#edmund zola

[purpleprincessonfyre]

Marvel AU - Monster (or coward?)

Timeline: During The Battle of New York, but what if Sylvie and Loki invaded New York together?

Characters: Liane Felton, Loki Laufeyson, Sylvie Laufeydottir

Features: Ethan Lensherr, Rochelle Romanoff-Felton and some characters from Liane's past

IB: Monster by Imagine Dragons, Avengers (2012)

'Ever since I could remember

Everything inside of me

Just wanted to fit in,'

"We need to get out of here, this building isn't stable!"

"Funny, I was about to say that about your mental state!" Ethan joked, holding back debris as Liane ran for safety. The battle of New York was raging as heroes ran left and right trying to get STARK staff members away from the tower in a hurry.

"You're cute. Come on, I don't wanna drag you out from underneath rubble."

"Go, I'll hold it off until everyone's safe."

Liane nodded and ran towards the exit but as she ran through what she thought was the door to outside she found herself inside a box that seemed to be made of pure gold. When she turned around the door was gone and she was entirely surrounded by walls of gold, from floor to ceiling. Liane growled, her fists balled as her anger rose.

'If I told you what I was

Would you turn your back on me?

And if I seem dangerous

Would you be scared?'

"Dammit Loki or whatever, let me out!"

A dry chuckle echoed through the hollow space, clearly enjoying this.

"My my, Miss Felton. You forget yourself. That's hardly the way a polite young lady would address her father..."

"What?"

Liane turned to follow the sound and saw her father before her, standing in her family home with her, her surroundings now resembling her family's dining hall. She knew it was magic but she could hear the ticking grandfather clock on the floor, she could feel the heat from the roaring fire, she could smell the sharp scent of the lillies on the dining table and the hairs on her neck stood straight up as she heard the unmistakable voice.

"Come on little lady, say you're sorry and give me a smile."

"I won't fall for your tricks! That's not my father!"

"How dare you, you insolent girl!" Her father snarled, leaning in to hit her, booze on his breath.

"I'm not scared of you, your stupid magic can't hurt me, you're gonna have to try harder than that if you want to hurt me, Dumb and Dumber."

'I get the feeling just because

Everything I touch isn't dark enough

That this problem lies in me.'

The image of her father melted away and suddenly she was in her childhood bedroom and the scent of nail polish hung in the air as someone approached her, someone looming over her by miles. Then she saw his eyes and his wicked grin and felt her heart race. It was Quentin. She felt so much younger in his gaze, so much smaller and so naive. It stung her eyes seeing him like that before her, as if she'd never even left.

"Little Sister...myself and the boys want to play a little game and we need a damsel in distress."

"You're a liar, you always were!"

"What? We simply want to rescue the pretty princess but you will have to get in the boat and let us tie you up. But don't worry! We'll rescue you. Eventually."

"Rot in hell, Quentin!"

"Have it your way..."

Liane's eyes stung with tears as her eyes changed colour.

"Stop it, stop it Quent!"

"Awwww baby's crying! Look at the baby crying!"

"YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH QUENTIN OR I WILL BURN YOUR STUPID HEAD!"

'Can I clear my conscience

If I'm different from the rest

Do I have to run and hide?'

The illusions faded as she was transported back into the box.

"Now there's the Felton I was told about..."

"You could do so much if you weren't so pathetic and predictable all the time..."

"Who ever heard of a hero that can burn you alive?"

"You can both shut up! I changed! But you...you never will."

"Shame. We were really getting somewhere for a minute there. Shall we?"

"Go on then."

The room melted away all over again and now Liane saw a place she'd tried to forget. A room she wished she'd never entered. Seeing a face she never wanted to see again. And hearing that voice that haunted her days and nights ever since she put him away.

'I never said that I want this

This burden came to me

And it's made it's home inside,'

"Guten tag, frauline...."

"Edmund..."

"Awww no pet name this time? Aw you are shaking like a leaf. Would you like my coat?"

"You stay away from me!"

"But why? You knew this was happening, und you never said no to it before. You befriended those girls, you bought them the drinks, you made them your friends all happy, and you let me take them away..."

"I was drunk! You always made sure of that, you filthy monster!"

"Nein! Nein, I am not the only monster here. You were, how you say, complicit in the crimes? You could have said no. You could have said you wanted no part in my plans. But you were just so desperate to be loved and adored that you turned a blind eye! All those innocent, naive girls! The blood of those girls is ON YOUR HANDS ALONE! You, are the true monster, Frauline."

'A monster, a monster

I've turned into a monster

A monster, a monster

And it keeps getting stronger.'

Every wall started to reflect just Liane's reflection back at her but each one was different. Her childhood, her teens, her eyes bright purple in all of them, each reflection whispering the same word over and over again as the word started to ring in her head like a death toll.

Monster.

Monster.

Monster!

"ENOUGH!" Liane screamed as the room was consumed by flames, the reflections all melting and the illusions shifting in a jarring fashion from Edmund Zola, to Quentin, to Milton and then back to Loki, who was grinning from ear to ear.

"We finally broke her...told you it was easy."

"You were right, turns out if one's heart is so blackened and bruised, then it won't be tricky to turn it darker."

"I'm not a monster!"

"Oh really? Monsters are born from anger, pain and hatred. Monsters act without thought. Monsters are ruthless. And what does that make you? A monster? Or a coward?"

"I'll take coward over monster any day, and for the record I was tricked!"

The two Lokis laughed, holding their stomachs as tears rolled down their cheeks as if Liane had just told the funniest joke.

"Were you now? So you lashing out at your father, was because of a trick?"

"You hurting your brothers, that was the fault of a trick?"

"You turning on Edmund and testifying against him, all because you were tricked? No my dear sweet monster, you knew exactly what you were doing. That rage, your fire, you deliberately took that rage and damaged them.

"Scarring your father's face, burning your brother's hair, and don't forget that scar running down Eddie's chest, right over his heart. That was all you. That was the monster. And it's getting stronger. But the longer you hide it with this...hero act? It'll get murderous. It will hurt people you care about. That boy you like? Your precious cousin? Your new friends who just started to trust you? They'll all be ashes on the ground. And you'll be painted as a villain. Just like us."

Loki and Sylvie approached, as Liane looked up at them, tears in her eyes as Loki grabbed her chin harshly.

"Shhhh it's alright little Mutant, it's very simple. Either wait until your actions destroy everyone you love, or give in to us and follow the future rulers of Asgard."

"We could make your our little princess. Put a pretty crown on your golden curls. Keep you in a lovely little box where you won't hurt anyone back on Asgard. And all you'll have to do is just prance about and play dress up, ride on your very own pegasus, we'll make you your own boyfriend or girlfriend to play with, all day long. Or....you and your precious little team die. Either by your hands, or ours. Your choice, Princess."

Liane looked around her and saw her team through the confines of the box she was trapped in. All of them fighting tooth and nail to take out aliens and get the people to safety. All things she would have scoffed at a year ago. She saw Ethan, doing everything he can to help the citizens get away. Rochelle, fighting aliens left and right even as she's injured. Her team doing whatever it takes to save the world. They were better off without her.

'I'm only a man with a candle to guide me

I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me,'

Liane hung her head and looked up at the Lokis, resigned to her fate.

"Do what you like. But don't hurt my friends. Lock me up, tease me, play with me, whatever. But you don't touch them. Please." There was shame in her eyes but Liane had decided she was better off a coward than a monster. Loki nodded his approval.

"Glad you came to your senses, Little Princess. They didn't need you anyway. Sylvie?"

Sylvie wrapped chains around Liane's neck and wrists, leading her to a portal as a voice rang out, beyond the box, from the outside. Liane was barely paying attention when it hit her ears. And a smile spread on her face as it repeated. And she could see outside the box his big green eyes, his dark hair and the concern and worry in his face as he shouted across the battlefield. Ethan was calling to her.

"LIANE!"

"Silly boy, come on pet, we've built a cage just for you."

"Shame."

"I beg your pardon?"

"I said, shame. Cause your pet just remembered what freedom tastes like!"

The entire box was set ablaze as Lianes eyes glowed, her chains sizzling to dust as she approached the two Mischief deities.

"Turns out I can be both. I can be the daughter of a sleazy businessman and a hero. The sister of a disgusting politician and an Avenger. The ex fiancée of the leader of HYDRA, and the girl about to kick. Your sorry. Asses!"

The box crumbled away to nothing as Liane approached the two co-conspirators with fury in her eyes, her fists aflame.

"You'd better keep fighting cause I'm gonna make damn sure you go back where you came from AND YOU NEVER COME BACK!" Liane roared as airborne fire seemed to burst from her lungs and out of her mouth, sitting the pair ablaze as they disappeared in a poof of magic.

As she managed to find her bearings a hand reached and squeezed hers tightly. It was Rochelle's, and her bright blue cousin was smiling.

"Let's end this fight."

"Together."

And the two fighting Feltons rushed back into the fray, a new sense of courage now fostered in Liane's bruised and blackened heart, slowly starting to rise to reflect on her face. Maybe the past wouldn't define her forever. And just maybe, she would get through this and move on. But not today. That battle was for another time, in another place. Probably in a doctors office somewhere. Monster, coward, hero was starting to sound pretty good from where Liane was standing.

Hope you enjoyed!

Tagging: @gcthvile @jackiequick @blueboirick @meiramel @cherrysft @askstevella @ask-missparker @ask-starrk @therealdaydreamstark @thechoooooosenone @wizzzardofoz @finlayholmes @ethan-lensherr @marvelsfavoriteuncle @rickb-chaos @luna-d-marsh @missstrawbs2001

[grandhotelabyss]

Advice/hard truths for writers?

The best piece of practical advice I know is a classic from Hemingway (qtd. here):

The most important thing I’ve learned about writing is never write too much at a time… Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yourself out. When you’re still going good and you come to an interesting place and you know what’s going to happen next, that’s the time to stop. Then leave it alone and don’t think about it; let your subconscious mind do the work.

Also, especially if you're young, you should read more than you write. If you're serious about writing, you'll want to write more than you read when you get old; you need, then, to lay the important books as your foundation early. I like this passage from Samuel R. Delany's "Some Advice for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student" (collected in both Shorter Views and About Writing):

You need to read Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, and Zola; you need to read Austen, Thackeray, the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy; you need to read Hawthorne, Melville, James, Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner; you need to read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Goncherov, Gogol, Bely, Khlebnikov, and Flaubert; you need to read Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Edward Dahlberg, John Steinbeck, Jean Rhys, Glenway Wescott, John O'Hara, James Gould Cozzens, Angus Wilson, Patrick White, Alexander Trocchi, Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Vladimir Nabokov; you need to read Nella Larsen, Knut Hamsun, Edwin Demby, Saul Bellow, Lawrence Durrell, John Updike, John Barth, Philip Roth, Coleman Dowell, William Gaddis, William Gass, Marguerite Young, Thomas Pynchon, Paul West, Bertha Harris, Melvin Dixon, Daryll Pinckney, Darryl Ponicsan, and John Keene, Jr.; you need to read Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Richard Powers, Carroll Maso, Edmund White, Jayne Ann Phillips, Robert Gluck, and Julian Barnes—you need to read them and a whole lot more; you need to read them not so that you will know what they have written about, but so that you can begin to absorb some of the more ambitious models for what the novel can be.

Note: I haven't read every single writer on that list; there are even three I've literally never heard of; I can think of others I'd recommend in place of some he's cited; but still, his general point—that you need to read the major and minor classics—is correct.

The best piece of general advice I know, and not only about writing, comes from Dr. Johnson, The Rambler #63:

The traveller that resolutely follows a rough and winding path, will sooner reach the end of his journey, than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hours of day-light in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

I've known too many young writers over the years who sabotaged themselves by overthinking and therefore never finishing or sharing their projects; this stems, I assume, from a lack of self-trust or, more grandly, trust in the universe (the Muses, God, etc.). But what professors always tell Ph.D. students about dissertations is also true of novels, stories, poems, plays, comic books, screenplays, etc: There are only two kinds of dissertations—finished and unfinished. Relatedly, this is the age of online—an age when 20th-century institutions are collapsing, and 21st-century ones have not yet been invented. Unless you have serious connections in New York or Iowa, publish your work yourself and don't bother with the gatekeepers.

Other than the above, I find most writing advice useless because over-generalized or else stemming from arbitrary culture-specific or field-specific biases, e.g., Orwell's extremely English and extremely journalistic strictures, not necessarily germane to the non-English or non-journalistic writer. "Don't use adverbs," they always say. Why the hell shouldn't I? It's absurd. "Show, don't tell," they insist. Fine for the aforementioned Orwell and Hemingway, but irrelevant to Edith Wharton and Thomas Mann. Freytag's Pyramid? Spare me. Every new book is a leap in the dark. Your project may be singular; you may need to make your own map as your traverse the unexplored territory.

Hard truths? There's one. I know it's a hard truth because I hesitate even to type it. It will insult our faith in egalitarianism and the rewards of earnest labor. And yet, I suspect the hard truth is this: ineffables like inspiration and genius count for a lot. If they didn't, if application were all it took, then everybody would write works of genius all day long. But even the greatest geniuses usually only got the gift of one or two all-time great work. This doesn't have to be a counsel of despair, though: you can always try to place yourself wherever you think lightning is likeliest to strike. That's what I do, anyway. Good luck!

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

It​ is not a coincidence that in the last two decades of the 19th century, as the invert case study put gay lives into print for the first time, we begin to see the first novels that, rather than including gay characters within Zola-style social narratives, are instead about homosexuality, or, more accurately, about the condition of being a homosexual. There weren’t very many of these books, and most are long forgotten. But already, as Graham Robb observed in Strangers, his study of homosexuality in the 19th century, the trope of the ‘gay tragic ending’ was in evidence: ‘In twelve European and American novels (1875-1901) in which the main character is depicted, often sympathetically, as an adult homosexual man, six die (disease, unrequited love and three suicides), two are murdered, one goes mad, one is cured by marriage and two end happily (one after six months in prison and emigration to the US).’ As Robb says, it cannot only be that authors felt they had to inflict punishment on their characters, as a way of redeeming their text in the eyes of the censor. The tragic death was a strategy: by showing a doom to which gay men were fated, they were arguing against the society that made it inevitable. The case study underlies the major tradition of gay writing that developed after 1945 and that persists to the present day, the often melancholic or tragic novels of individual struggle, of childhood and adolescent experience, of attempted repression, of searching, of sexual experiment and release: from Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar to James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, to Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story to Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ to Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You to Édouard Louis’s The End of Eddy to Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Those novels that largely or entirely concern themselves with gay male characters – such as Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library, which has no women in it – also have a relationship to the case study, which, especially once it concerns the subject’s adulthood, essentially limits itself to describing his interactions with men of his own kind. The requirement to lift our sights – to see gay lives as they interact with, to use Zola’s words, family, nation, humanity – is especially pressing if we are dealing with the past, when society was culturally and legally premised on heterosexuality to an extent no longer possible here (though still the case in many non-Western countries). To write about gay men in Britain in the 19th century, for example, should be to write about them as sons, brothers, friends, lovers, husbands, fathers, grandparents, members of a social class, employees, employers, thinkers, readers, politicians, imperialists and so on; as part of the world, not as apart from it. To return to Forster’s definitions, this would be to take gay men out of story and put them into plot; to turn them from ‘flat’ characters, with one dominating trait, into ‘round’ ones. This does not mean that we should minimise sexuality – rather, we would see its significance more clearly, as it disrupts, or perhaps doesn’t, in all areas of life; in so doing, we would see the society more clearly also. The same can be done in novels about the present: to live up to the full ambition of the idea of ‘queering’ – as disruption – we need to see a queer individual in the full spectrum of their relationships with people, places, institutions. To keep our exploration within the bounds of identity is to conspire in our own limitation. Full article: "Balzac didn't dare: Tom Crewe on the origins of the gay novel" [London Review of Books]

A rather thought-provoking article! The assertion about contemporary gay literature (the whole gay-related media, actually) still being centered on homosexuality itself is very true, and it's something I consider a crucial matter. And, of course, this also makes you raise questions over isolationist movements inside the LGBT+ community.

[funkyllama]

🌸 TAG YOU’RE IT! Name your Top 5 OTP created by your fellow simmers. Spread the love and happy simming! 🌸

Obligatory: "I typically don't do these but this was CUTE OMGGGGG-"

I really really really really love Katya by @lovecidik , so , naturally , I want her to live happily ever after with Josephine. They're my current historical simblr otp, no one compares. I take that back, @scythesms deeply inspires me to keep writing, and playing my historical (nonposted) gameplay. I just love their family and want the best for Rosalyn and Edmund. I love Mina and Literally Any Prince. Give this woman a happy ending please, @warwickroyals and @thegrimalldis ........Though, while I've mentioned Ms Ayanna, I want to put in a serious note for Jean and Phillip, I've always loved them and will continue to until I die. Chris and Zola are nice too, loL. Okay. Last one, big deal. @thevalencianroyals hi, hello, I miss you. Please, bring back Philip and Josephine when possible. But, also, I hope you're thriving in whatever is keeping you busy :')

[vampirkaninchen]

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when @bebemoon tags you, i.e. in the nymph-inspired 2020 spring tag game, it’s going to be awesome - thank you! ❤

what songs capture the essence of your ideal s/s mood?

(I’m going to cheat just a little bit, but - in addition to the above:) ~ Elle King - Baby Outlaw ~ Biffy Clyro - End Of ~ Les Cowboys Fringants - Des Étoiles Filantes ~ PVRIS - Dead Weight ~ The Fratellis - Stand Up Tragedy

imagine yourself as a persephonesque creature, a nymph, what would be your s/s epithet(s)? the rainbow-crowned, forgets to drink her lattes, the byzantine, the hedonist

what do you plan to read this s/s? ~ Oscar Wilde bio by Matthew Sturgis ~ The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall ~ Nana by Émile Zola ~ Tigerman by Nick Harkaway ~ And I’d Do It Again by Aimée Crocker

flowers you would decorate yourself with?

orange blossoms, peonies, irises, snapdragons

art pieces that are in the same aesthetic line with your s/s aspirations? see above (because dandypunk): ~ John Everett Millais - Mairana ft. Hurt My Heart by White Lies ~ Frank Cadogan Cowper - Lucrezia Borgia ft. The Things We Do For Love by The Sounds ~ Edmund Blair Leighton - Vox Populi ft. Dear Future Self (Hands Up) by Fall Out Boy)

fruits you would like to delight with?

mangoes, peaches, blackberries, blueberries, & figs

gems and minerals you would like to fill your seashell with?

obsidian, rose quartz, gold nuggets, and raw emeralds

turns out I’m not very nymph-y, unless you count chaotic dandypunk-y nymphs ^^ tagging @clawyourskin, @ayzrules & @interluxetumbra (double tag!), @e-m-m-d, @chrissykinz, & @d-andelion :)

[melimelo-ao3]

Answers to the ask

So this is my answer to every ask of the “A Writer’s Ask Game” by agwitow that I reblogged just below.

Yes, I know, people are supposed to be the ones to send a number, and only then am I supposed to answer. But, since this blog has like, very, very limited interaction, and I had nothing to do, I answered them myself.

And I’m putting a time stamp on it: Wednesday 17/02/2021, because for some questions, in a week, it won’t be the same answer.

The Basics 1.     Do you listen to music when you write?

I do, yes. I have a couple of playlists with songs – I know some people enjoy listening to music while they write, but only without any kind of lyrics. I don’t care either way. Some days it’s pre-enregistered playlists, others random, and others just piano.

2.     Are you a pantser or plotter?

I’m mostly a plotter. I’ve tried to go pantser on a couple of stories (Pretty Boy is the last example that comes to my mind), but I end up knowing what I’ll put in the next chapters in advance. Even if it’s just the main plot point / scene.

3.     Computer or pen and paper?

Computer. Except when I have writer block.

4.     Have you ever been published, or do you want to be published?

I’ve never been published, and don’t plan on. I write my stories mostly for myself, and to me it’s a bit too over the top to, first, interest a publisher / editor, and then it would need lots of editing and… I don’t think I’m ready yet to see critics on my stories.

5.     How much writing do you get done on an average day?

I have no idea xD I suppose I’m happy if I get 1.000 word a day, especially if it’s a day I only concentrate on writing. Sometimes it can be more, but sometimes it can also be nothing at all. On days I have other things to do, I’m happy if I can write one sentence more during the day :)

6.     Single or multiple POV?

At the same time? Single. In a story? It depends. Some stories I’ve written in a single POV all along, others I switched between chapters, and others within chapters, with a distinction between the “parts”.

7.     Standalone or series?

Um, series as in several “books”? If so, there’s this story I finished last year. At first, it was supposed to be one single book, but things progressed as they did and so I chose to cut the overall, finished epic into three books. So it’s supposedly a series now.

Other than this, I usually cram everything up in one story.

8.     Oldest WIP

Oldest oldest? I started a story called L’année scolaire (= School Year) when I was like 10. It’s unfinished, so I suppose I can consider it as a WIP. Other than that, if I’m talking about posted fic, it’s a Harry Potter time-travel fanfic called Une nouvelle chance de vivre (= A New Chance At Living). Same, the fic has maybe ten years now (damn, time flies) and has been untouched for… about ten years I believe xD

9.     Current WIP

I have several! On my AO3 profile, there’s Sunkissed (an Achilles x Patroclus Omegaverse ff), The Bravest Belief of All (Amandi) (a Peter Pan x Wendy Darling canon divergence from OUAT) and I Desire You (or worse) (which is an original work with original character that I’ve just started posting) that I update regularly.

There are more on my computer, much more than I can type here…

10.  Do you set yourself deadlines?

Not at all. Because I wouldn’t respect them, and it would make me stress.

 The Specifics 11.  Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

Victor Hugo is the main one that comes to my mind atm. I love the way he writes and what he writes about. There’s Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des dames, too, which is amazing, one of the best books I know of. And, for the beauty of language and the sheer poetry literally pouring from every single word, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand is. breathtaking. I don’t know if they influenced me, because it sounds a bit pretentious to say that one can find some of these authors in my stories if they look closely, but they definitely represent what I aspire to.

12.  Describe your perfect writing space

In a silent room, except there’s music (I know, it’s paradoxical). I have my computer and my head is resting (I mean, I don’t have anything urgent to do, it’s all done and behind me for the day) and I can concentrate on the scene I’ve been imagining for a couple of days / weeks / months / years (pick one).

13.  Describe your writing process from idea to polished

Usually I have an idea, I play it in my head over and over again until I really like it and I have a couple of things found out (like, scenes or dialogues or narration – depends if the idea is about a story or just a single scene). Then, I write it. Admittedly, the polishing happens mostly when I play it over and over in my mind until it clicks or sticks.

14.  How do you deal with self-doubts?

I usually listen to them, because it means there’s something that’s nagging me about a scene, a moment. So I go reread it, I think back on it – what can I change? How can I formulate it in a different way? – and I change it until I’m satisfied with it.

I experience a (lot) of self-doubt at the moment, with the first three chapters of IDY. I chose to post them, but I’m not entirely sure I’d be ready if people began to hate them or find horrible flaws with them. that makes me doubt whether it was a good idea or not, but I know that I can always delete them if it really goes downhill.

15.  How do you deal with writer’s block?

I stop writing. For a couple of days, usually, to let my brain the time to relax and focus on something else. Then, I sit back before my computer and I open another word document – like a blank page. I copy paste the scene I’m stuck on, and I rewrite it under, while using a couple of sentences I feel are good. I repeat the process until the words flow back again.

(This sounds a lot like a cooking recipe xD)

For the real, unbreachable writer’s block (like, if the above didn’t work), I try to focus on other stories. If that doesn’t help kick the inspiration back (like for No, but I do – even though the writer’s block was cemented by GOT’s last season but that’s another matter entirely), I push the story to the back of my mind and I give it up.

16.  How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied with a project?

As many as necessary until I’m satisfied with myself. I can’t give a number.

17.  What writing habits or rituals do you have?

I imagine the scene beforehand, I listen to music, I write on computer… I can’t think of any other writing habit I have atm.

18.  If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about?

I don’t think I could collaborate with anyone, sorry - -’ When I have an idea for a story, I’m excited with writing every single part of it, so I don’t think it’s for me.

19.  How do you keep yourself motivated?

With the scenes I want to write.

20.  How many WIPs and story ideas do you have?

At the moment (meaning the ones brewing in my mind): 11.

 The Favourites 21.  Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write?

It depends with the story. I liked Weston in Pretty Boy (I like him too in I Desire You), and Wendy in Amandi.

22.  Who is/are your favourite pairing(s) to write?

Weston/Edmund. They’re my OTP for now.

23.  Favourite author

I don’t have a favourite author, I search for fics / stories mostly.

24.  Favourite genre to write and read

Romance.

25.  Favourite part of writing

I love writing dialogues, especially when the characters continue to talk on their own and I’m just transcribing everything and the conversation ends up very different from what I imagined.

26.  Favourite writing program

None, I just write on Word.

27.  Favourite line/scene

That’s impossible to choose! xD

On a writing’s perspective only, I’ll say the end part of chapter 3 in I Desire You (or worse). When I reread it and I could feel what the character is feeling / does (I’m being vague on purpose because I haven’t posted it yet), I knew I had to post it somewhere. I don’t know, I’m just really proud of it (and have the most self-doubt over people’s reaction, which is – as always – very logical of me).

28.  Favourite side character

In I Desire You, I like Lucy.

29.  Favourite villain

I don’t think I’ve ever written many villains. Ah, yes, Peter Pan in my OUAT fic. He’s a villain, it works.

30.  Favourite idea you haven’t started on yet

I’ve been beginning a lot of WIP at the moment, precisely so I could start putting down all the ideas I wanted, so I don’t really know what to answer to that…

 The Dark 31.  Least favourite part of writing

Writing description of settings. I don’t really like how I write those.

32.  Most difficult character to write

Edmund. No hesitation.

33.  Have you ever killed a main character?

No, and I never intend to. I want my characters to be happy and alive.

34.  What was the hardest scene you ever had to write?

Chapter 3 of I Desire You? Or maybe the chapter 2.

Or the beginning of Amandi, which depicts the Peter / Fiona relation.

35.  What scene/story are you least looking forward to writing?

Um, none at the moment :)

 The Fun 36.  Last sentence you wrote

I understand how he feels.

But I’ll probably change it. I’m not sure yet. It’s for IDY.

37.  First sentence of your current WIP

Well, I have three, so I’ll put the three.

A frustrated scream would have torn the eerie silence and thunderous sound of waves if Peter had any strength left in him to scream anymore. For Amandi

“Where’re y’all running to?” For IDY

Patroclus’ lip trembled when they pinned the crown to his hair. For Sunkissed.

38.  Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had

Oof, lots. I’ve often imagined confronting two versions of characters. Like, take characters, usually from period pieces or in mindsets that are very patriarchal, and make them see another version of themselves, usually in Omegaverse, in a sort of Harry Potter pensieve or television setting, like they just watch this alternate universe version of themselves as they go on their daily lives. And then I imagine all the ways this character would first be horrified / angered / dismissive of that version of themselves that they’d judge weaker because they’d be Omegas, and then, slowly, they see that they’re really badass and yk worthy of consideration, respect etc. Not just them, but all their mates etc. would too, as well. And then they would come out as this better person, who aren’t as prejudiced as they used to be.

39.  Weirdest character concept you’ve ever had

I don’t know, I think it kind of overlap with the precedent question? Anyway, my characters are (only) plain, normal humans. Or, well, there was one time I had an idea to write a story with elves à la Tolkien, but it’s not really a weird character concept (or at all really xD)

40.  Share some backstory for one of your characters

Well, all my characters’ important backstories end up being revealed, so I’m not gonna spoil anything here…

I’ll take Curly from Amandi. He grew up in an orphanage, a poor one, which didn’t have proper beds (hence why he calls them pockets, because they look like pockets). He has no memory of his parents because they separated before his birth and his mother died in birth. He comes from a magical land (since we’re talking about an OUAT AU).

 The Rest of It 41.  Any advice for new/beginning/young writers?

Write what you want to read.

42.  How do you feel about love triangles?

I’m mixed. I’m not a fan of them, but I wrote one once, although it was a bit special because it looked like that: Person A is in love with Person B, and vice versa, Person C loves Person A and Person C (and the entire world) is convinced Person A is in love with them.

43.  What do you do if/when characters don’t follow the outline?

I just go with it. They know better than me xD

44.  How much research do you do?

A lot, but it’s mostly on little details. Like, not wars or political situation of the country at the time period, but more like were oil lamps still used for that class of population in said year, and can you snuff them out by turning the button (like in a slide sort of way, I’m not sure how to translate it precisely in English, but in my head it’s crystal clear).

45.  How much world building do you do?

I do a lot. When I write a story, I like to know every little detail I can.

46.  Do you reread your own stories?

Yes. That’s the main reason why I write them, to be true.

47.  Best way to procrastinate

By searching for aesthetic pics on Pinterest. That thing can take hours and you never see them fly. It’s incredible. Worse than Youtube. It takes you from picture to picture to picture without you noticing. Amazing.

48.  What’s the most self-insert character/scene you’ve ever written?

I give a little bit of myself to every character I write about. Be it opinions, thoughts, childhood memory or taste. For example, Weston doesn’t like chocolate (he hates it with a passion) because I think chocolate has a disgusting taste (and because he never had the occasion of eating any as a kid).

49.  Which character would you most want to be friends with, if they were real?

Weston, because he’s friendly and extraverted, and I wish I could be more of both, and I imagine that being his friend would make me mimic him in certain ways.

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Welcome to my Blog!

Sooo since I kinda sorta coerced everyone else to make one of these (and Sylvie refuses to be a piece of Social Media) I have made my own blog on here since Facebook and Twitter (sorry X Elon is blegh and his apps suck) are a dying form of communication I decided to join the band wagon and make my own blog! Ask me anything! Except anything to do with Edmund Zola because that dead horse has been flogged way too often. Ew.

[lollipoplollipopoh]

Framing the self: The rise of the bookshelf aesthetic | The Listening Post (Feature) by Al Jazeera English As the coronavirus has caused TV channels to cut back on in-studio interviews, pundits and politicians - and the rest - have been left to their own devices on how best to frame themselves in their "natural environments". Enter the bookshelf - seemingly the perfect solution. Not only does it texturise the background behind a talking head, but it gives off the impression that the person is full of bookish knowledge. "A lot of people actually work in studies and have home studies - often they're situated in environments that actually are full of books," says Tamar Garb, professor of art history at University College London. "But at the same time, you can also see when a background has been really contrived." After all, selecting your bookshelf backdrop is an exercise in self-branding - presenting selective aspects of yourself before you have said a word. "There are all kinds of pundits who want to signal their authority by displaying very big historical books," says Hussein Kesvani, a journalist who writes about online culture, adding that French economist Thomas Piketty's tome Capital and the Russian novel War and Peace are two intellectual heavyweights that he has frequently noticed in backgrounds. Bookshelves as backgrounds - and as a marker of authority - date back to the late 19th century when European portrait artists started to paint their subjects engulfed by books, says Professor Garb. "This was the moment of the emergence of the writer and critic as an independent professional in the context of the growth of [the] publishing [industry]." In 1879, French impressionist Edgar Degas painted the critic Edmund Duranty completely engulfed by books and in 1868, Edouard Manet, another French painter, did a portrait of the writer Emile Zola sat beside a table piled with books. Jim al-Khalili, British physics professor and broadcaster, has been doing all of his work from his home study and conducts his Zoom webinars and TV interviews in front of his bookshelf. Almost all of the books behind him are his own, which, he says, was unintentional. "These books behind me are the hidden away books in my study" as opposed to the library downstairs, al-Khalili said. "It just so happens that now that I'm doing interviews they're even more public than the ones downstairs so I've made a mistake there." Whether contrived or not, intentional or unintentional, the proliferation of book-flaunting has led to a new genre of media critique: bookshelf analysis. As media guests let us into their personal spaces, audiences - many who have more time on their hands and need some light-hearted distraction - are weighing in. Twitter accounts set up during lockdown have amassed thousands of followers and are wryly analysing bookshelves and their owners based on the mess, the organisation, the colour schemes and the books themselves. As Kesvani told us, "It's an immediately relatable concept and it's a concept that is quite fun, considering that the reasons we are currently all indoors is very grim." The Listening Post's Flo Philips reports on how the bookshelf became the ideal backdrop, for producers, presenters and pundits alike. Contributors: Tamar Garb - professor of art history, UCL Bernie Hogan - senior research fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Hussein Kesvani - culture and technology journalist Alex Christofi - editorial director, Transworld Books

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A Name List

I really wanted to make a list of name that aren’t the typical boring ones  it’s kinda long  so I thought I’d share? I’d recommend going to the doc for sorting faster. The names are also going under the cut because there is a bunch.

-A-

Ace

Adley

Agatha

Alexei

Aloe

Aloysius

Arabella

Archer

Arthur

Aster / Asterin

Astrid

Atlas

August

Auriel

Averil

Axel

-B-

Bandit

Barnaby

Blaze

Blythe

Belle

Benedict

Buck

Brycin

-C-

Cain

Callida

Camdyn

Camille

Capri

Cecilia / Cecily

Celaena

Chaol

Chia

Clara

Clover

Colt

Cora

Cori

Corin

Cyril

Cyrus

-D-

Daci

Dae

Dahlia

Dafine

Daia / Daian

Dash

Delan

Diesel

Dinah

Divya

Draven

Drusilla

-E-

Ebony

Edmund

Elaena

Eleanor

Elias

Elide

Emmett

Enoch

Etta

Evangeline

Enzo

-F-

Fabio

Fal

Fergus

Flora

Foster

Frances

Frankie

Freya

Fraser

Fyfe

Fynly

-G-

Gaeton

Gage

Garth

Gavin

Gen

Genavieve

Gideon

Ginni

Graham

Greer

Grey

Gunner

Gwyn

-H-

Hal / Hali

Hanly

Harlow

Harper

Henrietta

Hester

Holden

Horace

Hugh

Hypatia

-I-

Ida

Iggie

Ilia

Iona

Imogen

Indi

Indigo

Ira

Irene

Irwyn

Isla

Ivar

-J-

Jasper

Jax

Jessamine

Jezebel

Jia

Jinx

Jude

Jules

Julian

June

-K-

Kai

Kaltain

Karn

Kensley

Kenzo

Kieran

Kit

Krysta

-L-

Langley

Leo

Lennox

Lilith

Linette

Livia

Lorelie

Lumi

Luna

Lyra

-M-

Maeve

Manuel

Mara

Marabelle

Marlin

Mango

Magnus

Manon

Marlowe

Mica

Millie

Milo

Moe

-N-

Nadie

Naomi

Narra

Narses

Nehemia

Nelson

Nene

Nesryn

Nessa

Nigel

Nova

November

-O-

Oaklyn

Oba

Obbi / Obe

Ocean

Octavian

Odette

Ohara

Omari

Onyx

Onika

Opal

Ophelya

Orel

Orie

Oskar

Otis / Otto

-P-

Pace

Pandora

Parker

Pasha

Pavlo

Pea

Peanut

Perrie

Pia

Poe

Phoenix

Pike

Placyd

-Q-

Quillen

Quilla

Quincy

Quinn

Quintin

Quinty

Quix

-R-

Raely

Rafe

Rai

Rakeen

Ramzi

Ransom

Rayan

Rayner

Rin

Rio

Rocket

Rowan

Ruby

Rudy

Ruth

Ryker

-S-

Saffira

Sage

Sanjae

Sebastian

Sephra

Shade

Shiloh

Silas

Sinclair

Sinjin

Slade

Sloan

Soma

Sora

Suzume

-T-

Taddeo

Talon

Tatiana

Tavvy

Terryn

Tessa

Thames

Tiberius

Titus

Tobias

Tora

Trey

Tuesday

-U-

Udell

Ugo

Ulan

Uli

Ulrike

Umber

Una

Uri

Ursa

-V-

Vann / Vanni

Venus

Vernon

Vesa

Vic

Vida

Vin

Viro

Vyolette

-W-

Walten

Warren

Wasten

Wade

Waylan

Wednesday

Wiley

Willa

Windi

Winslow

Winter

Wren

Wyn

-X-

Xandi

Xavier

Xander

Xen

Xin

Xuxa

Xylon

Xzander

-Y-

Yan

Yasmin

Yazz

Yvone

Yza

-Z-

Zadie

Zadik

Zane

Zara

Zayden

Zeke

Zevi

Zion

Zia

Zola

Zoilo

Zora

Zuri

Zyler

[dayofbeingwild]

1. Vie prolongée d’Arthur Rimbaud - Thierry Beinstingel

2. Une relation épistolaire

3. Le petit Prince - Antoine de St-Exupéry 

4. Vincent de l’Etoile

5. C’est un collection jeunesse, Les colombes du Roi Soleil - Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc

6. Bibliothèque personnelle

7. Le style, le style avant tout !

8. Car il parle d’Arthur Rimbaud...

9. Ana Satori

10. No. Never, I need silence. 11. No one.  12. Je lisais La synthèse du camphre - Arthur Dreyfus, le jour de mes 23 ans dans le train. D’une traite je l’ai lu. Je l’ai fini en apprenant la naissance de ma nièce. J’ai pleuré, ému par la beauté de l’Amour.

13. Ryō, le prostitué dans Call boy - Ishida Ira

14. La collection de la Pleiade

20. Hervé Guibert, himself.

21. Non, je les achète toujours.

22. Parfum d’absinthe - Achim von Borries

23. Mon père, mes soeurs.

24. Hygiène de l’assassin - Amelie Nothomb

25. Zola en général ?

26. Je suis mes préférences.

27. Librairie

28. La fin de la nouvelle mise en abime dans Hotel de Dream - Edmund White, terrible histoire que celle de ce banquier tombé amoureux d’un putain, terrible vraiment.

29. Plectrude dans Robert des noms propres - Amelie Nothomb

30. Arrete avec tes mensonges - Philippe Besson

31. Non.

32. Pour toujours Rimbaud et Verlaine

33. Dramatique !

34. Je n’ai jamais été effrayé par un livre. 

35. Je n’aime absolument pas.

36. Yourcenar c’est très pompeux.

37. Celui que je lis actuellement.

38. Parfois trop d’indulgence ?

39. Difficile, peut-être Rogue ? 

40. Oui, d’avoir été déçu, comme Sois près de moi - Andrew O’Hagan

[musicoviniciusrodrigues]

Todos os 92 vencedores do Oscar de Melhor Filme, classificados do pior ao melhor

O site americano Business Insider publicou um ranking com todos os títulos ganhadores do Oscar de Melhor Filme ao longo dos 91 anos da premiação. A seleção foi realizada a partir das notas atribuídas aos filmes por críticos no site especializado em cinema Rotten Tomatoes. Em casos de empate, as avaliações dos espectadores serviram como critério de decisão.

Organizado pela Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas, o Oscar é considerado o prêmio mais grandioso e prestigiado do audiovisual. A cerimônia, que é realizada anualmente, entrega prêmios em 24 categorias, sendo a de “Melhor Filme” a principal delas. O site americano Business Insider organizou um ranking com todos os títulos ganhadores do Oscar de Melhor Filme ao longo dos 92 anos da premiação. A seleção foi realizada a partir das notas atribuídas aos filmes por críticos no site especializado em cinema Rotten Tomatoes. Em casos de empate, as avaliações dos espectadores serviram como critério de decisão. Entre os primeiros colocados, estão alguns dos maiores clássicos, como “O Poderoso Chefão” (1972), de Francis Ford Coppola; e “Farrapo Humano” (1945), dirigido por Billy Wilder.

92 — Melodia da Broadway (1929), Harry Beaumont

91 — O Maior Espetáculo da Terra (1952), Cecil B. DeMille

90 — Cimarron (1931), Wesley Ruggles

89 — Cavalgada (1933), Frank Lloyd

88 — Entre Dois Amores (1985), Sydney Pollack

87 — Ziegfeld: O Criador de Estrelas (1936), Robert Z. Leonard

86 — A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias (1956), Michael Anderson e John Farrow

85 — Forrest Gump: O Contador de Histórias (1994), Robert Zemeckis

84 — Crash: No Limite (2004), Paul Haggis

83 — Uma Mente Brilhante (2001), Ron Howard

82 — Gladiador (2000), Ridley Scott

81 — Coração Valente (1995), Mel Gibson

80 — A Vida de Emile Zola (1937), William Dieterle

79 — Green Book: Um Guia Para a Vida (2018), Peter Farrelly

78 — A Luz é Para Todos (1947), Elia Kazan

77 — Gigi (1958), Vincente Minnelli

76 — O Bom Pastor (1944), Leo McCarey

75 — Conduzindo Miss Daisy (1989), Bruce Beresford

74 — Oliver! (1968), Carol Reed

73 — O Homem Que Não Vendeu Sua Alma (1966), Fred Zinnemann

72 — Dança com Lobos (1990), Kevin Costner

71 — Carruagens de Fogo (1981), Hugh Hudson

70 — Laços de Ternura (1983), James L. Brooks

69 — A Noviça Rebelde (1965), Robert Wise

68 — Gandhi (1982), Richard Attenborough

67 — As Aventuras de Tom Jones (1963), Tony Richardson

66 — O Paciente Inglês (1996), Anthony Minghella

65 — Grande Hotel (1932), Edmund Goulding

64 — Chicago (2002), Rob Marshall

63 — Ben-Hur (1959), William Wyler

62 — Beleza Americana (1999), Sam Mendes

61 — Platoon (1986), Oliver Stone

60 — Titanic (1997), James Cameron

59 — Gente Como a Gente (1980), Robert Redford

58 — Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Robert Benton

57 — Rain Man (1988), Barry Levinson

56 — E o Vento Levou (1939), Victor Fleming, George Cukor e Sam Wood

55 — Como Era Verde o Meu Vale (1941), John Ford

54 — Perdidos na Noite (1969), John Schlesinger

53 — Birdman ou (A Inesperada Virtude da Ignorância) (2014), Alejandro G. Iñárritu

52 — Hamlet (1948), Laurence Olivier

51 — O Último Imperador (1987), Bernardo Bertolucci

50 — Menina de Ouro (2004), Clint Eastwood

49 — Quem Quer Ser um Milionário? (2008), Danny Boyle

48 — Os Infiltrados (2006), Martin Scorsese

47 — A Forma da Água (2017), Guillermo del Toro

46 — Shakespeare Apaixonado (1998), John Madden

45 — A Um Passo da Eternidade (1953), Fred Zinnemann

44 — Rosa de Esperança (1942), William Wyler

43 — Do Mundo Nada se Leva (1938), Frank Capra

42 — Asas (1927), William A. Wellman e Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast

41 — Amor, Sublime Amor (1961), Jerome Robbins e Robert Wise

40 — Onde os Fracos não Têm Vez (2007), Ethan Coen e Joel Coen

39 — O Senhor dos Anéis: O Retorno do Rei (2003), Peter Jackson

38 — Golpe de Mestre (1973), George Roy Hill

37 — Amadeus (1984), Milos Forman

36 — Rocky: Um Lutador (1976), John G. Avildsen

35 — O Grande Motim (1935), Frank Lloyd

34 — O Franco Atirador (1978), Michael Cimino

33 — Se Meu Apartamento Falasse (1960), Billy Wilder

32 — Um Estranho no Ninho (1975), Milos Forman

31 — Sinfonia de Paris (1951), Vincente Minnelli

30 — O Artista (2011), Michel Hazanavicius

29 — Minha Bela Dama (1964), George Cukor

28 — 12 Anos de Escravidão (2013), Steve McQueen

27 — O Discurso do Rei (2010), Tom Hooper

26 — A Ponte do Rio Kwai (1957), David Lean

25 — Argo (2012), Ben Affleck

24 — No Calor da Noite (1967), Norman Jewison

23 — Os Melhores Anos de Nossa Vida (1946), William Wyler

22 — Patton: Rebelde ou Herói? (1970), Franklin J. Schaffner

21 — Os Imperdoáveis (1992), Clint Eastwood

20 — O Silêncio dos Inocentes (1991), Jonathan Demme

19 — A Grande Ilusão (1949), Robert Rossen

18 — Guerra ao Terror (2008), Kathryn Bigelow

17 — Noivo Neurótico, Noiva Nervosa (1977), Woody Allen

16 — Spotlight: Segredos Revelados (2015), Tom McCarthy

15 — O Poderoso Chefão II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola

14 — A Lista de Schindler (1993), Steven Spielberg

13 — Moonlight: Sob a Luz do Luar (2016), Barry Jenkins

12 — Operação França (1971), William Friedkin

11 — Aconteceu Naquela Noite (1934), Frank Capra

10 — Lawrence da Arábia (1962), David Lean

9 — Sindicato de Ladrões (1954), Elia Kazan

8 — Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz

7 — O Poderoso Chefão (1972), Francis Ford Coppola

6 — Parasita (2019), de Bong Joon-ho

5 — Marty (1955), Delbert Mann

4 — Nada de Novo no Front (1930), Lewis Milestone

3 — Farrapo Humano (1945), Billy Wilder

2 — Rebecca, A Mulher Inesquecível (1940), Alfred Hitchcock

1 — A Malvada (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Todos os 92 vencedores do Oscar de Melhor Filme, classificados do pior ao melhor publicado primeiro em https://www.revistabula.com

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EAST ANGLIAN GIG LISTINGS: 2ND-16TH NOVEMBER 2017

Every Thursday we present you with a cornucopia of consonant corkers 'pon which to merrily feast.  To submit your own news and listings, click here! Thursday 2nd Cambridge, Junction J1 Ghostpoet £16.50 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction J2 Hugh Cornwell £25 - 8pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms Sound Of The Sirens & Smalltown Jones £11 - 7.30pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Dingus Khan, Quay Street Whalers & Tr-33n £7 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, LCR Switchfoot & guests £18.15 - 7.00pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Super Hans Big Beat Manifesto & Bloghaus DJs £16.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio Krept and Konan £7.70 - 7.30pm - Tickets Friday 3rd Cambridge, Corn Exchange OMD £37.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms The Frank and Walters & S*M*A*S*H £16.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Colchester Bull Hurricane Alley Free entry - 9pm - Event page Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic £3 - 7pm - Event page Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys Les Frères Zeugma Free entry - 9pm - Event page Ipswich, Smokehouse Leaone, Softer Still, Jetstream Pony & Flame of the Lizard Birds £5 - 8pm - Event page Ipswich, Steamboat Open Mic Free entry - 8.30pm - Event page Norwich, Arts Centre Zola Jesus & Devon Walsh £16.50 - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, LCR Ghetts, D Double E, Fekky, Devlin, P Money & more £19.80-£27.50 - 9pm - Tickets Norwich, Open The Urban Voodoo Machine £15.40 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio Ruts DC £17.60 - 6.30pm - Tickets Saturday 4th Bury St Edmunds, Hunter Club Siah, The Virtues, Stealing Signs, Young States & Enterlude £5 - 6pm - Event page Cambridge, Blue Moon Dye the Flux & GrassRoof £3 - 7pm - Event page Cambridge, Corn Exchange John Mayall £25.25-£32.25 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction J2 Hackney Colliery Band £17 - 8pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Hugh Cornwell £22.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Colchester, Bull Wully Bully Free entry - 9pm - Event page Ipswich, Smokehouse Red Flag 77 & Ducking Punches £6 - 7pm - Event page Norwich, Open Burn the Headlines £7.70 - 7.30pm - Tickets Stowmarket, John Peel Center Lisbee Stainton & Sian Cross £12 - 7.30pm - Tickets Sunday 5th Cambridge, Junction J3 SJ and The Flying Pigs £6 - 7pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Monk Misterioso: A Journey Into The Silence of Thelonious Monk £14 - 7pm - Tickets Ipswich, Smokehouse Angel Snow & Ida Wenøe £11 - 8pm - Event page Norwich, LCR Oh Wonder & Jaymes Young £16.50 - 7pm - Tickets Monday 6th Cambridge, Corn Exchange Amy McDonald £27.75-£47.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction J2 Saz’iso £11 - 8pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Cardboard Fox £11 - 7.45pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio Pins, Assassin & Sink Ya Teeth £9.90 - 7.30pm - Tickets Tuesday 7th Bury St Edmunds, Apex Lulu £45-£70 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Corn Exchange Sleaford Mods £21.25 - 7.30pm - Tickets Harlow, Playhouse Joe Finn & Cameron Sanderson PWYC - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio King Parrot, Pain Penitentiary & Thicket of Antlers £9.35 - 7.30pm - Tickets Wednesday 8th Bury St Edmunds, Apex Mawkin £12 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction J1 Billy Bragg SOLD OUT - Info Cambridge, Portland Arms John Kirkpatrick £12.65 - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, LCR Sleaford Mods £20.35 - 7pm - Tickets Norwich, Open Jon Bowden £22 - 7pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio The JB Conspiracy & Tree House Fire £11 - 7.30pm - Tickets Stowmarket, John Peel Centre Justin Sullivan £15 - 7.30pm - Tickets Thursday 9th Bury St Edmunds, Apex The Levellers £25 - 8pm - Tickets Bury St Edmunds, Constitutional Club Bury Music Productions presents… Price tbc - 7.30pm - Event page Cambridge, Corn Exchange Joanne Shaw Taylor £22.75-£30.25 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction J1 Spoon & Husky Loops £25 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, St Philips Church Martin Simpson £19.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Epic Studios Rews & Kingdom Keys £7.70 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Owl Sanctuary Project Mork, Bono!, The Bad Apples & Hyperfox Entry by donation - 7pm - Event page Norwich, Waterfront Cradle of Filth & Savage Messiah £20.35 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio Wildwood Kin & William the Conqueror £12.10 - 7.30pm - Tickets Stowmarket, John Peel Centre Emerge £3 - 7.30pm - Tickets Friday 10th November Bury St Edmunds, Hunter Club Ben Holder Quartet £12 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Corn Exchange Collabro £42.15 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction Big Country £25 - 7pm - Tickets Colchester, Bull The Hit List Free entry - 9pm - Event page Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys LeVendore Rogue, The Knock-Offs, My Man Jeeves, Gavin Bowern & DJ Sam Leppard £5 - 8pm - Event page Ipswich, Steamboat Tavern Ady Johnson & Reb Capper Free entry - 7.30pm - Event page Norwich, Arts Centre Macka B and the Roots Reggae Band £14 - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, Epic Studios Mammal Hands £10 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Open Worry Dolls & Lisa Redford £10 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Owl Sanctuary The Black Sharks, Stromm & The Fools Moon £3 - 7pm - Event page Norwich, Waterfront Studio The Rezillos, Rampton Disco, Smart Alex & Hotwired £17.60 - 6.30pm - Tickets Saturday 11th November Bury St Edmunds, Apex Eddi Reader & Dan Whitehouse £23 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, St John's College Fisher Building The Dissolute Society £8.80 - 9pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction System 7 & Mirror System £18 - 8pm - Tickets Colchester, Bull Beautiful Dangerous Free entry - 9pm - Event page Colchester, Soundhouse Low Frequency Free entry - 9pm - Event page Colchester, Three Wise Monkeys Cosmic Puffindoors All-Dayer w/Deferred Success, Ghosts Of Men, Pet Needs, Les Carter, Rad Pitt, The Thinking Men & more £15 - 12pm - Tickets Norwich, Arts Centre JBXM, Kulk & Front Bangs PWYC - 1pm - Tickets Norwich, Epic Studios Elegy All-Dayer w/Beneath The Embers, Baithead, Collapse The Sky, Feral Sun, Scream Serenity, The High Points, Junkyard, Suburban Tide, Hollow Reign, Kaine & Nihilist £15 - 2pm - Tickets Norwich, Owl Sanctuary Diabetes Benefit Weekender w/The Restarts, Knock Off, Butcher Baby, Overload, Addictive Philosophy, The Minor Discomfort Band, Nelson County Steppers, Wreck-Age & Ambition Demolition £13.20 - 12pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Big Country & Beautiful Mechanica £25.31 - 7pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio A Foreigner's Journey & Uprising £13.20 - 6.30pm - Tickets Southend, Chinnerys John Otway £17 - 7pm - Tickets Sunday 12th November Cambridge, Corn Exchange Alison Moyet SOLD OUT - Info Cambridge, Junction Deaf Havana £18.50 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms Ryan Buxton, The Jam Club House Band & Dan Wilde £5 - 6.30pm - Tickets Ipswich, Smokehouse Caves and Clouds, Curtis Garrett & Jim Morehouse £4 - 8.30pm - Event page Ipswich, Steamboat Tavern The Gipping Valley Stompers Free entry - 2pm - Event page Norwich, Arts Centre Ghostpoet & Eera £17.50 - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, Owl Sanctuary Diabetes Benefit Weekender w/Infa-Riot, Braindance, Backdown or Die, Rotten Foxes, The Blue Carpet Band, Abandon Cause, Skurvi, Feral State & J'aime Rachelle £13.20 - 12pm - Tickets Monday 13th November Cambridge, Murray Edwards College Jazz Philosophy ft. James Tartaglia £5.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms Weaves, Dama Scout & Grieving £9.90 - 7pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Gigspanner £13 - 7.45pm - Tickets Norwich, Arts Centre Emily Barker & Pete Roe £14 - 8pm - Tickets Tuesday 14th November Cambridge, Corn Exchange Gareth Malone £37.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms Jared and the Mill £6.60 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, Trinity College Chapel Venetian Coronation £36 - 8pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Dälek & Palindromes £10 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Arts Centre Catfish Keith £14 - 8pm - Tickets Norwich, LCR Nothing But Thieves, July Talk & Darlia SOLD OUT - Info Norwich, Waterfront Studio Von Hertzen Brothers & Walkway £16.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Wednesday 15th November Cambridge, Corn Exchange The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain £29.75 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Emmanuel United Reformed Church Channel Crossings £28.13 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, Junction Afro Celt Sound System £27.50 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, Unitarian Church Black Top with Cleveland Watkiss & Tiago Coimbra £8.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets Cambridge, West Road Concert Hall The Endellion String Quartet £27 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Epic Studios Newton Faulkner £22 - 7pm - Tickets Norwich, LCR The Cadillac Three & Brothers Osborne £20.35 - 7.30pm - Tickets Norwich, Waterfront Studio As Lions, Greyhaven & Lightscape £8.80 - 7.30pm - Tickets Southend, Chinnerys Mawkin £11 - 7.30pm - Tickets Thursday 16th November Cambridge, CMJ Hidden Rooms Soft Machine SOLD OUT - Info Cambridge, Junction Newton Faulkner £24.50 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, Portland Arms Yonaka, Black Cortinas & Eeyore £6.60 - 7pm - Tickets Cambridge, St John's College Divinity School Annelien Van Wauwe, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad & Pavel Kolesnikov £16.88 - 6pm - Tickets Cambridge, West Road Concert Hall Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Joshua Bell£ 47.50 - 8pm - Tickets Colchester, Arts Centre Afro Celt Sound System & The Dhol Foundation £25 - 7.30pm - Tickets Ipswich, Swan Blues Jam Free entry - 9pm - Event page Norwich, LCR Status Quo (Aquostic), Fraser Churchill & Richard Malone £49.50 - 7.30pm - Tickets Stowmarket, John Peel Centre Mighty Sands, Animal Noise, Warm Winters & Sun Scream £8 - 7.30pm - Tickets

Photo: Zola Jesus (playing Norwich Arts Centre, 3rd Nov), from Facebook Listings Editor: Kate Quigley

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Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

[sistemabibliotecariomilano]

Consigli VIP. I libri preferiti dai famosi

Ma cosa leggono le persone famose, i potenti, quelli che poi prendono decisioni o compiono azioni che influenzano la vita di milioni dei loro simili? Quali sono i loro libri preferiti o meglio, quali libri ci consiglierebbero se potessimo scambiare due parole con loro.

Ecco qualche consiglio davvero VIP per le vostre letture sotto l'ombrellone o per ripartire dopo le vacanze ispirati da chi è riuscito, in un modo o nell'altro, a salire sui gradini più alti della scala sociale.

Per Barack Obama ci sono pochi dubbi. L'ex presidente degli Stati Uniti ha ribadito in più di un'occasione che tra le sue letture predilette figurano Il canto di Salomone dell'afroamericana Toni Morrison e Gilead del premio Pulizer Marilynne Robinson. Due viaggi emozionanti nel cuore dell'identità americana alla ricerca delle radici comuni di una nazione. Esiste una Lista dei [miei] 21 libri preferiti redatta da Bill Clinton nella quale tra parecchi saggi scopriamo un perla di Maya Angelou Io so perché canta l'uccello in gabbia, storia di passione e riscatto nell'America delle lotte per i diritti civili. La moglie Hillary invece raccomanda Un'eredita di avorio e ambra che narra in forma romanzata le vicessitudini europee della famiglia dell'autore, Edmund De Waal. Da Washington a Mosca. Lo zar Vladimir Putin pesca nella ricca letteratura della Grande Madre Russia e scansando gli scontati Dostoevskij e Tolstoj, propone ai lettori l'Ivan Turgenev di Memorie di un cacciatore, quadro vivido dell'Impero Russo di metà ottocento. Neanche Papa Francesco si sbilancia e gioca in casa con Il padrone del mondo, recentemente ristampato da Fazi. Il male sotto mentite spoglie mortali si cela dietro le ideologie progressiste per conquistare il potere mondiale. Un po' datato ma sicuramente interessante. La Cancelliera “di ferro” Angela Merkel interrogata sui libri della giovinezza confessa di non aver ancora dimenticato le pagine della Vita di Madame Curie, scritta dalla figlia Eve Curie.

E Hollywood? Qualche sorprendente lettura preferita si cela anche tra registi e attori di successo. Angelina Jolie dice di essere stata di recente sedotta da La storia segreta di Dracula e Kate Winslet ha letto con gusto Théresè Raquin di Emile Zola. Come darle torto! Se amate le narrazioni ricche e particolareggiate non ne sarete delusi. A Steven Spielberg è rimasto impresso nella memoria L'ultimo dei Mohicani. Doveva dirigerne il film ma purtroppo per lui si trovava già impegnato su un altro set. Kevin Spacey si diletta con le Lettere a un giovane poeta del sublime Reinardt Maria Rilke mentre Tom Hanks fa sapere ai fan di aver molto apprezzato il capolavoro di Truman Capote A sangue freddo.

Passiamo quindi agli uomini più ricchi del pianeta. In questa fase del capitalismo non sorprende si contino quasi tutti tra i magnati della Silicon Valley, i nuovi padroni del vapore. Cosa dicono di leggere questi tecnologici Paperon de Paperoni? Bill Gates rimane il più ricco nonchè il più attivo sul fronte dei libri e non si limita a parlarne nel corso di qualche intervista ma sul suo blog “Gatesnotes” ne pubblica una lista di 5 ogni estate. Tra quelli 2017 menzione speciale per Elegia americana del giovane J.D.Vance. Se ancora vi interrogate sui perchè vittoria di Trump in questo romanzo troverete molte risposte. Jeff Bezos, il capo di Amazon, riscopre il classico di Ishiguro Quel che resta del giorno. “Se lo leggerete non potrete far altro che finirlo e pensare: ho appena trascorso 10 ore a vivere una vita alternativa e ho imparato qualcosa sulla vita e sul rimorso”. Parole sue. I fondatori di Google Larry Page e Sergey Brin dichiarano la loro passione per le autobiografie di grandi scienziati e tra le tante lette incoronano rispettivamente, quella di Nikolaj Tesla Le mie invenzioni e quella del fisico premio Nobel Richard Feynman Sta scherzando Mr. Feynman. Il visionario Elon Musk con i suoi viaggi spaziali e le sue auto a guida autonoma non poteva che suggerirci di immaginare la nascita di un nuova civiltà con La Fondazione di Isaac Asimov. E visto che ci ospita sul suo social network, chiudiamo con Mark Zuckerberg il quale, oltre ad aver scelto la lettura di un libro ogni due settimane come buon proposito del 2015, si è anche sentito in dovere di comunicare al mondo la lista dei 23 libri che tutti dovremmo leggere... Bontà sua! La selezione comunque non è male. Che ne dite di Verso la creatività e oltre firmato Ed Catmull, uno dei fondatori della Pixar?

Buona lettura!

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Framing the self: The rise of the bookshelf aesthetic | Media

As the coronavirus has caused TV channels to cut back on in-studio interviews, pundits and politicians – and the rest – have been left to their own devices on how best to frame themselves in their “natural environments”.

Enter the bookshelf – seemingly the perfect solution. Not only does it texturise the background behind a talking head, but it gives off the impression that the person is full of bookish knowledge.

“A lot of people actually work in studies and have home studies – often they’re situated in environments that actually are full of books,” says Tamar Garb, professor of art history at University College London. “But at the same time, you can also see when a background has been really contrived.”

After all, selecting your bookshelf backdrop is an exercise in self-branding – presenting selective aspects of yourself before you have said a word. “There are all kinds of pundits who want to signal their authority by displaying very big historical books,” says Hussein Kesvani, a journalist who writes about online culture, adding that French economist Thomas Piketty’s tome Capital and the Russian novel War and Peace are two intellectual heavyweights that he has frequently noticed in backgrounds.

Bookshelves as backgrounds – and as a marker of authority – date back to the late 19th century when European portrait artists started to paint their subjects engulfed by books, says Professor Garb. “This was the moment of the emergence of the writer and critic as an independent professional in the context of the growth of [the] publishing [industry].” In 1879, French impressionist Edgar Degas painted the critic Edmund Duranty completely engulfed by books and in 1868, Edouard Manet, another French painter, did a portrait of the writer Emile Zola sat beside a table piled with books.

Jim al-Khalili, British physics professor and broadcaster, has been doing all of his work from his home study and conducts his Zoom webinars and TV interviews in front of his bookshelf. Almost all of the books behind him are his own, which, he says, was unintentional. “These books behind me are the hidden away books in my study” as opposed to the library downstairs, al-Khalili said. “It just so happens that now that I’m doing interviews they’re even more public than the ones downstairs so I’ve made a mistake there.”

Whether contrived or not, intentional or unintentional, the proliferation of book-flaunting has led to a new genre of media critique: bookshelf analysis. As media guests let us into their personal spaces, audiences – many who have more time on their hands and need some light-hearted distraction – are weighing in.

Twitter accounts set up during lockdown have amassed thousands of followers and are wryly analysing bookshelves and their owners based on the mess, the organisation, the colour schemes and the books themselves. As Kesvani told us, “It’s an immediately relatable concept and it’s a concept that is quite fun, considering that the reasons we are currently all indoors is very grim.”

The Listening Post‘s Flo Philips reports on how the bookshelf became the ideal backdrop, for producers, presenters and pundits alike.

Contributors:

Tamar Garb – professor of art history, UCL

Bernie Hogan – senior research fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

Hussein Kesvani – culture and technology journalist 

Alex Christofi – editorial director, Transworld Books

Source: Al Jazeera

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‘VIEWS FROM THE EDGE’ - w/c 17th February 2020

The Amorettes 'Let The Neighbours Call The Cops'

JOANovARC 'Ride Of Your Life'

Leisure 'It's Alright (On The Suez Canal)'

Gong 'Flying Teapot'  

Heart 'Voodoo Doll'

Orbital 'New France (feat. Zola Jesus)'  

Healthy Junkies 'Manifesto'

Fire On The Roof 'Electric Sheep'  

PJ Harvey 'The Words That Maketh Murder'  

Stiff Little Fingers 'Fly The Flag'

Allen & Douglas 'The Truth Is Everywhere'

Stillhound 'Dreamed Up (Wanted Man)'

Emergency Tiara 'Do Not Disturb'

Emma Withers 'Ride Or Die'  not TD1

Jerry Hull 'Tally Ho Mrs Bigglesworth'

Jerry Hull 'Buffalo Man'

Jerry Hull 'Ordinary Man'

Cara Hammond 'Ready For The Fall'

Siights 'Better Now'

Ivy Levan 'No Good'

L Perry 'I'm Gonna Rise'

Gabrielle 'Rise'

The Beatles 'Got To Get You Into My Life'

Emmylou Harris 'Here There & Everywhere'

Gail Edmunds 'Sanctuary'

Shit Robot 'Take Em Up'

Portishead 'Glory Box'