#randy collin

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IMMMM BACKKKKKKK!

and me and the boys are all ready for the brand new website update lets go dancing peanuts go!

Feat my WH oc: Owen Randy and Zephyr

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I just thought of something that is really cool, I think.

I have watched Wynonna Earp since the beginning, but I finally got round to watching Supernatural, I know I'm late since people used to say they wanted a Wynonna/Supernatural crossover.

And I think I just found out how they can do this, if they want to.

In Season 13, episode 8 of Supernatural: The Scorpion and The Frog, there is a young woman who has sold her soul to a demon for an unknown reason but is saved thanks to the Winchesters.

Her name is Alice.

And since Supernatural has all sorts of stuff, including going back in time, what Gus and baby Alice got involved with something demon-like, and so an Angel sent them back in time to save them.

But get this, because of the Ghost River Triangle thing and what with there being another Gus there, Gus could not take Alice back, so she hides from Alice about the whole Revenant thing but tells her how wonderful her parents are.

So, when Gus passes on, Alice tries to find her parents, sells her soul to a demon, gets saved by the Winchesters, travels for a while, and eventually feels when the Curse over the Ghost River Triangle breaks and feels a pull in that direction that will eventually lead her home.

It would be pretty cool right?

Especially if Wynonna ran into her own daughter and can't believe she is not that much younger than Wynonna herself, Wynonna would definitely need a strong drink!

It's just a random thought since I am watching The Scorpion and The Frog episode right now.

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Sillies

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[karihighman]

THE ROOKIE 5x20 PROMO !!!!!!!!!

Isabel is back?! And so is Tamara! Aaaaand Skip Tracer Randy 😅⬆️

[bookofmac]

Deadloch is to Crime Noir as Scream is to Slashers

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Trailer Park Boys headcanons!

Ricky - Bisexual (he/him)

Julian - Gay man (he/him)

Bubbles - Nonbinary, Straight (he/they)

Sarah - Trans, Lesbian (she/they; futch/butch)

Trinity - Nonbinary, Demisexual, Straight (they/she)

Lucy - Homoflexible, Heteroflexible (she/her)

Jim Lahey, Randy, George Green, Sam Losco - [canon] Bisexual (all uses he/him)

Cory - Kenorosboy, Gay (they/he)

Trevor - Kenochoric, Gay (it/he)

Barbara - Heteroflexible, Bi Lesbian (she/her)

Jacob - Bi Darcian [<- term for hetero attraction to women] (he/him)

Treena - [Closeted] Trans, Gay (really wants to use he/him and experiment with they/them; actor is a trans guy IRL)

Thomas - Gay (he/they)

[mandy-eminem-moxley77]

It’s National Cowboy Day, here’s pics of just a few of my top favorites:

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Coercing drug users to get sterilized, rounding them up into labor camps, and executing dealers are just some of the more extreme policy ideas being floated by politicians to address the U.S.’ overdose crisis.

But experts say the proposed solutions violate human rights and won’t solve the problem.

During a recent meeting with Mineral County residents, West Virginia state Sen. Randy Smith, a Republican, said he wants to draft a bill that would give people convicted of drug crimes the option to sterilize themselves in order to receive shortened prison sentences.

“If you get caught with drugs—and it’s all voluntary, you don’t have to—but if you want to lessen your prison sentence, if you’re a man, you can get a vasectomy so you can’t produce anymore,” Smith said, according to the Cumberland Times-News.

“If you’re a woman, then you get your tubes tied, so you don’t bring any more drug babies into the system. Now, you don’t have to. If you don’t you’re going to jail for a very long time. If you volunteer for the program, then you get a lesser sentence.”

More than 107,000 Americans died of a fatal overdose in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with fentanyl and other synthetic opioids claiming the lives of over 70,000 people. West Virginia has the highest fatal drug overdose rate in the U.S. with 81.4 deaths per 100,000 people.

Smith’s suggestion is a form of eugenics—a practice of controlling the human population by reproducing “desirable” traits and breeding out those considered undesirable, often based on racist and prejudiced assumptions. As VICE News previously reported, the non-profit Project Prevention gives drug users money to get sterilized. Government-funded sterilization programs have also taken aim at people with mental illness, poor people, incarcerated people, and people of color.

“This is part of a broader trend for some people to say that certain people aren't worthy of becoming parents and that they could pass on— genetically or environmentally—certain traits that are undesirable,” said Sheila Vakharia, deputy director of research and academic engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance.

Vakharia said a eugenics-based solution writes off people with addictions as having problems that they can never overcome. It also ignores the fact that people who use drugs can be good parents, she added.

However, she thinks Smith’s suggestion is mostly “political theater.”

“A lot of politicians are grasping at straws and want to look like they're doing something, but also want to look like they're proposing new solutions,” she said.

Hostility has also been ramping up toward drug dealers. Former President Donald Trump, for example, said he wants the death penalty for everyone caught selling drugs—a position shared by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. At a Nov. 7 rally, Trump also expressed admiration for the idea of having a “quick trial” for drug sellers, that he dubiously claimed came from China.

“If they’re guilty, they are executed,” he said. “The bullet is sent to their families… It’s pretty tough stuff. There’s no games. So they have no drug problem whatsoever.”

While there has been an increase in states passing drug-induced homicide laws, through which dealers are charged with murder if they sell drugs to someone who dies, there’s no evidence that those prosecutions make a dent in the overdose crisis.

In fact, media coverage about such cases have led to spikes in overdoses because people get scared to call the authorities if someone needs help, according to a 2021 report from the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University.

Vakharia said this is an example of “individualizing the problem,” rather than addressing systemic issues.

“Many people's analysis is that we’ve got to blame individual dealers, drug transporters, and distributors because that's what the problem is, rather than actually seeing that the reason why the drug supply is so unpredictable is because of broader social, structural, and policy factors, namely prohibition, which by its definition leads to an unregulated and adulterated drug supply,” she said.

Hiawatha Collins, community and capacity building manager at National Harm Reduction Coalition, said this rhetoric ignores the fact that a lot of drug dealers are selling drugs to manage their own addictions.

“Nobody's really making a whole lot of money and getting rich doing that,” said Collins, a former marine who has used heroin in the past.

“If people had jobs, if people had education, if people had good health care, if people were able to pay their rent If he was able to pay their rent and keep food on the table—nobody wants to sell drugs.”

As the pandemic has exacerbated societal inequities, large homeless encampments have become another political flashpoint in the War on Drugs. Some policymakers have even suggested forcibly removing them as a solution—or started the process.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently launched an initiative that directs city employees, including the police, to hospitalize mentally ill people who are in public against their will, “even when there is no recent dangerous act,” per state guidelines. In Spring, the mayor also directed the city to start clearing homeless encampments, and some people who refused to leave were arrested.

Many of the encampments are most visible on the West Coast. California had cleared more than 1,250 homeless encampments between September 2021 and August 2022, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In a recent op-ed in the California Globe, Edward Ring, founder of the conservative think tank California Policy Center, wrote that people addicted to drugs “could be removed to regional camps set up in inexpensive parts of California’s urban counties.”

“To help earn their keep, they could participate in conservation projects and other character building work, and recover their sobriety, their dignity, and eventually their freedom. The truly mentally ill would have to be placed, involuntarily, in psychiatric hospitals,” Ring said, which drew comparisons to concentration camps on Twitter.

Vakharia said sending people to far-off locations will likely make it harder for those who are overdosing to get medical attention. The appeal of these proposals is that people won’t have to come face to face with visible poverty, she said.

“A lot of this is because of out of sight, out of mind. Some people just don't understand how some people struggled and we don't want to see it.”

Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences who leads the Health in Justice Action Lab, said a lot of these “fringe ideas” have been previously discredited.

“First of all, they're ineffective. Second of all, there are human rights abuses and ethical issues and moral problems with these kinds of approaches.”

But he said they’re also an indictment of mainstream political leaders who have failed to get a grip on the overdose crisis by implementing more widespread treatment and harm reduction measures, including access to methadone and safe consumption sites.

He pointed to President Joe Biden’s administration backtracking on providing funding for crack pipes as one example. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, recently rejected the idea of using any of the $2 billion the state has received in opioid settlement money from pharmaceutical companies to fund safe injection sites after widespread condemnation from the right.

In Philadelphia, harm reductionists have been trying for years to open a safe injection site but they were sued by former U.S. Attorney William McSwain because the sites are federally illegal. The case has since escalated, with the Department of Justice asking for more time to come to a “possible amicable resolution to continue” earlier this month.

“The rhetoric goes, ‘Well, what we're doing isn't working like, the scientific and quote unquote humane approach, isn't working. We need something else,’” Beletsky said. “But we never tried it, really.”

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UW-Stevens Point faculty, staff honored at University Awards

Outstanding faculty and staff members were recently recognized at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for their work during the 2023-24 academic year. The Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Service Award was given to Professor and Department of Political Science Chairwoman Jennifer Collins. She works closely with students and empowers them to explore new ideas and the world around…

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Bunny boysss come get them!

I love their interactions very much..I need to draw them more

[ntriani]

OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #27

With this new Life during quarantine playlist, Nick Triani ponders Randy Newman's standard 'I Think It's Going to Rain Today' and the emotions it evokes.

Lockdown Don’t open the borders we said. Keep wearing the masks we said. Avoid crowds we said. Stay home if feeling ill we said. Lockdown is here again. It’s tiring to discuss but our inherent greed and wish to keep the wheels of capitalism churning might do for us yet. The welcome news that a vaccine is now a reality and just around the corner is a chink of light in this most rotten of years…

Human kindness overflowing The songwriters that have benefited from the patronage of Judy Collins are too numerous (for the sake of brevity) to mention here. But let’s at least recognise Collins’ role in the careers of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan (in the US), Jimmy Webb and Randy Newman. Why Collins doesn’t have some kind of monument in her honor for music discovery is baffling, she also never had the title A&R woman attached to her name although that’s clearly what she did. The fact that in this era of rediscovery and music nostalgia Collins is not more readily identified amongst the greats of popular music is quite simply a conspiracy against women. Today I focus on a song by Randy Newman first introduced by Collins, ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today’ (or in some cases ‘I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today’).

Collins recorded a version of the song for her In My Life album from 1966, though Julius LaRosa is credited as having released a version a few months earlier. It’s Collins interpretation that became the template for the song’s subsequent ubiquity. To confirm this, LaRosa’s version doesn’t appear anywhere.

30 different versions Over the years all kinds of bands and artists of varying degrees of fame and fortune have tried to interpret ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today.’ I’ve cherry picked 3o different takes for this playlist. You may think, how crazy is that, listening to the same song so many times in a row, but please have a try because this may surprise you. Many of these interpretations are achingly similar in style, but I do think these vary enough so that you can sit through an hour and 40 minutes of the same song. The middle eight is the big variance in a lot of these versions (something about “Tin can at my feet, Think I’ll kick it down the street.”) Generally, most versions lead with piano and have string arrangements. Yet, the story changes with each voice. The latest version on this playlist is from 2020, which gives you some kind of idea of the longevity of the song.

I personally have a soft spot for the Françoise Hardy take from 1972. Her fractured English and the baroque string arrangement brings an intimate melancholy to the song. Leonard Nimoy does a great pass that pleases by not quite being right. Still, it might just be that Randy Newman’s own version from his debut album in 1968, impeccably produced by Van Dyke Parks, is the best. Newman is not the greatest singer, but has oodles of character and personality, which means the song retains its weary edge and infinite sadness (which is a bit lost on many of these takes.)

A younger generation may recognise Newman as the Toy Story soundtrack guy. That’s ok and cool. But Newman also lays a belated claim to be the pre-eminent songwriter of his generation. Recently this song has taken on a life of its own for me, reflecting collective grief and my hopes for a better day. The song also tells something about empathy and giving, even indulging our obsession of connecting our emotions to the weather. ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today’ touches a raw nerve, the weary sadness at the heart of the song can also comfort and help in getting through the ache. I believe that’s what Newman initially wanted when he wrote the song.

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Chef Randy Rucker and Chef Eli Collins Dinner Collaboration

Chef Randy Rucker and Chef Eli Collins Dinner Collaboration at River Twice on @EPassyunkAve - going to be delicious!

In 2021, River Twice Chef Randy Rucker was named Best Chef by Philadelphia Magazine. In 2022, Eli Collins, the Executive Chef of a.kitchen and a.bar, earned the prestigious honors. Now, the two are teaming up for the first time ever, joining forces in the kitchen for the next collaborative dinner in River Twice’s Hidden in Plain Sight series. The dinner will take place on Tuesday, November…

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Submissions for the hottest 80s male musicians

Go wild everyone! We have 256, potentially 516 slots to fill!

Submissions 93/256

List of submitted people

Phil Collins 

Michael Monroe

Duff McKagan

Vince Neil

Kee Marcello

Michael Sweet

Roger Taylor 

Joe Elliott

Sting

Michael Hutchence

Bono

Larry Mullen Jr.

Tom Petty

Axl Rose 

Razzle Dingley

Eddie Van Halen

Dave Mustaine

Nikki Sixx 

Morten Harket

Tommy Lee

John Deacon 

Zakk Wylde

Steven Adler

Slash 

Izzy Stradlin 

Jon Bon Jovi

Richie Sambora

Kelly Nickels

Bret Michaels

Warren Demartini

Sebastian Bach

Rachel Bolan

Jerry Harrison

Eric Brittingham

Steven Tyler

George Harrison

Brian May

Tom Keifer

Mick Mars

Paul Stanley

Joey Tempest

Jani Lane

Prince

David Bowie

Ozzy Osbourne

Sami Yaffa

Angus Young

Rikki Rockett

David Lee Roth

Bobby Dall

Robin Zander

Eric Bazilian

Jimmy Page

Kirk Hammett

James Hetfield

Jason Newsted

Morrissey

Nick Beggs

Steve Clark

Chris Lowe

Rick Savage

Robert Smith

Robbin Crosby

David Sylvian

Daryl Hall

John Oates

Rod Stewart

Billy Squier

Nasty Suicide

Geddy Lee

David Coverdale

George Lynch

Randy Rhoads

Alice Cooper

David Bryan

Steven Sweet

Freddie Mercury

Terry Hall

Stone Gossard

Nuno Bettencourt

Bruce Kulick

Leif Garett

Adam Yauch

Mike Tramp

Blixa Bargeld

Dave Vanian

Nick Cave

Gary Numan

C.C. DeVille

Bryan Adams

Eazy-E

Bob Dylan

Bernard Sumner

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Update: JerJordan edition

so, a long while back i posted about the characters i write for. well, none of those are anyone i have motivation for.

however, i have motivation for jeremy jordan considering it’s the year of jeremy with hazbin hotel, b&c proshot, and of course, the great gatsby!

i really am in a mood to write! and i really want too! i’m just struggling with ideas. currently i’m working on a jeremy jordan x actress!reader which i’m very excited for.

but please, send it requests! let me know what you want to see!

jerjordan characters i write for…

jeremy jordan as himself

jack kelly from newsies

winn schott from supergirl

jay gatsby from the great gatsby

clyde barrow from bonnie and clyde

jimmy collins from smash

jamie wellerstein from the last five years

lucifer morningstar from hazbin hotel

jim pomatter from waitress (his dr pom is my fav version)

seymour krelborn from little shop

j.m. barrie from finding neverland (criminal that he wasn’t in the bway run)

randy garrity from joyful noise

his character is spinning gold, his name is slipping my mind, but i don’t know, something about him being able to cuss freely was nice lmao

if you’re interested in a specific scenario for an imagine or headcanons, either comment or send to my ask box!

love you guys!

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[danganronpaisbest]

Danganronpa x Criminal Case AU

(Contains university district characters from season 1, season 5, and some ocs)

Main Roles

Mary Lou Hong: Protagonist (Ult.Groupie)

Bart Williams: Support (Ult.Informant)

Tess Goodwin: Antagonist (Ult.Psychiatrist)

Prolouge

Rule Breaker: Olivia Wright (Ult.Donator)

~Chapter 1~

Victim: Riley Davis (Ult.Drummer)

Blackened: Stephanie Griff (Ult.Tennis Pro)

~Chapter 2~

Victim: Sally Hooper (Ult.Actor)

Blackened: Olly Oliver (Ult.Singer)

~Chapter 3~

Victim 1: Lisa Edward's (Ult.Libarian)

Victim 2: Toby Hansen (Ult.Director)

Blackend: Samantha Collins (Ult.Fan Girl)

~Chapter 4~

Victim: Adrian Lynn (Ult.Cosplayer)

Blackened: Penelope Rivera (Ult.Influencer)

~Chapter 5~

Victim: Tess Goodwin (Ult.Psychiatrist)

Blackened: Josh Anderson (Ult.Jock)

~Chapter 6~

Survivors

Mary Lou Hong (Ult.Groupie)

Bart Williams (Ult.Informant)

Cindy McMinn (Ult.???)

Randy Lockheart (Ult.Fashion Designer)

!!Mastermind!!

Tyler Wright (Ult. Affluent Progeny)