Martyr’s don’t kill innocents including children. Content warning: it’s about a school shooting and people posting pictures of themselves holding weapons.

Controversial group behind 'Trans Day of Vengeance' raised money for firearms training - as other trans protestors pose with guns ahead of march in DC on Saturday

The protest was rebranded before the Nashville tragedy from 'visibility' to 'vengeance' by the Trans Radical Activist Network

But some social media users appear to have taken the protest to another level and have posed with powerful firearms posted along with the hashtag 

Twitter has since removed more than 5,000 posts that have used the flyer for the event on April 1 

Despite three nine-year-olds being gunned down by a transgender shooter at a private Christian school in Nashville, activists are still rallying the troops to protest for a 'Trans Day of Vengeance' - months after raising money for firearms training. 

Transgender shooter Audrey Hale opened fire on the Covenant School in Nashville at 10.30am on Monday, killing Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus during her rampage at the school.

But despite rising political tensions across the country, which saw a press secretary for Arizona Democrat Governor post a Tweet about shooting transphobes, the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) is pushing forward with their protest in DC.

The Virginia chapter of the group held a 'dance party fundraiser' in Richmond 'benefiting firearm/self-defense training for trans-Virginians' on March 7, before the mass shooting had taken place. 

In statements, the group has taken pains to distance themselves from Hale, and her actions, and changed the name of the protest before the brutal slayings.  

The protest on Saturday was initially meant to be called a 'day of visibility' but rebranded before the shooting to vengeance because it means 'fighting back with vehemence' – though the group was quick to say they do not 'encourage or promote violence' when contacted by DailyMail.com. 

But one person posing as an activist appears to have taken the movement to the next level, posting a picture of a heavily armed person with an assault rifle and threatening to 'kill christcucks' - as Twitter removed thousands of posts with flyers for the event. 

Twitter has been removing the posts that could be deemed threatening or involve guns associated with the 'TransDayofVengeance' hashtag - but it is unclear exactly how many were others posing with weapons as they have since been deleted.

Ella Irwin, Twitter's head of trust and safety, wrote that the company removed more than 5,000 tweets that included a poster for the event.

She said: 'We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. 

'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.'

Two other trans activists have since posted footage and photos of themselves with rifles, which appear to be in direct response to the Nashville shooting. 

One says that she will use the weapon for 'protection' against 'transphobes' who  target them. 

Kayla Denker, who describes themselves as a ‘communist, archaeologist and writer, posted the video of herself with her gun after the incident in Nashville – despite saying ‘advocating for trans people to arm ourselves is not any kind of a solution to the genocide we are facing’.

She is also appealing for help with the medical bills for her transition on her social media, which has now been locked down.

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Green also saw her account removed after she launched several anti-trans attacks on Twitter.

Greene claimed that 'Antifa' was organizing the alleged event, and reposted a poster for the protest while complaining Twitter kept removing her posts before she was ultimately suspended.

Activists are being encouraged to 'bring a buddy' and wear a mask at the event outside of the Supreme Court in DC on April 1, and is billed as avenging a 'trans genocide.'

Organizers did not respond when asked questions about the safety of protests amid the increasing pressure between the two sides of the political spectrum.

Websites such as Etsy are still being used to sell pro-gun and trans merchandise, with stickers that say 'defend equality' with assault rifles on as well as t-shirts and other items emblazoned with 'Trans rights… or else' which also have the high-powered guns in pink, white and blue – the Trans colors – on them.

TRAN is run by three co-founders, one of whom is a former staffer for the Virginia Democrats and stepped down to work with the group.

Bo Belotti, the national recruitment director, is a 'trans masculine non-binary person' and helped the Virginia chapter of the group to raise money to go on guns and self-defence.

On March 7, the Virginia chapter held a 'dance party fundraiser' in Richmond 'benefiting firearm/self-defense training for trans-Virginians. Come boogie with us and defend trans life!'

Belotti worked as a fellow for Del. Elizabeth Guzman, and Del. Joshua Cole as a legislative aide and helped draft HB 145, which required the state to create model transgender policies for public schools.

His bio on the website adds: 'While working in their state's legislators they helped craft trans-affirming statewide policies.' 

Another co-founder is non-binary Tsukuru, who had been posting updates on the protest before locking down their account following the backlash in the aftermath of the mass shooting.

Their bio states that they were a 'graduate of a high school in Hiroshima where 350 young lives were brutally taken on August 6, 1945, Tsukuru is an anti-nuclear/anti-war/human rights activist.'

It adds: 'After his brief marriage to his best friend and the birth of his child, he first came out as lesbian at age 29 and as a transgender man at age 50.'

The final founder is Noah Buchanan who helped to set up Tran initially, writing on the website: 'Noah Buchanan; I am a transgender male and have been out since 2018. I have 10+ years of working in the mental health field.

'What motivated me to start TRAN was the fact I was bullied to the point where I attempted to end my own life. The person that bullied me was a fellow member of the LGBTIA+.'

In a statement to DailyMail.com Buchanan said: 'What I will say is that this protest was not about encouraging or promoting violence.

This protest is about uniting and letting people know that we are human beings, we exist, and love conquers hate.'

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This is a random question, but what do you think the hunters of Artemis would be in a modern au? Like, what job would Thalia and the other girls have, or what would they all study in college?

Depending on AU, like what age groups you're shooting for, I feel like there's a decent number of options you can go for. For them as a cohesive group in aus:

All-girls school

Sorority

Girl scout troop

Rival/sister/neighboring camp to CHB

etc etc.

As for less cohesive group stuff, like jobs or college majors, probably like wildlife/environmental educators, zookeepers, park rangers, wildlife veterinarians, etc. And/or probably studying conservation education, zoology, and similar. Very outdoorsy or generally working with animals, lots of environmental education and conservation work, all that jazz.

Basically the only thing I can picture for Hunters in modern/mundane aus is them all wearing like rubber overalls up to their armpits and wading knee-deep in a swamp catching turtles. Three of them pinning down a gator Steve Irwin-style. Doing those bird of prey shows. All that jazz. Give me the perfect mesh between Thalia being punk as hell but also she gets off of work covered in woodchips and straw and animal poop. That's the vibe.

Hi, can you write some preferences for the spr boys with a reader who is like a singer that was sent over to entertain the troops? Thank you!!!

of course bestie 🫶

Miller's squad: their reaction to you who is a singer comes over seas to entertain the troops

John Miller: he didn't know and was quite surprised when he saw you on that stage. He hasn't told anyone besides Horvath about you so he's a bit jealous when other soldiers talk about you in a not so appropriate way. When your performance is done he takes you to a private area to chat about life and how you've been while he has been gone etc.

Mike Horvath: He's proud and quite shocked to see you here but he gets it. It's your job. But than again, is also jealous when others talk about you so he talks loudly how proud he is that you're his partner.

Daniel Jackson: He's a confident guy so he isn't jealous when others talk about you because he knows you're already his. He must admit though, all the talk about you goes to his ego and not necessarily in a bad way, mostly that he's proud of himself because he pulled you or you pulled him out of all the people available.

Richard Reiben: it's obvious that your his and that you're not available to others. He follows you everywhere when you're not performing and when you do he's guarding the stage while giving every soldier a death stare if they dare to talk promiscuously about you. Also mostly all the love songs that you're performing (that you've wrote) are hinted about him.

Irwin Wade: he wasn't paying attention to anything besides his martini in his hand until someone shouted out that you were the next one to perform and that made him almost spit his drink out onto Jackson. He rushes to the front so you both see him (to know he's there) and to get the best view etc.

Stanley Mellish: the same as Reiben, most of your songs in general are hinted to be about him and he proudly tells everyone listing. He shows the most reaction when you're performing and after like clapping loudly, whistling and yelling "that's my beautiful, gorgeous, talented partner!!".

Timothy Upham: when he sees you on stage he's like "woah.." literally enchanted. He's very insecure (and jealous) that others like you more than a performer, and he knows that would happen when you're a singer but than again, he's insecure that you'll leave him for someone better so you have to ensue him (on stage) by telling everyone and pointing at him that you're his partner.

Adrian Caparzo: Not jealous and that you're a good looking performance boosts his ego so he doesn't worry that someone would steal you from him. Like Mellish, cheers the loudest for you to get every one to understand that.

Events 3.5

363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. 1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa. 1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. 1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala. 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake. 1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. 1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed. 1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. 1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war. 1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung. 1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft. 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR. 1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

“Persian collections” and the question of the reliability of the ancient Greek historiography on the Persian Empire

“PERSIAN COLLECTIONS: CENTER AND PERIPHERY AT ACHAEMENID IMPERIAL CAPITALS

Jennifer Finn

Loyola University Chicago

The absence of a true Achaemenid Persian “historiography” necessitates that we look elsewhere to construct Persian ideological interactions with the periphery. Like many Mesopotamian kings before them, the Achaemenids became famous for their collecting practices, and sources often depict them looting and stealing artifacts—many of an antiquarian nature—from conquered peoples. Recently, scholars have argued that we should read this picture as a later Greco-Roman historiographical construct, meant to retroactively vilify the Persian kings for their involvement in Hellenic affairs. However, the archaeological record, read together with cuneiform sources, appears to corroborate these statements. The careful recontextualization in Persian capitals of important cultural heritage items, looted mainly from religious environments in rebellious areas, served not only to demonstrate the superiority and dominance of the Persian center over the periphery but also to situate the Persian kings in an historical continuum of Mesopotamian kingship. A reevaluation of Achaemenid collecting practices from the sixth to the fourth centuries bce may allow for a more complete understanding of the discursive nature of Persian imperial display.”

“Although most scholars find Herodotus’ account of Cambyses’ religious indiscretions in Egypt (most notably, killing the Apis bull in Hdt. 3.27-29) as representative of a later Egyptian tradition hostile toward Persian kings, 8 Briant (2002: 60) has shown that religious institutions were particularly hard-pressed during the reign of this king. For instance, steles marking royal generosity toward Egyptian temples, numerous before 525 bce, disappeared in the reign of Cambyses, and drastic limitations on temple revenues were enacted (Devauchelle 1995: 75). Although in some inscriptions Cambyses is represented as a proper Egyptian pharaoh, presiding over a funeral for the Apis, a native Egyptian inscription of the high official Udjahorresnet indeed references great disturbances in the land, which may substantiate the idea that many instances of “outrage against both goods and persons were perpetrated by the troops” (Briant 2002: 56–57). Harrison (2011: 75) has more recently rather strongly argued for interpreting this inscription, together with the Apis bull incident, as evidence that Cambyses did indeed retaliate against specific Egyptian temples.9  It is also worth noting that Herodotus’ account of Cambyses’ Egyptian campaigns, far from being programmatic, replicates the tension in the reception of Cambyses as it appears in Egyptian and Persian inscriptional evidence (Irwin 2017: 111). As we will discuss below, items collected by the Achaemenid kings originate primarily from religious contexts; these are also the contexts in which we find the most evidence for resentment of Achaemenid rule in peripheral states. Combined with the later collection of similar items of importance to Mesopotamian kingship in capitals of the empire, we may be witnessing here an initial stage of what would later become a movement to displace important cultural heritage items from peripheral areas of the Persian Empire.10″

“Briant (2017: 172) argues that the imposition of Persian rule in Egypt was considered particularly burdensome because of the tributary demands of the Persian king. According to him, tribute was both a cause for and a punishment for revolt. Such burdens may date back to the reign of Cambyses.16 The reign of Xerxes seems to have been a watershed in Egyptian-Persian relations, however, as he ceased all conciliatory outreach to Egyptian temples. Furthermore, after Xerxes’ suppression of the revolt, we no longer see Persian kings attempting to appear as Egyptian pharaohs, claiming the favor of Egyptian gods, or dispensing benefactions to Egyptian temples (Ruzicka 2012: 28). Finally, there are no traces of Egyptian-style temple building under Persian kings after Darius (Curtis 2005: 43). If the text of the Satrap Stele (Cairo CG 22812) is any indication, the reign of Xerxes may have been so distressing that it became synonymous with “evil” in Egyptian memory.17

Typically our sources give the impression that Darius exhibited a congenial attitude toward Egyptian religion 22 and was well-received by the Egyptian priesthood. 23 However, while the reigns of Darius and Cambyses were generally remembered for encouraging continuity and adherence to Egyptian custom (Ruzicka 2012: 14–25; Wasmuth 2015: 204–215), we have some evidence that temple administrators were one social group for whom Persian domination was particularly onerous (Briant 2002: 60–61). Greek sources attest to “numerous excesses against Egyptian religion,” although the extent to which this may represent a deliberate policy of the Persians is still up for debate (see especially Winnicki 1994: 159–169). Furthermore, several Ptolemaic-era texts, including an inscription from Adulis on the Red Sea coast, the so-called Canopus Decree, 24 and a newly reconstructed decree from Alexandria (Burstein 2016: 83) all attest to Persian theft of statues from Egypt that were later repatriated by the Ptolemies. 25 Tensions between these priestly groups and the Persians in earlier periods may have come to a head because of the revolts under Xerxes, at which point we can conjecture a migration of the Darius statue to Susa.”

“Just as for the Assyrians, Babylonia under Achaemenid rule inspired a mixture of awe and intractability. The satrapy revolted under Darius I from 522 to 521bce. A group of rebels, calling themselves after the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, rejected Persian rule; to discourage further disobedience, Darius erected a stele on Babylon’s processional way. 26 In 484 bce, in Xerxes’ second year, the satrapy revolted again (Waerzeggers 2003/2004: 151–156). The repercussions of the revolts under both Darius and Xerxes were widespread, with increased taxes and changes in temple personnel enforced under both kings (Waerzeggers 2015: 192–194). The religious sphere seems to have suffered the most deleterious consequences under Persian domination; sources from these priestly circles attest to a most egregious abuse of the Babylonian priesthood under Darius, who conscripted priestly delegations as corvée labor in the building of his capital at Susa (Waerzeggers 2015: 200). Additionally, (likely unwelcome) innovations were introduced into Babylonian cults, as indicated by a rare prebendary offering to a statue of Darius in Sippar from the year 485 bce, before the outbreak of revolts in Egypt and Babylonia (Waerzeggers 2014). However, the revolts under Xerxes have been the subject of particularly intense debate (Waerzeggers 2018a), since Greek sources refer to it to varying degrees of detail. Herodotus (1.183) accuses Xerxes of stealing a statue from the Esagila during the revolt (not specified as the statue of Bēl-Marduk, as Kuhrt and Sherwin-White (1987) have pointed out) but provides no more information. Ctesias mentions a revolt of Babylon in the reign of Xerxes (F13[26]) but also gives no further details. Strabo (16.1.5) and Arrian (3.16.4) are the only sources to mention Xerxes’ destruction of sacred structures in Babylon; these last sources have often been interpreted as Hellenic propaganda, a wholesale vilification of Xerxes to accord with their victory over his forces during the Persian Wars.

Although many have put forth arguments attempting to devalue the commentary of the Greek sources on Xerxes’ behavior as elaborate mnemonic constructs,27 we should not disqualify their testimony so easily. 28 While we cannot deny embellishment or misinterpretation at points, it has  been argued persuasively that Herodotus, our main source for the revolts, was himself at least lightly acquainted with the contents of the Bisitun inscription of Darius I (Seidl 1999; Tuplin 2005: 36) and moreover his representation of the Persian kings is based on native oral sources, and not simply formulated from Greek biases (Munson 2009). In persuasively demonstrating the “end of the archives” after the revolts against Xerxes, Waerzeggers (2003/2004: 161) has also denied our ability to ignore Herodotus, proclaiming that, at the very least, “the passage should...be credited as a report of disruptions in the religious sphere during Xerxes’ reign.” Even without questioning Herodotus’ credibility, it is difficult to believe that every subsequent reference in Classical authors to Xerxes’ destruction of Babylonian temples is based on a misinterpretation of one statement in Herodotus.29 Ultimately, the approach of Dandamaev (1993:43) seems most prudent: “It is true that there is no contemporary Babylonian documentary evidence that corroborates Greek sources, but it is also important to note that Babylonian documents do not refute the Greek accounts.”

In the last fifteen years, the availability and interpretation of archaeological material has aided in a better understanding of the revolts. Cuneiform texts have shown that the rebels were concentrated in Borsippa, Babylon, and Dilbat;30 these are the same places in which reprisals seem to have been executed by the Persians. Archaeological material may also attest to Xerxes’ violence against the Babylonian temples (Waerzeggers 2003/2004). In his excavations at Babylon, Schmid discovered stratigraphic and structural evidence for deliberate damage of the ziggurat’s superstructure, resulting in a depression that is still visible today. Regarding the date of the destruction, one argument places it after the completion of the ziggurat and before the reign of Alexander, when rebuilding efforts were begun (George 2010: 475–477). Additionally, no building inscriptions have been discovered from the last 200 years of Persian rule in Babylonia (Waerzeggers 2015: 196). Therefore, the revolts clearly instigated larger institutional changes in Babylonia, and these seem to have been concentrated in a temple setting. The alterations in the prebendary system after the revolts give every indication that Xerxes took significant and consequential actions in response to the uprising (Nielsen 2015: 57).”

“Scholars often lament that we cannot recover a Persian version of the “Great Event.” Perhaps we have not looked hard enough. When examining the ideologies that surround the immediate memory of the Persian Wars, we are, for the most part, beholden to Greek historiography and its inherent biases. The most-discussed event in Xerxes’ career is undoubtedly his invasion of Greece. After the famous defeat of the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 bce, the Persian king marched on Athens (Garland 2017). There, we are told, he pillaged and burned the Acropolis. Our Greek sources relate that Xerxes pillaged from the Agora the statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the famous Athenian tyrannicides, whose actions allowed for the foundations of Athenian democracy (see the bibliography in Müller 2016: 173 n. 3). The statues were among other works of art and other votive offerings from Greece that were sent to Persia by Xerxes (Arrian 7.19.2). The tyrannicide statues would have joined other pieces of war booty at Susa  such as the bronze weight of Apollo of Didyma (André-Salvini & Descamps-Lequime 2005),32 whose temple was also destroyed by Xerxes (Hdt. 6.19). 33 After its theft, another statue group at Athens was erected to replace the one that had been carted off to Persia.

Recently scholarship has challenged the idea that Xerxes actually stole these statues (Müller 2016: 181–187), citing the blame as a vestige of Macedonian propaganda on the accomplishment of the (alleged) panhellenic mission, which became an important topos of the Second Sophistic when Arrian was composing his Anabasis of Alexander.34 However, the evidence from several statues on the Acropolis attests to a pattern of destruction that is congruent with Persian attacks on other cities (Kousser 2009: 266). And we know that the replacement group on the Acropolis was constructed within five years of the Persian Wars, sometime around 477/476 bce, by Kritios and Nesiotes. 35 Who but Xerxes might have stolen the group in the years immediately previous? One further note: we should also remember that these are not the only Greek items that were victim to theft by the king (see above). If nothing else, the theft of the statue of Apollo from Didyma to Susa is almost certain, given the discovery of a bronze weight of Apollo from Didyma at the Acropole there;36 we might see this action in light of the common Ancient Near Eastern practice of god-napping as a strategy for the assertion of a conqueror’s hegemony over defeated peoples (Zaia 2015). Thus, there is no reason to question our sources in their attribution of Xerxes as the king who carried off the tyrannicides to Susa. It is notable that other Athenian finds, like an Archaic bronze cauldron and a shield, were also discovered at Persepolis (Schmidt 1957: 38–39), indicating that Xerxes’ behavior was part of a larger trend of collecting Athenian items of great cultural import, whether by looting or by gift exchange.

It is tempting to distrust our Greek sources and attribute much of our evidence for Achaemenid collecting behavior to a hostile tradition stemming from their interactions during the Persian Wars. However, put together, the evidence of cultural heritage items (particularly those asso ciated with local government and religion) originating from Egypt, Babylonia, and Greece and displayed at Susa suggests a reevaluation of recent skepticism of our (particularly Greek) evidence.37″

Abstract and excerpts from the paper of Jennifer Finn Persian Collections: Center and Periphery at Achaemenid Imperial Capitals,  Studia Orientalia Electronica,  2021, available on file:///C:/Users/USer/Downloads/89186-Article%20Text-218442-1-10-20211230.pdf

Jennifer Finn is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Classics of the Loyola University, Chicago. PhD, University of Michigan, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat. Research Interests: Ancient Near East, Alexander the Great, ancient warfare. Source: https://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/facultydirectory/

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 562: Rockne S. O'Bannon

April 29 - May 5, 1967

This week Ken welcomes director, producer and writer (Evil, Farscape, The New Twilight Zone, V, Seaquest DSV) Rockne S. O'Bannon to the show. 

Ken and Rockne discuss Ken's long time love of Rockne's work and how often it comes up on the show, 1967, the amazing nature of not aging since 1967, the boom of sci-fi TV in 1966, Film reboots of classic TV shows, quantum entanglement, growing up in LA, Rockne's mother being a Busby Barkley dancer, Rockne's father being a gaffer at Warner Brothers, writing your first pilot script at age 10 for The Boy from U.N.C.L.E., realizing people make television at an early age, Isaac Asimov's essay on how sexy Mr. Spock is, Lawrence Welk swimsuit issue, innovation in animal training, Raven with a Gun, writing for streaming shows and dealing with not needing the convention ad break structure, Sci-Fi Channel movie templates, Laugh-In, Hollywood Teletype, commissioned art, the rise of hippy culture in the mainstream, TV Guide's incredibly detailed listings for everything including reruns and sports, Frankenstein Jr, Space Angel, Clutch Cargo, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke shows status as the greatest TV sitcom ever, Pistols & Petticoats, Gunsmoke, Tom Skerrit's week, The Avengers, Johnny Carson reruns, Saturday Night Live, TV shows about television, It's About Time, Ed Sullivan, the pre-muppet Muppets, Roger Miller's variety show, FBI, Rockne's Dad taking home TV scripts for him to study, the horror of pay tv, white guys as Native Americans, westerns, Steve Allen's invention of everything, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, Buck Henry, Get Smart!, The New Twilight Zone, "Wordplay", "The Shadow Man", Darkroom with James Coburn, Joey Bishop, Don Herbert is Mr. Wizard, TV Close Ups, The National Science Test, The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Red Skelton, The Invaders, pinkies, playing it cool around celebrities, Albert Brooks, Night of the Meek, The Afterhours, Fame is the Name of the Game, Lost in Space, Batman '66, Fringe, Evil, time travel, Time Tunnel, being the new Irwin Allen by mistake, gadgets, I Spy, Wild Wild West, Honey West, Green Hornet, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, F Troop, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker's chemistry, not wanting to talk to Milton Berle, short lived shows that had an outsized impact on pop culture, the power of villains, vigilantes, Bob & Ray, Tim Conway, "you're very pleased to meet me", Patrick McNee's secrets to life, nudists, Mod Tampons, TV Teletype, and Chuck Connors, as a Cowboy in Africa. 

Check out this episode!

US and UK troops train to ‘pacify Russian civilians’ – media

US and UK troops train to ‘pacify Russian civilians’ – media

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🌺Fletcher’s Flowers🌺

Formulated this lovely idea with @galcalirwin and I couldn’t pass it up. And these are the ages of the Irwin Troops in this: Fletcher: 10 Henry: 9 Ivy: 7 Mylo: 6 Vida: 4

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The Irwin household is always busy with high energy and filled with lots of love. You’d noticed Fletcher was acting a bit strangely nowadays, he’d get quiet at random times and would run off to his room for about twenty minutes. When he’d come out he’d have ripped up pieces of paper in his hands and thrown them away. 

At dinnertime after school he’d be telling you and Ashton about his day then when Ashton would lean down to kiss your cheek as he brought the potatoes over, Fletcher would go silent. 

One Sunday afternoon while you were outside with Henry, Ivy, Mylo and Vida drawing on the patio with chalk, Fletcher appeared with Daisy on his heels.

“Hi sweetie, wanna draw with us?” you ask pulling the small piece of chalk away from Vida’s opened mouth. 

“No thanks. Where’s Dad?”

“Downstairs in his music room, why?” you ask, his voice faltered a little bit. 

“I need to ask him something.”

Then Fletcher darts back inside and before you can really question it, Ivy pulls your attention to her drawing of a long neck dinosaur, her favorite. 

***

“Hey dad?” Fletcher asks entering Ashton’s little office. 

Ashton’s running over lyrics he’s been trying to perfect for the last three days. 

“Yeah buddy?”

“Can you help me with something?”

Ashton looks up at the sound of his eldest son’s voice. He seems nervous and timid which is unlike Fletcher at all. He pushes out of his chair then motions to the futon along the wall.

“What’s wrong?” Ashton asks in concern. 

Fletcher takes a deep breath and looks down at his hands in his lap. 

“Um, can we go to the flower store?” he asks quietly. 

Ashton’s brows furrowed in confusion. His mind reels in the date, it’s not Mother’s Day or your Birthday or anniversary. Why does he want to go to the flower store?

“You want to get mama flowers?”

“No, not mama. . .” Fletcher shakes his head. 

“Then for who?” Ashton asks and Fletcher stays silent for a long moment. “Fletch, you can tell me who you want to get the flowers for.”

Fletcher sighs heavily. “Emma. In my class. She likes Captain America and dogs. I want to give her flowers like you give mama sometimes. To make her smile.”

Ashton’s features soften and his heart melts into a puddle at his son’s tenderness. His first crush and he wants to give her flowers. 

“I think that’s a great idea, Fletch. Let’s get going.”

Once at the flower shop, Fletcher is walking up and down the oblong aisles of different flower arrangements asking Ashton what he thinks of certain ones. The florist stops by and asks Ashton questions about what they’re looking for when Fletcher suddenly exclaims “Dad!”

Ashton and the florist walk over to him as he points to three big, pink and fluffy peonies perched inside a square vase. Some leaves are added in for some extra color and Ashton can see how big Fletcher’s eyes are. 

“Those are good! Can we get ‘em, dad? Please?”

“‘Course we can, and they’re perfect. I think Emma will really like them. Can we have this please?” Ashton asks lifting up the flower arrangement. 

“Absolutely,” the florist smiles taking the flowers from Ashton. “I’ll put them in a box so it doesn’t jostle. Anything else for you two today?”

“I wanna get mama and Ivy and Vida flowers,” Fletcher states walking up to another aisle that has different colored gerber daisies. He picks out a yellow one, a pink one and an orange one. “Okay, I’m done.”

Fletcher placed some crumpled bills and change on the counter which the florist gladly accepted after Ashton already paid on his card. 

“A tip for you,” Ashton murmurs to her then more loudly, “All right Fletch, let’s get these flowers home.”

***

You hear the car doors slam and the front door open just as you’re finished making the spaghetti for dinner. 

“I was wondering where you went--oh! What do you have there, Fletch?” you ask noticing a large white box he’s carrying very carefully. 

Fletcher looks up to Ashton who nods encouragingly.

Fletcher sets the box down and opens the flaps to reveal his peony bouquet. You gasp as he pulls out three more flowers and hands you a pink one. 

“This is for you, mama,” he hands it to you gently. 

His siblings have gathered around as well and Ivy exclaims at how pretty the flowers are.

“This one’s yours Ivy,” Fletcher hands her the orange one and she smells it.

“What do you say to your brother, princess?” Ashton asks with his hands in his pockets.

“Thanks Fletch! It’s pretty!” She smiles and gives him a quick hug then shows Mylo the flower. He giggles when it tickles his nose as he smells it.

“And this is for Vivi,” Fletcher hands Vida the last yellow daisy. 

“Pwetty!” Vida gasps waving the flower in the air. 

“This is so sweet of you, Fletch,” you gush kneeling in front of him. “Can I know who these are for?” You point to the peonies at his feet. 

“Um, for Emma at school. Dad gives you flowers to make you smile and I want to give her some,” he answers quietly, his fingers touching the petals softly. 

Tears spring in your eyes immediately at your sweet boy. You look up at Ashton who’s wearing a proud grin as he looks at his son. When he meets your gaze, he flashes you a wink. 

“He picked them all out himself, didn’t you buddy?”

“And I paid for them, too,” Fletcher smiles proudly. “Do you think she’ll like them?”

“I think she’ll love them, you’re the sweetest boy, Fletch.”

You pull him into your arms for a hug, his chin nestled on your shoulder and you kiss the side of his head. 

“Why didn’t I get a flower?!” Henry shouts suddenly. 

“I want a flower!” Mylo exclaims next. 

Fletcher’s flowers are a bigger success than he’d thought they’d be. He hoped Emma would like them on her desk tomorrow at school.

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A Crown Of Fake Roses

Where The Roses Bloom Epilogue

Story Pairing: Stable Lad! Calum Hood x Princess Reader

Summary: The King has some business to attend

Warnings: Language and Violence

Word Count: 1K

Author’s Note: The secrets are revealed, but not all of them so, read carefully 👀 Remember that Reblogs, Feedback, Comments and Likes are super important! You have no idea how much they help me 💕 Hope you like it and Happy Reading 🦋🌻✨

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Series Materialist || prologue || chapter one || chapter two || chapter three || chapter four || chapter five || chapter six || chapter seven

It was late at night and the King still sat in his throne room, tapping his fingers on the armchair as the frown he wore left permanent wrinkles that would remind him of his age once he woke up in the morning.

The plan of having his daughter married failed as the Young King of The Vail left this afternoon in a ship destined to his own kingdom, having fulfilled his promise and making Richard look like a fool. All because of her.

Still, the Old King was relentless and very stubborn, he would not let himself be the fool once again. Not when his head was already planning something else, something better.

The throne room was in complete silence as he pondered in his thoughts, yet he knew he wasn’t alone.

“You know I don’t like to be watched” He called to the seemingly empty room. But soon after his statement, he saw movements come from the shadows.

They always liked the shadows.

“And I don’t like to have to watch you, Your Majesty, but I guess we can’t always be winners”

A young man appeared from the corner of the room, he wore a dashing smile that could distract anyone from the ugly scar that ran across his left eye. The man was tall, too tall, and dressed in a black suit with a black cape that matched his black hair. He was older than the Prince, but still a youngster at heart with how much he liked to annoy the hell out of the monarch.

“Watch it, crow” The King warned “You are lucky I’m not sending you back to the dungeons where you belong”

The crow chuckled, “You and I both know you need me, Your Majesty, and besides, this time I was not at fault here. You were the one who sent me spying on King Hemmings while the Princess decided to run off. Guess we both underestimated her, huh?”

King Richard banged his fist against the throne, letting the sound silence the crow’s laughter.

“Don’t put the blame on me, Barakat” The King barked, pointing his finger to Jack “You were in the dungeons for much less than this. Or don’t you remember the fiasco you caused when you decided to kill The King and Queen of The Vail all those years back?!”

The young crow rolled his eyes.

“They knew too much, it was that or let the whole plan go to shit. They died before they could even tell anyone it was you who sent me there. So I believe a thank you is in order”

“The fact that you are still standing here shows I’m merciful enough. Killing them was a careless mistake if you left their heir alive! You knew the plan and you messed it up! Now their son is blocking me from ever getting my hands on that army…”

“And did you really think that would’ve worked?” Barakat asked, pacing the room without making a sound “Getting that preppy King to marry your daughter after you sent him the letters of threat thinking they wouldn’t notice? They are people from The Vail! They are smarter than you think, that Clifford guy knew I was there watching him within the 30-second mark, that motherfucker was always a pain in the ass. And what were you going to do after? Kill the King and take control of their troops because your daughter would be Queen? Or would you have killed her as well?”

Jack looked at the King and gasped at how angry he looked. He always hated being outsmarted.

“Oh my god, that was your plan wasn’t it?” He laughed “And I uncovered it in what? Two minutes? You have to step up, Your Majesty. That’s just embarrassing”

Suddenly, the King got up from his throne and walked over to the crow, caging his neck with his hand and pushing his skinny body against the wall.

“You shut up, you worthless bastard” The King spat, tightening his grip on the young man’s neck whose face started to drain from color “What I should be hearing from that sorry little mouth of yours is a “thank you” and a “sorry” Because I was the one who pulled you out the dungeon to give you another simple job and you couldn’t do that right!”

The King let go of the crow’s throat, letting Jack fall to the floor as he gasped for air.

“One thing, I asked for one thing: Spy on my daughter so she wouldn’t cause trouble before the wedding, and now look at where we are!”

“In my defense,” Barakat coughed out “The fact that you weren’t aware of your own daughter’s doings was not my fault. And the moment I found out about her little relationship I came straight at you now, didn’t I? Imagine just how worse this could all be if I hadn’t been there to slow down their search and their plans? All while you paraded yourself with a victory stance”

Richard turned to him, his eyes boiling in anger as he grabbed the crow by the collar “Give me one good reason of why I shouldn’t send you to the gallows right in this instant”

“Then you wouldn’t know where your daughter is heading right now with her dear stable boy and what a shame that would be”

The King’s eyes widened “You know where she is?”

Barakat grinned.

“Word says they are headed to the Northern Islands, the ones further from the continents. A place with no crows nor political alliances. A place where you, my dear King, have no power… yet”

“What are you saying?” The Old King asked, but Jack only shrugged.

“Let me live and I’ll tell you. You want a war, Your Majesty? Then start acting like you’re in one”

King Richard let go of the crow, walking away from him as he sat back on his throne with an unreadable expression. Not wanting to waste his time any longer.

“You need me,” Barakat stated.

“I doubt it” The King answered “But I’ll consider your proposal. Let’s see if you can actually redeem yourself this time”

The young crow huffed and rolled his eyes at the King, knowing damn well they will have this same conversation in the morning, maybe then he could convince the old man to give him more power as a commander.

If the King wants a war, then he’ll get a war.

“Oh and, Sir Barakat?” The King called before he returned to the shadows “Call the guards up here. I need to have a conversation with my son”

*

End of book one

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In 1942, Henry Lubell (z"l) was in Kolomyja, Poland, where the Germans had established a ghetto. There, Henry met his future wife, Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s parents were able to pool their resources to smuggle their daughter out of the ghetto before it was liquidated later that year.

The Jews of Kolomyja were soon rounded up for mass deportation. Using the saw blade he kept in his boot, Henry found a loose board on the cattle car and sawed a hole big enough for him and his friends to jump through.

Henry was later imprisoned after being discovered hiding in a peasant's barn by Hungarian police. In prison, his attempt at suicide landed him in the prison hospital, again allowing him and his friends to escape. They eventually discovered a group of partisans in the forest and were welcomed into the group. As a partisan, Henry sabotaged the Germans by supplying Soviet troops with information about German artillery positions. 

After the war, Henry reunited with Elizabeth, who was living in Budapest. They were soon married and lived in Bratislava, Slovakia. In November 1950, the couple arrived in Peekskill, NY, where Elizabeth’s brother and sister-in-law were residing. They had two children, Barbara and Irwin.

Henry passed away in 1993 at the age of 82. Read more about Henry's incredible life here.

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

Events 3.5

363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. 1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa. 1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. 1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala. 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake. 1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. 1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed. 1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. 1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war. 1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung. 1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft. 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR. 1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. 1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier. 1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members. 1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. 1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board. 1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world. 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. 1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. 1993 – Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. 2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. 2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 562: Rockne S. O'Bannon

April 29 - May 5, 1967

This week Ken welcomes director, producer and writer (Evil, Farscape, The New Twilight Zone, V, Seaquest DSV) Rockne S. O'Bannon to the show.

Ken and Rockne discuss Ken's long time love of Rockne's work and how often it comes up on the show, 1967, the amazing nature of not aging since 1967, the boom of sci-fi TV in 1966, Film reboots of classic TV shows, quantum entanglement, growing up in LA, Rockne's mother being a Busby Barkley dancer, Rockne's father being a gaffer at Warner Brothers, writing your first pilot script at age 10 for The Boy from U.N.C.L.E., realizing people make television at an early age, Isaac Asimov's essay on how sexy Mr. Spock is, Lawrence Welk swimsuit issue, innovation in animal training, Raven with a Gun, writing for streaming shows and dealing with not needing the convention ad break structure, Sci-Fi Channel movie templates, Laugh-In, Hollywood Teletype, commissioned art, the rise of hippy culture in the mainstream, TV Guide's incredibly detailed listings for everything including reruns and sports, Frankenstein Jr, Space Angel, Clutch Cargo, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke shows status as the greatest TV sitcom ever, Pistols & Petticoats, Gunsmoke, Tom Skerrit's week, The Avengers, Johnny Carson reruns, Saturday Night Live, TV shows about television, It's About Time, Ed Sullivan, the pre-muppet Muppets, Roger Miller's variety show, FBI, Rockne's Dad taking home TV scripts for him to study, the horror of pay tv, white guys as Native Americans, westerns, Steve Allen's invention of everything, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, Buck Henry, Get Smart!, The New Twilight Zone, "Wordplay", "The Shadow Man", Darkroom with James Coburn, Joey Bishop, Don Herbert is Mr. Wizard, TV Close Ups, The National Science Test, The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Red Skelton, The Invaders, pinkies, playing it cool around celebrities, Albert Brooks, Night of the Meek, The Afterhours, Fame is the Name of the Game, Lost in Space, Batman '66, Fringe, Evil, time travel, Time Tunnel, being the new Irwin Allen by mistake, gadgets, I Spy, Wild Wild West, Honey West, Green Hornet, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, F Troop, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker's chemistry, not wanting to talk to Milton Berle, short lived shows that had an outsized impact on pop culture, the power of villains, vigilantes, Bob & Ray, Tim Conway, "you're very pleased to meet me", Patrick McNee's secrets to life, nudists, Mod Tampons, TV Teletype, and Chuck Connors, as a Cowboy in Africa.

I met my 2020 movie-watching goal of seeing 300 new (to me) movies, so I decided it was finally time to start my Golden Elliotts ripoff. Presenting:

THE 2020 MACKOLADES

Overall eligibility is being included in my First Watches of 2020 list on Letterboxd. Criteria for certain special awards can be found at the bottom of this post. All finalists are listed alphabetically, winners are bolded.

Favorite Drama:

Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

Favorite Horror:

Host (2020) dir. Rob Savage The Invisible Man (2020) dir. Leigh Whannell Oculus (2014) dir. Mike Flanagan The Perfection (2018) dir. Richard Shepard Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Favorite Comedy:

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) dir. Jon Amiel Muriel’s Wedding (1994) dir. P.J. Hogan Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (1997) dir. David Mirkin Tragedy Girls (2017) dir. Tyler MacIntyre Troop Beverly Hills (1989) dir. Jeff Kanew

Favorite Series/IP:*

Alien (5/6) Child’s Play (6/7) Halloween (6/11)

Favorite Lead Actress Performance:

Bette Davis, Now Voyager (1942) Adéle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Elizabeth Moss, The Invisible Man (2020) Margot Robbie, Birds of Prey (2020) Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma. (2020) Jennifer Tilly, Seed of Chucky (2004)

Favorite Supporting Actress Performance:

Kathy Bates, Titanic (1997) Lady Chablis, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) Joan Cusack, Addams Family Values (1993) Lee Jung-eun, Parasite (2019) Maureen Stapleton, The Fan (1981) Tilda Swinton, Suspiria (2018) Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Favorite Actor Performance:

Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun (1987) Chris Cooper, Little Women (2019) Djimon Hounsou, Amistad (1997) Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married (2008) Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chungking Express (1994) River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho (1991) Song Kang-ho, Parasite (2019)

The Toni “She Has The Range” Collette Award for Multi-Genre Excellence:**

Toni Collette, Muriel’s Wedding (1994)/I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)/The Hours (2002)

Hottest Daddy:

Alec Baldwin, It’s Complicated (2009) Victor Garber, Titanic (1997) Raúl Juliá, The Addams Family (1991) Ryan Phillippe, Wish Upon (2017)

*Eligibility for Favorite Series/IP:

(# eligible films/# in series) > 0.5 # in series > 2

**Criteria for the Collette:

Excellence in two or more movies of vastly different genres and tones In future years this will (probably) go to other performers

any sort of fluffy expecting father ashton would be highly appreciated 🥺

you got it babe! This will be just a generic expecting since I just did a blurb from my Irwin Troops family :)

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“Ashton, I’m fine!” you giggled when you felt his hands on your waist stopping you from stretching as high as you can go to get a glass bowl for a fruit salad you’re making.

Since discovering you’re pregnant, Ashton has been extra careful with you. He’s always asking if you’re tired or all right because he’s been reading pregnancy books. He makes you a healthy breakfast each morning and after giving you a good morning kiss, he’d slip down and kiss your growing bump. 

“It’s glass, sweetheart, I don’t want it to fall on your head,” he’d say snatching the bowl from you easily. He sets it on the counter and kisses your cheek once you’re flat on your feet again. 

“You’re lucky I know you’re doing this out of love otherwise I’d say you’re suffocating me,” you tease pinching his cheek and he kisses you. 

To appease him, you’d let him teach you some yoga moves that help pregnant women but when it became too hard for you to do the positions he stopped and began to massage your feet and ankles. Whenever the baby kicked, you’d scope him out and place his hands on your belly.

His hazel eyes lit up each time he felt a kick. 

He gladly went to the 24 hour drugstore to get whatever you were craving. He’d hold you against his chest when you’d cry that you lost a sock while doing the wash. He loved to watch you caress  your bump, talking softly to the baby about how excited you were to meet them (you didn’t want to know the gender) and you’d hum a song whenever it was quiet.

He loved seeing you pregnant and could already tell you’re going to be an amazing mother. 

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Steve Irwin Should Have Turned 59 Today... Fuck Stingrays

Well… Today we SHOULD be celebrating the 59th birthday of the greatest crocodile hunter of all time, Steve Irwin. But because some punk bitch ass stingray apparently had a grudge against Sir Irwin, we have to celebrate his birthday without him. And it is one of history’s greatest travesties that every government in the world doesn’t still have a team of experts dedicated to finding the piece of shit culprit. According to a quick google search, stingrays only live between 5 and 10 years, but I bet this son of bitch is still out there, swimming around and bragging to all his friends. Yeah, congratulations dude, you have a fucking spike on the end of your tail and you stabbed an innocent man with it. Real tough.

They say only the good die young, and if that’s the case, this evil motherfucker is probably immortal. He must be brought to justice, and if that means Australia using their entire army to do so, then so be it. Hell I’m sure the US would lend them a few hundred thousand troops. And I bet finding this son of a bitch isn’t even that hard. If we dedicated like a million people to the search, all we’d have to do is conduct DNA testing on every stingray’s tail and we would find this mother fucker in like two months. Then, we could torture him for like ten years, stab him a bazillion times with his own tail spike barb thing, then cook him up and serve him to the public, burry his remains in a cemetery far away from any other graves, and every year on Steve’s birthday the entire country of Australia could dance around this asshole’s headstone. Sounds like a pretty great way to celebrate his birthday. 

But again, first we actually need to locate this lower than life sea scum. So what the fuck are you doing Australia? You can’t tell me you have better things to do right now than find Steve’s cold killer. Hell he probably wasn’t even this serial stingray killer’s first or last victim. This bitch should be at the top of every ‘most wanted’ list in every country that borders an ocean. If things don’t change before Steve’s next birthday, I think the United Nations should seriously look into charging Australia’s Prime Minister with crimes against humanity.

Well anyway, happy birthday Steve Irwin.