#ed buck

💔- Buck sees Officer Nolan on his run the next morning again. No amount of praying stops the man from stopping him on the dark sidewalk.

“You didn’t call,” The older man says in place of a greeting.

“Didn’t think I needed to,” Buck shrugs, his legs itching to get moving again. “Didn’t need you.”

Buck did though. Buck did need him, this stranger that reminds him so much about Bobby. He needs Bobby. Bobby could fix him, he knows that. It’s just incredibly unfair of him to ask. He shouldn’t ask. He’s selfish enough. 

Officer Nolan nods, although his eyes have a funny look almost like he knows Buck is lying. 

“You planning on staying out long?”

Buck doesn’t answer. He doesn’t think that telling him is a good idea.

Officer Nolan seems to get the hint because he claps him on the shoulder and with a quick “take care kid, call if you need” he’s off, and Buck’s feet are pounding pavement.

tell me how much hurt can a heart take before it breaks

Interesting analysis of Prodigy’s appearance in X-Factor…if anyone wants to give it a read.

*Honestly…I don’t know HOW I feel about that plot point, if I am being honest.

It’s obvious Williams ending was rushed and she was hurried to explain how Prodigy died. Would more care have been made if there had been less pressure to tie up all the loose ends? Probably.

On the “Battle of the Atom” podcast, Williams more or less admits writers and editors were making changes to the last issues (basically more or less saying the same things Kelly Thompson/Sina Grace/Jeff Lemire have said over the years about lack of control writers really have with the X-Men line).

It’s not like real world stories HAVEN’T popped up in X-Men before- Chance’s church in Fallen Angels Vol.1 was very clearly based off of the Unification Church. Magneto is a concentration camp survivor….just to name a couple examples.

Still- using the name “Buck” Thatcher, essentially making it a very clear it is meant to be Ed Buck…felt and feels a little bit questionable, since we don’t know how the family members of the victims would feel about this…

When reading this issue the first time back in 2021, I did find myself thinking about Rosenberg’s representation of Wolfsbane’s death as an allegory for violence against trans people a few years ago…and the question of whether comics SHOULD be the space to talk about honestly a pretty complex and sensitive issue…

But I do also see the other side of it- in a world where there’s a LOT of debate about LGBTQIA+ rights- isn’t it important to talk about the reality that LGBTQIA+ identities often face a higher likelihood of being victims of violence?

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/study-finds-lgbtq-people-much-likelier-to-be-crime-victims)

(https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-lgbt-violence-press-release/)

But I also see fans feeling tired of every LGBTQIA+ story focusing around depression, violence, death, suicide, and repression…

The originally planned but ultimately shelved story of Anole killing himself, IS, I think a good example of this problem. Anole HAS been pretty positive representation and the idea of using Victor’s death as a wake up call for Elixir when looking at it now- IS pretty problematic…

I am personally GLAD editorial cut the Anole story and I prefer the direction D+W took instead with Academy X.

I personally didn’t find the issue as graphic as many were critiquing it for online, when it first came out…but I do feel a tad bit uncomfortable that it is based on a real case, in a situation where again, you don’t know how people close to the victims would feel about it being incorporated in fiction….

Democratic contributor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Thursday after being convicted on charges related to the overdose deaths of two Black men in his home.

Democratic contributor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Thursday after being convicted on charges related to the overdose deaths of two Black men in his home. Ed Buck sentenced Buck, 67, was found guilty last year of giving the men drugs during sexual encounters, leading to them to overdose in his apartment in West Hollywood, California. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence…

In 2017, 26-year-old African-American Gemmel Moore died of an overdose of crystal meth in the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck. The coroner originally classified the death as accidental, but when a number of African-American gay men came forward to state that Buck had paid them to come to his apartment and let him inject them with crystal meth and engage in sexual acts, Los Angeles County opened a homicide investigation. Ultimately, however, the District Attorney declined to charge Buck.

In January of 2019, 55-year-old African-American Timothy Dean died of a meth overdose in Buck's apartment. Buck claimed Dean had "ingested some type of substance" before coming over, and that he had actually tried to save Dean's life. Again, the overdose was ruled accidental and Buck was not charged.

Randy Quaid is crazy. Some say he’s crazy like a fox. Others say he’s just plain nuts. But however you feel about the actor is irrelevant to him. He does what he wants and has the videos to prove it. And as of today, he wants to remove Representative Adam Schiff from office. To do To do so, he’s taking the bull by the horns and intends to run against him in California’s 28th District.

I can’t get the video to embed:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=ss5J3_1569972927

He doesn’t sound crazy.