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illuminopseudonymous · 2 months ago

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Every single Brawl Stars character as songs

So, I was unhappy with my prior posts on this topic, both because of the song choices I made and because I didn't properly credit the musicians behind them. Ergo, I'm going to compile all of the brawlers into a single list below the cut, and then update and reblog this post each time a new brawler is released.

Feedback regarding song choices is encouraged if you think you have a better fit for a character.

8-Bit: "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia

Amber: "Burnin' Up" by A Flock of Seagulls

Angelo: "There! Right There!" from Legally Blonde: The Musical (written by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe)

Ash: "Trash Day" by "Weird" Al Yankovic

Barley: "Bottle Action" by Ms. B'Havin

Bea: "Lord of the Hornets" by Robert Calvert

Belle: "Disciple of Lightning" by DJ the S

Berry: "Skipper Dan" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Bibi: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth

Bo: "The Wild West is Where I Want to Be" by Tom Lehrer

Bonnie: "Human Cannonball" by Webb Wilder

Brock: "Rocket Jump Waltz" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Bull: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen

Buster: "Rock-And-Roll Nerd" by Tim Minchin

Buzz: "Run This Town" by JAY-Z featuring Rhianna and Kanye West

Byron: "A Little Heart-To-Heart" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Carl: "Diggy Diggy Hole" by The Yogscast

Charlie: "Spider-Man (1967) Theme" by Paul Francis Webster and Bob Harris

Chester: "I Remember Larry" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Chuck: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach

Clancy: "Crab Rave" by Noisestorm

Colette: "Every Breath You Take" by The Police

Colt: "Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC

Cordelius: "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane

Crow: "Young Dumb and Ugly" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic

Darryl: "He's a Pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Composed by Klaus Badelt)

Doug: "Surf Wax America" by Weezer

Draco: "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce

Dynamike: "T.N.T." by AC/DC

Edgar: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana

El Primo: "Mexican Wrestler" by Jill Sobule

Emz: "Respectless" from Hazbin Hotel (Composed by Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg, Andrew Alderete, Gooseworx, and Parry Gripp)

Eve: "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors (Composed by Alan Menken)

Fang: "Kung-Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas

Frank: "Fireflies" by Owl City

Gale: "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" by Garth Brooks

Gene: "Arabian Nights" from Aladdin (Performed by Robin Williams)

Gray: "Scheming Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod

Griff: "Big Boss Man" by Jimmy Reed

Grom: "Main Theme" from Bomberman (Composed by Jun Chikuma)

Gus: "Turn the Lights Off" by Tally Hall

Hank: "Send the Marines" by Tom Lehrer

Jacky: "Poundcake" by Van Halen

Janet: "Death from Above" by Turbonegro

Jessie: "More Gun" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Juju: "Friends on the Other Side" from The Princess and the Frog (performed by Keith David)

Kenji: "Title Theme" from Fruit Ninja (Luke Muscat)

Kit: "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!"/ "Nyan Cat Theme" by daniwell featuring Hatsune Miku

Larry & Lawrie: "Back to Back" by Pretty Maids

Leon: "Right Behind You" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Lily: "Return of the Giant Hogweed" by Genesis

Lola: "Big Shot" by Billy Joel

Lou: "Sky-High Sundae" from Mario Kart Tour (composer unknown)

Maisie: "What's Up Danger" from Into the Spider-Verse (by Blackway & Black Caviar)

Mandy: "Cookie Land" from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Composed by Shinobu Tanaka and Kenta Nagata)

Max: "Caffeine" by Psychostick

Meg: "Peach-ball Launches! Robobot Armor" from Kirby: Planet Robobot (Composed by Hirozaku Ando and Jun Ishikawa)

Melodie: "Miku" by Anamanguchi featuring Hatsune Miku

Mico: "Beverly Hills" by Weezer

Moe: "Cripple's Shield Wall" by The Knight in Leslie Fish

Mortis: "Hate the Day" by Behind the Scenes

Mr. P: "Hotel California" by The Eagles

Nani: "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce

Nita: "Wild Child" by The Doors

Otis: "Graffiti Crimes" by Mi-Sex

Pam: "You Will Be Okay" from Helluva Boss (Composed by Sam Haft and Andrew Underburg, performed by Bryce Pinkham)

Pearl: "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy" by Spike Jones

Penny: "You Are a Pirate" from LazyTown (by Stefan Karl Steffanson and composed by Máni Svavarsson)

Piper: "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins (Composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman)

Poco: "Spooky Scary Skeletons" by Andrew Gold

R-T: "Eye in the Sky" by The Alan Parsons Project

Rico: "Pinball Wizard" by The Who

Rosa: "Garden Song" by David Mallett

Ruffs: "Send the Marines" by Tom Lehrer

Sam: "Super Macho Man" from Punch-Out!! Wii (Composed by Mike Peacock, Darren Radtke, and Chad York)

Sandy: "Enter Sandman" by Metallica

Shade: to be released

Shelly: "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" from Team Fortress 2 (By Valve Studio Orchestra)

Spike: "Super Mario Bros. Desert Theme" from Super Mario Maker 2 (Composed by Koji Kondo)

Sprout: "Trees" by Tom Lehrer

Squeak: "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Stu: "Drive Fast (The Stuntman)" by Bruce Springsteen

Surge: "Rules of Nature" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Composed by Jamie Christopherson)

Tara: "Hot Rails to Hell" by Blue Oyster Cult

Tick: "Drop Da Bomb" by Doctor Steel

Willow: "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fishmen" by H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

#this took six hours #brawl stars #character analysis #music #feedback is appreciated #feedback is welcome #there isn't enough room to tag all the characters #character breakdown #music analysis

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wastelandt-t · 6 months ago

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"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."

— Albert Camus, The Rebel

Fiction is often the pill case for revolution, an outlet providing its narrator a means for advocation under the whimsical façade of fairies and dragons. C. S Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, presents a ‘supposal’ (Klein, 2023) for the demonstration of Christianity within the magical realm, his faith guiding the four children through ‘the other’ (Nero, 2018) and presenting a reality where the Neoplatonic ‘Good’ trumps all who oppose it, Western societies ideals of social conduct influencing and ultimately conquering the new world. While fiction can be read as a simple escape from the mundanity of modern capitalist structures, it is its separation from our common world that makes it so fulfilling to engage with, frequently using the readers' immediate environment and shared comforts as a foundation to develop its image; Apocalypse as a genre (its Romanised translation meaning Revelation), came to be via the first eschatological texts written by Jewish-Exilic prophets between 200-165bce, and provides an immediate substructure for modern apocalyptic books, Tv shows and Movies such as The Last of Us (2023-), The Walking Dead (2010-2022) and many more widely adored pieces of media. With the genesis of the apocalyptic genre rooted within the catastrophic antisemitic acts of Late Babylonian reform, there is a palpable consummation between social histories and religious allegory, a trend carried throughout history with almost all apocalyptic texts, whether presented through the threat of the Spanish Armada In Webster’s ‘Duchess of Malfi’(1613) or Stoker’s reflection of public hysteria surrounding the fallen woman (The Fallen Woman, 2015) and the colonial guilt (Ilott, 2019) of the fin de siècle in ‘Dracula’(1897). In an ever-growing landscape reliant on technological advancements, there’s ultimately a far greater accessibility to such media, both moral conduct and educational improvements throughout history allowing modern civilization to adapt these tales to a varied representation of the genre for individualist satisfaction. Within the excitement of infinitesimal representations of leads and anti-heroes, a prevalent theme has begun to emerge within the apocalyptic genre, one that is intrinsically linked to the trivialised internet term ‘DILFism’, referring to the generalised attraction towards or for exclusively older men within an overwhelmingly female audience of a significantly younger age. These often white, conventionally attractive older men are a significant drive in younger female audiences engaging in apocalyptic works that have conventionally been geared towards male interest, diverting the gaze often adapted for male interest (such as in the Tomb Raider games and films with the ultra-feminine and beautiful Lara Croft) to a shockingly attainable yet handsome father figure, there to be digested by audiences sexually while posing no threat to his young viewers by appearing adorably platonic. This Leading Man acts in innuendo, appealing to the taboo intrigue of young sexuality and providing a pacifying pathway for the viewer to enact her fantasy upon him, whether that be sexual or fatherly. While this trope could easily be banished to the realm of misogynistic irrelevance such as the vampire craze of the early 2000s was for its overwhelming digestion by young female audiences, the overlap between male-centered apocalyptic action media and its newly claimed female audience presents parallels to social metaphors that reflect the (aforementioned) Prophets of the Old Testament. The emergence of this new Byronic Hero within modern apocalyptic media represents modern fears, a religion on which an under-represented diaspora can exert a mythological metaphor. Despite their undeniable good looks, the men at the center of the female gaze within the apocalyptic genre give a deeper insight into the shortcomings of establishment, and in their placement within the end of the world, such figures can help guide a displaced generation into the promise of a better future.

Early 2000s media brought with it a wave of seemingly irreverent internet terms, which when used to describe the emerging cliques and fandoms for contemporary literature and films such as Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, saw an overwhelming demonisation of its content. Any misogynistic nuance was dissolved when considering the types of media being slated, internet forums and websites such as Kiwi Farms and Tumblr established for the sole purpose of slating media directed towards young, female audiences in the name of ‘Cringe Culture’. Where girls reading Stephanie Meyer and choosing to be team Jacob or Edward was the epitome of hysterical vanity, the same penalisation was not shown towards male-catered media, fights and deaths over football teams honoured as war victories as girls received insult over fandom blogs and posters on walls. While criticism of female-catered media is certainly justified in many respects (whether that be the glorification of eating disorders, negative body image, or the inherent controversy of consent between a 17-year-old girl and a 200-year-old vampire), chauvinist reactions to the female gaze prevailed, hence why as society liberalised the boundaries between gendered content (largely through the extensive piloting towards gender expression by feminist groups and non-binary protest), the leading man, our projective, father Byronic hero becomes the epitome of revolution within the segregated world of media consumption. Opinions, often held by men under the internet-slag terms ‘Incel’ or ‘Lolcow’, offer the opinion that the shared interest in these apocalyptic father figures by both men and women is inherently Freudian, that sexual drive and colloquially termed ‘daddy issues’ is the sole aspect in the consumption of male media by female audiences, inferring a shallowness to girl’s nature as they attempt to gatekeep. While there is irrefutable evidence of women being attracted sexually to the characters at the forefront of the argument, it holds no exclusivity; within these fantasy realms, physical attributes gain a certain irrelevance and whether battle-scarred or zoomorphised, each carries a similarly adoring audience. Within a society that values physical appearance so highly, the wastelands of an apocalypse offer the opportunity to alleviate the social pressures of conformity and the standards of beauty. With an estimated 8.6% of women suffering from disordered eating patterns (more than double the men affected), the survivalist landscape of a zombie apocalypse where self-preservation dominates institutional conventions becomes an unexpected comfort, a safe and Gothic green world upon which to live out the fantasy of escaping debilitating illness. With guides such as the war-torn Daryl Dixon or Rick Grimes from AMC’s The Walking Dead providing for you in this primitive, romanticised escape from your mental illness, it is no wonder so many girls seek comfort within the desolate apocalyptic landscape. Apocalypse here serves as an anecdote to a social structure dictated by advertising, women accounting for 80-90% of the $500 million beauty market fundamentally run by men. To find a man willing to accept you irrespective of looks, while depressingly vain when acknowledged, is undoubtedly attractive, affording viewers to see themselves as a woman worthy of survival while living in a society informed by looks. The Wasteland offers the ultimate validation for an impressionable young audience and finds a female majority following his character where the other sex finds it hard to relate, gendered advertising stretching rarely to male discredit as it does with women.

The promise of valued character over physicality is not the only unexpected comfort to come from the man at the forefront of the apocalypse; much of the character-archetype's allure comes from his ability to resolve crises and act in line with Western ideals of morality. Regardless of whether he has killed before or enjoys the violence of the landscape, he miraculously only harms those who rebut the American Dream, in many cases actively trying to restore it through seeking cures to outbreak or establishing towns on which to build a new, cleaner society. The congruence of societal reflection seen within all historical Apocalyptic fantasy media becomes apparent when considering recent social histories within the audiences' own lives. Many have lived through tragedy, viewers relating to fears of the pandemic, the prospect of war and its homely presence since the nuclear threat of the 1980s, and environmental meltdown a certainty at the hands of corrupt Machiavellian leadership. To see reality nullified and mythicised through the lens of fantasy makes a game of real fears, control passed to a righteous leader that works only for the common good. The control this lead plays in the survival of the apocalypse is perhaps his greatest attribute and, where his authority would be considered threatening in the current reality, only furthers his moral good within the ‘othering’ of Gothic apocalyptic fantasy; Joel Miller, the lead male character in the video game/TV series The Last of Us, is a prime example of the unsuspecting yet powerful virtue of the archetype. In his reluctant quest to move a young girl (Ellie) across the wasteland of zombie-ruined America, he presents an unfaltering physical and mental strength when facing those intent on harming the child. He is family-oriented, seeing something of his late-daughter in Ellie, installing such a strong, platonic bond between the two that he becomes the ultimate guardian, and audiences are assured that no harm should ever come to the child as long as she is with her adopted father, Joel; the transitional period between teen-age and adulthood is a turbulent time developmentally, The Pew Research Institute assessing that fatherly relationships with their daughters are significantly lower in civility than they are in mother/daughter relationships. Joel and characters like him provide an alternative, his nature an accumulation of desired or lost parental relations, not only installing him with the control a parent possesses but elevating the responsibility of the emerging adult viewer as they find comfort in rewritten and fictitious paternal relations. Joel is unfalteringly omnipotent, omnipresent, and benevolent towards Ellie, positioning his character in a prophetic light, deifying him through moral and physical superiority that seems worthy of worship, just as girlish fandom does within fan pages and forums. His fatherly devotion establishes zero sexual threat which, in a society where 15 million girls ages 15-19 have experienced rape and sexual violence, offers a reprieve from the everyday terror of assault, his character going as far as to hunt down and sadistically eliminate those who attempted to enact such abuse upon Ellie. Where indignation is a reality expected for many women emerging into adulthood and with ubiquitous fears of societal and environmental disestablishment, a character, morally grey as the ‘green world’ has allowed them to become, adheres to the scriptures of idealised, Christian virtue, allocating the same messianic image onto the aging survivalist as Aslan provided in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles. Their characters are easily relatable, the main drive of the archetype is to reestablish a dignified control in an otherwise unstable landscape, a reflection of the transitional state of the age and location of his audience within a faltering capitalist civilisation.

The perfect image of this hero is disparaged only by his age and appearance, which, within a topography so ruinous as in the realm of fantasy, often only deepens his appeal; Domonique Lestel from the Edinburgh University Press supposes that young adult audiences reflect their opinions of the state of the common world into the media mythologies, meaning that romanticising the downfall of Institution makes it easier to digest, especially for those just entering a chartered marketplace disguised as the ‘9-5’. Through creating a limerent and metaphorical relationship with the characters that represent the shortcomings of society, it is easier to categorise reality in an attractive regard: falling in love with the principled ‘monster’ navigating the end of the world makes one’s journey a lot more palatable. Leaders of the Pagan faith endorse similar techniques of self-soothing and discovery through spiritual rituals such as shadow work, where a subject attempts to converse with the Freudian, psychoanalytic ‘Id’ with the aim of self-reflection and ultimately deliverance from repressed fears and desires stifling life’s natural transitions. Through the discovery of personal discomposure, one can reframe anxieties within superficial terrain, allowing audiences in such a landscape of apocalyptic fiction to transgress fear into desire. Indications of transgressive reframing are found throughout literary history, similar reflections of the female gaze can be witnessed through Lucy Westenra’s actions in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897); in her somnambulic state, Lucy finds herself unchaperoned in the garden late at night, called to the wolf-ish form of Dracula through an uncharacteristic sexual appetite, actions which would ultimately lead to her untimely and violent death. Lucy’s representation as the ‘femme fatale’ within the epistolary novel was a pasquinade by Stoker, mocking contemporary views on the Fallen Woman and implicitly addressing the institutions upon which he as an author was extradited for his social politics. Through the lens of the Gothic, which as a genre, rests parallel to apocalyptic fantasy, the taboo is far easier indulged in, its separation from reality making the unknowable known and the offensive, satire, all containing still the knowledge that the text's themes are simply a facade held against the contemporary landscape. Our attraction to the hazy morals, animalistic forms, and violent delight of the apocalyptic male archetype is nothing more than a handsome way of exploring feared desire, whether that be sexual or in virtue, born from discomfort within the modern world with a value likened to religious practice, ancient or reformed.

With women often subject to the violent scapegoat of male-catered media, the stereotyped innocence of femininity is abolished when faced with the Western world’s destruction. It's unlikely that the shock of 19th century ‘flaneur-ish’ tropes depicting the slaying of the vicious, voluptuous, and ‘Fallen Woman’ with teeth lining her Vagina have vanished within the mindless violence of the modern slasher flick. Within the land of the undead, there’s an established law that human, moral or otherwise, boasts an absolute right to life above their late opposition; where the monster finds its origins in the misogynistic depictions of liberated women, the gleeful attitude towards the ‘boogeyman's’’ demise is perhaps a rather depressing extension of those same disparaging views towards, the colloquially and improperly termed, ‘fairer sex’. Women infiltrating these male-dominated spaces such as video game fandoms set within the apocalypse summons similar, but most certainly more trivial, trepidations as suffrage installed within the turn of the industrial century. The same threat to authority men faced in the political sphere during the late reign of Victoria is reproduced through retweets and dislikes, writers of modern apocalyptic media reframing institutional, often misogynistic tropes to seek a wider audience for capital gain, leaving many men stuck in the conventions of old to feel displaced themselves within ‘incel-ish’ apathy towards change. They find themselves unable to find the Femme Fatale represented within the media, disallowing an outlet to see women suffer nonsensically as was common up to as late as the mid-2000s (‘I Spit on your Grave’ [2010] being a continuously remade and adapted film that sees the liberation of its leading women to become a subplot to non-con/rape fantasy). The lead-male archetype is more than just a pretty face and a pat on the back for his audience, as his presence within the media is discouraging fantastical depictions of sexual assault and violence towards women for male satisfaction: his nonchalance and undiscriminating violence or absolute devotion towards social change add something of a Byronic hero to the framework of his media, providing a role model for young men, as well as an incentive to engage for women. The success of his character has lent itself to a lesser production of sadistic, prejudiced, and pornographic material influencing the impressionable generation, the irony of his place within a desolate, fictional society creating an antithetical impression on the reality of those who digest his plot.

The joy of seeing oneself accepted within celebrated media is an undisputable joy and the lessons one inadvertently learns through the exploration of a fictional narrative can uncover subconscious truths about the very foundations of society. In a world of strict binaries that install obtuse depressions and fears surrounding the transgressional stages we as a species collectively face, a character who holds a vicarious command over his landscape is a lot easier to adore than those with influence within reality, the fallible nature of his actions and desires forgivable through his distance from reality. Yet, it is his ability to collate the diverse nature of humanity that shows his audience a fairer, more accepting reality is possible, his bringing together of opposites through fandom blogs such as the one you are on currently, a much-needed reprieve from the segregated nature of our current political landscape. In a world of dog-eat-dog, the leading moody, fallible, scarred, violent, caring, volatile, sullen, moral, courteous, and devoted survivalist holds out his arm and holster to a new generation of isolated but hopeful youths to grab a hold on.

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celestemagnoliathewriter · 1 year ago

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Andromeda Rises and Falls

I have tentatively titled the first part of this Tedromeda/Remadora AU! The working title is 'Andromeda Rises and Falls' as the first half is heavily Tedromeda focused, and told more in Andromeda's POV than Dora's. This is the moodboard/fancast/faceclaims for part 1.

From top left to bottom right:

Top left: Millie Tonks nee Webster (OC - Muggle, actor Eloise Smyth)

Top middle: Claudius Travers (OC - pureblood wizard, actor Hero Fiennes-Tiffin)

Top right: Otto (OC - a very good kitty)

Middle left: Ted Tonks (actor Josh Hutcherson. Ted keeps giving me Peeta vibes)

Middle center: Nymphadora T. (just a pic I found on Pinterest)

Middle right: Andromeda T. nee Black (actor Jessica Brown Findlay)

Bottom left: Eunice Travers nee Bulstrode (OC - pureblood witch, actor Ruby Bentall, pic from 2008 Lost in Austen when she played Mary Bennet)

Bottom middle: Malcolm Travers (OC - pureblood wizard, actor Jamie Flatters)

Bottom right: Byron Travers (OC - pureblood wizard, actor Kevan McNally. The pic is from Downton Abbey when he played Horace Bryant, and I can't picture Byron any other way in my head.)

When I've got more written for the second half of the work I'll make an updated board for those faceclaims/actors.

#hp fan cast #tedromeda #my ocs #so many ocs #andromeda black #ted tonks #nymphadora tonks

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antebellumite · 8 months ago

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Alternate Universe: Stateswap

The year is 1823 and John C. Calhoun, son of Patrick Calhoun, is an up and rising lawyer, amateur economist, national bank enthusiast, and recent Representative of Pennsylvania. He's coming to Washington City accompanied by banker and soon-to-be 2BUS head, Nicholas Biddle.

Along the path to the nation's capitol, the two come across prospective Presidential candidate Henry Clay of Virginia, with his erstwhile ally, John Randolph of Roanoke, and his clerk, Daniel Webster (who beat Calhoun once in a court case when he was still doing that up north). Although initially wishing to not stir any waters, Calhoun finds himself increasingly tangled up in the presidential machinations of the alluring blond candidate, as well as his byronic, charming-if-questionable, stenographer.

Oh, and Randolph. Too.

#daniel webster #nicholas biddle #john c calhoun #my art #fanart #fic ideas #how does the 2bus get formed without jcc u ask? easy #somehow

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angelloverde · 1 year ago

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"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 23 October

Brian Newman - Sunday In New York

Buscrates Feat. Sally Green - Lost & Found

Byron The Aquarius - Space & Time

Carlos Dafe - La Vem Ela

Charles Webster Feat. Shara Nelson - this Is Real

Cinephonic - Paradis Artificiels

Common Saints - Idol Eyes

Demae - Stuck In A Daze

Dave Dunlop - Midnight Gamble

Shaka Loves You - Disco Weapon 2

Cornell C.C. Carter - Keep Your Head To The Sky

Dougie Stu - Familar Future

EABS - Discipline 27

Eric Hilton - Infinite Everywhere

Fat Freddy's Drop - Soldier

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

#mo soul #playlist #music #soul #blues #funk #jazz #lounge #reggae #rock #fusion #house #r&b #afro funk #disco funk #acid jazz #nu jazz

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raybizzle · 5 months ago

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"That Man Bolt" (1973) is an action film starring Fred Williamson. The movie is a cross between blaxploitation, martial arts, and superspy genres with appearances from trained martial arts experts. Williamson was no stranger to the big screen by 1973 as he starred in over five films as lead actor. Some of his most notable roles in '72 were "The Legend of N***** Charley," "Hammer," and "Black Caesar." The early 70s saw an increase in the number of Black actor opportunities in Hollywood. Williamson was arguably the face of this new surge and a definitive action star.

Directors: Henry Levin, David Lowell Rich Writers: Charles Eric Johnson, Ranald MacDougall

Starring Fred Williamson, Byron Webster, Miko Mayama, Teresa Graves, Masatoshi Nakamura, John Orchard, Jack Ging, Ken Kazama, Vassili Lambrinos

Storyline When you need a real man of steel, martial arts expert Jefferson Bolt is the high-priced pick for the job. His latest client, a mysterious British man with a cool million in cash, has an offer Bolt can't refuse: transport his money from Hong Kong to Mexico City or be sent to prison on phony charges. But halfway to his destination, Bolt discovers that the money is funny, and he's been set up to take the fall. With a price on his head and nowhere to turn, Bolt sets out to destroy the crime syndicate that dared to take him on. From high-stakes danger in glitzy Las Vegas to high-speed chases through gritty Los Angeles, Bolt strikes back again and again with an explosive battle culminating in a fiery finish.

Available on Blu-ray

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glennk56 · 13 days ago

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Byron Webster in the 1980s.

There is no mention of a wife and kids in his IMDb profile. He passed away in 1991 of AIDS at the age of 60.

In 1981, he was in the film Only When I Laugh with Marsha Mason and James Coco.

He appeared in an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1985.

As well as an episode of Remington Steele in 1985.

And an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King in 1986.

And Byron Webster was another waiter in Newhart in 1986.

He was in an episode of The New Mike Hangar in 1986.

And Byron Webster was in an episode of Highway to Heaven in 1987 as a Judge.

Byron Webster appeared in many more TV Shows and movies.

#Byron Webster #fat actor #character actor #1980s

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englishabroad · 1 year ago

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Rare and unusual English words I found on the internet

There are many English words who I am not familiair with. After some research on the internet, I found some extraordinary English words, which I consider unfamiliar.

#1 Abnegation

The first word I learnt when browsing on the internet is: Abnegation[1].

According to Cambridge dictionary (2023), the definition of abnegation can be seen as:

‘The act of not allowing yourself to have something, especially something you like or want’

Here are some examples to place the word in a correct context:

They believe it is the duty of women to live for others in complete abnegation of themselves.

It is a heart-warming tale of courage and abnegation.

Besides, it can also be interpreted as:

‘The act of not accepting something, or of saying that you do not have something’

Some examples on this one are:

To ignore these issues would be a serious abnegation of responsibility.

This abnegation of customer care really annoys me.

#2: Sesquipedalian

When I was searching for an interesting online article, I came across the word sesquipedalian, which I found in a journal register[2].

According to Fara Tamizuddin (2009), sesquipedalian is a description of a person who loves big words. It was first used in 1656 and according to the Merriam Webster dictionary (z.d.) it can be described as: given to or characterized by the use of long words.

Sentence example[3]: he is a sesquipedalian television commentator.

#3 Bibliopole

Another funny word I found on the internet is ‘Bibliopole’.[4] This word was firstly used in 1710 and a derivative of the Latin word ‘bibliopōla’ and the Greek word ‘bibliopṓlēs’. It can be defined as: a book seller, especially a dealer in rare or used books. A sentence example for this word is: ‘’If I had the poetic vein, I would indite a pendant to Byron's iambics to that enlightened bibliopole’’ – George A. Lawrence

[1] Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/abnegation

[2] Source: https://eu.sj-r.com/story/news/2009/11/17/a-word-to-wise/41730403007/

[3] Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sesquipedalian#h1

[4] Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bibliopole

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barefootbaltimore · 7 months ago

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Full plain text list of votes under the cut. Vote these people out.

Yea AL 1st R Carl, Jerry

Yea AL 2nd R Moore, Barry

Yea AL 3rd R Rogers, Mike

Yea AL 4th R Aderholt, Robert

Yea AL 5th R Strong, Dale

Yea AL 6th R Palmer, Gary

Yea AL 7th D Sewell, Terri

Alaska

Yea AK D Peltola, Mary

Arizona

Yea AZ 1st R Schweikert, David

Yea AZ 2nd R Crane, Eli

Yea AZ 3rd D Gallego, Ruben

Yea AZ 4th D Stanton, Greg

Yea AZ 5th R Biggs, Andy

Yea AZ 6th R Ciscomani, Juan

No Vote AZ 7th D Grijalva, Raúl

Yea AZ 8th R Lesko, Debbie

Yea AZ 9th R Gosar, Paul

Arkansas

Yea AR 1st R Crawford, Eric

Yea AR 2nd R Hill, French

Yea AR 3rd R Womack, Steve

Yea AR 4th R Westerman, Bruce

California

Yea CA 1st R LaMalfa, Doug

Nay CA 2nd D Huffman, Jared

Yea CA 3rd R Kiley, Kevin

Yea CA 4th D Thompson, Mike

Yea CA 5th R McClintock, Tom

Yea CA 6th D Bera, Ami

Yea CA 7th D Matsui, Doris

Yea CA 8th D Garamendi, John

Yea CA 9th D Harder, Josh

Nay CA 10th D DeSaulnier, Mark

Yea CA 11th D Pelosi, Nancy

Nay CA 12th D Lee, Barbara

Yea CA 13th R Duarte, John

Yea CA 14th D Swalwell, Eric

Yea CA 15th D Mullin, Kevin

Yea CA 16th D Eshoo, Anna

Yea CA 17th D Khanna, Ro

Yea CA 18th D Lofgren, Zoe

Yea CA 19th D Panetta, Jimmy

Yea CA 21st D Costa, Jim

Yea CA 22nd R Valadao, David

Yea CA 23rd R Obernolte, Jay

Yea CA 24th D Carbajal, Salud

Yea CA 25th D Ruiz, Raul

Yea CA 26th D Brownley, Julia

Yea CA 27th R Garcia, Mike

Nay CA 28th D Chu, Judy

No Vote CA 29th D Cárdenas, Tony

Yea CA 30th D Schiff, Adam

Yea CA 31st D Napolitano, Grace

Yea CA 32nd D Sherman, Brad

Yea CA 33rd D Aguilar, Pete

No Vote CA 34th D Gomez, Jimmy

Yea CA 35th D Torres, Norma

Yea CA 36th D Lieu, Ted

Nay CA 37th D Kamlager-Dove, Sydney

Yea CA 38th D Sánchez, Linda

Yea CA 39th D Takano, Mark

Yea CA 40th R Kim, Young

Yea CA 41st R Calvert, Ken

Nay CA 42nd D Garcia, Robert Julio

Nay CA 43rd D Waters, Maxine

Yea CA 44th D Barragán, Nanette

Yea CA 45th R Steel, Michelle

Yea CA 46th D Correa, Luis

Nay CA 47th D Porter, Katie

Yea CA 48th R Issa, Darrell

Yea CA 49th D Levin, Mike

Yea CA 50th D Peters, Scott

Nay CA 51st D Jacobs, Sara

Yea CA 52nd D Vargas, Juan

Colorado

Yea CO 1st D DeGette, Diana

Yea CO 2nd D Neguse, Joe

Yea CO 3rd R Boebert, Lauren

Yea CO 5th R Lamborn, Doug

Yea CO 6th D Crow, Jason

Yea CO 7th D Pettersen, Brittany

No Vote CO 8th D Caraveo, Yadira

Connecticut

Yea CT 1st D Larson, John

Yea CT 2nd D Courtney, Joe

Yea CT 3rd D DeLauro, Rosa

Yea CT 4th D Himes, Jim

Yea CT 5th D Hayes, Jahana

Delaware

Yea DE D Blunt Rochester, Lisa

Florida

Yea FL 1st R Gaetz, Matt

Yea FL 2nd R Dunn, Neal

Yea FL 3rd R Cammack, Kat

Yea FL 4th R Bean, Aaron

Yea FL 5th R Rutherford, John

Yea FL 6th R Waltz, Michael

Yea FL 7th R Mills, Cory

Yea FL 8th R Posey, Bill

Yea FL 9th D Soto, Darren

Nay FL 10th D Frost, Maxwell

Yea FL 11th R Webster, Daniel

Yea FL 12th R Bilirakis, Gus

Yea FL 13th R Paulina Luna, Anna

Yea FL 14th D Castor, Kathy

Yea FL 15th R Lee, Laurel

Yea FL 16th R Buchanan, Vern

Yea FL 17th R Steube, Gregory

Yea FL 18th R Franklin, Scott

Yea FL 19th R Donalds, Byron

Yea FL 20th D Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila

Yea FL 21st R Mast, Brian

Yea FL 22nd D Frankel, Lois

Yea FL 23rd D Moskowitz, Jared

No Vote FL 24th D Wilson, Frederica

Yea FL 25th D Wasserman Schultz, Debbie

Yea FL 26th R Diaz-Balart, Mario

Yea FL 27th R Salazar, Maria

Yea FL 28th R Gimenez, Carlos

Georgia

Yea GA 1st R Carter, Earl

Yea GA 2nd D Bishop, Sanford

Yea GA 3rd R Ferguson, Drew

Nay GA 4th D Johnson, Hank

Yea GA 5th D Williams, Nikema

Yea GA 6th R McCormick, Rich

Yea GA 7th D McBath, Lucy

Yea GA 8th R Scott, Austin

Yea GA 9th R Clyde, Andrew

Yea GA 10th R Collins, Mike

Yea GA 11th R Loudermilk, Barry

Yea GA 12th R Allen, Rick

Yea GA 13th D Scott, David

Yea GA 14th R Greene, Marjorie

Hawaii

Yea HI 1st D Case, Ed

Nay HI 2nd D Tokuda, Jill

Idaho

Yea ID 1st R Fulcher, Russ

Yea ID 2nd R Simpson, Mike

Illinois

Nay IL 1st D Jackson, Jonathan

Yea IL 2nd D Kelly, Robin

Nay IL 3rd D Ramirez, Delia

Nay IL 4th D García, Chuy

Yea IL 5th D Quigley, Mike

Yea IL 6th D Casten, Sean

Nay IL 7th D Davis, Danny

Yea IL 8th D Krishnamoorthi, Raja

Nay IL 9th D Schakowsky, Jan

Yea IL 10th D Schneider, Brad

Yea IL 11th D Foster, Bill

Yea IL 12th R Bost, Mike

Yea IL 13th D Budzinski, Nicole (Nikki)

Nay IL 14th D Underwood, Lauren

Yea IL 15th R Miller, Mary

Yea IL 16th R LaHood, Darin

Yea IL 17th D Sorensen, Eric

Indiana

Yea IN 1st D Mrvan, Frank

Yea IN 2nd R Yakym, Rudy

Yea IN 3rd R Banks, Jim

Yea IN 4th R Baird, James

Yea IN 5th R Spartz, Victoria

Yea IN 6th R Pence, Greg

Nay IN 7th D Carson, André

Yea IN 8th R Bucshon, Larry

Yea IN 9th R Houchin, Erin

Iowa

Yea IA 1st R Miller-Meeks, Mariannette

Yea IA 2nd R Hinson, Ashley

Yea IA 3rd R Nunn, Zachary (Zach)

Yea IA 4th R Feenstra, Randy

Kansas

Yea KS 1st R Mann, Tracey

Yea KS 2nd R LaTurner, Jake

Yea KS 3rd D Davids, Sharice

Yea KS 4th R Estes, Ron

Kentucky

Yea KY 1st R Comer, James

Yea KY 2nd R Guthrie, Brett

Yea KY 3rd D McGarvey, Morgan

Nay KY 4th R Massie, Thomas

Yea KY 5th R Rogers, Hal

Yea KY 6th R Barr, Andy

Louisiana

Yea LA 1st R Scalise, Steve

Yea LA 2nd D Carter, Troy

Yea LA 3rd R Higgins, Clay

Yea LA 4th R Johnson, Mike

Yea LA 5th R Letlow, Julia

Yea LA 6th R Graves, Garret

Maine

Nay ME 1st D Pingree, Chellie

Yea ME 2nd D Golden, Jared

Maryland

Yea MD 1st R Harris, Andy

Yea MD 2nd D Ruppersberger, A. Dutch

Yea MD 3rd D Sarbanes, John

Yea MD 4th D Ivey, Glenn

Yea MD 5th D Hoyer, Steny

Yea MD 6th D Trone, David

Yea MD 7th D Mfume, Kweisi

Yea MD 8th D Raskin, Jamie

Massachusetts

Yea MA 1st D Neal, Richard

Nay MA 2nd D McGovern, Jim

Yea MA 3rd D Trahan, Lori

Yea MA 4th D Auchincloss, Jake

Yea MA 5th D Clark, Katherine

Yea MA 6th D Moulton, Seth

Nay MA 7th D Pressley, Ayanna

Yea MA 8th D Lynch, Stephen

Yea MA 9th D Keating, William R.

Michigan

Yea MI 1st R Bergman, Jack

Yea MI 2nd R Moolenaar, John

Yea MI 3rd D Scholten, Hillary

Yea MI 4th R Huizenga, Bill

Yea MI 5th R Walberg, Tim

Nay MI 6th D Dingell, Debbie

Yea MI 7th D Slotkin, Elissa

Yea MI 8th D Kildee, Daniel

Yea MI 9th R McClain, Lisa

Yea MI 10th R James, John

Yea MI 11th D Stevens, Haley

Nay MI 12th D Tlaib, Rashida

Yea MI 13th D Thanedar, Shri

Minnesota

Yea MN 1st R Finstad, Brad

Yea MN 2nd D Craig, Angie

Yea MN 3rd D Phillips, Dean

Yea MN 4th D McCollum, Betty

Nay MN 5th D Omar, Ilhan

Yea MN 6th R Emmer, Tom

Yea MN 7th R Fischbach, Michelle

Yea MN 8th R Stauber, Pete

Mississippi

Yea MS 1st R Kelly, Trent

Yea MS 2nd D Thompson, Bennie

Yea MS 3rd R Guest, Michael

Yea MS 4th R Ezell, Mike

Missouri

Nay MO 1st D Bush, Cori

Yea MO 2nd R Wagner, Ann

No Vote MO 3rd R Luetkemeyer, Blaine

Yea MO 4th R Alford, Mark

Yea MO 5th D Cleaver, Emanuel

Yea MO 6th R Graves, Sam

Yea MO 7th R Burlison, Eric

Yea MO 8th R Smith, Jason

Montana

Yea MT 1st R Zinke, Ryan

Yea MT 2nd R Rosendale, Matthew

Nebraska

Yea NE 1st R Flood, Mike

Yea NE 2nd R Bacon, Don

Yea NE 3rd R Smith, Adrian

Nevada

Yea NV 1st D Titus, Dina

Yea NV 2nd R Amodei, Mark

Yea NV 3rd D Lee, Susie

Yea NV 4th D Horsford, Steven

New Hampshire

Yea NH 1st D Pappas, Chris

Yea NH 2nd D Kuster, Ann

New Jersey

Yea NJ 1st D Norcross, Donald

Yea NJ 2nd R Van Drew, Jefferson

Yea NJ 3rd D Kim, Andy

Yea NJ 4th R Smith, Chris

Yea NJ 5th D Gottheimer, Josh

Yea NJ 6th D Pallone, Frank

Yea NJ 7th R Kean, Thomas

Yea NJ 8th D Menendez, Robert Jacobsen

Yea NJ 9th D Pascrell, Bill

No Vote NJ 10th D Payne, Donald

Yea NJ 11th D Sherrill, Mikie

Nay NJ 12th D Watson Coleman, Bonnie

New Mexico

Yea NM 1st D Stansbury, Melanie

Yea NM 2nd D Vasquez, Gabriel (Gabe)

Yea NM 3rd D Leger Fernandez, Teresa

New York

Yea NY 1st R LaLota, Nicolas

Yea NY 2nd R Garbarino, Andrew

Yea NY 3rd D Suozzi, Thomas

Yea NY 4th R D'Esposito, Anthony

Yea NY 5th D Meeks, Gregory

Yea NY 6th D Meng, Grace

Nay NY 7th D Velázquez, Nydia

Yea NY 8th D Jeffries, Hakeem

Nay NY 9th D Clarke, Yvette

Yea NY 10th D Goldman, Dan

Yea NY 11th R Malliotakis, Nicole

Yea NY 12th D Nadler, Jerrold

Yea NY 13th D Espaillat, Adriano

Nay NY 14th D Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria

Yea NY 15th D Torres, Ritchie

Nay NY 16th D Bowman, Jamaal

Yea NY 17th R Lawler, Michael

Yea NY 18th D Ryan, Patrick

Yea NY 19th R Molinaro, Marcus

Yea NY 20th D Tonko, Paul

Yea NY 21st R Stefanik, Elise

Yea NY 22nd R Williams, Brandon

Yea NY 23rd R Langworthy, Nicholas

Yea NY 24th R Tenney, Claudia

Yea NY 25th D Morelle, Joseph

North Carolina

Yea NC 1st D Davis, Donald

Yea NC 2nd D Ross, Deborah

Yea NC 3rd R Murphy, Gregory

Nay NC 4th D Foushee, Valerie

Yea NC 5th R Foxx, Virginia

Yea NC 6th D Manning, Kathy

Yea NC 7th R Rouzer, David

Yea NC 8th R Bishop, Dan

Yea NC 9th R Hudson, Richard

Yea NC 10th R McHenry, Patrick

Yea NC 11th R Edwards, Charles (Chuck)

Yea NC 12th D Adams, Alma

Yea NC 13th D Nickel, Wiley

Yea NC 14th D Jackson, Jeffrey

North Dakota

Yea ND R Armstrong, Kelly

Ohio

Yea OH 1st D Landsman, Greg

Yea OH 2nd R Wenstrup, Brad

Yea OH 3rd D Beatty, Joyce

Yea OH 4th R Jordan, Jim

Yea OH 5th R Latta, Robert

Yea OH 7th R Miller, Max

Yea OH 8th R Davidson, Warren

Yea OH 9th D Kaptur, Marcy

Yea OH 10th R Turner, Michael

Yea OH 11th D Brown, Shontel

Yea OH 12th R Balderson, Troy

Yea OH 13th D Sykes, Emilia

Yea OH 14th R Joyce, David

Yea OH 15th R Carey, Mike

Oklahoma

Yea OK 1st R Hern, Kevin

Yea OK 2nd R Brecheen, Josh

Yea OK 3rd R Lucas, Frank

Yea OK 4th R Cole, Tom

Yea OK 5th R Bice, Stephanie

Oregon

Nay OR 1st D Bonamici, Suzanne

Yea OR 2nd R Bentz, Cliff

Yea OR 3rd D Blumenauer, Earl

Yea OR 4th D Hoyle, Valerie

Yea OR 5th R Chavez-DeRemer, Lori

Yea OR 6th D Salinas, Andrea

Pennsylvania

Yea PA 1st R Fitzpatrick, Brian

Yea PA 2nd D Boyle, Brendan

Yea PA 3rd D Evans, Dwight

Present PA 4th D Dean, Madeleine

Yea PA 5th D Scanlon, Mary

Yea PA 6th D Houlahan, Chrissy

Yea PA 7th D Wild, Susan

Yea PA 8th D Cartwright, Matt

Yea PA 9th R Meuser, Daniel

Yea PA 10th R Perry, Scott

Yea PA 11th R Smucker, Lloyd

Nay PA 12th D Lee, Summer

Yea PA 13th R Joyce, John

Yea PA 14th R Reschenthaler, Guy

Yea PA 15th R Thompson, Glenn

Yea PA 16th R Kelly, Mike

Yea PA 17th D Deluzio, Chris

Rhode Island

Yea RI 1st D Amo, Gabe

Yea RI 2nd D Magaziner, Seth

South Carolina

Yea SC 1st R Mace, Nancy

Yea SC 2nd R Wilson, Joe

Yea SC 3rd R Duncan, Jeff

Yea SC 4th R Timmons, William

Yea SC 5th R Norman, Ralph

Yea SC 6th D Clyburn, Jim

Yea SC 7th R Fry, Russell

South Dakota

Yea SD R Johnson, Dusty

Tennessee

Yea TN 1st R Harshbarger, Diana

Yea TN 2nd R Burchett, Tim

Yea TN 3rd R Fleischmann, Chuck

Yea TN 4th R DesJarlais, Scott

Yea TN 5th R Ogles, Andrew

Yea TN 6th R Rose, John W.

Yea TN 7th R Green, Mark E.

Yea TN 8th R Kustoff, David

Yea TN 9th D Cohen, Steve

Texas

Yea TX 1st R Moran, Nathaniel

Yea TX 2nd R Crenshaw, Dan

Yea TX 3rd R Self, Keith

Yea TX 4th R Fallon, Pat

Yea TX 5th R Gooden, Lance

Yea TX 6th R Ellzey, Jake

Yea TX 7th D Fletcher, Lizzie

Yea TX 8th R Luttrell, Morgan

Nay TX 9th D Green, Al

Yea TX 10th R McCaul, Michael

Yea TX 11th R Pfluger, August

No Vote TX 12th R Granger, Kay

Yea TX 13th R Jackson, Ronny

Yea TX 14th R Weber, Randy

Yea TX 15th R De La Cruz, Mónica

Nay TX 16th D Escobar, Veronica

Yea TX 17th R Sessions, Pete

Yea TX 18th D Jackson Lee, Sheila

Yea TX 19th R Arrington, Jodey

No Vote TX 20th D Castro, Joaquin

Yea TX 21st R Roy, Chip

Yea TX 22nd R Nehls, Troy

Yea TX 23rd R Gonzales, Tony

Yea TX 24th R Van Duyne, Beth

Yea TX 25th R Williams, Roger

Yea TX 26th R Burgess, Michael

Yea TX 27th R Cloud, Michael

Yea TX 28th D Cuellar, Henry

Nay TX 29th D Garcia, Sylvia

Yea TX 30th D Crockett, Jasmine

Yea TX 31st R Carter, John R.

Yea TX 32nd D Allred, Colin

Yea TX 33rd D Veasey, Marc

Yea TX 34th D Gonzalez, Vicente

Nay TX 35th D Casar, Gregorio

Yea TX 36th R Babin, Brian

Yea TX 37th D Doggett, Lloyd

Yea TX 38th R Hunt, Wesley

Utah

Yea UT 1st R Moore, Blake

Yea UT 2nd R Maloy, Celeste

Yea UT 3rd R Curtis, John

Yea UT 4th R Owens, Burgess

Vermont

Nay VT D Balint, Becca

Virginia

Yea VA 1st R Wittman, Robert

Yea VA 2nd R Kiggans, Jennifer

Yea VA 3rd D Scott, Bobby

Yea VA 4th D McClellan, Jennifer

Yea VA 5th R Good, Bob

Yea VA 6th R Cline, Ben

Yea VA 7th D Spanberger, Abigail

Nay VA 8th D Beyer, Donald

Yea VA 9th R Griffith, Morgan

Yea VA 10th D Wexton, Jennifer

Yea VA 11th D Connolly, Gerald

Washington

Yea WA 1st D DelBene, Suzan

Yea WA 2nd D Larsen, Rick

Yea WA 3rd D Gluesenkamp Perez, Marie

Yea WA 4th R Newhouse, Dan

Yea WA 5th R McMorris Rodgers, Cathy

Yea WA 6th D Kilmer, Derek

Nay WA 7th D Jayapal, Pramila

Yea WA 8th D Schrier, Kim

Yea WA 9th D Smith, Adam

Yea WA 10th D Strickland, Marilyn

West Virginia

Yea WV 1st R Miller, Carol

Yea WV 2nd R Mooney, Alexander

Wisconsin

Yea WI 1st R Steil, Bryan

Nay WI 2nd D Pocan, Mark

Yea WI 3rd R Van Orden, Derrick

Nay WI 4th D Moore, Gwen

Yea WI 5th R Fitzgerald, Scott

Yea WI 6th R Grothman, Glenn

Yea WI 7th R Tiffany, Thomas

Yea WI 8th R Gallagher, Mike

Wyoming

Yea WY R Hageman, Harriet

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