#star funerals

[ausetkmt]

"James Brown's body arrives at Harlem's Apollo"

you know you must really have been important when they have to have your viewing at some place like the Apollo theater. James Brown always sold out the Apollo so they could not deny his last show in New York

[uncanny-tranny]

All I want is to go to a trans person's funeral after they lived a full, enriching life. I want to see trans people grow old, I want us to live like the stars. We don't deserve to burn out before everybody else. When we die, I want it to be because we grew old, because we had lived.

[chiliger]

Oh my god, it’s Cody with a chair!

Woo! Fan comic of @frostbitebakery ‘s Zombi-Wan fanfic: “Who Ordered the Resurrection Special” 💫💫💫 It’s a fun read, highly recommend.

[yiliy]

"Natalie Portman had numerous costume changes in Revenge of the Sith, but she loves what they called the deep blue 'end dress,' which she wore in her coffin in the funeral scene.

'I think Trisha [Biggar] wanted an ocean sense. Someone said to me it was very ‘Ophelia.’ With the flowers and the hair, it does look like I’m drowning'."

a 2005 article by Patt Diroll about the Star Wars prequels' costume exhibition at the fashion institute of Design and Merchandising museum in Los Angeles for the release of the book Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars.

[read-alert]

This does come with the caveat that I can't quite remember if the characters in How to Find a Princess, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, and Chain-Gang All-Stars identity specifically as lesbians or not, but they are all sapphic. Full titles under the cut!

EDIT: Apparently Alice Walker is a big proponent of a famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, David Icke, so be aware of that when considering The Color Purple

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📖🏳️‍🌈

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

[cspcrashing]

hey, sampo. maybe you should stop putting yourself in situations...

[pain-tool-sai]

something silly i scribbled right after the new years trailer launched.. my first thought was 'wtf is gonna happen if neuvillette tags along'

[softlyproblematic]

Au, where Michael becomes a funeral director.

He teaches himself about embalming and makeup to maintain himself post scoop. His efforts to learn how to free the ghost children draw him closer to death culture.

So when he shows up the game six location, he's able to recognize the mental state Henry is in. This recognition is what prompts Mike to plan an escape route from the box.

Believing that it's all over, he decides to become a funeral director so he can help the living now that he's done with the ghosts of his past.

Years later, Vanessa attends the funeral of her coworker Jeremy. She's struggling with the influence of glitchtrap, but from the outside, it looks like she's struggling with Jeremy's death. So, one of Jeremy's relatives gives her the business card of Helping Hands Afterlife Services.

When the family met Michael Schmidt, he told them that his business offers grief consulting at a discount. Something about the name intrigues glitchtrap, so she keeps it.

She still has the card after Gregory frees her from Glitchtrap. After the 3 star family settles, Freddy talks to her about Bonnie. Vanessa knows she's the only adult he has to talk to, so she gives him the card.

They know something is up when helpy answers the door. Then, freddy's facial scanning system recognizes the uncanny Mr. afton immediately.

And that's how Mike joins the 3 star family.

If you use this au, please message me so I can see the cool stuff you post.

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of october

alfred starr a dark dreambox of another kind: the poems of alfred starr: "didn't you ever search for another star?

stephen spender new collected poems: "auden's funeral"

marianne boruch keats is coughing

noa micaela fields zoeglossia: poem of the week, may 17, 2021: "echolalia"

kevin young diptych

richard siken real estate

crisosto apache kúghą/home

mikko harvey for m

nathan hoks nests in air: "the barbed wire nest"

john a. holmes noon waking

crisosto apache 37 common characterisi(x)s of a displaced indian with a learning disability

oliver de la paz requiem for the orchard: "at the time of my birth"

zhang xun jiangnan song (tr. bijaan noormohamed)

paul violi fracas: "extenuating circumstances"

tianru wang after "yellow crane tower"

lloyd schwartz cairo traffic: "nostalgia (the lake at night)"

kamiko han the narrow road to the interior: "the orient"

rigoberto gonzalez unpeopled eden: "unpeopled eden"

adelaide crapsey verse: "to the dead in the graveyard underneath my window"

chester kallman night music

alan shapiro covenant: "covenant"

tom clark light and shade: new and selected poems: "radio"

tc tolbert my melissa,

charlie smith in praise of regret

carolyn kizer cool, calm, and collected: poems 1960-2000: "fanny"

julie sheehan orient point: "hate poem"

arthur sze the redshifting web: poems 1970-1998: "streamers"

joumana altallal everything here...in the voice of tara fares

abid b al-abras last simile

w.s. merwin to lingering regrets

george scarbrough music

shout me a coffee

[thaliasthunder]

pink hearts appear around my head everytime i remember nico canonically makes trauma jokes

[onehundredfallenpetals]

One of many late nights during their journey

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The body of Rudolph Valentino, who died from peritonitis and sepsis in a New York hospital, lies in the Frank Campbell Funeral Parlor on August 24, 1926. Eva Miller, one of Valentino's first admirers, prays beside the body.

Photo: Associated Press

[thresholdbb]

Can we talk about The Dying Swan moment in Coda? As someone who was once a very serious ballerina, I need to talk about the Dying Swan. Here's your context --

CHAKOTAY: Harry's clarinet solo was okay. I could have done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the Dying Swan. JANEWAY: I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you, it was the hit of the Beginning Ballet class.

Have you seen The Dying Swan? It is dramatic.

Here, take a minute:

First of all, this dance is much too advanced for a six-year-old, even if they’re doing it in demi pointe. (Six-year-olds emphatically should not be in pointe shoes btw.) The dance is almost entirely bourees and arm movements done to very subtle musical cues, not the foundational ballet moves typically taught in Beginning Ballet.

This is a very vulnerable, dramatic dance that is effective because of its subtleties. The performer would need to embody that vulnerability in some way for a convincing performance. It's short, but it's a solo piece -- all eyes on you. I mean, it was choreographed for a prima ballerina, BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT

Can you imagine our unflappable Captain Janeway willingly getting in front of her crew to do this ballet? I get that it’s thematically relevant to the plot of Coda, but since Janeway is only vulnerable in front of her crew when it means putting herself in harm’s way, it seems like a wild decision. She tends to hold herself apart from her crew, maintaining the professional distance of the captain. Further, when she does any creative pursuit, it is almost always in private, since her sister was the artist in the family and she was the scientist. As a captain, she commands Voyager in a much different way than she would as a dancer with this piece. I'm not saying she never shows vulnerability because she definitely does, but not necessarily in this way. Then when she talks about it with Chakotay, she just casually brushes it off with a laugh like no big deal.

There’s also the question of costume – would she have gone full tutu? Done it in her Starfleet uniform? An impeccable yet flow-y white suit? She does get into costume and command a performance in Bride of Chaotica!, but Coda is still kind of early days for our captain. Arachnia aligns more with what we know about Janeway's character.

Granted, it is Chakotay laying down these complements about her dancing ability and he is clearly biased. To be fair, Neelix does too before they leave in the shuttle. If she did this dance and performed it poorly or amazingly, I feel like the crew would look at her a bit differently afterwards.

Canonically she did The Dying Swan, but I certainly have trouble picturing it happening.

[marspebbles]

luocha of the dead butterflies ?

[vergencescatter]

Remember the time Obi-Wan faked his death, almost driving Anakin to the dark side there and then out of pure anguish and despair?

As time continued to pass thinking Obi-Wan was dead, Anakin became increasingly withdrawn and almost forlorn or dejected; meanwhile, the Jedi Council continued keeping the plan from him. Why? They didn't trust him. But in not trusting him and by withholding the truth about something so astonishingly sorrowing, they pushed him further away.

The scene of Obi-Wan's funeral is very telling. Everyone appears sad, even the stoic Plo Kloon stands respectively in a mournful manner. Anakin is the only one who doesn't look sad; he cuts an isolated figure, completely enraged and on the edge of uncontrolled anger out of his pain and sadness.

From Anakin's perspective, this must have been one of the many incidents that increased his distrust in the Jedi Council, and probably the Jedi Order as a whole.

[Clone wars, s4 e15]

[cirr0stratus]

she’s so pretty i’m screaming