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Loud Rats Book Club 2023

This year the rats became literate!

We suggested a number of books each month and then voted on one to read (somehow Fish managed to read all 12 of them… wild!). The ones in red are the winners, but there are some other really good books in there.

Hopefully you can find your next favourite read below! :)

January

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Pirates and Prejudice by Kara Louise

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

February

Adua by Igiaba Scego

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

March

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Humans by Matt Haig

Cane by Jean Toomer

Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (#1 Broken Earth Trilogy)

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart

April

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

May

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

June

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jędrowski

Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17 by Jeff Kinney

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July

Kid Youtuber 9: Everything is Fine by Marcus Emerson, Noah Child

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Hit Parade Of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie Aidt

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Mapping the Interior by Stephan Graham Jones

August

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Small Game by Blair Braverman

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

September

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

October

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley-Doyle

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Kindred by Octavia Butler

November

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

December

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

[kindestofkings]

got a book for every situation

ryan mcmahon x reader

reader runs a bookstagram/bookclub but instead of just reading about love, until she meets a certain drummer...

authors note: guys i think i love ryan an unhealthy amount

yourusername

location: london!

liked by bookfan1 and others

yourusername heyy guys sorry I've been kind of quiet on here but I've MOVED egh it's been v scary and hectic even though it was only from Dublin to London. don't worry tho bookstagram will stay alive !

hows everyone doing?! what are yee reading rn?

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bookfan1 wow city girl! I'm reading normal people at the moment :)

yourusername ik shaking things up hehe, also hope you're enjoying the heartbreaking miscommunication ... bookfan1 it is hard out here :(

bookfan2 no way I'm living in london ! lmk if you need any friends here xx

yourusername omg yes! I was thinking of starting a bookclub? thoughts? bookfan2 yes I'd so be down !! bookfan3 me too! I just moved here aswell

bookfan4 currently just buying books and not reading them

yourusername meee, expect I'm now broke from moving so I'm on a self-inflicted book ban 😔😔

ryanmcmahon_15

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ryanmcmahon_15 get on your jogging shorts and pick up a brush

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inhalerfan1 ok artist 🥴

inhalerfan2 your bob ross era omg

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yourusername new city but same old hopeless romantic <3 maybe london will hold a romantic interest ?

also next months bookclub is organised so keep an eye out for my story with the dets 💗

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bookfan1 yayyy can't wait!!

bookfan2 omg getting closer to a face reveal by the day

yourusername 🤭🤭

yourbestie YOU COULD EASILY HAVE A ROMANTIC INTEREST IF YOU TEXTED THAT GUY ! (also come home I miss your bookclub)

yourusername ughh leave off it ! he was just being nice .. yourbestie oohh yeah he walked up to you at a bar, talked to you for a few and then gave you his number only because he was being nice... mmhmm bookfan2 omg text him what the hell! bookfan3 this is the stuff of books! bookfan2 is he cute?? yourusername ahahha yes. and fineeee I'll text him 😅 terrifying😅

ryanmcmahon_15 added to his story!

location: london!

replies:

bobbyskeetz ehhhhh what do we have here??

joshjennkinson_ IS THAT THE GIRL FROM THE BAR !!!

↳ ryanmcmahon_15 it might me yes 🤭

inhalerfan1 ryannnn okay cheater !

yourusername posted on their story!

location: national gallery!

fear I'm terrible date company, but in my defence there was stuff to read EVERYWHERE

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yourbestie WE DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLAQUE HOW WAS THE DATE !!!!

↳ it was so good, he was the sweetest and really into art and and is really passionate about music and and and he was just really pretty ...

↳ yourbestie omg girlllll you are hung UP

ryanmcmahon_15 great company* lets not lie

↳ ahhh have you not made me blush enough this month !

bookfan1 stop you are slay, he's so lucky for your company !

joshjenkinson_,bobbyskeetz and elijahhewson just followed you!

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yourusername happy 9 months to my pride and joy, our book club <3

your support has meant to me and has supported my reading addiction, big MWAH !

I've met so many new friends, insanely made it onto three publishing houses pr list?!?!? and got a job all through this little bookstagram. you all are the best xx

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bookfan1 wooow we love a successful queen !

bookfan2 reading is sooo hot and sooo slay

bookfan3 is that a book bouquet? and a pic taken by someone else???

yourusername mwhahah eagled eye youuuu. also HOW cute is the bouquet ! (liked by ryanmcmahon_15)

inhalerfan1 high key why did all the band follow a random bookstagram?

inhalerfan2 shes irish living in london, maybe they're friends from home?? inhalerfan3 but then they'd already follow her tho

yourusername

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yourusername dating a musician means one thing... associating tunes with books !!!

(also getting your oranges peeled for you 😭😭)

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yourbestie y'all are adorable, I love <3

bookfan1 he seems so sweet !

ryanmcmahon_15 you forgot forcing people to listen to lana del ray...

yourusername oh yeah !! how could I forget that I'm bettering the lives of others :))) bobbyskeetz he does be humming let the light in constantly. yourusername awhhh too soft for it

inhalerfan1 ooohhh is she dating ryan !?

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yourusername ugh sick with love, but he reads my favourite books and instead of annotations he paints them 🥹

also tickets for next month's book club are out this sundayyyyy ! Xx

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inhalerfan1 omg boyfriend ryan is everything

joshjenkinson_ ryan being in his bookworm era has the tour bus kinda quiet

bookfan1 sooo invested in your relationship , also have the alarm set for the tickets !

ryanmcmahon_15

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ryanmcmahon_15 black and white is owned by lewevans btw

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yourusername being really cool is owned by you btw

joshjenkinson_ 2/3 pics you're reading, yourusername your power is unmatched 🤭

elijahhewson reading era

inhalerfan1 hahaha ugh I love them your honour

lewevans 🖤 🤍

yourusername posted on their story!

gorgeous boy <;3

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ryanmcmahon_15 love you ❤️

↳ LOVE YOU MORE

inhalerfan1 im so so jealous of you

bookfan1 when are you writing a book about your love story ??

↳ hahhaha omg imagine ! dont tempt me..

yourusername

location: new york new york!

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yourusername yeah my boyfriends pretty cool but he's not as cool as

THE BOOKSTORE THAT I FOUND WHICH SELLS BOOKS AND PICKLES !!!

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bobbyskeetz meeeee, im a brooklyn babyyyy

yourusername you get me.

yourbestie you are SO cool

bookfan1 wait I need all the details ??

yourusername it was the cutiest little secondhand bookshop in the lower east side of manhattan but they also make their own pickles

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what did you think? 😏

[scotianostra]

The Scottish folk singer Ian Campbell was born on June 10th 1933 in Aberdeen.

Ian Campbell was the eldest of four children born to Betty and Dave Campbell, who were described as “Aberdonian born and bred”

As well as both parents and Ian and his sisters Lorna and Winnie, The Singing Campbells also included Bob Cooney, their Aberdonian lodger who came for a week and became, as Hall wrote, “a member of the family by adoption”.

As well as both parents and Ian and his sisters Lorna and Winnie, The Singing Campbells also included Bob Cooney, their Aberdonian lodger who came for a week and became, as Hall wrote, “a member of the family by adoption”.In 1946 they moved to Birmingham. There the apprentice jewellery engraver discovered the local branch of the Workers’ Music Association and joined its Clarion Youth Choir. When skiffle boomed in 1957-58, a splinter Clarion Skiffle Group was formed, avoiding the standard repertoire, they incorporated, what Campbell described as “a political element in our approach”, with Scottish farming material, Jacobite songs and industrial and mining songs being their chosen songbooks.

Campbell’s socially engaged songs guaranteed bookings, but Clarion already had a Clarion Folk Group. “I wanted to call us the Cornkisters,” Campbell told me, “because that’s a name of a type of Aberdeen folk song. Everyone said it was a silly name. Temporarily, because they had asked to book Ian Campbell and his group, we called ourselves the Ian Campbell Folk Group and we never got around to changing it.” He identified two great inspirations: Ewan MacColl and Bert Lloyd, both singers with their roots in socialism.

In 1962 Topic, a label that had begun life as a WMA offshoot, put out a live recording from The Crown on Birmingham’s Station Street. The result was the Ian Campbell Folk Group’s EP Ceilidh At The Crown – probably the country’s first live folk club recording. In 1963 they signed to Transatlantic, immediately releasing their debut LP, This Is The Ian Campbell Folk Group that same year. With a secure folk club base, the Jug of Punch, as a residency, and a record contract, they went full-time in 1963. That same year Walther Klæbel, a young Copenhagen-based jazz promoter, saw them in London. Exultant, he organised their first Danish tour. “We never looked back because twice a year we would go to Denmark and do a national tour […] for about 12 years.”

While living in England, Paul Simon picked up on “The Sun Is Burning” a nuclear protest song penned by Ian, covering it on Simon and Garfunkel’s 1964 debut LP, The Dubliners would later cover the song too.

After Ian disbanded the group in 1978 as a TV editor, most notably with TV AM and as a community arts worker in Dudley.

Although they only released 10 albums and three EP’s/Singles they are still remembered as one of the only folk bands that broke into mainstream music for a while, however their rivals, The Spinners really stole the limelight in the 60’s.

I think though that Ian’s name will always be remember for the band three of his sons have been involved with for the past 40 years or so, UB40. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage and have had over 50 hit singles, selling over 70 million records worldwide.

Ian Campbell passed away on 24th November 2012, from cancer, he was 79.

[readerbookclub]

Foodie - September Book List

This month’s list is all about food! In all of these novels, food plays a central role in the story or character’s lives. As a foodie myself, I’m really excited about these books! I hope you like them too :)

As always, please vote for which of these books we should read. Link is at the bottom of this post. 

And on to the books...

Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he’s making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider. But Mabbot—who exerts a curious draw on the chef—is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur hidden on her ship, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. As Wedgwood begins to sense a method to Mabbot’s madness, he must rely on the bizarre crewmembers he once feared: Mr. Apples, the fearsome giant who loves to knit; Feng and Bai, martial arts masters sworn to defend their captain; and Joshua, the deaf cabin boy who becomes the son Wedgwood never had.

Quentins, by Maeve Binchy

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way...

Sourdough, by Robin Sloan

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people, exactly?

The Kitchen Daughter, by Jael McHenry

After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning (“do no let her…”) before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish. A haunted kitchen isn’t Ginny’s only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka “Demanda”) insists on selling their parents’ house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents’ belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn’t sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn’t know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father’s photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there’s only one way to get answers: cook from dead people’s recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother. With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.

Please vote for our next read here.

[morwennastower]

EasterCon 2023 Con Report - Books

EasterCon is really all about the books. So many new authors to discover, and favourite authors to revisit - and actually meet! I've listened to so many interesting people speak on panels and then gone looking for the books they've written over the years.

So I came home with a much heavier suitcase than I arrived with, thanks in part to Books on the Hill in the dealers' room. I'd been looking for Paul Cornell's Lychford stories for some time, and they had one copy of The Lights Go Out in Lychford. I didn't care where it came in the series - I grabbed it.

Then I looked more closely at their display and found Kate Elliot's Unconquerable Sun. I heard her read a passage from this at Dublin WorldCon, where she described it as gender-swapped Alexander the Great IN SPACE! Ticking all my boxes right there!

As I was paying for those, I saw the last hardback they had of The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, by Garth Nix, the sequel to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. This made me very excited - I loved the first book, adored Merlin (and the Lord Peter Wimsey reference!) and I am a left-handed bookseller. So was the lady behind the dealers' table - we've got to stick together!

A little way down the aisle my friend got talking to Tim Mendees and David Green, who were selling mostly horror books. He's in the middle of a Cthulu role playing campaign, so they had lots to talk about. I'm not really interested in horror - but I couldn't resist a collection of short stories called The Nookienomicon, which essentially crosses Cthulu with the Carry On films!

David Green also invited us to his book launch in the Tea Lounge, where he read from his latest fantasy novel - an autistic character who has a secret underground library sounds like something I'd enjoy. I failed to write down the title, (I was busy drinking wine at the time) but its in his Empire of Ruin series. I also failed to write down the name of the author he was sharing his book launch with. (Sorry - I enjoyed the reading, though).

Meanwhile, back in the dealers' room, I passed a table and noticed the name David Wake. "That sounds familiar," I thought, and realised he is the writer of The Derring-Do Club series. We went to a dramatised reading of one of the early books in the series at Mancunicon, which was enormous fun, and there are now two more books - Death on the Suez and Sisterhood of the Death-Goddess. The series is about three Victorian sisters who go on Adventures.

There were also secondhand books on sale around the dealers' room. I picked up Lightship, a book of art by Jim Burns, who was in the art show, and the World Fantasy Con 2013 hardback, which has art by Alan Lee in it, and articles or stories by Neil Gaiman, Joanne Harris, Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter and lots of other good stuff! There was also a stack of short stories by Brian Aldiss which were free - Sex and the Black Machine. I took three copies, to give to classic SF fans I know.

[raraeavesmoriendi]

thanks kindly to @illegalcerebral for being sweet enough to tag me! more getting to know you stuff

relationship status: single, but I’m about to be writing my dissertation so I might as well be married to it :’D

favorite color: black. it’s basic but it’s true!

favorite food: rare steak. like, bloody. 

song stuck in your head: keep breathing - ingrid michaelson

last thing you googled: an interview with briscoe park, my second favorite photographer

time: almost 10-ish when I started writing this, but I’ve had to get up and handle things so it’s been a while

dream trip: Ireland!! I was supposed to go to dublin this summer, but had to bow out due to cash/family stuff. or just, like, a solid week on a beach.

last book you read: the pallbearer’s club by art barbara paul tremblay

last book you enjoyed reading: the aforementioned! it was really sweet in a way I didn’t expect, I had a lot of fun with it

last book you hated reading: I wouldn’t say “hated,” but I wound up DNFing this collection of short stories bc the guy who wrote them didn’t really edit and made one of my least favorite typos lol. shows what I get for picking them up just bc a favorite artist of mine did the cover :’D

bonus!

favorite thing to cook/bake: I have two simple pasta recipes I enjoy rotating, and both involve copious amounts of lemon.

favorite craft to do in your free time: I make very, very rudimentary DIY edits to my clothes (usually cutting sleeves/collars/midriffs for hot weather) and idk if it counts but I’m finally taking all the pins I’ve collected over the years and am slowly sorting them into ita bags

most niche dislike: “people who don’t do their research” is the only way I know how to word it?? I see a lot of tourists when I’m in nola who are in sandals made for walking around malls at most and big-ass expensive status bags not made for the space or the weather and I’m like “oh babe, you’re gonna have a bad time. :’D” lately I’ve been talking a lot on twitter about how lowkey irritated I can be when people only interact with a text on a surface level and don’t try to get into the historical factors behind it. but this is not how people have to approach fandom at all, and that’s totally fine!! I’m just a nitpicky nerd who makes everything a research project when they don’t have to lol

opinion on the circus: acrobats - neat! clowns - coming around to them, thanks to the work of @eldritchcircus! performing animals - historically, not a big fan! :’D

do you have a sense of direction: yes, but I’ve been inside so much the last few years I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s withered somewhat.

no pressure tags: (incoming huge swarm again)  @rosemaremembrance @maximoffwxnda @bigtiddythanos @runawaywerewolf @illegalcerebral @lightinthedarkuniverse @pondering-and-wondering @lorna-d-m @scuttle-buttle @imalsonotsure @eldritchcircus @raven-blood-13 @creme-bruhlee @mypoisonedvine @somethingthatsaysbubbles @darkestamralime and anyone else who would like to! it’s always nice to hear about people! <3

[coralsgrimes]

The ALMOST complete list of Benny Boy’s doing while I was away

almost complete cuz I probably missed somethinggies?

Okie the first thing I could find was that boy was partying with Will Poulter in some fancee members only club in London. No luck out there I suppose cuz he still a naked faced rat x.x also just a personal note, that Will guy seems to be a smart one? Apparently he was in Ireland the other day and he went through the Shannon airport and not through that shitfuck factory which Dublin airport is. Which like smart big brain decision, so Benny? I do approve of this relation 😘 

THEN OMG!! ACTUAL NEWS WHICH I MISSED? Soooooo we actually starting very fucking wild? CUZ BOY GOT HIMSELF AN ACTUAL JOB? sorry if I’m not making any sense here whatsoever but I was expecting to come back to see his flat ass unemployed? Unless someone is pulling a pisser on good ol’ Coral and he still bitchless and jobless ;c oh and this explains the instagram follows of Ian and Mark a while back cuz they are both in the film too. ANYWAYS!

So there’s this film... The Critic is the title. It’s based on a book by Anthony Quinn. Here’s like the three articles I found on it at Deadline, Collider and this lil piece by Heather who is clearly into Benny! All of them articles are putting Benny aside and as supporting character but like lookin at other actors involved Imma not surprised he’s pushed more to the back. So I checked IMDb and what the book is about, and what it says is that Benny’s character is named Stephen, and the book has a character named Stephen Wyley. From the couple of reviews I seen it’s hard to say how big his part in the book actually is but yeee I’d say not extremely big. And there are going to be changes to the material anyways cuz Mark Strong’s character, from what I can tell, is not in the book? Or at least he is not mentioned in any of the pieces I looked through. 

ANYWAYS! So Stephen is a painter, he is also a married man with kids! And he has an affair with Nina (Arterton’s character). He is also beardless. A crime as the film is a thriller or crime something something. Checks out! ALSO would say that life imitates art but that’s..................... Boy was doing some method acting I guess x.x

ONTO THE NEXT! 

So to celebrate (lol) Benny took his lil ass to Wimbledon, cuz as we all know Benny has four character traits (one more than a TS4 sim!) and these are Queen, When Harry Met Sally, his shitty degree and... TENNIS! So it’s weird alright? Cuz he posted a selfie (on July 3rd) and then another boy’s definition of cute diy collage three days later. The latter was SUPPOSEDLY a thankies to Ralph Lauren. What I could spy with ma lil eye was what Imma pretty sure are the exact fucking same rags he wore before. None of them are by any of RL labels as far as I can tell x.x and yes I do have boy’s whole wardrobe memorized, cuz he has like two pair of pants and two cardigans. So it’s nothing impressive. Hold them applauses. And here is his naked face (a rant about that Im gonna post separately cuz here Imma trying to be informative lol, also the rant is like 9k words as of now sooooooooo) 

Couple days later his naked ass was caught on tape in Camden

And his new hunting ground seem to be Camden. He livin his Rocky dream at a gym there! Can’t post the video ;c gonna post separately ;c 

AND NOW ONTO INSTAGRAM! 

Soooooo boy was pretty active there. A lil I love ye to Dead Poets Society and ofc he could not stop himself from tagging Ethan xd he keeps doing this right? I mean tagging famous folks but they do be ignoring him every time... Remember the West Side Story post? 

What more...... He liked this post of Taron Egerton as soon as it was posted x.x oh and he followed a singer Eliza. 

So yeeeeesh that would be it from our boy x.x the duckie face will not be discussed here as I found out it might be a health hazard ;c will answer the pucker up queries separately in ma pink hazmat suit 🧚‍♀️

[bookatrips]

Experience Ennis' Vibrant Festivals

Ennis, nestled in the heart of County Clare, is not just a picturesque town but also a hub of cultural festivities that attract visitors from near and far. From traditional music sessions echoing through cozy pubs to lively street festivals filled with art, food, and local traditions, Ennis offers a delightful array of events throughout the year. If you're planning a journey from Dublin to Ennis, timing your trip to coincide with one of these festivals can enhance your experience and immerse you in the spirit of Irish culture.

Ennis Festival of Light

Kickstart your journey with a magical experience at the Ennis Festival of Light, usually held in late January or early February. This enchanting event illuminates the town with dazzling light installations, lantern parades, and performances, creating a whimsical atmosphere that captivates visitors of all ages.

Ennis Trad Festival

For lovers of traditional Irish music, the Ennis Trad Festival in March is a must-attend event. Immerse yourself in lively sessions, concerts, workshops, and dance performances that showcase the rich heritage of Irish music and culture. Join in the craic (fun) as musicians and enthusiasts come together to celebrate their shared passion.

Fleadh Nua

In May, Ennis comes alive with the Fleadh Nua, a week-long festival of music, dance, and song. Experience the vibrant energy of traditional Irish music competitions, céilí dances, street performances, and cultural exhibitions that highlight the best of Ireland's musical traditions.

Ennis Food Festival

Indulge your taste buds at the Ennis Food Festival, typically held in June. This gastronomic extravaganza showcases the finest local produce, artisanal foods, culinary demonstrations, and foodie events. Sample delicious treats, learn from top chefs, and immerse yourself in Ireland's culinary delights.

Ennis Book Club Festival

Literature enthusiasts shouldn't miss the Ennis Book Club Festival, held annually in March. Join bookworms and authors for literary discussions, book signings, readings, and workshops that celebrate the written word and storytelling traditions deeply rooted in Irish culture.

Ennis Street Arts Festival

Experience the creative spirit of Ennis at the Street Arts Festival in July. Marvel at street performances, art installations, theater productions, and interactive workshops that transform the town into a vibrant canvas of artistic expression.

Other Notable Events

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[hischierlovebot]

Haha oh well that’s cool, one day….who knows. I’ve already done two studies so I think we’ve got enough of uni 😉. Ooeh art history, that sounds cool, one of my friends studied it!

Yes it’s one of those ‘either or’ thingies. You go for a blue Monday because your mom thought it would be nice or you’re just doing it for forever 😂. Oh well that’s definitely a very long time too! Yes I agree!!

Haha that’s the spirit! 💪🏼

Yes agree, they just drag everything on for way too long. It doesn’t do it justice with the lack of quality it gets after so many seasons. Well if you ever decide to watch it let me know what you think! Ah okay well that might explain it then. Hahah you apparently really know how to sell something then if they all got on board with it.

Yeah actually I guess that is true hahah. Happy to hear that! Oh that’s so nice, where did you go and what (fun) things did you do? Well right now I am on a two week break from work, bless 🩵. I have two trips planned, one to Dublin and one just in my own country. I had a concert this weekend and had/have some plans to meet up with friends so definitely a lot of nice things to be looking forward to. What about you?

- 🫐

Yeah I think two studies is enough for me too so far, but I think I'd enjoy going back to it to study for fun one day! Not in the foreseeable future though, I had enough with uni the first time for at least a couple years. I studied it briefly at school and I loved it! I put it on my list of possible things to study at uni but ended up not doing it.

Exactly! One of my friends did ballet but I don't think she lasted longer than a couple months, you either love it or you absolutely hate it.

They do and it's very sad! You have a nice TV show and they drag it so much it no longer looks anything like what you started watching and what you enjoyed so much (I will never forgive or forget what they did to Supernatural). I will! To be honest, I don't think it was me selling it nicely rather than me insisting all week that we could watch Fringe at 9.30pm on Saturdays and wearing them all down jsjsjs

Mallorca! I went around the island with my sister and my cousin and she showed us around, it was a lot of fun, but it was much colder than expected and I've ended up losing my voice for the whole week. It's still been a lot of fun though! Enjoy your break then! Oooh I've been to Dubling before and it was gorgeous, I hope you'll enjoy your stay there, and your other trip too ^^

Enjoy your concert too! Who are you seeing? Me I've had a book club meeting and tomorrow I'm going out with some friends, other than that it's been a calm weekend, I would like to have my voice back soon jsjsjs

[tganalostarosciak]

Other artists with unusual style. Part 1

Malika Favre:

Malika Favre is a French illustrator and graphic artist based in Barcelona. Her style of works could be characterized by pure minimalism within Pop art and Op art, where it sometimes described as 'Pop Art meets Op Art'.

How does Malika Favre create her art?

She does this through experimenting with metaphors, positive and negative space, shadows, layers and many other key tools. Photography is a significant tool in this initial stage, helping Favre to extract colours, patterns and graphic elements.

What software does Malika Favre use?

This is what Malika Favre's answer for this question: ''I've stopped sketching by hand. I now sketch with Illustrator, sometimes in black and white, other times in color, to draft the composition and idea. The most important part of the process is to generate ideas. Everyone has their own way and there aren't any rules.''

What are some interesting facts about Malika Favre?

Favre was born with a severe case of strabismus, or crossed eyes. It was surgically corrected when she was very young, but she still sees perspective differently from the rest of us. “I can't see 3-D, for example, so if you give me 3-D glasses, I see blurry.

My opinions for this artist as her style is showing off, negative spaces mixed with positive spaces as she uses such bright and bold colours as well to show the complex to show the colours compared very well like white mixed with red and different shades of blues which is very well done for Malika.

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Jack Teagle:

Jack is a freelance illustrator based in South West England. He has worked in a large variety of fields, including editorial, character design, storyboarding, poster/ product/ textile design, and worked as a cartoonist for Front magazine from 2010-2014. He wrote tutorials and worked as a columnist for Digital Artist Magazine Jack paints in his free time, and has exhibited his work worldwide. He is also a prolific self publisher, with his comics being translated into Polish, and Russian.

Jack Teagle comes from a town where more than 250 people applied for a single job at 'Pound Land'. Jack decided to become an illustrator instead. Jack graduated with an illustration degree from the university of Plymouth in 2009 and now works as an illustrator, comic artist and painter.

Selected Clients include:

Time to Change, VW, Adobe, Netflix, Apple, Universal Music, The Vlog Brothers, Iam8bit, Cartoon Network, Minecraft, Landyachtz, Converse, McSweeney's, Ohh Deer, Nick Jr, Bloomberg Business Week, FHM, Front Magazine, Evisu, The Economist, YCN, Research World Magazine, Anorak Magazine, Nobrow Press, Intercity Design, Havana Club Rum, ASP Industries, Daddy Donkey Mexican Grill, Illustrated Mind, Nexus Productions, Texas Observer, The Portland Mercury, Digital Artist Magazine, Future Publishing

Solo Exhibitions:

That's Life!- The R.A.G.E, Dublin, 2011

Zona De Combate- Dama Aflita Gallery, Porto, 2010 Dungeons and Desktops- Nobrow Shop and Gallery, London, 2010

My opinions for this artist, that his style is very cartoony as his own art works has lot of colours which is mixed with dullness, brightness and pastel-ish colours in his art works. I think he making lot of positive shapes on his art works with cartoony style.

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Dan Hipp

Dan Hipp was born on 11 September 1978 in Fresno, California, USA. Dan is an art director and writer, known for Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018), Marvel Snap (2022) and Manga Motion Comics (2009).

Dan Hipp is a cartoon and comic book artist well known for his work with Warner Media, specifically DC Comics.

Prior to working as an artist, Daniel Hipp attended Edison High School in Fresno, California. He went into further studying at the University of California in Irving. Sometime after his schooling was done, Dan got jobs with big name animation studios, including Warner Bros. Animation, Random House, DC Comics, and, most recently, Cartoon Network.

As of right now, Hipp once specialized as an art director in Teen Titans Go!. His own personal art can be seen numerous times throughout the show, as many of the pictures and signs throughout the Titans Tower are Dan's creations. In addition, many Teen Titans Go! comic book cover is the work of Hipp's hands.

My opinions for this artist, that he also creates lot of positive spaces on his art works which I think that he does this to show the more details on the works so that people can see the whole page and not specific parts and he uses lot of bright colours that he used on his arts.

[7weekly2023]

Week 16. Billingham (via Dublin) PHL

1. Fun group (banter and DMD)

2. GAGANDEEP KANG (Columbia)

3. Art book club (Untrained artists)

4. DD120/121: IITD (Grades); Khalsa (grades)

5. Acupuncture

6. IAMD (EH Indore)

7. Saavn/YouTube playlists

Carl June. AACR award

[borntomecassidy78]

Billy Strings' Europe 22 posters, ranked from worst to best

#10 : Cologne, Germany

This one is a little too busy for its own good, evoking some of the worst tropes of psychedelic art. A lot of disparate elements that don't come together. I like a good wizard, but this guy isn't winning me over. Colors are kinda cool.

#9 : Glasgow, Scotland

I appreciate that the lion is a reference to the local football club, but I find the design underwhelming. The blank background is fine, but II want something a little more interesting than Lion with Billy Strings in the mane. Can't believe this was the tour closer.

#8 : Berlin, Germany

On first look, this one was a little underwhelming. But I enjoy the dynamic of the little guy and the big robot - reminds me of The Iron Giant, but with even earlier pulp sci-fi aesthetics.

#7 : Manchester, England

This one is busy, not unlike the Cologne one, but here I get a better sense of what I should be looking at initially, with the busy details adding interesting story elements. This one grew on me.

#6 : Dublin, Ireland

I appreciate the references to Irish history/architecture. And I love that it's the only horizontal poster in the bunch. But, especially in color, the intense line work starts to grate. Supposed to evoke like fantasy book illustrations, starts to look more like a comic book.

#6 : Manchester, England

This one is busy, not unlike the Cologne one, but here I get a better sense of what I should be looking at, and what story is being told. We're in some sorta post-apocalypse.

#5 : Amsterdam, Netherlands

This one should probably be lower- it's got the business in design that I've knocked other posters for. This one gets as high as it does due to its subject matter- any drawing of Reptiles playing Bluegrass deserves to be top 5.

#4 : Copenhagen, Denmark

I appreciate the surrealism - the mustache going through the gauges which turns into the name, the eyeballs. I enjoy that we're getting slight variations on the primary colors. I dig it.

#3 : London, England

Really enjoying this abstraction - I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at, but I like it. Evokes the mid-60s London art scene. The pastel purple is especially rare in Billy's posters.

#2 : Oslo Norway

The monochromatic color scheme and the faces of the figures create an almost melancholy, almost serene scene.

#1 : Stockholm, Sweden

I mean, just look at it! Strong colors that contrast each other beautifully. You take the name

Some really fun posters from a really fun tour! Excited to see what Billy and the Boys have for us in 2023!

[artbookclubdublin-blog]

This is the list of book suggestions that were gathered for our first book club. We then voted for the book that we wanted to read for our first meeting. 

Documents of Contemporary Art: Participation, edited by Claire Bishop 

The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context.

Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jen-Luc Nancy, Edoaurd Glissant, and Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Rancière's influential "Problems and Transformations in Critical Art." The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. And it features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

Ways of Seeing, by John Berger

John Berger’s now classic article "Ways of Seeing" (1972) revolutionarily, for his time, analyses the manner in which men and women are culturally represented, and the subsequent results these representations have on their conduct and self as well and mutual perception.

The Sublime, edited by Simon Morley 

In a world where technology, spectacle and excess seem to eclipse former concepts of nature, the individual and society, what might be the characteristics of a contemporary sublime? If there is any consensus it is in the notion that the sublime represents a taking to the limits, to the point at which fixities begin to fragment. This anthology examines how ideas of the sublime are explored in the work of contemporary artists and theorists, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence, terror, nature, technology, the uncanny and altered states.

Book of Mutter, by Kate Zambreno

Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes -- and dead calm -- of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a kind of fractured anatomy of melancholy that comes to contain critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures -- at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space.

Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater.

Aliens and Anorexia, by Chris Kraus  

First published in 2000, Chris Kraus’s second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and “Africa,” Kraus’s virtual S&M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace, her own low-budget independent film.

In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus makes a case for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor “self-esteem.” Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food.

In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective, by Hito Steyerl  

Available on the e-flux website: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67860/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-vertical-perspective/

The Temporality of the Landscape, by Tim Ingold

“In Tim Ingold's article, there are two themes present; that "...human life is a process that involves the passage of time," and that "...this life-process is also the process of information of the landscapes in which people have lived". Through the use of these themes and his methodological structure, Ingold argues that the landscape can be read as a text. First, he defines the terms landscape and temporality, and second, he introduces a new word, "taskscape", and considers how this relates to landscape. Finally, to further prove his point, the author attempts to "read" the landscape of a well-known painting, The Harvesters, by Bruegel, in which he interprets the temporality of this landscape. This article is useful in understanding cultural landscapes in that it encourages the researcher to think about an often missing, yet integral part of the interpretation of landscapes: time. The researcher is also made to question the relationship of the dimension of time to a particular landscape.” [E. Martin]

The Indiscipline of Painting, by Daniel Sturgis  

Essay and catalogue texts to exhibition.

 High Rise, by JG Ballard

High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos.

Two Hito Steyrl essays, to be read in combination: 

Politics of the archive, Translations in film: http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/steyerl/en  and In Defense of the Poor Image:

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

Curating Research, edited by Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson. Specifically the text called ‘The Complete Curator’

This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial practice. The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research within contemporary curating, Curating Research marks a new phase in developments of the profession globally. Consisting of case studies and contextual analyses by curators, artists, critics and academics, including Hyunjoo Byeon, Carson Chan and Joanna Warsza, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Olga Fernandez Lopez, Kate Fowle, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Liam Gillick, Georgina Jackson, Sidsel Nelund, Simon Sheikh, Henk Slager, tranzit.hu, Jelena Vestic, Marion von Osten and Vivian Ziherl, and edited by curators Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson, the book is an indispensible resource for all those interested in the current state of art and in the intersection between research and curating that underlies exhibition-making today.

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

A brave, fascinating memoir about love, gender, gender theory, having children, death, writing, and the modern family. Maggie Nelson, an established poet and prose writer, details her love for and relationship with Harry Dodge, a charismatic, gender-fluid artist ('are you a man or a woman?' the narrator wonders, but it just doesn't matter). In a brilliantly-written account that is moving as well as fascinating, Nelson charts her thoughts and feelings about becoming a step-parent, her pregnancy, Harry's operation and testosterone injections, and the couple's complex joys in queer-family creation.

Staying with the Trouble, by Donna Haraway

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

[scotianostra]

The Scottish folk singer Ian Campbell was born on June 10th 1933 in Aberdeen.

Ian Campbell was the eldest of four children born to Betty and Dave Campbell, who were described as “Aberdonian born and bred”

As well as both parents and Ian and his sisters Lorna and Winnie, The Singing Campbells also included Bob Cooney, their Aberdonian lodger who came for a week and became, as Hall wrote, “a member of the family by adoption”.

As well as both parents and Ian and his sisters Lorna and Winnie, The Singing Campbells also included Bob Cooney, their Aberdonian lodger who came for a week and became, as Hall wrote, “a member of the family by adoption”.In 1946 they moved to Birmingham. There the apprentice jewellery engraver discovered the local branch of the Workers’ Music Association and joined its Clarion Youth Choir. When skiffle boomed in 1957-58, a splinter Clarion Skiffle Group was formed, avoiding the standard repertoire, they incorporated, what Campbell described as “a political element in our approach”, with Scottish farming material, Jacobite songs and industrial and mining songs being their chosen songbooks.

Campbell’s socially engaged songs guaranteed bookings, but Clarion already had a Clarion Folk Group. “I wanted to call us the Cornkisters,” Campbell told me, “because that’s a name of a type of Aberdeen folk song. Everyone said it was a silly name. Temporarily, because they had asked to book Ian Campbell and his group, we called ourselves the Ian Campbell Folk Group and we never got around to changing it.” He identified two great inspirations: Ewan MacColl and Bert Lloyd, both singers with their roots in socialism.

In 1962 Topic, a label that had begun life as a WMA offshoot, put out a live recording from The Crown on Birmingham’s Station Street. The result was the Ian Campbell Folk Group’s EP Ceilidh At The Crown – probably the country’s first live folk club recording. In 1963 they signed to Transatlantic, immediately releasing their debut LP, This Is The Ian Campbell Folk Group that same year. With a secure folk club base, the Jug of Punch, as a residency, and a record contract, they went full-time in 1963. That same year Walther Klæbel, a young Copenhagen-based jazz promoter, saw them in London. Exultant, he organised their first Danish tour. “We never looked back because twice a year we would go to Denmark and do a national tour […] for about 12 years.”

While living in England, Paul Simon picked up on “The Sun Is Burning” a nuclear protest song penned by Ian, covering it on Simon and Garfunkel’s 1964 debut LP, The Dubliners would later cover the song too.

After Ian disbanded the group in 1978 as a TV editor, most notably with TV AM and as a community arts worker in Dudley.

Although they only released 10 albums and three EP’s/Singles they are still remembered as one of the only folk bands that broke into mainstream music for a while, however their rivals, The Spinners really stole the limelight in the 60’s.

I think though that Ian’s name will always be remember for the band three of his sons have been involved with for the past 40 years or so, UB40. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage and have had over 50 hit singles, selling over 70 million records worldwide.

Ian Campbell passed away on 24th November 2012, from cancer, he was 79.

The song is the Child ballad  181, Roud 334,  The Bonnie Earl O' Moray, a popular ballad that dates back to the 17th century.

[whatsortofschoolisthis]

IDENTITY

Full Name: Wednesday Anne Drew

Nicknames: Wen, Drew.

Name Meanings: Wednesday — German, ”Woden’s Day”,  Anne— Hebrew, “God has Favored Me” , Drew — Irish, Original surname  Ó Draoi “Descendant of the Druid”.

Date of Birth: Christmas Day, 1972

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Blood Status: Pureblood.

Ethnicity/Race: White/Caucasian.

Nationality: Irish/American (Dual Citizenship).

MBTI Type: ENTP-A- The Debater

Residence:  Wizarding Dublin, Ireland

MAGIC

Wand:

Wood: Cherry Wood Wand

Core: Thestral Core.

Length: 10 inches

Flexibility: Inflexible

Other Magical Abilities: Animagus, Scarlet Tanager. 

Patronus: American Beaver.

Patronus Memory: Eating wild strawberries with her older brother Jericho

Boggart:  A dark indistinguishable shape with red eyes and sharp teeth, what a ‘haint’ might look like in Wednesday’s eyes.

Riddikulus: The creature turns into a dapper 1920s man dancing aggressively around

Amortentia:

Wednesday smells creature treats, potions classroom, and a fireplace.

Wedneday smells like Strawberries, spruce forests, and clean mountain air.

Mirror of Erised:  A simple house with a calico cat and a one eared crup, it looks a lot like her late great-grandmother’s house.

HOGWARTS

House: Ravenclaw

OWL Classes:

Transfiguration - O

Charms - E

Herbology - E

Astronomy - O

Potions - E

History of Magic - A

Defense Against the Dark Arts - O

Flying - P

OWL Electives:

Ghoul Studies- O

Care of Magical Creatures- A

NEWT Classes:

Charms- O

Potions- O

Astronomy- E

Defense Against the Dark Arts- E

Quidditch: No

Prefect: Yes

Clubs: Sphinx Club, Bookbinding club, and Ghoul Club.

Favorite Professors: Professor Rakepick (she is the only one) and Professor Sinstra. 

Least Favorite Professors:  Professor Snape.

CAREER

11 to 17 - Hogwarts student. Worked part time at Honeydukes as a saleswitch.

18 to 24- Bookbinder at Florish and Blotts, Graduated from the University of Limerick with a degree in anthropology.

25 to 26- Went into hiding during the war and was captured.

26 to 28- Escaped and fled to Romania.

28 to 98- Magical Anthropologist/writer.

APPEARANCE

Faceclaim: No Idea,

Height: 5 ft 6.

Weight & Physique: 140 pounds, thin.

Hair Color: Brick red

Hair Style: Long and wavy, worn down.

Eye Color: Blue.

Skin Tone: Fair

Scars: None, surprisingly. 

Modifications: (piercings, tattoos, glasses, etc.)  : Gets a tattoo of a lobelia flower on her wrist in her fifth year.

Distinguishing Marks: Heart shaped birthmark on her right shoulder.

Clothing Style: Skirts with sweaters.

Accessories: A bracelet her mom got her and tortoiseshell glasses.

What’s In Her Pockets: Her wand.

What’s In Her School Bag:

Textbooks

Parchment and quills.

Pens.

Knitting needles.

Handmade book of ‘Granny Magic’ spells passed down from her great-great-great grandmother.

Bookbinding kit.

A few galleons.

VOICE & LANGUAGE

Voiceclaim: Kate Micucci.

Accent: (might differ from voiceclaim’s) : American with a bit of Dublin thrown in 

Dialect: Local Dublin English mixed with American English and Appalachian English. She sounds weird.

Languages Spoken: English, Irish, and Appalachian English.

Languages Understood: English, Irish, and Appalachian English.

Speech and/or Language Disorder: None

FAMILY

Father: Noal Marvin Drew

Born on Halloween 1928 to Easton and Aideen Drew in a wizarding village in the Appalachian Mountains. The oldest of five children, three boys and two girls. (Noal, Skylar, Baylor, Easton Junior, and Kinley.)

His grandparents were well known blood purists, his mother coming from the Edelwood family (one of the pure 10) and his father being distantly related to 27 members of the sacred 28 and one of the pure 10 in the US. 

His parents did not buy into their ideologies and they were disowned and driven out of their home village of Vespers.  

Unfortunately, most of his siblings did buy into purism and the only one Noal still speaks to is Easton Junior.

He had a very happy and chaotic childhood.

Noal was sorted into Horned Serpent in Illvermony and was on their broom racing team.

Became a Cursebreaker after graduation and worked with his sister Skylar.

He met Ilse while breaking a curse for the O’Malley family and they started writing back and forth. They got married in 1950 and had Bailey in 1952, Jericho in 1965, Wednesday in 1972, and Rosie in 1979.

Noal and Ilse immigrated to Ireland in 1978 so Ilse could be closer to her family after her father died and to have a new start after a falling out with Skylar over blood purism. They brought Aideen with them.

Noal loves all his children/family and is always looking for Jericho and Danny.

Faceclaim: Harrison Ford.

Mother: Ilse Marie Drew (Nee Edelwood).

Born on June 8th 1928, in Traelee Ireland to Maxwell (born in Appalachia, USA) and Mary Edelwood. She had one sister named June who died in 1948 due to complications from Pneumonia.

Ilse had a very pleasant childhood and would often play with her maternal cousin Saorise, who lived nearby. 

Ilse was sorted into Ravenclaw and played keeper for their Quidditch team.

After graduation, she worked with her maternal grandfather on his tree farm and opened a small stand for drinks that she had from the fruit of the fruit trees. Here she met Noal who was helping her grandfather get rid of a curse on one of his older trees. They started writing and were married on May 28th 1950 and Ilse immigrated to America with her husband in 1951.

Ilse became an American citizen in 1952 a month before Bailey was born. 

Moved back to Ireland in 1978 after her father died to help her mother and to keep her children away from Skylar.

She loves her family and her husband. No one is allowed to bad mouth him.

Faceclaim: Maureen O'Hara

Older Brother: Bailey John Drew

Born on March 30th, 1952.

Was sorted into Wampus House at illvermorny and played chaser on their Quidditch team.

Works as a train engineer. Was never interested in magical work.

Very quiet. Doesn’t talk a lot and when he does, you’d better listen. because it’s important.

Wednesday isn’t all that close to him but she does love him.

Faceclaim: Young Clint Eastwood.

Brother: Jericho Jacob Drew

Born on Thanksgiving Day 1965.

Jericho is a highly intelligent Ravenclaw with low wisdom and enjoys things he finds challenging, which is why he helped Danny hunt the vaults.

A very sweet person and a good older brother, in direct contrast to Danny, who is an asshole.

He becomes an archaeologist after being freed from the vault and swears off cursebreaking as a career.

Wednesday adores him even though he can be “A bit reckless and stupid.”

Faceclaim: River Phoenix.

Sister: Rosie June Drew

Born on July 4th, 1979.

The baby of the family and a future Gryffindor. Very adventurous, always giving her mother and Wednesday a heart attack.

Wants to be a Cursebreaker like her dad and cousins, her favorite being Sean.

Rosie thinks Wednesday is annoying and a busybody. Wednesday thinks she is annoying and too careless. They love each other.

Faceclaim: Young Liliana Mumy.

Cousins: Rubin, Wren, Fiadah, Danny, Bryn, Hecate, Sean, and Kit. Also Evangeline.

She gets along best with Hecate but even then they fight a lot. 

Being around Evangeline is a bit awkward but it’s not her circus or her clowns so she treats Evangeline like she would anyone else- with condescension and like she can’t read.

They all love each other, don’t get me wrong, but they tend to rub one other the wrong way.

Wednesday treats Rubin and Wren as aunts due to the age difference.

She tends to avoid Fiadah like the plague, the woman makes Wednesday VERY uncomfortable.

Pets: Rat named Bobbin and a Barn owl named Spectacles. 

FRIENDSHIPS

Best Friends:

Angelica Cole.

Jane Court

Chester Davies.

Bill Weasley.

Close Friends:

Orion Amari.

Murphy McNully (by force, he befriended her by force).

Ben Copper, somehow.

Friends:

Victor Katsuki.

Erika Rath

Acquaintances:

Everyone else.

It’s Complicated:

Chiara Lobasca.

Jae Kim

Dormmates:

Unnamed Ravenclaws.

Rivals: Tulip Karasu.

Enemies: R, Death Eaters, Rakepick, Merula Snyde. 

ROMANCE & CHILDREN

Love Interest: Jae Kim/Felix Rosier

They met while at Hogwarts, Felix was much older so Wednesday didn’t talk to him much.

Wednesday dated Jae Kim in her 3rd year through the beginning of her 4th year and acted like an absolute crazy person. Jae broke it off and started dating Chiara at the end of year 4 and Wednesday took it very badly.

Ben, of all people, gave her a ‘get your shit together’ talk, which kept her from burning bridges with her ex and her family in their 6th year and her 7th.

She starts dating Felix when she’s 20 and they get married when she’s 23.

Future Daughter: Raven May Rosier

Born October 10th 1996 at 12:00pm .

She’s a quiet unassuming girl and would like to be the next Hogwarts Librarian when she grows up. Ravenclaw.

Willow wand, 11 and a half inches, with a unicorn hair core and bendy.

Future Son: Maxwell John Rosier

Born on August 31st 2000 at 6:00am. 

Loud, boisterous, and utterly chaotic, Slytherin. Would like to own his own Joke Shop in the US or be an electrician.

Dogwood wand, 11 inches, dragon heartstring core, and very flexible.

PERSONALITY

Traits:

Positive: Intelligent, brave, loyal, kind generous.

Neutral: Outspoken, polite, cautious, sarcastic.

Negative: Stubborn, possessive, pessimistic, know it all, uptight, and nosy.

Favorites:

Color: Burgundy 

Food: Biscuits and gravy.

Weather: Cool and windy

Books: Mostly non-fiction, does enjoy Agatha Christie novels though.

Hobbies: Bookbinding, reading, building model trains, knitting, gardening, and writing.

Music: Jazz music

Dislikes: Blood supremacy, rock music, snow,

Description: Despite being a stick in the mud, Wednesday does love her family and friends and would do anything to help them (within reason). She can be very possessive and often has to keep herself from acting on those impulses.

MBTI Description: "Quick-witted and audacious, Debaters aren’t afraid to disagree with the status quo. In fact, they’re not afraid to disagree with pretty much anything or anyone. Few things light up people with this personality type more than a bit of verbal sparring – and if the conversation veers into controversial terrain, so much the better."

HISTORY & BACKGROUND

Pre-Hogwarts Childhood:

Wednesday was born in the small Wizarding town of Redwood in 1972. Her Paternal grandfather died shortly before she was born.

She had a fairly pleasant early childhood, following Jericho and Bailey around their property and visiting with her Mimi (great grandmother) who lived in a house on the property

Her Mimi died in her sleep when Wednesday was 6. Jericho and Wednesday found her.

They immigrated to America not long after her maternal grandfather died and left Bailey behind as he had no desire to move to Ireland or be anywhere near "that death eater shit."

Jacob went missing alongside Jacob after searching for the cursed vaults.

Hogwarts Years:

Trying to google everything would only frustrate me and waste my time, so I’m not going into detail.

Becomes a prefect in her third year.

Wednesday helps with the vaults and with research on them.

Second Wizarding War:

Forced to go into hiding during the war due to her marriage to Felix and they are seperated after being found out by Purists.

After being held captive for several months while the Death Eaters tried to get Felix on their side, she managed to escape

Wednesday joined her husband in Romania shortly before having Raven. They housed refugees in their home and Granny (Aideen).

Adulthood:

Wednesday spent the rest of her life in Romania with Felix writing and studying Muggle ghosts, which she refers to as haints.

Aideen dies a very old woman in Wednesdays home.

Death:

Wednesday dies of a stroke at the age of 98, a decade before Felix. She left two children, four grandchildren, and eight grandchildren.

MISCELLANEOUS

Wednesday enjoys American action movies, her favorites being Terminator and Speed.

She likes her own children but not other people's.

Can't carry a tune and is tone deaf.

Considered becoming a train engineer if she turned out to be a Squib and still really likes trains.

Mimi taught her to knit and Wednesday finished her final project: scarves for their family Christmas.

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[aislingeu]

hello!! i’m kq ( aka kelsey quinn! ) i’m twenty five, livin in the est, usin she / her pronouns!! much like the good buddy who turned me on to this rp, i don’t know a ton about percy jackson!! but mythology was one of the few subjects that held my attention in school, so i hoe i have a good handle on it! :D for now, i manage a comic book store from thursdays - sundays, so i’m scarce those times but i’m usually on discord!!

⟨ ABIGAIL COWEN. CIS FEMALE. SHE / HER ⟩ though the mist might prevent some from seeing it, AISLING DUNN is actually a descendant of H Y P N O S. it’s still a question of whether or not the TWENTY-THREE year old PAINTING MAJOR from DUBLIN, IRELAND has taken after their godly parent completely, but the demigod is still known to be quite CLEVER & COARSE.

this got way longer than i intended im so sorry... 

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃

she was born on march 12th, 1997 to a pair of irish musicians ( conor and dierdre dunn ) and, unwittingly, one greek god ( hypnos ) in dublin, ireland. her parents met and married shortly after her conception and neither of them suspected that conor wasn’t aisling’s father, until she was claimed.

as an only child, her parents didn’t have much to compare her too in terms of overall strangeness. for years, they wrote off her abilities as kids just sayin’ the darndest things. they remained blissfully unaware of the impact of their daughter’s words, rolling their eyes fondly, when she told them about the man in the cave, who came to her in dreams. they smiled and laughed, when she strangers at the supermarket that she thought erwin was a fine name to give a teddy bear, no matter what anyone else said. how were they to know that she was unearthing the fond childhood memories that passersby had almost forgotten? 

when she enrolled in primary school, they realized that she was... strange, if not special. she was recognized as a bit of a space case, often staring at nothing in particular, while her teacher droned on. her worksheets were seldom turned in complete. instead, aisling began gifting poorly drawn family portraits on the blank sides of her papers, likenesses plucked from the memories she explored when her mind wandered, in class.

eventually, after her skill had developed and people stopped writing off the stick figures as ‘coincidentally accurate’, people began to truly take notice. they speculated that she was a medium, silently communing with the dead and painting their pictures as she did. how else could she know what her art teacher’s late father looked like? and what color tie he always liked to wear? she had to be a psychic. recipients of her art were always so focused on their perception of the little girl with the gift of sight that they hardly even realized what she had tweaked, brightening up their darkest memories, just so they wouldn’t have to hurt anymore. she hardly even realized, herself.

without a reason to believe otherwise, she told the man in her dreams that she was a psychic, but he knew differently. he told her that that wasn’t so. she was special, yes, but not in the ways that the world thought her to be. hypnos let her in on the secret he’d been keeping for the past twelve years and, just like that, aisling could make sense of herself. once she knew the truth, she chased sleep. she spent as much time as she could, communicating with the one person who understood who she was. he saw her hunger for belonging and pointed her in the direction of the camp nearest to her hometown.

after a summer away, she came home faced with a challenge in morality that she’d never considered, as a child. she came home to a world where she could no longer fit. her party tricks had lost their luster the moment she realized that true value of a memory, however sad, was worth far more than the cheap smiles that her alterations had afforded. with that realization, her art took a darker turn. unable to shift the memories she saw into the light, they haunted her. she now saw their fears and heartbreaks for what they were: unchangeable. and, now, they lived within her, too. putting them to paper was the only way to get them out. but, pieces like those weren’t the kind that could be sent home to mom and dad. pieces like those were the kind that got her meetings with guidance counselors and haunted, fleeting looks from those whose memories she’d never meant to disturb. after a year of that, aisling went back to camp, full time.

once she was a year round resident of the camp, she found herself more comfortable around people who understood; there was nothing she had to hide, among those who were like her. each one of them was fighting an uphill battle of their own. they didn’t have to hide it. even if she never allowed herself to get too close, aisling never felt all that far away, at camp.

at eonia, aisling spends most of her days painting, sleeping, or working. raised by a pair of mortal musicians, finding a job at fireside records felt like a natural progression. where her godly parent thrives in silence, she finds her comfort in noise. it’s easier to block out the things she doesn’t need to see when there’s something immediate for her to focus on. at the other end of that spectrum, aisling finds her mind most open in visual arts club, trying to keep her other creative skills sharp, while she keeps her primary focus on painting. in search of inspiration, her mind reaches out in tendrils, dipping into another’s until she finds something she can work with. she only needs to leave the room before they’ve realized what she’s borrowed. 

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

aisling is a naturally empathetic person, always wishing she could do more to help those around her. unfortunately, she knows that she can’t always honor that instinct. her abilities and self-imposed limitations have left her with a hardened exterior that isn’t easy to break through. those who pass through her walls see a softer side: a steadfast friend, always there to put a peaceful end to their sleepless nights or calm their worst nightmares, with a gentle run of her fingers through their hair. but sometimes, she’ll wall herself away from even those she’s closest to after she finds herself in the middle of a particularly harrowing memory. because of this, maintaining close bonds for long is a difficult thing. given her propensity for accidentally rifling through the fondest and most fearsome parts of peoples’ pasts, she’s been known cut them out of her life when she sees something that she has the urge to alter.

𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒

MEMORY RETRIEVAL — for as long as she could remember, aisling knew things that she shouldn’t. at first, her parents just dismissed her gift as imagination and observation combining in a perfect, creepy storm. it wasn’t until she started attending school, picked up her finger paints, and started to draw out moments from the pasts of strangers that people started to truly take notice. sloppy scenes from the librarian’s wedding day graduated into well sketched portraits of her bus driver’s dalmatians. she liked to take those happy moments, immortalize them in art, and hand them off to the owners of the memories. she liked to make people smile. sometimes, she took that a step further. too young to see the value in sadness, aisling would tweak the memories that were harder to bear; even if she couldn’t bring someone happiness in the present, she hoped she could bring them comfort in the future. it wasn’t until she was claimed that aisling saw the flaws in her intervention. it wasn’t until she was taught the consequences that she knew she had to stop. although the memories came to her unbidden, they didn’t belong to her and she had no right to change them. instead of focusing on the alteration of memories, aisling opted to try to learn how to shut them out. like her other powers, though, there’s a direct correlation between her emotional state and her ability to keep a wall up. when she’s feeling something strongly or hasn’t gotten enough sleep, she sees things that she doesn’t mean to.

HYPNOKINESIS — you are getting very sleepy… what proved to be a fun tool at sleepovers had more practical applications than aisling knew possible. the skill of inducing sleep was easy enough to come by and influencing dreams was as simple as altering memories. and while ( without intending to ) she’d been known to cause visions when tensions ran high, refining those visions into ones that took the shapes she wanted them to took practice. even more difficult than that was learning to astral project, but that became a necessity, coming hand-in-hand with building her mental walls. when the uninvited memories start to weigh on her, she’s learned that it’s best to remove herself from the immediate vicinity. even if she’s only technically leaving in her head. 

OTHER ABILITIES — ( levitation ) a skill she only possesses in sleep, predominantly when her dreams are eliciting strong emotions. ( seeing the gods in dreams ) this is how she formed and maintained a relationship with her father, despite her parents being unaware of their daughter’s godly lineage. on occasion, she’ll encounter gods that she’s less familiar with and, in most of those cases, she’s been known to force herself awake.

𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

there are so many cool, fun things runnin through my brain right now!! i think it would be lovely for her to have forged a friendship with an insomniac or maybe someone prone to nightmares that she could help! and those fun customer service relationships with record store regulars!! or maybe a former friend or significant other, who aisling left behind? maybe even altering their memory slightly, if the parting of ways was ugly! who knows! the possibilities are endless!! and i’m always up to hearing other peoples’ ideas because the Sweet Lord knows i am not the most imaginative person in any given room!!!

thank u for reading ilu!!!