#Oklahoma is literally at 48

[kerosene-saint]

sometimes I wonder if people some other states realize how lucky they are education wise.

[sparklingcid3r]

I promised a rumble rundown, so that’s what I’m gonna do. Let’s go🙏 also here's the yt vid i used lol

0:14-0:17

Paul says, “Hello, Darrel. Long time, no see” and then immediately starts checking him out with that upside down smile, ik what u think abt 👁️👁️

0:24-0:27

“I’ll take you” yeah Paul I’m sure u will 🙄 Darry’s cold af w the staredown tho, it’s unfortunate that Pony and Soda have do a full head turn to look at each other like “IKKK he ain’t j said that”

0:27-0:31

DALLAS MY GLORIOUS KING ARRIVES,, shirtless??? And the crowd goes mild‼️ Pony also gets popped in the face and down he goes, it was so good that he was here for just a little bit, everyone say bye now bc the next time he shows up in the fight u won’t even know it’s him I’m deadass

0:48-0:55

Soda is ripping into this guy right, my baby’s a champion!! And then gets up and kinda… walks past Steve getting his ass beat lmao. He even puts his hand on Steve’s shoulder to steady himself as he goes by😭

He just misses the mean double gut punch Steve tanks like the unit he is, because Steve GRABS THIS MAN’S PUNCH and RIPS one across his face, it was beautiful. Masterclass in the ring I’m afraid

0:56-0:58

Okay. I need to give yall the play by play for this single two-second sequence because it was genuinely the greatest clip of cinema I’ve ever seen in my life.

Paul’s got Darry out of frame and he’s confident, dare I say cocky. He’s doing the universal hand signals for “Cmon, hit me bro.”

And I’m gonna say this next part softly. Lean in and listen to me:

When I tell u that Darry clocks Paul in the face, I don’t mean he just clocks Paul in the face. Darry rises like a phoenix from the ashes and swings so hard that everyone around him can feel the aftershocks. Paul has just experienced the equivalent of a steel boxing glove to the dome. Teeth are flying. Paul will have no recollection of this moment for the rest of his life. Take a look at this.

Alr now we back up because YOU CAN SEEEE THE MOMENT OF REALIZATION. This man starts BAILING. The minute Darry spins back, Paul’s got bug eyes, all “Hold up. Wait a minute. He really ‘bout to clock my shit.” He did not want that smoke NEARLY as much as he thought he did, and ykw? I don’t blame him 🤷‍♀️ 

Letting yall know that I had to go back and slow down the playback speed so that I could bask in the glory that is Darrel Curtis’s behemoth of a punch. Geologists are losing their minds wondering how volcanoes are erupting and mountains are shifting, unaware of what just happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1:00-1:03

Dally bitch slapping a dude is a great way to kick off the one-minute mark, and a good kick to the ribs just for funsies ig. U go girl🫶

1:04-1:07

Hottest Two-Bit has ever looked sorry

1:19-1:21

Alr Dally is literally picking people up and WWE rocking their shit as he slams them to the ground. That kid was dropped neck first. How did Pony not have to write a sequel.

1:22-1:24

Just an entire sequence dedicated to Soda mewing even as he gets bitched in the face. It’s alr tho, he got his get back

1:47-1:49

Istg I’m not tripping, u listen and u can hear Pony screaming for Darry yall I thought this was supposed to be a good time, I’m actually sobbing

1:55-2:01

STEVE CLUTCHES UP??? DEADASSSS that was the CLEANEST three-shot KO I’ve ever seen, then he body flips the guy behind him??? I WASN’T FAMILIAR W UR GAME, RANDLE 🙏

2:09-2:15

The Socs are kind of getting ready to retreat at this point but rq we gotta check in on the exes, Paul’s getting clowned on again lmfao.

This man tried to kick Darry, then when Darry’s got his foot and is getting ready to spin him like that pigskin, he’s PULLING on Darry’s HAIR??? Man, just leave 😭 ur cooked. And the last time we see him, he’s CRAWLING AWAY😭😭 at least STAND UP

2:24-2:27

Pony’s getting washed in a 6v1 it ain’t his fault this time, bless up. Luckily my goat Darrel Shaynne Curtis Jr. pulls up and literally starts throwing bodies. Absolutely spectacular that I get to live in the same lifetime as this movie.

2:30-2:32

Darry’s asking, “Ponyboy, you okay?” and some NOBODY tries to grab Darry’s shoulders. Who do u think u are???

3:35-3:45

Greasers get the W👏

So in conclusion I think we can all agree that if u are locked in an iso with Darry, just offer up ur cheek and get it over w. Ur not getting the dub. Roll down ur sleeves and go home, ur benched.

Sorry this is messy af, I'm just having fun rn LMFAO

[nevgovhater]

Since u all fw marching band wttt then here u go except I'm only doing the states cause gov would def be the director who has to deal with them

Also these headcanons r real I swear I'm right (by a trombonist)

all in alphabetical order btw

1. ALABAMA — probably would do bari-sax

2. ALASKA — percussion. thats it. just percussion. (Up for interpretation)

3. ARIZONA — flute or bass clarinet, one of those.

4. ARKANSAS — flute

5. CALIFORNIA — he would be a fucking clarinet, no exceptions. He just gives off clarinet vibes, or just woodwind in general

6. COLORADO — tenor drums

7. CONNECTICUT — piccolo or mellophone

8. DELAWARE — flute

9. FLORIDA — cymbals or piccolo, one of those at the very least.

10. GEORGIA — trumpet. 100% trumpet player

11. HAWAI'I — glockenspiel or marimba

12. IDAHO — trumpet

13. ILLINOIS — euphonium or bass drums

14. INDIANA — saxophone

15. IOWA — alto saxophone

16. KANSAS — trumpet

17. KENTUCKY — trumpet or saxophone

18. LOUISIANA — trombone. (Sorry to all those saxophone loui lovers.. but i feel like his instrument would be the trombone,, it's still a jazz instrument so ykyk)

19. MAINE — bass drums or euphonium

20. MARYLAND — clarinet

21. MASSACHUSETTS — oh he's a flute, that's for sure. 😭😭

22. MICHIGAN — tenor sax

23. MINNESOTA — mellophone

24. MISSISSIPPI — trumpet

25. MISSOURI — vibraphone

26. MONTANA — cornet

27. NEBRASKA — trumpet

28. NEVADA — I'm sorry but he'd probably do tenor sax

29. NEW HAMPSHIRE — piccolo

30. NEW JERSEY — snare drum

31. NEW MEXICO — cornet

32. NEW YORK — snare or tenor drums

33. NORTH CAROLINA — trumpet

34. NORTH DAKOTA — flute (sighs)

35. OHIO — trombone

36. OKLAHOMA — alto sax

37. OREGON — marimba

38. PENNSYLVANIA — glockenspiel

39. RHODE ISLAND — sousaphone/tuba. im fucking SERIOUS about this man he would love this

40. SOUTH CAROLINA — clarinet

41. SOUTH DAKOTA — saxophone

42. TENNESSEE — tenor sax

43. TEXAS — sousaphone/tuba

44. UTAH — flute or bass clarinet

45. VERMONT — flute. (dear god help me)

46. VIRGINIA — flute (guess what)

47. WASHINGTON — flute (im going insane please stop)

48. WEST VIRGINIA — cymbals or drumline

49. WISCONSIN — xylophone

50. WYOMING — euphonium

I'm literally right abt this i swear ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

"You're wrong about—" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP GET OUT OF MY HEAD ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

[gardening--tools]

For the fallout oc asks for Jude! 13, 37, 40, 48 :)

im kicking my feet and giggling hi typos!!! thank u so much for the ask!

13. What is the most frightening experience they have endured?

As someone with poor impulse control, Jude has experienced plenty of frightening situations. That time she fell out of a deer blind when she was 12 years old. The night when she was eight and left alone in her mother's single-wide, and someone tried to break in. When she was stuck in her grandparents' barn during a tornado. Literally anytime she was driving and something went wrong.

But the most terrifying thing she's ever witnessed, would be that deathclaw in Concord. After wandering out of 111 and Sanctuary, disoriented, witnessing abominations against God (huge bugs that hate you), taking a human life for the first time ever; and suddenly a dinosaur is bearing down on her? Not only is that the most frightened Jude has ever been, but it also permanently skews her perception of what "scary" is for the rest of her life. Nothing will ever compare to that.

37. What is the worst injury they have experienced?

In 2075, in the middle of a race, a faulty part installed in her Corvega fails and causes her to crash. We're talking totaled, car on fire, stadium evacuated (because fusion engine + fire = bad times). She loses consciousness, and has to be airlifted to the hospital. Her teammate loses his life pulling her from the wreck.

Jude almost dies. She does get the best medical treatment available, thanks to a hefty bribe settlement from Chryslus Motors. She has to get parts of her hip and legs reinforced with titanium to heal correctly. Most of her burns heal with minimal scarring—save for one spot on the side of her head. She has to go to a lot of PT before she can start moving around again. And even then, she still struggles with mobility at the time of entering 111.

40. What is their favorite type of weather?

She loves the sun, specifically in spring or autumn when the air is cool but the sunshine warms your skin. She does not like it when it's windy, though! Oklahoma is always so windy, and she thinks it's a "waste of a fine day" when it's sunny and windy out.

48. Do they collect anything?

Jude loves the Concept of collecting things! She does not have the attention span to remember to collect things, however. Much of her childhood was spent starting new collections, and then forgetting about them two weeks later.

Well, she is a chronic junk-grabber in the Commonwealth. Maybe that counts haha

[darkimpala1897]

I'm currently doing a storm chaser Au for MOTA, I posted my three part today, so I just wanted to drop some lore slash headcanons

1. Bucky was adopted at age seven by Jack and Chick, he doesn't call them his dads. He calls them his weird uncles.

2. Buckys parents were killed by a tornado.

3. Bucky has been chasing tornados since he was a kid.

4. Bucky and Buck are married, but currently divorcing. But also at the same time not really.

5. Curt and Dickie have been married since the dinosaurs.

6. DeMarco is engaged to Brady, Meatball is their son.

7. Bubbles and Crosby are married duh.

8. Douglass and Hambone have been dating forever.

9. Helen and Nash are married.

10. Quinn is in a situationship with Bailey and Babyface, I can't even explain it.

11. Ken is married to Winks, they have a son named Sammy.

12. Sammy was carried by Helen, but she is not biologically his mother.

13. Meatball was found in what was left of a barn, he was just a puppy.

14. Helen is the only one with her life together, she's a sex therapist, which Nash finds hilarious.

12. Ken and Winks are farmhands slash mechanics, that live on Jack and Chicks farm.

13. Everyone lives in Jack and Chicks basement.

14. They live in Wakita Oklahoma.

15. Nobodys car dates past 1996 is a running joke between everyone when in reality its like 1990.

16. Hambone is the human barometer.

17. Croz is the navigator, he has a whole a conniption if Bubbles folds the maps.

18. DeMarco drives a retired school bus, for some reason well drunk DeMarco put where it use to say school, it says "Burrito Barn" now. He doesn't know either.

19. Bucky drives a blue 1983 GMC Vandura with a unicorn painted on both sides.

20. Ken painted the unicorns on Buckys van.

21. Curt and Dickie drive a black 1989 Chevrolet Suburban, it's nickname is "The Beast"

22. The Beast has been put back together four times now, the most severe incident was a cell tower piece through the windshield.

23. Bubbles and Croz drive a 1982 Ford F-150.

24. Douglass and Hambone drive a 1983 Ford LTD Country Squire, Hammy calls it "The Boat" or "The Wagon" depending on the day.

25. Douglass loves to drift his Squire, which is not good for it.

26. Rosies drives a 1985 Chevrolet Chevy Van, it has utility lights on it, Bucky calls it "The Boring Van"

27. Helen and Nash drive a 1975 Chevrolet K-10.

28. Bucky is the resident idiot of the group.

29. Rosies operates all the fancy equipment, and the cameras for obvious reasons.

30. They have a YouTube channel, which is called the Windy 100th. Rosie thought of it because he was a history major.

31. Their YouTube channel isn't that popular, but it's more about them having fun then anything.

32. Curt and Brady do audio, they have the best ears.

33. Smokey is their doctor, but he is a registered wackadoodle.

34. Smokey drives this hideous green 1990 Crown Victoria it belongs to Stormy, though he pretends not to own it for obvious reasons.

35. Instead of Brady yelling "Son of a bitch, that's France! He's yelled "Son Of Bitch, that's the tornado." He nearly died that day.

36. Brady just owns a baseball helmet for some reason.

37. Hambone is called Hambone because he literally got smacked by a flying pig.

38. Babyface is called Babyface, because for some reason he keeps getting smacked in the head by babydolls.

39. Stormy is an actual meteorologist, that just helps out the group. So he slightly has his life together.

40. Ken owns a flatbed tow truck for obvious reasons, but he normally drives a 1977 GMC C-15 which he shares with Winks.

41. Buck owns a 1984 Jeep Wagoneer.

42. All of them met in college well studying you guessed it weather.

43. Rosie knows Oklahoma by heart, he sings with Smokey.

44. DeMarco loves rock music, he blasts it on drives through speakers on his bus.

45. Douglass loves classical music.

46. All of them are amazing drivers which is surprising considering.

47. Chick is the one who cooks, Jack bakes and makes pretty much everything.

48. Jack makes wind chimes that he sells.

49. The only one to ever have seen an F5 was Bucky, its what killed his parents.

50. Bucky thinks he's the leader, but it's actually Rosie.

That's it, that's lore for the Windy 100th aka Storm Chaser AU.



[girliepopnews]

Aritcle #2 Being A Single Gay Man Pt 1

By Joseph Pelky November 17th 2024 7:48 PM

Being single is not necessarily a bad thing. On one hand you don't have to dress up and look like a pin-up boy all the time, you also get your personal space, no unnecessary shopping trips, and not having to worry about screwing up a relationship, while on the other hand there's the absolute opposite of that, you could beg your boyfriend for nice clothes, jewelry and make up, making you look like pin-up boy, and have a guy you love in your space with you, and be adventurous with each other, but as gay guys like the sound of that kind of a boyfriend, there's also the ones that want that type of guy, the one that will spoil the boy rotten, ahem I'm that boy if you couldn't tell, I want that desire of that kind of man who will literally buy me anything I wish for, now I'm not into love just for the money as money would be nice it's not what I crave, I crave guys that do anything for me, on their own accord….DOY….as much as being single is fun, it get's lonely most times. There are sometimes where I'm like, "Fvck I don't have a man to cuddle with and kiss on new years with" but sometimes I think "I don't have a man, I can do what ever the fvck I want without having to satisfy a man" now that's a statement I can get behind, as I love being an independent boss b1tch, I want to be the addition to another man's life, but that kind of an impossible tsk for someone my age and where I live, (for reference I live in Okmulgee, Oklahoma), but I feel as of right now, a man will find me and want to fall in love at the most inconvenient times of my life, but we'll just have to wait and see what fate decides to throw at my curly head of hair. But would you even believe me if I told you that guys have actually had crushes on me and have liked me and thought I was hot…err handsome…there we'll go with that. There have been at least 3 guys so far this year (2024) that have thought I was cute, I'm not gonna name names, mostly because I don't know the guys names, but I remember what they looked liked, like this one guy I have never even met before, he had hair similar too mine and he was wearing blue cardigan, and he was doing this thing that all gay guys do when they see an attractive man, he took finger and traced the side of his hair to the curved part of his ear (I'll put a photo/video down below this post) and he was sparing his gazes at me, not a bad looking fellow, next guy was a guy I mutually met a Winter guard & Percussions Of Oklahoma (WGPO) competition, last year our team had this old percussion performance tarp (we no longer have it, we got a new one) and since we had a small team we enlisted the assistance of another team to help us transport it and fold it, to put into perspective it was 70 X 80 and we had to fold it and it was around 200 pounds when it was folded, so know you know why

[corvidsoulp]

Thoughts on the 50 states of America

(All jokes, me and my friend made this out of pure boredom)

1. Alabama---incest is only cool of you're a Victorian noble family

2. Arkansas is actually spelled Arkansaw

3. Why is Arizona so damn hot???

4. Kansas--Not Kansaw

5. New York is full of rats and turtles

6. Just leave Alaska to the Canadians

7. Guys please just leave Hawaii alone

8. California girls we're unforgettable

9. What even is New Jersey?

10. Illinois--Chicago

11. Do we really need Delaware?

12. Colorado

13. Connecti-cut it out of here

14. Do we really need Maryland?

15. Florida--leave.

16. Georgia- ass state 🍑

17. Washington--cold brrrrr 🥶

18. Nevada--Gamble away your first born son

19. Oregon smells like weed

20. West Virginia, mountain mama (country roads, take me home)

21. North Carolina--North of South Carolina 

22. Idaho's only purpose is to fuel America's growing population of fast food addicts (me)

23. South Carolina--South of North Carolina

24. Kentucky fried chicken

25. Louisiana only exits in Disney's "Princess and the Frog"

26. Hannah Montana

27. Michigan is just a lake

28. Nebraska--doesnt actually exist

29. Tennessee whiskey

30. Texas--yeehaw brother. Beer, Ford F150, Cowboy hats yeahhh

31. Maine only exits in Disney's "Bunk'd"

32. I am in Missouri

33. Mississippi- I only know how to spell it

34. Oklahoma<-- better as Jack Stauber's "Oh klahoma"

35. Heaven, Iowa

36. You are a Virginia

37. North Dakota-North of South Dakota

38. South Dakota-South of North Dakota

39. Wisconsin only exists in Disney's "Liv and Maddie"

40. Do we really need Rhode Island?

41. Pensilyvainia <-- Literally a hotel with monster dilfs wtf42. Vermont (unnecessary

42. Arkansaw

43. New Hampshire---Wheres old Hampshire???

44. Ohio     no.

45. New Mexico---WHERES OLD MEXICO????

46. Utah- I did a math problem about the area of Utah

47. (Why)oming

48. Do we really need Macassucutes?

49. Are we sure we need Indiana?

50. Minnesota is actually a soda brand

[dnaamericaapp]

Oklahoma Judge Rules A Man Who Wrongfully Spent Nearly 50 Years In Prison For Murder Is Innocent

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of a crime.

Glynn Simmons, 71, who was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers, was ruled innocent Tuesday.

Simmons served 48 years, one month and 18 days since his conviction, making him the longest imprisoned U.S. inmate to be exonerated, according to data kept by The National Registry of Exonerations.

Palumbo in July ordered a new trial for Simmons after District Attorney Vicki Behenna said prosecutors had failed to turn over evidence in the case, including a police report that showed an eyewitness might have identified other suspects in the case.

Behenna in September said there is no longer physical evidence in the case against Simmons and announced she would not retry him, though she opposed declaring him actually innocent.

Compensation, though, is likely years away, Norwood said and Simmons is currently living on donations while undergoing treatment for cancer that was detected after his release from prison.

“Glynn is having to live off of GoFundMe, that’s literally how the man is surviving right now, paying rent, buying food,” Norwood said. “Getting him compensation, and getting compensation is not for sure, is in the future and he has to sustain himself now.” -(source: ap)

DNA America

“It’s what we know, not what you want us to believe.”

#dna #dnaamerica #news #politics

[inkandguns]

The current format of the country is broken and untenable. It doesn’t serve the needs or wishes of the electorate in the slightest. Some of these problems can be fixed from the executive branch and others cannot be. It’s pretty clear that the country can’t exist as it is and needs to be decentralized. Dividing California and combining several west coast states could do enough to restore a reasonable balance.

The Union has already been dissolved. The simple act of ignoring SCOTUS rulings in blue states shows that our original agreement has been violated beyond reproach and no longer stands. If states refuse federal judicial review, then they’re not in compliance with the agreements set when they ratified the constitution, and we’re already in a cold civil war.

As for my hyperbole - it’s not hyperbole. I meant every damn word of that in the literal sense. Support keeping the union together and/or the democrat party and you’re full on supporting lynchings and racial violence, along with economic policies meant to choke out specifically black people.

There’s only two choices - split the country now or have 48 CCP states and Alaska and Florida. The country is already divided.

As for moving people - if we spent that many billions on Ukraine, Hamas, and Israel, we can spend twice as many billions paying people to relocate if they want to. Most people don’t care and will stay in their state and be happy as fuck.

The bottom line is this - currently state and federal governments are holding their constituents in slavery because they oppose the system that the voters want. People in Cali want more commie shit, people in Oklahoma want more American shit. It’s unethical and vile to use violence to hold these people as slaves to one system or another - it goes against your God given right to self governance.

If Cali and Illinois wanna go full Hitler they should have the right to do so - it’s what their voters want. If Oklahoma wants to let people drink rain water, drink raw milk, and own machine guns, they should be able to do that too. But under the current system everyone is losing and violence is inevitable. Splitting up now is preferable to an insane amount of violence later.

I’ve now spent close to 100 hours listening to college geeks, economic geeks, legal geeks, and constitutional law geeks talk about national divorce. Some oppose and some support. So you haven’t said anything that I haven’t heard before.

The union that was established is over. It’s been gone for many years now. It was defeated when the 17th amendment was passed. Now we have to split up the remains and move on.

Hear some crazy stuff on the Shortwave radio.

Was listening to the shortwave earlier (I like scanning the World Bands from time to time) and heard a conversation (sounded like a take show of some form). Disclaimer: Not sure where the broadcast was originating from. The person being interviewed was saying that he loved that the White Supremacists, Nazis and Fascist are embracing the idea of a US break up (then laughing said Divorce) finally. But it's not going to work how they think.

(Highlight of a 30+ minute conversation) The freedom loving Democratic States already have the plans drawn up and will make sure to land-lock the Fascist States.... Refuse to let them take from any Democratic State any children into the Fascists States.... Any flight in or out will be shot down.... Cut off or destroy all energy, oil or gas production or supply line to the Fascists States.... Finally, if they try to leave their border they will be shot on sight, like every Nazi in the world needs to be.

Sounds to me like at least one side who wants a National Divorce has been making plans on how they want it to work out.

But that doesn't matter, it will lead to a Civil War, plain and simple. Causing hundreds of thousands if not million+ of deaths on both sides. Not just from the fighting, but from food and medication shortages. If the guy on the Shortwave was even half right in his claims then there will be people also dying of cold in the winter time.

Whether this guy was speaking the truth (as he knew it) or just blowing hot air out of his pipe dreams, if you are for a National Divorce do you honestly think you can negotiate a civil split of the States with people like this? Do you honestly think that a split can happen without a Civil War breaking out?

The scary thing is I have heard people on the right, who want a National Divorce, calling for Conservative States to do to the Communist States practically the same thing. So are they the good guys for calling for the same atrocities that the other side is calling for?

[fangirlings-things]

Goodbye [1/2]

➤ PART. 2

Fandom: Criminal Minds

Pairing: Aaron Hotchner x reader

Word count: 1.5K

Warnings: heavy angst, mentions of death

Summary: after being taken by an unsub, you are given a goodbye call and you use it to call the chief of your unit and lover, Aaron Hotchner

A/N: just a lot of angst with this man because I love him!!! let me know your thoughts and if you want me to write the second part this is supposed to have lots of love 💖

GIF IS NOT MINE || TAG LIST: @imaginesofyourfandom ; @locke-writes ; @regalbanshee

Hotch could not believe his own ears when the phone rang in the room in Oklahoma City the police had given the BAU team to use during the current investigation. Everyone had been expecting that call for 48 hours now. They knew that call would be made, because that was the signature. The signature of the killer they had been hunting.

Hotch exchanged a brief look with all the team as he walked forward towards the table were the phone was. All the others had something in their expressions that he knew probably resembled his own. Fear. He actually had to take a deep breath before pressing the button to pick up the call.

As the phone was programmed to sound on speaker, the whole team was able to hear a shallow breathing on the line. No one dared to say anything, too tense to do such a thing. But then they didn’t have to, because the person with the shallow breathing then spoke. “H-Hotch?”

It broken him. Right then and there. He did not want to believe it, he refused to. For 48 hours he had given all he had to try to solve that case in time, but hadn’t been able to. As the M.O said, the killer gave his victims one last call before finishing them. And that was happening. That was your last call and it did not surprise anyone, that you were looking for him. For you, it had always been him.

“Hotch?” your voice sounded again, weak, and that finally set him into action.

“(Y/N)?” your name seemed heavy on his tongue, like it had never before. He leaned down and pressed his hands into the surface of the table as id to hold himself up. “(Y/N), I’m here. Where are you?”

“You know I don’t know that. And if you’re asking me, I suppose you and the team don’t either” you tried to give out a little laugh, but it quickly turned into a cough. From their side of the line, Garcia pressed one of her hands to her mouth, tears already steaming down her face.

“(Y/N), anything. Anything at all that…” the leader of the unit said, the words leaving his mouth in a terrified rush.

“Aaron” the intensity of your tone and the fact that you used his first name made him go quiet on the very same instant. Around the room, no one else dared to speak. They knew you wanted Hotch, and him only. “Stop. It’s over, babe”

“No, it’s not. We can…” he began again, trying hard to keep his voice steady.

“Aaron” you spoke again, much more softly this time and it seemed as if Hotch had been slapped. He pressed his palms so hard against the table that his knuckles turned white. “This is my goodbye call. You know what this means”

“You have to remember something. Anything. Did you see…” your silence was unbearable and his voice died in his throat, tears blurring his vision and falling on the table. “I shouldn’t have sent you alone”

“You know I would have gone anyway. I lost, it’s part of the job. But you and the team will still be able to catch him” he realized you thought the others weren’t hearing your words and silently decided to leave it that way. He knew you never liked to be so exposed and fragile in front of everyone. And still, he could not ask them to leave the room. Honestly, he thought he wouldn’t be able to go through that alone. “You have to catch him, Aaron”

“I will. I promise you, I will” from the corner of his eye, he saw David pull a chair and sit down to then support his face on his hands, the sadness clear in his features. “(Y/N)…”

“I know” you said, and it made him go silent again. “I know” you repeated and the team was able to hear the change in your voice when you started to cry. “I’m really going to miss you, Aaron. God, I already do” in that moment Derek took his hands to his head and started to walk around the room, in agony. “I’m going to miss having to make you leave the office and go home. Spending the weekends with you and Jack. Falling asleep by your side on the jet” you sobbed loudly then, giving into emotion. Emily cleared her throat to stop herself from sobbing too. Hotch had to pull away from the table to take a deep breath and control his own now unregular breathing. “But above all, I’m sorry”

“What?” he asked, too confused and overwhelmed by the whole situation.

“I’m sorry for making you go through this again. I know how much your suffered because of Hailey. I never wanted you to have to…” you sobbed again. The hot tears streaming down his face seemed like a waterfall, never ending. Never stopping. “I’m so sorry”

“This is not your fault” he forced his voice to go out. He came back closer to the table and sat down on a chair merely because he felt like falling down at any moment. “You know this is not your fault”

“Still, I wanted you to know” you went silent for long moments and just when he was about to call out, your voice came back. “Can’t believe I’m not going to see everyone again. This team…” you laughed a bit and all of them could picture your smile. “I’m going to miss them all so much”

“(Y/N), anything…” Hotch grabbed into hope, wishing, craving something, anything, that would change the outcome of what was to happen.

“Tell David to don’t get married again” you interrupted, sniffing as you tried to stop crying. Talk about your co-workers made your tone sound sweeter and you felt a certain warmth in your chest. “Between the job and the idea of another divorce, he will loose it” you laughed and David laughed too silently, nodding in agreement. “Emily belongs in the BAU. She’s an amazing profiler, and an amazing friend” Prentiss closed her eyes at the compliments, feeling too deeply. “Don’t let J.J work too much. Make her go home by seven and please, if she’s overwhelmed, make her take a few days to herself” J.J by hearing you talk about her, turned around and stormed out of the room, unable to hear more. “Penelope, oh, I adore her. Thank her for all the advices, the playlists she made to cheer me up and listen on the jet. Thank her for everything” Garcia reprimanded a sob and left just like J.J had done. “Derek…” Morgan instantly stopped walking and fixed his blurry eyes on the phone, like he could see you somehow. “he is my best friend. My best friend in the entire world. Tell him I remember every laugh, moment, drink, every pizza night we had together. I wish we had more of those” Morgan really cried now, punching the closest wall with all the force he had. If you heard the sound, you did not mention it. “Spencer is the brother I never had” Reid, who sat on a chair close to Rossi, squeezed his lips on a thin line. “I love that he always have… had a new historical fact to tell me about. Seeing him trying to eat in hashis always made me laugh so hard. Tell him to visit his mother more. I know he misses her” another pause. Another sob. “I love them all. Tell them that I do. Hotch?”

“Yes?” he took the tears away from his face with the back of his right hand, feeling his chest aching. It was like he could literally feel his heart breaking.

“I love you. It took me a long time to say so, maybe too long. I wish we had more time” you sobbed again, harder, and that sound was horrifying, like it came straight out of a nightmare. “I found the ring, Aaron. On your drawer. I was only looking for a shirt and there it was… the ring” Hotch closed his eyes hardly, telling himself he wanted to wake up. He had to wake up and see that it was not real. It couldn’t be. “I would’ve said yes, Aaron. It would have definitely been a yes” and then the line went silent.

“(Y/N)?” Hotch called, but there was no answer. His breath hissed. “(Y/N), keep talking to me, babe” nothing still. “(Y/N), please, talk to me”

“Aaron” David got up from his chair and walked around the table to put a hand on his shoulder.

“Please…” he was the one who then started sobbing.

━━━━━━━━━━ × ━━━━━━━━━━

“Aaron, we need to talk” David entered the room of the station where Hotch had been alone in for hours now. As he got no response, he insisted. “Aaron?”

“Leave me alone” he said only, eyes still fixed on the phone from which he had heard your last words. Last words.

“Aaron” David said again, more seriously this time.

“What?” Hotch raised his voice, eyes dry and hurting. The tears seemed to have ended long before.

David fixed his eyes on his. “Garcia found something”

[alexazbofficial]

[INTERVIEW] AleXa Is Repping for K-Pop and Oklahoma In ‘American Song Contest’

The Tulsa-born singer has been living in South Korea for four years but returned to the U.S. to compete on NBC's American take on Eurovision.

“K-Pop” and “Oklahoma” are two words you don’t really think of in the same breath. But one of the 56 artists competing on the Monday (March 21) night series premiere of NBC’s American Song Contest just might change that — AleXa, a K-Pop artist from Tulsa, Okla. Born to a South Korean mother and an American father, she first learned about K-Pop in 2008, through one of her best friends.

“The first group I ever saw was Super Junior – they’re a huge senior group in the K-Pop industry, but my gateway was SHINee,” AleXa tells Billboard. “I’ve been hooked ever since.” She moved to Korea in the first quarter of 2018 and competed on two reality shows, Rising Star and Produce 48. She signed with ZB, a label owned by South Korean video production company Zanybros. Her first single, “Bomb,” was released on Oct. 21, 2019. “It was right before the pandemic hit,” she says. Two more singles followed: “ReviveR” and “Tattoo.” After living in South Korea for four years, AleXa returned to the U.S. this year to compete in American Song Contest.

“My manager is Swedish, so when we received the invitation to audition, we thought, ‘Yes, this is iconic.’ It’s literally Eurovision, but now we’re spreading it to America. It was just a wonderful opportunity and I was so excited to take it.”

AleXa knew about Eurovision from watching videos online by past winners like ABBA and Måneskin, though she has never seen a full broadcast. She did watch the 2022 edition of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish heat to pick the country’s song for Eurovision, because Moa (Cazzi Opeia) Carlebecker, one of the writers of her ASC entry “Wonderland,” was competing as an artist and she facilitated AleXa’s entry into ASC. “It helped that I had worked with Cazzi. Then all of these wonderful creatives came together and the song was presented to us. I fell in love with it immediately and we knew we had to go with that song.”

Swedish hitmaker Andreas Carlsson (“I Want It That Way,” Backstreet Boys; “Waking Up in Vegas,” Katy Perry; “Bye Bye Bye,” *NSYNC) became involved with American Song Contest through his friends Peter Settman, Christer Bjorkman and Anders Lenhoff, who sold the idea of an American version of the Eurovision Song Contest to NBC. He has co-written seven of the 56 entries for season one, including “Wonderland.”

“Being close to both the Swedish and Korean K-Pop community, I found the song after listening to hundreds of submissions from my personal network,” Carlsson tells Billboard. “As AleXa could possibly be the first American K-Pop sensation, the song had to appeal to American audiences without alienating her Korean fans. There is a specific formula to K-Pop that must be considered when creating the song. I eventually ended up as a co-writer on the song as it had to be a bit more westernized. Then writer Bekuh Boom came into the mix with some brilliant topline ideas and everyone felt we had something special. Sometimes it takes a lot of chefs to serve up something extraordinary.”

Those chefs include songwriters Albin Nordqvist, Ellen Berg and Carlebecker. “We originally wrote ‘Wonderland’ for the Korean market, where we have been working regularly for years,” Nordqvist tells Billboard. “We weren’t aware of the existence of American Song Contest at that time. Andreas reached out because he was asked to find songs for the already established AleXa, who was known to us since Moa and Ellen had already written songs for her. Andreas helped us adapt the melodies, lyrics and arrangement for the U.S. market, together with American writer Bekuh Boom. Andreas and Bekuh are familiar with both the U.S. and Korean markets.”

Asked why Swedish songwriters have had so much success in K-Pop, Carlebacker and Berg told Billboard in a statement, “We believe it’s a mix of several reasons such as socio-economic factors like education being free in Sweden. Learning to play an instrument, singing in a choir, learning about music production and song writing, performing and playing in a band is encouraged from a very young age. Having the opportunity to truly focus on your art and creativity, without having to pay for an expensive education, makes it easier to dedicate your time and effort to pursue an international music career. The Swedish specialty for creating highly addictive rhymes and pop melodies (which are very important in K-Pop) might be a magic ingredient, on top of that we are meticulous, hard-working, have great work ethics and always strive to deliver songs of the highest quality possible.”

Since Carlebecker had just competed herself in Melodifestivalen, Billboard wanted to know what advice she would give to AleXa before her performance tonight in American Song Contest. “I would tell AleXa to have fun and enjoy every single moment of this crazy experience,” the writer who performs as Cazzi Opeia responded. “With a competition like this comes a lot of pressure and she will probably be nervous, but at the same time it will be so much fun. The whole thing is over extremely fast, so enjoy every step of the way and remember to take it all in. Don’t think about the show as a competition, just focus on your vocal performance and your dance routines, and you will be fine. The American Song Contest is a fantastic TV show and will be a memory for life.”

The only American songwriter on “Wonderland,” Bekuh Boom has written for Jordin Sparks, Blackpink and Jennifer Lopez. She toplined AleXa’s entry, meaning she wrote lyrics and melody, except for the bridge. Talking to Billboard about American Song Contest, she said, “I’m very excited to see people’s reaction to the show. I hope it shines more light on the songs and their meaning and I think we’re getting to a place where more people are caring about not just the song but the people and meaning behind it. I hope this shift will start to translate in the way songwriters specifically are treated and compensated in the future and it’s exciting to have artists and songwriters shining together. I’m very excited for AleXa and wish her all the best.”

As for AleXa, she let Billboard know what she would tell viewers about her American Song Contest performance. “Expect the unexpected. My song is a pop-infused urban track, paying homage to Latin beats but definitely bringing the K-Pop element to the sound and visuals. I hope that people feel the energy and the fun that I have onstage. I’m just really proud of representing Oklahoma and the K-Pop community.”

Finally, we had to ask AleXa the most important question of all: what happens when she’s in a room where people say her name out loud? “The funny thing about that is I personally have [an Amazon device] and my parents have one as well, so any time we’re doing a FaceTime call and I say my stage name or my folks say my stage name, Alexa says, ‘Sorry, I didn’t get that.’ And we just say, ‘Stop, we weren’t talking to you.'”

© Billboard

[hotchocolateandpillowforts]

Welp, the next 48 hours are gonna be shitty. I'm driving up to Oklahoma in the morning. I was basically volunteered by my entire family over Thanksgiving to come for an important doctor's appointment my mom has on Friday.

I drive up on Thursday, get to put together the new vacuum that we just replaced for them and that I'm bringing with me, vacuum the whole house, cook dinner. Then the next morning I get to drive my mom an hour out to her appointment go to the appointment and then do the hour drive back. Just to then drive back to Texas.

I had a huge breakdown last week because of the sheer amount of stress and fear and anger I have right now. Neither my grandmother nor my mother are doing well physically and we need to start thinking about other living arrangements for them. Plus I've been having a shitty few months when it comes to my own health.

Plus plus I've also just gotten really fed up with the people in my family ignoring my health problems because they want me to be healthy enough to take care of everyone else. Literally, my brain is coming out of my skull but sure I'll do *EVERYTHING* so that no one else in the family is inconvenienced in the slightest. Not even the shitty uncle who lives less than 30 minutes away.

[mikaylaology]

Idolized and Demonized: The Black Body

Field Work Assignment #5

(Just a pre note some of the images might not seem to align with the subject matter but with the amount of black trauma drowning the internet I’m not going to show black bodies or people in pain)

Since Tik Tok’s popularity spike back in 2018 many topics of discussion involving race, gender, sexuality and a numerous amount of subject matters have appeared on the app and have never left the mainstream. To it’s benefit millions of individuals have become more aware of how they impact others negatively hopefully trying to become more enlightened. How ever many have just used this app as a tool to harass, harm and insult others mainly those who they believe are inferior to themselves.

A historically envied body, the black body, feels as if the prejudice targeted towards it hasn’t left the roots of good old fashioned anti black rhetoric spanning decades. Since the brutality of American Colonial Slavery Black bodies have been featured on posters, books, movies, lyrics and any other conceivable media there is. In images flashing on the screen most don’t allow the humanity of blackness to be explored. Most outside and inside the race of “Black” seeing black people as the objects they appear on. To be gawked at and replicated onto anything but a black body.

Racism

As previously mentioned in the above paragraph and in the video, through the lens of White Europeans black people were not seen as people. Many discuss the aspect of hatred towards black people by Europeans as purely violent and disgusted and while that is undisputedly true I would also argue for the almost blatant envy of black people, civilizations and culture.

The many times in which I've studied black history a clear mantra always repeats through my mind when talking about the raping and pillaging of the continent of Africa, it’s that “You don’t break into as house you think has no money”. This means that on some level European colonizers knew that of the many countries stretched across Africa, most if not all had resources, intellectual power or just plain money.

In America history black homes, businesses and communities were raided. Extorting the communities for its most valuable asset, white homes seem to flourish in areas while black ones burned. A prime example of this being the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in which enraged white men and women armed with not only weapons but the intent to conquer destroyed this predominantly black Oklahoma town in just 48 hours.

Neighbor hoods affected by illnesses like the 90s crack epidemic and ever increasing rates of incarceration derived from  the fears of white society no longer being superior in the western world. News media constantly covers stories of tragedy mocking or pitying the black community exposing images of maimed black bodies as if to satiate some deeper sinister afformation.

Intersectionality

Black men have been targeted because of the sexist ideology of men being the “head of the house” leading to the literal and figurative hunting of young black boys in order to disrupt black house holds leaving many fatherless, childless and permanently scared. And while personally I as a black women understand the need to protect and help my male counter parts, the history of misogynoir, colorism, homophobia and xenophobia can’t be tolerated. 

Unfortunately in most aspects the black and white communities seem to mimic themselves in regards to prejudice with in their own circles the difference being the oppression of black people. An example of this being homophobia.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community have been harassed and ostracized in the black community since its assimilation to white American society. People have lost homes and lives just being themselves being told their “wrong” or going through a faze. Gay men are called sissy or fruity while Lesbian women are further hyper masculinized becoming victims to sexual abuse by family members or community members believing they can “fix” them through rape, sex work or molestation. Many of these instances happen when people or children. Movies like Moon Light highlight how devastating the toll of exclusion plays on young black minds.

Genotype and Phenotype

Pseudo science has numerous times in the past tried to biologically prove that the established “Black Race” was inferior to the “White Race”. There is no such thing proving that any body that isn’t white is genetically inferior or superior.

Black women have often been dissected time and time again. Hyper Sexualized and Masculinized stereotypes of black women have been used to justify the violence put upon them. As well as the replication of them. It should be commonly known that not all black women look them same.

The main attributes contributed to black people typically are full lips, darker skin, coily hair, a curvier figure and so on. The rise in body modification surgeries and cosmetic surgeries have many people, most being women, throwing bill after bill into body goals once thought to be previously unattainable. Popular surgeries like Brazilian Butt Lifts and Lip injections emulate parts of black bodies originally seen as barbaric or purely undesirable. These same traits many pay thousands to get were used to as racist fodder. 

The classic movie or show trope of white women’s fear of growing a large butt or bigger hips was a staple in almost any genre from teen coming of age stories to dramatic romances. When white women are shown to have body types similar to this people glorify and praise them. But when shown on black women naturally especially darker skinned black women their labeled as ghetto, to sexual or grotesque. 

In an Article written by  Sydneysky G. titled Kim Parker, and all the other “Sassy, Fat Black Friends” who came before her, are there to make us laugh, but not for us to take seriously as characters or human beings, they write, “ In fact, it feels like the character itself was created out of an anti-Black exaggeration of how fat Black women are perceived. And in doing this they make the thinner and/or lighter character look “better” by comparison. Kim was never meant to be the character audiences wanted to be but rather an example of the “ghetto” fat Black girls that society looks down on. Showing fatness as a moral failure, fat characters are made out to be cautionary tales of “unrespectable” Black girls. Using fat characters to prop up thin ones as morally better people ,”.

While Sydneysky’s argument centers around fatness in media the message is still the same. The bodies desirable by society have been heavily seen on black women and black femme presenting bodies but aren’t called the standard.

[helladirections]

can u update me on the senate im very confused rn bevause different sites are showing diff numbers

(disclaimer) i am not a whole expert

Yes, absolutely. 

I did a little bit of an explainer about this year’s Senate map here. Basically, Democrats needed to keep all their seats and flip 4 seats to reach a 51 majority. However, Doug Jones from Alabama, who narrowly won his special election last year because his opponent was a pedophile, predictably lost his seat. 

Every election year, approximately 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection (they serve 6 year terms). This year there were a total of 34 seats up, plus the special election in Georgia. Here is a list of every Senate race. North Carolina and Alaska haven’t technically been called, but the Republican has a giant advantage. The incumbent is on the left, and the winner is in bold. 

Alabama: Doug Jones (D) v Tommy Tuberville (R) Alaska: Dan Sullivan (R) v Al Gross (D) Arizona: Martha McSally (R) v Mark Kelly (D) Arkansas: Tom Cotton (R) v [no D candidate] Colorado: Cory Gardner (R) v John Hickenlooper (D) Delaware: Chris Coons (D) v Lauren Witzke (R) Georgia: David Perdue (R) v Jon Ossoff (D) Georgia Special: Kelly Loeffler (R) v Raphael Warnock (D) Idaho: Jim Risch (R) v Paulette Jordan (D) Illinois: Dick Durbin (D) v Mark Curran (R) Iowa: Joni Ernst (R) v Theresa Greenfield (D) Kansas: Roger Marshall (R) v Barbara Bollier (D) Kentucky: Mitch McConnell (R) v Amy McGrath (D) Louisiana: Bill Cassidy (R) v Derrick Edwards (D) Maine: Susan Collins (R) v Sara Gideon (D) Massachusetts: Ed Markey (D) v Kevin O’Connor (R) Michigan: Gary Peters (D) v John James (R) Minnesota: Tina Smith (D) v Jason Lewis (R) Mississippi: Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) v Mike Espy (D) Montana: Steve Daines (R) v Steve Bullock (D) Nebraska: Ben Sasse (R) v Chris Janicek (D) New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen (D) v Corky Messner (R) New Jersey: Cory Booker (D) v Rik Mehta (R) New Mexico: Ben Ray Lujan (D) v Mark Ronchetti (R) North Carolina: Thom Tillis (R) v Cal Cunningham (D) Oklahoma: James Inhofe (R) v Abby Broyles (D) Oregon: Jeff Merkley (D) v Jo Rae Perkins (R) Rhode Island: Jack Reed (D) v Allen Waters (R) South Carolina: Lindsey Graham (R) v Jaime Harrison (D) South Dakota: Mike Rounds (R) v Daniel Ahlers (D) Tennessee: Bill Hagerty (R) v Marquita Bradshaw (D) Texas: John Cornyn (R) v MJ Hegar (D) Virginia: Mark Warner (D) v Daniel Gade (R) West Virginia: Shelley Moore-Capito (R) v Paula Jean Swearengin Wyoming: Cynthia Lummis (R) v Merav Ben-David (D)

As you can see, we only flipped 2 seats, and neither Georgia race was called. Georgia state law says that in order to win, the candidate has to ear over 50% of the vote, which none of them did due to third party candidates. Both Georgia races are going into runoffs which will take place on January 5. 

That means right now, the senate power stands at 48-50. If both Dems win in Georgia in January, that put us at 50-50. If the Senate ties in a vote, the VP casts the tie-breaking  vote. 

This means that the Georgia races are VERY important. Without both of those seats, the Turtleman will continue to be in charge of the Senate and can stand in the way of a lot of things - any legislation he doesn’t like, any judge or cabinet nomination, literally anything. If we do win those two seats, then Kamala Harris gets to break any ties. 

im a poli sci grad with a career in democratic politics. ask me things if you have questions

[f4liveblogarchives]

Fantastic Four Vol 1 #140

Tues Jul 30 2019 [05:28 PM] Wack'd: It's Annihilus [05:28 PM] Wack'd: I put an autocorrect code in my keyboard so I wouldn't have to remember how to spell Annihilus [05:28 PM] Umbramatic: oof [05:29 PM] Wack'd: So Annihilus is coming to Earth to do something nasty to Franklin as vengeance for that one time Reed kicked his ass to save Sue from dying in childbirth [05:30 PM] Wack'd: (Don't ask, it's really not going to make any more sense than what I just said) [05:30 PM] Umbramatic: (...okay) [05:30 PM] Aleph Null: it's spelled anilingus [05:31 PM] Wack'd: Anyway Annihilus has a stowaway and he's kinda miffed about it but before we find out who that is we cut back to Earth [05:31 PM] Wack'd: Where you might recall Reed was moping and ignoring the Negative Zone alarm light [05:33 PM] Wack'd: Wyatt, Johnny, Ben, and Medusa are returning from their thrilling adventure in Oklahoma [05:33 PM] Wack'd: Medusa tells Ben to apologize for this but he's kinda got a point--priorities, Reed!

[05:34 PM] Wack'd: (Hey has Johnny tried to reach out to his sister since this started? Like at all?) [05:34 PM] Umbramatic: thank you ben [05:35 PM] Wack'd: Sue calls on the videophone to let Reed know something's up with Franklin and so Reed immediately leaps into action. One of the side effects of the split that I'm enjoying is now it's the rest of the team trying to prevent Reed from rushing in, rather than vice versa [05:36 PM] Wack'd: hahahhahahaahahahaha

[05:37 PM] Bocaj: Be nicer, Ben [05:37 PM] Umbramatic: floppy noodle [05:37 PM] Bocaj: She just concussed Reed for you [05:38 PM] Wack'd: CAR SEAT OF THE FUTURE

[05:39 PM] Wack'd: Hey. Hey Gerry. What exactly did Sue discover? How is she more self-aware? because near as I can tell she just chilled on a ranch riding horses for a few months

[05:41 PM] Wack'd: Anyway Agatha Harkness uses her powers to nearly crash the car and then asks Sue and Franklin to teleport away with her [05:41 PM] Wack'd: As ya do [05:41 PM] Umbramatic: only natural [05:42 PM] Wack'd: 🎵 Human fish / Human fish / What's he thinking? / Human fish / So mysterious 🎶

[05:43 PM] Wack'd: So Reed, Johnny, Ben, and Medusa arrive at the farm, only to be informed they've missed Sue entirely [05:43 PM] Wack'd: This is when Reed reveals he has a homing device in Sue's car [05:43 PM] Wack'd: C'mon, Reed [05:43 PM] Umbramatic: oh [05:44 PM] Umbramatic: not suprising but still oh [05:44 PM] Aleph Null: literal monarchs being in marvel team books will never stop being funny [05:44 PM] Bocaj: Look, they like to take down time [05:44 PM] Aleph Null: t'challa shirking his duties by being an avenger [05:45 PM] Wack'd: So they find Sue's car but there's burn marks. Reed does a science and determines there's Negative Zone radiation in the air [05:45 PM] Bocaj: "I did a science. Results are Negative" [05:46 PM] Wack'd: So they fly back to the Baxter to do some Negative Zoning [05:46 PM] Wack'd: But the Negative Zone has come to them!

[05:46 PM] Bocaj: He is insuffiencetly buggy here and looks like if Doctor Doom made some daring armor choices [05:46 PM] Umbramatic: nice teeth [05:47 PM] Wack'd: Those are not usually colored white and he looks like a huge dork this way [05:47 PM] Umbramatic: pfft [05:47 PM] maxwellelvis: Nyeaah [05:47 PM] maxwellelvis: what's up, doc [05:48 PM] Bocaj: "Nyeeeeh Reed you'll pay for taking the good bunsen burner!" >=B [05:48 PM] Wack'd: Fight fight fight [05:48 PM] maxwellelvis: So they fight and they fight and they fight and they fight and they [05:49 PM] Wack'd: Anyway he wipes the floor with them pretty fast but leaves Wyatt awake to exposit to [05:51 PM] Wack'd: So basically, a young, scrawny Annihilus was the first--seemingly only--sentient, self-aware life form on his planet in the Negative Zone during a primordial period a thousand years ago [05:51 PM] Umbramatic: only a thousand? [05:52 PM] Wack'd: Yeah, though he points out this process took a lot longer when Earth did it [05:52 PM] Umbramatic: aha [05:52 PM] Wack'd: He finds an ancient starship, and a helmet, which he puts on thinking it will shield him from the elements [05:52 PM] maxwellelvis: Yeah, that's something that's kept consistent throughout the decades, Annihilus being hyper-evolved [05:53 PM] Wack'd: The helmet tells him of a precursor race of proud warrior anthropomorphic lions [05:53 PM] Bocaj: Of course [05:54 PM] Wack'd: During a mission to sees barren worlds with life, they crashed and basically decided to dump all of their life-stuff here [05:54 PM] Wack'd: And then they starved to death [05:54 PM] Bocaj: So: idiots [05:54 PM] Umbramatic: f [05:56 PM] Wack'd: Annihilus decides to use his intellect and newfound technology to take revenge on all of the stupid animals who attacked him in the wild [05:56 PM] Bocaj: "TAKE THAT, YA DUMB DONKEY" [05:57 PM] Wack'd: 'S like early man going "man, fuck that sabertooth tiger in particular" [05:57 PM] Umbramatic: fucking saberteeth, am i right [05:58 PM] Wack'd: Anyway, I feel like this is actually a fairly good backstory? Annihilus obsession with power and petty revenge is well-contextualized by basically being a doofus caveman with no sense of scale [05:58 PM] Umbramatic: ye [05:58 PM] maxwellelvis: Like if Vandal Savage was an alien [05:58 PM] Wack'd: And also never learned anything despite being immortal [05:59 PM] Bocaj: "When will I ever use this in real life?" - Annihilus except about everything [06:00 PM] Wack'd: Anyway Annihilus raises Wyatt over his head and chucks him dramatically into the Negative Zone, where Reed, Johnny, Ben, and Medusa are already waiting [06:00 PM] Wack'd: And then follows them in for a cliffhanger

[purplepints]

I'm an American. I'm pale af because my families came to the US from Ireland and Germany. My grandparents all ended up traveling west from New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, Arkansas, et al for different reasons, ending up in New Mexico.

New Mexico gained statehood in 1912. It is in the southwest between Texas (to our east), Arizona (to our west) and Colorado (to our north. We are one of the 'Four Corners' states (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) and also share a teeny sliver of a border with Oklahoma because slavery. Ask Texas.

Anyway.

We, New Mexico, are almost always forgotten or overlooked by other people in the US. It happens so often that there is an actual section of New Mexico Magazine called "One of Our 50 Is Missing" where submissions can be sent about this never-ending eye-roll inducing frustration. This is not only an in-person occurance, it covers everything from mailing packages to dealing with customer service hotlines and more. Everyone from New Mexico has at least one of these stories.

To nip the "oh maybe they just heard Mexico" argument in the bud? Yes, the vast majority of New Mexicans, when someone says 'Mexico?' or otherwise makes a reference to the Country of Mexico, will correct the other person by saying 'No, NEW Mexico' and in the majority of these instances I personally did clarify "NEW Mexico, the actual State":

- Probably the most oft-repeated is "....but you're white?!" in a questioning tone after I say I'm from NM.

- My actual officially issued State ID being rejected/questioned and my Passport being demanded (I did not have a passport until very recently as I never needed one), then my "other documents or whatever you should have". Again I am a white so I'll at least grudingly give those jackasses points for equal idiocy toward NM regardless of melanin.

- My English and/or grasp of US culture being "excellent" or "unexpected" (also asking when/where I learned english and how I enjoy visiting the US).

- Do we use USD/American currency or told that they only take 'American money', especially hilarious when I'm paying with a card.

- When giving phone number, interrupted and asked for 'the country code first' or told I left it blank on forms; when giving address cut-off after saying "New Mexico, 8—" with "ma'am we don't mail Internationally"

- Being told to tell my family "gracias for their service, didn't know y'all helped America" at the WWII Memorial Monument after taking a picture of the New Mexico arch/wreath (the states are all in order) by a couple who even after I literally pointed at the NEW MEXICO and said 'the State of New Mexico in the southwest, been here since 1912, the 48th state' and that the WWII vets were US-born white men, still didn't seem to understand why New Mexico had a spot or why NM fought alongside the US.

- While working at medical offices, having medical claims denied by out of state companies due to "no foreign/out of country services covered by this plan" and losing it on a lady being extremely obstinate after she huffs and goes "Look, [Pints], I'm all the way over here in Houston you can't expect me to—" My interrupting New Mexican ass who is 713% done with her stupid Houston ass: 'LADY YOU'RE IN TEXAS, LOOK WEST, WE LITERALLY BORDER YOUR STUPID ASS' and then apologizing by saying I shouldn't have yelled, I just made the silly assumption that she, as a professional in Texas, would not just know NM, but all 50 states of the country (the claim was faxed over approved by end of day).

.....and believe me, I have more, and some of them made me want to do violence. A few almost had violence happen to me, too. Fucking Tennessee.

So what I'm saying here in general is that Americans don't know their own fucking country and still think everything west of Texas until Disneyland is all cactus and cowboys and people riding donkeys to school and if they can't wrap their brains around the main 48 + 2 you honestly can't have faith they know much of anything about any other country.

For more face-palming true accounts of this phenomenon, here is the link to the archive of 'One of Our 50 Is Missing' via New Mexico Magazine :

https://www.newmexico.org/heart-of-nm/one-of-our-50-is-missing/

Edit to add: Also, nobody from New Mexico gives a shit about your theories or opinions on Roswell/UFOs. Please don't start up with that bullshit even if that's all you know about NM.

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..