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Joshua Jackson about Doctor Odyssey
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brilliant minds is like. what if. doctors were. fundamentally good? and doctor odyssey is like. what if. doctors were. fundamentally bisexual
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DOCTOR ODYSSEY 1.06 "I Always Cry at Weddings"
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DOCTOR ODYSSEY 1.06 | I Always Cry at Weddings
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We make an even better trio. ↳ Doctor Odyssey
I started watching the Doctor Boat show. It's everything I hoped it would be
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fuckingfuckersfucked-deactivate
Well, it’s finally finished. It was a genuinely satisfying project. I present you Ankh Morpork in the guise of Google Maps.
brb, ugly happy screaming.
WOWWIE THIS IS GREAT
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shut up
This man is actually willy Wonka and he needs to be stopped. Someone needs to stop him. This is out of control.
I'm just amazed at the sheer amount of excess detail. Like, I've been watching his videos a lot but THIS ONE OMFG
I think it’s the smiling that makes him seem so otherworldly. I know these videos are highly edited but the fact that we never, ever see him express frustration at tools or material is what makes him magical (and lowkey aggravating).
If you've watched his show on Netflix (school of chocolate), he's always very supportive and never gets visibly frustrated with a contestant. The show is kinda a "reality show" in that a bunch of people are competing to win, but no-one gets eliminated - if someone does badly in one challenge, they're still part of the competition, they just get an "extra credit" type task to get them caught up to the rest of the group.
I think he's just... Like That.
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Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Monday evening blocked a Republican-led attempt to enshrine discrimination against transgender athletes in federal law. The lawmakers rejected the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The bill, part of a more considerable conservative effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, failed to garner enough votes needed to advance.
After senators voted to confirm President Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon, the upper chamber considered moving forward with the anti-trans legislation. The bill was stopped by a cloture vote, which is a procedural motion that requires 60 votes to end debate and move forward. The vote was 51 to 45.
The legislation, introduced in the House of Representatives by Florida GOP Rep. Greg Steube and passed by Republicans earlier this year with the support of two Democrats, sought to rewrite Title IX protections by defining sex in athletics solely based on “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” If enacted, the bill would have effectively barred transgender women and girls from participating in federally funded school and college sports.
The bill also called for federal studies on the impact of transgender inclusion in women’s sports and potential “adverse psychological and developmental effects” on cisgender athletes. There is no evidence that transgender athletes are a danger to cisgender peers. While it did not mandate physical examinations to determine an athlete’s sex, critics warned that its enforcement could lead to intrusive scrutiny of all female athletes.
The bill’s failure comes amid a broader, coordinated effort by Republicans to legislate transgender people out of public life. Just last month, Trump signed an executive order titled “No Men in Women’s Sports." Trump used the signing ceremony as an opportunity to spew inflammatory rhetoric, falsely claiming that men have “invaded” women’s sports and that male athletes are “beating up and injuring” women—a claim that has been debunked time and time again.
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson applauded the Senate’s rejection of the bill, emphasizing the damaging impact of such policies. “Every child should have the opportunity to experience the simple joys of being young and making memories with their friends. But bills like these send the message that transgender kids don’t deserve the same opportunities to thrive as their peers simply because of who they are. And they are impossible to enforce without putting all kids at risk of invasive questions or physical examinations just because someone doesn’t look or dress like everyone else,” Robinson said in a statement to The Advocate.
Trump’s executive order, which threatened to strip federal funding from schools and colleges that failed to comply with his ban on transgender athletes, has already triggered legal challenges. Civil rights advocates and legal experts have pointed out that executive orders cannot override federal civil rights protections, including those under Title IX, and the order is expected to be tied up in court for months.
“We should want all of our kids to have the chance to be on a team, problem solve with others, learn valuable skills, and find places to belong,” Robinson said. “Thank you to the leaders who stood up today, pushed back against those playing politics with young people’s lives, and declared that ours should be a nation where every child feels valued.”
to be clear, 45 Democrats voted to filibuster this bill to death, no Democrats cross the line to vote to let it go forward, Democrats stand as the defenders of trans rights and anyone selling you anything else is lying to you to steal your power and make you feel hopeless.
-via The Advocate, March 3, 2025
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i don’t play about jacob anderson’s brilliance as an actor and performer. the confession scene in iwtv’s first ep ALONE should have gotten jacob an instant spot on every award show’s best actor nom list. he learned his tap dance performance over zoom and they had to send the professional tap dancing stunt doubles home because he was just that good. so many people from nola were shocked at the fact that he’s british and could do such a convincing new orleans accent to the point that they thought he was actually from there. he’s been carrying this show on his back and elevated his performance even more (crazy!!!) for season 2 since emotions were higher for his character, and he cemented himself as a generational talent for new viewers. this is simply the type of talent that not even the most prestigious award show could measure
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Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"
I wonder what he's doing now
He also aggressively corrected himself whenever he accidentally misgendered a trans guy we knew because "there's already more women than men in the world, the more numbers we steal from them, the better." Did that even when the trans guy wasn't around.
I need to point out that he was completely serious btw. This man had no sense of humor if he tried.
He was a cook at the restaurant/bar I was a bartender at, and almost punched a costumer once because he overheard him talking about how women belong in the kitchen. Told me he thought women should stay out of kitchens, that cooking is a man's job and when I asked him what he thinks women should be doing, he went quiet for a moment, then proceeded to explain to me the following
"I trust a bitch to run a kitchen as much as she can run a country, they should do shit like plumbing. Or electricity. Something you can just learn to do and don't need to lead, you know?"
Apparently women are good at "fixing shit". He claimed that he doesn't trust male plumbers or electricians except if they're gay because "something most be wrong with you if you want to go fix other people's houses, that's that maternal instinct"
My last Guy post so i'm just going to drop the rest of opinions i got from him during my time working there (i was the only one who asked for his thoughts and he loved giving them). Plua bonus fun facts
- women should obviously be allowed to vote because "it's not fair they could get out of it like that." He got very mad at the idea, as if it was somehow an issue because women wanted to have it easy and be lazy
- he believed watching porn is the same as getting cucked. When asked for further elaboration, he claimed the best way to jerk off is "like a fidget thing when you're doing something else. Like watching football. It's not a big deal."
- i'm like 100% sure he might've been asexual because he was very vocal about not dating or having sex with women 'anymore'. He "tried it a few times and it was just kinda gross and sweaty, people have to lie about how good it is or something". Also said he wasn't gay because men made him feel nothing anyway.
- i've never met a man this angry in my life, he cooked with passion but his passion was out of pure rage. He smoked like a chimney but never in the kitchen. Let us steal snacks and desserts whenever he got angry at our boss.
- i've never learnt his opinions on any racial issues because the moment someone would bring up race he'd go on a rant about how much he hated that our race is called "white" because "beige is also a color" and "he didn't get a tan just to be still called white".
- he had a rescue cat named Tomcat (or my language's word for a male cat) which was a girl when he got it, but he got her sterilized and that meant she wasnt a girl anymore apparently. Also he claimed a girl cat wouldn't want to watch football with him but 'he' does and that clearly just makes 'him' a eunuch, "or whatever that third thing is. Binarless. Whatever. You know."
- he said he lives off of fast food and takeout and beer because he had enough of cooking at work and that the only reason he has pots and pans at home is to cook for Tomcat. he was convinced processed cat food was the reason housecats got cancer.
- i'm pretty sure all he did in life was watch football, go to work, go to the gym, and learnt Ukrainian online, because our other cook was a ukranian woman who would often speak to her friends on the phone in Ukrainian and he was so sure they were talking shit about him. She told me that they indeed were. By the time i worked there he's been learning it for about ten months and they would sometimes got in screaming matches with eachother in a mix of Ukrainian and our language. They hated eachother but when her abusive ex came to us to talk to her he'd yell at him until he left because apparently the guy owed him forty bucks.
- a coworker once complained about a painful period and he chimed in to say that if he were a woman he'd just get pregnant to not have to deal with that. He was very convinced that pregnant women are treated better by society and that if you give a kid up for adoption you get paid for it. When asked about how he'd deal with all the issues pregnancy can give you, he thought for a long moment and say that he doesnt even like beer that much and could probably give it up for that, cause he's not stupid enough to want a period.
He was a pretty shitty person and very unlikable but honestly I have to respect that type of hatred for the world that he carried. Also fascinating opinions and I am grateful i got to study him in his natural environment.
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gemma is marks dead wife but mark is also gemma’s dead wife. huge
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MONKEY MAN (2024)
Source: gq-magazine.co.uk
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Fleabag season 2 episode 2
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A change, not an end.
Catherine Coulson | Twin Peaks: The Return
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HARRY HAS A BEARD NOW LETS FUCKING GO
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The con will be back on this spring, when Leverage: Redemption Season 3 arrives on Prime Video.
TVLine has learned that Season 3 of the caper drama (which previously streamed on Freevee) will premiere Thursday, April 17, with the first three episodes of 10, followed by weekly drops.
In Season 3, Sophie/The Grifter (Gina Bellman), Eliot/The Hitter (Christian Kane), Parker/The Thief (Parker), Hardison/The Hacker (Aldis Hodge), Breanna/The Maker (Aleyse Shannon) and Harry/The Fixer (Noah Wyle) will contend with “a power broker stealing the clean water under people’s feet and turning it into dirty money, fight a mayor who’s literally the judge and jury of his small town, outrun a mark who’s finally caught up with them mid-con, out-hustle a pool hustler with a side business in extortion, and bring down an industrialist exploiting child labor,” the official synopsis tells us. “All this while dodging an intricate plan of vengeance from a past enemy and working through the fallout of their new personal relationships.”
Though Aldis Hodge is listed above, the busy actor told TVLine that fans once again will only get “a little bit” of Hardison — “you might not get enough, because I was little occupied shooting Season 2 of Cross” this past summer.
Similarly, the equally busy Noah Wyle recently told TVLine that he was unable to write or direct any of Leverage Season 3, as he was readying Max’s The Pitt for production.
Guest stars on tap for Leverage: Redemption Season 3 include, as TVLine previously scooped, Rachael Harris (Lucifer) and Auden Wyle (back as Harry’s daughter), plus Jack Coleman (Heroes), Drew Powell (Gotham), Alex Boniello (Ghosts‘ Crash), Cedric Yarbrough (The Goldbergs), Mary Hollis Inboden (The Righteous Gemstones) and Sam Witwer (Smallville).
John Rogers came on board as showrunner for Season 3, and executive-produced with fellow co-creator Chris Downey plus Dean Devlin, Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson.