#c: brian kinney

[im-some-lionheart]

Very interesting and insightful take. I agree on some stuff, but let me offer an alternate reading on certain points (under the cut bc I got inspired and this ended up being wayyyy too long, sorry).

On Brian's character arc:

Since forever, there's been a tension inside the LGBQ+ community between activists who want Queer assimilation (aka, we should have the same rights as everyone else to live a "normal" life) and those that want Queer Liberation (aka, creating and living by our own set of rules instead of conforming to societal expectations).

Brian as a character is the embodiment of the fight for Liberation, whereas Assimilation is embodied by characters like Melanie or Michael, who are constantly pursuing that “normal life”. Brian so eloquently (and let's admit it, disdainfully) calls them “Stepford f*gs” for it, bc he himself is philosophically aligned with the belief that his queerness means he shouldn't have to conform to hetero normative standard (being monogamous, getting married, having kids, moving to the suburbs, stop doing drugs, etc etc). Not only that, but he makes it a point that queerness means that he (and other queer people) shouldn't even WANT TO aspire to conform to those standards.

Regarding Britin and their ending:

With that context, I think it's very interesting to watch Brian handle the tension between, on the one hand, his political beliefs (which dictate he shouldn't want to assimilate) and, on the other, his desire and eventual love towards Justin (who DOES want the Stepford Life ™️).

Throughout the show Justin both learns from Brian the value of being unapologetically politically queer (“you did it, you became the best homosexual you could possibly be”) while simultaneously he himself teaches Brian to allow himself to love and be loved (in a romantic sense).

I gotta admit I felt attacked by you calling their last sex scene a pity fuck lol so I'd love for you to expand on that idea, bc I always saw it as a loving closure to their relationship, so I'm very interested in understanding why you see it so differently.

And in the final season it all comes to a beautiful end when Brian finally allows himself to want those things too, for the first time in his entire life (finally saying “I love you” out loud to Justin, asking him to marry him, buying him a palace lol) only to realize... that's not him. And for the first time in the show, that conclusion comes from a genuine place, not from performing this extreme, distorted hyperbole of a queer liberation lifestyle and stubbornly refusing to "grow up".

Because, the story goes, if you fall in love, you'll naturally want to assimilate (be monogamous forever and go settle in the suburbs). Well, Brian fell in love, he finally had a "good reason" to give up the charade and assimilate (“to prove to the man that I love how much I love him”). And he was doing it (he bought the house, refused to sleep with other people etc). But, it's wasn't because he wanted that life for himself. He was only doing it was what he thought Justin wanted (“I'd do anything, I'd be anything to make him happy”).

Throughout the show, Brian has been performing a caricature of Liberation (out of trauma and refusal to grow up), and in the final season he goes from that to performing Assimilation (out of love for Justin/fear of losing him). But that's not the life that he genuinely wants for himself. And Justin was also using his love for Brian/fear of losing him as an excuse to stay in Pittsburgh and not live the life he truly wants.

And so, for them to come to the understanding that, actually, what's best for both of them is to let each other go... I think it's beautiful, and shows incredible growth from both of them. Because they can finally move past the fear of losing each other, and admit that neither is willing to let the other sacrifice who he truly is (the life he truly wants to live) in the name of love.

Personally, I'm convinced the “it doesn't matter it's only time” line is 100% real. I like to believe that Brian and Justin do see each other again after the show ends.. maybe sporadically until it eventually dies out, maybe (like so many people in the fandom believe) they eventually do reunite for good.. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. They will still love each other, even if they never speak again (not in a "they'll never get over each other" sense, but in a "the love they felt was real and for that reason it will continue to be real" sense). Time or contact are irrelevant to that fact. And I think that's beautiful.

On the final scene and Brian and Michael's relationship:

But then, to have MICHAEL of all people be the one to tell Brian that the thumpa thumpa must continue??? Ohhh chef's kiss. Poetic beauty.

I think it's beautiful and poetic how it's MICHAEL who brings “the old Brian” back to life in the final scene. Because he HAD given up, he was going to sell Babylon, he had accepted that the Assimilation side won and the contrarian queerness he represented throughout the show had lost: everyone around him went for the Stepford Life (which he himself tried out only to realize that would never make him happy, so where does that leave him?), Justin left him, Babylon, the playground for his debauched lifestyle got hate crimed (which was a sign from society that the deviant (drugs promiscuous etc) forms of queerness wouldn't be tolerated anymore)...

Michael, who used to party and do drugs with Brian (Liberation) but has now moved to the suburbs with his husband and his kid (Assimilation). Michael, who spent all of the final season berating Brian for "not growing up", and fighting with him bc “the question isn't why I changed, it's is why haven't you” (aka, we have all assimilated, why do you still insist on going against the norm?).

To have that same Michael be the one to tell Brian: the party must go on, (even if *I* don't follow it) your lifestyle must go on, YOU must continue to be who you are ("You're Brian Kinney, for fuck's sake!")

oooh I think that's beautiful.

I don't see Brian's final scene as him being tragically condemned die a lonely aging circuit queen. But rather, as a hopeful reclamation of who he is, both as a character and as a metaphor.

It does come full circle, but where at the beginning of the show Brian performed that Liberation lifestyle (at times only to be a contrarian or to try and fill voids inside himself), in the final scene, we see him make peace with who he truly is. And the same goes for Michael.

And we're told that the thumpa thumpa continues. No matter what, because we will survive. Both sides of queerness survive and continue: the Assimilation metaphor (Michael) goes to kiss his husband and the Liberation metaphor (Brian) stays on the platform, dancing alone, but not lonely. Sure, he doesn't have a partner anymore, but he's surrounded by his community and his friends family. He's embracing, embodying, and celebrating his chosen lifestyle, but from a place of complete self-acceptance this time.

And god if that isn't beautiful.

The final sequence at Babylon remains the most exquisite and coherent moment in the history of television because you know that it could not have ended any other way. Brian dancing alone is less a reversal to his former self and a seemingly uncritical acceptance of life on the circuit than winning back all the possibilities he and Justin exhausted, including the possibilities of touch (their final sex scene is a last rite; or, to put it crudely, entirely a pity fuck). Sure, Brian will always be the doomed circuit queen whose inability to leave Babylon behind implies a larger, tragic inability to pledge his allegiance to a different system of value. The significant thing, however, is that the queeny life of pleasure does not kill him as it may have done once, a long time ago; on the contrary, he is coming back from the limits, in and of itself a herculean task if you consider that he was on the brink of ruining two lives in one go (again). Brian making a comeback and Justing fucking off to go live his life away from Brian and from Pittsburgh is the only possible outcome—no, they are not getting married, and, no, they will never see or hear from each other again. The most important things in QaF were a) Justin growing up and leaving and b) Brian saving himself, and he does repeatedly, encouraged and spurned by Michael. He can only be himself when Michael's there, and the fact that they are together at the very end is indication enough that Brian-the-Act no longer overlaps with Brian-the-Person (and for the majority of season 5, that was not the case). For as long as Brian's with Michael, aware of their fraught history and the messiness of his own feelings, Brian can exist as a person, allow himself to be vulnerable, and drop the act. By the time "Proud" starts playing, you know that that is the final victory or the next best thing and are left with the bittersweet feeling that maybe all of this could have been avoided had Brian broken free of conditioning not by becoming a doomed circuit queen but by embracing the attraction that Newton left out.

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So since I'm doing “The Amazing Spider-Couple”, I've been brainstorming what the voice cast would be like if it was an animated series.

And this is what I've come up with.

The Main Couple:

-Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Josh Keaton

-Mary Jane Watson-Parker/Spinneret: Cree Summer

The Spidey Friends:

-Eddie Brock/Venom: Jake Green/Daran Norris

-Felicia Hardy/Black Cat: Jennifer Hale

-Miles Morales/Spider-Man: Nadji Jeter

-Flash Thompson/Scarlet Spider: Sam Riegel

-Curt Connors/The Lizard: Dee Bradley Baker

The Daily Bugle:

-J. Johan Jameson: J.K. Simmons

-Robbie Robertson: Phil Morris

-Betty Brant: Kath Soucie

-Ned Leeds: Jason Spisak

The Villains:

-Doctor Octopus: Rainn Wilson

-The Vulture: Dwight Schultz

-Scorpion: Daran Norris

-Sandman: Thomas F. Wilson

-Electro: Yuri Lowenthal

-The Rhino: Kevin Michael Richardson

-Kraven the Hunter: Jim Cummings

-Mysterio: Cam Clarke

-Kingpin: Jim Cummings

-Shocker: Tom Kenny

-Hydro-Man: Neil Patrick Harris

-Molten Man: Rino Romano

-White Rabbit: Hynden Walch

-The Spot: Crispin Freeman

-The Beetle: Grey Griffin

-Tombstone: Keith David

-The Prowler: Phil LaMarr

The Fantastic Four:

-Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic: Ian James Corlett

-Susan Storm-Richards/The Invisible Woman: Jill Talley

-Johnny Storm/The Human Torch: Danny Cooksey

-Ben Grimm/The Thing: Dave Boat

-H.E.R.B.I.E.: Laura Bailey

-Alicia Masters-Grimm: Wendee Lee

-Franklin Richards: Kari Wahlgren

-Valeria Richards: Kari Wahlgren

Street-Level Heroes, Heroes for Hire and Solo Heroes:

-Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk: Cree Summer

-Matt Murdock/Daredevil: Roger Craig Smith

-Marc Spector/Moon Knight: Keith Ferguson

-Frank Castle/The Punisher: Diedrich Bader

-Luke Cage: Khary Payton

-Jessica Jones-Cage: Kate Higgins

-Danny Rand/Iron Fist: Johnny Yong Bosch

-Misty Knight: Cynthia McWilliams

-Colleen Wing: Stephanie Sheh

-Shang-Chi: Kaiji Tang

-Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange: Jeff Bennett

-Ava Ayala/White Tiger: Alanna Ubach

-Eric Brooks/Blade: Terry Crews

-Wade Wilson/Deadpool: John Kassir

-Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl: Milana Vayntrub

The Avengers and Co.:

-Steve Rogers/Captain America: Brian Bloom

-Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk: Joe Zieja/Fred Tatasciore

-Tony Stark/Iron Man: Nolan North

-Donald Blake/Thor: Patrick Seitz

-Natasha Romonova/The Black Widow: Vanessa Marshall

-Clint Barton/Hawkeye: Matthew Mercer

-T'Challa/The Black Panther: James C. Mathis III

-Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel: Janet Varney

-Hank Pym/Ant-Man: Ben Savage

-Janet Van Dyne-Pym/The Wasp: Colleen O'Shaughnessy

-Sam Wilson/The Falcon: Bumper Robinson

-Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch: Kate Higgins

-Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver: James Arnold Taylor

-Simon Williams/Wonder Man: Nathan Fillion

-Greer Grant/Tigra: Grey Griffin

-Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman: Kimberly Brooks

-James “Rhodey” Rhodes/War Machine: James C. Mathis III

-Bobbi Morse-Barton/Mockingbird: E.G. Daily

-Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel: Kathreen Khavari

-Rikki Barnes/Bucky: Lara Jill Miller

-Humberto Lopez/Reptil: Antony Del Rio

-Edwin Jarvis: Jess Harnell

-Rick Jones: Will Friedle

-Betty Ross: Misty Lee

The X-Men:

-Charles Xavier: Alan Tudyk

-James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine: Steve Blum

-Scott Summers/Cyclops: Ben Diskin

-Ororo Munroe/Storm: Dawnn Lewis

-Jean Grey/Phoenix: Jennifer Hale

-Henry McCoy/The Beast: Dee Bradley Baker

-Remy LeBeau/Gambit: Phil LaMarr

-Anna-Marie D’Ancanto/Rogue: Jennifer Hale

-Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler: Yuri Lowenthal

-Piotr Rasputin/Colossus: Nolan North

-Jubilation Lee/Jubilee: Dionne Quan

-Bobby Drake/Iceman: Jason Marsden

-Angelica Jones/Firestar: Jessica DiCicco

-Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat: Kath Soucie

-Lockheed: Dee Bradley Baker

-Illyana Rasputin/Magik: Laura Bailey

-Warren Worthington III/Angel: Tress MacNeille

-Emma Frost-Summers: Candi Milo

-Alison Brie/Dazzler: Cristina Vee

-Betsy Braddock/Psylocke: Jennifer Hale

-Laura Kinney/Wolverine: Grey Griffin

-Sophia Sanduval/Chat: Mandy Moore

-Morph: J.P. Karliak

-Shiro Yoshida/Sunfire: Steven Yeun

As you can see, I wanted the cast to be a mix of old and new actors, with a good chunk of the characters being voiced by previous voices.

And in a few case, they're still being voiced by their long-time recurring VAs.

Let me know what you guys think about this casting!

[monsamborabutterfly]

I just made a VERY long and VERY detailed post about this and then accidentally deleted it🥲 that's what I get for making silly posts about fictional gays at 2:30 am instead of sleeping like a responsible adult who has to get up in 4 hours.

Anyway the short version is:

1) Boston is very Brian Kinney coded. Seriously they're basically the same! Iykyk

2) BostonNick are very BrianJustin coded. My dumb silly little disaster gays truly fell hard for these boys. Who in both cases were just supposed to be another number on their long list of hookups.

3) even their endings were similar!! Both decided to go separate ways. Justin even left for new york of all places to pursue his art career lol.

BUT while I was and am heartbroken about both, BrianJustin ending things was a lot less harsh and frustrating because:

a) it was a decision made out of love for each other and they never stopped valuing and respecting each other.

b) Brian actually didn't end up alone cause he had a great group of friends who unlike Cheum and co. did not have a superiority complex and we're able to call Brian out on his bullshit and still show him respect.

c) unlike BostonNick they never have been neglected by the narrative. Both as a pairing and as individual characters.

[succiducus]

{uraz kaygılaroğlu, 34, agender, he/they/she} We are so glad to see you safe, ADVISOR ABDULLAH MACKENZIE of SCOTLAND! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are CALCULATIVE and DEDICATED enough to handle it. Just don’t let your RECKLESSNESS bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out after the reckoning your heart is no longer in the rebellion.

b a s i c s //

birth name: murat abdullah mackenzie

nickname: abby

birthday: march 31st (aries)

occupation: royal advisor to the stuarts

orientation: demi-romantic / pansexual

status: single-ish

languages: english, scottish gaelic (native). persian, hindi, japanese (fluent). german, amharic, sanskrit (conversational).

character influences: brian kinney (queer as folk), link & ganondorf (tloz), aragorn (lotr), indra (the 100), uchiha madara (naruto).

tarot card: strength

p r o l o g u e //

crooked by nature, they have always had a knack for manipulation and persuasion - nurture worsened it. selfish; power-hungry; proud; a perfect canvas for the pursuits of the family that they'd been adopted into and admittedly for their own gain. freedom granted them invisibility and they remain clutched onto that to this day. they've slipped into and out of many empires, left impacts, bought loyalties but as chaotic as they are, they're not simpleminded. they make calculative decisions and take well thought out actions for the gain of themselves and the mackenzies. prepared, intuitive, controlled - sometimes they seem outwardly unapproachable, they led their army with a strong hand, charm their way through awkward situations, and work hard regardless of their reasonings for doing so. they have two faces and only those loyal to the mackenzies know which one is real. they will stop at nothing to attain what they want.

a c t i : l a l q i l a //

The Mughal Empire had always been, to him, a means to an end. After his discharge from the Scottish military, being reassigned to a new empire to help aid the rebellion in any way that he could, he thought that settling in Delhi was temporary, that he would not grow attached to the people, sights, and sounds that surrounded him on a daily basis, however, that was far from the case. Assuming a new identity, working his way through the ranks of their military, making connections and friendships (even if surface level), and getting acquainted with a culture that his birth parents had fallen in love with after leaving Scotland wasn't supposed to leave a mark on him, but it did. The Grand Memoriam; reconnecting with Cailean and his sisters; hearing the loud accents of the Scottish court in the dining hall; followed shortly by invasions, political fights, chaos, and watching his heart face death once more pushed Abdullah from a state of clarity into one of complete and utter exhaustion. He decided to resign from his position as commander, swear fealty to Claire Stuart, and return home. The Reckoning shook him far beyond exhaustion; it cemented his love for the empire in his heart.

t i m e s k i p //

Grief was not new to Abdullah. He had been mourning Scotland and his place within it for years before The Reckoning took the rulers of the Mughal Empire from him. However, the loss struck him harder than he thought it might. Grown accustomed to serving them, to his every thought encompassing their safety and safety of their empire, suddenly being without all of it made guilt trickle into the space between his ribs. He struggled with this for the majority of their journey home, tried his best to smile when he was supposed to smile; one might say that his years of pretending came in handy when asked if he was glad to be home by fellow clansmen and their family friends. It was interesting, he supposed, how being back on the moors of Scotland didn't remove the sting of having to leave India behind. With news of it's descent into chaos reaching him, the guilt of leaving it defenceless when he did, lingered. But, somewhere between training with his mother in the halls of Castle Stuart and sliding into bed next to the youngest Fergusson, his grief disappeared and was replaced by a warmth that was often threatened by the thought of what those he cared about most were doing behind the scenes. You see, even with the new reign among them, the rebels that he had once proudly stood with were strong, perhaps, even stronger than ever, and in the land under Stuart reign, whether by one monarch or by four, rebels careless enough to get caught were hung. Once a thought that made him chuckle, the reality of losing those he cared about to something they could choose to refrain from started to make him weary.

p r e s e n t d a y //

Exhausted by his days in the military and the monotony of daily life now that he's back home, when the opportunity to put his mind to use once more approached him, he took it. From Mughal Commander to Royal Advisor, Abdullah is settling into his position comfortably while still training under his mother's guidances to become Duke after her retirement - the most prominent issue? He's starting to see each Stuart as people and not monarchs, an issue for the once rebel still lurking under the surface. For now, he's keeping up appearances for the sake of his parents and lover, however, he's come to the realization that the exhaustion from years of pretending is finally catching up with him and if he had to be honest? He simply wished to wake up to the sun illuminating red hair, the loud purr of Mor, and the smell of grass fluttering in through the open window of their bedroom. He supposed, being so close to love and it's beauty had made him soft - he could no longer stomach the rebellion and what it had the potential to take from him.

c o n n e c t i o n s //

cordelia mackenzie (sister) - to be written

karolina mackenzie (sister) - to be written

cailean fergusson (soul-mate) - they have been caught in a dance of cat and mouse for decades, unable to shed their emotional attachment to one another. they fall apart, put distance between themselves, however the universe brings them back together, often stronger than the last time their souls tangled. once on the same side of the coin, they now faced the unique challenge of being on opposites. its led to countless arguments and skirting around the topic of the scottish monarchy yet underneath all of the anger and frustration, they make moves toward one another and for each other out of love, even if they cannot admit aloud quite yet.

[im-some-lionheart]

him teaching her to appreciate fashion since he doesn't trust her moms' "sense of style" (or lack thereof) to be conductive to the fashionable young lady that JR deserves to be, so he'd buy her expensive luxury bags and jackets despite extensive arguing from Linds and Mel who don't want her getting accustomed to a lifestyle they can't afford

oh i need brian as an uncle to JR headcanons right now!!!

[winderlylandchime]

4, 14, and 24 for the fanfic asks!

thank you babe!

4. Which fic do you secretly root for to get the most hits/kudos, etc?

I am most proud of you're like a tattoo (something i can't undo) Like that fic feels like some of my best writing, characterization, and plotting. But I feel like clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them doesn't get the love it deserves. You know how stand up comedians will talk about a tight 5 or whatever? This fic feels like a tight 3K and I'm very proud of it.

14. Which version of [insert character] would you most like to be lost in the woods with?

Bestie, you forgot to insert the character. So I'm going to assume it's Brian Kinney because he is the blorbo of all time. I'm going to go with LVER's TOWJLHH Brian because a) he's got more money than god so he would just like hire a helicopter to rescue us b) he's a caretaker to the max but without being soppy about it and I think that's the attitude we need to bring to being lost in the woods and c) he is basically a doctor at this point so if I have a seizure or lose my hearing or (most likely) have attaque of the allergies, he knows how to respond and he'll still find me just as sexy as ever.

24. Spoil the ending of your WIP (wrong answers only)

Son Shine loses All Stars but in the grand tradition of losers who are crowd favorites, she is given her own franchise of drag race to host. Too bad it's drag race Antartica. Brian has a difficult decision to make.

very normal fic writer asks

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Part 2/2 of my completed masterlist

Chicago fire

Name

Portrayed by

Position

Seasons

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Matthew Casey

Jesse Spencer

Lieutenant, Truck 81

Main[a]

Guest

Kelly Severide

Taylor Kinney

Lieutenant, Squad 3

Main

Gabriela Dawson

Monica Raymund

Paramedic in Charge, Firefighter

Main

Guest

Leslie Elizabeth Shay

Lauren German

Paramedic

Main

Guest

Peter Mills

Charlie Barnett

Firefighter, Paramedic

Main

Christopher Herrmann

David Eigenberg

Lieutenant, Engine 51

Main[b]

Dr. Hallie Thomas

Teri Reeves

Resident Physician

Main[b]

Wallace Boden

Eamonn Walker

Battalion Chief

Main

Brian "Otis" Zvonecek

Yuri Sardarov

Firefighter

Recurring

Main[c]

Randall "Mouch" McHolland

Christian Stolte

Firefighter

Recurring

Main

Joe Cruz

Joe Minoso

Firefighter, Engineer

Recurring

Main

Sylvie Brett

Kara Killmer

Paramedic

Main

Jessica "Chili" Chilton

Dora Madison

Paramedic

Guest

Main[d]

Jimmy Borelli

Steven R. McQueen

Firefighter Candidate, Paramedic

Main[e]

Stella Kidd

Miranda Rae Mayo

Firefighter, Engineer

Recurring

Main

Emily Foster

Annie Ilonzeh

Paramedic

Main

Blake Gallo

Alberto Rosende

Firefighter Candidate

Main[f]

Darren Ritter

Daniel Kyri

Firefighter Candidate

Recurring

Main

Gianna Mackey

Adriyan Rae

Paramedic

Main[g]

Violet Mikami

Hanako Greensmith

Paramedic

Some shows have one or multiple OCs like shameless and friends

House

Allison

Remy

Lisa

James

Once upon a time

Regina

emma

Ruby

Shameless

helene

Florence (oc)

Friends

Ross

Chandler

Monica

Rachel

Phoebe

Mike

Joey

Emily

Ben

Chandler

Leslie

Frank jr jr

Emma

Erica

Jack

Skylar

Amy

Austin

Jill

Elle

Emmett

Charlotte

Scott

Kate

Aaron

Carol

Susan

Elizabeth

Jack

William

Rose

Michell

Michael

Code black

Rox

Ariel

Ethan

Raza Jaffrey as Dr. Neal Hudson, an ER attending physician. A British-Indian former surgeon, his approach is quieter and more people-oriented, than his mentor Dr. Rorish. He connected with Christa during her first year of residency. In "Hail Mary", Hudson becomes a surgical attending, and is once again assigned to the ER (season 1).[7][8]

Bonnie Somerville as Dr. Christa Lorenson, a mature first-year resident. She was married with a son who died of brain cancer. Her experience and her divorce inspired her to attend medical school (season 1).[7]

Melanie Chandra as Dr. Malaya Pineda, a first-year resident (seasons 1–2). She went to medical school and did her internship at Angels Memorial, and is more familiar with the ER. She is a lesbian, who was once involved with a resident when she was a medical student.

William Allen Young as Dr. Rollie Guthrie, an ER attending physician with a very nurturing style; he takes Angus under his wing in his first days in the ER. Guthrie's wife committed suicide, a death that strained his relationship with his son, a surgeon. During season 2, Guthrie is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and undergoes corrective neurological surgery to delay the onset of symptoms. Guthrie had a daughter who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while Guthrie tried to save his son from a similar death.

Harry Ford as Dr. Angus Leighton, a first-year resident. His father is on the hospital board. He feels overshadowed by that and by the achievements of his older brother, a former resident, but slowly grows in confidence. In his second year he is encouraged to transfer and become a surgical resident.

Benjamin Hollingsworth as Dr. Mario Savetti, a first-year resident. He grew up poor and sees emergency medicine as his way out. He worked as a bartender before medical school.

Luis Guzmán as Jesse Salander, known as "Mama". A senior nurse who manages the residents, Jesse is tough but caring and supportive of the students. He and Dr. Rorish have a long-term, close friendship.

Boris Kodjoe as Dr. Will Campbell, Chief of Surgery. In season 2 he is assigned as the new Chief of the combined Surgery and Emergency medicine department in order to save costs, causing strife between him and Rorish. Campbell has a disabled daughter (season 2–3; recurring in season 1).

Jillian Murray as Dr. Heather Pinkney, a surgical resident who becomes involved with Mario.(season 2; recurring in season 1). He quickly ends it when he hears about her side relationship with Dr. Campbell. She gets in further trouble when it's revealed she's providing Angus with Adderall. When confronted by Campbell, she threatens to turn their past relationship into a sexual harassment case.

Noah Gray-Cabey as Elliot Dixon, a first-year resident in the ER (season 2-3).

Emily Tyra as Noa Kean, an ER resident and former dancer. She begins a relationship with Dr. Mario Savetti (season 3; recurring season 2)

Emily Alyn Lind as Ariel Braeden (season 3; guest seasons 1–2)

Shiri Appleby as Dr. Carla Niven, a former resident at Angels Memorial and Malaya's ex-girlfriend. She is diagnosed with leukemia while pregnant, and refuses treatment not wanting to harm the baby.

Christina Vidal as Dr. Gina Perello, the replacement Director of the Emergency Department at Angels Memorial, who takes over when Dr. Taylor is put on leave.

Gabrielle Carteris as Amy Wolowitz, R.N., a nurse in the Emergency Department.

Meagan Good as Dr. Grace Adams, returns to the ER after volunteering in Haiti. She is Dr. Neal Hudson's ex-girlfriend.

Season 2[edit]

Nafessa Williams as Charlotte Piel, a new first-year resident in the ER who was formerly a popular teenaged actress.

Kathleen Rose Perkins as Dr. Amanda Nolan, a psychiatrist at the hospital.

Season 3[edit]

Tyler Perez as Diego Avila, son of a hospital board member and a first-year resident. He drives the staff and patients crazy by filming them to make a documentary about the Angels ER.

Alex Lange as Max, a young cancer patient with whom Ariel strikes up a friendship, which turns into young love.

Rosewood

Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Darius Rosewood, Jr.[6]

Jaina Lee Ortiz as Det. Annalise Villa[6]

Gabrielle Dennis as Pippy Rosewood, Beaumont's sister[6]

Anna Konkle as Tara Milly Izikoff (TMI), Pippy's girlfriend/wife[6]

Domenick Lombardozzi as Captain/Detective Ira Hornstock[6]

Lorraine Toussaint as Donna Rosewood, Beaumont's mother[7]

Sam Huntington as Dr. Mitchie Mendelson (season 2; recurring, season 1)[8]

Eddie Cibrian as Captain Ryan Slade (season 2) [9]

Kamal Angelo Bolden as Ju-Ju

Andrea "Andy" Herrera

Jaina Lee Ortiz

Main

Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Warren

Jason George

Main

Jack Gibson

Grey Damon

Main

Victoria "Vic" Hughes

Barrett Doss

Main

Ryan Tanner

Alberto Frezza

Main

Recurring

Travis Montgomery

Jay Hayden

Main

Dean Miller

Okieriete Onaodowan

Main[b]

Maya DeLuca-Bishop

Danielle Savre

Main

Pruitt Herrera

Miguel Sandoval

Main

Guest

Robert Sullivan

Boris Kodjoe

Main[c]

Dr. Carina DeLuca-Bishop

Stefania Spampinato

Recurring

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Theo Ruiz

Carlos Miranda

Recurring

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Sean Beckett

Josh Randall

Recurring

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Natasha Ross

Merle Dandridge

Recurring

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Michael Dixon

Pat Healy

Recurring

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Molly

Pruitt

Pruitt Arike Miller

Er

Anthony Edwards

Mark Greene

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George Clooney

Doug Ross

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S.G

S [a]

Sherry Stringfield

Susan Lewis

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Noah Wyle

John Carter

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Julianna Margulies

Carol Hathaway

M

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Eriq La Salle

Peter Benton

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Gloria Reuben

Jeanie Boulet

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S.G

Laura Innes

Kerry Weaver

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Maria Bello

Anna Del Amico

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Alex Kingston

Elizabeth Corday

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Kellie Martin

Lucy Knight

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Paul McCrane

Robert Romano

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S.G

Goran Visnjic

Luka Kovač

M

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S.G

Michael Michele

Cleo Finch

M

Erik Palladino

Dave Malucci

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Ming-Na Wen

Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen

R

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Maura Tierney

Abby Lockhart

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Sharif Atkins

Michael Gallant

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S.G

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Mekhi Phifer

Greg Pratt

R

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S.G

Parminder Nagra

Neela Rasgotra

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Linda Cardellini

Sam Taggart

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Shane West

Ray Barnett

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Scott Grimes

Archie Morris

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John Stamos

Tony Gates

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David Lyons

Simon Brenner

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Angela Bassett

Catherine Banfield

Greys anatomy

Maredith

Derek

Izzie

Alex

Jo

Amelia

Christina

Maggie

Zola

Teddy

Callie

Arizona

Jo

Addison

Lexie

April

Miranda

Rebecca

Erica

Sadie

Stephanie

Megan

Leah

Nicole

Eliza

Penelope

Heather

Tara

Catherine

Simone

Jules

Virgina

Margret

Lucy

Nicole

Sydney

Graciela

Megan

Laura

Heather

Sam

Dahlia

katherine

Private Practice

Kate Walsh

Addison Montgomery

Main

Tim Daly

Pete Wilder

Main

Audra McDonald[a]

Naomi Bennett

Main

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Paul Adelstein

Cooper Freedman

Main

KaDee Strickland

Charlotte King

Main

Chris Lowell

William "Dell" Parker

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Taye Diggs

Sam Bennett

Main

Amy Brenneman

Violet Turner

Main

Brian Benben

Sheldon Wallace

Recurring

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Caterina Scorsone

Amelia Shepherd

Recurring

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Benjamin Bratt

Jake Reilly

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Griffin Gluck

Mason Warner

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lizzie

william

jane

edward

beth

benny

anne

fredrick

molly

richard

charlotte

sydney

allison

lucas

emma watson

mr. howard

catherine

henry

marianne

brandon

jo

brach

amy

laurie

laura

amazo

margret

john

fanny

edmound

elinor

edward

anne

gilbert

annabeth

percy

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peter

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daisy

nick

jordan

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jackson

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carrie

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laura

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dylan

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carter

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andrew

honeymoon

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micah

elodie and cody

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george

faye and zack

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connor

nova and kalen

anne and william

laney and michael

lydia

authour

cynthia

penelope

april rose

mara

bing

brandon

marcus

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lalani

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mary

caroline

jane

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sam

jackson

jolene

ricky

leila

charlotte

finn

annette

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alex

fitz

kitty

charles

matt

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jhon

james

mrs reynolds

ricky

jim

mike

harriet

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[reposted-yura15cbx]

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(Analysing Texts) Nicholas Marsh - Shakespeare_ Three Problem Plays -Palgrave Macmillan (2003).pdf (Shakespeare Criticism) Gary Waller - All's Well, That Ends Well_ New Critical Essays-Routledge (2006).pdf (Shakespeare Criticism) Horst Zander - Julius Caesar_ New Critical Essays -Routledge (2004).pdf (Shakespeare Now!) Michael Witmore - Shakespearean Metaphysics (Shakespeare Now!)-Continuum (2008).pdf A. L. Rowse - The Annotated Shakespeare - Three Volumes In One (1988).pdf A. L. Rowse - William Shakespeare - A Biography.pdf a_gililov2.txt Adam Hansen - Shakespeare and Popular Music-Continuum (2010).pdf Alan C. Dessen - Rescripting Shakespeare_ The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions (2002).pdf Alan Stewart - Shakespeare's Letters-Oxford University Press, USA (2009).pdf Alexander Leggatt - Shakespeare's Political Drama_ The History Plays and the Roman Plays.pdf Alexander Leggatt - Shakespeare's Tragedies_ Violation and Identity-Cambridge University Press (2005).pdf Andrew Hadfield - Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics -Arden Shakespeare (2003).pdf Andrew Hadfield - Shakespeare and Republicanism-Cambridge University Press (2005).pdf Andrew Hadfield - Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain (Early Modern Literature in History) (2004).pdf Andrew Hadfield - William Shakespeare's Othello_ A Sourcebook-Routledge (2003).pdf Andrew Hiscock, Lisa Hopkins - Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists -Palgrave Macmillan (2007).pdf Andrew Murphy - Shakespeare in Print_ A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003).pdf Andrew R. Murphy - A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text -Wiley-Blackwell (2007).pdf Andrew R. Murphy - A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text-Wiley-Blackwell (2007).pdf Antony Tatlow - Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (2001).pdf Arthur F. Kinney - Shakespeare and Cognition_ Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama-Routledge (2006).pdf Attridge D. - The Experience of Poetry. From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers - 2019.pdf Author - Shakespeare's Local-Macmillan (1100).epub Barbara Hodgdon, W. B. Worthen - A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance -Wiley-Blackwell (2007).pdf Barry Edelstein - Bardisms_ Shakespeare for All Occasions-Harper (2009).pdf Beatrice Groves - Texts and Traditions_ Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604 (Oxford English Monographs) (2007).pdf Bradford R. - Is Shakespeare any Good. And Other Questions on How to Evaluate Literature - 2015.pdf Brian Gibbons - Shakespeare and Multiplicity (1993).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1623-1692 )-Routledge (1996).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1693-1733 -Routledge (1996).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 3 1733-1752 -Routledge (1996).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 4 1753-1765 -Routledge (1996).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 5 1765-1774 -Routledge (1996).pdf Brian Vickers - William Shakespeare_ The Critical Heritage Volume 6 1774-1801 -Routledge (1996).pdf

[im-some-lionheart]

Brian Kinney turned 50 this year, around june, during the quarantine. I don’t know what to do with this information.

[gayharoldlll]

I sent a message about Rewatching qaf because your posts have been insightful and perhaps I’d have a different perspective on the way the series ended because I previously disliked it. And then I got confused about if the person I meant to send the message to was either you or capt-galaxy and that i got confused if you were the same person or not because your accounts are so similar lol

Oh, ok!! I'd love to hear your thoughts about the show regardless of whether or not you end up rewatching the whole thing—really, it's positively marvelous that there's such a wide array of opinions :)

I always though the ending was one of the most coherent in the history of television like imagine the surprise when I actually sat down and watched the thing and then logged into tumblr and, well, let's just say ha-ha. In QaF UK Nathan becomes the new Stuart but Justin can neither become the new Brian (because it implies that Justin, too, rejects real life due to the comforting fiction that Babylon provides which would be bad, terrible, so unlike Justin) nor can he stay with Brian because a) there's nothing there to the point of disillusionment (the memory of Brian and the water bottle leaves him indifferent, that's significant and anything Brian says elicits but a disinterested yah-so to speak) b) you cannot have anything after that half-hearted attempt to create a farce/freakshow (the same thing Brian accused Michael of only it's real in Brian and Justin's case) in fact I do believe that Brian gets so close to ruining their lives forever that he won't allow himself to have another relationship in his life c) the show is the Justin Taylor success story (it's irrelevant whether he becomes an Artist, what matters is that he left Babylon and Pittsburgh) as much as it is the Brian Kinney tragedy and success lies in choosing life.

[succiducus]

FULL NAVIGATION ~ BIO & CONNECTIONS ~ DIRECTORY

{uraz kaygılaroğlu, 33, genderfluid, he/they/she} We are so glad to see you safe, MILITARY COMMANDER ABDULLAH HASAN (MACKENZIE) of THE MUGHAL EMPIRE! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are DETERMINED and COURAGEOUS enough to handle it. Just don’t let your UNETHICAL NATURE bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out [that you lied about your identity to get close to the rulers for your family].

b a s i c s //

birth name: murat abdullah mackenzie

alias: abdullah zahir hasan

birthday: march 31st (aries)

occupation: military commander

orientation: aromantic - pansexual - aplatonic

status: single

languages: english, scottish gaelic (native). persian, hindi, japanese (fluent). german, amharic, sanskrit (conversational). chinese (stop them before they start a war)

p e s o n a l i t y //

crooked by nature, they have always had a knack for manipulation and persuasion - nurture worsened it. selfish; power-hungry; proud; a perfect canvas for the pursuits of the family that they'd been adopted into and admittedly for their own gain. freedom granted them invisibility and they remain clutched onto that to this day. they've slipped into and out of many empires, left impacts, bought loyalties but as chaotic as they are, they're not simpleminded. they make calculative decisions and take well thought out actions for the gain of themselves and the mackenzies. prepared, intuitive, controlled - sometimes they seem outwardly unapproachable, they lead their army with a strong hand, charm their way through awkward situations, and work hard regardless of their reasonings for doing so. they have two faces and only those loyal to the mackenzies know which one is real. they will stop at nothing to attain what they want. character influences: brian kinney (queer as folk), link & ganondorf (tloz), aragorn (lotr), indra (the 100), uchiha madara (naruto).

c o n n e c t i o n s //

zehra mackenzie (sister) - to be written

karolina mackenzie (sister) - to be written

cailean fergusson (flirtation-ship?) - to be written

[im-some-lionheart]

how did I ever forget this show was this fucking hilarious

[im-some-lionheart]

✨ If you don't earn respect when you're alive, you don't deserve it when you're dead ✨

Brian Kinney

Fuck you bitch ass imma celebrate the death of whoever i want if they were a massive dickhead

[sk3ll3tor]

I'm Amazon Priming you some of my favorite rocky road ice cream by this little company you've never heard of near the Bowery. Just give me an address and it'll be at your door in like an hour.

Ben: Dude.

Ben: *Soho Loft Address*

Ben: Just know that you’ll be going to the gym with me tomorrow.

[gayharoldlll]

One of the bestest things about QaF is the fact that halfway through they turn it all upside down and the dark undercurrents come to light. The audience is forced to reckon with the fact that a) Brian Kinney the Act is Brian Kinney the Person b) Brian Kinney the Person is an extremely unlikeable individual whose pathological repulsion for relationships stems from c) being in love with his best friend. S5 is about Brian's feelings for Michael whether one likes it or not, it is about Brian looking utterly besotted and Justin wondering what on earth he's still doing in Pittsburgh and the more so at Babylon indulging in a lifestyle that has been presented as unsustainable from day one. Sure, if you give up your friendship and replace it with a love affair, what do you lose for that? But Brian is as trapped in the circuit as he is in Michael's bedroom, still a teenager, a magazine with a picture of Swayze serving as mediator. It's rancid, rots away, and denies, at the risk of sounding like a sixteenth-century playwright, love, greatness, and self-actualisation.

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

St Vincent: “Pour a Drink, Smoke a Joint... That’s the Vibe”

Ding dong! Daddy's Home

By Johnny Davis

19/03/2021

Annie Clark, known professionally as St Vincent, picked up a guitar aged 12 after being inspired by Jimi Hendrix. During her teens she worked as a roadie and later tour manager for her aunt and uncle, the jazz duo Tuck & Patti. Originally from Oklahoma, she moved to Dallas, Texas when she was seven and later attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts for three years, before dropping out.

Clark worked as a touring musician with the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens, before releasing Marry Me, her first album as St Vincent, in 2007. By her fifth album, 2017’s Masseduction, she had become one of the most celebrated artists in music, the first solo female artist to win a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in 20 years.

She became unlikely Daily Mail-fodder around the same time, thanks to an 18-month relationship with Cara Delevingne, and later Kristen Stewart. Her ever-changing music, dressing up-box image and head-spinning well of ideas have seen her compared to David Bowie, Kate Bush and Prince. To complete the notion of her being the "artist's artist", in 2012 she collaborated with David Byrne on the album Love This Giant.

Indeed, she is surely one of few performers today who could stand in for Kurt Cobain with what’s-left-of-Nirvana, performing “Lithium” at their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, as well as cover “Controversy” at a Prince tribute concert in 2020, with such guitar-playing fireworks its author would surely have approved.

Following the glam-influenced pop of Masseduction, St Vincent has performed another stylistic handbrake turn. Complete with a new image – part-Warhol Superstar, part-Cassavetes heroine – she has mined the textures of the music she loved most as a kid: the virtuoso rock of Steely Dan, the clipped funk of Stevie Wonder and blue-eyed soul of mid-Seventies' David Bowie, on her upcoming album, Daddy’s Home.

The title refers to Clark's own father, locked up in Texas for 12 years in 2010, for money laundering in a stock manipulation scheme, one in which he and his co-conspirators cheated 17,000 investors out of £35m. It is also, in typical Clark style, a bit of saucy slang.

Back on the promotional trail, Clark Zoomed in from Los Angeles one morning recently – fully caffeinated and raring to go. “My vices?” she pondered. “Too much coffee, man…”

What question are you already bored of being asked?

There’s not one that’s popping out. There’s no question where I’m like “Oh God, if I ever hear that again, I’ll jump off a building.” I’m chill.

I mention it because prior to releasing your last record you put out a pre-recorded “press conference”, seemingly to pre-empt every inane question the media would throw at you.

It’s so funny. It didn’t really occur like that. Originally that was supposed to be a legit green screen conference. Like, “I’ll just answer these questions ‘cos when they need to have me on ‘The Morning Show’ in Belarus they can have this and put their own graphics behind it”. But then when my friend Carrie Brownstein [collaborator and Sleater-Kinney vocalist-guitarist] and I started writing it and it became very snarky. For some reason it didn’t occur to me that “Oh, that might be off-putting or intimidating to journalists” I just thought "This is silly”. So anyway… I understand.

We're curious about your dad and the American legal system.

I have had a lot of questions about that. For some reason it didn’t occur to me how much I would be answering questions about… my hilarious father!

How do you view his time in prison?

Just that life is long and people are complicated. And that, luckily, there’s a chance for redemption or reconciliation, even after a really crazy traumatic time. And also anybody that has any experience with the American justice system will know this... nobody comes out unscathed.

You recently presented an online MasterClass: "St. Vincent Teaches Creativity & Songwriting". One of the takeaways: “All you need are ears and ideas, and you can make anything happen”. Who’s had the best ideas in music?

Well, you’ve got to give credit to people who were genuinely creating a new style – like if you think of Charlie Parker, arguably he created a new style. This hard bop that was just absolutely impossible to play. It was, like, “Check me out – try to copy me!” So, that’s interesting. I think Brian Eno, for sure, has some great ideas about music – and obviously has made some of the best music. Joni Mitchell – completely singular. I mean: think about that. There are some people who are actually inimitable – like, you couldn’t possibly even try to imitate them.

It’s a brave soul who covers a Joni Mitchell song. Although, apologies if you actually have.

No, I have not. And there’s a reason why not. Come on – Bowie. Bowie never repeated himself. David Byrne also didn’t repeat himself. He took all of his influences of classic songs and the disco that was happening at the time, and the potpourri of downtown New York music from the mid- to late Seventies… and synthesised it into this completely new, other thing. I mean, that’s impressive. Those are the ones we remember.

How hard is it not to repeat yourself?

It’s whether people have the Narcissus thing or not. Like, it’s always got to be a balance where you’re, like, “Well, I need to believe in myself to make something and be liberated. But I can’t look at that pond of my previous work and go ‘Oh you! You’re gorgeous!’” So I don’t go back and listen to things I’ve done. I finished Daddy’s Home in the fall and it was, like, “This is done” and it felt great. I loved the record and it was so fun to make. But what I did immediately afterwards was to write something completely different. But then I don’t know, ‘cos there are people who do the thing that they do just great. And you just want to hear more songs, in the style of the thing that they do great.

Right. No one wants an experimental Ramones album.

Exactly. Or, like, or a Tom Petty record. I don’t want a tone poem from Tom Petty! I want a perfectly constructed, perfectly written completely singalongable three-chord song.

The new album has a very “live” Seventies feel. I’d read that some of the tracks are first takes. Can that be right? It all sounds very complicated.

That’s not right. I should say [rock voice] "Yeah, that’s right, we just jammed…" But, you know, I’ll be honest. There are some vocal takes in there that are first takes. But it really is just the sound of people playing. We get good drum takes. And good bass takes. And I play a bunch of guitar and sitar-guitar. And it’s the sound of a moment in time, certainly. And way more about looseness and groove and feel and vibe than anything else [I’ve done before].

Amazing live albums, virtuoso playing, jamming – those were staples of Seventies music. Have we lost some of that?

I mean, I can wax poetic on that idea for a minute. In the Seventies you had this tremendous sophistication in popular music. Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan and funk and soul and jazz and rock…. and all of the things rolled into one. That was tremendously sophisticated. It just was. There was harmony, there were chord progressions.

What else from that decade appealed to you for Daddy’s Home?

It reminds me of where we are now, I think. So, 1971-1976 in downtown New York, you’ve got the Summer of Love thing and flower children and all the hippy stuff and it’s, like, “Oh yeah, that didn’t work out that well. We’re still in Vietnam. There’s a crazy economic crisis, all kinds of social unrest”. People stood in the proverbial burned-out building. And it reminds me a lot of where we are today, in terms of social unrest, economic uncertainty. A groundswell wanting change... but where that’s headed is yet to be seen. We haven’t fully figured that out. We’re all picking up pieces of the rubble and going “Okay, what do we do with this one? Where do we go with that one?” Being a student of history, that was one of the reasons why I was drawn to that period in history.

Also: that’s the music I’ve listened to more than anything in my entire life. I mean, I was probably the youngest Steely Dan fan. It didn’t make me that popular at sleepovers. People were, like, “I want to listen to C+C Music Factory” and I was, like, “Yeah, but have you heard this solo on [Steely Dan’s] ‘Kid Charlemagne’”? That music is so in me. It’s so in my ears and I feel like I never really went there [making music before]. And I didn’t want to be a tourist about it. It’s just that particular style had a whole lot to teach me. So I wanted to just dig in and find out. Just play with it.

Is there a style of music you don’t like?

That I don’t like?

You're a jazz fan...

I love jazz. Are you kidding me? I was that annoying 14-year-old who was, like, “Yeah, but have you listened to Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth?”

I love jazz. Are you kidding me? I was that annoying 14-year-old who was, like, “Yeah, but have you listened to Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth?”

That does sound quite precocious for a 14-year-old.

It’s annoying. Just insufferable. [Thinking aloud] What music don’t I like….? Here’s what can happen. And I feel like it’s similar to when an actor has some lines in a script and they’re not very good – not very well-written – so they overcompensate by making it very dramatic and really overplaying it. I would say that is a style of music that I don’t really like. Where somebody has to really oversell it and it all feels… athletic. Instead of musical or touching.

Did you put your lockdown time to constructive use?

If you need any mediocre home renovations done, I’m your girl. It was fun. I did – let’s see now – plumbing, electrical, painting. Luckily there’s YouTube, so you can more or less figure it all out. I did a lot of that stuff and I have to say it was such a nice contrast to working on music all day. Because when you’re working on music you have to create the construct of everything. You’re, like, “I need to make this song. But what is this song?” Everything is this kind of elusive castle in the sky thing. But then, if you go and sand a deck, you’ve done something. It feels really good. And it’s not, like, “What is a deck? And who am I?” You’re just, like, “This is a task and I get to do it and I can see how the mechanism works I understand it it’s not esoteric – it’s simply mechanical". I can do something mechanical. I loved it.

Which bit of DIY are you most pleased with?

Painting the kitchen cabinets. That’s a real job. We’re talking sanding. We’re talking taking things off hinges. We’re talking multiple coats. The whole lacquer-y thing at the end. That. I’m, like, “That looks pretty pro”.

What colour did you go for?

Oh, you know, it’s just a sort of… teal. But classy teal.

Of course.

Yeah. The wallpapering wasn’t as successful. But, you know, that’s fine. So that was really fun. And then I also went down a history rabbit hole. I realised I had some gaps in my knowledge about the Russian Revolution and life under the Iron Curtain and the gulags and Stalin and Lenin. So, I went down that hole. And then I was like “Oh I forgot – I haven’t read any Dostoevsky”. So I have been working on his short stories – which are great. And then Solzhenitsyn I really liked – I mean liked is a strange word to use for The Gulag Archipelago. I read Cancer Ward… All of them. I recommend all of it. And then, before that, it was a big Stasi kick. I can’t remember the last time I had time to brush up on the Russian Revolution.

There’s a lyric on “The Laughing Man”, “If life’s a joke… then I’m dying laughing”. It’s also on your new merchandise. What do you think happens when we die?

Nothing.

This is it?

Yeah. I mean, I understand that it would be comforting to think otherwise. That there might be a special place. It would be nice! The thought’s never really been able to stick for me. I would say that we are made of carbon and then we get subsumed back into the Earth and then eventually we become life again – in the carbon part of our makeup.

Well, that sounds better than an endless void.

I don’t think it would be an endless void.

In what ways are you like your mum and dad?

Let’s see. Well, my mother is a precious angel who has unwavering optimism. She is incredibly intelligent and also very nonjudgmental and able and happy to explore all kinds of possibilities. Saying that, though… it’s sounding not like me at all. I’m like my father in that I think we have very similar tastes in books, films, music and a very similar sense of humour. My mother’s so kind that it’s hard for me to… Her level of kindness and decency is aspirational to me.

How famous are you, on a scale of one to 10?

God, I mean, like, “TikTok Famous” probably a one, right? I’m gonna say – I don’t know about the number system – but I’m going to say I-occasionally-get-a-free-appetiser-sent-over famous. Which is a great place to be.

What do you look for in a date?

It’s been so long since I’ve been on a date. You know, I once read something, it might have been something cheesy on a card, but [it was]: if you don’t like someone, then the way they hold their fork will bother you. But, if you like someone – or love someone – they could spill an entire plate of spaghetti on your lap and you wouldn’t mind.

You play a zillion instruments. What’s the hardest instrument to play?

Well, I can’t play horns or anything like that. The French horn is supposed to be really hard. I don’t like to blag… but I’m an incredible whistler. Like, I can whistle Bach.

Is Bach a particularly tough whistle?

I think… yeah. It’s fast. And noodly.

What’s the first thing you’re going to do when we're out of lockdown?

I’m gonna get a manicure and a pedicure and a massage. Massage from a stranger. Any stranger.

What about a night on the tiles?

I will probably attend a dinner party.

That sounds quite restrained.

It sounds hella boring. Sorry.

Clubbing?

No, I don’t really go to clubs. I think in order to go to clubs you have to be a person who likes to publicly dance. And I don’t publicly dance. I mean I would feel too shy to dance at a wedding. But for some reason I will dance on stage in front of 10,000 people.

That’s why alcohol was invented.

Exactly! But I swear I would reach the point of alcohol sickness before I would be drunk enough to dance.

The effects of drugs on creativity: discuss.

Unreliable. Really unreliable. Sometimes after a day’s work in the studio you’re like, "I’m gonna have shot of tequila and then sing this a few more times, and then play". It’s okay but you peak sort-of quickly. You can’t sustain the level without getting tired. And then I would say that weed just makes me paranoid and useless. Every once in a while some combo of psychedelics can get you someplace. But, for the most part, you either come back to [the work] the next day and you’re, like, “This is garbage” or you get sleepy or hungry or distracted and you’re not really doing anything. I’ve never had opiates. Or coke or whatever. So I don’t know. I can’t speak to that. But with the slightly more G-Rated [American movie classification: All Ages Permitted] thing, it doesn’t really help.

What do you have too many of in your wardrobe?

I’m not a hoarder. I tend to have one thing that I get really obsessed with and then I wear it every day. Some people, having a whole lot of things gives them a sense of safety and security. It gives me anxiety. I can’t think if there’s too much visual noise. If there was a uniform that I could wear every day I would absolutely do that. And at certain times I have.

Like Steve Jobs?

Or, oh God, what’s her name? The Theranos lady… Elizabeth Holmes!

The blood-test-scam lady?

Well, I guess it was unclear how much of it was self-delusion and how much of it was, you know, actual fraud.

Another black turtleneck fan.

And – again, this is unconfirmed – she also adopted a very low voice like this in order to be taken seriously as a CEO.

Like Margaret Thatcher.

Did she have a low voice?

She made hers “less shrill”.

Oh yes. Yes!

What movie makes you cry?

The Lives of Others

That’s a good one.

Right. I rewatched that during my Stasi kick.

I’ll be honest, your lockdown sounds even less fun than everyone else’s.

I mean… Look, I had to educate myself. I went to a music college [Berklee College of Music] where I tried to take the philosophy class and the way that they would talk about it… it was taught by this professor who was from one of the neighbouring colleges in Boston. And it was very clear that he really disliked having to talk Kierkegaard to a bunch of music school kids. He was just so bummed by it. I’m trying to learn, “What’s the deal with Kant?” and he felt he had to explain everything only in musical terms [because he assumed it would be the only thing music students could relate to]. Like, “Well, you know, it’s like when Bob Marley…" I’m, like, “No, no, no! I don’t want that!” So I had to educate myself. This is where its led me.

Where should we ideally listen to Daddy’s Home?

Put it on a turntable. Pour yourself a glass of tequila or bourbon – whatever your favourite hooch is – and smoke a joint and listen to it. I think that’s the vibe.

Daddy’s Home is released on May 14