#alexandra lange

[elizabethminkel]

Totally delighted to represent the "I have worked in service roles too long to find coffee shop AUs romantic" stance in this fantastic piece about the trope and how it explores ideas about public space by Alexandra Lange.

(I've never worked in a coffee shop or any other food service role, to be clear! But I have been flirted with—sometimes pretty aggressively—by bazillions of men in my two decades as a mutuel clerk, and idk, customer/employee is not a dream fic scenario of mine lol.)

Also delighted to appear here alongside @earlgreytea68, I'm glad coffee shop AUs have a top-notch defender. 🥰

[merelyroleplayers]

fanfic writers might prefer the cozy setting of a coffee shop because there’s a baseline familiarity, so characters’ interpersonal dynamics, rather than the minutiae of the setup, can be explored.

Alexandra Lange, Love and Lattes: How the Coffee Shop AU feeds romance

[newkindofcozy]

“The mall is a central component of what I call the youth control complex,” says Victor M Rios, MacArthur Foundation professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “They’re seen in stores as either suspects or too poor to be treated with proper customer service, even when they have money. The mall also teaches white teens that they are premium consumers, as they witness their Black and brown peers pay a skin tax upon entering the mall.”

[sixofravens-reads]

FINISHED MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN!

I've never read an architectural history before, so this was extremely interesting. The author goes back to the origins of the mall in the 50s, and discusses its socio-economic purpose throughout the decades, as well as the architecture that makes the mall what it is, and how all of that has resulted in this wonderful generational nostalgia.

Would definitely recommend it if you're a fan of things like Defunctland - historical looks at the American Dream, consumerism, and the constant nostalgic attempts to create a wonderland version of your youth. The mall very much spent its' first few decades as architects' attempts to create a peaceful, idyllic shopping experience (explicitly geared towards the white 1950s housewife stereotype) and it's interesting to see how that's either crumbled over time or adapted to new generations and grown to incorporate youth, minorities, and, well, anyone who isn't a white suburbanite with 2.5 kids.

It did feel like kind of a dense read, though that's possibly because I hadn't read this genre before and there were lots of new people and concepts to digest. Overall, I think the author did a pretty decent job of making the subject matter accessible to the average reader!

[iffltd]

                           Beautiful    P r o f i l e s   in   B  &  W

[alessandro55]

Collecting Fashion

Nostalgia Passion Obsession

Alexandra Carl

Rizzoli, New York 2024, 352 pages,26x35cm, ISBN 9780847831371

euro 75,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogrenssmiilano@yahoo.it

An indispensable survey of the most important archival collections assembled by fashion’s key players. In order for fashion to march forward, it must possess the ability to look back. For the fashion obsessed, one’s archive is surely a testament to the act of preservation and, of course, a sophisticated symbol of taste. Archives take time to build, wardrobes or storage units packed to the brim with rare, archival shoes, dresses, and handbags, some never worn, are only perfected after countless hours spent on Ebay and in the depths of obscured vintage sales. The results end up being remarkable representations of fashion history. This book gathers the preeminent collections of archival obsessives, capturing the closets of an impressive list of fashion and design talent. Readers will get an in-depth look at Michèle Lamy’s extensive Comme des Garçon archive, Sarah Andelman’s covetable (and colorful) sneaker and t-shirt collection, ENDYMA's growing Helmut Lang archive, Zaha Hadid’s fabulous footwear assemblage, and more. This tome, over 300 pages long, painstakingly showcases the subject’s archive while showing off top-tier labels and hard-to-obtain seasons: Issey Miyake, Maison Martin Margiela, Thierry Mugler, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen, among others, and serves as an indispensable reference for those interested in fashion history and building their own archive. Essays throughout by leading thinkers and writers provide insightful commentary alongside each collection featured in this new, enlightening fashion bible.

18/09/24

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 482: Someone you hate

Recovering vampire Barnabas Collins hopes that mad scientist Eric Lang will be able to free him of his curse once and for all. Since wicked witch Angelique, who put the curse on Barnabas in the first place, has come back to the great estate of Collinwood, Barnabas found a twelfth century Sicilian talisman with the power to protect against witches and gave it to Lang with instructions that he was…

[milliondollarbaby87]

Manhunter (1986) Review

Will Graham was a former FBI Agent who had recently retired to Florida, he was profiler and drafted back in to help pursue a deranged serial killer known as “the Tooth Fairy” by the media. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[gameofthunder66]

American Horror Story (2011- ) tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 1- 8/22/2023- 3 [3/4] stars- on Hulu (FX)

[naive-daydreamer]

Mahmoud Darwish, King Solomon, Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Mary Oliver, butterflies rising, Lang Leav, rachel h, Alexandra Vasiliu, Shayan Das : *writes masterpieces of stories and poems*

Me: *screaming, crying, suffering, etc. in bilingual frustration* WHY I CANNOT BE YOU

[badflicks]

American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) 🍕🍕🍕🍕

So much going on on each of the 12 episodes, but somehow… it works. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[six-of-ravens]

oh, so the reason why the 50s was a ~golden age~ where the expectation became that you would just get a single-family home with a white picket fence no matter what, was literally bc the government was giving people* money and good mortgage deals. hm. yeah. and socialism is totally evil and the government should never help people and we all just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps...

*white people, specifically, bc the suburbs were racist as hell and even if POC could get the government benefits, builders would probably refuse to sell to them. this sounds horribly naive but somehow america (and canada too) continue to shock me with how racist they've been so recently.

[mil3nk]

KSIĄŻKI O ZABURZENIACH ODŻYWIANIA:

„TELL ME LIES - CAROLA LOVARING”

„WHAT IT TAKES TO LOSE - ANNA TAYLOR”

„THE ART OF STRAVING - SAM J MILLER”

„SAD PERFECT - STEPHANIE ELLIOT”

„WHAT I LOST - ALEXANDRA BALLARD”

„SILVER CROWN - JULIE JOHNSON”

„CRESCENT CITY - SARAH J MAAS”

„BOYFRIEND MATERIAL - ALEX IS HALL”

„HEARTSTOPPER - ALICE OSMAN”

„SHAPE OF LOVE - MARINA NEUMEIER”

„MASSIVE - JULIA BELL”

„SOMEONE TO LOVE - MELLISA DE LA CRUZ”

„THE YEAR I DIDNT EAT - SAMUEL PALLEN”

„BE•LIEV•A•REX•IC - J J JOHNSON”

„BUTTER - ERIN JADE LANGE”

„PAPERWEIGHT - MEG HASTON”

„NIE POLICZALNE - KAREN GREGORY”

[sixofravens-reads]

started this tonight and was instantly hit with nostalgia and love for my local malls✌️

found this book on a list of "micro histories" and I think it might be one of my new favourite genres. love learning a bunch about one very specific little puzzle piece of history.

[dailydoseoflhs]

04: Media.

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Lucille receives a notification from Instagram. Her eyes reads along the line of THE Charles Leclerc liking her story and her post.

The first instinct she does was to call Julia and fangirl with her.

The two girls was screaming at the top of their lungs as if they have won a lottery. Her profile getting followed and her post getting more engagement due to Charles' engagement to it.

Her phone pings, Julia sending her articles of "their" supposed relationship. When in fact, her and him are completely strangers to one another.

Some fans goes far as calling her homewrecker saying that she ruined Alexandra's ans Charles' perfect relationship.

Lucille hangs the call, closing her phone to detox.

"Anak? Okay ka lang ba?" (Lucille? Are you okay?) Her mother questions as she enters the room with Lucille's favorite snack.

"Okay lang po ako, ma." (I'm fine, mom) Lucille answers with an assuring smile on her lips.

The girl takes the snack and place it on her nightstand. Her mother was not chronically online, so she remains oblivious to what is happening.

The media is now calling her the new love interest. The scary part is, they are trying to get more information on her.

Good thing, she doesn't input her information in any of her social media accounts. Only birthday and nickname.

"She's 9 years younger"

"That's an age gap trope😍"

Some approves due and some remains not so happy with it.

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withlove_lucille posted a story 1min ago●

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Notification 🔔

@charles_leclerc liked your story

@charles_leclerc has started following you back

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Lucille saw the notification and decided to ignore it.

Charles is definitely just being a nice gentleman and appreciating his fans support for him. She knows that the man is still undergoing a heartbreak recovery.

Probably, sooner Charles will undo everything and realizes he is being hazy.

But Lucille despite her self-assurance could not shake it off. Why her? Why did he chose her to interact with? Was there any reasons?

Something in her mind is telling her something.

The invisible red string glowing gold as two soulmates has found their way to one another.

Entangled with hardship but by the looks of the string, it was a string that is strong and cannot be cut off.

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Meanwhile.

Charles accidentally liked his fan's post and story. Her congratulating him and posting him on his story, he felt big joy seeing it.

He knows his fans are ones who never gives up on him and so, he will not give up on them either.

Charles couldn't undo the like thinking that the user might think he didn't like their post and story, so he let it be.

But the next few hours, he didn't expect that it will blow up and a theory about his relationship. He couldn't understand, why he couldn't appreciate his fans at peace without a rumor being created?

He returns to the user's profile and liked the newly posted story about the situation, them clearing things up.

Charles accidentally clicked the follow as if his finger has its own mind. He panics making him close the phone and pace around the room.

He couldn't unfollow the user now especially his eagle-eyed fans that saw him following the account.

He is so doom. He is so done.

The media will have a field day with this. All because his fingers always slips up with this particular account.

Indeed, the medias has released articles about it already. Not even an hour passed and there are articles already.

He starts to feel bad for the person he dragged into this. The innocent person behind the account will be entangled in this mess.

Despite his panic, there is a certain feeling of familiarity. A sense of knowing towards the account as if he have know the person behind it for a long time.

The red string of fate do really have its own way. The accidents that he experience were not accidents but a glimpse of the future.

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Author's note

Update for you all! I survived my midterms, I'm kinda free from uni works...but I can't say I'll update regularly.

Regarding the taglist, it is open for everyone. I still have to fix it as I can't tag some accounts.

🏁🆑️🏎❤️

[f1-unpopularopinions]

drop those papers on the ethics of rpf bestie

Thank you this is my favorite thing! Not nearly a comprehensive list but a decent starting point. Let me know if access is a problem

References:

The Intimate Fandoms of Men’s Hockey Real Person Fanfiction by Mari Elise Vist

The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts by Lina Vermeer

The Real K-pop idols of fanfiction: reclaiming "real person" fanfiction as K-pop industry practice by Sooyun Hong - a thesis

Real body, fake person: Recontextualizing celebrity bodies in fandom and film by Melanie Piper

How real are people? : sports-centric real person fiction between mainstream and fanfiction by Judith Louise Tuffentsammer

Reading real person fiction as digital fiction: An argument for new perspectives by Judith Fathallah

Finding the Path Through the Ethics of Fanfiction by Victoria Fidler

Chapter 8: ​​”In the End Its All Made Up The Ethics of Real Person Fanfiction” by Jennifer McGee in Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture (Vol. 9). Peter Lang

Fanfiction, not just RPF

“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation by Diana Floegel

The Alienation of Gaze — the Construction and Gender Practice in the Fanfiction by Xuan Yu & Yu Han

"Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent by Milena Popova

An Inexhaustible Source of Magic: How Fanfiction Turned One World Into A Thousand by Taylor Pernini

Culture and Community Online - How Fanfiction Creates a Sense of Social Identity by Reshaping Popular Media by Kellye Ann Guinan (this is a longer thesis but really interesting!)

Television and Fanfiction Online: Finding Identity, Meaning, and Community by Erin B. Waggoner

Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms by Brit Kelley - this is a fascinating book, got access through the public library

The Erotics of Fanfiction: Queering Fans, Works, and Communities in Modern Internet Fandom by Alexandra Garner

Writing Oneself into Someone Else’s Story – Experiments With Identity And Speculative Life Writing in Twilight Fan Fiction by Sanna Lehtonen