#Jordy Alexander

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Prom: Under The Sea🌊~

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Very random NHL photos, you didn't know you needed to see.

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Oh hi are we talking about brothers hitting it raw? Because yes please. Hughes, tanevs, benns, ratty Matty but I just can't do Brady idk why but I support it. Who am I missing?

the Nylanders, the Josephs, the Robertsons, the Svechnikovs maybe but Andrei really carries it for those two

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What am I doing? Oh… you know… just uhhh… casually getting a crush on Alexander Stewart

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The journey to the fibawc continues in Spain 🇪🇸 - Aug 14 2023

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Blood & Gold (2023) Peter Thorwarth

June 5th 2023

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Los rescatables del 2021, Zubeldía sueña con estos dos cracks para el 2023

Los rescatables del 2021, Zubeldía sueña con estos dos cracks para el 2023

Liga de Quito ya piensa en el armado de la plantilla para el próximo año y por eso Luis Zubeldía quiere a estos dos jugadores de jerarquía. A pesar de que el momento futbolístico que atraviesa Liga Deportiva Universitaria no es el mejor, y con la mente en las elecciones para la presidencia del club por medio, Luis Zubeldía trata de reforzar su plantilla lo mejor posible para pelear el campeonato.…

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View of the Núria Valley (Vall de Núria) in the High Pyrenees, Catalonia.

Photo by Vall de Núria (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter).

This valley is only accessible through a rack railway. This train ride lasts for 40 minutes and goes up an elevation of 1,059 m (= over 3474 ft) in just 12.5 km (= over 41 010 ft).

The valley is a highly symbolic place in Catalan culture and Christian religion, because the Virgin of Núria (Mare de Déu de Núria) was found here.

You can read the legend about Saint Giles, a little bit of history, and the fertility ritual that is still done nowadays under the cut.

The legend says that Saint Giles the Hermit lived in Núria between the years 700 and 703. During his stay, he used to ring a bell to call the shepherds of the valley in order to explain Christianity to them. The shepherds would gather around a cross that Saint Giles had sculpted himself, and he would give them food that he cooked himself in a cauldron. It was during these years that Saint Giles also sculpted the image of the Virgin Mary. As a result of a religious persecution, Saint Giles left, but not before hiding the bell, the cross and the cauldron.

In the year 1072, a man called Amadeus came from Dalmatia or Syria to Núria, because he was following a divine inspiration that told him where to find Mary's relics. Some local shepherd helped him build a little chapel, but he didn't find anything so eventually he left. Years later, in 1079, a bull hit one of the chapel's walls and, when the wall crumbled, the shepherds found the image of Mary, the bell, the cross and the cauldron.

The first hospice for pilgrims that we have written proof of dates from the year 1162, in the same Papal bull where Pope Alexander III declares September 8th as the feast dedicated to the Virgin of Núria, as is still celebrated nowadays. Sadly, the early buildings were destroyed in the 1428 Catalonia earthquake. It was rebuilt and expanded in the 1440s and the 1600s, but in the 1880s it was considered that such an important site needed bigger and more modern architecture instead of the old and small one in a style that was considered old-fashioned. For this reason, in the 1880s they started building the sanctuary building we can visit nowadays, with a facade designed in 1923, and the old church was demolished.

Building the new church, June 1911.

A tradition that has survived until nowadays involves the cauldron and the bell. Couples who can't have children go to the Núria sanctuary, where the woman places her head in the cauldron and rings the bell. This is the way of asking Mary of Núria to give them children. The tradition is that, if it works and they have a girl, they will name her Núria, and if it's a boy, they will name him Gil. Some folklorists such as Joan Amades have written that miraculous fertility was already the point of pilgrimage to the valley in pre-Christian times.

Photos: historical postcards and Apunts de viatges (Jordi Canal-Soler).

The Virgin of Núria is the patron saint of the Catalan Pyrenees and one of the most famous Found Marys in Catalonia. Núria is a very common name in Catalan.

In 1967, the statue of the Virgin of Núria was kidnapped by a group of Catalan Catholic antifascists (who weren't identified until 50 years later!) but this post has been long enough, so we'll talk about this another day.

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Kuras Music List

Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream 

Sarah McLachlan - Full Of Grace

Travessuras Barrocas (feat. Transfônica Orkestra)

Alanis Morissette - Uninvited

Jordi Savall · Anonymous - Stella splendens ·

The Police - King of Pain

Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 23: I. Largo in F-Sharp Minor

Billy Joel · And So It Goes

Cécile Corbel · Little Soldier (From the minute 2:35 in the song, specifically. It’s just like him)

Giacomo Puccini. Madama Butterfly. Boca chiusa

Le grand cahier: VIII. Théâtre - Alexander Litvinovsky

Shankar: Prabhati - based on Raga Gunkali (1988 Remaster) · Yehudi Menuhin · Alla Rakha  

I know I can think of more pieces of music I associate with Kuras. For now, this will do, I guess.

I hope the visual novel comes out soon.

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day 29 dark. this is the part that I loved most of the first season, the scene that for me is worth watching the show (more serene than the second which I found more distressing even if more beautiful, at least the first part) the meeting and confrontation between two similar but different people: Kaz, devoured by revenge for Jordie, who does not hide from himself what he wants, a good child forced to survive after losing everything due to a scam, a boy not only but with a small family who it is created over the years. and then he, Alexander, the most powerful Grisha of all, alone, always and in any case. a man with a noble plan who gradually becomes more corrupt, more ambitious, more full of hatred for those who persecuted him. a man who when he loves does it morbidly and who doesn't know how to let go (unlike Kaz who lets go of Inej in the end despite breaking his heart). two sides of the same coin. similar but different. kaz darker at times, more ruthless. Aleksander more morbid, devoured by the same inner darkness as him. one animated by revenge for his brother, the other by revenge for his people (even if his plan then leads to ambition and war) I would have liked there to have been more time to analyze all this, the points of light and shadow of the two . each corrupt in his own way but both potentially good parties. (I remind everyone that Kaz is also dirty and that Aleksander is the result of some dark sides of his mother)

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Graduation Dinner🍽~

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Join us on Thursday May 16th for another compelling edition of KBC with Atlanta’s most adventurous musicians and performance artists! This month we have a dynamic lineup featuring the following artists: 8:30 - Ipek Eginli 8:45 - Iriamu 9:00 - Kenito 9:15 - Jordi Lara / Matt Vu 9:30 - gh8st_dr4mm3r 9:45 - Washboard XT 10:00 - The Harmonic Continuum 10:15- Mark Warren 10:30- Nortnode (N.S.R.+ Vela Oma) 10:45 - jonathan’s basement 11:00 - B O R A X Doors open at 8pm, music begins promptly at 8:30pm. Admission Free In its various incarnations over the years, Kirkwood Ballers Club has created an environment where generations of avant-garde musical energy and talent have flourished throughout periods of existence and inactivity. During its early years at Lenny’s, a parade of local punk, hip-hop, jazz, and indie rock musicians would sign up to perform including everyone from garage punks and avant-garde musicians Cole Alexander of the Black Lips and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter to Grammy-winning saxophone player Kebbi Williams of Tedeschi Trucks Band. All utilized the format to create music in-the-moment that expanded upon their typical repertoires. “The Kirkwood Ballers Club was always a place of pure freedom,” says Kebbi Williams, who often showed up with large ensembles of musicians who lit up the room with an explosive free-form skroking jazz set. “I learned from Kirkwood Ballers Club at Lenny’s and from the scene at Eyedrum how to be free,” Williams goes on to say. “I saw some of the most original and provocative things at the Kirkwood Ballers Club, and it totally affected my life as an artist.” WHEN: Every Third Thursday of the month from 8-11:30pm WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 - eyedrum.org

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congratulations on your acceptance, jordy, b, & harrison! please make sure you check the next steps here.

gavin leatherwood, homosexual, cis male + he/him → isn’t that dacre reid? i’ve seen them hanging out with the maenads. i hear they’re ??? (looks 21), but they’ve only been in alexandria for 1 year. they seem to be energetic & sociable, but also forgetful & hedonistic.

chris evans, pansexual, cis male + he/him → isn’t that marcus carmichael? i’ve seen them hanging out with the nephilims. i hear they’re 420, but they’ve been in alexandria since it's founding. they seem to be prudent & seraphic, but also arrogant & assertive.

robbie amell, homosexual, cis male + he/him → isn’t that jessie ardor? i’ve seen them hanging out with the sirens. i hear they’re 30, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 2 years. they seem to be confident & passionate, but also vindictive & aggressive.

alexander ludwig, homosexual, cis male + he/him → isn’t that nicholas goode? i’ve seen them hanging out with the witches. i hear they're 25, but they’ve only been in alexandria for their whole life. they seem to be idealistic & curious, but also impulsive & reckless. it’s cool that they’re capable of telekinesis, photokinesis, healing, and resurrection!

thomas doherty,  homosexual, male+ him/he → isn’t that biard shaw? i’ve seen them hanging out with the vampires. i hear they're 1,200, but they’ve only been in alexandria for seven years. they seem to be charming & flirtatious, but also aloft & manipulative.

eli brown, homosexual + homoromantic, trans man + he/they → isn’t that arthur ashe? i’ve seen them hanging out with the humans. i hear they're 20, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 6 months. they seem to be astute + pragmatic, but also unnerved + withdrawn. they are not heightened!

the town council is now OPEN on the locations tab and accepting new members!

a new WANTED CONNECTION has been opened:

did you hear finlay croft (oliver stark), our resident familiar, is looking for their charge? they’re a 25-30 year old witch/siphoner who arrived in the chateau 25-30 years ago. they look like UTP ( their biological mother is ruth connell fc for reference ). the player does require you to contact them prior to filling this out. - the muses was given up as a baby by aoife who gave the child to her sister. she always regretted it but she had to do it for the child's safety. finlay has been sent to find the child to watch over him and make sure that he is safe and possibly end up as their familiar. - @dcrkpictures

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Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies

This episode we’re talking about Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies! We talk about metafiction, superhero origins as cover songs, spaceship detectives, cat biographies, amendments to amendments, alien abductions, and more! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 by William Boyd

Wikipedia

Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon, translated by Howard Curtis

Matthew was wrong about how many books in this series came out in one month, but based on the French Wikipedia article four titles (including this one) were released in 1951.

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Jack Sheppard (Wikipedia)

The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)

Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

Other Media We Mentioned

Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Series by Gyles Brandreth

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)

Blonde (2022 film) (Wikipedia)

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

Smile (2022 film) (Wikipedia)

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma, Testimony, Theory by Leigh Gilmore

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)

A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Joshua Chapman (zine series)

We can’t find a good link for the zines, but it’s been collected as a book

Interview with the Vampire (film) (Wikipedia)

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

The Big Lebowski (Wikipedia)

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Links, Articles, and Things

Episode 143 - Amish Romance

Episode 119 - Regence Romance

Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance

Episode 070 - Erotic Romance

The 7 Best Library Podcasts 

Fictionalized biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Autofiction (Wikipedia)

Isekai (Wikipedia)

Oliver Cromwell (Wikipedia)

Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)

Episode 111 - Happy Birthday Dracula

Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective

Episode 136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled

List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources (Wikipedia)

List of Dewey Decimal classes (Wikipedia)

National Library of Medicine classification (Wikipedia)

Zaphod Beeblebrox (Wikipedia)

“Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?”

False memory: Mandela Effect (Wikipedia)

17 Fictional Biographies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander

Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown

Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac

American Woman by Susan Choi

The Black Rose by Tananarive Due

The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha by Diane Glancy

Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy

Driving the King by Ravi Howard

Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, translated by Peter Sluglett

Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips

Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos, translated by Helen Lane

Empress by Shan Sa

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé

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i’m having the best time of my life

Why do I feel like this? Why can't I win? What's wrong with me? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry [ playlist tag ]

IM FINE 【Royal & the Serpent】   ▇   sound in my head 【Chloe Lilac】   ▇   liar 【sundial】   ▇   Good Day to Be My Dealer 【Kailee Morgue】   ▇   Panic Attacks in Paradise 【Ashnikko】   ▇   Guts 【Aidan Alexander】   ▇   i get high 【JORDY】   ▇   Lion's Den 【Grace VanderWaal】   ▇   god has a sense of humor 【GAYLE】   ▇   i don't wanna die!!! 【petie】

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Booooooks!!! 📚

5, 6, and 11? ☺️💜

hi emily 💜

5. where do you buy books? ok admittedly I do buy kindle books sometimes...for paper books I like to try various indie shops! I love used bookstores as well. When I go to bookstores I often try to keep an open mind instead of going in there for only one book. But my main source of books for reading is Libby! I love the library.

6. what books have you read in the last month? great question! I'm trying to get into audiobooks so I have something to listen to while I knit, so I am working on one rn, but I read

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

the Searcher by Tana French (audiobook, still working on this)

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (working on this)

The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant.

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any? oh I was hoping someone would ask me this! It was my New Year's Resolution to read more non fiction because I just do not read any. I have liked almost all non fiction I've read. I think my favorite non fiction books so far are The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant (sort of like natural history and true crime about a tree, all in one) and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (extremely comprehensive book about incarceration and related systems). But I also really really enjoyed The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan (about the namesake prison and the queer women and trans masc ppl incarcerated in it, gives a lot of gay history & context). My non fiction books are mainly either about incarceration or nature writing dfkjdshkjgjkdh

thank you 😊💜