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Best of the Richmond AFC Himbos! Bonus:

1. Any book you want

2. Don’t read books you don’t want to read

3. That’s it

are you ready for this? 

it is the most wonderfully made, historically inaccurate, giddily fun, perfectly paced, goofy horror movie romance novel bullshit bonanza that has ever blessed the silver screen.

i mean it is just so beautifully full of every genre without being overwhelming.we’ve got: comedy, action, suspense, horror, romance, adventure, ancient aesthetics, and it’s a period piece. all perfectly balanced and blended into one movie.

and the characters are so LIT

we got our main babe, evelyn “motherfucking” carnahan, a super-klutz librarian, total history nerd, and certified badass/damsel in distress. she raises the dead on accident, because she cannot resist books, and has the guts to put that motherfucker back where he came from and literally saves the world.evie’s greatest hits: 

“what is a place like me, doing in a girl like this?!”

*after totally destroying the library* “i’ve just made a bit of a mess in the library.”

“no harm ever came from reading a book.”

evelyn: *upon opening the tomb* “i’ve dreamt about this since i was a little girl.”rick: “you dream about dead guys?”

“oops.”

then we’ve got rick “brendan fraser” o’connell, your not-so-typical battle hardened gun slinger with a heart of gold. he seems filthy, rude, and a complete scoundrel at first, but then he turns into a literal puppy, with massive heart eyes, that worships the ground evie walks on.rick’s greatest hits:

*screams at mummy*

*screams at sand*

*screams at things that are illogical to scream at*

*screams*

next is our Comedic Relief Character™, jonathan carnahan, who also rises above his trope. he’s there for the laugh sure, but is never useless. he actively helps to move the plot along and isn’t just there. he also is the farthest thing from brainless and annoying.jonathan’s greatest hits:

evelyn: “have you no respect for the dead?”jonathan: “of course i do, but sometimes i’d rather like to join them.” same.

oh and that time he was like “IMHOTEP” and saved his own ass like that was so smooth, y’all know what i’m talking about right??

then there is ardeth BAE. he is the audience rolling his eyes because *sighs* white people. he’s tired of these motherfucking mummies in this motherfucking desert. literally prettier than everyone.(he has a much bigger role in the mummy returns, but is still so fab here)

and of course THE MUMMY. imhotep. actual emo. literally carved some poetry into the back of his sarcophagus when he was buried alive with flesh eating bugs, because he is that Extra™. just wants to bring his girlfriend back to life so he can make out with her without it being treason. 

and all the side characters are also gr8.

now i wanna take a moment to talk about the romance. because it is so BEAUTIFUL. like usually in action movies it’s macho man undermines girl and they bone. not here. no time for that shit. 

rick and evie have such a great relationship based on mutual respect and affection. they both cater to each other’s strengths and cover each other’s weaknesses. they are the literally definition of: “those two. in a fight, they’re lethal. around each other, they melt”

what else, i could literally talk about this movie all day.

the special effects have held up pretty well.the music score is GORGEOUS.the costumes are amazing.the makeup, especially for anck su namun, OH WOW.the george of the jungle era brendan fraser sign me the fuck up.rachel weisz.

so many good things.

it’s just great.

#i secretly rate every action movie from 0 to the mummy

it’s a beautiful mess of a movie that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and transcends time and posterity as the alpha mummy movie, and to those who disagree i beseech you:

Summary: In Boston, Henry Swan’s six-year-old brother Ian finds a book titled “Once Upon a Time” hidden beneath the seat in their mom’s old yellow bug. As soon as Henry touches it, he remembers.

Season 3 Canon Divergence-Emma finds out she’s pregnant a few weeks after she and Henry leave Storybrooke with new memories and new lives. Nearly seven years later, another Dark Curse puts her family in danger, and Emma must return to Storybrooke to help them.

A/N:   I can’t believe that, after over two years, this fic is ending. I just want to thank you all for reading and for the encouragement you’ve given me to keep writing. I’m grateful for your support, and I hope that you’ll join me for the next step in the journey, a mini-sequel and a sequel, coming soon!

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Epilogue

A month passes.

The mines are cleared, Neal’s blood scrubbed from the dirt, the salt circles erased, and the strange purple embers the Black Fairy left behind collected for study. Everyone wonders aloud how Neal escaped the cell—until David touches one of the bars and his hand comes away slick with squid ink.

“Shit,” Emma says. “Is that—did we give that to Neal?”

Meaning, when they made him touch squid ink to get him into the cell, did they stupidly give him the tool he needed to get out of the cell?

“He could have had his own,” David says, wiping his hand off on his jeans.

Emma shrugs. “I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.”

Neal’s dead. The whole thing was a fiasco, but it’s over.

MAKE ME CHOOSE:

Sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that the Karey Burke-led network is eyeing a potential second season of the action drama from Warner Bros. TV and showrunner Bill Lawrence. A determination on whether ABC will reverse its cancellation decision is expected to come by the end of this week.  

Shackled with a title Jimmy Kimmel mercilessly roasted at the 2018 upfronts, the action dramedy starring Scandal grad Scott Foley and The Walking Dead favorite Lauren Cohan more than doubled its 18-49 rating with a week of delayed viewing and has a similar profile to that of the renewed drama The Rookie. The series, from David Hemingson and Warner Bros. TV-based Lawrence, was among ABC’s top priorities as the network scheduled the rom-com-infused series in its prime post-Oscar slot as Burke looks to bring women back to the network. 

Helping ABC’s case is the fact that Wednesday’s season finale ticked up to a 0.7 in the all-important adults 18-49 demographic and 3.8 million total viewers — thanks in part to the strength of its lead-in, the live re-creation of Norman Lear’s The Jeffersons and All in the Family. Burke has said that the decision to cancel Whiskey Cavalier after one season was particularly “tough” — the series was ABC’s last bubble-show decision. “We thought we gave it a very strong launch [out of the Oscars] this spring, but we lost audience,” she told reporters on her upfronts press call. “We looked for other time slots, but did not see a real opportunity.”

Still, ABC picked up only six new series for the 2018-19 broadcast season — the fewest in years — and has room on its schedule for midseason, which could leave an opening for Whiskey Cavalier’s return. For his part, Warner Bros. TV’s Peter Roth singled out the Whiskey Cavalier cancellation as his hardest call to make this season and has said his studio won’t give up the fight for a second season. 

Cancellation reversals are not uncommon. NBC flipped the script on its Timeless cancellation and saw that show return for a subsequent season — and wrap-up movie — after producers Sony TV turned the series into a co-production. Last year, NBC revived Brooklyn Nine-Nine days after Fox’s decision to ax the Andy Samberg comedy. Helping matters on the Brooklyn Nine-Nine front was the fact that NBC’s studio sibling — Universal TV — owned the series. But a Whiskey Cavalier reversal would come as a big surprise, as it is rare to see the same network reverse its decision within a week. ABC has a couple of pilots still in contention for midseason — like NYPD Blue and Heart of Life — and should those not work out well, Whiskey Cavalier could be a good fit to ABC’s midseason roster.