#jules hesters

[marcelskittels]

Paris-Roubaix 2024 📸 by Ashley & Jered Gruber

[wardenparker]

If you could add 3 more songs to your Spotify Wrapped that you love, but that somehow got looked over, which ones would you add? 🎼🎧

Somehow, these three didn't end up on the list. I think it's because I only started listening to them on the regular towards the end of the year, so they didn't have time to rack up as many listens.

"Savage Daughter" (specifically the Sarah Hester Ross version) "Soldier, Poet, King" by The Oh Hellos "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by Townes Van Zandt

Tell me you're an autumn-centric witch without specifically telling me you're an autumn-centric witch, amirite?

[esoterium]

top 100 characters statistical "which character" is similar to yours personality quiz

**picking five characters i know to add to the list while i take a couple!!*

Nomi Marks (Sense8): 83%

Marianne (Portrait of a Lady): 83%

Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone): 83%

Salvatore Romano (Mad Men): 82%

F o x M u l d e r  (T h e X - F i l e s): 82%

Torvi (Vikings): 82%

Baby (Baby Driver): 82%

Ally Maine (A Star Is Born): 82%

Marie Kreutz (The Bourne Identity): 81%

Riley Blue (Sense8): 81%

Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water): 81%

Buck Vu (The OA): 81%

Alice Cullen (Twilight): 80%

Abby Sciuto (NCIS): 80%

Ben Hargreeves (TUA): 80%

Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption): 80%

Floki (Vikings): 80%

Rogue (X-Men): 80%

Amanita Caplan (Sense8): 80%

Juliana Crain (The Man in the HC): 80%

Ola Nyman (Sex Ed): 80%

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy): 79%

Neo (The Matrix): 79%

Ariadne (Inception): 79%

Guinan (Star Trek: TNG): 79%

W i l l G r a h a m  (H a n n i b a l): 79%

Bonnie Bennett (TVD): 79%

Monica Dutton (Yellowstone): 79%

Sam Button (The Perks): 79%

Frenchie (The Boys): 79%

Robin Buckley (ST): 79%

Marianne Sheridan (Normal People): 79%

W a n d a M a x i m o f f  (WandaVision): 79%

Violet Parr (The Incredibles): 79%

Luna Lovegood (HP): 78%

Nymphadora Tonks (HP): 78%

Trinity (The Matrix): 78%

Jasper Hale (Twilight): 78%

Toni Topaz (Riverdale): 78%

Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife): 78%

Han Lue (Fast & Furious): 78%

Amélie Poulain (Amélie): 78%

Maeve Wiley (Sex Education): 78%

Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman): 78%

River Tam (Firefly): 77%

Omar Little (The Wire): 77%

Morpheus (The Matrix): 77%

William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us): 77%

Jonah Byrde (Ozark): 77%

Chris Washington (Get Out): 77%

Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls): 77%

Céline (Before Sunrise): 77%

Ada Shelby (Peaky Blinders): 77%

Jonathan Byers (ST): 77%

Benjamin Button (TCCBB): 77%

Heloise (Portrait of a Lady): 77%

Lily Iglehart (Sex Ed): 77%

Naomi Nagata (The Expanse): 77%

Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter): 77%

Remus Lupin (HP): 76%

Maeve Millay (Westworld): 76%

Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1): 76%

Rosalind Walker (CAOS): 76%

Storm (X-Men): 76%

Hernando Fuentes (Sense8): 76%

Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting): 76%

Mozzie (White Collar): 76%

Kinsey Locke (Locke & Key): 76%

J o h n W i c k  (John Wick): 76%

Ekko (Arcane): 76%

Albus Dumbledore (HP): 75%

Inara Serra (Firefly): 75%

D'Angelo Barksdale (The Wire): 75%

Janis Ian (Mean Girls): 75%

Damian Leigh (Mean Girls): 75%

Dom Cobb (Inception): 75%

Michael Scofield (Prison Break): 75%

Jughead Jones (Riverdale): 75%

Darlene (Mr. Robot): 75%

Wyldstyle (The Lego Movie): 75%

Nairobi (Money Heist): 75%

Penelope (The Odyssey): 75%

Aunt Polly (Peaky Blinders): 75%

Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds): 75%

Joyce Byers (ST): 75%

Will Byers (ST): 75%

Angela Montenegro (Bones): 75%

Maleficent (Maleficent): 75%

Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game): 75%

Jules Vaughn (Euphoria): 75%

Viktor (Arcane): 75%

Suzuha Amane (Steins;Gate): 75%

Natalie (Yellowjackets): 75%

Jyn Erso (Rogue One): 75%

S i r i u s B l a c k  (HP): 74%

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride & Prejudice): 74%

Black Widow (MCU): 74%

Paul Smecker (Boondock Saints): 74%

Ciri (The Witcher): 74%

Kurt Hummel (Glee): 73%

[byneddiedingo]

Lillian Gish at MGM

John Gilbert and Lillian Gish in La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926)

La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926)

Cast: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy, Edward Everett Horton, Karl Dane, Mathilde Comont, Gino Corrado, Eugene Pouyet. Screenplay: Frédérique De Grésac; titles: William M. Conselman, Ruth Cummings; based on a novel by Henri Murger and an opera libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Cinematography: Henrik Sartov. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, A. Arnold Gillespie. Costume design: Erté. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

Bohème without Puccini, except for a few themes from the opera interpolated into the piano accompaniment for some contemporary prints. The screenplay by Frédérique (billed as Fred) De Grésac is said to be "suggested by Life in the Latin Quarter" by Henri Murger, which is also the source of the opera libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. But the librettists took liberties with Murger, combining several characters and incidents, that are copied in the movie, so it's pretty clear that De Grésac paid at least as much attention to the opera as he did to Murger. It's very much a vehicle for Lillian Gish, making her debut at MGM. She wanted John Gilbert to play Rodolphe to her Mimi, but sometimes seems to be playing an anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better game with her co-star. There is, for example, a scene in which Gilbert acts out the proposed ending to the play he is writing, with much swashbuckling. Then, a few scenes later, Gish acts it out again with similar verve for a potential backer for the play. Their courtship is a surprisingly hyperactive one, particularly in the scene in which they and their fellow bohemians go on a picnic that involves much running about. And Gish is not content to die calmly: On hearing that she won't live through the night, she makes a mad dash across Paris to be reunited with her lover, at one point allowing herself to be dragged along the streets while hanging onto the back of a horse-cart. Gilbert poses with feet apart and arms akimbo much too often, and the starving bohemians are given to much dashing and dancing. (Among them is the endearing and enduring Edward Everett Horton as Colline.) It's all a bit too much, and I have a feeling that the print I saw shown at the wrong speed, giving it that herky-jerky quality we used to attribute to silent films before experts corrected the speed at which they should be projected. The costumes are by the celebrated designer Erté, who is said to have had so much trouble working with Gish that he gave up designing for Hollywood.

Lars Hanson and Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)

The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker, Marcelle Corday, Fred Herzog, Jules Cowles, Mary Hawes, Joyce Coad, James A. Marcus. Screenplay: Frances Marion, based on a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Cinematography: Henrik Sartov. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Sidney Ullman. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

I'm pretty sure that any high school students who think they can get by watching Frances Marion's adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter instead of reading it are likely to be disappointed in English class. That said, no film version is going to reproduce the depth of characterization, the symbolic force, or the intellectual density of Hawthorne, so we should be grateful for what this one does give us: one of Lillian Gish's greatest performances. This was Gish's second film for MGM, after La Bohème, and it suggests that her talents were better suited to a contemplative director like Victor Sjöström -- or Seastrom, as MGM insisted on anglicizing his name -- than to King Vidor's more action-oriented style. If her Mimi in La Bohème was disturbingly hyperactive, her Hester Prynne is a marvel of understated acting. She uses her eyes and mouth and the tilt of her chin to convey a miraculous range of emotions, from stubbornness to fear, from strength to frailty. It's a pity that her Dimmesdale, Lars Hanson, doesn't match her in subtlety. He's more successful in this regard in their 1928 collaboration The Wind, which was also directed by Sjöström.

[spiderandthesims]

1880s Names

A

Boys

Abel, Abraham, Adam, Addison, Adelbert, Alexander, Alfred, Aloysius, Alphonse, Ambrose, Amos, Anderson, Andrew, Angus, Anthony, Anton, Archibald, Art, Arthur, Aubrey, August, Augustine, Augustus, Avery

Girls

Ada, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Agatha, Agnes, Alice, Alma, Almeda, Alta, Anastasia, Angeline, Anna, Annabelle, Anne, Arizona, Augusta, Augustine, Aurelia, Aurora

B

Boys

Barney, Benjamin, Bennett, Bernard, Bishop, Bradford

Girls

Beatrice, Bernadette, Bess, Bessie, Beulah, Birdie

C

Boys

Carlton, Carson, Casper, Cassius, Cecil, Charles, Chauncey, Chester, Christian, Christopher, Clarence, Claude, Clement, Clifford, Coleman, Conrad, Cornelius, Curtis

Girls

Camille, Caroline, Catherine, Cecilia, Celestia, Celestine, Celia, Charity, Charlotte, Christine, Claire, Clara, Clarice, Claudia, Clementine, Conception, Constance, Corda, Cordelia, Cornelia

D

Boys

Dallas, Daniel, Darius, David, Dennis, Dewitt, Dorsey, Douglas, Dudley, Dwight

Girls

Daisy, Delia, Della, Delphia, Docia, Dollie, Dolly, Dolores, Dora, Dorcas, Doris, Dorothy, Dove, Dovie, Drucilla

E

Boys

Early, Edmond, Edward, Edwin, Eldridge, Eli, Elias, Elijah, Elliott, Ellis, Ellsworth, Elmer, Elton, Elwood, Emerson, Emery, Emil, Emmett, Enoch, Ephraim, Erasmus, Erastus ,Eric, Ernest, Ervin, Erwin, Eugene, Everett, Ezra

Girls

Edith, Edmonia, Effie, Elaine, Elda, Eldora, Eleanor, Elise, Eliza, Elizabeth, Ella, Elma, Elnora, Eloise, Elsa, Elsie, Emily, Emma, Emmaline, Era, Erma, Erna, Ernestine, Essie, Esta, Estella, Estelle, Esther, Ethel, Ethelyn, Etta, Eudora, Eugenia, Eula, Eulalia, Eunice, Euphemia

F

Boys

Felix, Ferdinand, Francis, Franklin, Frederick, Fredrick

Girls

Fanny, Fay, Felicia, Fern, Fidelia, Flora, Florence, Florida, Francis

G

Boys

Gabriel, Garrett, General, George, Gideon, Giles, Golden, Gregory

Girls

Geneva, Genevieve, Georgia, Georgie, Goldie, Grace, Gwendolyn

H

Boys

Harmon, Harold, Harris, Harrison, Henry, Hollis, Homer, Horace, Howard, Howard, Howell, Hugo

Girls

Harriett, Hattie, Henrietta, Hester, Honora, Hope, Hortense

I

Boys

Irving

Girls

Imogene, Indiana, Iona, Iris, Isadora

J

Boys

Jack, Jackson, Jacob, James, Jasper, Jeremiah, John, Jonathan, Joseph, Josiah, Judson, Jules, Julian, Junius

Girls

Jane, Josephine, Judith, Julia, Julie, Juliet, June

K

Boys

Kenneth

Girls

Kathleen

L

Boys

Lawrence, Lawson, Leander, Leonard, Lewis, Lionel, Logan, Lucien, Lucius, Luther, Lyman

Girls

Lacy, Lillian, Lilly, Louise, Lucia, Lucille, Lucinda, Lucretia, Lucy

M

Boys

Major, Malcolm, Marcus, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mathias, Matthew, Maurice, Maxwell, Michael, Miles, Milo, Milton, Monroe, Morgan, Mortimer

Girls

Mabel, Madeline, Magnolia, Marie, Mary, Matilda, Maude, May, Melinda, Mildred, Millicent, Millie, Minerva, Minnie, Miriam, Missouri, Mollie, Mona

N

Boys

Nathan, Nathaniel, Neil, Nelson, Newton, Nicholas, Noah, Noel, Norman, Norris

Girls

Netta, Nettie, Nevada, Nona, Nora, Norah, Norma

O

Boys

Oliver, Oren, Orson, Otis, Otto, Owen

Girls

Odelia, Odessa, Ola, Olive, Ona, Opal, Ophelia, Ora, Orpha, Ottilie

P

Boys

Patrick, Percival, Percy, Peter, Phillip, Pierce, Pleasant

Girls

Pansy, Parthenia, Patience, Pearl, Penelope, Permelia, Philomena, Phoebe, Polly, Priscilla, Prudence

Q

Boys

Quincy

R

Boys

Raymond, Richard, Richmond, Robert, Rodney, Roger, Ross

Girls

Rita, Rosalie, Rose, Rowena, Ruby, Ruth

S

Boys

Samuel, Seymore, Sidney, Silas, Simon, Solomon, Stanley, Stephan, Sterling, Stewart, Sylvester

Girls

Samantha, Sophronia

T

Boys

Thaddeus, Theodore, Thomas, Thorton, Tillman, Timothy, Tobias, Truman

Girls

Tennessee, Thelma, Theodora, Theodosia, Theresa, Tillie

U

Boys

Ulysses

Girls

Una

V

Boys

Valentine, Vernon, Victor, Vincent, Virgil

Girls

Vera, Verona, Vesta, Victoria, Viola, Violet, Virginia, Vivian

W

Boys

Walker, Wallace, Walter, Warren, Watson, Webster, Wesley, Wilber, Wilbert, Wilbur, Wiley, Wilfred, Willam, Willard, William, Wilson, Winfield

Girls

Wilda, Wilhelmina, Wilma, Winifred, Winnifred, Winona

Z

Girls

Zella, Zora

[the-coffee-story]

Rise of the Forest God

Chapter 13 - The Photograph

"What is it?", Violet asked when Wilhelm, with some minor struggle, dropped the heavy file onto the table with a soft thud. He gently brushed away the blanket of thick dust that clung to the faded brown leather cover and opened it.

"This is a file on the cult of the Forest God," he explained. His long, raven hair fell in loose strands into his face, and he blew them out of the way of his eye. "Active in the 1970s, committed a murder and fell apart after a razzia led by private investigators Grace Storm and Professor Jules Calvet."

"Oh damn, so this would be easier if Evans was still among the living," Violet mumbled, mostly just to herself, as she huffed out a small sigh. She glanced back up and tucked a stray strand of her thick, ebony hair behind her ear. "What Forest God?"

Wilhelm's eye narrowed, and he cocked a brow. "So apparently, there's a pretty local and not particularly well known legend that sometime during Victorian times a man was possessed by some kind of otherworldly... what's the word? Entity, das war's, and after he started murdering people he was captured and buried alive somewhere in the woods, so that the entity would no longer cause harm."

"Well doesn't that just sound family friendly?"

Wilhelm smiled gently, his white teeth glinting in the sparse, flickering light. "The ideal bedtime story. Apparently the existence of the guy is confirmed, schau mal!" He carefully took an old black and white photograph from the file and gave it to Violet.

It was a dusty photo of a Victorian couple, faded, rotted at the corners and irreversibly yellowed, but otherwise remarkably well preserved, at least for what was important anyway. The bride to be, proudly stood slightly off-centre, had flowing dark hair that clung to her beautiful dress, and her heterochromatic eyes were sparkling in the sunlight. She reminded Violet of someone, but she wasn't quite sure who. The husband's hair was only a bit lighter, and his eyes were closed. A sweet, lopsided smile was playing on his lips.

Alice & Eustace, wedding was written on it in a curly handwriting.

"He doesn't look like a killer," Violet mumbled.

Wilhelm looked down and shrugged his shoulders. "Many killers don't. Speaking out of experience here."

"Okay, you have a point there," Violet admitted. She discarded the photo onto the table and leaned over. "What about that cult?"

"It was founded 1969, by a history professor and a primary school teacher. The teacher dropped out after a while, he had a bad feeling about the whole thing. Richtig so." Wilhelm stopped to scratch his head, humming and momentarily lost in his own thoughts. "There were around fifty members. At first they were peaceful, you know, they occasionally freaked the neighbours out with rituals and chanting but it wasn't anything serious...that changed in..." He turned the page. "...1976. A girl went missing in Forest Lane. Her name was Maisie Hester. She had a lot of trouble at home, so at first everyone thought she ran away. Well that is, until they found her body. Trigger warning for gore."

Violet laughed. "I've seen two gruesome murders this week alone, nothing can surprise me."

"Sicherheit geht vor." Wilhelm, with some hesitation, handed her the photos.

The body was... Only loosely recognizeable as human, but it was difficult. There was a lot of blood splattered, painting the landscape a deep vermilion, a lot of flies, and bloodcrusted brown hair. In other words, slightly worse than Marty and Lindsay.

"Oh my," Violet muttered.

"I was going to ask why you're so damn calm but then I remembered." Wilhelm rubbed his scarred forehead.

Violet shuddered. "How old was she?"

He turned the page back and checked. "Fourteen."

"Well damn."

"Do you want to see a picture from before she was literally torn to pieces?"

"Sure, why not?" Violet shrugged her shoulders.

The picture Wilhelm handed her was an old polaroid of two teenage girls with messy hair. Violet recognized the brown hair from the previous photographs. The girl had dark skin and large brown eyes.

She glanced at the other girl on the picture and suddenly her eyes widened. "Who's that?"

"Oh, that's her best friend." Wilhelm waved it off. "Lived in a farm in Forest Lane, but didn't have anything to do with it. Hey, hör mal, I just remembered, I know a guy who's been researching the cult, do you want me to contact him?"

Violet nodded, her brows furrowed. "Yeah, that'd... that'd be nice. Hey, can I take a picture of this photo?"

Wilhelm shrugged his shoulders. "Klar."

Five minutes later Violet left Graytown Prison. She turned her phone on and looked at the girl on the photo again.

The girl with heterochromia and a scar on the bridge of her nose.

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

I have 2016 stats and 2017 stats and 2018 stats and 2019 stats

Tagging @ everybody who sees this post and wants to do this! <3

AO3 Stats!

(How to find your stats: go to your Dashboard, click on “Statistics,” then click on the year you’re answering for!)

Total 2020 Word Count: 259274 Total 2020 Hits: 216458 Total Kudos: 16028 Total Bookmarks: 2449 Total Comment (threads): 1426 User Subscriptions: 740

Links and Titles to 2020 Works:

JANUARY

A Need To Forget (E, Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington, 1648 words)

Nightfall (E, Maddie Bishop/Ben Pownall/Ryn, 1871 words)

Flickers In The Flame (G, Frodo Baggins/Sam Gamgee, 940 words)

Love-Lust (E, Krolia/Romelle, 656 words)

Secrets And Untruths (T, Lord Asriel & Lyra Belacqua, Lyra Belacqua & Pantalaimon, 3882 words)

Better Late Than Never (T, Lord Asriel & Lyra Belacqua, 4585 words)

Devil's Side (T, Lord Asriel & Lyra Belacqua, 3455 words)

I Like You For You (No Rating, Iorek Byrnison/Lee Scoresby, 1122 words)

Weeks and Weeks (T, Lord Asriel & Lyra Belacqua, Lyra Belacqua & Pantalaimon, 3800 words)

Don't You Worry (T, Lyra Belacqua & Lee Scoresby, Lee Scoresby & Hester, 1095 words)

Take Me And Do As You Will (E, Death/Morrigan (Der Gevatter Tod | Godfather Death), Godfather Death/The Physician (Der Gevatter Tod | Godfather Death), 1159 words)

Already Extraordinary (No Rating, Lord Asriel & Lyra Belacqua, Marisa Coulter & Lord Asriel, 3540 words)

Golden Yellow Dice (M, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Han Solo, 450 words)

FEBRUARY

Tickle Me Pink (T, Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan, 849 words)

Watermelon (M, Misty Day/Cordelia Foxx | Cordelia Goode, 560 words)

Rose Red (T, Drusilla/Kendra Young, 324 words)

Cherry (E, Sara Lance/Thea Queen, 495 words)

Scarlet (No Rating, Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel, 327 words)

Burnt Orange (T, Beth Kane | Alice/Kate Kane, 824 words)

Macaroni And Cheese (E, Rue Bennett/Jules Vaughn, 586 words)

Sleepless Nights (G, Azula/Yue, 543 words)

Peach (M, Anne Lister (1791-1840)/Ann Walker (1803-1854), 641 words)

Goldenrod (G, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 447 words)

Canary Yellow (T, Marisa Coulter/Ma Costa, 982 words)

Sunglow (No Rating, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, 932 words)

Lemon Lime (T, Ben Hanscom/Beverly Marsh, 806 words)

Seafoam Green (No Rating, Robin Buckley/Kali Prasad, 428 words)

Rainforest (G, Katie Bell/Angelina Johnson/Alicia Spinnet, 553 words)

Emerald (No Rating, Anna/Elsa, 702 words)

Mint (T, Karolina Dean/Nico Minoru, 100 words)

Teal (M, Eleanor Guthrie/Max, 557 words)

We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off (To Have A Good Time) (No Rating, Tony Stark & Steve Rogers & James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson & Natasha Romanov & Clint Barton & Peggy Carter, 654 words)

Cerulean (No Rating, Cheryl Blossom/Betty Cooper, 500 words)

Pride Before The Fall (T, Lyra Belacqua/Marisa Coulter, 827 words)

Turquoise (E, Doreah/Daenerys Targaryen, 458 words)

Blueberry (G, C.C./Euphemia li Britannia, 523 words)

Cobalt (No Rating, Thelma Dickinson/Louise Sawyer, 301 words)

The Devil's Daughter (E, Black Philip/Thomasin, 989 words)

Indigo (M, Jo Harvelle/Meg Masters, 398 words)

Plum (No Rating, Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland, 404 words)

Violet (E, Korra/Asami Sato, 270 words)

Lilac (T, Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau, 714 words)

Lavender (G, Marcie/Peppermint Patty, 681 words)

Steel Gray (M, Kawakami Tomie/Chiemi (The Long Hair In The Attic), 870 words)

Black As Nightblood (No Rating, Clarke Griffin/Lexa, 693 words)

Pale White (G, Emilyko/Kate Shadow-sama, 276 words)

MARCH

Bright and Blood Red (T, Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield, 473 words)

In a Second (T, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 2550 words)

Lost In Paradise (No Rating, Thirteenth Doctor/Dhawan!Master, 2236 words)

Never To Surrender (T, Beth Kane | Alice & Kate Kane, Beth Kane | Alice/Kate Kane, 409 words)

Darkest Before The Dawn (T, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, 1385 words)

Trouble In Here (M, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, 2538 words)

I’ll Be Dreaming Of You (T, Thirteenth Doctor/Dhawan!Master, 818 words)

Too Lovely By Far (T, Fa Mulan/Li Shang, Fa Ping/Li Shang, 1280 words)

APRIL

Stay The Same

(G, Phichit Chulanont & Christophe Giacometti, 100 words)

Despair On Your Lips (T, Tissaia de Vries/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, 100 words)

Hello Again (No Rating, Thirteenth Doctor/The Doctor's TARDIS, 100 words)

Warm Hugs (G, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 100 words)

Find Me In Orbit (T, Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey, 100 words)

All Night Long (M, Fa Mulan/Original Female Character(s), 2061 words)

Up In Smoke (T, Korra/Asami Sato, 1286 words)

Bala Lilas (E, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, 1621 words)

Searching For You (No Rating, Leia Organa/Rey/Luke Skywalker/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, 896 words)

Not Without A Fight (T, Ash Lynx/Okumura Eiji, 1528 words)

It'll Be Fine (M, Ash Lynx/Okumura Eiji, 3209 words)

Vœux (G, Prince Charming/Cinderella, 3375 words)

Between Grief and High Delight (No Rating, Ash Lynx/Okumura Eiji, 30943 words, UNFINISHED)

MAY

The Child (M, Thirteenth Doctor/River Song, 4463 words)

Vengeance (M, Betty Cooper/FP Jones II, Betty Cooper & FP Jones II, 600 words)

It Takes Two (G, Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, 100 words)

Oof (T, Sing Soo-Ling & Shorter Wong, 100 words)

Sweet Slow Motion (E, Peter Parker/Tony Stark, 100 words)

For Better Or Worse (No Rating, Hermione Granger/Harry Potter/Ron Weasley, 100 words)

Without Warning (T, Keith/Shiro, 100 words)

Work In Progress (No Rating, Xander Harris & Buffy Summers & Faith Lehane & Angel, 100 words)

I Got You (And You Got Me) (T, Merlin/Arthur Pendragon, 1047 words)

JUNE

Nedovtipa (T, Aang/Zuko, 342 words)

Blood Orange (No Rating, Chiyoh/Margot Verger, 522 words)

Hygge (G, Anna/Elsa, 370 words)

Redamancy (M, Bill Denbrough/Mike Hanlon, 435 words)

Noceur (No Rating, Dick Grayson/Wally West, 689 words)

Paroxysm (E, Clarke Griffin/Lexa, 310 words)

Trouvaille (T, Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan, 551 words)

Frabjous (M, Keith/Shiro, 601 words)

Minutiae (G, Koriand'r/Raven, 139 words)

Sarang (No Rating, Hitachiin Hikaru/Hitachiin Kaoru, 363 words)

Basorexia (T, Ros/Sansa Stark, 467 words)

Fika (G, Aziraphale/Crowley, 269 words)

Operose (No Rating, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, 392 words)

Akrasia (T, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, 386 words)

Sophrosyne (G, Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield, 244 words)

Lagom (M, Ash Lynx/Okumura Eiji/Shorter Wong, 847 words)

Nebulochaotic (No Rating, Shuri & T'Challa, Michelle Jones/Shuri, Michelle Jones/Peter Parker, Ned Leeds/Peter Parker, 287 words)

Whelve (G, Prince Justin | Turnip Head/Howl Pendragon, 342 words)

Adronitis (No Rating, Kasumi | Misty/Satoshi | Ash Ketchum, 276 words)

Gigil (E, Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, 554 words)

Selcouth (G, Dib/Zim, 362 words)

Charmolypi (T, Archie Andrews/Jughead Jones, 703 words)

Vorfreude (M, Gwen/Morgana, 886 words)

Perambulate (G, Princess Bubblegum/Marceline, Prince Gumball/Marshall Lee, 1358 words)

Vagary (G, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, 1048 words)

Yuputka (M, Kururugi Suzaku/Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia, 554 words)

Erlebnisse (T, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 1017 words)

Trapped In Yearning (E, Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter, 1645 words)

Aeonian (G, Korra/Asami Sato, 852 words)

Irusu (E, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, 905 words)

Concinnity (No Rating, Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, 694 words)

Quatervois (T, Ben Hargreeves/Klaus Hargreeves, 522 words)

JULY

Varb (T, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 852 words)

Make A Good Memory (T, Aang/Katara, 1145 words)

With Masterful Deceit (E, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, 3960 words)

Good Girls Go To Heaven (No Rating, Wendy Darling/Mermaids, 1258 words)

Give In To Me (E, Dark Rey/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, 1212 words)

Take It Slow (G, Izumi/Kya II, 739 words)

Hands Free (No Rating, Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan, 1344 words)

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Save Writing NSW

An open letter to Create NSW and the NSW Minister for the Arts

We, as writers and active members of the literary community, were dismayed by Create NSW’s decision not to grant Writing NSW Multi-Year Organisations Funding in their latest round, despite the fact that Writing NSW was recommended for funding.

This decision demonstrates the ongoing devaluation of literature within the Australian arts funding landscape. We know literature is the most popular artform in the country, with 87% of Australian reading some form of literary work in any given year, yet in this round Create NSW offered only 5.7% of their ongoing funding to literature organisations.

The decision to defund Writing NSW carries a particular sting. Writing NSW is the leading organisation representing writers in a state with a long literary history and one that is home to many of Australia’s leading publishers, writers, literary agents and other core participants in the Australian literary industry.

Writing NSW is an important stepping-stone for writers at the beginning of their careers, providing high quality professional development programs, and it also employs emerging and established writers to deliver and lead these programs. For decades the organisation has provided high-quality courses, seminars, workshops, festivals, events, grants and literary prizes. In putting such programs at risk, Create NSW is jeopardising both an entry point and an ongoing support system for writers.

Macquarie University research shows that the average income of an Australian author from their practice is $12,900. The current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic makes the situation of writers even more precarious. Writing NSW offers key employment opportunities to writers, through teaching, publication, speaking engagements and both curatorial and judging positions. The removal of these opportunities will mean many writers will not be able to maintain the other income streams that support their writing careers.

The removal of $175,000 from a single source would be catastrophic for any business – not-for-profit or otherwise. For a government funding body to enact such a blunt economic withdrawal in the midst of a global pandemic and without concern for the economic flow-on effect to hundreds of industry professionals is deeply distressing.

We call on Create NSW to reverse this decision and ask them to reveal their future strategies for arts funding and how they plan to rectify the disparity in funding between other funded artforms and literature.

As writers, we will never accept the loss of a vibrant, essential cultural network such as Writing NSW.

What you can do We invite anyone affected by Create NSW’s decision – writers, publishers, literary agents, illustrators, readers alike – to co-sign this letter. You can copy and customise this letter to draft a version from your own point of view on this matter to send to a Member of Parliament.

To co-sign this letter, add your name here: shorturl.at/dERX6

Signatories

Pip Smith, Writer, creative writing teacher Sam Twyford-Moore, Writer and arts administrator Fiona Wright, Writer, editor, critic, reader Gabrielle Tozer, Author, writer, editor Brigid Mullane, Editor Jules Faber, Author, Illustrator Dr Christopher Richardson, Author and academic Liz Ledden, Author, podcaster, book reviewer Kate Tracy Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Writer, reviewer, reader Julie Paine, Writer Nick Tapper, Editor Belinda Castles, Writer and academic Simon Veksner, Writer Amanda Ortlepp, Writer, reader, reviewer, High School English Teacher Bronwyn Birdsall, Writer, editor Robin Riedstra, Writer, reviewer, reader, English teacher Dr Delia Falconer, Writer, critic, academic Robert McDonald, Author, writer, creative writing teacher Dr Kathryn Heyman, Author Wai Chim, Author Kirsten Krauth, Writer, editor Tricia Dearborn, Poet, writer, editor Dr Mireille Juchau, Writer Gail Jones, Writer Dr Jeff Sparrow, Writer, editor, academic Linda Jaivin, Writer, editor, translator Adara Enthaler, Poet, editor, literary arts manager Keighley Bradford, Writer, editor, arts and festival administrator Nicole Priest, Reader and aspiring writer Shamin Fernando, Writer Andrew Pippos, Writer Bianca Nogrady, Writer and journalist James Bradley, Writer Ali Jane Smith, Writer Dr Eleanor Limprecht Idan Ben-Barak, Writer Jennifer Mills, Writer Nicole Hayes, Writer, podcaster Michelle Starr, Writer/journalist Phillipa McGuinness, Writer and publisher Vanessa Berry, Writer and academic Blake Ayshford, Screenwriter Emily Maguire, Writer Sarah Lambert, Screenwriter Anwen Crawford, Writer Sarah Bassiuoni, Screenwriter Jackson Ryan, Writer, journalist, academic Simon Thomsen, Journalist, editor, other wordy stuff Ivy Shih, Writer Miro Bilbrough, Writer, filmmaker, screenwriting teacher, script editor Graham Davidson, Writer, artist, festival director Christos Tsiolkas, Writer JZ Ting, Writer, lawyer Susan Francis, Writer, teacher Suneeta Peres da Costa, Writer Dr Harriet Cunningham, Writer, critic, journalist Adele Dumont, Writer, reader Sheree Strange, Writer, book reviewer, book seller Phil Robinson, Reader Ashleigh Meikle, Reader, writer, book blogger Naomi RIddle, Writer, editor Cathal Gwatkin-Higson, Writer, book seller Hannah Carroll Chapman, Screenwriter Angela Meyer, Writer, editor Steve Blunt, Reader, supporter Ambra Sancin, Writer, arts administrator Michelle Baddiley, Writer, reader, archive producer Dinuka McKenzie, Writer, reader Catherine C. Turner, Writer, reader, freelance editor and publisher, arts worker Hilary Davidson, Writer, poet, academic, reader Dr Eleanor Hogan, Writer Nicola Robinson, Commissioning Editor Kim Wilson, Screenwriter Jane Nicholls, Freelance writer and editor Lisa Kenway, Writer Virginia Peters, Writer Sarah Sasson, Physician-writer and reader Dr Joanna Nell, Writer Laura Clarke Author / Copywriter Nicole Reddy, Screenwriter Anna Downes, Writer Sharon Livingstone, Writer, editor, reader Lily Mulholland, Writer, screenwriter, technical editor Benjamin Dodds, Poet, reviewer, teacher Markus Zusak, Writer Alexandria Burnham, Writer, screenwriter Sam Coley, Writer Marian McGuinness, Writer Selina McGrath, Artist Adeline Teoh Natasha Rai, Writer Catherine Ferrari, Reader Jessica White, Writer & academic Zoe Downing, Writer, reader, creative writing student Amanda Tink, Writer, researcher, reader Lisa Nicol, Children's author, screenwriter, copywriter Aurora Scott, Writer Gillian Polack, Writer, academic Susan Lever, Critic and writer Denise Kirby, Writer Michele Seminara, Poet & editor Meredith Curnow, Publisher, Penguin Random House David Ryding, Arts Manager Catherine Hill Genevieve Buzo, Editor Hugo Wilcken DJ Daniels, Writer Linda Vergnani, Freelance journalist, writer and editor Tony Spencer-Smith, Author, writing trainer & editor Dr Viki Cramer, Freelance writer and editor Petronella McGovern, Author, freelance writer and editor Jacqui Stone, Writer and editor Talia Horwitz, Writer, reader & writing student Sophie Ambrose, Publisher, Penguin Random House Rebecca Starford, Publishing director, KYD; editor and writer David Blumenstein, Writer, artist Rashida Tayabali, Freelance writer Sheila Ngoc Pham, Writer, editor and producer Rosalind Gustafson, Writer Alan Vaarwerk, Editor, Kill Your Darlings Gillian Handley, Editor, journalist, writer Karina Machado Isabelle Yates, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House Michelle Barraclough, Writer Natalie Scerra, Writer Melanie Myers, Writer, editor and Creative Writing teacher Emily Lawrence, Aspiring Writer Nicola Aken, Screenwriter Jennifer Nash, Librarian, writer Clare Millar, Writer and editor Kathryn Knight, Editor, Penguin Random House Linda Funnell, Editor, reviewer, tutor, Newtown Review of Books Stacey Clair, Editor, writer, former events/projects producer at Queensland Writers Centre Virginia Muzik, Writer, copyeditor, proofreader, aspiring author Lisa Walker, Writer Sarah Morton, Copywriter, aspiring author, Member of Writing NSW Board Laura Russo, Writer and editor Vivienne Pearson, Freelance writer Justin Ractliffe, Publishing Director, Penguin Random House Australia James Ley, Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books Alison Urquhart, PublisherPenguin Random House Debra Adelaide, Author and associate professor of creative writing, University of Technology Sydney Magdalena Ball, Writer, Reviewer, Compulsive Reader Anna Spargo-Ryan, Writer, writing teacher, editor, reader Charlie Hester, Social media & project officer, Queensland Writers Centre Mandy Beaumont, Writer, researcher and reviewer Chloe Barber-Hancock, Writer, reader, pre-service teacher Dr Patrick Mullins, Academic and writer Wendy Hanna, Screenwriter Chloe Warren Dianne Masri, Social Media Consultant Jane Gibian, Writer, librarian, reader Dr Airlie Lawson, Academic and writer Karen Andrews, Writer, teacher, reader Tim Coronel, General manager, Small Press Network and Industry adjunct lecturer, University of Melbourne Tommy Murphy, Playwright and screenwriter Evlin DuBose, Editor, writer, screenwriter, director, poet, UTS's Vertigo Magazine Tony Maniaty, Writer Emma Ashmere, Writer, reader, teacher Alicia Gilmore, Writer Suzanne O'Sullivan, Publisher, Hachette Australia Jacqui DentWriter, Content Strategist Rachel Smith, Writer Intan Paramaditha, Writer Cassandra Wunsch, Director TasWriters (The Tasmanian Writers Centre) Meera Atkinson Eileen Chong, Poet, Writer, Educator Debra Tidball, Author, reviewer Beth Spencer, Author, poet, reader Lou Pollard, Comedy writer, blogger Bronwyn Stuart/Tilley, Author and program coordinator, Writers SA Gemma Patience, Writer, illustrator, reviewer Amarlie Foster, Writer, teacher Dr Felicity Plunkett, writer Angela Betzien Drew Rooke, Journalist and author Michael Mazengarb, Journalist RenewEconomy Katrina Roe, Children's author, broadcaster, audiobook narrator Liz Doran, Screenwriter Arnold Zable, Writer. Tom Langshaw, Editor, Penguin Random House Brooke Maddison Monica O'Brien, ProducerAmbience Entertainment Jacinta Dimase, Literary AgentJacinta Dimase Management Jane Novak, Literary AgentJane Novak Literary Agency Sarah Hollingsworth, Arts Organisation ManagerMarketing and Communications Manager, Writers Victoria Barbara Temperton, Writer Sandra van Doorn, Publisher Red Paper Kite Alex Eldridge, Writer Karen Beilharz, Writer, editor, comic creator Esther Rivers, Writer, editor, poet Jane Pochon, Board Member, lawyer and reader Zoe Walton, Publisher, Penguin Random House Eliza Twaddell Alison Green, CEO, Board Member, Pantera Press Emma Rafferty, Editor Sarah Swarbrick, Writer Dayne Kelly, Literary Agent, RGM Léa Antigny, Head of Publicity and Communications, Pantera Press Jenny Green, Finance, Pantera Press Sarah Begg, Writer Mark Harding, Writer, Brand Manager, Social Media and Content Specialist Shanulisa Prasad, Bookseller Katy McEwen, Rights Manager, Pantera Press Olivia Fricot, Content Writer/Bookseller, Booktopia Jack Peck, Writer, Open Genre Group Convenor, Writing NSW, Retired Kathy Skantzos, Writer, Editor Serene Conneeley, Author, Editor Kerry Littrich, Writer Merran Hughes, Creative Cassie Watson, Writer Lisa Seltzer, Copywriter, Social Media Manager and Marketing Consultant Gemma Noon, Writer and Librarian Tanya Tabone, Reader Laura Franks, Reader, Editor, Writer Dani Netherclift, Writer Who to contact We urge you to join us in advocating for Writing NSW and the state of funding for Australian literature, by contacting Create NSW, your NSW Member of Parliament, and the NSW Minister for the Arts.

Chris Keely Executive Director, Create NSW Email: chris.keely@create.nsw.gov.au

The Hon. Don Harwin, MLC Phone: (02) 8574 7200 Email: office@harwin.minister.nsw.gov.au

Who to else to contact

The Hon. (Walt) Walter Secord, MLC Shadow Minister for the Arts Phone: (02) 9230 2111 Email: walt.secord@parliament.nsw.gov.au Ms. Cate Faehrmann, MLC Greens representative for Arts, Music, Night-Time Economy and Culture Phone: (02) 9230 3771 Email: cate.faehrmann@parliament.nsw.gov.au A full list of names and contact details for NSW State MPs is available here.

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Atlanta Newborn Photographer | Julee Hester

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The 5 best midcentury modern homes for sale right now

In our House of the Day column, we cover a plethora of gorgeous homes, from elegant Gilded Age mansions to show-stopping new builds. But time and time again, some of our favorite homes for sale are of the midcentury variety.

They range in style and authenticity; some homes built in the 1950s and 1960s have been tastefully updated, while others are time capsules for the midcentury purist. We also write about midcentury modern homes from around the country—not just in ultra-hip epicenters like Palm Springs—and at all price points. Whether you’re on the hunt for a new pad or just like to window shop, here are five swoon-worthy midcentury homes on the market to check out right now.

Guests are welcomed to the Sarasota School home through an interior courtyard with pond. Photo by Glenn Johnson of Coastal Photography

Restored midcentury gem near the beach

Price: $1,695,000

Details: One of the latest Sarasota School houses to catch our eye is this three-bedroom, three-bath home in Sandy Hook, a private beachfront neighborhood on the island of Siesta Key. Siesta Key is packed with gorgeous midcentury architecture by Paul Rudolph, Victor Lundy, and Frank Folsom Smith, but this 2,550-square-foot home was designed by Siebert Architects—Sarasota’s oldest architecture firm.

The 1962 home has all the midcentury details we love, like long horizontal lines, glass walls, clerestory windows, and terrazzo floors. A covered interior courtyard features a pond, skylights, and a large dining table for entertaining, and exposed beams throughout the house contrast with the bright, airy windows. See more, over here.

Designed and built in 1965 by architect Allan Gelbin, the home follows Frank Lloyd Wright’s theories on organic architecture. Photos by Austin Eterno

A Connecticut home by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice

Price: $625,000

Details: This five-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home in Weston, Connecticut, was designed and built in 1965 by architect Allan Gelbin. Gelbin was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin East in Spring Green, Wisconsin, from 1949 to 1953, before establishing his own practice in 1957 in Connecticut.

The focal point of the design is an expansive living room and dining room that features a stone fireplace. Clerestory windows let in light, while wooden ceiling panels and built-in bookshelves add coziness. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows showcase a wraparound deck and views of the 2.25-acre property, and the master suite also offers panoramic views and access to a terrace. You can see more photos, this way.

The A-frame style living room features walls of glass, a fireplace, exposed beams, and amazing ocean views. Photo by Marc Weisberg

Oceanfront home by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice

Price: $14,900,000

Details: Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Frederick Liebhardt in 1958, this four-bedroom, eight-bath oceanfront home is located above Windansea beach, an iconic surf spot made famous in the 1960s in Tom Wolfe’s nonfiction collection The Pump House Gang.

Liebhardt designed the home as a personal residence for his mother, and the house has seen two subsequent renovations—one remodel by midcentury modern architect Henry Hester and a more recent one by Hill Construction and NYC designer Eddie Lee. The house is now 6,338 square feet with a stunning A-frame living room. Huge walls of glass provide unobstructed ocean views, and the way the home is situated on its one acre lot means that you can’t see your neighbors. Find more photos, over here.

This Swiss Miss home in Pennsylvania was designed in 1958 by noted midcentury architect Jules Gregory. Michael Hirsch for Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty

Dazzling A-frame in Pennsylvania

Price: $3,495,000

Details: Midcentury modern homes might be known for their butterfly roofs, but the style also popularized the Swiss Miss A-frame. And while you might expect A-frames in mountain towns or midcentury hotbeds like California, check out this three-bedroom, four-bath home in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Built in 1958 by noted midcentury architect Jules Gregory, the low-lying home is bifurcated by a steep, dramatic A-frame roof that rises straight from the ground.

Inside, the A-frame creates a dramatic double-height living room with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto the 1.42-acre property. Recent renovations brought a more contemporary feel to the space; gloss-black hardwood floors contrast with white walls, beams, and counters. Other perks include a 16-foot kitchen island, large closets, and a rear patio with bar, BBQ, fire pit, and pool. See the interiors, over here.

The living room features floor-to-ceiling windows—a Sarasota School trademark—and an Ocala brick wall. Photo by Glenn Johnson, Coastal Photography

Beachfront midcentury time capsule

Price: $1,900,000

Details: This four-bedroom, four-bath rarely seen home was the writer’s studio of Walter Farley—author of the Black Stallion book series—and was designed by Sarasota architecture icons Ralph Twitchell and Jack West. It’s a time capsule in the truest form, with original details like Ocala block construction, clerestory windows, and mahogany louvers that let in the ocean breeze.

 Reference -  https://www.curbed.com/2020/2/14/21136376/midcentury-modern-best-homes-for-sale

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by Jules Hesters Fanpage

[cactuscreeks]

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

[naturecoaster]

80 Days

Take a journey around the world with Live Oak Theatre as it presents an original musical adaptation of Jules Verne’s compelling story of Phileas Fogg’s race against time. Join us for a global adventure via steam and sail as we visit London, India, Hong Kong, Japan, and the American West. The show is a collaboration between artistic director Randi Olsen, Ron Dykes, Chris Rees and several members of the Live Oak Theatre Company.  It is co-directed by Ms. Olsen who has gathered an incredible cast of 60 actors to tell the story – many of them appearing as multiple characters in several countries along the way. Also directing is Live Oak Theatre’s Greg Mys, who recently played the role of Chef Louis in the Little Mermaid. Phileas Fogg, played by Kyle Marra, and his faithful servant Passepartout (Terry Edwards) will meet many unforgettable characters along the way including an enchanting princess from India (Katie Moore and Cherilyn Staley), an unscrupulous Detective Fix from Scotland Yard (Chris Rees), a British General (Eric Kessel), a gaggle of Cherry Blossom Girls, Bombay dancers, conniving politicians, and an elephant. Rounding out the cast are Hal Hester, Kyle Staley, Kevan Richards, and Gary Benefield as gentlemen of London’s Reform Club, who originate the 80-day wager and anxiously track Fogg’s progress. Will Phileas Fogg make it around the world by his 80-day deadline? 80 Days Performance Dates/Times and Ticket Information 80 Days will be performed at the Carol & Frank Morsani Center for the Arts, 21030 Cortez Boulevard, Brooksville, Florida 34601, weekends from March 20 through April 5. Shows are 7:30 pm on Fridays and Saturdays with 2:30 pm matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $20, or $5 for children 13 and younger when purchased with an adult ticket. Admission includes coffee, tea, and dessert, which are available during intermission. For more information and to purchase tickets go to www.LiveOakTheatre.org or call the box office at 352-593-0027 or email LiveOakBoxOffice@gmail.com. Read the full article

[jevaisciner]

Les adaptations de livres de SF pour ado, on commence à connaître. Mais cette, c'est le réalisateur du Seigneur des Anneaux qui produit et l'intrigue semble sortir des sentiers battus. Aller, c'est l'occasion d'un ptit Imax 3D.

C'est ? Mortal Engines

De ? Christian Rivers

Sorti le ? 12/12/2018

Vu le ? 14/12/2018

Où ? Pathé La Villette

Genre ? SF/Aventure

Nationalité ? Américain/Néo-Zélandais

Quoi ? Le monde moderne a disparu, à coup de bombes quantiques, lors d'une guerre mondiale qui a duré 60 minutes. Près d'un millier d'années plus tard, les villes sont devenues mouvantes, sous forme de gigantesques véhicules, se déplaçant dans d’immenses plaines désertes. Les plus grosses se nourrissant littéralement des plus petites. Lorsque Londres avale une ville marchande, le président de la Guilde des Historiens, Thaddeus Valentine ne se doute pas retrouver une certaine Hester Shaw, avec qui il semble avoir un passé commun...

Alors ? Vous l'attendiez cette blague ? Ba c'est mortel ! Ça change carrément des Labyrinthes et autres Hunger Games. C'est un bon film d'aventure. La sensation de voyage est réussie, car l'univers est super riche. On peut voir à la fois des détails comme des plans très larges, afin d'apprécier au mieux. Les décors sont super dépaysants et les influences de designs sont multiples. Avec aussi bien du steampunk, du post-apo, du futuriste et même du Jules Verne ! Différentes références qui se marient très bien, sans que ça fasse patchwork, le tout montré à travers des cadrages sont fascinants.

Côté écriture, c'est globalement original, avec quelques poncifs. Plusieurs passages ou actions sont un peu faciles, mais comme l'ensemble marche très bien, que ça ne dérange pas l’histoire. Les personnages sont pas trop cons et certains sont mêmes plutôt badass et intéressants. Bon d'autres, beaucoup plus secondaires, sont amenés avec les pieds par contre.

Du coup ? Le premier quart d'heure que j'avais pu voir lors du Showeb m'avait vendu du rêve. Et le film respecte effectivement cette ambiance installée lors de ce laps de temps. De bonnes péripéties, des décors fascinants, cadrés intelligemment et un univers super riche sans être une overdose, avec des personnages correctement écrits.

Si vous avez envie de traces de chenille comme les Champs-Élysées, d'un parrain zombie et de bandana rouge, découvrez le futur de la domination.

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WHERE WE LIVE BENEFIT ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTORS ANNOUNCED

LG: This is text of  image comics press release: 

On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths and over 500 injured. It broke my heart. Las Vegas is my home. I felt like something needed to be done to help in a unique way.”

—JH WILLIAMS III, Artist & Curating Editor

PORTLAND, OR, 03/27/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to announce the list of WHERE WE LIVE: LAS VEGAS SHOOTING BENEFIT ANTHOLOGY contributors.  

Curated by JH Williams III, Wendy Wright-Williams, Will Dennis, and Image Comics’ Publisher, Eric Stephenson, one hundred percent of the proceeds for the WHERE WE LIVE anthology will be donated to

an existing GoFundMe campaign

for the survivors in Las Vegas.

The WHERE WE LIVE anthology contains over 70 stories from over 150 different creators and clocks in at around 300 pages total.  

“It's a strange place, this time and this country, in which having tools that can only be used to murder is seen as human right. I wanted to write something to help raise funds for the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting and for their families,” said Neil Gaiman, bestselling author and a contributor to the WHERE WE LIVE anthology. “It's about wounds and healing, about death and forgiveness, about pain and childhood and the dark.  I hope it helps make people think, and I'm honoured to be part of the conversation.”

The book will include a variety of perspectives with key themes exploring gun violence, common sense gun control, value of a compassionate society, mental health stigmatization, aftermath of tragedy and how individuals and communities persevere, and an appreciation of Las Vegas as a vibrant community.

The WHERE WE LIVE anthology is a riveting collection of both fictional stories and actual eye-witness accounts told by an all-star lineup of the top talent working in comics today as well as Las Vegas locals. All the creators have graciously volunteered their time and talent to help bring some sense to this senseless act and, in the process, raise money for the survivors and their families.

WHERE WE LIVE ANTHOLOGY contributors:

Michael Allred & Laura Allred

Henry Barajas, Isaac Goodhart & Kelly Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Battisti, Geof Darrow, Dave Stewart & Bernardo Brice

Jennifer Battisti & J.H. Williams III

Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Oeming, Taki Soma & Bernardo Brice

Haden Blackman & Richard Pace

Haden Blackman, J.H. Williams III & Todd Klein

Jeff Boison & Tyler Boss

Ivan Brandon, Paul Azaceta & Bernardo Brice

Ryan Burton, Tony Parker, Dee Cunniffe & Bernardo Brice

Kurt Busiek, Andrew Maclean, Lee Loughridge & JG Roshell (at Comicraft)

Amy Chu, Gabriel Hernandez Walta & Alexander Chang

Rachel Crosby, J.H. Williams III & Bernardo Brice

Al Davison

Kelly Sue DeConnick, Joelle Jones, Dave Stewart & Bernardo Brice

J.M. DeMatteis & Mike Cavallaro

Gustavo Duarte

Aaron Duran, Joe Mulvey, Jules Rivera & Bernardo Brice

Joshua Dysart, Pere Perez & Bernardo Brice

Pierce Elliott & Monica Gallagher

Joshua Ellis, Jeff Lemire & Bernardo Brice

Lucia Fasano, Tess Fowler & Bernardo Brice

Ray Fawkes

Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuazon & Bernardo Brice

Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III & Todd Klein

Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Dee Cunniffe & Clayton Cowles

Brandon Graham

Justin Gray & John Broglia

Lela Gwenn & Matthew Dow Smith

Matt Hawkins, Aaron Campbell, Dee Cunniffe & Bernardo Brice

Daniel Hernandez, Moritat & Casey Silver

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Hyperallergic: Paintings in Which Splotchy Blobs Stand in for Historical Figures

Alun Williams, “Hommage à la jeunesse de Victorine Meurent” (2017) (detail) oil and acrylic on canvas, 175 x 180 cm

PARIS — Alun Williams is a barmy British bloke who roams the backstreets of cities and towns, stubbornly signifying historic citizens with slapdash splotches. His congenially coy paintings are now being shown in For the Senelites’ Pleasure, his third show at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris.

Quite curiously, Williams makes ahistorical history paintings by playing with the postmodern circulation of context-free imagery, mixing free-spirited image accumulation with glints of personal specificity. As such, he takes the piss out of painting in an emblematic way, second only to Andy Warhol. Consider Williams’s coquettish but elaborate canvas “Detail of Hommage à la jeunesse de Victorine Meurent” (2017), my favorite in the show. This painting features the rendering of a pale abstract sculpture that looks like snow-covered road-kill or the morphology of a fart. A bit more yellowish, it would evoke frozen piss. This oddly flat abstract sculpture sits on a low-pedestal near an indecipherable portrait painting, behind two diminutive horse sculptures and a buttery statuette of a woman; all set in a chic park-side penthouse. This tortured stain-shape ignobly represents Victorine Meurent, the female French painter and famous model for Édouard Manet. She appears quite brazenly nude in Manet’s swank masterpiece “Olympia” (1863).

Alun Williams, “Hester Leisler (statue 1)” (2017) oil and acrylic on canvas, 161.5 x 129 cm

Using this baffling, audacious, associative method also for the plucky painting “Hester Leisler (statue 1)” (2017), Williams (again) utilizes unintended fluid-spill marks (this time painted a perky urine yellow) that he discovered investigating Hester Leisler’s personal historical setting (a history that remained opaque to my investigative probe). Again, as with the majority of the paintings shown, found stains, painted as flat sculpture, stand-in for the person who is the ostensible subject of the painting. These woozy stand-in forms have a surreal, dreamy, and vaguely nostalgic aspect that reminds me of the indecipherable lyrics from a fuzzy shoegaze band or a 1950s British abstract sculpture; like Reg Butler’s.

Installation view of For the Selenites’ Pleasure (all installation images courtesy of Galerie Anne Barrault)

Yet Christian Viveros-Fauné establishes that Williams does extensive and precise research into the stains and also into the backgrounds that frame these wimpy, smeary forms. But just what historic precision they convey was not evident to my eye. Rather than offer illustration, the paintings increasingly blur the boundary between the imaginary and the evident. Even the material of paint (as applied to flat surfaces with spontaneity) is spoofed — that is, paint is punked. Nevertheless, Williams’s noticeably consistent subject is viscosity: the resistance of a fluid to deformity under stress. A liquid’s viscosity is then intertwined with a person’s time and place and death, thus also suggesting the fluidity of the human body.

Installation view of For the Selenites’ Pleasure

Williams’s enjoyable paintings are cheeky, post-modern affairs that use appropriation in a unique and inventive way. His Duchampian objets trouvés are different, however, from a readymade. They are usually accidental paint-marks found on the street at a location (street name or pertinent address) connected to his subject’s real life. So he paints (albeit oddly) within the context of the history of history painting. The wilfully undramatic results make a strange new kind of non-pedantic portraiture painting based on historical content and the power of suggestive, artful, mental links. This insurrectional symbolism also makes use of revivalist, illustrative styles in what hosts and frames the enigmatic stain sculptures. These erratic, ahistorical, illustration styles also seem appropriated (or at least extraordinarily familiar).

Alun Williams, “Statue of John Adams” (2017) oil and acrylic on canvas, 41 x 33 cm

Thus Williams’s double-strained stain enigmas do not push back very hard against the complicity many feel with the speed of easy cultural consumption today. Like Dada iconoclast Francis Picabia, Williams plucks motifs from any and all style periods. Indeed, he parties like it’s 1985. This serpentine style of time conflation is the droll setting for the piss-stain forms that have been extracted from particular localities and made to represent human beings, now thinned and diminished. Symbolically, they might be the preserved body rot of whomever they are intended to pity or epitomize.

A bit less scatological in tone is the hysterical and vexing smaller canvas “Statue of John Adams” (2017). It naughtily monumentalizes John Adams, the second President of the United States, as an anaemic, spindly, Gitane blue persona with pointy little arms. That blue form diffuses a sense of wayward glamor to me by suggesting an anorexic, somnambulistic cat. What I especially admire about the painting is that it’s disconcerting mixed signals are never neutralized by some explanatory psychodrama, but it does make a stealthy appeal to freedom, thereby sidestepping camp. (Adams played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence from England.) Other notable individuals receiving Williams’s stain-witticism treatment on a small-scale are Margherita Luti (the mistress and model of Raphael), Jules Verne, and Edgar Allan Poe. All of these paintings feature a prominent plasmatic stain form, and thus summon up the slimy, sleuthy spectre of Picabia’s radically splotched-into-being “La Sainte Vierge” (The Blessed Virgin, 1920). Like “La Sainte Vierge,” they too highlight sooty skids that departed people have left behind, offering new ways of thinking about history (or herstory). They transform homely casualness into its unanticipated opposite: something valiant.

Much of the fulsome effect of contemplating Williams’s adroit paintings has to do with their meaninglessness: their refusal to offer up a useful narrative of historical significance. Thus they remind us that there is a kind of grief connected to the death of a person that, while real and permanent, cannot point to much beyond itself. The shuffling off of the mortal coil is not an enduring thing to be grasped by the living, but more like an acid hole pointedly burnt into life’s fabric.

The exhibition For the Senelites’ Pleasure continues at Galerie Anne Barrault (51, Rue des Archives, 3rd arrondissement, Paris) until July 22.

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