#Saturday Gravedigger

[coldcaseinvestigator]

Someone Knows

Missing Lee Boxell

Lee was last seen in Sutton High Street outside what was at the time a Tesco store between 2.20 pm on Saturday, September 10, 1988. According to The Detective Podcast his Swatch watch was found dumped nearby, it had stopped at 2.22. Despite massive searches and the family’s tireless campaign, the teenager has never been found. I do think it is important to mention the original time of the last sighting was said to be 1 p.m. which is in fact the time that he left his friend.

Although this is not a full-on detailed blog, I hope that by publishing this story, we may spark some interest and information to help us complete our cold case review.

At the time that he went missing, Lee was 5 feet 7 inches tall of slim build with light brown hair; he was wearing black jeans, a white Flinstones tee shirt and brown suede shoes. 

Lee’s father Peter says that he and his wife are getting old and they just want to be able to say a proper goodbye and grieve for their son before they pass away themselves. I can fully understand this and it must be so difficult for them to live day to day never knowing what happened to a boy who went to the shops and never came home.

The family has kept Lee’s room exactly as it was on the day he went missing, even his pyjamas, folded under his pillow, ready for his return. This is really such a touching thing.

There seem to be many theories surrounding the disappearance of Lee including his attending an unofficial youth club that a sex offender ranbut this information did not come to light until several years after Lee went missing. At this stage of our enquiries, I am not satisfied that this was how the teenager met an end if indeed he is deceased. 

Field was on licence from a prison sentence having been released in June 1988. He was staying at an approved premises hostel in Birmingham but was certainly free to move around during the day time hours. I will be posting a separate blog about this male as he may well have been tied to several other child abductions and murders.

Brian Field was later to be convicted of the abduction and murder of 14-year-old Roy Tuthill in April 1968. Field was eventually arrested and charged with murder on February 21st 2001 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in custody in September 2024 aged 87. Was he involved in the disappearance of Lee Boxell? 

The disturbing part of this possible lead is that for several years Brian Field worked as a gardener and the other lead suspect, William Lambert in the case was a gravedigger/cemetery gardener. Were the two evil paedophiles in touch with one another? 

In an episode of The Detective Podcast, Mark Williams Thomas interviewed a male who talked of travelling with William Lambert to meet another male in Brighton, East Sussex. Was this other male Brian Field? 

Please bear in mind these are, at this stage just possibilities, but points to be considered. We will bring more details as our research progresses. In the meantime, if you have any information that could help Lee Boxell’s parents to discover what happened to their son please contact the police on 101 or contact Crimestoppers at 0800 555 111

If you would like to discuss this or any other case please email us

Coldcaseinvestigations@proton.me

[lamortwrites]

tagged by @nullcanary for the on repeat playlist tag game, ty!! I actually don't really use spotify anymore so I cobbled together my current most listened to playlists into one mega frankenplaylist and used that haha

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist 10 times and tag 10 people.

The First Hunter / Bloodborne OST

Dig Up Her Bones / Misfits

Ocean Avenue / Yellowcard

Hallowed Be Thy Name / Iron Maiden

Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower / Bloodborne OST

Saturday Night / Misfits

Helena / My Chemical Romance

Living Failures / Bloodborne OST

Money For Nothing / Dire Straits

Miss Murder / AFI

tagging @keldabes @nullshocked @gravedigg @secondsundering @mightymizora @todderwodders @hagfishslime @viktorfrankensteins @sheconjures @elfie-baggins and anyone else who sees this and would like to participate! yes, you!

[socialshakespeare]

Reading 8: Saturday, March 30th

The eighth read-through of Hamlet!

(Most of you are double or triple cast, so double check which lines you have to read.) You can look up the lines of the characters here. The names listed below all go with the Folger Edition. 

Please submit your confirmation or any request to understudy here. If you’re in any doubt, please ask.

Times and time zones:

EDT (US): 2:00 PM CDT (US): 1:00 PM MDT (US): 12:00 PM PDT (US): 11:00 AM GMT (UK): 6:00 PM AEDT (AU): 5:00 AM, Sunday March 31

Leader: @cobbled-vibrance

Cast:

Hamlet: @thehamletdiaries Claudius: @theshakespearetrash Polonius, Ambassador: @normallyparenthetical Horatio, Captain: @horatioalone Guildenstern, Marcellus, Gravedigger, Messenger: @cobbled-vibrance Laertes, Prologue/Lucianus, Sailor: @twice-told-tales Ophelia, Voltemand, Doctor, Lord, Francisco: Gabby C Ghost, Player King, First Player, Fortinbras, Cornelius: @bottom-of-the-riverbed Gertrude, Player Queen, Reynaldo, Gentleman: @dancebeforeyouquit Rosencrantz, Barnardo, Other Gravedigger, Osric: @energy-depleted Listener: @brocadeofleaves

Please submit your confirmation here - liking/reblogging this post does not count!

Read the Guidelines. To avoid the differences between editions that make for confusion and missed cues, please use the Folger edition of Hamlet during the read-through.

Be on time, be prepared, and make sure you know which lines to read. Good luck!

[shahananasrin-blog]

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[parziivale]

Art trade with StageofHearts of their oc Saturday, AKA Gravedigger! [They/them Pronouns] Posted using PostyBirb

[devilsbastion]

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

Thomas has recalled that as a boy of 8 or 9 years he began sculpting. Observing his uncle, young James emulated his creation of small items formed of local clay. Thomas enjoyed making animals and particularly trucks, which earned him the additional nickname of "Ford". A few years later, he would more boldly create his first skull sculpture as a joke on his grandfather, who had a great fear of ghosts and the supernatural. Working in his now typical and lifelong manner, he created a skull of unfired clay from the banks of the Yazoo River. The teeth were made of corn kernels, His joke was quite successful, apparently scaring the bejesus out of his grandfather and he was thus encouraged to continue to sculpt.

I continue to be obsessed with the work of James Son Ford Thomas.

[agentravensong]

post-hamlet thoughts

tl;dr my college did hamlet and i was in it and it was cool

first of all, in case i hadn't made this clear already, this was entirely student-produced. i mean, we got some money from the theater department, but people-wise, it was all students.

i've told the rest of the cast this time and time again, but they're so good. insanely dedicated and humbling in their talent.

our hamlet, horatio, ophelia, and laertes were all freshman, and they were all stellar. ophelia and laertes broke my heart every night in the second half with their anger and their sadness. horatio always brings top energy to scenes and had lots of funny moments (espec counting his doubling as the second gravedigger) but also made me feel things (we staged act 4 scene 6 as him alone on stage reading hamlet's letter to the audience and he killed it every time). and our hamlet was just incredible; a pleasure to act against as guildenstern and a pleasure to watch / listen to in their more emotional scenes.

and everyone else was great too! our polonius was always funny but also had genuine moments of connection with his kids; our cladius brought some great depth to the role (his take on the monologue in act 3 scene 3 was great) while still being despicable, especially in his manipulation of laertes; our gertrude brought our director's take on her to life impeccably; and, of course, i had a wonderful and hilarious partner in our rosencrantz :)

not to mention our quartet of players (who also filled out the other miscellaneous roles) who had a ton of great moments. shout-outs in particular to the guy who doubled as the first gravedigger and sang his sung lines as a sea shanty (honestly, i think he could have been a great guildenstern or rosencrantz in another universe).

the crew, of course, was also amazing. there were like 150 cues? my friend (the writer i mentioned in this post) did a fantastic job with the lights. the people behind the staging and makeup did just as well. and the costumes were so fun! everyone looked great; we had a consistent black-white-red-brown color palette that tied it all together. special shout-out to the player king wearing a white shirt with a black cape while cladius wore a zipped-up leather jacket and a white cape.

oh, and me and ros? we got fedoras :) i may share a photo later. maybe.

we did our show in the college black box theater (inside the fine arts building), which i do not currently have the brain cells to try and explain the layout of. it's a kind of weird space, but i think we made the most of it. for the majority of the show i was off stage left, meaning i was hanging out at the top of the stairs which serve as the main entrance and exit to the theater (sitting/standing where i couldn't be seen by the audience obv). you can't really see the stage at all from there but you sure can hear the actors, and by the time of the show that was (mostly) enough for me.

as far as how the actual shows went?

friday was our most engaged audience. their laughter was greatly appreciated in the early scenes ...slightly less so when everyone was dying in the final scene. i mean, i get it, people start dropping like flies and actually foaming at the mouth and spitting out (fake) blood; it's a lot. i applaud hamlet and horatio for staying in character through it. everyone did a great job that night; it was probably better than all our dress rehearsals as a whole.

saturday, at least from my pov, had kind of weird vibes at the start? i don't know how much of it was people getting to bed late the previous night, how much of it was overconfidence, and how much of it was people getting in their own heads, but it was our lowest energy show. the audience wasn't as audibly engaged either, but they did give us a big applause. i felt more good than bad about it by the end, for sure.

especially in retrospect, because, despite us having a smaller crowd at today's matinee, everyone was back on the ball. the ending in particular i think was the best we've ever done it. it was probably my best performance as well.

to be clear, i wouldn't rate any of our three shows below an 8 out of 10, for what that's worth. everyone gave so much to their performances; the funny bits were funny even when the audience didn't seem to think so, and i was always getting caught up in my feelings in the second act. you can't ask for much more than that.

now, here's a compilation of things from the production in no real order:

i already posted about this, but having the blood stains on stage where people die from the beginning of every show? *chef's kiss*

i'll also restate the thing i mentioned in the tags of that post: characters who were murderers had symbolic blood makeup after they killed someone. cladius had a bloody ear from the start of the show, the meaning of which becomes clear once you see the player king get poison poured in his ears; hamlet got blood on their face during intermission that's meant to be polonius's blood; and, arguably most significantly, gertrude had bloody handprints around her neck when she entered at the end of act 4, which, in addition to her hair and arms being dripping wet, is meant to suggest that the story she tells about ophelia's death is, in fact, a cover for something less accidental.

as mentioned above, our director's take on gertrude in general was, from my understanding, pretty different from the standard. to quote from his character spines, "you fundamentally want to prepare your son hamlet to be king; you are playing essentially a game of chess to do so." it was really compelling to see in action. the way she performed act 4 scene 7? chilling.

speaking of those character spines, the first line of horatio's is literally just, "You are in love with Hamlet." and boy howdy did that come through

prime example of that (other than just, all of his and hamlet's interactions, which were wonderful): when horatio finished reading the letter from hamlet, he sniffed it, in a very sweet and very not-platonic way

it was an unintentional running gag throughout the whole process that other cast members would forget between ros and me which character we were playing - to the point that every performance, when hamlet first greeted us, even though i would get to them first, they addressed me first, and it's written that they say my name first, they would call me rosencrantz and our ros guildenstern. ...someone should write a play about that.

i might have posted about this already, but in ros and i's first scene with hamlet, when the two of them start talking about child actors, hamlet made us sit in the thrones, and we would make moves to leave of varying boldness that they, of course, never let us follow through on. this then got basically repeated in act 3 scene 2 except that horatio got to join in on the fun of relentlessly mocking us

(the thing where hamlet handed me their copy of william shakespeare's complete works while they dud the "what is a man" mimi monologue got dropped at some point in the dress rehearsals, unfortunately. they did flip through it with the players though)

during the play within a play, polonius would keep falling asleep and ros and i would keep waking him up

(we also got to do some fun silent banter back in act 2 scene 2 while hamlet and the players were doing their thing)

then the bit after that with the recorders, aka guildenstern's defining moment, was just so fun. hamlet and horatio basically sandwiched ros and me between the two of them, and hamlet and i played off each other very well (at least imo), and though i couldn't see what horatio and ros were doing behind me i know that it got some good laughs. and i could tell every night that the scene landed despite the shakespearean language barrier, so i can't help but be satisfied.

my other best moment was when the king told me to go get polonius's body from the stairs and i got to slump and make a "do i have to?" face before my (final) exit. i managed to actually get some chuckles from that tonight, from the crowd that, again, laughed the least in general, and i can't put into words how euphoric i was to have that be my last moment playing guildenstern.

from the rest of the second half of the show, which i am not in, i will highlight a) the gravedigger eventually realizing after shoveling for minutes on end that he's been shoveling literally nothing (love me a good little fourth wall break) and b) when hamlet and laertes come to physical blows over ophelia, horatio, on his line, steps between them, draws laertes's sword, and takes a stance pointing it at laertes to hold him off, all in basically one glorious motion.

oh, and the ending, of course.

as i alluded to way earlier, we had fake blood and alka-seltzer tablets that the people who died in act 5 scene 2 used to great effect (particularly the people who died via poison)

speaking of that scene, the sword fight was very neat! well-choreographed and well-enacted. real foils btw

and the way hamlet and horatio performed the ending? more than anything, the way hamlet said "give me the cup; let go!" - that shit hurt, in the best way, every night. (and though hamlet died in the king's throne (with the king's crown on), horatio held / clung to them the whole damn time)

for a lighter final note: our polonius doubled as fortinbras and came on at the ending in this huge, heavy, vampire-ass cloak, accompanied by our director as the messenger from england who announces my and ros's death :)

thankfully, we did record our last dress rehearsal, so we do have a version of it that we'll get to watch back in the future. i won't be able to share it with any of y'all (we will apparently be in BIG trouble if we post it anywhere online) but it'll be nice to have for me.

funny thing that happened while i was typing this long-ass post out: i kept using present tense and then realizing i had to change it to past tense. and by "funny" here, i mean, uh... oof.

we never got a perfect run-through where no lines were skipped over, but, i mean, it's fucking hamlet. we did this shit in like a month and a half (with a week lost to spring break); it's more than impressive that the show turned out how it did. it was a group labor of love, and one of the best things i've ever gotten to be a part of.

and i miss it already.

...at least there's movie night on tuesday :)

[ms0milk]

teaching 1A how to drive

| standard shenanigans

a/n: spoiler alert they're absolutely uninsurable

Kirishima

god bless this boy

and god save his passengers

him and the brake pedal?

codependent

“okay, okay kirishima–ah! okay! that’s– oof, alright.”

he’s just so nervous that he wont be able to stop in time if something runs into the road!

so he stops a little extra just to be safe

on the freeway

in the middle of the street

when he thinks the green light will turn “any minute now”

for birds flying literal feet above you

“the sky is their domain Y/n! Why do they swoop so low?!”

“Kiri you absolutely cannot stop here!”

he could barely pull away from the school lot in his first few lessons without sending you into the dashboard

for someone so adept at hitting the breaks, you’d pray think he also drives slowly

you would obviously be very wrong

shamefully so

he's also too nervous to even listen to music at first

what if it played too loudly for him to see the road??

readers who drive u know what i mean

when u turn down the volume to see where tf you’re going better

he only agreed to let you teach him to drive at all so that he could be a well rounded hero!

what-- was he supposed to uber to the scene??

his quirk was hardening not apparition

the best he can manage is a brisk jog towards the crime

he decided quickly that familiarizing himself with public transportation was also a good idea

Bakugou

roughly around the start of second year, Bakugou chilled out a considerable amount

everywhere except behind the wheel of your beat up old car

saved up all his angst just in case someone ever offered to teach him to drive apparently

from start to finish the lessons lean towards the chaotic

“jesus your legs are short– how the fuck does the seat even go up this far?”

crack

well it won’t anymore

when you think he’s not looking, you rub the dashboard and whisper “i’m so sorry baby”

will never admit he likes to look at his reflection in the mirrors

thinks he looks real cool driving you around-- even in such a dumpy car

secretly named her Gravedigger

after the monster truck

he’s actually pretty decent when you’re the only car on the road

“it’s not hard as long as you’ve got half a brain in your head”

downplays how nervous he is when you suggest practicing merging onto the freeway in your fifth lesson

it’s usually irritating how naturally talented he is at everything

but for the past few weeks it proved to be a fucking blessing

however

he’s gonna be the number one hero right??

so he’s not about to lose to some shiny prius “revving” its engine beside you on an otherwise peaceful Saturday evening

“you wanna fucking tango?”

“kats, that’s an electric car how the fuck would they be revving us?”

obviously that old woman was challenging him to a race

she was but

you gaslit girlbossed the situation just enough to convince him not to follow her up a private driveway

Uraraka

oi mami mami!

you don’t know what it is that does it–

maybe it’s a mom-friend quality

maybe it's her mindful conservation of fuel

but when Uraraka sits behind the faded leather steering wheel

she gets like ♾️ time hotter

thats 901838749812931% for those in the back

even the first time you convinced her to take the car for a spin, before she even cared about getting her license

she made u & that beat up thing her little bitches

“okay Y/n, you promise you’ll tell me if I’m going to hit the curb right?”

you stood on the sidewalk and nodded dumbly as she sized up her very first parallel parking spot

but then she did the thing

nnng

the holding-the-back-of-the-passenger-seat and-turning-the-wheel-with-one-hand as-she-backs-up-thing

“Y/n? Am I–”

bonk

and you will cherish that dent in your bumper forever

Todoroki

was literally meant to be a chauffeur

you can’t even feel the car accelerating or coming to a stop and somehow you always get to where you’re going early?

three days in and you’re begging him to teach you how to drive

must’ve got big dick lessons from Uraraka because he palms the wheel like its nothing so he can keep one free hand full of more important things

your hand

namely snacks

accidentally kneed the horn the first time you taught him how to adjust the seat and now he has a weird obsession with it

it gives him a spike of serotonin

a noisy button

big fan

will honk at squirrels crossing the road

beep!

“Shoto no!”

“I have the right of way.”

“You can’t honk at traffic cops!”

likes to make a convenience store run before hitting the road every single time

can’t learn to drive without a yerb duh

quickly memorizes your gas station order

your weekly todoroki field trips are honestly the best

gets off on charging his dad’s credit card to fill up your tank whenever you drive together as repayment for your lessons

Deku

too responsible to get anywhere on time

he’s stopping at every yellow light

stopping at every railroad crossing

obeying the speed limit to the mile

he’s also:

losing your car keys

locking your car keys in the car when you teach him on how to pump gas for the first time

accidentally snapping your car keys in the ignition when the wheel gets stuck after parking

flushing the new keys you just got cut down the rest stop toilet

he also also

crafted a meticulously organized playlist that is a combination of both of your favorite cruise songs as a thank you gift for all of your help getting his license

always offers to DD after a party so you feel safe letting loose

stocked your car with water bottles

always gets out of the car last so he can whisper “thank you” into the steering wheel without you seeing

Denki

what happens when a car gets struck by lightning?

denki owes you 80$ for a new car battery that’s what

prefers so, so

so so

so

so much

to just take the subway

when he found out he needed a license to score an internship at his ideal agency after graduation, he came to you in tears

“Y/n, they don’t understand! Lives will be extinguished!”

“Kami don’t be dramatic, everyone feels that way when they first start driving. I’ll help you, It’s seriously no biggie”

holy fucking gigantic biggie

five minutes behind the wheel of your sweet, hard working baby

and he’s already mixed up the brake and the gas pedals twice

the car’s too fragile to be hitting so many mailboxes

a crossing guard’s nightmare

is not above closing his eyes when he gets extra nervous

driving down a narrow road or in bad weather

“it would be cheaper to just buy a new car and total it whenever i need to get somewhere” he whined at his pile of traffic violations

bonus round!

- ̗̀ Mina

absolutely lost cause

do not carpool

do not insure

❥ Asui

stops the car for every animal she sees

even if it’s like

in a field all the way away from the road

“just in case”

needs to sit on a phonebook to see over the dash

has an orgasmic house mix playlist to sooth her rookie driver jitters

- ̗̀ Sero

made a literal blood oath not to teach him

when he complains about not being able to “just get up and go wherever [he] likes”

Jiro and Momo stare you down before you can offer to help

they flash you their bandaged hands as a reminder

blood oath

❥ Iida

too impatient

will abandon the car in traffic if he thinks he can run somewhere faster

generally not a huge fan of cars

will not let you listen to catchy music while he’s behind the wheel in case:

“the singalong causes an unfortunate accident”

-5/10, very ominous student

50000/10 very fun to race

[themedicalstate]

Covid Death Toll Passes 3 Million

“It just never crossed your mind that there would be so many dead in so little time,” said one man in Mexico City.

Three million lives: That is roughly equivalent to losing the population of Berlin, Chicago or Taipei. The scale is so staggering that it sometimes begins to feel real only in places like graveyards.

The world’s Covid-19 death toll surpassed three million on Saturday, according to a New York Times database. More than 100,000 people have died of Covid-19 in France. The death rate is inching up in Michigan. Morgues in some Indian cities are overflowing with corpses.

And as the United States and other rich nations race to vaccinate their populations, new hot spots have emerged in parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

The global pace of deaths is accelerating, too. After the coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the pandemic claimed a million lives in nine months. It took another four months to kill its second million, and just three months to kill a million more.

“We are running out of space,” Mohammed Shamin, a gravedigger in New Delhi’s largest Muslim cemetery, said on Saturday. “If we don’t get more space, you will soon see dead bodies rotting in the streets.”

The deaths are the most tragic aspect of the pandemic, but they aren’t the only cost.

Many millions more have been sickened by the virus, some with effects that may last for years or even a lifetime. Livelihoods have been ruined. Global work and travel have been disrupted in profound and potentially long-lasting ways.

By Mike Ives, Sameer Yasir and Muktita Suhartono (The New York Times)

[feely-touchy]

On Saturday the poor folk were hung

Because the Lord takes His rest

He won't see what y'all had done

How your pillow hides your smoking gun

How your week goes by

Quick at the wick

Without guilty cries

But I saw you

Perusing pocket change

Heard it jumping under the gallows

Like a chorus line

One leg at a time

Under the cover of darkness

Well, the gravedigger's gonna come and rat you out

Soon as he clocks out of work on Sunday

Then what will you have to say

When it's time to answer for your killing?

[dominustempori]

Coming 'atcha: notes, quotes & anecdotes from Harold Ramis on making "Ghostbusters."

Did I mention I own the book that has the final shooting script from October 1983? No? Granted, a reprint is coming out along with the Ultimate Ghostbusters Collection in a couple weeks...but I thought this would be fun. I think some stuff he talks about in side notes gets a mention in his movie commentary, but a lot of this I'd either forgotten or never knew.

First up, Harold talking about scenes or ideas that just didn't make it in to the movie, either dismissed altogether or filmed then edited out.

[All quotes from "Making Ghostbusters", edited by Don Shay, c. 1985. Spoiler and potential trigger warnings apply]

Harold talking about:

Introducing the Ghostbusters:

"In our first draft, the Ghostbusters were tossed out of a small New England college and THEN go to New York. But we realized that there was something very vital about being in the city, so we began thinking maybe we should start the film there. That's when we came up with the idea of using the New York Public Library for our opening sequence. Prior to that, it had been set in a nice, converted farmhouse where this family has been bothered by incessant knocking that they're unable to trace."

Dana's kitchen haunting:

"In our previous draft, there was another effect besides the self-cooking eggs. Also on the counter was a loaf of bread in a plastic bag. We wanted to have the bag puff out and steam up to the point where it started to peel away. Then, one by one, the pieces of bread were going to heat up, turn brown and fall over as toast. But Ivan thought the eggs really sold the scene, and he didn't want to go to the time and expense of having a loaf of bread toasting itself."

Ecto-1:

"Dan's script was set in the near future and there was much more fantasy in it. In that script, the Ectomobile was able to dematerialize. When we anchored the script more in reality and set the time in the present, that concept had to go. Besides, it's funnier to see them in an old ambulance that barely runs."

[Side note: Dude! The Ecto-1 was gonna be like a TARDIS! WHAT?!]

A deleted scene where Bill and Dan appear as two bums in Central Park:

"The bums were like Shakespearean fools or gravediggers - a couple of guys who are just there to introduce another level of mundane comment. Bill and Dan were put in makeup and wardrobe, and they played the bums as spinoffs of characters they had done on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was very funny, but it was just too obvious that it was them."

The deleted "Fort Detmerring" scene:

"The plot was moving much fast at this point to introduce anything even slightly extraneous. The idea behind the scene was to give Dan a love interest - a woman who's been dead for a hundred years. But the scene was too long and it was in the wrong place in the film. We all loved the notion of Stantz having sex with a ghost, though, and we didn't want to let go of that, so Ivan came up with the idea of treating it as a dream and inserting it into the very end of the montage."

Winston was supposed to be the one who conjured up Stay-Puft:

"We had to talk Danny into it. It goes back to his generosity - he saw it as Winston's big moment. But Ivan and I both felt very strongly that it should be Dan's line (I couldn't help it!) The Stay-Puft marshmallow man was, after all, Dan's creation in reality. So why shouldn't he create it in the film? He resisted for a long time, but finally accepted the notion."

[thenixkat]

Characters on the Black superpower breakdown list

Hunk (vld) Static [Virgil Hawkins] Black Lightning [Jefferson Peirce] Kwame (Captain Planet) Storm [Ororo Monroe] Strag (Magi-Nation) Chur (Magi-Nation) Sistah Spooky (Empowered) Aqualad [Kaldur'ahm] Bronze Tiger [Benjamin Turner] Black Panther [T'Challa] Bumblebee [Karen Beecher-Duncan] Nubia (DC comics) Cyborg [Victor Stone] Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H.) Spawn [Al Simmons] Alex Wilder (Runaways) Blade [Eric Brooks] Brother Voodoo [Jericho Drumm] Falcon [Sam Wilson] Empress [Anita Fite] Green Lantern [John Stewart] Lightning [Jennifer Pierce] Pantha [Rosabelle Mendez] Tunder [Anissa Pierce] Vixen [Mari Jiwe McCabe] Agent 355 (Y: The Last Man) Prowler [Hobbie Brown] Prowler [Aaron Davis] Spiderman [Miles Morales] Rocket [Raquel Ervin] Icon [Augustus Freeman] Cassie (Animorphs) Anansi the Spider (Static Shock) She-Bang [Shenice Vale] Kipo Oak (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts) Zak Saturday (The Secret Saturdays) Catwoman [Patience Phillips] Frozone [Lucius Best] Erik Killmonger [N'Jadaka] Black Manta [David Ray] Holocaust [Leonard Smalls Jr] Tombstone [Lonnie Thompson Lincoln] Killer Croc [Waylon Jones] Deadly Nightshade (Marvel Comics) Ebon [Ivan Evans] Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Monica Rambeau (Marvel Comics) War Machine [James Rhodes] Steel [John Henry Irons] Cloak [Tyrone Johnson] Queen Bee of Bialya (DC Universe) Hot Spot/Joto [Isaiah Crockett] Alan Albright (Ben 10) Mal Duncan (DC Comics) XS [Nora West-Allen] Tempest [Joshua Clay] Star Boy [Thom Kallor] Kid Quantum (DC Comic) Jet (DC Comics) Jakeem Thunder (DC Comics) Slipstream (Static Shock) Boom (Static Shock) Tamara Lawrence (Static Shock) Hyde (Static Shock) Kangor (Static Shock) Brickhouse (Milestone Media) Madelyn Spaulding (Static Shock) Puff (Static Shock) Onyx (Static Shock) Replikon (Static Shock) Osebo (Static Shock) Mmoboro (Static Shock) Onini (Static Shock) Allie Langford/Nails (Static Shock) Miranda/Mirage (Static Shock) Adam Evans/Rubber-Band Man (Static Shock) Garnet (Steven Universe) Ruby (Steven Universe) Sapphire (Steven Universe) Bismuth (Steven Universe) Doc Saturday (The Secret Saturdays) Kilik Rung (Soul Eater) Tsume (Wolf's Rain) Blue (Wolf's Rain) Manny Armstrong (Ben 10) Bow (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) Netossa (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) Numbuh Five (Codename Kids Next Door) Cree Lincoln (Codename Kids Next Door) Paninya (Fullmetal Alchemist) Jerso (Fullmetal Alchemist) Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist) Darui (Naruto) Killer B (Naruto) A/3rd Raikage (Naruto) Karui (Naruto) Omoi (Naruto) Muhammad Avdol (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) Silver Sentry (TMNT) April O'Neil (Rise of the TMNT) Sid Barrett (Soul Eater) Usopp (One Piece) Spyke [Evan Daniels] Talon (Gargoyles) Winston Zeddmore (Ghostbusters) Wolf (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts) Black Racer (DC Comics) Bloodwynd (DC Comics) Coldcast (DC Comics) Gravedigger (DC Comics) Mister Terrific (DC Comics) Blue Marvel [Adam Bernard Brashear] Night Thrasher [Dwayne Taylor] Jo (Kid Cosmic) Philly the Kid (Cannon Busters) S.A.M. (Cannon Busters) Amalia Sheran Sharm (Wakfu) Kaz Kaan (Neo Yokio) Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog) Raven Baxter (That's So Raven) John Henry (Folktales) Darryl (Mercyverse) Asil the Moor (Mercyverse) Hork-Bajir (Animorphs) Ashio (Magi-Nation) Gogor (Magi-Nation Duel) Rayje (Magi-Nation Duel) Strom (Magi-Nation) Sugar Hill (Sugar Hill 1974) Thunder (Soul Eater) Fire (Soul Eater) Miruko (My Hero Academia) Rock Lock (My Hero Academia) Ogun Montogomery (Fire Force) Manifold [Eden Fesi] Yoruichi Shihōin (Bleach) Yasutora Sado/Chad (Bleach) Gantenbainne Mosqueda (Bleach) Zommari Rureaux (Bleach) Shuri (Marvel Comics) Alya Césaire (Miraculous Ladybug) Nora Césaire (Miraculous Ladybug) Max Kanté (Miraculous Ladybug) Razahir “Raze” Khemse (Underworld) Jermaine (Xiaolin Showdown) Piccolo Jr (Dragonball) Koen West (Cleverman) Xavin (Runaways) Goo (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) Tobias Whale (Black Lightning) Zak Monday (The Secret Saturdays) Dion Warren (Raising Dion) Hex (Ben 10) Charmcaster (Ben 10) Annabelle Cane (The Magnus Archives) Oliver Banks (The Magnus Archives) Khalil Payne / Painkiller (Black Lightning) Issa Williams (Black Lightning) Perenna (Black Lightning) Giselle Cutter (Black Lightning) Brandon Marshall/Geo-Force (Black Lightning) T.C. / Baron/Technocrat (Black Lightning) Domino (Deadpool 2) Clayface/Ethan Bennette (The Batman) Ironheart (Marvel Comics) Silhouette (Marvel Comics) Fish Mooney (Gotham) Valerie Gray (Danny Phantom) Hack (DC Comics) Peek-A-Boo (DC Comics) Madam Slay (Marvel Comics) Alex (Totally Spies) Olivia (Pokemon) Abra Stone (Doctor Sleep) Tia Dalma [Calypso] Allura (Voltron) Raphael (RoTTMNT) Donatello (RoTTMNT) Leonardo (RoTTMNT) Michelangelo (RoTTMNT) Bebop (TMNT) Zack Taylor (Power Rangers) T.J. Johnson (Power Rangers) Aisha Cambell (Power Rangers) Jack Landors (Power Rangers) Tanya Sloan (Power Rangers) Scott Truman (Power Rangers) Noah Carver (Power Rangers) Joel Rawlings (Power Rangers) Will Aston (Power Rangers) Katie Walker (Power Rangers) Ethan James (Power Rangers) Max Cooper (Power Rangers) Cestro (Power Rangers) Damon Henderson (Power Rangers) Zane (Power Rangers) A-Squad Green Ranger (power Rangers) Kevin (Power Rangers) Shelby Watkins (Power Rangers) Zayto (Power Rangers) Hayley Foster (Power Rangers) Aisha (Winx Club) Flora (Winx Club) Catwoman [Selina Kyle] Rodger (Dino Squad) Koki (Wild Kratts) Darla Dudley (DC Comics)

209 characters thus far. If ya fave superpowered negro ain’t here, leave a name, pic, and list of their powers

[socialshakespeare]

Reading 4: Saturday, March 16th

The fourth read-through of Hamlet!

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Hamlet: @saintrots Claudius: @shadowsong26x Polonius, Ambassador: @irvinebee Horatio, Captain: @infinitelytheheartexpands Guildenstern, Marcellus, Gravedigger, Messenger: @musingsandobsessions Laertes, Prologue/Lucianus, Sailor: @feministkateminola Ophelia, Voltemand, Doctor, Lord, Francisco: @tigerkat24 Ghost, Player King, First Player, Fortinbras, Cornelius: @ultraquirkyelephant Gertrude, Player Queen, Reynaldo, Gentleman: @purplemuskrat Rosencrantz, Barnardo, Other Gravedigger, Osric: Glennon B Listener: @city-of-all-tunas

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Be on time, be prepared, and make sure you know which lines to read. Good luck!

[hummussexual]

Excerpt:

The unfolding crisis is most visceral in India’s overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums, and in heartbreaking images of gasping patients dying on their way to hospitals due to lack of oxygen.

Burial grounds in the capital New Delhi are running out of space. Bright, glowing funeral pyres light up the night sky in other badly hit cities.

In the central city of Bhopal, some crematoriums have increased their capacity from dozens of pyres to more than 50. Yet officials say there are still hours-long waits.

At the city’s Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat crematorium, workers said they cremated more than 110 people on Saturday, even as government figures in the entire city of 1.8 million put the total number of virus deaths at just 10.

“The virus is swallowing our city’s people like a monster,” said Mamtesh Sharma, an official at the site.

The unprecedented rush of bodies has forced the crematorium to skip individual ceremonies and exhaustive rituals that Hindus believe release the soul from the cycle of rebirth.

“We are just burning bodies as they arrive,” said Sharma. “It is as if we are in the middle of a war.”

The head gravedigger at New Delhi’s largest Muslim cemetery, where 1,000 people have been buried during the pandemic, said more bodies are arriving now than last year. “I fear we will run out of space very soon,” said Mohammad Shameem.

[parziivale]

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