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On Fortuna's wheel, I'm running
As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one. The CDC called for my opinions on vaccination which it turned out I was not permitted to state for the record without a minor child in the house. Because the call was recorded for quality assurance, I said just in case that I had children in my life if not my legal residence and I supported their vaccination so as to protect them from otherwise life-threatening communicable diseases and did not express my opinion of the incumbent secretary of health and human services and his purity of essence. I got hung up on before I could tell my family stories from before the polio vaccine and the MMR.
Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.
It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.
It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
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I'm very sorry today did not go as planned!
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You're welcome. I really mean it: I hope it's read.
I'm very sorry today did not go as planned!
*hugs*
Thank you. Much of the week has been like this! Unnecessarily, as far as I'm concerned!
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In these trying times, may I offer some freshly written Narn/Centauri porn.
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Tentacle sex and crying!
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That "Psycho Killer" video is oddly riveting! On a related note, I am happy there is so much early Talking Heads footage available these days. This live performance of "Don't Worry About the Government" is one of my favorites.
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I have so many things I would like to say to them!
That "Psycho Killer" video is oddly riveting!
I don't dislike it! No two breakdowns the same!
On a related note, I am happy there is so much early Talking Heads footage available these days. This live performance of "Don't Worry About the Government" is one of my favorites.
Thank you for linking that! It's wonderful. It's not as bad as The Blank Generation (1976), but it's still the stage where David Byrne looks like himself mostly because of the eyebrows.
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He doesn't have to come back.
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Absolute truth.
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I liked having a liver.
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Thank you. I too would be fine with the better angels of human nature!
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I'm so glad! I really liked the close variations on a theme.
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Oh, I am so sorry. How frustrating! *hugs* As if that's needed with all the everything else.
I shall proceed to do the only thing I can from this side of the internet and offer up some tumblr, which I hope you will be able to see:
Momento Mori art: https://www.tumblr.com/thegingergal/785170488876040192
Page of Tides tarot art: https://www.tumblr.com/rainbowfic/785383499267964928
Someone making some S&S OCs: https://www.tumblr.com/novikjpg/784993369868861440/making-3d-is-definitely-killing-me-but-look-i
tumblr asked the impossible question re. G'kar & Londo, of Would Gay Sex Fix Them: https://www.tumblr.com/basiltheratatouille/785604966899433472?source=share (the notes are a blast, although I doubt you can see them easily, sorry)
Also, I finally finished The Voysey Inheritance up on YT the other day & wondered if tumblr liked Jeremy Irons enough to supply me with gifs & then I could review it in the tags, but I just got bonus NT Jeremy Northam shots, which I am of course not complaining about:
https://www.tumblr.com/notjustamaninahat/132622230158/national-theatre-on-twitter?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/notjustamaninahat/132623261313/jeremy-northam-won-the-olivier-award-for-most?source=share
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*hugs*
Thank you. It was the second medical thing in two days that really made it feel pointless that I am trying to do anything.
tumblr asked the impossible question re. G'kar & Londo, of Would Gay Sex Fix Them
Of all the links, this is the one I cannot read thanks to Tumblr lock-out! Tragic!
(I appreciate all the rest, particularly Jeremy Northam and the Page of Tides.)
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Mainly tumblr felt it would Make Them Worse or they gave up entirely, but the results were suitably divided. I was way too late for the poll but I like that everybody ran about going well, yes, but, no, but they DID, but it wouldn't make it BETTER, does strangling count? XD
I am glad you could see the rest! It's a bit of a lottery - if there's a way to tell which are locked other than logging out, in which case I don't have access to my likes to get the posts easily lined up, there's simply no indication (that I can see).
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I feel like it would depend entirely on the point in the show! Like Season 1–3 hatesex would not have solved anything, but by later Season 4 into 5, it becomes quite plausible to me. My father has shipped them since the mid-'90's.
It's a bit of a lottery - if there's a way to tell which are locked other than logging out, in which case I don't have access to my likes to get the posts easily lined up, there's simply no indication (that I can see).
Understood. The curation remains very thoughtful of you.
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Oh, nobody was saying that it was implausible, the question was whether or not it would fix them. And, well. LOL. XD (Who doesn't ship them in some way or other? They are a thing!)
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I understood the question! I thought the chances improved!
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Yes, sorry! On the post which you can't see (*apologetic wild gestures*), there was much discussion, most of which was that early hatesex probably wouldn't fix things, but once you get past that stage, there's also genocide and things which sex couldn't fix either, plus people who feel that they probably did have the sex anyway and it didn't fix them. There were some yes votes, though! It would be a better thing if you could see it. Or if I could see which posts you couldn't see!
But also, with apologies, I am much less with it than I thought - I'm at the dangerous point where I feel so much better than the previous couple of days that I think I'm fine and I'm not, it's just comparative. I only realised when I nearly replied to one of your previous comments with "It's like the atheist lesbian doctor and the fearsome Dutch nun" and absolutely believed that was perfectly explicable. (I don't think it's explicable even if you've watched Tenko and know who I mean*, which I'm pretty sure you haven't! And then I was: ahh, yes, I am not ok. XD So I went and had dinner & adjusted expectations accordingly.)
*(They are not anything like G'kar and Londo in measurable ways, but under Ship Type, they are the only pairings I have so far that would sit on the same shelf.)
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Bleh. Sympathies. I am glad you had dinner and hope the next few days continue to improve.
I only realised when I nearly replied to one of your previous comments with "It's like the atheist lesbian doctor and the fearsome Dutch nun" and absolutely believed that was perfectly explicable.
There's nothing wrong with that style of comment in a shared frame of reference! I just have not actually seen Tenko!
(They are not anything like G'kar and Londo in measurable ways, but under Ship Type, they are the only pairings I have so far that would sit on the same shelf.)
Although that is a compelling argument for.
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Thank you! <3 My friend took me into town and all being well, I usually have a 3 day recovery cycle, where I am pretty much back to mostly usual by day 3, but partway through day 2, I am all OH LOOK I AM WELL, IT'S FINE! Every single time. I do catch myself sooner these days, so I am learning. XD
There's nothing wrong with that style of comment in a shared frame of reference! I just have not actually seen Tenko!
Which I knew, so the fact that the two things were not incompatible in my mind was a handy warning light.
(Tenko is very good indeed and was what the Wish Me Luck creators made before they made WML, but it is pretty harrowing & at least a dozen major characters die, so not cheerful watching! It just turned out to have Stephanie Cole as Bea, the grumpy Lesbian atheist doctor who got an inconvenient BFF/soulmate in the shape of a fierce Dutch nun and they were so great. There was a lot of other good stuff and people also, of course, but Bea was the best. I watched it off the TV years ago and have never managed to get my own copy, though, sadly.)
Although that is a compelling argument for.
I mean, they're not alike, though. If you put Londo and G'kar in a room for a very long time they would a) be very noisy and b) have sex sooner or later or kill each other depending, but Bea and Sister Ulrica would a) be silently intensely happy to spend time together and b) painfully never have sex in a million years because of their combined Religious Issues.
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#sex would 100% make them worse
#g’kar is king of casual and londo catches feelings easy
.... is accurate, but also, it helps me nail down something I had been turning around in my head re: season five, which is - G'Kar is a bit casual about all his relationships ... except Londo. I was thinking about this in the context of wondering if he has any other really close individual friendships other than Londo. And he sort of does, but he also doesn't - he's clearly close with Delenn, but he doesn't seem bothered that she's not on the station to say goodbye before he goes off for probably years, for example. He makes casual friendships very easily, he is definitely *very* loyal to his friends (c.f. getting caught going after Garibaldi), but he also seems to let go fairly easily too. Which I think at least partly ties into all of his emotional damage - one of my endless essays about this show that I haven't written yet - but ANYWAY. Londo is his one exception to a whole lot of things, so it makes sense that Londo would be his sex exception as well. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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It was a pleasure.
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https://www.tumblr.com/laylainalaska/785632028740796416
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I can see that version! Hooray!
#but #it would fix me #and that's really what's important here
I would like to add to your TED talk that I think the fact that Londo and G'Kar are so deranged about each other can camouflage the fact that they are mostly not like that about other people, which is fine, the universe wouldn't stand up to it, but especially in G'Kar's case, it really skews the data set.
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I think the fact that Londo and G'Kar are so deranged about each other can camouflage the fact that they are mostly not like that about other people, which is fine, the universe wouldn't stand up to it, but especially in G'Kar's case, it really skews the data set.
Skews the data set - yes! They really AREN'T that way about other people, and for Londo at least it's a little less out of character because he does have this tendency towards being very intense in some of his relationships, and getting attached very suddenly and profoundly (see: Adira) but for G'Kar, it really is wildly outside the way he normally relates to people, even those he loves a lot.
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Which remains no reason for him not to have the chance to get railed!
and for Londo at least it's a little less out of character because he does have this tendency towards being very intense in some of his relationships, and getting attached very suddenly and profoundly (see: Adira)
Agreed! But it works from the other end of the spectrum, too: through his relationship with Refa, we get a fairly good idea of the norms of Centauri rivalry. Even at their most openly antagonistic, Londo is still not normal about G'Kar.
(Talking about science fiction by way of other science fiction, I associate them strongly with Le Guin's concept of ontá, the emotion which is love when polarized in one direction and hatred when polarized in the other, but is otherwise all the same state.)
but for G'Kar, it really is wildly outside the way he normally relates to people, even those he loves a lot.
Yes. You really can't imagine him letting Londo go. He'd check up whenever he got back from the galactic tour.
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Yeah, absolutely! That was why I had to share it, except alas it turned out it was tumblr-locked, so I was just taunting instead. But the tags were collectively, like, art. XD
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Thank you. It's just taking an incredible amount of energy and I haven't had any for years.
*hugs*
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*hugs*
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I am just boggled that the CDC is calling people up, but sadly less so that they don't want to listen to most of what people may have to say.
P.
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They are very much appreciated.
*hugs*
I am just boggled that the CDC is calling people up, but sadly less so that they don't want to listen to most of what people may have to say.
I do suspect that a lot of people in this country with useful opinions about vaccination have not physically produced the children apparently required to ratify them.