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Choosing The Right Medicare Advantage Plans | Chris Antrim Insurance

Medicare Advantage plan has become more popular as years passed by. This private plan is becoming a perfect alternative to Original Medicare, which we all know that there are two main benefits you can receive to your traditional plan—the hospital insurance and outpatient insurance.

Everyone’s need is different especially when it comes to healthcare necessities, but one thing is for sure at the age of 65 years you’ll be eligible for Medicare enrollment and you’ll encounter confusing plans and coverage. But we are here to help you with your Medicare choices .

Getting ready for your Medicare enrollment? Medicare Advantage plans offer additional features and benefits to those who are not included in your traditional Medicare plan such as Part D prescription drug benefit. Medicare Advantage provides 33 plans and 27 of these plans include prescription drug coverage.

Types of Medicare Advantage Plan Available in Idaho

Idaho Medicare Advantage plan is a majority of an agreement between network doctors and healthcare facilities. A member who chooses this plan can benefit from a lower cost for care and medical expenses. And these plans include:

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) - is a plan that contracts you to use in-network physicians and hospitals for care, it also includes the choosing of a Primary Care Physician (PCP) for regular consultations and referral for specialists, excepts in emergencies. However, some HMO plans do not require a referral from your PCP, if you need a specialist. Receiving care from an out-of-network doctor will face higher costs.

Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) - unlike HMO that requires you to choose PCP, with PPO you are allowed to visit any doctor where you want to receive care. It is a more flexible plan than HMO, however, you’ll likely pay less out-of-pocket for an in-network doctor. Additionally, members who choose PPO do not need a referral if they need specialists.

Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) - another plan that does not require a PCP. PFFS is an established health plan where your plan will decide on how much it will pay for the health care services. Signing up for this plan will give you access to the plan with any provider as long as they accept the plan’s rates.

Medicare Medical Savings Accounts (MSA) - is a combination of high-deductible health insurance plans with a medical savings account. A member who chooses MSA can pay medical expenses such as hospital bills, doctor’s visits, and long-term care.

Special Needs Plans (SNPs) - is a limited membership plan because it is specially designed for people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid or people who have specific illnesses like chronic diseases and disabling conditions.

Top Companies in Boise That Sells Medicare Advantage Plans

Medicare Advantage plans are offered by private insurance companies that contract with Medicare to provide additional coverage beyond Original Medicare. These plans often include prescription drug coverage, as well as additional benefits such as dental, vision, and hearing coverage. With so many insurance companies offering Medicare Advantage plans, it can be overwhelming to choose the right one. In this article, we will discuss some of the top companies that sell Medicare Advantage plans.

UnitedHealthcare. UnitedHealthc are is one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, offering Medicare Advantage plans in all 50 states. Their plans often include additional benefits such as fitness memberships and telehealth services. UnitedHealthcare also offers a range of plan options, including Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), and Special Needs Plans (SNPs).

Humana. Humana is another major health insurance company that offers Medicare Advantage plans in most states. Their plans often include additional benefits such as gym memberships, dental, vision, and hearing coverage, and over-the-counter allowances. Humana also offers a variety of plan options, including HMOs, PPOs, and Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans.

Aetna. Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health, offers Medicare Advantage plans in most states. Their plans often include additional benefits such as fitness memberships, telehealth services, and hearing aids. Aetna also offers a range of plan options, including HMOs, PPOs, and SNPs.

Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente is a not-for-profit healthcare company that offers Medicare Advantage plans in several states. Their plans often include additional benefits such as wellness programs, fitness memberships, and mental health services. Kaiser Permanente offers HMO plans, which means you may be limited to using their network of providers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield. Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) is a federation of independent health insurance companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans in most states. Their plans often include additional benefits such as telehealth services, dental, vision, and hearing coverage, and fitness memberships. BCBS offers a variety of plan options, including HMOs and PPOs.

Boise Idaho Insurance Agent

Medicare Advantage plans are a perfect alternative to your Original Medicare. If you are looking for a plan that offers comprehensive benefits and coverage you can ask your agent about these. Chris Antrim Insurance | Boise Health & Life Insurance Agency is helping their community achieved their individual needs. We believed that everyone is different and has unique situations.

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#Chris Antrim | Idaho Medicare & Health Insurance Broker

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hidingoutbackstage · 3 years ago

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do you have any recommendations for good re fics that write piers being disabled well?

I do! (looking back at this now I realized almost all of them are mullvans lmao probably because I refuse to read ✨certain✨ Piers relationships based solely on principle)

thunderstorm by bsaaboyscout is really good because it's pretty much just an introspective of Piers during a thunderstorm dealing with traumatic flashbacks. Specifically regarding his disability, aside from the PTSD the fic also notes Piers' scarring. It's short but beautifully written and I really like it (also follow op's art blog on here @moldwinterz)

Chimera by Pugge is a Post-6 mullvans fic where Jake and Piers end up separately on the same mission, that's all I'll say rn cuz story-wise it's been a trip and I think you should go into it unspoiled. Currently my favorite mullvans fic although it is still in progress but I frankly cannot wait to see where it goes from here. For Piers' disability, he is infected with the C-virus, so he still has the electric abilities we saw at the end of 6, his eye is mutated and his right arm is a prosthetic, he has some kind of PTSD related to water, and he takes some kind of medication to maintain the C-virus. Op is also a clinical lab scientist which imo adds a touch of realism to the fic that I really enjoy

Shower by InkNPixieDust is another one that fits a lot into such a short fic. A good bit of it discusses the extent of Piers' injuries following 6, he has PTSD regarding water (something that I rlly don't see much in Piers Survives 6 fics) and he has a lot of physical pain that requires him needing assistance for doing certain tasks. The premise of this is basically just Jake helps Piers shower (smut warning btw it's not a lot but it's there) but most of it is a discussion of Piers' physical and mental state which I really like

Do you need a hand? by Majonka is a Post-6 fic where we get to see Piers receiving his prosthetic arm and trying it out, with Jake ofc cuz surprise it's another mullvans one. The formatting is a little strange (get to the dialogue and you'll see what I mean) but personally it doesn't bother me. Piers is missing his right arm in this, obviously, but he also has scarring on his body, a non-functional right eye, and clear PTSD. It also talks a bit about Piers' family which I like and barely see fics acknowledge (funny considering Piers is one of the few RE characters who isn't an orphan and has at least one sibling)

Everybody Loves Somebody by Mikhailov is a Piers fic that mostly has a mullvans focus and takes place before and after the ending of 6 (the middle part is a little fuzzy with the timeline but I don't care I like it) it's basically just Piers getting over his hero crush on Chris and accidentally catching feelings for Jake. Post-6 it acknowledges that he doesn't have his arm and briefly what kind of psychological and physical effects that would have on a person. It's also just a rlly nice mullvans fic

Feel free to rb or save for reference if you feel like reading any of these

#sid answers #anon #piers nivans #mullvans #let's be real this is a mullvans fics masterpost and i didn't even notice lol

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cryptid-kratt-kid · 3 years ago

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In The Chris Crises au, Chilli lost her arm in one of the most horrendous abuse cases Martin had ever seen.

Chilli had been given to a family as a Christmas present for one of their kids. But this family only wanted a Chris for the sake of saying they had one, and didn't actually care for Chilli's wellbeing.

They couldn't stand her energy and need to climb, so they'd regularly lock her outside with their poorly-trained dogs.

Martin was finally called to investigate the situation by the family's neighbor when they'd found Chilli had been badly mauled by one of the dogs.

Martin didn't have any trouble attaining the warrant required to take Chilli. But when he was finally able to get her the medical assistance she needed, it was too late to save her arm and it needed to be amputated.

The vet had told Martin that disabled Chrises typically don't climb, and often have issues with confidence. They said that chilli probably wasn't going to get into trouble that often, and that the worst thing Martin would have to look out for was depression.

But Oh boy were they wrong.

Chilli doesn't give two shits that she's missing an arm. She climbs on everything, she roughhouses with the other chrises and very frequently wins, she regularly has to be rescued from ceiling fans. Martin sometimes jokes that Chilli was actually happy to lose her arm as the extra weight was just slowing her down.

#wild kratts #wild kratts au #The Chris Crisis AU

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ashintheairlikesnow · 5 years ago

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hi ash! i know you said before that you're not autistic you just did a lot of research to depict chris realistically- do you have any advice for finding resources on writing disabled characters that isn't like... horribly abelist? im writing someone with an intellectual disability from head trauma and who is nonverbal, and i want to get it right but everything online seems very autism-speaks-y. im autistic and semiverbal but i dont have an id and i want to be realistic and respectful.

I cannot speak with any expertise or sense of speaking from enough experience to be taken as an expert here, and defer as always to those with lived experience with intellectual disability!

But I will give a few more general tips for what to do when looking to write a character with a neurological makeup that doesn’t match your own, as far as what has worked for me with Chris:

1. The story should never be ABOUT their lived experience if you do not also have it. Chris’s story is not about autism, or being autistic. I would never presume to try and write a story like that because, whatever my intentions, I don’t have that knowledge that comes from living it. I would at BEST be taking the experiences of others, their voices. At worst, I would be someone standing with a megaphone shouting over those who deserve to be heard.

Making the disability what the plot revolves around is... generally just not going to be a good idea, in any sense. It’s moments like this where I feel like it’s best to defer to the writers who have lived it, instead.

This is not to say “never write someone different than yourself”, because... I don’t think that’s at all good advice. I think that way lies stunted writers who never push themselves. But it does mean “do not center the story on this thing if you have not experienced it and don’t have that knowledge and understanding”.

2. At the same time, don’t try to be coy or dance around or hide the disability behind purple prose or refuse to acknowledge its reality. Trying to make a disability sound cute, or talk around it instead of speaking it out loud, can be minimizing or shaming in ways that I think it’s easy to miss, if you don’t live with that disability yourself! To me, this touches on one of my hugest pet peeves - characters who are written as having a particular neurodivergence in media, or shown on tv, but they never expressly admit to it or name it.

I know I hesitated with Chris, more because I didn’t feel comfortable giving him a diagnosis until I understood autism better myself, and I do regret how long it took me to embrace that reality about him. I just thought it better to err on the side of researching before I embraced. But I do feel some guilt about waiting so long when I had readers who were identifying so heavily with him, and I kind of knew, but just didn’t feel comfortable owning it yet.

3. On a related note - disabilities in a story that become melodramatic tragedy or turn the disabled character into a ‘redemption story’ for an abled character. This is so, so prevalent in common media and pop culture and once you recognize it for what it is, it’s so hard to not see it in so many places. Think of how many movies, novels, etc contain a disabled character who exists to teach abled people some virtuous lesson about living life to the fullest or ‘what it really means to be human’ blah blah blah blah blah. Don’t do that. Please. (I mean, I kind of feel like you definitely won’t, but I’m just speaking very generally here). If you find the story going in a direction in which abled people learn something from the disabled person, please think very carefully and critically as to why the story is heading in that direction.

Language alone can also be a problem here - think about the difference between openly describing a character moving around their life with a wheelchair vs. calling them “wheelchair-bound” or “reliant on a cane”, when the cane or wheelchair may actually represent freedom to that person - an aid they need, yes, but one that allows them to live with far more agency than they might have had otherwise.

To describe them, especially from their own POV, as “wheelchair-bound”, may ring false to disabled people who understand that the wheelchair isn’t a cage, but a tool that allows that individual person to feel less caged by being able to more freely leave home.

(This varies person to person, just providing an example)

4. Educate. Research. And don’t just do so by asking people with disabilities to tell you their stories. I often express gratitude to the autistic readers, those with ADHD, etc who spoke up about Chris, talked about their own experiences, identified with him, found him very resonating for aspects of their own lives.

These stories, this information, this sharing of their lives was given freely to me, and I’m fucking amazed and grateful for how welcomed Chris was, and how willing readers were to share about themselves when talking about him.

Their willingness to speak about these things is something I treasure. But I absolutely would never believe that a single person owed me the story of their life to make sure I got Chris right. That was my responsibility, you know? I try to keep in mind the concept of ‘emotional labor’. Asking a disabled person to be your resource is asking them to give, and give, and give of themself. They may want to give you that kind of labor, they may not. But I definitely wouldn’t ask it of anyone without understanding it was something they were happy or felt comfortable giving.

Research, on the other hand, is essential. You mentioned things being “autism speaks-y” when trying to research on your own, and oh god, do I feel you. It sucks that autism speaks is the first thing to pop up when trying to research the lives of autistic people - and in my research, I was lucky to already know AS sucks and write them off and anyone who heavily referenced them as not helpful. I can see how someone might not know that, though, and stumble on them and believe they were a helpful resource for writing autism when they... well. Nope.

Try to think about the express disability you are writing for this person, and why, and then go research! I looked up “books on autism recommended by autistic people”, and found some invaluable books, yes, but also papers published online, websites, etc! Each of them vetted and looked over and recommended by autistic people, so I knew I was getting information that came from people with those experiences and that understanding. A good example - I picked up a book on the history of diagnosis and treatment of autism in the United States, mentioned it here, and @redwingedwhump recommended a book called Neurotribes... which turned out to be immensely more helpful, spot-on, and provided some really excellent foundational information I wouldn’t have found in the first book at all.

There’s a lot of information out there on Traumatic Brain Injuries and their lasting effects on individuals who receive them, so I would start there. What you’re describing sounds like a TBI with lasting effects! So I would start your research there, and also look up being nonverbal separately, as well as combining the two. Make sure you’re not just looking at the top links - often paid ads or problematic organizations that are able to pay more for better exposure - but also scanning for blogs, nonprofits, lived-experiences stories, too.

I found a lot of information on the second or even third page of results i would never have seen if I only stuck to the first. Remember the algorithm on search engines is usually showing you what other people are clicking on, not necessarily the best source.

5. This is one you the asker already know, but I want to include it for general reasons: do not ‘dumb down’ the thought processes of a nonverbal or semi-verbal person. I see this in fiction surprisingly often, and I think it’s this sense we have as abled people (’we’ just meaning I’m including myself) that being verbal is required to have a highly complex thought process, and it’s... it’s just fucking not. Speech and though are related but not completely wound around each other, and the ability to verbalize is not the same as the ability to think.

Like I said, I know you know this, asker, but it’s something I see in fiction/media and it drives me up the wall. So I wanted to include it.

6. For the love of God, do not use medical terminology unless you actually know what you’re doing/talking about. Many disabled people or those with serious medical conditions become what amounts to experts on their own diagnoses, because they have to. They have to be experts to receive the care they should be able to rely on. If you constantly fuck up terminology - trust me - it will be noticed, and it will take people out of the story or hurt their ability to suspend disbelief while reading.

There are ways to do medical scenes/conversations with doctors that avoid falling into this problem! I would just be very very careful to heavily research before using any complex terminology.

7. This disabled person does not exist to evoke pity. They are a human - nuanced and multi-layered - living their life, and their story should always, always reflect that. I don’t really have anything else to add to that.

I would love to hear further advice from anyone with anything else to add.

#writing advice #writing

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duchessofostergotlands · 6 years ago

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I hope this won't turn into a huge post, but who's who within the Swedish royal family? Maybe you have a masterpost from previous years? (PS this is the new SRF fan from before 💖😌)

Ah yay, you’re finding out stuff! I��m sure I did a post like this before but I can’t find it so I’m going to do a new one. It’s long so I’ve put it below a cut

King Carl XVI Gustaf-

Position: The King!

Born: 30th April 1946 to Princess Sibylla and Prince Gustaf Adolf.

Royal story: His father died when he was 4 and he became heir to the throne. He became King in 1973 at the age of 27.

Interests: scouting, the environment, sports and industry.

Fun fact: he became an internet meme for his choice of weird hats

Queen Silvia

Position: Queen consort

Born: 23rd December 1943 in Heidelberg, Germany to a German father- Walther Sommerlath- and Brazilian mother, Alice de Toledo Sommerlath

Royal story: Met Carl Gustaf at the Munich Olympics where she was working as a hostess in 1972. They married in 1976.

Interests: dementia care, children’s rights, and the arts.

Fun fact: In addition to Swedish, she can speak 5 other languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Crown Princess Victoria

Position: First in line to the throne.

Born : 14th July 1977 to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Royal story: She was initially superseded by her younger brother but Sweden changed the law in 1980 and at 2 years old she became the Crown Princess.

Interests: The environment, children’s health, disability

Fun fact: She was one of the first royals to support the LGBTQI+ community when she attend GayGalan, an awards ceremony, in 2013. Her attendance was a complete surprise. When she went to award Gay of the Year where she received a two minute standing ovation

Prince Daniel

Position: Husband of the first in line to the throne

Born : 15th September 19 July 1973 to Olle and Ewa Westling

Royal Story: Daniel ran a chain of gyms, Balance, which became popular with the rich and famous in Stockholm. The gym and Daniel were recommended to Victoria by her little sister. She started visiting Daniel as her personal trainer and eventually in 2001/2 it blossomed into a romance. They were engaged in 2009 and married in 2010.

Interests: Entrepreneurship, technology, health research, and sports

Fun fact: Daniel’s father Olle donated a kidney to him in 2009.

Princess Estelle

Position: Second in line to the throne

Born: 23rd February 2012 to Prince Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria

Royal Story: Princess Estelle is also Duchess of Östergötland, a position she was given by the King after she was born. She visited her Duchy for the first time in 2014 and has regularly attended royal engagements with her parents and other members of her family

Fun fact: When her mother was pregnant, she said that Estelle would rather have a hamster than a little brother or sister!

Prince Oscar

Position: Third in line to the throne

Born: 2nd March 2016 to Prince Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria

Royal Story: Prince Oscar is also Duke of Skåne. He made his first visit to his Duchy a few days ago! He has also attended events with his family including travelling to Italy and the USA with his parents

Fun fact: The little prince’s nickname in the family is Oscis

Prince Carl Philip

Position: Fourth in line to the throne

Born: 13th May 1979 to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Royal story: He was born as the heir to the throne, above his big sister. Sweden changed the law in 1980 and at 1 year old his position in line to the throne was flipped with his big sister

Interests: Dyslexia, agriculture, sports, and the military

Fun fact: Carl Philip is a big fan of design and started up his own design firm, Bernadotte Kylberg

Princess Sofia

Position: Wife of the fourth in line to the throne

Born: 6th December 1984 to Erik and Marie Hellqvist

Royal story: Sofia was a model and reality TV star. She briefly lived in New York City where she worked as a yoga instructor. She met Carl Philip through a mutual friend in 2010. They became engaged in 2014 and married in 2015.

Interests: Bullying, health, and children’s rights

Fun fact: Sofia established her own charity in 2010, Project Playground. The charity supports children in South Africa, particularly through the provision of youth clubs and recreational activities.

Prince Alexander

Position: Fifth in line to the throne

Born: 19th April 2016 to Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia

Royal Story: Prince Alexander is also Duke of Södermanland. He made his first visit to his Duchy in 2018.

Fun fact: Alexander accompanied his father to the ceremonial handing over of Christmas trees to the palace where he wore a santa hat!

Prince Gabriel

Position: Sixth in line to the throne

Born: 31st August 2017 to Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia

Royal Story: Prince Gabriel is also Duke of Dalarna. He has yet to visit his Duchy, Dalarna

Fun fact: Gabriel’s Duchy Dalarna was the childhood home of his mother Princess Sofia

Princess Madeleine

Position: Sixth in line to the throne

Born: 10th June 1982

Royal story: Madeleine is the youngest of the Swedish royal siblings. She is also Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland. She moved to the United States following the break up of her engagement to Jonas Bergström in 2010. She has not lived in Sweden full time since but returns for a small number of engagements each year

Interests: Children’s rights and the arts

Fun fact: Madeleine is a board member of the World Childhood Foundation, a children’s rights organisation founded by her mother Queen Silvia

Chris O’Neill

Position: Husband to the sixth in line to the throne

Born: 27th June 1974 in London to American Paul O’Neill and Austrian Eva Maria O'Neill (an ex of Prince Charles)

Royal story: While working in New York in the financial industry he became romantically involved with Madeleine, with whom he shared mutual friends. They began dating in NYC in 2010/2011. They got engaged in 2013 and married in 2014. Chris chose not to take a title so that he could continue with his business interests. They moved to London in 2015 and Florida in 2018.

Interests: n/a- Chris does not perform charitable activities for the Swedish royal family

Fun fact: There is an unconfirmed story that when Chris first fell for Madeleine he quietly donated $100,000 to her mum’s charity the World Childhood Foundation. He didn’t want Madde to know but of course she found out!

Princess Leonore

Position: Eighth in line to the throne

Born: 20th February 2014 in New York City to Princess Madeleine and Chris O’Neill

Royal Story: Princess Leonore is Duchess of Gotland. She made her first visit to her Duchy in 2016. She has attended a number of other events where she has earned a reputation for her wild behaviour. She has never permanently lived in Sweden and will lose her title and position in the line of succession if she does not attend school in Sweden from the legally required age

Fun fact: Leonore has both Swedish and US citizenship

Prince Nicolas

Position: Ninth in line to the throne

Born: 15th June 2015 to Princess Madeleine and Chris O’Neill

Royal Story: Prince Nicolas is Duke of Ångermanland. He has never permanently lived in Sweden and will lose his title and position in the line of succession if he does not attend school in Sweden from the legally required age

Fun fact: Nicolas is apparently a book worm and his mum said that if they can’t find him he’s usually in the corner reading a book

Princess Adrienne

Position: Tenth in line to the throne

Born: 9th March 2018 to Princess Madeleine and Chris O’Neill

Royal Story: Princess Adrienne is Duchess of Blekinge. Duke of Ångermanland. She has never permanently lived in Sweden and will lose her title and position in the line of succession if she does not attend school in Sweden from the legally required age

Fun fact: She’s kind of too little to have any cute stories but she’s adorable!!

#ask #anon #crown princess victoria #swedish royal family #king carl gustaf #king carl xvi gustaf #queen silvia #prince daniel #princess estelle #prince oscar #prince carl philip #princess sofia #prince gabriel #prince alexander #princess madeleine #chris o'neill #princess adrien #princess charlotte #prince nicolas

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losangelesleftygayvoters · 5 years ago

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March 3, 2020 Primary

Hi there. We didn’t write this. But a very smart and interesting dude named Kris Rehl did. As we were about to sit down and prepare ours - we read his and thought well, we’re not going to do a lot better than this.

LOS ANGELES AREA PROGRESSIVE VOTER GUIDE

The following are recommendations for the most effective, progressive candidates in each race based on reviewing the resources listed at the bottom of this guide, news articles, and candidates’ statements. I encourage you to do your own research on each candidate as well!

CALIFORNIA STATE PROPOSITION

Prop 13: YES - This is a $15 billion bond to invest in crumbling school infrastructure, including the removal of toxic mold and asbestos from aging classrooms, to provide cleaner drinking water, and make upgrades for fire and earthquake safety. The proposition would also increase the size of bonds that school districts can place on future ballots.

CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE

21st District: Kipp Mueller - Mueller’s progressive platform focuses on homelessness, wage inequality, and the environment, calling out Big Oil in the Antelope Valley swing district.

23rd District: Abigail Medina - The daughter of immigrant parents, Medina has been in the foster care system, worked as a tomato picker, and served on the San Bernardino City Unified School board. She is the candidate with the boldest environmental platform in her district.

27th District: Henry Stern - A strong advocate for closing the Aliso Canyon gas facility and a fairly progressive candidate in a purple district. In addition to fighting big oil, he’s running on creating incentives for companies to switch to clean transportation and renewable energy infrastructure, improving the economy with small businesses and job training, supporting education by securing funding, and creating safer communities by providing funding to local governments. (Fun fact: His dad played Marv in the Home Alone movies.)

29th District: Josh Newman - Newman won his Fullerton district in 2016, focusing on 100% renewable energy by 2045, affordable education, and homelessness and mental health services. He was recalled by voters in a low turnout midterm primary, after being targeted by a Republican effort to break the Democrats’ supermajority. Despite the partisan recall over his vote to increase the state gas tax by 12 cents per gallon to fund $5.4 billion in annual road improvement and transit projects, Newman will again face the Republican he beat in 2016.

35th District: Steven Bradford - A leader on police reform and accountability, including passing AB391, a law reducing when police can use deadly force. Bradford is focused on lowering homelessness through affordable housing, enhancing access to healthcare, and increasing access to mass transit.

CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY

36th District: Eric Andrew Ohlsen - Endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, Ohlsen has excellent positions on environmental issues, immigration, eliminating student debt, and criminal justice reform. Ohlsen wants to eliminate costly and unjust private prison contracts and help people already in the system with policies targeting recidivism.

38th District: Dina Cervantes - A child of immigrants, community activist, small business owner, and former preschool teacher with a strong record on education and environmental issues. (This district’s incumbent is retiring.)

39th District: Luz Maria Rivas - The incumbent, Rivas has a solid record on immigration and housing. She also founded a non-profit in Pacoima to encourage school-aged girls to pursue careers in STEM.

41st District: Chris Holden - The incumbent, Holden has fought to expand funding for disability programs, expand lead-level testing in drinking water at child care centers, and passed legislation to improve safety on electricity systems that caused the 2017 wildfires. His only opponents are Republicans, so vote for Chris!

43rd District: Laura Friedman - Friedman is the incumbent and has a progressive voting record, including supporting the end of Section 8 discrimination and authoring several environmental and sustainability bills.

44th District: Jacqui Irwin - The incumbent, facing a Republican challenger, Irwin has focused heavily on gun violence prevention legislation and strengthened gun violence restraining orders since the 2018 Thousand Oaks shooting.

45th District: Jesse Gabriel - A progressive incumbent, Gabriel has enacted more than a dozen new gun safety measures, championed efforts to address California’s housing and homelessness crisis, and strengthened public education.

46th District: Adrin Nazarian - A strong charter school opponent, who has fought to increase public school aid by $23 billion over the past five years, with a mostly progressive record across the board.

49th District: Edwin Chau - Born in Hong Kong and raised in L.A., incumbent assemblymember Chau is facing a Republican challenger. He’s focused on legislation to prevent elder abuse and authored bills to address the affordable housing crisis as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act, enhancing protections for internet users’ personal data.

50th District: Richard Bloom - Authored some strong housing bills with a heavy focus on environmental legislation, helping establish the most stringent protections in the country against the dangers of hydraulic fracking.

53rd District: Godfrey Plata - Plata is a progressive challenger to an establishment Democratic incumbent, who has a disappointing record on housing policy. Plata is a gay Filipino immigrant, who if elected will become the first person in the California Assembly's 140-year history to be an out LGBTQIA+ immigrant. Plata’s campaign is focused on affordable housing, strengthening public schools, and universal healthcare.

54th District: Tracy B. Jones - A special education teacher, Jones is a strong advocate for increasing public school funding and improvements. He supports Medicare for All and the banning of fracking.

57th District: Vanessa Tyson - Tyson is an advocate for increasing the accessibility and affordability of college, expanding affordable housing, and investing in permanent housing solutions to address homelessness.

58th District: Margaret Villa - A Green Party candidate, Villa supports rent control, Medicare for All, and getting money out of politics. The incumbent Democrat she’s challenging (Cristina Garcia) previously made false claims about earning a graduate degree, has several sexual harassment accusations against her from her own staff, and was investigated for her rampant use of racist and homophobic language in the workplace. Vote for Margaret Villa instead!

59th District: Reggie Jones-Sawyer - A strong progressive incumbent, Reggie comes from a family of pioneers in the civil rights movement, is the nephew of one of the Little Rock Nine, and a member of the California Legislative Black Caucus. He’s co-authored legislation to provide re-entry assistance like housing and job training for persons that have been wrongfully convicted and consequently released from state prison. He also led an effort to secure nearly $100 million for recidivism reduction grants.

63rd District: Maria Estrada - Endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America, Estrada is a community activist, challenging an incumbent establishment Democratic leader, who stopped the passage of single-payer healthcare in the California legislature. Maria is running “to end the culture of policies that are deferential to industrial polluters that continue to poison our communities.”

64th District: Fatima Iqbal-Zubair - A high school teacher from Watts, Fatima is challenging Democratic incumbent Mike Gipson, who takes money from Chevron, Valero, Pfizer, and Juul. She is campaigning to end environmental racism in her district, fight for affordable housing and rehabilitation services for the homeless, better funding for public schools, and making college accessible to everyone.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

District Attorney: Rachel Rossi - Rossi’s experience as a public defender and aggressive platform make her the most progressive option to unseat incumbent Jackie Lacey, who Black Lives Matter and the ACLU criticized for refusing to prosecute violent cops. Rossi will pursue “data-driven crime prevention” over ineffective mass incarceration, focusing on serious, violent cases and ending the revolving door of low-level offenses that waste taxpayer dollars.

County Measure R: YES - An important step toward L.A. County jail reform that helps decriminalize mental illness and build community-based care centers where people can get the qualified help they need. Measure R also provides crucial tools for LA’s Civilian Oversight Board to check a corrupt Sheriff’s department.

L.A. County Measure FD: YES - Provides firefighters with the resources they require.

COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, 43rd Assembly District (*Vote for no more than 7)

Luke H. Klipp - A progressive, who is disenchanted with the establishment, Klipp has been a housing and HIV/AIDS policy advocate and transportation analyst. He hopes to create a more walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly LA, centering equity and climate change in all policy.

Jennifer “Jenni” Chang - A universal healthcare advocate and community activist, Jenni wants to make politics more people-centric, shun corporate influence, and hold party leaders accountable to progressive values. She supports green transportation, more public education funding, affordable housing, closing corporate loopholes, and prison reform.

Linda Perez - Linda is an immigrant and retired labor advocate, who is prioritizing immigrant protections, LGBTQ rights, education, housing, workers’ rights, and student homelessness.

Ingrid Gunnell - A teacher focused on public school funding and accountability for charter schools, Ingrid plans to fight homelessness with affordable housing, mental healthcare, and job training.

Nicholas James Billing - A Sunrise Movement member, Nicholas is fighting for renewable energy infrastructure, supports public school, prison reform, and affordable housing.

Angel Izard - A community activist, Angel supports public schools, quality healthcare for all Californians, investing in renewable energy, affordable housing, and prison reform.

Paul Neuman - An incumbent, Paul wants to empower people and make government more accessible, transparent, responsive and accountable. He has a long history of activism and volunteer work, advocating for many marginalized groups. He’s written resolutions for emergency funding for homelessness, arts education, campaign reform, and more.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT

Office No. 42: Linda Sun - Sun is an experienced prosecutor focused on corruption from professionals and businesses rather than crimes of poverty. She describes her judicial approach as embodying empathy and dignity.

Office No. 72: Myanna Dellinger - Dellinger is passionate about gender-related employment discrimination, harassment, and violence cases. She believes “people of color and lower incomes are disproportionately affected by environmental problems such as air and water pollution...The law should help remedy that.” Dellinger also advocates for gender-affirming treatment of everyone in and out of the courtroom.

Office No. 76: Emily Cole - As a judge, Cole is dedicated to helping the victims of crime but also helping the defendants that are in a system that they can’t get out of. She was also endorsed over her opponent by the LA County Bar Association.

Office No. 80: Klint James McKay - McKay is an administrative law judge with social services and has a history in the Public Defender Union. He has focused on an empathetic approach and understanding for all people, who pass through the court. His opponent David Berger is endorsed by the problematic current DA Jackie Lacey but was also chosen for the District Attorney's Office Alternative Sentencing Designee, where he’s worked within the criminal justice system to find alternatives for non-violent candidates.

Office No. 97: Sherry L. Powell - Powell has dedicated much of her legal career to serving and advocating for families, who lost loved ones to murder, and victims of violent crimes such as child molestation, rape, human trafficking, and domestic violence. She is running against Timothy Reuben, a real estate law firm founder, who ran as a conservative in 2018.

Office No. 129: Kenneth Fuller - As a District Attorney, Fuller has prosecuted environmental and sex crimes, but has also worked on the defense side as a military judge advocate.

Office No. 145: Troy Slaten - Slaten strongly supports criminal justice reform with efforts such as Collaborative Courts, designed to provide treatment instead of incarceration to the most vulnerable populations in the criminal justice system.

Office No. 150: Tom Parsekian - Parsekian is a civil litigation attorney, who is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.

Office No. 162: Caree Annette Harper - Harper is a former police officer, turned civil rights attorney, who has dedicated massive amounts of her time to pro bono work. In 2018, Caree obtained $1.5 million for the family of Reginald Thomas, who was beaten and tased to death by Pasadena Police Department.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR

2nd District: Holly Mitchell - A champion for progressive causes in the State Legislature, Mitchell has called for 20% affordable housing in every new development and a compassionate, non-criminalization approach to the homelessness crisis. Holly introduced the recently enacted CROWN Act, the first state law to ban discrimination based on natural hair or styles like locs, braids, and twists in workplaces and public schools.

4th District: Janice Hahn - Hanh has been solid on housing and labor issues. It should be noted that in 2015, she voted with 242 Republicans and 46 Democrats to pass a bill that proposed instituting a much more intensive screening for refugees from Iraq and Syria, who applied for admission to the U.S. It does not appear Hahn has any serious challengers.

5th District: Darrell Park - Park proposed an ambitious Green New Deal for LA County, signed the homes guarantee, and endorsed the Services Not Sweeps campaign to end the criminalization and ease the suffering of unhoused people. The current Supervisor for this district, Kathryn Barger, is the only Republican on the County Board of Supervisors.

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - BOARD OF EDUCATION

The following are the endorsements of the Los Angeles teachers union:

District 1: George McKenna

District 3: Scott Schmerlson

District 5: Jackie Goldberg

District 7: Patricia Castellanos

LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL

***The corruption in City Hall has led to inaction, worsened the housing crisis, and wasted millions in taxpayer dollars. I urge you to vote out all incumbents.

2nd District: Ayinde Jones - Wants to expand affordable public transportation and beds in homeless shelters. (The incumbent, Paul Krekorian, did not meet the new bed goal that the city council set for itself. Krekorian did turn his own budget’s $400 million surplus into a $200 million deficit with little transparency or public oversight though.) For more info on this race, check out this community activist’s thread from the candidates’ forum.

4th District: Nithya Raman - Nithya is an MIT-trained urban planner, who founded SELAH, a local homeless service organization, and served as executive director of anti-sexual harassment group Times Up. She plans to end homelessness by providing services and housing to those in need, stop evictions, and freeze rents. She is also focused on fighting the climate crisis and improving our city’s air quality.

6th District: Bill Haller - A member of his neighborhood council and experienced with environmental advocacy, Haller is running because he is disgusted by the corruption in L.A. City Hall. Haller wants to reduce city council pay from $207,000 to $93,500 (or 85% of an elected state assemblymember’s salary) and double the number of city districts to allow for more diverse, grassroots candidates, who better understand and represent their communities.

8th District: Denise Woods - A write-in candidate who has fought against housing discrimination, Denise has plans to address public safety, prevent gang violence, and expand education and job training in South L.A.

10th District: Aura Vasquez - Aura was born and raised in Colombia. In 1996, her family came to America to escape the bloodshed and violence caused by drug cartels and the War on Drugs. As an undocumented student, Aura worked nights and weekends to put herself through college. Aura has become a dedicated community organizer, environmental advocate, and was the driving force in banning single-use plastic bags in L.A. She is focused on making city services more responsive, creating affordable housing and homeless services, ensuring police treat all residents with respect and dignity, keeping immigrant and refugee families together, and supporting local schools, teachers, and after-school programs.

12th District: Dr. Loraine Lundquist - An educator and astrophysicist, Loraine is an expert on clean energy and helped organize community opposition to the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility when it posed a massive danger to the Valley in 2015. She is refusing donations from corporate special interests and wants to challenge corruption in the LADWP to create lower utility bills for residents. Loraine also wants to use humane, data-proven solutions to end the homelessness crisis, putting an end to tax dollars being wasted on inaction.

14th District: Cyndi Otteson - Cyndi served on her neighborhood council and leads a nonprofit that helped over 320 refugee families resettle in the U.S. Cyndi rejects developer, charter school, and special interest money and wants to make housing more affordable for rent-burdened Angelenos with financial reforms and protections for renters. She proposes using the $355 million annually generated by Measure H to build on or adapt commercial property that is undeveloped or abandoned for affordable housing and homeless shelters.

GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL

Dan Brotman - Dan is an advocate for a sustainable Glendale and has been endorsed by the Sunrise Movement for fighting fossil fuel infrastructure and advocating for affordable housing.

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

8th District: Chris Bubser - Bubser has been endorsed by several labor and environmental groups, and she is the only chance to avoid two Republicans on the November general election ballot in this red district.

23rd District: Kim Mangone - Kim is a veteran, running against Kevin McCarthy, one of the most far-right Republicans in Congress and the GOP’s current House Minority Leader. Vote for Kim and get McCarthy the hell out of Washington!

26th District: Julia Brownley - The incumbent, Julia passed her Female Veterans Suicide Prevention Act in 2016, which requires the VA to collect data on women veterans to identify best practices and services to end female veteran suicide. She passed a surface transportation bill to increase funds to invest in our crumbling infrastructure. Julia has been an advocate for women and working families, fighting to close the wage gap, raise the minimum wage, and expand job training and education assistance.

27th District: Judy Chu - The incumbent, Chu is chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and has a strong record on immigration rights and reform. She has also become a strong advocate for ending military hazing since her 21-year-old nephew shot and killed himself after enduring three and a half hours of discrimination-motivated assault and torture from his fellow marines in Afghanistan.

28th District: G. “Maebe A. Girl” Puldo - Maebe (she/her) is the first drag queen elected to public office in U.S. history! She is genderfluid/trans and hosts, produces, and performs in drag shows around Los Angeles in addition to her Silver Lake Neighborhood Council duties. Maebe supports Medicare for All, has experience with homelessness advocacy, and is running on a broad, progressive platform. If your knee jerk reaction is to dismiss Maebe because she’s a drag queen, kindly check your queerphobia at the door.

(Second Choice: Adam Schiff - Despite his impressive contribution to the president’s impeachment, incumbent Adam Schiff has shown himself to be a hawk, defined by donations made to his campaign by the defense industry. Even if you plan to vote for Schiff during the general election this November, I encourage you to vote for Maebe in the primary.)

29th District: Angélica María Dueñas - A member of her neighborhood council, Dueñas supports unions, Medicare For All, achieving 100% renewable energy by 2030, eliminating pharmaceutical subsidies, increasing taxes on the rich, and a humane path to citizenship.

30th District: CJ Berina - CJ is challenging an establishment Democratic incumbent, who has worked against many progressive causes. CJ supports the Green New Deal, Medicare For All, the cancellation of medical and student debt, abolishing ICE and the death penalty, and ending for-profit healthcare.

32nd District: Emanuel Gonzales - Growing up, Emanuel and his family became homeless twice: after his father was diagnosed with End-Stage Renal Disease and during the recession. Since his father died from a failed kidney transplant, Emanuel has become an advocate for expanding Medicare coverage to everyone in the U.S. and reforming the current organ transplantation system so that no organ goes to waste. Personally knowing the pain of losing a home, Emanuel will fight for affordable interest rates for first-time buyers, extending tax benefits for working families who own homes, and increasing federal grants, so people can own homes in the communities they work and serve in.

33rd District: Ted Lieu - Ted has been an outspoken critic of the current administration, bringing special attention to the treatment of migrant children in detention, separated from their families. Ted previously authored a bill banning conversion therapy and was a co-sponsor of the 2019 Medicare For All Act.

34th District: Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla - Frances supports Medicare for All, the Rent Relief Act, the Green New Deal, and urgently wants to end the war in Yemen. The incumbent Jimmy Gomez has moved to the left since facing a Green Party candidate last election cycle. If nothing else, let’s push him even more left.

37th District: Karen Bass - Leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, Karen has focused on issues such as criminal justice reform, a national minimum wage increase, and foster care. She supports Medicare For All, tuition-free community college, and capping the interest rate for federal student loans at 3.4 percent.

38th District: Michael Tolar - Supports Medicare for All, The Green New Deal, closing private prisons, getting money out of politics, and banning military-style weapons.

39th District: Gil Cisneros - A solid Orange County Democrat facing a tough reelection against a Republican this fall. Cisneros was a $266 million Mega Millions winner and became a philanthropist before deciding to run for Congress in 2018. Gil is a veteran and education advocate, who has stood up to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to lower healthcare costs, protected education funding, and worked to create good-paying local jobs.

40th District: Dr. Rodolfo Cortes Barragan - Taking on a more conservative Democrat incumbent, Rodolfo is a first-generation American, who came from Mexico at a young age and earned degrees from UC Berkeley and Stanford. He is a Green Party candidate, running on a platform of Medicare for All, tuition-free public colleges, the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, repealing the Patriot Act, and a homes guarantee with funding for universal public housing.

43rd District: Maxine Waters - Maxine has been an outspoken advocate for women, children, people of color, and the poor. She has strongly condemned the actions of the current administration and is facing a Republican challenger this fall.

44th District: Nanette Diaz Barragán - Elected in 2016, Nanette became the first Latina to represent her Congressional district. She is a strong advocate for immigration and supports Medicare for All.

45th District: Katie Porter - Katie is a survivor of domestic abuse and a former consumer protection attorney. She impressively won a swing district while still supporting Medicare for All, gun safety reform, and legislation to reduce the influence of dark money in politics.

47th District: Peter Matthews - Peter refuses donations from corporate PACs and lobbyists, supports tuition-free college, canceling student debt, Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal child care, public banks, taxing income brackets over $10 million at 70%, and believes housing is a human right.

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

Elizabeth Warren - Elizabeth doesn’t just have some of the most comprehensive, progressive plans of any candidate, she has figured out and proposed some brilliant strategies to actually move them through the gridlock in Washington. She engages with stakeholders in every community, listens, and incorporates their feedback to be sure she is addressing the needs of all Americans. I trust Elizabeth to take on corruption and create a better, fairer country by removing monied corruption in politics, implementing a wealth tax on the ultra rich, creating free universal healthcare, reforming our criminal justice system, fighting predatory debt, expanding educational and economic opportunities, and creating new clean energy jobs to swiftly combat climate change.

(2nd Choice: Bernie Sanders - Bernie is a truly inspiring candidate, and I agree with almost all of his policies. I would be thrilled to vote and volunteer for him if he becomes the nominee, but he is my second choice because I believe Warren has more effective strategies to implement an extremely similar platform, ranging from the removal of the filibuster to finding solutions that won’t raise middle-class taxes to fund for Medicare For All.)

RESOURCES

https://lavote.net/Apps/CandidateList/Index?id=3793

https://laist.com/elections/

https://knock-la.com/the-knock-la-los-angeles-progressive-voter-guide-for-the-march-2020-primary-7f2c3efc13cc

https://www.dsa-la.org/2020_primary_voter_guide

https://votersedge.org/en/ca

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/9/1917945/-LA-Progressive-Majority-Voter-Guide-to-Judges-Candidates-for-March-2020-Los-Angeles-CA

https://progressivevotersguide.com/california/

https://app.kpcc.civicengine.com/v/choose_party

http://www.easyvoterguide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/EVG-march2020-Eng.pdf

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themagiciansreccenter · 6 years ago

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Author Spotlight: @thursdayeuclid

Every week we interview a writer from The Magicians fandom. If you would like to be interviewed or you want to nominate a writer, get in touch via our ask box.

First things first, tell us a little about yourself.

I'm a thirty-something disabled bipolar queer trans guy who publishes original m/m romance novels when I can tear myself away from fandom long enough to do so. I'm pretty blind without my glasses. I usually have blue hair, a nose ring, and a man bun. As Thursday Euclid, I write lots of happily ever afters, and as prettyclever, I do pretty much the same thing, except with other people's characters that I'm just borrowing from a surfeit of affection.

How long have you been writing for?

My first stories were written when I was a very young child, but I didn't try a novel until I was nine. It didn't quite work out--I couldn't sustain the work to complete a work of that length, and I was writing long-hand---but I tried again at twelve and managed to finish about 50k words. I had a tumultuous adolescence but eventually found myself in Harry Potter fandom in the early aughts, and then I took a long break trying to be a professional. Turns out, I couldn't stay away from tragic magical boys.

What inspired you to start writing for The Magicians?

I was irritated with how season four was playing out. I overly identify with Eliot Waugh--he's who I want to be when I grow up; I'm 37 so I'm running way behind schedule--and his relationship with Quentin was *so* important to me. When Quentin got back together with Alice, I was like, "This is it. I've gotta write fic."

That was the beginning. A few thousand words came of it. Ever since the season four finale, though, I've done nothing but write oodles of Queliot fic with my cowriter and best friend clancynacht/charlotteschaos in my every free moment. I was already reading Magicians fic, but there just wasn't enough novel-length Queliot to suit me, so me and Char are remedying that in our own weird way.

Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write? What it is about them that makes them your favourite?

Eliot, because he is me in so many ways, and in all the ways he is not me, he is pure fabulosity and sex appeal. Kady, because she is just the baddest bitch. She delights me to no end. Penny 40, because his sass is killer, as is his tsundere ish, and I just really miss him. Char always writes Quentin and Margo when we collaborate because she's fantastic at channeling them, so I stick to my own faves.

Do you have a preference for a particular season/point in time to write about?

I didn't really start writing fic until s4, but (extrapolated) S5 has been my favorite thing to write. I've also loved the Mosaic fic we're writing based on 3x5 and 4x5. Most of what I read is totally AU, though.

Are you working on anything right now? Care to give us an idea about it?

We've now posted like 225,000 words of Queliot fic, still working on Sound & Color, and we're also working on another novel-length fic for Magicians Hallmark Holiday Exchange as I type this. Since it's all anon, I can't tell you much about our story except that we've already written 65,000 words of it, and the mutual pining is real, y'all. It's very festive, and Quentin is an adorable sad boi and Eliot is very soft and spook and also protective.

How long is your “to do list”?

Char literally made a Basecamp list of everything I should be doing outside of fic, but when it comes to fandom, it's really just MHHE and Sound & Color. We write together really rapidly. For example, when we wrote It's Never Over, we were done with over 100k in a month.

What is your favourite fic that you’ve written for The Magicians? Why?

Definitely It's Never Over. It's crackalicious and full of book canon references, and it's the Magicians Season 5 Queliot fans deserve. I'm so proud of how that one turned out. I've never written a story in fandom that people were so passionate about, either. It was published immediately after that heartbreaking finale, and people really responded to how we resurrected Quentin. Also all the smut, because there's so much smut in that story. Sex magic left and right.

Many writers have a fic that they are passionate about that doesn’t get the reception from the fandom that they hoped for. Do you have a fic you would like more people to read and appreciate?

I hoped Sound & Color would get more attention than it did. It's a long, weird (not quite complete yet) trip through 3x5 A Life in the Day. There's already a lot of Mosaic fic out there, and it's a crowded field, although I think Sound & Color stands apart for being so complete and slice-of-lifey. It's not just focused on the most dramatic moments, but on their entire lives together from beginning to end because I couldn't get enough of imagining it. It's a long, thorough exploration.

What is your writing process like? Do you have any traditions or superstitions that you like to stick to when you’re writing?

I like to listen to Radiohead when I write. It's inspiring and relaxing and keeps the words flowing. Also, Char often creates Spotify playlists for our stories, and I'll listen to those to set the mood as we write. Sometimes I listen to Kpop while writing too, because I only understand one word in fifty and it provides excellent background rhythm.

Because I collaborate with Char on just about everything, we used to write together in Google Docs before migrating our process over to OneDrive through Microsoft Word, which also lets us see each other's work in real time and edit each other's additions to the story. In a lot of ways, it's similar to roleplaying, which is why we can write 100k in a month without getting burned out. We've been working together like this for more than ten years now, so we've got it down.

Do you write while the seasons are airing or do you prefer to wait for hiatus? How does the ongoing development of the canon influence and inspire your writing process?

I prefer writing canon-compliant stories during hiatus and writing AUs while the seasons are airing. Historically, I tend to only read in a fandom until hiatus, and then I start writing. Coming from a book-based fandom (Harry Potter), Magicians feels very different dynamically and has different demands.

What has been the most challenging fic for you to write?

Definitely The Fake Dating One Where El's Parents Come to Visit, because it was different from what I'm used to writing. For one, it was short(ish) and two, Eliot's parents were drawn from my parents, who are also extremely religious, conservative, small town bigots. It cut closer to the bone in a lot of ways, but it was also different because Quentin ended up taking a more dominant, protective role, really exhibiting his innate bravery, and it was a little uncomfortable letting Eliot be rescued by Quentin just because I identify so much with El.

Are there any themes or tropes that you like particularly like to explore in your writing?

Idiots in love, mutual pining, fake dating, dicks & daddy issues, biphobia and bi erasure in queer culture, mental illness, family of choice, friends-to-lovers

Are there any writers that inspire your work? Fanfiction or otherwise?

Lev Grossman, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Stephen King, NK Jemisin, Owlet (her Infinite Coffee series is incredible if you like Stucky), and Olen Steinhauer.

What are you currently reading? Fanfiction or otherwise?

I just finished reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, which I admit I read just because Chris Evans recommended it, and wow am I glad I did. Changed the way I look at the world.

Now I'm working my way through the Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin, the Raven Tower by Ann Leckie, the Fever King by Victoria Lee, and All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer.

What is the most valuable piece of writing advice you’ve ever been given?

Practice makes perfect. If you don't give it your best every day and work on it even when you don't feel as inspired, you'll never develop the muscles it requires to perfect your craft.

Are there any words or phrases you worry about over using in your work?

My characters murmur way too much. Also honestly, just, like.

What was the first fanfic that you wrote? Do you still have access to it?

It was called "Isildur's Bane" and it was a really insanely nerdy LOTR fic about Isildur and the One Ring. It was gen, and it had none of the characters/pairings people actually wanted to read about, but I was damn proud of it. I have no idea what happened to it. It's been almost twenty years.

Rapidfire Round!

Self-edit or Beta?

For fic, Char and I edit each other as we go. I'd love to have an actual beta, but I do not have one.

Comments or Kudos/Reblogs or Likes?

Comments feed my soul. They used to give me anxiety, but now they are my everything.

Smut, Fluff or Angst?

angst with a happy ending

Quick & Dirty or Slow Burn?

slow burn, to read and to write

Favourite Season?

Season Three

Favourite Episode?

All That Hard, Glossy Armor

Favourite Book?

The Magician’s Land

Three favourite words?

herculean, susurrus, callipygian

Want to be interviewed for our author spotlight? Get in touch here.

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the-desolated-quill · 6 years ago

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The Woman Who Fell To Earth - Doctor Who blog (Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon)

(SPOILER WARNING: The following is an in-depth critical analysis. If you haven’t seen this episode yet, you may want to before reading this review)

Never before have I gone into a Doctor Who episode with such a mixture of excitement and dread as I did with The Woman Who Fell To Earth. On the one hand we’ve finally got a female Doctor, something most Whovians have been waiting decades for, but on the other hand she’s being written by Chris Chibnall, a writer who (and let’s be generous here) has never exactly managed to win me over in the past. His past Doctor Who episodes were often derivative, stupid and poorly written and while yes he did create Broadchurch (a show that people assure me is good, but I still have little to no interest in watching), he was also the showrunner of the god awful spinoff Torchwood, which was essentially Doctor Who’s Suicide Squad.

So yeah, the thought of him sitting in the driver’s seat and at such a crucial moment in Doctor Who’s long history didn’t exactly get me hyped for the new series and if I’m honest, come Sunday 7th October, I was bracing myself for the worst.

Then the most pleasant of surprises. The Woman Who Fell To Earth turned out to be really, really good. I’m actually gobsmacked by how much I enjoyed this episode. I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be praising a Chibnall episode, but here we are.

I think one of the reasons why I enjoyed this episode so much is because it feels like all the aspects that annoyed me about RTD and Moffat’s respective eras have been sheared away. There’s no convoluted plots. No dangling arcs. No forced whimsy. No smart arse dialogue or pretentious speeches. In fact this had a lot more in common with a classic series story in terms of its pacing and scale. It’s not some global threat where everyone is dashing about like headless chickens on speed. The threat is contained to one town in Northern England where only a handful of people are in danger. Even the music has mercifully been restrained. While I do have a fondness for Murray Gold’s work on Doctor Who, his music often had a tendency to go too overboard, bombarding the senses and drowning the audience in slush. New composer Segun Akinola offers a much more subtle and moving score. It enhances the action and certain emotional moments without bashing you over the head and, crucially, Akinola knows when to shut up and let the actors carry the scene.

I must say it’s such a relief to see some humanity injected back into Doctor Who again. After years of convoluted, timey wimey Moffat nonsense, Chibnall has had the good sense to bring everything back to basics. It’s not about the aliens, the special effects, the exotic locations or the overly pretentious plots that require a fucking flow chart in order to make sense of them. It’s all about the characters. And what wonderful characters they are. Ensemble casts rarely work on Doctor Who, but I have to say I really like this cast. Out of all the new companions, Ryan is probably my favourite. Tosin Cole gives a really good performance and I really like how he’s written. In particular I like how the episode portrays his dyspraxia. The way New Who has handled things like disability and mental health in the past has left a lot to be desired, but here Chibnall gets it just right. He never makes a big thing out of it and the episode never comes across as patronising or condescending. It’s treated like any other character trait, which is exactly how it should be.

Mandip Gill is also good as Yasmin Khan, a police officer who feels like she’s not getting the most out of her life or career. She reminds me slightly of Rose Tyler, but unlike Rose, Yasmin is more proactive. She doesn’t sit around waiting for something to happen. She pursues new opportunities when they come up and gets frustrated when someone puts a wall in front of her. It’ll be interesting to see how she’ll adapt to time travel over the course of the series.

And then there’s Graham, played by Bradley Walsh. To all my non-British readers, let me give you a quick education on the wonders that is Mr. Walsh. He’s one of our most versatile performers. He’s been a footballer, a comedian, an actor and a gameshow host. He’s an incredibly funny man as well as a great dramatic performer. Having seen him in Law & Order UK, I knew he’d be perfect and he didn’t disappoint. There’s a weariness to him that’s incredibly charming and likeable, but then he’s able to go from comedic to emotional at the drop of a hat. The eulogy he gives at Grace’s funeral was incredibly powerful and moving, as are the moments where he tries to bond with Ryan, who’s clearly sceptical of any kind of father figure in his life due to how unreliable his dad is. Both Graham and Ryan are the ones to keep a close eye on I think. Ryan in particular will be carrying a lot of baggage as the series progresses. His determination to ride a bike shows not only the pain he feels toward losing his Nan, but also the guilt. If he hadn’t lost his temper, chucked his bike down a cliff and then pressed the weird glowing shapes, none of this would have happened. He clearly feels he’s responsible for her death and I’m looking forward to seeing not only how he grows and moves on from that, but also how Graham will step up and help him, being the grandfather Ryan needs if not necessarily the one he wants.

It’s the characterisation that is The Woman Who Fell To Earth’s greatest strength. Not just the from the main cast, but the supporting characters too. Little moments like the old man telling his granddaughter he loves her before getting killed by the Stenza or the crane operator listening to self motivation tapes is what gives this episode more depth and soul. And then of course there’s Grace, played wonderfully by Sharon D. Clarke. I’m hard pressed to think of a single character from the Moffat era that I gave anything resembling a shit about, which is why it’s so remarkable that I’m able to care this much about Grace despite the short time we get to know her. She’s caring, supportive and energetic. She feels like the perfect companion for the Doctor and I would have loved to have seen her in the TARDIS with everyone else, which is what makes her death so heartbreaking. She’s not some random redshirt getting axed because the script requires more tension. She’s a three dimensional character we really like coming to a tragic end.

Okay. Okay. Let’s get to the main topic of conversation. How’s the new Doctor? Have the ‘feminazis’ ruined it? Is she swapping makeup tips with the Cybermen? Is she struggling to parallel park the TARDIS? Did she accidentally kill a whole species because it was her time of the month? (these are all things I’ve seriously heard butthurt fanboys say since Jodie Whittaker was cast and I think we can all agree it’s beyond pathetic). Well, quelle surprise, turns out the Doctor’s sex change didn’t jumpstart the SJW apocalypse after all. Who’d have thought women could be Doctors too? What a novel concept.

The minute she fell into the train, I was sold. Whereas Peter Capaldi took three whole series to finally come into his own (not that Capaldi is necessarily to blame for that. Blame the monkey at the fucking typewriter for that one), with Jodie Whittaker it’s instantaneous. She is the Doctor.

It helps that Chibnall largely dispenses with all the usual post-regeneration bullshit. With the fainting and gurning kept to a minimum, we can get on with actually learning about this new Doctor and I love what I’m seeing so far. She’s quick-witted, compassionate and quirky, but not to the point where it becomes annoying like Matt Smith’s often did (in my opinion. Tastes differ, obviously. I personally found Eleven to be unbearable at times). After the Twelfth Doctor, with his borderline misanthropy and his inability to even so much as blow his nose without a companion to hold his hand, Thirteen comes like a breath of fresh air.

One thing I especially like about her is her complete lack of arrogance and boring machismo that previous New Who Doctors were sometimes guilty of. Rather than having her boast about how clever she is, like Ten or Eleven would have, she just shows us by building a new sonic screwdriver out of spoons. And she never tries to lord her moral superiority over others. Quite the opposite in fact. This is a Doctor who clearly values teamwork and can recognise strength in others. There are flashes of darkness too, like when she manipulates the Stenza into killing himself with his own DNA bombs, but she’s not driven by some inherent belief that she is right and they are wrong. She’s driven by the fact that she has gotten to know these people and doesn’t want anything to happen to them. Thirteen is quite possibly one of the most down to earth Doctors I’ve ever seen and I’m extremely excited to see more.

As I said, The Woman Who Fell To Earth is largely about its characters, which is just as well because the plot is... I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s definitely the least interesting thing about the episode. I liked the look of the Stenza, with the teeth embedded in his face, and the gathering coil. I liked that it was a small scale threat and largely self contained, and I liked the way the plot slowly unfolds over the course of the story. However it is a bit derivative. The Stenza is pretty much a PG-13 version of the Predator and he is a bit one note. That being said, it doesn’t detract from the enjoyment factor of the episode. By keeping the plot simple for the most part, it allows Chibnall to fully explore the characters, who are clearly supposed to be the main focus.

In short, I’m pleased to say that I really liked Chris Chibnall’s first offering as showrunner (never thought I’d ever type this). The Woman Who Fell To Earth is without a doubt one of the most confident starts to a new Doctor I’ve ever seen and I’m very much anticipating where the series goes from here. For the first time, in a long time, I’m excited for the next Doctor Who adventure :D

(Oh, btw, all those idiots who were saying that Doctor Who’s ratings have been falling and that a female Doctor would kill the show off, so far this series the ratings have been at its highest since the show came back in 2005. Guess the reason why the ratings were low during the Moffat era wasn’t because of the World Cup, warm weather, streaming television or SJW propoganda. It was because Steven Moffat is a really shit writer. Go figure)

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Medicare Advantage Insurance Plans Boise Idaho | Chris Antrim

Medicare Advantage Plans Boise Idaho

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Medicare Annual & Open Enrollment begins October 15th to December 7th. During this time you Idaho residents have the option to join a new Medicare plan, change your current plan or stay right where you are at. Right now is the time to review plans and coverages and see if it still fits your needs. Our agency can help you with Medicare Supplements and Medicare Part C plans. We can help with special needs plans also if you qualify, like chronic conditions or disability. If you need a stand alone presciption drug plan, we have you covered. Give the office a call Today.

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There are many benefits of Medicare Advantage plans, and each of them can help you save money on your healthcare. However, the benefits are not always the same. Some people are not happy with the additional costs and do not want to be saddled with a large copayment. For this reason, it is important to compare the cost of premiums and copays before signing up for a plan. Some plans also offer extra benefits, such as help with dental and hearing aid bills.

Benefits Of Idaho Medicare Advantage Plans

If you're eligible for Medicare, you have the option to receive your benefits through a Medicare Advantage plan. These plans are offered by private insurance companies and provide the same coverage as Original Medicare, Part A, Part B and Part D plans. Some plans also include prescription drug coverage, dental, vision and other benefits not covered by Medicare.

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Because Medicare Advantage plans are provided by private companies, they do not have the same restrictions as traditional Medicare. Some plans may require copayments out of pocket, while others may have zero copayments. Depending on your needs, you can get coverage for many services. If you are not paying for copays out of pocket, it is still worth it. You can also receive a variety of extra benefits from your Medicare plan.

The main benefit of MAPD plans is that they are more affordable than Original Medigap or Part D coverage. These plans are designed to simplify the health insurance process for people with limited resources. For instance, they can streamline care and reduce the number of unnecessary tests. Another benefit is that they require only one insurer, so you don't have to worry about finding another insurance policy to cover the gaps. Further, they are more cost-effective.

Medicare Advantage Plans Vs. Supplements

These plans may offer services that Original Medicare beneficiaries does not. If you have a chronic illness or are retired, you should not opt for an MA plan. Treatment for chronic illnesses will cost more. You'll also have to pay copayments. Moreover, diagnostics and lab tests may cost you more than you expected, which means that you'll have to spend more money than you expected. Further, Medicare Advantage plans may include telehealth services, which give you the option to consult doctors via the phone.

Some plans offer additional benefits that aren't covered by traditional Medicare. They can also provide vision and dental services. These services are usually included in the premiums, while government-administered plans do not offer them. In addition to these benefits, the plans can provide discounts for home safety improvements and gym memberships. It is essential to understand all the details of the plan before signing up. Once you have signed up, you will be able to see what each plan has to offer.

These plans provide the same coverage as Medicare, Part A and Part B, but often with additional benefits, such as prescription drug coverage or routine dental and vision care. Medicare Advantage plans typically have lower out-of-pocket costs than Original Medicare, and some plans offer extra perks, like fitness memberships or transportation assistance.

On the other hand, Medicare supplements (also called Medigap) are health policies sold by private companies to fill in the “gaps” in Original Medicare coverage. For example, Medigap plans can help pay for your share of Medicare’s coinsurance and copayments, as well as certain deductibles that Medicare doesn’t cover.

Benefits & Premiums

Deductibles and the availability of additional health care services. In addition to deductibles, you can also receive additional benefits, including transportation to and from doctors. Some plans even offer health screenings and preventative care. Choosing the best plan depends on your needs and preferences. But, regardless of the type of plan, you can rest assured that you will never pay more than you have to.

The types of plans available to you will depend on your needs and the provider network. The first type of plan you choose depends on your health status and the type of plan. You can enroll in an MAPD PPO or an HMO that offers health plans in Idaho for both your Medicare Part A and your Part D needs. A good plan can help you lower your out-of-pocket expenses, as well as save you money on medical costs.

The policies have many benefits and may have different costs than Medicare part b. Some plans may have higher monthly premiums than Original or Part B. Most plans will have a coinsurance requirement that you must pay. This can be an important benefit for you if you are unsure of which type of plan is best for you. If you're healthy and don't need prescription drugs, this optional plan will give you access to these services and not charge you any extra fees.

Which Should You Choose

You may be provided a range of benefits. Unlike Medicare, an Advantage plan is not complicated and can help you save money on your healthcare. Most plans will offer you coverage for Medicare Part A, B, and D. You may be able to get a discounted gym membership, reduced out-of-pocket costs, and other benefits.

In conclusion, if you are looking for a Medicare Advantage Plan in Boise, Idaho, or even a Medicare supplement plan be sure to do your research. There are many different plans available, and it is important to find one that will best meet your needs. Be sure to ask questions and get all the information you can before making a decision.

Originally published here: http://www.goidahoinsurance.com/medicare-advantage-plans

#Chris Antrim | Idaho Medicare & Health Insurance Broker

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a media conference, after an extraordinary NATO summit and Group of Seven meeting, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, March 24, 2022. As the war in Ukraine grinds into a second month, President Joe Biden and Western allies are gathering to chart a path to ramp up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin while tending to the economic and security fallout that's spreading across Europe and the world. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

How Canada is ‘Cutting Costs’ by Euthanizing their Poor

— Sputnik International | Mary Manley | May 01, 2022

Canada, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, is finding a new way to cut costs on disabled people by… euthanizing them?

In 2015 the case of Carter v Canada (Attorney General) prompted the Supreme Court to strike down a previous provision in the Criminal Code, thereby allowing Canadian adults the option of assisted suicide, or Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

That ruling then spiraled into a law known as Bill C-7, an all-encompassing euthanasia law passed in 2021 which threw out the requirement that those seeking assisted suicide need to have a terminal illness whose death was reasonably foreseeable.

Although Bill C-7 states that “Parliament affirms the inherent and equal value of every person’s life and the importance of taking a human rights-based approach to disability inclusion”, disability justice organizations and even the UN’s watchdog on disability opposed the new bill based on their belief that it would worsen discriminatory practices within the healthcare system.

More than 300 disability groups in Canada opposed Bill C-7, citing that the removal of the “reasonably foreseeable natural death” requirement would target disabled persons. Instead of being offered medical assistance or support, the Canadian government now has the option of doing away with any ill person that sucks up taxpayer money.

"Rather than funding and making life a possible and viable choice for many people, we're entertaining this option of asking them if they would like to die, and it's very scary," said Spring Hawes, a former Invermere city councilor and the co-founder of Dignity Denied, in 2020.

"There is the danger that it might be considered a favor to offer someone dying when rea is lly that person just needs to have access to better care, better supports or the things they need to live well," added Hawes who has a spinal cord injury and uses a wheelchair.

And what some could argue sounds like fear-mongering by a group of people who- in their very right have a legitimate reason to be afraid- is bolstered by horrifying stories told by disabled people which demonstrate abuse and neglect at the hands of their government.

In April of this year a 51 year-old Ontario woman with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) chose MAiD after two years of searching and failing to secure a bid for affordable housing free of cigarette smoke and chemical cleaners. “The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the a**,” she said in a video filmed on February 14, eight days before her assisted suicide.

One woman requested MAiD because she “simply [couldn’t] afford to keep on living”, after food banks became an inaccessible option. Another woman from Vancouver said she intended to use MAiD after COVID-19 left her with increased expenses and unmanageable pain. And in 2021, Chris Gladders chose to end his life via MAiD after experiencing “deplorable” living conditions at the retirement home called Greycliff Manor in Niagara Falls. When his family arrived to say goodbye to them they were horrified to find Chris in a room covered in urine and fecal matter.

“None of the floors were cleaned up or anything, you could see clearly where they changed his catheter bag,” said Shawn Gladders, Chris’s brother in January of 2021.

“There was urine on the floor, there were spots where there was feces on the floor… spots where your feet were just sticking. Like, if you stood at his bedside and when you went to walk away, your foot was literally stuck. It was very, very disturbing, for sure.”

Shawn said that on other occasions when he had visited his brother, Chris was taken outside of the room by a staff member, “I kick myself today, because I wish I would have walked in there before… I never would have left him there.” Shawn adds that Chris’ time at Greycliff Manor most likely contributed to his decision to end his own life.

In 2020, the Canadian government agreed to give a measly one-time payment of $600 to disabled persons who qualified, in response to the devastating economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They estimated that just 1.67 million disabled persons would receive that assistance, compared to the 6 million disabled persons who live in Canada.

One disabled Canadian, who chose to remain anonymous, said that after asking her doctor to fill out a form for the credit he rejected her, saying, “You’re not disabled enough… You have to be sitting in the corner drooling to be able to get this.”

The fact is: the Canadian government has no interest in spending money on their disabled people. Instead, they see MAiD as a convenient option to cut costs on healthcare for persons with chronic conditions and other disabilities. Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer even published an exciting report on the savings assisted suicide would garner their taxpayers: MAiD before Bill C-7 generated a total saving of $86.9 million per year, and Bill C-7, the government was pleased to announced, would save an additional $62 million a year.

As if things couldn’t get any worse, Canada’s government appears to be fixed on including those with mental illnesses (such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and PTSD) to become eligible for assisted suicide, by as soon as next year. If that decision were to go through, Canada would become one of few nations allowing the use of MAiD in cases of mental illnesses.

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