#osp Steven

[osp-originals]

Unfortunate Discovery

TW: emeto, brief food descriptions

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It was supposed to be a fun night out. They had just finished the final day of shooting for a short film and gone to a nice restaurant, and now Lucas felt sick to his stomach.

Armando was driving half of the crew—himself, Penelope, Lucas, Steven, and Ethan—on the two hour drive back to campus. Lucas, being the skinniest, was stuck between Penelope and his brother Steven in the back seats. It had only been a few minutes since they had started the trip.

With every minute that passed, Lucas’ stomach got more upset.

I don’t get carsick, so it can’t be that… and I don’t have any other symptoms, so I don’t think I’m actually sick…

He tried to figure out what could be making him feel so awful.

Did I just eat too much? I don’t think so…

The pressure of his stomach against the inside of his abdomen just kept getting stronger as more minutes went by.

Did I eat something I don’t usually eat? Let’s see, steak, rice, no, those are fine…

He leaned back in his seat to try to get more comfortable. It didn’t help. He leaned forward. It didn’t help.

Avocado? I guess I don’t usually eat that much of it. That could be it.

He tried to lean to one side somehow. It didn’t help.

Nothing was working. He held his seatbelt out from his body, which helped a little bit with the pressure.

“You okay, Lucas?” Penelope asked, breaking from her conversation with Ethan and Armando.

“Yeah, my stomach just feels a bit…” he shook his head, trying to think of the right way to describe it. “…bad.”

“How bad?” she pried.

“Are you gonna barf?” Steven teased him.

“I might just barf on you,” he quipped back.

“Seriously, though, so I need to get off the highway?” Armando asked.

Lucas thought about it for a moment.

“Yeah, probably,” he answered.

“Okay,” Armando said with a sigh. “You better not ruin my car.”

“Are there any plastic bags or anything in here?” Ethan wondered.

“I don’t think so,” Armando answered.

Ethan checked the glove compartment as Armando took an exit to get off the highway. The GPS voice started telling him how to get back on the highway.

“Ethan, could you turn that off and change it to avoid highways?” Armando requested.

“Sure,” Ethan said. “It needs your passcode.”

Armando skillfully typed his passcode without looking at his phone.

While Ethan messed with the GPS, Lucas tried to figure out whether he was really going to be sick or not. The feeling was right at the point where he couldn’t tell whether it was going to stay the same and eventually subside, or get worse and make him double over.

If it gets any worse, I’m definitely going to throw up.

It got worse. His stomach started to turn.

“Pull over,” he mumbled.

“What?” Armando asked.

“He said pull over,” Penelope told him urgently. “I think he’s going to throw up.”

“Oh, shit,” Armando said.

They were in the middle of a three lane road with a decent amount of traffic. He looked around for an opportunity to change lanes.

Don’t barf in the car, don’t barf in the car, Lucas repeated to himself, trying to prevent it from happening with sheer force of will.

Penelope noticed Lucas’ face getting pale and his cheeks getting flushed. His stomach churned and gurgled more and more. He pressed his hand over his mouth.

“If you don’t want your car ruined, you better get over, Armando,” Steven warned him.

“I know, I’m trying!” Armando snapped.

He cut aggressively into the left lane. Someone honked at him, but he didn’t care. Penelope unbuckled her seatbelt and got ready to jump out of the car. Lucas did the same while Armando pulled the car over onto the shoulder.

As soon as the car stopped, Penelope opened her door and gracefully hopped out of the way. Lucas clambered over the seats and practically fell out of the car. He staggered forward a few steps, then braced himself with his hands on his knees.

He gagged loudly, but nothing came up.

“Come on, get it over with!” Steven yelled from the car.

Lucas wished it was that easy. The pressure was unbearable. He heaved again, but still, nothing.

Steven mocked his retching noises. That finally sent him over the edge. His stomach violently contracted, forcing a large amount of his dinner up his throat and onto the grass.

He tried to spit out the awful taste. He could hear Steven laughing in the background.

Another painful heave sent up a mouthful of half-digested food. He spat again.

“Do you think it was something you ate?” Penelope asked, now standing next to him.

“Probably,” he responded.

Mucus dripped from his nose. His face was hot with embarrassment. He wondered how many people were looking at him from their cars.

He gagged again, puking up only a small stream of mucus and saliva.

He took a deep breath, letting the spit drip out of his mouth.

“Do you think you’re done?” Penelope asked gently.

“Maybe.”

He stood upright. He still felt queasy, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it was before. The pressure was almost gone.

“Yeah. I feel so much better now,” he told her.

“That’s good.”

[floralcavern]

Aromantic and/or asexual characters

EDIT:

New addition!

[arson-is-chill-actually]

So I was thinking about AvA and started breaking down core themes and tropes and stuff as one does (I watch too much OSP don’t blame me) and I started having this specific train of thoughts

“Alright, MC with crazy powers but has no idea how to use them, found family stuff, bio family is unimaginably fucked up, groups of four… why does this sound familiar all of a sudden?”

So I started filing through my mental cabinets and had a realization.

“Wait… wait, wait waIT WAIT NO NO FUCK NO ITS FUCKING STEVEN UNIVERSE NO THEY’VE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH DO NOT GIVE SECOND THAT KIND OF TRAUMA ALAN OR I SWEAR TO GOD”

[brain-empty]

so I'm watching random OSP videos and somehow I confused a "Troupe Talk" with a "Historical Hijinks" and had to take a double take cuz mf Steven Universe was on the thumbnail

[shattered-skys-system]

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hi welcome to hell ya wonderful goblin

HK AU: vacation knight comic

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-UNDERTALE

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-Cuphead

-Steven universe

-Spooky month

-Furry ((don’t judge))

-Madoka Magika

-A little bit of Cardcaptor Sakura

-AHIT

-That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime ((good anime))

-FNAF

-JSAB

-the smallest sliver of Spooky’s house of jump scares

-Kawaii stuff in general

-glitter force

-weirdcore

-dreamcore

-cottagecore

-Lofi

-ENA

-internetcore

-the second-smallest sliver of hazbin hotel

-TM v TM ((The Mitchels vs the machines))

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-OSP because yes

-DDLC

-No Straight Roads

-The owl house

-gravity falls

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-SPLATOON!!!

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-OMORI

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-Kipo and the age of the wonderbeasts

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[bee-does-things]

You know, I was having a hard time really grasping the concept of The Merge^TM because all this time I thought it would just be Ozpin taking over Oscar, but now that we know a bit more, I realize it’s less a take over and more like fusion.

[thevoidiliketoshoutinto]

[snardart]

wooo my fav tactic is to post art dumps when no one is actiiivee other lady in the shipping sunday pic belongs to @outerhexe

[thesportssoundoff]

Finally watched the fight card from Wednesday in full:

-Drew Dober turning into a kind of good lightweight is pretty cool. I don’t know if he’s always just going to be that reliable dude hovering around the top 10 or so but I’m enjoying how he’s basically turned a super basic gameplan based entirely around his strengths (size, pressure, power striking when the opportunity arises) into a full fledged top 15-ish run. I feel like Dober vs Felder would be a ball.

-The ballad of Beneil Dariush; he beat Thiago Moises and Drew Dober but got smelted by Alexander Hernandez. The dudes he beat are always way more impressive somehow than his weird losses.

-Speaking of which, Michael Johnson is the master of the “I was winning then I lost” strategy. He was casually piecing up Thiago Moises and then basically lost in the ONLY fashion he could’ve lost. I feel like Johnson’s always going to have one of MMA’s more mercurial resumes. He has wins over two Top 5 LWs and has lost to dudes like Steven Ray, Beneil Dariush, Thiago Moises and Reza Madadi. 

-I had OSP vs Rothwell as 29-28 Rothwell. Not sure if that’s a super complicated score. I had Lins vs Arlovski 29-28 Lins for whatever that’s worth.

-If you haven’t seen it, please go watch Omar Morales vs Moggly Benitez. A squirrely fight between a game as shit Benitez and Omar Morales who has all sorts of promise at 155 lbs. Morales’ kicking game is really good and after watching him for about five fights, I feel like what gives me hope for his future is that he has a tremendous knack for getting out of harm’s way when he’s flurrying. That’s sort of what did guys like Polo Reyes (and Moggly Benitez) in.

-I don’t know if it’s years of watching TUF/DWCS/regional MMA but the empty arena didn’t bother me much. I do wonder if the atmosphere is going to force coaches to have to adapt new terminology to hide combinations or if maybe coaches will speak even less and just let their fighters do what they want. It was pretty cool to hear Sijara Eubanks talking to her corner while trying to get out of a submission attempt. That sort of stuff is nifty. 

[typingtess]

NCIS: Los Angeles Season Ten Rewatch:   "Choke Point"

The basics:  When a SEAL is shot in his second job, Sam leads the charge to find those involved.

Written by:  Joe Sachs & R. Scott Gemmill   Joe Sachs wrote or co-wrote “Higher Power”, “The Dragon and the Fairy”, “Drive”, “Purity”, “The Livelong Day”, “Fish Out of Water”, “The Black Wind”, “Blaze of Glory”, “Core Values”, “Seoul Man”, “Parallel Resistors”, “From Havana With Love”, “Under Pressure” and “Ninguna Salida” (the season nine finale with R. Scott Gemmill) and “The Sound of Silence”.  

R. Scott Gemmill wrote/cowrote “The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “Breach”, “LD50”, “Found”, “Borderline”, “Absolution”, “Archangel”, “Tin Soldiers”, “Impostors”, “Cyberthreat”, “Honor”, “The Watchers” and both sides of the NCIS Los: Angeles/Hawaii Five-0 “Touch of Death” episodes, “Recruit”, “Free Ride”, “Wanted”, “Ravens and The Swans”, “Impact”, “War Cries”, both ends of the “Deep Trouble” season five finale/season six premiere, “Inelegant Heart”, “Praesidium”, “Traitor”, “Active Measures” (season seven premiere), “Blame It On Rio”, “Internal Affairs”, “Matryoshka” part one,  "Talion" (season seven finale), “High Value Target”/“Belly of the Beast” (season eight premieres), “The Queen’s Gambit”, “Under Siege”, “Unleashed” (season eight finale), “Party Crashers” (season nine’s premiere), “This Is What We Do” (episode 200), “Các Tù Nhân”, “Goodbye Vietnam”, “Ninguna Salida” (the season nine finale with Joe Sachs), “Hit List”, “Asesinos” and “Till Death Do Us Part”.

Directed by:  James Whitmore Jr. directed NCIS‘s “Legend” part two which introduced the OSP team before directing “Identity”, “Found” (written by R. Scott Gemmill), “Human Traffic”, “Empty Quiver”, “Plan B”, “Familia”, “Lone Wolf”, “Vengeance”, “Recruit”, “History”, “Battle Scars” and “Vendetta”.  He is the father of actress Aliah Seavey.

Guest stars of note:  Aliah Seavey as Kelly James is another actor making a rare role change in the series.  Seavey played Ameenah Shah in season one’s “Found” episode (she was the woman who left the cultural center after she figured out their terror ties).  She is married to Dustin Seavey, another actor with two NCIS: Los Angeles roles (Petty Officer Foster in “Vengeance” and Air Force Capt. Kevin Miller in “The Silo”).  Medalion Rahimi as NCIS Special Agent Fatima Namazi was in the last episode, "Searching".  Sabrina Revelle as Laura Garcia, Tommy Badger Brown as Jason Reed, Justin Paul as Brian Booker, Nicholas Hayner as Navy Seal Petty Officer Alonzo Garcia, David Chan as Nurse Steven Hong, Steve Fisher as Edward Morrison, Noelle Messier as Security Guard and Julianna Gamiz as

Our heroes:   Have Hetty back.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Protecting Sam. Sam:  Protecting a SEAL. Kensi:  On fire. Deeks:   Oddly anti-lawyer. Eric:   Talks too much to Hetty. Nell:   Talks too much to Hetty. Hetty:   Listens to both her meerkats.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen:   Thinking of getting a pet. Sam:   Doesn't think Callen would do well with a pet. Kensi:   Going two for two. Deeks: Finding Highlights Magazines, Harry Potter wands and Amish porn in suspects homes. Eric:   Knows the difference between an aquarium and a terrarium. Nell:   Mops up after a weepy Sydney Hetty:   Spending a night out with the Jones women.

Who's down with OTP:  All is well with Kensi and Deeks.  Eric and Nell are struggling with their out of the office issues that have nothing to do with each other – Eric's job offer, Nell's mother.

Who's down with BrOTP:   The annual episode where Callen is the voice of reason and Sam's emotions are getting the best of him.  Of course, Sam's emotions are about a fellow SEAL.

Any pressing need for Harm and Mac:  No.  But I'm guessing Adm. Chegwidden wouldn't mind taking a swing at Reed and Booker..

Who is running the team this week?  Hetty.  

Mosley watch:  In some ways her lasting legacy - the office she had built - took some Hetty hits.

Fashion review:  Grey plaid button down shirt for Callen.  Black henley for Sam.  Kensi is wearing a grey v-neck loose fitting long-sleeve tee with stripes that dip with the v-neck.  Light blue light-weight sweatshirt for Deeks.  Medium blue short-sleeve button down shirt for Eric with a pale blue pattern, long pants too (Hetty should have said something).  Black dress with small flowers and a black blazer for Nell.  Chocolate brown suit for Hetty.

Music:   "I'll Go Blind" by The National Reserve is playing in the teaser.

Any notable cut scene: No.

Quote: Sam:  "Can we call anyone for you? A friend, family member?" Laura:  "His swim buddy is on his up from Coronado and my sister flies in from Denver tonight." Callen:  "That's good.  Well, if you need help, food, getting a coffee, hotel room…" Laura:  "I'm the wife of a Navy SEAL, Agent Callen." Callen:  "Understood." Laura:  "I'll be fine here." Callen:  "Yes, ma'am, and, uh, please keep us informed, let us know when he wakes up." Laura:  "Will do.  Thank you.  And Agent Hanna, hooyah." Sam:  "Hooyah, ma'am."

Anything else:  Two men are in an SUV with a near seven-hour drive ahead of them.  The passenger suggests a lunch spot along the way with the driver worrying about his cholesterol.  As they are driving through an area with significant construction, the vehicle takes fire.  The man in the passenger seat wants the driver to keep going but the gunfire directs them right to the curb.

The man in the passenger seat is armed and takes out one of the men firing high-power rifles at the SUV.  The driver seems to be surrendering to the gunman on his side.  Shot several times, the man in the passenger seat is badly hurt.  The gunman walk to the SUV.

Callen is amazed by Shetland ponies.  Sam talks about selective breeding but Callen is talking up an old movie, "The Valley of the Gwangi", a 1960's sci-fi western.  Sam begs Callen to get some sleep.  Fatima is in bullpen waiting for Callen and Sam.

The man shot in the SUV is Petty Officer Alonso Garcia, Navy SEAL.  He is moonlighting as security for a marijuana dispensary.  Garcia is in critical condition.  Sam asks if Garcia's CO knew he was moonlighting.  He did.  Garcia's wife is pregnant with the couple's second child.

Callen asks how much marijuana was stolen.  None – they got $250,000 instead.  With marijuana legal in California but still a federal crime, money earned by the dispensaries cannot be deposited in a federally insured bank.  It is an all-cash business.  Callen is aware of the regulations but not why the SUV had a quarter of a million dollars.  Once a year, the dispensaries have to pay for their license from the Bureau of Cannabis Control.  The SUV was going to Sacramento to pay it.  

The fee paid is based on the money made by the dispensary.  Crescent Bay Dispensaries have ten locations in LA.  Sam asks about moving the money in armed cars.  Worried about getting in a bad place with the Feds, armored car companies won't move the money either.  Retired or moonlighting military personnel is the best way to move the money.

Sam asks about leads – there are none.  The FBI and local law enforcement are looking into the shooting.  Callen is about to send Kensi and Deeks to the hospital as he and Sam go to the crime scene when Sam mentions that Garcia is a SEAL.  Instead, Kensi and Deeks are off to the crime scene, Callen and Sam are going to the hospital.  Sam wants everything Eric and Nell can find on Garcia – they should "hit this hard."

Kensi sees the site of the shootout as the perfect spot.  It is the perfect choke point.  Deeks agrees, it is a perfect check point.  The two review the idea of a choke point, the movie "Braveheart" and Deeks's Scottish accent.  While Deeks keeps quoting the movie, Kensi is looking around.  

Deeks was talking the FBI before dropping "Braveheart" quotes.  The FBI doesn't know much.  The driver could have been in on the attack or is a hostage.  Either way, the attack was quick and the gunmen were pros.  They picked up all their brass.  Not all – Kensi found a 5.56 NATO round.  It was in a sewer grate – the shooters either missed it or couldn't get it out.  She used Deeks's lunch toothbrush to get it from the gate.  Deeks is not happy – Bertie gave him that toothbrush.

At the hospital, Petty Officer Garcia's daughter Elena is drawing a get well card.  The nurse takes Elena to get a sandwich while Laura Garcia talks about her husband.  His first surgeries went well but he has a long road to recovery.  Sam talks about SEALs being team tough while Callen is sure he is getting great medical attention at the hospital.  Laura tells them her husband came to a few times but can't speak due to the ventilator.  He is conscious now.

Sam talks to P.O. Garcia as a SEAL.  Garcia's eyelids are fluttering.  Laura is worried but Callen and Sam recognize Morse code.  He doesn't know who shot him but spells out Jason.  Jason Reed was his driver.  Callen and Sam don't have any answers.  P.O. Garcia starts to have a seizure.  When he's resettled, he is out cold again and likely will be for a while.  Even when he wakes up, he may not be at full awareness.  The nurse is going to find the doctor.

Sam wants to help Laura.  Her sister is flying in later that day, Garcia's swim buddy is coming up from San Diego.  Callen offers food, a hotel room but Laura reminds him that she's the wife of a Navy SEAL.  She will be fine.  Callen leaves a card.  Laura Garcia offers Sam a "Hooyah."  Sam offers the same in reply.  Sam is angry – this is a SEAL thing.  Callen understands and promises there will be a time for that later in the case.

Hetty is sitting alone in the guest chair in the Mosley/Kilbride/Ochoa/Rogers glass office, staring at the structure's ceiling.  As Eric walks by, he notices Hetty in the office.  He wonders if this is her new office but it doesn't have to be because she has a great office.  He'd like that office, not that he wants her job, just that he'd be thrilled with her little space there.  Not that the space is little, she's little but not.  Hetty finally asks if "they are not feeding you?"  Eric thinks he's bulking up – his shirt is a little more form fitting.

Announcing the room isn't an office, Hetty sees the space more as an aquarium.  Technically, Eric thinks it is a terrarium since there is no water.  This goes over about as well as Eric's office space talk.  He notes that Rogers likes the office.  Hetty recommends a rock and a lamp for terrarium basking.  Hetty asks about Mr. Rogers.  These leads to a bad Mr. Rogers Neighborhood joke from Eric who really should have quit when he was well behind.  Updating Hetty, Eric tells her Rogers doesn't come into the office every day and does not tell them about his schedule unless they are on it.  Eric is going back to Ops.  Hetty calls him back and apologizes for her absence.  He was sorry she was gone for so long as well but is glad she is back.

Callen and Sam are in the waiting area of the dispensary offices.  Looking at the offices, Callen is amazed that the dispensary company likely has more weed on hand than he and Sam have brought in from illegal dealers in all their time together.  Callen and Sam discuss the fact that owning an hedgehog in California is illegal but now marijuana is not.  Sam really wants Callen to get some sleep.  Callen talks about getting a pet – which Sam thinks is a terrible idea.

Kelly James, who owns the dispensaries, brings Callen and Sam into a conference room.  She has spoken to Laura Garcia already.  James feels so helpless and they still can't find Reed, the driver.  Reed has been with the company since the fall, Garcia joined in January.  The two were not a regular team but did ride together a few times in the past.  James always knew something like this could happen – it is why she always had security – but she is sick to her stomach over what happened.

Callen asks who knew about the trip to Sacramento.  Just the Garcia, Reed and James – she doesn't share that information with anyone.  Sam asks about an assistant.  James has one and has a large staff but none of them are privy to the money runs.  She calls the driver and the security person the night before and there is a back-up team.  Both teams are paid for the whole week so she can call them at any time.  The drivers and the security person do not know how much money, if any, they are transporting.

Sam asks about turnover.  They dispensary does not have any.  It took James a long time to find the right people when the company started but she offers full medical, paid maternity leave.  She is not a stoner – they're legit.  She was a successful lawyer who left a good job to start the business.  Asked about the employees, James runs a full background check and offers access to Sam.  As for the driver, Reed has no family.  He is a good employee and a good driver.  James hands Callen Garcia's and Reed's personnel files.

Asked about the route the drivers take, James tells Sam that Garcia insisted the drivers take different routes every time.  She is not aware of the route the men were coming.

Kensi and Deeks are looking into Jason Reed.  Reed's roommate is a law student at Loyola Marymount so he won't help unless Deeks gets a warrant.  Deeks thinks lawyers are pit vipers.  Kensi wants to know why the gunmen took Reed.  Deeks thinks hostage but since they got the money, why do they need him?  Kensi points out there was no blood on his side of the SUV.  Deeks thinks he was easy to take – he wasn't armed and he wasn't a SEAL.

Kensi still thinks Reed is part of this, that he tipped off the gunmen.  Deeks tells her about the Alonso-mandated change to the route every trip.  After Kensi suggests Reed could have a tracker in the car, Deeks asks how does the tracker get the SUV to the choke point?.  Kensi thinks Alonso could get the SUV on the I-5, getting on and off the road a few times to shake things up.  What doesn't change – getting from the Crescent corporate offices to the I-5.  Roadblocks or impediments on the local streets could send the SUV right to the choke point.  Nell is coming into the bullpen.  Kensi would like her to check out if there were any road blocks – maybe illegal so Cal-Trans may not have them – between the Crescent offices and the highway.  Nell is on it.  She is also there to discuss the shell casing Kensi and Deeks's toothbrush found.  There was a finger print on the casing belonging to a Brian Booker, a career criminal with along rap sheet.  Kensi (who is "on fire!") and Deeks are off to check out Booker's work and home

Callen and Sam go to Booker's mobile home.  Callen knocks on the door. Sam is not waiting.  He rattling the bars on the door.  Booker leaves through a side window with Callen and Sam right behind him.  Cutting through some neighbor's driveways, Booker in back on the street with Kensi and Deeks arriving.  They chase him in the Audi until Booker jumps on a little motor scooter and drives down a very narrow area between homes.  Sam is waiting for Booker with a cheap surfboard.  Booker is off the scooter and in handcuffs.  Callen wants a dog – a K9 unit would cut down on the all the running.  "Not in my car," Sam says.  

Sam is not kind to Booker in interrogation.  Especially to a smirking Booker, who demands a lawyer and calls Sam a little bitch.  Sam walks out of the room.  Booker tells Callen he as Sam well trained.  Callen says the Navy trained Sam and that's the only reason he's alive.  Callen leaves too.

Deeks thinks everyone wants to hit Booker in the face with a shovel.  Kensi tries to calm Sam down and that does not go over well.  Sam doesn't want to be calm.  Deeks understands but Garcia and his wife need Sam to be.  Kensi and Deeks are willing to interrogate the "waste of skin," according to Callen but it is a waste of time.  He's not talking.  Let Eric and Nell search everything from his miserable life.

Hetty is pouring some tea when Nell arrives – Hetty asked to see her.  "How's Mom?" Hetty asks.  Triple bypass is suggested by the surgeons but she won't do it because why would she want to extend her life.  Nell understands she's scared.  Hetty asks if Nell needs to be with her mother.  The whole family was there.  Her mother threatened to leave the hospital if anyone but Nell's father stayed.  Nell tells Hetty her mother is the most stubborn person she ever met, "present company aside, obviously."  

Understanding how poorly her last remark landed, Nell explains it was supposed to be compliment to Hetty but it came out wrong and now she's apologizing because she's jacked up on enough caffeine to take down a wildebeest.  Linda Hunt's facial reactions to Nell’s rant and Eric’s office talk are why she is so good at this role.  Nell doesn't understand – she is a grown-up, she'd done some really "bad-ass things" in the job and the minute her mother talks to her, she's a kid again.  Sydney can't stop crying, so Nell has to mop that up.  Hetty asks Nell to sit down.  Nell is ready to work.  Hetty wants Nell to sit.  Nell perches herself on the very edge of one of Hetty's guest chairs.  Hetty motions for her to lean back.

Nell's tablet beeps.  The team needs a document uploaded.  Hetty tells Nell that family is "important in all its disguises and also very challenging."  Callen needs other info but Hetty is OK but they are leaving at 21:00 hours.  The two of them are going to San Francisco.  Hetty doesn't know Mrs. Jones but "some have told me I have been very persuasive at times."  Nell tells Hetty she doesn't have to help but she is glad Hetty is.  The two women hug.  Nell tells Hetty she loves her so much and how worried she was about never seeing Hetty again.  Hetty tells her only the good die young.

Deeks is going through Booker's belongings.  Among the highlights are drugs, unpaid bills, Harry Potter wands and Amish porn.   No weapons, no ammo.  Sam is worried that Booker can claim he sold the ammo to the gunmen and that explains the finger print.  That's reasonable doubt.  Kensi arrives.  She found a phone tossed in a bush right where Sam hit Booker with the surfboard.  Looks like a burner.  "Kensi comes up big again," according to Kensi.

Fatima joins Eric in Ops.  The burner phone was bought in a liquor store three weeks ago.  The liquor store owner has no record and won't share his security footage because, Eric thinks, he is likely selling alcohol to minors.  Fatima is will to talk to him but Eric has calls from the phone made to other pre-paid cell phones.  One phone has made two calls from the same location.  Eric is sending the address to the team.  Fatima is working to get the other pre-paid cell phones disabled.

On a rainy street, Callen and Sam are parked outside of the house.  Sam wants to just go in.  Callen wants more intel.  Kensi and Deeks arrive.  They checked around – no car in the driveway but couldn't see into the garage.  Sam is going in, Kensi and Deeks move to the backdoor.  Sam knocks on the door – the people inside start shooting.

NCIS, LAPD, SWAT, FBI and the REACT Team are all outside of the house.  Eric is trying to turn on the cell phone in the house but with no luck.  Kensi and Deeks tell Callen and Sam that everyone is waiting for Sam to lead the teams in.

The home is owned by an Edward Morrison, according to Fatima, who is working out of the taco truck.  It was left to him when his mother died.  The city's blueprint on the house is 90-years old.  Eric has no security camera footage – no one in the neighborhood has a camera.  Based on his background, Fatima does not believe Morrison could run the attack on the SUV or be one of the gunmen.  He's a loner.  Callen wonders if hiding the driver with a loner is the best way to keep Reed out of sight.  Eric wonders if Morrison is a victim.

Someone from the house starts firing at the taco truck.  Fatima is startled but Callen assures her it is safe.  With the REACT team going in the back, Callen, Sam, Kensi, Deeks and the FBI are in through the front.  The place is loaded with junk.

With the first floor clear, the team takes an outside stairway to the second floor.  Morrison is in a locked room, yelling he is hurt.  He's crying.  Callen tells Morrison to put down his gun and come out.  Morrison tells them he can't move his leg.  He's locked into the room.  Callen and Sam kicked down the door.  Morrison yells a white nationalist slogan before trying to shoot them.  It ends badly for Morrison.  

Callen was sorry Morrison died before they questioned him.  Sam is thinking more like a decade of excruciating pain before death.  Spitting on the ground, Sam talks about Morrison and the white nationalist mantra.  Deeks arrives with boxes of Morrison's papers.

In the boat shed, the team goes through Morrison's papers.  Everything from white nationalist propaganda to Highlights Magazine.  Sam thinks Booker was probably part of a white nationalist gang in one of his many prison stays. Fatima has receipts – Morrison was buying guns and ammo in Arizona in the last few weeks.  Callen feels like they are missing something.  Fatima talks about assault rifles and ammo.  Deeks wants to figure out who is running Booker and Morrison – two men without the ability to pull off the robbery.

Remembering that Garcia blinked Reed's name in Morse code, Sam wonders if Garcia was warning them about him, not asking about the driver.  Nell shows up on the TV screen.  Morrison was a truck driver at a company where Jason Reed worked.  Reed is behind all this.

Deeks asks if there are any white nationalist rallies planned soon.  There is one in Arizona in a month.  Callen asks if there are any gatherings by people who white nationalists would not like.  Fatima mentions an immigration rally at Pershing Square at 7PM.  The team is on their way.

Arriving at the rally, Sam takes the HellCat to the parking lot.  Nell contacts Callen – the organizers are shutting down the rally on advice from LAPD but the cancelation notice went out so late, people are already there.

In the crowd, Kensi is looking for sniper locations with Deeks.  She found a building where he could sit and take out people in the rally.  Arriving in that building lobby, a security guard tells the team the elevators are out – Reed wants to slow anyone who could come after him. 

Reed is taking selfies with the guns.  This allows Eric to make a spoof call from Booker's phone.  Fatima is Face-Timing with Reed, who is not happy when she introduces herself as a friend of Brian's.  Callen and Sam try to get close to Reed but the phone call has him moving up his timeline.

Deeks puts on a blanket found near an building vent.  Kensi asks him if he crazy.  Crazy is what he does.  Making sure he doesn't get shot is what he hopes she does.  Yelling lines from "Braveheart", Deeks gets Reed's attention – and some shots fired his way.  Deeks takes cover with Kensi, Callen and Sam all shooting at Reed.  Sam gets close enough to take Reed out with the butt of his rifle.  

Seeing Reed had at least a dozen weapons, Deeks realizes just how many people Reed could have killed.  As Reed leaves the elevator, Fatima is there to greet him.  Callen and Sam are off to see Garcia in the hospital.  Kensi and Fatima aren't paying attention to Deeks's thoughts are beer.  They're having tea.

Hetty arrives in Ops with the line "teamwork makes the dream work."  Nell is grabbing her go-bag, they are on their way to San Francisco.  Hetty is looking forward to their girls' night out, she tells Eric.  Then she's looking forward to a long chat with him about love, life, his job offer.  Eric is stunned – "how did you know."  "Night, night Mr. Beale," Hetty says as she leaves.

What head canon can be formed from here:   A solid episode where the team supports Sam's mission to avenge a SEAL brother.  A number of "what did we learn" segments with the marijuana dispensary business and white nationalists but well written so it didn't feel overdone.  

Thought the “what did I learn” moment didn’t get nearly enough attention - a SEAL having to moonlight for extra cash to support his family is not a good look for the Navy.  This sort of highly trained specialist should be paid a fair wage.

Kensi and Deeks did have a huge exposition scene where they explained what was going on for over two-minutes.  It was made better but the Kensi and Deeks jokes about themselves, their love for each other, etc. but that's another incident of a lot of telling and not showing.

Loved Hetty and Eric and Nell.  

Episode number:    Episode 20 of season ten.  236 overall.

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Predictable Stories

I’ve seen this takedown of late GoT from Lindsay Ellis and Red of OSP, maybe also from Super Eyepatch Wolf too? Wouldn’t surprise me. Point is: I’ve seen it said really well that while following tropes so closely that everyone can guess your whole story from the beginning will probably bore some people, avoidance of predictable outcomes for its own sake is a really dumb thing to do with your fiction.

I entirely agree, but I wanted to talk about the positive inverse of this: When your work isn’t OVERLY predictable, and a reader or viewer predicts it anyway, that is excellent. When I was watching Steven Universe, and also when I was reading The Walking Dead, there were points where I finished consuming for the day and just before bed I started composing fanfic in my head. What should the team encounter next? How should they get out of this cliffhanger? What would bring good character growth, and what makes sense with the abilities we’ve seen from people so far? And then the next day, or next week, when I saw the next episode or chapter, something very similar to what I put together in my head was there on the screen, on the page. When this happens it is intensely satisfying. And it makes me want to see where you’re going next. It gives me a feeling that will invest me in your series pretty heavily. Even if all you cared about was marketability, this outsells shock from bad writing.

I dunno, I just wanted to mirror the What to Avoid hot take with my own Something to Strive For take. That’s all.

[ronkarpel]

Monte Bello Loop - Apr 2019

Monte Bello Loop – Apr 2019

It was a cold and rainy day… no really, it wasn’t raining, but the drizzle was so heavy it might as well was raining. It wasn’t terribly cold, but we expected warmer drier weather, so without proper cloth it felt cold. The cool weather was made the hiking easier and we finish the 20 mile 4000 ft in good time and good spirit

Poipu Beach and a rainbow. Note the old red…

[shattered-skys-system]

!FAIR WARNING WE CUSS A LOT AND USE CAPS!

anyway if you see RP shit don’t be surprised we run like 6 RP blogs-

WELCOME YOU LOVELY GOBLIN <3

INFO:

NON-BINARY- (forgot to update this-)

Demiromantic asexual

currently only aftea, tank, whitty, bill, and lilac vibe here

yes we use nepronouns if you don’t like em’ then go away

ANONS WE ARE (-1 because reasons):

wizard anon

weirdcore anon

blacksmith anon

bard anon

paladin anon

rouge anon

coffee anon

tea anon

BLOGS:

this one

@ask-a-silver-cloud-man

@sparky-bomb-boi

@ask-the-wizard-anon

@astral-plane-tomfuckery-anon

@royal-void-bomb​

@creature-of-shadow-and-light​

@a-killer-and-a-cake​

@the-funky-narrator​

@kyle-the-confused​

@spooky-everything​​​​

IF WE’RE RPING WITH THIS ACC:

height: 5′11″

Name: Lavender

origins: unknown

looks:

species: shapeshifting dragon/anon/dreamcorian hybrid

FANDOMS:

-UNDERTALE

-Friday Night Funkin’

-Invader Zim

-BATIM

-Pokemon

-Baldi’s basics ((even thogh it’s kinda ded))

-Cuphead

-Steven universe

-Spooky month

-Furry ((don’t judge))

-Madoka Magika

-A little bit of Cardcaptor Sakura

-AHIT

-That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime ((good anime))

-FNAF

-JSAB

-the smallest sliver of Spooky’s house of jump scares

-Kawaii stuff in general

-glitter force

-weirdcore

-dreamcore

-cottagecore

-Lofi

-ENA

-internetcore

-the second-smallest sliver of hazbin hotel

-TM v TM ((The Mitchels vs the machines))

-THE BACKROOMS

-BUGSNAX AL THE WAAAAY-

-OSP because yes

-DDLC

-No Straight Roads

-The owl house

-gravity falls

-Madness combat

-SPLATOON!!!

-Hollow knight

-OMORI

-restaurant to another world

-tohu

-become fumo

-epithet erased

-Kipo and the age of the wonderbeasts

-she-ra and the princesses of power

-Centaurworld

-Soul Eater

-miraculous

-cookie run

-a few others that aftea forgot the names of

[bikejoel]

Gravelish - Hot & Dirty. Way too hot • 7/24/18

With a 21 lizard salute! Dirt Alpine, White Oak, Canyon Trail, Table Mountain & Charcoal Road (What the F was I thinking?) Skyline back. Descend Dirt Alpine.

Thankful for the Daniels Nature Center in Skyline Ridge OSP with their water faucet. Ran out of water just then. Had a small Camelbak and two bottles, but it was hot!

26.6 miles, 3400 feet https://www.strava/activities/1725894222

[madisonscholar]

Faculty, staff honored for external funding success

The opportunity to mentor undergraduate students while also pursuing meaningful research makes JMU special, Kristen St. John said Friday, Oct. 6, after receiving a lifetime achievement award during the Office of Research and Scholarship's Recognition Reception.

Friday's event was the OSP's second annual Recognition Reception, held to honor faculty and staff for their work in securing external funding and to raise awareness of the grant process. St. John, a professor of geology and environmental science, was among more than 100 faculty and staff honored for securing external funding during the 2017 fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, and for their careers.

The OSP asked deans to nominate faculty for the lifetime achievement award based on criteria in areas of teaching; research and scholarship; and service through their externally funded projects throughout their JMU careers. St. John has earned more than $500,000 in external funding since arriving at JMU in 2003.

Conducting research in paleoceanography, St. John has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature, and her scholarship has rewritten the geologic history of Arctic ice, information that is critically important as scientists seek to understand contemporary dynamics of climate change.

In 2004, St. John was selected to serve as part of an international research team for an Arctic coring expedition, a project she will lead in the 2018-19 academic year. Since 2012, she has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geoscience Education and in 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She has mentored more than two dozen undergraduate students, providing them with opportunities to learn about the geosciences through cutting edge research in the field.

"I feel like JMU is walking a very important and fine line where we're able to maintain this really excellent undergraduate education but the faculty are also able to do research that’s highly respected and valued at many different levels," St. John said.

For faculty and staff who are considering seeking grants for the first time, St. John said sitting on a grant review committee will provide valuable insight. She also commended the OSP staff for its assistance.

The following faculty and staff received outstanding faculty awards for met criteria in teaching, scholarship, service and mentoring through their externally funded projects during fiscal year 2017:

·      Daniel Downey, chemistry and biochemistry

·      Mark Gabriele, biology

·      Kim Hartzler-Weakley, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services

·      Elizabeth Johnson, geology and environmental science

·      Jonathan Monroe, biology

·      Gerald Weniger, health professions

·      Steven Whitmeyer, geology and environmental science

The OSP also recognized faculty and staff for various funding tiers, including:

·      $20 million — Cheryl Henderson, Training/Technical Assistance Center

·      $15 million — Kim Hartzler-Weakley, Institute for Innovation in Health & Human Services

·      $10 million — John McNaught, Training/Technical Assistance Center; Ken Rutherford, Center for International Stabilization & Recovery; Rhonda Zingraff, College of Health & Behavioral Studies

·      $5 million — Bob Kolvoord, College of Integrated Science and Engineering; Jonathan Miles, Integrated Science & Technology

A full list of winners is in the event program.

[typingtess]

Tiptoeing through the guest cast of “Choke Point”

Tell me if you've heard this before – missing from the press release:  Nia Long.

Sabrina Revelle as Laura Garcia Was in episodes of Hollywood Heights, Next Up, Black Jesus, Switched at Birth, 2 Broke Girls, Instant Mom, Angie Tribeca, SWAT (2017) and Animal Kingdom.  Played Rachel in Zac and Mia.

Aliah Seavey as Kelly James Seavey played Ameenah Shah in season one's "Found" episode (she was the woman who left the cultural center after she figured out their terror ties).  She is married to Dustin Seavey, another actor with two NCIS: Los Angeles roles (Petty Officer Foster in "Vengeance" and Air Force Capt. Kevin Miller in "The Silo").

Medalion Rahimi as NCIS Special Agent Fatima Namazi Back from "Searching" (last episode).  I'm thinking Fatima is a keeper.  Let's not kill her, show.

Tommy Badger Brown as Jason Reed Appeared in episodes of Lady Dynamite and Mom.  Was part of a series called Gluten Free America.

Instagram post announcing the role.

Justin Paul as Brian Booker Was Wes Granger on One Life to Live and appeared in episodes of White Collar, As the World Turns, Hawaii Five-0 (2015), General Hospital, Code Black and The Punisher.

Nicholas Hayner as Navy Seal Petty Officer Alonzo Garcia Hayner is a stunt professional in both film ("Captain America: Civil War") and TV (Graceland, Under the Dome).

Acting work includes The Have and the Have Nots, The Originals, Banshee, The Game, Ballers, Zoe Ever After, The Resident, The Passage and Hawaii Five-0 (2019).

David Chan as Nurse Steven Hong Appeared in episodes of Deadliest Warrior, Matchstick McCoy, Fixer, Community, Chasing Life, Lethal Weapon, The Mayor, Criminal Minds, Kidding, How to Get Away with Murder, SWAT (2019) and Dirty John.

Chan is also a professional photographer who is part of a studio doing head shots for actors.

Steve Fisher as Edward Morrison There are a few Steve Fishers in IMDB (several are no longer alive so I don't think they're this Steve Fisher).  IMDB also keeps sending me to Fisher Stevens.

Noelle Messier as Security Guard Guest starred in episodes of Ugly Betty, Mind of Mencia, 10 Things I Hate About You, Sons of Tucson, Law & Order: LA, Workaholics, Trophy Wife, The McCarthys, Dr. Ken, Scandal, Days of Our Lives, American Horror Story, The Gifted and Counterpart.

Julianna Gamiz as Elena Garcia Child actress.  Plays Isela Camayo in East Los High and Young Jane in Jane the Virgin.

At her trailer.

Written by:  Joe Sachs & R. Scott Gemmill   Joe Sachs wrote or co-wrote "Higher Power", "The Dragon and the Fairy", "Drive", "Purity", "The Livelong Day", "Fish Out of Water", "The Black Wind", "Blaze of Glory", "Core Values", "Seoul Man", "Parallel Resistors", "From Havana With Love", "Under Pressure" and "Ninguna Salida" (the season nine finale with R. Scott Gemmill) and "The Sound of Silence".  

R. Scott Gemmill wrote/cowrote "The Only Easy Day", "Brimstone", "Breach", "LD50", "Found", "Borderline", "Absolution", "Archangel", "Tin Soldiers", "Impostors", "Cyberthreat", "Honor", "The Watchers" and both sides of the NCIS Los: Angeles/Hawaii Five-0 "Touch of Death" episodes, "Recruit", "Free Ride", "Wanted", "Ravens and The Swans", "Impact", "War Cries", both ends of the "Deep Trouble" season five finale/season six premiere, "Inelegant Heart", "Praesidium", "Traitor", "Active Measures" (season seven premiere), "Blame It On Rio", "Internal Affairs", "Matryoshka" part one,  "Talion" (season seven finale), "High Value Target"/"Belly of the Beast" (season eight premieres), "The Queen’s Gambit", "Under Siege", "Unleashed" (season eight finale), "Party Crashers" (season nine’s premiere), "This Is What We Do" (episode 200), "Các Tù Nhân", "Goodbye Vietnam", "Ninguna Salida" (the season nine finale with Joe Sachs), "Hit List", "Asesinos" and "Till Death Do Us Part".

Directed by:  James Whitmore Jr. directed NCIS‘s "Legend" part two which introduced the OSP team before directing "Identity", "Found" (written by R. Scott Gemmill), "Human Traffic", "Empty Quiver", "Plan B", "Familia", "Lone Wolf", "Vengeance", "Recruit", "History", "Battle Scars" and "Vendetta".  He is the father of actress Aliah Seavey.

Just a head's up 1.0 – CBS has a Motown special 8:00-10:00PM ET next week (the 21st)  The following week (the 28th), the program spends its last four season ten episodes in the 10PM ET/9PM CT time slot.  

Just a head's up 2.0 – This episode will likely be delayed due to the Masters.  While I thought that was going to be the last delay of season ten, it looks like there could be a delay in May due to the PGA Championship in lovely Bethpage, Long Island (pays to know stockbroker types who plan on attending the event).