#Diane Healy

[mayasdeluca]

I love Tracie Thoms as Diane and it would make more sense for her to become a series regular over someone like Pat Healy/Dixon since she's actually a firefighter. But aside from that, the purpose of this message was to say if Tracie wasn't cast as Diane, I think they could've cast her as Vic's sister.

I would love for her to be a series regular...more Diane would be wonderful and there's so much they could do with her, especially if they did more Crisis One stuff since that's Vic's thing now. They definitely could be casted as sisters! Just like Lachlan would've been the perfect choice as Mason because he and Danielle look like siblings too haha.

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Tier 3 Recap

192. 68. Jacopo Bearzatti from The House in Fata Morgana

191. 117. Pugsley Guttman from From the animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park

190. 57. Maglor from the Silmarillion

189. 203. Al-An from Subnautica: Below Zero

188. 112. Hercule Poirot from Agatha Christie-verse (???)

187. 122. Rampage from Beast Wars

186. 284. Callie Cuttlefish from Splatoon 1-3

185. 61. Ranpo Edogawa from Bungou Stray Dogs

184. 123. Emil from Nier series

183. 157. vriska from homestuck

182. 213. Brainy Smurf from The Smurfs

181. 36. Doppo Kannonzaka from Hypnosis Mic

180. 38. Diane Nguyen from BoJack Horseman

179. 32. Serial Designation N from Murder Drones

178. 29. Morgrem from Pokemon

177. 17. Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki from Everything Everywhere All at Once

176. 54. Rex Salazar from Generator Rex

175. 161. Huan from The Silmarillion

174. 225. meg from megahex comic series

173. 136. [redacted] / trivia murder party host from jackbox; trivia murder party

172. 42. Toshiko Sato from Torchwood

171. 106. Veeva Dash from Stampy's Lovely World

170. 39. gaheris from arthuriana

169. 287. waylon smithers jr from the simpsons

168. 77. Nathaniel Kurtzberg from Miraculous Ladybug

167. 89. Pit from Kid Icarus

166. 82. Tsurugi Kyousuke / Victor Blade from Inazuma Eleven GO

165. 171. Danhausen from Professional wrestling

164. 3. Maia Drahzar/Edrehasivar VII from The Goblin Emperor

163. 165. Taranee Cook from W.i.t.c.h.

162. 207. Ardyn "Izunia" Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV

161. 132. Invader Zim from Invader Zim

160. 94. Mumbo Jumbo from Real Life/Mcyt

159. 208. Garwin Chang from Keeper of the Lost Cities

158. 78. Aya Burnstein from Dancing In The Devils Auditorium, by xxangelxbl00dxx(the OP) on ao3

157. 230. Nintendo EShop Bag from Nintendo EShop

156. 234. Logan(Logic) from Sanders Sides

155. 261. Eridan Ampora from Homestuck

154. 235. Markiplier from Real Life

153. 138. Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

152. 264. Bao-Dur from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2

151. 71. Fabian Seacaster from Fantasy High (Dimension 20)

150. 283. Bruno Madrigal from Encanto

149. 13. The Fifth Doctor from Doctor Who

148. 155. Tegan Jovanka from Doctor Who

147. 273. Lynne from Ghost Trick

146. 130. Hoshina Hikaru (Cure Star) from Star Twinkle Pretty Cure

145. 81. Damon of Gallifrey from Doctor Who Arc of Infinity

144. 239. "Phoenix" from iiRitW, the OP's ORIGINAL (sob) wip videogame

143. 115. Sound Saran from My School President

142. 149. data from star trek the next generation

141. 2. Iruma-kun from Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun

140. 256. Akane Kurashiki from Zero Escape

139. 104. Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon from Sailor Moon

138. 91. Kuromi from Sanrio

137. 158. Corazón de Ballena from Oxventure

136. 192. Milo Murphy from Milo Murphy's Law

135. 105. Alice Price Healy from Incryptid

134. 48. Raven Scofflaw from the submitter's OC from a wip that currently has the filler title 'Family'

133. 187. Vash the Stampede from Trigun

132. 206. Ben from the submitter's OC with almost zero information about lmao (this will change once I update artfight?)

131. 66. Natsuki Subaru from Re:Zero

130. 126. Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher

129. 255. Kevin from Ghost Host Ghost House

[justjokeswithtomhannigan]

Jokes 9/29/23

The Writers Guild of America and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agree to end the months long strike. The AMPTP made a deal after seeing how fast the country turned on Drew Barrymore for crossing the picket line.

Following the deal with the Writers Guild of America, several late night talk shows have announced their return, much to Jimmy Fallon’s staff’s dismay.

90 year old California Senator, Diane Fienstein passed away today. Thoughts and preys go out to her staffers who will need to find a new old person to puppet around for clout.

This week was the 2nd Republican Presidential debate. You might not have heard about it because it only happened because Fox News had a gap in its programming.

Tomorrow, the United States government is expected to shut down, all because a deal couldn’t be reached between everyone in the house and a handful of delusional republicans.

President Biden joined striking auto workers on the picket lines this week. This is the first time a sitting president has joined an active picket line and hopefully garnered enough goodwill for people to forget about last years rail road workers strike.

After 23 years, police have made an arrest in the murder of rapper, Tupac Shakur. I’m not saying there’s a racially motivated bias, but I’m pretty sure they caught the guy who shot John Lennon that same afternoon.

A judge in New York has found the Trump organization liable of fraud. Former President Trump responded to the ruling by denying he lied about his actual wealth and by telling his supporters the only way he can fight this is through their donations.

Russia announced this week that for the first time, they’ll begin conscripting soldiers from the occupied areas of Ukraine. This is expected to backfire since even the Russians that were conscripted had no interest in fighting against Ukraine either.

Singer, Taylor Swift is reportedly dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce. It just goes to show that if you want to date someone like Taylor Swift all you have to do is win two Super Bowls and be one of the greatest Tight End of all time, or be Matt Healy.

[larryland]

REVIEW: "As You Like It" at Shakespeare & Company

REVIEW: “As You Like It” at Shakespeare & Company

[rabbitfeet200]

Relationship

Noel Gallagher

Family

Thomas- Noel's abusive father

Peggy= Noel's mother

Paul- Noel's older brother, was his favourite in the family before Paul jokingly gave a back stage pass to Liam and Liam took a photo of it

Liam-Noel's younger brother- who Noel compared to Noel's abusive father Thomas,

Father Figures:

Thomas- Noel's abusive father

Paul Weller- Noel's friend, mentor,

Johnny Marr-Noel's friend, mentor

Friends

Colin Gem Archer-friend, band mate,

Andy Bell- former band mate, Noel's boyfriend

Zak Starkey-former bandmate

Chris Sharrock- Noel's drummer

Scully-

Mark Coyle

Phil Smith-roadie, DJ

Jason Rhodes- Noel's roadie

Matt Morgan

Elton John

Bradley Cooper

Damon Albarn-Blur

Kelly Jones-stereophonics-

George Michael

James Cordon-

Ian mcCulloch

Sacha Baron Cohen

Goldie

Zane Lowe

Clint Boon-Noel used to be his roadie

Nick Grimshaw

 Mike Pickering.

inspiration

David Bowie

?

Chris Martin- Coldplay- performed with Liam

Jason D-Noel's former key board player

Nicole Appelton-

Lisa Moorish-

Patsy Kensit-

Megan Matthews-Noel's ex wife/gay beard

Sarah Mac Donald-Noel's ex wife/gay beard

Natalie Appleton-

Liam Howlett-

Russell Brand-

Serge- Kasabian- support act for Liam, Noel had Tom support on tour

Ian Robertson- former tour manager

Diane-ex girlfriend/gay beard

Clint Boon-Noel used to be his roadie

Graham Lambert-Noel used to be his roadie

Noel is a mentor to:

Fran Healy (Travis)

Miles Kane

[criminol]

The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of seven or more unsolved murders involving female hitchhikers in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa, California in 1972 and 1973. All victims were found nude in rural areas.

Maureen Louise Sterling, 12-years-old, and Yvonne Lisa Weber, 13-years-old, were school students who disappeared on 4th February 1972. Their bodies were found on 28th December 1972, the cause of death could not be established due to the advanced state of decomposition.

On 4th March 1972, 19-year-old Kim Wendy Allen went missing while hitchhiking. Her body was found the next day. An autopsy confirmed Kim had been bound, raped and strangled. Semen was recovered from the body.

Lori Lee Kursa was a 13-year-old student who was reported missing on 11th November 1972. Lori was a frequent hitchhiker. Her frozen remains were found in a ravine on 14th December 1972. She had died from a broken neck and had not been raped. Authorities suspected Lori was kidnapped or forced into a vehicle and has fell or jumped out, causing her to break her neck and fall into the ravine.

On 15th July 1973, Carolyn Nadine Davis was reported missing. She was known to have been hitchhiking when she went missing. Her body was discovered on 31st July 1973 mere feet away from where earlier victims Maureen and Yvonne were found. A twig figure found near the body was initially used to connect the case to witchcraft however this was discredited later when it was argued to figure had no meaning or connection to the murder.

Theresa Diane Smith Walsh, 23-years-old, was last seen on 22nd December 1973. Her body was found 6 days later, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

The unidentified body of a young female was found on July 1979 close to where Lori’s body had earlier been found. The victim was never identified.

In 1975, the FBI issued a report stating that 14 unsolved homicides, including the 6 above victims were committed by the same murderer. The crimes remain unsolved and the cases are now cold.

Ted Bundy was suspected in the murders and some of the victim’s families remain convinced Bundy was the killer. The killings fit his methods and many have suspected that Bundy began killing before his first known murder of Lynda Healy in 1974. Bundy was known to have spent time in a neighbouring county. Credit card records and known whereabouts of Bundy’s have since shown him to be in Washington on some of the dates of the disappearances.

The unapprehended Zodiac Killer was also named a suspect although none of the Zodiac's confirmed kills involved rape which cast doubt on his responsibility for these murders. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the Hillside Stranglers were also suspected of the crimes.

[perfectdisastcr]

💗 i would like a list of all 3 million potential pairings please 🙈

my god, i would love to take the time out of my day to give that to you, and just know that we can ship literally anybody and everybody because that’s all we ever do in the first place and you know how much i love doing that with you too. my favorite writing partner everybody, bre is hands down the best partner in the whole world, and i’m lucky enough to be able to have her at all. she’s mine and i’m never going to let her go because i love her so much! she’s literally the best thing to ever happen to me and i know i wouldn’t be here through the shitty times and all without her! everybody better go follow her right now and send her all the love i swear to god, because she’s the only person on this hell site that shows me the attention that i deserve! also that list of potential pairings is below the cut, and don’t say i didn’t warn you. 👀

send 💗 if you’re open to the possibility of a romantic ship eventually happening between our muses

all these characters are up for shipping with all your characters:

alex gardiner (paul rudd) alexander hamilton (lin-manuel miranda) alex mullner (brant daughterty) alice liddell (madelyn cline) alisha khara (jameela jamil) annie abel (luna blaise/anya chalotra) antonia moreno (victoria justice) apollonia levine (anastasia karanikolaou) arthur pendragon (niall horan) ashley spinelli (ursula corbero) aspen rhodes (sofia black-d'elia) astrid porter (karlie kloss) audrey ramirez (selena gomez) august khalil (rami malek) axel turner (charlie weber/skeet ulrich) aziz hassan (riz ahmed) bailee rose (jenny boyd) bambi prince (lachlan watson) barbie roberts (kate upton) barley lightfoot (michael clifford) beatriz velasco (camila cabello/diane guerrero)  beau hester (froy gutierrez) beck collins (joe keery) bellatrix lestrange (carmela zumbado) belle dubois (margaret qualley) belle summers (candice king) berliouz bonfamille (alex fitzalan) bernard davenport (gavin leatherwood) billie groves (kiana lede/emmy raver-lampman) billy hargrove (dacre montgomery) bindi culver (meg donnelly/rachel mcadams) bo-peep ‘bo’ patterson (amanda seyfried) brady gardiner (nathaniel buzolic) brielle stewart (alexandra daddario) bronwyn pierson (madelaine petsch) buzz lightyear (paul mescal/chris pine) calliope jung (phillipa soo) camille aguilar (jeanine mason) carl fredricksen (tye sheridan) celeste quintana (rosalia/maite perroni) chandler armstrong (iwan rheon) cinderella tremaine (lily james) clementine ahn (jamie chung) cliff egan (stephen amell) colleen lowell (jodie comer) connor catrell (thomas doherty) copper slade (nick jonas) cordelia goodwin (ryan destiny/candice patton) coriander thompson (dacre montgomery/chris evans) cornelius robinson (simon baker) cruella de vil (melanie martinez) cyrus quinney (owen joyner) daisy vaughn (isabella gomez/aimee carrero) dakota atkins (amber midthunder) dale monks (keiynan lonsdale) dalton davis (harris dickinson) daniela ‘dani’ costello (becky g/eva longoria) dash parr (jaden smith) delilah diaz (camila cabello/diane guerrero) delphine washington (antonia thomas) delta montgomery (manu gavassi) denver koch (thomas elms) devon montgomery (iain de caestecker) diego hargreeves (david castaneda) dorcas meadowes (ariela barer) dory blau (julia louise-dreyfus) duke blaise (ashley graham & matthew daddario — reincarnated)  duncan traeger (zac efron) edmund whittaker (richard madden) edwin orwell (nicholas galitzine) elena flores (jenna ortega) eleonora moretti (benedetta gargari) eleven (millie bobby brown) elio montgomery (noah schnapp/brendon urie) elisabeth ‘elsa’ andersson (candice king) elliott murdoch (kj apa) eloise thompson (taylor hill/zoey deutch) elwood leith (sam claflin) emerson wheaton (beau mirchoff) emily sondheim (eve fraser) emmy silverstein (nat wolff/michiel huisman) ericka ‘ricki’ santos (danna paola) esmeralda guybertaut (priyanka chopra) everest sorenson (adam driver) ezekiel ‘zeke’ bauer (neels visser) fa mulan (awkwafina) felix dawson (lukas gage) ferris rockwell (joshua bassett) five hargreeves (aidan gallagher/rob raco/john mulaney) florence prata (barbie ferreira) flynn rider (jacob elordi/steven r mcqueen) frank castle (jon bernthal) gabrielle dupres (louriza tronco) genevieve rizzo (troian bellisario) gill moorish (harrison ford) godwin vivar (diego boneta) grainger anslow (justin hartley) grant wesley (keanu reeves) griffin price (liam hemsworth) guinevere ‘gwen’ flores (ester exposito/ana de armas) gulliver kennedy (robert sheehan) gunner mccoy (miles heizer) halston krogen (nick robinson) hamish duke (thomas elms) harper graves (sydney sweeney) harry potter (alberto rosende) harvey wolff (joaquin phoenix) hawke bradbury (brenton thwaites) helen parr (megan thee stallion/kerry washington) hendrix palmer (mark fischbach) henley howell (dylan everett/paul wesley) henrik nilsen (herman tommeraas/chris evans) hercules sabri (aubrey joseph) hermione granger (quintessa swindell) holden krogen (jack falahee) holly la stella (olivia holt) honey lemon (irene ferreiro) hudson reid (jaeden lieberher/paul mescal/james mcavoy) irving reid (matty healy) isobel evans (lily cowles) jacoba ‘cobi’ abernathy (geraldine viswanathan) jake bennett (joe jonas) jake breckenridge (landon liboiron) james potter (noah centineo) james ‘sully’ sullivan (hozier) jane porter (zoe sugg) jasmine agrabah (naomi scott) jessica jones (krysten ritter) jim hopper (david harbour) johanna ‘jo’ gardiner (carlson young) josefine olive (lili reinhart/maika monroe) joseph ‘joey’ carnegie (chris o'dowd) juliette russo (camila mendes) juno nicks (gideon adlon/linda cardellini) justin miller (michael b. jordan) keaton green (charlie plummer/austin butler/alexander skarsgard) keifer fry (nathan parsons) kennedy sutherland (florence pugh) khalid farid (mena massoud) kiernan jost (jack barakat) kiki penn (natalie alyn lind)  kim possible (karen gillan) kit dempsey (aaron taylor-johnson/michael sheen) kristoff bjorgman (ben hardy) kuzco inca (tommy martinez) lady alvarez (camila cabello/diane guerrero) lake montgomery (jace norman/casey deidrick/jeff goldblum) lazarus (sean teale/tom ellis) lennox wells (billie piper) leonardo ‘leo’ light (armie hammer) levi wesley (gerard butler) liam wheaton (lucas lynngaard tonnesen/dominic sherwood) lilac montgomery (sophia lillis/deborah ann woll) lila pitts (ritu arya) lilo pelekai (courtney eaton) lola carver (carla gugino) macy merritt (kylie jenner) madeline hawkins (rowan blanchard/kaylee bryant) madison bloomfield (gwyneth paltrow) maggie wheaton (virginia gardner) maria deluca (heather hemmens) mariana de la cruz (victoria justice/salma hayek) marianne darden (elizabeth olsen) marisol torres (alexa demie/salma hayek) marlene phan (brianne tju) matilda franks (brooke markham) matthew murdock (charlie cox) max tian (chloe bennet) mckenzie whitman (danielle rose russell) megara creon (ashley moore) melanie carter (brenna d'amico/zooey deschanel) melody burns-newman (camren bicondova) mercutio bellini (giancarlo commare) merida dunbroch (bree kish) michael ‘goob’ yagoobian (dylan o’brien/andrew scott) mickey hader (shawn mendes) miguel rivera (diego tinoco) mike wheeler (finn wolfhard) mildred ‘millie’ brantwood (stella maeve) milo martinez (itzan escamilla/tyler posey) milo thatch (jason ralph) minerva ‘minnie’ winslett (jenna coleman) mischa locklear (jenny slate) moana motunui (auli'i cravalho) molly wheaton (saoirse monica jackson/kristen bell/kristin chenoweth) monet bugg (annie murphy) mordecai ‘cai’ baird (joseph morgan) murray bauman (brett gelman) nadja (natasia demetriou) naomi phillips (hunter king) natalie fuller (krysten ritter) nate gardiner (tom holland/thomas hayes/joe keery/adam scott) nemo fisher (nick robinson) nick novak (jon bernthal) nick wilde (jake johnson) nina baxter (laura harrier) nolan van ness (louis hynes/benjamin wadsworth) nymphadora tonks (kennedy walsh) odessa barnes (inanna sarkis) osbourne russo (oliver jackson-cohen) otis richardson (finn jones) owen monroe (zachary levi) paloma katz (brittany o'grady) paxton gardiner (douglas booth) pearl turner (maia mitchell/aubrey plaza) penny proud (sarah jeffery) perdita ryan (alisha boe/zoe kravitz) perrie wheaton (ariela barer/jessica alba) peter pan (rudy pankow) peter pettigrew (alex lawther) phil mcdermot (leo howard/dylan o’brien) phineas flynn-fletcher (michael provost) piper donahue (millie bobby brown/katherine langford/felicity jones) pippa mei (amy okuda) pollux isola (camila mendes) portia sadler (hayden panettiere) prairie gallagher (lucy boynton) quaid ‘q’ wright (jake gylenhaal) quinton saunders (jamie dornan) rain montgomery (nick jonas) ramona montgomery-wallis (lana condor/ashley park) reed knightley (arthur darvill) reign fentworth (madison bailey/vanessa morgan) reno thames (joshua bassett) richie tozier (finn wolfhard/bill hader) river montgomery (jack griffo/tyler blackburn) robin buckley (maya hawke) roger holtz (ben platt) roger radcliffe (aaron tveit) romy reyes (carmela zumbado) ronald ‘mac’ mcdonald (rob mcelhenney) roosevelt banks (spence moore II) rowan burke (andy biersack) roxanne sutton (lady gaga) rush mccoy (cody fern) russell montgomery (ian harding/hugh jackman) russell montgomery II (jack dylan grazer/timothee chalamet/adam brody) sable rosales (catherine bascoy) saint fentworth (reece king) sally finklestein (marina ruy barbosa) salvador ‘sal’ mendoza (jorge blanco) samson gardiner (cole sprouse) sandy diamandis (christina hendricks) sawyer bell (penn badgley) seamus kennedy (aria shanghasemi/michael sheen) seb seif (zeeko zaki) selena hada (camila cabello/diane guerrero) severus snape (rob raco) shawn taggart (ben barnes) shay strauss (chris wood) shia zoheir (rami malek) shiloh young (devery jacobs) shiri madani (inbar lavi) simba king (john boyega) sloane shapiro (diana silvers/linda cardellini) sofia ramirez (camila cabello/camila mendes/morena baccarin/fluvia lacerda) stefani vidal (louriza tronco) stella romero (adria arjona) steve harrington (joe keery) stevie wagner (anne hathaway/jennifer garner) sutton reiser (katherine langford/kat dennings) tandy hawthorne (giorgia whigham) tanner cohen (ross lynch) tarrant ‘mad hatter’ hightopp (hale appleman) tarryn fischer (giorgia whigham/perry mattfeld) tatum barton (ben schwartz) teddy flood (james marsden) tex navarro (bad bunny) thad abraham (dylan sprouse/chris evans) the handler (kate walsh) thomas gardiner (felix mallard/paul rudd) tierney kennedy (maisie williams) timothy ‘tigger’ trigger (jeremy allen white) tinker bell (sabrina carpenter) tj lieberman (armie hammer) tommy burns (will poulter) topher larkin (alexander hogh andersen) trey turner (jonathan daviss) ursula celia (normani/lizzo) vaughn abel (max greenfield) veronica lodge (camila mendes) vidia viento (emma dumont) vivica lang (madison pettis/tessa thompson) wanda cowell (brenda song) warren wentz (robert pattinson) wendell langston (link neal) wilbur robinson (david mazouz) winnie knox (sophie turner/jessica chastain) wren green (alexander calvert) wynona winstead (sarah hyland/cristin milioti) xander talbot (g-eazy) york pemberton (heather baron-gracie) yusef barlas (zayn malik) zack abrams (alex fitzalan) ziggy (taron egerton) zoey matthews (olivia munn)

[derekklenadaily]

Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert - a global livestream of the one-night-only onstage reunion of the Broadway cast - will have a special Encore Airing on Saturday, March 6 at 7:00PM ET.

This encore event will benefit the charitable organizations RAINN, Learn to Cope, GLAAD and Color of Change. Available exclusively on the premium streaming platform Stellar (www.stellartickets.com), worldwide audiences will now have one more chance to experience a night of searing performances from Tony Award nominees Elizabeth Stanley, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Antonio Cipriano, and more, alongside the Jagged Little Broadway Band. The concert will also be followed by a special live Q&A session with members of the musical's cast.

Tickets to the encore stream of the event are free, with a suggested donation that will directly support the vital work of these charitable organizations: RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. (rainn.org); Learn to Cope, a non-profit support network offering education and resources for parents and family members coping with a loved one addicted to opiates or other drugs (learn2cope.org); GLAAD, a dynamic media force that tackles tough issues to shape the narrative, provoke dialogue and rewrite the script for LGBTQ acceptance (glaad.org); and Color of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization, helping people respond effectively to injustice in the world (colorofchange.org).

On December 13, 2020, the 15-time Tony-nominated Broadway cast of Jagged Little Pill safely reunited on stage at Shubert Studios in New York City, for the first time since the global health crisis caused a suspension of live theater performances in March. Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus, Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert delivered an electrifying dose of much-needed collective joy through the Grammy-winning songbook of Alanis Morissette - streaming directly into thousands of living rooms across the world, and becoming one of Stellar's most successful programs to date. In the spirit of the #SaveOurStages movement, the December presentation of the concert event directly supported the nation's vulnerable venues experiencing catastrophic revenue loss during this time of suspension for live arts. Partner performing arts centers and regional theaters across the nation sold concert tickets to their subscribers and single ticket buyers ahead of the general public on-sale, and kept a portion of proceeds from those sales to support their future programming.

Nominated for 15 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Jagged Little Pill is inspired by seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette's seminal album of the same name, which recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary. Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin), Jagged Little Pill features an original story by Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Codya??(Juno, Tully) that takes a fearless look at what it means to be alive in 21st century America.

Starring in Jagged Little Pill as The Healys - a seemingly perfect family, who strives to hide the cracks beneath the surface when a troubling event shakes their community - are Tony nominees Elizabeth Stanley as "Mary Jane," Sean Allan Krill as "Steve", Celia Rose Gooding as "Frankie" and Derek Klena as "Nick"; alongside Tony nominee & Outer Critics Circle Award winner Kathryn Gallagher as "Bella," Tony nominee & Drama Desk Award winner Lauren Patten as "Jo," and Antonio Cipriano as "Phoenix," all of whom reprise their roles on Broadway from the musical's record-breaking, sold-out world premiere at American Repertory Theater. Variety hails the cast as "Triumphant! Not Since Rent has a musical invested so many bravura roles with so much individual life."

Tickets are free, with a suggested donation to partner charities, and are available now at www.stellartickets.com. Ticketholders will be able to stream the show on any computer browser (laptop or desktop), mobile web, the Stellar Android or iOS app, or on TV via the Stellar app on Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku.

[SOURCE]

[tvfandoms]

your ships!!

*soulmates before the writers ruin them!!

**should have got together

*****both of the above

***had potential to be soulmates

here are my ships ive shipped over the years !!

Bad girls - Janine & donny*

Harvey & sabrina - sabrina*

Janet & Andy - Scott and Bailey***

Mount pleasant - Lisa & dan*

the a word - maurice & louise*

Joey - joey & Alex

What I like about you - Holly & gary

Ordinary lies - Beth & Mike

Family affairs - tanya & conrad*

Us - Douglas & Connie***

The syndicate - jake & keeley *

Eastenders

Jamie & sonia*

Ricky & Natalie***

kat & anthony

zoe & anthony

kat & alfie *

Vicky & spencer

phil & sharon (sharongate only on youtube)

Martin & sonia*

Oliver & little mo

Sharon & grant

sharon & dennis*

Dennis & zoe

Mickey & kareena

phil & kate

jake & chrissie ***

jake & carly

Patrick & Yolande*

Peter & Lauren *

phil & stella (till she became a syco)

Shirley & vinnie (before she liked phil)

Denise & Kevin*

grant & jane***

Bobby & Tiffany

max & stacey ***

max & tanya *

stacey & bradley *

jack & ronnie*

Jack and stacey NEW SHIP

Roxy & jack

Sean & tanya

phil & shirley *

Dawn & jase

Abi & jay*

Darren & libby

Darren & jodie

Sean & carly

tanya & jack

christian & syed *

roxy & al

Ryan & Stacey

Roxy & aleks

Joey & Lauren

Bianca & ray**

max & emma

Ian & jane*

Tamwar & alice

Ronnie & charlie

Ben & johnny***

Ben & paul*

Nancy & tamwar*

Sonia & tina***

Jack & ingrid

Mick & whitney

Abi & Steven***

Donna & jay**

Robbie & donna

Louise & travis

Shakill & bex*

Bex & gethin

Woody & whitney

Josh & lauren

Honey & jay

Emmerdale

matthew & perdy

matthew & sadie

Matthew & louise

Louise & jamie

carl & chas *

billy & diane

Donna & Ross (1st)

Laurel & ashley*

Daz & scarlett

Nicola & jimmy

Kelly & jimmy

Andy & katie*

Cain & angie

Paul & jonny

Carl & anna

Carl & grace

Corrie

Katy and martin

Neighbors

karl & susan *

bridge & declan*

Max & steph

Ringo & donna

Oliver & camilla

Oliver & Ellie

Toadie & dee*

Drew & libby*

Paul & lyn

Boyd & janae

Sky & boyd

Sky & Dylan

Scott and charlene

Shane and daphne

Casualty

Tess & fletch

harry & selina

harry & ellen

adam & alice

adam & kirsty

Ethan & lily**

Ruth & jay*

Charlie & Maggie *

Connie & sam

Lenny & mads

Abs & nina

holby city

michael & chrissie

Michael & connie **

sam & chrissie

sam & maria

Dan & malick

Hansan & sahira

Waterloo Road

Izzie & tom*

Eddie & Rachel*

Jess & jonah***

Michael & Christine

Christine & George**

Kim & andrew

Tom & davina

Jack & davina

Finn & sambuca*

Kevin & Dynesty*

Scout & phoenix

Karen & rob

Liberty & tariq

Tom & rose

Tom & nikki**

Tom & Eleanor

Nikki & Lorraine

Friends

Monica & chandler*

Monica & Richard

Ross & Rachel*

Ross & Elizabeth

Ross & Emily

Ross & charlie

Ross & mona

Phoebe & David

Phoebe & Mike

Joey & Rachel

Rachel & tag

Chandler & kathy

Chandler & aurora

Rachel & gavin

Monica & ethan

Joey & kate

Death in paradise

Humphrey & martha

Richard & camille******

Jp & ruby

Strictly

Jill & Darren

Matt & flavia

Vincent & flavia

Films

Maria & George - the sound of music

Johnny & baby - dirty dancing

Edward & Vivian - pretty women

Sam & Annie - sleepless in seattle

Sandra & Tony - beautiful thing

Alex & isabel - fools rush in

Rose & jack - titanic

Kathleen & Joe - you've got mail

Six days seven nights - Robin & quinn

Healy & Mary - there's something about Mary

Nick & Elizabeth - the parent trap

Josie & Sam - never been kissed

Anna & William - Notting hill

Sonny & leyla - Big daddy

Maggie & Mike - runaway bride

Sara & Derek - save the last dance

Sarah & Tom - just married

Grace & Bruce - Bruce almighty

Legally blonde - Elle & emmett

Polly & Ruben - along came polly

Lucy & Henry - 50 first dates

Matt & jenna - 13 going on 30

Jane & John - Mr and Mrs Smith

David & Elizabeth - just like heaven

Jeff & Sarah - rumor has it

Gary & brooke - the break up

Alex & Sophie - music and lyrics

Eddie & miranda - the heartbreak kid

Jenny & John - Marley&me

Robbie & Georgia - Angus thongs & perfect snogging

Margrate & Andrew - the proposal

Burke & eloise - love happens

Milo & Nicole - the bounty hunter

Jonny & Kim - chalet girl

Katherine & Danny - just go with it

Larry & mercedes - Larry crowne

Ally & Colin - what's your number

Wallace & chantry - what if

Wesley & Bianca - the duff

Nicky & jess - focus

Saroo & lucy - lion

Ellie & jack - yesterday

Kat & Charlie - marry me

10 things I hate about you

Bianca & cameron

Kat & Patrick

Theatre

The bodyguard

Lauren & Paul - Fat friends

Hairspray - penny &

[lesbian-books]

Lesbian Authors

A.J. Adaire  Pat Adams-Wright  Dorothy Allison  S.W. Anderson  Elizabeth Andre  Mavis Applewater  Ann Aptaker  J.A. Armstrong  Michelle Arnold  Clare Ashton  K. Aten  Victoria Avilan  Darla Baker  Roslyn Bane  Ann Bannon  Solia Panche Bealti  Alison Bechdel  Georgia Beers  Sharon Marie Bence  Bridget Birdsall  Harper Bliss  Andrea Bramhall  Jaye Robin Brown  Anna Burke  Amalie Cantor  Brandee Carbo  Suzie Carr  Dawn Carter  C.L. Cattano  Becky Chambers  Kate Charlton  Sharon Cho  Barbara L. Clanton  Hannah Abigail Clarke  Shelby Cochran  Helen Corcoran  Jeanne Córdova  Audrey Coulthurst  Delores Cremm  Maggie Dane  Emily M. Danforth  Sandra de Helen  Barbara Dennis  Nicole Dennis-Benn Stefani Deoul  K.E. DePalmenary  T.L. Dickerson  Jennifer Diemer  Sarah Diemer * Jane DiLucchio  J.M. Dragon  Moondancer Drake  K.B. Draper  Cassandra Duffy  A.L. Duncan  Nann Dunne  Sarah Ettritch  Lillian Faderman  Sara Farizan  Leslie Feinberg  Anna Ferrara  Fannie Flagg  Jane Fletcher  Laura Foley  Katherine V. Forrest  Diane Fortier  Giselle Fox  Anna Furtado  Elisa M. Galbreath  Lynn Galli  S.L. Gape  Nancy Garden  Lyn Gardner  S. Anne Gardner  Pauline George  Ana B. Good  Parker Gordon  Erin Gough  Kimberly Cooper Griffin  Nicola Griffith  Agnes H. Hagadus  Anne Hagan  Radclyffe Hall  S.M. Harding  Ellen Hart  Nancy Ann Healy  Fran Heckrotte  Natasja Hellenthal  Dotti Henderson  Claire Highton-Stevenson  Gerri Hill  E.M. Hodge  Dayna Ingram  Isabella  Jae  Adiba Jaigirdar  Jo Jennings  Heather Rose Jones  E.A. Kafkalas  Karin Kallmaker  Riley LaShea  Stacey-Leanne  Lez Lee  Malinda Lo  Ann-Marie MacDonald  Renee MacKenzie  Prudence MacLeod  Lise MacTague  Lucy J. Madison  Rachel Maldonado  Siera Maley  Laurie J. Marks  Julie Maroh  Michelle Marra  Paula Martinac  Arkady Martine  Q.C. Masters  Andi Marquette  Pamela Mauldin  Robbi McCoy  M.K. McGowan  Gill McKnight  Ann McMan  Heather McVea  Mary Meriam  Ronni Meyrick  Martha Miller  Rogena Mitchell-Jones  K.A. Moll  Sallyanne Monti  Annette Mori  Bonnie J. Morris  Jaycie Morrison  Niamh Murphy  Charlene Neil  Natasha Ngan  Nik Nicholson  Baren Nix  Ocean  Paula Offutt Chinelo Okparanta  Chris Parsons  Angela Peach  Julie Anne Peters  B.J. Phillips  Ashley Quinn  Radclyffe  Cheryl Rainfield  Adan Ramie  Nina Revoyr  Rhavensfyre  Julia Diana Robertson  Nita Round  Morgan Routh  Joanna Russ  Laurie Salzler  Shamim Sarif  Lacey Schmidt  Sarah Schulman  Tina Sears  Cass Sellars  Merry Shannon  Fiona Shaw ** Kaden Shay  Djuna Shellam  Jen Silver  Jennis Slaughter  Adrian J. Smith  E.H. Smith  Vanessa Snyder  Alison R. Solomon  Raven J. Spencer  Ali Spooner  Rose Stone  Carren Strock  Rebecca Sullivan  Leandra Summers  Mariko Tamaki  Michelle L. Teichman  Keira Michelle Telford  Rae Theodore  M.E. Tudor  Vanda  Elle Vaughn  Missouri Vaun  Anastasia Vitsky  Tillie Walden  Sarah Waters  HollyAnne Weaver  Laney Webber  Louise Welsh  Caren J. Werlinger  K.D. Williamson  B.L. Wilson  Catherine M. Wilson  Barbara Winkes  Lee Winter  Jeanette Winterson  Chris Anne Wolfe  T.J. Wolfe  Jacqueline Woodson  Fiona Zedde  Kristen Zimmer 

* Also writes under the pen names Elora Bishop and Bridget Essex

** Not to be confused with the Irish actress of the same name

This list is subject to changes. Compiling a list of lesbian authors is a challenge because not all authors are out and my sources of information are limited. I had to rely on finding author bios, interviews, tweets, etc. in which an author mentions her sexual orientation. I also got many of these names from the Lesbian Authors Guild. 

[belizedeservesbetter]

The Worst Kind of After School Special

The hand on the playbill is choking all life out of Jagged Little Pill

There’s a lot going on in this musical so trying to figure out where to start with this is going to be as messy as this show.

You know what? We’ll start with what I liked. Get those small bits and pieces out of the way.

Alanis Morrissette is an absolutely incredible singer/songwriter and has written albums worth of amazing music that is highly specific to her life and yet feels highly specific to our own. Her songs are infused with a beautiful brand of theatricality that made me surprised she hasn’t lent them to the medium before now. That being said, of course the songs in the show are great. They’re from Jagged Little Pill! The orchestrations as well were super solid. I really trust Tom Kitt with these kinds of things, especially after the master orchestration he did with American Idiot. 

Lauren Patten is just as good as everyone says she is. While I had some issues with her character (will discuss this later) I loved seeing Patten get a chance to shine. I really enjoyed her performance in last year’s Days of Rage and thought she was even better in this. Her performance felt so full and rich and completely vulnerable. Of course her rendition of “You Oughta Know” is completely awesome, and the way she started off the song completely calm and composed while already belting out the notes was really lovely to see.

There was only one characters I really truly loved and that was Mary Jane Healy, as played spectacularly by Elizabeth Stanley. Everything MJ did was far more interesting than literally anything else on that stage. Her story was interesting, fresh and unique. It felt the most honest of the plot lines by far. I was so interested in everything that happened to her and her husband Steve (an underutilized Sean Allan Krill) and yet the show quickly glossed by all of their most uncomfortable moments in favor the far less interesting high school aged characters. Stanley was truly incredible and I loved every second she was onstage. Her “Smiling” and “Unforgiven” were truly the highlights of the show.

Occasionally there was some interesting staging, one of them being this cool spinning in chairs moment during “Ironic,” which should have involved main characters Frankie and Phoenix but was instead used with an unnamed teacher character who was in exactly one (1) scene. The spinning swing set for “Head Over Feet” was also cute, if not a little precarious. I was worried Antonio Cipriano was going to topple off of it the whole time. (Side Note: He’s listed on the website as Ensemble but he definitely had a named character) The staging of “Smiling” was super cool and was the one moment in the show where I thought Diane Paulus was going to do something really incredible. I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s a really cool moment. 

Alas.

Diane Paulus really can’t stage new musicals. All of her revivals are divine but there’s something about new material that just doesn’t work quite right. She throws a lot at the wall, and only some of it sticks. It felt very haphazardly directed, with a bunch of different stylistic things happening that didn’t go together. She had time to see what worked/didn’t at the out of town tryout and still chose not to make the show cohesive, which is disappointing. 

However, my biggest problem with the show is the show itself. It’s messy, introduces a million different plots and characters and resolves very little. Because of this, characters were paper thin and I didn’t feel like I knew any of them besides one or two little facts. This led to me honestly not caring that much about 90% of those characters.

The primary example of this is the brother character played by Derek Klena. His name is Nick, but I had to look that up to make sure because for the life of me I had no idea who his character was. I knew he was Derek Klena, so whenever he was on stage my brain went “Oh there’s Derek Klena.” He’s perfectly fine in the show, but not only is he barely in it, he has absolutely nothing to do. I don’t really know much about his character besides “Harvard” and he very, very easily could have been taken out. Nothing about the plot would have changed. Actually, this would have given us a better opportunity to dive deeper into the other characters, who, even though we still didn’t know, affected the plot in a more prominent way. 

Jo is an interesting character in that she’s one of the best performances in the show and has some of the best lines, but altogether only affects one plot point and is forced into doing so. Let me explain. “You Oughta Know” is the third best moment in the show, but it is entirely dependent on Jo previously breaking and entering into Frankie’s house, finding something out she shouldn’t have, and then ending up in NYC because the plot said she had to. The song should’ve been moved up to either the beginning of Act Two or the very end of Act One, because as of now it kind of comes out of nowhere. Anyways, I feel like if Lauren Patten wasn’t as good as she is, Jo would’ve ended up on the cutting room floor somewhere. 

I had this problem with a lot of the characters, actually, just about all of them. Everyone was extremely half-baked. 

First of all, there’s The Frankie Problem. Frankie is an activist and adopted and bisexual. That’s all we know about her. Does she like anything? What cause specifically motivates her? She’s an activist in the most generic term. Helen Shaw from Vulture wrote something really good about Frankie’s character, which, to sum it up, basically said Frankie is super self-important and annoying but she’s not supposed to be. We’re supposed to love Frankie, but I really didn’t like her at all. Also, nothing she does makes sense. She picks a fight with literally everyone over every single thing. Likewise, SPOILER, she cheats on her girlfriend/friend/it’s-complicated-because-it’s-never-explained relationship with Jo and fights with her mother MJ and just runs away to New York and makes a situation about a character named Bella allllll about her because she can. I wanted to know what Frankie cared about. You can say “activism!” but what specifically. Most activists have a very specific cause they especially champion, but I didn’t know what that was for Frankie. She seemingly cared about everything, but she mostly cared about herself.

This leads to the The Frankie and Phoenix Problem. This is also SPOILERS but Frankie falls very in love with Phoenix very fast and as soon as she sleeps with him for the first time she tells him she loves him, and, then, when he can’t say it back, she says this whole self-important thing about being impossible to love. However! Right before he was telling her how he was busy because he was trying to help with his sick sister! We also know extraordinarily little about Phoenix, and he kind of comes out of nowhere, so it’s tough to root for him when we’ve already had “Hand in my Pocket” to establish the Frankie and Jo connection.

On the plus side, Celia Rose Gooding, who plays Frankie, is wonderful and I look forward to seeing what she does in the future. 

I really don’t know how to approach Bella’s character, because the show clearly didn’t either. This is a big spoiler, but she is raped at a party and one of the many plots of the show is about this. However, she isn’t really in the show all that much. We have no idea who she is. She’s friends with Nick, but not very. She eerily appears in the light sometimes around MJ and she has one scene with MJ, but how much they try to tie these two characters doesn’t work. I wish Bella was a character we knew more. I almost wish she was Jo, or even Frankie. If we look at the characters as tiers, with MJ and Frankie being Tier 1, Jo, Nick and Steve being Tier 2, she would be on Tier 3, along with Andrew (???) and Phoenix. She is The Girl Who Was Raped, which was actually kind of offensive. 

As for the rape scene itself, they do show it in flashback. That is something you should know going into the show. It was not handled well. Also, the person who raped her (I think his name was Andrew??) is in the show for exactly two minutes. I actually thought a different character had raped her because we have no idea who anyone is. 

So that’s all my story qualms. 

The show utilizes this dance chorus that is absolutely obnoxious and distracting and takes away from literally every scene. They come in out of nowhere and make every single song (literally!!) a big song and dance production number, which greatly took away from the story. Every time I saw them start to dance into the scene I internally was like “wait no! stay away!” 

I mean it when I say

every

single

song

was a huge production number. And we didn’t need it! It actually took away from the emotional impact they were supposed to have! Likewise, there was only one solo in the entire show! Every single other song was shared between multiple characters. I think they did this because they had too many characters and had to give everyone something to do but every time it happened, the main character singing it lost some of their needed emotional impact. 

If I had my way, I would cut the ensemble in half and only use them in half the songs. The dancing was far too much and it made the story messy and it made the stage far too busy. It wasn’t even that good either. There were some nice moments, but overall it didn’t work. It was distracting and dare I say it bad. 

At the end of the day, the show was “woke” for the sake of being woke. It wanted so badly to say something that it ended up saying nothing. To be honest, the amount of “wokeness” felt performative and not genuine in the slightest. It felt like an after school special in the worst kind of way. The teens weren’t people but caricatures of teenagers. 

I really wanted to like Jagged Little Pill. I love writer Diablo Cody and I love Alanis Morrissette. This should have been amazing, but instead it fell flat. A show that should have been filled with life felt like a well structured after school television special. And All I Really Want(ed) was something with more grit 

[larryland]

REVIEW: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Shakespeare & Company

REVIEW: “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Shakespeare & Company

[maaarine]

MBTI Typing Index: ENFP

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

Chantal AKERMAN

Isabel ALLENDE

Pedro ALONSO

Billie Joe ARMSTRONG

Daniel BALAVOINE

Aisling BEA

Kate BECKINSALE

Samantha BEE

Juliette BINOCHE

Emma BLACKERY

Rachel BLOOM

Helena BONHAM CARTER

Danny BOYLE

Russell BRAND

Brittany BROSKI

Bo BURNHAM

Jim CARREY

Elizabeth Jean CARROLL

Margaret CHO

Dodie CLARK

Michaela COEL

Coeur de Pirate / Béatrice MARTIN

Daniel COHN-BENDIT

Stephen COLBERT

Michelle COLLINS

Olivia COOKE

Alan CUMMING

Jamie Lee CURTIS

Salvador DALI

Geena DAVIS

Mackenzie DAVIS

Pierre DE MAERE

Cara DELEVINGNE

Julie DELPY

Lou DOILLON

Xavier DOLAN

Rain DOVE

Lena DUNHAM

Giancarlo ESPOSITO

Rupert EVERETT

Colin FARRELL

Negin FARSAD

Craig FERGUSON

Noel FIELDING

Carrie FISHER

Anne FRANK

Edward FRENKEL

Guillaume GALLIENNE

Greta GERWIG

Emma GONZÁLEZ

Matthew GOODE

Emily GORDON

Lauren GRAHAM

Laci GREEN

Grimes / Claire BOUCHER

Lauren GROFF

Matthew Gray GUBLER

Ernesto GUEVARA

Jake GYLLENHAAL

Adèle HAENEL

Daniel HANDLER

Neil HANNON

David HARBOUR

Mamrie HART

Salma HAYEK

Todd HAYNES

Lena HEADEY

Matty HEALY

Conleth HILL

Bell HOOKS

Jason ISAACS

Samantha IRBY

Gillian JACOBS

Abbi JACOBSON

Avan JOGIA

Camélia JORDANA

Zoe KAZAN

Diane KEATON

Ellie KEMPER

Chris KENDALL

Liza KOSHY

Lisa KUDROW

Anne LAMOTT

Nathan LANE

Jennifer LAWRENCE

Jared LETO

Fabrice LUCHINI

Baz LUHRMANN

Patti LUPONE

Miriam MARGOLYES

Pio MARMAÏ

Ian MCKELLEN

Freddie MERCURY

Ezra MILLER

Lin-Manuel MIRANDA

Caitlin MORAN

Tom MORELLO

Graham NORTON

Samin NOSRAT

Mallory ORTBERG

Amanda PALMER

Sara PASCOE

Mandy PATINKIN

Sarah PAULSON

Laurie PENNY

Pablo PICASSO

Amy POEHLER

Benoît POELVOORDE

Barbara PRAVI

Daniel RADCLIFFE

Arden ROSE

Tracee Ellis ROSS

Kristen ROUPENIAN

RuPaul / RuPaul CHARLES

Thomas SANDERS

Susan SARANDON

Marjane SATRAPI

Amy SCHUMER

Amy SEDARIS

Jason SEGEL

Tupac SHAKUR

Robert SHEEHAN

Michael SHEEN

Amy SHERMAN-PALLADINO

SIA / Sia FURLER

Jason SILVA

Sarah SILVERMAN

Lily SINGH

Tarsem SINGH

Jenny SLATE

Soko / Stéphanie SOKOLINSKI

Emma STONE

Amber TAMBLYN

David TENNANT

Louis TOMLINSON

Marie ULVEN / Girl in red

Brandon URIE

Jonathan VAN NESS

Agnès VARDA

Phoebe WALLER-BRIDGE

John WATERS

Ruby WAX

Gerard WAY

Cornel WEST

Vivienne WESTWOOD

Mae WHITMAN

Oscar WILDE

Hayley WILLIAMS

Jessica WILLIAMS

Robin WILLIAMS

Katya ZAMOLODCHIKOVA

Slavoj ZIZEK

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

[spinstermag]

Songs Inspired. It's Not Living if it's Not With You // 1975

Where do songs come from? And where do they go when we're not watching them? Although there's really no telling what can inspire a song into this world from nothing, one girl (I) takes on the responsibility that literally nobody asked her (me) to do- analyze your favorite songs for possible influences (and we'll all learn a little bit about ourselves on the journey there... cue the Full House sentimental underscore.)

To get this out off the bat- it's not shocking that synth-friendly soft rock band the 1975 has an overall tone of 1980s Miami workout video prompting you to jog in place with some bopping bass licks and metallic guitar; this is their overarching aesthetic. With them, you gotta learn to look past the 90s paper cup design outer layer, because this is a band with some authentic lyrical and melodic prowess that digs down to a deeper, more soulful level than they would have you think at first glance.     When this particular song kicks off with its airy guitar licks, it's easy to assume that this bop could take a turn for "My girlfriend doesn't like the vodka I stole for her... eternal cute and mild angst!!" But to this reviewer's surprise, the 1975 put out a piece with richer layers than that (a fine baklava of sorts.) This is true of the entire album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships- "If I Believe You" will kick you in the neck if you're expecting another "Chocolate." Anyways, guard your loins, and let's get back to "It's Not Living-"     As many who follow the 1975 know, this track is frontman Matt Healy's perspective on his feelings toward Heroin. Not that you would have to avidly follow the band to wrap your mind around the intent here; the song lyrics make the underlying subject transparent- "Got a 20-stone monkey that I just can't beat" pretty much tips any wayfaring listener off.    

With it's upbeat ode to a drug-lationship- at first take of this song originally struck me as a darker nod back to McCartney's screamingly happy love song to weed "Got to Get You Into My Life."  The thing is; while maybe initial inspiration could have come from "Got to Get You.." and while both songs do have in common (other than their long titles) is that they've written a song in a tone usually reserved for romance or sexual feelings toward a drug- the relationships with the drugs are foils, and so are the tones of the love songs themselves.    

"Got to Get You Into My Life" is courting, the yearning and excitement of new romance, while looking forward to a new life together. "It's Not Living" has all of the yearning with none of the courting or excitement, and significantly seems to be dragging it's narrator back in time while they weakly plead to move on. And when it's put like that- the second layer of this song reveals that there are two deep influences at play here.    

Generally, although the signature pastel cloud is on top of everything sonically; looking at the lyrics alone reveals a sardonic twist on classic 50s pop love songs (I need you! I want you! Can't live without you!) with the repeating and saccharine sweet hook "It's not living if it's not with you" and campy lead-ins "It's true that! All I do is sit and think about you!"    

Meanwhile, the song rather shockingly kicks off with a third person story structure ("Danny ran into some complications") which inspires thoughts back to the power ballad story songs of the 80s (This is a story... of Jack and Diane...) Although upon some retrospective rationalization; I, too, would prefer to write something so raw as if it were someone else's story (This same tactic is also how Bundy finally admitted to murdering all those people, food for thought.)    

And in the vein of this, it's worth noting that this track is not a parody of the old school pop love songs nor is it a parody of the 80s epic story songs, it's a genuine rib out of each, absolutely nailing the understated but screamingly yearning lyrics of the oom-bop classics with lines "distract my brain from the terrible news/ it's not living if it's not with you" (Seriously, sit with that one for a few seconds and tell me you don't feel a pang in your stomach) in a fully executed spin from the prior verse's longer form storytelling

“And Danny says we're living in a simulation/ But he works in a petrol station (Selling petrol)/ He says it all began with his operation/ And I know you think you're sly but you need some imagination.”

Surprisingly, neither tactic seems campy or hack; because the thing about music is no matter the genre sincerity comes through. And they nailed it here. Underneath all of the millennial glossing is the yearning, burning, humanity that brings great music into this world. Which, again, is true of not only this song but much of this album where underneath the shimmering production are true blue soul tracks that has the thirteen year old in me screaming for acoustic covers of this whole package (...Youtubers in music school with cameras on your pianos, where you at??) Is this one of my new favorite songs? New favorite album? When did this happen? Why am I lightly jogging in place and holding this 90s paper cup? And that's how they get you.

[maabhakti]

How to get weeds out of lawn: The 'all natural' method 'doesn't kill the grass'

How to get weeds out of lawn: The ‘all natural’ method ‘doesn’t kill the grass’

Other suggestions include pulling the flower ends off dandelions, using boiling water, using Round-Up weedkiller, or simply leaving the weeds alone. Steph Healy said: “Just remove the ends of the flowers to keep the bees away and destroy the leaves.” Keira Harris commented: “I’m sure it’s Round-Up that does one to the grass. It only kills the grasshopper instead of the grass around it.” Diane…

[madlitparanormal]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Theodore Robert Bundy was born to a twenty two year old woman named Eleanor Cowell on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. Eleanor Cowell was the daughter of two very religious parents and being unmarried at the time of her pregnancy and birth, she was sent to have the child in at a home for unwed mothers. Shortly after the birth of her son Theodore she and her baby returned to her parent’s home in Philadelphia, where they would hide the illegitimate birth by claiming he was Eleanor’s adopted brother. A few years later, Cowell took her son and moved to Tacoma, Washington where she married a man named Johnnie Bundy. The family created a content home.

At an early age, Theodore, or as we know him today, Ted or Teddy Bundy, began showing some very unsettling interests in darkness. At age three he became fascinated with knives and later in his school aged years and teens he would peer into windows of young women and steal things that he wanted without a second thought leading to a comprehensive juvenile record. When he turned eighteen the record was dropped. When discussing his childhood and teenaged years, Bundy recollected being very introverted.

He first attended the University of Puget Sound and then transferred to the University of Washington in 1966. There, Theodore fell in love with a woman of wealth and status and they dated for a short period of time. Her most common pseudo-name was Stephanie Brooks, although she gave many to protect her identity. He was desolate over their breakup to which she claimed was in response to Theodore’s lack of ambition and immaturity after dropping out of college in 1968 and working a series of minimum wage jobs. He ran off to Colorado after his breakup with ‘Stephanie’ and ended up visiting family members in Arkansas and Philadelphia. In the spring of 1969 he attended one semester at Temple University but in fall of the same year went back to enroll in the University of Washington. He then met Elizabeth Kloepfer. A divorcée from Utah whom he dated for several years.

In 1972 he graduated with a degree in psychology. In the mid 1970s Bundy had worked his way into a higher social and political status in Washington, volunteering a second time in political campaigns and was awarded with letters of high recommendation for the law program. In 1973 during a trip to California, Bundy rekindled his relationship with ‘Stephanie Brooks’ and even went as far to introduce her to one of his psychology professors as his fiancée. In January of 1974 he unexpectedly ceased all contact with ‘Brooks’. He said in interviews that he essentially just wanted to prove that he was good enough to marry her.

Bundy confessed to attempting his first abduction in 1969 in New Jersey but claimed he hadn’t murdered anyone in Seattle. He also implicated but never fully disclosed earlier murders in 1971, 1972 and 1973. It is unclear where and when he began murdering young women. He was very elusive and told many different versions of his stories to different people.

Therefore, Ted Bundy’s earliest known victim was murdered in 1974. Around this time several young women had disappeared in the Seattle and nearby Oregon areas.

On January 4, 1974 Ted Bundy beat eighteen year old Karen Sparks until she was unconscious and then sexually assaulted her body with the rod he used to murder her. She managed to survive but sustained mental and physical disabilities from the attack.

In February of the same year, he broke into the home of Lynda Ann Healy, rendered her unconscious, and abducted her. March 12, 1974 nineteen year old Donna Gail Manson. April 17 Susan Elaine Rancourt disappeared on her way to her dormitory. May 6 Roberta Kathleen Parks never made her coffee date with friends. At this point, at least one woman per month was disappearing. On June 11 twenty-two year old Georgann Hawkins disappeared on her way to her boyfriend’s dorm.

During all of these disappearances, Bundy was working at the Olympia Department of Emergency Services, involved in the investigation of these missing women. While working there, he met and dated Carole Ann Boone, a woman who was twice divorced and a mother of two.

As women continued disappearing across the Pacific Northwest reports came in of a man wearing a sling and driving a tan or brown Volkswagen Beetle. In July, two women went missing from a crowded beach in broad daylight. Janice Anne Ott aged twenty three and nineteen year old Denise Marie Naslund both disappeared and reports of a man with the same previous description, a sling and a tan beetle, who had given a loaded story about needing help unloading his sailboat. There was no sailboat. He lured the two women to their deaths.

After a sketch and description was released to the public, three of Bundy’s former acquaintances recognized the sketch to look like Theodore. The police however disagreed to him being a possible suspect because he was a clean cut law student with a lack of an adult criminal record.

In August, Bundy discovered that he was not quite as cut out for law school as he’d originally thought. He found the courses he took to be much more difficult and was greatly disappointed that he could not comprehend his lessons. Following this disappointment, a new string of murders began.

In September of 1974, hunters stumbled across human remains. Six months later, forestry students uncovered more human remains that had been dumped. They discovered skulls, vertebrae, and other skeletal remains. As more women continued to disappear, Bundy’s occasional girlfriend Elizabeth called the police to repeat her suspicions about Theodore and he was officially added to the list of suspects.

On August 16, 1975 Ted Bundy was arrested in Utah. His tan Volkswagen Beetle contained a ski mask, a crowbar, handcuffs, an ice pick, and other items generally used for breaking and entering and burglary. Along with the tools that Bundy describes as regular household items (excluding the ski mask he explained to be used for skiing and the handcuffs he had claimed he found in a dumpster) the police also found a brochure to Colorado ski resorts and a brochure for a high school play where one of the victims had disappeared in a search of his house. But it was only circumstantial evidence at best and Bundy was released. He was arrested again and in June of 1976 he was sentenced to one to fifteen years in prison. From there Bundy would escape and flee to several different states including Michigan, Georgia, and eventually, Tallahassee, Florida where he stayed in a boarding house under the alias Chris Hagen.

He claimed that he planned to move forward with his life, working and committing less criminal acts, but it didn’t take long for him to begin shoplifting and theft, he also stole credit cards from women’s purses. One week after his arrival in Florida, in January of 1978, he entered a sorority house of Florida State University and attacked four women, beating them, destroying their bodies, and sexually assaulting them. In the same night, he broke into the apartment of another young woman named Cheryl Thomas. He raped and beat her leaving her with permanent deafness and equilibrium issues. At the crime scene the police found semen and a pantyhose ‘mask’ and two hairs.

In February of 1978 Bundy attempted to abduct a young girl in Jacksonville until the girl’s older brother showed up. Bundy retreated and fled to Lake City where he murdered twelve year old Kimberly Diane Leach. A few days later he made his way back to Tallahassee with a stolen car. He was stopped by a Pensacola officer (one of my two home towns, eerily awesome) and after a vigorous chase and an added charge of assault to a police officer, Bundy was subdued and arrested. In 1979 and 1980 Ted R. Bundy was sentenced three times to death by electrocution. Upon his sentence he shouted, “Tell the jury that they were wrong!”

During his confessions while on death row, Ted Bundy stated that he considered himself to be amateur and impulsive as a murderer until he reached his prime phase beginning in 1974, insinuating that he had begun killing before his first official identified victim, but he never explicitly confessed to murdering anyone before that time.

In 1986 Bundy confessed to returning to the scenes where he had dumped previous victims, multiple times. He said that he would lie with them and perform sexual acts with their putrefying corpses and would continue to do so until their bodies were too decomposed to continue. He confessed to many other horrific crimes including decapitation, lewd acts with a corpse, sexual assault, murder, and mutilation.

Bundy confessed to the murder of at least thirty six young women. On January 24, 1989 about 7:00 AM at the age of forty two, Theodore Robert Bundy died at Florida State Prison by electrocution. He was pronounced dead at 7:16 AM. His body was cremated and before his death he requested that his ashes be scattered in the Cascade Mountains of Washington where at least four of his victims had been disposed. It is unclear from my research what they actually did with his remains. If you know, comment below!

In a final interview, Bundy told reporters that he “deserved the most extreme punishment [that] society has.” He spent his final days praying with a Methodist priest and he even cried. According to the priest he didn’t want to die.

He told reporters in his final interview that he was a normal person and a helpless kind of victim and not some bum or loser hanging out at a bar. He claimed that he felt remorse for all of his sexually motivated killings and even added in that , “killing me isn’t going to restore those beautiful children to their parents.”

His last words: “Yes, Jim and Fred” (his minister and his lawyer) “I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”

Ted Bundy was a wreckless and careless murderer. He didn’t bother to cover his tracks and he didn’t care about being seen by others. He hid in plain sight and even though he claims he was not impulsive and amateur after 1974 in reality he always was.

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