#andy spear

[theactioneer]

Seven (Andy Sidaris, 1979)

[mikyapixie]

3 years ago today Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog was released on DVD!!!

This was the crossover of my dream!!! I loved every second of it!!! Especially the ending when Muriel give one last riddle to Scooby & Courage & give Courage a hug brought me to tears!!! It was like the last hug with her OG VA RIP Thea white!!!🥹🥹🥹

[saturngelato]

I still need BVB to cover Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga or Toxic by Britney Spears. Imagine Andy’s vocals on either song… likeeee I’m astral projecting. Also, Jinxx’s violin in Toxic??? Don’t play with meeee it would be so sick. I remember a long time ago on The Andy Show, Andy said that Edge of Glory is a song that he believes BVB could cover well. This is why we need to bring back Punk Goes Pop. FEARLESS RECORDS IF YOU’RE READING THIS—

Another thing to consider, would they change the lyrics in Toxic? Or would Andy be bisexual for those 3 minutes and 18 seconds? Same with Edge of Glory. Would they shorten that song as well because it’s 5 minutes and 20 seconds long or would they keep it the original length? Anyway, that’s enough yapping for one night. I move into my dorm tomorrow to start my sophomore year of college <3

[peonyblossom]

Trans headcanons for Tegan and Andy!

okay i started answering this in november when you sent the ask and then it got eaten by my drafts for a while so i'm pulling it back out for pride month @choicespride

Teagan:

Teagan didn't tell the AME producers she's trans until after they cast her

She didn't talk about it on the show much, but Piper tried to make her because she said "being trans is trendy"

Teagan couldn't say much about it publicly because of her contract, but after Piper got fired, Teagan posted all about her experience with her

Piper was transphobic at times, not overtly, mostly microaggressions and just generally being weird and trying to exploit Teagan's transness for storylines

As for non-AME related headcanons:

When she was younger (like middle school) Teagan tried to manifest growing boobs

She came out when she was 14

She got top surgery when she was 18

She got facial feminization surgery when she was 20

She got bottom surgery when she was 21

Andy:

Whenever any of Andy's friends wanted to play house as kids, he would insist on being the dad or brother or something like that

None of them really cared too much as long as they got to play

The first person Andy came out to was Tom

Andy came out to his family not long after Jane died

At first his parents were worried it was some kind of weird trauma response so they sent him to therapy

They wanted to be supportive if Andy was telling the truth, but they also wanted to be sure

My ILITW MC, Harry, is also trans

Even though Harry and Andy hadn't talked in years, when Harry started questioning his gender in middle school he went to Andy for advice

[andrewisdoing]

It’s that smile though.

[ijustreallylikecaptainamericaok]

Marvel 1602 #5

[violetcancerian]

Feeling under the weather, took a break from writing final papers, I’ve passed out somehow almost all day???? But in that break, I made this for my WIP, and now I’m emotional about the story again. 

If I remember correctly, the taglist for this WIP is (If y’all want to be added or removed, please let me know!):  @athena-anna-rose @thewalkingnerd @howdywrites @orangeismorethanacolour @bookphobe​

PLEASE DO NOT STEAL 

[bobbie-robron]

Ladies and gentlemen, can we have a big round of applause please for Britney Spears!

It’s Victoria’s birthday and when she sees the type of doll given to her, she brings up the infamous Walter. Later, there’s the official birthday party that Robert and Katie help organize. Jack airs his woes about Victoria to Diane who shows up during the party with the perfect activity for the kids - designing their own t-shirts. Jack is quite grateful for Diane’s help, he couldn’t have done it without her. This essentially starts Jack & Diane getting back together over the next couple of episodes.

31-Mar-2003

[storybursts]

The Christmas Special Day 22: Hooves of Fire (1999)

The Christmas Special Day 22: Hooves of Fire (1999)

Director: Richard Goleszowski Writers: Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Richard Curtis Cast: UK VERSION-Robbie Williams, Ardal O’Hanlon, Paul Whitehouse, Jane Horrocks, Steve Coogan, Caroline Quentin, Jean Alexander, Ricky Tomlinson, Rhys Ifans, Harry Enfield; US Version-Ben Stiller, Britney Spears, James Woods, Brad Garrett, Hugh Grant, Leah Remini, James Belushi, Jerry Stiller, Rob Paulsen Plot: The…

[ur-mag]

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[andrewisdoing]

(You Drive Me) Crazy

[quillyfied]

There being two movies now in the Benoit Blanc world, and both movies sharing some recognizable tropes and archetypes to build its flavor, there’s a specific type of character that I’m struck by, particularly as a white woman, in both Knives Out and Glass Onion:

The Sympathetic White Woman.

In KO it’s Meg. In GO it’s Whiskey. They both bond with the (WOC, very important to emphasize) protagonist by being less crappy to her than the rest of the cast, and both signal to the audience that they’re trustworthy as far as the protagonist goes. They tell the protagonist that they’re on her side. They try to be supportive. They’re sympathetic to the audience.

Then comes the moment when the Sympathetic White Woman’s security is threatened.

(Brief added interruption to just say: please dig through the notes and replies on this baby for some additional excellent thoughts from other people, including the very important distinction that Marta is a white Latina and not a woman of color (my mistake thank you for the corrections), and more thoughts on Whiskey’s actual/additional betrayal moments!)

For Meg, it’s her mom telling her she has to drop out of school if they don’t get the inheritance money. For Whiskey, it’s Duke dying. In both cases, the protagonist reaches out—Marta tells Meg she won’t let that happen, she’ll support Meg with whatever money she needs; Helen tries to soothe a hysteric Whiskey by telling her she doesn’t need Duke and he deserved what he got (not realizing Duke is dead, of course). It’s a slightly different moment in each movie, but the basic framework is the same: the woman of color protagonist reaches back to the Sympathetic White Woman, and notably, reaches DOWN, offering the support the Sympathetic White Woman offered earlier.

Only…the Sympathetic White Woman was never intending to be the one the protagonist had to reach down to. So she snaps. Meg tells her family about Marta’s mother and they use it to threaten her. Whiskey latches onto the belief that Helen killed Duke and tries to kill her with a spear gun in what she thinks is self-defense. The Sympathetic White Woman Heel-Turn.

Meg and Whiskey both also sort of try to make amends after their Heel-Turn moments, but…the trust is already broken. The protagonist knows better now. The Sympathetic White Woman is not to be trusted.

Why this sticks out to me personally is the very obvious callout that feminists of color have been making about white feminists for literal decades: that white feminism lacks any true support or compassion for non-white people, that it’s empty promises of support and when the chips are down, white feminism upholds whiteness over feminism in an act to protect itself. And whiteness…is a damn difficult thing to even see when you’re white and raised in an overwhelmingly white community, let alone begin to pick apart and unlearn. It’s reactionary, how Meg and Whiskey turn on Marta and Helen to protect themselves.

It would make Meg incredibly vulnerable to support Marta fully, the way she promised to back when she thought she had the resources for it, but Marta is that vulnerable every day just existing as a Latina woman in America. Whiskey’s Heel-Turn moment is a little more immediate trauma based, but when looking for someone to blame, she doesn’t hesitate to blame Andi (Helen), scrapping together the few pieces of information she has—Andi hates all of the Disruptors, Andi got screwed over by them, Andi fought with Duke just minutes before he died, Andi was in their shared room tearing it apart when Whiskey came in distraught. She’s looking for an outlet. There’s Helen red-handed and in view. Boom. Whiskey grabs the spear gun instead of talking it out with the person she admitted just hours ago to feeling sympathy for.

Growing up white and steeped in whiteness causes defensive reactions when that whiteness is brought up, or, god forbid, challenged. It’s a knee-jerk thing for people who haven’t begun to deconstruct it for themselves; even for people who have, to see just how far and deep in American society that reaches is troubling. Humbling. Enraging. The Sympathetic White Woman archetype is, to me, a warning to not let whiteness overrule sense and morals. To be smart about it. And, crucially, to check myself for condescension, especially when interacting with non-white folks in any capacity.

(Also why the presence of Benoit Blanc is so important. He is also sympathetic, he also offers his own support, but crucially, he just uses his whiteness to clear a path for the WOC protagonist to take her place and do what she needs to do. He doesn’t speak over her, he doesn’t turn on her, he just listens, and presents the truth for her to do with it what she will. Or, in one case, hands her highly volatile crystal hydrogen for when she’s really ready to tear the Murderer’s crap down.)

[decolonize-the-everything]

In response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Operation Enduring Freedom officially began 7 October 2001 with American and British bombing strikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Initially, the Taliban was removed from power and al-Qaeda was seriously crippled, but forces continually dealt with a stubborn Taliban insurgency, infrastructure rebuilding, and corruption among the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, and Afghan Border Police.

On 2 May 2011, U.S. Navy SEALS (Sea, Air, Land) launched a raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during Operation Neptune Spear, killing the al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Operation Enduring Freedom officially ended on 28 December 2014, although coalition forces remained on the ground to assist with training Afghan security forces. The United States Armed Forces completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001-2021 war.

Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul said Saturday morning that the vast majority of those who were arrested Friday night were outside agitators who were not from the Twin Cities region. Walz called those people a group "bent on adapting their tactics to make it as difficult as possible" to maintain order. "Let's be very clear: The situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities," Walz said. He said he had mobilized more than 700 National Guard soldiers on Friday night, and that after television cameras found large gatherings of protesters with no police presence at all, he was authorizing the head of the state's National Guard to fully mobilize on Saturday.

Contrary to activists’ calls to defund the police, the bill provides over $3 million in new funding for these initiatives and extends an existing $6 million in annual training funds until 2024.

[...]Dropped from the bill were DFL provisions that would have turned over prosecutions involving deadly force to the attorney general’s office and restored voting rights to some felons.

[...]Civil rights lawyer, activist and former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Nekima Levy Armstrong called the bill “watered-down legislation” and “a slap in the face, especially to Black residents in the state of Minnesota.” Activists weren’t the only ones disheartened. Andy Skoogman, executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wanted to see greater changes to arbitration as well. And Julia Decker, police director for the ACLU of Minnesota, told the Star Tribune that she was disappointed the bill didn’t require an independent prosecutor like the attorney general to handle cases like Floyd’s.

Did you know that the Minnesota State Board of Investments holds around 10,000 shares, worth a whopping $1.2 million, in Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems — the world’s largest exporter of drones?

Elbit has been involved in all of the major Israeli assaults in Gaza, contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for, among other things, a virtual surveillance wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, and markets its equipment to governments around the world as “battle-tested” (on the Palestinian civilians). Elbit drones constantly fly over Gaza, providing surveillance targeting for military assaults and Israeli snipers that hit peaceful protestors.

What are the odds that the drones over Minneapolis were Elbit drones, especially given that Metropolitan State University, located in the Minneapolis–St. Paul, metropolitan area, partners with Elbit on a state of the art cybersecurity training facility? A number of Democrats in Congress have written to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf expressing “grave concern” over the use of drones over Minneapolis on May 29th to “surveil and intimidate” protestors.

Pro-Palestine protesters have been demanding that the state of Minnesota divest its financial stakes in Israeli companies and bonds, which they say are worth around $119m. Activists have also for years been urging the state to repeal its anti-boycott legislation, which forces state contractors to sign a pledge that they will not engage in a boycott of Israel. The law was first passed in 2017, prior to Walz becoming governor. However, he has made no moves to try to repeal the law. In December, a group of 1,000 Palestinian solidarity activists in Minnesota disrupted Walz's Christmas party, demanding the governor commit to divesting from Israel. “Governor Walz has ignored our calls for the divestment of taxpayer dollars and public pension funds from Israeli apartheid. But he will never stop hearing from us or seeing us until he finally ends Minnesota's complacency in genocide,” Christine Hauschildt of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee said back in December.

"I don't know of a single educator who wants our money invested in weapons companies, and in bombing school buildings in racist wars,” Drake Myers, a member of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee who is also active in the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, told the panel. Max Vash, who has a Palestinian son, spoke out against the state’s holdings in Elbit Systems, an international defense and aerospace contractor based in Israel. “You have the power and the responsibility to ensure that neither my son, nor any other Palestinian person experiences these horrors,” Vash said. Lucia Wilkes Smith, a longtime member of Mothers Against Military Madness, said the BDS movement — Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions — shouldn’t be written off as antisemitic. Mike McDonald of Veterans for Peace didn’t address Israel directly but said the Board of Investment shouldn’t have money in defense contractors that are arming nations across the planet. He asserted the state has $800 million in holdings in companies that make weapons of warfare. It’s not the first time the investment board has heard from people calling for divestment from Israel. In 2015, activists unsuccessfully pressed the board to sell off its Israeli government bonds. This time around, activists look to build support based on outrage over thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties in Gaza in the war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. That fighting was sparked by a series of coordinated surprise attacks by Hamas on Israel Oct. 7, in which 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were slain and 250 others were taken hostage. Since the war began, the Gaza Health Ministry has reported more than 13,300 Palestinians have been killed, roughly two-thirds of them women and minors. The board members — Walz, Simon, and Blaha — listened and took notes, but didn’t take any action in response to the request.

.....gonna wait to hear more but I'm not super impressed thus far.

I don't give a shit what your domestic policy is when you're actively making money off of a genocide started by the "war on terror" you personally helped start.

[dduane]

On the Recycling of Cover Artwork

So we were discussing this image...

I mentioned in that post that I'd previously seen an image of a book by Andy Offutt that also sported this cover art. I hate not being able to cite things, so I headed over to Google Images to see if I could find it.

And I couldn't. But what I did discover—once I'd taken another run at the problem by cropping the lettering off the art and resubmitting the search—was that the image also appeared as cover art for a Canadian-based thrash metal band called Exciter, on a 1985 album called "Long Live The Loud."

(It also appears in a Pinterest collection of Real Dumb Album Covers, but that strikes me as unnecessarily judgmental.)

At any rate, examining that album's Discogs page a little more thoroughly, I found to my delight that they've got an artist credit there! And on finding it, I headed straight off to check my copy of the Methuen paperback for any possible confirmation... and sure enough, there it was (though in a place I somehow previously missed checking: the back of the book) So now I've finally been able to amend Fire's page at DianeDuane.com to add a credit.

The artist turns out to be Alan Craddock, who's gone on over the years since the above painting to do a whole lot of cover work on all kinds of British SF. He's now a much-respected colorist on 2000AD and elsewhere in the comics world—for both Marvel and DC, as well as various other comics, including some of @neil-gaiman's mid-90s projects for Tekno Comics). The above work would've been one of his very earliest ones, done while he was just starting to settle into his craft. (While in the meantime doing what a cover artist must do: whatever the art director tells him. So I willingly forgive him the metal booty shorts and spear-spiked heads and so forth.) :)

Anyway, there's a mystery unexpectedly solved! And happily, too.

[violetcancerian]

Me doing research for this WIP so future me doesn't have to worry:

Me realizing a big name character during research fits RIGHT in with the thing that's been bugging me for months: