#Glazer family

[tibsnews]

Sir Jim Ratcliffe completes Manchester United part-takeover in a £1.3BILLION deal with the Glazer family for 25 per cent ownership

The Glazers monopoly of Manchester United has been broken following the completion of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s 25 per cent stake in the Premier League giants. The British billionaire has finally seen his £1.3billion deal been ratified to get involved in matters at Old Trafford.  As part of the move Ratcliffe, 71, will take control of football operations as the boyhood United fan bids to restore the…

[celorangeine-2]

people (in tiktok specifscally) blaming svetlana for all that happened to mickey in s3 is so So So crazy to me icl. can you not see that Both of them are victims. svetlana was born into sex work and gets punished when she slightly misbehaves. do u not think a guy like terry wouldn't punish her all the same if she didn't follow what he said. and in s4 while I know svetlana isn't entirely innocent bc she'd unnecessarily provoke mickey, mickey is also not entirely innocent either!!!!!! him lecturing her (or whatever idk the word guys) (I'm specifically talking about that scene at the bar before his coming out) is NOT the own you think. He is insecure. and to cover it up he does what he does best and it's to position himself higher than whoever is threatening to him by either insulting them or beating the shit out of them (he did the same to Ian) ..😒😒

[bunabi]

veilguard gameplay spoilers:

okay I looked at the article 😭 I want to know enough to make an informed decision as a consumer but little enough to have fun speculating; combat news is allowed

maybe it'll make more sense when we start seeing later-game content but three active skills + being down a companion + companion skill progression being intrinsic to bond advancement feels like a step backwards

let them cook and all but man

[hate5sixofficial]

Big Boy 2024-01-07 Bryan Glazer Family JCC Tampa, FL

[cheriafreya]

Zenless Zone Zero is so fucking good man...

[transusopp]

to all the people who follow(ed) my main from my fnaf sideblog and still haven't unfollowed me by the grace of god despite the fact i only post about the gay autistic pirate show: pspspspspsp you wannaaaa read/watch one piece sooooo badddddd. you wanna read up through the timeskip and trudge through the dressrosa pacing trenches so you can enjoy whole cake island and discuss the similarities between michael afton and CC and reiju and sanji, as well as judge and william with me soooooo badddddddddd. oooohhh you wanna read one piece sooooo baddddddd (the secret catch is that you don't get to know anything about the vinsmokes until chapter 800)

[baxndaid]

rick sanchez x reader

headcannons or something idk i like old men read my stanford x readers here too x <- POLL AT THE END !!

- you’re probably a family friend, you come over every once in a while to supervise morty and summer while jerry and beth try to rekindle their failing marriage

- you do a horrible job because the kids always end up sneaking out with their grandpa to kill some god or something absurd like that

- your oblivious, rick isn’t necessarily cold towards you, just indifferent

- he would rather be elsewhere than in the living room talking to some random person that beth insists on having in her house

- one day you catch them sneaking out and probably hide inside of the trunk of ricks car(?) because curiosity killed the cat or something like that

- the cars system would probably inform him that he has an unexpected visitor and your caught red handed, now inside the passenger seat with morty and his grandfather

- awkward would not be enough to describe what that whole journey was

- rick would berate you for being so stupid, telling you that you had no survival skills getting into strangers cars like that

- morty sat in silence, disappointed that he couldn’t go to “boob world” or whatever he called it

- you see, you’re a professional glazer

- it’s not even unintentional like you’re genuinely super impressed by this guy what the fuck do you mean he’s fucked a planet?? crazy work me next

- he decides to keep you around to stroke his ego, it’s refreshing to have someone who’s not always busting his balls about morality and space laws

- and having someone as attractive as you worship him like a god sounded good to him

- after a while he’ll definitely enjoy your company but pretend he’s super cool and suave , pretending that he’s not excited to spend some time with you

- morty gets a little concerned at the fact that his grandpa has taken a liking to you, with with beth

- they know what he’s like, he’s brash and cold one minute, and a little normal the next

- they eventually give in though, they’ve never seen him so calm before, maybe you’ll change him and his chaotic ways

- (you can’t and you won’t)

- he’s super distant when he realises he might have genuine feelings for you, it’s not like him at all to feel all mushy

- truth is, he’s lonely, he’s sad, he’s afraid that things won’t work out, something bad happens to you etc, then he’s back to being lonely

- yeah he’ll probably be a little mean to you at first, to try and scare you off

- doesn’t work, so he gives up with the sass

- definitely builds you little trinkets and machines now and then

- you have no time to mow the lawn? he’s going to build self mowing grass for you (it’s a little sad)

- always stuck in traffic? he’s tinkered with your car and now whenever you drive by a traffic light it’ll always be green (so many casualties)

- too cold today? he’s going to discreetly push the sun a little closer to the earth, juuust a smidge

- he definitely butt dials you when he’s drunk only to cry on your lap until he sobers up and then pretends nothing happened, if he tells you anything particularly sensitive then your memories about it are going bye-bye

- it would take a lot for him to confess, for real

- normally though you’ll probably find a bunch of voice mails from him, he sounds rough and panicky, like he’s about to die in some stupid mission (you could always near morty crying in the background)

- he’ll tell you that he loves you, and that you make him forget about how much he hates himself

- forget about that though because in the very next voice mail he sounds normal again and is telling you to ignore what the last message said

- do not ignore it pls

- do something subtle but nice, like bake or cook him something, or buy him a new lab coat, anything

- he’ll probably get the hint soon

[odinsblog]

Dear President Biden,

We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding horrors in Israel and Palestine.

We ask that, as President of the United States, you call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the last week and a half – a number any person of conscience knows is catastrophic. We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages. Half of Gaza’s two million residents are children, and more than two thirds are refugees and their descendants being forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to reach them.

We believe that the United States can play a vital diplomatic role in ending the suffering and we are adding our voices to those from the US Congress, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, The International Committee of The Red Cross, and so many others. Saving lives is a moral imperative. To echo UNICEF, “Compassion — and international law — must prevail.”

As of this writing more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the last 12 days — resulting in one child being killed every 15 minutes.

“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes. Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines…. The humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion — and international law — must prevail.” – UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder

Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their loved ones around the world we are motivated by an unbending will to stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity and peace for all people – and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed.

We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we stood by and did nothing. As Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told UN News, “History is watching.”

Alia Shawkat

Alyssa Milano

Amanda Seales

Amber Tamblyn

America Ferrera

Andrew Garfield

Anoushka Shankar

Aria Mia Loberti

Ayo Edebiri

Bassam Tariq

Bassem Youssef

Cate Blanchett

Channing Tatum

Cherien Dabis

Darius Marder

David Cross

Dominique Fishback

Dominique Thorne

Elvira Lind

Farah Bsaiso

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Hasan Minhaj

Hend Sabry

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

James Schamus

Jeremy Strong

Jessica Chastain

Joaquin Phoenix

Jon Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Macklemore

Mahershala Ali

Margaret Cho

Mark Ruffalo

May Calamawy

Michael Malarkey

Michael Stipe

Michelle Wolf

Mo Amer

Oscar Isaac

Quinta Brunson

Ramy Youssef

Riz Ahmed

Rooney Mara

Rosario Dawson

Ryan Coogler

Sandra Oh

Sebastian Silva

Shailene Woodley

Shaka King

Susan Sarandon

Vic Mensa

Wallace Shawn

Wanda Sykes

👉🏿 https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-demands-gaza-israel-ceasefire-joaquin-phoenix-cate-blanchett-1235763646/

[flo-zoinks]

Sexism in RDR fans

Bro pisses me off how some RDR fans (video game fans in general really) will constantly be fighting over which of the women is more attractive and therefore 'better'.

Like under every video on tt of say Karen itll be comment after comment comparing her to the other women or saying "no Mary-Beth #1 girl she got nothing"

DO YOU HAVE TO BRING DOWN OTHER WOMEN TO RAISE OTHERS??? IS IT ALWAYS A COMPETITION??

Under a Javier or Dutch video, you won't see like Arthur or Hosea glazers saying that they are sooo ugly in comparison and will never compare to them, NO. people appreciate them as individual PEOPLE rather then different objects with a scale factor.

Not to mention, if they are seen as less attractive, they are just seen as a worse character. In those rankings, they speak of the women lower down like they are worth nothing, or useless.

Also in that, the tininest little shit they let women 'get away with' next to men is insane!!!!

John can be a killer, abandon his family, fight both sides of a war assisting a rapist fascist, and still gets treated as some kind of Alpha whilst Abigail gets shit because they accuse her as a rat once (even though theres no proof and absolutely implied to be apart of Dutch's insanity descent). Mary, too gets treated like shes worse then anyone in the gang!!

(Its almost like they dont allow women to have..personalities..hmmm)

Also this is like 99% on tiktok. I dont see this anywhere on tumblr (normally) it's so strange

[gdp03]

Headcanons About Vanessa Shelly (Abby Edition)

(An apology letter for not posting a lot.)

Though they wouldn't openly admit it, they have a mother-daughter relationship (common take, but icl);

Since leaving the hospital and Mike getting a job, Vanessa voluntarily took responsibility for Abby while she was recovering, doing things like getting her ready for school and sometimes (whenever her injuries allow) even picking her up from school;

Since the couch became Vanessa's bed for a while, Abby constantly sleeps in the living room, so every night there is a "sleepover" between them. Abby does this because she thinks Vanessa is always lonely when sleeping on the couch, so she offers company—though Vanessa claims it isn't necessary (Mike tags along in their sleepovers sometimes);

They are an evil duo when it comes to cooking dinner together. Mike is a confirmed victim of their meals;

Whenever Abby has a nightmare, Vanessa holds her to her chest, caresses her hair, and hums a tune that her deceased mother used to hum when she was little. Abby eventually sleeps like a baby;

It's a common occurrence for them to be confused as daughter/mother by folks;

Despite being a cop and certified EMT (her words, not mine), Vanessa's true dream lies in pedagogy. She's constantly helping Abby with her homework assignments and teaches her basic levels of art and literature. Vanessa is pretty much Abby's private, after-school tutor;

Vanessa stimulates Abby to practice reading;

Being naturally curious, Abby constantly asks about Vanessa's life, like how she was as a teenager and how it is like being a cop. Vanessa doesn't feel troubled by it, but (per Mike's warning) Abby knows her limits when it comes to Vanessa's past family;

Vanessa is constantly reminded of a young version of herself whenever she looks at Abby. Because of this, Vanessa strives to be a good influence on Abby's life so she won't end up a traumatized adult like Vanessa herself in the future;

Abby and Mike are Vanessa's first true friends since the Missing Children from Freddy's;

Abby considers Vanessa the cooler version of Mike;

Vanessa attends parent meetings at school;

Abby's intelligence is close to young Vanessa's performance at school;

Abby is a Vanessa glazer. Everything Vanessa does is considered cool or incredible (Mike doesn't benefit from such praises);

Abby feels insulted when people refer to Vanessa as her babysitter and not as a family member;

Whenever the three have an argument, Abby and Vanessa always side together against Mike, so he always loses;

Abby doesn't really understand Mike and Vanessa's relationship, but she somehow knows it's meaningful;

Vanessa is reminded of her past relationship with her father whenever she watches Mike and Abby;

Vanessa is a certified muse of Abby, but her drawings of Vanessa are always left unfinished because Abby doesn't think she does a good job at capturing Vanessa's features, so she stops halfway and starts a new one (on the other hand, Mike is very easy to draw). The end result is a bunch of papers that contain unfinished sketches of Vanessa;

Abby uses any excuse she has to call Vanessa while she's on police duty. Vanessa doesn't mind, but Mike is mortified by her calling the cops;

Vanessa is a great story teller, so Abby is constantly asking her for a story so that she can illustrate;

Vanessa participated in a mother's day event at Abby's school. This is special for both of them, since neither Vanessa nor Abby had their mothers attending a mother's day school event;

Vanessa would shoot someone for Abby.

Not bad, eh? Oh, how I love them so, so much...

[hate5sixofficial]

Outta Pocket 2024-01-06 Bryan Glazer Family JCC Tampa, FL

[ruestheday]

Wait, what mean thing did Alfred do to Tim on his 16th birthday??

oh boy

see, this is an instance where i’d be fine if people ignored this happening, because bruce (and therefore as an extension alfred) are like weirdly horrible. even doing my mandatory googling to make sure im remembering everything correctly quickly brought me to posts about everyone agrees how insanely ooc this was for both (even on reddit, which has some of the most comic-obsessed fans), but it still happened unfortunately.

so, for tim’s sixteenth birthday, bruce decides to gift him with surprise training.

tim has a birthday party, and at the end of the night there’s a weird box there. tim freaks the fuck out and takes it to bruce to check out, he does, blah blah blah.

it ends up activating when tim’s alone, and it’s a hologram of alfred in the (apocalyptic) future saying that someone on batman’s team has gone bad and the worlds fucked because of it (and then immediately gets shot and killed before he can finish). tim’s half like “well obviously this is bullshit” and half “HOLY SHIT ???!????” and doesn’t tell bruce because he’s not sure if it’s real or not.

i’m going to summarize, but tim thinks it’s fake at first, and then thinks it’s real (because the guy he was blaming it on was in jail) so he’s like ok cass goes bad (since she’s the newest batfam member — side note: cassandra predates damian as a batfam member so put some respect on her name) and when he decides it’s not cass he tries to figure out how it could be dick.

future!alfred then appears before tim and tells him that yeah he died, but it’s all chill they bring him back, and starts delivering more bad news until tim’s like ??? Ur not real! and rips off future!alfred’s mask to discover it’s just real alfred underneath.

tim’s immediately like upset and disgusted. he demands answer from bruce who is like “just training, get good kid” (and also implies tim is stupid bc he believed it) and tim is like Fuck this. Fuck all of you. I’m out. (he does eventually come back obviously)

he also gets to tell bruce to go to hell. now im a bruce wayne glazer but that was deserved because what the fuck

this is some crazy paraphrasing and i’m positive there are 10x better breakdowns out there. but long story short alfred helped gaslit tim drake into having a mental breakdown on his sixteenth birthday because bruce said to.

i also really don’t like this from bruce’s side because literally what the fuck was that. prime example of the 90s-2000s comic wanting bruce wayne to be a bad guy to appeal to angsty male readers (which was an actual phenomenon and explains a lot of why bruce is so batshit [ha] insane to his family during this era)

edit: this is 1993 robin #116-120 btw

[queen-mabs-revenge]

for ted lasso fans who aren't football fans, the akufo league subplot was pretty directly inspired by the april 2021 announcement of a proposed european super league founded by 12 of the richest clubs in europe competing in a closed group against each other plus 8 other teams tba.

the enterprise was cancelled very quickly after its announcement, but the differences between how that played out in ted lasso and the story as it played out in real life are.....hmmmm interesting choices to say the least.

the esl wasn't proposed by a cartoonishly villainous ghanaian billionaire. it was launched by a c-suite of white european and united states billionaire businessmen/team owners. - real madrid president florentino pérez spearheaded the proposal and claimed CEO position with andrea agnelli (owner of juventus), joel glazer (owner of man u), john henry (owner of liverpool), and stan kroenke (owner of arsenal) making up the rest of the proposed executive board. -these five are worth $2.3B, $13.5B (agnelli family), $4.8 (glazer family), $4B, and $12.9B, for a total of 37.5 billion dollars.

the esl proposal was formally announced on 18 april 2021 and by 21 april all 6 epl founding clubs had publicly announced their planned withdrawal from the league. this wasn't because of a rich white lady giving a heartwarming speech to a room of other rich people, it was because of a mass movement of working class fans denouncing the move as the capitalist greed and exploitation that it was, with some calling for fan ownership of clubs entirely:

i get using real events as inspiration and adapting them to fit a narrative purpose within the story, but i think it's worth it to know what the story line was based on, especially considering the specific racial and class changes that were made reframing the villains and heroes of this particular story.

[ogradyfilm]

Recently Viewed: The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest is a horror film.

That isn’t a “genre” classification, by the way; the movie lacks the “traditional” tropes and conventions commonly associated with the most narrow, stringent application of that (often reductive) label, which tends to conjure images of ghosts, ghouls, and machete-wielding maniacs. Still, the intent of the story is to terrify the audience—it simply accomplishes this goal through subtler means than, say, Friday the 13th or The Evil Dead. There is, for example, little explicit bloodshed; the atrocities occur almost entirely offscreen. Yet “implication” doesn’t dull the impact of the violence; on the contrary, it somehow feels more confrontational (albeit less exploitative) than outright showing mass graves and gallons of gore.

The narrative revolves around a series of chilling juxtapositions. Seemingly ordinary family meals and joyful birthday celebrations, for instance, are lent a sinister tone by virtue of the fact that the patriarch wears the uniform of a high-ranking SS officer. The mother, meanwhile, tends her garden, taking great pride in the colorful, fragrant flowers and bountiful vegetables; she then casually mentions that she hopes her plants and crops will eventually obscure the drab, dreary concrete wall at the rear of the property—a barrier that borders Auschwitz. Indeed, the protagonists literally live in the shadow of the notorious death camp. They dress themselves in clothing and jewelry confiscated from the Jewish prisoners; the eldest son has even made a hobby of collecting discarded gold teeth and dental plates. At night, the father stands on the back porch, enjoying a cigar as he watches the black smoke billowing above the crematorium chimneys—the perverse epitome of a professional admiring a “job well done.” The household servants—local girls hired from the nearby village—dutifully clear the silverware, scrub the floors, and polish the master’s boots, constantly tormented by the knowledge that their very survival depends upon the “benevolence” of their employers.

Director Jonathan Glazer observes the action with an unnervingly cold detachment. The predominantly static camera and rigidly symmetrical framing are reminiscent of the works of Roy Andersson and Chantal Akerman. This deliberately mundane, undramatic visual style emphasizes the inherent humanity of the subjects: they’re Nazis, yes, but they’re also people—a somewhat clichéd theme that nevertheless remains relevant and resonant. Anybody, after all, is capable of choosing evil; we must therefore be vigilant, lest we become history’s next monster.

Thus, The Zone of Interest is objective in its presentation, but not nonjudgmental. And that is a vital distinction.

[class1akids]

What’s the point being made when Midoriya commented “he’s getting called Endeavor’s son less and less” if Endeavor got zero legal consequences for abusing his family? Was Endeavor still considered a “bad hero” by the end of the war? I thought the citizens were mad because they thought he let them down as a hero because he failed to defeat the villain, not that he butchered his family. Dai even spoke about Endeavor still being thought as a great hero in the future. Maybe it makes sense as a reader for that comment since we know the whole family’s trauma, but with how the story is written it doesn’t work since, again, barely anyone cared about the Todoroki family (some even became Endeavor glazers.)

I know the family association thing is bigger in eastern culture, but was the intention supposed to be similar to if Todoroki went onto the field and was still associated with Endeavor just by being his son even without their history being exposed? As much as I hate the writing wouldn’t it make more sense if Dabi/Touya replaced or was at least added onto the association since the civilians didn’t seem to care about the abuse? I mean I don’t want Todoroki to be associated with his shitty father, but with how the narrative flipped back and forth on Endeavor the point became less impactful since he’s still treated relatively great despite what he did.

It's just an example of Hori's "wants to have his cake and eat it too" kind of writing.

On the one hand, Endeavor's "consequence" is the scandal, the public fall, being responsible for the rise of Dabi and his victims. And his atonement hinges on this consequence, because he's goal is to "catch the sparks" (even though we know he can't protect the kids, because Fuyumi already lost her job and the situation is so bad Natsuo is leaving the family registry to protect his fiancee from any association with the Todorokis).

As for Shouto's own situation, he's more in the public eye than his siblings, and it's kind of implied in some scenes how he's also a subject of criticism - like him being outside of UA with Endeavor and Hawks and when he talks about how he's being seen with concern. (Dabi also brought it up btw during their fight).

So I think from the perspective of Shouto's arc, the key sequence is:

"you are not bound by his blood, you decide who you want to be" -> "I want to be a reassuring hero" -> "people look at me with concern because I'm Endeavor's son and Dabi's brother" -> "you have to stop Dabi to become who you want to be" -> "work day and night for 8 years" -> "the citizens rarely call him Endeavor's son anymore.

So basically Shouto's narrative is about freedom from blood and free self-determination. But his story is actually about how his family ties keep hindering him from his goal and how he has to fight for his "honor" in a way others don't have to because of those ties. So Shouto's freedom comes with a huge qualifies and a huge price - where it's having to fight his own brother and stop him from causing harm to others is just the first hurdle. After that, he still has to work day and night for a decade to make people finally see him on his own terms.

So the "you can become who you want to be", just like "you can be a hero" come with huge qualifiers in the story.

As for Dai mentioning Endeavor - that list was really weird puttin BJ and Endeavor up there with All Might, and Deku being mentioned only like 4th place when in fact wasn't he the ultimate hero of that war?

I think that's Horikoshi's clumsy writing, where he insists glazing Endeavor because he personally thinks that he deserves brownie points for trying hard.

But I'm fairly certain that the narrative on the one hand tells us that Endeavor and the Todoroki family got a lot of public criticism for creating Dabi and Dabi's crimes (not for the domestic violence mind you, which is treated as a private matter) and Shouto had to fight against those prejudices. On the other hand, it's telling us that even if Endeavor is in hell, there are people who support him because he was a good hero.

Also, as an aside, even if Endeavor wasn't exposed by Touya, Shouto probably still would have had to fight for a long time to be seen not as a nepo-baby but as himself. Children of famous / successful people are often struggle against the public perception that all their success is due to the advantages that were given to them at birth - which is also true for Shouto who was introduced as the "boy born with everything" and the first thing he was known to the public for was being "Endeavor's son".