#i will never forgive nbc for canceling this show
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let the record show that i will never EVER forgive nbc for canceling trial & error
(y'all better sleep with both eyes open just like anne flatch)
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It never fails that every single time I watch Hannibal (the series with Mads and Dancy) that I never understand how the fuck the show didn't win every single goddamn award out there! Best directing, best editing, best script, best actors, best sound etc. Even just the smallest of scenes, where they show you a simple glass and liquid being poured into it is show excellently. The movements, the writing. The script is just beautiful. The scenes that give you a perspective from either a main or minor character, I love it. I really do. I never understood the whole 'best directing' category but Hannibal really changed that. I fell in love with the directing, the editing, the music; sound effects. I love it. God, I miss this show!
#hannibal#hannibal nbc#hugh dancy#mads mikkelsen#will graham#hannibal lecter#hannibal loves will#hannigram#nbc#bryan fuller#frederick chilton#raul esparza#verger baby#jack crawford#laurence fishburne#i will never forgive nbc for canceling this show#bryan fuller bring it back#i will pay you to bring it back#give this show all the damn awards!
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i just rewatched s1x10 of Rise and had a lot of thoughts so here we go
i started crying during the intro
micheal and sasha taking a selfie is so cute
everybody raising their hands to go back to the original makes me so happy and proud
MAASHOUS’S SUIT
why aren’t the spring awakening scenes in order what is happening
totally fucked looks so fun hello
i love tracey sm
did sean do “hEavEn tOUch” with the rise cast too
they’re all so talented and i miss them
jeremy looking at simon from across the stage is everything to me
i’m so proud of simon
why didn’t we get to see jeremy’s full reaction to the kiss
why didn’t we get a full WOYBR scene it would have been so good
why didn’t we get to hear sean/jeremy sing
i cannot get over how out of order the sa scenes were omg who let that happen
MASHA AND GWENDY
still not over the fact that we never got to hear micheal sing and then there were none
rilette :(
the graveyard scene is so sad and my feelings are conflicted bc after watching sa i hate melchior but i love robbie and seeing him sad is making me sad
i love all you desire but where does it fit in with the sa plot
i think micheal and sasha were holding hands during all you desire and i love that for them
i hate the people of stanton
simon and jeremy walking out together, simon holding jeremy’s hand, and their smiles afterwards
patricia looks so proud of simon, i wish we could have seen her supporting him
robbie’s dad starting a standing ovation and the rest of the audience joining in (it was an amazing show and they know it)
robbie’s mom looks so pround of him
“maashous was here” stop it rn
and then we see everybody for the last time
i’m NEVER forgiving NBC for cancelling this, a second season should have happened
#nbc rise#rise nbc#siremy#masha#gwendy#simon saunders#jeremy travers#rise fandom please come back#i don't think anyone cares but i hope anyone who read this enjoyed it#spring awakening kind of
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Why are all my comfort shows ending?
NBC, I feel personally victimised.
You’ve cancelled two of my comfort shows this year and that’s not okay.
Hopefully Zoey’s finds a new home somewhere else because it deserves more and I cannot accept that it’s over. Especially after that finale.
I’ll also never forgive you for b99. We all know that show should end on season 9 not 8. It’s just rude not to give us that extra season.
And Netflix. Don’t even start me with you.
How dare you make us wait 9 months and counting to get any word on Julie and the Phantoms. If you’re not going to do another season, just tell us. We’ll be fine if we don’t get another season (not really) but at least we’ll know. Please put us out of our misery. We need to know.
#it’s like they want me to be depressed and anxious#this is the closest I have to therapy#zoey’s extraordinary playlist#zep#Brooklyn nine nine#jatp
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The show was picking up steam at the end and it was even getting into spectre. Then they cancelled it and DC couldn’t even really be bothered to try to make an effort to save it. It’s the same thing they did to swamp thing after three episodes and cancelled it. Now they will try to reboot it again and move it further from the original character when they didn’t get it the first time. The show wasn’t meant for network tv. The show didn’t fail because of the concept it was on the wrong type of channel and being marketed as something it wasn’t. The first two episodes were basically the network asking the executive producers to try to make it like Grimm. That’s why they burned the scry map because the executive producers realized how dumb it is to try to make it fit like supernatural when it’s not like that.
no you are literally correct. like. if you are here about the post i made about the show sucking overall you are Correct. as im getting closer to the end in my rewatch it is literally compelling tv.
and youre literally right though everything he's done was never going to get done justice by network tv. and it SUCKS because they do have a REALLY good thing with matt. he's like. honestly he gets john, it's very clear he Loves john and he's a hell of an actor doing his best to do right by us.
and god REALLY. that's why they are. the worst of the season. ive never seen grimm and it's honestly felt like crossing my wires too much to say that it tried to do what supernatural did in its first season but failed miserably at it. but like. it's literally what it did. the whole ""rising darkness"" thing is TOO vague and nothing starts getting even remotely interesting until john's actual story starts unraveling along with zed's and with manny's suspiciousness and jim! the teasing of jim! (my best friend is SO mad they never did the spectre right)
and i think it was my beloved @dinahdlance who said it best when it's like, literally nbc constantine is the epitome of a network hating a show it greenlit like. the death slot, the lack of promotion outside of LA like. it was literally set up to fail and then we all had to try and pick up the slack and try and save it. which didn't result in anything either.
daniel cerone straight up queerbaited us for ratings and i will literally never forgive him for that tho.
#if u or a loved one participated in the hashtag saveconstantine campaign we ARE entitled to financial compensation#anonimo#these are not the asks you are looking for
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okay, but if we’re honest here
this is disgusting
The way NBC treated us is absolutely disgusting
I mean, they went completely quiet for almost two freaking months, they gave us hope that they’re actually trying to save the show, they let a whole #RenewTimeless campaign to happen, and they noticed it, and now we’re here
And my question is
Why? Why on earth you’ve been silent for so long?
I understand that finding a new home for a show isn’t an easy process, but you literally just acted like you see what’s going on but you don’t give two shits about it and now you’re just throwing the cancellation news as well in the way like you just want to get rid of us
And the most awful thing that it happens for the second time
Rude. I'm furious and I will never forgive you for that
#timeless#renew timeless#save timeless#clockblockers#dasha.txt#i'm so pissed right now#you have no idea
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long-ass fucking questionnaire
yoooooooo, I did it all.
I’m starting this at 1:15 in the morning. Let’s see how long it takes me to finish. cause I’m a masochist, apparently.
1: My name? do I HAVE to? Okay, it’s Kelly. But I really hate it, so usually I go by Kel. A few lucky ones get to call me Kelly, but only because I love the way my name sounds when they say it. There, my dirty secret is out.
2: Do I have any nicknames? A plethora. Artie (after the fish), Fluffie (long story) Jellybean
3: Zodiac sign? The most Libra Libra that has ever Libra’d.
4: Video game I play to chill, not to win? I don’t play video games. But I play a few online games, so Doctor Who: Legacy
5: Book/series I reread? The Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward (Series) The Harry Potter books Morgan Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan (series) Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett) Watchers (Dean Koontz) Insomnia (Stephen King)
6: Aliens or ghosts? I have nothing against either. But I enjoy writing about ghosts more.
7: Writer I trust enough to read whatever they write? Stephen King
8: Favourite radio station? NPR, strangely enough.
9: Favourite flavour of anything? Lemon. I still thoroughly enjoy chocolate, but my radiation therapy changed the way it tasted.
10: The word that I use all the time to describe something great? Awesome. Both with and without the addition of the adjective “fucking”
11: Favourite song? My standard answer is, ‘Everything Louder Than Everything Else’ by Meat Loaf, because I truly love that song, but lately I’ve been on a Game of Thrones kick, and i’m stuck on “The Rains of Castamere” by Sigur Rios and “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” because it’s such a Jaime x Brienne song.
12: The question you ask new friends to get to know them better? Bold of you to assume I have friends.
13: Favourite word? sycophant, gestalt, melancholy
14: The last person who hurt me, did I forgive them? After about, oh, ten years or so, yes I did. It’s a new thing for me. usually I hold grudges until the end of time.
15: Last song I listened to? “Stairway To Heaven” by Led Zeppelin
16: TV show I always recommend? Current: American Gods, Better Call Saul Cancelled/ended: Hannibal (NBC), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
17: Pirates or ninjas? Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Yo ho, yo yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
18: Movie I watch when I’m feeling down? Usually something from the Disney/Pixar Ouvre. Except UP. UP makes me sob in the first ten minutes, so no.
19: Song that I always start my shuffle with/wake-up song/always-on-a-loop song? Du Hast, Rammstein.
20: Favourite video games? Puzzles and Dragons, Doctor Who: Legacy, Dragonvale
21: What am I most afraid of? Snakes, without a doubt.
22: A good quality of mine? I’m creative
23: A bad quality of mine? I don’t think before I speak, so i sometimes don’t end up saying what I mean to say and hurt/offend in the process.
24: Cats or dogs? Bi-petual with a preference to cats
25: Actor/actress you trust enough to watch whatever they’re in? Bruce Campbell. Alien Apocalypse, anybody?
26: Favourite season? Winter
27: Am I in a relationship? No, although I do love someone very much
28: Something I miss? Being a kid, with all the possibilities of my life still ahead of me
29: My best friend? @mummyholmesisupset and @silvarbelle. they tie.
30: Eye colour? Hazel-greenish, with a little bit of sunflower around the pupil
31: Hair colour? Normally, a pretty chestnut brown. sometimes I bleach it or dye it.
32: Someone I love? @silvarbelle, she’s my sister-from-another-mister, and I will throw hands for that bitch in a heartbeat.
33: Someone I trust? @mummyholmesisupset because she’s earned it a hundred times over. @silvarbelle because I love her like family.
34: Someone I always think about? My grandmother. she died when I was seventeen, and I still miss her.
35: Am I excited about anything? My birthday
36: My current obsession? Gam of thrones, Doctor Who, Hannibal, the MCU
37: Favourite TV shows as a child? Thundercats, Scooby Doo, 60s Batman, My Favorite Martian, the Monkees
38: Do I have someone of the opposite sex that I can tell everything to? No, thank God.
39: Am I superstitious? Not overly, but I do have a few.
40: What do I think about most? Writing
41: Do I have any strange phobias? Is arachnophobia strange?
42: Do I prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? Behind it, dear God.
43: Favourite hobbies? Writing, reading, pinning things on Pinterest that I absolutely mean to do but probably never will
44: Last book I read? Watchers by Dean Koontz, and I’m in the middle of Fear by Bob Woodward
45: Last film I watched? Backdraft. “You go, we go.”
46: Do I play any instruments? Not since band class in the early 90s.
47: Favourite animal? Cat.
48: Top 5 blog on Tumblr that I follow? ??????? I don’t think I do.
49: Superpower I wish I could have? Manipulation of probability
50: How do I destress? Writing, watching Netflix, watching Mythbusters
51: Do I like confrontation? Like it, no. Good at it, yes.
52: When do I feel most at peace? When it’s quiet and the only noises are the clicking of the keyboard and my cats’ purring
53: What makes me smile? Cute animals, stupid puns, comments on fic
54: Do I sleep with the lights on or off? Off, except for my TARDIS nightlight
55: Play any sports? Fuck no.
56: What is my song of the week? Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
57: Favourite drink? 1% milk.
58: When did I last send a handwritten letter to somebody? A few months? It was to @mummyholmesisupset in fact.
59: Afraid of heights? Desperately so.
60: Pet peeve? Anchovies, people who don’t use coasters, and men who smoke in public places. (yes, it’s a movie reference. And if you get it, I will send you a shiny nickel)
61: What was the last concert I went to see? Black Sabbath’s Theater of Madness
62: Am I vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian? Fuck no. I am, in fact, omnivorous and diabetic.
63: What occupation did I want to do when I was younger? To be Daphne Blake in Mystery, Inc.
64: Have I ever had a friend turn enemy? Yep. Not fun.
65: What fictional universe would I like to be a part of? Hannibal’s. I’m not rude for the most part, so I have a pretty good chance at surviving.
66: Something I worry about? My future. Cancer has shortened my life span, my relatives are all 65+, and I am an only child with no children of my own (Thank Christ) I haven’t worked since 2004 (been caretaking sick parents) so I’m concerned.
67: Scared of the dark? I love the dark, so no.
68: Who are my best friends? @mummyholmesisupset @silvarbelle
69: What do I admire most about others? That they can do things, very well, that I can’t do. What that is varies from person to person
70: Can I sing? Not very well, but I don't let that stop me...
71: Something I wish I could do? Write professionally. I love writing fanfic, but I'd kill to be a real, published author.
72: If I won the lottery, what would I do? Pay off bills, go back to college, buy myself a car (pickup, Ford F-150 with fog lights and automatic steering), pay off my mom's bills, hire an aide to stay with Mom, move to my favorite city and hire a winter-time driver because I can't drive for shit in the snow/ice.
73: Have I ever skipped school? Nope. Often wanted to, never have.
74: Favourite place on the planet? Asheville, NC. Technically, it's Montreat, which is right outside of Black Mountain and is a township unto itself. It's also home to Montreat Bible College, established by Billy Graham, and the Chapel of the Prodigal. It is also home to Lake Susan, one of the most quiet and beautiful places on God's green earth, and I would live by that little lake if I could. I have photos in my Google Drive, I need to share them sometime. You'll see what I mean. But I love Asheville, too, downtown and all.
75: Where do I want to live? Asheville, NC. Except I can't drive in the snow and ice, so there's that.
76: Do I have any pets? I have two cats, Samhain Murray (Sam) and Margaret May (Maggie, Maggie May, Margaret Ann)
77: What is my current desktop picture? On my laptop, it's Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) from Gotham. On my tablet, it's the Superman logo. On my phone, it's my cat, Sam.
78: Early bird or night owl? Night owl, given that it's 2:30 AM and I'm still working on this.
79: Sunsets or sunrise? Sunsets, please.
80: Can I drive? i don't know, can you? I can.
81: Story behind my last kiss? I kissed my cat on his cold wet nose because he was headbutting me and so I kissed him.
82: Earphones or headphones? Earphones, sadly. I prefer headphones, but headphones are uncomfortable because I wear glasses. So, earbuds.
83: Have I ever had braces? Did you? I don't know. Did I? Yes, I did, I fucking despised them.
84: Story behind one of my scars? in late 2004, I started getting very ill. I couldn't keep food down, I was puking all the time, pale and everything, so I went to the ER and found I had a mass the size of a basketball growing in my abdomen. I was shipped to the local cancer center because of the cancer markers, and at the tender age of 27, I got a hysterectomy. I was cut from my navel to my diaphragm, old school, because the mass was twenty-four pounds. Benign, thank goodness, but it had started to go necrotic and I was well into blood poisoning (the reason I was puking and sick all the time). I still have the scar, and always will.
85: Favourite genre of music? instrumental celtic.
86: Who is my hero? I don't know that I have one, as such
87: Favourite comic book character? SUPERMAN, BABY. SUCK MY DICK BATS
88: What makes me really angry? Mistreatment of people and animals. Abuse of people and animals.
89: Kindle or real book? Both have their benefits, but I love the weight and feel of a real book. I love the portability of a Kindle.
90: Favourite sporty activity? Marathon TV-binge
91: What is one thing that isn’t tight in schools that should be? There's NOTHING RIGHT in schools
92: What was my favourite subject at school? Creative writing
93: Siblings? Nope, my parents saw their mistake and decided never again.
94: What was the last thing I bought? A pair of Sperry deck shoes with Han Solo and Chewbacca on them.
95: How tall am I? 5'6
96: Can I cook? yes, I can. perhaps not well, but I can cook enough to feed myself and my mom.
97: Can I bake? Yes, I can. I'm a SLIGHTLY better baker than a cook.
98: 3 things I love? Writing, my cats, Christopher Reeve
99: 3 things I hate? So many things. Um, spiders, snakes, creepy clowns
100: Do I have more girl friends or boy friends? at the moment, girl. when I was in school? boy.
101: Who do I get on with better, girls or boys? General rule? Boys, or girls that are kind of not-ultra-girly.
102: Where was I born? North Carolina, that hotbed of conservative bullshit. I'm actually ashamed to admit that's where I'm from.
103: Sexual orientation? I'm working on figuring that out. Let's call it bisexual for now, and I'll update you as it happens.
104: Where do I currently live? North Carolina, sadly.
105: Last person I texted? @mummyholmesisupset
106: Last time I cried? Today. I was watching WALL-E on STARZ, and UP came on while I was finishing dinner. By the time Ellie was miscarrying, I was bawling.
107: Guilty pleasure? I'm not really guilty about my pleasures, but I do have a soft spot for mind-candy romance novels. Like Johanna Lindsey, Nina Bangs, Harlequin, etc.
108: Favourite Youtuber? I hate Youtubers.
109: A photo of myself. uh, no.
110: Do I like selfies? fuck no.
111: Favourite game app? Doctor Who: Legacy
112: My relationship with my parents? It varies from moment to moment. My dad never really understood me, and after he got sick and was in a coma for awhile, it changed him. so there was never really a chance for him to try. My relationship with my mom is... complicated. Sometimes we're BFFs and finish each other's sandwiches, and other times, we hate each other's guts and would gladly murder each other and bury the bodies in the backyard.
113: Favourite accents? Spanish, English/Scottish, all the Asian ones (the gentleman that runs my local Chinese restaurant speaks Cantonese and Mandarin both, and I could listen to that all day.)
114: A place I have not been but wish to visit? London, Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Scotland, Italy, Greece, New York, Japan, Los Angeles
115: Favourite number? 15
116: Can I juggle? Nope
117: Am I religious? Eh, not really. I go to bible study mostly because I have half a crush on the preacher.
118: Do I like space? YES.
119: Do I like the deep ocean? Not so much.
120: Am I much of a daredevil? NO
121: Am I allergic to anything? Ciprofloxacin, IV contrast dye, Mobic/meloxicam, Zofram/ondansetron, and a ton of fragranced products (I have sensitive skin that breaks out at the drop of a hat.)
122: Can I curl my tongue? Yep!
123: Can I wiggle my ears? Nope!
124: Do I like clowns? Yes, if they're cute. NOT PENNYWISE, I HATE PENNYWISE. But I love Tim Curry's Pennywise. But that's because Tim Curry is awesome.
125: The Beatles or Elvis? Elvis. I'm an Elvis chick.
126: My current project? "By Inches We Fall," a Game of Thrones fanfic that's Jaime Lannister x Brienne of Tarth. I'm also working on some Christmas projects involving spray paint and recycled K-Cups
127: Am I a bad loser? Horrible loser. I hate to lose.
128: Do I admit when I wrong? sometimes. depends on who I'm talking to, and the tone of the discussion. if it's a civil discourse, yes I will. If we're shouting? I'm not backing down.
129: Forest or beach? Forest. A forest doesn't leave sand in your butt crack.
130: Favourite piece of advice? Mind your own business and you won't be minding mine
131: Am I a good liar? I used to be.
132: Hogwarts house / Divergent faction / Hunger Games district? Slytherin/what the fuck is a Divergent/12
133: Do I talk to myself? i do, and sometimes I answer
134: Am I very social? HAHAHAHAHA NO.
135: Do I like gossip? sit by me and pour that tea, bitch.
136: Do I keep a journal/diary? I do, on paper, and you'll never read it.
137: Have I ever hopelessly failed a test? i failed every physics test I took in high school. after becoming a Mythbusters stan, I retook an online physics test and passed it.
138: Do I believe in second chances? depends on the situation and the person, but generally not. i have been known to give them, though.
139: If I found a wallet full of cash on the ground, what would I do? oh man. I'd like to say I'd turn it in untouched, but. I also know I've got medication pay for (mine and mom's), her insurance to pay for (i'm uninsured), groceries and gas to buy, so in all probability? I'd keep the cash but return everything else.
140: Do I believe people are capable of change? No. People are who they are. they might change what they think or what they believe in, but who they are? No.
141: Have I ever been underweight? AHAHAHAHAHA NO
142: Am I ticklish? ...there's no good way to answer. If I say no, you'll tickle me to prove it. If I say yes, you'll tickle me. But yes, I am. especially my feet.
143: Have I ever been in a submarine? WTF? No.
144: Have I ever been on a plane? Once, and never again
145: In a film about my life, who would I cast as myself, friends and family? Rebel Wilson as me, America Ferrera as @mummyholmesisupset, Kristen Bell as @silvarbelle, Jessica Lange as my mother, and I can't think of anyone else.
146: Have I ever been overweight? Always, am currently, though I'm working to lose it. I've lost about 50 lbs in the past year, so I'm doing okay
147: Do I have any piercings? Three in my right ear, two in my left.
148: Which fictional character do I wish was real? Hannibal Lecter.
149: Do I have any tattoos? nope, but I want a couple.
150: What is the best decision I have made in life so far? .....i haven't made a single good decision....
151: Do I believe in Karma? it bites me on the ass often enough, so yes I do.
152: Do I wear glasses or contacts? Glasses, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to switch to bifocals next time
153: What was my first car? 1979 green Dodge Aries K
154: Do I want children? If they're furry and four-legged, sure.
155: Who is the most intelligent person I know? um, probably my uncle with two frigging masters degrees
156: My most embarrassing memory? I met John deLancie at a Star Trek con once, just coming down the stairs from his room to the con floor. And I fell all over myself talking to him because I was like, fourteen or something and he was tall and handsome and genuinely happy to be tthere and I was basically every fangirl's nightmare.
157: What makes me nostalgic? watching old TV shows I loved as a kid, or reading books I haven't read in years.
158: Have I ever pulled an all-nighter? Yep
159: Which do I value more in others, brains or beauty? brains. i'm practically a zombie.
160: What colour mostly dominates my wardrobe? Purple and fuschia equally.
161: Have I ever had a paranormal experience? Not as such, no.
162: What do I hate most about myself? Everything?
163: What do I love most about myself? I like my hair.
164: Do I like adventure? only the ones in books.
165: Do I believe in fate? not really.
166: Favourite animal? Felis cattus
167: Have I ever been on radio? nope
168: Have I ever been on TV? nope
169: How old am I? 42
170: One of my favourite quotes? "Lock the door. And hope they don't have blasters."
171: Do I hold grudges? you bet your bippy I do. (what is a bippy and why are you betting it?)
172: Do I trust easily? No.
173: Have I learnt from my mistakes? I hope I have. But I suspect I haven't.
174: Best gift I’ve ever received? A single cupcake and a rosebud, given to me by the nurses at the cancer treatment center because it was my birthday and I was having radiation and felt absolutely shitty. so they surprised me with a little cupcake and a rose for my birthday and it made me feel better.
175: Do I dream? Yep.
176: Have I ever had a night terror? Yep
177: Do I remember my dreams, and what is one that comes to mind? I remember some of them, like the Continuing Adventures of Roxy, the Pink Police Poodle.
178: An experience that has made me stronger? My breakups.
179: If I were immortal, what would I do? Sleep a lot, read even more, learn everything that I never had before.
180: Do I like shopping? I do!
181: If I could get away with a crime, what would I choose to do? Bank robbery.
182: What does “family” mean to me? family is a group of people, not necessarily related by blood, who have chosen to band together in love and support of each other.
183: What is my spirit animal? According to my meditation quest, it's a wolf. But I'm not really comfortable saying that because it wasn't a real vision quest, I'd have to go to the res for that (i have Cherokee blood on my father's side) and I haven't.
184: How do I want to be remembered? As someone who tried to be good.
185: If I could master one skill, what would I choose? Woodcarving.
186: What is my greatest failure? I dropped out of college in the 90s, when I had an accident that broke my ankle. I never went back.
187: What is my greatest achievement? five-year survivor, cancer-free!
188: Love or money? Money, sadly.
189: Love or career? love
190: If I could time travel, where and when would I want to go? Am I an observer like the Doctor? If yes, then I would go back to the Globe Theater and see all of Shakespeare as it was originally performed. Am I living there, stuck? Future, please.
191: What makes me the happiest? Writing.
192: What is “home” to me? Where I lay my head.
193: What motivates me? How I feel, what I see, something that fascinates me.
194: If I could choose my last words, what would they be? Wake me up when it's over
195: Would I ever want to encounter aliens? Depends on if they're hostile or kind.
196: A movie that scared me as a child? The Dark Crystal. I love it now.
197: Something I hated as a child that I like now? V-8 juice
198: Zombies or vampires? oooh, both. But vampires.
199: Live in the city or suburbs? Suburbs
200: Dragons or wizards? Dragons all the way, man. I love dragons.
201: A nightmare that has stayed with me? Its always the same. I'm being chased by someone/something, it's always getting closer, and it sounds like a loud, roaring motorcycle. And I'm always running or racing through the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks (the place with all the red curtains and the black/white zig-zag floor. That place freaks me the fuck out, and ever since the show aired, it's been in my nightmares)
202: How do I define love? Love is not love, that alters when it alteration finds, nor bends with the remover to remove; O no, it is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken.
203: Do I judge a book by its cover? sometimes. I've found great books in the bargain bin that way. I've also found a few stinkers. Come to think of it, I've found a few people that way too. Some great, some stinkers.
204: Have I ever had my heart broken? I have.
205: Do I like my handwriting? i do, actually
206: Sweet or savoury? Savoury
207: Worst job I’ve had? Market research interview administrator. I was one of those assholes that flagged you down in the mall and made you watch a commercial or a movie trailer, or try a snack product and then asked you a billion and five questions about it
208: Do I collect anything? Funko POPs, Superman memorabilia, Star Wars and Star Trek memorabilia, penguins, mooses
209: Item of clothing or jewellery you’ll never see me without? my dragon ring, my pocketwatch
210: What is on my bucket list? I don't have one
211: How do I handle anger? Depends. I sometimes hold it in, but most times I blow like a firecracker. hot and hard, and then I cool off.
212: Was I named after anyone? my dad's uncle Kelly, and my mom's father Ray (i'm Kelly Rae)
213: Do I use sarcasm a lot? me? sarcastic? Perish the thought.
214: What TV character am I most like? Dobie Gillis.
215: What is the weirdest talent I have? I can twirl just about anything like a baton and not drop it
216: Favourite fictional character? Ashley j. Williams
3:24 AM. Son of a bitch.
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Fuck NBC.
I will never forgive them for cancelling this show.
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No-Cancel Culture: How Telehealth Is Making It Easier to Keep That Therapy Session
When the covid-19 pandemic forced behavioral health providers to stop seeing patients in person and instead hold therapy sessions remotely, the switch produced an unintended, positive consequence: Fewer patients skipped appointments.
This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free.
That had long been a problem in mental health care. Some outpatient programs previously had no-show rates as high as 60%, according to several studies.
Only 9% of psychiatrists reported that all patients kept their appointments before the pandemic, according to an American Psychiatric Association report. Once providers switched to telepsychiatry, that number increased to 32%.
Not only that, but providers and patients say teletherapy has largely been an effective lifeline for people struggling with anxiety, depression and other psychological issues during an extraordinarily difficult time, even though it created a new set of challenges.
Many providers say they plan to continue offering teletherapy after the pandemic. Some states are making permanent the temporary pandemic rules that allow providers to be reimbursed at the same rates as for in-person visits, which is welcome news to practitioners who take patients’ insurance.
“We are in a mental health crisis right now, so more people are struggling and may be more open to accessing services,” said psychologist Allison Dempsey, associate professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora. “It’s much easier to connect from your living room.”
The problem for patients who didn’t show up was often as simple as a canceled ride, said Jody Long, a clinical social worker who studied the 60% rate of no-shows or late cancellations at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center psychiatric clinic.
But sometimes it was the health problem itself. Long remembers seeing a first-time patient drive around the parking lot and then exit. The patient later called and told Long, “I just could not get out of the car; please forgive me and reschedule me.”
Long, now an assistant professor at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, said that incident changed his perspective. “I realized when you’re having panic attacks or anxiety attacks or suffering from major depressive disorder, it’s hard,” he said. “It’s like you have built up these walls for protection and then all of a sudden you’re having to let these walls down.”
Absences strain providers whose bosses set billing and productivity expectations and those in private practice who lose billable hours, said Dempsey, who directs a program to provide mental health care for families of babies with serious medical complications. Psychotherapists often overbooked patients with the expectation that some would not show up, she said.
Now Dempsey and her colleagues no longer need to overbook. When patients don’t show up, staffers can sometimes contact a patient right away and hold the session. Other times, they can reschedule them for later that day or a different day.
And telepsychiatry performs as well as, if not better than, face-to-face delivery of mental health services, according to a World Journal of Psychiatry review of 452 studies.
Virtual visits can also save patients money, because they might not need to travel, take time off work or pay for child care, said Dr. Jay Shore, chairperson of the American Psychiatric Association’s telepsychiatry committee and a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado medical school.
Shore started examining the potential of video conferencing to reach rural patients in the late ’90s and concluded that patients and providers can virtually build rapport, which he said is fundamental for effective therapy and medicine management.
But before the pandemic, almost 64% of psychiatrists had never used telehealth, according to the psychiatric association. Amid widespread skepticism, providers then had to do “10 years of implementations in 10 days,” said Shore, who has consulted with Dempsey and other providers.
Dempsey and her colleagues faced a steep learning curve. She said she recently held a video therapy session with a mother who “seemed very out of it” before disappearing from the screen while her baby was crying.
She wondered if the patient’s exit was related to the stress of new motherhood or “something more concerning,” like addiction, she said. She thinks she might have better understood the woman’s condition had they been in the same room. The patient called Dempsey’s team that night and told them she had relapsed into drug use and been taken to the emergency room. The mental health providers directed her to a treatment program, Dempsey said.
“We spent a lot of time reviewing what happened with that case and thinking about what we need to do differently,” Dempsey said.
Providers now routinely ask for the name of someone to call if they lose a connection and can no longer reach the patient.
In another session, Dempsey noticed that a patient seemed guarded and saw her partner hovering in the background. She said she worried about the possibility of domestic violence or “some other form of controlling behavior.”
In such cases, Dempsey called after the appointments or sent the patients secure messages to their online health portal. She asked if they felt safe and suggested they talk in person.
Such inability to maintain privacy remains a concern.
In a Walmart parking lot recently, Western Illinois University psychologist Kristy Keefe heard a patient talking with her therapist from her car. Keefe said she wondered if the patient “had no other safe place to go to.”
To avoid that scenario, Keefe does 30-minute consultations with patients before their first telehealth appointment. She asks if they have space to talk where no one can overhear them and makes sure they have sufficient internet access and know how to use video conferencing.
To ensure that she, too, was prepared, Keefe upgraded her Wi-Fi router, purchased two white noise machines to drown out her conversations and placed a stop sign on her door during appointments so her 5-year-old son knew she was seeing patients.
Keefe concluded that audio alone sometimes works better than video, which often lags. Over the phone, she and her psychology students “got really sensitive to tone fluctuations” in a patient’s voice and were better able to “pick up the emotion” than with video conferencing, she said.
With those telehealth visits, her 20% no-show rate evaporated.
Kate Barnes, a 29-year-old middle school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who struggles with anxiety and depression, also has found visits easier by phone than by Zoom, because she doesn’t feel like a spotlight is on her.
“I can focus more on what I want to say,” she said.
In one of Keefe’s video sessions, though, a patient reached out, touched the camera and started to cry as she said how appreciative she was that someone was there, Keefe recalled.
“I am so very thankful that they had something in this terrible time of loss and trauma and isolation,” said Keefe.
Demand for mental health services will likely continue even after the lifting of all covid restrictions. About 41% of adults were suffering from anxiety or depression in January, compared with about 11% two years before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Health Interview Survey.
“That is not going to go away with snapping our fingers,” Dempsey said.
After the pandemic, Shore said, providers should review data from the past year and determine when virtual care or in-person care is more effective. He also said the health care industry needs to work to bridge the digital divide that exists because of lack of access to devices and broadband internet.
Even though Barnes, the teacher, said she did not see teletherapy as less effective than in-person therapy, she would like to return to seeing her therapist in person.
“When you are in person with someone, you can pick up on their body language better,” she said. “It’s a lot harder over a video call to do that.”
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.
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No-Cancel Culture: How Telehealth Is Making It Easier to Keep That Therapy Session
When the covid-19 pandemic forced behavioral health providers to stop seeing patients in person and instead hold therapy sessions remotely, the switch produced an unintended, positive consequence: Fewer patients skipped appointments.
This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free.
That had long been a problem in mental health care. Some outpatient programs previously had no-show rates as high as 60%, according to several studies.
Only 9% of psychiatrists reported that all patients kept their appointments before the pandemic, according to an American Psychiatric Association report. Once providers switched to telepsychiatry, that number increased to 32%.
Not only that, but providers and patients say teletherapy has largely been an effective lifeline for people struggling with anxiety, depression and other psychological issues during an extraordinarily difficult time, even though it created a new set of challenges.
Many providers say they plan to continue offering teletherapy after the pandemic. Some states are making permanent the temporary pandemic rules that allow providers to be reimbursed at the same rates as for in-person visits, which is welcome news to practitioners who take patients’ insurance.
“We are in a mental health crisis right now, so more people are struggling and may be more open to accessing services,” said psychologist Allison Dempsey, associate professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora. “It’s much easier to connect from your living room.”
The problem for patients who didn’t show up was often as simple as a canceled ride, said Jody Long, a clinical social worker who studied the 60% rate of no-shows or late cancellations at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center psychiatric clinic.
But sometimes it was the health problem itself. Long remembers seeing a first-time patient drive around the parking lot and then exit. The patient later called and told Long, “I just could not get out of the car; please forgive me and reschedule me.”
Long, now an assistant professor at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, said that incident changed his perspective. “I realized when you’re having panic attacks or anxiety attacks or suffering from major depressive disorder, it’s hard,” he said. “It’s like you have built up these walls for protection and then all of a sudden you’re having to let these walls down.”
Absences strain providers whose bosses set billing and productivity expectations and those in private practice who lose billable hours, said Dempsey, who directs a program to provide mental health care for families of babies with serious medical complications. Psychotherapists often overbooked patients with the expectation that some would not show up, she said.
Now Dempsey and her colleagues no longer need to overbook. When patients don’t show up, staffers can sometimes contact a patient right away and hold the session. Other times, they can reschedule them for later that day or a different day.
And telepsychiatry performs as well as, if not better than, face-to-face delivery of mental health services, according to a World Journal of Psychiatry review of 452 studies.
Virtual visits can also save patients money, because they might not need to travel, take time off work or pay for child care, said Dr. Jay Shore, chairperson of the American Psychiatric Association’s telepsychiatry committee and a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado medical school.
Shore started examining the potential of video conferencing to reach rural patients in the late ’90s and concluded that patients and providers can virtually build rapport, which he said is fundamental for effective therapy and medicine management.
But before the pandemic, almost 64% of psychiatrists had never used telehealth, according to the psychiatric association. Amid widespread skepticism, providers then had to do “10 years of implementations in 10 days,” said Shore, who has consulted with Dempsey and other providers.
Dempsey and her colleagues faced a steep learning curve. She said she recently held a video therapy session with a mother who “seemed very out of it” before disappearing from the screen while her baby was crying.
She wondered if the patient’s exit was related to the stress of new motherhood or “something more concerning,” like addiction, she said. She thinks she might have better understood the woman’s condition had they been in the same room. The patient called Dempsey’s team that night and told them she had relapsed into drug use and been taken to the emergency room. The mental health providers directed her to a treatment program, Dempsey said.
“We spent a lot of time reviewing what happened with that case and thinking about what we need to do differently,” Dempsey said.
Providers now routinely ask for the name of someone to call if they lose a connection and can no longer reach the patient.
In another session, Dempsey noticed that a patient seemed guarded and saw her partner hovering in the background. She said she worried about the possibility of domestic violence or “some other form of controlling behavior.”
In such cases, Dempsey called after the appointments or sent the patients secure messages to their online health portal. She asked if they felt safe and suggested they talk in person.
Such inability to maintain privacy remains a concern.
In a Walmart parking lot recently, Western Illinois University psychologist Kristy Keefe heard a patient talking with her therapist from her car. Keefe said she wondered if the patient “had no other safe place to go to.”
To avoid that scenario, Keefe does 30-minute consultations with patients before their first telehealth appointment. She asks if they have space to talk where no one can overhear them and makes sure they have sufficient internet access and know how to use video conferencing.
To ensure that she, too, was prepared, Keefe upgraded her Wi-Fi router, purchased two white noise machines to drown out her conversations and placed a stop sign on her door during appointments so her 5-year-old son knew she was seeing patients.
Keefe concluded that audio alone sometimes works better than video, which often lags. Over the phone, she and her psychology students “got really sensitive to tone fluctuations” in a patient’s voice and were better able to “pick up the emotion” than with video conferencing, she said.
With those telehealth visits, her 20% no-show rate evaporated.
Kate Barnes, a 29-year-old middle school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who struggles with anxiety and depression, also has found visits easier by phone than by Zoom, because she doesn’t feel like a spotlight is on her.
“I can focus more on what I want to say,” she said.
In one of Keefe’s video sessions, though, a patient reached out, touched the camera and started to cry as she said how appreciative she was that someone was there, Keefe recalled.
“I am so very thankful that they had something in this terrible time of loss and trauma and isolation,” said Keefe.
Demand for mental health services will likely continue even after the lifting of all covid restrictions. About 41% of adults were suffering from anxiety or depression in January, compared with about 11% two years before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Health Interview Survey.
“That is not going to go away with snapping our fingers,” Dempsey said.
After the pandemic, Shore said, providers should review data from the past year and determine when virtual care or in-person care is more effective. He also said the health care industry needs to work to bridge the digital divide that exists because of lack of access to devices and broadband internet.
Even though Barnes, the teacher, said she did not see teletherapy as less effective than in-person therapy, she would like to return to seeing her therapist in person.
“When you are in person with someone, you can pick up on their body language better,” she said. “It’s a lot harder over a video call to do that.”
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.
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Why NBC are wrong...
Yeah they've made a MASSIVE mistake once again on the Timeless front. Makes me so sad to think that this show thats brilliant, diverse, telling history we'd never otherwise hear, has been cancelled.
In a climate where there was so much going wrong in the world constantly this show did everything right. It gave out a positive message and taught us life lessons. It is the best show that i know of. ...yet NBC decided to cancel it. Why? The ratings. If they want good ratings then why not consider the international community too? Why not look at the social media involvement as well? (we all know that this fandom was the best at social media involvement). Why not use something other than the Nielson ratings (or whatever theyre called)?
God knows we fought a damn lot for this show because we love it. It is an inclusive tv show. One that, for once, is well written; educational; uplifting; different. Plus the celebrity support behind it too
NBC have made another wrong decision that has broken my heart completely. The one show i believed wholeheartedly would be saved because of what it stands for has been cancelled and, NBC, I will never forgive you. .
#renewtimeless #savetimeless
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How active is this fandom considering the show is canceled? I heard you guys used to be hella cool on here and I really wanted to join in on all of the fun. (I'm very new to 'Hannibal')
Helloooooooooooo dear Anon!!! I’m so sorry about the late response - turns out tumblr doesn’t notify me about new messages >.>
Welcome to the Fannibal Fandom!!! We have fine wine, dogs, Mads Mikkelsen’s lips, Hugh Dancy’s whole face, excellent LGBTQ+ representation, beautiful cinematography, an astounding soundtrack, a diverse cast, and an aboslutely incredible story about a cannibal who falls in love with the FBI agent investigating his case
We are super active and a growing family!!! We would love you, and anyone interested, to join our wonderful community and spread the love!!! If you don’t know where to start looking I will more than happily recommend some wonderful blogs:
@fragile-teacup @granpappy-winchester @graham-muffin @oxtrogen @sirenja-and-the-stag @hanni-bunny-lecter @neverbeglamour @helloyangmal @hannigram-hell @the-winnowing-wind @hannigramsgayasses @hannibal-hannigram-4ever @sympathyforthecannibal @thoughtfullyscreeching @amatesura @existingcharactersdiehorribly @violentdelvghts
Despite the show being cancelled we are still thriving! @existingcharactersdiehorribly has a countdown (link here) until official talks of Season 4 can begin! And most importantly it’s not just the fandom who are eager for more, Bryan Fuller himself has said Mads and Hugh are excited and more than ready! It’s simply a matter of getting everyone’s schedules cleared at the same time! If you need any more convincing check out Bryan Fuller’s twitter (link here) and you will see the show is far from dead!
In the mean time, while we wait, we like to entertain ourselves with beautiful fanfiction, fanart, gifs, graphics and crack.
So yeah, you’d never be able to tell this show is cancelled by just looking at the fandom. We are alive and kicking and never backing down!
And we will never forgive NBC for cancelling this masterpiece!
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Why 2020 Democrats Pretend to Be Radical
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Why 2020 Democrats Pretend to Be Radical
Here’s one way to follow the action on the Democratic presidential debate stage in Miami over the next two days: Listen to what the candidates say, then squint through the haze to read their unspoken thought bubbles. There’s always tension between what politicians say and what they really believe. But in 2020, that familiar gap has taken on a new twist: Many of these candidates are trying to sound more extreme than they really are.
A quarter-century ago, when I first started covering national politics in Bill Clinton’s Washington, it was common for ambitious Democrats to project themselves as more moderate, more cautious, more incremental—less liberal—than they really were inside.
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Listening closely to Al Gore, for instance, it was clear he was a more restless ideologue—more radical by intellect and temperament on the subjects he cared most about—than ever would have been wise for an ambitious politician from a conservative Southern state to advertise.
The enormous, diverse 2020 Democratic field is historic for a lot of reasons, but one big change has gone less remarked. There’s abundant evidence that most of these candidates are projecting themselves as more disruptive, more ambitious, more contemptuous of conventional politics,moreliberal, than their previous careers actually suggest.
Judging by the campaign so far, the Democratic debates will be generously salted with bold slogans and ideas: “Medicare for All,” a “Green New Deal,” abolishing the Electoral College or reparations for descendants of slaves. In all but a few cases, these will come from people who have defined their public lives by the more prosaic work of coalition-building and consensus, as congenial senators and tough-minded prosecutors and pro-business mayors—ladder-climbing careerists who got where they are through a shrewd sense of what the political market will bear.
The shift in sensibility, from hiding to exaggerating those radical bona fides, shines a light on a more profound change: This cadre of Democrats believes the ideological tides, within the party and the country more broadly, have shifted leftward. And in this environment, with candidates desperate for attention and activist support, it is no longer safe to play it safe.
If this calculation is right, it means the end of several decades in which Democrats won nationally by playing gooddefense—by reassuring skeptics that there was a difference between being progressive and being left-wing, by running partly by making arguments of who they were (sensible, tough-minded, pro-growth, fiscally responsible) that were really arguments about who they were not (George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson).
The Democratic electorate plainly is clamoring for goodoffense—no more softening the edges, to hell with patter about civility and common ground—and the competition over two consecutive nights at NBC’s debate state in Miami will be over who can give it to them.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren was earlyto enter this derby in March when she told a CNN town hall that she wanted to amend the Constitution to get rid of the Electoral College. Good idea, 12 of her rivals have since said, while five more have said it is something to think about (“open to the discussion,” said Senator Kamala Harris).
Pete Buttigieg, the moderate and highly credentialed mayor of a small Midwestern city, has said he wants to expand the Supreme Court to 15 seats, blowing up a norm that has prevailed since 1869. A bunch of his rivals, like Senator Michael Bennet, have said that goes too far, and some, like former vice president and current front-runner Joe Biden, have left their position unclear. But many others found it advantageous to at leastseemlike they were on board. “I’m taking nothing off the table,” said Senator Cory Booker, a let’s-take-a-look stance that was echoed by fellow Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Harris and Warren.
It’s fair to presume that the South Bend mayor genuinely does believe—in theory, and all things being equal, in a way that they rarely are in real life—that expanding the High Court by six members to reduce undue conservative influence is a good idea. Those who believe he would really intend to make this the hallmark of a President Pete administration might answer: What episodes in the career of this person who has prospered at every turn within establishment institutions (Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey consulting, the U.S. Navy, and so on) suggest an eagerness or proficiency at championing this kind of battle for truly disruptive change at an institution like the Supreme Court?
It’s also possible that he is practicing the offensive-politics equivalent of when Clinton, playing defensive politics in 1996, endorsed a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, before never mentioning it again after his reelection.
The one candidate on the debate stage—Thursday night, thanks to a random lottery—who can reasonably be presumed to mean what he says even when uttering radical words is Senator Bernie Sanders. He is, after all, a socialist running in the Democratic Party, and he has spent decades waiting for a return to the politics of the 1960s or even the 1930s.
This week, in particular, showed how Sanders is driving the debate and altering the incentives for other candidates. Warren released her plan that called for free college tuition and widespread student debt forgiveness to the tune of $640 billion. An ambitious plan, for sure—until Sanders came out Monday with free tuition and $1.6 trillion to cancel not some but all student debt.
But even Sanders can get caught in the derby of having to project more left in public than he feels when left to his true thoughts in private. In 2016, Sanders said he opposed slavery reparations: “First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.” This year, he supports Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill for a commission to study reparations. Its companion bill in the Senate was introduced by one of the candidates, Cory Booker, and co-sponsored by six others.
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If you’re looking for evidenceof the individual tug of war between candidates’ bold personas and more temperate souls, look no further than the equivocation on the question of Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. Thirteen candidates say they support a version of Medicare for All, one of the most popular new policy slogans on the left. But most stop short of Sanders’ definition of the idea, which would eliminate the current health insurance system in favor of a mandatory government-run system. Harris at CNN town hall in January implied that she would eliminate private insurance; four months later she clarified that’s not what she meant.
Senator Amy Klobuchar is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal championed by Senator Edward Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and she’s one of 18 presidential candidates to give rhetorical support to the proposal, with its aggressive timelines for carbon reduction and a federal jobs guarantee. But, as she told The Hill, “I see it as aspirational” and when “it got down to the nitty-gritty of actual legislation … that would be different for me.”
Perhaps no one is laboring over how to handle the swing of the ideological pendulum revealed by this year’s race than the person at the top of every poll so far, Biden. He first won election to the U.S. Senate in 1972, a few weeks before he actually reached the minimum age requirement of 30, and when the liberal tide unleashed in the 1960s was strong enough that even a Republican president like Richard Nixon was swept along to support liberal ideas like the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
For most of his career, however, the Delaware senator was governing in an environment in which Democrats generally and Biden particularly had to play defense on certain polarizing issues. It was with a reason that Biden opposed court-imposed busing to desegregate schools—he saw first-hand how much resentment it was causing among working-class white families toward Democrats. In 1994, his leadership in passing a tough crime bill was a triumph for both Biden and Clinton—it advertised a Democratic Party that would not accept the bleeding-heart label Republicans had tattooed on so many liberals.
He presumably did not foresee that decades later he would be playing defensive politics again—this time from activists in his own party, many of whom were not yet born when he came to the Senate, demanding repentance for what now looks likeideological heresy.
In truth, however, Biden’s predicament—like that of all politicians trying to navigate the ideological currents while balancing ambition and prudence—was entirely foreseeable.
The Cycles of American Historywas a signature work of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who argued that recurrent and broadly predictable swings of the ideological pendulum are the essence of American politics. Seasons of liberal activism and heightened concern over the public interest are inevitably followed by seasons of conservative retrenchment and elevation of private interests.
Schlesinger, one of the dominant liberal intellectuals of the mid-20th Century, in the late 1940s wrote a book calledThe Vital Center, but late in life (he died at age 89 in 2007) he often lamented that cautious progressives were confusing the vital center with the dead center—espousing a middle-of-the-road incrementalism that didn’t offend, but also didn’t inspire.
He wouldlikely note the irony that it was a radical president in Donald Trump who served as catalyst for another liberal swing of the pendulum. And he’d approve of the willingness of the current cadre of Democrats on stage to go on offense and take ideological risks.
This is the path, Schlesinger argued, walked by consequential presidents from Lincoln to the Roosevelts and—though he disapproved of the agenda—on to Ronald Reagan.
“Great presidents are unifiers mostly in retrospect,” Schlesinger told me in 1997, as Bill Clinton was preparing for a second term by promising to bridge partisan divides and unify the country. “The greatest presidents have started by dividing the country on important questions, as a way of uniting the country at a new level of understanding.”
Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna contributed to this report.
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2018-2019 Broadcast Television In Review
With the 2019-2020 broadcast television schedule set to be announced next month, I thought this would be a great time to look back at the 2018-2019 broadcast television schedule and focus in on the handful of shows I did in fact watch – well, that I watched at least some of.
Below are notes on the 2018-2019 broadcast shows I watched some of this year, listed alphabetically by network:
The Rookie (ABC) - The best new show this year has been by far The Rookie. The strong cast anchored by Nathan Fillion has created a fun and refreshing show that gives audiences a unique look at the LAPD. The fate of the series is still in question, but I really hope the powers that be at ABC decide to keep The Rookie around.
Whiskey Tango (ABC) - One episode. I watched one episode. Forgive me.
Single Parents (ABC) - I’ve caught snippets of Single Parents due to DVR overruns of Modern Family. I’d rather watch Bye, Bye Love again.
The Cool Kids (Fox) - I didn’t watch a single full episode of The Cool Kids, but I did once turn on my television which was previously tuned to Fox and caught about three minutes of one episode before I changed the channel. There was a bit about whether or not one of the retirement home’s newest residents was secretly the Zodiac Killer. It was somewhat humorous. I still changed the channel and never returned.
Proven Innocent (Fox) - I am not sure what has caused me to tune into this procedural week after week. Maybe it is Kelsey Grammar as a ruthless state attorney that reminds me of how great Boss was. Or maybe it is the underlying mystery about the unsolved murder that sent Rachelle Lefevre to prison for ten years before she decided to work to help the wrongly accused. Regardless, my Friday nights have been spent with Proven Innocent and will continue to be until the show is unceremoniously canceled next month.
Manifest (NBC) - I was super excited for Manifest when NBC picked it up last year, and the show has been mediocre at best. Shockingly, NBC has renewed the series for a second season, however, I have yet to decide if I’ll be signing up to watch it.
During both the 2016-2017 season and the 2017-2018 season, I watched some or all of 14 new broadcast television series each year, however, during the 2018-2019 season that number dropped to six, only four of which shows I watched full episodes. Either the new shows this year have been extremely unappealing, or I have far less time on my hands. Fun fact, of the 28 shows I watched some of all of during those past two years, only 11 are still airing on broadcast television and I am only tuning into six of them on a weekly basis.
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1: How tall are you? I think I’m around 5′3″ or something?
2: What colour and style is your hair? Black and just long and straight. I’m honestly too lazy to do anything to it
3: What colour are your eyes? Dark brown
4: Do you wear glasses? Contacts because I’m effectively blind
5: Do you wear braces? Not anymore!
6: What is your fashion style? IDK how to describe it but I like leather jackets or bombers. One time I wore that and combat boots and a friend told me that I should get a motorcycle
7: Full name? Sorry, friends, not putting that down here
8: When were you born? 1998
9: Where are you from and where do you live now? Like above, don’t feel like giving details, but I’m currently up north of where I grew up
10: What school do you go to? Sorry again, not giving away location
11: What kind of student are you? I’m lazy and procrastinate way too often, but I get stuff done. 8 AMs are the bane of my existence and I try to go, but if the class isn’t for my major then sometimes my bed seems too nice (if it’s for my major then I force myself to go as long as I do wake up)
12: Do you like school? I mean...generally? Chem is hard but I like it, and I like the things I’m doing. So college is pretty good honestly. (I have Opinions about high school though)
13: What are your favourite school subjects? In high school, it was math. But now, it’s chem and mat sci (which I type while doing my inorganic homework)
14: Favourite TV shows? Oh gosh, I dunno. Legends of Tomorrow is fucking fantastic for so many reasons. So that and Lucifer when it comes to current shows. Currently watching Dark Matter on Netflix with my roommie, but the writing in s3 is meh? (The first two are good though). DS9 is my other Netflix binge and I’m about halfway through and love it (can’t go wrong with Star Trek in general). Constantine will be the show I will never forgive NBC for cancelling, so I feel like the fact I’m still salty says something. So...long answer but TV is great and there are definitely many honorable mentions but no one wants an essay about TV I like)
15: Favourite movies? Again, oh gosh, here’s a short list off the top of my head. Lord of the Rings is always amazing. Same goes for Winter Soldier. Princess Bride is a classic. And I will staunchly defend my love of Rogue One. This list can go forever and tends to change with what I’ve seen recently, but that’s what I thought of now
16: Favourite books? Also Lord of the Rings? I haven’t been reading recently though. But The Song of Achilles and Lovesick Gods are on my current list of things to read
17: Favourite pastimes? Writing, Netflix, D&D, Youtube, music (listening but also I’ve been arranging Amber Run songs so that’s been a fun new venture)
18: Do you have any regrets? Not any major ones? Part of me wishes I’d switched to chem and joined the formula team earlier, but honestly, everything’s turned out in a way I like, so I don’t really regret much
19: Dream job? Tire chemist or Writer (very different, I know)
20: Would you like to be married someday? I don’t really know? I don’t think I’d mind it, but I hardly feel like I need it. Give me a dog and friends any day
21: Would you like to have kids someday? Not really? I’m not great with really young kids and tbh like marriage, I don’t really need it
22: How many? See the above
23: Do you like shopping? Sometimes? Depends for what and who I’m with
24: What countries have you visited? France, Germany, Austria, Greece, and living in the US
25: The scariest nightmare you’ve had? They usually tend to include people with guns and the threat of death tbh? (Also fun fact: little me had a dream that was a stereotypical high school setting and kissing some dude and that woke me up)
26: Do you have any enemies? Not that I know of?
27: Do you have a s/o? Nooope
28: Do you believe in miracles? I mean...I dunno? Some things make me wanna say yes and others say no, which isn’t really an answer
29: What do you want right now? For my 3 problem sets to disappear magically so I can just write about the disaster boys having sex in a college office (yes you’re reading that right)
I don’t feel like tagging cause I have stuff to do and need to get off my laptop in 3 minutes but if you wanna do it, then feel free to say I tagged you!
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Hi yeah I'm extremely fucking mad they cancelled rise! Was it perfect? No but that's not the point, it was important and showed some fucking variety in this bland as fuck casting world and I'm never gonna forgive nbc for proving they're just like every other tv network after making me think they were different for picking up b99
they cancelled it ! what the hell i haven’t watched it yet but that still makes me so mad :(
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