#mathison

[gwm247]

Susan Mathison Graham

[superiorstr8men]

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

This is highly pedantic but I really, really, really want to take the word "diaspora" away from people who have been to grad school. Language evolves and words don't have fixed meanings but diaspora once meant the scattering of the Jews specifically. Implicitly the phrase, used thus, indicates extreme duress and even compulsion. It has also been used for Protestants fleeing Europe on pain of torture and death and of Africans who were kidnapped and sold into the transatlantic slave trade. People might also use it to describe the Irish fleeing literal starvation in the 19th century. There is no shortage of these examples but again, the thing you will find they have in common, is extreme, mortal danger coupled with intense, multi-generational grief for being compelled to leave the place of origin. Almost always some external force is compelling migration through violence. The phrase "diaspora" should be reserved for examples of this intensity.

But scholars--I strongly suspect hoping to get a little of the intersectional capital of the more intense (i.e., legitimate) examples--apply the phrase to any instance of a population being somewhere they "shouldn't be," as if that meant anything at all. If there is a population of group A that started in place A but is now in places A, B, and C, you've got yourself a diaspora no matter the cause for their migration.

I'm sure there are Korean and Indian migrants who would have preferred not to move to the United States or Western Europe in pursuit of career or education but it doesn't quite have the same sting that one finds with the transatlantic slave trade, does it?

"But Ivan, moving away from home makes people sad, and diaspora just means scattering, so any migration is a diaspora in a way" yes but the thing is, some of the examples are so intense, so severe, so catastrophic in their consequences for centuries after the fact, that they're kind of in their own category. And I can't shake the suspicion that scholars are trying to get away with some rhetorical sleight of hand to make their particular subject seem more important.

It's a bit like genocide. Is it really genocide or is it ethnic cleansing or something else that's bad but not quite as bad as genocide? If you can get--and such is the perversion of our moral imaginations--if you can get that laurel of a proper genocide, it just seems to unlock some kind of prestige that the so-called lower crimes just can't capture.

Diaspora should not be the same as migration. It should be reserved for examples that unfold over extreme--extreme--duress. Or else, we need to find a new word for the phenomenon that was once described as "diaspora" because fleeing literal starvation, violent and repressive conquest, torture at the hands of the Inquisition, or being kidnapped and sold into slavery are orders of magnitude worse than being sad that you are moving because you want to make more money.

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Crossed out - Masterlist

When Lucas heard a former client of his died in prison he starts to look into what happened.

Involuntarily, he gets the opportunity to witness the state of affairs in the prison first-hand, and finds out things are even worse than he could have imagined.

Main characters

Lucas Varga

Wanting to make a difference in the world and help fight against injustice, Lucas became a defense attorney hoping to help the people who couldn't fight on their own. Continues to fight injustice in prison, but soon learns that fighting and helping others only has an adverse effect.

FC: A younger Esai Morales where he isn't the smug, silver fox he is today yet.

Nero Mathison

Former military and now warden of his own prison. I say 'his own' and mean it; he practically runs it and there is no outside interference. Cold, stoic, and ruthless, he has his own views on justice and doesn't believe criminals deserve mercy.

FC: Nero is still a collection of vibes and I vibe mostly with some fanart of Daud (Dishonored, which I never played... Art by Nashama). FC: this or this without the scar. On another note, when I say he's wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, it is vital to me that he gives King Bradley vibes.

Chapters

AO3 (not up yet)

Prologue - Nighttime

1 - They are here for me 2 - Meet the warden 3 - Those who care 4 - Headcount 5 - Eat your words

Office shenanigans 2.0 6 - Nuanced 7 - Tumbling down 8 - Lights out 9 - Stay down 10 - Shattering

Catching on 11 - Dead of night 12 - Losing battles, winning wars 13 - Under the weather 14 - Throw away the whole inmate

[myghanimationspage]

Feel free to use just give me (Linda) the credit for the animation if you use elsewhere…thanks

PLEASE dont use my animations to make other animations or banners with it. I work hard on my animations  and I dont want people to use them to make other fanarts

[fortunaegloria]

Scans of the first issue of the Brazilian magazine "Fotogramas & Video" from May 1987, with Harrison Ford on the cover. There's an interview with him, where he talks mainly about his work in The Mosquito Coast, in addition to his complete filmography (only movies released in theaters) up until then.

More mags here.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

"Ponyo" another from the great director Hayao Miyazaki. Based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and written for the screen by Melissa Mathison. This one has the voices of Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, Betty White, Lily Tomlin, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Liam Neeson and Matt Damon.

[80smovies]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Rolla Nordic - The Tarot Shows The Path - Regency Press - 1960 (drawings by Paul Mathison)

[gwm247]

Susan Mathison Graham

[bemybaebaebae]

Cameron Mathison

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The BFG (2016, Steven Spielberg)

09/03/2025

[genevieveetguy]

Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien (1989)

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

Christmas Con 2024 in Edison, New Jersey, for three days of fan-focused festivities from Dec. 13-15.

photo preview 2 of 2

Link - people.com

[pedroam-bang]

Homeland (2011)

[melanieexox]

Can someone please fire Cameron Mathison from General Hospital? I just watched an interview of him practically pleading for FakeDrew and Willow to be the next super couple and that we will eventually love them...

Dude, screw off. Go hang out with Candace Cameron Bure and the racist, anti LGBT network she created and invited you to.