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[fox-from-malta]

EDWARD! and Neville ;v;!

These two are my 2nd favourite characters in the Skinner Boys series! [the only thing I dislike is the constant fart and pantless humor they gave this poor boy]

Neville is cute, and I love him, but changed him into a Ferret in my re-imagining cause it's more likely to be a pet and a red mongoose lol. Neville is also be more important in this AU as he was a gift for Ed from his grandfather. [and is secretly an artifact]

[underestimated-shadow]

“I wanted to bring people back to believing in this character. To bring my reality to it. I guess I've always liked a challenge.”

– Timothy Dalton

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The Cast + "Can you pronounce the name of the unicorn?"(Ihuarraquax)

[sixaus-meaa]

SIX THE MUSICAL - MODERN!AU: illustration

Maggie's family tree

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Through The Madness, Stay Strong by Sons of Kemet, live From The Basement

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Also Bojo somehow got 3rd without killing anyone wow

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LOL

[bindi-the-skunk]

More notes and my full opinion on the rest of the novel

The movie most certainly gave Jekyll more spine than he has in the novel

He makes a suggestion to just leave during the explosions and leave everyone in Venice to face their fates, and is constantly described as cowering under Nemo and Quartermain's glares and his "No! Hyde will never control me again!" is more of a whimper than him being stubborn and Dorian gets an extended line "But without him, my dear doctor, what use are you?" Gray said with a taunting lilt to his voice "Do you plan to apply bandages and iodine to our scrapes once we're all finished?"

He is not the first one to reach Ishmael before Nemo, who ends up being the one to cradle Ishmael, and it takes Nemo yelling at the doctor to get him to try and treat the wounded man Sawyer is the one who breaks the Gramaphone not Nemo and the novel is hinting more towards SawyerxMina over the JekyllxMina hints in the film

the saving of the Nautilus is still an awesome and epic moment for Jekyll-Hyde though he is described as shell-shocked instead of walking up straight and smiling like in the film

Sawyer is hinted to be the one who will become the leader throughout, again, this is something I'm glad got left out of the film to allow more room for Mina to take up her role from the comics

Unfortunatly it also mentions Jonathan dying during the mission to take down Dracula (and that Mina met Gray five years after the fact meaning no baby Quincy in the novelverse

The tiger is revealed to be REAL here, not a vision as it was apparently tracking Skinner, meaning he saw it too and Mina does not smack Skinner a good one for pinching her butt.

Jekyll's scenes several times read more like the fanfictions, yeah, not a fun image and another happy change for the film to make.

though Huck Finn gets a more proper mention in the novel and Sawyer makes an earlier appearance and is mistaken for a stalking fanboy by Quartermain.

Another moment I liked was a moment where Nemo thinks of his past and even gets in another little moment for Nemo and Hyde

Nemo motioned the fearsome Hyde back as he crouched at the grate and peered into the dungeons below. He saw the hopeful faces of hostages turned up to look at him "These must be the scientists wives and children". In a flash of memory, he thought of his own wife and son, both tragically killed. his fingers clenched, and he had to force the thoughts away. Nemo called upon his philosophy and prayers, just to make his heart go numb again, his past go blank. He put a finger to his lips, and the hostages inside fell quiet, stifling their confusion and joy. "We will rescue you. Do not be frightened." He signaled for Hyde to come forward, and as the brutish man's shadow fell over the grate, Nemo held out a hand to calm the captives. "Do not be frightened of him"

Another interesting add on is Grey offering Mina to join him and to give into her demons and to return to London with him and a small tease of him perhaps being sorry for his actions…only for him to of course say no he's lying about THAT too and enjoyed the treachery

During the fight in the factory, Hyde protects and then sends Nemo's crewmen to go find and help him, planning on fighting by himself despite being strained and he does not call for Nemo's help in the novel either and Nemo finds Hyde by himself and Hyde even stops Nemo from interfearing in the fight against Dante by putting a hand in front of him though Nemo does through himself into it a few moments later and the rapid slashes are shown to be a "death of a thousand cuts" gamble against the dante-hyde

the ending reveals Skinner as a member of the secret service of the queen or some other stuff and Bond appears…it hints at the Martain plot from the comic...yeah a bit of a hasty mess there with the films funeral scene being more of a proper ending

But final thoughts, I did enjoy the novel, I'm glad I bought it and will no doubt read it several more times, do I like it better than the movie? No, but I do feel that if the novel and film had been properly mixed, we could have had a movie bigger and better than the first Avengers film.

So if you are eager for an adventure, go look the novel up and enjoy the ride

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; 30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984)

[willstafford]

The Axeman Cometh

THE CHERRY ORCHARD The Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Wednesday 25th October 2023 Now, I enjoy a good Chekhov as much as the next man, but it can be difficult for a production to hit the right tone – especially with this, his final masterpiece, which first appeared in 1904.  A once-rich family and their retainers have to sell up the ancestral estate, due to societal change (no more…

[little-red-fool]

I love the difference between mine and my dad’s Tavs because his looks like a normal British guy with a typical fantasy name and mine looks like a typical fantasy guy with a normal British name.

[finniestoncrane]

i know i am mostly a batman/dc rogues writer but it's been really fun branching myself out so just a reminder that i am taking requests for my usual beloveds which you can find here in my request info but also:

Cooper Howard (fallout prime)

Maximus (fallout prime)

Thaddeus (fallout prime)

John Hancock (fallout 4)

Sturges (fallout 4)

Edward Deegan (fallout 4)

Paladin Danse (fallout 4)

Nick Valentine (fallout 4)

Cecil Stedman (invincible)

Walter Skinner (x-files)

Arthur Morgan (red dead redemption 2)

Egon Spengler (ghostbusters)

Nick (left 4 dead 2)

and it's always worth asking me if i would write for someone cos i may have forgotten them or never realised people wanted things about them lol

[short-skirt-longjackett]

Renewal Isn't A Lie Anymore pt. 9

(i'm back from the dead- and I think it's appreciated and appropriate if I started off with my most popular series lol)

-Edward Nashton x gn! reader

-warnings: canonical violence, some talk of nsfw, something a little hurtful ;)

While Bruce ran around Gotham looking for clues that would bring him closer to The Riddler, he was also looking for you. He knew he fucked up with you, but maybe he can salvage this relationship...Or would you just end up as brainwashed as The Riddler?

While Batman chased his own tail, Edward kept with carrying his plan. Though you two were now unlikely lovers and not exactly in a relationship, he didn't share any of his plans with you. He didn't want you involved. But you very much were since you were now his fuck buddy.

You laid in an empty bed. You just woke up from an exciting night with The Riddler. You sat up and looked out the window, viewing the gloomy and depressing city below. You looked around the messy room, clearly Edward left for work.

Getting up out of his bed, you shuffle around the cold apartment. Making your way to the kitchen, you noticed a small note.

'Gone to work, have a good day love'

You smiled, placing the sticky note on his fridge. From the top of your brain, you had nothing to do today expect go to pay your respects to now deceased Don Mitchell Jr. Though you never liked him, you felt for his family. He left behind a wife and a son, you only could imagine how hard it is for them. You obviously know Edward caused this...Though you liked Edward...You could only imagine what he could do to you if you ever went back to Bruce...or even talked back to him once. Edward was more than capable to kill you and make an example out of you, and you knew he would if he didn't like what you were doing or saying.

As you dressed, you think about the previous night. How he touched you, how he fucked you...You blush as you dressed in your all-black attire. You check yourself in the bathroom before you exit his apartment and make your way to the church.

When you got the church, immediately the press took photos of you. How you showed up with Bruce, how you kept your head down as you walked pass...You knew they would make this funeral an article on how you're no longer going out or being seen with Bruce. As you walked through the door, all eyes were on you. But you only kept your eyes forward, seeing the large flower arrangements on both sides of the casket.

As you made your way, you saw Bruce being spoke to by the new Mayor, who won by default. Though he stayed silent, you could tell by his body language he did not want to be there or spoken to.

'He looks skinner...He isn't eating' you thought. He turned and noticed you, freezing at your presence. You also didn't know how to feel seeing him. He awkwardly pushes through people to get to you, making your mouth go dry with anxiousness.

"Hi..."

"Hello Bruce.."

Was that all you could muster up? After all this time that's all you could say? You nervously look up him. He looked depressed, he always looked that way but this time it was different. "Y/n...Could we talk after this...? I don't want you to run off..." he said quietly, just above a whisper.

"Fine, we can..." you said, struggling to make eye contact. "I got a video of you last night...A certain video of you with..." God he couldn't even finish that sentence. Your eyes grew in shock. Oh god, he sent that to him? Maybe because you were in a horny daze you couldn't process anything he was saying, you didn't know that he was going to send it to him.

"I don't know...how he got with you or got to you...But I need to make sure you're okay," he said, soon looking up to make eye contact with a young boy that was the mayor's son. As you spoke, he then turned to look up at the floor above him. Though he wanted to listen to you, something felt off. He saw a silhouette of a man..but who?

You notice him not paying attention, "Bruce, did you just hear anything I said,,?" you said quietly, but clearly annoyed. You noticed where his eyes were, so you follow...But see nothing. "Bruce, what's wrong?" You whispered again.

As the gospel music played, a crash was soon heard. A car managed to crash into the building. Everyone screamed and moved out the way. As you saw Bruce run to protect the child. You felt a presence snatch you from the back, place something large, cold, heavy, and metal around your neck. What the hell? As you tried to look down, your hands roaming what was just put on you, your eyes widen. There was a bomb now attached to you by the said metal device. Start to freak out, people that were around you now ran away from you as quickly as they can. As you scramble to look who was the culprit and who could help, your mind only went to one person...Edward. Only someone of his genius could make something like this.

You started to tear up, trying to get the device off of you. "Is this a fucking saw trap?!" You yelled, tears now flowing from your face. Was this how you were going to die? Was this your resting place?

Was everything with Edward a ploy for this exact moment?

As you cried, Bruce looked over at your now crying figure. He internally freaked out as he saw you crying. As everyone ran out, some staying to see what was in the car. A man soon stepped out with the same device around his neck, only he looked more beat up. he had a card stepped to his chest and a phone taped to his hand, an unknown number calling the phone. The man looked just as panicked as you did. Soon police escorted everyone out, leaving you and this man alone with a casket in an empty church.

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You and the man sat there in silence for what seemed to be hours. You tried to hold back your tears, you felt so many emotions that you couldn't even let out. The police sent in a small device to keep an eye on both of you as police stood at the entrance, guns and shield held up.

The man who sat across from you stay silent, tape over his mouth that simply read "No more lies". To the police chiefs and investigators, they were confused on why you were brought into the situations. You never took up bribes, you never lied on your promises. Hell, you made everything better. Was he just using you as an example on no matter good or bad, the rich must be taken out? Or were you hiding something? Soon, the phone rang again...and again.

Out of the shadows, Batman came out and approached you both. You both felt relief, more of him than you. Bruce looked down at you, looking at your face stained with tears. Even with your tears, you still look at beautiful as the day he met you. Bruce wanted to caress your face, tell you it would be okay and bring you home. But he knew he couldn't.

He took the tape off the mans face, soon answering the phone. You heard the Riddler talking to Batman, heard him talking about chances and how he was never given one. But now Batman has a chance to make everything right. As he spoke to your husband, he then spoke to Colson about riddles and how they were his retreat.

"Now...place the phone to my sweet angel...Y/n.." he demanded, the man showing the screen to reveal your disheveled look. You could barely look up at the screen to face him...

He betrayed you, used you as a pawn to make a statement...

"My darling, loving, caring angel...You are always so kind. You never lie...yet here you are in this predicament. Now, my sweet...I want you to answer three riddles. Three riddles and I'll set you free. You have two minutes...Are you ready?" he asked, trying to come off as a sweet and caring guy.

You simply nodded, taking in a sharp breath as you hear the beeping of the bomb go off. You had to make this count, even though you knew Edward loved you...he wouldn't hold back.

"What can you break of mine even if you never pick it up or touch it?"

"Your heart..."

"Good job! Now...What can fill a room...but takes up no space?" he asked, almost seeming he was giving you easy ones on purposes. You knew deep down he didn't want you to die.

"..Love.." you answered, seeming more agitated at the fact of why you are here. He wanted to use you to make a statement. As you answered, Bruce felt his jaw clench. He knew the Riddler fucked you, even had feelings for you. But at this point he was openly flirting and professing his love to you right Infront of him. Bruce knows he messed up with you. But maybe this could bring you together once he saves you both.

"You're so good at this Y/n! And they say public schools doesn't teach people anything..." he joked, but you weren't having it. You were beyond pissed.

"Now, 1 minute and 1 more riddle...I can be offered. A very important part of a relationship, I survive when it is true. What am I?" he asked, this one crawling underneath your skin.

"Loyalty.." you said, clearly pissed off. You were loyal to Bruce, then he slept with his crime partner, Selina, behind your back...Then you gave it to Edward, who was now sitting here, asking you riddles while your life depends on it.

You knew nothing of true loyalty.

As he congratulated you, the contraption fell off. It was freeing. You shot up, your hands feeling your neck area. It was so light now...As you felt tears of happiness and fear come up, your instincts lead you to hug Bruce. As you cried, spewing nonsense of 'thank god' and 'holy shit', you held tightly onto Batman.

Bruce instantly held you back, rubbing your back as you cried into his chest. He didn't want to let you go, and you clearly weren't going to let go anytime soon. He viewed you neck, it was read and bloody from the metal rubbing against your neck all he could give you right now was a small "it's okay".

You heard Bruce help the man answer his tougher riddles. You saw as he tried denying taking brides. Bruce set you aside as he stepped closer to him. Your breath was short as you listened to the bomb tick more and more. Before you knew it, Bruce used his body as a human shield to block you from the explosion. Bruce took the brunt of the explosion for you, protecting your body. Was this way to say sorry?

As you groaned in pain, Bruce whispering in your ear

"It's okay baby, I'm here..."

"You're safe, I'll bring you home.."

All you could do was just listen, you felt so weak. Your eyes closed as police ran in, only hearing yelling for a few faint seconds but nothing.

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[johndpg]

CATWEAZLE (1970)

Catweazle was a popular British children’s TV series of the early 1970s. He’s an 11th century bumbling wizard who, when pursued by soldiers through a wood, says a spell as he jumps into a pond. When he emerges, he believes he’s made the soldiers and the wood disappear; in fact he has jumped 900 years into the future. He arrives on a farm in rural England in the year 1969 and befriends a farmer's son, a ginger teenager named Edward Bennet, nicknamed Carrot, who spends most of the rest of the series attempting to hide the wizard from his father and the farmhand Sam. Catweazle searches for a way to return to his own time while hiding in a disused water tower. Whenever he is spotted, he uses his magic amulet to hypnotise people into forgetting that they saw him. He also has a toad called Touchwood (who’s featured in the screenshots above).

There was a second series shown in 1971 in which Catweazle has moved to a stately home, where he befriends the son of the unhinged gentry family living there. Frankly, series one is much better and more fondly remembered (especially by me—I loved this show as a boy!). A third series was planned but never came to fruition.

These screenshots are taken from Series 1, Episode 12—The Wisdom of Solomon. A housekeeper called Mrs Skinner has moved into the farm along with her obnoxious son Arthur. He and Carrot do not get along. This is the only episode to feature school uniforms, so it’s good to see one of the characters is wearing grey short trousers. Carrot is supposed to be around 14, so I think Arthur is meant to be younger, say 12/13. It’s a contemporary production, so the uniforms (complete with school caps!) are authentic for the period, and boys didn’t generally continue wearing shorts to school much past 12 (in state schools anyway—although I stand to be corrected). Did you spot that Arthur’s shorts are fully lined?

In reality, Robin Davies who played Carrot was 15 at the time of filming. Feddy Foote, meanwhile, who played Arthur, was actually older than him at 16 years old. Both boys would still have been at school when the episode was shot, so I wonder how young Freddy reacted when he first saw his costume—or what the other boys at his school thought when it was transmitted?

Catweazle was played by Geoffrey Bayldon, who enjoyed a substantial TV, film and stage career. The series featured a host of famous faces, such as Patricia Hayes, Peter Sallis, John Junkin, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Neil McCarthy, Moray Watson, Bernard Hepton… It’s a veritable who’s who of popular British actors and comedy talent of the time. You can find most of the episodes on YouTube but I’ve included a link to the one with the two boys in their uniforms below.

Master Davies will be returning to this blog wearing a different school uniform (still with a cap though!) and with a short-trousered younger brother in tow in And Mother Makes Three. As a final note, he died his hair for Catweazle, so that his character could better live up to his nickname.

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