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(The meaning of "R.R." is revealed below, so read on, True Deviants. Excelsior!)
Who is the proprietor of Val R.R. McJames' Mystifying Menagerie of Monkey-business?
Who, indeed, is Val R.R. McJames?
"Just an author writing solely to please my own tastes while hoping that others may enjoy coming along for the ride."
Other than that statement of purpose, there is no spoon! There is no "me." I'm not really here. Or at least I am not here to be myself. Essentially, I am here to Role Play as someone who pens prurient peril prose.
Et voila!
It took me about five months here to realize what I was doing. I want 100% anonymity on the Internet. I may admit my age, though only to shock you with my antiquity. But I am not here to be myself.
I am here to portray my author-self as the writer of the works I share, namely: Val R.R. McJames. Why the middle initials? Because of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin and the fact the letters stand for "Required Reading" at Starfleet Academy, proposing an extravagantly optimistic view of the longevity of my work. Hehehe.
Val R.R. McJames is my fictional characterization of my author-self as a person who has grand adventures and serves as the den mother to an ever-growing stable of young superheroines who live in her home at stately McJames Manor.
The name "Val" is gender neutral, but the character Val R.R. McJames is female. She is just a bit older than her charges, perhaps 28-32 years old. She has those crucial few years of experience that make her a little wiser than the girls under her care, who tend to be more like 18-22 years old. Think of Gal Godot or Christian Serratos or some similarly attractive, dark-haired actress as playing the part of Val R.R. McJames.
Don't try to see the real me, but treat this account as being run by the person who shares comments "in-character" under other people's Deviations. Just as FightGirl or YCBatgirl will reply to comments in-character, so do I intend to reply in-character as my author-self and as her characters.
I know this won't make a lot of sense to some people, but I am hoping for a little bit of understanding. I want my Real Life to be completely separate from my edgy online presence. No one in my Real Life knows about my sassy side, and I intend to keep it that way. I've seen people close their accounts here due to privacy breaches, and I am determined this is NOT going to happen to me.
The persona of Val R.R. McJames is primarily a writer, but she also indulges in Role Playing in Second Life. She will post her stories and some snapshots of her adventures in Second Life. She is also trying to learn to use 3-D image-creation software.
There may not be a lot of separation between Val R.R. McJames and my Real Life self, but Val will be younger and sexier and braver than I am. She will experience the excitement that I can only wish I had known firsthand in my younger days.
Come and get to know Val R.R. McJames. Come along for the ride on her adventures and enjoy the exploits of the heroines in her tales. More than anything else, just have fun visiting Val R.R. McJames' Mystifying Menagerie of Monkey-business.
Hurrah and Huzzah!
Who is the proprietor of Val R.R. McJames' Mystifying Menagerie of Monkey-business?
Who, indeed, is Val R.R. McJames?
"Just an author writing solely to please my own tastes while hoping that others may enjoy coming along for the ride."
Other than that statement of purpose, there is no spoon! There is no "me." I'm not really here. Or at least I am not here to be myself. Essentially, I am here to Role Play as someone who pens prurient peril prose.
Et voila!
It took me about five months here to realize what I was doing. I want 100% anonymity on the Internet. I may admit my age, though only to shock you with my antiquity. But I am not here to be myself.
I am here to portray my author-self as the writer of the works I share, namely: Val R.R. McJames. Why the middle initials? Because of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin and the fact the letters stand for "Required Reading" at Starfleet Academy, proposing an extravagantly optimistic view of the longevity of my work. Hehehe.
Val R.R. McJames is my fictional characterization of my author-self as a person who has grand adventures and serves as the den mother to an ever-growing stable of young superheroines who live in her home at stately McJames Manor.
The name "Val" is gender neutral, but the character Val R.R. McJames is female. She is just a bit older than her charges, perhaps 28-32 years old. She has those crucial few years of experience that make her a little wiser than the girls under her care, who tend to be more like 18-22 years old. Think of Gal Godot or Christian Serratos or some similarly attractive, dark-haired actress as playing the part of Val R.R. McJames.
Don't try to see the real me, but treat this account as being run by the person who shares comments "in-character" under other people's Deviations. Just as FightGirl or YCBatgirl will reply to comments in-character, so do I intend to reply in-character as my author-self and as her characters.
I know this won't make a lot of sense to some people, but I am hoping for a little bit of understanding. I want my Real Life to be completely separate from my edgy online presence. No one in my Real Life knows about my sassy side, and I intend to keep it that way. I've seen people close their accounts here due to privacy breaches, and I am determined this is NOT going to happen to me.
The persona of Val R.R. McJames is primarily a writer, but she also indulges in Role Playing in Second Life. She will post her stories and some snapshots of her adventures in Second Life. She is also trying to learn to use 3-D image-creation software.
There may not be a lot of separation between Val R.R. McJames and my Real Life self, but Val will be younger and sexier and braver than I am. She will experience the excitement that I can only wish I had known firsthand in my younger days.
Come and get to know Val R.R. McJames. Come along for the ride on her adventures and enjoy the exploits of the heroines in her tales. More than anything else, just have fun visiting Val R.R. McJames' Mystifying Menagerie of Monkey-business.
Hurrah and Huzzah!
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The title of a Forbes.com article by Scott Mendelson says it with even more certainty, "Box Office: 'Wonder Woman' Is Now Sure To Be Summer's Biggest Hit."
www.forbes.com/sites/scottmend…
Mendelson leads off with:
"Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.'s Wonder Woman earned another $6.885 million in its seventh weekend of release, dropping just 30% despite losing another 347 theaters. That brings the $150 million superhero movie's domestic total to $380.686m in 45 days. That puts it around $6m behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($386.5m as of today) so it should pass the Walt Disney/Marvel sci-fi sequel by the end of next week (or soon after) to become the summer's biggest domestic grosser."
He also mentions how Wonder Woman's domestic gross compares to some top-grossing hits of the past:
"At $380.7 million, it is pennies away from passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($381m in 2011) to become Warner Bros.' third-biggest domestic grosser ever, behind only The Dark Knight Rises ($448m in 2012 and sans 3D) and The Dark Knight ($534m in 2008 and sans 3D). When that happens, it will also be the biggest 3D movie ever in North America not released by Universal or Walt Disney since 20th Century Fox's Avatar back in 2009. It's already the biggest domestic grosser of any movie not released by Universal or Disney since Lionsgate's Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($424m in late 2013)."
And finally, he addresses worldwide grosses:
"In terms of worldwide grosses, Wonder Woman has now earned $764.9 million global (it earned $3.3m overseas this weekend), putting it within striking distance of Guardians of the Galaxy ($773m in 2014), Deadpool ($783m with an R-rating, sans 3D and without China) and Spider-Man 2 ($784m in 2004). It has already passed the likes of Amazing Spider-Man ($757m in 2012) and Maleficent ($758m in 2014). Again, $800 million worldwide isn't a guarantee, but if it catches fire in Japan on August 25th, well, that becomes more plausible every week."
Et voila! Wonder Woman is leaving her mark on the world and is going to be the one to thank for all the other superheroine movies that will be given the green light because Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, left her home, took all the fire, and, in the name of all that is good in the world, proved superheroine movies could be so much more than anyone except Patty Jenkins believed they could be.
Hurrah and Huzzah!
www.forbes.com/sites/scottmend…
Mendelson leads off with:
"Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.'s Wonder Woman earned another $6.885 million in its seventh weekend of release, dropping just 30% despite losing another 347 theaters. That brings the $150 million superhero movie's domestic total to $380.686m in 45 days. That puts it around $6m behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($386.5m as of today) so it should pass the Walt Disney/Marvel sci-fi sequel by the end of next week (or soon after) to become the summer's biggest domestic grosser."
He also mentions how Wonder Woman's domestic gross compares to some top-grossing hits of the past:
"At $380.7 million, it is pennies away from passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($381m in 2011) to become Warner Bros.' third-biggest domestic grosser ever, behind only The Dark Knight Rises ($448m in 2012 and sans 3D) and The Dark Knight ($534m in 2008 and sans 3D). When that happens, it will also be the biggest 3D movie ever in North America not released by Universal or Walt Disney since 20th Century Fox's Avatar back in 2009. It's already the biggest domestic grosser of any movie not released by Universal or Disney since Lionsgate's Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($424m in late 2013)."
And finally, he addresses worldwide grosses:
"In terms of worldwide grosses, Wonder Woman has now earned $764.9 million global (it earned $3.3m overseas this weekend), putting it within striking distance of Guardians of the Galaxy ($773m in 2014), Deadpool ($783m with an R-rating, sans 3D and without China) and Spider-Man 2 ($784m in 2004). It has already passed the likes of Amazing Spider-Man ($757m in 2012) and Maleficent ($758m in 2014). Again, $800 million worldwide isn't a guarantee, but if it catches fire in Japan on August 25th, well, that becomes more plausible every week."
Et voila! Wonder Woman is leaving her mark on the world and is going to be the one to thank for all the other superheroine movies that will be given the green light because Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, left her home, took all the fire, and, in the name of all that is good in the world, proved superheroine movies could be so much more than anyone except Patty Jenkins believed they could be.
Hurrah and Huzzah!
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Please read this article by Mark Hughes at Forbes.com: 'Wonder Woman' Shatters Records With $200+ Million Worldwide Opening
www.forbes.com/sites/markhughe…
So, naysayers, Wonder Woman won't change the world, eh? Newsflash: She already has! If you want more superheroine movies to ever be made, then you are going to have to thank Wonder Woman. Why? Because she is the reason that profit-seeking studios are going to green-light more female-character-based films. They all want a piece of that $200-plus million action.
Say it with me: "Thank you, Wonder Woman!"
After letting the title of the Forbes article mentioned above sink in, consider these quotes from the article:
"Patty Jenkins is having the biggest opening weekend for a female director in cinema history."
"Wonder Woman is now tied with The Dark Knight and Iron Man as the best-reviewed superhero films in history."
NOT change the world? It all depends on how you define "change." Will it be change on a larger scale or on a smaller scale? One movie can not end world hunger and bring about world peace. But one movie can change the hearts of viewers who finally have someone to embody a hero for them they can relate to, and change the hearts of children who will grow up to make the superhero movies of the future. Hell, this one movie helped change my heart that could otherwise give up and chuck it all because of life's nasty, nagging, lasting tortures.
No, nobody gets pay raises because of movies, but people get their hearts raised above the pain and crap they have to deal with in their everyday lives. Is there no power in myth and legend and imagination? Somewhere out there is a kid who will someday direct future superhero movies who will mention Wonder Woman as an influence, much like Patty Jenkins referred back to Christopher Reeves' Superman as influencing her. Perhaps Superman is not even as good as Wonder Woman, but it did change the world when it changed Patty and helped her bring us our first great superheroine movie by a great female director with a great female lead. (NOTE: "Great" does NOT mean "Perfect.")
Change the very fabric of society overnight, NO. Change people a little bit at a time to rise above what society constrains them to be, YES.
But DeviantArt is big enough for people to hold differing points of view. To each their own. To those who did not enjoy Wonder Woman I say, fair enough. But I did, and a record-setting number of other people agree with me.
*smiles*
www.forbes.com/sites/markhughe…
So, naysayers, Wonder Woman won't change the world, eh? Newsflash: She already has! If you want more superheroine movies to ever be made, then you are going to have to thank Wonder Woman. Why? Because she is the reason that profit-seeking studios are going to green-light more female-character-based films. They all want a piece of that $200-plus million action.
Say it with me: "Thank you, Wonder Woman!"
After letting the title of the Forbes article mentioned above sink in, consider these quotes from the article:
"Patty Jenkins is having the biggest opening weekend for a female director in cinema history."
"Wonder Woman is now tied with The Dark Knight and Iron Man as the best-reviewed superhero films in history."
NOT change the world? It all depends on how you define "change." Will it be change on a larger scale or on a smaller scale? One movie can not end world hunger and bring about world peace. But one movie can change the hearts of viewers who finally have someone to embody a hero for them they can relate to, and change the hearts of children who will grow up to make the superhero movies of the future. Hell, this one movie helped change my heart that could otherwise give up and chuck it all because of life's nasty, nagging, lasting tortures.
No, nobody gets pay raises because of movies, but people get their hearts raised above the pain and crap they have to deal with in their everyday lives. Is there no power in myth and legend and imagination? Somewhere out there is a kid who will someday direct future superhero movies who will mention Wonder Woman as an influence, much like Patty Jenkins referred back to Christopher Reeves' Superman as influencing her. Perhaps Superman is not even as good as Wonder Woman, but it did change the world when it changed Patty and helped her bring us our first great superheroine movie by a great female director with a great female lead. (NOTE: "Great" does NOT mean "Perfect.")
Change the very fabric of society overnight, NO. Change people a little bit at a time to rise above what society constrains them to be, YES.
But DeviantArt is big enough for people to hold differing points of view. To each their own. To those who did not enjoy Wonder Woman I say, fair enough. But I did, and a record-setting number of other people agree with me.
*smiles*
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Wonder Woman ... 'Nuff Said!
2 min read
Fellow True Deviants:
I'm so glad to be hearing from some of you, my fellow Deviants, that I am not the only one who has been waiting for Wonder Woman my whole life long. Together with seeing the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the big screen and Captain America and Joss Whedon's Serenity and the triumphant return of Star Wars, all my dream movies are about to be complete except for Batgirl, Black Widow, and a good Jungle Girl movie.
Ooo, let me share links to get all fired up for Wonder Woman.
How about Conan O'Brien with Gal Gadot showing off her high kicks and butt-kicking fight skills? Try YouTube or Vimeo as follows:
Conan on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jn8Ji…
Conan on Vimeo: vimeo.com/219192220
Spoiler-Free reviews
Emergency Awesome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KMbrW…
Jeremy Jahns: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-rYX…
Chris Stuckman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZIRi…
The Movie Couple: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB3VY6…
Just some stuff to get us fired up. The buzz is that this is about as close to the movie we have been waiting for as we could realistically expect.
Don't miss it, True Deviants! Excelsior!
*smiles*
I'm so glad to be hearing from some of you, my fellow Deviants, that I am not the only one who has been waiting for Wonder Woman my whole life long. Together with seeing the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the big screen and Captain America and Joss Whedon's Serenity and the triumphant return of Star Wars, all my dream movies are about to be complete except for Batgirl, Black Widow, and a good Jungle Girl movie.
Ooo, let me share links to get all fired up for Wonder Woman.
How about Conan O'Brien with Gal Gadot showing off her high kicks and butt-kicking fight skills? Try YouTube or Vimeo as follows:
Conan on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jn8Ji…
Conan on Vimeo: vimeo.com/219192220
Spoiler-Free reviews
Emergency Awesome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KMbrW…
Jeremy Jahns: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-rYX…
Chris Stuckman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZIRi…
The Movie Couple: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB3VY6…
Just some stuff to get us fired up. The buzz is that this is about as close to the movie we have been waiting for as we could realistically expect.
Don't miss it, True Deviants! Excelsior!
*smiles*
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See the Hero ... Be the Hero!
2 min read
I'm starting to look at everyone in real life as superheroes, or the secret identity of a superhero. I think we all face enough pain in life that just making it through to another day can be the act of purest heroism. Ever since coming here, I've started to see heroes and heroines all around me, and I love it.
My fundamental perspective on life is changing thanks to everyone here, even if it is strangely happening because of seeing so many heroes and heroines in fantasy peril. My Two Steps From Hell music is becoming the soundtrack of my life!
Say hello to a stranger? Maybe they say nothing back and you are left only knowing that you made the effort, but you DID make the effort. You showed courage.
Give someone a compliment? Maybe they are so wrapped up in their low self-image that they can't even say thank you, but you expressed a sincere thought. You showed kindness.
Get out of bed when all you want to do is pull the covers over your head? Maybe today won't be the best day of your life, but it will be one day closer to the next "best day" of your life. You showed perseverance.
Take that medical prognosis or job change or passing of a loved one and shed your tears, then take heart and live each day as if it is a gift you can only unwrap once, and you want to experience every breath you take, especially while you can share that breath with those you care about. You showed heroism!
Do not for one second doubt it, we are -- all of us -- the hero or heroine of our own life story.
Let us all see and appreciate the hero in others.
Live Heroic!
Be the Hero!
My fundamental perspective on life is changing thanks to everyone here, even if it is strangely happening because of seeing so many heroes and heroines in fantasy peril. My Two Steps From Hell music is becoming the soundtrack of my life!
Say hello to a stranger? Maybe they say nothing back and you are left only knowing that you made the effort, but you DID make the effort. You showed courage.
Give someone a compliment? Maybe they are so wrapped up in their low self-image that they can't even say thank you, but you expressed a sincere thought. You showed kindness.
Get out of bed when all you want to do is pull the covers over your head? Maybe today won't be the best day of your life, but it will be one day closer to the next "best day" of your life. You showed perseverance.
Take that medical prognosis or job change or passing of a loved one and shed your tears, then take heart and live each day as if it is a gift you can only unwrap once, and you want to experience every breath you take, especially while you can share that breath with those you care about. You showed heroism!
Do not for one second doubt it, we are -- all of us -- the hero or heroine of our own life story.
Let us all see and appreciate the hero in others.
Live Heroic!
Be the Hero!
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