#Shannon Houston

[lonestarflight]

"These six mission specialist astronaut candidates are the first women ASCANs to be named by NASA. They are, left to right, Rhea Seddon, Anna L. Fisher, Judith A. Resnik, Shannon W. Lucid, Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan. Along with these candidates, 14 other mission specialist candidates and 15 pilot astronaut candidates were presented during a press conference at the Johnson Space Center on Jan. 31, 1978. All 35 met the press in the larger Teague Auditorium and the women greeted photographers and other media representatives in the Public Affairs Office briefing room."

Date: January 31, 1978

NASA ID: S78-25633

[cbjustmusic]

On what would have been her 60th birthday (born August 9, 1963), Whitney Houston performing “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. _________________________ I Wanna Dance With Somebody Songwriters: George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam

Clock strikes upon the hour And the sun begins to fade Still enough time to figure out How to chase my blues away I've done alright up to now It's the light of day that shows me how And when the night falls, loneliness calls

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

I've been in love and lost my senses Spinning through the town Sooner or later, the fever ends And I wind up feeling down

I need a man who'll take a chance On a love that burns hot enough to last So when the night falls My lonely heart calls

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

Somebody ooo, somebody ooo Somebody who loves me yeah Somebody ooo, somebody ooo To hold me in his arms oh

I need a man who'll take a chance On a love that burns hot enough to last So when the night falls My lonely heart calls

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me

Don't ya wanna dance with me baby Don't ya wanna dance with me boy Hey don't ya wanna dance with me baby With somebody who loves me

Don't ya wanna dance, say you wanna dance, don't ya wanna dance Don't ya wanna dance, say you wanna dance, don't ya wanna dance Don't ya wanna dance, say you wanna dance With somebody who loves me Dance

[whitestnoise]

Beauty (2022)

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse was written out of the Bible due to a dispute over oat taxes.

Betty Crocker was related to Salvador Dali.

In an attempt to better understand America, Raul Castro learned the the lyrics to "Call Me Maybe".

American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first person to drown in the Playboy Mansion's grotto.

The so-called "new space race" refers to the rush to be the first person watch Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay on the moon.

[filosofablogger]

♫ How Will I Know? ♫

I’ve been really lazy this week, haven’t dug up any new songs to play, and tonight the laziness continues.  I last played this one in mid-2020 and most everyone enjoyed it, so I hope you’ll enjoy it again!  Sorry, Clive … you likely won’t enjoy it.  Mea culpa. This was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam.  According to them … George: “They asked us to write for Janet Jackson’s next…

[theoutcastrogue]

Cartoon depictions of the homeless increasingly reflect the hostility of today’s political leaders toward people on the streets. We’ve gone from images of charming hobos with bindles to zombies taking over cities. If you consume any news at all, you’ve probably noticed that the United States is pathologically cruel to its homeless citizens. This May, the brutal killing of Jordan Neely—who was strangled to death, at the age of 30, simply because he was unhoused and shouting on the Manhattan subway—captured the national spotlight, but it was just one of many such cases of unprovoked violence. In January, two cops reportedly kidnapped a homeless man in Hialeah, Florida, drove him to an “isolated and dark location,” and beat him unconscious. That same month, art dealer Shannon Collier Gwin faced battery charges after he sprayed a homeless woman with a hose outside his San Francisco gallery, barking “Move! Move!” at her. (Predictably, Gwin got a lenient plea deal of just 35 hours of community service.) Elsewhere in the city, homeless San Franciscans have been attacked with chemical bear spray on at least eight occasions. Other assaults have been more impersonal but no less vicious. On July 14, the city of Houston abruptly closed its only public cooling center in the downtown area, potentially condemning anyone without shelter to suffer heatstroke in 90-degree weather. Among the property-owning class, the phenomenon of hostile architecture—sidewalks with spikes that stab anyone who tries to sleep, benches with iron bars, and the like—has become de rigueur. The widespread callousness and lack of compassion are both infuriating and hard to comprehend. How on Earth, we might ask, did things get this bad? [...]

Looking back at older cartoons, one of the things that stands out immediately is the absence of negative attitudes toward the homeless. In fact, during the Golden Age of animation, creators seemed to have had a real affinity for the poor and unhoused, often placing their most iconic characters in that role. There’s a wonderful 1948 Warner Bros. short called “Riff Raffy Daffy,” in which Daffy Duck is looking for a place to sleep—first on a park bench, then a trash can, and finally a furniture display in a shop window—and has to dodge the harassment of the police, as represented by Porky Pig in a little blue uniform. (Literally, the cop is a pig!) Or, in the 1950 cartoon “Homeless Hare,” Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole is destroyed by a new construction project, leading him to unleash his usual slapstick mayhem against the developers until they put it back. In these cartoons, homelessness is something inflicted on people by outside forces—gentrification and the real estate business, in Bugs’ case—and something which can be successfully resisted. Even Disney cast a homeless dog as a romantic lead in 1955’s Lady and the Tramp, contrasting Lady’s sheltered naivety with Tramp’s superior knowledge of the world. The title invokes the memory of Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” films, which similarly brought dignity and humanity to the role of a homeless man. (Bugs Bunny, too, takes inspiration from Chaplin, and multiple Warner animators have drawn him as the Tramp.) In 1961, Hanna-Barbera’s profoundly underrated Top Cat followed the adventures of a gang of wisecracking Manhattan alley cats, who, like Daffy, are always outwitting a meddling policeman. At worst, classic cartoons may trivialize the suffering and danger associated with homelessness—there’s a certain recurring image of the carefree hobo carrying a bindle, which paints the whole subject in a romanticized light—but the homeless themselves are rarely disparaged or made the butt of the joke. Quite the opposite. 

It took a few years, but cartoons caught up to the Reaganite turn. In episodes from the ’90s and early 2000s, there’s a palpable shift in the way homeless characters appear compared to earlier decades. The perspective is different: we’re now seeing them through the eyes of comfortably housed characters, rather than their own. Often they don’t even get proper names. [...] This trajectory leads us, perhaps inevitably, to SpongeBob SquarePants. [..] Squidward gets accused of stealing a dime by his comically greedy boss, Mr. Krabs, and quits his job in a fit of outrage. We then flash forward to see Squidward, now bedraggled and unshaven, living in a cardboard box on the street and begging for change. [...] Mercifully, the ever-cheerful SpongeBob gives Squidward a place to stay—but the moment he’s safely off the street, Squidward turns from a sympathetic victim of circumstance into a lazy, entitled freeloader, straight out of a Reagan speech. He makes no effort to find work and loafs around SpongeBob’s house for ages. [...] Eventually, an exasperated SpongeBob writes “GET A JOB” in his alphabet soup, before shoving him (bed and all) back to work at the Krusty Krab. [...] Worst of all, though, the episode suggests that homelessness can be solved on an individual basis if the people in question simply stop being lazy and “GET A JOB.” This is the biggest myth of all. In 2021, a statistical analysis by the University of Chicago found that 53 percent of people in homeless shelters, and 40.4 percent of unsheltered people, do have jobs. The problem is that their wages are too low, and rents are too high. According to statistics from the same year, it’s impossible for someone working a full-time, minimum-wage job to afford a single-bedroom apartment in 93 percent of U.S. counties, and there are no states in which someone can rent a two-bedroom space on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. In other words, homelessness has little or nothing to do with personal responsibility, or lack thereof. It’s a consequence of large-scale economic decisions made by landlords and bosses. [...]

— Alex Skopic

[cupidlovesastro]

𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 !!

these are just random placements, in no particular order!

capricorn risings- Megan Fox, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, Christiani Ronaldo

scorpio moons- Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, the Weeknd

gemini mars- Martin Luther King, Uma Thurman, Al Pacino, Demi Lovato, Natalie Portman

aquarius juno- Elvis Presley ,John F. Kennedy, Bjork, Robert Downey jr, Zac Efron

leo pluto- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Shannon Tate, Vladimir Putin, Freddy Mercury

virgo mercury- Keanu Reeves , Amy Winehouse , Madonna , Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lawrence

aries venus- Marilyn Monroe, Shakira, George Clooney, Rihanna, Jennifer Aniston

pisces jupiter- Taylor Swift , Billie Eilish, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, Emma Watson

libra sun- Bella Hadid, Avril Lavigne , Jimin , Snoop Dogg, Kim Kardashian

sagittarius lilith- Michelle Obama, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Bill Clinton, Courtney Love

Sun in 7th house- Princess Diana, Kendall Jenner, Cardi B, Zendaya, Adriana Lima

Venus in 5th house- Barack Obama, Melanie Martinez, Khloe Kardashian, Naomi Campbell, Lionel Messi

Mars in 8th house- Lana Del Rey, Marilyn Monroe, Lindsay Lohan, Elon Musk, Bridgette Bardot

Moon in 1st house- Michael Jackson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Walt Disney, Audrey Hepburn, SZA

Mercury in 3rd house- Justin Bieber, Emma Stone, Nikola Tesla, Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro

[rmstitanics]

* FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS WITH YOUR MOON SIGN.

If you’re looking for suggestions on which authors and music artists to check out next, look to your moon sign! In Western astrology, the moon is said to represent your subconscious mind, emotions, and inner personality, so it is widely believed that we tend to relate to media by artists who share our moon sign.

♈️ ARIES MOON

WRITERS:

Gore Vidal

George R. R. Martin

Nicholas Sparks

Rick Riordan

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Christopher Paolini

MUSICIANS:

P!nk

Whitney Houston

Céline Dion

Selena Gomez

Rihanna

Tupac

♉️ TAURUS MOON

WRITERS:

Jodi Picoult

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hans Christian Anderson

Clive Barker

George Bernard Shaw

Aldous Huxley

MUSICIANS:

Pharrell Williams

Kelly Clarkson

Bob Dylan

Demi Lovato

Christina Aguilera

Pitbull

♊️ GEMINI MOON

WRITERS:

C. S. Lewis

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Orson Scott Card

Franz Kafka

Margaret Mitchell

R.A. Salvatore

T. S. Elliot

MUSICIANS:

Ella Fitzgerald

Florence Welch

Art Garfunkel

Billy Idol

Sia

Tina Turner

♋️ CANCER MOON

WRITERS:

George Orwell

Liu Cixin

Brandon Sanderson

Cassandra Clare

Diana Gabaldon

Lois Lowry

MUSICIANS:

Tchaikovsky

Taylor Swift

Kurt Cobain

Halsey

Aretha Franklin

Janis Joplin

♌️ LEO MOON

Oscar Wilde

Holly Black

Geraldine Brooks

James Dashner

Jack London

Ta Nehisi Coates

MUSICIANS:

Lana Del Ray

Paul McCartney

Queen Latifah

Niall Horan

Bruno Mars

David Bowie

♍️ VIRGO MOON

WRITERS:

Leo Tolstoy

John Grisham

Claudia Gray

Isabel Allende

Xiran Jay Zhao

Douglas Adams

MUSICIANS:

Dolly Parton

Nicki Manaj

Madonna

Lorde

Bo Burnham

Lizzo

♎️ LIBRA MOON

WRITERS:

Jane Austen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Maya Angelou

R.F. Kuang

MUSICIANS:

Ariana Grande

Charli XCX

Bruce Springsteen

Jay-Z

Harry Styles

Fergie

♏️ SCORPIO MOON

WRITERS:

Veronica Roth

Edith Wharton

V.E. Schwab

Harper Lee

Keira Cass

Meg Cabot

MUSICIANS:

Lady Gaga

Tyler the Creator

Cyndi Lauper

Beyoncé

Bob Marley

The Weeknd

♐️ SAGITTARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Stephen King

Victor Hugo

Marie Lu

Suzanne Collins

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

MUSICIANS

Hozier

Freddie Mercury

Adele

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Chappell Roan

John Legend

♑️ CAPRICORN MOON

WRITERS:

Sarah J. Maas

J.M. Barrie

Jeff Shaara

Joyce Carol Oates

Stephanie Meyer

Angie Thomas

MUSICIANS:

Frédéric Chopin

Neil Diamond

Jon Bon Jovi

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Stevie Nicks

Donna Summer

♒️ AQUARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Margaret Atwood

Leigh Bardugo

Louisa May Alcott

Seth Grahame-Smith

Anthony Horowitz

S.E. Hinton

MUSICIANS:

Cody Simpson

Marilyn Monroe

Britney Spears

Billie Eilish

Tim McGraw

Carrie Underwood

♓️ PISCES MOON

WRITERS:

Toni Morrison

Edgar Allen Poe

Malcolm Gladwell

Lisa McMann

Alice Oseman

Philippa Gregory

MUSICIANS:

Kenny Chesney

Elvis Presley

Frank Sinatra

Prince

Kendrick Lamar

Sabrina Carpenter

[ghoulpoole]

SAY THEIR NAMES.

The following trans and nonbinary people have died under violent circumstances in the United States in 2024. SAY THEIR NAMES.

Kitty Monroe, age 43 (Phoenix, AZ)

Sasha Williams, age 36 (Las Vegas, NV)

Nex Benedict, age 16 (Owasso, OK)

África Parrilla García aka Emma Garcia (San Juan, PR)

Righteous TK "Chevy" Hill, age 35 (East Point, TX)

Reyna Hernandez, age 54 (Renton, WA)

Diamond Brigman, age 36 (Houston, TX)

Alex Franco, age 21 (Lehi, UT)

Meraxes Medina, age 24 (Houston, TX)

Yella Clark, age 45 (Angola, LA)

Tee "Legend Billions" Arnold, age 36 (Hallandale Beach, FL)

River Nevaeh Goddard, age 17 (Stow, MA)

Starr Brown, age 18 (Memphis, TN)

Andrea Doria Dos Passos, age 37 (Miami, FL)

Darri Moore, age 23 (Ste Genevieve, MO)

Kita Bee, age 46 (Kansas City, MO)

Jazlynn Jonson, age 18 (Las Vegas, NV)

Tayy Dior Thomas, age 17 (Mobile, AL)

Michelle Henry, age 25 (San Francisco, CA)

M Tapia, age 52 (Denver, CO)

Liara Kaylee Tsai, age 35 (Minneapolis, MN)

Pauly Likens, age 14 (Sharon, PA)

Kenji Spurgeon, age 23 (Seattle, WA)

Shannon Boswell, age 30 (Atlanta, GA)

Monique Brooks, age 49 (Orlando, FL)

Dylan Gurley, age 20 (Denton, TX)

Vanity Williams, age 34 (Houston, TX)

Tai'Vion Lathan, age 24 (Baltimore, MD)

Kassim Omar, age 29 (Columbus, OH)

Redd China aka Barbie Iceland, age 25 (Chicago, IL)

Quanesha Shantel, age 26 (Greensboro, NC)

Santonio "San" Coleman, age 48 (Athens, GA)

Honee Daniels, age 37 (Rochester, NY)

77% of victims listed were people of color. 84% of victims listed were transfemme.

Sources:

Trans Murder Monitoring Name List 2024

Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Community in 2024, Human Rights Campaign

[catmomjudy]

Did Eddie Run Away to the Army?

(Fox Publicity Still)

I commonly see it phrased (in fanfiction and in some posts here) that Eddie “ran away” to the Army.

What does canon say?

In “Eddie Begins” (s3e15), canon states that Eddie “will be back to Afghanistan next week” when they talk with their parents after Christopher is born.

When they are arguing about Eddie’s reenlistment (which he did without telling her), canon also has Shannon saying “I got pregnant, and you signed up. Surprise!”

In s6e16, when they are talking about proposals, Eddie says, “Shannon got pregnant. When she told me the news, I said, ‘We should get married.’ I barely even asked.”

So, it is very clearly canon that Eddie did not enlist until after Shannon discovered that she was pregnant. They got married, and he was already stationed in Afghanistan when Christopher was born. 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 So, how did we get from Civilian Teenager Eddie to PFC Diaz, duty station Afghanistan? Let me tell you a story.

Teenager Shannon absolutely knows she is pregnant the very first day she missed her period. She runs straight into Eddie’s arms and tells him. (That’s the 4 week point of a 40 week pregnancy.)

She and Eddie go down to the courthouse the Very Next Day to get married. That same day, Eddie then goes to a recruitment office.

His recruiting and training process goes through the system “Like Magic,” and he quickly progresses through each of the steps. For 68W (Combat Medic):

Recruitment: 2 weeks

Basic Training: 10 weeks

Advanced Training (AIT): 16 weeks

Prep for deployment: 3 weeks

Total: 31 weeks

(Based on: 68W (Combat Medic) training requirements at goarmy.com; Personal stories and Ask/Answers posted by real soldiers online)

Eddie arrives, duty-bound and healthcare coverage obtained, in Afghanistan, 35 weeks after the stick turned blue.

When Eddie reports to his very first duty station as a PFC (Private First Class, or E3), he asks for leave (“I need to be in Texas in about 4 weeks because we’re having a baby!”), and his very nice commanding officer says, “Why sure PFC Diaz! Let me arrange your military airlift right away!” And off Eddie goes, arriving in El Paso in advance of Christopher’s birth.

It’s a lovely fairy tale, but this is what canon says happened, so we have to accept it as truth. 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 Now, I could tell you all of the ways that this is a TV fantasy. I was in the Navy for 11 years, so I already took it with a grain of salt. I did some poking around (because, as former military, I know that what goes for the Navy doesn’t necessarily go for the Army where it relates to duty assignments), and found various Reddit chats where enlistees were asking questions about recruitment and 68W training, and I skimmed through a bunch of answers to get a general idea of timelines, and then meshed that with my own experience.

The numbers above are an Absolute Minimum. No delays in processing; no wait for the next Basic class start date; no gap after Basic (and no picking up trash and cleaning toilets at Ft. Sam) while awaiting for the next Combat Medic course to start; no leave taken after AIT; and no training or medical period at his first duty station before deployment (and troops are deployed from stateside commands as a group—you don’t just get on a plane and show up in Afghanistan). Eddie would need to take leave and return to Texas for the birth. He would have earned 14 pay periods worth of leave at this point, which would add up to 17.5 days on the books, so he would have enough days to go home for 2-ish weeks. However, he is NOT EVER going to go to Afghanistan and then fly back 4 weeks later. That’s a pipedream. If they’re nice, they’ll keep him stateside and send him for additional training at Ft. Sam Houston (where 68W AIT is held). But, if, as canon states, PFC Eddie is already in Afghanistan, it is highly doubtful that he’d be back for the birth.

And this is even assuming that Teenager Shannon knew she was pregnant on the very first day she missed her period. 🤔 Yeah, probably not.

[This is also not even getting into the fact that, based on the birthdate on her tombstone, by Texas state law, Shannon would have entered kindergarten in September 1998, at the age of almost-six. She would have graduated in 2011 (the year Christopher was born), which would totally turn the above timeline into an unreachable fantasy, unless she and Eddie were in different grades (maybe someone else can figure that bit out). So, we’ll assume she moved to TX from a state that had a December 31 cut-off (which, in the 90s, was most northern states—I’m from PA, and currently live in CT, and, until recently, this was the date in both places), and that Eddie was born sometime before September 1, 1992 (so he could start school in September 1997). Then they would have both graduated in May 2010. There, that fixes it. 😁]

🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 So, did Eddie “run away”?

I think, to even make the Fantasy Timeline happen AND result in placement in the career path Eddie chose (because it’s a selective field with a much higher-required ASVAB score and more training requirements than other high-demand fields like Infantryman), he needed to have been considering it anyway. The military is a really good choice for a boy (or girl) from Texas who doesn’t want to go to college right now, but wants to learn job skills and earn college benefits. If he already was thinking about it, he would already know that the military dependent health benefits (and housing benefits) are pretty darn good. Not perfect, but then, no insurance plan is these days (I could tell you a story about where I, active military, gave birth, vs. the jacuzzi-equipped birthing suite my coworker’s military dependent wife got to use, but this is already too long).

Viewer opinion of Eddie’s enlistment in the Army is very much colored by his memories of Shannon in “Eddie Begins” (see quotes, above), and their argument in “Haunted” (s2e07–and, yes, I did notice that it’s a Ghost Title 😁).

Eddie: What did you need that I didn't give you?

Shannon: You! I needed a husband and a co-parent. And instead, all I got was a life alone in Texas with a baby and you on another continent. I needed someone to have my back.

Eddie: I always had your back.

Shannon: No. You were in Afghanistan.

It’s also colored by civilian opinions on and stereotypes of military personnel and military life.

Military people have families. Many of them have children and good, solid marriages. They rotate back and forth between stateside and forward deployment, so they aren’t always gone (except when there’s an actual war, like in the early 20-teens, so bad timing for Eddie). During peacetime, you don’t deploy over and over again without being assigned to what the Navy calls “Shore Duty” without volunteering for it, usually in writing. Career military people enter service and stick around for 20 years, because the benefits are good, and the retirement pay is good, too. Retiring on half pay at age 38 is not a horrible thing.

Eddie’s fatal character flaw is not that he ran away: It’s that he internalizes his decisions, and makes knee-jerk decisions without discussing them with anyone. Join the Army. Reenlist. Move to LA. Leave the 118. Yep. And I can see why Shannon was royally ticked off. He should have talked with her, but, really, I’m thinking the conclusion would have been the same in the end—she just would have felt better about it. Having your child diagnosed with a major health issue is NOT the time to lose your health insurance, even briefly. If they talked, they could have discussed Eddie rotating stateside at his next opportunity—duty station assignment doesn’t align with enlistment period, after all—closer to Shannon’s mother. A compromise.

I guess what really annoys me is when people use Eddie “running away to the Army” to justify Shannon’s actions (even, or especially, when Eddie says this himself). Eddie’s military service gained him health benefits for his pregnant wife and subsequent child, and health coverage for that same child; he went home on leave when able; and he video-chatted with his wife and child routinely. As Eddie says in s3e15: “I was in Afghanistan, not Cancun.”

Let’s not compare that with Shannon ghosting her own child for two years. Per s2e07, this is also canon, folks.

There’s a reason for the Ghost-themed title, after all.

P.S. I know I’m going to take flack for this one, but “Who Cares?”

🤷🏻‍♀️

[wildlife4life]

Seven (+) Sentence Sunday

Tagged by super amazing @exhuastedpigeon @cal-daisies-and-briars @hippolotamus @disasterbuckdiaz @glorious-spoon @wikiangela @daffi-990 @tizniz @devirnis @watchyourbuck @hoodie-buck @loserdiaz @spotsandsocks and @diazsdimples. Thank you all so much!

Alright, so I know haven't been as active since dropping the first chapter of NFL Buck. I've just been sort of down because that same day, the Super Bowl Champs had their parade and rally, and just after it ended there was a mass shooting. My younger sister was there with some friends and they got away unharmed, but when she didn't answer my message for a long 30 minutes, I truly thought the worst. I've just been so sad and angry for Kansas City, for the US really and I just couldn't get into the spirit of writing. I'm not getting into the politics of it all today and my sister is coming for a visit soon, so I'm feeling marginally better. KC Strong.

First chapter of NFL Buck has been dropped, but everything else I've posted for this fic can be found here. Here is a snippet from the Eddie Begin's arc of NFL Buck.

Hurricane Harvey was relentless for almost four days, bullying southern Texas with unforgiving wind and an exurbanite amount of rain. Houston fire department and so many others worked day and night to help those who had not evacuated.  It was absolute chaos, and it blew through Eddie’s entire life. The storms had wreaked havoc on the cell towers, which meant service was spotty to none and radios became the main source of communication for rescuers. By some miracle, though, the internet connection at the firehouse held strong. It was slow and glitched out here and there, reminding Eddie too much of his time in Afghanistan. He watched his infant son grow up through a screen, with his very upset wife barely holding on and his parents hovering nearby, souring the video calls even further. Christopher was no longer a whimpering baby in his mother’s lap but looking at his saddened son on a glitching iPad screen with a tense Maddie sitting beside him, was too familiar.  Add in the argument he had with Buck just before, and the threat of danger just outside the firehouse, Eddie was back to being a scared 19-year-old in war riddled country. “Dad, grandma said we’re not going to visit Buck anymore. That he’s too busy. And Maddie tried to call him, but he didn’t answer and…” The eight-year old’s voice trails off, his lips trembling. Eddie bites his inner cheek hard. This was on him. He gave into his mother’s worries and demands about traveling through Texas during the hurricane.  Helena was too stubborn and being his mother, she knew every damn button to push, and Eddie was tired of fighting.  So, he reluctantly agreed to cancel the visit and his mother grinned a little too sharply before stating, “I’m sure Maddie will enjoy having her brother to herself.” Another ploy to take Christopher and Eddie fucking fell for it. Then his mother took it a step further by graciously telling Buck and Maddie herself, that Christopher would no longer be joining them in Dallas and to enjoy their time together for as long as they need it. Eddie knew his mother didn’t approve of his relationship with Buck, more so than his previous one with Shannon. The only reason she kept her mouth shut was the potential back lash of upsetting Christopher. But she already succeeded in having a hand in driving away Shannon and she probably believed she could do the same with Evan.

With this fic, there are a lot of canon events with twists. The usual timeline does not exists. But I hope you all enjoyed!

Tagging (no pressure): @bekkachaos @theotherbuckley @lover-of-mine @buddierights @try-set-me-on-fire @jesuisici33 @jeeyuns @aroeddiediaz @giddyupbuck @rainbow-nerdss @thewolvesof1998 @eddiescowboy @eddiebabygirldiaz @spaceprincessem @athenagranted @evanbegins @elvensorceress @malewifediaz @911onabc @911-on-abc @ladydorian05 @bigfootsmom @thekristen999 @spagheddiediaz @rogerzsteven @honestlydarkprincess @doublecheekeddiaz @buck-coded @prosperdemeter2 @lemonzestywrites @gayedmundodiaz @transboybuckley @nmcggg

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Federal prosecutors in Houston have dismissed all charges against a Texas surgeon accused of wrongfully accessing and leaking confidential medical records for transgender minors. This decision, announced Friday, comes amid the Trump administration’s swift moves to roll back protections for transgender Americans, prompting heightened concern among activists and allies about the future of patient privacy and civil rights.

Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, had been scheduled to stand trial on February 10 for allegedly violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the federal law designed to protect patient privacy. Prosecutors initially claimed that Haim obtained electronic login credentials at Texas Children’s Hospital—where he once worked as a resident—and accessed medical records for several pediatric patients not under his care. Haim then shared what he called “whistleblower documents” with a conservative activist, drawing national attention to the hospital’s transgender care program for minors.

Last year, Texas Children’s Hospital announced it would discontinue its provision of gender-affirming care to minors, citing the state’s shifting legal landscape. But when Haim’s leaks suggested that the hospital continued offering such services in secret, conservative media outlets seized on the story. Haim claimed he was acting in the public’s interest, alleging the hospital was defying Texas law—although at the time, no legal ban prevented the practice. LGBTQ advocates, however, argue that his actions eroded patient trust and endangered the safety of young transgender patients.

“This dismissal is not a relief but a warning,” says Shannon O’Rourke, a Houston-based advocate who works with transgender youth and their families. “If individuals feel emboldened to hack into or misuse private records in the name of ‘exposing transgender care,’ then we’re living in a climate that threatens everyone’s medical privacy.” O’Rourke describes the situation as an escalation in the broader culture war over transgender rights, raising fears that the so-called “whistleblower” label could be weaponized against any institution providing legitimate, medically supported care to vulnerable patients.

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WIP Wednesday

Thank you @tizniz @theotherbuckley @diazsdimples

Sorry I missed Tuesday! I went right from the office to Downtown Toronto to see Les Mis and didn't get back until well after midnight haha.

Here is the opening bit of my NEXT Coma-verse spinoff, following Chapter 5 of Evan Buckley & the Coma-Verse of Madness, tentatively titled 'If You Can Make the Music':

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Look, Eddie swears he didn’t take the job because of Buck. 

Was that a consideration? Yes. Of course he thought about it. But, really, he was far from the deciding factor.

The deciding factor, really, was Shannon being offered her literal dream job at an art gallery in Houston; an opportunity she really couldn’t pass up, after spending almost all of her adulthood strapped to the role of caretaker, first for Christopher, and then her mother. And despite being divorced and still somewhat uncomfy around each other, and Eddie having primary custody, he didn’t want to make her choose between doing what she needed to do for herself and seeing her son. Not for a second time. 

No part of him really wanted to move to Houston, but as a paramedic, his skills are pretty portable. He would have sucked it up. But when, during his job search, an open position for a paramedic captain popped up for the Galveston Area Ambulance Authority, of all things, Eddie applied on a whim. He has never been a captain of anything, either in the army or as a paramedic in El Paso, but he certainly has experience and… And, well, why not apply for a good job in the city where a little under a year ago he had a whirlwind summer romance with a man he hasn’t been able to stop thinking of since? What could go wrong? 

He got the job, is what went wrong.

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No pressure tagging @pantsaretherealheroes @jeeyuns @exhuastedpigeon @aroeddiediaz

@steadfastsaturnsrings @your-catfish-friend @mangacat201 @daughterofscotland @madneywedding

@evanbegins @alliaskisthepossibilityoflove @wildlife4life @buckleybabyblues @adarkermiserablecrow

@epicbuddieficrecs @fortheloveofbuddie @bidisasterevankinard @watchyourbuck @buddieswhvre

@l0v3t0hat3y0u @lyricfulloflight @kwills91

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the new jey podcast interview with Shannon sharpe has me already in tears…. john telling him he remembers his first tour… similar to how John had told the twins when they joined wwe that they were special from the minute he saw them and had encouraged them to carry their culture into sports entertainment (he was a biiiiig fan of the siva tau and facepaint era - 10 Hours to Houston Docu) - I’m EMOTIONAL MAN… GOSH.

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The true Camp Camp revival

“Back to Camp Camp”

Miles Luna • Kaitlin Becker • Krishna Kumar • Yuri Lowenthal • Elizabeth Maxwell • Armando Torres • Jen Brown • James Willems • Yotam Perel • Nicholaus Weindel • BlackKrystel • Blaine Gibson • Lindsay Jones

David: MILES LUNA

Gwen: KAITLIN BECKER

Max: KRISHNA KUMAR

Neil: YURI LOWENTHAL

Nikki: ELIZABETH MAXWELL

Quartermaster: SHANNON McCORMICK

Cameron Jr. “CJ”: ARMANDO TORRES

Ered Miller: JEN BROWN

Dolph Houston: JAMES WILLEMS

Harrison: YOTAM PEREL

Preston Goodplay: NICHOLAUS WEINDEL

Nerris: BLACKKRYSTEL

Nurf Nurfington: BLAINE GIBSON

Neil Armstrong Jr. “Space Kid”: LINDSAY JONES

Billy “Snake” Nikssilp: DANTE BASCO

Nerris’ Dad: NASIM BENELKOUR

Erin & Flower Scouts: BLACKKRYSTEL

Harrison’s Mom: JEN BROWN

Carl: MATT CHAPMAN

Brian: SUNGWON CHO

Nerris’ Mom: KY COOKE

Louis: CHRIS CUBAS

Platypus, Jermy Fartz, & Mrs. Fartz: JORDAN CWIERZ

XxAznAnimeBoixx: ALFREDO DIAZ

Hwan: STEPHEN FU

Cute Waitress: VICTORIA HOLDEN

Lt. Stuart Houston: MATT HULLUM

Sasha, Tabii, & Flower Scouts: SAMANTHA IRELAND

Edward Pikeman: KIRK JOHNSON

Gregg: CHRIS KOKKINOS

Octopus: MAX KRUEMCKE

Max’s Mom: ANJALI KUNAPANENI

Jacob: GABE KUNDA

Mr. Fartz: MILES LUNA

Dang: ALEX MAI

Max’s Dad: SUNIL MALHOTRA

Jasper: GRIFFIN McELROY

Clark Campwell: DAMAN MILLS

Vera: SARAH NATOCHENNY

Candy: STEVIE NELSON

Bonquisha: CARLA NICKERSON

Sheriff Sal: JOSH ORNELAS

Harrison’s Dad: JON RISINGER

Agents Miller: ANTHONY SARDINHA

Darla: REINA SCULLY

Buzz Aldrin: LAWRENCE SONNTAG

Ainsley: PATRICIA SUMMERSETT

Muriel Campwell: MELISSA STERNENBERG

Penelope Priss: JESSICA VASAMI

Mrs. Nurfington: ELYSE WILLEMS

Cameron Campbell: TRAVIS WILLINGHAM