#ronald dyson

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Ronald Dyson (June 5, 1950 – November 10, 1990) was an American soul and R&B singer and actor.

Early career

Born in Washington, D.C., Dyson grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he sang in church choirs. At just 18 years of age, he won a lead role in the Broadway production of Hair, debuting in New York in 1968. Dyson became an iconic voice of the 1960s with the lead vocal in the show's anthem of the hippie era, "Aquarius". It is Dyson's voice leading off the song and opening the show with the famous lyric "When the Moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars..." He made a cameo appearance in the 1979 motion picture version of "Hair", singing "3-5-0-0" with another "Hair" alumnus, Melba Moore.

Later career

Dyson also appeared in the 1969 film Putney Swope.

After Hair, Dyson pursued his stage career with a role in Salvation in 1970. His recording of a song from the Salvation score, "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?", successfully launched his record career, breaking into the Top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 record chart, peaking at number eight in 1970. The follow-up, "I Don't Wanna Cry", was a strong US R&B seller, climbing to number nine.

In 1971, "When You Get Right Down To It", of which his was a more dramatic cover version of a song that had been a hit the previous year for the Delfonics, made the US charts, and reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart in December that year.

His record company, Columbia Records, sent him to Philadelphia in 1973 to be produced by Thom Bell, one of the premier producers of the day, for several tracks. Bell's highly orchestrated style suited Dyson with hits including "One Man Band (Plays All Alone)", which reached number 28 on the Hot 100 and number 15 on the R&B chart, and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" peaking at number 60 on the Hot 100 and number 29 on the R&B chart. These appeared on an album which was also made up of re-mixes of some earlier recordings, including "When You Get Right Down To It".

Dyson remained with Columbia working with top-line producers for another three albums, The More You Do It (1976), Love in All Flavors (1977) and If The Shoe Fits (1979). The title track of the first of the three resulted in one of the singer's biggest-selling records, reaching number six on the R&B chart. It was produced by Charles "Chuck" Jackson (half brother of Jesse Jackson and no relation to the more famous singer of the same name who recorded for the same company in the 1960s) and Marvin Yancy, who had been responsible for successfully launching the career of Natalie Cole with a series of hits. (Jackson and Yancy had also produced hits for a Chicago soul group, The Independents, with whom Jackson was also lead singer.)

In 1986, Dyson also provided the vocals for the song "Nola" on the She's Gotta Have It soundtrack.

Dyson then moved to an Atlantic Records subsidiary label, the Cotillion Records label, in 1981 for two albums and several singles which were only moderately successful. His acting and singing career had begun to stall in the late 1970s due to ill health, and it was in 1983 that Dyson appeared on the R&B chart for the last time on Cotillion with "All Over Your Face". His final solo recording was "See The Clown" in 1990.

Death

Dyson died at the age of 40 from heart failure on November 10, 1990, in Brooklyn, New York.

Legacy

A posthumous release on Society Hill Records appeared in 1991, when a duet with Vicki Austin, "Are We So Far Apart (We Can't Talk Anymore)", dented the US R&B chart, reaching number 79 during a five-week run.

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ok rank roman history books go

1) idk if it counts specifically but the fordham internet history sourcebook!!!!!!

she will help you find anything you’ve ever dreamed of

2) as the romans did by jo-ann shelton!!!!!

organized so good, it’s really interesting, has a comprehensive index, AND her commentary is insightful.

3) Clodia A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk

this one is wayyyy more specific but it’s so interesting it makes me kick my legs and twirl my hair i love her <3

4) f.r. cowell life in ancient rome

haven’t read it myself but i had it recommended to me by my favorite guy ever tristan the latin student teacher.

5) historians of ancient rome by ronald mellor

WHY DO YOH NOT HAVE AN INDEX!!!!!!

[indulgeamsterdam]

Fashion designer Ron Dyce’s seamless transition from construction to high-end clothing

Fashion designer Ron Dyce’s seamless transition from construction to high-end clothing

Soul mates or sole mates? Brooklynite Ronald Dyson found himself with quite the tab thanks to his wife’s predilection for designer shoes. But his partner’s spending habits also reawakened his own passion for fashion. After all, Dyson always boasted a talent for arts and design—he initially left New York to study architecture in Virginia. Ultimately, he ended up running a successful construction…

[byneddiedingo]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Earl Boen, S. Epatha Merkerson, Castulo Guerra, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley, Danny Cooksey. Screenplay: James Cameron, William Wisher. Cinematography: Adam Greenberg. Production design: Joseph C. Nemec III. Film editing: Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris. Music: Brad Fiedel. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his support of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a complex system that would use satellites to detect the launch of nuclear missiles and then destroy them in mid-flight with automatically launched anti-ballistic missiles. Critics of SDI called it unrealistic, fanciful, and ultimately destablizing for international peace. It became known by a nickname familiar from the movies: "star wars." The following year, James Cameron released a film called The Terminator in which a cyborg arrived from the future to make sure that a potential leader of a rebellion against his fellow cyborgs and other creatures of artificial intelligence never gets born. It wasn't immediately clear to most people at the time that Cameron's film contained a sly reference to what many people feared might be a consequence of Reagan's SDI: out-of-control automated weaponry. By 1991, when Cameron released the sequel to that film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, that reference had become explicit: The "Skynet" of the sequel is clearly a fantasized version of SDI, in which the AI creations began a war against humans with a nuclear strike that killed three billion people in 1997. Today, that historical subtext is probably lost on most viewers of the movie, as Reagan's "star wars" has faded from memory, except in some think tanks and Pentagon brainstorming sessions. But to those of us who lived through the Reagan years, the reference in the movie was more than just subtext. There are some actual digs at supporters of SDI in the film, as when Miles Dyson (Joe Morton), the scientist behind Skynet, attempts to defend technological research and John Connor (Edward Furlong) retorts that the kind of research that proceeds without considering the consequences produced the hydrogen bomb. One of the most ardent proponents of SDI, who sold Reagan on the idea, was Edward Teller, the physicist who became known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," a title he never fully rejected. But even without the historical underpinnings, Terminator 2 is a kind of landmark in popular entertainment: an exciting concoction of violence and special effects, with old-fashioned touches of humanity and wit that lots of today's CGI blockbusters no longer find necessary. Cameron never seems content just to dazzle us but to make us think and feel. If there's too much feeling in his Titanic (1997) and not enough thought in Avatar (2009), there's the right amount of both in Terminator 2.  

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here’s my giant leftist to-read list for the next few years!!!

if a little (done!) it written next to the book, it means i’ve finished it! i’m gonna try to update this as i read but no promises on remembering haha

Economics/Politics

Property by Karl Marx

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (done!)

Wages, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx (done!)

Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx (done!)

Capital Volume I by Karl Marx

The 1844 Manuscripts by Karl Marx

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Fredrich Engles

Synopsis of Capital by Fredrich Engels

The Principles of Communism by Fredrich Engles

Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism by Vladmir Lenin

The State And Revolution by Vladmir Lenin

The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky

Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky

In Defense Of Marxism by Leon Trotsky

The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemborg

Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Profit over People by Noam Chomsky

An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Postmodern Condition by Jean François Lyotard

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

The Socialist Reconstruction of Society by Daniel De Leon

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly

Race

Biased: Uncover in the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji

Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism And The Persistence Of Racial Inequality In America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy And The Racial Divide by Crystal M. Flemming

This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward

Class, Race, and Marxism by David R. Roediger

America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Erica Lee

The Politics Of The Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

Black Theory

The Wretched Of The World by Frantz Fanon

Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson

Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X

Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis (done!)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (done!)

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Ain’t I A Woman? by Bell Hooks

Yearning by Bell Hooks

Dora Santana’s Works

An End To The Neglect Of The Problems Of The Negro Women by Claudia Jones

I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde

Women’s Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

W.E.B. DuBois Essay Collection

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois

Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Sula by Toni Morrison

Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Black Skins, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Killing of the Black Body

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton

Settlers; The myth of the White Proletariat

Fearing The Black Body; The Racial Origins of Fatphobia

Freedom Dreams; The Black Radical Imagination

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

An Argument For Black Women’s Liberation As a Revolutionary Force by Mary Anne Weathers

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project by Frances Beal

Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business, Re-create Race In The 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation by Jeff Chang

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott

Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affects Us and What We Can Do

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies

Black Studies Manifesto by Darlene Clark

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

A Black Women’s History Of The United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869 by Leon F. Litwack

Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century by Monique M. Morris

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris

40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present by Harriet A. Washington

Working At The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework” by Moya Bailey

Theory by Dionne Brand

Black Women, Writing, And Identity by Carole Boyce Davies

Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II by Douglass A. Blackmon

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry

The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit by Thomas Surgue

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones

The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni McCade

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beal

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Indigenous Theory

Colonize This! by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman

As We Have Always Done

Braiding Sweetgrass

Spaces Between Us

The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen

Native: Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice

An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma In The Shadow Of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward by Tanya Talaga

Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask by Anton Treuer

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer

Latine Theory

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of A Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez

De Colores Means All Of Us by Elizabeth Martinez

Middle Eastern And Muslim Theory

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young And Arab In America by Moustafa Bayoumi

We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

API Theory

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Making Of Asian America by Erika Lee

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See

Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki

They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel) by George Takei

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White by Frank H. Wu

Alien Nation: Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War II by Elliott Young

The Good Immigrants: How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minorities by Madeline H. Ysu

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence Of An American People by Helen Zia

The Myth Of The Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin

Two Faces Of Exclusion: The Untold Story Of Anti-Asian Racism In The United States by Lon Kurashige

Whiteness

White Fragility by Robin Di Angelo (done!)

White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

Waking Up White by Deby Irving

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son by Tim Wise

White Rage by Carol Anderson

What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen

Immigration

Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftir

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work by Edwidge Danticat

My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Voter Suppression

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Give Us The Vote: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America by Ari Berman

Prison Abolition And Police Violence

Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

Political Prisoners, Prisons, And Black Liberation by Angela Davis

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (done!)

The End Of Policing by Alex S Vitale

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie

Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making Of Mass Incarceration In America by Elizabeth Hinton

Feminist Theory

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

7 Feminist And Gender Theories

Race, Gender, And Class by Margaret L. Anderson

African Gender Studies by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

The Invention Of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

What Gender Is Motherhood? by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I Am Malala by Malala Youssef

LGBT Theory

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler

Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler

Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler

Excitable Speech by Judith Butler

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

The Roots Of Lesbian And Gay Opression: A Marxist View by Bob McCubbin

Compulsory Heterosexuality And Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by B. Binohan

Gay.Inc: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Merl Beam

Pronouns Good or Bad: Attitudes and Relationships with Gendered Pronouns

Transgender Warriors

Whipping Girl; A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Stone Butch Blues by Lesie Feinberg (done!)

The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White

Sissy by Jacob Tobia

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Butch Queens Up In Pumps by Marlon M. Bailey

Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identities by C Riley Snorton

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson

[pbwsports]

Top 10 MLB Stolen Base Leaders 2019

1. Mallex Smith - 46

2. Adalberto Mondesi - 43

3. Jonathan Villar - 40

4. Ronald Acuna Jr. - 37

5. Trea Turner - 35

6. Elvis Andrus - 31

7. Jarrod Dyson - 30

8. Christian Yelich - 30

9. Victor Robles - 28

10. Starling Marte - 25

MLB Stolen Base Highlights

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(From left to right) Lorrie Davis, Natalie Mosco, Paul Jabara, Ronald Dyson, Donnie Burks, and Lamont Washington from the original 1968 Broadway cast of HAiR at the Biltmore Theatre.

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Twins Roster Moves

The Twins made some roster moves after the offseason started this past week. 

The team outrighted Ronald Torreyes, Ian Miller, and Ryan LaMarre to Rochester and off the 40-man roster. 

Jason Castro, Jonathan Schoop, Jake Odorizzi, Michael Pineda, Kyle Gibson, Sergio Romo, Sam Dyson, and Martin Perez all elected free agency. 

The team activated Byron Buxton and Sean Poppen off the 60-day disabled list. 

Kohl Stewart was sent outright to Rochester and elected free agency. 

Stephen Gonsalves was claimed off waivers by the Mets. 

The Twins offered Jake Odorizzi a $17.8 million qualifying offer for a one-year deal for 2020. He has 10 days to decide on the contract. 

The Twins claimed Matt Wisler off waivers from the Mariners.

The roster sits at 31 right now. 

-Chris Kreibich-

[ao3feed-scarletvision]

TBAM: Infinty War

by KaijuHobbit22

With Cybertron restored, the Autobots believed they can take a breather. But the threat of Unicron still remains. Worse still, old and new enemies have united, threatening the entire universe. The Autobots and their human allies will need the aid of other heroes, as well as unexpected allies, in order to face this approaching doom. For they must work together to survive, or fall one by one.

Sequel to TBAM: TLK

Words: 29, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 9 of TBAM Series

Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee (Transformers), Jazz (Transformers), Ironhide (Transformers), Ratchet (Transformers), Sideswipe (Transformers), Sunstreaker (Transformers), Arcee Trio (Transformers), Arcee (Transformers), Chromia (Transformers), Elita One, Jolt (Transformers), Skids (Transformers), Mudflap (Transformers), Wheelie (Transformers), Brains (Transformers), Mirage (Transformers), Wheeljack (Transformers), Wreckers (Transformers), Leadfoot (Transformers), Roadbuster (Transformers), Topspin (Transformers), Steeljaw (Transformers), Hound (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock, Crosshairs (Transformers), Evac (Transformers), Cliffjumper (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Ark (Transformers), Omega Supreme (Transformers), Fixit (Transformers), Aerialbots (Transformers), Silverbolt (Transformers), Air Raid (Transformers), Breakaway (Transformers), Dinobots (Transformers), Grimlock (Transformers), Swoop (Transformers), Slug (Transformers), Scorn (Transformers), Slash (Transformers), Sludge (Transformers), Snarl (Transformers), Camshaft (Transformers), Hubcap (Transformers), Omnicons (Transformers), Strongarm (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers), Signal Flare (Transformers), Armorhide (Transformers), Brawn (Transformers), Inferno (Transformers), Trench (Transformers), Longarm (Transformers), Salvage (Transformers), Grindcore (Transformers), Blazemaster (Transformers), Tomahawk (Transformers), Stratosphere (Transformers), Depthcharge (Transformers Bay Movies), Breacher (Transformers), Seaspray (Transformers), Ramhorn (Transformers), Cosmos (Transformers), Canopy (Transformers), Sqweeks (Transformers), Rollbar (Transformers), Landmine (Transformers), Beachbreak (Transformers), Dune Runner (Transformers), Ultra Magnus, Springer (Transformers), Cogman (Transformers), Gears (Transformers), Protectobots (Transformers), First Aid (Transformers), Blades (Transformers), Hot Spot (Transformers), Groove (Transformers), Streetwise (Transformers), Rook (Transformers), Daytrader (Transformers), Skyhammer (Transformers), Guzzle (Transformers), Bob (Original Insecticon Character belonging to Wacko12), Hot Rod (Transformers), Kup (Transformers), Adam Nova/Nova Prime (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Trailbreaker (Transformers), Clocker (Transformers), Perceptor (Transformers), Hoist (Transformers), Smokescreen (Transformers), Highbrow (Transformers), Wingblade (Transformers), Knock Out (Transformers), Windcharger (Transformers), Roller (Transformers), Defensor (Transformers), Scattershot (Transformers), Warpath (Transformers), Arctus (Transformers), Broadside (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers Bay Movies), Blaster (Transformers), Eject (Transformers), Sky Lynx, Slap Dash (Transformers), Bumper (Transformers), Firestar (Transformers), Moonracer (Transformers), Blurr (Transformers), Red Alert (Transformers), Metroplex (Transformers), Scamper (Transformers), Six-Gun (Transformers), Slammer (Transformers), Sparkling(s) (Transformers), Gasket (Transformers), Riptide (Transformers), Axewide (Transformers), Strongback (Transformers), Ramjump (Transformers), X-Grid (Transformers), Big Wire (Transformers), Skylock (Transformers), Dusthorn (Transformers), Matchstick (Transformers), Equator (Transformers), Skar (Transformers), Firefly (Transformers), Aurora (Transformers), Paddles (Transformers), Daystar (Transformers), Ironbolt (Transformers), High Cloud (Transformers), Flipside (Transformers), Nightflare (Transformers), Terraquake (Transformers), AllSpark (Transformers), NEST (Transformers), William Lennox, Robert Epps, SASF Agent Graham (Transformers), Burke (Transformers), Patrick Donnelly (Transformers), Michael Tanaka (OMC), Eckerson (Transformers), General Morshower (Transformers), "Hardcore" Eddie (Transformers), Perkins (Transformers), Stone (Transformers), Hooch (Transformers), Mongo (Transformers), Marc L (Transformers), "Baby Face" Zimmerman, Santos (Transformers), Teletraan I, Cade Yeager, Tessa Yeager, Izabella (Transformers), Shane Dyson, Ginrai (Transformers), Flare-Up (Transformers), Volcanicus (Transformers), Guardian Knights of Iacon (Transformers), Stormreign (Transformers), Dragonicus (Transformers), Steelbane (Transformers), Dragonstorm (Transformers), Vivian Wembley, John Keller, Charlotte Mearing, Maggie Madsen, Glen Whitmann, Tom Banachek, Joshua Joyce, Darcy Tirrel, Seymour Simmons, Dutch (Transformers Bay Movies), Jimmy (Transformers Bay Movies), Leo Spitz, Avengers Team (MCU), Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Thor (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Vision (Marvel), Guardians of the Galaxy Team, Peter Quill, Gamora (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Drax the Destroyer, Groot (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Stephen Strange, Wong (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, James "Bucky" Barnes, Shuri (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), M'Baku (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Annabelle Lennox, Sarah Lennox (Transformers), Monique Epps, Carol Danvers, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Talos (Marvel), Kraglin Obfonteri, Rhomann Dey, Pepper Potts, Megatron (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Nitro Zeus (Transformers), Soundwave (Transformers), Laserbeak (Transformers), Rumble (Transformers), Barricade (Transformers), Blackout (Transformers), Bonecrusher (Transformers), Combaticons (Transformers), Onslaught (Transformers), Brawl (Transformers), Blast Off (Transformers), Swindle (Transformers), Vortex (Transformers), Shatter (Transformers), Fracture (Transformers), Stockade (Transformers), Blitzwing (Transformers), Lugnut (Transformers), Bruticus (Transformers), Tidal Wave (Transformers), Runabout (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers), Malignus (Transformers), Wreckage (Transformers), Incinerator (Transformers), Mohawk (Transformers), Long Haul (Transformers), Sideways (Transformers), Jetstorm (Transformers), Overcast (Transformers), Thundercracker (Transformers), Skywarp (Transformers), Slipstream (Transformers), Ramjet (Transformers), Sunstorm (Transformers), Thrust (Transformers), Dirge (Transformers), Tankor (Transformers), Divebomb (Transformers), Hailstorm (Transformers), Space Case (Transformers), Dropkick (Transformers), Brimstone (Transformers), Dirt Boss (Transformers), Astrotrain (Transformers), Payload (Transformers), Flatline (Transformers), Dreadwing (Transformers), Storm Surge (Transformers), Blademaster (Transformers), Ransack (Transformers), Mindwipe (Transformers), Bludgeon (Transformers), Decepticon Protoforms (Transformers Bay Movies), Vehicon(s) (Transformers), Decepticon Ship Nemesis (Transformers), Trypticon (Transformers), Wipe-Out (Transformers), Full-Tilt (Transformers), Brunt (Transformers), Bomb-Burst (Transformers), Skullgrin (Transformers), Submarauder (Transformers), Bulgy (Transformers), Finback (Transformers), Iguanus (Transformers), Carnivac (Transformers), Snarler (Transformers), Roadgrabber (Transformers), Octopunch (Transformers), Stranglehold (Transformers), Roadblock (Transformers), Oilmaster (Transformers), Blood (Transformers), Dauros (Transformers), Gilmer (Transformers), Junkions (Transformers), Wreck-Gar, Detritus (Transformers), Rum-Maj (Transformers), Junkyard (Transformers), Scrapheap (Transformers), Re-Cycle (Transformers), Greasestain (Transformers), Wasteoid Gamma (Transformers), Ashtray (Transformers), Rubbish (Transformers), Hazmat (Transformers), Trashbin (Transformers), Pinion (Transformers), Shearbolt (Transformers), Arclight (Transformers), Unicron (Transformers), Thunderwing (Transformers), Razorclaw (Transformers), Jhiaxus (Transformers), Elphaorpha (Transformers), Drancron (Transformers), Rartorata (Transformers), Megabolt (Transformers), Reptilion (Transformers), Strika (Transformers), Obsidian (Transformers), Overlord (Transformers), Monstructor (Transformers), Sharpshot (Transformers), Terrorcons (Transformers), Insecticons (Transformers), Ammonites (Transformers), Scrapmetals (Transformers), Noisemazes (Transformers), Overchargers (Transformers), Maximals (Transformers), Sweeps (Transformers), Anti-Bots (Transformers), Sparkeaters (Transformers), Quintessa (Transformers), Sharkticons (Transformers), Gnaw (Transformers), Thanos (Marvel), The Black Order (Marvel), Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Super Giant (Marvel), Chitauri (Marvel), Outriders (Marvel), Leviathans (Marvel), Sakaarans (Marvel), Thaddeus Ross, Autobot Troopers (Transformers), Ronald Witwicky, Judy Witwicky, Daniel Witwicky

Relationships: Elita One/Optimus Prime, Chromia/Ironhide, Sarah Lennox/William Lennox, Izabella/Adam Nova (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Vivian Wembley/Cade Yeager, Monique Epps/Robert Epps, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Gamora/Peter Quill, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker, Mudflap & Skids, Canopy & Izabella & Sqweeks, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Shane Dyson/Tessa Yeager, Judy Witwicky/Ronald Witwicky

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Survival, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Transformers/Avengers Mashup, Infinty War Rewrite with Transformers (Bayverse) in it, Fixing Plot Holes, Ross is a Hypocrite

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TBAM: Infinty War

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by KaijuHobbit22

With Cybertron restored, the Autobots believed they can take a breather. But the threat of Unicron still remains. Worse still, old and new enemies have united, threatening the entire universe. The Autobots and their human allies will need the aid of other heroes, as well as unexpected allies, in order to face this approaching doom. For they must work together to survive, or fall one by one.

Sequel to TBAM: TLK

Words: 29, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of TBAM Series

Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee (Transformers), Jazz (Transformers), Ironhide (Transformers), Ratchet (Transformers), Sideswipe (Transformers), Sunstreaker (Transformers), Arcee Trio (Transformers), Arcee (Transformers), Chromia (Transformers), Elita One, Jolt (Transformers), Skids (Transformers), Mudflap (Transformers), Wheelie (Transformers), Brains (Transformers), Mirage (Transformers), Wheeljack (Transformers), Wreckers (Transformers), Leadfoot (Transformers), Roadbuster (Transformers), Topspin (Transformers), Steeljaw (Transformers), Hound (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock, Crosshairs (Transformers), Evac (Transformers), Cliffjumper (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Ark (Transformers), Omega Supreme (Transformers), Fixit (Transformers), Aerialbots (Transformers), Silverbolt (Transformers), Air Raid (Transformers), Breakaway (Transformers), Dinobots (Transformers), Grimlock (Transformers), Swoop (Transformers), Slug (Transformers), Scorn (Transformers), Slash (Transformers), Sludge (Transformers), Snarl (Transformers), Camshaft (Transformers), Hubcap (Transformers), Omnicons (Transformers), Strongarm (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers), Signal Flare (Transformers), Armorhide (Transformers), Brawn (Transformers), Inferno (Transformers), Trench (Transformers), Longarm (Transformers), Salvage (Transformers), Grindcore (Transformers), Blazemaster (Transformers), Tomahawk (Transformers), Stratosphere (Transformers), Depthcharge (Transformers Bay Movies), Breacher (Transformers), Seaspray (Transformers), Ramhorn (Transformers), Cosmos (Transformers), Canopy (Transformers), Sqweeks (Transformers), Rollbar (Transformers), Landmine (Transformers), Beachbreak (Transformers), Dune Runner (Transformers), Ultra Magnus, Springer (Transformers), Cogman (Transformers), Gears (Transformers), Protectobots (Transformers), First Aid (Transformers), Blades (Transformers), Hot Spot (Transformers), Groove (Transformers), Streetwise (Transformers), Rook (Transformers), Daytrader (Transformers), Skyhammer (Transformers), Guzzle (Transformers), Bob (Original Insecticon Character belonging to Wacko12), Hot Rod (Transformers), Kup (Transformers), Adam Nova/Nova Prime (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Trailbreaker (Transformers), Clocker (Transformers), Perceptor (Transformers), Hoist (Transformers), Smokescreen (Transformers), Highbrow (Transformers), Wingblade (Transformers), Knock Out (Transformers), Windcharger (Transformers), Roller (Transformers), Defensor (Transformers), Scattershot (Transformers), Warpath (Transformers), Arctus (Transformers), Broadside (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers Bay Movies), Blaster (Transformers), Eject (Transformers), Sky Lynx, Slap Dash (Transformers), Bumper (Transformers), Firestar (Transformers), Moonracer (Transformers), Blurr (Transformers), Red Alert (Transformers), Metroplex (Transformers), Scamper (Transformers), Six-Gun (Transformers), Slammer (Transformers), Sparkling(s) (Transformers), Gasket (Transformers), Riptide (Transformers), Axewide (Transformers), Strongback (Transformers), Ramjump (Transformers), X-Grid (Transformers), Big Wire (Transformers), Skylock (Transformers), Dusthorn (Transformers), Matchstick (Transformers), Equator (Transformers), Skar (Transformers), Firefly (Transformers), Aurora (Transformers), Paddles (Transformers), Daystar (Transformers), Ironbolt (Transformers), High Cloud (Transformers), Flipside (Transformers), Nightflare (Transformers), Terraquake (Transformers), AllSpark (Transformers), NEST (Transformers), William Lennox, Robert Epps, SASF Agent Graham (Transformers), Burke (Transformers), Patrick Donnelly (Transformers), Michael Tanaka (OMC), Eckerson (Transformers), General Morshower (Transformers), "Hardcore" Eddie (Transformers), Perkins (Transformers), Stone (Transformers), Hooch (Transformers), Mongo (Transformers), Marc L (Transformers), "Baby Face" Zimmerman, Santos (Transformers), Teletraan I, Cade Yeager, Tessa Yeager, Izabella (Transformers), Shane Dyson, Ginrai (Transformers), Flare-Up (Transformers), Volcanicus (Transformers), Guardian Knights of Iacon (Transformers), Stormreign (Transformers), Dragonicus (Transformers), Steelbane (Transformers), Dragonstorm (Transformers), Vivian Wembley, John Keller, Charlotte Mearing, Maggie Madsen, Glen Whitmann, Tom Banachek, Joshua Joyce, Darcy Tirrel, Seymour Simmons, Dutch (Transformers Bay Movies), Jimmy (Transformers Bay Movies), Leo Spitz, Avengers Team (MCU), Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Thor (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Vision (Marvel), Guardians of the Galaxy Team, Peter Quill, Gamora (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Drax the Destroyer, Groot (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Stephen Strange, Wong (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, James "Bucky" Barnes, Shuri (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), M'Baku (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Annabelle Lennox, Sarah Lennox (Transformers), Monique Epps, Carol Danvers, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Talos (Marvel), Kraglin Obfonteri, Rhomann Dey, Pepper Potts, Megatron (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Nitro Zeus (Transformers), Soundwave (Transformers), Laserbeak (Transformers), Rumble (Transformers), Barricade (Transformers), Blackout (Transformers), Bonecrusher (Transformers), Combaticons (Transformers), Onslaught (Transformers), Brawl (Transformers), Blast Off (Transformers), Swindle (Transformers), Vortex (Transformers), Shatter (Transformers), Fracture (Transformers), Stockade (Transformers), Blitzwing (Transformers), Lugnut (Transformers), Bruticus (Transformers), Tidal Wave (Transformers), Runabout (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers), Malignus (Transformers), Wreckage (Transformers), Incinerator (Transformers), Mohawk (Transformers), Long Haul (Transformers), Sideways (Transformers), Jetstorm (Transformers), Overcast (Transformers), Thundercracker (Transformers), Skywarp (Transformers), Slipstream (Transformers), Ramjet (Transformers), Sunstorm (Transformers), Thrust (Transformers), Dirge (Transformers), Tankor (Transformers), Divebomb (Transformers), Hailstorm (Transformers), Space Case (Transformers), Dropkick (Transformers), Brimstone (Transformers), Dirt Boss (Transformers), Astrotrain (Transformers), Payload (Transformers), Flatline (Transformers), Dreadwing (Transformers), Storm Surge (Transformers), Blademaster (Transformers), Ransack (Transformers), Mindwipe (Transformers), Bludgeon (Transformers), Decepticon Protoforms (Transformers Bay Movies), Vehicon(s) (Transformers), Decepticon Ship Nemesis (Transformers), Trypticon (Transformers), Wipe-Out (Transformers), Full-Tilt (Transformers), Brunt (Transformers), Bomb-Burst (Transformers), Skullgrin (Transformers), Submarauder (Transformers), Bulgy (Transformers), Finback (Transformers), Iguanus (Transformers), Carnivac (Transformers), Snarler (Transformers), Roadgrabber (Transformers), Octopunch (Transformers), Stranglehold (Transformers), Roadblock (Transformers), Oilmaster (Transformers), Blood (Transformers), Dauros (Transformers), Gilmer (Transformers), Junkions (Transformers), Wreck-Gar, Detritus (Transformers), Rum-Maj (Transformers), Junkyard (Transformers), Scrapheap (Transformers), Re-Cycle (Transformers), Greasestain (Transformers), Wasteoid Gamma (Transformers), Ashtray (Transformers), Rubbish (Transformers), Hazmat (Transformers), Trashbin (Transformers), Pinion (Transformers), Shearbolt (Transformers), Arclight (Transformers), Unicron (Transformers), Thunderwing (Transformers), Razorclaw (Transformers), Jhiaxus (Transformers), Elphaorpha (Transformers), Drancron (Transformers), Rartorata (Transformers), Megabolt (Transformers), Reptilion (Transformers), Strika (Transformers), Obsidian (Transformers), Overlord (Transformers), Monstructor (Transformers), Sharpshot (Transformers), Terrorcons (Transformers), Insecticons (Transformers), Ammonites (Transformers), Scrapmetals (Transformers), Noisemazes (Transformers), Overchargers (Transformers), Maximals (Transformers), Sweeps (Transformers), Anti-Bots (Transformers), Sparkeaters (Transformers), Quintessa (Transformers), Sharkticons (Transformers), Gnaw (Transformers), Thanos (Marvel), The Black Order (Marvel), Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Super Giant (Marvel), Chitauri (Marvel), Outriders (Marvel), Leviathans (Marvel), Sakaarans (Marvel), Thaddeus Ross, Autobot Troopers (Transformers), Ronald Witwicky, Judy Witwicky, Daniel Witwicky

Relationships: Elita One/Optimus Prime, Chromia/Ironhide, Sarah Lennox/William Lennox, Izabella/Adam Nova (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Vivian Wembley/Cade Yeager, Monique Epps/Robert Epps, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Gamora/Peter Quill, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker, Mudflap & Skids, Canopy & Izabella & Sqweeks, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Shane Dyson/Tessa Yeager, Judy Witwicky/Ronald Witwicky

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Survival, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Transformers/Avengers Mashup, Infinty War Rewrite with Transformers (Bayverse) in it, Fixing Plot Holes, Ross is a Hypocrite

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TBAM: Infinty War

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Gr8mN9

by KaijuHobbit22

With Cybertron restored, the Autobots believed they can take a breather. But the threat of Unicron still remains. Worse still, old and new enemies have united, threatening the entire universe. The Autobots and their human allies will need the aid of other heroes, as well as unexpected allies, in order to face this approaching doom. For they must work together to survive, or fall one by one.

Sequel to TBAM: TLK

Words: 29, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of TBAM Series

Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee (Transformers), Jazz (Transformers), Ironhide (Transformers), Ratchet (Transformers), Sideswipe (Transformers), Sunstreaker (Transformers), Arcee Trio (Transformers), Arcee (Transformers), Chromia (Transformers), Elita One, Jolt (Transformers), Skids (Transformers), Mudflap (Transformers), Wheelie (Transformers), Brains (Transformers), Mirage (Transformers), Wheeljack (Transformers), Wreckers (Transformers), Leadfoot (Transformers), Roadbuster (Transformers), Topspin (Transformers), Steeljaw (Transformers), Hound (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock, Crosshairs (Transformers), Evac (Transformers), Cliffjumper (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Ark (Transformers), Omega Supreme (Transformers), Fixit (Transformers), Aerialbots (Transformers), Silverbolt (Transformers), Air Raid (Transformers), Breakaway (Transformers), Dinobots (Transformers), Grimlock (Transformers), Swoop (Transformers), Slug (Transformers), Scorn (Transformers), Slash (Transformers), Sludge (Transformers), Snarl (Transformers), Camshaft (Transformers), Hubcap (Transformers), Omnicons (Transformers), Strongarm (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers), Signal Flare (Transformers), Armorhide (Transformers), Brawn (Transformers), Inferno (Transformers), Trench (Transformers), Longarm (Transformers), Salvage (Transformers), Grindcore (Transformers), Blazemaster (Transformers), Tomahawk (Transformers), Stratosphere (Transformers), Depthcharge (Transformers Bay Movies), Breacher (Transformers), Seaspray (Transformers), Ramhorn (Transformers), Cosmos (Transformers), Canopy (Transformers), Sqweeks (Transformers), Rollbar (Transformers), Landmine (Transformers), Beachbreak (Transformers), Dune Runner (Transformers), Ultra Magnus, Springer (Transformers), Cogman (Transformers), Gears (Transformers), Protectobots (Transformers), First Aid (Transformers), Blades (Transformers), Hot Spot (Transformers), Groove (Transformers), Streetwise (Transformers), Rook (Transformers), Daytrader (Transformers), Skyhammer (Transformers), Guzzle (Transformers), Bob (Original Insecticon Character belonging to Wacko12), Hot Rod (Transformers), Kup (Transformers), Adam Nova/Nova Prime (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Trailbreaker (Transformers), Clocker (Transformers), Perceptor (Transformers), Hoist (Transformers), Smokescreen (Transformers), Highbrow (Transformers), Wingblade (Transformers), Knock Out (Transformers), Windcharger (Transformers), Roller (Transformers), Defensor (Transformers), Scattershot (Transformers), Warpath (Transformers), Arctus (Transformers), Broadside (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers Bay Movies), Blaster (Transformers), Eject (Transformers), Sky Lynx, Slap Dash (Transformers), Bumper (Transformers), Firestar (Transformers), Moonracer (Transformers), Blurr (Transformers), Red Alert (Transformers), Metroplex (Transformers), Scamper (Transformers), Six-Gun (Transformers), Slammer (Transformers), Sparkling(s) (Transformers), Gasket (Transformers), Riptide (Transformers), Axewide (Transformers), Strongback (Transformers), Ramjump (Transformers), X-Grid (Transformers), Big Wire (Transformers), Skylock (Transformers), Dusthorn (Transformers), Matchstick (Transformers), Equator (Transformers), Skar (Transformers), Firefly (Transformers), Aurora (Transformers), Paddles (Transformers), Daystar (Transformers), Ironbolt (Transformers), High Cloud (Transformers), Flipside (Transformers), Nightflare (Transformers), Terraquake (Transformers), AllSpark (Transformers), NEST (Transformers), William Lennox, Robert Epps, SASF Agent Graham (Transformers), Burke (Transformers), Patrick Donnelly (Transformers), Michael Tanaka (OMC), Eckerson (Transformers), General Morshower (Transformers), "Hardcore" Eddie (Transformers), Perkins (Transformers), Stone (Transformers), Hooch (Transformers), Mongo (Transformers), Marc L (Transformers), "Baby Face" Zimmerman, Santos (Transformers), Teletraan I, Cade Yeager, Tessa Yeager, Izabella (Transformers), Shane Dyson, Ginrai (Transformers), Flare-Up (Transformers), Volcanicus (Transformers), Guardian Knights of Iacon (Transformers), Stormreign (Transformers), Dragonicus (Transformers), Steelbane (Transformers), Dragonstorm (Transformers), Vivian Wembley, John Keller, Charlotte Mearing, Maggie Madsen, Glen Whitmann, Tom Banachek, Joshua Joyce, Darcy Tirrel, Seymour Simmons, Dutch (Transformers Bay Movies), Jimmy (Transformers Bay Movies), Leo Spitz, Avengers Team (MCU), Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Thor (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Vision (Marvel), Guardians of the Galaxy Team, Peter Quill, Gamora (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Drax the Destroyer, Groot (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Stephen Strange, Wong (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, James "Bucky" Barnes, Shuri (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), M'Baku (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Annabelle Lennox, Sarah Lennox (Transformers), Monique Epps, Carol Danvers, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Talos (Marvel), Kraglin Obfonteri, Rhomann Dey, Pepper Potts, Megatron (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers), Shockwave (Transformers), Nitro Zeus (Transformers), Soundwave (Transformers), Laserbeak (Transformers), Rumble (Transformers), Barricade (Transformers), Blackout (Transformers), Bonecrusher (Transformers), Combaticons (Transformers), Onslaught (Transformers), Brawl (Transformers), Blast Off (Transformers), Swindle (Transformers), Vortex (Transformers), Shatter (Transformers), Fracture (Transformers), Stockade (Transformers), Blitzwing (Transformers), Lugnut (Transformers), Bruticus (Transformers), Tidal Wave (Transformers), Runabout (Transformers), Darksteel (Transformers), Malignus (Transformers), Wreckage (Transformers), Incinerator (Transformers), Mohawk (Transformers), Long Haul (Transformers), Sideways (Transformers), Jetstorm (Transformers), Overcast (Transformers), Thundercracker (Transformers), Skywarp (Transformers), Slipstream (Transformers), Ramjet (Transformers), Sunstorm (Transformers), Thrust (Transformers), Dirge (Transformers), Tankor (Transformers), Divebomb (Transformers), Hailstorm (Transformers), Space Case (Transformers), Dropkick (Transformers), Brimstone (Transformers), Dirt Boss (Transformers), Astrotrain (Transformers), Payload (Transformers), Flatline (Transformers), Dreadwing (Transformers), Storm Surge (Transformers), Blademaster (Transformers), Ransack (Transformers), Mindwipe (Transformers), Bludgeon (Transformers), Decepticon Protoforms (Transformers Bay Movies), Vehicon(s) (Transformers), Decepticon Ship Nemesis (Transformers), Trypticon (Transformers), Wipe-Out (Transformers), Full-Tilt (Transformers), Brunt (Transformers), Bomb-Burst (Transformers), Skullgrin (Transformers), Submarauder (Transformers), Bulgy (Transformers), Finback (Transformers), Iguanus (Transformers), Carnivac (Transformers), Snarler (Transformers), Roadgrabber (Transformers), Octopunch (Transformers), Stranglehold (Transformers), Roadblock (Transformers), Oilmaster (Transformers), Blood (Transformers), Dauros (Transformers), Gilmer (Transformers), Junkions (Transformers), Wreck-Gar, Detritus (Transformers), Rum-Maj (Transformers), Junkyard (Transformers), Scrapheap (Transformers), Re-Cycle (Transformers), Greasestain (Transformers), Wasteoid Gamma (Transformers), Ashtray (Transformers), Rubbish (Transformers), Hazmat (Transformers), Trashbin (Transformers), Pinion (Transformers), Shearbolt (Transformers), Arclight (Transformers), Unicron (Transformers), Thunderwing (Transformers), Razorclaw (Transformers), Jhiaxus (Transformers), Elphaorpha (Transformers), Drancron (Transformers), Rartorata (Transformers), Megabolt (Transformers), Reptilion (Transformers), Strika (Transformers), Obsidian (Transformers), Overlord (Transformers), Monstructor (Transformers), Sharpshot (Transformers), Terrorcons (Transformers), Insecticons (Transformers), Ammonites (Transformers), Scrapmetals (Transformers), Noisemazes (Transformers), Overchargers (Transformers), Maximals (Transformers), Sweeps (Transformers), Anti-Bots (Transformers), Sparkeaters (Transformers), Quintessa (Transformers), Sharkticons (Transformers), Gnaw (Transformers), Thanos (Marvel), The Black Order (Marvel), Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Super Giant (Marvel), Chitauri (Marvel), Outriders (Marvel), Leviathans (Marvel), Sakaarans (Marvel), Thaddeus Ross, Autobot Troopers (Transformers), Ronald Witwicky, Judy Witwicky, Daniel Witwicky

Relationships: Elita One/Optimus Prime, Chromia/Ironhide, Sarah Lennox/William Lennox, Izabella/Adam Nova (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Vivian Wembley/Cade Yeager, Monique Epps/Robert Epps, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Gamora/Peter Quill, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker, Mudflap & Skids, Canopy & Izabella & Sqweeks, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Shane Dyson/Tessa Yeager, Judy Witwicky/Ronald Witwicky

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Survival, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Transformers/Avengers Mashup, Infinty War Rewrite with Transformers (Bayverse) in it, Fixing Plot Holes, Ross is a Hypocrite

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TBAM: Infinty War

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Gr8mN9

by KaijuHobbit22

With Cybertron restored, the Autobots believed they can take a breather. But the threat of Unicron still remains. Worse still, old and new enemies have united, threatening the entire universe. The Autobots and their human allies will need the aid of other heroes, as well as unexpected allies, in order to face this approaching doom. For they must work together to survive, or fall one by one.

Sequel to TBAM: TLK

Words: 29, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of TBAM Series

Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee (Transformers), Jazz (Transformers), Ironhide (Transformers), Ratchet (Transformers), Sideswipe (Transformers), Sunstreaker (Transformers), Arcee Trio (Transformers), Arcee (Transformers), Chromia (Transformers), Elita One, Jolt (Transformers), Skids (Transformers), Mudflap (Transformers), Wheelie (Transformers), Brains (Transformers), Mirage (Transformers), Wheeljack (Transformers), Wreckers (Transformers), Leadfoot (Transformers), Roadbuster (Transformers), Topspin (Transformers), Steeljaw (Transformers), Hound (Transformers), Drift | Deadlock, Crosshairs (Transformers), Evac (Transformers), Cliffjumper (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Ark (Transformers), Omega Supreme (Transformers), Fixit (Transformers), Aerialbots (Transformers), Silverbolt (Transformers), Air Raid (Transformers), Breakaway (Transformers), Dinobots (Transformers), Grimlock (Transformers), Swoop (Transformers), Slug (Transformers), Scorn (Transformers), Slash (Transformers), Sludge (Transformers), Snarl (Transformers), Camshaft (Transformers), Hubcap (Transformers), Omnicons (Transformers), Strongarm (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers), Signal Flare (Transformers), Armorhide (Transformers), Brawn (Transformers), Inferno (Transformers), Trench (Transformers), Longarm (Transformers), Salvage (Transformers), Grindcore (Transformers), Blazemaster (Transformers), Tomahawk (Transformers), Stratosphere (Transformers), Depthcharge (Transformers Bay Movies), Breacher (Transformers), Seaspray (Transformers), Ramhorn (Transformers), Cosmos (Transformers), Canopy (Transformers), Sqweeks (Transformers), Rollbar (Transformers), Landmine (Transformers), Beachbreak (Transformers), Dune Runner (Transformers), Ultra Magnus, Springer (Transformers), Cogman (Transformers), Gears (Transformers), Protectobots (Transformers), First Aid (Transformers), Blades (Transformers), Hot Spot (Transformers), Groove (Transformers), Streetwise (Transformers), Rook (Transformers), Daytrader (Transformers), Skyhammer (Transformers), Guzzle (Transformers), Bob (Original Insecticon Character belonging to Wacko12), Hot Rod (Transformers), Kup (Transformers), Adam Nova/Nova Prime (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Trailbreaker (Transformers), Clocker (Transformers), Perceptor (Transformers), Hoist (Transformers), Smokescreen (Transformers), Highbrow (Transformers), Wingblade (Transformers), Knock Out (Transformers), Windcharger (Transformers), Roller (Transformers), Defensor (Transformers), Scattershot (Transformers), Warpath (Transformers), Arctus (Transformers), Broadside (Transformers), Skyblast (Transformers Bay Movies), Blaster (Transformers), Eject (Transformers), Sky Lynx, Slap Dash (Transformers), Bumper (Transformers), Firestar (Transformers), Moonracer (Transformers), Blurr (Transformers), Red Alert (Transformers), Metroplex (Transformers), Scamper (Transformers), Six-Gun (Transformers), Slammer (Transformers), Sparkling(s) (Transformers), Gasket 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Relationships: Elita One/Optimus Prime, Chromia/Ironhide, Sarah Lennox/William Lennox, Izabella/Adam Nova (OMC belonging to Wacko12), Vivian Wembley/Cade Yeager, Monique Epps/Robert Epps, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Gamora/Peter Quill, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker, Mudflap & Skids, Canopy & Izabella & Sqweeks, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Shane Dyson/Tessa Yeager, Judy Witwicky/Ronald Witwicky

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Survival, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Transformers/Avengers Mashup, Infinty War Rewrite with Transformers (Bayverse) in it, Fixing Plot Holes, Ross is a Hypocrite

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The New York Review of Books

With a worldwide circulation of over 135,000, The New York Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire‘s words, as “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.” The New York Review began during the New York publishing strike of 1963, when its founding editors, Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to create a new kind of magazine—one in which the most interesting and qualified minds of our time would discuss current books and issues in depth. Just as importantly, it was determined that the Review should be an independent publication; it began life as an independent editorial voice and it remains independent today.

The New York Review’s early issues included articles by such writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy. The public responded by buying up practically all the copies printed and writing thousands of letters to demand that The New York Review continue publication. And Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein continued as co-editors of the Review until Barbara’s death in 2006 and Robert’s death in 2017.

Within a short time, The New York Times was writing that The New York Review “has succeeded brilliantly,” The New Statesman hailed its founding as “of more cultural import than the opening of Lincoln Center,” and the great English art historian Kenneth Clark observed, “I have never known such a high standard of reviewing.” The unprecedented and enthusiastic response was indicative of how badly America needed a literary and critical journal based on the assumption that the discussion of important books was itself an indispensable literary activity.

From the 1960s into the 21st Century, The New York Review of Books has posed the questions in the debate on American life, culture, and politics. It is the journal where Mary McCarthy reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon and Hanoi; Edmund Wilson challenged Vladimir Nabokov’s translations; Hannah Arendt published her reflections on violence; Ralph Nader published his “manifesto” for consumer justice; I.F. Stone investigated the lies of Watergate; Susan Sontag challenged the claims of modern photography; Jean-Paul Sartre, at 70, described his writing and politics, and how he felt about his blindness; Elizabeth Hardwick addressed the issues of women and writing; Gore Vidal hilariously lampooned bestsellers, Howard Hughes, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Reagans; Felix Rohatyn made the case for a national industrial policy in an influential series of articles; Peter G. Peterson showed why the present Social Security program can’t last; Joan Didion described, in a firsthand account, the situation in El Salvador; McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, and Lewis Thomas outlined the nuclear threat; Nadine Gordimer and Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote from South Africa on the conflict over apartheid; Vaclav Havel published his reflections from the Czech underground; Timothy Garton Ash reported on the new Eastern Europe; Mark Danner reported on torture from the CIA black sites; Ronald Dworkin wrote of how George W. Bush’s two Supreme Court appointees have created an unbreakable phalanx bent on remaking constitutional law; Freeman Dyson described the scientist as rebel; David Cole revealed how the Bush Justice Department allowed America to become a nation that disappeared and tortured suspects; articles by Paul Krugman, George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz, and Jeff Madrick explained America’s failing economy; Tom Powers described the George W. Bush administration’s fundamental shift from diplomacy to military action; Martin Filler wrote on the many makers of modern architecture; and where Bill Moyers described the threat to the environment presented by Evangelical Christians. It is the journal where the most important issues are discussed by writers who are themselves a major force in world literature and thought.

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Followup: Blackfryars!

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Estelle Angrist :  Millicent Goodnestone – Apprentice Stone-Carver 

Inside every stone is a piece of art, so says Millicent. All you need to do is listen to the rock and take away the unnecessary pieces. Now, the artistry comes in the patience with which one removes the extra bits of stone. Patience, hammer, chisel, and a light touch are all that are required. Otherwise, a good piece of stone can become a dust pile very quickly. Thank goodness today is a festival day, because Millicent has been sweeping piles of dust for a while.

Alessandra Appiotti :  Bernadette Albright – Matchmaker 

The shire is being visited by the World’s most famous Bachelorette: Queen Elizabeth! If Bernadette can find the one for Queen Elizabeth, she will go from rising star to full-on supernova! She’d better get started lining up eligible bachelors! Or Bachelorettes! She hasn’t met Her Majesty yet, so who is she to judge her tastes?

Andréa Barton :  Lady Blanche Parry – Lady in Waiting 

This devoted Lady has served the Queen from the time our monarch was in nappies! They are boon companions, sharing court life and all its intrigue and frivolity. While she may look like the marzipan on the cake, her skilled organization of the Queen’s library and fondness for a good jest keeps her wit sharp enough to cut like a knife. Just ask the fool that attempts to play with her heart strings or guitar strings!

Kristin Bauer :  Frances Newton, Lady Cobham – Lady in Waiting

Lady Cobham is thrilled to be on progress with the Queen. After all, this busy mother needs some time with the Ladies. With her soft nature and quick smile, she can often times be found with the children of the Shire, telling stories, rhymes, riddles, and playing games. Her sense of mirth does not leave her without a streak of mischief, as she does love to put her finger in the pot, give it a stir, and see what happens! Naughty or Nice? You be the judge!

Lauralette Bernard :  Tolly Muneford – Harbor Master 

Nothing comes in or out of the shores of Mount Hope that Tolly doesn’t know about. Her web of knowledge reaches far and wide, and she does it all in the service of the Shire. If only she wasn’t so keen on sharing all this knowledge with literally everyone, she might be able to use it for personal gain.

Jennifer Blackwell-Yale :  Emily O. Bales – Fire Brigade 

It has been 15 years since a monarch last visited the Shire of Mount Hope. Coincidentally, it has also been 15 years since the last fire in the shire of Mount Hope. Emily is always ready for action, but no one is quite sure she would know exactly what to do should action arise. When in doubt: stop, drop, roll, and have some wine. It seemed to work out just fine for the Old Dun Cow!

Karen Rose Bitzer :  Rosie DuLait – Milkmaid 

This milkmaid typically spends her day milking the cows and goats on the farm; carefully churning the butter; separating the curds from the whey; making the precious cheese to sell at market; all the time, singing and talking to her fine, generous, milk-laden friends! Is it any wonder that Rosie’s dairy products are highly sought for their sweet, creamy nature? It is even said that her happy cows seem to prance in the fields, as if dancing to a jig. Is that even possible? With Rosie, one never knows! Today she was up early: the Queen is expected and she wants to offer the sweetest cream and the finest butter to lay upon the Queen’s table.

Tabitha Borges :  Abigail Montgomery – Governess to the Lady Mayor 

Abigail has always had a way with children, and has taken care of all the Lady Mayor’s progeny, which means she is quite resilient! Of the many duties, trials, and tribulations the Penburthys have put her through, her favorite activity is still telling stories, and she is a masterful storyteller. Now that the Penburthy children, Calvin, Penelope, and Danforth, have all grown up, she is experiencing Empty Nest Syndrome far more than Delores is!

Elizabeth Burkholder :  Paraffin Dyson – Bellows-Mender

Paraffin is a fan. She is a fan of fans. Her bellows will blow you away, that’s how big of a fan she is. Sometimes she can be a bit of a blowhard, but usually she can play it cool. And yet, even the coolest of bellows-menders may have a difficult time not having a meltdown with our Queen on the Shire. Time will tell if Paraffin maintains her composure or has a blowout, but one thing is for sure; she will certainly enjoy this festival day!

Jasmine Crist :  Mary Robin Richland – Shire Ne'er-Do-Well 

Every shire has one, ours is Mary Robin! While good-natured and always seen with a smile, it is known that one must keep a hand on your purse and an eye on your goods, for you may come up short when the back side of Mary Robin you see! Slight of hand, quick of feet, and always with a jest to share, it is her good nature and sharp wit that keeps her just on this side of the law, for now! It has been heard that she has high aspirations, but for what? Ask her, she may or may not share!

Ashley Crowther :  Ira Roth – Actuary 

Everyone’s heard of mad scientists, but a mad actuary? That’s much rarer. If you stare at numbers all day long, apparently they start staring back. Eventually, everything starts to look like a ledger, and you can see the numbers everywhere. Sure... that adds up...

Josh Dorsheimer :  Jakob Werner – Landsknecht

Professional mercenaries fight the wars of the Kings of Europe. Professionals like Jakob. He does his level best to never think about any of that, though! He would rather spend his time gallivanting around town, spending his hard-won gold on drink, friends, and frivolity. The oldest of the family, Jakob is sometimes mistaken as the decision-maker of the clan. While he won’t outright deny this, the three siblings all know who really calls the shots: their baby sister!

Elisia Freeman :  Agnes Lambourne – Apple-Monger 

Apple cider, apple butter, apple sausage, apple crisp, apple cake.... Just ask this happy-go-lucky lady what you can do with all those apples, and she will tell you! Be prepared, her list is LONG! Apple juggling, apple carving, apple tossing, apple dicing, apple bocci. Do not be fooled, she knows that man does not live by apples alone; everyone knows you need a little cinnamon and a lot of laughter!

Corey Graff :  Wagner Werner – Landsknecht

Wagner travels all over Europe fighting battles with his brother and sister for one reason: he loves them both dearly. Honestly though, he would much rather be laying down in a meadow watching butterflies. Sometimes suffering from middle child syndrome, Wagner’s gadabout ways certainly make life interesting for all the Werner siblings.

Steve Hager :  Rip Skeleton – Gravedigger 

There are two things certain in this world: Death, and Taxes – and Rip ain’t no accountant. Its always nice to have a friendly face build your final resting place.

Jeremiah Halteman :  Ronald P. Eversmeyer – Yeoman Guard 

They say history is written by the victors. Ronald has every intention of ensuring that our good Queen’s name goes down in the history of the world as the greatest victor of them all! He is always prepared to put himself between Her Majesty and danger, wherever it comes from, in whatever form it takes, and at any personal sacrifice! His extensive training in the art of personal security has rendered him one of the elite of the yeoman guard; as long as Her Majesty is not attacked from the air. Unfortunately, Ronald has a fear of butterflies. Something about the wings just throw off his rhythm, but no worries....butterflies in Mount Hope? Never!!

Jonathan Heise :  Sir John Giffard of Chillington, Minister of Parliament, Knight – Nobleman 

This Minister of Parliament felt it his duty to be present during the Queen’s progress at Mount Hope. Concerned that perhaps this tiny village would not be up to the task of hosting our Queen, he would be quick to move the festivities to Chillington. Upon arrival he realized his foolish mistake; never had he seen such a shire, and thought perhaps ‘twas time to move Chillington to Mount Hope! However, for now, why not enjoy the festivities?

Brianna E. Holmes :  Mary Hill, Lady Cheke – Lady in Waiting 

This gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber is well loved by all. Her husband, John Cheke, a gentleman of the court, encourages her in her service of the Queen. The Queen has blessed them often with gifts, grants, and an estate or two. Even at this show of opulence, Lady Cheke takes it all in stride. She finds joy in the simple things in life; her children, her rose garden, and her love of arachnids. Their homes, their legs, and loving little eyes; can you ever have enough? I think NOT says Lady Cheke.

Anastasia Keno :  Louise Weaver – Shepherdess

A diligent if mischievous shepherdess, Louise has a passion for all things fluffy! Why should sheep be the only animals allowed to graze free? Let the cats graze free! Let the puppies graze free! Let the mice graze free! Free the animals! Sorry... she can be very passionate.

Jennifer Litzinger :  Cherie Piquant – Spice Merchant 

If the first pinch of salt is free, be prepared to pay dearly for everything else. A shrewd business woman, do not let Cherie’s smile fool you. She was born to barter, and barter she will! Well-known on the shire as the woman who can get what you need, do not be afraid to ask; as long as its cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, or cardamom, by day’s end, it will be in your kitchen. Ask for a song, and you could be in for a treat.

Dana Micciché :  Katherine Champernowne, Lady Kat Ashley – Lady in Waiting

Appointed governess, tutor, friend, and confidante, Lady Kat Ashley ensured that her Queen had all the necessary tools to rule England. Well versed in astronomy, geography, history, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and Flemish, this unassuming woman is also trained in the art of swordsmanship, axe-throwing, archery, and caber tossing! Think you know a little about a lot? Lady Kat knew it first!

Traci Mohl :  Olivia Charnwood – Huntress 

The family tradition of hunting and tracking lives on in the guise of Olivia. Like her mother and grandmother before her, ear to ground, sniffing the air; hunting prey is in her blood. Mount Hope’s finest archer, Olivia never fails to bring home the meat – just don’t ask her to cook it!! On this festival day, she plans on showing off her tracking skills by sniffing out a merry time!

Beverly Newton :  Charlotte Seaswift – Shipwright

This buoyant aquatic engineer helps keep the Harbor of Mount Hope afloat. An eye for design and a passion for innovation drive Charlotte. She knows that the fine line between sink and swim is just a patch away, and she is always ready to keep things floating on.

Jared Nocella :  Miles I. Gore – Professional Henchman 

Some people are natural born leaders. Miles is not one of those people. Miles is a natural born lackey, and he’s the best there is at being second fiddle. Always down for doing the dirty work, and he does it dirt cheap! Miles is a sidekick with a smile and has a flare for following.

Alexandra Pentz :  Dorte Werner – Kampfrau 

The youngest of the Werner siblings, but make no mistake: she is the one that keeps the family together. From designing the boys’ clothes, managing the family finances, and fighting her share of battles, she is as clever as she is dangerous. And after all that, she still has the ability to be the most mischievous of the three!

Lianna Pike :  Rosalind Anne Uxbridge – Gardener 

Rosalind has had her hands deep in dirt, up to her elbows, preparing for the Royal visit. The gardens must be perfect! Simple details like stone placement can be so critical, yet every time she plants, those chipmunks and rabbits have a feast . That is why Rosalind has a bed in all of her garden plots. She sleeps in a different flower bed each night. Thank goodness the festival is finally here, she can finally get out of the beds and enjoy the beauty of her work with the rest of the shirefolk.

Nicolas Rainville :  Grayson Thomas Hemplewhite – Squire to the Master of Horse, Sir Robert Dudley 

What an honor to serve the horse that carries the saddle that seats the man who serves the Queen so closely! To say that Hemplewhite is a hard worker is putting it mildly. His work is never done. Clean the tack, muck the stall, check the hooves; not to mention ensuring that Tinker, the horse, is always sweet-smelling for his Master to ride. But today is a festival day. Tinker smells sweet, now its time for Hemplewhite to have a bit of merriment.

Jessica Reesor :  Holly Teacake – Baker 

Everyone likes sweets at a festival, and Holly has made sure the shire is stocked with confections to please any palate. Fruity, chocolatey, savory – whatever your taste, Holly has you covered! An obsessive planner, Holly loves the order of a recipe. It is a mathematical equation for pleasing people. If only everything else was that simple!

Laura Reesor :  Pearl Topstitch – Tailor 

A visionary designer with an eye for style. Never satisfied with the same-old same-old; when something works once, she’s done with it! Her appetite for new and exotic is matched only by her skill. She can look at a piece of fabric and see the hidden...pearl...of genius within. Now it is time to show off her skills to the Queen.

James Riley :  Adam Cringer – Yeoman Guard 

A newly-minted member of the Yeoman Guard following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father before him. Legend of Adam’s monster-hunting exploits have already preceded him. Now it is time to see if the man can match the Legend.

Victoria Sangston :  Dorothea Anne Heartley – Etiquette Mistress 

Today is a big day for the shire of Mount Hope, and the Lady Mayor has tasked Mistress Heartley with making sure everyone puts their best foot forward. Of course, is that the right foot or the other right foot? Joyfully surveying the shirefolk, she knows everyone will be on their best, smiling, bowing, hat tipping, formal greeting behavior – or else!

Michael Sheffield :  John Dee – Royal Astrologer

A good ruler has good advisors. Time will tell what kind of advisor John Dee will be. He says he talks to angels. Perhaps he does. Perhaps he’s just a brilliant con man. One thing is for sure – eccentric only scratches the surface of describing this stargazing man.

Jessie Smith :  Polly Lynne Pickering – Apprentice Rag-picker

Polly Lynne has been following in her mum’s footsteps for as long as she can remember. Mum does have a keen eye for bits and pieces, but Polly Lynne is impatient! When she is THE Rag-Picker, she will be much more efficient! Would anyone REALLY notice if a bit was snipped off a gown here and there? Bushes and scissors are a picker’s best friend. She has heard of the fine fabrics worn by the Nobles of the court and is hoping to snip.... errrr....snag a piece or two of those fabrics for herself!

Mary Smith :  Penelope Ann Pickering – Rag-picker 

Some call it rag-picking, but Penelope prefers to call it fabric repurposing opportunities. Opportunities abound in the shire of Mount Hope, all you have to do is look around! And look she does!! With a keen eye for bits of fabric, lace, gossip, and good will, she has a kind word for everyone and perhaps a bit of scrap for those in need; and, really, who doesn’t need a bit of scrap now and then? And now, with the training up of Polly Lynne, she’s busy busy busy! Thank goodness for the Festival. Mirth, merriment, and fabric scraps!

Evelin Stayner :  Buttercup M. Rosehips – Scullery Wench 

This young lady is happy when surrounded by a pile of dirty anything. Beginning, middle, end! That is where she finds her joy. Every day has its adventures, and they all start when the sun comes up and last throughout the day. You may find her dancing, singing, or generally making herself an asset to the Shire of Mount. Hope. Some might even call her a fledgling pillar of society; probably more like a fence post. But everybody has to start somewhere!

Katrin Stayner :  Eva Froman – Sausage Queen of the Shire 

Blessed with infinite patience, and a lithe mind to keep up with her husband. The Fromans are nouveau riche, and happy to flaunt it. Eva is the true brains of the operation. Her wurst is the best, and her husband is the best at being the worst.  [the Sausage King is being played by one of the improv directors who doubles as an independent act.]

Jordan Taft :  Dorothy "Dottie" Brooke – Lady in Waiting 

This Maid of Honor is a seasoned Lady of the court. Certainly Lady Dorothy has done it all, seen it all, and has the bodice to prove it. However, Mount Hope intrigues her. After all, it is time for her to settle down and have a family of her own, and the matchmaker of the Shire is famous throughout the land. She may leave here betrothed, or at least,with several good prospects. Love is in the air, or, is that TURKEY???

Robyn Thompson :  Fiona Erin O'Donald – Personal Foot Post of the Lady Mayor 

When Fiona came to Mount Hope, the first person she met was the Lady Mayor, who had just lost her third foot post in six months. Fiona needed a job; she had no idea what a foot post was, but she knew she could do it! She is Irish after all! As it turns out, she is the best foot post the Mayor has ever had!! Messenger, she’s the Lady Mayor’s personal messenger!

Sandi Trait :  Becky Billingsly – Town Crier and Lady Mayor’s Official Letter-Opener 

Becky Billingsly, the voice of the shire, knows full well the weight her proclamations carry. As Official Letter Opener for the Lady Mayor, she is at the forefront of all the news that is news in the shire. Of course, nothing beats today’s happenings! The young Queen makes her way to the gates of Mount Hope. How thrilling to share her news and tidings with the court of her Majesty!

Ariel E. Urich :  Kathryn Bridges – Lady in Waiting 

This Maid of Honor is on her first progress with the Queen. She has lived her entire life in training for this very time and now that it is here, she realizes that something is missing. She knows how to carry the cup with grace and style; the basket is a simple matter; smiling at the proper time, sitting, standing. So, what is the problem? She has this deep desire to make people laugh! So far, she has shared a bit of her talent with the Ladies of the Court, but perhaps this small shire is where she can be a bit more free with her jests and merriment. Oh, the festival day could not get here soon enough!

Brianna Yale :  Lydia der Schlachter – Butcher 

Leaving home to work for the Fromans was a tough decision but one she is happy she made. Butchering brings her such delight. From the time she begins to sharpen her blade to the beauty of well-cut chop, this butcher knows her way around a slab of beef, pork, and lamb. However, never ask her for a capon! She has been squeamish since the capon incident of 1552. Enough of that! This is a festival day, and she plans on celebrating with the shire folk and perhaps even catching a glimpse of the new Queen.

Darrell E. Yoder :  Sylvan Farelight – Tinker

If it needs mending, this is the man to do it. If it needs replacing, step right up, he has it. If you need a bit of magic in your life, having Sylvan on the streets ensures that your needs will be met! Always popular when he arrives on shire; Sylvan can be counted on to share a bit of news from afar; a bit of wisdom from within; and a bit of magic from, well, from where magic comes from!

To the newcomers, welcome!  To those returning, welcome back!

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The DJBC Happy Hour # 285 Playlist

Here is the playlist from last night’s show.  The 61st Annual Grammy Awards air next Sunday night on CBS, hosted by Grammy-winning superstar Alicia Keys.

SHOW PLAYLIST (Year indicates Grammy win for Best Musical Theater Album): “Aquarius” - Hair (1969; Ronald Dyson and Original Cast) “I Believe” - The Book of Mormon (2012; Andrew Rannells and Ensemble) “My Favorite Things” - The Sound of Music (1961; Mary Martin) “Day by Day” - Godspell (1972; Robin Lamont and Original Cast) “Superstar” - Jesus Christ Superstar: Live In Concert (2019 Nominee; Brandon Victor Dixon) “I Could Have Danced All Night” - My Fair Lady: 2018 Original Revival Cast (2019 Nominee; Lauren Ambrose) “History Has Its Eyes on You” - Hamilton (2016; Original Cast) “Defying Gravity” - Wicked (2005; Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel) “Ease on Down the Road” - The Wiz (1976; Original Cast) “Jailhouse Rock” - Smokey Joe’s Cafe (1996; Michael Park and Original Cast) “People” - Funny Girl (1965; Barbra Streisand) “We Can Do It” - The Producers (2002; Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick) “Promises, Promises” - Promises, Promises (1970; Jerry Orbach) “How To” - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962; Robert Morse) “Pinball Wizard” - The Who’s Tommy (1994; Original Broadway Cast)

(Edited to Add the Bonus Hour Playlist): “On the Balcony of Casa Rosada/Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” - Evita (1981; Original Broadway Cast, including THE Patti LuPone) “I Dreamed a Dream” - Les Miserables (1987) “Memory” - Cats (1984; Betty Buckley) “Sunday” - Sunday in the Park with George (1985; Original Broadway Cast) “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” - Beautiful (2015; Jessie Mueller) “76 Trombones” - The Music Man (1959; Robert Preston) “Tomorrow” - Annie (1978; Andrea McArdle) “Find Your Grail” - Monty Python’s Spamalot (2006; Original Broadway Cast) “Company” - Company (1971; Dean Jones and Original Broadway Cast) “Thoroughly Modern Millie” - Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003 Nominee; Sutton Foster and Original Broadway Cast) “The Nicest Kids in Town” - Hairspray (2003; Original Broadway Cast) “Pretty Women” - Sweeney Todd (1980; Len Cariou) “Finale/Children Will Listen/You Are Not Alone” - Into the Woods (1989; Bernadette Peters and Original Broadway Cast)

And, out of curiousity, here were the past winners of the Musical Theater Album since the first Grammy was handed out in 1959.  Those with asterisks (*) won the Best Musical Tony Award, as well.

1959: The Music Man* 1960: TIE - Gypsy; Redhead 1961: The Sound of Music* 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying* 1963: No Strings 1964: She Loves Me 1965: Funny Girl 1966: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 1967: Mame 1968: Cabaret*

1969: Hair 1970: Promises, Promises 1971: Company* 1972: Godspell 1973: Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope 1974: A Little Night Music* 1975: Raisin* 1976: The Wiz* 1977: Bumbling Brown Sugar 1978: Annie*

1979: Ain’t Misbehavin’* 1980: Sweeney Todd* 1981: Evita* 1982: Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music 1983: Dreamgirls 1984: Cats* 1985: Sunday in the Park with George 1986: West Side Story 1987: Follies: In Concert 1988: Les Miserables*

1989: Into the Woods 1990: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway 1991: Les Miserables: The Symphonic Recording 1992: The Will Rogers Follies* 1993: Guys and Dolls: The Complete New Cast Recording 1994: The Who’s Tommy 1995: Passion* 1996: Smokey Joe’s Cafe 1997: Riverdance 1998: Chicago: The Musical (the Revival)

1999: The Lion King* 2000: Annie Get Your Gun: The New Broadway Cast 2001: Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida 2002: The Producers* 2003: Hairspray* 2004: Gypsy: A Musical Fable 2005: Wicked 2006: Monty Python’s Spamalot* 2007: Jersey Boys* 2008: Spring Awakening*

2009: In the Heights* 2010: West Side Story: New Cast Recording 2011: American Idiot 2012: The Book of Mormon* 2013: Once* 2014: Kinky Boots* 2015: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 2016: Hamilton* 2017: The Color Purple: New Broadway Cast 2018: Dear Evan Hansen*

2019: Find out on February 10; Nominees are reigning Tony-winner The Band’s Visit, the Emmy-winning Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert, and the Revivals of My Fair Lady, Carousel, and Once on This Island  (EDIT on February 12: Last year’s Tony-winning Best Musical The Band’s Visit won for Best Musical Theater Album, following last year’s sweep of the Tonys.)

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Mark Gatiss: ‘There’s nothing quite like the sheer bloody terror of theatre’

by

Mark Shenton

- Sep 29, 2016

By a strange sort of coincidence, October sees Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton all appearing on the London stage.

No sooner does Gatiss open next Tuesday in The Boys in the Band at the Park Theatre, than the very next night Shearsmith begins previews for a West End revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, and three weeks later Pemberton leads the cast of Dead Funny. The three men were, of couse, all co-founders (with Jeremy Dyson) and stars of The League of Gentlemen, a TV comedy troupe that was born as a stage act (and won the Perrier comedy award at Edinburgh in 1997), before making three TV series between 1999 and 2002 and then a feature film in 2005.

“This is a sort of two-yearly story now, when we all seem to be doing plays at the same time,” says Gatiss, talking in a lunch break from rehearsals a couple of Saturdays before previews begun. “But we’re just working really.”

Today he tells me frankly: “I owe everything to the League – and we’re talking about doing something else now, as it has been 10 years since we worked together and we’d love to again.” Yet it also keeps reappearing in his life anyway: “It goes in cycles of rebirth. People come up to me and say they loved it when they were kids, which makes me feel ancient; but then kids come up to me who’ve just found it, too. It goes round and round.”

During those League years – “we were together for 11 years” – he and the others made a total commitment to it. “We made a pact that we wouldn’t get distracted. We’d seen a few of our contemporaries go off and do other things, but we didn’t want to lose sight of what we were doing, so if we did anything else it would be only short things that we could fit in.”

If the League will forever be a marker for him, another has become Sherlock, the modern version of Sherlock Holmes that he has written with Steven Moffat, and for which they’ve just completed a fourth series of three episodes.

“That takes it to 13 we’ve done in six years. People ask why we don’t do 10 a year, but it’s hard enough doing three every 18 months. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, like bottled lightning; it just came together, the idea of doing a modern version, the writing, the casting and the timing of it. Conan Doyle spent all his life trying to work out why people liked Sherlock Holmes; Steven and I just go, ‘fine’. It’s been astonishing; it sells to more places than there are countries, which is something to do with oil rigs and other territories. And Benedict [Cumberbatch] and Martin [Freeman] have become superstars through it.”

Gatiss is himself far too modest and self-effacing to consider himself a star, though as an actor earlier this year he won his first Olivier award for best actor in a supporting role for his appearance in Three Days in the Country at the National Theatre, and said in a post-award red carpet interview: “I’m over the moon, I really am. It’s a thrill, I’ve always wanted one and I am really pleased.”

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He had every reason to be; as Kate Kellaway put it in her review in The Observer: “Mark Gatiss, as the ‘maestro of misdiagnosis’ Shpigelsky, gives a comic tour de force, and his immodest proposal to middle-aged Lizaveta brings the house down. He sinks to his knees to propose, but lumbago prevents him from rising and he crawls, in a most undignified style, across the stage, bottom up. It’s funny, but it is the more subtle aspects of Gatiss’ performance that fascinate most: the way he holds a smile, lets it go beyond its sell-by date: there is Shpigelsky’s vanity and misplaced confidence in it.”

He tells me he never had confidence in that comic routine himself: “Una Stubbs once told me that when she was doing a play at the Donmar Warehouse a friend told her how she loved that thing she was doing with her hands, and she never got a laugh from it again after that. It’s the old saw about a good review being as dangerous as a bad one. With the entire back routine in Three Days in the Country, I couldn’t remember what I had done about three months in; I lived in mortal dread of it going away, but it was also good because it kept it fresh.”

He keeps himself fresh by combining two careers, one as a writer, the other as an actor. “I’ve always done both. In an ideal year, I do half and half. Sherlock takes a long time to write, then four months to film; I then like to spend three months on a play.”

Theatre has become a mainstay for Gatiss. “I usually do a play a year, sometimes two,” with credits that stretch from the National (where as well as Three Days in the Country he also starred in Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings) to the Donmar (The Recruiting Officer, Josie Rourke’s first show at the helm), Hampstead Theatre (Howard Brenton’s 55 Days), and London’s Old Vic (All About My Mother). “I can write while I’m in a play, too, and I like that – it gives structure to the day – but I always forget, like the amnesia of childbirth, how tired I get. When you do a play you shift into a different pattern, and become more of a night owl, although I’m very much a morning person. When you’re in the theatre, you eat late and sleep later so that has an effect on the day.”

Theatre has also always been in his blood, ever since he first attended a drama club at school and an after-hours youth theatre, before going to study at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire, where he first met the other Leaguers and they formed The League of Gentlemen. “It’s such a different experience to sitting in a caravan waiting to film something. There’s nothing quite like the sheer bloody terror of theatre – and the smell of a freshly painted set is exactly the same wet paint smell I remember from drama club at school. It gives me the same tingle of anticipation and nerves and excitement.”

Being in a play is like a holiday romance – it’s very intense, then it dissipates

Of course, one of the joys of working in the theatre is that it is much more social than the solitary act of writing. “Sometimes I feel like I’ve been chained to a desk for months, so there’s nothing nicer than joining a new group of friends and everything that comes with it. It’s like a holiday romance – it’s very intense, then it dissipates.”

There’s no room for holiday romances, or ‘showmances’ as I’ve heard them dubbed, though: for the first time, he is working on stage with his actor husband Ian Hallard, whom he married seven years ago. “We’ll be like Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray now,” he quips. The ceremony was held at Middle Temple, the ancient Inn of Court in central London, and he can’t resist telling me: “The ceremony took place beneath the portrait of Edward Carson, the man who prosecuted Oscar Wilde. Who’d have thought? He’d be turning in his grave.”

Doing The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley’s 1960s play about a group of gay men, together now was prompted partly by Hallard’s involvement in a rehearsed reading of the play four years ago, which Gatiss saw and tells me how much it resonated.

“One line that stood out was: ‘If we could only not hate ourselves quite so much.’ I thought it was brilliant. And then [producers] Tom O’Connell and James Seabright got a production together and the Park Theatre said yes, and I had a gap, so I joined, too. Ian was doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatr Clwyd in the first three months of the year, and then I went straight off to do four months of Sherlock, so this is a good way of seeing each other now.”

There are other perks, too: “Jack Derges is utterly delightful – being kissed by him every day is all right. But Ian gets kissed by him first,” he hastens to add. The Park is also local to them – they live in nearby Islington – and he says: “I love this theatre. It has an indie feeling to it, and has a really loyal, local audience. But I’ve also wanted to play this part since I saw the film when I was 12 or 13. It’s an important play – it’s fascinating to see where we were, where we’ve got to, and between that, where we think things have changed or not at all. You know that a play is good when you stage it at different times and it means something different each time.”

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Q&A: Mark Gatiss

What was your first non-theatre job? I worked as a gardener in a hospital across the road from where my dad worked.

What was your first professional theatre job? Working at Darlington Arts Centre, now sadly gone, which in its day was second only to the Barbican in terms of size. I was a deputy stage manager.

What is your next job? I’ve got a lot of things to write, most of them secret at the moment.

What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting out? Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Who or what was your biggest influence? My greatest inspiration is Alan Bennett – I’ve never worked with him, but he is it. My acting hero is James Mason, who as a screen actor was unsurpassable; on stage, it is Mark Rylance – his Richard II was a life-changing experience for me, it was breathtaking.

What’s your best advice for auditions? Don’t go, leave them to me! But apart from that, whenever I’m involved in producing things, I try to get actor friends to come in and read in for those auditioning. It’s very unusual for actors to sit on the other side of the table, and they always find it revelatory. At the end of the day, they realise it is very rarely about not being good, but about the fit, and that’s reassuring to know. So my advice would be that if you can, try to get to sit on the other side of the table sometime – it will make you feel so much better when you don’t get a job.

If you hadn’t been an actor and writer, what would you have been? I’m very blessed to do this as I can’t do anything else. The only other thing I really wanted to was be a pantologist, but I didn’t have Latin.

Do you have any theatrical superstitions or rituals? I try not to as I’m quite a rational person, but in the face of the terror, I can’t tell you how many times I find myself whistling in the dressing room and having to go out in the corridor and turn around three times and blow a raspberry, hoping no one notices.

He goes on: “There is a lot of stuff in this play about self-loathing that is very relevant. The idea that that has gone away is a fallacy. The levels of mental illness and suicide in young gay men particularly is awful. I was talking to a friend recently who told me about a friend of his who struggled to come out. We imagine, living in our metropolitan bubble, that it is easy, but he had gone through hell – it sounded like something from the 1950s, but was to do with what was going on in his own head.”

The play premiered in 1968, a year ahead of Stonewall and the new age of gay liberation that ushered in, but it was a landmark play for portraying gay lives on a mainstream stage so unashamedly, and maybe critically. Some activists have resisted its portrait of these gay lives as too hostile and unhappy; but as Gatiss points out: “I hate the notion of things having to wear the weight of everything on their shoulders. This is actually a particular view of nine particular men, written from a very autobiographical standpoint by Mart Crowley. I feel very like I’m on a soapbox about this, but why should this play have to shoulder everyone’s stories? Obviously it was different when there were very few gay plays, but it’s not like that now that there’s a multiplicity of them, so we can look at it in its context.”

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That context is also, of course, pre-Aids – though it’s a sad fact of that disease that it claimed no fewer than four of the play’s original New York cast. During the 1980s, the play duly fell off the gay theatre syllabus entirely; as Gatiss puts it: “There was a period when clearly this was the wrong thing to put on, when we were absolutely under siege. But the last time it was done in New York, Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times that it was apparently all right to like Boys in the Band again. As time passes and things shift, it is not just ripe for revival, but also still relevant. It’s a false assumption that all battles have been won. There’s a massive debate in the gay community about masculinity, for instance. And what really interests me is the notion how, in any community or cause, when you start to achieve victories, the things that give you common cause start to fray and then you start to turn in on yourself. It’s a bit like the Labour Party is doing now. But so much has been achieved.”

Yet the gay community is facing new challenges now, such as the disturbing rise in chemical drug addictions. “A friend has a really interesting theory about the perhaps subconscious feeling among gay people that we are somehow ‘other’. There’s that wonderful line in Inherit the Wind that you invent the telephone but lose the charm of distance; so for everything you gain, you lose something, too. And maybe the rise of chem-sex is a way for men to say, ‘Yes, I can marry and adopt children now, but I’m still not like you.’ And that’s really interesting.” Addictions are a way to try to cure, or at least temporarily relieve, pain, “whether it’s drugs or sex or booze, which this play is about. And from the outside, all looks fine now – you have Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno [Tonioli] on the TV, and Ian and I were on Graham Norton [on BBC Radio 2] this morning, so visibility is not an issue. Obviously huge steps have been made, but it’s folly to think that everything is rosy now.”

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Mark Gatiss’ top tip for an aspiring writer and actor

• As Churchill said, keep buggering on, that’s the only thing you can do. For writing, there’s no such thing as a would-be writer. You do it or you don’t, so just get on with it. People are scared, they think they’ll be judged – but the only person doing that is yourself.

Some may still resist the portrait of these bitching, unhappy gay men all over again, but Gatiss is ready with his answer to them: “If someone says that’s not me, it’s not supposed to be. I find repellent the closing down and over-policing of things; it suffocates debate.” That’s a debate he wants to have. And apart from working with his husband, the play has an added resonance for him, too: in it, he plays Harold, whose birthday party provides the setting for the story, and he tells me, “I’ll turn 50 during the run, though we don’t have a show that night.”

After the run finishes, he plans to take a holiday at last: “I’m going to try to have an actual month off, to see if I can do it. People ask me if I’m a workaholic – I don’t think I am, but I love to work. Noel Coward once said work is more fun than fun, and I finished a script the other day and gave myself a day off work and I went off for a massage. But I was quite bored by the end of the day.”

CV: Mark Gatiss

Born: 1966, Sedgefield, County Durham Training: Bretton Hall College Landmark productions: All About My Mother, Old Vic, London (2007), Season’s Greetings, National Theatre (2010), The Recruiting Officer, Donmar Warehouse, London (2012), 55 Days, Hampstead Theatre, London (2012), Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse, London, with Tom Hiddleston (2013), Three Days in the Country, National Theatre (2015) Awards: Perrier award for comedy for The League of Gentlemen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1997), BAFTA for The League of Gentlemen TV series (2000), Royal Television Society award for The League of Gentlemen TV series (2000), Golden Rose of Montreux for The League of Gentlemen TV series (1999), Writers Guild award for best short-form TV drama for Sherlock (2012), Olivier award for best supporting actor for Three Days in the Country (2016). Agents: Sarah Spear/Grace Clissold at Curtis Brown

The Boys in the Band runs at the Park Theatre, London, until October 30