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9-1-1 -> 2x16 ❝ bobby begins again ❞

+ bonus: after finally meeting many years later

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Do not forget our journalists in Ghazzah, do not forget our people in Ghazzah. 200 days.

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Absolutely in love with how much depth 7x03 added to Bobby just by showing us what he must’ve been like when he was a young firefighter who hadn’t been promoted to captain yet. There’s the physical ability that reminds you that he was literally born and raised to do this job, and makes you imagine what stunts he was pulling when he was 30 years younger and hadn’t broken his back yet. The quick thinking and leadership skills that he’s been honing for his entire life. The level of calm and care he showed to the others that tells you that people must’ve felt so safe in his hands even on the worst day of their life. Everything about this episode showed just how good he was at this job and how he earned his promotion.

And then there’s the absolute devastation he felt when he lost Wes that suddenly makes it crystal clear how this job he loves so much set him on the path to alcoholism. The ease with which he shut off his own pain and stress to focus on moving forward and taking care of the others that makes it clear how nobody might’ve seen that he needed help with coping until it was too late. The fact that his actions were so reminiscent of Buck that Athena made the comparison out loud, and you understand that he’s so strict with Buck now because in his youth he was Buck and he knows how he turned out, so he does everything he can to give Buck the guidance and support he needs not to self-destruct like he did. You can also see in this episode how he knows that being good at the job is not enough and why he makes sure his team takes care of themselves just as much as the people they save.

He is a fourth-generation firefighter and this job has shaped so much of who he is from the day he was born and 7x03 just did such a good job of showing that

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we definitely didn’t focus on this enough because what the actual fuck. he looks so hot yet soft in that hoodie with his hands in the pockets and he’s going ‘hey’ all confident, even though he’s nervous as hell about why buck wanted to meet up with him. but he’s also built and the outline of his tits and his nipples are showing. HE’S BREASTING BOOBILY like HELLO

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So am i not seeing this right or was Buck really emotional here, like his eyes are all teary? Like once he starts talking about being ready for something, trying to convince Tommy that this is real and how much taking this leap with him means to him.

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Ok I do need get back into shakes, eating yogurt and using pre-workout

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ldpdl, ethnicity, and the false monolith of blackness

there's this false tendency to think amc louis being made black is pandering, or a means of removing louis from his oh-so-detailed /sarcasm/ background in the books. i also find that people tend to not even understand what show louis's ethnic background is, despite rolin jones the showrunner and even the fictional louis both coalescing around this multigenerational explanation of the gens de couleur in new orleans, and how jim crow disempowered them.

I came around to his ethnicity a sort of interesting way which is through Lestat. [ … ] I was like lets give him a legitimate a third attempt at figuring how to be with somebody for the rest of his life and how to not repeat your mistakes. [ … ] I started from there so it had to be someone with some money cause he had to be with his own folks and I thought he wanted someone who could fight back and who could be a challenge and would force him to restrain himself. And nobody at AMC was interested in 7 seasons of the regretful plantation owner, so we made Louis come from a lineage that did have a plantation and did own slaves.

rolin jones in the s1 post-finale episode of the podcast names how he came to this understanding of louis's character. lestat, after failing to make a bride of his mother, and a concubine of nicki, was seeking for someone of a similar background, or the most approximate equivalent. he would not have been interested in louis if louis was an anglophone baptist black man descended from upper-south arrivals into new orleans, nor would he have been interested in louis if louis was a poor black creole honestly s1 does not give a good reading of claudia's ethnic bg in new orleans, but since she cannot understand french, we can presume shes either a poor creole removed from her cultural background with her vampiric adoption narrative in mind, or was also of an anglophone baptist black background like claudia was. louis coming from this fallen sort of gentry, the free gens de couleur, similar to that of the tvl lestat who came from this barren aristocracy dating back to the crusades, was key to lestat's long-term goals with louis.

Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather but did not have his standing. But then decades of Jim Crow and the electrified light of a new century had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. - AMC IWTV 1x01

louis was of the first generations of the gens de couleur to be born, raised into, and face the institutional and personal ramifications of being viewed as black in america. this fuels much of the character's rage as he moves through storyville, trying to continue the similar modality of exploitation to the contrary of pretty baby with brooke shields, majority of the brothel circuit was statistically black girls + women being sexually pawned off to white men but ultimately failing to do so bc of the anglophone white american class that now rules over him. [tom anderson, alderman fenwick, finn o’shea starting out as louis’s subordinate then ending w/ him entering whiteness by having a sporting house throwing torches at louis’s brothel in s1e3]

By 1850, the free population of color, beset by the hostility of white supremacy, was economically diminished and residentially segregated. The Americanization of Louisiana, and in particular New Orleans, was completed before the state became the sixth to secede from the Union in 1861 in the struggle over the perpetuation of slavery. [link] The Democratic redeemers who came to power in 1877 lost no time in redefining the Negro's "place" in Louisiana life. They immediately restored the color line in the New Orleans public schools and offered silent support to de facto segregation practices in places of public accommodation. With the assistance of two landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court, the redeemers soon dismantled the egalitarian legal apparatus put together piece by piece under the Radicals. Finally in 1890 they began to write their "final solution" into Louisiana law with a series of "separate but equal" statutes. Soon New Orleans Negroes were again segregated in virtually every public pursuit. [link]

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Unseen Japan, ANN and the likes not mentioning, not talking about Japanese #withHandala campaign struck me as taking the side of Zionists because lots of mangaka and Japanese artists participated in this

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur’s Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Astarion/Wyll (Baldur’s Gate), Ulder Ravengard & Wyll, Astarion & Ulder Ravengard Characters: Astarion (Baldur’s Gate), Wyll (Baldur’s Gate), Ulder Ravengard Additional Tags: Past Abuse, Past Sexual Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Praise Kink, Safeword Use, Panic Attacks, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Established Relationship, Domestic Disputes, foreplay happens but things stop before they can go further, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, (Imagined) Canon-Typical Violence Series: Part 4 of An Acorn in the Moonlight Summary:

Astarion is getting more and more angry about Ulder’s apparent inability to show affection to his son. After a fight, he decides he wants to heap praise on Wyll to make up for Ulder’s flaws.

It goes worse than expected.

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tommy on his date with buck having his top button unbuttoned showing off his slutty chest and having his sleeves rolled up on a shirt that showed how physically massive he was… he was really trying to seduce him huh

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I'm speechless but I'm so happy that's young people in all the world are with us whats happening in usa universities is powerful i never thought this going to happen I'm so happy guys of this support.

What is happening means that us around all the world humans love each other but the governments don't want that.

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HMMM 🤔

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No way

This is the most racist man in history.

Just stop financing a genocide... I'm basically a 1 issue coterie at this point, but this fuckhead thinks menthol are gonna move the needle?

@ubernegro @meanmisscharles

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James baldwin’s the artists struggle for identity. Btw.

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Did we miss the part where Biden's stance on Palestine is uniquely aggressive and oppressive even in the context/low bar of American politics. I feel like I'm losing my mind everytime someone brings up a hypothetical "well it could be worse" when the Gaza strip has dealt with the equivalent impact to a fucking nuclear assault.

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And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians, we hear a voice that is louder than their voices and their bombs.

Link to the IG reel