#phil defer

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Nobody asked, but here are some of my personal headcanons for various Lucky Luke characters hehe

Lucky Luke

☆Luke is short for Lucas, but nobody ever calls him that except his mother

☆Luke's father (who wasn't in his life, ditched before he was born) was actually an outlaw (though not a very successful one). Unlike Luke, he was a terrible shot.

☆Luke got Jolly imported from London and initially found Rantanplan as a puppy in Texas (before he became a prison "guard dog")

☆Luke is 24

☆Luke's dream vacation spot is Belgium (which is why his outfit is based off of the Belgian flag 🇧🇪)

☆ Fingers helped Luke to quit smoking (semi-canon I guess because "Fingers" was the first issue where he stopped smoking completely)

☆Luke was born in Colorado, but his true home is ✨️Texas✨️

The Daltons

☆William and Jack are identical twins, although Jack is taller because he ate healthier growing up lol. They both like to confuse other people on who is who and often switch names and pretend to be each other. Even Luke can't keep up with who is who.

☆Joe has NRP2 dwarfism, a rare type of proportional dwarfism. He is about 4' 5" due to this condition, although he has never received an official diagnosis (because it's the 1800s, lol). Averell, on the other hand, is 6' 8" and often has to bend to get through doors.

☆The only food Averell hates is chocolate

☆Joe would never admit it, but he has a hobby for stargazing and often likes to analyze constellations

☆William loves to cheat at cards while Jack prefers to play fair

☆Ages: Joe: 26, Jack and William: 24 and Averell, 22

Billy The Kid

☆Billy's full name is Henry McCarty (just like the real Billy The Kid lol), but he will smack you (or try to at least) if you call him Henry

☆Billy has a secret passion for baking. He loves sweets, especially pastries, and will often make them by the dozen

Fingers

☆Real name is Freddie (he ALWAYS spells it with the "ie", he insists)

☆Always getting his nails done, and he always has on 2 inch blinged out acrylics (another reason why they call him Fingers, lol)

☆Born in the West Indies, specifically Martinique.

☆Fingers is a traveler by heart, so he is always going to and from different countries, his current residence being the United States, his previous being France.

☆Best friends with Pat Poker, they love doing card tricks together

Pat Poker

☆Born and raised in Chicago (pre fire), which is where he learned to play cards. Cheating runs in his blood, as his father, grandfather, cousins, and siblings were also huge card sharks.

☆Builds card houses for fun with his gang

☆When he doesn't cheat, he actually hates poker just because it is too unpredictable for him, lol

☆Favorite colors are pink and purple. He has his office painted pink and has rhinestones with his initials on his gun

Others

☆Phil Defer is like 7 feet tall, even taller than Averell. He is also best friends with Elliot Belt.

☆August Oyster and Calamity Jane secretly would like to befriend each other but would NEVER admit it

☆Waldo Badminton has a blackbelt in jujutsu

☆Mad Jim spent hours in the mirror just trying to get that Lucky Luke combover right lol

☆Ma Dalton and Pa Dalton often went on robbing sprees for their date nights

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

lmao the 'working while on student visa' page on this uni website, so clearly aimed at people fr the global south, had a header that shows someone dark-skinned making a coffee, and this is the first time I saw a dark skinned person on this website so far

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Marshmallow Longtermism

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this week!

My latest column for Locus Magazine is "Marshmallow Longtermism"; it's a reflection on how conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making hard trade-offs, but are utterly lacking in these traits when it comes to climate change and inequality:

https://locusmag.com/2024/09/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longtermism/

Conservatives often root our societal ills in a childish impatience, and cast themselves as wise adults who understand that "you can't get something for nothing." Think here of the memes about lazy kids who would rather spend on avocado toast and fancy third-wave coffee rather than paying off their student loans. In this framing, poverty is a consequence of immaturity. To be a functional adult is to be sober in all things: not only does a grownup limit their intoxicant intake to head off hangovers, they also go to the gym to prevent future health problems, they save their discretionary income to cover a down-payment and student loans.

This isn't asceticism, though: it's a mature decision to delay gratification. Avocado toast is a reward for a life well-lived: once you've paid off your mortgage and put your kid through college, then you can have that oat-milk latte. This is just "sound reasoning": every day you fail to pay off your student loan represents another day of compounding interest. Pay off the loan first, and you'll save many avo toasts' worth of interest and your net toast consumption can go way, way up.

Cleaving the world into the patient (the mature, the adult, the wise) and the impatient (the childish, the foolish, the feckless) does important political work. It transforms every societal ill into a personal failing: the prisoner in the dock who stole to survive can be recast as a deficient whose partying on study-nights led to their failure to achieve the grades needed for a merit scholarship, a first-class degree, and a high-paying job.

Dividing the human race into "the wise" and "the foolish" forms an ethical basis for hierarchy. If some of us are born (or raised) for wisdom, then naturally those people should be in charge. Moreover, putting the innately foolish in charge is a recipe for disaster. The political scientist Corey Robin identifies this as the unifying belief common to every kind of conservativism: that some are born to rule, others are born to be ruled over:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

This is why conservatives are so affronted by affirmative action, whose premise is that the absence of minorities in the halls of power stems from systemic bias. For conservatives, the fact that people like themselves are running things is evidence of their own virtue and suitability for rule. In conservative canon, the act of shunting aside members of dominant groups to make space for members of disfavored minorities isn't justice, it's dangerous "virtue signaling" that puts the childish and unfit in positions of authority.

Again, this does important political work. If you are ideologically committed to deregulation, and then a giant, deregulated sea-freighter crashes into a bridge, you can avoid any discussion of re-regulating the industry by insisting that we are living in a corrupted age where the unfit are unjustly elevated to positions of authority. That bridge wasn't killed by deregulation – it's demise is the fault of the DEI hire who captained the ship:

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-dei-utah-lawmaker-phil-lyman-misinformation

The idea of a society made up of the patient and wise and the impatient and foolish is as old as Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper," but it acquired a sheen of scientific legitimacy in 1970, with Walter Mischel's legendary "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

In this experiment, kids were left alone in a locked room with a single marshmallow, after being told that they would get two marshmallows in 15 minutes, but only if they waited until them to eat the marshmallow before them. Mischel followed these kids for decades, finding that the kids who delayed gratification and got that second marshmallow did better on every axis – educational attainment, employment, and income. Adult brain-scans of these subjects revealed structural differences between the patient and the impatient.

For many years, the Stanford Marshmallow experiment has been used to validate the cleavage of humanity in the patient and wise and impatient and foolish. Those brain scans were said to reveal the biological basis for thinking of humanity's innate rulers as a superior subspecies, hidden in plain sight, destined to rule.

Then came the "replication crisis," in which numerous bedrock psychological studies from the mid 20th century were re-run by scientists whose fresh vigor disproved and/or complicated the career-defining findings of the giants of behavioral "science." When researchers re-ran Mischel's tests, they discovered an important gloss to his findings. By questioning the kids who ate the marshmallows right away, rather than waiting to get two marshmallows, they discovered that these kids weren't impatient, they were rational.

The kids who ate the marshmallows were more likely to come from poorer households. These kids had repeatedly been disappointed by the adults in their lives, who routinely broke their promises to the kids. Sometimes, this was well-intentioned, as when an economically precarious parent promised a treat, only to come up short because of an unexpected bill. Sometimes, this was just callousness, as when teachers, social workers or other authority figures fobbed these kids off with promises they knew they couldn't keep.

The marshmallow-eating kids had rationally analyzed their previous experiences and were making a sound bet that a marshmallow on the plate now was worth more than a strange adult's promise of two marshmallows. The "patient" kids who waited for the second marshmallow weren't so much patient as they were trusting: they had grown up with parents who had the kind of financial cushion that let them follow through on their promises, and who had the kind of social power that convinced other adults – teachers, etc – to follow through on their promises to their kids.

Once you understand this, the lesson of the Marshmallow Experiment is inverted. The reason two marshmallow kids thrived is that they came from privileged backgrounds: their high grades were down to private tutors, not the choice to study rather than partying. Their plum jobs and high salaries came from university and family connections, not merit. Their brain differences were the result of a life free from the chronic, extreme stress that comes with poverty.

Post-replication crisis, the moral of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment is that everyone experiences a mix of patience and impatience, but for the people born to privilege, the consequences of impatience are blunted and the rewards of patience are maximized.

Which explains a lot about how rich people actually behave. Take Charles Koch, who grew his father's coal empire a thousandfold by making long-term investments in automation. Koch is a vocal proponent of patience and long-term thinking, and is openly contemptuous of publicly traded companies because of the pressure from shareholders to give preference to short-term extraction over long-term planning. He's got a point.

Koch isn't just a fossil fuel baron, he's also a wildly successful ideologue. Koch is one of a handful of oligarchs who have transformed American politics by patiently investing in a kraken's worth of think tanks, universities, PACs, astroturf organizations, Star chambers and other world-girding tentacles. After decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, court-packing and propagandizing, the American billionaire class has seized control of the US and its institutions. Patience pays!

But Koch's longtermism is highly selective. Arguably, Charles Koch bears more personal responsibility for delaying action on the climate emergency than any other person, alive or dead. Addressing greenhouse gasses is the most grasshopper-and-the-ant-ass crisis of all. Every day we delayed doing something about this foreseeable, well-understood climate debt added sky-high compounding interest. In failing to act, we saved billions – but we stuck our future selves with trillions in debt for which no bankruptcy procedure exists.

By convincing us not to invest in retooling for renewables in order to make his billions, Koch was committing the sin of premature avocado toast, times a billion. His inability to defer gratification – which he imposed on the rest of us – means that we are likely to lose much of world's coastal cities (including the state of Florida), and will have to find trillions to cope with wildfires, zoonotic plagues, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

Koch isn't a serene Buddha whose ability to surf over his impetuous attachments qualifies him to make decisions for the rest of us. Rather, he – like everyone else – is a flawed vessel whose blind spots are just as stubborn as ours. But unlike a person whose lack of foresight leads to drug addiction and petty crimes to support their habit, Koch's flaws don't just hurt a few people, they hurt our entire species and the only planet that can support it.

The selective marshmallow patience of the rich creates problems beyond climate debt. Koch and his fellow oligarchs are, first and foremost, supporters of oligarchy, an intrinsically destabilizing political arrangement that actually threatens their fortunes. Policies that favor the wealthy are always seeking an equilibrium between instability and inequality: a rich person can either submit to having their money taxed away to build hospitals, roads and schools, or they can invest in building high walls and paying guards to keep the rest of us from building guillotines on their lawns.

Rich people gobble that marshmallow like there's no tomorrow (literally). They always overestimate how much bang they'll get for their guard-labor buck, and underestimate how determined the poors will get after watching their children die of starvation and preventable diseases.

All of us benefit from some kind of cushion from our bad judgment, but not too much. The problem isn't that wealthy people get to make a few poor choices without suffering brutal consequences – it's that they hoard this benefit. Most of us are one missed student debt payment away from penalties and interest that add twenty years to our loan, while Charles Koch can set the planet on fire and continue to act as though he was born with the special judgment that means he knows what's best for us.

On SEPTEMBER 24th, I'll be speaking IN PERSON at the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY!!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/04/deferred-gratification/#selective-foresight

Image: Mark S (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/markoz46/4864682934/

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[antimony-medusa]

hiya medusa its been a while! im curious - as someone who has been watching phil for a while now, have you noticed anything specific thats changed with how he does rp/creates his characters? ive not had the chance to see much of his qsmp stuff, but i imagine having done various smps with various levels of rp/lore, there must have been changes to his approach

Okay so there have been two big changes from DSMP to QSMP that I've noticed. The first one is just that Phil is way more willing to do lore, and to tell his own story? In DSMP he was constantly deferring to whoever the writers were for the arc and never wanted to run over any of that, so he'd be really reluctant to join RP when it wasn't "official canon" and he'd be very careful not to overstep the bounds of the story other people had written. It was always lore being written by someone else— wilbur or techno or tommy or sam or dream— I think the syndicate end is the only one he actually fully wrote? On QSMP he's WAY more open with telling his own story. With the ender king possession arc that we just had, he just role-played for I think over two hours over two different streams, and that was a story he built collaboratively with the admins, but it was also one he clearly had a hand in himself. So I would say just the willingness to roleplay and tell a story is much increased. And he's using cinematics and special Minecraft skins and voice modulators— he's going for it!

The other change is uh, the gay roleplay and flirting. If you watch things like Hexxit Homies Phil definitely used to be more comfortable playing into the relationship rp, but on DSMP he was surrounded by minors or characters he was canonically related to or creators who didn't really go for flirting on-screen (techno). So all of that stopped. And then he went to QSMP and FitMC was there, and Charlie Slime, and Etoiles, and Missa, and boy. Phil flirts back/rps back now. And will say things like "stay away from my platonic husband!" and put his bed next to someone's, and pole dance on his husband, and tell FitMC he's stolen his heart, and talk about his cock with Etoiles, and much more. You can just tell that he has way less issue with the jokes and the implications now. Which honestly makes perfect sense, playing into gay rp with someone who can legally rent a car and who is clearly delightedly making jokes about it is not the the same as with a sixteen year old. To understate the situation slightly.

[rodrigobaeza]

Morris (Maurice De Bevere): Lucky Luke et Phil Defer original art (1954)

[guiltgal]

Part 6 of my dc x pokemon crossovers: Tim Drake

Edit: fixed the post

Tim Drake-Wayne's public pokemon companions. Known to have a more sensible group.

Gift: Originally given to him as a Baltoy, now since evolved them to a Claydol, by Tim's parents after one of their archeological digs. It cares greatly for Tim and is his oldest companion.

Pheeny: Tim's Wayne eeveelution- Espeon. He was surprised to even be given an Eevee by Bruce at first. At the time he was just a kid that was helping Batman keep on an even keel, not a Wayne, so it was baffling for him. She doesn't don a costume when joining him in the field, instead using her psychic abilities to hide her presence entirely.

Vivillon (modern pattern): As usual for Wayne public facing pokemon, Tim has Vivillon. Caught in San Francisco.

Komala: A pokemon specifically meant to be cute and non-threatening for his public face. Combined with his youth and this adorable little guy, Tim is very underestimated... He does love to sleep next to the sleepy little pokemon though.

Gimmighoul (chest form): Brought with him after his father died. Represents the Drake fortune.

Klefki: Symbolic of his future (and former) position at Wayne Enterprises. Holds the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. The keys on the ring change out in the field.

Interface (regular) & Data Bank (shiny): Rotom pair. Interface follows Tim around and possesses objects as he needs, while Data Bank acts as Tim's rotom phone and does the most with him as a vigilante. Data Bank is connected to the Crobat Computer and Tim's own files.

Sus: A Bonsly that does not want to evolve. It cries to get Tim out of situations on the fly.

Spoiled: A Jigglypuff that enjoys that Tim isn't immediately put to sleep by her singing, but is capable of putting him to sleep. The whole family spoils her because they sleep well with her around.

Cyclizar/RRcycle: same as his brothers.

Red Robin's combat and support companions.

Bucky: Golbat that refuses to evolve bc doesn't want the responsibility that comes with being a Crobat in the cave. Tim's first catch in the cave as a Zubat.

Phil: Gotham Marowak and third Cubone reared by Maman. Maman presented her first daughter to Tim herself after he saved Bruce.

De-Deuce: A Gumshoos that's been with Tim since he started following Crobatman and Robin through Gotham. Kept hidden from his parents until his Father, Jack Drake, found out about Tim being Robin.

Boof: Woobat from the Batcave.

Pince: Gliscor caught while working with Ra's Al Ghul to find Bruce who was trapped in the timestream. Large for the species.

Kickflip: Raboot Tim is training up as a strong combatant for his major threats team. Also teaching him to skateboard.

Dub: Ditto bred from Kon-El's shiny ditto and the ditto that lives in the fortress of solitude. The now primary breeder pokemon for the Waynes.

Schlim: A Duosion that was attracted to Tim while he tried to clone Kon-El in his grief as a Solosis. Their arrival was just before Tim decided to stop his attempts.

Dunk: Tim accidentally created this Porygon2 when experimenting with making an investigative program to track criminal pokemon use.

Medicham: Caught during his training to be Robin.

Kryptonian Minior (Green core): Entrusted to him by Kon-El.

Celebi: became friends with Tim as he searched for Bruce. Not caught, just comes around to hang occasionally and doesn't help with threats.

Tim's "Flock". Tim's collection of bird-like pokemon.

Flea: Hawlucha (shiny). A frequent member of Tim's patrol and case team. Caught on a case. A leader among Tim's "flock" but defers to the roost ruling Corviknight, Penny, when roosting in the manor.

Flamebird: Bestowed to him as a Fletchling by Dick, this is Tim's Fletchinder. Dick gave him to him his first night as Robin officially. Permanant member of Tim's Gotham patrol team.

Big Wing: Tim's current flying mount, but will retire after his Pidgeotto evolves. Pecks criminals too much.

Red Bird: Pidgeotto that's very large for the species and adores Tim. The first flying type Tim caught himself in the wild. Will be Tim's flying mount when he evolves.

El: Staravia

Domino: Unfezant

Eye Sky: Swellow

Nazka: Xatu

[cubitodragon-moved]

Tubbo frustrates me so much and I’m very down with that. (In small doses haha, I do switch streams sometimes when he gets A Bit Much.)

Right now, his arc is so interesting. Lately, he’s actively trying to make Philza much more suspicious of long time friends and allies; he insists He Is Right on his suspicions and unless he gets concrete written proof, he won’t change it - just today, he refused to change his mind regarding Cellbit, in spite of Phil vouching for him.

He’s been actively dismissive of what’s happened prior to his getting de-iced, of what people have learned from experience over time. And he immediately leapt to investigating Bad and going behind his back, rather than approaching him to talk. Yes, he is in fact RIGHT (I love that he connected the dots, don’t get me wrong), but in immediately reacting rather than pausing and approaching things calmly, he’s managed to alienate Bad further, lost points with Phil (his attitude absolutely deserved that timeout tbh) and likely put Forever off trusting him too - who did at least take his report seriously. At the cost of Bad’s trust in him, no less.

All because Tubbo is currently trusting a Federation worker over long time residents - one who is, suspiciously, A rank..Administrator.

Just like the Cucuruchos.

He’s taking Federation documentation at face value - never mind that everything is written in corporate speak.

And while writing this all out, I realised just as importantly, Tubbo really doesn’t show proper deference to Cucurucho, regardless of what happens to him when he’s punished for misbehaviour. He’s had a real attitude that’s been coming more and more to the fore since the Eggs disappeared.

And honestly?

It makes me think of El Quackity.

After all, they both emerged from places surrounded by water, ice and black concrete..

[sporcafaccenda]

Phil Defer (art: Morris) et son modèle Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) dans "Shane".

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BFC-2 - 02 by Phil DeFer Via Flickr: See more on BFC-2 by Net-Maquettes

[geritsel]

Morris (Maurice de Bevere) - Cover of the first edition of Lucky Luke et Phil Defer, 1954.

[mim526]

Land of Confusion

There's too many men Making too many problems Can't you see This is a land of confusion? ~~ Phil Collins

It's clear as day the adult child lives in a fantasy world of illusion and delusion.

His brother's choice to stay, to live a life of service, of learning and relating to ordinary people are beneath him. Harry's children must be hidden from the world's eyes. No getting 'stuck in' working with locals on scout projects for his kids. The Wales family can walk along streets among regular people. They know about kitchens; they make cakes together at home while the literal prince and princess parents pitch in at charity kitchens across Britain. Not Harry...he's the 'Spare' don'tcha know.

William was a fool to quietly settle a legitimate electronic invasion of his privacy then donate the money to charity. Harry's going to teach the press a lesson, grind them into the ground...for Britain's benefit, of course. Because how dare the press be interested in royals or making money from the public's interest in them. Only Harry has the right to spin [what he remembers of] his life into traitorous trash talk gold dross.

Absent evidence to support his claims, Harry says he accuses the press on principle. This is one of the biggest lies of this whole farce because a man of honor and principle does not use a woman's name in court to serve his own ends. Harry says she left because of being in the press too much yet 118 times someone has counted he used her name in court filings. That is unprincipled or dishonorable behavior: that is a CAD who will use anyone and anything, even someone he purportedly loves, to get what he wants. Let's be clear, what he wants is control.

Jan Moir describes Harry's performance as "a combustible mixture of victimhood and arrogance...managing to contradict himself, behave like an entitled snob and make no sense, all at the same time." Some social media posts continue to explain reasons/motives...he's deeply flawed, damaged by childhood trauma he's never dealt with adequately, has no support to deal with, etc. Frankly, that dog won't hunt if justice is truly blind.

This is a court of law, not a therapy session or filmed interview for the purpose of airing 'his truth'. You either put up...as in hard evidence backing your claim of illegality and coherent testimony given on the court's timetable, not yours...or shut up, as in be prepared for the judge to rule against you for failing to make your case. If the justice system does not rule against you, the court of public opinion will.

It will be interesting to see in Harry's portion of the case whether more deference is given to the press per legal tradition or the royal family per cultural tradition. Harry obviously sees no irony in carping about the press' interest in royals while also ensuring his HRH and position as 'a member of the royal family' are in the court record. Nor does he disguise his contempt for "never complain, never explain" or those in his family who live(d) by that creed...including his deceased, highly respected grandparents.

Deference may be a habit learned, but it is definitely earned. The points Elizabeth and Philip earned for the BRF over 70+ years of steadfast service to Britain are diminished with Harry's every derogatory utterance and self-focused, dishonorable action. It's not enough for other working royals to make the silent case the rest of the family is different. He's stated in court under oath that the press and specific journalists are "utterly vile", the British government is "rock bottom".

According to the Daily Mail, no senior member of the BRF (Harry is 5th in line) has ever openly attacked elected politicians in the history of Britain's constitutional monarchy.

With all due respect to His Majesty, it is past time to deal with your second son. No more trips out of country or to the country to avoid being hit up for $$ when he's in town. Or appearing to appease the masses by getting Parliament to add Anne and Edward while you quietly issue letters patent formally naming Harry a Counselor of State in your absence. Or conferring titles and places in the line of succession for children whose secretive births have not been publicly and medically confirmed as all other royals in the LoS have been.

Decisively deal with him, publicly and permanently, or see your deference erode so far that not even this beautiful spirit can save the BRF.

#Harry #WitnessTestimony #MirrorGroupLawsuit

[gogandmagog]

If you had L.M. Montgomery as a pen pal and were able to have her expound on or clarify (3) Anne events or plotholes what would you choose?

(ESL so I’m apologizing if the format of this question is poor.)

No waaay, the format of this question is actually perfection and so's your English! And the question itself, too. Do you know that you’re one of my most elusive LMM mutuals? I have hardly any clues about your viewpoints… and I’d love nothing better than to be able to hand you a mic, and sit down tailor-style in front of you, while you shared your takeaways. (All this to say that I’m returning this very question to you, in your own ask-box, the very next moment after I press ‘post’ here!)

1.) About the aftermath of Walter’s ‘going away.’ Especially, was there any kind of memorial or funeral? Can the narrative catch Una up in its grasp at that moment, if there was? Montgomery communicates grief with such harrowing candour after both Matthew and Joy’s deaths (even Ruby's!)... we get these really saudade and wrenching passages that will never go stale against the readers feelings because each time they bring you to burn with the intimacy of fresh sorrow... but then here comes ‘Rilla of Ingleside,’ and we only get mild surface knowledge of Anne’s long emotional convalescence or one-line mentions of Rilla’s initial shock and her own bitter nightly weeping. The whole thing almost feels like a deferred action to me, comparatively. I don't really like books that consistently spoon-feed you tragedy because I find they typically start insisting upon themselves, but I could have used a little more detail in this particular instance. But maybe I just wish for more Walter, always!    2.) I’d grin soooo stupidly if we could get Shirley’s birth year sorted — his whole entire timeline set out in a clear and linear fashion, really. If we could also hear more about his life (before, during and after the war), I’d be riveted, I’m sure. Where Andrew Stuart has his epic on the life of Methuslela that he dreams of writing, I have my own Shirley (+Mi’kmaq girl) Blyography to dream of writing in a really white whale sort of way.

3.) Hey, and you know what? One small inconsistent thing that has always bugged me, that I’ve just now remembered, thanks to this ask... in the chapter ‘Dawn and Dusk’ in House of Dreams, we’re told that Phil, with her big golden heart, wrote Anne a congratulatory letter as she’d heard of Joy’s birth... but not of her death. But this is puzzling to me, because... exactly who would've told Phil that Joy had been born, but not that she’d passed? This chapter is titled ‘Dawn and Dusk’ because the wee white lady lives only from morning to evening. Anyone that knew of Joy’s birth, knew also of her death. Certainly, Anne wasn’t writing far-reaching announcement letters in those very short hours of gladness she was given. Gilbert knew from the first that Joy could not live the day out, so we can fairly rule him out, too. Susan and Marilla are further impossibilities, as they were made aware of the looming sorrow almost just as soon as they were aware of Joy’s arrival. The only others at the House of Dreams at that time were Doctor Dave and a nurse. It'd be absurd if it was them. So…?

[bulles-de-bd]

Lucky Luke - T08 - Phil Defer

[greywindys]

I know Pirate Radio wasn’t improv for the most part, but were any other prominent voice acting bits totally improvised, aside from the live interactions with fans? I think that swan shaped scone joke the puppets made was improv, judging by the realistic laughing after the line…improv is a lot of fun and I wish it were done more, as it is Phil’s specialty, but it makes it difficult to tell which is a genuine character moment or the actors just having a laugh! They are good at jokes, though!

I have no proof of this, but I feel like a lot of their skits leave room for improv, and likely have some improvised lines scattered throughout. Phil's probably the only VA where I was defer to his characterization of Murdoc, even if he goes off-script, since he's been voicing him for so long. He originated the role, so he essentially *is* him.

[the-bitch-files]

Great LAW & ORDER: SVU Guest Stars (And Where Else You Might Have Seen Them)

As one of the longest-running prime-time crime procedural dramas on TV, which is currently entering its 26th season, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has had its fair share of guest stars. From those actors appearing on the show before making it big, to big stars (including Oscar and Emmy winners!) popping in for a guest appearance, SVU has attracted a range of talent, just like its parent show, Law & Order.

Below is a list of various guest stars from Law & Order: SVU, split into different categories to tell you where you might have seen them before. The list is under the cut, since it's a pretty long list!

BOARDWALK EMPIRE

Michael Pitt (Jimmy Darmody) - S3xE13 "Prodigy" Paul Sparks (Mickey Doyle) - S2xE08 "Manhunt" Michael Shannon (Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller) - S6xE13 "Quarry" Christiane Seidel (Sigrid Mueller) - S12xE01 "Locum" Michael K. Williams (Chalky White) - S5xE11 "Escape" & S8xE07 "Underbelly" Paz De La Huerta (Lucy Danzinger) - S1xE18 "Chat Room" Bobby Cannavale (Gyp Rossetti) - S3xE11 "Monogamy" Patricia Arquette (Sally Wheet) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred" Brian Geraghty (Agent Warren Knox/Jim Tolliver) - S11x11 "Quickie" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer"

RIVERDALE

Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper) - S13xE09 "Lost Traveler" Casey Cott (Kevin Keller) - S18xE19 "Conversion" Skeet Ulrich (FP Jones) - S12xE03 "Behave" Marisol Nichols (Hermione Lodge) - S05xE03 "Mother" Luke Perry (Fred Andrews) - S10x01 "Trials"

CHILD STARS

Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) - S06xE01 "Birthright" Jennette McCurdy (iCarly) - S06xE11 "Contagious" Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Maleficent, Super 8) - S08xE08 "Cage" Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) - S13xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts"

MODERN FAMILY

Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) - S10xE01 "Trials" Sarah Hyland (Haley Dunphy) - S03xE01 "Repression" & S10xE12 "Hothouse" Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) - S03xE15 "Execution" Ariel Winter (Alex Dunphy) - S21xE02 "The Darkest Journey Home"

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

Natasha Lyonne (Nicky Nichols) - S13xE08 "Educated Guess" Samira Wiley (Poussey Washington) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice" Pablo Schreiber (George 'Pornstache' Mendez) - S08xE15 "Haystack" as Dan Kozlowski), S14-15 (as William Lewis) Elizabeth Rodríguez (Aleida Diaz) - S13xE14 "Home Invasions" Laura Gómez (Blanca Flores) - S16 Laverne Cox (Sophia Burset) - S09xE16 "Closet" Taryn Manning (Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Dogget) - S12xE12 "Possessed"

TEEN SHOW & MOVIE STARS

Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) - S9xE03 "Impulsive" Peter Gallagher (the OC) - S16, S17, S18, S19 & S20 James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) - S13xE20 "Father Dearest" Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) - S16xE07 "Chicago Crossover" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer" Mischa Barton (the OC) - S11xE14 "Savior" Ian Somerhalder (the Vampire Diaries) - S4xE20 "Dominance" Paul Wesley (the Vampire Diaries) - S2xE01 "Wrong is Right" & S7xE04 "Ripped" Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Scream 4, Ice Princess) - S02xE11 "Abuse" & S06xE15 "Hooked" Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Jennifer's Body) - S06xE05 "Outcry" Brittany Snow (John Tucker Must Die, Pitch Perfect) - S07xE22 "Influence" Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Party of Five, Can't Hardly Wait) - S12xE03 "Behave" Matthew Lillard (Scream, She's All That) - S10xE16 "Ballerina" Mae Whitman (the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tinker Bell, One Fine Day) - S09xE11 "Streetwise"

SITCOM STARS

Debra Messing (Will & Grace) - S12xE17 "Pursuit" Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) - S11x02 "Sugar" John Stamos (Full House) - S12xE22 "Bang" Bob Saget (Full House) - S8x09 "Choreographed" Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) - S05xE23 "Bound" Dreama Walker (Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23) - S16xE10 "Forgiving Rollins" Rainn Wilson (The Office) - S04x08 "Waste" Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) - S17E22 & E23 "Intersection Lives" & "Heartfelt Passages" Henry Winkler (Happy Days) - S03xE20 "Greed" Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers, Frasier) - S01xE03 "...Or Just Look Like One"

MCU STARS

Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) - S6xE20 "Night" Zoe Saldana (Gamora) - S5xE21 "Criminal" Alfred Molina (Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus) - S6xE20 "Night" Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter) - S08xE14 "Dependent"

TV STARS

Kyle Maclachan (Desperate Housewives, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) - S06xE06 "Conscience" & S13xE03 "Blood Brothers" Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) - S9x01 "Alternate" Bradley Whitford (the West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) - S15xE22 "Reasonable Doubt" & S24xE15 "King of the Moon" Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer, 9-1-1) - S12x03 "Behave" Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, the Mandolorian, the Last of Us) - S12xE24 "Smoked" Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) - S07x02 "Design" Wentworth Miller (The Flash, Prison Break) - S11x01 "Unstable" (as Nate Kendall), S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address" & S22x06 "the Long Arm of the Witness" (as Isaiah Holmes)

DISNEY STARS (both movie & channel)

Britt Robinson (Avalon High, Tomorrowland) - S10xE05 "Babes" Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire, Cadet Kelly) - S10xE19 "Selfish" Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) - S12E12 "Possessed" Peyton List (Jesse) - S12xE12 "Possessed" (also star of Cobra Kai!)

MOVIE STARS

Kate Mara (The Martian, Fantastic Four) - S02xE09 "Pixies" Rooney Mara (The Social Network, Carol) - S07xE20 "Fat" Sarah Paulson (Down With Love, Ocean's 8) - S11xE12 "Shadow" Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Say Anything) - S16E15 "Undercover Mother" & S16E23 "Surrendering Noah" Martin Short (Father of the Bride, Three Amigos) - S06xE18 "Pure" Alec Baldwin (Beetlejuice, Glengarry Glen Ross) - S15x18 "Criminal Stories" Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act, Ghost) - S17xE04 "Institutional Fail" Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Leave the World Behind) - S11x01 "Unstable" Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With a Vengeance, the Lion King) - S12xE13 "Mask" & S12xE20 "Totem" Adam Driver (Star Wars, Marriage Story) - S13x11 "Theatre Tricks" Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino) - four episode arc as ADA Jo Marlowe in season 11 Patricia Arquette (Bringing Out the Dead, True Romance) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred" Joan Cusack (Working Girl, Toy Story 2, Addams Family Values) - S12xE01 "Locum" Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Red Dawn, Some Kind of Wonderful) - S06xE01 "Birthright"

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

Robin Williams (Mr. Keating) - S09xE117 "Authority" Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher" Josh Charles (Knox Overstreet) - S10x302 "Confession" James Waterson (Gerard Pitts) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable" & S18xE17 "Real Fake News"

BROADWAY / THEATRE STARS

Raúl Esparza - S14-19, Rafael Barba Andy Karl - S17, Mike Dodds Alex Brightman - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private" Eve Noblezada - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private" Roger Bart - S14xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts" Billy Porter - S15xE07 "Dissonant Voices" Patti LuPone - S16xE11 "Agent Provocateur" Daveed Diggs - S17xE05 "Community Policing" & S17xE13 "Forty-One Witnesses Leslie Odom Jr. - S17xE05 "Community Policing" Laura Benanti - S13-15, Maria Grazie (Nick Amaro's wife) Jefferson Mays - S16-17, Carl Rudnick Audra Macdonald - S01xE19 "Contact" & S01xE22 "Slaves" Aaron Tviet - S11xE10 "Beef" & S13xE02 "Personal Fouls"

HOUSE M.D.

Robert Sean Leonard (James Wilson) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher" Kal Penn (Lawrence Kutner) - S08xE12 "Outsider" Peter Jacobson (Chris Taub) - S13xE23 "Rhodium Nights," S14xE01 "Lost Reputation," S14xE02 "Above Suspicion" (as Bart Ganzel), S19xE01 "Gone Fishin'" & S19xE13 "The Undiscovered Country" (as Randy Dworkin) Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas) - S08xE16 "Philadelphia," S08x19 "Florida," S08x22 "Screwed," S13xE16 "Child's Welfare," & S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address" Zena Grey (Ruby) - S04xE15 "Pandora" Andre Braugher (Darryl Nolan) - 6 episodes across seasons 13, 14 & 16

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

Marcia Cross (Bree Van de Kamp) - S16xE16 "December Solstice" Kyle McLachlan (Orson Hodge) - S06xE06 "Conscience," S13xE03 "Blood Brothers" Mark Moses (Paul Young) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable," S18xE16 "The Newsroom" J.C. MacKenzie (Walter Bierlich) - S7-24 as Brian Ackerman in S7 & S12, and Counsellor Richard Price in S18 & S23-24 Cody Kasch (Zach Young) - S07xE06 "Raw" Richard Burgi (Karl Mayer) - S11xE15 "Confidential"

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Phil Defer (phonetically"Fil de Fer" in french or "Phil Wire" in english translation), a notorious gunslinger is nicknamed "Le Faucheux", which can be both a reference to the arachnid, due to the pistolero's wiry frame *and* the brand of firearms "Lefaucheux" .