#janet x katrina

[extendedsoundsfbrutalpipemurder]

[house-of-slayterr]

Couples costumes I would wear with my friends as a joke:

Tyler: @joelsgeetar

We should go as Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel from Sleepy Hollow! I mean look how cute they are! The costumes for this movie were fire!

Moth: @x-littlemoth

We’d go as Gale and Dewy from Scream! But like not second movie Gale cause her bangs flopped so hard in that movie.

Drew: @queer-and-utter-chaos

We’d go as Alex and David from American Werewolf in London. You would look so nice as David and the heights would be pretty accurate lol. I need to rewrite that movie to give it a happy ending cause Alex and David deserved better.

Dev: @tohuntafreak

We’d go as Eddie and Chrissy, 100%! As a past cheerleader I could actually do a routine lol. And I know I look good in the costume 🥰 except if we hung out in a trailer we’d be having a lot more fun. Chrissy would actually live long enough to get her weed 😂

Jen: @oceansrose2002

We’d go as Lena and Stef from The Fosters. I absolutely adore them as a couple. They’re so cute 🥺

Onion: @frenziedslashers

Can we please please please go as Brad and Janet from Rocky Horror? Like they’re so nerdy and frankly a mess. And I love that about them!

Thumbtack: @rorschach-thumbtack

We’re going as Rorschach and Dan. Why? Because I said so! I need an excuse to buy Nite Owl’s costume anyways 😂

[drarreckyninja]

belated: drarreckyninja’s top 50 ships of Aug 2022 [47. Jarina]

Fandom(s): KallMeKris

Pairing: Janet Collins x Katrina Коллинз

Image:

Where u from? Canada || Russia

Families (my AU):

Janet: Nona (mom), Marie (younger twin sister), Chad (younger brother), Riley (AU baby sister)

Katrina: Babushka (mom), Sergei, Misha (AU baby brothers)

Subship(s): N/A

[p-taryn-dactyl]

Taking Requests!!

hey guys! so i love writing and i really like sharing my writing but recently i’ve had zero thoughts in my head about what to write. so if anyone is interested in my writing, my rules and the stuff i’ll write are below the cut!!

Fandoms:

Marvel

Arcane

Percy Jackson or any part of the Riordanverse (except trials of apollo, haven’t finished it yet)

NCIS (ik that’s probably one you don’t see often but it’s a super guilty pleasure of mine)

Disney (ive seen pretty much all the movies so)

Oceans 8 (I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE IT IS SO GOOD)

She-ra and the Princess of Power 

Stargate SG-1 (for those of you who know what this is plz interact with me - no one understands my pain lol)

Rules:

no NSFW for now - might change in the future

I will write character x reader

if it is male!character x reader, the fic will most likely have to be platonic unless its a guy character im comfortable writing romantically

all character x reader fics will either be fem!reader or GN!reader

if it is character x character, cannot involve a minor unless both characters are minors (no starker plz thats freaking gross), and i probably won’t write it if i don’t ship it 

if you want a series plz specifically say that (also drabbles, headcannons, etc)

i freaking love writing angst so food for thought

to contrast the last point, i also love crack fics

Romantic!Characters:

okay so these are the characters i know for sure that i’ll write in a romantic way for character x reader (if a character you want isn’t here, you can request it! this is just a list of characters that i know for sure i’ll write)

~Arcane~

Sevika

Vi

Caitlyn

Grayson

Ambessa

Mel

Jinx?

~Marvel/X-men~

Agatha Harkness

Carol Danvers

Natasha Romanoff

Kate Bishop

Hela

Loki

Bucky Barnes

Nebula

Ajak

Thena

Xu Xialing

Jean Grey

Ororo (Storm)

Hope Van Dyne

there’s probably more for Marvel lol

~Riordanverse~

Thalia

Reyna

Annabeth

Leo Valdez

~NCIS~

Jack Sloane

Ellie Bishop

Alex Quinn

~Disney~

Luisa

Isabela

Lady Tremaine 

Raya

Namaari

honestly there’s way more characters im just blanking lol

Kida (Kidagakash Nedakh - the queen from Atlantis - my first disney crush lol)  

Helga Katrina Sinclair                 

~Ocean’s 8~

Debbie Ocean

Lou Miller

Tammy

Daphne Kluger

~She-Ra~

Adora

~Stargate~

Samantha Carter

Janet Fraiser

Vala

possibly Daniel Jackson

*okay so any characters that are not mentioned are probably bc ive either rushed through this and forgot about them or bc im only comfortable writing them in a platonic manner*

Character x Character Pairings I’ll Be Okay With Writing:

Percy x Annabeth

Vi x Caitlyn

Jinx x Ekko

Raya x Namaari

Debbie x Lou

Tony Stark x Stephen Strange

Catra x Adora

damn what else do i ship? idk just send in pairings and i’ll see how i feel about them

(If you’ve gotten this far, thank you, but i also wanted to say - I love Greek mythology and i have written a story on here on my now-deleted blog called Song of Medusa and i think its good but idk, so just so y’all know: i am interested in “rewriting” mythology and taking my own twist on the popular tales)

Okay so that was really long ahaha but thanks for checking this out if you did and plz feel free to send in prompts/requests! thank you so much!! have a great day/night everyone!! 

[cyberfairyblog]

Caves of Qumran prologue

Jason, Whit, Connie, Eugene, Katrina, Regina, Calypso and Vanessa go to Qumran to rescue Jason's former colleagues. Jason x OC, Eugene x Katrina, rewrite of the cartoon. The dialogue is wonky I know ;_;

Deep within the caves of a tiny Middle Eastern Country, a pretty blonde haired woman wearing a red shirt and green shorts walked down the caves reading the runes with her torch. She looked around sensing something - or someone - in the same vicinity and contacted her partner.

"Stanley Stanley are you there?"

From not far away,a tall brunette man in a business suit answered back. "I read you Sarah I'm just trying to navigate - WHOAH-" He yelped as he fell into the shallow pool.

"Stanley I don't think we're alone," Sarah voiced her concern.

"Don't tell me you're developing a case of the creepy crawlers." He saw a bunch of cobwebs and proceeded to freak out. Blinded by fear he ran smack dab into the wall and fell.

"Stanley what's happening?"

Stanley got up and sputtered "nothing just taking a little breather," he replied hoping she didn't catch that embarrassing pickle.

The two partners went back and forth, Sarah arguing that they needed to stick together, Stanley countered back claiming her fears were unfounded.

"We shouldn't be wasting our time chasing after a shadow," Stanley said. The inappropriately dressed explorer was too busy talking up his own bravery that he stepped on a brick, that sunk into the ground very slightly but the effect was devastating.

Stanley was just getting up again when the walls disappeared from behind him. Alarmed he tried to see what was going on, but then he heard footsteps approaching him.

Stanley screamed.

By then Sarah was too far into the tunnel to hear her partner's distress. Even through the walkie-talkie he was pleading saying that she was completely right there was someone not in their group in the caves hunting them down. But she didn't listen. She arrived in a small room filled with crates and gasped at the labels some of them bore.

Dozens of ancient artifacts strewn all over, and a table upturned as if there had been a fight. Sarah saw an older woman laying on the floor.

"Professor?" The blonde gasped. The professor's eyes were closed and her body was still like ice.

"No you can't be dead!" The blonde woman shouted in fright, collapsing to her mentor's side to check her pulse. To her relief she was alive but her skin felt cold. They needed to get out of there. Taking out her walkie-talkie she contacted Stanley.

She got her answer when Stanley dropped right in front of her, tied up with rope. "My god what happened?!" Her suspicions were sadly confirmed as another person showed up but they were shrouded in complete darkness.

"No stop, let us go please!" Sarah begged but her desperate pleas echoed with not a single soul to care...

It had been a long slow day at J&J Antiques so it didn't surprise Vanessa in the least bit when she saw Jason asleep on the desk in his office. Smiling she took the time to remove the papers trapped under his face - he would hate having them ruined by a cascade of saliva - and sat them aside.

"Jason," she whispered in his ear. "I'm gonna go ahead and close up shop for you."

The ex-agent only muffled a response. Wow he must've really had a rough day, no doubt because of that woman, Vanessa mused internally. She spent the next several minutes stowing things away and turned on the neon closing sign. By then Jason had woken up and dragged himself into the main room. "Did I miss something?"

"No, just me doing your job," the novelist said with a tease.

Blue eyes glanced at his watch. "Wait it's past seven already? Crap!" Jason exclaimed with a frown.

"Don't worry there hadn't been a customer, you were pretty knocked out though," she replied now feeling concerned. "That's a sign you need a vacation."

Jason was surprised at how clean the main room was, and guilty he fell asleep on the job. That rarely happened even during his time at the NSA and that job required doing paperwork *shudder*. In gratitude he wrapped his strong arms around the plush woman, and they gazed into each other eyes. "What would I do without you Nessie?"

"Oh I don't know, missing, dead, forced to perform at some gangster's kid's birthday party," Vanessa said all that with a shrug. Jason chuckled before pecking her on the lips. They stayed that way for a while until the phone rang. Grumbling at the loss of intimacy Jason trudged over to answer it. Meanwhile Vanessa went to sanitize the counters. She could hear him perk up at the other person on the line.

"Professor Janet it's good to hear from you, how's the expedition?" They talked for a good while and then Jason mentioned something about moving. "We hope to get them by the end of this week! Nice talking to you Professor!"

"Who was that?"

"That my dear was Professor Janet, we used to worked together back when I was a missionary," he explained. "She's sending us gifts from her latest expedition!"

"Oh? That's neat!" Vanessa clapped her hands. "Our museum does need some new items!"

"And the best part is they're entirely free! No payment whatsoever!" In excitement he scooped her up again and kissed her. "Trust me our museum is going to flourish!"

So that was how, almost a week later, a moving van arrived outside the manor house and its drivers unloaded beautiful artifacts of times long passed. According to Jason they came from a tiny middle eastern nation called Qumran.

"Are you sure it's a good idea having those things here?" Calypso asked while watching their progress. "I don't want to have to deal with a curse!"

"Come on Callie you know there's no such things as curses," Regina nudged her on her arm.

The Greek woman crossed her arms. Something smelled fishy about the whole thing.

One of the drivers, who wanted to be cheeky, held a vase out for Dylan. "Here kid catch!" The driver sneered before throwing it. Dylan tried to catch it in time but the poor thing crashed into the ground in a bazillion pieces before he could reach it. Vanessa's face drained and she slowly approached the pile of shards. Before anyone could response the van drove away leaving the black woman to pick up some of the pieces. She was almost in tears.

"They looked like they didn't care," Vanessa grumbled. "I oughta call out to their bosses and give them a piece of my mind!"

"We'll get our justice soon," Jason patted her on the shoulder. "What kind of employee does that to rare artifacts?!"

His father hummed. It did seem odd a professor would hire such careless folks. But at least the other items were in tact.

Little did they realize there was a lot more beyond ancient history behind their new gifts. Something that could lead to an exciting adventure away from Odyssey!

So I'm rewriting the episode "The Caves of Qumran" with Jason and my OCs inserted because I'm in a self indulgent mood. Unlike the OG episode Dylan won't be in this - I like him an all but he wouldn't really fit. Besides I want to see how my OCs would act in an episode. I'm not copying dialogue word for word a lot of it is my own. Also the main couple is Jason x Vanessa (my oc, obviously) as well as Eugene x Katrina. Professor Janet is an OC and an important one in this story. This story has a strong message particularly parodying Hobby Lobby and its recent controversies so that'll be fun! Leave some comments and remember: don't forget to tip the servers!

[an-absolute-travesty]

oscar I‘m scared to ask but did I interpret your header as kaz x net because of a typo or because that’s the intended ship

No no no hdhdhdhdhdh

It’s a reference to callmekris on tiktok, it’s Katrina x Janet lol. @carmenisbiana has a matching one, i can understand the confusion tho.

[fyimani]

Task 001: Character Playlist.

Here for a food time, not a long time - a Maximilian Richardson playlist

Snippets of Lyrics below:

1. overwhelmed - Chloe x Halle

 Holdin' my breath 'til my face turns blue Head under water Breathe deeply, they said I need a weekend again Looking for bright sides Low on the high types Runnin' so fast, I done worn my shoes Head on the pavement, I'm just tryin' to win Pushed in the river, I swim Nothing can blindside (Side, side, side, side) Me like the high tide I don't do well under pressure I don't know it all I wish I had all the answers Fix it all myself (Oh) I feel overwhelmed

2. my girlfriends are my boyfriend - Demi Lovato feat. Saweetie

I found the love of my life (I found the love of my life) Wait, I mean the loves of my life (I mean the loves of my life) My soulmates, my angels My reasons I'm grateful Don't need a ring or a vow (Don't need a ring or a vow) I got my day ones around (I got my day ones around) They're perfect, they're priceless Forever like diamonds (Diamonds)

I buy flowers for my girls Then I shower them in pearls After everything that I've been through

My girlfriends are my boyfriеnd Ain't nobody know me better 'Til forеver do us part Yeah, we'll be partying together

3. anyone - Demi Lovato

A hundred million stories And a hundred million songs I feel stupid when I sing Nobody's listening to me Nobody's listening I talk to shooting stars But they always get it wrong I feel stupid when I pray So, why am I praying anyway? If nobody's listening

4. caribbean blue - Enya

So the world goes round and round With all you ever knew They say the sky high above Is Caribbean blue

5. all for you - Janet Jackson

All my girls at the party, look at that body Shakin' that thing like you never did see Got a nice package alright Guess I'm gonna have to ride it tonight All my girls at the party, look at that body Shakin' that thing like you never did see Got a nice package alright

6. control - Janet Jackson

When I was seventeen, I did what people told me, uh I did what my father said, and let my mother mold me But that was long ago, I'm in

Control Never gonna stop Control To get what I want Control I like to have a lot Control Now I'm all grown up (Ah) 7. fly away - Tones And I

I've been on my own for a minute Is it only me out here? Searching for the place to begin it Is it me? Is it you? Is it fear? Standing on the line I was given People staring at me while I'm here No one seems to think that I fit in But I don't wanna be like them

8. consideration - Rihanna feat. SZA

I came fluttering in from Neverland Time can never stop me, no, no, no, no I know you've tried to I came riding in on a pale white horse Handing out highs to less fortunate I do advise you Run it back, run it on back When you breaking it down for me Cause I can't hear you, two times Run it on back, will it ever make sense to me?

I got to do things my own way darling Will you ever let me Will you ever respect me? No Do things my own way darling You should just let me Why you ain't ever let me grow?

9. this is what you came for - Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna

Baby, this is what you came for Lightning strikes every time she moves And everybody's watchin' her But she's lookin' at You, ooh-ooh, you, ooh-ooh

10. be honest - Jorja Smith feat. Burna Boy

I know you want me Every day, not only when you're lonely‚ yeah You see me think you know me But you don't even know nothing about me‚ yeah You see my thick thighs Lost when you look into my brown eyes See‚ my little waist can make you switch sides You never know the devil in the disguise So why don't you stand up, baby, and Tell me‚ tell me, tell me do you want me on top? So let me show you, show you‚ show you, I don't need to back it up Don't wanna hold ya, mold ya, scold ya Split you in half with my heart I just wanna love on you, trust in you, honour you Please do the same on your part

11. cool for the summer - Demi Lovato

Take me down into your paradise Don't be scared, 'cause I'm your body type Just something that we wanna try 'Cause you and I, we're cool for the summer

12. screwed - Janelle Monáe feat. Zoë Kravitz

Let's get screwed I don't care You fucked the world up now, we'll fuck it all back down Let's get, let's get screwed I, I don't care We'll put water in your guns We'll do it all for fun Let's get screwed

13. walking on sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

 Walking on sunshine Walking on sunshineI feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real I'm on sunshine, baby, oh Oh, yeah, I'm on sunshine, baby Ow!

14. i can't get next to you - The Temptations

 I can turn the gray sky blue I can make it rain whenever I want it to Oh, I can build a castle from a single grain of sand I can make a ship sail, huh, on dry land

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue 'Cause I can't get next to you (I can't get next to you, babe) Next to you (I can't get next to you) I just can't get next you (I can't get next to you, babe) (I can't get next to you) 

15. shot at the night - The Killers

Once in a lifetime, we're breaking all the rules To find that our home, has long been out grown Throw me a life line, cause honey I've got nothing to lose Once in a lifetime (Once in a lifetime) Once in a lifetime

Give me a shot at the night Give me a moment, some kinda mysterious

[suckitsurveys]

Have a name survey because these are always fun.

Bold = like, italics = if I have to choose.

Boys

A Andrew vs. Aaron Alan vs. Alexander Aiden vs. Adam B Brennan vs. Brayden Brandon vs. Braxton ( I prefer Brendon) Bentley vs. Brimley C Cayden vs. Camden Cole vs. Cameron Cade vs. Chandler D Denver vs. Dallas Deklan vs. Dylan David vs. Dennis E Ethan vs. Ezra Eitan vs. Elijah Emmanuel vs. Eden: I prefer Eden for a girl.

F Fabio vs. Ferdinand Finnegan vs. Finley Fernando vs. Frankie G Gavin vs. Gus Gumby vs. Gerrick George vs. Grant H Harper vs. Harley: I like both of these for a girl, but I can see a boy named Harley. Hayden vs. Henry Harlow vs. Hank: I like Harlow for a girl, though I Ian vs. Ivan Indigo vs. Iris: Again, I like Iris for a girl. Indiana vs. Iris: ^

J John vs. Jericho Jacob vs. Jameson Jasper vs. Jedidiah K Kayden vs. Koa Kent vs. Kyle Kevin vs. Konner: I prefer the spelling Connor, though. L Lars vs. Liam Levi vs. Lance Lester vs. Lorenzo M Michael vs. Matthew Maverick vs. Mason Madison vs. Micah N Nolan vs. Nathan Niko vs. Nathaniel Nicholas vs. Nate O Ocean vs. Oscar Orville vs. Otis Otto vs. October P Patrick vs. Percy Preston vs. Paisley Parker vs. Passion Q Quincy vs. Quinn: I like Quinn for both. Quada vs. Quinten Quailen vs Quidditch: Seriously?? R Raven vs. Riley Rowan vs. Rod: I also like Rowan for either. Ray vs. Roy: S Skylar vs. Scott: Storm vs. Steven Sorin vs. Solomon T Trevor vs. Travis Todd vs. Taylor Taytum vs. Tanner U Ulysses vs. Uman Umbo vs. Uno: These are dog’s names Utah vs. Usher: ew no. V Vance vs. Vincent Vern vs. Vayde Vernon vs. Vayden W Walter vs. Wyatt Wade vs. Winter Wallace vs. Whisper: ew don’t name your kid Whisper X Xenon vs. Xayden: Girl of the 21st Century?? Xayler vs. Xavier Xandon vs. Xennan: no. Y Yvonne vs. Yonder: excuse me? Yuletide vs. Yasser: these are not names Yancy vs. Yancer Z Zeeland vs. Zayden Zion vs. Zenon: GIRL OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Zander vs. Zenner

Girls

A Acacia vs. Alexa Aurora vs. Annalise: Ugh I like both of these Avonna vs. Alessandra B Brogan vs. Brooklyn Bianca vs. Brigitta Bailey vs. Brynn C Carlotta vs. Christine Cheyenne vs. Cescily Cecilia vs. Cassidy D Diedra vs. Delilah: Devia vs. Daytona: No. Dakota vs. Darcy E Evonna vs. Eliana Emerald vs. Evangeline Eden vs. Eliza F Felicity vs. Fiona Faith vs. Faye Flavia vs. Flora G Grace vs. Gretchen Genesis vs. Galaxy Gabriella vs. Greta H Harper vs. Hope Holly vs. Hailee Harmony vs. Harvest: Yeek don’t name a kid Harvest. I Imogene vs. Ivy: I like both. Isabella vs. Iris Irene vs. Ingrid J Jessica vs. Jacinda Jade vs. Juniper Joanna vs. Joy K Kaleidoscope vs. Kaylee: Are you kidding me Kennedy vs. Kendall Katelyn vs. Katrina L Lacey vs. Linsey: But I prefer it Lindsey. Lynnea vs. Liberty Lara vs. Lola M Morgan vs. Madison Mackenzie vs. Miranda Marissa vs. Monica N Nora vs. Natalie Nevaeh vs. Nicole: PSA Stop naming girls Neveah it’s not clever. Niki vs. Noelle O Ophelia vs. Ocean Olivia vs. Onna Opal vs. October: Don’t name a kid October. That is a dog’s name. P Passion vs. Primrose Penelope vs. Pixie Pandora vs. Palace: Yikes. Q Quintessa vs. Quincy Quaila vs. Quilala: my brain hurts. Queen vs. Quiencia R Reyna vs. Riley: true story, I know twins named Raina and Riley. Rosanna vs. Rosemary Rhonda vs. Rodica S Skylar vs. Skye Serena vs. Simone Shailey vs. Sienna T Tessa vs. Taylor Tia vs. Tiana Taytum vs. Trixie: Tatum would be a better spelling. U Una vs. Uta Ulyssia vs. Umba Ula vs. Ursula: V Violet vs. Vylette Veronica vs. Victoria Valencia vs. Valerie W Wynona vs. Whitney: Winona though. Wynter vs. Whisper: Stop. Willow vs. Wanda X Xaila vs. Xara Xana vs. Xenon Xavier vs. Xena Y Yasmin vs. Yvonne Yvette vs Yolanda Yori vs. Yaya Z Zayara vs. Zion Zayana vs. Zoey Zen vs. Zara

Final questions! Your name (first and middle): Hannah Martina Do you like it? Yes. What your parents almost named you: Matilda Your favorite girl’s name (first and middle): Althea Janet and Frances Lorraine are the names of my favorite girls :D List five unique names of girls you have met: Calliope, Noemi, Iyla(eye-la), Luciana, McKenna....These are all kids in my niece’s class lol. List five girl’s names you don’t like: Addalyn, McKenzie, Madison, Paisley, anything with an unnecessary “leigh” List five girls name you really like: Cecelia, Ramona, Stella, Alex, Josie. Your first best friend’s name: Randal, Sarah, Ellen. Your siblings names: Corrina The name of the first pet that you loved: Featherbrain. What you would be named if you were the opposite gender: Dylan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

[sparkles-and-trash]

The Belcher Kids as Famous Vines

Tina: 

*Kid does small trick on a scooter* “That was legitness!” 

WELL WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS! 

Old woman slamming on bus doors while singing high notes 

Guy dancing in a tree with a broom and get’s electrocuted 

Shuffling snow, falls for 10 minutes straight

Robot dog falls on banana peel 

Merry crisis!

*Misses minigolf put and jumps into the lake* 

Girl waddles out of the kitchen with locked knees, father very tired and disappointed 

“It’s an avocado! Thanks!” 

Gene: 

Road work ahead? Uhm, yeah, I sure hope it does! 

 A potato flew around my room before you caaame 

 “Emergency? Okay calm down, we don’t want a panic! at the disco!” 

Kid with shoulderpads and sunglasses doing poses around the house

WADDUP, I’m Jared, I’m 19 and I never fucking learned how to read

“Stooop, I could’ve dropped my croissant!” 

CATAPILLAR RAVE! 

Hurricane Katrina? More like hurricane tortilla! 

Kid aggressively reenacting the Bet On It scene from HSM2 by the pool

Welcome to Chili’s

Louise: 

Fre shavac do! 

X-files themesong, aliens falls of treadmill 

 *Cashier and cook in a violent fight, slamming each other against the counter* “Can I get a waffle?” 

“I WON’T HESISTATE, BITCH!” 

I’m baad bitch, you can’t kill me! 

Who’s that pokemon?! “IT’S PIKACHU!!” It’s Clefairy! “FUCK!!” 

The Idubbbz “Waka Waka, I’m GaAY!” remix 

“Fuck off Janet, I’m not going to your FUCKING babyshower!” 

“Excuse my potty mouth :))” *Turns around* “Shut the FUCK UP!!” 

The one where the parasoles finally attacks the human race 

“It was a hit and run.” “What an asshole, did he even leave a note?” “No, I drove away as soon as I hit him!” 

[rickchung]

Talking Sex on Sunday x Firehall Arts Centre x Railtown. (via Emily Cooper)

This very cheeky, original musical set at a sex toy party attended by various middle-aged women and their younger friends with varied sexual histories feels pretty fresh and sex-positive thanks to some wildly fun song and dance numbers about how women get themselves off.

There’s a definite charm and targeted humour to the bawdy material. However, an overly dramatic (probably unnecessary) relationship conflict halfway through almost sinks the pure joy of the dirty jokes and winning musical elements. I could’ve easily done without the reoccurring drama as it was so easy to buy into the celebratory all-female cast and explicit discussions about aging sexual desire.

Cast: (left to right) Irene Karas Loeper, Katrina Reynolds, Seana-Lee Wood, Janet Gigliotti, Sara Vickruck, and Caitriona Murphy.

Book and lyrics by Sara-Jeanne Hosie with music by Hosie and Nico Rhodes.

Directed by FAC Artistic Producer Donna Spencer.

Running live on stage now until March 8.

[toldnews-blog]

New Post has been published on https://toldnews.com/sports/historys-best-super-bowl-halftime-shows/

History's best Super Bowl halftime shows

Written by Allyssia Alleyne, CNN

Oh, the Super Bowl. For football fans, it’s the most important day of the season, the culmination of five months of National Football League competition. And for those less interested in the sport, there’s the halftime show, when the world’s most famous performers deliver 15 minutes of high-voltage entertainment.

The halftime show has long been popular among viewers, whether they’re into football or not, if the perennial Twitter jokes about the game being the opening act for the performer are to be believed. Indeed, the most-watched halftime show, Katy Perry in 2015, attracted 118.5 million viewers, while the game itself drew an average audience of 114.4 million viewers.

This massive audience makes the halftime show a valuable platform for artists to promote designers and spread messages through their costume choices — sometimes courting controversy and backlash in the process.

Ahead of this year’s Super Bowl, here’s a look back at some of the most memorable costumes of halftime shows past.

1993 – Michael Jackson rocks the military look

Michael Jackson performs at Super Bowl XXVII in 1993 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage/Getty Images

Given its significance today, you’d think the Super Bowl halftime show has always been a prestige event. But it was only in 1993, when Michael Jackson brought his trademark pageantry to the event, that it took on its current reputation. Before then, the show had mostly been dominated by marching bands.

Jackson’s performance — introduced by no less than James Earl Jones — opened with him springing eight feet into the air from underneath the stage (a trademark of his 1992 Dangerous World Tour), against a backdrop of pyrotechnics. He then stood motionless for one-and-a-half minutes in a military-inspired black-and-gold ensemble, before launching into a medley of his hits.

Given Jackson’s repertoire of songs against police violence, war and injustice, this look was subversive. “Michael made (the uniform) his own by pushing the envelope, rebelling against the establishment the uniform is supposed to represent with all those badges and making it rock ‘n’ roll,” Michael Bush, one of Jackson’s costume designers, told Rolling Stone in 2012.

But it was also just fantastic theater for an audience that had previously settled for Disney characters and an Elvis-impersonating magician.

2004 – Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction

Janet Jackson performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII at Houston’s Reliant Stadium in 2004. Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 performance will forever be remembered as the incident that brought “wardrobe malfunction” into popular parlance.

While performing a duet, Timberlake ripped off a part of Jackson’s bustier, exposing her breast to 143.6 million viewers, and “Nipplegate” was born.

A lot of people were unhappy. The Federal Communications Commission reportedly received more than 500,000 indecency complaints about 9/16 of a second of exposed flesh, and levied a $550,000 fine against CBS, the network airing the game, and its affiliates. (The fine was thrown out by the Supreme Court in 2012.)

Jackson took on the brunt of the backlash and has not performed at the Super Bowl since. Timberlake, however, performed a set alternately described as “forgettable but flashy,” “sonically challenged” and “a total disaster” in 2018.

2007 – Prince’s perfect timing

Prince at Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Credit: Philip Ramey/RamneyPIX/Corbis/Getty Images

Prince — dressed in blue suit and chest-bearing orange button-down, hair covered with a black scarf — performing “Purple Rain” in the middle of a torrential storm, purple “symbol” guitar in hand, was a glorious finale to a performance that saw one of history’s most incandescent performers giving his all for 140 million views.

“The heavy rain made the smoke and lights seem mysterious, instead of merely ridiculous. And there was a sneaky thrill in watching Prince steal the field from guys three times his size, if only for a few moments,” opined music critic Kelefa Sanneh in the New York Times following the show.

2012 – Madonna brings high fashion to halftime

Madonna wears Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci at Super Bowl XLVI in 2012. Credit: Al Bello/Getty Images

The 2012 Super Bowl is when halftime officially went high fashion. To add an extra veneer of dark glamour to her performance, Madonna enlisted designer Riccardo Tisci, then creative director of Givenchy, to design her costumes.

“Following my collaboration with Madonna on her last tour three years ago, it is a great honor for me to be a part of yet another historical and iconic moment,” Tisci told Vogue after the performance. “People say everything has a limit, but limits do not exist with Madonna.”

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The bespoke outfits, inspired by looks Tisci had designed for the French fashion house, included an embellished gold cape and a gladiatorial black mini skirt with a studded belt, each accessorized with an Egyptian-inspired headpiece by British milliner Philip Treacy.

2015 – Katy Perry goes (more) pop with Jeremy Scott

Katy Perry, wearing Jeremy Scott, performs her single “Roar” atop a metal lion during the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Fashion took the spotlight again in 2015, when Katy Perry wore four Jeremy Scott outfits on stage. The looks were a perfect marriage of Katy Perry’s over-the-top cartoonish-ness and Scott’s penchant for bedazzled Americana and pop culture.

One of the highlights? A metallic skirt-and-jacket combo covered in flames worn during the first number, inspired by a pair of shoes from the designer’s archive. Perry wore it to perform her song “Roar” atop a metal lion.

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“I love pop culture, and for me that’s one of the things that’s so exciting about this opportunity,” Scott told the now-defunct fashion news site Style.com. “The audience is so vast, it’s so much more outside our nuanced world of high-fashion lovers.”

That “vast” audience ended up encompassing 118.5 million TV viewers — the standing record for a Super Bowl halftime show.

2016 – Beyoncé gets political

SANTA CLARA, CA – FEBRUARY 07: Beyonce and Bruno Mars perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Super Bowl weekend was a busy one for Beyoncé. On Saturday, she released the video for her new single, “Formation,” a visual exploration of southern black femininity and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which ripped through predominantly black New Orleans neighborhoods in 2005. On Sunday, she took to the stage to perform in one of the year’s most-watched televised events.

Her performance was unabashedly politically. She opened the show with an all-black dance troupe donning afros and black berets, an obvious reference to the way the way Black Panther Party members dressed in the ’60s. (Forgoing the beret, Beyoncé tipped her hat to Michael Jackson with a black-and-gold military jacket recalling his own Super Bowl look.) The dancers also assumed an “X” formation at one point, a reference to Malcolm X.

While fans and critics praised the performance, and the audacity of making such a powerful statement in front of her entire country. New York Times Magazine staff writer Jenna Wortham put it well: “I think she wants us to know that even though she’s headlining a mainstream event like the Super Bowl, she has opinions and isn’t afraid to share them, nor is she afraid to do it on a national and global scale.”

(It’s worth noting this was in February 2016, seven months before Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in protest against police brutality and racism in the US.)

Others took offense at what they perceived as an anti-police sentiment. Some were so upset that they organized a poorly attended anti-Beyoncé rally at the NFL’s New York headquarters. Rudy Giuliani, the outspoken former mayor of New York mayor and Donald Trump’s attorney, called it “outrageous.”

“This is football, not Hollywood,” he told Fox News, “and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive.”

2017 – Lady Gaga takes to the skies

Lady Gaga performs during Super Bowl LI Halftime Show at Houston’s NRG Stadium in 2017. Credit: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

Leave it to Lady Gaga to take the Super Bowl halftime show to new heights. The Oscar-nominee started her set singing “God Bless America” and “This Land Is Your Land” before being lowered into the stadium on cables to sing, dance and play piano to her greatest hits.

Surprisingly, she wore only two outfits throughout: An iridescent, crystal-embellished bodysuit (which she later covered with a spiked golden jacket); and a white jacket that resembled football shoulder pads with matching hot pants. Both were designed by Atelier Versace, so subtle they were not.

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U.S. Gulf Coast Braces For Fast-Approaching Hurricane Nate

Map tracks the forecast and positioning outlook for Hurricane Nate; 2c x 6 inches; 96.3 mm x 152 mm;

NEW ORLEANS — Rain bands from fast-moving Hurricane Nate lashed southeast Louisiana on Saturday afternoon as the storm headed for an evening landfall and residents in vulnerable, low-lying areas fled.

“It’s coming,” Larry Bertron said as he and his wife Kimberlee prepared to leave their home in the Braithwaite community of vulnerable Plaquemines Parish.

Hurricane veterans, they lost one home in south Louisiana to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and were preparing to leave the home they rebuilt after Hurricane Isaac in 2012. Many of the houses around theirs remain abandoned and blighted from Isaac.

“This will be it,” said Bertron, who complained that local officials haven’t done enough to improve area levees. “If it floods again, this will be it. I can’t live on promises.”

Nate was located midday Saturday about 105 miles (170 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was still a Category 1 storm but was expected to reach Category 2 strength before making landfall. Nate killed at least 21 people after strafing Central America earlier in the week.

States of emergency were declared in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; officials announced evacuation orders in low-lying areas and the opening of shelters for anyone who needs them. New Orleans residents fretted over a city drainage system in which weaknesses were revealed during summer flash floods.

Waterside sections of New Orleans, outside the city’s levee system, were under an evacuation order. About 2,000 people were affected. But not everyone was complying.

Gabriel Black of New Orleans’ Venetian Isles community sent his wife, a friend, and three dogs to a hotel in the city. Black stayed behind because an 81-year-old neighbor refused to leave.

“I know it sounds insane, but he has bad legs and he doesn’t have anybody who can get to him,” Black said.

Others nearby were staying as well. Nancy and Cleve Bell said their house is built so high off the ground that it stayed dry in the floods after Hurricane Katrina. Nancy Bell said they have a generator and plenty of supplies, and will be safe.

Anticipation of Nate’s high winds, rain and storm surge prompted evacuations in the barrier island town of Grand Isle and the coastal town of Lafitte.

The vast majority of New Orleans residents were not under such an order. But a 7 p.m. curfew was declared for the city, whose fragile pumping and drainage system could face a major test once Nate strikes. System weaknesses - including the failure of some pumps and power-generating turbines - were exposed after an Aug. 5 deluge flooded homes and businesses in some sections of the city.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said 109 of 120 pumps are functioning, which is 92 percent capacity. Some 26 backup generators were in place. Efforts to clean thousands of street catch basins have been stepped up, with vacuum trucks dispatched to various areas to suck out thick mud and debris.

Landrieu also said flood-prone underpasses would be blocked Saturday to keep motorists from driving into standing water.

“Right now this storm should not bring us anything that we’re not prepared to handle,” Landrieu said Saturday.

Forecaster said Nate could dump 3 to 6 inches (7 to 15 centimeters) of rain on the region — with isolated totals of up to 10 inches (25 centimeters).

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he spoke with President Trump on Saturday morning. “He assured me that LA would have all the assistance we need as we prepare for #Nate,” the governor posted on Twitter.

In Alabama, the Bankhead Tunnel - which passes under the Mobile River - was closed, with large doors and sandbags covering the entrances. On Dauphin Island — a barrier island south of Mobile — owners hauled boats out of the water. The major concern was the storm surge was projected to coincide with high tide. Shelters were being open for coastal residents.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency in six southernmost counties. State officials warned storm surge was the biggest danger in that state’s low-lying coastal areas, as well as high winds that could damage mobile homes. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced the opening of shelters on the coast Saturday. Crews were lowering high masts that hold street lights along the coast to keep the lights from becoming projectiles in high winds.

The National Hurricane Center said a hurricane warning was in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida border and also for metropolitan New Orleans and nearby Lake Pontchartrain. Tropical storm warnings extended west of Grand Isle to Morgan City, Louisiana, and around Lake Maurepas and east of the Alabama-Florida border to the Okaloosa-Walton County line in the Florida Panhandle.

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, MELINDA DESLATTE and JEFF AMY - Oct 7 2:44 PM EDT

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Associated Press writer Kim Chandler in Alabama and Kevin McGill in New Orleans, and AP photographer Gerald Herbert in Plaquemines Parish, contributed to this report.