#jo kaplan

[chainsawcorazon]

muhfuckas wanna be merricat so bad, but forget she killed most of her family cuz they sent her to bed without dinner, meanwhile this goofy hoe cant even stab her bitch sister’s abusive husband even tho he threatened to kill her🤦🏽‍♀️

[authorunpublished]

Book Review: When The Night Bells Ring

Book Review: When The Night Bells Ring

Title: When The Night Bells Ring Author: Jo Kaplan Genre: Horror, Thriller, Historical, Post-Apocalyptic Rating: 5 Stars Description/Synopsis: In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the…

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[notallthosewho-wanderarelost]

Seeing as how the Minimoff twins are a topic of discussion right now because of the rumored Billy casting for Agatha: Coven of Chaos, I just want to take this moment to say:

I think it’s really funny that Billy in a way is ethnically Jewish twice over- first via Wanda if we ignore the Magneto retcon, and then again via the Kaplans.

Meanwhile, Tommy in the same way is canonically from New Jersey twice over.

It’s like Marvel/the universe said “you make no sense, but you have to have some consistency” and somehow that is what made it through when the twins were reincarnated back into the main universe.

As a Jewish New Jerseyan, it’s particularly hilarious to me.

[wakeofourbetters]

[watchnrant]

Agatha All AlongEpisode 3: Easter Egg Breakdown

Amulets

Every Witch Has One (Not Just Agatha)

A key detail from this episode is the revelation that every witch in the coven has their own amulet, not just Agatha. As the witches traverse the Witches’ Road, which transforms into a sandy walkway leading to a beach house, their attire shifts to match the setting, yet their amulets remain. This small but significant touch teases the potential deeper importance of amulets for MCU witches and possibly hints at their connection to power and identity within witchcraft.

Big Little Lies Reference

An Homage to HBO's Big Little Lies

Mrs. Hart’s (Debra Jo Rupp) remark about the beach house feeling like it’s straight out of "Huge Tiny Lies" is a clever nod to Big Little Lies. This HBO show, which revolves around secrets and a murder investigation in a wealthy seaside town, is reflected in the trial-like proceedings in this episode. From the luxurious coastal setting to the suspense-filled plot, this homage adds another layer to Agatha All Along, showcasing Marvel’s playful engagement with pop culture.

Mephisto Confirmed?

Agent of Mephisto

The episode drops a significant hint about Mephisto’s potential existence in the MCU. When Jennifer Hale speaks to Teen, she warns him about Agatha, citing dark rumors about her trading her son, Nicholas Scratch, for the Darkhold. According to these whispers, Nicholas became an agent of Mephisto, confirming that the demon lord may already be operating behind the scenes. This moment sets the stage for larger MCU implications, tying in with long-standing fan theories about Mephisto's involvement in mystical storylines.

Trading Her Son for the Darkhold

"She Wouldn’t Recognize Her Own Son"

In a chilling revelation, Jennifer suggests that Agatha wouldn't recognize her son if he appeared before her. This is a subtle clue that Teen might actually be Nicholas Scratch, Agatha’s long-lost son, rather than the presumed reincarnation of Wanda’s son Billy (aka Wiccan). The mystery surrounding Teen’s identity deepens, making this a key narrative thread for future episodes.

Alice Wu’s Tattoo

Cursed Women & Protection

Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn) reveals the story behind her tattoo, which was given to her at age 13 to ward off a family curse.

Teen also shares that something significant happened to him when he was 13. Given that Teen is now 16 and WandaVision occurred three years ago, this suggests a connection to Wanda Maximoff, further fueling the theory that Teen may be Billy Kaplan.

This conversation is filled with subtle clues that connect characters through shared trauma and mysterious pasts.

Mrs. Hart’s Hallucination

"Please…Wanda, Let Him Breathe!"

Mrs. Hart's hallucination brings back a haunting moment from WandaVision. Near the end of the episode, she is shown begging Wanda to "let him breathe," seemingly reliving the traumatic death of her husband, which may have been caused by the limitations of Wanda's Hex. In WandaVision, many residents were trapped in loops or frozen, and this new revelation implies that Mrs. Hart’s husband was among the unintended victims of Wanda’s control. It’s a tragic callback to the consequences of Wanda’s grief and power.

Lilia’s Premonition

"Try to Save Agatha"

Lilia’s sudden outburst, "Try to save Agatha," feels like an eerie premonition. This brief but impactful moment hints that Agatha may soon face grave danger, and saving her could become a central objective for the other witches. It’s a well-placed piece of foreshadowing that could hint at Agatha’s future role in the MCU.

Coven's Hallucinations

Facing Past Traumas

Each witch in Agatha’s coven faces a nightmarish hallucination tied to their deepest traumas.

Alice relives her mother's grief over her grandmother’s death, feeling a terrifying sense of inherited doom.

Jennifer’s hallucination shows her facing a man—possibly a doctor or priest—who calls her an "inconvenient woman" and tries to drown her.

Lilia’s vision is especially haunting, as she encounters a demon-looking nun after following a mysterious teenage girl.

These hallucinations provide insight into the coven members' pasts and suggest that their traumas are far from resolved.

Agatha’s Hallucination

Did She Trade Her Son for the Darkhold?

Agatha's hallucination is particularly disturbing. She approaches a baby’s bassinet, only to find the Darkhold in place of the infant. This vision supports Jennifer's earlier claim that Agatha traded her son for the Book of the Damned, but Agatha’s horrified reaction suggests that there is much more to this story. The moment reveals Agatha’s internal conflict and deep-seated regrets, adding depth to her character’s motivations.

Hansel and Gretel Reference

Lilia’s Friend and the Oven

Lilia's brief mention of her friend who went into an oven is a dark reference to the classic Hansel and Gretel tale. In the context of witches and burning, this could symbolize the fate of witches who face persecution or punishment, tying into the show's overall themes of betrayal and survival.

[blackinperiodfilms]

Black Cake | Official Trailer | Hulu

The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades. In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America. These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin.

Based on The New York Times-bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson, “Black Cake” is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplans’ Kapital Entertainment.

Watch Black Cake on Hulu!

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Agatha All Along shaping up to be actually good, much like Wandavision. I like "The Teen", even if he doesn't seem like Billy Kaplan, and I kinda hope the rumours that Locke would be playing Billy were a tactic to keep the characters' true identity a secret a while longer. Hahn is clearly enjoying herself in the title role, and that always helps, and I love the Coven of down-on-their-luck witches. People keep talking about Aubrey Plaza but c'mon, the Coven and their bickering is where it's at. Debra Jo Rupp is there! You can't not love Debra Jo Rupp! (Sidebar, I really want to know where they're going with that character: the list of divined names identified her as a "black heart". Blackheart is... The demonic son of Mephisto in the comics? I'm having trouble picturing these characters being connected:

Then again, it would be a hell of a disguise, wouldn't it?

Also, I desperately, desperately need the clean audio of Down The Witches' Road so I can use it as a ringtone.

[anarchywoofwoof]

A Warning Written in Wood

Sarah Kaplan, Bonnie Jo Mount, Emily Wright, Frank Hulley-Jones (Washington Post)

What an Arizona tree reveals about Earth’s hottest year and future warming

Deep in the Sonoran Desert, high on a mountain’s wind-swept peak, there lives a tree known as Bigelow 224. With its stout orange trunk and long, graceful needles, the tree looks like any other ponderosa pine growing on Mount Bigelow. But a sliver of its wood, taken amid Earth’s warmest year on record, shows that this tree has a story to tell — and a warning to offer. Bigelow 224 germinated nearly 200 years ago — a spindly sprout rooted in meager soil. Yet the pine has grown taller and wider each year by adding another ring to its trunk. Amid the balmy temperatures and lengthening days of the spring and summer, the newly formed tissue — known as earlywood — was the pale gold of morning sunlight. When autumn arrived, the tree switched to denser and darker latewood, signaling the beginning of the end of the growing season. All that the tree experienced — the winds that shook its branches, the rain that soaked its roots — was recorded in the rings. An extra-wide band attested to the prime growing conditions of 1856. A thin line bisecting the following year’s ring is the relic of a springtime drought that ended with the arrival of a summer monsoon. For centuries, Bigelow 224 stretched sunward while history unfolded below. The tree witnessed the rise of industrialization and the devastation of Native communities. It watched Arizona become the nation’s 48th state in 1912. Generations lived and died, wars were lost and won, humans walked on the moon and transformed Earth. Still, the tree has survived. But then came 2023, the hottest year that humanity — and Bigelow 224 — had ever seen. All around the planet, temperature records fell like dominoes. Up on Mount Bigelow, an unrelenting heat wave made the air feel like an oven and sucked moisture from the thin soil. The toll of those unprecedented conditions was etched into Bigelow 224’s trunk. Scorched by relentless heat and parched by a delayed monsoon, it appeared to stop growing midway through the season. The ring for this year is barely a dozen cells wide. It is a silent distress signal sent by one of Earth’s most enduring organisms. A warning written in wood.

[roxyandelsewhere]

was tagged by @majortomwaits to do this game hehe (thank youu)

rules: pick a song for every letter of your url and tag that many people

R - Rock lobster (The B-52's)

O - Otherside (Avi Kaplan). OR Oblivion (Mastodon). couldn't choose

X - XS (Rina Sawayama)

Y - Ya habibti (Mdou Moctar)

A - Aerials (System of a Down)

N - Natação obrigatória (Banda do Casaco)

D - Don't analyze (Big Heart Machine)

E - Empire now (Hozier)

L - Lugar do início (Banda do Casaco)

S - Swamp song (TOOL)

E - Easy (Son Lux, but the version with Woodkid)

W - Wild time (Weyes Blood)

H - Hoist that rag (Tom Waits)

E - Escravos de Jo (Dom Um Romão)

R - Rule #4 (Fish in a Birdcage)

E - Elettromagnetismo e libertà (Ooopopoiooo)

and I'm tagging (no pressure of course): @ignitingthesky @icantleave @trashytiegs @herebehunters @castaell @meatmensch @daalcuntynatural @betanoiz @autisticandroids @pussypopstiel @lesspopped @iheardyourprayer @gallifreyanwriter @suncaptor @allypacino @restlesshush

[chainsawcorazon]

thing with me and gothic horror is that if the protag is a punk ass bitch, then i will simply not root for their victory because they’re a punk ass bitch. sometimes i feel like writers forget that the characters of gothic horror DON’T all have to be pathetic woe-is-me’s. i dont even feel bad that this lady’s being terrorized by the future self of her unborn nephew about to be birthed by the sister who tried to kill her, in the HOUSE that killed her father. pussy up bitch!!!!

[gemmahale]

WIP Wednesday (5/1/2024)

Fandom: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reboot Games

Title: The Feylands

Pairing: OFC Josephine ‘Josie’ Kaplan + Everyone (Capt. John Price, Kyle 'Gaz’ Garrick, John 'Soap’ MacTavish, Simon 'Ghost’ Riley, Kate Laswell (and her wifey!), Gary 'Roach’ Sanderson, Alex Keller, Farah Karim) (Not a relationships are sexual nor romantic here. It’s…complicated.)

Synopsis: The Court of Maevonia have been in search of a human for their court plaything for a while. Josephine Kaplan fits the description of what they want. But when she accidentally shows up unannounced just as a war with a neighboring kingdom is kicking off, it seems like things might work out differently. Can Josie work with the Court to save not only Maevonia, but also Earth from the Penumbra and it’s Shadow Bringers?

AKA: ...shhh. Gemma's worldbuilding. 😉

General CW’s: Stalking, Dub-con, Climate Catastrophe (Earth), mild horror, weird time-space-dimension distortions

Snippet CW's: None.

Divider by @saradika-graphics

Josephine subtly let her eyes roam over the man as she strolled to the restroom. His eyes were focused on the TV screen above the bar, the hosts droning on about team points and predictions for the upcoming season. It was the perfect situation for looking him over without being caught.

He was tall, his leather work boots resting on the barstool’s rung. His shirt was cuffed up, displaying the gentle muscular curve of his forearms. He took a sip of his beer, raking his hand through his reddish brown curls that flopped back to their original position. Josephine got one good glimpse of his profile before having to look away - strong jaw, five o’clock shadow, a faint scar just along his cheekbone. 

Jane was right, he was attractive. Unfairly so, almost. He looked like he belonged out in the wilderness - with the sturdy work boots and dark jeans, he’d be better suited to chopping wood and blazing trails than here in the heart of the city. Josephine snuck another peek at the man as she returned to the table, irresistibly drawn to him now that she was aware of his presence. 

This time, his eyes caught hers in the mirror as she slid into the seat next to Jane. They held eye contact that way for a moment, before he smirked, winked, and raised his glass to her reflection in quick succession. Josephine’s cheeks warmed under the attention, and her eyes flicked down to her hands on the table - partially ashamed she’d been caught ogling the man, and partially excited that he’d noticed her. 

“See? I told you.” Jane whispered as she pushed Josephine’s fresh beer to her. “He’s into you, Jos.”

Josephine scoffed, taking another sip and letting her eyes roam over the stranger’s profile as he let his attention fall back to the screen. “Doubtful. He just happened to catch me staring and didn’t want to make it weird.”

Jane groaned, shaking her head as she stood. “Jos, you sell yourself too short. You deserve a good man in your life. I’m going to the restroom, don’t make eyes at him all night.”

Josephine snorted, pulling her phone out. “I won’t, Jane.” She flicked open her text messages, responding to a few texts from Lucy before starting to scroll through her social media accounts. 

She failed to notice Jane plopping down on the bar stool on the far side of the man, gesturing to their table, and clapping him on the shoulder before continuing on her path to the ladies room, wide grin on her face.

“Sorry, I hope I’m not intruding,” Josephine’s hand stuttered, inadvertently liking a post as she fumbled her phone. She blinked up into smiling amber eyes, her mouth drying further as she realized it was the stranger from the bar standing over her. “Your friend suggested I should come introduce myself.” 

Josephine wordlessly gestured to the seat across from her, sliding Jane’s beer off to the side out of the way. His voice was warm, honeyed and husky all at once and she suddenly wanted to hear more of it.

“I’m Gary,” he offered, as he slid into the seat Josephine offered.

Her voice warbled. “Josephine.” She absentmindedly traced swirls in the water droplets on the table, trying to mask the sudden onset of trembling in her hands. 

“A pretty name for a pretty lady,” Gary murmured, smiling at her.

Josephine’s heart pitter-pattered at the compliment, heat climbing up her cheeks as she mumbled a thanks, their eyes locking again. 

He was even more handsome up close, a smattering of freckles playing across his nose and cheeks, his heavy framed glasses accentuating his eyes. A small hearing aid was tucked beneath a curl of hair. The scar she noticed across his cheek actually stretched across over the bridge of his nose, like a pair of lab goggles had pressed a permanent indentation into the skin. He rubbed at his chin, smirking at her.

“So, Gary,” she started, taking a sip of her beer to mask the exhilaration and glee racing through her veins - no one this attractive sought her out intentionally. She coughed as the alcohol coursed down her throat. “Sorry, I’m not used to hot men just coming over and introducing themselves like that.”

He laughed, and it sent giddy shivers up her spine. “It’s understandable. Usually I don’t find such a lovely woman to introduce myself to.”

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[philoursmars]

Marseille, il y a trois semaines. Au FRAC Zud (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain), il y avait une expo, "L'Heure de Gloire", elle aussi consacrée au sport :

Jean Bedez : "Citius- Altius- Fortius"

Jeremy John Kaplan : "Altea in Blue" (cyanotype de filet de tennis)

Berdaguer & Pejus : "Smith, Norman, Carlos, Mexico 68"

Sarah Morris : "Big Ben" (projet d'affiche pour les JO de Londres 2012)

Taro Izumi : "Tickled in a dream… maybe (The Destination of Breath)" (sorte d'appareillage pour reproduire la posture de certains sportifs à des moments-clés)

[phoenixlionme]

Marvel Jewish Superheroes

1. Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch

2. Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver

3. Luna Maximoff

4. Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan

5. Tommy Shepherd aka Speed

6. Gertrude Yorkes

7. Peter Parker aka Spider Man - like Superman, this wasn’t confirmed in the comics but I personally see him as Jewish. His incarnation in the ITSV movie shows that he is Jewish

8. Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto - he’s usually an antagonist but has shown to be a hero

9. Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat

10. Bobby Drake aka Iceman

11. Ruth Bat-Seraph aka Sabra

12. Steve Rogers ala Captain America - from what I know, it wasn’t confirmed he was Jewish in the comics but a lot of fans have stated WHY he is and I’ve read them and decided to see him as Jewish

13.  Bernadette “Bernie” Rosenthal - a brilliant lawyer and one of Steve Rogers’ love interests. Personally, I would make her a love interest for him in the present timeline

14. Ben Grimm aka The Thing

15. Alicia Masters - The main love interest/wife of The Thing

16. Marc Spector aka Moon Knight

17. Ken Mack aka Mettle - from Avengers Academy

18.  Vance Astrovik aka Justice

19. N’kalla - adopted Skrull daughter of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters; given that both her parents are Jewish, it’s highly likely she’ll be taught Judaism

20. Jo-Venn - adopted Kree son of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters; given that both his parents are Jewish, it’s highly likely he’ll be taught Judaism

21. Bucky Barnes aka Winter Soldier - NOTE: his inspiration, Arnie Roth, was Jewish. As such, I have decided to see Bucky as Jewish

22.  Walter Langkowski aka Sasquatch

23. Howard Stark - The MCU (specifically the Agent Carter series) strongly hints that he is Jewish, so I will be seeing him as Jewish

24. Tony Stark aka Iron Man - given that his father is Jewish, so is Tony

25. Morgan Stark - from the MCU, Jewish like Howard and Tony

Please list any more if you don’t see any on the list. Be respectful with the comments.

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