#Dakota [Redacted]

[infamous-if]

I can totally see Dakota and the MC being a super messy celebrity couple but they're just doing that for shits and giggles (+ it gives them some privacy)

dakota takes fame as a joke and thinks a lot of hollywood is lame so yes they'd definitely be like that haha

[bunniebi]

outfits for the infamous ROs ^-^ (except O, Seb, E and LA... </3 but maybe in the future)

[sunsofdawn]

dakota is so red wine super nova and casual coded

[thatseadog]

dakota is me and i am dakota in this

[inafieldofdaisies]

The Watchers (2024) | Dakota Fanning as Mina

“I'm not supposed to be here, and I'm not staying here. Do you get that? I'm the one that's getting out.”

[mnasthaii]

sweet mother of god

[probablyasocialecologist]

According to documents obtained by Grist and Type Investigations through a Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI’s Minneapolis office opened a counterterrorism assessment in February 2012, focusing on actions in South Dakota, that continued for at least a year and may have led to the opening of additional investigations. These documents reveal that the FBI was monitoring activists involved in the Keystone XL campaign about a year earlier than previously known.  Their contents suggest that, long before the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines became national flashpoints, the federal government was already developing a sweeping law enforcement strategy to counter any acts of civil disobedience aimed at preventing fossil fuel extraction. And young, Native activists were among its first targets. “The threat emerging … is evolving into one based on opposition to energy exploration related to any extractions from the earth, rather than merely targeting one project and/or one company,” the FBI noted in its description of the Wanblee blockade. The 15-page file, which is heavily redacted, also describes Native American groups as a potentially dangerous threat and likens them to “environmental extremists” whose actions, according to the FBI, could lead to violence. The FBI acknowledged that Native American groups were engaging in constitutionally protected activity, including attending public hearings, but emphasized that this sort of civic participation might spawn criminal activity.  To back up its claims, the FBI cited a 2011 State Department hearing on the pipeline in Pierre, South Dakota, attended by a small group of Native activists. The FBI said the individuals were dressed in camouflage and had covered their faces with red bandanas, “train robber style.” According to the report, they were also carrying walking sticks and shaking sage, claiming to be “Wounded Knee Security of/for Mother Earth.” “The Bureau is uncertain how the NA group(s) will act initially or subsequently if the project is approved,” the agency wrote.  The FBI also singled out the “Native Youth Movement,” which it described as a mix between a “radical militia and a survivalist group.” In doing so, it appeared to conflate a specific activist group originally founded in Canada in the 1990s with the broader array of young Native activists who opposed the pipeline decades later. Young activists would play an important role in the Keystone XL campaign and later on during protests against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock, but the movement had little in common with militias or survivalists, terms typically used to describe far-right groups or those seeking to disengage from society.  The FBI declined to respond to questions for this story. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis field office said the agency does not typically comment on FOIA releases and “lets the information contained in the files speak for itself.”

[...]

Environmental activists and attorneys who reviewed the new documents told Grist and Type Investigations that law enforcement’s approach to the Keystone XL campaign looked like a template for the increasingly militarized response to subsequent environmental and social justice campaigns — from efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock to the ongoing protests against the police training center dubbed “Cop City” in Atlanta, Georgia, which would require razing at least 85 acres of urban forest.  The FBI’s working thesis, outlined in the new documents, that “most environmental extremist groups” have historically moved from peaceful protest to violence has served as the basis for subsequent investigations. “It’s astonishing to me how such a broad concept basically paints every activist and protester as a future terrorist,” said Mike German, a former FBI special agent who is now a fellow at the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice.

[doyoucopypod]

also what are the pronouns of the characters i need to yap but need to do so correctly

I have answered this on this page before, but I’m going to use this as an excuse to also add in the season two pals!!

Season One:

Alex Taylor- he/they

Reese Williams- she/they

Addison Quinn- she/her

Liam Thomas- he/they

Frederick Miller- they/them

Blake Bennett- he/they

[REDACTED] -she/her

Season Two:

Dakota Maxwell- he/they/she

Marshall McFarland- they/them

Eden Hart- they/she

Sarah Davis- she/her

Clyde O’Connor- he/him

Alan Dufour- he/him

[disenchantedif]

And the last minute thing I did for Luci’s infamous hallway scene 🤭

What did you add to the hallway scene Dakota 👁️👁️

So what I added was-

[REDACTED]

Not all that much, really 👀

[codename-adler]

All aboard the Trojan Horse 🥍

in an exercise for motivation, i’m making the decision to share my OC team of the USC Trojans! this started years ago, wayyyy pre-TSC announcement, as a background for a Jerejean fic called 'Steady Now' but well. as OCs do, it got out of hand realllll quick. now everyone's got a complex backstory AND storyline!

in bold are my OCs, ready for you to be introduced to ; in regular are Nora Sakavic's characters, but i painted them with my watercolors so you should absolutely ask me about them too!! if there is [redacted], that character's not ready to be born yet! or sometimes it's just an issue of final name... if the name is underlined or has numbers beside it, it means i've provided some lore already, but you should def ask more about them, always!!

i would like to thank @joanofexys with my whole heart for being an inspiration and the loveliest enabler <3 Jo (may i call you Jo?), you are a breath of fresh air to this fandom and a light to my dashboard, i love everything that you do and the passion with which you accomplish it all xx.

without further ado, the USC Trojans Exy Team (Adler's Version) :

01 - Nikita Bailey

02 - Laila Dermott

03 - Mari Kobayashi

04 - Gabrielle "Gabby" Oakes

05 - Catalina Alvarez

06 - Mateo Solano

07 - George Albie Riley

08 - Namrita Khatri

09 - Angelica "Angie" Pullman

10 - Viggo Larsen

11 - Jeremy Knox

12 - Sadie "Dee-Dee" [redacted]

13 - [redacted]

14 - [redacted]

15 - [redacted]

16 - Dakota Emerson

17 - Destinee Isaac

18 - [redacted]

19 - Joel [redacted]

20 - Jack Driver

21 - Levi Romanov

22 - Daveed Ferguson

23 - [redacted]

24 - Ariel "Baby" Driver

25 - [redacted]

26 - [redacted]

27 - Charlotte Gericault

28 - Yanko Florescu

29 - Jean Moreau

XX - Adèle Moreau

XX - James Rhemann

XX - Anderson Atwell (Assistant Coach)

XX - Chelsea Faraj (Team Nurse)

XX - Owen O'Brien (Team Nurse)

XX - [redacted] (Team Therapist)

XX - [redacted] (Team Therapist)

XX - [redacted] (Athletic Trainer)

XX - Wade Vesper (FBI Agent)

*** - Eva Josten

[infamous-if]

im horrified at how much your making me like blake and dakota, knowing that there is basically no happy ending in sight for them!

ah well at least we have g as a main ro, but still, i cant believe uve made my poor innocent MC moonlight as an adulterer/pos

lots of love! (and some pain)

why does everyone assume that blake and dakota are guaranteed a bad ending?? hahahaha

[bunniebi]

Heard Dakota will maybe have red hair so I combined it w/ their current hairstyle ^-^

Version with black/white hair below ↓

[nevermindirah]

I'm a lucky duck who lives in one of the markets getting the limited release of Dandelion! Per Nat's request here are my thoughts to tide you over until it's more widely accessible.

As I said in my immediate reaction post, KiKi Layne was built for the big screen. This movie is full of gorgeous closeups of her. And medium-sized shots, and distance shots, and ok maybe it's just me, but bless this movie for making her a singer-songwriter-guitarist, because this means there are so many lingering closeups of her hands, and oh mY GOD NOT TO BE A LESBIAN (gender-neutral) BUT >:)))))))))

I could look at KiKi Layne all day, and now I could also listen to her sing all day. Her voice is beautiful and so expressive. She said in press leading up to it that she was nervous to share her singing voice and maybe that had something to do with just how expressive she is as a singer. Maybe sharing that is more intimate for her than the on-screen nudity this movie also has, and which is also compelling as hell.

This pro review notes that KiKi contributed to the music writing, which is so cool! It also acknowledges that much of the dialogue isn't quite right, often a little too like an essay or a headline to be organic for these characters, while getting at how forgivable that is in a movie whose soul is in the music and the visuals and the chemistry.

Somewhat miraculously for a movie with a white writer-director whose skill isn't primarily in dialogue, about a Black lead in a mostly-white place, it's conscious about race without being didactic. Dandelion is wary of going to white redneck territory for a music competition, and there's a sequence where microaggressions turn into shitty petty crime, but she's also not the only Black person in the sea of likely [redacted] voters. The movie does get a touch didactic about the struggles of women in creative industries, so maybe it wasn't a product of careful effort so much as Nicole Reigel's limited perspective, but the result works. Antiblackness isn't The Conflict of The Movie, simply a shitty part of the background radiation of Dandelion's life.

The music is so damn good. Soundtrack album here! Though the album tragically leaves off two of the movie's best songs: the stunning final number where Tracy Chapman vibes meet Prince, and a cover of 90s white boy song Hey Jealousy that starts off as mere pleasant background track introducing us to KiKi's voice and turns into a sleeper thematic tornado. Once you've seen the movie go look at Hey Jealousy's lyrics and backstory so you can join me in screaming about it and these characters.

Dandelion is a little movie, marvelously so. It's about just a few people in a short time in their lives. I hadn't thought about it like this until now but there are several thematic as hell shots of one or two characters shown tiny and off to the side amid sweeping rocky nature. The artsy shots of flowers superimposed on emotive faces aren't my taste but the overwhelming scale of the landscapes really spoke to me and now I'm realizing this is why.

There's a thing about some side characters wanting to be the biggest band in the world that's kind of an example of the clunky dialogue and kinda perfect for how wonderfully small this movie is. It doesn't matter where Dandelion's career goes after this. These scant few weeks of her life make for such a rich story on their own. This moment in time matters, even if these events don't turn out to have any more effect on the characters' futures than they do on the timeless mountains and prairies of South Dakota.

Fandom people are probably more likely to connect with this movie than the average non-musician viewer because of something that baffled me about a review I wildly disagreed with. Apparently some people can watch this and not understand how fast two people can develop deep intimacy and attachment despite barely knowing each other, just because they make art together. I don't understand how that reviewer didn't understand. You make art with someone and you're in each other's souls. It's intoxicating to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say with your art and helps you make something that best captures the ineffable but crystal clear thing you're trying to say.

Not so intoxicating that you can no longer make rational decisions — but, well, in a way maybe it's the more rational decision to keep chasing the high of drift compatible creation, even when the person you've found to be your musical brain twin is maybe a not great choice in other ways.

Purely for Book of Nile reasons this movie is a damn gift. Tons of shots would be so easy to swap out one scruffy white boy's face for another. (Though Thomas Doherty is the same height as KiKi, which I personally enjoy, it's fun to have variety.) So much of the lyrics are extreme bait for gifsets and fic titles. (Tiny for the movie but very big for the BoNers spoiler: SHE LITERALLY CALLS HIM OLD MAN.) The first two thirds of the movie I kept thinking how perfect this plot would be as a BoN musicians AU — until a twist where I was both so pissed on Dandelion's behalf and internally screaming BOOKER WOULD NEVER.

As I was watching the final scenes I kept waiting for a thing to happen that didn't happen, a certain way of resolving the romance. The ending we do get left me yearning a little. But starting a few hours after leaving the theater the yearning subsided and now a week later my satisfaction with the ending has fermented into a yearning only to listen to that last song on loop forever. (WHY is it not on the soundtrack. I mean, TRACY CHAPMAN MEETS PRINCE.)

One more thing before I go. Dandelion is another thrilling expansion of the repertoire of KiKi's characters in terms of vibes and aesthetics. She looks so different than Nile in a theoretical mirror image outfit of practical boots and jeans and an oversized borrowed button-down thrown over a tee. None of KiKi's other characters, not even gentle Tish, would look so at home in delicate florals, doubly so when they're paired so effortlessly with a comfy denim jacket. And KiKi's physicality here is unique to this person: Dandelion, Theresa, a guitarist. Wholly unlike Margaret the dancer or Nile the warrior. Maybe someday Nile will grow locs like Dandelion's though.

In conclusion: watch Dandelion! I'm as glad I saw this in theaters as I was glad I watched Don't Worry Darling at 1.5x in a small corner of my laptop and only slowed it down for Kiki's scenes. The limited release is real limited, alas, but if you have access to a biggish tv to stream it on I'd strongly recommend making that effort. Both for the landscapes and those gorgeous closeups of Kiki's face.

[january-summers]

I know it's probably just there to show that Wash had some whimsy, or it's a reference I'm not getting, but while I was delving in Big Sad headcanons re: wash's court martial backstory, I got attached to the idea the rubber duck in his locker wasn't actually (originally) his.

But that kind of grew, just simmering away in the background radiation of my brain. It belonged to a rookie from Wash's team back when he was David [last name redacted] working for the UNSC, maybe not long before his court martial.

The rookie was bright, in the too intelligent for their own good kind of way, a nervous stimmer who belonged in the highest of higher educations but had to drop out because that's too expensive or too glassed by the covenant to go back to. Too smart for being on the ground, but not officially educated enough to get one of the safer jobs.

And so painfully young.

David thought it was a joke the first time he heard the duck's name, and his laugh was responded to with a stern warning.

"Waddles Von Quackington (the third) is the most educated duck in the universe, and it is smarter than you."

They've had the duck since they were in primary education, having found out about the rubber duck debugging method and finding it worked well for them in many areas of education.

The rookie talks to the damn thing as they work their way through alien tech, fixing it or figuring out how to work it in the field so David and the others can turn the covie weapons back on their owners when their own bullets run low.

The rookie dies, because it's war, and of course people die, and David's worked miracles keeping as many of his people alive as he has, but he's just a corporal, even in line for a promotion, he's far from the top of the food chain, and there's only so much he can do about stupid orders.

They can't take the rookie's body, he barely has time to grab the dog-tags and the duck.

Washington has only ever truly scared South Dakota once during their time working together. Even in the moments before he put a bullet in her head, she wasn't as scared of him as the time she'd tried to take her bad mood out on him and threatened to destroy the rubber duck he kept in his locker.

Wash doesn't know what happened to it after the Mother of Invention crashed, but he has an idea given the state his skateboard was found in. Well, half of it anyway.

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Although I do also like the idea it was a present from one of his sisters, stealthily slipped into his bag before he went of to sign up to the army. he only found it once he'd arrive at training camp and he's kept it with him ever since, as a reminder of his family and what he's fighting for.

[raptoth]

Need assistance paying down vet bill!

Hello all, nobody that will see this knows me but I need some help. My cat Sabetha is a beautiful idiot that loves to eat things that are Not Food tm. Her girlfriend Lenore eats slow so on wet food nights we had to get Sabetha a slow feeder that she promptly started chewing on when there wasn’t wet food in it. We’ve since taken it away from her but at the beginning of February she was puking and couldn’t keep food down. She’s all fine now, we took her to the vet and they took it out endoscopically and shes been her silly dumb self ever since barring her missing leg warmer. I started a gofundme to help cover the vet bills cuz they came out to about $3000. The bill is already paid, but we did have to put it on a credit card which stings. Anything y'all could give would be really helpful in getting the debt taken care of. Even if you just reblog this we'd be grateful. I'm gonna post pictures of the redacted bills beneath all of this so y'all can see those as well.

Getting this picture was harder than you'd think

[lawofnamesmedia]

Dakota Gold Casefiles: Cloud City Sonata

Name: Dakota Gold

Alias(es): [REDACTED]

Played by: @satyrofstrategy

Occupation: Private Investigator (Jupiter's finest)

Cloud City Sonata, a Dakota Gold Mystery, coming

November 1, 2024

(art by @kit_n_kboodl )