#Ellen’s Next Great Designer

[spotty-bee]

[hopeymchope]

[thisishowgalaxiescollide]

You're honestly so close to getting me into nico/jack it isn't even funny anymore 😂

Anyway, if you're willing, give me the final push there and/or your fave fic (if you're reading any). I know I am tempting fate here but... Yolo. 😌 I accept it.

Come, friend, to the dark side. no, seriously, though, they make me ridiculously happy. Like, we don't have to do anything as a fandom because they already do the gay and the loving for us.

I must confess I haven't been reading much lately because work and life have been complicated enough to keep me from doing much more than reblogging a few things here and there. BUT my past self used to read, so I have a few treats for you, <3

1386 fic rec list

Melt the ice, by theaa

Summary:

So, like—was he just not supposed to notice, or—?

So, so, so good!

Caveat Emptor, by Kerfluffle

Summary:

Two months of advance preparation—memorizing detailed building blueprints, stalking specialists on LinkedIn, reading The $12 Million Stuffed Shark—and Nico gets fucked over by his turtleneck. Or, Nico lands himself in hot water after a recon mission goes awry.

Delightful and sweet.

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, by Kerfluffle

Summary:

Unlike some supernatural disasters, theirs starts ordinary—with a harmless bar bet.

Fluffy, horny and funny. Great characterization.

kiss me on the mouth (set me free), by coastalhighway

Summary:

Headlights as bright as Jack’s should be illegal, probably. Nico locks the door behind him - three twists, one two three - and counts his steps to the car. He gets to twenty-seven and opens the door, and Jack smiles at him, sharp as a razor’s edge. He smells like smoke. “You good, baby?” he says, and Nico wonders if he tastes like smoke, too. Smoke and lies and broken mirrors, a nasally voice whispers in his ear, breath hot on his cheek. You broke the mirror, soothsayer, sweet-talker. Liar, liar. Nico sits down in the passenger seat. “Drive.” Jack doesn’t bother asking questions. He drives.

Gorgeous. Jack calling Nico "baby" has me !!!

deep into that darkness, by countthestars

Summary:

Quinn’s whole thing is talking to the dead, but Jack’s gift is dealing with the living.

Amazing. Quinn needs a nap and jack is a brat. I love him a lot.

Double Play, by dilangley

Summary:

This is minor league baseball, long days in little towns no one’s ever heard of playing games no one will remember once the lights go out.

This one blew my mind and broke my heart simultaneously even though I know nothing about baseball.

sense of expectation, by greenteam

Summary:

“No, no, hear me out on this…” Jack’s mind is running a million miles a minute as he tries to compile his thoughts into something even vaguely coherent. “I don’t have to go out and find someone new to be in family photos who I know I’m gonna turn around and dump the next week. And you get a free invite to the Hollywood wedding of the century.” Nico looks pensive as he lounges back on the sheets. “I think Ellen would give me an invite anyway.” Jack facewashes him for that. (or: 5 +1 plus ones)

Adorable.

won’t believe half the things i see inside my head, by rafting

Summary:

Jack can’t perfectly shift into anyone anyway; he has to concentrate and base his shifts on what he’s seen, what he knows of someone else’s face and body. So he’s never a perfect copy, often missing freckles or getting the hair or eye shades slightly off. He can’t shift his own dick into someone else’s if he’s never seen it, which is what most guys want to know. He thinks he’s got Nico’s face down pretty well. He’s spent enough time looking at it by now. or, the USNTDP is a program designed to help mutant hockey players control their powers, and Jack’s a shapeshifter who is starting to suspect Nico can read his mind.

Very interesting concept.

take the wheel, by greenteam

Summary:

Nico rakes a hand through his hair. “I just worry. That’s my job. You drive, I worry.” “I thought your job was to fix,” Jack says instead of doing something stupid like kissing Nico.

Just !!!

The tag is thriving, though, so I've probably only scratched the surface. I need to get go back and start reading again. One day soon.

[titles-for-tangents]

I’m seeing plenty of excellent posts on tumblr addressing how infuriating the Warner Brothers Discover merger is, but my dashboard’s circle of influences has yet to produce for me a more comprehensive sequence of events or list of shows being taken down, so IMMA START

According to Polygon, here is a complete list of the nearly 40 shows HBO Max has taken down:

12 Dates of Christmas

About Last Night

Aquaman: King of Atlantis

Close Enough

Detention Adventure

Dodo

Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Elliott From Earth

Esme & Roy

The Fungies!

Generation Hustle

Generation

Infinity Train

Little Ellen

Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart

Messy Goes to Okido

Mia’s Magic Playground

Mighty Magiswords

My Dinner with Herve

My Mom, Your Dad

Odo

OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes

The Ollie & Moon Show

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness

Select Sesame Street specials

Make It Big, Make It Small

Share

Squish

Summer Camp Island

The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo

The Runaway Bunny (special)

Theodosia

Tig n’ Seek

Uncle Grandpa

Victor and Valentino

Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

HBO Max has also removed about 200 episodes of Sesame Street; I am presuming those certain specials mentioned up above are included. A certain Batgirl movie that would’ve brought back Michael Keaton also got canned.

This is all because Warner Brothers Discovery wants to merge HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single streaming service in order to compete with the likes of Disney and Netflix. Over the course of the next ten+ years they hope to have a base of about 130 million subscribers. It’s also worth noting that, according to The Washington Post, “Warner Bros. Discovery was formed in April, when AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit and Discovery completed their merger, and started with some $55 billion in debt.”

I had yet to see any tumblr posts talking about what Warner Brothers Discovery really plans to do with these programs, and frustratingly it’s unclear at this time how many, if any, of them will make it onto the new streaming platform. (And to be fair, from what I’ve perceived this whole hot mess has been happening on such a rapid timescale it’s been hard to pivot before the rug gets ripped out from underneath us again.) Warner Brothers Discovery through HBO Max would’ve had to keep paying residuals to the creators of these shows, so locking the shows in financial limbo looks a hell of a lot like a massive tax write-off. They’re cutting their losses as much as they can now in order to compete as an even bigger monopoly, but their best bet to pay off their $55 million debt is really to include all the shows onto the platform and let the debt and residuals pay for themselves via the subscription service. And even then, let’s be clear, Sesame Street should be free.

This, I imagine too, is a developing story and we’re bound to hear about some more fuckery in the near future.

[fibrielsolaer]

FibS lays down the facts: April o' Neil

I'm so fuggin' tired of hearing morons drool out their mouths over this so here's all you need to know:

It's perfectly fine that Rise April is black.

April o'Neil has been portrayed as black before Rise.

April o'Neil was not "originally black" in the Mirage comics.

Rise did not make April black for woke points. Rise makes numerous changes to Turtles orthodoxy so that it isn't a boring repeat of the more traditional 2012 cartoon that immediately preceded it.

(EDIT: Many of the comic scans from this blog post, as well as some of its information, are from this blogspot post from 2018. I neglected to mention this earlier, but at least one person is asking. Unfortunately, people who reblog this post from earlier versions will not see this edit.)

The original creators of TMNT are Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. Laird has always considered April o'Neil to be white other than considering possibly making her Asian in early notes; the confusion over April's race is solely due to Eastman.

In her earliest appearances, April o'Neil conveniently stands right next to known definitely-black character Baxter Stockman:

This April is as white as the Mousers and the lab walls and doesn't have curly hair. If anything she looks like Sigourney Weaver (Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish), right down to Ellen Ripley's outfit.

Since Alien came out in 1979 and Ellen Ripley is a massive influence on female lead characters even decades later, this resemblance might be intentional.

But Kevin Eastman, who has a habit of designing female characters based on the woman he is seeing at the time, redesigned April two issues or so later based (rather loosely) on his at-the-time girlfriend April Fisher (she has since passed away.)

April Fisher was, as a matter of fact, mixed-race.

Eastman later clarified that April Fisher was, of course, the source of April o'Neil's given name the entire time. (And I would like to point out that the surname of o'Neil doesn't preclude someone from being black.)

But being named after or inspired by a mixed-race person the creator knows does not mean the character is mixed-race, any more than the numerous My Little Ponies based on real people share those people's races (as opposed to being cartoon horse fairies or whatnot.)

April o'Neil specifically states that she got her hair done. That is to say, she got a perm.

Since black women's hair is already very curly, black women get perms to straighten their hair. April got hers to curl her hair - because she's not black, she's a white lady trying to look like a bootleg Paula Abdul (Syrian).

Or, quite frankly, any other 1980s pop star?

Because, y'see, now's a great time to point something out that Twitter & Tumblr seem to hope you'll forget:

The entire 1980s.

I'm pretty sure nobody who cares whether April o'Neil is black or not knows who Paula Abdul is, except maybe that she was a judge on American Idol. Paula herself might be a year or two late for April's redesign to reference her specifically, but April o'Neil looks like any random white woman from the 1980s. Because the Mirage comics were released in the 1980s. They take place in 1980s New York. And damn near every single white woman in the 1980s got a perm at some time or another.

I doubt these black April fanatics recognize half of them:

.....

Even the men got them!!

And eventually, around the time everybody else was over it, the exact same April o'Neil in the exact same continuity lost the perm:

Remember what Eastman said about April's "different looks"? Even in the same damn comic they can't draw her consistently. April here not only looks nothing like Paula Abdul April, but nothing like Ellen Ripley April either. Hell, she looks like a JoJo character.

And there are some panels were Paula Abdul April is shaded darker than in others, which you could take as April being black if you literally ignore the entire rest of the comic and pretend that's the only time she was ever drawn:

You know, like how people pretend Princess Daisy was "originally black" because she was sliiiightly darker in Mario Tennis than usualy, including ignoring that there are earlier illustrations where she is more pale?

A perm and a tan doesn't make you black. That'd be, y'know, blackface. Not like T&T actually knows what that means either, since they think a white person posting an image with a black person in it counts as it.

Don't you think the fact April looks like four different people in the same fucking comic should convince us that we can't deduce her race from interpreting the illustrations and instead, we should, I dunno, recognize that every single time April has appeared in color with Laird and Eastman's oversight, she's been clearly white?

As opposed to that one comic everybody likes to cite, which is a non-canon guest comic by Mark Bode that changes such details as the city it takes place in and April's job, which was originally published in black and white, whose black April was colored that way by another guest artist (Bill Fitts) and looks like a disco queen stereotype which I could've sworn T&T hated, and which was later corrected to a white April when republished:

We really shouldn't listen to uneducated narcissists who want to have their cake and eat it too, don't know who Cyndi Lauper is, and already had their conclusion ready before they looked at any of the evidence, blatantly misinforming us about the world's most inconsistent comic and pretending 98% of that comic and one of the most important decades in modern human culture just never fucking happened.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

To have this type of curiosity and awareness when very few did. Solar System Quilt, 1876 by Ellen Harding Baker. Smithsonian National Museum of American History Via Sarah Preston.   ::  [As She Is]

* * * *

"As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. […] The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon “endless repetition,” designed to make the fictional plausible […]. The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction. […] The final mode is misplaced faith. […] Once truth [becomes] oracular rather than factual, evidence [is] irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that “understanding is useless, you have to have faith. […]” Accepting untruth of this radical kind requires a blatant abandonment of reason. Klemperer’s descriptions of losing friends in Germany in 1933 over the issue of magical thinking ring eerily true today. One of his former students implored him to “abandon yourself to your feelings, and you must always focus on the Führer’s greatness, rather than on the discomfort you are feeling at present.” — Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

[thanks exhaled-spirals]

[joshcaladia]

How I Met Your Father - A Changed Perspective

(This blog post contains spoilers for How I Met Your Mother and How I Met Your Father)

When I first started watching HIMYF, I was distraught at the disparity in style to the original series. I found the jokes fell flat and lasted too long, the big emotional moments happened too soon in the season, but most of all I felt the magic was gone.

That is, until today. Today I watched Season 2, Episode 16, entitled "The Jersey Connection". This episode completely changed my perspective on the show. I still don't love the choice to use indie pop music instead of the original's indie rock (which i feel a close tether with), but I can look past it, because this episode made me feel a way about this show I haven't before.

Of course, I do still have some gripes with HIMYF, like tearing apart The Captain's relationship with Becky, or just in general the Future Sophie scenes. I don't know why, but they just don't appeal to me. Anyway, even the parts I don't like bear fruits of quality. Through guest stars from the original show's cast, deleted scenes have been confirmed canon, and even something Future Ted never got to, was mentioned. It's a wonderful thing to see the seeds from Ted's story trickle into Sophie's, and it puts Ted's own storytelling in perspective.

But none of that is why I had my change of heart. I had my change of heart because of one of the final scenes of the episode I've just watched.

HIMYM did something unique, in that it carefully balanced comedy and real emotional moments. To have that kind of emotional intelligence, not only for the characters but for the viewer, takes incredible skill. For the first 25 episodes of HIMYF I didn't feel that emotional intelligence, but the 26th?

In the conclusion of the episode, as Valentina waits for a cab, she talks to Charlie about their "date", and how Charlie had a good, fatherly moment with a child who was distraught over his crush bailing on him. In the past, Valentina and Charlie broke up because Charlie doesn't want kids, and this moment makes Valentina ask Charlie, "The whole not-wanting-kids-thing... Are you sure?" and tells him that he was 'great tonight'. He refutes, "In that one moment I was great. When you have kids, it's nothing but moments." He asks her why she's so sure she does want kids.

"The moments. All of the ones you're afraid to mess up and all of the ones in between." In this, well, moment, I was briefly worried the show would pivot to some pro-being-a-parent message, or undermine Charlie's feelings about having kids. "I want to do my best to make those moments right; nothing sounds more important to me."

"That's beautiful." Charlie is almost weeping.

"So beautiful it changed your mind about kids?" Valentina is tearing up as well.

Charlie doesn't respond immediately, and I really feel the fear. If he says yes, the show will do exactly what I know would distance itself from me further than it ever has.

He shakes his head, still holding back tears.

They say their goodbyes and we go to the next scene, where the show once again does not compromise a character's design for a cleaner story. Ellen walks outside to tell Sid that she and Rachel just broke up. Rachel needed more space, and Ellen was a very physically close person. Neither person could change, so they didn't. It reminded me of why I loved the original show so much. While a character's morals and personality would change throughout HIMYM, they would never be compromised for a more digestible story.

Charlie shaking his head reminded me of a very specific moment in HIMYM: the very end of Tick Tick Tick (S7E10).

I don't think HIMYM is a perfect show, but the main story beats I will stand by until the day that I die, and if HIMYF can recapture even a little bit of the magic I felt watching HIMYM, it has a lot of hope for its future.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THEY DID A WONDROUS JOB WITH MY WARDROBE TO MAKE ME LOOK THREATENING."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on promotional shots of American-British actress Sienna Miller as The Baroness in "G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra" (2009), directed by Stephen Sommers for Paramount Pictures. Costume design by Ellen Mirojnik.

"It was what it was, but I compromised my own values to a certain degree and I didn’t feel good about that."

"I’m not very good at fighting. And I’m not very good at guns. And I’m not particularly aggressive. I had to wear sunglasses because every time I shot my gun I would blink. I was completely out of place, like this little midget running round in black leather winning fights, which was just absurd. They did a wondrous job with my wardrobe to make me look threatening."

""G.I. Joe" (was) a great pay cheque. If, financially, I’m okay – which luckily I am – there’s no point in doing stuff that’s not right for me. It’s too much time away from home."

-- SIENNA MILLER on she not having the greatest time partaking in a tentpole/blockbuster/action movie in "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra"

Sources: www.pinterest.at/pin/178173728982817677, Your Next Shoes, China Daily, mostly Pinterest, & https://news.hisstank.com/2011/03/03/sienna-miller-on-gi-joe-rise-of-compromise-10204.

[blairwaldcrf]

the full list of titles pulled from hbomax for anyone who hasn't seen

12 Dates of Christmas (2020)

About Last Night (2022)

Aquaman: King of Atlantis (2021)

Close Enough (2020)

Detention Adventure (2019)

Dodo (2021)

Ellen’s Next Great Designer (2021)

Elliott From Earth (2021)

Esme & Roy (2018)

Genera+ion (2021)

Generation Hustle (2021)

Infinity Train (2019)

Little Ellen (2021)

Make It Big, Make It Small (2016)

Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart (2019)

Messy Goes to Okido (2015)

Mia’s Magic Playground (2020)

Mighty Magiswords (2015)

My Mom, Your Dad

Odo (2021)

OK K.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes (2017)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013)

Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness (2020)

Summer Camp Island (2018)

Squish (2019)

The Fungies! (2020)

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (2020)

The Ollie & Moon Show (2012)

Theodosia (2022)

Tig n’ Seek (2020)

Uncle Grandpa (2013)

Victor and Valentino (2019)

Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs (2020)

[evienotnicks]

[Eva Noblezada, cisfemale, she/her] who’s that? oh it’s [evie melvald]. i hear they’re [23] and are known as [the flight risk] around [anywhere but here] and [the Heiress] at [Melvald’s]. they’re known to be [openminded + relaxed] and [vague + evasive]. some people say they remind them of [barely glancing in the reareview mirror, being fake-deep, spiritual but not religious, no place to call home].

STATISTICS

FULL  NAME: evelyn garcia melvald GENDER/PRONOUNS: cis female; she/her AGE: twenty-three FACECLAIM: eva noblezada BIRTHDAY: oct 29 STAR  SIGN: scorpio HOMETOWN: williamsburg, virginia HEIGHT:  5′3″ OCCUPATION: interim owner of Melvald’s Grocery ORIENTATION: pansexual (def gravitates towards feminine energy fwiw)

HEADCANONS

* Evie’s family is basically Hawkins royalty. Her grandfathers (plural) are Donald and Henry Melvald, owners of Melvald’s general store. Donald and Henry’s domestic partnership wasn’t common knowledge, though– obviously that’d be bad for business. Donald legally married Evie’s grandmother, Hanna Garcia on June 1, 1934. The very next year, Hanna gave birth to Sue Ellen Melvald, Evie’s mother. Though she was raised in a nontraditional environment, you’d never be able to tell. Sue Ellen Melvald is rigid, determined, and tenacious. She was destined for greatness, and greatness manifested in the form of a law degree. At twenty-three, Sue Ellen moved across the country to Williamsburg, Virginia to attend William and Mary. Sue Ellen loves to remind her daughter of this fact: at twenty-three I was one of the first Asian American women to enroll in law school. What are you doing?!

* Evie’s dad is an on-again off-again father type; he was a business student at William and Mary, which is where he met Sue Ellen. They dated off and on for a few months and conceived Evie just before Sue’s graduation. Initially, he promised to marry her and be a present father, but he backed out at the last minute for a job offer in Beijing. He was like that her whole childhood, around for a month or two, and then off in some other corner of the world. Still, Evie idolizes her father. Subconsciously, she spends every moment she can travelling the world in hopes of impressing him, convincing him that she’s worth his time. 

* Though she grew up in Virginia with her mother, Evie feels like a Hawkins native. Since she was five, Evie has spent every summer in Hawkins, working behind the register at Melvald’s and running the show at her grandparents’ house. If she’s honest, Evie always preferred her Hawkins summers to living with her mom– they’re just so different and Evie got tired of fighting all the time. Her grandfathers, though, let her be her own person. They didn’t care that Evie got high or snuck around with girls and guys or stayed out all night. They loved Evie’s free spirit. 

* Evie is the definition of ‘spiritual but not religious.’ She’s resistant to any kind of organized belief system, though she believes that God is in everything. This belief informs everything– Evie’s travelling, spending months at a time immersed into different worlds, her romantic aspirations, seeking divine connection with anyone regardless of gender, race, or creed, and ultimately her life goal, to connect with and honor the divine shared consciousness. Decidedly, Evie doesn’t have a traditional job or career path– as she thinks these are constructed to distract people from being human– she, instead, moves through the world with no plan. Over the past year, she’s found herself working on a dairy farm in Sweden, as a bookseller in Amsterdam, and most recently as a waitress in Spain. 

* Evie’s waitressing in Spain was cut short when she received the call about her grandfather’s tragic death. Henry Melvald had been the businessman of the family, and the rock for his partner, Donald. Evie would’ve come home, anyways, but the will revealed that she was the designated inheritor of Melvald’s Grocery. Plus, she knew hat they would all be lucky if her mom took enough time off work to attend the funeral; so, Evie arrived in Hawkins a few days ago to look after the store and her grandfather. She’s shaken up by Henry’s death, of course, but trying to be strong for Donald and Hanna. The idea of managing Melvald’s for the rest of her life is daunting, and Evie is already looking for a way out. Miles to go before I sleep, and all.  

BIOGRAPHY | CONNECTIONS | PINTEREST | PLAYLIST

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[backtohawkins]

WELCOME BACK TO HAWKINS, EVIE MELVALD (eva noblezada fc)

good luck and have a bitchin’ summer!

[Eva Noblezada, cisfemale, she/her] who’s that? oh it’s [evie melvald]. i hear they’re [23] and are known as [the Flight Risk] around [anywhere but here] and [the Heiress] at [Melvald’s]. they’re known to be [openminded + relaxed] and [vague + evasive]. some people say they remind them of [barely glancing in the reareview mirror, being fake-deep, spiritual but not religious, no place to call home]. [nikki… perhaps u know me by now]

headcanons:

Evie’s family is basically Hawkins royalty. Her grandfathers (plural) are Donald and Henry Melvald, owners of Melvald’s general store. Donald and Henry’s domestic partnership wasn’t common knowledge, though– obviously that’d be bad for business. Donald legally married Evie’s grandmother, Hanna Garcia on June 1, 1934. The very next year, Hanna gave birth to Sue Ellen Melvald, Evie’s mother. Though she was raised in a nontraditional environment, you’d never be able to tell. Sue Ellen Melvald is rigid, determined, and tenacious. She was destined for greatness, and greatness manifested in the form of a law degree. At twenty-three, Sue Ellen moved across the country to Williamsburg, Virginia to attend William and Mary. Sue Ellen loves to remind her daughter of this fact: at twenty-three I was one of the first Asian American women to enroll in law school. What are you doing?!

Evie’s dad is an on-again off-again father type; he was a business student at William and Mary, which is where he met Sue Ellen. They dated off and on for a few months and conceived Evie just before Sue’s graduation. Initially, he promised to marry her and be a present father, but he backed out at the last minute for a job offer in Beijing. He was like that her whole childhood, around for a month or two, and then off in some other corner of the world. Still, Evie idolizes her father. Subconsciously, she spends every moment she can travelling the world in hopes of impressing him, convincing him that she’s worth his time. 

  Though she grew up in Virginia with her mother, Evie feels like a Hawkins native. Since she was five, Evie has spent every summer in Hawkins, working behind the register at Melvald’s and running the show at her grandparents’ house. If she’s honest, Evie always preferred her Hawkins summers to living with her mom– they’re just so different and Evie got tired of fighting all the time. Her grandfathers, though, let her be her own person. They didn’t care that Evie got high or snuck around with girls and guys or stayed out all night. They loved Evie’s free spirit. 

Evie is the definition of ‘spiritual but not religious.’ She’s resistant to any kind of organized belief system, though she believes that God is in everything. This belief informs everything– Evie’s travelling, spending months at a time immersed into different worlds, her romantic aspirations, seeking divine connection with anyone regardless of gender, race, or creed, and ultimately her life goal, to connect with and honor the divine shared consciousness. Decidedly, Evie doesn’t have a traditional job or career path– as she thinks these are constructed to distract people from being human– she, instead, moves through the world with no plan. Over the past year, she’s found herself working on a dairy farm in Sweden, as a bookseller in Amsterdam, and most recently as a waitress in Spain. 

Evie’s waitressing in Spain was cut short when she received the call about her grandfather’s tragic death. Henry Melvald had been the businessman of the family, and the rock for his partner, Donald. Evie would’ve come home, anyways, but the will revealed that she was the designated heir of Melvald’s. Plus, she knew that they would all be lucky if her mom took enough time off work to attend the funeral; so, Evie arrived in Hawkins a few days ago to look after the store and her grandfather. She’s shaken up by Henry’s death, of course, but trying to be strong for Donald and Hanna. The idea of managing Melvald’s for the rest of her life is daunting, and Evie is already looking for a way out. Miles to go before I sleep, and all.  

  pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/vurtkonnegut/evelyn-melvald/

playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1OJF1cUoXXSKnrLRr2nHLj?si=a8791167ddcb4efc&pt=5fb0b65bbabae2cce3e9e1c2eea768e6

[celtfather]

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0:02 - Intro: Something Blue

0:10 - The BorderCollies "Bella the Cat" from To the Hills and Back

3:15 - WELCOME

4:56 - Boxing Robin "Aires de Pontevedra, Dans Loudieg" from The View From Here

8:52 - Maggie’s Wake "Bridget O’Brien” from Maggie’s Wake

12:47 - Moher "The Park Station (jigs, reel)  The Ballygar Hermitage  -  Cleveland Park  -  The Old Station House" from Phoenix

16:03 - Melanie Gruben "Water Charges Song" from Like a Tide Upon the Land

21:01 - FEEDBACK

23:28 - The Irish Rovers "Rambling Paddy" from No End in Sight

26:20 - Louise Bichan "Tune for Claire" from The Lost Summer

29:50 - Mic Clark "DRAGONFLY" from THE RIVER EP

33:57 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira "Through the Ether" from All It Brings

38:11 - THANKS

40:11 - The Fenian Sons "Enniskillen Dragoons" from 617

44:28 - SeeD "The Hall of the Goblin Queen" from FAE

48:41 - Fiddle Folk Family "Eppie Morrie" from Ungeschieden, ungekämmt, ungehört

52:30 - Paddyman "The Irish Rover" from One for the Road

56:04 - CLOSING

57:23 - Clare Cunningham "No place like home” from ON MY WAY (AR MO BHEALACH)

1:00:21 - CREDITS

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John Sturgeon emailed: "Hi Marc: Had a wonderful holiday piping with the City of Mt. Dora Pipes and Drums band. (Facebook) We performed Saturday at two venues and on Sunday at three different pubs. Attached is a photo of myself and my wife from the weekend. Slàinte Mhath"

Anne Roos sent a photo for St Patrick's Day: "Here ya go: Cheers and Happy Birthday,"

Karl Horak replied to the question of how they are celebrating Celtic culture through music: "Corned beef, veggies, Irish cheese, homemade spotted dog, washed down with Guinness, of course."

Scot sent a photo: "Shades of Green on their 6th and final performance of the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. This was at Jerzee’s in Glenside to a packed house. Our absolute favorite time of year. My favorite moment was right after we finished….a gent from Ireland came up to me, thanked me/us for bringing such joy all around and working so hard….and he wanted to give a little back. He then took my hand and sang a Gaelic song to me. It was moving. Nothing like the Irish spirit to lift you up.  Thanks for keeping the spirit alive brother."

Check out this episode!

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Kar’s synthetic companions:

QOSMA (Quantum Organization System Management Assistant): A true AI linked to Kar’s Greybox, similar to how SAM is to the Ryder Family (SAM could be seen as QOSMA’s cousin, part of Alec and Ellen’s research were given in exchange for hers after all). She organizes Kar’s information network and database, as well as quantum Blackbox for Kar’s memories. Some Void Agents opt to get a greybox implant to have a more direct connection to QOSMA, but it is not a necessity. She was still a baby AI during the Reaper invasion and has grown exponentially in the centuries after. QOSMA has her own personality separate from Kar, especially in later years as the AI grows into her own.

Doc : A 2-1B medical droid. More frequently used in her younger years, post Rebellion on Doc is around mostly to help those who need it more (ie friends and family, folks who are with her on a missions, etc). He is usually posted on the Enduring (Mal’s repurposed star destroyer and flag ship) with Mal in later years, though sometimes will be berthed on Kar’s flagship.

Artie: RT-D0 is an astromech droid given to Kar when she was in Republic Intelligence. Hasn’t left her side since. Hasn’t had a memory wipe since the start of the Clone Wars leaving him to be a very eccentric droid whose intelligence borders on the like of fully actualized AI. He is sometimes supportive of her crazy ideas, other times is her voice of reason. Acts like a curmudgeon-y old man by the time she reaches Andromeda and Eridian galaxies, but cares for her family. Still doesn’t mean he won’t sass you, and will if the occasion arises.

Aytchkay: HK-42 is a formerly junked ancient HK assassin unit Kar recovered from an auction. HK was repaired and serves as her occasional personal bodyguard– but more often deployed to guard her later children. It is unknown when he was purchased– just that he came to prominence working on Pandora. Like all HK units, he has a great dislike of “meatbags” and is a very misanthropic droid, barring his mistress. Given the amount of organics that need killing on Pandora, he doesn’t seem to mind his situation. Him and Artie have a shared bond over misanthropy and violence, the two of them seem to be confused and at odds with Bee’s more positive personality.

Beedee: Bee, Beedee, Buddy’s formal designation is BD-Y (not to be confused with BD-1, Cal Kestis’ companion). While both are BD explorer units, BD-Y was solely Kar’s and assisted her in many an adventure through the known universe.(That’s not to say both units have crossed paths at some point.) A gift from Bail Organa during the Clone Wars, Beedee was with Kar during her defection and time in the Milky Way, was with her on the Normandy during the Collector Mission and Reaper war. As such, he’s been modified with reaper code (like the geth on Rannoch), upgraded with a quantum processing unit/blackbox, and on top the things most of Explorer Droids can do, is also now a portable QEC.

Beedee and Artie have been her companions the longest (HK is the oldest being at least 3000 years old…), and as such are practically family to her at this point. Bee is a cheerful. inquisitive droid that is always ready for the next adventure. Bee has always been a playmate of children. He likes spending time with Nazar because of his affinity with the late Legion.

Teecee: Teecee, or TC-22, is a TC series protocol droid that is technically Mal’s valet and assistant. As such he is usually near Mal on his flagship, or residence helping Kar remotely than actually in person. Like many other of his kind, Teecee has a stiff, formal personality programming, which suits his master. He is one of the few protocol droids updated to serve in all six galaxies– although his Psycho-to-Galactic-Basic could use a little improvement.

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Homework #1: Collaborative Crochet for a Purpose

This project is intended to provide a space for you to investigate:

the crochet process / how an artwork might exist well in multiple contexts (”white cube” AND _______) / explore how art functions and meaning communicates in art / explore how fiber might contribute or add to this function in meaningful ways / explore ideas of site specificity, performance and participation

You will be investigating this thorugh the creation of a homework project as a collaborative team of 2-3 artists.

The Rules:

1.) Use crochet* (can also incorporate other materials, and processes as the artwork dictates). 

2.) Design, construct and present an object with a specific purpose or function, for a specific audience. The object can be functional in a variety of ways, not simply the obvious ones. (Look at the artist project examples posted above to help you think through your ideas….)

3.) Consider the multiple contexts of your project. The work is presented at the critique, but likely also exists in another context (for a particular person, place, thing, event….) beyond the critique (assuming that your classmates are not the intended audience of the work). How can you insure this meaningfulness of your project is an included part of what we see and discuss in our critique? This is one of the challenges of this project.

4.) Documentation and presentation matter and contribute to how viewers understand the work in the critical space of a gallery context. Both of these components of the work should be considered as thoughtfully as the art object/s.

Completed projects will be due and critiqued during class on Thursday February 29th.

Images above, from top:

a student last Spring created this crocheted project for a particular individual, knowing it would also be on view for an art audience in our critique conversation. Because the artist's sister ate a banana everyday in her car on the way to work, the artist used this project as an excuse to invent a device that would hold a banana for safe transport in a vehicle. Her fiber banana carrying case was BOTH displayed as an artwork on the wall, but also included a short video showing the work in its original home context.

We benefit from another earlier iteration of this project in our fiber studio everyday: the snack stool. This is a great example of students using the concept of function and the crochet process to completely transform an object for a particular purpose. The yarn bombed stool serves the fiber class community by providing a zone for snacking in the otherwise food free studio! A yarn bombing project is one great option to think about for this collaborative project.

The next 3 images articulate different facets of an artist project called “Congratulations and Celebrations”. This was an interactive project by artist Ellen Lesperance which invited participants to engage with a sweater designed and knit by the artist and also exhibited regularly in the gallery context. The sweater is emblazoned with a battle axe and it is to be worn by any member of the public who wishes to engage in a solo performance which promotes personal agency.

Here is a link to a 2016 exhibition featuring the sweater in LA. Here is a link to the archive of past participants on an instagram page.

The final 2 images are an artwork project called “The Boarders” by French artist Annette Messager in 1972. They show two different views of the project. 

This project involves 72 small taxidermized sparrows, each wrapped in custom made sweaters created by the artist and displayed in tidy organized rows. Her work of mourning is not fast, easy or quickly forgotten. The labor of making each individual sweater is a conscious, slow, deliberate kind of mourning for a creature ordinarily missed or passed by.

The artist talked about this project as important to her development of an artist when she said:

“I found my voice as an artist when I stepped on a dead sparrow on a street in Paris in 1971. I didn’t know why, but I was sure this sparrow was important because it was something very fragile that was near me and my life. Like the people I love, these small birds were always around me, yet they remained strange and mysterious. So I picked up the sparrow, took it home and knit a wool wrap for it. Why? I can’t say. You want to do something and don’t know why – all you know is that you have no choice, that it’s a necessity.”

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Thoughts + Reflections

August 5th, 2009

Hello!

As we embark on another wild and crazy journey across the land of cheese steaks and Ashlee Simpson, I am pleased to say that things have been rather lovely so far, although we are all gradually melting into little puddles of British charm with the weather being rather too hot for our pasty silken skin.

The van has welcomed us back with slightly uncomfortable seats and nearly everyone has taken their usual “spots.”  My own little caustrophobic piece of heaven is next to Neil who regails me with witty tales as well as offering me crisps. But anyway here are some completely incoherent thoughts which have taken an idle stroll through my brain in recent times.

I was lucky enough to experience some hipster barrista wit when I was in Manhattan with a coffee making expert asking me if I wanted a “paper or ceramic cup.” Took me ages to get it. Then I thought he was quite clever. Then I thought he was a idiot. Then I thought it was something straight out of an indie rom com. Then I thought he might be flirting with me. Then he said it to the next person in the queue. Then I realised that I was not one snowflake in a million. Then I cried.

We passed some advertisements on the way out of New York, one advocating shag carpets but frowning on the use of Narcotics. It stated “So No to Drugs. Say Yes to Rugs.”

“100 classic books” on Nintendo DS is the best pre-tour purchase I have ever made. I can read all the greats (bit of Dickens, bit of Poe) on my tiny little computer screen without the need for a mobile library! “Great Mystery Puzzles” however was not. It may be something to do with the fact that its designed for ages 3+ but the first level involved finding items to pack for your holiday in your room…. I am not too sure if that was the mystery solving I had in mind but  I failed the task anyway, not being able to find my binoculars.

Joe Puelo has forbidden some stock phrases from being uttered on this tour, including “In this current climate?” and “with this recession going on.” Fortunately none of us tend to talk about economics that much, so its been avoided thus far…. If he said we weren’t allowed to utter the words “she was well fit” or “douchebag” then we would all be in trouble.

I think someone threw a beer can at my feet during the gig the other day.

The concerts themselves have been going rather smoothly thus far with no major fuck ups, explosions or set backs. Apart from on the first night when I played the wrong note at the beginning of You!Me!Dancing! Luckily everyone noticed.

The transition from British drink measures to American ones has been a rocky one, with Tom having some difficulty adapting, this has lead to him making some rather witty comments on stage. On the first evening at Union Pool they were breast based, and on the second evening at Webster hall they were aimed at glasses wearers. You know your servings are really big right? Come to the UK and weep as you have a tipple of whisky and no money left.

Gareth reminded me last night much I loved the work of Lee and Herring, and in particular This Morning with Richard not Judy. You can watch all the episodes here

In the meanwhile, enjoy this this taster.

Richard Herring and Stewart Lee are both at the wonderful Edinburgh fringe festival this month, with Lee at the strand and Herring at the underbelly.  I have seen Herring a few times, and Lee once, and they are both lollosome and roffoly. If you are going there then see some contempory theatre for me, as well as Neil Gaiman doing some of this,

Ellen x