#tori bates

[flowersandfashion]

sorry let me rant about downton abbey 10 years later

Thomas's conversion therapy plot pisses me off so much. firstly, it's incredibly out of character. he never wanted to change to conform to society, he wanted the world to change to accomodate him. the man who said "it's not against the law to hope is it" and "I'm not foul, Mr Carson, I'm not like you, but I'm not foul" would NEVER

secondly, from a storytelling perspective, the only 'problem' is that he used infected needles. did we forget that Thomas was a sergeant in the RAMC? he knows how to sterilise needles and how to recognise and treat infection. this also shifts the blame to Thomas himself for getting sick and implies that the conversion therapy itself is harmless (Dr Clarkson says it's just saline solution)

thirdly, it's not historically accurate. I'm not an expert but conversion therapy was not at all common in the 1920s, even Sigmund Freud was against it. hormone therapy and chemical castration were barely developing let alone available to the public (I can't imagine what else the 'treatment' was supposed to be). the only practices that I can find evidence of were psychoanalysis and electric shock therapy

Thomas also mentions that he did electric shock treatment - if you really want to make a point about homophobia in the 1920s (and make Thomas suffer as much as possible), show that instead. watching him be literally tortured for his sexuality would have been far more impactful than him just... looking sweaty for a few episodes

[fundiepredictions]

Happy anniversary

Bobby&Tori Smith (Bates) celebrate their 7th anniversary today.

Since their weddingday they had five children, Kade (6), Kolter (4), Charlotte (3), Cambree (2) and Weston (0)

[thefundiedata]

Family Overview | Tori & Bobby Smith

Pre-Court: February 2016 Courtship: October 2016 Engagement: September 2017 Marriage: December 2017

Pre-Marriage Relationship Length: 671 days.

Their Family: Robert Ellis Smith IV "Kade" - November 2018 Kolter Gray Smith - March 2020 Charlotte Raine Smith - June 2021 Cambree Layne Smith - August 2022

So What's Next? Tori and Bobby are imminently expecting Smith 5. They are expected to announce Smith 6 in July 2025 for a birth in December 2025 - assuming they do announce.

[fundieshaderoom]

Lawson might have leaked Tori's 5th child's gender

I doubt Tori gives a single fuck but yeah lol.

Erin, Law, and Carlin stay leaking shit in the vlogs and elsewhere.

[whalepropaganda]

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[fundiebabynamebible]

2022 Bates Predictions Review

No baby for 2022. The house is looking great though.

Unfortunately no baby this year. They have been promoting their business a lot but it doesn't seem like Michael has been allowed to get a job so she can use her degree.

Erin hasn't really commented on her ovaries this year but thankfully Finley was born healthy. I was wrong about the house as they've moved to Florida.

Lawson and Tiffany married in May. No attendance from Bindi but yes I'd say it was over the top compared to some of the other weddings.

Nathan and Esther announced their pregnancy on Mother's Day and their daughter Kenna Joy was born in October, which is pretty much the end of the year.

I was wrong about the pregnancy announcement but right about them adding to the family in the next few years. I knew Maci wasn't their final child.

Tori was indeed pregnant when I wrote my predictions. She and Bobby welcomed Cambree (no K name) in August.

Trace and Lydia got engaged quicker than I was expecting with their engagement in March and wedding in October.

Turns out Layla unfortunately wasn't the only one experiencing health issues this year. Zade was born in mid March, they moved house but kept Izzy.

No pregnancy announcement for these two.

Katie did struggle with being away from her family and there were a lot of trips to see her in New Jersey. Baby #1 was announced in August and Hailey James is due in March.

Jackson didn't join the police and instead got himself a girlfriend. Kelly sadly lost her mom. It was a fairly quiet year for everyone else.

[insidecroydon]

Post Office scandal: 'I wept for a few hours' says Tory MP

Stamp of approval: Mr Bates vs The Post Office, aired this week, has brought to broader public attention the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history Millions of television viewers have been horrified by the impact of the Horizon IT scandal, brought to their screens this week in a shocking mini-series. According to one MP, the government can’t do enough for ‘those who have been…

[voxpeople]

In Short: Post Office Pledges Give Tories Lead in Polls by 100%

A recent poll shows that pledges made by the Conservative party and leader Rish! Sunak to ensure justice for those effected by the Post Office Horizon scandal now sees them with an unassailable lead of 100% over Labour.

This comes in stark contrast to their declining popularity and public outrage in the party after numerous scandals and shortcomings since being returned to office in 2019.

These numbers show newfound overwhelming public approval in the current government and the Conservatives now look to retain and even improve their majority in this year's general election.

[invisibleicewands]

Bringing revolution to Port Talbot - by Michael Sheen

On a recent February morning, I woke up to find I was wrong. Not a particularly uncommon experience in itself, but unusual to discover that on this occasion I was being publicly accused of it by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade. “Michael Sheen has said that ‘the people of Port Talbot have been let down’,” Kemi Badenoch wrote in the Daily Mail. “But he is wrong.”

It was a big day. I spent all of last year directing a three-part drama series for the BBC called The Way, which was to air that night. It begins in my hometown of Port Talbot, where a strike at the local steelworks becomes the spark that ignites a violent descent into national chaos. Clearly, Ms Badenoch had been given a sneak peek of the series before forming quite a strong opinion on it. But no: reading her article, Ms Badenoch admits that she hadn’t watched it at all. Why let a total lack of information prevent a full-throated denouncement, eh? Presumably, she also assumes that we managed to write, film and edit the entire series after Tata Steel announced the imminent loss of some 2,500 jobs at the steelworks mere weeks ago.

While the winds of change have only been blowing in one direction for many years, the events in our story were dreamed up some years ago and act as a fictional catalyst for all that follows. Surely even Tory ministers understand there is no VIP fast lane for making a TV series. This isn’t a PPE contract, after all…

Nothing to see here

After that episode aired, it occurred to me that such shenanigans in the right-wing press could have been about a couple of things. Since the ITV drama about the Post Office scandal, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, caused public outrage, I imagine the government has a new fear of the impact a TV show can have. A pre-emptive strike against a series it perceives to be criticising its actions around the steel industry must have seemed a useful tactic. And, having seen Breathtaking – based on Rachel Clarke’s memoir of how the Covid crisis unfolded in the NHS, which aired on ITV the same night as The Way – I wonder if her piece was an attempt to distract attention away from more dangerous territory.

It gave Ms Badenoch a chance to trot out her line about how the people of Port Talbot should be grateful for all that the government is doing to save the steel industry, not moaning about the impact job losses will have on their community. But the people of Port Talbot have been let down, no matter what Ms Badenoch wants us to think. Not by any single entity, but by years of neglect. That she immediately assumed my comments referred to her and her government tells its own story. In the words of a much older drama than mine: the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Then and Nye

“This crisis is a privateering racket with your friends lining their pockets!��� No, not an accusation against Boris Johnson, but something I currently say to Winston Churchill every night. We opened a new play called Nye at the National Theatre this week. I play Aneurin (“Nye”) Bevan, who attacks the prime minister for turning a wartime crisis into a money-making scheme for him and his cronies. It’s one of many moments in the play that seem to speak to past and present at the same time.

The entanglement of “now” and “then” is heightened by the fact that I am wearing pyjamas. Nye is lying unconscious in his hospital bed at the end of his life, and we follow him through a dream of his past. He wanders from childhood memories of overcoming his stutter in Tredegar library to his meteoric rise through local politics, to becoming the youngest member of Clement Attlee’s pioneering postwar cabinet. And, of course, as minister for health, his tumultuous birthing of the NHS on 5 July 1948. It’s an extraordinary, surprising and moving experience telling this story on stage each night. That shared space between actors and audience, where all is felt but unseen, crackles with electricity.

Once more, with feeling

It seems that exploring the motives of politicians, the uses and abuses of political power, and the quest for justice that saw the creation of the NHS taps into deep wells of emotion. Like the pockets of gas that miners feared within the coal seam, their release brings risk and reward. At a recent show, we had three instances of people needing to be helped out of the theatre, the final one forcing us to pause the show moments from its end. Thankfully, it was nothing more serious than someone fainting. But emotions are running high.

I’m more than happy to invite Ms Badenoch to a performance. But I realise, of course, there’s no guarantee she would make it to the end.

[spnbabe67]

Confess Your Lust

Kinktober Day 25: Power Exchange (D.W.)

Pairing: Sub!Dean Winchester x Fem Original Character

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 1928

Warnings: Smut, Oral (F. Rec), PiV, D/s dynamics, Sub!Dean (don't know if that counts as a warning)

Summary: Dean likes it when Tori takes control

Authors Note: Title inspired by the song Do It For Me by Rosenfeld

Created for @anyfandomgoesbingo /Square Filled: Power Exchange

Tag List: @zepskies @king-of-milf-lovers @nightxcreature

It wasn’t often that Dean let himself be vulnerable. Practically from birth it was instilled in him to be the strong one, keeping his emotions and his softer side quiet. It’d been a long road of relearning that sentiment, and Tori had been his biggest supporter in the endeavor, in more ways than one. She hadn’t judged him the first time he suggested she take control, take things further than the typical ‘harder, faster’, while they made a mess of their sheets, easily falling into the role he’d asked of her. She hadn’t been mocking or dismissive. She’d been kind and understanding, only taking it as far as he wanted, checking with him along the way, and it made him fall in love with her even more. Gradually, Tori had gotten more and more confident, oftentimes initiating the switch without him asking, much to his delight. 

Like tonight.

Dean knelt on the floor between Tori’s legs as she sat on their bed clad in a pair of his boxers and an old oversized AC/DC t-shirt. His eyes were locked on hers as she carded her fingers through his hair, gently scratching his scalp. 

“Tell me what you want, De.” Her voice was smooth like honey, intonation gentle as she dragged a finger down the side of his face to tip his chin up either further. 

“Let me touch you, please.” Dean pleaded. He didn’t whine; that was one of her rules. No whining. He could beg and plead until his voice went hoarse, but he could never whine.

“Tell me why.” Tori countered, pulling her hand away to place it on the bed beside her. “Why should I let you touch me?”

“‘Cause I’ve been good.” God she was beautiful. Dean couldn’t pull his eyes from her even if he wanted to. They’d left the bedside lamp on and the warm glow from the bulb glanced off her features in a way that made her look simply ethereal, her raven hair unbound and spilling down her shoulders and down her back. 

“How good?”

“I’ve been so good.” Dean ran his hands up and down his thighs, his fingers itching to reach out and touch her, but knew better. She’d already instructed him to strip down to his boxers. “Please, I’ve been good. Let me touch you.”

Dean watched her with bated breath as she seemed to mull his plea over, cocking her head to the side as she examined him. He could feel a warm blush creeping up the sides of his neck as her keen gaze dragged down his bare torso, down to where his cock strained against the cotton of his boxers. He saw her eyes darken with desire, fighting her own waning desire; they were both getting used to this.

“Be gentle.” Tori spoke after minutes of silence. 

Dean resisted the urge to immediately reach out and pull her to him, to mold his mouth against hers. Instead, he gently caressed his fingertips up the outside of her leg, tracing it from her ankle up to her knee. He leaned in, brushing his lips against the inside of her knee, truly the ghost of a kiss, his eyes falling shut. He mimicked his movements on the other side, feeling her shiver at his light touches. 

Tori’s hand found his head again in an encouraging grip as his lips moved higher and higher on her thigh, letting his tongue flick out every so often, tasting her skin. His fingers followed his mouth along the outside of her thighs, hooking on the waistband of her boxers. He could see a wet spot already formed in the gray fabric, a testament of how she was having just as hard a time resisting him as he was with her. She lifted her hips, aiding him in slowly pulling her boxers down her legs. His mouth started to water at the sight of her pussy, soaked in her arousal, just inches from his face.

He went to lean in, to put his mouth right where they both wanted it when Tori took hold of his hair, halting his forward trajectory.

“What do you say?” Tori breathed.

“Please. Please let me make you feel good.” 

Tori eased her grip. “Good boy. Go ahead.”

Dean grinned up at her as he slid his hands up and down her thighs, gripping the tops of them as he leaned forward, nuzzling the inside of her thigh. Just as he felt her impatience start to boil over, Dean connected his lips to her dripping core, laving his flattened tongue up her center, pulling a shaky moan from Tori’s lips. His lips wrapped around her clit, placing open mouthed kisses over her heat, lapping her up. 

“That’s it, De. You got it, Baby.” Tori moaned

Gradually, the grip Tori’s hand had in his hair grew tighter, holding his face between her legs as he slipped a finger inside her. Her inner walls pulsated around the digit as he curled it upwards, seeking that spot he knew would have her cumming on his mouth and hands in no time. She moaned harshly as he added another finger, working them both in at a steady pace. He felt her start to clench around his fingers, her legs wanting to close around him, but stopped by his grip on her thigh with the hand not knuckle deep in her pussy. 

A string of filthy curses fell from his lover's lips as she came hard on his face, hips rocking against his mouth. Tori knotted her fingers in his hair, pulling Dean away from between her legs, finally locking her lips against his own. Dean let her guide him up off his knees, groaning as the stiffness of them protested the movement. She pulled him up, letting him chase her up the bed. That was until she flipped them, laying him flat on his back with him grinning breathlessly up at her. Tori snagged his hands as they instinctually went to their place on her hips, pinning them above his head.

“These,” She squeezed his wrists. “Stay here, yeah?”

Dean nodded vigorously, sure his pupils were blown wide with lust and affection. 

“Words, Babe. I need words.”

“Yes, Ma’am.” Dean agreed, flattening his hands against the headboard as Tori straightened again, straddling his hips. 

He groaned deep in his chest as Tori rolled her hips over his painfully hard cock, still encased in his boxers. He could feel her wet warmth through the material as she teased him. His lips parted, mouth falling open slightly as she slipped his boxers down his legs, letting them rest around his knees, not giving him the option of having them all the way off. His head fell back against the pillow, biting his lip so hard he could have sworn he tasted blood as her warm hand finally wrapped around his length pumping him once, twice. 

“How bad do you want this?” Tori’s voice even more sultry, her brown eyes half lidded once Dean dragged his head back up to look at her.

“So, so bad.” Dean begged, his voice thick with desire, not being able to help his hips bucking up against her hand. “I want you so bad. I need you, please.”

His hands curled into fists, having to force himself from reaching out to touch her. Tori leaned back over his body and Dean’s eyes fell shut, leaning up to meet her kiss. A kiss that never came. Instead he was met with a cheeky, breathless laugh next to his ear, the sensation sending a shiver down his spine. 

“I like it when you beg.” Tori whispered in his ear, nipping at the shell of it before pulling back. 

Dean’s mouth did drop open this time, mostly in disbelief of how fucking hot that exchange was. I’m so damn lucky she’s mine. His eyes damn near rolled back in his head as Tori shifted her weight, slowly lowering herself down, letting the head of him slip inside her. His jaw clenched tightly as she teased him, slowly inching him inside her just to lift herself back off, repeating the movement in painstaking segments. He whimpered as she finally sunk all the way down, his cock fully sheathed inside her. He jumped slightly of the sensation of her hands bracing on his chest, her palms smoothing along his pecs as she raised herself up until only the head of him remained inside her, then slid back down. Again and again she did it, teasing not only herself, Dean knew, but him too. But that was the game, and he knew she loved playing it as much as he did. 

But there grew a point where he could no longer take it, take keeping his hips from bucking up into her warmth, from reaching up again and taking hold of her waist, bouncing her on his cock. 

“Tori.” Dean let out a strangled whimper. “Faster, please.”

“But I like this pace.” She said mockingly, not changing her tempo

Bullshit. He knew she hated this as much as he did. 

“But I could be persuaded if you just said please.” Tori said, dragging her nails down his chest.

“Please.” Dean begged, gripping the pillow under his head.

Tori stuck to her word, moving her hips faster, even if it was at an incrementally higher pace.

“Please, baby, please.” Dean whimpered. The word became a one track record stuck on repeat, falling from his lips as he chased her warmth around him. 

Gradually her hips sped up to a manageable rhythm, a rhythm where both of them could enjoy this. Dean could feel her walls start to throb around him as she ground down on him with each pass. A trickle of sweat trailed down his forehead to his temple, soaking into the pillow under him as he held himself back from that growing pit in his belly. He knew better, knew to wait for her word. 

“Almost there baby. Just a bit longer for me, yeah?” Tori panted using her hands on his chest as leverage as she bounced up and down on him, her thigh muscles flexing with each movement. 

He could feel her knees inching closer to his waist, her inner walls squeezing him tighter and tighter as they both neared that edge. Finally, his name fell from her lips, a plea and a release, granting him permission as her orgasm rolled over him. A broken moan edged out of him as he came hot and hard inside her, hands fisted so hard in the pillow he thought he heard a stitch pop. Both of them breathed heavy as Dean helped Tori pull his limp cock from inside her, allowing her to lay on his chest. He pressed a kiss to her hair as his hand rubbed her back as they both laid there soaking in each others after-sex glow. 

“You’re incredible, you know that?” Dean murmured to her.

Tori laughed tiredly, wrapping her arms around his waist. “Thanks, Babe.”

“Thank you.” He hugged her tightly.”I needed that.”

“I know.” Tori smiled at him, pecking a kiss to his lips before reaching over to turn the light off.

Dean stroked Tori’s back until he felt her breaths even out, knowing she was asleep. He sighed, his chest swelled with love for the woman laying atop him, appreciating in the moment just how lucky he was to have her. Eventually, he too was lulled to sleep by the sounds of Tori’s soft breathing. What a better way to fall asleep?

[the-monkey-ruler]

American Born Chinese (2023) 西游ABC

Director: Destin Cretton / Ding Tai / Liu Deren / Zhang Peng / Cheng Yu / Lucy Liu / Erin O'Malley Screenwriters: You Chaomin / You Chaokai / Vali Chandrasekaran / Warren Xu Renard / Aaron Izek / Lawrence Day / Wu Kai / Lana Zhou Starring: Wang Ban / Liu Jing / Michelle Yeoh / Guan Jiwei / Daniel Wu / Yanyan Yeung / Chin Han Huang / Sidney Taylor / Mahi Alam / Qian Xinyi / Leonard Wu / David Blum / Larry Bates / Stani Blyden / Liu Bo / Josh Duvendek / Celeste Dun / Meg Schimmelfinney / Wu Hanzhang / Ouyang Wancheng / Jiang Jinan / Marty Ma / Ethan Ritchie / Xu Weilun / Jennifer Irwin / Lu Yan / Brian Hirsch / Derek Yates / Tory Keith / Gloria Reno Genre: Comedy / Action / Fantasy Country/Region of Production: United States Language: English / Mandarin Chinese Date: 2023-05-24 (USA) Number of episodes: 8 Single episode length: 30 minutes Also known as: ABC Westward Journey / ABC / 美生中国人 / 美国出生的中国人 / ABC大话西游 IMDb: tt15552018 Type: Continuation

Summary:

American Born Chinese tells the story of teenager Jin Wang (played by Ben Wang), a son of Chinese immigrants, who for the most part is a typical high school kid. He collects manga, tries to join the soccer team, and is on a journey dealing with his own identity as he tries to figure out who he is. One day, Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu), an exchange student, arrives at Jin's school. Unlike Jin, Wei-Chen didn't grow up in America, is loud and open by nature, and doesn't exhibit Jin's self-doubt and insecurities. At times, this causes Jin to feel embarrassed being associated with Wei-Chen.

Wei-Chen is revealed to be the son of Sun Wukong (portrayed by Daniel Wu), commonly known as the Monkey King, a legendary figure in Chinese literature. Wei-Chen had a dream that the mythical Fourth Scroll can stop an uprising against Heaven. The dream also told him that an ordinary teenager is destined to aid him in his search. So Wei-Chen stole his father's magical staff and is now, disguised as a high schooler, searching for the scroll in earthly California, convinced that Jin is the ordinary teenager from his prophetic dream.

Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/35618427/

Link: N/A

[spurgie-cousin]

Harvey Clark! Oof, this one takes the cake for Bates grandchildren so far. Sorry kid. (Glad he’s doing ok though)

I mean it's kinda basic, but I don't have an issue with it. Tori and Bobby Smith are still in first place as far as *interesting* Bates baby names for me (Weston Slade, Cambree, Kolter Gray).

Harvey's middle name also being Gray is kinda weird though, just because those two names have such different vibes......"Harvey Gray" sounds like a mid tier men's dress clothes brand.

[fundiepredictions]

Happy anniversary

Tori and Bobby Smith (Bates) celebrate their 6th anniversary today.

Since their weddingday they became parents to Kade (5), Kolter (3), Charlotte (2) and Cambree (1). Tori is currently expecting their 5th child.

[thefundiedata]

Meet Weston Slade Smith

On Wednesday 29th May 2024, Kelly Jo Bates announced that daughter Tori Smith had given birth to her fifth child earlier that day. Tori's fifth baby is her third boy. He joins older siblings Robert Ellis "Kade" (5), Kolter Gray (4), Charlotte Raine (2) and Cambree Layne (21 months).

Pregnancy Announcement This was a very early pregnancy announcement. Prior to Weston's arrival, Tori had announced all of her pregnancies herself on her social media. This had been getting progressively later.

Kade: Day 82 Kolter: Day 100 Charlotte: Day 113 Cambree: Day 178

However, this pregnancy was announced by Kelly Jo on the main Bates family Instagram page. She mentioned that Tori is no longer updating her social media as she announced the pregnancy. At the time, I speculated that maybe it was an earlier announcement as Kelly could be announcing when the family were first told, but it was also possible that Tori was following her theme of announcing later each time. All we knew was that Baby Smith was due after Josie's third baby (Miles Kelton Balka) who was due mid-March. I predicted a possible March or April birth in line with Tori's previous announcement dates.

As of 30th May 2024, Kelly hasn't shared Weston's exact due date. Where Tori's due dates have been known, her children have been born early.

Kade: 15 days early. Kolter: 21 days early. Charlotte: 11 days early.

This averaged to 16 days early. Weston is Tori's largest baby to date, so I'm estimating he was born 11 days early like Charlotte, though this could be wildly off.

Using this, Kelly Jo announced Tori's most recent pregnancy on Day 39 (5 weeks, 4 days), which is super early! If he was born on his due date, Weston's birth was still announced on Day 50 (7 weeks, 1 day) which is still pretty early, though maybe a little more Bates-typical?

So What's Next? Weston arrived 666 days after big sister Cambree, which is Tori's longest spacing by far.

Marriage-Kade: 328 days. Kade-Kolter: 502 days. Kolter-Charlotte: 456 days. Charlotte-Cambree: 404 days. Cambree-Weston: 666 days.

Taking the average of these and multiplying it by the maternal multiplier, Tori's predicted pace for Smith 6 is 569 days.

Birth Date: 18th December 2025 Due Date: 3rd January 2026

If the pregnancy is announced on Day 100, which would be Smith-typical, this would mean an announcement in July. However, if it was announced early like Weston was, it would mean an announcement in May 2025.

Congratulations to the family!

[theladyofshalott1989]

Hellooo! 20, 27 and 29 for Damien, please? 🥺 Tori is still stealing sweets to share with Damien! 😘

Damien will be forever in debt to Tori for bringing him sweets. The boy has an addiction. Thank you for the asks!!!

Damien's favorite spell is also Confringo (I just read your post that Confringo is Tori's fav too). It's his favorite because Sebastian taught it to him, as well as it reminds him of the day that Sebastian showed him the Undercroft for the first time, which was nearly the ~perfect~ day until Ominis confronted him ("My father is friends with the HeADmaSTEr!"). Smh.

AHHH YES! I've been waiting with bated breath for this question. Damien would absolutely 100% be in Gryffindor if he weren't in Ravenclaw. He's extremely reckless (LOL), brave, and loyal, almost to a fault. Just between you and me, he also has an unchecked hero complex. Gryffindors be like that; don't @ me. 👀👀👀

Damien's an accomplished pianist, so he's a fan of the classics. His favorite composer is Brahms.

[whalepropaganda]

A Late March–Early April Whale Roundup

(or, WhalePropaganda Saved a Bunch of Things to Post but Never Actually Posted Them, Oops)

A rare appearance from Shannon on public social media (theo_thefriendlybear Instagram story - March 18, 2023)

Taylor and Melissa out and about in Toronto (taylor_girard Instagram story - March 19, 2023)

Hannah, Amanda, Taylor, and Tori H. hanging out on the beach (taylor_girard Instagram story - March 21, 2023)

Kennedy at a sugar shack (alliemunroe3 Instagram story - March 31, 2023)

Justine playing . . . some variety of paddle sport? (lenks47 Instagram story - April 1, 2023)