#max franklin

[phoebehalliwell]

billie was born in 1986, max was born in 1988, tyler was born in 1990, so, like, reasonably

they could all be hanging out together

[paigemathews]

Okay, so Charmed had like four different potential spin-off plans/ideas and none of them really worked out obviously, but I was kind of just going through all of the episodes for ideas of what some of the supporting casts could have looked like (I’m gonna post it eventually, but I gotta organize it first) and just, hear me out:

Either Billie Jenkins or Hope from Little Box of Horrors is our main character. Both of them have very different personalities and appeals as main characters, so it kind of spins out differently depending on which is the main-main character.

Either way, they’re both in the main cast. With Hope being there, Darcy is also involved and remarkably level-headed about it. She’s still a mortal, but is often the one hearing about the gossip going around. As a result, she’s often the one who knows about innocents in trouble and when something suspiciously magical is going on.

Speed from Battle of the Hexes, who doesn’t know about magic initially, continually gets involved trying to help the innocent of the week and ends up in the trouble bit. He is so sarcastic, but he’s also ride or die for his friends. Once he discovers magic, he ends up encouraging the group to experiment with their powers, which causes a few chaotic episodes but he’s still a good friend.

Max Franklin from Secret and Guys is probably the most skilled at using his powers, but is also the most leery about getting involved in demonic or dangerous situations due to his father getting shot last time. He’s the voice of reason a lot of the time, but also is drawn to helping people anyways.

Aviva from the Fourth Sister is the tired goth grad student that ends up reluctantly mentoring them so that they don’t end up dead. She doesn’t have any active powers, but she’s still a practitioner. (Except where she ends up getting premonitions, whoops.)

They get a Whitelighter too! Eventually, at least. It’s either J.D. Williams or Mikelle, who was originally an innocent. Either way, someone ends up in a forbidden love relationship with the Whitelighter.

There are also some familiar reoccurring characters.

Kyle Gwydion is one of their TA’s. No, none of them knew about each other originally either. He doesn’t have really any kind of magical knowledge, but turns out that being the Chosen One applies to more than just Tuatha’s wand and helps out occasionally. He either is or did date Jenny Gordon, but idk if she’d be a reoccurring character or not since she didn’t really have a personality.

Y’know how I said, Speed finds out about magic eventually? Yeah, it’s not really a “we should probably tell you” thing. It’s more of a freak out way. And y’know what, Speed isn’t Catholic but his momma is so off he goes to a confessional because his friends?? Use magic?? Which isn’t that evil? Well, says a former warlock-current priest, magic helped save him from becoming evil, so now Brendan Rowe gets to help out with his unfortunately very in-depth and thorough knowledge of evil, demons, and the Underworld.

Needless to say, the Elders aren’t actually just letting a newbie Whitelighter be the only one looking after: half of the Ultimate Power, the Guardian of Pandora’s Box, a weirdly accepting mortal, a future whitelighter, a witch, a practitioner that did get involved with demons, and the Chosen One. And y’know what, there’s an Elder-who-used-to-be-a-witch that’s around their age, so Kevin from Witches in Tights doesn’t get involved but keeps an eye on them and on super rare occasions, will sketch out something to help them when they’re in a pinch. Jonnah (from season eight) isn’t very impressed, but is also watching them with Kevin and has to admit that they’re not dead yet, so someone’s doing something right.

Wow, Abi, you may ask. Can you shamelessly add any other oneshot characters from Charmed into this?

I’m so happy you asked, because Billie eventually finds Christy and the squad is all crowded in Aviva’s living room and Christy freaks out and now Aviva’s trash can is on fire.

Aviva sighs and calls Tyler Michaels.

[lostatseattle]

@ofseattles​  closed starter / max + franklin

a week had passed since their encounter in the copy room and max had only become marginally better at her job. if she was being entirely honest with herself, she was surprised she hadn't been fired yet. every time she contemplated quitting it all came back around to the fact she sort of had to be there. and she'd rather not sulk around her sister's house all day and have lectures thrown at her about responsibility like she was fifteen again.

in lieu of her bland reply to his ever so thoughtful gift, she had started to tuck notes into franklin's paperwork. they weren't exactly poetic masterpieces, mostly just stupid things to make him squirm if he read them or thought about him at the wrong time. on this occasion, she was needed in his office. she closed the door behind her. "you wanted to see me, sir?" there wasn't an ounce of respect on his name.

[tvshows941]

Since it’s Black History Month I decided to honor each day by paying tribute to black witches in TV & Films.

February 5th

Name: Max Franklin

TV/Film: Charmed (1998)

Portrayed By: David Netter

Powers & Abilities: Psychokensis, Mediumship, Scrying, Spellcasting

Max Franklin was a character that appeared in the 1998 series Charmed and in the charmed comic book series. Max Inherited his powers from his deceased mother. Because he possessed a rare power such as psychokensis, the ability to move things with his mind that he can’t see, he was kidnapped and forced to use his powers to do illegal things. He is the first male witch to be shown in charmed.

[seattlemysterybooks]

flickr

pen name of Richard Deming

1954 Rinehart hardcover

1954 Mercury reissue, abridged

cover art by Dick Shelton

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[mtnm-pca-blog]

Silent Statement

The information age has brought about societal, technological, scientific and environmental changes in where the we have opened up the democratisation of communication and information gathering. People are able to publicly share information globally almost instantly and without the need for specialised technologies or training. However because of these advances, the sheer volume of information often hinders its effectiveness to truly communicate with people. Cries for help, messages of support, heartfelt messages of unity and love, are lost in the vortex of information that we inhabit.

During times of crisis these avenues for communication are at their most active. Social media explodes with messages, anecdotes, photos and videos. Systems to both help and hinder are empowered by their users in so doing, planting our interactions into the aether.  

To understand the amount of information that is shared is akin to understanding how many galaxies there are in the universe or how many grains of sand there is on a beach. One can never truly grasp that information despite it being communicated to us in simple terms.

In Silent Statement we represent a portion of the messages posted by people in Paris on the night of the terrorist attacks on the 13th of November. The messages go unheard, untouched, and unseen even by the trained eye. The exploding of these messages, overlaying each other trying to be seen, render the text illegible while visually the weight of support is immediately evident.