#Winans

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My good friend 😂❤️. If you know and love David you will understand. I used to manage David Winans pi band. ❤️. @davidwinanspi @davidwinansii3734 #funny #life #hysterical #markedsafe #marked #safe #davidwinansii #dw2 #davidwinans2 #gospel #winans #bebewinans #wwwYourKatNipperscom#YourKatNippers#YourKatNipperscom (at Royal Oak, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClKCFz4vGal/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happy Bi Visibility Day 2024!

Happy Bi Visibility Day! We’re celebrating as we do, with great books helmed by bisexual main characters! With absolutely no consistency, I’ve bolded the names of some of the bi MCs who aren’t called out as such in the copy. For even more recs, check out past years’ posts! Middle Grade Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva Lulu Sinagtala can’t wait for a fun…

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Theodore "Fonville" Winans (1911-1992) - Vampire, 1945

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The Erymanthian by Alyssa Winans

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The Movie

The Soundtrack

The Single(s)

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Theodore Fonville Winans (American/Louisiana, 1911-1992). Untitled, 1931.

Theodore Fonville Winans (American/Louisiana, 1911-1992). Home of the Washwoman - Grand Isle (The Hermittess), 1933.

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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown with CeCe Winans, BeBe Winans, David Mitchell and Debbie Winans backstage at the Greek Theatre in 1989.

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Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo

Cover art by Alyssa Winans

Tor, 2020-2024

The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover―a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty―and discover how truth can survive becoming history.

Into the Riverlands (2022)

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themself far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.

Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story—beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel—bears more than one face.

Mammoths at the Gates (2023)

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest.

Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal mammoths, demanding their grandfather’s body for burial. Chih must somehow balance honoring their mentor’s chosen life while keeping the sisters from the north from storming the gates and destroying the history the clerics have worked so hard to preserve.

But as Chih and their neixin Almost Brilliant navigate the looming crisis, Myriad Virtues, Cleric Thien’s own beloved hoopoe companion, grieves her loss as only a being with perfect memory can, and her sorrow may be more powerful than anyone could anticipate...

The Brides of High Hill (2024)

The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls.

As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards, they are drawn into the mystery of what became of Lord Guo's previous wives and the dark history of Doi Cao itself. But as the wedding night draws to its close, Chih will learn at their peril that not all monsters are to be found in the shadows; some monsters hide in plain sight.

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2024 reads / storygraph

The Truth of the Aleke

fable-like novella set in a desert world

set 500 years after the previous book

about a junior peacekeeper in the city of truth, who is sent out to defend the city against the cult that has been attacking them for years, only to find out that things are more complicated than he’s been told

about conflicting narratives and unlearning propaganda

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Inside an Anthology: The House Where Death Lives ed. by Alex Brown

Today on the site we’re taking a peek inside The House Where Death Lives ed. by Alex Brown, a Speculative YA Fiction anthology that just released yesterday from Page Street! Here’s the gist:  A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing―and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place―within the frame of a particular house that…

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Year-End Poll #55: 2004

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*Sorry 2004 by Ruben Studdard plays softly in the background*

Now we're really starting to see the hold the South will have on the sound of rap and hip-hop in the 2000's. Just about every region that isn't the East Coast (and let's be real: New York specifically) had to fight to get their style of rap to be taken seriously. And when the East vs. West debate was reaching it's peak in the 90's, the South was treated like the third party option. I've linked to an article about André 3000's famous speech at the 1995 Source Awards, a moment that is marked by many as a turning point in southern hip-top.

Now in the 2000's, the impact of southern rap can no longer be questioned. This is partially due to the rising popularity of crunk, which has really taken off this decade. With Yeah! and Goodies, crunk was able to find a wider audience by fusing the genre with R&B (Crunk&B). This was also the year Billboard started publishing its ringtone charts, which was set to be published in late 2004. The ringtone era turned out to be bolstered greatly by this shift in the sound of popular music, as a majority of the songs making this chart would be rap.

But crunk was far from the only style of rap coming out of the south. Especially with the presence of iconic southern hip-hop act, OutKast. With the release of their double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, André 3000 and Big Boi were not only able to experiment with different sounds and genres, but this album (these albums?) also introduced them to an even larger audience.

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ink (2009) dir. jamin winans / my grief, the sun, 'meditation', sanna wani / each crumbling house, melody s. gee / grit: a poetry collection, silas denver melvin / a lover's discourse, roland barthes / on the pulse of morning, maya angelou / march 13, 1915 - franz kafka diaries / you better be lightning, andrea gibson / fyodor dostoevsky / unknown

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Theodore Fonville Winans. Native Children, 1934.

Theodore Fonville Winans (American/Louisiana, 1911-1992). Boats on the River, 1934.