#David Fitzsimmons

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star

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Across Florida, spontaneous demonstrations against Ron DeSantis' gutting of public education. This summer, Iris Mogul – a junior at a Miami high school – found out that she wouldn’t be able to take an AP African American history course that she had planned for the coming semester because it had been blocked by the state’s department of education.

“As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,” the department said in a statement. “It felt so far away when I first heard about all of this,” says Mogul, who only had a passing knowledge of book challenges and changes to school curriculum previously. “But that is really when it hit me – when it started to affect me directly.”

Now, Mogul is prominent among the growing number of students and parents in Miami-Dade county and across Florida who are speaking out in opposition to book challenges, the capture of Florida school boards by conservative activists and this summer’s latest policy changes, which includes the expansion of DeSantis’s Parental Rights in Education Act.

[‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans]

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ If candidates had honest descriptions rather than names printed on the ballot.

If you’ve already voted, contact friends to make sure they have as well.

[kenneturner]

Oh, This Is Going To Be Easy

Caricature by Dave Fitzsimmons and Images by Joy Joy invited me to attend this month’s luncheon meeting of the Old Pueblo Women’s Club, which took place at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon. The speaker was Dave Fitzsimmons, a recently retired internationally known journalist/cartoonist. At one point in his amusing presentation, he walked over to our table and said, “Isn’t this a woke organization, and…

[fitzsimp]

i wish i could write a bunch of fics perfect for me and then forget that i wrote them so i could read them

[1jemmagirl22]

Look, when I said I wanted Genya and David. 

Did it have to be fucking this level of angst (with Nikolai saying “danger” in the back)

Cause like, I haven’t felt this much anxiety over mass amounts of ship angst since Fitzsimmons was in its prime. 

And this one didn't help matters either. 

David is gonna kill me next season. 

[modgirlyreposts-revamped]

Millie watching the cops chew her gramps out after they find out that he’s partially the reason why Clayton is in the hospital

[casualoptimist]

Notable YA Covers of 2023

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 499: Fair warning

[polkadotjohnson]

To come out this year (2024)

Afraid (formerly They Listen) (dir: Chris Weitz, est. release date August)

Rosario (dir: Felipe Vargas, est. release date September)

In Search of Darkness 90s (dir: David A. Weiner, November)

Horror's Greatest (Marwar Junction Productions, release date August)

No release date as of yet:

Dust Bunny (dir: Bryan Fuller)

The Life of Chuck (dir: Mike Flanagan)

Murderbot (TV)

One Piece (TV)

Lost short films:

The Pandora Experiment (dir. Mike L. Taylor, Matt Steinauer, Collier Landry)

Arc of a bird (from the director of Cass, Hugh Schulze. David plays the same character)

Credits (dir. Hugh Schulze)

Head Case (dir. Collin Schiffli, Bradley Jakubik)

Band (dir. Collin Schiffli)

Keen (dir. Jimmy McDermott)

Say When (dir. Greg Fitzsimmons)

Tweet Me in NY (dir. Traven Rice)

All the Pretty Girls (dir. ???) (Robert Goldman perhaps?)

Girls Will Be Girls 2012 (not a short) (dir: Richard Day. From Reddit: I heard the director, Richard Day, had some technical setbacks with not being familiar with green screen work/a lot of his work being lost when his hard drive crashed. According to Coco Peru, it's in some sort of post-production limbo state, so who knows?)

Also apparently this got successfully backed on Kickstarter, so maybe we should kick some start into the director's butt?/cringe

Things to keep an eye on:

Hide Your Eyes (written by David, dir. Erica Scoggins, could be in development hell)

Can't Stop the Dawn (dir. Marianna Palka or Tony Armer, status unknown) (could also be called "Terminal Kill")

Jack and Jill (unknown, mentioned in Dast's old webpage)

Her Director (unknown, mentioned in Dast's old webpage)

One and Only (an (old) screenplay by Eve)

Knights vs Samurai (comic book project with Todd McFarlane and Federico Mele)

Creature Commando (comic book with Jesús Hervás)

Headless Horseman (comic book with Lukas Ketner)

DC Horror Presents (comic book with Jesús Hervás)

Other things I'm looking for

No Calls, Please (Funny or Die sketch)

Master Class (Funny or Die sketch)

Master Class II (Funny or Die sketch)

Axe commercial from 2010 (mentioned in old blog)

Ad against smoking (mentioned in Steve Agee's podcast)

BestBuy commercial (mentioned in 3conimics' hater's blog)

WATCH

(1) Various

(2) Various

(3) Cass & Under the Pyramid

(4) Double Black

(5) Various

(6) Shortcake

(7) Cora

First two links might not work on mobile because it sure as hell isn't working on mine but it's just the links to my Vimeo and YouTube playlists, you can see them on the header of the blog

[the-offical-raishas-circus]

Fnaf Free roam game ideas!

- you play as post-scoop Micheal Afton (but sometimes as other security guards)

- You play between sister location and Pizzeria Sim 

- you can explore the pizzerias, the town, the SL bunker, ect…

- you are able to separate mike’s soul from his body for a little while to go into the “dreamscape” (the spirit world void that is black, purple and blue) 

- you are able to meet spirits in the void and talk to them (and run the hell away when you find Cassidy)

- William isn’t allowed in the dreamscape because he sucks

- the in game reason is because he’s in a spring lock suit (doesn’t apply to GF because he doesn’t have a endo)

- you have to hide before you go into the dreamscape because no one wants to see a rotting corpse on the sidewalk 

- multiple endings, on of which is the Arson ending and it’s exactly what it sounds like

- You can get Achievements 

- get a achievement for having a polite conversation with Millie Fitzsimmons (she’s hiding in the dreamscape because Molten Freddy is arguing again)

- Cassidy exists to hunt you down and scream at you

- when you encounter her she yaps at you about how much she hates William

- when you turn the volume down she turns it back up and goes “OH NO YOU ARE NOTT ALLOWED TO IGNORE MEE 😡” and starts again from the beginning 

- her dialogue is unskipable 

- you also get sidequests from the spirits

- such as finding (ughhhhhh this name 😭) David’s little Fred bear plush and giving it to him (he gives Mike a big hug and says thank you. Cassidy decides that maybe you aren’t so bad after all. This doesn’t mean she likes you though)

- Elizabeth’s side quest is that you have to find Scrap Baby a tiara otherwise she stabs you with her claw. (She’s happy once you get her tiara though. You can sometimes find her in the dreamscape and if you have done the tiara quest you can give her a hug. She doesn’t mind. Much.)

-A item you can get (read: steal) is a wig and then you can wear it. It does nothing and its definition is “a really cool wig. Look like your hair before it all fell out. It sucks being dead.💀”

If anyone else wants to add anything feel free!!! Anything goes!!! THIS IS NOT LORE ACCURATE. IT IS A FANGAME. PLEASE DO NOT START FIGHTING OVER THIS!!!!

[officermaddie23]

Not alone after all and the garden of hope among us alignment chart

Gets killed immediately

Glamrock Bonnie

Sebastian Jones

Bones

Chet Worthington

Is sus of everyone the detective

Vanessa Afton

Maddie Drachenfire

Mel Jones

Master Tyro

The imposter that gets caught immediately

Coraline Jones (She always gets busted by her mom)

Keensight

Gregory (let's just say that Maddie Drachenfire can see directly through Gregory's lies)

Steve Va`Dyn (often gets caught trying to vent away after he kills a crewmate)

Knows who the imposter is but no one believes them

Seven

Oswald

Redscar (he keeps on pressing the emergency meeting button)

Jacques

Everyone trusts that is not the imposter

Claws Henderson

Jerry Henderson

Mr. B

Wolfy

Night Terror

Has a mental breakdown because their card won't swipe

Montgomery Gator

Derick The Animatronic Dragon

Terrance Trevor

David

Kai Henderson

Doris Worthington

Dragozilla Henderson

Is the imposter that never gets caught

Charlie Jones (no one really suspects him)

Six

Cassie

Millie Fitzsimmons

Sarah Trevor

@mellowwolflady this basically sums up the casts of both fics playing among us lol

[ink-stained-clouds]

hi!! what are some of your favorite readings, books, essays, articles, etc on sociology? i’d love to maybe see what class readings you’re doing

Hi anon!

I have a whole bunch of recommendations, no books, unfortunately. Actually, scratch that, I have one but it's actually a history book! I found it to be sociologically fascinating, though. It's The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks. It's a really interesting take on decolonizing the study of history and our understanding of how the west became the global superpower

To be honest, I don't know what book chapters I was reading for my theory class, our professor only sent us pdf scans. If you're interested in the philosophic origins of sociology, I am happy to try to hunt down the reference for you. Personally, I'm not a big philosophy fan so I can't speak to how good it was lol

Scholarly articles

Clover, Carol J. 1987. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” Representations, 20: 187-228. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2928507.

Sowles, Shaina J., Monique McLeary, Allison Optican, Elizabeth Cahn, Melissa J. Krauss, Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft, Denise E. Wilfley, and Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg. 2018. “A content analysis of an online pro-eating disorder community on Reddit.” Body Image, 24: 137-144. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.01.001.

Berbrier, Mitch. 1999. “Impression Management for the Thinking Racist: A Case Study of Intellectualization as Stigma Transformation in Contemporary White Supremacist Discourse.” The Sociological Quarterly, 40(3): 411-433.

Kwate, Naa Oyo A. 2008. “Fried chicken and fresh apples: Racial segregation as a fundamental cause of fast food density in black neighborhoods.” Health & Place, 14(1): 32-44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.04.001. (I read this one in a class years ago and it's always stuck with me, highly recommend)

Snow, David A. and Leon Anderson. 1987. “Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities.” American Journal of Sociology, 92(6): 1336-1371. Doi: 10.1086/228668. (a really interesting application of identity work, which is one of my favorite sociological frameworks)

West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender and Society, 1(2): 125-151. doi: https://www.jstor.org/stable/189945. (a classic! essential sociological reading, you may have come across it already)

Non-scholarly articles and essays (that are all very sociological in my opinion)

Being an Honorary White Person Doesn't Make Us More Powerful

How the '5-Minute-Face' Became the $5,000 Face

Why We Should Talk About What Kyrsten Sinema Is Wearing (Tressie McMillan Cottom is a phenomenal sociologist! I recommend all her writing)

Selfies, Surgeries, And Self-Loathing: Inside the Facetune Epidemic

“ain’t i a woman?” on the irony of trans-exclusion by black and african feminists (one of my personal favorites)

Poor People Deserve To Taste Something Other Than Shame (I return to this one often)

Violent Delights (a really interesting commentary on the cultural fascination with true crime)

Podcasts

Sage Sociology

Give Theory a Chance

Maintenance Phase (not technically sociology but very sociological in my opinion)

Unfortunately, I don't really have any books to recommend but if anyone else does I'd love to get some recs too!

I also try to post a round-up of all my reads under my monthly reads tag if you're looking for more suggestions, though it seems I haven't been particularly consistent ope

Thank you for the ask, anon. It was fun going through my notes and finding all these!! Please feel free to reach out with any recommendations of your own :)

[grapehyasynth]

hi hi

for the never have i ever writer asks, have you ever written childhood friends to lovers?

-miels 💜✨

hi!!! my first reaction when i saw this ask come in was "HAVE I EVER!!!" but let's check the actual data

i have not written childhood friends to lovers for wilmon

i wrote two high school friends to lovers for david and patrick (a kind much closer than friends use and Stuck on your heart, caught in your web), but After all these years is my most traditional childhood friends to lovers

I wrote a LOT of friends to lovers for Fitzsimmons, but they were usually university age or older. They're childhood friends in my Mansfield Park and Love Rosie aus!

lord i wrote so much fitzsimmons fic!!! come back to me my muse come back to meeee

[fxreflyes]

🎵!!!

(Don’t mind the sudden follow, I accidentally clicked the follow button instead of the ask 😬)

hi cate!! 🥰 (omg no worries I have done that!! Yet another questionable UI feature of tumblr.com that the follow & ask buttons r so close together)

a playlist for u!! 💕 Not sure why u got so much Bowie but here we are! :)

send me a 🎵 and I’ll put my music on shuffle and give you a 5 song playlist <3

[tfc2211]

Play ▶ Music Compilation

Simon & Garfunkel - 7 O'clock News/Silent Night Vince Guaraldi Trio - Cast Your Fate To The Wind Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener Will Kimbrough - A Couple Hundred Miracles Chris Smither - Make Room For Me Amos Lee - One Lonely Light The Be Good Tanyas - Lonesome Blues Weinland - Hey Hey What Can I Do Allen Ginsberg - Laughing Song The Incredible String Band - Little Cloud Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Bells Beth Scalet - All Along The Watchtower William Fitzsimmons - Farewell Angelina (Bonus Track) Dan Bern - World David Bowie - I Dig Everything Danny Kroha - Lonesome Valley Eric Bibb - Connected (Acoustic Version) Greg Brown - Fooled Me Once The Holmes Brothers - I'm So Lonely Grateful Dead - My Brother Esau (Live at The Centrum, Worchester, MA (10/21/83)

[1jemmagirl22]

Me still not having completed the Percy Jackson series cause I hate even the barest hint of love triangles and need to prepare via fanfiction for a few weeks: I should wiki fandom the sequel series in preparation.

Me after discovering what happens to Percy and Annabeth in the sequel series: Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me! Is it physically impossible for every author I have ever read to not use memory loss or the pits of hell as a tool for relationship angst! Can’t you people just right physical separation or touch leads to death because magic like the nicer angst writers?!

Me, a day later, considering the series because Jason and Piper intrigue me and weighing the torture of the Percabeth angst: Oh fuck it! I know they end up together and everything that happens to them has happened to Fitzsimmons but ten times worse. By flat default I’d rather read the fall into Tartarus than David Kostyk’s death, Heroes of Olympus it is.