#Random Erv

[iced-souls]

Ok but what if deltarune x severance au?

Do you get me? Possible spoilers ahead but

Like the dark world is the severed floor, darkners = innies???

And maybe noelle = mark w/ jemma = dess??

Helly could be kris and Helena/outie helly = maybe knight going stabby stab into earth

Ralsei could be Dylan w/ family on the outside bein azzy/outie ralsei???

Like DO YOU GET COME ON PLEASE GET ME—

[randomrichards]

REGGIE:

The baseball player

Unafraid to speak the truth

Have things truly changed?

[bredforloyalty]

Random question but do you have any blog recommendations? I really like your blog and I need more people to follow

🥺 thanks luv i'll list many of my favorite people in no particular order, you'll find different kinds of uh stuff on these blogs but instead of categorizing them i'll just ask you to click through them any use your judgment and decide what you're interested in (like they could get into anything/switch to anything and i wouldn't mind so<3 for me it'd be hard to define by one thing or leave those out who aren't absolute "best friends" or anything like that.... agh you know what i mean just take it<3)

@winged-cries @supersonic1994 @sonwife @coldforestnight @cruelfeast @tenderperversion @inthecut2003 @chateauofmymind @dayglomasochism @frereamour @woundworship @diorstarr @charlestrask @corpsecoded @gabriestat @batmandeathofthefamily @erving-goffman @kuleaz @selfdigestion @shrikebrother @normalbrothers @dtwof @dogboyliamgallagher @degenderates @finalwoman @fathercain1999 @againstfaith @icedteadrinker @nathanielfisher @barkingdog @spnyuri @trillgutterbug @monstrousdaughter @mpregspn @mpregjamesdiamond @paulmccartneyprostateorgasm @obedient @g0om @hereditary20l8 @cigaretteaunt @dogboyliamgallagher @homosexula @mydogtypedthis @spiralfucker

[safireinakettle]

Haven’t posted OC art since my first post soooo

Here’s one of the characters who appeared in that post!

This

Is Aein Entertainment (He/Him)

He is a Kvaegus, a species I made up one random morning that mostly resemble goats, and is also a Clown/Jester

He’s part of a larger group of characters based off of the five senses, his own sense being Taste

& he’s also (meant to be) a villain, going to far lengths to make other characters lives more “interesting” and “plot-worthy” :P

And this

Is his family! (That’s what he says, anyways)

On the left would be his mother, Eleanor, up top would be his father, Erving, and to the right would be his younger brother, Smith!

They’re a British family :)

Oh

Right

And uhh

If you wanted to see his eyes, sorry, those are off limits :)

[fossiljockmatt]

Fourth Chimera, Part 3

“We need to meet. Tonight. Usual time and place.”

Erving read the message on his screen with a look of annoyance. It wasn’t the first time Amina had messaged him from a dummy account, but he had told her to stop. Sending him direct messages and emails wasn't safe. He preferred to keep their recent conversations offline.

“She never listens,” He grumbled to himself as he scratched at the stubble on his chin. “At least she was smart enough to be vague.” Exasperated, he turned away from his computer, accidentally knocking over a cup of half-eaten ramen. He let out a defeated sigh as he watched the last of his dinner drip onto the floor.

“Son of a bitch,” he muttered, as he scooped what he could back into the cup and then reached for a roll of paper towels. “It was still warm too…”As he dried up the soup he then took a long look around his disheveled apartment. This was probably the most cleaning he had done in a while. There were empty cans everywhere, his bed was unmade, and the dirty clothes in his clothes basket threatened to avalanche. 

He rubbed his eyes, “When was the last time I cleaned?” he thought to himself. “Was it last week or last month…?” 

He couldn’t even remember. At least, he couldn’t remember the last time he had cleaned up independent of some random meal mishap. Erving’s mind has been preoccupied for a long while now. His pursuit of the Collective had become all encompassing so things like picking up after himself had fallen to the wayside. His mind had tended to become hyper fixated on random things, but in the last year it had only gotten worse. Ever since he lost his twin sister, things hadn’t been the same... Read the rest on my Ko-Fi for free!

[celebritieswithemmab]

Shaq can't stop endorsing (seemingly) random things

So what's the pattern?

Like many people, I saw this picture on my social media feed a few years back. The haunting image has stuck with me ever since.

The first time I saw the viral X (formerly known as Twitter) image, I thought it was fake. I assumed it to be the product of Photoshop and nothing more. After all, why would Shaq, a retired professional basketball player, be endorsing a pregnancy test? It has been a long time since I speculated on Shaq's bizarre endorsement but with the birth of this blog, I've been eager to talk about this subject. Shaq's bizarre endorsements range from, yes, pregnancy tests, to executive office seating. None of them seem to make any more sense than the others. So what exactly has Shaq endorsed (it's a lot) and why does it make sense to endorse these brands?

The majority of the time, if a celebrity is going to endorse something, there is a good chance it will have to do with clothing, beauty, or wellness. As celebrities are seen as rare, exclusive, and special, very rarely do you see celebrities endorsing everyday items for the common parts of our lives. If a celebrity endorses an alcohol brand we may buy it for our parties, or wear their makeup when we go out, but the gap between the lives of celebrities and our own is vast. We both may wear shoes and work out, but that's where a lot of the similarities end. Celebrities make for excellent brand endorsers because they have spent their lives specializing in a certain career many people never have the chance to access. This allows them to be perceived to hold a very certain skill set (like how Kim Kardashian, an influencer and reality TV star known for her curvy figure, owns a shape wear brand now valued at over $4 billion). Brands can use the image of celebrities to ad a layer of credibility to their product or service. Shaq first earned his fame on the court, and is no stranger to endorsements for sneakers or basketballs. Yet since his retirement, he has branched out to other unrelated topics.

To start off, Shaq owns more than 150 car washes, 17 Auntie Annie franchises, nine Papa John's franchises (also appearing in their advertising), and has bought and sold enough Five Guy locations to amount to 10% of the entire company.

And those are just some of the franchises he has owned. When it comes to what Shaq has endorsed, the brands are even more plentiful.

Heres a few of my favorite Shaq brand endorsements:

Pregnancy test

Sleep apnea mask

Epson printer cartridges

Executive office chair

Shaq also owns the celebrity likeness of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, David Beckham, and Julius Erving.

So how did Shaq become the celebrity that can seemingly endorse anything?

To understand that, you must first understand Shaq's personal brand. He appeals to men who are sports fans (specifically basketball). His audience is 75% male, and nearly half of these are aged 25-34. Shaq is brand-safe, and has faced little to no controversy throughout his career. He is incredibly recognizable. Standing at 7'1, it makes his likeness hard to miss (like in the above photo). His energy positions him as lively, youthful, and relatable. Despite his impressive investment portfolio valued at over $100 million, he still appears down-to-earth, and some of his band endorsements fuels this image (more on this later). These all appeal to his main demographic. Some things that stand out to male consumers are a good value proposition, logic, simplicity, and humor.

Imagine this: you are a male, 26 years old, and regularly keep up with sports. You're just beginning your corporate career in accounting and have big plans for your future. Your girlfriend just called you concerned that she missed her latest period. You work through your anxiety and head to the nearest corner store. Standing amongst pads, tampons, and pregnancy tests, you have no idea what to look for. You feel out of place, out of your element, and you can't stop spiraling about how your whole life could change. That's when you see the kind, familiar face of Shaquille O'Neal staring up at you from the box of a pregnancy test. You rejoyce in the presence of something known! Suddenly, the overwhelming array of products with their overwhelming array of promises doesn't seem innavigable anymore. The surprising and out-of-place endorsement is humorous and allows you, finally, to laugh. All of a sudden your serious situation turns silly and ironic. You quickly choose the Shaq pregnancy test, comforted by the knowledge that you get the gift of two free Shaq stickers with purchase.

The strange endorsements Shaq takes on allows the more mundane or scary parts of our lives to be turned into something of a comedy. We recognize the surprise of seeing Shaq, the 7'1 basketball star, endorsing an office chair, but when you're an office executive and your days are filled with excel files, something a bit unusual may be exactly what you need. Especially if your colleagues are sports fans, it would make an excellent conversation starter: I have Shaq's chair. A sleep apnea mask can become Shaq's sleep apnea mask. Your ice pack can become Shaq's ice pack. This means that these products are now seen as truthworthy, strong, long-lasting, valuable, and, most importantly, a bit funny.

[adultswim2021]

Squidbillies #45: "Confessions of a Gangrenous Mind" | June 15, 2009 - 12:00AM | S04E05

Tonight’s episode of Squidbillies mostly involves Granny just flapping her dang jaw to the other squids. She mentions Rusty’s great grandpapa, a man Early has disdain for. This doesn't actually have a pay off, because the man is shrouded in mystery and he seems to be surprised by the reveal himself at the end of the episode.

Granny begins to tell various tales about how she met the man she calls grandpapa, but keeps telling tales that mislead Rusty (and the FUCKING BEAUTIFUL bloggers watching) into thinking she’s talking about the man in question, but she’s actually talking about some random dude she gave a handy to. We never do find out who she’s talking about, as she seems to just pull the name General Sherman out of her ass, which would make the squids Yankees. This is overshadowed by Early’s realization that means they won the war, causing him to shoot his gun into the air in celebration. 

This one has a lot of flashbacks, and some bits of business where they huff gasoline and Early goes out to buy some of those bullethole decals for his truck. Also the start of the episode has Granny trying to get laid by a trucker on a CB radio. Okay, I know what a lot lizard is, but the guy on the other end of the radio conversation says he’s hauling pine cones. Is THAT trucker lingo? Is it fake trucker lingo? Was it meant to be literal? To all the truckers reading this, please illuminate me.

Granny claims sexual encounters with Rhet Butler (from Gone with the Wind), Julius “Dr. J” Erving (from the world of professional basketball), Nitro (from American Gladiators), and Jesus Christ (from S01E04 of Squidbillies). She also credits a Frankenstein monster of her own creation might’ve gotten into that sweet squid puss. 

Some of Granny’s flashbacks have to do with her being a slave, and she has a delusional memory of her and all the slaves being really happy. This is maybe the biggest laugh of the episode, and is likely inspired by a similar characterization from the withheld Disney film Song of the South. The brilliant mind that runs the Squidbillies wiki writes: “The African slaves are revealed to pick up cotton during the past.” Hey, thank you for that. That’s the best part of the episode. The rest was okay. I don’t mind this show, really.

MAIL BAG

Let's face it folx, chalet 2000 sucks and if you like or try to defend it you're retarded. facts!

It is in the running for their worst sketch, and it's a good thing they made it show-length, so you can just skip that entire episode. When that sketch where Scott plays the queen and thinks Canada is leaving the Monarchy you have to fast forward and try not to miss the next sketch. Hey, isn't it weird that that queen sketch is in a best-of? It literally might be my least-favorite sketch of theirs. Huh!

Besides Ben from Dr. Katz (which you don't like that much because you put it behind Workaholics for clicks) and Coach McGuirk do you like H. Jon Benjamin in anything else? Curious.

Folks (or folx, as some people like to say), he's referring to a twitter thread where I ranked every Comedy Central show. I am going to think about this without looking anything up. I liked him when he called into the Best Show on WFMU. I liked him as the voice of the canned vegetables on Wet Hot American Summer. I liked what little of Jon Benjamin has a Van I saw. There's a current commercial where he's the voice of a pigeon and I detest it with all of my soul. Just keeping it real.

Can I spit some real at you, kimosabe? When you said "I didn't know Adam Savage could be so savage" a few years ago...fucking hilarious. He's an okay dude though you should be nice to him. That whole scene was messed up but I think our boy came out clean. See you on the Mybusters forums, broshoes.

I think it's a good idea to just not care about Adam Savage, that way you don't have to have an opinion. I think I must have momentarily thought he was Adam Ruins Everything guy, which I would've gotten significant schadenfreude off of finding out was rude to his sister.

KON! writes:

Mick Foley aka "Mankind" has multiple claims to fame even to the non-wrestling aficionado: 1. being from Long Island 2. looking like Kevin Smith 3. officiating a wrestling match between Eric Matthews, Matthew Lawrence, and the giant redhead in an episode of Boy Meets World

BIG LOL at calling her the "giant" redhead. I know what you mean. She's large and in charge and I think of her often.

I always thought it was weird that they banned the confederate flag episode of Squidbillies considering "The Fine Ol Solution" is way worse imo

I didn't know about that episode being banned, damn!

[jdgo51]

How Has God Prepared You for Your Purpose?

Today's inspiration comes from:

The Weekly Purpose Project

"There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they all come from the same Spirit. There are different ways to serve the same Lord, and we can each do different things. Yet the same God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do." — 1 Corinthians 12:4–6 CEV

"Your purpose is an integral part of you. It was planted in your heart when you were created, and God has equipped you with everything you need to fulfill it. You may not feel like you have everything you need, but it’s all there.

God has blessed each of us with gifts and strengths, things that we do well naturally, like running or organizing or bookkeeping. But our strengths also include innate social skills, like the ability to calm a crowd, or the talent to get someone to open up and talk to us. They also include those indefinable qualities that can’t be taught, such as the ability to invent new ways to do things, or to come up with the perfect business strategy.

Even more than that, God gives each of us the life experiences we need to grow those skills and mold our perspectives. Sure, you may share a lot of skills or strengths with others you know, but certainly not all of them. And no one else has ever lived the life you have. All of these things combined make you the person for the job, which is the purpose God has selected just for you.

You and your unique purpose are a carefully orchestrated part of God’s plans.

Unique

We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him. — Colossians 1:16 MSG

God didn’t make you you by accident. He didn’t just throw in a few personality traits at random and call you good. No, God created you with care specifically for your unique purpose. He selected each of your talents, strengths, weaknesses, skills, passions, interests, and idiosyncrasies with care and intention. He carefully chose your family, neighbors, teachers, mentors, bosses, and coworkers to make sure you had the opportunities to learn the lessons you needed to grow. He watched and guided you as you moved through life — falling in love, getting your heart broken, making and losing friendships, learning about the world, and discovering more about yourself. And He was there with arms wide open when you dedicated your life to Him.

None of that happened by accident, chance, or coincidence. You and your unique purpose are a carefully orchestrated part of God’s plans.

When have you ever felt unqualified or unprepared for what God has called you to do?

Where do you feel you need to grow to continue to pursue your purpose? What plan can you make for that?

It Is Good

Everything good comes from God. Every perfect gift is from Him. — James 1:17 ERV

If God gave you a gift, it is a good thing. Depending on the culture and family you grew up in, though, you might not have always believed that. Different families and cultures value different talents and skills and look down on others. But God doesn’t have the same prejudices. Your family might have looked down on a naturally commanding nature and called you bossy, but God gave you leadership skills for a reason. Your community might have preferred inside-the-box thinking, which always made you feel like an outcast, but God needs your creativity to make you a resourceful problem solver.

God’s ways are not the world’s ways. They are far, far better. We, as people, are flawed, and our prejudices and biases are flawed too. Don’t miss out on your purpose because you let the world’s ways trump God’s ways.

Are there any talents, skills, or gifts that you haven’t been using because others told you that you shouldn’t?

Have you ever assumed any of your strengths were actually weaknesses? Which ones?

Don't Hide Your Talents

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven. — Matthew 5:16 NKJV

If you gave a dear friend something she desperately needed to do her job and she refused to use it, would you be frustrated? God has given you everything you need to pursue your purpose. Are you using it all?

Are there things you’re great at, but you feel like they don’t matter? Skills you assume aren’t special enough? Experiences that you always downplay? Maybe you were teased for your gifts in the past or made to feel like your skills were less than, so you just stopped using them. Or maybe others around you had the same skills, so you always let them step forward instead.

You’ve dulled your light. But God has more in mind for you. You were made to shine brightly, to lead others to God like a beacon in the darkness. You need to use your gifts — all of them — if you hope to achieve your purpose.

Do you feel like you shine? Or have you been hiding your light? Why?

Which gifts has God given you that you haven’t been using?

How could you put those underutilized gifts to good use?"

Excerpted with permission from The Weekly Purpose Project, copyright Zondervan.

[average-crazy-fangirl]

Welp, thanks to @laughable-illusions, I've gotten into Hero Forge, and have recreated my Big Five™ TES OC's (main game OC's), and now have a reason to rant about my OC's

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Manei, Eternal Champion of the Arena.

Dunmer-Altmer halfling Battlemage.

Forced to play Hero at age 19, traveled through all of Tamriel, never met a single Daedric Prince, is the Tamrielic equivalent of an aethiest, is utterly convinced gods aren't a thing, and contracted Noxiphilic Sanguivoria a few years after marrying Erv.

Had quite a large crush on Ria Silmane, though they both just stayed friends. Manei did not take her death well.

We all love a tall trans bisexual/romantic buff lady, so Manei is here to fill that role.

Didn't ask questions when their husband, who was infertile, somehow got pregnant.

Found a random baby Argonian at the side of the river a few years after she and her husband retired and just said, "Sweetheart, we're parents now."

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Erv Anesac, Hero of Daggerfall, Champion/First Guidance Councillor of all Daedric Princes.

One braincell is in that skull of his, and it's stuck in a Dragon Break.

Dunmer-Breton halfling Illusionist.

Absolute whore of a wereboar.

Uriel Septim had the ingenious idea to send Erv on a very important mission in his home of Daggerfall. Why Erv? He helped Manei locate a piece of the Staff of Chaos, and his family had a history of saving Tamriel*. Also magic dreams.

*his not so long ago family founder was the Vestige/Soulless One, who I may make a separate post about, an Emperor of the previous Empire and the fates decided to bring the family back into the drivers seat of the wheels of fate, and also thought it would be funny if the first person to defeat Mannimarko since his imprisonment, was a descendent of the person who imprisoned him.

Suffered real mental health problems after the Dragon Break.

Out of all Daedric Princes, Sheogorath was the only one who kept showing up for Thundas Tea, even after Erv's retirement, so he was the one Erv decided to go to when he wanted too make a deal.

Short, trans, pan, mentally ill icon of a wereboar.

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Has-Strange-Dreams Anesac, Nerevarine, Skall Friend, Champion of Azura, Killer of Almalexia, inspiration for Lusty Argonian Maid, Older Sibling of the HoK.

Bigender icon of a panromantic.

Trained by xyr mother Manei as a Battlemage.

Was arrested after a certain Countess Alessia Caro decided she didn't like the look of a golden Argonian with red scales on xyr face, and glowing blue eyes, and framed xem for murder, and claimed xe were an escaped slave from Morrowind. How her plan worked, no one knows.

Didn't sleep the entire way too Morrowind and actually got to know Jiub, so he got visited by the Nerevarine while in Vivec City quite frequently.

Adventured Morrowind with Swissel after a letter was sent to them asking for help. Very fast speedwalking was heard from Cyrodiil, straight to Morrowind.

Joined Twin Lamps very quickly, and had to custom make a chain to be attached to the back of Swissel's clothes so they didn't kill racists.

Xe genuinely broke down crying when facing Dagoth Ur, leading to them both sitting on the group weeping, as Swissel killed the moment, pissed on the tombstone, and danced on the grave, as they physically rolled into the room, wearing so many layers of clothes they were just a ball of material.

Also broke down crying when Sotha Sil died, and when they learned who did it.

Went against Hircine during the Bloodmoon Hunt.

Punched Swissel after they found another of Sheogorath's artifacts, and became his Champion after xe became Azura's champion.

Left Tamriel with Dagoth Ur as xyr lover, heading to Akavir after Oddfrid's prophecy gave xym a very strange feeling.

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Swissel Anesac, Hero of Kvatch, Saviour of Bruma, Champion of Cyrodiil, Champion of Sheogorath, Divine Crusader, Listener, Duke of Dementia, God of Madness.

Trained Dunmer Illusionist by their father Erv.

Non-binary, gay, whore.

Was arrested after a beggar payed a guard to arrest them for horrible singing. (the fact it worked impresses Swiss to this day.)

Was born after Erv asked Sheogorath to make so he was no longer infertile, the only real drawback was Erv could be pregnant, Swiss had blue and yellow eyes instead of red, and had a radar for Daedric Artifacts. The other drawback was they were very confuse by the idea of being in your mother's womb.

Could summon scamps and find Daedric Artifacts since the age of four, leading to thier best friend and travelling buddy, Nexus the germophobic Scamp.

Tamed a unicorn. The unicorn then tried to mate with Shadowmere during the Dark Brotherhood questline.

Grinned when Lex was transferred.

Dated Martin Septim, who mantles Akatosh. Then dated Lucien, who died and became an aspect of Sithis.

Was revealed ot be Pelinal Whitestake. They certainly giggled at the fact a dark elf was the reincarnation of the Wild Elf killer.

Laughed at how badly Mannimarco looked compared to their father's old illustrations.

Wasn't actually slowed down when they got the Staff of Everscamp. (the staff was only returned when they became Sheogorath at the end of their adventures)

Traversed the Deadlands by spamming a custom spell that turned them invisible and gave them night vision.

Became Duke of Dementia since the trauma of their adventures got to them a while before Sheogorath ever opened the Door in Niben Bay.

Blames themselves for the fall of the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood

Wrote the Elder Scroll of Dragon, as foreshadowed by Martin Septim's last words before he passed into history as the last Septim.

Sometimes worries what Martin would think of them becoming a Daedric Prince.

Searched downright desperately for a Dragonborn so a repeat of Martin's death didn't occur. (They technically succeeded.)

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Regan Dov, Last Dragonborn, Champion/Second Guidance Councillor of all Daedric Princes, Listener, Oblivion Walker. (With guest appearance, Swiss the Skooma Cat)

Jack of all Trades of a class.

Went to Skyrim to try and start a new life. The plan worked, unfortunately, they planed a quiet life.

Non-binary biromantic demisexual.

Sheogorath was the first Daedric Prince they met, where they were quickly called out for their mental health problems, given the wabbajack, and an arm length butterfly tattoo.

Abused the ability of Dragonborn to slightly lift the Dragon Fires and create a working portal to Oblivion form Mundus.

Outsmarted Herma Mora to save Miraak, ad three more dragonic siblings.

Feels dysphoria thanks to their strange dragon soul.

Like any dragon, purrs like a cat when happy.

Cannot get drunk under normal circumstances. (Daedric wine, here I come.)

Same with all regular drugs. Skooma is a minor stamina potion, moonsugar is a mage's best friend, and only nirnroot has worked to get them high.

Hosts party's for Daedra worshippers, and constantly has to kill Vigilants of Stendarr, either when they crash their parties, or whne they come to arrest them and take away the Daedric Artifacts.

Hides the fact their dragonborn like a dirty secret.

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Hooo boy, one long post, ranting about my OC's.

What more can a hyper-fixated fanfic writer with writers block ask for?

[mmisery]

If that really was Randall's birth mom I'm so confused/curious as to how she ended up with the nice Vietnamese grandpa. So crazy theory time!

Theory 1: Laurel gets locked up after her OD and she never gets a chance to know what happened with Randall and William. When she gets out she's scared to just pop back up in their lives unannounced since it's been years at this point and she made William promise to make him a family and she doesn't want to mess that up. Possibly she ends up in a small town where she meets that man who's head over heels for her and she decides to stay. They're happy but and he loses her far too young to disease or cancer but he never forgets her keeping pictures up even in his older age.

Theory 2: Laurel goes to the hospital after her OD and she spends a couple days there until she's released. She goes home and finds both Randall and William gone with no one knowing where they are. Depending on how long William was gone because of his grief it could have been weeks. And with both Erv and Grace locked up she had no one and probably no job anymore. She picks a place at random to start over still overcome with pain at the unknown. She's still fighting her drug addiction everyday but when a new guy she meets smiles at her and keeps insisting he cook for her over time she falls for him. They're probably together for a long while when she finds out news about Randall or William from an old friend. She promises to come back but he never hears from her again. Perhaps something tragic happened on the way. Randall most likely and unknowingly moments from meeting his birth mother in the past.

Theory 3: Laurel gets out the hospital and finds William has had their son adopted by another family. She's distraught when he tells her. But with their past drug use and no income she knows everything is stacked against them getting Randall back. Maybe all the fight is out of her after so much loss and with William technically keeping his promise to 'make him a family' she decides to let things be as they are. But it's too hard to stay with William and she break up with him. William is hurt after thinking he lost her then losing her all over again. When Rebecca comes to him he leaves out him knowing she's alive since it brings up a lot of pain and he has no idea where she is or even if she's still alive at that point anyway. Laurel starts a new life and a new love never forgetting the past but living with it. Maybe she gets pregnant again and is scared but happy for another chance thinking about Randall mournfully. This son will actually get a room with a window and she's proud they can give him that. She doesn't survive labor the second time being tougher than her first. Her boyfriend/husband is so distraught but he makes it through raising their child alone and they give him a grand daughter who's curious about the women in the photos she'll one day come to find out is grandma. Meaning Randall has a half-sibling and another niece out there besides Kate and Kevin's future daughters. So it won't be like Nicky because they'll find out she passed but they'll be shocked Randall has more relatives in the world.

[janetbrown711]

Phineas and Ferb

Favorite character: I think Buford

Least Favorite character: Erving is a weirdo

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Phinebella, Vanessa and Monty, Bujeet/Balford, Candace and Jeremy, and idk

Character I find most attractive: Vanessa 

Character I would marry: Maybe that lady who sang Evil Love, she was kinda hot ngl

Character I would be best friends with: Stacy

a random thought: There is no heterosexual explanation for older Buford

An unpopular opinion: none

My Canon OTP: Phinebella

My Non-canon OTP: Buljeet

Most Badass Character: Vanessa, without a doubt

Most Epic Villain: 2nd Dimension Doof is an icon

Pairing I am not a fan of: Baljeet and Ginger

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Baljeet is a racial stereotype sooooooooo- Also they had so much build-up for Vanessa and Monty and then have her be with Ferb? it’s confusing

Favourite Friendship: Perry and Doof

Character I most identify with: Ngl, Stacy

Character I wish I could be: Candace bc I want cool brothers who do fun things XD

[walkswithmyfather]

“The right hand of Yahweh exalts! The right hand of Yahweh will never fail.” Psalm 118:16 (TPT)

“I am creating a new heaven and a new earth. The troubles of the past will be forgotten. No one will remember them. My people will be happy and rejoice forever and ever because of what I will make. I will make a Jerusalem that is full of joy, and I will make her people happy. Isaiah 65:17‭-‬18 (ERV)

“But God made a promise to us. And we are waiting for what He promised—a new sky and a new earth. That will be the place where goodness lives.” 2 Peter 3:13 (ERV)

“The Lord won’t leave His people. He will not give up His children.” Psalm 94:14 (ICB)

This is a tough promise to hold onto, that everything will be okay. The world hasn't been okay for some time. Our lives seem to stumble from one difficulty to another. And here we have this God we can't see who promises us that He is in control and everything will be fine in the end. I've been a Christian for a really long time and I can see how non-believers might think Christians are, shall we say, “crazy”. But in that long time I've also seen God do many things. There have been “coincidences” that couldn't possibly have been random. There have been many answered prayers. God is good! 🙌 And that's how you know God is in control. Friend, have you had “coincidences” and answers to prayers that defy explanation? If you have, that is God quietly at work. The enemy and his demons are encouraging evil in this sinful world, but there are signs everywhere that the enemy's hold will soon be over. Through the prayers of His people (Jesus has given us authority in His name), God is moving us all towards a new world, where goodness and righteousness will live. Gods plans are coming together and His victory is assured, as told in Revelation. We, His beloved children, can hold onto Gods promise that everything will be okay, because it will be. Amen! 🙌

[henrikvanderswoon]

Double the Kill: A Nancy Drew Play Written by 12-year-old Yours Truly - Readthrough Reactions

Okay, guys, I went through two cups of super strong coffee reading through this thing and I think I can hear colors now so… Have fun reading this!

I sincerely haven’t read this thing in probably ten years and I legitimately forgot almost everything about this play I wrote for myself and my twin/two best friends to perform. We used to write plays for each other all the time, as well as play Nancy Drew games together, so… this was all very fitting.

Anyway, this is a super long one and I APOLOGIZE but also I hope you enjoy reading this thing as much as I enjoyed writing it 😂

Okay, for starters, this story is titled: “Double the Kill” for two reasons that I can remember: (1) someone actually gets murdered, and (2) someone beheaded the Lincoln Memorial statue. 

…

You know when you’re in middle school and you’re assigned some topic to research for a project and suddenly you have this stupid amount of knowledge about something you don’t know what to do with? 

That’s what happened here. 

Anyway.

So, apparently I didn’t know what the word “pervert” was when I was 12 (poor, sheltered creature) so I legitimately named a character Blake Pervey and I’m gonna fling myself into the sun. 

Oh my gosh, I wrote up a case profile for this, complete with character roles and everything. Incredible.  

Let’s provide that for you guys:

The Case: Billionaire Erving Nickels is holding a benefit concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., where the band “One Love” will be performing. Erv senses trouble, so he calls Nancy Drew and her best friend Bess Marvin to watch out for anything “suspicious.” But about an hour before the concert’s about to start, One Love’s lead singer Terri James is found dead near the Lincoln statue and the head of the statue is gone!

Contact: Erving Nickels - a billionaire who’d arranged the benefit concert. He asked Nancy to come and watch for anything “suspicious.” 

Suspects: 

Erving Nickels: Goes by Erv, for short. As it turns out, this man has actually gone bankrupt recently. Could he go to desperate measures to gain back his wealth?

Blake Pervey (I still want to die): One Love’s back-up singer. Terri had broken up with him recently because he’d attempted to cheat on her (huh, maybe he really is a pervert after all). Did he murder her to get revenge and take her place as the lead singer? 

Lyza Benton: The make-up artist. Lyza is always on the prowl for the next juicy gossip to spill to the press and gain publicity. Could she have killed Terri to create the ultimate story?

Myra “Ryan” Williams: One Love’s guitarist. She was the person Blake had attempted to cheat with, but she’d refused. Terri didn’t believe Ryan’s story and blamed her for everything, which caused the two women to hate each other.

Victim: Terry James

Okay. Already this is a little better than “Murder at Turquoise Inn,” because there are actual suspects with actual motives??? aMAZING. 

Wow, Nancy’s a bitch. She didn’t even tell Erving that Bess was coming along. 

Erv keeps saying that he thinks something bad is going to happen tonight, and Nancy and Bess are both like,“Can you please explain why?” And he’s like, “I just have a feeling.” Like boi, that’s sketch. 

Bess: “Sorry to change the subject, Mr. Nickels.” 

Erv: “Please, just call me Erv.” 

Bess: “No thank you.” 

Bess…I know Erv is a weird name, but…why? 

Mr. Nickels is taking Nancy and Bess on a tour, right? And I keep peppering in random facts about the Lincoln Memorial I learned for school and it’s SENDING ME. 

“I’ll watch and wait for our groovy band to arrive, while you girls split up and watch for suspicious activity. Now, let’s boogie!”

Asfbadka Erv, no one talks liKE That! 

I would just like to take a moment to preface the rest of this post with the fact that I wrote this for me and my friends, and we were always writing the stupidest dialogue for each other because we thought it was hilarious. Um…which hopefully explains lines like these: 

(1) No one calls Erv Nickels, the handsome billionaire, “Darling.” Except his mother.

(2) [We’re going to change.] No, don’t change. We like you guys just the way you are. *laughs obnoxiously* 

…

I hate myself. 

So Blake and Terri arrive in the limo and let me tell ya’ll Blake is definitely flirting with Erv right now and I’m so fucking confused. 

Terri: That man’s got problems. I guess money does that to people. 

Blake: But we have money and we don’t have problems. 

Terri: Maybe it only happens to men.” 

Blake: But… I am a man. 

Terri: Exactly.

Okay, you can tell my love for writing banter was here from the fuckin get-go. 

Oh god, now Blake is flirting with Nancy. Fuckin hell. I may not have known what the word “pervert” was when I was 12, but this man was aptly named. 

Suspicious, suspicious.*Mocking* ‘Can you girls watch for anything suspicious?’ Something suspicious, yeah right. Oh look! A BUG. Oh, soooo suspicious.

Bess…. I love you. 

Okay, as dumb as everything is in this thing, some of this dialogue is fucking cracking me up so hard.

Bess: No! Honestly. I swear, it’s almost like he’s trying to keep us busy so something bad can happen.

*A faraway scream cuts in from offstage*

*Nancy and Bess look off in the direction it came from, way too casual*

Bess: What was that?

Nancy: I dunno. 

*They pause, then their eyes widen in realization* 

Nancy: Oh crap.

Listen, I know I’m a comedic genius, but this is getting out of hand. Dsbfsjkdsjfbk

Bess: Mr. Nickels! What woman was screaming so high like that?

Erv: That was me. 

I CAN’T BREATHE. 

I saw Terri lying there on the floor, apparently dead. 

Erving… the woman is DEAD. What do you mean “apparently?” 

Nancy and Bess find a letter Terri was going to give to Erving to tell him she can’t do the concert because she also felt like something terrible was going to happen to her, and all Bess can do is repeatedly laugh at the word, “Flee.” 

Hey, too bad “Honest Abe” is missing his head, otherwise he could tell us whodunnit.

Wow, yall. Bess is my favorite. 

You know, the funniest thing about this is that you can definitely tell how many of the games I played between writing my horrible novel at the age of ten and writing this. If this thing had better dialogue and more fleshed out story/characterization, I could picture this as an actual game, not gonna lie. 

And… maybe if it didn’t involve removing the whole-ass head of the Lincoln statue…

Yanno, tiny details like that.

Lyza: *laughing* Scared you, didn’t I? 

Bess: Oh, “scared’"is such a strong word. I’d say more… "severely startled.”

So Erving reveals to Nancy that he’s actually not dumb as bricks, but puts up the facade because he’s broke and doesn’t want anyone thinking he’s not still super rich and air-headed. I’m crying. 

You sensed something bad was going to happen. You should have called the police to stand guard! Not some amatuer teenager who calls herself a detective and her little friend!

…. The pervert has a point. 

So Lyza likes to meddle in people’s business. Ryan had written about Blake’s advances in her journal and Lyza blackmailed her about it, Terri blamed Ryan for Blake’s attempted cheating. Blake tried to bribe Ryan into going out with him by telling her he’d discovered a way to get his hands on a fabulous collection of priceless jewels, and Terri broke it off with him. He’s upset, Ryan’s pissed that Terri thinks she went along with Blake, Erving borrowed money to organize the benefit concert (in order to benefit himself) and now he’s in even deeper debt because the concert has been cancelled and Lyza is having a fuckin field day. 

BOY AM I ON BOARD FOR THIS SHIT.

Before he came into wealth, Erving worked in a museum in Chicago, and Bess finds a piece of paper on the floor of Ryan’s trailer with the phone number to this exact museum. Nancy calls to see if there is any connection between that museum and the Lincoln Memorial and apparently there’s a theory that the head of the Lincoln statue contains jewels that the museum talks about in a part of their exhibit. 

*kronk’s face* Oh yeah. It’s all coming together.

Nancy: For all I know, you could be the murderer. 

Erv: Why would I do that? I needed the money from the concert!

Nancy: No you didn’t. You could’ve just–I dunno–stolen the head of Abe over there in search for the ALLEGED JEWELS INSIDE.

Ya’ll… please don’t ask me how the FUCK one person would get tools to remove that head without anyone noticing. Please. 

Blake: Hey, guys, have you seen Ryan anywhere? 

Nancy: Why? You gonna ask her out again?

Kjdbfisfdosidnf FUCKIN’ SAVAGE, NANCE. 

oH MY GOD THE CULPRIT SLIPPED UP SO EASILY I’M SCREAMING. 

oH my god, Nancy told Erving they needed something to pick the lock on one of the trailers and he’s all: “Like a bobby pin?” And just takes off his hat, removes a bobby pin, and “lets his long hair cascade down and over his shoulders like a waterfall” and I’m crying. I can’t fuckin’ breathe.

Oh shit, wait… the first culprit was actually covering for the real culprit all along I’m losing my mind. My twelve-year-old brain was so advanced I just threw a curveball at myself sjdbfshdbfagh

Okay, so I’m not gonna spoil anything because I think it’s hilarious to keep you all wondering what the fuck is going on and who the hell did it and why, but I would just like you all to know that this play literally ends with one of the characters singing Hannah Montana’s “The Best of Both Worlds” completely off key because I thought it would be hilarious and I think that really tells you a lot about who I am as a person.

[launaej]

I realize I never really introduced myself on this tumblr.

I like to go by Ren. She/her/they. I’m 23, turning 24 in Feb. & I’ve decided to start a fresh tumblr. My old one I’ve had since like 2011 & I feel like it had posts & phases of so many closed chapters in my life that I decided to start a new one. So I’ve been on tumblr for a long while. It’s honestly wild to think about my time on this social media platform. Started using it when I was a wee lil freshman in high school with goals of becoming a drum major for my high school marching band & becoming a music teacher. I’d come home afterschool, drink mi cafesito with my mom, take a nap, finish my homework, then spend the rest of my time on tumblr or watching youtube. I’d have long school days, waking up at 5am, to really get ready and sneak some tumblr before school, then be at the bus stop by 6:15 and get the day started. Like holy crap, what a different change of pace life is now. Now I’m 23 & still find this website to be a humble lil sanctuary to unwind & draw inspiration from. Crazy to think I’m now the same age that Lana del Rey was when she was posting Video Games on tumblr back in 2011. What is time??? 

 Tumblr has seen me through my best times, like finally reaching to be drum major, and some of the worst, like finding out financial aid changed its rules and suddenly you can’t finish school. I have yet to still reach the finish line with my academic goals. Still have yet to get that piece of paper, but I know it’s in the horizon. 

For now, I hope to soon make Youtube content on some of the things I've been learning this quarantine. My goal is by the end of this year to be a full on ~interwebs~ person & hopefully make a little money doing it. After 2 years of trying to save up money working a call center job & STILL not being able to save money to finish school (I wasn't trying to take out loans) and then losing my savings in this pandemic, I figure you know what, if people are out here making money doing what they love, maybe I can too. The goal for me is to still get my Bachelor's in Music Education but I'm not trying to break myself over it. Not that I need a degree for music, but my parents never finished college & I really want that degree for me & for us. I was supposed to walk across the stage spring of 2019, but financial aid decided to add some new rules at my community college where if you had over 24 elective credits, they wouldn't pay for anymore electives . At that point, I had 36 elective credits & basically that rule fucked over a lot of art students who were close to finishing. ANYWHO, at the time (Fall 2017) I said no problem, I'll work extra hours at work, save money & take 1 class at a time. & I did. Spring 2018, I was able to take 2 classes. Fall 2018 & Spring 2019 I didn’t take classes but I picked up a LOT of extra hours to save money. Then I got into a car accident on July 4, 2019, which ate up my school savings. But whatever, I kept going. Saved up again & then the pandemic happens & I had to leave my job in April after confirmed cases in the call center & lack of enforcing safety measures. Loved the job, but I didn’t feel safe. Fast forward now to January 2021, my savings are eaten up again. Not only that there was a whole thing where the college I wanted to transfer to was shutting down its college of education, and honestly at that point I laughed out loud when I read the article. Feels like my simple little goal of getting a degree to be a music teacher keeps running away from me. I graduated high school 2015, like this was supposed to be an easy journey. But yet here I am, in 2021, somehow without the degree & you know, I used to curse a lot at the events that lead me to not finish my goal; just so many factors out of my control. But after 2020 & seeing a lot of close friends start their teaching careers in this mess, I can’t look back at those setbacks with the same sourness I had before. I am now more of a believer in divine intervention. I'm still going to answer the same call in life, I just have to take a different path. A path I hadn’t planned for at all, but you know, we out here, winging it. 

So for now, I’m unemployed. BUT I’ve been learning a shit ton on an assortment of various topics. I don’t think I could have made some serious headway on some of these topics if it were’t for 2020. At this point, this is how I see things. I could spend my time trying to look for a job, & work at a place I couldn’t care less for + isn’t helping me grow & where i risk my life over something I don’t love. OR, I can simply grow & follow what I love & figure out the rest as it may. If it’s one thing I’ve learned, is that just as things can fall apart, they can fall into place. I’ve had many MANY moments where I’ve found solutions just in time. After 2020, I am definitely more of a believer in ‘Rejection is God’s protection.’ & somehow, after this crazy year, I’m here. I have to make it count, & I owe myself my dreams.

Soo I’m going to posting random things I find on some learning I’m doing. Even though I don’t have the money to go to school, doesn’t mean I still can’t learn my lil heart out. Topics I’m currently researching / learning more on that you’ll probably see posts about:

Music Theory {I'm trying to learn more about atonal / microtonal music / tonnetz / harry partch / erv wilson / abstract music notation systems / ancient music theory}

Puerto Rico {trying to learn more history & more about my lineage / trying to learn about how my family's history in Aibonito y Corozal / trying to dig deeper into the history of Sephardic Jews on the island & the influence of Jewish music & Ladino music on Jibaro music / taino mythology & history / santeria / 21 divisiones / Brujeria}

Physics of Sound / Sound Architecture / {kepler / acoustics / resonance / harmonic oscillations}

History of Latin America & Spanish Conquistadors / Black History in South America & the Caribbean / Antilles History {SO much history I'm still learning that I never learned in A.P. U. S. History or A. P. Euro. in 2020 I learned about how many places in FL are named after some really bad conquistadors i.e. Hernando de Soto who was such a bad dude !! so much to still learn}

Astrology / Tarot {being raised with watching Walter Mercado in the background, astrology has been a part of life since I was really little. But I've been heavily studying astrology since 2016 & tarot since 2018.}

Self-sufficency {farming / solar punk / fermenting foods} 

Feel free to ask me any questions about music education, music theory, college experience, etc. I also have played clarinet for the past 12+ years & have played alto sax, euphonium & piano for a bit. Know about that band geek/drum major life. Big DCI fan. Recently borrowed my dad's cuatro to start learning how to play some Puerto Rican classics.  También hablo español. Aunque nací en Nueva Orleans, crecí en Aibonito y Corozal y más tarde en Florida. Ahora, estoy en FL, pero toda mi familia es de la isla. Si eres puertorriqueño o de FL, ¡no tengas miedo de decir qué pasa! Social medias @launaej

Hope to have some videos & content up soon! Feel free to send me suggestions! Not used to being a person on the internet. But here we go! :)

[bookclub4m]

Episode 117 - Sociology Non-Fiction

This episode we’re reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read (or tried to read)

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading)

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Other Media We Mentioned

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff

Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney

The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins

Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder

Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey

The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn

Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll 

Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia)

Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone’s actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat)

Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!)

Links, Articles, and Things

Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…)

Michel Foucault (Wikipedia)

Dr. Thomas Kemple

Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group)

JUMPSUIT - “Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism”

Code Switch (NPR Podcast)

Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast)

According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast)

Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress

How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process)

Trader Joe's (Wikipedia)

What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article)

15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs &  Scott Kurashige

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani

I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos

Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

[ervtv]

Adam the Woo Sightings and News - November 2017

Adam the Woo Sightings and News – November 2017

Where was Adam and what did he do in November? Find out here!

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