#spencer bledsoe

[jeremycollinsstan]

drew is the second coming of spencer bledsoe

[patientlibrarian]

Friday August 23

shades: pics of the day:

From Voyage fan site on YouTube

I confess I did/do have quite a thing for the actor playing Robert Todd Lincoln (Neal Bledsoe) in this episode and I think quite a lot is said in the scene (from 1.44) where he walks directly to Lucy to say that his father is dead. Her reaction and reaching for his hand rather hint to some feelings that have been addressed well in fan fiction. I love all their scenes together.

And now with us, Chapter 26 of TRLT!!!!!

The Road Less Traveled

Chapter 26: Quite The Team

Word count = 14,799

Lucy looks forward to returning to the safe house to finally reunite with her sister, but she and Garcia run into some complications on the way.

The Road Less Traveled - Chapter 26 - BattleshipGarcy - Timeless (TV 2016) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org|Organization for Transformative Works

Notes:

It's been since last November since a new chapter was published. If you'd like to read a "Previously on TRLT" recap, click here.

As always, kudos are wonderful, and comments bring me so much joy. I thank you in advance, and will reply to your comments on AO3 as soon as I can 😊

I keep the tentative "publish to AO3" dates up-to-date on TRLT's AO3 page, on battleshipgarcy.com, as well as in this pinned post on Tumblr. The plan is to publish a new chapter in October, November, and December. Then (🤞) one chapter every couple of weeks starting in February 2025 until the story's final chapter.

All remaining chapters are written, and only need to go through the editing process. And I so cannot wait to bring them to you ❤

#battleshipgarcy#trlt#trlt new chapter#timeless#garcy#garcia flynn#lucy preston#carol preston#maria thompkins flynn#amy preston#karl#jiya marri#rufus carlin#stanley fisher#noah#garcy fanfic#timeless fanfic#fanfic#goran višnjić#goran visnjic#tree huggers#abigail spencer

Hello everyone, everywhere, it's a bit cooler here in my part of the UK today and a welcome relief. Hope your day goes as you would wish it to.

[artisticlegshake]

24SEVEN PROVO RESULTS 2023

JUNIOR SOLOS:

1st Tessa Ohran - CSPAS  STC!

1st Anistyn Larsen - CSPAS  STC!

1st Kylie Lawrence - CSPAS  STC!

2nd Kazuma Brailsford - HONOLULU DANCE  STC!

2nd Sara von Rotz - P21  STC!

2nd Violet Schwarz - CSPAS  STC!

3rd Patience Hughes - CLUB  STC!

3rd Delilah Hewitt - THE ACADEMY  STC!

3rd Rory Frye - CSPAS  STC!

4th Hadlee Heriford - CSPAS  STC!

4th Goldie Ford - CSPAS  STC!

4th Payton Harrison - CSPAS  STC!

5th Claire Pistor - ARTISTIC DANCE PROJECT  STC!

5th Cora Spencer - ARTISTIC DANCE PROJECT STC!

5th Savannah Gilliam - CSPAS  STC!

5th Liv Woodley - HI-LIGHT  STC!

6th Ali Jaramillo - DYE’N 2 DANCE  STC!

6th Monroe Miner - THE WINNER SCHOOL  STC!

6th Kelsey Diaz - ARTISTIC DANCE PROJECT STC!

6th Aylannah Ames - THE DANCE FACTORY  STC!

6th Jillian Mahan - P21  STC!

6th Eve’Lynne Hew-Len - CSPAS  STC!

7th Emmy Bezzant - CSPAS

7th Capri Jackson - CSPAS

7th Ellena Shi - CAA

8th Elliana Wilson - CSPAS

8th London Smith - CSPAS

9th Kinley Rixon - DIPAC

9th Lexi Whitehead - THE DANCE PROJECT SLC

9th Ava Bledsoe - CAA

9th Chloe Midget - CSPAS

9th Jane Johnson - THE WINNER SCHOOL

10th Ava Johnson - UTAH DANCE ARTISTS

10th Brooke Patterson - ARTISTIC DANCE PROJECT

10th Gigi Simpson - HI-LIGHT

10th Holland Hartpence - CAA

10th Colbie Cutler - EMOTION

JUNIOR DUO/TRIOS:

1st A River Runs Through Me - CSPAS  STC!

2nd The Sun - EMOTION

3rd Watching Me - HI-LIGHT

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory || Entertainers Pt.2 (O-Z)

O

Octavia Spencer | Ola Ray |  Olunike Adeliyi |  Olivia Sang |  Omono Okojie |  Oprah Winfrey |  Oyin Oladejo |  Ozioma Akagha  

P

Patina Miller | Philomena Kwao |  Phina Oruche | Phylicia Benn |  Phylicia Rashad |  Pippa Bennett Warner |  Precious Adams | Precious Mustapha |  Pretty Tye  

Q

Queen Quet |  Quiana Welch |  Quinta Brunson |  Quvenzhane Wallis  

R

Raigan Harris |  Rashida Renée | Reagan Gomez |  Regina King |  Regina Van Helvert |  Renee Elise Goldsberry |  Retta |  Riele Downs |  Ronke Adekoluejo |  Rose Jackson | Ruth (IAmBabeRuth/BabeRuthTV) |  Rutina Wesley |  Ryan Destiny

S

Saidah Arrika Ekulona |  Samantha Liana Cole |  Samantha Marie Ware | Sandra Dede (sandramabelle) | Saniyya Sidney |  Sara Martins |  Sasha Lambon |  Sasheer Zamata |  Sese Madaki Ali | Shahadi Wright Joseph |  Shanice Williams |  Shannon Thornton |  Sharon Duncan Brewster |  Sharon Ferguson |   Sharon Pierre-Louis |  Shea Couleé | Sherri Shepherd | Sheryl Lee Ralph | Shyko Amos |  Sibongile Mlambo |  Sierra McClain |  Simbi Khali |  Simona Brown |  Simone Biles |  Simone Missick |  Sindi-Dlathu |  Skai Jackson |  Skye P. Marshall |  Sokhna Cisse |  Sokhna Niane | Sonya Eddy | Sophia Walker | Stefanee Martin |  Stella Okech |  Subah Koj |  Sufe Bradshaw |  Susan Wokoma |  Symphony Sanders  

T

T’Nia Miller |  Tamara Dobson | Tamara Lawrance |  Tamera Mclaughlin (ayethatsmera) Dwarfism Community | Tanerélle |  Tanedra Howard |   Tanisha Scott |  Tanya Moodie |  Tanyell Waivers |  Taral Hicks |  Tarana Burke |  Tempestt Bledsoe |   Tenika Davis | Teresa Graves |  Terri J. Vaughn |  Teshi Thomas |  Teyonah Parris | Theresa Fractale | Thishiwe Ziqubu |  Tichina Arnold | Tiffany Mann | Tonya Pinkens |  Tracey Ifeachor |  Tricia Akello | Trina McGee |  Trina Parks |  Tyra Ferrell |

U-V

Vanessa Bell Calloway |  Vanessa Lee Chester |  Vanessa Gyimah | Vanessa Nakat |   Vanesu Samunyai (Kyo Ra) | Vanessa Estelle Williams |  Vaneza Oliveira |  Veronica S. Taylor |  Viola Davis |  Vivica Ifeoma  

W

Wakeema Hollis |  Whitney Houston |  Whoopi Goldberg |  Wunmi Mosaku  

X

Xosha Roquemore  

Y

Yaani King | Yacine Diop | Yandeh Sallah | YanjuSoFine (Yanju Stephens/Adeyanju Adeleleke) | Yanna McIntosh |  Yaya Dacosta |  Yaz |  Yetide Badaki |    Yolonda Ross    |  Yusra Warsama |  Yvonne Okoro | Yvonne Orji

Z

Zainab Johnson |  Zelda Harris |  Zenobia |  Zethu Dlomo |  Zhariah Hubbard | Ziwe Fumudoh |  Zola Williams |   Zozibini Tunzi

#to add to darkskin directory  

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

NWS MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… N BLEDSOE COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE

UNTIL 600 PM CDT.

AT 534 PM CDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPENCER, MOVING SE AT 30 MPH. HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

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[fentw]

SURVIVOR CAGAYAN - BRANTSTEELE EDITION

Link: https://brantsteele.com/survivor/28/r.php?c=TZkWiK4E

--------------------------------SPOILERS----------------------------------

Maybe the best season ever!

Kass McQuillen Winner Finalist 7 Votes To Win

Tony Vlachos 2nd Place Finalist 2 Votes To Win

Woo Hwang 3rd Place Juror 1 Vote

Trish Hegarty 4th Place Juror 2-2 Vote 1-1 Revote Tiebreaker

Jeremiah Wood 5th Place Juror 3-1-1* Vote

Alexis Maxwell 6th Place Juror 2-2*-2* Vote

Tasha Fox 7th Place Juror 4*-2-1 Vote

LJ McKanas 8th Place Juror 6*-2 Vote

Spencer Bledsoe 9th Place Juror 4-4-1 Vote 4-3 Revote

Jefra Bland 10th Place Juror 5-4-1 Vote

David Samson 11th Place Juror 7-4 Vote

Garrett Adelstein 12th Place Pre-Juror 2-2-2* Vote 3-1 Revote

J'Tia Taylor 13th Place Pre-Juror 4-3 Vote

Lindsey Ogle 14th Place Pre-Juror 4*-3 Vote

Cliff Robinson 15th Place Pre-Juror 3-2 Vote

Sarah Lacina 16th Place Pre-Juror 4-2 Vote

Brice Johnston 17th Place Pre-Juror 3*-2 Vote

Morgan McLeod 18th Place Pre-Juror 5-1 Vote

[transportationunknown]

Bringing Transport into Black Geographies: Policies, Protests, and Planning in Johannesburg (wood, 2023)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2022.2151407

Why I read this paper: For despite the explicit centering of Black people/Blackness/Black existence with place and space, I am surprised to see so few literature regarding not just Black mobility, but Black modality. Because transportation was used as an explicit method of segregation. The Black geographies is a relatively new subdiscipline that appears to have not gained its legs until the mid 2010s, so there is some catching up to do. Because I am interested in, as I’ve come to learn, the “geographies of Blackness”, I want to understand how a Black geographies researcher thinks about transportation, even if my focus is on Black Americans and this article is grounded in Johannesburg. 

Crux of paper:

“This article contributes to the burgeoning dialogue in Black geographies by adding a focus on transport.” (p. 1)

The three aims of the paper:

This article aims to bridge the lacuna between Black geographies and African studies. 

Second, the article is motivated by calls to bring recent debates on the urban into Black geographies. 

This article therefore aims to integrate the theoretical approaches of Black geographies with African and urban studies. 

This paper focuses more on the practice through integrating black geographies and transportation, but does draw upon the theoretical foundations that have shaped the discipline: whiteness in geography, the creation of in the black geographies, and finally a link to the history of transport planning in Johannesburg. During Apartheid era, transportation was used as a tool for social division and “discipline” in Johannesburg. In the postapartheid era, transportation is being used now for “social and spatial transformation.” (p. 2)

Wood focuses on three "tactics" to speak to the "tensions between race, space, and transport":

Study the policy and legal system

Consider community action and protest

Examine informal transport systems that emerge in response to urban disinvestment and marginalization (p.2)

The article is grounded by three examples, each one relating to the three tactics above:

Legalization of separate buses in by the 1934 Spencer Commission

Public response to racial inequities through the 1957 Alexandra bus boycotts

Planning of the informal mini-bus/taxi industry in the 1980s

Key/New terminology:

“Black geographies” (McKittrick 2006; Gilmore 2007) - refers to “black agentic practices of analyzing and actively creating space and place” (Bledsoe 2021, 1017)

“geographies of blackness” (Madera 2015; M. Wright 2015) - are the “geographic studies of black experiences in space” (Bledsoe 2021, 1017).

Arguments:

This article aims to bridge the lacuna between Black geographies and African studies.

Second, the article is motivated by calls to bring recent debates on the urban into Black geographies.

This article therefore aims to integrate the theoretical approaches of Black geographies with African and urban studies. 

The Whiteness of Geography:

This section delves into the creation of geography and its inherent discomfort with race, or really anti-racism (as racism certainly exists within the discipline). Wood notes that the disciplines foundational racism has kept there from being meaningful engagement with the Black geographies, which exists in reaction to the missing gaps of knowledge regarding Black geography, mobility, and the intersection of race, space, and place. However, in 2016 the Black Geographies Speciality Group was formed at AAG and the subdiscipline has become more prominent amongst geography researchers. 

The timing of the rise of this subdiscipline is very useful. 

Defining the Black Geographies:

Did not take many notes on this section, for it is background knowledge I’ve come to understand thanks to a semester-long dive. But some definitions do stand out: 

“For the most part, Black geographies examines place making and the everyday lived experiences of racism across U.S. cities… Scholars draw on the historical and political processes that led to the production and reproduction of the Black ghetto (Rose 1971), the slum (Bunge 2011), and the (neo-)plantation (Woods 1998; McKittrick 2011)” (p.4). 

“Black geographies draw on geography as the central analytic through which to understand Blackness, whereas geographies of Blackness consider race as the focal point from which to consider engagements with space.”

I think am more interested in the latter half/geographies of Blackness…

Bringing Transport into Black Geographies:

“Although transport geography has remained a predominately White discipline, mobilities, forced as well as restricted forms of movement, are inherent to Black geographies.” (p. 6)

Black transport is an understudied topic within the black geographies. Wood is using this space to make the case for greater study, through Johannesburg. Page 6 provides a subsection of lit review of automobility (facilitation of and restricted movement), public transport (and transport racism/transit racism), and tourism/travel mobilities that black transport geographies studies through racialized mobilities. Wood provides linakges here in the foundation of these works for they draw upon “Cresswell’s (2010) politics of mobilities and the entanglement of movement, meaning, and power (Alderman and Inwood 2016; Hinger 2022)”, as well as the “intersections between transport justice and social exclusion.” Alderman and Inwood’s (2006), “Mobility as antiracism work: The “hard driving” of NASCAR’s Wendell Scott” provided two concepts that Wood highlights: 

“black mobility” to reflect on the ways in which movement is controlled by racist regimes 

“antiracism mobility” to highlight the everyday “countermobility work.”

Black Geographies and Transport in Johannesburg

Wood makes a note of adding South Africa’s rather complex handling of Blackness and that of greater Africa, as well. “African blackness”, Wood notes, “…out to be taken up more seriously and rigorously in the conceptualizations of blackness.” The Black geographies does focus on Blackness through a North American, mainly U.S.-ian lens, but with greater inclusion of Latin American Blackness. Following this, South Africans are said to engage in “mutliple consciousness” built off of DuBois’ “double consciousness” that described the Black American experience. South Africa’s own experience with apartheid, which only ended in 1994, made it a great case of understand South African Blackness transport in this paper.

Again, Wood focuses on three "tactics" to speak to the "tensions between race, space, and transport" and grounds them with three examples:

Legalization of separate buses in by the 1934 Spencer Commission

Natives (South African Black people) were separated from Europeans (future Boers), and the transport system was designed for European movement. Interestingly enough, in the 1940s, buses were deigned for Black South Africans and the trams were called… European Trams. Natives were allowed to board them, but only when European traffic wasn’t heavy. By 1978, Buses that carried Black passengers were almost always full and financially viable (78 buses and 16 million passengers). Buses that carried White passengers were typically half-empty and drained financial resources (365 white buses and 30 million passengers). 

Public response to racial inequities through the 1957 Alexandra bus boycotts

Bus boycotts started in the 1940s in Alexandra, an economically struggling neighborhood in Johannesburg. Also dubbed the “Dark city” for its frequent blackouts. The Public Utility Transport Corporation (Putco) tried raising bus fares by a penny, leading to boycotts. The inhabitants of Alexandra were already living in economic distress and living on the outskirts of the city. Putco tried it again in 1957 and in responses 70,000 residents walked 20 miles from Alexandra to Johannesburg’s CBD. Other neighborhoods communities joined in. It lasted until Putco agreed to subsidized the fare. This boycott stands out because in 1957, “Blacks held no right to vote, no representation on municipal or national bodies, no right to assemble, and no outlet for consultation with any authority.”  (p.10).  Furthermore, Black movement was restricted by law and Black residents could not move closer to the city. The bus boycotts are considered the foundation for the antiapartheid movement. 

Planning of the informal mini-bus/taxi industry in the 1980s

As of 2022, over 16 million South Africans use informal transport (minibus taxis) to get around. The sector took off in the 1980s and afforded opportunities for economic mobility for Black South Africans who were generally shut out of other professions. The minibuses were a preferred model by Black residents as they were cheaper and more efficient than the government ran buses. Also, the usage of certain modes (bus vs. tram) was highly politicized. The popularity of the minibuses began to cut into the bottom line of municipal ran services, thus in 1982, the minibus — specifically a 16-seater — was allowed to enter the market. On the surface, this looks like stabilization of the service but in reality it was designed to deregulate the informal market and create internal competition. Unfortunately, it worked. There have been multiple attempts at formalizing the service with the government since 1999, but they’ve been mostly failures. 

Wood concludes their aim at intergrating transpot with the Black geographies, but shares the limitations of Black geographies scholarship today:

First, there is a tendency to associate Blackness with urbanity.” (p.11) Wood believes that dig into how the city shapes Blackness and how Blackness shapes the city. The existence of transport racism (and the white rural and, arguably, the white spatial imaginary of the suburbs also feeds into this) and the banishment to the outskirts of the city is a part of understanding this issue.

“Second, there is a propensity to rely too heavily on historical studies as evidence that Black bodies belong in the city.” (p.11) Wood argues that:

it is ahistorical given the history of coloniality and slavery 

It constrains contemporary scholarship

But also, it is a “necessary means, however, through which to counteract Whiteness and racism.” The addition of transport is included to help in understanding the relationality between the examples

[reportwire]

‘Survivor’ Season 44 Premiere

Tyson Apostol and Riley McAtee return for Season 44 of Survivor. They are joined by Reiman (Spencer) Bledsoe—a two-time player from Survivor: Cagayan and Survivor: Cambodia—to help recap the premiere episode. Reiman compares the new first-timers to reoccurring competitors, as well as the different types of advantages this season. They also discuss this episode’s injury, strategy versus luck, the…

[not-wonderlandd]

final two we deserved: spencer and kass

final two we got: tony and woo

[sollarion]

Survivor Cagayan:

Jeremiah Wood + Spencer Bledsoe

[diggorypuff]

okay but can we recognize what a great player spencer bledsoe actually is on survivor. he made it to the near end twice while being a massive threat who was often the underdog. in Cagayan he was an underdog the entire time, and he managed to get to fourth, which had it been a normal final three would have been right before the final tribal. and then he came into Cambodia with a massive target on his back and was an underdog up until the merge and even managed to convince his survivor arch-nemisis to save him. he did most of the strategy and led massive votes. he despite not being exactly a top social player forged relationships that made people willing to hear him out despite their best interests and played them twice a good chunk of the time. and now both the winners of his season who came in as massive threats too are deep into the season, and personally i think they’ll go a lot deeper. but these people he lost to are top tier players, and i think there are several seasons had he been on those he would have been the winner but was always up against tough players. Cagayan and Cambodia are both hailed as seasons where gameplay was massive and most of the players were greats and he got to/near the end both times he played. and winners at war playing the way it does just shows that his losses are ones in which he lost to people who are great’s and he came close to beating those greats. he’s just an amazing player and remains my favorite to this day.

[krispykrema1212]

survivor brawn beauty and brains thoughts

-spencer is such a sweetie and deserved better

-i cant believe david was voted off before j'tia? she burned all their food and we never actually saw her succeed at anything?? and i kinda liked davids nerdy humor ("the pants arent the same color, so its not a suit")

-trish is a total b**** for literally BULLYING lindsey into quitting. idc what lindsey did or didnt do for the tribe, trish didnt handle things well at all. you could tell lindsey was really hurt when she was telling jeff why she was quitting and i cant believe absolutely no one stood up for her. i didnt like her in the beginning but I'm proud of how mature she was about everything

-i really thought sarah and tony's alliance was gonna be big and that they would work together well

-no wonder the brains tribe was constantly losing, theyre lovable little nerds that sit in their offices all day. the other two tribes were actually pretty in shape

-i want j'tias tshirt and i would totally fit in with the brain tribe

[thatsbelievable]

The Six Peach Trees of Spencer Bledsoe

Peach-tree enthusiast Spencer Bledsoe (pictured above, left), posing with his five prized peach trees, 1915. “I used to have a sixth peach tree,” Bledsoe said at the time, “but I lost it. I thought maybe I dropped it somewhere, but then I remembered that trees are pretty big and I don’t usually take them places.”

Source: The New York Tattler, July 11, 1915.

[icancirieclearlynowthegameison]

This whole season was like a middle finger to Brad with all of his “WWMD” stuff. Hilarious. Almost like Spencer on Second Chances talking about making connections just to lose to Jeremy who actually made connections.