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A Married Man
(Inspiration struck me in the dead of night)
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Soap had been flirting with Ghost for a while, and the man had returned most of his advancements with jokes and more flirtation. But then things started to get serious and there was something obviously bothering Ghost.
Finally, he sat Soap down one evening, nervous and having a difficult time holding Soap’s gaze.
“Johnny, I have something I need to tell you. I should have told you already and I can’t avoid it any longer.”
Soap grew nervous, worried, as Ghost spoke.
“What is it? You can talk to me about anything.”
“I… God, there is no easy way to say this… I’m married.”
Soap stares at Ghost, expecting laughter because this had to be a joke. This was a fucking joke.
“You’re married?”
Ghost was quick to explain, making Soap realize that it was in fact not a joke.
“We got married years ago! We were deep undercover, shit happened, and we got married. It was to keep our cover so we had a legit wedding… and we haven’t gotten a divorce yet.”
Soap blinks, “Mission? Are you married to someone I know?”
Ghost shrinks, “Yes…”
“What the fuck— And you both had been keeping this from me?! Who is it?”
Ghost chews on his lip as he turns away, “I should’ve told you with him. He would’ve been able to explain it better…”
Soap blinks before it hits him. He stares blankly, not sure how to respond. Ghost was obviously nervous, now refusing to look at Soap. Soap looks away from him, staring at nothing in particular as he processed everything.
“This… oh my god-“
Soap gets up and Ghost starts talking again.
“I should’ve told you long ago! Fuck- We should’ve ended the marriage by now!”
Ghost stands and Soap turns to him and hugs him.
“I need to process this, okay? I’ll- We’ll talk tomorrow.”
Ghost is stunned as Soap pulls away and leaves the room. Soap couldn’t think about anything other than the situation. He knows Ghost is losing his mind back in his room, but Soap couldn’t think of much other than the fact that the man he’s been seeing was married. And married to—
“Oh my god-“
Soap stops when he sees the man in question right in front of him. Minding his own busy, Nik talking to him about something rather unimportant. Well, it was unimportant at the moment.
“YOU’RE MARRIED?!”
Price and Nik stop walking and turn. Price blinks, taking a good look at Soap before he understands what is happening. Nik looks at Soap before looking at Price and just grins.
“Oooo-“
“Nik, not now-“
“When were you going to tell me?! Just carry on like nothing- Like I haven’t been fucking dating your husband?!”
Price looks around them, “Wouldn’t you rather have this conversation somewhere more private?”
“I thought you were married to Nik?!”
Price sighs as Nik continues grinning, the man deciding to cut off Price from speaking.
“On all levels except legally, we’re married.”
Soap stares at Price. Price groans as the man silently presses for him to say something, anything that would explain everything.
“Let’s go to my office. Except you, go to bed.”
Nik pouts , “You’re forcing me to miss the fun?”
“Go.”
Nik sighs dramatically before he leaves, snickering as he continues down the hall. Soap doesn’t take his eyes off of Price for a moment as they head to his office. As soon as the door closed, Soap cornered Price.
“What. The. Fuck?!”
Price was acting much calmer than what Ghost had, though given they were in two very different positions given their situation, “What exactly did he tell you?”
“That you two got married during mission to keep your cover.”
“Hm, yea, that sums it up.”
“How long ago was that?”
“Six-seven years. Though we lived together during that mission for three, married for the last year.”
Soap had to sit down, unable to stand. He chose the couch given it was closest and sat down, leaning against it with his jaw hung open. Price, still keeping an annoyingly calm composure, sits at his desk.
“Wales, 2016. Small shit town with some terrorist crawling all over it. Had to get in and figure out exactly what was happening. Simon and I were placed together by Morris and clearly he didn’t think of how suspicious two fit, military men were showing up out if nowhere and moving into a house together. So, we decided to play as a couple wanting to start a life together.”
Soap blinks, “And that worked?”
“Surprisingly. Though after a year and a half of less than good acting, people started getting suspicious. So I decided to make a showy proposal to get things back on track.”
Soap couldn’t help but let out a laugh, “God…”
“Bought a fucking expensive ring, too. Silver, black diamond-“
Soap sits up straight, “No fucking way- He fucking wears that thing all the time!”
Price blinks in surprise, “You’re joking.”
“No! On leave, on our personal days, on our fucking dates-“
Price wheezes, “Guess I did a too good of a job finding something his taste! I thought he would’ve sold the thing by now! Good few thousand on that ring.”
“He told me it was custom.”
“It was. Go big or go home, and a proposal must be big.”
“God you’re extra.”
Price smirks, “What Kate says. You should’ve seen the wedding.”
“Fuck… Can’t believe it… I’ve been fucking the captain’s husband.”
Price laughs and Soap groans out. This was a lot to take in.
Price calms after a good bit of laughter, sighing and leaning back in his chair, “God, can’t believe it took this fucking long for him to tell you! Wait… where is Simon?”
Soap’s eyes widen and he jumps up, “Fuck- Talk to you later! I left him stewing too long!”
Soap runs out of the office without another word, running all the way back to Ghost’s room. He didn’t knock, just barged in and surprised the fuck out of Ghost. One panic attack after a narrowly missed thrown knife and Soap is curled up with Ghost on the floor, his blanket pulled off the bed and wrapped around them.
Ghost was clinging to Soap, head tucked under his chin as Soap held him close.
“Shouldn’t have left like that…”
Ghost mumbles against Soap’s chest, “It was a lot to handle… should’ve done it with Price.”
“God… I still can’t believe you two assholes kept the fact that you’re married to yourselves this long!”
“I didn’t feel the need to say anything if Price wasn’t worried about it.”
Soap hums, “Fair… I have to know something… Did you two ever-?”
Ghost bites Soap and his sentence is forcefully cut off by a surprised yelp.
“Fucking feral shit-! STOP BITING-“
#call of duty#cod mwii#modern warfare ii#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#john price#cod nikolai#soapghost#ghostsoap#priceghost#pricenik#morris isn’t real don’t look for him lol#fic#ficlet#drabble
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The Mandalorian Chapter 12 rewatch thoughts
- I would like to thank them for keeping in din’s harried yet triumphant ‘hAH!!’ when he gets the explosives to stick to gideon’s ship in the ‘hey remember when this happened last season’ section, that was a nice gesture from the showrunners to me personally, I assume
- this episode actually helped me find more enjoyment in the last one, because it’s such a nice reassurance that even though they’re pulling in more stuff from other star wars media this show won’t suddenly stop being its own thing and mando won’t suddenly stop being himself and it’s very comforting to me somehow haha
- the small hesitation before din calls out “do you... do you have the wire?” lol lol lol he’s completely aware of the bizarreness of what he’s doing here but hey being alive is already so damn weird etc.
the softness of his voice the whole way through and the fact that he never, never blames the baby for not being able to do what shouldn’t really be asked of him in the first place, tho... ;____;
- the tiny exasperated head tilt din does when he realizes the hatch isn’t going to extend all the way fdslkfhasdlashfs
- din is looking down at the baby the entire time while greef talks to the mechanics ❤️❤️❤️
(the baby seems pretty drawn to/excited to see greef again and mando seems to notice which is extremely cute. he’s becoming really good at tuning in with the kid)
he also greets cara baby first in much the same way as he does peli, like he knows what the main attraction here is lol, they do a very sweet bro nod at each other. god I wish gina carano wasn’t so terrible imagine if we could just have this BrOTP without hesitations :(
I think greef is actually a bit worried to begin with after seeing the ship, he sort of takes din in intently before he huffs a little laugh and grabs his arm. it must be a bit stressful to be his friend and not be able to see his expression right away when you worry something might be seriously wrong haha
- people are finally treating the baby like you would a real baby and it’s such a blessing, everyone talking and cooing at him and baby babbling back
(I wonder if greef has children of his own? he does have an undeniable air of experienced grandpa about him in this episode, it’s adorable)
- din does so much talking -- unprompted, even! -- these days, it truly is an embarrassment of riches
- capital E Emotional about this shot with IG-11 right behind din and cara inviting him into the school in front of him. some past carried with us into the future shit going on here
IG-11′s legacy’s still got our back y’all :’) I swear to god if gideon blows up nevarro at some point I’m going to lose it
the ‘oh yeah?/that so?’ way din leans his head back after she says “wait until you see inside” is also amazing
- baby reaching out his hand like ‘can have?’ is so polite ;______; he takes after his father (including in the ‘fool me twice, I’ll fuck you up’ department haha. listen you get one chance to be cool about it and then no more mr nice mando/baby)
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go ahead, kid, make a fuss about it. who are you going to tell, huh? who’s going to believe you? you gonna tell them you got bested by a baby? a magic baby? no? that’s right. I took your dignity as easily as I took your macarons, there’s nothing you can do to change it, and now you gotta live with that. sweet dreams.
(this is a joke. the baby is not evil. I hate that I even have to specify this but I’ve seen some stupid shit in the tags in my time you guys haha)
- I can’t work out what anything on greef’s desk is supposed to be, but if that’s a computer it’s got to be older than even the razor crest lol
- friends: din yes?
mando: din no, only repairs
friends: din yes please?
mando: ... [sigh] din yes
he truly has next to no defense against people he actually likes asking him for something huh lol. well a self care co-op mission clearly did him a world of good in this one at least it’s all fine
- “I’m starting to dehydrate, Boss” is an excellent line and delivered perfectly, I cackle every time (”You park your gills right there until I say otherwise” is a good runner up too)
- it’s so nice to see the small moments of communication between them in this one after mando was so out of sync with the team in the last one (and tbf those guys didn’t even try to give him any pointers at all, they really left him to flounder through the whole thing if you watch it carefully haha)
- the mythrol’s jacket still looks so comfy, I want one
- aaaaah the way din says “I don’t like this” is just so... hnnngh it’s perfect, there’s a vulnerability and openness to it for a moment. greef glances over at him like he hasn’t heard him sound like this before too, which just sells it even more
u ok bro?
you know shit’s fucked up when din djarin expresses an emotion without even being forced to by circumstance (I think what I mean is that it’s actually really rare for him to state how he feels about something just to do it, usually his communication is more practically oriented, more along ‘I think this is the best cause of action because of a and b’ lines, or like when he tells omera he’s grateful it’s... more to inform her of it and make sure she knows than to express himself? but he’s starting to do it more with people he trusts now and it gets me in the heart? man I’m finding this hard to articulate let’s move on lol)
- I really, really wonder about pershing’s position in all of this. his plea for the child’s life did sound genuine -- he did try to guard him with his own noodly scientist body when he thought din was out to hurt him, remember -- but is that only because he knows he’s in deep shit himself without the blood the baby can give? is he maybe not quite cool with whatever gideon has him doing? (he does sound quite strained when he talks about the ‘body’ rejecting the transfusion and the ‘volunteer’ potentially suffering the same fate... hm.)
idk why I want there to be something redeemable in him so bad, maybe it’s just my weird yet enduring attachment to ladon radim in stargate atlantis messing with me they’re kind of similar in some ways (yeah don’t ask me I don’t know either sometimes the heart wants what it wants in ways reason can’t explain)
- tfw ur literally launching yourself across a pool of boiling lava because you’re Dad and your baby’s in danger T__________T he just does not stop running towards that kid for even a single second help
- there’s something so innocently pure and... old fashioned? about the scene with mythrol and greef screaming the entire time they drive off the cliff, it feels like something out of a movie from like three decades ago. that whole segment feels a bit like that, it’s just there to be fun and that’s okay sometimes
- every dog fight in every movie should have a baby nonchalantly snacking on a cookie in them, it elevates the experience immeasurably (he squishes his nose a little bit with the macaron when he misses his mouth at one point, which is more than anyone should be expected to bear honestly)
I love that even all fixed up again the razor crest groans and creaks like an old tired thing when din makes it flip to dive, he 100% did take out a bunch of ferraris in his stalwart morris minor of a spaceship and I treasure him
- there’s so much life and emotion in din’s voice here I can’t!!!! I simply can’t!!!! imagine if we get to hear him openly laugh one day, would I even survive it??!!!!
also the kid makes such pitch perfect ‘having my lil nose wiped and whining about it’ baby noises when din uses his cape to clean him up (din does turn the autopilot on before he turns around to deal with it, for those who, like me, worry about these things)
- between carson showing up and the stuff the droid talks about in the lesson they’re doing quite a bit of outer rim vs. core worlds theme building in this one, I wonder if this is going to ramp up more or what
- god but gideon’s theme SLAPS tho
he’s probably going to try to fuck up everything I love but you can’t fault him on the tunes he’s going to do it to
#star wars#the mandalorian#the mandalorian spoilers#the mandalorian meta#and now off to bed like I should have been half an hour ago lol
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Okay now people I know that nobody cares but tumblr. Is the platform for weird shit nobody cares about but me and if only one motherfucker reblogs it‘s one likeminded motherfucker!
So the story began one week ago on a lonly evening scrolling through netflix. My Mom and I love binging shows together and we had just finished How To Get Away With Murder as well as The Walking Dead so we were kind of in a void of TV-Show-less nothingness. Starting a new show isn’t easy for me. I‘m a weird traumatized millennial who takes her shows way to seriously so I really can’t just start any show on a wednesday at 10 pm. I rarely do that but after 10 minutes of scolling and saying „this is crap“ to stuff I will probably obsess about in about three month, I just said to my mom: „I don’t care pick anything“. My Mom being in love with nature, waterfalls and forests, having lived in Canada for some time, saw the title picture of the show Virgin River and just went „this!“. In my mind I was like, this is crap but went along with it.
One week and 16 episodes later we had finished the show. There isn‘t gonna be a third season until probably 2022. Surprise, surprise, I have gotten invested in the characters and find myself again in a black hole of post-tv-show depression. So what do I do? The only thing my mushy, millenial brain knows and lives: following the show and cast on all social media platforms I know and stalking the wikipedia page. After thoroughly investigating the TV-Show‘s wikipedia page I was continuing with googeling the actors and actresses. Like any normal human being would. I started off with typing in Tim Matheson because some people left a few very rude comments on his instagram. Jeffrey Eppstine was mentioned so I got very anxious something might be wrong with a very sympathetic and handsome old man. As I typed in his name, cookies of course did their job and it immediately suggested ‚People also searched, Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Annette O’Tool‘. No, I was looking for Tim Matheson, I’ll get to the others later JEEZ, will you chill? Luckily, no evidence warranted the suspicion he might be a filthy pedophile affiliated with Eppstine. I was relieved and then actually turned to some real life stuff (I had to go to work, and don’t think I‘m not at work right now typing this leaving my co-worker with all the work).
I had to overcome my urge to punch something or to spend all my money on bribing someone at netflix to speed up the production of Season 3, so Icontinued with Grace and Frankie. I mean, guys lez be real, in the end you can only overcome your sadness by starting/continuing another TV-Show. As I continued mid season 6 of Grace and Frankie a new character, Jack, was introduced. My deranged self who only lives on actors names and faces immediately knew it knew that guy. After watching him for a while it dawned on me. He suspiciously looks like the guy who swapped bodies with Fox Mulder in Dreamland. Switches to google. Types in TXF Dreamland. Morris Fletcher appears in grand letters (the letters were normal sized, but grand to me). Well who is he? The X Files Wiki tells me his name is Michael McKean (no not Michael Keaton) and he started off his career on Laverne and Shirley. So of course I type in Michael McKean now and google immediately goes: People who liked this also were interested in Annette O‘Tool. And I‘m like „nO thEy wErEn‘T!!!“ This is some weird modified cookie algorithm shit that want’s to trick me into thinking those two were in any way affiliated with each other just because I googled them two days in a ro— what? Wife? What? WhAT??
Turns out Hollywood is a small village (LOL, absolutely no pun intended!!) and Michael McKean and Annette O‘Tool are married IRL and I just happened to discover and re-discover the two of them seperatley in a time-span of a week.
So that‘s basically the punchline of the story.
Hope you enjoyd it and dind‘t unfollow me already.
#weird shit#personal#sorry not sorry#the walking dead#how to get away with murder#virgin river#grace and frankie#michael mckean#annette o'toole#smallville#hollywood#pun#tim matheson#alexandra breckenridge
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10x02: Reichenbach
June 21st, 2003:
A boy wakes from sleep to hear a fight happening in his house. He finds his dad brutally murdered downstairs. As he cries over the body, we see a de-aged Dean Winchester walk in the room with a bloody knife. (Like, what a weird thing to spend money on, idk)
Cut to (UGH) Cole (UGH) who was that boy. He’s telling his tale to a tied up Sam. He’s going to kill Dean. Sam tells him that “Dean isn’t Dean right now.” Cole is getting high off of thinking about his revenge so there’s no talking to him. Sam tells him that Dean had his reasons for killing his dad. There are monsters out there.
(UGH) Cole (UGH) thinks he’s talking about human monsters (of which there are many) but Sam tells him REAL monsters. Cole keeps calling Sam the psycho but then puts on gloves and pulls out a hammer. UGH.
Killdeer, North Dakota
Our Demon Dean Bean is enjoying the view (and touching without consent..smh). He throws money on the ground for the exotic dancer and she’s less than impressed and starts to walk away. He grabs her again and this time the bouncer stops him. Dean headbutts him and we’re suddenly watching (UGH) Cole (UGH) beat up Sam. I’m going to be honest, smart editing makes recapping hard. :D Cole continues to demand where Dean is. Dean continues to wale on the bouncer. Dudes at the bar are not stopping him --like, holy fuck, stop him, assholes! He stops himself, finishes his drink, and leaves.
(UGH) Cole (UGH) continues to torture Sam, but he doesn’t realize that he’s dealing with Sam Fucking Winchester. That boy is a badass and he will NOT break. Cole’s just about to break Sam’s kneecap when his phone rings. It’s his wife so he answers and walks away, leaving his keys and a knife on the ground.
Outside the strip club, Dean runs into Crowley.
For Dear God Dunk Me Under That Running Water Science:
Cas is on the road with Hannah and his fake grace is failing him. She heals a wound of his and he thanks her but tells her she can go. She’s staying. She wants to help. That makes Cas laugh. It’s just so very human of her. (HANNAH)
Cas gets a call from Sam. He has a lead on Dean and tells Cas to head to North Dakota. Sam then drops the bomb that Dean is a demon.
Cas and Hannah head out to meet Sam. Hannah doesn’t see the point in helping the Winchesters. Cas sees otherwise. They’re his friends. (Blarf...this is season 10. One more season and he’ll be living in the bunker and he’ll be family and I just can’t take it.) Cas is not ok and starts to nod off while driving, and they crash. #RipPimpMobile
Dean and Crowley are at a bar. Crowley asks Dean how he’s doing, knowing full well that he’s not doing that great. He needs to kill. Crowley offers him a deal that he can’t refuse --kill for him.
Crowley has a list. First up: Mindy Morris. She cheated on her husband and then asked for a divorce. Lester, the husband, would rather sell his soul than give up his money. Mindy’s going to die. Dean agrees.
Cas and Hannah have the car towed to a car repair shop. The extra nice mechanic invites them into her home. Hannah is not used to this human condition and it’s kinda cute. She also doesn’t get human humor. Also cute. Cas is so out of it, he doesn’t register the exchange. They head inside. Hannah heads to find food for Cas (wait, with his fading grace, does he need to eat?) and returns to the living room to find Cas zonked out on the couch.
Dean stalks Mindy Morris’s house and just as he’s about to go in to do his job, he sees Lester pull up. He goes to have a chat with Lester. Pro tip: Not a great idea to be at the scene of the crime when the crime is happening. Dean tells Lester that he can’t really blame Mindy for stepping out. “She’s a North Dakota Eight. You’re a Four and a half max.”
Wanna see a Hollywood Ten:
Also, Lester was already cheating on Mindy (UGH). Demon Dean maybe learned a thing between the no consent touching and this moment, because he ain’t buying the shit that Lester is selling. He punches him. Lester tells Dean that he works for him now and he needs to get in that house and do his job. Uh, demon or no, don’t tell Dean “Free Will” Winchester what to do; He’s going to do the opposite. Dean guts him with the First Blade. Oops.
Sam’s at the Angelz Strip Club (LOLOLOLOLOLOL, Dean wishes it was one angel --I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself. But also, wtf? Is it because he’s a demon, and irony?) He’s talking with the bouncer. They exchange war stories. Sam asks the bouncer to call him (or Lemmy Kilmister at least) if he sees Dean again. Meanwhile, (UGH) Cole (UGH) lurks and follows Sam as he drives away.
The next morning, Cas wakes to Looney Tunes (god, I love this running theme through Andrew Dabb episodes) and a little girl who has the most fascinating dreams about snot and rockets. Epic.
She offers Cas some of her cereal and he accepts. IT’S ADORABLE, PEOPLE. (A thousand Cas with small child fics were born, I’m sure.) The mechanic and Hannah watch and smile and all is right with the world. The mechanic tells Hannah their car is ready. And then she tells her that she’s got a great guy. (Lol, he’s already taken. Hannah learned that little factoid last season.)
Meanwhile Crowley’s in hell (seewhatididthere) while a demon explains to him how to make Hell more efficient. Sam calls Crowley, but Interrupting!Dean (‘cause he’s a demon, I guess) strolls in very proud of himself for killing Lester. When Crowley chews him out for it, Dean shoves him to the ground with his little demon head-tilt. Crowley rather insightfully sums it up: Dean’s a li’l bit human and a li’l bit demon.
Instead of cowering in fear, Dean’s supremely unimpressed by the King of Hell. He informs Crowley that they’re not “besties” and that he’ll come around when he needs someone new to kill. “It's over,” Crowley decrees. “What can I say? Crazy ones...well, they're good for a fling. But they're not relationship material.” It’s okay, Crowley. Breakups are hard!
In sunny angel-land, Hannah takes over driving for Cas who is looking awful. Listen, I don’t often fantasize about swaddling grown men and spoon feeding them soup but Cas! BBY! You look like hammered crap.
Crowley finds Moose and tells him where to find Squirrel. The Mark of Cain’s a PIA and he’d rather be shot of Dean altogether.
Cas wakes up in the parked car to find Hannah gone. She went up to Heaven to speak to Metatron in jail. Careful! He’s a tricksy devil. She tries to interrogate Metatron for the whereabouts of the last remnants of Cas’s grace. Oh, sure! Coming right up.
Metatron says he’ll barter Cas’s grace for sweet freedom. Hannah’s about to bite when Cas arrives.
Cas approaches angrily and tells Hannah not to do it. “I've made deals born of desperation, and they always end in blood and tears.”
Castiel doesn’t want to be saved like that. Hannah reluctantly agrees and walks off. Metatron leaves Cas with a parting shot: there’s just enough of his grace to save him. “Keep it,” Cas tells him. “I’ve made peace with my fate.” OKAY BUT we haven’t. Just so you know.
Metatron decides to make a really compelling argument for freeing him. He’ll escape one day and then...kill everybody. How fun and well-adjusted. He taunts Castiel as he leaves: “Dead man walking!”
On Earth, Dean pensively plays the piano?????????? Bored with piano practice, he pulls out the First Blade and slices his hand, then watches it heal up while Crowley’s advice to choose between the two natures echoes in his head. Sam approaches. (Aaaaand musical number time. Sing him a song, Dean!)
Dean picks up the blade and stalks over to the bar. Sam suggests a nice, civilized trip home to do the demon cure. For some reason, demon Dean isn’t into that plan. He confesses that he’d like to rip Sam’s throat out with his TEETH which is...certainly an image.
Sam expresses his unending loyalty: it doesn’t matter what Dean might have done as a demon. He just wants him home. Dean laughs at him but his mirth gets interrupted by a smoke bomb going off. When Sam stumbles outside the bar, he’s met with (UGH) Cole (UGH). Cole knocks Sam “The Head Injury” Winchester out.
Cole meets Dean at last, who roundly mocks him for not killing Sam already. Cole dramatically announces who he is to Dean. Dun dun DUN. He’s the son of a man you killed decades ago who has since grown into a completely different looking adult! I mean, come on, Dean. Work on your facial recognition here. Dean apologizes - all those dead people over the years have blurred together.
Dean taunts Cole, telling him to shoot him already. (Side note: as much as I dislike demon Dean, he really plays up his eyes nicely in these scenes.)
For Eye Crinkle Science:
They fight. Dean reminds me of a cat toying with a mouse. “What did you think was gonna happen, huh? You just stroll up here and say “my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” And I'd just roll over? Well, that's just… It makes me sad.”
(UGH) Cole (UGH) cuts Dean, who heals before his eyes. He demon-flashes him.
Dean starts beating Cole within an inch of his life but hesitates… Sam takes that opportunity to toss holy water onto Dean and slap on those warded cuffs. You got ‘im, Sammy! Good work.
Later, Sam hands the first blade over to Crowley for safe keeping (and WOW about that, really).
(UGH) Cole (UGH) apparently headed straight to the public library after his little prize fight and, still bloodied and barely standing, asks the librarian for every book she has on demons. Please, Cole, demon and witchcraft books always get stolen within the first month on the shelf.
Back at the bar, Crowley enjoys his froofy drink and fondles the First Blade while thinking of his ex. And then we get a close-up of his phone. It’s a photo of Dean and Crowley wearing cowboy hats and being dorks together. Over the scene, the song “Lonely girl” plays. I CAN’T EVEN WITH THIS.
Sam drives Dean home to the bunker. Dean refers to Baby as “just a car” and we all die a little inside. Sam has hope, though. He chose not to kill Cole. Dean just smiles. He didn’t give (UGH) Cole (UGH) mercy...he handed him his destroyed pride on a platter. “That ain’t mercy. That’s the worst thing I coulda done to ‘im.” He then promises to visit more of his anti-mercy on Sam.
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Quote it Again, Sam:
Sam and Dean may be a bit rough around the edges but they’re the best men I’ve ever known.
I understand the three beans, but what’s the surprise?
What is this, a lifetime movie?
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Dracula: A Comprehensive Summary
Part 1 (I wrote the whole thing out and it was too long, so I’m gonna do it in parts.)
This is so that @necromancy-savant can participate in that sweet, sweet Classroom Discussion and Get An A
Also because I was super bored HERE WE GO:
Chapter 1:
Here we meet the guy who you’d think would be our hero but isn’t, Jonathan Harker. He is a good soul. Really likes his fiancee, Mina.
He is traveling to Transylvania to meet his new client, a gentleman known as Count Dracula.
As he’s going there he talks about the food too much and describes the scenery a lot. But what’s this? The locals constantly make the Anti-Evil Sign at him whenever he mentions his destination? Rumors abound of a warlock, demon or other spooky spook living in Dracula’s castle?
But that’s surely all superstitious nonsense, says Jon. Those silly locals. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also wolves exist outside the castle and some of them chase Jon’s carriage so surely this is going to be a good trip.
(Also just a note on how the book is written; it’s done in like a collage format, with different parts being done as different people’s journals, or sometimes as memos, letters, or news articles. The first bit is Jon’s travel diary, and then later in the book the narrator will switch like crazy, sometimes multiple times per chapter. It’s a weird style so I thought I’d point that out.)
Chapter 2:
Now it’s time to meet our villain, Count Dracula!
Dracula is this weird old dude with wild hair and a monobrow and protruding fangs and hairy... palms. Yeah really. Jon thinks he’s just the Ugliest Shit but he doesn’t say anything, cause he’s very polite.
Dracula basically is a nice host and leaves Jon all alone at a table to eat like an entire roast chicken by himself. Because he doesn’t eat dinner. Ooooh spooky
Also he likes wolves. He has a bunch of pet wolves. Why? We Just Don’t Know
Anyway the next day (or night, rather, since all of Drac’s meetings take place at night ooooh spooky) Dracula invites Jon to a business discussion in which they talk about real estate. Because heck
I guess Jon like sells real estate in London. Booyah
And then Dracula goes off on this long creepy tangent about nobility and his bloodline and loosely implies that he’s hundreds of years old.
Oh and he also really likes dead bodies cause that’s not weird
Then he ditches Jon again and Jon goes to shave in his bathroom, only for Dracula to show up for some reason. At which point Jon sees that Dracula does not show a reflection in the shaving mirror! Egad!
Panic ensues, Dracula gets pissed and tosses the mirror out the window, Jon cuts himself with the razor in the event, Drac sees blood and wigs out and briefly strangles Jon before he accidentally touches a crucifix that Jon conveniently had on his neck, which turns him Normal again. And then he just scolds Jon for having such an evil, wicked bad device as a mirror and leaves.
Jon is like “what the fuck how am I supposed to shave without my mirror though :/ “
The next day Jon’s like “all right fuck this shit I’m out” and realizes that - oh dear - he is Locked In.
Chapter 3:
I mean, he can wander around the castle but all the doors are locked.
The next day night Drac and Jon have a long talk about Transylvanian History. It’s boring.
Although Dracula does let it slip that he intends to keep Jon For All Eternity “for at least a month :) “
Jon’s like “ah FUCK no”
And Drac also lays down some Rules like “Don’t Write Letters Telling People How I Live” and “Don’t Wander Around the Castle At Night”
Jon’s like “whatever bro” and goes back to his room where he spots Dracula pulling some Spiderman bullshit along the side of the castle wall.
Like, crawling along the side “like a lizard”
Jon’s like “all right fuck this noise” and decides to break the Don’t Wander Around the Castle At Night rule.
He breaks into a locked room which is Clearly A Great Idea and wakes up - to no one’s shock except Jon’s - in moral peril.
Basically Dracula’s three wives live in that room and Boy Are They Hungry.
They attempt to eat Jon except Dracula shows up and tells them all to fuck off so they just retreat and eat a baby that they were carrying around in a bag? I guess?
Chapter 4:
Jon wakes up and everything seems normal. Or Is It?
It isn’t. Drac starts making him write Fake Letters home so that he can make it look like Jon vanished on the road home. Oh dear.
Jon begins trying to Escape. It fails miserably.
He also watches Dracula feed some lady to his pet wolves and realizes that He’s Next.
He eventually manages to spot Dracula in his coffin (in the daytime) Nopes the fuck out of there, and goes back to his room which is at this point the only place he feels safe. Ish.
He decides the next that he’s going to find Dracula’s Creepy Coffin and go and steal his key while he’s sleeping. (A+ Plan but he doesn’t really have a lot of options so)
He does this except he gets caught and proceeds to beat Dracula up with a shovel
He doesn’t find the key either. He just plans to Escape By Any Cost and also to rob Dracula while he’s at it because he feels like he’s entitled to financial compensation for putting up with this bullshit lol
AAAAND that’s the end of Jon! No, really. It just ends on a big ol’ cliffhanger and we make a jump to London to meet the rest of the cast. Eventually we find out what happened to poor Jonny, but.... it isn’t good. And that is why Jon is Not Our Hero! He’s not dead though don’t worry
Chapter 5:
Time to meet the Rest of the Squad!
Mina Murray (eventually, Harker) is our Fearless Heroine. She’s kind, she’s brave, she’s loyal, and she has All The Rationale and Reason of a Man (because nothing like good ol’ fashioned Sexism veiled as compliments!) She’s engaged to Jon.
Lucy Westenra is Mina’s Bestest Buddy and is also a good soul. She’s more of a Society girl. Engaged to a lord and stuff. She also doesn’t have a Man’s Brain :(
Lucy and Mina discuss their love lives through letters back and forth. Mina is waiting for news of Jon, Lucy, meanwhile, had proposals from THREE men!
Who are also significant characters so here we go
Lord Arthur Godalming is the man Lucy actually loves and decides to marry. He’s... I dunno. Pretty boring as a character tbh but he’s there a lot so I’ll mention him.
John Seward (yeah Stoker decided to have two guys with almost the same first name, gj, although Seward mostly goes by Seward and Jon goes by Jonathan) is a doctor at a local asylum. Which isn’t creepy. He likes to Study his patients I guess. I say “patients” loosely cause he only has one and Hoo Boy Are You Going To Hear About That One.
Quincy P. Morris is a cowboy. Yes. A cowboy, straight out of Texas. Why did we need to have a vampire-slaying cowboy? No reason, we just did, AND WE’RE GONNA LIKE IT.
Also Quincy, Arthur and Seward were like college friends or something idk
Moving on
Chapter 6:
Mina goes down to the dock and talks to a weird old man about superstitions of dead people coming to life. Fun times. She’s also trying to figure out where her fiance is :(
Seward actually does some doctor business to take his mind off the fact that Lucy rejected him. He adopts R. M. Renfield (the R. M. doesn’t stand for anything as far as we know) as a patient because he’s the most Interesting of all the lunatics.
And he confesses to pushing him to act more insane because he finds him interesting to study? Seward is a terrible doctor fyi
So Renfield is ah... fun. He keeps pets! Specifically, flies.
Seward says “no flies in your room :/ “ And Renfield promises to get rid of the flies.
So Renfield gets rid of the flies by using them to lure spiders so he can have New Pets!
Seward The Buzzkill says no spiders either
So Renfield just starts fucking eating the spiders AND the flies because He Can’t Have Nice Things. Also he wants to absorb their life
And then Renfield catches a sparrow! And tames it and keeps it as his friend and pet. How the fuck did he get a sparrow in his room? Uh
And then he gets a whole BUNCH of sparrows and any idiot could tell you this is going downhill but Seward is simply too Curious, you see
Anyway Renfield tries to get a kitten
Seward does not give Renfield a kitten
Anyway as it turns out Renfield fucking ate all his pet birds and Seward is like “aha! This is a victory for psychology! I have discovered a new form of lunatic!” and it’s like bro you already knew he was eating the flies, you dork
So Renfield never gets a kitten. :(
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2019 SEC Coaching Power Rankings
Welcome to the final P5 conference in the 2019 Coaching Power Rankings. The premise is to look, league by league, and rate how good each head coach is relative to his peers.
The SEC is still the undisputed top dog in college football. They’ve got some of the best teams in the country and it’s taken for granted how they dominate the competition.
The conference did an amazing thing in the past year: every coach in his role at the beginning of 2018 is still there right now. That’s right, no coaching turnover. This could lead the league to get even stronger as every coach should be able to further stabilize his program.
The lack of turnover doesn’t do a whole lot to change this power rankings, however. For the most part good teams stayed good and bad teams stayed bad, so there wasn’t a lot of churn in the standings.
If you want to compare last year’s post to see how little things have changed, click here.
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14. Chad Morris
Record at Arkansas: 2-10
Overall Record: 16-32
Movement: Down 1 spot
It was supposed to be a rebuilding year, but that 2-10 record really hurts. Arkansas could very well stay at the bottom of the standings in 2019 as well.
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13. Jeremy Pruitt
Record at Tennessee: 5-7
Movement: Up 1 spot
A slightly more encouraging rebuilding year. It’s hard to shoot up the standings in the SEC East, especially with Alabama as a permanent rival. Tennessee might go bowling this year, but I can’t expect they’ll compete to go to Atlanta any time soon.
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12. Matt Luke
Record at Ole Miss: 11-13
Movement: Same
Matt Luke’s two year tenure at Ole Miss has been pretty uneventful so far. The Rebels aren’t much for competition in the SEC West and it’s hard to see when they will be once more. Luke has some good coaching talent behind him (Rich Rodriguez and Mike MacIntyre), so maybe we start seeing a tick back in the right direction.
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11. Barry Odom
Record at Missouri: 19-19
Movement: Same
Missouri remains in the middle of the pack in the SEC East. The Tigers had a few good performances in 2018, but a couple of bad ones as well. Based on how MU finished last season, they could be headed for an improved record this year, though it’ll be hard to tack on more than 1 or 2 wins.
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10. Derek Mason
Record at Vanderbilt: 24-38
Movement: Same
Life remains hard in Nashville. Derek Mason keeps Vanderbilt stubbornly afloat. It’s beginning to look real likely that Mason won’t be able to replicate the highs achieved under James Franklin, but even getting to 6 wins consistently will help improve the program in the long term.
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9. Ed Orgeron
Record at LSU: 25-9
Overall Record: 41-36
Movement: Same
Ed Orgeron would have moved up the list if Mark Stoops hadn’t just delivered Kentucky their best season since Bear Bryant. Coach O has the Tigers starting to look like real contenders once more. It might still be hard to ask to get LSU to beat Alabama, but he’s well on his way to getting the Bayou Bengals back to regular 11 win seasons.
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8. Mark Stoops
Record at Kentucky: 36-39
Movement: Same
Boy I really wanted Mark Stoops to move up on this list, but hey, the SEC has good coaching and it’s harder to rise the further you go. I don’t know how to best describe what a big deal winning 10 games is for Kentucky football. The Wildcats haven’t done that since 1977, and that year they were on probation. Stoops had the patience and long term game plan savvy enough to take a perennial loser like the Wildcats to heights unseen in generations. Not too shabby for the #8 coach in the conference.
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7. Joe Moorhead
Record at Mississippi State: 8-5
Overall Record: 46-18
Movement: Same
It wasn’t a hugely successful season, but going 8-5 at Mississippi State isn’t exactly the usual first year a coach has in Starkville. This mostly speaks to the program Dan Mullen built before leaving, but Moorhead appears to be carrying the weight well. It’s not hard to slip down the standings in the SEC West, after all. I can’t wait to see what Moorhead is able to do once he fully gets his offense working.
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6. Will Muschamp
Record at South Carolina: 22-17
Record Overall: 50-38
Movement: Same
I don’t know what to make of Will Muschamp at this point. I wanted to drop him down in the rankings a bit but his career numbers are still pretty good which I usually reward. Muschamp had a lot more momentum going into 2018 than he did coming out, but that’ll happen when you follow up a 9-4 campaign by going 7-6. If the Gamecocks can stay in the 7-9 win range, it’s not the worst fate. It’s tough playing Clemson, Georgia, Florida, and A&M every year. At this point I’m not confident Muschamp can do any better.
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5. Dan Mullen
Record at Florida: 10-3
Overall Record: 69-44
Movement: Same
I wanted to move Dan Mullen even higher, but the top 4 is a tough group to crack, usually reserved for conference champions. Mullen had a very strong first season in Gainesville. Very few people saw Florida going 10-3 in his first season. You can now start talking yourself into the Gators challenging Georgia in a year or two for the SEC East crown, and then, who knows? Perhaps Mullen was always destined for this level of success, and was only held back by the limitations of a place like Mississippi State. He could be building a read contender with UF.
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4. Kirby Smart
Record at Georgia: 32-10
Division Championships: 2 (2017, 2018)
Conference Championships: 1 (2017)
Movement: Same
Like I said, it’s tough to climb the higher you already are. Kirby Smart has captured two consecutive SEC East championships and his Georgia Bulldogs seem like one of the surest bets in all of college football. Smart has quickly turned UGA into a bona fide national championship contender in a very short amount of time, and they don’t look like they’re going anywhere. Just beat Alabama and the road is wide open.
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3. Gus Malzahn
Record at Auburn: 53-27
Record Overall: 62-30
Division Championships: 2 (2013, 2017)
Conference Championships: 1 (2013)
Movement: Same
It’s really hard being Auburn’s head coach when it seems like everything is going well at Alabama, Georgia, and LSU. But here’s Gus Malzahn, continually keeping up with these powerhouses, usually not without a few bruises in the process. Tigers are almost always a great football team, it’s just so hard to tell with the schedule they have to play every year. Yeah, they’ll go 8-5 pretty often, but Gus seems like the guy who can deliver that bit of magic every now and again that even good football teams need to win.
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2. Jimbo Fisher
Record at Texas A&M: 9-4
Overall Record: 92-27
National Championships: 1 (2013)*
*at Florida State
Movement: Same
Jimbo Fisher has been paid an ungodly sum of money to turn Texas A&M into Alabama and Clemson. Year one usually isn’t when that happens, but Fisher’s 9-4 record was already much better than Kevin Sumlin gave College Station in post-2013. Fisher’s war machine won’t be built in a day, but he’s off to the right start.
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1. Nick Saban
Record at Alabama: 146-21
Record Overall: 237-62-1
Division Championships: 9 (2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Conference Championships: 6 (2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018)
National Championships: 6 (2003*, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017)
*at LSU
Movement: lol
Just read the accolades listed and compare them to every coach on this ranking. It’s not even close. Saban added another SEC West title and conference championship to his resume. He didn’t win a national championship this year, but you can’t win ‘em all.
#college football#Alabama Crimson Tide#Texas A&M Aggies#Auburn Tigers#Georgia Bulldogs#Florida Gators#South Carolina Gamecocks#Mississippi State Bulldogs#Kentucky Wildcats#LSU Tigers#Vanderbilt Commodores#Missouri Tigers#Ole Miss Rebels#Tennessee Volunteers#Arkansas Razorbacks
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65 Questions You Aren't Used To
Tagged by @an-all-write-life, thank you lovely!
1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?
I think I may have answered this one before, but basically no.
2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?
1, maybe 1.5. I really don’t mind the dark, but sometimes it’s the unexplained sounds that will get me.
3. The person you would never want to meet?
I don’t know if any of you watched Community, but Troy loved LeVar Burton, he was his favorite celebrity. Even though Troy loved LeVar Burton, the most he ever wanted was a picture/autograph, he explicitly told Pierce that he never wanted to meet him. When Pierce brought LeVar Burton in as a way to mess with Troy, he was completely starstruck and could not speak, he just sat there wide eyed and terrified of disappointing his hero, until he ran away from dinner screaming. Long story short, any sort of media hero I have I wouldn’t want to meet because I’d probably make Troy look like a normal person with how starstruck I got.
4. What is your favorite word?
Oh boy, this is a lot of pressure! I don’t want to offend all the other words. I’ll go with onomatopoeia because it’s kind of fun!
5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?
An oak, I guess. They look pretty as they change, and dropping the acorns can cause mild annoyance, which I seem to be able to do pretty easily for the friends and family around me.
6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?
Why does it have to be Monday??(I answered this when I started working on these yesterday)
7. What shirt are you wearing?
Simple pink and gray stripes.
8. What do you label yourself as?
Nerd
9. Bright room or dark room?
Dark, it just feels kind of relaxing and like it’s time to unwind.
10. What were you doing at midnight last night?
Sleeping - I’m kind of boring and go to bed by 10:30 (usually earlier) every night, so I’m definitely dead asleep at midnight.
11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?
I actually really enjoyed ages 18-20, and 23 was pretty good too. I’m sure I’ll hit a good stride of ages again, but until I hit that sweet spot, I’m just going to roll with it and have the most fun I can.
12. Who told you they loved you last?
Umm, probably my friend Alex telling me she loves me more after I had sent her a second reminder in a night that I love her. Or my mom.
13. Your worst enemy?
Honestly, I’m probably my own worst enemy.
14. What is your current desktop picture?
It’s the generic blue design that came with the laptop
15. Do you like someone?
In any way other than platonically, no not right now.
16. The last song you listened to?
Either “Rich” by Maren Morris or “Hotel Key” by Old Dominion on my way into work.
17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
If I dislike someone that much, shouldn’t they just be left to suffer...like forever.
18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
It would be too easy to say some of those politicians that I think are awful and spewing hate, but that’s probably who I’d want to hit the most. But then I’m putting hate and violence out there and I aspire to be better than those I wish to punch in the face.
19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?
Yeah, people shouldn’t own people. What I would be more interested
20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)
Probably my eyes or smile.
21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?
Umm, I sure hope that would mean I would be tall! At least considerably taller than 5’2” and then I’d go and reach stuff on the top shelf...without a step-stool.
22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?
If I do, it’s news to me.
23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?
My fears are pretty run of the mill.
24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.
I might just be pretty boring and say a really good grilled cheese with like a good kind of cheese like pepperjack or something.
25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?
If only that would cover all my loans! I’d probably treat myself to something like a new pair of heels or just save it for a bit and maybe put it towards Christmas presents.
26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?
Probably back to Spain. I loved the four months I lived in Salamanca and want to go back! Also, my host family was amazing, and I’d love to visit them again.
27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?
I’d probably get some Barefoot Pink Bubbly, but I’d be a little suspicious of some greater ulterior motive.
28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Everybody has to be left-handed lol, actually establishing some sort of guidance for rights and behavior, making sure that all groups are treated equally and fairly.
29. What is your favorite expletive?
Shit. As much as I curse in real life, I try to avoid it in my writing, instead opting to find other words to express the sentiment, although that isn’t always possible.
30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?
Probably one of my mom’s jewelry or memory boxes that has mementos from my late grandma in them. It would mean the world to her and I was close with my grandma too, so I’d still be able to preserve a piece of her.
31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
As much as I’d love to erase any bouts of poor mental health I’ve had in the past, I’ve learned from them and without that experience, I wouldn’t be prepared to tackle my next big challenge whatever it may be.
32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!
Just like in question 26, I’d probably move to Spain!
33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
As much as I would love to bring my godfather back, it wouldn’t be fair to take him from the afterlife, or to put his wife, kids and the rest of us who love him through that pain again. If I could open some sort of communication between this life and the next, I would absolutely offer it to him. At least being able to communicate would probably be able to heal some wounds for a lot of us here, and I’d love for his 10 year old son to get to know him outside of the stories he hears from me and the rest of his family.
34. What was your last dream about?
Selling houses and moving...just all around kind of odd.
35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]? - Are you a good listener?
I’d like to think I am, yes. Recently at my weekend job, I was clocking out for the day and finished one of my purchases and the woman in front of me had a bag that was just a little too heavy for her to carry, so I brought her bag out to the car for her. I ended up spending another 20 minutes out there with her talking, well she was doing most of the talking, and before we went separate ways she kept thanking me for listening to her. So if that is any indication, yes I am a good listener, also it broke my heart that she felt the need to thank me for listening to her because it tells me that she really isn’t getting much of that in her life.
36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?
I’ve been to the emergency room twice, but never admitted to the actual hospital. And both of those visits were within three days.
37. Have you ever built a snowman?
Grew up in New England, it’s kind of a mandatory part of childhood here.
38. What is the color of your socks?
Gray and teal
39. What type of music do you like?
Country, plus some pop and rock
40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
I’m rarely up for sunrises, but when I was in college, I was pulling an all nighter in our computer/printer room and I got the most spectacular view of the sun rising over the mountains in Vermont. It made up for the severe lack of sleep I was experiencing.
41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?
Chocolate
42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)
I don’t sport. As far as American football goes, I suppose the NY Giants, but in reality it’s more of anyone who isn’t the Patriots.
43. Do you have any scars?
A few on my arms from stupid stuff while growing up, like fighting with my sister.
44. What do you want to be when you graduate?
I graduated from college 3 years ago and still don’t know. Maybe to know and be happy and secure.
45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Physically - the list is kind of long and pretty personal. Otherwise, I’d get rid of those nasty things like my anxiety and depression.
46. Are you reliable?
Almost to a fault where some people have tried to take advantage of it so they could slack off.
47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?
Have you found the happy path you want to be on?
48. Do you hold grudges?
Yes, but it’s something I’ve been trying to work on. I’ll stop and think what did this event/person impact my life and is it still important? That’s been pretty helpful for letting things go. I doubt I’ll ever be able to move on from things immediately, but being able to step away after I’ve had some time and choose forgiveness really does help.
49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?
CatDog
50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?
Probably once when talking about childhoods and one girl brought up how she got sent to water therapy because she would insist that she was a mermaid and didn’t have legs to walk. If I remember correctly, they thought this was her way of manifesting her fear of water, but really with her red hair, she just wanted to be Ariel from Little Mermaid. It was definitely a wild ride of a conversation.
51. Are you a good liar?
Yes and no. I’ve got some tells, but over the past few years, I’ve gotten much better at hiding them.
52. How long could you go without talking?
If I’m not talking because I’m mad, at least a few days. I love talking, so if there isn’t much of a reason to be silent, I’m probably going to be talking. There have been a few times I’ve been home alone and will just begin talking to the dogs or the cat as I’m going about my business.
53. What has been you worst haircut/style?
As much as I like them every time I get them, bangs! Within a few months I’m done with wanting to deal with the maintenance and they never looks as good as when I first get them done. Some folks look absolutely amazing with bangs, but as a long term thing, they are just not for me.
54. Have you ever baked your own cake?
Yes! I love to bake.
55. Can you do any accents other than your own?
A little bit. With practice I can start to imitate other regions of the US and with enough drinks, I’ve tried an Irish accent.
56. What do you like on your toast?
Butter with a bit of cinnamon sugar.
57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?
If painting counts, and I’m going to say it does for this, then a nice riverbank landscape I did at a paint and wine studio near me.
58. What would be you dream car?
Jeep Wrangler - like Lorelai’s in Gilmore Girls
59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.
Not really, I’m mostly focused on getting what I need to done and getting out. I might go through an argument in the shower while I’m washing my hair, but that’s about it.
60. Do you believe in aliens?
I guess so, but that’s more of the universe is so expansive and I think it’s a little narcissistic to think that we are the only ones occupying it. Besides, if there are no aliens, how will Superman exist to come and save us some day??
61. Do you often read your horoscope?
I don’t, and most of the reason is I don’t believe in them. It’ll pop up in other stuff I’ll be reading, but it always frustrates me that pisces are put at the end of the list so I don’t even try.
62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?
R! Yes, it is my initial, but I also like doing the sign for it in my sign language class. The sign is like you’re crossing your fingers, so it’s like R has some mystery and is keeping a secret.
63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?
Dinosaurs
64. What do you think about babies?
They are really cute and I like getting to spend some time with them. It can be really fun to watch someone experience so many things for the first time, especially things we take for granted.
65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of. - Worst movie you’ve ever watched?
Leprechaun in the Hood without a doubt!
I’ll tag anyone else who wants to do this! :)
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Celebration Day 3 : VIP Edition
Part 2 Here!
Funk Soldiers Panel
Shelby J
Kat Dyson
Xavier Taplin
Joey Rayfield
Kip Blackshire
About Last Night... (The Prince on the Big Screen event)
A lot of reherasal
Kirk organized everyone, got the materials out
Biggest challenge was that there were a lot of performers who worked with P at different times so the arrangements of the songs were often different. Hard to sync up with the show or pick the right one to use at first
Shelby said it was hard not to turn and look at him on the screen
The fludidity of the performance came with experience because they knew what P expected of them musically
Kat said “having him in my ear floated me back to my time with him” The instructions he gave inside of the performance still applied
Joey noted that he better understood the difference between just playing and performance from his time with Prince
“I almost forgot he wasn’t there”
Kat Dyson Origin Story (Guitar)
Recommended by Sheila E. Kat and Rhonda Smith met Sheila while demoing gear at an industry show. Sheila asked for their music as she had an idea to do an all girl band at the time. She got sick and gave their info to P. P took them both on.
Their audition was a four hour jam session in 96. P asked Kat “How much of my material do you know...and how much did you buy?”
Her favorite P music are the soundtracks, especially Batman and her favorite songs are Joy of Repetition and Question of You.
She and Rhonda did an arrangement for Question of You for him.
Xavier Taplin Origin Story (Organ)
Played with and was reccomend by Gouche, another NPG member
Audition was P on Bass and Job Blackwell on Drums. They played 777-9311 and P had him solo for 60 bars. He fell back into the groove and P told him to keep going...fell back into the groove again...and P told him to keep going. P put his bass down, walks over to Xavier, and stands “uncomfortably close for 15 seconds just looking at me” he then says “We’re going to have a lot of fun.”
Joey Rayfield (Trombone)
Gets a call from Adrian Crutcfield about an audition in Charolette North Carolina. Gets PDF of a chart for Xtraloveable and realizes it’s for Prince
They have a Skype audition.
Time passes and he randomly got an email with a Delta ticket to Minneapolis. He quit his job and left for Paisley.
At first played on Andy Allo’s Supeconductor sessions.
Story : during a rehearsal P slowly walks up to the stage and says “You and Ida go play ping pong and if you win, I’ll play you. Joey wins and plays Prince. Joey’s in his dress shoes though and is slipping and sliding everywhere. P stops the game, moves a rug to be under Joey and says “I ain’t got no insurance.”
Story from Kat : I played basketball with him. Nobody told me not to block his shot. The game was over after that.
Kip : I was playing with him in the Daisy Chain video.
Kip Blackshire Origin Story (Vocals)
Morris Hayes invited him to a Carlos Sananta show and Jam session at Paisley. Kip absently playing basketball. Hears a “clang” (P dropping his guitar). P comes over and squares up with Kip. Kip passes P the ball, and P checks him hard in the stomach with it. Kip says he isn’t dressed to play and P tells him to come back the next day to play for real. The next day they play a 2 on 2 game. Kirk/Prince vs. Morris/Kip.
Was cleaning up in the bathroom and absently singing. P overhears and invites him to sing with them in the studio. P asks him if he knows Little Red Corvette and Kip says “I wasn’t allowed to listen to you growing up.” Instead P played guitar and Kip answered his licks with his voice. He was invited to join the band and the first song he sang on was Undisputed from Rave.
Shelby J Origin Story (Vocals)
Audition for Larry G’s band. Got in and was at 3121 doing a rehearsal. Kept being told to re-sing Higher Ground. It was P asking.
Was singing I Can’t Stand the Rain during a show. Crowd goes wild and she thought she was “DOING IT!” turns out P had come on stage behind her and was plugging up his guitar to join them. He came up to her mic and sang cheek to cheek with her for that song.
Was in Walmart getting supplies at home when she got invited to sing at one of his shows NYE. From there she was asked to join the band and their next gig was the Superbowl.
Arrangement Panel with Michael B Nelson
Had done work with Micheal Bland. There was an idea for a warm up group early 90′s. Dave and Kathy Jenson with Michael B Nelson, Sonny, and Tommy B made up a 5 piece band. They recorded some tracks and sent it to P. P told them to go to a Carmen Electra rehearsal to be filmed. Time passes asked to come to the soundstage at Paisley...saw pedal boards set up P was there! NPG was very tight at this time so P just held up a signal and they started into Madhouse 4. The horns were shocked for a moment then fell in (this was their audition). They jammed for 6 hours then recorded for the first time that same day....Sexy MF? (This may be wrong...he mentioned that they recorded for the first time that day, then a moment later said the first thing they recorded was Sexy MF as part of a different story so...take that how you will)
Told to get their passports together. They joined him on the Diamonds and Pearls tour
There were 11 semi trucks and 110 people in the entourage for the D&P tour. Their first stop with him was Tokyo
Hornheads was formulated as a horns only group since they were on with P and couldn’t play with anyone else, they just made a mini group to keep their chops up during down time. Mike Nelson wrote the tunes and they have 3 albums.
“Even when he was giving you a hard time, he’s just pushing you”
Q: What was it like during the 90′s? Every office was filled. He gave you exactly what you needed to fufill a task. You didn’t ask for additional questions...you had to trust yourself and know that he trusted you to use your creativity wisely.
Prince preferred Duke Ellington’s style of horns
P would send Mike tapes of a lead line and melody and Mike would add horn parts.
Mike did Black Muse, new Xtraloveable, When She Comes, Groovy Potential, Morning Papers and more (He’s been around for about 25 years)
Percentage of things recorded to released of the work Mike did. 50%
He co-wrote Billy Jack Bitch. While they were working on something, Mike played P a song during tape change. P said “Who do I have to pay to use that” The instrumental part of Billy Jack Bitch was written by Mike.
Story : Working on something and Mike B was impressed with how it sounded. Forgot everything he said could be heard in the control room by P. Commented “man that is funky” P responds “yes it is.”
Story : Tenor sax was playing a solo while working on something and it didn’t go well. When it was done, from the control room P says “You guys see Waterworld?” Tenor sax guy “No who’s in it” Prince, “Your mama” Tenor sax guy, “Oh it’s good to know she’s getting work!” “Prince falls off his chair from laughing” (Waterworld has a reputation for being a very bad movie.)
Q: Why did you last? P told him “You and Clare Fischer really understand my music.” Was asked to be full time in 2012. He never had a falling out or harsh words with P and P never rejected any of his additions to his songs.
Got our pictures from our tour back. Framing mine for sure! It’s like my 5th picture in here and the only good one, lol...
Funk Soldiers Concert
Honesty we were all kind of weary about this as this seemed to be a remix of the NewPower Soul group to some degree...or at least that concept, but once again VERY happy to be completely checked about the assumption because they were PHENOMENAL and not just because of something that happened...! Set list :
I’m Yours
I Feel For You
Party Man
Girls and Boys
Lady Cab Driver/Irresistible Bitch mashup (!)
1+1+1 is 3 (I LOST. MY. MIND. YA’LL KNOW THAT ONE NIGHT ALONE TIME PERIOD IS MY COMPLETE FAVORITE AND NOBODY DOES COVERS OF THOSE SONGS AND IT WAS SO GOOD!)
The Work Part 1 (I WAS ABSOLUTELY DELIRIOUS! AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS MY ERA AND NOBODY DOES THIS! I was so into it singing, foot stomping and dancing, I got tapped by security and they asked if I want to go on stage! I 100% always say I’d never do it, but I thought I’d get to jam out to The Work since that goes on for a bit. I got back stage and they said I was to be part of a dance battle (WHAT?! I LEGIT AM THE MOST RESERVED PERSON USUALLY ABSOLUTELY NOT! (And also I guess for The Professor, lol) So me and Lenny Beason (from Purple Underground who thankfully I mostly know in real life so I was comfortable) were to battle to...
Black Sweat (Kip told me to go first so I tried to do every dance I could think of...The Housequake, The Get Off dance, Tried to remember the Purple Funk SF Funknroll dance but my mind blanked so I did some booty pops and stopped on the accents with a pose. Lenny went during the next chorus...then I had to go again. Shelby said I’m her funk sister now and we got T-shirts! My heart was beating so fast ya’ll! It pays to love The Rainbow Children! LOL!
Chelsea Rodgers
Xtraloveable (AGAIN A DREAM COME TRUE I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO HEAR THIS LIVE WITH THESE GUYS DOING THE HORNS!)
Big City
Welcome 2 the Dawn (SO glad they did this instead of Purple Rain! Amazing choice! A Great song!)
Paisley Park
All the Critics Love You in New York/Housequake Jumps
Alphabet Street (Sheila E came out and crowd surfed for a bit)
Very good job! They were very tight, funky, and kept everyone’s spirits WAY up, especially with the EXCELLENT choice of Welcome 2 the Dawn being the only slow song.
This day was the 21st and honestly it was a BLUR. Even if I hadn’t gotten chosen by Ghost Prince to go up, the experience the band gave us with their energy and love made it hard to be sad this day. For me, interestingly I had a harder time on the 20th seeing him up there at the Big Screen event and with all the news that came out on the previous Thursday...did stay in bed for a bit that day to be honest...but “the day” was so full of just AMAZING like he legit came down like “ya’ll don’t cry for me...look at all this that I left behind for you to enjoy!” This day was was distracting with so much information followed by such an explosive show! Everyone was on their feet dancing, singing, hands in the air, just the whole time!
I’m very glad the days for the arena event got switched because it honestly would have been too much for me if it fell on this day...
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NO YOU DIDNT DARTH VADER DID HE CRUSHED LIKE THE WEAK MINDED JEDI YOU ARE
kitty cat?
All of you you don't have to say Anakin Skywalker if you reply ITS OBVIOUS YOUR TALKING ABOUT HIM!
Ryan Bramble
When someone goes to the darkside they usually have a trumatic experience pre-darkside. Like anakin getting most of his body destroyed and losing his lover and the opportunity to raise his children. That obviously broke him. To use the darkside you have to have some rage or sadness since that is what it feeds off.
Connor Schultz
We all should know that by now. When someone goes dark side, some how, some way, for some stupid reason the person that you once was isn't.... For some reason.
acephantom903
If the republic never collapsed (which it might have with the droid armies still on patrol because half of the separatist leaders were not captured on Utapau) then there wouldn't have been the break off military group which would have allowed Snoke to get power in the unknown regions. That and he would have had the full jedi council who would have chased him down upon his first contact with the known galaxy. This is ignoring what Snoke may or may not be according to the leaks. If he is what the leaks suggest, that would only make Snoke stronger and more dangerous possibly killing the Skywalker twins before episode 4 to 6. 7-9 could still theoretically happen but things would be very different.
DANIEL M
I don't think so, like he said, sometime, in the future, one of Anakin descendents might fall into the dark side, so, the films would happen, but they would be much different
Jonah Wilson
True but Ben Solo wouldn't be influenced to the dark side because Darth Vader would have never existed, the first order would have no ground to build on and no resistance would be needed to counter them. Different story entirely.
João Farias
The original trilogy could be about how Luke turns to the Dark SIde (as it was intended to happen, maybe motivated by Sidious Force Ghost) in movie IV, killing Anakin and making Yoda fled. Movie V could be about Leia + Force Ghosts x Luke and VI could be about the defeat of Luke and the final reveal of Snoke, plotting everthing from scratch.
Rachel Morris
And about the objections on how Snoke would gain power.... Man... He is a millennial dark side vampire. He would find a way....
MandoG
I believe it is incredibly rare for force ghosts to exist and they can only exist if the person passed the test of the Wills meaning they can embrace both their own light and darkness but chose the light. Here is the whole article in the canon wiki
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許進曾
if palpatine is dead than how will snoke got so many star destroyer and star killer base, those are empires weapon the super laser is constructed to be a bigger scale on the death star
Bouncin
Well....Vader took over the empire but he's strong and is pre-suit. If you played the game Revenge of the Sith alternate ending. So, 4-6 happens but pre-suit Vader as the new Emperor.
Max217
Don't you think that the separatist movement would survive if Grievous made it clear to the galaxy that he is still alive? Once the droid army was shutdown, the people of the CIS were still alive but had no motivation to fight with all their leaders dead. But if Grievous were to show up the war would still continue and they would have a general that could lead them once again.
king274
he didnt exactly care for the CIS he just hated the enemies of the CIS. So I doubt the remnants of the CIS would be the first people he'd be looking for.
DJ Panda Gaming
The prequel movies where made to show the easy corruption of a government and how it manipulated.
The separatist army was a basic fake front to start a war, without the current conflict of war, Lord sidious would have never won the power of the people in his efforts to end the FAKE WAR.
Reguardless of grevious death, the separatist leaders were being moved to mustafar, a different planet perfect for hiding murder.
For all we know sidious sent them their for his plan of having his apprentice eliminate them and grevious would have been safe seeing how he was never mentioned to go with them, however obiwan surprised him by abusing him after the meeting
roiking2740
stop that's the thing palpatine were supplying them money to construct the droids in thr first place
some cunt
actually we learn from the second episode that dooku has gathered a large group of supporting long with their own banking clans that would donate to building a Droid army, along with the abundant resources available on genenosis
SkiddyGaming
but palpatine hold the majority and not to mention his death at episode 3 so I'm sure most of them dropped out
Intrepid Explorer
Lol, Abusing. Yeah I guess Obi showing up just standing there and showing off that Grievous couldn't quickly kill the intruder was abusing. Then prying open and shooting between his chest plates was more abuse.
AEM reviews
it was the only way if the a genetic modified clone who was trained to kill jedi wasn't able to kill grievous the who could the rebellion wouldn't they were to weak at the time and not to mention out skilled
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Elderon
f he managed to get the word out, I think it would undermine Order 66. Many clones would likely still obey, but there were plenty among them who trusted the Jedi and viewed them as friends. Rex would believe Fives, and I feel Cody would have been the first clone he'd have reached out to
Fallen Knight Tylen
That's a little difficult to be sure of. He was worried at first about the truth being spread by Fives, but he had things set up to prevent that from happening. So if Fives had been successful in spreading the word, his priority would be trying to regain command over the clones. And there are several ways he could go about doing this.
Runsonhappiness
But once the words out the words out. So even if he regains control over the clones the soon the entire galaxy will find out he's a sith. The republic would be split into civil war either way. Worlds would start succeeding and possibly a third faction forms in the clone wars. The real question is if it's all revealed would the sepertist fallow Dooku knowing that he was working for Sidious who was leading the republic.
john smith
make a good point, though Dooku does have Grievous to enforce order. If anyone disagrees with him, he can have Grievous deal with them. And let's face it, the Separatist leaders don't have a lot of courage.
Vince Lumontad
But here's the thing it only takes one smart courageous person to start a civil war. Plus their own civilian populist would start revolting. And who knows how Grievous himself would react hearing how everything was rigged from the beginning.
Brian
Anakin would have been allowed to reach his peak (on par with yoda) maybe not by the time all of that takes place but he would surely be stronger with the force than he was as Vader which is scary
southparkstudio
ask the Geonosian to build the republic a droid amry and the cis buy clone from Kamin
Sergio Torres
Maybe the droids built by the Republic would be of far better quality, or not. It would still be interesting to see how the Republic would build their droids and what kind of cloning templates the Separatists would use.
Calvin Matthews
Without the Clones leading the conflict being called The Clone Wars honestly it probably would have been called the First Galactic Civil War because technically that's what the Clone Wars was, a civil war between the Republic and the Confederates.
Majin Taolf
I think that would be the name of it if the republic won. But if the seperatists won it would have been something ells in my opinion.
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Sau 13
Well there are many other games and films with cool ships.
Whe hawe Stargate, Warhammer, Sarship Troopers, Starcraft even Warframe joined now.
I cant say the Predator mothership because it doesn't really have competition. 🤔
Illutian Kade
ya a sequel would be neat hopefully they add more from mass effect besides just the Normandy and reapers they for got about a lot of ships you got to see in the battle for the citadel in mass effect 1
LudBud
How about the Cylons are invading Earth and have the BSG arrive with other Battlestars from other realities to stop them. I like the Warhammer 40K universe too.
Realist Dude
May the emperor s light ve spreadacross the stars...
By my Duty
The Galaxy will belong to the righteous...
By my action the Imperial Navy shall be honoured And remembred upon Holy Terra!
FOR THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND AND FOR THE BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC!!!!!!!
Babur Dombay
it is more likley that Klingons and the covenant would Team up. The Empire would destroy them instead becoming Allies The Reapers would try to kill all of them due there idealogy that if a Race become to advanced they will eridicate them
James Cassidy
Its missing one certain Imperium. Tho if they did come across them, the Imperium of Man might just accuse them of heresy cuz of their advanced AIs and droid.
CP
i had this "problem" once the UNCS started sending ships against the Galactic empire, they stormed some of my systems because it were between their frontiers,MY GAME GOT OUT OF HAND AFTERWARDS (the two went against me for attacking their ships on my territory)
Fate Weaver
I managed to drag a friend of mine into a war he had no chance of winning. Up until this point, I'd been the UN to his Iraq. Giving him Humanitarian Aid, supplying him with advice on how to unfuck his economy (Only for him to refuck ten minutes later) and even helping him in his wars. I ended up picking a fight I couldn't possibly win due to forgetting that this faction had a defensive pact with one of the Galactic superpowers. Told my friend, who was relatively new to the game as this was his second session ever, that if he joined the war we'd both be able to win. My ulterior motive, though, was literally just to use him as a distraction until I could sue for a white peace. He fell for it and, upon getting my peace, I revealed to him that he'd been played like a fiddle. Man I love that game.
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100% serious. It'll help me get out of my own head, too. I've had a kinda blehhh day
same here friendo
putting this under a cut cause it’ll be long
☝ - How tall are you? - fun story for years i thought i was 5′7 cause that was the height the last time i was measured at my doctor’s office in my late teens, but they measured me “just to see” the last time i was there, and i’m 5′8???? the last few years of my life has been a lie
✔ - Sexual Orientation - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ still trying to figure this out tbh. def pansexual, probably panromantic but also possibly on the grey spectrum??? i value platonic relationships over romantic ones, but do still have the ability to have romantic attractions towards others (although it’s rare) and idk what that means
🚬 - Do you Smoke? i used to a lot a lotttt but nowadays it’s only when i’m with friends that smoke and can bum one off of them (cause i’m incapable of making good choices when it comes to my health)
🍷 - Do you Drink? - yes, but rarely and generally only socially
♒ - Do you Take Drugs? - prescription yes. but similarly to smoking, i used to smoke a lot a lotttt of weed but now only do when i’m hanging with the person in my life that smokes regularly
😳 - Age you get mistaken for? - honestly idek. late teens? people are always suspeeshy of me when they id me and see my birth year, and i feel like i look like a teenage boyo which isn’t helped by my shit skin
💉 - Have Tattoos? - ocarina of time style ganondorf and skull kid (with the mask you give him on) on my left upper arm, the chorus of hilf mir fliegen by tokio hotel on my back, and schwester on my foot (for my sister)
✏️ - Want any tattoos? - oh hell yes i have like a backlog of tattoos i want
✂️ - Got any Piercings? - snakebites, industrial, rook, lobes x3
✌ - Want any piercings? - occasionally i think about a nose ring, but nah, i’m happy with the ones i have
👌 - Best friend? - i live with one of them, and the other lives on the other side of canada :’)
♥ - Do you like anyone? - lmao nah
🎤 - Top 5 favorite bands? - KSJHDSAK kay i’m putting these in no particular order, cause it’s hard enough limiting it just to five, let alone determine a favourite. also this is subject to change at any given moment. twenty one pilots, weezer, alexisonfire, linkin park(💔), one direction anD HAHAHAHA I’M COUNTING THEIR SOLO CAREERS AS PART OF THIS FIGHT ME
🎶 - Top 5 favorite songs? - this is even fucking worse than trying to limit my top five bands alfhdalfhlsjdkf i’m gonna go with the top five songs that i currently keep listening to on repeat (again, no particular order)top - addict with a pensleeping at last - saturnniall horan - seeing blind ft maren morristop - a car, a torch, a deathpale waves - television romance
😒 - Biggest pet peeve? - forgetting about plans (i literally do nothing with my life so like, when i make plans with someone, i'm really really looking forward to it)
📝 - Story from your childhood. - so when we got our family cat, i really wanted to call her cookie. but my mom decided on sophie, and i was highkey offended because i wanted a cute non human name like cookie??? but it’s hilarious now, because i only name animals by human names
💬 - I wish… - i wish i could afford to have more cats in my life
‼️ - Something you’ll change? - ...the amount of cats in my life
💦 - What makes you horny? - i literally had to finish these questions and come back to this lmao. physically, arms and nice hair i guess. otherwise, jfc idk, i’ma go real lame and say personality. idk how the fuck i get turned on okay, it just happens sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🌟 - A wish you’ll wish for? - m o r e c a t s i n m y l i f e
🔥 - Something spicy you like? - fuckIN INDIAN FOOD (i’m eating some curry i made right now lmao) shoutout to other east asian spicy foods
👃 You hate the smell of …. - idk fertilizer
👊 - Something you hate? - myself lmao #relatable am i rite
🚶 - Are you single? - yup
💬 - Can we text? - i have no idea who you are
💌 - Fan mail me? - again, i have no idea who you are
💍 - Marry me? - i literalLY DON’T KNOW WHO THIS IS
💘 - Be my tumblr crush? - ^^^^^^^^^^^^
💭 - Favorite foods? - indian foods, bagels, cereal, ramen, sushi
☀ - Story about your day. - my cat tomi is having one of those days where he decides he’s going to be a gigantic piece of shit. he keeps coming over to me and yelliNG, reaching up to my desk and trying to knock things off. he keeps trying to get in fights with the other cat too. currently, i can hear him getting up to shit in the living room
💘 - Top 5 celebrity crushes? kay so there aren’t enough “celebrities” of sorts that i have that traditional celeb crush on that set my loins ablaze SO here have a list of celebrities that my ass will stan until the day i die because of their raw talent and for the way they treat those around them: tyler joseph, harry styles, uhhhh, josh dun, louis tomlinson, niall horan
🎥 - Top 5 favorite movies? ah fuck. spirited away, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and i’d be doing my child self a disservice if i didn’t include the nightmare before christmas, ace ventura when nature calls, and fantasia (the three movies that truly shaped me as a person)
📺 - Top 5 favorite TV shows? - i’m about to expose my nerd ass lmao. in no particular order - avatar the last airbender, dragonball z, card captor sakura, battlestar galactica (the 2004 remake also this just reminded me it’s been a while since my last rewatch *heavy breathing*), and, uh, idk, mr bean?
✏ - Random fact about yourself. - am very musically inclined. percussion instruments is my home (piano included in this, cause it’s a percussion instrument thanks)
✈️ - Where are you from? - canada, north of toronto
🚀 - Where do you wanna visit? - germany and more of canada
😍 - Do you have a crush? - lmao no
😷 - Something you hate eating? - fuck kay i’m actually a really picky eater and because i’ve been working around it for years i always forget what foods i hate. uhh. turnips?
🙈 - What makes you shy? - people, but that’s directly related to my social anxiety ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
💃 - Can you dance? - i mean, i CAN, but is it any good? no
💏 - Do you love anyone? - YEEE i love my friends and family (animals count as family)
👟 - Favorite shoe(s) to wear? - i finally got real converse and i l o v e t h e m
🌴 - A island you would visit? - when it comes to like, traditional island type things, that’s like, warm places, and i’m not particularly a fan of warm places. like beachy vacation places? nah fam. so like, the kinds of islands i’d want to visit would be countries like japan or ireland
🌎 - A country you would visit? - g e r m a n y
🌀 - Favorite type of weather? - fall, when the leaves aren’t green anymore and some have fallen, and it’s a little windy, and it’s the kind of temperature where you go out in the morning with a jacket, but in the afternoon don’t really need the jacket
🔮 - Do you believe in luck? - kinda?
📱 - What kinda phone do you have? - i literally just bought my roomie’s old lg g4 off him
📅 - Favorite time of the year? - fuckin october because fall and SPOOP SEASON
📚 - Career goal you want? - ...lmao. one that lets me afford to adopt mature cat babes to love and care for
🍴 - Favorite food(s) to eat? i immediately wanna say indian, but i feel like it’s biased cause i’m eating it right now
🍭 - Favorite Candy? - probs sour patch kids
🍇 - Favorite fruits? - bananas? apples? kiwi?????
🚘 - Dream car(s)? - a functioning car that is one solid colour
🚔 - Have you ever been arrested? - nah but i’ve been in cahoots with the law for dumb shit
🚑 - Have you ever driven in an ambulance before? - this question is phrased weird and it’s making my brain fucky. but i’ve been taken somewhere in an ambulance before, yes
🎫 - Do you have a license? - yee i have my full driving license as well as my boating license (lol)
🚼 - Do you have or want kids? - nO only animal frens
🔞 - Are you under 18? - nah
🐶 - Do you own a pet? - ngl i don’t like the phrasing of “owning a pet” buT i do live with animal babes that are under my care :3
😔 - Something that makes you sad? - thinkin about all the animal babes at animal shelters that don’t get adopted cause they’re not babies or they’re a little broken D8
😡 - What pisses you off? - boy howdy that’s a loaded question. lets go with a nice blanket response of “the state of the world”
😏 - What turns you on? - go back to the horny one
😈 - Are you a freak? - this is a very subjective question. to normies? yeah. in the sheets? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
💪 - Do you work out? - like bimonthly when i decide i’m gonna look after myself better lol
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God Bless our President- Trump 2020 🗽
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Gladys Ucles
4 more years MR PRESIDENT TRUMP!
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zory robles
DONALD TRUMP THE GREATEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!🇺🇸❤❤❤4 MORE YEARS🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Steven Marks
DONALD TRUMP IS THE BEST PRESIDENT EVER
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Christina Ho
It's refreshing to see an American president that truly loves and cares about the American people.
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zory robles
Not only our president he's so smart!❤ but he's so funny also😂
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Elie Abi-lamah
Made in the USA 🇺🇸- TRUMP 2020 🗽
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James Wilson
Plumbers, carpenters, iron workers ect. Real diversity that makes America great.
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Ben John
The only thing I can say thank you Mr President Trump for your promise made promise kept
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Manuel G Chapa Jr
BEST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!
TEJANOS FOR TRUMP 2020!!!
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Just4Fun
This man is keeping all of his presidential ideas... except we are still waiting for Hillary to go to jail.
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Luke Hubbard
Vote democrap if you wanna lose your job and live of food stamps 🤣
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Bess Burkhardt
Hi everyone! Check out the convention of states, Article 5 of the United States Constitution, We the People can take our power back!
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V N
Trump 2020!!!
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James B
Best president ever. Saving our country.
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Bess Burkhardt
💕💕💕🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💕💕💕 greatest man alive!
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Fredroks
God chose well when he chose Trump as his instrument of righteousness to save the Republic!
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Bess Burkhardt
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💕💕💕Let's Help the GREATEST MAN alive! Convention of States! We can help drain the swamp! He can't do everything alone. But he definitely has us all revved up to help!
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Elizabeth Fulkerson
I love our President!!!! Thank you, Lord for him and First Lady!
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Sassy Gil
Watch #DemocratsInPanicMode
They'll say anything to make people listen to them. LoL
#WalkAway
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Donald Klun JR.
Great rally bossman...trump 2020
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Candace Weatherlow
Make America proud again sounds multitudes better than KAG
Mapa Mapa Mapa!
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Lala Lyons
President is so charming down to earth Loves people. 💋💋💋💋
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Reel Venom
God Bless President Trump from lake grove New York
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Rich
How could anybody not believe that he truly loves this country and wants the best for every citizen.Id vote for him for him the rest of my life.Nobody will ever top President Trump KAG 2020
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Ted Gehly
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WWG1WGA
American Patriot Here
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Steph Watson
I'm loving it! Specially Ivanka. 2024! You go girl
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dlhvac1
No more second amendment infringement
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Candace Weatherlow
3rd term trump dynasty! Mapa!
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Jimmaculate
Such genius. Personable. Can build. Gets things done. Cares about everyone.
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brian deleon
I hope Fredo is watching this speech and is taking it all in. Thin Skin CNN!!! very sensitive, delicate and sensitive. Trump 2020!!!!
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Just4Fun
WE LOVE OUR PRESIDENT!!!
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William Morris
Americas great Patriots are coming out in the open with a great President like Donald J. Trump.
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Michael Whaley
Union worker and Trump supporter here! 🇺🇸💪
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Joe GOD’s Son
Trump isn’t for 4 more years this man is for more at least for ever. Another person in the office will destroy all. Trump build demonrats destroy
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Lori Delia
Wow! Pennsylvania is rocking! Thank you PA go red again in 2020 Trump all the way!❤️🇺🇸❤️
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Maurice Hodgdon
Mr. President. We support you but southern WV still needs your help. We are continually left behind.
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Toxic Grunt
I wonder if CNN & Fredo Cuomo will comment on this speach...
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Christopher Patitsas
President Trump is amusing, playful, optimistic and interesting to listen to. He is having fun being President. And he is the biggest promoter of America that has ever held the office of the President.
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Lala Lyons
LOVE LOVE LOVE President Trump Gods Speed Sir🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 May God you safe and your family and the ppl that love and Respect him. 😇😇😇
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Robert balibrera
This Is How We Do It. !!!!
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Christopher Headley
The greatest one to date.
Trump 20/20 And Beyond
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Candace Weatherlow
Truth! All truth!
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Vigen Ghazarian
god bless our President Trump..... President Trump 2020... must close the loopholes in our immigration laws and start mass deportation of ALL illegal aliens..... only then, we would ensure proper voting and take full control of the Congress (and our destiny).....
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Roseanna Martin
President Trump the master business man !! Trump 2020 MAGA KAG ... God Bless and protect President Trump and his family !!
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William Brammer
My man 20/20 yea
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Bess Burkhardt
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💕KAG💕🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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CarolSue Me
Hi Tom Fitton..I see you!
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Mark blankenship
he's a funny guy
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Sandy Seas
What's with the three folks to the right of POTUS? 2 men, one woman. Even when POTUS faced them, they didn't move. Look like they don't belong there! Plants?
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Dona Herndon
God bless our President, Mr. Donald John Trump, the greatest President in the world.
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Adrian Larkins
i thought POTUS was on holiday. Some holiday!!
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KAREN G GRAY
TRUMP, 2020!
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joey perez
I just came back on to work in the Texas oil fields. Thank you president Trump for bringing it back!
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Katie Mynette
I saw the President speak in Pennsylvania, and it was great? Katie Mynette.
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Richard Benitez
In San Francisco once a huge project was started I’d watch in amazement how coordinated these gigantic cranes and machinery were operating . Trucks bearing pieces iron would be lined up for arrival... day after day... very complex... I’m totally stunned each time how quickly this buildings were put up.
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The Tinker
Wait I thought that he went for a 10 days vacation?
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Miguel Tiempos
The Greatest American President in History!!!
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Goat
Goats second baaa!!!
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rolysantos
Thank God for President Trump - He Gets things DONE!
Thank God for the American Worker - They Get things DONE!
God Save us from Hot Winded Politicians - They Do Nothing which is the same as destroying!
"A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.
" Proverbs 18:9
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Thor Valhalla
Is it just me, or do the two "people" (man and woman) to the rear of Trump's left shoulder, look pissed off? They must be DemoMarxists.
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Ed Thomsen
Are those stoned face people in the background never trumpers or secret service??🤣😂😂😅😅😅🤣DAMN THEYRE KILLING THE MOOD 🤣😂😂😂😅😅😂
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Brenda Byerly
Two people behind Pres. Trump on his right, wandering why they are there. Does not look like supporters but likes the job. Feel sorry for them. It could be worse. No jobs
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James Waite
Why is the unhappy lady on the left side and guy behind her there?
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Robert Ballard
Trump is going to screw himself pushing unconstitutional gun laws,,, the exact opposite of what he promised
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Dana May
I did not know all that.
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123kkambiz
President Trump the Great
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Candace Weatherlow
Move shell!
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Louis John
Best president ever maga
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Sandra Panarella
You go pa president Trump your awesome trump2020usa USA USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸♥️♥️♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸♥️♥️♥️👊👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👊👊👊♥️♥️♥️👊👊United we stand👊👊👊♥️♥️♥️
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Louis John
Trump 2020
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Kevin Falcao
FACTS CHECKED?. Lets hear IF these are ACTUAL facts. FIRST.
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Henk de Vries
The woman on the left, is she ever gonna smile? What is she doing there?
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Sun shine
God bless our President. But some of those people that are standing behind them especially that one broad to the left how miserable she is you got to know she's a Democrat. Not thankful not grateful one miserable bride. Look at him some of them clap and they're happy they have a job but look at the others they're downright miserable that's what being a Democrat does to you it feel tease your mind and you're just nothing but negative. But our president is positive. Thank God we have him because none of those people would be standing there and we wouldn't be watching this today if that old Wicked which Hillary was in office.
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emya098
BPE! Now that we are energy independent & are getting many manufacturing back, can we please start manufacturing our own clothing? We need to bring the cotton mills back & with then we can start manufacturing our own clothing. Of course this means increasing the growth of cotton in our country. Are we all tired of "made in China" or "made in the Philippines or Indonesia" clothing & textiles & paying premium prices for inferior products? I'm tired of it. I know that this may not be a priority today, but can we make it a priority in the next 4 years? And as a by product, regaining the manufacturing of the large equipment needed to run these industries, right down to the sewing machines used in our homes. Why are we not manufacturing these things? I love the big stuff, but what about the small stuff too? Trump 2020!
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The Biggest Surprises From The First Week Of The NBA Playoffs
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, assistant sports editor): We’ve had almost one full week of games in the NBA playoffs, and trends are emerging. Golden State took a 31-point third-quarter lead over the Clippers on Thursday night … and didn’t lose! So after a few early surprises, things seem to be getting back to what we expected.
One series not playing out according to seeding is San Antonio-Denver. The No. 7 Spurs beat the No. 2 Nuggets 118-108 on Thursday to take a 2-1 lead in the series. This comes as a surprise to the FiveThirtyEight NBA Predictions model, which had Denver as an 88 percent favorite to move on. The Nuggets are still favored, but just 60-40. Are you guys surprised by how this series is going?
chris.herring (Chris Herring, senior staff writer): Not all that much, no. I think I picked Denver out of respect for the season it had. But this was the one team basically everybody had questions about coming in.
I had the series going seven games, with Denver winning. It could easily be 3-0 Spurs right now.
tchow (Tony Chow, video producer): I am surprised, but I don’t think we really should be. It’s the Spurs being the Spurs again.
natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): Our model doesn’t like San Antonio very much, so given their regular-season performance and home-court advantage — and Denver has a big home-court advantage — the Nuggets were pretty clear favorites. But it didn’t really like the Nuggets all that much either. They aren’t a great playoff team because their depth doesn’t really help them in the playoffs, the topline talent is not all that good, and they don’t have much playoff experience.
So I’m surprised that we had them as high as 88 percent, frankly! But not surprised that the Spurs are ahead in the series.
chris.herring: On Denver’s home-court advantage: The Nuggets haven’t beaten the Spurs in San Antonio in 14 tries now.
tchow: I am surprised because at one point in the season, our model gave the Spurs just a 4 percent chance of even making the postseason. We had a story a while back that talked about how they started turning it around (better defense, better bench production), but they were still underdogs going into this series, in my opinion.
sara.ziegler: Yeah, I had sort of counted the Spurs out a long time ago.
Let that be a lesson to me: Never count out Pop.
The experience factor really seems to be hurting the Nuggets so far. (And our model took 3 points away from them for their lack of playoff experience.)
chris.herring: Nuggets coach Mike Malone has talked about the experience factor a pretty decent amount in the past week
His young starting point guard, Jamal Murray, began Game 2 going 0-for-8. Malone was asked if he gave thought to pulling him because of Murray’s performance. He said no, in part because he needed to show his young players that he believed in them, and that he’s with them, win or lose. Murray responded by hitting 8-of-9 in the final quarter to bring the Nuggets all the way back for a dramatic win.
The win probably saved their season for the time being. But it speaks to the volatility of having such a young/young-minded club.
tchow: Murray wasn’t much better in Game 3 — just 6 points and two assists. I’m not trying to pin Denver’s failing’s this postseason all on Murray, though. All the Nuggets starters were pretty terrible in Game 3.
chris.herring: It’s a pretty big contrast between the teams.
While we’re talking about the growing pains for a young team, it’s worth pointing out that the Spurs are being led in part by youngster Derrick White, whose defense is his calling card. I think this is his first real exposure to a national audience, but he’s been playing really well for months.
tchow: White’s Game 3 performance was kind of a reminder for a lot of people who don’t watch the Spurs that he existed.
sara.ziegler: LOL
chris.herring: White’s experience has been different because of all the injuries they’ve had. But White and Dejounte Murray are going to be an annoyingly good backcourt once the team is healthy again next season. AND there’s Bryn Forbes, too.
natesilver: The whole Nuggets backcourt feels like it’s way short of championship caliber. It needs an anchor. There are lots of useful pieces you could rotate around that anchor, like Murray and Gary Harris, but without that anchor, it doesn’t quite come together.
chris.herring: It’s tough: They have a fantastic, sure-handed backup in Monte Morris, who led the NBA in assist/turnover ratio.
sara.ziegler: MORE MONTE MORRIS
Cyclones, represent!
chris.herring: He may not win a game for you. But he’s extremely unlikely to ever lose one for you, which you could argue Murray either occasionally does, or comes close to doing. Again: These are the growing pains for a young team sometimes.
sara.ziegler: On to another team that has seemed shaky at times this postseason: the Philadelphia 76ers. But they seem to have recovered from their upset in Game 1 — they’ve beaten the Nets convincingly twice in a row now. What looked different for them in Games 2 and 3?
tchow: Ben. Simmons.
natesilver: Sen. Bimmons.
chris.herring: Yeah, that sounds about right. Whether it was Jared Dudley that got in his head, or just him recognizing that he had to be more aggressive, Simmons has been a completely different player since Game 1.
tchow: Simmons had a -21 plus/minus in Game 1. Game 2 he was +23, and then +11 in Game 3 with a 31 point performance on 85 percent shooting.
chris.herring: I hate to say this, because maybe it’s premature, but I was beginning to think that the Nets could steal this series if things broke right for them.
tchow: I think a lot of people thought that, Chris. The Nets are legit and play really hard.
chris.herring: The Nets stole home-court advantage in Game 1. Were basically even at halftime of Game 2. And then get a gift rolled out on a platter for them, with Joel Embiid sitting out of a Game 3 played in their home arena, in front of a fan base that hasn’t hosted a playoff game in four years.
Thursday was their chance. And I think with the loss now, that might be about it.
natesilver: I’m in the Ben-Simmons-is-underrated camp. Yeah, he doesn’t really have a jumpshot. But he does pretty much everything else well. And there have been a lot of players throughout NBA history who have survived or even thrived without jump shots — Giannis Antetokounmpo basically does that now. The advanced stats like Simmons.
tchow: I think it’s very different for a player like Giannis to not have a jump shot than Simmons.
chris.herring: While we’re on the issue of Simmons, I think we learned that Embiid not being there might have been a help for him
For all the wonderful things Embiid does, he plays at a plodding pace.
Someone like Simmons thrives in an up-tempo environment because of his inability to shoot.
tchow: Sara, I found the hot take for next week’s Hot Takedown episode: FiveThirtyEight’s Chris Herring says Sixers are better without Joel Embiid.
sara.ziegler: LOLOLOL
Yes!
chris.herring: They might be in this series! Well, probably not: Greg Monroe was rough.
If they had more depth, they might be.
natesilver: That’s the thing about Philly. Look how bad their bench is:
Everyone’s like, “Why are these four stars such awkward fits together” — and I’ll admit that they’re a little awkward, but with a half-decent bench, it’s an entirely different team.
chris.herring: I don’t think it’s a terrible bench. And the truth is, you can stagger when you have that many stars.
But the spots in which it’s terrible … yeah.
tchow: Sixers’ bench: Who? Who? Who? The big guy. Who? and Who?
sara.ziegler:
chris.herring: That’s their issue, I think. I’m not sure Boban Marjanovic would work against every team. But he’s their backup big.
natesilver: I saw Boban at the United Airlines lounge at Newark Airport one time. He was very big and tall and sitting in a giant lounge chair and still looked very big and tall.
chris.herring: I tweeted last night that I’m pretty sure he dunked last night with one foot still on the ground.
Anyway: I want to talk more about how disappointed I am in Brooklyn
tchow: Are you just disappointed in their central A/C system at Barclays, Chris?
I promise it's no warmer than 8 degrees in Barclays Center right now. Cold as hell in here.
— Chris Herring (@Herring_NBA) April 19, 2019
chris.herring: Well, that too.
sara.ziegler: Are you disappointed that their slogan is “We go hard,” and then they didn’t?
chris.herring: They did go hard!
It’s not a question of effort with them. It never is. But I think what Nate alluded to is exactly the issue here. The Sixers’ bench isn’t great/may be bad. And the Nets’ second-best player is their bench.
natesilver: Yeah, Brooklyn’s not totally unlike Denver. Excellent depth, no playoff experience, frontline talent is meh.
tchow: Nate, they’re both small-market teams. I get it. (Queens represent!)
sara.ziegler: OMG
Tony trying to start a borough war here.
chris.herring: You generally see Brooklyn go on these massive runs in the second quarter of these games. But then after halftime, the game gets broken open, and Kenny Atkinson — who I really, really like — waits too long to call a timeout!
The Sixers went on a 21-2 (!!!!) run in Game 2 before Atkinson called for timeout. It took a 1-point deficit and expanded it to a 20-point lead for the Sixers. And then the game was over.
tchow: Maybe Atkinson is from the Phil Jackson school of letting the players figure it out on their own.
natesilver: What was the atmosphere like at Barclay’s, Chris? I think it’s one of the coolest venues in sports from an architectural/amenities standpoint, but every time I’ve gone, the fans are sort of half-hearted.
chris.herring: Last night was amazing to start the game. But I think they were sort of stunned to see the team run out of steam.
And as Tony said: I was freezing.
sara.ziegler: Well, it is a hockey rink, too.
chris.herring: So maybe the have to have the ice ready? But good lord.
My phone turned off at one point because of how cold it was.
sara.ziegler: Wow
That’s cold.
chris.herring: The atmosphere was really great. It’s good to have the playoffs in Brooklyn again. And hopefully Manhattan at some point in the next couple years. (side-eyes Knicks)
natesilver: Knicks fans should be rooting against Boston and against Golden State, right?
chris.herring: I’ve heard the same stuff everyone else has about Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving coming to the Knicks. As much as I hear it, I just have to see it to believe that it’ll actually happen.
natesilver: I think KD could leave either after a championship or a flameout. But Kyrie — yeah, he’s already flip-flopped enough that I think Knicks fans want the Celtics out by Round 2.
chris.herring: I think I’m just too conditioned to believe that nothing overwhelmingly good can happen for/with the Knicks unless there’s an enormous downside that comes with it.
sara.ziegler: LOL
natesilver: My current scenario is that they get Kyrie and also draft Ja Morant and somehow that turns into a disaster.
sara.ziegler: Speaking of Kyrie, the Celtics are making quick work of the Pacers. Indiana doesn’t seem to have quite enough offense so far to hang with Boston.
chris.herring:
tchow: I’m actually interesting to read Chris’s thoughts on this series. I remember A LOT of people were down on Boston going into the playoffs.
chris.herring: Yeah. I had some hope that this could be an interesting series.
But I also was tasked with writing an Indiana-based primer for the ESPN side ahead of this series. When I got to the “Why Indiana can win section,” I sat and stared at my screen for like an hour.
So this actually doesn’t surprise me all that much.
They simply don’t have enough offense. Or ingenuity.
natesilver: I haven’t watched much of that series; pretty much my only recollection was seeing a score that was like 76-59 in the fourth quarter of Game 1 and thinking I needed to update my contact lens prescription, but nope, that was the actual score.
chris.herring: They basically hand the ball off to Bojan Bogdanovic and say, “Do something.” Kind of like a kid who does a magic trick, but is still holding the quarter in his hand, in plain sight, for everyone to see.
tchow: Has Boston done anything to change people’s minds about their chances though?
chris.herring: No. They’re merely beating a flawed, weakened team, IMO.
tchow: That’s what I figured about Boston. The real test, if they do end up beating the Pacers, will probably come against Milwaukee.
chris.herring: In fairness to Nate McMillan and the Pacers, this was always going to be an uphill battle, because they’re playing without Victor Oladipo. It was a great accomplishment to go 21-21 this season without their star player after going 0-7 without him last season.
sara.ziegler: Yeah, they don’t really have anything to feel embarrassed about.
chris.herring: I really like Indiana, and have a soft spot for Little-Engine-That-Could sort of teams. But they need some reinvention.
They could use more firepower. But they need better schemes.
natesilver: I feel like the whole first round could use more firepower. Between inexperienced teams, teams with injury problems, teams without any star talent … it feels a little bit like spring training or something.
tchow: I agree, but it has been more interesting than I imagined.
chris.herring: A little.
sara.ziegler: Let’s talk about the other interesting series in the East: No. 2 Toronto has had its hands full with No. 7 Orlando. The Magic took the first game, but the Raptors stormed back in Game 2. The teams will face off Friday night in Orlando. Do we think the Magic have a realistic shot in this series?
natesilver: Mayyyyyybe?
chris.herring: It depends on what you define as “a shot.” I think they can get another game, potentially. I don’t think they will win the series. The Raptors responded in Game 2 the way you hoped a top-flight team would.
sara.ziegler: But the Magic are underrated, Chris!
I heard you say so.
chris.herring: Oh, they are. And not enough people know that.
But I don’t think that I ever conflated them being underrated with the notion that they should somehow beat the Raptors in a series.
tchow: Kyle Lowry responded in Game 2 the way you hoped. Chris wrote about Lowry’s Game 1 woes before, but he responded in a big way.
natesilver: Orlando is a weird-ass team, and they played very well in the second half of the season.
If you’re looking for an upset pick, I’d rather pick a weird team than a normal one.
chris.herring: If they had played competitively in Game 2, sure.
Or had a matchup they could readily exploit.
sara.ziegler: The Raptors had a 98 percent chance to win this series before the playoffs start, and now they’re all the way down to 93 percent. So things are still looking pretty good for them.
In the last series in the East, the Bucks had a little trouble with Detroit before pulling away in Game 2. But the most interesting thing to me about that game was Blake Griffin picking up his second technical foul of the series.
Blake Griffin, you’ll recall, has not actually played yet in this series.
tchow: Bucks in four. I think we can move on?
sara.ziegler: LOL
chris.herring: Yeah. That’s literally the only thing I find interesting about this series. That, and finding out how far away from the basket Giannis can dunk from.
tchow: The NBA tweet highlights of Giannis dunks have been the only saving grace of this series.
Giannis Antetokounmpo,
Destroyer of Worlds pic.twitter.com/WaXh410LQo
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 18, 2019
chris.herring: If and when the NBA move the first round back to a best-of-five, they’re going to use this series as evidence as why. (edited)
natesilver: I think there needs to be a mercy rule where you can concede your playoff series and get like three Lottery Balls or whatever.
sara.ziegler: OK, let’s move back to the West. The Trail Blazers are off to a great start, up 2-0 against the Thunder. Our model is surprised at this series — it had given the Thunder a 77-23 edge. Are you guys surprised?
chris.herring: Yes. I’m surprised. Maybe stupid, too.
natesilver: I mean, if Paul George isn’t himself, our model is gonna screw that series up.
tchow: He’s hurt!
chris.herring: I feel like a contrarian now, but I don’t even think he’s shoulder is the problem anymore. He shot the ball semi-decently last game.
Russ is shooting like he’s the one injured.
tchow: Our model can’t predict that Russell Westbrook will shoot 35 percent and 10 percent from 3-point range in this series.
chris.herring: EXACTLY
What I will say is that I don’t have a lot of faith in OKC if it’s simply relying on the notion that its shooting will improve.
They are shooting 16 PERCENT from three in this series.
Which, while God awful, is only a slight regression for them!
natesilver: That whole quadrant of the bracket — OKC, Portland, San Antonio, Denver — seems incredibly weak to me.
chris.herring: If OKC had a team full of sharpshooters, I could understand having more confidence.
But Russ still defends Damian Lillard as if he’s surprised that Dame can/will pull up from 35 feet.
The guy needs to be treated as if he’s Steph at this point
tchow: I don’t want to take anything away from Portland. Yes, they lost Jusuf Nurkic, but CJ and Dame have been awesome this series.
chris.herring: I came in thinking that this might be a sweep or a 4-1 series in favor of OKC. Simply thought that not having Nurkic would hurt against someone like Steven Adams. I thought CJ McCollum would struggle to find a rhythm (he’s coming off an injury and wasn’t good vs. OKC during the season). We watched Dame log 35 a night against the Thunder during the season and still get swept 4-0 during the regular season.
tchow: CJ has been
chris.herring: I didn’t think they had a great chance in this series. They had lost 10 playoff games in a row. With the exception of perimeter shooting, I thought just about everything else would be in OKC’s favor. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
tchow: If Dame wasn’t in Portland, would he still be this underrated? It feels like this is a storyline every season.
sara.ziegler: That’s a good question.
How many people regularly see him play?
tchow: Basketball nerds: “Look at Damian Lillard!”
Basketball fans: “Who this?”
chris.herring: I guess we have to define underrated.
natesilver: He was All-NBA First Team last season, no?
But, yeah, Portland has to be one of the least-watched teams in the league, or at least by people not in the Pacific Time Zone.
chris.herring: Even if you know who he is, and how great he is, I think you could objectively look at this series — and what the Blazers have done the last two years in the playoffs (0-8) — and say OKC should have been favored.
tchow: For OKC to take Game 3, they need to ____________.
And don’t say something like “play better” (looks at Nate).
sara.ziegler: SHOOT BETTER
chris.herring: … shoot better than my 4-year-old nephew does from outside of 23 feet.
natesilver: I’d say they need to play better basketball.
sara.ziegler: In the other non-Warriors series out West, the Rockets are handling the Jazz easily so far, setting up a showdown with Golden State in the second round. This has played out about as expected, right?
chris.herring: I had higher hopes for Jazz-Rockets. Am impressed with how dominant Houston has looked, but thought Utah would play better than this. Their defensive scheme has looked downright nonsensical to me
tchow: If Chris has a soft spot for Indiana, I think I have a soft spot for Utah. I love this team and wanted more out of them this series.
sara.ziegler: Utah is a very likable team.
natesilver: I didn’t expect Houston to dismantle Utah quite so thoroughly.
In fact, I think that’s the story of the first round so far. It’s a highly consequential story because the Rockets are absolutely good enough to give the Warriors a series.
chris.herring: The disappointment I feel with Utah is equivalent to how excited I am for the second round, with Warriors-Rockets.
That will seemingly be the Western Conference finals, just a round early.
natesilver: It would be quite something if the Rockets actually need fewer games to dispatch Utah than Golden State needs with the Clippers.
chris.herring: Seriously.
tchow: The Jazz just seem like a team that’s so close to figuring it out. Maybe not to a point where you think they can beat Golden State, but they’re so good in the regular season. I don’t know what happens to them in the playoffs.
chris.herring: Yeah, I sort of agree in theory, Tony.
But I think what I’ve learned is that I have to be leery of a team that relies on such a young player to be its leading scorer.
natesilver: Maybe you just need more isolation scoring in the playoffs? Or more scoring, period?
chris.herring: I remember a stat from last year: Donovan Mitchell was the first rookie to lead a playoff team in regular-season scoring since Carmelo Anthony.
I think there’s a reason we don’t see it happen much. And I think it’s even more problematic for a team built like that to have all sorts of horrible defensive breakdowns, because at that point, you know they have no shot at keeping up in a shootout against one of the best scorers in modern history.
If Quin Snyder rolls out the exact same defensive scheme that he did in Games 1 and 2, this series will end in a sweep.
natesilver: Is Mitchell … a little bit like Carmelo Anthony in that he’s taking too many shots? I mean, I guess he has to take a lot of shots with that lineup. But Utah really needs another player who can create his own shot.
tchow: What if you played a player like Royce O’Neale more? He’s +1.8 on defense (according to our model), and it looks like they do a bit better defensively with him on the floor.
chris.herring: He’s another example of what Nate is talking about, though: A guy that isn’t likely to create his own shot.
This is a team that will need to take a long, hard look at itself this summer despite how well it’s played during the second half of these last two seasons.
tchow: One obvious fix would be to get rid of Grayson Allen.
KIDDING!!!
natesilver: I also think Utah benefits from being a bit unorthodox. Rubio is an unorthodox point guard. They’re defense-first. They can play at a slow pace, although they picked up their pace a lot this year. They’re well-coached. So there’s an advantage from game-planning in the regular season. But Daryl Morey and the Rockets are going to study the hell out of the Jazz and know how to counter.
chris.herring: Some of these teams are built to play really, really well in the regular season. And there’s incredible value in that, for seeding purposes, etc.
But the inability to change your playing style when you’re forced to is often fatal this time of year.
sara.ziegler: Finally, Golden State seemed like Golden State in Game 3 of their series against the Clippers. So that panic appears to be over?
chris.herring: Hell, they seemed like Golden State in Game 2 to me!
It was just a massive collapse at the end of Game 2.
sara.ziegler: LOL
chris.herring: I actually pointed out yesterday that the game played out exactly the same way for a long while:
Steph got his fourth foul tonight with Warriors up 24. Kerr subbed him out at 8:39 in the 3Q.
Steph got his fourth foul on Monday with Warriors were up 28. Kerr subbed him out at 8:39 left in the 3Q.
— Chris Herring (@Herring_NBA) April 19, 2019
natesilver: Our model thought the DeMarcus Cousins injury was a pretty big deal. Although I think it overrated how effective Cousins had been this season.
sara.ziegler: All season, Cousins has been more about potential in our model.
But the Warriors didn’t need him early in the season, obviously.
tchow: I have nothing much to say about this series, but I do want to point readers to this interview KD gave before Game 3.
Kevin Durant goes extremely in depth on the Clippers style of defense, the overhelp, why he won’t get caught up in a 1-on-1 battle with Patrick Beverley pic.twitter.com/nOdmTDY4yi
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 17, 2019
natesilver: It’s not that they’re going to lose to the Clippers, but I do just have to wonder about a team’s mentality when they can blow a 30-point lead.
chris.herring: NBC analyst Tom Haberstroh pointed out that Steph was only averaging 19.9 points per 36 minutes this season with Boogie on the court, and that he essentially morphed into Malcolm Brogdon.
Averaged 31.4 points per 36 minutes without DeMarcus on the floor.
sara.ziegler: Wow
natesilver: I mean, part of that might be that Steph was being deferential in an effort to get Cousins feeling like himself again.
chris.herring: EXACTLY
Which … there isn’t time to do that in the playoffs.
tchow: Definitely. I think Steph went through a similar dip when KD joined too.
chris.herring: The last thing you want is Steph playing nice when you need him to be Steph.
natesilver: It does just seem kind of impossible when you have to shut down Steph AND KD and Klay. Even if the rest of the team kind of sucks.
chris.herring: I tend to think this helps them for now, but the Rockets series was one of the overarching reasons they signed Cousins — to make it so Houston couldn’t switch as much as they did on them last year
natesilver: Yeah. So in some ways, we’re back to last year’s series, which was as even as it gets. The Rockets lately are playing as well as last year. And the Warriors without Cousins are basically last year’s team.
sara.ziegler: After this matchup, will we even want to finish out the playoffs??
natesilver: Well, the Western Conference finals are likely to be an anti-climax.
tchow: LOL. Yes! I for one am very interested to see who comes out of the East to play against Warriors/Rockets.
Check out our latest NBA predictions.
from News About Sports https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-surprises-from-the-first-week-of-the-nba-playoffs/
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CutCat’s Favourite Disney Animated Canon
I’m pretty sure everyone and their grandma has already written something along the lines of “Disney was a big part of my childhood” before divulging into some bigass essay. This won’t be much different lmao
But still, I’m not making an objective list, it’s coloured by my own experiences watching the films. Some old Classics won’t even make the Top Ten because I personally didn’t get particularly into them. My favourite may or may not be the best across the board.
Also yeah, I’m not touching on all Fiftysomething films, I’m actually just gonna start with the Top Ten and whittle them down to the last one standing. I haven’t seen all of them so ones I may really dig, like Moana, hafta wait until I can judge for myself. I’ll try to cover all the things I’ve listed, even if it’s as they’ve been eliminated.
This may even be fun for other people to do, maybe!
We’ll return to our scheduled programming after the Cut! 😺✂
Ok I lied, I’ll list the Top 10 and then mention things that didn’t get quite that far, but it won’t take long.
TOP 10
(In order of release, not preference)
Pinocchio
Alice in Wonderland
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Mulan
Frozen
Zootopia
Honourable Mentions: Spider-Man: Homecoming (isn’t Disney Animated Canon even though it’s Marvel and therefore Disney lol), Epic Mickey as the story and gameplay and atmosphere is really great, but it’s a game instead of an animated film, and Sleeping Beauty. SB misses out because while the Animation is gorgeous and the Fairies and Maleficent are fantastic characters, the human leads drag it down.
Anyway, time to half that list! Same ordering rules as before:
TOP 5
Pinocchio
Alice in Wonderland
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Yeah, that’s right! The Lion King is already out! I know, I’m a fraud!!
Ok so like, I’m very much a cat person and I do love the film. Top 10 is still respectable! But hoo boy, I love the first act and the Celestial Mufasa scenes, but the middle and in some ways the climax kinda let it down for me. And I’m not fond of Timon and Pumbaa. Timon most of all. tsk tsk
But anyway, before I crossed off TLK, the CGI films were shed and I’m never going to fully get over the death of traditional animation. Frozen and Zootopia are both hella rad but their success also feel like even more nails in Hand-drawn animation’s coffin. Imagine what those films would be like, drawn...! Woaaah
WtP and Mulan are also not to be sneezed at, accomplishing very different narrative but doing both so well. I just feel that Pooh’s 3-shorts format kinda disqualifies it from being my favourite Disney Story and while Mulan is so great, it just lacks something that keeps the others firmly placed. I dunno, it’s more of a gut feeling than a well reasoned argument, lol
Time for 2 more eliminations! Now we’re left with:
TOP 3
Pinocchio
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland may not be the most faithful adaptation, but I don’t care. I’ve read both the original books and the main thing Disney does is to discard Through the Looking Glass while taking a couple of small parts of that and putting it into Wonderland. It’s very pretty, very funny and Alice is a likable protagonist, even as Wonderland’s wackiness tries to wear her down.
The Little Mermaid was always something I liked, but never quite as much as, say, Beauty and the Beast. Even with the gorgeous Underwater Aesthetics, which I’m very fond of, didn’t quite make it. Though actually I like it more now than I did before, knowing Eric is voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes, who did the 90s Spider-Man!! :D
Ok, things are heating the heck up in the list, only two seperate cuts left to make~
The surviving films, for now, are:
TOP 2
Pinocchio
Beauty and the Beast
Yep! Bye-bye, Aladdin, Bye-Bye~
Ok this actually annoys me a bit though lmao
Aladdin would have a really damn good shot as my favourite. It’s colourful, it’s hilarious, it’s compelling! It! It... kinda traumatised me a bit as a young girl and I still feel distinctly uncomfortable about the scene in question even today. It poisons the whole damn film for me as I hafta deal with dread as I watch it. That sucks!!
Objectively, it’s amazing, but as I said, this is my Personal List, so it loses heavy points based on that.
Ok, now the hardest part. Picking between the last two.
I didn’t start this list because I already had a choice picked, I did it because I was curious which I do dig the most.
...
For a long time, if I was asked I’d usually go ‘Uhhhhh Beauty and the Beast, I think!’.
But while B and the B is brilliant and breathtaking and ...uhhh.... bombastic, part of it winning was by default (The two sweetest words in the English Language!)
Y’see, I feel, as a whole, for some curious reason, we forget about Pinocchio.
Ok that’s enough commas for now. But it’s weird! Pinocchio was hot on the heels of Snow White, the big show starter! It’s better than Snow White!! It’s actually rated the highest of all the D.A.C. on Rotten Tomatoes! Critics and normal audience alike love it!
So how come no one talks about it? I can see why it got overlooked in 1940, what with a large and notable war happening, but I literally never come across any Meta or Discussion about it or the themes or the look--
I’m gonna properly talk about it in a sec though, hahaa
So! Beauty and The Beast! An old favourite and nearly top dog in my esteem. It has it all, catchy songs, interesting characters, stunning designs, a whole load of Youtubepoops using footage from it. But it does not have Stockholm Syndrome, you foolish buffoons. Belle only starts to develop feeling for Beast after he becomes less Beastly. THAT’S THE POINT OF THE STORY. BEAST HAS! TO! CHANGE!!
And overall it does a damn good job at this~
Ok, so we already know the winner but it deserves a bit of fanfare for actually doing so well!
NUMBER 1!
TOP DISNEY ANIMATED CANON FILM
(ACCORDING TO CUTCAT) :
PINOCCHIO
I love Pinocchio so, so much!
And not just the film as a whole, the character too! Which is a very important factor here. I’m not saying the rejected films didn’t have strong characters, not at all! But this ties in with the Forgotten sort of vibe I get from the lack of buzz with this film.
Quick! Think of a scene from Pinocchio! Just one, if you can manage it.
Now, I may be way off with my presumption here, but was it the thing about his nose growing when he lies? Or was it maybe his desire to become a Real Boy™?
If you thought of any other moment, my kudos to you. It’s just, I feel that pop culture as a whole likes to harp on those points, which are either one short [but yeah, memorable] scene and the ultimate goal. And not to point fingers, but heck, why not. I blame Shrek a good deal for this, as those are the only memorable traits from their version of him. This may sound unfair, Dreamworks are doing a different take on the same character that Disney didn’t create but instead adapted from a book, but that’s mostly reflected in the vastly different designs (as in Shrek!Pinocchio looks closer to the original book version), but on the other hand Shrek started off by riffing on what Disney did and then kind of mutated into what they were mocking after the second film. Oops.
While mentioning the book, I do not give a rat’s ass that Disney’s version deviates as much as it does, they improved every point adapted. I also really can’t imagine the film doing nearly so well if it had the creepyass vibe for the main character. Marionettes are freaky, dude.
Anyway, that’s another of Pinocchio’s strengths! He looks and sincerely is Adorable! I’m gonna paste in a quote by Milt Kahl about this:
I was quite critical of ... I have a knack for alienating people by being a little bit outspoken, and they were rather obsessed with the idea of this boy being a wooden puppet. My God, they even had this midget who did the voice for "call for Phillip Morris" as the voice for a while, and it was terrible. I was rather outspoken about it. Why didn't they forget that he was a puppet and get a cute little boy, you can always draw the wooden joints and make him a wooden puppet afterwards. And Ham Luske said, "Well, why don't you do something about it, do a scene," and I did one. What I don't remember is whether they had a new voice by then or not. Probably they did have; I don't know. I did a scene of Pinocchio underwater with the jackass ears, knocking on a shell of an oyster, saying, "Pardon me, can you tell me where I can find Monstro the whale?" The shell closed up and caused a swell in the current, which affected Pinocchio. I made kind of a cute little boy out of him, and Walt loved it; this was actually my big chance. It was my move into being one of the top animators.
Pretty cool, huh? Before this, Walt has stopped production as he didn’t like what was being made. They were putting an awful lot into making the lead so loveable! I’m paraphrasing better accounts of this, but if you’re interested I do suggest looking into such!
But maybe I oughta get back on track, lord knows this rambling mess is long enough already ;v;;; I just get interested by some of the behind the scenes workings, y’know~
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Like I touched on earlier, I think a problem is that people forget there’s more to Pinoke than his extendo nose and urge to Become Real. He’s very sweet and well meaning, but with the snag of being too trusting and gullible. He’s easy to misread as being Too Dumb To Live, but he’s very curious and does visibly learn and develop as the story goes on.
The other lead, Jiminy Cricket, is really great! He adds charm in the darkest moments and helps prevent the sweet scenes from being too sugary. He’s a great mediator and pretty good Conscience, too, he just happens to be in the wrong place a couple of times, which is the nature of the story’s structure lol
The supporting characters are really good, too! You really feel for Gepetto and damn that dude puts a lotta work into his wares! Figaro and Cleo are really cute and play off each other well.
Special shout out to Figaro for managing to get into shorts as Minnie Mouse’s pet lmao. I’m pretty sure that kitten has influenced the way I draw cats too, pff
And the villains? Holy shit, this film is teeming with bad guys, and the cut we see has none of them getting punishment onscreen.... yikes
Ok, so not to sound like Youtube Clickbait vids made by a talentless hack, but BOY! This film is dark! hahahaa
So like, my favourite Bad Guys from here, Honest John and Gideon are the tamest and most funny, but they sell Pinocchio into slavery twice. Hhhaaaaa...
The way Stromboli alternates from humorous and jovial to screaming and stomping about abruptly is frightening. Dude slams Pinoccino in a bird cage and says how he’s gonna work our boy Pinoke pretty much until our puppet pal perishes
The Coachman....... there’s a theory going around that he’s like an evil counterpart of The Blue Fairy, how he punishes bad boys by having them turn into Donkies he can then sell to mines and circuses. They never come back... AS BOYS!! [shuddering]
And Monstro is the most force-of-nature-y type of Bad Dude in the assortment but still lives up to his name! Sure, I’d be mad if someone lit a fire inside me, but are whales really known for being vengeful to the point of body slamming a cliff? Even before that, do they try to eat literally anything they see?
But yeah, it’s not just how many bad guys there are, nor how karma doesn’t strike them in a satisfying way. The stuff they’re doing and the atmosphere, it’s all legit scary
But wait! You cry!
Jeeze CutCat, why are you talking about how scary Pinocchio is when you docked points off Aladdin for frightening you?
Because, Devil’s Advocate question, the latter film is an abrupt mood whiplash moment that took me by surprise as a young, impressionable thing. I dunno how young I was when watching either film, but not only is Pinocchio consistent with plunging into the depths, but the real horror is easy enough to miss if you’re a young child. It didn’t occur to me that the boys turned into Donkies were gonna be worked to death in back breaking labour!
Anyway, Pinocchio earns the right to be spooky and has enough charm and humour in the right moments.
But ok, yeah, the Donkies. The scene where Lampwick slowly, agonisingly transforms is a damn work of creepy art. We already know the terrible secret of Pleasure Island before it starts, but actually seeing the gradual build up, the way Pinocchio can only watch in horror and then sprout ears himself and Lampwick’s screams turning into braying... it’s sure something.
The Monstro chase scene at the end is also so damn intense I subconsciously hold my breath while watching it. It’s relentless, our heroes are up against a furious gigantic whale and the merciless sea and the fucking end of that always feels like a kick in the guts. The lingering shot and musical sting hits hard.
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But still! The movie ain’t all Nightmare Inducing!
I’ve already said I love the characters, and helping that is the impeccable voice work for everyone. The voices and little character tics make them feel so real for such a fantastical setting. I dig how the Blue Fairy is rotoscoped and realistic, which sticks her out from the rest of the cast and enhances the Other Worldliness that fairies deserve.
The animation.... boy, the animation really is something else! It was the late 30′s but they were already creating new and highly expensive techniques to make this beautiful and not only does it work, but I struggle to think of anything that can top it. Multi-plane camera establishing shots than barely last for seconds, the underwater effects with the sways and distortion, each splash and movement done by hand. Honestly this may be the most perfectly drawn movie, I’m not exaggerating. They already came so far since Snow White, it’s almost unbelievable!
Lastly, I’ll mention the music. Fucking Fantastic, is what it is! Is it any surprise that they used the tune for the Disney Vanity Plates, to this day? There’s a few songs with different memorability levels, I know Ultron is fond of the ironic I’ve Got No Strings number. I, for one, love the atmospheric use of Little Wooden Head as a recurring motif.
I really didn’t plan on my Pinocchio talk on being this long, so if you read through it all you have my gratitude. Are you surprised that it’s my favourite? I’m enchanted by it, I certainly have a weakness for sweet hearted protagonists but the film has so many good angles!
I still think it’s dang unfair that the film seems to get overlooked so much, but hopefully my daft musing might remind a couple of people that it’s certainly worth a rewatch!
#Firefly's rambling#CutCat writes essays on Disney films#I feel strongly about some stuff maaan lol#FIXED THE CUT word formatted it out
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SPN 10x02: “Reichenbach”
RIP Cole’s father. Killed by Dean.
Don’t call him Sammy.
“Now...I know Dean's family and all, but he gave you up. And you have no reason to protect him -- none.” No reason? It’s his brother, you moron.
“Look, I'm sorry about your dad. Whatever happened... Dean had a reason. I don't know how to tell you this. There are monsters out there.”
“You don't think I know that? I did two tours in Iraq. Special Ops, Darfur...The Congo. I've seen suicide bombers and child soldiers so hopped up on speed that they could barely talk! Oh, but they could sure as hell shoot an A.K.”
Not those kinds of monsters.
“I mean vampires! All right? Werewolves. Monster... monsters.” Sam tried really hard not to go in that direction.
“It’s holy water.”
“Holy cow.”
lol
“Well, you see, that's exactly what a psycho liar would say, so... See my dilemma?” Oh, damn you.
“Cherry Pie” by Warrant. Its second appearance on the show.
Killdeer, North Dakota.
How is he the only one there?
Deanmon’s that douche.
It’s just a screaming contest between Sam and Cole.
“Shove it up your ass.” Sam is so goddamn resilient.
OH NO, NOT THE KNEE.
“Hey, big guy. How you doing? Now, no, no. Listen, daddy's really busy right now, okay?” Daddy’s busy torturing people and being a dumbass.
That kid was so close to being slaughtered.
“We need to talk about your... Anger-management issues.” Now you wanna work on that?!
Cas can’t heal himself...but Hannah can.
“Thank you. Hannah, you don't have to --you -- you can go. You don't owe me anything.”
“I know. But I want to stay...and help.”
Aww, Hannah.
Cas was the first person Sam called when he could.
“Cas...Dean's a demon.”
“Dean's a demon? How?”
“The Mark --I-I guess it --it just messed him up. I don't know.“
“That is a vast understatement.”
OH NOOOOO. Cas face of pure devastation, that breaks my heart every time.
“Castiel...I think the Winchesters are a bad influence on you.”
“Sam and Dean may be a bit rough around the edges, but they're the best men I've ever known. And they're my friends.”
:’)
“I never get tired of looking at them. All those stars.” Me either, Hannah.
Crap.
“Two shots here. He'll have something fancy, with your tiniest umbrella.” lol
“So...How you been feeling? On edge? Pent-up? Unfulfilled?”
“You sound like a Viagra commercial. You know that, right?”
He does.
G A Y
Mindy and Lester Morris. Mindy’s the target, Lester’s the client.
Crowley tried to turn Dean into his personal assassin.
“Oh, there's something else that I need to share with you.” Was it that Sam introduced Lester into the crossroad demon?
“I'm gonna have to run in to town for a new set of tires. Could take a while. You want to head inside and watch TV or something, you're more than welcome. Oh, and there's leftover three-bean surprise in the fridge, if you're hungry.”
“You're very kind.”
“Well, makes up for me being an ax murderer and all...Uh, sorry. Kidding.”
“Ah. I see.”
Aww, Hannah.
“I understand the three beans, but...What's the surprise?” Hannah was adorable.
And so is Cas when he’s sleeping.
Was it possible that Dean would’ve done it had Lester not shown up?
“What the hell are you doing here, man?”
“Well, my contact...Yeah, he, uh -- he told me that, uh, this was happening, so I just wanted to come down and make sure it gets done right.”
“Ah. 'Cause you're the expert, huh? Listen --and this is murder 101 --when you hire someone to kill your wife, you don't want to be around when the hit goes down. It's called an alibi.”
What a dummy.
“I need you to really listen to me. You're a loser. Your lady in there -- she's a North Dakota 8. You're a 4 1/2, Max. Now, I don't blame her for stepping out -- especially if she found you were messing around first.”
“No. Oh, no. I-I wasn't...Uh -- How do you know?”
“Well, you just got that, uh, pervy, ‘I'd do anything to nail my secretary’ look.”
NO IT’S NOT.
“Men aren't built for monogamy...because of evolution. We're -- we're -- we're programmed, you know, to --to spread our seed.” Okay, let’s kill him now.
“Yeah, well, you're a punk-ass demon! And you work for me now. So get in there and do your job, you freak!” Lester just signed his damn death warrant.
RIP Lester Morris. Killed by Dean.
Cole could’ve just let Sam go and do his thing by tracking Dean...instead of kidnapping and torturing him. He would’ve found Dean much sooner.
Looney Tunes!
Cas with kids. Always cute.
“Great guy you have there.”
“Oh. We're not... That.”
“Too bad.”
No no no, don’t give her ideas.
That was me in Economics class in high school.
“Tell me, Dean -- what are you? A demon? If so, why isn't Lester's wife dead? Did you feel sorry for her? So maybe you're human. Except you have those pretty black peepers and you're working alongside me. Why don't you do us all a great big favor and PICK A BLOODY SIDE?!” Crowley called Cas out like this in S6.
Dean and Crowley break up. Wah wah.
“You know what, Dean? It's not me. It's you.” Even the King of Hell couldn’t stand your ass, Dean.
“Maybe I should drive?”
“All right. Good idea.”
lol
Crowley turns in Dean.
They still haven’t cleaned up what Gadreel did?
Ah no, not another douche.
“You pop that lock, I'll give you Castiel's Grace and then scamper off to another planet -- another galaxy, even --and you will never see me again.” I call such total bull.
“Poor little Hannah. You're so desperate to be dominated.”
*Hannah pulls Metatron into the prison bars.*
Thank you for that.
“He's lying. He is a liar.”
“Hey, words hurt!”
pfft.
Aww. Exercise your free will, Cas!
“I'll get out. It may take a century. May take a millennium or two, but this dump will not hold me forever.” Huh. More like a couple months.
“And when I'm free -- here's a little sneak preview -- everybody dies.” Oh well, that part’s not true.
That *is* “Hey Jude”!
Sam has finally found Dean.
“I'm doing all I can not to come over there and rip your throat out... with my teeth.” Alright, Edgelord.
“You don't know what I've done. I might have it coming.” Yeah, he’s got an idea, and he STILL wants to save you.
“Well, I don't care. Because you are my brother. And I'm here to take you home.”
God, I hate Deanmon. Give me real, human Dean any day.
“I saw you...That night...After. You let me live. That was dumb -- real dumb.” Well, he wasn’t gonna kill a human 13 year old kid.
Cole’s failed fight, sprinkled with Deanmon’s douchey one liners and taunts.
Dean’s been splashed with holy water so many times...and this is the one time that it actually worked.
Crowley’s price for ratting Dean out was the First Blade.
Come on, Cole! You’re getting blood all over the books!
"Hey There Lonely Girl” by Eddie Holman.
“It's just a car, Sam.” The biggest of Yikes for that one.
“You know what, Dean? I saw what happened back there. You could have killed that guy, and you didn't. You took mercy on him.” Uh...no.
“You call that mercy? Imagine you spend your whole life hunting down the guy that knifed your father. When you finally find him... He whips you like a dog. How do you think that feels? That kid's gonna spend his whole life knowing that he had his shot and that he couldn't beat me. That ain't mercy. That's the worst thing I could have done to him.” Sam looks scared shitless, omg.
“And what I'm gonna do to you, Sammy... Well, that ain't gonna be mercy, either.” Don’t listen to him Sam.
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Wow today was a roller-coaster ride. In the morning during the break Malin came up to me and hugged me and then we went and grabbed coffee together and I was like “that Oscar guy you’re writing songs with, he’s cute as heck, you should totally hit that” lol and she was like “Yeah he is but nah I’m taking it super chill now bcs I had a very fun and nice summer” and she started telling me about it. I was just waiting when the Morris bomb is gonna drop but she met this guy in Morocco and was like “He’s magic and now I know what to look for, a real connection rather than just some hot guy” etc. and she even referenced Tobias and I was just laughing. Like seriously laughing. Incredible. Like not one word about Morris. Nada.
Then at band practice I was asking the guys what signs they were (Arvid and Amos are Tauruses just like moi) aaaaand Georg is a Libra (haha). But get this - his birthday is on the 29th of September - just like Morris. He said they even met on that day ??? And then!!: I sang Don’t Give Hate A Chance through once and Georg goes “Actually, Morris sang this song as well in his first year” - *micdrop*. Dead. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??? I mean of course, as Julia would say - THE STARS!! The third same song already that we’ve both chosen without knowing about the other in the span of a year ??? But honestly what the actual fuck. What the fuck. When is this gonna end ??? Am I getting him out of my life and my system or nah??? Am I obviously seeing him again??? Why is he still making appearances ???
But get this, this isn’t even the end of it lolz, jadna ja. Posle škole idemo mi u Systemet i ja pitam Georga kao šta mu je to (na švedskom) i on “Wow you have a very Norwegian accent. You should move in with Morris”. (HEAR ME DIE). And I just go “I’d rather stick my eyes out first than do that, but yeah” - “Wow you must really hate him." - “I don’t hate him, I just prefer to not see him again.” - “Yeah I forgot you said that. Funny, you two seem like you would be really good friends.” - “Yeah, we were. We were.” So that was traumatic.
And then Malin and me were talking and blah blah blah and we got to the point where I could finally ask her “But weren’t you and Morris a thing?” and she was like “Me and Morris? Nah.” So turns out they were never really a thing. Ever. They just had really good chemistry on stage but nothing comparable in real life (tko nekak kot Hliši in js). And I told her I’m sorry about deliberately not coming to the shows bcs they were just too much for me to handle at that time, but honestly - it might’ve seemed like that on stage, but in real life she was just stressing about Tobias. No Morris in sight. Strange. I mean she said she had considered it but it just wasn’t there. I don’t know what he had told her about me, but she seemed like she knew his part of the story. I wish I had pushed her a bit more to tell me what that was but hey, I think she’d be on his “side” anyway bcs she was like “We did however grow really close and I understand why he did some things the way he did, when some people have misconceptions about him”. I didn’t wanna talk about it more. I did however make a mistake - I said I hadn’t forgiven him for what he had done. When in reality idk I think I have. Or at least I’d like to have people who know him to think that. So they can assure him it’s gone and done. It’s really not though, it still haunts me actually. “Easily” came up and nah it just felt weird. I don’t want to mention him around these people ever again. Ever ever again. He is locked in a safe now. Unlocked only when the tides change in my advantage.
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THIS WEEK IN SCHADENFREUDE, Alabama’s Iron Bowl loss reveals that the Playoff itself is just a conspiracy to stop the Tide
Your weekly sojourn through the most upset in college football internet runs through Tuscaloosa.
(It should be noted that the weekend’s actual most upset fans were at Tennessee, but this post is about games only.)
Alabama got dominated in the Iron Bowl, falling from No. 1 in the rankings, losing the SEC West to Auburn, and putting its College Football Playoff fate in jeopardy. It was the Tide’s first loss of the season and 20th in more than a decade of Nick Saban.
Let’s tour Bama Fan Internet and see how it responded.
The most ironclad conspiracy theories
Is the very existence of the Playoff part of a plot to ruin Alabama’s title hopes?
This thread at the Tide’s 247Sports message board answers the hard questions.
We need to Remember why the playoff was created.
It was created to stop Alabama. (Sec post 2011) The rest of the teams wanted Alabama to have to win two big games to win the championship. They also didn't want hot teams at the end of the season to miss a chance to neutralize Alabama with the awesome play late. It has worked two of the first three years of the playoff. It will not work this year if they let Alabama in. We will win both games. Mark it down.
It may well go even deeper than that. College football’s powers have been trying to stem the Tide ever since the Associated Press awarded them the national title before they lost the 1964 season’s Orange Bowl to Texas.
Is something deeper at play preventing Damien Harris from getting more carries?
One poster’s freshman daughter is friends with the Tide’s starting running back’s girlfriend, allegedly. And it seems like we’re headed for a break in the case.
im getting to the bottom of it hopefully
My daughter is a freshman at bama, she's become good friends with Damien Harris's gf, she sees him a couple of times a week at the sorority house and talks to him while he's there. Shes gonna ask him why he's been getting so few carries lately. Maybe he'll give an honest answer cause it makes no sense why he wasn't fed the ball against auburn and several other times throughout the year... stay tuned
Stay tuned.
Is Ohio State going to lose the Big Ten championship game on purpose to guarantee Wisconsin a Playoff spot in the name of conference solidarity, potentially changing Bama’s outlook for the No. 4 seed?
How important is it to the Big 10
To get a team into the playoffs? Would Ohio St. throw the game against Wisconsin to guarantee that spot in the playoffs? A lot of people still believe that Wisconsin laid down and allowed Ohio St. to steam roll them to get Ohio St. in. I know it sounds like quite the conspiracy, but...
I mean, who’s to say they’re not.
The most obvious suggestions to get better
Phase 1: Fire first-year offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, a five-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots who leads the nation’s No. 12 scoring offense.
Brian Dabol needs to be fired .
This offense has gotten worse under him.
Phase 2:
Mac from Florida needs a job, bring him back!
Saban’s old offensive coordinator from Florida needs a job, bring him back....
The real problem is Alabama’s recruiting, which might drop off from No. 1 in the country this year to somewhere lower in the top 10.
With our recruiting lagging,
things don't look so well right now. I do believe that they need to re-evaluate this whole deal.
rtr
(The actual reason for Bama’s slower 2018 class is scholarship limits, fwiw.)
Actually, maybe the problem’s the QB, who was one play from a national championship as a true freshman the year prior before being outdueled by the NFL’s best rookie quarterback.
Bama will NEVER win a national championship with Jalen Hurts
Saban should have given Tua a shot in the 4th quarter to spark the offense. Another lost season for Bama. Disappointing.
Here’s a totally unrelated photograph I found:
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
The most comprehensive piece of advice
@AlabamaFTBL you have one game to win in any season and this was a massive loss. Guess @CoachDaboll needs replaced. @JalenHurts needs to sit. We need a QB, not a runningback. @NickSabanUofA may be out of magic. Seems we might need to make some changes.
— I R Foof (@I_R_Foof) November 26, 2017
The most passionate tweets sent to Bama’s offensive coordinator during the game, in case he’d been checking Twitter.
@CoachDaboll you’re gonna get fired
— josh c (@josh_c1995) November 25, 2017
@CoachDaboll Fuck You!
— Garret Cook (@gibbousquan98) November 25, 2017
@CoachDaboll why?why why why do you have a running back as big Scarborough and you run him sideways?!? Shit! How many damn years of watching this same shit do bama fans have to endure?
— Nicholas Daniel (@nicdaniel4UA) November 25, 2017
@CoachDaboll you suck
— josh c (@josh_c1995) November 25, 2017
@CoachDaboll DIAL IT UP
— Pats(7-2) (@KFCGodfather) November 25, 2017
Later, an addendum:
@CoachDaboll PLEASE DIAL IT UP
— Pats(7-2) (@KFCGodfather) November 25, 2017
DIAL IT UP.
Damn @CoachDaboll what about some damn slants
— Ken Morris (@bikecop24) November 25, 2017
Get. Your. Head. Out. Of. Your. Ass. @CoachDaboll
— Colby Murray (@Colbylm) November 25, 2017
Calls for Bama to just run the damn ball:
Endless.
The Tide’s last national championship offensive coordinator weighed in by just happening to cite his own team’s rushing stats.
Hmmm. Who isn't on here??? Come to #thefaU http://pic.twitter.com/SmVcNF9bRN
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 26, 2017
If u want to win rivalry games. Run the BALL!!! Come to #thefaU #5forheisman https://t.co/MMpPr3S9ip
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 27, 2017
Is there now a surely ironic Twitter account dedicated to sharing all calls for Saban to be fired?
There is:
Breaking news Nick Saban arrested by Alabama State Police for first degree murder of the Tide football program. http://pic.twitter.com/MBxFBztPAJ
— Fire Nick Saban (@FireSaban) November 26, 2017
And other postgame analysis
A bit earlier, from the game thread at SB Nation’s Roll Bama Roll, some comments:
Welp thats game
Fuck this team. Coach im counting on you to give this sack of shit of a coaching staff all hell tonight tomorrow fuck it give it to them until next year. This is fucking embarrasing and if anyine doesnt feel that way and is wearing crimson and white on that bench send them packing. I dont care if its a five star freshman or a coach. Send a gad dam message.
And this nice exchange between friends:
One of the cool things about any time Bama loses a game is that legions of Tide fans record YouTube instant reaction videos. And, hoo boy, have we some treats.
This guy claims he punched out his wall.
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“The Eagles come in and ruin my perfect season,” our man says. “Now I was all happy and everything because Bama was winning. Now Bama is not winning. They got an L, a loss. And now, now it’s gonna change things. Are they gonna make the national champions? Are they gonna get into the SECs? I just don’t know.”
Expect an invoice for the damages to arrive in Tuscaloosa soon.
“When I gotta pay to get the new wall done, I’m gonna send the bill to Alabama.”
Here’s another Bama fan eating “one of the hardest damn crows I’ve ever had to eat”
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The points made here are pretty regular and reasonable, but stop by for the excellent glasses:
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In the end, Alabama was the real winner here, because the Tide experienced no joy whatsoever.
From the 247 board, in response to Auburn fans having fun after winning the SEC West:
The last time Alabama fans rushed the field? Probably the early 1990's at Legion field (Might have been the 1990 win over the booger-eaters), and it was NOT a mass event, but only about 20-30 drunk students, many of whom felt the sting of Birmingham's finest who were on the field waiting for them. Lots and lots of upset Mommies and Daddies after their drunk darlings got bllly-clubbed and/or arrested!! LOL!!!
It probably HAS happened at some point in Alabama history, but I cannot recall an "en masse" rushing of the field by Alabama fans at any time in my life.
There's a reason the SEC (and EVERY OTHER MAJOR CONFERENCE) bans it - and not just because its Classless and "Bush League" - but because its Very DANGEROUS, both for the trashy fans running out on the field, as well as for the players and staff of the losing team. People are invariably injured in these "mob scenes" - often seriously, but you don't hear about it because the schools ALWAYS keep it on the "down low"
Now, a quick whip around some other fan bases whose teams lost.
Michigan
Lost to Ohio State for the sixth time in a row.
A basic summary of how that went:
Comments are off at MGoBlog. They'll be back when I feel like it.
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) November 26, 2017
Notre Dame
Lost 38-20 at Stanford, the result of a swift, epic collapse.
Would Bob Stoops come out of retirement, less than a year after leaving a good job at Oklahoma, to take over the Irish? The evidence that he would is mounting, folks.
I sort of wondered because he bought 2 expensive houses next door to each other in Chicago recently.
Why would you buy houses there? I sort of wondered if he took this year off to watch his boys play HS football as seniors. I wondered if maybe he was waiting in the wings to take the ND job, and maybe already had contact with ND for when Kelly was let go.. I have mixed emotions. He wins a lot. He loses the really big game most of the time (NC). He had tons of criminal type players at ou, I am not sure if it could work out or not. He is Catholic. I also wonder if he is ok healthwise. It is interesting to think about.
Food for thought, indeed.
Mississippi State
Lost the Egg Bowl to Ole Miss, then had its former AD who now works for Florida hire away maybe the best coach in program history.
Scott Stricklin The Traitor
Scott Stricklin is now the biggest traitor to our university of all time.
Some folks are our enemies and big pieces of shit like Ole Miss folks. These people actively try to hurt us and they hate us. However, all of these folks we knew hated us and we never expected them to like us.
However, to have one of your own intentionally hurt your program this bad for his own personal gain, you are far worse than any of the others.
From your enemy you can protect yourself. You can fight them, you know who they are and you can build your defenses.A traitor is someone you have trusted like a brother, and you know he is a traitor only after being betrayed.... The enemy is in the open, the traitor is moving in the dark.
Stricklin should never be allowed to step foot on campus as a friend again. Hugh Freeze is now more respected by me than Stricklin is. Hippocrates suck but there is no one worse than a traitor.
It’s not clear what this person thought Stricklin’s job would be once he left Mississippi State. But I’m sure the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates would disapprove.
South Carolina
Lost 34-10 to Clemson. This post is about Clemson, I’m pretty sure:
Tater Tots have The Answer!
Recruit with attorneys! Turnupseed from ALA? Daba Dabe do knew what he was doing I think is the answer. Bringing the e-factor's dad (whom was in jail in Florence to a Jail in Greenville) just as he is visiting taterville and BOOM he is a tater with a Caddy and a bag full of money. By the way, Turnipseed came from Ala about 4 years ago
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