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Character Profile: Soquel

Age: 10

Species: Fox

Gender: Female

Appearance: Soquel is a russet red fox with sharp green eyes. She wears a pale green t-shirt and dark green skirt, with light green gloves and shoes. She has a brown cross-body bag in which she carries her notebook.

Good traits:

Insightful, curious, friendly

Bad traits:

Clueless, clingy, anxious

Friends: None

Rivals: None (...?)

Notes: Soquel can see the memories of places, and she is used to being unnoticed. She's incredibly cheerful and isn't at all bitter, however. She takes notes on unsolved mysteries, urban myths and legends, and magical creatures in her notebook. She's fascinated with it.

[pigeon-sponge]

i didn't draw enough this year to do a art recap so here's a doodle of every sweater i made this year with a bravely slapped on (*cough* soquel is still in progress)

i got really really into knitting. i don't really know why it got so bad. i think its some combination of two things - getting confirmed ADHD + getting my meds fixed with me wanting to make a sweater since high school and failing every single time and the sheer amount of defeat/spite pent up over the years turning to an insane streak of determination when i realized i had an attention span now, and slop becoming so much of a thing that digital art didn't really seem fun anymore. I'm tired of seeing a pretty picture online and having to scrutinize every bit of it to see if it was generated before i'm allowed to like it. I don't want people to look at my art the same way, even though it's a completely reasonable thing to do. And at the same time, i had a lot of burnout with art because nothing i made ever turned out the way i felt was acceptable. I know I keep saying "i want to do more art next year", but i think i actually have the stamina and drive now that i was able to take a step back and take a break (and that i have 8 sweaters behind me and my hands are very very sore...)

I have a set number of sweaters that I'm making next year and i would like to do some portraits. how many? who knows. but i want to have fun.

yall have a good new years!

[aro-aizawa]

man im super dramatic apparently all i needed was a few episodes for me to adjust lol

man i always get so stressed for literally no reason when shows i've been following for years suddenly has a v different tone

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 29

570 B.C. – Polycrates, the Greek tyrant, was born on this date (d.522). By pirate raids and indiscriminate warfare, the tyrant of Samos dominated the East Aegean. He waged various wars and was, until the end of his life, victorious. His ruthlessness drove the philosopher Pythagorus from Samos, where Polycrates was generally despised. Eventually he was lured to Magnesia by one of his enemies, where he was crucified.

But even meanies can lose their hearts to the right guy, and Polycrates, tyrant though he was, was still a normal Greek. His special friend was Bathyllus, so beautiful that Polycrates dared to erect a statue in his honor in the temple of Hera, goddess of women. Polycrates may have thought it appropriate that beautiful Bathyllus have his place among women, but it was considered an act of arrogance nonetheless. Almost immediately thereafter he was crucified.

1879 – Died: Charley Parkhurst, born Charlotte Parkhurst (b.1812), also known as One-Eyed Charley or Six-Horse Charley, who was an American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California. Born and reared as a girl in New England, mostly in an orphanage, Parkhurst ran away as a youth, taking the name Charley and living as a male. He started work as a stable hand and learned to handle horses, including to drive coaches drawn by multiple horses. He worked in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, traveling to Georgia for associated work.

In his late 30s, Parkhurst sailed to California following the Gold Rush in 1849; there he became a noted stagecoach driver. In 1868 he may have been the first female (though passing as a man) to vote in a presidential election in California. At his death, it was discovered that his gender assigned at birth was female.

After Parkhurst died in 1879, neighbors came to the cabin to lay out the body for burial and discovered that his body appeared to be female to them. Rheumatism and cancer of the tongue were listed as causes of death. In addition, the examining doctor established that Parkhurst had given birth at some time. A trunk in the house contained a baby's dress. "The discovery of her true gender became a local sensation." and was soon carried by national newspapers.

The fire station in Soquel, California, has a plaque reading:

"The first ballot by a woman in an American presidential election was cast on this site November 3, 1868, by Charlotte (Charlie) Parkhurst who masqueraded as a man for much of her life. She was a stagecoach driver in the mother lode country during the gold rush days and shot and killed at least one bandit. In her later years she drove a stagecoach in this area. She died in 1879. Not until then was she found to be a woman. She is buried in Watsonville at the pioneer cemetery."

1944 – Gilbert Adair (d.2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003).

Adair was born in Kilmarnock, but from 1968 to 1980 he lived in Paris. His early works of fiction included Alice Through the Needle's Eye (following Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass) and Peter Pan and the Only Children (following Peter and Wendy). He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote the "Scrutiny" column for The Sunday Times. During 1998 and 1999 he was the chief film critic of The Independent on Sunday, where in 1999 he also wrote a year-long column called "The Guillotine".

In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. The original book contains no instances of the letter e; Adair translated it with the same limitation.

The film Love and Death on Long Island (1997), a tale of homosexual obsession, directed by Richard Kwietniowski, was based on his 1990 novel of the same name. The film The Dreamers (2003) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, with a script by Adair, was based on his book The Holy Innocents, which Adair revised and re-released under the same title as the film. Adair collaborated on the screenplays of several Raúl Ruiz films: The Territory (1981), Klimt (2006) and A Closed Book (2010).

Adair himself was homosexual, though he rarely talked about the matter, not wishing to be labelled. "Obviously there are gay themes in a lot of my novels," he said in an interview, "but I really wouldn't be happy to be thought of as a 'Gay Writer' ... Being gay hasn't defined my life." At the end of his life, he lived in London. Adair died from a brain haemorrhage, 13 months after suffering a stroke which blinded him. He was writing a stage version of Love and Death on Long Island, which is being developed by producers New Gods and Heroes, at the time of his death.

1950 – Jon Polito (d.2016) was an American actor and voice artist. In a film and television career spanning 35 years, he amassed over 220 credits. Notable television roles included Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street and as Phil Bartoli on the first season of Crime Story.

Polito was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for working with the Coen Brothers, most notably in the major supporting role of Italian gangster Johnny Caspar in Miller's Crossing. Polito won an OBIE award in 1980 for his theater performances off Broadway and for his lifetime of work in film and television he received the Maverick Spirit Event Award at Cinequest Film Festival in 2005.

When Homicide began pre-production, Polito was asked to audition, and was initially reluctant – he didn't want move to Baltimore for the series, because he had just relocated from New York to Los Angeles. The script he received featured a dialogue scene between two detectives, one Polish American and the other Irish-American. Polito decided that the part he wanted was that of the Irishman, but he was told that he could not read for it. After reading for the part of the Polish-American detective, Polito added a message on his audition tape, saying that if the producers wanted to call him back, he would only be interested if he could take the part of the Irish detective. Series co-creators Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana did call him back, and they rewrote the character as an Italian, and cast him in the role. The other character, the Polish-American detective, was also rewritten, becoming Det. Meldrick Lewis, played by African-American actor Clark Johnson.

Polito was openly gay. He married fellow actor Darryl Armbruster on October 16, 2015, fifteen years after they first met.

He died from multiple myeloma on September 1, 2016, at the City of Hope Hospital, where he was being treated. Polito was 65 years old.

1960 – James Martin is an American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. In 2017, Pope Francis appointed Father Martin as a consultant to the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications. He is a New York Times Best Selling author and frequent commentator on the life and teachings of Jesus, and on Ignatian—inspired by the life and teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola—spirituality. Father Martin's outreach to the LGBT community in the aftermath of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting drew a strong backlash from conservative Catholics. He is the author of Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity.

Martin first became involved in LGBT issues following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, stating, he was "disappointed that more Catholic leaders did not offer support to the LGBT community" in the aftermath of the shooting, and started a series of lectures on how the Church could better minister to LGBT Catholics, which led to his book, Building a Bridge (2017).

While the book was hailed by several prelates, including Bishop Robert McElroy, Cardinals Kevin Farrell and Joseph Tobin, it received a backlash from conservative Catholics, who successfully lobbied for many of his lectures at Catholic venues to be cancelled. In a critique of the book, Cardinal Robert Sarah described Martin as "one of the most outspoken critics of the church’s message with regard to sexuality". In 2018, Cardinal Raymond Burke stated that Martin has "an 'open' and wrong position on homosexuality".

However, journalist Frank Bruni noted that Father Martin did not "explicitly reject Church teaching" but rather questioned the language in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that describes homosexual acts as "intrinsically disordered". In a column, Martin explained that he has never challenged the Church's teaching on homosexuality and never will. However, some critics have pointed out that nowhere in his book has Martin affirmed the Church's magisterial teaching to be true. Princeton professor Robert George argued that Catholics should accept that Martin believes in the Church's teaching on homosexuality.

In 2017, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia described many of the attacks against Father Martin as "bitterness" that is "unjust and unwarranted," but called for "serious, legitimate criticism" of the book's "perceived ambiguities" and inadequacies. Chaput argued that dealing with the substantive issues frankly "is the only way an honest discussion can be had."

In 2019 Chaput again criticized the "bitter personal attacks" that have been made against Martin, calling them "inexcusable and unChristian." While stating that many of Martin's efforts to accompany and support people with same-sex attraction have been laudable, Chaput also criticized Martin for "a pattern of ambiguity in his teachings," which Chaput said undermined Martin's stated aims and alienated people from the "support they need for authentic human flourishing." Chaput stated: "The suggestion that the wisdom of the Church, rooted in the Word of God and centuries of human experience, is somehow cruel or misguided does grave harm to her mission." Martin replied that same-sex relations and same-sex marriage "are both impermissible (and immoral) under church teaching," and that the reason he doesn't focus on this "is that LGBT Catholics have heard this repeatedly."

Bishop Thomas Paprocki and Bishop Richard Sticka supported Chaput's column. Bishop Paprocki described Father Martin's attitude as "deeply scandalous in the sense of leading people to believe that wrongful behavior is not sinful."

1966 – Jason Gould is an American actor, writer and director. Gould was born in New York City, the son of singer/actress Barbra Streisand and actor Elliott Gould, who divorced July 9, 1971. He spent his formative years around major Hollywood players in Los Angeles, California.

Gould has appeared in Say Anything... (1989) and the Streisand-directed film The Prince of Tides (1991), but has since rarely appeared in front of the camera. In 1997 he made his West End debut in the play The Twilight of the Golds at the Arts Theatre in which he played the part of David, an opera designer. In 1997 he also wrote, produced and directed the short film Inside Out, playing Aaron in the humorous story of the child of two celebrities who is outed by the tabloids. His real life father, Elliott Gould, also played his father in the short film. His real half-brother Sam Gould played the part of his brother. The short was later combined with other features for Boys Life 3 (2000).

Around 1988, at the age of 21, Gould came out to his parents about being a homosexual. Around 1991, tabloids outed Gould as being gay. In an interview with The Advocate published August 17, 1999, Barbra Streisand said

I would never wish for my son to be anything but what he is. He is bright, kind, sensitive, caring, and a very conscientious and good person. He is a very gifted actor and filmmaker. What more could a parent ask for in their child? I have been truly blessed. Most parents feel that their child is particularly special, and I am no different. I have a wonderful son. My only wish for my son, Jason, is that he continues to experience a rich life of love, happiness, joy, and fulfillment, both creatively and personally. Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. I will never forget how it made me shudder to hear Pat Buchanan say that he stood "with George Bush against the immoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women." Who is Pat Buchanan to pronounce anyone's love invalid? How can he deny the profound love felt by one human being for another? ... Unfortunately, however, as long as people like Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan continue in public life, the fight to codify gay marriages will be a tough battle to win.

1971 – Wakefield Poole’s trend-setting Boys in the Sand premieres, prompting Variety to remark, “There are no more closets.” Shot on Fire Island, Poole’s slickly produced film marks a dramatic departure from the low-budget pornography previously available. Boys in the Sand had its theatrical debut on December 29, 1971, at the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City. It was the first gay porn film to include credits, to achieve crossover success, to be reviewed by Variety, and one of the earliest porn films, after 1969’s Blue Movie by Andy Warhol, to gain mainstream credibility, preceding 1972’s Deep Throat by nearly a year. It was promoted with an advertising campaign unprecedented for a pornographic feature, and was an immediate critical and commercial success. The film’s title is a parodic reference to the Mart Crowley play and film The Boys in the Band.

1990 – Richard Dunne, director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis from 1985-1989, died of complications from AIDS at age 46. During his time as director the annual budget increased from $800,000 to $11 million and the staff increased from 17 to 120.

1993 – Dalton Harris is a Jamaican singer. In 2010, he won Digicel Rising Star, and subsequently signed with VP Records. In 2018, he won the fifteenth season of The X Factor in the United Kingdom.

Harris was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, before moving to Kingston to pursue his music career. Harris recalled living a difficult life growing up in Jamaica with a large family with 22 siblings, being poor, and living on his own since the age of 15. He also talked about being physically and mentally abused in his early life. Harris attended Kingston College, where he passed six CSEC subjects. In October 2020, Harris stated that he is pansexual*.

In 2010, Harris became the youngest winner of the Jamaican singing competition Digicel Rising Stars where he won a cash prize of $1.5 million JMD. After his win, he began releasing music in Jamaica. He then traveled across the States for five years to widen his scope. He released many tracks like "I'm Numb", "Watch Over Me" and "That Wonderful Sound" in 2015, "All I Need", "Whisper in the Wind", "Unfaithful Chronicles" and "Dem Kinda Woman" in 2016 and "Perilous Time" in 2017.

In 2018, Harris entered season 15 of The X Factor in the United Kingdom. He auditioned for the series with "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" by Elton John. He received four yeses from the four judges. Competing in the category of "Boys", he was coached by Louis Tomlinson. Owing the success and increasing popularity of the Jamaican act, the British X Factor was broadcast in Jamaica after the local Television Jamaica (TVJ) bought the rights of broadcasting the programme live in Jamaica.

He reached the final of the contest on 1 December 2018 alongside Anthony Russell and Scarlett Lee. In the final, he sang "A Song for You" from Leon Russell, and dueted "Beneath Your Beautiful" with Emeli Sande. His winner's single was "The Power of Love", performed as a duet with James Arthur, who won the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012.

*Pansexuality is sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others. Because pansexual people are open to relationships with people who do not identify as strictly men or women, it is often considered a more inclusive term than bisexual.

2012 – Same-sex marriage takes effect in Maine with a voter approval of 53%-47%. Maryland and Washington State are the other states to win marriage equality by popular vote.

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‘Cursed’ CA mansion was blocked to public. Now you can see it on Discovery show

By Hannah Poukish - May 14, 2025

A historic — and allegedly haunted — California mansion is the spooky setting of a new episode of reality television show “Ghost Adventures.”

The episode, which airs Wednesday night on the Discovery Channel, features the Rispin Mansion in Capitola.

The 104-year-old home at 2000 Wharf Road has been barred from public access since 2011 in an effort to prevent vandalism, according to the city of Capitola.

The “Ghost Adventures” crew, which includes Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley, recently gained access to examine the “cursed home,” a Discovery Channel news release said.

“Sealed shut after a violent paranormal event in 2012, the abandoned home has become a vault of concentrated evil, waiting for an opportunity to explode,” the episode description said.

Here’s what to know about the local landmark where the paranormal investigation took place.

What is Rispin Mansion’s haunted history?

The Rispin Mansion was built by San Francisco millionaire Henry Allen Rispin more than 100 years ago in 1921, the city of Capitola said.

Rispin, a wealthy oil baron, was behind several developments in Capitola during the 1920s, according to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Rispin constructed his Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion beside the western bank of Soquel Creek in Capitola in Santa Cruz County.

The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.

The mansion contains a total of 22 rooms across 10,000 square feet while the grounds and gardens extend to nearly 6 acres.

Rispin lost his fortune after the stock market crashed during the Great Depression, forcing him to sell off Rispin Mansion about a decade after it was established, according to the city. The property served as a convent for a while but was eventually abandoned for several decades.

“Vandals have stripped off or otherwise destroyed interior features,” the city said in its application. “The grounds have not been maintained and are overgrown with poison oak, weeds, berry bushes and other vegetation.”

Capitola property an epicenter for paranormal activity

The city of Capitola bought the Rispin Mansion in the mid-1980s, and the property was was added to the National Register of Historic Place

Capitola attempted to develop the mansion into a commercial hotel but its plan was thwarted in 2009 when a massive fire swept through the home.

In 2011, the city reconstructed the Rispin Mansion’s flooring and roof, and sealed off all entrances and openings to the public to avoid any further vandalism, according to the city’s website.

“There are currently no plans for the renovation of the building,” the city said, but a comprehensive landscaping project around the mansion will be complete this summer.

As the building has deteriorated, ghost stories about the site have surged.

These include tales of the dead who still walk its halls and a “dreaded curse” that befalls on anyone who tries to own the property, according to Santa Cruz Ghost Hunters, a group dedicated to paranormal activity research in the area.

Why did Discovery Channel show feature Central Coast mansion?

The “Ghost Adventures” crew decided to scope out the Rispin Mansion after a previous paranormal investigation at the site turned into a “terrifying event,” according to the release.

In 2012, the Santa Cruz Ghost Hunters team toured the Rispin Mansion with then-Capitola Mayor Michael Termini and local psychic Monnica Selpulveda, according to the group’s website.

While walking through the building, the group encountered warm and cold spots, flickering lights and felt someone touching their hair and tapping their shoulders at times.

One investigator said she was pushed into a staircase by an unknown force, the ghost hunters reported, and a bootprint was seen later on the back of her pant legs.

Since then, the sealed-off Rispin Mansion has become “a pressure cooker of concentrated malevolent energy,” the “Ghost Adventures” release said.

The Discovery Channel ghost hunters look into the building’s supernatural nature in the show’s latest episode.

According to the release, the team’s investigation will depict “terrifying activity that yields some of their most incredible evidence yet,” of paranormal activity.

When to watch ‘Ghost Adventures’ on Discovery Channel

“Ghost Adventures” airs at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, on the Discovery Channel.

You can stream the show the following day on Discovery+ and Max.

Source: The Sacramento Bee

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Beverly Fabric: Shrinking Like 100% Cotton

In mourning for the demise of Joann Fabric, I'm doing paeans to other hobby and craft stores I've loved and lost.

Beverly Fabric was Joann Fabric's sexier, smarter, younger sister. Founded in 1968 by Beverly Sloper, Beverly Fabric spread all over California. Stores had the most exciting fabric section of the chains, with more dressy fabric and more vintage-look fabrics, along with a craft section that got better dollhouse-sized items than of the other chains.

The store I remember was out in the chaos by the Briggsmore Overpass (legendary for confusing non-locals), where it was a big standalone store. I could probably find some items in it blindfold even now, years later.

The chain started rapidly closing stores in the 2010s. This article from Salinas is pretty typical.

While the company's web site appears to be dead since 2019, the lone Soquel location (Aptos, California, just southeast of Santa Cruz) was posting to Instagram just this week. We don't get out that direction much because it's a long drive and we're not beach people, but I kind of want to check it out.

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When Guitar Legends Collide 🎸🔥

What happens when Eddie Van Halen jams the blues in honor of his hero Eric Clapton? On Brian May’s Star Fleet Project, Eddie delivered a fiery blues tribute — but Clapton had a surprising reaction.

In this episode, we celebrate the musical crossroads of three legends — Brian May, Eric Clapton, and Eddie Van Halen — and explore how different approaches to the blues can spark deep conversations in rock history.

🎸 Featuring:

• Brian May’s Star Fleet Project

• Clapton’s 1986 Musician interview

• Eddie’s 1995 Guitar Player interview

• Dave Davies on “You Really Got Me”

• What it really means to play the blues

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Monday

An early start, a smooth quick drive back to SR, a change of clothes and car and a timely drive down to Santa Cruz for college graduation.

Acer, Andrea, James and Eric were all celebrated in the beautiful afternoon light before we had a fantastic dinner with Andrea and her parents at ‘Home’ in Soquel.

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Missing at-risk man, 38, last seen in Santa Cruz: sheriff

(KRON) — An at-risk person has been reported missing by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office (SCCSO). Robert Elliot, 38, was last seen on Monday around 5 a.m. on the 1500 block of Soquel Drive in Santa Cruz, the sheriff’s office said. Elliot may be using a red and black walker, according to SCCSO. “Due to medical reasons, we are concerned for Robert’s well-being,” the sheriff’s office wrote on…

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