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"High Desert" Residence, California,
Heather Day and Chase McBride House,
Ryan Leidner Architecture
#art#design#architecture#minimal#nature#interior design#interiors#retreat#luxury lifestyle#hight desert#california#joshua tree#studio#stucco#heather day#chase mcbride#ryan leidner
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Putting the "ew" in EW
There are a lot of things wrong with the article, but let's start with the glaringly obvious...
Instead of letting Daryl's and Carol's connection speak for itself and letting fans get excited to see the connection as they've understood it for over a decade, Dalton Ross tries to project his own POV onto us, overemphasizing a platonic friendship as if it's the only right answer and ignoring the core of Caryl's fanbase, who are well within reason to want payoff to a romantic love story between Caryl that was earned time and time again in the flagship show. If his goal was to define the relationship for us once and for all, he completely fails. All he's really doing is exposing himself as yet another deeply insecure and toxic middle-aged white man who can't fathom a middle-aged woman with gray hair as a romantic partner for the middle-aged male protagonist. It's ignorant at best and at worst, it's aiding an effort to hurt Melissa's viewership (worth noting that Dalton Ross is one of Gimple's connections). But sadly, his spin is not even the worst problem...
This has to be one of the most ridiculous exchanges between a showrunner and a lead actor that I've ever read, but to cut to the chase, if the former is so disconnected from Daryl that he doesn't know the first thing about how this character forms attachments with others or why it takes him so long and what that says about his relationship with Carol, he shouldn't be the showrunner. That's been clear since S1 and in every interview he does, so at this point, AMC is shooting themselves in the foot the longer they keep him on or even just let him open his mouth.
In case I haven't made myself perfectly clear a million times, I am here for the Daryl I connected with when he became the most loyal and loving man to Carol and his family in the flagship show. I am here for The Book of Carol because I want to watch Carol rise above her trauma as she's risen above so many challenges in her life and I want to watch her finally claim a love she didn't think she was worthy of before, which is true love/romantic love/soulmate love with Daryl (look, I can overemphasize too). I want to watch Melissa McBride, who has also had to rise above so many challenges as a woman in the industry, give one powerful performance after another after another. I want her to get all the praise from fans and critics that she deserves and I want her to have more creative control since she's the one who really knows how to do Carol's story justice. Imagine if all we had to analyze was her own words...
I am so fucking tired of other EPs trying to turn the beautiful things she has to say and the beautiful things she brings to her show into a footnote because they always have to be so overt in their misogyny, ageism, arrogance, and stupidity first. I am fucking tired of feeling unwelcome to a show being marketed as #TWDCARYL when I am both a Carol and a Daryl fan who also ships them together. The perpetual mess doesn't speak to Melissa's value or to her fans' priorities. I will continue to direct my blame at the other EPs, and I need AMC to start doing the same. Stop giving David Zabel, Greg Nicotero, and Scott Gimple a platform. Stop giving into their need to promote themselves. Stop losing viewers over them. Let's get a showrunner who understands Carol's and Daryl's characters as well as their relationship, and here's a new idea, let's get journalists/reviewers who don't try to shove their own insecurities down our throats to cover the aspects of the show that we actually connect with. Believe it or not, those of us who are loudly complaining do want to be here.
#caryl#carol peletier#melissa mcbride#daryl dixon#norman reedus#the book of carol#twd caryl#fire zabel#melissa mcbride deserves better#caryl deserves better#caryl fans deserve better
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RWBY (Behind the Voice Actors)
MAIN RWBY CAST
Ruby Rose: Lindsay Jones
Weiss Schnee: Kara Eberle and 1 other
Casey Lee Williams
Blake Belladonna: Arryn Zech
Yang Xiao Long: Barbara Dunkelman
Jaune Arc: Miles Luna
Nora Valkyrie: Samantha Ireland
Lie Ren: Monty Oum and 1 other
Neath Oum
RECURRING ROLES
Qrow Branwen: Vic Mignogna and 1 other
Ernesto Jason Liebrecht
Oscar Pine: Aaron Dismuke
Professor Ozpin: Shannon McCormick
Cinder Fall: Jessica Nigri
James Ironwood: Jason Rose
Emerald Sustrai: Katie Newville
Sun Wukong: Michael Jones
Pyrrha Nikos: Jen Brown
Penny Polendina: Taylor McNee
Mercury Black: J.J. Castillo and 1 other
Yuri Lowenthal
Winter Schnee: Elizabeth Maxwell
Salem: Jen Taylor
Neopolitan: No Voice Actor
Dr. Arthur Watts: Christopher Sabat
Tyrian Callows: Jessie James Grelle
Hazel Rainart: William Orendorff
Bartholomew Oobleck: Joel Heyman
Peter Port: Ryan Haywood and 1 other
Anthony Sardinha
Maria Calavera: Melissa Sternenberg
Adam Taurus: Garrett Hunter
Robyn Hill: Cristina Valenzuela
Roman Torchwick: Gray G. Haddock and 2 others
Billy Kametz
Christopher Wehkamp
Neptune Vasilias: Kerry Shawcross
Glynda Goodwitch: Kathleen Zuelch
Jacques Schnee: Jason Douglas
Raven Branwen: Anna Hullum
Clover Ebi: Christopher Wehkamp
Elm Ederne: Dawn M. Bennett
Marrow Amin: Marrow Amin
Harriet Bree: Anairis Quiñones
Vine Zeki: Todd Womack
Ghira Belladonna: Kent Williams
Whitley Schnee: Howard Wang
Ilia Amitola: Cherami Leigh
Kali Belladonna: Tara Platt
Taiyang Xiao Long: Burnie Burns
Vernal: Amber Lee Connors
Little: Luci Christian
Somewhat: Luci Christian
May Marigold: Kdin Jenzen
Joanna Greenleaf: Marissa Lenti
Fiona Thyme: Michele Everheart
Dr. Pietro Polendina: Dave Fennoy
Klein Sieben: J. Michael Tatum
Corsac Albain: Derek Mears
Fennec Albain: Mike McFarland
Leonardo Lionheart: Daman Mills
Curious Cat: Robbie Daymond
Coco Adel: Ashley Jenkins
Velvet Scarlatina: Caiti Ward
Yatsuhashi Daichi: Joe MacDonald
Cardin Winchester: Adam Ellis
Caroline Cordovin: Mela Lee
Jabberwalker: Richard Norman
Jinn: Colleen Clinkenbeard
Flynt Coal: Flynt Flossy
Neon Katt: Meg Turney
Saphron Cotta-Arc: Lindsay Sheppard
Terra Cotta-Arc: Jamie Smith
Blacksmith: Kimlinh Tran
Lil’ Miss Malachite: Luci Christian
Willow Schnee: Caitlin Glass
The Hound: Ernesto Jason Liebrecht
Hei “Junior” Xiong: Jack Pattillo
Miltia Malachite: Maggie Tominey
Melanie Malachite: Maggie Tominey
Zwei: Penny Layne Matthews
Ozma: Aaron Dismuke and 1 other
Shannon McCormick
God of Light: Chase McCaskill
God of Darkness: Bruce DuBose
Ambrosius: Valentine Stokes
Jinxy: Brendan Blaber
Red Prince: Michael Malconian
Herbalist: Christopher Guerrero
Creatures of Grimm: William Orendorff
MINOR ROLES
Announcer: Jeff Williams
AK-130 Android: Shane Newville
Shopkeep: Patrick Rodriguez
Goons: William Lopez and 1 other
Isaiah Torres
Cyril Ian: Patrick Rodriguez
Lisa Lavender: Jen Brown
Student: Kerry Shawcross
Russel Thrush: Shane Newville
Police Officers: Burnie Burns and 1 other
Joel Heyman
Sailors: Isaiah Torres and 1 other
Daniel Fabelo
White Fang Goon: Chris Martin
Penny’s Driver: Alan Abdine
Tukson: Adam Ellis
CCT AI: Megan Castro
Schnee Corp Operator: Emily McBride
Atlas Soldiers: Jon Risinger and 19 others
Patrick Rodriguez
Shane Newville
Kerry Shawcross
Josh Flanagan
Jeb Aguilar-Kendrick
J.D. Arredondo
Kirk Johnson
Alena Lecorchick
Tony Salvaggio
César Altagracia
Quentin Holtz
Nicholas Swift
Ed Whetstone
Cody Hawkins
Andrea Ratsos
Noël Wiggins
Dalton Allen
Nick Cramer
White Fang Lieutenant: Gray G. Haddock
“Deery”: Maggie Tominey
Student: Jacob Strickler
Perry: Kyle Taylor
White Fang Goons: Austin Hardwicke and 3 others
Miles Luna
Dustin Matthews
Josh Ornelas
Councilman: Gray G. Haddock
Reese Chloris: Erin Winn
Bolin Hori: Jon Risinger
Brawnz Ni: Blaine Gibson
Roy Stallion: No Voice Actor
Nolan Porfirio: Aaron Marquis
May Zedong: No Voice Actor
Bartender: Markus Horstmeyer
Nebula Violette: Kate Warner
Scarlet David: Gavin Free
Dew Gayl: Kim Newman
Sage Ayana: Josh Ornelas
Gwen Darcy: Mylissa Zelechowski
Octavia Ember: Claire Hogan
Video Game Announcer: Gray G. Haddock
Ciel Soleil: Yssa Badiola
Salesman: César Altagracia
Woman: Kate Warner
Man: Robert Reynolds
Large Man: Alex Leonard
Inn Keeper: Joe MacDonald
Crying Child Illusion: Maggie Tominey
Amber: Laura Bailey
Paramedic: Jon Risinger
Atlas Security Guard: Jonathan Floyd
Haven Tourist: Robert Reynolds
News Reporter: Tyler Coe
Broadcast Op: Cole Gallian
Warning Announcer: Kate Warner
Atlas Ship Captain: Travis Willingham
Blue Three: Andrea Caprotti
Mayor: Mike McFarland
Blacksmith: Christopher Guerrero
Dying Huntsman: Alejandro Saab
Captain: Bruce Carey
Reporter 01: Tyler Coe
Reporter 02: Amber Lee Connors
Reporter 03: Jason Douglas
Crew Member 1: Yunhao Zhang
First Mate: Derrek Ziegler
Crew Member 2: Chris Kokkinos
Oscar’s Aunt: Marissa Lenti
Higanbana Waitress: Kim Newman
Businessman: Scott Frerichs
Businesswoman: Amber Lee Connors
Henry Marigold: Alejandro Saab
Angry Businessman: Nick Landis
Waiter: Kyler Smith
Trophy Wife: Felecia Angelle
Husband: Chris Kokkinos
An Ren: Dawn M. Bennett
Lie Ren (young): Apphia Yu
Young Blacksmith: Connor Pickens
Tall Boy: Scott Frerichs
Short Boy: Marissa Lenti
Medium Boy: Amber Lee Connors
Li Ren: Kaiji Tang
Nora Valkyrie (young): Kristen McGuire
Mistral Pilot: Stan Lewis
Atlas Pilot: Richard Norman
Train Announcer: Alena Lecorchick
Mistral Pilot: Reina Scully
Menagerie Guard: Gio Coutinho
Bartender: Zane Rutledge
Shay D. Mann: Clifford Chapin
Sienna Khan: Monica Rial
Bandit One: Chris Kokkinos
Saber Rodentia: William Ball
Bandit Two: Billy B. Burson III
Worried Mother: Victoria Holden
Mata: Scott Frerichs
Yuma: Nick Landis
Ramen Shop Owner: Nick Landis
Small Girl: Emily Fajardo
Trifa: Emily Fajardo
Menagerie Guard 1: Stan Lewis
Menagerie Guard 2: Jenn K. Tidwell
Faunus 01: Willem W. Keetell
Faunus 02: Ariel LaCroix
Young Faunus Woman: Christine Stuckart
Older Faunus Man: Patrick Rodriguez
White Fang Members: Luis “Paco” Vazquez and 2 others
Willem W. Keetell
Jenn K. Tidwell
Mistral Police Captain: Jamie Smith
White Fang Guards: Christine Stuckart and 2 others
César Altagracia
Connor Pickens
Dee: Alex Mai
Dudley: Christopher Guerrero
Mistral Woman: Lauren Aptekar
Newscaster: Ethan Marler
Body Guard: Jenn K. Tidwell
Frightened Man: Richard Norman
Eldest Daughter: Jenn K. Tidwell
Youngest Daughter: Lauren Aptekar
Tock: Ruth Urquhart
Adrian Cotta-Arc: Lucella Wren Clary
Nubuck Guards: Kyle Phillips
Red Haired Woman: Jen Brown
Terminal Soldier: Connor Pickens
Argus Air Control: Danzer Koehler
Manta Two-Two: Noël Wiggins
Manta Three-Four: Dalton Allen
Manta Two-One: Melanie Stern
Manta Two-Four: Joe Clary
Atlas Air Traffic Female: Alena Lecorchick
Drunk Mann: Joel Mann
Drinking Buddy: Dustin Matthews
Forest: Eric Baudour
Pilots: Billy B. Burson III and 1 other
Todd Womack
Fria: Luci Christian
Newscaster: Scott Morgan
Mantle Citizen: Kirk Johnson
Mantle Patrol: Quentin Holtz
News Broadcaster: Kyle Taylor
AK-200 Driver: Ed Whetstone
Patrol: Connor Pickens
Waiters: Kirk Johnson and 1 other
Christine Stuckart
Female Dinner Guest: Lauren Aptekar
Councilman Sleet: Chad James
Councilwoman Camilla: Anairis Quiñones
Mantle Child: Brooke Olson
Citizens: Quentin Holtz and 5 others
Nikita Steele
Nicholas Swift
Jenn K. Tidwell
Alena Lecorchick
Ed Whetstone
Manta Team Delta: Richard Norman
Atlas Pilots: Ed Whetstone and 1 other
Alena Lecorchick
Atlas Commander: Zoe Terhune and 1 other
Kate Daigler
Atlas Technician: Alena Lecorchick
Reporter: Nick Schwartz
Mother: Jenn K. Tidwell
Disgruntled Grandmother: Christine Stuckart
Fiona’s Uncle: Gus Sorola
Crimson: César Altagracia
Mechanical Voice: Andrea Ratsos
Operator: Nick Schwartz
Madame: Linda Leonard
Step-Sisters: Amanda Lee
Rhodes: Christian Young
Commanders: Billy B. Burson III and 2 others
Kdin Jenzen
Zack Watkins
Child: Alexia Cruz
Father: Matthew Cruz
Computer Terminal: Alanah Pearce
Atlas Officer: Billy B. Burson III
CCT Voice: Jackie Izawa
Civilian: Chris Demarais
Summer Rose: Morgan Lauré Garrett
The Bird: Richard Norman
Mouse: Brendan Blaber
Mouse Leader: Jamie Battle
Townsperson: Jamie Battle
Toy Soldiers: Nick Cramer and 4 others
Billy B. Burson III
Kdin Jenzen
Cody Hawkins
Michael Malconian
Toy Guard: Brendan Blaber
White Pawns: Brandan Blaber and 3 others
Billy B. Burson III
Jamie Battle
Michael Malconian
Hawker: César Altagracia
Teapot Lady: Kdin Jenzen
Blue Paper Pleaser: Connor Pickens
Yellow Paper Pleaser: Dalton Allen
Green Paper Pleaser: Dustin Matthews
Red Paper Pleaser: Paula Decanini
Purple Paper Pleaser: Yssa Badiola
Genial Gem: Paula Decanini
Alyx: Shara Kirby
Vacuan 1: Eddy Rivas
Vacuan 2: Melinda Bonifay
ADDITIONAL VOICES
Austin Hardwicke
Blaine Gibson
Daniel Fabelo
Dustin Matthews
Harley Dwortz
Jeff Yohn
Kris McMeans
Kristina Nguyen
Luis “Paco” Vazquez
Maggie Tominey
Megan Castro
Shane Newville
Sheena Duquette
Stefanie Hardy
#rwby#rwby voice actors#behind the voice actors#team rwby#team jnpr#team strq#beacon academy#salem's inner circle#atlas military#team sssnn#the white fang#happy huntresses#schnee manor#ace ops#branwen tribe#the ever after#team cfvy#team crdl#rwby relics#team fnki#arc family#rwby spider#xiong family
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The Loud House/Scooby-Doo! Mysteries
SYNOPSIS: What happens when your favorite Loud family from The Loud House solve the mysteries from your favorite animated Scooby-Doo! movies?!
Introducing The Loud House/Scooby-Doo! Mysteries, the crossover recasting series that follows the mysteries from your favorite Scooby-Doo! movies, but with the Louds from Nickelodeon's The Loud House taking center stage instead of our favorite teen sleuths of Mystery Inc. and their faithful hound Scooby-Doo.
Everyone's favorite rowdy family from The Loud House take their hijinks around the mysteries of your favorite Scooby-Doo! movies as each certain members of the Loud family have their spotlight while dealing with the spooks and monsters of all shapes and sizes -- like Lucy Loud meeting the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft in Witch's Ghost, the rock-and-rolling Luna Loud going down under as she rocks out against the Yowie Yahoo and its legion of Australian vampires during the Vampire Rock Music Festival in Legend of the Vampire, the scientific Lisa Loud getting beamed inside the computer game with the Phantom Virus on her tail from level to level in Cyber Chase, and see how our one and only Lincoln Loud and his family handle zombies and werecats on Moonscar Island in Zombie Island...without his best friend Clyde McBride.
For now, check out the crossover recast of Scooby-Doo! on Zombie Island in Gettin' Loud on Zombie Island and many more that is yet to come!
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000)
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001)
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster (2004)
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005)
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010)
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010)
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2012)
Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012)
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2013)
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014)
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015)
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (2016)
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright (2013)
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015)
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (2022)
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023)
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Secret Army - BBC One / BRT - September 7, 1977 - December 15, 1979
War Drama (43 Episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Bernard Hepton as Albert Foiret
Jan Francis as Lisa "Yvette" Colbert (series 1-2)
Christopher Neame as Flight Lt. John Curtis (series 1)
Angela Richards as Monique Duchamps
Clifford Rose as Ludwig Kessler
Michael Culver as Maj. Erwin Brandt (series 1-2)
Juliet Hammond-Hill as Natalie Chantrens
Valentine Dyall as Dr Pascal Keldermans
Ron Pember as Alain Muny
Eileen Page as Andrée Foiret (series 1)
Robin Langford as Cpl. Veit Rennert (series 1-2)
Timothy Morand as Jacques Bol (series 1)
James Bree as Gaston Colbert (series 1)
Maria Charles as Louise Colbert (series 1)
Gunnar Möller as Hans van Broecken
Marianne Stone as Lena van Broecken (series 1-2)
Henrietta Baynes as Yvonne (series 1-2)
Stephen Yardley as Max Brocard (series 2)
John D. Collins as Insp. Paul Delon (series 2-3)
Hazel McBride as Madeleine Duclos (series 2-3)
Nigel Williams as François (series 2)
Paul Shelley as Maj. Nick Bradley (series 2-3)
Neil Daglish as Wullner (series 2-3)
Trisha Clarke as Geneviève (series 2-3)
David Neilson as Jelinek (series 3)
Terrence Hardiman as Maj. Hans-Dietrich Reinhardt (series 3)
Michael Byrne (series 2) and Ralph Bates (series 3) as Paul Vercors
Stephan Chase as Capt. Stephen Durnford (series 3)
Hilary Minster as Hauptmann Müller (series 3)
#Secret Army#TV#BBC One#BRT#War Drama#1970's#Bernard Hepton#Jan Francis#Christopher Neame#Angela Richards#Christopher Rose#Michael Culver#Juliet Hammond-Hill
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2024 Reads
Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!
You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson
Meru - S.B. Divya
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]
Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen
Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide
Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke
The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.
This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan
The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides
Finding Me^ - Viola Davis
Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte
Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells
The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler
Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam
Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells
The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds
The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans
Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin
The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry
Network Effect~ - Martha Wells
Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Medical Apartheid:^ The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A Washington
The Assassination of Fred Hampton:^ How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Jeffrey Haas
The Death of Vivek Oji - Awaeke Emezi
Mutual Aid:^% Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) - Dean Spade
Passin' Through - Luis L'Amour
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Histories of the Transgender Child^ - Jules Gill-Peterson
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curiosu Man^ - Mark Kurlansky
When I Fell from the Sky:^ The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival - Juliane Koepcke
Dear Senthuran:^ A Black Spirit Memoir - Akwaeke Emezi
Emma* by Jane Austen
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
Woman:^ The American History of an Idea - Lillian Faderman
System Collapse - Martha Wells
A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollawell
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love^% - Bell Hooks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks^ - Rebecca Skloot
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America^ -Rachel Hope Cleves
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle^ - Lillian Faderman
The Woman in Me^ - Brittany Spears
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America^ - Gregory Smithers
Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of Disability Rights Activist^ - Judith Huemann
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When a Disaster Strikes and Why^ - Amanda Ripley
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone^ - Edward Dolnick
Utopia for Realists:^ How We Can Build the Ideal World - Rutger Bregman
The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey
To Believe in Women:^ What Lesbians Have Done for America - Lillian Faderman
Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Tribe:^% On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger
Freedom^% - Sebastian Junger
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea% - Mark Kurlansky
Bridehead Revisited# - Evelyn Waugh
The Witch Elm - Tana Frencyh
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
HumanKind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman^
Autumn at the Willow River Guesthouse - C.P Ward
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World Find the Good Death^ - Caitlin Doughty
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Gideon the Ninth* - Tamsyn Muir
See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt
Plain Bad Heroines* - Emily M Danforth
Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt
On Killing:^ The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Dave Grossman
Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - Daneil M. Lavery
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals^ - Aaron Mahnke
The Willows% - Algernon Blackwood
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones% - Alvin Schwartz
The Motion of Puppets - Keith Donohue
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow% - Washington Irving
Wisconsin's Ghosts^ - Sherry Strub
Trauma and Recovery^: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Judith Lewis Herman
An Enchangment of Ravens - Margaret Rogerson
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* - Susanna Clark
Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li
The Five^: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold
Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denamrk's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of their Fellow Danes^ - and the Extrondinary Role of the SS - Bo Lidegaard
The Road to Jonestown^: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple - Jeff Guinn
The Scary Book of Christmas Lore^ - Tim Rayborn
On Tyranny^: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder
The Old Magic of Christmas:^ Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year - Linda Raedisch
Harrow the Ninth~* - Tamsyn Muir
The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
12 Days at Bleakly Manor - Michelle Greip
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914^ - Malcolm Brown & Shirley Seaton
Midnight Never Come* - Marie Brennan
Behind the Scenes:^ Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House - Elizabethy Keckley
Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club
My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that.
Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...
Being Human
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
Bowling Alone
Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...
Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended
The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...
Dear Senthuran
DisneyWar
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...
Finding Me (Viola Davis)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...
The Food of a Younger Land
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...
The Glass Universe
The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...
The Great Influenza
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman
The History of Ireland
The History of Scotland
The History of Wales
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Indifferent Stars Above
In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...
The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...
A New World Begins
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty
Radium Girls
The Road to Jonestown
Paper: Paging through History
Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec
Salt: A World History
Say Nothing
Sea Biscuit: An American legend
Searching for Black Confederates
This is Your Mind on Plants
Unmasking Autism
The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why
Watching the Tree / found all by my little self
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...
#tfg reads#2024 Reading List#Books#tbr#Do I usually wait until I actually have more than one book read?#Uh yeah woops haha#Ah well I was eager to get my goal written to hold myself accountable#I'm really enjoying pussypedia!#So a promising start#I also have a silent private goal of some other nonfiction I want to get to#but it's going to be especially hard so that will wait to see if I can even get started XD#la de da#silly tfg#reading#my reading index
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Nancy Mace made headlines in recent weeks with her ugly, transphobic attacks on Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride. Her attention-seeking stunts, such as performatively tearing down transgender flags while on camera, represent new lows in what has been a years-long chase for that next sweet cable news hit.
Before McBride was even sworn into office, Mace introduced a resolution that would ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol. Mace openly admitted that McBride was the specific target of her resolution even though she never planned to use multi-stall bathrooms at the Capitol in the first place. Mace didn’t even bother addressing her concerns directly with McBride before exploiting her identity for her latest 15 minutes of fame.
Mace’s bigoted actions and rhetoric have little to do with any actual ideology. Indeed, in the distant past of just last year, she described herself as “pro-transgender rights.” She stated in a 2023 interview, “If they wanna take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity or grow their hair out, or wear a dress or wear pants, or do those things as a minor — those are all things that I think most people would support. Be who you want to be, but don’t make permanent changes as a child. They may decide as an adult, ‘Hey, instead of being Johnny, I want to be Jill’ — that’s OK. But let them figure that out and make that decision when they can consent.”
This is a stark departure from Mace’s current position — she’s referred to trans people as “mentally ill” during her recent flood of bigoted posts on social media — but it’s not inexplicable. Mainstream Republicans have escalated their attacks against trans people over the past few years.
During the 2024 GOP primary, for instance, Nikki Haley framed her opposition to trans equality as “the women’s rights issue of our time” and called Dylan Mulvaney “a guy, dressed up like a girl, making fun of women.” Trump, for his part, made crude transphobia a cornerstone of his 2024 campaign — a contrast with his first presidential run, when he actually said trans people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want.
At a glance, it seems as if Mace simply hopped on a hateful bandwagon. But a closer examination of her congressional career reveals that she has no true political position beyond her own ambition.
“National Nancy”
In 2020, Mace defeated Democratic incumbent Joe Cunningham in South Carolina’s first district by less than 6,000 votes. (Republicans have since redrawn the district to make it solidly Republican, which involved removing thousands of Black voters.) For a moment, it looked as if Mace would serve as a centrist alternative to incoming far-right representatives like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, both of whom promoted Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
Mace was not one of the 147 Republican House members who voted to reject Trump’s loss. In fact, she was the only Republican House member from South Carolina who voted to certify Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. She told NPR's Steve Inskeep on January 7 that “when you read the Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 explicitly states, in black and white, that Congress's role here is merely to count the votes of the Electoral College.”
“Everything that he’s worked for — his entire legacy — was wiped out yesterday,” she said at the time. She told Meet the Press that Trump put “all our lives at risk.”
That was during the brief period when it seemed as though Republicans might finally break with Trump, and Mace swiftly positioned herself as the face of the brave new post-MAGA order.
“I want to be a new voice for the Republican Party, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve spoken out so strongly against the president, against these QAnon conspiracy theorists that led us in a constitutional crisis,” she told Meet the Press. “It’s just wrong, and we’ve got to put a stop to it.”
The Daily Beast obtained Mace’s 2021 strategy memo that presented her as “THE freshman thought leader on federal issues.” She was so obsessed with raising her profile that she even dubbed herself “NATIONAL NANCY.” She tasked her staff with “winning (Mace) as much exposure as possible.” This led one former senior aide to wonder, “Are we in a PR firm, or working for a member of Congress?”
Mace’s communications team was required to book her on a national TV outlet “between one and three times per day — a staggering nine times per week, at a minimum, according to former staffers who had seen past handbooks — and on local TV channels at least six times per week,” the Daily Beast reported.
She’d often tailor her positions and entire persona depending on where she was booked. In an especially egregious example from November 2021, Mace praised vaccines during a CNN interview but promoted “natural immunity” on Fox News, both on the same day. Even Fox News took notice of Mace’s pandering and grilled her about it during a subsequent interview. (Watch below.)
Mace sought out publicity in bizarre ways. Former staffers claim that during the January 6 Capitol attack, she pitched the idea that she’d confront the MAGA mob with the goal of getting punched in the face so her battered image could propel her to prominence. (Saner heads ultimately prevailed.)
Meanwhile, Mace learned the lesson that publicly beefing with prominent Dems is a good way to get attention and money. As Trump was reestablishing his dominance over the GOP in the the winter of 2021, Mace picked a fight with AOC, cynically accusing her of lying about her traumatic experiences on January 6.
Mace tweeted, “I’m two doors down from aoc and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway” — a claim AOC never actually made. AOC pushed back, but Mace pivoted to hitting up her email list for cash and portraying herself as a victim: “[AOC can] pressure me all she wants, but I've never backed down, and I won't start now."
A few months later, Mace claimed that her house on Daniel Island, an affluent Charleston suburb, was vandalized with antifa symbols and profanity. Before police even charged anyone, Mace had already starting blaming the “the radical left” in her fundraising appeals. (Mace has also shamelessly fundraised off her attacks on Rep. McBride.)
Mace has contempt for anyone she thinks hogs the spotlight she craves, including far-right Republicans like Greene and Boebert. During a late 2021 hit on CNN, Mace condemned Boebert’s Islamophobic remarks about Ilhan Omar. Greene fired back by tweeting that Mace “is the trash in the GOP Conference. Never attacked by Democrats or RINO’s (same thing) because she is not conservative, she’s pro-abort. Mace you can back up off of [Boebert] or just go hang with your real gal pals, the Jihad Squad. Your [sic] out of your league.”
In response, Mace — without a trace of irony — dismissed Greene as an attention-seeking phony, a “grifter of the first order.”
“If you say something that's crazy, you say something extreme, you're going to raise money,” she told reporters. “And that is the only reason that she does that … she does it to raise money. She takes advantage of vulnerable Americans and vulnerable conservatives and makes promises she cannot keep.” (Watch below.)
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In December 2021, Elaine Godfrey at The Atlantic wrote a profile on Mace headlined, “The Republican Congresswoman Taking on Lauren Boebert.” The piece asked, “Why is a South Carolina Republican policing her party’s far-right flank?”
But Mace’s faux-moderate branding wouldn’t last long.
Mace folds to Trumpism
Mace’s public feud with Greene eventually caused then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to intervene, but it was the party’s true leader who threatened to end Mace’s career before it really got going.
As Godfrey observed, Mace’s actual “position in the GOP ecosystem” was hard to nail down. She didn’t please the bigot wing of the party with her (at the time) tolerant positions on LGBTQ issues. She provoked her diehard MAGA peers while trying to remain on Trump’s good side. She didn’t vote to impeach him after the insurrection, nor did she support the January 6 Committee. But she did vote to hold former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon in contempt of Congress.
Although outspoken Trump foe Liz Cheney held a fundraising event for Mace in April 2021, Mace voted to remove her as GOP conference chair a few weeks later.
“Any disagreements we have with each other within our Party should be discussed internally, and not dragged out into public for all to see,” she said in a statement.
This explanation was transparently hypocritical — not just because of her later feuds with Boebert and Greene but because Trump himself doesn’t follow Ronald Reagan’s supposed 11th Commandment about never criticizing other Republicans. MAGA only obeys a single commandment — thou shalt have no other gods but Trump.
Trump didn’t forget Mace’s public criticism of him after January 6. He endorsed her 2022 primary challenger, Katie Arrington. Trump outright trashed Mace, calling her “disloyal,” “crazy,” and a “terrible person who has no idea what she’s doing.” At a 2022 rally, he even encouraged the crowd to boo the very mention of her name. (Watch below.)
Instead of standing up for herself, Mace immediately shifted into debasement mode. She recorded a humiliating video of herself standing outside Trump Tower, where she asserted her MAGA bonafides and kissed up to dear leader, saying “I believe in putting America first.”
Trump mocked her groveling performance, saying “it was untruthful just like everything else she does.”
But there was an upside — Trump targeting Mace helped her comms team meet their quotas. This included an extensive profile in Mace’s hometown newspaper, The State. When she managed to defeat Arrington, she received more fawning coverage in the press, and she boasted on CNN that she was "one of the only Republicans in the House who defeated the former president in a primary last year." Even the New York Times bought her act with a puffy profile written by Annie Karni, who apparently interviewed Mace over margaritas.
Emboldened by her victory, Mace further promoted her fabricated outsider image.
“I am a Republican, but I am a caucus of one,” Mace told Vanity Fair in a March 2023 profile headlined, “Welcome To Nancy Mace’s Island, Where She Gives ‘Zero F-cks.’”
“It’s been a very lonely start to the year. I represent a district of islands, but I literally feel up here on the Hill that I am living on an island alone. And it is very lonely,” Mace said, vowing to “rein in some of the craziness that is happening.”
In a January 2023 Semafor article headlined, “America's Next Top Moderate: Which House Republican wants the title?” Mace was listed as one of the "five members who’ve taken on the role of quasi-spokespeople for the Mod Squad” — a group billed as a contrast to the extremist Freedom Caucus, which had thrown the House into chaos over McCarthy’s protracted speakership bid. But by October, Mace had joined Matt Gaetz and other far-right Republicans in their successful bid to oust McCarthy.
As Republicans scrambled to replace McCarthy, Mace showed up for a conference meeting wearing a white t-shirt with a red “A” on the front. She told CNN’s Anna Grayer, “I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had, last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice.”
Mace consistently plays the victim in this cynical way. During a memorably disastrous interview earlier this year on ABC, she absurdly accused George Stephanopoulos of “shaming” her as a rape victim because he dared ask how she could support Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist. (Watch below.)
In recent weeks, as Mace has viciously attacked McBride, she’s turned reality upside down by proclaiming that she won’t be “bullied into submission” while sending out fundraising messages bragging that “the Trans Mob wants to k*ll me but I FOUGHT BACK and WON.”
Last June, after surviving a McCarthy-backed primary challenge, Mace declared, “I hope I drive Kevin McCarthy crazy.” She’s branded herself as an anti-establishment maverick, when she’s actually an egocentric chaos agent.
The Daily Show roasted Mace’s transphobia last month, but the show had previously fallen for her PR offensive when she was booked for an interview in October 2023. She’d billed herself as “not your typical Republican,” which is probably true but not in a positive way.
Three years after Mace was willing to take a punch to the face to brand herself as fully anti-Trump, she demonstrated the opportunistic disloyalty Trump correctly identified by going all in for his third presidential bid.
"I don’t see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I’ve stayed out of it. But the time has come to unite behind our nominee," she said in a post on X. "To be honest, it’s been a complete shit show since he left the White House."
Mace actually believed she had a shot to become Trump’s running mate, but Trump had no reason to trust her. Even if he’s no longer attacking her at rallies, she’s proven that she prioritizes her personal brand more than loyalty to him or anything else.
AOC recently posted on Bluesky that when she privately confronted Mace about the lies she told about her and January 6, Mace responded glibly, “Whatever. You know it’s a game, just points on the board.” It’s a deeply cynical view of public service, and now that Mace has chosen to “score points” through shameful attacks on a vulnerable group, the only question that remains is how much lower she can go.
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I am Changing
read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/0r2lAoy by NicksVault Charlie has always been the overachiever, passionate about classics and driven by his goals—until he realizes, in his final year of university, that the life he's been working toward doesn't fulfill him. What starts as a casual hobby to fill his free time blossoms into something far greater when Charlie discovers his love for singing. While Nick thrives in his teaching internship and rugby career, Charlie grapples with the growing gap between them. Pursuing his dream means facing financial challenges, self-doubt, and the fear of disappointing everyone he loves—especially Nick, who remains oblivious to Charlie’s inner turmoil. As the pressure mounts, Charlie must decide: will he risk everything to chase his dream, or stay on the safe path and let his voice go unheard? Words: 1490, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Tara Jones, Darcy Olsson, Elle Argent, Tao Xu (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Benjamin "Ben" Hope, Otis Smith | Omar, Sai Verma, Christian McBride (Heartstopper), Harry Greene, Sarah Nelson, David Nelson (Heartstopper), Stéphane Nelson, Oliver "Olly" Spring, Victoria "Tori" Spring, Jane Spring, Julio Spring, Original Characters, Imogen Heaney, Sahar Zahid Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson, Elle Argent/Tao Xu Additional Tags: Musicals, Growing Up, Alternate Universe - College/University, Gay Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Bisexual Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Confident Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Protective Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Possessive Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Bisexual Disaster Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Singing, Acting, Charlie wants to shine, But is afraid of not achieving his dreams, Nick is oblivious, Aged-Up Character(s), Fluff and Smut, If you like La La Land you might like this, Superstar Charlie, Good Parent Sarah Nelson, Mental Health Issues read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/0r2lAoy
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Hi, I hope you're enjoying your little vacation :) you always seem to give great book recommendations and I was wondering if you know of any good 'romantic' type novels?
Thanks, I definitely am! These are some of the best romances I’ve read this year (including historical and fantasy). Bit of a trigger warning for lots of spice and kink and controversy: Overall spice:
Credence - Penelope Douglas (already read her new book too and I was not impressed)
The Wild One - Daisy Jane
All My Love - Daisy Jane
Give Me More - Sara Cate
Overall plot:
Out on a Limb - Hannah Bonam-Young
The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston
When A Scot Ties The Knot - Tessa Dare
Worthy mentions:
His Darkest Desire - Tiffany Roberts
Tied - Carian Cole
Black Wings and Stolen Things - Kayleigh King
Lights Out - Navessa Allen
Sustained - Emma Chase
In A Jam - Kate Canterbary
Ignite - Melanie Harlow
Bride - Ali Hazelwood
Series I read and LOVED:
The Ravenels - Lisa Kleypas
The Hathaways - Lisa Kleypas
Mackenzies & McBrides - Jennifer Ashley
Deep Waters - Emma Hamm
Fire & Desire - Chloe Chastaine
Castles Ever After - Tessa Dare
Second Sons - Emily Rath
Frozen Fate - Pam Godwin (the last book came out this past Monday!)
Of Flesh & Bone - Harper L. Woods
The Alliance - S.J. Tilly
Authors I read multiple books of:
Daisy Jane
S.J. Tilly
Emma Hamm
Kate Canterbary
Tiffany Roberts
Sara Cate
Laurelin Paige
Elsie Silver
Melanie Harlow
C.M. Nascosta
Ashley Poston
Kathryn Moon
Lisa Kleypas
Lillian Lark
Lilith Vincent
Katee Robert
Emily Rath
Kate Stewart
Sorcha Black
Tessa Dare
Jennifer Ashley
Kerrigan Byrne
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Alix Breeden at Daily Kos:
ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, took to Instagram Tuesday to praise President Joe Biden’s choice to withdraw a proposal protecting transgender athletes. “I think this is a very important and good move to withdraw this proposed regulation,” Strangio said in the video. Biden’s proposal would have prohibited schools from enacting bans on transgender student-athletes trying to participate on the teams that align with their gender identity while allowing schools to enforce some restrictions on competitive sports. But Strangio believes trying to push the proposal through ahead of felon-elect Donald Trump’s second term would open the door for more harm to the transgender community. “The regulation would have been immediately withdrawn when the Trump administration came in. Even worse, they could have left the notice of proposed rule-making in place, which would have given the Trump administration easy access to, in essence, gut protections for trans people in schools through that proposed regulation just sitting there,” he said.
[...] The Supreme Court has yet to render a ruling, but Tennessee isn’t an outlier on this topic, as 26 states have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Support for limiting minors from accessing things like puberty blockers or gender reassignment surgery is seemingly growing not just in the U.S., but internationally as well. Those in favor of these types of bans argue that there have been a number of children expressing regret later on in life, resulting in lawsuits and traumatic “detransitioning.”
[...] Anti-trans legislation was a major campaign tool for Donald Trump and other right-leaning politicians, with millions spent on anti-trans ads and hundreds of anti-trans bills popping up across the country every year since 2020. On Capitol Hill, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace and House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed through an anti-trans bathroom ban in November effectively targeting the single transgender member of Congress, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride. Johnson also managed to muscle through an anti-trans provision in the latest defense spending bill, banning transgender minors in military families from using military health insurance TRICARE for any gender-affirming care. Biden signed the defense bill into law Monday, but not before expressing his dismay and saying the anti-trans provision “interferes with parents’ roles to determine the best care for their children.”
President Biden's decision to withdraw a proposal to protect trans athletes playing in sports competitions matching their gender identity was a smart one, per ACLU's Chase Strangio, because it prevents Trump from making it easy to harm trans athletes.
#Joe Biden#Biden Administration#Transgender Sports#Transgender#LGBTQ+#Sports#Chase Strangio#Donald Trump#Trump Administration II#TriCare
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What's confusing to me after watching the leaks (aside from just having no English subtitles for the French scenes, which was desperately confusing, please watch this when it airs - but it was 6 Carol episodes for my birthday so I watched it anyway) is that Zabel said no Caryl, and this season really felt like Caryl build-up.
I've been a "Carol and Daryl are best friends and soulmates first, and if they go romantic, good, if they don't, fine" stancer since Season 2. So going in, knowing about that interview, I watched for Carol first, expecting nothing further from her and Daryl than what we've had. "Do It For Her" style.
On that note, I was quite satisfied. A good six Carol plot episodes back to back would have been a rare treat in the main series.
Some things she did that made me sigh: lying to Ash, though it appeared impulsive and she almost seemed to try to talk him out of helping her after.
Some things she did that me proud: actually really trying with the ecologist woman who spared her, shouting after those two soldiers chasing civilians so she could gun them down and prevent the civilians they were chasing from getting hurt, showing compassion for Isabelle and stopping her search for her best friend to help her, stopping outside the window when that old lady was getting threatened and going in guns blazing to try to help her even though it would have been safer for her to stealthily exit with Daryl, snorting derisively at gunpoint when Genet tells her she could never understand her loss, telling Ash the truth, staying behind to cover him and avoid separating from Daryl.
Then there was the final scene with her holding the knife to a vision of herself. We know what happened to her in the comics. We know how hard it is for her to keep living after what she's been through. She held the knife to her own throat...and didn't. "Sophia" visited her, and Carol tremulously asks if she can go with her, and Sophia leaves, turns back, but Carol doesn't follow. Twice in as many minutes, Carol chooses to live.
I've heard Melissa McBride had a great deal of say in Carol's arc this season, and I think it shows. That's why I suggest: do it for her. I don't want her copping the blame for the various cringe moments in this season that didn't involve her.
That being said, and what confuses me after that interview, there really does feel like there was a lot of Caryl buildup. She was clearly pained when she was informed, multiple times, that Isabelle and Daryl were a (15 seconds of cringe) thing. Daryl asked her if she had the "hots for" Ash in an apparently-dismissive-but-actually-kind-of-miffed tone. This does not strike me as bestie behavior.
In what fairness I can mete out to Daryl (sigh), he very seriously, very pointedly told Carol he loved her last time they saw each other, and she immediately turned it into a "omg bestie I love you too!!" energy thing because she isn't ready to confront those feelings for him. She says this season while they're at the plane: "If I lose you I couldn't go on" (or something to that effect) and I think she views expressing her feelings to him as a serious risk and potential outlet for losing him.
Anyway, Daryl may have taken that energy switch after he told her he loved her as a very gentle rejection. This is just to try to understand the headspace they're both in.
The brave old lady tells Carol to her face that Daryl loves her (under the impression she's Isabelle, but Carol has quite the face journey) and that true love is rare. The old man remarks they bicker like a married couple. It was at this point I actually became confused, because didn't they say this wasn't going to happen? And I, troubled, thought, "If they're going to do this they need to lay the groundwork now and do it in Season 3," instead of rushing it like Daryl and Isabelle, because if Daryl and Carol are going to go canon, I don't want it to be a long look and 15 seconds smooching.
Carol asks Daryl at one point (regarding losing a child) "What, are you afraid of ending up like me?" in a biting tone (anticipating Daryl's rejection of her, as she often does...and never gets) and he says, very calmly, "No, I'm not afraid of that." He is afraid of losing a child, but not of ending up like her, because he respects and admires her a great deal.
Daryl hears Carol talk about how difficult things are at the Commonwealth without him, and says, "Things will be different. We'll be together this time." Carol chooses to stay behind with him at the plane.
As they go into the tunnel, a man chooses to stay behind with the woman he's in love with instead of separating like they had planned. At the risk of sounding deranged, their gloved and intertwined hands do actually resemble Carol and Daryl's, and it seemed like an intentional parallel.
After Carol chooses to live (twice) and makes her way back to Daryl, he has a hallucination of Isabelle telling him to "bet on hope", before vanishing into a cloud of fireflies a la lover giving lovee the blessing to continue in life without her. He, too, chooses to live, and he had Carol reunite. They put on the only two gas masks in the cavern and say, "Let's go home." As they do, a song lyric that has played in the episode before goes over the scene: "Sometime you don't always get what you want", but this time it continues: "...but what you need."
All told, I don't know where they're taking this next. This frankly does not feel like platonic build up, and I went in knowing of the interview and fully expecting strictly platonic interactions. I am at this point almost willing to believe the statement that Caryl wasn't happening was a very ill-advised troll attempt. Melissa McBride, at least, clearly has her hands in Carol's plotline, and her above anyone else I trust with Carol. That's why, at this point in time, I am cautiously optimistic about season 3, and cautiously appreciative of the focus on Carol and Daryl's relationship this season.
My suggestion would be to, again, do it for her, and watch the series as it airs.
I have a different impression of what happened in S11's "I love you" and how it impacted Caryl's relationship in the spinoff, but that's beside the point. The point is, I agree that there are hints of something romantic between Caryl. My issue is this though. Fans of Carol and Daryl expect a show marketed as a Carol and Daryl show to explore their relationship, so why is that exploration reduced to subtext and parallels while other relationships that we aren't invested in are getting explicit beats? Why are their conversations being interrupted and their chemistry forcibly toned down? Why does Caryl's relationship feel like it's on the periphery and not at the center? You said you're willing to believe that Zabel was trolling, that he may actually be building up to something, but to me, it's very clearly a case of creative differences. At least someone wants Caryl while others don't and we know which way Zabel leans because he explicitly told us so. I think what we see in TBOC is an aggressive attempt to hide what somebody else wants and/or what is mandated. It's almost like watching a procedural drama where things are teased, but the characters and the relationship remain stagnant, always reset to where they started by the end. It's shitty because for over a decade, Carol and Daryl have been anything but stagnant.
I can definitely see where Melissa's influence begins and it's the most exciting element of the show imo because she clearly understands her character's trajectory and how to let her grow, but I can see where her influence ends too. Like everything else, Sophia's arc didn't go anywhere (side note: I hate that they tried to recast Sophia and she looked nothing like the og). Her need for Daryl wasn't reciprocated and her sense of "home" deflated like an old balloon when she had to find out he was preoccupied with his new family. As I said before, I felt like she was carrying more pain with her by the end than she was before she left and the way it was handled felt deeply misogynistic, like she was being punished. It gave me flashbacks to S11 when she was sidelined (literally sent back to the kitchen) and Daryl was being a jerk to her without any clear indication as to why.
I respect your opinion and I will second your advice for anyone who chooses to watch to do so for Melissa because she really is phenomenal all the way through. At the same time, the show and its marketing have raised enough red flags for me to feel uncomfortable encouraging anyone to give AMC their money when they've been mislead to think they were getting a Caryl show (Idk who the fuck the show is targeting, but it certainly isn't Carylers) and then a month out, are basically told by the showrunner to fuck off. Even if you aren't expecting Caryl and just want a strong Carol arc, that's not what this show is either. She gets the sidekick treatment as soon as her arc intersects with Daryl's, her name isn't allowed in the title, and Melissa doesn't get equal billing like the other female leads in the franchise. Ultimately, watching or not watching is a double-edged sword and I think everybody just has to decide for themselves what's best for them. What I think is more important is that regardless of your choice, just make sure AMC knows why you made it. Speak up where they can hear you.
#caryl#carol peletier#melissa mcbride#daryl dixon#norman reedus#the book of carol#twd caryl#twd spoilers
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🎶 My Eric & Donna Playlist 🎶

1. Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel
2. Remember When - Alan Jackson
3. Teenage Daughters - Martina McBride
4. Past Lives - Kesha
5. Shut Up And Dance - WALK THE MOON
6. The Bones - Maren Morris
7. Perfect - Ed Sheeran
8. Still The One - Orleans
9. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
10. Mary’s Song - Taylor Swift
11. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland
12. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
#I'm so excited to start posting this project!#Fun E/D edits 😊#My Eric and Donna Playlist#That 70s Show#That '70s Show#That 90s Show#That '90s Show#Eric and Donna#Eric x Donna#otp: mom and dad#Eric Forman#Donna Pinciotti#Donna Forman
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HELLO!
I said I'd do this, so I'm following through. I have no more baby it's you for you this week, but I thought I'd talk a little about some of my sources/inspiration/post fic thoughts in case anyone was curious (and also because I'm knee deep in the post fic blues 🫠). All of that is under the cut:
Firstly, here are the two playlists I've made for the series:
for both sides now
and for baby it's you
I'm very drawn to songs/lyrics (if it was not already clear from these fic titles), but for baby it's you in particular I spent a lot of time listening to both big dramatic breakup songs AND yearning/reunion/wedding songs. Here are some of my favorite/most relevant lyrics:

“Down on My Knees” - Bread (very BJ, to me)

“Darling Be Home Soon” - The Lovin’ Spoonful (extremely beejhawk, to me)
Secondly, I love movies lol...
From chapter 1:
[BJ] had a daughter about to start college, a mostly renovated house in Maine that was starting to feel like his, a comfortable position at a city hospital, and a fiancé who loved him. (Hawk liked the word fiancé. He always drew it out when he said it, brandishing his ring finger like he was Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and had some big rock on his hand instead of a simple gold band).
This performance is very Hawkeye to me. (The drama, the lounging, the jokes...finally got a guy to marry me!) Idk what else tell you besides I adore this movie.
Obligatory Judy Garland section...
From chapter 2:
“Yes. Coincidentally I’m also all nose and all eyes and all heart and all brain,” Hawkeye said. He drew his blanket tighter around himself and put his hands nearer to the stove. “Are you going to lead me down the yellow brick road, darling?” Trapper said, smiling wide. Hawkeye shrugged. “If I could find it I would,” he said.
And more Wizard of Oz in chapter 7:
“You know that scene in The Wizard of Oz where the scarecrow’s been tied up on a post for so long that the second he’s cut loose and tries to walk he falls over?” Hawkeye said. “Uh huh,” Trapper said. “The OR is my corn field, so to speak,” Hawkeye said.
Transformative journey/quest to a city of bright lights & colors??? Where you discover home & belonging in the people around you??? Featuring beejhawk signature color red???
And one more (more Judy, different movie) from chapter 7:
“You mean St. Louis,” BJ said. He’d seen it on a double date in college, just after New Year’s. He’d gotten a little teary eyed during the song at the end, and when Judy Garland’s sister, devastated by the prospect of moving, sobs, and wrecks all the snowmen in the yard. Judy chases her down to console her. We could be happy anywhere, as long as we’re together. That’s what she says. That’s the part that made him feel like crying. Leo teased him about it.
This is the scene he's talking about.
The other movie in chapter 7:
“I mean Las Vegas. Meet Me in Las Vegas. You took me to see it. I remember because we left Erin with Susan Meyers’ girl, Olivia? And she spilled soda all over my nice table cloth,” Peg said. “Oh,” BJ said, distracted. He sipped his drink. It was beer. He was taking it slow. He wasn’t going to do something stupid like get drunk and make a scene. They weren’t near the bar, but he couldn’t help but scan the crowds anyway, looking and listening for Hawk. “It’s about a rancher and a ballerina. The rancher is a gambler, but he doesn’t have any luck until he meets her. Every time they hold hands, he wins big,” Peg said.
This one is on YouTube! And there's lots of handholding!
Thirdly, books:
From chapter 9:
Hawkeye had friends everywhere, and a couple were up to date on the gay bar scene in Las Vegas. One of his old med school pals worked in a hospital out here and said that if they couldn’t make it to the big three Vegas gay spots, they’d better at least go to Le Café.
I am not much of a researcher, but I did refer to Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State by Dennis McBride & the accompanying photo book LGBTQ Las Vegas for information about Vegas' gay bar scene. Here's more info about/photos of Le Café.
AND:
Erin, Benny, & Fern's summer escapades (and Benny's character in particular) were inspired in part by A Separate Peace (which I believe I've referenced in fic before?? Someday I'll stop, but today's not that day). Here are some Benny & Erin related lines:
From chapter 3:
The mother blinked at Benny. He was striking, Erin reasoned, when you first got a look at him: shock of red hair, perpetually windswept, splatter of freckles over his face and up his arms, emerald green eyes, thick, expressive eyebrows, lopsided nose, deep, rolling, voice that didn’t have any note of falsity. Benny was a senior counselor, which meant he was older, and in charge of the junior counselors. He was 20. All of the female junior counselors had crushes on him, according to Fern, who was surprised when Erin admitted that she thought Benny was plenty nice and smart, but he didn’t make her heart pound. The male junior counselors resented him, and the envious masses spread rumors. One such rumor was that Benny was a homosexual.
And from A Separate Peace:

From chapter 6:
She thought, floating on her back, that maybe this was one of those formative experiences everyone was always telling her about. Her teeth chattered, and Benny was laughing loudly from the shore, despite the fact that he’d been telling her that it was imperative that they keep quiet. Erin wondered if Hawkeye had ever had a summer like this, or Dad, or Mom, or Margaret: a summer where it felt like everyone was against you, and you couldn’t be bothered to care.
And from A Separate Peace, again:

I think about this passage constantly 😀‼️
COOL! That's all I wanted to say. Thanks for reading. Peace, love, MASH, etc. <3
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Statement of Daniel Mcormant, regarding a tornado in his hometown. Original statement given the 23rd of September, 2010. Statement recorded by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.
Statement Begins.
It took a lot for me to find you, you know that right? I mean I had to scour the internet to find someone who would listen to me. I eventually landed in a chat room where someone told me about you guys. A quick search and I knew I had to come here and tell you all what had happened to me. My friends had all laughed at me, and said that I was the victim of some freak accident. But this wasn’t an accident, there was no way this was an accident! He targeted me. You have to understand that. I wasn’t the victim of some freak weather accident, this was done on purpose. Was it done for revenge? I don’t know, I just know that he came after me. So that's why I bought a ticket here as soon as I could. So I could tell you what happened, so you could help me. So you can stop this from happening again.
I live in Burnsville, Minnesota. We get a lot of tornadoes there every year. Some people have taken to calling that part of the states ‘tornado alley’. Have you ever heard of that? I mean I’m sure you have. How common are tornadoes here? Probably not that common…. Are they? Anyways I’m getting off topic. I’ve always been interested in tornados, it’s hard not to be when you live in a place that gets them multiple times a year every year. We get alot of storm chasers there, people who spend their lives chasing tornadoes and other extreme weather phenomena. I always thought they were whack jobs, thought they were crazy to forgo finding proper shelter and instead sitting on the side of the road with a camera and waiting for the tornado to essentially pass right over them. It always interested me, but I never did it. I didn’t have a death wish.
My friends had invited me out for a drink, our buddy had just come back from a business trip and we wanted to celebrate his return. I was waiting for all of my friends, walking around the bar with a beer in hand and looking at the advertisement board. It was just a public board where people could post things like cats for adoptions, or things for sale and people talking about gigs for their bands or something. I was looking for a while when I came across a pamphlet that read
“Extreme Weather Adventures
Guaranteed EF-3 Tornado or Higher
Or Your Money Back.
With Your Tour Guide Dustin McBride.”
I admit it, I laughed when I read it. I had gone to school with Dustin. He was a weird kid and I hadn’t…. Always been the kindest to Dustin. It was just kids having fun, you know? I would tease him about his interests and my buddies and I would steal his stuff and hide it throughout the school sometimes… And I mean there was one time that we might’ve beaten him up because he had run into us and spilled his drink on a friend of mine but! It was all done in fun! It’s not like I… I bullied him or something like that. We were just in highschool! You know what boys are like at that age. I never meant to, like, harm him.
I saw my friends and I tore off his number and shoved it in my pocket. I didn’t have any intention of going. And then one day I had nothing to do, and I found his slip in my coat pocket where I had stashed it probably weeks ago. It had been raining all day and a quick glance at the weather showed that there was a tornado warning issued for my town so I thought… Why not? And I guess a part of me wanted to see if he was doing as bad as we all thought he would be doing after highschool, and I would most likely get my money back anyways. How could he ever guarantee that I would see a tornado of a certain strength? It wasn’t like he could control the weather. He knew who I was before I even spoke. I don’t know how he knew. Just that… When he answered the phone he said “Hi, Daniel”.... I almost hung up without saying a word to him at all. But for some reason I didn't, for some reason I stayed on the line, asked him about his tours and he told me he had a tour that he could do today. I didn’t see any reason to say no, so I said yes… He told me to meet him in the library parking lot, he would pick me up and take me on the tour.
Things were eerily silent when I was sitting in the parking lot waiting for him. I almost thought he wasn’t going to come as I watched the sky go from a dark black to an almost sickly green. Living in Burnsville my whole life I knew that was a tell tale sign of what was to come. Maybe I wasn’t going to get my money back like I hoped I would. Maybe I would be out the two hundred and fifty dollars I had given him when he refused to let me into his van that he had decked out with metal sheeting like you see on the tv shows. It seemed cheap to be fair, I was sure that other people who did this charged even more. So I didn’t think twice about handing him the money. Things weren’t as weird as I thought they would be. I thought he would somehow mention the things that I had done to him in highschool but he was… friendly. We drove for a while, looking for any more signs of tornados, he told me what to keep an eye out for and I did. I spent most of my time peering out the window as he drove out of town towards the flat farmland.
Soon enough the signs started, an eerie silence fell over everything, and then as if someone had opened a bag of golf balls and held it upside down, hail began to fall from the sky. Large, heavy spheres of ice began to fall and I felt myself press up against the seat, fearing that they would break through the window. Dustin didn’t seem bothered by it. He pulled over to the side of the road as he waited for the hail to stop. It felt like it had hailed for hours, but it was only about ten minutes, I was watching it fall absolutely mesmerized. I had never really watched hail fall, by the time it would start hailing my mother would have me and my siblings in the basement. Dustin grabbed my shoulder and shook me, pointing out the window at a massive funnel cloud starting to form in the distance. He started the car, despite the hail, throwing on the windshield wipers and he began driving towards the tornado.
At the time I didn’t find it odd that we were driving back into town, and the funnel cloud was getting larger and larger and I could see the tornado starting to really take shape. I watched as it grew as we got closer, watched as the large black cloud began to extend itself down towards the earth. The streets were empty, people were hiding in their homes or businesses, sirens had started to go off and I watched the tornado touch down. It was such… an amazing thing to witness with your own eyes. To see nature in its raw, most powerful form such as this. I didn’t realize where we were, what was happening until it was too late. Until I saw the building we were at. I owned a small mechanic shop, I had opened it up after my dad loaned me some money, I paid him back after a few years of being open and business was steady. I was doing great. I had to sit there in horror and watch as the tornado tore through my shop. I stared out the window as my sign rattled in the wind and the shingles began to fly off the roof, and then the siding, and it was as if piece by piece the tornado was intentionally taking apart my shop. I looked over at Dustin and he just asked me if I thought it was beautiful.
I wanted to get out of the van then and there, to start sifting through the rubble of my life. But Dustin kept driving. Following the tornado as it somehow seemed to touch nothing else. It tore the siding off a few houses, blew the glass out of windows but it didn’t touch the other homes as it did my shop. It didn’t make any sense! How could it! But it somehow targeted every place that meant something to me. The movie theater I had my first date, the restaurant where I had proposed to my fiancé, hell even the bar she broke up with me in three weeks later when she found out I was cheating. The tornado hit everywhere that meant anything to me. For some reason I stopped thinking it was a coincidence, it felt too planned, Dustin was smiling too much, commenting on the randomness of nature as he watched as the things I held dear were destroyed in front of me. Before I knew it we were in front of my home, the home I had bought to raise a family in, the home I had bought with my hard earned money. Suddenly I found myself begging Dustin to let me out, begging for him to stop the tornado but he just smiled at me and asked me if I thought it was beautiful…. I think I yelled at him then, begged him to make it stop, told him I was sorry, hell I even threatened to kill him once or twice. I think I even hit him at some point. His expression had changed nearly as quickly as the weather… It’s amazing the things you’ll do, say, to protect what little you have when it’s about to be destroyed.
I sat and watched in horror as the tornado tore through my house. Taking my possessions and my memories. The last memories of my parents and some of my friends and watched as it was all destroyed in an instant. Dustin didn’t follow the tornado. He sat there, leaving me to stare at the destruction of my life. The second I heard the door unlock I got out of the van. I don’t know how long Dustin sat there and watched me. I don’t care.
The news said it was an EF-5 tornado. They said it was a freak phenomen, that the damage was so localized, that it didn’t destroy more. I didn’t get my money back. But I don’t care. I just knew… know. That it was his fault. And no one believed me. Do you believe me? Please say you believe me.
Upon doing some research and reaching out to an Informant of the institute, it turns out that in 2010, the town of Burnsville, Minnesota did experience a freak tornado that seemed to only cause extensive damage to the property of Daniel Mcormant. Witnesses did report him in the company of local storm chaser Dustin McBride. Who has appeared in statement 103678. Mr. Mcormant has attempted to reopen his mechanic shop in several different towns and states including Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma, but they never seem to last long, all being destroyed in violent weather phenomena even when the national weather service reports no warning signs before the freak events. We have no information about the current whereabouts of Dustin McBride, but I hope to stay on his good side.
Statement ends.
#tma podcast#original statement#original character#the magnus archives#the desolation#the desolation tma#I thought a tornado as a manifestation was cool as hell#I’m too Midwest for this I fear
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.. ——— # SILVERSPATH, an independent and heavily headcanon based portrayal of JOHN MCBRIDE from 2021's THE CURSED (EIGHT OF SILVER), with heavy gothic horror and supernatural imagery. explored most often with post-film in mind in a period setting or within a modern day verse ( . . . ) BY BRI, 27, SHE/HER. twenty1+ only. HEAVILY AFFILIATED & EXCLUSIVE TO: SILVERSDEATH.
+ INSERT. THIS BLOG PUTS AN EMPHASIS ON PLOTTING AND CONSIDERS IT A PRIORITY THEREFORE PLOTTED DYNAMICS AND THREADS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED ——— ( . . . ) ——— temporary portrayal notes are included beneath the cut for reference please read / FOLLOW AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION IF HORROR AND/OR PERIOD CHARACTERS ARE NOT YOUR TYPICAL CONTENT.
GENERAL RULES - will be moved to slides once completed.
001. i do not claim the rights to any media found on this blog. i am not apart of ld entertainment nor do i have any hand in the creation of john's character in his canon media as a whole. what i do take pride in, however, is my portrayal therefore i'm making it known that i do not tolerate stealing of any kind. while i don't think i'll have an issue with this — i have in the past so i like to get it out of the way. if you do steal from me, i'll approach privately.
002. i do not follow everyone back. i've been on tumblr for many years now and have learned how best to curate a space for myself that i am happy to be in. it would be a disservice not only to myself but to everyone if i acted as though i could keep up with a quick moving dash by interacting with every single person. for the most part, i tend to follow people back within twenty four hours if i can see us writing together. otherwise i do make sure to softblock unless rules state you'd prefer to be hardblocked to avoid confusion. 003. if you support or condone racism, homophobia, transphobia, white-washing, suicide baiting, bullying or bigotry of any kind i will immediately block you. this also goes for zionists. we have nothing in common and i do not want that energy in my space. this is your one and only warning. 004. in terms of callout culture: i do not partake in it just for the sake of it. i typically do not reblog or engage with callout posts, but if someone is actively harmful to the community as a whole then of course that's different. i'm not interested in watching anyone to try to chase somebody out of a community simply because they don't like them. i am an adult with a mind of her own who can make decisions for herself. just because i don't interact doesn't mean i don't see it nor does it mean i'm supporting or not supporting it. 005. as stated above, this blog is plot-driven. this doesn't mean i won't interact with people who i'm not actively plotting with but i will absolutely prioritize those whom i do have plots with. it has very much become a common theme among my blogs as i work better when there's a proper dynamic at play or a thread has some sort of goal in mind, but again- i understand not every single thread needs to have this and i also see the fun in throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. all this to say, at some point, i do hope to create meaningful plots with everyone and anyone that i am mutuals with. 006. lastly, but certainly not least: i have re-cast john from boyd holbrook to sam heughan but that's not the only thing that is different. aside from film canon he is pretty much an original character. i don't imagine i'll be exploring much to do with the exact film canon itself though mentions may be made or alluded to depending on the thread at hand. in every verse, unless plotted otherwise, he is a widower. the reason for his wife and daughters death can and will change if applicable (in the film it is due to a "wolf-like" beast that attacks the town they were living in due to a plagued curse). he's a travelling pathologist, going wherever his work takes him and that is also very much something that will not change unless specifically plotted otherwise again. since the film itself gears more towards the supernatural and horror i'd also like to lean a lot into that. my portrayal of john is also inexplicably linked to silversdeath therefore any mentions of isabelle are directly & specifically to reign's isabelle and i will not be interacting with any other versions of her (which i understand probably do not exist lol). more to come for my portrayal in the notes surely but if you have any questions: please feel free to ask!
#pinned.#dni.#temporary rules beneath the cut.#general consensus is don't be an asshole! with love!#graphics psd credit: csources.#icon psd credit: jessource.#graphics credit: reign (silversdeath & duhton).
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Fantasy football sleepers
Brian Thomas Jr. (drafted him to buku elite) round 13 pick 129th.
Chase Brown (drafted by street athletes) round 15 pick 147
Jaxson N. Smith (drafted by cam’s team) round 12 pick 119
Trey McBride (drafted by Elm St.) round 6 pick 57
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