for the non-Americans who are very confused right now:
Everyone hates The Chiefs this year because it's quarterback Patrick Mahomes is low-key MAGA and the orange pestilence is in attendance in the game. And the racist ass "chop" their fans do. and that Traves Kelce said it would be "an honor" to host the orange pestilence at the game.
and now they're fucking losing and Taylor is going to DUMP him and join Kendrick in writing an absolutely devastating breakup anthem.
the eagles also refused to visit the white house last time they won the superbowl in 2018. when asked how he felt about trump coming to this game, eagles qb jalen hurts said "he's welcome to do whatever he wants." philly fucking hates trump and they are kicking kc's entire ass right now.
i have no sympathy for henry’s exasperation at shawn starting Psych. you made your adhd recreational liar child an insanely good detective and expected him NOT to start a (fake) psychic detective agency??
While rewatching Psych, I have been thinking about what audiences today versus audiences at the time would have thought about the indirect references to the issue of same-sex marriage, and what it says about voting this November.
(This post contains some spoilers for Psych Seasons 3 and 6.)
A lot happened in California related to same-sex marriage while Psych was airing. In 2004 (two years before the show began), same-sex marriage was briefly legal for one month, though the licenses issued were later voided. It became legal again in June 2008 for a little over four months until Proposition 8 was passed that November, which modified the California Constitution to make the definition of marriage be between a man and a woman. This time, marriage licenses issued in 2008 remained valid.
Psych season 3 started airing in July 2008. So Proposition 8 would have been on people's minds during 3x11 "Lassie Did a Bad, Bad Thing" when Drimmer sets Shawn and Lassiter up to be "former lovers" in their murder-suicide note.
Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in August 2010, though this ruling was not final until 2013, when same-sex marriages were again permitted.
6x3 "This Episode Sucks" aired in 2011. This is when we learn that Lassiter's mom Mona lives with her girlfriend Althea and he keeps a framed photo of them in his apartment. Their right to marry would have very much been in limbo while the appeals worked their way through the courts.
The final season of Psych (Season 8) finished airing in January of 2014, shortly after same-sex couples were again allowed to marry in California.
In 2015, same-sex marriage was finally legalized US-wide, overriding state constitutions on the subject. (If Obergefell v. Hodges were overturned, state constitutions would again take precedence.)
However, the California Constitution still technically defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, thanks to Prop 8. This year (2024), there is a vote on the ballot to finally remove that language from the California Constitution.
So, the issues LGBTQ+ Californians (and the Psych characters) faced while Psych was airing are still very much relevant when you cast your vote this November.
one direction will always be so so so bittersweet to me like they were such a foundation of my teenage years while at the same time those boys were spending most of their days trapped in hotel rooms or waking up at 2 am to record an album and non stop touring and working so much more than anyone let alone a bunch of teenage boys should work and its always been hard to reconcile those two realities especially on a day like today because god when they were good together, they were so good together.
and i just don't think anything like them will ever happen again. 5 boys from basically working class backgrounds thrust into a level of fame the height of which hadn't been seen for decades, all of them becoming the breadwinners of their families before the age of 18. the immense pressure but also the amount of fun they were. the tragedy and joy of it all intertwined. really impossible to put into words
I realize this song is more for a breakup but I heard it on my way home from work and the lyrics hit way different now considering the circumstances and it made me cry all over again:
U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping
Peeta fr went through poverty, 2 hunger games, 2 months of torture, and a catastrophic war while being plagued by thoughts of killing the woman he loves, and having to rebuild his life again
AND he still chose Katniss. meanwhile, real teenage boys will lose a baseball game and go on a villain arc
i wish fictional men written by badass women actually existed
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