#survival street irma

[inkandpaintleopard]

I’ve only listened to Gangsta’s Paradise over and over today and it reminds me of Survival Street. Particularly Milo and Herbert

Nice

Wait did I ever post my original Survival Street drawings

[bern00sworld]

Hey everyone, look i made this poll to ask a question, in the case that i can get to do another character of Survival Street into a Puppet...who would you like me to do out of these 4???🍦📦🦸💘🔫

[inkandpaintleopard]

Literally them

There’s like 12 different kinds of tension in this image.

[doomedpuppetyuri]

bro who the fuck are these grumpuses man

guhhhhh been drawing a lotta grumps again recently bugsnax/survival street au is imminent,,,,,,,

[popculturebuffet]

Monthly Muppet Madness: Survival Street Review: Brought to You by the Letter's F and C for Fuck Captalisim (Comission for WeirdKev27)

Today's review is courtsey of viewers like you.. specifically you. Kevin. Thank you

Hello all you happy people and welcome back to Monthly Muppets Madness, my look at all things muppety. And after last month's adventure with mean green mother's from outer space, we're back to more felty corners of the muppet globe with Surivial Street, a 4 issue mini series from 2022 by the writing team of James Asmus and Jim Fesante with art by Abbylay Kussainov.

Asmus is a longtime comic book writer whose work I have read before with his decent runs on Gambit, Quantum and Woody and All New Inhumans. He also co-wrote the second arc of Robert Kirkman's Thief of Theives. So while not someone I seek out, he's a solid writer.

As you can guess by the title and that awesome cover, Survival Street is a parody of Seasame Street, though heavily on the affectionte side: it's very clear from the writing Asmus really loves the show and it's goals of free education for children who might not have acess to it and teaching love and kindness are core to this book.

That said Survival Street is also over the top as hell. It's messages are as subtle as a brick to the head saying "Corproations Bad' and a lot of the book can come off as

Okay some are.. but most of them probably aren't going to listen to their bullshit being called out in the first place, let alone by muppets. The question is can this book ballance it's over the top satire with it's heart, fairly well thought out characters and comedy? Find out under the cut won't you?

We open with America: A Timeline. In 2025 in this timeline, Jury's out on ours, the Supreme Court voted to make Corporations able to run for public office. Naturally this backfired and soon corprations pulled their money out from other candidates and ran themselves, and by 2028 they've taken over the country, privitazed everything and in our proper oppening scene, invade Salutation Street, our Seasame Street expy and shut it down. It's also clear there's rampant anti-muppet xenophobia in this universe, something that will only grow worse as we cut to present day: 2031, in New Best America TM.

It's in this new corprate hellscape we meet our heroes who are traveling around america in an RV. Driving it is an expy of Gordon, Mr. Burton whose dealing with a checkpoint. As it turns out though roads are now privitazed and upon seeing a family hassled over this, our grover stand-in, Herbert decides to take a more hands on approach

This does save the people there.. but is quickly used as propoganda by the local fox news stand in. Because of a course a corporate hellscape still has fox news, every hellscape needs one or it's just not a hellscape. Their anchor is Irma, our ernie stand in, who spouts out the usual racist drivel but about muppets this time. I do like the touch of having the two headed monster be their right and left wing commentators.

We then ove to the a-plot: Junior, the president is auctoning off detained children of illegal immigrants to the highest bidder in florida, with our heroes sneaking in to stop this via the global warming flooded ocean outside.

I mean a bunch of rich assholes auctoning off children is both plausable and has likely actually happened, but it dosen't make that funny or entertaining. Junior himself is, from saying his assitant asking about his medication he stole from his daughter is a HIPPA violation to how over the top he is and it keeps things from being too GET IT GET IT CAPTALISIM BAD GET IT. It's enoguh to take me out but not enoguh to make me leave.

So our ABC team break in and we properly meet them all as they make their way through. And since the comic has really fun intro captions for each of them...

Their leader, Bert stand in and the one holding the brain cell

Kind to a fault and mostly a "master of disguise" because he's the only human they have.

Like Burton we've seen him before. Explosives expert with a short fuse. ANd god I love that gag: it's so damn dark and it should not work but it does.

Our Cookie Monster with traces of Zoey given the pigtails. I also thought Elmo but we'll meet our equilvent for him in isue 3. Kind, good at inflitration but struggling with staying clean.

Our big bird, a good strong boy whose basically big bird if he was a grown man and could also suplex you.

Their tech guy and oscar the grouch.

Our heroes begin their plan once they get it: THey found about this thanks to a fellow muppet calling for help, so now their inside they can excute the plan: Gurgle and their inside man will use card scanners that burton stole and rigged to steal all the money from the auction, explaning how they keep funded when public funding no longer exists. Hippy resuces the prisoners using his massive strength to free the kids and his kindness to help calmly guide them out, and Herbert.. nearly snaps and kills everyone and everything in his path after finding out these bastards are using the children for their organs. Thankfully Birdie is able to calm him down in one of my faviorite jokes of the mini

It's what makes this work: while the satire is about as subtle as a chainsaw through your front door wielded by a screaming goat man, the muppets in the thick of it.. still ACT like muppets on seasame street. They still have the same kindness and sensiblities.. it's just tempered into bloody action by being the only source of hope and freedom in a dystopian hellscape.

Birdie and Tony set up signal jammers so they can hyjack the procedings.. only to find out that Irma is here, gladly promoting this shit show like any republican. Birdie is naturally just the slightest bit livid her ex is promoting child organ farming but she soon has bigger issues.... desert is being served early.. and ice cream is present.

And with that Gurgle is exactly no days sober of ice cream and shit officallly hit the fan. On the bright side Shit is our word of the day. So at least there's that. Anyways our heroes are soon outgunned and out manned, with Birdie barely saving gurgle by tearing herself open and using her string to sew her up, but the two are soon cornered and Birdie does the whole save yourself i'll hold them back routine. Thankfully , Herbet dosen't listen well and when , as seen in the panels above, told not to go out loud.. he didn't listen. He rigged the place with explosives, blows up the wall holding out the water real good and floods the bitch. Our heroes valantly escape, but not before Hippy beats the every loving shit out of Junior, showing he may be nice but he has limits.

Birdie however makes a late exit as she and Irma have some words, with Birdie hyjacking her limo. So Birdie, needing some answers... asks irma a very important question

I love this page.. mostly for making Irma a more complex villian. She could easily jsut be "birdies very obvious ex who sold out"... but you see she's just someone who got broken by the fact that nothing they did mattered. She's still not a good person: she still sold out muppetkind for her own profit and is still bad.. but it's more intresting to hav ea reason why she ended up the sack of shit she is instead of just, as Birdie wondered, always having been like this.

Birdie isn't swayed and goes on with the rest of our heroes.

Issue 2. I love the structure of this series as the first three issues are all made so they can be read done in one for the most part. Ther'es a cliffhanger at the end of issue 3 but it's nice when a comic makes good use of the isdsue by issue format. Issue 4 ties it all together well, but it's still essentailly three connected stories that lead up to one big finish.

Anyways issue 2 begins with our heroes hiding in a church under a hail of gunfire: Burton and the RV are halfway across town, and it dosen't look good. We flash back to how they got there and find out WHERE they are: Hollow Point, a company town ran by the WRA, the NRA's legally distinct cousin. Yup this is a gun rights issue, with the town having become a conceal and carry paradise where people can just.. have gun duels to decide whatever and Charlton heston is naturally given an honrary statue.. and Clint Eastwood an expy in Cain Westwood.

The head of the WRA is present and naturally gives a gun to a baby.. and the satire works a BIT better this issue as frankly.. none of it's exagerated. The NRA GENUINELY want this, they genuinely talk about crying "lib tears". Clint Eastwood is an advocate for them. Their extremists probably would argue the right ot carry begins at conception. I"m not saying ALL gun owners or even nra members are this fucked, I have a friend who owns guns and keeps them in a safe, locked up where no child can get to it. But the NRA as an orginzation sure as hell is.

Our heroes try using this dueling strategy to call the WRA chairman's bluff.. but he turns it on them: since their basically challenging the law itself witht heir duel they've challenged the orginzation.. which means it's 5 muppets against a whole damn town armed to the teeth.

We then get a flashback to Herbert's childhood on M'Na N'Nam, part of the snufflpogaos islands. A muppet paradise.. until a shady buisness man shows up offering a partnership for a chemical they can find on the island.

I'm going to go ahead and cover all of this now for simplicties sake as the flashback's only two parts: Years later their leader.. has shown her true colors, fully selling out to ethe corpration and the mine as it's poinsing her people and end sup casuing an explosin.. and rather than help , the company pulls out, leaving the villiage to die in fire and Herbert forced to immigrate, barely scraping by thanks to racisim until he got the job on Salutation Street.. only to find out later his parents died on the island. It's a well done story too as horrible things like this happened all the time and without the hyper exagerated satire... it's something entirely real and entirley painful: a culture exploited and destroyed by greedy white assholery.

Back in the present the fight continues, as our heroes are held down. Thankfully Hippy and Gurgle make a distraction and do one of my faviorite manuvers: having the smaller characteer on the bigger characters shoulder. Mostly for this one scene from x-factor

Sadly Flint Westwood decides to join the party.. as does anamatronic charlton heston, so our heroes are soon on the backfoot... but not before Tony is able to complete his plan, hyjacking their cars and easily taking down the mob since, naturally their cars are also mad max murder mobiles. As for the head of the HRA himself.. well given he's sorta the lead this issue.. Herbet takes care of him personally.

He then challenges the man to a duel, though Birdie IS able to talk him down from shooting the man on live tv... but not from killing him as he shoots out the camera and impliclity finished the job offscreen.

But that leaves a vacum.. and Westwood is promoted to the job.. and given the job to hunt down our heroes. More on that later

So issue 3 introduces us to Milo, our Elmo expy. He's rich and like irma is working in the corprate hellscape. Unlike her though he's still in kids television , still talks to the others even if things are understandibly tense with most of them, and while reluctant to their request has a good reason for both taking the seemingly easier route and being reluctnat to help.

It's a scene I love a lot. Milo comes off at first like a smug asshole.. but then it's clear beneath that is someone who GENUINELY values what he's doing. It's a reminder of how important children's intertainment is... and how important it is that when you have the power to do something good and necessary, you do it, regardless of the risk.

Our heroes go to rescue the kids, who are fire fire fighters and make a good entrance enough, coming in in a garbage made recycled buggy, saving them.. but soon our party is left trecking through the wild fire. THey got in thanks to milo's friends, but it was one way. So while Gurgle finds an ice cream truck, the kids tell their tale: turns out in this dystopian hellhole future they outlawed abortion.... keep in mind this comic launched just two months after Roe V Wade was overturned, so the timing is eerie as hell. The kid they talk two's mother didn't want her born into this hellscape, got arrested for it and she got sold to corproations using her as a proxy for their crimes. The fact any of this sounds like it could become actual law at some point should spoeak to how horrifying it is. While this book isn't subtle, and it's a weakness.. it's strength is that Asmus goes just a TOUCH beyond what we have now after the first issue. The first issue is plausable, but a bit over the top. With the nra having a whole lawless western town or children being sold into slavery to work off corprate crimes... it's a lot more plausable given how fucked our legal system is and it makes it that much easier to buy.

Our heroes naturally wepp at this waking nightmare, so it's a good thing they get distracted.. the bad thing is that it's by Gurgle, trying to save her from more fire. Birdie gets horribly injured in the process and needs help NOW.

Things.. look bad as they hit a corprate checkpoint, by the same monsters that turned off the water the fire kids were using, and there's no hope of escape or out shooting them. This causes the team to break down playing the blame game.. which is bad enough.. until HIPPY of all people breaks.

This.. destroyed me. Up to this point Hippy had been the unbreakable optimis they needed.. but now .. we see that beneath his sunshine is a lot of regret, a lot of doing this because he had nothing else and feeling what thier doing.. simply isn't enough. But Mr. Burton's message is right.. and it's the messasge the book goes for: things are bad, they will probably get worse.. but we can't just give up and do nothing. As a wise vampire once said "If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do". And to prove that point.. an old friend drops in to help

So the asholes are left to die, Milo implicitly adopts the kids having them play in his pool and Birdie wants to see them all.. only Gurgle's missing, having left in Milo's tesla. Because of course he has a tesla. Gurgle's gone.. and she's gone to the enemy

I was nervous going into this one when I first read it. The fact is this book while optimistic is still fairly dark so while I felt our heroes MIGHT win, they could just as easily loose or barely get away.

They could... but instead we get something way better.

Though to start things aren't looking great: Rufus, head of F News, is talking to a bunch of other corprate overlords including Elon Musk, suprising no one. THeir not happy that his propoganda machine isn't keeping the puppets from having an impact: Junior is facing public backlash for his child selling, the babies carrying firearms bill has been blocked.. this needs to stop. So the network cranks up i'ts proogranda, with anti-muppet racisim rising and a a puppet child attacked by some other kids. When one human girl tries to help him she gets maced.. thankfully

Things still aren't great: Birdie's recovering and Faux News trots out Gurgle.. and somehow makes a valid point, making them somehow have a point abovfe the actual fox news: apparently Gurgle used to be called "Sundae Fiend". While she says "it was a diffrent time" being remidned of it clearly bothers her.. while Rufus wants more answers: where. are. your friends.

And it seems he got them as we see a heavily armed WRA troops, with junior and westwood along for the ride and livestreaming the whole debalce. Turns out the Muppets main hq is a Salutation Station theme park. Not disneyland as Senator Disney does not want to be associated iwth muppet terrorists... again. That was their joke by the way, great stuff. Also means we might meet kermit and friends counterparts if this ever gets a sequel.

What follows.. is one of the most awesome cilmaxes to an arc i've seen in a comic. Turns out... our heroes were ready for them: they aren't the ones trapped... the WRA are. Not only that for once it's entirely legal: since Salutation Street is it' sown corpration, the park is soverign terriotiry and they entered illegally. So after all their racist, anti-immigraint retoric.. their the ones who are the actual invaders.. and are soon wiped out with rides, from a cyclotron type thing spinning some to oblivion.

To the recyling troll melting a bunch of mooks with acid and recyling Charlton Hestron into scrao abd cumilating in a one on one brawl between Bernie and Westwood which ends with Bernie killing the motherfucker via rollercoaster

The moment after it is easily my faviorite of the whole book though, with Bernie confronting the mooks left

It's a reminder that while Bernie is the quickest to kill among them, easily.. he's still a kind, good person. Just one who will cap your ass when necessary.

Faux News TRIES to use Gugle to get the narrtive under contorl.. but as you likely guessed by now, she too was part of the plan

I fucking love this issue for the setup: you EXPECT it to be our heroes darkest hour and them to barely make it out or Gurgle to at least still be a traitor.. instead? It was a plan the whole time: Gurgle finally kicked her addiction after last issue, our heroes easily take out their enemies with the home field advantage and to cap it off, we get one hell of a chekovs gun: earlier we saw mascot suits... so Birdie sends junior out, his mouth taped up in one with the recording to talk. THey shoot him down thinking hie's hippie.. and thus the presiden't sson whose also the president I guess is dead, everyone involved int he raid is entirley to blame and our heroes just got free publiclity showing THIER not the bad guys here. We wrap up as Irma flees to her dressing room... only to find a letter from birdie

And that's survivial street. It's heavy handed.. but damn if it isn't good. The jokes present land, the action is beautifully drawn and the characters are compelling. It takes what COULD'VE been a lazy joke premise, and fills it with heart and character, deconstructing PARTS of seasame street.. while at the same time remaining true to it's spirit. It's out in trade from darkhorse if your intrested, I HIGHLY recommend picking it up. And hopefully we'll see more of it again some day. But for now, we got something specil here and i"m glad I got to share it with you all.

[lboogie1906]

Ronnie Wilson (April 7, 1948 - November 2, 2021) was the oldest of the three brothers who formed the Gap Band in Tulsa in 1967. A singer and multi-instrumentalist who played keyboards, trumpet, and flugelhorn, he was integral to the ensemble, which enjoyed a string of indelible funk-soul hits in the late 1970s and early 80s.

Among the best-loved of these were Oops Up Side Your Head, Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me), Early in the Morning, You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Outstanding, and Party Train. Their songs were distinguished by their frequent use of powerful synthesizer basslines.

He was a co-writer on songs including Party Lights, Yearning for Your Love, and Oops Up Side Your Head. The last of these reached #6 in the UK and #4 on the US R&B charts in 1979, and earned him and his brothers co-writing credits on Uptown Funk, owing to the resemblance between the two tracks.

By 1982 the Gap Band was one of the biggest-selling R&B acts in the US, with the albums Gap Band III (1980) and Gap Band IV (1982) both achieving platinum status. Their commercial profile dwindled as the 80s wore on, though, and All of My Love (1989), partly written by Ronnie, was the band’s last #1 on the US R&B chart.

He was born to Rev Oscar Wilson, a Pentecostal minister, and his wife, Irma. Oscar preached at the Church of God and Christ in Tulsa, and the three boys – he, Charlie, and Robert – sang there regularly as their father’s warm-up act. Their parents would only permit religious music to be played in the family home, the brothers would smuggle in records by James Brown or Stevie Wonder and listen. He and Charlie each started their band but then merged the two and brought in Robert on bass. They called themselves the Greenwood, Archer, and Pine Street Band, deriving the name from streets in the Greenwood district. The band dissolved after Robert died of a heart attack in 2010. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and Charlie. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[kingdompressnews]

Finding a silver lining in the darkest storm

Dustin Sanchez worked as a bartender at one of the hottest beach resorts in Fort Myers beach, Florida (one of the hardest hit areas), and was planning his wedding in November.

His future was as beautiful as his wife, and life was just about to begin when Hurricane Ian visited. The community has been battered by hurricanes and survived, and this was just another one, or so they thought.

Natural disasters are the norm in the United States coastal regions; but survivor stories and their HOPE are human characteristics we will never fully comprehend even amid 155-mile-per-hour catastrophic winds, heavy rains, and storms.

My perfect life was ruined, and everything I thought I had and needed in life was taken away by Hurricane Ian. I had the ideal job as a bartender at the Lani Kai hotel and beach resort for the past six years. I also lived there and awoke to the serene sound of the ocean and its atmosphere.

So when Hurricane Ian was announced, I did not think it was anything beyond the ordinary, having survived Hurricane Irma. I thought, “This is just another one, and we will all get through it.”

Was I ever so wrong as the storm arrived with a soul-wrenching stare that shook our reality? In a matter of minutes, the water rose from one foot, then two, then all the cars in the neighborhood were underwater, and the fears of families were louder than the storm, wind, and rain surging through the streets. While I pondered the extent of the damage, a palm tree fell and destroyed my new Chevy equinox, while I stood flabbergasted, my mom’s house and proposed wedding gift, crumbled like a pack of cards and was swept away by Ian. It began like every other day.

Life on the Florida beach is incredible: the warm sun, white beaches, turquoise water gently hitting the beach, and lively people drinking, laughing, and sharing a joke. It seemed like just another day until it wasn’t. We hear the usual hurricane stories: a palm tree has fallen, a power line is down, and cars are swimming in the water, but life goes on. This was different. The emergency team advised beach residents to evacuate immediately, and that meant us (my fiancé and I). Even though it was not our first storm, we moved against our wishes. We had a huge family that included nine pets—a snake, three mice, three dogs, and two cats—and we could not just leave without thinking about them. We had to find floaters, in case we had to swim. The thought of losing any of them was devastating.

And it was over. Ian took away my home, my car, and my life. My girlfriend stood by me, trying to encourage me about so many things. The smallest stuff irritated me. I could not think straight suddenly being homeless, car-less and a future blank as a canvas.

Things got worse. Lani Kai, where I worked, had to close due to the damage, as did other businesses such as Hooters, which was completely destroyed. FEMA and the institutions that were supposed to help could not. My application was denied, and all access to resources that could help was taken away.

I pay my taxes but am denied the most basic of rights. No one cared for me, and it was not right.

I could not think! It was too heavy to ignore; citizens’ rights before, during, and after a hurricane or disaster should be protected.

Light after the storm We were jobless and homeless and our brother offered to take us in (humans and pets) and help us care for them. I couldn’t stop myself from crying. Everyone was broken, but people were still generous and willing to help with what they had.

And as I wait for Lani Kai to finish rebuilding and reapplying for my job, my girlfriend is also hopeful that her job will likely be reopened so she can resume work. Currently, we are surviving on my pool cleaning jobs, the love and generosity of my brother, and many other people in the community.

Things are coming together again—it will not be the last, but we will always survive.

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[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 14 August 1944, 29-year-old Italian resistance partisan Irma Bandiera, aka 'Mimma', was murdered by the Nazis. They had blinded her and tortured her for seven days, however she refused to give up the names of her comrades. Her body was then dumped in the street outside her parents' house. Today there is a street named after her in her native Bologna. We have interviewed surviving members of the partisan resistance for our podcast, for a forthcoming miniseries. If you would like to assist with our work like this, and get first listen of this, and all of our podcast episodes, please consider supporting us on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2057316137786859/?type=3

[bern00sworld]

Here's a simple drawing of Birdie from *SURVIVAL STREET* in all honestly never though we would get more news about it cuz i thought the comic would end with only 4 issues but im kinda glad and also EXCITED to see more of the comic coming soon cuz i think is a really interesting and refreshing story of puppet characters, hopefully we get to see how the gang meet and see what happend with Irma, and in case ya haven't seen it or read it....PLS GIVE IT A WATCH!!! IS REALLY A GOOD PUPPET MEDIA FOR THE ONES WE LOVE PUPPETS!!!🙏🙏🙏🥺💛🧡🩷💛❤️💚🩶💚💙🖤💙💜💛🧡💛🧡💚🖤💙🤎💜💚💜💛🩵💚🧡💚🧡❤️💙

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Killer: Levi Bellfield

Levi Bellfield is one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, with the detective who caught him, DCI Colin Sutton, describing him as “cunning and violent”. He was raised on a council estate with his brother and sister and became known to the police at the age of just 13.Throughout his teenage years, he engaged in petty crimes such as burglary and car theft, and in 1990, he was charged with assaulting a police officer.

By the time of his first murder in 2002, Bellfield had spent nearly a year in prison and was known for being controlling, manipulative and abusive towards his partners.  Bellfield is thought to father 11 children to several women and spent time working as a doorman and running a wheel clamping business.

Milly Dowler was a 13 year old schoolgirl who was reported missing by her parents when she failed to return home after leaving Walton-on-Thames railway station in Surrey on 21 March 2002. Her body was found in Yateley Heath Woods, Hampshire, six months later. She had phoned her father just minutes before leaving the station, informing him she would be home in half an hour. The search for her killer was one of the biggest manhunts in British history.

A red Daewoo Nexia belonging to the girlfriend of Levi Bellfield was spotted on CCTV footage from a cafe on the same street as the station, and in 2009 the killer admitted he’d been driving that car. Bellfield, aged 33 at the time, was not charged with Milly’s murder until 2010. He was convicted in June 2011, while serving a life sentence for his other crimes.

Bellfield’s second victim was Marsha Louise McDonnell, a 19-year-old who was found alive near her home in Hampton in February 2003, having been struck over the head with a hammer. Marsha was found badly beaten and later died of her injuries, she had been attacked after getting off the 111 bus from Kingston upon Thames and died two days later in hospital.

French student Amelie Delagrange was a 22-year-old French student who was living in the UK when Bellfield murdered her in a park in Twickenham. Her body was found on August 19, 2004, after she had been struck over the head with a hammer, like Marsha McDonnell. Police linked her murder with that of McDonnell and, after drawing links to a white Ford van which had been seen near the murder location of Amelie. Bellfield later admitted to the murders while remanded in custody.

Bellfield was charged with attempted murder for mowing down 18-year-old student Kate Sheedy in Isleworth on 28 May 2004. She survived, but suffered multiple injuries and spent several weeks in hospital. In 2008, she gave evidence to the trial of Bellfield in which she described the white people carrier with blacked out windows and a broken wing mirror which had struck her.

In 2006, Bellfield was arrested and charged with the murders of Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell and the attempted murders of Kate Sheedy and Irma Dragoshi.

Bellfield was sentenced to life in prison, with a recommendation that he should never be released.

[doomedpuppetyuri]

hey survival street fandom. ive like. never done anything like this and i dont think i have nearly enough followers for this. or for a matter of fact i dont even know if i know enough survival street fans for this. but like. do yall think they're gonna do anything with milo and irma in volume 2 im genuinely curious because my brain keeps going back and forth on it

[itsjustthechems]

Some of my Hancock-related headcanons

I've been sitting with a patient for 7 hours and have been slowly losing my mind during that time, so here, have some crazed and sleepy rambling.

• If you explore McDonough's house, in one of his rooms you can find two mannequins — one dressed like Hancock, one dressed like McDonough. The one in Hancock's clothes is laying on the floor, face down, with the one in McDonough's clothes towering over him. This could be attributed to just political beef — maybe McDonough was just pissed about his brother's clear disdain for his policies and lifestyle. However, I interpret this as a sign of deep-seated jealousy. I think Hancock may have surpassed his brother, maybe in several ways during their childhood. Maybe Hancock did well in school — I could see him having a natural knack for math and science, considering his surprisingly high intelligence stat and later interest in experimental drugs (I catch him at the chem station in Sanctuary constantly, fuckin' around with test tubes). I doubt he put forth much effort into school, which was probably even more infuriating for McDonough, who worked tirelessly for grades that still fell short of Hancock's. Maybe their father poorly hid his preference for Hancock ("My pa used to take me fishing here" — me, not us). I could see Hancock developing sharp survival skills, which pleased his parents, while McDonough preferred the comfort of the indoors, or the safer streets of Diamond City. Maybe the jealousy comes from Hancock's general looks and charm. We know from Irma's terminal entries that she liked to meddle in Hancock's memories, and she mentioned how handsome he was pre-ghoul. I could see Hancock unwittingly flirting or even sleeping with someone that McDonough had had his eye on. Whatever happened, one way or another, I think McDonough found some reason(s) to start fostering resentment for his brother at a young age.

• I'm going to go out on a limb here and say witnessing murder is a somewhat commonplace event for most wastelanders. Probably more than commonplace for a troublemaker like Hancock. Thus, I think there's a reason why witnessing Vic murder a drifter was so deeply traumatizing to him. So deeply traumatizing that he felt like he had to shed his own skin and identity afterwards. I think there's a good chance it wasn't just "some drifter" who was killed — I think it was someone Hancock cared deeply for. We know the drifter was male from Hancock's dialogue. So my personal headcanon is that he was the first man Hancock ever loved. I picture Hancock, exhausted and deeply saddened after making several trips between Diamond City and Goodneighbor with displaced ghouls in tow. Maybe this anonymous drifter offers him protection and company on a few of these trips. Hancock quickly comes to admire him — random, strung out drifters don't normally go out of their way to help one another, especially before he became mayor and established some semblance of community. Maybe this guy was Hancock's bi awakening — the two of them engaging in a passionate, drug-fueled haze of a relationship that came to a horrifyingly abrupt end when Vic "cracked him open like a can of cram on the pavement." I think Hancock distances himself from the pain by referring to him only as "a drifter" and leaving it at that so no one will press for further information. I also think that's when he really started leaning into his constant usage of drugs to suppress his trauma. Maybe he's afraid that if he's sober too long, it'll all come back to the surface.

• An unexplored tidbit of Fallout lore is the contents of Hancock's strongroom. It's mentioned by one of Bobbi's cronies that there are "so many boxes" in his strongroom, most of them full of paperwork. Mentioned somewhere in the game. I'm too tired to find the specific quote. But my headcanon is that he still has some memorabilia from his relationship with the aforementioned drifter. Notes to each other, letters full of immature and crude jokes, ideas for experimental drugs, and the only existing picture of pre-ghoul Hancock — a charcoal sketch of him, made by his drifter. I think he is immensely protective of these little artifacts.

• Fuck it, pre-ghoul Hancock had dimples.

I'll reblog and add more as I think of them, because I definitely have more. I'd like to do this for other characters, too.

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For the sake of Post Limit I'm putting my Season 2 Finale Part 1 thoughts into this one post

Okay so Shredder flashbacks to Karai's childhoo- you care nothing for the human race? Bitch you are one. You suck.

"Mutate her back to normal"? Sir That's Not The Correct Verbiage.

Shredder do you really think this will end well for you, teaming with The Kraang?

Oh Irma is so pushy, sometimes friend groups just don't mix and you want them separate. Like I know what Irma's whole deal is because I seek out and consume Spoilers the way Mikey does pizza but still, Red Flag there April.

Awww Donnie has a cute lil' profile pic. Really hoping April did that and Donnie didn't have it set up that way when he gave it to her.

YAY CASEY AND RAPH TEAM TIMES

Oh that street art is cool though

Oooooh Raph being protective of Donnie? Raph saying in other episodes that Donnie Has No Chance but scolding Casey for wanting April when Casey knows how Donnie feels? It's all terribly unhealthy and all that but AWWWWWWW PROTECTIVE BROTHER RAPH

Oh they the street art predicted or prophesized April in Rise

Awwwwww Donnie not being able to eat when stressed, Relatable

HELL YEAH TURTLE MECH THEY ABOUT TO PULL SOME GRAVITY FALLS WEIRDMAGEDDON FIGHTING

Ooooooh Donnie and Leo tension. Love moments like these.

Oh the Foot Bots pulled some Ringwraiths In The Prancing Pony moves and April and Irma did what The Hobbits did

OH SHIT POLICE LOITERING?! FUCK THE POLICE- OH THESE ARE KRAANG OR ON SHREDDER'S PAYROLL

Splinter, strangers enter your lair like... every other week

Oh yeah okay Irma's a ro- OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT OH GOD EW

NOOOO NOT THE ARCADE CABINET!!! Is this the voice actor of Iago from the original DIsey's Aladdin?

CASEY DIDN'T DO SHIT RAPH THE POLICE ARE TARGETING HIM UNFAILY BECAUSE ACAB

Yeah knew it, Kraang police. Not any different from regular ones really. Ooooh I liked that rearview mirror shot.

THE PINBALL MACHINEEEEEEEEE NOOOOOOOOO

YEAH YOU GET THEIR ASSES MIKEY MY SWEET BADASS BOY I'M SO PROUD OF YOU YOU'RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE

Pfffft it's biting Donnie- just pull it off, Donnie, or hit it, don't just hop there with it still sinking it's teeth in!

Oh so Raph's just riding on top of a car now. ... Well I guess with an alien invasion, maybe a giant mutant turtle is one of the lesser concerns of the people.

SPLINTER NO NO DO NOT STAY BEHIND I KNOW YOU SURVIVE THIS BUT DO NOT DO IT

OH FUCK NOOOOOOO THE SHELLRAIZER NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OH POOR DONNIE

Awww Mikey, you sweet boy, thank you for assuaging April's guilt, she really was just trying to do a good thing.

HAHA YES DONNIE AND LEO RIVALRY, LEADER VS BRAINIAC holy shit MIKEY YOU POWERHOUSE

Oh wow okay so that gunshot really took Donnie out then. My poor boy.

LEADER MIKEY LEADER MIKEY

Donnie hon it's not your fault nor Leo's nor anyone's. You wanted to try and fight, he wanted to flee to fight another day, both of you thought it was what was the right course of action, and honestly in this situation there is no perfect answer, which has been established is something you struggle wit accepting.

LEO TOOK OUT HOW MANY KRAANG BOTS ALL ON HIS OWN?!?!?!?!?!

Oh Donnie no, no baby I know this seem like the time because it could be your very last chance, and you probably think you just lost your father and oldest brother forever and don't want to lose someone else with things left unsaid, but this isn't the right time.

APRIL NO JUST TELL HIM HE DOESN'T NEED TO SAY ANYTHING OR TO WAIT UNTIL EVERYTHING'S CALMER, DON'T HURT HIM OVER IT

Oop there goes Mr. O'Neil. Yeah I'd pass out too I think.

Awwwwwww the Pizza Boy saved Chloe! I love seeing side characters do heroic acts.

Sorry Shredder, since you were a boy????? You were a fucked up little kid.

SPLINTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YOU CAN WIN THIS YES THERE YOU GO I BELIEVE IN YOU DEFEAT THE IAGO VOICE ACTOR KRAANG

HA it got squished NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE LAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT'S ALL DESTROYEDDDDDDDDDD

OH SPLINTER YOU POOR MAN WHY DO THESE THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO YOU

Leo. Leo honey they're pretty obviously sheepherding you. Oooooh to a really cool setpiece.

Oh yeah this construction lot graffiti setpiece is sick.

Tigerclaw like "Hey the kid is brave" and Shredder like "Let me roast the child I plan to murder instead"

RAPH CASEYYYYYYYYYY OH SHIT A BIG ROBOT NOOOOOOO LEAVE MY BOYS ALONE- Blonde Lady maybe don't go outside right now

RETURNS TO EARTH?!?!?? KRAANG PRIME RETURNS TO EARTH?!?!?!?!?!?!

OH GOD WHAT IN THE RESIDENT EVIL FRANCHISE ARE THOSE MUTANTS OH GODDDDDDDDDD

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Tiptoeing through the “Sundown” guest cast

Charles Malik Whitfield as Gary DeMayo Longtime television actor, Whitfield played Dr. Ben Price in One Life to Live during the early 1990’s, James Mooney in The Guardian, FBI Agent Victor Henriksen in Supernatural, Castle, The Game, Lushion Morgan in If Loving You is Wrong, Reverend L.C. Pryce in Empire, Russell Perkins in Chambers and most recently Ben Campbell in Chicago Med.

Guest roles include New York Undercover, Touched by an Angel, Lateline, Law & Order, Homicide: Life in the Streets, Seven Days, Now and Again, The $treet, Soul Food, For Your Love, The District, Love Inc., All of Us, Worst Week of My Life, Close to Home, Life, CSI: Miami, Raising the Bar, Lincoln Heights, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer, White Collar, Rizzoli & Isles, Southland, The Mentalist, Law & Order: LA, Body of Proof, CSI: NY, Malibu Country, Two and a Half Men, Law &  Order: SVU, Castle, The Game, Golden Boy, CSI (2013), Sleepy Hollow, The Good Wife, Franklin & Bash, Scorpion, The Night Shift, American Horror Story, Lifeline, Blue Bloods and Family Time.

Kiff Vanderheuvel as Carl Was Cliff Rich in the 2015 Richie Rich television series.  Played Metro P.D. Sgt Peter Todd in the NCIS “Date with Destiny” in season 15.

Guest starred in episodes of Parks and Recreation, We Are Men, Partners, Jimmy Kimmel Live sketches, The Last Ship, You’re the Worst, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, Henry Danger, I’m Dying Up Here, This is Us and Family Guy.  Provides voices for a number of video games and animated films.

Pretty “I’m on the lot” shot.   

Mo Rodvanich as Rita Rodvanich appeared in a number of series in Thailand.

A more typical “I’m on the lot” shot. 

Jacqueline Obradors as LAPD Captain Maya Lopez Was season seven two-part finale/season eight premiere villainess Paloma Reynosa in NCIS.  Played Irma in Jesse, Det. Elena Vera in Battery Park, Det. Rita Ortiz in NYPD Blue, Sofia in Freddie and Det. Christina Vega in Bosch.

Had guest roles in Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Vanishing Son, Diagnosis Murder, Renegade, Life Shot, Hide Tide, The Burning Zone, Sliders, The John Larroquette Show, Silk Stalkings, LA Doctors, Strong Medicine, Some of My Best Friends, Kate Brasher, George Lopez, Cold Case, The Glades, The Secret Life of an American Teenager, Franklin & Bash, Castle, Lopez and The Last Ship.

Trailer selfie.

Deidre Henry as Rachel DeMayo Was Aubrey McDonald in The Riches, Maggie Miller in Touch and Det. Liz Winters in Game of Silence.  Played Tracy Taylor in the “Driven” season four episode of NCIS (the woman giving the HR presentation)..

Had guest roles in Savannah, ER, Strong Medicine, Without A Trace, Commander in Chief, Shark, Heartland, Brothers & Sisters, Lie to Me, Southland, Three Rivers, Ghost Whisperer, Bones, Rizzoli & Isles, The Chicago Code, Harry’s Law, The Whole Truth, Twisted, CSI (2013), Justified, Colony, Criminal Minds, Mom, Bosch, MacGyver (2018), Shameless and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Tatiana Carr as Jackie Guest roles include Life in Pieces, Downward Dog, Scorpion, SWAT (2018), You’re the Worst, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sydney to the Max, The Good Place, Into the Dark, Man with a Plan, Trifecta and Hacks.

Was Sara Jones in the NCIS season 17 episode “Going Mobile”.

Walter Belenky as Lawrence Kerr Appeared in episodes of One Life to Live, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and FBI.

Written by:  Lee A. Carlisle wrote or co-wrote “Golden Days”, “Reentry”, “Into the Breach”, “Concours D’Elegance” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.  Carlise has been working as a story editor on the program from “Alsiyadun” in season 11 through the season 12 finale.  

Directed by:  Suzanne Saltz directed “Outside the Lines” and “Murder of Crows”.

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okay I am NOT a Kimmy couture hater I think she’s so cute and funny but how has she survived the past 2 weeks I don’t get it she’s just not up to par 😭😭

Also no hate on Irma she’s literally the whole reason I’m watching this season I once took 6 tequila shots and then passed out in the bar bc I was too scared to be introduced to them but I did NOT expect her to outlast bombae

Bom tho has not taken criticism at all she’s just like been coasting on being pretty and charismatic I guess but all in all I think she is streets ahead of Kimmy and should’ve stayed last night

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David Graham Du Bois and James Baldwin, 1985. Irma McClaurin

“It is one thing to overthrow a dictator or to repel and invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution.”

“If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne.”

“This is the message that has spread through streets and tenements and prisons, through the narcotics wards, and past the filth and sadism of mental hospitals to a people from whom everything has been taken away, including, most crucially, their sense of their own worth. People cannot live without this sense; they will do anything whatever to regain it. This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.”

― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time