#august book photo challenge

[just0nemorepage]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge hosted by  Just One More Page 📚 📷

Month: August; Tags: #justonemorepage • #jompbpc

Sorry this is so late this month! But hey it's time for August's BPC prompt!

Click here for the FAQ, and as always, please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. ❤️ Enjoy!

[gcantread]

last 🐴 | current 🐉 | next 😈

[books-in-a-storm]

JOMPBPC August 2024: Day 3 Summer

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 1

August goals

My friend wants me to read this book so … I’ll get to it sometime this month 😂

The discord book club I’m in has a pirate map challenge running this quarter and I have 2 maps left and I’m hoping to finish them this month so I can have a clean slate for orillium in September

[hypersoft-fest]

The F1blr Hypersoft Collab Fest (Hypersoft Fest for short) is an event by @f1blrcreatorsfest feat. @formulaonekinkmememeant, focusing on the visual artists of F1blr and with the objective to encourage writer and artist collaboration.

The theme is romance books and movies: we challenge you to make a book cover or a movie poster, and then we challenge the authors to write something about it.

Every week we will give you the themes, plus little bonus challenges.

If you have doubts on what to make, you can check our inspiration pinterest board.

You can sign up for the event HERE - this is useful for us to get a rough estimate of who is participating, and to eventually match up artists and writers. Of course, you can participate even if you don't sign up.

When? August 1st - September 26th + the entire month of October for eventual late submissions.

Artists: you can participate with any kind of media you prefer - fanart, graphics art, photo edits, photo manipulations, graphic design.

Writers: once the covers are out, you can choose one (or, potentially, be randomly matched up with an artist) and write something about it.

You can write:

- A book or movie blurb

- An excerpt from the book, one shot or multi chapter

- An extract from the movie script

- Fake reviews

- A whole novella (if you're brave enough)

The rules are few but simple:

Only F1 drivers, past and present. This means no other racing series, no WAGs, no celebrity pairings.

Ship and let ship.

Absolutely no hate towards your fellow creatives, both artists and writers.

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

August 03 - Summer (Vacation)

[queeryouthautonomy]

We're starting a protest!

Visit queeryouthassemble.org to learn how to join us, and send us an ask or email us at march@queeryouthassemble.org with any questions!

Photo credits and alt text available under the cut:

📸 credits, used with permission: 

All art by the incredible @jesseyoungpaulson 

Slide 6: @cpagsa during their walkout, March 2022

Slide 7: @lgbtatorr during their walkout, as QYA Head of Teams @alia.cusolito gives a speech, March 2022

Slide 8: @briggs_padilla from their walkout, March 2022

Slide 9 and 10: @alia.cusolito from Let Trans Athletes Play, August 2022

Alt text:

Slide 1

A digital art piece showing a diverse group of queer youth is overlayed with text reading, “March for Queer & Trans Youth Autonomy, March 31 2023, All 50 States, Uniting as One.” 

Slide 2

The background is a rainbow gradient with  a digital art piece showing three queer youth. The text reads, “It’s time we create one of the largest queer youth marches in history! Uniting every queer and trans young person under the common goals of safety, autonomy, joy.” 

Slide 3

A rainbow gradient with a small digital art piece in the corner of three queer youth. The text reads, “The queer & trans community has been upended by a series of devastating laws, detrimental legislation, and queerphobic attacks designed to make the lives of queer & trans youth as unbearable as possible. Each and every queer & trans youth serving org has  responded in their own ways, prompting walkouts, protests, legislative challenges, organizational statements, and other rebuttals in an attempt to swing the momentum. Now it’s time to unite our communities powerful work and collectively advocate for youth as one!”

Slide 4

A rainbow gradient overlayed with text reading, “This march will center the voices of queer and trans youth.” This is followed by a bulleted list saying the following, “Marches will be held at capitol buildings & in major cities in all 50 states. Queer & trans youth will share their stories, experiences, and demands to the masses.  Everyone from adults to allies to politicians will march in solidarity. State & national orgs will organize these marches, while students will organize walkouts at their schools.”

Slide 5

A rainbow gradient overlayed with text reading, “Queer and trans youth will receive the spotlight to advocate for their safety, their joy, and their autonomy. The tidal wave that these marches will create, combined with the  political & media spotlight on queer & trans youth, will drown the conservative narratives that have dominated the fight until now. In their place, queer & trans youth voices, stories, interviews, testimony, films, books, will all rise to show the lives and share the stories of queer & trans youth. We will be front and center.” 

Slide 6

An image of students from @cpagsa during QYA’s National Queer Youth Walkout is overlayed with text and a list of checkboxes reading, “Youth! If you are an activist, are in your school’s GSA and/or have been impacted anti queer & trans youth speech, legislation, or laws then we invite you to join our queer & trans youth led march planning committees! Visit queeryouthassemble.org for more information.” 

Slide 7

An image of students at Old Rochester Regional’s walkout, with QYA Head of Teams Alia Cusolito giving a speech, overlayed by text which reads, “ Queer & trans youth listening sessions. January 7th, 2023, 4pm EST, January 11th, 2023, 8pm EST, January 15th, 2023, 4pm EST, and January 21st, 2023, 10pm EST. We invite queer & trans youth across the country to join us at our march listening sessions, where we will be brainstorming a list of demands for the march. Once completed, the list will be circulated across the country, and signed by politicians & organizations to pledge their commitment to queer & trans youth. Register by clicking the link in our bio or visiting queeryouthassemble.org. 

Slide 8

An image of students during the walkout in March, overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “Adults! If you have an LGBTQ+ kid, support queer & trans youth autonomy, and/or want a safe and loving future for your children then we invite you to donate to Queer Youth Assemble! Visit queeryouthassemble.org to donate.”

Slide 9

An image of queer youth attending Queer Youth Assemble’s Let Trans Athletes Play event in August overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “Orgs! If you support queer and trans youth autonomy, have BIPOC, trans, or disabled leadership, and/or have experience planning marches or major events, then we invite you to plan a March at your state’s capitol/major city! Visit queeryouthassemble.org to sign your org up. 

Slide 10 

An image of queer youth attending Queer Youth Assemble’s Let Trans Athletes Play event in August overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “What can I do? Visit queeryouthassemble.org, share this post on your socials, and/or donate to support the march.”

[fayes-fics]

Benedict: Modern AU Fic Masterlist

Main Masterlist | Benedict: Regency | Anthony: Regency | Anthony: Modern

Updated August 24, 2024 Listed in ascending order of completion. All x reader unless specified otherwise

❦ smut | ✿ fluff/humour | ❥ angst | ⚣ threesome

It Had To Be You ✿ ❦

When the World Is Free (WW2 setting) ✿ ❥ ❦

Lessons ❦ ⚣

Mrs Bridgerton ✿ ❥ ❦

Kinktober 2022 Drabbles ❦

March 2023 Drabbles ✿ ❦

Kinktober 2023 Drabbles ❦

One-word Drabble Challenge ✿ ❦

One Word Challenge Blurbs ✿ ❥ ❦

Many Things ❥ ❦

Waking Up ❦

Jam ✿

Tattoo ❦

This Book is Dedicated To… ❦

Three-Dot Symphony ✿ ❦

Truth or Dare ❦

Transitions ✿ ❦

Balnea Interruptus ❦ ✿

Somewhere Only We Know ❦

Valuable Opinion ❦

Ouroboros ❦ ❥

Talk To Me ❦

Driven to Distraction ❦ ⚣

Un cadeau de Noël ❦

Party Favour ❦ ✿

Pas Quotidien ❦

Revelation ❦

The Gift ❦

Rhythm ❦

Electric ❦ ✿

Accurate ❦

Upper Hand ❦

A Helping Hand ❦

Skinny-Dip ✿

Teacher Bridgerton ✿

Too Much ❦ ⚣ 

Coming Home ❦

A Blessing ✿

Make It Better ❦

A Job Well Done ❦

Show Them All ❦

Call Me ❦

Coitus Mahemium ❦ ✿

Doctor's Orders ❦

It's That Time Of Year ❦ ✿

Innuendo Bingo ✿

Textual Encounter ✿

Breathe (In The Air) ❦

Vibe & Vexation ❦ Modern AU w/ Regency roleplay

Aflame ❦

NSFW Alphabet for Benedict Bridgerton ❦

Benedict Bridgerton x Sophie Beckett:

Could Be Worse ❥ ✿

Photo edit @/bridgertontess | dividers @/firefly-graphics

[onceuponatown]

The Loomis Radio School, Washington D.C. ca. 1921.

The school was located at 401 Ninth St. N.W. and operated with the call letters 3YA. By 1920 it was offering a six month course enabling the graduate to obtain a first grade commercial radio license and by January of 1922 was offering a four year course with a degree in Radio Engineering bestowed on graduates.

The school was founded by Mary Texanna Loomis, pictured in the last photo.

Born August 18, 1880 near Goliad, Texas. She was the second child born to Alvin Isaac and Caroline (Dryer) Loomis. Though born on homestead in Texas in 1880, by 1883 her parents had returned to Rochester NY and then on to Buffalo where Alvin became president of a large delivery and storage company. Little is known of her early years, but appears she had a fairly middle-class up bringing. She seemed well schooled, with an early interest in music and language (she mastered French, German and Italian) Her early years were spent in Buffalo, NY and she later relocated to Virginia. 

During the early years of World War I, she became interested in the new field of wireless telegraphy. There was a family precedent; her cousin, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, had conducted early wireless experiments with moderate success and may in fact have been the first person, in 1865, to send and receive wireless signals. 

Mary soon became proficient enough in wireless telegraphy to be granted a license by the United States Department of Commerce. Thoroughly fascinated with the field now called “radio”, she decided to turn her expertise into a career. Also, she wanted to do something that would honor her pioneering ancestor. Her idea was to do this by founding a radio school. 

Though radio was indeed, for many years, a profession dominated by men, Mary Loomis around age 40 took no notice and in 1920 founded the Loomis Radio School in Washington, D.C. and it quickly gained an excellent reputation. Ms. Loomis set high standards for the school and it attracted students not only from the United States but Europe and Asia as well. Loomis enjoyed teaching as much as she enjoyed radio itself. In an interview, she said, “Really, I am so infatuated with my work that I delight in spending from 12 to 15 hours a day at it. My whole heart and soul are in this radio school.” 

As president and Lecturer of the Loomis Radio School, Mary authored a definitive book on radio, named “Radio Theory and Operating.” 

By January 1922 the school was offering a four year course with a degree in Radio Engineering bestowed on graduates. Loomis also intended that her students understand more than just the inner and outer workings of radio. In addition to a radio laboratory (with equipment constructed almost entirely by Mary herself), the school maintained a complete shop capable of teaching carpentry, drafting and basic electricity. She reasoned that many of her graduates might find themselves at sea, or in other challenging situations and she wanted them adequately prepared. “No man,” Ms. Loomis said, at the time, “can graduate from my school until he learns how to make any part of the apparatus. I give him a blueprint of what I want him to do and tell him to go into the shop and keep hammering away until the job is completed.” 

The school appears to have been in existence at least through the early 1930's, but it has not been possible to find information after that.

In an interview given to H.O. Bishop of the Dearborn Independent in 1921, Mary was asked: “What sort of young men are taking up the radio profession?” to which she replied:

“The Kind who have grit and want to get there! Virtually all of them are ambitious and enthusiastic over the possibility of visiting every nook and corner of the world. My students are not only enrolled from various sections of the USA and Canada but from many foreign countries, such as Sweden, Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, Austria, Rumania and the Philippines. One of the brightest pupils I ever had was Prince Walimuhomed of Far-away Afghanistan. He was an extremely modest young man, keeping his real identity a secret until after graduating. He said he had no idea of earning his living by working at radio, but just wanted to know all about it. He does.You have no idea how much happiness I get out of the success of each individual graduate. My boys keep in touch with me from all parts of the world. Scarcely a day goes by that I do not get some trinket or postcard from some remote section of the world. I have made the wonderful discovery that the only way for me to get happiness for myself is to make some one else happy. I find that I am making these young men happy by teaching them every phase of the radio business so that they can earn a comfortable living for themselves and their dependents and at the same time, see the great big beautiful world.

As far as we can figure out, Mary Loomis left Washington D.C. around 1935 and moved to San Francisco where she worked as a stenographer. She died in 1960 and is interred at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA. 

Source

[harvardfineartslib]

Behind the scenes, our Creative Arts Archivist Max Goldberg has been busy this summer.

In August, Max spent five non-consecutive days at the Harvard Depository and went through all 270+ boxes in the Stephen Lee Taller/Ben Shahn Archive for the Fine Arts Library, which holds the collection of materials to the American artist Ben Shahn (1898–1969) compiled by Stephen Lee Taller.

Dr. Taller was a friend of Ezra Shahn, Ben's oldest son. The archive contains thousands of items related to the artist's work, including books written by and illustrated by Ben Shahn, magazines in which his work was featured, exhibition and auction sales catalogs, commercial work such as book jackets, record jackets, and advertisements, interview transcripts, and newspaper clippings.

As you can imagine from the sheer volume of this archive, it was a massive task to review the contents of all the boxes. Everything was cataloged at the item-level in a database by Dr. Taller, and Max estimates that there are approximately 10,000 items. We’re so grateful for all his hard work this summer. The first two photos in this post were taken by Max while he was working at the Harvard Depository, and the last image shows some examples from this archive.

Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was an American artist, best known for his works of social realism, his political activist work, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Through his work, Shahn challenged the status quo in the society, focusing on themes related to modern urban life, organized labor, immigration, and injustice, among others.

Today is Ben Shahn’s birthday.

[just0nemorepage]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge hosted by  Just One More Page 📚 📷

Month: August; Tags: #justonemorepage • #jompbpc

August is already almost here! I don't even have any witty comments this time, time has just been flying past me in a daze lmao. But here's the BPC for the month!

Click here for the FAQ, and as always, please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. ❤️ Enjoy!

[gcantread]

love love love 🍅🥕🥬 | JOMP book photo challenge | 16 August 2024

[books-in-a-storm]

Book Lover's Day!

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 1

August goals

To complete my exams for orillium (9 books)

Finish Barbie bingo (4 books)

And BCB summer bingo (3 books)

[the-orange-tabby-cat]

Howdy! September is quite special for lucky cat Tabby because it marks a year since I joined Tumblr, my birthday, and moving out of the country for new land all at once.

I’m cleaning my barn and found some questionable items I've kept for a while and can’t pack with me. Decided to do a yard sale, the price? A fic! I'm a cat, I don't use real money. This is baby's first fic challenge. Now, it's quite simple: you choose between 1 to 3 items from my selling list, send me an ask with your order, and voilá, you are in. 

⭐ Check out the challenge's masterlist!

WHAT AM I SELLING?

Choose up to 3 items between the 10 categories (in italics is what you will receive):

Homemade cassette tapes of forgotten lovers - an album

Old books from a dusty shelf - literature genre

Posters that I had in my room when kitten - pic inspo

Travel memorabilia - a place (it can be a city or a more general place)

DVDs I forgot to return to Blockbuster - a quote

Power tools I bought to make DIYs I never did - a profession

Photo album of the barn's previous owner - a situation

*The* one bed - a couple trope

Outfits I’ve grown out of and can't use - a Pedro boy

Plushie collection - a wildcard

THE RULES

1. Send an ask with your order of 1 up to 3 items from August 31st until September 3rd. There are 15 slots for this challenge.

2. Go absolutely wild! Use the items as you prefer, no rules here for it. You are buying them, after all.

3. When you are done, tag me in your fic and use the #TabbysYardSale hashtag so I can find it. Upload your fic until October 31st, but if you need extra time or if something happens along the way, don't worry, let me know!

4. Have fun. Write smut, fluff, angst, you do you. No word limit, It's a writing challenge: I want you to feel motivated by it and beaming with confidence.

See ya, lucky cat 🐾

[fantasy-life-fan]

THEME LIST

FANTASY LIFE HOUSE DECORATION CHALLENGE

Here's the list of themes I've come up with:

January: Home. Take a photo of your home in FL as it looks now

February: Nature theme. You can make your house look like a rustic cabin, a farm or even a garden or a forest or whatever you can think off.

March: Fancy/Elegant/Royal theme.

April: Seasonal theme. Make your house give seasonal vibes of the season of your choice

May: Room of a character. Choose a Fantasy Life character (or someone from another game/movie/book/etc) and imagine what their room would look like.

June: Make your house look like a store or restaurant!

July: Beach/Ocean theme.

August: Recreate a scene from a game/movie/book/etc.

September: Show off! What items are your favorites, or you're the proudest of? Use all those trophies proof of all your achievements and use them to decorate your house or turn it into a museum!

October: Spooky theme!

November: Festivity of your choice. Decorate your house using a festivity of your choice as your inspiration.

December: Home again! Take a photo of your home as it looks now, to see how much it's changed with all the ideas and items you got

Bonus themes

In case you don't have enough items or any good ideas for one of the monthly themes, you can instead do one of these:

Set-centric: decorate your house using only items from one set

Monochromatic: decorate your house using only items of 1 or 2 colors

Try to recreate your room irl in FL

Try to recreate the room of one of your characters in other videogames in FL

Decorating tips!

Some special items in the game (including some cool furniture) can only be obtained via typing a certain password in the post office. If you didn't know about this, look it up! The rewards will come very in handy for the decoration challenge

You can dye some furniture by going to Florina's House in the West Grassy Plains and speaking with Lily Lips.

Other stuff

If anyone can come up with more themes, feel free to suggest them in the comments of this post

Since we're already into January, that's why I'm making the first theme to take a pic of your house now!

The furniture selection in FL is more limited that other games such as Animal Crossing, that's why I avoided to have as a main theme decorating using only a certain set and went for themes that would require the use of lots of different types of furniture

Besides the usual tags, I'll also be using the tag #FLHDC if anyone else that participates also wants to add that tag to their posts!

I'm going to tag in a comment in this post the people that were interested! (sorry for the @ hehe)