#palmer park riding academy

[detroitlib]

View of a business card for the Palmer Park Riding Academy, depicting a woman on horseback. Printed on front: "Palmer Park Riding Academy. Woodward at Seven Mile Road, Detroit, Michigan. H.H. Renshaw, proprietor and mgr. Phone Hemlock 7559. Professional instructors." Map with location printed on back.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[studio82a]

Question time :) 1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? 18. what’s your patronus? 29. three songs that you connect with right now.

Okay so this is why I am the world’s worst “writer” - i get too caught up in minutiae of answering a question before actually managing to answer it. same reason it takes me a week to write an article when others do it in a day. for this i walked around my house taking notes about all the books/dvds etc that i own.

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

I really struggled to narrow this down from just STUFF I LIKE to stuff that was formative or really representative of my personality, has characters that hit close to home, etc. READ: All of Tamora Pierce, anything by the music journalist Rob Sheffield, anything by Nick Hornby, Meg Cabot, Philip Pullman, Oscar Wilde, or James Herriot, 84 Charing Cross Rd by Helene Hanff, I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, Cool for Cats by Jessica Adams, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, the Harry Potter fanfiction “The Shoebox Project, the Star Wars fanfiction “To The Sky Without Wings,” the Raven Cycle, and the complete works of Neil Gaiman. WATCH: Velvet Goldmine, The History Boys, Almost Famous, Eurotrip, Notting Hill, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Les Miserables, Inception, Torchwood, Avatar: The Last Airbender, House, the Captain America trilogy, the final three seasons of Buffy, Glee, Smash, every Ben Wyatt scene from Parks and Recreation, Anastasia, the musicals of Team StarKid, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. LISTEN: Ben Folds, The Libertines, Motion City Soundtrack, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is…, “Aim and Ignite” by Fun, “The Weight Is A Gift” by Nada Surf, Franz Ferdinand, The Used, David Bowie, The Kinks, Jack’s Mannequin, Robbie Williams, One Direction, The Dresden Dolls, “Weathervanes” by Freelance Whales, “Moon Safari” by Air, a best of Crowded House cd, Les Miserables (sensing a theme?) Wicked, Godspell, and various other Broadway shows that I can’t pinpoint right now.

18. what’s your patronus?

Darren Criss. (honestly it is probably a horse - though a horse is not my daemon, if we’re switching ‘verses here. My daemon, or I guess animagus in potterverse, would be a cat. patronus, for safety and protection etc, would, i believe, be a horse. i used to ride a LOT.)

29. three songs that you connect with right now.

“Changes” by David Bowie - I’ve seen a lot of Bowie tribute concerts since his death in an attempt to deal with my grief issues (if someone I love dies, even someone IRL, I tend to cope, or not cope, with eliminating them from ever existing, which means never re-visiting their work, or stories, etc. It’s not good, I know. ) This was never my fave of his songs, just a standard hit, but recently it’s been like hearing it for the first time. The man was a genius and we need him back.

and these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations, they’re quite aware of what they’re going through

“When I Say Fuck, You Say That” by Amanda Palmer - this is a new song she wrote for the Women’s March and it really stuck with me.

i used to think that progress was a single forward line, it’s 2017, god, what the fuck is going on?

“You Are In Love” by Taylor Swift - you know perfectly well why.

he says look up, and your shoulders brush - no proof, one touch, you felt enough

identity ask meme