#stenson

[snow-licity]

You know Dick Wolf very clearly has an issue w letting couples be happy!!! Like Rollins and Amaro are together off screen, in whatever capacity that was, I like to think they were in love and had a relationship and only broke up bc amaro moved (Also bs that the baby wasn't his!!!)

Then, obviously, Stabler and Benson, they're probably never going to be official, it's just unsaid.

Then we got Rollins and Carisi who get married when Rollins leaves the show, so they're together off screen

and now my latest OBBSESSION Ethan and April in Chicago Med! I'm so happy they get married but every time they have the CHANCE TO JUST BE HAPPY they put SOMETHING IN THEIR WAY!!!! first it's Ethans sister, then Vicki, and now MARCEL🤬

HE'S SUCH A DICK FOR THIS (irony acknowledged)!! Like just let April and Ethan be THAT COUPLE. Instead, they get issue and blockade any chance they get at being happy!!! I'm gonna be honest you can have a healthy happy relationship while giving them things to work through!! Like the IVF stuff! That's something they can WORK THROUGH INSTEAD OF PULLING THE CHEATING AND SECRETS SHIT!!! IM SO TIRED😭😭 and then in the end they only end up together as a send off for the charecters, so again THEIR HAPPY OFF SCREEN🤬🤬 I WANT TO SEE ALL OF IT!!!

(Yes, I am just watching this show, I LOVE it, but holy shit it's also messing w me a whole lot!! I LOVE almost every charecter, and I'm rooting for all of them, but then they do stupid shit that makes me question the writers sanity!)

(Also, I don't ship Rollisi or Badler (idk) they are just perfect examples of my point lmao)

[celebritiesinthepose]

Helen Flanagan, Carley Stensob, Lacey Turner, Seeta Indrani & Charley Webb

[cjbolan]

Penelope’s blessed by the gods with great genes to have never aged in 20 years.

(And yes that is her son with her in both images.)

[allthefoolmine]

The 2024 Women’s Olympic Marathon: GOAT

Your fool is BACK for some enthusiastic screaming about marathons!

Under the cut for folks in other time zones who haven’t woke up yet and want to be surprised and for anyone who wants to scroll on by!

So, listen. Listen. I said to the long-suffering @parrishsrubberplant that if the men’s marathon race was THAT good (and seriously, it was among the greats) the women’s races was going to be—I quote myself—“off the motherfucking chain.”

Holly cats was I right about that one. I could end this post right here with a string of head exploding and fire emojis, but instead I’m gonna write a bit about what I followed.*

(*still too cheap to pay for streaming, so this comes entirely from being glued to newspaper live text updates and the Olympics own race tracker, which gives the 5k splits. I WISH I HAD PAID. I wish I had *been there* in Paris.)

Things about this race that made my brain hurt, a numbered list:

1. Sifan Hassan (Netherlands): You have to be a pretty big nerd about running to remember the last person to medal in the 5k / 10k / marathon triple in the Olympics, so storytime.

Emil Zapotec, won gold in all three events at the 1952 Olympics. His marathon time was 2:23:03, and before you dismiss that, remember that training and shoe tech were different then, and also it was his first marathon. Hassan, as far as I know, is the second to try this triple, and her marathon time was 2:22:55, which is an Olympic record.

*and* she won bronze in the 5k and 10k earlier THIS WEEK. And we talked yesterday about the hilly Paris course, right?

Hassan, I need to add, made history in her last Olympics, Tokyo 2021, for getting Gold in the 5k and 10k, and bronze in the 1500m; she’s the first Olympic athlete to do that, ever, so it’s not like it was impossible to imagine she could medal in her triple this time (for Paris, she was initially also entered in the 1500, and decided not to.) Just, really hard to get your head around.

I’ve been listening to Kara Goucher and Des Linden do an amazing recaps podcast on Olympic track and field this week (go listen to Nobody Asked Us, they’re hilarious), and one of the things they stressed is that, from their own Olympic—both are double Olympians for the USA—and championship racing experience—the training you do for a hilly marathon vs for a track 5k is super, super different. Just to put in perspective the absolutely BATSHIT INSANITY of what Hassan just did by winning the Olympics. And setting an Olympic record. After the all the racing she did this week.

2. The race at 40k Sprint, do not run, to find a video of the finish. Here’s the one from Eurosports. Up until 2k to go, FIVE ATHLETES were in it: Sharon Lokedi (Kenya), Hellen Obiri (Kenya), Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia), Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia), and Hassan.

Again, a comparison to Zapotec: a sportswriter once described his running style as “a man wrestling an octopus on a conveyor belt” and I couldn’t help but think of that when the commentators were desperately assuring us that Obiri is not struggling, she just Runs Like That. Obiri has one of the greatest CVs in women’s distance running history, and honestly, she looks like a woman wrestling an octopus on a conveyor belt. Often the octopus is winning. It’s so fun to watch.

Also, seeing Hassan, lurking at the back of the pack like a goddam shark, as Beriso and Lokedi got dropped. I was there and SEATED. You could almost see her scent blood in the water. It was EPIC.

3. The finish: Hassan and Assefa finished 3 seconds apart (and we had some good track style elbow throwing! The drama! Love to see track and field the contact sport!) Obiri was 15 seconds back from gold. I actually cried a little, like you do when you see something overwhelming beautiful and can’t help it. Lokedi, who is an athlete I love following, was fourth, 19 seconds back.

5. Yuka Suzuki (Japan): can we just scream together for a moment about how impressive Team Japan’s young marathoners were in this Olympics? Suzuki is 24 years old. She had, according to the information I could find about her, never raced in world championship race (not sure what a world university games is but I don’t think that counts). She went from being 13th at 25k to 8th at 30k, to 5th at 35k, to 6th at 40k…and finished 6th. Most of her running, for the last 10k of the race, was alone, with the lead pack in sight but not in actual distance to catch. Can you imagine how hard that it is, mentally? To be so close and yet so far at the end of a hilly marathon that just happens to be the motherfucking Olympics? I can barely get my head around it. Just. Holy cats people. Holy cats. So excited to see where she goes next.

6. Checked and Wrecked, the Honor Roll: It was super frustrating to follow this race because the Olympic tracker wasn’t working properly for past splits: it automatically updates them to show the state of the current race. Which made it very hard to follow changes in the race and spectulate strategy, and this didn’t happen with the men’s tracker, UGH, but anyway. Flowers to Jessica Stentson (Australia), Dakotah Lindwurm (USA) and Melody Julien (France), and also Lornah Chemutai Salpeter (Israel), who all, at various points in the first half, seem to have Went For It. I’m sure there’s plenty of other people who belong on this roll of honour, but that’s just who I noticed. I would rather see an athlete wreck themselves than check themselves, because sports are entertainment.

7. Lastly, because repeat Olympians Are Cool: Fionnula McCormick (Ireland)! Her fifth Olympics! Ridiculously cool.

Guys (gender neutral), women’s distance running is so fucking lit right now. There’s so many great athletes in the sport and that was such an epic, epic marathon.

Once again, a link to the end of the race for everybody in Europe / with vpns, because that was racing that makes me glad to be alive. Off the chain, indeed.

[neeterloveschenford]

If you could bring back any character for another episode who would it be? Can be a guest star, a dead character, or someone from rookie Feds

Sorry this took a minute to answer! The last week has been eventful and I forgot!

There are so many, it's hard to narrow down. But I think if I could only pick one it would be Jackson. I could see either Lucy, Tim, or Angela having a near-death experience and seeing Jackson's spirit. I think if it were to happen after recent events, it would be very interesting to see this happen with Tim. I think Jackson would totally ream Tim for the reasons that he broke up with Lucy, but I also think he would want to help Tim find that inner peace that he's never had.

On the more realistic front, I think it would be nice to see Laura, Brendon, or Garza make a guest appearance. Those were the only characters I actually like from Feds.

Just the fanfic angst lover in me would get tickled to see Ashley or Chris pop back up once Chenford find their way back to each other and get to see firsthand what a REAL healthy relationship looks like. Of course, we gotta get to that healthy place first!

Thanks for the ask anon! It was fun to speculate!

[digirhys]

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Hit w a fit of nostalgia for Him and my litany of other TF2 OCs after drawing him the other day

Charley's never not gonna be exhausted as all hell 😭

Variant w chromatic aberration BG, so below a cut in case of mild eye strain

[24601orwhatever]

FANTINES DRESS

(Original London Ver)

all the variations of this costume are beautiful

[mifhortunach]

Events Transpiring Before, During, and After A High School Basketball Game (2020) (Dir. Ted Stenson)

[ghostedhouse]

happy pride here's a bunch of oc horseplay from the past month

[thediscsystem]

If only I allowed them to be happy

[jazzdailyblog]

"Serenity": Bobo Stenson's Timeless Jazz Odyssey

Introduction: In the vast realm of jazz, where innovation often intertwines with tradition, certain albums emerge as beacons of artistic brilliance. Bobo Stenson’s “Serenity,” a double album recorded in April 1999 and released in 2000 on the ECM label, is a testament to the enduring power of musical exploration and collaboration. Clocking in at 90 minutes and 33 seconds, “Serenity” is not just…

[etxrnaleclipse]

Cont. from @twistedthings || Isabella and Jeremy (x)

Instantly, there was something charming about this man. Something that had her drawn in and away from the content of her book. She normally kept to herself for the most part in this place, simply watching people from afar and offering the occasional friendly smile. But nothing about him approaching her made her uncomfortable, perhaps due to her nature, and she couldn't help but laugh softly at his response.

"Oh, that's a relief then. I was a little worried that I've been sitting here all morning flaunting this book and it was making me look like a killer or something." she replied, reaching out to retrieve her bookmark and slipping it between the pages so that she could focus a little more on the stranger. A hand came up to brush some hair from her face, green eyes studying him for a moment as the hustle and bustle of the cafe around them faded out a little. "Well you must do, since you instantly picked me as not being the kind to take inspiration from this thing." Placing the book down on the table, she offered her hand to him in greeting. "Well, I wouldn't say creepy, but maybe a little less usual than most conversations I've had. But it's nice to meet you Jeremy, I'm Isabella."

[madame-mongoose]

Not not not sorry to follow up spacie scotty and Kandi, you ARE such a cool guy, I love your aus and fandoms sm aghfg

I'm giving you a big stetson with sparklers and little glow in the dark stars that spell out 'coolest guy'

And/or a smoothie. Bon appetit :) 💛💛💛

Sobs

[karihighman]

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[sisterofficerlucychen]

I LOVE BRENDON AND LAURA SO MUCH

[digirhys]

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Winding down doodles after wrapping up my Secret Santa piece for an art server I'm in!! Not going to post it even after the gifts go out, I think. Hope the recipient likes it,,,!!! ;w;