#m.c. richards

[garadinervi]

M.C. Richards – John Wood, Untitled (M.C. Richards and John Wood Haystack Collaboration), (mixed media), 1980 [Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), Asheville, NC; Gift of Julia Connor. © Estate M.C. Richards / John Wood]

[tudorblogger]

Monthly Reading Summary – July 2024

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[bai-rouran]

I’ve been contacted multiple times by people asking for copies of my old Pantalone/Dottore/Baizhu posts since Natlan was released. I sincerely appreciate folks interest, but I will not be reposting those works. They were high-effort, I had a ton of fun writing them and educating folks on history, but the attention they received resulted in monetized content theft, and set off unstable people. Including an obsessive Pantalone fan who spent 6 months using numerous alts to harass me and anyone else who posted about the character, until I finally gave up and deleted. I wish I was joking.

That said… I won’t deprive you of the raw info and feel bad seeing how many people actually liked and missed the posts. Here’s a list of every inspiration Hoyo’s used for Pantalone, Baizhu, and Dottore’s roles/designs so far.

*DON’T READ THIS if you’re concerned with the possibility of spoilers.*

1. Pantalone/Magnifico, greedy/ lecherous villain archetype of the Commedia dell’arte

2. Il Dottore/Gratiano/Balanzone Lombardi, self-important/lecherous archetype of the Commedia dell’arte

3. The Mule/Magnifico from the “Foundation” series by Isaac Asimov (hint-hint, have you met him in Natlan yet? coughSimulankacough)

4. The demon Pan from “The Golden Compass” (shape shifting, hint-hint-hint)

5. Saint Pantaleon/Pantaleimon of Nicomedia (“All Things Like a Lion”, “All-Compassionate”)

6. Saint Pantaleon/Pantaleimon Sudzhaksky the Immortal

7. Puppet/Phantom/Beast/“True” form of Sorcerer King Ganondorf from “The Legend of Zelda” series

8. Raven & Trigon from “Teen Titans”

9. Zhu Bajie (patron saint of masseuses, hostesses, & prostitutes that inspired Ganondorf’s design) and Sun Wuking from 16th century “Journey to the West” by Wu Cheng’en

10. Emperor Wang Mang of China via Zhi Yi’s in-game Classical Chinese reference (Xiao Quan Zhi Yi)

11. Pantaleon Pantoja from “Pantaleon y las Visitadoras” comedic novel/movie about allegedly true military prostitution operation, by Mario Vargas Llosa (coughpearlgalleycough)

12. The Rouran Khaganate and Yujiulu Shelun (hint-hint, you’ve been on Pants’ boats already)

13. Pappus of Alexandria (Pappus Line, projective planes)

14. Pappus of the Attelan Farce (Harbinger to Commedia Pantalone)

15. Kavad I / Sheroe, meaning“The Lion”

16. Kavad II, King of Kings

17. “Siroe” Opera by Handel

18. Khosrow I / Anushirvan, the Immortal Soul

19. Khosrow II, last King of Kings

20. Babak Khorramdin (Zoroastrianism as with “Zandik”)

21. Polonius from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

22. Lotus-Eaters from Homer’s “Odyssey” (coughpearlgalleyagaincough, in-game achievement referencing lotus-eaters)

23. Apollonius of Tyana/Balinus, Master of the Talismans (corresponding to certain Sumeru works about a Jinn in a bottle: knock-off Jesus according to Philostratus’ embellishments)

24. Apollonius of Perga (A massive impact crater on the moon is named after him)

25. Mani the Manichaeist Prophet (also knock-off Jesus, commemorated on Baizhu’s birthday)

26. Richard Kuisel & Jean Coutrout, referencing human tendency towards conspiratorial gullibility

27. M.C. Escher, block-art-illusionist. Emphasis on his illusionist dualist works.

28. Xu Xian from “Legend of the White Snake”

29. “Lazzo of the Mirror” (Baizhu/Tartaglia interaction)

30. “Lazzo of Pantalone’s Story” (giant spoiler)

31. Eros (“Love”)

32. Erikepaios, “Power” as Ganondorf’s fragment of the Triforce represents

33. Mithraic lion, Zoroastrian lion deity wrapped in snake

34. Yaldabaoth, false Gnostic god characterized as lion-headed snake (see: Persona 5’s interpretation)

35. Aesclepius/“Surapio” via Enkanomiya

In-Game Hints: Enjou’s manipulations, Natlan’s abyssal enemies, solar themes, “segments,” and the Iniquitous Baptist. Research these characters/stories/histories/topics carefully, then look at how they relate to game lore. Happy hunting!

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

"This is what fires our hearts, is it not? To feel ourselves free to love and to live. Unbullied and unbullying. Unhaunted by a conscience made guilty by social pressures and expectations. To act from source freely."

M.C. Richards

[sporadiceagleheart]

Childhood Cancer Edit for honor and rememberance Ana at age 5, Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg, Lily Rose Diaz, Colby Curtin, Stacy Leigh Black, Riley Faith Steep, Kenzlee Marie Cook, Jane Eilish Preston, Grace Elizabeth “Amazing Gracie” Ekis, Ellie Walton, Sophie Walker, Elowyn Ivy "Winnie" Pollard, Zoey Catherine Daggett, Stevie Lynn Stock, Gentry "Gents" Morgan Terrell, Eliana Rose Lara, Haylie Marie Chmela, Aria Hodgkiss, Adalynn 'Addie' Mae Jessen, Madelyn Marie Anderson, Rylie Nicholls, Olivia Mariam "Oli" Pineda Arevalo, Sarah Atif, Finley Nicole Miller, Kailey Lawson, Connor "The Crusher" Michalek, Daniya Abdulhamid Ketchman, Jaida Nancy Claire Chartier, Trinity Riley, Hailey Elizabeth Acevedo, Liam M.C. Huggler, Nova May Baker, Lila May Smith, Addison Bell, Elle Adriana Caruso, Sophia Margaret Nielsen, Evylah Gao Chia Xiong, Paula Golik, Hailey Janya Olson, Victoria "Tori" Kay Maree Binnie, Delilah Love Loya, AnnaBella "Bella" Rose Kirby, Elayna Grace Sandeen, Grace "Gracie" Anna-Lynn Williams, Eliza Adalynn Moore, Kinsley Adelynn Wilkerson, Summer Kathryn Allen, Molly Richards, Raelynn Shay Velarde Fronczak, Adaline Rose Cowley, Lily LaRue Anderson, Dillan Ramsey-Aksehir, Miss. Addison Carolyn Bryan, Kinsley Marie Winn, Nicole “Coco” Sweis, Avery Linn Handrow, Cheyanne Rae “Chey” Brant, Emma Grace Smith, Zamora Moon Martinez-Lusinchi, Amelia LaRee “Millie” Flamm, Miesha Amaya (Amaya) Alguno, Charlotte Grace York, Anastasia Konstanze Ermakov, Everly Mae Settlemyer, Evelyn Grace Jackson, Lily Kate Williams-Brola, Brayleigh Louise “Bray” King, Annabelle Potts, Taliyah Baptiste, Colton Armstrong White, Kinley Nicole Sexton, Luna Zoe Cristobal, Amyah Joye Brown, Emily Grace Navarra,

[dear-indies]

hi!! hopefully this isn’t too difficult or strange of a request, but i’m trying to find alternative faceclaims for val kilmer (specifically his look in the movie “heat”) that also have a lot of cowboy/western resources! long hair (doesn’t matter what color) is a must, but otherwise everything else is fair game :) thank you so much! -🐂 (bull anon)

Benjamin Bratt (1963) Peruvian [Quechua] / German, English, Sudeten German - hasn't got long hair but his vibes in DMZ.

Zahn McClarnon (1966) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux and Irish - Timeless, Queen of the South.

Marcus LaVoi (1968) Ojibwe.

Timothy Olyphant (1968) one eighth Ashkenazi Jewish - didn't have long hair in Justified but the vibe is too good not to mention.

Josh Holloway (1969) - Yellowstone.

Andrew Lincoln (1973) - The Walking Dead.

Rodrigo Santoro (1975) Brazilian [Portuguese, including Azorean, possibly other] / Italian - Westworld.

Cole Hauser (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, Walloon Belgian, French, Scottish - didn't have long hair in Yellowstone but the vibe is too good not to mention.

Tim Rozon (1976) - Wynonna Earp.

Wagner Moura (1976) Brazilian [Portuguese, distant African, possibly other] - O Caminho das Nuvens.

Gabriel Luna (1982) Mexican, including Lipan Apache - Last of Us.

Khary Payton (1982) African-American - The Walking Dead.

Garrett Hedlund (1984)

Richard Cabral (1984) Mexican - Mayans M.C.

Alex Meraz (1984) Mexican [Purepecha] - The Walking Dead.

Cooper Andrews (1985) Samoan / Ashkenazi Jewish - The Walking Dead.

Martin Sensmeier (1985) Tlingit, Eyak, Koyukon, German, Irish - kinda has long hair in Alaska Daily.

Amar Chadha-Patel (1986) Gujarati Indian.

Kiowa Gordon (1990) Hualapai, English, Scottish, Danish, Manx - Reservation Dogs.

Lucas Till (1990) - had longer hair in MacGyver at some point.

Brock O'Hurn (1991) - Close To Home.

Danny Ramirez (1992) Colombian / Mexican - The Walking Dead, Black Mirror.

Justin Johnson Cortez (?) Yaqui.

Here you go!

[mollyskinnerresearchblog]

Charles Lipka was a significant representative of the Vienna School of fantastic realism (core group: Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden; wider circle: Fritz Aigner, Herbert Benedikt, Emmy Cero-Friedl, Robert Ederer, Helmut Heuberger, Fritz Janschka, Peter Klitsch, Anton Krejcar, Helmut Leherb, Franz Luby, Richard Matouschek, Franz Radziwill, Kurt Regschek, Ludwig Schwarzer, Gerhard Swoboda; “second generation”: Franz Bayer, Josef Bramer, Michael Coudenhove-Kalergi, Manfred Ebster, Roman Haller, Ernst Handl, Axel Litschke, Peter Proksch, Norbert Steffek, Franz Stierschneider, De Es Schwertberger; the Vienna School also has close relationships with Friedensreich Hundertwasser). One of Lipka's students was Rudolf Schönwald. Further artists and styles: HR Giger, M.C. Escher, Surrealism, Futurism, Lithography, Romanticism, Horror

[happydazy82]

Coffee Hour

STEPS, 03/22/2025

"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other." M.C. Richards

I often suffer from the paralysis of analysis. I love to plot, plan, study, review, think, and re-think everything I do ... but it never gets me anywhere. The time comes when I have to gather up my maps and scrolls, notes and post-its and just get my butt in gear and move. Interestingly enough, when I do that, I go places. Who-d-a-thunk-it?

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Tangled

Rating: PG

Director: Byron Howard, Nathan Greno

Cast: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, Brad Garrett, Richard Kiel, M.C. Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul F. Tompkins, Delaney Rose Stein, Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, Tim Mertens, Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susanne Blakeslee, Roy Conli

Release year: 2010

Genres: romance, fantasy, action, comedy

Blurb: When the kingdom's most wanted - and most charming - bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with seventy feet of magical golden hair. Flynn's curious captor is looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, and strikes a deal with the handsome thief. The unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an overprotective chameleon, and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

[garadinervi]

M.C. Richards – John Wood, Untitled (M.C. Richards and John Wood Haystack Collaboration), (mixed media), 1980 [Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), Asheville, NC; Gift of Carol Wood. © Estate M.C. Richards / John Wood]

[lelacynthia]

#Tangled (2010) # Mandy Moore # Zachary Levi # Donna Murphy # Ron Perlman # M.C. Gainey # Jeffrey Tambor # Brad Garrett #Paul F. Tompkins # Richard Kiel # Delaney Rose Stein # Nathan Greno # Byron Howard # Byron Howard #Disney #Disney Animation #Animation #movie obssession

You were my new dream. And you were mine.

[mariemariemaria]

Books read in 2023:

Molly Sweeney (Brian Friel)

If Cats Disappeared from the World (Genki Kawamura)

Remembering Light and Stone (Deirdre Madden)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)

The Vegetarian (Han Kang)

The Forester’s Daughter (Claire Keegan)

One by One in the Darkness (Deirdre Madden)

Foster (Claire Keegan)

The Dark (John McGahern)

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (Sabina Khan)

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (M.C. Beaton)

The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)

The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)

The Furthest Distance (Lucy Caldwell)

The Last White Man (Mohsin Hamid)

Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)

Lies of Silence (Brian Moore)

The Plough and the Stars (Seán O'Casey)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)

So Late in the Day (Claire Keegan)

Burnt Out: How 'The Troubles' Began (Michael McCann)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh)

Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Martha C. Nussbaum)

What You Are Looking for is in the Library (Michiko Aoyama)

Diary of a Young Naturalist (Dara McAnulty)

Coraline (Neil Gaiman)

Reflections and some discussion under the cut

As u can see I had a Claire Keegan Deirdre Madden phase at the start of the year.....they're both good authors and Madden is v underrated imo (though Remembering Light and Stone was a little underwhelming for me, but still memorable).

My goal was 25 books and I'm happy I reached it. Reading books was something I loved as a child, but for various reasons I got very out of the habit and it got to the stage where I was really struggling to concentrate on reading novels for even a short period of time. But over the last couple of years I've been sloooowly getting back into the habit and so this year I privately set myself this challenge and while it did keep me motivated because I wanted to reach it, it also wasn't a burden and I really enjoyed being a bookworm again. I thought a few times about getting Goodreads again but I honestly think that it was one of the many things which put me off reading in the first place. I don't like feeling like I have to read fifty or a hundred or more books, and there is pressure to do that, and personally I do not feel that I can always sum up my feelings on a book neatly out of five stars.

Some of my faves this year were: Small Things Like These; One by One in the Darkness, The Thursday Murder Club; Convenience Store Woman; Before the Coffee Gets Cold; Burnt Out. Though I liked most of the books I read this year and I kinda just want to keep adding to this list.

My least faves: The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (it was not the best written but not the worst, I liked aspects of it but others...not so much); Agatha Raisin (though I was expecting it to be well written lol); Lies of Silence (I have literally no idea how that book got shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was meant to be a thriller but it was dull and predictable. RIP to the female characters' potential. I half wonder if I missed something because it seems to be on the LC curriculum, but there are so many more better books that deal with similar issues, like One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden for example).

DNF (and do not really want to finish): Asking For It by Louise O'Neill. No doubt an important book and well written, but just too graphic for me.

I think I'm gonna keep the goal of 25 books for this year, but branch out a bit more. A lot of the books I didn't get finished last year were non-fiction, so I'll finish them and then add them to my 2024 list (is that cheating? lol idrc), and try to read other non fiction books and memoirs. Also, just over half of the books I read were Irish (14 books - 52 odd per cent), and while I LOVE Irish fiction (somebody talk to me about Deirdre Madden please) and the non-fiction books I read were really important and felt quite personal (Diary of a Young Naturalist gave me a greater appreciation for local wildlife, and was fun to read because I've been to many of the places the author described, and Burnt Out should be read by anybody who wants to understand The Troubles and made me think of my own family's experience, as well as appreciate impressive historical research done by a non-university academic) but I could probably do with exploring other cultures and histories more. So I'll try to do that. I'd also like to read more poetry, but I can't just sit down and read a book of poetry the same way I can a novel, I must spend days and weeks analysing a poem and going insane over it. I may or may not read a poetry book over a few months...we shall see.

[winkmartindalesworld]

Snow

'White moths

in angry mobs

hunt everywhere

the light

of the winter sun.'

- M.C. Richards

[project1939]

(General MacArthur gives keynote speech at Republican National Convention top left, Taft supporters top right, Eisenhower supporters middle right, Robert Taft bottom left, Eisenhower bottom right.)

Day 44- TV and Radio: 

TV: 

Pathe Newsreel, “U.S. Republican Convention Begins.” 

Pathe Newsreel, “Ike V. Taft.” 

Pathe Newsreel, “Republicans Nominate Eisenhower.” 

Footage of “Senator Everett Dickson Defending Taft."

Footage of Eisenhower’s acceptance speech, July 11th, 1952. 

Tales of Tomorrow, “Duplicates,” season 1 episode 40, July 4th, 1952. 

The Guiding Light,” July 10th, 1952. 

Radio: 

Coverage of the Republican National Convention- news about the first day and General MacArther’s keynote speech, July 7th, 1952. 

Voice of Firestone, “Dorothy Warenskjold,” July 7th, 1952. 

What can I say about all the convention coverage except that it was fascinating? (Not including General MacArthur’s looong keynote speech! ) The most riveting part was footage of a Senator named Everett Dickson, who was a Taft supporter, imploring the delegates to listen to the committees and vote for Taft. A physical fight broke out on the floor, and someone had to be carried off! People were booing Thomas Dewey, who supported Eisenhower, and booing Senator Dickson himself... it was raucous and amazing. I was under the impression that Ike was always a shoo-in for the nomination, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. 

The other really fascinating part was Eisenhower's acceptance speech. He spoke the quote I listed in my previous post about aiming to “give our country a program of progressive policies in our finest Republican Traditions.” He also declared that Richard Nixon, the running mate the committee chose for him, had “a special ability to ferret out any kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found, and the strength and persistence to get rid of it.” Ummm... yeah, that was kind of his problem, Ike.

I also must mention that General MacArthur said this in his speech: "The framers of the constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages." !!!! What has happened to this party in the last 70 years? Now the Republicans are trying to convince us that the American Revolution was a "conservative revolution," and Enlightenment thinking had nothing to do with it. Seriously.

In non-political programs... Voice of Firestone was basically just an M.C. announcing songs sung by soprano Dorothy Warenskjold and the NBC orchestra. It was enjoyable to listen to, as something different. The Guiding Light was less than 15 minutes with liberal amounts of commercials for soap and Crisco. The “action” in it was pretty boring. One woman announced she was leaving NY to go to California, and a husband and wife argued about the baby while the husband played chess with his father! Tales of Tomorrow was especially brilliant, and it only made me fall in love with the show even more. A man is given a special mission by the government to go to a planet where everything has an exact duplicate to this one, down to the molecule... 

...And now a word from today’s best sponsor: Crisco! It’s digestible! Why use boring old natural fats when “sweet and fresh tasting” trans fats are just waiting for you in a can? Foods fried in light and tender Crisco are really digestible! Why, even doctors say they’re easier to digest! Finally, there’s a fat that lets the pure natural flavor of your foods shine through, using only the most processed unnatural chemically altered fat you can buy! And, hey, let’s just say once more that it’s digestible, because we seem to think that’s really important for you to hear! 

[gregdotorg]

I dug into it a bit, and do think this photo is from 1958, when Bob Cato shot the liner notes for the John Cage concert recording box set Johns and Rauschenberg produced.

But meanwhile, it led me to a fascinating article about Mary Caroline (M.C.) Richards [above, center, obv], queer & feminist history and subjectivity, and the wildly transformative influence of the history of Black Mountain College she didn't write.

Happy 94th, Jasper Johns.

1956 photo by Bob Cato.