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[commander-chaoss]

This is as finished as it's getting sry lads

Original that I can't put under a cut:

[eliaswoodt]

The Name List

Organized from A-Z (yes I will add more names whenever I find more I like, probably in reblogs)

I currently have 1035 names (and that’s only including the first names. I have a list of last names, too.)

Angel, Atticus, Atlas, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Achilles, Artemis, Adonis, Avery, Aubrey, Aubry, Aceline, Ashlynn, Aislinn, Anjanette, Arthur, Archer, Addison, Arrietty, Amity, Autumn, Alastor, Alastair, Alasdair, Alistair, Alison, Arren, Arin, Astra, Aoife, Adalyn, Adeleine, Astoria, Agnes, Angus, Abigail, Ann, Anne, Ambrose, Adeline, Avarsel, Agatha, Ari, Azariah, Aniyah, Armani, Anastasia, Annabelle, Adah, Adelaide, Avis, Amelia, August, Axel, Adelina, Amir, Amin, Ayala, Arne, Averett, Adil, Astro, Ava, Anti, Ailun, Akemi, Asahi, Akari, Asako, Atsuko, Azumi, Aka, Aren, Akko

Blossom, Bambi, Babs, Bo, Bella, Blair, Bea, Bonnabel, Badeea, Betty, Bailey, Boris, Bee, Bugs, Blaise, Benjamin, Bog, Buford, Beatrice, Bryce, Bryan, Bazil, Brutus, Bellamy, Brigitte, Bailee, Bailey, Bao, Belladona, Belladonna, Bell, Bill, Bishop, Bones, Boneothy, Benno, Behemoth, Barry, Bellynn, Bowie, Bunki

Clover, Canyon, Cleo, Cameron, Celestial, Celestino, Ciro, Camilo, Cain, Charlotte, Clara, Corey, Cin, Charlie, Cassidy, Chiara, Callista, Cisco, Cynthia, Casper Clinton, Celestina, Clement, Christopher, Cornelius, Clifford, Claudius, Carey, Carrie, Coatl, Cyrus, Cyril, Cecil, Caisus, Castiel, Calla, Cosmos, Cherry, Cheryl, Crowley, Crow, Cassius, Cliodna, Clíodhna, Cliona, Conan, Cordelia, Calypso, Cas, Cillian, Chiyo, Chiaki, Chihiro, Calcifer

Danny, Darlene, Dex, Dot, Diana, Daphne, Demeter, Daedalus, Daeddel, Darphel, Dawn, Derrick, Derek, Dravan, Dravid, Drae, Dallas, Dimas, Dominic, Damien, Drew, Delilah, Dakota, Darian, Darius, Darwin, Devan, Darla, Dagmar, Daelyn, Dale, Dae, Dacey, Desmond, Dabria, Daniel, Daniela, Danialla, David, Davis, Donnel, Dennis, Demitrius, Delaney, Daiki, Daiyu

Everest, Emery, Ember, Elliott, Elliot, Earlana, Eliseo, Ezequiel, Emie, Evan, Eloise, Eric, Emmet, Elizabeth, Eugene, Ethan, Eret, Ester, Elias, Eos, Ellis, Edwin, Ebony, Elijah, Eliza, Enzo, Elissa, Edward, Eddalyn, Esther, Eda, Edalyn, Edalynn, Edison, Eddison, Estervan, Emma, Eden, Erfan, Eun-hae, Erytheia, Egan, Errol, Eiichi, Eiji, Eriko, Etsu, Etsuko, Eiichiro, Ezume

Flint, Finn, Fae, Fred, Fritz, Fang, Frankie, Frank, Fermin, Freddie, Freddy, Finley, Freya, Fai, Felix, Freda, Faolan, Frey, Feylynn, Faelynn, Failynn, Felipa, Febby, Febbie, Febie, Feby, Flynn, Fuji, Feiyu, Fukiko, Fumitaka, Fumito, Fuyuko

Griffin, Garnet, Gothi, Gertrude, Gabe, Grant, Giovanni, George, Gage, Gregory, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Guy, Gilbert, Guadalupe, Gerry, Grey, Gray, Gia, Grace, Gracian, Gracis, Gracie, Gretel, Gideon, Griffilow, Ghost, Ghazaleh, Gavin, Gryphon, Griffith, Goliath, Grayson, Greyson

Harmony, Hannah, Harlei, Harlie, Haritha, Haris, Harry, Harlan, Harvey, Hadrian, Harley, Hari, Harlow, Howl, Hank, Harper, Herbert, Humphrey, Hestia, Helios, Hephaestus, Hollis, Hunter, Hero, Henry, Helda, Hajar, Hasta, Hadis, Howard, Howie, Hannan, Haoyu, Hisako, Hachi, Hiroto, Hoshiko, Honoka, Hiroshi, Hiro, Haitao, Hamako, Haruhi, Harue, Hayate, Hide, Hideyo, Hidetaka, Hisaye, Hisayo, Heiji, Higari

Ivy, Ivey, Ivo, Ida, Iris, Ilyssa, Illy, Irene, Iren, Isaiah, Ira, Idelle, Ivan, Illaoi, Isabel, Isabell, Isabelle, Isobell, Isabella, Ismelda, Io, Ismael, Isolt, Icarus, izuru, Isamu, Itona, Ichiro, Ichiko, Ichigo, Isoko, Ishiko, Isaye, Inari, Ikuko, Itsuki, Itsuko, Inosuke

Juniper, Jupiter, Jinx, Jamie, Javier, Josiah, Joan, Jake, Julia, Jamil, Jamila, Jesse, Jessie, Jess, Jasper, Janus, Jordan, Joshua, Julian, Juilliard, Julius, Juliana, Jeremiah, Jace, June, Junebug, Jazzy, Jackson, Jackie, Jackalynn, Jodie, Johnnie, Jan, Jaime, Jason, Jorge, Justin, Justice, John, Jay, Janelle, James, Jennifer, Jillion, Jill, Jana, Jonah, Jaycee, Jaxen, Junpei, Jona, Jun, Jin

Kenneth, Kat, Kas, Kris, Keith, Kingston, Kaeton, Kingsley, Kent, Katherine, Kyle, Knox, Kristen, Kristin, Kristeen, Kylie, Kaylee, Kamila, Kehlani, Kendall, Kerry, Kry, Kenny, Kath, Kathleen, Krow, Kix, Kedrick, Kennon, Klaus, Killian, Korallia, Krank, Kaz, Kaede, Kirara, Katsuhiko, Keisuke, Kanako, Kenji, Kaemon, Kamin, Katsu, Kaki, Kazane, Kazuyuki, Kazushige, Kenta, Kei, Kimi, Kin, Kohako, Koichi, Kota, Koji, Koharu, Kosuke, Kuma, Kumi, Kuniko, Kuniyuki, Kideko, Kazuko

Lullaby, Lotte, Lapin, Lorelei, Loralai, Lorelai, Luna, Lily, Lucy, Lee, Liana, Lola, Lethe, Lance, Laurence, Luther, Luca, Lennon, Logan, Lennox, Ilias, Liu, Lui, Luis, Lefu, Liam, Lyall, Lowell, Luella, Leona, Leonie, Leon, Lev, Lincoln, Lin, Link, Laverna, Lazarus, Lewis, Louis, Louise, Levi, Leslie, Lesley, Leilana

Marley, Marlai, Mei, May, Mae, Marceline, Marshall, Marshalee, Millie, Mallorie, Marcela, Melanie, Maddison, Mary, Mirabel, Marsh, Murphy, Montgomery, Mildred, Memphis, Molly, Maverick, Maurice, Muiris, Morgen, Max, Moses, Marion, Merrill, Monroe, Melanthios, Maxwell, Matias, Melissa, Maëlle, Marlene, Meredith, Maybelle, Margaret, Maeve, Moss, Mara, Maria, Myrtle, Mona, Mark, Markus, Michael, Micheal, Michelle, Mahsa, Minoo, Mehdi, Mohammad, Matin, Morpheus, Marlowe, Monica, Marilia, Magnus, Malachi, Malachy, Maggie, Makoto, Megumi, Mio, Maemo, Maemi, Masa, Masaaki, Masashi, Michi, Midori, Michinori, Momo, Motoko

Natasha, Noelle, Noni, Neville, Nixon, Neda, Natalio, Ned, Nausicaä, Noxis, Nova, Nathen, Newt, Noah, Nash, Nox, Nathara, Nathaira, Nathair, Nyoka, Nagisa, Nathan, Nate, Nik, Nick, Naohiro, Naoko, Nara, Natsu, Naoya, Nishi, Nobuko, Nori

Olindo, Ollie, Oliver, Ophelia, Odysseus, Orion, Osono, Oxen, Onyx, Otto, Ottoline, Otitile, Ottavia, Octavio, Olivia-Marie, Oakley, Omar, Olivia, Oscar, Octavian, Octavia, Oz, Octavius, Otta, Oisin, Orson, Orlos, Osiris, Owen, Odalis, Odell, Ozuru

Penelope, Patton, Paddy, Percy, Paulie, Page, Pazu, Phoebe, Phebe, Prairie, Porter, Parlay, Pally, Piper, Parker, Payton, Phil, Paul, Philip, Pyre, Piers, Phylis, Patricia, Payne, Payneton, Pip

Quinn, Quincy, Quil, Quinley, Quinstin, Quinlan, Quillen, Quavon, Quaylon, Quensley, Qing, Qrow, Quilla, Quianna, Quita, Qiao, Quinella, Queenie, Qaylah, Qailah, Qitarah, Quenby, Qadira, Qudsiyah, Quan, Qian, Quinby, Quella

Roseline, Raul, Rahul, Rafael, Roque, Rogelio, Remmy, Rei, Rey, Ray, Robin, Ro, Reika, Rowen, Rowan, Rose, Rosie, Ralsei, Riley, Remus, Rosalyn, Rosalin, Rosaline, Renata, Ron, Rat, Ratt, Reef, Roxy, River, Reed, Rufus, Robbie, Renee, Rivia, Ross, Rex, Ruth, Rosemary, Rosabe, Rosabee, Rosabell, Rosabelle, Rosabel, Rai, Rain, Rosella, Rosalie, Rhody, Robert, Raelinn, Rebane, Ren, Rollin, Ralph, Roxanne, Rox, Roderick, Reginald, Reggie, Rio, Ryu, Ryo, Ryoji, Rinmaru

Sage, Sam, Syd, Selkie, Storig, Sal, Sirius, Summer, Susie, Scott, Sunni, Sosuke, Sophie, Satsuki, Sheeta, San, Sulley, Sully, Savannah, Sappho, Selene, Shaw, Sean, Seán, Shaun, Sawyer, Sabrina, Sebastian, Shane, Stan, Socks, Snom, Stolas, Spencer, Sammie, Stevie, Samus, Sarff, Sullivan, Seth, Susiebell, Susiebelle, Sadreddin, Shellaine, Sverre, Saoirse, Sylvania, Sanae, Silas, Sumi, Shiori, Shinzu, Sile

Toby, Tobias, Teddy, Ted, Tomas, Thomas, Tomothy, Tyche, Taiga, Tundra, Tracy, Timothy, Troy, Tatum, Tommie, Tommy, Theia, Tae, Trix, Trixy, Thanathos, Tod, Todd, Toddy, Tora, Torie, Theodore, Theo, Theophania, Talos, Thanatos, Teddy, Tomohito, Tazu, Tanjirou, Touya

Ulysses, Urijah, Uriyah, Urina, Ukiah, Ulnar, Ursula, Ulric

Virgil, Vanessa, Vito, Venacio, Vylad, Veronica, Valentina, Violet, Velma, Venus, Verna, Veld, Victoria, Victorie, Vinyl, Vincent, Vasuki, Vex, Valor, Valentine, Valerie, Valeria, Valerius, Vitoria, Vic, Victor, Vik, Vikktor, Viktor, Vick, Vicky, Vicke, Vickie, Vidya

Wynn, Willow, Warren, Wilbur, Wylie, Will, Walle, Whisp, Wade, Wendell, Wendy, Willard, Wes, Wallace, Wilber, Wyatt, Wybie, Wynnie, Wennie, Winnie, Wynnston, Wynston, Wynsten, Wiles

Xenophon, Xuan, Xio, Xori, Xanthos, Xander, Xavier

Yen, Yukio, Yae, Yoko, Yume, Yaeko, Yui, Yuzuki

Zane, Zana, Zion, Zachary, Zach, Zachariah, Zander, Ziana, Zoe, Zula, Zenix, Zenith, Zaharia, Zaria, Zack, Zakaeia, Zara, Zakaria, Zev, Zaira, Zanata

[poupounefeels]

She’d learned now to divide her mind into clean, convenient compartments. Thoughts could be blocked. Memories suppressed. Life was so much easier when she blockaded off the part of her that agonized over what she’d done. And as long as she kept those parts of her mind separate—the parts that felt pain and the parts that fought wars—then she would be alright.

The Burning God, Rebecca F. Kuang

[slyke25]

2012-13

Below are the shows I covered from ‘2012-13.

(v) = Video included in review

(p&s) = photos were taken with a point & shoot camera (early concerts)

2013 Favorite Concert Photos (Review)

2013 Favorite Concert Videos (Review)

12.5.2013  MGMT (Orpheum Theatre) (V)

11.22.2013  Devil Makes Three (House of Blues) (v)

11.22.2013  Shakey Graves (House of Blues) (v)

11.20.2013  The Lone Bellow (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

11.20.2013  Aoife O’Donovan (Paradise)

11.17.2013  Chris Cornell (Calvin Theatre) (v)

11.17.2013  Bhi Bhiman (Calvin Theatre)

11.15.2013  Hayden (Middle East Upstairs) (v)

11.15.2013  Doug Paisley (Middle East Upstairs)

11.14.2013  Dr. Dog (House of Blues) (v)

11.14.2013  Diamond Doves (House of Blues)

11.5.2013  James Blake (House of Blues)

11.5.2013  Nosaj Thing (House of Blues)

11.1.2013  The Head and the Heart (Royale) (v)

11.1.2013  Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (Royale)

10.28.2013  Fitz and the Tantrums (House of Blues)

10.28.2013  Capital Cities (House of Blues)

10.25.2013  Phish (DCU Center) (v)

10.20.2013  Father John Misty (Somerville Theatre) (v)

10.18.2013  The Arcade Fire (Brooklyn) - review only

10.15.2013 Pearl Jam (DCU Center) (v)

10.1.2013  Phoenix (House of Blues) (v)

10.1.2013  The Vaccines (House of Blues)

9.30.2013  The Flaming Lips (Agganis Arena) (v)

9.30.2013  Tame Impala (Agganis Arena)

9.18.2013  Jake Bugg (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

9.18.2013  Honey Honey (Paradise Rock Club)

9.8.2013  Boston Calling Day #2 (Bearstronaut, Blg Black Delta, Flume, Solange, Flosstradamus, Wolfgang Gartner, Major Lazer, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit (v)

9.7.2013  Boston Calling Day #1 (Viva Viva, You Won’t, Lucius, Okkervil River, Deer Tick, Airborne Toxic Event, Bat For Lashes, Local Natives, The Gaslight Anthem, Vampire Weekend (v)

8.10.2013  The Nines Festival - Devens, MA (Shuggie Otis, Matt Pond, Walk Off The Earth, K. Flay, Delta Spirit, Kid Koala, Dr. Dog, Explosions In The Sky) (v)

7.30.2013  The Black Crowes (BOA Pavilion)

7.30.2013  The Tedeschi Trucks Band (BOA Pavilion)

7.28.2013  Newport Folk Festival #Day 3 (The Wheeler Brothers, Berklee Gospel & Roots Choir, Cold Specks, Tift Merritt, Spirit Family Reunion, Black Prairie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Lord Huron, Michael Kiwanuka, The Felice Brothers, Beth Orton, The Lumineers, Andrew Bird, Beck (v)

7.27.2013  Newport Folk Festival Day #2 (Sarah Jarosz, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramlbers, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Langhorne Slim, The Lone Bellow, Houndmouth, Frank Turner, Shovels and Rope, Jim James, Father John Misty, Jason Isbell, Colin Meloy, Justin Townes Earle, The Avett Brothers) (v)

7.26.2013  Newport Folk Festival Day #1 (Hey Marseilles, Kingsley Flood, Milk Carton Kids, The Last Bison, Blake Mills (w/ Dawes), Dawes (backing Blake Mills), The Mountain Goats, Phosphorescent, Feist, John McCauley, Old Crow Medicine Show) (v)

6.28.2013  Joe Fletcher (Lizard Lounge)

6.28.2013  Stephen Kellogg (Lizard Lounge)

6.28.2013  Sarah Borges (Lizard Lounge)

6.9.2013  Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (State Theatre - Portland, ME)

5.26.2013  Boston Calling Day #2 (Caspian, Youth Lagoon, Dirty Projectors, Ra Ra Riot, The Walkmen, Andrew Bird, Of Monsters and Men, Young the Giant, The National)

5.26.2013  Boston Calling Day #1 (Bad Rabbits, St. Lucia, Cults, Ms Mr, Matt & Kim, Portugal the Man,The Shins, Marina and the Diamonds, Fun)

5.10.2013  The Airborne Toxic Event (House of Blues)

5.10.2013  Kodaline (House of Blues)

5.9.2013  Josh Ritter (Calvin Theatre) (v)

5.9.2013  The Felice Brothers (Calvin Theatre)

4.17.2013  Phosphorescent (Brighton Music Hall)

4.17.2013  Strand of Oaks (Brighton Music Hall)

4.12.2013  Muse (TD Garden)

4.12.2013  Biffy Clyro (TD Garden)

4.10.2013  Houses (Paradise Rock Club)

4.10.2013  Cold War Kids (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

4.9.2013  Green Day (DD Center PVD) (v)

4.2.2013  Caitlin Rose (TT the Bear’s) (v)

4.2.2013  Andrew Combs (TT the Bear’s) (v)

4.2.2103  Haley Thompson King (TT the Bear’s)

3.26.2013  Sigur Ros (Agganis Arena) (v)

3.12.2013  Tame Impala (House of Blues) (v)

3.3.2013  Alt-J (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

3.3.3013  Hundred Waters (Paradise Rock Club)

2.5.2013  Mumford & Sons (TD Garden) (v)

2.4.2013  Y La Bamba (House of Blues)

2.4.2013  The Lumineers (House Of Blues)

2.1.2013  Shovels and Rope (The Sinclair) (v)

2.1.2013  Andrew Combs (The Sinclair)

1.19.2013  Fairhaven (The Met, RI)

1.19.2013  New Politics (The Met, RI)

1.19.2013  Twenty One Pilots (The Met, RI) (v)

2012 Favorite Concert Photos (Review)

12.31.2012  My Morning Jacket (Agganis Arena) (v)

12.31.2012  Preservation Jall Jazz Band (Agganis Arena)

12.9.2012  Band of Horses (House of Blues) (v)

12.9.2012  Jason Lytle (House of Blues)

12.6.2012 Willy Mason (Orpheum Theater)

12.6.2012 Conor Oberst (Orpheum Theater)

11.28.2012 Jeff The Brotherhood (House of Blues)

11.28.2012 Delta Spirit (House of Blues)

11.19.2012 Soley (Orpheum Theater)

11.19.2012 Of Monsters and Men (Orpheum Theater)

11.5.2012   Aerosmith (Boston, MA) 1325 Commonwealth Avenue

10.25.2012  The XX (House OF Blues)

10.25.2012  Chairlift (House Of Blues)

10.22.2012  Joy Kills Sorrow (Cafe 939)

10.22.2012  Admiral Fallow (Cafe 939) (v)

10.16.2012 Way Out (The Met) Providence, RI

10.16.2012 Divine Fits (The Met) Providence, RI (v)

10.5.2012 Morrissey (The Wang Theater) p&s

9.28.2012 Shovels and Rope (Agganis Arena)

9.28.2012 Jack White (Agganis Arena)

9.24.2012 Peter Gabriel (TD Garden)

9.23.2012  Life is Good Festival - Canton, MA (Sarah Jaroszm ALO, The Infamous Stringdusters, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds)

9.22.2012  Port St. Willow (Brighton Music Hall)

9.22.2012  Houndmouth (Brighton Music Hall)

9.22.2012  Dry the River (Brighton Music Hall) (v)

9.21.2012  California Wives (Paradise Rock Club)

9.18.2012  The Lost Brothers (Berklee Performance Center)

9.18.2012  Glen Hansard (Berklee Performance Center) (v)

9.16.2012  The Avett Brothers (BOA Pavilion) (v)

9.13.2012  Bon Iver (BOA Pavilion) p&s(v)

9.12.2012  Bon Iver (PPAC) p&s (v)

9.10.2012  Cymbal Eat Guitars (Paradise Rock Club)

9.10.2012  Bob Mould (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

8.7.2012  The Allman Brothers (BOA Pavilion)

8.4.2012   Gentlemen of the Road Tour Portland, Maine (Apache Relay, The Maccabees, St. Vincent, Dawes, Dropkick Murphys, Mumford and Sons)

7.27.2012  Newport Folk Festival Jane Pickens Theatre (Conor Oberst, First Aid Kit, Dawes, Jackson Browne (p&s) (v)

7.28.2012  Newport Folk Festival Day #1 (Apache Relay, Robert Ellis, Brown Bird, Spirit Family Reunion, Jonny Corndawg, Deer Tick, Alabama Shakes, First Aid Kit, Frank Fairfield, Dawes, Iron & Wine, Blind Pilot, Patty Griffin, City and Colour, My Morning Jacket (v)

7.29.2012  Newport Folk Festival Day #2 (Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Sara Watkins, Honey Honey, Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons,Trampled By Turtles, New Multitudes, Gary Clark Jr., Of Monsters and Men, Tune-Yards, Conor Oberst, Tallest Man on Earth, Jackson Browne (v)

7.26.2012  Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons (Royale)

7.26.2012  The Head and the Heart (Royale) (v)

6.22.2012  Passion Pit (BOA Pavilion) (v)

6.15.2012  Laura Marling (Berklee Performance Center) (v)

6.16.2012  These United States (TT the Bear’s Place) (v)

6.12.2012  Keane (House Of Blues) (v)

6.8.2012  Phish (DCU Center) (v) p&s

5.29.2012  Radiohead (Comcast Center) (v)

5.25.2012  Kingsley Flood (Middle East)

5.25.2012  Ha Ha Tonka (Middle East)

5.25.2012  Langhorne Slim (Middle East) (v)

5.19.2012  Earthfest 2012 Boston (Twin Berlin, Eve 6, Switchfoot, The Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind

5.16.2012  Justin Townes Earle (Somerville Theatre) (v)

5.12.2012  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (Orpheum Theatre) (v)

5.5.2012  Brown Bird (Brighton Music Hall) (v)

5.5.2012 Horse Feathers (Brighton Music Hall) (v)

5.4.2012  Real Estate (Wang Theatre)

5.4.2012  The Shins (Wang Theatre) (v)

4.25.2012  Mean Creek (House of Blues)

4.25.2012  The Counting Crows (House of Blues)

4.20.2012  The Kopecky Family Band (Cafe 939)

4.20.2012  The Lumineers (Cafe 939) (v)

4.18.2012  These United States (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

4.18.2012  Trampled By Turtles (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

4.15.2012  Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires (Paradise Rock Club)

4.15.2012  Alabama Shakes (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

4.7.2012  Lay Low (House of Blues)

4.7.2012  Of Monsters and Men (House of Blues) (v)

4.2.2012  Peggy Sue (Paradise Rock Club)

4.2.2012  First Aid Kit (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

3.27.2012  Waters (Paradise Rock Club)

3.27.2012  Delta Spirit (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

3.25.2012  The Dirty Dishes (Brighton Music Hall)

3.25.2012  A Classic Education (Brighton Music Hall)

3.25.2012  Cloud Nothings (Brighton Music Hall) (v)

3.18.2012  William Tyler (Great Scott)

3.18.2012  Megafaun (Great Scott) (v)

3.16.2012  Bobby Bare Jr. (Paradise Rock Club)

3.16.2012  New Multitudes (Paradise Rock Club) (v)

3.8.2012  Group Love (House of Blues)

3.8.2012  Young the Giant (House of Blues)

2.3.2012  Adam Arcuragi (P.A.’s Lounge) (v)

[samiraahmeduk]

Intellectual and art school, champion of medieval art, but it was John Ruskin’s alleged horror of female pubic hair that was the ground breaking revelation I first heard as an undergraduate.Emma Thompson’s film Effie Gray appeared to add that he was an oppressed mummy’s boy, too. However this programme grew out of an invitation to address Speech Day at Queenswood School in Hertfordshire 2 years ago which suddenly opened up a new way of seeing him.

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The school had been named in reference to Of Queens’ Gardens, Ruskin’s famous speech and subsequently published essay about raising girls like flowers, to be educated and freed from the narrowest constraints of traditional feminine upbringing. Archivist Wendy Bird showed me photos, letters and a mini mock up of the infamous “purple horror” floaty Liberty-designed dresses that early pupils would wear for special occasions. There was a white wafting gown, too, really very Isadora Duncan, to dance like flowers. I was fascinated by the unashamedly aesthetic glamour. There were photos of the Queen Mother who came to a display back in the 1950s.

Sutton High School chemistry lab designed by teacher Annette Hunt (far right) photo taken between 1895 and 1928 (photo SHS archives)

I thought of my own memories of attending a private girls’ school, founded in 1880 and of the many like it. Their photographs of Edwardian ladies in chemistry laboratories or lined up as hockey players in long skirts and piecrust collared blouses. How did girls’ education come so rapidly to include the same ambitions of sporting and scientific prowess as boys? Did Ruskin, even before the female suffrage movement, help set that off?

I enlisted Simon and Thomas Guerrier, my regular Sunday Feature producers from HG and the H Bomb and The Fundamentalist Queen, to help me explore John Ruskin’s Victorian vision of female liberation.

Ruskin wanted to educate women only as far as they would make superior wives and companions for their empire building husbands, and raise healthy children. Toby Haydoke does a wonderful job bringing him to life for us, while Dr Matthew Sweet, author of Inventing the Victorians, gives an insight into his huge intellectual celebrity. But it wasn’t a simple revisionist thesis, to reclaim Ruskin the medievalist as a feminist. There was a prejudicial disgust at inferior races. The V&A’s excellent Lockwood Kipling exhibition catalogue on the sculptor and art and design teacher points out that Ruskin dismissed the richness of Indian art because of his insistence they were savages.

Drill at Darley St School (copyright Leeds Library and Museum)

Yet there were clearly so many revolutionary ideas brewing in his theories. At a time when reading novels was considered dangerous for female minds he promoted the idea that girls should have a wide education in science and art (though not theology) and that a “noble girl” should be given free rein in books as she would choose wisely and not be harmed. Asa Briggs’ Victorian Things quotes his advice, in a letter to a girl correspondent, about using a magnifying glass to look at crystals: “I send you one for yourself, such as every girl should keep in her waistcoat pocket always hand.”

Talking fit bodies with Dr Fern Riddell

At the British Museum Dr Fern Riddell, author of A Victorian Guide To Sex discussed Ruskin and Charles Kingsley’s fascination with the muscular bodies of the Greeks in their loose robes. The idea that healthy bodies made healthy minds would have had a political power in Victorian England, where childbirth was so dangerous and malnutrition, poverty and child labour stunted growth. But Riddell warned against giving too much credit to Ruskin and his friends, when women doctors and health campaigners were at the forefront of female education programmes around sexual health. Still isn’t there a fascinating modern legacy in women, whether homemakers or career women, obsessed with both success and strength, having abs as honed as those of Jessica Ennis Hill?

With Dr Debbie Challis and Dr Amara Thornton. 3 career women discussing Ruskin & mummies around the kitchen table

Dr Debbie Challis from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL and Dr Amara Thornton from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL offered insight into the world of adult education opening up for women who whether as archaeological explorers themselves, or night school enthusiasts, signed up to study the growing knowledge about the Egyptian and classical worlds.

At Angels Costumes with Louise Scholz-Conway

Ruskin’s focus was on middle class women as the angels of the hearth. To get an insight into what physical liberation meant to them, Simon insisted I needed to try on corsets at Angels Costumiers. The experience challenged another of my lazy assumptions – that women hated corsets. To liberate oneself from the feeling of protection and support it gave at a time when women were considered physically weaker, required a significant leap of faith.

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The dancing that schools like Queenswood promoted represented both a very Ruskinian idea of the intrinsic beauty of the feminine and a delightfully female-focussed physicality. The school staged elaborate classical and mythological based plays and masques. The development of Delacroze Eurythmics formalized aesthetic ideals amid the more traditional wholesomeness of outdoor games.

Queenswood register (Queenswood archives)

One of the most moving moments of making the programme was when Dr Wendy Bird showed me through the registers of Queenswood School. Reading the entries of when girls joined and when and why they left was an insight into changing times: In the early years many were returning home to nurse invalid relatives or to early marriage. But surprisingly fast, they are going to be teachers and increasingly to university as female colleges began to flourish.

Old Queenswood girls Diane Maclean (L) Annette Haynes (centre) Dr Jean Horton (seated)

For our programme Queenswood brought together old girls Annette Haynes, Dr Jean Horton, Diane Maclean, from the 1940s and 50s who remembered the eurythmic dancing lessons and the unexpected paths their lives took after. Some had become wives of empire, joining husbands working for Western corporations in Africa and the Far East. But many, like Dr Horton, a renowned anaesthetist in Hong Kong, never married, defying the goal Ruskin had in mind for his flower girls.

Queenswood girls today: Check out those badges

It was fun to read Ruskin’s words to Isobel Beynon, Aoife Morgan Jones and Natasha Rajan current sixth formers, and hear their opinion. Their blazers were festooned with shields and badges celebrating team success. Exactly the kind of ambition Ruskin thought so unladylike. The Victorian ladies’ schools that still thrive today, and there are many of them, have long defied the idea of producing humble helpmeets. Girls from all over the old Empire come to get a British girls’ school education. Would Ruskin flinch in horror, Effie Gray-style at the monster he’d created? Does it matter? Now more than ever a young woman finds herself entering a garden of delights thanks to the possibilities of a good well rounded education.

With gratitude to all our interviewees, but especially the staff and pupils of Queenswood School.

John Ruskin’s Eurythmic Girls is on Radio 3 on Sunday February 26th 2017 at 630pm and iplayer after

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This is literally the first time I've drawn Aoife successfully. Someone end me

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POV: you are Malcolm asking how they broke into his workplace for the 12th time

Maybe if I just keep drawing memes ill be good at drawing someday

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If Arely, Ellie, or Aoife is cold, one of them will go "oh, you can have my jacket" and then the other will go "but then you'll be cold so you can have my jacket" and then the first person will go "but then you'll be cold so you can have my jacket" so they all swap jackets and solve nothing

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4, 7, 8 for Aoife

Yay my girl!

Aoife does enjoy baking, but mostly the product, and the act of caring that it can be. She likes things that taste good because who doesn't, but mostly she likes that it's something she can do to give people gifts and show them that she cares about them. To her it's an act of provision and love.

Aoife has a mild fear of certain birds. Mainly ones with INTENSE EYES. they can't do much damage so it's far from a debilitating fear, but she'd rather not get attacked by a bird? Of any kind?

Aoife collects merchandise for the franchises she likes, simply because she likes those franchises. She also "collects video games" but only in the sense that she plays video games and thus has many. I don't really qualify that as collecting, but other people might so idk.

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Aoife has earned oversized jackets she DESERVES them

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🗡🧡 for arely and aoife

🗡️ does this character have a signature weapon/object/item?

Arely doesn't really. Unless you could her coat, but I wouldn't cause thats just a part of her design. Arely has used a couple different weapons but mostly they keep getting confiscated and she doesn't REALLY need them. She deserves a grappling hook though. But in the name of having a funner answer here's a random item she does have: a PokeBall (she doesn't play Pokemon she just found it in an alley)

Aoife does have a "signature weapon" but I doubt it'll become iconic or anything. Just a bow. Nothing special about the way it looks and nothing super unique about the way it operates (unique amongst fiction, at least) otherwise nothing really. I didn't make these characters with the intention of them being iconic, or particularly recognizable. They're just guys.

🧡 physical touch, good or bad?

Unless you are actively trying to hurt Arely, and even then sometimes, Arely is always down for physical contact. Literally any form. She was touch starved in childhood and now starved of affectionate touch as a teen. Her shoulder brushed someone and she cried. She's fine though.

Aoife also grew up touch starved, but physical contact isn't her love language like it is for Arely. She already needs less of it, and receives more of it because she's less often captured, and if she is she's usually with either Ellie or Arely. So she gets to be more picky with who touches her, basically. If it's not someone she trusts, she doesn't really want their touch. Reasonable.

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Which OC would be surprisingly good at bowling?

What mythological creature(s) would your OC(s) most want as a pet?

On a scale of eating bugs to eating a human person, how far would your OC go to stay alive?

What’s the strangest thing your OC believes in?

hmmmm for bowling, probably Aoife. No reason why. Joe is also good at it but not surprisingly, he grew up bowling. Actually I feel like Neo would also be good at bowling, but you'd have to like..... actually be his friend to get him to do that, and as far as I know, he has none. Wii bowling however? Different ballgame. Arely destroys everyone else which totally sucks cause Arely doesn't even like the game. Travis is so baffled by this strange skill. Once he gets Malcolm to look at it Malcolm is also baffled. It's like those "the smart kids wondering how they're losing vs me who's been eating the pieces when they're not looking" memes except Arely's not doing anything.

for Arely a griffon is a big contender because big fluffy thing can fly. That is the only reason. Aoife would want a dragon but not like a big one, just a little friend who can sit on her shoulder (Corey wants a big dragon though) Ellie doesn't really want pets herself though. If you asked Malcolm this he'd think deeply for about 45 seconds and then say "I don't know any mythological creatures." why did it take him that long to answer

Oh Arely would eat bugs. Not because she's starving or anything she just doesn't care like "sure I'll adopt that into my diet" but there aren't really any places that serve bugs around, at least not that they go to. Honestly most of the characters would eat bugs, but they'd be more apprehensive about it than Arely. But none of them, I don't think even Kim, would resort to cannibalism. If she did, she'd do everything she can to ensure she doesn't have to face that reality.

Tbh the entire thing is strange. What if I told you theres a council of uber powerful beings who're tasked with protecting the multiverse (which exists, btw) and they're lazy I guess so they just endue some person they arbitrarily deem worthy with their power so they can make them do it? That's weird. Weirder than most of the stuff the story deals with tbh cause for the most part it's very reality based. It's very very very easy for all of the characters to just completely ignore the premise, and for the most part, they do. The only one who has to deal with the Celestials is Arely and she really isn't shaken by much apparently. Despite the fact that this is canon, the strangest thing any of them believe in is probably that Batman is real.