#Susan Lowe

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Desperate Living (1977)

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Films Watched in 2023: 84. Multiple Maniacs (1970) - Dir. John Waters

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. Every word I ever utter shall be considered a royal proclamation!

Desperate Living, John Waters (1977)

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On October 14, 1977 Desperate Living debuted in New York City.

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Cookie Mueller, Mink Stole, and Susan Lowe in a scene from Multiple Maniacs (1970) outside the Cavalcade of Perversions, filmed outside John Waters' parents' home in Baltimore.

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Bruh what is this

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John: "Oh god no" Arthur: "I just came to pay my respects to the fallen hero" Not the complete transcript, just the highlight. Grimshaw's line at the end is in reference to if you don't leave John alone.

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Hello!! :D

could i possibly request something Autumn Oak/Susan-Linda Stampler please? :3

Thank you so much!! :D have a good day/night and take care!! :]

here ya go!!! i hope you like it! sorry it’s kind of messy lol i hope i did them justice <3

if you VOTE GLENN HERE i’ll do a sketch request!!

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As the fetus's rights increased, mother's just kept diminishing. Poor pregnant women were hauled into court by male prosecutors, physicians, and husbands. Their blood was tested for drug traces without their consent or even notification, their confidentiality rights were routinely violated in the state's zeal to compile a case against them, and they were forced into obstetrical surgery for the "good" of the fetus, even at risk of their own lives.

Here are just a few of the many cases from the decade's pregnancy police blotter and court docket:

• In Michigan, a juvenile court took custody of a newborn because the mother took a few Valium pills while pregnant, to ease pain caused by an auto accident injury. The mother of three had no history of drug abuse or parental neglect. It took more than a year for her to get her child back.

• In California, a young woman was brought up on fetal neglect charges under a law that, ironically, was meant to force negligent fathers to pay child support. Her offenses included failing to heed a doctor's advice (a doctor who had failed to follow up on her treatment), not getting to the hospital with due haste, and having sex with her husband. The husband, a batterer whose brutal outbursts had summoned the police to their apartment more than a dozen times in one year alone, was not charged —or even investigated.

• In lowa, the state took a woman's baby away at birth even though no real harm to the infant was evident—because she had, among other alleged offenses, "paid no attention to the nutritional value of the food she ate during her pregnancy," as an AP story later characterized the Juvenile Court testimony. "[S]he simply picked the foods that tasted good to her."

• In Wyoming, a woman was charged with felony child abuse for allegedly drinking while pregnant. A battered wife, she had been arrested on this charge after she sought police protection from her abusive husband.

• In Illinois, a woman was summoned to court after her husband accused her of damaging their daughter's intestine in an auto accident during her pregnancy. She wasn't even the driver.

• In Michigan, another husband hauled his wife into court to accuse her of taking tetracycline during her pregnancy; the drug, prescribed by her physician, allegedly discolored their son's teeth, he charged. The state's appellate court ruled that the husband did indeed have the right to sue for this "prenatal negligence."

• In Maryland, a woman lost custody of her fetus when she refused to transfer to a hospital in another city, a move she resisted because it would have meant stranding her nineteen-month-old son.

• In South Carolina, an eighteen-year-old pregnant woman was arrested before she had even given birth, on the suspicion that she may have passed cocaine to her fetus. The charge, based on a single urine test, didn't hold up; she delivered a healthy drug-free baby. Even so, and even though the Department of Social Services found no evidence of abuse or neglect, State prosecutors announced that they intended to pursue the case anyway.

• In Wisconsin, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl was confined in a secure detention facility because of her alleged tendencies "to be on the run" and "to lack motivation" to seek prenatal care.

Certainly society has a compelling interest in bringing healthy children into the world, both a moral and practical obligation to help women take care of themselves while they're pregnant. But the punitive and vindictive treatment mothers were beginning to receive from legislators, police, prosecutors, and judges in the 80s suggests that more than simple concern for children's welfare was at work here. Police loaded their suspects into paddy wagons still bleeding from labor; prosecutors barged into maternity wards to conduct their interrogations. Judges threw pregnant women with drug problems into jail for months at a time, even though, as the federal General Accounting Office and other investigative agencies have found, the prenatal care offered pregnant women in American prisons is scandalously deficient or nonexistent (many prisons don't even have gynecologists)—and has caused numerous incarcerated women to give birth to critically ill and damaged babies. Police were eager to throw the book at erring pregnant women. In the case of Pamela Rae Stewart of San Diego the battered woman charged with having sex against her doctor's orders—the officer who headed up the investigation wanted her tried for manslaughter. "In my mind, I didn't see any difference between born and unborn," Lieutenant Ray Narramore explains later. "The only question I had was why they didn't go for a murder charge. I would have been satisfied with murder. That wouldn't have been off-base. I mean, we have a lady here who was not following doctor's orders."

Lawmakers' claims that they just wanted to improve conditions for future children rang especially false. At the same time that legislators were assailing low-income mothers for failing to take care of their fetuses, they were making devastating cuts in the very services that poor pregnant women needed to meet the lawmakers' demands. How was an impoverished woman supposed to deliver a healthy fetus when she was denied prenatal care, nutrition supplements, welfare payments, and housing assistance? In the District of Columbia, Marion Barry declared infant health a top priority of his mayoral campaign—then cut health-care funding, forcing prenatal clinics to scale back drastically and eliminate outright their evening hours needed by the many working women. Doctors increasingly berated low-income mothers, but they also increasingly refused to treat them. By the end of the decade, more than one-fourth of all counties nationwide lacked any clinic where poor women could get prenatal care, and a third of doctors wouldn't treat pregnant women who were Medicaid patients. In New York State, a health department study found that seven of the state's counties had no comprehensive prenatal care for poor women whatsoever; several of these counties, not so coincidentally, had infant mortality rates that were more than double the national average. In California in 1986, twelve counties didn't have a single doctor willing to accept the state's low-income MediCal patients; in fact, the National Health Law Program concluded that the situation in California was so bad that poor pregnant women are "essentially cut off from access to care."

-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

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A few weeks ago I was chatting with some friends about Chronicles of Narnia, and eventually the conversation pivoted to be about the botch that was The Last Battle. And with the Dungeon Meshi anime having recently gotten to Mithrun, it gave me an idea for a sort of crossover AU. (Spoilers for the manga under the cut for anime-only watchers)

The idea is that a long time ago, the Pevensie siblings were playing in the woods and discovered an out of place lamppost. And nearby they stumbled across the entrance of a dungeon, ruled by its Dungeon Lord the White Witch who used terrifying ice and petrification magic. This dungeon's incarnation of the Demon was a Lion, and the Lion recognized that children's desires are powerful and many, as well as having minds and hearts that are easily manipulated and molded. And so the Lion aided the Pevensie siblings in overthrowing the White Witch, and the four of them became co-Dungeon Lords. Their desires transforming the dungeon into a whimsical underground kingdom filled with talking monsters, and the siblings grew up together down there with their "subjects". Until adventurers also discovered the dungeon, and through a series of tragic events, one by one each of the Dungeon Lords were defeated until only Susan remained. Barricading herself deep within the lowest reaches of the dungeon, she realizes how the Lion had manipulated her and her siblings. Susan then makes another discovery: that the White Witch's magic wasn't two different types of magic, it was one. Entropy. Consuming heat and life from living things around her to create ice, and living things that were completely drained becoming completely inert like stone. And Entropy is the enemy of Infinity. An enemy of the Lion. So Susan pours herself into the study of the White Witch's magic, and takes up the mantle herself. Now filled with a new desire to freeze over every dungeon she finds, to consume all the life energy and mana within to try and starve out the Lion. Susan surrenders herself to the Canaries, and Mithrun actually allows her to join despite the fact she is a tallman since he simply views her as a useful tool for his own desire of killing the Demon. The other Canaries are annoyed not just because she's a tallman, but also because thanks to her magic it is constantly cold around her and they have to wear winter coats everywhere they go. Except Lycion, he's pretty chill with Susan since he can grow his own fur coat whenever he wants.

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Watched The Cave Of Skulls for the first time !!

some opinions:

why the caveman kinda… hot.

I mean, I couldn't see shit, but when they put just his face on the screen it was like... yeah, I'd vote for him.

BTW! I don't know why people don't like cavemen politics so much (I read a lot of people complaining about it), because I thought it was entertaining to watch and I got interested in who would win. Yes, it took up a lot of the episode but I really liked how they argued over who should be the leader. It wasn't as dull as I thought it was going to be.

The Doctor acting like he's super smart and above all, just to embarrass Ian only to have himself kidnapped two seconds later pls I love him.

AND OH MY GOD, THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE TARDIS BECAME A BRITISH CITIZEN !! THE FIRST TIME IT WAS STUCK LIKE A POLICE BOX TO NEVER CHANGE!!

The music when the caveman kidnaps The Doctor is kinda like something that would appear in Scooby-Doo and I’m all for it

I also love when strange sounds appear but bc it’s black and white I can’t see shit so idk what that sound is or where it comes from but I like it.

I LOVE SUSAN STOP STOP THE WAY SHE ATTACKS THE CAVEMAN WITH A FULL FERAL SCREAM AND THROWING HER FULL BODY AT HIM OH MY GOD SHES MY ROLE MODEL

yes feral 15 year old looking alien I want to be like you

Ohhh The Doctor cares about Ian and Barbara! I loved the ending because even if he tries to show that he doesn't care, he really didn't want any of this to happen and wants everyone to be okay. The old man has a heart!

It’s very late now and I need to study for tomorrow lol so tomorrow I’ll try to watch The Forest of Fear and The Firemaker so as to have the weekend free to watch the Daleks first appearance in Doctor Who !!

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rip Cerise you would've loved the dispensary

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Lanvin - Spring 1991 Couture

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the book of night women - marlon james // bloodsport - yves olade // olivia cooke on alicent and rhaenyra's relationship

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But manner Fanny did not want. Would they but love her, she should be satisfied. Ch 38

Fanny: I just want my family to love me, and since I’m their sister and daughter, I feel like I’ve set a reasonably low bar.

Every member of the Price family except Susan (and William):

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"I am crazy, Miss Grimshaw!" and "I'm too near the end to change". Two very different ways LH Arthur can view himself.