#John Dufresne

[quotelr]

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Black Friday!

Last Wednesday we presented a few understated wood engravings by the noted upper-Midwestern engraver and fine-press printer Gaylord Schanilec from a portfolio of literary broadsides documenting the 1998 Hungry Midnight reading series at The Hungry Mind bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. For this #Fine Press Friday after Thanksgiving, we present the broadside portfolio documenting the previous year’s Hungry Midnight series featuring the work of Sherman Alexie, John Dufresne, Paul Metcalf, Margaret Atwood, Charles Baxter, and Jonathan Lethem.

Entitled Context is Everything, after a prose piece by Lethem, the portfolio was printed by Schanilec, with his original wood engravings, in an edition of 20 copies (with variously editioned broadsides) at his Stockholm, Wisconsin farmstead studio Midnight Paper Sales in 1997, with each broadside signed by its respective author. 

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[radiantrookie]

The Reds and Blues in Halo 3

Level: Crow's Nest

Characters:

Easy/Normal Difficulty: Tucker and Doc

Heroic Difficulty: Simmons and Grif

Legendary Difficulty: Church and Caboose

[illuminated-in-darkness]

Stealing the Fucking Warship Black Sails Musical Parallels | IX.

I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)

[queerofthedagger]

the most relatable as well as simultaneously the hottest thing silver has ever done is smash dufresne's obnoxious fucking face in with the equivalent of a steel-toed boot because the goddamn bastard yet again did not keep his mouth shut like I've had this exact urge for three fucking seasons everyone say thank you john silver you're a motherfucking STAR

[bttf-dork]

Roy’s Art Summary 2023

This is the first year I’ve made digital art, but it was very fun and I want to keep getting better at it! This is some of the stuff I enjoyed making :)

[asterofthevoid]

@illuminated-in-darkness and I did a thing.

[rocks-in-space]

2x02 // 3x04

[Image ID: 6 Black Sails screencaps with text. The left side shows Flint talking to Dufresne on the deck of the warship. The text reads, "You have to sink her. You cannot just escape, you have to sink that ship. For if a single one of those men lives to tell the tale, no one will ever surrender before that flag again." The right side shows Flint and Silver in the Maroon cell. The text reads, "But I know what the woman who leads this place is facing right now. The weight of her people's welfare on her shoulders. She will not let us leave this place alive. She simply won't permit it. end ID]

Images from https://fancaps.net/

[doratonkslupingaunt]

It's kiss your mate day y'all

[storkmuffin]

The boys when they look at Daddy.

SERIOUSLY SEDATE ME I CAN'T STOP HELP HELP

[christine-cunningham]

Listing my favourite Stephen King characters...

1) Arnie Cunningham (Christine)

2) Larry Underwood (The Stand)

3) Luke Ellis (The Institute)

4) John Coffey (The Green Mile)

5) Dolores Claiborne (Dolores Claiborne)

6) Lloyd Henreid (The Stand)

7) Oy (The Dark Tower)

8) Jake Chambers (The Dark Tower)

9) Dennis Guilder (Christine)

10) Andy Dufresne (Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption)

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

i'm not an amputee so absolutely tell me to stay in my lane if applicable, but it seems to me that there's something really unique about the way that black sails handles silver's disability and the narrative role of his prosthetic. as in, it's one of the only shows i've seen (although i'm sure there are more out there) where 1) a character's mobility is more impaired when using a prosthetic, and 2) where using a prosthetic is explicitly portrayed as an effort to appear more able-bodied to others in a way that's harmful to the amputee character: silver insists on wearing the leg in front of the men to the point of giving himself an infection and limiting his mobility in a fight because he's worried about maintaining his authority. while he doesn't choose to stop wearing it, i think it's telling that he also doesn't try to have a replacement made after he loses it or otherwise seem bothered by being seen using his crutch after he establishes the myth of long john silver by crushing dufresne's skull with his metal leg for mocking him as "half a man," symbolically tying the myth to his disability

[lichfucker]

think about the scene in black sails where silver stomps dufresne to death with his prosthetic leg after dufresne makes some nasty ableist comments.

think about the scene in treasure island where silver agrees to have a civil conversation with captain smollett, smollett asks silver to sit down in the sand, silver says "okay but only if you help me up afterwards," then when the conversation is over silver asks for a hand up and smollett refuses and so does everyone else, and jim and the squire and dr livesey just stand there watching in silence as silver crawls across the sand until he reaches a place where he can hoist himself back up to standing, and even then silver's own crew member who had come with him watches silver stumble across the sand and doesn't bother to help him walk until after silver has fallen over "four or five [times]."

think about how in black sails the tavern goes quiet when dufresne starts to speak, and stays quiet throughout silver's retaliation. think about how that scene is a moment of power-- a turning point toward silver embracing the darkness.

think about how in treasure island the camp goes quiet when silver wriggles pathetically across the sand, and stays quiet throughout silver's retreat. think about how that scene is a moment of indignity and hatred and shame-- a turning point toward silver declaring all-out war against jim and the crew of the hispaniola.

think about "my name is john silver, and I've got a long fucking memory."

think about "laugh, by thunder, laugh! before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side. them that die'll be the lucky ones."

[illuminated-in-darkness]

The Parson's Farewell Black Sails Musical Parallels | I. IV. VII. XXXVIII.

music variation note: this almost always plays as background music that exists within the scene itself. The exception to this being in VII, where it begins as tavern background music while Gates and Dufresne talk, and builds to become much grander, introducing the hurdy gurdy and more electric-sounding instrumentation as we cut back to Gates and Flint preparing for castoff.

I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)

[allthegeopolitics]

Canada's privacy commissioner is teaming up with his U.K. counterpart to investigate a data breach discovered last year at 23andMe. Philippe Dufresne's office says the joint investigation with U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards will aim to determine the scope of the October 2023 breach at the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. They will also look into whether 23andMe had proper safeguards to protect the highly sensitive information it handled and whether the company adequately notified regulators and affected individuals about the breach.

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[frau-kali]

Black Sails Anniversary Week

Day 1 - Favourite Scene: Silver kills Dufresne

"Tomorrow you will join us, or you will all be looking over your shoulders for the rest of your lives. My name is John Silver, and I've got a long fucking memory."