#Cleveland show reference

[bloodmoon24]

Asmodeus: I had to get back home before Fizz realizes I’m not in bed

In the bedroom, Fizzarolli was searching the whole room for Asmodeus

Fizzarolli: Ozzie?! OZZIE?!?

[peter-griffin-mpreg-the-second]

CLEVELAND SHOW MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[nothingavailable]

The Decline of Certain TV Parents

I feel like something that should be a noticeable difference between The Simpsons, Family Guy (and by extension The Cleveland Show) and American Dad! is the parenting styles of the main adult cast members over the course of each series.

Over the course of Family Guy the parenting methods of both Peter and Lois gradually degraded until they became outright abusive.

In contrast, over the course of American Dad! the only one whose parenting skills really declined was Francine.

By comparison, it seems like throughout the course of The Simpsons both Marge and Homer’s parenting skills have remained largely intact.

When it comes to The Cleveland Show however, we never really see any noticeable changes in Cleveland and/or Donna’s parenting methods due to the show’s cancellation.

In general it feels like the contrast between The Simpsons and the most notable of its so-called “copycats” has become more apparent with the passing of time.

[mrstrangedisaster]

Drew some lazy doodles of some of my favorite rednecks.

Lucky is my favorite ♥

[osterby]

Anatomy diagram time! Here's one I pulled off Wikipedia (for some reason it's ridiculously difficult to find a diagram that shows the reproductive and digestive organs in relation to one another, so we're going to just have to use several).

The big unlabeled white thing that folds to the right side of your screen is part of the intestine.

I've drawn a green circle where the belly button should be. Use that and note the shape of the figure's hips to orient yourself in re scale and position.

This one shows where the bladder is, and also shows skin and belly button so it should be good for understanding scale

The bladder is between the uterus and the skin, here's a side view

All this together should demonstrate that the uterus is very low in the abdomen and pretty small (according to wikipedia, "7.6 cm (3.0 in) long, 4.5 cm (1.8 in) broad (side to side), and 3.0 cm (1.2 in) thick:). I'm pointing out the uterus because it's bigger and more in the way in this context, but the prostate is down near the bladder in this same area on folks who have one of those.

There is also a pubic bone in front of all this. You know how a pelvis is kinda bowl shaped? The bladder and reproductive bits rest in that bowl.

So from all this, we can see that there's a whole lot going on in the lower abdomen. With the bladder, pelvic bone, and [optionally] uterus in the way, it would be hard to see a dragon dick bulging stuff out down there, and getting the bladder and other bits mashed wouldn't feel very nice except for the most specifically kinky among us.

You're not going to see a bulge from doing stuff with the normal sexy areas of the intestines or vagina with an object that can actually fit in there.

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But, here's the whole digestive system.

That sticky-downy part in blue at the very end is the rectum, it's the part that's involved in buttsex with a realistically sized human penis and is crammed in there with the urinary and reproductive parts. There's a lot going on in that area (which is probably why a lot of people find it fun to stick stuff up there).

Look how much more room there is after it, though, and how the colon goes off to the side. The sigmoid colon is the curving part that leads into the rectum.

Lets go back to the first diagram. Note how the sigmoid colon (the horizontal portion of the white unlabeled intestine) is both above and to the side of everything else.

There isn't much else going on there. The kidneys, liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, etc. are higher up around the top of the intestines, and all the reproductive stuff is lower. The small intestine (the ropey coiled stuff) is packed in tight behind the colon, but intestine is about all there is in this part of the abdomen.

So if you get an arm or a dragon's entire hemepenis all the way past your rectum and into your sigmoid colon, the only stuff between that fist or hemepenis and your skin is going to be the wall of the colon itself (very movable and squishy), some thin membranes that hold things in place, and a layer of muscle and fat.

A significant amount of fat would hide the movement, and particularily strong muscles won't be easy to squish and wiggle, but on your average twink? Belly bulge is realistic.

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/765788712654225408/httpswwwtumblrcomolderthannetfic764421845841?source=share

About seeing the dick bulge through the other character's guts, that seems like it should be unrealistic, but with anal with an unrealistically gigantic dick it might be perfectly feasible.

I once found some anal fisting porn with exactly that. The one chick had half her forearm in the other's ass and was moving her hand around in there so the camera and the chick bottoming could see it. It wasn't dead center the way you see in hentai, it was off to the left because that's where the sigmoid colon curves.

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I have to admit I have gone on pornhub to research exactly this question. I was surprised at just how many amateur videos of Bad Dragon owners demonstrate that you really can see something.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Knitted Jacket

c.1630-1670

Italy

This waistcoat is a rare example of early 17th century informal dress, which never appears in visual images and with few references in inventories and accounts. References to these garments in wills and wardrobe accounts show that they were worn by both men and women. They seem to have been produced in workshops, knit in ensembles of shaped pieces for the fronts, backs and sleeves. One of the latest references to them appears in a London paper of 1712 reporting the theft of 'a green silk knit waistcoat with gold and silver flowers all over it, and about fourteen yards of gold and silver lace thick upon it.' Similar jackets have survived in many parts of Europe and it is assumed that they came from one centre of production - Italy seems most likely as silk yarns were most easily obtainable there. It is possible that the knitted pieces were stitched together by the purchaser.

The waistcoat is hand knit with coral pink silk and yellow silk wrapped with silver-gilt thread. It is constructed of five shaped panels, one for the back, one each for the two fronts and the sleeves. The seams are hand-sewn with silk thread and the whole garment is lined with blue linen. A series of regular holes along the front edges of the lining on each front edge suggest that it originally fastened with silk ribbons and metal points. It was once thought that these waistcoats were produced on the early versions of the knitting frame. However research has shown that the frame was not developed enough in the early 17th century to produce purl stitches or such a fine gauge. Each panel of knitting bears a pattern of stylised scrolling floral motifs worked in yellow silk on coral. These may have been inspired by the designs of woven silks. A very similar pattern can be seen on knitted waistcoats in the Royal Ontario Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum der Stadt in Ulm. The design is further delineated by the use of reverse stocking stitch against a ground of stocking stitch. A border of basket stitch (squares of purl and stocking stitch) edges the lower hem and wrists. The knitting is very fine, about 17 stitches per inch.

The Victoria & Albert (Accession number: 807-1904)

[hooked-on-elvis]

ELVIS' DEBUT ON TV — 📺 [CBS] The Dorsey Brothers 'Stage Show'

Elvis with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey at CBS Studio 50, New York, March 17, 1956 [that would be Elvis' 5th appearance on their TV show, out of 6 total.].

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By December 1955 Elvis had still not made an appearance on national television. His manager Colonel Tom Parker negotiated a deal through Steve Yates with CBS's "Stage Show" for four appearances on the show in January 1956 at $1,250 each and an option for two more at $1,500 each.

On the January 28, 1956, Elvis was broadcast for the nation for the very first time, performing "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Flip, Flop and Fly" and "I Got a Woman".

[ABOVE: the January 28th 1956 FULL PERFORMANCE]

On Elvis' first appearance on American television, Bill Randle, one of the most influential disc jockeys of the time, was the man who actually presented Elvis Presley to the nation. He said:

"We'd like at this time to introduce to you a young fellow, who like many performers, Johnnie Ray among them, come up out of nowhere to be overnight very big stars. This young fellow we met for the first time while making a movie short*. We think tonight that he's going to make television history for you. We'd like you to meet him now - Elvis Presley. And here he is!" — Bill Randle, Disc Jockey, the man presenting Elvis Presley to America for the first time. January 28, 1956.

After this, things would never be the same, specially the society. Such a good beginning for a year, that special day in a January month! ♥

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🎞️THE SHORT-FILM THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY (for the general public... at least until now...)

The movie short Bill Randle referred to during his introduction to Elvis was "The Pied Piper Of Cleveland - A Day In The Life Of A Famous Disc Jockey" a short film made by Universal pictures about Bill Randle himself. Filmed on October 20th, 1955, at a concert in Brooklyn High School, Cleveland, it featured the stars Bill Haley & The Comets, The Four Lads, Pat Boone, plus the addition of a little-known Elvis Presley.

The original forty-eight-minute film was supposed to be cut down to a twenty-minute "short" for national distribution, but never made it that far. We're in 2024... 69 years went by since this shortcut was produced but the movie remains unreleased.

There is some dispute over whether or not this film actually exists, although it's said it was shown publicly, albeit only once in Cleveland, and excerpts were also aired on a Cleveland television station in 1956. Marshall Lytle, bass player for Bill Haley's Comets, corroborates the existence of the film in his memoir, "Still Rockin' Around the Clock", but he makes the unsubstantiated claim that Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager, bought the film and destroyed the existing copies. According to historians, tho, DJ Bill Randle, before his death in 2004, sold the rights to the film to PolyGram (it has been reported that Universal Studios has the negatives of the film in its vaults).

Much uncertainty about this short film, but can you imagine this film being release in Elvis' birthday centenary celebration? We watched, and listened, on Elvis' 89th birthday a few days earlier this year, to them playing during his birthday celebration at Graceland the original "That's All Right" record as it was cut at Sun Records studio in 1954, so who knows? There's always rare things surfacing here and there, so... we better keep our hopes this Bill Randle's 1955 movie, with some new 'baby Elvis' footage, will be release any day now [such as we know there's 'Elvis On Tour' and 'Elvis: That's the Way It Is' never seen before footage coming our way, as confirmed by the "Elvis" 2022 biopic's film director, Baz Luhrmann — finally! We hope it will be released soon].

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But enough daydreaming... Back to Elvis' 1st television appearances.

After the premiere on America's television on January 28th, 1956, Elvis would do five more appearances on 'The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show" for the next eight weeks. Those would take place on February 4, February 11, February 18, March 17 and March 24th, 1956.

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February 4th, 1956 | "Baby Let's Play House" and "Tutti Frutti"

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February 11th, 1956 | "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel" *

* This is a special arrangement for 'Heartbreak Hotel', so good! Jazzy, dramatic, really rarity. I loved this! ♥

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February 18th, 1956 | "Tutti Frutti" and "I Was The One"

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March 17th, 1956 | "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel" *

* This is the usual arrangement for the "Heartbreak Hotel" song. On February 11th, 1956, Elvis performed this same song onstage of 'The Dorsey Brothers Show' but it sounded something more… dramatic (I guess it matched the lyrics after all, but I love the usual arrangement better yet).

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And the last one... the 6th appearance on 'Dorsey Brothers Stage Show':

March 24th, 1956 | "Money Honey" and "Heartbreak Hotel" | [FULL PERFORMANCE]

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We can see how on those first TV shows Elvis still looks quite shy. Although he moves the usual lot, he doesn't flirt with his audience as much as he would on the upcoming TV appearances (and throughout his life, actually). It's funny how he grew comfortable with being in front of the cameras so fast tho. As his photographer Wiliam Speer said, "I guess you must really like being photographed."

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Elvis with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey at CBS Studio 50 in New York, on March 17, 1956. That would be Elvis' 5th appearance on their TV show. 'The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show' (CBS) was the place Elvis debut in his TV appearances, on January 28th 1956. He would appear on the show for 6 times total, from January to March 1956. ♥

Performing on the 'Dorsey Brothers Stage Show' at the CBS Studio 50, New York City, on March 24th, 1956. His 6th and final appearance on the show.

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EDIT: THE BLUE MOON BOYS

I hate it when I forget to mention such important, trivial, facts — and this shouldn't be footnote info and I feel guilty it is now but I forgot mentioning — The Blue Moon Boys. I love them so much! I watch those footage looking at them as much as I look at Elvis.

Like, I love Bill Black's energy onstage! I love him hollering, vibing to their sound, as loud as Elvis (on occasion). I love how he seem to love chewing gum (Bill is chewing gum in some of those footage), because it makes me look at the Blue Moon Boys and Elvis as a unit, real close friend who look alike, just how it should be. We know although EP for obvious reasons can't chew gum while singing, he loooooved gum and kept this - should I say "habit?" - throughout his life. It's sounding silly what I'm saying, I know, but I think this Elvis habit in fact date from back when he was rocking onstage with Bill, Scotty and DJ Fontana and it makes my heart warm how close and similar they seem to be, as friends, real friends. Bill is actually said to be the one cheering the crowds onstage when they first begun performing, when Elvis was still learning how to be the great leading man he became. When EP was still learning how to act onstage, how to manipulate the audience, creating the mad passionate reactions he learned to create whenever he wanted, Bill was the one heating things up, joking with the audience, cheering, hollering. Bill is amazing! His energy is intoxicating, and we can see it clearly on those first TV appearances performances. ♥

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I also love how hot Scotty Moore looks! I kinda laughed thinking 'Oh my goodness' ... So this thing about rock and roll bands always having hot vocalists and hot guitar players as a rule, it looks like it all started from the 50s with EP and Scotty! (really, at least the singer and guitar player in most rock bands are hot AF, am I lying? *lol*). I have a thing for Scotty... When he smiles at times on those footage, I'm like: 🤤🥹🥴🫠 And I also love how he's elegant but at the same time menacing looking holding and playing his guitar like the guitar hero he was. Really, if you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and read Scotty's book "THAT'S ALL RIGHT, ELVIS: The Untold Story of Elvis' First Guitarist and Manager, Scotty Moore", by Scotty as told to James Dickerson (1997). Scotty's life story is fascinating and as interesting as Elvis'. ♥

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And last, but never least, I love how together, calm and concentrated DJ Fontana looks. Ok, unfortunately being the drummer has it's disadvantages. We can't see DJ Fontana as much as we see the other boys onstage, but I listen to the songs until the very last minute and it's amazing how the music always has the closing, the important and dramatic ending, done by DJ's talented hands. I love that guy. ♥

Elvis Presley and The Blue Moon Boys were the best rock and rollers! I love their energy together. As much as I adore 70s Elvis onstage, the TCB Band, the Sweets Inspirations and all, if I only had one performance of Elvis' I could attend, just one to choose, I would go for - undoubtedly - the 50s ones, when those guys, The Blue Moon Boys and Elvis, were playing together.

That's Rock and Roll royalty. ✨👑 ♥

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There you go. All the videos together so you can watch of them easily. ♥

[defire]

Back to the Dregs Part 3

Part 1 Next:

Overall story Cw because I forgot to add this earlier: beatings, kidnapping, captivity, gang violence, explicit rape, nonconsensual nudity, forced to watch, memories of child abuse, flogging (after a fashion)

Cw (for this part): beating, kidnapping, reference to broken bones

Listening to the rumble of the truck's wheels under the floor where his face pressed, Michael felt like he was drowning in panic and flashback.

This isn't who I am.

I'm not six years old with a mom that hates me. I'm not twelve with a backpack full of drugs.

I'm a man. I have a job. I have a guy on my side, and coworker that… well, I like him.

Michael wasn't that helpless kid anymore, no matter how trapped, angry, panicked…

He squeezed his eyes shut as if he could block out the feelings and focused on rotation of the wheels under his head.

The singing of a highway meant they were now probably going around sixty. If he could find a marker for time, maybe he could figure out how many miles out from Cleveland they'd gone based on miles-per-hour, and then he could make a few guesses about what area they were in when they arrived.

His wrists and arms hurt, stressed and sore, with the hard plastic ziptie digging into his bare skin and the circulation slow and pulsing.

He groaned and got to his knees, lungs aching with the deeper breaths.

"Stay down." Someone warned.

His old instincts told him to obey, stay quiet, hunker down, and hope for mercy.

Fuck that.

Michael wasn't that kid anymore. Anything but that; anything to get away from that old identity that he hated.

Even as he pictured being crushed and beat down under six people, hands tied behind his back, bones breaking, he was getting to his feet.

He staggered a step back as he rose, and an invisible hand swiped in front of his face in the blackness. His back thumped against the wall, and his fingers were too numb to sense the metal that chilled his forearms.

The second swipe got him by the shoulder, and a punch immediately followed up, sending him back down with a wail of pain, this time falling onto a pile of tires halfway to the floor.

"Turn on a light, will you Gabe?" Jordie's voice came out of the darkness.

Gabe didn't answer, but there was a click and the truck, which was now rumbling away from Michael's house, was lit up by one of those stick-on LED lights, which was stuck to the ceiling.

The light showed Gabe and three others in the back, and two much scarier thugs in the front. One was the first guy with the gun. The one on Michael's right, Jordie, he was pretty sure, was wrapping his knuckles with medical tape.

"Thanks." Jordie said to Gabe without even glancing back. He was glaring at Michael as he wrapped the white tape around his knuckles, not even looking down to check his technique. If he kept that roll of tape in his pocket for occasions like this, Michael was not surprised that he had a lot of practice.

"You bust my lip," Jordie said. "I bust your jaw."

Michael's eyes widened.

"Fuck, wait, I was only defending myself--"

"Now wait, Jordie," The first man put a hand on his arm. "We need him."

"Then let's record me breaking his jaw." Jordie shrugged, reaching for Michael, who recoiled back reflexively, only to hit the wall with his back.

He had to fight back. Being known as a fighter could make people decide that you weren't the trouble of fucking with. Besides, it was much better for his mental health than just taking it.

The man's hand closed around his jaw, middle finger jabbing into his cheek, pressing into his molars.

"We need him to be able to talk, Jordie."

Jordie's eyes sparkled with rage.

"I'm not taking whatever you dish out." Michael pushed the words out through his teeth.

Gabe, back in the other side of the truck, chuckled.

"Took it pretty well back there."

"Fuck you."

Michael attempted to get to his feet again, but Jordie struck his head against the metal side of the truck.

"Alright, fine," Jordie said, not letting go. "I won't break his jaw."

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[blueikeproductions]

@nukeli Ok so “DEI” refers to Diversity Equity & Inclusion, a relatively new initiative that was designed to show off minorities, women, and people of color more.

Now on the surface, that’s not a bad thing, we’ve had plenty of diverse shows before like Diff’rent Strokes, Cyborg 009, Family Matters, Everybody Hates Chris, Kim Possible, My Life As A Teenage Robot, The Golden Girls, The Magic School Bus, and more.

This includes people behind the scenes like actors, writers and directors. Stuff we’ve had before too.

But the modern version of it, via DEI, has evolved into let’s just trash white people, and to quote the South Park line grifters use annoyingly as their rallying cry “Put a chick in it, make her lame & gay!”

So we’ve gotten stuff like Tee-La from He-Man being the stereotypical butch lesbian with a side shave haircut who just seems to hate everyone now and feels personally attacked, pushing Adam/He-Man aside to be the hero, and similarly Skeletor being pushed side in favor of making a similarly stereotyped butch lesbian Evil-Lyn the main villain. A big complaint among other things was how Tee-La was just incredibly unlikable and hard to root for, along with giving her and Evil-Lyn The Power in a manner that doesn’t make sense for their previously established characters in the 80’s and 2000’s cartoons. Thankfully the sequel show to MOTU: R corrected these problems, bringing Adam/He-Man & Tee-La on equal footing like they always were, and making Tee-La far more likable. Also Tee-La inheriting The Power from her mother The Sorceress, is used much better here and it makes more sense how she uses it here, vs the previous coddled, stereotype “I am woman hear me roar” direction they tried.

DEI has also poorly affected other things, like little people not getting jobs in the Snow White reboot movie to play the Dwarves, both because it was seen as offensive, and also Peter Dinklage running his mouth (somewhat justifiably in areas) and ruining it for everyone. Cleveland Brown in Family Guy being recast because his original voice actor was white being replaced with a black actor who impersonates the voice rather than doing his own thing with it, and DEI informing a new form of segregation, as only black actors can be black characters, whites can only be whites, Asians Asians, and etc in animation. Never mind popular black actors like Kevin Micheal Richardson and Phil LaMarr have done non black characters before with LaMarr famously being Samurai Jack, an Asian character. Some Asian actors who were for the casting changes realized too late it affected what they could do as it meant they can’t do anything other than Asian characters when they wanted to read for a non Asian human character. The point of voice acting is everyone can be anything like how many male characters are voiced by women like Tommy Pickles or Timmy Turner or how some female characters are voiced by men like Linda Belcher.

DEI also tends to over focus on how a show has only diverse actors and characters, and ergo EarthSpark’s marketing was going all in on how it had black characters, putting them as top billing over the Autobots on toy packaging. It also tended to favor its female cast, making the (non Megatron) men look incompetent. Like how GHOST is almost exclusively female, with the few male members being complete idiots. (To be fair, Schloder is supposed to be more of an Inspector Clouseau type but still.)

The more egregious instances to me is despite emphasizing kali, they don’t do anything with it that would make it look cool to all kids watching. Like Twitch using it to fight a Decepticon, outwitting him or her, using a skill she inherited from her adopted human father makes sense! As well as emphasizing the Terrans being Earth natives and learning its culture. Instead it’s just left hanging there, and I feel like someone internally said it’d be cultural appropriation if Twitch or Nightshade used it.

The production notes also intended Robbie to be the leader, something the second season went back to, but the first season emphasized Mo way more leaving Robbie little to do, to the point when he was practically dead, his parents instead showered Mo with affection for her problems when he was laying right next to them barely holding on.

Also Nightshade’s everything, causing the controversy that saw more casuals and parents reject the show hard. Nightshade is another example of DEI, over focusing on their being nonbinary as their sole character trait, despite their geeky, scientific side being just as important. The second season again corrects this, focusing entirely on their personality more and properly showing off their gift of science. It was too little too late though.

Really when you look back on it, the first season, despite its decent ideas, emphasized a lot of the DEI stuff casual audiences hate, with the second season going back to a traditional Autobots vs Decepticons conflict, and using more of the earlier ideas in the production bible. I still believe the more intriguing Megatron steals the Emberstone plot was repurposed into Starscream wanting it, because someone clearly didn’t want Megatron to relapse into being evil again.

This also feeds into another modern problem of not really having true villains anymore, and how due to DEI, most of the villains we get are only entitled white people to antagonize the people of color or female heroes (now we HAVE had this before off and on but not to this extent, and even then it was handled organically and made sense), vs stuff like the modern Invincible adult cartoon having a diverse villain cast like its comics did. A lot of modern stuff similarly tries to paint the Decepticons as being the true heroes despite the writing and the audience not supporting it. It’s why the Micheal Bay films are still popular because despite making the Autobots into more violent 80’s-90’s action heroes, they’re still defending the Earth and humanity from the monstrous Decepticons who intend to blow it up to obtain the trendy MacGuffin of the day. As for the cop/military stuff, one, it makes sense that the Autobots would ally themselves with the Earth military to help humans have a fighting chance, and two it’s not going away, because of the movies shifting to incorporating GI Joe as the human military force over NEST/Sector 7. Even Noah was ex military via RotB. The only bad cop was Barricade, a Decepticon, and any bad faith humans in military power were usually proven wrong for their hubris in thinking they didn’t need the Autobots.

Even TFONE has largely returned to a more simple black and white approach in having proper heroic characters in Orion’s miners turned Autobots, and properly evil villains in the Quints, Sentinel, Airachnid, and Starscream. Even D-16 makes sense as being evil again as he let his frustrations and anger at Sentinel, who he looked up to, consume him in a more believable way than Prime and Cyberverse making it look like he was just throwing a tantrum for 4 million years because Optimus got what he wanted: control.

So ultimately diversity is still a good thing, but the modern approach to it by embittered people who thought they knew better has instead pushed us back a few decades when things were largely ok in terms of diversity and making natural strides in improving.

Family Matters and Static Shock were among my favorite shows growing up, but now, because of current trends, I can’t look at characters like Liko from HZ or Hazel from New Wish without thinking they were the result of DEI and not an organic desire of trying out something else. And that’s not at all how it should be thought of.

[offender42085]

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Brandon L Pawlak, Ohio inmate A672523, born 1988, incarceration intake in 2015 at age 27, scheduled for release May 2050

Theft, Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault with a Vehicle, Braking and Entering, Failure to Comply

In 2015, a 27-year-old Cleveland man was sentenced to 35 1/2 years in prison for crashing a stolen truck into a bar, badly injuring 13 people.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Deena Calabrese imposed the sentence on Brandon Pawlak after hearing from victims of the crash and their relatives talk of lingering physical pain and mental anguish.

"You have created and caused havoc in our society," Calabrese told Pawlak. "Drivers like yourself don't care about the safety of other people, what they care about is themselves, and that's what you cared about that night."

Earlier, a jury found Pawlak guilty of 30 of the 32 counts he faced. That included aggravated robbery, aggravated vehicular assault, failure to comply with the orders of a police officer, grand theft, and breaking and entering.

Pawlak stole one vehicle early on the morning of Oct. 23, 2014, then stole another truck from the Sweetbriar Golf Club in Avon Lake around 8:30 p.m. the same day.

Police were called to the golf club and chased Pawlak in the stolen white Ford F-250 pickup at high speeds for five minutes through Avon and Westlake. A police officer threw "stop sticks" on the road, and Pawlak eventually lost control and the truck careened into the Dover Gardens Tavern.

Many of the patrons were at the tavern to watch Thursday night football. Although no one was killed, 13 people were taken to the hospital that night. Four had to be flown to a second hospital to handle their severe injuries.

Pawlak's mother, Karen Boyd, told the judge that she's sorry for the victims, but her son is not a bad person. "Sometimes good people make bad decisions and it doesn't mean they're monsters or have evil hearts."

Brandon Pawlak told the families he feels bad about what happened to them, and that he prays for them every day. He asked for their forgiveness, but insisted he was not the driver of the truck, just a passenger. He said he plans to appeal his conviction.

But Judge Calabrese countered that video played during trial shows Pawlak exiting the truck from what appears to be the driver's side. Calabrese also referred to Pawlak's criminal record dating to 1998, including a conviction for failure to comply in 2011. In that case, Pawlak led Cleveland police on a brief chase before causing an accident.

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[throne-for-queens]

There are two videos I always think about. I have somewhere deep in my social media saves on backups and things but if you or anyone else knows what I'm talking about go watch them and you'll understand.

There's a video of Kells back in Cleveland, he's got this cute little hat on and he talks about how he always has his blinds closed because he is sad but when he opens the blinds he is happy. That's how I feel he feels still today, he opens the blinds and feels happy but never will be. How I feel the fans see it. The blinds come in things as women and fame, because that's what he talks about. But those things never make you happy no matter what anyone says, you have to make you happy.

But the other one is Casie and him and she is teaching him how to smile, and I feel like she does teach him these things and she shows him all of these good things in life but he's got ADHD and sees shiny things such as women, drugs, booze and fame and forgets about what Casie has shown him and helped him.

Depression will never be fixed, it will never be cured. It's how you deal with it in the future. It's how you alone handle it.

But I hope this trip he's on with Casie helps him at the moment and I pray people leave him alone. But as you can tell the paps didn't follow him to Miami, they didn't snap photos. They only caught him going to a party, they don't have photos of Casie. Unlike Hawaii, Colorado and other places.

This was nicely put, and I'll be honest, I vaguely remember the video you're referring to. Other than that, I agree with your sentiment about him getting distracted by different things.

As for miami, I've been to Miami and I visit the city often. We don't have paparazzi like LA, so he shouldn't have an issue maneuvering around the city. If anything he'll just have to dodge starstruck locals who will want a picture.

I do hope everyone is respectful of his privacy and the time he is spending with his kid. And I hope he benefits from having some time away from the LA scene.

[noys-boise]

hello hi hm do you mayhaps have any howard the duck fun facts that movie Fasinated me

you have activated my autism from over a year ago so Brace Yourself because this is straight up going to be a history lesson in. duck comic/movie

i think I'm just going to tell you the full history of Howard as a character. yeah sorry.

so Howard was created kind of as a joke in 1974 in a marvel comic series called Adventure into fear written by Steve Gerber. he didn't intend on using this smoking, swearing, slightly off donald duck parody of a character very much and just killed him off like an issue after introducting him but people really didn't like that. like REALLY didn't like that. they sent in dead ducks to marvel through mail as protest I'm Not even joking!

so Gerber brought Howard back in the Giant-sized Man-thing series. this is where the lore of him falling to earth from space and landing in Cleveland started. he was sort of having these solo adventures where he fought first a frog man and then a vampire cow (Bessie the hellcow my beloved!!! i love her!!) and also went to jail that was a whole thing. but basically the whole experience left him miserable and suicidal. cut to his solo comic run starting in 1976. Howard the duck comics officially start and it's with Howard contemplating suicide and he gets really close to comitting before he meets Beverly and they go through this little adventure together to escape a financial wizard and fucking Spider-man shows up?? it's a whole thing, Howard ends up moving in with Bev instead of killing himself by the end

I'm not going to explain the whole original Howard comic run I'll just say it's a wild ride that includes Howard running for president (he received actual real life write in votes!!) then having a mental breakdown after fighting a canadian beaver man and bonding with some random neurodivergent girl he met on a bus after fighting with his nemesis the kidney lady again, Beverly being forced to marry a man who calls himself doctor bong and wears a bell on his head then divorcing him after cloning him and threatening to sue for child neglect (Gerber admitted that the drug reference was fully unintentional which is really funny to me), Howard punching a homophobe in the face and etc this is barely scratching the surface.

there's also issue #16 which is infamous for being right before a very big story arc and not having anything to do with the plot because Gerber missed his deadline again and he decided to just. write an essay on deadlines instead. yeah so basically he was too neurodivergent for this and I'm not just saying that he legitimately was neurodivergent he got fired from marvel for missing too many deadlines eventually.

that is when things got.. interesting with Howard. the original run wasn't finished at all yet so they kind of had to get other people to finish it but it didn't really work anymore and then they even made a black and white htd magazine which wasn't very popular but my personal hot take is that I'm a big fan of it actually.

there's also the lawsuit where Disney caught up that this guy looks dangerously similar to donald duck so their solutions was to just.. force Howard to wear pants. well that's an oversimplification they made more rules for how he has to look but the pants thing is objectively the funniest. also this happened back when Gerber was writing Howard he just refused to comfort to these rules so instead they got implemented during the magazine in a pretty iconic storyline imo. anyways the point is there's a lot of insanity around this.

and then the movie. i already mentioned that George Lucas was a big fan of the original comics and wanted to adapt it to a movie but instead of doing it himself he asked his friends Willard Hyuck and Gloria Katz to direct it and while he produced it. except as i also already mentioned said friends knew nothing about the comics and i.. don't think they ever really read them?

there were also a lot of things they wanted to do but couldn't like they originally wanted it to be animated but didn't have the budget, they originally got Robin Williams to voice Howard but he gave up because he found the role too limiting (and I'm honestly glad for that because i wouldn't have ever gotten into htd if it wasn't for Chip Howard) and the fact that they were pretty limited by the studio they were working with into some plot beats. it was kind of just a disaster all around with a lot of creative differences and technical limitations all over the place.

also as i said Robin Williams was supposed to voice Howard originally and they had to replace him really last minute and didn't really know what to do until one of the producers decided to watch a musical called Merrily we roll along starring Chip Zien and asked him if he's interested in being in this movie, telling him he sounds like a duck. which is probably not exactly what you want to hear after performing in a musical but he took the role anyways.

and btw despite everything regarding the production, everyone involved really expected this to be a hit and then it just.. wasn't. like at all. like it's one of the most notorious flop movies today for all the wrong reasons. like there's a lot of valid criticisms one could make about the plot and stuff but I think people just choose to focus on the interspecies part a lot which is upsetting to me. but yeah most of the actors went on to just straight up deny they were in this movie. not Chip and Lea though, they own it proudly which makes me happy

i could also rant a lot more about later Howard adaptations because there's even more insane lore there but i think this is already long enough for now, I'll maybe get back to that later

[shrekgogurt]

Gareth Surname Band [M, 15k] — read the completed fic on ao3 now!!!

TAGS: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch/Simon Snow, Mordelia Grimm & Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch, TW: they’re all American, dave matthews band au, musician au, baz is a concertmaster, mordelia is a teenager, BAND ROLL CALL, penny is on bass, trixie is on strings, agatha is on keys, simon is on drums, shep is on winds, gareth IS dave matthews, the jam bandification of carry on, late 90s references, jncos, bradley from geometry, giggle crime dates, this is your baz (cracks egg) this is your baz on marijuana, 'being cool' but it's mainly trespassing and gay mouth kissing, the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as prince

SUMMARY

The year is 1999.

Baz Pitch is the youngest leading violinist in the Cleveland Orchestra's history but his fame pales in comparison to that of his former collegiate colleagues who now make a fortune touring the world in the divisively groovy Gareth Surname Band. When his old friend, Trixie Hob, reaches out extending backstage passes to GSB's tour, Baz takes her up on the offer solely to impress his younger sister Mordelia. However, once Mordelia and Baz find their seats and the band takes the stage, Baz finds it increasingly harder to deny his true motivations for attending the show.

He has the hots for the musically ripped drummer, Simon Snow.

But it's not like Simon even remembers Baz. Who would recall a sour exchange over perceived sour vegetables? It's fine. The night will be a success. Baz will prove he's cool once and for all to his (not so baby anymore) sister who he totally doesn't care about the opinion of and Simon won't even give him a second glance (let alone glare)...

...NOT!!!!!

(happy birthday @shrekgogurt !!!!)

[stepfordgoth]

Long story short, today I was in the building of a company that has been a huge part of my city for over a hundred years but has just been absorbed by another company recently and is in the process of moving out of the building. My husband used to work there and he's helping clear things out and I accompanied him today. As I wandered around I noticed a lot of art throughout the giant now-empty space that was just.... tacky. or boring or just, meh, typical soulless office art, you know? But then there was this statue in a sitting area outside the meeting rooms that my husband was sooo giddy to show me because it was so awful. Just..... Really fucking ugly. I think it was called "the beast" or something like that and sure enough that thing is a beast! I didn't like it and I didn't want to keep looking at it tbh so I moved along and kinda forgot about it.

But now for some reason I'm sitting here hours later thinking about it and the fact that "the beast" literally made me feel something. Almost disgust, you know? Not quite fear but a certain kind of uneasy anxiety. Dread, maybe. And thinking of that hours later, I realized that's, like, the point of art right? That's a piece of art that stood out to me among all the other art I saw in that building because it made me feel something, even if it was ugly and the feeling was gross and uncomfortable lol. I wish I would've paid more attention to it and taken note of the artist's name and maybe taken some photos of it.

So i went down a small rabbit hole looking for a photo of the statue online - the offices have been in my city for a long time, I thought maybe someone would have a photo of this fucking ugly thing somewhere, and I think i remember the artists first name was Judy. It was worth a shot to google it - and I did not find a photo of it but I did find that there was a sculptor named Judy Zemnick in my area who got mauled by a fucking polar bear at the Brookside Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938 when she was 21 years old, and lived! I haven't read anything that necessarily says that she continued to make art after the attack (other than her being quoted after the incident as saying "all I want is to get back to my artwork"*), but there's very little information about her online at all after 1940.

So here's what I think ...... I bet the ugly awful statue I saw today was poor Judy Zemnick's work and I bet that specific statue was DIRECTLY influenced by "the beast", as the local newspaper* referred to the polar bear who almost killed her. I have no way of proving it - and even if that is a Judy Zemnick statue it could be pure coincidence, maybe she even made "the beast" before the bear incident? Would that be fucked up or what - and it literally means nothing either way but I feel a weird emotional/spiritual connection or something here lol. I hope if no one takes the statue home (everyone in the office hates that thing apparently) it gets donated to the akron art museum or something. I hope it doesn't just get thrown in the trash! That being said I am not inviting that thang and it's aura into my house either lol

I'm gonna have my husband take pictures of the statue and plaque for me when he goes in on Monday. I'll update this post with photos. I wonder if it will be as weird in photo as in person. I also kinda wonder if I'm being crazy lol

*there is record of the original 1938 article from the local newspaper online but it's behind a paywall. This page is where I'm getting all my information, but heads up it's kind of an uncomfortable read (for me at least, when it started to describe the incident and her injuries I kinda felt sick). Which, tbh, really mirrors the uncomfortable feeling of that damn statue!

[saintmeghanmarkle]

The kookery of Meghans cookery show: a pictorial essay by u/Mickleborough

The kookery of Meghan’s cookery show: a pictorial essay Being really excited (just kidding) about Meghan’s mooted cooking program with Netflix (maybe she’ll feature some fabulous Southern food, like chicken legs and grift, I mean grits!), I try to find out more about it.https://ift.tt/lXqSbmn on the Vaseline, Meghan! ‘I’d like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?’ ‘How do you feel about Cleveland?’After some lackadaisical googling, I come across a gushy article in Elle, which answers what questions it can (not much). Note the date: 11 April 2024 - a little over 2 months ago.https://preview.redd.it/lohrcc1dcl6d1.png?width=1515&format=png&auto=webp&s=b3469e9a46759fc2e53c832c3404e2f9162bf00cThere’s no much info (I may make fun of the piece in another post), but there was something for the nerdy: the people behind it:https://ift.tt/GMzgj5C too much time on my hands (not true: need to do the dishes), I google some more and discover:The Intellectual Property Corporation, which is producing it, DOES NOT MENTION the show: The IP Corp websiteLeah Hariton, supposed showrunner’s upcoming and last projects on IMDB, DOES NOT MENTION the show:https://ift.tt/0PBRqkN Holzman, supposed executive producer, upcoming and 2024 projects, IMDB, DOES NOT - you get the grift, I mean drift:https://ift.tt/f1hKJYp Saidman, supposed executive producer, upcoming and 2024 projects, IMDB (looks the same as Holzman’s as I think both are at The Intellectual Property Corporation), ditto:https://preview.redd.it/ezjew8ggel6d1.png?width=1640&format=png&auto=webp&s=2af5f35005c621a3c0cc0b55a7ce7c90452c1ddcThere’s no reference to anything that might remotely pass for Meghan’s cookery-poo. (NB It’s not Power of the Dream, as that dream has no power.)Perhaps someone better-versed in TV production can shed some light, eg a project would be listed only if it were in the process of being made. But we were told in April 2024 that filming was under way, at someone else’s home: Daily Mail archived / unarchivedDoes that mean that this audition video’s been all a waste? (It’s part-time vegan Meghan showing us how to barbecue burgers, as well as eating it sexily. It’s very instructive - even shows you how to display fleisch whilst grilling same.) post link: https://ift.tt/BxDEy3k author: Mickleborough submitted: June 14, 2024 at 10:14PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.