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forthegothicheroine · 3 years

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How other great detectives would solve the Chesapeake Ripper murders

A series I do sometimes. For the purpose of this post, I will be assuming Hannibal does not have protagonist protection. I will also do my best not to assume that any of these detectives have protagonist armor, either.

Columbo: Columbo is immediately suspicious when Hannibal says that he “transferred his passion for anatomy into the culinary arts.” When Hannibal talks about his hobby of collecting news clippings about church collapses, Columbo knows for sure that only a serial killer would do that. He keeps needling at Hannibal, being incessantly polite, asking a series of innocuous questions, mentioning that his wife has been urging him to go to therapy and can Hannibal tell him anything about that process? Hannibal can tell he’s smarter than he seems, but doesn’t realize just how smart. He’s also smart enough to finally come to arrest Hannibal with a full squad of burly guys with guns. Columbo is also very sweet to Abigail and they write letters to each other after the case is over.

Phryne Fisher: Phryne has an absolutely marvelous time investigating this case. Hannibal takes her on dates to the opera and fine wine tastings and they have amazing sex. She also almost has sex with Will Graham, but when he collapses on a chair and beings talking about all the troubles he’s been going through, including encephalitis symptoms, she ends up driving him to the hospital instead. Between Will’s testimony about how Hannibal has been misleading him about his symptoms and her own secret swiping of keys, she becomes suspicious and investigates the murder house. When Hannibal catches her, he promises that her death display will be the most beautiful one yet. She shoots him non-fatally and he gets arrested. (She may also be arrested for breaking and entering, but Hannibal can’t exactly claim stand-your-ground when he has a basement freezer full of body parts.) Phryne also possibly sleeps with Alanna.

Sam Spade: I’ll be real here, Sam Spade is probably going to die. His primary method is deliberately antagonizing people into giving him money, and Hannibal would absolutely put him in his ‘rude people’ recipe cards. If Spade was clever, he left a dead man’s switch with Effie, and she goes to the police with the evidence folder when Spade’s body is found posed like a statue of a bird.

Sam Vimes: The moment Sam meets Hannibal he mentally classifies him as a vampire, even though he is not technically a vampire. Hannibal keeps ‘forgetting’ and offering Sam food and drink with alcohol, talking about how harm reduction is much more viable than complete abstinence and generally trying to manipulate him into falling back down the addiction hole. Sam gets brittle and suspicious in response. Hannibal drugs him and tries to hypnotize him into believing he saw another character do the murders, but the Inner Watchman in Sam’s head comes to the rescue again and he slams Hannibal over the head with the nearest heavy art object. Sybil still afterwards insists that Sam go to therapy to deal with his rage.

L: L wastes time going on dates with Hannibal and trying to trick him into implicating himself despite already having plenty of evidence, and Hannibal kills him and puts his head in a candy store.

Poirot: When Poirot attends dinner at one of Hannibal’s parties, he knows as soon as the meat touches his palette that it isn’t really rabbit. He does his best to hide the fact that he isn’t eating, and whispers to Hastings to do the same. When he finally has caught Hannibal in enough lies, he accuses him of murder while in a room with him, Will, Alanna, Abigail, Chilton, Able and Jack. With so many witnesses, Hannibal maintains his cool and says that he’ll call his lawyer and see everyone in court. When they actually investigate his house and find the human body freezer, Poirot faints.

Philip Marlowe: Every time Marlowe tries to bother Hannibal, the local cops drag him into the station and berate him for hassling a rich person. He has long conversations with Hannibal when he does get him alone about great literature and the morality of Shakespeare characters. Hannibal drugs him and tries to convince him he witnessed somebody else commit the murders, but Marlowe is so used to being drugged and seeing ridiculous things that he doesn’t trust any drug trip memories. He is eventually able to catch Hannibal in the process of cleaning up after a murder, and both shoot each other. Both survive and Hannibal gets arrested, but Hannibal taunts Marlowe that he will go the rest of his life never meeting anyone who understands him as well as he did. Marlowe sadly agrees.

Dale Cooper: If Cooper does solve this case, it will take at least a season and a half. It will be based less on evidence and more on Hannibal having dark energy and his name coming up when Cooper picks it out of a bag of ice cubes with initials carved onto them. Abigail finally breaks down and confesses everything that’s happened to Cooper, and he tells her she’s not an evil person. He and Hannibal shoot each other; both survive. Hannibal goes to jail but continues to influence other people to commit murders from within jail. Cooper ends up in a coma, and when he wakes up, he reports visions of a feathered stag telling him that he should look for new hair gel.

Kinsey Milhone: Kinsey inherently distrusts smug rich people, and no rich person is smugger than Hannibal. She spends a lot of time talking to Abigail about their mutual family issues and becomes suspicious of how much her answers seem to have been worded ahead of time by Hannibal. She tracks him and manages to find him while he’s in the process of cutting someone up. They attack each other, and it’s pretty much a coin flip as to who survives. If it’s Kinsey, the resulting story is called C is for Cannibal.

Miss Marple: Miss Marple thinks Hannibal dresses in such a lovely fashion, and he’s so sweet to invite her over for a glass of sherry. She doesn’t attempt to look around his house or catch him in the act of murder or do anything dangerous, she just compares notes about what’s being said by him, Will and Abigail, and unravels a web of lies to find some definite conclusions. Jack Crawford and the entire FBI are humiliated that a nosy old lady sitting in her living room figured everything out before they did.

#great detectives series

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heartlandians · 3 years

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I’m a big fan of “The Office” (U.S. Tv show). “The Office” ran for 9 seasons and was a big hit in the U.S. (and the world) for a long time.

For the last several years, real life best friends, Jenna Fischer (Pam) and Angela Kinsey (Angela) have had a podcast called “Office Ladies” re-watching and breaking down every episode of “The Office”. It really is a very informative look back at how “The Office” was made and how the producers, writers and cast kept the history of stories from previous episodes connected too current episodes they were producing (something that Heartland as a real bad track record of). Last night they started a two part look back at the season 4 finale. One of last night’s discussions was very interesting to me and in a way connects to Heartland.

Several years ago, Jenna Fischer wrote a book called “The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide”. One of the things discussed in the book was actors salaries. Jenna Fischer researched the average salaries of actors using “The Screen Actors Guild” as a source and found that the “median salary”, in general for a “working” actor was $52,000 per year. Most of the “SAG” actors in the union earn less than $7,000 per year from acting and less than 5% of “SAG” actors earn more than $100,000 per year. Another point. If an actor was able to make the “median salary” he/she would have to pay their agent, manager, and taxes and would only take home about $29,000.

So…what does this have to do with Heartland.

For the last fourteen years (hopefully 15 Years) all the principal actors on Heartland have had a steady job. Probably making well over $100,000 per year. Considering how few actors in the U.S. actually find work in the profession (it’s probably worse in Canada) it seems to me it would not be very smart leaving a popular show voluntarily unless the actor had already lined up a new job in the profession before leaving (assuming they still wanted to act). Most of the Heartland actors like Michelle Morgan, Shaun Johnston, Alisha Newton, and even Amber Marshall have done other projects away from Heartland. Unfortunately, Graham Wardle hasn’t done any acting jobs since 2013 and according to the IMDB web site, Graham is not attached to any upcoming projects.

Because of the way Covid-19 has affected the entertainment business (and the rest of the world) having a job paying a good salary seems throwing it away real shortsighted. I know Graham has his reasons to leave but he, just like the rest of us, has bills to pay. Really hope he’s prepared to be out of work. It’s tough out there. Submitted by: Callie ____________________________

Yeah, I mean to me that is really telling that he wanted out and isn’t motivated by money (because then he would’ve just kept going - though I guess he technically did for 5 years, but... you know), but like you said, we all need money to live.

I think it also comes down to what kind of lifestyle you want to have too. For example, for Amber I would think it makes a big difference because she has a big ranch, but at the same time she has other revenues (is that the right word to use?) that help and then of course there’s Shawn who also brings in money, so it’s not just her “Heartland money” that keeps her/them afloat. That’s one thing I admire about her - that she’s always been looking so much ahead, covering herself in case the show was not to continue.

In general, one can definitely live with less and, yeah, there is probably savings (but of course they are not endless either), but at the same time leaving a show/a steady job really isn’t a decision one (usually) makes lightly, even if they wouldn’t be motivated by money, especially if they don’t have a plan about what’s next (I mean, Graham has some things going on, but I don’t know if he has an exact clear vision about what he is going to do next - someone correct me if he’s said something).

I think all of this is something some fans don’t get, that leaving this kind of money (whatever the amount was/is) behind tells a lot about his decision and him. Graham has also said he is taking a break from acting, so maybe he isn’t so depended on earning roles anymore.

#replies #submission

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webbgirl34 · 3 years

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Mike Ross, Harvey Specter, TK Strand :)

Mike Ross:

Sexuality headcanon: Bi. Dead center of the Kinsey Scale. He’s known since he was probably in middle school.

Favorite ship(s): Harvey/Mike - obviously. I didn’t hate him and Rachel together, but Mike and Harvey were such an obvious pair.

Brotp: Harold. I wish we’d had even more of them together.

Notp: I know a lot of people like it, but Mike/Trevor. I feel like that was such an unhealthy relationship all around. (Mike and the married chick is a close second.)

A random headcanon: Not really a headcanon so much as canon, but Mike’s biggest turn on is Harvey being bad ass.

General opinion: Even outside of the shipper stuff, I’m sad that the show moved away from Harvey and Mike’s dynamic in the later seasons. It changed the complexion of the show.

Harvey Specter:

Sexuality headcanon: Anyone hot and smart enough to keep him on his toes.

Favorite ship(s): Harvey/Mike. If it hadn’t been Mike I wish it would have been Scottie.

Brotp: Jessica. I like the Harvey and Donna bro dynamic, but Harvey and Jessica is just fun. Even when she’s pissed with him. She’s the big sister that can smack him back into line.

Notp: Harvey/Donna. I feel like Donna’s character actually suffered the most in service of that pairing.

A random headcanon: Harvey fell for Mike the moment the briefcase of weed opened. It hit his competency and risk-taking buttons.

General opinion: While I appreciated the character growth the show did with Harvey, the relationships with Paula and Donna both kinda soured it for me. Paula because the whole therapist/patient thing...NO. And Donna because it felt like they rewrote their history to suddenly service the pairing.

TK Strand

Sexuality headcanon: Gaaaaaayyyyy

Favorite ship(s): TK/Carlos. I’m hoping the writers are able to move them into a Judd/Grace type of relationship as they go along.

Brotp: TK and Judd. My initial was TK and Paul, but Judd really has become a big brother to TK. I love the relationship and how it’s developing. I’m thinking TK is going to need that as the Strand baby storyline progresses.

Notp: Anyone but Carlos. While I LOVE him and Buck being friends, Carlos is his soulmate.

A random headcanon: So my kinda dark one is that TK has been in a lot of harmful relationships (long or short). Mostly stemming from issues with his dad. They started in high school which is when his drug use started.

General opinion: I am RIDICULOUSLY happy about TK moving to the Paramedic team. I will be very disappointed if it terms out to be a short term thing. Narrative-wise, it gives TK at least a bit of space from his dad, it gives more of an opportunity to focus on the Paramedic team so that they don’t feel like a minor side story.

#machtaholic #asks

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undefined5posts · 4 years

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Hello! So yesterday, I finished Locke & Key and I have to talk about it (even though I'm kinda late on it), so let's begin.

One of the very few things that I knew about it was that Jackson Robert Scott (Bode), was going to be featured and I was just so proud of him because I've been a fan since IT and he's so talented it's mindblowing. He's so young yet so skilled and is a perfect fit for the character. Otherwise, I had only heard that the show was good and that a lot of people were recommending it.

Basically, it's the story of the Locke family and it's odd history. Nina, the mom, moves in her husband's family home after his tragic death, with her kids, Bode, Tyler and Kinsey. By wanting to find out more about their father's past, they will discover weird, dark and hidden secrets about the Key house and will have to try and combat the evil by understanding the real value of those unusual and magic keys that they find. Along the way, they will do a lot of mistakes, hurt and get hurt but will also make some friends and learn to be honest if they want to solve their problems.

With a very unexpected and thrilling plot twist that I will not spoil for you, each one of us can only imagine how the story goes on. Netflix has yet to announce a second season but I really hope it happens. Without any hesitation, I can affirm that Locke & Key is one of the best series I've watched, with one of the best storylines ever.

At the beginning, you will be extremely confused, just like the kids, but this continuous mystery will only attract you more into watching the rest.

It's not your cliché story where you hate the enemies so much because all they are is bad without any explanation (same thing with the main characters, they do mistakes and some good things, they're not perfect like you would typically see), well at least the human ones. By that, I mean real people will be shown, raw emotions, true sadness and a motive behind bad actions. You'll understand that some vulnerable people are controlled by evil and with the hope of making things better, getting what they always wanted which is being loved, they will do crazy things and you just can't completely blame them.

(A song featured in the series, during a very sad scene, you'll understand why I put it if you've seen it) (but also it's an amazing song go listen to it)

In conclusion, I love it, a lot of people love it, and maybe you'll love it too. For now, there's only 1 season, 10 episodes, all ranging between 40 and 56 minutes.

It's a wonderful series with a smart plot line and some great messages. You get attached to the characters, Bode's my favorite, say what you want but he's kind, caring, honest, smart, mature for his age and incredibly precious.

I got carried away, sorry, but overall, it's really really great, if you want to start a new series, here's one.

Thank you for reading ❤

#locke & key #locke and key #jackson robert scott #bode locke #kinsey locke #nina locke #rendall locke #tyler locke #key house #netflix #series #review

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summerseachild · 5 years

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Summersea’s GoT Season 4 Rewatch 2019

Otherwise known as: “The Long Slow Slide to D and D Running Out of Material from the Books”

4x01:

1. The visuals of Ice getting melted down are SO PRETTY (while RoC plays on the background 😎 living my best Lannister Life over here.)

2. Jaime getting the sword and trying NOT to be Lord of Casterly Rock and HOLY SHIT TELLING TYWIN NO and getting away with it.

3. Tyrion is trying so hard to greet the Dornish politely... poor guy.

4. It’s pride month so I’m just pointing out that Oberyn is soooo biiiii and This Bi Girl loves him. And him playing with the flame and Ellaria trying to stop him from killing the Lannister who insulted him... I just love their dynamic.

5. Drogon is just a big happy dragon-Cat and in Dany’s first appearance of this season. He PURRS.

6. I love Jaime and Cersei’s scene with Jaime’s new hand. They snipe at each other, but it is SO how they interact.

7. Jon and Sansa reacting to Robb’s death :(

8. GUESS WHO DID NOT MISS JANOS SLYNT OR ALLISER THORNE AT ALL THATS RIGHT MEEEE. Also Alliser is Peter Knox in a Discovery of Witches so I just HATE HIS FACE.

9. TREAT THAT BOOK MORE CAREFULLY JOFFREY YOU LITTLE SHIT and treat your uncle more nicely too. Jaime looks a little taken aback at what a little turd his oldest has become, but handles it well I think.

10. Jaime and Brienne trying to sort out how to keep his vow to Catelyn 🤣

11. YES ARYA GET NEEDLE BACK. Also Sandor being like NO CHILD COME BACK HERE DO NOT RUSH INTO DANGER WITHOUT ME is precious.

12. Sandor Clegane saying FUCK THE KING gives me such satisfaction

13. I should not be so happy about Arya re-enacting the time when Polliver

14. But I am happy that Sandor got his chickens

4x02

1. So I had forgotten that the girls who were in the scene where Theon gets cut are Myranda and the girl Ramsay is hunting later. I remembered how much I hate the Myranda thing real quick, though.

2. I love Tyrion being understanding of Jaime’s disability because HE WOULD BE. Also Tyrion pouring wine on the table to be like “look spilling is no big deal” is PRECIOUS.

3. Bronn knocking Jaime around while sparring is a great source of joy to me.

4. Theon finds out that Robb is dead when he’s got a RAZOR TO RAMSAY’S THROAT I can’t with Alfie’s face.

5. Every time I see Joffrey chop that book in half I want the purple wedding to be right now.

6. Tyrion trying to make Shae leave :...(

7. KEEP AWAY FROM SHIREEN, RED WOMAN, said Davos probably a lot

8. Question: why don’t the direwolves being food BACK to the hungry humans? Especially when Bran can warg into them?

9. So I want to go through every frame of that vision Bran has with the weirwood because the one we haven’t seen before is a Dragons over King’s Landing. Those ARE THE ROOFS YOU SEE IN THE NEXT SHOT FOR THE WEDDING.

10. Haha oh right this IS the purple wedding ep ooops I’d almost forgot. Not sorry for wishing death on Joffrey but sorry for Cersei’s sake and everyone else it fucks over.

11. Loras having eye sex with Oberyn cracks me up I mean they both have eyes and good gaydar... (bi-dar? queer-dar?)

12. Is Margaery... flirting with Brienne? Or is that just Margaery’s personality?

13. JAIME’S FACE when he sees Brienne and Cersei talking is SO FUNNY he’s like shit shit shit DANGER

14. What did Qyburn DO for Cersei that she is recommending to other women? She told him symptoms were gone in a previous ep in a weird mysterious way... did he help her end a pregnancy?? How long has it BEEN since Blackwater? This never comes back again but I’m super curious.

15. Oberyn has zero chill around Tywin and I love it.

16. Margaery looking like she is is going to murder someone during the war of the five Kings show is A Mood. (I mean... there IS about to be a murder.)

17. I don’t think the Tyrells planned it but Joffrey being a shit and making Tyrion touch his wine goblet and SANSA TOUCHING IT TOO played right into their hands.

4x03: oh brother here comes altar sex

1. I want very much for Hector Barbossa to be waiting at the top of that ladder for Sansa after approaching the ship and the creepy fog. But no it’s Petyr Baelish. Ew.

2. Hello new Tommen! Good to see you again after Karstark killed your identical cousin! Also Tywin being like GOOD KINGS ARE SMART AND LISTEN TO THEIR SMART ADVISORS. (That moment when a sitting US president needs to listen to Tywin. Scary?)

3. Altar sex has not aged well for me. I’m not a J/C shipper who thinks they’ve got a healthy relationship that’s all sunshine and kitties. I know the two of them have a messed up dynamic, but this scene misses the mark in so many ways and I hate it. I wish they would have left it out rather than done it wrong. (Also I think it was a tryout for me for “can you get a valonqar scene right?” And the answer was a resounding NO.)

4. Speaking of healthy relationships though Sam and Gilly are cute and sweet and awkward and everything that is good and pure in this world.

5. And so is Davos telling Shireen about his smuggling adventures.

6. Oberyn sat his beautiful self right in the middle of the Kinsey scale and said THE VIEW IS GREAT HERE. What an icon. Also offering Tywin fricking Lannister a seat on the bed where you were just having sex with like FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE was A Move.

7. Tywin TELLS OBERYN ABOUT DANY and Oberyn looks like this is the first he’s heard of it.

8. Tyrion saying goodbye to Pod gave me a decent sized lump in my throat.

9. Daario taking down the Champion Of Meereen with one thrown dagger and one slash of a sword is sexy as fuck and I don’t care who knows I think so.

4x04

1. Missandei teaching Grey Worm and just hanging out with him is so important to me this time around.

2. Jaime and Bronn are weird friends and I kind of love it.

3. The Kingslayer Brothers: coming soon to a stage near you. I’d buy that band’s shirt.

4. Olenna Tyrell is a STONE COLD LADY and I love that about her. She protected her granddaughter and I respect that.

5. That is A LOT OF WINE IN THAT GLASS Cersei my love. Also Jaime TRYING to convince her Tyrion didn’t do it hurts me. He loves them both so much, but they all hurt each other.

6. Ser Pounce is a big fluff like my Freya!

7. OATHKEEPER AND THE WHITE BOOK AND THE ARMOR. Brienne’s face is so pure when he gives it to her.

8. I had near forgotten all of this stuff at the wall with Olly and Jon and the cannibals and the mutineers at Craster’s and waiting for Mance’s army. (We know where my heart is though, don’t we...)

9. SIT DOWN LOCKE. I forgot that human shitstain showed up at the wall looking for Bran.

10. We didn’t need the mutineer plot. What did it add? What did we learn about the world or its people? Nothing we didn’t already know. What. Was. The. Point. We’d already seen the walkers and knew about the babies, we knew the world was violent and classist. WE KNEW.

11. I love when Summer is like HELLO BROTHER GHOST OH NO A TRAP

12. The white walker riding across the frozen lake... what a gorgeous image, and the ice henge...

13. WHAT DO THE BLUE EYED ICE BABIES GROW UP TO BEEEEE DO WE EVEN KNOW

4x05

1. I’d say long live King Tommen, but I’d cry.

2. Cersei is beauty she is grace she wants to punch Margaery in the face. (But actually is acting like she might need Margaery to help Tommen? That scene was hard to read.)

3. Meereen has a lot of cool geometrical carvings.

4. Dany thinking about what kind of ruler she wants to be and what responsibilities she has to the people she freed? THAT IS WHO SHE IS, D AND D YOU DICKS.

5. Sansa’s like “greeeeeaaaaat another creepy little kid” when she meets Robin.

6. And Lysa lets it ALL OUT about what Petyr has had her do... wow.

7. Cersei is going along with the Tyrell marriages way too easily what is her game.

8. Tywin is... almost treating his daughter like someone he can trust and have a conversation with? What is this?

9. And then there’s the stupidity about the mines running out. Wtf.

10. Arya is a little drama queen with saying the Hound’s name last while HE WAS LISTENING.

11. Lysa is SO DAMAGED. Poor Sansa.

12. Aw Brienne you don’t know what a loyal kid you’ve got in Podrick give him a chance.

13. Arya practicing water dancing is so cool.

14. Cersei and Oberyn talking is actually really interesting. And they talk about Myrcella :....( and Oberyn is TELLING THE TRUTH about her being happy.

15. Cersei got her A BOAT for her birthday because she LIKES THE OPEN WATER I had forgotten that and I am freaking out for fic reasons because of fics I haven’t written yet that involve Myrcella being good at boats.

16. Geez Pod I don’t know how to skin a rabbit but I know you need to before you cook it. And... does Brienne actually need help with that armor, or does she realize Pod needs to feel useful? I’m going with the second.

17. I had forgotten how creepy Jojen’s visions were.

18. Bran warging into Hodor and killing Locke is... problematic, but Bran had every reason to think Locke was going to kill him. Good fucking riddance.

19. Jon being happy to see Ghost XD

20. So... there’s just a troop of Crasters daughters out there still? Idek.

4x06 the laws of gods and men (and by men we mean Tywin)

1. Braavos is so pretty! I love her. I love her canals, I love the Titan, I love the domes, I just love her.

2. I remember when people lost their shit over Mark Gattis being in this episode. He is quite good here, and Davos is quite clever.

3. Salador’s joke about the red shirt is FUNNY and I’m not afraid to say so.

4. No one wants to see Ramsay having sex.

5. EVERYONE wants to see Yara giving a great speech.

6. She... ran from some dogs when she was burying her axe in dudes’ GUTS five seconds earlier? LAAAAAAME. Yes yes she also saw how fucked up in the head Theon was (more awards Alfie deserved and didn’t get), and she did want to lose any more people when he wasn’t willing to come but the way this was cut it reads like she was all OH NO DOGS which is the stupidest thing ever.

7. NOOOO POOR GOATS. I get that dragons have to eat though...

8. I cannot believe Dany didn’t take the time to FIND OUT WHICH MEEREENESE WERE LESS TERRIBLE. They would have been fucking allies. BUT NO LET’S JUST CRUCIFY PEOPLE WITH NO IDEA OF THE NUANCES OF THE LOCAL SITUATION. What stupidity.

9. At least she’s trying to learn??? She’s so small on that throne in a huge room. What a great shot.

10. Oberyn is a bisexual who CANNOT SIT IN A CHAIR NORMALLY. I am not complaining.

11. I cannot see the scene of Jaime and Tyrion walking down into the courtroom for the trial without giggling at the memory of the outtake where they dance like dorks into the room and down the aisle.

12. Jaime looking at Tyrion like YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOURSELF is a mood.

13. How did they get the poison necklace? Didn’t Littlefinger throw it in the Blackwater FAR off shore? A bit AFTER he killed Dontos? How does Pycelle have it here? Maybe they washed up together? Maybe D and D forgot Petyr tossed it in the bay? WHO KNOWS???

14. Jaime trying to convince Tywin one last time and offering to leave the kingsguard in exchange for Tyrion HOLY SHIT I FORGOT HE DID THAT. Cersei never would have spoken to him again if he’d left her and married and gone back to the Rock and given Tywin what he wanted. Jaime KNEW he was screwing over a relationship that means SO MUCH TO HIM but it’s TYRION’S LIFE we’re talking about here. That’s how much he loves his little brother.

15. Tywin is like DONE so fast Jaime barely gets the offer out lol

16. And it all would have worked if Shae hadn’t walked through those doors.

17. Do we know WHY Shae agreed to testify to this? What did Tywin offer her or threaten her with?

18. WHAT ARE YOU DOING LITTLE BRO WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS?! is Jaime’s face all the time this scene.

19. Tyrion’s “confession”is such a piece of acting wow Peter enjoy your Emmys.

4x07

1. Jeez Tyrion didn’t know Jaime COULDN’T save him. He had no idea that losing his hand had affected his abilities that badly. That... hurts.

2. Arya, Sandor, and the dying farmer is such a great scene... And Arya only killing that asshole only after Sandor learns his name for her so she knows the name of the man she’s killing.... A++ would watch again.

3. Everyone LISTEN TO JON he has seen things none of you have.

4. Tyrion finding out Bronn has been bought is so very upsetting but I love this scene.

5. But really though once Tywin named The Mountain champion, anyone who Tyrion asks to be his champion at this point he’s basically asking to die.

6. Dany’s like “well I guess fucking Daario isn’t going to cause a political disaster at least.”

7. I had forgotten how fascinating Selyse and Melisandre’s interactions are.

8. IS THAT SETTING UP BURNING SHIREEN FUCK THAT.

9. Dany is capable of nuanced thought when it comes to innocence and guilt of whole groups of people and WE JUST SAW IT with how Jorah changes her mind and I’m JUST SO ANGRY.

10. That is the only time we get the story of Sandor and the fire from his own mouth and I did not mean to be this moved.

11. Hot Pie talking about food (oh yeah and Arya) is so precious. And now I want steak and kidney pie. With gravy.

12. “Using honest feelings to do dishonest work is one of her greatest talents.” The truest thing Tyrion has ever said about Cersei.

13. What a great snow castle. Too bad Joffrey part 2 knocked it down.

14. Ew ew ew Petyr kissing Sansa is so skeevy and gross.

15. “A great deal might change between now and never” is a great line though.

16. I hate Petyr but it’s good he pushed Lysa out the Moon Door before she killed Sansa.

4x08

1. Jon and Co all reminding Sam that Gilly is a survivor is so great. Brotherhood at its best.

2. Missandei and Grey Worm are young people with old souls and their relationship is precious to me.

3. Alfie is SO GOOD at showing how deeply Ramsay has him under his control even when he’s alone with the Ironborn.

4. Petyr is part Braavosi? Fascinating.

5. Sansa TOLD the Lords of Vale who she was??? Her testimony is such a good bit of acting on Sansa’s part. It’s a lie hidden in a lot of truth, and she was QUICK to think it through and come up with it.

6. Jorah telling Dany about the pardon is a scene that breaks my heart. 💔 She is HARSH here but I love the full blown Targaryen on display.

7. Roose being like TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE like the Lion King cracks me up so hard.

8. I will never give Ramsay the Bolton name in anything I write as long as I am a fan of this show out of pure hatred. He is Ramsay Snow forever and always.

9. I remember I was so worried that they were going to have Petyr try to sexually assault Sansa. OH I WAS A SWEET SUMMER CHILD.

10. Arya laughing at the news of Lady Arryn’s Death is an immensely human reaction and I love that she just CANNOT STOP.

11. I know people hated that scene with Jaime and Tyrion talking about beetles but I have two takeaways: first, a septon tried to touch Jaime once???? Headcanon: Little Jaime looked that septon dead in the eye and said “my father wouldn’t like that” and it never happened again. The septon was summarily replaced. Second: Jaime has never thought about ANYTHING in his whole life as deeply as baby Tyrion thought about beetles.

12. Oberyn is so fun to watch fight and Jaime agrees with me.

13. You don’t need him to confess Oberyn really you don’t you GOT HIM my beautiful prince.

14. How did the Gods make their will known if BOTH champions killed each other dead, huh Tywin? (The Mountain is... less Dead?)

4x09

1. Sam mulling over the legalistic interpretation of their vows and Jon trying to explain what sex and love are like are both SO CUTE.

2. I love that everyone around that fire has heard the “Tormund fucked a bear” story and I’m kind of sorry Ygritte didn’t let him finish.

3. Maester Aemon revealing his Targaryen identity was lovely. Also Sam Cussing to get Gilly in the gate= AMAZING

4. Alliser Thorne ADMITTING HE WAS WRONG? I am dead of shock.

5. Sam and Pyp talking about fear and bravery is... so darling.

6. They have A GIANT RIDING A MAMMOTH and I will forgive a small amount of nonsense for giving me that image.

7. See Alliser looking at the horn blower like REALLY? IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF MY SPEECH? Before they realize it’s the horn at Castle Black is PRICELESS.

8. Speaking of which I may not like Alliser but he gives a good “let’s not die” speech.

9. Bless Grenn for getting Janos Slynt off the wall.

10. Pyp dying in Sam’s arms was not something I was ready for.

11. You’ve heard of horsepower... now get ready for MAMMOTH POWER (wildling used mammoth salesmen probably)

12. Sam remembering that being NICE to Olly when asking to go up the wall rather than just screaming at him is... telling.

13. Grenn is THE BEST KID AND I LOVE HIM

14. Ghost is going to EAT SOME WILDLINGS

15. Ygritte :...(

16. How is Tormund even ALIVE??? He’s like a frickin PIN CUSHION.

17. “They held the gate” is a line that will make me cry now. Grenn and co. Didn’t let that giant through :...(

3x10: back when D and D remembered the Children existed that one time

Also back when Jaime had a plan that didn’t end with ANY OF HIS FAMILY KILLING EACH OTHER BUT TYWIN ENDS UP DEAD ANYWAY WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS.

1. Jon deciding single-handedly that he’s going to KILL Mance Rayder. Boss move.

2. Oh FFS. Pull the stick out of your ass Stannis and let Mance be.

3. Qyburn is like “out of my way bitch I’m doing necromancy”

4. Cersei telling Tywin the truth to get out of Marrying Loras is... still... making my jaw drop and I KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT. And there’s ACTUAL EMOTION on Tywin’s face and EVERYTHING SHE SAYS ABOUT PAYING SOME REAL FUCKING ATTENTION TO HIS FAMILY IS TRUE

5. Ah yes “Jaime writes his family’s dialogue” part one. I CHOOSE YOU OMG AND SEX IN THE LORD COMMANDER’S OFFICE I CANNOT BELIEVE WE GOT THAT. Even if I’m still on the fence about whether Jaime would be ok with doing it THERE I’m mostly on board because she JUST TOLD DAD THE TRUTH AND TOLD HIM HE WAS THE ONE SHE WANTED AND I DON’T KNOW WHO LET THE SHIPPERS WRITE THIS SCENE BUT YAY.

6. Dany is still learning all kinds of nuance... I feel like the year contract thing was an attempt to balance her need to be a liberator and the reality on the ground?

7. You are telling me that the Dany who was that upset at Drogon eating ONE child let him burn a WHOLE CITY? I call bullshit.

8. Also this is a CLASSIC example of “one sibling does something wrong and the other two get punished for it” poor Viserion and Rhaegal.

9. Maester Aemon knows how to give a mass eulogy.

10. MEANWHILE NORTH OF THE NORTH HI BRAN meet the hugest weirwood in Westeros AND SOME ICE ZOMBIES

11. POOR MEERA I FORGOT SHE HAD TO HELP JOJEN DIE

12. If the children can do that WHERE ARE THEY LATER

13. holy shit bloodraven is creepy

14. Arya and Brienne meeting :) so cute

15. And Sandor being like YOU ARE TOO NAIVE TO PROTECT HER is cute in its own way.

16. Wow Brienne and Sandor really knock the shit out of each other how are they still alive.

17. Sandor saying awful things to Arya to make it easier for her to kill him was tragic and you can see the desperation in his eyes even as he says the worst of it.

18. JAIME LANNISTER MAKES DECISIONS HE WILL REGRET LATER LIKE NOT GOING ALL OF THE WAY TO THE BOAT WITH TYRION

19. I Had forgotten how rough that last conversation between Tywin and Tyrion was and how devastating those performances are.

20. Varys being like oh fuck those bells I’m going too... prescient.

21. Love the music with Arya on the ship to Braavos!

#summersea has feels about got #summersea got rewatch 2019

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Never Have I Ever Season 2 Review: This Netflix Teen Comedy Deserves to Run and Run

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Warning: contains spoilers for Never Have I Ever series one.

In a shareholder letter sent almost exactly one year to the release of Never Have I Ever season two, Netflix singled the Mindy Kaling-Lang Fisher teen show out for praise. Not praise as any human being being might put it, but acknowledgement of the half-hour comedy having “notched success” as a “key content vertical” – the words every showrunner wants to hear.

Within a month of release, announced Netflix, 40 million households worldwide (roughly equivalent to the population of California, where the series is set) had streamed Never Have I Ever’s first season, which followed Los Angeles teen Devi Vishwakumar navigating high school in the months after the very sudden, very public death of her father. The ratings received an undeniable boost from the pandemic keeping everybody at home, but this series deserves them. With sharp writing, a winning lead performance and a fresh cultural perspective on coming-of-age comedy (Devi is the US-born child of first generation Indian immigrants), the show had plenty going for it before Covid-19 gave it a shot in the arm.

Season two picks up where the first left off, both story and tone-wise, then takes Devi to some darker emotional places as she continues to deal with the loss of her dad. Her anger becomes a theme, as do her jealousy and insecurity following the arrival of new Indian student Aneesa (Megan Suri) at Sherman Oaks High. Devi’s motor-mouth sessions with therapist Dr Ryan (Niecy Nash) start to achieve the same ability to switch between light-hearted laughs and brutal sadness as Rachel Bloom’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Romantically, Devi is still caught between two boys – wealthy, brainy former-nemesis Ben (Jaren Lewison) and popular dreamboat slacker Paxton (Darren Barnet). She’s also still on thin ice with pals Fab and Eleanor (Lee Rodriguez and Ramona Young). The teen characters are as brightly drawn as the show’s hot pink title card, and their scenes power along with fast-talking, self-aware, Clueless-style dialogue. They’re mostly familiar high school types – a robotics geek, a theatre nerd, a heartthrob – but types renewed by their distinct cultural, ethnic, sexual and gender identities. From a hurtful rumour to a prom queen campaign, season two plays out familiar scenarios in high school drama, but scenarios refreshed and refocused through the specific perspective of who is playing them out.

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Season two gets the chance to explore some of those perspectives in more satisfying detail than last time. Fabiola’s identity crisis for instance, doesn’t end when she comes out as a lesbian, and Paxton won’t be the only one educated by a brief exploration of his Japanese family history. Inspired by co-creator Mindy Kaling adolescence, Devi’s Indian family is still rightly centre-stage, and it’s great to see both her mother Nalini (Poorna Jagannathan) and her cousin Kamala (Richa Moorjani) given solid B-plots this time around.

Moorjani deals with a sexist workplace conflict that develops Kamala’s character while commenting on the dubious advice women are often given on ‘playing the game’. (Though it takes place in a university laboratory, Kamala finding herself the only woman, and the only woman of colour, in a nerdy male clique might just have parallels with Kaling’s background in US comedy writers’ rooms.) Satisfyingly for Kamala and Nalini, season two doesn’t give Devi a monopoly on romantic complications, either.

Really though, this is Devi’s show. Actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan remains the glittering disco ball at its centre. She’s a hugely charismatic lead who skips – like many of Mindy Kaling’s characters – effortlessly along the line between self-absorbed and endearing. Picked from over 15,000 candidates in an open audition, so the story goes, new face Ramakrishnan is a star with a natural talent for comedy.

She has good support from this cast, which includes fun smaller roles like desperate-to-be-on-the-right-side-of history teacher Mr Shapiro (Adam Shapiro), the aforementioned Dr Ryan, and Ben’s oblivious mother Vivian (Angela Kinsey). Ramakrishnan’s main co-star of course, is John McEnroe, who continues as the show’s unlikely narrator, peppering Devi’s story with anecdotes from his tennis career and telling us that he respectfully averts his gaze in her kissing scenes. It’s a pleasure too, for the series to indulge some of its more magical leanings with appearances by Heroes‘ Sendhil Ramamurphy as Devi’s dead father Mohan.

Season two of this high key, self-referential comedy is funnier, more confident, and delves deeper into its characters. It’s unafraid to give its lead unsympathetic behaviour, and manages to touch on serious matters without losing its comedic heart. We may have seen all the love triangle, prom and teen cliques on screen before, but we haven’t seen this particular iteration. It’s a fast-talking, brightly coloured, fizzy depiction of US teen life that updates the conventions of high school shows with a diverse cast and a modern comedic voice. If the second season can notch more success as a key content vertical for Netflix, this deserves to run and run.

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top five characters that should have been canon lesbians

rebecca logan from greek - let me talk to you briefly about rebecca logan because no one i talk to on here has seen the show or has any interest in doing so. this is a show created by the husband of carter covington for the record. rebecca logan is a brash and confident misanthrope who hates a lot of traditional feminine stuff and is also quite well known as someone who has a lot of sex with guys she doesn’t care about. she does have some long-term relationships in canon but they’re mostly short-lived and messy because guys always want her to be someone she isn’t. miraculously, in season two, in a sweeps arc, rebecca meets a girl at a wedding, is very attracted to her as soon as she finds out the girl is gay, and rebecca asks her out and then immediately comes out as a lesbian to her entire sorority THE DAY AFTER THEY KISS. but horrifyingly, after sweeps she backtracks and it’s like the whole thing never happened. to add insult to injury, in the finale, rebecca is on a mission to interrogate her exes to find why their relationships never worked out. bitch had the answer right in front of her and completely backtracked on it! she is GAY she’s a GAY PERSON

annie edison from community - i mean what can i say that orianne hasn’t already said. annie is suffering from compulsory heterosexuality and the prison of femininity and these burdens have weighed on her so terribly that she spends six entire years trying to lie to herself and convince herself she wants to have sex with a 40-year-old creep who stares at her boobs. she is sexually repressed and can neither look at nor talk about genitals, even when she lives on top of a sex store; however, on multiple occasions she is shown to be curious about kissing girls, like she knows that it would be better. she changes her appearance and style of dress frequently like many lesbians do in an attempt to find a version of femininity that doesn’t feel shitty. she also has overly idealistic notions about love and relationships because she’s never been in a relationship that meant anything to her… almost as if… she doesn’t like men.

veronica mars - i know i am coming afoul of the LoVe lesbians here but veronica stopped having chemistry with men after s1, which is when she and logan progressed from flirting into actually dating. here’s what i think. veronica was in love with lilly but mistook her attraction for simple friendship in part because she has so many issues with female peers that having any kind of positive feelings for another girl at all felt incredibly intense and new to her. she had no idea the intensity and the novelty of her feelings had more to do with these feelings being romantic in nature. consequently, being with duncan felt good because it meant she also got to be around lilly all the time. the same thing is obviously true of her relationship with logan; they both had the experience of loving lilly like crazy and that made it easy to be with him. i think veronica is so smart about external things and so blind to her own personal shit that it would take her years and years to figure out how absolutely fucking gay she is; she rarely thinks to look inward unless someone is actively yelling at her. but the signs are there and it’s not just lilly; it’s also the fact that veronica’s issues with other women are a very familiar combination of jealousy, superiority and physical attraction that for many closeted lesbians just manifests in mean behavior we don’t really know how to explain. finally, veronica and duncan had a completely sexless relationship when they were teenagers even when both of their best friends were extremely sexually active and talked about it all the time. that’s not really characteristic for high schoolers who aren’t also religious or have some other reason to abstain from sex. obviously veronica eventually has a bunch of sex with logan later on, but i do not think it was ever something she really enjoyed or wanted to do. anyway that’s my ted talk.

tahani al-jamil from the good place - i am only listing her here because i have finally given up on mike ever deciding to throw me a bone. (i will not list valencia because i have not given up on rachel yet.) tahani wants one thing at all times: attention. she has gone about getting attention through her charity and event-planing work, creating spectacles and pageantry that she hoped would get her love from her parents, but ultimately that was unsuccessful. because she’s been let down again and again, tahani is desperate for any kinds of validation and affection and takes scraps when nothing better is available; she literally slept with jason after he gave her a half-assed compliment that she needed to have explained to her in a very long-winded way. she is gay and attention-starved enough to feign interest in a horrifyingly unsatisfying straight relationship if it means she can feel secure that someone else gives a shit about her. it’s very sad.

cece parekh from new girl - i think i’ve honestly never talked about her before! look, if nothing else, cece being with schmidt is a two-sided beard relationshp as well as a cry for help. we see over and over again that cece is sensitive about needing her parents’ approval and we also see that cece is frustrated with men’s impressions of her, both positive and negative. but the modeling culture is painfully straight and between her model friends’ prejudices and the need to be approved by gross male casting directors in order to get any work have limited her ability to be honest with herself. when cece goes out with the other models, she flirts with guys because that’s what they do and she doesn’t want to be weird and different and have that be her thing; she doesn’t see a lot of car ads in her future as an out lesbian. anyway eventually she will divorce schmidt and hook up with her and jess’ doctor friend.

also obligatory honorable mention to amy raudenfeld from faking it who i mean is OBVIOUSLY a lesbian but was violently sabotaged when carter covington introduced the character of felix turner. i believe it is correct to interpret amy’s “crush” on felix as an attempt on amy’s part to delude herself into thinking her feelings toward him were romantic/sexual when they were really only friendly. i also think it is slanderous character assassination that amy was shown to reject labels of sexual identity when a character like her would love and embrace the word lesbian. so she’s an honorable mention because i don’t think canon QUITE ruled out the possibility of her being full kinsey six gay. either way, the truth is that amy will get to college and meet one (1) well-adjusted lesbian and instantly become the out and proud dyke she should have gotten to be in canon

#sorry i wrote so much #og post #ask #hanukkahdavey

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SG1

Season 5 episode 11

"DESPERATE MEASURES"

Notes by me

- unnecessary close up of a man smoking

- Russians???

- this would a whole lot better if I knew what they were saying!! Subtitles would be gr8

- gonna put in my own dialogue

Russian guy #1: my god fellow Russian you are looking ravishing today

Russian guy #2: why thank you other Russian guy! As much I appreciate the flattery I still cannot let u and ur shitty truck pass my gate for....reasons

Russian guy #1: ah shit that sucks. What if I said please?

Russian #2: no dice. Heres a piece of paper. Enjoy

Russian #1: gee man ive always wanted a piece of paper thank u :)

*russian #1 goes back to shitty truck to put piece of paper in glove box for safe keeping <3*

Russian #2 randomly for some reason:

- violence never solved anything lads

- oh they wanted the jaffa

- Sam in civilian clothes I mean shes sexy and hot and I'm gonna faint

- ok!!!!! Free candy van just kidnapped my stargate babe

- "ninjas!!"

- jack being so concerned I'm gonna snap

- "I was in Nam!"

"Oh yeah?? What company?"

"Vacation!"

Super helpful mister homeless man thank you for your contribution

- hes been telling the cops about ninjas for years and they still wont listen?? The gall, the audacity

- We're asking MAYBOURNE for help now??? Sunk real low in this ep huh

- Sam fighting the drugs and shit like a champ. Boss ass bitch

- "dont turn around" why the fuck not. Its not like he doesnt know what you look like

- ur a bastard and I hate u

- "I could always find anyone anywhere but they could never find me"

"Because they didnt WANT to"

Savage. Went for the jugular. Cut his legs right out from under him. Jack 1 maybourne 0

- ah! The NID is resorting to hiring ninjas now

- "we're talking about carter here"

"I know. I'm sorry jack"

Oh???? Jack is so obvious even maybourne can see it

- kinsey: how could u possibly mistrust me I am perfect god bless america

Jack: it would bring me so much pleasure to watch you die

- maybourne gave carter up for money?? Disowned. For shame. No longer the weird uncle

- fiber optic host channel adapters FOHCA it says fucka lmfao

- why would maybourne be investigating her kidnapping if he was the one that was a part of it?

- hes not threatening at all lmao

- when Jack comes up behind him and grabs him 👀 aloha cowboy

- "I just want to say how much of a thrill this is for me" oh totally shes having the time of her life too cant u tell by her face

- Deep Space Radar Telemetry™

- Diana you liar!!!! Ur in charge of this whole thing!!! Alexa play diana by one direction

- A WORM!!!!!!!!!!

- zeditron like the robot?

- "that overwhelming desire to shoot you is coming back"

- fraiser where the FUCK have u been. I'm disappointed in u young lady

- Sam escaping like a badass shes wife

- oh just shoot him. They never shoot the guy when they need to

- I cant believe she got that far that was great

- why are cismen so fucking dumb. Especially ones with money. "Great men in history got where we are today by breaking the rules!!" Or the rules were put into place bc those men did some stupid fucked up stuff

- UH SLEEVELESS JACK 👀👀 IM HERE WITH MY EYES

- "can I have my gun back"

" NO "

- when she says the doctors can go ahead and kill Sam and they get so excited. U deserve to die

- Daniel faking electrocution is actually something that is so personal-

- jack really just cruising thru life at this point like whatever about everything

- adrian: let me go I prommy I wont strangle you and chop you up into bits and pieces :)

- diana I thought you were smart. One direction did not write a whole song about you for you to be this stupid

- "you alright?"

"Yeah. Very dramatic thank you"

"You bet"

I ahte them I hate them I love them I hate them

- surprise! The goauld is evil which literally everyone saw coming

- bets on who finds him. Moneys on Jack

- maybourne decided to bail at a CONVENIENT time

- FUCK YOU KINSEY. his mouth bugs the shit out of me

- altho I must thank him for giving me some Jack whump *tips my hat*

- well now theres a random goauld on earth. Loose!! Like rats from a lab

Jack oniell whump: Jack shot in shoulder, passed out, blood, hospital scene

Sam carter whump: kidnapped, restrained to bed, forced drugs, gunpoint, manhandled

Listening to 🎶Diana by One Direction🎶 bc obviously

Listening to 🎶Not Over You by Gavin DeGraw🎶 bc Jack is so not over sam!!!! He was so worried!!!! He was distraught and sunk so low to ask maybourne for help. Hes in love

#stargate season 5 #jack whump season 5 #sam whump season 5

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SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2

I love the Locke siblings' relationship so much it physically hurts to see them in scenes together. The way Tyler and Kinsey both treat Bode like their little brother but not necessarily as a child, even though he technically is one, because they know how smart the little shit can be. They trust him so deeply and believe his every word (true, they didn't in the first episode of s1, but after that they saw him as their equal, not just as a way younger sibling).

I love how Tyler and Bode support Kinsey in everything she does, even when it seems to changer her massively. They're always looking out for her. I love how Tyler is keeping an eye on her in school and how Bode loves to spend time with her. They know they can trust her completely.

And I love how Kinsey and Bode look up to Tyler, how they rely on him and trust he'll do his best to keep them safe. They know that he'll doing anything for them and in return they'd do anything for him. Even if it's just reminding him that he may be to oldest of the siblings, but that doesn't mean he has to take charge. They genuinely care about his friends and Jackie and try to give him a break from everything every once in a while.

The three of them always look out for each other. Whether it's Bode helping Kinsey and Scot to get away from Gabe, Tyler playing with Bode when they set up the trap for Gabe and Eden, Kinsey checking in on Tyler after Jackie's death. And after everything they have still such a playful and soft relationship. I could cry everytime there's a wholesome moment between two or all three of them. Actually, these are some of my favorite scenes (e.g. Kinsey and Tyler going to look for Bode in the Maze because they're worried for him). And their goodbye at the end of season 2 had me bawling, although there could have been more because either was just so cute and comfortable. I love that they don't have the "stereotypical sibling relationship" where it's a love to hate among the siblings, but instead they're actually there for each other and open about it, like there isn't anyone else in the world they care more about.

#and yes not all that is true for season 1 but its a progress #but even in ep1 of s1 when they were all in the car and bode wanted to play games they werent really mean to each other #biggering sure but still weirdly nice? and the whole serious question thing is so interesting #i love them so much #they're my emotional support siblings your honor #locke and key netflix #locke & key #tyler locke #bode locke #kinsey locke #locke siblings #show recommendations #recommandations

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TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2019

Each year the TechCrunch staff gathers together to make a big ol’ list of our Favorite Things from that year.

As always, we’re keeping the definition of “thing” very… open. Maybe it’s a physical thing. Maybe it’s a thing you listen to, or watch. Maybe it’s a thought, or a genre, or a mode. We didn’t worry too much about it. It’s a list of things that, in a sea of things, stood out to us at the end of the year.

This is our list for 2019.

Greg Kumparak, Editor

Parasite

THIS MOVIE. Oh wow. It’s hard to write much without spoiling anything — and really, you want to go in knowing as little as possible, so skip the trailer if you can. Director Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer) is really flexing here, showing his mastery of cinema by sneakily shapeshifting this film from genre to genre as the plot unfolds. Be aware that it gets pretty brutal at times — it’s hard to pin any one genre on this one, but a “Family” movie it is not.

The Office Ladies Podcast

The Office is on a near constant loop in my house, and I thought I knew just about everything there is to know about this show. Then Office co-stars Jenna Fischer (Pam!) and Angela Kinsey (Angela!) decided to re-watch the whole thing a decade later and chat about one episode each week, and it’s just an endless fountain of insight.

While there are a few fun surprise appearances from other Office stars in some episodes, the real gems come out when they hop on the phone with the production crew. I could listen to the show’s prop master Phil Shea talk about the work that goes into even the most seemingly simple of props — like, say, a big cardboard box for Dwight to hide in — all day.

The Mandalorian

I was excited for The Mandalorian, but wary. Would Star Wars work as a live action TV series? Turns out: absolutely, positively, yes.

This is the most “Star Wars-y” a new Star Wars thing has felt to me in decades. Give Jon Favreau more Star Wars, please. I don’t even mind that they’re releasing it weekly instead of letting me binge the whole season at once! To be honest, I … sort of prefer it..

Anthony Ha, Writer

The Criterion Channel

It can be hard to believe that The Criterion Channel exists.

While giant media companies are throwing billions of dollars into acquiring recent hits and creating seemingly endless slates of new shows and movies, The Criterion Channel feels humbler and worthier, a $9.99 per month streaming service designed to keep some of cinema’s greatest achievements in view. In some ways, my Criterion membership can feel like a gentle rebuke to all the bad habits I’ve developed on Netflix — how can I justify spending hours on a dumb reality show when I could be making my way through a great director’s filmography? And if all this sounds forbiddingly arty, I will also note that the service includes fun, smart programming — things like double features and interviews with current filmmakers — designed to make the movies more accessible.

The Void

When a friend and I walked into The Void’s Malaysia location back in January, I was pretty skeptical of anything involving VR. Sure, I’d had some interesting and/or promising experiences, but nothing that really made me feel like I understood why some people are so convinced that VR is the future. Then, after signing up for “Secrets of the Empire,” I walked out a believer.

Thanks to The Void’s combination of VR and physical environments, I came closer than I ever have to feeling like I was really in the world of Star Wars, infiltrating an Empire base and trying to dodge stormtrooper laser blasts. Naturally, when I heard that The Void had opened a pop-up in New York and was selling tickets to its newest title (“Avengers: Damage Control”), I had to try again. Some of the novelty had worn off, but the experience was still a delight — once again, The Void succeeded in transporting me to another world.

Bryce Durbin, Illustrator

Steven Universe

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This Cartoon Network series premiered in 2013, but it wasn’t until this past summer that my kids and I devoured the entire five seasons, then waited patiently till “Steven Universe: The Movie” arrived in the fall.

The series, about a family of aliens with super abilities known as the Crystal Gems (including the titular character, who is half-human) has a delightful mix of humor, action, pathos and downright weirdness while exploring ideas of identity, moral obligations and familial bonds. And any cartoon whose recurring cast includes Tom Scharpling, Charlyne Yi and Joel Hodgson has to be good, right? A separate “epilogue series,” Steven Universe Future, began earlier this month.

Nintendo Labo VR

I reviewed Nintendo’s foray into VR back in April. It’s a fun, affordable introduction to VR gaming, and part of the fun is building the novel cardboard toys that house the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers. The games are whimsical and accessible in the classic Nintendo style. To be honest, I’ve hardly played in the second half of the year, but it was such a memorable experience that I haven’t stopped thinking about it.

Untitled Goose Game

You play a goose whose only purpose is to cause grief for the people in a small town for your own amusement. Nuff said.

Brian Heater, Hardware Editor

Weyes Blood �� Titanic Rising

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Rich, lush and haunting, Natalie Mering’s fourth album under the Weyes Blood moniker has one foot firmly planted in the winding drives of ’70s Laurel Canyon and another unstuck in time. Titanic Rising’s biggest shortcoming is its too brief 40-minute runtime. But that brevity only serves to underscore how much the Southern Californian musician has managed to pack into each of its 10 tracks.

AirPods Pro

I’m in the habit of caveat gadget recommendations. Every so often, however, devices come along that I feel fully comfortable recommending to just about anyone who asks — even those who already own the original AirPods.

Apple’s first generation cracked the code for fully wireless earbuds. The second gen improved the experience ever so slightly, but these pricey additions to the family perfect it. The AirPods Pro haven’t left my side since I first picked them up.

Succession

The perfect TV series for the moment. The Roys are the Murdochs and the Trumps and the Kochs and the Redstones and the Kushners. They’re the ruthless billionaires and the corporate-owned media and the armies of failed sons we’ve inherited amidst the gasps of late capitalism. The family of billionaires flashes the occasional glimmer of likability, but it’s far more the exception than the rule amidst Machiavellian overtones and bumbling decision making, all of which might otherwise be completely insufferable were it not so consistently funny. If the fact that the world was gifted Kendall Roy’s “L to the O.G.” a week after The Righteous Gemstone’s “running ’round the house with a pickle in my mouth” doesn’t convince you we’re living in television’s golden age, I don’t know what to tell you.

On Cinema At the Cinema

This is long-form comedy at its finest.

Spread out over a podcast, an 11-season (so far) Adult Swim series, a four-part mock trial and this year’s feature film Mister America, there’s a strong case to be made that the rich, deep lore of the On Cinema universe is the defining comedic statement of our time.

Natasha Lomas, Writer

Twelve South Curve MacBook Stand

The MacBook Pro’s broken keyboard has had one positive impact this year — forcing me to switch to a (reliable) external keyboard that also convinced me it was long overdue to fix my working screen height by using a laptop stand. But which stand to buy? I wanted something simple that, er, “just works” (to coin a phrase).

Turns out there’s an awful lot of over-engineered product trying to convince you to shell out for fancy, adjustable metal. So I was pretty happy when I came across Twelve South’s Curve elegant single-piece design. It’s a shaped metal bar topped with a little padded rubber to coddle the laptop. Gravity does the rest. The height of the stand isn’t adjustable, but I figured I could always stick it on some books if I needed to (I haven’t). The relative lack of metal in the design is a major plus; less being more from a sustainability point of view. But it’s also just good design, as it allows for free airflow around the laptop. This means it’s helpful in summer for keeping the machine cool. Lastly you get a neat concealed space on your desk, under the laptop, where you can cram some unsightly junk. Win-win all round.

The Irishman

De-aging technology lets Martin Scorsese be a time-thief with “The Irishman,” serving us another choice cut of De Niro, a fillet of Pacino and a full side of Joe Pesci — lured back from unofficial retirement to preside over the 209-minute mobster epic as head of a Philadelphia crime family with his faithful hit man in tow.

I saw the film in the cinema where the de-aging technology was undoubtedly helped by a little fuzzy projection. Suspension of disbelief was quick and easy in such velvet surroundings, even as the film itself ran on and on. If you’re watching on Netflix — the film’s distributor — you’ll inevitably get something a little more uncanny valley; a small(er) screen, detail-filled, more compact and color-saturated view (depending on your TV) lends more of a sickly, otherworldly look to the de-aged faces, at least from clips I’ve seen. But even on the big screen there were moments of disconnect when your brain realizes the younger faces don’t exactly match with how stiffly the bodies of older men move.

Yet it’s petty detail in a masterful tale that sweeps along at Scorsese’s choice of pace, now lingering like a Renaissance painting, now smashing bullet-like through your brain. The best of it were the scenes played for pure absurdity when you wonder whether the genius is really the juxtaposition of such iconic veterans, mellowed and rounded by a lifetime’s experience of telling stories, playing at being young mobsters again but with the lived excess, in brains, bones and bellies, to send up and show up characters wearing digital masks of their younger selves.

Roborock S6

There is domestic life before and after (a good) robot vacuum cleaner. After about half a year with the Roborock S6, it would be hard to give it up now. It’s not that the device can do all the cleaning — and you’ll find yourself tidying stuff out of its way, so it does actually create new tasks — but since it can do the floors so well it feels like it buys you the time to sort out the rest of your household mess. Also, if you have pets, there’s added entertainment in watching them try to ambush it.

Zack Whittaker, Security Editor

Peace and quiet/do not disturb mode

Peace and quiet. In this day and age it’s a rare commodity.

Your phone is constantly buzzing. Social media, that person you hate is getting married. News alert, Trump did a thing. Play this game, check-in for your flight. Buzz, buzz. It’s a never-ending stream of anxiety-inducing notifications. But there is solace knowing you can switch it all off. “Do not disturb” mode will silence your phone more than the mute switch ever could.

It’s bliss — it’s the peace and quiet you crave. But wait — what if I miss something? The fear of missing out is almost worse than the constant stream of goings-on. Do not fear. “Do not disturb” keeps you tethered to your phone — your lifeline in the modern age — without having to be bombarded by the outside world. Enjoy the calm, take a moment, breathe, relax and once you’re ready to see the world again, you can switch it off and go back to the world.

Jake Bright, Writer

Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire

Harley released its 105-horsepower, all-electric, digitally controlled LiveWire in 2019. With this, America’s oldest motorcycle company became the first big gas manufacturer to sell a production e-moto in the U.S. This put Harley on a competitive footing with EV startups (such as Zero) and pre-empted its competitors to create digital, electric and emissions-free motorcycles in the near future.

Devin Coldewey, Writer

Grovemade Task Knife

I used to reach for some scissors or my trusty switchblade or really anything sharp when I needed to open a package, snip off a label and so on, but Grovemade has replaced them all with this beautiful, elegant little object. It’s “just enough knife” as they say, a solid slab of metal with a satisfying heft and grip that looks lovely just sitting around.

Several waxed canvas bags

I got to review several excellent waxed canvas bags for Bag Week 2019, and man, some of these things feel like they’re going to outlive me.

Death Stranding

This game is very good in some ways, and quite bad in other ways, but most importantly it’s totally unique and an attempt to create truly strange and serious Art in the genre of games. Whether it’s successful is a matter of some debate, but there’s simply nothing else like it out there.

Catherine Shu, Writer

OtterBox PopSocket Case

PopSockets are great, but I have trouble getting anything to stay on my iPhone because I live in a humid climate (and also because I tend to use my phone as a fidget spinner). The OtterBox PopSocket case is basically indestructible, so I can continue being really mean to my phone.

Two Dots

This is the only game I have on my phone. I play it because it is visually soothing and the developers constantly release cool new game mechanics. I also enjoy the noises the dots make when you connect them. It’s like popping bubble wrap, but more environmentally friendly.

“Heads Gonna Roll” by Jenny Lewis

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I’m not very good at writing about music. It’s hard for me to capture exactly why this track means so much to me. But I’ve listened to it on repeat almost every day over the past year, and each time still feels like the first time I heard it.

Derry Girls

The dark and (very) goofy humor of “Derry Girls” is interspersed with just the right amount of tenderness. The show is about teenagers growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, trying to be ordinary teens during an extraordinary and devastating time. I enjoy the Irish slang (keep the subtitles on) and ridiculous dog pee jokes, but the reason I’ve watched both seasons twice is because these kids are trying to navigate crushes, strict teachers and school-bus feuds in the middle of turmoil they didn’t create and perhaps don’t even fully understand yet — something that still resonates, perhaps now more than ever.

Jon Shieber, Editor

The Watchmen

It was original while staying true to the source material. Like all good myths, it put a mirror up to current society to show how cracked it is. It exposed the events of one of the nation’s most horrifying acts of racial violence in the twentieth century and grounded the entire enterprise of superhero mythmaking in its aftermath. It was a merger of pop culture and high art that had “revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger” that Martin Scorsese says he finds lacking in comic book films.

The New Yorker

Staring at a computer screen for hours at a time reading and writing for work doesn’t give me a lot of downtime in the reading department (especially in the golden age of television). But reading a hard copy of The New Yorker every week (er… almost every week) is a welcome escape from the digital world. It’s still the single-best weekly collection of long-form non-fiction, short fiction and poetry written in English.

David Hammons exhibit at Hauser & Wirth

Going to art galleries is another chance to reset from the work grind. Of all of the ones I saw this year, the David Hammons show at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles was the most memorable. Hammons’ installations and individual pieces are beautiful and thought-provoking. And some of the work (like filling the courtyard space of the gallery with tents to call attention to the homeless population living just a few blocks away from its manicured garden and bustling restaurant) was a welcome and powerful reminder of the income inequalities that confront the city and the country.

“Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X

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That song was an earworm. It also was the first hit to encapsulate and highlight the power of all the digital tools creators have at their disposal to make and distribute music. Also… that Nine Inch Nails sample is ridiculous.

Steve O’Hear, Writer

Eurorack modular synthesisers

Nearly 20 years late to the party, 2019 was the year that I really discovered modular synthesisers based on the “Eurorack” standard started by Dieter Döpfer in 1995. Over the last 12 months I’ve assembled a modular synthesiser of my own, purchasing modules from mainly boutique manufactures and one-person shops that mostly sell via independent e-commerce stores and online marketplaces like Reverb and Etsy.

The hardware itself is a thriving example of the maker community, which would find it hard to exist without the internet, and I absolutely love unwinding after work making weird and wonderful sounds (and sometimes music) with my Eurorack synth. The year even ended with a Eurorack module being released with my name on it, quite literally).

MyVolts Ripcord

Sometimes companies just “get it,” and Dublin-based MyVolts is one such example. The company sells power adapters — or wall-warts — for just about anything, and has a searchable product database to match the correct gear to the correct power supply.

More recently, MyVolts has ventured into original products of its own, including the Ripcord, which cleverly lets you power a range of devices via USB, such as guitar pedals, drum machines and synths. Use a USB powerbrick at the other end and your music gear becomes portable. The small company even sells a special tip for the Ripcord that lets me power my original 1970s Stylophone via USB instead of its intended 9V PP3 internal battery.

Romain Dillet, Writer

UniFi Dream Machine

How much internet is too much internet? If your answer is that you can never have enough internet, the UniFi Dream Machine is a little box that can get you to the next level. It combines a router, a switch and a rock-solid Wi-Fi access point. But the best part is that everything is configurable, making it both wonderful and scary — if optimizing a local network for maximum performance and optimal security sounds like a great weekend project.

Raspberry Pi 4

The Raspberry Pi started as a simple pocket-sized computer for tinkerers. But that thing has grown up tremendously over the years. The fourth iteration is a powerful, energy-efficient ARM-based computer that can easily replace a home server. You can use it as a file server, as an always-on backup server, as a DNS-based ad-blocker or as a media entertainment machine. You can run a VPN on it, host a web service or turn it into a video game emulation console. Even more than what you can do with it, I just love interacting with it using SSH, spinning up a Docker container and learning how computers work.

My local café/bistro/bar

There’s something wonderful about going to my local café/bistro/bar/you-name-it down the street. Sure, I can meet up with startup founders, grab some lunch, work a bit, read a book and drink until very late with my friends. But what makes it wonderful is that you get to see other people going through happy and sad times, you get to invite complete strangers to join your table for a board game and you get to joke with the staff who very progressively become familiar faces. This is a living place where you can find something that rarely happens on the internet anymore — human coincidences.

Darrel Etherington, Writer

Weiss 38mm Standard Issue Field Watch

This hand-wound watch was a gift to myself this year, and it provided welcome relief from years of wearing an Apple Watch full time. I still keep the Apple Watch for workout tracking, but the Weiss is on my wrist most of the time and manually winding it to top off the power reserve periodically throughout the day is intensely satisfying, and an opportunity to steal a few quiet seconds.

Sony A7RIV

Sony’s A7RIV came out this year, and I pre-ordered it on a hunch it would deliver. And deliver it has — I’m a long-time Canon shooter, but after using the Sony A7RIV for a few months personally and professionally, I’ve sold all my old gear to finance an investment in top-notch Sony lenses that really show off the A7RIV’s amazing resolution power.

Samsung’s The Frame TV

Samsung’s The Frame QLED TV doesn’t have its best panel, nor is it really the best value for money, but its wall-mount (which comes in the box) is super easy to install, and allows the TV to mount truly flush with the wall. I basically use mine as a large, expensive digital frame, but the 4K resolution and QLED color is ideal for showing off photos snapped with the camera I also included in this list.

“On The Line” by Jenny Lewis

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I’m stealing from my colleague Catherine Shu a bit here as she already shouted out “Heads Gonna Roll” from this album — but the album is my favorite of the year, and already a cherished classic for me. Jenny Lewis has a discography that’s hard to find fault with, including her Rilo Kiley days, but this one really stands out.

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reflectingiridescent · 7 years

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Kylee Goes to the Star Trek Convention. Here’s what happened. (Part 1)

(Ok, sorry about the title. I miss being a journalist sometimes. Only sometimes.)

GUYS I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. Everyone told me that the con high would go away, and I’d be so sad the week after, but I feel like I’m maybe still on the high? It was just such a good and wholesome experience. I’ll try to break it down.

An important thing, I guess, to point out first and foremost was that Jonathan Frakes couldn’t come (got stuck at work and there were no flights going out, supposedly). So this upset a lot of people because it was advertised as the only time the TNG cast was going to be together all of 2017 (their 30th anniversary year). But this didn’t mean anything for me because I was there to meet my space moms, grandmas, and aunts! <3

So for a little background, I love Star Trek, and I love DS9 the most, but I watched TNG for the first time a couple years ago and liked it well enough. And then I watched it over the past few months during my layoff (and visa troubles). It was kind of this happy family place I could come home to. And also these actors are getting old! So I thought it would be best to go see them while I (reasonablyish) had the funds during a milestone? Also the TNG cast is fucking funny together, and I wanted to see that alone.

Wednesday

(So I only went to three days of the five-day con because that was cheaper , and also I have a cousin who lives in Las Vegas who I really don’t see often, and I see her daughter even less often, so we were squeezing in family time too - and I like never slept, and I made up for all of it yesterday by sleeping THE WHOLE DAMN DAY NOT EVEN SORRY.)

So they’d halted ticket sales online before I got there, so this was only a little stressful (I hadn’t heard of them running out of tickets before, and they were pretty much up for grabs once the actual con started on Wednesday). So I got there at 7:30am and was like I NEED TO BUY TICKETS FOR ALL OF THESE DAYS, etc. And the TNG reunion panel was set for Friday night and was an additional cost...whatever, cons are super capitalistic, and that’s like, the language of the US right? (I was also very happy to be home. Jury’s still out on the home thing, but I think I will always consider the US my home. Specific place? Not decided yet.) But I got everything, which was the most important.

Cool Stuff!

The Gaaays in Spaaace panel (literally how it was spelled), which is like this set of Trek parties thrown across the country with different ST actors showing up to them. So their party was on Friday (I went!), and Nana was the featured guest for both the party and the panel, which was really cool, because everyone was bringing up everything from the kisses on DS9 to polyamory, and we were discussing it like it was breakfast food.

Nana told a story about how when she used to be a dancer on Broadway, all the men she was in a production in once died because of the AIDS epidemic.

Kinsey scale brought up in relationship to DS9 characters, and basically they didn’t say that Kira/Dax wasn’t a thing, so like...that was kind of cool lol.

I won a rainbow tribble for answering trivia about same-sex kisses on DS9!!! I WILL KEEP IT FOREVER.

I stopped by the Gaaays in Spaaace table later and asked about a plethora of other relationships, and one of the dudes was like, “I’m sorry Gates girl, but Sub Rosa was the best episode because of the hair. The wigs in that episode were on point.” And then we had a long conversation about TNG hair, and it gave me life. (Don’t read me wrong - Sub Rosa is terrible, but the hair in that episode was fucking great, rivaled only MAYBE by All Good Things hair and Troi’s in Parallels.)

Also said by this guy: “I can’t believe they used a season 1 shot of Dr. Crusher on the con program. Like, really? Really, girl?”

I FUCKING LOVE THE INTERSECTION OF STAR TREK AND GAY OK.

I was too late (because I didn’t even know if Singapore would let me leave the country until like 5 days before I flew) to get tickets for Nana’s autographs, but I got a picture with her, and she was so cool! I tried to quickly tell her that she was my favorite, and it worked out pretty well.

AND THEN I TOOK PICS WITH NICHELLE NICHOLS AND MY RAINBOW TRIBBLE. I didn’t know then that the smart thing to do was to bring back the pics to be signed by them, so I had her sign my program. She was wearing a ST necklace and a little Uhura pin. So wonderful. So obviously I couldn’t say anything of substance because I was freaking out, but she told me that my name’s pretty close to her son’s name, so obviously I was over the moon for the rest of the day.

Nichelle crashed Mae Jemison’s session, which was really interesting. She discussed the 100 Year Starship project. This led to a really important moment when Mae told the audience, “If you’re looking for someone to give you permission to be in the room, I’m giving it to you.” She then turns to Nichelle and says, “You did that. You gave me permission to be in the room.”

I cried. The lady sitting a row behind me cried. The lady sitting three seats down from me was crying.

And then I got very emotional and Facebook-messaged my 6th/7th grade science teacher (who, btw, is the reason I possess the Greatest Real Life Love Story I’ve Ever Heard - a story for another day) and was like THANK YOU FOR BEING SO EXCITED ABOUT SPACE BECAUSE I AM WATCHING MAE JEMISON SPEAK AND I AM SO EXCITED AND ONE OF THE REASONS I’M EVEN HERE IS BECAUSE OF YOU.

She literally offered me a job doing research for her husband (who works for NASA). Oh my god. And she knew exactly what Mae was talking about because she’d just seen her speak at another event. I had such good science teachers.

I told this story to a lady in line behind me for a photo op, and she started crying because she had quit her banking job to become a teacher, and I was like, “Ok, but remember that scene in TNG - like one of those times Wesley saves the ship - and Picard says they should thank his science teacher? That’s you!”

She’d moved from Idaho to Nevada because the school system she was in in Idaho had cut math and science from the curriculum. :(

I did leave before any of the karaoke stuff so that I could go hang with my family though!

Oh and I was wearing glitter the whole day, and Nichelle and Nana both told me it was nice, and Nichelle complimented my hair color (I’d had it red). So lovely. I didn’t have time for a costume but wore red in both their honor.

I shook Daniel Davis’ hand but didn’t have fucking cash on me (still hadn’t changed my Singapore dollars and didn’t want the crazy ATM charges from Not My Bank), so I couldn’t get a pic. But he was so nice. And we chatted a bit about The Nanny, because that’s really where I knew him from first? Hahaha. He stayed the whole con and mentioned wanting to be able to meet the producers from his episode so he could thank them. Class act.

Half-DS9 panel! Terry, who wasn’t supposed to appear until the other DS9 half panel on Sunday, crashed it. Nana screamed, “Oh my god!” and flung herself across stage to hug her.

Ira Steven Behr basically coming out and saying that we’re never going to get to Roddenberry’s vision and that DS9 was as good as it was going to get.

Rene had crashed Nana’s Gaaays in Spaaace panel that morning and really hadn’t known how to answer a question about Odo and asexuality. He took time to clarify during the panel - he’s not against Odo being asexual - he was not familiar with the term but basically agreed. He didn’t want it to come across that he was negating that identity.

Ok, going to do another post later because this is going to be hella long, I think.

#star trek #Kylee's going to the Star Trek convention omg #nana visitor #stlv #stlv2017 #stlv17 #gaaaysinspaaace #terry farrell #rene auberjonois #nichelle nichols #mae jemison #daniel davis #deep space nine #tng #tos #the nanny #las vegas #queer #otp: you fly I'll shoot

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1. Describe the character’s height and build. Is he heavyset, thin, short, rangy?

I’m a fucking stick.

2. How old is he?

Old enough.

3. Describe his posture. Does he carry himself well or does he/she slouch?

Those etiquette classes were a waste of money.

4. How is his health? Is he fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities?

Dead inside.

5. How does he move? Is he clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?

I don’t fucking know, let alone care.

6. How attractive is this character physically? How does he perceive himself in the mirror?

Vampires can’t see their own reflection, who knows.

7. Describe his complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred?

Vampire white.

8. Describe his hair: color, texture, style.

A fucking mess.

9. What color are his eyes?

Soulless.

10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features?

The signature pout. I should trademark it.

11. What are his chief tension centers?

The world.

12. What is the character’s wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does he have six of the same suit?

Dark as my soul.

13. Do his clothes fit well? Does he seem comfortable in them?

Jesus, I don’t give a shit about clothes.

14. Does he dress the same on the job as he does in his free time? If not, what are the differences?

I’m a professional pain in the ass, I wear whatever the fuck I want to.

15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando?

Briefs over boxers.

Speech 1. What does this character’s voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse?

Ghost like.

2. How does he normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does he talk easily, or does he hesitate?

Hauntingly.

3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics?

Christ.

4. What language/s does he speak, and with how much fluency?

English, Latin, sarcasm.

5. Does he switch languages or dialects in certain situations?

Latin works best for exorcisms or when speaking to demons.

6. Is he a good impromptu speaker, or does he have to think about his words?

I don’t have a fucking filter, deal with it.

7. Is he eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change?

You can’t show demons fear, it’s best to speak in full sentences.

Mental and Emotional 1. How intelligent is this character? Is he book-smart or street-smart?

Knowing how to not get yourself killed is the most important, but so is proper grammar.

2. Does he think on his feet, or does he need time to deliberate?

Not thinking things through gives you the best stories.

3. Describe the character’s thought process. Is he more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical?

Practical and logical.

4. What kind of education has the character had?

Too much.

5. What are his areas of expertise? What, if anything, is he interested in learning more about?

Writing, being a pain in the ass, and scaring Carter, falling in love with the one person who can’t love me back.

6. Is he an introvert or an extrovert?

People can stay the hell away from me.

7. Describe the character’s temperament. Is he even-tempered or does he have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven?

Christ, what do you think?

8. How does he respond to new people or situations? Is he/she suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic?

I want everyone to get the fuck away from me.

9. Is he more likely to act, or to react?

Do I look like fucking Leonardo Dicaprio to you? Well... actually I do.

10. Which is his default: fight or flight?

Having a plane comes in handy.

11. Describe the character’s sense of humor. Does he appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks?

I hate comedy. Life is a joke.

12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does he deal with them?

Hahahahahahaha.

13. What moments in this character’s life have defined him as a person?

Meeting Daisy. Being bullied all through school.

14. What does he fear?

Happiness. Love.

15. What are his hopes or aspirations?

I want to work for Buzzfeed so I can get paid to write “250 Pictures of Oliver Spade That Make Me Question My Sexuality” and tag Austin in it. I also hope to actually get possessed by a demon because, damn, that would be a story. Maybe I’d believe it then. Who knows.

16. What is something he doesn’t want anyone to find out about him?

I have no secrets. I’m fairly certain everyone knows I’m in love with Daisy by now, except maybe her. But oh well!!!!

Relationships 1. Describe this character’s relationship with his parents.

My dad’s cool, but don’t tell him that, he’ll get all lame and gushy.

2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like?

Only child, but I guess Brayden’s officially my brother now since his dad died.

3. Are there other blood relatives to whom he is close? Are there ones he can’t stand?

Nope.

4. Are there other, unrelated people whom he considers part of his family? What are his relationships with them?

Brayden- he’s my dad’s friend’s son. We grew up together since one of our dads was almost always away. I’ve brought him over to the dark side a little bit, but he’s still too normal most of the time.

Austin- my shy baby brother who no one is allowed to touch. I see a lot of myself in Austin, the normal parts, and I’m so damn protective of that kid, I just know it’s gonna be the reason I die.

Daisy- she has somehow found a way to crack my darkness and I will never forgive her for that.

Carter- I scare the shit out of him. It’s fun.

5. Who is/was the character’s best friend? How did they meet?

Daisy. Met in middle school, and apparently that’s when I should’ve kissed her since that “ship’s sailed.” I’m not bitter or anything. I still love her. But how? Now that’s up to interpretation.

6. Does he have other close friends?

Victoria, and it kills me to say it, but maybe Jordan. Mainly because she hangs out with my friends and is a parasite I can’t get rid of.

7. Does he make friends easily, or does he have trouble getting along with people?

Hahahahahahaha.

8. Which does he consider more important: family or friends?

My friends are my family.

9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has he been married more than once?

Single as fuck club president.

10. Is he currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse?

I am unworthy of love and unable to hypnotize one person into loving me, let alone more than that.

11. Who was his first crush? Who is his latest?

Daisy. Daisy.

12. What does he look for in a romantic partner?

Daisy.

13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does he relate to them? If no, does he want any?

Fuck, I hope not. God help those kids.

14. Does he have any rivals or enemies?

Everyone.

15. What is the character’s sexual orientation? Where does he fall on the Kinsey scale?

Straight.

16. How does he feel about sex? How important is it to him?

No one dies a virgin, life fucks everyone.

17. What are his turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?

God is watching. Ghosts are also watching.

Beliefs 1. Do you know your character’s astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does he fit type?

This is more Brayden’s thing than mine.

2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in his life?

Gotta see it to believe it. I use the Lord’s name in vain too much for a believer.

3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it?

I have none.

4. How does he regard beliefs that differ from his? Is he tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent?

I don’t give a shit, everyone ends up in a box.

5. What prejudices does he hold? Are they irrational or does he have a good reason for them?

Look at me, I’m not one in the position to judge.

Daily Life 1. What is the character’s financial situation? Is he rich, poor, comfortable, in debt?

Money doesn’t buy happiness, otherwise maybe I’d be happy.

2. What is his social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected him?

Money isn’t real, it’s a piece of paper that we let define us all.

3. Where does he live? House, apartment, trailer? Is his home his castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does he share it with others?

Shitty dorm, or sometimes a haunted house with Carter.

4. Besides the basic necessities, what does he spend his money on?

I steal shit.

5. What does he do for a living? Is he good at it? Does he enjoy it, or would he rather be doing something else?

Currently looking for a job at Buzzfeed to bring Buzzfeed Unsolved back from the dead.

6. What are his interests or hobbies? How does he spend his free time?

Lets just say, if anyone at Walt dies, I’m gonna be the first suspect.

7. What are his eating habits? Does he skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods?

Forever drinking the pain away.

Associations Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is his favorite:

1. Color?

Matte Black.

2. Smell?

Decomposition.

3. Time of day?

Midnight.

4. Season?

Dead of winter.

5. Book?

Anything by Stephen King.

6. Music?

I prefer silence.

7. Place?

Hell.

8. Substance?

Weed.

9. Plant?

Venus fly trap.

10. Animal?

Sloth.

#i miss cyrus so i felt the need to do this in his pov #kid: Cyrus

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waltrp · 7 years

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⌜TASK 005: CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE.⌟

under the read more is a little character questionnaire for you all to fill out. something to build on character development and gets you thinking! (also this is one is a brand spankin’ new one and not the one we’ve used probably too much in the past)

1. Describe the character’s height and build. Is he heavyset, thin, short, rangy?

2. How old is he?

3. Describe his posture. Does he/she carry himself well or does he/she slouch?

4. How is his health? Is he fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities?

5. How does he move? Is he clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?

6. How attractive is this character physically? How does he perceive himself in the mirror?

7. Describe his complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred?

8. Describe his hair: color, texture, style.

9. What color are his/her eyes?

10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features?

11. What are his/her chief tension centers?

12. What is the character’s wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does he/she have six of the same suit?

13. Do his/her clothes fit well? Does he/she seem comfortable in them?

14. Does he/she dress the same on the job as he/she does in his free time? If not, what are the differences?

15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando?

Speech

1. What does this character’s voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse?

2. How does he/she normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does he/she talk easily, or does he/she hesitate?

3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics?

4. What language/s does he/she speak, and with how much fluency?

5. Does he/she switch languages or dialects in certain situations?

6. Is he/she a good impromptu speaker, or does he/she have to think about his words?

7. Is he/she eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change?

Mental and Emotional

1. How intelligent is this character? Is he/she book-smart or street-smart?

2. Does he/she think on his feet, or does he/she need time to deliberate?

3. Describe the character’s thought process. Is he/she more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical?

4. What kind of education has the character had?

5. What are his/her areas of expertise? What, if anything, is he/she interested in learning more about?

6. Is he/she an introvert or an extrovert?

7. Describe the character’s temperament. Is he/she even-tempered or does he/she have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven?

8. How does he/she respond to new people or situations? Is he/she suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic?

9. Is he/she more likely to act, or to react?

10. Which is his/her default: fight or flight?

11. Describe the character’s sense of humor. Does he/she appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks?

12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does he/she deal with them?

13. What moments in this character’s life have defined him/her as a person?

14. What does he/she fear?

15. What are his/her hopes or aspirations?

16. What is something he/she doesn’t want anyone to find out about him/her?

Relationships

1. Describe this character’s relationship with his/her parents.

2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like?

3. Are there other blood relatives to whom he/she is close? Are there ones he/she can’t stand?

4. Are there other, unrelated people whom he/she considers part of his family? What are his/her relationships with them?

5. Who is/was the character’s best friend? How did they meet?

6. Does he/she have other close friends?

7. Does he/she make friends easily, or does he/she have trouble getting along with people?

8. Which does he/she consider more important: family or friends?

9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has he/she been married more than once?

10. Is he/she currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse?

11. Who was his/her first crush? Who is his/her latest?

12. What does he/she look for in a romantic partner?

13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does he/she relate to them? If no, does he/she want any?

14. Does he/she have any rivals or enemies?

15. What is the character’s sexual orientation? Where does he/she fall on the Kinsey scale?

16. How does he/she feel about sex? How important is it to him/her?

17. What are his/her turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?

Beliefs

1. Do you know your character’s astrological (zodiac of choice) sign? How well does he/she fit type?

2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in his/her life?

3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it?

4. How does he/she regard beliefs that differ from his? Is he/she tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent?

5. What prejudices does he/she hold? Are they irrational or does he/she have a good reason for them?

Daily Life

1. What is the character’s financial situation? Is he/she rich, poor, comfortable, in debt?

2. What is his/her social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected him/her?

3. Where does he/she live? House, apartment, trailer? Is his/her home his/her castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does he/she share it with others?

4. Besides the basic necessities, what does he/she spend his/her money on?

5. What does he/she do for a living? Is he/she good at it? Does he/she enjoy it, or would he/she rather be doing something else?

6. What are his/her interests or hobbies? How does he/she spend his/her free time?

7. What are his/her eating habits? Does he/she skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods?

Associations

Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is his/her favorite:

1. Color? 2. Smell? 3. Time of day? 4. Season? 5. Book? 6. Music? 7. Place? 8. Substance? 9. Plant? 10. Animal?

#watask

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dramallamadingdang · 7 years

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Oh, God! Question meme! A really long one! Run! Hide!

Tagged by @ajaysims. *points* It's his fault! His! Not mine! ;)

This is really long, since it's a synthesis of two of these questions memes and I have verbal diarrhea. So, I cut.

Name: Katrina

Nicknames: Most RL people other than my kids and grandkids call me Kat because one syllable is less than three. :) Simmers call me iCad because that's what I chose to call myself when I started participating in the community. Hubby calls me Kitten. Kids call me Ma, usually in exasperated/long-suffering tones. Grandkids call me Mimi because I hate the usual things that grandmothers are called because they're associated with old people. I may be old, but I'm not old, y'know? :)

Zodiac sign: Taurus, but astrology is still bullshit.

Height: A hair less than 6'0/about 182cm. And very underweight due to digestive/metabolic issues mostly because of a malfunctioning liver. (No, not from alcohol. From having had asymptomatic Hepatits C that I most likely got from a blood transfusion in the early 80s, before they screened donated blood for that. It sucks, y'all. Cherish your liver. Baby it. Seriously. Stop with the alcohol. Just stop. Do weed instead.)

Orientation: In experience/practice: A Kinsey 2. In terms of the kind of person who attracts me: People with IQs over 130. I really, truly don't care what you look like, what gender you identify as, or what sex organs you have or don't have. Smart is seriously sexy. So, I'm sapiosexual. :)

Ethnicity: Whitey-white-white, yay! :| Glow-in-the-dark white. I-start-burning-in-the-sun-in-30-seconds white. Damn-near-albino white. Also, mostly of Welsh descent. Only sort of half-second-generation American on one side; my paternal grandma was one of those horrible immigrants who took a job away from a Real American(TM). She was even a somewhat illegal one, for a few months. But she was white and British so I guess that's OK.

(Sorry, as a person married to a man whose mum -- who is awesome -- was born in Mexico and who came here legally with her family when she was 7 and is a citizen but she still gets shit these days because she’s “a Mexican,” I've sorta come to really hate the kind of people who tend to call themselves Real Americans(TM).)

Favorite fruit: Okra, especially when part of aloo bhindi masala, an Indian dish. Okra IS a fruit. Really. Look it up. Also, tomatoes.

Favorite season: Autumn, when everything is dying. MWAHAHAHAHAH!

Favorite book series: Still Sharon Kay Penman's "Welsh trilogy." Also, though not really a series, per se: The Star Trek novels that were published in the 80s. They got mostly stupid after that, but there were some gems that were published in the mid-80s, before The Next Generation was a thing.

Favorite flower: Calla lilies. Usually used in funeral arrangements, along with Easter lilies, yay. Flowers of death! MWAHAHAH!

Favorite scent: Lilacs. Lavender. Honeysuckle. And this "rain" scent scented candle. It's so clean and fresh and not-perfumey, yet it manages to drown out the brine smell that eventually permeates everything when you live close to the shore...

Favorite color: Greens. All shades, although I prefer the yellower shades, especially the darker ones like army green. Also, orange.

Favorite animal: The spotted hyena, but I already extolled their many virtues the last time I did this list, so I'll refrain. Also, elephants.

Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: Hell no, maybe, and yes please (if it's vegan), respectively.

Average sleep hours: Sleep? What is this word? *just came off a 38-hour work "day" a few hours ago, and I'm too wired to sleep.* YAY SHOWBIZ! :| But generally, when life isn't crazy, usually about 6 hours per 24 hour period. And I'm nocturnal, so those six hours are usually between about 0900 and about 1500. :)

Cat or dog person: Both person. And llama person. And alpaca person. And horse person. And snake person. And spider person.

Favorite fictional characters: Spock. (Well, actually, pretty much the entire original Star Trek crew except, well, Kirk. Whom I hate. With a passion. I really like Abrams-Kirk, though. Oddly enough. So it might just be that I can't stand Shatner...) The Cardassian characters from Star Trek: DS9, but especially Garak. Also, Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien from DS9. Jack O'Neill and Rodney McKay from the Stargate franchise. KITT from the original Knight Rider. And Jayne Cobb from Firefly. (Hi, @eulaliasims!)

Number of blankets you sleep with: I'm in SoCal at the moment. No blankets because I tend to sleep in the warm part of the day. And when I do sleep at night, there's a furnace-like husband and a large, furnace-like dog in the bed with me. Blankets would be overkill.

Dream trip: Still Antarctica. Or space. But Antarctica is more likely at this point. ;)

Blog created: I think it was December of 2013. Maybe November. Ahhhh, those halcyon pre-2016 years...

Number of followers: Right now? 1443. It might change in an hour or so.

Time right now: About 0220 Pacific Time, Wednesday, March 22. One month and one day until my birthday. I expect presents, people! (Nah, I kid. Birthdays after 50 don't mean much. Hell, birthdays after 18 -- or 21, nowadays, I guess -- don't mean much. :) )

Last thing you googled: I was looking for some textures to use for some recolors I'm working on during downtimes at work.

Fave music artist: In terms of non-classical stuff: Queen, always and forever. But I also really like the Barenaked Ladies and other such alternative groups from the 90s as well as 80s New Wave stuff. Also, Metallica. In terms of "classical" stuff: Beethoven, always and forever.

Song stuck in my head: Beethoven's 8th piano sonata, 3rd movement. I was playing it at work today...on my cello. I'm working on arranging the entire sonata for solo cello...starting with the 3rd movement because I do better working on things backward. (Since I'd be willing to bet most people don't know the tune off the top of their head, here's Dubravka Tomsic playing it on youtube, if you're curious.

Last movie I watched: Star Trek Beyond. I liked it better than Into Darkness but not as well as the first Abrams-verse one...

Last TV show I watched: I have Stargate Atlantis paused on my computer screen at the moment. I plan to work on furnishing/decorating the house I put up for download tonight when I'm done with this, and I usually have a TV show playing while I build/decorate stuff in my game. :)

What I’m wearing right now: A pair of black sweatpants and a Telluride Daily Planet T-shirt. (That's the local newspaper at home. :) ) Boring white underwear. My fleece-lined moccasins because my feet are always cold.

The kind of stuff I post: Sims stuff, duh! At least on this blog. :) The other blog has the ranty/political stuff.

Why did I choose my url: Because I like to point and laugh at silly internet drama and because I own llamas, and I added dingdang because dramallama was taken and because of this song.

Gender: According to every one of those silly "What Gender Are You?" online quizzes, I am male, mainly because I'm a self-confident, argumentative, assertive, non-empathetic asshole who doesn't do "feelings." Yet, I have girl plumbing. Go figure. Meh, it's all just social conditioning and expectations, anyway, so...I rebel. I reject gender labeling and their associated roles.

Hogwarts house: I took a quiz once and it said Gryffindor. I've never read Harry Potter or seen any of the movies except one of them during an airplane flight...and I fell asleep during it, so...Yeah, I don't know what it means to be Gryffindor. Don't much care, either.

Pokémon team: Don't know anything about Pokemon, either.

Lucky number: 13 because I am anti-superstition. (Well, except when it comes to white pianos, of course, but I have hard evidence that they are evil, so it’s not superstition. ;) ) Or 42. Take your pick.

Dream job: I once said "Not having one" but then followed it up with "but that's boring." So, I decided to take on some work through June. And you know what? I'm gonna go back to "Not having one." I just need to find some volunteer work to keep me occupied for a few hours a day. Not for 38-hour "days," though. :p

Relationship status: I is married to my second husband. He's cute. And a lot younger than me, woooooooo! First marriage wasn't nearly so fun, though. The only good thing that came of it was my kids.

Pets: Oh, God. Most of them are back home in Colorado (where I have a 39-acre ranch) while I'm here in California, but:

A herd of llamas and alpacas, about 50 total at the moment, but "unpacking" season is approaching, so that number will be going up to about 65 soon. 5 horses 2 nanny goats...which actually belong to a neighbor but they're currently housed on my property, so...they count! 8 dogs 5 cats...although sadly that will probably be going down to four soon because the 18-year-old whose had health problems all her life is currently quite sick and likely won't be getting better. :( Also, there are a ton of barn cats, but they don't really count as pets. A flock of chickens. 1 rooster, the rest hens. 1 California kingsnake 5 tarantulas, various species 8 dragonfly nymphs. I think 2 will become dragonflies this year because I've had them for a few years now...

Last song you listened to: Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, for somewhat sentimental reasons.

Favorite TV Show: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I love the original series a lot, too, but DS9 surpassed it in my book.

First Fandom: Star Trek, of course. I remember declaring that I would marry Spock when I grew up. I was 3 at the time, in 1967, watching the episode "Amok Time" (in which Spock almost gets married) in its original run. We'd only just gotten a color TV a few months before, so it was REALLY COOL. I also wrote a crapton of fanfic in the 70s/80s and a bit in the 90s. Even published a 'zine in the 80s. It was expensive as hell back then but SO MUCH FUN!

Randomly Tagging People I Don’t Think I’ve Tagged For This Thing Before: @randommindtime (It's what you get for following me!), @yandereplumsim, @elfpuddle, @halousims, @nuttydazesublime, and @kayleigh-83. As always, feel free to ignore for whatever reason. :)

#non sims #meme #ye olde questions meme

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