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evakcardamom · 4 years ago

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«At least 17 people have been killed in Wednesday's school shooting in Florida - the second deadliest in recent American history. A 19-year-old suspected perpetrator has been arrested. "

"Two people have now been confirmed dead after a boy started shooting classmates at a school in Los Angeles in the USA on his 16th birthday. The victims are 14 and 15 years old. "

"Nine people, including seven children, died after the shooting at school number 175 in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, on Tuesday."

"Four students from 12 to 16 years and an employee were hit when 18-year-old Sebastian Bosse stormed into the school in the town of Emsdetten on the border with the Netherlands and started firing wildly around himself with four weapons on Monday. Before he went crazy, he announced on his website a cruel revenge on his former teachers and fellow students. "

School shooting has long, in several variants, become a separate search category on Google and has great potential for inspiration, especially for young men who have been bullied, anonymized and frozen. The latter example, from 2006, formed the basis for one of Lars Norén's last plays on November 20, 2007, written to and in collaboration with the German actress and performance artist Anne Tismer. Since then, it has been performed in a number of European countries - and now at Oslo Nye teater under the direction of the theatre's permanent playwright, Ilene Sørbøe.

Skins in the soul

I assume that it is largely to her credit that I have started to visit Oslo Nye Teater again, and perhaps her entry is a result of the long-term plan that theater director Kim Bjarke told about when he was hired in 2013. Oslo Nye was then In a deep crisis, the closure of the theater was a possible scenario, and Kim Bjarke was the man who was to get the audience back to the theater salon. The theater that "really goes down and tears in the soul" may therefore have to wait a while.

As is well known, this is exactly what Lars Norén does in his plays, and here November 20 is no exception. The text is written on the basis of the school shooter's diaries, as well as videos and a manifesto he had posted online prior to the action. There were no specific hate speech against Muslims and cultural Marxists. No defined accusations against politicians. Just rage over how he has been treated at school and generally lead over absolutely everything and everyone, whether they were Nazis, Turks, whores or government employees. Lead over the meaninglessness of normal life in modern, capitalist society: SUAPD = School, education, work, pension, death.

My actions / are simply the result / of their world / a world that did not let me be / who I am, he says in Lars Norén's text. It is a statement with a hiss of eternity over it. The boy is obsessed with an almost objective, general rage where absolutely everyone is guilty, including us in the audience. The absence of a larger ideological sky over his action is simply ascertained and justified in one fell swoop with: Can I not live with meaning / should I at least / die with meaning.

Requirements for performance

It is easy to imagine the power this text may have had in Germany in 2007, shortly after the shooting took place. Anne Tismer is then also said to have performed it with an expressive rage that was directed directly at the audience. In a schoolyard in Harstad in 2009, a 9-year-old fired two shots with a shotgun without anyone being hit. It is supposedly the closest we get to a school shooting in this country, which places other demands on the performance of such a text in Norway in 2021. The premiere should have taken place in April last year. This means that the young actor Tarjei Sandvik Moe has had this performance in his system for over two years. It is also visible in his quiet, sensitive - and confident - way of approaching the text. And the obvious, liberating little posing use of a video camera, which is aimed alternately at the audience and himself in a well-coordinated combination with scenography and lighting design. It's all designed by Oscar Udbye.

The audience, at a corona distance from each other, sits on each side of a kind of catwalk that extends across the entire width of the Theater Basement with a screen at each end, where a black and white surveillance-like video image of the audience is displayed. After a while, without anything happening, suddenly the boy stands there, half-hidden behind one of the canvas, gently making us aware of his existence. The first thing that strikes me is how thin and fragile he seems, in contrast to the archetypal image of the hateful, youthful avenger. This built-in paradox forms the core of Tarjei Sandvik Moe's way of playing. He moves along an alternately hesitant and insecure, alternately desperate, indifferent and mocking register of expressions. And he does so with a fine-tuned, restrained energy; he is an insecure boy with nothing to lose, which also characterizes his choppy walk back and forth on the catwalk and the precise use of the camcorder

Motion repertoire

Along the way, I find myself missing a larger movement repertoire that can complement the text and often contrast it. But I forget that in the moment when towards the end he slowly says down on the floor and in silence begins to do things with his hand in the open air, as if he is alone in the world, as if there are no others in the room. It is a golden moment, a dramatic turning point and the exception that confirms the rule of closeness to the audience. This closeness and the gentle variation in temperament make it all an organic experience where the boy, and we who watch, are together about what is happening. Until he finds that no one has any comment and he leaves the room with the firearms in a bag.

I have speculated a bit about the motivation for setting up precisely that text, which may not be Lars Norén's strongest and most relevant here and now. But even that I can only forget. Tarjei Sandvik Moe's interpretation holds, and well so.

Finally

Maybe it's deliberate, maybe it's a coincidence, a reverse fun fact: A little over a year ago, the great Swedish author Per Olov Enquist died. A few months later, Oslo Nye staged his play The 25th Hour, about a sensitive, misplaced boy who had taken the life of an elderly couple. In January this year, the great Swedish author Lars Norén died. A few months later, Oslo Nye staged his play on November 20, about a sensitive, misplaced boy who had entered a school and started shooting around him.»

#tarjeisandvikmoe #tarjei sandvik moe #20november

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thenonbinarydetective · 4 years ago

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SPNGATE Summary to my Knowledge

So let’s see if I got this

One-sided destiel confession and then immediate bury your gays sacrifice for dean

There’s a rumor the Putin is resigning

Georgia turns blue in the 2020 election

Castiel is basically forgotten for the final two episodes

11 Scenes were cut from the finale. Two romantic songs were part of the storyboard, one of which being Angel with a Shotgun.

One of the scenes is rumored to be Dean screaming for Cas

Eileen, Sam’s deaf girlfriend, is dead and forgotten

Jack becomes God after Dean kills God and leaves

The brothers are alone again and fall into their old monster a week thing and Dean is still doing what his dad told him to even though he should’ve grown past that with character development

Dies impaled on a nail, any injury that probably could’ve been fixed. This character who has struggle with depression and s*icide just shown giving up instead of getting the happy ending he deserved and longed for. Cas sacrifice is made meaningless by this

There’s incest

Unhealthy codependency last beyond death when Sam names his son Dean

The first woman who isn’t killed or in pain for plot development is just standing blurrily in the background. Silent, with no name, or no pictures around the house they’re supposed to be living in. IDK if she’s real, she just so blurry

Party city wigs for old Sammy

He dies of old man disease

There’s maybe some more incest

Ends the show the way it began. Not in a symbolical circular ending, but one that basically throws away any character development they had

Random side character is in the finale and dies

You know instead of the beloved reoccuring characters the show has accumulated over 15 years and belongs in Heaven

Bobby I get, but Dean is in Heaven with his canonically abusive father? Why?

They blamed that on Covid and multiple actors came out and said that wasn’t true. That they were never called

Georgia is confirmed blue again around the same time

The Spanish dub comes in and reciprocates the confession that the CW said wasn’t

Everyone freaks out

The CW is officially in trouble at this point

Jensen recorded the scene on his phone and still has it. Hasn’t released it.

Everyone realizes the scene is clearly edited

#TheySilencedYou and #TheySilencedThem trends

The CW uses Misha as a shield. They get the situation wrong and most likely told him to say the things he said. That it wasn’t a bury your gays, we can DIY our rep, and the Spanish dub comes from a “Rogue Translator”

Possibly gaslit him into thinking that he did something wrong when he’s not to blame

Many people say through it cause this isn’t like Misha to say the things he said. He’s on social media a lot, I think most fans understand him.

There’s a possible Indian dub confirming it, idk what happened with that.

As well as Portuguese Dub (idk if rumor or confirmed)

Negative reviews of the finale start disappearing from ImDb

Black Lightning is cancelled, which somehow became a part of this. Sorry Black Lightning

CW stays silent

Video(s) of the finale start disappearing from the CW’s official Youtube Channel

Also videos of the confession in Spanish have disappeared from the internet.

People start to open the conversation to the rest of the network and start questioning how the CW has represented minorities

Obama is a Destiel Shipper

There’s now an Italian Dub rumor. Which is questionable.

#SomethingToSay starts and goes hard on judging and speaking on the “representation that the CW has presented. Going far beyond Supernatural to the point were every show is now guilty of something (with evidence)

Main points being questionable/bad queer representation with repeated use of stereotypes and bury your gays, stereotyping and villainizing black characters, fetishizing and stereotyping asian characters, ableism surrounding their treatment of disabled and mentally ill characters, and using a woman’s pain as a plot device

That’s surprisingly not the only points. Whole list here

The CW still hasn’t made an official statement. The closest they’ve done is pin that generic “we don’t hate you” post they made even though it’s practically incorrect at this point

Considering they’ve promised to do better in terms of representation multiple times in the past and have yet to prove it. Many people remembered Lexa and also Vanessa Morgan and that other Riverdale actress that moved on the Katy Keene. Who was apparently forced to leave her role, not due to the fact the series was cancelled.

Unrelated but someone on the Flash got Covid and they had to stop filming

Only God knows what’s gonna happen next? Let me know if I left anything out

#Something to Say #They Silenced Them #They Silenced You #spngate #destiel in spanish #destiel

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isyancialtan · 6 years ago

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ALL RIGHT, YA HOOLIGANS ( @aspecialprovidence, @gentlegrace, @lipstick-and-shotguns, and @delanceyxbrothers - not you, @angeliatheturkishdelight, you’re an angel and we’re thrilled you’re here :’DDD ) BUCKLE UP BECAUSE

HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON SARP AND DRUGS

First of all, we know Sarp was a difficult kid to raise. He caused trouble in school (his teacher in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tells Nilufer Sarp had a good week because he didn’t fight anyone or escape from school), had (has) anger issues, and his dad not being around was A Huge Thing. So I definitely think there was a heaping dose of teenage rebellion going on (fighting! brushes with the law! drinking! girls! at least one piercing! possibly tattoos (he doesn’t seem to have any in canon but it would not surprise me in the least if he did)! zooming around on a motorcycle!), BUT I don’t think drugs were part of it, and HERE IS WHY:

- SPORTS ARE LIFE. When Sarp was a kid he legit decided a BJK player was his new dad. His room’s still covered in sports posters, boxing’s his main hobby, and he seems incapable of passing a soccer game without joining in. Also, have you seen what he looks like?! :’D He’d stay away from drugs for the same reason he wouldn’t smoke--he wouldn’t want to risk his fitness.

More proof? Our #1 canon authority, ABI himself, who said, “Now Sarp, who I’m playing, is physically relying on himself.” Working out is about more than having fun or looking good--it’s about protecting himself. And it’s hard to protect yourself if you’re addicted to anything.

- MONEY. Sarp and Nilufer sometimes have trouble just paying the rent--ain’t nobody got extra cash for drugs.

- A RELATED SUBJECT: According to my thorough research (a 10-minute google search), marijuana is expensive in Turkey, but The Thing among poorer kids (at least several years ago--Sarp would have been 15 in 2005) is sniffing paint thinner or glue. Now, Sarp does make some hasty decisions, but HE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO START SNIFFING CLOTHS SOAKED IN STRANGE SUBSTANCES. GOOD JOB, SARP.

- EVEN if that seemed like a good idea--Nilufer’s a nurse. You can bet he’s heard about drug use consequences 54038304 times, PLUS he knows she’d be more likely than most parents to catch on to him using anything. Also, Turkey has strict drug laws, and he’s not eager to spend several years in jail--both because it would Not Be Fun, and also (and more importantly) because he wants to protect his mama. <3

- On a related note: until he meets Maral, Sarp legit only cares about two people: Nilufer and Taso. He’s friendly towards other people, but he doesn’t run with a big crowd--even at Luna, it’s Taso and Maral and Asli bringing in the other employees, we don’t see Sarp having close relationships with them on his own. And it sounds like even as kids it was Sarp and Taso against the world. So I think it’s unlikely that Sarp would have fallen in with a group that offered him drugs. (I see him as someone other people see as cool and interesting, but not “popular”. He’s not afraid to interact with anyone, but I don’t see him hanging out with other people outside of school/work, either. Our man ABI talks about the “masks” Sarp wears here--and I think the “cool kid” act is one of those masks.)

- And finally, speaking of masks: Sarp’s a lot smarter than he lets on. Even though he’s got a hot temper and tends to be impulsive, he also shows that he can play the long game, both in terms of getting revenge and winning back Maral. And yeah, as a teenager he’d be less mature and experienced than he is an an adult--but I think that even if he did run into a situation where drugs were accessible, he’d be smart enough to realize that the effect on his body + risk of jail time + lack of money + potential addition + Nilufer finding out + getting in the way of his plans wasn’t worth any kind of high they could offer.

END OF ESSAY, but LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!

#about #drugs tw #asked and answered #this is Long but also I haven't thought a lot about teenage!Sarp so THERE YA GO

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starship-imzadi · 4 years ago

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S2 E18 Up The Long Ladder

This is another episode I mis-remember as season 1 because of the TOS vibes. More and more I realise when I say "TOS" I think of low production values, embarrassing or overdramatic acting, overt sexism or racism, or bad pacing.

Worf looks like he's going to throw up, and Riker is sitting just beneath him.

Wow, I think that's the first use of "Terran" to refer to Earth in TNG. I love the term. It makes me think of the mirror universe (Mirror, Mirror is my favourite TOS episode and I loved the Disco mirror episodes.)

Pulaski making fun of Worf's bravado is fabulous, it's a dangerous job but someone's got to do it.

How does Worf get a Klingon disease when there aren't any Klingons around to transmit it?

In surprised Pulaski knows anything about Klingon culture, she's had such disparaging remarks about Klingons before. I guess she really has improved.

"Aye, aye" typically it's just one "aye"

I hate that these characters are blatant stereotypes of Irish culture. The anti-Irish sentiment is long enough passed in America that perhaps the stereotypes are easier to accept an innocuous. Lucky Charms is a great example of accepted Irish stereotypes in America, and even if no one is offended by it, it's still unacceptable. I have read that Colm Meaney greatly disapproved of the depiction in this episode but wasn't in a position of sufficient power to get it changed.

Much like "The Royale" it feels like these costumes and set pieces were just pulled from stock.

I bet that straw was a pain for the film crew. Stuff like that gets everywhere. It's not a whole lot better than glitter.

This post makes a good point; why was the straw trasported in?

Riker asking "what about the men" isn't a line of great consequence but it's a welcome attempt at egalitarianism.

"the ship will clean itself" the one line answers a lot of questions about the ship, and brings up a whole lot more. I have no idea how the ship cleans itself....

This is either Riker's third, second, or first dalliance depending on how you'd like to interpret "Justice" and "Angel One". However this feels like a first because it's normal circumstances. "Justice" was a hyper sexualized environment and "Angel One" may or may not have been diplomatic manipulation. However between this and "Angel One" it seems pretty clear that at this point Riker is characterised as liking women with a strong sense of identity and self. (Again, I'd exclude Minuet as a slight outlier since she was built for him. Though she too had a note worthy personality and charisma.)

I feel like there should be some sort of metric or scale for Riker's interactions with women. Some he just flirts with, some he kisses, some he has sex with, and some he has an extended romantic relationship with, and each of these are separate activities he enjoys. (And then there's Troi). To some extent Riker seems to be written as a foil to Picard who only has a few, reserved relationships. I'm not sure if Riker's development in this vein is to play to a different "masculine" dynamic from Pocard or if he exists this way directly because of Kirk's behaviour.

I like Riker's honesty in assessing Brenna for the overbearing woman she is. She may light a spark but she is not his equal in demeanor. For what it's worth I'd like to point out that she initiates their little fling. However, it's only at this episode that Riker fianlly feels realised (i.e. developed) as the controversial flirt that everyone loves or hates.

This drunk "comedy" acting with the crossed eyes is part of what makes this episode feel TOS.

That beam down shot is different enough from all their other beam down shots it looks like they didn't get the group shot and had to make do with a different one.

Weird sculpture

Fun fact: the chances of spontaneously conceiving identical quadruplets is between 1 in 11 million and 1 in 15 million.

Also, Dolly the sheep was born July of 1996

"the entire concept of sexual reproduction is a little repugnant to us" *cuts to shot of Riker leaning back in his chair* Pulaski asked about them repressing their sexual drive...this is so far past 1960 haven't they separated sexual reproduction from sexual pleasure? Surely contraception isn't an issue. With Riker's career ambitious I'm sure he's not really into reproduction right now either.... It feels like the editing is trying to make a point that I'm not willing to accept.

Riker clearly has some strong feelings about being unique (so WTF happened in "Second Chances"?)

[This makes me think of Warped TNG Season 8...a planet of Rikers; Picard has to negotiate peace between beared and non-bearded factions. I've loaned my copy out so I can't check the details]

Jonathan either staggers or has a little swagger as he walks away from the table.

Such over dramatic needle work. Also, they're all wearing gloves but then put the sample needle right through the polyester space suit... Hello contamination.

Consent is important kids whether it's surgery, sex, drinking a cup of tea, or cloning.

(I can't actually tell that's Riker and Pulaski but I can suspended a bit of potential disbelief.)

Also, pro choice.

"unfortunately it will have to be a shotgun wedding"

It feels like accepting this ending is a shotgun wedding. I read a critism of this episode on reddit that I entirely agree with: it's a terrible episode. Not only is this a vapid ending glossed over by an empty speech by Picard but there are stupid loose ends (as pointed out in reddit) what happened to Worf's measles and what happens with Riker's fling with Brenna? She's quite happy to drop Riker for three husbands who may or may not be rich...

I'll just end by saying: what the fuck was that? It was some confused, xenophobic pile of rubbish is what it was. It wasn't 100% garage but all the shit made the parts that were acceptable reek too.

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queen-of-deans-booty · 7 years ago

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SPN Tag Game

I saw this and decided to do it even though I was never tagged for it. But I said fuck it because I can do and post whatever I want.

It’s a Supernatural Game and everything is under the cut so I don’t have to bother you guys with this

This may contain spoilers for the whole series.

1. What season did you start watching Supernatural? Somewhere around Season 10, maybe. I know, I was very late in the game but When Supernatural started, I was 8 years old and my mom would never let me watch that.

2. Who was the first character you fell in love with? Dean, of fucking course.

3. Who was a character that you hated at first but grew to love? Crowley. I didn’t like him at first but as the show progressed, I grew to love that British Demon.

4. Which character would you most want to be in a long-term relationship with? Dean Winchester. There would never be a boring day with that man.

5. If you could go on just one date with one character, which one would you choose? Castiel. I feel like I would have such an interesting night with that Angel. Especially the earlier version of Cas when he didn’t know anything about anything.

6. What would you do on the date? I would probably take him bowling, go eat some diner, walk around the town we were in at the time and just enjoy being with him.

7. Which character would you most want to be like? I would love to be like Charlie. She was amazing and nerdy, not to mention strong and confident in her own ways. I love and miss that girl.

8. Which character would you most like to see brought back from the dead? Bobby, hands down. I hate that he was killed off like tat and I know it’s been a while since we’ve seen him in the real world, I would just like to have him back as the Bobby we know.

9. Which character would you most like to punch? Meg 2.0. I hated that bitch and her voice made me cringe all the damn time. She made me want to claw my ears off so I didn’t have to hear her voice.

10. Who is your absolute favorite character? Dean, of course.

11. Which “Big Bad” do you think was the worst? Metatron. I hated him, that storyline, and the way they planed it all out. He was like an annoying kid who just wouldn’t go away no matter how hard you tried to get rid of him.

12. Which character are you most like? I’m most like Cas, probably. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing half the time

13. What death hit you the hardest? If I’m being totally honest, none have made me cry. This show lives on the character’s they kill so I’m not at all surprised when they kill off another character. But the one where I couldn’t stop thinking of was Castiel. My poor Angel baby.

14. What season finale hit you the hardest? I’m going to go back to the beginning and say Season 3 finale. Dean being in hell made my heart break.

15. What are your ten all-time favorite episodes? Season 11, episode 8 “Just My Imagination” Season 2, episode 1 “In My Time Of Dying” (and the hardest episode I have had to write) Season 11, episode 20 “Don’t Call Me Shurley” Season 10, episode 5 “Fan Fiction” Season 3, episode 11 “Mystery Spot” (I can’t wait to write this one) Season 5, episode 10 “Abandon All Hope” Season 5, episode 8 “Changing Channels” Season 4, episode 1 “Lazarus Rising” Season 6, episode 15 “The French Mistake” Season 3, episode 8 “It’s A Very Supernatural Christmas”

16. What’s been your favorite season? They all mash up in my head so I couldn’t answer this one.

17. Who is your favorite angel? Gabriel

18. Who’s your favorite demon? Ruby 1.0

19. Who’s your favorite evil character? Either Bela or Abaddon

20. Do you have any Supernatural ships? No, that isn’t my thing but if I had to chose one, it would be Sam and Eileen even though they were never together in the show.

21. Who’s your favorite supporting actor? Kim Rhodes as Jody Mills.

22. What’s your favorite quote from the show? "Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole.”

23. If you could cast one famous actor in an episode of SPN, who would you chose? Ian Somerhalder

24. If you could write your own episode, what kind of creature would you like to see included? I would love to see them work with mermaids. I know they used one once for “In My Imagination” but I would love to see them on a ship to lure one out and have this battle on sea as she tried to seduce one of the brothers.

25. Who’s your favorite girl that Dean’s hooked up with? I don’t have an answer for this one. Not because I don’t like seeing Dean with any woman but because I didn’t like the girls that ended up with him. Plus, most of them were one night stands anyways.

26. Who’s your favorite girl that Sam’s hooked up with? Sarah from Season 1 episode 19. Even though they only had a kiss, I loved them together.

27. What are some of your favorite convention moments? I’ve never been to one before and I don’t usually watch those videos so I couldn’t tell you.

28. If you were going to guest star (or be a recurring guest star) on SPN, how would you want your character described? Part of my wants her to be my alter ego: bad ass, will kick your ass if you mess with me or anyone I love, and can fight like no one’s business. But the other part of me wants it to be me. I am the shy girl who isn’t confident, has never shot a gun, loves to be alone and tries to stay out of people's way a lot. They don’t have that many characters like that.

29. What do you hope to see in the next season? I would love to see Bobby or maybe even Jo or Charlie back but I know that won’t happen. But, I never know.

30.-40. If you had to choose…

Bobby or John? Bobby, I didn’t like John

Bela or Ruby? Bela. She was better than both Ruby’s put together.

Jess or Madison? Jessica.

Jo or Lisa? Jo, I hated Lisa with all my fucking heart,

Charlie or Kevin? Charlie.

Balthazar or Ash? Ash, he was awesome and hilarious.

Cas or Crowley? Castiel.

Ben or Claire? Claire. Fuck Ben because he was just a character waiting to be taken off the show. I saw potential in Claire but not Ben.

Jody or Donna? Jody because I love that she’s like a mother figure to Sam and Dean. I love Donna but I love Jody more

Sam or Dean? Dean. I’m not the queen of Sam’s ass, you know.

@notnaturalanahi @jarpadandjensenaremyheroes @kdfrqqg I know this isn’t a lot but I am so fucking tired after a 12 hour shift that I don’t want to tag anymore.

#tag game #supernatural #spn #spn tag game #supernatural tag game

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hired-help · 7 years ago

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“Layers” Character Meme

LAYER ONE : THE OUTSIDE

Name: Charles Harris Wilson Charon

Eye Color: Bright blue

Hair Style/Color: He inherited the same ginger-red as Martha. Likes keeping it short, but can’t manage to cut it often enough for it to be as neat as he’d like. Habitually tries to finger-comb it over at intervals. Post-ghoulification, just doesn’t care. Touching it might lose him the last of it.

Height: 6′4″ (+ - I haven’t completely nailed it down, but he’s about a foot taller than LW. Mine was female and I pictured her being fairly small, so I tacked a foot onto that, but I don’t think the male models are much taller. He could be anything up to 7″ depending on how you view your LW?!)

Clothing Style: Provided he has a choice, he likes pre-war casual - going on game options only, parkstroller or spring - but the red shade is a bit much, switch it out for something lighter. He’s awkward in that he doesn’t like short sleeved shirts but he doesn’t like long either, so he has to roll long ones to the exact right place. Post-programming, he doesn’t even entertain the notion of casual clothing. Always armored, light enough not to weigh him down (his agility is already pretty poor).

Best Physical Feature: Probably his eyes. Which backfires pretty spectacularly when they’re the only thing he retains in ghoul form and they become creepy and too-real compared to the rest of him. He used to have a nice smile, but it was the rarity of it more than anything. It felt odd to smile - when he was surrounded by misery - even when it was his natural reaction to someone or something, so he had a habit of clenching his back teeth and trying to suppress it. The result was a kind of reluctant, delayed half-smile that made him look shy, and a certain type of lady liked that.

LAYER TWO: THE INSIDE

Fears: Younger: Losing his family or something happening to them, losing his own identity after he was bought by them. Older: Nothing - he’s not allowed to be afraid of things, it might impair his usefulness.

Guilty Pleasure: Younger: Stealing smokes from dead people. Slightly less guilty if they’re slavers. Older: None. Still does that, but no longer guilty. Every selfish thought he has produces a faint sense of guilt. Vague, fleeting thoughts of his own preferences, that kind of thing.

Biggest Pet Peeve[s]: Younger: More like an intense hatred; slavers pushing around people weaker than them, which he took to be women, children and the elderly. He got his ass kicked more than once trying to step in for them. Older: Employers who don’t know how to watch their own asses. He can only do so much; he’s one ghoul, not your guardian angel.

Ambition for the Future: Younger: Escape somehow, free his fellow slaves, clear out Paradise Falls so no one else ever gets taken there. After that, he never intended to go home. Fuzzy memories of cannibalism and incest no longer seem part and parcel of living. He’d rather go find his own home. Older: Haha, that’s funny.

LAYER THREE: THOUGHTS

First Thoughts Waking Up: Younger: “Collar’s still there.” Older: “Is [Employer Name] still alive?”

What They Think About the Most: Everyone else. This is pretty consistent. He can’t be called a Mom Friend at any point, but he has a natural inclination to look after anyone who needs it. Y’know... a real man protects his family, and all.

What They Think About Before Bed: Younger: He’s probably been worked to instant unconsciousness. Older: After the security of the area, his thoughts wander as far as they can. Sometimes he tries to count his employers backwards, hoping he’ll break through that strange barrier he senses somewhere in the past. Why doesn’t he remember anyone before that?

What They Think Their Best Quality Is: Younger: He knows he’s a grounding influence. He’s good at projecting a calm aura. Older: His shotgun.

LAYER FOUR: WHAT’S BETTER?

Single or Group Dates: Group dates sound fun. That takes off a lot of pressure and seriousness; and it’d be nice for a girl to have another girl to talk to, right? Maybe single dates would be better after something like that. Of course, older... neither.

To be Loved or Respected: Younger: Both. Older: Respected.

Beauty or Brains: Younger: He’d like to say “brains” but he’s an absolute sucker for pretty girls. As long as they can tell a mole rat from a deathclaw, they’re probably good. Older: Definitely brains. Even if anything else weren’t hypocritical, he’s a lot more relaxed around someone who won’t get themselves killed.

Dogs or Cats: Dogs. There aren’t supposed to be any cats left, Todd.

LAYER FIVE: DO YOU?

Lie: Younger: Rarely. Older: Never.

Believe in Yourself: Younger: Oddly, yes. He’s confident for someone with a bomb round his neck. Older: Yes, but in a much more practical sense.

Believe in Love: Younger: What’s not to believe in? Older: ...

Want Someone: Younger: Eventually. He’s a little commitment-phobic, but I think that’s understandable when you were engaged to your sister as a kid. Older: Pointless to think about. No.

LAYER SIX: EVER?

Been on Stage: No.

Done Drugs: Younger: (sheepish fidgeting, awkward smile) Older: Yeah, occasionally - but he almost sees it as medicinal. Firefight taking too long? Employer tiring out? Psycho. Finish it.

Changed Who You Were to Fit In: Never - never been able to. If he were, he might have seemed less like a vault tec ad come to life in his younger years.

LAYER SEVEN: AGE

DOB: Between 17 and 30+ depending on timeline point. I talked to Nimriel about this yesterday - I think averages out about 26, assuming we’re post-F3. But he stops counting then, since he’s technically immortal and never any closer to death. The only thing that changes anymore is the amount of unmarked skin he has left.

How Old Will You Be: ^^^

Age You Lost Your Virginity: 15. He’s a little ashamed of that now.

Does Age Matter: For what? For friends, not at all. For proper, long term partners, definitely. He’s a little shallow and won’t go much older than he is, but neither will he go much younger, and by “much”, I mean she has to be a grown woman with the maturity to match. He’s not interested in teenagers, they’re still kids, and kids shouldn’t think about that stuff. Obviously, older!Charon doesn’t give a fried fuck, his employers could be 19 or 90 as long as they’re breathing.

LAYER EIGHT: IN A BOY OR GIRL

Best Personality: Younger: Genuine, kind, caring, monogamous. Seriously, he has the out of touch mindset of a 1950s poster for a new oven, besides the intense misogyny. That said, he still thinks women have a certain sort of role; he sees it as his job to keep her and the children safe, and hers to take care of the home they put together from within. That means more making sure everyone eats more than polishing the silverware, though. It makes a little more sense in a Fallout setting; having one of them focused on defence and one on offence is pretty logical. He wouldn’t want anyone he loved to be the one getting covered in raider blood. Older: This isn’t really something that ever crosses his mind, but he does admire people with a purpose.

Best Eye Color: Doesn’t matter. He’s weak.

Best Hair Color: Again. Weak. But he likes blondes.

Best thing to do With a Partner: Younger: Never really had one for any extended period of time, if you catch my drift - but he’d probably like to travel with them. He loves seeing new places, but it’d be nicer if he wasn’t alone. Older: Survive?

LAYER NINE: FINISH THE SENTENCE

I love: [no words - just an image of an empty landscape view and the sun shining on it. seems to be the area surrounding Paradise Falls, but not viewed through a fence]

I feel: Younger: “Lucky.” (I know. But it’s the truth. He’s constantly thankful to still be alive after every owner and every fight). Older: “...”

I hide: Younger: His despair. That’s not something others ought to see, especially if it might affect them. He’s not as certain as he seems about being free one day. Older: Nothing, but he has nothing to hide, really. Just ask.

I miss: Younger: ??? How can he miss anything, when he never had it? Older: He has a vague sense that he used to be capable of a higher level of empathy and independence, but he’s not sure what that feeling is based on. If it’s true, it would be nice.

I wish: Younger: “I could get out of here.” Older: “...”

#borrowed from saltyspitfire!!!#take it from me if you want #I dont know that I should tag people its not really a tag meme but--#about;;#jesus #luckcrowned #i now cant stop picturing younger him and adolin #adolin: why dont they throw rocks at you #charlie: i hit on them one at a time dude....................#also i realised too late i share part of his name #not that i can do much about that #but i hope no one thinks its any kind of self insert because #@ everyone . im whitechapel. thats me. tired british and mechanical

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Supernatural

So I saw this at @mayalaen (who got it from @intotheruins) and it looked like fun so I decided to play too.

It’s not painfully obvious at all who my favorit character is!

1. What season did you start watching supernatural? - I had rented season one disk one twice (and loved it both times) before I was awesome enough to give me sister Season 1 for Christmas (and regretted it ever since because 1. It took over my life and 2. I gave it away instead of keeping for my self.) Season two had just started airing( I think, it was forever ago) at that time so I was a little late to the party but not that late.

2. Who was the first character you fell in love with? - Dean, and I have stayed in love with him ever since but I love most of the other once to, just not like Dean.

3. Who was a character that you hated at first but grew to love? - Meg probably, I hated her in the beginning because of the way she treated Dean.

4. Which character would you most want to be in a long-term relationship with? - The first name that popped into my head was Dean, but less face it, he has issues so I'm not sure he would be the best choices. So I would like to go back in time and pick season one Dean or young John Winchester.

5. If you could go on just one date with one character, which one would you choose? - If we take away the obvious choice (Dean) I would say Charlie.

6. What would you do on the date? - Just geek out over everything!

7. Which character would you most want to be like? - Charlie, because she is just awesome!

8. Which character would you most like to see brought back from the dead? - (aside from Castiel) Charlie, Benny, Bobby, John. If we are talking bad guys: Crowley and Yellow eyes.

9. Which character would you most like to punch? - There are so many! A side from all the bad guys (Dick, Metatron, Uriel, Zachariah, most of the Campbells, Gordon...) I would say I would like to punch Sam and Dean every once in a while. More Sam then Dean. But when they are fighting or keeping secrets for some lame reason, I would like to hit them.

10. Who is your absolute favorite character? - Aside form Dean? Charlie, Benny and Cas.

11. Which “big bad” do you think was the worst? - Crap, I have to choose? Lucifer probably wins in all over bad, but I think Azazel has taken the most from the boys. Lilith also gets a point for just creeping me out.

12. Which character are you most like? - I like to say Charlie because I'm passionate about the things I love but my friends and family might say I'm more of a Becky.

13. What death hit you the hardest? - Bobby, I was not expecting his death and I will never forgive them for killing him. Charlie was a close second.

14. What season finale hit you the hardest? - One, not only did I have to worry about if someone died but I was terrified that the Impala was ruined and would not come back. After that season two or three were I had to worry about Dean dying (plus Sam's death in season two was really sad).

15. What are your ten all-time favorite episodes? - I wonder if this is how my mother feels when I ask her which of her children she loves the most. If I have to choose (Not necessarily in the right order): 1. Pilot 2. Wendigo 3. Phantom Traveler 5. Dead in the Water 6. Devil's Trap 7. Tall Tales 8. What Is and What Should Never Be 9. Yellow Fever 10 Lazarus Rising Honourable mention: Bad Day at Black Rock, Lazarus Rising ,In the Beginning, The French Mistake, The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo, First Born and Regarding Dean.

16. What’s been your favorite season? - I absolutely love the first one. Nine is a close second.

17. Who is your favorite angel? - Castiel, Gabriel after him.

18. Who’s your favorite demon? - Crowley, yellow eyes and Cain.

19. Who’s your favorite evil character? - Old yellow eyes will always hold a special place in my heart. Close second is young Lilith, who was just creepy which I loved.

20. Do you have any supernatural ships? - Dean/Cas and Dean/Benny can't choose which one I like more.

21. Who’s your favorite supporting actor? - Ty, Felicia and Kim.

22. What’s your favorite quote from the show? - Hunting things, saving people, the family business. Then Driver picks the music, shotgun keeps his pie shut and finally That was scary!

23. If you could cast one famous actor in an episode of spn, who would you chose? - Ryan Reynolds because I love him and I think he would fit well in with those jokers. After him I would love to see Danneel Ackles as some super evil character that would go more after Dean then all the others.

24. If you could write your own episode, what kind of creature would you like to see included? - I would like something to do with Hear/See/Say No Evil, so a witch maybe?

25. Who’s your favorite girl that dean’s hooked up with? - Does the Impala count? No? Fine, Lisa probably since Dean was so happy with her being a yoga instructor.

26. Who’s your favorite girl that sam’s hooked up with? - Jessica.

27. What are some of your favorite convention moments? - The whole Jensen/Misha panels at JIB 2015 and that time Ty was trying to get Jensen to laugh.

28. If you were going to guest star (or be a recurring guest star) on spn, how would you want your character described? - I totally agree with both @intotheruins and @mayalaen that I’d love to be a completely insane villain but I would add that Dean would kill me in the end. Plus I would want to steal the Impala at least once!

29. What do you hope to see in the next season? - I would like to see more Purgatory and more hunt of the week.

30.-40. If you had to choose… Bobby or John? Bobby Bela or Ruby? Cassidy's Ruby! (Bela nr 2 and Gen's Ruby nr.3)I loved Cassidy's Ruby attitude so I was a little disappointed when Gen's Ruby didn't have quite the same attitude (Love Gen though and I admire that she wanted to make the character hers, I just missed the old one) Jess or Madison? Jess Jo or Lisa? Jo Charlie or Kevin? Charlie Balthazar or Ash? Tough one but Ash. Cas or Crowley? Cas, but I want, no NEED, a Summer of Love with Crowley every once in a while. Ben or Claire? Ben Jody or Donna? Jody Sam or Dean? If I didn't say Dean I would be lying.

Tagging: @trickstermoose67 and @lotrspnfangirl

I’m tagging my betas because I’d really love to know all your answers, but there’s no obligation to play, and if anybody else wants to play and I haven’t tagged you, please consider yourself tagged :)

#supernatural #spn #about me

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New Year's Eve Quotes

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You got to let go your dignity t’ really enjoy ’em. – Edna Ferber • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. – Helen Fielding • Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy’s Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That’s their problem. – Chris Rose • Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. – Brooks Atkinson • Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott • Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. – Jean Paul • Every New Year’s Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I’d do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn’t think of doing. Don’t ever say no. – Carl Lewis • Every time the ball drop on New Year’s Eve, We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese. – Prodigy • Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. – Charles Kettering • Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. – Henry Ward Beecher • For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – T. S. Eliot • For the millennium [New Year’s Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I’m choosing option B – Tom Morello • For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work. – Antonella Gambotto-Burke • From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. – Leonard Bernstein • Games were moved to New Year’s Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year’s Eve. – Audie Cornish • Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. – Martin Luther • God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. “You little fat-titted mediocre failure!” You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year’s Eve. – Jim Norton • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde • He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. – Farquhar McGillivray Knowles • Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what. – Debbie Harry • I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver. – Kim Kardashian • I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year. – Debbie Harry • I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year’s Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left. – Robert Orben • I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter. – Gregory Maguire • I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back. – Tucker Carlson • I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me. – Paulo Coelho • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I like to work on New Year’s Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the ‘year-end’ thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year. – Paula Poundstone • I love watching ‘Twilight Zone.’ New Year’s Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. – Gerard Way • I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anais Nin • I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. – Rick Danko • I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’. – Henry Moore • I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time. – Beth Broderick • I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‘I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,’ and I actually meant it. – Dave Grohl • I won’t be going to any New Year’s Eve parties because I think they’re naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties. – Julie Burchill • i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year’s eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance – Leonard Cohen • I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year’s Eve. – Jen Lancaster • I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder. – Robert Clark • If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year’s Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates–the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes–have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. …After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. – Janine Benyus • If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. – Cyril Cusack • If you feel compelled to give a New Year’s Eve party, don’t invite people to arrive too early or they’ll go off the boil before midnight. – Jilly Cooper • If you over plan New Year’s Eve it’s going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes. – Cate Blanchett • I’m usually at home and in bed by 10 o’clock. I do not want to be out at anybody’s New Year’s Eve party. – Andre Leon Talley • It goes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day. Is that fair to anyone who’s alone? These are all days you gotta be with someone. And if you didn’t get around to killing yourself at Christmas or New Year’s, boom! There’s Valentine’s Day. I think there should be one more after Valentine’s Day just called, ‘Who could love you?’ – Laura Kightlinger • It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine’s Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year’s Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. – Joan Bauer • It’s hard to say what I meant by “as we know it.” I’m not about to go up on a mountain on new year’s eve and wait for the lightening to strike. – Hunter S. Thompson • I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve. – Debbie Harry • Let each new year find you a better person. – Benjamin Franklin • Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson • Let the dead Past bury its dead! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. – Ann Landers • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time. – Ann Landers • Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it. – Neil Gaiman • Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. – Melody Beattie • Make your mistakes, next year and forever. – Neil Gaiman • Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. – Dave Beard • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. – Joey Lauren Adams • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! – Aleister Crowley • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! – Aleister Crowley • Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. – Ellen Goodman • My look is always glitzy for New Year’s Eve, even if I am at home. – Gloria Gaynor • My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year’s Eve, 1947) – Patricia Highsmith • My New Year’s Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That’s the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I’m just being realistic. – Tracey Emin • My New Year’s resolution was to stop saying ‘You go, girl’ to myself. – Zach Galifianakis • My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. – Ben Stiller • Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. – John Selden • New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb • New Year’s Eve always terrifies me. – Charles Bukowski • New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. – Hamilton Wright Mabie • New Year’s Eve, we’re going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. – Barbara Cook • New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. – Jay Leno • New Year’s Eve. It’s a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we’re going–whether we know it or not, would deny it or not–by the kiss of a stranger. – Jardine Libaire • New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. – Mark Twain • New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate • Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain • Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. – Jay Leno • Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. – Charles Lamb • On New Year’s Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them – Nick Hornby • On New Year’s Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn’t the first friend I’ve lost to suicide, I sure hope he’s the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis. – Jared Padalecki • One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here – from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year’s Eve ball-drop on Times Square. – Marlo Thomas • One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. – John Burroughs • Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year’s Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They’re as bad as the people who need St. Patty’s Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know. – Julie Klausner • Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. – Joan Jett • So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party – Stephen Chbosky • So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. – Neil Gaiman • Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you’ll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off. – Susan Cain • St. Patrick’s Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It’s not the biggest. It’s right behind New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party. – David Letterman • The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going. – Emily Giffin • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year’s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. – Ronald Biggs • The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. – Hartley Coleridge • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. – George William Curtis • The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. – Melody Beattie • the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. – W. H. Auden • The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. – P. J. O’Rourke • This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year’s Eve! Ladies…why don’t you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays. – Val Venis • Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz • To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. – Queen Latifah • To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon’t have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year’s Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life. – Maxine Hong Kingston • To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year’s Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class. – Sandra Cisneros • Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. – Brad Paisley • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman • We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest. – Barry Manilow • What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It’s a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It’s just a few Jews walking around going, “sup?” – Jon Stewart • When I go, I’ll take New Year’s Eve with me. – Guy Lombardo • When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He’s responsible for my favorite New Year’s memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. – Elayne Boosler • When I stopped wanting my New Year’s Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, “Happy New Year.” – Hilary Swank • Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities. – Michael Josephson • Women get a little more excited about New Year’s Eve than men do. It’s like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you’re not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date. – Jay Leno • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • You staying home all alone on New Year’s Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it’s just another set of numbers passing you by. – E. A. Bucchianeri • Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. -Steve Jobs • Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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20 Fantasy Hockey Thoughts

Every Sunday, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’.

Writers: Michael Clifford, Ian Gooding, Cam Robinson, and Dobber

1. All I’ve wanted from Anaheim for basically a year now is a line of Rickard Rakell, Ryan Getzlaf, and Ondrej Kase. They wouldn’t do it (much) last year with Corey Perry around, and this year’s been difficult on the team injury-wise. Kase started the season out of the lineup and lately it’s been Rakell. We have no firm timeline on Rakell’s return, but when he does, I would like to see these three together.

Over the last few seasons, when those three have skated together, they’ve been utterly dominant, putting up an expected goal share near 60 percent (per Corsica). Having those three together would allow the checking line of Andrew Cogliano – Ryan Kesler – Jakob Silfverberg to stay together while giving Adam Henrique a scoring winger when Perry returns. Something like this:

Rakell – Getzlaf – Kase Pontus Aberg – Henrique – Perry Cogliano – Kesler – Silfverberg

Not bad?

Of course, I say all this as a greedy owner of Kase in all my leagues. Please, Santa. (dec14)

2. One trend I’m really enjoying is the fact that there are a large group of high-scoring defensemen. Sure, we’re not going to have five or six reach 80 points, but right now it’s pretty fun seeing Morgan Rielly, Thomas Chabot, John Carlson, and Mark Giordano each with 30 points or more and each with more points than games played.

Thirteen defensemen with at least 16 games played have a points-per-game average of 0.75 or higher. Eight (50 or more games) did so last year, with the highest mark being 0.87. That was Erik Karlsson, who is not among this year’s 12, but I think will be. Karlsson has 14 points in his last 15 contests. (dec10)

3. I would like to see Dallas trade for Jeff Carter. It probably won’t be long until the fire sale in Los Angeles begins and Carter’s name is floated constantly. I know he’s off to a bad start this year but the same could be said about his entire team. He’s getting to the latter stages of his NHL career but his cap hit is very reasonable at just over $5.2-million and the Stars have both Jason Spezza and Marc Methot coming off the books after this season. It would give them a very good second-line center that the team hasn’t really had in three years. They could then justifiably move one of Jamie Benn or Alex Radulov to the second line, giving them a balanced top-six for the first time in, well, a really long time. (dec14)

4. I’ve been thinking that as much as fantasy hockey owners have drooled at Colton Parayko’s size and shot, maybe it’s time to accept that what we’ve seen from Parayko is what we’re going to get, and nothing more. For all that perceived upside, the big St. Louis defenseman has never scored more than 35 points in a season, although he’s been remarkably consistent around that total over the past three seasons.

So, Parayko scoring two goals while logging 28 minutes on Friday isn’t great timing for me to make my point. Since Alex Pietrangelo’s injury, Parayko has averaged nearly 26 minutes per game, even though he has scored only one point (another goal) over the previous five games that Petro has been out of the lineup. Both the skills and the opportunity are there, even if the Blues are as much of a mess as any team right now. Turning from fantasy to reality, I could see NHL teams engaging in a serious bidding war for Parayko’s services. (dec15)

5. If Flyers’ coach Dave Hakstol does lose his job, he can rightfully say that the team’s goaltending situation didn’t do him any favors.

Before you get excited about a Carter Hart callup, note that he is still getting used to the AHL (2.98 GAA, .903 SV%). For the sake of Hart’s long-term confidence, it’s probably best not to bring him into a situation as volatile as what the Flyers have going on.

6. Hakstol won’t be able to say he’s been able to rely on Shayne Gostisbehere, either. Ghost simply isn’t going to come anywhere close to his 65 points from last season. For a player who fires a ton of shots from the point on the power play, he has completely dried up with no goals over his last 15 games and counting. His minus-18 further deflates his value.

In case you’re thinking that this is a perfect opportunity to try Ivan Provorov on PP1, he has struggled himself this season as well (11 points in 31 games, a similar total to Ghost). We’ll have to keep an eye on how a potential coaching change could affect the fantasy values of these two blueliners. It can’t really make things any worse, as the Flyers have just one power-play goal over their last 11 games. (dec16)

7. If your league is one of the few that counts shorthanded goals, Mark Giordano will have helped you win that category this week. Gio scored his second shorthanded goal in as many games on Saturday, giving him a four-game point streak in which he has lit it up for nine points.

After back-to-back sub-40-point seasons, Giordano’s point-per-game performance must count as one of the season’s biggest surprises. The Flames’ offense may have something to do with that, as the team’s offense has improved from 2.63 GF/GP last season to 3.48 GF/GP this season. (dec16)

8. Alex Ovechkin didn’t record another hat trick on Saturday. But he did score another goal (his 29th) while taking eight shots on goal and logging 25:34 in ice time. He’s currently riding a six-game goal-scoring streak, plus a 14-game point run. (dec16)

If you read the latest 31 Thoughts or listened to the 31 Thoughts Podcast, you probably have an opinion on whether Ovechkin can eventually catch Wayne Gretzky in career goals. Those who think he can are probably in the minority, but at the very least we can conclude that at age 33 there hasn’t been much slowdown. For now, we can safely assume that another 50-goal season is well within reach, while he continues to pile on the goals, shots, and hits. (dec15)

9. Sure, we know that Connor McDavid will do his thing, like he did on Friday (two goals and an assist). Same with Leon Draisaitl (three assists). But, with another goal on Friday, Alex Chiasson now has a career-high 14 goals with five points over his last five games riding shotgun on this top line. He is currently benefiting from a 30 percent shooting accuracy. The goals may eventually turn into assists should he stay on this line, though. Keep in mind he’s only 15 percent owned while playing on a line with the NHL’s best player. (dec15)

10. Ryan Hartman should get to 20 goals this year, which is a quietly nice season for a middle-six winger. For fantasy hockey, though, the Predators’ forward is not hitting nearly as much as he has in previous seasons, having been credited with just 26 in 33 games. Each of his first two seasons saw him cruise past 110 hits. That doesn’t seem feasible this year. If the trade-off is more scoring, though, I’m sure fantasy owners will take it. (dec14)

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11. I was very high on Arizona’a Clayton Keller coming into the year and it’s not quite panning out. I mean, it’s all relative, right. He’s on a 61-point pace right now. Realistically, for a 20-year old, that’s a good season. I thought it’d be a lot higher, though. I guess he’s only one hot streak away from being a 70-point pace player; just unfortunate we haven’t really seen it yet. (dec14)

12. It’s a small thing, but I hope Habs’ Charles Hudon gets another crack with the Canadiens. He’s been sitting in the press box an awful lot for them lately. I’ve reached the point with him where I’ve accepted that he probably won’t be more than a third/fourth-line winger, but I think he’s a better third/fourth line winger than some of the players the Habs trot out regularly.

Maybe he doesn’t have the punchiness of Nicolas Deslauriers, or the ‘je ne sais quoi’ of Kenny Agostino (literally, I don’t know what they see in him), but Hudon could be a guy you can get 10-15 goals from on the fourth line with secondary power play time. That has value. More value than, say, 10 fights. (dec14)

13. Canucks’ Brock Boeser has missed some games but he’s played 22 and has scored just one power play goal. Allow me to repeat: the guy who scored 12 PP goals in his first 71 career games has one through 22 outings this season. His shot rates are consistent with his prior performances. So, what’s the deal?

Boeser has 11 goals and 19 points in 22 games. He’s landing three shots on goal per game and the data about shots and shot location on the PP seem normal. In one-year leagues, maybe it’s worth looking to see if the Boeser owner is seeing the shine wear off a little bit. Not that it’s a buy-low situation, but a chance to buy cheaper than he should be. Just a thought. (dec13)

Resting his groin injury for most of November has turned out to be beneficial for Boeser. With another goal on Saturday, Boeser now has five goals over his last four games and appears to be back to last season's form. (dec16)

14. Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad is currently on pace for 71 points, which would smash is previous career-best of 51, the only time he’s cracked 50 points. He’s on that pace despite shooting 10.3 percent, the lowest for him in any season since the lockout year. Over those five seasons, he averaged 12 percent. Why the drop in shooting percentage? The power play.

This may surprise a few people, but Zibanejad had 14 power play goals last year and he’s not on pace for even half that many this year with just three so far. I expect there will be a huge power play scoring binge coming over the final 50 games. As in, don’t be surprised if he scores 10-plus PP goals the rest of the season.

It’s another buying opportunity. Zibanejad’s production is still pretty good, and he is averaging over three shots on goal per game. It never hurts to ask the Zibanejad owner in your league what it might take to acquire him. (dec13)

15. Even though Daniel Sprong is only 21, it seemed like we had waited an eternity for him to find his way onto the Pittsburgh Penguins and make an impact playing on a line with one or more of their big guns. While that won’t happen, it doesn’t mean that it’s time to give up on him. Now in a situation with a team that really needs him, Sprong has scored three goals in five games as a Duck, including both of the team’s goals on Saturday. His ice time is also up over six minutes per game to 14 minutes, which tells you how little he had been playing in Pittsburgh. (dec16)

16. The requisite Elias Pettersson tidbit. Heading into last Tuesday’s contests, Pettersson had 15 goals and 30 points in 26 career games. Here’s a look at some other current stars and their totals after 26 contests:

Evgeni Malkin – 30 Alex Ovechkin – 29 Sidney Crosby – 28 Connor McDavid – 28 Patrick Kane – 27 Patrik Laine – 21 Johnny Gaudreau – 20 Auston Matthews – 20

(dec12)

17. It was reported that Ryan Miller will miss six weeks with a sprained MCL. The Ducks wasted no time in claiming Chad Johnson off of waivers from St Louis to provide some support to John Gibson.

Jordan Binnington is the new back-up in St. Louis. The 25-year-old has a single NHL game on his resume. He managed to wrestle the starting gig in the American league from Ville Husso, who has been projected as the up-and-comer for a few seasons. With the way the Blues are playing these days, it is conceivable that Binnington sees some ice, but the results will likely be very muted. (dec12)

18. I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago about defensemen with a couple friends. Basically, how many defensemen can we rely upon in fantasy? I don’t mean defensemen you can trot out for 200 blocked shots or whatever. I mean defensemen from whom you know you’re going to get 24 minutes a game, a couple shots, and top PP minutes. Not very many.

For that reason, I generally treat the bottom of my defense rosters in non-dynasty leagues as a revolving door. I have staples, of course, like Roman Josi or Victor Hedman, but once we get to guys like Shea Theodore, Mikhail Sergachev, or Jake Muzzin, they could find themselves on and off my roster two or three times a year. It’s about dumping them at their highest value and looking for the next guy, ad infinitum. (dec11)

19. Trading away John Carlson just because he’s due to regress a bit isn’t the point here. The point is to recognize an asset whose value will decline over the next four months compared to present-day value in order to fill holes elsewhere on a roster with a package that should return more value over those four months.

Again, keep in mind that I’m not saying to run out and trade Carlson. What I’m saying is to not expect him to be a top-3 fantasy defenseman as he’s been so far. If you can trade him as a top-3 defenseman and get back comparable future value to help fill gaps on your roster, then you do it. It’s all about the needs and the return, not necessarily about the player himself. (dec11)

20. It appears I kick off Ramblings every week with goalie talk, but it’s the most important position in fantasy hockey and it’s produced some of the weirdest results so far. Which makes it the most frustrating – and it’s a frustrating position during the best of times. In case you missed it other weeks, my mantra has been “follow the contract”, the starter will eventually get his starts back almost always unless he truly, truly sucks.

But Blues’ Jake Allen is the one starter whose terrible start I have the least faith in turning around. And for a bit there, it looked as though even he was rebounding.

Allen is signed for another two years at $4.35 million per, he’s a high draft pick (34th overall), and he’s an organization-developed talent. He’s the Golden Boy. I say this because he got 83 starts over the last 14 and a half months and despite sucking, he still gets thrown out there. (dec10)

Have a good week, folks!!

from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/20-fantasy-hockey-thoughts/20-fantasy-hockey-thoughts-54/

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flauntpage · 6 years ago

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Oh No, We Suck Again- Ten Takeaways from Vikings 23, Eagles 21

I was driving home from The Station Taphouse in Doylestown last night listening to 97.5 the Fanatic after the Eagles’ 23-21 loss.

A caller, apparently on hold for 31 minutes, finally got on the air, proclaimed he was “too drunk to talk,” apologized to Joe Tordy and Joe Staszak, then hung up.

Similar to the Philadelphia Eagles, this guy wasted a good 30 minutes, tried to rally, and ultimately fell short.

Same story, different day for the Birds, who again found a way to underwhelm and disappoint, this time on home turf against a beatable team. They made mistakes, committed penalties, failed to finish drives, and couldn’t get a defensive stop when it mattered most.

It’s hard to find a single area where this team has not regressed since last season. The offensive line has been inexplicably poor. The defense continues to give up big plays at bad times. Doug Pederson does not look like the stone cold killer we saw in 2017 and Carson Wentz does not seem to be anywhere near 100% as he continues to find his feet after the ACL injury and months-long layoff.

I don’t know if it’s a Super Bowl hangover or what, but whatever moxie this team had last year is missing. Think of it as a “mojo” or a “mettle,” the sort of intangible trait that you can’t really define, but you know exists, and it pops up when guys are required to make clutch plays or get big stops or rise to the occasion with everything on the line.

That trait is totally missing right now. In addition to committing head-scratching screw ups week-in and week-out, they just don’t have the “it” factor, to use an old cliche.

It’s true that the NFC East is extremely blah right now, so that’s the glass half-full takeaway from this game. Maybe a short turnaround against a divisional foe this Thursday gets the blood pumping again and pulls the team back to .500, but they better figure it out fast, because 9-7 gets you nothing but a postseason trip to Los Angeles and 7-9 gets you nothing at all.

1) Play calling

41 called passes to 12 called running plays isn’t going to get it done.

Jay Ajayi carried the ball eight times, Wendell Smallwood three times, and Josh Adams once on what may have been Doug’s worst call of the game.

More than just the off-balance run/pass ratio, the problem here is that the Eagles aren’t establishing the ground game early. Doug ran it just five times on 19 first-half plays, one of which was a bullshit handoff before the clock ran out during the sixth series. Take that carry away and it was four runs on 18 first half plays for a 78% to 22% pass/run ratio.

Not only does that screw up the rhythm and flow in general, but offensive linemen prefer to run block instead of pass block. When you ask Isaac Seumalo to pass protect on the first four plays of the first game he’s started this season, what do you think is going to happen? Furthermore, you cannot run play-action passes when you haven’t even established the run in the first place. If I see the Eagles line up under center and use play-action one more time my head is going to explode. If you insist on trying to misdirect defenses in that way, go back to your RPO package out of the shotgun.

Sure, Ajayi might not be 100%. Corey Clement was unavailable for this one and same thing with Darren Sproles, but Smallwood is more than capable of running the ball 6-10 times per game. This is the same situation with LeGarrette Blount not getting enough work last season, then the Eagles magically got better when he started getting more involved in the offense.

Here’s a telling quote from Ajayi after the game, via Zack Rosenblatt at NJ.com:

“Obviously we want to be able to run the ball early and start that rhythm early in the beginning of the game,” Ajayi said in the locker room after the game. “If I remember correctly we had maybe three carries at the end of the first quarter.

“With the offensive line we have on this team, running the ball like that, that doesn’t make sense to me.”

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Run the ball Doug:

2) Fringe battles and situational football

I’ve written in the past about how the Eagles generally have a lot of success winning in peripheral phases of the game – things like time of possession, third down conversion, stuff like that.

It was not the case yesterday evening:

lost time of possession, 33 minutes to 27 minutes

-1 turnover margin

2 for 9 on third down (22.2% conversion rate)

allowed Minnesota to go 4-9 on third down (36.4%)

lost 28 yards on three sacks

2 for 5 success rate in red zone

8 penalties for 52 yards

allowed a defensive touchdown

Honestly, it’s hard to believe they only fell by two points when you consider that they lost just about every fringe battle in this game. The Vikings missing a pair of field goals, which made the game seem a lot closer than maybe it actually was.

3) Mistakes

In no particular order:

Wendell Smallwood’s 3rd down drop

missed tackles in first half (corners were especially poor)

Lane Johnson getting beat easily on the Wentz fumble

Ajayi fumble

two illegal formation penalties on the offense

Jordan Matthews running out of bounds when the clock was going to stop anyway at two-minute warning

two false starts on the same drive

intentional grounding and false start on a three play, -15 yard drive after a Minnesota fumble

Similar to the above entry, this is stuff the Eagles just don’t do, or at least they didn’t do last year.

4) Personnel problems and scapegoating

Isaac Seumalo?

Swapping Isaac Seumalo for Stefen Wisniewski is going to solve the offensive line problem?

I don’t know what Doug Pederson or Jeff Stoutland have against Wis, but they jerked him around with the left guard rotation last year, which gave us a few games of Chance Warmack instead. Thing is, everybody KNEW Wisniewski was the better player and the coaching staff finally caved and ended the ridiculous platoon thing, whatever that was.

On film this year, the entire offensive line has been poor, though the tackles have been probably worse than the any of the interior linemen thus far. But you can’t bench Lane Johnson, right? That’s too risky from an optics standpoint. Wis is the safest guy to bench to send a message.

Right, so this is how Seumalo did on the first series:

Terrible series for Isaac Seumalo. Got driven back on each play. Questionable play-calling by Doug as well. Do you really want him pass blocking all 3 plays?

— Tommy Lawlor (@lawlornfl) October 7, 2018

It feels like Wisniewski is just the week five scapegoat because it’s easier to justify his benching rather than that of a bigger name player (cough, Jalen Mills).

Doug gave a non-answer when asked why he made the switch at guard:

“Obviously in fairness of both Isaac and Stefen, I want to make sure that we evaluate the film on this, and it’s going to be hard, though, because it’s a short week, short turnaround and we’re on to the Giants.

I thought initially, he played well. Isaac played well. We’ll evaluate it again and make the decision moving forward.”

Huh? Okay.

Wis had a different take:

Wisniewski: “I’m going to be honest. I’ve been playing pretty well. I really don’t think that was it. I have some theories, but I’m not going to share those publicly. …It’s frustrating. If I wasn’t a Christian, I’d probably be losing my mind."

— Zach Berman (@ZBerm) October 8, 2018

Good for him for saying that.

Also, not sure how many snaps Shelton Gibson got, but he clearly has an ability to get down the field and catch the ball. Jeffery was targeted eight times and only caught two balls, one of which came from a hard hit on a long third down pass. Dallas Goedert was not very involved on Sunday, nor was Jordan Matthews. I don’t know if Wentz isn’t seeing guys down the field or if they’re not getting open, but he’s holding the ball waaaaaaay too long and does not have the running and scrambling ability that he had pre-surgery.

5) Quotables

For what it’s worth, the common theme among the players post-game was that they were beating themselves, shooting themselves in the foot, self-inflicted mistakes, stuff like that.

A few quotes:

Jason Peters, on whether opposing defenses are doing a better job of scheming the Eagles offense:

“I can’t say that. We had mental errors. We killed ourselves a couple of times in the red zone. We got pushed back, we didn’t get points at times, and sometimes we got three points instead of seven. Right now we’re just killing ourselves.”

Zach Ertz, on the offense’s slow start:

“Not making plays, not executing. The players, we’re just not executing, and that’s the bottom line. We’re getting to the red zone, messed up consistently in the first half, then our backs are against the walls, then we start rolling. We just have to find a way to start fast. We preach it and we emphasize it during the week. It’s talked about, but we have to go out there when the game is on the line and the bullets are flying, start the game, we have to go. Our team isn’t made to – no team in the league first of all is made to – play from a deficit of 17-3. Our team, in particular, is definitely not. We want to give our defense the lead, so those guys can take off with the four guys and dominate like they always do. We just have to play better. It starts with me, I have to play better, we just have to execute.”

Malcolm Jenkins, on if he agrees with the term ‘self-inflicted’ when describing the loss:

“It’s kind of been the thing where [we’re] giving up plays when we know we shouldn’t, penalties, takeaways, turnovers, and then the lack of takeaways; most things we feel like we are doing to ourselves. We haven’t played a game yet where we felt like the team just flat out beat us. That’s the most frustrating part, but it’s up to us to correct those. Obviously with a short week it’s something that we are going to have to trust each individual to look at themselves critically, really, without practice and try to be a more disciplined team this week.”

Fair enough I guess.

6) Jalen Mills vs. Fletcher Cox

It was around 7:35 in the third quarter when Jalen Mills broke up a pair of passes to keep the Vikings out of the end zone.

Problem is, he allowed a 68-yard reception to let Minnesota into the red zone in the first place (of course the Eagles blitzed on that play and didn’t get there, but whatever).

While jawing with Adam Thielen, Fletcher Cox came over and told Mills to get back to the sideline:

Fletcher Cox had some words for Jalen Mills. #Eagles pic.twitter.com/zeRIvu8AyU

— Matt Mullin (@matt_mullin) October 7, 2018

The thing here is that Mills doesn’t understand that:

you probably should just take the moral victory and get off the field after giving up a 68 yard pass play

the optics of celebrating a pass break-up or mouthing off at an opponent look terrible WHEN JUXTAPOSED with a bad defensive play

Again, I don’t think Mills was totally horrendous on the day. He only gave up 19 yards outside of the big third quarter play and logged three PBUs in this game, but, like I wrote last week, his transgressions always look worse because he’s getting beat in open space. In this game he had zero penalties and did well in the red zone, he just got cooked badly on the one drive. Ronald Darby got beat on the Thielen touchdown, if you care about those kinds of things.

But good on Cox for telling Mills to get on with it.

7) The Michael Bennett “penalty”

Here it is, in all of its glory:

Esto fue marcado como "Rudeza al Pasador".

DE Michael Bennett (#FlyEaglesFly) llega tropezando al QB, pero no hay intención de taclearlo debajo de las rodillas.

Hasta lo sujeta para no hacer palanca.#NFL#MINvsPHI pic.twitter.com/h5g6ELEDBj

— Ivis Aburto (@IvisAburto) October 7, 2018

I get it; you can’t go low into the quarterback. But when a defensive end is rounding a blocker and getting shoved to the ground, what exactly is he supposed to do there? Nothing? Put his hands in the air and let the quarterback get away? If anything, he sort of slid down his legs and onto the ankles, where he wrapped him up and held on.

Minnesota took the 15 yard penalty and went on to score there. It was a crucial play in this game.

Bennett blew off reporters in the locker room like he always does, but Malcolm Jenkins had some good things to say about the play:

“I don’t know what he’s supposed to do. If the quarterback has the ball, I know they don’t want low hits on the quarterback, but if you’re falling down, I guess you’re supposed to just let the quarterback go. The explanation from the official was that he has to avoid that hit which means that he can’t do his job; you can’t tackle the quarterback while the quarterback has the ball.

….

What do I tell my teammate to do in that situation where he’s already falling onto the ground? The quarterback has the ball in his hands and he has to avoid the play, which literally means he has to fall and allow the quarterback to continue the down which is the antithesis of his job. It was a tough call, but we have to find a way to overcome it.”

“The antithesis of his job.” That’s an excellent way to explain how absurd it is.

Anyway, since this was a huge play in the game, I’ll drop in the entire exchange with the refereeing crew via pool reporter Reuben Frank (transcription provided by the Eagles’ PR staff):

Can you provide an explanation – at the end of the second quarter, Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett’s sack on Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins was called for roughing the passer. What did Bennett do wrong on that play?

Walt Coleman: “He went low into the quarterback’s knees with his shoulder, with force. And the rule is that you cannot hit the quarterback low at the knee area or below with force. He got him there with his shoulder, so that’s what I had as far as roughing the passer.”

There was a crowd around Cousins. If he is coming down, how does that change the interpretation?

Coleman: “It wouldn’t really change it at all. Somebody would have to basically push him and change his direction, change everything, in order for that not to be a foul. You just can’t hit the quarterback at the knee area or below and he got him with his shoulder with force. So that’s what I had as far as the roughing the passer.”

Is that a new rule or interpretation?

Coleman: “No, that’s the one that’s been there for quite some time. That’s the one they put in several years ago. So that’s not a new roughing the passer. That’s a classic. That one has been there for quite some time now.”

(A “pool reporter” is basically one media member who speaks to the official after the game on behalf of everyone else. He or she shares the quotes with other outlets. There are no traditional scrums or press conferences with referees because it would just turn into a slaughter.)

8) Doug’s best call?

I do think he made the right call to kick the field goal in the third quarter to cut the lead to 14.

Why not? There was plenty of time to get a couple of scores to tie the game, more than 18 minutes.

Then, he went for two to cut the lead to six, which meant all you needed was a field goal, stop, and field goal to tie the game, OR a touchdown and PAT to win the game.

Shrug.

I thought that was a key momentum play at the time, and the Eagles had found a rhythm and were executing during that window of the game, so I didn’t have any issue going for two at that point.

9) Doug’s worst call?

Not a fan of the pitch to Josh Adams, the Eagles’ slowest running back, on 3rd and short during the second drive.

I also was not a fan of the 4th and 1 pass in the 4th quarter, the empty backfield shotgun look, but credit to Alshon Jeffery for making a hell of a catch to move the chains. Carson Wentz would have been allowed to sneak that last year, but I have a feeling they just don’t want him doing that this year on a repaired leg.

And sweet Jesus in Heaven that was a bad challenge flag on the Stefon Diggs catch. Not only did the receiver have two feet in bounds, he might have done three toe taps before getting out of bounds. I don’t know what Doug was doing there.

However –

I didn’t have a problem with the decision to punt after the fourth quarter turnover on 4th and 20. Right then it was a six point game with 9:17 remaining, and you knew you were getting the ball back eventually in a situation where a touchdown could win it. The defense needed to make a stop and didn’t get the job done.

10) Silent broadcasting

I was watching the game at a restaurant with friends, so I couldn’t hear the broadcast very well over the speakers, but I assume Eagles fans thought Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were biased and/or sucked.

I’ve personally never had a problem with either one of them, and I would prefer to listen to that pair plus Erin Andrews vs. a large majority of the other FOX crews currently working NFL games. I would certainly take Aikman and Buck over Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, for sure.

The one thing I couldn’t wrap my head around was that it appeared as though they cut to commercial when the Panthers were about to hit that 63-yard field goal to beat the Giants. I thought the restaurant changed the channel, but nope, FOX failed to show the end of that game and went right to the Eagles jawn because of the ridiculous NFL broadcasting rules that put the networks in terrible positions.

It’s an outrage.

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Babysitting VII

Warning: brief mention of drinking, smoking, self-harm, suicide, etc. Not dwelled upon.

The brothers gaped.

They couldn’t move.

Sam tried to say something, anything, but the words wouldn’t form. Dean simply stared down at the wood slats of the porch.

Okay, so that isn’t exactly how Maison had planned for that conversation to go. She had hoped it would be more of a subtle-hint-they-figure-it-out kind of thing. Oh well, time to salvage the conversation. And their sanity.

She cleared her throat. “So,” the brothers–her brothers– looked up at her, “let me tell you my story. All of my story. The part you haven’t heard yet.”

“Well, yeah,” Dean sounds angry, but Maison believes he is really just in shock, “I think we deserve that. Don’t we, Sam?…Sam?…Sam!”

“Wha-uh um yeah,” Sam stood awkwardly and held out a shaking palm. Maison shook it. “Its nice to meet you, Maison. I’ve never had a sister before.”

Maison couldn’t help but smile at the not-so-little ray of sunshine that was trying to come to terms with the situation. Dean gave Sam a what-for look to which Sam replied with a nod towards Maison. Dean rolled his eyes and sighed dramatically, but leaned over and grudgingly shook Maison’s hand.

Dean grumbled, “Hi.”

“Hi to you too…Dean-o,” Maison said, granting the giver-of-nick-names one for himself.

“So what’s your deal?” Dean is still sulking at the news.

“What he means,” Sam interjected, “is we’re listening to everything you have to say.”

“Thanks, Sam.”

“Please, its Sammy. But just for you and Dean,” Sam teased.

Maison laughed, relaxing a little. “Okay, so you remember I mentioned an angel? Yeah, he was like my guardian angel, but I was a crappy ward. I had a lot of self-confidence and identity issues. I started drinking, smoking, anything and everything. Eventually, I started cutting. Finally, I was done. Done with it all. On top of everything, my mother died suddenly. As I put the cold barrel of that gun to my temple and started to pull the trigger, I felt a small kiss on my nose. I released the trigger. I felt another tender kiss. Then another and another, and when I looked into the mirror, I could see freckles forming across the bridge of my nose. I dropped the gun and demanded to know who was there. Before my eyes, an angel appeared. He didn’t say a word. He just held me tight until I stopped crying, realizing I almost killed myself. He gave me the talk about all things supernatural and even explained guardian angels. I’ll get into that lore later. So he stayed with me. Because of my ‘circumstances’ he was allowed to stay with me. Visible. We were together, fell in love, and then one day, he flew in with an angel blade through his calf.”

Sam and Dean waited for her to go on, completely involved in the narrative.

Maison took a shaky breath. “He said…he said he didn’t have much time. Something was wrong with purgatory and the leviathans. He had tried to help fix it, but then they were attacked by one of their own. An angel.”

The boys are piecing it together. They are understanding where Mais is going with this narrative and try to stop her, but she continues, dismissing them with a wave of her hand.

“Castiel. He had absorbed all the power of the leviathans, and he had come to kill any who did not pledge their allegiance to him. Obviously, my guardian didn’t. As he tried to flee, the blade became lodged into his calf. When he got to me, he knew it was too late. He gave me a final kiss and transferred some of his grace into a locket. He told me to give it to an animal, and that when I did, part of his being would be transferred to that animal.” Maison rubbed Rufus who had sat up and licked her neck. “So when I found Rufus two years later, I transferred the grace.” Maison smiled, “I could hear him again. He left just enough grace to be able to keep Rufus alive as long as I was and to maintain his own telepathic bond with me. So,” Maison clapped her hands together, “any questions?”

Sam asked, “What was your guardian’s name?”

Maison look at Rufus. “I promised never to say his name again. Next.”

“Sorry about your angel,” Dean said. “Cas wasn’t in his right mind.”

“I don’t blame Castiel.”

“Okay, then. This is good. This is great. I’m going to hit the sack.” And with that, Dean disappeared into the house.

Sam chuckled. “Don’t worry about it. That’s just Dean for ya.”

“He’s taking it better than I thought he would. What are your thoughts? You know–poof!–and now you know a new hunter and have a sister.”

“Baby sister,” Sam teased. “This is going to be great.”

Maison hummed and rubbed Rufus.

“Actually,” Sam said, “could you tell me more about the whole grace-transfer thing? I’ve never heard of such.”

“Honestly? It has taken some getting used to. I mean, its still him, but…not? I don’t know. I like having him around though.”

“So, not to hit too personal, but you’ve had a rough past. How did you get over it?”

“I didn’t.”

Sam was again confused by her bluntness. She must’ve seen that because she continued.

“I didn’t get over it. I worked through it.” Maison gestured at the house and clearing, “I cleared this land, built this house, work on vehicles, and more. To stay busy and not dwell on the hurt. But I also came to terms with the issues. I didn’t drink and avoid talking about it.”

“Heh,” Sam couldn’t help but smile, “don’t know why anyone would do that.”

Maison rolled her eyes and scratched behind Rufus’ ear, making his tail thump against the swing.

Sam decided he had a lot to think about. After about 15 minutes of comfortable silence spent listening to the cicadas and the owl in the woods and wrestling with the new revelations of the day, Sam excused himself and went upstairs. When he reached the loft, he was overcome with emotions. He wanted to laugh because there was Dean, in his undershirt and boxers, sprawled across the bed in his stomach, mouth wide open. Sam walked over and was about to take his picture for some easy leverage, but he stopped. He tried to remember the last time Dean had slept this peacefully. This vulnerably. Sure, at the bunker, Dean was more relaxed than at a motel, but Sam hadn’t seen him like this in…well…since before their dad went missing the first time. All those years ago.

Sam shook his head, smiling, and turned to his bed on the other side of the nightstand inbetween them. He got comfortable, but he planned to stay up a little and think about the day. That is, until his head hit the pillow, and he was out cold.

Sam dreamed that night.

His dreams were usually about the demon blood addiction.

Or Gadreel possessing his body.

Or Dean dying over and over again.

But this time, he and Dean were driving. Nowhere in particular, no destination in mind, just driving their beautiful car. They were still hunters. Their parents were still dead. But they were at peace and not worrying about monsters. It was Sam telling Dean to take this exit, and Dean saying that he knew a shortcut. It was Sam trying to change the music and Dean’s signature line 'Driver picks the music and shotgun shuts his cake hole.’ Cas pops in and says something that makes them all laugh until their faces hurt. Sam can’t stop smiling. Dean can’t keep from smiling in his dream.

Its him and Sam and Cas. All of them sitting on the hood of the impala, drinking beer, and laughing. They are overlooking the Oregon coast, the black rocks sharply contrasting the brilliantly red and orange and yellow and pink sunset. Dean took a sip and sighed. This was the life.

Maison gave Rufus a kiss on top of his head. “Thank you. They need a good rest.” Rufus whined and nudged Maison’s cheek. “And the dreams were a good touch, I will admit.”

Rufus perked his ears happily, the grace flashing his eyes blue for an instant.

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spaz8550 · 8 years ago

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Supernatural Survey

1. What season did you start watching Supernatural?

Season 1, I started with the pilot and never stopped. I’ve been obsessed since day one, lol

2. Who was the first character you fell in love with?

Sam, I was a Sam girl till he started drinking the demon blood.

3. Who was a character that you hated at first but grew to love?

Crowley, he was so unlikeable and now I’m bummed he’s not coming back as a regular for season 13.

4. Which character would you most want to be in a long-term relationship with?

Dean

5. If you could go on just one date with one character, which one would you choose?

Gabriel

6. What would you do on the date?

Something outrageous, I would leave it up to him.

7. Which character would you most want to be like?

Jody, she’s awesome!

8. Which character would you most like to see brought back from the dead?

Charlie, her death was the worse

9. Which character would you most like to punch?

Ruby

10. Who is your absolute favorite character?

Dean

11. Which “Big Bad” do you think was the worst?

Azazel

12. Which character are you most like?

Dean, that’s why he’s my favorite

13. What death hit you the hardest?

Charlie, I had a gut feeling she wasn’t coming back. Bobby also hit me hard too. When Sam and Dean have died I kind of had a feeling they were coming back but with those two I didn’t feel that way

14. What season finale hit you the hardest?

Season 7

15. What are your ten all-time favorite episodes?

Wendigo, Bedtime Stories, Lazarus Rising, Changing Channels, Weekend at Bobby's, Adventures in Babysitting, Blood Brother, King of the Damned, Fan Fiction, Ladies Drink Free

16. What’s been your favorite season?

Season 6

17. Who is your favorite angel?

Gebriel

18. Who is your favorite demon?

Crowley with Meg in a close second

19. Who is your favorite evil character?

Lucifer

20. Do you have any Supernatural ships?

Castiel and Meg

21. Who is your favorite supporting actor?

Kin Rhodes who plays Jody Mills

22. What is your favorite quote from the show?

“Driver picked the music shotgun shuts his cake hole ”

23. If you could cast one famous actor in an episode of SPN, who would you choose?

I would love to see Orlando Bloom or David Labrava on Supernatural

24. If you could write your own episode, what kind of creature would you like to see included?

Incubus/sucubus,

25. Who is your favorite girl that Dean’s hooked up with?

Lisa

26. Who is your favorite girl that Sam’s hooked up with?

Eileen Leahy, they didn’t actually hook up but I wanted them too

27. What are some of your favorite convention moments?

Jensen singing, anytime Jensen and Jared joke around

28. If you were going to guest star (or be a recurring guest star) on SPN, how would you want your character described?

Kick ass hunter from Boston, lol

29. What do you hope to see in next season?

I’m curious how Jack will factor into the show

30-40, if you had to choose….

Bobby or John? Bobby

Bela or Ruby? Bela

Jess or Madison? Madison

Jo or Lisa? Jo

Charlie or Kevin? Charlie

Balthazar or Ash? Balthazar

Cas or Crowley? Crowley

Ben or Claire? Claire

Jody or Donna? Jody

Sam or Dean? Dean

Tagging anyone and everyone that wants to do it!! Tag me so I can see what you say!!!

#supernatural survey

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viralhottopics · 8 years ago

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Maxine Waters isn’t sure why millennials love her, but she sure loves them

Image: Applewhite/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is not one to mince words.

“Get ready for impeachment,” she recently tweeted, to the tune of 104,000 likes. Waters’ tweet came after FBI Director James Comey’s testimony in front of Congress this week about the Trump campaign being investigated for their ties with Russian government officials.

“[Trump] has no self-control . . . I don’t think he can even do the cover up,” Waters (D-CA) later told me in an interview.

SEE ALSO: The 10 most iconic Maxine Waters moments

It’s the kind of combative language that’s landed Waters in trouble in the past, And yet: They’re also the reason the long-serving California congresswoman has become, at the age of 78, a rising political star among her growing millennial fanbase.

Waters joined the U.S. Congress in 1991 she’s now the most senior black woman in Congress. She was surprised to see her popularity rocket following the November election, after having spent years battling so many other important enemies, most notably Daryl Gates, the former Los Angeles police chief who handled the Rodney King case.

“Millennials are too young to connect to that,” Waters said, but the historical disconnect hasn’t stopped the growing numbers of her young admirers, who seem to connect more with Waters than leaders their own age.

But even though Waters has made plenty of headlines before, the past few months have pushed her into the spotlight for millennials and their political discussions, where she’s now known, lovingly, as “Auntie Maxine.” Of course, the congresswoman has a large and loyal fan base outside of millennials, and routinely enjoys around 70 percent of her largely liberal district’s vote. Yet, it appears to be progressive millennialspeople of color, women, and those otherwise disaffected by the Democratic party establishmentwho are driving her rise to social media prominence.

It all started when Waters walked out of a confidential meeting with FBI Director James Comey and set an entire room of reporters on fire:

Since then, her Twitter following shot up, from 33,000 to over 199,000, the largest following of any representative in the House, besides Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

And it hasn’t stopped. Waters’ Democratic colleagues generally criticize the president through the lens of politics (e.g. Trump, as a threat to liberal democratic institutions). Waters, meanwhile, throws that critique into harsh relief, by taking it several steps further: she makes Trump a personal issue that goes beyond the political. And she brings her emotions riding shotgun with her.

It’s not exactly what you’d characterize as a typical politician’s approach.

“We can’t be handling this as if it’s normal. Patting each other on the back, talking about gentle lady and gentleman,” Waters said. “It’s not a human response … I felt that way when he was running for President of United States, [bragging about] grabbing private partsI’ve never seen anything like it. And making fun of a disabled reporter. Kids might do that … I’ve never seen an adult do that.”

Image: Alex Brandon/AP/REX/Shutterstock

“We can’t be handling this as if it’s normal.”

And Waters is nothing if not someone adamant about following her rhetoric with substantial actions. She didn’t go to the president’s inauguration because it was “a waste” of her time. She didn’t attend his joint address because she couldn’t “control her enthusiasm” against him.

I never ever contemplated attending the inauguration or any activities associated w/ @realDonaldTrump. I wouldn’t waste my time.

Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) January 15, 2017

In Waters’ eyes, powerful figures like Sean Spicer shouldn’t be feared. The congresswoman says the people who make fun of Sean Spicer actually have more power than he does, so, she insists, “let’s have have fun with him while he’s here.”

REP. @MAXINEWATERS on Spicer: Nobody takes him seriously anyway… let’s have fun with him while he’s there #AMJoy https://t.co/d2WcLc6Atf

AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) February 12, 2017

Again: Not exactly the most politick of ideas. But for Waters, both the actions she’s taking and the way they’re being received add up to a pretty self-evident no-brainer.

“[Millennials] like the outspoken way that I handle dealing with the issues,” Waters said. “They like the no-holds-barred confrontation. A lot of young people don’t have a lot of faith in politicians. You can’t depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They dont speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I’m speaking differently.”

In the few months after the election, more than 8,000 millennials have told Run for Something, which recruits progressive candidates under the age of 35, that they want to run for public office. Many of these people don’t have traditional political experience, and weren’t exactly culled from a talent pool of young D.C. insiders.

Waters, who was born in Missouri as the fifth of 13 children, and who didn’t exactly come from a political dynasty herself, can identify. The congresswoman says she got her start in politics not in the state legislatures but when she worked as an assistant teacher for Head Start, the federal program focusing on early education in underserved, working-class communities. It was there that Waters learned about the impact a government program can haveif there are politicians willing to support it, and young people willing to support them, that is.

“I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start, and those who didn’t,” Waters said. “I started getting really excited about politics.”

Waters held onto that feeling all the way through college until 1976, when she decided to run for the California State Assembly. It was women, Waters stressed repeatedly, who encouraged her to run.

“They all came together to support me,” the congresswoman said.

Flashback: In 1977, I stood with Coretta Scott King at the 1st National Women’s Conference #InternationalWomensDay http://pic.twitter.com/Xr473DPyTX

Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) March 8, 2017

Even though Waters represented the “anti-establishment” and was considered an outsider activist, she won the election and proceeded to find her place in it. Once in office, she turned some of the proposals she received on the board into actual legislation.

She brought the outside world in.

The anti-establishment activism, largely led by women and people of color, that helped carry the congresswoman to power mirrors the energy Waters saw at the Women’s March. It’s a burst of young enthusiasm she hopes her own party takes advantage of.

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“Let’s bring them in. Create advisories. Create millennial events. I’m going to find millennial lawyers to see if they can bring in a new perspective,” Waters said. “It’s very important that people who are feeling the need to do something … get activated.”

Of course, the political landscape Waters grew up is very different from the one we have today. And there’s a key difference between the activism that helped bring Waters to power and the one on display at places like the Women’s March: Americans are more polarized than ever before. People of different political persuasions barely have the strength to talk to one another on Facebook.

And this is precisely the climate Waters thinks millennials can make their biggest impact inside of.

“Many of our conservatives do believe they’re more patriotic than anyone else,” Waters said. “I think it’s time for those who they don’t think are patriotic, young people, minorities, I think it’s time for them to step up and show leadership”

“There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don’t talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.”

It’s hard to see many millennials planning to organize with “the other side,” especially when the country’s two leading parties seem so hellbent on obliterating the other’s political agenda.

And you’d imagine that Waters, who once generously offered to help the conservative Tea Party “go straight to hell,” would be part of that school. After all, the very program that started her career, Head Start, is now on the Republican chopping block. More than ever before, it seems, the opposing party poses an imminent threat to the people she serves.

Yet Waters stressed that she always tries to reach out behind the scenes to those Republicans who are willing to listen. When John Boehner, the former conservative speaker of the House who Waters once called a “demon” for threatening President Barack Obama’s agenda, finally retired, she let some of that past go, and called him to tell him she was proud of him.

Spoken, seemingly, like the teacher she once was.

At the time, Boehner could barely seem to believe it.

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“I saw him when he tried to stand against [the Tea Party],” Waters said of the former congressman. “He did favor some of the work I was doing, but I let him know when he pushed it. I wanted to let him know he didn’t do anything to be ashamed of.”

It’s the kind of sensitive relationship-building Waters hopes she can pass onto her millennial fan base, who might be otherwise be resistant to reaching out. It’s not that Waters has abandoned her beliefshe’s attracted something of a reputation in Washington, as it were, for her unflappable left-wing worldviewshe just believes in operating on the most human level possible.

“I tell them when I like something they’re doing. And I let them in know in no uncertain terms when I think something they’re doing inhumane or wrong,” Waters said.

The congresswoman doesn’t see this as simple politicking. Her politics, and the anger she’s so often accused of by critics, is driven by empathy. She’s the teacher who grew up and became a congresswoman, but never seems to have left the profession. She gets disappointed when people let her down, and thrilled when they exceed her expectations. She can’t imagine operating any other way.

“I mean, I can’t make this up. I can’t contrive it. I just do what my heart tells me to do,” Waters said.

She hopes her young fans do, too.

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