#Nigel Richards

[slur-sayer]

I would let him smash tbh

[taciturned]

like minds, 2006

ada limón / richard siken / marie rutkoski / margaret atwood / hedgie choi

[angevinyaoiz]

Three Whiskered Things

[asexplainedbyttoi]

Happy election day!

Now get out there and vote!

Don’t forget your photo ID! It can be recently expired as long as it has your name and looks like you!

[citrusflavouredsunset]

Thats nigel richards and sure maybe it says something linguistically but its NIGEL FUCKING RICHARDS noone else could ever do this. Hes the most dominant athlete of all time. He’s a thousand times better at scrabble than wayne gretsky is at hockey or magnus carlsen is at chess. Look up “nigel richards plays” on will anderson’s youtube channel hes just simply better than anyone has ever been at anything. Fuckkkkkk we stan a king

Do y'all remember that story of the guy who won a French scrabble tournament without speaking a word of French?

It's either a testament of how well he can memorize random words without knowing their meaning, or a testament of how badly French needs multiple spelling reforms.

[springtkh]

TAWOG Characters as humans

[laurelwen]

Martin McKenzie and Alex Forbes

I've been having a think about McKenzie, since he doesn't get a lot of attention. I tend to dismiss him because he represents a few tropes that I can't stand: the cocky, belligerent cop who runs on "gut instincts" that turn out to be correct. It's an archetype you find in a lot of media, and it always bugs me because I don't want this douchebag to be correct. He's also shown as a foil to Sally in an extremely sexist dynamic, which I discuss more here.

Setting aside the tired tropes and the sexist BS for a moment, I wanted to ask the question: why exactly is McKenzie SO absolutely sure that Alex is guilty from get go? My answer: because in fact, Alex and McKenzie are cut from the same cloth. I think Martin is Alex as he would be if he remained within the system, having made an uneasy truce with the rules but failing to be completely comfortable within those boundaries.

When you really compare them, their mannerisms are incredibly similar. Both of them sit the same, with a casual slouch that speaks to a certain insouciance. They aren't interested in presenting themselves as conforming to expected proper formality. In Alex, this is presented as a facet of teenage rebellion, while in Martin it suggests the maverick cop who bucks the system. These traits arise from the same type of personality.

When confronted with their own wrongdoing, both react by hiding their hands in their pockets, a signal that they are feeling defensive and/or guilty. Alex keeps his hands in his pockets the entire time he interacts with his father and with McKenzie, from the beginning to the end of each scene, while standing, sitting, and walking. McKenzie puts his hands in his pockets while Sally chews him out for punching Alex.

Both of them seem to have a certain level of oral fixation. Alex chews incessantly on his pen while struggling with his homework. McKenzie commits crimes against coffee by biting his styrofoam cup edges consistently, and he also has a smoking habit. These compulsions are often a response to stress--both are in stressful circumstances/lifestyles and both seem to lack any healthy outlets for their stress.

Alex and Martin share one other key trait: volatility and aggression. In circumstances where someone is antagonizing them, they both become angry and lash out with physical violence against the source of this antagonism.

I think Martin is particularly annoyed by Alex because they are so similar. I also offer this conjecture: perhaps he is firmly convinced that Alex is "an evil little fucker" because he senses a certain kinship with Alex, and that allows him to understand what kind of person Alex is and what he might be capable of.

Based on their other similarities, Martin could believably share Alex's darker impulses or tendencies as well. It's not uncommon for people with violent and aggressive personalities to seek out professions where they are allowed or even encouraged to vent those urges, and law enforcement is one of the most obvious choices. Though he might not have acted upon it in the same way, perhaps he recognizes this shared darkness and is therefore able to read Alex in a way that Sally cannot. Perhaps he looks at Alex and sees a mirror reflecting the darkest parts of himself back at him.

[Like Minds Masterpost]

[henry-the-queer-artist]

[blizzardsuplex]

Deep Dive Masterpost pt. 3 - LiveJournal/Dreamwidth

Apparently I'm posting these in terms of how difficult the sites were to search. There are some truly embarrassing pictures of baby Roddy here, so I'm sure @mobiblackout, @btybbcedes, @sadiesm, @christiancagesupporter (especially!), and @moxapologist will love them LOL. Under the cut once again!

[GenNext! And an awful beard on RS man, LOL]

[smile]

[This pic is literally named "gayest shirt ever" LOL]

[The boa!]

[With James Gibson/Jamie Noble]

[Right: why do his trunks look so small?]

[versus Claudio]

[this picture is just extremely aesthetic]

[side profiles]

[Right: he's gonna die]

[For a second I thought they kissed LOL]

[this one is just beautiful...]

[...and this one is just something else.]

[idwsonicnews]

Sonic the Hedgehog's 900th Adventure Solicitation

Saving the world is a piece of cake when you’re a speedy blue hedgehog. And Sonic is about to go on his 900th world-saving adventure! Sonic and his friends are playing a game of hot potato! Only the potato is the Warp Topaz and it could warp the whole world into oblivion. The gang is passing off the Warp Topaz in a relay race to get rid of it once and for all

Authors: Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley, Caleb Goellner, Daniel Barnes, Aaron Hammerstrom, Nigel Kitching

Artists: Adam Bryce Thomas, Evan Stanley, Abby Bulmer, Min Ho Kim, Aaron Hammerstrom, Mauro Fonseca

Cover A: Tracy Yardley

Cover B: Yuji Uekawa of Sega of Japan

Cover C: Evan Stanley

Cover D: Adam Bryce Thomas

1:10 Retailer Incentive Variant: Nathalie Fourdraine

1:25 Retailer Incentive Variant: Richard Elson

1:50 Retailer Incentive Variant: Jonathan H. Gray

Tentative Release Date: August 16th 2023

[topperhay]

Mr Windsor has a lovely remote ride in the country where nobody can notice his expired driver's license.

[irenic-raccoon]

I think I'm funny

[anthropologistfromentropy]

OK Like Minds and The Secret History fandoms: if the characters had been university students during WW1, what would they have done? Would any of them have fought in the war? Or would they have avoided it and how?

Specifically thinking about Alex, Nigel and the students of the Greek class. But feel free to share your theories for the minor characters if you want.

Though I might decide they only turned 18 just after the war ended, tbh. That would probably be easier. But I still want to know what would they think about the war? Would they wish they had been able to fight?

[taciturned]

like minds 2006 / planet of love by richard siken

[svnnyd4ys]

more sfth plays as Richard Siken quotes

if anyone wants me to explain why i chose these quotes just lmk and i'll like do an analysis or smth!!

plays 12-22~

BUS. "He's pointing at you with a glass of milk as if he's trying to tell you there is some sort of shining star buried deep inside you, and he has to dig it out with a knife." (the dislocated room - Crush)

ALL EYES ON NIGEL "Let's say the Devil is played by two men. We'll call them both Jeff. Dark hair, green eyes, white teeth, pink tongues- they're twins. The one on the left has gone bad in the middle and the other one on the left is about to. As they wrestle, you can tell that they have forgotten about God, and they are very hungry." (you are Jeff - Crush)

NO! I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THAT CARAVAN "The hunter's son watches the hunter. The hunter paints more rings onto his glasses. Everything is a target, says the hunter. No matter where you look. The hunter's son says nothing, and closes his eyes." (the stag and the quiver - War of the Foxes)

WET, WILD & WORRISOME "The fisherman's son knows nothing worth stealing. Perhaps, perhaps. He once put a cat in a cardboard box, but she got out anyway. He once had a brother he lost to the sea. Brother, dead brother, who speaks to him in dreams. These are a few things worth saying." (war of the foxes - War of the Foxes)

THE CARDBOARD STEGOSAURUS "I wanted to fall down right there, but I knew you wouldn't catch me because you're dead. I swallowed crushed ice and pretended it was glass and you're dead. Ashes to ashes. You wanted to be cremated, so we cremated you and you wanted an adventure so I ran and I knew you wouldn't catch me. You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening at the wrong end of a very long tunnel." (straw house, straw dog - Crush)

THE INGREDIENTS "The sooner you embrace it, the sooner it will leave you. Okay. The bruise: milk-yellow. You are what you cover up." (glue - War of the Foxes)

THE EXCITED CHINCHILLA "You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable." (seaside improvisation - Crush)

THE PRIME MINISTER'S FIRST DAY "Every morning the same big and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out You will always be alone and then you will die. So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalogue of non-definitive acts, something other than desperation." (litany in which certain things are crossed out (GOATED) - Crush)

THE LEFTENMOST WINDOW "The voice wants to be a hand and the hand wants to do something useful. What did you really want? Someone to pass this with me. You wanted more. I wanted what everyone wants. He raises the moon on a crane for effect, cue the violins. That's what the violins are for. And yes, he raises the moon on a crane and scrubs it until it shines. So what does it shine on? Nothing. Was there no one else? Left-handed truth, right-handed truth, there's no pure way to say this." (unfinished duet - Crush)

THE NEIGHBOUR'S UNDER THE BED "I wanted to explain myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myself sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-" (birds hover the trampled field - War of the Foxes)

THE MILKMAN "More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pyjamas and grains of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story." (litany in which certain things are crossed out - Crush)

[b-beard]

some cute richie scs from ep2