#katya novak

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Tournament Ship list in no particular order

Spirk Spock/James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

Destiel Dean Winchester/Castiel Novak (Supernatural)

Klance Keith/Lance Mcclain (Voltron)

Lumity Luz Noceda/Amity Blight (The Owl House)

Johnlock John Watson/Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

Harlivy Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

Villaneve Villanelle/Eve Polastri (Killing Eve)

Merthur Merlin/King Arthur (Merlin)

Sterek Stiles Stilinki/Derek Hale (Teen Wolf)

Katya Goncharov/Sophia (Goncharov)

Neil Gaiman/Tumblr (tumblr)

Catradora Catra/Adora (She-ra Princess of Power)

Dipifica-Mabifica Pacifica Northwest/the Pines twin (Gravity Falls)

Blackbonnet Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (Our Flag means Death)

Edwin Edward Elric/Winry Rockbell (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Cecilos Cecil G. Palmer/Carlos (Welcome to Nightvale)

Laszlo Cravensworth/Nadja of Antipaxos (What we do in the shadow)

Korrasami Korra/Asami (Legend of Korra)

Rupphire-Garnet Ruby/Sapphire (Steven Universe)

Tenrose Tenth Doctor/Rose (Dr. Who)

Ladynoir (and all the other)Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

Zutara Zuko/Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Alphyne Alphys/Undyne (Undertale)

Caitvi Caitlyn/Vi (Arcane)

Geraskier Gerard of Rivia/Jaskier (The Witcher)

Sam Gamgee/Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings)

Hannigram Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham (Hannibal)

Steddie Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)

Reylo Rey Skywalker/Kylo Ren (Star Wars)

Symbrock Eddie Brock/Venom (Marvel Comics)

Ineffable Husbands Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Puccaru Pucca/Garu (Pucca)

Sebasciel Sebastian Michaelis/Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

Dekubowl Izuku Midoria/anyone(My hero academia)

Peraltiago Jake Peralta/Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)

Narusasu Naruto Uzumaki/Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch:  “Genesis”

The basics:  The disappearance of an ONI Officer has the team running up against Iranian intelligence agents.  Callen continues to dig into his past.

Written by:  Andrew Bartels wrote or co-wrote "Allegiance", "Zero Days", "The Grey Man", "Humbug", "Fighting Shadows", "Driving Miss Diaz", "Angels & Daemons", "Where There’s Smoke…", "Glasnost", "Old Tricks" "Battle Scars", "Fool Me Twice", "Warrior of Peace", "Reentry", "The Prince", "Smokescreen", "The One That Got Away"/"No More Secrets" two-parter, "Yellow Jacket", "Missing Time", "If the Fates Allow", "Red Rover, Red Rover" and "Divided We Fall".

Directed by:  John P. Kousakis directed "Imposters", "Sacrifice", "San Voir" part one, "The Fifth Man", "Parley", "Inelegant Heart", "Chernoff, K.", "Active Measures", "The Long Goodbye", "Talion", "Glasnost", "Unleashed", "Party Crashers", "This Is What We Do" (episode 200), "Goodbye Vietnam", "Ninguna Salida", "The Guardian", "High Society", "A Tale of Two Igors", "Under the Influence", all of the Afghanistan scenes from "Iron Curtain Rising" to "Zero Days" in season five and all of Kensi’s injury/recovery storyline scenes from "The Queen’s Gambit" to "Sirens" in season eight.  

Guest stars of note:  Peter Cambor returns “MWD” as Nate Getz, Bar Paly returns from “All The Little Things” as Anna Kolchek.  Both Duncan Campbell as Agent Castor and Beckett Gunderson as Young Callen are back from “Pandora’s Box”, Ashwin Gore is back from “Divided We Fall” as Akhil Ali and Milissa Sears returns from “Lost Soldier Down” as Leah Novak.  Jere Burns as Arnold Baines, Layla Alizada as Dr. Roxana Jarrahi and Andrei Dolezal as Young Baines.

Our heroes:  Try to find an ONI Officer while Callen mucks around some more in his past.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen:  More flashbacks tie him to Katya’s trainer. Sam:   Knows the SAC for the FBI in the Middle East. Kensi:  Wants to do the right thing by Pilar.   Deeks:  Visiting the Refugee Relocation Center before talking to an immigration lawyer pal. Fatima:  Fatima Khadem. Rountree:  Working Ops today.   Kilbride:  Got a sexy call from Callen.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Moving. Sam:  Jogging on the beach with Kensi. Kensi:  Calling Rosa.   Deeks:   Gave Rosa’s phone number to Kensi. Fatima: Ghosting boyfriends. Rountree: Danny Tanner-like with his dating advice. Kilbride:  Using the firing range to wash the sexy Callen call from his brain.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Nobody knows but Callen has a question or two.

Who's down with OTP:  Not a lot of Deeks around but he gave Kensi Rosa’s phone number.  Happy wife, happy life.  Like the Ali pining for Fatima.

Who's down with BrOTP:  The Callen and Nate show was interesting.  

Fashion review:   Callen is wearing a dark shirt watching the Katya video.  The following day, it is the green and blue plaid button down.  Sam is jogging in a black hoodie over a white undershirt.  Later he’s in a black long-sleeve heavy tee-shirt.  Kensi is jogging in an off-white fleece jacket over a medium blue tee.  Later in the day, she’s wearing a white henley.  Fatima starts the episode working out in a red sweatshirt.  Working in Ops, she’s wearing a blue and white striped shirt under a dark blue jacket.  Deeks is wearing a pale purple hoodie.  In the field, Fatima is wearing a concert tee-shirt under a brown sweater.  Rountree is in a black sleeveless muscle tee-shirt working out.  He’s wearing a brown sweater with a green jacket later in the episode.  

Music: No tunes today except for a clip of a song by Googoosh.

Any notable cut scene:   Two:

As Fatima changes in the relocated wardrobe dressing room, Ali fills in Fatima about Dr. Jarrahi’s work.  She is working on changing mosquitos so she can help stop the spread of malaria.  Her detractors think she is trying to eliminate an entire species of insects.  Fatima said growing up in LA, there were no mosquitos, now the city is full of them.  Ali thinks they can bond over a shared dislike for the bugs.  Fatima snarks that she will then casually turn the conversation to the officer’s disappearance.  This goes into the scene where Fatima models her tee-shirt for Ali, who is a bit surprised she did that.  He thinks she looks cool but he doesn’t spend a lot of time with undergrads.  Fatima is relieved he does not.

From the episode, at the beach, Callen is trying to explain what he did to Leah.  Nate is shocked – Leah was a subject just like he was.  Callen brings up her work at Homeland Security and her redacted personnel file.  If she didn’t want to be found, Callen thinks his approach was better.  Nate mocks Callen’s alias.  Greg is the English version of Grisha.  

Cut from the episode is Nate getting back on topic, asking if Callen ever learned why Leah’s file was redacted.  He didn’t.  Leah isn’t with Homeland anymore, she’s freelancing as a negotiator for companies dealing with ransomware issues.  Her background is likely classified cyberwarfare.  

Nate asks if Leah spoke about the Drona project.  Callen says he and Leah had dinner a few times, he tried to ask about her past but she didn’t want to give him much.  Then Callen had to cut it off.  He wasn’t interested in going any further.  It wouldn’t be ethical to sleep with her, especially since he’s with Anna.  Nate asks about Anna, Callen says she’s good.

Quote:  Kilbride:  “I believe that this whole thing is Looney Tunes. If you had told me a year ago that I would be dealing with mischievous digital facsimiles of my agents trying to seduce me with prank phone calls, I'd have moved to a yurt in Mongolia, never to be heard from again, but, apparently, this is the idiotic world we have chosen to live in.”

This may be the finest rant ever uttered on this or any other program in the last year.

Anything else:  Setting up the old-school projector, Callen is once again watching the Noble Maidens ganging up on one of their own.  The Russian instructor can be heard saying “Seventeen”.  Suddenly, the young woman is not standing up, it is young Callen.  Callen has a flashback to being tested by as a child.  The man is saying “finish the job” in a similar tone as the man speaking to the Noble Maidens.  Anna wakes Callen up.  They need to finish packing.

Asking if she recognizes the voice, Anna does not.  But she is pretty sure that is Katya in the video.  Anna tells Callen she was not treated that way at the Institute.  Anna almost feels sorry for Katya – “Almost.”  She asks if Callen ever figured out what “Pembroke” meant.  Callen has a list of a few Pembrokes, including a breed of corgis, but he thinks it is the name of the instructor.  They need to finish packing – there are movers coming the next day.  Callen is going to watch the film one more time.

In the gym, Fatima is working the heavy bag and discussing her dating life with Rountree.  He thinks she “ghosted” the guy she’s currently dating.  Hasn’t spoken to him in three weeks.  She tells him ghosting happens after four.  After saying a little prayer, Fatima wants to know what she is doing wrong.  She meets these nice guys and after a few dates, she’s out.  “It’s me, isn’t it.”  Rountree thinks she has trust issues.  With the quality of people NCIS deals with on a regular basis, why wouldn’t Fatima have trust issues.  

Rountree mentions the deep fakes boyfriend and Fatima quickly corrects him.  They met once.  Though Rountree thinks there was a connection, Fatima tells him it wasn’t real – she was being played.  “But it felt real.”  Rountree feels it messed with her head and her heart.  Fatima thinks Rountree is well on his way to being a great dad like Danny Tanner.  Rountree finds her real problem – “you’re a jerk.”  The two laugh.

On the beach, Sam is jogging with Kensi.  Kensi is talking about Pilar, who learned how to speak English by watching horror movies.  Now she’s making her own movies at 14 with her phone.  Rosa asked Kensi and Deeks to watch over Pilar and Kensi doesn’t want to let her down.  Deeks is going to meet with the Refugee Resettlement Office before talking to a friend who is an immigration lawyer.  They’re going to find out how hard it is going to be for Pilar to stay.  Kensi remembers not having a safe home to go to – she wants more for Pilar.  Sam knows Pilar will be fine with Kensi and Deeks watching her back, “just like Rosa was.”

Wrapping up a call, Anna tells Callen she’s going to stay with Arkady for a while.  Callen reminds Anna they just signed a lease for a place by the marina.  He asks if she is breaking up with him.  She is not – she loves him.  The last few months have been hard and since the film reel showed up, Callen is obsessed.  Callen thinks the key to finding Katya is in the video – surely Anna understands that.  She does but she is tired of Katya defining their relationship.  They’ll take a step back, just for a little while.  Callen’s phone rings – it’s the Admiral.  Anna tells Callen to go, they’ll talk later.  An unhappy Callen answers the phone.  

In Ops, the Admiral reintroduces Fatima and Rountree to ONI Officer Akhil Ali.  Rountree asks what are they being investigated for now.  Nothing – Ali has been promoted to running ONI’s LA field office.  His biggest area of responsibility is running the collectors – he trains Naval Intelligence Officers to meet and collect foreign assets who provide intelligence information.  Ali seems impressed Fatima knows his job.  Kilbride explains one of the officers has gone missing and NCIS is there to help find her.  When the Admiral leaves, Ali asks Fatima for access to the system.  She’s going to get him set up.

Marching down the hall, the Admiral calls to an arriving Callen to go to the fishbowl office, “now.”  Kilbride has a voicemail from Callen and his desire to see the Admiral in a “sexy little sailor suit.”  Callen denies making the phone call.  The Admiral asks if Callen thinks he’d still be alive if he did.  Vance and hundreds of other federal officials got similar calls.  There were also inappropriate social media posts.  Callen looks sick – NCIS CYBER was supposed to be protecting him.  They were but Katya has bot accounts that are amplifying whatever she sends out.  Callen thinks it all goes back to the film reel and how Katya probably wants him sidelined.

Taking a seat, the Admiral tells Callens that the deep fakes were mostly a nuisance.  They are the product of a psychopathic troll.  But this escalation is interfering with Callen’s ability to do his job.  Callen tries to interrupt the Admiral but Kilbride plows on about Callen not being able to represent the agency.  Callen asks if Kilbride really believes that.  He believes the entire set-up is “Looney Tunes.”   Vance is not only worried about the trouble Katya has already caused but the trouble she is looking to cause.  He has asked Kilbride to remove Callen from the field until the deep fakes stop.  “What if they don’t stop?”  The Admiral does not have an answer.

With Sam and Kensi in the boatshed, Ali, Fatima and Rountree review the case.  The missing ONI Officer  is Maria Varza.  She’s been a collector for six years and has cultivated a relationship with Dr. Roxana Jarrahi.  Jarrahi is one of the top genetics in the world, working at The Curie Institute and MIT.  Varza was working on Jarrahi, whose research is funded by groups with ties to the Iranian military.  ONI wanted to see if Jarrahi’s work would lead to a genetic weapon – something that could target specific sections of DNA.  An inert virus could be released that would only hurt people with a specific genetic sequence or a family or a whole race of people.

Varza was just getting friendly with Jarrahi.  A planned dinner the prior night is where Varza was going to make her official offer.  Ali was hoping Fatima could get access to the restaurant’s security cameras.  Varza was supposed to call in this morning but didn’t.  Ali tried to call Varza with no luck.  He drove to her home to find the door unlocked and no Varza.  Kensi wants to know if Jarrahi's relationship with the Iranian military is deeper than just funding.  Jarrahi may have been collected – just not by the US.

In the firing range, a shooting Callen is joined by Nate.  Nate asks how Callen is doing, he’s fine.  Callen doesn’t want to talk about Katya, he wants to stop her.  So does Nate, who drew up a profile on Katya.  Callen’s already read profiles on Katya by both the FBI and CIA – she’s a sadist driven by revenge.  Nate disagrees – she’d driven by obsession.  When only plays out, like Anna, another pops up – Callen.  If they could identify a new obsession, they could draw her out.  Callen thinks about an old obsession he thinks he found, though Nate may think it’s crazy.  Nate is not a fan of the word crazy.

Checking out Varza’s house, the place is not a mess.  Kensi finds her keys right away so if she was taken, they didn’t bother to lock up the house before going.  Sam thinks she may have run.  Kensi asks about Callen, who says he’s fine.  Sam doesn’t believe Callen.  There is no computer or cell phone in the house.  Rountree in Ops can’t trace the phone – it’s shut off.  With only external security cameras, Varza’s car is seen pulling into her garage but the system was turned off at 2:14AM.  Sam wonders if Varza took her system offline and is selling secrets.  No witnesses, no cellphone, no computer – they don’t have much.  Looking at Varza’s car, they have one set of computers.

An unhappy Nate just finished watching the Katya video.  Nate asks Callen if he’s sure he’s heard that voice before as a child in Hetty’s version of the Institute.  The KGB man was also involved in the CIA project.  Callen believes that Katya was looking for the man in the video when she was stationed in the US as a spy.  The film reel was her only lead.  “You think I’m crazy,” Callen says to Nate, who doesn’t like the word.  He switches to delusional.   Nate explains that Callen could be seeing similarities in his and Katya’s upbringing.  That would make the instructor sound the same.  But it isn’t impossible for the instructor was KGB – the CIA took a lot from the Russians, including the Drona project from the Institute of Noble Maidens.   Callen stops Nate – how does he know that the Drona program is based on a Russian program.  “Admiral Kilbride told me.”  That’s news to Callen.  Nate is surprised the Admiral kept that secret but Callen brings up breaking into a sealed archive and how he was almost fired for that.  “Since I’m half way out the door,” Callen wants to explore what the Admiral knows.

Wearing a concert tee-shirt under a brown jacket, Fatima asks Ali how she looks.  He says she looks cool but he doesn’t hang around much with college coeds.  Fatma would hope not.  Usually, Jarrahi has lunch at the university cafeteria at 12:30PM but she’s fasting for Ramadan, as is Fatima and Ali.  Ali tells Fatima is he also going to the mosque.  She’s glad to hear it.  Ali asked if she had plans for Eid but Fatima say she usually does something with her family.  

Watching what’s going on, Rountree waits a beat before updating Fatima and Ali on Varza’s credit cards and bank accounts – nothing there to indicate she was up to something.  Looking into the Varza’s car’s computer, the trunk was opened and closed at 8:16 PM around when she left the restaurant.  It was opened again six-minutes before the security system was taken offline.  Varza was kidnapped.  They didn’t break in, they were hiding in the trunk of her car.

As the Admiral is about to go into the gun range to purge the memory of Callen’s voicemail, Callen confronts Kilbride about the Russian connection.  The Admiral is not happy with Nate who broke confidentially.  Nate pushes back – no patient-doctor confidentially between them.  The Admiral brings up the idea of classified material but Nate pushes back again.  He’s there to help Callen.  Callen explains his theory about Katya looking for someone from the Drona project.  The Admiral thinks Callen sounds crazy, causing Nate to flinch.  Callen asks and the Admiral confirms that the Drona project was based on the Institute of Noble Maidens.  The name Pembroke means nothing to the Admiral.  Callen storms off.

The Admiral goes off on Nate, who instead of pulling Callen out of a rabbit hole is pushing him down deeper.  Knowing Callen for years, with or without him, Nate knows Callen will see this through.  

On campus, a casually dressed Ali is wearing headphones and pretend working on a computer.  Fatima passes him as she approaches Jarrahi.  Introducing herself as Fatima Khadem, Fatima sits down to speak to Jarrahi.  Fatima is so happy to meet another Iranian scientist.  Explaining that she’s graduating in a few weeks, Fatima is waitlisted for the graduate program in bio-chemistry.  Jarrahi can do nothing to help Fatima with that.  Ali tells Fatima that Jarrahi is a workaholic, focus on her research.  Speaking glowingly of Jarrahi’s work, Fatima asks what is holding it up.  “Fear.”  Saying she has a lot of work to do, Jarrahi dismisses Fatima.  

Ali tries to move to plan be – wealthy parents who will fund her research.  Fatima pulls out her phone and starts to put in her earbuds.  Googoosh, a popular Iranian singer starts playing so Jarrahi can hear.  Fatima blames the Bluetooth sync.  Jarrahi is a fan.  Fatima has tickets to see Googoosh at the Hollywood Bowl that summer, as does Jarrahi.  Fatima isn’t surprised – “Pretty sure half of Tehrangeles will be there.”  Fatima has a favorite song – “Gharibe Ashena” – and hopes Googoosh sings it at the concert.  “Oh, she has to.  If she doesn’t, the crowd will revolt.”  Fatima will lead the revolt.  Jarrahi starts chatting with Fatima.

Showing Nate the files he has of the other subjects, Callen admits he hasn’t ID’d many of them.  The ones he has, most are dead.   Two died in action, two died by suicide.  The only one alive is Leah.  Nate asks if Callen has spoken to her – he has.  Did she recognized the voice, Nate asks.  Callen has some explaining to do.  

At his desk, Deeks has his laptop opened when Kensi arrives.  He’s catching up on the Varza case – “where’s Sam?”  Sam is at the university as back-up.  He dropped Kensi off at the office.  Kensi asks about the Pilar.  There is a lot for Deeks to go through.  He doesn’t miss being a lawyer.  Pilar’s parents were murdered by a gang and the gang threatened Pilar too.  Kensi is upset for Pilar.  The good news is that Pilar has a strong case for asylum.  Kensi and Deeks need to find someone who Pilar can talk too about what happened.  If she can be comfortable explaining what happened, it will help her case.  Kensi thinks of Nate or someone who Nate could suggest.   Nate sounds like a good idea to Deeks.

Rountree joins Kensi and Deeks with security cam footage from the restaurant.  Varza and Jarrahi enter around 8PM.  Two men are just behind them.  One of the men leaves around the time Varza’s trunk was opened.  The second man stayed inside to watch Varza and Jarrahi.  Varza left about 8:38PM as did Jarrahi, but they did not leave together.  The two men are not coming up in a facial rec search.

Nate is surprised Callen tried to trick Leah.  He explains that with her redacted file, he wondered if she was hiding something.  Pulling up to her home, Callen explains why he broke it off with Leah before going “oh” in recognition.  Callen knocks on Leah’s door – “we need to talk.”  In her backyard, Callen is playing the audio for the Noble Maiden instructor.  Leah went to a special school because she had ADD.  She’s stunned this is why Callen lied to her.  Nate tries to cover for Callen – as an agent, it is hard for Callen to trust people.  As someone who works in cyberspace, Leah doesn’t need to be told the world is full of liars.  She asks them to leave.  Callen asks if Pembroke means anything to her.  Leah tells him to go to hell.

While Fatima and Jarrahi area walking and talking about science, Sam joins Ali who is following the women.  There are no IDs from ONI on the two men who tailed Varza and Jarrahi into the restaurant.   They are likely Iranian intelligence agents with non-official covers.  This makes finding Varza harder.  

Through comms, Sam tells Fatima to push Jarrahi harder.  Talking about Jarrahi being new to LA, Jarrahi says she works all the time.  She hasn’t even seen the ocean in her five months in LA.  Fatima talks about the number of Iranian ex-pats in LA and Ali knows Jarrahi is lying about not knowing any.  Varza’s cover was as a pharmaceutical businesswoman from Tehran.  Fatima tries to weave Varza’s cover into the conversation but that tips off Jarrahi, who storms off.

The two men who grabbed Varza are now following Fatima.  Sam has Ali follow Jarrahi and tells him to approach her after she’s clear of the men.  As Fatima is getting into her car, the two men approach.  She asks if she could help them.  They order Fatima to come with them.  Sam arrives saying he’d like the same thing.  When he says “Federal Agents”, the men run.  Sam follows one who is nearly hit by a truck.   He and Sam fight.  Sam wins.  As Fatima chases the other man, Ali holds up his ID and tells the man to stop.  He gets run over for his trouble.  The man trips and Fatima keeps him on the ground.  While handcuffing the second man, Fatima asks Ali about Jarrahi.  She’s with campus security.  Ali has a busted up nose for trying to help.

In the main part of the boat shed, Jarrahi tells Fatima and Ali that she cut dinner short because Varza said she was ONI.  Varza wanting Jarrahi to spy for ONI was “the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.”  She would have laughed if she wasn’t so angry.  Ali says she takes money from the Iranian military, a military that is interested in genetic weapons.  She claims that she does not do business with the military – any military.  She’d like to help find Varza but she can’t.  Jarrahi would like to leave but since they don’t know the names of the two men in interrogation right now who were following Jarrahi, it may not be safe.  Besides, they are still looking for Varza.

Over comms, the Admiral has an update.  As Ali brings Varza to the upstairs interrogation room, Kilbride heard from the FBI.  The two men in interrogation with Sam are Iranian intelligence agents who will likely die before talking.

Back on the beach, Nate wants to look at the Drona files – maybe he can help figure out who some of the subjects were.  While Nate knows Callen feels he’s back at square one, Nate believes Callen is making progress.  Callen drops the bomb that Anna moved out.  Nate is sorry.  Callen wonders if he is ruining his life more than Katya is.  Nate talks about Katya’s obsession with Callen feeding Callen’s obsession with Katya.  If he stops obsessing on Katya will she do the same.  Nate says no because she’s…. struggling to find the word he goes with crazy – “pure, unfiltered, bat poop crazy town.”  

Callen gets a call from Leah.  A few years ago, she reconnected with one of her foster moms.  The woman gave Leah some personal belongings including a special ed enrollment form with an address in Cypress Park.  She texted a photo of the document to Callen.  

Since the two men aren’t talking, Sam wants to backtrack their movements.  Kensi, Deeks and Rountree pop up on the plasma.  Deeks has an idea he thinks is solid gold, Kensi is worried he’s overselling it.  One of Jarrahi’s biggest funders is an Iranian-American businessman, Reza Shaheen.  One of the Iranian Intelligence Agents called Shaheen that morning.  Since Shaheen is out of the country, why call?  According to Rountree, Shaheen is closing his LA businesses but he still has one property – a warehouse in Hawthorne.  Kensi and Deeks will meet Sam at the warehouse.

At the address Leah sent, Callen and Nate are looking around.  There is a sign “Plants for Sale”.  Going to the back of the house, there is a man tending a number of bonsai trees – trees he’s shaped into what they are today.  That’s not creepy at all.  Callen stops – he recognizes the voice.  The man faces Callen – he is an older gentleman.  Callen remembers him as a younger man.

The man introduces himself as Arnold Baines.  Callen is too stunned to talk.  Nate tries to fill in, asking about a plant to buy but admitting he doesn’t know much about plants.  Baines says most people don’t.  If it was up to Baines, he’d teach kids about flowers in grade school.  Give them a lily, let them nurture it and then take it away so the kids can watch it wither and die.  Yeah, not creepy at all.  Nate thinks it is a little intense for elementary school kids.  Explaining that kids are tougher than people think, the children will learn the true way to respect life.  

Suddenly chatty Callen asks if that is why Baines works on bonsai trees – there are comparisons to foot bonding.  Baines disagrees – bonsai does not stunt growth, it encourages it.  Baines even corrects the way Callen says bonsai – “it’s Japanese.  It’s a beautiful language.”  Baines spoke it years ago but is out of practice.  Callen tries some Russian but Baines plays dumb.  Callen pushes because it is obvious Baines speaks Russian.  Offering Nate a snake plant – one of the hardiest houseplants out there.  Doesn’t need a lot of water or light, just time.  

Returning to the armory, Sam, Kensi and Deeks did not find Varza.  Sam knows the SAC in the FBI’s Middle East office, he can get Shaheen picked up – it isn’t over.  The Admiral disagrees.  LAPD found Varza an hour ago.  She was in a state of delirium about a mile from her house.  The State Department orders NCIS to release the Iranian intelligence officers for the greater good – “or so they claim.”  Nobody wants to ruffle feathers.   The case is closed for now.  Shaheen is on their radar however.

In the boat shed, Fatima apologizes to Jarrahi.  Jarrahi is sorry the world doesn’t see her research for the good she wants to do.  Castor walks her out.  Ali arrives.  Varza had benzodiazepine in her system – it is a drug used to extract information during interrogations. Since it is almost sundown, Fatima asks Ali to break the fast.  He offers her three dates to break to the fast.  She jokes about one date and then see how things go.  It takes him a second to catch on.  The dates got a little smushed when it was tackled.

In the bullpen, Deeks gives Kensi the phone number for Rosa’s aunt.  Kensi calls immediately.  She and Rosa chat while a happy Deeks watches his happy wife.  

Callen is watching the video again when Nate arrives.  He’s sure it is Arnold Baines in the video.  Checking out the house where Baines lives and is growing his plants, it was purchased in 1986 from a behavioral psychiatrist named Howard Pembrook.  The only a slight spelling difference.  Pembrook died in 1986 on record.  But Arnold Baines is Pembrook.  Callen is 100% sure, Nate wants to look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes.  

Later that night, Callen starts looking around Baines’s house.  All the plants are gone.  Anna calls to apologize.  She wants to move in with Callen, she doesn’t want to take a step back.  Callen promises his obsession is over.  Lying to her that he’s finishing up at work, he’ll be home soon.  Callen looks at a security camera on the house.  Baines sees Callen and says “Seventeen”.  

What head canon can be formed from here:  I remain so done with the Callen childhood nonsense but am intrigued by Jere Burns being involved.  Burns is a quality character actor who has been terrific in any number of programs.  He was the head of the Dixie Mafia in Justified.  If he returns, I may be interested but otherwise, nothing new here.  Nothing at all.

I’m sort of into the Ali-Fatima ship.  Hope she hops aboard soon.

Episode number:  This is episode 17 of season 13, episode 297.

[ton-e]

How I look getting infatuated by a villain with tragic vibes and know I'm gonna obsess over them and most likely redeem them

[gummybearzgocrazyagain]

might have fucked around and transcribed like half of katya and trixie’s podcast harvey went on a few months ago, and there were some straight up gems; go off king 💅

harvey on his joining the cast and meeting kayvan for the first time:

“i just remembered i’ve never had a chemistry [read] with kayvan, it was sunday i got the call [...] and wednesday i was on set, we were starting to shoot the pilot, and i’ve never had a chemistry [read] with kayvan. and i met him and was like “please make this work”, and i just met him, and we just talked, and i was like “omg”, i was like he’s such a wonderful comedian, actor, such a giving actor, that i was like, this could have gone easily, you know, the other way”

harvey on the s03 finale fight sequence:

“if you would have told me in the first week of filming that guillermo at one point would be kicking ass [...] and like be trying to attack nandor... because it’s emotion, he turned by an emotion, he is frustrated. what is that kind of love that he has with him? we don’t know. is it romantic? it’s yet to be shown, but there’s definitely... you know sometimes, you love someone so much, and it could be a friendship and you’re just trying to shake that nonsense out of them”

*me, freaking out all over the place - so it is to be shown, harvey, huh, IT IS TO BE SHOWNNNNNNNNNNNNN [with Holt’s “vindicationnnnnn” intone]*

trixie and katya on vamps’ haplessness:

“they’re like ancient babies“

dish about kayvan:

trixie and katya: “who’s the actor who plays nandor, what is his name?“

harvey: “kayvan” 

trixie and katya: [...] “he is so hot, i find him so fucking attractive, i... oh my god”

harvey: “he’s like honey to bees, every woman that passes by is like [...] and the worst part is he is so charming and nice, you almost wish that someone who was funny and [...] good looking be an asshole, but he is not, he’s literally the [...] nicest person ever, and you’re just like “yup [...] you’re a good guy, like, you’re a nice guy, and amazing, funny” like he’s like... i couldn’t ask for a better [...] scene partner, he’s [...] the best”

on whether guillermo would become a vampire, and what harvey wants for him:

harvey: “well i should say what i want for guillermo, is for him to be happy. i think he is finding it, i think he is going through a little bit of a crisis in the end of S3, when he like confronts nandor, and we also don’t know what that relationship is, we’re like, is he sticking around cause he wants to be a vampire, or is he sticking around because they need him, and he wants to be needed? [...] sometimes it’s good to be wanted, you know. and i feel like... i want him to get what he wants, and it might take a second, but overall i want him to be happy“

katya: [...] my interpretation is that guillermo is in love with nandor, it’s a co-dependent, unrequited [...], a little toxic relationship

harvey: yeah

katya: but it’s so sweet and lovely [...] and the fuel that drives it is the yearning, and not getting satisfied 

harvey: yeah, absolutely!

on the comeback of “creepy paper”:

harvey: “that wasn’t in the script!!” [...] “ it wasn’t in the script originally, and i threw it in, i didn’t think they were gonna use it!”

*he really be having to do everything himself around that house, huh*

harvey on who breaks the most on set:

“i would say most of my scenes recently or in the first three seasons were with kayvan, and so i would say kayvan breaks the most, because he is so fucking funny, but he always makes fun of me, because i am such a... you know, guillermo is grounded, and you know, not over the top. [...] and so i’m always really grounded, and its so hard to stay grounded in guillermo character all the time, and then here’s kayvan making a joke, and he laughs at his own joke, i’m like “stop”, and he’s just like “okay, i won’t do it, i won’t do it” and then he “ahhhaaaaaaa”, and he like breaks character, and just like laughs at his own joke, and i’m like... [...] we just had the take the other night [...] and like kayvan got the giggles, and just couldn’t stop laughing, and i was like “stop!“, cause then i start doing it too, and once i get going, it’s just tears down my eyes, and like i can’t stop. so it’s hard just to keep grounded as gullermo, and then on top of that, trying not to laugh at how hilarious is kayvan

*me, extremely alert: what do you mean in the first three seasons, king, so in season 4 most of your scenes are NOT with kayvan 😨😨😨😨 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i don’t want to possess this cursed info*

nb: all the redacted parts are mainly word “like” harvey seems to overuse, which has actually endeared him to me even further, not sure how that’s possible, having already adored the dude

p.s the way he pronounces kayvan’s name sometimes as “kay-von”, and sometimes as “kee-von” is also too endearing, and he needs to stop with the uncontrollable levels of adorableness, or else

[forbesaken]

is anyone else shipping katya and claire... cause like... fuck me UP

[manuscripts-dontburn]

Darkdawn

Author: Jay Kristoff

First published: 2019

Rating: ★★★☆☆

A satisfying enough ending to an elaborate revenge story, that I enjoyed but there is no denying this is hardly quality literature. In any case, I was more interested in this than the second volume, which just dragged. What cuts the book in its knees especially is the unnecessary, artless baseness with which the physical love, as well as physical suffering, is treated throughout. I do love Mr Kindly though. Also, all the points to the book designer.

The Dutch House

Author: Ann Patchett

First published: 2019

Rating: ★★★★☆

A book about relationships, familial loyalty, hurts and the possibility of forgiveness. Beautifully written, but one should beware there is not much of a plot. An ideal book for a quiet, calm afternoon as you sip a large cup of delicious tea.

The Book Smugglers

Author: Anna James

First published: 2021

Rating: ★★★★★

Yet more delightful goodness from Anna James. This is the ultimate book-loving series for kids to fall in love with reading! Every volume is just lovely and I feel like falling into it likeinto a comfortable blanket.

Katia: Wife Before God

Author: Alexandre Tarsaïdzé

First published: 1970

Rating: ★★★☆☆

The main strength of this publication is the many letters, presented without shortening, that were exchanged between Alexander II and his beloved "Katya". that said the author made some maddening decisions of inserting a million footnotes which should never have been footnoted, but information incorporated into the main text. The rest of the footnotes are often so random and unrelated that they baffled me (what good is it to me to know a distant relation of a random courtier mentioned in the book was living in the US in the 60s?). Add to it that there are some inaccuracies regarding names and ages, and all that remains is my ardent wish that this should have been just a published correspondence.

The Betrothed

Author: Alessandro Manzoni

First published: 1827

Rating: ★★★☆☆

I am in two minds about this one. On the one hand, the whole thing is incredibly slow, the characters rather superfluous and their plight left me cold. On the other hand, when the author decides to leave those characters behind and instead focuses on the historical events and general populace, I was hooked and truly impressed and felt both compassion as well as horror. The parts dealing with the war and plague were actually incredible. (And oh gosh! The parallels of the populace reacting to it were too similar to our own experiences with covid it just hit me right in the face how unchanging humans are throughout the ages!) I understand the characters are needed for us to travel with them, but in the end, this is the story of a region, not the two lovers and their friends/enemies.

Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks

Author: Kelcey Wilson-Lee

First published: 2019

Rating: ★★★★★

Fantastic, immensely readable family portrait from the depth of the medieval age! Stands to show that even though their voices are often so muffled by the male censure of history, the women of the past centuries (even if only the ones born into privilege) were very much present during pivotal moments, wielded influence and claimed their own spaces.

The Last Graduate

Author: Naomi Novak

First published: 2021

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

*deep sigh* The whole idea of this is great. The characters all have potential. It is definitely something that just deserved a tighter approach or a merciless editor. The amount of pages where the main character just goes on and on and on about things we already know is just devastatingly high. I love Naomi Novik´s previous books and I really was intrigued by Scholomance, but unfortunately reading should not feel like a chore and this book felt exactly like one.

The Pillars of the Earth

Author: Ken Follet

First published: 1989

Rating: ★★★★☆

There is absolutely no better review of this book than THIS ONE.

The Nature of Witches

Author: Rachel Griffin

First published: 2021

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Look, there is nothing particularly wrong with this book, but I was bored out of my mind for most of it. This is a great pity because the idea of "seasonal" witches definitely struck me as new and original and the writing itself was not half bad either. And the shallow me loved the cover. However, there really is no plot unless you count a very vanilla and done-to-death romantic relationship.

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Author: Heather Dune Macadam

First published: 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Why would anyone ever be content with any fictional book about Holocaust, when there are nonfiction books like this out there? Beautifully, and sensitively put together to commemorate a specific group of young women who suffered in Auschwitz, this is a dignified tribute to those who died and those who survived.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi

First published: 1883

Rating: ★★★☆☆

A wild trip of imagination that somehow did not make me feel like I was on drugs (looking at you Alice in Wonderland), had some genuinely laugh out loud moments and delicious sarcasm sprinkled on top. Is it the best children´s classic I know? Not, but I would choose Pinocchio over Peter Pan any day.

[chenfordsrollisi]

Common Theme This Season

So, when I started playing catch up on SWAT eps I'm behind on today, I realized that both SWAT and NCIS: Los Angeles have a theme in common in this season. Deepfake videos/pics, etc..

On NCIS LA, Katya (sp?) made deepfakes of Callen and the team, and on SWAT, Novak pays someone to do the same to Hondo, which includes a deepfake video of him killing two other cops.

The fact that both shows were dealing with similar themes this season makes me wish for a crossover. Both shows are set in LA, and I'd totally love a team up with the OSP team and the 20-David SWAT team. CBS, make it happen! <3

[chicago-geniza]

one stark difference between twitter & tumblr is people on twitter keep prefacing their kayvan novak thirst tweets with disclaimers like "unpopular opinion, but..." when this man is so attractive harvey guillén was saying on trixie & katya's podcast that they can't go out in public without throngs of women being drawn to him like the pied piper of raw animal magnetism & charismatic charm lmao

he's literally the textbook triple threat Tall, Dark, & Handsome, c'mon! a conventionally good-looking man

[warmania]

Adobe x Keith Haring | Creativity For All from Bakehouse on Vimeo.

Client: Adobe Inc. Concept: Achtung!isobar Amsterdam Produced by: Bakehouse, Antfood Audio Studio Authorised by: Keith Haring Studio (Artestar NYC)

CREDITS

Client: Adobe Inc.

Daniel Cowles - Executive Creative Director Daniel Vargas Díaz - Creative Director Mark Valenta - Senior Creative Director Copy Pete Fishman - Senior Campaign Marketing Manager Sara O'Dea - Associate Creative Director Doug Beach - Senior Creative Director Mara Bey - Campaign Marketing Manager Farhana Rafi - Senior Marketing Manager

Agency: Isobar Amsterdam

Claire IJsbrandij - Senior Creative team instagram.com/ijsbrandij Tanya Ponomareva - Senior Creative team instagram.com/tanny.ponomareva Marc Elbers - Head of Production instagram.com/marc_elbers/ Jasper Janssen - Creative Director instagram.com/jasperjanssen/ Samyr Souen - Creative Director instagram.com/sousamsouen/ Mervyn ten Dam - Executive Creative Director instagram.com/mervynachtung/ Kika Douglas Castroviejo - Executive Creative Director instagram.com/kikadouglas/ Lorenzo Angelone - Motion Designer instagram.com/lorenzo.angelone/ Maksim Kuzin - Editor instagram.com/maksim.t.kuzin/ Annabelle Klop - Account Manager instagram.com/annabelleklop/ Maaike Stellink - Account Manager instagram.com/maaikeste

Production: Bakehouse

Dima Maseykin - Film director/Chief Illustrator instagram.com/daltonizm_/ Alya Lugovaya - Head of Production instagram.com/aleyaska/ Kostya Korobkin - Head of Production instagram.com/duffus/ Sophya Katulska - Executive Producer instagram.com/sollveig_k/ Mitya Katkin - Executive Creative Producer instagram.com/mityakatkin/ Nino Vasilkovskaya - Line Producer instagram.com/do_filtra/

Liza Chernyak - Illustrator instagram.com/cher_liza/ Nikita Selivanov - Illustrator instagram.com/kitos_04/ Aset Kairambayev - Illustrator instagram.com/nakedmazafaker/ Roman Novak - Illustrator instagram.com/nvk_foxhide/ Egor Afonin - Illustrator behance.net/egorafonin/

Pavel Nikiforov - Lead Animator Anastasiya Melikhova - Animator Vera Pozdeyeva - Animator Vadim Ivanov - Animator Egor Keon - Animator Lyudmila Skotnikova - Сolour-in artist Nadezhda Pshenichnikova - Сolour-in artist Alisa Andreyeva - Сolour-in artist Tatyana Petrova - Сolour-in artist Alina Khabarova - Сolour-in artist Darya Gavrilova - Сolour-in artist Ekaterina Tikhonova - Сolour-in artist Yury Tomilov - Digital-compositor Alexey Sazhin - Digital-compositor Alexander Kuznetsov (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Andrey Kiselev (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Oleg Koverchenko (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor

Anton Reva - Сollage director instagram.com/savemymind/ Anatoly Shabalin - Сollage artist instagram.com/shabalin_anatoly/ Galina Kazimi - Сollage artist instagram.com/renard_oui/ Sasha Churganov - Сollage artist instagram.com/po.sox/

Vlad Yakunin - Senior editor Kirill Khandurin - Senior editor Nikita Potapov - Motion designer

Shepard Fairey - Guest Artist instagram.com/obeygiant/ Kate Moross - Guest Artist instagram.com/katemoross/ Nikita Kibirev - Guest Artist instagram.com/nikibirev/ Anatoly Vladimirovich instagram.com/subwwaymoscoww/ Zhenya Artemyev instagram.com/zhenyaartemjev/ Katya Oktyabr instagram.com/octbrkate/ Yana Bolotenkova instagram.com/bolotenkova.yana Oleg Guta instagram.com/gutaart/ Ilya Kutoboy instagram.com/kutoboy/ Sergey Kolesov instagram.com/peleng_square/

Brushes Page: creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/keith-haring

Making of film: vimeo.com/bakehouse/btsadobeandkeithharing

Campaign hashtag: #creativityforall

Tags: @Adobe Inc. Achtung!isobar Amsterdam achtung.nl/ facebook.com/136407646401784/ instagram.com/weareachtung

[extasiswings]

“I am burning in stars/I am feverishly filled with stars.” Asher/Maria

Perhaps I am IMPOSSIBLY SOFT for them.

At first, Maria passes it off as just the winter.  If she is cold, if she is constantly tired, that’s only because even when it isn’t snowing or raining, the sun isn’t out for long enough for it to be helpful.  If she’s overly emotional at times, that’s only because Asher keeps being sent away on secret assignments that he can’t discuss and she misses him and worries.  If she gets nauseous sometimes...well, there’s been a stomach bug going around the neighborhood.

There’s an explanation for everything.  And it’s easy to look at each piece in isolation than in the aggregate.

She’s at Asher’s mother’s house when it finally comes together.  Katya is in the kitchen preparing dinner as Maria works on sewing up a hole in the pocket of a pair of pants.  A perfectly normal evening.

Until the smell of fish hits Maria’s nose and she barely makes it to the bathroom before she loses the contents of her stomach.  A moment later, she feels her mother-in-law’s hands, Katya humming sympathetically as she strokes Maria’s hair and presses a cool cloth to the back of her neck.

Maria is about to blame the Novak children from the end of the road for getting her sick, when Katya says—

“How far along are you?”

—and Maria goes utterly still.  

Her mind rapidly cycles through the last two months—the fatigue, the nausea, the mood swings—and settles on the most glaring symptom that she missed.  When was the last time she—?

“At least two months,” she says, her voice strangely far away to her own ears as she sits back on the floor, her hand fluttering absently over her stomach.  Katya smiles and gently squeezes Maria’s shoulder before stepping back.

“I’ll make you some tea.  And then we’ll talk, yes?”

“Okay.”

Later that night, as she lays in bed alone, Maria stares at the ceiling and thinks about Gabriel.  

The next few days pass in a daze.  Maria swings between elation and heart-stopping terror—she wants to laugh, she wants to dance, and yet also weep, wail, run away.  She feels as if her feelings are too strong and varied for her body to contain, a supernova trapped under her skin.

Finally, Asher returns.  And Maria—

“Are you okay, love?”  He asks between kisses, unable to calm her roving hands as she tugs at his clothes.

“I just missed you,” she replies, and there are no more words for some time.

—well, she sees no reason not to put her nervous energy to better use.

After, she curls around him in bed, resting her head on his shoulder and tracing stray patterns on his chest.  Outside, a storm rattles the windows, and Asher’s arms tighten around her.

“Where are you?”  He murmurs, pressing his lips to her hair.  “You seem...far away.”

Maria swallows and lifts her head to kiss him properly.  

“I’m here, I promise,”  she says.  “I just...I have something to tell you.  And I’m not sure how.”

Asher cups her cheek, his thumb sweeping across her cheekbone.  

“You can tell me anything,”  he assures.  “No matter what.”

Maria bites her lip as her fingers trace the lines of his collarbone.

“Tell me you love me.”

Asher’s mouth curves up.  “I love you.”

“I’m pregnant.”  The words escape her in a rush, the first time she’s officially said them aloud this time around.  And for that moment, as Asher goes still beneath her, the terror vanishes in the surge of overwhelming joy that follows.

“You’re—”  Asher sits fully up, his eyes wide.

Maria nods, then squeaks as he pulls her in and kisses her fiercely.  

“Sorry,”  he pants when he pulls away, releasing her only for his hands to hover by her waist like he isn’t sure whether she’s too delicate to touch.  “Sorry, I—is this—can I—?”

Maria laughs as she sways in to kiss him again.  

“You’re happy then?”  She asks once they’ve settled once more.

Asher shakes his head, but rushes to clarify before her stomach can drop.

“There is no word in any language I know that can adequately express how I feel,”  he says.  “It far exceeds happy, it is—it’s as if I’ve been filled with stars, too bright to look at, too vast to truly know.”

Maria smiles and cuddles closer.  “I’ll take it.”  

[vigilanteshit]

Ya know, I’d really probably cry a happy tear if they gave Claire Novak her own spinoff show.

[ton-e]

Hydra/Red Room + below the belt

[lesterplatt]

Adobe x Keith Haring | Creativity For All from Sophya Katulska (Huzbasic) on Vimeo.

Client: Adobe Inc. Concept: Achtung!isobar Amsterdam Produced by: Bakehouse, Antfood Audio Studio Authorised by: Keith Haring Studio (Artestar NYC)

CREDITS

Client: Adobe Inc.

Daniel Cowles - Executive Creative Director Daniel Vargas Díaz - Creative Director Mark Valenta - Senior Creative Director Copy Pete Fishman - Senior Campaign Marketing Manager Sara O'Dea - Associate Creative Director Doug Beach - Senior Creative Director Mara Bey - Campaign Marketing Manager Farhana Rafi - Senior Marketing Manager

Agency: Isobar Amsterdam

Claire IJsbrandij - Senior Creative team instagram.com/ijsbrandij Tanya Ponomareva - Senior Creative team instagram.com/tanny.ponomareva Marc Elbers - Head of Production instagram.com/marc_elbers/ Jasper Janssen - Creative Director instagram.com/jasperjanssen/ Samyr Souen - Creative Director instagram.com/sousamsouen/ Mervyn ten Dam - Executive Creative Director instagram.com/mervynachtung/ Kika Douglas Castroviejo - Executive Creative Director instagram.com/kikadouglas/ Lorenzo Angelone - Motion Designer instagram.com/lorenzo.angelone/ Maksim Kuzin - Editor instagram.com/maksim.t.kuzin/ Annabelle Klop - Account Manager instagram.com/annabelleklop/ Maaike Stellink - Account Manager instagram.com/maaikeste

Production: Bakehouse

Dima Maseykin - Film director/Chief Illustrator instagram.com/daltonizm_/ Alya Lugovaya - Head of Production instagram.com/aleyaska/ Kostya Korobkin - Head of Production instagram.com/duffus/ Sophya Katulska - Executive Producer instagram.com/sollveig_k/ Mitya Katkin - Executive Creative Producer instagram.com/mityakatkin/

Liza Chernyak - Illustrator instagram.com/cher_liza/ Nikita Selivanov - Illustrator instagram.com/kitos_04/ Aset Kairambayev - Illustrator instagram.com/nakedmazafaker/ Roman Novak - Illustrator instagram.com/nvk_foxhide/ Egor Afonin - Illustrator behance.net/egorafonin/

Pavel Nikiforov - Lead Animator Anastasiya Melikhova - Animator Vera Pozdeyeva - Animator Vadim Ivanov - Animator Egor Keon - Animator Lyudmila Skotnikova - Сolour-in artist Nadezhda Pshenichnikova - Сolour-in artist Alisa Andreyeva - Сolour-in artist Tatyana Petrova - Сolour-in artist Alina Khabarova - Сolour-in artist Darya Gavrilova - Сolour-in artist Ekaterina Tikhonova - Сolour-in artist Yury Tomilov - Digital-compositor Alexey Sazhin - Digital-compositor Alexander Kuznetsov (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Andrey Kiselev (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Oleg Koverchenko (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor

Anton Reva - Сollage director instagram.com/savemymind/ Anatoly Shabalin - Сollage artist instagram.com/shabalin_anatoly/ Galina Kazimi - Сollage artist instagram.com/renard_oui/ Sasha Churganov - Сollage artist instagram.com/po.sox/

Vlad Yakunin - Senior editor Kirill Khandurin - Senior editor Nikita Potapov - Motion designer

Shepard Fairey - Guest Artist instagram.com/obeygiant/ Kate Moross - Guest Artist instagram.com/katemoross/ Nikita Kibirev - Guest Artist instagram.com/nikibirev/ Anatoly Vladimirovich instagram.com/subwwaymoscoww/ Zhenya Artemyev instagram.com/zhenyaartemjev/ Katya Oktyabr instagram.com/octbrkate/ Yana Bolotenkova instagram.com/bolotenkova.yana Oleg Guta instagram.com/gutaart/ Ilya Kutoboy instagram.com/kutoboy/ Sergey Kolesov instagram.com/peleng_square/

Brushes Page: creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/keith-haring

Making of film: vimeo.com/bakehouse/btsadobeandkeithharing

Campaign hashtag: #creativityforall

Tags: @Adobe Inc. Achtung!isobar Amsterdam achtung.nl/ facebook.com/136407646401784/ instagram.com/weareachtung

[madeinpop]

Made In PoP™ ǁ eventi Rock in Veneto dal 21 al 27 Febbraio 2019 ǁ stagione 16 ǁ

Ciao Made-In-PoPpers, giorni intensi, giorni decisivi, ma se voi fate parte di una band o siete un one/man/band iscrivetevi all'Arezzo Wave, ne vale la pena, tutte le info qui: https://www.arezzowave.com/concorso-arezzo-wave-band-2019/ CHECcO & LoRIS «Sostenete la Musica, Andate ai Concerti» ► Made In PoP segnala ◄ ᴥ SABATO 2 MARZO ᴥ VINILE Club via Capitano Alessio 92 ROSÀ (Vi). gli incredibili DOWNTOWN BOYS (SUBPOP Records) + BRUUNO + LAST NITE Party meets LAMETTE Party per i balli. https://www.facebook.com/events/361818257729861/ ► SETTIMANA ◄ ► GIOVEDÌ 21 Febbraio ᴥ TIPOTECA ITALIANA via Canapificio 3 CORNUDA (Tv) serata LYNFA che vedrà la presenza dell'artista olandese JOZEF Van WISSEM un Burroughs postmoderno del liuto, in apertura il giovane cantautore PINO NUVOLA. ᴥ Osteria VECCHIA CENEDA via del Fante 37 VITTORIO Veneto (Tv) in versione semi acustica gli ottimi SUPERFEED dream folkpop capitanati dall'icona Donna Katya. ᴥ ECLETTICO WILSON via Martiri Libertà 32 VITTORIO Veneto (Tv) ospite il cantante chitarrista e violoncellista friulano MASSIMO SILVERIO. ᴥ YOKELZ piazza Marconi 1 TREBASELEGHE (Pd) al Plan B i suoni power blues e le atmosfere seventies dei ZEE ZEE QUEEN. ᴥ HOCH HOLLE via S.Andrea PADERNO del Grappa (Tv) folk e country di matrice west coast per MATT The DRIFTER. ᴥ Biblioteca CIVICA piazza IV Novembre 48 MARTELLAGO (Ve) dalle 21 seconda data della rassegna "Volumi Sonici", con il progetto musical/poetico IL SEME dell'ABBRACCIO ovvero il musicista Nico De Giosa e la cantante Alessandra Trevisan. ᴥ POMOMERO osteria creativa via Castelletto 84 MAROSTICA (Vi) indie folk per il giovane cantautore olandese BANNER. ᴥ EL CABALLITO via Pastrengo 17 BUSSOLENGO (Vr) irish folk contaminato dal bluegrass per gli ALBAN FÙAM. ᴥ Teatro NUOVO piazza Viviani 10 VERONA evento con una delle figure più carismatiche della musica africana cantemporanea, FATOUMATA DIAWARA dal Mali. ► VENERDÌ 22 Febbraio ᴥ BISTROCK via Rometta 13/L San MARTINO di Lupari (Pd) in versione acustico il rock aternative degli ZAGREB. ᴥ GOTO STORTO via Villanova 8a TREBASELEGHE (Pd) a presentare le canzoni del suo primo disco DODO accompagnato dalla sua band. ᴥ Circolo OLOL JACKSON via Annibale da Bassano 3 PADOVA dalle 19.30 aperitivo con IL CORO delle CICALE progetto folk di salvaguardia del patrimonio veneto/friulano. ᴥ Osteria dei GIUSTI via Comunale Camino 46 ODERZO (Tv) ottima occasione per ascoltare il duo BURNING SOFA canzoni struggenti per cuori affranti (ma non solo). ᴥ Spazio MAVV via Gelsolino 43 VITTORIO Veneto (Tv) presentazione disco per i fratelli DaRos COSE DI FAMIGLIA, accompagnati da Andrea Fontana, sonorità new folk. ᴥ EDEN Cafè via XV Luglio TREVISO da Tel Aviv electro-pop-soul per il raffinato duo PHOTOTAXIS. ᴥ La STAZIONETTA borgo Pieve 109 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) in versione acustico tornano dopo un lungo silenzio i DISFUNZIONE. ᴥ KRACH Club via Madonna 3 MONASTIER (Tv) triplete rock nel friday night con WICKED SILENCE, ANCESTRALYA e OLD 7 YEARS. ᴥ MATTOROSSO via Piave 108 MONTEBELLUNA (Tv) genuino rockin'blues dalla Toscana con il quartetto The FULLERTONES. ᴥ NOVAK via Castellana 59f SCORZÈ (Ve) prima serata del weekend Italian Affair, sul palco il grande GRAHAM DAY & the FOREFATHERS (Uk) a seguire sixties djset Harry Vogel (Monaco) Massimo dal Pozzo (Misty Lane) Renato Trafano (Samp) Federico Roman (Naonian). ᴥ Osteria Al PONTE corso Silvio Trentin 20 San DONÀ di Piave (Ve) infiammerà l'atmosfera il duo bolognese The JACKSON POLLOCK garage punk da Bologna. ᴥ MORION Laboratorio Occupato salizada S.Francesco de la Vigna VENEZIA fresca miscela di blues, funky e reggae per i coinvolgenti AL & JAY and the STONECRAZY. ᴥ MOTORCYCLE Club via Commercio 15 VICENZA festa di compleanno con concerto grande per l'ottima ARIANNA ANTINORI. ᴥ Osteria S'CIAVINARO via Pertini 15 VOLPINO di Zimella (Vr) live speed roots, country e rockabilly per il duo JACK LaMOTTA. ᴥ COHEN Pub via Scarsellini 9 VERONA rock strumentale e acustico per la formazione dei ZUGABE. ᴥ Colorificio KROEN via Pacinotti 19 Zai VERONA serata stoner con il power trio Mr. BISON supportato per l'occasione dagli HYPERWÜLFF e dagli A FOREST MIGHTY BLACK. ᴥ Club IL GIARDINO via Cao di Prà 82 LUGAGNANO di Sona (Vr) dirompente rockblues per il duo bresciano SUPERDOWNHOME in rampa d lancio per il proprio tour europeo. ᴥ Osteria Ai PRETI interrato Acqua Morta 27 VERONA il rock a bassa fedeltà con retrogusto west coast del quintetto HOLY FATHERS. ᴥ MUSICA ATTIVA il programma radio che promuove la musica indipendente veneta dalle 21 alle 23 ogni quindici giorni ormai da molti anni, con intensità, in studio per l'intervista A RED IDEA progetto drampop veneziano, per ascoltare la diretta o 94 MHz o in streaming http://www.radiogammacinque.it/   ► SABATO 23 Febbraio ᴥ ALTROQUANDO Osteria Musicale via Corniani 32 SANT'ALBERTO di Zero Branco (Tv) serata THREE BLACKBIRDS con protagoniste due eccellenze della scena alt veneta, il CAPITANO MERLETTI e DNEZZAR, alfieri dell'etichetta PiPaPoP records, poliedrici cantautori folk. ᴥ AL BUSCAGLIONE via Marsala 50 PADOVA a presentare la sua ultima fatica "Shkodra Elektronike" tra musica tradizionale e avanguardia elettronica KOLE LACA, tastierista del TdO e dei 2Pigeons. ᴥ BAHNOHF Live via Sant'Antonio 34 MONTAGNANA (Pd) in collaborazione con Botteghe Barranco il grande Fabio Testoni ovvero DANDY BESTIA degli SKIANTOS, ci saranno pure gli UNCLEDOG (alt rock) e MANICA (cantautorato bizzarro). ᴥ BLACK LOTUS Pub via Cardinale Agostini 109 San MARTINO di Lupari (Pd) serata punk powerpop con le band FRATELLI RAPINA e MITROPA EXPRESS. ᴥ La STANZA ass.culturale via Leopardi 25 San MARTINO di Lupari (Pd) si esibirà qui con il suo cantautorato semplice GIUSEPPE VIO, ospite la cantante LUNA Civettini. ᴥ Circolo NADIR piazza Gasparotto 10 PADOVA world music per il quartetto ZEPHYROS poetiche raffinate per piccoli racconti musicali. ᴥ GRIND HOUSE via Longhin 37 PADOVA dalle 21 episodio III per la serata Saintless con il punkrock intenso degli italorussi SVETLANAS capitanati da OLGA, inoltre sul palco CONFINE, SPLEEN FLIPPER, DOUBLE ME, EGOCIDE e gli ZËNE. ᴥ GEKYGIO via ALberese TREMIGNON di Piazzola di Brenta (Pd) stasera l'energica cantautrice SAMANTHA GIORDANO e il suo progetto live "ON". ᴥ Osteria da TOCCHETTO via Risorgimento 27 MONTEBELLUNA (Tv) È un Brutto Posto dove Vivere organizza questa serata di sonorità drone/noise/postrock con i progetti 124C41+ (Terni) e KA (duo Bolo). ᴥ IL PRINCIPE IN BICICLETTA via Castellana San VITO di Altivole (Tv) da Mantova postpunk/shoegaze per l'interessante trio SUBMEET. ᴥ KRACH Club via Madonna 3 MONASTIER (Tv) "L'Alieno di Dio" ultimo libro di Salvatore CACACE messo in musica con i MOLOTOV del CIELO, suoneranno anche i THUNDER GODZILLA e NIKK & the BAD BOYS. ᴥ CORNER LIVE via Ungheresca Nord 115 VARAGO di Mareno di Piave (Tv) voce potente e graffiante per LISA MANARA che porta il suo progetto "L'Urlo dell'Africanità". ᴥ GOTHIKA fiera di SANTA LUCIA di Piave (Tv) all'interno della fiera Gothic e Steampunk del Triveneto dalle 19 suoneranno VALENTE (Dischi Soviet) TYING TIFFANY e Madame SADOWSKY + djset Sepolcro Zero Alex del Duca e Federica Velvet. ᴥ LO SFIZIO via Comunale 72 FAÈ di Oderzo (Tv) folk & blues da osteria per il collettivo LA CANTINACCIA. ᴥ CLUB 27 via Romanina 29 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) genuino rockin'blues dalla Toscana con il quartetto The FULLERTONES. ᴥ La STAZIONETTA borgo Pieve 109 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) in collaborazione con Sweet Noise, inaugurazione della mostra fotografica di Massimo PORCELLI dal titolo UNPLUGGED, esposta anche a NYC. ᴥ NASTY BOYS via Pellicciao 4 TREVISO a festeggiare il compleanno dell'iconica figura di Johnny CASH sul palco saliranno i teutonici JOHNNY TROUBLE. ᴥ OLD SALOON Birreria via Feltrina 19 PEDEROBBA (Tv) serata hard'n'heavy con i gruppi SILVERBONES, PHOENIX RAGE e PLEONEXIA. ᴥ NOVAK via Castellana 59f SCORZÈ (Ve) seconda serata Italian Affair, si parte il pomeriggio al LIGHTHOUSE Pub via Noalese Sud 2 NOALE (Ve) con sixties djset, poi in serata al Novak con live per i mitici The BAROUN FOUR (garage/beat/Uk) + sixties djset Rob Bailey (Londra) Henry (Milano) Marc Brucker (Francoforte) e Robert Boogaloo. ᴥ BANCHINA SICK Fest via Banchina Molini MARGHERA (Ve) evento noise/grind/punx con le band MOSHPITS, XMYS S ERIX, EDDIEXMURPHYS e i BANCHINA TERRORISTS. ᴥ ARGO16 via delle Industrie 27 parco tecnologico VEGA MARGHERA (Ve) con la collaborazione di Pulse evento elettro-psych con i liveset dei bravissimi WARIAS e in versione trio GODBLESSCOMPUTERS. ᴥ REVOLVER Club via JF Kennedy 39 San DONÀ di Piave (Ve) una band mito della stagione hair metal degli anni '80 sarà qui sul palco, ENUFF Z'NUFF, in apertura i LAST GREAT DREAMERS. ᴥ VINILE Club via Capitano Alessio 92 ROSÀ (Vi) evento NIGHTBREEZE, sul palco, dalla Turchia, il celebratissimo duo SHE PAST AWAY dark wave a seguire gli ottimi djset per EMY, WHIPPING Boy e DJB. ᴥ Circolo MESA via L.Da Vinci 50 ALTE di Montecchio Maggiore (Vi) serata in collaborazione con la VELTE Crew per la presentazione del disco di TRIFLE combo allstar di punkrockers vicentini, con loro sul palco ZACHARY (punk romagnolo) e The FROG (duo   punk metal della bassa veronese) + Velte djset. ᴥ BOCCIODROMO via A.Rossi 198 VICENZA serata doom/sludge/black metal/stoner coordinata da Orion Agency con protagonisti i FORGOTTEN TOMB, in apertura MEGATHERIUM e The BLACK LODGE. ᴥ SOTTOSOPRA Pub via Roma 24 TREGNAGO (Vr) serata organizzata dal Pozzo dei Dannati con le band alternative rock FLYING DISK, GOLDEN HEIR SUN e NØEN. ᴥ FA BEMOLLE borgo Madonna di Pol PASTRENGO (Vr) serata hard'n'heavy con le band LAST CENTURY, SVANZICA e RECOVERY MIND. ᴥ Bar the BROTHERS via Olimpia GREZZANA (Vr) questa sera sul palco il cantautore GIULIO WILSON molto acclamato e apprezzato dai colleghi come Capossela e altri. ᴥ COHEN Pub via Scarsellini 9 VERONA dal Texas arrivano Keegan Mc INROE & Matt TEDDER tra blues folk e country. ᴥ The FACTORY via Garibaldi 37 CASTEL d'AZZANO (Vr) serata pirotecnica con il duo ERADIUS che festeggiano il proprio disco con live e dodici artisti che rivisitano la copertina del disco, a supporto il post grunge dei bresciani HUNTERNAUT e i locals KIOWA. ᴥ Club IL GIARDINO via Cao di Prà 82 LUGAGNANO di Sona (Vr) a presentare il loro ultimo disco "L'Ultimo Grande Eroe" ci saranno i SONOHRA. ᴥ JACK the RIPPER via Nuova 9 RONCÀ (Vr) festa di presentazione disco "Time Flies when you're Drunk" per i punkrockers ALL COASTED, con ospiti i cagliaritani SECOND YOUTH. ► DOMENICA 24 Febbraio ᴥ PUNKY REGGAE Pub via Barbarigo 15 LIEDOLO di S.Zenone degli Ezzelini (Tv) dalle 17:00 aperitivo multicolore con il sound frizzante per AL & JAY and the STONE CRAZY (funky reggae) e i palermitani FURIOUS GEORGIE psychfolk. ᴥ CA' San BARTO via Boscalto 50 RESANA (Tv) dalle 17 torna KICK the WEEK, alla quinta stagione in questa nuova location, ci saranno i live per BRAIN of MAGGOT metalcore e SUNPOCRISY post/progressive. ᴥ CENTRO STABILE di CULTURA via Leogra 4 S.VITO di Leguzzano (Vi) dalle 18 la fantastica cantautrice PATRZIA LAQUIDARA, e la sua band, che presentarà il suo recente bellissimo disco. ᴥ Cso DJANGO via Monterumici 11 TREVISO torna il mercato Genuino Clandestino con produttori e artigiani locali dalle 10, tra le varie attività alle 18 ci sarà il live del bravo FEYDAN. ᴥ ARGO16 via delle Industrie 27 parco tecnologico VEGA MARGHERA (Ve) dalle 18 Carnebal folk sesta edizione con i duo DAVID & LORIS e AIRBOXES (Guus Herremans e Bert Leemans) per il ballo in maschera. ᴥ KRACH Club via Madonna 3 MONASTIER (Tv) dalle 19 aperitivo rock alternative con i potenti locals IL DALLAS e da Ferrara i DEVOCKA wave/noise/alternative. ᴥ HOME Rock Bar via Fonderia 73 TREVISO dalle 19 concerto unplugged con il bravissimo ULISSE SCHIAVO. ᴥ GROOVE via Martiri Libertà 8 LUGO di Vicenza (Vi) per l'Acoustic Sunday ospite sarà COLOUR of RICE ovvero Rani jappo-svizzera con canzoni che arrivano al cuore. ᴥ Osteria AL CASTELLO via Rossi A. 15 CHIUPPANO (Vi) dalle 19 aperitivo con presentazione dell'ultima fatica "Shkodra Elektronike" tra musica tradizionale e avanguardia elettronica per KOLE LACA, tastierista del TdO e dei 2Pigeons.. ᴥ LUCKY BREWS via Vecchia ferriera 123 VICENZA aperitivo cantautorale alla birreria artigianale con MANUELA PADOAN. ᴥ BRÄUSTÜBERL MÜNCHEN via Aroldi 35 MONTEFORTE d'Alpone (Vr) dalle 19 aperitivo in levare con i locals TLA per proseguire con i grandi ospiti OLLY (Shandon) & the MAGNETICS. ᴥ CA'SANA Cibo Arte Cultura via SS. Fabiano Sebastiano 13 PADOVA dalle 19 in collaborazione con LegAmbiente per raccolta fondi, dopocena live per la brava Chiara PATRONELLA accompagnata da Nereo FIORI. ᴥ Spazio NADIR contrà Santa Caterina 20 VICENZA ore 20:30 l'associazione culturale ARTuro presenta CRUDELIO band folkrock ispirata dal teatro-canzone. ᴥ Cso PEDRO via Ticino PADOVA ore 21 evento perticolarissimo, ci sarà la registrazione dal vivo del disco per The FIFTH che verrà regalato ai partecipanti, esperienza transensoriale coordinata da quelli di PDsychedelia. ► LUNEDÌ 25 Febbraio ᴥ IL VIZIO Pub via san Biagio 17 PADOVA dal Texas arrivano Keegan Mc INROE & Matt TEDDER tra blues folk e country. ► MARTEDÌ 26 Febbraio ᴥ nulla da fare? fatevi una cultura, leggete un libro. ► MERCOLEDÌ 27 Febbraio ᴥ LANTERNA del DOGE via Tiveron 28 SANT'ALBERTO di Zero Branco (Tv) dal Texas arrivano Keegan Mc INROE & Matt TEDDER tra blues folk e country. ᴥ OLD SALOON Birreria via Feltrina 19 PEDEROBBA (Tv) ospite qui stasera il grande chitarrista MATTHEW MILLS, in apertura il giovane Davide LO SURDO. • https://telegram.me/madeinpop/ • https://www.facebook.com/Shyrec/ • https://www.facebook.com/threeblackbirdsfree/ • https://www.facebook.com/NewsletterMadeinpop/ • http://shyrec.bandcamp.com/

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Adobe x Keith Haring | Creativity For All from dmitry maseykin on Vimeo.

Production: Bakehouse Moscow

Dima Maseykin - Film director/Chief Illustrator Alya Lugovaya - Head of Production Kostya Korobkin - Head of Production Sophya Katulska - Executive Producer Mitya Katkin - Creative Producer Liza Chernyak - Illustrator Nikita Selivanov - Illustrator Aset Kairambayev - Illustrator Roman Novak - Illustrator Egor Afonin - Illustrator Pavel Nikiforov - Lead Animator Anastasiya Melikhova - Animator Vera Pozdeyeva - Animator Vadim Ivanov - Animator Egor Keon - Animator Lyudmila Skotnikova - Сolour-in artist Nadezhda Pshenichnikova - Сolour-in artist Alisa Andreyeva - Сolour-in artist Tatyana Petrova - Сolour-in artist Alina Khabarova - Сolour-in artist Darya Gavrilova - Сolour-in artist Ekaterina Tikhonova - Сolour-in artist Yury Tomilov - Digital-compositor Alexey Sazhin - Digital-compositor Alexander Kuznetsov (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Andrey Kiselev (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Oleg Koverchenko (2A Pictures) - Digital-compositor Anton Reva - Сollage director Anatoly Shabalin - Сollage artist Galina Kazimi - Сollage artist Sasha Churganov -Сollage artist Vlad Yakunin - Senior editor Kirill Khandurin - Senior editor Nikita Potapov - Motion designer

Shepard Fairey - Guest Artist Kate Moross - Guest Artist Nikita Kibirev - Guest Artist Zhenya Artemyev - Guest Artist Katya Oktyabr - Guest Artist Yana Bolotenkova - Guest Artist Oleg Guta - Guest Artist Ilya Kutoboy - Guest Artist Sergey Kolesov - Guest Artist

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Иван Дорн — Дичь from Petrick on Vimeo.

Direction and script | Petrick  Art Direction | Ruslana Mirzaalieva Creative Producer | Misha Petrick Producers | Nadya Petrick and Polina Fufarova Color script | Ruslana Mirzaalieva and Sergei Ryzhov Character Design | Ruslana Mirzaalieva, Denis Pisarev, Sergei Ryzhov, Roman Novak, Katya Mikheeva, Antonia Lev, Sasha Svirsky and Pasha Ho Background Design | Valery Zarytovsky, Roman Novak, Sergei Ryzhov, Pasha Ho and Oleg Kulinich 2D Animation | Ilya Buzinov, Vladimir Orlov, Karina Pogorelova, Katya Mikheeva and Liza Kharchenko 3D Modeling | Pasha Ho, Vladimir Orlov and Oleg Kulinich 3D Animation | Pasha Ho, Oleg Kulinich and Ilya Buzinov 3D Visualization | Pasha Ho and Oleg Kulinich Cleanup and Painting | Slava Kovalev, Kristina Poplavskaya, Inga Shafeeva and Valery Zarytovsky Compositing | Ruslana Mirzaalieva, Ilya Buzinov, Pasha Ho and Oleg Kulinich