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Everything I learn about Rose Wilder Lane makes me more and more aware that she was a hilariously outrageous person who needs a movie made about her immediately.
After leaving Missouri, she moves to California and marries a real-estate guy who once tried to get her to help him con the railroad.
She gets hired at a San Francisco newspaper known for its yellow journalism, where she does things like writing a series of columns featuring the "real-life stories of a police detective" who, in real life, was a high-end jewel thief.
Her first book is a first-person "autobiography" of Charlie Chaplin that she (after a few interviews with Chaplin) completely made up, and that Charlie Chaplin immediately threatened to sue her publisher for.
Her second book is a biography of Jack London, which his wife only reluctantly allowed her to write because Rose presented herself as "someone who had never written for the newspapers before and needs a chance to break into the magazines." This book was also almost entirely fictional, and her publisher also almost got sued over it.
Third biography is the first-ever biography of Herbert Hoover, also a heavily-fictionalized account. (Doesn't seem to have been sued for this one. Steps in the right direction!)
Traveled as a reporter through Europe (to places like Albania and Poland) post-WWI. (If we want to talk about legal things that she did).
Wrote a book based on Laura's late-childhood pioneer experiences while Laura was writing the early books of the Little House series, and did not tell Laura about it. (Laura was ticked off).
Kept trying to insert a story into Laura's memoirs (and Little House on the Prairie) casting Pa as a member of a posse that hunted down the infamous (and never-caught) serial-killing Bender family (despite the fact that this was historically impossible). (It got to the point that Laura herself told this story to the public as an example of "a true story I couldn't out in my children's book." Despite the fact, I say again, that this was historically impossible).
During WWII, endured a minor incident (it involved one cop coming to her house) where the FBI investigated her as a potential communist based on a postcard she sent that was critical of the government. Turned this into a short story that presented herself as the righteously-outraged American citizen fighting against an oppressive government, and used this to whip up a nationwide media campaign against J. Edgar Hoover for spying on American citizens.
Flew to Vietnam as a war reporter when she was in her seventies.
#history is awesome#rose wilder lane#little house#i finally finished pioneer girl perspectives#to think i didn't even want to read the essay about the bender family#i skipped over it and left it til last#cuz i thought it would just rehash the fact vs fiction stuff i've seen covered elsewhere#turns out it was about the history of yellow journalism and provided most of the facts i've listed#(i was today years old when i learned that 'yellow journalism' was short for 'yellow kid journalism')#(and it came from a popular 'yellow kid' cartoon character that hearst and pulitzer both fought over to get into their papers)#also it turns out the bender family was a popular yellow journalism topic (because they'd never been found so people could make stuff up)#usually the stories centered around posses that found and killed them#but my favorite is the story that they made a hot air balloon from a natural gas deposit in a swamp in kansas#and escaped over the gulf of mexico#until their balloon popped and they landed on a passing ship where one of them could make a deathbed confession#history is awesome but the history of fake history is its own special kind of awesome
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Lois: I know that I ran a verbal marathon last night and then I fell asleep, but I promise. Tonight is about the two of us.
Clark: I waited for you to get ready for three hours. If it means being with you, I can wait forever.
Lois: Forever's a long time.
Clark saying this line really make me feel million emotions 😭😭💞💞🌸✨
#smallville#smallville edit#my edit#my gifs#clois#lois lane#superman#clark kent#erica durance#tom welling#escape#clois forever
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Lois :))
#she gets to escape the twelfth night superman piece bc she’s the only one that looks okay#superman why are you so hard to drawwwwwww#dc comics#superman#my art#lois lane
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MAWS Lois and Kara bonding over having emotionally harmful father who habitually lied to them and treated them like soldiers please? They deserve it.
#like. lois has really made progress with her trust issues this season#but kara JUST escaped General Gaslight#lives in the same city as a dangerous minority of bigots who hate and fear her for being an alien and former conquerer#and has been mind-controlled to kill innocent people many times which could damage her trust in herself#she could absolutely have massive trust issues#meaning that lois gets to see some of her problems from the outside and help her deal with them!#and also be like ‘damn i was so irrational’#maws#my adventures with superman#maws lois lane#maws kara#maws kara zor-el
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—Smallville, “Escape”
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me watching my friends try and deny they’re not slipping into josh lane
#EVERYONE is josh lane you cannot escape#even if you’re not josh lane you’re absolutely josh lane#kristen#val#li
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Greg & his sister, Emma. 💔
#AHH the conversation when we have to tell him is going to break my heart 😓#the fact she submitted her resignation but they REFUSED IT. that's foul 😔#“maybe she escaped.” 💔💔#i can't wait to learn more about Greg & hopefully this upcoming update he'll open up more & we'll grow closer. 🤞🏽#I just want to give a big hug & comfort him 😩💓#it would've been so cute if she left a necklace or bracelet for Greg to remember her by#rc#romance club#rc greg#rc greg x lane#rc greglane#rc lane x greg#rc heaven's secret requiem#rc hsr#romance club game#lami.ss
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my cat after escaping into the hallway after i accidentally left the door ajar and running 7 flights of stairs down into the bottom floor for an Adventure but realizing everything is sooooo so so scary actually and hiding under the radiator waiting to be saved by me
#tess talks#my god. i am stupid but so is my cat. BABY GIRL. SEVEN FLOORS? IF U WERE SOSCARED WHY DID U GO ALL THE WAY DOWN#the fight or flight instinct kicked in except all she knows is flight.#sitting on my desk now. cozy. comfy. in her lane. unbothered. in her safe spot. as if her ass didnt just escape and regret it badly
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Happy October! 🎃
I’m posting two parts of “Escape from Gallow Lane,” a Hollow Grove story, today in celebration! They’re labeled 2 & 3 but they can be read in either order.
After being brought to the station, Mariela waits out the interrogation to clear the name of herself and her co-conspirator. She’ll likely have to wait a little longer.
Emery is an upstanding citizen. Or at least what he wants you to believe.
#mt writes#escape from gallow lane#hollow grove stories#oc: mariela#oc: Emery#writeblr#tumblr writing community#under 1500
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Don't even try to cover up the fixing anymore. I mean, seriously?
#A safety car for a car parked in escape lane??????#ill kill you#lance stroll#aston martin f1#formula 1#f1#f1blr#formula one#2023 saudi arabia#saudi arabia gp 2023#jeddah 2023#jeddah gp 2023#f1 2023#saudi arabian gp 2023
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Kylie has stolen boyfriends from both Justine Skye and Black Chyna, aided in Jordyn Woods getting online bullied by her sister for what her sister’s baby father did to Jordyn; not to mention idk if it’s bad luck but every man them Kardashians/Jenners date seem to spiral 👀.
Kylie has stolen boyfriends from both Justine Skye and Black Chyna
aided in Jordyn Woods getting online bullied by her sister for what her sister’s baby father did to Jordyn;
not to mention idk if it’s bad luck but every man them Kardashians/Jenners date seem to spiral 👀.
#thanks anon for the trip down memory lane#I vaguely remember the Jordyn Woods Justine Skye and Black Chyna gossip 👀#I just refuse to pay close attention to that family so a lot of things escaped my memory lol#eesh....yea kinda messy lol#hopefully she's changed
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A mini clip of Clark Kent singing...
#why do find this so amusing#smallville#smallville edit#my edit#clark kent#lois lane#superman#tom welling#clois#escape
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About the State of the World
All I’ve ever wanted is to keep the words flowing through my fingertips. To engineer worlds, Captivating and spellbinding. But just open the window and look at ours outside: It’s burning.
The road beside the house is blocked off in the night Strobing red and blue in warning As the rain pummels potholes into the asphalt, Transforming roads into rivers.
I am told: it isn’t suppose to be like this here. I am told: this is a once in a lifetime Storm. Fire. Natural. Disaster. It’s snowing in LA, In Texas. The Mediterranean is on fire.
I don’t know, how can I create? How should my words be heard over the screams of thousands Dying, in this state of the world?
-Lane Aconite,
March 21st, 2023
#poetry#my work#lane archives#y'all might remember these events happened last yr in rapid succession & it scared the shit out of me. every new year it's so jarring#to watch severe weather warnings & deadly floods level parts my city (much worse this yr) as everyone around mumbles about how#this never happens. when this is the only thing I've seen happen since I got here. when will you wake up & smell the roses burning#when I was a child I started writing as escapism from the horrors of reality but now I can't ignore it anymore#always said I'd never get involved in politics but then my continued existence became political so here I am#I'll keep being the bulldozer & staying alive
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We don’t talk enough about how Lois Lane nearly dying not once, not twice but three whole times in Man of Steel basically gave Clark permanent trauma 😂
#he’s nearly out of his mind when he saves her life after she falls off from the plane and barely escapes being sucked into the singularity#and while he would never dream of getting in her way when she’s doing something he is constantly CONSTANTLY worrying over her#has absolutely zero reservation about showing up wherever and whenever he needs to in order to keep her safe#he’s clearly checking in all the time to make sure Lois is okay and for this version of clois it actually works#clark kent#lois lane#superman#kal el#man of steel#amy adams#henry cavill
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Twist!
—Lois, discovering that Chloe and Oliver are on a getaway together, Smallville, “Escape”
#Smallville#Clark Kent#Tom Welling#Lois Lane#Erica Durance#Oliver Queen#Chloe Sullivan#Justin Hartley#Allison Mack#9.15 Escape#Clois#Chlollie
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There’s something more than magical in the Ocean At The End Of The Lane. There are feelings, and these feelings are so similar to yours that you may think the whole story is about you. And there are memories of childhood, old days of being young, foolish, but sometimes wiser than the adults, and much more creative, i would say. There’s also similar warmth and comfort we all found somewhere, and which we all seek now. These memories are buried deep down in your heart and they’re awakening as you travel with this seven-year-old narrator, who is in an endless circle of forgetting and remembering things, and who, in fact, is you.
Artwork by me
IG: niagorgodze
@neil-gaiman
#neil gaiman#fantasy#fiction#novel#ocean at the end of the lane#art#artwork#painting#fantasy art#escapism#books and reading#books
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