#kat sandoval

[morallygreys]

why am i having visions of madam secretary/greys anatomy crossover fic. kat sandoval and arizona robbins. my god.

[stxr-bxy]

there are three types of girls who wear doc martens. (i might add to this list)

1. hole, courtney love, lana del rey, tyler the creator, mazzy star, coquette, downtown girl, model off duty, 2014 grunge, margo guryan, fiona apple, femcel girl

2. nirvana, alice in chains, edgy, 90s grunge, indie sleaze, smokes like a chimney, greasy hair, kurt cobain lover, bad brains, liliput/kleenex, ramones, sex pistols girl

3. bikini kill, bratmobile, riot grrrl, kinderwhore, dyed hair, crust punk, diy, babes in toyland, mary janes, teased hair, messy eyeliner, dazey and the scouts, kat bjelland girl

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The Most Attractive 90s Musician tournament - Round 1

GROUP A (over)

Match 1 - Geddy Lee vs Alanis Morisette

Match 2 - Brett Anderson vs Shirley Manson

Match 3 - KD Lang vs Kat Bjelland

Match 4 - Jarvis Cocker vs Mike Starr

Match 5 - Donita Sparks vs Matt Bellamy

Match 6 - Mike McCready vs Mike Dirnt

Match 7 - Zack de la Rocha vs Selena Quintanilla

Match 8 - Melissa auf der Maur vs Adam Horovitz

GROUP B (over)

Match 1 - Sean Kinney vs Mariah Carey

Match 2 - Rivers Cuomo vs Flea

Match 3 - Lauryn Hill vs Atsushi Sakurai

Match 4 - Shania Twain vs Dave Mustaine

Match 5 - Bilinda Butcher vs Whitney Houston

Match 6 - Dave Navarro vs Powerline

Match 7 - Dolores O'Riordan vs Missy Elliott

Match 8 - Janet Jackson vs Hope Sandoval

GROUP C (over)

Match 1 - Madonna vs Marty Friedman

Match 2 - Serj Tankian vs Prince

Match 3 - Tumblr anon vs Keanu Reeves

Match 4 - D'arcy Wretzky vs Kirk Hammett

Match 5 - Scott Stapp vs Martin Gore

Match 6 - Rachel Goswell vs Krist Novoselic

Match 7 - James Iha vs Tupac Shakur

Match 8 - Liam Gallagher vs Ville Valo

GROUP D (ongoing)

Match 1 - Patricia Morrison vs Chuck Schuldiner

Match 2 - Michael Stipe vs Michael Hutchence

Match 3 - Jason Newsted vs Mike Inez

Match 4 - Axl Rose vs Alex James

Match 5 - Kim Deal vs Tracy Chapman

Match 6 - Rob Halford vs Eric Martin

Match 7 - Henry Rollins vs Jay Kay

Match 8 - Chino Moreno vs Stephen Malkmus

ROUND 2 GROUP A PROPAGANDA SUBMISSION

Mini brackets and games:

Battle of the Mikes

previous tournament results <3 congratulations Tidal!

[ask-sebastian]

Sebastian's Mix Tapes - Light That Fire

Today, I received a request from the lovely @kayligraphy for a playlist inspired by Meredith O'Conner's You Are Not Alone.

She is a new artist to me, but some the themes that came to mind when I listened to her music were ones I think we could use a bit more of these days.

Self acceptance and personal grace

Self empowerment and inner strength in the face of adversity

Finding our communities and our places in them

Embracing those around us through all the highs and lows of life

To whoever needs to hear it,

Find your spark, light that fire, and we will never let it die.

Track list below the cut

Biggest Mistake - bexx

Just the Thing - Meredith O'Connor

Cool with Being Crazy - Willow City

I Am - Meredith O'Connor

Celebrate the Reckless - MAGIC GIANT

Right Now - Nyman, Edgar Sandoval Jr

I Found You - Cash Cash, Andy Grammer

It Only Gets Better - Wild

Light a Match - HANNIE

How Far We Can Go - Upstate

Stronger Than You Know - The East Pointers

Stronger (Robert Eibach Remix) - Meredith O'Connor, Garrett Clayton, Robert Eibach

Found/Tonight - Ben Platt, Lin-Manuel Miranda

You Are Note Alone (International) - Meredith O'Connor (and many others)

Run Tonight - Kat Meoz

Celestial - Ed Sheeran

We Could Be Stars - Adnreas Kübler

Flyin' (Don't Give Up) - Flyers

[patterspod]

In two days since we premiered, our indie audio comedy “Finding Pattersby: a Weirdo Mystery” has been downloaded 100s of times and is currently ranked #22 in Comedy Fiction on Apple Podcasts in the USA and Top 50 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland!

Please enjoy this surreal, funny tale of a messy ex-ghostwriter who uses the public investigation of a legendary, missing thriller author to work through some stuff. Also the ghostwriter is a liar. 

Chapter 1, Part 1 ”The Prologue”

[pluralsword]

The "would you choose gendering a trans person correctly or nuclear war" question is disingenuous transphobic crap.

We would instead be more interested in the question, for fellow gender expansive people who want or have done trans gender affirming procedures, especially ones who started or would have wanted to start back between 2016-2020; "would you prefer if the protections of the Affordable Care Act for trans health be expanded further sooner by executive action in 2016, then rolled back in 2016 by the next President, trans health stuff getting some court support in 2020, and not expanded again to end of Obama era protections by executive action until 2024 but now with shitty religious exemptions for insurance companies opposed to it so wtf Biden like in our timeline...

...or would you prefer the Madam Secretary timeline where it is unknown but likely that such an expansion would have happened after President Conrad Dalton's administration's second term (2016-2020) as an independent cooperative security post-structuralist enviro-energy independence feminist centrist lib-con government that supported LGBTQ+ rights and helped establish support for the presidential candidacy and late president of Elizabeth McCord who helped secure the passage of the Equal Rights Ammendment, completely outlawing sex discrimination and thus, by court and executive precedent, gender discrimination, and in that way securing the right to trans health as a near constitutional right. Instead of having had a fascist in office for four years who terrorized trans people internationally?"

(please note, the show never really has a moment iirc of talking about trans healthcare, rewatching currently in part to confirm this since the wiki is rather incomplete, but LGBTQ+ rights do come up in both terms of Dalton's presidency within the realm of how to respond to international atrocities in other countries, including a NATO ally. It is our opinion that if something hadn't been done about expansion of the ACA before Kat Sandoval joined Secretary McCord's staff, that this likely would have happened at that point if not in 2020)

Now, we don't actually expect people to answer this, since we know it could be painful for people for whom gender affirming care between 2016-2020 and in particular in 2016 was a life or death issue. For us it was, we started HRT in 2019 after having to make a lot of effort and our eldest headmate risking her life to be able to get that for herself, but xey had access in a state where trans healthcare was protected by state law.

Trans people get hurt and die in either scenario, and are more likely to be traumatized by the medical system at different times in either scenario. which is a cause of deep sorrow. We don't think there's a right answer in a 'yay, utilitarian calculus says trans people are happier' way.

What we do think is that, personally, if we had to sacrifice a year of HRT for a world where equality for people across gender would be on track to become a guaranteed without legal interpretation constitutional right much sooner than, I don't know, a decade after the whole fiasco of 2016 through the 2020s IRL where even existing as a trans person and education about the vast history of gender has increasingly met constitutional crises and the rise of firings, unemployment, abuse, arrests, suicides, and killings of gender expansive people and their loved ones as part of a last gasp of the international far right to hold on to power as hierarchic structures collpase, not to mention the assault on reproductive rights and the rights of women and people with uteruses generally, I would give up that year of HRT. If it meant that a genuine moderate Republican had taken office in 2012 and due to being one of the last of his kind in a party well on it's way to fascism as the party line, and that he would be encouraged to uphold the more inclusive value system he believed in by his Secretary of State in defiance of his party and later as an independent, and that fascist party took a blow to it's electoral power sooner as a result, and would be followed by said Secretary running for President as a Democrat in 2020 on a genuine feminist philosophically liberal (so not a neolib and actually giving a shit about human rights and market regulation) platform, we as an anarcho-socialist defensive pacifist system would much prefer that.

This may or may not be a criticism of the Democratic National Commitee's whole approach to the last two Presidencies, and in particular the way it stumbled through the primaries this year. And it may or may not be commentary on the ongoing genocide in Palestine, since there's zero ways a President McCord would have handled that as badly as the current President, and certainly wouldn't be backstabbing trans people repeatedly in order to try and court some hypothetical moderate transphobe voter (in a country where moderate usually mean right winged at this point, for both parties) to win the presidency in 2024 rather than trying to court the votes of people across backgrounds who know that radical change is needed or who are not as politically informed but are fed up with things as they are and could use some hope. Biden is not promising a 21st century New Deal, or the ERA, or anything. There isn't even a coherent stance on how to oppose and dismantle fascism in the USA (not to say that people aren't trying to get that across or want that to be the message that's a different story). Honestly confounded at the whole thing and wondering if we had gone to grad in political theory instead of what we did and plugged into the whole electoral politics thing if we could find out why the centrists of the DNC seem, at least until Biden's first presidential debate this year, so eager to not galvanize a united front for promised actual change and more put off by allying with socialists (which is a normal alliance in many other countries!!!) than joining us in being targets for execution and other atrocities by the fascists they're running against? What gives?

[emerals]

the lads but it's who they main in psasbr

i've been on a binge of playstation all-stars battle royale so uh yeah,,, also their favorite stages and customizations (i will add those later) and- listen guys i love this game a lot i need to nerd out here just a little

OZZY: kratos // hades

JUNIPER: parappa // franzea

XIMENA: kat // sandover village

HUNTER: nathan drake // invasion

EVERETT: sly cooper // invasion

WHITTANY: sackboy // dojo

ADEN: radec // stowaways

MARSHALL: big daddy // columbia

SYLVIA: nariko // dreamscape

NIX: dante // alden's tower

DEAN: emmett graves // metropolis

ASH: sweet tooth // metropolis

DOTTIE: raiden // columbia

VIVIAN: toro // paris

KIWI: spike // hades

LOUIE: evil cole // the graveyard

[inc-madam-secretary]

Kat: When you turn 18, people are going to try and tell you to buy cigarettes or porn just because you can.

Kat: Fuck that.

Kat: You know what else is legal to buy at 18? Blades. Get yourself a damn sword. A big knife is okay.

[femme-plant-mom]

Me every time I watch “Madam Secretary”: Okay, but when does Kat arrive???

Me when Kat arrives: 😍😍😍

[hereforcalzona]

I see no difference.

Both beautiful, empowered, strong, multi-talented, gifted, inspiring, worth-loving and worth-knowing kind of woman.

[thundergrace]

Boy if you'd told me in 2007 when Sara Ramirez first stepped through the doors of Seattle Grace that one day she'd play the suited up genderqueer womxn of my lesbian wet dreams I would not have believed you but I still would have fainted at the image.

[yessoupy]

there are TWO bisexuals on this show, and BOTH actually used the word.

[higuysimbroken]

Y’all, Sara Ramirez in a tux! I have never seen someone so incredibly HOT in my entire life! Also, Madam Secretary is a great show.

[lildark1]

I’m sure this has gone around, but I haven’t gotten into Madam Secretary until recently. But to see a proud butch character call themselves queer and say it without hesitation, is amazing. 

[in-toxication]

“While she benefits from various privileges, her sartorial choices are about more than a class aesthetic or fashion statement. Kat’s style is inextricable from the ways she inherently trespasses convention and disrupts binaries, as well as nurtures and expresses self-empowerment in a way that makes sense for her and her queer identity. Also it’s fun.”

[terapsina]

There are whole TWO (2) bi characters in Madam Secretary, both of which actually used the word 'bisexual'. It's a miracle. Why was I not informed?

Anyway let's have a round of applause for Kat and Blake.

I love this goddamn show.