STACKEDIARIES | february 2nd | “bringing out the dead”

“How can you hate who I am so much?”

[Caption: gifs from The Vampire Diaries. Bill conforts Caroline, calling her sweethear and saying he doesn’t hate her, he loves her. As Liz walks to the door, watching them inside Caroline’s room, Bill puts his hands on Caroline’s shoulders and face and tells her “You’re strong. You’re beautiful. You’re good.” She shakes her head and denies it, crying, while her father craddles her face. Bill continues, saying “and even after everything that’s happened to you, you are exactly who your mother and I hoped you’d grow up to be.” Caroline, with tears rolling down her face, says “Then please don’t leave me, Daddy. and starts sobbing, begging him not to leave her, crying on his shoulder while he caresses her head. With a gentle smile Bill says that parents aren’t supposed to outlivev their children, and continues caressing her hair and kissing the top of her head to comfort her, holding her. He exchanges a look with Liz, who watches them teary eyed, with her lips trembling. Bill adds, still conforting Caroline, “This is life. This is what it means to be human.”]

😭😭😡😡

"Bill Forbes being a gay man who uses conversion therapy on his daughter is actually very smartly writ-"

*strangles you with a Pride Flag*

d'aw.

Wait wait wait wait wait

Did Elena just tell Caroline that she shouldn’t make her dad turn because all he has is his choice??? Elena Gilbert?? Where was this when you took Jeremy’s choice away?!!?

I mean I agree you shouldn’t take that choice from them BUT MAN ITS FUNNY, weird.

Tvd was a wild thing it’s the only show you could watch where you can have an allegory for conversion therapy be done by a gay parent

Battlestar Galactica "Pegasus"

I've posted my moodboards for Like minds. And I'm bound to post more. Presenting: Like Minds Mafia! Au, OLDER! Alex Forbes and YOUNGER! Nigel Colbie with a good 'ol mind corruption. 😇

Scientific Name: Geranium carolinianum Common Name(s): Carolina crane’s bill, Carolina geranium Family: Geraniaceae (geranium) Life Cycle: Annual Leaf Retention: N/A Habit: Forb USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Allen, Texas Season(s): Winter

Distinguished from its lookalikes by the pointy tips on the sepals.

STACKEDIARIES | september 22nd | “the hybrid”

[Caption: gifs from The Vampire Diaries. Bill enters a dungeon where Caroline’s tied to a chair. The camera moves to Caroline’s shocked expression, quickly zooming on her face, before returning to Bill, who says “Hello, Caroline.”, pained. Back to Caroline, she asks, a bit hopeful, “Daddy?”, surprising the audience just as the episode ends.]

TOPLINE The White House endorsed a $1.2 trillion spending deal introduced Thursday that includes a provision only allowing the American flag and other official flags to fly at U.S. embassies and other State Department facilities, reversing the State Department’s 2021 authorization allowing pride flags to be flown at the government buildings.

KEY FACTS • The Biden administration urged the swift passage of the bill, which will fund the remainder of the government, including the Department of Defense, through the end of the fiscal year.

• None of the funds made available by the bill can be spent to fly or display flags other than the American flag and other eligible flags at U.S. State Department facilities, a rule that will last for the length of the funding bill, which expires on Sept. 30.

• Eligible flags include the POW/MIA flag, flags of Indian tribal governments, sovereign flags of other countries, flags of “a State, insular area, or the District of Columbia at domestic locations,” flags of official U.S. agencies, the Foreign Service flag and the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag, according to the bill.

• The bill provision also prohibits Confederate flags from being flown at American embassies.

• House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., touted the provision as a conservative win, according to Bloomberg.

TANGENT The $1.2 trillion spending bill would help the government avoid a partial shutdown this weekend if it’s passed. The bill includes about $866 billion for the Defense Department that, among other provisions, will provide servicemembers with a 5.2% pay raise. The bill also expands access to affordable child care and allocates $1 billion for Head Start, a federal program that promotes the school readiness of children from low-income families.

KEY BACKGROUND The flying of pride flags at U.S. embassies has become a sociopolitical tug of war between Democrats and Republicans, the latter of whom have argued “no other flag or symbol can portray our American values'' better than the American flag. Pride flags were first flown at U.S. embassies during former President Barack Obama’s administration, and were later banned by former President Donald Trump in 2019. The ability to fly the flag was reinstituted by the Biden administration two years later. The pride flag has not been allowed to be flown at the Pentagon or military bases following a policy put in place during Trump’s term.

FURTHER READING Congress unveils $1.2 trillion plan to avert federal shutdown and bring budget fight to a close (AP)

i finally made a zombie apocalypse verse and today i had the realization that i can come up with super fucked up and very fun canon-adapted ways that the mystic falls crew can all die :) 

in my mind Bill is in the list of fathers with daughter issues. jsyk.

Caroline being tortured by her own father is so heart breaking 😭😭

Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition: Bob Dylan; Mickey Hart; Leonard Cohen; & Faces

DYLAN RELEASES COMPILATION TO AVOID PUBLIC DOMAIN: Bob Dylan quietly released a Europe-only compilation titled 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 to prevent the recordings from entering the public domain.

The 28-song set was recorded during the sessions that produced Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, per Forbes magazine, which reported on the LP being released “in very limited quantities.”

MEET THE MIRACLES: Mickey Hart will perform under the Mickey and the Miracles banner at the Dead Ahead festival in Mexico.

Presumably a one-off, the group features percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Karl Perazzo; guitarist Derek Trucks and bassist Isaac Eady of the Tedeschi Trucks Band; former Dead & Company drummer Jay Lane; and Hart on “cosmic sounds,” per a statement.

Dead Ahead is slated for Jan. 12-15, 2024.

NATIONAL SYMPHONY TO HONOR LEONARD COHEN: Madison Cunningham, Ben Folds, Bill Frisell, Don Henley, J.D. Souther and Susan Tedeschi and her husband, the aforementioned Trucks, are among the musicians scheduled to join the National Symphony Orchestra for Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen.

The show is scheduled for April 26, 2024, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

FACES THE MUSIC: Faces will be the subject of a 2024 reissue campaign featuring “a wealth” of previously unreleased material, Mojo magazine reports.

Per the band’s archivist: “When I say there’s a wealth of unreleased material – there’s a wealth of unreleased material … there’s rehearsals, outtakes, unreleased songs, session multitracks, you name it.”

12/21/23