so remained positively framed, which is still a first for this strip albeit which still being stereotypically portrayed. And the stories from the September 1937 to January 1938 issues actually had a bit of a role reversal as Diana was hypnotized which sort of temporarily put Ted Morton in her place in the strip, being inconvenienced by her as she's sometimes been inconvenienced by him (even once before being when he'd been controlled himself by a love potion) and having to resort to seducing one of his captors to rescue her.

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2010. Brie Charles was a sperm donor baby and the biological daughter of Bruce Springsteen. She had been born into wealth with her mother being a hedge fund manager and her father the owner of an investment firm. Bruce and his wife, Patti knew that her parents had been trying to get pregnant for over a year. He privately discussed with his wife if he should offer to donate his sperm. It was something he wanted to do for them. She decided to allow him to do it.

Nine months later, he was holding the baby he helped create. She had been born on January 7, 1992, with a head full of brown hair and brown eyes. Her umbilical cord was cut by her father, then she was put on a table and was examined to make sure she was healthy. Once it was determined she was healthy, she was cleaned up, wrapped in a warm towel, and had a hat placed on her little head.

Once she was able to express herself with more than just crying, they found her to be a happy baby. The only thing she hated was tummy time, where she was placed on her stomach and had to try to lift her head. Her neck couldn’t take the weight of her head for too long and she cried in frustration until she was flipped over to her back. Her parents gave their daughter love and attention. She was the miracle baby they had been waiting for!

Her parents remained close friends with Bruce, Patti, and their three kids: Evan, Jessica, and Sam. Elliot and Evan were born around the same time, so they often played together. Her parents were also close friends with Rita Wilson and her husband, Tom Hanks; and Dorothea, and her husband, Jon Bongiovi. Their kids grew up together and were close friends.

One of the things she loved doing was performing! She was put into dance classes, voice lessons, and piano lessons. At school, she regularly performed in talent shows. When she was twelve, she got up in front of the whole school and performed I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston. She loved the attention she received while on stage and she needed more of it! Her mother had studied music as a child but gave it up to focus on her school.

With talent in her genes, Bruce could see her becoming a performer like him. Her parents set aside money that she would inherit when she turned twenty-five. Her current savings was over one and a half million dollars. The only stipulations were that she didn’t get pregnant while in high school, graduated high school, and didn’t become a spoiled brat.

So far, she was fulfilling those requirements. As an allowance, she was given five thousand dollars a month for personal use. She used the money for shopping, eating out, Starbucks, her hair, vacations, and other expenses. Her parents paid her bills, rent, and utilities, so she could afford to spend as much as she wanted. For her sixteenth birthday, she was given a brand new Mercedes Benz G Wagon in silver. With a silver interior.

Her eighteen birthday was held at an eighteen-plus club, where she and her friends danced until early in the morning. They gifted her a Tiffany necklace for her high school graduation from Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles, as well as a five hundred dollar gift card to Saks Fifth Avenue to buy whatever she wanted, on top of her monthly allowance.

Yes, they gave her whatever she wanted. They also taught her the importance of giving back and helping people who were not as fortunate as her. Every Christmas Eve, they served meals to the homeless and they regularly donated their used clothes. They made it very clear if she became spoiled or entitled, everything she had would be taken away. She would also be sent to New Jersey to help Bruce and Patti do work on their farm for free.

She liked going out to different clubs on the weekends and she was known as an heiress by the media. But she was a different kind of heiress. The kind who would give a homeless stranger her jacket to keep warm or something to eat. She was humble, down to earth, and didn’t stumble out of clubs drunk every night.

Her parents had done a great job at raising her and they were proud of the woman she was becoming! It was at a Hollywood party where she met Mike Shinoda. They introduced themselves and started talking. He found her to be interesting. She had a witty sense of humor, an impressive vocabulary, and could swear like a sailor!

He invited her to hang out with him and his band members while they recorded their new album. Yeah, that would be awesome! They exchanged phone numbers and she shared her Instagram handle, brielikethecheese. It was public, so he found it easily. When he got home, he was tired from socializing all night. The only reason why he had gone was for networking. He and his band were always looking for new artists to collaborate with, though they chose more indie artists.

He got dressed into his pajamas: a t-shirt and boxer shorts before brushing his teeth and getting into bed. His phone was right beside him on his nightstand. He didn’t have an Instagram account, though he and his band thought it would be a great way to connect with their fans. After putting her handle into google, he found it easily. She had hundreds of followers already. He scrolled through her pictures.

brielikethecheese: Bonjour, Je ne suis pas très doué pour me présenter. Je m'appelle Brie Charles.

Her posts were either in French or English. He didn’t know French, though he was fluent in Japanese. His little brother, Jason was able to speak Japanese, French, and Spanish. He thought she was beautiful and he wanted to spend more time with her. Would he ask her out? It was something he was thinking about, though he wanted to make sure she was eighteen years old first.

When she got to the studio, they exchanged a hug. She was then introduced to his band: Joe Hahn, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington, and Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell. They all thought she was beautiful in sweatpants, a cropped t-shirt, and an oversized flannel shirt. Her long brown hair was braided into pigtails. They guessed she was at least eighteen or nineteen years old. They were all involved in relationships, except for Rob and Mike.

She had been out running errands when she decided to stop by. How was the party the other day? It was a whole lot of nothing. She had gone to get out of her apartment. Her father also highly recommended going.

“He has a mindset to form connections with different people, even when they are balding older guys who just want to talk politics and sports. One of them asked me when I was ten what I thought about the current president. I was like, I have no idea of what you’re talking about.”

They laughed.

“Or the stock market. Anyway, it was a whole lot of nothing. Until Mike saved me from boredom.”

“Did you grow up in Agoura Hills”, Rob asked her.

“Yeah, I did! Right on Fairview Place.”

“What are your parents names?”

“Camille and Henri Charles.”

She was his neighbor. No fucking way! He got up and hugged her. The last time she saw him, she was yelling at him in French because her dolls were not listening to her. They laughed. How old was she? She was around four or five years old years old. He didn’t know how he could help her. After that, he joined Linkin Park and was unable to see her. She invited him over to hang out. Yeah, he could do that!

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Can I request a PC who's a sadist and is a bully towards F!Kylar? Probably begins to take pleasure and amusement with her. Almost becoming possessive.

She's terrified of you, almost more-so than Whitney. You seem dedicated to targeting her at every given chance; throwing erasers at her head when Doren's back is turned, swiping her lunch tray off her table, picking her up and moving her around as if she's not even a person.

At least Whitney leaves her alone if she keeps her head down.

Kylar doesn't know why you seem to hate her so much. She doesn't even have that shrine in her locker anymore!

She's being shoved against a locker by someone—she rarely bothers to learn her classmates' names—only for your voice to echo through the school corridor.

A shiver goes up Kylar's spine. She can handle being roughed up by unimportant nobodies who'll move on to other victims once they get bored of her, but you deliberately ignore both easier and more challenging prey.

"Back the fuck off, she's my toy."

Your toy.

Did you just stake ownership over her? Claim her? Just what is your problem!?

Miraculously, you let Kylar go with just a rough tug on her messy hair and a cruel comment about how she looks like an unkempt homeless child.

She still freezes up every time your predatory gaze lands on her, but Kylar can't help but start seeing you in a different light. No-one else specifically gives her attention like you do. Sure, you may only see her as a toy to throw around and break, but that's more than most of her peers.

Maybe...

Maybe...this could turn into something positive.

#Degrees of Lewdity #GN Reader #Kylar the Loner #Headcanons

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Im currently going through kylar brainrot but like, what do you think kylar + the other LI’s if you wish would work as adults? my dude kylar wants “lots of babies” then he better provide for them financially istg 🤨🤨

I'll do the ones specifically described as the PC's age, so the school trio, Alex and I'll throw Wren in for shits and giggles.

Alex

A farm as a front for a breaking bad set up? Now that's fun.

Eventually you're gonna find out, and your reaction and the subsequent happenings are going to depend on a lot.

If they're low dominance and you disapprove there's a chance they'll stop, especially if Bailey is still sticking their nose in things.

High dominance? They'll insist that it'll all be well, no they won't get caught, you just focus on the fields, okay?

May let you join in if you're curious, but ultimately may keep you at an arms length about it. Just in case it does fuck up, you don't need to be caught in the crossfire.

Could end up in jail.

I think Alex might want a big family, if you're able.

You will meet more of his family and start realising what their mam/dad meant in their letter.

The family puts it on you to keep Alex safe.

Gives me motorcycle gang vibes, without the bikes.

Kylar

Kylar might be forced to take on the family business, demanding you be their stay at home spouse.

The wedding is very quicky done, its an elopement.

Will do a big ceremony if you ask, just be aware that their vows are gonna as intense as their English Poems.

Probably away from home most of the day, exceedingly clingy when they get back.

Constantly wants you/them pregnant. I don't think they'd allow a sperm doner if needs be, but if the PC brings up how being an orphan was horrible, you could convince them to adopt.

Convincing Kylar that they're an adult, and that if an office job makes them sad then they can try to build up what they really want in their spare time, you'll support them.

Kylar as an artist/game streamer.

Streamer Kylar having a small but loyal fan base, cryptid status. Known for slipping up and letting out what their fetishes are.

Fanbase bullies them, but if you come on stream they start behaving, they think you're the sweetest.

The path if they don't get you? Incel. Pure, should be on a watch-list incel.

Also possible future felon.

Robin

Therapy. Lots and lots of years of therapy.

Gets out of town as soon as possible.

Also could see as a streamer, Crankgameplays vibes.

Gets a cute pet, loves them dearly. Probably a dog, a big fluffy one with floppy ears.

Could also see them stuck in retail for years, trying to get by in University.

Robin growing up to be a History Professor with a loving healthy relationship with the PC.

Professor Robin being very forgiving with their students, giving them drinks and snacks when they come to the office.

Thinks about having kids for a long time before/if they decide to have them. Is terrified something will happen to them and the kid will end up with Bailey.

Whitney

I could picture Whitney just leaving as soon as school ends.

Packs a bag and fucks off, going to the nearest big city so they can start over.

Could end up homeless for a while.

Maybe getting an apprenticeship, working as a mechanic.

Or a hairdresser.

If they're with the PC then I could see them asking for you to run off with them.

Gets angry and has a huge argument with you if you say no, but won't kidnap you about it.

Storms off without saying bye, never stops thinking about you after and constantly thinks about going back for you.

If you go with them? Will protect the they'll out of you if you're on the streets.

If you try to prostitutes yourself for money they'll end up your pimp. You only fuck clients they say you can.

If they have kids it's an accident. Takes up the role, but its a learning curve.

Whitney is much smarter than they look. I think they'll end up pretty comfortable. Not rich, by any standards, but they'll calm down a lot and be far more respectful away from that shit town.

Wren

Might end up six feet under if Remy catches on to their shenanigans.

Or in jail.

Failing all that? Wren could get recruited by Alex.

Less chance of getting strapped up and tuned into a cow at Alex's. Could end up a drug smuggler for them.

Or Bailey. I think Bailey could see potential there and hire Wren to sabotage the orphans lives so Bailey can make more money off of them.

Wren is a little chaotic shit. I think they're too used to a life of crime to have a normal life by now, and would appreciate a ride or die s/o.

Wren playing the long game and finessing the ranch from Remy.

Kids with Wren is a bad idea. Don't do it.

#degrees of lewdity alex #degrees of lewdity kylar #degrees of lewdity robin #degrees of lewdity whitney #degrees of lewdity wren #degrees of lewdity #degrees of theories #spill your guts #anonymous

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Lana, Lex, Clark, and Lionel debate

This is a Lana Clark Lex and Lionel debate

X 6 years ago

"Clark means more to me than you ever will" No Lana the only person who means more to you than anyone is yourself.

LO 6 years ago

STFU REJECT

X 6 years ago

@LO STFU Lana fanboy.

Supernova 2 days ago

That's why Lana did all of that volunteer work for blood drives. Or helped Adam when he pretended to be homeless. Wanted to use Lex's money for halfway houses and immigrant slavery. You know this Lana-hate which THANK GOODNESS is almost over is just out of spite.

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X 1 day ago

@Supernova She was the show's worst character. Treated like a perfect saintly Mary Sue who could do no wrong even though she can and had done plenty of wrong. She was a hypocrite who supposedly hated being lied to and having secrets kept from her only to lie and keep secrets herself. Her entire relationship with Clark was her trying to force him to tell her about his powers then having a tantrum when he wouldn't. She got jealous when men she fancied kissed other women even if she was with other men at the time. Even when she was with Whitney she gave Clark and Chloe a jealous look when she saw them kissing. Because Lana apparently believed that men had to pine for her until she was ready for them. Characters who were complete strangers to her would call her amazing out of nowhere even though she wasn't which was just the original producers projecting their obsession with the actress and character. Her and Clark's relationship was lust not love. They only liked each other for their looks and because they wanted to have sex. Anything Lana did wrong was ignored or portrayed as right. Like kidnapping the reformed Lionel and having him held hostage by a crazy woman for forcing her to marry Lex, when she was with Lex she threatened to have the college fund of the daughter of a LuthorCorp employee cut off unless said employee gave her the box from Brainiac's ship, she pretended to set up a clinic to help Kryptonite powered people but instead just used it to spy on Lex, nearly killed Lois while trying to kill Lex. People hate Lana because she's the worst character in the show, never had a clear set in stone character, was played by an actress hired for her looks not her acting ability, in other versions of Superman Lana Lang is just Clark's high school girlfriend. Therefore Lana should have left the show for good when she went to France at the end of Season 3. Instead they kept her around until Season 8. She was one of the most evil characters in the show yet was treated as if she was pure and innocent. At least Smallville's other villains were shown to be what they were.

A 8 hours ago (edited)

Only lust not love? When there were together they often go on normal dates, which they talk about of you listen to the dialogue. Apparently they always either go out to dinner, horse-riding, or dancing. They don't even sleep together for years of being friends. Anyway Clark is the major gaslighter in the show, gaslighting means making someone believe something isn't true even when they know it is. That is all Clark does to Lana and Lex throughout the first 3 seasons every-time someone threatens them about Clark. Lex tries to talk to him after being told by multiple people that Clark has a dangerous secret (like Lana) and just asks Clark outright. "Friendships built on secrets are destined to fail" and Clark says "good thing we don't have that problem". This is actually gaslighting. Making someone believe that something didn't happen, which can actually drive people out of their minds. "There's nothing more to me than what you see" to Lana who actually saw him use his powers "You'd still be the same Clark Kent." Which is what she says every-time she asks about the secret which is really in 3x02, gunpoint 3x03 after being kidnapped over the secret, and 5x10 because he suddenly stopped when they were going to sleep together. Then of course Clark blames her for moving away to college. And wait she actually think she asks about his health, because at this point she went to Lex and told him to stay away from Clark because he's "just like the rest of us". As for secrets in season 4 Lana admits everything which she had already told her current boyfriend and Lex about. She tells Clark after they become friends again. Why tell someone something if you aren't even talking to them? Then we see in 5x10 that Lana brings up aliens and tries to talk about the spaceship with Clark, before it's revealed that she accepted Lex's offer. Because Lex truly thinks aliens are going to invade and take over the world. Once Lex is revealed, you really expect her just to lie back and know that he's doing a ton of messed up stuff and not go after him? Lex is evil, but let him be? Going after an evil person doesn't make someone evil. And oh Lionel- didn't he kill his parents and a ton of innocent people over the years. Didn't he abuse his family? Who cares! But you seem to forget that Lana did save Lois' in Gone and Arrival. As for Lois, Chloe does confront her about that. But no Lana is not evil, she goes through therapy and reformation before returning because of some mental issues from being with Lex. And is your comment is less an accurate view of the show and more a rant.

X 7 hours ago @Ambrosia 777 She was right to go after Lex but didn't care how many innocents she hurt to get to him. And Lionel had redeemed himself after switching bodies with Clark cured him of a liver disease that was killing him and spent the rest of his life protecting Clark until Lex killed him. As bad as Clark's lying and secret keeping was he was doing it to protect people and make it so they didn't get put in danger or killed by his life as a hero.

A 6 hours ago

But she didn't plan to hurt Grant or Lois. Grant only didn't want to expose Lex because he worked for him. Anyway Lana had mental issues, she needed to work through. A fake pregnancy and finding out all of those things she defended Lex from were actually real broke her. But then and I read that blog post, she really did torture. herself because she didn't want to be that kind of person. Anyway the Black Box was supposed to protect the world from an alien invasion, until Lex wanted to start using it to make weapons. Then she disagreed, because she didn't want innocent people to die. Because she's not a Lex copy.

A 6 hours ago

Oh no I'm not a Clark hater at all. But I really hated how he pretended like Lex and Lana were imagining things and all of those people that kept telling them about him were lying. I know Clark is a good guy, but that took a toll on his friendships with them. They tried to prove they would care about him no matter what he was or why all of those things were happening. If a ton of people tried to kill me, then said yow know Clark has a secret. I'd want to know. And it's not like they argued with him about it, they asked directly. Straight to the source. Far better than just ending the relationship because Clark had a secret identity. Until Lex flat out started stalking him and that whole thing in Mortal which I will not excuse.

L 2 days ago (edited)

@A All that truth scarred him off. Adults blindly hating a teenage girl and insulting the actress don't need attention anyway. To think that Lionel spent his entire life killing people and being a wife beater, to earn sudden forgiveness and still treat Lex like crap. While Lex turns into this kind of misguided monster. And Lana spends 1 year doing questionable things to protect the world from aliens or Lex and she's evil! Don't get me started on that teenage crap this grown man commented at first.

L 3 hours ago

And where does this “whining” all the time come from?! She asks twice in season 3 after Clark runs away and doesn't ask again until season 5. Compare that to Chloe seasons 1-3. I think Lana-haters know they just exaggerate and hate the character because they're insecure or immature. Especially when it's a grown man saying these hateful things.

X 3 hours ago

@L Horrible things Lex and Lionel did were acknowledged as horrible. Horrible things Lana did were either ignored completely or treated as if they were right. Not liking a badly written and acted character isn't insecurity or immaturity. And there are plenty of women who hate the character of Lana as well. You liking her doesn't mean everyone has to.

A 9 minutes ago

You don't have to. Some of the things you said about Kristin and Lana in other comments read that way. And I truly think Lex and Lionel were evil because they had no reason to do those things. But Lana truly believed Lex when he said the Black Box could stop and invasion. And was mentally shook when he was revealed to be a bad guy who does all of these things she thought he wouldn't do, so she went after him. I'm just saying she's not evil or monstrous and ignoring the plot or reasons to hate Lana is unreasonable. And Isis was used to help meteor-freaks after she changed and stopped going after Lex.

L 4 minutes ago (edited)

@A that explained it way better than I did. If someone believes they are stopping a huge evil are they evil? Especially when compared to people who do worse things for their own amusement.

#lana lang #lex luthor #clark kent #lionel luthor #lana luthor #smallville #smallville quotes #lexana #clana #clex

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Best of SXSW 2021.

From properly good Covid comedies to an epic folk-horror doc and an Indigenous feminist Western, the Letterboxd Festiville team reveals their ten best of SXSW Online.

We dug out old lanyards to wear around the house, and imagined ourselves queuing up the block from The Ritz (RIP). We dialled into screenings and panels, and did our level best to channel that manic “South By” energy from our living rooms.

The SXSW festival atmosphere was muted, and that’s to be expected. But the films themselves? Gems, so many gems, whether shot in a fortnight on the smell of an oily stimulus check, or painstakingly rotoscoped over seven years.

When we asked SXSW Film director Janet Pierson what she and her team were looking for this year, she told us: “We’re always looking for films that do a lot with little, that are ingenious, and pure talent, and discovery, and being surprised. We’re just looking for really good stories with good emotional resonance.” If there was one common denominator we noticed across this year’s SXSW picks, it was a smart, tender injection of comedy into stories about trauma, grief, unwanted pregnancy, chronic health conditions, homelessness, homophobia and, yes, Covid.

It’s hard to pick favorites, but here are the ten SXSW features and two short films we haven’t stopped thinking about, in no particular order.

Recovery Directed by Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek, written by Everton and Whitney Call

“Covid 19 is in charge now” might be the most hauntingly funny line in a SXSW film. In Recovery, two sisters set out on a haywire road trip to rescue their grandmother from her nursing home in the wake of a severe Covid 19 outbreak. There’s no random villain or threat, because isn’t being forced to exist during a pandemic enough of a threat in itself? If ever we were worried about “Covid comedies”, SXSW managed to flush out the good ones. (Read about the Festiville team’s other favorite Covid-inflected comedies, including an interview with the directors of I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking).)

Alex Marzona praises the “off-the-charts chemistry” between leads Mallory Everton and Whitney Call. Best friends since they were nine, the pair also wrote the film, with Everton co-directing with Stephen Meek. Every laugh comes from your gut and feels like something only the cast and crew would usually be privy to. “You can tell a lot of the content is improvised, which just attests to their talent,” writes Emma. Recovery doesn’t make you laugh awkwardly about how awful the last year has been—rather, it reminds you that even in such times there are still laughs to be had, trips to be taken, family worth uprooting everything for. Just make sure you’ve packed enough wet wipes for the road, and think long and hard about who should babysit your mice. —EK

The Spine of Night Written and directed by Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt

Don’t get too attached to any characters from its star-studded cast—nobody is safe (or fully-clothed) in The Spine of Night’s raw, ultra-violent and cynical world. Conjured over the last seven years, directors Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King’s rotoscoped epic recaptures the dazzling imagination and scope of their influences Ralph Bakshi and Heavy Metal. Approaching an anthology-style structure to explore how ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’—a proverb more potent now than when Gelatt and King began their project—the film packs a franchise’s worth of ideas in its 90-minute runtime. Though the storytelling justifiably proves itself overly dense for some, it will find the audience it’s after, as other Letterboxd members have declared it “a rare treat” and “a breath of fresh air in the feature-length animation scene”. For sure, The Spine of Night can join Sundance premieres Flee and Cryptozoo in what’s already a compelling year for unique two-dimensional animation. —JM

Kambole Campbell caught up with Gelatt and King (who are also Letterboxd members!) during SXSW to talk about animation inspirations and rotoscoping techniques.

The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson Written and directed by Leah Purcell

Snakes, steers and scoundrels beware! Writer-director-star Leah Purcell ably repurposes the Western genre for Aboriginal and female voices in The Drover’s Wife. Molly Johnson is a crack-shot anti-heroine for the ages, in this decolonized reimagining of a classic 1892 short story by Henry Lawson. And by reimagining, we mean a seismic shift in the narrative: Purcell has fleshed out a full story of a mother-of-four, pregnant with her fifth, a missing husband, predatory neighbors, a mysterious runaway and a young English couple on different paths to progress in this remote Southern land. Purcell first adapted this story for the stage, then as published fiction; she rightly takes the leading role in the screen version, too.

As a debut feature director, Purcell (Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri) already has a firm grip on the macabre and the menacing, not shying away from violence, but making very careful decisions about what needs to be depicted, given all that Molly Johnson and her family are subjected to. She also sneaks in mystic touches, and a hint of romance (local heartthrob Rob Collins can take us on a walk to where the Snowy widens to see blooming wildflowers anytime). Judging by early Letterboxd reviews, it’s not for everyone, but this is Australian colonization through an Indigenous feminist’s eyes, with a fierce, intersectional pay-off. “Extremely similar to a vast majority of the issues and themes explored in The Nightingale,” writes Claira. “I’m slowly realizing that my favorite type of Westerns are Australian.” —LK, GG

Swan Song Written and directed by Todd Stephens

Udo Kier is often the bridesmaid, rarely the bride. Now, after a lifetime of supporting roles ranging from vampires and villains to art-house muse, he finally gets to shine center-stage in Swan Song. Kier dazzles as a coiffure soothsayer in this lyrical pageant to the passage of queer times in backwater Sandusky, Ohio. “He is absolutely wonderful here,” writes Adrianna, “digging deep and pulling out a mesmerizing, deeply affecting and emotionally textured performance, proving that he’s an actor with much more range than people give him credit for.”

A strong supporting cast all have melancholy moments to shine, with Linda Evans (Dynasty), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde) along for the stroll. Surreal camp touches add joy (that chandelier, the needle drop!) but by the end, the tears roll (both of joy and sadness). Writer-director Todd Stephens ties up his Sandusky trilogy in this hometown homage, a career peak for both him and Kier. Robert Daniels puts it well, writing that Swan Song is “campy as hell, but it’s also a heartfelt LGBTQ story about lost lovers and friends, vibrant memories and the final passage of a colorful life.” —LK

Leo Koziol spoke with Todd Stephens and Udo Kier during SXSW about Grace Jones, David Bowie and dancing with yourself.

Islands Written and directed by Martin Edralin

Islands is a Mike Leigh-esque story that presents a Canadian Filipino immigrant family full of quirk and character, centered around Joshua, a reticent 50-year-old homebody son. The story drifts in and out of a deep well of sadness. Moments of lightness and familial love make the journey worthwhile. “A film so Filipino a main plot device is line-dancing,” writes Karl. “Islands is an incredibly empathetic film about what it’s like to feel unmoored from comfort. It’s distinctly Filipino and deals with the psychology of Asian culture in a way that feels both profound and oddly comforting.” In a year in which we’ve all been forced to physically slow down, Islands “shows us how slow life can be,” writes Justin, “and how important it is to be okay with that.” Rogelio Balagtas’s performance as Joshua—a first-time leading role—won him the SXSW Grand Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance. —LK

Ninjababy Directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke, written by Flikke with Johan Fasting and Inga H. Sætre

Ninjababy is as ridiculous as its title. When 23-year-old Rakel finds herself accidentally pregnant, scheduling an abortion is a no-brainer. But she’s way too far along, she’s informed, so she’s going to have to have the baby. The ensuing meltdown might have been heartbreaking if the film wasn’t so damn funny. Ninjababy draws on the comforting and familiar (“Lizzie McGuire if she was a pregnant young adult,” writes Nick), while mixing shock with originality (Erica Richards notices “a few aggressive and vulgar moments [but] somehow none of it seemed misplaced”).

An animated fetus in the style of Rakel’s own drawings appears to beg and shame Rakel into motherhood while she fights to hold onto her confidence that not wanting to be a mother doesn’t make her a bad person. Ninjababy’s greatest feat is its willingness to delve into that complication: yes, it’s righteous and feminist and 21st-century to claim your own body and life, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to turn away from something growing inside of you. It’s a comedy about shame, art, finding care in unlikely places—and there’s something in it for the gents, too. The titular ninjababy wouldn’t leave Rakel alone, and it’s unlikely to leave you either. Winner of the SXSW Global Audience Award. —SH

The Fallout Written and directed by Megan Park

Canadian actress Megan Park brought the youthful wisdom of her days on the teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager to her first project behind the camera, and it paid off. Following the scattered after-effects of a school shooting, The Fallout may be the most acute, empathetic depiction of childhood trauma on screen in recent memory. “It sneaks up on you with its honesty and how it spends time with its lead, carried so beautifully by Jenna Ortega. Even the more conventional moments are poignant because of context,” writes Kevin L. Lee. Much of that “sneaky” honesty emerges as humor—despite the heavy premise, moments of hilarity hang on the edges of almost every scene. And Ortega’s portrayal of sweet-but-angsty Vada brings self-awareness to that humor, like when Vada’s avoidant, inappropriate jokes with her therapist reveal her desperation, but they garner genuine laughs nonetheless.

In this debut, Park shows an unmatched understanding of non-linear ways that young people process their pain. Sometimes kids try drugs! Sometimes they scream at their parents! But more often than not, they really do know what they want, who loves them, and how much time they need to grieve (see also: Jessie Barr’s Sophie Jones, starring her cousin Jessica Barr, out now on VOD and in theaters). The Fallout forsakes melodrama to embrace confusion, ambiguity and joy. Winner of both the SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Narrative Feature Awards, and the Brightcove Illumination Award. —SH

Ludi Directed by Edson Jean, written by Jean and Joshua Jean-Baptiste

When Ludi begins, it’s quiet and dreamy. The film’s opening moments conjure the simple pleasures of the titular character’s Haitian heritage: the music, the colors, the people. Ludi (Shein Monpremier) smiles to herself as she starts her morning with a tape recording her cousin mailed from Haiti to Miami, and listens as her family members laugh through their troubles before recording an upbeat tape of her own. But that’s where the dreaminess ends—Ludi is an overworked, underpaid nurse picking up every shift she possibly can in order to send money home. Writer-director Edson Jean fixates on the pains and consequences of Ludi’s relentless determination, which comes to a head when she moonlights as a private nurse for an old man who doesn’t want her there.

Ashton Kinley notes how the film “doesn’t overly dramatize or pull at false emotional strings to make its weight felt. The second half of the feature really allows all of that to shine, as the film becomes a tender and empathetic two-hander.” George’s (Alan Myles Heyman) resentment of his own aging body steps in as Ludi’s antagonist. Jean throws together jarring contrasts: George throwing Ludi out of the bathroom, followed by Ludi’s memories of home, followed by another lashing out, followed by a shared prayer. The tension is unsustainable. By interspersing the back-breaking predicament of a working-class immigrant with the sights and sounds of the Caribbean, Ludi elegantly, painfully reveals what the cost of a dream can be. —SH

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Written and directed by Kier-La Janisse

Building on the folk horror resurgence of films like The Witch and Midsommar, Kier-La Janisse’s 193-minute documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched is a colossal, staggering undertaking that should school even the most seasoned of horror buffs. “Thorough is an understatement,” says Claira.

Combining a historian’s studied, holistic patience with a cinephile’s rabid, insatiable thirst, the film, through the course of six chapters, broadens textbook British definitions, draws trenchant socio-political and thematic connections, debunks myths and transports viewers to far-flung parts of the globe in a way that almost feels anthropological. As Jordan writes, “Three hours later and my mind is racing between philosophical questions about the state of hauntology we generationally entrap ourselves in, wanting to buy every single one of the 100+ films referenced here, and being just a bit in awe of Janisse’s truly breathless work.” An encyclopedic forest worth losing yourself in—get ready for those watchlists to balloon. Winner of the SXSW Midnighters Audience Award. —AY

Introducing, Selma Blair Directed by Rachel Fleit

There’ll likely be some level of hype when this intimate collaboration between actress Selma Blair and filmmaker Rachel Fleit comes out later in the year on Discovery+, and that’s okay, because that is Blair’s intention in sharing the details of her stem-cell transplant for multiple sclerosis. There’d be little point in going there if you are not prepared to really go there, and Introducing, Selma Blair is a tics-and-all journey not just into what life is like with a chronic condition, a young son, and a career that relies on one’s ability to keep a straight face. It’s also an examination of the scar tissue of childhood, the things we are told by our parents, the ideas we come to believe about ourselves. “I almost felt like I shouldn’t have such intimate access to some of the footage in this documentary,” writes Andy Yen. “Bravo to Selma for allowing the filmmakers to show some truly raw and soul-bearing videos about her battle with multiple sclerosis that make us feel as if we are as close to her as family.” —GG

Femme Directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping

I May Destroy You fans, rejoice: Paapa Essiedu, who played Arabella’s fascinating best friend Kwame, takes center stage in Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s intoxicating short film Femme. It’s a simple premise—Jordan, a femme gay man, follows his drug dealer (Harris Dickinson, mastering the sexually repressed brusque young man like no one else) home to pick up some goods on a night out. Except, of course, it’s not that simple. The co-directors build a world of danger, tension and electricity, with lusciously lensed scenes that lose focus as the threat rises. Frankie calls it “hypnotizing and brutal and gorgeous” and we couldn’t agree more. A crime thriller wrestling with hyper-masculinity seen through the eyes of an LGBTQ+ character, with a sucker-punch ending to boot, the world needs more than twenty minutes of this story. —EK

Play It Safe Directed by Mitch Kalisa

If you (unwisely) thought that the vulnerable, progressive environment of drama school would be a safe space for Black students, Play It Safe confirms that even a liberal bunch of actors (and their teacher) are capable of being blind to their own egregiously racist microagressions. Mitch Kalisa’s excellent short film explores structural prejudice head-on, in an electric acting exercise that rests on where the kinetic, gritty 16mm camera is pointing at every pivotal turn. At first, we’re with Black drama student Jonathan Ajayi as he receives the assignment; then we are with the rest of the class, exactly where we need to be. “Literally in your face and absolutely breathtaking,” writes Nia. A deserving winner of the SXSW Grand Jury and Audience narrative shorts prizes. —GG

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"Next time I'll hit you like I mean it" for Jane pleaseee? 🥺✨

Thank you sweetie!! Have some Jane canon!!! I just want to make it clear that I am not at all responsible for the damage she causes. She is who she is.

It was fucking annoying. But if I was being honest, there wasn’t much that wasn’t nowadays. Even as I sat there with my feet propped up on one of our supply boxes, I couldn’t help but dig my knife into the wooden table next to me as they carried on. Even as Randy stood off in the distance, too preoccupied playing fetch with his new pitbull John had gifted him. Blue was about a year now, and she was so full of energy and getting so big. I couldn’t wait to see her once she was older, even though I would never admit it.

I watched in distaste as the others carried in supplies for John, stacking things neatly in his hanger. It annoying, watching over shit like this when there were more important matters at hand, like the Reaping that had just started. I had insisted we take back Fall’s End, that we could easily do it. And eyeing my sniper rifle leaning against a crate, I felt that familiar urge again. This time I would drag Fairgrave out myself, kicking and screaming if I had to. But John had decided not to, insisting that the new Sinner—the new heretic—wasn’t one we needed to concern ourselves with. Just a rookie deputy that was still green around the edges, someone that didn’t know what the fuck she was doing. It was amusing to me slightly, that the so-called Resistance trusted someone so inexperienced to spearhead this. Perhaps it would be easier to take them out now, all things considering. Either way, I was ready to test those boundaries, to see what made her so damn perfect to be a leader. I was ready to knock her ass down a peg.

“Viking Princess looks displeased, does she demand a sacrifice to appease her?” Randy teased as he approached, using the rope to play tug a war with the puppy.

“Shut up, Randy.”

“Pissed off, indeed.” He smirked. “What do yah got up your ass this time?”

I glared at him then, the mischief dancing in his light blue green eyes as I wondered how fast I could cut his face to pieces. It wasn’t as if we haven’t fought before, enough to know that I was at a disadvantage…for now. His size and experience in fighting outweighed mine, but I knew I would better him. I would take him the fuck down and see who the fuck was smiling then, with this face bloody in the ground. “Fuck off.”

Raising his brow, he pulled a chair out and straddled it, his eyes shifting to the few members that were doing most of the work. It was one of his fancy days, dressed in a button up and waistcoat. The Chosen always got special treatment, and when you were John’s, you were really special. Being John’s righthand had given us privileges…like not dressing like a fucking homeless person. I preferred a tank top and jeans, it was easier to move in, it was more practical and made more fucking sense to me.

“Y’know…you could just work that shit out, mate. Go punch a tree or something.” My grip on my knife tightened as I stabbed the table again, this time with more force than before. “Ain’t no reason for scarin’ everybody.”

“They can fuck off.” I muttered. It was infuriating. And maybe the problem was that I was stuck here, overlooking low-leveled members when I could have been out there, fighting and bringing people in like I was trained to do. What was the point of being one of the best marksmen in the fucking county when I couldn’t even use it? Or perhaps part of it was because I was itching to fight her. It was only a matter of time before our paths would cross again, and I knew exactly where she would be holed up. After her father died, that’s all she ever fucking did. Visit her father’s memorial at that fucking church.

I couldn’t wait until John gave the order to destroy them.

“They’re taking to fucking long. It’s annoying. And why the fuck are we here when we can be out there?” I spat bitterly, throwing a glare at one a younger guy, his eyes immediately cast down as he hurried past and out of my line of sight. “What’s the fucking point of this bullshit?”

“Supplies are important.” Randy answered as he lightly tossed the rope, Blue quickly running after it. “And we’re Chosen. Not a Priestess, not a hunter—”

“Who would wanna work with Jacob anyway?” I scoffed, my foot pushing against the crate and tilting my chair on the back legs. “Have you fucking been up there? Couldn’t handle the training he gave, can’t imagine workin’ for his ass. I’d scar that face up more than it already is.”

“Easy there, Scarface. You almost became one of his.” He threw me a smirk and I knew he was messing with me, doing what he could to poke and get me riled up. It wouldn’t fucking work though, not this fucking time.

“Almost became one of hers too, but could you fucking imagine? Rainbows and sunshine. Iced teas and fucking brownies. Fuck that shit. I don’t need that fucking overly sweet southern belle trying to make me smile all the damn time. She fucking hugged me last time.”

“Hmm. The Mother’s not so bad.”

“Pretty sure she poisoned Brady and almost got Miss Mable.”

“That a bad thing?” he laughed. “Mable is someone I can live without. You meet Brady? Asshat.”

I rolled my eyes at him and made a face. “She makes my teeth fucking rot. And she’s touchy. I don’t fucking like touchy.”

“But you’ll let Faith braid flowers in your hair.”

Grabbing the nearest glass, I chucked it at his head and watched in frustration as he skillfully dodged it. I didn’t know what I was expecting, it was so fucking him. Perfect fucking Randy, with his beard and muscular frame. His eyes found mine again, his small smile not widening even the slightest before he pulled the rope away from Blue and threw it again. “Fuck. You.”

My hand twitched on the knife that was still protruding from the table, wishing nothing more than to fucking fight someone, to go after Grace or that fucking deputy. Anything but to sit here, watching as everything fucking went on without us. When was the last time we got into a good fight? When was the last time I saw Randy beat someone until his fists ran red? I was tired of being on the sidelines while our people were constantly being attacked, constantly at war. It was bullshit that I was just used to babysit when I could do so much fucking more, I was better than this shit.

My mood only seemed to worsen when the next person came in, her honey blonde hair falling perfectly over her shoulders, her head held high as if she owned the fucking place. I sneered as Holly looked around, her arrogance dripping off of her. Once upon a time we had gotten along a bit, which I suppose for me it just meant I hadn’t threatened to fucking kill her. Randy had defended her, people said, in a bar from her abusive husband. This was when John had been talking to her, slowly convincing her to join us. Which only led to him bailing Randy out that fateful night…and a few years later, we were here. Giving me plenty of time to know that I was tempted to rip her extensions out from time to time.

“She’s sleeping with Johnny again.” Randy sighed as Blue ran back, her front paws on his leg to hold herself up as he pets her, cooing praises.

“Shocker.” I muttered as I dug the knife out roughly. “Probably because poor Holly couldn’t snag her a place next to the Father. She wants a fucking position and thinks being the Baptist’s wife is gonna fall in her lap because she blows him. Fucking Holly.” After giving a quick look around, her eyes fell on us and an overly sweet smile spread across her face. I suddenly longed for the presence of the Mother in comparison.

“Hey, y’all! How yah doin’?”

Fucking Christ.

“Holly.” Randy gave a polite smile in return, a slight nod as he gave attention to the excited puppy tugging on the rope. Satisfied with the attention from him, she looked at me expectantly, her smile becoming tight. My chin tilts, holding my head high as I stared her down, daring her and showing her that I wasn’t playing her fucking game. I wasn’t her friend, I wasn’t gonna cater to her. She wasn’t my fucking Herald, no matter how badly she wanted to be.

“Well hey there, Jane.” She called, finally breaking the silence between us. I moved my feet, allowing my chair to fall back onto the floor on all fours again. Eyeing her up and down, I gently slid my knife back in place. John wouldn’t be too happy if I impulsively stabbed her, and I wasn’t taking any chances. I would behave…for now.

“Surprised to see you out here considering I never see you do any heavy lifting.” I replied, enjoying the way her face turned a bit pink. Pride swelled as I smirked at her.

Finally recovering, she scoffed. “Well, it seems that all your heavy lifting is going just fine.” She offered a pointed look at Randy as she put her hands on her hips as her words dripped with condescension. “You really are Sloth, aren’t you? Just sitting there when you can put those muscles of yours to actual use.”

It happened too fast for her, but I was in her face the next second, making her stumble back in shock as I glared at her. Randy watched quietly and I knew he was trying to tell me to ease up, to not let me be ruled by the pride that felt wounded on his behalf. But I wasn’t going to allow this, not when she owed him. Not when she needed to know her motherfucking place. So, I followed her stumble, taking a menacing step forward as the others stopped to watch.

She was trembling underneath her façade, her eyes wide as she tried to stand strong. It looked pathetic on her, it didn’t fit right on her. Not the way it was with the Heralds, not with Whitney, let alone on of the Chosen. Holly didn’t deserve the entitlement she reeked of. She earned nothing. I sneered in her face, our noses coming close to touching. The creak of his chair tells me he’s tensing, Randy’s own way of reminding me where we are, reminding me that I need to keep it together. I just wanted to claw her fucking eyes out. Just a little bit. Just enough to draw blood, to make her blind, to make understand that I wasn’t someone to fuck with.

“Most of your work is done behind closed doors, Holly. I would say watch your fucking mouth, but I think we’re both well fucking aware of what comes in and out of it.” Her mouth hangs open as she gaps at me like a fucking fish, taken aback by the crude and direct words that I’ve spoken. It makes me want to laugh at her. “Remember who’s in charge here. Last time I checked, we’re the Chosen. Fucking John doesn’t give you power here, don’t even fucking try.”

I wanted her to swing. I wanted her to give me a fucking reason to drop her, I was practically shaking for it. Violence vibrated in my veins, making me run hot. Another creak from his chair as he shifts, a subtle clearing of his throat, and I know I need to walk it off. Perimeter check was probably due, Randy could easily watch over this to make sure everything was in order. Maybe I could work of the frustration. Maybe I would see someone and be able to use my fucking rifle for once.

With one last glance over her, looking down at her, I turn away with the intention of grabbing my gun. I could make Randy pay me back later, giving me his best whiskey at his cabin while we sat around the fire. He fucking owed me for this. Biting my tongue until I was sure I could taste the iron of my own blood. The temptation to spit it in her face is one I have to shove down hard. Her scoff stops me though, makes me listen careful as her nasally voice echoes through the hangar as everyone hold their breath.

“Bitch, you fucking wish you could. You’re just jealous that nobody fucking wants you. Grace didn’t want you, your own husband didn’t fucking want you. Best you can do is this washed-up lumberjack—"

Years of ballet. That’s what it is, and I wouldn’t ever fucking admit that shit to anyone. But that’s how I’m able to turn on my toes so quickly. It’s how I’m able to throw my elbow in her face as swiftly as I do. I didn’t care what anyone fucking said, dancing gave you a fighting advantage. Cardio, flexibility, speed, balance…it was useful in moments like this. She jerked back, her eyes squeezing shut as she tried to process, but I wasn’t giving her the time to. Finishing my turn, I reach out and grab the back of her head with my other hand, quickly slamming her face against the table. I smiled when I hear the satisfying crunch, that’s when I let her go and watch as she slips to the floor on her back. There’s blood from her broken nose and busted mouth, running down her face. Finally.

Her hands cup her nose, covering her face as her scream pierces the air, and even though it’s muffled by her hands, it was enough to carry through the hangar and I’m sure it could have been heard outside. I just hoped that John had decided to keep his damn office windows closed. Randy sighed as he calmed Blue, and I just glared down at her, towering over her with clenched fists. “Let this be a fucking warning to you, Pepper. I do not care to be fucked with, and I fucking dare you to pull that shit again. Because next time?” A humorless laugh escapes my lips as I sneer. "Next time I'll hit you like I mean it." Giving her one more onceover, I turn back and see the others gapping at me, completely shocked and a bit terrified. Good. “What the fuck are you doing? Brother John needs this shit done, get it done!” I snapped, making them scramble and collect themselves as they continued moving supplies in.

Randy follows me instead of staying behind, Blue nipping at the edges of my trenchcoat as we walk, the incident completely forgotten. He gave me a side glance as he crossed his arms. “Johnny boy ain’t gonna like that.”

“John’s judgement is obviously clouded, Randy.” I scoffed. “Someone needs to fix that for him.”

#oc: jane williams #oc: randy miller #x: broken warriors #my ocs #my writing #stay on the path

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theadorablespderman · 5 years

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Everything to love about Far From Home not in this order:

Literally seeing that opening with all our loved avengers that are no more.

Whitney Houston “I will always love you” made me cry because damnit Tony’s face was right THERE! NOT OK!

The blip footage was pretty damn funny not gonna lie.

Peter’s cute ass plan to tell MJ how he feels.

MJ’s favorite flower being a Black Dalia because of the murder. Literally a girl I can relate too. Murderinos for life sister. Idk but it just made her sooo relatable!

The fact that Brad is a kid grown up from the blip and that made him seem all the weirder for MJ.

Jealous Peter was so freaking amazing! Oh my gosh! That face he’d get. I’m a sucker for jealousy and they did it so good.

Making MJ this awesome character she was before but also obviously has this softer layer where she does have flaws and insecurities and she’s really sweet but also so badass. That was amazing.

The starting relationship between Peter and Beck. It was cute and so I was sad knowing that Beck was somehow going to be the villain.

Also let’s talk about how Beck is basically Syndrom from the incredibles.

That scene with Peter and Brad....the pure terror when he snapped that picture

Also seeing how big of a dick Brad is and how unhealthy jealous he was.

“Nick Fury” getting ghosted, showing up in Venice, tranquilising Ned (don’t touch him you monster) and then promptly highjacking Peters Summer trip.

Showing the emotional trama Peter is going through. The anxiety, the greiving. It was very reminiscent of Iron Man 3 when Tony suffers from PTSD after the battle of New York. I loved that they showed Peter reacting as any kid would, many adults too, which is to just try and forget anything happened but being faced with the reality every day. So well done.

Happy and May’s relationship. Enough said 😂😂

I feel cheated we didn’t see Mr delmore again.

Addressing all the problems the Blip/Snap created. High school aging, school, drinking ages, homelessness and housing issues. That’s just the start of it I’m sure but they covered those pretty well and I love that.

The technology that made Beck into Misterio was so well done. Instead of some frankly, kinda far fetched story that he came from an alternate earth (which I was willing to believe but felt it was a cop out in terms of plot and character) they showed the real world issues that superhero’s can create. The Enemies that have a real deep rooted hatred for hero because they’ve personally been betrayed or wronged by them. Because marvel has always made clear, everyone is not on the hero’s side.

Steeping Misterio’s powers in tech which is classing marvel but again, so brilliantly done in this movie. I loved the development. Because at first glance, half way through, I was thinking “wow this is really kinda weird and unexplained and too witchcraft for what marvel usually brings to the superpower backstory” I know it’s weird to say after everything marvel has done. But it seemed just a tad out there without being too hard to grasp. Which again was brilliantly done because that was the whole point.

The nod to Misterio’s helmet even when Beck was in the hologram suit watching everything play out. I guess it was his screen? But I loved the staple of even without his big over the top suit he still had the trademark helmet. Great costume design.

Peter’s soft gazes towards MJ. Nearly gave me a cavity they were so sweet! Ahhh sooo cute

Mr. Harrington’s marital problems nearly made me pee my pants....we all knew here in the fandom that shit like that would half to happen but my god lol

The opera scene was sooo freakin cute and that one step Peter took when he saw Brad move in was so freaking cute and hot!

MJ running after him and finding the critical peice of information to crack the case wide open. Loved it.

Betty and Ned’s Sicily sweet romance that you knew couldn’t possibly last. They really nailed the realistic high school romance. But I still ship it.

The bus scene was epic. And when Peter knocked Flash out...god it was amazing.

Mj obviously having love eyes towards Peter same as he does for her.

THE FACT THAT HE ACTUALLY BOUGHT THAT NECKLACE FOR HER OH MY GOD! I CANT GET A GUY TO TEXT ME BACJ LET ALONE BUY A NECKLACE LIKE THAT WHICH PROBABALY COST A GOOD CHUNK OF CHANGE IT WAS SO FREAKING AMAZING AND CUTE AND TOUCHING.

All the iron man images got me feeling depressed as hell

“are you being serious because I was only like 67% sure?” That was amazing. Seeing MJ get so excited and trying to keep that hidden was awesome

The fact that she was so pleased with herself but also played it hella cool when Ned walked in and she said she figured it out. Literally that is me.

The shirtless Peter trope that we all wanted and freaking got! So freaking cute how she tried to peak at his abs. Like understandable girl.

The fucking illusions. Turning our sweet trusting Peter into a ball of mess. I was too.

God when he had to tell himself it wasn’t real but it still totally feels like it is.

Him trying to save MJ when she’s “thrown off the Eiffel Tower”

Every traumatizing thing Beck shows and tells him during the illusion. So shitty.

Seeing Tony’s grave, seeing iron man come out. That was awful and we all felt it in the movie because we’ve lost him too. We could FEEL that slap same as Peter.

Beck telling Peter that Tony’s death was his fault. I was abouta hurl myself at the movie screen.

Every illusion done in a way that just when you think it’s over, it’s never stopped. You forget what’s real and you feel trapped in it same as Peter does.

WHEN HE GETS HIT BY THE TRAIN!!!!!!!!!! Nearly had a damn heart attack!!!! My mom had to look over and ask if I was ok because I literally stopped breathing for a solid 30 seconds.

Showing gradually just how insane and evil Misterio was.

HAPPY BEING CONCERNED FOR PETER! LIKE SINCERELY AND HONESTLY CONCERNED! It’s good to know he’s got Happy to take care of him and May but that Peter still has a father type figure he can count on after Tony. Because you know Tony wouldn’t have put up with any of that getting hit by a train shit.

Also where the hell was Karen? We missed her. We got Edith but Karen wouldn’t have let Misterio take her over. WHERE WAS KAREN!!

Peter crying and needing to know Happy was real. Broke me heart

That hug between them was so sweet and you can see the concern on Happy’s face

Happy and Peter opening up to each other was so awesome considering their relationship in Homecoming.

ALL THE TONY and PETER PARRELLS! All of them!!!!!!!!! Not the people saying “Spider-Man’s the next Ironman” no the actual hints and glimpses at how similar him and tony actually are. The hologram gauntlet shot, a straight parallel to Iron Man when Tony is building his first real suit. Obviously “Back in Black” by Led Zeplen (formally known as AC/DC) playing. Another obvious hint toward Tony. The Stark sunglasses. Peter falling with the parachute and it literally looks like Ironman with his jet stream behind him from a distance. There’s so much more I’ll do a whole other post on.

Of course: “I love Led Zeplin!” Hahaha it’s such a kid thing to say! I’ve said it before I knew the big differences between AC/DC and Led Zeplin. It was so freaking perfect.

Peter making his suit and Happy’s face. Bittersweet and I live for the affection he holds for Peter now.

The Netherlands Holding cell...must I say more?

Brad’s downfall and MJs amazing comment about him taking pictures of people in the bathroom. Ep-ic. Even flash was like “bro that’s so weird”

Mr. witchcraft was hilarious and I loved his aside with Brad “I’m gonna be the cool teacher and tell you you can’t do that anymore.”

Flash is definately Gay or Bi and I’m so here for it. That wink he makes to Peter proves it.

All the near death truths in the vault of the tower.

MJ BADDASS COMES SWINGING WITH THE MACE AND IT WAS LEGINDARY OH MY GOD! YES GIRL! She’s my idol I love her so much.

Peter and his “Peter Tingle” And while we’re on the subject the banana he gets to the face while packing.

Important. His amazing skills at the end trusting his instincts (which is great because May says in regards to MJ, but it applies to this too) May tells Peter to trust his instincts and don’t think too much. And that’s what he does when he defeats Beck.

The bad ass “you can’t fool me anymore” after redirecting the gun away from his head at the end. Literally was so intense and well done.

Peter and MJ’s kisses! I loved how awkward it was at first and the slightly less awkward one. They really accurately captured the awkwardness of teenagers in love. Like that’s what it’s like guys.

Show me MJ’s parents you cowards, or show me something. Anything. I just want to know the nature of the situation.

Ned and Betty’s breakup. So funny and honestly not surprising at all. But still I ship them.

The hand hold. So cute.

May and Peter still being the cutest aunt and nephew duo there ever was.

I totally thought Peter was going to end with telling the world he was spiderman....BUT SOME OTHER ASSHOLES DID IT FOR HIM AND MADE HIM INTO A VILLAN AND IM PISSED. LOOKING AT YOU MR JAMESON YOU PEICE OF SHIT.

The movie ended and I have no idea what’s next.

Mid credit of MJ swinging through New York. Home girl doesn’t like and neither do I. Looks full on terrifying we don’t blame you hun.

After credit where the skrulls have been playing Maria and Nick fury for the whole movie. Honestly it made more sense because Nick fury seemed just a bit off. ALSO WHERE IS THE REAL NICK FURY at and I’m so psyched to see where this new movies are gonna go!

Alright that all for now folks!!!! Everything about the movie was great!!! I will have to watch again ad see if anything more pops up. Sorry for any spelling errors I’m on my phone.

#peter parker #marvel #spiderman #mcu #michelle jones #spideychelle #spider-man #spider-man: homecoming #avengers #tony stark #ned leeds #spiderman far from home #spider man: far from home #far from home spoilers #spoilers

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after that i ended up in a special ed school and thats when i started listening to rap with dipset and stealing yugioh cards for money and robitussin to get high. when i was 16 i only had a couple good friends and everybody else just avoided me caus they were scared i was going to fight them and one of them steve (who’s 3 years younger than me) had me meet his (at the time) ex gf one day and i ended up getting my thing sucked>.> yea for the first time and then we planned to lose our virginity the next week. she brought her friend and we had a threesome tho my drugs caught up with me because i was on probation for beating somebody up on the bus and i kept getting dirty urines for weed so i went to rehab a couple weeks after

i never really had gfs in highschool other than that, there was only 5 girls in my special ed school, i was friends with most of them but they used me for drugs. i went to community college right after highschool and made friends rapping tho immediately got involved in a small crime ring of stealing video games from stores, selling them to gamestop to make a couple hundred daily as well as smoking a lot more weed (while still on probation for another assault) that didnt catch up with me yet tho when i was 19 this girl sabrina added me on facebook and i really liked her, ended up meeting her at the mall it was a really sweet date(we had fun getting physical😄) she wasn’t like everybody else because she didnt try to be normal. i had court coming up though i ended up smoking pcp for the first time and had a psychotic break where i thought this girl was her (who wasnt) and got arrested for unlawful restraint (i thought she was bugging out and i didnt want to leave until i knew what was wrong). i went to jail and got released to rehab again.

when i got out of rehab i went to outpatient rehab (i was 20 now) and met a woman heather who was 33. we dated and she bought a ring for me 3 months after to propose which i accepted because i was desperate and i thought i loved her though she asked if i was attracted to her and i honestly said only her face and not her body so she broke up with me. after that i started smoking again until i started talking to this girl Haley who lived the city over from me, she said she wanted a brother yet i really started liking her when we talked. this is when i really started realizing i liked younger girls and she ended up admitting she had a bf months after and lied to both of us. (i made a lot of songs about her😔😪){&2020 update about haley: we moved on with our lives and had never met though I talked to her a little on Facebook this year and, thankfully I wasn't as enamored and clingy😪}

there's a couple dozen other girls i dated/talked to between that and then there was bella who heard my music on an old social site called PHEED and i thought she was beautiful so i told her that and we talked. she lived in texas but we had intense convos she was really smart, beautiful, funny and we swore we would be together though i had to go to rehab again(this time inpatient in New London where, I lived in a sober house & got a job after) because i violated probation yet i wanted to test if she’d stay with me so i didnt tell her i went. about 4 months later when i was getting out of rehab i talked to her again and she acted like everything was alright and she had moved to NY as well as gotten a license and really had her life together. she said she loved me and was gonna drive to see me in new london so, I waited an hour for her to come until I talked to her and she said because I "played" her she was playing me so, not coming 😢😞(this was in 2014)

So in 2015 I was clean about a year so, I applied & got accepted for McNally Smith college of music (to major in audio production) in st Paul Minnesota where I Was clean for months until (for some reason I forgot but, probably running around fast) I got kicked out of my weightlifting gym out there so I was upset and, found some people @ a park near downtown st Paul smoking weed which I got in on and, ten weeks later I saw someone with dreads buying a dutch in a bodega so, I asked if he knew where to get weed and: It turned out he was a dealer so I ended up buying lot's of weed and trading for studio time for him to record but, I got caught smoking sometimes in my dorm & because I got in arguments with students and staff at college so, they warned me if I got in ANY fight in or, outside of school I would be expelled & I DID get expelled; probably because of the fight where I sent that guy who hit my head with a brick to the hospital (which drew a LOT of attention and PROBABLY was on the news)

Though they said it was because I got in too many arguments and, smoked too much weed in my dorm...

So I moved back with my grandma later in 2015 where I was until she kicked me out for smoking weed and k2 so, I was homeless In which I slept under a blanket near the library and, behind a church in hamden until, the church let me live in their garage when it became winter so I stayed there until early 2016 where, I moved to a spot in Hamden off the bike trail in the woods where I started with a one person tent until I stole a 8 person tent from Walmart and, uused a shopping cart to carry a bed my friend gave away down the bike trail to my spot and late I stole a propane heater plus propane powered stove so I stole an empty propane can outside of krauzers and I kept paying $20 to get it filled at The car wash up the street so I used it to cook ramen and, oatmeal on my stove and power my heater in the winter and I finally got clean in August 2016 while STILL homeless then completed a course to get into CTWORKS which helped me get nice used suits and an interview g for the job I got at Chipotle in December 2016 while, still homeless 😪 I told them I still lived at my grandmas and took showers at my friend's house until I got a la fitness membership with my first paycheck which was actually through the woods near my tent so, I took showers there EVERY morning & worked out there in addition to, at my tent where I still had a barbell set from my grandmas and, then in the spring of 2017 I applied to and, got a landscaping job I saw on the ctworks job search online so I woke up at 5am EVERY morning with a battery powered alarm clock I stole from Walmart and, caught the first Whitney bus that went downtown at 5:30 and, then I took the next train around 5:45 to go to milford where, the landscaping base is so I ran there when I got to Milford around 6am to get there on time by 6:30-45

So I worked there while I was still homeless and, I got approved for shelter plus Care which some people That lived in the woods near me told me about and, I got my apartment with 2 jobs off the post road behind dunkin donuts in West Haven so, I took The bus up the post road to get to BOTH jobs until, I saw a moped for sale from east haven on Craigslist for$200 in mid spring of 2017 which, I rode to my jobs on until, I got a drivers permit (coincidentally on the day I heard my grandma was dying so, I Went to her house and Watched her die 😥

Then I took drivers ed classes;

Then I started getting driving lessons in late spring 2017 until I learned to drive in a couple months so, I took the drivers test in summer 2017 and, then took motorcycle classes at north haven gateway (where I ran into my dr's receptionist Alexandra ai had a crush on (who I even had written and recorded a song about) then, my mom helped me get my 250 ninja from new Haven power sports so: I drove that to my jobs until my crash on August 6th 2019 which, I don't remember but, I woke up at the residential physical rehab hospital Gaylord where : I leave weekly what happened was I hit an suv on mg way to work, had a right brain stroke & broken pelvic also my left side was paralyzed and got contractures (where my left arm, fingers and left got really curled up and difficult to straighten so I'm still working on walking again 😥

(I'm getting botox injections to help my left side straighten and , I'm able to my left leg and arm though, they're really bent and my fingers are too bent for me to move, use,or, hold anything😪

So now I am living at my aunts waiting to get another apartment through my insurance agency while, I still get votox every 2 months unrtil I hopefully gain control and use of my left side😪 &, the ability to walk again...

I went from being REAL STRONG to, being weak (though I'm ljfting more with my right arm with a dumbbell then I used to!)

Either way: I'm a survivor!

💪🏽😁👍🏼

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coronavirusremediationservices · 4 years

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With no end to the pandemic in sight, coronavirus fatigue grips America

Gabe Rice began sheltering in his suburban Phoenix home with his wife and three youngest children in March. They worked remotely, learned remotely and put social events on hold to hunker down alongside much of the country.

It was challenging and frustrating, but, Rice initially assumed, temporary. It seemed like a plausible plan to help the nation get the pandemic under control within a couple of months.

But Arizona’s economic reopening in May, urged by Gov. Doug Ducey (R), was soon followed by a spike in coronavirus infections in June, which became a terrible surge in hospitalizations and deaths by July.

Then came August, and the devastating realization for many Americans that the pandemic, which has killed at least 159,000 people across the country and sickened more than five million, is far from over.

“It’s difficult when you think you have a light at the other end of the tunnel to look forward to, and then all of a sudden you realize it’s a train,” said Rice, 44, a program coordinator at Arizona State University.

An exhausted, exasperated nation is suffering from the effects of a pandemic that has upended society on a scale and duration without parallel in living memory.

The Rice family and millions of other Americans are wrestling with difficult questions about how to juggle school, pay their bills and look after their mental and physical health.

Parents lie awake, their minds racing with thoughts of how to balance work with their newfound role as home-schoolers. Frontline health workers are bone tired, their nerves frayed by endless shifts and constant encounters with the virus and its victims. Senior citizens have grown weary of isolation. Unemployed workers fret over jobs lost, benefits that are running out, rent payments that are overdue. Minority communities continue to shoulder the disproportionate burden of the contagion’s impact, which in recent weeks has killed an average of about 1,000 people a day.

Buck Horton reopened his club, Wo-de’s Chill Spot, in Harvey, La., only to be forced into a second closure — by the fire marshal’s office, which cited violations of Louisiana’s coronavirus restrictions. Buck Horton reopened his club, Wo-de’s Chill Spot, in Harvey, La., only to be forced into a second closure — by the fire marshal’s office, which cited violations of Louisiana’s coronavirus restrictions. (Emily Kask for The Washington Post) The metaphor of a marathon doesn’t capture the wearisome, confounding, terrifying and yet somehow dull and drab nature of this ordeal for many Americans, who have watched leaders fumble the pandemic response from the start. Marathons have a defined conclusion, but 2020 feels like an endless slog — uphill, in mud.

Recent opinion polls hint at the deepening despair. A Gallup survey in mid-July showed 73 percent of adults viewed the pandemic as growing worse — the highest level of pessimism recorded since Gallup began tracking that assessment in early April. Another Gallup Poll, published Aug. 4, found only 13 percent of adults are satisfied with the way things are going overall in the country, the lowest in nine years.

A July Kaiser Family Foundation poll echoed that, finding that a majority of adults think the worst is yet to come. Fifty-three percent said the crisis has harmed their mental health.

In a podcast released Thursday, former first lady Michelle Obama directly addressed the mental toll, saying she has struggled with the quarantines, the government’s response to the pandemic and the persistent reminders of systemic racism that have led to nationwide protests.

“I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression,” she said.

Historians say that not even the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 675,000 people in the United States, had the same kind of all-encompassing economic, social and cultural impact.

“One of the biggest differences between this virus and [the 1918] influenza is the duration,” said John Barry, author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

With coronavirus, he said, the incubation period is longer, patients with symptoms tend to be sick longer, and many take longer to recover. Barry said leaders did not make sufficiently clear early on the simple epidemiological truth that this would be a painfully drawn-out event.

“Part of the frustration and disappointment and depression, frankly, is because of the expectation that we’d be through this by now,” he said.

President Trump repeatedly promised a quick resolution. He conjured the image of church pews packed by Easter. The White House recommended 15 days of restrictions. That was then extended by 30 days, to the end of April. On Thursday, Trump said a vaccine could be ready by Election Day, Nov. 3 — a date well in advance of what his administration’s own experts think is likely.

But the virus has repeatedly shown that it has its own timetable. The first wave of shutdowns helped reverse the frightening trend lines of March and early April but came nowhere close to crushing the opportunistic pathogen. And now the season of the pandemic is indisputably the year of the pandemic.

“This will be a long, long haul unless virtually everybody — or a very, very high percentage of the population, including the young people — take very seriously the kind of prevention principles that we’ve been talking about,” Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview.

“It is within our power and within our will to really get it down to a level that’s low enough that we can do many of the things that would get our economy going again,” he added. “There will be a long slog if everybody doesn’t pitch in.”

Not everyone is experiencing the same level of stress, and everyone’s pandemic struggles differ. Any “essential” worker exposed to high-risk conditions day after day has more urgent concerns than someone merely stuck at home and missing out on summer barbecues.

In Cadiz, Ky., Stephanie Grant has endured one of the most trying years of her life. The 42-year-old lost her job at the end of April. For more than two months, as she waited for unemployment benefits to kick in, she fell behind on her car payment, utilities, insurance and rent for the apartment she shares with her two teenage daughters.

She drained most of her savings trying to remain afloat. She applied for jobs at gas stations and dollar stores. She pursued becoming a coronavirus contract tracer, but that also didn’t come through.

“I could not get a job anywhere,” she said. “I want to get back out there and work.”

As her stress and her bills mounted, Grant turned to a Kentucky nonprofit focused on housing and homelessness. The group helped her catch up on her rent, and the arrival of her unemployment payments in late July have allowed her to catch her breath. For now.

“Right now, I’m wary. It seems like we are falling apart. The stress, the tensions, everything that’s going on. … People are scared,” she said.

And many people are bored, eager to socialize. In Harvey, La., Marlon “Buck” Horton operates a popular bar, Wo-de’s Chill Spot. But Horton’s bar permit was suspended in late July after complaints about what the state fire marshal described as “a large, non-socially distanced crowd.”

Horton, 39, denied the fire marshal’s report that he served alcohol indoors. He said people simply eager to grab a beer crowded outside, and a passerby posted a video of the gathering on Facebook, leading to the crackdown.

“We’re stuck. We don’t have assistance, and we still have landlords,” Horton said last week. At a hearing soon after, the suspension was lifted when he agreed to pay a fine and abide by the state’s coronavirus rules.

Although some states battered by the virus have made progress against it in recent weeks, it has infiltrated small towns with little previous exposure.

In Mississippi, George County is among eight counties that have been told to delay school reopenings for grades seven to 12 until Aug. 17 because of high rates of virus transmission. Superintendent of Education Wade Whitney realized how serious the pandemic had become locally when a co-worker in an adjacent office became severely ill and was hospitalized for five days.

“When that person catches it, it kind of hits you right between the eyes,” Whitney said. “Small-town George County is not immune.”

That co-worker was Matt Caldwell, the director of operations for the school district and the former head football coach at the high school. Caldwell, a big man who played offensive line for the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the early 1990s, had assumed it would be no big deal if he was infected.

“Boy, was I wrong,” he said. “I definitely underestimated it. I tell everybody I talk to it’s a real thing. Those people who think its just a hoax and all that — I know this, I wouldn’t wish what I went through on anybody.”

Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, has become an oft-quoted expert during the coronavirus pandemic. But she’s also a mother who is dismayed that her son Miles, 7, who should be entering second grade in a Maryland public school, will start the year with online-only instruction.

“I’m absolutely devastated. It’s not learning,” Nuzzo said.

The Washington Nationals host the New York Mets on Aug. 4 in an otherwise empty Nationals Park. The Washington Nationals host the New York Mets on Aug. 4 in an otherwise empty Nationals Park. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) This is not just back-to-school season, it’s also the time when many counties and states hold their annual fairs. Those are being canceled right and left. Professional sports is now back on air, but in most cases without fans in the stadiums and arenas. Major League Baseball is trying to keep its revived season intact after several outbreaks of infection.

And there are the ordinary cancellations so many people have endured — birthdays not celebrated, weddings and funerals carried out over Zoom, trips not taken, loved ones not visited.

Joseph and Kelli Crawford of Gilbert, Ariz., had planned to travel to London in April for their 10th anniversary and for her sister’s 30th birthday. Everything was booked: Flights, lodging, tickets to concerts and plays.

They rescheduled for March 2021. But now they worry that even that might be optimistic.

“I’m crossing my fingers. But I’m also not going to be packing my bags,” said Kelli, 33.

A flight attendant, she also agreed to an 18-month voluntary separation from her work. She’ll keep her health insurance and part of her salary.

But she won’t be bored. All four of the Crawfords’ children, ages 4, 5, 10 and 13, are home. The three oldest have begun remote classes. Their 4-year-old daughter has been aching to start preschool since she saw her older brother do so last year. But there is no virtual preschool, so that plan is on hold.

“It’s one thing for the adults to be lonely,” Kelli said. “But these poor kids, I get so heartbroken about the loneliness they’re experiencing.”

There are glimmers of hope for those staggered by this dire moment: The vaccine development for the novel coronavirus appears to be moving at unprecedented speed. There are promising therapeutics that may lower the mortality rate of those who become severely ill.

The pandemic will someday come to an end, experts promise, because all pandemics have. And though SARS-CoV-2 is a slippery and unpredictable virus, it has not proved as deadly as the 1918 influenza virus that swept across much of the planet.

“In 1918, practically every city in the country ran out of coffins,” Barry said. Victims commonly died at home. “All these things led to much greater fear, which meant that people were also more willing to put up with anything that might help.”

Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan, said that though similarities exist between today’s outbreak and the influenza pandemic a century ago, American society was different at that time.

Americans had experienced epidemics of cholera, diphtheria and other diseases in the not-so-distant past. They were accustomed to children dying of smallpox, whooping cough and other diseases.

Rep. T.S. McMillan, a Democrat from Charleston, S.C., with two flappers, dances the Charleston in Washington in the 1920s. Rep. T.S. McMillan, a Democrat from Charleston, S.C., with two flappers, dances the Charleston in Washington in the 1920s. (Library of Congress) Unlike today, most Americans also had little confidence that a magic bullet would end the suffering and exasperation. “Another expectation of our era is the expectation that science will come up with a fix quickly,” Markel said. “None of us have the patience for lengthy processes. We live in an instant society.”

Still, Markel said, despite the seemingly endless nature of the current situation, history offers reasons for optimism. When the pandemic of 1918-1919 was over, for instance, people rebounded quickly.

“They went out and started dancing the Charleston, buying raccoon coats and buying stocks and bonds,” he said. “It went from zero to 60 in no time flat.”

This crisis, too, will pass.

“No question, epidemic fatigue or pandemic fatigue is real. We are experiencing it,” Markel said. “But throughout human history, there have been terrible pandemics and contagious threats. Every civilization, every nation, has come through to the other side. And we will, too.”

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Here’s another bio for you (sorry it’s so long! I have way too much fun doing this)

Whitney Wilson is an Alpha Wolf Shifter meaning she is right on the edge of being part of the big boys and therefore, should not be taken lightly. That is true also in the way that she’s considered a danger to the public, including other Alphas. When she’s Lady Deadpool, she has no problem announcing her status to the world, but that’s not what makes fear pass through someone when they see her. See, Whitney shows signs that she has gone feral in the past, meaning she has fully shifted into her animal nature and has gone on a rampage. This is true because of Weapon X and the fact that she met a mate there but he died due to an “accident” that day. Her brain was already at its limit but that pushed her over the edge and that made her go feral. The only thing that calmed her down that day was to die and come back. She still has that feral edge to her but she has calmed down and has put that behind her. Now she’s the no nonsense killer that goes by many names including Murderer, Merc with the Mouth, and Feral Mongrel (mostly by her contracts but their opinions don’t matter anyway.)

When Whitney is out of costume, she does what any free lance merc does, she goofs arounds while still being her wild and freeing self. Sometimes, she will get flashbacks to her feralness and sometimes think about it to remind herself not to go back but damage has been done and everyone fears her when they gaze on her. This has caused her to shut down social activity (well, not online for social media) and causes her to be somewhat of a hopeless romantic. No omega or beta wishes to be with a shifter that has gone feral and they worry that she’ll do it again, even though it’s a very low chance.

Her appearance is rugged and mostly consists of walking around in hoodies and sweatpants most times, which sometimes makes her look a bit homeless, when she’s in half shift, her tail and ears seem to lack bits of fur. She tries her best not to show her shift and mostly just hides herself in general, usually wearing some form of fun, half mask and sometimes hats, depending on her mood. Now, in her condition, she should experience some difficulty with skin but she’s gotten used to the discomfort of her rough scarred skin constantly rubbing against fabrics that are very uncomfortable to wear. To put it simply, she doesn’t much care anymore.

*~Bonus if you’re wondering for the necklace and bracelet*~

Whitney thought of this while thinking of her and Penny’s relationship. In the event that they both go full shift and they somewhat loose control or maybe Whitney going feral, they wear the necklace so that when they go full shift, people they know or for each other that they are them. Whitney used to havea necklace but it snapped when she goes full shift (she’s bigger than an average wolf) so they agreed upon a bracelet for Whitney and Penny’s necklace is a swirling heart. They also wear it because they are such sentimental saps and they just need each other.

#spideypool #lady deadpool #whitney wilson #shifterverse #wolf shifter #au #Penny hug Whitney!

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"We've Got Nowhere To Live!"

Tuesday 14th April 2020

Hello again folks! As promised here is the blog reviewing last night's episode. Firstly, I just want to say thank you to all for you being so patient with me, I know I've been a bit behind with recent posts. I promise you, I will get back on track next week. Wow! What a powerful episode it was last night, dont you think? There's a lot to follow up on, let's get stuck in!

Let's start with Tommy and Kush, it looks as if our speculations were correct. Poor Tommy is getting bullied. It seems that he's become a little slow in school and some of the children have noticed and started making fun of him and calling him names. When he was telling Kush the names he's been called, it was so sad! The poor lad ... I wonder how long this has been going on? Will that come to light in later episodes? But like I mentioned in yesterday's post, little Tommy has had a lot to deal with in his young life and now he's having to confide in Kush about him being bullied in school. But what is Kush going to do with this information? He's been sworn to secrecy, so he can't tell Jean or Kat ... he could tell Mo, but I do have a feeling that Tommy will ask him not to tell her either. Is this going to be something Kush has to cope with by himself, or could he potentially ask Martin for a bit of help? Martin is a close nit to the family and could very well help as he's had his own experiences with Bex. It's an interesting story-line and it could go in many different directions. Could Tommy even possibly refuse to go to school if the bullying starts to escalate? It's a sad story-line to cover, but bullying is something that happens every single day in all aspects of life. It's an important thing to talk about and every time EastEnders bring up the issue of bullying, it makes me realise how amazing the soap is and how much it provides people with support, if ever something is happening to you that the soap is reflecting, please seek help and talk to someone!

Next, shall we talk about Shirley and Phil? Does anyone else think that Shirley still has a thing for Phil? I think she always has and might always will, they make a brilliant partnership. But ever since they're split, they've always remained very close. I noticed when Phil was telling her he's trying to get back with Sharon, Shirley bowed her head. It's true Sharon and Shirley have never seen eye to eye as they've both fallen for the same man, but after what happened with Dennis, Shirley has shown a softer side towards Sharon and even offered her support to the grieving mother. As soon as the fans were made aware that the Vic was going to be put up for sale, there has been speculation as to who the new owners would be, I for one, always thought it would be Sharon, and it looks as if it very may be looking that way! Shirley mentioned that one of the ways for Phil to make it up to Sharon, would be to buy her the Queen Vic. Sharon does love the Vic, it's always been known! It's one of the places that holds so many memories for her, good and bad. Will Phil take it upon himself to buy the Vic for her? Could it be a chance for them to create a new start? Will Sharon even accept Phil's offer? Who knows? But whatever the outcome, I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for the Queen Vic!

Right, am I seeing things or something about to happen between Grey and Whitney?! I could be jumping the gun here, but did anyone else see the look on Whitney's face after Grey stood up to Michaela in her defence? Even though Grey is Whitney's attorney, I'm guessing he probably shouldn't have confronted Michaela in the way he did, a little of his mean streak (That Chantelle only knows well) was slightly exposed. Didn't anyone else feel that way? I mean, Whitney just might've thought he was doing his job in protecting her, but I'm sure, it's not going to help her case. But from the look on her face, she may start having a thing for Grey, which, in the long run, may be a terrible idea. She'd be betraying Chantelle, her best friend, and then also it would mean Grey cheating on his wife. I know it was just rumour to begin with, but after that episode, i'm more convinced now that something is going to happen between the two, we'll just have to wait and see!

I'm really interested in what dark secrets the Panesar family are hiding. What happened in their past for them to be so violent and yet also so carefree? I'm sure there's something more to them, especially Ash. We saw another side to Ash that hasn't been shown before ... a little bit of controlling and then also she showed no fear when Vinny attacked the fella at the party for being homophobic towards his sister. When Ash kept saying "It's what we do!" to Iqra ... like it's part of their normal life, alarm bells started ringing! They have clearly not led a normal life, they have obviously experienced some dark moments in their past and I, for one, am really looking forward to finding out what they may be. I'm looking forward to seeing their dark past being revealed. Is Iqra going to be in danger for getting involved with Ash? Is Suki maybe the one who's been behind it all from the beginning, could she have been the one who has brought this kind of lifestyle to her kids lives? It's a very interesting family dynamic that's for sure. Who else feels the same? Is Ash going to reveal a dark side to her that we haven't seen before and will it be because of something that happened in her past?

I also have a feeling that Jack is going to find himself in a very difficult position! He's a proud man who takes his job seriously, but also will stand by his family no matter what. Now, with Keegan being mistreated by police and being blamed for something he didn't do. Will Jack be forced to either support the police in their decisions, or to fight and prove Keegan is innocent? It's a tough one he'll have to face, but I hope he'll make the right decision. I feel so sorry for Tiffany and Keegan right now, things just haven't gone right for the young couple since they've got married, it all seems to have gone from bad to worse. I thought the scene where Keegan was getting prepared to be put in a cell was very powerful, the voice over, him taking his jewellery and clothes off and then the mug shot! It's way a very powerful show of events. I do have a thought though, do the police really have it in for Keegan or has it always been a case of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time? As they said, he has history of mild offences since the age of 14, but even so, Keegan has always wanted to better himself and things just haven't been going well for him at all, far from it! As soon as there's a little bit of light ahead, a dark cloud just blows rains on his parade. Will Jack be able to help his Nephew-In-Law and prove he's innocent, or could the evidence the police already have be too much? To make matters worse, without Keegan being out on bail, the young couple now face the fact that they could end up living on the streets after being evicted! Now, I don't think Karen would ever see her children living on the streets and neither would Jack or Sonia ... so, Tiffany and Keegan may have to depend on their family in finding them a place to stay, but if worse comes to the worse and they sadly can't spare any room for them both, Tiffany and Keegan could find themselves being homeless. Now, it may not come to that, but I do think it would be a very interesting path for the soap to take ... a young couple living on the streets? Homelessness happens in many different ways, sometimes it's unfortunate and people can't keep up with their rent and find themselves being chucked out of their homes. It's a sad and difficult situation to be in and I feel it's still an important story to show as it still happens in every day life! I do really feel sorry for Tiffany and Keegan, we just want them to be happy right? But, happiness may not be in store for them for a very long time?

I hope you've enjoyed reading my blog, I apologise once again that's a little late. Sadly, that's all we have for this week, but I'll be back again next Monday following up next week's episodes! Enjoy the rest of your week and keep yourself safe! There's got to be light at the end of this isolation tunnel right? Look after yourself, and if you ever want to leave me message about your thoughts and opinions of any of the current story-lines, i'd love to hear them and I'll always respond! Thank you everyone xXx

#eastenders #tiffanybutcher #keeganbaker #ashpanesar #iqraahmed #whitneydean #kushkazemi #tommymoon #philmitchell #sharonmitchell #shirleycarter #grayatkins

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