#uterine casts are so cool

[heartshapdlover]

the only redeeming quality of menstruating is the gore of it all: unintentionally recreating the psycho shower scene! a concerning amount of blood in the toilet! tissue and giant blood clots and goo! witnessing the entire spectrum of the colors that blood can be! the carnal feeling of your body destroying itself!

[theexoneratedmaniac]

Let’s get one thing straight: female and woman are not synonyms, and neither are male and man. Woman and man are genders, whereas male and female are sexes. 

According to the Canadian Institiutes of Health Research:

According to the World health organization:

Gender is not something people “can choose and pick off a shelf”, they are something you are born with, like how some people are born with brown eyes or curly hair.

However, we can agree on some things here. Femininity does not equate to being a woman, and masculinity does not equate to being a man. Yes, feminine men are still men, just as masculine women are still women. Pushing femininity on women is wrong, and pushing masculinity on men is wrong. 

Now, medications. Testosterone and estrogen injections are not some random drug trans people go around injecting themselves with as they please, nor are they “not meant for the body of the opposite sex”. Doctors would not offer these hormones to their transgender patients if it wasn’t safe for them to take.

According to the American Association for Clinical Chemistry:

While they are not necessary for someone’s body shutting down and being hospitalized, neither is a cast for a broken limb. You aren’t going to die from a broken arm, but it sure would be nice if it could be fixed. Except, the most significant difference here being you aren’t significantly likely to attempt suicide if you have a broken arm that never got fixed. 

The majority of trans people do not transition because it is popular, or to appropriate women's sports, or to get away with breaking the law. Not sure where planned parenthood came into this, but I don’t think gender transitions have anything to do with abortions. While some people do transition for these reasons, it is an incredibly small number, and is only so well known because of the press. It’s like how you always see news stories about school shootings in the United States, but never any news stories about schools that aren’t being shot up. After all, what is there to cover? 

There are conditions in female intersex people, such as Progestin Induced Virilization, that can cause the person to not have a cervix and still be considered female, or on the female side of intersex.

According to the Intersex Society of North America:

“in extreme cases of [Progestin Induced Virilization] there is no vagina or cervix, the uterine tract being connected to the upper portion of the urethra internally. The virilization only occurs prenatally and the endocrinological functionality is unchanged, ie. feminizing puberty occurs due to normally functioning ovaries. In other words, XX people affected in-utero by virilizing hormones can be born into a continuum of sex phenotype which ranges from ‘female with larger clitoris’ to ‘male with no testes’.”

The transgender identity is not a trend, nor do school-aged kids believe it is cool. I know this from first hand experience being mistreated in school due to my transgender identity. Very few students in schools identify as transgender, or even LGBTQ, because they face harassment and violence. While commercialism can make it seem like the LGBTQ community is nothing but something to capitalize off of (such as burger king’s burgers with two of the same side buns during pride month, or the insane amount of rainbows you see in every single company logo during the month of June), it isn’t. As someone who sounds like they support lesbian and gay and bisexual people, I’m sure you’d agree that the situation with commercialism during pride month is over the top.

You mention over and over again that I should look into sources that aren't "biased and catering to the current trans trend and gender identity trend". I would greatly appreciate it if you linked me to some of these sources, because I have yet to find any on my own. The sources I have used are linked after each quote or screenshot. I don't believe they are biased, considering they are such widely used and known resources, such as the World Health Organization.

trans men are men

they still have to get pap smears from their gynecologists for their very real female bodies

[amydancepants-peralta]

Hey renee! Can you write a fic about what happens after Jake And Amy come home from Shaws? 👀 Also I love your fics! ♥

Your wish is my command, anon!  (also, @b99peraltiago‘s wish is my command, as she sent me through a prompt as well haha!)    

This one is NSFW, boys and girls! 😉

bringing the mess of me back together 

Jake’s hands feel softer than normal tonight.

It’s an odd thought for Amy to have, especially considering he’d been holding her hands in his less than ten minutes ago at the bar.  But they do - they’re softer than she remembers them being, and right now they are travelling at a steady pace along the outside of her upper thigh, and Amy’s never been more thankful that she’d pulled a dress out of her wardrobe earlier this evening.  

She chalks it up to one of the thirty-odd vitamins they’d both added to their diet, this unexpected smoothness of his skin.  Two weeks into this whole fiasco he’d stood beside her in their bathroom, catching her eyes in the reflection of the mirror as he’d announced that all those pills had given him a marvellously silky coat, and then proceeded to flip his hair like one of those girls in a shampoo commercial.  It had been adorable and hilarious (and just a teensy bit sexy), and she remembers kissing him - soft, but quick - the kind of everyday kiss that happens when you know there’s a lifetime of days ahead.

The kisses he was giving her in the back of this cab didn’t even hold a candle to that day.  Now, his lips were hot against hers, persistent with passion and filled with the promise of oh, so much more.  It’s been so long since they’ve kissed like this, and it hadn’t really occurred to Amy just how much she’s missed it.

Jake pulls away slightly, resting his forehead against hers as he struggles to catch his breath, his eyelids still heavy with desire.  Amy knew that look he gave her in the bar, that we need to get out of here before I drag you into that coat closet again look that has always been way up there on her list of favourite looks he can give her, and she should probably feel guilty for stealing this cab from that drunk couple outside Shaw’s, but she really doesn’t.  

Moving her hands from his waist, Amy cups Jake’s face in her hand, skimming her left thumb along his cheekbone before pulling him down for another kiss, this one starting out a lot softer but quickly turning into so much more.  Their tongues massage each other while their hands begin to roam, that sweet just you wait feeling washing over them.  This time it’s Amy that pulls away, fingers circling the buttons on the front of her husband’s shirt, and when he reaches out to tip her chin towards him she catches his eye, both letting out a soft chuckle.  They were acting like horny teenagers tonight, and it was such a welcome change of pace.

The passing streetlights wash over Jake’s features as the cab streaks down Bleecker Street - probably too fast for the posted speed limit, but perhaps the driver can feel the tension just as much as they can - and as Amy watches the shadows flicker over her husband’s face, finally she notices the bags under his eyes; the underlying look of defeat that simmers beneath the surface, and the pang of sadness that has snuck it’s way into her heart sharpens ever so slightly.  He picks up on the change in her expression - because nobody has ever been able to read her the way that Jake can - and he leans back in, the tip of his nose pushing into her cheek as he presses his lips against hers gently, pulling away and whispering you and me, Ames.  

It seems like only a minute has passed, but suddenly they’re in their bedroom and Amy’s jacket is on the floor and it’s strange, because she’s definitely not drunk, but maybe right now she’s just completely drunk on Jake.  His hands move quickly along the edge of her dress, rucking up the material until he’s got enough of a grip and he pulls, giving her his beautiful wide grin as the garment falls to the floor.  She pulls him in for a kiss while her hands make quick work of the buttons on his shirt, yanking it off before another second is wasted and sliding her hands beneath the material of his undershirt, running her hands along the base of his spine and smiling against his lips when he lets out a soft groan.  

Jake pulls away quickly, the collar of his undershirt briefly getting caught on the edge of his nose and he casts it aside with a flick of his wrist, wrapping his arms around Amy’s waist and gripping her tightly.  His hands still feel soft, but now they’re also warm and steady and welcome as they ascend along her back, grappling with the clasp of her bra until she feels the pull and stretch of it all coming free.  It strangely feels like forever since they’ve been like this, since she’s felt the warmth of her husband’s bare skin against her chest, and she doesn’t hesitate in throwing her arms around his neck, pulling him in so that she can feel him all the more.  Her fingers toy with the slight curl of the shorter hair at the base of his head, and she feels the coolness of Jake’s belt buckle bounce against her skin as he wrestles with his jeans, the heavy thud of denim against the floorboards ringing out only a moment later.  

His hands grip her butt, digging in slightly as Amy stoops while he lifts, wrapping her legs around Jake’s waist without hesitation, and how had she not noticed how much she has missed this?  Somewhere along the way, they’d started to forget moments like these - this lead up to greatness, when the only thing that mattered was how good it felt to be in each other’s arms.  

They stand there melted together for the longest time, both completely lost in their kisses as a build up of all the passion they’ve left behind finally begins to erupt inside them.  It isn’t until she can feel the familiar material of their bedspread moving against her back that Amy realises that Jake has leant her down towards the mattress, and she unwraps her legs to help them shuffle upwards a little.  

There’s a sense of urgency to Jake’s touch, the way hands never seem to be too far away from her body, that turns Amy on all the more, and although she knows that Jake has always desired her it feels like the longest time since she’s actually felt desirable.  His lips trail down her neck, nibbling gently at her collarbone and back up to that spot behind her ear, and they both grip each other tighter as she lets out a breathless moan.  He ventures lower, circling her nipple with his tongue before sucking it in completely, one hand wriggling free to grip her other breast and oh, how she has missed this.  

Her hips buck upwards in response to Jake’s touch, and her pelvis rubs up against his erection - eliciting a moan from her husband’s mouth that echoes around her skin and spurs her on for more, twisting her hips so that she can move back and forth.  His teeth sink gently into the bottom of her breast in reprimand, his free hand snaking down towards her underwear and rubbing her gently through the fabric.  He sighs at the moisture that he finds there, and Amy moans in response before wrapping her legs back around Jake’s waist, shifting her weight until his back hits the bedspread.

The smile she gives him is devious, pressing her right hand into his chest to keep him in place as her left slides lower, palming his erection as it strains against his boxers before shuffling down his body and pushing her knees into the mattress on either side of him.  He lifts slightly as her nimble fingers grip the waistband of his underwear, pulling them down and off with an eagerness that both of them can relate to, a mumbled version of her name hanging in the air as his head pushes back into their pillows.

It had only taken a few nights into their relationship for Amy to figure out that Jake was a Very Big Fan of foreplay.  Those first weeks of discovering each other, exploring the other’s bodies and experimenting with different positions and tempos had been the best weeks of her life thus far, continually thanking her lucky stars that she’d fallen for somebody who was so intent on giving her pleasure in so many ways.  It ended up becoming a recurring theme in their lives, often coming up when the other least expected it (ie. that night on her couch, three months in), but in the sea of madness that had become their overly scheduled attempts at procreation, moments like these had sadly fallen to the wayside.  

But not tonight.  Gripping his dick in her hand, Amy rotates her wrist, pumping slowly up and down and biting her lip at the responding moan that falls from her husband’s mouth.  Tonight, she wants Jake to feel the same kind of amazing he makes her feel.  Wants him to come in her mouth and not consider it a ‘wasted opportunity for a uterine deposit’, but rather a chance for her husband to have an orgasm for no reason other than pleasure.  

Pulling her hand away, Amy lowers herself towards Jake’s body, beginning a series of tiny kisses that trail along the top of his pelvis, tonguing the trail of hair that leads to the grand prize before skipping it all together and kissing his inner thigh instead.  From above her, Jake lets out a huff of frustration, and she pulls away completely - waiting until she has his full attention before holding his gaze as she opens her mouth and takes him in completely.  

It had been so long since she’s instigated this, since she’s taken Jake in her mouth and grazed her teeth in feather-light movements against the edge of his cock in the way that she knows he loves.  Relaxing her jaw, she lets him slide deeper in, resisting the urge to react as the head of his erection hits the back of her throat, flattening her tongue against his dick as she slowly slides him back out again.  His fingers dig into her scalp just a little harder as he moans above her, moaning a combination of Ames and so long and it’s the obvious desire in his voice that spurs her forward.

She pulls him out of her mouth completely, circling her tongue around the tip before heading to the base and sliding upwards in one slow lick, and Jake lets out another moan, bucking his hips upwards.  His eyes have long since squeezed shut, and Amy rubs her free hand along the outside of his thigh soothingly as she takes him back into her mouth, increasing her suction all the more as he writhes beneath her.  Her head bobs up and down as she really gets to work, taking the increased intensity of Jake’s sighs as a good indicator that things are going to plan, and when his fingers grip her hair he mumbles, “I’m gonna come, babe, oh god ..” 

Moving her free hand to cup his balls, Amy scrapes her nails gently along the sensitive skin she finds there, and it’s all Jake needs to be pushed completely into oblivion and he comes with a shout, his seed filling her mouth as he calls out her name.  

His chest is heaving by the time she slides his cock out of her mouth, one hand pressed against the side of his face as he mumbles her name repeatedly while coming down from the high.  Sliding against the sheets, Amy dots kisses along the side of her husband’s body before reaching the top, resting her head against his shoulder and looking up at him, watching as he struggles to catch his breath.  Finally, he turns to her and smiles, wrapping an arm around her waist and rolling her body on top of his.  Tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear, Jake smiles at Amy before dropping a tender kiss to her mouth.  “That was awesome, Ames.  You are awesome.”

Grinning, Amy leans in for another kiss.  “You’re pretty awesome yourself, babe.”

“While that’s true, you’re definitely more awesome-er.”

Without even realising what she’s saying, Amy pulls back to look at her husband and replies, “Well, you’re the awesome-est.”

He laughs, stroking the side of her cheek gently with his thumb, trailing his hand down until he’s following the curve of her lower lip.  “Forgoing the basic rules of the English language to compliment me?  You must be in love.”  

Amy’s responding smile is bright, and she nods.  “Completely.”  Moving her arm to rest against Jake’s chest, she drops her chin to her wrist and twists her mouth slightly.  “I’ve missed this.”

“…. You giving me head?”

She laughs, and Jake’s grip around her waist tightens as he joins in.  “No!  I mean .. yes, but I more meant this.  Just lying here together, talking … we got off track for a bit there.”  Pushing herself slightly forward, Amy presses her lips against Jake’s.  “I’m really glad we found our way back.”

Moving one hand down to grip her butt, Jake leans in to return the kiss before flipping Amy over, cradling her head with his free hand as she rolls underneath him.  “Me too, Ames.  And right now, there’s something I really wanna do.”

Jake’s eyes are dark and full of lust as he plants his hands on the mattress either side of Amy, dropping his head to her shoulders and covering each side with a series of kisses.  Even after they went into Full Amy mode, war-room scheduling included, Jake had done his best while he could to keep things fun and light and sexy.  Surprising her with sweet massages, littering her body with a thousand tiny kisses while they relaxed on their couch, running his hands over Amy’s bare skin with absolute reverence as they worked together to get things going.  

Looking back, it’s hard to pinpoint when it all disappeared; hard to figure out when it stopped being sex.  When scheduled sex with their shirts on overtook making love.  Amy loves schedules - but she loves Jake more, and it terrifies her that for a little while there, the most important detail of love had fallen off of their list of priorities.     

Shuffling lower, Jake’s kisses travel down her ribcage heading towards her stomach, and honestly Amy doesn’t mean to, but she stiffens up as soon as she feels the tip of his nose rub against her skin.  This was, after all, the part of her body that they’d both imagined to be swollen with a child by now -  healthy, glowing proof that as one, they had created a new life.  It was hard for her not to consider herself broken … a failure at something so simple that, being one of eight Santiago children, should come to her so easily.  

Jake stops in his tracks, resting both hands on her hips as he looks up at Amy, and his eyes look so wide and sincere that Amy can feel her strong reserve crumbling down, brick by brick.  Rubbing his thumbs in a soothing pattern, he holds her gaze as he presses his lips against her skin, covering her abdomen over and over until Amy can feel the tension begin to slowly melt away.  Rising slightly, Jake moves to hover over Amy, pushing his knee into the bedsheets as he rests his forehead against hers.  “None of this is your fault, Amy.  Whatever it takes, we’re gonna figure this out.  Together.”

Amy’s heart flutters, and she runs one hand through his hair.  “I love you, Jake Peralta.”  He leans in for a soft kiss, and she smiles when they part.  “So much.“

He answers with another kiss, this one heavy with passion and affection, and just when Amy begins to think her heart is going to switch into overdrive he pulls away, dropping one last kiss to the tip of her nose before continuing his earlier path.

The sight of her husband, head dipped low as he trails his tongue down her body, is incredibly arousing, and Amy finds her hips lifting in silent invitation as Jake travels further down.  He mouths her clit through the material, suckling softly agains the fabric before curling his fingers around the edge of her panties and tugging downwards - moving only to help Amy bend her legs in succession so that he can toss the fabric away.  

He watches her carefully as one hand returns to her centre, massaging her mound in deliberate strokes.  Grabbing her left hand with his right he pulls it down until they’ve met his other hand, not letting go until their joined fingers have reached her clit.  Taking the cue, Amy begins to rub in slow circles, letting out a soft moan when she feels two of Jake’s fingers enter, stroking her deep inside and setting all of her nerves on fire.

Her legs spread wider as her breath hitches in her chest, and then suddenly she can feel Jake’s warm tongue against her folds and her hand falls away, moving to grip the strands of his hair as his mouth begins to lavish attention onto her bud.  It all felt so incredible, so familiar and yet strangely so new, and ohhh, she’s really REALLY missed this.

Jake’s tongue dips and rises, lowering then climbing again and again, and she’d almost swear he’s drawing a love heart with that talented tongue of his but before she can even ask his lips are surrounding her clit completely, sucking just hard enough that Amy’s pelvis lifts off the bed, her fingers digging into his hair as he persists with the movement.  His right hand grips the bare skin of her butt as she feels her body begin to clench up, and her thighs are definitely locking her husband in place right now but she hears no protests … she can’t hear anything, really, apart from the sound of her own moans as Jake pushes her over the edge a mere millisecond later. 

She’d almost forgotten about this; the rush of blood whooshing through her body, the feeling of everything tightening and then relaxing in such a quick succession that her limbs tremble in the aftershock.  Jake knew how to read her body better than anybody she’d ever been with before - something she’d come to realise within the first week of dating, but didn’t dare to tell him until several months in.  Even now, as Amy’s heart pounds right out of her chest and coherent thought begins to return to her mind, she can feel his ridiculously soft lips running along the inside of her thigh, lapping away the evidence of her arousal before pushing his weight upwards along her body and reversing the trail of kisses he’d paved on her skin earlier.

His breath is hot on her skin as he grates his teeth against one nipple, swirling his tongue around the tip before releasing, mumbling - “I’ve really missed doing that.”

Amy grins, and she knows it’s the type of grin that in the past Jake has told her looks like the cat who got the cream, and in all honesty he’s not wrong.  She feels satiated, the muscles in her body relaxing as she feels Jake’s body slide up against hers, and when he kisses her she responds enthusiastically, thoroughly enjoying the taste of her on his tongue.  “I’ve really missed you doing that,” she replies with a wink, and he laughs before pulling her in for another kiss.  

She deepens the kiss as she feels Jake’s body cover hers, his erection nudging against her stomach.  Separating her legs slightly to allow space for Jake to rest between them, she pulls away to catch her breath, pushing her lower body up towards her husband as she goes.  Her entire centre is still throbbing after having the strongest orgasm she’s had in the longest time, but already she’s desperate for more.

Jake’s thumb brushes along her hairline, and his voice is soft when he asks - “Should I put on a condom?” and it’s so sweet of him to ask, knowing that she’s been off her birth control for months now, and perhaps both of them just needed a little bit of time.  But there’s still a tiny part of Amy that is holding onto the hope that maybe this time will be the one, and so she shakes her head quickly, craning her neck up towards Jake and pulling him in for another kiss, moaning against his mouth as he enters her slowly.

He pauses for a moment, giving Amy time to adjust before pulling out just as slowly and thrusting back in, settling into a rhythm that is soft and sweet and she really, truly loves this man.  She loves him for knowing that this is what she needs right now - that after months of things being so clinical, what both of them needed was just to make love - and if they make a baby from it, well then that’s just a bonus.  She loves him for all the times he’s reminded her just how amazing he believes her to be; for telling her that even in the hardest times she was never alone.  Amy knew, deep down in her heart, that no matter which way they decided to go with things, that Jake would support her one hundred percent, and that meant more to her than she could possibly say.

Her hips begin to push up off the bed, meeting Jake’s perfectly rhythmic thrusts, and he drops his head to the base of her neck and sinks his teeth in softly as he lets out another moan, mumbling out an Ames as his tongue laps against the indentation his bite left behind.  Gripping both of his shoulders with her hands, Amy can feel her fingernails dig into his skin as her legs wrap around Jake’s waist, quietly begging for more, and he really does know her so well because without hesitation his thrusts increase in both speed and intensity, and Amy’s head falls back down the pillow as she lets out a strangled yesss.

She knows that neither of them are going to last long - this feels way too good for it to last, and in all honesty they had all night - and with that in mind Amy pushes her pelvis up towards Jake’s body, letting the persistent movement of his thrusting hips rub her clit in just the right way.  It works perfectly, because it’s only a minute or two later that her entire body is shuddering, the overwhelming sensation of pure satisfaction quaking through her body as she calls out Jake’s name.  As his fingers dig into her butt Jake speeds up his thrusts, pushing both of their bodies up the mattress as he moves closer to the edge, pulling Amy in for a heart-stopping kiss as he finally comes.  He whispers her name when they part, both of their skin slick with sweat from their exertions but neither willing to move just yet.

Eventually he pulls out, hands sliding over Amy’s skin as he moves to lay beside her, and briefly Amy fights the instinct to hold her knees to her chest, finally dismissing all of the pregnancy journals and articles that had recommended her do.  Instead, she curls her body towards her husband, resting her head against his chest and listening to his heartbeat as it gradually slows back down to it’s regular rhythm.    

The tip of Jake’s middle finger traces up and down Amy’s arm, gliding against her skin as his heaving breath slows, and his voice breaks through the silence while he uses his other hand to pull her closer to him.  “I meant what I said earlier, Ames.  You and I, we’re a family.”  She feels his lips press against her hairline, and she nods in response.  “Whether that’s a family of two, or three, heck even a family of nine - I don’t mind.  As long as it’s you and me, everything else is gravy.”

Amy nods again, silently waiting for the tears to threaten her calm again, but this time around they simply don’t come.  She knows - she knows - that Jake is right.  The two of them are where it all ends and begins.  And one way or another, they would figure it all out.  Her hand slides along his stomach, curling around his waist as she moves up slightly, tucking herself into his shoulder the way she loves to.  “You better be counting some pets when you’re getting to that nine, Peralta.”

His chest bounces underneath her arm as he laughs, and there really is no way to describe just how happy Jake makes her.  “I’m just saying, babe - we could like, totally dominate the crime fighting world.  Have someone from the FBI, the CIA, a detective - you and I both know you’ll be captain by then - and I guess one of them could be a firefighter, if they really wanted.  I don’t know about you, but I think that sounds pretty awesome.”

Tipping her head slightly, Amy plants a kiss to the side of Jake’s neck, pausing to breathe him in.  “It does sound pretty awesome.”

Amy can’t see his face, but she knows that he’s smiling at her response, and she leans back in for another kiss.  It was beginning to feel as though all the stress of the past six months was seeping out of her body, her limbs growing heavier the longer she lay there in her husband’s arms.  Jake must be feeling the same, his voice heavy with exhaustion as he mumbles, “I love you, Ames”, and she can feel her face stretch into a beaming smile as she closes her eyes.  Whether they end up with a team of crime-fighters, or keep their family at two, she would always have Jake by her side, and that meant everything.

*

It’s another ten days before Amy decides to take another pregnancy test, and she doesn’t feel nearly as defeated as all the times before when she shows the negative result to Jake with a casual nope.  This was just another test - and it was hard, for sure.  But together, they’d find a way.   

[mastcomm]

Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer – The New York Times

Fran Drescher’s voice, if you ever have the chance to hear it deployed in very close vicinity over shrimp tempura and spicy tuna sushi, is actually quite soothing.

When Drescher played Fran Fine on “The Nanny,” the 1990s sitcom she created with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, she was pitching her voice higher, squeezing it up her nose, acting. Back then, The New York Times compared Drescher to “the sound of a Buick with an empty gas tank cold-cranking on a winter morning.” But here in her living room above Central Park, sitting among crystals, fresh lemons, fine sculpture and photographs of herself meeting establishment Democrats, she sounds more like a Mercedes purring out of the Long Island Expressway. For those who grew up with “The Nanny” as our nanny, her voice is so embedded in the subconscious that hearing the softened version is almost therapeutic. Imagine if Nanny Fine had an ASMR setting.

“I’ve heard it’s like a foghorn, a cackle,” Drescher said carefully, balancing her plate in the lap of her little black dress. “I always just describe myself as having a unique voice.” When she left Queens for Hollywood in the late 1970s, her manager told her, “If you want to play other parts, besides hookers, you’re going to have to learn to speak differently,” she recalled. Instead Drescher leaned into her natural gifts. In 1992, she pitched herself as a sitcom star to the president of CBS: “Because of the voice, they think I’m the seasoning in the show,” she told him. “That’s wrong. I’m a main course.”

America has not heard from Drescher much lately — she has not appeared regularly on television since her TV Land sitcom “Happily Divorced” ended in 2013, and “The Nanny” is sadly hard to stream — but this week, at 62, she returns to TV with NBC’s “Indebted.” As in the pilot of “The Nanny,” Drescher appears unexpectedly on a doorstep, except this time, it belongs to her adult son (Adam Pally). She and Steven Weber play Debbie and Stew Klein, a couple of boomer dilettantes who crash their kid’s married life with the news that they’re in debt. The role of Debbie, a boundaryless hugger who swans around her son’s suburban home as if it’s her own personal retirement community, inverts the “Nanny” dynamic: Now the kids have to take care of her.

When Drescher weighed whether to take on the show, a family sitcom that draws on generational conflict, she thought of her own family. “My parents, who are still alive, thank God, were so excited about me being on network television again,” she said. “You know, not everybody could find TV Land,” she added, “but everybody could find NBC.”

The role was not written for Drescher, exactly. The pilot script had called for a “Fran Drescher type,” and when the real Fran Drescher signed on, she required a few adjustments. “People are used to seeing an annoying mother-in-law in a sitcom, but that’s not what I signed up for,” Drescher said. “When you have somebody whose persona is bigger than the part, you got to make it right for me. Or why have me?”

That meant giving Debbie Klein some passions of her own. “I had to bring myself into it,” she said. “I really infused the sex appeal, the sensuality, the vivaciousness of the character.”

“Indebted” creator Dan Levy, a comedian and producer for “The Goldbergs,” said that he originally modeled Debbie and Stew after his own parents, but that the steaminess was all Drescher. “My mom was like, ‘That’s not based on us,’” Levy said. “She elevated that to a whole level that I was not expecting.”

In the decades since Drescher first opened her mouth onscreen, the Fran Drescher type has achieved a quiet dominance over popular culture. “The Nanny” has been syndicated around the world and remade in a dozen countries, including Turkey (where it was called “Dadi”), Poland (“Niania”) and Argentina (“La Niñera”). In “The Nanny,” for anyone who doesn’t have the chatty theme song implanted in her brain, Drescher plays a Jewish woman from Queens hired to tend to the three precocious children of a wealthy English widower, Maxwell Sheffield, who is also Broadway’s second-most-successful producer (after his nemesis, Andrew Lloyd Webber). In foreign versions, the ethnicities are recalibrated — in the Russian one, the nanny is Ukrainian — but the Fran Drescher type is otherwise preserved. Wherever she goes, the ethnic striver is transplanted into a posh setting as the help, and her appealing culture and individual charm pull off the ultimate makeover — reinventing the strait-laced insiders in her own brash image.

Across the internet, Fran Fine is helping to perform similar tricks. With her pile of hair, power-clashing wardrobe and cartoon proportions, she has been fashioned into an avatar of stylish self-respect. In GIFs spirited around social media, she can be seen in a cheetah-print skirt suit, sipping from a cheetah-print teacup; inhaling a plate of spaghetti with no hands; and descending the Sheffields’ ivory staircase as if entering New York’s hottest club.

“I send this when I’m excited,” Drescher said, summoning her phone from her assistant Jordan and thumbing to a GIF of Fine twirling across the mansion in a fuchsia dress and a self-satisfied look. “How many people can send their own GIF?”

The Fran Drescher type is a kind of advisory role. First she was the world’s nanny, showing kids how to mix prints and be themselves, and now she has matured into a cool-aunt persona, modeling a fabulous adulthood. (“Broad City” made this transformation literal, squeezing Drescher into a low cut rainbow and cheetah-print dress and casting her as Ilana’s Aunt Bev, and by extension the spirit guide for a new generation of Jewish comediennes.) “I’ve never had kids, so I’m not really parental,” Drescher said. “I’m a mom to my dogs.”

“I’m kind of an influencer,” she added. Drescher has led an unconventional life, and “I share it,” she said. “It gives my life purpose.” In two memoirs, she has discussed being raped at gunpoint in her 20s, surviving uterine cancer in her 40s, and divorcing Jacobson only to acquire a new gay best friend when he subsequently came out. Recently she thrilled the internet when she revealed that she has secured a “friend with benefits” whom she meets twice a month for television viewing and sex. “I don’t think it’s that shocking a thing,” Drescher said. “I’m not in love with him.”

The kids who grew up watching “The Nanny” are now Nanny Fine’s age, old enough to properly covet her closet and cultivate a newfound respect for her persona. On Instagram, the @whatfranwore account catalogs classic “Nanny” outfits, and @thenannyart pairs them with contemporary art pieces. Cardi B once captioned a photo of herself in head-to-toe cat prints: “Fran Drescher in @dolceandgabbana.” The actor Isabelle Owens will mount a one-woman song-and-dance show dedicated to Drescher in New York this month, called “Fran Drescher, Please Adopt Me!” “As everything from the ’90s comes back, people are rediscovering her,” Owens said, noting Drescher’s fashion, her confidence, and her voice; Owens is still working to perfect her impersonation. “There are so many layers to it,” she said. “It’s so delicate and lyrical.”

The Fran Drescher type, no matter how big it gets, still risks reducing the woman behind it. “All of her is in me, but not all of me is in her,” Drescher said. “I don’t think any of my characters could have ever created and executive-produced ‘The Nanny.’” Fran Fine might have been able to wrap the boss around her red-lacquered little finger, but Drescher is the boss. When she secured her own New York apartment, in 2004, it was here, just across the park from the house that stood in for the Sheffield mansion on “The Nanny.” Soon her transformation into Mr. Sheffield will be complete: She is developing a Broadway show of her own, a musical adaptation of “The Nanny” that she will co-write with Jacobson.

“The Nanny” is a timely bid for Broadway. Drescher takes the stage’s most classic feminine archetype and gives her a modern upgrade: She is Eliza Doolittle if she refused to take her voice lessons.

That’s perhaps the biggest misconception about the Fran Drescher type — that the voice is an unfortunate obstacle, rather than a cultivated asset. Once, a fan asked Drescher about the classic “Nanny” scene where Fran Fine goes for sushi, naïvely swallows a wad of wasabi, and says, in an eerily neutral broadcaster’s voice, “Gee, you know, that mustard really clears out the nasal passages.” The fan wanted to know how Drescher had managed to pull that voice off. Sitting in her parkside apartment, perched in her producer’s chair, confidently apportioning her wasabi, Drescher revealed her secret: “I’m very talented.”

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[letscuttothefeeling]

season three episode three

Let me start off by congratulating the producers – not you Ish – on this great episode. I finally feel like we’re back to THE SHOW. Not a weird Bachelor spin-off with minimal drama and blatantly horrible editing (see: Juliette’s grad party scene, where Chloe’s nails change color DURING THE PARTY.) Nope, we’re done with that and back to the good stuff, so on that note, let’s cut to the feeling.

Come ON MTV it’s like you weren’t even trying. And yes, I created this, and no, I don’t have a life.

I know I’m going to like an episode when it starts off with the angelic sounds of my lord and savior, Ariana Grande. As break up with ur girlfriend, i’m bored plays, we zoom into Cara’s house. Personally, I’m hoping to see Victoria. Alas – it’s just Cara…and Garrett. God, Garrett STOP. Your ex-girlfriend has already outlined exactly how Cara is using you – since she did the exact same thing - and you’re still asking Cara on dates? This is so cringe. Where’s Victoria?!

Even though Garrett can’t score a date, Brandon can! Maybe instead of asking Cara to go look at babies, you should ask her to rollerblade, G Baby. As Amanda and Brandon glide around the Key, we learn that Brandon is celebrating his 24th birthday on Friday! And it’s “24, Like, Karat Gold Slash, Like, Pirate, Sort Of” themed, of course! He debates whether or not to invite Juliette while giving us viewers amazing helmet safety tips. Meanwhile, after Cara has removed G Baby from her property, she makes her way to Chloe’s to checkuppé on her. This is where we learn that Chloe has officially called the cops and filed a police report. I have a lot of opinions, but more on this later.

Okay, something I haven’t touched on because I wish it wasn’t happening I haven’t had time is that Kelsey and Jared have sparked a little romance. If you don’t remember, while Kelsey was dating her random LA boyfriend, Jared was the 86th person she cheated on him with. I see this going well! I mean, it always works out when you leave someone you cheated on for the person you cheated with. Right? Plus, there’s Twisted Tea and mudding involved, so Kelsey can rest assured she’ll be going on sophisticated and expensive dates instead of the shitty and poor dates that Garrett used to take her on.

FINALLY, the C + V scene I need and deserve. Donning a black one-piece that contrasts perfectly with her frozen fruity pink drink, Victoria is effortlessly exuding two polar opposite, chaotic energies. I’m getting “sassy”, but I’m also getting “I’ll fuck you up if you insult my 90’s Quiksilver skater shoes.” AKA, I’m getting Avril during the Girlfriend era. And I love it. As she floats next to Cara in the pool and shockingly proclaims that she’s not into guys, (what?!) I’m on my knees praying to God himself that she become a main cast member vis-à-vis a relationship with Cara. It’s Victoria’s show, and we’re all just living in it, baby. After Cara’s bizarre comment about how her parents punish her by locking her in their wine cellar (weird flex, but okay) Victoria giggles about how dumb Garrett is and we move on.

We leave C and V for a Madisson and Kelsey reunion, but it’s not a happy one. Madisson delivers the unfortunate news that Chloe may be pressing charges. Oh no! I would be really upset by this, but I can’t focus on the content of Madisson’s words because of how she’s delivering them. Madisson, we fully understand that you’ve been to an acting class in LA because you won’t shuttupé about it, so you can stop over-enunciating everything that comes out of your mouth. Thanks!

After Kelsey tells Juliette about her impending stint in Florida prison, she gets understandably upset. Luckily, Boring Robby is there to teach Juliette how to apologize. Don’t say he never did anything for her! I want to point out that Kelsey truly has been redeeming herself this season. She’s been pretty level headed and a very good friend. If only Boring Robby could do the same… Later in the day, Kelsey confronts Robby about another thing Madisson spilled during their meetup. Apparently, while Juliette was fighting everyone last week, Boring Robby had the audacity to applaud her! How gauche. Boring Robby vehemently denies these claims, saying, “Always take the high road, because the low road is way too crowded,” and, “Silence is the best way to react to a fool, and happiness is the best revenge.” First of all, stop lying about things that were FILMED on national television. You’re now Boring Robby: The Liar. Second of all, why are you the human embodiment of my ninth grade Pinterest quotes board?

Grab your pillows and sleeping bags because we are heading to a SLUMBER PARTY! But before anyone can start braiding each other’s hair, Chloe begins to stir the pot, yet again. She delights in bringing up Brandon and Amanda’s new relationship right in front of Madisson. But to distract from the awkwardness, Amanda changes the subject to her missing phone. After the fight, she lost her phone and no one has been able to find it. She starts to give us a play-by-play analysis of why and how she thinks Boring Robby: The Liar stole it. I’m sorry, am I watching Joe Goldberg on You, or am I watching Amanda on Siesta Key? 

It’s the day of the BG’s bday, and I’m so excited to see everyone’s 24 Karat Gold Slash Like Pirate themed outfits! They don’t disappoint - G Baby and Victoria are even matching!! I’ve never screamed so loudly in my life. Garrett obviously refuses to drink, and we’re off to the party. But first, there’s one guest who needs to arrive.

As Alex descends from his family’s PJ strapped with Louis luggage, a BEER, and fresh digs straight from the Siesta Key mall, I can feel the blood coming back into my body. I can feel individual atoms multiplying. I can feel my soul re-entering my empty, hollow frame. I feel exactly like Bella in the fourth Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn. After her half-human, half-vampire baby has eaten its way out of her uterine lining, Edward is forced to do the unthinkable: steal Bella’s mortal soul by turning her into a vampire so she has a shot to survive. (It’s the second time in the series that vampire Edward is forced to resist sucking all of Bella’s enticing blood to save her – that’s true love.) As she starts to respond to his venom, each and every one of her cells begins to freeze over and restore life to her body. Suddenly, she is awake. Her vision is sharp, her mind is clear, and she’s never looked better. And that’s EXACTLY how I felt as Alex exited his plane.

I expect nothing less than for Alex to arrive at BG’s party with three underage Ukrainian mail-order brides. And he doesn’t disappoint. Unfortunately for the brides, he immediately begins discussing relationships with Cara. It’s fun to see Cara pride herself in not cheating on people for the past year. I kind of feel like that should be a given, but okay. As they’re undressing each other with their eyes talking, Garrett is having an interesting convo of his own. Classic Chloe starts stirring the pot AGAIN by telling Garrett that Cara is using him. Really Chloe? Cara is supposed to be your best friend. What’s more shocking is that VICTORIA starts to betray Cara as well. This causes an immediate fight between Carrett. They leave the party and start screaming at each other in the jungle. I’m so enraptured by the fight that I momentarily forget they’re at a themed party and fixate on Garrett’s outfit. Why am I watching Garrett Miller scream in a jungle dressed as a pirate? Oh, right. Anyways.

Even though Cara and G Baby are scream fighting, the party continues to rage on. And everyone is makingoutté. Kelsey and Jared, Amanda and Brandon... something is in the air! It must be the pirate theme. #LetsGetScurvy. But one person isn’t feeling the love – Madisson. With Dad gone, she has no one to kish. Clearly bothered by watching her friend and ex-boyfriend eat each other’s faces, Madisson decides to give Brandon the sad news that Amanda is using him. Whether or not she is, Madisson has no right to give her opinion on the matter. And BG says exactly that. Good for him! Another person surprisingly not making out with someone is Alex. He’s too busy being an asshole to Kelsey and telling anyone who will listen that Boring Robby is bad news. Probably true, but literally no one can be worse than he is, except maybe Pauly Paul. In other news, WHERE IS PAUL.

Unfortunately, the next scene doesn’t involve Pauly or Victoria – just Chloe and Juliette. Juliette shows up after Chloe gets out of work to hopefully avoid jailtime hash things out. Now strap in because I’m about to explain exactly where I stand with the Chloe/Juliette drama, and if you aren’t completely focused, please take a 10mg Adderall, wait ten minutes, and check back in.

Okay, hopefully, you’ve taken amphetamines and can really dial in. Here goes: I realize that Chloe is a necessary evil - it’s an indisputable fact that there would be no show without her antics. No one is as shameless when it comes to talking shit and completely ruining their friendships for the sake of television. And for that, I deeply respect Chloe. (I realize that sounds sarcastic but I am dead serious. Thank you for taking one for the team, Chloe.) But I simply cannot stand when she gets what’s coming to her then plays the innocent victim. Obviously, violence is not cool, and Juliette should be embarrassed by her behavior. But Chloe knew exactly what the outcome of that conversation would be. She was banking on a wasted Juliette reacting horribly. With Chloe, you simply cannot win. Earlier in this episode, Chloe verbatim says to Madisson and Cara, “If the roles were reversed, I would have shown up at her house, apologizing.”

Now cut to this scene, where Chloe verbatim says to Juliette (after Juliette shows up at her workplace) “I really don’t know why you’re here, so if you can please leave and leave me alone.”

Juliette said it best herself – “Chloe is my best friend when I’m miserable. When I’m actually thriving…this type of stuff happens.” Let’s take a moment to analyze the similarities and differences of how Chloe and the rest of the cast handled Chloe’s altercation with Amanda during season one, in which Amanda broke Chloe’s nose and sent her to surgery. After sending Chloe to the hospital, Amanda justifies her actions by saying that Chloe started it first. So everyone is okay with Amanda decking Chloe. The fact is, Chloe started it first here, too. Chloe swatted at Juliette’s hand first. So why did everyone grab coffee with Amanda, but ostracize Juliette? Amanda even had a sit-down conversation with Chloe after her surgery expecting Chloe to apologize. The inconsistencies and hypocrisy present…I CANNOT.

Chloe acts like everyone’s best friend to stay relevant and betrays them the second it benefits her. While I do agree that Juliette is only apologizing because she’s scared Chloe will press charges, I think people who talk shit, unfortunately, get hit, on occasion. Until next week!

[katedrakeohd]

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Masterlist

Chapter 50 : Part 2

_Recovery_

Kate opens her eyes to a world of grey, feeling groggy and disoriented. The oxygen mask hissed as she breathed, the rubber bands that hooked it behind her ears pinched her skin. As her eyes focused she realized she was in a hospital room. The soft beep of her heart monitor filtered in as her other senses came awake. Lifting her right hand she sees the IV tube in the back of her hand and the electronic sensor clamped to her finger. When she tried to move her other arm it wouldn't budge. Oh my God, what's happening? Why does my shoulder ache so much?

The monitor attached to her finger starts to beep rapidly, registering her growing panic and the thumping of her heart. Her warm breath clouds the mask as she gulps at the cool air filling her lungs, her tears sting her eyes and her cheeks.

She hears the hurried footsteps of someone approaching and then the curtain surrounding her bed is ripped aside. The kind sympathetic face of a young female intern swims into view.

"Easy there Miss Darling, everything is going to be ok." She says, soothingly.

Adjusting the bed and pillows so Kate can sit up, she gently pulls the mask off her face and then dabs at her face with the corner of the bedsheet.

Kate gives her a weak smile of gratitude as she looks up at her nametag.  "Th-..thankyou...Dr. Maloney." she whispers.

Kate's head was full of questions, Where am I? Where is Drake?  Is he Ok?  What happened to me in the accident?

"Where am I?" She asks as she looks at the sling on her left shoulder and the cast on her arm.

Dr. Maloney smiles, "You're at Portavira General Hospital."

Kate frowns, looking around for anyone familiar, suddenly feeling very alone. "Portavira?" where the hell is that?  "I'm not in the Capital?"

The intern shakes her head, picking up her chart. "You were brought here by helicopter."

Kate has a vague memory of being strapped to a stretcher and being lifted. Then the airsick woozy feeling of being moved around randomly like a bad amusement ride.

Sliding her hand over her belly, it feels bloated and there are bandages that scrape against her hospital gown.

"What..what were my injuries?" Kate asks nervously, scared of the answer.

The doctor reads her chart out loud, bypassing the medical jargon and putting things in words Kate would understand, "Uh let's see, a dislocated shoulder, a fracture to the forearm, and a minor tearing of the uterine wall from blunt trauma. You were bleeding out pretty badly, but with a minor surgery they were able to stitch you up and stop the bleeding."

Kate gasps, "A tearing of my what?" 

Terrifying thoughts of future infertility and miscarriage race through her mind, causing a deep feeling of dread. She and Drake had just talked about how much they wanted children.

Dr. Maloney looked up from the chart, noticing that Kate has gotten a little paler, and her eyes were wide with worry. "Don't worry, the womb is very resilient. It takes a beating from the inside for several months while it holds onto a fetus. You'll heal just fine and be able to try for another baby in a few weeks."

Kate grips the sheet over her belly, scoffing with denial, "Another baby? I wasn't pregnant."

Sure I was late, but that was nothing new. But then again the last time I was late I didn't have a boyfriend. Oh my God no..

"According to your bloodwork and a urine sample there was a slight elevation in your hormone levels, and the presence of HCG. But there was only a trace amount so we can't be totally sure at this point. I'm sorry to alarm you. The nature of your bleeding prompted us to assume a miscarriage, and we tested for signs of pregnancy in your bloodwork. Were you and your husband trying to conceive?"

Kate shakes her head trying to swallow, her throat was dry from the oxygen she had been administered. "Can..can I get a drink of water please?" She whispers.

The doctor lays the clipboard on the foot of the bed, "Oh sure, sorry about that. I know this is a lot to take in all at once."

Dr. Maloney pours her a cup of water from a nearby pitcher. Kate accepts it, her hand shaking slightly as she sips. "Thanks."

Picking up her chart again, Dr Maloney looks over her information. "You're a mystery  'Kate Darling, 25'  We have a lot of gaps to fill in. When you arrived we only had your name and age."

Kate takes another sip of water. "I was wondering how you knew my name. I don't remember telling anyone."

"I'm not sure who identified you, that's just what they were calling you when you were wheeled in."

Pulling over a chair, Dr. Maloney clicks her pen and then sits down with her chart. "Ok let's fill in the blanks. Your birthdate?"

"December 17th, 1992." Kate says, guessing that the fresh faced intern was around the same age based on the slight turning up of the corners of her mouth.

"Your address?"

Kate gnaws on her lip, "That's a good question, because I really don't know. I live at the Royal Palace with King Nicholas."

Dr. Maloney chuckles, "Yeah right. Seriously where do you live?"

"I'm not kidding. I live at the Royal Palace with the King and I'm engaged to his best friend." Kate insists, knowing that her story sounded crazy to the average person.

"Okaaay, we'll leave that space blank for now." The doctor says, raising her eyebrows and shaking her head. Seriously how hard did this girl hit her head?

"Who do I list as your next of kin?"

"Umm, well my parents live in the U.S. and Brazil so there's no point in listing them. I should probably say King Nicholas, where he's technically responsible for me being in the country, but there's no way I'm allowed to give out his personal phone number. If I told you any other name than my fiance he'd probably be mad, so list Drake Walker as my next of kin."

The Doctor scribbles his name on the form. "And his phone number?"

"He doesn't have a home phone, just a cell, is that Ok?"

The Doctor nods, waiting.

Kate rhymes off Drake's phone number. Damn I wish I could talk to him, tell him I'm Ok. Looking around the unfamiliar recovery room again, Kate feels incredibly lonely. She could really use a familiar face or voice right now.

"Before we can admit you we need to contact Mr. Walker to let him know where you are. As your next of kin he should know your condition as well."

Kate gives the doctor a grateful smile, "Is there any way I can talk to him? I don't have my phone with me."

Dr. Maloney nods, "Your condition is pretty stable. I'll go get you a wheel chair, and then I'll take you out to the nurse's station to call..." she looks down at the paper again to find his name.

"Drake." Kate replies, smiling.

"Yes, thanks." Dr. Maloney gets up from the chair. "Be right back."

Kate settles back against her pillows, looking down at her arm in its cast and sling, she smooths the blanket over her bandaged sore belly. Did we really have a baby in there? It's only been a few days, probably not. I was just late that's all. I hope the surgery doesn't leave a big scar.

She sees the Doctor coming back with the wheel chair. "Ok Miss Daisy, your chariot awaits."

Dr. Maloney drops the side of her hospital bed, disconnecting her pulse monitor from her finger and switching off the machine when the alarm goes off. Placing an arm around her back, and scooping her arm under her knees she carefully helps Kate turn to sit up on the side of the bed. "You're stronger than you look, Dr. Maloney." Kate laughs.

"I've had plenty of practice. Compared to moving a full grown man, you're light as a feather." She says, blushing at the compliment.

Kate eyes the smooth vinyl seat of the wheelchair and then looks down at her bare legs. "I'm guessing my fancy chariot doesn't have heated leather seat cushions."

Pulling the thermal blanket off the bed, Dr. Maloney folds it in half on the diagonal and lays it across the seat and back of the wheelchair. "That should help. Once you're aboard we can wrap the extra blanket around you like a shawl to keep you covered and preserve a little dignity."

"Awww, thanks Doc, that'll be perfect." Kate says with a grateful sigh of relief.

Once Kate is bundled up in her wheelchair, she wheels her IV pole along while Dr. Maloney pushes the chair. "What's your first name Doctor? If you don't mind me asking? You've been so nice to me I'd feel better if I could refer to you by your first name."

"Denise." She says, navigating Kate out to the nurses station.

Kate cuddles her blanket around herself as Denise talks to the nurse behind the counter. After they update her file in the computer the nurse picks up the receiver on the phone.

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[mmmmalo]

While we're on topic of Tavros's introduction being associated with sexual violence, it reads to me like the kind of sexual violence one associates with sexual trauma -- i.e. I'd read it as a sign that maybe Vriska's pushing him from the cliffs was related to sexual assault on her part. Not sure if this has already come up or if it's what you're alluding to or not but! Especially with the diamond in the window, since diamonds are explicitly connected to moirallegience (1/2)

(2/2) I think it’s reasonable to read it as Tavros wants to go back to a time before he was subjected to (Vriska’s) sexual objectification, and in the mean time sexuality takes on an inherently violent quality for him, because he’s being forced into the role of accepting the advances of those higher up in the blood caste and those he wants to be friends with. He thinks Vriska’s a really cool person, but whenever he gets close to her she lashes out at him for not accepting her advances.

…I would agree that insofar as death is sexual, any attempt on a life has the potential to be read as sexual assault. And since Homestuck links its characters’ fetishes to fears and trauma, it wouldn’t be an absurd leap to link Tavros’s fascination with sexual violence to the violence dealt upon him. But I would disagree with the idea that Tavros is attempting to return to a point before the trauma – it seems to me that he is compelled to return to the trauma itself, reenacting it from the role of the aggressor just as Dave does.

Tavros has a hard time talking back to Vriska, and the following conversation with the subjugator emphasizes the tensions ingrained in this anxiety:

AT: oKAY, AT: iMAGINE AN ARRAY OF BEATS THAT SET LIMITS, AT: tHEY GOT A RULEBOOK, iT DOESN’T PAY TO SKIM IT, AT: bECAUSE, tHERE’S NOT A LOT OF LATITUDE, AT: tHEY WON’T STAND FOR AN ATTITUDE, AT: aND, cROSSING THEM’S A HABIT YOU’D, AT: (nOT REALLY WANT TO GET INTO BECAUSE, uHH), AT: tHEY’D GET PRETTY MAD AT YOU, TC: fUuUuCk, So FuCkIn FrEsH. TC: YoU nEeD tO bE sLaPpEd FuCkIn SiLlY wItH a MoUtH lIkE tHaT! hAhA.

Tavros laments his fear of punishment for transgressing the suffocating social order (which he has identified with Vriska?), and Gamzee cheerfully confirms the certainty of punishment. This powerlessness is largely a function of his position on the lower rungs of the hemospectrum, as you point out.

But the visual he summons also emphasizes Tavros’s hatred of uterine imagery, or else how his rebellion against the sexual violence of Alternia is nonetheless expressed in terms of sexual violence. Consider this Karkat quote from act 6 where he’s making the shipping grid:

KARKAT: IN MY MIND’S EYE I AM PICTURING A BEAUTIFUL LATTICE OF LINES AND COMPARTMENTS, INTERLOCKING WITH SUBLIME PRECISION AT NINETY DEGREE ANGLES. KARKAT: I IMAGINE THIS MODULAR RETICULATION AS AN ELEGANT VESSEL, IF YOU WILL, FOR THE GRAND SYNTHESIS OF OUR SHARED SHIPPING DREAMS.

The chessboard is a bucket, an “elegant vessel” that emits babies from the “grand synthesis” of genomes. Caliborn eagerly awaits the opportunity to “mate” with Calliope, child predator Doc Scratch plays chess against Vriska, and the Genesis Frog is eventually deposited in the core of the chessboard Battlefield, at which point it gestates into a fully fledged universe. Mom’s lab contains a huge glowing chessboard, and Rose/Jaspers eventually exit via the big X stamped across the chess board. Uterine imagery across the board.

So when Tavros vents his frustration towards an “array of beats that set limits”, the chessboard brings us back to the battered bucket that he slams his huge lance against for jousting practice, night after night.

Small aside: since Vriska is manifesting for Tavros during their first convo, her attitude towards Kanaya could be a mirror on Tavros’s thoughts on Vriska?

AG: Next time tell her to can it! That’s what I do. AG: But she keeps 8ugging me. 8ugging and fussing and meddling. What’s her deal! AG: I guess it’s flattering that she wants to talk to me so much though. I guess I don’t mind. It’s cool.

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The function and function of pilose antler and its edible method (edible method of pilose antler)

Velvet, I believe we have heard about, it is a famous tonic material, and has a reputation of "Pro Le Dong Bao". The angular remains of deer, deer, or red deer. The tender angle have grown bony, with hair, containing blood, is called velvet.

Velvet antler has always been an expensive traditional Chinese medicine, used as a tonic tonic, and is effective in the treatment of weakness, neurasthenia and so on. Indications: Kidney Yang Zhuang Yi; blood; strong bones; supporting chuangdu. The main deficiency of the kidney yang; impotence spermatorrhea; palace cold infertility; asthenia emaciation lassitude; chills; vertigo; tinnitus; low back pain; and flaccidity; five children with late women; uterine bleeding morbid; gangrene

The function of pilose antler:

1, strong role. It can improve the working ability of the body, improve sleep and diet, and reduce fatigue.

2, the role of cardiovascular. The high dose of antler can make the blood pressure drop, the heart rate slow, the peripheral blood vessel dilate; the middle dose can strengthen the heart contraction force, the heart rate is accelerated, the cardiac output increases, and has obvious strong heart action to the feeble heart. Regulate arrhythmias and strengthen the heart.

3, sex hormone like effect.

Animal experiments have confirmed that the use of antler tincture as a subcutaneous injection, a few days later, see the prostate, seminal vesicles weight gain.

4, it can stimulate the intestine and uterus, and enhance the diuretic function of the kidney.

The effect of pilose antler:

Pilose antler is strong in Yuanyang, invigorating qi and blood, nourishing essence, strengthening muscles and bones. Treatment of asthenia and emaciated, mental tired, dizziness, hearing loss, eyes dark, waist and knee pain, impotence, spermatorrhea; uterine virtual cold, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge.

The main leakage: "this the" evil blood fever, epilepsy, Qi Zhi qiang.

The catalog "medical consumptive Sasa such as malaria, emaciation, aching limbs, lumbar pain, small convenience, ejaculation and drown broken blood in the abdomen, loose stone drench, carbuncle, bone in heat

The potency of ": the main repair man waist kidney cold feet, weak knees, dream, Yi Jing and the woman collapsed in the blood leakage, temperature at the end of the hollow sunburn liquor service big spoon. Also under the main red leucorrhea, into the scattered use.

The "Hua Zi" materia medica: tonic weak, strong bones, broken blood stasis, tocolysis gas, fried into cakes.

The "compendium": busui, nourishing Yiyang, strong bones and muscles. Treat all deficiency, deafness, dark eyes, dizziness, diarrhea.

The edible method of pilose antler -- some commonly used methods of home eating pilose antler

1. cook tea: Tea therapy is one of the treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Because the antler itself can be flaky, it can be made directly for tea, for drinking, and finally for chewing and swallowing. As a health tea drinking, single drug taking, antler in 3 ~ 5 grams as well, the next day drinking method, do not have a day. Hold on for a few months, it will help. For the treatment of diseases, the dosage of ginseng and antler can be increased appropriately, or according to the dosage of the doctor.

2. boiling porridge: health care and therapeutic properties of Yaozhou, spread in China has been a long time. There are ones for treatment of diseases using records in the pre Qin period. In the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine under the guidance of the pilose antler, ginseng, with other tonic drugs, and rice mixed, then add the appropriate seasoning, cook for porridge, eat tonic, is an ideal therapeutic method.

Ginseng porridge

There are usually two ways: one is to directly and rice flakes of antler decoction, congee edible, the velvet residue of chewing swallowing; another is the ginseng and antler processing into powder, in the early morning or evening eating porridge, add a little powder mix is available. The antler powder is 3~5 grams each time. Efficacy: warm the blood, invigorate Qi, invigorate the kidney, strengthen the body and strengthen the body.

Special description of cold resistance, mostly with velvet as a diet. If winter arrives, the hands and feet are easy to chill, and this particularly cold phenomenon, Chinese medicine is thought to be caused by weakness in the body yang. If Yang is weak, will reveal the physiological activities of deficiency and decline, such as respiratory weakness is Qi deficiency.

3. soak wine: wine in China has thousands of years of history, because it is easy to preserve, so popular. Wine is the alcohol concentration is 50 ~ 70 degrees of liquor as solvent, the antler (containing compound or other drugs) into the bottle, adding 500 ~ 1000ml liquor, encryption closed storage, every 2 ~ 3 days to shake the bottle, so that the effective ingredients charge analysis, to soak for half a month before drinking.

Every time drinking 10 ~ 50 ml range, male consumptive sperm decline, two blood loss, not impotence

Lift, waist and knee pain, chills, weakness, bone weak lassitude, spermatorrhea enuresis, vertigo, deafness, dysplasia, women's palace cold infertility, uterine bleeding vaginal discharge can be drunk. Who usually has disease or chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer of liver and kidney damage, all should not use tonic wine.

4. powder swallow: pilose antler is directly dried, processed into powder, or go to the drugstore to buy ready-made antler powder, hollow capsule into the pre prepared, placed in airtight containers, placed in a cool ventilated place. Each 1 to 2 grains, with white boiling water delivery service, can also be directly to the powder in the mouth, with other liquid medicine, drink porridge or warm boiling water.

5., diet food: medicine and food homology, drugs and food are inseparable. "Diet", "tonic" theory in our health science will always occupy a certain position, and has been the favorite of people. The diet is cooking with drugs and food combination, processing it into the prevention and treatment of diseases and health care effect of delicious food.

Home health care, taking a variety of antler methods, and often with other nutrition nourishing effect drug mutual compatibility, or stew, or heat, or fried, or cooked, made soup, rice cake and other dishes, not only nutritious, but also can prevent disease and promote health.

(1) velvet turtle:

[materials] turtle 750 grams, 10 grams of velvet, coriander, scallion, ginger, pepper, cooking wine, MSG, soy sauce, sugar, lard, chicken soup, wet starch, the amount of.

[method] the slaughter of soft shelled turtle, wash, tasty sauce; heat the pan fry until golden turtle. Leaving the oil pan, the onions, ginger, pepper seasoning made from turtle oil; put in a bowl, add seasoning oil, cooking wine, soy sauce, MSG, chicken, sugar, velvet, steaming, the original soup Lek, and then a little soup boil, thicken with wet starch, sprinkle with coriander. Dish.

[effect] nourishing blood and nourishing blood, warming kidney yang, nourishing yin and supplementing qi. For impotence, spermatorrhea, back pain, limb soft body weakness embolism.

(2) antler letinous edodes cabbage:

[materials] velvet 10 grams, 200 grams of letinous edodes, vegetables heart 300 grams, 50 grams of bamboo shoots, not ginger 10 grams, 20 grams of white wine, lard 75 grams, 5 grams of salt, 200 grams of broth, MSG, cooking wine, the amount of.

[method] velvet antler slice and white wine are soaked in two times, and the antler liquor is soaked, and the antler film after soaking is reserved. Put the pot on the fire, add lard oil, heat, put ginger not pot fry, with letinous edodes, green heart pot, with a spoon is fried, add MSG, cooking wine, salt, broth and antler liquor extract, mix to pour juice. Thicken the sauce, hook into the small water pot Sheng Qian, in order to keep the velvet, the dish is decorated in.

[effect] suitable for frail or long Qi deficiency, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, impotence, spermatorrhea, lumbar acid cold, dizziness tinnitus and other symptoms.

(3) pilose antler and snow clam:

[raw material] pilose antler 10 grams, snow clam 3 grams, chicken fillet 150 grams, pork glance 40 grams, water. Hot rape 10 grams, water soaked bamboo shoots 5 grams, 10 grams of cooked ham. 1 egg whites. 2. spices: cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper water, sesame oil, chicken soup.

[Methods]: (1) put snow clams in a bowl, heat the blisters, soft, clear seeds and black lines, and rinse with water. Put the chicken tenderloin to remove the fat white bars, cast slice, two together with the blade Zacheng fine mud, add egg, chicken stir. Add salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, pepper water mix, then add velvet, snow clam, mix rape, ham, mushrooms, bamboo shoots are cut into small slices.

(2) a pot of chicken soup, when boiling soup by hand grabbed the pilose antler, Oviductus Ranae, chicken soup into mud slowly under the Pearl knot shape, add ham, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, rape, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper water, cooking wine, soup and then boiling net write floating foam, add sesame oil big bowl a.

[effect] pilose antler has the effect of strengthening yang, enriching blood, strengthening tendons and benefiting essence, and it matches with the food such as snow clam and so on. It has the effect of invigorating kidney and strengthening yang, enriching essence and nourishing blood. Applicable to the deficiency of the kidney essence deficiency, edible jiubingtixu, impotence, spermatorrhea, lumbar acid, cold and other diseases in patients with tinnitus and vertigo. Healthy people can strengthen the body, promote the body's metabolism, and enhance the body's resistance to disease and disease prevention. People who suffer from exogenous febrile disease and yin deficiency are unfit to eat.

(4) steamed egg with pilose antler:

[raw materials and methods] velvet 5g, fine grind the end of the egg 2. Egg broken and pour into a bowl, add salt, pepper and antler together, mix thoroughly, steamed food.

The effect of kidney yang, essence and blood, egg and blood. For the weak Yang deficiency, blood deficiency, impotence, nocturnal enuresis, or low blood pressure and low temperature.

(5) pilose antler oolong tea:

[raw material] pilose antler 0.5 grams, oolong tea 5 grams.

Boiling water tea drink.

[effect] warming kidney and strengthening yang, treating yang deficiency, liver cold, impotence. 1 cups can be brewed 3~5 times

[scope of application] for migraine headache caused by kidney yang deficiency. The symptoms of headache and dizziness, emptiness of mind, repeated attacks, a long time does not heal, especially cold, backache, cold limbs, urine clear long, tongue pale moss white greasy, deep and weak pulse.

(6) stir fry two pieces of minced pork:

[materials] velvet 10 grams, 125 grams of chicken, 3 pieces of ham, peas 3 grains, egg 2, 1.5 grams of salt, Shao liquor 5 grams, 5 grams of water, pepper, MSG 1.5 grams, 50 grams of lard, 75 grams of soup.

[method] the chicken to the ribs, smashed into minced chicken, add egg, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper water, Tang Jiaoyun; in the bottom oil, heat oil, add chicken and stir fry; in velvet, hot fried peas, Shaoxing wine, stir fry, fry until cooked into the tray the ham, sprinkle with a.

[effect] strengthen Yuanyang and supplement qi and blood. Apply to kidney yang deficiency.

(7) pilose antler, medlar, wine, shrimp:

[raw material] pilose antler 15 grams, medlar 1 grams, shrimp 250 grams, cooking wine 1 big spoons.

[method] making shrimp head, pick intestinal mud, wash; 2 antler bowls of water and 1 tablespoons of cooking wine, simmer for 5 minutes, to smell out; shrimp wok, turn the fire cook 3 to 5 minutes; add wolfberry, micro simmer for 2 minutes, namely

[effect] strong tendons and blood. With a faint bouquet of nourishing yin and tonifying yang dishes, a warm-up, eyesight, treatment of sex and other benefits. Pilose antler contains rich calcium, can strengthen bones and muscles, improve anemia. Cooking this dish, cooking time should be depending on the size of the shrimp, cooked taste after the soup taste truly enter into shrimp.

(8) beef rolls with pilose antler;

[ingredients] beef 500 grams, 15 grams of antler (film), Hua Ren 200 grams, 1 grams of loose meat, lotus 100 grams, egg 1, tomato 2 grams, 300 cucumber 150 grams, 2 grams of salt, pepper 1 grams, 1 grams of MSG, five spice powder 1 grams, ginger 10 grams of onion 20 grams, 10 grams of cooking wine, chili 15 grams, 75 grams of dried shredded lettuce, vermicelli 20 grams, 100 grams of refined oil consumption

[method] the meat is abluent cut, slice into a large 0.2 x 6 x 10 cm, with salt, pepper, monosodium glutamate, five spice powder, chili, cooking wine, ginger, onions (sliced) (broken beat), loose meat taste yards for thirty minutes; and then peeled peanuts soaked with boiling water, cut into two coarse grains, flour and egg white tune into a thick paste; tomato cucumber cut into lotus petals, processed into green leaf, fresh lotus root cut into filaments; the disk is big lotus lotus root silk tomato mosaic, the middle put a little lettuce, the other end swing leaves; the meat with velvet wrapped into Yuanzhu shaped, sticky egg white paste into uniform stick a layer, for floral kernel oil burning; 6 into heat, next into the meat rolls, fried until crisp yellow when the fish out Hua Ren, Zhuangpan top.

[features] outside crisp tender, light yellow color, spicy thick. Contains more high-quality protein, human essential amino acids, utilization rate is not less than pork, there are warm tonic, Qi blood, and make up the spleen and stomach, is a good food in winter.

(9) antler burning pork:

[materials] fresh pork 300 grams, 10 grams, 10 grams of antler mushrooms, ginger 10 grams, 10 grams of onion, salad oil 10 grams, 8 grams of salt, MSG 2 grams, 20 grams of tomato sauce, wine 2 grams, wet starch amount

[method] making pork wash cut into pieces, mushrooms washed, peeled and sliced ginger, green onions and cut into sections; a pot of water, until the water is boiling, put pork, pour the wine, simmer until soon rotten, set aside; the other burning oil in pan, add ginger, pork, stir fry, add soup, mushrooms, antler, spring onion, tomato sauce, salt, MSG and then transferred to burning thoroughly tasty, with the wet starch thicken.

(10) stewed pork antler:

[materials] ingredients: 10 grams of antler, kidney 2, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, green onion, ginger.

[method] ground the antler into fine powder. Wash the kidney, go into kidney bashfulness gland; pot put velvet, kidney, add cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, green onion, ginger, wuhuoshaofei, changed to simmer stew to kidney cooked and tasty, you can pan.

[features] also known as pig kidney kidney. It has the effect of reinforcing kidney qi, and matches with pilose antler to become a vegetable, and the kidney tonifying effect is stronger. For the treatment of kidney impotence, spermatorrhea, lumbago, uterus deficiency and cold symptoms. Yin Huo Wang diet.

(11) ginseng pig:

[materials] pig 1, ginseng antler tablets, 10 grams each

[method] making pig squeeze wash with hot blood, remove and cut into halves, ginseng, pilose antler slice; into the urn cup (or pot), add 4 bowls of water to boil, small fire boil soup, boil about 20 minutes; the heart piece join, change in the fire, until the soup a boiling off, then add salt to taste.

[effect] strengthening the heart, strengthening the kidney, promoting the secretion of sex hormone and accelerating the healing of fracture. Lung heat with sputum, stomach Sheng Wang, have a fever, thick yellow tongue coating, pox abscess pain is unfit for human consumption. Edible all the year round. About 1 times a week, summer, consider the elongated cycle, winter can eat more.

(12) antler wolfberry braised abalone:

[raw material] abalone 150 grams, pilose antler 20 grams, medlar 40 grams, jujube (dry) 40 grams, salt 4 grams, ginger 3 grams

[Methods] 1 making large abalone shell, remove dirt, wash water; wash abalone slice; wolfberries antler pieces and rinse water; wash ginger and red dates water; ginger peeled, cut 2 pieces; red dates; all the materials into the pot, add boiling water, cover into; the pot, stewed in water for 4 hours; adding fine salt seasoning, you can drink.

[effect] this stew can enrich the blood and strengthen the body, and improve the eyesight. Daily use of this stew items Zuoshan can benefit the body, but not dry up, can prevent premature aging eyesight; patients lack of blood, liver and kidney deficiency, dizziness and mental fatigue, irregular menstruation, are available for therapeutic in this stew items.

[abalone] abalone: bogey with chicken, wild boar, beef liver with food. Wolfberry fruit: Chinese wolfberry should not be too much and tea warm tonic, such as longan, red ginseng, jujube and other common edible.

(13) antler stewed kidney:

[materials] antler dodder 10 grams, 15 grams, 9 grams of cumin, on kidney 1, salt, cooking wine, onion, ginger, pepper oil, the amount of.

[method] velvet antler, sliced, dried, milled into the end. Dodder, fennel into gauze bags, tie, onions, ginger shoot broken. Open the kidney to the smell of urine, urine membrane, wash, cut into pieces, into the pan and stir slightly. The drug bag, green onions, ginger, cooking wine, salt with wok, add water, wuhuoshaofei, skim floating foam, stew until cooked sheep. Pick up the packets, onions and ginger, sprinkle with the end of the velvet, boil, and season with salt and pepper.

[effect] nourishing kidney yang and tonifying essence to fill marrow

(14) antler braised Hericium mushroom:

[materials] antler powder 10 grams, 10 grams of pepper water, dried Hericium 250 grams, 300 grams of chicken soup, vegetable oil 75 grams, 3 grams of MSG, salt 2 grams, onion 10 grams, 10 grams of cooking wine, wet starch 5 grams.

[method] will make water Hericium Mushroom water washed, cut into thick film, face down, code in the disk; ham, bamboo shoots are cut into small pieces; cut onions, ginger and diced; wok put oil, after the heat, with ginger, onions cook in soy pan, add chicken broth, salt, monosodium glutamate, bamboo shoots, and ham; the Hericium Mushroom, pilose antler powder into the pot, cover tightly with shift plate, simmer for 10 minutes, and then the fire, add onions, ginger, wet starch thicken, pour out the oil pan, stir well and serve.

[efficacy] strengthen Yuanyang, complement Qi, benefit essence, strengthen muscles and bones. For impotence, kidney yang of spermatorrhoea, lumbar acid cold, cold down, tinnitus, vertigo essence deficiency. 1 times a week, food consumption.

(15) antler letinous edodes cabbage:

[materials] velvet 10 grams, 200 grams of water, letinous edodes, green heart 300 grams, 50 grams of bamboo shoots, not ginger 10 grams, 20 grams of white wine, lard 75 grams, 5 grams of salt, 200 grams of broth, MSG, cooking wine, the amount of.

[method] velvet antler slices and white wine were soaked two times, and the velvet liquor was soaked. Put the pot on the fire, add lard oil, heat, put ginger not pot fry, with letinous edodes, green heart pot, with a spoon is fried, add MSG, cooking wine, salt, broth and antler liquor extract, mix to pour juice. Thicken the sauce, hook into the small water pot Sheng Qian, in order to keep the velvet, the dish is decorated in.

[effect] suitable for frail or long Qi deficiency, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, impotence, spermatorrhea, lumbar acid cold, dizziness tinnitus and other symptoms.

(16) antler soup: the most common method of antler soup to eat.

The raw material and preparation method: take 5 ~ 10 grams of velvet, and chicken (duck, goose, pig, cattle, sheep) meat, jujube, medlar and other optional collocation, into the rice cooker or casserole stew for 3 to 5 hours after eating.

[function] tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, supplementing essence and supplementing marrow. Fresh antler is more effective. For frail, waist and knee flaccidity weak, nocturnal emission, impotence and premature ejaculation; or the elderly Yang loss, cold hands and feet, warm chills, dizziness, deficiency of Qi and blood weak soft foot disease.

6. pilose antler nourishing soup

Chicken soup with ginseng and pilose antler

[raw] chicken 120 grams, red ginseng (or Korea ginseng) 12 grams, pilose antler 32 grams.

[method] take the chicken breast or chicken meat washed, peeled and diced, and cut the ginseng slices. All the materials into the pot, add boiling water, with water, simmer for 3 hours, into the soup to drink.

[for] a serious illness or loss of blood, and strength, or excessive labor room, exhaustion of kidney, aversion to cold, infertility, can be nourishing vitality, Wen Zhuang Yang, this soup with ginseng and ginseng, Qi and Yang, nourishing qi to. Antler can kidney yang, essence and blood, nourishing busui, Yiyang, qiangjinjiangu, cure all deficiency and deafness.

The antler yam bamboo chicken soup

[raw material] 20 grams of pilose antler, 40 grams of Huai yam, bamboo silk chicken 120 grams.

[Methods] wash the deer antler and Chinese yam. Peel the chicken with bamboo silk. Rinse and slice. Boil in boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove the cold water. Put the ingredients into a pot, add appropriate amount of boiling water, water simmer for 2 to 3 hours, while hot soup into service.

[] for this soup Wen Zhuang Yang, convergence and function.

Chicken soup with pilose antler

[materials] antler 10 grams, 1 pieces of chicken, salt stir.

[method] will wash the meat tender chicken wings in four cups of water simmer for water, boil, remove the foam, fry until half the weight of Sheng soup. The antler is decocted in a glass of water until it is halved. Then pour into chicken stock and cook for a while. Season and drink.

[for] where the elderly Yang lost, cold hands and feet, deficiency of Qi and blood weak, dizzy Jiaoruan are suitable for use.

Chicken soup with pilose antler

[raw] chicken 120 grams, red ginseng 6 grams, pilose antler 2 grams.

[method] wash chicken, cut into pieces. Steamed soft sliced ginseng. Put all the ingredients into the bowl, add some amount of boiling water and put it in the water of the big pot, simmer for about l hours, and then drink the soup.

[for] ginseng nourishing vitality, antler kidney yang, essence and blood, can students busui, and Yiyang, Qiang Jinjian bone, there is nourishing vitality, warming kidney aphrodisiac effect. For more frequent urination, Yaoxisuanruan, dizziness and tinnitus, mental fatigue and other symptoms take. Treatment of deficiency and deafness.

Pilose antler three precious soup

[materials] 20 grams of dried antler, shark's fin, sea cucumber, scallops, chicken meat 250 grams, 5 grams of salt, 10 grams of cooking wine.

[Methods] making velvet, washed, add seasoning on the pot steaming; the sea cucumber and shark's fin with boiling water boil for a short time through, the chicken meat into mince, stir in egg and seasonings; the shark's fin, scallops, sea cucumber, chicken balls and a velvet code into the gas pot, add broth seasoning steamed in a small when you can.

[Characteristics] Beijing palace cuisine, materials are for the top grade, rich nutrition, taste good for winter seasonal delicacies, rich nourishing effect, and easy to digest.

The decoction of strengthening the body

[materials] antler 30g, astragalus root 15g, Curculigo 15g, Epimedium 15g, a chicken

[method] fresh chicken skin fat oil, put out a little hot standby after boiling water; antler, astragalus root, Rhizoma curculiginis, epimedium, were washed with water; all the materials together into the pot, add appropriate amount of boiling water, simmer for 2 hours, then add seasoning to drink.

[to warming blood Qi, kidney yang, physical fitness with this effect] decoction. It shows that most of the cold resistance is treated with antler. If winter arrives, the hands and feet are easy to chill, and this particularly cold phenomenon, Chinese medicine is thought to be caused by weakness in the body yang. If Yang is weak, will reveal the physiological activities of deficiency and decline, such as respiratory weakness is Qi deficiency. Eat this soup side, to help warm the blood, blood, kidney, Yang, and physical fitness.

The ginseng chicken soup

[raw material] Korea ginseng 5 grams, pilose antler 10 grams, chicken 100 grams.

[method] Korea ginseng slice. Wash chicken, peel and dice. Korea ginseng, chicken and pilose antler slices into the stew cup, add water amount, stew cup stamped, slow fire, water stew for 3 hours, seasoning food.

[Characteristics], nourishing Qi Wenshen impotence. For virtual vitality, kidney yang deficiency symptoms, aversion to cold, cold uterus infertility, impotence and premature ejaculation, urination, waist and knee pain.

The antler chicken soup with minced pork

[materials] chicken 400 grams, 15 grams of Cistanche, Rehmannia 12 grams, 10 grams of dodder, Cornus 12 grams, 10 grams of Polygala, yam 12 grams, 10 grams of antler

[method] making chicken washed, cut into pieces, and velvet together into Dunzhong, add appropriate amount of boiling water, and set the pot stew with water simmer for 2 hours, standby will; Cistanche, radix, dodder, Cornus officinalis, Radix Polygalae, Chinese yam were washed with water, together into the pot, add water fried juice, soup to slag juice, put the medicine into the chicken soup, seasoning for use.

[function] invigorate the kidney and nourish the strong

We assorted ginseng soup

[materials] velvet sea cucumber 15 grams, 20 grams, 10 grams of dried prawns, scallops 5 grams, 5 grams of ham, dried mushrooms, bamboo shoots, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, salt, wet starch, chicken oil, the amount of soup.

[method] the production of sea cucumber, prawns, diced ham; diced; bamboo shoots, diced mushroom; scalded with boiling water boiled shrimp, sea cucumber, dry moisture control. Put the pot of soup, add salt, cooking wine, prawns, scallops, sea cucumber (Si Kai), ham, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, boil, add MSG, velvet, wet starch thicken, pour over chicken oil.

[effect] impotence, essence, nourishing yin and kidney. Suitable for kidney deficiency impotence, spermatorrhea, palace cold infertility disease.

The antler Chuanxiong mutton soup

[materials] mutton 150 grams, 15 grams of pilose antler, Chuanxiong 12 grams, 15 grams of red dates 6 grains of Cynomorium.

[method] making mutton washed with boiling water drag, cut; chuanxiong, Cynomorium, red dates (to core) were washed with water, spare; will spare material sand together into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, the fire after boiling, switch to simmer for 3 hours, to slag seasoning, meat Yin tang.

[function] kidney yang, essence and blood, headache

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Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer – The New York Times

Fran Drescher’s voice, if you ever have the chance to hear it deployed in very close vicinity over shrimp tempura and spicy tuna sushi, is actually quite soothing.

When Drescher played Fran Fine on “The Nanny,” the 1990s sitcom she created with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, she was pitching her voice higher, squeezing it up her nose, acting. Back then, The New York Times compared Drescher to “the sound of a Buick with an empty gas tank cold-cranking on a winter morning.” But here in her living room above Central Park, sitting among crystals, fresh lemons, fine sculpture and photographs of herself meeting establishment Democrats, she sounds more like a Mercedes purring out of the Long Island Expressway. For those who grew up with “The Nanny” as our nanny, her voice is so embedded in the subconscious that hearing the softened version is almost therapeutic. Imagine if Nanny Fine had an ASMR setting.

“I’ve heard it’s like a foghorn, a cackle,” Drescher said carefully, balancing her plate in the lap of her little black dress. “I always just describe myself as having a unique voice.” When she left Queens for Hollywood in the late 1970s, her manager told her, “If you want to play other parts, besides hookers, you’re going to have to learn to speak differently,” she recalled. Instead Drescher leaned into her natural gifts. In 1992, she pitched herself as a sitcom star to the president of CBS: “Because of the voice, they think I’m the seasoning in the show,” she told him. “That’s wrong. I’m a main course.”

America has not heard from Drescher much lately — she has not appeared regularly on television since her TV Land sitcom “Happily Divorced” ended in 2013, and “The Nanny” is sadly hard to stream — but this week, at 62, she returns to TV with NBC’s “Indebted.” As in the pilot of “The Nanny,” Drescher appears unexpectedly on a doorstep, except this time, it belongs to her adult son (Adam Pally). She and Steven Weber play Debbie and Stew Klein, a couple of boomer dilettantes who crash their kid’s married life with the news that they’re in debt. The role of Debbie, a boundaryless hugger who swans around her son’s suburban home as if it’s her own personal retirement community, inverts the “Nanny” dynamic: Now the kids have to take care of her.

When Drescher weighed whether to take on the show, a family sitcom that draws on generational conflict, she thought of her own family. “My parents, who are still alive, thank God, were so excited about me being on network television again,” she said. “You know, not everybody could find TV Land,” she added, “but everybody could find NBC.”

The role was not written for Drescher, exactly. The pilot script had called for a “Fran Drescher type,” and when the real Fran Drescher signed on, she required a few adjustments. “People are used to seeing an annoying mother-in-law in a sitcom, but that’s not what I signed up for,” Drescher said. “When you have somebody whose persona is bigger than the part, you got to make it right for me. Or why have me?”

That meant giving Debbie Klein some passions of her own. “I had to bring myself into it,” she said. “I really infused the sex appeal, the sensuality, the vivaciousness of the character.”

“Indebted” creator Dan Levy, a comedian and producer for “The Goldbergs,” said that he originally modeled Debbie and Stew after his own parents, but that the steaminess was all Drescher. “My mom was like, ‘That’s not based on us,’” Levy said. “She elevated that to a whole level that I was not expecting.”

In the decades since Drescher first opened her mouth onscreen, the Fran Drescher type has achieved a quiet dominance over popular culture. “The Nanny” has been syndicated around the world and remade in a dozen countries, including Turkey (where it was called “Dadi”), Poland (“Niania”) and Argentina (“La Niñera”). In “The Nanny,” for anyone who doesn’t have the chatty theme song implanted in her brain, Drescher plays a Jewish woman from Queens hired to tend to the three precocious children of a wealthy English widower, Maxwell Sheffield, who is also Broadway’s second-most-successful producer (after his nemesis, Andrew Lloyd Webber). In foreign versions, the ethnicities are recalibrated — in the Russian one, the nanny is Ukrainian — but the Fran Drescher type is otherwise preserved. Wherever she goes, the ethnic striver is transplanted into a posh setting as the help, and her appealing culture and individual charm pull off the ultimate makeover — reinventing the strait-laced insiders in her own brash image.

Across the internet, Fran Fine is helping to perform similar tricks. With her pile of hair, power-clashing wardrobe and cartoon proportions, she has been fashioned into an avatar of stylish self-respect. In GIFs spirited around social media, she can be seen in a cheetah-print skirt suit, sipping from a cheetah-print teacup; inhaling a plate of spaghetti with no hands; and descending the Sheffields’ ivory staircase as if entering New York’s hottest club.

“I send this when I’m excited,” Drescher said, summoning her phone from her assistant Jordan and thumbing to a GIF of Fine twirling across the mansion in a fuchsia dress and a self-satisfied look. “How many people can send their own GIF?”

The Fran Drescher type is a kind of advisory role. First she was the world’s nanny, showing kids how to mix prints and be themselves, and now she has matured into a cool-aunt persona, modeling a fabulous adulthood. (“Broad City” made this transformation literal, squeezing Drescher into a low cut rainbow and cheetah-print dress and casting her as Ilana’s Aunt Bev, and by extension the spirit guide for a new generation of Jewish comediennes.) “I’ve never had kids, so I’m not really parental,” Drescher said. “I’m a mom to my dogs.”

“I’m kind of an influencer,” she added. Drescher has led an unconventional life, and “I share it,” she said. “It gives my life purpose.” In two memoirs, she has discussed being raped at gunpoint in her 20s, surviving uterine cancer in her 40s, and divorcing Jacobson only to acquire a new gay best friend when he subsequently came out. Recently she thrilled the internet when she revealed that she has secured a “friend with benefits” whom she meets twice a month for television viewing and sex. “I don’t think it’s that shocking a thing,” Drescher said. “I’m not in love with him.”

The kids who grew up watching “The Nanny” are now Nanny Fine’s age, old enough to properly covet her closet and cultivate a newfound respect for her persona. On Instagram, the @whatfranwore account catalogs classic “Nanny” outfits, and @thenannyart pairs them with contemporary art pieces. Cardi B once captioned a photo of herself in head-to-toe cat prints: “Fran Drescher in @dolceandgabbana.” The actor Isabelle Owens will mount a one-woman song-and-dance show dedicated to Drescher in New York this month, called “Fran Drescher, Please Adopt Me!” “As everything from the ’90s comes back, people are rediscovering her,” Owens said, noting Drescher’s fashion, her confidence, and her voice; Owens is still working to perfect her impersonation. “There are so many layers to it,” she said. “It’s so delicate and lyrical.”

The Fran Drescher type, no matter how big it gets, still risks reducing the woman behind it. “All of her is in me, but not all of me is in her,” Drescher said. “I don’t think any of my characters could have ever created and executive-produced ‘The Nanny.’” Fran Fine might have been able to wrap the boss around her red-lacquered little finger, but Drescher is the boss. When she secured her own New York apartment, in 2004, it was here, just across the park from the house that stood in for the Sheffield mansion on “The Nanny.” Soon her transformation into Mr. Sheffield will be complete: She is developing a Broadway show of her own, a musical adaptation of “The Nanny” that she will co-write with Jacobson.

“The Nanny” is a timely bid for Broadway. Drescher takes the stage’s most classic feminine archetype and gives her a modern upgrade: She is Eliza Doolittle if she refused to take her voice lessons.

That’s perhaps the biggest misconception about the Fran Drescher type — that the voice is an unfortunate obstacle, rather than a cultivated asset. Once, a fan asked Drescher about the classic “Nanny” scene where Fran Fine goes for sushi, naïvely swallows a wad of wasabi, and says, in an eerily neutral broadcaster’s voice, “Gee, you know, that mustard really clears out the nasal passages.” The fan wanted to know how Drescher had managed to pull that voice off. Sitting in her parkside apartment, perched in her producer’s chair, confidently apportioning her wasabi, Drescher revealed her secret: “I’m very talented.”

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