#Carolyn Chen

[bradyoil]

Riding The Squid: Carolyn Chen's Journey From Director To Helping Creatives Navigate Career Transition.

Veteran commercial director Carolyn Chen returns to offer invaluable career advice, like how storytelling remains key, despite changing tools. My friend has since transitioned to life coaching, helping those in entertainment navigate challenges. She provides candid insights into the emotional toll of freelancing. As the importance of mental health becomes increasingly on our radar, I feel people…

[lakesparkles]

Lots os doodles

This may look very messy, but I wanted to show a bunch of sketches I've been making and the best way seemed to post everything together. Most of them were Instagram requests so they make no sense out of context haha and there is a lot of different fandoms, OCs and animals.

[vintagetvstars]

Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket - Round 1

Round 1 (All polls)

Bea Arthur Vs. Bea Benaderet

Barbara Eden Vs. Kathryn Leigh Scott

Kellye Nakahara Vs. Janine Turner

Betty White Vs. Gracie Allen

Joely Richardson Vs. Miranda Richardson

Holland Taylor Vs. Joan Collins

Joan Chen Vs. Rachel Bilson

Lucille Ball Vs. Suzanne Pleshette

Angela Lansbury Vs. Eartha Kitt

Alex Kingston Vs. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Gina Torres Vs. Sherilyn Fenn

Katee Sackhoff Vs. Geraldine James

Barbara Feldon Vs. Carol Cleveland

Amanda Tapping Vs. Nana Visitor

Amanda Randolph Vs. Barbara Mullen

Kate Jackson Vs. Kim Cattrall

Emma Thompson Vs. Penelope Keith

Rue McClanahan Vs. Barbara Stanwyck

Thalía Vs. Sheila Kuehl

Joan Bennett Vs. Grayson Hall

Julie Newmar Vs. Lalla Ward

Farrah Fawcett Vs. Catherine Bach

Diahann Carroll Vs. Siân Phillips

Mary Tyler Moore Vs. Jan Smithers

Nichelle Nichols Vs. Yvonne Craig

Carolyn Jones Vs. Lara Parker

Janet Hubert Vs. Marcia Strassman

Jackée Harry Vs. Dawn French

Tina Louise Vs. Linda Cristal

Eva Gabor Vs. Anne Francis

Lynda Carter Vs. Peggy Lipton

Courteney Cox Vs. Mädchen Amick

Vivica A Fox Vs. Julia Duffy

Valerie Harper Vs. Jaclyn Smith

Doris Day Vs. Dawn Wells

Debbie Allen Vs. Elizabeth Montgomery

Karyn Parsons Vs. Katy Manning

Deidre Hall Vs. Phyllis Logan

Jeri Ryan Vs. Mira Furlan

Lucy Lawless Vs. Claudia Black

Morena Baccarin Vs. Shannen Doherty

Jonelle Allen Vs. Francesca Annis

Jane Seymour Vs. Annette Crosbie

Diana Rigg Vs. Joanna Lumley

Melissa Joan Hart Vs. Lisa Robin Kelly

Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon Vs. Lisa Hartman

Eliza Dushku Vs. Chloe Annett

Fran Drescher Vs. Mariska Hargitay

Lauren Graham Vs. Charisma Carpenter

Marlo Thomas Vs. Lily Tomlin

Connie Booth Vs. Barbara Billingsley

Gillian Anderson Vs. Alexandra Paul

Penny Johnson Jerald Vs. Mag Ruffman

Sarah Jessica Parker Vs. Judy Parfitt

Cicely Tyson Vs. Aimi MacDonald

Anna May Wong Vs. Peggy Ashcroft

Carol Burnett Vs. Elisabeth Sladen

Sarah Michelle Gellar Vs. Hattie Hayridge

Pamela Anderson Vs. Loretta Swit

Itatí Cantoral Vs. Audrey Meadows

Jane Krakowski Vs. Jennifer Aniston

Terry Farrell Vs. Nicole de Boer

Carole André Vs. Melissa Leo Vs. Sabrina Lloyd

Eve Arden Vs. Dorothy Provine Vs. Vivian Vance

[girlbosswar]

ROUND 2 MASTERLIST

I apologize for the wait

Here are the round 2 matchups

SIDE ONE

Sharpay Evans (High School Musical) Vs. Queen (deltarune)

Reko Yabusame (Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-) Vs. Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls)

Megaera (Hades) Vs. Agent 8 (Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion)

Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog CD) Vs. Maya Fey (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)

Morganthe (Wizard 101) Vs. The Administrator (Team Fortress 2)

Audria Rose (Descendants) Vs. Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)

Toriel (UNDERTALE) Vs. Aspheera (Ninjago)

Sara Chidouin (Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-) Vs. Callie (Splatoon)

Marina (Splatoon 2) Vs. Jolyne Cujoh (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Ema Skye (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) Vs. Daisy (Super Mario Land)

Nyota Uhura (Star Trek) Vs. Regina George (Mean Girls)

Olivier Mira Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist) Vs. Lady Iron Fan (Monkie Kid)

Hornet (Hollow Night) Vs. Franziska von Karma (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place) Vs. Buffy Anne Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) Vs. April O’Neil (ROTTMNT)

Princess Carolyn (Bojack Horseman) Vs. Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Reagan Ridley (Inside Job) Vs. P.I.X.A.L (Ninjago)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) Vs. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

Bulma (Dragon Ball) Vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Susie (deltarune) Vs. Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Rumi Usagiyama (My Hero Academia) Vs. Lauren Mallard (Welcome to Night Vale)

Bayonetta (Bayonetta) Vs. Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Frye (Splatoon 3) Vs. Ann Takamaki (Persona 5)

GLaDOS (Portal) Vs. Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Marina (OMORI) Vs. Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High)

Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil) Vs. Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

Lord Dominator (Wander Over Yonder) & Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) Vs. Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations) Vs. Lucina (Fire Emblem)

Marie (Splatoon) Vs. Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

SIDE TWO

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid) Vs. Solar Flare (Plants vs. Zombies)

Mia Fey (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) Vs. Agent 3 (Splatoon)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) Vs. Tabitha Chrysanthemum Scarlet (Scarlet Hollow)

Astrid Hofferson (How To Train Your Dragon) Vs. Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)

Rapunzel (Tangled) Vs. Nami (One Piece)

Nadja (What We Do in the Shadows) Vs. Bridget (Guilty Gear)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) Vs. Yosano Akiko (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc) Vs. Helen Richardson (The Magnus Archives)

Akane Kurushiki (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors) Vs. Clementine (Stray)

Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things) Vs. Annabeth Chase (Heroes of Olympus)

Jinx (League of Legends/The Arcana) Vs. Lotus (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors)

Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) Vs. Kitty Softpaws (Puss and Boots)

Boss (AI: The Somnium Files) Vs. Coco Adel (RWBY)

Harumi (Ninjago) Vs. Lady with an Ermine (Leonardo da Vinci)

Edalyn Clawthorne (The Owl House) Vs. Darling Charming (Ever After High)

Pearl (Splatoon 2) Vs. Carmelita Montoya Fox (Sly Cooper)

Vex’ahlia (Critical Role) Vs. Queen (Chess)

Lup (The Adventure Zone) Vs. Sweetheart (OMORI)

Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) Vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samus Aran (Metroid) Vs. Clover (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors)

Jessie (Pokémon) Vs. Fiona (Shrek)

Dana Cardinal (Welcome to Night Vale) Vs. Rose Lalonde (Homestuck)

Nadia Vulvokov (Russian Doll) Vs. Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak)

Undyne (UNDERTALE) Vs. Ryūko Matoi (Kill la Kill)

Mari (OMORI) Vs. Rosalina (Super Mario Galaxy)

Weiss Schnee (RWBY) Vs. Elizabert Megafig (Bugsnax)

Cleo de Nile (Monster High) Vs. Skylor Chen (Ninjago)

Barbie (Barbie) Vs. Cynthia (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl)

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[maximiliano-aedo]

What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

[nightsinfoxx15]

Dixie Chen Leader: Justine Hicks

“The Dark Moon Knight of Las Vegas” featuring Dixie ✨

In FOXX15, Justine is mainly a sword fighter. She grew up with swords since having them in the house with her mom was a norm in her house used for protection. She has a fascination on using them in battle. Trained by her older brother in swordfighting, Justine is a self claim “pro fighter of swords” not professional though, just pro 🧍‍♀️

she still needs work.

In Elemental, she’s proficient in hand to hand combat (hence fighting Michele became easy until the tables had turn 💀)

she’s a wrath demon, I haven’t design it yet. It’s a work in progress.

have these animal crackers: Justine and Oscar

Both sword fighters but one is an Powers Angel and ones a wrath demon (like Oscar’s wife Carolyn LOL)

Genderbend Twins, they do war crime together lol

Oscar and Justine are technically not twins but like their birthday day otherwise in reverse 🫠

Oscar’s: July 26th (Half Birthday: Jan 26th)

Justine’s: Jan 26th (half birthday: July 26th)

Read FOXX15: Elementals

[jamieroxxartist]

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15 CAMERAS COMING TO ON DEMAND ON OCTOBER 13TH ALSO PLAYING THEATRICALLY IN LOS ANGELES via: Gravitas Ventures

Directed by: Danny Madden Written by: PJ McCabe Starring: Will Madden, Angela Wong Carbone, Hilty Bowen, James Babson, Shirley Chen, Hannah Mckechnie, Skyler Bible, Courtney Dietz, Erik Leupp, Donna Allen, Brianne Moncrief, Jim Cummings, Stephen Ruffin

When Cam and Sky bought their duplex, it seemed like the perfect investment opportunity for the young couple; a starter home, a mortgage offset by renters, and even a guest room for Sky’s sister, Carolyn. But as Sky and Cam slowly uncover hidden cameras and secrets of the duplex’s previous owner, obsession consumes their marriage and they both fall into destructive forms of voyeurism. When new tenants move in downstairs, their fixation with observing others has deadly consequences and they are forced to confront the very things they have been consumed by.

​● Media Inquiries: October Coast PR www.octobercoastpr.com

[mariacallous]

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in droves—but they have not abandoned religion. Carolyn Chen spent more than five years in Silicon Valley, conducting a wealth of in-depth interviews and gaining unprecedented access to the best and brightest of the tech world. The result is a penetrating account of how work now satisfies workers’ needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence that religion once met. Chen argues that tech firms are offering spiritual care such as Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practices to make their employees more productive, but that our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.

We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls.

[wearethecyclones]

Please, the list of the best books u read this year? 😍

Oooh ho ho. Don't mind if I do!

I was putting this message off because I was racing to finish a book I figured would end up on my list of favorites for the year and sure enough it ended up THE favorite of the year.

In no particular order, other than the first one:

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. James Mandel

Murderbot Diaries 1-5 - Martha Wells

The Locked Tomb 1-2 - Tamsyn Muir

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

The Fortunes of Jaded Women - Caroyln Huynh

And boy do I have some least favorites of the year but let's keep it positive lmao

Full List Under the Cut~

Window Shopping - Tessa Bailey (2/5)

All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries 1) - Martha Wells (5/5)

Dark Matter - Blake Crouch (4/5)

The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun (4/5)

Slow Days, Fast Company - Eve Babitz (5/5)

If this Gets Out - Sophie Gonzales (1/5)

Cock - Mike Bartlett (5/5)

Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb 1) - Tamsyn Muir (5/5)

Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb 2) - Tamsyn Muir (5/5)

Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries 2) - Martha Wells (5/5)

Something Fabulous - Alexis Hall (2/5)

Heartstopper Vol. 1 - Alice Oseman (5/5) (REREAD)

Heartstopper Vol. 2 - Alice Oseman (5/5) (REREAD)

Heartstopper Vol. 3 - Alice Oseman (4/5) (REREAD)

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi (5/5)

Book Lovers - Emily Henry (5/5)

Rogue Protocol (Murderbot 3) - Martha Wells (5/5)

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (5/5)

Spinning - Tillie Walden (4/5)

Less - Andrew Sean Greer (4/5)

Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries 4) - Martha Wells (5/5)

Ariadne - Jennifer Saint (1/5)

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel (5/5)

Fiona and Jane - Jean Chen Ho (5/5)

For Your Own Good - Samantha Downing (4/5)

Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke (3/5)

Husband Material - Alexis Hall (1/5)

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

The Sandman Vol. 1 - Neil Gaiman (4/5)

Network Effect (Murderbot 5) - Martha Wells (5/5)

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

The Raven King - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

Opal - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong (4/5)

The Sandman Vol. 2 - Neil Gaiman (2/5)

The Sandman Vol. 3 - Neil Gaiman (1/5)

The Sandman Vol. 4 - Neil Gaiman (Didn't Rate) DNF!

Call Down the Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

Mister Impossible - Maggie Stiefvater (5/5) (REREAD)

Sometime in Summer - Katrina Leno (Didn't Rate) DNF!

Greywaren - Maggie Stiefvater ([Redacted]/5)

Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica (4/5)

The Book of Cold Cases - Simon St. James (4/5)

Lore Olympus Vol. 1 - Rachel Smythe (4/5)

Lore Olympus Vol. 2 - Rachel Smythe (4/5)

The Fortunes of Jaded Women - Carolyn Huynh (5/5)

Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger (Didn't Rate) DNF!

Lore Olympus Vol. 3 - Rachel Smythe (4/5)

The Holiday Trap - Roan Parrish (1/5) DNF!

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin (5/5)

Apple Crush - Lucy Knisley (5/5)

[nikkiruncks]

That 90s Show characters/ocs bdays in my verse

January

- Jared Forman (Jan 1, ‘22)

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[mashmaiden]

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#would still prefer to see a young version of any of the team members instead (that we've not yet seen - so no callen or creepy cgi hetty)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

“All the Little Things” Press Release

WHEN A NEWBORN CHILD IS FOUND ABANDONED ON A NAVY SHIP, KENSI AND DEEKS SEARCH FOR THE MOTHER ON BOARD BEFORE SHE DIES OF COMPLICATIONS, ON “NCIS: LOS ANGELES,” SUNDAY, MARCH 13

Peter Cambor Returns as Operational Psychologist Nate Getz

“All the Little Things” – When a newborn child is found abandoned on a Navy ship, Kensi and Deeks search for the mother on board before she dies of complications. Also, Nate (Peter Cambor) meets with Admiral Kilbride and learns about the CIA project from the ‘70s and ‘80s involving children, on the CBS Original series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Sunday, March 13 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*.

GUEST CAST:

Peter Cambor (Operational Psychologist Nate Getz)

Bar Paly (Anastasia “Anna” Kolcheck)

Jeff Kober (Harris Keane)

Oleysa Rulin (Zasha Gagarin)

Jolene Kay (NCIS Special Agent Afloat Denise Morgan)

Nikki Crawford (Navy Captain Emily Carnes)

Carolyn Grundman (Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Sofia Addison)

Preston Jones (Gary Drummond)

Ty Chen (Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Hill)

Jason Woods (Navy Seaman Harold Forest)

Matt Pascua (Navy Seaman Brandon Elger)

Duncan Campbell (NCIS Special Agent Castor)

WRITTEN BY: R. Scott Gemmill

DIRECTED BY: Terrence O’Hara

34 notes - Posted February 17, 2022

#4

Set pictures!!!! Finally! Thank god for Medalion!

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36 notes - Posted August 4, 2022

#3

So my best friends and I always make fun cake creations for each other's birthdays, and this year I made a request for the cake theme: NCIS: LA and/or Densi cake! (this friend is the one who got me into the show in the first place! And she's the one I made the croquembouche for last year.)

And boy, did she deliver! Densi adorned the outside, and "Sunshine and Gunpowder" filled the inside of this delicious, vanilla cake with lemon buttercream!

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43 notes - Posted February 13, 2022

#2

I'll do these better with much nicer frames once I get the 1080p version, but as a hold over until then...

47 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

"Kick-ass Kensi" at it again! (with an equipment assist from hubby!)

60 notes - Posted February 27, 2022

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Read in October 2022

83) The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene ★★★☆☆ 84) A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness ★★★★★ 85) You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa ★★★★☆ 86) The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon ★★★☆☆ 87) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ★★★☆☆ 88) Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen ★★★☆☆ 89) Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene ★★★☆☆ 90) Resurrection by Amy Carol Reeves - DNF 91) A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd ★★★★☆ 92) House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland ★★★★☆ 93) These Fleeting Shadows by Alice Kate Marshall ★★★☆☆ 94) Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston - DNF 95) Ptolemy’s Gate by Jonathan Stroud ★★★★☆

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Bea Arthur Vs. Lily Tomlin

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Betty White Vs. Eartha Kitt

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Diahann Carroll Vs. Rue McClanahan

Elisabeth Sladen Vs. Lynda Carter

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Diana Rigg Vs. Nichelle Nichols

Kathryn Leigh Scott Vs. Mädchen Amick

Nana Visitor Vs. Gillian Anderson

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[typingtess]

NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch:  “All the Little Things”

The basics:  While the team investigates the discovery of a newborn on an aircraft carrier, Callen searches for Hetty and the Admiral searches for answers about his team, aka the island of misfit toys.  

Written by:  R. Scott Gemmill wrote/cowrote “The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “Breach”, “LD50”, “Found”, “Borderline”, “Absolution”, “Archangel”, “Tin Soldiers”, “Impostors”, “Cyberthreat”, “Honor”, “The Watchers” and both sides of the NCIS Los: Angeles/Hawaii Five-0 “Touch of Death” episodes, “Recruit”, “Free Ride”, “Wanted”, “Ravens and The Swans”, “Impact”, “War Cries”, both ends of the “Deep Trouble” season five finale/season six premiere, “Inelegant Heart”, “Praesidium”, “Traitor”, “Active Measures” (season seven premiere), “Blame It On Rio”, “Internal Affairs”, “Matryoshka” part one,  "Talion" (season seven finale), “High Value Target”/“Belly of the Beast” (season eight premieres), “The Queen’s Gambit”, “Under Siege”, “Unleashed” (season eight finale), “Party Crashers” (season nine’s premiere), “This Is What We Do” (episode 200), “Các Tù Nhân”, “Goodbye Vietnam”, “Ninguna Salida” (the season nine finale), “Hit List”, “Asesinos”, “Till Death Do Us Part”, “Choke Point”, “The Guardian”, “Hail Mary”, “Kill Beale Vol. 1”, “Alsiyadun”, “Fortune Favors the Brave”, “The Bear” (season 12 premiere), “Angry Karen”, “Love Kills”, “Russia, Russia, Russia”, “The Noble Maidens”, “A Tale of Two Igors” (season 12 finale) and "Subject 17" (season 13 premiere).

Directed by: Terrence O'Hara directed “The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “The Bank Job”, “Borderline”, “Tin Soldiers”, “The Job”, “Backstopped”, “Crimeleon”, “Blye, K.” Part Two, “San Voir” Part Two, “End Game”, “Paper Soldiers”, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Fish Out of Water”, “Blaze of Glory”, “Command and Control” (episode 150), “Matryoshka” Part Two, “Belly of the Beast”, “Payback”, “Mountebank”, “Asesinos”, "Searching", “Yellow Jack”, “Raising the Dead”, “Overdue” and "Red Rover, Red Rover".  This is his first season 13 episode.

Guest stars of note: Peter Cambor returns as Operational Psychologist Nate Getz.  Cambor’s last episode was “Old Tricks” in season eight.  Bar Paly returns as Anastasia "Anna" Kolcheck.  Paly’s last episode was “The Noble Maidens” in season 12.  Jeff Kober returns as Harris Keane.  Kober’s last episode was “Hit List” in season 10.  Oleysa Rulin returns from the season 13 premiere as  Zasha Gagarin.  Duncan Campbell is back from “Lost Soldier Down” as NCIS Special Agent Castor (can we get the man a first name?).  New to the island of misfit toys:  Jolene Kay as NCIS Special Agent Afloat Denise Morgan, Nikki Crawford as Navy Captain Emily Carnes, Carolyn Grundman as Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Sofia Addison, Preston Jones as Gary Drummond, Ty Chen as Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Hill and Jason Woods as Navy Seaman Harold Forest

Our heroes:  Are the island of misfit toys.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Looking for Hetty through Zasha and now Harris Keane. Sam: Tending to his father with Kam. Kensi:  Admits a case about an abandoned baby is unfair in their situation. Deeks: Finds the missing and dying mother, figures out when the attack happened. Fatima: Helping Callen find Hetty. Rountree: Back after some time away. Kilbride:  Worried about Callen.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Bodyslamming the suspect. Sam: Absent. Kensi: World’s worst storyteller. Deeks:  More Alice in Chains than “Agnes of God”. Fatima:  Had her best scene in the missing extended scene. Rountree: Walks into a mostly empty office. Kilbride: You can call him Admiral.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Hopefully not Syria.

Who's down with OTP:  Kensi and Deeks deal with the elephant in the room – they’re on the ship investigating the discovery of the child.  All is well with Callen and Anna until they learn they’ve got company.

Who's down with BrOTP:  Not a lot of BrOTP opportunities here – Sam’s away, Rountree has a short few scenes with Callen.  The Admiral and Nate are colleagues, not buddies.

Fashion review:   Callen wears a dark blue sweater in the boat shed.  In the office, a blue and white button down shirt.  No Sam today.  Kensi is in an oatmeal colored henley with a black NCIS windbreaker.  Off-white sweater for Deeks under the black NCIS windbreaker.  Fatima is wearing an oversized (really oversized) jacket over a grey turtleneck.  Rountree has on a dark green jacket with a black tee-shirt.  Charcoal grey suit for the Admiral with a pale blue dress shirt and a dark blue tie with little white diamonds.  

Music:  No music today.

Any notable cut scene:  In an extended scene, after Kensi and Deeks meet Agent Morgan and Deeks explains he’s special even if he isn’t a Special Agent, Kensi and Deeks share a little couples talk to the surprise of Morgan.  They explain they’re married.  

Also extended is the Fatima-Admiral scene in Ops.  When he tells her she’s going for a walk, that impresses Fatima.  The Admiral says they were quite common before the invention of the electric scooter.  Fatima works the joke, saying she heard walks were quite common back in the day - “Sounds dreadful.”  The Admiral admires Fatima’s sense of humor but warns her not to make it a habit.  He has enough jokers to deal with.

At the end of the day, Fatima walks into the Admiral’s office with a ton of paperwork he’s hoping isn’t for him.  It is.  The Admiral asks if Fatima knows of any FOIA requests filed by Callen.  She does not.  The Admiral will just ask Callen instead.  With Callen and Rountree still processing the suspect and Kensi and Deeks making their way back from the Carrier, she’d like to go home.  As she leaves, Nate arrives, noting the office really is like a fishbowl.

Quote:  Admiral:  “I'm not worried about Sam. Kensi, either, for that matter. Deeks, on the other hand's, a basket case, but I don't need you to tell me that. No, it's Callen that I'm worried about.”

Honorable mention: Nate:  “Admiral Kilbride?” Admiral:  “Dr. Getz.” Nate:  “Please, you can call me Nate.” Admiral:  “Nate.  You can still call me Admiral.”

Perhaps two of the most Admiral Kilbride interactions ever.  

Anything else:  A Navy jet is flying off an aircraft carrier at night.  The Roving Watch and Security Watch is checking the ship.  One of the sailors walking the watch sees an open hatch to a storage area.  He finds blood on the floor.  Calling out for whoever is injured, nobody replies.  The sailor calls in the open hatch and some blood he found.  Under a pile of clothing, he finds a baby.

In the boatshed, ZNN is covering an apparent car-bombing that killed several people in Syria.  Callen is on the phone to someone wanting an update on the bombing as soon as possible.  He isn’t worried about the time of the call.  Anna arrives with some food.  Callen is worried that Hetty is in Syria.

In Syria, the locals are digging people out of the rubble and tending to the injured and dead.  A woman walks among the workers – it is Zasha.  She’s calling Callen with the news that Hetty is not there.  Hetty had a meeting with al-Kalmira, the target of the bombing.  Zasha checked the wounded in the hospital and all the dead – Hetty’s not among them.  Callen wouldn’t be surprised if Hetty called in the military strike against al-Kalmira.  He’s al Qaeda.  Zasha thinks it is the last meeting Hetty will have in Syria since all her contacts were “blown to hell” in the bombing.  Callen thinks if Hetty got out, so did al-Kalmira.  When Callen tells Zasha to call him when she finds out where Hetty is, Zasha pushes back – what if she doesn’t call.  “You will,” Callen tells her in a rather ominous tone.  A man starts staring at Zasha.  She ends the call and takes off.

Rountree arrives to an empty office – “and then there was one.”  Fatima comes down from Ops welcoming Rountree back.  He asks where everyone is.  Callen is working a case, Sam’s dad had a fall so Sam and Kam are dealing with that, Kensi and Deeks are on their way to the USS Allegiance, doing exercises off the coast, working a case about a “rather unusual incident” on the carrier.  Rountree guesses Russian dolphins.  Fatima tells him about the baby.

Landing on the carrier, Kensi and Deeks are met by Special Agent Afloat Denise Morgan.  Kensi explains that Deeks is an investigator, not a Special Agent but Deeks says he’s special nonetheless.  Moving a little deeper into the carrier, Deeks brings up the “stork visit”.  Morgan is keeping things quiet at the skipper’s request.  The baby was flown to San Diego and is in the NIC Unit because the baby was premature but appears healthy.  The ship doctor estimates the baby was conceived on-board, so the father is a crew member.  There are over 400 women on the Allegiance and every single one of them is of childbearing age.  Morgan asks if either Kensi or Deeks have children.  They don’t – “not yet.”  

Asking about the baby, Kensi and Deeks learn she’s a girl.  Morgan’s big concern is that clock is ticking on finding the child’s mother.  Bringing Kensi and Deeks to the ship’s doctor, the doctor explains that no placenta was found.  It could have been disposed in a trash bin or thrown overboard.  But if the placenta was retained, the mother could die of sepsis.  Kensi asks if anyone is in sickbay with symptoms that would match sepsis.  The doctor wished someone was in sickbay – she could treat the mother.  Morgan matched the blood from the storage unit where the baby was found with the crew.  The mother is A+, which is about 34% of the population or 165 sailors on the carrier.  All 165 have been accounted for.

Kensi asks where was the baby found.  Morgan says a cargo hold in a secluded part of the ship.  The mother probably had the baby there because she wouldn’t be seen or heard delivering the child.  The umbilical cord as cut cleanly and tied off with a standard issue bootlace.  The baby was wrapped in coveralls and a tee-shirt belonging to a sailor who swears he had nothing to do with all this.  

Deeks asks why there wasn’t a ship-wide announcement about the baby.  The doctor made that call with the CO.  The mother is obviously distraught, unable to share her condition with anyone.  The doctor fears the announcement would cause her to panic, possibly hurt herself or “God forbid, jump overboard.”  The new mom only has a few hours before either infection sets in or she bleeds out.

Fatima is on the phone with Callen, who is still at the boatshed with Anna sleeping on the couch.  He wants to know about the bombing.  All Fatima has is that it was an Air Force operation and the Air Force is not sharing with NCIS.  She suggests bringing Kilbride into this but Callen says no.  He thinks someone else would have intel – maybe Sidney Jones at Homeland or Sabatino.  Callen would also like anything NCIS has on al-Kalmira before ending the call.  Anna wakes up and asks if anything has changed.  It hasn’t.  Anna is worried that Callen hasn’t slept.  She recommends some fresh air and some real coffee since the boatshed coffee “sucks.”

In the Allegiance interrogation room, Kensi and Deeks are questioning Petty Officer Hill, who found the baby.  The hatch being opened caught his eye.  He thought the prior person on Roving Watch accidentally left it opened but he saw the blood the floor and knew something happened.  Kensi asks what was in the storage area.  It is line and cables that get warn out while at sea.  He did not hear any from the hold until he pulled the coveralls off the baby and shined his flashlight on her.  Then he heard a lot of crying.  Deeks asks what is the word around the ship about the incident.  Hill only told his commanding officer and the master at arms.  He was told to keep quiet and he did.

Next up is Officer Forest, whose coveralls were found with the baby.  He has no idea how they got there but he hopes they kept “him” warm.  When Kensi tells Forest “him” is a girl, Forest seems genuinely pleased.  Deeks wonders if Forest heard about a pregnant crewmember.  He did not and was told not to talk about what was going on with anyone.  And he has not.  Forest has a girlfriend in Nebraska – he’s going to get engaged on his next leave.  

Kensi and Deeks ask how the coveralls wound up with the baby.  Forest says they could have been taken from his rack.  Asked if he didn’t notice they were missing from his weekly laundry, Forest explains that there are 5,000 sailors on the Allegiance.  The laundry bags area often filled with other people’s belongings.  He regularly gets bras and panties.  

As the Admiral walks into the Ops, Fatima clears the screen.  She was speaking to a lieutenant but ends the call.  The Admiral gets a sitrep on the baby – who is doing fine.  Asking for Callen, the Admiral is told he’s working a case.  “Color me lucky, the Admiral replies.  Fatima offers to call in him but Kilbride does not want to interrupt Callen’s Reiki session, “or whatever it is he’s really up to.”  The Admiral wants Fatima to text him when Callen arrives.

Walking on the beach with some coffee, Anna tells Callen that when she’s can smell the ocean, she always feels safe.  She asks Callen what makes him feel safe, he says she does.  Anna likes the answers but knows she’s lying.  Callen wants to know about the Institute of Noble Maidens, how Anna’s mother enrolled Anna to anger Arkady, how Arkady tried to get her out but Anna refused.  She admits to all of it – she felt badly turning Arkady away but she liked the place.  She got to ride horses, shoot guns, crash cars – “It was fun.”  She chose to stay.  She thought it was cruel but she not only survived but thrived.  

Confused, Callen tells Anna that Arkady would have taken care of her.  Anna thinks Arkady’s way of taking care of her would have been an all-girls school on a private island that shoots boys on sight.  Callen is lucky Arkady likes him.  Anna asks if Callen is thinking about this because of Hetty.  Is he worried that she’s in trouble or is he worried that if she doesn’t survive her trouble, he’ll never know about his past.  “Probably both.”  Anna doesn’t know about Callen’s past but Hetty loves him a like a son.  Callen brings up a mother who manipulates her son.  Anna replies that all mothers manipulate their children – that how they get the children to do things.  Asked if he thinks about where he would be with Hetty, Callen thinks Florida or Alaska, maybe a fireman in Idaho.  Anna suggests a farmer and Callen could see that.  Callen could too – with a dog and kids.  She asks him if that’s what he wants.  He isn’t sure.  “Maybe you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.”

The Commanding Officer gets on the PA explaining a blood shortage.  All female crew members with A-positive blood must report to sickbay immediately, all male crew members will do the same tomorrow.  This is a way to narrow down the field.  Kensi is going to talk to the ship’s chaplain.  A top gun pilot walks by, checking Kensi out and she does the same.  Kensi admits top gun pilots are badasses but so is Deeks.  Deeks isn’t biting – he’s more interested in the elephant in the room.  They are desperate to have a child and they are investigating a mother who abandoned hers.  Kensi considers it all unfair.  Deeks goes back to top gun pilots – she really thinks they are badasses?  Kensi likes the uniforms.  Deeks reminds her he wore one as a cop.

As they banter about Deeks being a cop, Kensi realizes the mother left the baby to be found.  If she wanted to hide the baby, she could have thrown her overboard.  She could have smothered the baby.  These are fairly horrifying thoughts to Deeks.   Wrapping the baby up to keep her warm, tying off the umbilical cord, leaving the light on so someone would find her – the baby’s mother wanted the baby to found.  Deeks is confused.  Kensi is sure the mother did everything to keep the baby safe and they can use that to find her.

In Syria, Zasha is trying to talk to some female locals but is surrounded by four men with rifles.  As they close in on Zasha, a man on a motorcycle pulls up and tells her got get on in English.  The two ride off with Zasha firing her pistol at the men with rifles to ensure their getaway.

In the sickbay, the ship’s doctor is taking the temperatures of five or so female sailors.  All are normal and are sent to return to their duties.  The doctor has check 35 women, Morgan checked 19 who couldn’t leave their posts.  Deeks spoke to the chaplain, no help there.  The ship doctor is going to talk to the CO about a ship wide announcement – the mother is running out of time.  Morgan suggests Kensi and Deeks grab a list of untested female sailors and a digital thermometer so they can join in on the testing.

Along a pier, Nate walks up to Admiral Kilbride.  Nate wonders why they’re meeting by the beach.  The Admiral works in a fishbowl in the office.  Besides, it is a beautiful day.  LA’s only appeal is the weather outside of the earthquakes, mudslides and fires.  Nate wants to know why the Admiral wants to see him.  As the team psychologist and someone who ran numerous off the books assignments for “Henrietta”, “just tell me what the hell she’s gotten herself into.”  

Nate is evasive, asking what does the Admiral know.  He knows she’s in Syria and she made a mess of her mole hunt.  What he doesn’t know is if the latest drone strike – it wasn’t a suicide bombing after all – had anything to do with her.  Hetty was in Syria to negotiate the release of several hostages.  The Admiral asks who are the hostages but Nate does not know.  Nate did a profile of the al Qaeda leader for Hetty.  He hasn’t heard from her in a few days with no way of reaching her.  Hetty calls him, not the other way around.  

The Admiral asks if one of the profiles Nate did was on al-Kalmira.  It was.  “Son of a bitch, we don’t know what the guy looks like and she’s having lunch with him.”    The Admiral thinks Hetty called in the drone strike herself (sharing a brain with Callen).  Nate wouldn’t put it past her.  “Nor should you,” the Admiral replies.  Without much else to offer, Nate apologies.  As the Admiral is about to leave, he asks a favor.  He’d like some professional insight into the rest of the team.  Nate is reticent again.  The Admiral doesn’t care who wets the bed, he needs help dealing “with this island of misfit toys I’ve inherited.”  He’s looking to avoid pitfalls to make the team better.  The team being better can save lives, “notably mine.”

Racing into Ops, Callen learns from Fatima she can’t confirm if Hetty or al-Kalmira were there before or after the bombing.  Callen gets a call from Zasha.  She’s in trouble but was helped by an American.  Callen wants to talk to the American.  They play “who are you?” for a while but recognize the others’ voice.   Callen is talking to Harris Keane.  Keane was Hetty’s overwatch until the bombing – “I’m still coughing up dust.”  After the bombing, Hetty was gone.  She either ran off just before the bombing or went underground just after.  Keane hasn’t heard from her.  There is no sign she was killed.  

Hetty is negotiating the release of two Western journalists, which is a surprise to Callen.  It isn’t to Keane since the journalists are actually NCIS staffers Hetty had on a long undercover assignment.  They were captured and she’s trying to get them back.   Keane doesn’t know the name of the journalists/NCIS Agents.  That’s to keep them safe if he is compromised.  Saying the locals are freaking out (they just got bombed, it’s hardly outrageous), Keane has a rather large war chest from Hetty to keep them moving around.

Zasha is worried they are about to be found, they need to wrap up the call.  Callen asks Keane to keep him in the loop.  He also asks about his version of the Noble Maidens.  If Hetty dies, all that information dies with her.  Keane admits there was a remedial reading program run by the Department of Education but really by the CIA.  It was the Drona Project.  Zasha cuts off the call.  Keane has some vodka for them to share.

With a digital thermometer, Kensi and Deeks are checking some of the female staffers with A-positive blood.  Kensi decides to look again around the cargo area while Deeks keeps taking some temperatures.  When Deeks is turned down by two female pilots, he decides to find Kensi.  He does after wandering around a bit.  In the storge area, Deeks finds the mother unconscious but with a pulse.  

As the medical team tries to stabilize the mother, she’s identified as Petty Officer Third Class Sofia Addison, a model sailor.  Unfortunately, she’s battling sepsis and has lost a lot of blood.  She’s getting treatment but isn’t out of the woods yet.  Morgan tells Kensi and Deeks that Addison would be dead if they didn’t find her.  Kensi is beside herself – they should have been looking for her earlier.  Deeks thinks the real issue is finding the father because if Addison doesn’t make it, that baby girl needs her dad.  Kensi admits she hates the case.  Deeks would rather be shot at by bad guys.

A sailor named Elger is looking into the sickbay window.  Deeks asks if they could do something for him.  He’d like to know about the status of Petty Officer Addison.  They’re good friends.  Kensi wants to know how good of friends.  Elger says they were great friends.  Kensi and Deeks push – were they having sex?  Kensi tells him about the baby and Elger is shocked.  Deeks brings up a DNA test and they will know who the father is soon – would Elger agree to a test?  “Absolutely.”  If he isn’t the father, Kensi asks who would Elger think the father could be.  No boyfriends on the ship or back at home.  

Elger explains that Addison was insecure and intimidated by men.  Kensi points out she wasn’t intimidated by him.  Elger thinks it was because they’re friends and probably because he’s gay.  Addison got along well with the gay men on the ship but not the straight men.  She even asked to be removed from escort duty.  Deeks asks about escort duty.  Elger explains that junior officers are asked to bring around civilian visitors so they don’t get lost, “fall overboard or get sucked into a jet engine.”  

Returning to his office, Fatima provides a sitrep on the mother.  The Admiral offers a “well done” which Fatima can pass along to Kensi and Deeks.

In their interrogation room, Kensi asks Deeks if he saw “Agnes of God”.  He mentions Alice in Chains so no, he hasn’t seen it.  Kensi explains the plot – a nun has a baby that she considers a virgin birth.  Deeks asks if the nun abandoned her baby. She did, which catches Deeks’s attention.  Kensi doesn’t remember the end of the movie, making Kensi the world’s worst storyteller according to Deeks.

Reviewing the paperwork, Deeks finds that Addison was still on escort duty around the time the baby was conceived and she was bringing around some civilian contractors.  The request to leave the assignment came right after that.  Morgan comes into the room – Addison is awake.

In the sickbay, Addison is on pain meds but doing better.  Kensi and Deeks gently question Addison. Deeks asks what she remembers.  She doesn’t remember delivering the baby.  Deeks asks if one of the other sailors on the Allegiance is the father.  Addison says no.  Kensi asks about the civilian contractor and Addison reacts.  Kensi tells Addison she’s not in trouble.  She asks if Addison and the contractor were in a relationship.  She denies it.  When Deeks asks about contacting the father, Addison starts crying.  “He raped me.”

A furious Kensi calls in the rapist’s name, Gary Drummond, and his employer, Ashitom Solutions, to Ops.  He works computer software for the DoD.  Kensi wants everything done by the book – she wants him to go to jail for what he did.

While Callen fills out a Freedom of Information Act request at his desk, Rountree arrives with news of the rapist.  Callen and Rountree are on their way.  Arriving at a fancy tech firm, Callen and Sam can’t get anyone’s attention – everyone is wearing headphones.  Rountree finds their suspect working way.  Tapping on his headphones, Callen gets Drummond’s attention.  Drummond tries to blow Callen off.  Callen cuts the power to Drummond’s work station.  When Rountree explains he’s under arrest and tries to cuff Drummond, Drummond starts yelling about assault.  Callen brings up what happened to Petty Officer Addison as true assault but Drummond plays dumb.  When Rountree gives him one last chance to go quietly, he takes a swing only to be put on the ground with great force by Callen.  None of his headphone wearing coworkers even notice.  

Medics are taking Addison to San Diego for more treatment and to be reunited with her daughter.  Kensi has a photo of the Addison’s daughter and “even though she came from a very ugly place, she’s a really beautiful little girl.  She’s a fighter like her Mom.”  Kensi asks if Addison wants to see the photo, she does.  As Addison is being taken away, she asks for Kensi one last time.  Asking Kensi’s first name, Addison says she is going to name her baby Evelyn after her mother.  Deeks teases Kensi about Addison running away from naming her baby Kensi.  

Later that night, Nate joins the Admiral in his office and agrees it is a fishbowl.  The Admiral thinks the office is like working at a peep show without the tips.  Since the health and safety of the team is his top concern, Nate is there to help.  

A cocky Gary Drummond says the classified nature of his work means NCIS can’t make him talk.  Rountree doesn’t care about his work, he cares about the woman Drummond raped.  Drummond says “some dumb sailor chick gets knocked up” and to save her boyfriend from court martial he’s being blamed.  Callen and Rountree are so disgusted they have Castor take him from interrogation.  Rountree offers to driving Callen back to the office but Anna is picking him up.  

The Admiral sums up the team to Nate.  He doesn’t work about Sam, Kensi either.  “Deeks on the other hand is a basket case,” but the Admiral thinks Nate knows that.  His major concern is Callen.  When the Admiral asks Nate about something called Drona, Nate brings up “Dronacharya”.  It is a teacher of military arts in a Hindu story.

The Admiral explains that Drona was a project in the heyday of the Cold War to teach underprivileged children.  Foster children were tested under the guise of looking for learning disabilities to identify those who were “gifted” despite their lots in life.  “I’m not going to like this, am I?” Nate says to the Admiral.  Neither of them do.  Saying it is similar to a Soviet training plan.  Nate thought this was an urban legend.  The Admiral knows Hetty was involved as  was a young Callen as a subject.  

Worried that Callen could react badly when Hetty returns so Nate is going to be around for damage control.  Not only could things go south between Hetty and Callen, it could sink the team.  Callen is the team’s biggest worry.

In the boatshed, Callen is leaving a message for Zasha when Anna walks in. But Anna is stunned to see Callen since she’s Facetiming with him on her phone.  Showing Callen the phone, he is talking to himself on the phone.  Phone Callen tells real Callen to get some rest.  It won’t be fun to come after him if he’s not at his best.  

What head canon can be formed from here:    More of the unending Callen backstory.  Yawn.  There were some nice callbacks in this episode from the Allegiance, to the Russian dolphins, to the return of Nate and the return of Katya with the identity stealing software.

The Kensi and Deeks scenes were all twinged with a little sadness that if they had a daughter, she’d be loved and cared for at all costs.  Hearing the whole story, however, gets the team rightly infuriated.

The Admiral has to be a fun character to write for and Gerald McRaney hits it out the park with every line of dialogue.  I’m rarely bothered about cut scenes – the show has a good history of recycling them – but the scene between the Admiral and Fatima discussing taking a walk needs to used.  They were wonderful.

Finally, the male sailors on the Allegiance were interesting characters and good men.  The sailor whose clothing was used to keep the baby warm was happy that it was his clothes keeping the baby warm.  Elger hanging outside of the sick bay checking to see if Addison was OK – that’s a really good compare/contrast with the software rapist.

Episode number:  This is episode 11 of season 13 – the halfway point!  It is episode 291 overall.

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