#Rhea Seehorn's arms

[thekimspoblog]

Fanfic idea: "Last Clear Chance Doctrine"

Cannon divergence from "Black and Blue" (6x05): Kim shows up to box Howard instead and confronts him - point blank - about why dragging out the Sandpiper case is unethical and how, because HHM kept stealing cases out from under Wexler-McGill, their options have been limited to (1) continuing to live paycheck-to-paycheck, (2) taking on high-paying but unsafe clients, or (3) stealing Sandpiper back by any means necessary. She explains how - animosity aside - the sabotage is not about revenge; she's tired of needing Howard's permission to start her own practice and live her life.

See here's my reasoning... Yes, Jimmy confronted Howard earlier in "Fall" (3x09) trying to convince him to do the right thing. But because this show is all about ambiguity, unbeknownst to Jimmy, Howard is coming fresh off a nasty fight with Chuck and wasn't really open for another debate. And Wexler-McGill went directly from that to deciding to sabotage the case... because they are crazy people and this is a wacky tv show. But it does make you wonder if, had they appealed to Howard one more time after Chuck died, if things could have gone differently.

There are two potential endings for this fic:

Howard sees reason and decides to settle, and we follow what that means for HHM and for his pride. He's redeemed, but is tragically killed in some other freak accident because my HC is that this character is just straight-up marked by the reaper.

Or (more likely) because in case you haven't noticed I don't really like Howard, it would be a character study; on the breakthroughs he is (or isn't!) making in therapy, wtf his problems with Cheryl are, and most importantly why he CAN'T risk HHM's finances by settling, because the legacy of the firm is all twisted up with his baggage about his father and about Chuck. And the rest of Season 6 proceeds as it canonically did. But now with the vindication/absolution that what Jimmy and Kim did really was the only way the old folks were going to see justice in a timely fashion. Probably a little bit of me on my soapbox about late-stage capitalism a bit by the end.

The great thing about BrBaBCS fanfiction is that it takes every possible moment of the timeline, and spirals them out into fractals of missed opportunities and roads not taken. And one of those missed opportunities was making your testosterone-fueled, fan-service, explicitly-canonically-resolved-nothing, plot-cul-de-sac of a boxing scene slightly less pointless by at least showing off what Rhea's biceps can do.

Like Jimmy just is a (supposedly cis) man; so anything he thought he had to prove by fighting Howard was just stupid machismo. Kim on the other hand... her beef with Howard is specifically tied to how Howard is a bit sexist and constantly overlooks her. So even if she lost the boxing match (she totally wouldn't), she'd still have won by calling his bluff and pressuring Howard to hit her as hard as he was prepared to punch Jimmy.

[iamtheholyghost]

I don't think I'll ever be over this 🥵

[notcapableofbeingtheguy]

“[In Hit and Run] almost every character to a man shows a vulnerability that we might not have been aware of.

Cliff Main having a son that has a drug problem.

Gus Fring having this… small private moment of being irritated that he has to be armed and wear a gun on his ankle.

This beautiful scene [in therapy] from Patrick [Fabian as Howard].

Kim finding out they're being followed and being frightened.

Even DDA Oakley… we find out that he has a line in the sand with ethics that’s really eating away at him.

Everybody had this little bit of a soft belly.”

— Rhea Seehorn on Hit and Run, her directorial debut (from the Better Call Saul insider podcast)

[andyridgeley]

i wanna see hannah waddingham and rhea seehorn arm wrestle (affectionate)

[farrawayfromthere]

tag game rules: tag nine people you’d like to catch up with or get to know better

tagged by @gravelyhumerus 🕺🏻 ✨ check out her beautiful art and fics!!! the college jemily au (i scream)!!!!

favorite color: it changes like a mood ring but rn dark cherry red

currently reading: in between books but i just finished re-listening the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides (some of the most beautiful, rich writing about such a hard subject... dense like a cake or something i stg) and i’m gonna read middlesex by him next

last song: dance, baby! by boy pablo

last movie: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i think it was ‘things seen and heard’ which I watched exclusively for rhea seehorn

last series: the x-files

coffee or tea: coffee ☕️

currently working on: my second year of medical school and all the things that go w that (😌😬), the long ass epilogue to my jemily fic, brainstorming a scooby doo/buzzfeed unsolved-ish criminal minds au (might happen, might not), uh... my life

tagging: @kimberly-wexler , @jemilyisms , @danversisgaysaywhat , @mybrightstar , @jj-arms , @mcpercky , @ssa-sapphic , @issuesofthesoul , and @smdcs !!

[ariverofsongs]

Ok but Rhea Seehorn is really inspiring me to work out so I can get strong again and have some ripped af arms

[debbierhea]

thinking of deborah rhea seehorn in her chunky glasses and shredded arms reading me a bedtime story. i am normal

[dangerscully]

can’t wait to rock up to my first personal trainer session since before lockdown v1.0 after a year of minimal exercise, hand my pt a photo of rhea seehorn’s arms, point at it, and go “that, please”

[fearsomeandwretched]

rhea seehorns arms

[villa-kulla]

Some of the Breaking Bad sights from my mini-trip to the southwest! Was visiting a friend in Colorado but flew in and out of Albuquerque so took full advantage by making my way around some of the more iconic BrBa/El Camino/BCS locations! (going down, left, right, left, right...)

The Holy Land aka Twisters aka Los Pollos Hermanos! This one in particular was pretty surreal, and my visit happened to coincide with a small tour group passing through so I was able to eavesdrop on their guide and hear about who sat in which booths etc. Didn’t eat there but did get a couple gatorades since I - very predictably - got sunstroke on the first day.

Had my first breakfast at The Grove! Super nice cafe which I would have enjoyed more had I not been so anxious that morning. Two of my flights in were cancelled (one literally turning back midair), so I’d gotten in super late and had a stressful time finding my way to my hotel in the dark with no internet/gps, in a rental car I didn’t really know well yet. Anyways woke up the next morning at 4 feeling so anxious I debated just flying back home that same day lol. But I told myself to get a grip and to go sightsee to feel better AND I DID. Anyways this was my first stop after getting myself out of the hotel and I couldn’t eat much of what seemed like a very good breakfast sandwich. But the tea + stevia was great! Better than Lydia’s anyhow:P

Got my nails done at Zen Nail Spa, which was the one Saul tries to convince Jesse to buy to launder his money! “Pink, Pinkman, get it?”

The Dog House! I so wish I’d eaten here, but when you’re full you’re full. Also wish I’d gone at night to see the neon sign properly, but I was pretty wiped out by sundown and had a long drive the next day. Next time!

Jesse’s House! Okay so I wasn’t originally planning on going to any of the houses, but when I realized how close it was to the Dog House I walked by, and since no one was home I snapped a quick pic. It really is a gorgeous house/neighbourhood. I wasn’t even tempted to go to the ‘White House’ though, just knowing how much the owners have to put up with lol.

Tuco’s clubhouse!...which is actually a very funky cafe called Java Joe’s.

The Owl Cafe! This one I’d already seen pictures of pre-El Camino, and it’s exactly the kind of kitschy structure I’m into. Picked up a very good chocolate milkshake there. 

Probably the highlight of these sights, El Moreno aka ‘El Michoacano’ aka where Nacho and the Salamancas conduct their cartel business! This one is quite close to Twisters, and on my way there I was like ‘oh that’s a cool yellow building, oh THAT’S IT!’ Stopped in on the way back, and it looks exactly like it does on the show. I ended up grabbing early dinner there which was delish (I don’t think it was it was Lalo cooking back in in the kitchen...). But yeah just a really neat, out of the way, super authentic little restaurant, and I totally get the showrunners seeing it and wanting to include it just because of what a distinct exterior it has.

Also picked up some swag of course! It’s probably for the best I never visited ABQ at the height of my BrBa infatuation haha otherwise I’m sure there wouldn’t have been a single piece of merch left in the city:P But I got a BCS mug to go with my BrBa one and some blue ‘meth candy’ from the lady who made all the rock candy for the show. 

Oh and I also had a nice long chat with the guy who runs ‘The Breaking Bad Store’ in Albuquerque, which is all very cool BrBa souvenirs. He’s met pretty much the whole cast/crew and says everyone is crazy nice. He has a lot of their autographs tattooed on his arms (if it were not obvious, he’s a massive fan lol) and apparently when Rhea Seehorn saw them she said ‘not a lot of the women on there, huh?’ so he had her sign his arm and he later showed it to her tattooed and she was delighted lol #queen. But yeah we traded BCS theories, gushed a lot about different scenes, and you should definitely stop in and say hi if you’re a fan and in town, because he’s very nice and had a lot of good stories!

Anyways I saw a lot of other cool, non Breaking Bad stuff in ABQ too haha, it’s a very neat city, but thought I’d keep the BrBa pics/trivia confined to one post:P But yeah, I had a shorter trip than planned because of all the nonsense with my flights, but it was still nice to get one full day in ABQ before driving up to see my friend! I’d go back anytime.

[myncisworld-2point0]

THE PERFORMER | Christopher Lloyd

THE SHOW | NCIS

THE EPISODE | “The Arizona” (April 14, 2020)

THE PERFORMANCE | When it was announced that Lloyd, so beloved for his work on Taxi and in the Back to the Futurefilms, would be guest-starring on CBS’ No. 1 drama, you had to suspect something special was on tap. But perhaps no one anticipated the range of emotions his performance would evoke.

As Joe Smith, a 95-year-old who tasked Gibbs’ team with proving that he was stationed aboard the USS Arizona at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor (and thus deserves to have his ashes interred there upon his death), Lloyd was, yes, amusing, such as when insisting that McGee and Jimmy make like CSI by comparing DNA samples. And yes, he was formidably gruff when chastising Bishop and Torres for their anemic knowledge of naval history.

But when Gibbs pressed the alleged vet to make his own case by detailing the sights, sounds and smells of Dec. 7, 1941, Lloyd let loose with one of the most vivid, anguished monologues in recent TV history. “It was me!” he bellowed, in such a way that Gibbs (Mark Harmon, with one of his own finest performances) probably needed to hear nothing else. But he would hear so much more. “It was like the Devil opened his mouth and made a noise that was all screaming!” Joe recalled, gesticulating as if trying to wave away the memory of “body parts all over the deck,” while any intact seamen were “charred to the bone.” Joe’s recollection got personal, and Lloyd broke down sobbing, as he described fishing three men out of the water, including his friend Ozzy: “We should have been tossing a football!”

Joe summed up his feelings by saying that his crew mates were brothers to him, and when he passes, “I want to be laid to rest with my family. I want to go home.” That wish would be granted very soon after as Lloyd delivered a gut punch of a death scene, when Joe suffered a sudden heart attack and faded in Gibbs’ arms.

[vince-thrilligan]

Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan pick which PENS are on the desk. There's zero percent chance my cast would be on the wrong arm.

Rhea Seehorn, talking about how some Better Call Saul fans thought there was a continuity error when her character, Kim Wexler, had a cast on her arm but they were mistaken. When she is looking into a mirror, the cast is reflected but still on the correct arm. 

[heisenbergchronicles]

Q: How difficult was it working with the cast on your arm? A - Rhea Seehorn: “My cast is real. It is not removable and is on for the duration of the scenes until it is sawed off. Paramedics put it on in the morning. It was a matter of testing a lot of different materials to see what we could get away with that would still look real. If you do a cast at your wrist, you can slip it off but as soon as you go past your elbow joint, you can’t slip something on and off. We had some pretty high-tech art department people that tried to come up with things. Once you make it big enough for clips in the back, it gets very fat. So, this was the best option. I didn’t fight that because I trust all of the creative people on the team and it came to be an interesting burden for me to use as Kim. Doing my own bra was impossible and I had to ask for help. It made me think about Kim having to ask Jimmy to do her bra in the mornings. She must hate that! I needed help in the lunch line. I don’t love being a pain in the ass, so it was good for me to realize that Kim would be feeling that times 300. I liked it for that reason. I didn’t hate it in real life, but it was fun to think about how much it would bother Kim.” (x)

[jeremyfrail]

any predictions for the rest of the season?

Yea dude it ends in fucking tears and sorrow. I hope it’s bittersweet. I have a grim theory for you and then one that is not too specific.

1. Saul dies

Saul is about to be in some big trouble and that sucker is finally getting backed into a corner.

I will say this, for a while I have written and extensively thought about Saul dying at the end of this. Jimmy dying. James Morgan McGill getting peace from this life of pain and suffering. The only way in which he can escape his life of crime, that has haunted him for years, is through death.

He has lost the true will to live as he wants, that’s why he lives in a grey world without his true colors. He is lonely and in hiding, however with that recently being compromised, he feels as though he needs to take care of it. But regardless, nobody truly needs him and because of that he’s not able to exist by himself for much longer. 

Saul has once again been breaking bad, he wants money, he wants to save money in fact, maybe to get Kim back. He’s slipping up. But in all of that he is getting lost in it, he’s getting sloppy. His drive and effort that he once had for the woman he has always loved, has landed him a car wreck of anger and spite. I believe the best suitable ending for him is either the freedom of death or severe jail time.

I am fairly certain that we will see Saul and Kim be reunited, but maybe not under the best of circumstances. I would like to see him getting arrested, and her serving as his attorney.

This is where the morbid part comes in, and alternate idea, perhaps he is dying in her arms, after something horrific happens. That’s not to say I want that to happen, but can you imagine how upsetting that would be. And as she is holding him, or perhaps laying beside him, he is telling her how to get out and start a new life, once again without him. I think the discussion of “a dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract® 60 Pressure Pro™” will come into play at some point. Maybe He tells her this, in hopes of her getting out because he no longer can. He’s done, “Saul gone”(literally)

2. The ending for Kim that doesn’t involve death(not her own)

Rhea Seehorn has teased that death is not the only tragic end, and perhaps it’s not her death that is tragic but instead Saul’s. But even outside of that idea, let’s say neither of them die. Something horrible can still happen that can be heartbreaking. And at the end of the day, that’s what I’m counting on. 

I will be very content with any ending that we receive because the show is so well written, and in my opinion, has created a perfect narrative. At the end of the day I truly hope I don’t predict anything further, I already guessed some stuff that was true and that was enough.  

[newagesispage]

                                                              DECEMBER    2020

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Peace!!

*****

Joe Biden is the President elect with Kamala Harris as VP. Emily Murphy of the General Services Administration has finally allowed them to begin the transition.** A. Blinken will be the new Sec. of state. By the end of the month, Joe feel while playing with his dog and has a hairline fracture.

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Ken Burns is working on programs about LBJ, The American Revolution, the Buffalo and more.

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The airlines got a $50billion bailout then laid off $90,000 people.

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A bill has been introduced in congress that will reduce animal experimentation. Let’s hope.

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A 10- 12 ft. Metal Monolith was found in the Utah desert. By the end of the month, it was gone and another showed up in Romania.

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Come Away is a film that combines Wonderland and Neverland.

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John Mulaney has joined Late Night as a writer.

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Johnny Rotten was bitten by fleas on his penis after taking in some squirrels.

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American story: Impeachment, about the Clinton scandal is coming with Sarah Paulson, Clive Owen, Beanie Feldstein and Annaleigh Ashford.

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Price Wallace asked Mississippi to secede.

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Charles Koch and friends are filling the coffers of Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Georgia. Let’s remember that these candidates opposed the $ 1,200.00 stimulus. They outsourced their businesses to foreign workers.

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Brett Favre owes about 1.1 mil to Mississippi.

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An FCC complaint was filed against Mark Meadows for using campaign Pac $ for personal expenses.

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Johnny Depp lost his libel case against the Sun and the abuse complaints by Amber Heard were found to be credible.** Warner Bros. has cut ties with Depp but they will pay his full salary.

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Carly Hughes has left American Housewife due to a possible toxic environment. Julia Butters has also left and creator Sarah Dunn was sidelined.

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IHOP is on the way out.

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Lindsey Graham is the guy in the spy thriller or heist movie who double crosses everyone to save his own skin. –Barack Obama

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Castle Rock was cancelled.

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Sarah McBride of Delaware is the first openly Trans senator.

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Five more states have legalized weed.

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What is with all the CoverGirl product placement on Riverdale?

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Oh how I miss the sea captain on Seth Meyers!!

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Amal Clooney has received the 2020 Gwen Ifill Press freedom award.

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I can’t wait for Linoleum about a failing kids show with Jim Gaffigan in 2 roles, Rhea Seehorn and Tony Shalhoub.

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An example of the way Fox news helps to keep the public in the dark.  A person I know who gets all their news from the station mentioned that she wished the news would inform us about Covid. She never hears much about it. I told her that other news talks about it all day every day. She was shocked . ** We can see why this country is so unhealthy when so many will not listen to science and Dr.’s even as this virus rages on.

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A report said that Stephen Miller wanted to end or modify birthright citizenship in the second term.** Mike Flynn represented Turkey back in the day and was pardoned for Thanksgiving with the Turkeys. You can’t make this shit up.** Trump said that he knows whether or not he will attend the inauguration but isn’t going to tell us. He really is emotionally stunted.** Scott Atlas is out.

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Trump has sued America but he warned us. How much executive overreach do we have to put up with??** SAP, the Save America Pac, or $ for the President is newly formed and gives about 20% to the RNC. The rest?**Word was that Rudy was trying to take over complete power, a coup within a coup. Scary Clown thought that Rudy was making him look bad. Oh my. And Sydney Powell .. Well, The Trump Presidency has really brought mental illness to our attention. ** It seems the recounts just seem to make Biden’s lead bigger. **C’mon news media, enough about the official President of those who hate manners. It is time to shift focus to real issues. The less coverage, the sooner we can move on, not forget but move on.** Let’s hope that this is the apex of the conspiracy mania and the better, calmer angels start to take over!!

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Super Intelligence is coming with Sam Richardson, Jean Smart and Melissa McCarthy.

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Gabourey Sidibe is engaged to Brandon Frankel.

Doctors without Borders have come to help us.** Moderna’s vaccine was funded in part by Dolly Parton with her donation to research at Vanderbilt University. Emory U and the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Disease helped too.

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Regina King directed the new One Night in Miami about Muhammed Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.

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Look for Stardust with Marc Maron.

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Hooray for the pig in the fire video and hooray for the woman who was watching him online and saved him.

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Lisa Gordon- Hagerty, head of the Nuclear weapons agency has resigned. **Defense secretary Mark Esper is out. ** Barr ordered the DOJ prosecutor to investigate the election and Richard Pilger resigned.** Top US climate scientist Dr. Michael Kuperberg is out.** Top defense Dept intel official Joe Kernan resigned. Chief of staff to the defense secretary, Jen Stewart resigned.

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A 449 page report on sexual allegations against the Catholic Church commissioned by Pope Francis is out. Well known in the 90’s, Theodore McCarrick was not defrocked until 2019. We now know that Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict knew about allegations and promoted him anyway. Francis claims he presumed things had been dealt with until the archdiocese of NY told him different.

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What’s this about a massive arms transfer to the United Arab Emirates?

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Hooray for Kim Ang, the highest ranking woman in baseball.** And hooray for Sarah Fuller, the first woman to play in a power 5 college football game.

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There are over 81,000 sex abuse claims against the Boy Scouts.

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Hooray for Space X and NASA, even though with all that is happening, there wasn’t that much coverage.** Victor Glover is one hot astronaut.

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Jordan Peel will bring his next horror flick to us in July 2022.

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R.I.P. Eddie Hassell, Charles Gordon, Caro; Arthur, Elsa Raven,  Alex Trebek, Bert Belasco, Gordon Joseloff, Ken Spears, Lawrence Clayton, victims of the Westhaven Veterans hospital explosion, Viola Smith, more Covid victims, Geoffrey Palmer, David Dinkins, Norm Crosby, Art Wolff, Jerry Hewitt, Ryan Brady and David Prowse.