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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago

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The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in

People on the right have some really weird ideas about their ideological enemies: that we’re “groomers,” that we’re secretly on some billionaire’s payroll, that we hijacked the education system to promulgate revisionist histories, that we steal elections, and, of course, that we are secretly plotting to take over America and subjugate them.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/teneo/#i-grasp

The weirdest thing about this is that it’s the right that engages in revisionist race-history:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-myth-of-the-happy-slave-explained

And it’s the right who stole a presidency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

Election-rigging is a right-wing specialty:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/state-of-play/#patchwork

It’s the right who pay for fake grassroots activism:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/raising-them-right-far-right-fight-college-campus-1234636392/

Any time some right-wing politician comes out against queers and calls them groomers, chances are good that he’s spending his free time on Instagram, sending fire emojis to naked boys:

https://www.ibtimes.sg/randy-mcnally-tennessees-anti-lgbtq-lt-gov-caught-liking-commenting-young-gay-mans-racy-69364

That’s especially true when we’re talking about evangelical youth pastors:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-texas-pastors-charged-abusing-children-1765910

It’s almost like that old playground rebuttal, “I know you are but what am I?” contains a deep political truth:

https://doctorow.medium.com/takes-one-to-know-one-104d7d749408

Of all the absurd libels of the right, the weirdest one is that leftists are secretly funded by woke billionaires spending dark money to foment the overthrow of the USA. The idea of “leftist billionaire” is laughable on its face: how did this imaginary billionaire make their billions while paying a living wage and providing decent working conditions?

But it’s easy to understand how a group of people who are so positively *aslosh* in dark money — people whose every political maneuver is a carefully planned scheme to separate terrified xenophobes and rubes from their money — for “alternative” covid therapies, apocalypse-ready MREs, “sound money” gold coins, and so. much. culture. war. nonsense.

What I’m trying to say is: when the right accuses the left of being driven by cabals of shadowy, crepulent billionaires and their pathetic lickspittle Renfields, it is because the right is indeed in the thrall of those crepulent billionaires.

Meet Leonard Leo, a crepulent, shadowy billionaire. Leo was last seen around these parts when he was revealed to have been the bagman behind the ultradark money group Judicial Crisis Network. After spending $27m to block confirmation for Obama’s SCOTUS pick, Merrick Garland, they spent tens of millions more on campaigns to seat Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Coney Barrett was seated thanks to a $15.9m campaign to make an unqualified, unhinged ideologue seem like a viable lifetime member of the highest court in the land:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/29/betcha-cant-eat-just-one/#pwnage

Leo controls the Judicial Crisis Network, which worked with the Federalist Society to allow Trump to appoint a whopping 28% of all US federal judges — lifetime appointments for slavering Renfields who’ll follow his political lead. Witness the firepower of a fully operational billionaire.

Leo’s post-Trump side-hustle is a “Federalist Society for everything” — a secretive, lavishly funded cabal aimed at taking over campuses, corporations, news outlets with an army of “under 40s” conservative operatives. It’s called Teneo, and it was a secret — until its internal memos, videos and other materials leaked to Propublica.

Propublica’s Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein collaborated with Documented’s Nick Surgey to report out the leaks, describing how Teneo when from “a dinner club with partisan overtones” to a dark-money juggernaut whose annual donations grew by leaps and bounds (2017, $750k; 2020, $2.3m; 2021, $5m):

https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents

These financial good fortunes are not the result of excited small-money donors hoping to help Teneo with its good works — it’s a handful of ultra-wealthy sociopaths hoping to use a minority of willing lackeys to project their will over all of us.

Teneo’s network members are a Monster’s Manual of the wildest wingnuts in public life, from Josh Hawley (who wrote its founding manifesto) to JD Vance to Elise Stefanik to BenShapiro to three of Ron DeSantis’s top aides. Also: federal judge who struck down Biden’s mask mandate and the heads of the Republican Attorneys General Association, Republican State Leadership Committee and Turning Point USA.

The stated goal of Teneo founder Evan Baehr (a tech bro turned conservative organizer) was for Teneo members to infiltrate “the House and the Senate, as governors — one might be elected president.”

In a leaked video, Baehr identifies the “woke” enemy he seeks to vanquish, describing a hypothetical meeting between “a billionaire hedge funder, a film producer, a Harvard professor and a New York Times writer.” These four cook up a plan to give middle-school kids “free access to sex-change therapy paid for by the federal government.” The filmmaker promises to make a documentary to support the project. The Harvard professor promises to falsify studies to reassure people that the therapies are safe. The Times reporter vows to “profile people who feel trapped in the wrong gender.”

This irony is that this unhinged conspiratorialism was hatched by someone who was and is actively conspiring to take over the country with members of his secret society. After years in the wilderness, Baehr connected with Leo, who turned on the money spigots. Together, they recruited an “inner core” of FedSoc members “and recruit[ed] them for either specific roles to serve as judges or to spin up and launch critical projects.”

Other shadowy billionaires piled in: Home Depot’s trumpy founder Bernie Marcus, Charles Koch, and Betsy DeVos and her family. The new “Teneo 2.0” sought to “to help members find jobs, write books, meet spouses, secure start-up financing or nonprofit donors and learn about public service.”

Their vision is to create “Silicon Valley of Conservatism — a powerful network of communities where the most influential young leaders, the biggest ideas, and the most leveraged resources come together to launch key projects that advance our shared belief that the conservative worldview drives human flourishing.”

They funnel money to speakers from the absolute depths of the swamp: Erik “Blackwater” Prince, David Brooks, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. New members are assured that their involvement with Teneo is “private and confidential” and the group has kept a low profile — Propublica asked Sheldon Whitehouse — a bitter critic of Leo’s — about the group and got a blank stare.

Teneo’s latest project is to recruit “state attorneys general, state financial officers, state legislators, journalists, media executives and best-in-class public affairs professionals” to fight ESG policies — all the froth you’ve encountered about the evils of ESG are the result of this secret, coordinated project.

(To be clear, ESG is bullshit, but not because it’s bad for capitalism — ESG is a dumpster fire of greenwashing:)

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/sanctions-financing/#profiteers

Teneo organizes donors for members who run for local, state and federal office. Will Scharf, who’s hoping to become Missouri’s next attorney general, has received donations from dozens of Teneo members, giving the maximum allowable donation of $2650.

The paranoid style in American politics never went away. From the Witchfinders General of New England to Joe McCarthy and the John Birch Society, there has always been a rump of Americans who are very rich and very frightened and who want to put us all in their place.

For these fevered schemers, the Jack Chick tracts that depicted secret Satanic societies seducing innocent kids through Dungeons and Dragons games were hard-hitting documentaries, and as far as they’re concerned, they’re fighting fire with fire.

Image: Jack Chick https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

Tendeo https://www.teneonetwork.com/

Fair use https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property

[Image ID: A page from the Jack Chick tract 'Dark Dungeons,' depicting a sinister society of robed figures gathered in a circle, welcoming in a new initiate. The pentacle on the floor has been replaced with Teneo's stylized 'T' logo. The dialog has been replaced with text from Teneo's 2019 Community Vision report: 'The Silicon Valley of Conservatism — a powerful network of communities where the most influential young leaders, the biggest ideas, and the most leveraged resources come together to launch key projects that advance our shared belief that the conservative worldview drives human flourishing.]

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denver-carrington · 11 months ago

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The cast celebrating the show's 150th episode.

#Dynasty #John Forsythe #Linda Evans #Joan Collins #Diahann Carroll #Michael Nader #Jack Coleman #Emma Samms #Esther Shapiro

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fishybehavior · 2 years ago

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Stuck in the car with my dad listening to Ben shapiro 💀

#tw ben shapiro #uuhg #evan has a life

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boricuacherry-blog · 3 months ago

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When the Chandler situation first prompted Jackson to seek legal help, his team consisted of entertainment attorney Bert Fields and his private investigator Anthony Pellicano. It wasn't long before two other Los Angeles-based attorneys were hired. Howard Weitzman was brought on board first and he in turn recruited Johnnie Cochran. Both were highly regarded criminal defense lawyers.

It wasn't long before Evan Chandler's attorney realized that the case had grown far too complex and high profile for him to handle on his own. Barry Rothman then hired his own lawyer - Robert Shapiro.

Despite her bitter dispute with Evan, June eventually had a change of heart and the two agreed to hire an attorney to represent their combined interests. June and Evan retained the famed activist attorney Gloria Allred. Allred's strategy was to go public with the allegations to force the Los Angeles district attorney's office to file criminal charges against Michael Jackson. But attorney Robert Shapiro raised concerns with Evan about Allred's strategy. He argued that fighting this very sensitive fight in front of a camera might not be the way to go.

Shapiro suggested that Chandler use a civil attorney named Larry Feldman.

Feldman explained that if Gloria Allred went on camera and made a public statement, the Jackson people would have to do the same. The press, he said, would have a field day with tit-for-tat comments flying back and forth. The district attorney would just be annoyed, not spurred into action. And if the objective was to get some money, get the boy treatment, and get on with life, then having an attorney front and center at news conferences was not the right option, Feldman counseled. This made sense to Evan Chandler, and he quickly dismissed Allred and placed Feldman in charge of the case.

The Jackson Team had claimed that the boy's allegations had grown out of a contentious custody battle. But the custody battle had ensued only after Jordie revealed being molested to his father. However, what began as a simple filing of legal papers in a custody dispute would quickly evolve into a pitched legal battle involving the megastar, allegations of child abuse, and multi-million dollar settlement negotiations.

When Feldman filed a startlingly graphic four-page declaration signed by Jordan Chandler, he was only thirteen years old and in the eighth grade.

-Diane Dimond

#diane dimond #jordie chandler #evan chandler #gloria allred #bert fields #anthony pellicano #howard weitzman #johnnie cochran #barry rothman #robert shapiro #larry feldman #lawyers

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javelinbk · 8 months ago

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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison enjoy a smoke break with host Keith Fordyce (with Helen Shapiro, Ringo Starr and Mal Evans in the background) during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go!, 4th October 1963. Part 9 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 10)

#all three beatles and an older man looking at him at the same time?#the boy had a knack #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #mal evans #the beatles #ready steady go #javelin's gifs

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blahblahblees · 11 months ago

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dykevillanelle · 3 months ago

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230 unlistened-to new podcast episodes but all i want to do is go back and listen to robert evans read ben shapiro's terrible novel

#its halloween season. right wing fucks writing books is the ultimate spooky content #behind the bastards #angel.txt

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countdowntotwinpeaks · 1 year ago

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WONDERFULXSTRANGE NOMINATIONS SUMMARY

Nominations make up the pool of all the characters and character combos that will be offerable and requestable for the 2024 edition of the exchange. Cast list too big for TP gotdamn feet so we need this step for wieldy signups.

To nominate, fill this form with your selection of up to 8 characters or character combos. Up to 2 of your nominations can be crossovers that include Twin Peaks characters. Tulpas and assorted fragments are nominated separately. Rules, formatting and examples in link.

This page is updated with the results throughout the nominations days.

Entries are grouped by solo characters / groups / non-romantic relationships / romantic relationships / crossovers

2024 LIST:

Dale Cooper

Laura Palmer

Chester Desmond

Diane Evans

Denise Bryson

Hawk

Norma Jennings

Annie Blackburn

Harold Smith

Josie Packard

Albert Rosenfield

Sarah Palmer

Ronette Pulaski

Shelly Johnson

The Log

The thrush

Constance Talbot

Tammy Preston

The Blue Rose task force

Laura Palmer & Dale Cooper

Tammy Preston & Denise Bryson

Audrey Horne & Laura Palmer

Dale Cooper & Audrey Horne

Gordon Cole & Albert Rosenfield

Laura Palmer & Maddie Ferguson

Major Briggs&Bobby Briggs

ShellyJohnson&Becky McCauley Briggs

Diane Shapiro & Diane Evans

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Dale Cooper & Harry Truman

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If you see any duplicates please let me know!

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alumi-san · 1 year ago

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ijustthinkevilunoisneat · 1 year ago

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Top 5 Dark Order matches/Top 5 Evil Uno matches

I'll do both but for Dark Order, I'll turn it into Uno teaming with his fellow Dark Order members that isn't just him and Stu teaming but multiple members and the other will feature more matches with Uno and Stu as well as single matches, hope that's okay 🙂

Dark Order (Mr. Brodie Lee, Evil Uno, Five, Nine, Stu Grayson, Colt Cabana) vs. The Elite (Adam Page, Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood)

Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alan Angels & Colt Cabana) vs. Death Triangle (PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix)

Orange Cassidy & Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alan Angels, Alex Reynolds, Colt Cabana, John Silver, Stu Grayson & Ten) vs. The Hardy Family Office (Angelico, Isiah Kassidy, Jack Evans, Jora Johl, Marq Quen, Matt Hardy, The Blade & The Butcher)

Dark Order (Evil Uno, Five & Colt Cabana) vs. John Skyler, Levy Shapiro & Ryzin

Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds, John Silver & Stu Grayson) vs. Allen Russell, Dale Springs, Izaiah Zane & Kameron Russell

PWG World Tag Team Title Three Way Ladder: The Super Smash Brothers vs. Future Shock vs. The Young Bucks - PWG Threemendous III

Super Smash Brothers vs. Young Bucks - ROH/NJPW War Of The Worlds 2018

Super Smash Brothers vs. Sumerian Death Squad - wXw World Tag Team Tournament 2015

Evil Uno vs. Jacob Fatu - Prestige Wrestling Vendetta

Evil Uno vs. Orange Cassidy - PWG Mystery Vortex 7

I'm missing so so many, part of what annoys me about dummies that say Uno has never wrestled a good match, I understand that we all look for different things when it comes to wrestling but you can't state it like it's a fact when the man puts on such killer matches that I've just mentioned 10 matches and I still could name 100 more.

#thank you for asking 💜

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denver-carrington · 6 months ago

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Belated birthday wishes to writer, co-creator, and co-executive producer Richard Shapiro, pictured here with Linda at the party to celebrate the show's 150th episode. He turned 90 on June 27.

#Dynasty #Richard Shapiro #Linda Evans

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someblogorsmthidk · 2 years ago

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Timeline of events leading up to Morris' deletion

Last updated: 15 December 2023

August 2020: Paul Gillies testifies at the Independent Inquiry into CSA, in the UK.

5 December 2021: In an interview conducted by Lloyd Evans, former bethelite Daniel Graves says that Mark Sanderson is quote "Probably the one that's driving the ship the most right now..."

March-April 2022: Paul Gillies, Jeffrey Winder, Gage Fleegle and Jonathan Smith are appointed as Helpers to the Governing Body, Gillies to Coordinators', Winder to Personnel, Fleegle and Smith to Service

c. 6 August 2022: Troy Snyder, Nicholas Ahladis and Kenneth Godburn are appointed as Helpers to the Governing Body. Snyder to Coordinators', Ahladis and Godburn to Writing.

October 2022: Pennsylvania Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, announces charges of CSA against 4 Jehovah's Witnesses.

8 November 2022: Josh Shapiro is elected Governor of Pennsylvania

c. 2 December 2022: Anthony Griffin is appointed as a Helper to the Service Committee.

c. 6 January 2023: Per Christensen is appointed as a Helper to the Writing Committee.

17 January 2023: Josh Shapiro is sworn in as Pennsylvania's 48th Governor. Michelle Henry becomes acting Attorney General

18 January 2023: Gage Fleegle and Jeffrey Winder are appointed to the Governing Body, having served as helpers for around 10 months.

7 February 2023: Five Jehovah's Witnesses, including an Elder, are indicted by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury investigating CSA in the Witnesses.

19 February 2023: All JW Congregations in Pennsylvania are subpoenaed.

22 February 2023: Anthony Morris ceases to be a Member of the Governing Body, no reason is given for his deletion.

9 March 2023: A Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany is attacked. Eight people (including the perpetrator and an unborn child) were killed.

June 2023: Secret boxes are distrbuted to JW congregations and elders are instructed to not allow anyone to see its contents until 6 November 2023.

153rd Gilead Graduation (released in June 2023): Jesse Morris (Son of Anthony Morris) gives a talk. This is the first time he has spoken on camera.

7 July 2023: Five more JWs are charged with CSA in Pennsylvania.

7 October 2023: WBTS Annual Meeting: The 103 year old policy of publishers reporting hours spent preaching per month is ditched.

29 October 2023: Several IEDs are detonated at a convention in Kerala milling 6 people. A man claiming to be the perpetrator says he carried put the attack because of the Witnesses “anti-nationalist” views. He is arrested the same day.

15 December 2023: Ban on beards is lifted.

#jehovahswitnesses #exjw #watchtowersociety #watchtower #ex jehovah's witness

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she-karev · 10 months ago

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Cousin Jen

Age Rating: 12+

Chapters: One of Six

Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy

AN: Hey guys I hope you have a good spring break ahead of you. This chapter will feature some old Victorious cast members you all know and love.

Fancast: Ariana Grande as Jen Evans, Matt Bennett as Matt Shapiro.

Summary: Amber gets a surprise visit from her cousin Jen Evans and her fiancé Matt Shapiro.

Words: 3079

Andrew groans in exhaustion as he walks down the hall of Amber’s building looking to spend a night of unwinding before going back to work tomorrow. He stops outside the door and knocks on it waiting for her to answer.

He hears her yelling behind the door clearly irritated, “Lloyd for the last time I don’t want to sample your uppers I get by on caffeine!”

The door opens revealing Amber in her purple NYU hoodie and black trim shorts that show off her toned legs. Her hair is in a messy bun and she has a highlighter tucked behind her ear. She stops when she sees him and her eyes widen clearly shocked by his presence.

“Hey.” Amber greets him.

“Hey, don’t worry I’m not selling drugs.” Andrew grins at her and enters the tiny studio, “I called you to tell you I was coming right? I might be hallucinating because I’m exhausted and my head is filled with neuroscience data, I called right?”

“You did.” Amber tells him as she closes the door and stands in front of him by her bed, “It’s just I might have possibly agreed with you so I could get you to stop talking because I’m also exhausted and my head is filled with stem cell regeneration research.” The way Amber speaks makes her seem worried that she came across as insensitive but he finds it endearing.

“It’s fine.” Andrew grins as he takes his jacket off and looks for a place to put it but the bed is littered with papers and textbooks as well as the small IKEA table. Amber takes his jacket and hangs it over a chair, “So how’s the research going?”

Amber chuckles, “Are you asking because Shepherd told you to so she can find out what Jackson is planning beforehand?”

“No.” Amber raises an eyebrow at Andrew causing him to break, “She might have entertained the idea but I told her no. I told her my relationship with you was personal and using it to spy and gather information was low and she backed off.”

Amber grins at him, “And if I asked her tomorrow would she say the same thing?”

“I can call her if you want.”

“No, I believe you.” Amber kisses him before going to the fridge to get water for them, “Look I’ll tell you the guidelines for tonight. We don’t have that much time before we both have to wake up and go to work and I need to relax so I can be awake and alive. For obvious reasons I can’t take a Xanax so…” Amber hands him a water bottle as he looks at her intrigued, “I’m gonna wipe the books off my bed so you can use it to send me into a dopamine coma. Does that sound good to you?”

Andrew looks at her turned on and responds by lifting the blanket off the bed along with the books that thud on the floor. Amber laughs at his dramatics before pulling him towards her to kiss as he guides her to the bed where they both sink down ravishing each other. Amber is under him gripping his hair as he kisses her deeply while his hands stroke her bare legs. Andrew pulls back to take his shirt off and goes back on top of her moaning as her hand moves to his jean clad groin exciting him. Before she can take his belt off, a knock on the door interrupts them.

Amber pulls back to explain, “It’s just Lloyd if we’re quiet he’ll leave.” They resume kissing and Amber unbuckles his belt but a second knock causes her to groan and pull back to Andrew’s pain, “Stay here I’ll take care of this.”

Amber kisses him swiftly before moving out from under him and rushing to the door opening it to reveal another surprise visitor, or visitors. On the other side of the door is her cousin from New York, Jen Evans and her boyfriend Matt Shapiro who was also in Amber’s med school class.

Jen looks like a Vogue model with her long straight brown hair in a high ponytail done perfectly. Her makeup looks like it’s done by Sephora with her lips painted red. She’s wearing a black wrap designer coat with straight blue jeans and black heels to compliment. Matt on the other hand looks normal with his black rimmed glasses wearing a white crewneck shirt with a gray loose fit jacket hoodie and black jeans.

Amber is completely taken back by this sudden invasion and she looks at them blankly unlike Jen who smiles wide at the sight of her and shrieks in joy. Andrew looks on from the bed, he’s lying on his stomach with wide eyes at the excited girl and Amber not slamming the door like he expected. Amber responds with a weak shriek even while still in shock as Jen hugs Amber tightly who doesn’t respond and looks at Matt for help.

“Hey Amber.” Matt greets her with a grin and happy tone but doesn’t hug her to her relief.

“Hi Matt.” Amber says numbly while Jen is giving her the hug of death.

“Oh my god I missed you so much!” Jen shrieks.

Andrew stands and grabs his shirt still staring at the strange scene, “I see your neighbors are very friendly.”

Ambe ignores him and pats Jen’s back, “Okay Jen as happy as I am to see you and I really am, I need oxygen so ease the vice grip.”

Jen pulls back still smiling, “Sorry, it’s just four months without seeing your favorite cousin makes you miss her.” Andrew’s eyes widen at the word cousin, “I mean I even missed the tampons you never threw away and the nights of binge drinking that came with crying and despair.”

Amber clears her throat to indicate she has company and Jen looks behind her and sees Andrew standing in the middle of the room not wearing a shirt. Jen looks at him obviously impressed with his physique, “Well good evening and who is this gentleman with the abs for days.”

“You know I’m right here.” Matt chips in but Jen still stares.

Jen smiles at the view, “It’s just looking honey and he’s begging for it with his shirt off.”

Andrew puts his shirt on and approaches them standing next to Amber, “Um hi Andrew DeLuca.”

Jen gasps loudly and looks at Amber in happy shock, “Oh he’s ‘hot Seattle guy’?”

Amber chuckles nervously as Andrew grins at the moniker, “I don’t-I don’t know what she’s talking about.”

Jen ignores her and tells Andrew with Amber obviously embarrassed, “She talked about you all the time ever since she got off that plane from Seattle. She said you were a manly man meets sensitive type but I thought there was an ick like all the others. Face piercings, neck tattoo’s you name it but nope you are as perfect as she said you were.”

Amber pinches the bridge of her nose clearly embarrassed, “I did not say that.”

“She did.” Matt teases as Amber looks down, “She wouldn’t shut up about you.”

“Please stop talking.” Amber tells him and he keeps quiet but still grins. Amber turns to Jen, “Jen what are you doing here?”

“Babe, I came to see you.” Amber raises an eyebrow confused and Jen pulls out her phone, “Didn’t you get my DM’s? I told you I was coming up to celebrate your half birthday.”

Amber looks at her phone’s many notifications and sees Jen’s DM’s at the very bottom, “I’m busy and I don’t answer pages that aren’t from my bosses. Wait my half birthday isn’t for four months.”

“I’m sorry half birthday?” Andrew asks confused and Matt explains.

“You know how kids say their 9 and a half or 10 and three quarters?” Andrew nods, “Well Amber likes to celebrate six months after her actual birthday hence-”

“Half birthday.” Andrew understands, “Wait you said four months we missed your birthday?”

“I wanted you to trust me my birthdays are not something I celebrate anymore.” Amber states bitterly and turns back to Jen, “Jen you don’t make a trip across the country to celebrate something months away. Why are you really here?”

Jen’s smile dies a bit as she looks worried, “Can we go somewhere to eat and talk? I promise it’ll make sense once we get some food in you because you look skinny and I need to fatten you up so I can be the hot one again.”

Amber grins at that and turns to Andrew, “I’ll be right back do you think you can wait for me?”

“Oh no he can come too.” Jen tells her excitedly and Amber glares at her with a grin, “What? I’m dying to find out more about this guy who got you squealing across state lines.” Jen looks at Andrew who is taken back, “Please come, please, please.” Jen clasps her hands together and makes puppy dog eyes at Andrew who looks at Amber who inhales and exhales before complying.

“Fine he can come.” Amber relents as Jen squeals in joy before pushing past them inside the studio.

“Great!” Jen looks for a hanger or drawer, “Where is your closet? We need to get you into some sexy clothes for a night out come on!” Amber groans and walks away from the men to let Jen pick out clothes for her.

Andrew looks at Matt awkwardly who nods, “Yeah she’s always like that.”

Andrew looks at the women still grasping at their vastly different personalities, “Is she adopted?”

“No.” Matt answers, “Amber looked into it.” Andrew snorts at that and the men stand by as Jen dumps the clothes from the closet on the bed with Amber looking at her annoyed at how her night of unwinding turned into a family reunion.

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I’m sitting in a Chinese restaurant just a few blocks from my place because Jen and Matt were craving dumplings. I’m seated next to Andrew at a table seated for four and across from us are my cousin and her boyfriend. It took us twenty minutes before Jen and I agreed on an outfit for me to wear out. I would’ve been happy with jeans and my NYU hoodie but Jen felt black pants and a pink blouse were more appropriate. She practically ripped my ponytail off and brushed it like I was one of her clients. It’s the downside of her working as a hairdresser. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful; I love my cousin very much, it’s just moments like that make me wonder how we could stand each other the four years we lived together. I’m sure Andrew is wondering too knowing me and how I normally feel towards preppy people like Jen.

“So I got this call one day four years ago.” Jen recounts to Andrew as we eat our potstickers, “It was from some girl who said she was my cousin on my dads side. She said she was coming to New York to go to school and saw I lived there too so she wanted to meet. I wanted to hang up on her because my dad was a real son of a bitch and I didn’t want anything to do with him. But then she told me how lonely she feels because not only was her dad also an SOB but so was her mom and her brothers too.” Jen stops as she realizes she saying this to a stranger, “Oh shit I’m revealing too much aren’t I?”

“He knows everything.” I tell her, “I told him it’s fine.”

Jen looks at me surprised and turns to Andrew, “Did she tell you about her crazy mom and dad?”

“Yeah.” Andrew sips his water.

“And the brother who-”

“That too.” I confirm quickly.

“And he didn’t run?” Jen asks me in shock and I shake my head, “Wow you must really like her.”

Andrew chuckles, “Yeah, I do. So you decided to meet and what happened then?”

“Well I picked her up at JFK and the moment I saw her I was scared.”

I narrow my eyes at her, “I was not that bad.”

“You had black hair with green streaks, a black corset and ripped black jeans.” I close my eyes at that goth phase, “And that pierced eyebrow and nose was not a good look for you honey.”

“You were a goth?” Andrew asks me amused.

“Yeah.” Matt answers with a chuckle, “First day in class I sat next to her and I thought she was a ghost. I steered clear of her because she had the attitude of Sid Vicious mixed with Kurt Cobain.”

“It took a while but we warmed up to each other. There was some resistance but eventually I rehabilitated her.” Jen tells him proudly causing me to roll my eyes at her, “A little bit of hair bleaching, some tanning and yanking that metal out of her face did wonders to make her look like a respectable future doctor.”

I touch the eyebrow my piercing used to be at, “Yeah face jewelry was cool in Iowa but passe in the Village.”

“It’s passe everywhere.” Matt tells me and I throw a potsticker at him that he catches and pops in his mouth.

“You two went to med school together?” Andrew asks.

“Yeah, we were in the same year but his focus was internal medicine and mine was surgery.” I motion at Jen and Matt, “These two lovebirds got together my second year when I practically dragged her to a medical conference after my date cancelled on me. They met that night and I lived in misery sharing a wall with her.”

Jen chuckles sarcastically, “Oh yeah because you were such a quiet roommate who always slept alone.” I look at Andrew uncomfortably who merely grins trying to look normal, “But yeah basically she’s the reason I found love that night and why I got this from him two weeks ago.” Jen smiles and shows off her right hand indicating a diamond engagement ring on her wedding finger. I look at it in shock.

Matt chuckles, “I took her to the NYU hall we met and got down on one knee and now were engaged!” I still look at it in shock as they kiss and Andrew speaks first.

“Well congratulations you two, I’m sure Amber is happy for you as well, right?”

Jen chuckles knowing my shocked face, “Trust me I know how she feels after hearing her rant for four years about how marriage is the embodiment of evil. Come on cuz be happy for me don’t hate me.”

“That’s great!” I finally find the words and smile, “Why would I hate you? I’m happy for you two!”

“Oh thanks!” Jen smiles, “Okay keep December 22nd, 2018, open, your one of my bridesmaids.”

“I will do it on three conditions.” I put a potsticker in my mouth and continue, “I will not wear pink or baby blue, I will not have flowers in my hair and if there is a bow in my ass I will use it to strangle you got it?”

“Aww.” Jen gushes knowing my language, “You really are happy for me come here!” Jen stands up and hugs me where I’m sitting. I grin and hug her back truly happy for her and Matt. Those two are so cute together it’s sickening. Jen stops hugging and sits back down.

Matt asks DeLuca as I sip my water, “Can we expect you at the wedding too?” The question shocks me so much I choke on my water and cough violently for a few moments with Andrew patting my back.

I calm down and glare at Matt, “Maybe ask that question when we’ve reached a year because it’s been five months and I’m convinced you’ll scare him away.”

Matt looks at me apologetically, “Sorry.”

“It’s fine.” Andrew answers calmly, “If we’re still together by then I’d love to attend thanks.”

Jen grins at Andrew impressed, “Wow sweet and handsome, that’s new for you Amber.”

“Easy.” Matt tells her and I decide to cut to the chase.

“Guys as happy as I am that you’re both here and telling me this, why are you really here? All this could’ve been told over the phone so what prompted you to get on a plane to come and see me?”

Jen finally talks serious, “Okay I did miss you and I was planning to come down here in March but this couldn’t wait until then.”

I look at them worried, “Is everything okay?”

Matt explains, “We wanted a consult for me. More specifically a neuro consult and I remembered you interned at Grey Sloan and work under Dr. Shepherd.”

Jen holds his hand, “We tried to go to his hospitals neuro guy but he passed it off as nothing.”

“Passed what off?” Andrew asks Jen in doctor mode.

“Matt’s been falling asleep.”

I raise my eyebrows confused, “Falling asleep? Isn’t that normal?”

Matt shrugs, “Yeah but sometimes I just go to sleep no matter where I am and what happens.”

“It happened when I was talking to him at a restaurant for lunch. He just closed his eyes and fell face first in the pasta I thought he had a stroke or something.”

“I always wake up in a couple of seconds and it feels like nothing happened.” Matt tells us and I take notes on my phone for Shepherd as Andrew asks more questions.

“Before you fall asleep do you have any dizziness or palpitations?”

“No nothing it just happens and I don’t feel anything, no warning.”

Jen looks at us concerned, “What do you think it could be?”

“We’re not sure.” I put my phone away, “We’d have to take him to Grey Sloan and get our best neurosurgeon on it. Are you okay if we admit you in the morning?”

“Look it doesn’t hurt and I always wake up I just want a consult that’s all.” Matt stands up, “I’m going to the bathroom.” He walks around the table, suddenly stills and faints on the floor with a thud.

“There he goes.” Jen says and we both kneel down on the floor checking his vitals relieved that he’s stable, “So when can we see this neuro god of yours again?” Andrew and I look at each other and back at Jen confirming we have a new patient.

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