#berman

[self-indulgent-writer]

sadie sink with a fem!singer reader? like she wrote a song for sadie and she sings it for her?

Sadie sink x reader

You sat at a desk with your guitar, notepad, and pencil. You were strumming chords and writing them down along with lyrics that came to your mind whenever you thought of her.

Sadie is your girlfriend for almost a year. For your one year anniversary, you wanted to write a song for her. Except now you are kinda starting to regret making that decision because you are coming at a loss for words.

You got startled out of your focus by your phone ringing. You looked up and saw that Sadie wanted to FaceTime, so you answered.

“Hey baby, what’s up” Sadie said before you could say hi.

“The sky,” you snickered as she glared at you “no I’m just joshing ya. I’m writing a song.” You smiled at her.

“Oh. I thought you just finished your album though.” Sadie quirked and eyebrow. You nodded your head, half listening to her and half writing down more words in your notebook. “Ok. Well I have to go now. They’re calling me to film. Love you”

“Love you too, babes.” You kissed the camera on your phone. When Sadie hung up, you started to strum more chords that went along perfectly to the words.

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You were at the last concert of your tour. It was your anniversary today and you planned to sing the song now. Luckily this concert started at 9 pm, so you had the morning with Sadie and the afternoon preparing for the concert. Sadie was in the front row looking up at you.

(For the sake of the story pretend you made Stop the World I Wanna Get Off with You by Arctic Monkeys)

“Hey guys,” you were so desperately trying to catch you breath. “Uh, so we are at the end of the tour, and this is my last concert of it. So because of that I wanted to officially let you guys hear my new song that I made for my girlfriend and out one year anniversary.” The crowd cheered.

Open Sesame

(We've places to go)

We've people to see

(Let's put 'em on hold)

There's all sorts of shapes that I bet you can make

When you want to escape, say the word

Well, I know that getting you alone isn't easy to do

With the exception of you, I dislike everyone in the room

And I don't wanna lie, but I don't wanna tell you the truth

Get the sense that you're on the move

And you'll probably be leaving soon, so I'm telling you

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

Eyes the colour of

(Water left in mud)

Icing sugar dust

(Crazy green flashes)

It's a funny thing that I cannot explain

Don't you know the train keeps a-rolling?

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

Well, I know that getting you alone isn't easy to do

And I don't wanna lie, and I don't wanna tell you the truth

And I know we got places to go, we got people to see

Think we both oughta put 'em on hold and I know you agree, yeah

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

Stop the world 'cause I wanna get off with you

You finished the song and the concert ended. As people started filing out, you jumped off the stage and Sadie ran to you. She engulfed you in a strong hug and squeezed you tight.

“Thank you so much for that..” she sniffled “you didn’t have to do that for me you know.” Sadie wiped her tears of joy. You patted her head and returned the hug twice as strong.

“I love you, Sadie”

“I love you more”

[savings-club]

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Summary 3

Designers have a multifaceted role in society. They utilize their skill and imagination to promote products, services, and ideas. Effective design has the potential to save lives. Beyond presentation, designers create with functionality in mind. Erik Spiekermann states that around 90% of design is about making something work, while only about 10% pertains to beauty. Designers must recognize the existence of established business rules in the design industry but be willing to rewrite these rules to align with ethical considerations.

Designers need to consider sustainability, longevity, and responsible consumption. Ethical design requires a commitment to ethical principles and encourages designers to be true to themselves. Designers should offer alternative practices and themes instead of outright refusing to work on unethical projects. Designers should dedicate 10% of their time to helping the world and recognize that even small changes can significantly impact. We should be practising design through interconnected systems thinking and understanding audience needs and broader impacts. Designers are encouraged to ask questions about the consequences and purpose of their designs.

Designers should prioritize giving back and repairing environmental damage during and after the design process. Dieter Rams’ ten principles of good design emphasize innovation, utility, aesthetics, transparency, honesty, sustainability, and minimalism. Good design considers extremes and improves daily life while advocating for user-centred design. Designers are encouraged to keep longevity, sustainability, and the value of design in people’s lives in mind whenever they are designing. The things that matter the most to people have sentimental meaning. It’s very rare that the average, everyday consumer values aesthetic beauty over the memories made throughout their life.

Designers create things with skill and imagination, focusing on function.

Designers should be ethical, care about the environment, and find solutions for ethical problems.

Designers need to think about the bigger picture and what users need.

Be eco-friendly in design, keep things simple.

Good design makes things work well and can save lives.

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[federaldust]

There must be a Spanish word for this feeling

the rush I get when I am stealing

from the Dust Congress

who's Dollars and Dimes say "In

Dust We Trust"

oh yeah,

The world is not ready for you

[postnoted]

[leahberman]

down by the river

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[carlinjp]

2024, MELHOR INDICADOR PARA TER CONSISTÊNCIA NAS OPÇÕES BINÁRIAS

[emirkocturk]

Bir gün bir göç nasip olursa benliğime vasiyetimdir. yorulup düştüğüm yerde gömüp gitsinler yeter..

[newfoundlandland]

SOFIE SEES MOMMA MOOSE! by Trudy Via Flickr: Sofie was a little scared and hid under the bed when she got down from the windowsill.

[flippyspoon]

The world if Star Trek producers let the characters be as queer as the actors wanted them to be.

[sportu]

49ers Star Nick Bosa’s GF Jenna Berman Moves On Quickly (Photos)

49ers Star Nick Bosa’s GF Jenna Berman Moves On Quickly (Photos)

San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa is in the midst of a very strong 2022-23 campaign. Although he didn’t have a particularly standout effort against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this weekend, by his own lofty standards, he still recorded three tackles and helped guide his squad to an easy win. With a third-string quarterback, no less. Unfortunately, as good as things are going for Bosa on the field,…

[artg210-termproject]

Summary 4

Understanding the importance of responsible design choices involves considering quality, durability, and performance. These factors reduce the environmental impact of products. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) evaluates the entire product cycle, using 20 indicators to summarize its impact. A holistic perspective helps minimize these impacts by allowing companies to make decisions based on the production stages with the highest ecological impact. Consumers also play a crucial role in the impact products can have by choosing longer-lasting products, buying less, and taking proper care of what they own; they can reduce the impact made by the products they buy. 

Cradle to Cradle is a system that envisions a sustainable model where all materials circulate endlessly. Products are purposely designed to eventually return to the technical or biological cycles. Mass production depletes resources, leading to waste and resource scarcity. To minimize this, we should use fewer materials, use less energy, and reduce our carbon footprint. Product designs are optimized to fulfil the customer's needs, can be disassembled, and ensure used materials are valuable to nature or be used in future products. Designers need to know what materials are being used, have the mindset of borrowing instead of using materials, and design with functionality, beauty, and quality as top priorities. The quality of life in the future is the motivation behind sustainable design choices.

Eco-Design focuses on materials, energy, and waste reduction. It aims to cut toxic materials, energy use, and material requirements while promoting recyclability and renewable resources. Implementing this approach takes time due to complexity and cost. Ensuring sustainability for future generations is our paramount challenge for a better civilization. Design is a reflection of thought, as David Berman notes. While recycling is beneficial, it addresses just 10% of material consumption. Sustainable design is efficient, cost-effective, and an evolving standard. It encourages impactful, ethical work, rapid change, and personal commitment to global betterment. Designers have the power to address major global issues and benefit all of society. Design can influence culture, economics, and the environment. Through their work, designers can amplify positive change and diminish negative impacts.

Responsible design choices involve considering quality, durability, and performance, which can reduce the environmental impact of products.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with its 20 indicators evaluates the entire product cycle, helping companies make decisions to minimize ecological impacts.

Cradle to Cradle envisions a sustainable model where materials circulate endlessly, emphasizing the need for using fewer materials, less energy, and reducing the carbon footprint.

Consumers play a crucial role in reducing the impact of products by choosing longer-lasting items, buying less, and taking proper care of what they own.

Sustainable design encourages efficient, cost-effective, and ethical work, empowering designers to address major global issues and create positive change in culture, economics, and the environment.

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[horrorwomensource]

Fear Street Part Two: 1978

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Sexism in TOS: Worst Offender, or Progressive in Retrospect in Comparison?

I see a lot of folks claim that TOS was the most sexist of the Star Trek shows by a landslide -- and while I agree that it definitely suffered from the sexism of the times, I also have other perspectives to share to give some food for thought.

I am of course not insinuating that TOS isn't sexist -- it is, but I have to ask folks to consider the breadth and depth of Berman's sexism in his run and ask yourself: Was Gene Roddenberry genuinely more sexist in his storytelling and delivery than Rick Berman?

I'm not telling you to feel one way or the other, but all I ask is that you hear me out and consider some perspectives and make your own balanced assessments. Nobody is obligated to share my opinion, but it means a lot just to have folks hear it and see their thoughts on the subject. So here is what I was originally responding to:

Someone's response to this photo:

"Devil's advocate. This was a part of the popular form of cardio during the production time of TNG. Yes, it was heavily sexualised by men, but so is literally every other way women work out. Men have been caught taking pictures of women while trying to do dead lifts, running on tracks and working on sled machines. They post them online to share too. The fact is, there is no way a woman can be shown working out without it going there. And yeah,t hat includes the combat forms of workout they do in Star Trek. Just look at how Dax dresses when she spars with Worf. Yes, they're dating, but still, same goes when 7 does and any other female.

Aerobics routines like this were made dirty and cringy. This was what women wore then by and large. This is how the workout was done. We make it cringy."

My response to them:

"I respect your take, but I disagree on a few fronts.

The miniskirt was chosen by the TOS female cast, not the male cast, specifically requested by Grace LW and affirmed by Nichelle and Majel who would go on to vehemently defend the miniskirt over the years as comfortable and embraced by them.

Grace said it was comfortable and seen as a symbol of female sexual empowerment during the 60s and thought it would be a progressive garment (and turns out that it was, as it was later adapted and worn by male crew as a skant on TNG) -- FYI those were designed by a gay man and Gene approved them.

This was also supposed to be Spock's TMP outfit:

Literally lingerie.

We saw both Uhura (who saves Kirk in from Marlena Mirror Mirror) and Yeoman Landon (the first to initiate combat with a classic Kirk-esque kick to help the Captain being attacked in The Apple) carry out their combat training in their Starfleet uniforms without ever being made to change into any ridiculous workout gear.

In fact, I'd argue Jim Kirk was sexualized even more than the ladies of the week on the show and I saw his naked body more than anyone else's on a fairly regular basis. He wore red yoga tights while topless in Charlie X while the women wore full length gymnastic suits that covered their entire body. If anything, it went out of its way to avoid sexualizing women practicing fitness in those scenes and instead focused on Kirk.

Gene confessed that he asked to have Shatner filmed in suggestive/provocative ways to "give something to the ladies", so he -- as he said -- liked to "film him walking away" or have him conveniently busting out of his shirts in just about every episode as it were, because Shatner apparently had great assets. LOL

Gene made an effort to at least sexualize both if he was going to sexualize one, and he carried that attitude forward in wanting the m/m and f/f scenes in the background on Risa for TNG. He also insisted that the men and women wear skimpy outfits on THAT TNG planet. You know the one. LOL I mean the dudes even had on less than the women:

Gene also gave permission to K/S shippers to have their conventions back in the 70s when he was asked for permission. Gene and Nimoy felt with all the skimpy outfits they had the ladies wear, why not let the ladies and gay men have their fun, too? It's how we ended up with moments like this:

Yes, those are two people dressed up as Kirk and Spock's penises doing interpretive dance. Gene didn't give two damns. LOL

In my eyes, that was a very progressive take on Gene's part for the 60s. It was actually PARAMOUNT STUDIOS who had the big problem with K/S stories and vehemently tried to shut them down. Gene literally hired slash authors on his payroll and even had several slash stories/writers published in his official Star Trek books (The New Voyages & The New Voyages II).

I feel I saw Uhura and women in TOS engaged in more physical combat/altercations defending themselves that Troi or Bev were shown holding their own.

In fact, Kirk used to get furious when someone would "dress up" his female crew members without their consent (Trelane episode, Shore Leave episode) because like his male crew members, he wanted them to be treated professionally and to also have his male crew act professionally.

Berman brought some of his own personal biases into Star Trek that in some ways regressed it. While TOS had blatant sexism and was called on it time and again, that show was made in the 60s -- a solid 21 years before TNG. We as a modern audience understood why some of it was cringe/sexist due to the time period -- look at any other media coming out in the 60s and Star Trek was miles ahead of what other shows were doing.

Compare that to Berman who was churning sexist stuff out when women like Starbuck and Scully were simultaneously on screen on other programs airing, and we had already had Sigourney Weaver and other strong women in Holywood playing respectful roles.

In my eyes, there was no need of the sexism seen in TNG but especially VOY and ENT. There was no excuse for it when other shows were writing women far better and a number of those weren't even set in the future like Trek was, making it age even faster due to having those dated perspectives frequently highlighted.

In the Center Seat documentary as well as "The Fifty Year Mission" book you will find cast members, writers and other studio alumni who attest to this. Some discussions from "The Fifty Year Mission":

"First, Berman was supposed to have been a real sleaze ball . . . According to Terry Farrel, he would go on constantly about how her breasts weren't big enough, how she should do something about it, and how his secretary was a good example to follow as she had huge breasts. She even had to have fittings to get larger bras, and that was all done at his behest.

Later Berman and Braga developed a name for Jeri Ryan's character prior Seven of Nine. They originally called the character "perineum" which if you look it up it is the area between the anus and the scrotum. Later they floated the name "6 of 9". I mean, what does it tell you about where these two were coming from in the development of this character if they had names like that put forward in all seriousness for her?"

Gene Roddenberry also had some of his own more progressive ideas for TNG cut or watered down by Berman. Roddenberry agreed TNG should have homosexual relationships and representation at a con in the 80s and insisted on it in a meeting with his writers -- something Berman later would not honor. Gene wanted the AIDS episode, showing m/m and f/f in the Riza scenes -- these were some of Roddenberry's requests to include in TNG that Berman later stonewalled.

Berman's era was sadly dated by his own misogynist bias, IMO, to the point that it can somewhat hurt the shows he worked on through his cringe egoism and blatant disrespect toward his female cast.

There is a reason why Gene could keep female actresses working with him and Berman had a revolving door of women that he couldn't seem to keep working for him -- he was abhorrent to women, on and off set. Gene wasn't perfect at all, he had a lot of issues himself -- but Berman was a whole other level. Just look at what he did to poor Jolene Blalock, Marina Sirtis and his toxic commenting on her body weight which exacerbated her struggles with eating disorders, or how he treated and talked to Terry Farrell.

Anyway, just some food for thought. I'm not saying anyone is wrong regarding a take like that, but there are a variety of ways to look at this. Gene Roddenberry isn't a saint by any means, but it definitely bothers me how folks will tote the Berman era as if it were the lesser of two evils or the more progressive depiction of women when I felt there were far more concerning portrayals of women in his era with far less justification.

(P.S: I don't event want to go near the sheer amount of "creepy old dude/villain preys on innocent/naïve/scared young woman or little girl" stories there were in Berman's era, either. But that's a whole other can of worms I can write about in a part 2.)

[leahberman]

summer storm

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siblings in horror, you are so dear to me <3