#Kip Benson

[aprileclipsestudios]

So... Kipo

So yesterday I started watching Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts. I’m on season 2 episode 7 right now and it’s really good. I cried watching s1 e4, because I had a few spoilers from watching someone react to it a while back, so I already knew what happened to Kip’s mom, and knowing that during s1 e4 made me cry. I’m watching Kipo as I’m writing this. 

Also, Kipo sound like Glimmer from She-Ra and Benson was in the show Bella and the Bulldogs.

Also, I think I might have a crush on Kipo. I love her so fricking much, seriously, she’s adorable and kind. She makes me smile and I want to be there for her, with her so much. 

Wolf is adorable. She can definitely protect herself otherwise she would be on my list. She is precious.

Also, GAY.

Thank you for coming to this confusing hell of a thing. I don’t even know what to call this.

[benslersupremacy]

💌

ahhh the letter. certainly not what we expected, but i am content with what we got. it bothers me a little that they demonized kathy, but hey eo shippers have been doing that for years. also we practically begged them to make a thing out of it. we should take what we can get!

essentially the letter was kathy trying to “help” elliot talk to olivia again. elliot couldn’t bring himself to speak to her after all this time. he didn’t know how. and for some reason, kathy thought it’d be a good idea to make it seem like whatever feelings they had for each other weren’t real. like that would make things less awkward or something. but elliot couldn’t help but let it be known that he loved her, hence the “but in a parallel universe... it will always be you and i”

kathy dies. and he still gives her the letter anyway. they had a hard time talking during the time kathy was still alive. it was a lot of arguing honestly. and rightfully so! he disappeared for ten years! elliot, tried himself to see if he could maybe get them to talk normally, but it didn’t work. so now his wife’s dead. but, he still wants to talk to his old best friend. nothing else worked, so maybe it’s time to try what if his wife wanted. maybe this will make it easier to talk. so he gives her the letter despite everything

even though they do seem to speak a little bit better, he still regrets it. he doesn’t want liv to continue thinking that’s how he felt. so a drugged up elliot goes off to tell her that it’s not true. and the only true part is that it would always be them

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[ambitiousauthor]

Kipo characters in a nutshell:

Kipo: enthusiasm!!!!

Wolf: touch starved.

Benson: nicest boy

Dave: muscle bug

Mandu: cheeto pig

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison in Paris, France, January 1964; photo by Harry Benson.

"[George] read on, and he said that it wasn’t all bad, but there were ways of putting it right, for instance... and another thing, and then there was this and that. And so we began to collaborate, and so we have done, ever since." - Derek Taylor, I Me Mine

Excerpts from George’s Daily Express columns, ghostwritten by Derek Taylor:

[15 January 1964] “The people who owned the Olympia Theatre paid for the trip and laid on caviar, smoked salmon — and milk. I think I would have preferred an egg sandwich. [...] We seem to have a lot of curiosity value here. The French wonder what it is about four long-haired lads which has made such an impact in England and Germany.”

[16 January 1964] “The phone rang ‪at about 10 a.m.‬ and an English girl’s voice said: ‘I’m ringing from London. Is Paul there?’ I said: ‘No. He’s kipping. Who’s that?’ She giggled a bit and I realized it was a fan.”

24 Jan 1964: “A fan writes here to tell me: ‘I’d like to love all four Beatles. But John’s married, Paul’s going out with someone, my best friend loves Ringo. That leaves you, so I love you.’ 
It’s a round-the-corner compliment, but everyone needs someone to love them so I’m flattered. We’re all flattered. We love fan mail and I hope it never stops. […] Thank you all for writing.”

[7 Feb 1964] “With so much happening during the last year we’ve built a defense mechanism to keep things in perspective. We’ve become blasé deliberately because if we hadn’t we’d have gone round the bend with nervous excitement.br> We’ve been getting most of our kicks from soft things — like singing the wrong line or nearly missing a plane.” (x)

[queridaz]

[ID: 10 kataow valentines on sky blue and lilac backgrounds with white comic sans text. 1: kipo with "i kip-on falling for you". 2: benson with "you make my heart flip like a flapjack". 3: dave with "girl, are you my limbs? cause you're falling off of me— i mean for me". 4: wolf with "this lone wolf would join a pack for you <3". 5: troy and benson kissing with "oh, you're single? couldn't be us." 6: camille with "you rock like an umlaut snäke!" 7: dr. emilia with "i love you as much as i hate dr. emilia". 8: hugo with "we were scarle-made for each other". 9: mega jaguar kipo with "my love for you is bigger than even the mega jaguar". 10: yumyan with "yumyan loves you all!!!" in all caps. END ID]

happy valentine's day! mwah! <3

[kipo-is-a-big-cat]

What I want to see in Kip season 3:

Emilia being killed

Angst

Fluff

Wolf's real name

Kipo going crazy/wild/feral

Kipo acting like a cat

Another mega jaguar

Why Kipo is pink

Awesome music(we already know this is going to happen though)

Emilia being killed

Leo and Song adopting Wolf and Benson

The gang having a house in Timber Cat Village

Benson x Troy scenes

Kipo and Wolf being sisters

More Asher and Dahlia scenes

All the mute gangs teaming up

Enemies saving/helping each other

Jamack joining the pack and becoming their fruncle

Epic fight scenes(we know this is happening)

Emilia being killed

Cool new songs

More mute species that have made societies

More mega mute species being introduced

Mandu being adorable

Added:

What happened to Asher and Dahlias parents

I want Emilia dead, no redemption for her.

I feel like I'm missing some, so I might add some later.

[kwebtv]

Loves Me, Loves Me Not  -  CBS  -  March 20, 1977 - April 27, 1977

Sitcom (6 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Susan Dey as Jane Benson

Kenneth "Kip" Gilman as Dick Phillips

Art Metrano as Tom

Phyllis Glick as Sue

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bi jock vibes

Addison

Amir

Allie

Anderson

Bryce

Byron

Beck

Bex

Benson

Bridget

Casey

Corbin

Collin

Cassidy

Connie

Dean

Declan

Dory

Everette

Ever

Elian

Elizabeth

Fern

Gidget

Giselle

Golda

Gabby

Heidi

Hayden

Helena

Isla

Ivan

Jake

Jack

James

Jamie

Jace

Jase

Jocelyn

Jodie

Jenna

Kim

Kyle

Kylie

Kristin

Kierstin

Kip

Lana

Lorna

Lauren

Lily

Maeby

Miles

Mike

Morgan

Melissa

Neil

Natalie

Nelson

Nora

Olive

Omar

Oak

Oyoke

Pierce

Penelope

Penny

Pat

Poppy

Porter

Paisley

Quinn

Rusle

Rueben

Riley

Rowena

Rosa

Rhonda

Sylvia

Stiles

Sabina

Sable

Summer

Sophie

Sam

Serena

Tae

Tai

Tea

Travis

Tracy

Tara

Wade

Winona

Weston

Xena

Zelda

Zarya

Zarian

[benslersupremacy]

Idk if anyone has said this before or if others think this buttttt after watching svu this week I finally realized that Olivia definitely has a savior complex 😭😭😭😭😭

[thebarsondaily]

Author of the Month (2018)

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Ships/fandoms: 

SVU: Barba & Benson, Barba & Carisi

Leap of Faith: Jonas Nightingale & Carisi (crossover with SVU)

The Path: Jackson Neill & Carisi (crossover with SVU)

Favorite Completed Fic - What About Us? -  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Barba & Benson Or Making a Family  -  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Barba & Benson 

Favorite W.I.P. - Working Something Out  - Leap of Faith AU - Jonas Nightingale &Sonny Carisi 

What inspired you to begin writing fanfiction? Raul Esparza fans on Twitter, discussing a specific scene they wanted to see on the show. I felt like I could contribute something by writing what they wanted. It's been good for me to take a break from writing books that hardly anyone reads, to write fics for people who appreciate them :) 

Do you use a story outline or just let the story go wherever it takes you? I rarely outline, unless the plot is extra complicated. Overthinking a story makes it boring to write. Also, in my experience, trying to follow an outline amounts to forcing a story into certain shapes that aren't necessarily organic. Twists and turns often develop on their own, and I just follow them to their conclusions. 

What helps get you through writer's block? Deadlines. Expectations. Feeling like I'll be letting someone down if I don't get a work finished. 

Do you use music or anything else to help motivate you while you are writing? Please elaborate if you do. I almost always listen to music, sometimes random and sometimes specific playlists. If I have a character who's obsessed with Kip Moore, I listen to Kip Moore while writing. If they like Queen, I listen to Queen, etc. 

Do you have any advice for aspiring fanfiction authors? Write what you want to read, and don't compare yourself to other writers.

Does writing energize or exhaust you? The beginning is exciting. Finishing is energizing. The middle is often exhausting. In general, though, the quicker the words come, the more energizing they are; the slower they come, the more exhausting.

If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be? Write faster. Stop worrying about the end and focus on the current scene.

What was the hardest scene you've ever had to write? Probably a scene in my book Loyalty, but I can't say what it was because that would be a major spoiler. It's essentially the end of the book. It was emotionally difficult for me, I didn't want to write it. As far as the hardest to write, mechanically, though...any scenes that involve subjects with which I'm not really familiar, it's always a challenge to research and then try to make the characters sound like they know what they're talking about.

Do reviews help or hinder your writing process? Help, generally. 

Is there a quote that inspires you? If so, what is it? For writing, the one that I turn to with the most frequency is from Stephen King, about the writing process: "Don't look forward, don't look back." It's a reminder not to worry about the beginning or end of the story while you're writing the middle. Also, my favorite King quote about writing is: "Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do — to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.” 

What is your favorite fanfiction trope to write? Most of the fics I've written seem to revolve around the "revelation of feelings," but I'm not sure I have a favorite. I don't want to write the same thing twice. If I write 50 smut scenes for the same couple, hopefully each of the 50 will be somehow unique.

Do you have any fanfiction recommendations? I haven't read very many, because I started writing fics in Dec. and have put almost all my "free" time into writing them since then. rosehips, motherbearof03, tribalvibe, theoofoof, handfulofdust, but there are other great writers whose stuff I just haven't had time to explore.

[s-c-i-guy]

Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten

Recent calculations tie together two conjectures about gravity, potentially revealing new truths about its elusive quantum nature.

Physicists have wondered for decades whether infinitely dense points known as singularities can ever exist outside black holes, which would expose the mysteries of quantum gravity for all to see. Singularities — snags in the otherwise smooth fabric of space and time where Albert Einstein’s classical gravity theory breaks down and the unknown quantum theory of gravity is needed — seem to always come cloaked in darkness, hiding from view behind the event horizons of black holes. The British physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose conjectured in 1969 that visible or “naked” singularities are actually forbidden from forming in nature, in a kind of cosmic censorship. But why should quantum gravity censor itself?

Now, new theoretical calculations provide a possible explanation for why naked singularities do not exist — in a particular model universe, at least. The findings indicate that a second, newer conjecture about gravity, if it is true, reinforces Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjecture by preventing naked singularities from forming in this model universe. Some experts say the mutually supportive relationship between the two conjectures increases the chances that both are correct. And while this would mean singularities do stay frustratingly hidden, it would also reveal an important feature of the quantum gravity theory that eludes us.

“It’s pleasing that there’s a connection” between the two conjectures, said John Preskill of the California Institute of Technology, who in 1991 bet Stephen Hawking that the cosmic censorship conjecture would fail (though he actually thinks it’s probably true).

The new work, reported in May in Physical Review Letters by Jorge Santos and his student Toby Crisford at the University of Cambridge and relying on a key insight by Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University, unexpectedly ties cosmic censorship to the 2006 weak gravity conjecture, which asserts that gravity must always be the weakest force in any viable universe, as it is in ours. (Gravity is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces; two electrons electrically repel each other 1 million trillion trillion trillion times more strongly than they gravitationally attract each other.) Santos and Crisford were able to simulate the formation of a naked singularity in a four-dimensional universe with a different space-time geometry than ours. But they found that if another force exists in that universe that affects particles more strongly than gravity, the singularity becomes cloaked in a black hole. In other words, where a perverse pinprick would otherwise form in the space-time fabric, naked for all the world to see, the relative weakness of gravity prevents it.

Santos and Crisford are running simulations now to test whether cosmic censorship is saved at exactly the limit where gravity becomes the weakest force in the model universe, as initial calculations suggest. Such an alliance with the better-established cosmic censorship conjecture would reflect very well on the weak gravity conjecture. And if weak gravity is right, it points to a deep relationship between gravity and the other quantum forces, potentially lending support to string theory over a rival theory called loop quantum gravity. The “unification” of the forces happens naturally in string theory, where gravity is one vibrational mode of strings and forces like electromagnetism are other modes. But unification is less obvious in loop quantum gravity, where space-time is quantized in tiny volumetric packets that bear no direct connection to the other particles and forces. “If the weak gravity conjecture is right, loop quantum gravity is definitely wrong,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study who co-discovered the weak gravity conjecture.

The new work “does tell us about quantum gravity,” said Gary Horowitz, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Naked Singularities

In 1991, Preskill and Kip Thorne, both theoretical physicists at Caltech, visited Stephen Hawking at Cambridge. Hawking had spent decades exploring the possibilities packed into the Einstein equation, which defines how space-time bends in the presence of matter, giving rise to gravity. Like Penrose and everyone else, he had yet to find a mechanism by which a naked singularity could form in a universe like ours. Always, singularities lay at the centers of black holes — sinkholes in space-time that are so steep that no light can climb out. He told his visitors that he believed in cosmic censorship. Preskill and Thorne, both experts in quantum gravity and black holes (Thorne was one of three physicists who founded the black-hole-detecting LIGO experiment), said they felt it might be possible to detect naked singularities and quantum gravity effects. “There was a long pause,” Preskill recalled. “Then Stephen said, ‘You want to bet?’”

The bet had to be settled on a technicality and renegotiated in 1997, after the first ambiguous exception cropped up. Matt Choptuik, a physicist at the University of British Columbia who uses numerical simulations to study Einstein’s theory, showed that a naked singularity can form in a four-dimensional universe like ours when you perfectly fine-tune its initial conditions. Nudge the initial data by any amount, and you lose it — a black hole forms around the singularity, censoring the scene. This exceptional case doesn’t disprove cosmic censorship as Penrose meant it, because it doesn’t suggest naked singularities might actually form. Nonetheless, Hawking conceded the original bet and paid his debt per the stipulations, “with clothing to cover the winner’s nakedness.” He embarrassed Preskill by making him wear a T-shirt featuring a nearly-naked lady while giving a talk to 1,000 people at Caltech. The clothing was supposed to be “embroidered with a suitable concessionary message,” but Hawking’s read like a challenge: “Nature Abhors a Naked Singularity.”

The physicists posted a new bet online, with language to clarify that only non-exceptional counterexamples to cosmic censorship would count. And this time, they agreed, “The clothing is to be embroidered with a suitable, truly concessionary message.”

The wager still stands 20 years later, but not without coming under threat. In 2010, the physicists Frans Pretorius and Luis Lehner discovered a mechanism for producing naked singularities in hypothetical universes with five or more dimensions. And in their May paper, Santos and Crisford reported a naked singularity in a classical universe with four space-time dimensions, like our own, but with a radically different geometry. This latest one is “in between the ‘technical’ counterexample of the 1990s and a true counterexample,” Horowitz said. Preskill agrees that it doesn’t settle the bet. But it does change the story.

The Tin Can Universe

The new discovery began to unfold in 2014, when Horowitz, Santos and Benson Way found that naked singularities could exist in a pretend 4-D universe called “anti-de Sitter” (AdS) space whose space-time geometry is shaped like a tin can. This universe has a boundary — the can’s side — which makes it a convenient testing ground for ideas about quantum gravity: Physicists can treat bendy space-time in the can’s interior like a hologram that projects off of the can’s surface, where there is no gravity. In universes like our own, which is closer to a “de Sitter” (dS) geometry, the only boundary is the infinite future, essentially the end of time. Timeless infinity doesn’t make a very good surface for projecting a hologram of a living, breathing universe.

Despite their differences, the interiors of both AdS and dS universes obey Einstein’s classical gravity theory — everywhere outside singularities, that is. If cosmic censorship holds in one of the two arenas, some experts say you might expect it to hold up in both.

Horowitz, Santos and Way were studying what happens when an electric field and a gravitational field coexist in an AdS universe. Their calculations suggested that cranking up the energy of the electric field on the surface of the tin can universe will cause space-time to curve more and more sharply around a corresponding point inside, eventually forming a naked singularity. In their recent paper, Santos and Crisford verified the earlier calculations with numerical simulations.

But why would naked singularities exist in 5-D and in 4-D when you change the geometry, but never in a flat 4-D universe like ours? “It’s like, what the heck!” Santos said. “It’s so weird you should work on it, right? There has to be something here.”

Weak Gravity to the Rescue

In 2015, Horowitz mentioned the evidence for a naked singularity in 4-D AdS space to Cumrun Vafa, a Harvard string theorist and quantum gravity theorist who stopped by Horowitz’s office. Vafa had been working to rule out large swaths of the 10500 different possible universes that string theory naively allows. He did this by identifying “swamplands”: failed universes that are too logically inconsistent to exist. By understanding patterns of land and swamp, he hoped to get an overall picture of quantum gravity.

Working with Arkani-Hamed, Luboš Motl and Alberto Nicolis in 2006, Vafa proposed the weak gravity conjecture as a swamplands test. The researchers found that universes only seemed to make sense when particles were affected by gravity less than they were by at least one other force. Dial down the other forces of nature too much, and violations of causality and other problems arise. “Things were going wrong just when you started violating gravity as the weakest force,” Arkani-Hamed said. The weak-gravity requirement drowns huge regions of the quantum gravity landscape in swamplands.

Jorge Santos (left) and Toby Crisford of the University of Cambridge have found an unexpected link between two conjectures about gravity.

Weak gravity and cosmic censorship seem to describe different things, but in chatting with Horowitz that day in 2015, Vafa realized that they might be linked. Horowitz had explained Santos and Crisford’s simulated naked singularity: When the researchers cranked up the strength of the electric field on the boundary of their tin-can universe, they assumed that the interior was classical — perfectly smooth, with no particles quantum mechanically fluctuating in and out of existence. But Vafa reasoned that, if such particles existed, and if, in accordance with the weak gravity conjecture, they were more strongly coupled to the electric field than to gravity, then cranking up the electric field on the AdS boundary would cause sufficient numbers of particles to arise in the corresponding region in the interior to gravitationally collapse the region into a black hole, preventing the naked singularity.

Subsequent calculations by Santos and Crisford supported Vafa’s hunch; the simulations they’re running now could verify that naked singularities become cloaked in black holes right at the point where gravity becomes the weakest force. “We don’t know exactly why, but it seems to be true,” Vafa said. “These two reinforce each other.”

Quantum Gravity

The full implications of the new work, and of the two conjectures, will take time to sink in. Cosmic censorship imposes an odd disconnect between quantum gravity at the centers of black holes and classical gravity throughout the rest of the universe. Weak gravity appears to bridge the gap, linking quantum gravity to the other quantum forces that govern particles in the universe, and possibly favoring a stringy approach over a loopy one. Preskill said, “I think it’s something you would put on your list of arguments or reasons for believing in unification of the forces.”

However, Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute, one of the developers of loop quantum gravity, has pushed back, arguing that if weak gravity is true, there might be a loopy reason for it. And he contends that there is a path to unification of the forces within his theory — a path that would need to be pursued all the more vigorously if the weak gravity conjecture holds.

Given the apparent absence of naked singularities in our universe, physicists will take hints about quantum gravity wherever they can find them. They’re as lost now in the endless landscape of possible quantum gravity theories as they were in the 1990s, with no prospects for determining through experiments which underlying theory describes our world. “It is thus paramount to find generic properties that such quantum gravity theories must have in order to be viable,” Santos said, echoing the swamplands philosophy.

Weak gravity might be one such property — a necessary condition for quantum gravity’s consistency that spills out and affects the world beyond black holes. These may be some of the only clues available to help researchers feel their way into the darkness.

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AAAS AMA: Hi, we’re Drs. Philippa Benson, Kip Hodges, and Warren Warren, the managing editor and deputy editors of Science Advances. Ask Us Anything!

Original post | Reddit thread

[wannabecatwriter]

Upon hearing the words, Renee scowls even harder, while Vincent starts fidgeting in his seat.

Dale: How interesting. What is your name, sir?

Kip, checking his phone again: Kip Benson, attorney.

Dale: And how long have you worked as a realtor?

Kip: Since before I passed my bar exam, why? What does this have to do with anything?

Dale: Were you aware that the house you sold to this young couple here contained millions of dollars worth in stolen art?

Kip: ??? Where??? Our company checks all the homes we sell to make sure previous owners or builders don’t leave any junk there. I’m sure we would’ve spotted art there.

Dale: But did you check the basement?

Kip: What basement?

[wannabecatwriter]

- Don’t bother asking him, Officer. I’m sure he’s just as clueless as they were.

Renee juts herself into the conversation, majorly pissed off. The attorney seems confused to the events in the room, shooting a wary glance at his client.

- Don’t bother defending him, Kip. GeoTech isn’t Kip’s company. It’s Vincent’s. And I’m sure he unloaded that house on poor Kip here without even bothering to inform him that it might come with some extra baggage, didn’t he? You’ve planned all along to hide that art from me, didn’t you?

By now, Wayne confronts the baffled attorney.

- Did you know the house had a hidden basement where Mr. Ellington stored the goods?

Kip: Uhh… I’m afraid I can’t answer any of these questions, now, can I? I would rather not incriminate my client. Or myself, accidentally. But I will tell you, if I’d known the house had a basement, it would’ve cost more to buy it from my company.

Vince knows he’s been found out, by this point. Unfortunately for him, Renee isn’t done lamenting everything just yet.

- How convenient it must’ve been for you when we were “robbed” shortly before you served me the divorce papers, dear Vincent. And to think that you’ve almost gotten away with it.

Vincent: I’m sorry, ok? I didn’t want to resort to this. But I was so angry at you over all the fucking cheating! I didn’t want you taking the collection too.

Dale: I must remind you, Mr. Ellington, that everything you say can and will be used against you in court. And you are probably going to want a new lawyer.

Vincent: Yes, I know. I know.

[wannabecatwriter]

Miles: Oh, for fuck’s sake… What is he doing here?

Sheree has the same question - the man is none other than their real estate agent. And he’s here on Vincent Ellington’s behalf, as his divorce lawyer…

Sheree: Hold on, this is all coming together into an unpleasant picture. You don’t think he is involved in the theft, do you?

Miles: I don’t know, but he is somehow involved with GeoTech Corp. This is why the name sounded familiar - I saw documents with that name in his office.

Sheree: And he sold us the house. And those files for the house were overwritten, with a password required to access them. And this is all really, really sketchy.