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The Quinton Reviews video was actually the first time I ever heard of The Beverly Hillbillies, but Quinton's dad talks about it as if everyone should know it, like the Simpsons. My theory is that maybe it is because I didn't grow up in an english-speaking country, and I'm curious!

If you have no idea what youtube video I am talking about, I would still appreciate your vote! Just vote whether or not you are aware of the sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies"

#I've heard of it because I once read a history of american sitcoms with women mcs #which was split between shows I had seen heard of but not seen and never heard of before reading it #polls

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Most of the MASH fandom probably knows this already, but just in case you didn't...these two literally got married after this.

#tv: mash #my actual favorite pairing for her

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did you date in high school?

#no #I was identifying as bisexual but I still wouldn't have even if I was straight #and I can't stand it when tumblr posts #act like gay people are the only ones who didn't date in high school #polls

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the interesting question is why on earth alcott didn't outright name the christmas present book

#little women #I guess she thought it didn't need to be said?

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it's not merely pedantry network vs. cable matters because a) they have different rules for what they can show, no bare breasts on network TV and b) having cable used to be a bit of a class marker since it cost money

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Reblogging to compliment @jehnt on knowing the difference between network TV and cable.

1 week ago I barely knew 911 the tv show existed. Today I am 2 seasons deep and unsure how I thought the gifs made this show look so deeply heterosexual. thanks tumblr

so sorry if I helped inflict this upon you except no I’m not! the entire show makes me feel like I have taken powerful hallucinogens and every time I think the most insane thing has happened a new scene begins and I yet again learn my lesson. “what if we wrote a 5+ year slow burn gay romance where first comes coparenting a child and then comes curtainfic and then comes a coming out scene and then comes [TBD] and also that is just two characters and everyone else is having equally unhinged plots” yeah okay go for it. The show is like the videotape in The Ring, only way to survive it is to pass it on and permanently alter the landscape of someone else’s psychological stability. Truly impossible to explain, must be experienced to understand (jk comprehension is impossible)

#tv: 911 #believe it or not I started watching this procedural for the procedures

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Man, I miss the internet when you could just freely browse all sorts of niche blogs and fan sites without having to have an account anywhere... There was so much to explore! Now you need to have an account with Instagram and Tiktok before they'll let you see anything, or it's locked behind a paywall on someone's Patreon.

We used to "browse," like we were wandering free in a big pasture, and now it's a "feed," where someone keeps shoveling stuff into a trough in front of your face and you have to keep choking it down.

I miss "Free Range" internet is what I'm saying, I guess. Not this Content Factory Farming crap.

#this was so important to me when I was young and had no email address #I was still able to read discussions and fic and see fanart #and it's terrible that it's no longer possible to lurk

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I'm always thinking about Stephen's "oh, twenty or thirty times a year."

That's every other week on average. If you and a friend generally serve as each others' seconds and you both step out a usual amount, you are on the dueling ground every. single. week.

He is so incredibly blasé about it every time the situation crops up and it's not even pride or arrogance or ego or an emotional requirement. It's literally just workaday to him.

#patrick o'brian

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#met an ayla once #names #polls

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Happy Passover to everyone celebrating!

May it bring peace and foresight to you and yours.

May it usher in a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank.

I saw that the Jewish and Muslim students at Columbia protected each other as they had Shabbat and evening prayers on Friday. This is what all the world should be. Helping and loving each other. Being respectful to others religious beliefs even when yours are different.

Don't stop talking about Palestine!

May next year see a free Palestine!

Permanent Ceasefire Now!

Humanitarian Aid Now!

Save Rafah Now!

Save the West Bank Now!

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Presenting Avi (post 3 of 4)

This is a letter from Avi’s editor Richard Jackson, about a later draft of BTWS

Here’s the first part of the letter. Nothing wholesale till page 71 of the version I have here (Chapter 7, toward the end).

I wonder if Laurence would—rather easily, it seems—call his father a coward. That’s a pretty cheeky accusation; and I don’t get the feeling that, though they’re reportedly pals, young Laurence is so very much at ease with his father—or would be in 1851. Also, the idea of cowardice is perhaps beyond Laurence’s rather young 12? He might feel it in himself, but would he charge his father with it?

On page 89 (toward end of Chapter 10), I’m surprised at the apparent quantity of bills still left in Laurence’s hand after the thief has run off. Can it be clearer there?

Page 102 (middle Chapter 12): “Snips” crops up for Stokes. More interesting is my concern about how Lady Kirkle “sweeps” out of the room. I can’t read in this what she feels about being dismissed. She seems meeker than “sweeps.”

Page 104: Not positive, but I believe this is the only space break I’ve come upon so far. Could this break be the start of a short new chapter instead? We do have a couple of short ones coming up….

Page 106: The final paragraphs here end and end again; it’s clear at top of page that once he’s focused on Euston Station he’ll be heading there. [We have discussed Stokes on the phone. I feel there’s too much thinking things through with him—or we see too much of his working toward decisions. When he’s on stage, at least in these plotting sections, my attention flags. I want, as a kid reader, to be focused on the kids. When they aren’t there, I fidget.]

Page 110 (near beginning of Chapter 10): I don’t quite get the Will business and how Mr. Clemspool expects to benefit (same on page 111). Is Mr. C. also in the employ of Lord Kirkle and therefore aware of the contents of the Will?

Page 122 (Chapter 14 middle): I think Laurence’s first sight of the station goes on too long; not sure why exactly, but I got impatient….

Page 128 (Chapter 15): Not sure why I think of this just now, but you use “Mr.” throughout. I wonder, looking into Dickens, if he doesn’t make a distinction about when to use it and when not. Are negative characters called simply by their last names in order that their darkness be acknowledged (Mr. being cozier)? The consistent use of “Mr.” implies a young narrator’s point of view perhaps, in which all adults are Mr. or Mrs. or Miss; is that best?

Chapter 16 we referred to on the phone, and I have above re: page 106. I think wherever a kid character is not at hand, things get long, seem to drag a bit; particularly with Mr. Stokes. Anything you can speed him up along here? ‘Twould help.

Page 146 (two pages into Chapter 19): I’m surprised at the reference to “rigging”; how does that figure on a side-wheeler?

Page 153, Toggs heading deeper into the city. Somehow the description here doesn’t work for me because he’s seen it all before and wouldn’t describe it as the words do. Maybe trim….

Page 173 (Chapter 22 middle): I wonder that Laurence doesn’t react with startlement when Mr. Clemspool grips his arm as they step from the carriage. Wouldn’t he note that as odd, surprising, suddenly sinister???

Note that in the book Laurence is 11 and Lady Kirkle still sweeps out of the room.

#beyond the western sea #it's april 23

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Wellesley College, 1949

Nina Leen, Life | via LIFE Photo Archive

#1940s reference #nina leen

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John Burton Harter (1940-2002) Curiosity

#art #john burton harter

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Anon with the friend who's reading tlt on the reverse order: Yes, he knows he's being a lab rat, he doesn't keep motes on the books because he's very much a casual reader (and thus perfect for the experiment) and so far we have only done Nona The Ninth and The Unwanted Guest, plus some chapters of HTN & Doctor Sex. There's the slight chance of osmosis corruption because I occasionally reblog modern au memes on my main blog, which I think is how he got Palamedes' whole deal.

There's not much he guessed, and even less he guessed correctly. He did call the fact Crown and Ianthe are related a pleasant plot twist, and he initially thought John was Varun.

The most interesting guess he had, which he arrived through flawed means, was Paul's existence, and the fact Pyrrha had some sort of connection to Gideon The Ninth — mostly because he guessed the average Lyctorhood to be Camilla and Palamedes', and with the reference of Gideon and G1deon as 1) permanently dead, in a setting where he's aware necromancy exists and he thought zombies to be actual resurrected people 2) connected to Pyrrha, and 3) the fact Pyrrha had "some weird vibes" (he refused to elaborate) led him to thinking Pyrrha was half Gideon, half someone else, and the reason Kiriona was vaguely off-putting to people was because she didn't have a full soul. Anyways he did think the same would happen to Palamedes and Camilla, which it did, and that Kiriona was pissed at Pyrrha because of an ambiguous degree of relationship

We have paused rn, as the labrat experiment is in return for me reading a webcomic per book

Oh yeah also im doing this because i either dreamt a post proposing it up or actually saw it, and honestly i wanted to see how much biases and previous narrative impacted the relationship of the reader with tlt characters, their relationships, and worldbuilding, as i absorbed tlt by osmosis as an agender aroace. so yeah giving a gay guy tlt without previous context in the reverse order to complete the trifecta (lesbian woman reading it in the correct order, aroace agender getting to know it by osmosis and figuring out the plot best I could before reading it, gay guy reading it in reverse)

ANON THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK! @mayasaura and everyone who wanted a follow-up to the first part.

"Thought John was Varun at first" is soooo big brained actually! I'm always thinking about John's more RB-like traits. I'm also very amused that he cast Pyrrha as the zombie puppeteer, I bet he's going to love tiny Harrow walking around her dead parent's bodies for a decade.

I also feel like the worldbuilding in NtN is veeery different from the general #vibe of the first two books — it feels like an "anime filler arc" kind of sidequest plot — and I'm very curious if going from NtN to HtN is going to make the settings vibe changes feel stronger or weaker than reading it normally would.

Anyway, I love that you decided to do this, and please let us know what he thinks about HtN! I hope you enjoy the webcomic :D

#the locked tomb

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Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italy by Ludovic Pizzera

#this is my scenery tag

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Earl Robinson's autobiography* finally came in and so far it's very compelling

browsed the index and there's no mention of Avi or his siblings, just their parents and grandparents, which is a bit disappointing to me

*composer of Joe Hill, Black and White, The House I Live In, and Ballad for Americans

#I wish I could confirm an explanation for this #going by sandy as a kid is the simplest one though #or earl robinson forgot his nephew by marriage's name #this family is far too interesting

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Here's a running list of every time BJ drops the name of a person during casual conversation (sometimes as if it's common knowledge), and then never mentions them again:

1.) Norma Jean - Welcome to Korea (S4E1)

2.) Gerald Rassmussen - The More I See You (S4E22)

3.) Floyd Hayden - The Colonel's Horse (S5E11)

4.) Louis Hepler - 38 Across (S5E15)

5.) TR Miller - Lil (S7E3)

6.) Elwood Einstein - Period of Adjustment (S8E6)

7.) Aunt Shirley - War Co-Respondent (S8E23)

8.) Eddie Hoffman & Old Man Wallerstein - No Sweat (S9E11)

9.) Carl (!!!!) - No Sweat (S9E11)

10.) [Aunt] Selma - Trick or Treatment (S11E2)

11.) Earl Flagen - Give and Take (S11E14)

In conclusion, BJ Hunnicutt only does this 11* times in the span of 179 episodes he's actually in. 6% of episodes. Do with this little piece of information as you'd like.

*It's definitely possible that I missed some, so if I did please kindly let me know.

#I always remember the first one because why did they use monroe's real name #but then I found out there was a singer named norma jean #tv: mash #bj hunnicutt