#margaret anne macleod

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Archangel

directed by Guy Maddin, 1990

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Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) Guy Maddin

July 10th 2023

[grandmaster-anne]

Court Circular | 6th March 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King received the Bishop of Liverpool (the Right Reverend Dr. John Perumbalath) this afternoon who did homage upon his appointment. His Majesty received the Bishop of Newcastle (the Right Reverend Dr. Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley) who did homage upon her appointment. The Bishop of Carlisle (Clerk of the Closet) was in attendance and administered the Oaths. The Bishop of Carlisle was afterwards received by The King. The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil spoke to His Majesty via telephone this evening.

Kensington Palace

The Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall this morning chaired a Meeting of The Prince's Council at 10 Buckingham Gate, London SW1.

St. James's Palace

The Princess Royal, Chancellor, University of London, this afternoon attended the University of London Worldwide Graduation Ceremony at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2.

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, this afternoon attended a Luncheon at Savills, 33 Margaret Street, London W1.

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So, not that anyone asked but these are the novels I read this year. If any of these books catch your eye let’s be friends!

(Note: these are not in any order, I kinda just put em into a wanton list without any prior organization)

Violet’s wee reading list of 2022

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino

2. Butter Honey Pig Bread - Francesca Ekwuyasi

3. Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

4. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow

5. Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger

6. Tacky - Rax King

7. Slow Days, Fast Company - Eve Babitz

8. Stoner - John Williams

9. Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter

10. Anniversaries - Uwe Johnson

11. Don Quixote de La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes

12. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

13. Burning Questions - Margaret Atwood

14. The Counterfieters - André Gide

15. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun

16. The Poems of John Keats - John Keats

17. Ulysses - James Joyce

18. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

19. The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector - Clarice Lispector

20. Quo Vadis - Henry’s Sienkiewicz

20. The Dwelling Place of Light - Winston Churchill (not the former PM)

21. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

22. Dune - Frank Herbert

23. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

24. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

25. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert

26. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

27. Chapter House Dune - Frank Herbert

28. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

29. The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

31. Middlemarch - George Eliot

32. The Complete Stories of Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges

33. The Collins Complete Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

34. The Banjo: A History - Laurent DuBois

35. House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

36. Sérotonin - Michel Houellebecq

37. Pamela - Samuel Richardson

38. The Confusions of Young Törless - Robert Musil

39. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

40. My Struggle I: A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard

42. My Struggle II: A Man in Love - Karl Ove Knausgaard

43. My Struggle III: Boyhood Island - Karl Ove Knausgaard

44. My Struggle IV: Dancing in the Dark - Karl Ove Knausgaard

45. My Struggle V: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgaard

46. My Struggle VI: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard

47. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

48. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

49. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

50. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

51. The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

52. Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens

53. Roots - Alex Haley

54. Silas Marner - George Eliot

55. Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot

56. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

57. Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

58. Babel - R. F. Kuang

59. The Complete Father Brown Stories - G. K. Chesterton

60. Death Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases - Nissoisin

61. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

62. The Song of Roland - Anon.

63. The Nibelungenlied - Anon.

64. Le Morte D’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory

65. The Lais of Marie de France - Marie de France

66a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (penguin tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

66b. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

67. The Pearl (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

68. Les Fleurs de Mal - Charles Baudelaire

69. Faust - Goethe

70. Forrest Gump - Winston Groom

71. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini

72. Here There Be Dragons - James A. Owen

73. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

74. The Island - Alastair MacLeod

75. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

76. White Teeth - Zadie Smith

77. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen

78. Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles - Harold Bloom

79. A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay

80. Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead

81. The Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice

82. The Vampire LeStat - Anne Rice

83. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

84. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh

85. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

86. Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo

87. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker

88. The Collected Works of Breece D’J Pancake - Breece Pancake

89. Ben-Hur: The Story of a Christ - Lew Wallace

90. Open City - Teju Cole

91. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

92. The Aeneid - Virgil

93. Emma - Jane Austen

94. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

95. Persuasion - Jane Austen

96. The Portable Sixties Reader - Various, compiled by Ann Charters

97. The Innocents - Michael Crummey

98. Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

99. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

100. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

[thegospelhighways]

#kristinapovolish went missing praise God when she went missing praise God she was praying for peace praise God can I get a witness somebody we pray for #siobhanmcguinness praise God can I get a witness somebody The power of healing was under the impression praise God can I get a witness somebody let's name the names praise God Daniela Perez praise God #sarahpayne , Brenda Sue Gere Brenda Sue brown Mary Louise Day Mary crocker Jesse Layne Holland Isabella Sara tenant Lluvia Espinoza morales lakaylee chambers Cary Ann medlin Lauren sarene key Alexis Marie pounder melonie biddersingh Paris white Amanda Victoria brown Carlie Jane brucia Mei Shan leung Daniela shiri sookne Mackenzie Lynn Maison calista Marie Springer kaelyn sarene Bray Alicia Clark #aliciaclark #alicialynnclark Jill Catherine camm #cathycummings Marlena alvirez Marcia Trimble Victoria Joelle Larson Margaret Archer Baker Downs Kenneth bridges Ashley Elaine Brock destiny Marie champagne savannah Rose Hardin Polly klaas Gabriella Marie wiegert Emily Clair lastinger kassidy Caitlyn bortner CODI Michele Aston jasmine Galyer Allison Jennifer griffor Allison Wyatt Lauren Rousseau Dawn hochsprung Mary sherlach Anne Marie Murphy Rachel davino Nancy lanza Dylan hockley Madeleine hsu chase Kowalski Jack pinto Benjamin wheeler Jessica rekos Olivia Engel Emilie Parker Victoria Soto Grace Audrey McDonnell Noah pozner Daniel barden James mattioli Jesse lewis Avielle richman and her dad Dr Jeremy Charlotte bacon Emily Grace Jones McKenna elrod omaree Valera Nevaeh amyah Buchanan St. Charles county Jane doe Vicki Lynne hoskinson soren Victoria chilson Amy leich Ayers kaylynn Bella Mitchell broshears Cameron Boyce Cameron Douglas macleod Caleb Logan Leblanc Darcey Iris freeman Kyleigh tayne slusher Hannah Renee davenport kristyanna Rose Cowan Sydney Paige achan Philadelphia Jane doe Natalie Alexis deblase Missy L. Dannecker nelani Ciara koefer Tracy Lynn Latimer Jessica Kassandra haffer Lauryn Dickens Cassandra Lynn Williamson airi kinoshita kira Larissa Chandler Lily wolfenbarger Marcy Conrad Lisa Ann french Walker county Jane doe Ellie lawrenson Donna Marie gillbanks cherish Lily perrywinkle Noah thaxton

[birukcanadianblog]

TOP 10 INTERESTING CANADIAN NOVELS

1, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables, children's novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1908. The work, a sentimental but charming coming-of-age story about a spirited and unconventional orphan girl who finds a home with elderly siblings, became a classic of children's literature and led to several sequels.(Britannica.com)

2, The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss. The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel.(Wikipedia.org)

3, The Wars by Timothy Findley

The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian society.(Wikipedia.org)

4, Who Do You Think You Are by Alice Munro

Who Do You Think You Are? was first published in 1978, and is an example of the kind of short story cycle Gerald Lynch identifies in “The One and the Many.” It consists of ten stories that follow Rose, the cycle's protagonist, as she grows up in Hanratty and West Hanratty, leaves her small town to attend university.(Canlitguides)

5, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate.(imdb.com)

6,Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The book is the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth. Through marriage and motherhood, Daisy struggles to find contentment, never truly understanding her life's true purpose.(Wikipedia.org)

7, No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

The novel explores the emotional bonds of family through flashbacks to their childhood in Cape Breton Island and young adulthood spent in the mines of Northern Ontario, clan history dating back to 1779, and present-day interactions between the two brothers and a sister.(Wikipedia.org)

8, Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Inspired by the story of Anishnaabe First World War sniper Francis Pegahmagabow, Three Day Road follows a wounded soldier's journey home. The novel parallels the death that hangs over the battlefields of the First World War with the destruction of traditional Indigenous cultures.(The Canadian encyclopedia)

9, The Book of Negroes tells the story of Aminata Diallo, who makes this same journey after she is captured by slave traders in Africa and brought to America. Aminata's story illustrates the physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, religious, and economic violations of the transatlantic slave trade.(Britannica.com)

10, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Indian Horse (2012) is the sixth novel by Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese. Set in Northern Ontario in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it follows protagonist Saul Indian Horse as he uses his extraordinary talent for ice hockey to try and escape his traumatic residential school experience.(The Canadian encyclopedia)

[brothertonyvolturi]

#kristinapovolish went missing praise God when she went missing praise God she was praying for peace praise God can I get a witness somebody we pray for #siobhanmcguinness praise God can I get a witness somebody The power of healing was under the impression praise God can I get a witness somebody let's name the names praise God Daniela Perez praise God #sarahpayne , Brenda Sue Gere Brenda Sue brown Mary Louise Day Mary crocker Jesse Layne Holland Isabella Sara tenant Lluvia Espinoza morales lakaylee chambers Cary Ann medlin Lauren sarene key Alexis Marie pounder melonie biddersingh Paris white Amanda Victoria brown Carlie Jane brucia Mei Shan leung Daniela shiri sookne Mackenzie Lynn Maison calista Marie Springer kaelyn sarene Bray Alicia Clark #aliciaclark #alicialynnclark Jill Catherine camm #cathycummings Marlena alvirez Marcia Trimble Victoria Joelle Larson Margaret Archer Baker Downs Kenneth bridges Ashley Elaine Brock destiny Marie champagne savannah Rose Hardin Polly klaas Gabriella Marie wiegert Emily Clair lastinger kassidy Caitlyn bortner CODI Michele Aston jasmine Galyer Allison Jennifer griffor Allison Wyatt Lauren Rousseau Dawn hochsprung Mary sherlach Anne Marie Murphy Rachel davino Nancy lanza Dylan hockley Madeleine hsu chase Kowalski Jack pinto Benjamin wheeler Jessica rekos Olivia Engel Emilie Parker Victoria Soto Grace Audrey McDonnell Noah pozner Daniel barden James mattioli Jesse lewis Avielle richman and her dad Dr Jeremy Charlotte bacon Emily Grace Jones McKenna elrod omaree Valera Nevaeh amyah Buchanan St. Charles county Jane doe Vicki Lynne hoskinson soren Victoria chilson Amy leich Ayers kaylynn Bella Mitchell broshears Cameron Boyce Cameron Douglas macleod Caleb Logan Leblanc Darcey Iris freeman Kyleigh tayne slusher Hannah Renee davenport kristyanna Rose Cowan Sydney Paige achan Philadelphia Jane doe Natalie Alexis deblase Missy L. Dannecker nelani Ciara koefer Tracy Lynn Latimer Jessica Kassandra haffer Lauryn Dickens Cassandra Lynn Williamson airi kinoshita kira Larissa Chandler Lily wolfenbarger Marcy Conrad Lisa Ann french Walker county Jane doe Ellie lawrenson Donna Marie gillbanks cherish Lily perrywinkle Noah thaxton

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[oneboxofmatches]

All You Need to Know About Matchups!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WAITLIST

Hi y'all!

This account is solely for matchups for several different fandoms. That means requests for imagines, oneshots, headcanons, etc. will NOT be taken.

Here are some basic things to know about requesting a matchup!

Unless otherwise specified for a certain fandom, a request yields one romantic pairing AND one friendship pairing as well as information on why I think you work well with the individuals I choose. Of course, if you only wish to receive either just the romantic matchup or just the friendship matchup, just let me know!

You can request matchups for several different fandoms at once! For each fandom you request, I will match you up with one romantic partner and one friend unless you request differently.

You can ask to exclude any character(s)!

Where can I request a matchup?

Requests can be made in the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab.

What do I need to include in my request?

Required

Fandom(s)

Your gender and/or pronouns

Your sexual orientation and/or preferences

Description of personality

Optional (but definitely helps me out!)

Description of appearance

Hobbies

Personality alignment (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Hogwarts House, etc.)

What you would look for in a partner and/or friend

Any other information you think would be helpful – the more you provide, the more I can work with!

Now with that out of the way, onto the fandoms!

Listed directly below is a shortlist of all the fandoms I take requests for as well as some extra information as needed.

Disclaimers

If a title is in italics, it means that while I feel comfortable providing matchups for this show, I have not watched every season. If a character drastically changes after a certain point, I may not be aware. The last season I watched of these shows will be included in parentheses.

All movies/shows based on novels will most likely focus on the on-screen adaptations of characters.

SHOWS

The 100 (6)

Good Omens

The Good Place (3)

Lucifer (4)

On My Block

Parks and Recreation (4)

Prodigal Son (1)

Sherlock

Space Force

Supernatural (14)

The Walking Dead (8)

MOVIES

Clueless

The Greatest Showman

Harry Potter -- Unless specified in request, will entail 2 sets of matchups as a student (Golden Trio and Marauders eras respectively)

The Hunger Games

Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Unless age is specified, underage characters will NOT be available for romantic matchups

BROADWAY

Anastasia

Beetlejuice

Carrie (2012 Off-Broadway)

Hadestown

Hamilton

Les Misérables

The Phantom of the Opera

Six

VIDEO GAMES

Detroit: Become Human

Red Dead Redemption 2

What’s below the cut?

A masterlist of characters in each fandom that will be considered for each request (unless marked with an asterisk (*), all characters are assumed to be available for both romantic AND friendly matchups while names marked with an asterisk are only available for friendly matchups). Listed alphabetically by first name.

Don’t be afraid to tell me about a typo!

Any questions? Just want to talk? You can also use the  MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab to get ahold of me!

SHOWS

Bellamy Blake

Clarke Griffin

Echo

Finn Collins

Harper McIntyre

Jasper Jordan

Johnathan “John” Murphy

Jordan Green

Lexa

Lincoln

Marcus Kane

Monty Green

Octavia Blake

Raven Reyes

Roan

Wells Jaha

Aziraphale

Anathema Device

Crowley

Newton Pulsifer

Mme. Tracy*

Witchfinder Sgt. Shadwell*

Chidi Anagonye

Eleanor Shellstrop

Jason Mendoza

Michael*

Tahani Al-Jamil

Amenadiel

Det. Chloe Decker

Det. Daniel “Dan” Espinoza

Ella Lopez

Eve

Dr. Linda Martin*

Lucifer Morningstar

Mazikeen “Maze”

Cesar Diaz

Jamal Turner

Jasmine Flores

Monsé Finnie

Oscar “Spooky” Diaz

Ruben “Ruby” Martinez Jr.

Andrew “Andy” Dwyer

Ann Perkins

April Ludgate

Benjamin “Ben” Wyatt

Christopher “Chris” Traeger

Donna Meagle*

Gerald “Jerry” Gergich*

Jean-Ralphio Saperstein*

Leslie Knope

Ronald “Ron” Swanson*

Ainsley Whitly

Det. Dani Powell

Edrisa Tanaka

Lt. Gil Arroyo

Det. James “JT” Tarmel

Jessica Whitly

Malcolm Bright

DI Greg Lestrade

Mrs. Hudson*

James “Jim” Moriarty

Dr. John Watson

Mary Morstan*

Molly Hooper

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Adrian Mallory*

Capt. Angela Ali

Brig. Gen. Bradley Gregory*

Dr. Chan Kaifang

Duncan Tabner

Erin Naird

F. Tony Scarapiducci

Kelly King

Maggie Naird*

Gen. Mark Naird*

Abbie “Bela” Talbot*

Adam Milligan

Alex Jones

Balthazar

Benjamin “Benny” Lafitte

Castiel

Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury

Claire Novak

Crowley

Dean Winchester

Sheriff Donna Hanscum

Eileen Leahy

Ellen Harvelle*

Gabriel

Garth Fitzgerald IV

Jack Kline

Jessica “Jess” Moore*

Joanna “Jo” Harvelle

Sheriff Jody Mills*

John Winchester

Kaia Nieves

Kevin Tran

Lucifer

Meg Masters

Michael “Mick” Davies

Patience Turner

Robert “Bobby” Singer*

Rowena MacLeod

Rufus Turner*

Samuel “Sam” Winchester

Aaron

Abraham Ford

Andrea*

Beth Greene

Carl Grimes*

Carol Peletier*

Dale Horvath*

Daryl Dixon

Dwight

Enid*

Eugene Porter*

King Ezekiel*

Father Gabriel Stokes

Glenn Rhee

Hershel Greene*

Maggie Greene

Michonne

Morgan Jones*

Negan Smith

Paul “Jesus” Rovia

Rick Grimes

Rosita Espinosa

Sasha Williams

Tara Chambler

Tyreese Williams

MOVIES

Cher Horowitz

Dionne Davenport

Josh Lucas

Tai Frasier

Travis Birkenstock

Anne Wheeler

Charity Barnum

Jenny Lind

Lettie Lutz*

Phillip Carlyle

Phineas “P.T.” Barnum

W.D. Wheeler

Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody*

Albus Dumbledore*

Arthur Weasley*

Cedric Diggory

Cho Chang

Draco Malfoy

Fleur Delacour

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

James Potter

Lily Evans

Luna Lovegood

Minerva McGonagall*

Molly Weasley*

Neville Longbottom

Nymphadora Tonks*

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin

Ronald “Ron” Weasley

Rubeus Hagrid*

Severus Snape

Sirius Black

Viktor Krum

Cinna

Effie Trinket*

Finnick Odair

Gale Hawthorne

Haymitch Abernathy*

Johanna Mason

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Anthony “Tony” Stark -- Iron Man

Dr. Bruce Banner -- Hulk

Carol Danvers -- Captain Marvel

Dr. Christine Palmer*

Clint Barton -- Hawkeye

Drax the Destroyer*

Edward “Ned” Leeds

Gamora

Groot*

Harold “Happy” Hogan*

Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym*\

Hope van Dyne -- Wasp

Sgt. James “Bucky” Barnes -- Winter Soldier

Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes -- War Machine

Loki Laufeyson

Luis*

Mantis*

Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Carter*

Cdr. Maria Hill*

May Parker*

Lord M’Baku

Michelle “MJ” Jones

Nakia

Natasha Romanoff -- Black Widow

Nebula*

Col. Nicholas “Nick” Fury*

Okoye

Peter Parker -- Spider-Man

Peter Quill -- Star-Lord

Agt. Phillip “Phil” Coulson*

Pietro Maximoff -- Quicksilver

Rocket*

Samuel “Sam” Wilson -- Falcon

Scott Lang -- Ant-Man

Shuri

Dr. Stephen Strange

Steven “Steve” Rogers -- Captain America

King T’Challa -- Black Panther

Thor Odinson

Valkyrie

Virginia “Pepper” Potts

Vision

Wanda Maximoff -- Scarlet Witch

W’Kabi

Wong*

Yelena Belova

Yondu Udonta*

BROADWAY

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov

Dimitri Sudayev

Gleb Vaganov

Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch*

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna*

Vladimir “Vlad” Popov*

Adam Maitland

Barbara Maitland

Beetlejuice*

Delia Schlimmer

Lydia Deetz*

Carrie White

Christine “Chris” Hargensen

Susan “Sue” Snell

Thomas “Tommy” Ross

Eurydice

Hades

Hermes*

Orpheus

Persephone

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Angelica Schuyler

Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler

George Washington

Hercules Mulligan

James Madison

John Laurens

Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler

Maria Reynolds

Marquis de Lafayette

Philip Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Cosette

Enjolras

Éponine Thénardier

Fantine

Insp. Javert

Jean Valjean

Marius Pontmercy

Carlotta Giudicelli*

Christine Daaé

Erik “The Phantom”

Mme. Giry*

Meg Giry

Raoul de Chagny

Anna of Cleves

Anne Boleyn

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine Parr

Jane Seymour

Katherine Howard

VIDEO GAMES

Carl Manfred*

Chloe

Det. Chris Miller*

Connor

Elijah Kamski

Lt. Hank Anderson*

Capt. Jeffrey Fowler*

Josh

Kara

Leo Manfred

Lucy*

Luther

Markus

North

Rose Chapman*

Simon

Abigail Roberts

Arthur Morgan

Beau Gray*

Charles Smith

Daniël “Dutch” Van der Linde

Eagle Flies

Hosea Matthews*

Javier Escuella

Johnathan “John” Marston Sr.

Josiah Trelawny

Karen Jones

Kieran Duffy

Leonard “Lenny” Summers

Marion “Bill” Williamson

Mary-Beth Gaskill

Micah Bell

Molly O’Shea

Penelope Braithwaite*

Rev. Orville Swanson*

Sadie Adler

Sean MacGuire

Simon Pearson*

Tilly Jackson

[vivelareine]

I have always been motivated by good intentions. I hope that God will be merciful towards me.

–Maria Theresa on the night of her death, November 29, 1780 [translation: Margaret Anne Macleod]

[princessanneftw]

The truth about the Queen's relationship with Princess Anne - the trailblazing royal 'Daddy's Girl'

by Camilla Tominey, Associate Editor of Politics and Royals for the Telegraph

Having inherited her father’s no-nonsense approach to life, it is well known within royal circles that Princess Anne has never been one to suffer fools gladly - even if they are the leader of the free world. That might explain the footage that went viral on social media yesterday, seemingly showing the 69-year-old dodging a meeting with Donald Trump.

As the Queen greets the US President and his wife at Buckingham Palace, flanked by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, she spies her daughter lingering in the doorway and lifts a black glove to beckon her over. Princess Anne appears to respond with a shrug and stays exactly where she is.

An aide has explained the moment as “some mother/ daughter banter”, insisting that Her Majesty was “just encouraging the family and staff to come through” (others have suggested that a bemused Anne was telling her mother there were no remaining world leaders in line to greet). But Twitter users have interpreted it as a show of amused defiance and Anne has been praised for “not giving a s---” about shaking Trump’s hand. “She’s always been my favourite royal,” wrote one.

It’s a sentiment that seems to be spreading. the Princess has also unwittingly enjoyed a renaissance as one of the sassiest characters in the latest series of The Crown on Netflix – her straighforwardness, raised eyebrows and determination to live an independent life all endearing her to a new generation of admirers.

Always known as a “Daddy’s Girl”, the Duke of Edinburgh once famously remarked of his horse-mad only daughter: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.”

Having grown up in the shadow of her older brother and heir Prince Charles, Anne has won respect for not only carving out a successful career in equestrianism, but also as one of the hardest working members of the Firm. She carried out 518 royal engagements in 2018 and shows no sign of slowing down, even as she approaches her 70th birthday next August.

Her steely demeanour has long hidden a genuine passion for the compassionate care of others, be it through charities such as Save The Children, the Princess Royal Trust for Carers she set up in 1991, or her work in poverty-stricken African nations.

Indeed, such is the recognition of her trooper-like reputation behind palace doors that the Queen has allowed documentary makers to film the Princess Royal for a special programme due out next year - to mark not only her 70th birthday, but half a century of public service, which she began in 1970, aged 20.

It highlights an increasing intimacy between mother and daughter. The pair have already grown significantly closer since the Queen lost both her mother, the Queen Mother, and her sister, Princess Margaret, in swift succession in 2002.

“I was surprised she would cooperate with something like this [the documentary] but the Queen clearly thinks recognition is due for all her daughter’s hard work over the past 50 years,” says Joe Little, editor of Majesty magazine.

Royal author Phil Dampier believes Her Majesty will also hold a party to mark Anne’s auspicious birthday: “Last time, she had to share with Prince Andrew, who is exactly 10 years younger, but this time the Queen will throw a party just in her daughter’s honour. Although Anne wouldn’t want it, her mother will insist.”

It is perhaps worth noting that plans to mark Andrew’s 60th have reportedly been shelved, given the recent furore surrounding his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Both royal experts agree that the Duke of York’s fall from grace will have an impact not only on Anne’s workload, but her relationship with the 93-year-old monarch. According to Dampier, “Anne is much closer to the Queen than she used to be. She’s always been close to her father, because she’s very similar to him. His philosophy is just get on with it - and that’s just the way she is, too.”

As Kevin S. MacLeod, the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, has said of Anne: “Her credo is: “Keep me busy. I’m here to work. I’m here to do good things. I’m here to meet as many people as possible’.”

But there has always been more to Anne than her 300-plus string of patronages - not to mention the somewhat bizarre fascination with lighthouses that has seen her tick off almost every example on the British coast.

As the first member of the monarchy to compete in the Olympics, in 1976, she was arguably the trailblazer for royals breaking with tradition and living an independent life. In 1987 - the same year she was given the title of Princess Royal - she memorably became the first member of the family to appear as a contestant on a television quiz-show, when she competed on the BBC panel game A Question of Sport.

In 1974, she famously became the victim of a kidnapping attempt by a pistol-waving man named Ian Ball, who stopped her car on Pall Mall. When Ball demanded Anne get out of the limousine, she replied with characteristic gusto: “Not bloody likely!” and reportedly considered hitting him, before exiting out of the other side and being rushed to safety. She later told Michael Parkinson that she was “scrupulously polite” to her would-be abductor, as she thought it would be “silly to be too rude at that stage”.

But there have been moments of rudeness - most notably to the press, who Anne insists do not accompany her on any official engagements. Having gained a reputation for spikiness, she then courted all the wrong headlines when she had a fling with her royal protection officer, Sergeant Peter Cross, while still married to her first husband, Mark Phillips. Because the romance happened when Anne had two young children - Peter and Zara - it sent shockwaves around the palace. But there was some sympathy for the royal mother-of-two when Cross, who by then had left Scotland Yard, sold the sordid details to the News of the World in 1984, and when Phillips himself (whom she divorced in 1992) was later revealed to have fathered a love child.

Yet, since marrying her second husband, Tim Laurence, then a Commander in the Royal Navy, in December 1992 - Anne’s life has largely been blemish free.

So could the Queen’s increasing reliance on her only daughter - and the decision to remove Prince Andrew from the Firm’s front line - make the House of Windsor’s most industrious member even busier?

“She’s likely to become a much more important figure,” explains Phil Dampier. “Unlike her younger brother, she’s extremely discreet and not likely to make any faux pas. She’s a safe pair of hands.

“Thirty years ago she was seen as the black sheep. She got a bad press because she was quite rude to journalists. She had an affair and then came the break up of her marriage. But she has put it all behind her and is now one of the most reliable members of the family. She’s had her own scandals in the past but got through them, while it’s probably much too late for Andrew to do the same.”

One consideration for the Princess Royal is likely to be her relationship with her grandchildren - Savannah, 8 and Isla, 7, Peter’s children with his wife Autumn Kelly; and Zara and Mike Tindall’s daughter’s Mia, 5, and Lena, 1 - who all live on her Gatcombe estate.

A royal insider revealed: “They are an incredibly close family. I know the Princess has got a bit of a reputation as an ice maiden, but she absolutely dotes on her granddaughters. She works so hard that she doesn’t see them much during the week, but loves to spend her weekends with them. I wouldn’t imagine she’d want to sacrifice much more of that precious time together.”

Yet, Joe Little insists that Anne will remain a vital cog in the royal machinery, even though Prince Charles is reportedly planning to slim it down in the future.

“She’s in her 70th year but in remarkably good shape mentally and physically, so there is no sign of her slowing down,” he says. “Whether she can take on any of her brother’s workload remains to be seen, but Charles couldn’t not have her around. When they do see each other they get on like a house on fire, but they’re not in each other pockets. He trusts his sister implicitly.”

With her father, oldest brother and now her mother increasingly looking to her for support, one can’t help but think that Princess Anne could yet prop-up the Firm, as well as The Crown, for some time to come - whether she agrees to shake hands with world leaders, or not.

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Guest blog- Who were the first Fellows of the College of Speech Therapists?

This may seem like a simple question but there have been many different lists of their names over the decades. Dr Linda Armstrong and Professor Jois Stansfield think they may have the definitive answer.

Towards the end of the second world war, the amalgamation of the British Society of Speech Therapists (BSST) and the Association of Speech Therapists (AST) produced the College of Speech Therapists. This unification had been under discussion before the outbreak of war. The Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries (BRMA) forced the issue in 1942. It would only deal with one qualifying body for any profession and had opted in speech therapy’s case for BSST, thereby excluding the other organisation’s members from its register.

Linda searched unsuccessfully for a list of CST’s Founder Fellows (FF) in various minutes and other documents from the time (now held in Strathclyde University’s Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ (RCSLT) historical paper collection):

Speech (BSST’s journal), including reports from BSST AGMs and lists of its Members and Associates

Speech Therapists’ Interim Committee minutes

minutes of the Remedial Section of the Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama (AST from 1943)

AST annual report

CST Provisional Council, Council and Executive minutes

First CST AGM 6.1.45 (the formal inauguration event of the unified professional body).

Other potential written sources from the time, which aren’t in the RCSLT collection include BSST’s Council/Executive minutes, BSST’s monthly Bulletin, AST membership lists and Joint Council minutes.

Linda had great hope that CST’s original Memorandum and Articles of Association would reveal which of the members signed them (and they would be the FF). However, that document isn’t in the Strathclyde collection. Fingers were crossed that the Company Secretary has a copy and that it could be accessed once RCSLT HQ staff return to work after Covid lockdown. Minutes of CST Council from 14 September 1973 revealed a blow to this prospect. An accompanying paper notes that the FF names aren’t listed in the first Articles. Thwarted!

The lists of CST’s FF compiled over the decades didn’t help either, eg those in Bulletin in 1959 and 1974, letters from eminent members in the 1970s, the Annual Report 1990-91, the 1995 RCSLT History and the last published and available RCSLT Directory of 2004. These mostly contain different numbers, some different names and occasionally differentiate Founder Fellows from Fellows Enrolled on Foundation. They repeatedly offer eighteen though as the number of FF. CST’s 1943-44 Provisional Council minutes however show that it consisted of only eight members:

Eileen MacLeod, Beryl Oldrey (Hammond) and Winifred Kingdon Ward from BBST

Silvia Pick (Hudson-Smith), Honor Baines (Boome) and Joan van Thal from AST

the secretaries Amy Swallow and Elizabeth Wood respectively.

The only contemporary written evidence Linda found in the RCSLT collection to confirm who were the FF is from the two sets of minutes of the Remedial Section of the Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama (reconstituted as AST later in 1943 – but that’s another story). They elected six members to be their CST FF in mid-1943.

[Extracts of Remedial Sub-committee minutes. Ref: RCSLT/1/1.]

Linda collated information from 14 different contemporary and more modern sources (up to 1995) and plotted all the names which were identified at least once. This produced 35 names, five of whom we know definitely weren’t FF.

Meanwhile, Jois searched the National Registers of Medical Auxiliary Services – Speech Therapy, published annually by the Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries under the auspices of the British Medical Association (BMA). In the 1944 edition speech therapists are designated as FCST or LCST for the first time, i.e. Fellow or Licentiate of the College of Speech Therapists. 27 FCSTs are listed - according very well with Linda’s list of 30 possible FFs from RCSLT sources.

[ Image reproduced courtesy of: British Medical Association. Citation: The National Register of Medical Auxiliary Services. Speech Therapists (NRMAS-ST). 3rd edition (London: BMA, 1944).]

The register confirmed that two of Linda’s list of 30 weren’t FF.  That just left the question of Dr Boome, elected FF in 1943. He was a medical doctor and so wouldn’t have appeared as a speech therapist registered with BRMA. He must have been given an award by CST as he led, championed and supported speech therapists so much at the time (he even married one!) and wasn’t one of the doctors awarded Honorary FCST in CST’s early days. His obituary in CST’s journal is clear that he was a FF.

Our current best guess then is that there were 28 FF (named below) – the 27 practising speech therapists listed in the 1944 register as FCST plus Dr Boome. It’s ironic that this list was derived from a BMA document, not from a CST one!

 CST’s Founder Fellows

BSST      Margaret Elizabeth Badcock (married name - Eldridge).

AST        Honor Mary Stanhope Baines (Boome)

AST        Dr Edward James Boome

BSST      Ethel Edna Brewitt

AST        Joan Dakin

AST        Aileen Annesley Dance 

BSST      Ethel Mary Dolman

BSST      Muriel Walton Ferrie

BSST      Dorothy Marion Fleming

AST        Daisy Gwynneth Harries

BSST      Winifred Kingdon Ward

AST        Ida Margaret Shadforth Knight

AST        Grace Elizabeth Lloyd

BSST      Lionel Logue

BSST      Eileen C MacLeod

BSST      Anne Hutcheson McAllister (who founded the Glasgow School of Speech Therapy)

BSST      Muriel Mary Morley

BSST      Beryl Oldrey (Hammond)

BSST      Mabel Victoria Oswald

AST        Silvia Phyllis Pick (Hudson-Smith)

AST        Dorothy Mary Roe (MacDonald-Heffernan)

AST        Hester Rosser

AST        Dr Leopold Stein

BSST      Amy Swallow

BSST      Arthur Percy Tolfree

AST        Joan van Thal

AST        Joyce Lucy Wilkins

BSST      Doris Wilson

Those in bold above sat on the first CST Council – ‘the 18’?

A more detailed and referenced version of this blog-post will be available online via the Strathclyde University Archives and Special Collections catalogue in the near future, so stay tuned!

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The List!

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro Bear by Marian Engel Obasan by Joy Kogawa Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley Neuromancer by William Gibson The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondjaate Generation X by Douglas Coupland Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod Life of Pi by Yann Martel DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Orenda by Joseph Boyden When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

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100 Novels That Make You Proud To Be Canadian

My two favourite novelists are Leo Tolstoy and Haruki Murakami. One of them is Russian and the other is Japanese. As a proud Canadian, I’m curious what makes Canadian literature unique. I’m also curious what you can learn about the essence of being Canadian by digging into the great pieces of Canadian literature. I found a list compiled by CBC called 100 Novels that make you proud to be Canadian. As I go through these books I will try to answer those questions.

Here is the list:

419 by Will Ferguson

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

​A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Derek Coltman

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, trans. Patricia Claxton

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Away by Jane Urquhart

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Bear by Marian Engel

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo

Certainty by Madeleine Thien

Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant

Creation by Katherine Govier

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

February by Lisa Moore

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt

Fruit by Brian Francis

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

Galore by Michael Crummey

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke

Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall

How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired by Dany Laferriere, trans. David Homel

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Kamouraska by Anne Hébert, trans. Norman Shapiro

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci

Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Neuromancer by William Gibson

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Room by Emma Donoghue

Ru by Kim Thuy, trans. by Sheila Fischman

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor

Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Still Life by Louise Penny

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj

What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

The Antagonist by Lynn Coady

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston

The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

The Double Hook by Sheila Watson

The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami

The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy, trans. Sheila Fischman

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

The Outlander by Gil Adamson

The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The Time in Between by David Bergen

The Wars by Timothy Findley

The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan

Whale Music by Paul Quarrington

What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

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The weird world of Guy Maddin

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The weird world of Guy Maddin

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Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain

Director Guy Maddin has been making Canadian cinema excitingly weird for several decades now. His latest feature, The Green Fog, screens a few more times this week at Gene Siskel Film Center, and his 1990 feature Archangel screens next Monday as part of the Doc Films series “Beyond Hollywood North: Contemporary Canadian Voices and Visions.” Following are five more films spanning Maddin’s career; also be sure to check out Jonathan Rosenbaum’s long review of Maddin’s great 2000 short The Heart of the World.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Whatever else you might say about this weird, creepy, and funny independent item by Guy Maddin, it’s certainly different (1988). Although this is a black-and-white sound picture (with occasional sepia and tinting), the ambience is mainly neo-Nordic silent cinema crossed with surrealism; it’s basically played for deadpan laughs, with a fair amount of gore and black humor. Around the turn of the century two patients (Kyle McCulloch and Michael Gottli), who occupy adjacent beds at a primitive and impoverished hospital near Winnipeg, swap yarns about their lives, and strange coincidences coalesce from their separate stories. If you’re in search of something unusual, you should definitely check this out. With Angela Heck and Margaret-Anne MacLeod. 72 min. —Jonathan Rosenbaum

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs The line between romance and sex is blurred in this enthralling 1997 feature by Guy Maddin, whose overwhelming stylization unexpectedly produces an emotional and psychological authenticity. Peter pines for Juliana, but she’s deeply attached to the one-legged Dr. Solti, who controls her behavior as if he’d created her through some combination of science and magic. Peter’s sister hesitates to sell the family ostrich farm before she’s sure the doctor can return her love, and a woman named Zephyr takes advantage of her husband’s mysterious disappearance to pursue Peter, a relationship that culminates in one of the most novel love scenes I’ve ever seen. 94 min. —Lisa Alspector

Cowards Bend the Knee The title of this 64-minute, 2003 video by Guy Maddin (Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary) refers to its having been commissioned as a gallery installation for the Rotterdam film festival, to be watched through a succession of arcade-style peep-show machines. Screening here as a self-contained work, it seems Maddin’s most personal project yet: the hero is a hockey player named Guy Maddin; his mother, like Maddin’s, runs a beauty salon; and Maddin even casts some of his own family members. But the overall feel is phantasmagoric—pitched, like most of Maddin’s work, in the style of a half-remembered late silent feature or early talkie. 64 min. —Jonathan Rosenbaum

Brand Upon the Brain! In Guy Maddin’s latest piece of deranged heterosexual camp (2006), a housepainter named Guy Maddin comes home after 30 years to fulfill his dying mother’s request that he repaint the lighthouse where she used to run a sinister orphanage and all the kids had mysterious holes in their heads. Additional intrigues involve a teenage sleuth who poses as her own brother. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and enhanced by Jason Staczek’s superb score, this is characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin’s silent-movie models, frenetically edited. 95 min. —Jonathan Rosenbaum

The Forbidden Room Guy Maddin delivers another of his wild and whimsical fantasies, tinged with camp and couched in the film grammar of silent cinema. Codirected by Evan Johnson, this is a steamer trunk full of material, running nearly two hours and weaving together the stories of a submarine crew trapped in the briny deep, a strapping woodsman infiltrating a clan of cave-dwelling thieves called the Red Wolves, a motorcycle lover whose crack-up casts her into the arms of an amorous bone specialist, an ingenue whose boyfriends turn into blackened bananas, and more. Along the way Maddin works his way through his usual bag of tricks—irises, feverish superimpositions, texts introducing the characters, figures wreathed in electronic snow. Bright reds dominate, no more disturbingly than when Geraldine Chaplin, showing her teeth and cracking a whip, appears as “the Master Passion,” the human personification of a nightclub crooner’s lust for female bottoms. With Mathieu Amalric, Jacques Nolot, Charlotte Rampling, and Udo Kier. 119 min. —J.R. Jones