Moms from vintage TV: (clockwise from top left) Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch), Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family), Marion Ross (Happy Days), June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost in Space), Barbara Billingsley (Leave It to Beaver), Jane Wyatt (Father Knows Best), Esther Rolle (Good Times) / photo for Vanity Fair by David LaChapelle, 1995.
"Artist John Frassanito's concept of three Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV's). Depicted from the left are: The Lockheed-Martin lifting body configuration that uses an integrated linear aerospike main engine; the McDornell Douglas vertical landing configuration; and the Rockwell wing body configuration that uses liquid oxygen and hydrogen bell engines."
DEAKIN: For what it’s worth, for my money, we did all the right things.
MEADOWS: Well. Here’s to Jo Morgan. Let’s hope she understands.
MONROE: They’ve agreed not to pursue the complaint.
LOXTON: Nice one, Sir!
MONROE: If you apologise.
MONROE: All right?
LOXTON: It took a bit of doing, Sir.
MONROE: And now it’s over. Except that it’s not, really, is it, Steve?
LOXTON: Sir?
MONROE: You overreacted.
LOXTON: They picked the wrong day, Sir.
MONROE: We can all keep cool when everything’s going well; the test comes when it isn’t.
Like the episode dealing with the fall-out from Viv’s death, this one focuses on good and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Andrew suggests counselling and Bob says that the choices are drinking with your mates or getting on with the job. June is shown visibly improved after confiding in a friend (Bob) and letting her emotions out, while the final seconds of the episode show Steve drinking alone. No surprise at all that Steve responds with anger and isolation, given that anger’s the only emotion he allows himself and the people who know him best are too good at seeing through his mask.
OMG Quara the moon phases! You'll be proud of me! I looked up the moon phases for June 1995 for the fw au ghost story fic. The full moon was the 12th. Also, the IRL Pinnacles Campground doesn't open until later in June than that, but that's the 2024 schedule, and these things adjust every season, so I figured it was fine 🙂.
TRULY you have the spirit of the orignal story down ssldjfsldfjsl
Also yeah honestly there are plenty of parts where I handwaved some things as being fine. For example (shocking!) in this story the Mink Creek Fire happen in June 1988, but in real life it was July 1988. I know, I know, I should atone for this egregious sin.