#charles skinner

[fox-from-malta]

No one come at me pls... but I did make Charles bound to a wheelchair :'( if someone who is actually wheelchair bound is offended by this please private message me

Ok ok so, Charles! The eldest brother... was kinda just the smart older brother? who likes to build things just because, and I felt that was a bit... plain.

In my re-imagining, Charles was born paralyzed waist down, and I wanted this to be the reason why he got so interested in tech and aspires to become an inventor. This would also make his Mech-suit (canon in the show) make sense lol - he made it to be a bit more mobile in missions.

He would still go on adventures with his siblings, his chair does move on it's own lol (he is a smart inventor after all) - but certain missions would be harder for him, so he does operate via his tech at times, like the ones we see in canon (the mech suit, robot fish, etc.)

Also another note, is that the siblings & cousin all go to different schools! Charles (16 - grade 11) goes to a private tech school, Henry (14 - grade 9) to a fashion/business school while Edward (10 - grade 6) and Tara (13 - grade 9) go to a public school.

[milhousing]

simpsons redesigns jumpscare pt 1

[folks-just-call-me-orange-joe]

The Simpsons text posts

(Sorry for the dog shit quality)

[mariocki]

The Suspect (1944)

"Don't you think that an innocent man might be more tolerant in the cause of justice?"

"No, I don't. I think an innocent man might behave precisely as I have."

"Well, I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you."

"Why don't you arrest me? Here I am."

"I'd like to, believe me, but unfortunately I can't."

"No, you've run against a blank wall. You take my advice and don't beat your head against it."

[renslo161605]

For context i have a comic about if Isaac Morgan lived on my blog js incase anyone is severely confused-

I want to warn everyone who likes my comic right now because it's dawned on me that I have a crippling fear of disappointing People and this may trigger it 😭

Spoiler warning if you care lmao

So obviously i get notifs every time someone likes my comic and I've noticed quite a few people who consistently keep up with it (I LOVE YOUS TO BITS BTW OMG <333) but i want to say that the longer the comics goes on it'll be less and less part of the story. It never REALLY disrupts the events of rdr2. But theres a point in the story where nearly every character is an oc. And again, it's still linked to the events of rdr2 but it's kinda in a way meant to be an entirely different story derived from the events of rdr2.

The only other canon characters that isaac gets to meet the rest of the story is Arthur Morgan (not really) Colm Odriscoll, Keiran Duffy and Charles smith

Apart from that theres mentions of all the other gang members but Isaac basically has his own story. I almost want it to be a plot point that his Arthur didn't make Isaac who he is. Isaac made Isaac who he is yk? He's not the same as Arthur, he doesn't have the same abilities, he doesn't have the same background, he doesn't have the same upbringing and he doesn't have the same life.

But yeah I'm really sorry if thats disappointing. I LUV YALL ANYWAY FOR KEEPING UP :))

[cinesludge]

Movie #80 of 2023: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

[perfettamentechic]

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2022: L.Q. Jones, nato Justus Ellis McQueen, Jr., attore, regista e produttore cinematografico statunitense, noto per il lavoro svolto a fianco del regista Sam Peckinpah. Debuttò nel 1955 in Prima dell’uragano. Il nome del personaggio che interpretava era L.Q. Jones e dunque i produttori gli suggerirono di cambiare il proprio nome. Jones apparve anche, oltre film importanti, sul piccolo schermo,…

[in-sightpublishing]

Non­-existent Aerial Phenomena

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[brujahinaskirt]

i had a charles smith thought so vicious and tragic i'm putting it under a cut (huge rdr2 spoilers)

So we know Charles knew Arthur was dying. I think he might have suspected it for a while, given that when Arthur told him, Charles accepted the diagnosis right away; his first instinct was to comfort Arthur instead of trying to deny it. He knew that when they said goodbye, it was forever.

But Charles is cagey as hell about how he accomplished Arthur's burial (in time to track, identify, and move his remains), and also pretty evasive about how he even found out. I wonder if maybe he didn't make it all the way up north. I wonder if maybe, shortly after he left, Charles was quickly overcome with guilt and gave in to the irrational drive to turn back around and go get his friend and take him out of that damned gang, to hell with it; he can't leave him there, even if Arthur doesn't survive the trip to Canada; even if Arthur's already dead. He'll go back there and take care of... whatever there is to take care of. Even if, as an act of mercy, he has to finish Arthur off himself (which, we must remember, he is prepared to do in the case of Uncle and the Skinners).

Still. Even if he knew Arthur's prognosis was fatal and swiftly approaching, a small part of him must have hoped, as we all would, to find his doomed friend still alive, if only to get to talk to him again.

[I'M SO SORRY FOR THIS.]

[simon-roy]

The idea of logging on a colonized alien planet brings my mind back to the planet Lalonde from Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn books - a world that had very hard wood as its only meaningful export, and was also stuck developing its economy from agriculturalism (due to investment shortages, though).

All this is to say - Hey! What are some foundational inspirations for your sci fi verse? You gotta have some like recommendations of classic or older sci-fi for us, right? What are some of your suggestions of books and authors to read?

OK SO - My sci-fi tastes have sort of ended up in some very specific niches. Growing up, I was a Larry Niven +Jerry Pournelle man, in part because my dad amassed a huge collection of their books - then gave 90% of them away before i was old enough to read them. So one of my teenage missions was rebuilding that library, trash and all!

Stuff like Footfall, Ringworld, Gil "The Arm" Hamilton, Protector (yes i attempted to name a comic series similarly, and paid for it) "The Mote in God's Eye"... you name it, I read fuckloads of these books. And while they tend to land on a sort of human chauvinist "mankind will win based on his inherent adaptive human-ness, and the aliens will fail because of their rigid alien-ness", this shit was very foundational to me.

Their more collaborative series, The Man-Kzin Wars and War World, also loom large in my teenage mind. The Man-Kzin wars are super fun - humans meet a race of tiger-men, and go from being NWO peaceniks to roughneck cat-skinners in a generation! PEACE AND LOVE WONT DEFEAT TIGER MEN!

Similarly, war world (like lots of that 70s/80s military sci fi) was a sort of catch-all for western military nerds to play with their favorite factions - it was a planet where all the un-ruleable ethnic groups and nationalities had been deported by the authoritarian earth government, and left to rot... until a race of genetically engineered fascist super men land on the world, and start trying to rule the place. Pretty fun shit.

As I got older, I turned hard into William Gibson, and read the absolute shit out of both the Neuromancer trilogy and the Bridge trilogy, as well as his short stories. Bruce Sterling was part of that wave for me, too, and I religiously sought his old paperbacks out too. In terms of novels, "Distraction" is my favorite coherent Sterling Novel - though the short stories in the "Schismatrix" novel/collection of his remain my absolute favorite space opera pieces.

At this age, too, I found my top-top fave Sterling Stories - "Taklaman" and "Bicycle Repairman", both gritty pseudo-cyberpunk stories of the highest degree, in this collection:

This thousand-plus page collection of short stories and novellas was basically my bible for a few years - i put sticky notes on each story i loved and meant to return to, until the book was so festooned with sticky note bookmarks i abandoned the practice altogether. If you have the chance, just buy this book and chew on it for a few years.

As i got into my 20s, Charles Stross became my lode star - his books like Accelerando and Glasshouse were total game changers for me. They come with their own peculiarities, but I loved his transhuman/posthuman musings (or at least i was obsessed with his stuff for a good few years - the venn diagram of his obvious interests and my own overlapped enough that his books were great fodder for a growing sci-fi loving brain).

But since then, my main literary squeeze has been the great man, JACK VANCE. Working on Prophet, my friend @cmkosemen made a remark about how much the early issues of the series reminded him of a book series called "Planet of Adventure" or "the Tschai Cycle", by Jack Vance. The book has a beautifully simple setup - a man from an entirely undescribed spacefaring human civilization crash-lands onto a weird planet. But on that planet, he finds four separate civilizations, each who possess a population of enslaved humans, culturally and physically molded to the needs of their masters. And each book of this series covers our generic hero's interactions with each bizarre expoitative culture. I was extremely intrigued.

Soon thereafter, I found my current absolute favorite book - "THE DRAGON MASTERS". A book about an isolated medieval world... which gets visited, once every few generations, by a black pyramid starship, flown by a reptilian race known as the Greph. The greph capture humans to (surprise surprise) breed them into hyper specific slaves... who in turn become Greph-like in their thinking and demeanours. But the last time the BLACK PYRAMID landed, a bunch of angry medieval dudes stormed the thing, blew it up, and captured a bunch of greph... who became the breeding stock for a whole new human world of slave labour. By the time we meet this planet, the two rival lords of the human-populated regions have been breeding greph slave warriors, or "dragons", for generations, for combat against one another. But soon, the black pyramid will return...

I love this book I even spent a good few months during covid talking with the Vance Estate and several publishers about developing it into a graphic novel, but nobody could quite agree on how it could get made with old Simon getting a paycheque... so sadly it fell apart. There are concept drawings floating around my patreon and other corners of the internet. But one day I'll use 'em...

My other favorite books of his, to name a couple of the MANY books of his I love:

THE BLUE WORLD: A caste system of humans, descended from a crashed prison ship, live on floating settlements on an ocean planet, paying protection to a giant long-lived intelligent crustacean. But one man is tired of giving up all his crops to this tyrannical megafauna...

THE MIRACLE WORKERS: Rival lords on a planet descended to medieval tech (surprise surprise) fight using armies... and rival SORCERORS who employ the powers of suggestion to voodoo each others' warriors... but when facing non-human intelligences, these sorceror's skills fall short.

But there are heaps more, and I love most (thought not all) of the ones i've read. They're generally short, concise, and full of all sorts of bizarre bullshit.

THere are more books i've read and enjoyed in my life, of course, but these are the core ones that I think of when I think of my career as a sci-fi reader... let me know what your top recs are!

[shitposttcentral]

Charles having to very gently tell John that it may be best to put Uncle out of his misery if the Skinner brothers have done something really bad. He doesn’t want to do that neither of them do that’s Uncle they love him so much. Still he loves Uncle so much he pushes his own emotions aside to think of his well being.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Oh dear. Not good news for the Harkles. Catherine is the most popular Royal followed by William and 'badass' Princess Anne. The King is well liked too. by u/HydeParkUK

Oh dear. Not good news for the Harkles. Catherine is the most popular Royal, followed by William and 'badass' Princess Anne. The King is well liked too. https://ift.tt/IwvOWar the article:She’s royally revered. The Princess of Wales is the most popular member of the British royal family, according to a new poll out of the United Kingdom. A sizable 66% of respondents feel favorably toward Kate, while only 10% have an unfavorable opinion of her.Her husband, Prince William, was found to be the second most popular royal with a 65% favorablity rating and a relatively small unfavorability rating at 13%.Rounding out the top three was Princess Anne, the only daughter of the late Queen Elizabeth. The accomplished equestrian — who was dubbed a “badass” earlier this year for wielding an unruly horse of the Trooping The Colour ceremony — has a 62% favorability rating, while only 9% hold an unfavorable opinion. The survey also found that King Charles is largely well-liked amid his second year as monarch. Charles, who has also been battling cancer, came in fourth spot with a 56% favorability score. AND THE BAD NEWS:Just 28% of Brits feel favorablly toward Prince Harry, while a whopping 46% feel unfavorably. The numbers were even more dire for Markle, with a 21%  favorability rating and a 53% unfavorablity rating. Only Andrew fared worse, with just 10% of Brits feeling favorably toward him, in contrast to the 66% who feel unfavorably.IN SUMMARY:This recent poll paints a picture of the Royal Family’s enduring appeal,” Gideon Skinner, Senior Director of UK Politics at Ipsos stated. Oh dear, the Harkles really didn't think things through, did they? Oh well! post link: https://ift.tt/voFgKZW author: HydeParkUK submitted: September 21, 2024 at 09:41PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[dalekofchaos]

For context about Dutch and the Skinner brothers.

long story. tl;dr-there's a theory that suggests that the Skinner Brothers were originally supposed to be the remnants of Natives that were kept at Fort Riggs, and would eventually go on to make up Dutch's gang in RDR1, and that this was scrapped due to fear of racism accusations, and conflicts with the plot, and that this is why both Fort Riggs and the Skinner Brothers feel unfinished and why the latter have the traits that they do.

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: The Wolf Man

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★★★

Plot: After being bitten by a strange wolf, a nobleman begins to transform.

Review: Great special effects and new werewolf lore keep this film afloat despite its dated stereotypes and somewhat miscast lead.

Year: 1941 Genre: Werewolves Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Director: George Waggner Writer: Curt Siodmak Cinematographer: Joseph Valentine Editor: Ted J. Kent Composers: Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner, Charles Previn Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Bela Lugosi

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Story: 3/5 - Feels somewhat oddly paced with poor writing choices that make the lead feel creepy and unlikable, even for the era.

Performances: 3/5 - Everyone is solid, save for Lon Chaney, Jr., who feels fairly miscast as a charming bachelor turned tragic figure. His and Ankers' chemistry is lacking.

Cinematography: 3.5/5 - Not as striking as some of its contemporaries, it still makes good use of lighting and close-ups.

Editing: 3.5/5 - Best during Lawrence's transformation and scenes of violence.

Music: 3.5/5

Effects & Props: 4/5 - Worked wonderfully in tangent with the film's editing and make-up to bring the transformation to life. The wolf cane prop and fog are also standouts.

Sets: 3/5 - Spooky, though sometimes the sets are a bit obvious.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - Set the bar for werewolf make-up for years to come.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Stereotypical portrayal of Romani people

Animal death

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

On top of merching Abigail's necklace she's also been putting out PR puff pieces about her sweet nod to Charles like wearing this £15,000 Bentley & Skinner diamond bracelet from Charles.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1767866/Meghan-markle-Charles-wedding-gift-hiking-outfit-dxus

The article also mentions all the jewelry she wore on the hike LOL My tin hat theory is that she wore that stack as a clapback at Kate and the RF since Kate was wearing the Queen's diamond festoon necklace & Diana's earrings.

Here is the list of jewelry Meghan wore on the hike according to the article:

£15,000 bracelet from Bentley & Skinner (wedding gift from Charles)

Diana's £17,800 Cartier wristwatch

Diana's £125,000 tennis bracelet

£5,000 Cartier Love

This is absolutely insane to me...just wild😆 This stunt with the jewelry was absolutely deliberate. Sad to see that she's still trying to make that royal connection, but as you said, she's also back to 2016...pap walking with Markus and friend.

LOL, she can't compete. She's just not at the level.

Don't get me wrong, I bet you're right and she thinks she's clapping back. It's just that she's not at the level.

[skippyv20]

I wondered where this company name came from….

Credit: @breezininn

December 5

December 5

“The piece, which was first worn on the eve of her wedding to Prince Harry, was first created by royal warrant holders Bentley & Skinner, features ninety-two round brilliant-cut diamonds.”

Not a bracelet from Charles….or from Harry….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is the same bracelet she said was from Cartier….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

But…No…it’s a Cartier bracelet from Harry 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Do you see how pathetic she is? Do you see she is nothing but a LIAR!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂