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Olivia North by Charis Kirchheimer

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i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity

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Sixfanarts challenge, round 2:

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Happy family!!!!💓

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Carter Sherman at The Guardian:

Awash in soft, peach-colored light, the infant yawns, sticks her thumb in her mouth and flutters her eyes at the camera. As the camera pulls away from her, an umbilical cord and the fleshy tunnel surrounding the infant comes into focus. This isn’t a newborn baby: it’s a fetus in a disembodied womb. “This is Olivia,” a British female voice narrates. “Though she has yet to greet the outside world, she has already completed an amazing journey.” Say hello to “Meet Baby Olivia”, an animated video made by an American anti-abortion group that purports to depict humans’ embryonic and fetal development in an alleged effort to convert young people to the anti-abortion cause. The video – or something very close to it – will be required viewing for public school students in two states, with several more potentially on the way.

Last year, North Dakota became the first state in the nation to pass a law mandating that schools screen “Meet Baby Olivia” or a similar video. This year, Tennessee enacted its own “Meet Baby Olivia” law, requiring that “Meet Baby Olivia” or something like it be shown as part of schools’ sex education curriculum. So far in 2024, legislators in at least 10 other states have introduced bills that would require schools to show students “Meet Baby Olivia” or, in language that appears repeatedly throughout the bills, a similar “high-quality, computer-generated rendering or animation” that shows “every stage of human development inside the uterus, noting significant markers in cell growth and organ development for every significant marker of pregnancy until birth”. Including Tennessee’s legislation, bills in at least five of the states cite “Meet Baby Olivia” by name.

Classrooms are a burgeoning front in the post-Roe v Wade abortion wars, as conservative activists have increasingly intertwined their attacks on abortion with their distaste for sex ed that discusses alternatives to premarital abstinence. But medical professionals have accused the anti-abortion group behind “Meet Baby Olivia” of spreading propaganda and even misinformation in order to convert young people to their cause.

Seven of the 12 states where the bills have been introduced or passed ban almost all abortions. So far this year, state legislatures have considered at least 135 sex-ed bills – a record number, according to a CNN analysis. Sixty per cent of them would restrict sex ed in some way. Live Action has denied accusations that any sentence of “Meet Baby Olivia” is inaccurate. “‘Baby Olivia’ isn’t about abortion. It never says the word ‘abortion’,” said Noah Brandt, Live Action’s vice-president of communications. “‘Baby Olivia’ is an important place for states like Tennessee and North Dakota to turn to next, to continue to do work to educate on both biology and life, because they’ve already protected life so now it’s about teaching people when life begins and to respect that.”

A quiet success story

The emergence of the “Meet Baby Olivia” legislation comes at a precarious time for the anti-abortion movement. Since the overturning of Roe, support for abortion rights has mounted even in conservative states. Some Republicans have tried to downplay their opposition to the procedure or even supported efforts to protect it, in a sharp departure from decades of marching in lock step with the anti-abortion movement. But as the anti-abortion movement flounders, the “Meet Baby Olivia” bills are a quiet success story. Abortion opponents overturned Roe by spending years pushing for state-level abortion restrictions; if a restriction was successful in one state, lawmakers in other states would copy-paste its language and introduce their own versions. This strategy gnawed away access to abortion. In the “Meet Baby Olivia” bills, observers see a similar strategy at play – and evidence of mission creep.

“Anti-abortion, anti-sexual and [anti]-reproductive health movements have been focusing on other areas and expanding their scope in terms of what is relevant to them and what they’re working on,” said Kimya Forouzan, principal policy associate of state issues at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. Although Guttmacher tracks restrictions on sexual and reproductive health, Forouzan said that she had never before seen legislation quite like the “Meet Baby Olivia” bills.

[...] In at least two states, West Virginia and Iowa, “Meet Baby Olivia” bills passed one legislative chamber, but both state legislatures have now shuttered for the year. Most of the legislatures that introduced “Meet Baby Olivia” bills have either ended their 2024 sessions or are set to do so in the next few weeks. Compared to the rest of the country, the states that have introduced “Meet Baby Olivia” bills this year – which also include Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina – have less comprehensive sex-ed policies, according to Siecus: Sex Ed for Social Change, a decades-old organization that issues best practice guidelines for comprehensive sex ed. (None of the states garnered more than a C grade in the Siecus ranking system.) Most states do not require public school sex ed to be medically accurate, culturally appropriate or unbiased, according to Guttmacher. Only four states say that sex ed cannot promote religion.

The Guardian reports on the disturbing trend of red states pushing new bills that require the showing of the propagandistic "Baby Olivia" video by anti-abortion extremist group Live Action in classrooms as part of the right-wing war on sex ed in schools.

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Spotlight Story & Author Commentary #002

Work Title: After the Hurricane

Series: Harbor Station Stories

Author: Girl Wonder

Fandom: 9-1-1

Rating: General

Summary: The day after the big rescue, Tommy has an important date to keep with his best friend.

Link: Here

Status: 1/1 - Completed

Characters & Ships: Tommy Kinard, Original Female Character, Tommy Kinard & Original Female Character

Other Tags: Post-7x03, Fluff, Soft Tommy Kinard, Sweet Tommy Kinard, Baked Goods, Stress Baking, Pre-Relationship Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard, Good Friend Tommy Kinard, Platonic Female/Male Relationships, Male-Female Friendship

Go check it out and leave a comment or something nice. Kudos are nice but comments are like serotonin. Trust me, as long as you're not being a jerk, authors appreciate comments.

Author's Commentary: As is always the case with the series, the order presented in the series page is the most up-to-date order. As I add more to the series, this is subject to change. As of the writing of this post, this story is the fourth story posted for the series but is second chronologically. This is also the first Episode Tag chronologically in the series.

I wrote this for @kitweewoos for her birthday. She mentioned German Chocolate Cake as her favourite so it became Tommy's favourite in this fic. And this was the prompt she gave me.

I think something like Tommy/Liv softness, like them hanging out at one of their houses, playing games or watching movies, just cozy fluff

I chose Footloose as Olivia's favourite movie because it's mine and I made her enjoy the remake as well as the original because she's chill like that.

Also the ridiculous amount of stress baking I thought was just funny and I had to add it in.

As always I really enjoy developing the Tommy/Olivia friendship dynamic. And after writing about their beginnings, that's when I really felt like I could write the strengths of their friendship because this was the first story I wrote that felt like a truly fleshed out friendship.

Tagged just in case you wanted to read the Commentary if you've already the fic

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4.09 | Where The Sun Don't Shine.

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Olivia North by Charis Kirchheimer

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Olivia North

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White horse with black hat, Olivia, North Carolina, 2016.

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some characters you come across and you just know being normal isn't an option anymore

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Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are set to star in Girl From The North Country, adapted from the Tony Award-winning Broadway show of the same name inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan.

The New York Times described the Broadway play — which reimagines legendary Dylan songs, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “”Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,” “Make You Feel My Love” and “Like A Rolling Stone. — as “profoundly beautiful” and the Chicago Tribune called it “a Broadway revelation!.”

After seeing the play, Dylan said: “The play had me crying at the end. I can’t even say why. When the curtain came down, I was stunned. I really was.”

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Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are set to star in Girl From the North Country, adapted from the Tony Award-winning Broadway show of the same name inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan.

Set in 1934 against the backdrop of Duluth, MN, during the Great Depression, the drama revolves around a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope.

Things are spiraling out of control for proprietor Nick Laine (Harrelson). His wife Elizabeth (Colman) is suffering from dementia. The bank is foreclosing on their home. Their adopted daughter, Marianne (Bailey), has a closely guarded secret that no one can explain.

When escaped convict Joe Scott (Cole) seeks shelter at the guesthouse, a relationship develops between Marianne and Joe that will change everything for everyone forever in a timeless love story.

The movie adaptation is written and directed by Conor McPherson, the playwright behind the original Broadway musical.