#simon preston

[maccreadysbaby]

he’s just my baby! *points to a fictional middle aged man with identity problems and ptsd*

[24601orwhatever]

a collection of Les mis reaction / meme gifs My Friends and i have accumulated over the past year or so

[sbd-laytall]

Random Grey's Anatomy Opinions (Part Five)

Catherine's cancer coming back is an arc that has happened at least 4 times, so the emotional impact is just non-existent at this point.

Along with the last opinion, Webber needs to either die or finally retire because there's just no emotional weight to his issues anymore.

Paralleling Schmitt as chief resident to Bailey was so interesting, and I think it would've been fun to lean into that dynamic more.

Lucas and Simone are actually really wholesome, and I hope they end up together.

Grey's Anatomy is very sex-positive, which is fine (I could do without the intimate scene pretty much every episode, but this is pretty much a soap opera, so), but it's got a huge problem with people who don't really want romance or are virgins (I'm pretty sure if an ace-spec or aro-spec character walked into that hospital, the entire cast would be flabbergasted).

Yes, the show fell off after Cristina left (she was one of the best characters and was the one who made the show iconic), but the later seasons do have some really awesome storylines and characters.

Jules has two hands for a reason, and they're for holding the hands of her boyfriend and her girlfriend (I love her relationships with Blue AND Mika, okay).

The fact that so many seasons went by without giving Helm a real love interest before Mika was messed up because she deserved some of that love she desired (and she's hot as hell).

I understand that Nick is primarily Meredith's love interest, but I thought it was a shame that they moved Nick to Boston for her when he was a really great Residency Director and the writers developed a interesting mentor-mentee relationship with Lucas.

As shitty as Owen was, Burke was not much better, and Cristina deserved a love interest who was actually good to her (my vote was Teddy).

[sageandred]

There is something so soft about a black poodle and their golden retriever puppy.

[gameo-archive]

"my second gameo! i asked a couple of questions about hell scenes and about george's favourite dish 🫶🏻

cut some personal stuff but I dedicated this to fellow yappers 😁"

What were the biggest challenges when filming Hell scenes?

Do you think Edwin would stay to meet Death after talking to Simon in Hell to plead his case for leniency?

Do you have your own idea about how Edwin and Despair's friendship might play out in a potential Season 2?

What's your favourite dish to cook/eat?

[radioactive-earthshine]

Tim - Bernard

Kon - Simon

Bart - Preston

Cassie - Cissie

[mellohd]

after 7 years i finally drew fallout fanart. kinda, i drew preston like one time in 6th grade as like a "chibi" thing but i dont think iever posted it so it only exists on my dads ipad somewhere three hours away. its unfinished but um anyways preston was my favorite since i first started playing, probably because he was like the first companion you could have besides codsworth. so is dog meat, i have a mod so i can have them both and its cool hearing prestons dogmeat lines and they're both my gavorite and omg 😭

ive stricken again, a crossover of fo4 and co4 now exists and im now adding preston and dog meat to my giant crossover au im working on also thats like my favorite expression to draw david in loll same with my oc

[addictivecontradiction]

The dig, 2021

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #24: 1973

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*Turns my chair around so I can sit in it backwards*

So. You were just caught trying to cover up a major break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in order to cement your reelection.

As I alluded to last poll, one major historical event I need to mention is the Watergate scandal. The actual break-in took place the previous year, but the resulting investigations and trials won't start to take place until this year -- after Nixon's reelection. However, there aren't many songs about the incident from this time, or at least not in the charts. Most of the songs protesting Nixon tended to focus on the war.

Speaking of the Vietnam War, 1973 does not mark the end of the war, but it does mark the beginning of the United States' exit. To bring it back to the music, one of the 60's polls included the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville, a song that wasn't explicitly written about the war, but had the war projected onto it because it's a song about someone leaving home and not knowing when they're coming back. It seems fitting that one of the songs on today's poll is Tony Orlando and Dawn's Tie a Yellow Ribbon[...], a song that wasn't explicitly written about the war, but had the war projected onto it because it's a song about someone coming home and not knowing what his welcome will look like.

Soul music is continuing to have one of its golden ages, with artists like Roberta Flack and Marvin Gaye topping the charts. It's been a while since I talked about Billboard from the business side of things, but the explosion of this genre gives me a good excuse to do so. In 1973, the Billboard chart for R&B songs was changed from "Best Selling Soul Singles" to "Hot Soul Singles". This change may not sound that significant, but it becomes more notable when you see how often this title changes. This article goes more into depth about Billboard's complicated history when it comes to its representation of Black music.

Which reminds me, it's time to start talking about disco. It will reach the polls soon, I promise, but now feels like a good time to set the scene before we get to that point. As I mentioned in a previous poll, the disco scene really came out of soul. Especially Philly Soul, which had lush instrumentation that worked really well with the overall atmosphere of early disco. At this point in history, disco is still an underground subculture, and musically the line between it and soul music isn't that clear. Disco as its own genre of music that could be identified as such by the average listener will come later.

I don't usually talk about the formation of genres until they reach the charts, but I'm going to make an exception here. Because 2023 is the 50th anniversary of this genre, the genre has grown into a dominating musical force across the globe, and it's the only genre I actually studied in college.

In 1973, a Jamaican-American teenager named Clive Campbell (more widely known as DJ Kool Herc) and his sister, Cindy, started hosting parties out of their apartment in The Bronx, New York. These parties would play a lot of funk records, but he wouldn't just play them. Instead, he would play two copies of the same record on a turntable so he could extend the percussion section of the song, also called the break (which is where breakdancing comes from). This would lay the foundation for hip-hop, further expanded by artists like Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. All three of these men are still alive and I've linked interviews with some of them.

Hip-hop and rap are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Hip-hop exists both as a subculture and as a style of music. It incorporates art forms such as DJing, breakdancing, graffiti, beatboxing, rapping, and many other elements. That's why I said DJ Kool Herc helped set the foundation of hip-hop. Within early hip-hop culture, the MC was mostly there to bounce off of the DJ and keep the energy up. That isn't to discredit the difficult work of early MCs (trust me, if you were bad at it, the audience would let you know). Rap itself as an art from has a plethora of different artistic roots in Black culture, from scat singing in jazz, to various traditional West African storytelling techniques, to early 20th century gospel groups, to rhyme games, to Black radio DJs. The genre started to get more notice outside of the party scene as wordplay and flows started to expand further, especially as the first hip-hop groups started to form and the MCs became part of the "band". Like disco, hip-hop was still very much an underground subculture, but it would soon take over the nation.

It will be another 17 years before the first rap song reaches number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby). We won't see a rap song featured on these polls until 1995. But it's hip-hop's 50th birthday, and so much of modern American culture doesn't make sense without its involvement.

[therunwayarchive]

London Fashion Week Fall 2022 (Part 2)

Marques'Almeida

Matty Bovan

Mithridate

Molly Goddard

Nensi Dojaka

Paul & Joe

Paul Costelloe

Poster Girl

Simone Rocha

Yuhan Wang

[demoanais]

after seeing so many of my favorite ships go up in catastrophic flames when they should have EASILY stuck their landings, the finale of mrs. davis was extremely fulfilling on multiple levels. and NO i don't mean in a biTteRsWEet way either.

[chromet]

Calvin Klein Jeans Boxy Denim Shacket

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[belltaleheart]

Is it just me or is Preston a Simon Aumar variant

[kultlyfeknight]

~Floridian archive 🍊

[vanivanvanilla]

i was sooooooo obsessed with the pack and other og mcyt when i was younger seeing content of them makes me !!!!!!!