#david healy

[camyfilms]

LABYRINTH 1986

I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.

[weirdpersonifiedpills]

Happy fluoxetine day!!

Something I drew up last year for the anniversary but never posted here. 49 years ago today, compound LY-110140 was given the name fluoxetine. After that, it would be 12 more years before it was finally FDA approved in December of 1987 and subsequently sold on US shelves in January of 1988 (that long ass time span is a whole other can of incredibly interesting worms).

I chose film imagery for this piece as a reference to Prozac’s ‘blockbuster drug’ status, of which nearly everyone was taken off guard by it achieving. No one had high expectations for fluoxetine, even those who developed it in the first place. An antidepressant that acted specifically on the serotonin system could never survive in a world where the current antidepressants, like MAOIs and TCAs, acted on multiple systems, and yet Prozac became a national sensation.

What followed massive success was an outcry that only seemed to get louder as time went on, as the potential dangers of the drug were not being properly communicated or warned about. People were dying, committing suicide. Data was covered up, falsified, never released. The court cases lasted years as people fought pharmaceutical giants in search of retribution. I could talk forever about how interesting Prozac’s history is in particular, and how every other SSRI ties so closely into its story (which, if you want to read, I highly reccomend Let Them Eat Prozac by David Healy, my absolutely favorite book ever I read it over and over).

Next year will be the 50th anniversary of fluoxetine’s official name, and I could not be more excited about that

[gameofthunder66]

'Lust for a Vampire' (1971) film

-watched 7/26/2024- 2 [1/2] stars- on Tubi (free)

33% Rotten Tomatoes

[ardsguy]

David Healy

[anicomicgeek]

Am I Crazy?

Frank Quitely, I like you, man, but why does Kyle Rayner look like he should be living at Roseanne and Dan Conner’s house or saying “Shift into Turbo”?

I mean, I’m not crazy, am I, that Kyle’s sporting the same hairdo Johnny Galecki and Johnny Yong Bosch were, right?

[idle-flower]

(pardon the image, tumblr wouldn't let me reblog it)

I am probably the only one with the blorbo obsession to make this bizarre connection but - this reminds me a bit of what's going on at the moment with another character.

With Spike, the showrunners tried to undermine him by making him "weaker" and it didn't work, the fans liked him harder. They finally panicked and tried to make the character commit an act that was utterly beyond the pale in order to sink the ship - but many of the fans reacted by simply refusing to accept it, declaring it such a betrayal of the character as written that it Didn't Happen and they'd just write around it in their heads.

Elsewhere, David on Roseanne went from being Darlene's vaguely artistic boyfriend to being the butt of every joke, constantly mocked for his lack of "manly" qualities. Gullible, soft, abused by his family, obsessively devoted to his girlfriend, bossed around, suddenly gaining skills in cooking and cleaning and sewing out of nowhere so that the other characters had more things to make fun of him for, even his sexual abilities were joked about.

And a few people in the fandom do viscerally hate him for being "weak" and "clingy" and having been punched in the face by a small child rather than fight back.

This didn't stop him from being a teen heartthrob with legions of devoted fans.

~30 years later, the revival has to go on without David's character because the actor is unavailable, so the showrunners are frantically trying to undermine the character in order to shill his replacement. They want to retcon him into being a terrible person who did something beyond the pale so that fans will stop wanting him to come back.

And it's just not working! Many fans refuse to accept it, declaring it such a betrayal of the character that it Couldn't Happen. Even when it's basically the entire premise of the revival, the complaint just keeps coming up over and over again: how dare they do this to David?

Basically, you can't spend years in your original beating us over the head with how emotional and sensitive the boy is, literally saying when Darlene got pregnant that no one could make a better mother than David... and then tell us he's a deadbeat dad now, without expecting protests!

[mariocki]

The Saint: Simon and Delilah (5.21, ITC, 1967)

"Put a cat among the pigeons and see who flies."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning this is an inside job. Somebody in the studio is behind it."

"Who?"

"I don't know. But you, uh, might spread the word around that I'm suspicious? Do a little snooping. See if you can uncover a few motives."

[truemedmd]

The SSRI Antidepressant Hoax

The SSRI Antidepressant Hoax, by Jeffrey Dach MD Mary is a 65 year old retired accountant has been a patient in my office for about 15 years. For the past 20 years she has been taking two different SSRI antidepressant drugs prescribed by her primary care doctor. One day, Mary told me she wanted to get off the SSRI drugs, and since her doctor would not help, would I help her get off the drugs ? I…

[spryfilm]

DVD review: “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons” (1967 – 1968)

“Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons” (1967 – 1968) Television / Sci-Fi Thirty Two Episodes Created by: Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Featuring: Sylvia Anderson, Ed Bishop, Gary Files, Cy Grant, Donald Gray, David Healy, Janna Hill, Martin King, Francis Matthews, Paul Maxwell, Liz Morgan, Lian-Shin, Charles Tingwell, Jeremy Wilkin, Neil McCallum and Shane Rimmer The Mysterons: [Their last line,…

[janegrey9]

i feel like the majority of british male celebrities are proof that people who like men don't actually care if they're buff and conventionally attractive like i have seen yall thirsting over guys who could be in a live action flushed away with no cgi or makeup. no one cares how much they bench.

[sesiondemadrugada]

A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017).

[boogeyalltheway]

Guys i just had a revelation

Do you ever think about how March and Healy (The Nice Guys) are like Crowley and Aziraphale (Good Omens, do I even need to clarify?) but reversed? 

Like, March is the tall lanky one with the issues, he’s the mess of a man like Crowley, but he’s got that happy Aziraphale “I am a prtty angel” energy

Healy is emotionally stable, short and stout like a teapot compared to his partner and is the dom of the relationship and takes care of his wet cat like Aziraphale, but has a Crowley view of the world

And both pairs love each other but the stable one is so exasperated and done with their partner

like, guys I'm frickin onto smth here

[artemlegere-art]

The Peacemakers

Artist: George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813-1894) 

Genre: Portrait

Date Created: 1868

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Type: Historical Depiction

Collection: White House, Washington, DC

The title is the only clue to the import of this solemn painting, a prelude to the end of the Civil War. Seated in the after cabin of the Union steamer River Queen are Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, and Rear Adm. David D. Porter. Less than a week before the fall of Petersburg, Virginia, the four men met to discuss the nature of the peace terms to follow. The figures in The Peacemakers seem strangely isolated. Meaning is embodied in their persons rather than their actions. Here, the separateness of each man is reinforced by the paneling and windows behind him. All heads are on the vertical, save Lincoln's. His inturned pose and brooding expression serve to differentiate him further. Behind him glows a rainbow, emblematic of the approaching peace.

[rougerisque]

English lads smoking

[midwestmunster]

The 1975 recreating “Rabbits” by David Lynch for the music video (Somebody Else)

[idle-flower]

It is honestly a little bit weird seeing him the same age, not dressed all that differently, playing “David” - but a different David on a different show. Which is why they named his Roseanne character Kevin briefly (before this show got canned and memoryholed)

This David was a slightly troublesome teen with two younger sisters, an absent father, no older brother, and a VERY different mother. He smoked and drank and wanted a motorcycle, and was probably more like what the writers originally pictured a Healy brother as being, before that David developed into a sensitive artist.

For extra weird points, one of his sisters in this show also played one of David’s sisters in the only Roseanne episode where they appeared!