#steve abbot

[crim-gadget]

UK Decay's Steve Abbot

[politicaldilfs]

Steve Abbot

[blindmanspuff]

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[iwasmadetobeasoldier]

Bucky: Oh, hey where'd you get the flowers??

Steve: They're chrysanthemums. They're for Miss Carter.

Bucky: Huh, they look like daisies

Steve: they're chrysanthemums.

Bucky: spell it.

Steve:

Steve: They're daisies.

[gxdsfavgal]

i want like real friends on here!

like know each other on REAL first name basis!

so please if you around around my age (19) please hmu🥹

ask me questions about anything, my life, your life, movies, shows, music, food! anything i mean absolutely anything!

i am an open book!

[notmoreflippingelves]

So nice to see OMITB and WWDITS finally get some Emmys appreciation!

[not-safe-for-democracy]

Ten retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, issued a letter detailing Trump's incompetence in the Afghanistan withdrawal and also stating their support for Harris/Walz.

[hotluncheddie]

@steddiemicrofic

[the--last-great-american-dynasty]

apparently we’re supposed to introduce ourselves on this thing so

hi

my name is elise rebekah 👋

i’m a 19 year old nursing student. my pronouns are she/her (i’m good with they/them too) and i’m a lesbian (Andrew Garfield is my exception). i probably have adhd but i’m a 19 year old woman who’s gotten straight A’s her whole life so i don’t have a diagnosis. besides, who has time to go to therapy? (that’s a joke, please go to therapy)

i’m honestly pretty boring so idk really what to put. i am good at making lists though, so imma just do that.

LIKES:

the colors pink and purple

reading

pastel interior design

cozy cottages in the woods

daydreaming

wishing i had magic powers

both dogs and cats

chocolate and coffee

doing cool lab experiments

thai and vietnamese food

the 2005 Pride & Prejudice movie

pretty flowers

women

converse

cult documentaries

colorful pens

biology and anatomy

musicals

fashion analysis videos despite the fact that I know nothing about fashion

going on walks

those gold ornate vintage mirrors

pretty pictures

daydreaming again (it’s how i spend most of my time)

FANDOMS:

stranger things

pjo and hoo

harry potter (but NOT jkr)

dead boy detectives

heartstopper

legendborn

bridgerton

loads more but my brain doesn’t work rn

FAV SHIPS:

byler (will byers x mike wheeler)

jancy (jonathan byers x nancy wheeler)

percabeth (percy jackson x annabeth chase)

lumax (lucas sinclair x max mayfield)

steddie (steve harrington x eddie munson)

wolfstar (sirius black x remus lupin)

payneland (edwin payne x charles rowland)

also loads more but my brain still isn’t working

MUSICIANS:

noah kahan (fav song: part of me)

taylor swift (fav song: the prophecy)

chappell roan (fav song: california)

hozier (fav song: talk)

grace power (fav song: water worship pray)

dove cameron (fav song: sand)

conan gray (fav song: people watching)

MUSICALS:

hamilton

wicked

dear evan hansen

six

les miserables

in the heights

the greatest showman

newsies

tick, tick, boom (shout out to andrew garfield, loml)

BOOKS:

pjo and hoo

emily wilde’s encylopedia of faeries

legendborn

acotar

the cruel prince

the house in the cerulean sea

cultish: the language of fanaticism

the inheritance games

a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

six of crows

the hunger games

paula

bridgerton

there’s a million more books i could put here

also my tbr list is ridiculously long

MOVIES & SHOWS:

the 2005 pride and prejudice

knives out (my comfort movie!!!)

greta gerwig’s little women

stranger things

dead boy detectives

anne with an e

derry girls (my comfort show!!!)

brooklyn 99

new girl

heartstopper

bridgerton

red notice

oceans 8 (and oceans 11)

do revenge

wine country

wednesday

my lady jane

abbot elementary

tick, tick, boom!

marvel movies

the hunger games

in the heights

i could go on forever

i’m a college student, work in the ER, am an introvert, and am chronically online, which means i have no life and am perpetually single.

guess that’s about it

you should follow me, it makes me feel good about myself

XOXO

your friendly neighborhood lesbian

elise rebekah

[dreammakcr]

( most wanted ships! warning - this is an extensive list )

bellatrix black/tom riddle

george weasley/hermione granger

george weasley/angelina johnson

ginny weasely/draco malfoy

ginny weasley/harry potter

hermione granger/ron weasley

hermione granger/draco malfoy

lily evans/james potter

lily evans/remus lupin

narcissa black/lucius malfoy

neville longbottom/hannah abbot

neville longbottom/luna lovegood

rose weasley/teddy lupin

rose weasley/scorpius malfoy

alice cullen/jasper hale

alice cullen/bella swan

bella swan/edward cullen

carlisle cullen/esme cullen

charlie swan/sue clearwater

emmett cullen/rosalie hale

katrina denali/garrett

tanya denali/edward cullen

winona uley/renesmee cullen

alicent hightower/rhaenyra targaryen

sansa stark/theon greyjoy

myrcella baratheon/robb stark

adam auradon/belle

amelia thermopolis/nicholas devereaux

anastasia romanov/dimitri

ariel triton/eric

charlotte la bouff/tiana

flynn ryder/rapunzel

jasmine shah/aladdin

kim possible/shego

kim possible/ron stopable

megara/hercules

tiana maladonia/naveen

amarantha/tamlin

azriel/elain archeron

azriel/gwyneth berdara

cassian/nesta archeron

feyre archeron/tamlin

feyre archeron/rhysand

lucien vanserra/elain archeron

morrigan/emerie

blossom sungaze/nyx

tamlin sungaze/elain archeron

anne boleyn/catherine of aragon

anne boleyn/katherine howard

katherine howard/thomas culpeper

elphaba thropp/glinda upland

elphaba thropp/fiyero tigelaar

maureen johnson/joanne jefferson

mimi marquez/roger davis

dean winchester/jo harvelle

mary winchester/john winchester

aphrodite/ares

hades/persephone

bruce wayne/selina kyle

clark kent/lois lane

diana prince/bruce wayne

diana prince/steve trevor

harleen quinzel/pamela isley

phoebe halliwell/coop

phoebe halliwell/cole

piper halliwell/leo wyatt

inuyasha/kagome

mamoru chiba/usagi tsukino

amy santiago/jake peralta

bo dennis/dyson thornwood 

bo dennis/lauren lewis

david nolan/mary margaret blanchard

hale santiago/kenzi malikov

olivia benson/elliot stabler

regina mills/robin hood

veronica mars/logan echolls

elizabeth bennett/mr. darcy

elle woods/emmett forest

elle woods/vivian kensington

ian o'shea/wanderer

alessandra stathos/kallias

cardan greenbriar/jude duarte

elizabeth comstock/booker dewitt

karlach cliffgate/wyll ravengard

lou le blanc/reid diggory

wrath/emilia di carlo

[dazeddoodles]

You just reminded me, I’ve got a goofy little AU where the adults are all elementary school teachers(in the human realm)

Eda is a science teacher(it’s all chaotic science though), Raine is a kindergarten/music teacher, Lilith is the librarian/history teacher(Steve is her TA), Alador is the shop teacher, Darius is the vice principal(except he doesn’t do much, he’s like Ava from Abbot Elementary), and Eda and Liliths dad(forgot his name) is the principal.

In this the BATTs(who are foster kids) decided that they liked Raine so they just follow them around(also Eda almost burns the school down but we’renotgonnatalkaboutthat)

Aw, that's so cute!

I was also wondering how Eda got and kept a job working with grade school children until I got to the part about her dad being the principal lol.

[ithinkwehitametaphor]

Ten Characters. Ten Fandoms. Ten Tags.

Thank you @vending-machine-witch for tagging me! <3

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Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H 4077)

Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Loki (Marvel)

Steve Murphy (Narcos)

Sophia (Golden Girls)

Barbara Howard (Abbot Elementary)

The Corinthian (The Sandman)

Eric Effiong (Sex Education)

Bildad the Shuhite (Good Omens) ;D

Sylvia Tilly (Star Trek Discovery)

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No pressure tagging: @fahre @ladydorian @ilovewhiteroses @agirllovespancakes @sigelfire @oonajaeadira

[fishyapple]

mcu buck x bucky

the similarities between Buck and Bucky and bucky and steve from captain america are just too good not for me to think of an mcu au.

for me it could go bothways who's captain america and who's the winter soldier, but I think for maximal brainwashing angst and forced to do horrible things i like bucky = captain america and buck = winter soldier

in my mind, Buck never made it to the POW camp after his plane goes down, and after getting the phone call Bucky flies his revenge mission and makes it back alive to Thorpe Abbots because of the super soldier serum. but he can't fly again without buck there and so leads forces on the ground (think captain america the first avenger war montage) and finds the tesseract and then flies himself into the arctic, and its a picture of gale in his compass or the lucky deuce he kept when he finally crashes

so Buck is obviously not actually dead but was targeted by Hydra because he has a lot of similarities with Bucky but since Bucky was chosen by the goods guys, Hydra needs their version of the super soldier. so they kidnap Buck after he parachutes from his plane, torture him, make him the winter soldier, and make him do all those horrible things until John "captain america" egan encounters him in like 2014 (or whenever the timeline is)

Buck is tasked with killing captain america by hydra, so cue a bunch of angst since Bucky obviously remembers and still loves buck and recognizes him despite the mask and we have the famous:

"buck?"

"who the hell is buck"

Buck is actively trying to kill Bucky and his companions. Bucky's trio consists of one Curt "Falcon" Biddick (he's not dead i don't let him) and another Harry Crosby who just so happens to be a part of some secret agency (yes all the pilots just become characters in the modern era bc i want them in the story). so the trio is trying, on one hand not to get killed by the winter soldier, and another not get killed by crosby's super secret agency that turns out to be evil and related to why Buck is the winter soldier

curt and crosby both think Bucky is crazy for wanting to talk to the winter solider since obviously they think he's psychotic and has done all these horrible things in the past and there's no way that talking with the guy will do anything but Bucky is determined to try. he thought he lost his best friend/lover once and now it's like the universe is giving them another chance in another era

Buck on the other hand is having a mental breakdown because who the hell is this all american boi in tights and a shield, calling him a name he hasn't heard in so long he can't tell if the memory of it is real or not because obviously hydra washed his entire mind. but in the depths of his mind he associates the name "buck" with open skies, leather jackets, and a 2 dollar bill for some reason. but every time he tries to remember or think too hard he gets this excruciating pain in his head and hydra keeps brainwashing and torturing him the more he tries to think so just a lot of pain and anguish for poor buck.

then the climax is the fight on the falling shield hover craft, and buck and bucky are really going at it, like even if bucky wanted to pull his punches he can't in the effort to stay alive against the winter soldier. at one point bucky corners gale and calls him gale, and there's debris flying all around them, they're in the sky and it feels like they're almost flying again, so bucky says something like "we're the last 2 in the air. it's me, and it's you buck" and that just like short circuits buck's brain completely, but also makes it so painful that he just wants it to stop and comes at john even harder and eventually has captain america finally down. but bucky's done fighting, he can't hurt his best friend/the love of his life, but buck is not and:

buck says something like: "i'll take you down with me if I have to"

and then bucky says, while all bloody and messed up: "don't count on it"

and then BOOM the hover craft explodes and they both fall in the river, and Bucky is completely out of it. he feels the water rushing all around him but he's too tired and beat up to even do anything, and then he feels something tugging at him. he feels himself break the surface and he's trying to take gulps of air but he can't open his eyes for the life of him. somehow he feels solid ground below him and just as he's peering through his lids he sees a metallic glint and piercing blue eyes and then nothing.

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LIKE "don't count on it" is definitely buckxbucky's "im with you till the end of the line" AH the parallels i can't

[oneforthemunny]

I just read janitor!eddie and i fell in love everytime I read and re read it <3 Idk why I always wondered if they like in abbot elementary when the school invite tv crews to promote their school (if you havent watch it, i really recommend itt cuz its like the office but for school).

I imagine that eddie and reader try their best to be professional but failed miserably because the cameras sometimes record even after school. And poor steve always look at the camera because he becomes the third wheel like 'you see this shit' type of look 🤣

i feel like you're in my computer rn lol.

so, very fun fact, idk if i ever told you guys this but i was watching abbott elementary when janitor!eddie was created. that's why inspired him.

i remember it so vividly, because i had just started watching it and in the first episode with the rugs, barbara says, "you have to be it all. their second parent, hell, sometimes their first." something along those lines of school is a sanctuary to some. i thought about little eddie, how for some of his life that could've been the case before wayne. then how he'd get a job there, how steve would introduce the two of you, and how you'd be a teacher.

anyways, if you haven't watched abbott elementary, i can not recommend it enough. it is beyond funny. if you're a janitor!eddie babe, this is your formal assignment to watch at least one episode. the new season is out right now, you can stream it for free on abc without a subscription or if you have hulu it's on there.

but i could see the camera crew always catching the kinda sweet moments. the apple at the desk and the returned favor, the way he'd help her decorate her classroom. it would be so sweet.

[beardedmrbean]

The overwhelming majority of New York voters blame President Biden for letting the migrant crisis spiral out of control, a new poll released Tuesday reveals.

The Siena College survey found that a stunning 84% of voters consider the influx of migrants a serious problem, with 57% identifying it as a “very” serious problem. Only 12% of respondents said the problem is not serious.

“It’s a sad case and Biden doesn’t even care. This is a federal problem and has always been a federal problem,” said Maria Ortiz, 37, works in retail and says she constantly sees migrants begging on the train with their babies.

“I’m not voting for him. I voted to get him in office and it’s [been] my biggest regret since,” she said at Jamaica Station in Queens. 

Nearly two-thirds of voters — 64% — flunked the Biden administration’s handling of the migrant influx, while only 29% approved.

The poll suggests the crisis at the southern border that has swamped the Big Apple with the thousands of asylum seekers is dragging down Democrat Biden’s popularity even in blue-leaning New York.

“While other issues in Washington and abroad have largely driven the news cycle over the last few weeks, the influx of migrants to New York remains top of mind for voters, with 84% saying it’s a serious – 57% very serious – problem for the state,” said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

“Seldom do we see an issue where at least 79% of Democrats, Republicans, independents, men, women, upstaters, downstaters, Blacks, whites, Latinos, Catholics, Jews, and Protestants all agree – that the migrant influx is a serious problem.”

The survey indicates that even immigrant-friendly New York has reached the breaking point with the unrelenting crisis.

Nearly two-thirds of voters, 64%, say New Yorkers have done enough for new migrants and must now work to “slow the flow” of migrants from the border, compared to 29% who say the state should accept and work to assimilate them. That’s a higher figure than the 58% of voters who said so in August.

Mayor Eric Adams was roundly criticized for saying the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City” without aggressive federal intervention. But 58% of voters said they agreed with Adams’s statement, and the support of his dire claim was consistent from all regions of the state.

54% of voters said migration has been more of a burden, while just 32% said it’s a benefit, a worse figure than in the prior August poll.

Biden, 80, has trouble with his own base. A majority of New York Democratic voters — 52% — said they want a nominee other than Biden to be the party’s standard bearer for president. Only 41% of Democrats said they want him as the nominee for re-election.

Thomas Barnes, a 44-year-old transit mechanic, predicted a “huge red wave” in the 2024 contest.

“If this election goes any other way, I think it is time for the American citizens to take a good look at our election system.“ 

“Biden’s funding two proxy wars, Americans are not only broke, it’s getting worse — the crime rate is sky high. Law abiding citizens are afraid for their lives. I’m a transit worker, I see shit every night. Democratic policy is what got us to this point,” he said, while adding he also blamed Republican Texas Gov. Gregg Abbot for sending migrants to sanctuary cities.

“The working class is getting squeezed to nothing. We got nothing left. It’s our tax dollars, not the rich. I think Donald Trump has a really good shot [with] demographics that have historically voted Democrat — it’s all over social media. Black people are done with the Democrat party. It’s promise after promise during election season. Tons of pandering and no follow through. No delivery.” 

His favorability and job approval ratings are underwater and he leads former Republican President Donald Trump — who is fighting four indictments — just 46% to 37% in a hypothetical matchup, with the rest of the voters undecided. His lead over Trump is shaved to 7 percentage points if Robert Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West run on minor party lines.

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who has fought the opening of migrant shelters on her Staten Island turf, said, “New Yorkers overwhelmingly disapprove of Democrats’ open borders.

“From President Biden to Governor Hochul to Mayor Adams, they have created an unsustainable and unsafe crisis at the expense of their own citizens,” Malliotakis continued.

“Senators Schumer and Gillibrand should stop holding up our Border Security Act that passed the House in May and end this madness.”

Former Democratic Rep. Max Rose, who lost his seat to Malliotakis three years ago said the president “can’t ignore” the migrant issue.

“The Biden administration and Democrats have to show they can effectively and humanely manage the migrant issue or face serious election consequences,” said Rose.

“This could make the 2022 backlash over riots and crime look like a walk in the park,” he said.

Rose predicted Biden will carry New York in the presidential race next year because of the overwhelming Democratic vote in NYC. But Democratic candidates for Congress could lose if Biden fares poorly at the top of the ticket in the suburbs and upstate, he said.

In terms of popularity, 52% of voters said they had an unfavorable view of Biden compared to 45% who had a favorable view. Similarly, 51% of respondents disapproved of his job performance while 46% approved.

A staggering 65% of New Yorkers say the United States is going in the wrong direction under a Biden presidency, while just 25% said it’s on the right track with the remainder undecided.

Felix Ramos, a 26-year-old security worker, said if the polling trend continued, Biden would have to blame himself. 

“New York might just become a red state, and that’s when you know you did a bad job as a president.” 

Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2-1 and the last GOPer to carry New York in a presidential race was Ronald Reagan in 1984. But last year, Republican Lee Zeldin ran a competitive race for governor against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the GOP picked up congressional seats.

“And also true is that right now, Biden has his worst-ever New York favorability and job approval ratings,” said Siena’s Greenberg. “The good news for Biden is the election is more than a year away. The bad news is there’s more bad news,” Greenberg said.

“While 70% of Democrats view Biden favorably, and 70% of Democrats approve of the job he’s doing, 52% of Democrats say they want a different presidential nominee in 2024.”

Zeldin, for his part, said “President Biden should start preparing a concession speech” if the trend continued.

“If New York is close, you can only imagine where voters are heading in swing states,” the former Long Island congressman said.

“There is an intensified desire for a correction over disastrous one-party Democratic rule in New York.”

Only 30% of voters statewide approve of Adams’ handling of migrants’ issue while 46% disapprove. Even in New York City, 50% of Adams’ constituents disapproved while 41% approved.

Only 30% of voters statewide approve of Adams handling of migrants’ issue while 46% disapprove. Even in New York City, 50% of Adams’ constituents disapproved while 41% approved.

Only 37% of respondents statewide approve of Hochul’s handling of the migrant crisis, while 52% disapprove.

Public safety remains a major concern — 59% of voters statewide say crime has gotten worse over the past year, while just 9% said it’s gotten better and 28% said the same.

In New York City, 51% of voters said crime has gotten worse, while 33% said the same and just 12% better.

That’s a potential problem for Adams, who made bolstering public safety his top campaign pledge for City Hall in 2021.

The survey of 1,225 registered voters was conducted from Oct. 15-19, after the terrorist group’s Hamas invasion and slaughter of Israelis and Israel’s counter-offensive in Gaza. It has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

The poll found that 57% of New Yorkers support providing more military and economic aid to Israel, compared to 32% opposed.

Meanwhile, 51% of responders back providing more military and economic aid to Ukraine while 38% were opposed.

“New York needs help and we have been asking for help but all [Biden] does is send help to other countries and lounge on the beach. Pathetic,” said Ortiz, the Queens straphanger.

On the Middle East war, 50% of voters agreed with the statement that Israel must do everything it can to get back the hostages taken by Hamas, but Israeli attacks in Gaza will largely hurt innocent Palestinian civilians more than anyone else

But 32% of voters agreed with the statement that after the surprise terrorist attacks Hamas carried out on Israeli civilians, Israel must do everything it can in the Gaza territory to make sure it never happens again, regardless of casualties.

[sixpennydame]

Countryside Buddhist Temple

Yesterday, we stopped at a small cafe next to a small Buddhist temple. It so happened that the abbot of the temple was there and what a character he was. Between his broken English and my broken Japanese, we were able to hear quite a story.

Shizan Watanabe has been the abbot of the Shoanji Tera (temple) for about 40 years. Before that, he lived in LA for a time and Steve Jobs was one of his disciples for a time. He was excited to tell us that he also had a small role in a king fu movie in the 80’s.

We asked him if we could see the temple and he was happy to oblige.

The temple is about 350 years old and his wife’s family have been the abbots for many of those years. He is originally from Nagoya and his father was once an imperial guard for the Emperor’s palace. The map above is of Edo (old Tokyo) and is over 200 years old.

The video below is an example of a drumming chant used for prayer.

His son is also a priest for the temple but he was gone because he’s touring with his reggae band (I’m not making this up). So yes, there is a reggae monk in Japan.

As we said our goodbyes and got in the car, I heard Shizan yelling my name. “Matte! (Wait)!”

I look to see him with an armful of silk scarves to give me. “Japaneeeeese,” he yells as he puts them in my arms. Haha, what a fellow.

He told us about a temple his friend is the abbot of that is surrounded by hundreds of hydrangeas. That story is coming tomorrow!