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  • Feb. 24th, 2009 at 9:03 PM
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1) Go here to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 100.
2) Then I will answer the corresponding questions from here.

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Nov. 17th, 2008

  • 12:54 AM
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A Duet for [info]paradisa

  • Nov. 14th, 2008 at 11:02 AM
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There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
If I just listened to it
Right outside the window

There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were
Drying up forever


I finished crying in the instant that you left
And I can't remember where or when or how
And I banished every memory you and I had ever made


But when you touch me like this )
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  • Nov. 12th, 2008 at 10:39 AM
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Episode Guide - Reference

  • Nov. 10th, 2008 at 6:24 PM
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Episode 1

Local entrepreneur Ripley Holden, a brash, charismatic family man, holds a lavish opening for his new showpiece arcade in his beloved home town of Blackpool. However, his fortunes take a turn for the worse when he discovers the dead body of a young man on the premises. Keen to get the case cleared up, Ripley co-operates with the investigating police officer, DI Peter Carlisle. But Carlisle takes a dislike to Ripley, which makes him all the more determined to prove the businessman is the culprit. Family problems add to Ripley's headache; his young son, Danny, is seemingly hiding something and his 20-year-old daughter, Shyanne, brings home an unsuitable new boyfriend - a man Ripley was at school with. Ripley instructs Shyanne's boyfriend to end the relationship. Shyanne is left heartbroken. Meanwhile, Carlisle takes a shine to Natalie, Ripley's wife.

Episode 2

The murder investigation begins to make Ripley's life very difficult. The murder victim is identified as a young man who'd been out on his stag night. The investigation starts to threaten Ripley's business when Carlisle temporarily closes down the arcade for forensics. DI Carlisle calls Ripley's son, Danny, in for questioning; he's convinced that Danny knows more about the inquiry than he is letting on. Carlisle suspects he might be covering for his father. When a huge tax bill surfaces and puts pressure on Ripley's finances, his friends Terry, Jim and Adrian, who have invested in the arcade, start to get twitchy. Meanwhile, Natalie agrees to go on a date with Carlisle – unaware that he is investigating the murder. And Shyanne's love life takes a turn for the better when she's reunited with Steve, who'd earlier been warned to stay away from her by Ripley.

Episode 3

Forensic evidence links Ripley ever more closely to the murder, and his application for planning permission is rejected. It seems Lady Luck has turned against him and his world is falling apart. Natalie discovers that Carlisle is a police officer, and that he has been investigating her family. She is devastated; the little time they've spent together has made her feel more alive than she has felt in years. Shyanne's boyfriend, Steve, is badly beaten up. She's convinced that her father is behind the attack, but he denies any involvement. Danny starts to crack under pressure, and ends up getting himself into even more trouble. He's set up in a drugs bust, but Carlisle just gives him a ticking off. What Carlisle really wants is evidence that Ripley committed the murder. Danny, though, shocks him by turning up to the police station and confessing to the murder himself.

Episode 4

Carlisle doesn't believe Danny's confession to the murder. He's convinced that Danny is covering up for his father, Ripley. Natalie confronts Carlisle and warns him to stay away from her, and her family. Heartbroken, Carlisle sets out with a renewed determination to nail Ripley, his love rival. Ripley visits Steve in hospital and offers him a large sum of money to leave Shyanne alone. Steve takes the money but uses his windfall to stretch Ripley's patience by spending it on Shyanne. With his showpiece arcade sinking deeper into trouble, Ripley is forced to drop everything and take drastic measures when Danny, traumatised by recent events, reaches breaking-point. He finds Danny lying on a train track, in a suicide bid similar to the one Ripley himself tried as a teenager. Danny admits that he moved the murdered body from Ripley's flats into the casino. Ripley goes to Carlisle and claims he was the one who moved the body...

Episode 5

Natalie provides Ripley with a watertight alibi for the night of the murder. Carlisle knows she's lying, but there's nothing he can do about it. Meanwhile, Ripley's business is falling down around his ears. Marr, Ripley's friend and trusted financial advisor, reveals his true colours with a mean trick he's had up his sleeves. Ripley isn't prepared to go down easily, but events spiral even further out of control as he struggles to hang on to what little he has left. Ripley's friend Terry also confesses that he's been informing the police about Ripley's activities on the night of the murder. Carlisle temporarily succeeds in winning back Natalie, but she gets cold feet once again and goes to his hotel to end the affair. Carlisle claims that he never loved her, he just wanted to get to Ripley. Meanwhile, Ripley susses that Carlisle and Natalie have been having an affair...

Episode 6

Against the backdrop of a Blackpool society wedding, the final strands of Ripley's life completely unravel. On the morning of Shyanne and Steve's wedding, Ripley finally tells Natalie that he knows about her affair with Carlisle. But is their marriage over for good? Carlisle turns up at the ceremony to arrest Ripley for murder - but Ripley confronts him over the small matter of his compromising affair with the suspect's wife! Besides, Ripley is not prepared to go down for a murder he did not commit. Ripley sets out to do right by his family, while clinging on to his lifelong dream of joining the big players. On a day of revelations Ripley discovers first that his son Danny is gay, then that the teenager was responsible for the murder, albeit in self defence. Knowing that it's Carlisle who Natalie really loves, Ripley allows his wife and the detective to get together. In return no charges are made against Ripley for the murder. Ripley hands over the casino to Danny, who's also in the clear regarding the murder, then leaves behind his life in Blackpool for the real Vegas.
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Nov. 9th, 2008

  • 8:49 PM
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CHARACTER NAME: Natalie Holden
FANDOM: Blackpool
CANON: Mid-affair with Peter Carlisle, before she found out he was a Police Detective.
WHAT THEY LOST: The memory of her children, Shyanne and Danny.

PERSONALITY:

Natalie is the wife of a successful business man Ripley Holden, an arcade owner in Blackpool. She married young, and has spent all her life putting others first; her husband, her two now grown-up children, and even her voluntary work as a Samaritan. Until Peter Carlisle shows up investigating a murder at her husband's arcade. Unbeknownst to Natalie, the chief DI on the case is the same man that sweeps her off her feet and offers her the excitement of an affair, and what a relationship really should be like, when people actually love and adore each other. It was love at first sight, certainly on his part, and on hers too, though she fights it. He tells her things her husband never did, and makes her feel desirable and loved and cherished. Initially her straight laced nature refuses to be swayed by this man who won't take no for an answer, until impulse grabs her and she dives head-first into an affair that will change her life forever. When Carlisle asks her to run away with him, she says yes, caught up in the moment, the clarity of nothing else mattering in their cocoon, making her decision easy. Later though, she renages on the decision; unable to actually go through with it. The safe, predictable, easy life where she feels she should belong, and the need to chase away any indecision and the idea of chasing any selfish need, too wildly different to who she is and always has been. She continues her life with her husband, pretending that everything's okay, for the good of her family, like all good wives and mothers do.

THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:

The feelings of euphoria and living in a tiny private bubble with Peter had been well and truly burst. Time restraints necessitated that, she was expected home. Back to reality. No longer could she pretend that the rest of the world didn't exist. Even as Peter kissed her goodbye. That long lingering kiss at the door to his hotel room, the one that three times had dragged her back into the room, pushing off his wandering hands as she'd tried to gain some kind of composure for the drive home. Those sobering thoughts of the real world were creeping in and killing any pleasure she'd gleaned from her naked afternoon.

She drove home in an odd, middle-ground state. Half dreaming of how it could be, and when they'd next meet and how she missed him already; even with the taste of his kiss on her lips still. And half killing herself with guilt that she was going back home to lie. To toss new potatoes in butter, and salad in vinaigrette, and listen to the inane drivel of a man so self obsessed that he wouldn't notice she'd done her hair differently, or even notice she was wearing new underwear when she undressed later that evening.

And when she lay there, staring at Ripley's back in their bed, she thought of nothing but his back, a back that she would gladly kiss, shoulder blades that were just begging to be nibbled before they would roll in heated passion and seize the moment for their love.

FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:

He doesn't even remember me. I've risked my entire marriage, guiltily skirted on the edge of discovery, for what? For a man who's struggling to even know my name. Yet, those eyes, so piercing still, like they can see right inside me and they know I'm not happy, and I've been waiting, waiting all my life for him to arrive.
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