I love you shows with planned & definitive endings, I love you epilogues that prove the happy ending lasts, I love you finales that feature direct parallels to earlier seasons, I love you cast members that left years ago but came back to say goodbye, I love you well crafted & impactful final lines, I love you fitting send offs for the characters I love

HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

25:06:39

The record for the longest speech in the U.S. Senate by Cory Booker, all live streams had people pouring in with support and blue hearts 💙. He had 150 million clicks into the official live stream alone.

Let him be an example for the standards Democrats should set.

this feels like a sensitivity training for how to not commit micro aggressions against vampires in your workplace

biased journalism is the only type of journalism that exists and I hope for your sanity you can accept that

no such thing as neutrality in the scientific process either

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

And for further context, Strom Thurmond set the previous speech record for filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and defending segregation. He was an old racist conservative (technically a Democrat at the time but he switched to GOP in 1964). So Booker not only erased "some guy's" record, a Black man erased a nasty old racist's record.

between this and AOC and Bernie giving hugely attended talks, I'm feeling hope for our Democratic representatives. and with rising and widespread citizen activism, I'm feeling hope for our country (and for our allies the musk-trump regime has been shitting on)

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

when the characters call each other their “partner” as some sort of formality (detectives, business, agency, etc.) but it also has a double meaning/homoerotic undertones

How can this character be dead, if there are 40k stories on AO3 telling me otherwise?

If there is one work out there about them living their best life, then maybe they never really died at all.

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

Been thinking about these scenes as I stare at them, trying to get the color consistent

And like

These two have been supernatural detectives for more than thirty years, and they've had to deal with the arcane rules of magic, the afterlife and the fae

And it strikes me that Charles would be braced for the worst of that going into actual Hell, no matter what he told the night nurse about being sure he could find his way

And this

feels like it could be so many things, but I'm wondering if it's a test. If he thinks Edwin being in love with him is so wildly unbelievable that this must be some kind of hellish trick.

And when Edwin gives an Edwin answer

bookishly knowledgeable and a little snarky, then Charles laughs, and I think it's with relief.

This is his Edwin.

It's only when Edwin calls him out for not taking the confession seriously

that Charles actually addresses what Edwin said, and then he replies with his whole heart, but he's still very careful, and very aware that they are still in Hell and need to get out without getting caught.

I just think he's barely able to process the information even then. There's so much going on.

Today's warm up: my friends are playing Hollow Knight and it makes me sad, so I made the Ghost a place to play.

came back wrong is such a judgemental term. i think i came back perfectly normal. maybe i came back and all of you were wrong have you considered that

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

Girls be like "it's my comfort episode" but what it really is is their favourite character having a horrific time