#Andy Robinson the man you are

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Came across a first edition of A Stitch in Time today

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Elim "Voracious Sexual Appetite" Garak

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Reece Shearsmith Vs. Alexander Siddig

Propaganda

Reece Shearsmith - (The League Of Gentlemen (seasons 1-3), tlc) - "...he has the LONGEST eyelashes in the entire world and the BLUEST eyes and I am really enamoured by the lil scar on his cheek that he got from an accident when he was a kid!" Full text propaganda below the cut.

Alexander Siddig - (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The very first actor I ever had a crush on.

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Reece Shearsmith:

I'd highly recommend people checking out him as Matthew Parker in one of the stories in the League's Christmas episode, the 70's style outfit and blonde wig suit him SO well. picture here:

Ok so given that many of the characters he plays in The League Of Gentlemen are purposefully made to be kinda grotesque and yet he STILL manages to look cute most of the time??? There's also not many actors I'm willing to check out basically their entire filmography for, but not only is he such a brilliant comedic character actor, he has a great knack for making you sympathise with some of the most bizarre and sometimes down right terrifying characters! (and yes I'm also watching everything he's been in because he's hot, sue me) He was also in a kinda weird comedy series called 'tlc' where he played a very hapless and cute doctor but it's so hard to find pictures of him in this since it only ran for 1 series and there's like 300 other bits of media called 'tlc' :( & also as Ross Gaines specifically in that one scene wear he's wearing a dressing gown. (ignore the scene that comes directly after this picture though lol... iykyk...) picture here:

Ok and final remarks: he has the LONGEST eyelashes in the entire world and the BLUEST eyes and I am really enamoured by the lil scar on his cheek that he got from an accident when he was a kid!

Also may i direct all sapphic's attention to the majesty that is him as Judee Levinson... you're welcome <3 picture here:

Alexander Siddig:

"At my first meeting with Garak I became visibly flustered. That was entirely my choice. It wasn’t written into the script. So I set off in that direction right from the get-go. And Andy (Andrew Robinson) obviously loved it, and that character became a series-long character because of that first scene. It’s an innocuous little scene on one of the little replimats on the station, and it only lasted like five seconds but it packed a punch because of the visible, kind of a charged, discomfort. That really made it. [...] I subconsciously keep that door open with just about every character that I play, and I always keep it as ambiguous as possible. One of my first roles was in [the TV movie] A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia with Ralph Fiennes and I played Feisal and again, not in the script, but that was charged with homoerotica and implied homosexuality. I’d just come fresh off that project. And I’ve done it numerous times since, characters that are written straight I just make sure are not quite straight. That’s just one of my things, probably because I’m not quite straight myself and that’s probably perfect." - Alexander Siddig in a recent interview with comicsbeat.com

[last-of-the-independents]

Hi guys! I'm sorry for my too long absence today but I was very busy: I did a new video, dedicated to Andy, on his holy Birthday, my gosh! I'm so happy just because this man exists in the world! Congratulations to all of us for this amazing circumstance! Love you all and hugs! Happy Andy day !❤

My Andy Robinson tribute on his Birthday

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oops (mostly) all terror character playlists master list

Inspired by the on-going davechella event, I am having an unfiltered fun time making terror character playlists. Is my aim to do "them all"? Sure, idk what that means but I think it's fun to see how far I'll go. I have 30 playlists as of right now, most of those unfinished. Below I will be listing every playlist finished and available for public enjoyment. Each batch post will be its own thing & then I will be adding each link here too.

Click below for the following terror characters: Magnus Manson, Charles Des Voeux, John Morfin, Thomas Jopson, Henry Goodsir, Alexander McDonald, Stephen Stanley, John Peddie,Edward Little, John Irving, George Hodgson, Graham Gore, Henry Le Vesconte, James Fairholme, Solomon Tozer, Private Heather, David Bryant, William Pilkington, William Braine, John Hammond, Robert Hopcraft, Henry Wilkes, William Reed, James Daly, Joseph Healey, & William Hedges

Recently Added: Hickey, Diggle, Wall, Armitage, Golding, Thompson

Magnus Manson (link):

Underwhelmed by Grumpster || Sick Sad World by Nervus || Am I Dead yet? by Cayetana || Child-Heart Losers by Sunset Rubdown, Spencer King || Don't Wake the Ghost by Don't Stop or We'll Die || Rip Off- 2003 Remaster by T. Re || The High Road by Broken Bells || Oh Actually by 1 Trait Danger || Freaks by Surf Curse || Train by 4 Non Blondes || I Am Called the Black Sheep by Palodine || Every Day's A Lesson In Humility by Suki Waterhouse, Belle and Sebastian || The Masks by Death || Shine a Light by Wolf Parade || While I'm Alive by STRFKR || Seeger's Theme- Demo by The Monkees || Healthier Folk by Palehound || You Suck by Small Crush || going thru it by Teamonade || Sea Ghost by The Unicorns

Charles Des Voeux (link):

Bouquet de cigarettes by ZOMBIE-CHANG || Sailor in a Life Boat by EURINGER, Gerard Way || Sugar Town by Shitkid || All Choked Up by BRONCHO || RIDE IT by LustSickPuppy || YUM by Sam Quealy || Where Did I Go? by Shelf Lives || dumb bitch by cumgirl8 || Vanished by Crystal Castles || I FEEL LIKE SHIT by Lynks || The The Empty by Le Tigre || Violet by Hole || Nothing Clever, Just Feelings by CLT DRP || Dead Disco by Metric || Art Star by Yeah Yeah Yeahs || Two Good Things by Modern Baseball || Point Of Extinction by Motion City Soundtrack || White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane || Fall In Love With Me by Iggy Pop

John Morfin (link):

Hair of the Dog by Tele Novella || Flash Delirium by MGMT || I'm Toast by Sparks || Once I Was by Tim Buckley || Think About Your Troubles by Harry Nilsson || When Smokey Sings by ABC || As We Go Up, We Go Down by Guided by Voices || Change by Big Thief || A Means to an End- 2020 Digital Remaster by Joy Division || Nothing Remains by Jon Smith's Voyages || Curtains!? by Timber Timbre || Fear Is A Man's Best Friend by John Cale || Oceans by Frank Iero || Primrose by The Essex Green || I Wanna Be Free- Original Stereo Version, 2006 Remaster by The Monkees || Faces Lit by Chad VanGaalen || Glad to Be Gay by Tom Robinson Band || Don't Bury Me by Tanya Davis || Space Dementia by Muse || morning star by gjallarhornit, gezebelle gaburgably

Edward Little [LINK]

пачка сигарет by Kino || Angel by Massive Attack, Horace Andy || Tom's Diner by Vega, DNA || Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell || She's Lost Control by Joy Division || Cherry Came Too by Jesus and the Mary Chain || Don't Know Why by Slowdive || A Forest by The Cure, Mark Saunders || Ana by Pixies || Deep Water by Strawberry Switchblade || My Evil by Palehound || Deep Water by Vundabar || Ghost by Neutral Milk Hotel || Under Ice- 2018 Remastered by Kate Bush || The River Song by Donovan || Sea, Swallow Me- 2024 Remastered by Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd || Static Shape by Chad VanGaalen || There Is a Light That Never Goes Out- 2011 Remaster by The Smiths || Tibetan Pop Stars by Hop Along || Tainted Love by Soft Cell

John Irving [LINK]

Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain || Losing My Religion by Hootie & The Blowfish || Little Big Mistakes by Tom Rosenthal || God Only Knows by The Langley Schools Music Project || Goodnight Bad Morning by The Kills || Everyman Needs a Companion by Father John Misty || Oh Holy Night by Andrew Bird || Troubled Waters by Cat Power || Divine Loser by Clem Turner || Monkey Gone To Heaven by Pixies || Dissonance- Demo by AJJ || O Come O Come Emmanuel by Sufjan Stevens || Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam by The Vaselines || This Night Has Opened My Eyes- 2011 Remaster by The Smiths || First Love / Late Spring by Mitski || Don't Get Lost in Heaven by Gorillaz || Knife Going In- Demo by Tegan and Sara || Your Silent Face - 2015 Remaster by New Order || Picture Of My Dress by The Mountain Goats || Unfucktheworld by Angel Olsen

George Hodgson [LINK]

Shangri-La by Electric Light Orchestra || POOR GEORGE by James Supercave || Erreur 404 by L'Imperatrice || Let's Get Lost by Chet Baker || Adoro te devote by Stirps lesse, Enrico De Capitani || Postcards from Italy by Beirut || Theme From New York, New York- 2008 Remaster by Frank Sinatra || Tried And True by Ween || Soil, Soil by Tegan and Sara || Dreamer by Supertramp || Oh l'amour - Edit by Erasure || Heatwave by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas || Radio Ga Ga- Remastered 2011 by Queen || Boys Don't Cry by The Sure || Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks || Send Me An Angel by Real Life || We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me) by The Ink Spots || Love & Pride by King || It's My Life - 1997 Remaster by Talk Talk || Girlfriend In A Coma by The Smiths

Graham Gore [LINK]

Glow In The Dark by Lil Pump || Lucid Dreams by Juice WRLD || EARFQUAKE by Tyle, The Creator || Doomsday by NERO || The Blonde Leading the Blond by Wax Fang || Outsiders by Franz Ferdinand || Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk || Hit the Ground by No Mana, Bertie Scott || Alien Boy by Oliver Tree || 3005 Childish Gambino || Fade Out by Seether || Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat || Hay Ya! by Outkast || Party and Bullshit by The Notorious B.I.G. || Oblivion by Grimes || Dammit by blink-182 || 4th Dimension by KIDS SEE GHOSTS || Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz || Beast of Burden - Remastered 1994 by The Rolling Stones || All Caps by Madvillain, Madlib, MF DOOM

Henry Le Vesconte [LINK]

Cold Cold Cold by Cage The Elephant || Frostbiter by Saintseneca || Hopscotch by Pinc Louds || Electric Funeral by Slothrust || General Discomfort by Serpent Cobra || Rainbow in the Dark by Dio || Gouge Away by JEFF The Brotherhood || Guts- 2013 Remaster by Budgie || Mansion of Misery by Miniature Tigers || If I Stay (Awake) by The Worn Flints || Feel the Heat by Me Like Bees || Polly's God by Perfekt Square || Don't Forget the Sun by Wailin' Storms || Codeine by Welles || Sick Day by Fountains of Wayne || Keep in Mind by Breakneck Flow || Sick Shit- Live from Lincoln Hall by Together Pangea || What's Done Is Done by Madde || Black Cat Heaven by Dan Luke and the Raid || Grapefruit High by French Thyme

James Fairholme [LINK]

Frostbite by punkett || Beheaded by The Offspring || Barcelone by Tommy Hools || Eleanor by Cake Bake Betty || Surchin 4 U by Naked Giants || The Party's Crashing Us by of Montreal || There Is No God by Mrs. Magician || I Still Love My Body by Yabadum || Shut Me Down by Godflesh || Jazzhole by Free the Robots || Out Of Gas by Modest Mouse || Fuck Off by The Frogs || Winter's Going by DJ Signify, Buck 65 || Bitin' the Bullet by GROUPLOVE || Like a Star by Mike Krol || Cold Cadaver by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard || Angel Eyes and Basketball by Foot Ox || Fell Down a Hole by Wolfmother || Hello Cruel World by Dent May || Woof Woof by ARTHUR

Thomas Jopson [LINK]-

Red Wine Supernova by Chappell Roan || The Rose Captain by Sea Wolf || Service Bell by Grizzly Bear, Feist || Oom Sha La La by Haley Heynderickx || Water Tower by The Mountain Goats || Funeral by Tele Novella || Hell Of A Ride by FIZZ || They're Cheap (I'm Free) by Skating Polly || Heart Hensoukyoku "Mugen" No. 1 Ren Hatanchou by Yumi Morio || Does Your Mother Know by ABBA || Tonight I'm Wearing Silk by Vundabar || Shame, Shame, Shame- Vocals by Shirley & Company || Right By Your Side - Remastered by Eurythmics, Annie Lenox, Dave Stewart || Bloodsucking Whore by Ezra Furman, The Harpoons || Hot Mess by girli || Better by The Honeysticks Ricky Montgomery || Waiting For The Man- Remastered by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark || Smalltown Boy- Spotify Single by Orville Peck || Downtown by Petula Clark

Dr. Henry Goodsir [LINK]-

Bathed In Sound by Cosmo Sheldrake || Photosynesthesia by Louie Zong || Sparkbird by Sparkbid || Worms by Viagra Boys || FUNGUS by The Narcissist Cookbook || Crabwalk by Party in the Hills || Nature Song by Twain || Things She Said by Chris Garneau || Ravens by Reno Shaw || Journey To Wherever We May Go by Grand Commander || Almost Was Good Enough by Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina || Remember Something Beautiful by Machinery of the Human Heart || I Make Too Many Mistakes by Foresight || Museum by Kitsch Club || Drunken Stars by Minimall || Closer by The Tiny, Elle-Kari || The Mouth by Honey and the Sting || A Darkness In My Soul by Solid Space || Changes Shape by Cosmic Johnny || On My Own by Three Days Grace

Dr. Alexander McDonald [LINK]-

Here Comes The Summer by The Fiery Furnaces || Look Me in the Heart by Tina Turner || The Cat-Song by Laura Nyro || Tyriya & Ramakrishna by Alice Coltrane || Too Close for Comfort by Eartha Kitt || Some Become Strangers by Stevie Nicks || I Wake Up Slow by Dory Previn || Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season) by Nina Simone || Down Where The Valleys Are Low (Remastered) by Judee Sill || Stoned Soul Picnic by Julie London || Until I Met You by Mavis Staples || How Deep It Goes by Heart || So Goes Love- Demo by Carole King || All I Want by The Supremes || Quitting Time by The Roches || Cool Dry Place by Katy Kirby || Ibiza by Butcher Brown || Komorebi by ARTEMIS || In the Winter- Remastered by Janis Ian || Ocean City by Charming Disaster

Dr. Stephen Stanley [LINK]-

Love -> Building on Fire 2005 Remastered by Talking Heads || Mendelssohn: 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 37, No. 1 in C Minor: Prelude, MWVW21 by Felix Mendelssohn, Stephen Cleoburry || City of Electric Light by Chad VanGaalen || Country Death Song by Violent Femmes || The Man on the Burning Tightrope by Firewater || Vanilla by Jack Stauber || Feathers by Man Man || Fanfare by Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Gerard Brooks || Starving In The Belly Of A Whale by Tom Waits || Always Alone by Johnny Cash || Apple Tree by Marika Hackman || Birdland by The Afghan Whigs || Complicated Creation by Cloud Cult || Incinerate by Sonic Youth || Clap Your Hands! by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah || Buckets of Fun by Sidney Gish || Perfect Fit by Clues || Golden Age by Chris Staples || Them Heavy People by Kate Bush || With Dreams of Adventure, I Smoke my Longpipe Beneath the Stars by Hole Dweller

Dr. John Peddie [LINK]-

snake by Sadurn || Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole by Martha Wainwright || 285 HZ Mend Your Wounds by Manifestation Frequencies || This is Not Who I Am by Joanna Sternberg || (Electricity) by Courtney Barnett || Easy Violence by Sun June || Don't Think About Me by Laura Stevenson || Stabbed to Death Outside of San Juan by The Mountain Goats || Shadi by Petrojvic Blasting Company || 395 HZ Inner Transformation Vibes by Manifestation Frequencies || I'm In The World by Moondog || Phantom of the Opera - 2015 Remastered by Iron Maiden || All of My Friends by River Whyless || Jennifer by Faust || Nugget by CAKE || 528 HZ Open Your Heart by Manifestation Frequencies || Honey in the Hair by Blackbird Raum || Allah, Allah, Allah by mewithoutYou || Genetic Engineering by X-Ray Spex || The Unthinking Majority by Serj Tankian

"Cornelius Hickey" [LINK]

A New Phase Awaits You :-) by FIZZ || Island In The Sun by Weezer || Growth Sux by Cheekface || A Formidable Marinade by Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen || Rats by Rasputina || Wild Dogs: Divorce! by Jordaan Mason, Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum || When You Die by MGMT || Homosapien by Pansy Division || I Could If I Wanted To (feat. Santino Fontana) by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast, Santino Fontana || Pound of Flesh- Live by Regina Spektor || Stalker's Tango by Autoheart || Queer Clubbing by Ste McCabe || I Want You, But I Don't Need You by Momus || Clap Your Hands by Pale Young Gentlemen || A Smaller God by Darling Violetta || Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (Stereo) by Tom Lehrer || My Wife and My Dead Wife by Roby Hitchcock & The Egyptians || We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! by Le Loup || The Lobster Quadrille by Franz Ferdinand || Cruel to Be Kind by Nick Lowe

Thomas Armitage [LINK]

D R O V E M Y C A R by 1 Trait Danger || Cannonball by The Breeders || Gold Soundz by Pavement || Rabbit Run by The Teeth || Bloody! Bloody! by Junie & TheHutFriends || Sam's Town- Live From Abbey Road by The Killers || Dog Nightmare by Jack Stauber || Cocaine Sunday by Eyedress || Help I'm Alive by Metric || Super Breath by Karen O, Danger Mouse || I'm Too Good by ARTHUR || Good Boy by Dogbite || Starstruck by The Scary Jokes || Holy Mountains by System Of A Down || Stuff Is Way by They Might Be Giants || Voodoo Lady by Ween || I Don't Wanna Die by the Unicorns || FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND by SNAKE POOL || Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia by of Montreal || Body Of Years by Mother Mother

Mr. Wall [LINK]

Chop Suey! by System Of A Down || Animal Attack by Grand Commander || Twist of Cain by Danzig || Bodies by Drowning Pool || A Cry For Help In A World Gone Mad by Agent Orange || Down With The Sickness by Disturbed || Coming Undone by Korn || The Foundaints of Decay by My Chemical Romance || Do What I Gotta by Naethan Apollo || Fight Fire With Fire (Remaster) by Metallica || Insane by Sonny Fodera, Biscits || Hotel California- 2013 Remaster by Eagles || Pacific Coast Highway by Fukkk Offf || Blod Makes Noise by Suzanne Vega || Night of Error by Trash Fashion || Blue Monday by Orgy || Eternity or Something by Free Refills || The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails || United States of Whatever by Liam Lynch || Cirice by Ghost

Mr. Diggle [LINK]

Soul No. 5 by Caroline Rose || Hunger For A Way Out by Sweeping Promises || When Worlds Collide by Powerman 5000 || King Fish Pies by Midlake || I Need Some Sleep- From "Shrek 2" Soundtrack by Eels || The Very Modern Dance by Destroyer || Anti-Rage by Emperor X || under The Table by Fiona Apple || A Place For My Head by Linkin Park || Never Enough by Papa Roach || Let Me Know by Yeah Yeah Yeahs || Lest We Forget by The Homeless Gospel Choir || Plea From A Cat Named Virtue by The Weakerthans || What Have I Done To Deserve This? (With Dusty Springfield) by Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield || Wait Until I Get My Hands On You by The Paper Chase || Perception Check by Tom Cardy || Eisenhower Is The Father by Best Friends Forever || Think Long by Mates of State || Ode to Divorce by Regina Spektor || Too Drunk To Dream by The Magnetic Fields

Solomon Tozer [LINK]

Pink Triangle by Weezer || Gun In My Hand by Dorothy || Low Dogg by Micachu & The Shapes || Blood, Sex, and Booze by Green Day || Tranquilize by The Killers, Lou Reed || Have a Smoke by Head Portals || The Killing Moon- BBC Evening Session January 15 by Pavement || Roundabout- 2024 Remaster by YES || Sleazy Bed Track - BBC Evening Session 1998 by The Bluetones || There Must Be More Than Blood by Car Seat Headrest || I Found A Reason- 2015 Remaster by The Velvet Underground || Bone Machine- 2007 Remaster by Pixies || Why Can't I Touch It? - 2001 Remaster by Buzzcocks || Slaughterhouse by Grandmas House || Plateau by Meat Puppets || Add It Up by Violent Femmes || Host Body by Chad VanGaalen || Vampire Empire by Big Thief || Goin' Against Your Mind by Built To Spill || Raise Me Up by Hercules & Love Affair

Private Heather [LINK]

Hometown Hero by Andy Shauf || Stay up Late- 2005 Remaster by Talking Heads || Ballad For The Brainkeepers by FOE || Down Home Town by Electric Light Orchestra || Walk On The Water by Creedence Clearwater Revival || Sirens of Titan by Al Stewart || Love Is Like Oxygen by Sweet || YOUR HEAD'S ON FIRE by Louie Zong || Imposter by Oingo Boingo || Dracula From Houston by Butthole Surfers || No Way Out Of Here by Unicorn || Splendid Isolation by Warren Zevon || Headstrong by Trapt || Life Is Hard by Timbuk 3 || Ride a White Swan- 2016 Remaster by T. Rex || Waiting For The End Of The World by Elvis Costello || Soul In My Body by Pinc Louds || The Man by The Killers || Smierc W Bikini by Republika || Head Over Heels by The Go-Go's

David Bryant [LINK]

Forty Six & 2 by TOOL || B.Y.O.B by System Of A Down || Just Like Heaven by Dinosaur Jr. || I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself by Elton John || Zero- Remastered 2012 by The Smashing Pumpkins || War Pigs / Luke's Wall- 2012 Remaster by Black Sabbath || Saturday Come Slow by Massive Attack, Damon Albarn || Pepper by Butthole Surfers || Cheap Drunk by Pretty Balanced || Bombtrack by Rage Against The Machine || Creep- 2017 Remaster by Stone Temple Pilots || Kocham Cie, Kochanie Moje by Maanam || Warm Leatherette by Grace Jones || What's In It For? by Avi Buffalo || Pretend We're Dead by L7 || You've Got Another Thing Coming by Judas Priest || Midlife Crisis by Faith No More || Would? (2022 Remaster) by Alice In Chains || My Name Is Mud by Primus || Dura by Daddy Yankee

William Pilkington [LINK]

Shoulderblade by The Teeth || Bone Bag by Superet || Orgasm of Death by The Growlers || Throw Away Children (2019 Remaster) by Dio || The Less I Know The Better by Tame Impala || Natural Disasters by Enon || 16 Mirrors by Alex G || Pantyhose by TV Girl || Deadlines (Hostile) by Car Seat Headrest || Darla by Vundabar || I Dropped Out by And The Kids || The Ballad of Bull Ramos by The Mountain Goats || Caroline, Please Kill Me by Coma Cinema || The Day That I Die by Good Charlotte || You Are Going To Hate This by The Frights || Dear Jealousy by MIKA || Best I Can (feat Sharon Van Etten) by Michael Cera, Sharon Van Etten || Glue by P.H.F || Apricots by Findlay || Big Cloud by Radiator Hospital

A Link to the remaining characters: (the rest of the marines are here)

Click here for link

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Do you ship it?

Reason under the cut!

Listen more articulate people than me have been screaming about these two since the 1990s, Garak and Bashir are each already two of the most "I want to put them in a jar and study him" characters I have ever seen in his own right, but you put them together and you get a dynamic that puts the twistiest and most compellingly complex canon romances to shame.

The show never lets the relationship be anything but subtext because it was the 90s and Rick Berman was a coward, but the actors who played these characters have been very supportive of fandom and shipping, and Andy Robinson in particular (the actor who plays Garak, the lizard alien man) has made very clear that he interprets the relationship with romantic/sexual undertones and played Garak as attracted to Bashir from the very first scene they shot together.

[radfemverity]

Tucker Carlson's interview with misogynist, human trafficker and rapist Andrew Tate has been endorsed by Elon Musk, the man who brought Tate among many other reactionary and far-right commentators back to Twitter when he purchased the platform.

There is nothing spontaneous about Musk doing this, and if you're surprised then you're a fool. This has never been about upholding free speech - hence why you've never seen any of these men promote interesting left-wing thinkers.

The ‘SJW’/‘woke’/progressive Left, as unbearably annoying as so many of them are, just keep getting proven right.

They said Nick Fuentes and Kanye were Holocaust-denying anti-semites.

They said Jordan Peterson supported rapists, and didn't believe women should have legal equality.

They said Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh would use the gender critical movement to blame gay people and women for any and all degeneracies.

They said Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk's recent ‘free speech’ moves were about repositioning themselves so that they could more effectively elevate the voices of overt extremists.

Again and again, their accusations are ageing like fine wine. The reactionary right’s mask is well and fully off.

Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Joe Rogan, Konstantin Kissin, Paul Joseph Watson, Ian Miles Cheong, Andy Ngo, Michael Malice, Elijah Schaffer, Zuby, Milo Yionnopoulous, Tommy Robinson, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Donald Trump… obviously some of these men could dislike each other, I can't imagine Shapiro and Fuentes at the same house party.

But their ideal societies don't look too different. None of these mens’ do. Because any racial, religious or ethnic prejudices they have against each other will come second to their common-ground.

The organised reaction against this brand of progressivism that has rapidly come to monopolise every sector of public life in the last 10 years, is well and truly underway. Musk, Carlson and Tate have given us the sign. And while I pretty heavily dislike the current ‘woke’ progressive ideology (and have a lot of questions about its top-down cultural spread), I'm scared of these guys way more. And if you're anything but a straight man who doesn’t care about any demographic besides straight men, you should be too.

The reason I say ‘straight men’ and not ‘straight white men’ is because, come on, the reactionary right is more racially diverse than most left-wing groups at this point. 😂😂 White nationalists the world over have bent the knee to a mixed-race man who admitted moving to an Eastern European country because of their more lax laws on sexual assault, and in turn, the ease he would have in exploiting the local women in the country’s already active sex-trafficking trade.

White nationalists (whose role in the reactionary right cannot be discarded any more, after Trump and Kanye had a personal dinner with Nick Fuentes) feel more of an affiliation with a non-white, human trafficking violent rapist, despite evidence of his crimes having been public for a while now, than they do with his WHITE victims.

Jordan Peterson, whose daughter has revolved her entire public image around him, who works with and for him, and whose lingerie photographs were retweeted by him, made a dogwhistle in May about women having their right to vote retracted.

Examples of men devaluing the contributions and rights of the women in their families, communities and wider societies are withstanding the test of time, over and over again, because no matter where in the world they are, and no matter what tensions the different religions, cultures, ethnicities and races of men have with each other, there are traits that unite them all. Misogyny is the most obvious one.

The men of these diverse, far-reaching societies, in many ways feel far more of a kinship to each other, than they do to any woman, girl, gay person, disabled person, mother, child, or any other demographic.

The pendulum always swings back, and now that we know these men have got the owner of the world's biggest social media platform on their side, that is a major sign it could be coming soon. Be on guard and look after each other gyns ❤️

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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 2, Wave 3, Poll 2

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Chu Sangwoo-Semantic Error

Qualifications/Propaganda:

hey this is just a little more info on Chu Sangwoo (obvs you don't have to include him if you don't want to but I'd figure I'd send some more stuff in) (I also don't think I submitted him? but I know who he is) So there's a manhwa (Korean webcomic) and a tv series (I'm personally more familiar with the tv series). Basically, he's very strongly coded as autistic, though it's never explicitly stated (though in the manhwa I believe they mention that he has some unspecified disorder).So here's a list of some of the things he does in the series that are why people say he's autistic-coded:

meticulously organized and adheres to a strict schedule he set for himself

struggles when things happen that he didn't predict beforehand/throws a wrench into his plans

is very blunt, gets labeled as antisocial/being like a machine, and struggles with understanding other's social cues

practices saying things so that he won't come off as insincere

creates his own systems to accomplish tasks and struggles to work in unfamiliar environments/environments with lots of distractions

views life very logically and doesn't like it when things happen that break his rules of logic

wishes he could format his brain so he wouldn't have to deal with confusing and unnecessary feelings

There's others but that's a few of the main ones.Anyways here's a little clip from the series that hopefully helps add more context? https://youtu.be/Mai2WvTpIv8 And anyways if you still decide to not include him, that's fine, but I'd figure that I'd send y'all some more info just in case! Excited for th bracket regardless!!!

Chu Sangwoo is canonically gay, the series is a gay romance & he falls for Jaeyoung, who's the complete opposite of him personality wise. Hence the title- semantic 'error' since attraction wasn't expected. It's a really good series and Chu Sangwoo is realistic and well-written (speaking as a fellow queer autistic).

Elim Garak-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Qualifications:

He has PTSD due to child abuse, as well as a painkiller addiction due to a brain implant. He is also extremely gay. Like literally everybody who watches DS9 immediately understands this about him. He was explicitly played by his actor, Andy Robinson, as attracted to Julian Bashir, and his only heterosexual romance is truly painful to witness. Andrew Robinson has also said that he has had a one-night stand with Dukat, one of the main villains of DS9 and noted lizard nazi. Do with that what you will. His closest relationship onscreen by far is with Julian.

Propaganda:

This man. There is a reason so many people are obsessed with him. Former spy, current tailor, forever an incurable bitch. Guilty of many war crimes, including onscreen attempted genocide. Once intentionally blew up his own tailor shop (with him in it) because he didn't want to ask for help with something. In his very first scene on the show, he wears an shirt that strongly resembles a watermelon, propositions Julian Bashir, and leaves while canonically high on painkillers. He has PTSD due to child abuse at the hands of the head of the space lizard KGB, who is also his dad, and a painkiller addiction due to a brain implant he has to help him withstand torture. He tortures a main character in one episode, and then a few episodes later they start having regular breakfasts together. Once got high on Space Weed and started systematically murdering people while making ominous announcements about chess over the PA system. The Most Character Ever.

Anything Else?:

He once told Julian to eat his rod. It was about a futuristic USB stick (datarod) but he still very much said it.

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Summer break and I'm kinda sorta missing F1 so here are the UK number one songs when drivers got their first Grand Prix win. Enjoy 😊

Giuseppe Farina (1950 British GP - 13th May), Juan Manuel Fangio (1950 Monaco GP - 21st May) & Johnnie Parsons (1950 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart

Lee Wallard (1951 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Les Paul & Mary Ford - Mockin' Bird Hill

Luigi Fagioli (1951 French GP - 1st July) & Jose Froilan Gonzalez (1951 British GP - 14th July) - Nelson Eddy & Jo Stafford - With These Hands

Alberto Ascari (1951 German GP - 29th July) - Hoagy Carmichael - My Resistance Is Low

Piero Taruffi (1952 Swiss GP - 18th May) - Nat 'King' Cole - Unforgettable

Troy Ruttman (1952 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Jo Stafford - Ay-Round The Corner

Bill Vukovich (1953 Indy 500 - 30th May) & Mike Hawthorn (1953 French GP - 5th July) - Frankie Laine - I Believe

Maurice Trintignant (1955 Monaco GP - 22nd May) - Tony Bennett - Stranger In Paradise

Bob Sweikert (1955 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Eddie Calvert - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White

Stirling Moss (1955 British GP - 16th July) - Alma Cogan - Dreamboat

Luigi Musso (1956 Argentine GP - 22nd January) - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

Pat Flaherty (1956 Indy 500 - 30th May) & Peter Collins (1956 Belgian GP - 3rd June) - Ronnie Hilton - No Other Love

Sam Hanks (1957 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Andy Williams - Butterfly

Tony Brooks (1957 British GP - 20th July) - Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

Jimmy Bryan (1958 Indy 500 - 30th May) - Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now

Jack Brabham (1959 Monaco GP - 10th May) - Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore

Rodger Ward (1959 Indy 500 - 30th May) & Jo Bonnier (1959 Dutch GP - 31st May) - Elvis Presley - A Fool Such As I

Bruce McLaren (1959 US GP - 12th December) - Adam Faith - What Do You Want?

Jim Rathmann (1960 Indy 500 - 30th May) - The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown

Phil Hill (1960 Italian GP - 4th September) - The Shadows - Apache

Wolfgang Von Trips (1961 Dutch GP - 22nd May) - Floyd Cramer - On The Rebound

Giancarlo Baghetti (1961 French GP - 2nd July) - Del Shannon - Runaway

Innes Ireland (1961 US GP - 8th October) - The Shadows - Kon-Tiki

Graham Hill (1962 Dutch GP - 20th May) - B Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker

Jim Clark (1962 Belgian GP - 17th June) - Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm

Dan Gurney (1962 French GP - 8th July) - Mike Sarne & Wendy Richard - Come Outside

John Surtees (1963 German GP - 4th August) - Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise

Lorenzo Bandini (1964 Austrian GP - 23rd August) - Manfred Man - Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Jackie Stewart (1965 Italian GP - 12th September) - The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Richie Ginther (1965 Mexican GP - 24th October) - Ken Dodd - Tears

Ludovico Scarfiotti (1966 Italian GP - 4th September) - The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

Pedro Rodriguez (1967 South African GP - 2nd January) - Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home

Denny Hulme (1967 Monaco GP - 7th May) - Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String

Jacky Ickx (1968 French GP - 7th July) & Jo Siffert (1968 British GP - 20th July) - Equals - Baby Come Back

Jochen Rindt (1969 US GP - 5th October) - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime... Mon Non Plus

Clay Regazzoni (1970 Italian GP - 6th September) - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown

Emerson Fittipaldi (1970 US GP - 4th October) - Freda Payne - Band Of Gold

Mario Andretti (1971 South African GP - 6th March) - Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump

Peter Gethin (1971 Italian GP - 5th September) - Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting

Francois Cevert (1971 US GP - 3rd October) - Rod Stewart - Maggie May

Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1972 Monaco GP - 14th May) - T-Rex - Metal Guru

Ronnie Peterson (1973 French GP - 1st July) - Donny Osmond - Young Love

Peter Revson (1973 British GP - 14th July) - Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me

Carlos Reutemann (1974 South African GP - 30th March) - Paper Lace - Billy Don't Be A Hero

Niki Lauda (1974 Spanish GP - 28th April) - Abba - Waterloo

Jody Scheckter (1974 Swedish GP - 9th June) - Ray Stevens - The Streak

Jose Carlos Pace (1975 Brazilian GP - 26th January) - Pilot - January

Jochen Mass - (1975 Spanish GP - 27th April) - Mud - Oh Boy

James Hunt (1975 Dutch GP - 22nd June) - 10CC - I'm Not In Love

Vittorio Brambilla (1975 Austrian GP - 17th August) - The Stylistics - I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)

John Watson (1976 Austrian GP - 15th August) - Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Gunnar Nilsson (1977 Belgian GP - 5th June) - Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It

Jacques Laffite (1977 Swedish GP - 19th June) - The Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go

Alan Jones (1977 Austrian GP - 14th August) - Brotherhood Of Man - Angelo

Patrick Depailler (1978 Monaco GP - 7th May) - Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon

Gilles Villeneuve (1978 Canadian GP - 8th October) - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights

Jean-Pierre Jabouille (1979 French GP - 1st July) - Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?

Rene Arnoux (1980 Brazilian GP - 27th January) - The Specials - Too Much Too Young

Nelson Piquet (1980 US GP - March 30) - The Jam - Going Underground

Didier Pironi (1980 Belgian GP - 4th May) - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno

Alain Prost (1981 French GP - 5th July) - The Specials - Ghost Town

Riccardo Patrese (1982 Monaco GP - 23rd May) - Madness - House Of Fun

Patrick Tambay (1982 German GP - 8th August) & Elio De Angelis (1982 Austrian GP) - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

Keke Rosberg (1982 Swiss GP - 29th August) & Michele Alboreto (1982 Caesers Palace GP) - Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

Ayrton Senna (1985 Portuguese GP - 21st April) - USA For Africa - We Are The World

Nigel Mansell (1985 European GP - 6th October) - Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love

Gerhard Berger (1986 Mexican GP - 12th October) - Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins

Thierry Boutsen (1989 Canadian GP - 18th June) - Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)

Alessandro Nannini (1989 Japanese GP - 22nd October) - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - That's What I Like

Michael Schumacher (1992 Belgian GP - 30th August) - Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer

Damon Hill (1993 Hungarian GP - 15th August) - Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own

Jean Alesi (1995 Canadian GP - 11th June) - Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody

Johnny Herbert (1995 British GP - 16th July) - Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

David Coulthard (1995 Portuguese GP - 24th September) - Simply Red - Fairground

Olivier Panis (1996 Monaco GP - 19th May) - Gina G - Ooh Ahh... Just A Little Bit

Jacques Villeneuve (1996 European GP - 28th April) - George Michael - Fastlove

Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1997 San Marino GP) - Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor

Mika Hakkinen (1997 European GP - 26th October) - Aqua - Barbie Girl

Eddie Irvine (1999 Australian GP - 7th March) - Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough

Ruben Barrichello (2000 German GP - 30th July) - Craig David - 7 Days

Ralf Schumacher (2001 San Marino GP - 15th April) - Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long?

Juan Pablo Montoya (2001 Italian GP - 16th September) - DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

Kimi Raikkonen (2003 Malaysian GP - 23rd March) - Gareth Gates ft The Kumars - Spirit In The Sky

Giancarlo Fisichella (2003 Brazilian GP - 6th April) - Room 5 ft Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv

Fernando Alonso (2003 Hungarian GP - 24th August) - Blu Cantrell ft Sean Paul - Breathe

Jarno Trulli (2004 Monaco GP - 23rd May) - Frankee - F.U.R.B (F U Right Back

Jenson Button (2006 Hungarian GP - 6th August) - Shakira ft Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

Felipe Massa (2006 Turkish GP - 27th August) - Beyonce ft Jay-Z - Deja Vu

Lewis Hamilton (2007 Canadian GP - 10th June) - Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella

Robert Kubica (2008 Canadian GP - 8th June) - Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain

Heikki Kovalainen (2008 Hungarian GP - 3rd August) - Dizzee Rascal ft Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me

Sebastian Vettel (2008 Italian GP - 14th September) - Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire

Mark Webber (2009 German GP - 12th July) - Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor

Nico Rosberg (2012 Chinese GP - 15th April) - Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

Pastor Maldonado (2012 Spanish GP - 13th May) - Rita Ora ft Tinie Tempah - R.I.P.

Daniel Ricciardo (2014 Canadian GP - 8th June) - Ed Sheeran - Sing

Max Verstappen (2016 Spanish GP - 15th May) - Drake ft Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance

Valtteri Bottas (2017 Russian GP - 30th April) - Clean Bandit ft Zara Larsson - Symphony

Charles Leclerc (2019 Belgian GP - 1st September) - Ed Sheeran ft Stormzy - Take Me Back To London

Pierre Gasly (2020 Italian GP - 6th September) - Cardi B ft Megan Thee Stallion - WAP

Sergio Perez (2020 Sakhir GP - 6th December) - Ariana Grande - Positions

Esteban Ocon (2021 Hungarian GP - 1st August) - Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits

Carlos Sainz Jr (2022 British GP - 3rd July) - Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

George Russell (2022 Brazilian GP - 13th November) - Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero

Lando Norris (2024 Miami GP - 5th May) & Oscar Piastri (2024 Hungarian GP - 21st July) - Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

And yes, I've created a Spotify playlist for these tunes 😊😊

[naturepointstheway]

Need a tier list of Munks (I know there's one for Mistos)

So I was just thinking about a Tier List ranking for Mistos that I've seen out there, and now I'm wondering if someone did one for the various Munks (and they better have Gruber's Munk in S-tier at least). By the way, I was looking at the list of Munk actors on the Cats wiki, and I did NOT know that Geoffrey Garratt had played Munkustrap as well (back in 1992, apparently. Well now I need to see what HIS Munk was like now. Hand over the bootleg, please.

What other Munks would you put in a tier list and where would you rank them? Other Munks I can think of:

S Tier (absolute creme de la creme, my fave takes on the "Courageous, Imposing, Energetic" words): Michael Gruber (as hinted before), Steve Barton, Jack Rebaldi (I think you spell it like that? He's Madrid 2004 Munk), Alexander Auler

A Tier (not my absolute faves, but still got the character in a way I still love): Andy Huntington-Jones (2016 Revival), Robbie Fairchild (yes I'm including 2019 Munk, aka the man who launched a thousand Munkoff fics.), Paul Hadobas (Zurich 1991/2)

B Tier (I like them well enough, but don't capture Munk the way I prefer, for example maybe imposing but not very energetic, and so on): Darryl Robinson (1989 Vienna), Matthew Pike (the cover Munk in the Hamburg 1999 bootleg) (He's just too...mellow, for me. I need some energy here!)

I honestly can't think of any Munk that I'd rank below B tier (all Munks are good Munks to me, from what I've seen so far, I guess). What are others' thoughts?

[it-happened-one-fic]

500 Followers Playlist Starter Pack: The Twisted Wonderland Version!

Thank you so much!!! I'm afraid I don't have time to do a full event (Christmas and all that jazz) but I did want to say thank you to everyone so I came up with this! I have a habit of listening to music while writing so I used few songs (I aimed for four each but didn't always make it) from my playlists to form sort of a starter pack under the cut! Again, thank you so much!!!

(NOTE: The links go to Youtube)

Genshin Impact Playlist Starter Pack

Riddle Rosehearts: 

New Rules - Dua Lipa 

Come Along - Pentatonix 

Oh No! - MARINA 

Black Roses - Charli XCX (includes cursing) 

Trey Clover:

Sugar Sugar - The Archies 

Gambling Man - The Overtones

Home - Philip Philips 

Honey Bee - Blake Shelton 

Cater Diamond:

The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles  

Call Me - Blondie 

Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris (feat. Florence Welch)  

Dance the Night - Dua Lipa 

Ace Trappola:

Troublemaker - Olly Murs (feat. Flo Rida) 

Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield 

I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany 

Fire Alarm - Castlecomer 

Deuce Spade:

Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl

Somebody to You - The Vamps

Hey Look Ma’ I Made It - Panic! at the Disco

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

Leona Kingscholar:

Send Them Off! - Bastille

Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea - Fall Out Boy

We Don’t Have to Dance - Andy Black

Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy

Ruggie Bucchi

Roll To Me - Del Amitri

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

The Way I Are - Timbaland, Keri Hilson, & D.O.E

Follow Me - Uncle Kracker

Jack Howl

Silver Night - The Rasmus

I Really Like You - Carly Rae Jepsen

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

I Will Never Let You Down - Rita Ora

Azul Ashengrotto:

Material Girl - Madonna

Stay With Me - Sam Smith

I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley

Diamonds - Sam Smith

Jade Leech:

Curses - The Crane Wives

She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

Staring At You - Diane Birch

Break the Ice - Britney Spears

Floyd Leech

Out of My League - Fitz and the Tantrums

Bad Word - Panicland

Rag Doll - Aerosmith

I Was Made For Dancin’ - Leif Garrett

Kalim Al-Asim

Golden - Harry Styles

Budapest - George Ezra

Boogie Shoes - KC & The Sunshine Band

I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue

Jamil Viper:

Can’t Remember to Forget You - Shakira & Rihanna

Power & Control - MARINA

Just One Yesterday - Fall Out Boy & Foxes

Move Your Body - Sia

Vil Schoenheit:

You Make Me Feel - Cobra Starship (feat. Sabi)

Vogue - Madonna

Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey

Pretty in Pain - Diane Birch

Rook Hunt:

The Look of Love, Pt. 1 - ABC

Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge

I Will Follow Him - Peggy March

Happy Together - The Turtles

Epel Felmier:

Bad Reputation - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (cursing)

Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner

So What - P!nk (cursing)

Idia Shroud:

Something About Us - Daft Punk

Come Inside of My Heart - IV of Spades

He’s So Shy - The Pointer Sisters

Heavy In Your Arms - Florence and the Machine

Ortho Shroud:

Electric Angel - Hatsune Miku

One More Time - Daft Punk

Malleus Draconia:

I Found - Amber Run

Deeper than the Night - Olivia Newton John

Disturbia - Rihanna

Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran

Lilia Vanrouge:

I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) - Alicia Bridges

Raise Your Glass - P!nk

Saturn - Sleeping at Last

We are Family - Sister Sledge

Silver:

Fireflies - Owl City

(They Long To Be) Close To You - Carpenters

When You Say Nothing At All - Allison Krauss & Union Station

Son Of Man - Phil Collins (From Disney's Tarzan)

Sebek Zigvolt:

The Glory of Love - Peter Cetera

Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

Shout - Tears for Fears 

[seeminglyranch87]

Taylor & Travis Timeline

August 2023 - part 1

August 1 - Taylor heading to recording studio in Los Angeles , California

August 2 - Chiefs Training camp, St Joseph, MO

In an interview with Andrew Siciliano and Michael Robinson on NFL 'Inside Training Camp Live' Travis is asked

"Did you really have your phone number ready in a friendship bracelet to give to Taylor Swift?" To which Travis replies " I said what I said and I meant what I said when I said it" ""you shot your shot, hey man?" "It is what it is, Im not gonna talk about my personal life..." "Has [Taylor] reached out yet?" Travis responds, while smiling, "And that’s gonna wrap it up here"

There is a noticeable shift from his willingness to talk about Taylor previously to this desire for privacy which is likely indicative that sometime between July 26th and August 2nd Taylor reached out and contacted Travis at the very least. (x 4:40)

Chiefs IG report Travis sporting coach Andy Reid style moustache (x)

August 3 - Chiefs Training camp, St Joseph, MO

The Eras Tour ~ SoFi Stadium, Los Angles, Show is filmed.

I Can See You (guitar), Maroon (piano)

August 4 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Jospeh, MO

The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles. Show is filmed.

Our Song (guitar), You Are In Love (piano)

August 5 - Chiefs Training camp, St Joseph, MO

The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles. Show is filmed.

Death By A Thousand Cuts (guitar) , You're On Your Own Kid (piano)

Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson petition Taylor to date Travis on their podcast Calm Down with Erin & Charissa Ep. 166 (x 33:30) and on their IG (x). Travis later thanks them (see Oct 15, 2023) and Taylor wears an Erin Andrews Chiefs windbreaker (see Oct 12, 2023)

August 6 - the Chiefs post a tiktok asking the players who their celebrity crush was growing up? A teammate responds for Travis (x)

"Who's mine? Mine was..." says Travis

"Taylor Swift" responds team mate Marquez Valdes-Scantling 

"Haha alright now" says Travis

Speculation: Is this the possible date that Travis & Taylor meet up in NYC for the first time ? OR see Aug 22/Sept 12 ...

August 7 - Chiefs Training camp, St Joseph, MO

Travis mic'd up (x) at training camp.

The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

Dress (guitar), Exile (piano)

August 8 - Chiefs Training camp, St Joseph, MO (x)

The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

I Know Places (x guitar), King of my Heart (x Piano) - interesting combination! Check out the huge smile on Taylor during KOMH. She had to be thinking of Travis here!!!

Ryan Reynolds follows Travis on instagram and twitter. Travis follows Ryan back.

August 9 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO (x)

The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

Taylor hints at announcement with 🩵BLUE🩵costumes for the Speak Now, Folklore & 1989 eras and acoustic set. The crowd goes wild and so do those of us watching online.

Taylor announces 1989 (Taylor's Version) (x)

New Romantics (guitar), New Year's Day (piano)

August 11 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO (x)

August 12 - NFL promote Travis on socials (x)

August 14 - Chiefs v Saints, 24-26 NFL preseason

August 15 - Chiefs training camp, St Joseph, MO (x)

August 16 - Chiefs training camp, St Joseph, MO (x)

August 17 - Chiefs training camp final day, military appreciation day. St Joseph, MO (x)

Taylor dines with Ed Sheeran at Zero Bond, NYC

Return to the timeline

Go to previous update -> July 2023

Go to next update -> August 2023 part 2

[daddymaster21]

Violent and obsessive love songs.

My playlist is called dearly detested (link to Apple Music)

✨ means it’s a favorite, 🖤 means it doesn’t fit the theme (this is a writing playlist and some are here for characterization)

Please reblog with your favorites or additions!

Teeth - 5 seconds of summer

Jet black heart - 5 seconds of summer

These are the lies - the cab

Animal - the cab

Temporary bliss - the cab

Animal - neon trees

Irresistible (feat. Demi Lovato) - Fall out boy

The good in me - Jon Bellion

NFWMB - Hozier

It will come back - hozier

Cherry wine (live) - hozier

Ultraviolet - au/ra ✨

Serial killer - moncrieff & JUDGE

Make me (cry) [feat. Labyrinth] - Noah Cyrus

Power - isak danielson

Horns - Bryce fox

Tag, You’re it - Melanie Martinez

Gingerbread man - Melanie Martinez

Cake - Melanie Martinez

Play date - Melanie Martinez

Teddy bear - Melanie Martinez

DNA (unplugged) - little mix

The chain - Ingrid Michaelson

The chain - Fleetwood Mac

Every breath you take - the police

Every breath you take - chase holfelder

We don’t have to dance - Andy black

Ribcage - Andy black

Diablo - Simon Curtis

Super psycho love - Simon Curtis

I hate u - Simon Curtis

Flesh - Simon Curtis ✨

Eat you alive - limp bizkit

Nicotine - panic! At the disco

Sarah smiles - panic! At the disco

Nicotine (feat. Joanna Jones) - unlike Pluto

Her - Tyler, the creator

IFHY (feat. Pharrell Williams) - Tyler, the creator

Puppet - Tyler, the creator

Bust your kneecaps - pomplamoose

Next contestant - nickelback

You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi

I wanna be yours - Arctic monkeys

R u mine? - arctic monkeys ✨

I hate everything about you - three days grace

Troublemaker (feat. Flo rida) - olly murs

Arms tonite - mother mother

Meant to be yours - heathers cast

I don’t care - fall out boy

I’m like a lawyer with the way I’m always trying to get you off - fall out boy

Heartbeat - childish Gambino ✨

Wonderland - caravan palace

Tainted love - soft cell

Devil inside - INXS

Need you tonight- INXS

I come with knives - IAMX

Animal impulses - IAMX

Hellfire - annapantsu

Sociopath (feat. Bryce Fox) - StèLouse

Sucker for pain (with logic) - lil Wayne, wiz khalifa, & imagine dragons

Hunger - Florence + the machine

Kiss with a fist - Florence + the machine

This is love - air traffic controller

Poison - Beyoncé

I once had a heart - nomy

The drug in me is you - falling in reverse

Love me dead - ludo

The horror of our love - ludo ✨

I love you like an alcoholic - the taxpayers

Love the way you lie (feat. Rhianna) - Eminem ✨

Sex with a ghost - Teddy Hyde

Stalkers tango - autoheart

An unhealthy obsession - the Blake Robinson synthetic orchestra ✨

Bad habit - Ben platt ✨

Gravity - Sara bareilles

Bruises - Lewis capaldi

Beggin’ - måneskin

I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE - måneskin

Carnivore - bear attack ✨

Irresistible - temposhark

Bruises & bitemarks - good with grenades

Strange love - simple creatures

Pet - a perfect circle ✨

The outsider - a perfect circle

Thinking of you - a perfect circle

Physical (you’re so) - nine inch nails

Closer - nine inch nails ✨

The hand that feeds - nine inch nails

Dangerous woman - Ariana grande

Kiss me you animal - burn the ballroom ✨

Crazy - burn the ballroom ✨

Threnody - burn the ballroom ✨

Biohazard (feat. Nikki Nailbomb) - CALYPSO

Creature - CALPYSO

Jaws - CALYPSO

Jaws - sleep token

Soul sucker pt. 2 - Ellise, DeathbyRomy, & MOTHICA

Dangerous - DeathbyRomy

Vicious bliss - DeathbyRomy ✨🖤

No mercy - deathbyromy

Nails - call me karizma✨

Hell and you - amigo the devil

My bloody valentine - good charlotte

A little piece of heaven - avenge sevenfold

Obsessed with you - the Orion experience ✨✨

I want to destroy something beautiful - Josh Woodward

Ex lover’s lover - Aurelio Voltaire

Smoke and mirrors - jayn

System - Chester Bennington

Kiss - London after midnight

Begging for mercy - bullet for my valentine

Six feet underground - lord of the lost

Please don’t leave me - p!nk

Love, hate, love - Alice In Chains

The game - disturbed

Rid of me - PJ Harvey

Pain - boy harsher

I put a spell on you - screamin’ jay hawkins

Girlfriend - badflower ✨✨

Stalker - badflower

X Ana X - badflower

Under my thumb - The Rolling Stones

Gallery piece - of Montreal

Worked up so sexual - the faint

Crush - Jennifer Paige

Hatef—k - the bravery

In my mouth - the black dresses

Kute - Alex g

Mary - Alex g

Spit - show me the body & princess nokia

Body and blood - clipping. ✨✨

Violence (feat. Angelspit) - implant

Hatchet - archive

Step on me - the cardigans

Lovefool - the cardigans

The wolf - SIAMES

Whore - in this moment

Desire - MEG MYERS

THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND - bad omens

You are the apple - lady lamb ✨

You are the apple (still need you version) - lady lamb

To play hide and seek with jealousy - famous last words

Left handed kisses (feat. Fiona Apple) - Andrew bird

I want you to love me - Fiona Apple

Under the table - Fiona Apple ✨

No one else - weezer

Voices carry - ‘til Tuesday

Mascara - deftones

Red thread - Lisa germano

Siren song - bat for lashes

True love - thoushaltnot

Missed me - the Dresden dolls

Kamikaze - Susanne Sundfør

Yandere - Jazmin bean

Writer in the dark - lorde

Dog walk - pity sex

Soft stud - black belt Eagle Scout

Daddy issues - the neighborhood 🖤

The enemy you need to- blameshift

Begging to bleed - 8 graves

Mind games - sickick

Blindfold - sleeping wold

Murder - mako

Why do you love me - charlotte Lawrence

From the gallows - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

To the end - my chemical romance

Honey, this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us - my chemical romance

Hate me - Nico Collins

Ouch - N-dubz

She wnna (feat. Kaneda7) - SUICIDAL-IDOL

Right next 2 U - SUCIDAL-IDOL

Porcelain - better than Ezra

History of lovers - calexico & iron & wine

So goddamn alive - toehider

Mercy - Duffy

The killing kind - marianas trench

Fire up the night - new medicine ✨

Horror movies - huxlxy

Vanilla - huxlxy ✨

Tell me lies - huxlxy ✨

Tied down - Jaymes young

Devil in a dress (live) - Teddy swims

Slowly spilling out - saint motel

Fucked up - young rising sons

The suffering - coheed and cambria

LUNCH -Billie eilish

Shut me up - mindless self indulgence

Butcheress - rabbitology

Silvertongue - young the giant 🖤

Ma meillure ennemie (from the series arcane league of legends) - stromae & pomme

The main character - will wood 🖤

Vampire reference in a minor key - will wood

Your body, my temple - will wood

The ballad of Lucy gray Baird (from the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes) - Rachel zegler

Allies or enemies - the crane wives

Take me to war (live) - the crane wives

Go get your gun - the dear hunter 🖤

Tear you apart - she wants revenge

Rule #34 - fish in a birdcage

Familiar - Agnes obel

Sunburn - muse

Terrible thing - AG

Losing my religion - R.E.M.

[tokidokifish]

looking back on the garak/bashir meeting scene and andy robinson the man that you are. like if you didn’t know he was playing it as garak high key cruising bashir, what an INSANE acting choice the hands on the shoulders thing would be.

[liebgirl]

ok. as promised i will now update everyone on the cobra kai gay race. given this a lot of thought. (lie. this is like 80% vibe based) like genuinely i’m more invested in the hypothetical concept of cobra kai making one of their characters gay than i am in several aspects of my own life. anyway

i have to preface by saying i fear any odds have dwindled significantly of cobra kai pulling the Established Character Goes Canon Gay move that i feel like one million other shows have pulled this year. there are five episodes left there’s not much time to do anything at all let alone a gay reveal. however i wouldn’t put it past them just yet hence why i’m still making this list

first of all let’s get all the ones with no chance out of our way. sam, miguel, tory, daniel, johnny, amanda, carmen, demetri (even having his gf dump him does not give him this shot. he has never been gay i’m SORRY), that iron dragons guy who likes sam, kwon (rip… i’d give him a posthumous chance but i just can’t see it), kim, chozen, and again UNFORTUNATELY for our man tanner buchanan, robby.

one character has done something so huge and unheard of and frankly, i thought impossible. and made it off the No Chance Of Going Gay List i made after part one… major congratulations are in order for anthony larusso who gave himself one final low probability shot… give it up for anthony you’ll be seeing him on the ranked list <3 anthony look at us… who would’ve thought!

again kreese and silver do not get to appear on this list at all for a multitude of reasons. the end

11) shawn’s odds have gone down because given how little he actually appears it would hardly be significant to mention even if he was gay. but i just can’t put him on the initial list of no-chance-havers…

10) zara. odds are low but never zero.

9) tolya shadow and bone. we all know he fucked that old man. come on

8) kenny. hard to explain. i think his odds are about. 30%. but it’s not nothing…

7) eli

6) kyler. again don’t ask me to explain this i just really believe in it. ok

5) mike barnes. never too late to pull a ben chang!

4) chris or mitch getting ranked as one because they’re basically the same character anyway. they weren’t even in part two though. where are chris and mitch… anyway as they say it’s never too late to pull a ben chang. it would be funny but not homophobic because they’re on the good team. you understand!

3) i know i’m about to sound crazy. anthony. buddy made it from not a chance to number THREE. dude just trust me omg

2) i’ve said it many times. dyke devon is basically already confirmed to me. it doesn’t need to be a Reveal or even a Thing she can just have a little moment and it will count and still be just as significant as anything else…

1) never. EVER. too late for aisha robinson to come back with the steel chair. finale appearance where she references her gf she’s going to nyu with or something… let me dream my beautiful dream ok

this list took me one million years btw because i sat here for days not knowing where to place eli. he is so fucking complicated to me i can’t leave him off the list because the odds are literally never zero. please remember that i got the station 19 jack andy endgame this year and it has made me overconfident and i don’t think i can believe anything with certainty anymore… but i can’t put him high on the list because if it were going to happen his girlfriend would have dumped him by now. you understand. anyway. y’all take it easy <3

[masonhawthorne]

What I read in March

Hoo boy, it's taken me a while to get around to this again, huh? I want to say March was a busy month, but it's too much of a blur for me to remember what was going on. I feel like I was climbing a lot (I've taken up rock climbing, have I mentioned?) but otherwise, I have no clue where March went.

Anyways, I got some good reading done!

Edge of Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Analysis & Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything, Dorsey Armstrong ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Will of the Many, James Islington ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And Put Away Childish Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Gold Coast, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Vol 11, ed Jonathan Strahan ⭐️⭐️⭐️

New Rules & Guidelines From HR for Working with Humans (ss), Derin Edala ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Angel (ss), Derin Edala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Martian: Lost Sols (ss), Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Merciless Waters, Rae Knowles ⭐️⭐️

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Cursed Heart, Derin Edala⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker ⭐️

Pacific Edge, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Phytophthora Nosferatu (ss), J Corvine ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Minty Fresh, J Corvine⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Labyrinth of Dreams, Derin Edala ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lure, Tim McGregor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Fascination, Essie Fox ❌❌❌

There were a couple of surprises for me this month, some were nice surprises, and some were...somewhat less than nice surprices. It's good, gotta have some surprises to keep you nimble.

The Will of the Many by James Islington was the first surprise, I had thought I'd like it well enough, the concept seemed interesting, and it turns out that it was actually fantastic. A smooth take on the dystopic genre, with a great attention to detail, and handling of social forces on the characters. The scifi elements might have come off as a bit silly if they'd been handled less skillfully, but over the course of the novel the real horror of the hierarchy becomes ever more apparent. Also it ends on a killer cliffhanger--where is the sequel??

A slight disappointment was that The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge, books two and three of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Three Californias Trilogy were...just not quite as good as the rest of his work that I've read. I found that TGC focussed too much on the 'futuristic party boy hedonist' archetype that I find stultifying in fiction, and while the surrounding worldbuilding was interesting I just could not stand any of the characters.

PE on the other hand was kind of...boring? Now don't get me wrong, I love boring books, but it was boring in the sense that I was reading it feeling like 'ok now when's the story going to happen?' there are only so many softball games which are metaphors for small town politics and romantic relationships that I can sit through. The other problem with PE, I think, is that it is aggressively middle of the road. In the other California novels, the protagonists have Forces to Push Against, but PE is set in a kind of idyllic postcapitalist cooperative, where small town politics is the biggest thing going on and the main conflict of the book can be solved with a strongly worded awareness campaign. Like I GET what was being done, but I also feel like this one could have been a third as long as it was and carried the same weight, but perhaps with fewer softball games.

Dune: Messiah was a nice surprise, I only read Dune last year, and I really enjoyed it, but I've only ever heard that the series goes downhill after the first one. Absolutely not! I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of Frank Herbert's Dune books!

The two real clunkers this month were The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker, and The Fascination by Essie Fox. Both for similar reasons, actually. There was a whole lot of racism going on, in ways that were, y'know, disappointing but not surprising from a guy writing shock novels a hundred-and-something years ago, but really pretty upsetting from a novel that was published in 2023 and has lots of very positive reviews.

Having read several Stoker books now, I found that there was little of the sort of charm that I've come to expect from his writing. The characters were kind of flat and unpleasant, and the antagonists were evil for the sake of being evil. I'm actually surprised that this is one of his later works, because it reads as so much less sophisticated than the other things I've read.

The Fascination was the gift that kept on giving, if the kinds of gift you like are things like racism, ableism, and biphobia which seem bad at first, and then keep doubling down on themselves. The book also has an air of smug superiority, presenting sequence after sequence of exploitation dreck and then turning smirkingly to the reader like 'see I bet you assumed [something racist, ableist, biphobic, etc]'. The end of the novel hinges on a big reveal, which is that...one of the focalising characters has a disability. Which should, apparently, reframe how we've understood the character from the beginning, and which should shock us out of our assumptions that people with that disability couldn't be main characters. Or something.

I think it takes a lot of work to write something that makes the disability representation in Game of Thrones feel subtle and nuanced.

There was so much wrong with The Fascination that I could probably spend another several paragraphs listing them, but to be honest reading the book was unpleasant enough, I don't really feel like spending my evening reliving all that. My final criticism is that the book is insufferably twee and self satisfied. There was not one sentence that made me think that it was worthwhile to read.

To end on a positive note, all of the indie books and stories that I read were delightful! I've included links to most of them above, and it's really refreshing to read stuff that is smart, well written, and which actually has something interesting to say, even if that something is 'hey wouldn't it be super fucked up if there was a vampire in your flower bed?'

Anyways, that's enough for this month!

[hey wait, psst, did you know, I've got a novelette? It's available now: https://books2read.com/u/3kOvKn ]

Stars awarded at my whim

ss=short story