#Rachel Nobel

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Collector's Edition: Reworking Requiem and Mulder's Return (Part V)

The last of many, many Requiem AUs (thus far.)

Loose chronological order below~

Brynna's

Nothing at All

My head drops to the wall in front of me, and I watch the water at my feet run pink, her blood washing from my shirt, my hands, my neck. They couldn't have just let her die easily and painlessly, if they had to kill her. No, first they drugged her, then they shot her. All the while making me watch.

Pre-Requiem: The Syndicate kills Scully before she or Mulder finds out about the baby.

Realistically Yours

How he wanted to wake her. To let her know he was there. Another look at the circles under her eyes cast that option out. She needed her rest.

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned to Scully's apartment; and discovers her pregnancy as he settles in to sleep.

Vickie Moseley’s (Ao3, Gossamer) My Dearest Son

First, let me set the record straight. When I went to Oregon in early May of the year 2000, it was not out some misguided sense of world salvation. It wasn't because of my innate sense of curiosity, although that's the reason I still contend with your mother. And it wasn't because I was called there as a result of something that happened to me several months before, some experiment that caused me to fall under the control of any other beings.

It was selfishness, plain and simple.

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned 3 months later; and their relationship takes a turn for hurried and happily ever after.

Alicia K.'s (FFN) Guitar Hero

Scully watched as Mulder competently strummed the acoustic guitar and sang. he looked happy as a clam.

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned seven moths later, a little bit... different.

Jenna Tooms/misslucyjane’s (Ao3, mulderscreek)

An Acceptable Level of Happiness (Gossamer) 

"Sometimes I can't breathe for thinking about it."

It's going to snow again. The sky is iron-grey, and the air is still and bitter cold. I hold onto Mulder tight. "When you can't breathe," I say, and then pause to get the tremor out of my voice. "When you can't breathe you get me and I'll breathe for you. I'll breathe for you, okay, Mulder? I'll breathe for you."

Post Requiem: Scully works towards happiness with her son and heavily scarred, fully bearded, and completely devoted Mulder.

Reunion

The light turns on and they all pause.

Scully's eyes are very wide and dark, and she stutters for a moment or two. The baby stares at him solemnly, without fear.

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned, quietly, 3 months after the birth of his daughter.

Shooting Star (1/4), Shooting Star (2/4), Shooting Star (3/4), and Shooting Star (4/4) (Ao3, mulderscreek)

"Your angel? Who is your angel?"

"Scully is my angel." He smiled genuinely now, still holding Scully with his eyes. "Scully has always been my angel. Scully saved my life. Scully saved my soul. Scully is everything beautiful in the world, don't you think?"

Mecham smiled gently too, and said, "Yes. I see."

Post Requiem: Scully finds Mulder 17 years later-- amnesic, cognitively challenged, and protected by Krycek. She works hard to bring him home to their son and build a life with the three of them together. Unanswered questions, however, bring darkness and uncertainty back to their doorstep. 

Karen Rasch's By the Wind Grieved (1/2 and 2/2)

"Scully, if that is Mulder in there, he deserves the truth," Skinner said swiftly, his tone gentling just a touch. "After all he's been through...anything less would be unfair. Especially from you. He's lost months of his life. According to what you've told me, his memory--"

"Sir, how long were you standing there just now?" she queried softly.

"Long enough," he replied.

"Long enough to see the look of horror on his face when he thought perhaps this child might be his?"

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned with amnesia and a target on his back. Scully insists on joining him in hiding; and the two dodge around their feelings, failing to clearly communicate before Krycek arrives and she goes into labor.

EmScully's Not Alone

Scully’s head jerked towards the sound, mirroring the alien in front of her. Down the small snow covered road, another alien monster stood, blurry in the blizzard. The animal in front of her took a few tentative steps towards the intruder, rose on its thick hind legs, a snarl emanating from its throat. And then suddenly in a flash it took off, back onto all fours, smashing into the other alien. 

Post Requiem: Scully was abducted instead of Mulder, and crashes back to a world overrun by alien monsters. Her son from the future (or an alternate version of it) helps reunite both partners, against the odds.

bugs’s Heaven

My gaze is drawn to his face--a hot, deep red collapsing sun. It cracks open and there is the white flare of new stars--fresh  and clean as heaven. Two blue-green planets have been born. 

My boy sees me.

Post Requiem: Mulder is not returned in time to witness his child’s birth. 

Revely's Unfinished Universe (Gossamer, WBM)

"That's what he was named after."

Mulder is momentarily confused. William was the logical choice - her father's name, and his middle name. She strikes him as being traditional in that way.

"It's not William?"

She shakes her bright head and reaches out to touch the rock with the toe of her shoe. "No, just Will."

He concentrates on not speaking yet, knowing that if he gives her time she might say more. Sure enough, she speaks.

"I will find him," she whispers. "I will."

Post Requiem: Mulder is returned a year later; and he and Scully and William slowly bond on the road trip back home. 

xraelynn/Rachel Nobel’s In the Clearing 

"I want to see Scully," he announced forebodingly over a physician-recommended high-calorie breakfast that seemed to make him more nauseous than energized. For a split second I felt an encroaching horror -- <he's having delusions, he'll have to be hospitalized> -- before I realized that he had meant her gravestone.

I opened my mouth to protest, but immediately relented. I couldn't deny him this.

"And," he added in a quieter voice, staring into his plate, "I want to see Liam."

Post Requiem: Skinner brings Mulder home, years after his abduction, to a deceased partner and infant son. Mulder pulls himself together and decides to reclaim his life on his own terms.  

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

My first encounter with Hemingway and surprisingly, a forgettable and, dare I say it, regrettable one: did not meet expectations

It has taken me fifty years to read Ernest Hemingway although the man has been in my consciousness for many of those; through biography; through historical fiction in which he appears as a character; in the places I have visited, like Madeira, which were of importance to him. To say I had a connectedness to him is perhaps a bit presumptuous but he is someone with whom I have been intrigued for…

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dear swedish academy [2nd message]

Dear Swedish Academy, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Laura Moriarty, Rae Armantrout, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemarie Waldrop, Alice Notley, and let me add Jorie Graham.Not to mention Liliane Giraudon, Anne Portugal, Hélène Cixous and (not a poet) Julia Kristeva. Best regardsMarco Giovenale

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TBR TAKEDOWN: Week 17 (September 22)

TLDR: I have too many unread books, and I’m asking tumblr to help me downsize. Pick one or none - it doesn't have to be something you've read, just the one you think sounds the worst! Comments and reblogs welcome, book descriptions below the cut. See my pinned post for more info.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull

Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power. The brave resistors who opposed the emperor have been bought off or broken, leaving a realm where fear and suspicion prevail.

In his search for a way home, Jason meets Rachel, who was also mysteriously drawn to Lyrian from our world. With the help of a few scattered rebels, Jason and Rachel become entangled in a quest to piece together the word of power that can destroy the emperor, and learn that their best hope to find a way home will be to save this world without heroes.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, through the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.

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Art Fight Dump!

Part 1 Characters belong to (Art Fight username unelss otherwise linked):

Aemma - @super-dweeb Kash - em4rch Alice Nobel - GrimmRipp5r August Winteworde - onlynostxligia Blue Lagoon - Da_insomniac ClockBoy - PorkBellyEnjoyer Dani - @blooscluessucks Daniel (Flipside) - Rat_lobotomy Elliot Hayward - @eddential Father Eli - @hee-blee-art

Part 2 Characters belong to (Art Fight username unelss otherwise linked):

Ramessu - Callisto55 Geo - LuxiBuxi13 Lydia Blake - Vivi_uvu Nova - Keepitcool Rachel - @ricephobic Rhiannon - Kelpiecats Solaris - @vancoor Tarune - @0vergrownruins Thyme - AjaySand Wisteria Lenore - @fanta-chia

Everyone had such fun characters to draw and it was so fun to experiment with colour palettes! Happy Art Fight :)

[coralpenguincherryblossom]

social institutions and society

By Rachel Shannon

The social sciences has five branches: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and Psychology. These five branches explore how we communicate with each other and form an organized society. Social science is different from the natural sciences because it examines the relationships between humans rather than studying the physical world. Some may also consider history and geography as part of the social sciences but it is arguable. Social science is a relatively new field of study that didn’t gain traction until the 20th century. An example of a social institution that may seem new but really just changed form over the years is media. Media is a form of communication that reaches a wide variety of people within a short amount of time. With more recent technology we now have even more forms of media such as an array of social media platforms like Meta or X, television, and the internet. This allows people to get news faster and stay up to date with the latest trends. Previous generations had to rely on newspapers or radio to get their latest news. Media evolved along with the internet. When we got faster and more convenient access to the internet, it allowed all these social media platforms to exist. Social media and technology allowed us to become more connected as a society but various studies have indicated that we are actually lonelier with the use of social media. Social media should be used in moderation. It creates a faux atmosphere where we think we are engaging but we’re not actually making real friends. It is a good tool to gain information but shouldn’t be relied on everyday. With its heavy use in teens and young adults, the addiction has caused more harm than good. I'm hoping in the future we go back to socializing more in the real world. Sources Liberto, Daniel. “Social Science: What It Is and the 5 Major Branches.” Investopedia, Investopedia, www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-science.asp. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024. Jeremy Nobel, MD. “Does Social Media Make You Lonely?” Harvard Health, 21 Dec. 2018, www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-a-steady-diet-of-social-media-unhealthy-2018122 115600.

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Jim and Audrey McAllister will continue to meddle in Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. 

Will Sasso and Rachel Bay Jones, who recur on Young Sheldon as Mandy’s parents, have boarded the highly anticipated spinoff as series regulars, TVLine has learned. They join Montana Jordan and Emily Osment, who will reprise their titular roles as Georgie and Mandy. 

Sasso and Jones will make their final Young Sheldon appearance in Part 1 of Thursday’s series finale. Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage will follow this fall and inherit Young Sheldon‘s Thursdays-at-8/7c time slot on CBS; a premiere date has not yet been announced. 

Following Georgie and Mandy’s wedding, the newlyweds, along with their infant daughter CeeCee, moved in with Jim and Audrey. Shortly thereafter, Georgie went to work for his father-in-law at the family’s auto shop, setting Sheldon’s older brother up for his Big Bang Theory future as Dr. Tire. Watch a recap below:

Unlike single-camera comedy Young Sheldon, multi-cam Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage will shoot in front of a live studio audience — just like The Big Bang Theory.

The spinoff’s title is a play on previously established Big Bang Theory lore: In the hit sitcom’s 2019 series finale, Nobel Prize winner Sheldon said he received congratulatory texts from Georgie’s ex-wife… and Georgie’s other ex-wife.

During a recent interview with TVLine, Osment expressed hope that the new show would find a way to undo (or at the very least tinker with) Georgie’s marital history.

“I’m hoping that I’m the ex-wife and the new wife,” she said. “People get divorced and remarried. Why can’t she be both?”

Judging by the title, it sounds like that’s precisely what producers have in mind.

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MARCH 2023

Read:

The Tragedy of Woke Shakespeare

Get Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable

Eliud Kipchoge: inside the camp, and the mind, of the greatest marathon runner of all time

Too Busy to Pay Attention

Three Lessons in Beauty

What Was the TED Talk?

Instagram Store Core

It’s Not The “Ludicrously Capacious” Bag. It’s How You Carry It.

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick

Watched:

the evolution of the witch in film: the Craft, the Love Witch & Fear Street

I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It.

The Decline of Tim Burton*

The Fight for Authenticity

Worth

Spiderhead

The Power of the Dog

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Listened To:

Just A Girl by Florence + The Machine

Wishing He Was Dead by The Like 

How Productivity Ruins Your Life with Productivity Expert Oliver Burkeman

Went To:

The Association of Surgeons in Training Annual Conference 2023

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Worst thing you read that is regarded as "good" by academics/people that should know better?

Hardmode: Not including any obious political things people have to pretend to like to not get into trouble, cause I think it won't be surprising if you say "well actually anti-racist baby isnt the best picturebook for toddlers out there..."

I have been vocally baffled by the taste in contemporary literature of academe and the elite literati for a decade now, starting with the apotheosis of Knausgård and ending with Ernaux's Nobel, and encompassing Ben Lerner, Sally Rooney, Jenny Offill, Sheila Heti, Rachel Cusk, etc. Plain prose, self-fixation, hostility to artifice, and, yes, excessive attention (in the mode of self-congratulatory self-abasement) to politics. Did I mention plain prose? I don't actually think Knausgård is terrible, but I've pretty much never finished a novel by the other authors named except the one I once forced myself to teach (i.e., Dept. of Speculation). Some novels in a broadly similar vein have been good: I've praised My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Leave Society, and Lost Children Archive before. Still, I long for the return of imagination, of romance, of style to the literary/realist novel. The Iris Murdoch Revival now underway is a sign of better days ahead, I hope, not that she too wasn't only a romancer in spite of herself, as is Knausgård's own turn/return to the fantastical in those new books of his I'll have to read eventually.

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The Acrobat (1996) by Wisława Szymborska

In Episode 130, Rachel shares a poem that cannot be described better or more accurately than Griffin.

Griffin: That is a poem ass poem right there.

Rachel: [laughs] I love, though—you can just picture this trapeze swinger, swinging back and forth.

Griffin: Yeah! That‘s really cool. I've never quite heard a poem like that, I don‘t think.

Rachel: Uh-huh. I don't know. I just find it really inspiring to see somebody who is not... I mean, is obviously concerned with transmitting an image and a meaning, but also, trying to do this very clever, creative thing of making the language kind of communicate that message, as well.

If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Jawbreaker Julie, from 4:04 - 10:16.

If you ain't got that kinda time, there's a summary of Rachel and Griffin's convo about the poem underneath the cut.

Rachel: (...) the academy praised her poetry that "had ironic precision; that allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality."

Griffin: That‘s... it‘s hard for me to follow what that meant, but I bet it‘s good.

Rachel: [laughs] She, um... said in her Nobel speech that, "In the language of poetry, where every word is weighted, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone, and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day, and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence. Not anyone‘s existence in this world."

Griffin: Do you think after she said that, she was like, ―And oh damn, hold up, I gotta go write that down, cause I think it was a poem?

Rachel: The other thing is, she joked about the lives of poets. She said great films can be made of lives of scientistsand artists, but not poets.

"Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic. Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while, that person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them fifteen minutes later. And then another hour passes, during which nothing happens." [laughs]

Griffin: Even that... does she ever say stuff like, ―I want to eat a ham sandwich for lunch today- ?

Rachel: [laughs] I mean, that‘s what they're talking about. That, um... ironic precision.

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X-Files Collector’s Edition: Redux II Samantha Was Real

My own personal belief is: Redux II Samantha was the real deal. Of course, I have to be blind to the events in Closure... which is just fine by me, as it was a mess and a half. HOWEVER: for those of the Closure-minded, these fics are the best I’ve read-- thus far-- that deals with the “what if” alternatives: tenderly, angrily, or mixtures in-between. 

**Edit: I forgot the one Samantha story that started this all (Susanne Barringer’s Thicker than Blood and Jenna’s IOU)-- it’s now listed below.**  

xraelynn/Rachel Nobel’s Given - Chapter 3 

““Scully smiled back at him. “See, you and Bill might be able to find common ground after all,” she said. 

After I’m gone, her mind supplied, and something in Mulder’s smile faded as if he knew what she was thinking.

“What was she like, Mulder?” she asked impulsively, and she felt Mulder’s thumb grow still atop her hand. “Samantha. You…” She faltered. “You never talk about her.””

A little precursor to Samantha’s POVs-- Everyone is waiting for the prognosis of Scully’s new chip, and Mulder is trying not to react to Bill. Scully asks for stories of Samantha in an impulsive need to connect to her.

Vickie Moseley’s The Visit (Goss) 

“"Sweetheart, he wants to meet you.  Tonight." 

I couldn't believe my ears.  "Daddy!  Not tonight!  I can't possibly go tonight.”” 

Samantha is as we’ve never seen her: kowtowed, subdued, completely dependent on CSM. She is forced into meeting her brother; and doesn’t have the spine to resist. 

Dawn/sunrize’s Heart’s Desire (Goss) 

“"Tell me, Mulder."

So much conflict within him, it was nearly tangible. He wanted to tell her, but didn't want to burden her.”“

In the immediate aftermath of Redux II, Mulder rejoins Scully and breaks down over his destroyed quest and lost (again) sister. She uplifts and helps pierce his swirling confusion. 

shannono’s Meeting 

“"You took her!" Mulder cried out. "You held her for twenty- four years! You lied to her, you told her Mom was dead, that you didn't know where I was. If she's really your daughter, how could you do that to her?" The smile faded. "I am not proud of all my actions, Mr. Mulder. But you may be assured that I have always done what I thought best for my daughter."” 

This doesn’t have Samantha in it, but it is a conversation between CSM and Mulder about Sam’s visit. CSM explains his reasons for keeping her, his secrecy, and why he’s letting Mulder see her now. 

Jennifer-Oksana’s Going Home Again

““To Whom It May–

To My–

Dear Mr. Mulder–

Dear Fox. “”

Samantha contemplates sending her brother a letter... but just can’t.

Livia Balaban’s Samantha’s Fate - Version 04

“”She wept, she missed me.  She was ordered to stay away.  If she got close they would have killed us.  Me, Mom, her.  Later, when she married and Scully entered my life, the threats expanded to include them as well. 

Five lives bound up in one lie.”“

Samantha shows up, trying to reconnect. Mulder doesn’t believe her and insists she leave. A dessert helps to prove who she is.  

Jenna’s IOU 

""Oh, it's complicated, Samantha. We work together and I just think it wouldn't work." 

"There's your problem, Fox. You think too much. Don't think, just make it happen. I can tell you're obviously crazy about her."” 

Mulder is rooting through his parent’s attic with Samantha. She questions his closeness to Scully; and encourages him to go make a move with her now. 

Mish’s Contact 

"”I raise the binoculars again to find Samantha nuzzling Michael's sandy curls.  James is patiently holding a dripping cone of chocolate ice cream for the child to eat when Mom is finished with the toddler's dust- off. 

"They're beautiful," I whisper, grasping Mulder's hand.  He fits his palm to mine and brings our clasped hands to my chest. “”

Post Redux II, Mulder takes Scully to a kids’ baseball game. It’s his nephew’s; and Scully is further surprised to meet Samantha.  

AUs (of an AU) 

Jennifer Maurer’s Perfect Gifts 

““The man's slow, poisonous smile chilled Mulder more than the winter wind blowing around him. 

"You will give up the search for your sister Samantha and accept the fact that her fate is entirely out of your hands.  It always has been, actually, you just refused to believe that.  You may keep the X-Files open as you wish, but I will not tolerate any further interference in the Project."“

An AU before Redux II: On Christmas Eve, Mulder is offered a deal for Scully’s cure; however, it is for naught as Scully takes up a trade deal for Samantha. 

Susanne Barringer’s Thicker Than Blood

“"We have to try," piped up Samantha.  Scully resented her, although she didn't want to.  This woman had just walked into Mulder's life today, after breaking his heart for six months by not having any contact with him.  She'd been in his life for all of eighteen hours and already asked him to put his life on the line for her.  Like he hadn't already done that a million times.  Yes, she knew that Mulder had to find the answers someday, but to walk right into it without any investigation first, without finding out exactly what he was dealing with, and without the Bureau's resources was too much to ask. Even of a brother.””

Mulder is overjoyed that Samantha has contacted him; and overlooks all the manipulative and gaslighting behavior she exhibits. Even though Scully suspects, she can’t deter Mulder from the lethal mission Sam sends him on.  

Susan Proto’s Familiar Faces 

“"There was no doubt in his mind it was Samantha. 

Or a clone. 

"Scully__?" he choked out.

"Could it be the same woman you'd met at the diner?" Scully asked....”” 

Post FTF-- Mulder and Scully are openly dating. While leisurely walking in the park, they stumble upon a little girl that looks exactly like Samantha-- until they realize her mother IS Samantha. Scully professionally handles questioning; and Mulder is gut-punched that Sam doesn’t want to remember her past. 

This is a cherry-pick pick, I must admit. I only read the initial interaction between Mulder, Scully, and Sam’s family before I dropped off (as it, admittedly, gets too dramatic and seems to shift into sliiiight absurdity. Just my own thoughts.) 

finisterre’s The Tunnel at the End of the Light

""Scully? You're Scully, aren't you? I'm sorry, I don't know your first name.

"Then, I see the gleam of something metallic. A gun in her hand, rising. "Who are you?" she snaps.

"I'm ... uh, a friend of the Mulder family," I said.

The visible eye thins to a suspicious slit. "Friends of Mulder's family aren't usually friends of his. So who are you?"”

This takes place during Season 8: Samantha hasn’t reached out since Redux II-- but that changes when she realizes her life, her friends, and her husband were a fabrication CSM used to keep her dependent. She flees, ending up at a very hostile Scully’s (who softens when Sam is devastated at the news of her brother’s abduction.) She is awed when Scully hands over the only false identity The Lone Gunmen had set up as emergency; and hopes to meet again soon.

Enjoy! 

[celestiarambles]

Alright, since the prompt for CC Inkember day 4 was about Rachel Priest - Truth (nice prompt btw!), I would just like to talk about her murder case, The Secret Experiments and the circumstances surrounding her death. (and maybe CC’s representation of [female] journalists in general?)

She was an honest, fearless journalist who did everything in her power to get to the truth to open the masses’ eyes to the corruption and evil in Grimsborough. Sadly, she had to die for it.

Rachel’s story leading up to her death just hit too close to home. Our country’s pretty much the most dangerous place for journalists. If you write a story against the government (even if it’s backed up by evidence), you could be branded as a ‘terrorist’, jailed, or even killed. I used to be a campus journalist back in high school, and the press freedom is so poor to the point that those things even happen to people my own age back then. I heard stories about my fellow campus journalists being sent to the principal’s office because of an article they wrote about the president and people I know having guns pointed at them just because they were voicing their opinions. Hell, even my own parents would chastise the articles I wrote and call me a ‘terrorist’ because of it.

What doesn’t help as well is the rampant misinformation and disinformation going on too. Because of this, journalists get discredited and the people are losing faith in them. Even the first NOBEL PRIZE WINNER in our country is being discredited and criticized just because she exposed the corruption regarding the war on drugs in our country.

However in our country, I can’t blame the lower classes because honestly, proper media literacy is a privilege to them, and our government is taking advantage of their vulnerability.

They may say that journalism is supposed to be fair and neutral, but I disagree. That’s why I admire Rachel Priest so much; her unwavering tenacity to the truth despite all the warnings is so admirable. However, she was quite lucky that Jones and the player were able to sense something was up with her and investigate her case, exposing Alden Greene, the marshal and inevitably Crimson Order as well. If they never discovered the story behind her death, then they could’ve twisted the story in their favor.

Another thing that bothers me is Carl Ackerman’s role in Rachel’s death. I know he didn’t know that she could’ve possibly died for it, he was underpaid and he felt guilty about her death in the end. While he was a journalist too in his own way (he filmed Rachel’s journalistic stories), he should’ve not sold her research to the person she was investigating in the first place. But at the same time, he was also an underpaid journalist. The fact that Rachel wasn’t able to pay him properly also shows that Rachel was also being underpaid in a way. It doesn’t excuse what Carl did, but it also shows the reality of being a journalist; sometimes, they have to sacrifice their oath to the truth and their integrity just because they’re being underpaid.

To a lesser extent, I also love Katherine Woolf and her role as a journalist in MoTP. Like Rachel, she was bold and tenacious to the truth. And when Lawson banned the freedom of the press, once again it felt too close to home xD She was also jailed and almost executed for being outspoken during Lawson’s regime, but luckily the Flying Squad was there.

That being said, I really love CC’s realistic portrayal of journalists in seasons 1 and 4. However, since it still is fiction, those journalists were lucky that their truth still came out no matter what happened to them. But despite real life barely having happy endings, it’s nice to know that CC motivates future journalists to fight for the truth that the common people deserve to know.

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Entrapta with her PDW

This took a long time to make, digital works often do. Still I hope you will all enjoy this piece and the lore I have for it. Hard to believe its been two years since I drew Entrapta for the first time.   This is her wearing her scolar-VII armor in my original story: ROBOTWARs. 

 <UEU-5013 Entrapta>  Entrapta was still a scatterbrain even after the AI transfer, showing high euphoria and optimism as she started working more as a scientist, often times designing and making new machinery in multiple fields of engineering, so much so that she was nominated in the 2038 Nobel prize for physics.  Once WW3 became inevitable, Entrapta would be a commanding officer in the 13th Pioneer Regiment attached to Army-Group "Rachel"   Despite agreeing to be a member of combat, Entrapta was not keen with taking lives like the other soldiers.   This reflexed with her defensive weapon: the PP-92 which she kept in her engineering kit, missions for the 13th Pioneer Regiment were also rear guard missions, fixing broken down/damaged vehicles and infrastructure in the Australian battlefield.   When the Surprise attack happened, her pioneers were stationed at the town of Texas while she and two others under her direct command UEU-1498 Skids and UEU-1499 Mudflap were in the middle of making a power station in the town of Surat.   The three were stuck nearly 300 km behind enemy lines, with their 6 wheel MRAP Buffalo A3 which Entrapta converted into her mobile command and control center, they were able to listen to the emergency broadcast, learning that the RDFM forces were isolated and fighting in pockets of resistance and forts.   with enough water to fuel the journey, the three headed for the town of Roma where five FLUFUs and two UEUs were fighting against units from the Indian, Pakistan and Afghanistan army. (3rd engagement of Rome) 

 three out of the five FLUFUs were heavily wounded that they would be out of action as they drove to three more pockets of resistance until finally, after twelve days, they arrived at fort Texas.   During this time Entrapta would make claw arms inspired by the claw on the MRAP Buffalo A3, mostly used for moving debris but when the situation called for it she would use them to dispatch enemy combatant. 

 I hope you enjoy and like always please share your thoughts in the comments down below. ^w^ 

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Here is a list of the top 20 most watched TV series season finales of all time, along with some details about each finale:

1. M*A*S*H - "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" (1983): With over 105 million viewers, the finale of this iconic Korean War comedy-drama remains the most-watched season finale of all time. The episode sees the members of the 4077th saying their goodbyes as the war comes to an end.

2. Cheers - "One for the Road" (1993): The final episode of Cheers, with 84.4 million viewers, saw the regulars of the Boston bar saying goodbye as Sam sells the establishment. The episode also featured a touching moment between Sam and Diane.

3. Seinfeld - "The Finale" (1998): The controversial finale of Seinfeld drew in 76.3 million viewers as Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer are put on trial for their selfish behavior throughout the series.

4. Friends - "The Last One" (2004): The highly anticipated finale of Friends, with 52.5 million viewers, saw the gang saying their goodbyes as Rachel gets off the plane and everyone goes their separate ways.

5. Magnum, P.I. - "Resolutions" (1988): The Hawaii-set detective series ended with 50.7 million viewers as Magnum finally solves the murder of his wife and decides to move on with his life.

6. Dallas - "Conundrum" (1985): The season finale of Dallas, which drew in 41.5 million viewers, saw the return of Bobby Ewing from the dead, revealing that the entire previous season had been a dream.

7. The Fugitive - "The Judgment: Part 2" (1967): The finale of this classic drama, with 41.4 million viewers, saw Dr. Richard Kimble finally clearing his name and finding the man who killed his wife.

8. All in the Family - "Too Good Edith" (1979): The final episode of this groundbreaking sitcom, which drew in 40.2 million viewers, saw Archie dealing with the death of his wife Edith.

9. The Cosby Show - "And So We Commence" (1992): With 44.4 million viewers, the final episode of The Cosby Show saw the Huxtable family saying goodbye as Theo graduates from college.

10. The Big Bang Theory - "The Stockholm Syndrome" (2019): The final episode of this popular sitcom, which drew in 18 million viewers, saw Sheldon and Amy winning the Nobel Prize and the gang saying their goodbyes.

11. The Sopranos - "Made in America" (2007): The final episode of this critically acclaimed drama, which drew in 11.9 million viewers, ended with a controversial cut to black as Tony Soprano's fate is left unknown.

12. Two and a Half Men - "Of Course He's Dead" (2015): The final episode of this long-running sitcom, which drew in 13.2 million viewers, saw Charlie Harper returning from the dead and exacting revenge on his former stalker, Rose.

13. ER - "And in the End..." (2009): The finale of this medical drama, which drew in 16.4 million viewers, saw the return of several original cast members as the staff of County General Hospital says goodbye.

14. House - "Everybody Dies" (2012): The final episode of this medical drama, which drew in 8.7 million viewers, saw Dr. House faking his own death and starting a new life.

15. Lost - "The End" (2010): The finale of this mysterious drama, which drew in 13.5 million viewers, saw the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 finally finding their way off the island.

16. The X-Files - "The Truth" (2002): The final episode of this sci-fi series, which drew in 13.3 million viewers, saw Mulder and Scully finally uncovering the truth about a government conspiracy.

17. 24 - "Day 8: 3:00pm-4:00pm" (2010): The final episode of this real-time thriller, which drew in 10.4 million viewers, saw Jack Bauer finally putting an end to a terrorist threat.

18. NYPD Blue - "Moving Day" (2005): The finale of this police procedural, which drew in 16.5 million viewers, saw the retirement of Detective Andy Sipowicz.

19. The Golden Girls - "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest" (1992): The final episode of this beloved sitcom, which drew in 27.2 million viewers, saw the Golden Girls going their separate ways as Dorothy gets married and moves away.

20. Frasier - "Goodnight, Seattle" (2004): The final episode of this belovedsitcom, which drew in 33.7 million viewers, saw Frasier making a big decision about his future as he prepares to move to San Francisco to start a new life.

It's worth noting that these viewer numbers may not be entirely accurate due to changes in the way TV ratings are measured over time. Additionally, there may be other season finales that were highly watched but did not make this list.

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Penyakit Kanser Sembuh dengan Ivermectin

Ivermectin sering dikenali – kedua selepas penisilin – kerana memberi impak terbesar terhadap kesihatan manusia.

Penemuan ini malah memenangi Hadiah Nobel.

Tetapi, para propagandis, seperti Rachel Maddow, memberitahu anda ia adalah “ubat cacing kuda yang berbahaya.”

Sekarang kita sedang belajar bahawa ivermectin mempunyai sifat anti-kanser yang mendalam.

Kardiolog terkenal Dr. Peter McCullough memberitahu Brannon Howse, “Sekarang terdapat banyak kertas kerja yang menunjukkan model pra-klinik bahawa ivermectin mempunyai sifat anti-kanser.”

Beliau menambah bahawa kurkumin, sebatian aktif yang terdapat dalam kunyit, juga mempunyai sifat anti-kanser.

Potensi ivermectin sebagai ubat anti-kanser kini diambil serius, kerana Pusat Burzynski di Texas dan Pusat Brio-Medical di Arizona menggunakan ivermectin “lebih dalam format protokol,” jelas Dr. McCullough.

Dr. McCullough tidak sendirian dalam pandangan optimisnya mengenai penggunaan ivermectin sebagai rawatan kanser yang berpotensi. Dalam satu wawancara dengan The Epoch Times, pakar bedah kanser Dr. Kathleen Ruddy mendedahkan bahawa beliau telah melihat beberapa pesakit kanser peringkat akhir pulih dengan dramatik selepas mengambil ivermectin.

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