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lolahaurisfw · 5 months

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✎ Introduction ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Here i'll only be taking requests for fluff, platonic, and angst! Reqs are always open like usual too, and you can request as much as you want and as detailed as you want! i just get to things when i can/want to.

Anon's: None Yet

Other Accounts: @lolas-favfics @lolamultifandom @lolahauri 🔞

AO3: Here

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DNI: Map, Zoo, Pro-Para, Pro-Ana, TERF, Zionist, Bigots, Discourse Blogs. Block me if you don't agree. ❤️🖤🤍💚

What I'm Willing To Write:

Fluff, angst, platonic, hurt/comfort.

HC's, one shots, short multi-chapter fics, imagines/drabbles.

Canon-friendly, AU's, Canon Divergence, Out of Character.

Ch x Ch / Ch x Reader / Ch x OC / Poly Ships of any kind.

F/F, M/M, F/M, GN/F, GN/M, Poly Ships of any kind.

Fictional Other (F/O) Imagines: +18, no names, they/them only.

Now that that's out of the way, here's the list of fandoms and characters i'm familiar with and will happily take requests on! (you can request others from these fandoms, but it will prob take me longer)

Adventure Time/Fiona & Cake: PB, Marceline, Marshall Lee, Winter King, Candy Queen, Simon, Ice King, Fiona.

Attack On Titan: Armin, Eren, Mikasa, Sasha, Levi, Hanji, Annie, Historia, Reiner, Erwin, Ymir.

Avatar: Jake, Neytiri.

Batman Begins Triology: Batman, Catwoman, Bane, Joker, Scarecrow.

Bee & Puppycat: Bee, Deckard, Cass, Toast.

BigBang Theory: Raj, Leonard, Penny, Amy.

Black Dynamite: Honeybee, Black Dynamite.

BNA: Michiru, Shirou.

Bob’s Burgers: Bob, Linda.

Breaking Bad: Jesse, Skylar.

Call of Duty: Konig, Ghost, Mace, Keegan, Krueger, Valeria, Farah.

Creepypasta: Jeff, Jane, Ben, Toby, EJ, LJ, Slenderman, Splendorman, Clockwork, Kate, Masky, Hoodie,

Desperate Housewives: Bree, Gabi, Edie, Lynette, Carlos, John.

Dirty Dancing: Johnny, Baby.

Earth Girls Are Easy: Mac, Zeebo, Wiploc, Valerie.

Elemental: Wade, Ember.

Encanto: Isabela, Bruno, Dolores, Julieta.

FNAF Movie: Vanessa, Mike, William/Steve.

Frozen: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff.

Futurama: Leela, Fry, Amy, Bender.

Gravity Falls: Ford, Stan, Soos, Melody, Giffany, Bill.

Jane The Virgin: Jane, Michael, Petra, Luisa, Rose, Rogelio, Xiomara.

Jurassic Park (1993): Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Gojo, Choso, Nanami, Sukuna.

King of the Hill: Hank, Peggy, Luane, Nancy, Dale, Khan, Min, John Redcorn.

Lisa Frankenstein: Lisa, Creature, Taffy.

Little Mermaid (2022): Ariel, Eric.

MHA: Dabi, Hawks, Aizawa.

Moon Knight: Moon System, Layla, Khonshu.

National Treasure: Benjamin, Riley.

Nintendo: Link, Zelda, Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, Luigi, Bowser, Waluigi.

Norbit: Rasputia, Norbit.

Princess & The Frog: Tiana, Lottie, Naveen, Shadow Man.

Ratatouille: Colette, Linguini.

Regular Show: Mordecai, Margret, Eileen, CJ, Benson.

Resident Evil: Karl Heisenberg, Carlos Oiliveria, Lady Dimitrescu.

Rick and Morty: Rick, Jerry, Beth, Doofus Rick.

Riverdale: FP Jones, Hiram.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Kim, Ramona, Gideon, Wallace.

Serial Mom: Chip, Beverly.

Silverado: Slick, Rae, Mal, Paden.

Shallow Hal: Rosemary, Hal.

Shameless: Lip, Fiona, Kev, V.

SheRa (2018): All Adults.

Sherlock (2010): Sherlock, John Watson.

Slashers & DBD: Brahms, Ghostface, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Pyramid Head, The Spirit, Huntress, Trapper, Wraith, Trickster, Pearl, Jennifer Check, Stu Matcher, Billy Loomis, Tiffany Valentine, Patrick Batmeman, Thomas Hewitt, Vincent Sinclair, Eric Draven, The Artist, Amanda Young.

Spiderverse: Miguel, Jessica Drew.

Spongebob: Dennis, Man Ray.

Squid Games: Gi-Hun, Sae-Byeok, Ali, Sang Woo.

Steven Universe: Garnet, Amethyst, Peridot, Lapis, Jasper, Blue Diamond, Rose, Greg.

Stranger Things: Robin, Billy Eddie, Chrissy, Hopper.

Supernatural: Sam, Dean, Castiel.

Super Store: Amy, Jonah, Dina, Garrett, Cheyenne.

Tangled: Flynn, Rapunzel, Mother Gothell.

The Batman (2022): Batman, Riddler.

The Breakfast Club: John Bender, Allison Reynolds.

The Nanny: C.C, Fran, Maxwell.

Total Drama Island: S1 Contestants, Chris, Chef, Blainley.

Triple Frontier: Frankie, Santiago.

Turning Red: Ming Lee, Jin Lee.

Twilight: Edward, Carlisle, Alice, Charlie.

WWE: Rhea Ripley, Roman Reigns.

YOU: Beck, Joe, Peach, Love.

Young Sheldon: Mary, Connie.

Abel Morales (A Most Violent Year)

Astarion (Baulder’s Gate 3)

Babbo Natale (Violent Night)

Barbie (Barbie 2023)

Basil Stitt (Lightning Face)

Beverly Goldberg (The Goldbergs)

Bruce (Beyond Therapy)

Charles Ingalls (Little House on the Praire)

Charlie Dompler (Smiling Friends)

Chel (Road to El Dorado)

Dale Kobble (Longlegs)

Dan Conner (Rosanne)

David Levinson (Independence Day)

Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Doug Remer (Baseketball)

Duke Leto Atreides (Dune)

Fezzik (Princess Bride)

Francine (American Dad)

Fujimoto (Ponyo)

Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)

Jack Harrison (Translyvania 6-5000)

Jackson Rippner (Red Eye)

Jon Arbuckle (Garfield 2024)

John Doe (John Doe Game)

Jonathan Levy (Scenes from a Marriage)

John Wick (John Wick 4)

King Baldwin (Kingdom of Heaven)

Kitten (Breakfast on Pluto)

Laurent LeClaire (In Secret)

Linda Gunderson (Rio)

Llewyn Davis (Inside Lleywn Davis)

Master Chief (Halo)

Mike (5lbs of Pressure)

Moe Doodle (Doodle Bops)

Nani Palekai (Lilo & Stitch)

Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina)

Outcome-3 (The Bourne Legacy)

Orestes (Agora)

Paul Blart (Paul Blart: Mall Cop)

Paul Cable (Last Stand at Saber River)

Peggy Bundy (Married With Children)

Peter Mitchell (3 Men & A Baby)

Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Prince John (Robin Hood 2010)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd (Top Gun: Maverick)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Shiv (Pu-239)

Stanley Ipkiss (The Mask)

Star-Lord (Gaurdians of the Galaxy)

Tate Langdon (AHS: Murder House)

The Janitor (Willy’s Wonderland)

Thomas Magnum (Magnum, P.I 1980)

William Tell (The Card Counter)

#intro post #pinned post #fic writing #fluff #angst #x reader

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bulletslover413 · 2 years

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haii :3

✩ i go by a good handful of namez, they r listed below ^^ - trix, jell, max, amber, star, jesse/jessie, esper

✩ i have... pronounz!? :0 woaw... they r listed below aswel - he/him, it/its, they/them, frill/frilly, spark/sparkz, moon/moonz, ghost/ghostz

✩ woo woo look itz who i am as a person :D - nonbinary, aroflux, ace, bi - 16 - white - neurodivergent🤯🤯 - scene

✩ my special interestz r so funky graghh !! :3 - lupin iii - devil's candy - splatoon

- infinity train

✩ my hyperfixationz change often, herez a list of them as they r rn x3 - tarantulaz

- adventure time - scott pilgrim

✩ besides my evil neurodivergent interests, i like thingngz - catz, art, cosplay, the ocean, cartoonz, video gamez, city pop, subcultures, j-j--j--jj-jerma...., that one section of commentary youtube yk the one, video game soundtrackz [especially katamari damacy atm], DEADPOOL it might be a special interest but i got no idea eurhagh, pikminnn, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS!!, good omens, vocaloid, + many MANY other thingz i simply do not have the willpower 2 list :3

✩ my other socialz >.< these r all subject 2 change so dont expect these 2 stay the same fo eva,, if i can edit this later i will :'3 - discord: trixbunny - twt: @ trixbunny_ - insta: @ trixbunny - tiktok: @ trixbunny - pinterest: @ jellma985

#intro post #hi poopiez #EVIL scene kid #devils candy #lupin iii #splatoon

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digbyvillager · 1 year

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After all these years I’m finally using this Tumblr😂

So here’s a comprehensive list of some of the things that I like, that you can feel free to ask me about.

Movies: Wes Anderson (especially Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr Fox), Studio Ghibli (especially Whisper of the Heart and Spirited Away), A24 (Everything Everywhere All At Once, Lady Bird, etc.), Emperor’s New Groove, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim, Ratatouille, Kill Bill, Spiderverse (both of them), The Incredibles, Moulin Rouge

Shows: Avatar TLA, Community, Bojack Horseman, Cowboy Bebop, Gravity Falls, Kaguya-Sama: Love is War, Freaks & Geeks, Succession, Breaking Bad, Steven Universe, The Office S1-5, Stranger Things, Over The Garden Wall, The Good Place, The Owl House, Heartstopper, Death Note, Barry, She-Ra, Phineas & Ferb, Arcane, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Infinity Train, Amphibia, Dragon Prince, Clone High, Harley Quinn

Characters: Kronk, Yzma, Todd Chavez, Faye Valentine, Toph Beifong, Zuko, Uncle Iroh, Abed Nadir, Troy Barnes, Ai Hayasaka, Yu Ishigami, Amity Blight, Raine Whispers, King Clawthorne, Luz Noceda, Saul Goodman, Jesse Pinkman, Greg Hirsch, Tom Wambsgans, Makoto Niijima, Goro Aketchi, Peridot, Garnet, Pearl, Entrapta, Scorpia, Catra, Link, Zelda, Sheik, Soos Ramirez, Stan Pines, Miles Morales, Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy, Hobie Brown, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, Agent P, Marceline, Ice King, Marcy Wu

Musicals: The Great Comet, Hamilton, Hadestown, Les Miserables, Next To Normal, West Side Story, Heathers, Sweeney Todd, Twisted, A Strange Loop, Ride The Cyclone, Moulin Rouge, Beetlejuice, Into The Woods

Games: Persona 5 Royal, Legend of Zelda, Smash Bros, The Last of Us, Shadow of the Colossus, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy, Bugsnax, Pikmin, Animal Crossing,

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piastrinorris · 2 years

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About

Name: RJ. Friends call me Ridge.

Pronouns: They/them exclusively.

Age: 29. Sagittarius baby. MINORS DO NOT INTERACT.

Location/Timezone: England, currently GMT.

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Interests:

TV: Stranger Things, Timewasters, Wednesday, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community, It's Always Sunny, Gilmore Girls, Heartbreak High, Ted Lasso, Superstore, One Day at a Time, The Good Place, Schitt's Creek, Never Have I Ever, iZombie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Bob's Burgers, Doctor Who, The Sex Lives Of College Girls

Movies: Beetlejuice, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, KIngsman (Secret Service and The Golden Circle), Spree, Free Guy, Make Up, Blues Brothers, Do Revenge, Enola Holmes, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Video games: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, The Quarry, Undertale/Deltarune, Animal Crossing, Hades, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Ace Attorney, Portal, Legend of Zelda

Web series/Podcasts: Dropout shows (Game Changer, Make Some Noise, Play It By Ear, Um Actually, Breaking News, Dirty Laundry, Dimension 20), Off Menu, Off Book, The Basement Yard, Saving Grace, Try Guys, Starkid

People: Joseph Quinn, Joe Keery, Eduardo Franco, Maya Hawke, Grace Van Dien, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Jamie Campbell Bower, Rahul Kohli, Pedro Pascal, Kathryn Hahn, Karen Gillan, Taron Egerton, James Acaster, Ed Gamble, Amelia Dimoldenberg, Ben Schwartz, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Isabella Roland, Emily Axford, Brian "Murph" Murphy, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama, Ally Beardsley, Aabria Iyengar, Lily Du, Jess McKenna, Ify Nwadiwe, Fiona Nova, Brian David Gilbert

#info

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danganronpasurvivoraskblog · 3 years

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(Welp, this becomes a meme.)

And it’s a damn good meme!

If there’s ever a movie made about our experiences in the killing game somewhere in the future, and Chris Pratt gets cast as me, that will be too much of a compliment to me as a person.

Then if not Chris Pratt, if you could think of any actor to play you, who would it be?

I dunno...Kanata Hongō probably. That in itself would be a compliment.

No, I mean in terms of western actors.

Oh...Hm...

Jesse Eisenberg?

Well, I don’t know about that, but at least you’re getting closer?

How about Michael Cera?

The actor who plays Scott Pilgrim you mean?

That works!

Yeah, that doesn’t sound too inaccurate.

#danganronpa survivor #danganronpa #danganronpa 1 #dr1 #oc #makoto naegi #mukuro ikusaba #kuripa kurafto #ask #the fugitive arc

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ihateyou2500 · 7 months

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MOOT DREW JESSLEE FOR AN ART TRADE THANK U @cybrzmbie <3 <3 IM GONNA THROWUP / VPOS

#pasta misc #scott pilgrim vs the world #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim vs the world: the game #jesse scott pilgrim game #lee scott pilgrim game #that is their ship name now its jesslee #jesslee

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harleydaenerys · 4 years

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The Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me @memoir-of-stars!

Rules: name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things and then tag 10 people.

1. Harley Quinn (Birds of Prey)

2. Daenerys Targaryen (GOT)

3. Legolas Greenleaf (Lord of the Rings)

4. Richie Tozier (It)

5. Pam Beesley (The Office)

6. Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim vs the World)

7. Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

8. Jason Dean (Heathers)

9. Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)

10. Loki Odinson (Marvel)

(I am very sorry if I tagged you and I have never talked to you I swear I want to I’m just terrified of human interaction in any form)

Tags: @bichie-tozier @is-mise-rachel @me-the-shit @daenerys-the-unburnt @thoughtfully-drinking-coffee @queen-of-salt-and-fury @iambadwithusernames @kirazci @hermajestythebomb @starksistersftw

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daleisgreat · 4 years

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The Ref

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December is finally upon us for this unbelievable year, so that means it is time for my yearly Christmas movie entry. Click here to catch up on several past Christmas movie blogs. Today I am covering a 1994 film I only recently discovered a couple years ago upon a recommendation from my longtime friend and fellow Risk-night competitor, Paul. That movie is The Ref (trailer), and it is more of a film that transpires on Christmas Eve, but has a few Christmas themes in it (kind of like Die Hard, but nowhere as minimal as a simple ‘Ho, ho, ho’ gag). It is not a traditional ‘spirt of Christmas’ film, and that is fine by me! After a cheery Christmas-y opening credits montage of people out and about celebrating the night of Christmas, the film immediately cuts to troubled married couple Caroline (Judy Davis) and Lloyd (Kevin Spacey) in the middle of an intense marriage counseling session. Why the therapist was taking appointments on Christmas Eve is a bit of a headscratcher though. Regardless, it sets up Caroline and Lloyd’s future is not that bright. The Ref then pivots to veteran cat burglar, Gus (Dennis Leary) in a heist job that goes haywire and sets off alarms and has the town set in manhunt mode searching high and low for him. Gus naturally stumbles upon Caroline and Lloyd and takes them hostage in their home and seeks refuge there until he can find a way out of town.

Leary, Davis and Spacey have a golden chemistry with their dynamic throughout. Leary is phenomenal portraying Gus barely holding it together as his hostages are more focused on bickering at each other throughout the night than their own well-being. The night only gets more bizarre for the three when their son, Jesse (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) arrives home from military school for the holiday and how he is implemented into the mix. Things exponentially unravel from there when the rest of the extended family arrives late that night for Christmas Eve dinner and how Gus attempts to orchestrate an elaborate cover as the Christmas dinner goes awry in only the most entertaining way possible you just have to see to believe. Seeing Gus try to maintain his cover and keep his hostages under control during the family dinner is a riot. The evening culminating with Gus, Caroline and Lloyd all matching each other with their own proper meltdown is acting gold by all three. I loved how the film wraps up with each of the core three characters all having gratifying conclusions. The Ref is a brisk viewing clocking in at a little over an hour and a half, and if you are looking for a more unorthodox Christmas film that is packed with all the wrong kinds of laughs, then The Ref is the perfect film to mix into your holiday movie rotation. In physical format, it never received a BluRay release, and only received an early DVD release with no bonus features and does not upscale well to HDTVs, so you may be better off tracking down a digital rental to watch this instead.

An ideal family Christmas dinner filled with traditional meltdowns and flaming hair for all. Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street The Accountant Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Avengers: Infinity War Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed I & II Deck the Halls Detroit Rock City Die Hard Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Dirty Work Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Grunt: The Wrestling Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Hell Comes to Frogtown Hercules: Reborn Hitman I Like to Hurt People Indiana Jones 1-4 Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Last Action Hero Major League Man of Steel Man on the Moon Man vs Snake Marine 3-6 Merry Friggin Christmas Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpions Revenge National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets Nintendo Quest Not for Resale Payback (Director’s Cut) Pulp Fiction The Punisher (1989) The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VIII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery Scott Pilgrim vs the World The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Slacker Skyscraper Small Town Santa Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Sully Take Me Home Tonight TMNT The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild The Wizard Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Days of Future Past

#random movie #the ref #dennis leary #judy davis #kevin spacey

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nerdismyhobby · 4 years

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4, 31, 42, 53, and 59!

ooh sorry it took me a bit to get to this! I’m on it now!

4. What are you looking forward to?

Besides the obvious answer of “the world to not be on fire and the pandemic to be over”, next thing I’m looking forward to is the four day weekend I have next weekend due to vacation time. May go and see some friends. Maybe rent a car and drive around. Definitely lots of video games.

31. 3 Random Facts

Oh these are always weird, but here we go - I can wiggle only one of my ears - I studied Latin in college and got a minor in it - Apparently an ancestor of mine is the Lord Burghley William Cecil, chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.

42. Favorite Book(s)

This is always a difficult one. Here are five of my favorites of varying genres for you -Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews -Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley -Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell -Animal Farm by George Orwell

53. 5 Things That Make Me Happy

Really hitting the lists, huh?

-Watching Lord of the Rings (or Princess Bride honestly) -Hanging out with my friends, talking and drinking and laughing -Swimming -Anywhere with a gorgeous view that just sprawls for miles -Being in a bookstore

59. Why I joined Tumblr

Because a person I had a major crush on told me to join and I would have done anything to get to know her better. And yes, we are still friends, even if there was a break in there. It’s a really nice feeling to be friends again.

Thank you for the questions!!

#ask #ask thing #dan answers #danswers?#danswers #anonymous

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mimikyuno · 5 years

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Hey, I follow the scott pilgrim tag and your post about wanting the game came up on my dash. This video walks you through how to emulate it on PC, it's how I play it. "TUTORIAL - Run Scott Pilgrim with ALL DLC and CO OP on your PC - RPCS3 PS3 Emulator" by Jesse Petrovich [would link it but can't since it is an ask]

thank u so much, you’re very kind!! 💛

i actually found the video an hour(ish) ago and followed all the instructions and i have the game now!!

it glitches a bit (maybe bc my laptop is old and weak) but i asked the uploader if they have a fix for glitches since they are so nice and answer in a matter of hours to everyone!!

for anyone who needs the video: https://youtu.be/Z4P7vdjhQf0

it works and its safe!! also the uploader answers everyone, but its not that hard to follow all the steps :) 💆🏻‍♀️

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#decomposedprince #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim the game #scott pilgrim vs the world: the game #scott pilgrim vs the world #ask

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rufusrant · 5 years

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i was tagged in another fun tag game by the ever-awesome @honeyheffron, thank you Jess X>

top 3 ships: starrison, mclennon and wolfstar.

lipstick or chapstick: i always feel icked out to have something slathered on my face, so i’m not a fan of either! but if i had to choose, i’d pick lipstick. it’s pretty!

last song: english garden by ringo starr. it’s a cute little song where ringo hangs out with barbara and their dog!

reading: ....a lot. the book i last picked up is the careful undressing of love by corey ann haydu. it’s a beautifully-written magical realism story about cursed love and grief, and the cover is EYE CANDY.

last movie: scott pilgrim vs the world. now this, marvel, is a comic book movie.

watching: i started rick and morty last weekend and i’m in love, but i’m still only up to season 2 because of college. wubba lubba dub dub

i tag: @blobfishmiffy , @that-irish-gay , @brandnewovernight and i double tag @casafrass !

#tag!#queue me #rick and morty is the new simpsons and in this essay i will—

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fashiontrendin-blog · 6 years

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Kieran Culkin's Shirt Is Off

https://fashion-trendin.com/kieran-culkins-shirt-is-off/

Kieran Culkin's Shirt Is Off

When Kieran Culkin first started reading the script for “Succession,” he wondered whether it had been sent to the wrong person. The HBO powers that be originally thought he’d be a good fit for the character of Greg, a bumbling nitwit who gets high in his first scene and spends the rest of the first season failing to sidle his way up the ladder of a massive media and entertainment conglomerate owned by his great-uncle, Logan Roy.

Almost from Greg’s first line, Culkin knew he was wrong for the part. “He’s already a lot younger than I am, and just the voice ― I was, like, this is not me. I am not right for this.”

When I met Culkin at a small restaurant in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan last Monday, it was just as clear to me as it was to him that he’s too old to play a character like Greg. But something in the Roy family’s dark saga held Culkin’s attention anyway. He said he kept reading the script, which follows the foibles of the billionaire Roy clan as its individual members vie for power within. A few pages later, Logan’s overconfident third son, Roman, appears, led into a meeting by a man hired explicitly to burn sage.

“Hey, hey, motherfuckers!” Roman proclaims to a room full of his father’s business associates.

“And I was, like, ‘Oh, who’s this fucking guy?’” Culkin said.

Culkin eventually got the part of Roman, an incompetent and lazy man-child who believes he wholly deserves the title of chief operating officer, even though he has little interest in doing any of the work that comes with it. Among the many nefarious faces that make up Logan’s Waystar Royco empire, Roman stands out as perhaps its most cynical ― a ratings-obsessed media executive motivated solely by profit. At one point, in his interpretation of corporate disruption, he takes off his shirt in a meeting, flexing and joyfully screaming “Blood!” at the thought of layoffs. During another, he gleefully tells his sister about a new viral video that is “evidence of precisely the kind of disgusting, liberal, metro butt-love that makes our viewership angry enough to buy pharmaceuticals.” To Roman, nothing could be better.

Culkin can’t say exactly what drew him to the morally depraved heir, described by his father as a “moron” and his brother as a “walking fucking lawsuit.” But it’s not hard to imagine some small part of Culkin was intrigued by the idea of playing such a sneering member of a media empire.

After all, Culkin’s distaste for the tabloid industry is beyond well-established. (“No matter what’s written there, it’s a total lie, even the person’s name, lie, lie, lie, lie, everything’s a lie,” he once told New York Magazine.)

But let’s not lump Culkin into that hyperpartisan Level 10 “FAKE NEWS” category of 2018 American paranoia. Mostly because when he told me “Now it’s a thing, ‘fake news,’” and I said, jokingly, “Fake news. You’re a believer,” he got nervous and pushed out a quick “no,” immediately realizing the millions of different ways such a quote could be aggregated, recirculated, quoted out of context and otherwise misinterpreted. You can almost see it now, can’t you? “Kieran Culkin Joins the Chorus: Media Is ‘Fake News.’”

Culkin’s distrust is of a more justifiable form, born out of a lifetime of his surname showing up in headline-grabbing tabloid fodder. From the moment his parents, Kit “The father from hell” Culkin and Patricia Brentrup, entered into an ugly, obsessively covered custody battle to when the National Enquirer proclaimed his eternally famous brother, Macaulay, had “6 Months to Live” in 2012 (he’s still alive), Culkin’s last name has served as a way to move and make paper ― the most intimate moments of his life repackaged as factually questionable entertainment content to sell ads against.

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Macaulay and Kieran Culkin at the fifth annual American Comedy Awards back in 1991, just months after the release of the blockbuster hit “Home Alone.”

“There are things that are out there in the world as fact because it was written in print that are just completely false. My brother did not divorce his parents. They did not fight over his money,” he said. “But that’s out in the world as fact.

“I learned at a very young age to be, like, ‘Oh, I get it: It’s bullshit,’ shit that’s written in print.”

In person, Culkin ticks most of the boxes of adulthood: In his 30s. Takes his coffee black. Enjoys talking about his favorite East Village dives. Married five years. Nice watch. Clothes that fit. Hair slicked around his head just so. Like Roman, Culkin drops a “fuck” or “shit” every ninth word or so, as when he said to me, “Hold on, I’m going to eat the fuck out of these pickles. You say something for a minute, ’cause I’ve got a mouth full of shit.”

But no matter how many fucks he lets out ― and by my count, he let out around 25 over 40 minutes ― Culkin remains stuck with a membership to the official Former Child Actors club. Macaulay, or Mac, if you’re in the know, was always the main draw ― history’s most famous kid actor without a drink named after him. But Kieran was there too, in “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2.” He found himself on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” before the age of 10, and schmoozed with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” before his voice dropped.

Which is probably why ― and here I’m guessing ― Culkin might have been a bit annoyed when HBO suggested he audition for Greg.

But after 10 episodes of watching Culkin-as-Roman take part in his family’s imperious game of human chess, it’s hard to imagine the actor playing anyone else. If Jeremy Strong ― who plays Kendall, Logan’s cocaine-addicted second son ― is the show’s tragic star, Culkin is its nervous energy. There’s something in the way he pushes out a phrase like “What a pathetic beta cuck,” or belittles doctors and waiters alike.

What sealed Culkin’s interest in his character came in the first episode during a family softball game, when Roman points to a kid on the sidelines, the son of the site’s groundskeeper. Everyone grows quiet as Roman whips out his checkbook and starts writing a check for $1 million. Hit a home run in their game, Roman tells the boy, and the money is his. For the child and his family, it’s a potentially life-changing moment. For Roman, the child is nothing but a momentary subhuman toy to mess with and cast aside. After the child is tagged out at home, Roman can’t control his laughter. “I’m sorry, I can’t give it to you,” he says as he tears up the check. It is a degrading, truly awful moment of television.

“Oh, I get it,” Culkin remembered thinking, “he’s a fuck face.”

When Culkin filmed the scene, he embodied evil, letting out a cackle so cruel it sets the show’s moral compass for the remaining season. Culkin himself is not sure where his ability to play somebody like that came from.

“Being able to connect to some degree, not in a positive way, with these characters is odd to me because I don’t know the multimillionaires, I don’t know the super-rich, yet I know assholes like that,” he said. “I can’t even quite specifically pick out who I know that is exactly like that, but it’s weird that you can still, for me, relate.”

“Succession” suffered from a slow start, only truly hitting its stride around Episode 6, when Kendall leads the board in a tense vote of no confidence against Logan, who’s recently suffered a stroke, unleashing a sequence of events within the Roy family that are both comical and horrifying.

Culkin owns up to that. “The first three episodes to me, it’s not like they’re unwatchable,” he said, “but it’s not quite the show yet.”

Which, according to him, is fine. Some shows don’t grab you on first watch, and one in particular in his opinion: “I probably shouldn’t even say this on record. The example I have is actually [the British comedy] ‘Peep Show,’” which was coincidentally also developed by “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong.

But the first season of “Succession” gained enough momentum before concluding Sunday evening for HBO to pick it up for another season ― making this the first time Culkin has ever been part of a television show that made it to Season 2, according to his IMDB page, a small victory in his more than two decades on-screen.

Culkin’s most acclaimed role came in 2002, when he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in “Igby Goes Down.” But that time the victory led to a full-blown existential crisis.

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Claire Danes and Kieran Culkin talk at a coffee shop for a scene from “Igby Goes Down.” Culkin entered an existential crisis after the film and took a breaking from acting.

“[I] found myself at the age of 20 with a career I never chose, [and I] freaked out,” Culkin said. “I think everybody around that age has some sort of crisis. Usually, it’s like a straight-up ‘Oh, I don’t know what I want to do.’ Mine is, ‘I don’t know what I want to do with my life, yet here I am doing it.’”

Culkin took a break before eventually returning to acting, mostly because he wasn’t sure what else to do. “I was just sort of doing it in the meantime,” he says now. He took parts in movies like “Lymelife” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.” Did two episodes of “Fargo.” Performed multiple versions of a stage play he loved, Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth.” In 2014, he was still apprehensive. “I often think about getting out of this job, but I’m terrified that there’s nothing else,” he told The Daily Beast.

Since then, Culkin said, something clicked. He remembered coming home from work one day and thinking, “Oh, I think I’m actually enjoying this.”

“I think I know what I want to do now,” he said to himself. “I think I should do this.”

Now deep into his 30s, Culkin has established himself as a stronger and more serious actor than the “essentially retired” Macaulay ever did. And in Roman, Culkin has stumbled upon something as special as it is sinister. TV Guide described Roman as “the very definition of the hate-f―k,” but he’s probably more accurately categorized as sexual overcompensation personified. He tells his brother that his “face is drowning in pussy,” despite the fact that his various partners claim he rarely wants to have sex. He masturbates to his office view of New York City while a string of emails piles up behind him. (“It’s to gain some sort of control,” Culkin surmised.)

More interesting than his sex life, though, is Roman’s complex relationship with his manipulative and emotionally abusive father. While most people want to prove their competence to the people around them, “Roman, for the most part, doesn’t give a fuck about that,” Culkin said, adding, “If his girlfriend says, ‘No, but you did a great job,’ it’s like: ‘Fuck you. Don’t patronize me.’” What he wants, Culkin said, is his dad’s approval: “That’s the only person that can get him, the only person that can look at him and make him nervous.”

Logan does exactly that when Roman prepares to stand against the tycoon in the vote of no confidence. With his father staring down at him, Roman can only muster a meek “maybe” before he slouches into his chair like an admonished child and votes with his father. Thanks to Roman, Logan lives to fight another day atop his dynasty, while Kendall is forced, temporarily, to surrender.

Earlier, in Episode 2, Roman finds himself watching as the world repackages his family’s tragedy into viral content. He and his family are huddled together in a New York hospital, awaiting information about their famous father’s deteriorating health post-stroke, like characters in a Gothic novel, when Roman starts scrolling through Twitter. His sister, Shiv, asks what people are saying.

“Eh, rumors, you know,” Roman replies matter-of-factly. “Some of Twitter says he’s dead ― and also a good deal of rejoicing at our father’s potential demise.” He notices a short video of the “South Park” kids yelling, “Oh my God, we’ve killed Logan! We’re bastards!” and asks an employee to “find out who these fuckers are and report them or screen grab their shit.”

When Culkin’s own father was hospitalized after suffering a stroke in 2014, TMZ, The Daily Mail, Perez Hilton all repackaged the tragedy as well. The National Enquirer pounced, too, running a headline that read, “Macaulay Culkin Rejects Dying Dad: ‘Rot in Hell!’” But unlike Roman, Culkin wouldn’t have been sifting through Twitter. “That would never be something that I would do willingly,” he says of social media more generally. “Because already at a young age, there was a public perception of me.”

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Kit Culkin, Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin and Patricia Bretnup pose for a photo one month after the release of “Home Alone.” The father is now estranged from his children.

Like Roman, however, Culkin and his siblings have a less than ideal relationship with his father. By all accounts, they have been mostly if not entirely estranged from Kit ever since their mother won custody of the children in the 1990s. Patricia, the mother, claimed during the custody battle that Kit had been abusive, and Culkin’s brother Macaulay has continued to do so throughout his life.

“He was a bad man,” Macaulay Culkin told comedian Marc Maron earlier this year.

When I asked Kieran Culkin if he has spoken with his father recently, he answered with two no’s so quickly that I couldn’t bring myself to ask a follow-up question, only saying, for reasons still unbeknownst to me, “Fuck ’em.”

“Fuck ’em,” Culkin agreed. “I’ll go on record: Yeah, fuck ’em.”

After a lifetime of his last name being splattered across the front pages of tabloids, Culkin seemed ready to move on from the controversies that have dogged him since he was a child actor with moppy hair and oversized clothes. That’s not him anymore.

What we’re looking at instead is Kieran Culkin, age 35 ― no longer a Greg and fully embracing life as Roman.

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