#baby dorman

[jamestown-base]

The ultimate selfship problem is looking up your F/Os tag and just seeing shit about their actor.

[plastyi]

As I had promised, my Nuzi fankid for my Murder-cons Au, meet Niz-Dorman, a female Autobot with happy emotions just like her father N, but definitely not the height from her mother Uzi :D, the pill baby has nothing to do with the lore and I just put it there for fun, height comparison included

[ukrfeminism]

5 minute read

Thousands of protesters marched through central London (Saturday) afternoon as they demanded Carla Foster to be freed from jail, after her sentencing earlier this week reignited calls for abortion to be decriminalised.

Ms Foster was given a 28-month extended sentence on Monday after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion during the pandemic when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.

Protesters marched from the Royal Courts of Justice to Whitehall today chanting “Free Carla Foster” and waving signs saying “abortion is healthcare”.

They called for an end to Victorian legislation that renders abortion a criminal act in England, Scotland and Wales, with women granted exemptions in certain circumstances up until 24 weeks of pregnancy.

There are seven exemptions that can be granted to allow a woman to have an abortion, but none stating that a woman simply does not want a baby. For 98 per cent of women who had an abortion last year, it was recorded as being “performed because of a risk to the woman’s mental health”, classified as “F99 (mental disorder, not otherwise specified)”.

Under current legislation, abortions can only take place after 24 weeks in specific circumstances including when the mother’s life is at risk or if the child will be severely disabled.

Labour MP Stella Creasy delivered a speech to protesters who gathered in Whitehall this afternoon, claiming that current abortion legislation is no longer “fit for purpose”.

“This week proves what some of us have been trying to tell, often at length, patiently, to middle-aged men on Twitter,” she said.

“We do not have a legal right to choose in England and Wales, and that has very real consequences.”

She later told i that the significant turnout to the march “shows women aren’t prepared to accept to the possibility of prosecution hanging over their right to choose”.

“Lawmakers who think they can ignore these concerns fail to understand how important protecting a womans right to choose is to so many,” she said. “Parliament has to act as with more prosecutions on the way this issue isn’t going away.”

Lucy Wing, a 21-year-old from Walthamstow in London who attended the march, said she was “outraged” at Ms Foster’s case.

“I am here because I do not believe that the law that Carla Foster was sentenced under was at all just,” she said.

“A legal understanding of what a person is does not encompass a foetus and it does not encompass a child that was born not breathing. That child does not have any human rights because it is not seen as a person.”

Ms Foster was jailed earlier this week after being found to have ended her pregnancy in May 2020 with “pills by post” that allowed women under 10 weeks pregnant to receive abortion medication during the first Covid lockdown, when access to health services ground to a halt.

The “pills by post” scheme, which was intended to be a temporary measure ushered in during the pandemic, has now been introduced permanently.

Ms Foster, a mother-of-three, pleaded guilty to administering drugs to procure abortion significantly beyond the 10-week time limit, contrary to the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. The offence carried a maximum life sentence.

The judge, Mr Justice Pepperall, had received a letter from medical bodies including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives urging him to pass a non-custodial sentence.

However, he said this was “inappropriate” and sentenced the woman on the basis of the law as it stands.

The case has reignited calls to decriminalise abortion in the UK, with charities launching a fresh campaign to reform “outdated” laws that allow woman to face life imprisonment for ending their own pregnancies. 

Ed Dorman, 64, an obstetrician and gynaecologist who also attended the march, said that Ms Foster’s case had “galvanised” the abortion movement and drawn attention to the punity of current laws. 

“As you can tell from today, it has galvanised a lot of very strong feeling about the inappropriateness of the way the law, if it’s applied, can result in somebody being sent to prison for ending their own pregnancy,” he said. 

“I would like to see, as in Northern Ireland, the whole remit of abortion care being taken out of the criminal law and, whilst still regulated, be like any other part of healthcare.”

Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in October 2019 after Westminster passed laws while the government at Stormont had collapsed.

However, abortion is still technically illegal in the rest of the UK as legislation brought into force in 1861 has not yet been repealed.

No 10 said earlier this week that the Government has no plans to alter abortion laws despite outrage over Ms Foster’s sentencing. 

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said on Tuesday: “Through the Abortion Act, all women have access to safe abortions on the NHS up to 24 weeks and we have made changes so that now includes taking abortion pills at home.

“We think this approach provides the right balance and … there are no plans to change this.”

The spokesman added: “We recognise that this is a highly emotive issue and obviously we recognise that the strength of feeling on all sides.”

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

SPOILER FOR THE ONE PIECE MANGA AND ANIME

Ok, so something about the very first scene of the One Piece live action is irking me a bit.

Shanks was an apprentice on the Oro Jackson, Gold Roger's ship (together with Buggy). Also, he was taken in by the King of the Pirates when he was one year old, Roger having found him inside a chest floating near his ship (which mirrors Shanks' meeting with his own daughter, Uta).

Roger has known Shanks since he was a baby. Shanks has known Roger since he can remember. Roger was the one who gave Shanks his own straw hat, that Shanks wore since he was no more than nine, and who probably taught him what it meant to be a pirate, and a good captain. I bet the main reason why Shanks wants to find the One Piece is because he wants to prove he is worthy of his old captain's legacy.

Ok, maybe I'm reading too much into this because Shanks is my favourite One Piece character, but what cannot be denied is that Roger was very important for Shanks, and played a role in shaping Shanks into the man he is today.

(One who knows children do not belong on pirate ships, but still.)

And we are supposed to believe THIS

is the face Shanks makes at his captain's execution? At the death of the man who was probably his model and perhaps, even a father figure for him?

This guy looks uninterested, even a little bored, as if the matter didn't really concern him and he had been simply curious to see an infamous person die. Why does he not seem at least upset, and saddened? Why is Buggy not with him, since by then they were friends and fellow apprentices?

Conversely, this is how the anime shows Shanks (and Buggy) at Roger's execution.

Quite a difference, right? It is true that these scenes are shown much later than the part of the story adapted in the live action, and at this point Luffy has no idea Shanks had been part of Roger's crew, but still... I think that blank, only half-interested look is a disservice to the character.

I love 99% of how the live action adapted the manga/anime, and I think this first scene did a very good job of setting the tone and explaining Roger's story and importance. I like the performance of the two actors - Michael Dorman's fearlessness in the face of death and joy in seeing his message inspire new pirates to take to the sea, Vincent Regan's bewilderment and alarm as he realizes that, hoping to make an example of Roger and discourage others from following in his footsteps, he ended up with the opposite effect.

I just think Shanks needed to be shown with a different reaction - crying his eyes out, and with Buggy by his side, possibly. That's all.

[biosurvive]

random documented death island thoughts under the cut!

First of all, as a whole I enjoyed it, it was a campy mess and I'm always down to clown with that. I also enjoyed seeing all five of those characters together, I love them.

My biggest issues? The implications that Jill doesn't know who Piers was. The idea that Jill didn't know the man Chris was partnered with for YEARS is INSANE to me and I refuse to acknowledge that. Jill is his person, he talks to her about everything and she would have known Piers.

I also am not too fond of Chris having to explain sacrifice to Jill when she tackled Wesker out a window to save him. Though I'm also not too upset about it, because Chris loves to get on his soapbox about speeches so that is pretty IC for him. He's dense at times, we allow this.

The fact that they mentioned Piers at all has my heart SOARING. it wasn't a lot, but the sad music in the bg and Kevin Dorman's voice acting just makes me even more positive that Chris is queer.

Rebecca and Claire's moments were lowkey my favorite part? Love them.

Chris and Claire did seem a little... stifled together. I blame it on the writing, but there were parts of them that I loved. Chris calling her name when they were in the cells, his hand on her back when they both got infected. Those are my Redfield siblings and I love any and all interactions with them no matter how awkward.

The main villain was so gay for that one soldier he had to kill. "Friend" Yeah right FIUYDHJKF

Jill was spicy, glad she got a lot of moments to shine and I hope this is a sign she'll be the main protagonist of the next game.

Hearing classic Hunnigan was a nice touch.

Maria Gomez is camp and I need her in Marvel vs Capcom 5

Chris was looking REAL SUPER THICC in this movie and I appreciate that. Love my big boy.

CHRIS AND JILL'S FIST BUMP AT THE END MADE ANYTHING THAT SUCKED ABOUT THIS MOVIE WORTH IT. Further cementing that these two are BEST FRIENDS, PLATONIC SOULMATES, PARTNERS. I will never hear anything else about it, the love they have for one another is real and it is not romantic.

Anyways, RE9 is gonna be about Jill and Sheva taking down the BSAA with Chris as support and Chris is gonna find Piers in a lab and he's gonna retire with him and help train Baby Rose and he'll live happily ever after. Thanks!

Also Chris and Leon putting that gun together was both camp and hilarious. I think they fucked after this movie.

Funniest part was Claire's very angry "WHAT?!" when Leon called her name over the battle. She sounded so done with today UYSGHFJ she's so real.

Dylan just posting a call out post about Leon/Chris/Claire/Jill but verbally is really funny. He really got their asses huh UHYDGFJK

[tbthqs]

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[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023

I struggled with the idea that I need to keep up with everything new, when it's evident that I don't want to. Movies are easy thanks to subscription services like A-List (and a pathological need to get out of the house), but I was consistently happy to dwell in the past for reading and video games.

So I think I'll be more chill about fiction this year. Just follow what feels right.

Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

2023: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Short Stories, Chapters, Excerpts

Jan - "Psalms" (1-100) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jan - "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Mothers" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Especially Heinous" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Eight Bites" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The Resident" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Difficult At Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The First Peer" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (2010)

Jan - "Reservoir Ferengi" by David McIntee (2010)

Jan - "The Slow Knife" by James Swallow (2010)

Jan - "The Unhappy Ones" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2010)

Jan - "Freedom Angst" by Britta Burdett Dennison (2010)

Jan - "Revenant" by Marc D. Giller (2010)

Jan - "Work Is Hard" by Greg Cox (2010)

Feb - "Psalms" (101-150) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Proverbs" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Ecclesiastes" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "WPO" by Joanne McNeil (2022)

Mar - "Flesh" by Louis Evans (2022)

Mar - "Devolution" by Ellen Ullman (2022)

Mar - "Always Home" by Jeff Vandermeer (2022)

Apr - "Canticle of Canticles" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Apr - "Wisdom" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

May - "Ecclesiasticus" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jun - "Isaias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jul - "Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "Lamentations of Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Aug - "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Aug - "The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore (1934)

Aug - "Space Episode" by Leslie Perri (1941)

Aug - "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948)

Aug - "In Hiding" by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Aug - "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Aug - "The Inhabited Men" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

Aug - "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Aug - "All Cats Are Gray" by Andrew North (1953)

Aug - "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Aug - "Mr. Sakrison’s Halt" by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Aug - "All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett (1957)

Aug - "Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

Aug - "Car Pool" by Rosel George Brown (1959)

Aug - "For Sale, Reasonable" by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Aug - "Birth of a Gardener" by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

Aug - "The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser (1961)

Aug - "The New You" by Kit Reed (1962)

Aug - "Another Rib" by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Aug - "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Aug - "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

Aug - "The Barbarian" by Joanna Russ (1968)

Aug - "The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Aug - "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Sep - "Baruch" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Oct - "Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

Oct - "The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

Oct - "The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

Oct - "The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

Oct - "CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

Oct - "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

Oct - "The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

Oct - "The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

Oct - "The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

Oct - "The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

Oct - "The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

Oct - "The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

Oct - "Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

Oct - "Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

Oct - "Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. (2020)

Oct - "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

Oct - "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Oct - "The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

Oct - "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

Oct - "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

Oct - "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

Oct - "Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

Oct - "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

Oct - "The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

Oct - "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

Oct - "The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

Oct - "The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

Oct - "The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

Oct - "The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

Oct - "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

Oct - "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Dec - "Ezekiel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Dec - "Daniel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Audio Shorts

Jan - "The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber for NPR's Selected Shorts (2009, 2023)

Jan - "Paradise" by Yxta Maya Murray, performed by Tanis Parenteau for NPR's Selected Shorts (2020, 2023)

Oct - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Novels & Novellas

Jan - Honor in the Night by Scott Pearson (2010)

Feb - Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang (2001)

Mar - Demons of Air and Darkness by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)

Mar - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)

Apr - Horn and Ivory by Keith R. A. DeCandido (2001)

Apr - Return to HorrorLand by R.L. Stine (1999)

May - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (2022)

Aug - Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Aug - Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Creature Teacher by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 1 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 2 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - I'm Your Evil Twin! by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Revenge R Us by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Fright Camp by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Headless Halloween by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Brain Juice by R.L. Stine (1998)

Dec - Revenant by Alex White (2021)

Dec - Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2023)

Dec - The Men by Sandra Newman (2023)

Dec - Aftermath by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)

Dec - Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine (1999)

Gamebooks

Jan - Trapped in Bat Wing Hall by R.L. Stine (1995)

Jul - The Abominable Snowman by R. A. Montgomery (1982)

Aug - Tick Tock, You're Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Sep - The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Night in Werewolf Woods by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter by R.L. Stine (1996)

Plays

Jan - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (1595, 2013)

Poems

Jan - "Comet as Paperboy" by Samantha Blysse Haviland (2022)

Jan - "The Art of Negotiation" by Meghan Privitello (2016)

Apr - "A Boat" by Richard Brautigan (1968)

May - "Idaho" by Dobby Gibson (2005)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

Jan - "Forest Spirits" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "Forest Spirits 2" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "With Sympathy" by Oglaf Comics (2017)

Jan - "it went like this" by chaumas-deactivated20230115 (2023)

Feb - "The Hole in the Wall" by Angela Hsieh (2022)

Mar - "It hurt, but i don't regret it" by miggs perez (2023)

Mar - "Heaven, Heaven, Angel, Angel" by NoneToon (2023)

Mar - "A poem" by oddlyunadventurous (2023)

Apr - "Halt" by spiralshells (2023)

Apr - "Broomistega & Thrinaxodon" by Erin Roseberry (2023)

Jun - "A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road" by Iguanadon't (2016)

Jul - "My Local Gas Station" by Ink (2018)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max - "Mighty Max and the Grand Slam" by Robert Hudnut, Gary Hartle, Brett Koth, David C. Weiss, and Phil Roman (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Lashes Lizard" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Traps Rattus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Squishes Fly" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Stings Scorpion" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes the Hand" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Survives Corpus" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Against Robot Invader" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes Talon" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Rams Hydron" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Strikes Fang" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "La-Mulana" by KC Green (2023)

Aug - "Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue" by ossian (2019)

Sep - "Hotline Miami" by KC Green (2023)

Sep - "I was told by my doctor that this'll completely compensate my human meat diet" by scribblingchimp (2023)

Oct - "Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

Oct - "The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

Oct - "Do You Know… the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Oct - "Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

Oct - "For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

Oct - "Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

Oct - "Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

Oct - "The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

Oct - "Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

Oct - "A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

Oct - "The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

Oct - "The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

Oct - "Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

Oct - "Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

Oct - "The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

Oct - "Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

Oct - "Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

Oct - "Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

Oct - "Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

Oct - "Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

Oct - "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

Oct - "A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

Oct - "The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

Oct - "Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

Oct - "The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

Oct - "The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

Oct - "The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

Oct - "Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

Oct - "Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

Oct - "The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

Oct - "Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Dec - "> THE JESTER" by Margaut Shorjian (2023)

Graphic Novels & Collections

Jan - Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium - Volume One (2013)

Mar - Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vector (2000)

Betas & Demos

Jan - "Full Void Demo" dev. OutOfTheBit (2023)

Video & Electronic Games

Jan - Thunderbirds dev. Saffire (2004)

Feb - Men in Black: The Game dev. Gigawatt Studios & The Collective (1998)

Feb - The Game of Life dev. Mass Media & The Collective (1998)

Mar - Hack 'n' Slash dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Mar - God of War dev. Santa Monica Studio (2018)

Mar - Buffy the Vampire Slayer dev. The Collective (2002)

Apr - Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb dev. The Collective (2003)

Apr - Bartman: Avenger of Evil dev. Acclaim Entertainment (1991)

Apr - The X-Files: Resist or Serve dev. Black Ops Entertainment & The Collective (2004)

May - Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis dev. Acclaim (1990)

May - Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dev. The Collective (2005)

May - Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure dev. The Collective (2006)

May - The Adventures of Mouth Man dev. Retrocade Media (2023)

Jun - Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Jul - Mighty Max dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max dev. WJS Design (1995)

Oct - Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Oct - Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Oct - Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

Oct - D dev. Warp (1995)

Oct - Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Oct - Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Oct - Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Dec - The Simpsons: Bart vs. Homersaurus dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Short Films

Jan - "bugs" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Jan - "enter initials" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Feb - "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" dir. Lachlan Pendragon (2022)

Feb - "The Flying Sailor" dir. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (2022)

Feb - "Ice Merchants" dir. João Gonzalez (2022)

Feb - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" dir. Peter Baynton & Charlie Mackesy (2022)

Feb - "My Year of Dicks" dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir (2022)

Feb - "Ivalu" dir. Anders Walter & Pipaluk K. Jørgensen (2022)

Feb - "Night Ride (Nattrikken)" dir. Eirik Tveiten (2020)

Feb - "Le Pupille" dir. Alice Rohrwacher (2022)

Feb - "The Red Suitcase" dir. Cyrus Neshvad (2022)

Feb - "An Irish Goodbye" dir. Tom Berkeley & Ross White (2022)

Apr - "The Greatest Living Show" dir. Toby Fox & Itoki Hana (2023)

Jun - "Wolf in sheep's clothing" dir. Yea An (2023)

Jun - "War of Colors" dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

Jun - "Double King" dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

Jun - "How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended" dir. HISHE (2016)

Jul - "What It Feels Like to Live as an Immortal?" dir. LazyOwl Studio (2022)

Sep - "Carl's Date" dir. Bob Peterson (2023)

Movies Jan-Jun

Jan - Avatar: The Way of Water dir. James Cameron (2022)

Jan - Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (2022)

Jan - Thunderbirds dir. Jonathan Frakes (2004)

Jan - M3GAN dir. Gerard Johnstone (2023)

Jan - Corsage dir. Marie Kreutzer (2022)

Jan - Broker dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)

Jan - Skinamarink dir. Kyle Edward Ball (2022)

Jan - Plane dir. Jean-François Richet (2023)

Jan - Missing dir. Will Merrick & Nick Johnson (2023)

Jan - That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi (2023)

Jan - A Man Called Otto dir. Marc Forster (2023)

Jan - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dir. Joel Crawford (2022)

Jan - Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (2022)

Feb - Groundhog Day dir. Harold Ramis (1993)

Feb - Infinity Pool dir. Brandon Cronenberg (2023)

Feb - 80 for Brady dir. Kyle Marvin (2023)

Feb - Magic Mike dir. Steven Soderbergh (2012)

Feb - Living dir. Oliver Hermanus (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike XXL dir. Gregory Jacobs (2015)

Feb - She Came from the Woods dir. Erik Bloomquist (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike's Last Dance dir. Steven Soderbergh (2023)

Feb - Knock at the Cabin dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2023)

Feb - Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night dir. Ayako Kono (2023)

Feb - Consecration dir. Christopher Smith (2023)

Feb - Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey dir. Rhys Waterfield (2023)

Feb - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dir. Peyton Reed (2023)

Feb - Johnny Mnemonic dir. Robert Longo (1995)

Feb - Virtuosity dir. Brett Leonard (1995)

Feb - Jesus Revolution dir. Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle (2023)

Feb - Cocaine Bear dir. Elizabeth Banks (2023)

Feb - Gattaca dir. Andrew Niccol (1997)

Feb - Strange Days dir. Kathryn Bigelow (1995)

Feb - Kissed dir. Lynne Stopkewich (1996)

Feb - Richard III dir. Richard Loncraine (1995)

Feb - Eye for an Eye dir. John Schlesinger (1996)

Mar - Creed III dir. Michael B. Jordan (2023)

Mar - Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre dir. Guy Ritchie (2023)

Mar - RRR dir. S. S. Rajamouli (2022)

Mar - The Lawnmower Man dir. Brett Leonard (1992)

Mar - Scream VI dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (2023)

Mar - 65 dir. Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (2023)

Mar - Shazam! Fury of the Gods dir. David F. Sandberg (2023)

Apr - A Good Person dir. Zach Braff (2023)

Apr - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (2023)

Apr - The Super Mario Bros. Movie dir. Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic (2023)

Apr - Air dir. Ben Affleck (2023)

Apr - John Wick: Chapter 4 dir. Chad Stahelski (2023)

Apr - Suzume dir. Makoto Shinkai (2023)

Apr - Mafia Mamma dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2023)

Apr - Renfield dir. Chris McKay (2023)

Apr - The Pope's Exorcist dir. Julius Avery (2023)

Apr - Beau Is Afraid dir. Ari Aster (2023)

May - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir. James Gunn (2023)

May - Polite Society dir. Nida Manzoor (2023)

May - Born to Fly dir. Liu Xiaoshi (2023)

May - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2023)

May - Fool's Paradise dir. Charlie Day (2023)

May - Hypnotic dir. Robert Rodriguez (2023)

May - Evil Dead Rise dir. Lee Cronin (2023)

May - Master Gardener dir. Paul Schrader (2023)

May - Sisu dir. Jalmari Helander (2023)

May - Fast X dir. Louis Leterrier (2023)

May - The Wrath of Becky dir. Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote (2023)

May - Kandahar dir. Ric Roman Waugh (2023)

Jun - The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Jun - The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

Jun - Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Jun - We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Jun - The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

Jun - The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Jun - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Jun - The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Jun - The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

Jun - Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Jun - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Jun - Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Jun - A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Jun - The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Jun - No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

Jun - Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Jun - The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Jun - Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Jun - Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Jun - God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

Jun - 1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Jun - The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Jun - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

Movies Jul-Dec

Jul - Metropolis dir. Rintaro (2001)

Jul - Insidious: The Red Door dir. Patrick Wilson (2023)

Jul - Joy Ride dir. Adele Lim (2023)

Jul - Lost In the Stars dir. Cui Rui & Liu Xiang (2023)

Jul - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2023)

Jul - The Miracle Club dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan (2023)

Jul - Shadows dir. Glenn Chan (2023)

Jul - Barbie dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)

Jul - Oppenheimer dir. Christopher Nolan (2023)

Jul - Haunted Mansion dir. Justin Simien (2023)

Jul - Talk to Me dir. Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou (2023)

Aug - Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

Aug - Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

Aug - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

Aug - Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Aug - Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

Aug - The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

Aug - Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Aug - Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

Aug - Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Aug - Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

Aug - birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Aug - Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

Aug - Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Aug - The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Aug - Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

Aug - To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

Sep - The Equalizer 3 dir. Antoine Fuqua (2023)

Sep - Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman (2023)

Sep - Elemental dir. Peter Sohn (2023)

Sep - They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988)

Sep - Jawan dir. Atlee (2023)

Sep - Christine dir. John Carpenter (1983)

Sep - The LEGO Movie dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2014)

Sep - Outlaw Johnny Black dir. Michael Jai White (2023)

Sep - Satanic Hispanics dir. Alejandro Brugués , Mike Mendez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez, Demián Rugna (2023)

Sep - Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg (2022)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight dir. Ernest Dickerson (1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood dir. Gilbert Adler (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual dir. Avi Nesher (2002)

Sep - Vault of Horror dir. Freddie Francis (1973)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt dir. Freddie Francis (1972)

Sep - The Origin of Evil dir. Sébastien Marnier (2023)

Sep - The Expendables 4 dir. Scott Waugh (2023)

Sep - The Creator dir. Gareth Edwards (2023)

Oct - It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

Oct - The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Oct - Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Oct - Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Oct - Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

Oct - The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

Oct - The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

Oct - House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

Oct - The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

Oct - The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Oct - Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

Oct - The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Oct - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

Oct - A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Oct - Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

Oct - A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

Oct - The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Oct - Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Oct - Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Oct - Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Oct - Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

Oct - The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Oct - Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Oct - Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

Oct - The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Oct - Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Oct - Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

Oct - The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

Oct - The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Oct - Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Oct - Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Nov - A Million Miles Away dir. Alejandra Marquez Abella (2023)

Nov - Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet (2023)

Nov - Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (2023)

Nov- Five Nights at Freddy's dir. Gil Kenan (2023)

Nov - The Marsh King's Daughter dir. Neil Burger (2023)

Nov - It's a Wonderful Knife dir. Tyler MacIntyre (2023)

Nov - The Marvels dir. Nia DaCosta (2023)

Nov - Freelance dir. Pierre Morel (2023)

Nov - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes dir. Francis Lawrence (2023)

Nov - Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (2023)

Nov - The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne (2023)

Nov - Priscilla dir. Sofia Coppola (2023)

Nov - Thanksgiving dir. Eli Roth (2023)

Nov - Napoleon dir. Ridley Scott (2023)

Nov - The Persian Version dir. Maryam Keshavarz (2023)

Nov - Wish dir. Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn (2023)

Dec - Dream Scenario dir. Kristoffer Borgli (2023)

Dec - Godzilla Minus One dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2023)

Dec - The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2023)

Dec - The Abyss dir. James Cameron (1989)

Dec - Eileen dir. William Oldroyd (2023)

Dec - A Christmas Story dir. Bob Clark (1983)

Dec - Wonka dir. Paul King (2023)

Dec - Monster dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

Dec - Leave the World Behind dir. Sam Esmail (2023)

Dec - The Polar Express dir. Robert Zemeckis (2004)

Dec - The Muppet Christmas Carol dir. Brian Henson (1992)

Dec - Velvet Buzzsaw dir. Dan Gilroy (2019)

Episodes

Jan - Thunderbirds - "Trapped In The Sky" (1965)

May - Well ABRIDGE Me, Princess! - "Well, Excuuuuse Me, Princess and the Frog" (2023)

Jun - The Simpsons - "My Mother the Car Jacker" (2003)

Jun - The Simpsons - "The President Wore Pearls" (2003)

Jun - Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates - "The Coldest Cut of All" (1990)

Oct - Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

Oct - The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part One" (2016)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part Two" (2016)

Dec - The Crown - "Ipatiev House" (2022)

Dec - The Crown - "No Woman's Land" (2022)

Dec - The Outer Limits - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)

Dec - Night Gallery - "Pilot" (1969)

Dec - Babylon 5 - "The Gathering" (1993)

Series

Jan - The Outer Limits - Seasons 1-3 (1995-1997)

Feb - The Outer Limits - Seasons 4-6 (1998-2000)

Mar - The Outer Limits - Season 7 (2001-2002)

Apr - Star Trek Discovery - Season 4 (2021)

Apr - Moonbeam City (2015)

Apr - Star Trek Picard - Seasons 2-3 (2022-2023)

May - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 1-2 (1989-1990)

May - Star Trek Lower Decks - Seasons 2-3 (2021-2022)

May - Star Trek Prodigy - Season 1 (2021)

Jun - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 1 (2022)

Jun - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Aug - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt - Season 7 (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Season 1 (1993)

Sep - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 2 (2023)

Oct - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

[webseriesviral]

Playing ‘Righteous’ Games, Pride Coverage on Hulu, ‘Joe Pickett’ on the Hunt, Keyshia Cole’s Musical Story Will the not-so-holy Righteous Gemstones of HBO’s bawdy comedy green-light their uncle’s biblical game show? Hulu presents coverage from Pride Weekend events across the country. Crime-solving game warden Joe Pickett has his hands full when Wyoming’s governor shuts down hunting season. Lifetime presents a musical biopic profiling R&B star Keyshia Cole, who stars in and produces the movie. Ryan Green/HBOThe Righteous GemstonesSUNDAY: In case you were worried because Baby Billy Freeman, the gospel-warbling has-been so hilariously played by Walton Goggins, was missing from last week’s two-episode premiere, rest easy. That ridiculous clown is front and center in this week’s over-the-top outing. Frustrated by his new gig singing poolside at the Zion’s Landing resort, he decides to pitch a new Bible-themed quiz show (Family Feud should check its copyright) to the venal Gemstone sibs now running the televangelic empire. He hopes to convince them with a test run on a raucous “Cousins Night” dinner, where the Gemstones face off with their shaggy Montgomery cousins (Lukas Haas and Robert Oberst), and as usual, all hell breaks loose. Paramount+Joe PickettSUNDAY: Real men aren’t afraid to break down after bad things happen in this superior neo-Western crime drama based on C.J. Box’s excellent best-sellers. Which is why it’s refreshing and not surprising when game warden Joe (the superbly understated Michael Dorman) turns to wife Marybeth (Julianna Guill) for solace after the trauma of the latest fatal shooting in the woods. There’s not much down time, though, after all of Saddlestring erupts when Wyoming’s governor shuts down hunting season until the crimes are solved. In less traumatic news, Joe’s avaricious mother-in-law Missy (scene-stealing Sharon Lawrence) sets her sights on a new romantic conquest. He’d better have deep pockets. LifetimeKeyshia Cole: This Is My StorySATURDAY: As part of the network’s celebration of Black Music Month, Grammy-nominated R&B singer and reality-TV star Keyshia Cole stars and executive produces her very own biopic. The film explores her roots in Oakland—she was once a backup singer for MC Hammer—and charts her rise in the industry to platinum status for albums like The Way It Is. Debbi Morgan (All My Children) co-stars as her mother. PRIDE WEEKEND: (Saturday, 8/7c; Sunday, 11 am/ET, Hulu): The streamer offers live coverage of Pride Weekend events through the weekend, starting Saturday with the 45th anniversary of Houston’s Pride parade, which typically draws 750,000 spectators. Personalities from Houston’s ABC13 are the hosts. Sunday’s “Pride Across America” coverage, from ABC News Live, features five hours of footage (including an hourlong pre-show) from parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. GMA weekend co-anchor Gio Benitez, GMA3 co-anchor Eva Pilgrim and chief meteorologist Ginger Zee are among the news stars anchoring the colorful events. INSIDE WEEKEND TV: Make Me a Match (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Working at a struggling matchmaking app hasn’t done much for the love life of Vivi (When Calls the Heart’s Eva Bourne), so she consults an Indian matchmaker (Battlestar Galactica’s Rekha Sharma) who just happens to have an eligible son (Rushi Kota). Love & Marriage: Detroit (Saturday, 9/8c, OWN): The reality franchise sets up shop in the “Comeback City,” where three married couples work through their relationship issues. 1883 (Sunday, 8/7c, Paramount Network): No surprise that the linear premiere of the Yellowstone prequel is drawing a sizable audience. In the third chapter, a river crossing presents a new challenge to the combative wagon train, while Elsa (Isabel May) only has eyes for cowboy Ennis (Eric Nelsen). From (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): In the horror series’ Season 2 finale, a mysterious new threat targets the town no one can leave, causing Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perinneau) even more concern than usual. A neighbor’s discovery reignites the residents’ hope of escape-but at what cost? Mini Reni (Sunday, 9/8c, Magnolia Network; streaming on Max and discovery+): In a half-hour special, Joanna Gaines and her team of renovators take on three rooms in a home past its prime, with a week’s deadline and a $15,000 budget. Endeavour (Sunday, 9/8c, PBS): In the penultimate episode of the Inspector Morse prequel, Endeavour (Shaun Evans) and Thursday (Roger Allam) are peeved by the presence of a fictional detective TV series filming in town, complicating their investigations into a uniformed officer’s murder and mayhem caused by local college students. The Walking Dead: Dead City (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) meet some potential allies who have somehow thrived in an overrun Manhattan—but will no doubt be lucky to survive hanging out with this death-defying duo. 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[tavners]

Frankie Dalton | Michael Dorman | Daybreakers (2009)

[violetmuses]

Missing him hours. 🥺

@ed-baldwin @lacontroller1991

[lacontroller1991]

Les has graced me with silver fox Gordo and I just have to share. He’s so beautiful

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[gettothestabbing]

“The University of Pittsburgh commissioned an independent, third-party firm to review and assess their fetal tissue research processes and practices,” the letter, signed by NIH Acting Principal Deputy Director Tara Schwetz, continued. “This assessment reviewed all of the University of Pittsburgh’s activities related to procurement, disbursement, and use of fetal tissue to determine if they were fully compliant with all applicable laws.”

Senate Pro-Life Caucus Chair Steve Daines, R-Mont., derided NIH’s response as “extremely concerning and completely unacceptable” and the investigative findings by the law firm Pitt commissioned as “woefully inadequate.”

“Rather than conducting its own investigation, the Biden administration has chosen to rely on a woefully inadequate outside report paid for by Pitt,” he told me. “This report fails to address our concerns that Pitt’s research may have involved fetal tissue harvested from babies who were born alive or where the abortion methods were altered. This type of research is not only unethical and completely repulsive, but contrary to federal law. We need answers.”

Daines was referring to multiple physicians’ claims that Pitt’s statements “point to the possibility” that organs were “extracted from live fetuses.” That was based on statements the university made about minimizing ischemia time, which refers to “the time after the tissue collection procedure and before cooling for storage and transport.”

The university’s application to NIH also prompted lawmakers to question whether the university had violated fetal tissue trafficking laws as part of its federally funded “GUDMAP” research program. In applying for NIH funds, Pitt said it sought to “develop a pipeline to the acquisition, quality control and distribution of human genitourinary [urinary and genital organs and functions] samples obtained throughout development (6-42 weeks gestation).”

So far, the university has denied any wrongdoing and claimed it played no role in medical procedures. It’s unclear, however, why the university made comments about ischemia time and obtaining quality tissue.

Instead, Pitt has acknowledged that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which it says is a separate entity, supplies tissue for its research. It also houses several locations for the university’s tissue bank and has encountered a variety of questions surrounding potential conflicts of interest with the university.

[hrhtlos]

With love, the Fairy Godmother

[certain-death-awaits]

So just how old is Bracken, anyways?

This is both for general purposes and to be used as a note for my next post on Bracken. Before we start, I’d like to go through a couple of psychological definitions, so that we’re all on the same page for the discussion. Please do not hesitate to correct me- I’m no student of psychology, I just have free time and access to university-level notes videos. Sources will be cited below.

Chronological Age- the number of actual years a person has lived.

Biological/Developmental Age- a description of an individual’s development based on biomarkers (recordable molecular or cellular events). These are again roughly the same in all people, (though variable by sex and of course individual hormones) notably puberty, growth hormone decline with aging, myelination of the brain, and bone mass growth.

Achievement Age- a  measure  of  achievement  expressed  in  terms  of the  chronologic  age  of  a  normal  child  showing  the  same  degree  of  attainment. This is around the same for most people- most 5 year olds can start school, most 16 year olds are mature enough to learn to drive, and most 60 years old are ready to retire.

Psychological/Mental Age- a subjective description of one's experience using non-physical features. It has been defined as the  age  level  of  mental  ability  of  a  person  as  gauged  by  standard  intelligence  tests. This is us trying to say how old a person is without markers. We have used the earth's revolutions (years) and biomarkers before, this is about something more ephemeral: experience, logic, and emotions.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s get into the Fablehaven content. First, let’s set out to determining Bracken’s chronological age. We know that he remembers the war in which the dragons were rounded up and imprisoned, and he and Agad agree that this occurred 3.000 years ago. We also know that he was a fully mature adult* at the time the demons were sealed away, because he had reached his third horn. It’s not clear whether this happened before or after the dragon war, so that information is irrelevant. But we know that Bracken had already given up his third horn when he was jailed by the Sphinx, and he had been in jail for “centuries”, so it had been at least ~900 years since he’s been fully mature*, plus the “centuries” he spent wandering, trying to fit into human society. What we have is at least 3.000 years.

We can move onto biological/developmental age. Luckily, this one has much less guesswork. I can also elaborate on what I mean when I say that Bracken is fully mature. Bracken is consistently described as a “young man”, and Seth guesses that he’s around eighteen. Kendra thinks he could be in high school, and thinks of him physically as being “a couple of years her senior”. When I asked Brandon Mull about his age, he answered “He is an eternal being, so our mortal measuring sticks don’t work on him. If he became mortal, he would be around 17 or 18″, which explains well enough. Now for why I say that Bracken is fully mature. This is how Bracken describes the situation with horns and aging.

"Don't unicorns have three horns?" Seth asked. "Right," Bracken replied, appraising Seth as if impressed by his knowledge. "Sort of like humans with baby teeth. We have one horn as a child, then shed it for a larger horn in adolescence, and in turn shed that for our permanent adult horn. "

Brandon Mull explains to me that while this is true, horn ages do not match to years. I ask about achievement age, “And when would the first and second horns be lost (and the next grow in) in human years?”, to which he responds “I’m not sure unicorns growing up can translate perfectly into human years. I think they age outside of time somewhat, and it has to do with how they learn and develop emotionally and spiritually more than a mortal timeline”. I prod for a bit of clarification, and he says “The unicorns do physically mature- so first horn is like tween, second is like teen, and third is adult- but the number of our human years it takes for them to mature can vary. They mature physically slower if they are also not maturing emotionally and spiritually.” This would put Bracken at solidly biologically and adult, as well as fully grown emotionally and spiritually.

That has already definitively told us that Bracken is spiritually and emotionally an adult. But let us delve just a bit more in Bracken’s psychological/mental age, using what’s actually canon. Bracken speaks of years of change after he forswore his horn, centuries spent changing his already adult nature and becoming more social and human. Bracken also has considerable authority over the Astrids. On two separate occasions, they take orders from him. It’s he who reprimands them when they are released from their strigine forms. Bracken leads the army against the demon horde at Zzyzx. It implies he’s done this many times before. He is not only a fully mentally mature adult, but an experienced adult. He does maintain that all this has done little to sap his youthfulness. Real, the takeaway is that because he has reached his third horn and has been at that point for a long time, he is and has been an adult mentally speaking.

Works Cited

Defining Age with Different Perspectives: Definitions & Examples. (2014, January 14). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/defining-age-with-different-perspectives-definitions-examples.html.

Mull, Brandon, and Brandon Dorman. Dragonwatch. Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2018.

For Miller-Keane Encyclopedia:psychological age. (n.d.) Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. (2003). Retrieved May 24 2020 from https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/psychological+age

Mull, Brandon, and Brandon Dorman. Keys to the Demon Prison. Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2011.

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023 - August

"Lamentations of Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

A little tag to the end of Jeremias about how dealing with God sucks, and there's another one after this.

"The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Water yourself.

"The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Why dudes gotta be like that.

"The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore (1934)

Fuck. Yes.

"Space Episode" by Leslie Perri (1941)

Fellas, just step aside.

"That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948)

You see it coming but still hits.

"In Hiding" by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Okay things get weird and eugenicsy with this atomic supermen bullshit.

"Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Again with the genetic supermen business. Maybe that's the intended effect?

"The Inhabited Men" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

That's some good slow-burn space horror.

"Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Oh no the superior beings are among us and better than us and will replace us, aka yikes.

"All Cats Are Gray" by Andrew North (1953)

See or not, they're there.

"Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Rather be dead tbh.

"Mr. Sakrison’s Halt" by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Get me outta here too.

"All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett (1957)

God, this was a tough and necessary read.

"Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

We're all a skin to someone.

"Car Pool" by Rosel George Brown (1959)

This style, holy shit. Getting into the stuff I came up with, the style of the gazed navel.

"For Sale, Reasonable" by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Don't hire me.

"Birth of a Gardener" by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

You don't listen.

"The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser (1961)

I mean, what else to do?

"The New You" by Kit Reed (1962)

They'll bottle you up soon enough.

"Another Rib" by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Not so shocking now.

"When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Be me be you be me.

"Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

If you can't connect then you learn to live with it.

"The Barbarian" by Joanna Russ (1968)

Fear of my tower getting breached.

"The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Twelve monkeys origin story.

"Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Too many minds for a collective.

Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Hefty story but it's good to go back to the old style of dealing with incomprehensible beings from other dimensions.

Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Not with this story. If Goosebumps 2000 is about aging out of monsters and supernatural stuff then I don't care for it.

Tick Tock, You're Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Time travel shenanigans, my beloved.

"Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Spiders don't scare me.

"Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Refractive weapons.

"Mighty Max Lashes Lizard" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Squirt.

"Mighty Max Traps Rattus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Traps you.

"Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Poke 'em.

"Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Just take over.

"Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Does he though?

"Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Bring them back.

"Mighty Max Squishes Fly" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Narshty.

"Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Science outfits are slipping.

"Mighty Max Stings Scorpion" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Big means not poisonous.

"Mighty Max Crushes the Hand" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Win the duel!

"Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Smasher, really?

"Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Flees from it, eh.

"Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Time has ravaged your once youthful looks.

"Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

The final frontier.

"Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Stay off the computer.

"Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Go away aliens.

"Mighty Max Survives Corpus" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Get aHEAD in DEADvertising.

"Mighty Max Against Robot Invader" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

He invade.

"Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Quick work.

"Mighty Max Crushes Talon" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

See into the bone soul.

"Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Wergh, some kinda phobia.

"Mighty Max Rams Hydron" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

I said let 'em take over.

"Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

They just do what they do.

"Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

I doubt the veracity of flesh to fire.

"Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Well, some last words at least.

"Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

In the sun.

"Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Not a place of honor.

"Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Die native fauna.

"Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Go home, you're drunk.

"Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

It's a tool!

"Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Awoo.

"Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Flesh of my flesh.

"Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

I kick you.

"Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Two in one.

"Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Delicious java.

"Mighty Max Strikes Fang" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Grab the tail.

"Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Always an off switch.

"Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Tap tap tap.

"Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

You'd lose but you do it anyway.

"La-Mulana" by KC Green (2023)

Hyuck.

"Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue" by ossian (2019)

Listen 2 da TV mom.

Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

I took a theater class one semester of high school, along with a final play at the end, and that is an intense type of person to hang around with. But I liked that there's a subset of member who just does, like, building sets and stuff, because it me.

Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

So... signing shady contractual obligations with children is okay if you're giving them something to do?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

This feels the most like playing with action figures out of any TMNT thing which makes it the most appropriate interpretation.

Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Not enough sea creecher.

Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

I enjoy the sociopathic killer who could be in a boy band genre from South Korean cinema, and this is right in there.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

A fine Saturday afternoon on broacast TV sorta movie.

Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Got some aliens this month, and this one is a charming little story about how aliens can't save us from our bodies' inevitable betrayal.

Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

A good road trip to set the soul afire.

Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Lots of good details, but it still shakes out as a generic superhero movie of our age.

Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

I saw this 1.5 times after the first showing failed halfway through. You know where it's going and, you know, sports movie gonna sports.

birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Hey! That's it, the jam, the good stuff. A high-end version of my beloved anthology horror.

Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

The other aliens movie of the month is more in the po-mo style of commentary on our societal ills. I look forward to this feeling quaint in 20 years.

Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Damn, TaleSpin really do be like this. But I'll just take it as more fun anthropomorphized adventures of the air and sea.

The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Ghibli's contemplative looks at Japanese culture and history are some monumental works.

Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

That's your final guy? Shoulda been someone else.

To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

That's some good 80s vibe I tell you what.

Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Okay, alright, things are starting to sag a bit after the peak of seasons 3 and 4. Not a show to binge watch. But I still want a super cut of Cryptkeeper intros and outros.

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Brother Dearest Pt 68

State vs Lewis Patzer

“October 31, 1947. Mr Barnham’s mansion, while he threw a costume party in another of his properties and upon a search that several priceless gold statues along with gem accented decorations were taken along with a solid ruby/ivory/ebony piano and a variety of black market paintings and marbles. Almost all of the black market pieces were returned to the museums and exhibits they were stolen from. The gem based goods are still missing. All the portraits and statues were replaced by ones modeled around cats.” The student playing the suspect fought a chuckle while you listened to the rest of the opening statement of the Prosecution Antonio Speltzer in a ploy to paint this absurdly rich person as a victim who was heinously victimized.

Mr Patzer’s Lawyer Vernon Dorman stood and took his on turn to bring up how this whole trial was twisted to fulfill a personal grudge against Mr Patzer while there are other suspects who actually could have done this, including his twin Dennis Patzer. And with the conclusion of the opening statements that case was paused to allow the student teams to swap places with the Divorce Case while in the chair you lifted your feet to cross your legs and sit up straighter when one of the girls started to press into your spine to guide them more forward into your belly.

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Schmidt vs Schmidt

For the husband Emil Mr Felton stood to call up the first character witness for their case to try and sway your impression of the two people who hoped to gain what the wanted and needed in this division of assets and custody.

Ray Schwartz – Age 32 atop the stand sat and as best friend to the husband made his loyalty known in a slew of statements as for what he had heard and supposedly witnessed upon her failure as both wife and mother. Compared fully to the elder Mrs Schmidt and how she was the pinnacle role model mother and wife for the husband to aim for in a wife for himself.

Dan Vallier – Age 42, the former boss of Mrs Schmidt in the gallery she once was employed while you made a few pretend notes to the student playing up his testimony that she couldn’t keep up with the job. Of course you could hear from the details that it was her focus on her son’s activities and health that had kept her from jumping to the Boss’ every beck and call that landed her out of his employment. Which had the male student for the husband smirk in believe that the male pretend wife had been made openly a pitiful financial provider for their young son.

Lee Hogue in the excuse of Mr Vallier began his own call for the first two character witnesses for the pretend Mrs Schmidt. Irene Moses – Age 23 was called up and delved amusingly into several tales of how in her former relationship with Mr Schmidt who dumped her for an even younger woman with whom he was to be soon hopefully wedded. From broken property, his outbursts and continued possessive letters that she is still receiving years after their break up.

Leslie Welch – Age 24, former driver to her and their child shared a trio of tales when he witnessed the husband degrading his wife and being lost into a deep dependence upon alcohol that has drawn a new side out of Mr Schmidt that is rather despicable and cruel to those around him who do not control his paycheck. As he shared that around fellow employees or bosses he can put on a calm exterior and paint himself with a friendlier brush.

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A couple exams and an open Saturday granted you some work on a new part for your tv you made that in the middle of the next page of the translation you moved onto next to keep from using too much energy you drifted off and woke up to a lunch under a blanket in a nest of pillows the guys had nestled around you. Talks of the house next door came up with Gina and her husband who talked with Eddie on more plans through the meal you struggled to focus on at the lack of a comfortable position to be found. Sharp and clear the drop of your fork to the plate turned heads to you and brought James back from the kitchen without the refill on your drink he’d gone to fetch. His hand right over your back while your hands folded around the arms of your chair in a pained inch back in your seat, “Breathe out Bunny,” Gina said in a pop up to take your free side and gently laid a hand over your still supple belly. “Just breathe out, nice and slow.”

Slow and steady you exhaled and James said, “That wasn’t labor.”

Gina shook his head and said, “No, belly’s not hard.” Shakily you inhaled through the receding wave of pain that had radiated from your hips and said in a lock of your eyes on his, “Just your first Braxton Hicks. Just a check of your muscles.”

Sharply you exhaled and said, “You know if it feels like this why don’t all the girls do this? So much fun,” you said making her chuckle and reach up to fix your bangs that fell in your face.

“I’m going to get you some more pickles, baby corn and beets. Mine always relaxed when I snacked extra.”

Sharply you exhaled again to James’ next stroke of your back while you somehow suddenly came upon a comfortable sort of hunch forward and lifted your fork again saying, “You were saying, about the green tile.” Tentatively attention went back to the house and when he had confirmed Victor would watch you in the few moments away James did fetch your drink and remained fixed at your side to ensure your comfort for the rest of the day.

All through your return to the nest to do more translations until up in bed you laid out after a few more gentle pecks from your worried husband who in his trip to turn off the light turned to eye you on the bed in a soft huff. Hastily he flipped the switch and came back to bed and eased up on it behind you asking, “Are you in pain?”

“I’m an inch too low,” you sighed and he chuckled and leaned in to curl a hand below your thighs to glide you just a bit higher inside your nest that had you settle in more comfortably. “Thank you.”

“You are welcome.” And sweetly behind you he cuddled close, pleased that your extra metal insulation in the walls had kept the house cool in this humid spring so that he could cuddle up to you still without causing you to warm up too much and send him away. Under your stolen shirt from his supply he slid his hand to stroke your belly in the close of his eyes to confirm for himself with all his focus that his babies were not coming out early and would wait the few more weeks left to the finish line for a private birth in your home your family would fix up the final details upon your return.  

“I suppose Herc will be interested to know about my pain earlier. Finally have something more than a bruise to question him about.”

A bit more he wiggled his forehead to rest fully into your hair against the back of your head to the kick against his palm, “I doubt he has been bored in seeing to you and our girls.”

“I just mean, 48 weeks pregnant, and nine weeks left finally something to get his blood pumping.”

That had him chuckle, “You didn’t see him pop in the middle of our house to share you’d been scared by an owl when ever we got tingles something happened after the Twins gave the all clear on danger. Plenty of blood pumping moments.”

You sighed again and asked, “What happens if I keep having triplets? One set after the other?”

“We’ll have to build another wing onto the house. But however our babies come in whatever groups they choose to arrive in I will do all I can to help you. I wish I could do more.”

“You’re amazing,” you sighed again and said to the pull of your leg up that lifted his head.

“Foot cramp again?” You nodded and after a gentle press of his lips to your cheek he sat up and slid down taking the covers with him to rest your foot on his lap to cradle it and massage the odd cramp in your foot that had been on and off since your false contraction earlier. “At least Herc will be by after Mass.” Again you sighed making him grin at the sight of you with brows furrowed to the cramp that had him start to hum to you while he massaged your foot and lower leg gradually lulling you to sleep.

It almost seemed to have come full circle, at the uncertain beginning when there was no idea three babies were growing inside of your belly now with almost five pound babies safely growing stronger by the day again naps and sleep were paramount in this stressful town. And he knew that much like over the Winter when you magnificently had begun to show and they had grown impressively in that peaceful free time he knew could change the back end of this pregnancy for you. Not just free from the eyes of the press but well within the chance to have your parents there to fill those gaps of support he and the others couldn’t fill while Herc was available to come up and stay for daily checks if needed. And when he felt your legs were at ease he settled down again around your back to slip into his own dreams of what was coming.

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Spare inches on the now oddly shinier belly you stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom with your head tilted through a turn from side to side. The impressive bubble shape a bit less pointed from the stretched area where your babies began to stretch out more had you tell James in his step to your side from the toilet nook he turned away from after having flushed a moth he found in your closet. “I look like someone coated me in butter.”

Softly he chuckled and said after a kiss of your temple, “You look fantastic.” Still smiling from a candid photograph he had taken earlier when you were changing out of his stolen clothes to add to the collection. Back from your side he collected the pants you wanted to wear he helped you step into after you’d changed your underwear and added some padding to your bra in case of some leaking of the milk you started to dribble. A blouse was next to add and be settled underneath the straps of your pants. “Only means the babies are growing and you with them.”

“From the side I look like a snake that ate a beaver.” Unable to help it he chucked and leaned in to kiss you on his lips sweetly and then bent to add your socks and your sneakers.

“You do not.” Up again he stood and guided you to the bathroom where he helped to comb out your braid he helped to work the top half of your hair back into a clip so your hat would sit nicely while the rest of your curls hung loosely down your back. Rain sounds grew louder on the way down and after a light breakfast in the cars you drove off to the Mass lit by candlelight followed by another meeting with Herc.

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This time it was a great deal more focused upon checks of your hips and pelvis, these done in one of the spare rooms for more room for use of a new device that cut out another worrisome intrusive internal exam. Checks of blood pressure with a bulb activated pump were followed by a prick of your finger for a drop of blood to be added to a solution in a small vial he settled inside a lemon sized cube device.

Over that a full readout of the results were projected and you asked to his focused expression, “Is that good?”

“Oh yes, I would suggest some more pickles though. Your girls are using a good bit of your iron.”

Eddie popped up, “Pickles, on it,” and hurried to the kitchen.

Herc said with a grin, “Again, the tests are all good, your pelvic floor as well is growing more elastic which is a good sign at this stage. The hips as well, nice and cushioned for when they shift in labor.”

You nodded and asked at the still projected results, “What is all that?” Spreading his grin to shift the projection so you could read it properly while he explained it all and how it showed your progress and the girls’. You nodded and asked timidly, “You um, so you don’t have to do any, internal exams?”

Kindly he gave you a grin to James’ pat on your back, “No, thankfully with our kin we require that usually only on the day of labor to gauge progress or to shift the position of the babies. I understand that first exam was quite unsettling to you when that Nurse examined your ovaries.” You nodded and he gently patted your hand rested on the bed beside you, “I will not cross that boundary of your comfort until necessary and only with your permission and full disclosure of the reasoning. I do understand there is quite the common notion that your body is no longer your own in pregnancy,” he nodded as you did in a fight against tears that misted into your eyes. “This is your body and I will always respect that. There is always time to explain things even in emergencies, a great deal of Doctors forget that compassion when treating patients these days when we see things so pragmatically in search of diagnosis or cure of ailments.” You nodded again and smiled to Eddie in his lowering a full try of snacks to the bed he eased off of to rest beside you, “For now, leg and foot exam while you snack and I will check your levels again in a bit.”

A couple of contractions when your exam was through had Herc shift his focus to her and her baby girl who through him made it clear that she was ready to come out in the next few days that allowed the brood to plan accordingly for the sudden arrival. The family dinner that followed granted you a chance to hand over a gift to her just in case she went into labor while you were at school, a crank fed mobile that played a lullaby like the one she had been pining over for years when she had a baby girl of her own. Tearfully she gave you a hug and confirmed that you hadn’t spent the ridiculous sum that the magazine she’d seen it in listed it for and squealed excitedly as her husband promised to install it when they got home over the crib to have it ready.

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State vs Lewis Patzer

Antonio Speltzer stood across from the Detective Nathaniel Madison, Age 43, who delved into the whole process of the investigation of the case and then delved into the identification of Mr Patzer as the suspect who was behind the robbery.

And when Mr Speltzer sat down and representation for the Defense Vernon Dorman stood and adjusted his jacket buttons and asked his first few questions and then finished off with what he hoped to be his zinger. “Detective Madison, is it not true that Jacob Shea, who you credit the naming of Mr Patzer as the prime suspect, named him in the process of negotiating a plea deal on his own pending felony charges?”

Detective Madison cleared his throat and said, “Yes, we were discussing his plea deal when he brought it to our attentions.”

Vernon Dorman answered, “No further questions, Your Honor.”

Cecilia Marsh – Age 39 came next with the Prosecution who displayed a variety of blown up copies of several art pieces that she priced and named. A few which you corrected the dates in the notes and made a few people in the crowds smirk at your unknown mouthing of the proper dates, including the author, Clifford Adler, of the case who made note to check those dates later to correct in the notes for the case. And had to smirk at the pictures of the replacement pieces of artwork all themed after cats.

Vernon Dorman at the end of the initial questioning stood to say, “No questions, Your Honor.” And he sat again for the next witness to be led up as the prosecution gathered up the pictures and Officer Graham left the easel for the blueprint of the Mansion brought out for the next witness.

Jimmie Feigel – Age 28. Head security guard in charge of that property was asked several questions on his usual tasks and pattern of patrol and then questions of the discovery of the theft came next which the Defense expanded on by clarifying that even in the absence of goods there was no sign of who might have committed the crime or even how they had gotten in or out.

Jacob Shea – Age 43. A Mobster who testifies in deal for pending case that he’d seen one of the twins at a bar planning the heist and at a pool hall gaining a crew to pull it off. Hinting coercion of identification by the Defense digging more into the details of how the identity of the suspect was brought up eventually bringing to light there was a supply of pictures laid out for him to choose from when the Detective swayed the questioning from his own Felony charges to the robbery. An admission that had the crowd buzzing all through the switch over for the next case.

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Schmidt vs Schmidt

Ben Lynch – Age 51, a licensed Psychiatrist. Atop the stand was halfway through his statement of how he was approached in the planned testimony that Mr Schmidt had approached him and shared about his wife to see what sort of mental problems she might be suffering from to solidify his grounds that she was unstable.

“Mr Lynch,” to the cease of the silent taps of your pen atop your notepad you felt his eyes shift to land on you with brows raised and you asked, “Did you just say that Mr Schmidt approached you and filled you into this whole situation?”

“Yes, Your Honor,” he answered and you tapped your pen on the notepad again.

“Have you ever spoken to Mrs Schmidt?”

“No, Your Honor,” he said and stole a glance at Billie Bretz, the author of the case over the shoulder of the pretend concerned Mr Schmidt’s shoulder.

“Have you ever met Mrs Schmidt?”

“No, Your Honor.”

“Alright, then I’m going to have to excuse you.”

“Okay,” he said and stood to return to follow Officer McTavish who smirked guiding him back out to the hall before the next witness would be brought in.

Mr Schmidt’s Lawyer Mr Felton asked, “Your Honor?”

“I will not accept any diagnosis from any Medical Professional who has not personally consulted the supposed afflicted party. And had Mrs Schmidt spoken to him without the grounds of a criminal mental inquiry said testimony would be inadmissible in court as well even with the permission of the Husband to share her confidential information shared with Mr Lynch unless she had threatened to harm someone or herself. And then that would be heard in grounds of a criminal case not a Divorce Hearing.”

“Fair enough,” Mr Felton said that had his pretend client shift his hands in a ‘what the hell’ motion he could only shake his head at while the judges of the case made note of your decision and reasoning.

Estelle Warner – Age 21. Assistant who says she demands gifts and is bad with and is after money came next and had you pretending to take notes to keep from rolling your eyes through the fruitless testimony.

Where you had to keep from rolling your eyes you had to keep from laughing when the next student came up to represent the 20 year old current mistress, Wilhelmina Adler. Who was called in favor of the current Mrs Schmidt who ends up admitting in the line of questioning by Lee Hogue in favor of his client that brought out her pattern of dating well off men. Ending with a glaring statement that she has the impression that Mr Schmidt’s son Daniel could ruin things between the both of them and their happiness.

Leonard Frisbe – Age 39. Tutor for young Daniel came with a share on both environments the child was residing in, and while the father’s home was more spacious his mother’s home came with a parent who took part in the studies of the child to help him understand topics that came difficult for the tutor to get him to understand.

With a nod you flashed him a smile and said, “Thank you Mr Frisbe, you are excused.” He nodded and strolled out and you called the case for the day to meet again in two days for the next step in the process.

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More exams and handwritten essay prompts filled your Tuesday while you sat to the side in separate desks while your Professors ensured that more of the final assignments were crossed off their grade books to finalize your credits before the month was up. Jointly along with a note from the Dean of Barnard and Columbia they stated that the first week of April was the solidified date that you would be graduating this semester as a sort of firm support of you and this next step of your pregnancy to grant some highly required rest from all of the public press. All around the dinner table at least that letter gave a solid date to be spread through the family to plan accordingly.

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State vs Lewis Patzer

Vernon Dorman for Mr Patzer’s defense called up the first witness and began with Matilda Patzer – Age 54, his grandmother who was with him and his Grandfather as well as the night when the goods were returned. While you hoped to throw out the case a few details were a bit too shaky for you to do so when the Prosecution cross examined her.

Charity Patzer – Age 22 was next and also was a hair away from being worthy of throwing out the case when she stood as his alibi for Halloween night.

Ralph Adler – Age 27 was next and while the Prosecution used the fact that there are identical twins involved was used to fight the alibis was used against the Prosecution’s case with a doubled down attack that the Detective had a deep seeded grudge against Lewis Patzer since he did not return the affections the Detective’s daughter had for him. Buzz worthy testimony the Prosecution could not shake that gave way to the final witness before the closing statements.

Lawrence Barnham – Age 45, the victim of the case was called next and took the stand to play what the files had him as a living airhead of an heir to a fortune with little to offer the world beyond his pocketbook withdrawals. All of which brought little sympathy from anyone when his ploy to state he had lost dear things to him, and while it made a tiny dent in his overall fortune did not leave him any worse for wear aside from hurt feelings.

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Schmidt vs Schmidt

Once everyone took their seats after a bathroom break for you to the group you flashed a quick grin and said, “I realize the both of you are hoping that after all of the character witness testimonies that I could decide everything for you and wrap it up in a nice bow for you. However I have a few more questions and information I need from the both of you.” Both sides nodded and you asked, “Mr Schmidt, how many hours do you work?” he answered the question and then shifted in his seat as you asked, “And while you work when you have custody of your son who watches him?”

“I have a nanny.”

You nodded and made a tick mark next to that question on the list you had noted to ask later and asked, “And in or out of your custody how many school events do you go to?”

“Um,” he said and wet his lips, “I go to the occasional game when I can with my job.”

“Fair enough,” you said and made a tick mark on the list and asked, “And how much savings do you have set away for Daniel for schooling or emergencies?”

Your eyes landed on him in the draw of his pretend smug attitude in saying to a nudge of his elbow into his lawyer’s, “I make more than enough with my job to not need savings. And the boy isn’t anywhere near old enough to think on college yet.”

Blankly at him you stared a moment and made him inch back in his seat before you asked the same questions to the male student acting as the wife who while she had basic funds compared to his to draw from she spent more quality time with the boy and never missed a chance to be with him during his school events she assured he made it to.

You nodded and said “I would like to speak to Daniel,” and Officer Browen grinned as you said, “Officer Browen would you escort him in?”

To the hall he went and heads turned to watch the anxious preteen who was the stand in nine year old son that smiled and poked is brother’s arm on the way to the stand where he made sure to flash you a glimpse of the Venom and Battle Bunny comic in his hand. To your smile he settled into his seat and listened as you said, “Now, Daniel, I know this is a bit confusing but I just have a few questions for you to make sure that I have all the details and perspectives.”

He nodded and into his schooling and clubs he shared the memorized details and those he stole glances at his script of his life tucked inside the comic book to answer your questions. Sharing fully that he loved school and his clubs and was an active and happy child who seemed to be adjusting well to the two new household situation even though he might wish his dad would be around more. “What do you think of the new two home situation? Do you feel happier?”

The preteen after a glance at his sheet said, “My parents fight less, and even though Dad doesn’t come to many of my games or meets when he’s not around his new girlfriend he does spend more time with me.” Then he added, “I would like to spend more time with my mom though, usually I spend most of the time with a nanny at dad’s visits when he works.”

You nodded and said, “Well thank you for answering my questions, and if you don’t mind following Officer Browen again your parents should be out in a little bit.” He nodded and smiled in his pop up for a relieved sort of bounce to the hall past his grinning brother who was proud of his baby brother’s successful role in this trial.

And in his absence when the Officer Browen went back to his spot you adjusted yourself to face the parents and said, “As far as the primary custody is concerned I am awarding that to Mrs Schmidt.” Jaws dropped in the crowd and the students at the tables inched up in amused shock as you clarified, “Parenthood is more than money and for all of the houses and hired staff to watch after your son Mr Schmidt he is a kind hearted bubbly boy with big dreams and solitude and distance can only crush that without proper guidance and reinforcement. I will leave the aspect of dates to decide visitation between your Lawyers, however I have a list of information that I will sort through to the details of your assets to ascertain the proper financial support to be granted as child support.”

After a pause you stated, “And amongst the division of dates for visitation I would like the both of you to draft up your wills.” That had their lips part and you said, “We will continue this hearing on Friday.” And you brought down the gavel casting the courtroom in an amused and stunned moment of confusion in your rise and stroll out with the amused General behind you.

Assets present/future

Property/Bank information

Child’s activities and school records

Prenup or postnup

Husband’s work habits

Wife’s possible income, former assets

Possible child support and alimony

All from the evidence boxes were compiled at home and would be consulted later when you got home to mark up the financial settlement while the pretend divided couple would spend the next class they had off to work out with their pretend Lawyers to mark up dates to spilt monthly with holidays divided or agreed to be celebrated together. The wills confusingly were drafted up by means of a textbook they got from the library to know how to write it up with details filled in from the evidence given and typed up for a less shoddy version to be brought into the final hearing on Friday when they hoped the case was to be closed.

“You asked them to make wills?” was whispered through the halls and they continued on excitedly to gossip and guess on your plans to see if they will be right about them when Friday rolled around. The same question that was echoed when you returned home and sat with the notes to compile them all as you used the guys as sounding boards for what you had decided.

Just two weeks were until your trip and through the home small bits were being tucked away in trunks and suitcases to be driven back to Canada to simplify the final tings to grab the day of the move. Absolute neutrality was an odd mood that washed over you and across the main floor you paced and did a few odd stretches along the way that had the guys peer between doorways more than a bit confused by their tries to hint they had your usual nesting spots ready for you that had failed.

Reinforcements sent in the form of a pouting toddler with a ball in hand had you settled down on a cushion on the floor to play with Teddy until dinner was called for. A meal he tottered off to and with an adorable tilt of your head backwards to glance at Victor with a chuckle he squatted to take hold of your upper thighs on your legs you unfolded and planted to help you up once your hands had settled behind his neck. James’ hand extended to claim yours for the walk to eat after having set down the camera to capture that moment and gladly after you had eaten your fill a bath and early night in let them relax.

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Closing arguments and the send off of the Jury to deliberate bled to the Divorce Case that had you hand over two copies of the decided arrangements that both sides read along with you while the author of the case smirked taking note of the decisions in the payment plans and custody agreement. Including their decided dates that you signed off on and shared tasks in case of emergency to renegotiate days to skip if one of them was suddenly unavailable to have custody that day.

After that you said, “And I just have one final thing to say before I close this case to you Mr Schmidt. You have no right not to protect your family from the worst case scenario. I know all too well what happens to a mother who loses their spouse and father to their child and now has to adjust accordingly to raise her children alone. And while you might consider nine a huge leap from eighteen if you dropped dead tomorrow your child would be left without any means of support at all. That was the reason for my order to have you write your will, and if you do marry your current flame then I highly suggest re-writing that will to include her and any possible children you might conceive from that union. I would also advise speaking with a financial consultant to begin a savings plan and possible trust for your son that could be set aside for his schooling and remain protected should the worst befall you. Sunny skies today do not negate storm clouds tomorrow. Buy an umbrella and some boots for your son.” You said to the slam of the gavel that had some in the crowd chuckle and begin to clap as you turned to head to the office to simply get out of that room and chair that your body didn’t want to remain fixed upon any longer to final notes being taken by the Judges who collected the copies of your drafted plans for the couple.

For Psychology at least you were able to stand for a bit off to the side of your desk against the wall out of view of mostly everyone but the understanding Professor who calmed on threats of labor when you finally felt relaxed enough to lower into your seat for the rest of the class. Literature however had you arrive to an empty classroom where you read the note that a family emergency had the Professor gone but the TA there with a grin and a special exam in hand to have you complete for a final major credit for the semester for his class. To your usual seat you strolled and accepted the packet to complete then turn in for a short break to browse through one of the courtyards until the Photography club would meet.

Up to the tree where you found the owl from before you peered locked in place only to turn and smile at the Twins who guided you to the club room and would wait to meet you again after to show you to James’ car. And by the time you got home the reason for your discomfort was clear as Ambrose woke the family in the middle of the night when she went into labor and by Saturday morning had a bouncing baby girl to have the family boast about at mass the following day while she got about a week to rest.

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Not Guilty would be the words that echoed through the halls while you focused on the course list that you had sent for from the same Alberta Community College that Columbia and Barnard would accept credits for through your summer break to get ahead on your degrees. Some that you would have to attend on campus but others the school at the tolerable distance allowed for weekly visits from a tutor for check ins on your understanding and bi-weekly exams in a program that was meant to aid new mothers specifically in continuing their credits. Quite proudly they meant to welcome the second of the sibling set to grace their campus to take up the courses they had to offer.

And by the time you got to the meeting of the paper your booklet on the Canadian College drew more than a few gazes and Portia smiled asking, “They finally sent the book for your summer classes?”

You nodded calming the young women in the room as you answered, “They’re letting me take a whole chunk of my credits at home, out of the twelve they let me sign up for I have to go on campus for five of them. The rest they’ll send a tutor out to make sure I’m on track and to monitor tests twice a month at the house.”

Portia, “Oh that’s wonderful news. Have you with those Bachelor Degrees in no time.”

Amber asked, “And you’ll be back in September?”

You nodded, “Yes, they’re compact courses in a program for new mothers they are picking up. I think it should go well.”

Another of the young women asked, “And you’ll have time for the birth?”

“Oh ya, I don’t start the at home classes until the end of May and the back half of June I start the on campus classes, so there’s time for me to give birth and get my feet back before I have to head out to the campus, and even that is twice a week.”

The news calmed the group and while you left the room silent smiles behind you were traded in the plan for the first meeting next week to give you an amazing send off to the semester. Schedules to keep over the summer seemed to help and calls from the University had confirmed the best would be chosen and given a non-disclosure contract to not share anything that they would learn about yourself, your family or so much as what color your soap trays were. An odd addition in hopes to have you calmed that the press situation from New York wouldn’t happen in Canada and you would be given a semblance of privacy and heaps of respect in this difficult time of transition. And all you had to pull from the conversation with your moment of corvid brain was to discuss with the family on what type of soap dishes you all wanted for the numerous bathrooms within the spacious manor.

Pt 69

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