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bisexual-protagonist-competiton · 1 year

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MATCHUPS AND CONTESTANTS ARE HERE! For the three added, I stuck with characters who had two submissions already. I'm also trusting the people who submitted that these characters qualify, so please do yell at me if I messed up a name or if the character doesn't fit! Here's the full list of characters and matchups:

Matchups were put together by a random generator because i have no idea who most of these characters are

Magnus Chase(Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) vs Kim Dokja(Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Jake Peralta(Brooklyn Nine-Nine) vs Annabeth Chase(Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Dean Winchester(Supernatural) vs John Constantine(DC)

Sasha Waybright(Amphibia) vs Luz Noceda(The Owl House)

Clarke Griffin(The 100) vs Jay Ferin(Just Roll With It)

Sokka(Avatar The Last Airbender) vs Gwen Cooper(Torchwood)

William Wisp(Just Roll With It) vs Harley Quinn(DC)

Korra(The Legend Of Korra) vs Bob Belcher(Bob's Burgers)

Edalyn Clawthorne(The Owl House) vs Gordon Freeman(Half-Life)

Chip(Just Roll With It) vs Valkyrie(MCU)

Dave Strider(Homestuck) vs Shuichi Saihara(Danganronpa)

Norma Khan(Dead End Paranormal Park) vs Caleb Widogast(Critical Role)

Hamlet(Hamlet) vs Phonegingi(Dialtown)

Glimmer(She-Ra and the Princess of Power) vs Quentin Coldwater(The Magicians)

Jonathan Sims(The Magnus Archives) vs Percy Jackson(Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Wei Wuxian(Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Nina Zenik(Six of Crows)

Neku Sakuraba(The World Ends With You) vs Lance McClain(Voltron Legendary Defender)

Wonder Woman(DC) vs Deadpool(MCU)

Vax'ildan(Critical Role) vs Nancy Wheeler(Stranger Things)

Apollo/Lester Papadopoulos(Percy Jackson and the Olympians) vs Fig Faeth(Fantasy High)

Nick Nelson(Heartstopper) vs Steve Harrington(Stranger Things)

Zagreus(Hades) vs Shallan Davar(Stormlight Archive)

Asami Sato(The Legend of Korra) vs Marceline The Vampire Queen(Adventure Time)

Tatsuya Suou(Persona 2) vs Rapunzel(Tangled)

Juno Steel(The Penumbra Podcast) vs Sora(Kingdom Hearts)

Marcy Wu(Amphibia) vs Buffy Summers(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Kaname Date(AI: The Somnium Files) vs Phoenix Wright(Ace Attorney)

Aubrey Little(The Adventure Zone) vs Sophie Foster(Keeper of the Lost Cities)

Blitzø(Helluva Boss) vs Will Graham(Hannibal)

Jim Kirk(Star Trek) vs Bow(She-Ra and the Princess of Power)

Captain Jack Harkness(Torchwood) vs Loki(MCU)

Jack Kennedy(Day Shift at Freddy's) vs Eleanor Shellstrop(The Good Place)

Polls 1-8 will go up tomorrow(March 21), 9-16 the next day(March 22), 17-24 the next(March 23) and so on.

So sorry for the wait! lmk in asks if i fucked something up :)

#round one #bisexual #bi protagonist competition #tumblr competition

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tsckcyomi · 4 months

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tag nine people you'd like to know better

I. favourite colours: azure. very calming, love it.

II. favourite flavours: sweet. i'm an absolute sucker for desserts and sweets and whatnot. but then there's also the more hearty stuff with a sour note that i really like.

III. favourite genres: mostly anything fantasy related, but also medieval stuff.

IV. favourite music: i feel like i branch out a lot but i will always stick with medieval rock, metal, punk rock, alternative rock, yada yada yada. i do love electro swing and video game/movie osts as well, though.

V. favourite movies: as far as disney/pixar movies go: lilo and stitch, mulan, rise of the guardians and coco. my favourite anime movie is a silent voice. my favourite live action one would probably be mad max: fury road. there's just something about the action scenes that i absolutely love lol. and the spider-man movies.

VI. favourite series: arcane, avatar: the last airbender, link click, to your eternity, wolf's rain, brooklyn 99.

VII. last song: VORTEX by 白鲨JAWS

VIII. last series: blue eye samurai / spy x family

IX. last movie: i watched the relative worlds with my sister but we didn't even finish it since it just... didn't do it for us :')

X. currently reading: nothing. the last novel i tried reading introduced so many characters at once that i dropped it because i couldn't keep up. the last novel that i did finish was if tomorrow doesn't come which i liked a lot.

XI. currently watching: nothing really. i watch a lot of youtube, though, and listen to distractible or true crime podcasts.

XII. currently working on: my bachelor thesis. tidying up and sorting out my apartment (spectacularly failing).

tagged by: @holyguardian <3 tagging: @eikonbound @bymargrace @drakonairs @phoenix-flamed @flamesofrebirths @yinjiyang @valkyrrhic @ruiination @creatrix-mea

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welcomehomerandomness · 9 months

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Welcome Home Website Update Reaction Notes (7/22/2023) Part 1 (SPOILERS)

Hey guys! Today I'm gonna show you my reactions to the Welcome Home website via my notes on Google Docs. I wrote 5 pages and spent around 5 or 6 hours exploring the website lol. Hope you enjoy it! Here's Part 1!

NEW HOME ART

The little Home doodle is so cute omg

FRANK AND BARNABY’S VOICES IN “ANSWER” OMG

Barnaby’s voice is honestly like a mix of Rowlf and Fozzie from the Muppets which matches well with his personality

Frank’s voice is like a mix of Gonzo from the Muppets and Gyro from DuckTales (the 2017 one)

THERE’S A GLITCH AT THE END WHAT

The Frank and Julie sprites on the FAQ page is so cute

THE STICKERS ARE SO CUTE

THE SEASONAL BANNERS

Wally and Barnaby (Winter), Frank and Eddie (Spring), Sally and Julie (Summer), and Howdy and Poppy (Fall/Autumn)

I just realized the golden flowers on Home’s sticker give me Undertale vibes

The Frank and Julie sprites on the News page is so cute too

Question Answerer seems sus

THE NEIGHBORS HAVE AUDIO WITH TEXT TRANSCRIPTS I REPEAT THE NEIGHBORS HAVE AUDIO WITH TEXT TRANSCRIPTS

“That’s the most!” Awww Wally

The drumroll on Barnaby’s audio and his little awkward laugh I love him

Yes Julie let’s play a game with a pogo stick, a bowl of pasta, and a pair of roller skates and cause chaos in the Neighborhood lol

I swear I will be depresso if Frank, Eddie, and Howdy get hurt or die…Those three are on my top 3 favorite WH characters (in no specific order) :(

I should make a list of favorite Welcome Home neighbors lol

Anyways

YES FRANK YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

I love Eddie’s Southern accent and the way he talks sorta reminds me of Launchpad from DuckTales (the 2017 one)

Awww Eddie is scared of a bug and he wants Frank’s help awww

Eddie doesn’t want his paper chains to be ruined :(

I realized the Frank and Eddie one is also called “answer” and so far the two videos mention bugs and Frank is in each video

HOWDY’S VOICE

He definitely sounds like one of those people working on radio stations

I feel like if he’s not a shopkeeper, he would definitely work on a radio station

Howdy’s Radio Podcast when???

Sally’s voice is so dramatic and I love it

*insert scared Poppy chicken/bird noise*

Also is Poppy alright? I’m kinda worried :(

The voices of the neighbors are fantastic so far the voice actors did really great in their roles :D

Poppy and Frank = best cooking/baking duo

I wonder what those seed things taste like…They probably taste good

Frank mentions Wally eating with his eyes

The third “answer” video with Poppy and Frank mentioning butterflies

I love the Sally and Howdy sprites on the Merchandise page

The “duet” page with Wally on the phone is kinda eerie

Wally sounds dead inside

I love you too Wally lol

The rimshot and horn honk on Barnaby’s phone audio lol

Don’t worry Barnaby your jokes always make me laugh

I love Barnaby’s little “Buh bye!”

I reread "It's-For-You!" Talking Telephone Toy page, I thought it said “Mario, Inc.” instead of “Marlo, Inc.”

Super Mario is canon in this universe jk

Julie’s voice is freaking adorable

I wanna listen to Frank’s bug facts everyday

Frank freaking slanders Barnaby

I love Eddie’s jingle

I wanna get some school supplies from Eddie now lol

I love Howdy’s laughs lol

Protect Howdy at all costs

I love the “ta-da!” jingle from Sally

“…I said ‘Hellooo!’ That’s your cue!” Sally radiates theater kid energy and I love her

Poor Poppy doesn’t know how a phone works :(

*insert more scared Poppy chicken/bird noises*

Howdy’s and Frank’s letters to Wally are so wholesome

I love the insect sketches

Sally calls Julie “Juliet” that’s a cute name

Eddie is the most OP character lol

But can Eddie beat Goku tho???

I think Howdy is OP too but who knows

Julie asking Eddie to catch him is basically the “If I run and leap at Terry” scene from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Also I actually don’t watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine btw I just know the memes

Anyways

When Frank said “Oh my”, I imagine them blushing asdfghjkl

I forgot to put this here but I love when Frank calls Eddie “Mr. Dear” that’s so cute

I love Julie and Frank’s besties dynamic in the “answer” video

PUPPET WALLY’S REFLECTION ON ONE OF THE RECORDS

I wanna buy every single merch if they are real lol

The live interview reminds me of those Muppet and Sesame Street interviews and it’s quite charming ngl

“Oh no, I don’t know. I love everyone. I love my friends.” Wally poly confirmed???

The interviewer’s name is Rick (and Morty asdfghjkl)

Miss Beagle is mentioned!!!

“I tell ya, we got a neighbor who's got an arm like a professional baseball player! It’s not easy!” Is Barnaby talking about Julie or Eddie?

I want to watch the "Julie-rella" segment so bad

Also Fairy "Dog"-mother lmao

Hopscotch To The Max wtf hahaha

“It took us an hour to get you down off Howdy's roof, and we still don’t know where the green chalk went…” Julie, you played hopscotch on Howdy’s roof???

I love Frank’s and Julie’s singing voices

I love how Barnaby just barges in and Frank is like “wtf”

I love Barnaby’s singing voice too

“Aw. I wanted to learn the colors.” Awww Wally is so adorable

“Wally, don’t look! He’s INDECENT!” That actually made me laugh even as I’m rereading the transcript and typing this down

A wild Howdy appears! *insert Pokemon battle music*

Also some of the “Just So” song demo seems to be distorted…That’s sus

The concept art of Julie’s “Just So” Bowling Dress is so cute

I also love how Frank and Julie wear outfits that match the games they play that’s so wholesome

Howdy’s laughs cure my depression

I love Howdy slapping the countertop when he laughs

Sole and Lyco awww

Awww Frank’s little “thank you”

“I’m sorry, I’ll see what I can do.” AWWW

I love when Julie translates to what Frank’s plants are saying it’s so wholesome

Eddie: *talks about the entire plot of Jack and the Beanstalk which involves Jack climbing up the beanstalk, encountering a giant, and cutting down the beanstalk with a big ax*

Poppy who is dressed as the beanstalk: Haha. I’m in danger.

Wally’s puppet hands are holding some yarn in “answer” but he seems that he’s not moving…

I can barely hear Poppy and Howdy’s dialogue in the videeo since I don’t have headphones on but I assume it’s a friendly conversation as usual since I can hear Howdy’s laugh lol

Wally’s hand trying to grab the cup of tea??? coffee??? in “answer”

Poppy and Sally talking about plays as usual lol

A human hand??? With a glove???

I don’t know who this human is but I’m pretty sure she’s a Howdy fan lol

I’m answering the Welcome Home worksheet because why not lol

1) Barnaby 2) Sally 3) Poppy 4) Julie 5) Wally

Now where’s my prize/j

I’m guessing that Wally replica puppet is going to come to life lol

I wanna go to this exhibition so bad if this is real lol

Awww the Poppy and Barnaby sprites…

I accidentally clicked the “Hello” doodle on the Guestbook and I’m scared

The page is called “Find”

Wally??? Wally you ok???

#welcome home #welcome home arg #welcome home spoilers #wally darling #barnaby b beagle #julie joyful #frank frankly #eddie dear #howdy pillar #sally starlet #poppy partridge #welcome home home

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bookgeekgrrl · 3 months

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My media this week (21-27 Jan 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Cat Person (The_She_Devil) - 72K, shrunkyclunks - Bucky's the SHIELD agt tasked with bringing newly defrosted Steve up to speed on the 21st century - there's really hot sex in a secluded cabin PLUS feelings. All around deliciousness.

😊 Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire (W. Scott Poole, author; Enrique McGavin, narrator) - interesting, edifying, depressing. Not as much discusssion of the films as I expected/would have liked - like 70% rundown of USian imperial activities of the last two centuries, 30% horror/scifi film discussion. [In hindsight, should have read this in text, as there were passages I really wanted to highlight/quote and the narration was…weird. Voice sound & tone was OK but there were lots of bizarre pauses. Sometimes when reading a quotes from a notable figure, the narrator did do some very credible imitations of Clinton & Reagan.]

😍 Waking Up Slow (odetteandodile) - 44K, shrunkyclunks - single dad Bucky, living in a isolated lighthouse in Canada, finds an amesiac, just-thawed Steve Rogers washed up on his beach… (reread for stucky bookclub, forever fave!)

😊 for a good time, call… (EvanesDust) - 46K, sterek, omegaverse fake-dating - solidly enjoyable

😊 Maurice (E.M. Forester, author; Peter Firth, narrator) - read this for a discord book club, can't believe I hadn't read it before & it's been 30 years since I watched the movie. Forester's language & turn of phrase is amazing.

🥰 And My Love Life Waits for Me (Bittersweet_in_Boston (author); Alaskan_Outsider (artist)) - 62K, shrunkyclunks soulmate fic - satisfyingly enjoyable, not nearly as dark as the tags might make you think

💖💖 +190K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Own Me series (nrnyx) - TW: Jordan/Derek /Stiles, 62K (series) - Stiles gets picked up by husbands Jordan & Derek at the club and what starts as a very hot one night stand becomes so much more. Very werewolfy omegaverse stuff. Hot quality smut but also action-y plot!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Goncharov (berlincorpography) - Goncharov (1973): OFC / OFC, 6K - very clever & funny fic featuring disaster lesbians, film criticism & academia

Once Upon a Time (softestpunk) - The Sandman: Dreamling, 14K - just so soft & warm, pure delight! They're both single dads! Falling in love! Dream is a children's librarian!

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - s8, e5-10

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Not All Who Wanda Are Lost" (s21, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "I Wanda'd In" (s16, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD - Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Whimzeyland

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Delta Tamales

Today, Explained - Frosty the Tesla

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Slowjamastan

It's Been a Minute - Benny Safdie on 'The Curse' — and performing goodness

Shedunnit - A Reading Life

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2024 Oscar Nominations

Switched on Pop - Kali Uchis takes on the world

Today, Explained - Modi’s temple grandstanding

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Cord Jefferson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

Code Switch - What happens when public housing goes private?

ICYMI - The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian

Vibe Check - Heavy Negro Sigh

Culture Gabfest - True Detective’s Coldest Case Yet

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carcinology (CRABS) Part 2 with Adam Wall

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A Giant Spectacle in Goffstown

Films To Be Buried With - Vincent D'Onofrio

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki

Off Menu - Ep 218: Jada Pinkett Smith

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Into the Huluverse

Endless Thread - The schism at the end of the tunnel

Dear Prudence - My Husband Stopped Using Soap and He Stinks. Help!

⭐ 99% Invisible #567 - The Double Kick

You're Dead to Me - Pythagoras

It's Been a Minute - South Africa's case for preventing genocide in Palestine; plus, why people love cults

Today, Explained - Music’s Pitchfork in the road

99% Invisible - Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is

Hit Parade - The Bridge: The Number of the Nominees Shall Be Five

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Folk Radio • Chill

Pop Radio • Downbeat

Dive Bar Karaoke

"Unholy" [Sam Smith & Kim Petras] radio

Essential New Wave

Melanie Radio • Familiar

My Mix 4 (Jimmy Buffett, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Eagles)

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santaswiftie · 1 year

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Secret Santaswiftie for @walkscornelia ★ my gift for the lovely laura <3

happy new year <3

in honor of the new year i thought i'd share 10 things with you that i absolutely love that you might learn to love too (in case you don't yet!). these are new favourites, old favourites and overall things i never want to live without again and have improved my year so much that i'm hoping that they'll improve your 2023 too!

i really hope you'll find some things you haven't tried yet and will also come to love and i can't wait to hear your verdict on all of them <3

crocheting! i have picked up crocheting in 2022 and it has been the best stress relief for me. i can only recommend to give crocheting a try if you haven't yet!

my top 3 books of the year 2022: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, i'm thinking of ending things, i'm glad my mom died

my top 3 tv shows of 2022: white lotus, schitts creek, brooklyn nine-nine

some of my beauty favourites: (in case you're into these things) gel x nails (well dupes, no need to splurge in my opinion!) rare beauty - any and all products really fenty diamond bomb - i use it on my eyes every single day and i love it

my top 3 podcasts of 2022: fluently forward, my dad wrote a porno, morbid

artists (besides taylor ofc) that i'd recommend: peach prc, nina nesbitt, olivia o'brien

casetify phone cases! i bought the one taylor has been seen with before and loved it so much - they are for sure pricey but my phone literally bounces off the floor when i drop it and doesn't have a single scratch on it!

scribd! i was unaware of scribd for the longest time and fell in love with it at the beginning of 2022! it's like spotify for books and audio books and they've had at least the ebook or the audiobook version of every book i'd been interested in so it's def worth checking out!

etsy! this is a bit of a broad one and i'm sure you're aware of it but 2022 was the year i started purchasing gifts off of etsy and it's been such a beautiful thing. i will def keep purchasing via etsy in the future and can only recommend it for any more personalised and niche presents!

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ this is a great place to learn new things - for free! i have taken advantage of it quite a bit in the past and think it's a great way to learn new things or to work on personal goals!

may 2023 bring you lots of love, joy and health. i hope you can achieve your goals and have many opportunities to laugh until your stomach hurts. to a wonderful and magical new year!

#gifts #walkscornelia #mirroball

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https-chaos · 8 months

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Woo pinned post!

Hyperfixation warning: I never shut up about wttt.

- If you don't care you should block "wttt".

- If you don't care about my many vaguely state-related (or just location-related) reblogs you should block "states stuff".

What I'm talking about:

Star Trek:

TOS

TAS

TNG

DS9

VOY

Other TV:

Doctor who

It's always Sunny in Philadelphia

Torchwood

The x files

Schitts creek

Letterkenny

Seinfeld

Ghosts (cbs)

Good Omens

Our Flag Means Death

House

Peaky Blinders

YouTube:

Welcome to the table (Ben Brainard)

CGCU (Cameron Geller Cinematic Universe)

Kurzgesagt

Scishow

PBS Terra

Night mind

Movies:

Venom

Deadpool

Handmaids Tale

Night At The Museum

Podcasts:

Welcome to night vale

Crime junkie

The magnus archives

Books:

The locked tomb (tasmyn muir)

House of Salt and Sorrows (Erin A Craig)

Games:

Skyrim

Old school runescape

red dead redemption 2

the last of us

Other special interests:

Clothing/fashion history

Climate change

Politics

To watch list:

The rest of Star Trek

Columbo

What we do in the shadows

Only murders in the building

The last of us

Brooklyn nine-nine

Westworld

American gods

Lucifer

The good place

Impostors

Prodigal son

Killing eve

Nos4a2

The sandman

Harlots (Hulu)

Leverage

Interview with the vampire

EVIL (paramount+)

Twin peaks

The Bear

Hetalia

Pacific rim

Arrested development

Gilmore girls

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deadlinecom · 2 months

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infinitemonkeytheory · 1 year

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The television savant behind the success of The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the rest of the 20th century’s best sitcoms sat down with Matthew Belloni on the podcast The Town to talk about the preposterously public and ongoing clash between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Writers Guild of America (WGA), a union for which Schur sits on the negotiating committee. During the episode, TV comedy’s most accomplished showrunner explained one of the fundamental issues in the dispute that he sees as an existential threat to the future of the medium: Nobody’s learning how to run a show.

[…]

More importantly, Schur argued, is the point that the industry can’t afford not to develop new showrunning talent, saying, “What’s coming down the pipe is a bunch of first-time showrunners who simply don’t know how to do the job. You think it’s expensive to pay Writers Guild minimum to be on the set? Wait until show after show after show is breaking down and falling apart and having to take production pauses because people just aren’t prepared to actually do the job that they were hired to do.”

If anyone needs convincing that replacing able showrunners with unqualified amateurs will lead to disaster, they can take note of Schur’s former neighbor on NBC Thursday Night — imagine if every studio fired their Dan Harmon and all of TV became Community Season Four. That’s the future that the WGA is trying to prevent.

#michael schur #wga #wga strike #support the wga

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cephalog0d · 2 months

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Get to know you game! Answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better!

Got tagged by @outtoshatter!

Last song listened to: Uhhhh I think Eine Kleine Nachtmusik because when I'm driving short distances I just put the classical station on in the car. I haven't been listening to music lately, I've been re-listening to my Fox Mulder Is A Maniac podcast.

Currently reading: Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (IT'S SO PRETTY), Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher for book club, and I'm still technically slogging through The Salvage Crew but might end up DNF'ing because the audio production is so absolutely dogshit that it's actively difficult to listen to. Sucks for the book itself, it's probably fine.

Currently watching: I'm terrible about watching new stuff, so. My current background watch has been Brooklyn 99 and Xena. (I also want to rewatch The Sting for the nine billionth time but they're showing it at the local indie theater soon and I'm taking my friend who hasn't seen it which means I have to resist until then.)

Currently obsessed with: I mean. All the usual things. Screaming about Batkids. Deep sea creatures. Went down a rabbit hole of mimicry in bugs because mimicry is so cool. Eight million writing thoughts that all want to be written at once (mainly but not exclusively Reverse Robins).

No-pressure tags! @dangerousdan-dan @your-dead-european-ancestor @sepia-stained-sunset @roseandgold137 @robbed-ghost @teleportationmagic @bess3714 @dizaryswrites @kayrielwrites

#tag game

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thegunlady · 7 months

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Thank u for the opening to talk about my Various Inner Machinations of Late, @dollsome-does-tumblr!

favourite colour: black and electric green!

last song: Dance (Acoustic) by Tim Halperin has been on loop for days.

last movie: A hundredth rewatch of an inexplicable favorite of my teen years, The Illusionist.

currently watching: Oh! Just last night I started short-lived ABC show The Catch from 2016, about a private investigator who discovers her fiance is a con man, and sets off on a quest for revenge, but also they love each other! It's kind of like if Good Behavior was PG-13 and also like, very normal and nice. It's on Hulu and I am enjoying it!

other stuff i watched this year: Well I am literally always watching my perennial background show Brooklyn Nine Nine, I also watched Ghosts CBS (delightful), The Bear (fraught! but compelling), among many others - and I've been really into crafting/cosplay youtube lately. Especially Rachel Maksy, Adam Savage, and Wicked Makers.

shows i dropped this year/didn’t finish: Okay I have to be honest I abandon like half the shows I start - I just get bored and distracted, I'm sorry!

shows I would like to watch: Succession, Yellowjackets, Only Murders in the Building, the rest of Nancy Drew, and so much more! It's endless, really!

currently reading: Between books at the moment! I think next on my list is to finish This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, which I started to read awhile ago, but then my Libby loan expired!

currently listening to: Sci-fi podcast Midnight Burger, about a classic roadside diner that travels in time and space, and its eccentric employees and customers. I really love it so far!

currently working on: I actually just started a new job, and am in the process of getting up to speed and all that. I'm pretty overwhelmed and nervous tbh, but also excited.

current obsession: Stardew Valley (although I just finished the community center and it did NOT give me enough points to get the statue of perfection from Grandpa's ghost so now I'm kind of annoyed! also I am enjoying how much that sentence is nonsense to someone who has never played).

I tag anyone and everyone who wants to do this! Please tag me in so I can see what you've been Up To! 💚

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ausetkmt · 1 year

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A Florida Judge Finds a New Job: Defending an Inmate - The New York Times

At first, Judge Scott Cupp was a resolute, hard-core, you-gotta-be-joking skeptic. During his years as a defense lawyer, he had heard from dozens of inmates who swore they had been wrongly convicted, and he never believed a single one. So in 2002, when he learned about a guy named Leo Schofield, who by then had already served 13 years of a life sentence for murdering his wife, he didn’t need to hear the details.

“I thought if this guy’s innocent, I’m the Queen of Sheba,” he said in a recent interview.

For the record, Judge Cupp looks nothing like any depictions of the Queen of Sheba. At 66, he has gray hair and a fluffy gray beard that gives him the appearance of a trimmed-down Santa Claus, and when agitated he lets fly curse words not found in the Bible. (“I can get a little saucy, so you can edit some of this, right?”)

But today it is not enough to say Judge Cupp merely believes Leo Schofield is innocent; he considers Mr. Schofield’s imprisonment a grotesque mistake. Anyone wondering how Judge Cupp made the journey from total doubter to ardent crusader should seek out “Bone Valley,” a nine-part podcast released last year, which recounts Mr. Schofield’s story in harrowing, infuriating detail. The show is part of the true-crime podcast bonanza, fueled by the very human urge for stories in which sanity and justice ultimately prevail.

Here comes a spoiler: “Bone Valley” is not that kind of story. Mr. Schofield is still in prison. Which so irritates Judge Cupp that freeing him will soon become his full-time and unpaid job. In a move that is certain to confound more than a few colleagues, Judge Cupp will resign his seat on the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in Charlotte County, Fla. — he has been a judge since 2014 — and dedicate all of his working days to springing Mr. Schofield from behind bars.

“I’m leaving money on the table,” he said in a 90-minute video interview, noting that he could have remained in his current role for nine more years. But he doesn’t have any debt, his children are grown and he lives comfortably on 26 acres with plenty of woods and a pond.

“In a way, what I’m about to do is selfish,” he went on, “because it’s for my own psyche. I need to do this. I have to do this.”

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“Bone Valley” has been a triumph for Lava for Good, a production company that focuses on social justice issues. It has been downloaded 4.5 million times, reaching No. 7 on Apple’s podcast chart and turning up on best-of-the-year lists.

Lava for Good has not released financial figures, so it’s hard to know if “Bone Valley” went beyond winning hearts and minds and turned a profit, a feat that has only gotten harder as the podcast market has grown more crowded. The company’s co-founders, Jason Flom and Jeff Kempler, who initially created Lava Records, signing artists like Lorde and Kid Rock, say they are primarily interested in different kinds of results.

“For us the most important measure of success is in outcomes,” Mr. Kempler wrote in an email, “in specific cases we cover, in laws and policies, in the election of fair and progressive prosecutors.”

“Bone Valley” is reported and narrated by Gilbert King, the author of the book “Devil in the Grove,” the nonfiction account of four Black men falsely accused of raping a white woman in central Florida in 1949, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Mr. King, who lives in Brooklyn, thought he was done with the Sunshine State until he visited Naples in 2018 to give a speech to the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges.

Judge Cupp attended by mistake, thinking Gilbert Gottfried, the now-deceased stand-up comic, was doing a set to add levity to the program. He quickly abandoned his plan to exit early and had a very different thought: This is the guy.

For more than a decade, he had been searching for a writer to dig into the case that preoccupied him. When Mr. King was done speaking, Judge Cupp approached and handed over his business card. On the back he had jotted down Mr. Schofield’s name and Florida Department of Corrections number.

“Not just wrongfully convicted,” he had added in a scrawl. “He’s an innocent man.”

A few days later, Mr. King called. Judge Cupp explained that during his defense lawyer days, he had overcome his initial doubts about Mr. Schofield and represented him in 2005, based on new evidence. He still failed to persuade prosecutors that they had imprisoned the wrong man. Soon after, he became a prosecutor himself and later joined the bench. But he never forgot this case.

“God help us if we can’t get this right,” he told Mr. King on the phone. Just read the trial transcripts, the judge suggested.

“I saw problems with the state’s case right away,” Mr. King recalled. Under the government’s theory, the murder occurred in the Schofield home, a single-wide trailer. “But multiple crime units did not find a single drop of blood in the place. How is that possible?”

The case dated to 1987, when the body of 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was discovered in a drainage canal in Lakeland, Fla., with 26 stab wounds. Suspicion quickly fell on her husband of just six months, a house painter who also played lead guitar in a bar band.

At the trial, prosecutors tarred Mr. Schofield as a violent hothead — he had struck Ms. Schofield on several occasions, the acts of an overly possessive husband, he said — and a neighbor said she had seen him on the night of the murder, moving a large object from his home that could have been a body. Mr. Schofield was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

“Honestly, I think I was numb,” Mr. Schofield says in a face-to-face interview for the podcast conducted in the prison, describing his reaction to the verdict. “I was so numb and beat down and disgusted I don’t think sadness was the reaction for me. For me, I was incredulous that this could even be taking place.”

Notably missing from the government’s case was any physical evidence linking Mr. Schofield to the crime. But fingerprints had been found in his wife’s car. Figuring out whom they belonged to became a fixation for Crissie Carter, a social worker who had met Mr. Schofield in prison when he assisted her in life skill classes she taught to inmates. In 1995, the two married, a turn of events that Ms. Carter, who now goes by Carter-Schofield, could scarcely believe herself.

“I didn’t know how to talk about it for years,” she said in a phone interview. “And the very few people I did share this with didn’t want to talk to me, because they thought there was something wrong with me.”

One of those former friends was a police officer, Synda Maynard, who was then married to Scott Cupp. In 2004, Ms. Carter-Schofield spent months begging, pleading and whining to persuade a very skeptical Officer Maynard to seek a match for the fingerprints recovered in Ms. Schofield’s car.

A few weeks later, Officer Maynard called with startling news. The prints belonged to Jeremy Scott, a deeply troubled, mentally diminished and violent man who, it turned out, had regularly taken a former girlfriend to the very secluded place where Ms. Schofield’s body was found. He was serving a life sentence for robbing and beating a man to death with a grape juice bottle.

When Mr. Cupp learned about the prints, he agreed to become Mr. Schofield’s lawyer, expecting that the prosecution would soon produce a face-saving plea deal and bring the life sentence to a swift end.

“I thought the case had unraveled for the state and Leo’s going to get out,” he said. “Wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Mr. Schofield stayed put, even after Mr. Scott took the stand at an evidentiary hearing in 2017 and confessed under oath.

Mr. Schofield has since earned a bachelor’s degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and leads a prison ministry attended by 150 inmates every Sunday. He has never had a private moment with his wife of nearly 30 years, let alone a conjugal visit. The daughter the couple adopted in 2000 now has two children of her own. His disciplinary record is as close to spotless as it gets for someone who has spent decades in penitentiaries.

But on three occasions, lawyers for the state attorney’s office have shown up at parole board hearings to argue that Mr. Schofield is a remorseless killer who should die in prison. And someone from that office will apparently attend hearing No. 4, scheduled for sometime in March or April.

“If we thought that Leo Schofield, or any other inmate, was innocent, we would take immediate action to right that injustice,” said Jacob S. Orr, chief assistant state attorney for Florida’s 10th Judicial Circuit. “However, the state cannot ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence that has proven Leo Schofield guilty.”

Mr. Orr attached a two-page document of detailed talking points. “It seems this is an attempt to promote a podcast,” reads one sentence.

That’s a line that Judge Cupp has heard before.

“I hope to God somebody says that in my presence,” he said during the interview, talking about the upcoming parole hearing. “Yeah, we’re just rolling in dough here.”

He and Mr. Schofield have become friends, bonded by the latter’s struggle and their shared Christian faith. In a bonus episode released last week, Judge Cupp visits Mr. Schofield at Hardee Correctional Institution to ask permission to represent him again. In a subsequent interview with Mr. King, Mr. Schofield says he’s happy to have his superhero back.

It might take superheroics to free Mr. Schofield. Or maybe the state will be daunted by the media spectacle the next parole hearing is sure to be and skip the proceeding. Prosecutors are under no obligation to attend.

Either way, Judge Cupp is ready. Asked why he had left behind a comfortable career and a steady paycheck, and why he would succeed where previous lawyers had failed, he paused for a moment, as though contemplating a barbell he was eager to bench press.

“I am done sitting idly by and letting the state assault this man,” he said. “And that’s what they’ve done. They’ve lied about him. They’ve assaulted his character. And I’m not taking it any more, on his behalf.”

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My media this week (14-20 Jan 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

Death in Soho (Augusta Peel #1) (Emily Organ, author; Sarah Nichols, narrator) - acceptable cozy mystery set post-WWI. Perfectly cromulent and will probably read another when I'm craving an uncomplicated read. Did appreciate that Miss Peel is middle-aged, not an ingenue/flapper

Ever Since New York (AHM1121) - 94K, shrunkyclunks omegaverse - just a really satisfying omegaverse fic, loved these versions of them

Running on Air (eleventy7) - 74K, drarry - it's 8 yrs post-war, draco's been missing for 3 of them and harry's been assigned the cold case. There's driving and melancholy and eventually sorting out feelings and stuff

💖💖 +199K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Quench (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 9K - reread, all time forever fave with possibly my fave description of thick steve: 'built like a mack truck made out of ribeye' (all the simile action in this fic is fantastic tbh)

This Light-Struck Country (TentacleParty) - The Witcher: eskel/oc (monster), 18K - some truly quality monsterfucking

sunrise supplications (liadan14) - The Old Guard: kaysanova, 12K - great modern AU enemies-to-lovers with a very clever spin on joe & nicky's canonical meeting

Slow Boat to China (Penguinjava) - A Charm of Magpies series (KJ Charles): Merrick & Lucien, 7K - wonderful vignette of the boat trip to china after lucien's horrible father banished them & the foundation of their relationship

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - s8, e1-4

Dirty Laundry - s3, e10

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Summer Breakdown" (s21, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Fs Get Defgrees" (s16, e2)

Mrs Sidhu Investigates - s1, e1-4

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Desert Island Discs - Greta Gerwig, writer and director

What Next: TBD - Is Your Car Tracking You?

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carcinology (CRABS) Part 1 with Adam Wall

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Our Emmys Recap

Switched on Pop - Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

⭐ The Sporkful - The Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves

99% Invisible #566 - Imitation Nation

Code Switch - The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott

⭐ Films To Be Buried With - Joel Kim Booster

Just One Thing - Take Vitamin D

NPR's Book of the Day - 'The Golden Screen' chronicles the films that shaped the Asian American diaspora

Vibe Check - Wesley Morris, or Wesley Snipes?

Welcome to Night Vale - Bonus Ep: Riddle Guy

NPR's Book of the Day - 'The Frozen River' tells the fictionalized story of a real 18th century midwife

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer with Winnie M Li

Today, Explained - How the war in Gaza ends

99% Invisible - Power Broker #01: Robert Caro

Dear Prudence - I Spend Hours a Day Having Intense Romantic Daydreams. Help!

Endless Thread - Where's the Beef?

What Next: TBD - The Great British Library Hack

It's Been a Minute - The political power of white Evangelicals; plus, Biden and the Black church

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - When Bad Commercials Become Cult Classics

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - David Oyelowo

You're Dead to Me - The Bloomsbury Group

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Definitive Croce

Classic Bedtime Favorites

Presenting Lionel Richie

'80s Pop Party

Green Day

Presenting Gordon Lightfoot

Presenting Steely Dan

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