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#PBSwednesday Solomon Northup's Odyssey was a film based on a true story about a free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. Directed by Gordon Parks, the film starred Avery Brooks as the title character. Lou Potter and Samm-Art Williams wrote the teleplay for the film. It was the second film in a series on American history funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984, and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series the following year. The American Playhouse series ended in 1996 after 13 seasons.

Solomon Northup's Odyssey was the first film adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave. A second film adaptation, the Academy Award for Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, was released in 2013. (Wikipedia)

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[cassie-thorne]

Vibing to Platinum playlist in 2023 like 💆🏽‍♀️

[waterfall-ambience]

ive had casey and webs for less than 24 hours but they already have a lot of potential to be fun additions to the cast and spur avery's character development ougghhh....

[violentinecrl]

Masterlist

Fanfiction

"For All The People You've Hurt" - Kamilah x F!Mc (BloodBound)

"The Question" - F!Avery x F!Mc (Platinum)

Drawings

✩ 𐌂Ꝋ𐌌𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌉Ꝋ𐌍𐌔 ✩

Amalia de León x Mc (It Lives Within - @itlivesproject)

Jocelyn Wu x Mc (It Lives Within - @itlivesproject)

ILW Crew (It Lives Within - @itlivesproject)

Grace x Freddie (nsfw 🔞) (Stray Gods)

The Lovers (Oc)

Mal Valori x Mc (Choices trick or treat - @choicesfandomappreciation - for @storyofmychoices 🤍)

Other

Choices Playlist (ILW, Guinevere, TCH, BB, CoP)

Song Edit (Platinum Choices)

Choices Wallpapers (Kamilah / Reagan)

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[lesb0]

Podcasts I am currently addicted to which have made all of my commutes and chores fun

Fun food history

Economist who asks a thesis question and gets different professors to answer them every week

Historical view of different things we wear, deep dives into fashion culture with specialists. I listened to every episode several times (yes I'm slightly in love with avery)

The NYT books department talks about books/interviews different authors

A deep look into city planning from a fun creative design perspective. feels like being 8 and watching a local PBS episode

Interviews with scientists who study niche fields :)

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘I'm okay with GOC LIs but I would prefer if PB did them like how they did Avery and Raleigh from PT as well as Dixon from BaBu and Jualia(n) from SB where the race is canonically set. A book with multiple LIs like that is something I would be ok with.’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[leightonfucker]

peanut butter and ____ sandwich preferences:

LIS robin: jelly! sydney: nothing, they like just peanut butter. kylar: your spit. alex: jam. very particular about it. whitney: also your spit, but isn't public about it. prefers meat over peanut butter anyway. eden: no sandwiches for this guy. would just eat straight peanut butter. bread is an afterthought. avery: supposedly too dignified for a good old PB&J, but indulges in one when they're feeling nostalgic. black wolf: can you just give them the jar of peanut butter? thanks. schlop schlop schlop schlop great hawk: will enjoy whatever you combine it with. dislikes bitterness, likes everything else.

OTHERS bailey: cheese. don't question me on this. charlie: would really rather have a bagel. harper: eats the peanut butter out of the jar then eats the bread and then eats some more peanut butter and acts like that's normal. briar: doesn't care, but the ingredients have to be expensive. landry: bananas. mickey: also bananas. sirris: jam, not as picky as alex though. morgan: "jelly" (a slime they caught) gwylan: bananas! remy: honey. wren: publicly bananas. secretly part of the peanut butter and cheese club, but an entirely different type of cheese from bailey. would think of bailey as a total freak if they found out.

[wulvert]

if I’m being honest…avery and scarlett remind me of pb and marceline!

colour scheme sure! personality no

[sondheims-hat]

November 8, 2013: PBS broadcasts Company in concert at Avery Fisher Hall.

[jeahreading]

Incorrect Quotes Tag

I love me some tag games, Thanks for tagging me @owlsandwich

Rules: use this link to generate some incorrect quotes for your characters!

I'll tag @1indigoisles , @49-ibr , @pb-dot , @sas-soulwriter and @raineandsky

Same as Mister Sandwich, I am combining the characters of two of my WIPs, I think this is also the post which basically reveals the names, though unlike him, I am actually crossing them, just because it gonna be so fucking funny.

1) Sebastian: Where’s Evelyn? Avery: Doing stuff. Sebastian: I don’t like the sound of that. Where’s Evadne? Avery: Trying to stop Evelyn from doing the stuff. Sebastian: And Adrian? Avery: Trying to stop Evadne from stopping Evelyn from doing the stuff. Sebastian: I see. And what are you doing here, Avery? Avery: I’m supposed to stop you from stopping Adrian from stopping Evadne from stopping Evelyn from doing the stuff.

2)Evelyn, on a random band name generator: Oooo! They Might Be Depressed Horses! That about sums up my friend group.

3)Adrian: Am I going too far? Xavier: No, no, no. You went too far about 7 hours ago. Now you’re going to prison.

4)Evadne: Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions.

5)Jasper: Hey, I see those leaves, where are you from? Sebastian: Illinois. Jasper: AAYYYE, I KNEW IT! ME TOO! (note from Jeah: he isn't actually but he would definitely say this) Xavier: Did you just identify a state by looking at its leaves.

6)Jasper: Plants have feelings too?! What is this? Now I can't have food! Xavier: You can eat a rock. Sebastian: Air. Adrian: The fabric of time and space. Avery: Chugging a bottle of bleach can solve all your problems. Jasper: You guys are not helpful.

7)Adrian: If you spell skeletons backwards, it still spells skeletons. Evelyn, deadpan: Wow, I can't wait for Halloween to see some snoteleks.

8)Xavier , texting Adrian: Please don't text me for the next hour, I'm going to be on the treadmill. Adrian: I wasn't planning on texting you. Xavier : What did I just say?

9)Xavier : Can I get a waffle? Sebastian and Adrian: fighting and yelling at each other Xavier : Can I p l e a s e get a waffle?

10)Sebastian: Okay, let's split 'em up and make 'em sing. Evadne: Two of you take Xavier , the other two take Jasper. Adrian: Right. Bad cop, good cop. Evelyn: You know, it's interesting that they say "bad cop, good cop," because policing in this country is so broken it's really just "bad cop, bad cop". Evadne: Adrian, you're with them. Adrian: Got it.

[jmagnabo92]

PB - Almost Never Apart

@prongsfootbingo

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Prompt - Hospital Wing

James loves that he's almost never apart from his boyfriend, but on one of the rare times they are apart, certain Slytherins attack Sirius and James is not happy.

AO3

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For the most part, James’ favorite part about his relationship with Sirius (both friendship and newly formed relationship) is that they’re almost never apart.  The only time that they’re apart is when they are doing separate detentions and even then, they’re usually using their mirrors.  So, it’s a surprise that James wasn’t with Sirius when he got attacked and ended up in the hospital wing.  

As soon as James heard (via Snape and Avery gloating), he takes off and heads straight there.  Once he gets there, he finds Sirius with his arm in a sling and a gash in on his face that is being healed by Madam Pomfrey.  

He approaches quickly, and although she clearly thinks about sending him away, Sirius says, “I wouldn’t want him to be sent away.”

“Fine,” Madam Pomfrey says as the gash heals.  “You can have twenty minutes before you should be taking the Skelegro and Dreamless Sleep in order to have full use of your arm in the morning.”

“Understood.”

With that Madam Pomfrey leaves, and Sirius turns to James, “Hi, love, how are you?”

“How am I?  Really, Sirius?” James asks, incredulously.  

Sirius let's out a low chuckle.  “Look, I’m fine.  Really, fine.”

“You don’t have an arm right now,” James states, firmly.   “How does that equate to fine?”

Sirius shrugs with his good arm.  “I ran into Avery and Snape – words were said about everything thing they like to poke at, and I went to walk away like a good boy for once and … you know how they are…”

“They attacked with your back turned?”

“Exactly, and well, the fight was fine – I handled myself well until they got my arm with some spell that remove my bones and luckily, Flitwick showed up.  They took off and Flitwick brought me here.  Pomfrey will fix me up and I’ll be good to go in the morning.”

James frowns.  “Yeah, but –”

“Jay, it’s over.  There’s nothing to worry about.  I’m fine.”

He supposes that Sirius is right – after all, Sirius is totally fine and James’ll be able to hold his hand in the morning. 

It’s just – he doesn’t like that Sirius was hurt.  Especially by the likes of those two. 

Sirius obviously senses that he’s still bothered by the situation.  “Look, Jay, if it’ll make you feel better – I’ll never go anywhere without you, again.”

James smiles.  “That sounds delightful.”

“Good.”

[liliannasprereadmediathek]

[image description] Two images next to each other. On the left the characters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy being read to by their mother Marmie in a Christmas setting. On the right, Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy gathered around their mother Marmie all looking into different directions.

One question listeners: are you a Jo, Amy, Beth, or Meg? This episode, we’re discussing characters in the 1994 and 2019 versions of Little Women, and diving deep into subtextual readings and fan interpretations.

We’ll discuss disability, autistic, and queer readings, and try to answer our question: is Little Women a ‘story for every generation’, and why is it so popular?

To listen, just head to the link in our bio, or find us wherever you find podcasts 🎧 

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🎞️ “Little Women” (1933) (dir. George Cukor, 📜 Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman)

🎞️ “Little Women” (1949) (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 📜 Andrew Solt, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman)

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🎞️ “Little Women” (2019) (dir. + 📜 Greta Gerwig) (https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/little-women-by-greta-gerwig.pdf)

📺 “Little Women” (2017) (dir. Vanessa Caswill,  📜 Heidi Thomas) (Masterpiece: PBS)

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📰 “Life Magazine: Little Women: A Story for Every Generation” (Meredith Corp., 2020)

📜 ‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-Siècle (Bryony Randall) 📜 “The New ‘Little Women’ Makes Space For Jo’s Queerness” (Shannon Keating) (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/little-women-greta-gerwig-saoirse-ronan-jo-march-queer) 📜 “The New Little Women Basically Proves Jo March is Queer” (Michelle Hyun Kim) (https://www.them.us/story/little-women-greta-gerwig-jo-march-queer) 📜 Amatonormativity (https://medium.com/the-science-scholar/opinion-amatonormativity-the-damaging-pedestal-of-romantic-love-d70cc0585b0f) 📜 “The Real Reason Hairspray Was Banned On The Little Women Set” (Avery Stone) (https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/9114384/little-women-movie-hair-makeup-interview) 📼 “Little Women: Laurie & Jo” (https://youtu.be/osdVRusNGgg) 🎞️ “Divergent” (2014) (dir. Neil Burger, 📜 Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor) 📼 “Greta Gerwig, Representation, and the Universal Girl” (https://youtu.be/0p-cBSqIDbQ) 📼 “Why Neurodivergent People Relate to Jo March” (https://youtu.be/x-j5XK1wpyo)

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[justaduckarts]

Second Strike

New chapter of Days of Laughs And Nights of Screams is up now!

You can read the new chapter here!

Chapter Snippet:

"How are you feeling?" Avery looked over at Cody from where they sat beside the hospital bed. They had their laptop in their lap. They'd been working on trying to break into Carlos' email all afternoon, but they kept hitting a weird firewall.

"I've had better days," Cody shrugged, "but I'll live."

"Does it hurt?" Avery frowned. "I could call the nurse-

"It's not that." He shook his head. "I'm pretty drugged up, I can't feel a thing. Just... I'm worried. Carlos might still be at the park. I'm worried about PB and Bunny. And Sun and Moon. And- well, all of 'em. There are so few people willing to take a stand for them. It kills me."

A soft smile spread across Avery's face. "They've got a good tech," they said quietly, focusing back on their computer screen.

"I hope I can have a good relationship with the animatronics I work with in the future."

Looking over at Avery, Cody smiled.

"...I'm sure they're gonna like you," he said quietly.

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[juleshollow]

Episode 1

(Spoilers. TW: death, horror)

Jules survived the nightmare scenario of a creepy stranger talking to her non-stop for hours in the bus, refused to take his boiled peanuts (I’d never trust any food or drink from him) and arrived to Scarlet Hollow. The town her mother had fled from years ago. She was picked up by her cousin Tabitha, who was cold from the very start. Jules felt uncomfortable but behaved politely, giving her condolences and offering to help with the funeral planning if needed.

When they got to the Scarlet house, Jules was shocked by the decrepit state of the mansion, but only made a comment about the architectural style not to be rude to her host. The food supply in the kitchen was another unpleasant surprise – Jules was not willing to live off PB&J for a week, so she asked about a place to get groceries in town. When leaving the kitchen she asked about the cat, Frou-Frou, but respected her boundaries and didn’t try to pet her. It made her think of her own cat Murphy waiting for her at home, and she wished Frou-Frou would let her pet her at some point.

Then Tabitha showed her the bathroom and Jules went from annoyed to incredulously angry. It was disgusting, it didn’t even make sense how awful it was. If no one cleaned it, one would expect to find a layer of dirt maybe, but why throw stuff to the floor and leave garbage around? Jules didn’t even try it – she mentioned that it was filthy and decided to look for alternatives elsewhere when Tabitha said she couldn’t use any of the other bathrooms. She was getting pissed.

Thankfully, the guest room was fine. After completing the tour, Tabitha said she had to leave, and Jules found out she owned the local coal mine. When her cousin made one nasty comment too many, Jules finally stopped her and asked what was with the attitude (you asked me to come here Tabitha!). Tabitha agreed that she had been rude and apologized, so Jules let it go. She still hoped to have a good relationship with her cousin and maybe Tabitha was just dealing with too much at the moment.

Jules settled in and investigated the house and garden for a while (found an opossum in her drawer! She let it be and just put her clothes in a different drawer) and then she head to town. She didn’t go to the forbidden wing because she wasn’t keen on falling through the moldy floors.

In town she met Stella and her wonderful elderly pug, Gretchen! Stella was super nice and Jules quickly felt at ease with her, which was greatly appreciated. However, she would soon feel uncomfortable again, because everyone stared at her when they entered the diner together. Jules quietly slid into her booth with Stella, but she couldn’t help but overhear everyone gossip about her. On the bright side, Stella treated her to a  f a n t a s t i c  biscuit and a coffee, and she met Avery. Jules felt relieved to meet another friendly person and had fun talking to them and Stella about her youtube channel. Stella showed her one of her most famous videos and Jules immediately clocked the creature as a mountain lion, though Stella didn’t believe her. In the end, Stella invited Jules to accompany her to the woods to film a cryptid video about "skunk ape". In truth, Jules didn’t really believe in supernatural stuff, but she agreed right away. She loved hiking in nature, she was having fun with this girl and she didn’t have anything else to do. She was actually quite relieved to see that she could probably make plans with Stella (and her friends, apparently!) from time to time before the funeral.

Jules and Stella went along, and Jules felt strangely calm when she got a glimpse of the scenery. Weirdly, it felt like she was right where she was supposed to be. She didn’t linger on that thought and focused on the conversation with Stella – they were really getting along. She was just very easy to talk to, and Jules felt grateful to have come across someone cool to just talk about aliens and weird stuff.

Then Duke showed up with his shotgun, looking to hunt the mountain lion that supposedly was eating his chickens, and told the girls to go away. Stella wanted to just take a different trail to avoid him, but Jules didn’t like the risk of potentially getting shot by accident. However, there was no shaking Stella. At least she told Jules that Duke was very loud, so they would hear him coming. Jules wasn’t convinced, but it calmed her down a little.

They filmed and chatted a bit before a deer with a swollen face gave them a scare. They theorized that it could be a cyst and were a bit creeped out by the poor animal. But they let it go and focused on Stella’s homemade snacks (snack bar!). They sat and just talked about their lives for a while. It was nice. Jules talked about her small apartment and how she was saving for something better, and she ended up telling Stella about her doubts about her career in law. Stella opened up too and they bonded over the shared experience of having lost their parents.

Then the spooky stuff started.

The girls heard weird noises that none of them could explain and everything else went quiet. They went to investigate and saw one of Duke’s chickens… but only for a second, because a small, lumpy hand dragged it out of their sight. What was that? They followed it and Stella ended up tripping over the bird. This time they could get a better view… and they were horrified to find a big growth in its body. Jules thought it looked like some sort of parasite and shuddered. Something was squirming inside. Suddenly, Duke appeared and found his chicken. Jules wouldn’t have thought that the man would be so attached to it, she kind of assumed that he was just worried about his livestock as his source of livelihood, but she quickly realized that Duke truly loved the bird. It broke her heart to see him cry and call to his Bertie. Meanwhile, they were being surrounded by strange whispers from the trees. Jules could feel the pressure, she was getting scared. Duke marched towards the trees to shoot at the creatures and demanded Jules took the flashlight to help him make a good shot. But Jules felt Gretchen slipping away from her harness and instinctively dove to take her before she ran away.

And then tragedy finally struck.

Duke aimed at a creature, but he tripped and shot himself by accident. Jules and Stella heard the gunshot, turned to Duke… and found him dead, lying against a tree with half of his head blown off. Stella was fast to point the flashlight away from the gruesome sight and asked about what to do in a panic, but Jules barely heard her. She stood in stunned silence, taking in the horror of what had happened. Stella realized her companion was at a loss and decided to take action and go after the creatures to get more footage. Jules was so out of it that she didn’t even process the danger in Stella’s proposal and – against her careful nature – she found herself following Stella deeper into the woods.

They wound up in a place out of a horror movie: the creatures’ nest. It was full of dead animals, all with the same kind of parasitic growths. It was also full of the creatures. They stood all around them, watching them menacingly. Jules finally snapped out of it and realized the stupid situation they had put themselves in, so she immediately took Stella away from there. They ran through the forest together, trying to ignore the creatures and their awful whispers behind them.

They made it. When they got out, Jules realized her cousin had called her over and over while she was without reception in the woods. She felt guilty for making her worry and tried calling her back. When Tabitha didn’t pick up, she left her a text telling her that she was okay. It was better than nothing.

Stella called the cops, but they were anything but helpful. They didn’t take any of what had happened seriously and, to Jules’ amazement, they said they wouldn’t retrieve Duke’s body until the next day. Were they insane?? Did they not think about what animals could do to him in the meantime? Or… those creatures. But they showed off their incompetence and even implied that Jules, as a stranger, might have been to blame. Jules couldn’t believe it, but there wasn’t much they could do about it, so they let the policemen take them to Stella’s house. Stella was tense and acted very uncharacteristically during the ride. Jules didn’t know what had caused the change in her behaviour, so she just placed a hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

When the heroic cops left, Stella suggested to visit someone who might know more about the creatures. If there’s something Jules loves to have, it’s more information, so she agreed. They went to Stella’s acquaintance’s house, but before they opened the door, Jules realized someone was watching them. She turned to find a strange man behind them. He welcomed Jules by name, and she could feel her blood freeze. But an older woman, Sybil, opened the door and send him way. “Wayne” disappeared.

Sybil let Jules and Stella inside, where Jules recognized a few medicinal plants that could also be poisonous. She asked about Wayne, but Sybil didn’t give her a straight answer. Stella wanted to show her the footage, so they went to Sybil’s daughter Kaneeka to ask for her computer. After watching the creatures on tape, Jules shared that she believed the creatures used living beings as part of their living cycle, injecting their parasitic offspring in them. Kaneeka seemed like a very rational person and agreed with Jules’ biological explanation instead of the supernatural story of her mother. But Sybil said she knew the creatures. She called them ditchlings: they were an omen that something terrible would happen.

Jules walked Stella back to her house. When they got there, Stella offered Jules to stay the night. Jules felt super relieved, she was tired and traumatized, and the perspective of sleeping in a normal house with the friendly Stella seemed much more attractive than walking back to the decrepit mansion alone.

As soon as she saw Stella’s cozy guest room she knew she had made the right call. She thanked her for her consideration and called Tabitha to let her know that she wouldn’t go to the state that night. Her cousin was angry at her and inexplicably didn’t seem to care when Jules told her that she had seen a man die that night. Tabitha hanged up on her, and Jules began to accept that her cousin was kind of an asshole.

That was Jules’ first day in Scarlet Hollow. The town that had been waiting for her.