#jane north robinson

[makethosenarratorsfight]

REVIVED UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE D

NOTE; This is a revival round. These narrators are not fighting due to being dead

[ya-world-challenge]

25 YA Books for Indigenous Peoples Day

NOTES: For brevity and diversity, I did not include all the North American Native books I found, but there are plenty more - feel free to post your favorites in the comments! Most books are from indigenous authors, but not all - do your own research if you like. Not all books may be “technically” YA. I’d love to hear more suggestions of Latin American indigenous stories or Hawai’ian native stories which were difficult to find.

EDIT: This is just a random list by a random tumblr blog from 2022 - get out there and find your own books or list some in the comments if you find this list lacking.

Australia

The Things She's Seen by Amebelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina

The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough

Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison

Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Canada

The Missing by Melanie Florence

Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett

Japan - Ainu

Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda

Latin America

Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen

The Huaca by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

New Zealand - Maori

The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera

Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku

United States

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Trail of Lighting by Rebecca Roanhorse

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

[cemeterygrace]

if you spoil tit for me i will end you

i won’t be on dnp tumblr frequently again until november 2nd

you have been warned

name: noa

age: 18

pronouns: whatever makes the joke funnier idc really

gender: formless blob idc

sexuality: attracted to women, formless blobs, and the guy that happens to be my boyfriend. just a fruity fucker honestly.

member of the grape medicine haters cult

if you’re here for a specific fandom, i’m sorry for your loss

asks are always open just don’t be gross

feel free to tag me and message me anytime!

fandoms: there’s a lot so have a list (or multiple)

music (these are all apple music links i’m sorry)

mcr

fall out boy

twenty one pilots

muna

boygenius

against me!

something corporate

ball park music

bears in trees

bleach lab

catfish and the bottlemen

chappell roan

dead sara

ethel cain

ezra furman

flor

idkhow

linkin park

judah and the lion

the killers

ls dunes

laura jane grace

nxdia

paramore

pavement

rostam

semler

sophian

sophie

starset

tegan and sara

trash boat

vampire weekend

waterparks

weezer

the wombats

the young veins

other

dan and phil

daniel thrasher

nate bargatze

kim stanley robinson

brandon sanderson

charlie jane anders

markiplier

unus annus

other stuff

i’m an mcr5 truther

i am a specialty root beer connoisseur (abita root beer hell yeah)

i’m on the hunt for the best fettuccine alfredo ever send me recs

i’m a freshman history major

i am a band kid do with that what you will

i have a dog she’s a mini englishdoodle named piper and she’s precious

i am a lactose intolerant cheese enjoyer

i have hella disabilities/chronic illnesses/diseases

i am a midwestern hoe

i play cymbals in marching band

instruments i play because this post needs another list

piano

flute

bass guitar

drums

mallet percussion

cymbals

violin

saxophone (a bit)

disabilities and such

juvenile idiopathic polyarticular arthritis (they can’t agree on a fucking name)

adhd (primarily inattentive type)

enthesitis

scheuermann’s disease

extreme hypermobility

lactose intolerant af

auditory processing disorder

my tags!

damn you’re all the way down here? neat! good job for reading all of that lmao <3 as a treat here are some fun facts

i have entirely too many books in my room send help they’ve taken over

going to tit tour and clancy minneapolis!

i might perhaps also run state-of-minnesota-official (i can’t legally bitch about wisconsin too much tho i go to college there)

i am a minnesota bitch what about it

i had chai and ube ice cream once and it was absolutely life changing

i’ve been to 30 states if we’re counting washington dc

i’ve been to 6 countries including the 3 main north american ones (america cause i live there, canada, and mexico)

i’ve been at the summit of the second tallest mountain east of the mississippi (mount washington)

tysm for reading you’re my favorite <3

dni: fascists, shitheads and bigots, israel supporters, terfs, ableists, etc. if you’re a dick about other people existing, this ain’t the place for you.

[osmiumpenguin]

It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)

[go-to-the-mirror]

howdy howdy howdy, some good words, mostly rambling, one (1) reaction image bc I'm Sad About Jon Constantly All The Time. Content warnings for like, most things in the episode because I'm pulling quotes, and also existential fear (the state of the world rn) because I went on a little extinction ramble.

@a-mag-a-day

Case 9550307 – Wallis Turner. Incident occurred at the North Point prisoner of-war camp, then later the sunken ship Nemesis in late 1942. Statement taken 3rd July 1955 at the Pu Songling Research Centre, Beijing. Committed to tape 9th October 2014. Gertrude Robinson recording.

Jon, I love you, but Gertrude's way of introducing statements is way better. Although she did intentionally leave the archives in disarray so...

Like, I mean, in an ideal world, you'd be able to search for statements by people who appear in them and places and notable things that happen, and then... idk I just, alright like, I want to just, learn how to code so I can make myself a little website and organize the statements and then my little rat brain who just wants to sort things out will finally be appeased

Even if it’s just sleep, just a quiet nothing forever, it’s not like you know enough to be bored, is it?

Fun fact about yours truly, that's one of the parts of death that scares me the most! I cannot handle being bored, it's just... no, I can't do it. And boredom forever? No end in sight? I hope there is an afterlife so that I don't have to deal with that.

Worse than that is just... nothing, just an end, and I don't really like to think about that.

Sergeant once told me it’s no different from killing a chicken back home, but people aren’t chickens, and the idea that war strips us all down to just a body that moves and kills, or falls and dies, makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Fear soup! This is pretty Flesh.

I could feel my pulse quicken, like it wanted to match the tempo, though I’ve no idea why. I should have been confused, scared maybe, and I guess I was, but I could also feel my fingers tap-tap-tapping away to the beat.

Right, alright, The Slaughter and music thing makes sense to me now. It's about the... I called it group project violence? That but serious. I know The Hunt was the mob mentality episode, but like... idk, I'm not sure. Something about the music in these episodes, Jane's song of the Hive, luring you in, entrancing you. The song of the Web, making you dance to its tune. The song of the Slaughter, getting caught up in the rhythm of it all.

There's something there, I can't exactly articulate it.

[...] just before the trumpet began to drift over the waters just a few yards beyond the walls.

woodwinds against trumpets 2023

And when they were lying still and the music stopped and night was quiet again, that’s when I heard the sound that really chilled my blood. All my comrades, my fellow prisoners, cheered. And it wasn’t the cheer of those glad for freedom, it was the sound of bloodlust and cruelty.

the slaughter feels like the least... spooky of all the fears to me. like, of course, there's a lot of war ghosts, and uncontrollable urges to do violence among other things, but the thing about the slaughter really feels like human and stuff. like, all of them are, not necessarily human, but influenced by the fear of mortals -- and probably those weird jellyfish, too -- but the slaughter feels different.

also, may I just say a thing? a few of the entities aren't really made manifest by that thing happening. like, sure, the eye is the fear of being watched -- among many other things -- but you know what really breeds paranoia? not being sure if you're being watched or not. the end is the fear of death, and yet victims of the end are commonly just told when the end will come for them. the slaughter is the fear of violence in a slaughter-y way and not a hunt or desolation-y way, and a lot of the slaughter's fear comes from witnessing the violence, or dreading it.

thus the extinction manifesting wouldn't end the world, because it would be a world without fear -- like maybe it would replace humans with spooky inheritors -- but honestly I think it would be enough just to give us the knowledge, the constant dread that there are people more powerful than us who can end the world with a decision, or trash the environment knowing full well what the consequences are. I think it would be enough to look at the doomsday clock and see that we're 90 seconds to midnight. but make it spooky.

woo! existential fear! hopelessness and helplessness! i know, i know, don't give up, people can cause change, but also I am one (1) tiny little guy.

Leonard was the first to dance. Well, I think of it as a dance, though I don’t know why. He reached over and grabbed another one of the former prisoners, a scrawny guy, I think his name was Milton. He gave a cry of anger that I could never have imagined coming from his gentle, smiling lips even in the head of battle. There was nothing Milton could do. Even malnourished as he was, it was easy for Leonard to snap his arm like a twig, twist his neck until his leg spasmed and his skull started to crack. Even when his victim was clearly dead, he kept beating it, tossing the corpse across the deck with as much ferocity as if it were the most hated man alive. The bloody crew of the Nemesis watched, their eyes riveted and their feet tapping to the music.

First of all, I love the way Jonny writes violence, it feels so visceral, I don't know, just the way he describes it. It's good. 10/10.

Secondly, I've danced in like a group but like a community sort of group not a lot of times, but I have acted, and it feels similar. Like, I don't know. Something about being on stage, the lights almost blinding you, it feels invigorating, it feels like you're being swept up in something. Idk, like that scene in Mama Mia where Sophie meets all three of her dads in one dance, and then passes out.

Yeah idk.

Few wars in my lifetime have reached anywhere the near the heights of fear I suspect this ritual would need, though I did spend some time a while back looking over some details from the Cuban Missile Crisis to no avail.

Nah, mate, the cold war's a feast for the extinction! (however, soup)

Anyway, point is, you can probably discount The Slaughter. It had its chance.

I forgot these tapes were supposed to be for her successor.

oh... hmnr. and they didn't help... this one told them outright how to stop The Unknowing, there was probably one going into more detail about it. The tape she intended the Archivist to hear as soon as they got the job... well, we all know what happened to that.

That's just... sad to me.

I feel like I’m on a deadline, like I’m running out time, somehow. And I don’t even know where to go, what to look for, or—

THIS! THIS IS WHAT SEASON 4 FEELS LIKE! Weirdly stressful, despite not clearly having a... point, something to... do, it feels like that feeling you get when you're so... bored or understimulated that you're just pacing around trying to find something to do, and you can't find anything to do! And it's like, aaaaa.

That's season 4.

(oh, also, for the last time the watcher's crown was in the past, the mass ritual doesn't have a canon name and when asked, Jonny tentatively said "The Magnus Archives" however of course that's word of god and the author is dead so take it as you will, however please do know that it's not the watcher's crown)

Daisy’s got me listening to The Archers. I hate it. But it feels nice to hate something that can’t hurt me. I don’t know. That’s it, I, I guess. End recording.

[ID: A drawing of someone sitting at a computer crying.]

I'M JUST SAD. "It feels nice to hate something that can't hurt me." HHHHH HES REALLY BEEN THROUGH THE WRINGER HASN'T HE D:

right, uh,

this is over ig.

[conradscrime]

Who Is Kenora “Millie” Jane Doe?

June 30, 2023

On June 17, 2009, the body of a woman in a one-person tent was found near Miller Rapids Road, Kenora, Ontario, Canada, by a hiker. The tent was in a wooden area.

Kenora, Ontario is located along the Trans-Canada Highway, and is close to the Manitoba, Minnesota, and North Dakota borders.

From information provided, it appears that the woman found had set up her tent even 1-2 days before she was discovered. The tent was on Rideout Bay, long the Winnipeg River. The woman was using an hibachi to cook inside the tent. 

The woman, nicknamed “Millie” had accidentally died from carbon monoxide poisoning from the stove she was using. Given the name “Kenora Jane Doe” she was estimated to be between 33-55 years old, Caucasian, 5′3 to 5′7 feet tall, and 110 pounds. 

Millie had shoulder length light brown hair, could even be dark blonde hair and was wearing hiking gear, enough to suggest she may have been an experienced hiker. She was wearing size 5 Outback hiking boots that were bought at Payless and 6P jeans were Midtown brand. She wore oval wire-framed glasses, and a beaded necklace and hoop earring were found in her tent. She also had a black duffel bag, $75 in cash and $2.84 in change. 

The woman also had a copy of the book “A Long Way Down” by Nick Hornby, and the bookmark she was using was sold from McNally-Robinson Bookstores which are locations found in Winnipeg and Saskatoon. Also found in her tent was a bottle of 13 Pfizer pills and medication for back and muscle pain. 

It also appeared that this Jane Doe had a reconstruction of her jaw done in surgery during her life. Her facial bones were surgically cut, her upper and lower jaws were re-adjusted. The procedure appeared to be outdated, suggesting it must of been done at least 20-30 years earlier. Millie was probably in her 20′s when this procedure took place. It also appeared that she probably wore braces as an adult and she may have been a smoker as there were spots on her lower teeth. 

Source: CanadaUnsolved

[cheshirelibrary]

A Book for Every Era of Taylor Swift 

[via Electric Literature]

The singer/songwriter is going on tour to celebrate her different eras and we have a reading list to match. I asked my most literary Swiftie friends to weigh in, and here’s the definitive Taylor Swift Eras reading list.

“Taylor Swift” : The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

“Fearless” : Outlawed by Anna North

“Speak Now” : Persuasion by Jane Austen

“Red” : Possession by A.S. Byatt

“1989″ : Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

“Reputation” : Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

“Lover” : The Carrying by Ada Limón

“folklore” : Normal People by Sally Rooney

“evermore” : Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

“Midnights” : Bluets by Maggie Nelson

[project1939]

200 Films of 1952

Film number 166: Tarzan's Savage Fury

Release date: April 11th, 1952 

Studio: RKO 

Genre: adventure 

Director: Cy Endfield 

Producer: Sol Lesser 

Actors: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles 

Plot Summary: Tarzan and Jane come across an orphan boy in the jungle and take him in. More excitement arrives when an Englishman claiming to be Tarzan’s cousin wants help finding a mysterious jungle tribe said to use hundreds of diamonds in their religious rituals. What is the real story, though? 

My Rating (out of five stars): **¾

I’ll admit, I had fun with this one. The only other Tarzan movie I saw was for Project 1939, and I remember enjoying that as well. But on its own terms! Both movies are just silly adventures aimed at a younger audience, so you won’t find any significant artistry or depth in them. They are an afternoon’s entertainment meant to be cranked out for the cash. You could do far worse, though. This was miles better than The Jungle or Untamed Women. (spoilers!)

The Good: 

Lex Barker. My goodness he was HAWT. Apparently, he had to get a full body wax for the role, due to the fact that Johnny Weissmuller, the original Tarzan, did. It looked great, but ouch! 

There was a clear and interesting plot that was easy to follow. 

I enjoyed all the animals- hippos, rhinos, crocodiles, zebra, chimps, monkeys, lions, panthers, parrots, snakes... you name it. And happily, none of them were shot and killed. 

It lived up to its genre name of “adventure.” 

It was also good cheesy fun. 

If most of it was shot on a set or a backlot, it wasn’t too bad.  

The house Tarzan and Jane lived in was awesomely reminiscent of the Swiss Family Robinson. 

The Bad: 

Were there deer like we have in North America in the African jungle? 

Some of the African tribes were really dehumanized- especially the warriors who were covered in bones, piercings, and war paint. They were also treated like a lot of Native Americans in film at this time- naive, easily swayed, and overly superstitious... One chief character was portrayed as being good-hearted and wise, though. 

There were some pretty violent deaths for the bad guys at the end. When the two pilots were made to crash and die, it was heartily celebrated. It felt grizzly and horrible to me. 

There was some funny rear projection used when Tarzan confronted a rhinoceros. I understand it would have been impossible to do in real life, but it was plainly obvious Tarzan was talking to a screen. 

The whole idea that Tarzan and Joey could intimidate and control a wild lion was ludicrous and dangerous to convey. It was like they were talking to a dog- “Go away lion! I’m staring you in the eye! Now go!” 

I was disappointed there were no underwater swimming scenes. Those were my favorite parts in the 1939 film. But Weissmuller was an Olympic swimmer and Barker wasn’t! 

Jane sure had perfectly set 1940s style hair and makeup for someone living deep in the African jungle! 

The title is hysterically over-blown. Tarzan’s Savage Fury? He never seems all that upset in this! Certainly not furious! He’s pretty unflappable and just gets on with vanquishing any threat. 

The Bible? Did we really need the part with the Bible? I suppose this was the height of the Red Scare, and Americans loved pounding home the idea that “We’re better than Commies cause religion!” 

And speaking of the Red Scare... the director of this film, Cy Endfield, left Hollywood after the movie’s completion. He was named as a Communist sympathizer by HUAC, and rather than be forced to testify and name names, he went to England. Cause nothing says American freedom more than being forced to flee your own country because you might be extra-legally destroyed for your political beliefs! 

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.8 (after 1950)

1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact. 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike. 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers. 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. 1954 – South African Airways Flight 201: A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. 1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL. 1959 – The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank. 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung. 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. 1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed. 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. 1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline. 1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. 1993 – The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. 1993 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56. 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-110, carrying the S0 truss to the International Space Station. Astronaut Jerry L. Ross also becomes the first person to fly on seven spaceflights. 2004 – War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. 2005 – A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. 2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. 2008 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. 2013 – The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. 2014 – Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported. 2020 – Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee. 2024 – Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's ascending node, visible across North America.

[team-mew-s-a]

Expansion Draft: Protected List Predictions

I haven't seen any protected lists published yet, so below I've listed out who I think each team will/should protect. Other than the +1, they aren't in any particular order. We'll see how close I come soon!

Angel City:

Claire Emslie

Ali Riley

MA Vignola

Alyssa Thompson

Syd Leroux

Angelina Anderson

Amandine Henry

Jun Endo

Giselle Thompson

(+1) Scarlet Camberos

Chicago Red Stars:

Alyssa Naeher

Tatumn Milazzo

Arin Wright

Julia Bianchi

Penelope Hocking

Ava Cook

Jenna Bike

Ally Schlegel

Cari Roccaro

(+1) Jill Aguilera

Houston Dash:

Jane Campbell

Sophie Schmidt

Natalie Jacobs

Katie Lind

Diana Ordoñez

Michelle Alozie

Sarah Puntigam

Nichelle Prince

Andressa Alves

(+1) Joelle Anderson (rights)

Kansas City Current

Gabrielle Robinson

Michelle Cooper

Debinha

Lo'eau LaBonta

Haillie Mace

Elizabeth Ball

Vanessa DiBernardo

Kristen Hamilton

Morgan Gautrat

(+1) Cece Kizer

NJ/NY Gotham FC:

Lynn Williams

Yazmeen Ryan

Jenna Nighswonger

Kristie Mewis

Midge Purce

Kelley O'Hara

Maitana López

Katie Stengel

Esther González

(+1) Nealy Martin

North Carolina Courage:

Kaleigh Kurtz

Ryan Williams

Narumi Miura

Casey Murphy

Denise O'Sullivan

Kerolin

Malia Berkely

Tyler Lussi

Rikako Kobayashi

(+1) Brianna Pinto

OL Reign:

Lauren Barnes

Alana Cook

Sofia Huerta

Jordyn Huitema

Bethany Balcer

Jess Fishlock

Veronica Latsko

Quinn

Claudia Dickey

(+1) Sam Hiatt

Portland Thorns:

Sam Coffey

Bella Bixby

Morgan Weaver

Kelli Hubly

Emily Menges

Hina Sugita

Sophia Smith

Olivia Moultrie

Janine Beckie

(+1) Rocky Rodriguez

Racing Louisville:

Abby Erceg

Katie Lund

Lauren Milliet

Carson Pickett

Savannah DeMelo

Ary Borges

Jaelin Howell

Elli Pikkujämsä

Thembi Kgatlana

(+1) Paige Monaghan

San Diego Wave:

Danny Colaprico

Naomi Girma

Kailen Sheridan

Alex Morgan

Jaedyn Shaw

Rachel Hill

Sofia Jakobssen

Taylor Kornieck

Abby Dahlkemper

(+1) Kristen McNabb

Washington Spirit:

Sam Staab

Gabby Carle

Ashley Hatch

Tara McKeown

Aubrey Kingsbury

Andi Sullivan

Trinity Rodman

Ashley Sanchez

Ouleymata Sarr

(+1) Paige Metayer

[andrewsoc438]

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Stolk, T. H., E. van den Boogaard, J. A. Huirne, and N. M. van Mello. 2023. “Fertility Counseling Guide for Transgender and Gender Diverse People.” International Journal of Transgender Health 24(4):361–67. (https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/10.1080/26895269.2023.2257062)

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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE D

Mars Propaganda:

how do i put this. he doesn't know anything yet he knows everything. hes lying half the time, but the other half he's telling the truth in blunt detail. he'll describe a scene in one chapter, and in the very next, deny that it happened.

Jane North-Robinson propaganda:

doesn't realize she has a sister until like the end of the book and it recontextualizing literally the entire plot

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Get Creative with the Robinsons at the Paint PA Day Program October 6th!

🎨 Join us for a day of artistic exploration at “The Robinsons Paint PA Day Program”! 🖌️ 📅 Date: October 6th ⏰ Times: 10 AM – 12 PM and 1 PM – 3 PM 📍 Location: “The Robinson’s Place,” Jane Finch Mall, North York, ON 💲 Cost: $25 (Includes art kit and materials) Unleash your creativity with an art kit that includes canvas, paint, and brushes! Create your unique MELANIN Art Boards, celebrating…

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Jane Kaufman was making minimalist paintings in the early 1970s, spraying automobile paint on huge canvases. To be sure, the paint was sparkly, so the canvases shimmered — “lyrical abstraction” was how one reviewer described her art and that of others doing similar work — but they were firmly of their reductive minimalist moment. Hilton Kramer of The New York Times approved, giving Ms. Kaufman a nod as a “new abstractionist” in his mostly dismissive review of the Whitney Biennial in 1973.

Then Ms. Kaufman made a sharp turn.

She began stitching and gluing her work, using decorative materials like bugle beads, metallic thread and feathers, and employing the embroidery and sewing skills she had been taught by her Russian grandmother. By the end of the decade, she was making first luminescent screens and wall hangings, then intricate quilts based on traditional American patterns.

In celebrating the so-called women’s work of sewing and crafting, she was performing a radical act, thumbing her nose at the dominant art movement of the era.

Ms. Kaufman died on June 2 at her home in Andes, N.Y. She was 83. Her death was confirmed by Abby Robinson, a friend.

Ms. Kaufman was not alone in her focus on the decorative. Artists like Joyce Kozloff and Miriam Schapiro were inspired, as she was, by patterns and motifs found in North African mosaics, Persian textiles and Japanese kimonos, as well as by homegrown domestic crafts like quilting and embroidery. It was feminist art, though not all its practitioners were women. (One of the more prominent ones, Tony Robbin, is a man.)

The movement came to be known as Pattern and Decoration. Ms. Kaufman curated its first group show in 1976, at the Alessandra Gallery on Broome Street in Lower Manhattan, and called it “Ten Approaches to the Decorative” (there were 10 artists). For the exhibition, she contributed small paintings she hung in pairs, densely striped with sparkly bugle beads.

“The paintings are small because they are not walls, they are for walls,” Ms. Kaufman wrote in her artist’s statement.

Other galleries, like Holly Solomon in New York, began showing the Pattern and Decoration artists’ work, and it also took off in Europe before falling out of favor in the mid-1980s. Decades later, curators would scoop up artists like Ms. Kaufman in a series of retrospectives, starting in 2008 at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y.

“It’s funky, funny, fussy, perverse, obsessive, riotous, accumulative, awkward, hypnotic,” Holland Cotter wrote in his review of that show in The Times. The Pattern and Decoration movement, he wrote, was the last genuine art movement of the 20th century, with “weight enough to bring down the great Western Minimalist wall for a while and bring the rest of the world in.”

Ms. Kaufman was born on May 26, 1938, in New York City. Her father, Herbert Kaufman, was an advertising executive with his own firm; her mother, Roslyn, was a homemaker. She earned a B.S. in art education from New York University in 1960 and an M.F.A. from Hunter College. She taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., in 1972, one its first female professors. “She was famous for telling her female students, ‘You are all brilliant and you are all going to end up at the Met,’” said the arts writer Elizabeth Hess, a Bard graduate.

From 1983 to 1991, Ms. Kaufman was an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution. She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1974 and in 1989 received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her “Crystal Hanging,” a glittering sculpture that looks like a meteor shower, is in the Thomas P. O’Neill Federal Building in Boston.

In 1966 she married Doug Ohlson, an abstract painter. The marriage ended in divorce in the early 1970s.

No immediate family members survive.

While Ms. Kaufman was extremely serious about her work, she was also a prankster dedicated to political activism; for decades, a pink penis poster she created was featured at marches for abortion rights and other women’s issues. Its last outing was at the Women’s March in New York City in January 2017.

She was a member of the Guerrilla Girls, the art-world agitators, all women, who protested the dearth of female and minority artists in galleries and museums by papering Manhattan buildings in the dead of night with impish posters like “The Guerrilla Girls’ Code of Ethics for Art Museums,” which proclaimed, “Thou shalt provide lavish funerals for Women and Artists of Color who thou planeth to exhibit only after their Death” and “Thou shalt keep Curatorial Salaries so low that Curators must be Independently Wealthy, or willing to engage in Insider Trading.”

Membership was by invitation only, and most members’ names were a secret (they wore gorilla masks in public). Many Guerrilla Girls used the names of dead female artists, like Käthe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo. But Ms. Kaufman did not.

“Jane had a wicked sense of humor, the ability to get right to the center of an issue and the courage and principles to confront the powers that be,” the Guerrilla Girl who calls herself Frida Kahlo said in a statement. “We will never forget her. We hope that Jane is also remembered as a wonderful artist who tirelessly worked to break down the conventions of ‘craft vs fine art’ and later combined her meticulous handwork with biting political content.”

Ms. Kaufman’s later work, Ms. Hess said, was as political as her decorative work had been, and dealt with religious and social divisions. But she was unable to find a gallery that would show it. An embroidered piece from 2010 announced, in metallic thread on cutwork velvet, “Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers.”

“She was an artist who floated under the radar,” Ms. Hess said. “She was underacknowledged, though she had curated the first Pattern and Decoration show. Her work came out of her interest in women’s labor, but I think the real revelation to me about Jane’s work was its sumptuousness and beauty.”

In late 2019, a retrospective called “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972 to 1985” opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (it is now at Bard through Nov. 28). Anna Katz, the show’s curator, chose a multicolored velvet quilt by Ms. Kaufman for the exhibition. Inspired by traditional crazy-quilt patterns, Ms. Kaufman had used over 100 traditional stitches, some dating back to the 16th century, in the piece, which she finished in 1985.

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11/16 Book Deals

Good morning, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well on this fine November day! :) Sorry again for the brief hiatus between these posts, life gets a bit crazy and my work doesn’t really have a set schedule so I just have to work whenever sometimes, haha. I’ve been really enjoying this time of year, although our weather has been a bit up and down. How have you all been?? I hope things are going well for you all and that you’re still managing to stay safe and healthy. :)

There are a ton of awesome books on sale today, so be sure to have a look if, once again, you are in need of something new to read. :) There’s a bunch of SFF in particular on sale today, so if that’s your cup of tea then it’s a great day for you! There’s also some contemporary, historical fiction, nonfiction, etc., so hopefully a tiny bit of something for all. Also, that Tade Thompson (who is awesome!) book just came out in October, so it’s crazy it’s included on sale!

I hope you all have an amazing day, and happy reading! :)

Today’s Deals:

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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - https://amzn.to/30yJlNm

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds - https://amzn.to/3oAXlOt

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie - https://amzn.to/3CoFuPP

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Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe - https://amzn.to/3FpfaXU

Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson - https://amzn.to/3ckMzq5

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky - https://amzn.to/3Fl66TQ

First Love, Take Two by Sajni Patel - https://amzn.to/3wTb9b9

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NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

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Mary Ann Cotton: One of England’s Worst Female Serial Killers

November 26, 2021

Mary Ann Cotton was born on October 31, 1832 to Margaret Longsdale and Michael Robson at Low Moorsley, County Durham. She had a sister named Margaret, born in 1834 but died a few months later and a brother, Robert, who was born in 1835. 

At the age of 8, Mary’s parents moved them to the village of Murton. As a child Mary was described as innocent, with average intelligence and had a very clean and tidy appearance. 

Soon after the family moved to Murton, her father died after falling 150 feet down a mine shaft at Murton colliery in February 1842. The family had been living in a miner’s cottage due to Michael working there, but after his death, Mary’s mother with her children had to be evicted. In 1843, Mary’s mother married a man named George Scott who was also a miner. 

At the age of 16, Mary became a nurse in the village of South Hetton, in the home of Edward Potter, a manager at Murton colliery. Over the next couple years, the children had been sent to boarding school in Darlington, Mary went back to her stepfather’s to train as a dressmaker. 

In 1852, Mary married a colliery labourer named William Mowbray and the couple moved to South West England. While there are rumours that the couple was said to have multiple children who died while living here, none of these deaths were recorded. The only birth that was recorded at this time was their daughter, Margaret Jane, born in 1856. 

William and Mary moved back to North East England where William worked as a fireman, then as a colliery foreman. The couple had another daughter, Isabella, born in 1858. Their first daughter, Margaret Jane, died in 1860. The couple then went on to have another daughter, also named Margaret Jane, born in 1861 and a son, John Robert William, born in 1863, though he died the following year from gastric fever. 

William, Mary’s husband, died in January 1865 from an intestinal disorder. The lives of William and the children had been insured, and Mary collected a payout of £35 on William’s death and £2 5s for the death of her son, John. 

After William died, Mary moved to Seaham Harbour where she met Joseph Nattrass. Around this time, her daughter Margaret Jane (the second one) died of typhus fever. She then went back to Sunderland and got a job at the infirmary, sending her only surviving child, Isabella, to live with her mother. 

She married one of her patients, George Ward on August 28, 1865. Though George was sick, and died on October 20, 1866, after he suffered from paralysis and intestinal problems. The doctor at the time had said that George was very ill, but he had also been surprised at how sudden his death was. Mary Ann Cotton collected the insurance money. 

A man named James Robinson hired Mary as a housekeeper in November 1866. His wife, Hannah, had recently died and the following month, in December, James’ son died from gastric fever. He leaned on Mary for comfort and soon enough she became pregnant. 

During this time, Mary’s mother, became ill with hepatitis, so Mary went to go be with her. She died within days of Mary visiting, at the age of 54 in the spring of 1867. 

Mary’s daughter, Isabella, who had been staying with her mother, was brought back with Mary to James’ house, but soon died, as well as two of James’ children Elizabeth and James. All three children were buried at the end of April and early May of 1867. Mary collected a life insurance payment. 

James and Mary Ann got married on August 11, 1867, and their child, Margaret Isabella was born in November. She became ill and died in February 1868, at just a few months old. The couple’s second child together, a boy named George, died on June 18, 1869. 

James soon became suspicious of Mary Ann, as she had been asking him to get life insurance on himself. He also found out that she had run up debts and was stealing money. Mary Ann had been forcing James’ older children to pawn off household valuables. Upon these discoveries, James kicked Mary out of the house, and got custody of their son George. 

Mary Ann was living on the streets at this point, but soon enough, her friend Margaret Cotton introduced her to her brother, Fredrick, a widower who had lost 2 out of his 4 children. Margaret Cotton had been acting as the children’s mother figure, but in late March of 1870 she became ill and died, leaving Mary Ann to console Fredrick. It didn’t take long for Mary Ann to become pregnant by him, this being her 12th pregnancy. 

Fredrick and Mary Ann were married on September 17, 1870, and their son, Robert was born in early 1871. Mary Ann then learned that her past lover, Joseph Natrass was no longer married and didn’t live too far away. She rekindled their romance, and Fredrick died in December 1871, from gastric fever. 

After her 4th husband died, Mary found a lover named either John Quick-Manning or Richard Quick Mann, though there have been no trace of a John Quick-Manning in any records. Either way, Mary became pregnant by him. 

Mary’s son, Robert died in 1872, and Joseph Nattrass died from gastric fever after changing his will in Mary’s favour. 

Mary Ann was asked to help nurse a woman who had smallpox, however she complained she would not be able to, because Charles Edward Cotton, Fredrick’s son, was in the way. She asked if Charles would be able to work as well. Mary Ann supposedly told parish official, Thomas Riley, that Charles would not trouble her long as he would “go like all the rest of the Cottons.” 

Five days after this encounter, Mary Ann told Thomas Riley that Charles had died. However, Thomas Riley was extremely suspicious of this and asked the doctor to not write a death certificate right away, as they needed to investigate. 

Mary went straight to the insurance office, but soon found out that no money would be paid to her until a death certificate was issued. An inquest was held and a jury determined that the boy died from natural causes. Mary Ann said that Thomas Riley had made accusations against her because she had previously rejected his romantic advances. 

However, news broke out that Mary Ann had moved around England frequently, had lost multiple husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother and 11 of her children all from stomach fevers. 

The doctor who had been looking after Charles, kept samples and tested them to show that there were traces of arsenic present. This doctor informed police and Mary Ann was arrested. She was charged with the boy’s murder, though her trial was delayed until after she gave birth to her 13th child on January 10, 1873. The child’s name was Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Cotton. 

Mary Ann’s trial began on March 5, 1873. The defence argued that Charles had died from inhaling arsenic used as dye in the green wallpaper of the Cotton home. However, the jury deliberated for 90 minutes and came back with a guilty verdict. 

Mary Ann Cotton was hanged on March 24, 1873 by William Calcraft. She did not die from her neck breaking however, rather from strangulation caused by the rope being too short, possible on purpose. 

Of Mary’s 13 children, only two survived: Margaret Edith who lived until 1954, and her son George from her marriage to James Robinson.