#bethany byrd

[garadinervi]

Shards, Facta est deserta, [from Byrd Song (2024)], (Digital track), Erased Tapes Records, 2023

Composer: Kieran Brunt Performer(s): Kieran Brunt and Hamish McLaren Publisher: Decca Publishing Design: Robert Raths

[shessoft]

It was awesome.

"One time, she punched me in the face. It was awesome," says Bethany Byrd in awe of her own memory. She loves telling this story but this new girl looks genuinely terrified.

"Wait, time out, she punched you? Why?" This girl looks at her like she has two heads but Bethany has gotten weirder reactions. She is practically vibrating with excitement about getting to tell the story.

"Okay, so freshman year I had home room with Regina. We were even assigned to sit next to each other," she adds giddily. "Anyway, there was this new show on that year and it had lesbians in it so I asked her, 'Hey, G, you think this is Janis' favorite show?'" She laughs at her own pathetic joke even now. "Next thing I know I'm waking up in the nurse's office with an ice pack on my eye."

The new girl is just staring at her like she's lost her mind. "And this is some cherished memory of yours?"

"Well, duh! How many people can say they got punched in the face by the Regina George?" She knows she is one in a million but the other girl's expression makes her nervous and her smile falters. "Has she punched other people? Tell me what you've heard!"

[starswritteninourscars]

Canon Character DADWC Prompts

Bethany

My sister's crown / Don't take it down / Don't take it down / Nobody has the right to do it -  Vesna, “My Sister’s Crown”

Fenris

We all look the same / When we turn off the light. - Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

Josephine

Your voice is a weapon / So do with it what you can - Bastille and Angel Haze, “Weapon”

Morrigan

We are kings now or nothing at all - Thrice, “Burn the Fleet"

And mother / Please give me skin that grows in tougher / I used to know the way to suffer, mother / Now I can't tell winter from summer - Lola Blanc, “Trust Me”

Solas

Did you stand too close to the fire / Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone? - Green Day, “21 Guns”

You're just waiting for it all to end / And it gets bitter in the end, my friend - Byrde, “Help Yourself

Damn your love, damn your lies - Fleetwood Mac, “The Chain”

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thank u, next coming soon.

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[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

New!!!

FIRST LOOK

As Cabaret at Kit Kat Club prepares to opens its doors in the West End this evening, some brand new production images have been released.

Starring in the production are Eddie Redmayne as ‘The Emcee’, Jessie Buckley as ‘Sally Bowles’, Omari Douglas as ‘Cliff Bradshaw’, Liza Sadovy as ‘Fraulein Schneider’, Elliot Levey as ‘Herr Schultz’, Stewart Clarke as ‘Ernst Ludwig’ and Anna-Jane Casey as ‘Fraulein Kost’.

Completing the cast are Josh Andrews, Emily Benjamin, Sally Frith, Matthew Gent, Emma Louise Jones, Ela Lisondra, Theo Maddix, Chris O’Mara, Daniel Perry, Andre Refig, Christopher Tendai, Bethany Terry, Lillie-Pearl Wildman and Sophie Maria Wojna.

The Kit Kat Club has laid siege to the Playhouse Theatre. The performers have infiltrated the premises. The artists have staked their claim. Who knows for how long they’ll stay, but for now they are enjoying the party. The party at the end of the world.

Transforming one of London’s most famous theatres with an in-the-round auditorium and reimagined spaces, before the show guests are invited to enjoy and explore the Kit Kat Club with pre-show entertainment, drinks and dining all on offer. When booking, guests will receive a 'club entry time' to allow enough time to take in the world of the Kit Kat Club before the show starts. But of course, the show really starts when you first join us in the club…

With music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Joe Masteroff, Cabaret is directed by Rebecca Frecknall, with set and costume design by Tom Scutt, choreography by Julia Cheng, musical supervision and direction by Jennifer Whyte, lighting by Isabella Byrd, and sound by Nick Lidster.

To book tickets, please visit our website: www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/tickets

📸 Marc Brenner

[belletristwordsalad]

My Names for Bully's Townsfolk

Bullworth Town and Old Bullworth Vale

· Frederick Bambillo, after Frederick Chilton from Silence of the Lambs

· John D. Breckindale, after John D. Rockefeller

· Bernie Doolin, after Bernie Madoff

· Michael Huntington, after Michael Bluth from Arrested Development

· Marilyn Isaacs, after Marilyn Monroe

· Flo Kopke, after “Aunt Flo”

· Stan Martin, after Stan Smith from American Dad!

· Clifton Ramirez, after Clifton Collins, Jr., the voice actor of Cesar Vialpando from GTA: San Andreas

· Joan Rushinski, after actress Joan Crawford, who was infamously portrayed in Mommie Dearest

· Gary Smith I. Mr. Smith seems like the kind of guy who’d name his son and grandson after himself.

· Marty Sullivan, after Marty Byrde of Ozark

New Coventry

· Abby Questal, after Mae Questal, the actress who portrayed Aunt Bethany from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

· Denny McLaren, after Gregory Paul McLaren aka Lucky Diamond Rich, who holds the Guinness World Record for most tattooed person

· Handy Townsend, an Old English surname indicating a person living at a town’s edge

· Roland Krakauer, after Roland Weary from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

· Vladimir Mihailovich, after Vladimir Glebov from GTA IV

· Michael Ray Osbourne, after ESPN commentator and Washington Post columnist Michael Ray Wilbon

Blue Skies

· Joe Buckingham, after Joe Gerard from Rhoda, a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

· Larry Castillo, after Larry the Cable Guy

· Chuck Brendon, after actor Nicholas Brendon, who portrayed Xander Harris from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

· Carl Johnson, after Carl Andrew Bork from the Batman comics

· Kelly McInnis, after Kelly Donovan, twin brother of Nicholas Brendon

· Alan Salvatore, after Alan Bleasdale, creator of British drama Boys from the Blackstuff

Retirement Home

· Mario Bubas, after Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather

· Abraham Gordon, after Abraham “Grampa” Simpson

· Pearl Lisburn, after Pearl Shay of 227

Happy Volts Asylum

· Randle Fenwick, after Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

· Gregory Turkle, after Mr. Turkle from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

· Theo Spivey, after Dr. John Spivey from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Police Officers

· Thornton Williams, to rhyme with "Norton"

· David Monson, after David Brown from Rampart

· Henry Ivanovich, after Detective Henry Oak from Narc

· Barney Morrison, after Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show

Shopkeepers

· Betty Weber, after feminist and theologian Nadia Bolz-Weber

· Stephen Carmichael, after Captain Stephen Peacock from Are You Being Served?

· Adolfo Moratti, after Adolfo Pirelli from Sweeney Todd

· Andy Oh, a nod to his voice actor, Andrew Pang

· Stan Chong, after actor Tommy Chong, who portrayed Leo from That ‘70’s Show

[jellydishes]

First Lines Meme

Rules: List the first lines of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any. Then tag some friends

i was tagged by @sinsbymanka and @wildercrow, and i'm tagging @maedaeme and anybody who wants to play :>

Shards of a Knife: The Most Holy Army of the Cloud was somewhat more impressive on paper than in person, Byrd thought as she was dragged backwards through the encampment.

My Scars are Silver and Gold: “Can I shove my cock in your mouth?” Minako asked in the middle of doing homework. “You know,” she added casually when Usagi started to choke. “Romantically.”

Spread Hands: Aiobhel Endrinsdottr held her head high as she strode towards a set of massive, spiked gates.

Silhouette: They’d converted the science lab into a detention hall, same way they did every weekend, and Garrett found himself wrinkling his nose in disgust as he was nearly overcome with the familiar smells of old cleaner and older cigarette smoke, the same way they did every weekend.

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Isabela always stopped to watch the sunset.

Words Come Softly Over Time: Trevino Hawke sipped at the mulled wine she knew she probably wasn't supposed to be having right about now, and leaned back in the ratty old chair she'd piled high with pillows from the bunk bed she and Bethany shared.

One Foot In Front of the Other Foot: One year and an entire ocean away from the blight, and Aednat Surana was discovering to her displeasure that the life of a deserter from the grey wardens was nowhere near what the stories had made it out to be.

When You Can't Go On, Hold On: “Something on your mind, warden?”

Irresponsible-Botany Brosca didn’t turn her head away from the solid wall of water pouring down outside the scant protection of their tent when she answered, “Too many things.”

You Hate Your Pulse Because It Thinks You're Still Alive: Jonathan Sims breathed out a trailing plume of mist in the shape of words he no longer cared to remember.

An Almighty Sound: Sometimes, Jon worried that all of the good things that had happened to him in recent years will have all been some sort of elaborate trick. A lifetime of rugs being pulled out from under his feet again and again made him wary of trusting that anything good would stay. That they weren't the universe having a mighty guffaw at his expense before returning him to the static solitude he was accustomed to.

[garadinervi]

Shards, Amen, amen, amen​.​.​., [from Byrd Song (2024)], (Digital track), Erased Tapes Records, 2023

Composer: Kieran Brunt Performer(s): Kieran Brunt and Hamish McLaren Publisher: Decca Publishing Design: Robert Raths

[abramsbooks]

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[gadgetgirl71]

Book Acquired Via BookBub in May 2020

I’m still trying to keep the amount of free books that I download to a minimum but it’s still not happening!! I’m such a huge book addict. I wonder if there is a help group for book addicts?

So the books I downloaded this month are below, let me know if you’ve downloaded or read any of them. If you have let me know what you thought of them.

Fear University Series Books 1-3 by Meg Collett

Heartache in Heels (Love Ever After Book 1) by Cate Lawley

The Tarot Witches Complete Collection by S M Raine

Cupcakes and Macarons by Bethany Lopez

A Pinch of Salt (Three Sisters Catering Book 1) by Bethany Lopez

1 Night (A Time for Love Book 0) by Bethany Lopez

Chasing Echoes by Jodie Perkins

Mind Reader by Kirsty McManus

Desperately Ever After Book 1 by Laura Kenyon

Black Edge by Charlotte Byrd

Seal of Protection Box Set 1 by Susan Stoker

Five Minuets Late by Rich Amooi

June’s Blood by Juliet Vane

No More Bad Dates (High Tea Book 1) by Kate O’Keeffe

The First Time I Say Goodbye by Claire Allen

15 Minutes (Time for Love Book 4) by Bethany Lopez

[folktorr]

One time, Taylor Swift metaphorically punched me in the face. It. was. awesome.

@imasnakeduh  / Bethany Byrd 

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[liliannorman]

Busy beavers may be speeding thaw of Arctic permafrost

Beavers have been moving into more and more parts of Alaska’s Arctic wilderness. It now appears they’re changing the landscape in ways that could further fuel climate change. A new study shows how.

Permafrost is soil that has stayed frozen for more than two years. In some cases, it hasn’t thawed in thousands of years. In many places, this layer of permanently frozen soil can be more than 10 meters (33 feet) thick. But owing to climate change, many long-frozen parts of Earth’s surface have lately been warming. This causes uneven sinking of surface areas and makes some areas mushy.

Explainer: CO2 and other greenhouse gases

This thaw also is releasing long-held stores of carbon dioxide. A potent greenhouse gas, it can warm Earth’s atmosphere. Earth’s climate had already warming. Indeed, the Arctic is warming faster than almost any place on Earth.

“Around the year 2000, beavers really started increasing their presence in northwest Arctic Alaska,” says Benjamin Jones at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He studies how areas with permafrost underneath them have been changing. He was part of an international team that focused on the Baldwin Peninsula in the state’s far northwest. They chose this site because there are loads of high-resolution aerial and satellite photographs of the area. Some had been taken as far back as the 1950s. These would allow the team to see when and where any changes to the landscape might have occurred.

The detailed images can show features a few meters (yards) long, Jones notes. Among these: beaver dams. Master landscape architects, beavers build dams to back up water. They also build lodges in now-flooded areas. There, the swimming rodents store food and avoid predators.

Computer analyses helped Jones and his team track beaver dams over a 17-year period. Before 2000, photos showed evidence of few, if any, beavers. Two years later, there were two beaver dams in a 100-square kilometer (78.8-square mile) area. It was near the tip of the peninsula. By 2019, that area had 98 dams — nearly a 50-fold increase. For the whole northern part of peninsula, the number of dams went up more than fourfold from 2010 to 2019.

The amount of surface water also increased. In 2002, lakes and ponds near the peninsula’s tip covered 594 hectares (2.3 square miles). By 2019, there were 644 hectares (2.5 square miles). Beaver dams led to about two-thirds of the increase, Jones’ group found.

The team reported its findings in Environmental Research Letters on June 30.

These aerial photos show part of an area Benjamin Jones and his team studied. Arrows mark spots where beavers built dams or lodges.Jones et al./Environmental Research Letters, 2020 (CC BY 4.0)

Beaver-friendly sites

The beavers were damming low-lying regions — ones that had been rich with icy permafrost, Jones observes. These areas have a mix of mounds and low-lying areas. For beavers to build dams there “makes a lot of sense,” Jones says. The low areas let them back up water easily. The affected landscape is known as thermokarst (THUR-moh-karst). Its dirt and rock often settles unevenly as the permafrost there starts to m

The beavers’ landscape engineering may boost climate change. Warming here, in the Arctic, already had been increasing at a growing pace. As dams form ponds, more liquid water can come in contact with ice in the ground. That can more quickly thaw the permafrost below. The reason, Jones says, is that water conducts heat very well. That concept also explains why frozen meat defrosts faster in water than in air.

The team has several ideas about why more beavers moved in. Climate change is one likely factor. “The Arctic tundra is much shrubbier now than it was in the distant past,” notes Jones. Beavers can use shrubs for food and for dams. Also, warmer winters mean beavers can now stay year round in some places that were once too cold. Finally, he notes, beaver numbers have been rebounding from widespread hunting in the 1800s. 

“We’ve always known that beavers are engineers,” says Audrey Sawyer. She’s a hydrogeologist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. It’s part of Ohio State University in Columbus. Sawyer studies how surface water interacts with groundwater. She finds especially interesting the study’s discovery of a so-called feedback cycle. As permafrost thaws, beavers move into thermokarst regions. The dams they build back up more surface water. And that “leads to more changes in permafrost.”

A beaver looks out over a range of rocks and ice in Alaska. FatCamera/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Dams make a difference

“When you start to get beavers in certain areas, it’s amazing how many dams they’ll build,” says Bethany Neilson. She’s an environmental engineer at the University of Utah in Logan. She didn’t take part in the new study. She has, however, worked at the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research site in Toolik, Alaska. She has also recently studied beaver impacts on surface and groundwater in parts of Utah.

In Utah, a warming climate is likely to lower how much water flows through streams and otherwise cut water supplies. The beavers’ actions could help hold water on the surface, Neilson’s team found. And those areas could provide places with cooler water for fish and other species. But that helpful effect might last only until the dams fail, she adds. Her team shared its findings last May 20 in Science of the Total Environment.

Indeed, the beavers’ activity in Alaska could cause lasting harm.

“Permafrost is a feature that has been part of the underground landscape in high latitudes for a long time,” says Sawyer at Ohio State. Frozen plants, animals and other life forms stored in permafrost will thaw. These all contain carbon.

“The amount of carbon that is stored in permafrost is immense,” Neilson notes. Thawing that permafrost will now release a large share of that carbon into the air, she adds, “which can create additional climate change.” Why? The thawed material will rot and break down. In the process, it will release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The work by Jones’s group is “a great reminder of the importance of beavers as a keystone species,” Sawyer adds. That’s a species whose presence or absence can alter an ecosystem dramatically through its impacts on other living things. Now, she adds, science needs to consider their impacts on climate, too.

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One more photo from Rehearsals Cabaret , Kit Kat Club

Ph Mark Brenner

Credits to Whatsonstage

Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Omari Douglas and more in Cabaret West End rehearsals

The show opens this month

09 November 2021

Rehearsal images have been released for Cabaret.

The new revival, directed by Rebecca Frecknall and led by Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley and Omari Douglas, will feature an ensemble of performers who will be entertaining audiences from the moment they walk into the Playhouse Theatre, which has been specially adapted into the round.

Guests will receive a "club entry time", in order for them to be immersed in the space before the actual performance begins.

Alongside Redmayne (The Emcee), Buckley (Sally) and Douglas (Cliff) are Liza Sadovy as Fraulein Schneider, Elliot Levey as Herr Schultz, Stewart Clarke as Ernst Ludwig and Anna-Jane Casey as Fraulein Kost. The cast is completed by Josh Andrews, Emily Benjamin, Sally Frith, Matthew Gent, Emma Louise Jones, Ela Lisondra, Theo Maddix, Chris O'Mara, Daniel Perry, Andre Refig, Christopher Tendai, Bethany Terry, Lillie-Pearl Wildman and Sophie Maria Wojna.

The Prologue Company consists of Gabriela Bendetti, Rachel Benson, Laura Braid, Julian Capolei, Hollie Cassar, Celine Fortenbacher-Popławska, Samantha Ho, Andrew Linnie and Sally Swanson with an original score composed by Angus MacRae.

Cabaret is directed by Frecknall with design by Tom Scutt, choreography by Julia Cheng, musical supervision and direction by Jennifer Whyte, lighting design by Isabella Byrd and sound design by Nick Lidster. The casting director is Stuart Burt and the associate director is Jordan Fein. The show is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions and Underbelly.

[therealpedrolee]

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