#steve lambert

[eunoiareview]

Architectural

All areas have their representative architectures. In Florida, for instance, and much of the Deep South, you’ll find the Cracker House, the clapboard, the shotgun. Plainsong as architecture. Protestant primitivism. Holy Ghost power. Not so many balustrades, buttresses, vestibules, cornices or Corinthian columns. But here’s something I learned in the resplendent rotunda of the Capital building in…

[cherrys-muses]

𓍯 ִֶָ dear reader,

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 1ST | ceilings - lizzy mcalpine (sergei kravinoff)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 2ND | for you - rita ora, ft. liam payne (spencer reid) | it’s been awhile - staind (rockstar!eddie munson)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 3RD | love - lana del rey (josh lambert) | decode - paramore (charlie walker)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 4TH | about you - the 1975 (dave lizewski) | once more to see you - mitski (james patrick march)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 5TH | cinnamon girl - lana del rey (tangerine) | nothing can change this love - sam cooke (divorced dad!eddie munson)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 6TH | coming back for you - maroon 5 (sergei kravinoff)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 7TH | fear of water - noah kahan (colin zabel) | again - noah cyrus ft. xxxtentacion (tangerine)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 8TH | the man who can’t be moved - the script (ex-boyfriend!steve harrington) | sorry - halsey (friedrich harding)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 9TH | cheater - the vamps (eddie munson)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 10TH | last first kiss - one direction (steve harrington) | what’s left of me - grace vanderwaal (roman godfrey)

𓍯 ִֶָ FEBRUARY 14TH | unchained melody - the righteous brothers (eric - aqpdo)

༉‧₊˚. an; here is the list of songs on the ‘mixtape’! two one-shots will be posted in a day, starting on the first of february and ending the fourteenth!

if you’d like to be tagged in specific ones, please feel free to message, inbox, or even comment below!

(also want to say theres a couple of characters im adding into here that im not entirely to sure if ill add to my character list! but if theres more requests for them, ill gladly do them!)

border; @/sstoruux

[littledozerdraws]

Date Night for the Halloweenies 🐺🐷🌕🎃

[rurutts]

Really miss reading mid to long Fanfics but I feel like I've reached the end with all my fave fandoms/ships ugh

Does anyone else get this lol

Maybe my interests are too niche or smthing but I swear I've read everything 😭

[cptrs]

[deke-rivers-1957]

Kung Fu Elvis Part 6

If you're new to this series, the point of this is to find out which Elvis character is the best fighter given an uninterrupted, hand to hand combat styled fight. The goal is to rank each individual Elvis character and then within each tier determine who would win against who.

How I plan on determining this will be by finding each character's age, size and general background. How well a character does in on screen fights will also be considered but analyzed on a case by case basis. Sometimes an Elvis character loses a fight simply because it's a comedy, or due to the low quality stage fighting wins because his opponents are laughably weak.

At the end of the day this is all headcanon as these are all fictional characters. If you disagree with how I rank a character I would love to hear your thoughts on where you would put them.

So to expand on what I was thinking in Danny's tidbit, the beginning clearly shows that black people live in this neighborhood. Yet the scene where Danny goes to school has not a single black student. Granted it could be chalked up as an oversight since the school really only appears once, but it does reflect what New Orleans was like. While segregated schools were deemed illegal in 1954, enforcing that took time. New Orleans wouldn't have desegregated public schools until 1960 (2 years after King Creole was released). Even though black people don't really get a lot of attention, we do see black musicians in Maxie's club. Since we don't see Maxie mistreat them similar to how he mistreats Ronnie or bosses Shark around, we can assume that at the very least Maxie maintains a professional relationship reflect the shift in attitude towards enforcing desegregation. That's why I'm sticking with this taking place in the mid to late 1950s.

The Wikipedia page for this movie says Danny is 19. Like I said, if he was only repeating his senior year the first time that would make him 18 going on 19. He doesn't drink any alcohol nor does he serve alcohol. His original job is a busboy which you can be as young as about 16. For simplicity's sake, Danny will be 19 since he likely would've turned 19 over the course of the movie.

I didn't give Steve a rank but it's still fun to discuss history. For instance, the strongest clue that we are in the mid to late 1960s involve using real life racers in the opening credits. Stock car racing has been super popular in the south since the 1940s, but the real life Charlotte Motor Speedway wouldn't be opened until 1960. If we assume that Richard Petty in the movie is the exact same as the real life person, then his racing career started in 1958 with his best season being in 1967. Buddy Baker while he raced since 1959 wouldn't get his first win until 1967. If Steve Grayson is a very successful racer while these real life racers are participating, then this movie would actually need to be before 1967. And not just for one season but multiple seasons since Steve owes $150k in back taxes. Prize purses wouldn't be that big for Steve to owe that much in one tax year. While the cars used in the movie do include 1967 models, you can still assume that we start in 1964 and then after the montage it's now 1967.

There are many NASCAR series with the youngest racer ever varying, but the typical age limit is 18. Steve doesn't have a canon age, but the real life racers do. Going back to the assumption that everything happens the same way, Richard Petty would 30 and Buddy Baker would be 26 in 1967. For Steve to have his best seasons before 1967, he likely would be older than both of them. Therefore I would put Steve at about 31-32 years old.

This movie is so hard to pinpoint regarding time period with anachronistic it is. You have Blackie talk about a guy having Confederate money which only makes sense if this was 1865 immediately after the Civil War ended. Confederate money essentially became worthless once the Confederacy surrendered so there would be no reason to try using it to buy anything let alone gamble. At the same time you have Johnny singing about dating Lillian Russell who wouldn't even be born until 1860 and wouldn't be famous until at least the 1880s. Knowing that Mardi Gras wouldn't be a state holiday until 1875 doesn't help because we have the characters already know how a masquerade party operates and the Madam Pompadour costume references a woman from the 1700s. The Nellie Bly reference doesn't work either because the real Nellie Bly was born in 1864 and was never a stage performer as she is most well known for her trip around the world in 1889. There's also the issue that radios nor phones seem to exist, yet Johnny is singing black spirituals that wouldn't have known recordings until the 1920s. I just can't break it down any further than late 1860s-early 1920s based on everything we were given being true at the same time.

We know almost nothing about Johnny. He doesn't even have a last name. The legal gambling age doesn't help since the riverboat Johnny is on operates to specifically skirt around state laws and neither would the legal drinking age for the same reason. With cars not existing in plain sight and drivers licenses not even existing until the early 1900s, we can't go off of that either. Judging by his appearance let's just say Johnny is about 30.

I talked in great length about the US-UK relations so I'll focus on how the US-Belgium relations history. The people in Belgium treat Guy favorably meaning the people as a whole didn't see Americans as an enemy. Favorable relations existed since at least the 1800s and still exist today which isn't all that helpful. Belgium doesn't speak English at the same rates as their neighbors so we can't look at a specific date where it became an official language. Therefore we have to look even closer at the cities in Belgium that are featured/mentioned: Brussels and Antwerp. Brussels is big enough that uncle Gerald wants to send Jill to a boarding school there with the economy as a whole experiencing a large growth from foreign investment in the 1960s. As for Antwerp, there was a decade plan from 1956-1965 to modernize their ports. We don't get to see much of it, but Guy and Jill going to the S.S Damocles out of desperation shows some of it. The ship itself is so rusted up, that it looks out of place in an otherwise clean port. Therefore I stand by my opinion that this takes place around 1966.

I already talked about Guy's age in my tidbit and I don't really have anything else to add. I still stand by having him be about 31.

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Danny gets into multiple altercations and even fights Maxie while he has a gun. Since Danny survived that fight without getting shot, that boosts his case. His fight against Shark involved a knife and while they should both be disqualifying factors, Danny didn't need to rely on a weapon to win. Shark dying from getting stabbed was an unintended consequence. Danny won because he overpowered Shark which still requires both skill and strength.

Danny does look scrawny. However, he isn't starving. Mr. LeGrand I imagine would allow him to have a cheap meal in between shows. With how successful his shows are after Maxie dies and the city as a whole experiencing economic growth, Danny can live quite comfortably. With his act being very physical, Danny's stamina at his age can only get better. Easily A tier.

Steve punched a man out. And that's it. One punch isn't a fight by my rules so it's disqualified from counting towards a rank.

Racers while not bound to a specific weight do prefer light drivers. As much as Steve has over $100k in debt, he won't starve. His skill as a racer hasn't declined, so he would still be able to live somewhat comfortably. Outside of that, Steve would be mostly sedentary and could only stay fit on his own time. While he would probably still be in B tier he does not rank there's nothing in canon that shows his skill level.

Johnny fought a drunk Braden that ended with Braden getting hit by Mitzi with a champagne bottle. That's outside interference which disqualifies the fight from counting towards a rank.

Johnny is in constant gambling debt on a riverboat. He works there and wouldn't go hungry if he's part of the entertainment group. With how successful his latest act is, the need to gamble is gone. He would be able to live comfortably and unless absolutely necessary, wouldn't need to fight. I would put him C tier as he would just be average, but his only altercation doesn't count so he doesn't rank either.

He only has one fight but it's against a trained hitman. But he won. Without a weapon or outside help. That automatically makes him above average.

Similar to Danny and Johnny, Guy would have a comfortable lifestyle. He even admits to such as he gets a decent amount of money doing international shows. Assuming Jill gets her full inheritance eventually, Guy being married to her means he likely won't have perform to live anymore. He stays in B tier since he does still have skill past 30 but I think Danny could beat him.

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To summarize this part:

Danny is in A.

Guy is in B.

Steve and Johnny DNA and will not get a rank.

Tagging: @callieselvisobsessed, @vintagepresley, @somethingaboutelvis, @tupelomiss, @eapep,

@freudianslumber, @makethemorning, @southcarolinawoman, @thelonelyheart, @ssinnerplazahotel,

@squaggleson, @hooked-on-elvis, @smokeymountainboy, @swingdownsweetchariot, @suraemoon,

@be-my-ally, @thatbanditqueen, @pledgingmylovee, @arrolyn1114, @foreverlovingelvis,

@presleyslilbaby and @seredelgi.

[kikidoesfanfic]

He's just a little guy

[shandidellamorte]

♒️ FAVORITE AQUARIUS ROCKERS!! ♒️

(making a new edition that's actually editable. XD)

Steven Adler {1/22}

Steve Perry {1/22}

Steve Riley {1/22 R.I.P. ❤️}

Nick Simmons {1/22}

Eddie Van Halen {1/26 R.I.P. ❤️}

Tom Keifer {1/26}

Jaime St. James {1/27}

Adam Lambert {1/29}

Eddie Jackson {1/29}

Adrian Vandenberg {1/31}

Jani Lane {2/1 R.I.P. ❤️}

Alice Cooper {2/4}

Duff McKagan {2/5}

Axl Rose {2/6}

Vince Neil {2/8}

Rachel Bolan {2/9}

Cliff Burton {2/10 R.I.P. ❤️}

Billie Joe Armstrong {2/17}

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

I didn’t include too many big names because they’d overwhelmingly win.

[eunoiareview]

Walking to the Bus Stop

Like a plus-one to a Halloween party, early fall brings with it crisp air that strangles late summer’s smothering humidity. No oranges just yet, and there’s still an invest off the coast of Africa that, properly motivated, could twist itself into a hurricane. My favorite flannel I wore last year won’t button, so I wear it loose on our trek to the bus stop, my coffee steaming, your too-big…

[diabolimeservavit666]

I've dove back into an old hyperfixation. Y'ALL CAN'T TOUCH ME.

IDFK what I'm doing but... I'm doing it. Send asks, please...

[80smovies]

[adamwatchesmovies]

Sahara (2005)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

On paper, Sahara sounds like a slam dunk. It’s Indiana Jones meets James Bond with big stars like Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz and armed with a budget to make all the stunt-filled adventure come to life. In practice, it’s devoid of any joy or excitement. Director Breck Eisner makes 124 minutes feel so much longer than two hours.

In 1865, the ironclad CSS Texas disappeared with the last of the Confederacy’s treasury gold. In present day, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) has finally found a clue to its final resting place: Mali. With his longtime bud and fellow treasure-hunter Al Giordino (Steve Zahn), he investigates. Along the way, the meet WHO doctor Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) as she investigates a mysterious plague she fears will soon ravage the country.

Based on the novel by Clive Cussler, this film adaptation tries to do too much. Sahara is essentially two movies slammed together. The first is a swashbuckling adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones. Boat chases, car chases, fist fights, impromptu survival techniques in the desert and a long-lost treasure? There’s no mistaking it. The other movie has an inconspicuous, beautiful doctor embroiled in a plot that begins as a threat to Africa but could endanger the whole world and includes a solar-powered laser beam, a mad dictator and businessmen devoid of morals. The problem is that these two plots exist independently and are not well blended. In one scene, Dirk and Al are dodging entire clips’ worth of bullets with big smiles while coming up with crazy ways to take down the villains on their tail by blowing up their own boat. In the next, a single bullet is treated with enough gravitas to give you a headache.

Also problematic are the actors. Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz are talented actors. Here? they’re awful. They’re even worse together. They have no chemistry whatsoever, which makes their plots feel even more akin to a mix of oil and water. You know they’re going to fall in love from the beginning but you’ll believe a metal boat from the American Civil War will make it across the ocean on no rations before you’ll believe that romance.

From the unfunny humor meant to endear you to the characters to the action scenes that prove the actors couldn’t throw a decent punch if their lives depended on it, Sahara suffers from major problems. It also gets the little things wrong. When Commander Rudi Gunn (Rain Wilson) approaches the United States Embassy for help, he's warned it’s unlikely aid will arrive in time because “No one gives a shit about Africa”. They're not wrong. Even this movie doesn't care about Mali or its people because moments later, we learn the thing that’s gruesomely killing en-masse will soon spread to the entire world. So it wasn’t enough that Mali would become the world's biggest graveyard; the entire human race has to be at risk? Yikes.

Then, there’s the climax. This is one of those movies where the villains must have the greatest employee benefits package of all time because the baddie's top bodyguard decides to get into a fistfight on top of a building that’s rigged to explode in a few minutes. How was he going to get out of there once he got the job done?

I can give a movie slack and accept a preposterous story but you’ve got to give me something in return. When your actors have no chemistry between them, the bad guys are completely forgettable, the humour falls flat on its face, the action scenes are badly shot & choreographed and none of what you see is interesting, you want to find some way to entertain yourself, perhaps by having some laughs at the film’s expense. You'd think it'd be easy when the Los Angeles Times listed this film as one of the most expensive flops of all time but you'd be wrong. Sahara is too dull to provide any form of entertainment. (Full-screen version on DVD, January 29, 2021)

[downthetubes]

Doctor Who Weekly fun from designer Andy Lambert; new "Monsters" collection arrives from Panini

Over on social media site X, designer Andy Lambert has been treating followers to a series of faux Doctor Who jigsaw covers, inspired by the genuine “Enemies of Doctor Who” range produced by Whitman Publishing. Now, he’s turned his attention to Doctor Who

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The Ghostbusters are Back in Town in a new series from Dark Horse

The Ghostbusters are Back in Town in a new series from Dark Horse #comics #comicbooks #ghostbusters

An all-new ghostbusting adventure arrives March 2024 in the form of a new series from Dark Horse Comics: Ghostbusters: Back in Town! This new four-issue series bridges the gap between Ghostbusters: Afterlife and its upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. A year and a half after the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Ghostbusters are officially back in business and headed to where it…

[xiaq]

The Best Fic I read in 2024:

K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk

@branwyn-says

Fandom: Star Trek

Pairing: Kirk/Spock

Rating: Explicit

Words: 103k words

Possibly my favorite fic ever. Hurt/Comfort. Banter. Found family. Frankly no description I give will do it justice. Just. Go read it.

Children Will Look to You [series]

Fandom: Star Trek

Pairing: None—McCoy being a resigned, grumpy, guardian to a bunch of Vulcan kids 

Rating: General

Words: 68k

Fantastically wholesome. A+ characterization all around.

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love 

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing: Draco/Hermione

Rating: Explicit

Words: 200k

Utterly charming enemies to friends to lovers and some of the best writing I encountered this year.

All That’s Said in the Low Light

Fandom: COD Modern Warfare

Pairing: Soap/Ghost

Rating: Mature

Words: 168k

Holy shit. The recovery hurt/comfort fic to beat them all. I don’t even go here. I’d never played the game, nor had any idea who these characters were, but I read it at the behest of a friend whom I trust implicitly. Then I spent three months afterward absolutely devouring the Soap/Ghost tag trying to find something that lived up to this story and, alas, I could not. Tragic. 

Must Brave the Thorns

@inexplicifics

Fandom: Witcher

Pairing: Lambert/Female OC/Aiden

Rating: Explicit

Words: 240k

Listen. Inex’s Accidental Warlord series has my heart (and was probably my favorite 2023 read) but this Witcher offshoot fic was an equal delight and I adore the OC, Milena, who is dainty and pretty and abhors violence while still kicking ass and taking names.

Twenty-One Rules

Fandom: Stranger Things

Pairing: Eddie/Chrissy

Rating: Teen

Words: 88k

Laugh out loud funny. Fake dating (but is it??), anxious perfectionist girl /awkward infatuated boy, lovely banter.

Robin Buckley's Extremely Normal and Heterosexual Friend Group [series]

Fandom: Stranger Things

Pairing: Steve/Eddie

Rating: Teen

Words: 6.5k

I love an outsider POV and I love Robin Buckley and the author has her internal voice DOWN. 

Layer by Layer, the Framework was Formed [series]

Fandom: Stranger Things

Pairing: Steve/Eddie, but more generally Uncle Wayne getting to be a father figure to to both Steve + Eddie

Rating: General

Words: 14k

I love an outsider POV, I love Uncle Wayne, and I love Wayne getting to parent. Perfection.

And that’s a wrap!