#text: tyler coleman.

[tonsillessscum]

[livingmeatloaf]

[image transcript: Lollapaloza - July 31-Aug 3, 2025.

Olivia Rodrigo. Tyler, The Creator. Sabrina Carpenter. Rüfüs Du Sol. Luke Combs. Twice. A$ap Rocky. Korn. Gracie Abrams. Doechii. {this list is in the largest text}

Dom Dolla. Martin Garrix. Cage The Elephant. Clairo. The Marías. Djo.

Dominic Fike. Bleachers. Wallows. Young Miko. Mk.gee. Two Friends.

T-pain. Knock2. Foster The People. Still Woozy. Sierra Ferrell. Role Model.

Finneas. Remi Wolf. Mau P. Royel Otis. Marina. Bladee. Barry Can't Swim.

Latin Mafia. Flipturn. Magdalena Bay. Gryffin. Jpegmafia. Isoxo. 2hollis.

Sammy Virji. Tape B. Isaiah Rashad. Levity. Cloonee. Fujii Kaze. Alex Warren.

Chase & Status. Mariah The Scientist. Amaarae. Wave To Earth. The Dare.

Marlon Hoffstadt. Ian. Artemas. Dr. Fresch. Gigi Perez. Xdinary Heroes.

Ravyn Lenae. The Blessed Madonna. Wyatt Flores. Bunt.. Bilmuri. Ocean Alley.

Damiano David. Overmono. Half-alive. Del Water Gap. Mark Ambor. Orion Sun

Joey Valence & Brae. Matt Champion. Bossman Dlow. Max Mcnown. Ole 60.

Flux Pavilion. Montell Fish. Otoboke Beaver. Fcukers. Maribou State.

Glass Beams. La Femme. Kenny Mason. Wild Rivers. Katseye. Prospa. Julie.

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso. Durand Bernarr. Rebecca Black. Murda Beatz.

Orla Gartland. Wunderhorse. Wasia Project. Boynextdoor. Azzecca. Laila!.

Salute. Flowerovlove. Charlotte Lawrence. Hey, Nothing. Ratboys. Layz.

Nourished By Time. Alleycvt. Willow Avalon. Kickflip. Sunami. Isabel Larosa.

Naomi Scott. Sam Austins. Jane Remover. Zinadelphia. Vincent Lima. Alemeda.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Tanner Adell. Newdad. Black Party

Bôa. Torren Foot B2b Airwolf Paradise. Dogpark. Joe P. Old Mervs. Nimino.

Dua Saleh. Jesse Detor. The Droptines. Silly Goose. Viperactive. Daniel Allan.

The Symposium. Winnetka Bowling League. The Criticals. Jade Lemac. Jigitz.

Mary Droppinz. Dj Heather. Junior Varsity. Hex Cougar. Landon Barker. Yana.

Xaviersobased. Colby Acuff. Carol Ades. Carter Vail. Blk Odyssy. Bo Staloch.

Caroline Kingsbury. Star Bandz. Midnight Generation. Alexsucks. Benches.

Aliyah's Interlude. Lekan. Rachel Grae. Chicago Made. Sofia Camara. Girl Tones.

Graham Barham. People R Ugly. Landon Conrath. Jev. Tessla. Kaicrewsade.

Raecola. Eddie And The Getaway. Zoe Ko. Cassandra Coleman. Winyah.

End transcript.]

New music festival lineup drop, so you know what that means! It's time to play:

[doctorwhoincorrectquotes]

doctor who textposts

[doctordiscosbignaturals]

doctor who text post as weird shit my friends have caught me saying -nuwho addition

[yoshirage]

Body Swap Diaries: Tristyn

My sweaty body glisten under the Dubai sun after a hard workout session with my brother Tyler. “Hey bro, I’m gonna go back to the room, are you almost done?”

“You go on ahead, i have some more sets to do.” I said

“Ok Bro! Sounds good” Tyler leaves.

I looked at the mirror and pleased to see the amount of work i have put in this body coming together from my huge social following which i learned from from my past life as a CEO of an advertisement company to my strict workout and diet regiment i learned while winning multiple Olympia as Ronnie Coleman; further pushing away his dreams of being a soccer player ever since i accidentally swapped bodies with him when he was thirteen.

I picked up a barbell to do some curls when i hear a text coming in from Blue. He told me he was coaching this guy named Ryan and was ready to switch to a new body.

Hey shortie, how do you like my new body? the text said with a picture attached

I feel myself hardening. Damn Blue! You really outdid yourself this time!

How about you Cyan? You ready to switch bodies? Now that the body your in is at least 18 years old, you should be able to?

Nah i’ll stay! It was great reliving my high school days and being a kid though experiencing puberty again was a little weird, but now ive been enjoying my large social following and im taking this kid to the top!

Ok Man! Sure! Lets meet up again once you come back to the States.

Ok bro! Nice talking to you!

Standing alone at the hotel’s outside gym, I looked at Blues new body and my 7 inch cock fully hardened as I remembered the times ive fucked him when I was Ronnie and he he was still Jay, and now imagining him moaning like a little bitch in his new body as my hard cock rams his hole and finally cum all over that new pretty boy face of his. The suns ray heating up my body even more as sweat formed as I stroke my cock. I couldn’t hold it much longer as i came all over my phones’s screen covering Blue’s picture with my cum. I breath deeply wiping the cum of my phone and cleaning my self up. I looked at the clock to see that its almost 12:45 pm, and finally leaving the gym to meet up with Tyler and continuing our dubai vacation.

[themissourireview]

I’m back with the rest of our staff’s picks for #TheMissouriReview ‘s #NationalReadingMonth, this time, just in order. Hope you enjoy!

16. “Love Poem as Eye Examination” by Victoria Chang. Her quote: “I wrote a poem ruminating on an eye doctor visit, and since I’ve struggled to write love poems on many occasions, I decided to work backwards and make the poem a love poem. This process helped me to write a love poem, although in the end, like many of my poems, there’s an acidic strain that runs through the spine of the poem.”

17. “Love Letter to Flavor Flav” by Marcus Wicker. This poem—equal parts playful and poignant—was born out of the writer’s ambivalent feelings toward the titular pop culture icon: “I’ve always been troubled by my own willingness to accept Flavor Flav as an important popular icon. As a former member of Public Enemy, he operated like nightly lubricant for the group’s straight ahead politics; but one can’t deny, he’s a bit painful to watch. When Flav still had his VH1 reality show, I tuned in every week to watch him parade around a mansion, announcing his wild-ass presence in the world of my living room. Admittedly, I think that’s kind of dumb. But also kind of cool, and maybe honest.”

18. “The Wall” by Emma Törzs. In this 2015 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winning fiction, set in contemporary Israel, a young Jewish woman seeks to bridge the divide between life and death as she mourns the loss of her brother. 19. “Swarf.” In this essay, Tyler Keevil writes about an accident and ensuing medical emergency during a fraught time of global recession.

20.  A Poem of the Week from 2010 titled “Noli Me Tangere.” The poet, Traci Brimhall, said that the poem came from “a desire for absolution.” She felt guilty for helping with animal studies despite the fact that “helping to catch endangered frogs for future study meant that there would be hope for the species….”

21. “Motherland” by Min Jin Lee was awarded our William Peden Prize in fiction when Judge Alice McDermott selected the piece as our best-of-volume fiction for that year.

22. The story pulls you in from the very beginning—or, more accurately, from the title itself. “How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” by Kim Coleman Foote is partially born out of the author’s exploration of her own family history, which she later described to TMR’s editors. In my first semester interning at #TMR, I read this piece with classmates. It’s killer.

  23. An excerpt from Alethea Black’s memoir, You’ve Been So Lucky Already. In this piece, titled “A Place in the World,” the narrator explores the aftermath of grief while navigating through a world that’s changed overnight.

24. The poem of the week from last May, “he doesn’t flirt with me, he just texts me love poems,” by Zain Murdock. In the author’s note, Murdock described how emotional honesty factored into the poem: “This poem was really the first time I allowed myself to write about love in a way that didn’t make me feel ashamed.”

25. “Serpentine,” an essay by Ember Johnson. In this piece, which was a finalist for the 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, Johnson masterfully evokes tension and anguish through her poignant exploration of her experience as a military wife and widow, offering a unique perspective on the burden of carrying on alone.

26.  “A Djinn Hums in Sakhnin” by Tarik Dobbs. The poem, which he wrote “frantically on [his] airplane home,” includes reflections on his Muslim faith.

27. “Heart-Scalded” by Daphne Kalotay. In this story, a terminally ill woman attends a party where she knows she’ll have to brave a fraught encounter with her ex. In this narrative of emotional pain and acceptance, we find intimations of magic—and mortality.

28. “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” by Jennifer Anderson. This raw portrait of Anderson’s experiences providing “diversional activities” for nursing-home patients was a 2012 Editor’s Prize finalist in nonfiction.

29. “Actaeon,” by Kelly Weber. On the origin of the poem, Weber said, “When I started writing about my personal experiences as an aroace woman, I turned to the myth of Artemis as a model. What I found compelling about the story of Actaeon and Artemis is how it differed from other myths like that of Daphne, for example, who becomes a tree to escape Apollo. In the Actaeon story, it’s not Artemis who must change but Actaeon. His entire way of being in the world must fundamentally shift, putting the burden of change and responsibility for his actions back on him instead of the one he gazes upon.” This one’s up next on my list, as I’m studying Ovid this semester. 

30. A 2021 Poem of the Week, “Not an Ode to April 22nd, 2019,” by Gisselle Yepes. On the poem’s craft, Yepes explained, “This poem is one, too, that thinks with the anaphora, the litany in Aracelis Girmay’s poem, ‘Here,’ as it thinks with and revels in rupture, in grief, in noticing how we, Afro-diasporic people(s), more specifically Puerto Ricans, grieve, smoke, love, yell, wail, weep, and silence.”

31. A historical persona poem by David Mura titled, “A Soldier of The 100th: The Lost Battalion.” To provide some historical context, Mura explained: the 100th battalion “was part of the 442nd regiment, the most decorated unit in Europe [during World War II], and was made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland; the families of the latter were imprisoned in internment camps during the war and deprived of their rights as citizens.” We hope you’ll take the time to read this powerful piece.

Find them at https://www.missourireview.com/ 

[hollywoodfamerp]

PACK YOUR BAGS FAMERS!

We’re heading to Santorini, Greece! On July 7th - July 13th the entire roleplay will be located in Greece for our annual summer trip! Please remember, this event is mandatory. So whether you are on hiatus or not, you must state that your celeb is/was there.

Celebs will be staying at the Santorini Luxury Hotel Ambassador! The Santorini Luxury Hotel Ambassador will have all celebs stay in vaulted suites that have a private pool in each room and a private patio that will enthrall guests with front row seats to the island's world famous sunsets, as well as great panoramic views of the caldera, with villages comprised of traditional white cube houses scattered along the cliff's edge. Guests can sit back and enjoy amenities that include: spas, lounges, bars, indoor and outdoor pools, 5 star restaurants, babysitting, and fitness center. 

Under the cut you will find your roommates! Please know, your roommate is also your SYNC partner for the month of July. That means you will have the entire month (until July 31st at midnight EST) to get a thread done with your partner! Because we are giving the entire month to get this done, everyone is included on the list regardless if they are on hiatus or not. However, those on reduced activity were NOT included. The subject of your thread does not have to be about the Greece trip! Please remember the following:

This is a mandatory thread. We will be keeping track, please do not make us give out strikes :(

Please tag the main in your chatzy, para, gif chat or f2f when you reach at least 8 notes. 

Texts also count! Please send your text thread to the main via IM once you reach at least 12 notes since those don’t require as much.

No matter what type of thread you and your partner choose, please make sure it has substantial replies (on both ends) and not just a three word reply - the point is to build new connections!

New members coming into the group will be added up until July 10th. 

After that they will not be added into the list since it wouldn’t be fair to hold them to the same requirements with less time.

If your partner goes inactive or decides to leave the rp - we will message you and you can decide if you’d like a new partner or you can just be removed from the current list.

Please do message us if your roommate has not replied to you to plot or if they are on the verge of going inactive, as we will take everything into consideration <3 

If you got paired with another FC that you play, please send us a message and we’ll fix that for you right away!

If you cannot find your FC in the list, please let us know so we can fix that as well!

All pairs were made with a random generator!

Please be mindful that this list can and will change because of unfollows, activity checks, and/or new members being added into the group. So please make sure to like this notice so you can keep track of things :)

If you’re reading this list, go ahead and reach out to your partner! Please do not wait to for them to reach out to you.

Please like this notice so we know you’re all up to date! :)

* Bold means waiting for account Strike through means account was unfollowed in activity check. Will be removed 24 hours after activity check.

Dacre Montgomery and Nick Jonas

Ashley Tisdale and Candice Swanepoel

Winston Duke and Kim Taehyung

Blake Lively and Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins)

Connor Franta and Anthony Mackie

Pierce Brosnan and Brandon Flynn

Keanu Reeves and Zendaya Coleman

Charlotte Flair and Gigi Hadid

Matt Bomer and Emma Stone

Melissa Benoist and Taylor Swift

Harry Styles and Zac Efron

Nina Dobrev and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Joe Jonas and Michael B. Jordan

Shawn Mendes and Meryl Streep

Dylan Minnette and Ryan Higa

Priyanka Chopra and Paul Wesley

Shay Mitchell and Suzy Berhow

Charlie Hunnam and Minatozaki Sana

Selena Gomez and Dianna Agron

Ben Barnes and Hirai Momo

Jesse Lingard and Ashley Benson

Margot Robbie and Kim Dahyun

Sophia Bush and David Dobrik

Sophie Turner and Brie Larson

Lauren Jauregui and Bebe Rexha

Adam Levine and Evan Rachel Wood

Kristine Froseth and Kendall Jenner

Beth Behrs and Adelaide Kane

Naomi Scott and Arin Hanson

Jeremy Jordan and Kelley O'Hara

Khloe Kardashian and Jerome Flynn

Perrie Edwards and Nikki Bella

Jon Hamm and Mark Fischbach

Rami Malek and Jeon Jeongguk

Natalia Dyer and Jesse Lee Soffer

Brendon Urie and Zoey Deutch

Aubrey Plaza and Scarlett Johansson

Kim Seokjin and Park JungSoo (Leeteuk)

Aaron Tveit and Christopher Gorham

Ashton Irwin and Normani Kordei

Emma Watson and Jung Hoseok

Hailey Baldwin and Cara Delevingne

Kit Harington and Jade Chynoweth

Kim Hyuna and Bella Hadid

Tessa Thompson and Emilia Clarke

Camila Cabello and Becky Lynch

Armie Hammer and Chris Hemsworth

Richard Madden and Jade Thirlwall

Sebastian Stan and Demi Lovato

Sam Claflin and Maisie Williams

Keith Duffy and Byun Baekhyun

Luke Hemmings and Chloe Bennet

Kate Middleton and Alex Morgan

Marzia Bisognin and Michael Clifford

Timothée Chalamet and Lights Poxleitner

Hunter Hayes and Leighton Meester

Mena Massoud and Rihanna

Lee Chaerin (CL) and Ansel Elgort

Jake Gyllenhaal and Fergal Devitt

Dylan O'Brien and Adria Arjona

Lily Singh and Madelaine Petsch

Danneel Harris and Park Chanyeol

Park Jimin and Maryse Mizanin

Chris Evans and Niall Horan

Gal Gadot and Jensen Ackles

Ariana Grande and Kim Nanjoon

Takumi Kizuckson and Marina Diamandis

Bill Skarsgard and James Rodriguez

Nathan Sharp and Sarah Drew

Dove Cameron and Jennifer Morrison

Maia Mitchell and Kim Yongsun (Solar)

Vanessa Hudgens and Saoirse Ronan

Miles Heizer and Kristen Bell

Debby Ryan and Dan Avidan

Jared Padalecki and Pedro Pascal

Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot

Zayn Malik and Jesy Nelson

Kehlani Parrish and Min Yoongi

Behati Prinsloo and Daisy Ridley

Joe Keery and Tyler Posey

Lucas Wong and Jeremy Irvine 

Jennie Kim and Karlie Kloss

Carlos Valdes and Brie Bella

Liza Koshy and Jackson Wang

Seán McLoughlin (Jacksepticeye) and Chyler Leigh

Florence Pugh and Kim Jisoo

Lee Donghae and Bae Joohyun

Alex Fitzalan and Kang Seulgi

Lea Michele and Troye Sivan

Gina Rodriguez and Kim Heechul

Katherine Langford & Louis Tomlinson 

Kathryn Newton and Camila Mendes

Taika Waititi and Christen Press

Marcus Rashford and Maya Hawke

Jessica Chastain and Joe Dempsie

[tinseltownstarter]

12.05 - 12.11

Sophie Turner - 12.11

Adam Levine - 12.09

Chris Hemsworth - 12.09

Joe Jonas - 12.09

Anya Taylor-Joy - 12.09

Victoria Justice - 12.09

Christina Aguilera - 12.05

11.28 - 12.04

Vanessa Hudgens - 12.02

Nina Dobrev - 12.02

Zendaya Coleman - 12.02

Lili Reinhart - 11.30

Cole Sprouse - 11.29

Jodie Comer - 11.28

11.21 - 11.27

Dylan O’Brien - 11.27

Margot Robbie - 11.27

Ashley Benson - 11.27

Liam Hemsworth - 11.26

KJ Apa - 11.26

Leo DiCaprio - 11.26

Melissa Fumero - 11.25

Emilia Clarke - 11.25

Ryan Reynolds - 11.25

Tyler Hoechlin - 11.25

Lee Dong-Wook - 11.21

Carrie Underwood - 11.21

STARTER GUIDELINES

All gif chat conversation starters must be tagged ttownstarter.

You must also @ tinseltownstarter, this blog, in your post.

Answer three (3) starters before posting your own, unless it is an introduction starter.

It is mandatory to post at least one starter on each of your characters once every other month.

Open text messages are not considered starters.

All tweets must be tagged ttowntweet. Tweets are also not considered starters.

[tonsillessscum]

[doctorwhoincorrectquotes]

doctor who textposts

[365footballorg-blog]

Wales thrash Republic in Giggs' first competitive game in charge

Wales produced an exhibition of sparkling attacking football as they thrashed the Republic of Ireland in their Nations League opener to give manager Ryan Giggs a handsome victory in his first competitive match in charge.

Tom Lawrence set the tone with an emphatic sixth-minute finish from Joe Allen’s through ball, and Gareth Bale whipped in an even better second goal from the edge of the area after a raking cross-field pass from Ben Davies.

Giggs’ rampant young side were 3-0 up before half-time as 17-year-old Ethan Ampadu set up Aaron Ramsey, whose low finish left the Irish looking bewildered at Cardiff City Stadium – a ground where they won a vital World Cup qualifying match less than a year ago.

Connor Roberts got in on the act in the second half with a crisp left-footed strike, before the Republic of Ireland managed a consolation of sorts when substitute Shaun Williams seized on an error by Ramsey to score.

But that did little to undo the carnival atmosphere, as Wales gave a tantalising glimpse of what may be to come from this promising group of emerging talents.

More to follow.

Line-ups

Match Stats

Live Text

Line-ups

Wales

1Hennessey

14Roberts

6Williams

20Mepham

4DaviesSubstituted forDummettat 81'minutes

7Allen

15AmpaduSubstituted forSmithat 67'minutes

17Lawrence

10Ramsey

13Brooks

11BaleSubstituted forRobertsat 75'minutes

Substitutes

2Gunter

3Dummett

5Chester

8King

9Vokes

12Ward

16Ledley

18Wilson

19Lockyer

21Davies

22Roberts

23Smith

R. of Ireland

23Randolph

2Coleman

4Duffy

5ClarkBooked at 51mins

17WardSubstituted forStevensat 61'minutes

3Christie

13Hendrick

22HourihaneSubstituted forWilliamsat 57'minutes

8O'Dowda

19Walters

14RobinsonSubstituted forHorganat 77'minutes

Substitutes

1Doyle

6Meyler

7Williams

9Burke

10Egan

11O'Brien

12Stevens

15Horgan

16McDermott

18Doherty

20Keogh

21Long

Referee:

Clément Turpin

Match Stats

Home TeamWalesAway TeamR. of Ireland

Possession

Home68%

Away32%

Shots

Home18

Away5

Shots on Target

Home8

Away3

Corners

Home4

Away3

Fouls

Home16

Away13

Live Text

Posted at

Match ends, Wales 4, Republic of Ireland 1.

Full Time

Posted at 90'+6'

Second Half ends, Wales 4, Republic of Ireland 1.

Posted at 90'+5'

Foul by Paul Dummett (Wales).

Posted at 90'+5'

Cyrus Christie (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 90'+4'

Matthew Smith (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 90'+4'

Foul by Cyrus Christie (Republic of Ireland).

Posted at 90'+4'

Offside, Wales. Matthew Smith tries a through ball, but Tyler Roberts is caught offside.

Posted at 88'

Foul by Tom Lawrence (Wales).

Posted at 88'

Seamus Coleman (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 88'

Foul by Ashley Williams (Wales).

Posted at 88'

Ciaran Clark (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 87'

Corner, Wales. Conceded by Enda Stevens.

Posted at 87'

Attempt blocked. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Roberts.

Posted at 85'

Attempt blocked. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.

Posted at 83'

Foul by Tyler Roberts (Wales).

Posted at 83'

Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 81'

Corner, Wales. Conceded by Shane Duffy.

Posted at 81'

Attempt blocked. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.

Substitution

Posted at 81'

Substitution, Wales. Paul Dummett replaces Ben Davies.

Posted at 81'

Corner, Wales. Conceded by Daryl Horgan.

Posted at 80'

Foul by Matthew Smith (Wales).

Posted at 80'

Callum O’Dowda (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 78'

Corner, Wales. Conceded by Darren Randolph.

Posted at 78'

Attempt saved. Tyler Roberts (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.

Substitution

Posted at 77'

Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Daryl Horgan replaces Callum Robinson.

Posted at 76'

Attempt saved. Matthew Smith (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tyler Roberts.

Substitution

Posted at 75'

Substitution, Wales. Tyler Roberts replaces Gareth Bale.

Posted at 74'

Aaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

Posted at 74'

Foul by Shaun Williams (Republic of Ireland).

Posted at 72'

Ben Davies (Wales) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Posted at 72'

Foul by Cyrus Christie (Republic of Ireland).

Posted at 70'

Offside, Republic of Ireland. Darren Randolph tries a through ball, but Jonathan Walters is caught offside.

Posted at 67'

Matthew Smith (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.

Posted at 67'

Foul by Callum O’Dowda (Republic of Ireland).

Substitution

Posted at 67'

Substitution, Wales. Matthew Smith replaces Ethan Ampadu.

Goal!

Posted at 66'

Goal! Wales 4, Republic of Ireland 1. Shaun Williams (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.

Posted at 65'

Foul by Gareth Bale (Wales).

Posted at 65'

Jeff Hendrick (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 65'

Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.

Posted at 62'

Offside, Wales. Ethan Ampadu tries a through ball, but Gareth Bale is caught offside.

Show more updates

goal

Let’s block ads! (Why?)

BBC Sport – Football

Wales thrash Republic in Giggs' first competitive game in charge was originally published on 365 Football

[guiafeminino]

Suddenly, six teens running for Kansas governor doesn’t seem so preposterous

By Monica Hesse / The Washington Post

MERRIAM, Kan. – A report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.

The would-be boy governors of Kansas. This was a funny concept for a while, and then it became absurd, and then a national tragedy happened and it became not funny but actually an emotion approaching tender, even aching.

But on the Monday before Valentines Day, as a half-dozen minors vied for the highest office of a state that had never bothered to codify any gubernatorial age requirements, it was still absurd. And so on that afternoon, while a suburban mom named Carrie Stracy debated whether to make meatloaf or use up the salmon in the fridge, her son, Tyler Ruzich, sat in his bedroom and discussed his candidacy.

“I have always thought of myself as more moderate, almost an Eisenhower Democrat,” said Tyler, 17, whose opponents in the Republican primary this summer include the current governor and the Kansas secretary of state. “For me, the question of government is a question about adequacy. There shouldn’t be an effort to grow, but there should be adequate funding to cover programs.”

Regarding the so-called “Kansas Experiment,” a tax cut enacted by former Gov. Sam Brownback, R, that left the state topsy-turvy with ballooning class sizes and shuttered social programs – “I am most certainly against that,” Tyler said.

Tyler has a slight build, dark blond hair and an earnest way of saying, “I’m not too sure about that” when he wants to think something over. He drives a rustbucket Oldsmobile to get to Shawnee Mission North High School, where he is a junior, or to pick up his girlfriend at a different high school. The girlfriend didn’t know Tyler was running when they met, but she learned shortly thereafter when they were walking through town and someone jauntily shouted, “Hello, Guvnor!”

At present, Tyler was a long way from his party’s nomination, but he did have a slogan – “A Republican for the Next Generation” – and he did have a website, and he did have an 11-year-old sister named Sadie who had taken to wearing a pale blue T-shirt reading “Ruzich for Governor,” especially when she heard company was coming.

—

Tyler was technically the second teenage gubernatorial candidate to join the race. The first was Jack Bergeson, a 16-year-old Democrat from Wichita, who declared partly to offer a full-throated Obamacare defense – the Affordable Care Act helped his family – back in the summer of 2017. Tyler heard of Jack through social media and reached out; it was Jack who convinced him they could make a big statement about Kansas’s sorry state of affairs if there were teen candidates from both parties. Tyler, who was the captain of his school’s debate team and whose wall was plastered with a poster-size U.S. Constitution, logged onto the state’s website and downloaded the necessary forms.

The third teenage candidate was Ethan Randleas, a 17-year-old Wichita Libertarian. The fourth was Dominic Scavuzzo, 17, a Republican from Kansas City; Scavuzzo’s classmate Joseph Tutera, 16, became the fifth a few weeks later. The sixth was Aaron Coleman, 17, a Green Party candidate, although several of the others confessed they were not entirely sure Coleman was still running (“I’ve never seen him at anything,” Dominic told Tyler recently) and his Twitter account seemed to operate in fits and starts.

Still, it could be said with certainty that either five or six teenage boys were running for governor in the state of Kansas.

They had come to mean something. They had come to reflect the morass of the country. Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump had won the presidency based on the idea that politics were so corrupt, Americans could only trust an outsider with no experience. Now Trump’s polling numbers were in the toilet and the boy governors of Kansas represented yet another reboot: Truly outsiders. Truly no experience. If Kansas laws permitted a passel of hormonal teenagers to clog the ballot – well, then, some onlookers ruefully shrugged, maybe those were the candidates we deserved.

The aspiring boy governors had been to debates. Granted interviews. They traveled in a pack dressed in their best sport coats – the kind parents buy teenage sons, with room to grow in the sleeves, giving the illusion that the candidates themselves were proper-sized; it was their clothing that was too big.

—

At around 4:30 p.m., Carrie knocked on her son’s door frame.

“Did you find someone?” she asked.

A few hours before, a producer from Soledad O’Brien’s news show, “Matter of Fact,” had called, inviting Tyler to Washington for the show Thursday morning. The producer offered the stipulation that Tyler needed an adult chaperon. Carrie said she could chaperon while Tyler’s stepdad watched Sadie, but offered the additional stipulation that Tyler must find someone to cover his shift bagging groceries at the HyVee.

“I’ve been texting people,” Tyler told her. “I thought Kelsey could do it, but she has choir practice.”

Eventually, with no luck, Tyler pulled on his parka and drove to the store, rationalizing that it would be harder for co-workers to turn him down in person. “I’ll just wander,” he decided, scanning the aisles and spotting a kid in an apron.

“Hey, Houston? Are you working Wednesday?”

“I don’t know.”

“Can I check your schedule? I need someone to cover my 4-to-8. I have to go to Washington.”

The swap arranged, Tyler grabbed a Sprite and took it to a register where an older woman named Sherry was rubbing her lower back.

“Tyler!” she said, perking up as she scanned the soda.

“How’s your back doing, Sherry? Are you back up to 35 hours yet?”

One of the things Tyler appreciated about HyVee was how he got to interact with people of all ages. He liked his colleagues, how they came from different walks of life.

“You know, lots of people ask me, what can you, Tyler Ruzich, do for people my age?” Tyler said, back in his car. “I say, we keep continuing these Old Man Principles that aren’t working. In [Alexander] Hamilton’s time, someone my age could be commander of a frigate. Did the Founding Fathers consider that a 17-year-old might be governor? I don’t know. Did they consider that a reality-television businessman would become president of the United States after losing the popular vote? Probably not.”

—

The next morning, Tyler got up and drove to a nearby Steak ’n Shake. The aspiring boy governors had been invited to debate each other in a little town called Hillsboro, and Tyler planned to carpool with Dominic.

“Jack’s not going to be there,” Tyler told Dominic once their burgers arrived. “He couldn’t miss any more math.”

“Got it,” said Dominic, whose gubernatorial preparation had involved working at his mom’s frozen yogurt shop and joining his school Spanish club.

“His running mate will be there, though,” Tyler said. “And Ethan will be there. That will be . . . fun.”

Dominic laughed. A byproduct of the boy governors’ youth: outsiders had begun to think of them as a unit, as if they all belonged to the same political party, called “Young.” But they believed in different things.

Tyler was the most liberal of the Republican candidates. He supported “LGBTQ-plus rights.” He supported protecting the Ogallala Aquifer, the water table beneath the Great Plains states. At debates, Tyler often found himself tangling with Ethan the libertarian, who opposed him on almost every issue.

The only thing that they agreed on was that the lawmakers making decisions about the state’s education didn’t have to go to the state’s schools. And that the politicians running the country weren’t the ones who were going to inherit it. Wasn’t it a civic responsibility for the teenagers to become politically involved?

If they didn’t change things, who would?

“Have all the TV people been reaching out to you?” Dominic asked as they drove past flat fields and rusty water towers. Dominic told Tyler he’d gotten a call from Lionsgate.

“Lionsgate?” Tyler repeated. He wasn’t sure about the people wanting to make movies. It was hard enough to be taken seriously without bringing Hollywood into the mix. Especially for the Republican candidates. While Jack, the 16-year-old Democrat, had been invited to participate in events with the party’s older candidates, the GOP had shut out Tyler and Dominic from anything official.

A Republican state lawmaker was now trying to pass a bill saying that in all future elections, candidates must be 18. “We have age requirements on voters,” one of the bill’s supporters, Rep. Keith Esau, had told the Kansas City Star. “Anybody who’s running should be able to vote for themselves.”

Tyler felt wounded by this exclusion but compensated by accepting every news interview. This seemed the best way to gain exposure for his positions, but the interviewers almost never wanted to talk about his positions, just his age. He practiced deflection: “I guess if I’m governor, I could keep pardoning myself for truancy,” he said when reporters asked, winking, how he could finish high school from the governor’s mansion. “But on a more serious note. . . .”

On a more serious note, he wanted to talk about governmental transparency, he told the reporters. On a more serious note, he wanted to talk about how his party could connect more with young people. On a more serious note, could they have a conversation about net neutrality, and how he saw its repeal as a way of taxing poor people?

“Yes, I am old enough to drive,” he repeated wearily to a reporter on the telephone. He paused. “I drive a ’94 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.”

—

Tyler and Dominic arrived at the Hillsboro debate a few minutes late, victims of a faulty GPS, and by the time they got to the high school auditorium, Ethan and Jack’s running mate, Alexander Cline, were already onstage (Alexander later described Jack’s absence as an “unavoidable scheduling conflict,” sidestepping the question of math class).

Alexander wore a traditional boy-governor suit. Ethan, the Libertarian, wore a T-shirt with a cartoon snake and the slogan, “No step on snek” – a “Don’t tread on me” interpretation for the 21st century – and was expounding on family farms. “The way to help is to get the government out of the farm,” said the candidate, who had worked on his own family’s since he was 11. “The struggle for small farms is too great.”

“That’s why you subsidize them,” offered Tyler, joining him on the stage.

The candidates talked about tax rates and their views on abortion, and then a teenage audience member went to the microphone for the next question:

“Tyler, do you plan on keeping conceal-carry laws the same? If not, what do you plan on doing to change them?

Tyler nodded. “I believe, first of all, that the Second Amendment needs to be upheld. However, I still believe that when it comes to – Now wait, I haven’t even said anything controversial yet,” he said as Ethan began to protest. “What I’m going to say is that public university students should not be allowed to carry guns on campus. We are too many school shootings too late.”

“My sister goes to Kansas State,” Dominic jumped in, citing a campus that permitted concealed weapons. “Professors do not feel safe there. It’s just spun into madness.”

After the debate, the candidates posed for a photo, and then Dominic and Tyler drove home and Tyler went to his job and spent the next five hours standing at a cash register, ringing up ice cream tubs and packages of frozen chicken.

—

Tyler and his mother were driving to the airport the next day, Valentine’s Day, when his phone buzzed with a news alert: Police were seeking an active school shooter in a Florida town called Parkland.

By the time they checked in for their flight to Washington, Tyler’s phone told him the death toll was rising. He thought about his own school. What if the shooter had been there, and Tyler had been caught, hiding for his life? Or what if, because he’d skipped his last class to make it to the airport, he’d been safe while his classmates were left to hide alone? He decided that would have been worse.

By the next morning, the teenage students of Parkland were already making their voices heard. Tyler watched as David Hogg went on CNN and implored lawmakers: “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action.” There were videos of bloody bodies on Snapchat, and Tyler was putting on his blazer and going to the Newseum for Soledad O’Brien’s show.

Jack had been invited, too, and the two sat in armchairs across from their interviewer, who for once didn’t ask whether they were old enough to drive.

“One of the big stories of the week is another school shooting,” O’Brien said. “What would be your strategy for bringing an end for what people would agree is clearly a crisis?”

Tyler and Jack told her they both believed in gun-control measures.

Did Tyler realize, O’Brien asked, that this put him in opposition with most Republicans?

Tyler had bags under his eyes, and AP exams he needed to register for, and he needed to be back in Kansas by that evening because he had to be in school the next morning. His voice was a little hoarse.

“If I’m making an enemy of the NRA, that’s something I’m kind of proud of, to be honest,” he told O’Brien. “I’ve seen what gun violence does. It’s time that we change the rhetoric and the discussion. Because clearly we are too far gone to say it’s a mental illness problem.”

Was that the right answer to have given on national television? He wasn’t sure. It was what he believed. Why couldn’t any of the adult politicians seem to say what they believed, he wondered. The kids were all saying what they believed. Whatever the consequences, the kids believed in something.

Tyler spent the rest of the week following the news back home in Kansas, along with all of the other boy governors.

In quieter moments, when he wasn’t trying to spin things, he admitted that his chances of winning were not very good. But then again, he would turn 18 by the time the primaries rolled around this summer. And because of that, he at least had already registered to vote.

Source Article

The post Suddenly, six teens running for Kansas governor doesn’t seem so preposterous appeared first on The Different Points To Consider When Searching For Best Apartments In Shawnee KS.

More Info At: http://www.guiafeminino.com/suddenly-six-teens-running-for-kansas-governor-doesnt-seem-so-preposterous/

[hollywoodfamerp]

Under the cut you’ll find your partner for HFRP SYNC! Please remember the following:

If you are on hiatus, you were not included in the first SYNC. (Semi hiatus WAS included).

You have 2 weeks (until July 1st midnight EST) to complete your thread with your partner

Please tag the main in your chatzy, para, gif chat or f2f when you reach 8 notes. We will be keeping a list! We don’t want to give out strikes.

Texts also count! Please send your text thread to the main via IM once you reach 12 notes since those don’t require as much.

No matter what type of thread you and your partner choose, please make sure it has substantial replies (on both ends) and not just a three word reply - the point is to build new connections!

New members coming into the group once this list is posted will not be added into the list since it wouldn’t be fair to hold them to the same requirements with less time. They will be included in the next SYNC pair up.

If your partner goes inactive or decides to leave the rp - we will message you and you can decide if you’d like a new partner or you can just be removed from the current list.

If you got paired with another FC that you play, please send us a message and we’ll fix that for you right away!

If you cannot find your FC in the list, please let us know as well so we can fix that as well!

All pairs were made with a generator!

If you’re reading this list, go ahead and reach out to your partner! Please do not wait to for them to reach out to you.

Please like this notice to keep track of the list! :)

Perrie Edwards and Nick Jonas

Madelaine Petsch and Matt Bomer

Kate Middleton and Jake Gyllenhaal

Richard Madden and Nathan Sharp

Aubrey Plaza and Kim Seokjin

Taika Waititi and Hunter Hayes

Beth Behrs and Max Thieriot

Priyanka Chopra and Minatozaki Sana

Jung Hoseok and Ashley Benson

Mae Whitman and Suzy Berhow

Emilia Clarke and Zendaya Coleman 

Lee Chaerin (CL) and Maisie Williams

Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Mackie

Fergal Devitt and Ansel Elgort

Becky Lynch and Donald Glover

Ben Barnes and Meryl Streep

Zac Efron and Sarah Drew

Pedro Pascal and Normani Kordei

Jensen Ackles and Nina Dobrev

Adria Arjona and Park Chaeyoung (Rose)

Selena Gomez and Mena Massoud

Zoey Deutch and Dianna Agron

Tessa Thompson and Leighton Meester

Jennie Kim and Robbie Amell

Lucas Wong and Maryse Mizanin

Kit Harington and Michael B. Jordan

Kehlani Parrish and Park JungSoo (Leeteuk)

Candice Swanepoel and Melissa Benoist

Bella Hadid and Tom Holland

Paul Wesley and Chris Evans

Kristine Froseth and Shawn Mendes

Jon Hamm and Aaron Tveit

Miley Cyrus and Dylan O'Brien

Min Yoongi and Takumi Kizuckson

Sam Claflin and Niall Horan

Phoebe Tonkin and Pierce Brosnan

Jeremy Jordan and Hailey Baldwin

Zayn Malik and Miles Heizer

Jade Thirlwall and Blake Lively

Natalia Dyer and Adelaide Kane

Emma Watson and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Keith Duffy and Jeon Jeongguk

Shay Mitchell and Vanessa Hudgens

Demi Lovato and Kim Hyuna

Dacre Montgomery and Winston Duke

Zoë Kravitz and Sebastian Stan

Rihanna and Emma Stone

Joe Keery and Nikki Bella

Tyler Posey and Maika Monroe

Brandon Flynn and Scarlett Johansson

[tinseltownstarter]

11.28 - 12.04

Zendaya Coleman - 12.02

Lili Reinhart - 11.30

Cole Sprouse - 11.29

Jodie Comer - 11.28

11.21 - 11.27

Dylan O’Brien - 11.27

Margot Robbie - 11.27

Ashley Benson - 11.27

Liam Hemsworth - 11.26

KJ Apa - 11.26

Leo DiCaprio - 11.26

Melissa Fumero - 11.25

Emilia Clarke - 11.25

Ryan Reynolds - 11.25

Tyler Hoechlin - 11.25

Lee Dong-Wook - 11.21

Carrie Underwood - 11.21

STARTER GUIDELINES;

All gif chat conversation starters must be tagged ttownstarter.

You must also @ tinseltownstarter, this blog, in your post.

Answer three (3) starters before posting your own, unless it is an introduction starter.

It is mandatory to post at least one starter on each of your characters once every other month.

Open text messages are not considered starters.

All tweets must be tagged ttowntweet. Tweets are also not considered starters.

[ufcw]

Discounts for Scary Movies

If you are a horror movie fan and plan on going to the movies this Halloween, don’t forget your UFCW membership gives you access to discount movies tickets and movie ticket packages.

Read reviews, watch trailers choose your movie and showtimes, order your eTickets.

Save up to 24% off at your choice of three national movie theater chains:

AMC Theaters — Save 22% on AMC® Green eTicket*. Order Online, Print & Redeem.

Regal Cinemas — Save 24% on Premiere Print-At-Home eTickets (Any Movie – Anytime) with No Expiration Date.

Cinemark Theaters — Save 10% on Cinemark’s Platinum e-Supersaver eTicket with No Expiration Date. Order Online, Print and Redeem.

Opting for a night at home?

Stay in with Redbox — Join the Redbox Text Club and get exclusive member-only deals.

>>> REGISTER/LOGIN AND START SAVING

  2017 Scary Movies

Cult of Chucky

Release Date: October 3, 2017

Director: Don Mancini

Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Grace Lynn Kung, Elisabeth Rosen

Want to Know More?: Click here

Better Watch Out

Release Date: October 6, 2017

Director: Chris Peckover

Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Patrick Warburton, Virginia Madsen, Ed Oxenbould

Want to Know More?: Click here

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Release Date: October 6, 2017

Director: S. Craig Zahler

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Marc Blucas, Udo Kier

Want to Know More?: Click here

Dementia 13

Release Date: October 10, 2017

Director: Richard LeMay

Cast: Julia Campanelli, Ana Isabelle, Marianne Noscheze, Channing Pickett, and Christian Ryan

Want to Know More?: Click here

Happy Death Day

Release Date: October 13, 2017 (Friday the 13th, no less)

Director: Christopher Landon

Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews

Want to Know More?: Click here

Creep 2

Release Date: October 20, 2017 (On digital platforms)

Director: Patrick Bice

Cast: Mark Duplass and Desiree Akhavan

What We Know So Far: The follow-up to the unnerving 2014 found footage horror Creep, Creep 2 finds another foolish party lured into Josef’s (Duplass) tricky terrors via online adds. This time, it’s Sara (Akhavan), a video artist who created intimacy with lonely men and can’t resist the opportunity to create a shocking piece of art when she meets a man who claims to be a serial killer.

Want to Know More?: Click here

Tragedy Girls

Release Date: October 20, 2017

Director: Tyler MacIntyre

Cast: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Kevin Durand, Craig Robinson, Josh Hutcherson

Want to Know More?: Click here

Leatherface

Release Date: October 20, 2017

Director: Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo

Cast:  Finn Jones, Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, James Bloor, Nicole Andrews, Vaness Grasse, Sam Coleman

Want to Know More?: Click here

Jigsaw

Release Date: October 27, 2017

Directors: Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Tobin Bell, Mandela Van Peebles, Hannah Anderson, Brittany Allen, Callum Keith Rennie

Want to Know More?: Click here

from Discounts for Scary Movies

[tonsillessscum]