The Parched Chronicles

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ubiquitousmixie asked: yellow

  • smelling like citrus
  • biting
  • quick wit and intelligence
  • Kate Mulgrew’s voice
  • elegant hands

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Proposition 5 failed…

Proposition 5, a direct-to-ballot initiative that would have added protections for people regardless of “sexual orientation or transgender identity” to the city’s civil rights laws, was defeated in yesterday’s municipal election, 58%-42%. 

The One Anchorage campaign, which fought for the addition of proposition 5 to the ballot, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campaign, and all polls leading up to the election showed it passing by a landslide. But in the last few weeks the Anchorage Baptist Temple and the Vote No on 5 campaign began a smear campaign of comics and television ads that portrayed gay, lesbian, and transgender people as threatening to children and society. 

Arguments that the proposition threatened people’s religious right to oppose homosexuality were and are false. The proposition included an exemption from the law for churches and religious organizations, and yet still churches continued to claim that it would remove people’s right to freely practice their religion. 

Why, even when it has nothing to do with religion, does the population always feel the need to make it religiously focused? We weren’t trying to impinge on your religious rights in any way. We were simply trying to ensure that people were protected from discrimination in their jobs, homes, and lives. 

Dan Sullivan, the mayor of Anchorage who was reelected yesterday, says he sees no hard proof of any discrimination under the law. Well that’s because it’s not discrimination under the law when there is no law protecting against it! Sullivan vetoed a similar protection proposition that passed the Anchorage Assembly a few years ago. 

Here is my major question: Why must there first be rampant discrimination before protection from it can be established?

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ubiquitousmixie asked: Brenda Leigh Johnson

How I feel about this character: I really adore her, and have since day one. I think she’s a wonderfully developed character who might just overuse her southern charm a little. I love that she can be a bitch but that she’s actually brilliant and sweet with a huge chocolate addiction.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Sharon Raydor and Andy Flynn. I really love the idea of her with Sharon and I think they would be perfect for each other. And the only excuse for the looks that Flynn gives her is that he’s hitting that. When he’s not busy with Sharon. I really don’t like Fritz. I feel like he holds her back from accomplishing things she’s capable of and throws a guilt trip on her for being devoted to her job.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: In a non-romantic sense, Brenda and Sharon are still perfect together. They play on each other’s strengths and weaknesses and make a pretty damn good team. My also non-romantic otp for her is her and her team, minus Gabriel, who annoys me most of the time, and plus more Provenza. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: I hate how she dresses. I know she’s supposed to be from Georgia and she’s supposed to be all southern charm and influence, but people from Atlanta don’t dress like that. They shop at Saks and dress like the rich people they are. She’s also been living in LA for a while now, so her clothing habits should have drastically improved. Plus, people from Atlanta don’t have southern accents, but I like Kyra’s impersonation, so I’ll let that one slide. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: She and Sharon need to kiss, pronto. And she really needs to kick Fritz to the curb. He wants to move on, get a promotion, blah blah blah. Let him go do it. I want her to succeed at the LAPD and not Pope, or maybe without Pope. I want her fate to not be tied to his all the time.

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