#jenny o'malley

[shakespearefreak]

Grim Ghostly Bride ft. Samantha

Happy Halloween month from Ghost Bride Samantha and me! 🎃 I bought a doll wedding dress from Etsy, took a seam ripper and some green and black fabric dye to it, and finally sewed some "creepy cloth" to the waist. The original dress was so beautiful on its own, I felt kinda bad ruining it, but the final effect is undeniably cool. I have this fun little headcanon that Sam got this costume in-universe when she found an old wedding dress in Grandmary's attic shortly after she heard the scary story "The Mistletoe Bough," which is about a bride who meets a gruesome fate after a game of hide-and-seek with her new husband goes terribly wrong. She got inspired, and (after getting permission from Grandmary) she asked Jessie to help her alter it to fit her. Then she and Aunt Cornelia took a pair of scissors and added some strategically placed rips, and finally they let Bridget and Jenny throw ink all over it (which the two little girls enjoyed tremendously, though they needed a good long soak in the bath afterwards).

[pollylynn]

Title: Shadow Box WC: 900

"Hi, my name is Kate, and my boyfriend has been a very bad boy. Yes, that's right. His name's Ricky.”

—Kate Beckett, The Mistress Always Spanks Twice (2 x 16)

A/N: There's a mild spoiler for the Nikki Heat books in this story; it's something that is established pretty early on, and I don't think it's a big deal in terms of what it "spoils," but I am bananas about avoiding spoilers, so I warn because I love.

There’s an imaginary boyfriend problem in town. Well. It’s even more local than that. There’s an imaginary boyfriend problem in his head, and it’s not a lascivious teenage boy, or even a bevy of lascivious teenage boys, if in fact bevy is a collective noun one can apply to lascivious teenage boys. He should know whether or not it is—words and their various uses are his stock in trade—but he does not at the moment. The imaginary boyfriend infestation has driven this and other vital knowledge right out of his head. 

He wishes the imaginary boyfriend were a teenager, driven mad with lascivious thoughts by the sight of his daughter in her borrowed—and let’s face it, fairly modest, despite his paternal freakout—cheerleading outfit. Okay, he almost wishes it were a lascivious teenager, but reasonably high neckline and unremarkable hemline aside, he is not quite there. Even with an imaginary boyfriend living in his head, rent free, he is not quite texting all the lascivious teenage boys he knows to invite them over to appreciate his daughter’s skill with pom pons. 

The imaginary boyfriend is also not the hypothetical boyfriend—the all-but-certainly- hypothetical boyfriend whom she would bring nowhere near the precinct if he existed. That is not the imaginary boyfriend in question. The hypothetical boyfriend is no concern of his, because come on: if he existed, she would totally bring him around the precinct. For the distinct pleasure of torturing him? She would absolutely risk any amount of teasing, any number of wolf whistles, anything at all the boys and the rest of the precinct could dream up for that. 

So he’s not worried about the hypothetical boyfriend suddenly materializing. He is worried about the imaginary boyfriend—the one whose existence is completely and totally his fault. He is, not to put too fine a point on it, worried about Don, Nikki Heat’s trainer-with-benefits. He is worried about a man who is entirely the product of his own imagination. A rather unimpressive imagination, in this case. 

He remembers creating Don in an adolescent moment when he felt he had to make good on his spur-of-the-moment insistence that Nikki was kinda slutty. Or maybe it was in a fit of pique after she went on and on about Nikki Heat being a stripper name. It could have been in a prolonged bout of frustration, because he couldn’t figure her out at all after that first blinding insight about loss and an unsolved murder. Even with a front-row seat to her kiss with Sorenson and the post-Sorenson date she may or may not have really had, he could not at all get a handle on her personal life.

Truthfully, he can’t really remember exactly how Don came to be, and now he’s stuck with him. He’s stuck with this embarrassment of a character who illuminates almost exactly nothing about Nikki Heat: She’s an adult woman who has occasional casual sex and that is supposed to be . . . what? Edgy? Complicated? 

The adolescent moment explanation is not especially compelling, particularly in light of the recently revealed, titillating insights Nikki’s real-world counterpart seems to have into the ins and outs, as it were, of Dungeon Alley, and he does not believe for a second that she acquired those insights working Vice. He has more faith in the non-hypothetical existence of the hypothetical boyfriend than he has in that hastily assembled explanation. 

He’d very much like to have that problem in town. He would enthusiastically make up the guest-room bed in his head for the problem of how Kate Beckett has come by her ability to recognize custom cuffs and her casual familiarity with the layout of the average sex dungeon. But there’s no room at the inn. 

He is stuck with Don, living the rent-free life in his head, and what is with that guy anyway? He’s content to occasionally jump in to Nikki’s bed and leave it at that. Of all the unbelievable things he’s asked his readers to believe over two decades and upwards of twenty novels, that just takes the cake.  The man is a cardboard cut-out who aspires to two-dimensionality. He exists solely to  . . . what? Assure the audience that Nikki isn’t some ice queen? To convince them that she is an ice queen until Rook comes along and ignites her innermost fires?

That last rhetorical question lands with a bitterly non-rhetorical thunk. Don’s origins were somewhere in that particular neighborhood. He needed an obstacle. He needed Nikki to have some non-Rook outlet so that she wasn’t, from the very beginning of the first book, tossing Rook roughly on to the hood of her undercover and ravishing him openly on the streets of New York. 

But Don the imaginary  boyfriend is an embarrassing oversimplification, even on that clunky, superficial level. He is a cringe-worthy mess. He wouldn’t know a double cross lap stitch from . . . some other kind of second-rate, mass-produced stitch. He couldn’t MapQuest his way to Dungeon Alley, and he has no idea whether or not Nikki prefers slippery to sticky. 

Don the imaginary boyfriend is wholly unworthy of such esoteric knowledge. The trouble is, the more he gets to know Nikki—the more he gets to know her—he’s not sure who is worthy, let alone ready for her. 

He’s not sure there’s a man alive—or imagined—who is, but he’d like to find out. 

A/N: This is a stinky one; I really wish my schedule allowed for me to write one every night, rather than so sporadically, but I am trying to get back to at least a few per week. There's just more shaking the rust off involved.

images via homeofthenutty

[best-fictional-cat]

Finally, what you've all been waiting for (probably):

Round 2+ brackets!!!

(randomised - with very slight adjustments - using a wheel; possibly subject to change in the further rounds but very unlikely)

Group 1

Coco Grimalkin (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Miyuki (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Slugcat (Rain World) vs Catbus (My Neighbor Totoro)

Behemoth (Master and Margarita) vs Amp / Anp / Anpu (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Pixie (Pixie and Brutus)

Chi Yamada (Chi's sweet home) vs Rum Tum Tugger (Cats the musical)

Tabby Slime (Slime Rancher) vs Tangy (Animal Crossing)

Cringer / Battlecat (He-man) vs Cinderpelt (Warrior cats)

Blaze the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Scourge (Warrior cats)

Group 2

Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods) vs Natsume Soseki (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Domino (Amphibia) vs Shoe + Wagahai (Ace Attorney)

808 (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Niko (Oneshot)

Squirrelflight (Warrior cats) vs T'Ana (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Hong + On (Trash of the Count's Family) vs Alpine (Marvel comics)

Jaspers (Homestuck) vs Mao Mao Mao (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)

Thomas Kincade Brannigan (Doctor Who) vs Caroline Coughs (Sparklecare hospital)

Mewo (Omori) vs Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Group 3

Greebo (Discworld) vs Aldwyn (The Familiars)

Simba (The Lion King) vs Leona Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland)

Jenny Linsky (Jenny Linsky, Esther Averill) vs Findus (Pettson and Findus)

Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) vs Mad Mew Mew (Undertale)

Felix the cat (Paramount) vs Burgerpants (Undertale)

Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) vs Ghost (The Owl House)

Rosie (Animal Crossing) vs Talking Cat (Rick and Morty)

Hiili (Fox Fires) vs Mew (Marvel comics)

Group 4

Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) vs Tom Kitten (The Tale of Tom Kitten)

Meowthra (Lego Ninjago Movie) vs Jonesy (Alien)

Vodka Mutini / Dr.Meowgon Spangler (Homestuck) vs Lucifer (Cinderella)

Charmmy Kitty (Sanrio) vs Puppycat (Bee and Puppycat)

Nermal (Garfield) vs Lion (Steven Universe)

Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation) vs Diana (Sailor Moon)

Midnight (Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones) vs Scout (Cattails)

Sakamoto (Nichijou) vs Ankha (Animal Crossing)

Group 5

Periwinkle (Blue's clues) vs Fluffal Cat (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) vs Frumpkin (Critical Role)

Ember (Cattails) vs Nyanky (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Heinkel (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Amanojaku (Ghost Stories)

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Catty (Undertale)

Kuro (Blue Exorcist) vs Catra (She-Ra)

Juan The Small Magical Latino Cat (Monster Prom) vs Tigger Sugden (Purrfect Apawcalypse)

Bungle the glass cat (Oz) vs Potato (Cat loaf adventures)

Group 6

Chairman Meow (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Finley / Jelly Donut (Hustle Cat)

Cattail (Plants vs Zombies) vs Nameless evil white cat (James Bond)

Thomas O'Malley + Aristocats (Aristocats) vs Panther Lily (Fairy Tail)

Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach) vs Jellie (Double Life SMP)

Blake Belladonna (RWBY) vs Tigress (Kung Fu Panda)

Invisible cat (The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells) vs Haru (My Roommate is a Cat)

Pusheen (Pusheen) vs Yellowfang (Warrior cats)

Kirjava (His Dark Materials) vs Kuroneko-sama (Trigun)

Group 7

Gary the Snail (Spongebob Squarepants) vs Skitty (Pokémon)

Bob (Animal Crossing) vs The Kitty (The Bad Guys)

Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone) vs Capper (My Little Pony)

Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) vs Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi)

The Black Cat (The Black Cat, E.A.Poe) vs Nyako / Meowy (Chainsaw Man)

Tabby Von Meow (Webkinz) vs Tom (Tom and Jerry)

Solembum (Inheritance Cycle) vs Lil' Judd (Splatoon)

Bagheera (The Jungle Book) vs Gatomon (Digimon)

Group 8

Plagg (Miraculous) vs Luxor (Tutenstein)

Meowth (Pokémon) vs Remlit (Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword)

Leafpool (Warrior cats) vs The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat)

Maurice (Discworld) vs Jemima (Cats the musical)

Xiaohei (The Legend of Hei) vs Artemis (Sailor Moon)

Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots) vs Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Shrödinger's cat (you know the one) vs The Cat (Coraline)

Pasty (Neko Atsume) vs Pangur Bán (Irish poem)

This round will start in a few days, I need a bit more time to make the pictures and arrange the polls ^~^

I think I'll be posting them similarly to round 1 except now each group will be out every 12 hours! I will update you on the exact time this round starts when it's done :)

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Marks the voice acting debut of Amy Poehler in a theatrical movie. Later she went on to voice Sally O'Malley the Who in Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Galaxhar's Computer in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Eleanor in the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks film franchise, Gretel in Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011), Jenny the Turkey in Free Birds (2013), and Joy in Inside Out (2015).

[princesssarisa]

What are the favorite Four Seasons of the Disney Heros (non-Princes)?

As usual, I'm only going up to the end of the '90s, because I haven't seen that many of the later movies with male protagonists.

Pinocchio: Summer, because he gets a vacation from school.

Dumbo: Spring and summer, the best seasons for flying outdoors.

Bambi: Spring, when the forest is full of new life.

Peter Pan: Spring and summer, the best times for outdoor battles with the pirates and for nighttime flights.

Tramp: Spring and autumn, because they're neither too hot nor too cold outdoors – though ever since Lady's family adopted him, he's learned to like winter too, and celebrating Christmas with the puppies.

Pongo: Autumn, because it's a good season for comfortable walks, and because that's when his puppies were born.

Arthur: Summer – if his movie and the musical "Camelot" are in the same canon (and I wouldn't doubt it, since they're both based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King), he likes summer to linger through September.

Mowgli: Winter, because that's when the weather is best in India – after the monsoon season, but before it gets too hot.

Winnie the Pooh: Summer, because Christopher Robin is out of school and they have more time to play together.

Thomas O'Malley: Spring or summer, because cats prefer warmth to cold.

Robin Hood: Summer and early autumn – good weather for being outdoors in the woods.

Bernard: Winter, as long as he can spend it cozily indoors with Bianca, and not – as is too often the case – flying on Orville or Wilbur's back for another rescue adventure.

Tod and Copper: Late summer and autumn – good times to be outdoors, and in Tod's case, plenty of wild fruit growing, just right for an omnivorous fox.

Taran: Autumn – a moody, magical, adventurous time of year.

Basil of Baker Street: Summer – that's when the weather causes the least inconvenience when he needs to travel around the city to solve a mystery.

Oliver: Summer, because Jenny is out of school and has more time for him.

Simba: Summer, the dry season on the savannah.

Quasimodo: Winter, especially January, because that's when the Festival of Fools takes place, and that was when he met Esmeralda and Phoebus.

Hercules: Spring, the best time for athletics.

Tarzan: Summer, the dry season – that's always best when you live mostly outdoors.

[historicalfictionsims]

Meet Samantha's Family

There was no way I could fit everyone in a single screenshot and there are still a few characters who weren't included, though they also eventually count as family. Half these people’s relationship to Samantha evolves throughout the course of her stories, so expect a lot of changes.

Going from left to right, top to bottom (click to enlarge):

Samantha Parkington - 9 years old.

Mary Edwards - Samantha's grandmother/guardian, whom she calls "Grandmary."

Gardner "Gard" Edwards - Samantha's uncle.

Nellie O'Malley - 9 year old who works at the house next door.

Bridget O'Malley - Nellie's 7 year old sister.

Jenny O'Malley - Nellie's 6 year old sister.

Cornelia Pitt (center) - Uncle Gard's lady friend.

Agnes and Agatha Pitt - Cornelia's 10 year old twin sisters.

Jessie - Grandmary's seamstress.

Mrs. Hawkins - Grandmary's cook.

Hawkins - Grandmary's butler and chauffer.

Elsa - Grandmary's maid.

[pastedpast]

As I'm currently indexing this blog or, rather, meta-tagging posts in my new version of it on the Blogger website (I will post proper link as soon as it's finished), I decided to compile a list of all the women who feature (or receive a mention however fleetingly) within it. I have tried to trawl the blog ''with a fine toothcomb'', but I'm bound to have missed a few names - oh well! Here is the list as complete as I can muster. The women appear in (broadly) alphabetical order by first name. *** NB it is still a work in progress ***

VOCALISTS & MUSICIANS

Alice Waterhouse (flute) * Amy Winehouse * Angel Olsen * Annie June Callaghan * Ari Up & The Slits * Be Good Tanyas, The * Billie Holiday * Bjork * Black Belles, The * Cait O’ Riordan (Pogues) * Calista Williams (Bluebird) * Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson (The B52s) * Cistem Failure * Clementine Douglas * Cosey Fanni Tutti * DakhaBrakha (well, 3/4 of them!) * Debbie Harry * Edith Piaf * Elizabeth Morris (Allo Darlin') * Holly Golightly * HoneyLuv * Katy-Jane Garside * Kelis * Kim Deal (Pixies & Breeders) * Maxine Peake * Maxine Venton & Mimi O'Malley (Captain Hotknives) * Meg White * Melanie Safka * Nico * Nina Simone * Patti Rothberg * Penny Ford (Snap!) * PJ Harvey * Rhoda Dakar (Special AKA) * Seamonsters, The * Siouxsie Sioux * Suzanne Vega * Tray Tronic * Trish Keenan (Broadcast)

VISUAL ARTS

Annegret Soltau * Anne Ophelia Dowden * Artemisia Gentileschi * Barbara Regina Dietzsch * Beverly Joubert * Camille Claudel * Clara Peeters * Dale DeArmond * Doreen Fletcher * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale * Élisabeth Sonrel * Elisabetta Siriani * Elizabeth Mary Watt * Ella Hawkins * Evelyn De Morgan * Frida Kahlo * Gertrude Abercrombie * Helen Martins * Kate Gough * Laura Knight (Dame) * Leonora Carrington * Lily Delissa Joseph * Liza Ferneyhough * Magdolna Ban * Mandy Payne* Mary Delany * Miina Akkijrkka * Ndidi Ekubia * Pamela Colman-Smith * Paula Rego * Rachel Gale * 'Romany Soup' * Sarah Vivien * Shirley Baker * Siirkka-Liisa Konttinen * Sofonisba Anguissola * Sonia Delaunay * Tish Murtha * Vali Myers * Vanessa Bell

COMEDY, DANCE & DRAMA

Alicia Eyo & Carol Morley ('Stalin My Neighbour') * Claire Foy * Daisy May Cooper * Gabrielle Creevy & Jo Hartley ('In My Skin') * Isadora Duncan * Jessica Williams ('Love Life') * Lesley Sharp, Michelle Holmes & Siobhan Finneran ('Rita, Sue & Bob Too') * Michaela Coel ('I May Destroy You') * Morgana Robinson * Samantha Morton * Yasmin Paige (Jordana Bevan in ‘Submarine)

WRITERS, JOURNALISTS, SCHOLARS & POETS

Agatha Christie (MBE) * Andrea Dunbar * Anaïs Nin * Angela Thirkell * Anna Funder * Anna Wickham * Edith Holden * Elizabeth O'Neill * Enid Blyton * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Helen Castor (Dr.) * Hilary Mantel * Janina Ramirez (Dr.) * Jeannette Kupfermann * Jenny March (Dr.) * Jenny Wormald (Dr.) * Lia Leendertz * Mary Oliver * Orna Guralnik (Dr.) * Rachel Beer * Susie Boniface * Virginia Woolf

HISTORICAL FIGURES

Anne, Queen of Great Britain * Anne Boleyn, Queen of England * Anne of Cleves, Queen of England * Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni * Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes * Catherine de’ Medici, Queen Consort/Regent of France * Catherine Parr, Queen of England * Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England * Catherine of Valois, Queen of England * Christine de Pizan * Cixi, Empress of China (aka  Empress Tz'u-hsi ) * Eleanora of Austria, Queen of France * Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France; Queen of England; Duchess of Aquitaine * Eleanor of Castile * Eleanor Talbot ("The Secret Queen") * Elizabeth I Queen of England * Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia * Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt *Hildegard of Bingen * Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France * Isabella I, Queen of Castile * Isabella of Aragon, Princess of Asturias * Isabella of Portugal, Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire and Queen Consort of Spain, Germany & Italy * Isabella of France, Queen of England * Jacquetta of Luxemburg * Jane Grey (Lady), Queen of England for Nine Days * Jane Seymour, Queen of England * Juana (aka Joanna), Queen of Castile * Katherine Howard, Queen of England * Louise of Savoy, Regent of France * Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of England * Margaret of Austria [check which one] * Margaret Beaufort, Lady * Marie Antoinette, Queen of France * Mary I, Queen of England * Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland * Mary, Queen of Scots * Mary of Austria [check which one] * Mary of Burgundy, Duchess * Matilda, Holy Roman Empress * Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem * Sophia of Hanover, Electress * Tatya Betul, Empress of Ethiopia * Theodora, Empress of Byzantium * Victoria, Queen of England & Empress of India

SAINTS & BIBLICAL/CHRISTIAN REFERENCES

Anna (wife of Tobit) * Apollonia (Saint) * Barbara (Saint) * Catherine of Alexandria (Saint) * Ecclesia * Eve (the first woman) * Felicitas of Rome (Saint) * Genevieve (Saint) * Godeberta * Jael * Jezebel * Judith * Lucy (Saint) * Margaret of Scotland (Saint) * Mary Magdalene * Rahab * Rose of Lima (Saint) * Synagoga * The Queen of Sheba * Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint) * Virgin Mary, The* "Whore of Babylon", The * Ursula (Saint)

MYTHOLOGICAL

Anat * Asherah * Astarte * Atalanta * Aurora * Baba Yaga * Circe * Chhinnamasta * Clio/Kleio * Demeter (Rmn: Ceres) * Dido, Queen of Carthage * Durga * Elaine of Astolat * Europa * Eurydice * Hathor * Hesperides * Io * Isolde/Iseult * Isis * Juno (Gk: Hera) * Kali * Kriemhild/Gudrun * Kudshu * Lakshmi * Persephone (Rmn: Proserpine) * Radha * Sabine Women, The * Sati * Sedna * Sirens, The (half-female, half-bird) * Three Graces, The * Valkyries, The * Venus (Aphrodite)

WIVES, MUSES, CONSORTS & SIGNIFICANT OTHERS

Anastasia Romanovna (wife of Ivan the Terrible) * Anne Hyde (1st wife of James, Duke of York; she did not live long enough to see him become James II) * Anne Lovell (wife of Sir Francis Lovell) * Anne of Denmark (wife of James VI of Scotland/James I of England & Ireland) * Bella Chagall (wife of Marc Chagall) * Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II) * Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen of England as wife of George III) * Clementine Churchill (wife of Winston Churchill) * Diane de Poitiers (royal mistress to the French king, Henry II) * Emma Hamilton, Lady (mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson) * Evelyn Pyke-Nott (wife of John Byam Shaw) * Françoise Gilot (partner of Pablo Picasso) * Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (mother of Lady Jane Grey) * Henrietta-Maria (wife of Charles I) * Lady Martha Temple (wife of Sir William Temple) * MacDonald sisters, The (Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa) * Marguerite of Navarre/Angoulême (sister of French king, Francis I) * Mary of Modena (2nd wife of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland) * Mary Shelley (mentioned as wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, though a renowned author in her own right) * Mary Soames (daughter of Winston Churchill & wife of Christopher Soames) * Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I and mother of the future William III) * Mary Watts (wife of George Frederic Watts, and designer and artist in her own right) * Olga Khokhlova (1st wife of Pablo Picasso) * Portia (wife of Brutus) *

2OTH CENTURY & MODERN DAY

Christabel Pankhurst * Emily Wilding Davison * Emmeline Pankhurst * 'Gulabi Gang' * Hannah Hauxwell * Helen Keller * Hilary Clinton * Liz Truss * Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll * Mata Hari * Melina Mercouri * Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe * Rahima Mahmut * Sylvia Pankhurst *

[castle-dominion]

flavours of ice cream

Cherry Tyson - black cherry, AND sour cherry, AND sweet cherry - 3xk (my brother just said "cherry tyson" at some point & I wrote this)

Rick's Café Americain - coffee & whisky?? rum raisin? - Rick Castle

Irish Delight - irish cream - Kevin Ryan

Choco Tacos - just... choco tacos bro, just like the mixed race actor - Javier Esposito

Mango Martha - pineapple, mango, melon, raspberry, coconut, papaya, strawberry, & banana sorbet, plus a splash of red wine - Martha Rodgers

Kitkat Beckett - ice cream with chunks of kitkats in it - Kate Beckett

Vulcan Cinnamon - cinnamon & carob - Vulcan Simmons

Limer Tiger - licorice, lime, & orange - LT

Red Velasquez - unfermented cocoa (ruby chocolate) - Velasquez

Coonan Cookies - small ice cream sandwiches between little cookies - Dick Coonan

Gourmet Gates - triflavoured with raspberry, blueberry, & blackberry - Victoria Gates

Banounty Hunter - Banana - Mike Royce

Soy Mintgumery - dairy free ice cream with mint flavour & chewy bits - Roy Montgomery

Alex-ice cream - strawberry sorbet marbled with strawberry flavoured ice cream marbled with strawberry syrup/purée/jam with chunks of strawberries mixed in - Alexis Castle

Lanie Parish

Jenny O'Malley

Ashley, Owen, Max

Pi pie - apple pie ice cream - pi

Sophia Turner, Serena Kaye, Kyra Blaine

Castle's Dad

Will Sorenson

Vinny The Scar

Finn Rourke, Bobby S, Siobhan O'Doule

Ethan Slaughter

Rocky Rhodes - brownie chunks, almond chunks, pecan chunks, marshmallow bits, mini-marshmallows - Natalie Rhodes

Monster - cookie dough, chocolate chip cookie chunks, oreo cookie chunks, little marshmallows - Joey Malone

Ike Thornton

Raglan

Lockwood

Tory Ellis

Detectives Sullivan, Karpowski, Elden

Tom Demming

Ann Hastings

William Bracken

Johnny Vong, Eric Vaughn, Derrel Meeks

I'm trying to just get reoccurring characters but there are so many memorable characters

[chrissywise-son-of-sewerclown]

This is one of Jenny and I’s “go-to” acts for diversions. We play all of the parts, just us and we bounce around like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum for most of it.

[autistickirstenlarson]

[ ID: A picture of Samantha Parkington, a white girl with brown hair and bangs wearing a hairbow and dressed in pink, sitting at a dinner table with her Uncle Gard, Aunt Cornelia, and friend Nellie and Nellie’s sisters Bridget and Jenny. Samantha is speaking to Uncle Gard. A Clickhole article headline reading “‘May I, Papa?’: McDonald’s Is Releasing A New Fig And Ladyfinger McFlurry For Fancy Little Girls Who Desire A Treat” is at the bottom of the image. / End ID. ]

[akinas-shave-ice]

[pollylynn]

New Series(?): Fabrications

I'm trying not to take this as an inauspicious omen, but there'll be no story in this new episode-by-episode series that I (think I) am writing. In lieu of that, I thought I'd provide a bit of context/the gist. I've done this four times so far, watching the series through and writing a short-ish fic for each episode, based on a loose shared prompt. Those series are: Dialogic (prompt: Any line of dialogue from the episode)

Object Lessons (prompt: Any object I happened to notice from the episode)

Interrogatives? (prompt: A question posed in the episode)

Tell Me More (prompt: What do Castle and Beckett want to know/want others to know during the span of time the episode covers)

Each is assembled as a story per season, each having the same number of chapters as the season has episode. Thus, each series has seven stories within it. (Season 8 does not exist.)

For this new one, my prompt is a lie told in the course of the episode. With the previous series, there was fairly reliably a ficlet per day, with exceptions scattered throughout the duration of each. With this one, I don't expect it to be quite that regular for life-related reasons, but there should be several stories per week.

And that's about the it. If you missed it, here's the first story in what I hope will be the 151-story series, Fabrications.

[best-fictional-cat]

Round 2 results!!!

The green ones are moving forward!

Group 1

Coco Grimalkin (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Miyuki (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Slugcat (Rain World) vs Catbus (My Neighbor Totoro)

Behemoth (Master and Margarita) vs Amp / Anp / Anpu (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Pixie (Pixie and Brutus)

Chi Yamada (Chi's sweet home) vs Rum Tum Tugger (Cats the musical)

Tabby Slime (Slime Rancher) vs Tangy (Animal Crossing)

Cringer / Battlecat (He-man) vs Cinderpelt (Warrior cats)

Blaze the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Scourge (Warrior cats)

Group 2

Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods) vs Natsume Soseki (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Domino (Amphibia) vs Shoe + Wagahai (Ace Attorney)

808 (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Niko (Oneshot)

Squirrelflight (Warrior cats) vs T'Ana (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Hong + On (Trash of the Count's Family) vs Alpine (Marvel comics)

Jaspers (Homestuck) vs Mao Mao Mao (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)

Thomas Kincade Brannigan (Doctor Who) vs Caroline Coughs (Sparklecare hospital)

Mewo (Omori) vs Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Group 3

Greebo (Discworld) vs Aldwyn (The Familiars)

Simba (The Lion King) vs Leona Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland)

Jenny Linsky (Jenny Linsky, Esther Averill) vs Findus (Pettson and Findus)

Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) vs Mad Mew Mew (Undertale)

Felix the cat (Paramount) vs Burgerpants (Undertale)

Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) vs Ghost (The Owl House)

Rosie (Animal Crossing) vs Talking Cat (Rick and Morty)

Hiili (Fox Fires) vs Mew (Marvel comics)

Group 4

Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) vs Tom Kitten (The Tale of Tom Kitten)

Meowthra (Lego Ninjago Movie) vs Jonesy (Alien)

Vodka Mutini / Dr.Meowgon Spangler (Homestuck) vs Lucifer (Cinderella)

Charmmy Kitty (Sanrio) vs Puppycat (Bee and Puppycat)

Nermal (Garfield) vs Lion (Steven Universe)

Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation) vs Diana (Sailor Moon)

Midnight (Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones) vs Scout (Cattails)

Sakamoto (Nichijou) vs Ankha (Animal Crossing)

Group 5

Periwinkle (Blue's clues) vs Fluffal Cat (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) vs Frumpkin (Critical Role)

Ember (Cattails) vs Nyanky (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Heinkel (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Amanojaku (Ghost Stories)

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Catty (Undertale)

Kuro (Blue Exorcist) vs Catra (She-Ra)

Juan The Small Magical Latino Cat (Monster Prom) vs Tigger Sugden (Purrfect Apawcalypse)

Bungle the glass cat (Oz) vs Potato (Cat loaf adventures)

Group 6

Chairman Meow (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Finley / Jelly Donut (Hustle Cat)

Cattail (Plants vs Zombies) vs Nameless evil white cat (James Bond)

Thomas O'Malley + Aristocats (Aristocats) vs Panther Lily (Fairy Tail)

Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach) vs Jellie (Double Life SMP)

Blake Belladonna (RWBY) vs Tigress (Kung Fu Panda)

Invisible cat (The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells) vs Haru (My Roommate is a Cat)

Pusheen (Pusheen) vs Yellowfang (Warrior cats)

Kirjava (His Dark Materials) vs Kuroneko-sama (Trigun)

Group 7

Gary the Snail (Spongebob Squarepants) vs Skitty (Pokémon)

Bob (Animal Crossing) vs The Kitty (The Bad Guys)

Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone) vs Capper (My Little Pony)

Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) vs Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi)

The Black Cat (The Black Cat, E.A.Poe) vs Nyako / Meowy (Chainsaw Man)

Tabby Von Meow (Webkinz) vs Tom (Tom and Jerry)

Solembum (Inheritance Cycle) vs Lil' Judd (Splatoon)

Bagheera (The Jungle Book) vs Gatomon (Digimon)

Group 8

Plagg (Miraculous) vs Luxor (Tutenstein)

Meowth (Pokémon) vs Remlit (Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword)

Leafpool (Warrior cats) vs The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat)

Maurice (Discworld) vs Jemima (Cats the musical)

Xiaohei (The Legend of Hei) vs Artemis (Sailor Moon)

Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots) vs Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Shrödinger's cat (you know the one) vs The Cat (Coraline)

Pasty (Neko Atsume) vs Pangur Bán (Irish poem)

Match-ups coming soon!

[ag-beforever]

Because I’m so happy about my exam result, I’d like to share this work-in-progress of The Beforever Household! :D (Not sure how big it’ll come out looking on Tumblr, but I uploaded it at 1920x410)

[incorrect-american-girl]

Nellie: Samantha has detention today, so we can go to all the places where she's been banned.

Jenny: Where is she not allowed to go?

Nellie: Coney Island, Ellis Island, and Roosevelt Island. Samantha thinks if you're on an island there are no rules.

Bridget: But she lives on Manhattan Island.

Nellie: Doesn't that explain a lot?

[princesssarisa]

What are the favorite foods of the Disney Heros (non-Princes)?

The Seven Dwarfs (because they count as heroes even though there's a Prince in their movie): Snow White's homemade soup and gooseberry pie.

Pinocchio: Any kind of dessert, as evidenced by the Pleasure Island scene where he has a whole pie in one hand and an ice cream cone in the other.

Dumbo: Peanuts (though of course they're just a snack food – he mainly lives on hay).

Bambi: Leaves and grass.

Peter Pan: Imaginary food. One of the mysteries of his existence – in the original book – is that he doesn't really need to eat and prefers make-believe meals to real ones.

Tramp: Tony's spaghetti and meatballs, especially after he shares them with Lady.

Pongo: Kanine Krunchies.

Arthur: Honey gingerbread with pepper and saffron – a classic medieval treat.

Mowgli: Raw meat, since that's what the wolves who raised him usually fed him.

Winnie the Pooh: Honey, of course.

Thomas O'Malley: Fish.

Robin Hood: His own homemade stew, which is usually good when he doesn't daydream and burn it.

Bernard: Cheddar cheese.

Tod and Copper: Meat.

Taran: Brown bread and white cheese – a medieval staple.

Basil of Baker Street: Blue Stilton cheese

Oliver: Ice cream (even though Jenny will soon learn that it doesn't agree well with cats and will only give him a few licks on special occasions).

Simba: Zebra.

Quasimodo: Grapes –though he normally doesn't eat them as greedily as he did while trying to distract Frollo, he does like them.

Hercules: Spartan black soup – pork, pigs' blood, and vinegar. It's not for the faint of heart, but Greek heroes need their protein!

Tarzan: Wild jungle fruits.

Let's stop there. I tend to lose track of all the male heroes from the post-Renaissance movies.