On A Witcher Kick, And Farah Dowling Is My Favorite Character Of All Time.

Current favorite ship dynamic: THEY’RE IN LOVE! …they’re stupid… but THEY’RE IN LOVE!

"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this.

Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this: the Imperial need for control is desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.

And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this. Try."

Making Noah blush 🩷

The Jennifer Hudson Show | April 8, 2025

Legends of Tomorrow | Stein & Jax | 1x04 – Crisis on Earth-X Part 3 & 4

Leverage Con Names

This a list of all the cons/scams/grifts that the Leverage team names during the show. Included is everything from a small one-on-one interaction between a grifter and a mark (eg. Little Orphan Annie) to full blown multilevel integrated cons (eg. The White Rabbit). If it had a name, it’s here.

If it has a black star beside it, it has a canon explanation or demonstration (eg. The Moonwalking Bear). If it has a white star, there were hints or comparisons made about it (eg. The Apple Pie is “like the Cherry Pie, but with lifeguards”). If it’s hyperlinked, it’s a real life scam and the link is to Wikipedia. If it’s totally unmarked, then the name was mentioned but never elaborated upon and is a part of the team’s beautiful argot. :)

The Lost Heir ★

S1E3, S2E9 

A Rip Deal ★

S1E5

The Spanish Prisoner Scam ☆

[in reference to Irina’s adoption con]: “It’s just like the Spanish Prisoner Scam.”

S1E6

The London Spank 

The Geneva Paso Doble

The Apple Pie ☆

“It’s like the Cherry Pie, but with lifeguards.”

S1E9

The Cherry Pie 

Glengarry, Glen Death ★

S1E9

The Turnabout ★

S2E1

Ponzi Scheme

The Mona Lisa Variant ★

S2E7

The Wire Game ★

S2E11

The Swedish Rail Con

The Cairo Flyer ☆

Sophie: “No way, I’m not wearing that dress again.”

S3E5

The Double-Blind ★

S3E5

A Fiddle Game ★

S3E6, S3E10

The Pill Scare ★

S3E9

The Berlin Shuffle

Little Orphan Annie ★

S3E9

The Skagway Shuffle ★

S3E10

The Mummy’s Tiara ★

S3E12

The Vegas Wake-Up Call ☆

Like the Cuban Sandwich except “the boyfriend shows up.”

S3E13

The Cuban Sandwich ★

S3E13

An Edward Albee ★

S3E14

The Spanish Turnabout ☆

Sophie: “I’m thinking the Spanish Turnabout.”

Parker: “Hmm, no, he’s not going to leave the country. The [Spanish] Turnabout pays off in an airport.”

S3E16

The Peking Watch

The Moscow Circus ☆

Sophie, to Nate: “I’m running the Moscow Circus con, you’re the ‘Ivan’. Go.”

S4E1

The Romanian Circus ☆

Nate: “What [Sophie]’s doing is she’s running a variant. It’s called a Snipe Hunt. It’s the [Romanian] Circus, but it’s leaner and faster.”

S4E5

The Snipe Hunt ★

S4E5

The Roman Wedding ★

S4E6

The Peruvian Slide

The Boca Backlash

The Oklahoma Little Chucky

The Chilean Custard

The Moonwalking Bear ★

S4E8

The Big Store ★

S4E8

The MassDOT Special ★

S4E9 (also in S3E7, but unnamed)

The Wicked Stepsister

The High Minne Scam Variant ★

S4E15

The Lazy Dachshund

The Pizarro Pressure Point

The Double-Pronged Monkey Con ★

S4E16

A Radio Play ★

S4E17

The Oligschlager Shuffle ★

S5E2

The Arkham Ascent ★

S5E3

The White Van Speakers ★

S5E4

The White Rabbit ★

S5E12

A Swap-and-Whisper Campaign ★

S5E13

The Trojan Horse ★

S5E15

every single time the doctor sees Kate they're like "KATE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!" and then immediately give her one of the all-time worst days of her life

“the tradition and honour of house targaryen dies…with them”

Daemon / Caraxes and Rhaenys / Meleys are, to me at least, the last of the great Targaryen Dragon Riders. Aegon doesn’t have the same bond with Vhagar, Rhaenyra is queen first and dragon rider second, Aegon doesn’t speak Valyrian, and all the other kids die too young to really grow into their heritage. Even Danaerys is never really able to bring that tradition and honour back, as she has to try to figure the dragons out on her own. With Rhaenys dead, Daemon is the last true dragon rider.

RIP to the Queen Who Never Was, unequivocally my favorite HOTD character.

episode 4 of house of the dragon… oh I’m in TEARS

meleys was a dragon with some of the most loyal riders out there. alyssa brought viserys and daemon on her back as newborns. rhaenys refused to leave dangerous spaces without her. and when rhaenys told meleys to attack, meleys complies knowing full well it was a death sentence because she loves and trusts rhaenys that much.

and here’s the thing: you see aegon and sunfyre have somewhat of a sweet moment before battle. there’s a relationship there that honestly could have been nearly as loyal as that of meleys and rhaenys. but aegon is so hypersensitive and relentless that after this he will go on to push sunfyre into things before either of them have healed and things which defy the very magic dragons were born from (kinslaying). that paired with aegon’s lack of high valyrian fluency makes for a complete lack of understanding of why targaryens have dragons and of the bonds which have made their house so worthy for so many years. it just spits in the face of their house, as does the moment immediatelt after where aemond nearly commits his second act of kinslaying in less than a couple months. again, it’s a complete carnal sin and fails to present a united front which feels disgraceful to the targaryen name.

and so part of why it’s so heartbreaking to watch meleys and rhaenys die is because those two just get it and losing them feels like the tradition and honour of house targaryen dies a little bit with them in that moment.

I hope eve best knows we love her to bits and she just delivered such a powerful, magical, and dignified performance 🥹✊🏻

The Denver Post

White supremacist invited to speak at Colorado Mesa University by student club, sparking backlash

Jared Taylor has written for a publication that the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a white nationalist hate group, and has often been

A bit of local news.

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